Sources: BBC News
Pro-Palestine and pro-Israel protests are held in London, United Kingdom, with pro-Palestinian protesters also gathering at the Israeli Embassy. 2023-10-9
Police arrest over 40 protestors for vandalism during a Just Stop Oil protest and blockade in London, United Kingdom. 2022-08-26
The United Kingdom Secretary of State for Education Gavin Williamson announces that all primary schools in London will remain closed for at least two weeks at the start of the new term on January 4. It was previously announced that only schools in 23 of the 32 boroughs would be closed. 2021-01-1
The International Maritime Organisation commences meetings in London aimed at reducing emissions in the shipping industry, which are presently unregulated. The 1997 Kyoto Protocol made the IMO responsible for controlling ship emissions. 2018-04-9
In the stand-off between Britain and Ecuador over Julian Assange, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange gives a speech critical of the United States' policy against Wikileaks, "dragging us all in a dark, repressive world in which journalists live under fear of prosecution", from the balcony of Ecuador's London embassy. 2012-08-19
A man is charged with attempted murder following Saturday's stabbing of four Metropolitan Police officers in Kingsbury, north London. 2011-11-20
At London's Old Bailey the trial begins of two men accused of the 1993 murder of Stephen Lawrence. 2011-11-14
The Government of the United Kingdom pledges to raise the issue of the murder of WPC Yvonne Fletcher, allegedly by a Libyan official outside the embassy in London in 1984, with the new government in Tripoli. 2011-08-28
Australian French Resistance leader Nancy Wake dies in London at the age of 98. 2011-08-7
Delroy Grant, a 53-year-old London taxi driver who was found guilty on a total of 29 charges including indecent assault, burglary and rape committed against 10 elderly people between 1992 and 2009, is sentenced to life imprisonment at Woolwich Crown Court with a recommendation that he should serve at least 27 years in prison before parole can even be considered. 2011-03-25