Updates for London have ended for the day but we'll be back on Friday from 08:00 with the latest news, sport, travel and weather.    

BBC Weather

Tonight will be dry and far milder than last night. 

Whilst it will remain cloudy throughout, but the wind will strengthen towards dawn. 

Minimum temperature: 6C (43F).

BBC London News

Coming up on the news at 18:30, BBC London's Tim Donovan is live from the London School of Economics (LSE) where the city's mayor Boris Johnson's potential successors are taking part in a debate.

Mr Johnson has recommended Met Police boss Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe's contract only be extended by a year - when the police chief wanted three. 

Should the mayor's successor have a say in who is leading the country's biggest force?

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BBC Radio London Political Reporter

Haringey Labour Party says a councillor who spoke out over risks to elderly and disabled people if three local day centres close, has been temporarily thrown out of the local party group because of his “uncomradely behaviour”.  

Gideon Bull, a Labour councillor for 15 years, is not allowed to go to local Labour group meetings for three months as he contravened collective responsibility rules when he went against the party line on the issue, says the party.

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Inside Croydon

Westfield have yet to secure a deal with John Lewis, external to take a flagship department store in the £1 billion supermall that they want to build in the town centre.  

BBC London's Anjana Gadgil reports on the city's first 'super sewer', in Newham, which was used today for the first time. 

Thames Water says the Lee Tunnel will prevent an average of 39 million tonnes of sewage a year from entering the Thames and River Lee.   , external

BBC Radio London

You can catch Eddie Nestor's full interview with the founder of fallen charity Kids Company Camila Batmanghelidjh, where she says its downfall is in part due to the fact the state didn't like her campaigning, on BBC iPlayer after his show ends at 19:00.

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"The stuff you see in the media is false allegations and twisted information," the fallen charity's founder Camilla Batmanghelidjh says.    

She says if "someone brings to my attention something we have done wrong I will apologise" but on the basis of "unfounded rumours" she is " not prepared to take responsibility for things that are not true".   

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BBC Radio London, presenter

Camila Batmanghelidjh tells BBC Radio London: "There were a lot of things I would have done differently."

She says she would been more guarded about "external malice" and not believed ministers when they "said they would support us" and raised the alarm more ferociously about the number of children needing help. 

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Camila Batmanghelidjh says the parliamentary inquiry "will not be very honourable" as the committee previously said she wooed prime ministers. 

She says: "I didn't do anything on my own - there were 650 staff and trustees at the organisation and we all worked as a group to try and give the best to the children. 

"The tragedy about these malicious allegations is the service was shut due to the false sexual abuse allegations. 

"We had money. I realise there were suggestions we took the government money and spent it, the truth is the money from the cabinet office was for staff - we had £2.2m in the account and a further £11m confirmed income."

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Following the news a Met Police investigation into allegations of abuse at UK charity Kids Company was closed after it found no evidence of criminality, founder of the charity Camila Batmanghelidjh, speaks to BBC Radio London.

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She says: "I'm very relieved and very grateful the police did such a diligent job. A lot of other organisations have judged us on the basis of allegations that were unfounded." 

Lib Dem London mayoral candidate Caroline Pidgeon says she would trial a congestion charge zone around Heathrow Airport to try to cut traffic congestion and improve air quality, if she got into office. 

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She says the congestion charge "only covers a small very busy area of the city" and at Heathrow Airport there is "serious congestion and very poor air quality".   

BBC Travel

There are delays of up to two hours on the roads in east London tonight as two lanes are closed on the M25 QE2 bridge due to a spillage of diesel, after a lorry ruptured its fuel tank in an accident, and resurfacing work. 

And on the A4 Piccadilly westbound, bus routes 14, 19, 22, 38, N19, N22, N38 and N97 are diverting via Pall Mall and St James's Street as part of the road is closed due to emergency repairs and burst water main.

On the trains, there is no service on Southeastern between Elmers End and Hayes due to an incident at West Wickham.

Southeastern caused more delays "itself" than due to infrastructure, says Network Rail. 

The rail company, which provides services between London and Kent, previously claimed 70% were due to Network Rail infrastructure problems - issues affecting areas such as railway lines and stations. 

But the regulator says only 26% of delays on the service were due to such problems.

Four men are arrested on suspicion of murder after a man was stabbed to death next to some tennis courts in a west London park.

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The victim, who was thought to be in his 40s, was attacked in Rosedale Park, off Albion Road, Hayes at about 18:40 yesterday.

He was taken to a central London hospital by paramedics but was pronounced dead at about two hours later.

Maintenance workers on the London Underground (LU) will go on strike in protest at the planned all-night Tube service. 

Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union members voted for the walkout, with 352 votes to 82.

The move, by the union's members employed by Tube Lines, part of LU, comes after RMT suspended planned strikes by drivers, station staff and other employees.

West Ham striker Andy Carroll is one of the Premier League's most injured players, with a total of 641 days out of the game. 

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On 14 January, he injured his hamstring and was substituted after just 15 minutes in the Hammers' 3-1 win at Bournemouth. He faces another month out of action.

Last year he had seven months out for knee surgery and returned to the game in September.

An 87-year-old woman says she was left "petrified" after being punched by a teenager on a bus in Croydon last October.

The 14-year-old girl responsible was sentenced to four months in detention after the incident on the 166 bus. 

Jonathan Efemini, prosecuting, read out the victim's statement. He read: "I enjoyed using the buses, the independence they gave me, and I liked talking to the drivers. 

"Since I was attacked I am now so frightened. It has changed me."