An Enfield police officer has been accused of causing actual bodily harm whilst making an arrest.

The prosecution comes after the Independent Police Complaints Commision managed an internal Met investigation into Pc Michael Ray's arrest of a suspect.

Local police were called to a street fight in ...

Police are appealing for witnesses after a man died in a scooter acident last night.

The 31-year-old from Whetstone, Barnet fell from his Vespa 125cc scooter on Finchley Road at the junction with Arkwright Road around 7pm, Scotland Yard said.

There has been no arrests.

He was ...

A man has died after falling from Highgate Bridge and onto the busy Archway Road.

Yesterday, around midday, the man, in his 30s, plummeted on the A1 in front of traffic and was pronounced dead shortly afterwards.

The road was closed for a couple of hours after ...

Engineers and police are preparing to move the wreckage of a 26-tonne cement mixer that plunged on to a train carriage at Oxshott, Surrey.

Passengers have been warned that services on the London Waterloo to Guilford route may not return to normal until Monday at the earliest.

The ...

Murder detectives investigating the 'assassination' of a prominent Pakistani opposition politician have released an e-fit of one of the suspects.

The inquiry is being led by Scotland Yard's counter-terrorism unit who retain an "open mind" as to a motive - no arrests have been made.

Dr Imran Farooq was attacked ...

London's Polish community have been warned to look out for several contaminated sausage products.

The Food Standards Agency are ordering a nationwide withdrawal of Home Black Pudding Sausage and Grill Black Pudding Sausage, made by Sokolów, after batches were found to have dangerously high levels of Listeria, which ...

BBC journalists are on strike as a 48 hour walk out began at midnight in a dispute over pensions.

Radio 4's flagship Today programme was forced off the air and journalists said they expected that the World At One and PM programmes would also be scrapped.

Radical Islamic preacher Abu Hamza has won his appeal against the Government's attempts to strip him of his British passport, a special tribunal ruled today.

The Prime Minister was "disappointed" with the ruling but a Number 10 spokesman said it would not affect extradition proceedings to America ...

London Fire Brigade have won a partial victory at the High Court limiting the number of union members allowed to picket stations.

Yet, more than 5,500 firefighters are still set to go on a 47-hour strike tomorrow, Bonfire night, in a dispute over shifts.

There have ...

A troupe of biker road warriors are taking on Westminster Council's army of CCTV smart cars.

The borough deny that a new fleet of vehicles with four-foot high protruding cameras are there to generate revenue, rather "to monitor road safety problem areas" and complement Civil Enforcement Officers.

Beleaguered ...