Mayor of London Boris Johnson was joined by carnival performers outside City Hall on Thursday to launch the Mayor's Thames Festival.
Boxing star Sir Henry Cooper has unveiled a blue plaque to mark the location of the gym where he used to train above the Thomas a Becket pub in the Old Kent Road.
The public inquiry into the proposed Mirax-Beetham Tower at Blackfriars Bridge and the 20 Blackfriars Road development has heard its first evidence.
A huge advertising billboard has been unveiled at London Bridge Station to promote the NSPCC and brighten up hoardings on the concourse.
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