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

BBC Weather

Generally rather cloudy with outbreaks of rain. Some of this rain will be heavy at times, before clearing away by the end of the night. It will become rather breezy, especially across The North Downs. 

Lows of 10C (50F).

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Garden waste collections could be scrapped by Croydon Council unless 18,000 people agree to pay for them, external.

Households will be charged about £60 a year for the fortnightly pick-ups, currently free, under plans revealed this week.

Tim Donovan
BBC London, Political Editor

Assembly Member Tony Arbour (pictured) was chairing Mayor's Question Time today and said "Clear these people out" to which protesters took umbrage.

He is coming in for some criticism of his handling of the meeting.

He was a stand-in for the usual chair and deputy chair who were absent.

Fellow members have been saying he over-reacted, showed his inexperience in dealing with a meeting of this sort and shouldn't have suspended proceedings when he did.

He said at the beginning of the meeting it was a 'spectator sport' and not one where the audience should take part.

He then gave a second 'warning' when there was loud applause from the audience for a Labour member's speech about policing.

The injured man was a member of contract staff, not one of the regular security team at City Hall.

Some of the security guards are unhappy they were asked to clear the chamber when they were heavily out-numbered.

There are a couple of Tube journey stories being circulated today:

• A Tube map showing the real distance between stations has been released on Whatdotheyknow.com, external. Transport for London released it in response to a Freedom of Information request from a James Burrage. A spokesman said it did not have to be produced specially.

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• And Time Out, external has "Nine sneaky tube shortcuts that only Londoners know"

Put them together and you could have a quicker route home tonight!

Josephine McDermott
BBC News, London

• Black cab drivers face a number of challenges including changes to emissions regulation and competition from cashless services such as Uber.
• The disturbance at City Hall today started after Liberal Democrat London Assembly Member Caroline Pidgeon asked the mayor if he recognised that until there are enough zero-emission capable taxis on the market and enough rapid charging points it would be difficult for the taxi trade to switch to comply with new regulation.
• He replied: "If you take into consideration the £65m that we have secured to help fund the transformation to cleaner vehicles, black cab drivers will be able to make the switch. I appreciate there is anxiety about this and it's a big change to make but I believe it's one profoundly in the interest of the black cab trade."
• She said there were only 1,400 charging points when 25,000 were planned to which cab drivers in the audience laughed and cheered.
• He then said: "I just say to all the Luddites in the room who don't want to see new technology. This will be something.."
• He broke off as protesters called "That's disgraceful" and started shouting at which point the meeting was adjourned.

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What is a Luddite?: 

A member of an organized band of English mechanics and their friends, who (1811–16) set themselves to destroy manufacturing machinery in the midlands and north of England.

Oxford English Dictionary

David Friend
BBC London 94.9

Chris Rogers is in the Drivetime hotseat until 19:00 - we will be speaking about the drama at City Hall today which meant Mayor’s Question Time was interrupted. 

We’ll be speaking to one black cab organisation about why they’ve been disrupting traffic around Central London throughout the day.

And, are you worried about overloading your children's school bags in the mornings?

Tim Donovan
BBC London, Political Editor

I understand Conservative Assembly members asked Boris Johnson afterwards whether it was sensible to have described taxi drivers in the audience as 'Luddites'.

I am told he responded: "But they are."

Several members of security at City Hall were punched, pushed and verbally abused earlier after Mayor's Question Time was suspended and protesting cab drivers escorted out, says Tony Arbour, deputy chairman of the London Assembly.

Image source, City Hall

He said: "One was knocked unconscious and taken to hospital. Our understanding is that his condition is now stable and we wish him well soon."

London Ambulance Service confirmed a man was taken to hospital.

The police said officers had had to escort people from the building after disruption broke out.

Mr Arbour said the disruption was "unnecessary and unfortunate".

You can find a link to the webcast, external of the session and have your say on our Facebook page, external.

The station has re-opened says Transport for London.

We will update you with more as we find out.

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Labour's London mayoral candidate Sadiq Khan has promised to "get things done" for Croydon's transport links and says the trams should be extended, external to Crystal Palace.

The latest news headlines:

• Boris Johnson has denied all knowledge of the Met's proposal to get rid of all one thousand Police Community Support Officers from neighbourhood police teams.
• His Mayor's Question Time had to be suspended after he called angry cab drivers in the chamber who were disrupting proceedings "Luddites".
• And the government's given Croydon Council the go-ahead to compulsorily purchase the Whitgift shopping centre, external, built in the 1960s, to build a new Westfield shopping mall.

Have you spotted these yet in the City of London?

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This is Damien Hirst's sculpture "Charity", outside the Gherkin building in the financial district, which is part of the Sculpture in the City 2015 series of public artworks.

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If you head down you will also see this impressive piece of public art by celebrated Chinese artist Ai Weiwei.

It was a tempestuous Mayor's Question Time earlier at City Hall with a protest by black cab drivers forcing it to be suspended.

Before that, Mayor Boris Johnson said he did not know the Met was considering scrapping Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs). 

"I am astonished that you don't know about this. Every PCSO has had a briefing from their borough commander telling them that their jobs are on the line and you're telling me this is the first time that you've heard about it. That is astonishing," said Labour Assembly Member Joanne McCartney.

Boris Johnson replied: "There is no such proposal that I'm aware of. There is no evidence that this fact... that her story's correct. She's put out a press release based to my knowledge on absolutely nothing."

Services at Broadmoor Hospital have been judged "inadequate" and in need of urgent attention by inspectors from the Care Quality Commission.

The criticisms from the Chief Inspector of Hospitals came following a five-day examination of all the services run by the west London Mental Health Trust which got an overall "Requires Improvement" rating. 

The two main areas of concern were staff shortages and the high use of restraint. However, staff members were praised for their caring attitude.

Rail companies should be fined for cancellations caused by staff

Sir Nicholas Soames, who represents Mid Sussex, said he had spoken to Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin urging the measure.

A Southern Rail spokeswoman said there were "many reasons why this happens".

All Blacks legend Jonah Lomu performed the Ka Mate haka in Covent Garden earlier. 

The Rugby World Cup, external starts on Friday. 

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Meanwhile, the New Zealand team, World Cup winners in 2011, have been training in Lensbury.

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