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BMX star: My sport can help cut youth crime

BMX star Shanaze Reade told how her sport can steer youths away from crime by giving them "something to get up in the morning for"

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Duty calls: diver's soldier boyfriend will miss medal bid

Team GB diver Tonia Couch today revealed that her Royal Marine boyfriend is serving in Afghanistan so he cannot be poolside to cheer her on as she goes for gold in London

Brent closes two out of three council nurseries

Two nurseries in Brent are set to close after the council said it could no longer afford to subsidise them

Tamzin: Start children on the theatre when they're young

Tamzin Outhwaite today called for children to be introduced to the arts at a young age, as she backed a new theatre in north London

St Paul's tent protesters: We can't promise a peaceful exit

Occupy London protesters said today they could not guarantee a peaceful exit if they are evicted from St Paul's next week

Tunnel vision required to name Crossrail diggers (it can't be Doug)

Voting was under way today to name the three pairs of giant machines that will dig the 13-mile Crossrail tunnel network

Opik of the Pops: Former MP Lembit scores online hit with 'dad dancing' music video

Ex-MP Lembit Opik has become an internet sensation as the star of a London group's music video

For richer, for poorer: cost of church wedding to rise by 40%

Fees for weddings are to rise by 40 per cent and the cost of a funeral service by more than half under plans backed today by the Church of England

We were trashed in London riots. Six months later we're back on our feet

At first it was with curiosity that Margaret Asare looked out of the window of her optician's shop as a small group of youths began to cause trouble

Threat to sue minister over axed libraries

Campaigners in Brent are threatening to sue the Secretary of State for "allowing" the closure of six libraries

Make room for us, Games volunteers ask London homeowners

Olympic volunteers are appealing to Londoners to open their homes to them amid a shortage of cheap accommodation

'E-mitts' are smart for cold calling

Sales of special gloves to wear when using touchscreen phones have soared in the freezing weather

'Keep an eye on the elderly as big freeze bites'

Londoners were urged to check on elderly neighbours and friends today as temperatures were predicted to drop to -3C.

Spielberg's film archive on the Holocaust comes to a London college

A London university has acquired 52,000 filmed witness statements by Holocaust survivors

Is this the ghost of the Whittington's15th-century leper boy?

It looks like a blurred light or a badly taken photograph. But according to ghosthunter Leonard Low, this image taken in the basement of a London hospital is proof that it is haunted

Shop local to save our high street

Small business owners in west London said they fear their high street could be gone in as little as five years if people do not change their shopping habits

Republican terrorist who shot dead two soldiers is jailed for life

One of the men accused of murdering two soldiers at Massereene Barracks in Antrim has been found guilty on all charges and sentenced to life in prison

Sex Pistols artist takes Brent library protest to US

The artist behind the Sex Pistols' infamous God Save The Queen record sleeve has joined a campaign to save an axed library in Brent - and taken news of its plight to America

Sprinter who offered himself on eBay finds a sponsor

An Olympic sprinter who put himself on eBay to fulfil his dream of competing at the London Games has secured the funding he needs

Library taken over by charity to charge fees

Residents in Bexley will have to pay a membership fee to have full access to their public library

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