23/07/2017 London News

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 in lost revenue

for the Congestion Charge - but VW - says no.

It's 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

However, BBC London News can reveal 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 contrition and humility from the managing

They should be compensating Londoners for the money we've lost

Some 80,000 Londoners bought Volkswagen vehicles fitted

with the cheat devices but VW claims that even without them the cars

would still be exempt from the congestion charge.

In a statement VW told us: "None of the affected vehicles have

had their official CO2 emissions figures amended.

There is, therefore, no basis on which it can be said

that Transport for London has lost any sums as a result.

No sums are therefore due in compensation."

I mean, that just goes to show that Volkswagen are not

And, I think people should really look at

Their sense of corporate social responsibility is nil.

Well, with 9000 deaths in the capital each year linked

with air pollution the battle is far from over for the Mayor.

He's calling on the government to hold Volkswagen

to account and secure a proper compensation.

Doctors dealing with heart and cancer patients

at St Bartolomew's Hospital are using paint brushes and

colouring pens to combat stress - and avoid burn-out.

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 in Mile End- has received dozens of job 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

Passing showers for most of us through the day and feeling a bit

That's it from the BBC London weekend team.

We're back from 6.30 tomorrow morning - we're back at 6.30

Hello. Many of us spent the weekend dodging the downpours. Some fared

better than others for sunshine, north-west Scotland, Northern

Ireland throughout today, Cornwall, but the weather stays up-and-down

and changeable through the week. The start of the week was briefly dry

and warm but it won't last, low pressure back on Wednesday and as

the wet weather comes back it will be windier. We have some rain out

there at the moment across much of northern England, North Wales into

the Midlands and it pushes further south with heavier bursts in East

Anglia through the night. Clearer skies in the west, fog patches

developing in Northern Ireland, a few rural spots across western parts

of the UK, dipping into single figures. And east-west split across

the UK tomorrow, for the Midlands and much of eastern and

south-eastern England rather cloudy, quite cool especially where easy

outbreaks of rain pushing east, a few sunny spells in