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medal prospect is out of the competition after an accident on the | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
snowboard course, a course which several of the competitors have | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
labelled as dangerous. That is all coming up after The Papers. | :00:00. | :00:17. | |
Welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us | :00:18. | :00:23. | |
tomorrow. With me, Mina al-Oraibi, from the London based Asharq Alawsat | :00:24. | :00:31. | |
newspaper, and James Rampton, from the Independent. We are going to | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
start with the Financial Times, which is leading with a report that | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
fund managers based in Scotland could be facing a multi-million | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
pound bill to pay for a new regulator, if the Scots vote for | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
independence. The Daily Telegraph has the news that schools could be | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
encouraged to take children from as young as two to help with the | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
country's childcare crisis. Research has found that people are getting | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
more than a 10th of their daily calories from added sugar, according | :00:59. | :01:05. | |
to this report. The Guardian says experts have warned that alcohol and | :01:06. | :01:11. | |
obesity are fuelling a surge in cancer. Starting with the Daily | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
Telegraph, children to start school at the age of two, nursery places to | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
help solve childcare crisis will look it is a story which a lot of | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
people will be interested in, but is it the way forward? Well, it is | :01:24. | :01:35. | |
quite interesting. It is about how you can get mostly mothers, but also | :01:36. | :01:44. | |
fathers, back to work. These are really toddlers, at the age of two. | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
It is interesting because we have quite a few headlines regarding | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
educational reform and what the Government is trying to do to help | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
solve some of the crises. But this story refers to the fact that by the | :01:57. | :02:03. | |
end of this year, 40% of all two-year-olds, estimated to be | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
130,000 children, from poorer backgrounds, will be entitled to 15 | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
hours of free care week. This is trying to help parents to create at | :02:13. | :02:19. | |
least part-time jobs. The story is very much about facts and figures of | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
what this means for the parents, in being able to have their kids at | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
school rather than nursery. It really takes a lot of the position | :02:30. | :02:31. | |
of the Government, which is basically to say that some of the | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
schools are being supported with ?1000 grants to look into how they | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
could do this and make sure that they are accessible for these young | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
children. But it is difficult to imagine a two-year-old being in a | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
school atmosphere. So, the Telegraph is writing it up as a good idea? The | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
main thrust is taking the Government's position. I mean, they | :02:54. | :03:00. | |
do say that there is one stay at home mother who confronted Nick | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
Clegg, having said that it was too much to have a full day for a | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
two-year-old, even in nursery. So they have given the other side as | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
well. It would be interesting to know what other parents might say. I | :03:14. | :03:20. | |
think it is interesting that childcare has become a political | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
football. Perhaps it is a sign of The Times, when many families are | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
thinking about going back to work instead of staying at home. It goes | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
on to say that the Government is once again ignoring the relationship | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
that mothers have with very young children, that is according to the | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
lady they interviewed. And there is a cartoon, with somebody going into | :03:40. | :03:50. | |
work for ten hours, saying, I do not know if my phone battery will last | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
that long. A ten hour day, for a two-year-old, that is an extremely | :03:56. | :03:57. | |
demanding position to put children in! In a way, the Government is not | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
exactly coercing parents, but suggesting that it might be a very | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
good thing, and there might well be some pressure on parents to take | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
that up. And would the children suffer because of it? I think it is | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
a really personal question. Staying with the Daily Telegraph, | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
environment chief admits, I have yet to visit the Somerset Levels. The | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
Government seems to be lurching from mistake to mistake on this one, in | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
the eyes of some people. Well, they are being flooded with stories! Last | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
year, a minister forgot his boots and got criticised for wearing shiny | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
shoes, and got some the citrus comments about the lack of dredging | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
which had taken place. And now, another PR disaster, Lord Smith | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
admitting that he had visited three or four times before, but not in the | :04:49. | :04:56. | |
last few weeks. The local MP is calling for the resignation of the | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
minister. He says it is the story of his entire tenure at the head of | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
this bloated organisation, plenty of talk and no action, as he puts it. | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
But the Daily Telegraph has come up with some fantastic stats. They have | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
found out that the agency spent nearly ?10,000 on business class | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
flights to attend a forest day in Durban, South Africa, to discuss the | :05:20. | :05:22. | |
role of trees in mitigating climate change. If that was in a Jonathan | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
Swift novel, you would say it was impossible. And all of this added to | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
the fact that you are wading through water in your front room, and you | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
pick up the phone to call the helpline, and you have got to pay | :05:37. | :05:44. | |
41p a minute! Exactly. It suggests the agency has spent nearly ?18 | :05:45. | :05:53. | |
million on travel and subsistence, which is any credible figure. The | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
issue of Lord Smith visiting is, it is always a dilemma, because it can | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
become a photo opportunity. But if you go to try to pretend that you | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
are caring, are you actually making a difference?! You are damned if you | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
do, and damned if you don't. But maybe you should take the line, I | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
will take the photo Op, because at least you can be seen to be down | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
there. It is catastrophic what is happening in that area. Some people | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
have been marooned, literally, for four weeks. They cannot get | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
insurance, they could be wiped out by this. And the fact that he has | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
not been smacks to me of, let them eat cake. I am too busy in London, | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
defending the cities, as he said the other day. You remember when George | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
W Bush flew over New Orleans. They said that was the turning point in | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
his presidency, more than the invasion of Iraq, the fact that he | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
seemed to care so little about the people who had been devastated I | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
hurricane Katrina. I wonder if that could be the same for this | :06:59. | :07:10. | |
government. Moving on to the Financial Times - a warning about a | :07:11. | :07:18. | |
possible yes vote and the fact that a new regulator would have to be put | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
in place, which would cost a lot of money. Yes, and also the indications | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
of what it would mean for the Scottish economy, and also, those | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
companies which are UK companies but based in Scotland. It is an | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
interesting conversation, as we have less than nine months to go. It is | :07:37. | :07:44. | |
quite significant, because it says that firstly, it would cost millions | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
to do, and also, that fund managers would need to tailor their products | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
and services for a new tax and consumer protection regulator, | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
everything would change. A potential new currency! Exactly. It comes | :08:00. | :08:07. | |
after the statement from Mark Carney as well. I think we will see more | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
and more of these stories. I am sure the SNP would say that they have | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
looked into all of this, and yes, they understand that there is | :08:18. | :08:19. | |
Brobbel be good to be a financial penalty to pay. They would say that, | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
wouldn't they?! But it seems to me that it may not have been a full | :08:26. | :08:32. | |
consultation which has taken place. There is one consultant mentioned | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
here who said that he spoke to an American fund manager who told him | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
that a yes vote would be bad news for Scottish fund managers. Hundreds | :08:41. | :08:47. | |
of jobs would have to be created to staff the new agency, and the new | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
agency would then have to work in tandem with the old agency in | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
London. A new raft of regulation and red tape would be brought in, | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
creating a huge new level of bureaucracy, it is the last thing | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
business wants. Fund management is a big sector in Scotland. I think it | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
is worth ?520 billion. Scotland invented many of these things, to | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
clergymen in 1748 invented the assurance fund. It is a great | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
heritage in that country. -- two clergymen. Sticking with the | :09:22. | :09:32. | |
Financial Times, news about the new head of the Federal Reserve, and she | :09:33. | :09:35. | |
has got a tough job, to say the least? Yes, and of course, the | :09:36. | :09:43. | |
figures coming in today, saying that there has been a stumbling in the | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
markets in the US. It also says the Dow Jones has had its worst January | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
performance since 2009. And that is always a bad year in people's | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
heads, with the financial crisis. So, she comes into a very tough | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
position. She has for years in her new job, and this is a good photo of | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
her swearing the oath. She is the first woman in the job. James, the | :10:08. | :10:14. | |
fact is, the global economy, actually, in contrast to that in the | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
UK, seems to be stumbling at the moment, because of concerns about | :10:21. | :10:28. | |
Asia? Exactly, I believe the Dow fell 2% today. Welcome to the | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
pleasure dome, for this woman! It is an extremely turbulent time for the | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
markets. On a different note, it is amazing that it is a woman in this | :10:38. | :10:44. | |
role. For so long, it was seen as a bastion of the patriarch a of the | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
financial world. For anyone who has seen The Wolf Of Wall Street, | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
traditionally, a very match oh, Mail industry. It is an extremely | :10:52. | :11:03. | |
exciting film, but the fact that a woman is finally in charge I ink is | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
to refit. But she does have stormy seas ahead of her. Moving onto this | :11:09. | :11:21. | |
one, in the Metro... Stopped drinking those sugary drinks! | :11:22. | :11:29. | |
I am alarmed by this because we might be putting our health at risk. | :11:30. | :11:36. | |
Research is suggesting that we might have a raised risk of a heart attack | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
if we drink sugar through fizzy drinks because the sugar is inserted | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
after the event, and apparently that can be much more damaging to your | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
health. This was just one Canada Day. As little as one can today. -- | :11:52. | :12:00. | |
one can per day. Sugar addiction is interesting and the impact that | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
sugar has. We had this with salt while ago and now we have sugar. | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
Clearly it not good for you. It is incredibly saying that 15%... Let me | :12:11. | :12:19. | |
read this. The risk of dying from cardiovascular disease notably rises | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
with intake of 15%, equivalent of drinking one can of fizzy drink in | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
the daily diet. It is quite something. It has moved from | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
cigarettes on to saturated fats and now it is targeting sugar. That | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
seems to be what they are going for now. We see the stories all the | :12:41. | :12:48. | |
time. I am going back to one the other great Scottish exports, | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
whiskey. Joking aside, the strings are often marketed at children. | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
There was a big campaign to take fizzy drinks machines out of schools | :13:00. | :13:02. | |
because there was possibly a reality and a perception that children were | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
drinking too much but this research backs up how dangerous they can be. | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
There is also fruit drinks that have added sugar. We always think of | :13:12. | :13:18. | |
sugary drinks, but the University of Cambridge says that sugar sweetened | :13:19. | :13:25. | |
drinks need to be part of the conversation. It is something that | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
you can eliminate from your diet. Having water with meals and so on. | :13:32. | :13:38. | |
Processed food, right, all manner of things, you would not expect sugar | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
to be in them but it is there. The hidden danger. The authorities, the | :13:44. | :13:50. | |
papers and The Metro are making sure the public know all about that. You | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
will be back in an hour to look at more stories making the headlines. | :13:55. | :14:02. | |
And at 11 o'clock we will have more on the education secretary's | :14:03. | :14:05. | |
comments today that he wants state-run schools to be more like | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
those in the private sector. Your local comp looking different is what | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
he wants. Coming up now, it is Sportsday. | :14:15. | :14:32. | |
Hello and welcome to Sportsday. On the way tonight: Chelsea | :14:33. | :14:34. |