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Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg faced a grilling by young reporters from Pimlico Academy, in Lupus Street, Pimlico.

Here, he answers their questions at the House of Commons including his plans to put more police on the streets and why he identifies with children's superhero character Ben 10.

Budding chefs have been learning how to cook up a storm at a Pimlico youth club.

Cookery classes started at St Andrew's Youth Club, in Old Pye Street, teaching youngsters how to prepare tasty, nutritious meals.

Temper tantrums are set to be banished from homes and classrooms thanks to parenting classes at a North Paddington school.

Around a dozen mothers attend the Parent Power sessions at St Stephen's CofE Primary School, in Westbourne Park Road, under the leadership of Jessica Chivers.

A hard-working team of helpers dug out their hoes and shovels to clean up the grounds of a Queen's Park church.

Around 1.5 tonnes of litter, green waste and other materials was cleared and collected from around St John's Church, at the junction of Harrow Road and Kilburn Lane.

Protestors showed their anger about a £23,000 annual civic dinner organised by Westminster Council on Tuesday (9) night.

Members of Westminster UNISON, a union representing council staff, gathered outside the five-star Northumberland Hotel, in Northumberland Avenue, as guests made their way to event.

With sweltering temperatures, a tangled canopy of shrubs and vines and monkeys howling in trees overhead, you could be forgiven for thinking you were in the depths of South America.

But all of this is part of the only living rainforest in London, which is coming soon to London Zoo.

Juliet Eysenck went along to investigate.

Award-winning actress Miriam Margolyes paid a visit to the offices of a North Paddington charity.

Ms Margolyes, who played Professor Sprout in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, found out about the gadgets and gizmos available to help older and disabled people in their daily lives at the Disabled Living Foundation (DLF), in Harrow Road.

A legal challenge to a motorbike parking charge introduced by Westminster Council has been lodged at the High Court.

Warren Djanogly, chairman of No to Bike Parking Tax campaign group, handed in an application for the challenge over the controversial fees imposed on bikers to park in on-street bays.

A project aimed at tackling suspected gang activity in Queen's Park has been given the go-ahead by Westminster Council.

Specially-trained youth workers from Brathay charity will work with up to 20 young people for eight months, aiming to get them to turn their backs on violence by offering training, education and job opportunities.

A campaign group set up following flash floods last summer scored a victory after Thames Water visited their damaged homes.

Angry residents formed Maida Flood Action in July after sewage poured into more than 150 homes in the Maida Vale and North Paddington area, leaving them with a clean-up operation costing thousands of pounds.