Evening Standard

West End farce The Play That Goes Wrong is on its way to Broadway - with a helping hand from American director JJ Abrams.

A independent school teacher had sex with a pupil on top of his wife's wedding dress, a court has heard.

Simon Ball, from Greenwich, south-est London, has admitted five counts of engaging in sexual activity while in a position of trust at a Cambridgeshire school and was suspended last year.

But he had previously abused three pupils at another school and escaped prosecution, Peterborough Crown Court heard.

Mr Ball denies indecency and sexual assault charges.

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A man has been charged with escaping from prison following an incident at Pentonville Prison in north London. 

James Whitlock, 31, of no fixed address, was arrested at an address in Homerton, east London, on Sunday.

He  has been charged with escape from prison and is due to appear in custody at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court later.

A 48-year-old man and a 19-year-old man were arrested on 13 November on suspicion of assisting an offender.

They were bailed to return, pending further enquiries, on dates in December. 

A woman has previously been charged with assisting an offender. 

A new Lower Thames Crossing east of Gravesend would lead to 30 more years of M25 misery at Dartford, an MP warns.

Dippy, the iconic dinosaur guarding the entrance to London's Natural History Museum is going walk about and has a date at the Ulster Musuem.

Man City are through to the last 16 of the Champions League, Arsenal draw with PSG and Barca beat Celtic – reaction from Wednesday’s action.

Nasar Ahmed died in hospital after he was taken ill from school in Tower Hamlets. 

His uncle said he had severe asthma and had felt ill while in detention. 

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Thousands of London Underground staff, including drivers, have voted to go on strike in separate disputes over staffing, safety and industrial relations, the RMT union said.

A surgeon who was jailed over patient's death at private hospital in north-west London wins an appeal against his conviction.

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Today, three Court of Appeal judges in London allowed Mr Sellu's challenge against the conviction relating to the death of father-of-six James Hughes, from Northern Ireland. 

Mr Hughes, 66, died at the Clementine Churchill Hospital in Harrow, north-west London, after falling unexpectedly ill following knee surgery. 

The retired builder had a planned left knee replacement on 5 February, 2010. 

The operation went well but while recovering he developed abdominal pain and was transferred to Mr Sellu's care. 

It was the standard of the doctor's care of Mr Hughes over a period of approximately 25 hours which formed the basis of the case against him.

Mr Sellu, from Hillingdon, was present in court to hear Sir Brian Leveson, who heard the case with Lord Justice Irwin and Mr Justice Globe, announce that the conviction should be quashed. 

Sir Brian gave the prosecution 24 hours to make an application if they wish to seek a re-trial. 

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Surgeon David Sellu, who served a jail sentence over the death of a patient at a private hospital, has won his conviction challenge at the Court of Appeal in London. 

In November 2013 Mr Sellu was jailed for two-and-a-half years after being found guilty of manslaughter at the Old Bailey by gross negligence of a patient.

James Hughes, 66, died in 2010 at the Clementine Churchill Hospital in Harrow, having suffered a perforated bowel after a routine knee replacement.

Mr Sellu ignored his condition and carried on with his clinic, the court heard.

Transport bosses were warned a tram had "tipped on one side" a week before another tram derailed at the same corner killing seven, it has emerged.

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Shantall Singh complained to Tramlink saying she thought she would die when a driver "sped" around the bend near Sandilands station on 31 October.

On 2 November, the company replied saying it would "fully investigate".

Tram operators Firstgroup said it was "not appropriate to comment" as investigations continue into the crash.

Trafficked children and unaccompanied child asylum seekers are going missing from UK care homes at "an alarmingly high rate", two charities have said.

Almost 600 children disappeared last year, with more than 200 still missing, ECPAT UK and Missing People said.

London, the South East, East Anglia and the East and West Midlands accounted for 75% of all 590 trafficked children in the UK.

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Wandsworth Prison Officers are taking part in a day of action called by the Prison Officers Association.

  The Prison Officers Association said up to 10,000 members would take part in the day of protest, which would be "interpreted as a strike", after talks with the government broke down.