There will be a return to outdoor dining in parts of Soho, Marylebone and Covent Garden in April.

The change would improve the relationship between black children and the police, campaigners say.

The protester, who left with two others, spent 30 days in the tunnel under Euston Square Gardens.

The covering was introduced by police in the southern hemisphere to encourage more Muslim women to join.

Lizzi Gee and her eight-year-old son Rufus say tap routines are one positive to come out of lockdown.

Wedding planners in London are reporting a surge in bookings after it was announced lockdown rules were being eased.

Pop star Rina Sawayama protested after being told she was "not British enough" for UK music awards.

Rebel Tories urged the government to ensure leaseholders are protected from extra costs.

A bus driver is found guilty of bludgeoning his wife to death during the first national coronavirus lockdown.

Covid "devastated" air travel in 2020, the UK's largest airport says, as it sinks to a £2bn loss.

More than 300 county lines have been shut down in just over a year, the Met Police has said.

John Worboys fails with application for permission to appeal against life sentences for attacking four women.

Gabriel Bringye was found unresponsive and with stab wounds in a car in Tottenham on 17 February.

London, often the heart of the UK economy, now has the highest rate of redundancies in the country.

Paramedic Gary Watson describes being violently attacked as London Ambulance Service trials body-worn cameras.

A minister has pledged to work with MPs on a campaign to award a murdered policewoman a posthumous George Medal for bravery.

Policing minister Kit Malthouse said he would ask his officials to work with Conservative MP Bob Stewart (Beckenham) "to make sure that the right evidence is gathered" ahead of submitting a nomination for Yvonne Fletcher to receive the award.

Ms Fletcher was killed on duty in April 1984 outside the Libyan embassy in London, where she was policing a demonstration against Colonel Gaddafi. Former colonel Mr Stewart called for her to be awarded the medal for gallantry due to her "calm, courageous demeanour while she was so grievously wounded and dying".

Making his case to ministers during an adjournment debate in the Commons, Mr Stewart told MPs: "Yvonne's conduct exemplified the very highest standards of the Metropolitan Police Service, in particular, when she was mortally wounded she seemed to care more about others who were with her in the ambulance than herself.

"What courage she displayed by saying to those trying to look after her that they should keep safe, stay calm - and that was within minutes of her death.

"She did that when she must have been in the gravest of agony.

"From my own experience of writing citations, may I suggest that a posthumous award of the George Medal could be considered despite the passage of years and mostly because of Yvonne's calm, courageous demeanour while she was so grievously wounded and dying."

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Dry and fine today, with patchy cloud and spells of hazy sunshine. Exceptionally mild, with temperatures reaching into the mid-teens. A moderate southerly breeze.

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It follows research which showed four out of five people were unsure how to report extremist material.

The young Gallaghers appear in Creation Stories - a film about Oasis's former label boss Alan McGee.

Three people in the house were unhurt and a man has been held on suspicion of drink-driving.