The 45-year-old celebrity shot to fame in the 1990s when she was a regular on the London party scene.

The classic "It girl", Tara Palmer-Tomkinson spent much of her life facing a camera lens.

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A new exhibition called 'Child's Play' by world famous photographer Mark Neville has opened at the Foundling Museum in central London.

It looks at the images of children at play around the world in communities from north London, to war zones of Afghanistan and Ukraine. 

An east London gym which helps rehabilitate people with disabilities and get them back to work - is facing closure if it can't find urgent funding.

It operates as a charity and is the only gym of its type in inner London. Its services have helped transform the lives of some of its users but it could close as early as April if it can't raise the £20,000 needed to keep it running.

 A man who was arrested after a passenger flight was escorted to Stansted Airport by RAF fighter jets has been charged with fraud, Scotland Yard said. 

The Pakistan International Airlines plane, on its way from Lahore to Heathrow, was diverted after an anonymous phone call sparked a major security alert yesterday afternoon.

Police said Khalid Baqa, of Priory Road, Barking, east London, was due to be arrested on arrival at Heathrow but was instead detained at Stansted. 

The 52-year-old, a UK national, has been charged with committing fraud by false representation and has been bailed to appear at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court in London on 23 February. 

It is not believed he had any involvement in the cause of the diversion.

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Mums Abigail Tumfo, Sheila Navacroft and Shakeria Wright have told the BBC's Newsnight about the difficulties of raising their children in one room. 

They are all living in a 45-room development in Welwyn Garden City, after being forced to leave private rented accommodation in Waltham Forest in London, where council housing is sparse. 

Waltham Forest council has said it does all it can to house people in the borough, and is working to repair any sub-standard housing.

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Brentford head coach Dean Smith has signed a one-year contract extension with the club.

The 45-year-old joined the club in November 2015, having previously been manager of Walsall.

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Both he, and his assistant Richard O'Kelly, have now committed themselves to the club until the end of the 2018/19 season.

He has won 23 of 62 games as head coach at Griffin Park.

Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, who has died at the age of 45, described living a privileged life, in an interview with Jane Garvey on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour in 2010.

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Cycling campaigners have called for high-quality cycling and walking schemes to be prioritised in London after three deaths in one day. 

Two cyclists and an elderly pedestrian were killed within hours of each other on Monday.

Anita Szucs, 30, was killed cycling home from work in a hit-and-run collision on Bounces Road, Enfield, in the early hours of the morning. 

During the morning peak a second cyclist, Karla Roman, 32, died after a collision with a coach on Whitechapel High Street in Tower Hamlets. 

Less than 15 minutes later an 80-year-old man died after being hit by a tipper truck on the nearby A13 Commercial Road. 

London Cycling Campaign chief executive Ashok Sinha said: "Urgently accelerating programmes to make cycling and walking safer are the only solution. 

"We look to the mayor, the boroughs and Transport for London to ensure such tragedies are a thing of the past so that everyone, whatever their age or ability, feels able to walk and cycle safely." 

London mayor Sadiq Khan has pledged to spend £770m on cycling initiatives during his four-year term. 

The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall have expressed their sadness at the death of their close friend, London socialite Tara Palmer-Tomkinson. 

She died at the age of 45 after she was diagnosed with a brain tumour last year. 

The royal couple said they were "deeply saddened and our thoughts are so much with the family". 

A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police said: "Police were called by London Ambulance Service at approximately 13:40 on Wednesday 8 February to an address in Bramham Gardens, SW5.

"A woman, aged in her 40s, was pronounced dead at the scene.

"At this early stage, the death is being treated as unexplained. We are not treating the death as suspicious."

Fans and friends of the late socialite and TV personality have begun posting tributes on social media

Judges rule they have no realistic chance of winning their appeals.

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Three men convicted of offences following a £25 million jewellery raid in Hatton Garden, London, during Easter 2015 have failed in appeal bids. 

Carl Wood, William Lincoln and Hugh Doyle wanted the Court of Appeal to reconsider their convictions. 

But three appeal judges on Wednesday blocked their bids, at a Court of Appeal hearing in London, after concluding the three men had no realistic chance of winning appeals. Wood, 59, of Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, and Lincoln, 61, of Bethnal Green, east London, were found guilty of conspiring to burgle and conspiring to conceal, convert or transfer criminal property.

Wood was given a six-year jail term and Lincoln a seven-year jail term. 

Doyle, 49, of Enfield, north London was found guilty of concealing, converting or transferring criminal property. 

He was given a 21-month jail term suspended for two years. Seven men, in total, were convicted of offences in connection with the raid following a trial at Woolwich Crown Court which started in late 2015.

A small fire broke out in an office near a children's ward at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich this morning, external.

No patients were injured, however a contractor who was carrying out some repair work was injured. 

The Safari ward will now be closed for a few days. 

Children who were inpatients and still need hospital care will be moved to University Hospital Lewisham (UHL); others will be discharged home.

Residents of a new-build housing estate in east London have called for it to be demolished saying it has been very poorly built. 

The housing association, which manages the estate, Clarion Housing admitted the situation is "unacceptable". 

Residents say they have had to deal with raw sewage. mice and raised concerns about potential gas leaks leading to health problems. 

Clarion has offered to buy-back a number of the properties.

Residents on the Orchard Village estate have complained of mice, sewage and gas leaks in their home.

Witness Deejay Robert K was at Dalston Kingsland station when it was being evacuated in rush hour.