Crime

A man is recovering in hospital after he was shot in Bayswater last night.

A 27-year-old white man was found with a gunshot wound in Elms Mews, at around 8pm on Tuesday (Dec 29).

Police officers are holding two chats about safety issues in Bayswater.

The Queensway town centre team will be available at Costa coffee shop, on the ground floor of Whiteleys shopping centre, Queensway, on January 6 and 13.

The surgery sessions run from 3pm to 5pm, and anyone is welcome to drop-in to meet the team.

A company has been fined after a young Westminster worker died after falling from a roof.

Richard Gibbs was just 24 when he fell to his death through a fragile roof on January 31, 2007, while working to repair lights.

Terrified staff were forced into the basement of a Maida Vale café by armed robbers.

Two men, believed to be armed with a gun, entered Starbucks in Randolph Avenue, shortly after 8pm on Thursday, December 3.

A community centre which made life unbearable for North Paddington residents with bands playing steel drums late at night has been fined.

A number of complaints were made about the Yaa Asantewa Arts Centre, in Chippenham Mews, including some neighbours who said the steel band practice was so loud they could not even talk in their own homes.

A postman was assaulted during an attempted robbery in Queen's Park.

The 25-year-old postie was driving a Royal Mail van along Portnall Road and pulled into Kilburn Lane at around 6.30pm last night.

Police have appealed for witnesses to come forward after a serious sexual assault in Paddington.

The assault took place in the early hours of Friday, April 10, outside Edgware Road's Bakerloo line station, near the junction of Edgware Road and Marylebone Road.

Police are appealing for witnesses after a woman was seriously assaulted in her Lisson Grove home.

The woman, in her 40s, was attacked and robbed by a man who talked his way into her Penfold Street home, at around 2.30pm on Friday, September 18.

Seven people were injured after a pellet gun was fired in North Paddington.

Police were called at around 8pm last night, to reports of shots being fired from the balcony of a block of flats in Elgin Avenue.

Thieves took part of a brass lectern from St James' Church, in Sussex Gardens, some time between August 6 and 14.

The top half of a lectern, about 3ft high and made up of a globe and an eagle, was unscrewed and removed from the base.