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I'd say you could do better than Seben by buying something from the Skywatcher range. Which one you go for will depend not only on budget but also on what sort of things you want to be able to see, whether you want something that will track the stars as they drift from east to west, or even go for the computerised "go to" stuff.
A couple of years ago I bought a Celestron Nexstar 8SE and that really takes some beating for London skies - it's a very long focal length Schmidt-Cassegrain scope, meaning it uses a clever corrector lens at the front, then a whacking great 8 inch diameter mirror at the back which bounces the light back up to a little mirror mounted in the middle of the corrector lens, and that secondary mirror bounces the light back out through a hole in the rear end of the scope. If you're really bored of life, I could post some of the shots I've taken through it, using webcams for planets and a DSLR for other stuff like M42 and M13. The faint fuzzy stuff (galaxies etc) are going to be hard to see through London's famous light pollution but this sort of scope (and they come in smaller/cheaper sizes too) is excellent for moon, planets, star clusters etc.