COPS hunting a knife gang who stabbed a man in the back during a bungled robbery have released an e-fit of one attacker. The thug and his two accomplices confronted their 51-year-old victim out-side Burke House, in Hope Street, Battersea, and demanded money.

DETECTIVES believe the weapon used to kill Jamail Newton could have been a Mac10 - a machine pistol capable of firing more than 1,000 rounds a minute. Such weapons are notoriously difficult to control and detectives are exploring the possibility that Mr Newton was murdered at random when the machine gun was discharged indiscriminately in the street.

One hundred years ago today John Archer and Henry Sylvester Williams were elected to Battersea Borough Council and Marylebone Borough Council respectively – the first black Britons elected to public office.