Roads were closed outside Broadcasting House in central London and staff were unable to leave.

Roads around New Broadcasting House have been closed as police investigate a suspicious van which has been left outside the BBC's central London offices.

The orange van was found on Duchess Street near the corner of Hallam Street at the rear of the building.

A bomb disposal robot has been used as part of efforts to enter the van, and police and fire crews have been trying to break into the vehicle.

The BBC's offices have been locked down with people not being allowed to leave the building.

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A woman has waived her legal right to anonymity to talk about a man who has finally been sentenced for raping her at knifepoint in 1985.

Christopher Clark, now 68, has been jailed at for 13 years for the attack on Yolande Jenkins in North Stifford in south Essex.

He had already been servicing a sentence for other sexual offences, when advances in DNA technology linked him to the 1985 attack.

Six people appear in court after a 17-year-old was stabbed to death in June.

The motorway between London and Theale will be widened in both directions with four lanes.

Tottenham Hotspur have revealed images of the club's new stadium which is being built in north London.

The 22-year-old was found in Tottenham Cemetery at about 08:00 BST and pronounced dead at the scene.

Tottenham's home Premier League match with Manchester City in October is put back one day so it can be played at Wembley.

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The odd mist patch may develop too.

Minimum Temperature: 11C to 14C (52F to 57F).

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A woman could face jail unless she pays back more than £135,000 she made by renting out flats she had created without planning permission.

Nkennaya Oyidia Oke, 63, of Blossom Way, Uxbridge, turned a one-bedroom house into two self-contained flats without applying for permission from Hillingdon Council.

She then let the two flats in Russet Close, Uxbridge - one on the ground floor and one on the second storey - to a series of tenants.

Hillingdon Council's Trading Standards and Planning Enforcement teams discovered the breach and issued a notice demanding Oke revert the property back into a single house but she ignored the notice and carried on letting the flats.

Appearing at Uxbridge Magistrates' Court on 23 May 2017, Oke was tried and found guilty of breaching the enforcement notice.

The council's Trading Standards team then stepped in to investigate the money she made by letting out the property.

She was sentenced at Isleworth Crown Court on 1 August 2018.

The judge made a confiscation order of £118,173 - the amount Trading Standards could prove she had earned from renting out the flats.

She must pay the sum within three months or face going to jail for two years. She was also fined £5,000 and ordered to pay more than £12,000 in costs.

Councillor Keith Burrows, the council's cabinet member for planning, transportation and recycling, said: "Mrs Oke brazenly assumed she could continue renting out the flats despite being served with a planning enforcement notice requiring her to put the house back to how it was.

"We won't tolerate that sort of behaviour in Hillingdon and I'm pleased justice has been done. I hope this result serves as a warning that we're not afraid to go the extra mile to ensure people who operate outside the law don't profit from their crimes."

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A woman was dragged for nearly 100m along a Tube platform and into a tunnel after the train's doors did not detect her bag was trapped in the train doors and the driver failed to spot she was stuck, the Rail Accident Investigation Branch, external (RAIB) has found.

The 78-year-old woman, from west London, was boarding the Central Line train at Notting Hill Gate at about 16:00 BST on 31 January when the doors closed and trapped her bag in the doors while she was standing on the platform.

She was then pulled for about 75m along the platform and 15m into the tunnel as the train reached a speed of 35km/h before the emergency brakes were applied and the train stopped.

Emergency services were called and the woman was found beneath the train in the tunnel. She suffered serious injuries and was taken to hospital where she was treated for a month.

In its report, external, the RAIB found the woman's tote bag was not thick enough to be detected by the train's door control system which would have prevented it from leaving the platform.

Investigators also discovered the driver had not seen the woman because "the in-cab CCTV monitor did not adequately assist him... and he relied on other cues to depart."

The RAIB recommended future Tube trains should be better at detecting objects trapped in doors and staff should be better trained and supported to check there are no problems before they depart a station.

Social services bosses at Lambeth council have been criticised by a judge over the way they handled a case involving a severely-disabled Colombian woman who was living in England but wanted to be cared for in South America.

Mr Justice Newton said the woman had suffered a cardiac arrest more than four years ago, when in England, which left her with brain damage.

He said "as long ago" as September 2014 the woman had "unequivocally" said she wanted to be cared for at a unit in Colombia and social services bosses at Lambeth Council, and health staff, had approved the idea.

But he said she had not returned to her homeland until early in 2018.

The judge said the woman had "just had to wait" because of "disorganised, muddled and unfocused decision-making, and what has at times verged on an arrogance".

He said a "malaise" had set in for which Lambeth Council was "entirely responsible".

He added that she had been kept here against her wishes, at a cost to the taxpayer of over £2,000 per week - "over £100,000 a year", he said.

Mr Justice Newton, who is based in the Family Division of the High Court in London, said the case had a "shocking history".

Two men have been stabbed in east London.

The first man was taken to hospital with a puncture wound to his back after officers found him in Station Parade, Barking, shortly after 12:40 BST yesterday.

The man, aged in his 50s, was airlifted to an east London hospital where his condition has been described as "not life-threatening or life-changing".

The second victim was found by police officers on Lodge Avenue in Dagenham who were called at about 15:00.

The 50-year-old was taken hospital with a stab injury. His condition is not believed to be life-threatening, the Metropolitan Police has said.

There have been no arrests on either cases, which are not being treated as linked, according to the Met.

A choreographer from Deptford is trying to bring back a "forgotten piece of history" through dance.

Image source, ANDY HARGRAVES

A woman from London is to travel the whole length of the Hudson River in the US on a stand-up paddle board to raise awareness of plastic pollution.

Lizzie Carr will be collecting water samples so microplastic levels in the river can be analysed.

The environmentalist from Croydon said she chose the US for her trip because it was "one of the world's biggest consumers of single use plastic".

She plans to cover 170 miles over eight days starting on Thursday.

Kevin Hart has split opinion as a "zero tolerance" mobile phone ban at his UK gigs left some people out of pocket.

Fans were left frustrated with the US comedian's strict policy as some claimed they were removed from the venue, external for as little as sending a text.

But others saw the funny side as they reported sightings, external of so-called "cell phone security" around the O2 Arena on Sunday.

And one person keen to share a snap of their experience on social media was forced to resort to more primitive means.

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BBC Weather

This afternoon will continue to be dry with further spells of sunshine at times, although high cloud may make this rather hazy in places.

Rather warm with just a light or gentle breeze.

Maximum Temperature: 21C to 24°C (70 to 75°F)

George the Poet reflects on the benefits social housing used to bring and current "crisis".

Petrol, diesel and older hybrid cars are banned during rush hour as councils try to cut pollution.