Week in pictures

1 of 5 Architect Bernard Hegarty is critically ill after being stabbed while on his lunch break in Bethnal Green.

2 of 5 British journalist James Brandon who was kidnapped from a hotel in Basra is released by his captors.

3 of 5 Artist Tracey Emin pays homage to her favourite TV show The Bill with a new work of art.

4 of 5 Late US poet Ezra Pound is honoured with a blue plaque outside his former London home.

5 of 5 Jewellery which once belonged to French Queen Marie Antoinette is stolen from a house in west London.