14/08/2014 The Papers

Andy Murray is through to the finals. `` wins silver.

Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing

us tomorrow. With me are Kate Devlin, the Westminster

correspondent for the Herald, and Amol Rajan, editor of the

Independent. The Daily Mail headlines the police

search of a property in Berkshire owned by Sir Cliff Richard, in

connection with an allegation of a sexual nature dating back to the

1980s. Sir Cliff says he's totally innocent.

The Sun says the pop star faces questioning by police when he

returns from his holiday in Portugal. That story also features

on front page of The Daily Telegraph. The paper also headlines

the thousands have been saved from Mount

Sinjar. The Financial Times leads with the news that eurozone recovery

has shuddered to a halt. The Guardian reports that the UK is

ready to arm Kurds to help forces fighting IS. And it pictures

teachers jumping with joy after the success

Staying with A`level results, the Times says exams are ending the

class divide as poorer teenagers are ignoring debt worries and are

surging into universities. Finally, the Independent pictures the

controversial Russian aid convey bound for the Ukraine. It has exams

on the front page, too. It's headline ` 'Gove gets his A`level

results'. `` its headline.

That's one of my favourite headlines tonight. Let's look at The Daily

Mail. One of a number of papers that has the allegations regarding Sir

Cliff Richard on its front page. I'm totally innocent, it says. Police

raid his home after claims of sexual assault. He denies that there is any

truth in these allegations. He is out of the country at the moment but

says he will co`operate with police fully. Moving onto the Times. It

poised to armed Kurdish forces against

help tackle the jihadists who have taken over a huge swathe of Iraq and

Syria. and meanwhile large swathes of Syria

and north`western Iraq have been taken over by the Islamic State.

What this story signifies is that Britain is now involved in military

operations in Iraq. It's a different Iraq to that which was invaded by

the West many years ago and it is different involvement. Technical

support, surveillance. But Britain is engaged in that region again. The

idea is to help the PKK, this Turkish group, fight the onslaught

of Isis. `` Kurdish group. The UK and US will want to make that

distinction, but it is not troops on the ground. That's right, but I

think they will also be quite keen to make sure that it answers the

people they've been quite annoyed about all week, the people who think

something must be done. We've seen quite a few Conservative MPs, some

very high profile, former senior army people as well making that kind

of argument. There's been quite a bit of frustration in Downing Street

about that. People have been putting a lot of pressure on without

understanding how difficult it is to make these decisions. This will at

least say, we are doing something. But the public point of view surely

will be somewhat moved by the plight of the Aussie `` Yazidis in

particular? The line that came out today, they say things are as bad on

the mountain as they fault. The Yazidis, the persecuted minority,

are being helped, which is a good thing. `` are as bad as they feared.

But people will be moved by the humanitarian situation and they will

also be moved by what IS are doing. These guys are mediaeval in their

outlook and are killing on site at the moment. There will be some

impulse to try to resist their advance. Staying with the Times, the

A`level results. Exams and class divide, it says. A`levels results

sees poorer people surging into university and A`level pupils from

Ashford in Surrey who are invited to form part to open their envelopes.

It will be interesting to see the divide between what girls and boys

are getting. Often we say girls surge ahead. We haven't got the

break down yet. Interesting if this headline turns out to be true, that

people say it will cost me money but I'll go anyway to university because

in the long run it will pay me to do it. I think it's a great picture for

lots of reasons. It is a version of the classic girls jumping up and

A`level results and they look so happy. So pleased. It is probably a

really good year to be going to university. We saw today that people

are getting offers of iPad is, `` iPads, one university is offering

students free flights home. But I just wonder if maybe there is a bit

of a sting in the tail, that more people are going to university...

The government says it is what it wants to do but they also say it

will cost a lot of money. The way they say they will pay for it is

they will sell off the student loans book. Vince Cable said that wasn't

going to happen a couple of weeks ago, not least because they wouldn't

be able to get enough money for it. There's a financial reckoning coming

form this today. `` coming from. Political context is interesting.

The way in which the Times have presented this. This idea that the

results and is the class divide comes after years of protests over

tuition fees. Many people worry `` people worry that's resulting in

some people not going to university. We have some evidence that free

schools are sending people to top universities. This is a politically

loaded story. Let's look at the Guardian Row. We have to give the

teachers some credit. Jumping for joy. `` Guardian. People from

Bristol celebrating their success. What strikes me as peculiar is all

these years when teachers have been knocked because their results have

gone up, this year they aren't getting criticised even though

results have gone down a little bit. It seems back to front. I don't

think teachers can win. They feel very persecuted. They get all this

interference. I don't want to compare them to the Yazidis, which

is very different, but teachers in Britain feel they can't do anything

right. A `` A`levels is a wonderful story of achievement. We should be

applauding all of the students today. Absolutely. The Independent.

Collision course. Eastern Europe edges closer to war, why is the

Western looking the other way? This is an aid convoy, according to

Moscow, that's taking aid to rebel held areas in Ukraine. The suspicion

in Kiev is there is some kind of military support mustering on the

border. The thing that's incredible about this story is that with most

complex, with most hotspots around the world, you can get a pretty

decent grasp of what's going on when you speak to state agencies and

journalists on the ground. The fact is there's an extraordinary

propaganda exercise going on. There are 300 big vans heading from Moscow

to the eastern edge of the Ukraine. Moscow says they are full of aid and

are to support the people of Ukraine. Ukrainians are they aren't

sure about that, this doesn't make sense to us. So, guitar to know

what's going on. What we can be sure of is many vehicles are moving

towards Ukraine and will reach there soon. `` it's hard to know. Someone

said the other day to me, a Russian friend, why isn't this being

reported further up the bulletins? Because more than 2000 people have

died since the middle of April. Yes. There has been a lot of reporting.

Part of it has been it has been difficult to work out what is going

on and part of it has been that the international community has

struggled to respond to this. What this definitely shows is that Russia

is not backing down. We've had a massive increase in sanctions a

couple of weeks ago and it's basically a huge 300 law white van

convoy, saying we won't back down. `` long. Talks over the Stirling.

This is in the Scotsman. The suggestion is that technical talks

have or haven't taken place between the yes for independence campaign

and the Bank of England. In some ways it is an argument over

definitions but what it really shows is that Alex Salmond is finding it

impossible to change the conversation and he isn't being able

to change the conversation away from what an `` what currency and

independent Scotland would have. This argument on the front pages

about whether or not they have the technical discussion, not that

they've actually set you can't have Stirling. It's about whether or not

the conversation took face. It doesn't make much sense. On the one

hand, the finance secretary says they have had discussions. The Bank

of England says they haven't. Presumably they've had some kind of

discussion but it's a question about whether it is technical discussion,

what about the currency. It is a strange story. It looks like the

vote is going to go towards staying together. It is an incredibly hot

subject. As you say, this issue of the currency just won't go away. You

are close to the star. He wouldn't have predicted 12 months ago that it

was all about the currency. Someone decided strategically to go over the

`` go after the currency. It's a real pound in your pocket argument

and it seems to be hitting home. At this stage, the SNP would not want

the main thing... This is on the front of our newspaper as well. They

wouldn't want a massive row with the Bank of England a couple of weeks

before this. It would affect their credibility. Yes. I think Mark

Carney has also left a problem for the UK government, because he

announced yesterday that he was doing contingency planning for an

independent Scotland. There's a lot of pressure now on the UK

government, which has said for months that it is doing no

contingency planning. The Ministry of Defence insisted this afternoon

that it was still doing no planning... Coming really believe

the Bank of England wouldn't do something and have a think about it?

Contingency planning is what they do at the Bank of England! You would

hope so! The Ministry of Defence is claiming that it isn't doing it.

There is a contingency planning committee somewhere, I'm sure. If

there is a yes vote, I feel a very senior servant will be able to go to

that `` the Defence Secretary and stay, we just happen to have this

report. Yes, in a bottom drawer somewhere.

Let's have a look at the Daily Mirror. Robin Williams and his

wife, Susan Scneider, on the top. It is right at the top. What are we

looking at? This is the revelation that in addition to having struggled

with drink and drug addiction of the years, and anxiety and depression,

he was having to get used to the idea of having Parkinson's disease.

It is difficult to speculate on causes but the implication of this

is one of the things that led to his sad and was a new medical

realisation. But what we discussed earlier, it is impossible for

someone like Robin Williams to grieve privately. His daughter had

to come off Twitter because of the abuse. It makes you feel sick, the

way people, because they are public figures, can't remain private. The

other thing is he was sober when it happened. It must be difficult for a

wife who has lost her husband. Some of the terms being used in very

premature. Downton Abbey is returning to our

screens. There is a picture of Lady Edith and Lord Grantham. There is a

water bottle that was left on the set. I wonder how often that

happens. It is the difficulty with recreating the period. My heart goes

out to them. It must be incredibly difficult. They have put so much

work in. It is inconceivable that it would be this much of a problem

before Twitter. It just goes out so fast. Ten years ago, they would have

done another picture. Now they are stuffed. And who cares? We are

talking about it. That is The Papers. Stay with us after midnight.

We have more details about Cliff Richard and his apartment being

searched after allegations of a historic sex offence.

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