A double-decker bus has crashed into a shop on a busy London high street.

A Canadian woman has been remanded in custody charged with murdering her baby son and daughter in west London.

As well as scenes of trouble across several London boroughs, “copycat” looting and rioting was experienced as far afield as Birmingham, Liverpool, Bristol and Nottingham.

London mayor Boris Johnson faced a barrage of criticism from angry residents this afternoon as he toured the devastation in riot-hit Clapham with British Home Secretary Theresa May.