Our live coverage across the daypublished at 18:00
That brings our live updates to a close for today. There will be more on Monday from 08:00.
Summary
Updates from London on Friday 23 October 2015
News, sport, travel and weather updates resume at 08:00 on Monday
Our live coverage across the daypublished at 18:00
Coming up on BBC London News: Baby injured by car in Guildford and Chinese protester accuses Met of heavy-handednesspublished at 17:55
BBC London NewsAt 18:30 on BBC One: In Guildford a car ploughs into shoppers on a busy high street - two, including a baby girl are airlifted to hospital.
And the protester accusing the Met of being heavy-handed during a Chinese human rights demonstration.
Tonight's weather: Mostly cloudy but drypublished at 17:50
This evening and overnight will be mostly cloudy but dry. The extensive cloud cover should prevent temperatures from falling away too much, although towards Epping and Bromley we may just slip into single figures.
Minimum temperature: 11C (52F).
'Illegal net in the Thames snared more than 100 fish in hours'published at 17:45
Richmond and Twickenham TimesPoachers perpetrated a “genocide” against the fish population after laying an illegal net in the River Thames., external
BBC London Live: TalkTalk attack is third this year, Met reject Chinese protester claims and Londoners walking weird petspublished at 17:37
Josephine McDermott
BBC News, London- Talk Talk has confirmed the latest cyber attack is the third it's experienced this year. Police are investigating
- The Met Police have rejected claims from human rights groups that it dealt inappropriately with protesters during the Chinese president's state visit
- And we obsess about weird London pets after a raccoon was sighted being taken for a walk in the capital
Just some Londoners out with their pets: Picture gallerypublished at 17:30
We're compiling a gallery of other Londoners out with their unusual pets.
Met defends Chinese protest arrestspublished at 17:20
Read more about the protesters at the Chinese state visit and the Met's reaction to accusations they have done the "bidding work" of the Chinese government.
Image caption, Shao Jiang pictured at protests in central London on Wednesday
Raccoon reaction on BBC London Facebookpublished at 17:10
On the raccoon spotted in central London, Andrea Danielle on Facebook says, external, "I'm a teacher in south London and my kids told me that they'd seen a raccoon outside school. Maybe that's it!"
Lauri Lammin helpfully says, external: "Raccoons are one of the common sources of rabies."
Royal Variety Performance line-up announcedpublished at 17:00
One Direction, Sir Elton John, Kylie Minogue, Ricky Martin, The Corrs and Josh Groban are among the stars who will perform at this year's Royal Variety Performanceat the Royal Albert Hall in London on 13 November.
Image source, PAPrince Harry will lead the royal party with the night hosted by Jack Whitehall, making him the youngest ever presenter of the Royal Variety Performance.
Things to do this weekend: Record attempt at Thriller dance, missing people's family photography and prisoners' artworkpublished at 16:50
Time Out London- At 10:00 in Covent Garden Piazza, external there will be a world record attempt at the largest number of people performing Michael Jackson's Thriller at the same time, with people joining in around the world. There'll be an instructional video beforehand.
- St Martin-in-the-Fields has a collection of photographs , externalshowing families with loved ones who have gone missing.
Image source, Missing People- At the Southbank, there is an exhibition of artwork by prisoners, external, offenders on community sentences, secure psychiatric patients and immigration detainees, from the Koestler Trust, external.
Walking weird things: Ferret in Camdenpublished at 16:40
Comparisons are being drawn, external to a 'raccoon' seen in London with this ferret spotted on walkies in Camden last year.
'Landlord fined £90,000 over substandard basement lets'published at 16:26
The Daily TelegraphA landlord who owns a string of properties in north London has been fined a total of £88,000, external after officials ruled one of his properties was "substandard".
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End of X postRaccoon File: Are you allowed to take a raccoon on the Tube?published at 16:15
Josephine McDermott
BBC News, LondonAsked if you're allowed to take a raccoon on the Tube, external, a spokesman said: "It's probably not in our conditions of carriage".
Raccoon File: Second sighting of 'raccoon' recorded on Jubilee Linepublished at 16:05
Keep them coming.
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End of X postCroydon Council's new strategy on illegally parked cars: 'Ignore them'published at 16:00
Croydon Council is to leave cars illegally parked, external in roads after scrapping its loss-making removal service.
It's Friday in London so of course a woman is walking a 'raccoon'published at 15:40
Josephine McDermott
BBC News, LondonBBC London News assistant editor Tom Maskell just spotted this near Oxford Street.
If this is you and you can confirm this is a raccoon in a jacket that you're taking for a walk please tweet us @BBCLondonNews, external. We'd all like to know.
The old Cabbage Patch hosting semi-finals this weekendpublished at 15:30
This weekend, Twickenham, the old Cabbage Patch, as it was once known, will be home to the semi-finals of Rugby World Cup 2015, before staging the final of rugby union’s premier competition for the second time on Saturday, 31 October.
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End of X post'Great Ormond Street apologises over IT system effect on treatment times'published at 15:20
Health editor Ross Lydall blogs, external: Great Ormond Street Hospital today apologised after discovering that an inadequate IT system left it unable to check whether its patients were being treated in time.
Gatwick North Terminal to be completed next Springpublished at 15:12
Passengers flying out for half-term holidays next year through Gatwick, external will be among the first to see the airport's revamped North Terminal.
The billion pound makeover is due to be completed next Spring. It includes a new automated bag drop.
Victorian descriptions vs estate agents' descriptions of Londonpublished at 14:58
Sometimes feel like London hasn't changed much since Victorian times? Think again.
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End of X postQuote MessageThere is no end to it! London Docks, St Katherine's Docks, Commercial Docks on the other side, India Docks, Victoria Docks; black with coal, blue with indigo, brown with hides, white with flour; stained with purple wine, or brown with tobacco!
London: A Pilgrimage (1872)
