A girl whose brain was accidentally injected with glue during treatment at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital is to receive a multimillion-pound damages payout.

Twin baby girls mauled by a fox as they slept remained in hospital today as London Mayor Boris Johnson said councils should “focus on their duties for pest control”.

Baby Peter could have been saved if managers at a London hospital where he was treated had listened to fears raised by senior doctors more than a year before the toddler’s death, a consultant paediatrician said today.