12/02/2017 London News

Good afternoon and welcome to BBC London News with me, Jim Wheble.

The mayor is calling on the government to spend more

than half a billion pounds on compensating people prepared

Sadiq Khan says his proposals for a diesel scrappage scheme would

Others say there needs to be suitable

Our Environment editor Tim Donovan reports.

Much air pollution might be invisible, but it's killing 10,000

people prematurely each year in London.

Diesel vehicles should be scrapped, says the mayor, and the

Government should compensate their owners.

Unless they step in and take action against polluting diesel vehicles,

I'm afraid they will be held to be in breach again of the law.

not just because of the law but because

they can help address the

poor quality air in London, to step in and have a national diesel

Now the mayor wants three and a half thousand

pounds offered for each van or minibus

and ?2000 in credit for the

What I would like to see is allowing people to move not just from a

diesel car, but hopefully to electric cars and

things like that because you have to have...

If you're going to get rid of one car you have to have

an environmentally friendly alternative.

There are some who point to Paris for lessons with the

Champs-Elysees closed to traffic once a month and sections of the

right and left banks of the river are now

permanently giving over to

Using a system of stickers on high polluting days,

some vehicles are not allowed on the road.

And in 2020, the Mayor says all diesel cars will be banned from

In London they are saying it is not quite what it is

If we pursue the programme we are going through, by

2020 we will have reduced the air pollution in London by at least

half, and that is the date at which they are talking about doing a

diesel ban in quite a small area of Paris.

So, you know, the programme we have got is a very practical one

From this October in London drivers of the

most polluting vehicles will have to pay a daily toxicity charge

Sutton United fans queued up from the early hours of the morning

today to get tickets for one the biggest games in

In just over a week they play Arsenal in the fifth

round of the FA Cup at Sutton's Borough Sports Ground

and as I've been finding out, hopes are high.

It was all about this today in Sutton. The golden ticket. It meant

an early start, time to contemplate the big game. Got the tickets.

Pretty cold. We are going to have a bacon roll, cup of tea and the rest

of the day to talk about the big match coming up. I do hope Arsenal

bring out their 14, if they do, I'm not that sure if they do bring out

the full team, but Sutton do have a chance. I had heard a rumour at this

flicker of confidence was in part due to Sutton's secret weapon. Who

is this? Here's our reserve goalkeeper, the roly-poly goalie. Is

he good? He is agile for a big man. And a saucy chap. I have been told

that the roly-poly goalie is around here somewhere. I have got a feeling

we will have to catch up with him. The queue for tickets was getting

longer and longer and longer. You are at the end of the queue. Am I? I

am amazed. And it was their school in the fourth round against Leeds

United which has made the game against Premier League giants

Arsenal a possibility. They call it the magic of the FA Cup. So could

suddenly I did win? Realistically I think you are the one getting

carried away, I have my feet on the ground, we are just delighted to be

in the fifth round. I don't think a non-league club have ever reached

the cup final and I think it's extremely unlikely but you can

dream. We have found Wayne, here he is. How are you? Superb, yourself?

We have seen you on the sauce bottles and will you step in on the

big day? It would be good but we will be leaving the heat on Arsenal

with the chilli sauce. Quite a morning let's put it that way.

Lets have a look at the weather for the week ahead

A little more cold weather until we get milder temperatures in the week

ahead but the wind has been the main issue and it will continue through

the night. Dry tonight and tomorrow, fair amount of sunshine on offer for

many of us, the further north the more chance of a cloudy day and

temperatures may suffer a little but elsewhere in the sunshine getting up

to eight or nine Celsius but not feeling that way because of the

chilli easterly wind. But as we head to the week and the wind starts to

drop temperatures rise to double figures and it will feel very

different indeed to the past couple of days by the end of the week.

That's it from me for now, but do join us for the bulletin this

evening at the later time of 11:20pm.

Good evening, dull, grey, cold, miserable. And that's just me! The

weather hasn't been great leader for most of us, it will be chilly out

there with this nagging easterly breeze, wetter weather for Northern

Ireland, by the end of the night most of the dampness across parts of

Eastern Scotland and North East England, most of the high ground

Luus will have faded away as well. But not warm, another chilly