Week in pictures: London

Elijah Dayoni was sentenced to 12 years in detention for stabbing 14-year-old David Idowu to death as he played football in south London.

Singer Boy George was jailed for 15 months after being convicted of falsely imprisoning a male escort at his home in east London.

US President-elect Barack Obama was cast in wax and placed in a recreation of the White House's Oval office at Madame Tussauds.

Four people were injured when a bus crashed into a McDonald's outlet in Hoe Street in Walthamstow, east London, early on Thursday morning. Picture from Nicola Wooding.

A digital radio system for the police began operating in all London's Underground stations following claims that poor communication hampered rescuers in the 7 July 2005 terror attacks.

Londoners were given a taste of the past as the Royal Society of Chemistry recreated the gruel which was the staple fare in Victorian workhouses.

Mayor Boris Johnson opened the Docklands Light Railway's new Woolwich Arsenal station on Monday.

Suspect burglar Wayne Connor escaped from a prison van when it was held up by two balaclava-clad men on Monday. He was recaptured three days later.

Images of the new Tottenham Court Road station, following its redevelopment as part of the Crossrail project, were published.

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