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The daughter of murdered MP Sir David Amess has said she is 'praying' for an inquiry as she hit out at the previous Tory government for refusing to meet with her.

Speaking to LBC's Iain Dale, Katie Amess said her family needed answers, adding that she was more hopeful after an inquiry was announced into the Southport stabbings.

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said the aim of the inquiry was to "get to the truth about what happened and what needs to change".

A cafe that hires people with learning disabilities has been forced to close after its windows were smashed three times in two weeks.

Hive Cafe in Streatham, South London, has been forced to close after a series of vandalism attacks which have caused £75,000 damage and left staff feeling abandoned by the police.

Jenni Broaders, the cafe manager said, “It’s the same thing happening to the same place, at the same time, why is no one patrolling?

“It’s like working in an active crime scene”.

Four anti-Ulez protesters have been found guilty of harassing London Mayor Sadiq Khan outside his home in south-west London.

The demonstrators, dubbed the ‘Tooting Four’ took part in action dubbed "Khanage @ Khan's" in April of this year.

They joined a 100-strong group of campaigners protesting against Khan’s Ultra-low emissions zone (ULEZ) policy.

Appearing at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Friday, Nicholas Arlett, Allison Young, Martin Whitehead and Lloyd Dunsford were found guilty of harassment.

Troubled DIY and garden chain Homebase has put 74 of its stores up for sale after collapsing into administration last week.

The firm has set a deadline of the end of next week for potential buyers to snap up its remaining shops in the UK and Ireland.

It appointed administrators at consultancy Teneo after it was hit hard by an "incredibly challenging" three years for the DIY sector.

Administrators struck a deal to sell the business to retail group CDS, which owns The Range and Wilko, securing the future of up to 1,600 jobs and 70 stores.

Sadiq Khan has given his thanks to the police officer who shot dead gangster Chris Kaba during a vehicle stop in 2022 for his efforts in keeping London safe.

Speaking to James O’Brien on LBC, the mayor of London offered direct thanks to Martyn Blake, 40, who shot Kaba dead behind the wheel of a car in Streatham in September that year.

He also thanked other armed police officers for their efforts in keeping the streets of London safe. Mr Khan refused to name Mr Blake directly, choosing instead to refer to him by his codename NX121.

A senior firearms officer who shot a man wrongly suspected of being a terrorist has recalled thinking "he's gonna blow. We're gonna die" shortly before pulling the trigger.

Speaking for the first time 20 years on from the shooting, the senior firearms officer, known only as C12, has recounted events as part of Channel 4's Shoot To Kill: Terror On The Tube documentary.

Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes was shot dead a fortnight after suicide bombers exploded devices on three Tube lines and a London bus on July 7 2005, killing 52 people.

A senior firearms officer who shot a man wrongly suspected of being a terrorist after the 7/7 bombings will speak publicly for the first time in a new documentary.

Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes was shot dead a fortnight after suicide bombers exploded devices on three Tube lines and a London bus on July 7 2005, killing 52 people.

The senior firearms officer who will appear in Channel 4's Shoot To Kill: Terror On The Tube has remained anonymous for nearly two decades.

A police officer, who was doing his job, potentially saving the lives of colleagues, as a two-and-a-half ton car was being driven as hard as it could be at them, is identified and put on trial for murder and now has a £10,000 bounty on his head from gangsters.

Meanwhile, the man, of course, who was in the car at the time, a gangster, a criminal from the age of 13, was given protection there. He was allowed to have this case brought forward in the first place.

A Met Police marksman who was cleared of the murder of Chris Kaba has gone into hiding after a £10,000 bounty was put on his head.

Martyn Blake, 40, stood trial at the Old Bailey after shooting the 24-year-old through the front windscreen of an Audi Q8 in Streatham, south-east London, on September 5 2022.

The car had been used as a getaway vehicle in a shooting the previous evening, and was hemmed in by police cars in Kirkstall Gardens after an officer recognised its registration number.

This is the moment a man thought to be Chris Kaba shot a rival in a crowded nightclub in east London, before chasing him down and shooting him again.

The footage was released after an armed police officer was acquitted of the murder of gangster Kaba, 24, who was shot dead in a car while trying to ram his way out a police roadblock.

Kaba was accused of being a "core member" of the 67 gang from Brixton, one of London's most dangerous street gangs, and was accused of being involved in two shootings in less than a week before his death.