Week in pictures: London

A 13-year-old London boy admitted possession of a Russian Baikal pistol, two silencers and 31 cartridges. He is the youngest person ever charged by London police with weapons offences.

The government is spending £2.4m every year to house just 16 families in London, including this house in Acton, west London, which costs £12,000 a month to house a large family.

Denzil Gunner, a solicitor from Notting Hill, west London, became a mince pie eating champion after winning a speed eating contest in Somerset, devouring 41 pies in 10 minutes.

A Transport for London cyclist awareness video with a twist has become a YouTube hit, garnering more than 10m viewers.

One of Britain's first black female judges, barrister Constance Briscoe, is being sued for libel by her mother. Ms Briscoe wrote a memoir, called Ugly, detailing a childhood of abuse. The case continues.

Researchers are worried for the fate of the garden sparrow. Numbers have declined in suburban London over the past 20 years, largely due to urban development.

Police arrest murder suspect John Claydon (l), 28, who escaped from the psychiatric unit at Springfield Hospital in Wandsworth, south London, on Tuesday night with accused burglar John Slavin, 44, who is still at large.

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