London's death toll from stabbings in 2017 hit 80, the worst for nearly a decade and one campaigner says police are not doing enough.
The Metropolitan Police are investigating the murders of two teenagers and two 20-year-olds this morning as the capital's knife crime epidemic shows no sign of abating.
100,000 ticket holders descended on the River Thames to see in 2018 while tens of thousands attended the Hogmanay celebrations in Edinburgh.
Mary Konye was jailed for 12 years for the attack in Dagenham, east London, in 2012.
Following four terror attacks in London in 2017 and the threat level at 'severe', the Metropolitan Police plans to have fewer officers on London's streets on New Year's Eve.
Metropolitan Police detectives are appealing for witnesses after two teenage boys were shot in a Plaistow fast food restaurant on Friday 29 December.
Foreign diplomats in the capital have racked up a total of £108.6m in unpaid congestion charge fines.
A 36-year-old woman has been left with life-changing burns to her leg and face after being victim to an acid attack in Canary Wharf, east London.
London's Oxford Street was the scene of chaos after a smashed window appeared to prompt a stampede of Boxing Day shoppers.
Ten members of a violent moped smash-and-grab gang have been jailed for a total of 110 years after a £1.2m series of raids on mobile phone shops.
A young couple have been filmed having sex on the top deck of a London bus after a night out in Shoreditch.
Armand Krasniqi discharges gun passed to him by friend during late-night street fight in north London.
Late-night stunt at London Underground station believed to be Stratford put driver and passengers at risk.
Reddit users collecting good karma by hiding train tickets and gift vouchers in railway stations for other users to find.
Cummin Up, a Caribbean restaurant in south London, announced it will open on Christmas Day to provide food for poor or lonely Londoners.
Jamie Sierra-Ferrucho has been sentenced to eight months in jail for groping two women and touching himself inappropriately on the Tube.
Schoolgirl Amika George has spearheaded the fight against period poverty this year, launching an 85,000-strong petition and organising a protest in Westminster.
Errol Hanson, 51, from Catford, south London, knifed Mohammed Savare more than 50 times after the burglar headbutted and punched him, Southwark Crown Court was told.
Tim Varchmin, a high-flying City lawyer, has spoken of his relief of being cleared of child porn and drug charges after he blamed guests attending his Grindr "chem sex" parties.
A woman had her throat slit by her new husband after he became obsessed with her previous partners and refused to believe she was a virgin.
Diane Chilcott, 40, and Daniel Pusey, 21, plied girls aged from 13 to 15 with cigarettes and alcohol before driving them to hotels, where they were sexually exploited.
James Timpson OBE slammed Virgin Trains for stopping his 15-year-old daughter from getting on a train at London Euston after she did not look young enough for a child ticket.