A man has been arrested for the rape and murder of a teenage girl 30 years ago

crime reporter,London(wp/es):
A man has been arrested for the rape and murder of a teenage girl which took place in Hampstead in the 1980s.
A murder inquiry was launched by the Met in 1982, after the parents of 17-year old Yiannoulla Yianni, found their daughter’s body at their family home in Belsize Road in Hampstead.
Detectives from the Homicide and Major Crime Command arrested a 56-year old man on Tuesday at an address in Golders Green on suspicion of rape and murder.
The arrest follows a match being made on the National DNA Database.
The teenager was last seen by her mother as she returned home to prepare dinner. Her parents found Yiannoulla's body when they returned from work later that day.

Since her murder the Met have made a number of local and national appeals as well as offering a significant financial reward for information. Over 1,000 witness statements have been taken and developing forensic techniques explored but despite these extensive enquiries no arrests were made.
Detective Inspector Julie Willats, of the Met's Homicide and Major Crime Command, said:
“The Met never close unsolved murders and regardless of the passage of time cases can and will be reviewed, for any new opportunities to develop previously unknown lines of enquiry, and follow-up any fresh information which has become known to us.
"Yiannoulla's family - who understandably are still devastated by the loss of their beloved daughter and sister more than three decades ago - have been fully informed of this new development.”

The man arrested remains in police custody at a north London police station at this time.
Yiannoulla’s family have been informed of this development.

Killer facing jail

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A killer has been convicted of ruthlessly shooting another man in the back as he attempted to run away after a “petty" row.
Shaden Cadette, 23, was found guilty of murdering Ogarra Dixon, 24, after gunning him down in Marcella Road, Brixton, on Tuesday June 16 last year.
Mr Dixon was twice shot at as he attempted to escape, with the second bullet hitting him in the back and causing fatal chest wounds.
Police said he managed to stagger onwards “for some time” before collapsing. He was pronounced dead in hospital shortly afterwards.
Cadette had pulled out a gun following a “brief altercation” and fired at Mr Dixon as he fled.
He was arrested after being traced to a hotel next to Heathrow Airport.
Detective Chief Inspector Will Reynolds, who led the investigation, said: “I am pleased that justice has been done today.
“Cadette did what he could to thwart the investigation and may have even been planning to flee the country as he was caught hiding in a hotel next to Heathrow.
“Although he has never revealed what sparked this fatal confrontation, it is believed to be a petty dispute which has escalated and led to Ogarra’s untimely death.
“This case serves as a reminder of the havoc and misery gun carime can bring to the capital’s streets.
“I hope today’s verdict goes some small way to helping Ogarra’s family and loved ones move on from this awful episode. I would like to thank those who came forward and provided information.”
Cadette, of Marcella Road, faces a life sentence after being convicted at the Old Bailey.

Debenhams record Christmas sales.

Business correspondent,London(wp/es):
Debenhams has withstood the warm winter that plagued the High Street in recent weeks and revealed record Christmas sales.
It outshone the likes of Marks & Spencer and Next with a 1.9% rise in like-for-like sales in the 19 weeks to January 9 and 1.8% increase over its seven-week Christmas period.
The department store added that it instigated a planned reduction in stock levels of "weather-sensitive" clothing, which allowed it to avoid the deep discounts some other retailers resorted to.
Sales of full price goods were up 5%.
Online was also a bright spot, with sales up 12.1% and click & collect accounting for 31% of orders.

Chief executive Michael Sharp, who will step down this year, said: "This performance is evidence that our strategy is working with our customers finding our mix of products and brands both compelling and great value for money."
Debenhams shares rose 15.1%, or 10p, to 76.47p on the back of the performance.
Liberum, which upgraded the stock to "Hold" from "Sell", said it was a "solid" trading update albeit against soft comparisons of a year earlier.

2016 Tube strike:Unions and LU set for fresh talks to avert crippling walkout

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Union bosses and London Underground are to enter fresh talks in a bid to avert the latest planned strikes over the Night Tube proposals.
Three 24-hour strikes are scheduled to take place over the next five weeks as the bitter dispute over the all-night Underground service rumbles on.
However, London Underground will sit down with leaders of the Aslef, RMT and Unite unions on Friday in the hope of reaching a deal and staving off the industrial action, under the chairmanship of the conciliation service Acas.
The latest series of strikes announced on Monday by Aslef and RMT are scheduled to take place for 24 hours from 9pm on Tuesday, January 26; Monday, February 15; and Wednesday, February 17.

Finn Brennan, Aslef's organiser on London Underground, said: "We'll be back at Acas on Friday aiming, and hoping, to do a deal. I only hope that TfL will turn up with the same attitude.
"A world class capital city like London deserves a 24-hour service but it needs to work for those of who provide that public service, as well as for the passengers who use it, and the management at TfL.
“London Underground needs to stop bullying and start negotiating."
An RMT spokesman said the union will attend the fresh talks in the hope of breaking the deadlock.
Boris Johnson on Monday criticised the unions’ latest plans for industrial action as “a disgrace”.
The long-running dispute centres on pay and proposed shift patterns for affected Underground workers.

Investment banking slowdown

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A hiring slump at investment banks slowed UK recruitment activity at search firm Robert Walters in the final quarter, highlighting the ongoing shake-up of the banks as they try to reverse a slide in profits.
The recruiter, which makes a third of its fees in the UK, said a drop off in bank recruitment between the start of September and December 31 led to lower UK net fee income growth of 5% to £19.9 million from £19 million.
UK growth was 27% for the same period last year.
“We’ve been in this business for 30 years and every so often banks will hire and fire,” said chief executive Robert Walters, who founded the search firm.
“There’s always a mixed bag when you have a broad, diverse business and they are realigning what they want to be. That inevitably leads to redundancies and affects hiring trends.”

He added there was a “degree of pause” in hiring but expected it to get back to normal by 2017.
The bonfire of the bankers comes at a sensitive time for rainmakers ahead of this year’s bonus season, which coincides with annual results from lenders over the next few weeks.
Big European banks like Deutsche Bank, Barclays and Credit Suisse have laid off staff and stopped hiring in a bid to reshape their institutions in recent months to focus on more profitable areas.
Despite the problems, FTSE 250-listed Robert Walters reported a 10% rise in group net fee income for the period to £59.1 million on a constant currency basis.
Europe was the stand-out market – led by stronger productivity in France — with quarterly net fee income up 17% to £12.4 million. Asia Pacific was also up 11% to £24.3 million.

Walters said there were some brighter spots in financial services sector despite the bank problems.
“Insurance has been quite strong and we’ve seen decent trading in overall financial services over the past 12 months.
“We do normally have a quieter season in the fourth quarter and it has been exacerbated by what’s coming out of China,” he added.

Corbyn under pressure as shadow minister quits

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Jeremy Corbyn came under fresh attack today as a shadow cabinet minister quit over the “direction and internal conflict” of the Labour Party.
Catherine McKinnell said she was resigning as shadow attorney general with “a heavy heart” after losing faith in the “increasingly negative path” of the party.
The Newcastle North MP said she had been optimistic at first about the “new kind of politics” promised by Mr Corbyn and went on: “However, as events have unfolded over recent weeks, my concerns about the direction and internal conflict within the Labour Party have only grown and I fear this is taking us down an increasingly negative path.”
She is the fourth shadow minister to resign in the past week and to criticise direction under Mr Corbyn.
Two London MPs were tipped to replace her: Hammersmith’s Andy Slaughter and  former Director of Public Prosecutions Sir Keir Starmer, MP for Holborn and St Pancras.

Mr Corbyn today gave his strongest signal yet that he could use a referendum of Labour members to push through a historic change of policy on the Trident nuclear deterrent.
In an interview that alarmed Labour modernisers, he said grassroots members would get a “big say” in whether to change the current policy that backs the renewal of Britain’s nuclear weapons system.
 “Whether that comes as a vote of individual members or a vote of conference, that will be decided,” he said.

Two members of the shadow cabinet - Lord Falconer and Owen Smith - yesterday hinted they would quit if he reversed the current policy, while a third, Lucy Powell, predicted the big trade unions would block such a move as it would cost jobs.
He refused to rule out launching drone strikes to kill suspected terrorists in Syria or Iraq.
Labour’s leader said he would look at the “evidence” before deciding on any request for a strike from security officials if he was Prime Minister.

BNP is no longer an official political party in UK

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The British National Party is no longer a registered political party in the UK after it failed to submit paperwork required by the Electoral Commission.
The Commission removed the controversial political party from its official list today, meaning that it will not be able to field candidates in any UK elections.
A spokeman said the BNP had been removed from the list as it had failed to confirm its registration details, which all political parties must submit annually for a £25 fee.
The statement of accounts from the BNP was due on July 7, 2015, with the party's annual confirmation of registered details due on or before January 7.
However, the BNP's name and logo will be protected for two years under electoral law, and the party will be able to submit an application to re-register.

A statement from the Electoral Commission said: "Now that the party has been removed from the register, BNP candidates cannot, at present, use the party’s name, descriptions or emblems on the ballot paper at elections.
"The party can, however, submit an application to re-register at any time and their name, descriptions and emblems are protected under PPERA for two years to prevent other parties using them.
"Any application will be considered by the Commission in line with its usual processes for assessing new applications to register political parties."
BNP spokesman Stephen Squire said it was a "clerical error on our part" and that the party would submit the right paperwork within the next few days.

"It's a little bit embarrassing," he said, but insisted it would be "business as usual" for the party, which intended to contest the London mayoral election and some council seats.
"We've been overwhelmed by the number of phone calls we've had from people concerned we might be disappearing."