The London Fire Brigade (LFB) is warning people to stay away from 'moving water' after three children in Lewisham were rescued from a river. The capital’s firefighters have also been put on flood alert after the Met Office issued a ‘yellow alert’ severe weather warning and the Environment Agency issued 35 flood alerts for the capital.

The Wettest April on record has continued into the beginning of May with most parts of London getting more rains overnight and into the morning. The Environment Agency currently have 35 flood alerts for the capital and the rest of the South East.

Met Office forecasters are warning of a stormy end to April as 50 to 60 miles per hour winds are expected to lash many parts of the UK.

The Met Office has confirmed March 2012 was one of UK's warmest months in history. It was the third warmest according to records dating back to 1910 and the warmest since 1957.

A shop in leafy Holland Park, west London has unveiled a range of kitchenware merchandise in a tongue-in-cheek response to the hosepipe-ban.

On the day a hosepipe ban was announced to cover London and vast swathes of England from 5 April, Simon Cowell gave his Ferrari Spider a much-needed spring- clean. Well, his valet did all the scrubbing and polishing. "Please be quick, he does not like photos being taken", he pleaded as our snapper photographed the gleaming black beauty under glorious Spring sunshine outside the X-Factor impressario's palatial Holland Park home.

Essential repair works to allow the Hammersmith Flyover to be fully reopened to traffic ahead of the London Olympics have now been completed, Transport for London (TfL) announced today. The works, which began in January, have seen around 200m of the central reservation along the flyover removed in preparation for new tensioning cables to be installed which will support the structure.

As the Met Office predicts minus zero temperatures for London and other parts of the UK, one London council is fully prepared with the latest possible technology to ensure that cold weather does not halt business and tourism in the capital and ensure residents can get around safely.