A man has been jailed for spitting at a London bus driver and a police officer.

London's transport system could be "rapidly overwhelmed" by a surge in passengers needing to keep to social distancing rules after the coronavirus lockdown ends, a briefing to emergency planners has revealed.

Staff at an east London hospital have mounted bees onto a mural to represent every patient who has beaten coronavirus.

Londoners again gathered on Westminster Bridge to take part in Thursday's Clap for Carers despite police warning it was "not acceptable" to put safety at risk by flouting lockdown rules.

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Tower Bridge was cordoned off at around midday on Friday while police investigated reports of a "suspicious package."

A man and a teenage boy have been stabbed in east London, amid a spate of knife crime in the capital in recent weeks.

Donald Trump has claimed he has seen evidence that coronavirus may have originated in a Chinese virology lab.

Scheme to offload expiring supplies raises hundreds of pounds for NHS workers battling the coronavirus pandemic

Two teenagers have been arrested on suspicion of murder after a young NHS worker was stabbed to death in east London.

Two brothers who preyed on women leaving bars and nightclubs before carrying out sexual assaults have been convicted.

Neighbours have described their shock after a boy suffered "possibly life-changing" injuries after being shot in east London.

A man has been arrested after protesters in London took part in a group hug outside Met Police's headquarters in defiance of the coronavirus lockdown.

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Gay and bisexual men have reportedly been told they cannot donate their plasma to coronavirus trials at a London hospital.

Nearly half of NHS doctors have been forced to buy their own personal protective equipment (PPE) for coronavirus treatment or rely on donations, a new survey has found.

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Two teenagers have been arrested after a young boy was shot in east London and left with potentially life-changing injuries.

Two teenagers have been charged with the murder of NHS worker David Gomoh in east London.

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Donald Trump has claimed a coronavirus vaccine will be developed "by the end of this year".

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A dating app is providing London bus drivers with free face bandanas, amid fears of a lack adequate personal protective equipment (PPE) for frontline transport staff.

Military-style discipline will be needed from every individual to get the country safely back to work, the Defence Secretary said today as ministers started preparing to modify the two-metre social distancing rule.

Schools are installing hand-washing troughs in playgrounds and preparing to mark out two-metre lines to keep parents apart as they drop off their children in anticipation of the coronavirus lockdown ending.

London's Nightingale hospital will be put "on standby" within days as a result of the capital passing the peak of coronavirus cases.

US president predicts economic surge later this year as several states begin tentatively re-opening for business after weeks of shutdown

Person pronounced dead at the scene after incident early on Tuesday morning

Campaign launched to increase threshold on rateable value to help struggling businesses

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An international basketball player who moved to London to escape Somalia's looming civil war has become one of the capital's latest victims of Covid-19.

Nike has donated tens of thousands of trainers to frontline healthcare workers fighting the pandemic around the world.

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In a bustling depot in north London filled with donated food, Phoebe Waller-Bridge compared the work of The Felix Project to "a rescue mission".

A London war memorial has been vandalised in what police described as a "senseless" act.

A five-year-old child has been taken to hospital after falling out of a window in north London.

London children who have been cooped up at home will be able to discover the historic buildings on their doorstep when lockdown is over.

Donald Trump toured a new medical mask factory without wearing a face covering, despite a sign at the facility making clear they were required.

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Londoners are living in a city that is ten times more crowded than the next most densely populated region of the county, official figures revealed today.

This is the first picture of a pensioner who died after being found by police with head injuries at his north London home.

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Police have cordoned off a busy road in south east London after a double stabbing in broad daylight.

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