Scotland Yard's resolve to ape their Big Apple counterparts is beginning to yield some fruits. Sixteen suspected heroin and cocaine dealers have been arrested in the largest ever crackdown on crime and anti-social behaviour in the West End.

Three Polish builders have denied murdering a property millionaire found battered in his west London home.

A year on from a murder in a quiet west London street, the Metropolitan Police special gun-crime unit, Trident, has appealed for any new witnesses or information and offered a reward of up to £20,000 to catch his killer.

The first person to be sentenced for inciting people through Facebook to riot in London has been jailed for two years.

A couple who became one of the UK's most prolific and accomplished art fraudsters, responsible for creating forged artwork potentially worth hundreds of thousands of pounds, reproducing the work of sought-after artists, have been jailed along with five other accomplices.

Police are appealing for a witness to contact them over a serious nightclub assault in Kensington left a woman blind in one eye.

A man has been changed over a siege in the West End according to a statement from Scotland Yard. Michael Green, 48, of Stevenage, Hertfordshire, has been charged with four offences following a 4-hour stand-off with armed anti-terror police in Tottenham Court Road.

A rogue builder who never seemed able to complete home renovations across Hammersmith and Fulham but was content to pocket vast sums has been jailed for three years.

Police in Hamersmith and Fulham are warning residents of the growing spate of sash window burglaries.