Mayor of London Ken Livingstone has claimed that photographs were taken on a mobile phone as a gang attacked David Morley on the South Bank a fortnight ago.
Three million poppy petals - symbolising the dead of the two World Wars and all the conflicts since then - were dropped onto the Thames from two original World War II aircraft on Thursday.
Bill Nighy, Roger Lloyd Pack and Imelda Staunton were among the leading actors who gathered in Tooley Street on Friday to launch an appeal to raise the final £1.6 million for the new Unicorn Theatre for children.
The 2005 season at the Globe - Mark Rylance's last as artistic director - celebrates the influence of classical Greece on Shakespeare's works
Sainsbury's has this week exchanged a conditional contract for the sale of its Ten Blackfriars Road site on Stamford Street to the Beetham Organization for £48 million.
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