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Rare plants are to start returning to their home in the world's biggest Victorian glasshouse as a £41 million restoration project continues at Kew Gardens.

The Grade I listed Temperate House at London's Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, has been undergoing a five-year restoration project to repair the framework, thousands of panes of glass, urns and sculptures and install a new heating system.

Work will begin in the next few weeks to replant important and critically endangered plant species from the Mediterranean, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, South and Central America, and the Pacific Islands.

Planting is set to continue for several months ahead of the reopening of the Temperate House next May.

Police were not given video which could have shown how a row between inmates started, a court hears.

A £20,000 reward is being offered by police investigating the murder of a teenager 10 years ago.

Edvin Johnson, 19, was stabbed in the leg in a stairwell in Barnet House on the Crawford Estate in Camberwell, south London, in September 2007.

His mother Genevive Johnson said she was "devastated" and "totally lost" without her son.

Nobody was ever charged over the death and police are now offering the sum for information leading to a prosecution.

A Metropolitan Police spokesman said 12 youths were on the estate at the time of the incident and it is believed five of them attacked Edvin and another man.

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Anti-terror police have arrested a woman after she arrived at Heathrow Airport on a flight from Turkey.

The 22-year-old was arrested by officers from the Metropolitan Police's Counter Terrorism Command at about 22:20 BST on Tuesday.

She is being questioned on suspicion of membership of a proscribed organisation, contrary to section 11 of the Terrorism Act 2000.

The Met said she was detained under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act.

She was taken to an east London police station where she remains in custody.

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Islington Assembly Hall has become the first venue in the UK to introduce digital-only ticketing.

The North London venue will now only sell tickets through ticketing app DICE in a bid to cut out touts.

The app sells tickets which have to be shown on the phone of the person who paid for them.

It's hoped the move will help limit the amount of tickets resold through secondary agents or sold by touts outside the venue.

The arrests of two men in south Wales bring the total held over Friday's Tube terror attack to five.

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The number of new cases of gonorrhoea in London has dropped for the first time in eight years, according to the latest figures.

A new report, external published by Public Health England (PHE) reveals last year the number of gonnerhea diagnoses decreased 19% decrease in 2016, following year-on-year rises since 2009.

Overall sexually transmitted infections (STIs) fell by 5% in London last year.

Dr Yvonne Doyle, Regional Director for PHE London, said:"London has turned the tide on an 8 year surge of gonorrhoea with overall rates of STIs decreasing.

"This encouraging news could show that work to promote frequent testing together with safe sex practices is paying off."

London still has the highest highest rate of new diagnoses in England. Of the top 20 local authorities in England with the highest rates of new STI diagnoses, 17 were in London.

Across the UK the number of cases of gonorrhoea has decreased 12% - following a 175% increase since 2008.

Doctors fear the sexually transmitted infection, which can cause infertility, could soon become untreatable.

Last year a Leeds hospital revealed one of the main treatments had become useless against the infection.

The plea comes after a 50-year-old man was discovered with fatal head injuries in Windsor.

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Twelve cats and six dogs had to be rescued by firefighters after a fire broke out at the RSPCA Putney Animal Hospital on Monday.

Fire crews wearing breathing apparatus retrieved the animals after the blaze began in a tumble dryer, causing damage to a laundry room

The rest of the building was unscathed but the hospital are asking for donations for any clean dry towels to replace those lost in the blaze.

Caroline Allen, London veterinary director for the RSPCA, said the "swift response" of fire crews meant the fire was contained "and all the staff and animals were kept safe."

Fashion fans in the capital tell us what we should be wearing next spring and summer.

Ellie, who was diagnosed with Hodgkin Lymphoma when she was 15, describes the symptoms of blood cancer.

She is one of 104 blood cancer patients being honoured in a forest of names in London.

Charities say the celebrity trend for French Bulldogs is to blame for more of the pedigree dogs being abandoned.

Glasgow City Council says the discovery of combustible cladding on private flats in the city is "not public information yet".

Marking 150 years of the London Underground, Front Row's John Wilson and author Iain Sinclair take a look at how the network has been portrayed in various ways on film.

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Three people were left badly injured when a stolen car containing teenage joyriders ploughed into a crowd waiting to get into an Islington pub, a court heard.

Paul Golding, 35, and Jayda Fransen, 31, both from south-east London, were arrested in May.

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A former contestant on the BBC quiz show University Challenge has insisted he did not rape a fellow student.

Bartholomeo Joly de Lotbiniere, 22, allegedly attacked the 22-year-old woman in her University of York halls of residence in 2014.

Bradford Crown Court heard the woman was prompted to report the allegation after his TV appearance in 2015.

Mr Joly de Lotbiniere, from London, denies rape and assault by penetration.