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Chelsea must reach the final of the Champions League or the FA Cup to save their season, says goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois.

Chelsea face Paris St-Germain on 16 February before their fifth-round FA Cup tie with Manchester City.

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Detectives investigating the murder of 31-year-old John Kennedy, who died after being attacked 19 years ago, are renewing appeals for information.

John, a self-employed electrician of Oban Street in Poplar, east London, was stabbed during a fight at the Railway Arms pub on Sutton Street E1, at around 05:50 on 8 February 1997.

Detective Chief Inspector Ken Hughes, from the Met's Homicide and Major Crime Command, said: "John's family have spent the past 19 years campaigning for justice and deserve to know why such a level of violence was inflicted on him, leaving his two children without a father.

"I firmly believe that there are a number of people who are yet to speak with officers and who have information that will shed light on the events of that morning."

A man in his 40s was reported missing from a central London hospital at midnight. 

Officers from Kensington and Chelsea were then called to reports of a man behaving suspiciously outside Kensington Palace park at 03:06.

They found a man in his 40s ablaze but were unable to save him.

Police enquiries are ongoing. 

Emergency crews tried to administer first aid to the man but he was declared dead at 03:42.

Police are informing his next of kin but said at this early stage no-one else was believed to be involved and they were not treating his death as suspicious, nor was it terror-related.

A man, believed to be in his 40s, has died after being found ablaze outside Kensington Palace, police said.

You could do worse than take a leaf out of this man's book - best foot forward now to drive down crime. 

Kingston Police have tweeted their thanks, external for the bystander's timely intervention in Clarence Street on Saturday night.

Inside Croydon

Wandle Park has issued an updated list of the activities and shows being put on there over the coming months., external

The revised listing was one of the last actions of Tom Smith as the council’s much-appreciated and very active volunteer organiser, before he left his job last week. 

BBC Radio London

A school in Brixton has seen exclusion rates plummet after recruiting professional sports stars to coach pupils. 

Evelyn Grace Academy in south London has the type of sporting facilities usually found at exclusive private schools and students start their day at 07:00.

BBC Radio London's Jason Rosam takes a look round:

Tim Donovan
BBC London, Political Editor

There are clearly big difficulties here when the capital's transport authority finds itself at the centre of a major row in the race for City Hall.

No doubt it's not the last we'll hear of it. 

But it's fair to conclude it is not possible to say yet whether TfL's £1.9bn figure is accurate or a scare - and it won't be possible until they have backed it up with a detailed explanation.

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One question this again raises is whether TfL's finances are sufficiently transparent.

It underlines how little Londoners know about TfL's current position and future plans - and it raises doubts about whether a full picture will be revealed before the City Hall election. 

The stakes are high. The Chancellor George Osborne's spending review last autumn signalled the removal of £2.8 bn of grant from TfL over the next four years, leading to an immediate review of its investment programme. 

But more than two months on we are still waiting for the publication of a revised business plan which - it is assumed - will be a detailed, honest assessment of how transport will be hit by this latest wave of austerity.

Tim Donovan
BBC London, Political Editor

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The first thing to note is TfL press officers have been briefing that it will actually be between £1.7bn and £1.9 bn and it will depend on future fluctuations in inflation. 

What exact assumptions have been made, it hasn't yet clarified.

There is also a question about the timescale TfL is deploying here?

Last autumn the current mayor put the potential 'losses' from a fares freeze at £2bn over FIVE years. 

The mayoral term is for four years. 

But what of Sadiq Khan's maths? 

By promising to freeze fares in cash terms he is saying he won't even put them up by the rate of inflation. He says putting them up by inflation would have raised £45m this year (TfL agrees) so by not doing so is costing that in foregone revenue. 

Factor in the compound effect of doing this over four years - and he claims the cost will be around £450m. 

And what of TfL's arithmetic? 

According to a spokesman last month, the cost of freezing fares below inflation instead of at inflation will be around £1300m. He said this would be up until 2020/2021. 

This again looks as if it might be based on speculation about future rates of inflation. We have asked for an explanation for how this figure has been reached. 

But there's more. TfL also says because it has assumed - in its current business plan which sets out its future investment - that fares would be going up by one percent ABOVE inflation (RPI+1) for four years, the failure to stick to that should also be regarded as a 'cost' incurred by Khan and his fares' decision. 

TfL puts this at an extra £500m. The Labour team points out that such an assumption is theoretical and effectively an accounting trick.

Firstly, they ask, why is Khan being accused of incurring a 'cost' for a shortfall that isn't his and only exists in TfL's mind?

Secondly, why has such an assumption been made when for the last three years Boris Johnson has himself pegged fare rises to inflation?

 Indeed, what impact has that had on TfL's future revenues? 

Tim Donovan
BBC London, Political Editor

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For weary commuters who've faced pretty stiff fare rises in several recent years, both the cost and quality of public transport over the coming mayoral term may be as good a basis as any to make a choice about the next occupant of City Hall.

But Labour's Sadiq Khan is finding that making an alluring promise of a four-year cash -freeze - yes, you'll pay the same at the end of his term as you will at the beginning - is not without its difficulties. 

This was a big Tory hope. And to an extent the Conservatives have already achieved what they wanted - casting enough doubt on Khan's sums, they reckon, so as to knock a bit of shine off the pledge and in the process raise questions about the Labour man's credibility. 

In this they have been boosted considerably by the apparent claim of the capital's transport authority, Transport of London, that Khan's fares package will 'cost'£1.9bn.

So time then to look at exactly what TfL is saying and has said, and whether it is clear, open and fair.

Danny Shaw
BBC Home Affairs Correspondent

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Barely a day goes by without a newspaper headline condemning the Metropolitan Police or its Commissioner, Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe

It should come as no surprise the press highlights police failings, blunders and unusually large items of spending - that is news.

Readers are not interested in police inquiries that tick along nicely, crimes solved without fuss and senior officers who never change their car.

But over the past year or two, I have found myself asking whether the media, myself included, are giving disproportionately negative coverage to Scotland Yard...

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Hundreds more London Underground workers are planning to strike.

The Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union said 500 track patrol staff plan join 1,500 maintenance workers in a 24-hour strike from 18:00 on Friday.

The track patrol staff are in dispute over the use of private contractors, which they say will "casualise" their jobs.

Transport for London (TfL) said it was still trying to assess the impact the walk-outs would have.

Maintenance staff are planning up to seven separate strikes up to June over what the RMT calls "lethal changes to track access".

Clive Coleman
BBC legal correspondent

A woman with dyslexia has won a disability discrimination case against her employer Starbucks after she was accused of falsifying documents.

A tribunal found Meseret Kumulchew had been discriminated against after making mistakes due to her difficulties with reading, writing and telling the time.

She was given lesser duties at her branch in Clapham, south London, and told to retrain, which left her feeling suicidal.

Starbucks said it was in discussions about providing more workplace support.

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Daniel Moylan has been appointed by London mayor Boris Johnson to spearhead the delivery of Crossrail 2, external – the proposed new major railway across London and the South East which promises to support 200,000 new homes and jobs.

Mr Moylan has been named as the Interim Chair of Crossrail 2 Limited – a new company set up by Transport for London (TfL) in December to drive forward the scheme which would provide new capacity for up to 270,000 more people travelling into London in peak periods.

Mr Moylan, who is already a member of the TfL board and the Mayor’s advisor for aviation, said: “Crossrail 2 is a transformative new railway that will benefit not just London but the South East and the country as a whole. Much needed additional rail capacity will be provided as well as hundreds of thousands of jobs and homes. There is an overwhelming case to progress with the development phase so that we can get construction underway in just a few years.”

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A London student who was diagnosed with leukaemia has found a stem cell donor after a celebrity-backed viral campaign inspired thousands to donate.

Lara Casalotti, from Hampstead, north London, needs a stem cell transplant but her "unique" Thai and Italian heritage meant a mixed-race donor was needed.

Just 3% of worldwide stem cell donors on the register are mixed-race.

Tom Edwards
Transport Correspondent, BBC London

Five hundred London Underground track inspection staff are to go on strike on Friday in an RMT dispute over private contractors.

This is on top of 1,500 maintenance staff also due to stop work.

BBC Radio London

On the Vanessa Feltz show now - the practice of sending mentally ill adults in England long distances for care is unacceptable and must end. 

That's according to a new independent review into mental health provision. 

This weekend there was a tweet from Lewisham police saying... "Officers have sectioned a male as he is a danger to himself and there are no beds at any secure unit in south-east London. No-one seems interested in helping, officers and I are ringing every mental health unit in Greater London., external"

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BBC Weather

It will be much calmer and quieter day, but chilly with scattered showers. 

After morning rain, bright and sunny spells will follow after lunch, interspersed with rain or possibly sleet.

It will feel rather cold, despite lighter winds than yesterday.

Top temperature 8C (46F).

BBC Travel

Over-running roadworks are causing queueing traffic on the A406 North Circular Road westbound between Neasden Interchange and Ikea. 

Blackwall tunnel southbound is shut due to a collision in the tunnel, expect long delays. 

The Bakerloo line, external is running with delays after a signal failure at Willesden Junction.

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