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Students from north London left from Stansted Airport this morning to take part in the Holocaust Educational Trust's, external 200th trip to Auschwitz.

The programme, which began in 1999 and has funding from the government, aims to take two children from every UK school to the former concentration camp as part of its Lessons From Auchwitz project.

The scheme is trying to increase young people's knowledge and understanding of the Holocaust through a four-part course.

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A former paedophile hunter was left suicidal and scared to leave his house after internet trolls falsely accused him of being a child sex offender himself.

Josh Blakely, from west London, began exposing paedophiles online to get "justice" for abuse he suffered as a child and says he has helped convict 28 men.

But he quit the voluntary role after receiving a barrage of abuse which left him "sick to the stomach".

One doctored photo shared online depicted Josh holding a protest sign calling for the legal age of sexual consent to be lowered to six years old.

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The Metropolitan Police said it was pursuing several lines of inquiry after Josh reported the trolling.

Josh had to begin taking anti-depressants and sleeping medication to cope with the trolling. He is still "petrified" his home address will be published online by the trolls, as it has been before.

"I don't know if something horrific is going to happen to me," he said.

"Is my safety going to be compromised? Am I going to have to move from my home?"

Josh's friend Kellie has been targeted by the same trolls.

Read their full story here.

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A "piazza" at Oxford Circus is one of the suggested improvements, after original ideas were scrapped.

Koffi Kouakou is jailed after claiming he was in a relationship with a woman who lived in the tower.

Chelsea manager Emma Hayes says showing her "maternal side" helped pick her players up after a 5-0 loss against Arsenal.

A 46-year-old man is found fatally injured after police reports of a group of men fighting in Battersea.

Seconds after it sold for £1m at auction the piece began to shred itself but stopped half way through.

A man is arrested on suspicion of grievous bodily harm and reckless endangerment of life.

Residents in east London say they're worried about the impact building work on a private housing development is having on their health.

They claim noxious smells are causing headaches and stomach complaints.

Such was the concern from a local school that building work near the Olympic Park was halted.

But the London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC) and Telford Homes claimed there's no health risk.

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A bloodsucking trio of leeches have found a new home at London Zoo after being mysteriously abandoned outside a vet's surgery in Kent.

The three real-life "vampires" were found in a tank on the vet's doorstep in Whistable with just a note that read: "Sorry, can't look after them anymore", and have been looking for a new home since April, ZSL London Zoo said.

The surgery happened to be local to ZSL head invertebrate keeper Dave Clarke, who heard of their plight and "invited them in" to live at the zoo.

They have been named Buffy, Angel and Spike after characters from the 1990s TV show Buffy the Vampire Slayer and are now being looked after in the Bugs exhibit.

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Police are appealing for information a month after the body of a man was found outside the back of a takeaway in north London.

The man was found dead on 21 September outside the takeaway on Finchley Road, Barnet.

A post-mortem examination found the cause of death was a head injury.

The death is being treated as unexplained.

Police have released CCTV images of him in a shop shortly before his death in the hope someone may be able to help identify him.

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The victim is thought to have been aged between 30 and 40, Eastern European, of slim build and with short cropped hair.

He may have been homeless, police said.

CCTV from nearby buildings shows the victim walking down an alleyway from the direction of Rodborough Road towards Hodford Road at about 22:00 on 20 September.

About four minutes later, he is seen walking in the opposite direction and appears to be staggering before sitting down against a wall where he was discovered the next morning.

Police are appealing for anyone who may have seen or spoken to the victim that evening to contact them.

Prince William has joined Peter Jackson at the London premiere of They Shall Not Grow Old.

The Lord of the Rings director painstakingly restored silent film footage from World War One, turning black and white film into colour.

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A spike in homophobic and transgender hate crimes in London have been reported over the summer.

Over 2,200 homophobic hate crimes were recorded by the Met Police, external between September 2017 and August 2018, a 8% increase on the previous 12 months.

The Met Police recorded 202 transgender hate crimes over the same period.

"We fear these represent the tip of the iceberg in hate crimes against LGBT people," Stonewall said.

Laura Russell, Head of Policy at Stonewall, said: "Fromour research, externalinto hate crime, we know underreporting is still a major issue with four in five anti-LGBT hate crimes and incidents going unreported, with younger LGBT people particularly reluctant to go to the police.

"Currently, crimes based on sexual orientation, gender identity and disability are not treated equally to those based on race and faith. This has to change."

The Met Police is hosting National Hate Crime Awareness Week takes place from 13-20 October at various locations across London including synagogues, mosques, and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) venues to listen to concerns.

Ch Supt Dave Stringer, said: "London is such a diverse and tolerant city, but too many still feel marginalised or worse intimidated to go about their daily lives due to their race, faith, sexual orientation, gender or disability.

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BBC London Travel

Engineers have worked through the night to get the lines to and from Paddington station up and running again after a train on a test run damaged 500m of overhead power cables.

Three out of the four lines closed on Wednesday have been reopened but further disruption is likely.

Elsewhere, there are severe delays on the London Overground between Surrey Quays and Clapham Junction due to an earlier faulty train at Denmark Hill.

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England suffer a further injury blow before the autumn Tests as Mako Vunipola is ruled out for about six weeks - joining brother Billy on the sidelines.