04/05/2014 The Papers

acrobats are injured after an aerial platform collapses at a circus in

the US state of Rhode Island. One is said to

condition. Time for a look at the front pages.

Thank you for joining us. The Guardian has the release of Gerry

Adams from police custody tonight. It says he insists his party still

supports the police. The Telegraph has a picture of Gerry Adams at his

news conference this evening. The other main story is news that there

has been an increase in the number of housing estates being pushed by

developers in England. A warning by the fertility expert Professor

Robert Winston is the Daily Mail's tops story. Breakthroughs in IVF

could see rich parents paying for smarter children. According to the

Times, fraud in the care system has almost double in one year, as

middle`class families try to hide their tax assets. The investigation

into the disappearance of Madeline McCann continues. Pensions will be

boosted by a 15 year boom in stocks and shares. Allegations that two

students at a school in the Midlands tried to poison their teacher.

We will begin with how some of the newspapers are covering the release

of Gerry Adams this evening. No charges for the Sinn Fein leader

after four days in custody over a 1972 murder. I suppose this is the

indication that people would be looking for after the very strong

words that Martin McGuinness had for the police about the timing of their

decision to question Gerry Adams now and whether Gerry Adams would

continue in a similar fashion. Absolutely. Great relief here and in

Northern Ireland. The tone that Gerry Adams struck upon being

released. There were genuine concerns and fiery rhetoric from

both sides, actually, that the peace process in which so many people have

invested so much time and energy could have been on the brink of

falling apart. That seems to have receded with the way that Gerry

Adams has behaved and responded since he was released by the police,

although the charges against him have not completely gone away. A

file has been handed to the prosecution and Jean McConville's

family says they will pursue a civil case in any eventuality. It is not

that easy for everyone to go along with this but to show that sort of

intention made him look very statesmanlike. Of course, the family

in this case will be pushing for other avenues if there are no

charges, but as Gerry Adams said himself upon his release, loss of

the strongest supporters of the peace process are victims

themselves. `` many of the strongest supporters. Many people have

invested an awful lot in this process. I wonder how much of a

miscalculation it was by Sinn Fein to be so robust in their criticism

of the police and how much of a miscalculation it was by the police

to choose this point in the middle of an election campaign to question

him. On the Sinn Fein rhetoric, it does play into their hands for their

support base to say that the timing seems political when they are in the

middle of an election campaign. You are right. The timing seems slightly

odd. Derry Adams says he has made himself available to the police in

numerous cases and there is the sense that this could have been

handled badly. He was possibly more conciliatory than a lot of people

would have expected, James, in terms of taking responsibility for

accepting that Republicans need to take responsibility, any of those

groups who are responsible for people being killed or disappeared.

He went quite a long way to apologise for that. Absolutely. He

said he very much supports the process of trying to find the

remaining bodies that are yet to be found. He said his main complaint

about his time in prison was that the food was so terrible. He was

using humour. He went a long way to try to ease the tensions that have

been mounting over the weekend. But four days and 33 recorded

interviews? Police now have those tapes which they may have not

expected to have the opportunity to get. Whether the content will ever

see the light of day in our lifetime we do not know but it's an

extraordinary amount of time they have had to ask him a lot of

questions. Yes but you would not expect anything else. If police call

in a suspect in a crime they are trying to get to the bottom of, they

go through that process. It might have been a shorter period of time

than four days but justice has been allowed to take its course. The

police made their case in court and the court granted that extra time to

question him. This file is still live. It has not been... They could

have asked for even more time. It can be up to 28 days. The police

cannot change their methods or determination to get to the truth

just because of who they have got in front of them. And he made that

point as well. He said he did not expect to receive special treatment

or not to be called in if that was what they wanted to do. Care home

fraud soars among the middle classes. People trying to hide

assets to avoid having to pay fees when their elderly or infirm

relatives have to go in to care homes. 82% increase in the amount of

money lost to councils each year. Isn't this what many people will try

to do? To be honest, if you know that your home may possibly have to

be sold or remortgaged to pay for care, many people would be tempted

to try this, wouldn't they? Yes. And this figure does sound shocking. So

shocking that they have used it twice in the space of three

sentences. But if you look at the figures, the money involved is very

small. The 82% increase takes you to ?4 million. It sounds like a lot of

money but nationally, it's not. And there is a 64% rise to 200 cases.

These figures are small, particularly when you bear in mind

that it also says that councils lose ?2 billion per year in fraud. What

is most interesting, I think, is what one of the experts said. He

says that the capacity that there is for fraud in the system... Even two

cases a year could lose a council the best part of ?500,000. There is

a massive potential there and it does seem to be a problem. Should

people just pay the money? Do you have sympathy? Absolutely I have

sympathy. People go through an awful time if you have a relative who has

to go into this kind of care. What it does speak to is the skyhigh cost

of care in this country and people feeling that they want to care for

their loved ones and not have to lose their house to do it. I had no

idea that someone from the Sun would be so soft on benefit fraud! It

might seem like a hypocritical position to take... It might. But

having to sell your home to keep your grandmother alive... I'm not

defending people who defraud the benefit system that many of them are

quite serious situations as well. I'm seeing a more human and caring

side from you and your employers. I'm a very caring person. Thank you.

You have not disappointed. Former Tony Blair adviser says the party

should mandate to increase the burden on the rich. Labour is being

urged to come clean with us all and admit they will have to raise taxes

after the next general election. He advised Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.

He is very nice and very bright but I think he has got this wrong. They

should not admit to it or they should not raise taxes? Talking

about raising taxes is not ideal ahead of an election. They should be

discreet to the point of lying to us? Lying is a very strong word. I

don't think there is anyone who thinks their taxes will not go off.

I just don't think we should go on banging on about it. This is going

to be a disaster for Labour. It will take the Tories 30 seconds to bring

out their old campaign posters. It also does not chime with Ed Miliband

's cost cost`of`living crisis agenda. But it would not be all of

us who would be taxed, it would be those of us who can afford to be.

It's what both parties call hard`working people, as if people

who earn lots of money don't work hard. I don't know how they think

the money is coming to them. This is someone in labour making it clear

that Labour will try to tax everybody. It does say middle and

higher income. What we... We have the Tories and Labour trying to

outbid each other on tax cuts. `` the Tories and the Liberal

Democrats. And it's exactly what they were talking about before the

last election. You just said that honesty was not a good idea! I'm

just saying that there is a false debate going on now and it would be

an unwise politician who decided to jump in. He is not just saying it is

Labour who should come clean, the Conservatives should as well.

Whoever is in power is going to have to raise tax. The Conservatives have

come close and we will probably see as we get closer to the election, to

saying that the consolidation that comes around... That is the Holy

Grail for George scored. To say that Ed Miliband has called for tax rises

but for him to say that balancing the budget will then become through

cutting the state. He will probably come to the election with a sort of

Ronald Reagan 's vision. The all`new how well that went. George Osborne

would love to do that. George Osborne told us all sorts of things

that he would do in terms of balancing the books and sorting out

the economy before the last election that has not happened. All

politicians do that, don't they? We will be told all sorts of things

that when they get into power it will be, we have not seen the books

and it is all worse than we thought and so on. And this is complicated

by the fact that we may have coalition negotiations again. Isn't

that a great thing? If they go in saying no tax cuts and then they can

just blame the Liberal Democrats. I thought that was exactly what they

were planning to do. The Daily Telegraph. David Cameron says he

resents higher fares in school holidays full of travel companies

deliberately put up their prices of wood into the Prime Minister. He is

calling for schools to stagger templates to help families with

young children. He is also suggesting that the long summer

holiday that we have all got used to is out of date. How many people will

believe that David Cameron struggles to pay for his summer holiday? I

think they will be glad to feel that he is feeling the same pain as them.

Whether they feel malicious enough to question that, I don't think many

people will do that. It's an easy leap from one fought to the next,

isn't it? I don't think people will be that malicious. Not malicious,

just hard up. A man who is worth the best part of ?4 million and takes

home that much money per year and lives in a nice house in central

London while renting out his Notting Hill mansion... Looked after the

pennies and the pounds will look after themselves. This is very

prudent that you should try to save everywhere, whether that means

flying easyJet or taking the National Express to Cornwall.

Samantha Cameron is going to hate you for saying that. They will have

to do it now. You could go with them. Would you like that? You could

take them to Cornwall on the Sun boss. Some people I knew were

horrified by and they were going on holiday in the next bay around from

him. What do you think about staggering school holidays? It is

happening in some areas. But I don't understand how you will avoid that

kind of super peak. There will always be a core of a few weeks

holiday. You can go whenever you like. I cannot go in the middle of

the parliamentary calendar. I suffer the penalty without having the

children. Let's move on to the Financial Times. Mindfulness gives

financiers have something to think about. Fast paced financiers are

embracing this Buddhist idea. I don't suppose it is really grasping

the right idea to say that I don't have time for mindfulness? I had

never really heard of it until this weekend. Now this is the second

article in two days that I have read about it. I don't know, maybe I am

lucky, but I have never felt the need to turn to meditation. That's

because you work for a Sunday newspaper and only have to write

once a week. Lots of time to sit and contemplate. Would it fit with a

journalist's deadlines to be mindful? Or Mac I can't really work

out when to do it. I don't know when bankers managed to do it `` I can't

really work out when to do it. If you sat there contemplating, I don't

know what you contemplate. Eating one Raisin at a time. That is what

you are encouraged to do. I haven't tried it, I have to say `` raisin.

It will confront greed, materialism, and income inequality. Who knew it

could do so much? We will see if it works. That's it for The Papers

tonight. Thank you Craig and James. Stay with us here on BBC News: At

midnight we'll have much more on what Gerry Adams had to say after

being released from police custody tonight, without charge. But coming

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