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A woman who died in a collision in Knightsbridge has been named.

Police were called on the 18 January to reports of a collision between a DAF lorry and a pedestrian in Brompton Road.

Officers and London Ambulance Service attended the location. The pedestrian was pronounced dead at the scene.

She has been formally identified as 83-year-old Daniela Raczkowska, a Polish national who was visiting her daughter in Putney.

Ms Raczkowska had visited London before Christmas and was due to return to Poland in February.

The driver of the lorry stopped at the scene. No arrests have been made and enquires continue.

Perkins, who died in prison, had been jailed for the "largest burglary in English legal history".

An urgent question on Grenfell Tower has been granted to shadow housing secretary John Healey.

He is expected to ask it in the House of Commons at approximately 17:00

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South Western Railway commuters are facing four days of fresh disruption, after the RMT Union announced strike action over the long-running dispute of driver-only operated (DOO) trains.

The trade union has instructed its members to take industrial action from Friday, 16 February until Monday, 19 February.

All train guards have been asked to refuse work on those days; while train drivers have been asked not to take any "rest day working" during the same time period.

Sudip Sarker told interviewers he had conducted 51 solo keyhole procedures but the true figure was six.

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"I am glad to hear you are in hospital. I hope you suffer torture until you die, you idiot."

Signed "an Englishman", this piece of hate mail was sent to votes-for-women campaigner Emily Wilding Davison as she lay dying in hospital in June 1913.

Days earlier, she had been trampled by the King's horse after ducking on to the track in a protest at the Epsom Derby.

She never regained consciousness and her death on 8 June is regarded as a key point in the votes-for-women campaign.

The letter is among hundreds of rarely seen documents made accessible to students on anew free online course,, externalmarking 100 years since the first women gained the right to vote in the UK.

The course timing is "hugely appropriate", and the content "so relevant" given current debates on the gender pay-gap and sexual harassment, says its leader Claire Kennan of Royal Holloway, University of London.

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Terry Perkins, 69, one of the Hatton Garden jewellery robbers has died in prison.

Imran Muhammad, of Ilford, east London, is due to appear at the Old Bailey on Wednesday.

Housing associations will offer some homes to Londoners only for the first month they are on sale.

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A cold day with bright spells and a few scattered wintry showers, with a chance of some light snow accumulations in places.

Maximum temperature: 4C (39F).

A 30-year-old man has been charged with the murder of Thamesmead man Seyed Khan.

The body of Mr Khan, 49, was found in Ilford Cemetery on 1 February after he had been reported missing earlier in the year.

Imran Muhammad, of Swindon Close, Ilford, has since been charged with the murder of Mr Khan and has also been charged with perverting the course of justice.

He has been remanded to appear at the Old Bailey on 7 February.

The number of reports of illegal treatments is rising, the General Dental Council warns.

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We used this wonderful photo of the city's black cabs as our banner today.

But we want a new picture every day to show off the capital.

Have you taken a photo of your part of London which you think would be suitable? If so, email it in high resolution (2048 x 1152 or 1680 x 945) to london.locallive@bbc.co.uk.

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The mother of a missing Croydon man has paid tribute to him after his body was pulled from the River Thames., external

Martyn Compton was in hospital for a year after he and his fellow soldiers were hit by rocket grenades while serving in Afghanistan.

He has scars all over his body but with some help from a leading surgeon in Harley Street, central London, his skin is slowly healing.

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Croydon Council has been fined £100,000, plus legal costs, and the borough’s rubbish contractors, Veolia penalised with a £250,000 fine, plus costs, after a worker was crushed by a reversing dust cart, suffering significant injuries., external

A man in his 20s was stabbed on Oxford Street last night.

He was taken to a hospital in central London with a single stab wound after police were called at 21:23 last night.

No arrests have yet been made.

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A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity. Kindness is the language that the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

These aphorisms do not come from the inedible innards of a fortune cookie, but are instead the food for thought served up to Tube passengers at Oval station in south London.

It's been 14 years since customer services manager Anthony Gentles was inspired to perk up the "blank faces" of commuters with a daily dose of wisdom from his favourite book, Tao Te Ching, the key text in the ancient Chinese philosophical tradition of Taoism.

The baton has since been taken on by his colleague Glen Sutherland, whose posts on the station information board have won him fans from around the world and spawned a bevy of imitators across the capital.

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Mr Gentles said offering up pearls of wisdom from ancient China was his way of trying to make people feel more welcome as they braved the Underground.

Explaining his motivation, the east Londoner said: "If it's inspirational for me, perhaps when customers see it it will allow them to stop for a moment and could distract them from whatever was going through their mind.

"Stations need not be sterile places."

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A number of beauticians in London are performing illegal teeth-whitening procedures, which can leave patients in crippling pain if they go wrong.

One place was secretly filmed by BBC London using illegal levels of the hydrogen peroxide at a strength of 25%.

The maximum legal strength useable by a registered dentist in the UK is 6%. If used incorrectly it can cause tooth loss, burns and blisters.

The General Dental Council (GDC) has seen illegal treatments rise, it said.

Only dentists and registered professionals can do the procedures on customers with dentist prescriptions.