Four-year-olds in boroughs including Kingston, Merton, Richmond, Croydon and Sutton have been left stranded with no offer of a primary school place for this September.
As the fence goes up around specialist mental health hospital the Henderson the NHS plans its largest ever public consultation - involving 62 primary care trusts.
A top barrister has condemned the "injustice" of delays in Old Bailey hearings after a man's retrial for the manslaughter of his daughter was put back by three months.