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  • Updates on Friday 1 April 2016

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  1. Our live coverage across the day

    Updates for London have now ended but we'll be back at 08:00 on Monday with all the latest news, sport, travel and weather. Have a great weekend.

  3. Coming up on BBC One: Election special live from City Hall

    BBC London News

    Tonight at 18:30, the programme will be broadcast live from City Hall for an election special. Joining BBC London presenter Riz Lateef will be Zac Goldsmith for the Conservatives and Labour's Sadiq Khan.

    She will be hearing from Londoners about what they want from their future mayor and from all of the candidates about what they have to offer. 

  4. Howzat! Green-fingered baking at Middlesex County Cricket Club

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  6. Are cyclist the most smug commuters?

    Emily at the London Cyclist blog shares three things she doesn't understand about her fellow cyclists - and questions whether they should be quite so smug about their preferred commuting method.

  7. Business team relay will take place in the Olympic Stadium on 14 July

    A Great Team Relay will take place in the Olympic Stadium on 14 July.

    Thousands of staff from businesses across London are expected to join in. 

    Teams of four will compete in a relay with four legs of 5km, with medals and trophies awarded to competitors from each major business sector. 

    Spectators will be welcome to join in the fun and get in the mood for the Rio Games, three weeks later.

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    StadiumGreat Run Company
    5k linkGreat Run Company

  8. London delays on the M25 near Chertsey and Heathrow

    BBC Travel

    Also on the roads, there are long delays on the M25 anticlockwise between J17 Maple Cross and J11 Chertsey. 

    On the M25 clockwise between J14 Heathrow and J15 M4, one lane is blocked after a breakdown, compounding already slow traffic between J9 and J17. 

  9. Serious incident in Bermondsey causing long delays

    BBC Travel

    The A200 Jamaica Road in Bermondsey is closed between Abbey Street and Tooley Street after an accident involving a car and motorbike this afternoon. 

    A man was seriously injured and taken to hospital. 

    There are long queues on approaches to the Rotherhithe Tunnel, A100 Tower Bridge Road and around the Surrey Quays one-way system.

    A diversion is in place for bus routes 47, 188 and 381. 

  10. Ban extended for Chelsea striker Diego Costa after motioning biting opponent

    BBC Sport

    Chelsea striker Diego Costa will serve an additional one-match ban and has been fined £20,000 after admitting a charge of improper conduct.

    Diego Costa and Gareth Barry

    Mr Costa, 27, has been punished for his reaction to his sending off against Everton in an FA Cup tie on 12 March.

    The Spaniard clashed with Gareth Barry and motioned towards biting him, although the Everton midfielder later said no contact had been made.

  11. Fighter planes from WW1 and WW2 are on display in Whitehall

    A World War Two Spitfire Mk XVI (L), a Sopwith snipe and a Eurofighter typhoon are on display at Horse Guards Parade. 

    The RAF Museum in north west London will display aircraft from World War One and WW2 as well as a replica of a modern day Eurofighter Typhoon to mark the RAF centenary in 2018.

    World War Two Spitfire Mk XVI (L)Getty Images
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  12. Don't forget to register to vote for our next London mayor by 18 April

    The last day to register to vote in the Mayor of London and London Assembly elections is 18 April.

    As the candidates for London Mayor are announced, London Elects says it will send an information booklet to each of London’s 5.8 million registered voters with a mini-manifesto from 10 of the mayoral candidates.

    Voting at polling stations is from 07:00 to 22:00 on 5 May.

  13. Accused deny charges after a human rights lawyer was killed by a window

    Four people and three companies have denied a raft of charges over the death of a lawyer crushed when a half-tonne window frame toppled on her.

    Amanda Telfer

    Amanda Telfer, 44, was killed when the 13ft by 13ft window fell on her as she walked past a building in Hanover Square, central London, on 30 August 2012.

    Members of the public lifted the frame off and tried to resuscitate her but Ms Telfer, who worked for legal firm Keystone Law and was a volunteer for human rights charity Reprieve, died shortly after. 

    An eight-week trial was set for 31 January next year with a further hearing on 18 November. 

  14. More obese than underweight people in the world, London study suggests

    A study led by scientists at Imperial College London has suggested there are now more adults in the world classified as obese than underweight. 

    Obese personThinkstock

    The research, published in The Lancet, compared body mass index among almost 20 million adult men and women from 1975 to 2014.

    It found obesity in men has tripled and more than doubled in women.

  15. London Election 2016: London's political landscape

    BBC London News

    The mayoral election is set to be closely fought. So what does the electoral battleground look like here in London? Alex Bushill reports:

    London's political landscape

  16. 'Zombie Killer' boy tried to flee to Malaga after attack in Islington

    The youth convicted of the manslaughter of a teenager he killed in north London used a 25in (63cm) serrated blade known as a "Zombie Killer", the Old Bailey heard.

    The 17-year-old, who cannot be named due to his age, was cleared of Stefan Appleton's murder. He will be sentenced on 21 April.

    'Zombie Killer' used during the attackMet Police

    After the machete attack on 10 June, the killer fled to Bristol and tried to fly to Malaga in Spain, but was arrested when he returned to London to lie low.

    In his defence, the killer said he had come under attack when he went to snatch back his bicycle which had been stolen by another boy.

    'Zombie Killer' machete death boy guilty

    A youth is convicted of the manslaughter of a teenager he stabbed with a "Zombie Killer" machete in north London.

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  19. Young family 'left to sleep on the streets in Hackney'

    Hackney Citizen

    A homeless mother and her four young children were turfed out of a council building and left to sleep on the cold streets last month.

  20. Blitz crush doctor: 'One wet, mauve body was brought in'

    BBC Radio 4

    During World War Two, Dr Joan Martin was a junior casualty officer at Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children in Hackney, east London.

    On 3 March 1943 she led the medical team dealing with the dead and wounded from Bethnal Green underground station. 

    A crush at the station, which was being used as an air raid shelter, resulted in the deaths of 173 people. 

    She described what she witnessed to Eddie Mair for PM.