Sixteen suspected gang leaders have been arrested in and around Hackney east London.
Six Greenpeace activists are scaling London’s Shard building to protest against Shell’s plans to drill for oil and gas in the Arctic.
Riot police raided a building in central London where StopG8 activists were meeting for an anti-G8 “Carnival Against Capitalism” rally alter today.
One of Britain’s wealthiest boroughs is the new centre of the homelessness epidemic after admitting it will spend a record £41.8m housing families in temporary accommodation this year.
BA Flight 762 flight from London Heathrow had to make an emergency landing after it an engine caught fire shortly after take-off when the plane hit a flock of birds.