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That's all for Local Live today. Elaine Okyere will be back from 08:00 tomorrow with the latest news, sport, travel and weather for London. Have a good evening.

This evening and tonight it will mainly be dry with some clear spells allowing a touch of frost to develop in some sheltered spots.

Scattered showers, some of which will be wintry, will also move in from the west early tomorrow morning.

Minimum temperature: 0C (32F).

A 28-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after two women were attacked with a hammer in South Norwood, south-east London.

Officers were called to Portland Road at about 18:10 yesterday to reports of a man armed with a hammer. The women in their 20s were taken to hospital, although their injures are not considered life threatening.

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TV

On BBC London news at 18:30 on BBC One: After CCTV emerged of three East London schoolgirls heading to Syria, the Home Secretary promises to look at ways of preventing others making the same journey.

And in a record year for applications, only a third of pupils in the capital get their first choice of secondary school.

London Broncos head coach, Joey Grima has stepped down.

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Grima took over from Tony Rea in May last year and was under contract until 2016, but said he was returning to Australia for family reasons.

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Mel Brooks, the man behind Blazing Saddles and The Producers, is coming to London for his first ever UK solo show on 22 March.

One of the few people ever to achieve an EGOT (winning an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony award), he will share his memories of a career in showbusiness - hopefully including the night Sid Caesar dangled him out a window for writing a bad joke.

"I am thrilled to bring this introspective retrospective of my life and career to the West End stage," Brooks said.

"It will be an evening the audience will never forget - whether they want to or not!"

Tickets go on sale tomorrow for The Prince of Wales Theatre show.

Some 200,000 homes will be made available to first-time buyers in England by 2020 if the Tories win the election, David Cameron has promised.

First-time buyers under the age of 40 can also register to buy new homes, external at a discount of 20% with homes worth £250,000 outside London - or £450,000 in London - eligible for the scheme.

Labour said the plan was inadequate and housing groups warned affordable rented schemes would lose out as a result.

Lewis Pugh, the British endurance swimmer and former lawyer in the City of London, has completed a swim at Bay of Whales in Antarctica describing it as "the most terrifying place I've ever swum".

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The oceans campaigner swam 350m in the Ross Sea, the most southerly stretch of open sea on Earth, which was named by explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton due to the number of killer whales in the area.

Mr Pugh broke the world record for the most southerly swim for the second time in 10 days, as he battles to complete a series of swims in the freezing waters of the Antarctic to raise awareness of the need for a vast protected area in the region's Ross Sea.

Ilford is set to benefit from a £270,000 project to illuminate the town centre with energy saving light bulbs.

Redbridge Council, external said 260 new energy efficient lanterns would be installed, external and older lamp columns replaced. The council hopes the scheme will save it more than £12,000 in energy costs each year.

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Brentwood Borough Council has approved plans to scrap free parking, external in council-owned car parks after it raked in £60,000 during a trial period.

The Strokes have signed up to headline the British Summer Time, external gigs in Hyde Park on 18 June.

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The New York band will play alongside Blur, Kylie Minogue, The Who and Taylor Swift in their first London show for five years.

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Travel

There are minor delays on the Circle line clockwise due to an earlier faulty train at Farringdon.

And on the Overground between Sydenham and West Croydon there are also some delays due to signalling problems. Tickets are being accepted on the DLR, Tramlink and local bus services.

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Travel

The Eurostar remains suspended after a person was hit by a train between Ashford and Ebbsfleet earlier today.

Emergency services are still in attendance and services are expected to be cancelled or delays for some time. Check the website, external for the latest information.

Police have released the mugshot of 34-year-old Kane Boyce who has been sentenced to life in prison, with a minimum of 20 years, for the murder of his girlfriend.

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The Old Bailey heard Boyce became obsessed with the idea that Paula Newman, 20, was having an affair via Facebook.

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Radio

The lead story at 17:00 on BBC London 94.9: The Home Secretary is pledging to track down the terrorist suspect known as 'Jihadi John'.

Bus route 312 which links South Croydon to Norwood Junction will become London's first all-electric bus route from September.

The buses on the route, operated by Arriva, external, will have much lower noise and vibration levels compared to conventional buses as well as lower maintenance and running costs. It is hoped a further seven electric bus routes will follow.

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Croydon Advertiser journalist Polly-Albany Ward is posing this question: Why is Croydon run by men?, external

When it comes to making big decisions in Croydon, those in power have one thing in common - they are almost all men. So does Croydon have a gender agenda? Or has this happened through accident, rather than design, she writes.

EastEnders' producer Dominic Treadwell-Collins has announced he is looking for an actor to play the soaps first transgender character, although work on the story is yet to start.

He said: "The power of EastEnders is we can change the world a little. You can change it gently and influence people who would be, maybe, quite bigoted."

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Radio

The lead story at 16:00 on BBC London 94.9: The Home Secretary, Theresa May, has defended the government's monitoring of terrorism suspects, following the disclosure that Mohammed Emwazi was known to the security and intelligence services, before he travelled to Syria.