Week in pictures: London

Mitchell Charles, 64, thought to be the UK's longest-serving binman will be retiring after 41 years in the job. He has picked up approximately 2.3 million bins in Harrow.

The Queen awarded a knighthood to Metropolitan Police deputy commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson.

Pc Dan Wells stopped a driver in south-west London to warn him about overtaking but ended up helping the man's wife, Natalia Nadel, deliver baby Nikol on the road.

Convicted drug dealer Kanyanta Mulega was jailed for a minimum of 28 years for murdering former boxing champion James Oyebola. Mr Oyebola was shot when he asked a group to stop smoking.

London's first public statue of an African-Caribbean woman, titled Bronze Woman, was installed in Stockwell Memorial Garden. The statue is based on a poem of the same name by poet Cecile Nobrega.

Errol Davis, 24, died when he was shot in the head at close range at the SEOne nightclub in Bermondsey during a night out with friends.

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