About 360 homes in Stockwell are left without gas for days after a potential leak was detected.

Robert Butler told a court he had gone to speak to fellow inmate Jamal Mahmoud when he was attacked.

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As many as one in 25 people are classed as homeless in Newham, a new study has shown.

The east London borough was found to have the highest proportion of homelessness in the country, in the study by homeless charity Shelter.

Across England more than 268,000 people were found to be homeless, although the charity said the number is a "conservative estimate" with many more expected to be going unrecorded.

The government said it was "determined to tackle all forms of homelessness".

A public consultation has opened into a possible new bridge to be built over the Thames between Rotherhithe and Canary Wharf.

The crossing, proposed by Transport for London, would be for pedestrians and cyclists and is intended as an alternative for those travelling between Canada Water and Canary Wharf on the Jubilee line.

To find out more about the proposals and comment on the consultation, head here., external

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Tunneling work for the Northern line extension has been completed after the boring machine - known as Amy - broke through at Kennington earlier.

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The work means the two tunnels, which measure two miles (3.2km) and run from Battersea Power Station via Nine Elms, have now been built.

The extension to the Charing Cross branch of the Northern line is due to be completed in 2020.

It is the first major extension to a Tube line since the Jubilee line in the late 1990s.

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The new editor of Vogue, Edward Enninful, has told the BBC why the magazine will be more diverse.

Mr Enniful, who was born in Ghana but moved with his family to Ladbroke Grove at a young age, took over the magazine recently from former editor Alexandra Shulman.

BBC Entertainment and Arts

If proof were needed that good friendships withstand the passage of time, look no further than actors Hugh Grant and Hugh Bonneville.

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Almost 20 years after they starred together in Notting Hill, the two Hughs have reunited for another London based movie - Paddington 2.

"When I first saw Bonneville, I threw him to the floor and tried to kiss him, which is what we used to do," says Grant, who plays the film's villain, washed-up actor Phoenix Buchanan.

"But he's so old now, he put his back out. It cost us a couple of days filming."

Millwall say the FA appeal process is 'archaic' after an appeal against Jed Wallace's red card against Burton is rejected.

Southwark News

Dulwich Hamlet fans have started donating their own cash to the club, after fears that a new funding arrangement with developer Meadow Residential could leave them struggling to pay players’ wages., external

Police believe a man whose body was found on a railway line was chased before his death.

The Queen has reopened the Sir Joseph Hotung Gallery of China and South Asia at the British Museum, 25 years after she unveiled the original gallery.

The revamped gallery features displays telling the stories of China and the South Asian countries of India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal from 5000 BC up to the present day.

BBC Weather

It will be cold and dry this evening with clearing skies, and perhaps a touch of ground frost in places.

Cloud will thicken with outbreaks of rain spreading to all parts later in the night, and it will turn milder.

Minimum temperature: 2C (36F).

Netflix has announced a new series of Top Boy scheduled for release in 2019.

The former-Oasis star had called for a person to peel potatoes during his concert at Bethnal Green.

Celebrity chef and restaurateur Antonio Carluccio has died at the age of 80, his agent says.

He was known for the Italian restaurant chain that carries his surname and for appearing on TV programmes, including the BBC Two hit Two Greedy Italians, alongside chef Gennaro Contaldo.

From north-west Italy, Carluccio worked as a journalist in Turin before moving to Vienna and Germany, and finally London.

In 2007, he received an OBE from the Queen for his services to the catering industry and in 2012 he was awarded the AA hospitality lifetime achievement award.

He received the Commendatore, the equivalent of a British knighthood, from the Italian government in 1998 for services to Italy.

International development secretary Priti Patel is on her way to Downing Street to learn her fate, after being ordered back from Africa by the prime minister, the BBC understands.

Ms Patel, who sparked controversy after holding unauthorised meetings with Israeli politicians, cut short an official visit to Uganda and arrived at Heathrow Airport shortly after 15:00.

Her flight was being tracked by more than 22,000 people online, according to website Flightradar 24.

BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said "some kind of development" was expected today and Ms Patel's sacking seemed "almost inevitable now".

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The figure joins waxworks of world leaders such as Donald Trump and Angela Merkel.

The deal between Southern and the drivers' union includes a five-year pay increase worth 28.5%.

Evening Standard

The friendliest and least friendly parts of the capital are revealed today in new data which aims to hit back at Londoners' surly reputation., external