Charing Cross Station has reopened after an earlier evacuation to investigate the smell of smoke.

London Fire Brigade confirmed they left the scene around 12:15.

The incident is still causing some delays, Transport for London confirmed.

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We'll be live at the British Museum after it was forced to close following a protest by Greenpeace.

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And why Southwark Council is having to go through the courts to get back its own council properties after one of its own employees helped illegally rent them out.

Join me on BBC One at 13:30pm.

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BBC London

All passengers were asked to leave Charing Cross station at about 11:45 "due to a reported emergency".

Four fire engines are currently present at the station.

ASLEF has released a statement after Govia Thameslink Railway issued papers at the High Court to mount a legal challenge against a strike ballot by the union on its Southern and Gatwick services:

It is believed that the Queen was at Buckingham Palace last night when a 41-year-old man scaled a perimeter wall.

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Yesterday she attended the State Opening of Parliament and she is due to be at a garden party at the Palace this afternoon.

The man was found in the palace grounds at about 20:40, Scotland Yard said.

A Greenpeace activist has been speaking about why the environmental group are protesting against BP's involvement with the British Museum.

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Activist Elena Polisano said BP was "responsible for one of the worst oil spills in history" and was committed to digging up and burning more fossil fuels.

She said: "We know that the deal between the British Museum and BP is currently being negotiated inside and we're asking the museum to drop BP."

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The British Museum remains closed after 14 Greenpeace activists climbed the columns outside the British Museum in protest against the BP's sponsorship of a new exhibition.

A spokesman for BP said the firm "has a long history as a major supporter of arts and culture in the UK".

"We are proud to have partnered the British Museum for 20 years, supporting significant exhibitions such as the new Sunken Cities exhibition," he said.

A spokesman for Buckingham Palace has released this statement after a man scaled a perimeter wall and was found in the grounds last night:

Police said the 41-year-old was located in the grounds by police seven minutes after the alarm was activated when he climbed over the perimeter wall at Buckingham Palace.

He was arrested on suspicion of trespassing on a protected site and remains in custody.

Commander Adrian Usher, head of the Met's Royalty and Specialist Protection, said "at no time was any individual at risk."

The man was not armed and no Taser were deployed.

A 41-year-old man has been arrested after scaling a perimeter wall at Buckingham Palace last night, police have said.

Ayshea Buksh
BBC London reporter

Ayshea Buksh
BBC London reporter

I've been told 14 people have climbed up the columns outside the British Museum but the direct action by Greenpeace involves 80 people.

Police have cordoned off the museum but Great Russell street is still open. However, it is congested as people stop to see what is happening.

Greenpeace says it is protesting outside the British Museum, external because it objects to BP using the "spectacular" exhibition as a way to clean up "the polluting realities of its business."

"We're here today taking a stand because of the irony of an oil company sponsoring an exhibition whose name practically spells out impacts of climate change. What were they thinking?" the environmental group said.

The protest, which has shut the museum, was planned for the opening day of the summer exhibition about two lost Egyptian cities that lay buried under the sea for thousands of years.

Sadiq Khan says supporting the capital's arts, culture and the creative industries is one of his "core priorities".

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The new mayor said the sector was "up there with housing, the environment and security" and he would be developing a "comprehensive Culture Strategy" including protecting grassroots music venues and appointing a "Night Czar".

Earlier he was outside City Hall with dancers for a preview performance ahead of the worldwide Big Dance Pledge, external event which begins tomorrow.

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The British Museum, external has been temporarily shut because of a protest being held by Greenpeace.

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The group says it is campaigning against the institution's deal with oil company BP to sponsor its "Egypt's lost Worlds" exhibition.

Govia Thameslink Railway, external is mounting a legal challenge against a strike ballot by the drivers' union Aslef on its Southern and Gatwick services.

The company said it had issued papers at the High Court and expects the matter to be considered at a hearing next week.

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The firm secured an injunction last month against Aslef, external in a dispute over the introduction of longer trains on the Gatwick Express but the union still pressed ahead with an industrial action ballot.

A Govia spokesman said: "We only launch legal action reluctantly, but it is our responsibility to do everything we can to seek to protect our passengers against further industrial action."

A memorial service will be held later for Sir Nicholas Winton, who rescued hundreds of children from the Holocaust in the months before World War Two.

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The service at London's Guildhall will be attended by 400 people, including 28 of those he saved, and Czech, Slovak and UK government representatives.

Sir Nicholas organised the "Kindertransport" in which 669 mostly Jewish children came to Britain by train from Czechoslovakia in 1939.

He died on 1 July last year aged 106.

The east London postcode RM is the luckiest location for major National Lottery wins, Camelot has revealed.

The postcode, which includes Romford, Dagenham and Hornchurch, has had more winners of £50,000 or higher per head than anywhere else in the country

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RM is followed by TS (Teesside) in the North East and WA (Warrington) in the North West for the most winners since the National Lottery began.

A total of 4,250 millionaires have been created since the draw began in 1994.

A local businessman has been chosen by the Conservatives to try and win back Tooting from Labour in a by-election after the new London mayor Sadiq Khan stepped down as an MP. 

Dan Watkins, 38, stood as Conservative parliamentary candidate for 2015 against Mr Khan, losing by 2,842 votes. 

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He has run a business in Earlsfield since 2006 and is a Governor at Oak Lodge School for the Deaf in Balham. 

He faces Labour councillor and junior doctor Rosena Allin-Khan on June 16. 

Mr Watkins lives with his wife Tamara, a social worker, and his one-year-old son Harry. 

He said: "I am hugely honoured to have been selected as the Conservative candidate in an area I have called home for 15 years and where I am proud to now be raising my family."