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A build-up of traffic from an earlier accident on the North Circular is now beginning to clear, while the A12 southbound is closed after a lorry hit a bridge.

There is a good service on London Overground and on all Tube lines, although Holborn station was made exit only at about 07:30 to help prevent overcrowding.

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There was widespread frost this morning and a yellow weather warning for snow and ice is in place until 10:00.

There will be some snow showers in the east but elsewhere there is bright sunshine.

Maximum temperature: 6C (42F)

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Lincoln City reach Wembley for the first time in their 133-year history after beating Chelsea's Under-21s in the EFL Trophy.

Antonio Conte's precarious position at Chelsea "is the nature of the beast" under owner Roman Abramovich, says former midfielder Andy Townsend.

Bury boost their hopes of avoiding relegation from League One by claiming a 2-1 home win over AFC Wimbledon.

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Thickening cloud will bring the growing chance of a few light sleet and snow flurries this evening into tonight.

Turning drier and clearer later with a widespread frost. Minimum Temperature: -4 to -1C (25-30F)

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Theresa May has warned it is time to "take a stand for decency, tolerance and respect" following increasing levels of abuse and intimidation in public life.

In a speech to mark the centenary of some women securing the vote, the Prime Minister attacked the "coarsening and toxifying" of political debate.

Mrs May said it was becoming harder and harder to conduct discussions about political issues without it "descending into tribalism and rancour".

She said: "We now face the prospect of our country's public debate becoming oppressively hostile and participation in it a risk which many are unprepared to run."

Claire Kober, Labour leader of Haringey council, announced last week that she is quitting over "sexism" and "bullying" by hard-left supporters of Jeremy Corbyn.

Mrs May said: "It is a depressing coincidence that in the week we are celebrating the first inclusion of women in the democratic process, one of the most senior women in local government has, in effect, been hounded out of office."

The Cure's Robert Smith will oversee the Southbank Centre's 25th Meltdown festival in the summer.

Previous curators of the music festival have included composer Sir George Benjamin in 1993, David Bowie, Yoko Ono and, last year, rapper MIA.

Love Cats singer Smith, 58, said: "I am honoured and excited to be curating the 25th Meltdown festival.

"More than 30 of my all-time favourite artists - some of the most exciting, inspirational, intense and influential performers of the last 40 years - will make sure this 10-night extravaganza at London's Southbank Centre is the must-see event of the summer."

The event runs from 15 June to 24.

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A couple of Croydon pensioners are being dragged to the Royal Courts of Justice this week by one of the world’s richest royal families, who want to ban them from exercising that old British tradition of freedom of speech., external

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Grenfell-style cladding will only be removed from a housing complex in Croydon if residents pay up £500,000 or the Government provides funding, a tribunal has heard.

Leaseholders at Citiscape, two connected buildings holding 95 flats, face huge costs after their homes were found to be encased in flammable material.

FirstPort Property Services Ltd manages the development and has gone to a first-tier property tribunal in an effort to make residents pay towards safety works.

It is estimated that the total cost of the replacement will be £2m, but at least £500,000 is required to strip the cladding.

The management firm claims it was denied a loan by the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), which said it would only deal with individual leaseholders, and indicated it will not be covered by insurance.

The tribunal continues.

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The trial of three former Tesco executives charged with fraud and false accounting has been abandoned.

Chris Bush, Tesco's former UK boss, John Scouler, Tesco's former commercial food director and Carl Rogberg, its former UK finance boss have been on trial for more than four months.

It emerged on Tuesday that Mr Rogberg had a heart attack last Thursday.

The Serious Fraud Office will decide in early March whether to pursue a re-trial. The men deny the charges.

Mr Rogberg, aged 51, remains in hospital awaiting surgery.

Discharging the jury, Judge Deborah Taylor said: "It wouldn't be right or proper to continue with this trial."

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A UK arrest warrant against Julian Assange is still valid, Westminster Magistrates' Court has ruled.

Lawyers for the WikiLeaks founder asked the court to withdraw the warrant, saying it had "lost its purpose".

It was issued in 2012 after he allegedly breached bail conditions by seeking asylum in Ecuador's London embassy, where he has remained.

He had been facing extradition to Sweden to answer sex assault claims but these charges have since been dropped.

In her ruling, external, senior district judge and chief magistrate Emma Arbuthnot said having considered the arguments, she was "not persuaded that the warrant should be withdrawn".

Three men will stand trial in July over the death of an inmate at HMP Wormwood Scrubs.

Ahmed Khyre, 21, Kalif Dibbassey, 21 and Enton Marku, 20, are charged with the murder of 25-year-old Khader Saleh.

On 31 January Mr Saleh was found in a cell at the west London jail with a number of knife injuries.

He was pronounced dead at the scene.

The defendants appeared at the Old Bailey via video link from Belmarsh, Wandsworth and High Down prisons.

Judge Nicholas Hilliard QC set a four-week trial for 23 July with a plea and case management hearing on 24 April.

Dutch national Khyre, Briton Marku and Frenchman Dibbassey spoke only to confirm their identities.

The men were remanded into custody. Wormwood Scrubs is a category B prison in Shepherd's Bush, west London, with a capacity to hold 1,279 men.

Over 300 officers arrest 21 people after targeting a network involving suspected Kurdish gangsters.

An arrest warrant against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is still valid, Westminster Magistrates' Court has ruled.

Today marks 100 years since a bill was passed allowing women the vote. But even after the bill was passed there were still concessions on who could vote.

Women had to be over 30, own property or have a university degree before they could take part in the democratic process.

One London MP, Willoughby Dickinson, lost his parliamentary seat in the 1918 election, when women were first able to vote, but without him the bill would never have got through Parliament.