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

This evening and tonight it will be a generally cloudy night with the cloud thick enough to produce some patchy rain at times, particularly towards dawn. 

The cloud cover will mean that it will be a milder night than recently. 

Minimum temperature: 13C (55F).

BBC London News

On the programme at 18:30 on BBC One: The man in charge of a leading London university says the Government's visa crackdown needs a rethink.

Plus, angry scenes as bailiffs evict squatters from a north London housing estate.

A casket containing the ashes of a woman's dead daughter is being hunted by police, external following a burglary in Croydon.

Image source, Met Police

The mother returned home from holiday in August to discover the ashes, in a box marked with the name Fleur Lulu Blanshard Whiting, had been taken along with jewellery and a sports bag from Famet Close.

Officers believe it is likely the burglars may have mistaken the casket for a jewellery box during the incident between 8-11 August and said the victim had been left "devastated".

A 600-year-old Ming cup bequeathed to Staffordshire University, external by a London pharmacist is to be sold.

Image source, Staffordshire University

The Stem Cup which dates back to about 1425 is valued at £2m and will be used as a "study resource".

A 17-year-old boy who stabbed a police officer with a lock knife at the Notting Hill Carnival has been given a six-month detention and training order.

Wimbledon Youth Court heard the teenager attacked the police officer who was breaking up a fight on Elgin Crescent on 31 August.

He pleaded guilty to wounding and possession of a knife with intent to cause threats and violence.

A signal post fell across railway lines in Berkshire due to corrosion at its base, the Rail Accident Investigation Branch, external has found.

Image source, Network Rail

It was struck by the First Great Western, external high-speed train from Truro to London Paddington travelling at 110 mph (177 km/h) near Newbury on 17 November. 

The train was not derailed but the report said the outcome could have been "much more serious".

A woman with mental health difficulties has been awarded £3,000 damages after a judge concluded that her son had been unlawfully taken from her care by social services.

The boy, now aged 9, had been placed into foster care for about a month by the London Borough of Brent, external after his mother suffered a mental health "relapse" and was taken to hospital.

The number of children being vaccinated against measles, mumps and rubella has fallen for the first time in seven years.

Image source, SPL

London has the worst uptake nationally with 87% of children having had the MMR vaccine by their 2nd birthday, compared to the national average of 92%.

Beth Rose
BBC News Online, London

The top stories on BBC London Live this afternoon:

- Teen detained for Notting Hill Carnival police stabbing

- Cardiac arrest rugby fan seeks CPR doctor

- Chelsea doctor's departure disappoints FMA

BBC Travel

There are currently minor delays on the Central Line between West Ruislip and White City due to signal failure at Perivale.

BBC Travel

One lane is blocked and there are delays on the A1203 Limehouse Link Tunnel westbound between the A1261 Aspen Way junction and The Highway junction, because of a broken down motorbike.

And there is queuing traffic on the A205 South Circular Road eastbound in Forest Hill between the B218 Brockley Rise junction and the A2212 Baring Road junction.

Fraudster Jonathon Braybrook, from Wandsworth, has beenjailed for five years after operating a £1m vintage wine scam.

Image source, Staffordshire Police

The 26-year-old ran sham online broker Le Bordeaux Wines Limited and sold vintage bottles which didn't exist and sold their wine without giving them their money.

Braybrook, of Chesterton Close, admitted making false representations and carrying on a business with intent to defraud and concealing criminal property.

The family of 18-year-old Ally Calvert said they were certain his death was not related to nitrous oxide or alcohol, and have acknowledged the Met's, external apology.

Following Ally's his death his friends and family have raised more than £8,000 for the charity CRY, external (Cardiac Risk in the Young) as part of the #AllysBigHeart campaign. 

The head of the Met has apologised to the family of Alistair Calvert after it was wrongly suggested his death was connected to the use of nitrous oxide and alcohol.

A post-mortem examination found the 18-year-old had died in July from an enlarged heart.

Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, who has visited the family, said: "On behalf of The Met I extended my condolences to the family and apologised for upset caused by the statements we made about Alistair's death."

A 55-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of causing serious injury by dangerous driving after a London woman was seriously hurt when she was struck by a black cab taxi in Manchester city centre. 

Melissa Layla Lewis, 22, remains in a critical condition after she was hit on Chester Street at 04:45 on Sunday. 

Her family said the student, originally from London, had recently moved to the city to study for a master's degree.

BBC Sport

The Football Medical Association says it is "disappointed" after itsefforts to negotiate a return to Chelsea for club doctor Dr Eva Carneiro failedand she decided to leave yesterday, six weeks after being publicly criticised by Jose Mourinho.

She had her role downgraded after Mourinho said his medical staff were "naive" for treating Eden Hazard during the 2-2 draw with Swansea on 8 August.

Image source, PA

A statement from the FMA, , external which represents medical and science personnel in professional football, said: "The FMA is extremely disappointed that Dr Eva Carneiro will not be resuming her full duties as first-team doctor at Chelsea Football Club.

"Having recently been contacted by Eva, we have offered our full support in attempting to negotiate a satisfactory outcome. Unfortunately this has not resulted in our preferred outcome."

BBC Sport

Six-times capped Wales back-rower Rob McCusker has left Scarlets to join London Irish on a one-season deal.

Image source, Huw Evans Agency

Richmond & Twickenham Times

Liberal Democrat councillor Jennifer Churchill has defected to Labour in support of Jeremy Corbyn, external, becoming Richmond's first Labour councillor in more than 13 years.

The partner of the borough's former Lib Dem leader and fellow Councillor Stephen Knight, said new party leader Tim Farron "doesn't seem to stand for anything" and her former party was just "parroting Tory economic propaganda".

Mr Knight, the father of her two children, said he would remain loyal to the Lib Dem's but respected Ms Churchill's decision. 

BBC Newsbeat

Just in case you missed One Direction headline the fourth night of the Apple Music Festival at the Roundhouse in Camden last night, or you know someone who did, then get yourselves over to the BBC Newsbeat page to read about their performance minute-by-minute....

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