27/01/2014 BBC London News

upheaval of August 1914. That is all from us,

Good evening. A 13`year`old girl who was left severely brain damaged

during treatment at Great Ormond Street Hospital, has been awarded a

multi`million`pound payout. Maisha Najeeb was being treated for a rare

medical condition when glue was accidentally injected into an

artery. The hospital has apologised unreservedly. Her father said he

hopes it never happens to another family. Ayshea Buksh reports.

She was top of her class with a love of dancing and dreamed of being a

doctor. Ten`year`old Maisha also had a rare condition, which meant her

arteries and veins could easily tangle and bleed. At the country's

leading children's hospital she was operated on five times. Back in June

2010, Maisha was admitted here for another operation. In the procedure,

glue is injected into the blood vessels to block the bleeding. A dye

is also inserted to check the blood flow around the brain, but this time

the syringes were mixed up and instead of dye, glue was injected

into her brain, causing catastrophic damage. She was left with permanent

brain damage. Now, aged 13, she is in a wheelchair and needs constant

care. The family sued the hospital. Great Ormond Street admitted

negligence and today her parents were awarded ?2.8 million upfront in

damages, with further money to be given each year. If she lives to 64,

the final some will exceed ?24 million. Outside court, her father

and her mother spoke through the family lawyer. The family are

saddened and devastated by what has happened to their daughter. Her life

is ruined. All her dreams have been br enn. The family hopes that by

bringing this case lessons will have been learned to avoid this happening

to other families. In court, the hospital described what happened as

a tragic set of circumstances and apologised to the family add ``

adding that there are now systems in place to ensure this doesn't happen

again. Asked whether anyone had been disciplined, the Trust said they

were unable to comment. Maisha receives care at the hospital. The

judge in the High Court said he hoped the compensation goes some way

to make the rest of her life as bearable as possible.

The economic gap between London and the rest of the UK widened during

the economic recovery according to new research. The Centre for Cities

says that the capital accounted for 80% of all growth in private sector

jobs since 2010 and is attracting an unprecedented number of young

people. Our Political Correspondent Karl Mercer reports.

Time to go to work. Absolutely. I'm Gary and I'm living in South Wales

and I'm about to head off on 181 miles to my workplace. I'm scaring

you That's fantastic. Two sides of the story of London. A city of

creatives and a city that pulls talent in from across the country.

I'm at a service station. An hour`and`a`half after I set off at

5. 15. I expect to be an hour for the rest of the journey. Gary spends

more than five hours a day driving to his job at a graphic firm as a

production manager. Here at a company in Croydon, they are

recruiting from around the country and overseas. London and the

surrounding counties have been a strong place for video games. We

have one man from France, a Spanish gentleman and one from Sweden, who

have relocated. Terry's firm isn't alone in recruiting. London has

created 216,000 private`sector jobs, ten times more than any other city.

New research shows one third of all 22`30`year`olds leaving their homes

head for the capital. There are a range of indicators, when we look at

the businesses or look at the new starts being generated or the skills

of the workforce. All of those puts London near the top, if not top

itself, so there's a whole bunch of activity going on. There were calls

for other cities to uptheir game and in defence of the capital's pulling

power from the Mayor. We export huge sums in tax and public spending to

the rest of the country. You've got to support that. I think that most

sensible people can see that unless you have a strong London economy

most of the rest of the country won't function nearly as well. Oh,

yes, that's right, we're the best. Let's cross to Alex Bushill. This

report has provoked reaction hasn't it? It has. The report's authors

want more localism. The three parties broadly speaking welcome

that. A lot of talk today by devolving responsibility and

resources down to a city level, but here's the test to all that. The

Mayor talking about tax. He has long championed that tax raised in London

should stay in London, talking about stamp duty, where it is raised here

and staying here. Other English cities have broadly said they

welcome the proposals. The Treasury has been reluckant to release their

fingers from the dush reluctant to release their fingers from the pulse

strings. Thank you very much. Time for a

check on the weather with Wendy. How are the next few days looking?

Clear We have an area of low sitting over the UK and spring around the

outside with a lot of mess. There are a lot of showers. We are going

to see a few of those throughout the day tomorrow. And then it will turn

more settled, but also colder and fairly cloudy too. At the moment,

the Met Office has us called by yellow warnings, because they have a

tendency to clump together into bands as we go through tomorrow, but

may mean that some places get ten to 15 mill mitres of rain and it's not

really needed, especially `` millimetres of rain and it's not

really needed especially in the Home Counties. In the morning, heavy

showers. Temperatures in between, down to two or three. There is a bit

of clear sky to be head. Certainly out there at the moment. First thing

tomorrow, watch out or the showers. They will continue into the

afternoon, particularly pushed in as the wind switches to the more

easterly direction. That will start making it feel chilly through

Wednesday and Thursday. Fairly cloudy and dry conditions, but

easterly winds starting to bite. You'll notice that. Thank you very

much. That's it for tonight. We're back tomorrow morning during

Breakfast. From us here, though, we wish you a very good night.

It's going to get colder than it's been all winter. Ahead of that,

though, the showers keep going and going through tonight and into

tomorrow. Some of them heavy, possibly thundery too. Here's the

satellite. We can pick out the swirl of cloud here. The bands of shower

clouds that have been streaming into the UK. All driven and wrapped

around an area of low. That is the driving force for the showers that

we have at the moment.