The drive to promote healthy eating in schools in London is giving rise to an unexpected black market in junk food among children who are refusing to change their eating habits.
Enterprising children have always found a way around school bans - from cigarettes to catapults - and their trading patch has tended to be out of sight, behind the bike sheds.
At a school in north-west London, a 17-year-old sixth-form pupil says some children at his school, in lower years, are selling soft drink cans from their schoolbags.
He asks not to be identified and talks on condition that the name of his school is not publicised.
"The food available in the canteen is limited to jacket potatoes or pasta," says the boy, who gets around the rules by organising regular lunchtime car trips to McDonald's or Subway.
"Driving off the premises means we can have sugary or fatty alternatives to the food they serve in school.
These kids need to be taught to respect the school rules so that they can be future law abiding citizens, productive and useful to society. Schools will have to do more to stop such problems at its source. Making money by illegal means is wrong and students should learn good conduct as future leaders will emerge from them.
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