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London boroughs with the highest number of coronavirus care home deaths have appealed for better testing and restrictions on the transfer of elderly residents across the capital.

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Restaurants are preparing for life after lockdown with a range of radical measures that will keep diners safe but will involve drastic changes to the way Londoners eat out.

A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after two children were stabbed to death in Ilford.

Two "lucky" men with beer on tap said they can't complain after going into coronavirus lockdown in a London pub.

A huge blaze has broken out at a block of flats in north London.

Londoners were today told not to gather on Westminster Bridge to take part in tonight's Clap for Carers as the Met warned it was "not acceptable" to put safety at risk by flouting lockdown rules.

Shoppers will have to get used to "supermarket-style" queuing and till screens as well as innovations such as video-conferencing advice from ­assistants when high-street stores start to reopen after the end of the lockdown.

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A north London teenager, 16, has been found guilty of kidnapping a stranger in the street and forcing him to withdraw money from a cash machine.

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A man was sprayed in the face with an "unknown substance" before a thief stole his bag on a London bus.

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.

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.

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.