Duncan Smith
BBC News Online

That's all for BBC Local Live London today. Beth Rose and I will be back tomorrow with more news, travel, sport and weather updates from 08:00.

Isolated blustery showers across London will soon give way to more prolonged rain during the evening, with some of this heavy.

Strong winds will also increase, with gales developing in places and likely severe gales.

The lowest temperature will be 5C (41F).

A baby gorilla from a critically-endangered gorilla species has been born at London Zoo.

Image source, London Zool

Fifteen-year-old Western lowland gorilla Mjukuu gave birth early on Wednesday morning.

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TV

With the countdown to Christmas underway in the West End, London Underground bosses are warning passengers to avoid Oxford Circus station at peak times.

BBC London News will be live from Oxford Circus this evening at 18:30 on BBC One.

What are your experiences? Get in touch and share your views, email yourlondon@bbc.co.uk

Sir John Randall is to close the department store that has borne his family name since 1891, the Uxbridge Gazette reports, external.

The Conservative Uxbridge and South Ruislip MP told the Gazette he will hold a final closing down sale in January then shut up the shop in Vine Street, Uxbridge, for good, so ending 123 years of unbroken trading.

A British Airways jumbo jet has landed safely after having had to turn back to Heathrow amid reports that residents on the flight path had heard " a loud bang".

Kent Online, external reported that people in Sevenoaks in Kent had heard the bang and there were also reports that residents in Dunton Green and Biggin Hill had heard a noise.

A man who attacked the Respect MP George Galloway while calling him an "anti-semite little man" in a London street has been jailed for 16 months.

Image source, Respect

Drug addict Neil Masterson, 39, left the pro-Palestine MP for Bradford West with cuts and bruises to his head and ribs and requiring hospital treatment after the assault in Notting Hill in August.

BBC London
Travel

The A404 Pinner Road in North Harrow is blocked and traffic is queuing at the Addison Way junction owing to an accident.

A diversion is in place for bus routes 282 and H11.

For travel updates on Twitter, follow @BBCTravelAlert, external and visit BBC London's travel website.

Mark D'Arcy
Parliamentary correspondent

Forget EU referenda or the Autumn Statement. The really titanic struggle being fought out in Westminster at the moment is over the future management of the Commons.

Problems like blocked toilets, the refurbishment of the Commons gym and a plague of mice surfaced at the Governance Committee.

Scientists have created a chemical that can be added to food to make people feel full.

Initial tests showed it helped people to eat less and slow weight gain. The ingredient is a foul-tasting soluble powder, but the team, from Imperial College London and the University of Glasgow, are trying to incorporate it into bread and fruit smoothies.

Spitting on the streets of London could soon be punishable by an £80 fine after a key vote went in favour of the proposed crackdown.

The transport and environment committee of umbrella group London Councils voted in favour of setting the penalties this afternoon.

The Department for Communities and Local Government will now have to approve the by-law.

BBC London 94.9
Radio

Tonight, you'll be able to listen to the Europa League Group C tie between Besiktas and Tottenham Hotspur.

The first half of the game will be available on BBC London Online with the second half also on BBC London 94.9.

BBC London 94.9
Radio

The headlines this hour include:

• A man, arrested as part of an investigation into allegations of slavery, has been charged with false imprisonment, rape and child cruelty

• A former milkman has been found guilty at Inner London Crown Court of murdering the schoolgirl Claire Tiltman

Graceland is famous as the home of Elvis Presley and is visited by millions each year, but now his fans in the UK can also get a glimpse of some of his most famous belongings.

Hundreds of items of memorabilia including clothing and cars have been put on display at the O2 Arena.

A £160,000 theatre housed on a barge is to open in London, according to The Stage, external.

The 50-seat Waterhouse Theatre operates on a canal boat that will travel across the waterways of London, and is to stage its first show while moored in Hackney today.

Andy Dangerfield
BBC News Online

tweets, external: Lost Tube items: A small selection of objects stored @tfl lost property office

Image source, Andy Dangerfield

A spokesman for Tottenham Hotspurs, external told BBC News:

"The Club is a responsible employer and pays all of its full time staff the Living Wage.

"The Club has also participated in positive discussions with all of its third party suppliers, including cleaning and catering contractors, and has a commitment from them to move towards paying their full time staff the Living Wage.

"In respect of our caterers this has been achieved mid-contract. We shall continue to review as and when contracts are in a position to be renegotiated."

BBC London 94.9
Radio

There are changes taking place in the way allegations of police misconduct and corruption are dealt with in England and Wales.

Image source, PA

The Home Office is publishing plans which would end the automatic handling of complaints by forces themselves.

BBC London 94.9
Radio

The headlines this hour include:

• A man, arrested by police investigating allegations of slavery, has been charged with false imprisonment, rape and child cruelty.

• A man who set fire to a woman over a dispute, has been jailed at the Old Bailey today for 16 years for attempted murder.

Chelsea have become, external the first Premier League club to adopt the living wage.

The Premier League leaders announced today they had been accredited by the Living Wage Foundation and, from January, will pay all directly employed members of staff the living wage as a minimum - currently £9.15 an hour in London or £7.85 an hour outside of the capital.