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  • Updates on Friday 9 November

  1. Tompkins signs new Saracens contractpublished at 19:59 Greenwich Mean Time 5 November 2018

    Saracens centre Nick Tompkins signs a new three-and-a half-year deal with the Premiership champions.

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  2. Grenfell bonfire 'disrespectful' says PMpublished at 19:25 Greenwich Mean Time 5 November 2018

    Theresa May brands footage of a burning model of Grenfell Tower "utterly unacceptable".

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  3. Two held over stab death at Tube stationpublished at 18:26 Greenwich Mean Time 5 November 2018

    Malcolm Mide-Madariola, 17, was killed outside Clapham South station on Friday afternoon.

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  4. Goodbyepublished at 16:59 Greenwich Mean Time 5 November 2018

    BBC London News

    Updates for London have ended for the day but we'll be back at 08:00 on Tuesday with the latest news, sport, travel and weather.

    Keep checking back here throughout the evening for any breaking news.

  5. The first date that created a £10m companypublished at 16:54 Greenwich Mean Time 5 November 2018

    BBC Business News

    Radha Vyas and Lee ThompsonImage source, SIMON DAWSON

    The BBC's weekly The Boss series profiles different business leaders from around the world. This week we speak to Radha Vyas and Lee Thompson, founders of travel firm Flash Pack.

    When Radha Vyas went on a first date with a man she had met online, little did she know that by the end of the night they would be starting to fall in love... and planning to go into business together.

    Radha was 32 and single back in 2012, when a dating website matched her with a man called Lee Thompson because of their mutual love of travel.

    Over drinks in a London bar she told Lee that she had noticed a gap in the market for a firm that offered group adventure holidays for single people in their 30s and 40s.

    Her argument was that while 18 to 30-year-olds were well catered for by that type of organised trip, as were older generations, there was not much on offer for people in her age group.

    Find out more about how they created their business here.

  6. London violence 'to take 10 years to solve'published at 16:51 Greenwich Mean Time 5 November 2018

    Sadiq Khan speaks out after two teenagers and two men were stabbed to death in the capital in five days.

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  7. Watch: Morbid exhibits of UCL's Pathology Museumpublished at 16:50 Greenwich Mean Time 5 November 2018

    Dating back to the 1800s the UCL’s Pathology Museum has more than 2,000 specimens of human remains.

    Among the macabre collection are a sword swallower’s oesophagus and a plaster cast of a hand belonging to a man that had acromegaly and was 8ft 9in (2.6m) tall.

    The museum is normally closed to the public but for one weekend in September it opened its doors as part of Open House London.

    The BBC Travel Show’s Christa Larwood went along to find out more.

  8. 'Budget cuts to blame for knife crime'published at 16:44 Greenwich Mean Time 5 November 2018

    Sadiq Khan says knife crime could taken generations to solve.

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  9. Poppy sellers ejected from centre over 'public safety'published at 16:40 Greenwich Mean Time 5 November 2018

    John Gaughan and Vic EmeryImage source, SINEAD CROSS

    Two army veteran selling Remembrance Day poppy sellers were ordered to leave a shopping centre over "public safety".

    John Gaughan, 59, and Vic Emery, 57, were ejected from the intu centre in Uxbridge, west London because they did not have the correct permission.

    Mr Gaughan, who served during The Troubles in Northern Ireland, said he was "disgusted" and "outraged".

    "We are so proud to be collecting in memory of the people who died for freedom and this happens," he said.

    The intu centre said it later asked the pair, who were collecting for the Royal British Legion, to come back in.

    A spokesman said: "On Saturday, while the volunteers hadn't notified us of their collection (which we kindly require all of our charity and volunteer organisations to do) we did have conversations with their team to allow them to remain in the centre, but they declined to do so.

    "We are discussing this with the British Legion to ensure that this situation doesn't happen again and that they continue to be welcomed into the centre."

  10. Wembley date included for Spice Girls reunion tourpublished at 16:36 Greenwich Mean Time 5 November 2018

    Spice GirlsImage source, SPICE GIRLS

    The Spice Girls have announced their first tour for a decade, with six UK stadium dates in June next year.

    Melanie Brown, Emma Bunton, Geri Horner and Melanie Chisholm revealed details of the reunion tour in a video on social media on Monday.

    Victoria Beckham, however, will not be taking part.

    The tour will begin on 1 June and finish at Wembley Station.

  11. Osamor referred to standards watchdogpublished at 16:29 Greenwich Mean Time 5 November 2018

    Ishmael Osamor, son of Labour MP Kate Osamor, works as a communications officer for his mother.

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  12. Johnson leaves Middlesex for Surreypublished at 15:57 Greenwich Mean Time 5 November 2018

    Surrey appoint Richard Johnson as assistant coach after the ex-England bowler was released from his contract at Middlesex.

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  13. 'Emotional' Chapman on coaching Syrian refugeespublished at 15:47 Greenwich Mean Time 5 November 2018

    Ex-England and Chelsea midfielder Katie Chapman on her "eye-opening" experience coaching Syrian refugees in Jordan.

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  14. Earls Court owner 'in sale talks'published at 15:28 Greenwich Mean Time 5 November 2018

    Chris Johnston
    Business reporter, BBC News

    An artist's impression of the Earls Court redevelopmentImage source, C&C
    Image caption,

    An artist's impression of the Earls Court redevelopment

    Capital & Counties is in talks with Hong Kong-based property developer CK Asset Holdings about selling most of its stake in Earls Court in west London.

    Capco also said it continues to prepare for a possible break-up by splitting its Covent Garden and Earls Court estates into two separately listed companies.

    The statement to the stock market this afternoon confirms recent media speculation that it is preparing for a possible demerger.

    There is no certainty a deal will result, it added.

    Shares are almost 6% higher in London.

  15. London sales slide hits estate agent Foxtonspublished at 15:26 Greenwich Mean Time 5 November 2018

    The stagnant London property market continues to dog Foxtons, but the rental market helps out.

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  16. Exhibition to look at Van Gogh's London yearspublished at 14:46 Greenwich Mean Time 5 November 2018

    Sunflowers paintingImage source, PA

    Vincent Van Gogh's Sunflowers will go on show alongside the British works which the world-famous painting inspired, in a new exhibition on the artist's "crucial" years in London.

    The painter decided to give up his career as a trainee art dealer and pursue life as an artist during his years living in Brixton.

    He "roamed the streets of London" and was inspired by British writers William Shakespeare, Christina Rossetti and Charles Dickens.

    Almost all of his drawings from his time in London have been "lost" but the influence that the city had on the Dutch painter will be the subject of a new exhibition at Tate Britain next year.

  17. ‘Urgent’ action needed over Heathrow runwaypublished at 14:05 Greenwich Mean Time 5 November 2018

    The UK's aviation regulator says Heathrow Airport must clarify the cost and timescale of a third runway.

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  18. Charges over World Cup ambulance damagepublished at 14:03 Greenwich Mean Time 5 November 2018

    Three men and a woman are charged with criminal damage after England's World Cup quarter-final win.

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  19. 'Life at the bottom of the Commons hierarchy’published at 13:40 Greenwich Mean Time 5 November 2018

    Victoria Derbyshire

    MPs are set to debate a major report into bullying and sexual harassment in the House of Commons. But one junior member of staff, who says she has experienced just such a culture within Westminster, has little confidence that anything will change.

    "I think there's a kind of unspoken hierarchy between staff, [and that] whatever an MP says, goes," "Katie" tells the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme.

    "It's very much seen that Members are the priority, and everyone is there to serve their interests."

    Find out more here.

  20. Tower of London illuminated for Armistice tributepublished at 13:24 Greenwich Mean Time 5 November 2018

    Media caption,

    Tower of London illuminated for Armistice tribute

    Around 10,000 flames have been lit at the Tower of London to mark the centenary of the end of World War I.

    The tribute, called Beyond The Deepening Shadow, was designed by Tom Piper, the artist behind the poppy installation in 2014.