Jackie Long , Social Affairs Editor and Presenter

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick discusses violent crime.

Violence has continued to grip the capital, with seven more people injured from stabbings since yesterday evening. The Met Police called an emergency meeting of community leaders to discuss a strategy for dealing with the issue, but those directly affected by violent crime in the city continue to be shocked by recent events. Patrick Boyce, whose…

Tonight in East London now we are joined by Elijah Mochia, youth worker Tom Isaac and Rosemary Watt-Wyness Chief Executive of London Youth and MP David Lammy.

When Sadiq Khan was candidate for London Mayor in 2016, he made a promise to get tough on violent crime, particularly knife crime. Jackie Long spoke to the Mayor earlier and started by asking him if he had failed to deliver his promise.

As we come to the end of a terrible week, six people have been killed in the last five days in the capital victims of stabbings and gun attacks we speak to Paul Barnes whose son Quamari was killed in west London last year.

Harvey Weinstein’s former assistant Zelda Perkins has told MPs a gagging order she says she was forced to sign when she left his company was “morally lacking in every way”. Parliament’s women and equalities committee is investigating the use of non-disclosure agreements, or NDAs, which critics say often create a damaging culture of secrecy .

He’s famous for playing politicians and journalists on the big screen. Now actor Michael Sheen has a new role, taking on Britain’s high-cost lenders. The Hollywood actor, who played Tony Blair in ‘The Queen’, has founded and funded a new alliance aimed at promoting, alternative, affordable credit.

The police investigation into the Grenfell Tower Fire in which 71 people died has found that at least one of the fire doors for the flats was only half as effective as it should have been. The Housing Secretary Sajid Javid said the risk to public safety in buildings with the same doors remains low. …

Labour’s response to the Chancellor’s spring statement was that austerity is still hitting the most vulnerable, even though the Chancellor insists spending on people with disabilities is increasing. But families of disabled young people across the UK say services are worse now than they were three years ago.

Home Office Minister Victoria Atkins discusses domestic violence.

It is International Women’s Day and the government has chosen it to launch a consultation on domestic violence, which it describes as a “once in a generation opportunity ” to help stamp out abuse. Among its proposals, a move to put a greater focus on emotional and psychological abuse as well as physical violence. The…

A star of Hollywood’s golden age, she was once called the most beautiful woman in the world. But Hedy Lamarr was also fiercely intelligent, something which went totally unrecognised at the time. Now a new documentary, Bombshell, reveals her invention of secure military communications. Susan Sarandon, the film’s executive producer, and director Alexandra Dean discuss…

A Winter Olympics ceremony has also been affected by the weather. The lighting of the Paralympic Heritage Flame was cancelled for members of the public because of the snow. But the torch event took place anyway.

The government should immediately offer financial compensation to the surviving 2,000 victims of “fundamentally flawed” child migration programmes, according to the first report by the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse. Thousands of children were sent abroad between 1945 and 1970 by charities and the Catholic church. The inquiry heard that they suffered physical and…

“Job Done” – that was the tweet from the grime artist Stormzy after he helped a petition calling for the government to reshape the inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire pass the 100,000 signatures it needed to take it to Parliament. After his controversial performance at the Brit awards this week criticising the Prime Minister’s…