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Sniffer dog Ruby poked her highly trained nose into the Queen's handbag during a visit to the Home Office earlier.

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The five-year-old English Springer Spaniel didn't find anything, but she did get a tickle behind the ears from the monarch.

"Ruby knows that people carry money in their handbag - but the Queen turned out to be okay," said a Border Force officer.

"I was a bit nervous that Ruby might push towards her, but she didn't. The Queen is obviously a dog lover."

BBC Weather

A band of rain, locally heavy, will spread east across all parts through this evening and overnight with winds staying strong, particularly in the Chilterns. 

The rain will be followed by mostly clear skies and the odd passing shower. Lows of 7C (45F).

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Dutch masterpieces collected by kings and queens since Charles I are to go on display in a new exhibition at Buckingham Palace from tomorrow. 

The first painting by Rembrandt to reach England and one of only 34 known paintings by Johannes Vermeer are among the highlights in the collection being unveiled at The Queen's Gallery. 

Masters Of The Everyday: Dutch Artists In The Age Of Vermeer, external includes Rembrandt van Rijn's 17th century painting An Old Woman called The Artist's Mother - which is a study in old age.

BBC London News

Coming up on BBC London at 18:30 on BBC One - more than 150,000 patients who were seen in London's A&E units last year were not registered with a GP, BBC London has discovered. 

It comes as latest figures show the NHS is struggling to meet one of its key targets for treating patients attending A&E. Our political editor Tim Donovan will have the full story from 18:30.

Google has partnered with the British Museum to make thousands of artefacts more accessible by introducing the firm's Street View technology inside themuseum's exhibition rooms, external. 

The Google Cultural Institute has used indoor mapping to create a virtual version of the museum and its permanent exhibits that can then be toured by anyone from their computer, and includes detailed, high-resolution images of more than 4,500 objects housed inside.

Image source, Google Cultural Institute/PA

Neil MacGregor, the director of the British Museum, said: "It is now possible to make our collection accessible, explorable and enjoyable not just for those who physically visit, but to everybody with a computer or a mobile device. And this isn't just about putting the collection 'online'."

BBC Travel

Road closures around Parliament and Whitehall have been lifted but there are still long delays due to the Indian Prime Minister's visit and Westminster Bridge is slow in both directions

Lambeth Bridge, Waterloo, Vauxhall and Victoria Embankment are very congested, not helped by an earlier accident on Wandsworth Road, south Lambeth, and a spillage on Vauxhall Bridge.

Follow @BBCTravelAlert, external for the latest information.

BBC Travel

In Tottenham, the A10 High Road Southbound at A503 Broad Lane (Seven Sisters) is very slow after it was blocked by an accident earlier this afternoon.

In Twickenham, traffic is slow moving on the approach due to a collision on the A316 at St Margaret's Roundabout.

Currently there are no major delays on public transport.

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Visitors queued earlier to pray and view the variety of vegetarian food known as Annakut, which is offered to God during the celebration of the Hindu New Year, at the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir also known as Neasden Temple in north London.

The number of council homes in England sold under the right to buy scheme has more than doubled in two years.

The latest figures show sales are now above what they were in 2007, before the financial crisis that triggered the recession.

The London borough of Southwark sold 304 homes. Property prices have been rising steadily and a site containing a pre-fabricated shed in Peckham recently sold for just under £1m at auction.

Junior doctors in England will stage two strikes and only deal with emergencies during a third day of action in December if they support industrial action in a ballot, says the British Medical Association, external.

The BMA said it had taken the "extraordinary step" of announcing the proposed dates and type of action ahead of the ballot result on 18 November.

The BMA is in dispute with the Government over new contracts.

Daniel Sandford
Home Affairs Correspondent

One of the men facing trial for the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit burglary has had one of the charges against him dropped.

Hugh Doyle, a 48-year-old plumber, is no longer charged with the burglary itself. 

He still faces charges relating to the concealing, disguising, converting or transferring of criminal property. 

The trial of Hugh Doyle and three co-defendants is due to start at Woolwich Crown Court next week. Four other men, all over the age of 58, have already pleaded guilty to the burglary.

Hugh Doyle was granted conditional bail and should be bailed tomorrow. 

In recent weeks an estimated £250,000 worth of jewellery linked to the burglary was found in Edmonton cemetery. But "many millions" are still missing.

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Police have issued an e-fit of a man who tried to kidnap a 14-year-old boy as he walked to school in East Acton on 4 November.

The man drew up to the kerb in a silver car and told the boy to get inside. When he refused, the suspect tried to grab him. The boy ran off and hid in a nearby garden.

The man is described as slim and about 5ft 11in tall. He was wearing a black bomber jacket, dark blue jeans and white trainers.

This Is Local London

Police officers have been praised for their "lightning reactions, external" after a man was rescued from Putney Bridge.

More on the unexploded WWII bomb found by contruction workers on Commercial Street at the junction with Brushfield Street E1.

The "ordnance" was removed earlier this afternoon and cordons were lifted.

The former head of Operation Yewtree has admitted police "got some things wrong" during its investigation into child sexual abuse in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal. 

Peter Spindler, a retired Metropolitan Police commander, said some detectives who worked with the probe "didn't have the skills and knowledge" needed and the inquiry was not set up quickly enough. 

Mr Spindler was speaking at the NSPCC's headquarters in London during a debate on whether non-recent sexual abuse investigations had descended into "media witch-hunts".

BBC Radio London

Aravindan Balakrishnan, the leader of a communist cult, has gone on trial today at Southwark Crown Court.

He denies charges including four counts of rape and seven of indecent assault.

Kamal Ahmed
Business editor

In this video, BBC Business editor Kamal Ahmed explores the Indian Prime Minister's globe-trotting lifestyle - including why he intends to take over London's Wembley stadium.

Wharf.co.uk
Newspaper

British Airways is introducing another Embraer 190 aircraft at London City Airport, external next year to make it the busiest summer of its east London tenure.