Ten hospitals in the most polluted areas of London will be equipped with new air quality monitors to measure levels of toxic air.

The Mayor’s new hospital monitors will support the NHS by providing real-time air quality measurements that will allow health professionals to take appropriate action to protect patients and employees – for example, warning patients about high pollution episodes and advising which hospital entrances have the lowest levels of pollution, the Mayor's office said.

The first monitor is already up and running at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, with others due to be installed shortly at the Trust’s other three hospitals The Royal London, Whipps Cross and Newham Hospitals, as well as at Great Ormond Street Hospital, the Royal Free Hospital, Guy’s Hospital and St Thomas’ Hospital and other NHS sites in London.

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan said: “Vulnerable hospital patients are more susceptible to the harmful effects of our toxic air pollution health crisis that harms lung growth and is linked to asthma, cancer and dementia. I am working with London’s leading hospitals to install air pollution monitors and help find new ways to reduce pollution and protect patients."

Passengers into London Waterloo are being disrupted after engineering works overran.

Jack Stevens orchestrated the "senseless" murder of a man who stood up to gangs, a court hears.

Before Joel Urhie died he told his mother they were "going to make it together" out of the burning house.

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PSG see "no evidence of wrongdoing" by fans denied entry into Thursday's Champions League match at Chelsea when weapons were found on a supporters' coach.

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Transport for London has said it will not be able to follow through on plans to upgrade the Tube network without capital funding from the government.

The transport network said the lack of certainty of funding beyond 2021 posed "significant challenges" for projects needing major investment, such as the planned introduction of new trains and signalling on the Piccadilly Line.

"Such large-scale investment will not be possible without capital funding from the government," TfL said in an announcement as part of the release of the transport network's draft budget, external for 2019/20.

It cited delays to the Crossrail project as another cause of financial difficulties.

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The draft budget is being presented to the TfL Board for approval next week.

TfL said a "relentless focus on efficiency" meant it will almost halve its operational deficit to £500m by the end of the current financial year - a sum £155m lower than previously forecast.

But the network said it has had to manage the impact of an average reduction of around £700m per year in government grant by pausing certain projects, such as improving London’s roads.

The 17-year-old was stabbed to death while with friends in a park in Romford, east London.

The Met accepted an offer from City of London Police to take on the case of a man's betting shop death.

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The daughter of a man who died inside a betting shop has claimed the Met Police "being too stretched" affected the outcome of the murder investigation.

Babatunde Awofeso, 53, died on 4 April after being punched at a Betfred branch in Upper Clapton Road, Hackney.

City of London Police took the case on to help the Met cope with a spike in homicides in early April 2018.

A 26-year-old suspect was later told he had "no crime to answer" and the murder case was closed in November.

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Disruption this morning for South Western Railway services in and out of Waterloo due to the late finish of engineering works.

Trains are now able to run to and from London Waterloo. However during the closure, trains were unable to leave a number of depots and enter services. As a result of this, some services may be delayed by up to 60 minutes, cancelled or revised at short notice. They anticipate a normal service will resume from 2pm.

And Highgate Station is currently closed on the Northern Line due to defective escalators.

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A company in London has filled its offices with more than 1,000 plants to try to boost productivity.

Knuckledusters, knives and drugs are found on a coach taking PSG fans to a women's cup match.

Zakaria Bukar Sharif Ali was stabbed outside a bar in Hackney, east London, on 24 November.

A European arrest warrant is being sought to bring Yannick Glaudin back to the UK.

A new fast rail link has come a step closer after the order of five high speed trains.

It will connect Edinburgh and London in a bid to encourage people to use trains instead of plains.

Currently two-thirds of journeys between the two cities are made by air.

The plans include benefits such as an average fare of less than £25, on-board catering and free Wi-Fi.

Japanese company Hitachi will build the five electricity trains.

As part of the deal it struck with FirtsGroup, Hitachi will maintain the new trains fully for 10 years.

The high-speed service will start in autumn 2021.

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England and West Ham midfielder Declan Rice apologises after a social media post emerges in which he made an apparent reference to the IRA.