This Week In London’s History Monday – 21st April 1509: Henry VII dies in Richmond Palace, supposedly as the result of a ‘broken heart’ following the deaths of his son and wife several years before. Tuesday – 22nd April 1925: George Cole is born in Tooting, and given up for adoption. He would become a successful film and television actor, arguably best known for his role as used car dealer Arthur Daley in the......

A real fancy dagger goes under the hammer… …as does a really really old Koranic manuscript. Just as BA gets a hammering…from its own pilots The reputation of one London suburb also took a hammering today with a vicious robbery in Mitcham. ..whilst the NHS staff of neighbouring Sutton and Merton complain they get a regular hammering at the hands of their patients. Damilola Taylor’s mother has died of a heart attack. Suburban sunrise......

This Week In London’s History Monday – 26th November 1983: An armed robbery at the Brinks Mat warehouse near Heathrow Airport becomes the largest heist in British history, as £25 million worth of gold bullion is pinched. Tuesday – 27th November 2000: 10-year-old schoolboy Damilola Taylor is stabbed in the leg and dies in Peckham, south London. The following six years would see several trials and re-trials over the killing, finally culminating in the......

This Week In London’s History Monday – 23rd April 1979: 33-year-old teacher Blair Peach dies from head injuries following outbreaks of fighting with police at an Anti-Nazi League demonstration against a National Front meeting in Southall, West London. Tuesday – 24th April 1993: A massive IRA bomb explodes on Bishopsgate in the City of London, killing one person, injuring 44 more, and causing more than £350m damage to the area. Wednesday – 25th April......

Brothers Danny Preddie (18) and Ricky Preddie (19) were both jailed for eight years today for the killing of Nigerian schoolboy Damilola Taylor. The pair were convicted in August of the manslaughter of the 10-year-old, who died after being stabbed in the leg with a broken bottle. The brothers, both from Peckham, were 12 and 13 at the time of the killing. Damilola's father Richard Taylor said today: This has been a catalogue of......

Two brothers have been found guilty of the manslaughter 10-year-old Damilola Taylor. Earlier trials were unable to reach a decision over murder charges, but the jury at the retrial has convicted Danny and Rickie Preddie, aged 18 and 19, from Peckham of manslaughter. No details on the sentence yet.......

Prosecutors and police now have to decide if there should be a third trial for the killing of schoolboy Damilola Taylor. Two brothers were yesterday acquitted of murdering the 10-year-old. A man has died after being stabbed at a bus stop in Peckham. Former Wonder Stuff drummer Martin Gilks has died following a motorcycle accident. George Galloway isn't allowed to show off his pics of the fake sheikh. "This is exactly what we expected.......

Police said they are treating the death as murder and appealed for people who were in Barking Road on Saturday afternoon or evening to come forward. Police launch a murder investigation after a 100-year-old woman dies in a fire at her flat. Morwen Rees, 57, of Llanpumsaint, was last spotted at 1140 GMT on Saturday, 11 February, after being dropped off at Carmarthen train station Police believe she may be in London as she......

A fire at Westbourne Park bus garage over the weekend led to the temporary closure of Westbourne Park tube and the A40. A fifteen-year-old boy was arrested near the scene. On the sixth month anniversary of Jean Charles de Menezes' death there are calls to make the IPCC report into his shooting public. Today sees the beginning of the trial of the three people accused of murdering the 10-year-old schoolboy Damilola Taylor. Kate Moss's lawyers......