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    From the live blog:
This is what the police have confirmed:
• Police were called to John Wilson Street, Woolwich, after a man was assaulted by two others. A number of weapons were used in the attack.
• Officers arrived, followed by firearms officers. By this time the man was dead.
• Police would give no further information about the dead man.
• The two other men were shot by police and taken to separate London hospitals, where they are receiving treatment for their injuries.
Full story
Photo: BBC

    From the live blog:

    This is what the police have confirmed:

    • Police were called to John Wilson Street, Woolwich, after a man was assaulted by two others. A number of weapons were used in the attack.

    • Officers arrived, followed by firearms officers. By this time the man was dead.

    • Police would give no further information about the dead man.

    • The two other men were shot by police and taken to separate London hospitals, where they are receiving treatment for their injuries.

    Full story

    Photo: BBC

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    A Banksy mural has been put up for auction on a US website with a guide price of up to £450,000 after being removed from a building in north London.
Photograph: The graffiti, titled ‘Banksy Slave Labor (Bunting Boy). London 2012’, as it was on the side of Poundland store in Wood Green, London. Matthew Chattle/Alamy (via Banksy mural torn off London Poundland store for Miami auction | Art and design | guardian.co.uk)

    A Banksy mural has been put up for auction on a US website with a guide price of up to £450,000 after being removed from a building in north London.

    Photograph: The graffiti, titled ‘Banksy Slave Labor (Bunting Boy). London 2012’, as it was on the side of Poundland store in Wood Green, London. Matthew Chattle/Alamy (via Banksy mural torn off London Poundland store for Miami auction | Art and design | guardian.co.uk)

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    Once more a focus of attention, on the day the Leveson Inquiry report is due to be published, Rebekah Brooks arrives at Westminster Magistrates Court in London where she is facing charges linked to alleged bribery of public officials.  From picture desk live: our photo coverage of the day’s events in the UK and around the world: Photograph: Andrew Matthews/PA

    Once more a focus of attention, on the day the Leveson Inquiry report is due to be published, Rebekah Brooks arrives at Westminster Magistrates Court in London where she is facing charges linked to alleged bribery of public officials.

    From picture desk live: our photo coverage of the day’s events in the UK and around the world:

    Photograph: Andrew Matthews/PA

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