Updates for Wednesday 10 February
Matt Slater
BBC Sport
UK Sport believes Great Britain could win 79 Olympic medals at Rio 2016 and become the first nation to beat its tally as hosts of the previous Games.
A final medal target will come in July, but it is likely to be in a range of 47 to 79.
Team GB won a record 65 medals at London 2012 and 120 at the Paralympics.
A wheelchair user has been taken to hospital after colliding with a lorry at St George's Circus in Southwark, south-east London.
Emergency services were called at about 08:15. The condition of the casualty is not yet known, police, external said.
Three men who were once sentenced to life imprisonment alongside Nelson Mandela are to receive the Freedom of the City, external of London.
Image source, Getty ImagesNelson Mandela (L) and Andrew Mlangeni (R) at an event in Soweto
Ahmed 'Kathy' Kathrada, Denis Goldberg and Andrew Mlangeni served 74 years between them.
Image source, AFP/GettyA ceremony will be held today to recognise their fight for freedom and racial equality.
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The weather appears to make the capital into a collage of grey.
Meanwhile, inside City Hall the London Assembly is considering the Mayor of London Boris Johnson's £16bn budget for 2016/17, which you can watch live here, external.
Image source, PAFormer pupils of a London comprehensive school have hit out at plans for the Eton-educated actor Damian Lewis to launch the school's anniversary celebrations.
Image source, ReutersThe Homeland star has agreed to switch on a laser display at Acland Burghley School, external in Camden to mark 50 years since it opened.
But a petition has been launched urging the school to change its plans as the alumni claims Lewis, who does live locally, is an "inappropriate choice" and a better one would have been ex-pupils Ms Dynamite or Madness sax player, Lee Thompson.
A new artwork painted by artist Banksy on the treatment of people in the Calais 'Jungle' camp has been removed from a site in Knightsbridge opposite the French Embassy.
But Google got there first and managed to preserve it digitally.
Google saves Banksy's Miserables mural
Inside Croydon
The entire population of sparrows, the bird most closely associated with chirpy cockney Londoners, is on the brink of extinction in a wildlife reserve on the borders of Sutton and Croydon, external where animal habitats and food sources were supposed to be preserved.
Beth Rose
BBC News Online, London
- Third murder arrest over commuter stabbing
- Google saves Banksy mural
- Disabled badge misuse prosecutions rise
More than 150 students at University College London, external are withholding their rent in a strike over the rise in accommodation costs.
Students Josh, Laura and George explain to BBC Radio London reporter Jason Rosam why they are striking.
UCL students explain strike over rent
Andrew Grainger, director of estates at the university says there are reasons behind the accommodation costs in the capital.
UCL explains cost of student rent
More than 150 students at University College London, external have gone on strike over the cost of their student accommodation and are demanding a 40% cut.
Campaigners claim the cost of renting student accommodation has more than doubled since 2009.
The university said it's keeping costs as low as possible and it wants to talk to the striking students.
Hammersmith and Fulham Council prosecuted the most people of any authority in England between 2014 and 2015 over the misuse of disabled parking badges, it has been revealed.
Image source, Getty ImagesCouncils in England took legal action against 985 people in 2014-15, the vast majority of them for using someone else's blue badge.
Prosecutions across the country rose by 84% compared to the previous year.
David Cameron has urged Londoners not to elect Labour's Sadiq Khan as their next mayor, claiming they will become "lab rats" for party leader Jeremy Corbyn's economic experiments.
Speaking at a rally for Tory candidate Zac Goldsmith, the prime minister warned about the dangers of a Labour victory for the capital's economy.
Mr Goldsmith said his Labour rival was "Mr Corbyn's man" in City Hall.
A third man has been arrested on suspicion of the murder of university lecturer Daniel Young, 30, who was fatally stabbed as he made his way to work through Morden.
Image source, Met PoliceMr Young was on his way to the second day of a new job when he was stabbed near the Tube station during morning rush hour.
A 37-year-old man was arrested yesterday afternoon. Two other men, previously arrested, have been released on bail, the Met, external said,
BBC Travel
There is very slow traffic on Commercial Street southbound in Spitalfields between the A10 Shoredith High Street junction and A11 Whitechapel High Street junction.
For the latest travel updates visit the BBC London travel page or follow @BBCTravelAlert, external
This morning will be mild but windy with some rain at times.
The winds will ease and most of the rain will clear away though some showery rain is likely and it'll turn colder.
Maximum temperature 13C (55F).
Beth Rose
BBC News Online, London
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