A murder inquiry has been launched after a man's body was found near a rural station in Kent.

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Labour MP Stephen Doughty pays tribute to the response of the Met Police in dealing with the attacks in London this year.

Cressida Dick says she is "very proud" of the "compassion, resilience and endurance" of the police force in the wake of these attacks.

The Met Commissioner says there is "considerable strain" on her organisation but "morale is high" and praises the "extraordinary capable" staff.

Ms Dick says that alongside the terror attacks that have taken place in the past year, the Met have "foiled seven attacks in seven months".

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Cressida Dick tells the Home Affairs Committee that if the Met has to make £400m of cuts by 2020-21, it will have to cut police officers from around 30,000 to 27,500.

Ms Dick says that preventing violent crime is one of her priorities and that it has been a "Herculean effort" to stem its increase in London.

Ms Dick tells MPs she's "really concerned" cuts will hamper police work to stop people becoming violent extremists.

The calculation that rising costs will mean that the Met needs to find savings of more than £400m by 2020-21 comes from the Mayor of London's Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) budget submission from December last year, external.

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This statue of George Orwell has been unveiled outside the BBC's Broadcasting House in London.

The bronze piece was created by sculptor Martin Jennings and cast at the Pangolin Foundry in Chalford, near Stroud.

Tap here to read more about why the location was chosen.

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Unions say Transport for London plans job cuts in engineering and London Underground by 2021.

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Residents at a housing estate in Poplar in east London say they've been told to remove their sheds in case they pose a fire risk following the Grenfell disaster.

They claim it’s ridiculous, but the Housing Association, Poplar Harca, says Grenfell has changed the way all public housing is managed.

Razvana Zeib, 35, planned to launder at least £900,000 of stolen funds through a Pakistan bank account.

A Transport for London (TfL) spokesperson has issued this response to union claims that it is to axe 1,4000 to save money:

“We are undertaking the largest ever overhaul of our organisation to provide the most efficient and cost effective transport service for Londoners. We have already reduced management layers and bureaucracy and merged functions in other areas to eliminate duplication and reliance on expensive agency staff.

“We do not recognise the RMT’s number. Over the next few months we will be consulting on further plans in a number of other managerial, support and other non-frontline areas across TfL and London Underground. None of this will compromise safety, which will always remain our top priority.”

Harlequins prop Mark Lambert is elected chairman of the Rugby Players' Association, replacing Northampton's Christian Day.

Footage has been released of a man being rescued from the River Thames seconds before he was lost under a closed arch at Blackfriars Railway Bridge.

The Tower RNLI lifeboat crew were called into action on Sunday night following reports of a man in the water at Southwark Bridge.

They found a backpack in the water but could not spot the man so headed to the north side of the river towards the second arch of Blackfriars Railway Bridge where they spotted him surfacing and were able to grab him.

"There were lots of snags under the arch and he would probably have been pulled under so we feel this is a life saved", Helmsman Jai Gudgion said.

The RNLI said the man was breathing but was sick as a result of ingesting water so taken to hospital.

Ealing Council is holding a meeting tonight to discuss ways to improve the safety of cycling following the death of Claudia Manera who last month was hit by a lorry while cycling on Uxbridge Road.

Residents and anyone who cycles regularly through Ealing borough is invited to take part in the meeting, which will be chaired by councillor Bassam Mahfouz, cabinet member for transport, environment and leisure.

The discussion will be held from 18:00 at Ealing Town Hall on New Broadway.

Security guards Mohammad Siddique, 32, and Ranjeev Singh, 40, claimed they had been robbed to cover their tracks.

Housing Association Poplar Harca says the Grenfell blaze has changed the way all public housing is managed.

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Poor children in London are being crammed into slum-land bedsits, some of which are so risky that some families end up being referred to social services for help, charities say.

Whole families are living in single rooms in shared properties, where strangers are coming and going.

Some are renting from private landlords, while others - recently made homeless - are placed in temporary accommodation by local councils, trying to meet their obligations amid the housing crisis.

"Call it a slum, call it what you like," says Kim Steward, an outreach worker with charity School-Home Support, "lots of families live like this and it's not safe."

Up to 1,400 job losses are planned at Transport for London (TfL) because of spending cuts, according to unions.

The cuts will affect engineering and parts of London Underground, said the Rail, Maritime and Transport union.

The figure emerged at a meeting between union leaders and TfL today, which the RMT said revealed that spending will be cut by £5.5 billion by 2021.

More soon on this story.

Evening Standard

An embattled Labour council leader was today accused, external of running it like her “personal fiefdom”.

When police searched Noel Phillips outside his home, they snatched his phone to stop him recording.

You are still eight times more likely to be searched as a black person than any other ethnic group.

The Office for National Statistics report says it analysed mobile data in three London boroughs.