"It's a load of rubbish. My message to the health and safety executives is 'Sorry, I'm not doing it. The broom stays'."

Here's your lunchtime bulletin.

Liverpool and Manchester City are taking it in turns to blink in the title race but Jurgen Klopp’s side face slipping back down to second place tomorrow night after taking their eyes off the ball altogether against West Ham.

Manuel Pellegrini wants to get West Ham’s season back on course while at the same time doing his old club a favour.

A newborn baby was found abandoned in a shopping bag in an east London park as temperatures approached freezing.

I’D NEVER met him before, but he leaned towards me, so close that our faces almost touched.

We’re used to seeing Harry Redknapp inside a car, usually rolling down the window as someone from Sky Sports approaches with microphone in hand to find out about his latest bit of wheeling and dealing on transfer deadline day.

So there we are last Sunday, Tim and Finn and Greg and Russ and Edward and Ken and the bloke next to Ken (more of whom anon) and meself, bubbles floating past us amid the arctic tundra of Stratford, writes Enda McEvoy

So much was so different about English football when a 33-year-old Mick McCarthy agreed to step into the breach as player-manager in the wake of Bruce Rioch’s departure from Millwall back in March of 1992, writes Brendan O’Brien.

A couple in England have lost their legal fight to keep their "lovely" pet dog in their penthouse apartment.

Son Heung-min and Pedro Obiang each scored a stunner as Tottenham were held by West Ham to a draw at Wembley.

A "sickening" cockfighting gang has been banned for life from keeping birds after detectives found a blood-spattered fighting pit at a home in east London.

West Ham 0 - Arsenal 0: Arsenal missed an excellent chance to get back into the Premier League top four as they made it three games without a win for the first time since last April.

N’Golo Kante would be the coaches’ choice as the world’s best player, says Chelsea boss Antonio Conte— but the Italian admits Eden Hazard is the Chelsea ace most likely to win the Ballon d’Or.

A Heathrow security worker who was arrested in an airport toilet after £700,000 worth of cocaine was seized has been charged with conspiring to import drugs.

Six people have been reported injured in a suspected noxious substance attack at an east London shopping centre, police said.

A newborn baby is being treated in hospital after being abandoned in a park wrapped in a white blanket.

A new Banksy piece has sold for more than £200,000 at auction in England.

A 14-year-old boy gunned down in an east London double shooting branded "an extreme act of violence" by police has died.

A serial thief has been convicted of attempting to rob Premier League striker Andy Carroll of his £22,000 wristwatch in a drive-by heist.

A takeaway delivery driver has had a corrosive substance squirted in his face by an attacker who demanded money in east London.

A jury has started deliberations in the trial of a man accused of attempting to rob West Ham striker Andy Carroll of his £22,000 wristwatch.

A convicted paedophile who used a social media application to lure a nine-year-old girl into posting a sexual video of herself online has been jailed for four years in England.

Even if you don’t decide to set up a stall each of these recipes are little gems to add to your repertoire or to start a recipe folder, writes Darina Allen. 

A man has appeared in court accused of an acid attack which inflicted "life-changing" injuries on two men.

Two men have been taken to hospital after a "suspected acid attack" in east London.

Two men have been taken to hospital after a suspected noxious substance attack in east London.

A retired producer of TV drama The Bill has been jailed for 17 years for trying to hire three men to kill his wealthy partner so he could be with a Lithuanian lover 40 years his junior.

Update 3.15pm: A second teenage boy is in custody after two males on a moped carried out five acid attacks across London in less than 90 minutes.

A new block of flats in east London has been "badly damaged" after a fire tore through the building, the fire service said.

A fire has swept through a new block of flats in east London.

Two men have been arrested at Heathrow Airport on suspicion of terrorism offences after landing on a flight from Turkey.

A screaming 92-year-old woman is shown being dragged along the ground during a "devastating" robbery in England.

An acid attack on an aspiring model and her cousin is now being treated as a hate crime.

Prime Minister Theresa May has said there must be a "major national investigation" into the use of potentially flammable cladding on high-rise towers across the country over a period of decades.

Police became aware of the suspect, aged in his 30s, acting suspiciously, Scotland Yard said.

"London is open. Our resilience, unity and defiance of those evil individuals who seek to harm us and destroy our way of life will never change."

Gardaí still have a “lot of inquiries” to conduct in their investigation into Rachid Redouane, but believe they are mainly dealing with an “immigration investigation”.

A man arrested in Limerick in connection with the London attacks was working as a chef using a PPS number issued in the name of murdered terrorist Rachid Redouane.

Gardaí have not changed the threat level here following a further assessment, with sources saying that “nothing” has emerged to increase the risk.

These are the faces of two of the three terrorists who carried out the London Bridge attacks — one of whom had lived in Ireland.

Police raided two addresses in east London on Sunday, in the wake of the van and knife rampage in which seven people were killed and 48 injured.

Jeremy Corbyn has condemned the IRA's bombing campaign after coming under severe pressure about his links to the organisation.