Beth Rose
BBC News

That's all for Local Live today. Sitala Peek will be back from 08:00 tomorrow with the latest news, sport, travel and weather for London.

Have a good evening.

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BBC Weather

It will be breezy at times overnight with some clear spells across the region, but also a scattering of showers, especially this evening and later in the night.

Minimum Temperature: 8C (46F).

Jurors in the case of army recruitment sergeant Edwin Mee have been sent home for the night to continue their deliberations tomorrow.

Earlier, the 46-year-old from Croydon was convicted of 10 sexual assaults, two rapes and one count of penetration. He was found not guilty of three counts of sexual assault.

The jurors at Southwark Crown Court have a further four counts of sexual assault and one of rape to consider.

On the programme at 18:30 on BBC One: From Hendon to Surbiton in the final dash for votes. But just how valuable has the mayor been for Tories in London?

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And the blood test which could help the diagnosis of ovarian cancer, trialled here in the capital.

BBC Travel

Woolwich Ferry is not running due to a technical issue which is causing long queues on the A12 southbound, BBC Travel reports.

And the A404 Manor Park Road in Harlesden is closed due to a police incident.

An RAF flight sergeant who broke a Tube passenger's back after he tried to jump on to an escalator handrail has been ordered to pay £4,000 to his victim.

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Frans Bekker, 51, lost control and fell down the escalator at London's Holborn station colliding with a number of people, including Linda Soulsby, who suffered a fractured vertebra, Westminster Magistrates' Court heard.

Bekker pleaded guilty to endangering the safety of a person conveyed by railway at an earlier hearing.

Workers who maintain and clean Royal Parks in London and the gardens at 10 and 11 Downing Street are to be balloted for strikes in a row over pay.

Members of the GMB union, external employed by contractors OCS, external will vote over the next week on whether to launch a campaign of industrial action over plans to switch from weekly to monthly pay.

The GMB warned that any action could hit events such as the State Opening of Parliament and Trooping the Colour.

The Mirror

The Mirror reports that Westminster City Council, external has spent more than £90m buying back some of the council flats it sold off, external during the 1980s and 1990s, under the Right to Buy policy.

The council has bought back 295 ex-council homes at an average cost of £307,593 - up to 22 times more than they were sold for.

Former England and Tottenham striker Jimmy Greaves faces a "long and slow road to recovery" according to his wife, after suffering a severe stroke on Sunday.

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The 75-year-old, who is fourth on the list of all-time England goalscorers, is "conscious but unable to speak", his agent Terry Baker added.

More on the conviction of army recruitment sergeant Edwin Mee at Southwark Crown Court for sex attacks on female cadets.

The jury, who retired to consider their verdicts a week ago, are continuing to deliberate on four counts of sexual assault and one of rape.

The court heard Mee abused his power to "bully and groom" young female cadets, with his attacks escalating from hitting women on the bottom to raping a vulnerable recruit.

He was convicted of 10 sexual assaults, two rapes and one count of assault by penetration. He was found not guilty of three counts of sexual assault.

Mee, 46, of Tavistock Road, Croydon was accused of exploiting his position of trust and power to abuse women while working at Army offices in Croydon.

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He had denied all the allegations against him.

BREAKING NEWS

Army recruitment sergeant Edwin Mee, 46, has been found guilty at Southwark Crown Court of 13 sex attacks on seven female recruits.

Jurors acquitted him of three offences and are still considering others.

Fitzrovia is becoming a canvas for spray painting with more than 100 local characters photographed as part of an art project with the most popular images being transformed into street art, which has been painted on traffic light control boxes.

The works will stay in place for the next five years, unless nature takes its toll or if there is a change of infrastructure.

A man was rescued by the RNLI, external yesterday after suffering spinal injuries when he fell 25ft from the River Thames wall in Woolwich.

Lifeboat helmsman Mick Neil said: 'It appeared two men were on a night out when one of them went over the handrail and fell about 25ft onto the exposed river foreshore below.

"His friend then slid down the vertical river wall in an attempt to help him, suffering cuts, bruises and an injury to his ankle."

Both men were rescued, despite the tide coming in, and taken to hospital.

BBC London reporter Ayshea Buksh tweets, external: Nepalese aid group in #Greenwich say they have been 'overwhelmed ' by donations. #Nepal

Renters face the greatest risk from identity thieves owing to their domestic set-up and lifestyle, credit reference agency Experian, external has found.

This group also tend to use mobile and online services more often, offering more opportunities for thieves to find personal details with one in six targeted, it found.

Fraud prevention service Cifas, external said that digitally-savvy young adults were increasingly becoming targets, at fraud hotspots in London, Leicester, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds and Glasgow.

Caroline Lowbridge
BBC Local Live

After Clandon Park House in Surrey was gutted by fire last week I've looked at what happens to grand stately homes when they are destroyed in a blaze.

At Hampton Court in 1986 a fire swept through the historic building after starting in the "grace and favour" apartment of 86-year-old widow Lady Daphne Gale, who unfortunately died in the blaze.

The Queen has met her new great-granddaughter Princess Charlotte for the first time at Kensington Palace.

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The princess, who is fourth in line to the throne, was born on Saturday at London's St Mary's Hospital, weighing 8lbs 3oz (3.7kg).