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Some 6,000 patient X-ray records were left unprocessed at an "urgent care centre" run by private firm Care UK in London.

Ken Livingstone, Labour candidate for London mayor, pulled out of a radio hustings last week after the BBC insisted on including the British National Party (BNP) candidate.

The Irish-American dramatist and Nobel laureate Eugene O’Neill is widely considered the father of modern American theatre. His most famous play, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, has just opened at the Apollo Theatre in London.

A festival celebrating the works of maverick Marxist composer Conlon Nancarrow takes place at London’s Southbank Centre this weekend.

Maintenance and upgrade workers employed by Tube Lines on the London Underground are to strike for 72 hours from 4pm on Tuesday of next week.

Teachers at Downhills Primary School in Haringey, north London, are balloting for strikes against government plans to force the school to become an academy.

Teachers and support staff are set to strike at Central Foundation Girl’s School in east London on Wednesday of next week.

Lecturers at London Metropolitan University were set to meet on Wednesday of this week to discuss an ongoing dispute over redundancies.

Unite union members in Ealing, west London, have called off a two-week strike for talks with management.

Almost 50 people from a variety of different campaigns and organisations attended a Counter Olympics planning meeting in east London on Saturday of last week.

Boris Johnson’s reign as London mayor has been great for his friends. The number of senior managers earning more than £100,000 a year in City Hall has risen from 16 to 28 during his four years there.

The trial of five student protesters concluded on Monday this week at Kingston Crown Court in south London.