:00:00. > :00:00.colder. It could be short lived. That is all from the BBC's
:00:00. > :00:00.contrasting fortunes of London and Sheffield. The streets 8
:00:00. > :00:14.Tonight on BBC London News. A multi`million pound pay`out for
:00:15. > :00:17.the family of a schoolgirl left brain damaged after glue was
:00:18. > :00:21.mistakenly injected into an artery at Great Ormond Street Hospital. The
:00:22. > :00:26.family are saddened and devastated by what happened to their daughter.
:00:27. > :00:28.Her life is ruined. All her dreams have been broken.
:00:29. > :00:31.Also tonight, the councils that could be investigated over the way
:00:32. > :00:35.parking tickets are issued. Plus ` London's lure. The thousands
:00:36. > :00:41.coming to the capital for work at the expense of the rest of the UK.
:00:42. > :00:43.And celebrating architecture on an industrial scale. The latest
:00:44. > :00:59.exhibition at the Royal Academy. Hello and good evening.
:01:00. > :01:02.A 13`year`old girl who was left severely brain damaged during
:01:03. > :01:07.treatment at Great Ormond Street Hospital has been awarded a
:01:08. > :01:11.multi`million pound pay`out. Maisha Najeeb, who was ten at the time, was
:01:12. > :01:14.being treated for a rare medical condition when glue, instead of dye,
:01:15. > :01:19.was accidentally injected into an artery. Today, the hospital
:01:20. > :01:22.apologised unreservedly. Her father said they're devastated because her
:01:23. > :01:29.life is ruined, and hope it never happens to another family. Ayshea
:01:30. > :01:33.Buksh reports. She was top of her class with the
:01:34. > :01:40.love of dancing, and reamed as being a doctor. Ten`year`old Maisha Najeeb
:01:41. > :01:44.also had a rare congenital condition, which meant her arteries
:01:45. > :01:49.and veins could easily tangle and bleed. At the country's leading
:01:50. > :01:56.children's hospital, she was operated on a five times. Back in
:01:57. > :02:00.June 2010, Maisha was admitted for another operation. In the procedure,
:02:01. > :02:04.glue is injected into the blood vessels to block the bleeding, but
:02:05. > :02:12.Dyer is all so inserted to check the blood flow around the brain. The
:02:13. > :02:20.syringes got mixed up, and instead of dye, glue was inserted into an
:02:21. > :02:24.artery leading to Maisha's brain. Maisha was left with permanent brain
:02:25. > :02:31.damage. She needs constant care and is in a wheelchair. Today, her
:02:32. > :02:36.parents were awarded ?2.8 million up front in damages, with further money
:02:37. > :02:43.to be given each year. If she lives to 64, the final sum could exceed
:02:44. > :02:47.?24 million. The family are saddened and devastated by what happened to
:02:48. > :02:52.their daughter. Her life is ruined. All her dreams have been broken. The
:02:53. > :02:57.family hoped that by bringing this case, lessons will have been learned
:02:58. > :03:00.to avoid this happening to other families. We are grateful that
:03:01. > :03:04.agreement has been reached with Great Ormond Street Hospital to
:03:05. > :03:11.ensure that Maisha's care needs are met. In court, the hospital
:03:12. > :03:14.described what happened as a tragic set of circumstances, and apologise
:03:15. > :03:20.to the family, adding there are now systems in place to make sure this
:03:21. > :03:25.doesn't happen again. When asked whether anyone had been disciplined
:03:26. > :03:30.over what had occurred, the Trust said they could not comment. The
:03:31. > :03:33.judge said he hoped this compensation went some way to make
:03:34. > :03:37.the rest of her life as bearable as possible.
:03:38. > :03:40.Lots more to come, including: Will these lights make it safer for
:03:41. > :03:50.cyclists at one of the capital's most notorious roundabouts?
:03:51. > :03:53.London councils are to be investigated over their parking
:03:54. > :03:58.enforcement contracts, which appear to show that wardens are
:03:59. > :04:01.incentivised to issue tickets. Lambeth, Bromley and Hackney
:04:02. > :04:04.Councils made millions of pounds in profit last year from parking, but
:04:05. > :04:08.each council insists it doesn't set targets. Following the BBC
:04:09. > :04:11.investigation, Local Government Minister Brandon Lewis said he'd
:04:12. > :04:23.investigate the legality of the contracts. Keith Doyle reports.
:04:24. > :04:31.These campaigners are patrolling London's streets, and urging drivers
:04:32. > :04:37.to mobile enforcement cars. `` alerting drivers. Here, they found
:04:38. > :04:42.one in Camden. We are assisting them in achieving their goal of 100%
:04:43. > :04:46.compliance. They say ticket fines are written into the Camden
:04:47. > :04:51.contract, and that means that traffic wardens are under pressure
:04:52. > :04:55.to issue fines. There's nothing to suggest the traffic enforcers we saw
:04:56. > :05:00.today were not playing by the rules, however others have said that they
:05:01. > :05:04.will do anything to increase ticket numbers. This officer in a different
:05:05. > :05:10.borough is so disgusted by the dirty tactics, he's agreed to show us
:05:11. > :05:16.exactly how it's done. He does not want to be identified. He says some
:05:17. > :05:20.officers manipulate their hand`held computers to issue fraudulent
:05:21. > :05:25.tickets. When you have two press, you have to give five minutes
:05:26. > :05:30.observation to the vehicle. He said the trick is to pretend you are
:05:31. > :05:38.observing the vehicle, when you are not. You just issue an instant
:05:39. > :05:41.ticket. You fool the computer. Some collect the cooking option. Can the
:05:42. > :05:47.driver proves that they are right and you are wrong? No. He said it is
:05:48. > :05:52.all down to targets, and the pressure to issue and after kits to
:05:53. > :05:56.keep the bosses off your. It is unlawful to set targets, but last
:05:57. > :06:09.year, we revealed what appeared to be targets by Lambeth Council and
:06:10. > :06:15.others. We have now got information from other councils. There is an
:06:16. > :06:22.annual baseline of 72,000 tickets, and for every ticket above that, the
:06:23. > :06:26.company gets extra for each ticket. Lambeth employs a company which it
:06:27. > :06:32.requires to issue over 200,000 tickets per and. The councils all
:06:33. > :06:39.point out the number of tickets issued has been falling, and Lambeth
:06:40. > :06:42.points out it is a figure for guidance so the company can plan the
:06:43. > :06:47.amount of staff needed. Bromley Council said they never set targets
:06:48. > :06:53.for revenue from parking enforcement income. This looks like the wrong
:06:54. > :06:59.kind of contract to me. Motivating and in courage and staff to go out
:07:00. > :07:05.and penalises people `` and encouraging staff. Our lawyers will
:07:06. > :07:12.look at that, but it would be right to sue this tested in law. While
:07:13. > :07:17.government lawyers scrutinise these contracts, these motorists continue
:07:18. > :07:21.to try to avoid tickets. And you can see the full report on
:07:22. > :07:29.Inside Out London tonight at 7:30pm on BBC One.
:07:30. > :07:32.A second trade union has voted to join the upcoming Tube strikes.
:07:33. > :07:35.Members of the TSSA will walk out from midday on the fourth and 11th
:07:36. > :07:38.of February to protest the closure of ticket offices on the London
:07:39. > :07:40.Underground. The RMT has already announced that its members will take
:07:41. > :07:44.industrial action. A Christian charity has won its case
:07:45. > :07:47.to have a decision made by Mayor Boris Johnson to ban a bus advert
:07:48. > :07:50.about gay people, investigated by the High Court. The advert suggested
:07:51. > :07:53.that gay people can be counselled to "get over it". During the case, it
:07:54. > :07:57.was suggested that the Mayor's actions were intended to advance his
:07:58. > :08:08.2012 re`election campaign. Emma North explains.
:08:09. > :08:11.Did Boris ban a bus campaign to revel up his chances of
:08:12. > :08:16.pre`election? We have to go back to the spring of 2012 to find out. The
:08:17. > :08:21.gay campaign group Stonewall was running an advert on London's buses.
:08:22. > :08:26.A Christian group applied for arrival at to run, to read Not Gay!
:08:27. > :08:34.Ex`Gay, Post`Gay and Proud. Get over it! But TfL bandit, on the grounds
:08:35. > :08:41.it might cause offence. Now the Court of Appeal wants to know
:08:42. > :08:46.whether the ban came from Transport for London, or from Boris Johnson.
:08:47. > :08:52.If Boris had ordered it to make himself popular with London's gay
:08:53. > :08:56.voters, the ban would be unlawful. The Mayor of London is entitled to a
:08:57. > :09:02.personal opinion, but there needs to be a clear division between his
:09:03. > :09:06.political views and the fact that he carries an enormous amount of
:09:07. > :09:11.political responsibility. The difficulty lies in a series of
:09:12. > :09:15.e`mails shown to the court, written on the afternoon that the Christian
:09:16. > :09:22.campaign was banned. An e`mail was sent to the Mayor's office about the
:09:23. > :09:26.ad. It said, shall I get it pulled? The deputy mayor replied saying, I
:09:27. > :09:32.wonder how TfL could accept them in the first place? TfL and announced
:09:33. > :09:38.the ban a minute later. Three minutes later, Boris' publicity man
:09:39. > :09:48.sent another e`mail. It said, or as has just instructed TfL to pull the
:09:49. > :09:52.adverts. The next day, Boris appeared at a conference organised
:09:53. > :09:56.by Stonewall. Today, we found him not so forthcoming about how the
:09:57. > :10:00.decision was made. I think it is a good decision. The court has upheld
:10:01. > :10:06.what we did, and I am happy about that. The court says it needs more
:10:07. > :10:11.evidence to decide whether Boris Johnson has interfered in order to
:10:12. > :10:14.exploit his political capital. As we've been hearing, London's
:10:15. > :10:17.economic recovery has seen the capital create 80% of the country's
:10:18. > :10:20.private sector jobs since 2010. The research by the Centre for Cities
:10:21. > :10:23.also shows how London is attracting an unprecedented number of young
:10:24. > :10:36.people into its booming economy. Our political correspondent, Karl
:10:37. > :10:42.Mercer, reports. I'm Gary. I live in South Wales. I'm
:10:43. > :10:52.about to head off of my journey of 181 miles to my work space. Two
:10:53. > :10:56.sides of the story of London. A city of creatives, and a city that pulls
:10:57. > :11:04.talents in from across the country. A quick stop at the service station.
:11:05. > :11:08.1.5 hours after I set off. I expect another hour for the rest of my
:11:09. > :11:15.journey. Gary spends more than five hours a day driving to his job at a
:11:16. > :11:20.production firm. And here in Croydon, they are recruiting from
:11:21. > :11:25.around the country and overseas. London has always been a strong
:11:26. > :11:29.birth of video games. We've currently got one gentleman in from
:11:30. > :11:36.France, a Spanish gentleman, and one from Sweden, have located in and
:11:37. > :11:42.around the London area. Terry's firm isn't alone in recruiting. Since
:11:43. > :11:49.2010, London has created 216,000 private`sector jobs, ten times more
:11:50. > :11:54.than any other city. One third of all 22 to 30`year`olds leaving their
:11:55. > :12:00.home towns head that the capital. When we look at how many businesses
:12:01. > :12:05.we've got, how many new starts, and the skills of the workforce and the
:12:06. > :12:10.residence, all of those puts London near the top, or at the top itself.
:12:11. > :12:18.There were calls for other cities to up their game. We export huge sums
:12:19. > :12:22.in tax and public spending to the rest of the country. You've got to
:12:23. > :12:26.support that. I think that most sensible people can see that unless
:12:27. > :12:33.you have a strong London economy, most of the rest of the country will
:12:34. > :12:35.not function nearly as well. The Deputy Prime Minister, Nick
:12:36. > :12:37.Clegg, has described as "unacceptable" death threats made
:12:38. > :12:40.against a prospective London Lib Dem candidate who re`tweeted a link to a
:12:41. > :12:46.cartoon, considered by some Muslims to be offensive. There are calls for
:12:47. > :12:50.Maajid Nawaz to be de`selected from the party after he posted a link to
:12:51. > :12:54.a picture of the Prophet Mohammed and Jesus greeting each other. He
:12:55. > :13:03.sent the tweet after appearing on a BBC programme which was discussing
:13:04. > :13:10.freedom of speech. I'm a Muslim. That T`shirt doesn't
:13:11. > :13:17.threaten me whatsoever. It doesn't threaten my faith or any aspect of
:13:18. > :13:23.my religion. Let's talk to a London based imam, and a representative
:13:24. > :13:31.from an organisation which promotes freedom of speech. A 20,000 strong
:13:32. > :13:37.petition to have him deselected. Have you signed it? Do you think you
:13:38. > :13:43.should be deselected based on this? I was abroad and I have just come
:13:44. > :13:48.back. Whoever selects has the right to deselect. Local people can
:13:49. > :13:53.choose. But the issue is, why have 20,000 people expressed their dismay
:13:54. > :13:58.and anger against what has been said? It's not just what has been
:13:59. > :14:01.said we should concentrate on, it is the history of what Maajid Nawaz has
:14:02. > :14:06.done in the past that has angered Muslims, and they are using this
:14:07. > :14:14.opportunity to get their revenge. Rightly or wrongly, Rosset Mohammed
:14:15. > :14:18.is considered to be a sacred person. `` Prophet Mohammed. He was
:14:19. > :14:24.criticised all throughout history. It's not just about that. You can
:14:25. > :14:29.let ignore the history and the context. So history and context.
:14:30. > :14:36.Where do you stand on freedom of speech in this? All he said was, it
:14:37. > :14:41.was not offensive to him. He has said it isn't offensive to him.
:14:42. > :14:45.Religious tolerance is very important, but it is about the
:14:46. > :14:49.freedom to practice your own religion. It isn't about the right
:14:50. > :14:55.to tell other people that they are not allowed to say things, that they
:14:56. > :14:59.can't put up pictures or cartoons. That's a good point. I agree that
:15:00. > :15:04.freedom of speech is ingrained in all religions, including Islam. I
:15:05. > :15:12.have the right to sneeze, but not in your face. Why does it upset you? I
:15:13. > :15:16.think the sensibilities of the communities must be respected. You
:15:17. > :15:20.can criticise the Prophet as much as you like. When you go out telling
:15:21. > :15:26.everybody that Islam should be like this, and then your `` and then in
:15:27. > :15:34.your own personal life you twist it... So what is this about? The
:15:35. > :15:38.Muslim community's anger isn't to do with freedom of speech. It's to do
:15:39. > :15:45.with what has been said. So you can say what you want, but Maajid Nawaz
:15:46. > :15:51.can't? Criticism, death threats, being told you should be sacked? I
:15:52. > :15:55.have received death threats myself. It's to do with the local
:15:56. > :16:00.constituency. The principal point is, a group of people, Muslims who
:16:01. > :16:15.have sensibilities, is not being respected. We cannot be homophobic
:16:16. > :16:19.or anti`Semitic. Would it have made a difference if he wasn't a
:16:20. > :16:26.Parliamentary candidate? Would there be the same reaction? No, it would
:16:27. > :16:31.be bubbly in the background. I have spoken to the community and I have
:16:32. > :16:36.said, freedom of speech is important in our community.
:16:37. > :16:44.A criticism we often hear is there is no room for debate in Islamic
:16:45. > :16:51.cause of reprisals. He said he was not offended by this. He said this
:16:52. > :16:55.does not affect how I practice my faith and there are millions of
:16:56. > :17:02.Muslims all over the world who get on with their lives without finding
:17:03. > :17:05.these things offensive. London is a multicultural city. By shutting down
:17:06. > :17:14.this kind of debate, excluding death threats, does it not create more
:17:15. > :17:18.tension rather than understanding? The Muslim community is calling for
:17:19. > :17:23.tolerance, respect and togetherness. But if you are constantly going to
:17:24. > :17:27.get at that community, the community will react. There is a right to
:17:28. > :17:38.speak at a right to react and both must be respected. Let him have the
:17:39. > :17:42.final say. I do not think, and I agree with Nick Clegg, he has a
:17:43. > :17:47.right to free speech and the Liberal Democrats should defend that right.
:17:48. > :17:55.We could debate this further. Still to come to night: Minimal
:17:56. > :18:00.surgery required, the pioneering procedure delivering pacemakers to
:18:01. > :18:03.heart patients. And I am at the right academy where they have used
:18:04. > :18:08.some dramatic installations like this one to exploit the power of
:18:09. > :18:17.architecture to affect the way we think, feel and behave.
:18:18. > :18:21.Low`level traffic lights have been installed at Bow roundabout to help
:18:22. > :18:27.improve road safety. Three people have died at the junction. The
:18:28. > :18:31.lights, which are being used in Holland and Denmark, will eventually
:18:32. > :18:35.be installed at 11 locations across the capital, but cycling campaigners
:18:36. > :18:43.say the junction is still confusing and dangerous.
:18:44. > :18:49.It is a green light. It is for that there. But it is an independent
:18:50. > :18:54.light system for this one here. Even with extra traffic lights there was
:18:55. > :18:59.still confusion at the notorious Bow roundabout where three cyclists have
:19:00. > :19:04.died. These eyelevel lights are meant to make it clearer when
:19:05. > :19:08.cyclists can go. Nobody is pretending this is a magic answer,
:19:09. > :19:15.but it is a start to making junction is all over London safer. It avoids
:19:16. > :19:19.the confusion that some cyclists have reported here between which
:19:20. > :19:24.light is buoyed them and which is for the traffic. In the future we
:19:25. > :19:28.will use these small lights to create completely separate cycle
:19:29. > :19:33.movements through junctions. Recently to stage lights were
:19:34. > :19:38.installed here to give cyclists a head start on traffic. But
:19:39. > :19:40.campaigners say even with the UK APPLAUSE
:19:41. > :19:46.First eyelevel lights the junction is still dangerous and some cyclists
:19:47. > :19:53.think ignoring the lights, even read, is the only way to stay safe.
:19:54. > :19:59.When there is a safe gap, move off here. That sounds appalling, but I
:20:00. > :20:06.have sat here and watched all this. So jump the red? Jump the red. You
:20:07. > :20:13.know how controversial that will be, but you think that is the only
:20:14. > :20:18.choice? Yes, that is my personal opinion and it is up to cyclists to
:20:19. > :20:24.do what they feel safest to do. Later we saw the Mayor using Bow
:20:25. > :20:29.roundabout he encourages cyclist to use this route, although many
:20:30. > :20:34.prepared the flyover. A full upgrade of the route is planned. We have
:20:35. > :20:39.done a lot to improve safety, but we have got work on going to look at
:20:40. > :20:45.the future of this whole area and lots of aspirations to improve the
:20:46. > :20:50.junction. Campaigners want the junction redesign. That is some way
:20:51. > :20:57.off and in the short`term expect more officers. These lights will be
:20:58. > :21:01.trialled at more junctions. A patient at Barts Hospital has
:21:02. > :21:06.become the first in the world to receive a new pacemaker that
:21:07. > :21:11.requires minimal surgery. The device is around a 10th of the size of
:21:12. > :21:15.conventional pacemakers. The new procedure reduces the risk of site
:21:16. > :21:21.infections and helps patients recover more quickly.
:21:22. > :21:25.It is just over a week since Maureen had her pacemaker fitted at Barts
:21:26. > :21:31.Hospital and the checkup shows she is doing well. The 77`year`old was
:21:32. > :21:36.the first person in the world to be given this new kind of device, but
:21:37. > :21:41.with her heart problems getting worse she was grateful to be asked.
:21:42. > :21:47.I was so pleased to be getting it done. Although I am down for the
:21:48. > :21:51.other pacemaker it was going to be another month and I was feeling so
:21:52. > :21:58.awful I thought the quicker I get it done, the better. When I found out I
:21:59. > :22:03.could get this done, I jumped at it. The reason there is no scar is
:22:04. > :22:07.because the pacemaker is no bigger than a matchstick and is inserted
:22:08. > :22:12.through the leg without the need for a general anaesthetic. The whole
:22:13. > :22:15.procedure takes less than ten minutes and a professor leading the
:22:16. > :22:20.pioneering trials says he believes this technique will eventually
:22:21. > :22:28.become standard. The important difference is there is no wire
:22:29. > :22:33.connecting it into the heart. That long wire can act as a source for
:22:34. > :22:37.all sorts of problems, including infection or a development of the
:22:38. > :22:45.clot on the wire. This is an amazing step forward in pacing technology.
:22:46. > :22:50.After a quick recovery Maureen will be going back home with her husband
:22:51. > :22:54.Rod and for the first time in years she is looking forward to doing some
:22:55. > :23:01.gardening at her home in Chingford thanks to her pioneering pacemaker.
:23:02. > :23:06.It is a departure from the right academy's usual exhibitions. The
:23:07. > :23:11.latest looks at the way architecture has the ability to affect the way we
:23:12. > :23:15.feel and interact with each other. Brenda Emmanus has been finding out
:23:16. > :23:28.it uses dramatic installations to explore the power of design. This is
:23:29. > :23:35.a fun installation. The idea is you take your straw and you make your
:23:36. > :23:42.mark on his installation. However you want. As you can see, people
:23:43. > :23:46.have been rather busy already. It is one of seven installations that
:23:47. > :23:51.dominate the traditional space of the right academy for their new
:23:52. > :23:57.exhibition. I think this is probably as close as architecture gets to
:23:58. > :24:02.art. It evokes a response from an emotional connection and it is also
:24:03. > :24:09.practical. It has to exist and operate and function for us and it
:24:10. > :24:13.does that on a day to day basis. Seven international architects have
:24:14. > :24:17.created these sculptures offering a culturally diverse view of how their
:24:18. > :24:21.practice and stimulate our awareness of our environments. This was
:24:22. > :24:28.created with nearly 22,000 hazel sticks. Architecture has been
:24:29. > :24:36.reimagined for this show. This bamboo structure has been infused
:24:37. > :24:39.with a wood sent. It invites us to look around us and see the
:24:40. > :24:44.excitement London offers us from the old buildings, the corners and the
:24:45. > :24:51.alleyways that make up this diverse and exciting city. The whole idea is
:24:52. > :24:57.you can get up close and personal to the works, touch, C and even smell
:24:58. > :25:06.these installations. This one allows you to climb all the way to the top.
:25:07. > :25:12.And it is the first time visitors have been able to get this close to
:25:13. > :25:17.the roof of the right academy. There are half a million straws to get
:25:18. > :25:21.through for this installation. The exhibition runs until the 6th of
:25:22. > :25:23.April. Over to Wendy for a check on the
:25:24. > :25:33.weather. We will go forward in a second, but
:25:34. > :25:39.first back to Saturday and the wild weather that we had. There was heavy
:25:40. > :25:45.rain, some thunder, lightning and hail and some very strong and gusty
:25:46. > :25:49.winds. It left a lot of damage in its wake and in an hour and a bit it
:25:50. > :25:53.was all the way through the Home Counties and out again. We have got
:25:54. > :25:59.heavy showers tonight and into tomorrow, and it will be turning
:26:00. > :26:04.colder. This evening we have a yellow weather warning from nine
:26:05. > :26:11.o'clock because we could have ten ` 15 millimetres of rain. It will go
:26:12. > :26:16.through in bands and that means some places will get quite a lot of rain
:26:17. > :26:20.in a short space of time. There will be large puddles first thing
:26:21. > :26:26.tomorrow morning. In between there may be some clear enough sky for
:26:27. > :26:31.temperatures to fall down to two or three Celsius. By the early hours
:26:32. > :26:35.and into rush hour tomorrow the showers will be going through in
:26:36. > :26:39.bands and there will be heavy rain associated with it. We are covered
:26:40. > :26:43.tomorrow by that weather warning right throughout the day.
:26:44. > :26:49.Temperatures are a little lower than today. They dropped off as we went
:26:50. > :26:53.through the day to day. A bit of colder weather on the way and we
:26:54. > :26:59.will notice that on Wednesday and Thursday because we are going to
:27:00. > :27:04.have an easterly wind. Temperatures are nearer where they should be at
:27:05. > :27:10.this time of year. The showers will fizzle out on Wednesday and we have
:27:11. > :27:14.got a fair amount of cloud and gloom around and the easterly wind will
:27:15. > :27:19.make it feel chilly. It will revert to type on Friday night with more
:27:20. > :27:23.rain. We will be back later during the ten
:27:24. > :27:29.o'clock news. Until then, have a lovely evening.