23/07/2017 London News

There's more throughout the evening on the BBC News Channel,

and I'll be back with the late News at Ten.

Now on BBC One its time for the news where you are.

The car giant Volkswagon has told BBC London that it won't pay any

compensation to Transport for London even though thousands

of their vehicles were fitted with devices designed

TfL claim Volkswagon should pay millions for lost revenue

on the Congestion Charge but VW says no.

The Mayor's war on London's air pollution which he is now waging

with the biggest car maker in the world.

Sadiq Khan wants Volkswagen to pay ?2.5 million in what he says

is unpaid congestion charge fees in the wake of

The car maker admitted fitting devices to vehicles

to appear greener in tests than they actually were.

However, BBC London News has revealed that VW has said it

won't be paying a single penny, something the Mayor

The behaviour of Volkswagen has been disgraceful.

Secondly, the lack of humility from

the managing director from Volkswagen.

What they should be doing is not simply repairing

They should be giving consumers, customers the option of buy-back.

But also they should be compensating Londoners for the money we have lost

via the congestion charge and also for the poor quality air caused

Some 80,000 Londoners bought Volkswagen vehicles fitted

with the cheap devices but VW claim that even without them the cars

would still be exempt from the congestion charge.

That just goes to show that Volkswagen are not taking this

seriously and people should really look at

Their sense of corporate social responsibility is nil.

With 9,000 deaths in the capital each year linked with air pollution,

the battle is far from over for the Mayor.

He is calling on the Government to hold Volkswagen to account

Doctors dealing with heart and cancer patients

at St Bartolomew's Hospital are using paint brushes and

colouring pens to combat stress and avoid burnout.

It's a six-week programme which aims to enable doctors to cope

with the intense pressures of the job.

Nicola Ford has been finding out more.

An opportunity to express myself through colour and shape...

Russell and Gahan are junior doctors who

Today, they are taking part in an art therapy session.

The process of making things with your hands is

It gives you the opportunity to stop ruminating on

the issues of the day, and try and relax.

Russell says the therapy helps him with some of the difficult

emotional attachments he has to his patients.

I have benefited from exploring the psychological aspects

of working in cancer, such as dealing with dying patients, or

The treatment is backed by hospital managers,

who can see their junior doctors need support.

Doctors looking after patients, particularly

with cancer, they come across an enormous number of very stressful

Studies done here at Barts Hospital show that 70% of

cancer specialists can suffer from burn-out, and that can

The idea of these art sessions is to try and intervene

When we did this, we did an inventory where we

were basically ranking how we felt about certain things.

It was interesting to see how close to

The results of the art therapy sessions

have shown to reduce the

levels of burn-out among junior doctors and it is hoped it can be

A five-year-old girl from east London

who was fined ?150 by the local council

and issued with this ticket for selling homemade lemonade

to festival goers has received dozens of offers

to set up her own stand at other events.

Her family says Borough Market is among the places who've got

But the girl's father says "she doesn't seem that keen

And now a look at the weather with Elizabeth.

A misty start of the morning gave way to heavy showers

into the afternoon, it will stay pretty unsettled as we had through

Expect to see further outbreaks of quite heavy rain at

times but with sunshine, a lot of dry weather,

We start the morning on 14 degrees, a lot of cloud around.

This rain will be light, patchy and drizzly in nature

and will brighten towards Western Home Counties

Top temperatures of about 20 degrees.

Your best bet for a fine and dry day will be Tuesday.

Temperatures rise to about 23 degrees.

I'll be back with our next news just after 10pm tonight on BBC One.

Until then, there are some good shows on BBC Radio London

Is good evening. Here is the good news, the weather tomorrow is

looking a lot better across the UK, much drier and brighter as well.

Certainly better after today's write performance with the weather. A lot

of downpours and thunderstorms, this rain has been stuck over us through

the weekend. Some had fine weather, not bad everywhere. Through the

evening and into tomorrow, the low decides to finally pull into the

North Sea and near continent, taking some bad weather with it. It is

beginning to rain itself out anyway as it drifts away. In the east, damp

with some cloud, Western area is improving. This is the weather map

for tomorrow, low pressure still relatively close to us, it drifted

away but