The Duchess of Cambridge carries out her first solo public engagement, attending a preview of a new Lucian Freud exhibition in central London.

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Kate attends Lucian Freud preview

Conservative MPs call for Labour’s candidate for London mayor, Ken Livingstone, to apologise for saying their party is “riddled” with homosexuals.

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Nearly 160 people are arrested during raids across London by the Metropolitan Police’s new dedicated unit tackling gang crime.

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Police hold 158 in raids on gangs

Three paintings from Elizabeth Taylor’s personal art collection are sold for almost £14 million at an auction in London.

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Three paintings from Elizabeth Taylor’s personal art collection are sold for almost £14 million at an auction in London.

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Taylor art auction fetches £14m

1.5 million football tickets remain available for London 2012 after the sport is identified as the only discipline which has not sold out its allocation

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Football only unsold 2012 sport

DAMASCUS, Syria — The United States closed its embassy in Damascus on Monday citing security concerns, while Britain summoned its ambassador to London to discuss Syria’s increasingly bloody crackdown on anti-government demonstrators. Read full article > >

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U.S. closes embassy, pulls diplomats from Syria as violence intensifies

Fresh protests take place at the Syrian embassy in London over President Assad’s regime.

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Fresh protests at Syrian embassy

Last month, Wadah Khanfar, erstwhile Director General of Al Jazeera and now President of the Sharq Forum, an independent think tank dedicated to developing long-term strategies for Mideast development and social justice, visited London. Appearing at the Frontline Club , Middle East monitor , London School of Economics and the Chaltham House , Khanfar discussed the Arab Spring, Al Jazeera, and political Islam.

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Wadah Khanfar Discusses The Arab Spring, Al Jazeera, and Political Islam

Jenny Tomasin, a British actress forever known to hundreds of millions of television viewers as the clumsy, disheveled, Valentino-obsessed kitchen maid Ruby Finch in “Upstairs, Downstairs,” has died at her home in London. Read full article > >

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A freight train derails on the West Coast main line causing all services between London and Milton Keynes to be suspended.

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Train derails on West Coast line

Four men have admitted planning an al-Qaeda inspired plot to detonate a bomb at the London Stock Exchange.

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A group of four Islamic militants, all of them British citizens, admitted on Wednesday to a conspiracy to place a bomb in the toilets of the London Stock Exchange.

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“Matilda,” the hit musical in London, follows Roald Dahl’s young character as she fights a sadistic headmistress.

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Theater Review | ‘Matilda’: ‘Matilda,’ by the Royal Shakespeare Company in London

A medieval barn in west London described by poet Sir John Betjeman as the “Cathedral of Middlesex” is bought by English Heritage for £20,000.

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Medieval barn ‘saved from decay’