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

BBC Weather

After a fine and breezy evening, a dry night will follow with prolonged clear periods. 

However, later in the night some mist and patchy low cloud may form across the North Downs and other prone locations. 

Minimum temperature: 9C (48F).

Riz Lateef
BBC London presenter

Scotland Yard has arrested more than 2,500 people and seized hundreds of guns and knives in the past 10 weeks.

It comes as the Met is trying to halt a rise in crime affecting under 25s. But as our home affairs correspondent Nick Beake reports some are concerned the tactics are not working.

You can see that report on BBC London's evening news from 18:30 on BBC One.

The number of Pedestrian Countdown sites across London will be doubled by next summer, the Mayor and Transport for London (TfL) have confirmed, external.

The Mayor had set TfL a target of upgrading 400 crossings – 10% of all those in London – with the technology by next April.

This technology replaces the ‘blackout’ period on traffic signals with a numerical counter to show how long pedestrians have left to safely cross the road.

Do you prefer them to the traditional crossings? Email us

BBC Travel

There are long delays and queues backing up on the M4 westbound at J1 for the A4 (Chiswick roundabout) because of an earlier broken down vehicle. All lanes have now reopened though. 

BBC Travel

A broken down train between London Bridge and New Cross Gate is causing delays on many Southern services. 

Check the BBC travel page for details or follow @BBCTravelAlert, external.

Sitala Peek
BBC News, London

- The Labour MP for Tottenham David Lammy says one in five party members in London did not receive their ballot papers to elect the new party leader

- Voting has closed in the Labour leadership race and Labour's London mayoral candidacy contest

- Pop impresario Jonathan King has been bailed over claims of historical child sexual offences

- A motorcyclist has died in a collision with a car in Stockwell earlier

ITV

The RSCPA had to be called to a home in Hounslow over the weekend after a fox became stuck in a discarded wheel.

BBC Travel

One lane is closed clockwise and traffic has backed up for four miles at the A282 QE2 Bridge because of an accident involving a car and a lorry. Congestion is back to J30 and the A13.

Follow @BBCTravelAlert, external for the latest updates or visit the BBC London travel page.

Eddie Nestor
BBC London 94.9, presenter

You've probably heard by now about the social media row between Charlotte Proudman, from Mansfield Chambers in London, and a senior lawyer Alexander Carter-Silk over a compliment he paid her on the professional networking site LinkedIn.

Image source, LinkedIn

Was she right to publicly chastise him for his "misogynistic" comment?

You can email me at eddie.nestor@bbc.co.uk, text 81333 and start your text with ‘London’ or pick up the phone and call me now on 020 7224 2000 to beon the show.

SE1
Community website

You can find out more about the Blitz at the BBC History site.

Evening Standard

Cut-price grocer Lidl is planning an audacious assault on central London with dozens of new supermarkets in some of the capital’s most desirable neighbourhoods, external.

Image source, Reuters

London 24

BBC Sport

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has denied he misled people about the severity of Danny Welbeck's injury.

Image source, Getty Images

The striker has now been ruled out until Christmas with a knee injury - but Wenger says he told the truth when he informed the press on 27 August that Welbeck was "progressing well".

Brenda Emmanus

The former Beatles drummer talks me through his photo collection of life with the Beatles at the height of their fame.

He shows me the photos that no-one else could have captured, on display at the National Portrait Gallery.

Susana Mendoca
BBC London 94.9 political reporter

Since MPs' expenses are back in the news, let's take a look at the Labour leadership candidates' expenses claims.

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Frontrunner Jeremy Corbyn claimed £469.18 in rent for his North Islington office during the month of May.

Liz Kendall meanwhile claimed almost £6,000 in expenses during the months of April and May. The Leicester West MP claimed £324 on stamps and £1,715 on rent for her London property.

Yvette Cooper claimed just £44.52 on printer cartridges in the final days of the General Election campaign.

Andy Burnham, the Shadow Health secretary, claimed £18,122.65 in expenses during the months of April and May. The MP for Leigh claimed almost quadruple the amount of his fellow candidates for the Labour leadership. He also claimed £50 for a Parliamentary mobile and £57 on secure shredding.

Two serving London Labour MPs are among a group of 26 who have had their misclaimed expenses written off by the parliamentary watchdog.

Brent North MP Barry Gardiner owed £77 and Eltham's Clive Efford owed £79. In addition, Labour's former Holborn and St Pancras MP Frank Dobson owed £7.50. 

Their expenses have been written off because it would not be cost effective to pursue these claims further, the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority said.

Sitala Peek
BBC News, London

- Former Holborn and St Pancras Labour MP Frank Dobson and two serving London MPs who failed to repay their misclaimed expenses have had their debts written off 

- The ballots for the Labour leadership and Labour London mayoral contest have closed

- The jury has been sent out in the David West murder trial of a central London nightclub owner

Get West London

“Four years of war in Syria has led to the worst humanitarian crisis in a generation. Local government is increasingly being looked to for leadership on the issue, external," Hounslow Council leader Steve Curran says.

Croydon Guardian

Newsquest’s Young Reporter scheme, external is beginning its eighth year, offering students from around the capital the chance to publish their own news stories onto websites visited by thousands daily.

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