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all the rugby union results, as well as a look ahead to the weekend's FA | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Cup third round. All that and more in 15 minutes after the papers. | :00:00. | :00:14. | |
Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
us tomorrow. With me are Alison Phillips, editor of the Mirror | :00:20. | :00:21. | |
Weekend, and freelance Parliamentary correspondent Rob Merrick. Both of | :00:22. | :00:28. | |
you refreshed from the festive break. The front pages. | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
David Cameron's apparent frustration at the lack of female Conservative | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
candidates for the next election is the Independent's lead story. | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
The Daily Mail says GPs are being paid ?1500 a shift to work nights | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
and weekends in overstretched A departments. | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
The Financial Times highlights seven US technology firms which paid just | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
?54 million in corporation tax in 2012. | :00:51. | :00:55. | |
"Mad Dad" is the headline on the Mirror. It shows a father and | :00:56. | :01:04. | |
daughter almost swept away by a 20-foot wave in Cornwall. | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
The Sun says Only Fools and Horses is set to make a comeback to our TV | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
screens. The Daily Telegraph leads on a | :01:11. | :01:12. | |
warning from the Business Secretary, Vince Cable, that rising house | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
prices could cause another property bubble. | :01:16. | :01:17. | |
The Times says developers could be allowed to destroy ancient woodland | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
if they agree to plant 100 trees for each one felled. | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
And The Guardian says that the increasing number of people with | :01:24. | :01:25. | |
long-term medical problems is threatening to overwhelm the NHS. | :01:26. | :01:36. | |
That is where we will start, with the Guardian and the cost of | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
long-term care. 70% of the budget, is the subheading, goes to | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
conditions like heart disease and diabetes. I suppose part of this is | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
because we have an ageing population. Yes, and in years to | :01:49. | :01:56. | |
come we will find we have an ageing population but also a population | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
leading a more unhealthy lifestyle. Some of the diabetes illness is | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
related to obesity, so there will be twin problems for the NHS to cope | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
with. At the moment, we just can't see much hope that it is equipped to | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
deal with this problem. Every day we hear more stories from A that it | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
is creaking under the pressure. This says the NHS will have to have a | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
rethink about how it cares for these patients. Short of casting them | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
adrift, I do not know what that means. The interview does not | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
provide answers. It is with somebody in charge of coping with people with | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
long-term conditions for the NHS. It seems familiar because we have read | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
this story many times but the figures are stark. 70% of the NHS | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
budget goes on people with long-term conditions. I was struck by the | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
quotes which give it the extra bite because the doctor says, he would | :02:54. | :02:56. | |
say to the health care equivalent of climate change, which makes you | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
think. It makes the point that lifestyle factors are reckoned to be | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
part of the problem - smoking, drinking, overheating. Once you have | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
developed diabetes of that sort through poor lifestyle, that is it. | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
It is not going away. You can manage it but there is no cure. There are | :03:17. | :03:23. | |
also societal issues, in that 1500 years ago, people would be cared for | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
with their families. Now that has changed. There are also issues about | :03:28. | :03:35. | |
the form of care from GPs. Many of those patients are shunted into | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
hospital. There seem to be a lot of stalls in the health service and | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
care homes, and these poor patients are slipping between the gaps. The | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
suggestion is that GPs will have to take up the slack, but the way GPs | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
operate, the way we access care, often through a GP, that will have | :03:55. | :04:01. | |
to change to accommodate this. GPs have increasing independence under | :04:02. | :04:03. | |
the changes the government has made so I do not know how easy it will be | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
to persuade or force them to change how they operate. One of the | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
criticisms of the government's health changes is that they | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
concentrated on opening up the NHS to the private sector. Many critics | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
would say that that missed the real target, this crisis which is about | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
over one the NHS. There has been a suggestion that people would not get | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
treatment if they did not change their habits. If they were a smoker | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
they would be expected to stop smoking before they would get a lung | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
transplant. There have been those suggestions, but in reality, is it | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
going to happen? We are now looking at situations where pretty much from | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
birth, even from pregnancy, you have babies being born witch doctors know | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
will be prone to diabetes and obesity later in life. These are | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
huge problems across society and it is a much bigger thing than just the | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
NHS to deal with. Society will have to deal with these problems. | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
Childhood obesity, schools try to talk about it but it is not schools | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
that provide the food morning, noon and night. It is bigger than food. | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
It is about exercise and people's feelings of self-worth. I will just | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
echo that. I am not sure anyone has the answers. This story is trying to | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
put it on the agenda. White crow just another NHS story we are | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
reading about. Staying with the Guardian. We did not mean to go to | :05:28. | :05:34. | |
see, is the headline here. This is the picture of two people who you | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
can probably see. They look quite happy, really. Two residents of Shaw | :05:38. | :05:46. | |
in West Sussex, watching as the river rises around their home. It is | :05:47. | :05:53. | |
a fantastic picture because they look like they are on a boat. | :05:54. | :06:00. | |
Extraordinary. There are any number of striking pictures. My favourite | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
was someone who sent in photos of a 1p coin and the hailstones were | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
bigger than that. But that is not as serious as the situation facing | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
these two. If they are managing to watch, you look remarkably cheerful. | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
Elsewhere, we saw the picture of a man holding his child as the waves | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
came crashing in. There have been pictures which have shown the | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
severity of the storms. People taking risks. The one thing we are | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
advised not to do is to head to the coast and look at the waves, and yet | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
people choose to do that. There are nine severe warnings, meaning a | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
threat to life. The experts say the biggest threat to life is people who | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
treat it as a tourist attraction and put themselves in the way of the | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
waves. He does not hold much appeal to me, I have to say. I am happy to | :06:51. | :06:58. | |
watch from the TV studio. Let's have a look at the Independent. | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
Conservatives snub female candidates, says an exclusive indie | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
Independent. Fewer than one in three women have been selected so far in | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
Tory constituencies, a frustration for Cameron, we understand. This is | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
an ongoing problem for the Prime Minister who does not seem to be | :07:17. | :07:19. | |
able to get out of this problem. It is often said he has a problem with | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
women, they must be having said to a Labour MP, calm down, dear. He has | :07:24. | :07:30. | |
been criticised as being sexist. And he has a huge political problem, in | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
that Labour's poll lead is largely explained by women voters switching | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
to labour and turning away from the Conservatives. One way to win them | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
back might be to increase the female representation in powerful | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
positions, but this says that if the Conservatives do badly at the next | :07:47. | :07:48. | |
general election he would end up with fewer women MPs. The | :07:49. | :07:55. | |
composition of Cabinet is lacking. He has just about managed to get in | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
more women than people who have been to Eton. Just about. It is a bit | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
rich for him to be going on about activists not doing enough to | :08:05. | :08:06. | |
Anchorage women. He is the boss and has to lead by example. If he | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
believes he wants to have an equal Cabinet and an equal number of Tory | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
MPs, he has to show through policy-making that that is what he | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
believes. Could it be there are not enough women coming forward of the | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
right quality? But then why not? Because they obviously feel they are | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
not required, not wanted. There is a feeling that Conservative | :08:30. | :08:32. | |
associations would still rather pick a man. That is the traditional way. | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
Is that the case, or are we buying into a stereotype? Stereotypes are | :08:38. | :08:46. | |
there for a reason. Plenty of women have come forward but remarkably few | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
end up making it. There are only four of the 27 members of the | :08:51. | :08:56. | |
Cabinet who are women, which is scandalously low, of course. The | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
Prime Minister has taken to inviting ever more people to attend Cabinet | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
on particular days, to bump up the number of women. That is a valid | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
point. If you have a small number of women in Cabinet, that sends a | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
message to grassroot activists that actually, we will have a few women | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
to make it look OK, windowdressing, but we do not really believe in it. | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
Is there not an issue about who would want to be an MP for the | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
reputational reasons, that MPs get criticised a lot, and also the hours | :09:28. | :09:35. | |
that they keep? Many women... They have maybe hours more child | :09:36. | :09:38. | |
friendly. If you look at the statistics, you have more Labour | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
women MPs than conservatives. It cannot be purely about that and must | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
be something about the way they are operating. It is not regarded as | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
desirable. Often women decide to quit, perhaps less because of the | :09:55. | :09:57. | |
hours and more about the way that Parliament operates. Everybody has | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
seen Prime Minister 's questions, and it is so match and appeals less | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
to women. Then there is the idea of positive discrimination, having | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
quotas, which many women are uncomfortable with. They want to be | :10:11. | :10:13. | |
picked because they are the best, not because of their gender. The | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
first issue should be that if as a party they are putting forward women | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
friendly policies and have a proper attitude towards women, away from | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
the calm down, dear, mentality, which seems pervasive, that should | :10:31. | :10:33. | |
be the first step. If they truly do want to do something about it. | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
Ancient woods face axe in drive for homes. Government plan to offess | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
loss of habitat, the idea that if you fell one tree in an ancient | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
woodland a developer would have to plant 100 others to replace it. | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
Ancient woodland, of course, dear to our hearts and with environmental | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
reasons for good cause. We are reading about property prices and | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
how the price of an average property has gone up yet again, so we're | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
under pressure to build more houses. Yes, ancient woodland is something | :11:09. | :11:11. | |
that really touches people's hearts. The last time I was here I got | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
ticked off by somebody for suggesting that ancient woodland | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
might have to go to make sure for a train line. I will be more careful | :11:21. | :11:23. | |
this time. I thought it was a striking story that you could fell | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
ancient trees, you know, simply by planting new ones. I suppose I find | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
that surprising. I certainly think it's going to be politically | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
dangerous for the Government. Everybody remembers that one of the | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
most high-profile U-turns the Government has made was over the | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
sale of woodland, of course. That was perhaps the first time there was | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
a huge internet campaign, massive groundswell of opinion against that | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
which forced the Government to think again. That was over the issue of | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
woodland. Keep being told that Britain is one of the least wooded | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
countries in Europe, with the land that's not under ancient woodland, | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
can't we find somewhere else to build houses? It's terribly sad. | :12:03. | :12:05. | |
It's not just the number of trees you'd be losing, it is the part of | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
the history of that area. It's the part of the story of what that area | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
has given to its local community and its local area. Once that has gone, | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
that's gone forever. Yes, you'd get the same number of trees, by | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
offsetting and planting elsewhere, but you're never going to recreate | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
that history and that environment and all the natural habitat that's | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
been in there for 400 years. Since 1600. And the biodiversity, the | :12:28. | :12:36. | |
Flora and fauna that makes its home there. But we have a massive problem | :12:37. | :12:39. | |
with house prices but there are brown field sites that need to be | :12:40. | :12:42. | |
looked at and land owners holding onto land that need to be looked at. | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
Let's look at the Sun: It makes you smile the most you read this | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
headline: Lovely jubly, TV exclusive says the Sun, Only Fools to return. | :12:54. | :13:00. | |
Clearly the BBC thinks that there is an audience out there to bring it | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
back. I get two emotions. The first, the warm glow that everybody feels, | :13:06. | :13:08. | |
almost everybody's favourite programme and it would be great if | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
it returned. I read that The Script will be read by John Sullivan's son, | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
John is the creator, so we can only hope that The Script writing genius | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
is genetic there. The second emotion is worry that most reunions don't | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
end happy. Monty Python, everybody is a bit uneasy about that. When the | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
Stone Roses reformed people were queuing to get out of the gig early. | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
The conditions inside. Would you be happen why I to see them back? I | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
think the last two Christmas specials they did, they weren't as | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
funny, towards the end. When people think about only fools and horses, | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
the great moments when he fell through the bar hatch, they were | :13:52. | :13:54. | |
just hillarious and whether you could match that, who knows. , it | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
ain't what it used to be. We'll see. It will be on TV in the spring, | :13:59. | :14:01. | |
we're told. That's the papers for this hour. Allison and Rob will be | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
back again with us at 11. 30pm for another look at the stories making | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
the front pages. Now on BBC News, it's time for Sportsday. | :14:10. | :14:24. | |
And welcome to Sportsday. I'm Lizzie Greenwood-Hughes. Waking up to a | :14:25. | :14:30. | |
whitewash? England will resume day two of the final Ashes Test in under | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
an hour's time, 318 runs behind Australia. It's Arsenal v Tottenham | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
in a big weekend of FA Cup action. | :14:41. | :14:44. |