Ex-Spurs player Glenn Hoddle jokes that his recovery from cardiac arrest was not helped by the dramatic way Spurs made the Champions League last 16.

RMT members on the Tube's Bakerloo Line will walk out from 05:00 to 23:00.

Local Democracy Reporting Service

Westminster City Council’s leader says she is “blown away” by a mystery donor who gave £10,000 toward the authority’s “wealthy mansion tax” scheme to fund projects including helping rough sleepers.

The donation was made in November – but the London council will not shed light on who gave its charitable fund the cash without their permission to reveal their identity.

This year is the first in which the council has asked occupants of the borough’s most expensive homes to give donations voluntarily on top of their regular council tax, in an idea that has attracted a wide degree of attention.

The Conservative council’s leader Nickie Aiken earlier this year introduced it as a way to collect funds for community projects without having to raising council tax across the board, which would hit less well-off households too.

Asked about the mystery donation on Monday, Cllr Aiken said: “I was blown away by the generosity. It shows that there are lots of Band H property owners who are fully behind this scheme.”

As at November 2018, the scheme had raised £426,529, for the community contribution pot, given by a number of occupants of Westminster’s 15,600 Band H properties.

The council said the average donation is above the suggested amount of £833.

Arsenal midfielder Ainsley Maitland-Niles says he was the victim of racial abuse when playing for the Gunners youth team

A UKIP group within the London Assembly has disbanded amid a string of resignations from the party.

David Kurten and Peter Whittle both remain members of the political group - but they've announced within the last hour that they've formed a new group within the assembly called the Brexit Alliance.

There's been widespread upset within the party over the last few weeks since the ex-English Defence League leader Tommy Robinson was appointed as an adviser to UKIP's leader, Gerard Batten.

A number of people have resigned from the party as a result, including former leader Nigel Farage.

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Wreaths are laid to remember the 35 people killed near Clapham Junction station in south London.

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Survivors and witnesses have been sharing their stories to remember the 35 people killed at the horrific rail crash in Clapham 30 years ago.

At 08:13 on 12 December 1988 faulty wiring and signalling caused three trains to collide near Clapham Junction station.

John Bowis, who was the MP for Battersea at the time, said he drove to the "awful scene of carnage" as soon as he heard the news. "It was something you never forget," he said.

Mr Bowis said the boys from nearby Emanuel School were "impressive" in the way they came to help the injured, but added: "I'm very conscious that some very young eyes and minds were confronted with awful things."

Children from the school laid a wreath at a memorial in Spencer Park, Battersea this morning, and the school choir performed at a service in the nearby St Mark's church.

Marilyn Robinson, 73, escaped the wreckage of the Basingstoke train with relatively minor injuries.

After hugging the London Fire Brigade Commissioner, Dany Cotton, at the wreath-laying event, Ms Robinson told me: "When these things happen to you, you have a choice. You can be a victim or you can be a survivor."

"I chose to be a survivor."

Ms Robinson went on to join Disaster Action to help other people affected by tragedies like the one she experienced.

She said: "‘If the crash hadn’t happened, I don’t think I would’ve done all the things I’ve done in my life."

Rev Mia Holborn said her father-in-law had to crawl out of the wreckage over other people's bodies to survive the tragedy.

She said she thinks that day defined the rest of his life, as well as being "career-defining" for many in the emergency services.

"The wounds have been deep and continued," she added.

A team of actors and assistants take hours to carefully put the scenes together.

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Maximum temperature: 5 to 8°C (41 to 46°F).

Workers on the London Underground are to strike on Boxing Day in a dispute over staffing.

Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union on the Tube's Bakerloo Line will walk out from 0500 to 2300 on 26 December and again for 24 hours from 2229 on 13 January.

RMT general secretary Mick Cash said: "RMT members are rightly angry that staffing levels on the Bakerloo Line have been hacked back to the bone, presenting a serious danger to staff and passengers alike.

"Previous commitments to ensure safe staffing coverage have been flouted and in order to press the company to address the issues we have no option but to announce a programme of action.

"The union remains available for serious and genuine talks."

Police were called following reports of armed youths in the street.

Local Democracy Reporting Service

Case workers of children at risk of gang activity and exploitation have called on Hackney schools to stop excluding pupils in order to keep them in a protective environment.

Damion Roberts and Samir Khattab, who work for St Giles Trust’s SOS Project and were formerly involved in gang crime themselves, spoke out as part of an evidence-gathering session for Hackney’s Integrated Gangs Unit (IGU).

The borough saw 43 children permanently excluded from state-funded primary and secondary schools in 2016/17, a higher rate than any of the previous five years.

Mr Roberts said: “I don’t want to take nothing away from teachers, because they do a brilliant job.

“Some of the kids are getting excluded for simple reasons, for three, four, five days at a time. In those days, that kid’s at home.

"Mum’s at work, dad’s gone off. Where do you think that kid’s going to end up?

“Then he’s trapped, and that is the problem. In terms of what can schools do – stop excluding them, it’s as simple as that. Work with them, communicate with the family, find out what’s really going on in the background.

“Young people gravitate to a life that’s exciting. We basically damp down that excitement part of it, because they’re not told about the other side, the violent side. The prison, the loss of families, the ruined lives. “It’s not discussed out there, it’s more the money, the cars, you get this, you get that – they gravitate to that lifestyle.”

The pair were talking to a meeting of the Living in Hackney Scrutiny Commission.

The IGU was set up in 2010 to respond to the escalating serious violence linked to gang criminality in Hackney.

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A tram safety board may not be established unless Government releases the required funding before the end of the year, a Commons debate called by the Croydon Central MP was told., external

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Murdered 15-year-old Jay Hughes was known to social services, safeguarding agencies and police at least five months before his death, it has emerged.

Jay, who has been described as “sweet and caring”, died from a stab wound to the heart in an attack outside Morley’s chicken shop in Randlesdown Road on 1 November.

New information has revealed Jay was known to social services, prompting concern about the protection of at-risk youths from knife crime and child criminal exploitation, the LDRS said.

Jay fled police on a Santander bike with a group of males in late June before he was detained and found in possession of a knife, nearly five months before his murder.

The Local Democracy Reporting Services (LDRS) understands the Met Police shared this information with safeguarding agencies at Lewisham Council including the serious youth violence and violence reduction services.

A Lewisham Council spokesperson confirmed Jay’s murder would be reviewed by the the child death overview panel, which answers to the Lewisham safeguarding board.

A 17-year-old from Penge, south-east London, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was charged with Jay's murder on Wednesday.

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A teenager who was stabbed to death in south-east London has been named by police.

Police were called at about 21:40 on Saturday to Topham House in Prior Street, Greenwich, following reports a man was unresponsive after being stabbed.

Aron Warren, 18, died at the scene.

A 17-year-old boy who was arrested in connection with this incident has since been released with no further action.

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Tottenham achieved "mission impossible" by qualifying for the last 16 of the Champions League, according to manager Mauricio Pochettino.

Lucas Moura's 85th-minute equaliser earned a priceless point at Barcelona, as Spurs completed an unlikely turnaround in Group B having collected only one point from their first three games.

They needed to match or better Inter Milan's result at home to PSV Eindhoven and had faced elimination when Mauro Icardi cancelled out PSV's early goal.

Moura's goal swung the advantage back in Spurs' favour but an agonising wait followed before it was confirmed Inter had failed to find a winner against the group's bottom side.