Live updates for London have finished for the day but we'll be back from 08:00 on Thursday with all the latest news, sport, travel and weather.

BBC Weather

Staying fine and dry across London this evening and overnight with prolonged clear spells. Quite chilly in some rural areas.

Minimum temperature: 13C (55F).

Tomorrow it will be dry and sunny with only some patchy cloud at times. Feeling warm despite the breeze. Maximum temperature: 21C (69F).

Police are appealing for help to identify a man after a teenage girl was sexually assaulted on a bus in west London., external

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On 12 June at about 09:30 a 15-year-old girl was assaulted by a man as she travelled on a route 235 bus between Feltham High Street and Isleworth.

A CCTV image of the suspect has been released. He is described as an Asian man, aged about 18 to 20 with short dark hair. He wore a white and blue checked shirt and jeans.

BBC London News

Coming up at 18:30 on BBC One - in February 1996 the IRA detonated a bomb in Docklands killing two people and injuring many more.

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The explosives were supplied by the former Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi. Now, an inquiry is looking into whether the British Government has done enough to get compensation from Gaddafi for the victims - and if they can benefit from his frozen assets. 

Plus, former Beatle Ringo Starr opened an exhibition of his work at the National Portrait Gallery, documenting his life and times in the world's biggest rock band. Our Entertainment Correspondent Brenda Emmanus was there.

South London Press
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The revised master plan for Greenwich Peninsula to increase the number of homes by 57 per cent to 15,720 got the green light from Greenwich councillors, external last night.

Lambeth Council has welcomed the government's decision to grant Grade II listed status to the Royal Vauxhall Tavern.

Cllr Jack Hopkins, Cabinet Member for Jobs and Growth, said: "I think Lambeth can be very proud that not only do we have the highest proportion of LGBT people in London, we now have a building listed and recognised for its importance to that community."

Police officers have seized almost three quarters of a tonne of cannabis after a search on a house in Bromley, south London.

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The haul, thought to be worth around £2 million, was found stacked against the internal wall of the garage. A man in his 50s was arrested at the address on suspicion of possession with intent to supply drugs and remains in custody at a south London police station.

Richmond & Twickenham Times

The Home Office has cut Croydon Council's funding for looking after hundreds of child asylum-seekers by £4m, it has emerged, external.

BBC Sport

Ryan Sidebottom and Tim Bresnan took nine wickets between them as Yorkshire bowled out Middlesex for 106 to stand on the brink of the county title.

Having been put in, the home side were left reeling on 0-3 at the end of Sidebottom's first over at Lord's.

Nineteen-year-old Arbnor Beciri, from Chalk Farm in north London, has been named as Trainee of the Year at the City of London Corporation’s City Business Traineeship Awards.

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The City Business Traineeship programme, which is fully funded by the Corporation and delivered by the Brokerage Citylink, places top performing state school pupils from London’s inner boroughs, into paid internships lasting up to 12 weeks at elite firms in the Square Mile.

Detectives investigating an attempted rape and robbery in Plaistow, east London, are urging anyone to come forward who has been offered this stolen bag.

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A 22-year-old woman was walking along Morley Road, in the early hours of Tuesday 1 September, when at around 00:30hrs a man approached and threatened her with a knife. He stole property including her bag and then sexually assaulted her.

A passer-by overheard the attack and intervened as the suspect ran off.

A 37-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of robbery and attempted rape. He has been bailed and the passer-by, who intervened, is assisting officers.

However, detectives are keen to trace anyone who may have seen - or has since been offered - the stolen bag, which now forms a key part of the investigation and has yet to be recovered. The bag is described as a light green ‘tote’ bag with stud detail.

- The Met considers considers scrapping 1,000 neighbourhood PCSOs

- A London-bound plane catches fire in Las Vegas

- Thames parade mark Queen's record reign

BBC London 94.9

Coming up on Eddie Nestor's Drivetime programme just after 17:00 - we’ll be speaking to Labour Mayoral candidate and MP for Tottenham David Lammy about what it means for the capital if the Met Police laid off all of its Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs).

BBC Travel

The A205 Thurlow Park Road (South Circular) in Tulse Hill is closed and there is very slow traffic in both directions, between Tulse Hill Gyratory and the St Faith's Road junction, because of a vehicle hitting a railway bridge.

201 and P13 bus routes are on diversion. Keep up to date via @BBCTravelAlert, external

The Mayor of London's target to reduce court delays in the capital by 20% is "unlikely to be met" by the end of 2015, his office has admitted.

It takes an average of 164 days for a case to travel through the criminal justice system - two days fewer than a year ago. The target is 134 days.

The Met is appealing for help to trace a missing dementia sufferer from Purley.

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Robert Barber, 64, was last seen at approximately 11:30 today at the care home he lives at in Purley.

Mr Barber is white, approximately 5ft 2in tall of slim build and bald. He was last seen wearing a blue t-shirt, brown trousers and black shoes.

Croydon Advertiser
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A Council officer who allegedly obtained information from crime reports has been sacked for data misuse, external, while the police sergeant said to have given it to him is suing the Met for constructive dismissal.

Press Association

Two young men accused of kicking a heavily pregnant woman causing the death of her unborn baby have appeared before the Old Bailey. 

 Kevin Wilson, 22, who is believed to be the child's father, and a 17-year-old boy, appeared in the dock each charged with causing grievous bodily harm to 21-year-old Malorie Bantala and child destruction. 

Miss Bantala was attacked on 15 June in Peckham, south-east London. The victim, who was 32 weeks pregnant at the time, was jumped on and kicked on the ground in front of shocked passers by. 

Events have been taking place across the UK to mark the day Queen Elizabeth becomes Britain's longest-reigning monarch.

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In London, a flotilla of historic vessels, leisure cruisers and passenger boats took to the River Thames, and there was a four-gun salute from HMS Belfast.

Laura Kuenssberg
BBC political editor

Labour leadership candidate Jeremy Corbyn was urged by one of his most senior supporters to withdraw from the contest - but the message was rebuffed, the BBC understands.

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The supporter told the left-wing Islington North MP "a few weeks ago" he had not entered with the intention of winning.