Summary

  • More news, sport, travel and weather updates for London tomorrow from 08:00

  • Updates from Tuesday 17 February 2015

  1. Good eveningpublished at 17:59 GMT 17 February 2015

    That's all for today's live page. Andy Dangerfield will be back tomorrow from 08:00 with more live news, travel, sport and weather updates.

  2. Frosty nightpublished at 17:58 GMT 17 February 2015

    It will remain largely clear for most of the night. Frost will develop quite widely.

    Minimum temperature: 3C (37F).

  3. Year of the Sheeppublished at 17:54 GMT 17 February 2015

    Lillian SunImage source, Royal Mint

    The Royal Mint has issued this photo Lillian Sun, aged six, from Mengis Dance School in Battersea, south London, with its Lunar Year of the Sheep commemorative coin.

    Chinese New Year is celebrated from Thursday until 22 February.

  4. Coming uppublished at 17:50 GMT 17 February 2015

    At 18:30 Riz Lateef brings you BBC London News:

    • A jewellery shop owner armed with a baseball bat chases after thieves during a smash and grab raid in Twickenham

    • How victims of gang violence will be supported in the capital's major trauma centres, and

    • A year after a huge sinkhole opened under a house there are growing calls for compensation for residents.

  5. Oldest Chelsea Pensioner's centurypublished at 17:44 GMT 17 February 2015

    Chelsea Pensioner's oldest resident Peter Carrie (pictured below in the 1930s) celebrates his 100th birthday tomorrow.

    Peter CarrieImage source, Picasa

    He is the only resident eligible for the Bomber Command Clasp (instituted last year) because unusually as well as serving in the British Army (a prerequisite for becoming a Chelsea Pensioner), he also served as an RAF flight engineer on Lancaster Bombers.

  6. High hopespublished at 17:32 GMT 17 February 2015

    Paloma Faith

    Hackney-born singer Paloma Faith has been talking about her mum's ambitions for her.

    The star says: "My mum gets upset when I say I am working class. She goes 'I worked bloody hard for you not to be working class.

    "At least you are lower middle class.'"

  7. Historic cinema to re-openpublished at 17:20 GMT 17 February 2015

    Chingford Guardian reports, external the announcement of a plan to re-open a historic cinema for screening films was met with a "loud cheer" of approval at a community meeting.

    Plans are being put together for a 50-seat auditorium at The Regal building in Hale End Road, Highams Park, to show independent films.

  8. Watch: Pancake-campublished at 17:11 GMT 17 February 2015

    Journalists earlier claimed victory in the annual parliamentary pancake race around Victoria Tower Gardens. The Shrove Tuesday charity event pits the press against politicians.

    Parliamentary pancake
  9. News on the hourpublished at 16:59 GMT 17 February 2015

    BBC London 94.9
    Radio

    The headlines this hour include:

    • A 25-year-old from Islington has been jailed for 10 years for slashing the face of another man last August.

  10. Hammersmith Bridge crashpublished at 16:45 GMT 17 February 2015

    London Fire Brigade tweets, external: We're attending a road traffic collision on #Hammersmith Bridge. A car has hit street furniture. Avoid if possible.

  11. Smash and grab fightbackpublished at 16:39 GMT 17 February 2015

    The moment a shopkeeper chased axe-wielding robbers from his jewellery shop, has been caught on CCTV footage, external.

    CCTV footageImage source, Metropolitan Police

    The 41-year-old fought back with a baseball bat after the robbers burst into the family-run business in Whitton High Street, Richmond, yesterday morning. They took tens of thousands of pounds worth of watches and jewellery. Victoria Hollins will have more in the 18:30 programme.

  12. 'Abusive priest took pictures'published at 16:19 GMT 17 February 2015

    A man has told Southwark Crown Court he was sexually abused by a Catholic priest at Grafton Close Children's Home in Hounslow, west London, during the 1980s.

    On the second day of Father Anthony McSweeney's trial, the witness said he took photographs of him after sexually assaulting him.

    Fr McSweeney, of Old Brighton Road North, Pease Pottage, West Sussex, denies four counts of indecent assault.

  13. Horse Guards' pancakespublished at 16:10 GMT 17 February 2015

    The Horse Guards' Troopers will have pancakes when they come off duty today. The Horse Guards spokesman Corporal Ngarandi says lemon and sugar is the preferred filling.

    Troopers Jarman (left) and Clark make pancakes, for themselves and the other Life Guards on duty, in the Horse Guards kitchenImage source, MOD
  14. News on the hourpublished at 16:00 GMT 17 February 2015

    BBC London 94.9
    Radio

    The headlines this hour include:

    • Police are appealing for help to trace a woman who apparently grabbed a baby's throat in a branch of Boots in central London.

    • Boris Johnson is being urged to make police contact points "fit for purpose" by the London Assembly's Police and Crime Committee.

  15. Firearms found in empty housepublished at 15:44 GMT 17 February 2015

    Firearms have been found inside an empty house in Twickenham, south-west London.

    The Met says officers were called to Grimwood Road yesterday and recovered a number of firearms and ammunition.

    The property was secured overnight and another police search this morning turned up more ammunition inside the house.

    There have been no arrests and there is no suggestion the find is terrorism-related, says the Met.

  16. Seven-year disputepublished at 15:37 GMT 17 February 2015

    How the new stadium might lookImage source, Tottenham Hotspur
    Image caption,

    The club hopes the new stadium will be ready for the 2018/19 season

    The firm describes itself as a "wonderfully old-fashioned family business" producing metal items for the catering and hospitality industry.

    The owners have been in a dispute with Spurs for the last decade over its redevelopment plans.

    A Tottenham club spokesman said: "We have already successfully and amicably relocated more than 70 businesses in the area to the satisfaction of all parties concerned and a number of these organisations continue to reside in the borough.

    "Whilst we were able to accommodate all these other businesses' requests, in the instance of Archway, we have been unable to reach agreement over the period of the last seven years."

  17. Spurs ground order 'unlawful'published at 15:27 GMT 17 February 2015

    A business standing in the way of Tottenham Hotspur's £400m stadium redevelopment has claimed at the High Court that an invalid compulsory purchase order is being used to force it out.

    Archway Sheet Metal Works is asking a judge to quash the "unlawful" order.

    If the application succeeds it would be a major blow to controversial plans for the new 56,000 capacity stadium complex.