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  • Updates on Friday 18 January

  1. Homeless sheltered by Premier League clubpublished at 01:23 Greenwich Mean Time 19 January 2019

    The emergency accommodation at Crystal Palace's stadium can house up to 10 rough sleepers.

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  2. Goodbyepublished at 16:00 Greenwich Mean Time 18 January 2019

    BBC London News

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

    Have a great weekend.

  3. Mayor finds 'Tulip' breaches London Planpublished at 15:56 Greenwich Mean Time 18 January 2019

    The unusually-shaped 1,000ft high structure would be the tallest in the City of London.

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  4. State school gets 41 Oxbridge offerspublished at 15:43 Greenwich Mean Time 18 January 2019

    Most of the students, from Brampton Manor Academy, east London, are from ethnic minorities.

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  5. Today's photo of Londonpublished at 15:33 Greenwich Mean Time 18 January 2019

    BBC London News

    The ShardImage source, Jason Hawkes

    We used this wonderful photo by Jason Hawkes of The Shard as our banner, but we want a new picture every day to show off the capital.

    Have you taken a photo of your part of London which you think would be suitable? If so, email it in high resolution (2048 x 1152 or 1680 x 945) to london.locallive@bbc.co.uk.

  6. Silkmen sign Brentford midfielder Colepublished at 15:13 Greenwich Mean Time 18 January 2019

    Macclesfield Town sign midfielder Reece Cole on loan from Championship side Brentford until the end of the season.

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  7. Council agrees to Wireless noise demandspublished at 14:54 Greenwich Mean Time 18 January 2019

    Wireless Festival had its licence reviewed following complaints from campaigners and residents.

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  8. New Chelsea fan group launchedpublished at 14:42 Greenwich Mean Time 18 January 2019

    A new Chelsea fan group has been set up in a bid to "oppose all forms of discrimination" in and around the club.

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  9. 'Careful' litterbugs targeted in City of Londonpublished at 14:02 Greenwich Mean Time 18 January 2019

    Local Democracy Reporting Service

    A new campaign will force London litterbugs to look themselves straight in the eye when they discard their rubbish “carefully”.

    The “careful littering” phenomenon is one you’ve probably have heard of – but now you think about it – are you guilty of it? The City of London’s clean-up crews have noticed an odd behaviour where Londoners appear to think if they place their cigarette butt, newspaper coffee cup, or sandwich wrapper very tidily on a ledge – it doesn’t really count.

    And it appears there’s a lot of us doing it. The City of London Corporation’s environmental campaigns manager, Adam Collins, says in one year the council calculated an estimated six million cigarette butts discarded in the Square Mile financial district alone.

    The Keep Britain Tidy campaign in partnership with the Corporation, is focused on “careful” littering in areas like Tube stations or in shops, and along streetside ledges.

    “The main thing about this campaign that we’re trying to focus on is ledge, or what we call ‘careful’ littering. When people place something on a shelf they don’t necessarily think of themselves as ‘littering’, as they do it so carefully,” Mr Collins said.

    The campaign will see mirrors put up around London’s financial district, the Square Mile, in known grot-spots bearing the tag-line: “Mirror, mirror, on the wall, litter left here reflects badly on us all.”

    Mr Collins said the Corporation spends a lot of time and money keeping the Square Mile clean, and with 400,000 people passing through the tiny financial district every day – it only takes a small number to trash the streets.

    “It actually really changes people’s perceptions of the area of not being clean. It only takes a tiny minority – a half a percent – to leave a coffee cup,” he said.

    The campaign is designed to tap into the selfie age where “image is everything”, by trying to drive home to people that in today’s increasingly environmentally-conscious age, littering can actually have a negative impact on what others think of you.

    The mirrors will be in litter hotspots, Moorgate, outside Metropolitan University, the Royal Exchange, and in an area of Cheapside near St Paul’s Station, from mid-January through February.

    Port health and environmental committee members met this week welcomed the campaign, but some pointed out some Londoners might argue they litter because there were not enough bins in the central city.

  10. Hunted on TV: Could a reformed criminal win cash prize?published at 13:43 Greenwich Mean Time 18 January 2019

    Nick Bachelor, who has 41 spent convictions, explains why he went on the run for a TV reality show.

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  11. Afternoon weather: Cold and mainly drypublished at 12:52 Greenwich Mean Time 18 January 2019

    BBC Weather

    It will remain cold and mainly dry through this afternoon with a few brighter spells but overall it looks like there will be rather a lot of cloud.

    Maximum temperature: 4 to 7°C (39 to 45°F)

  12. Smyth extends Queens Park Rangers dealpublished at 12:32 Greenwich Mean Time 18 January 2019

    Queens Park Rangers midfielder Paul Smyth extend his contract until the summer of 2021.

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  13. Eleven cats left to die in alleywaypublished at 11:49 Greenwich Mean Time 18 January 2019

    A video released by an animal charity 11 cats being rescued from sealed boxes in east London.

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  14. Old Kent Road bus lane consultation ending laterpublished at 11:30 Greenwich Mean Time 18 January 2019

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  15. Violent crime on Tube rises by 43%published at 11:08 Greenwich Mean Time 18 January 2019

    There were more than 2,800 violent offences in the 11 months up to September, police figures show.

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  16. 'Take your rubbish to tip', says struggling councilpublished at 10:59 Greenwich Mean Time 18 January 2019

    Local Democracy Reporting Service

    Residents whose bins are overflowing after the collection disruption over Christmas should have some “social responsibility” and take rubbish to the tip themselves, according to the leader of Barking and Dagenham council.

    The council has received numerous complaints about overflowing bins and missed collections after the festive period.

    But council leader Darren Rodwell said the refuse team was doing the “best it can” while having to pick up more than twice the waste it usually does.

    “I think the refuse workers did an incredible job over Christmas in difficult circumstances,” he said.

    “They are doing the best they can. This week one of the rounds collected 28 tonnes of rubbish. That’s more than twice what they usually take and means several trips back and forth to the dump.

    "I took nine bags to the tip myself. If you have a car and your bin is overflowing, instead of having ago have a go at us, have a bit of social responsibility and take it to the dump yourself for free.”

  17. Euston Station partly flooded by burst water mainpublished at 10:28 Greenwich Mean Time 18 January 2019

    Parts of Euston Station were flooded earlier due to a burst water main, although no trains were disrupted.

    Fire crews were called to the train station at 06:45 after the six inch main burst, flooding the first floor level to a depth of six inches and affecting seven platforms.

    London Fire Brigade said rail staff managed to isolate the water supply and fire crews diverted the water flow to drainage before the problem could cause any disruption to rail services.

  18. Holocaust memorial events planned for Tower Hamletspublished at 09:42 Greenwich Mean Time 18 January 2019

    Local Democracy Reporting Service

    Tower Hamlets council will host three events to remember the people who died during the Holocaust as well as the genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur.

    On Sunday 27 – Holocaust Memorial Day – a walking tour of historic Jewish locations in the East End will begin at Aldgate tube at midday.

    Later that day an interfaith memorial event will begin at 15:00 at the East London Central Synagogue.

    On Thursday 24 January a selection of films representing the Holocaust will be shown at the Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives in Bancroft Road.

    These will be the first Holocaust memorial events after Tower Hamlets unanimously agreed to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism late last year.

    Mayor John Biggs said: “It is important for us to come together to remember the millions who lost their lives during the Holocaust and other genocides.

    "Our annual Holocaust Memorial Day commemoration events hosted with faith and community organisations, reminds us how the lessons of the past can inform our lives today and ensure that all our communities work together to create a safer, better future.”

  19. River Thames crash: Eight injured after boat hits buoypublished at 08:59 Greenwich Mean Time 18 January 2019

    The crash happened off Greenwich Pier at about 17:40 GMTImage source, Google

    Eight people have been hurt in a crash involving a commercial rigid inflatable boat on the River Thames.

    Two men and two women were taken to hospital with what were believed to be minor injuries, London Ambulance Service said.

    HM Coastguard was alerted at about 17:40 GMT following the boat's collision with a buoy, just off Greenwich Pier.

    The Maritime and Coastguard Agency's enforcement team has been informed.

  20. Violent crime on Tube rises by 43%published at 08:37 Greenwich Mean Time 18 January 2019

    BTP officerImage source, BTP

    Violent crime on London's Tube network has increased by more than 43% in the last three years, figures have shown.

    British Transport Police data showed there were 1,980 reported incidents between November 2015 and October 2016, compared with 2,838 between November 2017 and September last year.

    King's Cross St Pancras had the highest number of recorded offences.

    British Transport Police (BTP) said the the chance of being a victims of crime on Tube was "relatively low".