A German translator who stalked Hollywood star Eddie Redmayne after she saw him in a play five years ago has been given a restraining order.

Gaby Stieger, 49, hounded the Oscar-winning actor for years, loitering outside his home in Southwark, south London.

She spied on him through the window while he undressed and sent him love letters, writing in one note: "I know things about you."

The mother-of-three, from Colindale, believed they had been married in a former life and her face would "contort with rage" when she spoke about his wife Hannah Bagshawe.

She was sentenced to four months imprisonment suspended for two years at Camberwell Green Magistrates' Court today.

Stieger was also banned from having any contact with, or coming within 200 metres of, Mr Redmayne, 35, or his immediate family.

Bob Dale
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Police have named the two men killed when they were hit by a 4x4 in Ringmer at the weekend.

James Morden was 31 and from Hilbert Road in Tunbridge Wells.

Matthew Lind, who was also 31, was from Broadway Court in Wimbledon.

They were among a group of pedestrians hit by the Nissan Pathfinder as they walked along Harvey's Lane just after 20:00 BST on 9 September.

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Teenagers who posed as a woman to lure a Selfridges worker to a "business deal" before he was stabbed to death have been jailed for life., external

Omar Raza, 23, who had a promising career ahead of him and was engaged to be married, was stabbed multiple times in broad daylight over a £400 debt.

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A prisoner was murdered by three inmates in a violent feud over control of a "lucrative smuggling route" into a prison, a court heard.

Basana Kimbembi, 35, Robert Butler, 31, and Joshua Ratner, 27, deny murdering Jamal Mahmoud, 21, at London's HMP Pentonville on 18 October 2016.

Prosecutor Mark Heywood QC told the Old Bailey that Mr Mahmoud "was killed with calculated brutality".

Mr Heywood said the group specifically targeted him and those with him.

The three defendants also deny wounding another prisoner, Mohammed Ali, on the same day.

Festival organisers say they have a "zero tolerance" to the use of illegal drugs.

Images, maps and graphics explaining how the devastating fire at Grenfell Tower may have started and how it spread.

Local hip hop artist Lowkey has written a song reflecting the community's call for justice

BBC Weather

After a dry start to the afternoon in places, increasing amounts of showers will develop through the rest of the day.

Some of these will be heavy and it will feel cool in the breeze.

Maximum Temperature: 17C (63F).

Harry Kane scored two more goals as Tottenham beat Borussia Dortmund on Wednesday, but can he win the Ballon d'Or?

Sir Martin Moore-Bick opens the Grenfell inquiry and tells families it 'can and will find answers'.

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The London Fire Brigade (LFB) is to recruit firefighters from outside of the capital for the first time since 2011.

It comes as LFB said there were currently 167 vacancies across London and that some fire engines had to be taken out of service because of staff shortages

The LFB said operational vacancies were nearing "critical" levels.

It also forecast it would need 400 new firefighters over the next 18 months.

The LFB has previously applied a London residency requirement to the recruitment of firefighters.

Sewer workers are tackling an enormous mass of congealed fat, wet wipes, nappies, oil and condoms in a London tunnel.

It is thought it will take three weeks to clear the 250-metre long fatberg weighing 130 tonnes underneath Whitechapel.

Thames Water says fatbergs form when people put things they shouldn't down sinks and toilets.

Here are the answers to some of the things you have asked about them.

Sir Martin Moore-Bick opens the Grenfell Inquiry and tells families it 'can and will find answers'

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The Museum of London has requested a piece of the city's monster fatberg.

It says it would help highlight challenges faced by the world's cities, as part of its City Now City Future season.

The 130-tonne mass of congealed fat, wet wipes, nappies and condoms was found blocking a sewer earlier this month.

Thames Water said it was is working with the museum to help it to acquire a piece of the obstruction.

Alex Werner, the museum's curator, told BBC Radio London it would show Londoners how people throw things down the toilet and the sink without really thinking.

A group of seven pedestrians was hit by a 4x4 vehicle as they walked in East Sussex.

Roads around London's Oxford Street were closed for several hours following the crash.

On 14 September 2007, 14-year-old Andrew Gosden walked out of the family home in Doncaster, boarded a train to London with a one-way ticket and then simply vanished.

A short sequence of CCTV stills captured that morning at King's Cross station represents the last certain sighting of the schoolboy.

A decade on, his disappearance remains a mystery.

Harry Kane scored twice as Tottenham beat Borussia Dortmund to get their Champions League campaign off to a positive start and end their winless run at Wembley.

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