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

BBC Weather

It will be warm and humid this evening with some hazy sunshine. 

The night will be muggy, with the possibility of heavy and thundery showers in some areas. 

Minimum temperature: 16C (61F).

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Braintree Town have signed midfielder Harry Lee on a free transfer from National League South side Welling.

The 21-year-old ex-Leyton Orient trainee joined the Wings full-time in January after two loan spells, but could not save them from relegation.

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Two women who pretended to be sisters have been jailed for their part in a £4m benefit claims fraud.

The women, known under the assumed names of Antoinette and Louise Kaidi, were responsible for claiming hundreds of thousands of pounds in benefits through false identities.

They were each sentenced to 33 months in prison after previously pleading guilty to 23 counts of benefit fraud.

Both women claimed to be from Togo, but their true identities remain unknown.

The convictions are part of a wider investigation into a benefit fraud that could be as large as £4m, judge John Tanzer said.

A couple were attacked by a group of people outside Wembley Stadium train station leaving one victim with a dislocated foot, say the Met.

The man in his 40s was punched in the face at the station at about 16:40 yesterday, before the woman, also in her 40s, was attacked.

The group kicked her foot repeatedly after causing her to fall to the 

Police describe the main suspect as a young white male, who is short and stocky with distinctive side-burns down to his jaw.

Police say the victims were singled because they were Crystal Palace fans.

Det Cons Lauren Taylor-Rose said: "This was nasty unprovoked attack on a couple enjoying cup final day in Wembley. 

"The woman has lasting damage as a result of the foot injury from what was meant to be a fun day out."

No arrests have been made.

The father of a 17-year-old "vibrant" teenager has warned over taking drugs after his daughter collapsed at the O2 and later died.

Emily Lyon, was among six youngsters who went to the Red Bull Culture Clash on 17 June and were taken to hospital after apparently taking illegal drugs. 

Father Steve Lyon, from Teddington, south-west London, said: "We are absolutely devastated at what has happened and we're struggling to come to terms with it. 

"She was a loving daughter and a caring sister, who was much adored by her vast circle of friends.   

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"It can be seen how these so called 'recreational substances' can result in such tragic consequences for so many people. Those who take them can pay the ultimate price." 

Police are treating Emily's death as unexplained and are awaiting the results of toxicology tests after a post-mortem examination proved inconclusive. 

A 17-year-old boy was arrested in Kingston last week on suspicion of possession of MDMA with intent to supply, and bailed until late August.

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On the Tube there is no service on the Bakerloo Line between Stonebridge Park and Harrow And Wealdstone due to a signalling problem at Wembley Central.

On the roads: in Acton The Vale is blocked in both directions between Askew Road and Winchester Street due to a jack-knifed lorry. The road may remain closed for most of the evening.

In Bayswater, Pembridge Villas is closed southbound between Chepstow Road and Notting Hill Gate due to a burst water main.

In Mayfair, Grosvenor Square is closed eastbound at Upper Brook Street / North Audley Street due to a burst water main.

On the rails, there are delays and cancellations on Virgin Trains East Coast, First Hull Trains and Great Northern due to electrical supply problems between Welwyn Garden City and Hitchin.

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Croydon Council has said it has prosecuted 107 people for fly-tipping and littering on the streets of the borough since its Don’t Mess With Croydon - Take Pride campaign, external began two years ago.

More than 300 local residents have joined forces with the council's enforcement team to report incidents of littering and catch the offenders.

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BBC Look East home affairs correspondent

A foreign prisoner who was released early from Wandsworth prison by mistake is being hunted by the police.

The man, who was released in error from the south London prison on 27 May, had served a custodial sentence but was being held on an immigration warrant.

He was facing deportation under the European Arrest Warrant.

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A foreign prisoner who was released early from Wandsworth prison by mistake is being hunted by the police.

Five days after the man was freed having served his sentence for an undisclosed offence, the Home Office alerted the jail about the error.

The length of the prisoner's sentence has not been revealed. 

"Jo's killing was political. It was an act of terror designed to advance an agenda of hatred towards others," MP Jo Cox's widower Brendan  told people gathered at Trafalgar Square to mark her 42nd birthday.

"Jo lived for her beliefs and on Thursday she died for them and for the rest of our lives we will fight for them in her name."

He also told the gathering that Jo lived her life "with a pedal to the floor and missing brake pads". 

She was "a ball of energy and determination and above all a mum".

He and the children have spoken everyday not about "how unbelievably cruelly she was taken from us but how unbelievably lucky we were to have her in our lives for so long". 

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"Jo would have been baffled... humbled to see the outpouring of love and empathy."

Mr Cox's speech was followed by a minute-long silence.

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Brendan Cox thanked everyone for gathering for the memorial events for killed MP Jo Cox in London and across the country and the world. 

In an emotional speech he said: "Amazing and deeply touching as all of this is, I wish I wasn't here today, not because I am ungrateful to the organisers or to you all for coming but because of course I'd rather be with Jo."

He said he wanted to come to thank everyone for the support the family had received and "I wanted our children to see what their mum meant to all of you and I know that they will remember today".

"Today would have been Jo's 42nd birthday. She would have spent the day dashing about the streets her home town trying to convince people that Britain is stronger in Europe. She feared the consequences of Europe dividing again, hated the idea of building walls between us and worried about the dynamics that could unleash.

"But today isn't about that. It's about Jo and the much wider battle against hatred that she was involved in."

Prosecutor Crispin Aylett QC told the Old Bailey jury murdered teenager Yiannoulla Yianni was brought up in a "traditional Greek" family in Hampstead and had never even had a boyfriend. 

Her father George Yianni died in 1988 before any arrest was made in the case. 

DNA evidence came into use in the 1990s and it was not until 1999, a scientist managed to extract an incomplete profile from semen on the bedspread where Yiannoulla was found, and last Christmas police came into possession of the defendant's profile, the court heard. 

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When asked what he looked like in 1982, James Warnock, of Harrington Street, north-west London, told police: "How can I put it? Er John Travolta?" 

In the interview he said he first met the girl at the shoe repair shop and their relationship had become intimate and the pair had sex on 10 occasions, but he learnt of her murder when he was arrested. 

However, Mr Aylett rejected his explanation, saying he had come up with the story when "faced with overwhelming evidence that he was the murderer of Yiannoulla Yianni". 

The jury heard medical evidence revealed the victim had been a virgin when she was raped.

A man has gone on trial at the Old Bailey for the murder of a 17-year-old  girl in Hampstead, north London, who was raped and strangled by a stranger in 1982.

Yiannoulla Yianni, had come back to her home in Hampstead, north London, from her parents' shoe repair shop minutes away, when she was attacked on 13 August 1982, the court heard. 

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Her parents came back from the shop half-an-hour after the teenager to discover their daughter's partially naked body lying on their bed, a "sight beyond their worst imagining", the court heard.

James Warnock, a 56-year-old former tiler was arrested and charged after the DNA from the semen left at the scene matched his sample last December. He lived half a mile from her house, the court heard.

Mr Warnock, of Harrington Street, north-west London, denies rape and murder. 

People are gathering at Trafalgar Square to pay tributes to Labour MP Jo Cox, who would have been 42 today.

Her two young children, Cuillin and Lejla, will join the event along with their father Brendan Cox.

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The family sailed to Parliament on a boat on the River Thames. 

A boat with floral tributes to the MP followed the boat carrying her family. 

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A moment of silence will be observed at 16:25 in London and around the world, organisers said.

Mrs Cox, MP for Batley and Spen, was attacked outside a library in Birstall, West Yorkshire, on her way to a constituency surgery on Thursday.

Thomas Mair, 52, from Birstall, has been charged with murder, grievous bodily harm, possession of a firearm with intent to commit an indictable offence and possession of an offensive weapon. 

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A trainee Met Police detective who tested positive for cocaine and cannabis will not lose his job. 

Marcus Hamlin, who works in Scotland Yard's Sexual Offences, Exploitation and Child Abuse Command, was cleared of gross misconduct earlier, the Met Police said. 

Mr Hamlin, who tested positive in a random drugs test in August, accidentally drank from a beer can laced with cocaine at a party, the disciplinary panel heard.

He "did not knowingly or intentionally consume the drugs", and will now be reinstated to full duties. 

The force said: "A witness from the event, who does not associate with the officer, admitted to having placed cocaine into their can of beer from which, PC Hamlin may have drunk from unknowingly." 

Dominic Casciani
Home Affairs Correspondent

The public inquiry into undercover policing is to consider if bereaved parents should be told that officers used their dead children's identities.

Inquiry chairman Sir Christopher Pitchford will hear legal argument at a special session later today.

The identities of at least 42 children are also understood to have used.

The inquiry is examining evidence of wrongdoing by Scotland Yard's disbanded undercover unit, including claims women were duped into having relationships.

Neil Fox is among the presenters on a new digital radio station launching in London this weekend.

Thames Radio, external will be a hit music station, playing songs predominantly from the 1980s and 1990s.

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Singer Rita Ora threatened to kill a thief in a £200,000 raid on her home, a court has heard.

The former X Factor judge, 25, and her sister, Elena, were both asleep upstairs when two men broke into the house in a targeted attack.

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In a frantic 999 call she said to the operator: "Oh my God I don't have a knife, I know they're going to come upstairs."

Charaf Elmoudden, 26, denies a charge of burglary on 28 November last year.

Killed MP Jo Cox's two children and widower Brendan Cox will join friends and campaigners at Trafalgar Square this afternoon to remember her on what would have been her 42nd birthday.

A minute's silence will be observed at 16:25 at the rally in London and at other events around the world, including in her hometown of Batley where her parents and sister will be present. 

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Education campaigner Malala Yousafzai will be present, actor Bill Nighy will perform a reading while a musical tribute from U2, recorded in the US will be played at the event.  

Events to mark the Labour MP's birthday will also take place in Beirut, Brussels, Melbourne, Nairobi, New York and Washington DC.

A tribute is also expected to be held at Glastonbury's Park Stage, while bands like Coldplay and Muse have recorded a charity album at the festival, which will be released in her honour.  

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