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A judge says Yonatan Eyob "profited from the deaths" of people in the Grenfell Tower fire.

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This evening and tonight, it expected to stay mainly dry with long clear periods, although cloud is expected to thicken from the west later in the night. It will remain rather breezy.

Minimum temperature: 7 to 10°C (45 to 50°F).

The Met did not find sufficient evidence to prosecute Luftur Rahman, who was removed from office.

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A food redistribution charity provided 48,000 meals to children across the capital over the school summer holiday, it has revealed.

FareShare London, external takes surplus food from the supply chain and redistributes it to 249 charities and community groups throughout London.

The charity said the amount of meals it provided over the summer months was a 50% increase compared to last year.

Rachel Ledwith, development manager at FareShare London, said: "This year’s figures in comparison to 2017 demonstrate the glaring need for food provision in our communities across the capital".

"With the support of our food partners, we’re grateful we were able to support more frontline holiday projects than any summer before."

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Selling off community health services in Ealing to one company would be a "disastrous", health campaigners have warned.

“Patients not Profits” and “Don’t Privatise Our NHS”, are the slogans being used by Save Ealing NHS campaigners in an attempt to challenge the contract, which they say could be worth as much as a billion pounds over ten years.

Virgin Care is thought to be among the groups bidding for a contract to run Ealing’s community health services including district nurses, children’s services and mental health services which are currently run by the NHS.

Eve Turner, from Ealing Save Our NHS, which organised a demonstration against the contract last month, said: “The record of private companies trying to run NHS services has been terrible.

“At a time when Ealing Hospital is under threat, it would be disastrous to remove finances from the local NHS Trust, which currently runs many of these services.

“In fact, we are against the very idea of contracting out these services. Whoever wins the contract will be expected to magically replace hospital beds with care in the community and lay the basis for the closure of the proper A&E at Ealing.”

A Virgin Care spokesperson said: “As this is an ongoing procurement process, it would be inappropriate for us to comment.”

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Traffic wardens in Hounslow are to be equipped with body cameras after staff were subjected to abuse and violent assaults while trying to enforce parking fines.

The council – which is following the example of other London boroughs – says the cameras will offer protection to staff and prevent conflict and abuse against staff during their working day.

It also means when motorists threaten parking officers, footage from the cameras can be used as evidence to prosecute attackers, and give staff the confidence to carry out their duties without fear of being abused.

The use of body-worn cameras for CEOs is widespread across London, and introducing them will bring Hounslow in line with other authorities.

At the same time the council has decided to increase the numbers of parking officers it employs and the hours they work to try to cope with what it ways is an increased in issues surrounding parking.

It follows a trial of enforcement officers working daily from 0700 to 0100.

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Britain's largest chain of bookshops, Waterstones, has bought one of London's oldest.

Foyles, founded 115 years ago, has stores in Charing Cross Road, the Royal Festival Hall and Westfield in Stratford along with branches in Bristol, Birmingham and Chelmsford.

Waterstones Managing Director James Daunt said the company were "honoured to be entrusted with the Foyles business", adding that the move would help "protect and champion the pleasures of real bookshops."

Speaking about the acquisition, Christopher Foyle said: "My family and I are delighted that Foyles is entering a new chapter, one which secures the brand's future and protects its personality."

Life on the streets is hard and precarious, but every soul who sleeps on a pavement has a story. Tara and George is a six-part series exploring the lives of two people in their late forties who sleep rough in London's Spitalfields. It asks simply, what led them there and why do they remain?

Journalist Audrey Gillan has come to know them as neighbours in this diverse and fashionable area of the capital, and has been recording her conversations with Tara and George for nearly two years.

In this episode, Tara opens up, little by little, about her childhood in London, missing her mum and what led to her three children being taken away from her.

Written and presented by Audrey Gillan Produced by Audrey Gillan and Johnny Miller Original music by Francis Macdonald Series Producer: Alan Hall

A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4.

Labour MPs Joan Ryan and Gavin Shuker tell constituents they will not quit over local party votes.

Wig and Pen is the only building in the Strand believed to have survived the 1666 fire and the Blitz.

Local Democracy Reporting Service

A fifth of all murders in London can be linked back to Merton, according to a report published this week.

The report on knife crime has been put together by Neil Thurlow, head of Safer Merton.

Since 2016 there has been a 21% increase in knife crime in the borough at about 15 offences each month.

The highest level is seen in Figge’s Marsh and Cricket Green, accounting for 30% of all knife crime offences in the borough.

Colliers Wood and Pollards Hill are the see the third and fourth highest levels respectively.

But the increase in offences is less than half the increase that has been seen across London.

The report said: “Merton has not been unaffected by this increase [in 2018] in murder rate and knife crime.

“We have had one murder on borough, we have seen one ex-Merton young person killed in Camberwell and, through work undertaken by the youth offending team, they estimate that London’s murders can be linked back to Merton, in some way, in an alarming 20% of cases.”

It goes on to say that police cannot deal with the ‘pandemic’ of knife crime alone.

A ‘knife crime plan’ is set to be signed off by 14 September.

This will include how other organisations could contribute to weapon sweeps in the borough.

It will also include what front-line staff, like wardens and street cleaners, should do if they come across a weapon and whether training needs to be provided by the police for these groups.

The report is set to be discussed by Merton Council’s Joint Consultative Committee with Ethnic Minority Organisations on Tuesday.

A court considering only the first 20 applications for six roles aids a "crisis in quality".

The 16-year-old attacked Vijaykumar Patel after he refused to sell him cigarette papers.

Inside Croydon

Coroydon council has finally started buying up the parcels of land around the Whitgift Centre, to allow work to begin on the £1.4billion Hammersfield redevelopment., external

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Actress Liz Fraser, best known for her roles in the Carry On films, has died at the age of 88.

Fraser died yesterday at London's Brompton hospital as a result of complications following an operation, her agent told BBC News.

Fraser often played one of the Carry On franchise's stereotypical "busty blonde" characters.

DirectorMichael Armstrong paid tribute, describing her, externalas "one of the greatest comedic actresses of her era".

Fraser, whose real name was Elizabeth Joan Winch, grew up in Southwark, south London, and made her film debut in 1955's Touch and Go.

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About 25 firefighters battled a flat fire in Thornton Heath earlier.

London Fire Brigade were called to the property in Richmond Road at 08:00 BST.

Half of the three-roomed flat which was on the first floor of the building was damaged in the blaze which took just over an hour to bring under control.

Nobody was injured with two people having left the property before fire crews arrived.

The cause of the fire is under investigation.

UK house prices picked up last month, rising at the fastest annual rate since November, according to the Halifax.

In the three months to August, prices climbed by 3.7% from a year earlier, up from 3.3% annual growth in July.

However, the monthly change was just 0.1%, leaving the average cost of a house little changed at £229,958.

Jeremy Leaf, a north London estate agent and former residential chairman of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, said the data offered "a mixed message".

"Prices are rising more slowly on a monthly basis but accelerating when annualised," he said. "What we are finding on the ground is a market largely stuck in neutral - shortage of stock is supporting modest price increases, particularly outside London."