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'Lucky' Drogba vows everything to win elusive UEFA Cup

Chelsea striker and Ivorien international, Didier Drogba has said how lucky he feels to be playing in his second Champions League final against German side, Bayern Munich tonight. He was sent off the last time the west London club reached the final in Moscow in 2008. Chelsea is attempting to be the first club from the capital to lift the cup after some near misses for London teams.

Prince Harry's pal loses nightclub appeal

A nightclub labelled by police as the 'number one generator of crime' in the Royal borough of Kensington and Chelsea has had its operating hours reduced after numerous complaints by local residents.

Beckham reignites Olympic 2012 Flame on UK soil

A delegation from the UK, led by HRH The Princess Royal and including LOCOG Chair Sebastian Coe, Minister for Sport and the Olympics Hugh Robertson, Mayor of London Boris Johnson, and David Beckham have accompanied the Olympic Flame back to UK soil.

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Jubilee paegent to close Albert Bridge but West End parking free

Several key roads, access routes and bridges will be closed to human and motor traffic for the duration of the Queen's diamond jubilee river paegent on June 3. Over one million people are expected to line along the Thames to watch the Queen and members of the royal family including the Duke and...

New York-style cops crackdown on West End dealers

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.

Attention! Harrods to play 'God Save the Queen' hourly for Jubilee festivities

Famous Knightsbridge store, Harrods, is playing the national anthem on the hour every hour as part of its commemoration of the Queen's diamond jubilee celebrations.

Charles Brooks charged at Hammersmith over phone-hacking

Officers from Operation Weeting, Scotland Yard's inquiry into the hacking of voicemail boxes, have charged Charles and Rebekah Brooks together with four other accomplices with allegedly conspiring to pervert the course of justice.

Defiant Dizaei vows to fight 'racist' police after dismissal

A former Kensington and Chiswick Met Police borough commander has been dismissed after a Tribunal found him guilty of misconduct. Commander Ali Dizaei had been embroiled in a legal tussle to be reinstated in his old job before his sacking from the force.