Gary Roden quits days after he was criticised for telling BBC some grassroots music venues are "poorly run".
The Hammersmith and City line has been suspended on Friday morning as emergency workers respond to a casualty on the track. The incident has also closed the District line between Tower Hill and Upminster with severe delays on the rest of the line. Meanwhile customer service managers on the London Underground are staging a fresh 24-hour strike in a dispute over terms and conditions.
Muslim groups in Australia on Friday criticized the disparity in the police response to two stabbing attacks in Sydney this month, saying it had created a perception of a double standard and further alienated the country's minority Muslim community. The Australian National Imams Council said an attack at a Bondi Junction shopping center was “quickly deemed a mental health issue” while the stabbing of a Christian bishop at a Sydney church two days later was “classified as a terrorist act almost immediately.”