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Four of the Metropolitan Police’s riot squad will appear in court next month to answer charges of actual bodily harm against Babar Ahmed, a south London IT worker.

Royal Mail bosses plan to close two of London’s three giant mail centres and a major delivery office.

Charles Atangana has won a six week review of his deportation at a bail hearing in London today. The journalist from Cameroon in West Africa has already been freed from detention in Dover.

Members of the RMT transport union on London Underground have voted overwhelmingly for strikes against 800 job cuts at stations. The workers do vital jobs on platforms, ticket gates and ticket offices.

The new National Theatre production of Danton’s Death presents the struggle between the two outstanding leaders of the French Revolution as a straight fight between polar opposites.

The UN enquiry into the Israeli army assault on the Mavi Marmara aid flotilla begins this week. Meanwhile the next land convoy leaving London to break the siege of Gaza makes its final plans.

Around 30 housing activists in Camden, north London, met last week to organise a fightback against the wave of Tory attacks on council housing and tenants’ rights.

Bus drivers in Holloway, north London, held a Ramadan celebration on Friday of last week.

Bus workers at Metroline in north and north west London were set to vote on a pay freeze on Friday of this week.

The result of the strike ballot of RMT union members over job cuts on London Underground was due on Thursday of this week.

Congratulations to David Thorpe and Despina Mavrou who won the tickets to see Caryl Churchill’s Light Shining in Buckinghamshire at the Arcola Theatre in London.

Haneen Zoabi, the Palestinian member of Israel’s parliament who went on the flotilla to Gaza, vowed that she will do it again at a meeting in London last Wednesday.