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There's a good service on the Underground this morning but the Overground has minor delays at Stratford to Richmond and Clapham Junction.

On the trains, South Western Railway has some delays into Waterloo because of issues on the line between Surbiton and Woking.

And on the roads, water works have caused problems on City Road in Shoreditch and on Hornsey Rise in Crouch End.

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England's first children's homes opened in 1869 and the hunt is on for descendants of their first residents.

Arsenal manager Unai Emery says midfielder Mesut Ozil is "playing like we want" after a man-of-the-match performance against Newcastle.

Two people remain in a critical condition after four attacks in north London in 10 hours.

Ex-residents of Shirley Oaks Children's Homes were promised compensation after decades of abuse.

Leeds Rhinos will host third tier Workington Town in the Challenge Cup fifth round.

Pubs on the Thames will be serving pints in reusable cups for the boat race in a bid to cut plastic pollution in the river, it has been announced.

Some 14,000 reusable cups have been ordered and will be used by eight pubs along the river and on the high street for the sporting event on Sunday April 7.

Spectators of the annual rowing competition between Oxford and Cambridge universities will be able to reuse their cups or return them to the pubs, allowing them to be washed and reused up to 50 times.

The scheme's organisers, Positively Putney Business Improvement District, hopes it will prevent 50,000 single-use plastic cups ending up in the river or heading for landfill, in one day.

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Packiam Ramanathan admitted killing her husband with a wooden pole, but was cleared of murder.

Bradford are investigating racist messages sent to Charlton striker Lyle Taylor on Twitter after Saturday's League One game.

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During this evening and overnight, amounts of cloud will tend to increase.

This cloud will bring the chance of a few showers, which could turn out to be on the sharp side.

The odd mist patch too.

Pubs on the Thames will be serving pints in reusable cups for the boat race in a bid to cut plastic pollution in the river, it has been announced.

Some 14,000 reusable cups have been ordered and will be used by eight pubs along the river and on the high street for the sporting event on 7 April.

Spectators of the annual rowing competition between Oxford and Cambridge universities will be able to reuse their cups or return them to the pubs, allowing them to be washed and reused up to 50 times.

The scheme's organisers, Positively Putney Business Improvement District, hopes it will prevent 50,000 single-use plastic cups ending up in the river or heading for landfill, in one day.

Disposable cups are one of the most commonly found plastic litter items among the 300 tonnes of rubbish recovered from the Thames each year, campaigners say.

Nicola Grant, executive director of Positively Putney Business Improvement District (BID), described the race as "one of London's biggest sporting events".

"I'm proud that this year we're teaming up with Putney's pubs to drastically cut the use of plastics by serving pints in reusable cups," she said.

Some stations charged up to 50p to use the loo, but now Network Rail says it wants to put "passengers first".

Teachers and NHS workers could be held accountable for failing to spot violent crime among young people.

It's being proposed by the government - who are going to examine whether there's a "public health duty" to report concerns over children at risk.

Home Secretary, Sajid Javid said he would use "all the tools" at his disposal to end violent crime.

Pregabalin and gabapentin have been made class C drugs after a rise in deaths linked to their use.

Terry Maher caused rail services out of St Pancras to be cancelled by climbing onto a railway viaduct.

Flybe passengers have to take a six-hour coach trip when a flight on a new route is cancelled.

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