Summary

  • Updates on 25 June 2015

  • News, sport, travel and weather updates resume at 08:00 Friday

  1. Good eveningpublished at 18:00 BST 25 June 2015

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

  2. Warm evening with odd spot of rain possiblepublished at 17:59 BST 25 June 2015

    BBC Weather

    Tonight's weather will be variable but rather cloudy overnight with the odd spot of rain possible.

    However, most places should be predominantly dry. It will be a warm and increasingly humid night

    Minimum Temperature: 15C (59F)

  3. 'Murray's' Wimbledon warm uppublished at 17:54 BST 25 June 2015

    Is that Andy Murray pulling a few pints to warm up for Wimbledon?

    Andy Murray lookalike Scott MillarImage source, Getty Images

    No - it's actually his lookalike Scott Millar. If you want to know what the real Andy Murray is doing read his BBC Sport column.

  4. James Corden collects his OBEpublished at 17:49 BST 25 June 2015

    James Corden has collected his OBE for services to drama. The actor and TV funnyman said he felt "undeserving" but "very pleased" to receive the honour from the Princess Royal in a special ceremony at Buckingham Palace.

    James CordenImage source, PA

    The 36-year-old, who owns a house in Belsize Park now lives in Los Angeles where he presents The Late Late Show on CBS.

  5. Drivetime with Eddie Nestorpublished at 17:33 BST 25 June 2015

    BBC London 94.9

    On BBC London 94.9, Eddie Nestor is discussing child poverty as new figures reveal 2.3 million children in the UK are classed as living in relative poverty.

    Eddie is also talking to a psychologist, after reports that staff at Ealing Broadway station had to tell commuters to stop taking photos on their phones of two people who died after being hit by a train on Tuesday.

  6. Latest updatespublished at 17:29 BST 25 June 2015

    The top stories on BBC London Live:

  7. UK has 2.3m children living in poverty, government sayspublished at 17:23 BST 25 June 2015

    There are 2.3 million children - almost one in six - living in relative poverty in the UK, government figures suggest.

    The Department for Work and Pensions said the proportion of children living in poverty was unchanged in 2013-14 compared with the previous year.

    Building in Tower HamletsImage source, Getty Images
  8. Winehouse film director 'not trying to make a villain out of anyone'published at 17:07 BST 25 June 2015

    BBC Newsbeat
    Radio 1 and 1Xtra

    The director of a new documentary about Amy Winehouse says he is not trying to make a villain out of anyone.

    Asif Kapadia admits it is impossible to create a depiction that is "100% right" but believes that it is an "honest portrait of Amy".

    Amy Winehouse

    AMY will be in cinemas from 3 July.

  9. Raid finds 26 people living in three-bedroom east London homepublished at 16:58 BST 25 June 2015

    Newham Recorder Newspaper
    Newspaper

    Housing enforcement officers discovered 26 people living in a three-bedroom East Ham house last week, reports the Newham Recorder. , external

    The newspaper said 25 adults and one child were found to be living in the family home, which is licensed to hold a maximum of seven people. Newham Council said it intends to prosecute the female landlord.

  10. Man guilty of 'Lee Rigby revenge' attackpublished at 16:55 BST 25 June 2015

    A man has been found of guilty of attempted murder after attacking a trainee dentist with a machete and a hammer in north Wales in a revenge attack for the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby.

    Zack Davies

    Zack Davies, 26, targeted Dr Sarandev Bhambra at a Tesco store in Flintshire, in a racially motivated assault.

    A witness heard Davies say: "Come here, this is for Lee Rigby". Lee Rigby was murdered in Woolwich, south-east London in May 2013.

  11. Bend It Like Beckham musical opens in the West Endpublished at 16:22 BST 25 June 2015

    Bend It Like Beckham creator Gurinder Chadha plans to invite England's women's World Cup team to see the new stage show based on her hit film.

    Bend It Like BeckhamImage source, Ellie Kurttz

    "It's fantastic timing for us that it's the Women's World Cup," Chadha said. "It's even greater news that the England team are doing so well."

    At the curtain call on Wednesday's opening night at London's Phoenix Theatre, the cast unfurled a banner in support of the England women's squad who won a place in the quarter finals against hosts Canada.

  12. Mayor pledges £65m to help cabbies going electricpublished at 16:11 BST 25 June 2015

    Susana Mendonça
    BBC London 94.9 political reporter

    The mayor of London is putting £65 million towards helping black cab drivers to switch to electric taxis.

    It'll soften the financial blow to cabbies who have to comply with new low emission regulations by 2020.

    Mayor of London Boris Johnson talking to new taxi drivers Paul Trype (centre) and Michael Buckley (right)Image source, PA

    As another sweetener to the cabbies - one of whom Boris Johnson clashed with in a foul mouthed exchange last week - the mayor said he'd look at retaining the 15-year limit on retiring old taxi models, instead of reducing the time limit to 10 years.

    He said: "We're going to be putting a huge amount of money into helping taxi drivers to get cleaner, greener vehicles, so we think this is a good compromise and a good way forward."

  13. Gibbon previously admitted harassing the Morrison familypublished at 16:01 BST 25 June 2015

    The Old Bailey heard the trouble dated back to 2011 when Mrs Morrison, her husband Cedric and their teenage son moved next door to Gibbon and his partner in Windsor Crescent, Harrow, north-west London.

    Windsor Crescent, Harrow

    Almost immediately, Gibbon complained about the noise from the teenager's skateboard and, despite the Morrisons' attempts to placate him, nothing seemed to satisfy him. Gibbon harassed and threatened Ms Morrison by trapping her in her car and banging dustbin lids loudly at 06:00 below her window.

    He was charged with harassing the family between 2012 and 2014 and admitted the offence at magistrates' court the day before the killing.

  14. Murdered neighbour felt harassment 'would never end'published at 15:50 BST 25 June 2015

    The jury was shown a hand-written statement made days before Ms Morrison was killed in which she said she felt the harassment "would never end".

    She wrote: "Even now I don't believe he knows how to stop doing what he did and fully expect him to start again when he knows things have quietened down."

    The mother-of-one said she was forced to install £2,000 of CCTV equipment to gather evidence against Gibbon.

  15. Gibbon had denied murdering his neighbourpublished at 15:41 BST 25 June 2015

    Gibbon, who is originally from Birmingham, had denied murdering Ms Morrison but admitted the killing on the basis that he was "suffering from an abnormality of mental functioning" which impaired his ability to form rational judgment and exercise self-control.

    He is due to be sentenced on 30 June.

  16. 'It was over a neighbour dispute'published at 15:32 BST 25 June 2015

    As she lay dying in the street near her home, Mrs Morrison repeatedly named her attacker, telling residents who had flocked to help: "Trevor Gibbon did this to me."

    Afterwards, the killer fled in his Mercedes but was picked up later the same morning 100 miles away in Lincolnshire, saying he was "heading for the coast".

    Still with dried blood on his hands, he told officers: "It was over a neighbour dispute."

  17. Man guilty of murder neighbourpublished at 15:27 BST 25 June 2015

    A TV satellite engineer has been found guilty of stabbing his next-door neighbour 33 times after becoming incensed at losing a long-running dispute.

    Alison Morrison

    Trevor Gibbon, 48, was "out for revenge" when he armed himself with two knives and ambushed mother-of-one Alison Morrison, 45, as she walked to the station on her way to work on 18 December last year.

    He carried out the killing the day after he was handed a restraining order, having pleaded guilty to harassing Mrs Morrison and her family for years, his Old Bailey trial heard.

  18. City of London has biggest population increase, ONS figures suggestpublished at 15:00 BST 25 June 2015

    Six of the top ten areas with the biggest population increases in the UK were in London, according to Office for National Statistics figures.

    BBC Graphic

    The UK population grew by almost half a million last year to 64,596,800, according to the ONS.

  19. London had highest population growth last yearpublished at 14:46 BST 25 June 2015

    London had the highest population growth in the UK last year with an increase of 1.45%, according to new figures.

    The UK population grew by almost half a million last year to 64,596,800 - with London seeing 82,400 more births than deaths, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

    BBC Graphic

    London was also the destination of more than a third of international migrants arriving in the UK, the ONS said.