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The Metropolitan Police has donated 100 stolen bicycles, which it had kept in storage after no one claimed them, to NHS staff.

The Met said some of the bikes had been in storage for years and that they would otherwise have been left unused and eventually scrapped.

The force teamed up with bicycle charity Pro Bike Service CIC which serviced and repaired all of the bicycles for free.

The bikes were given to NHS staff members in the Barts Health NHS Trust at an event at held at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park earlier this week.

A further event to donate unclaimed stolen bikes is planned for October.

However, bike owners are urged to register their bicycles online and follow a range of prevention measures, external to better enable them to be reunited with their vehicles in case of theft.

The body was recovered from the River Thames by marine units on Wednesday afternoon.

Home Office emails show staff were worried the knife crime campaign "publicised racist stereotypes".

Richard Okorogheye's best friend Hala Mohamed explains the events following Richard's disappearance.

A 17-year-old Mabel Lethbridge lied about her age to get a job cleaning detonators at the No. 7 National Filling Factory in Hayes, Middlesex. It was a dull job, and when on her sixth day of work a poster appeared requesting staff to work in Amatol Filling Section - the Danger Zone - she immediately volunteered. Injury and deaths were frequent due to novice workers and highly explosive materials.

On Mabel's ninth day of work, a shell exploded and her left leg was mutilated beyond repair. It was later amputated, and she was awarded a Medal of the Order of the British Empire (known as a BEM nowadays) for her courage and devotion to duty.

Ahmed Beker was found with fatal stab wounds in Paddington Green two months ago.

From decriminalising cannabis to revamping the high street - the mayor of London manifestos

The brother of terrorist Usman Khan apologises to the families of Jack Merritt and Saskia Jones.

Gareth Wild logged each space at a local supermarket to "find fun in the mundane".

Harlequins centre Andre Esterhuizen is suspended for six weeks, while Bath prop Beno Obano gets a five-week ban.

Having examined the sea as a source of exploration, defence and trade, David Dimbleby explores how it emerged as a source of pleasure, Punch and Judy and sand sculpture.

Starting at Gorleston-on-Sea, David explores the creation of a seaside holiday culture that remains uniquely British to this day.

Sailing down the Suffolk and Essex coasts and into the Thames, David also shows how the sea became an irresistible subject for our most celebrated artists and architects, before finally docking in the very heart of British maritime power - Greenwich.

Lucy Worsley explores the lives of six real people who lived, worked and volunteered during the Blitz. Using the same style as Lucy's film about the Suffragettes, the film shows their remarkable resilience, as well as the terrible suffering they endured, shining a light on the role of the front-line workers and volunteers at the heart of it all.

The six lives at the heart of the film are 17-year-old Jewish shopgirl Nina Masel, from Essex, who reported for Mass Observation; Frances Faviell, a Chelsea artist and socialite who received just a week’s training to become an auxiliary nurse and would end up treating a dying victim in a bomb crater; Ita Ekpenyon, a Nigerian teacher who moved to the UK to study law but who took on the role of an air-raid precaution warden to rally the people of his central London patch; Barbara Nixon, an out-of-work actress who worked long hours as an ARP warden, expressing her outrage at judgemental attitudes towards East Enders who had lost everything; Frank Hurd, a full-time fireman whose day job was to keep the raging fires of the bombing raids under control; and Robert Barltrop, too young to enlist, who worked as a porter in a Sainsbury's warehouse and volunteered as a firewatcher.

EastEnders star Shane Richie travels around his home city of London, finding out what it was like to live through the worst attack in Britain's history. In a moving journey around some of London's worst-hit areas, he talks to survivors who still remember their horrific experiences vividly. He goes up in a plane to recreate the actual bombing routes taken by the Germans, and he experiences what life was like inside the shelters as the bombs rained down.

Sisters Nicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry were found dead in a park in Wembley last June.

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The Florence Nightingale Museum is to partially reopen with a series of open weekends throughout the rest of the year.

The institution, based on the site of St Thomas' Hospital, previously announced it had closed for the foreseeable future due to the financial effects of the pandemic.

Museum bosses said emergency funding from the Culture Recovery Fund meant it would now have a limited reopening with open weekends on the first full weekend of every month from June.

The museum's director David Green said: "We are extremely pleased to be opening our doors again, if only for a limited time.

"These will be very special, now-rare, opportunities to explore the life of the woman whose name has been used so much over the past year and whose legacy shines through the remarkable work of the health care professionals that have been fighting the pandemic."

Junior Jah's death takes the number of teenagers to die in knife attacks in London this year to 12.

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The Museum of London and the Museum of London Docklands are to reopen on 19 May, it has been announced.

Exhibitions at the two sites have been extended. Dub London: Bassline of a City, external will run until 5 September, Havering Hoard: A Bronze Age Mystery, external will be extended until 22 August and The Krios of Sierra Leone, external will be open until 4 July.

Both museums will be free to enter but tickets for timed entry have to be booked in advance.

Sharon Ament, director of the Museum of London, said "our teams have been busy behind the scenes readying our sites to safely welcome our visitors once again".

"From Havering Hoard: A Bronze Age Mystery at the Museum of London Docklands to Dub London: Bassline of a City at the Museum of London this will most certainly be the summer to visit us and we cannot wait to welcome everyone who does. It has been too long!” she said.

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Police have released a CCTV image of a man they are trying to find after a woman was sexually abused on a London bus.

The 20-year-old victim had boarded the EL2 bus at Barking Railway Station at about 23:30 on 12 February when a man sat behind her and began touching her inappropriately.

She then shouted at the man before getting off the vehicle, police said.

The Met said detectives wanted to identify and speak with the man in the CCTV image in connection with what happened.

He has been described as Asian, aged in his mid-20s and of slim build.

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Today looks set to be a mostly dry and cloudy day.

There is the chance of the odd light shower, but most places will remain dry.

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