The Royal Free London, which runs one of the capital's two specialist infectious disease units, announced this week that 517 patients had been discharged home, thanks to the care of "heroic staff". More than 100 more have left the hospital for "step-down" rehabilitation. Kate Slemeck, chief executive of the Royal Free Hospital, said: "Our staff tell us that seeing patients go home gives a great feeling of positivity and pleasure.

A 44-year-old man has been charged with attempted murder after being allegedly linked to three stabbings in north London.

A man who claimed he had coronavirus before spitting at a bus driver is west London has pleaded guilty to common assault.

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Detectives are hunting for an Asian-inspired Gucci messenger bag in connection with the fatal stabbing in south London.

Comedian Jack Whitehall has endorsed the Evening Standard's Food for London Now campaign and launched a competition to encourage his followers to donate.

Ten people from London who travelled 245 miles to go walking in North Wales were sent home and reported by police for breaking lockdown rules.

Two young children have been stabbed to death at a property in east London.

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Volunteers spent the day on a farm to harvest vegetables that would have otherwise gone to waste so the produce could be turned into meals for our Food for London Now appeal.

A person has died on the tracks at a busy north London Tube station.

Medical students from University College London who were fast-tracked onto the NHS coronavirus frontline donned "lockdown costumes" for an online graduation ceremony.

A young man has died after he was found injured in an east London street.

Many countries, including ours, are battling the question of how to lift the lockdown.

Former deputy prime minister Lord Heseltine today leads a chorus of business leaders and grandees urging Boris Johnson to feed the "hunger for hope" in locked-down Britain by mapping out a clear route back to prosperity.

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A man has been charged with murder after a man died following an assault in east London.

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This is the first picture of a father with a "heart of gold" who was fatally stabbed in the street near his home in south-west London.

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A young NHS worker was stabbed to death in east London just days before his father's funeral.

A west London bus stop has been transformed into a "fabulous" children's art gallery to brighten the drudgery of life under the coronavirus lockdown.

The number of coronavirus patients dying each day in London hospitals has halved, it can be revealed.

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Two young children who were stabbed to death in an attack at their home in east London have been named by police.

A 27-year-old man who died after an attack in east London has been named by police.

Brits are being urged to commemorate VE Day during the coronavirus lockdown by placing a specially designed figure of a WWII soldier in their window.

The Nightingale field hospital should take coronavirus patients from other London hospitals to enable them to become "Covid-free" and restart normal treatment, its chief executive has suggested.

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Police are searching for a man in connection with an alleged rape at Embankment in central London.

Thousands of Londoners were today urged to get tested for coronavirus to help get the capital "back on its feet" as the deadline loomed for the Government's target of 100,000 tests a day.

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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.