10/02/2017 The Papers

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

With me are Rosamund Urwin, columnist at the London Evening

Standard, and Martin Lipton, deputy head of sport at The Sun.

Tomorrow's front pages, starting with...

The i leads on the Government's decision to shut down the unit it

set up to investigate allegations that British troops abused local

people while serving in Iraq, saying it's cost ?60 million.

The Daily Mail, which campaigned on that story, says the witchhunt

against British veterans cost ?60 million. The Mirror reports that a

fundraiser who collected thousands of pounds for The Sun of the rugby

is in court accused of keeping the cash. Overstretched NHS hospitals

are paying doctors ?4000 a day, according to The Times. The

Telegraph says the Apple is demanding a campaign against fake

news, which it says is killing people's minds. The Guardian claims

the government has abandoned the idea is of Donald Trump addressing

both parliaments when it comes to Britain for a state visit later this

year. The Daily Express says that the EU wants to hit the UK with a

bill of ?49 billion as part of Brexit. There is a lot to keep us

busy. And only 16 minutes to do is turn. We will start with The Daily

Mail. At last an end to the witchhunt. This is a long-running

campaign to say that these trips have had these allegations held over

them for a decade and nothing has come of it. They had put it on their

front page because they consider it their victory, although other papers

have been campaigning as well. They mention a lawyer who has been struck

off over his tank chasing tactics here. This has been something that

has put a lot of pressure on veterans who avoided been through an

awful lot. The government is the same label nb claims brought against

veterans from the Afghan conflict. This is a very popular move across

the country. Yes, there may have been things that were wrong but

where other word criminal acts they deserve to be investigated properly

and we have had cases where service men have been jailed for what they

did, which was wrong. A lot of these issues clearly were not and there

has been significant investigation that has found no basis to the

allegations made. Now they are talking about the closure of this

ongoing investigation. 3600 claims were looked at by the Iraq historic

delegation team and that will be down to 20. The most serious cases

need to be investigated, but this constant number... It has turned

into a cash cow and that is what is worrying. It has gone on for so long

because of the situation with the lawyer that had to be dealt with. We

have been talking to the former head of the British Army and he says that

we should go back to the old system and someone who understands the

military should be the first people to investigate. It would make sense.

You would want the police to look at things that go wrong in the police

and the army to look at things that have gone wrong within the army. You

would hope that they have significant sense of independence

within the organisation to judge themselves. If you really believe

that the army had batted them and they deserve the trust and respect

they get them, they have to be able to make those decisions. You have to

wonder if there might be some kind of compensation for people who have

been put through this for all these years. It has been hanging over them

for so long. Some health stories in The Times to end the week. We have

belittling at the NHS in great detail on BBC News. Hospitals pay

law comes ?4000 for a day off work. A local is a stand on Doctor who

does not have a substantive post in a hospital. They come to fill the

gaps. They can almost name their price. Hundreds of locum doctors are

paid ?100,000 a year. We know the contracts which the doctors have

been as to sign or of great concern. We have a significant issue within

the NHS which is causing problems. I sign an interview with Jeremy Hunt

where he talked in great terms about the situation and people will wonder

how it can come to this and why we cannot have a more sensible system.

We could see ?300 million a year being spent on temporary doctors.

There are massive gaps and wrote us, as any doctor will tell you, and

they have to pluck them. The alternative is that they do not plug

them with anybody. I don't think we should pay 4000 staff but we should

have sufficient staff that we don't have these gaps in the first place.

It takes years to train doctors will stop six or seven years. I have two

doctors who have gone to Australia and New Zealand and that does not

help. It explains how terrible the circumstances are. The pressure

thereunder. And sure they did not want to leave Britain necessarily.

Some will always leave but you do not want to train people and invest

in them and then they think their best option is not to stay in the

country. We need a health service we can all believe in and that is the

duty of government. At the moment there seems to be a lack of faith in

the delivery of that service. GPs add to strain on a knee by failing

to open all day. What does that mean? Most surgeries seemed to be

open from morning to evening. Less than eight hours here. Again, GPs

are incredibly stressed, all the ones I know, and people are leaving

general practice, so something does not add up here. Clearly we need GPs

to be open and we need them to be seeing elderly patients and they

need to go to their GP quickly. Otherwise they will end up in AME.

-- in A My sister-in-law is a GP and she tells is often of this sheer

demand on her time will stop it seems like there is never-ending

expectations. Lots of GPs go out to the community, not in every place,

but some of them go, and some of them are doing business but the

surgery would not qualify as being open. Jeremy Hunt says that he

recognises things are unacceptable... He has been in

charge. What about Andrew Lansley. He said it didn't help hospitals

cope but there were other parts of the system... Is it another cunning

plan the government have come up with? Be no funding to the NHS, as

much as they claim it is increasing, it is not. Maybe it is not

increasing fast enough to keep up with demand. Flexibility of demand.

Social care is another issue. Fake news is killing mines, the head of

Apple, Tim Cook, demanding a drive to educate against the scourge of

misinformation. The problem we have is that the whole concept of fake

news has now been debased by the fact that anyone who comes up with

information which is contrary to your opinion can be demeaned and

denied and branded as fake news. When you have a representative of

the most important government of the world talking about alternative fax

your going down a rocky path. Links CNN fake news to undermine them. --

calling CNN. I think what he is suggesting here is necessary. We

need to educate the people. They had a left of the top fake stories of

last year and one of them was that the Pope had supported Donald Trump,

which was complete nonsense. This is the social media echo chamber,

people that are repeating things that are nonsense because it is what

they want to believe. Is this not just down to critical thinking,

which we need to learn in school? I think there is something about being

presented with a new story that makes people think it is credible.

But you don't think... Am a journalist. But that is about being

a critical thinker. We could teach that in schools. I think it is

asking people to confront its. Sometimes people just want to

believe what they see. When people are being funnelled into a

one-dimensional view of the world, irrespective of that view is

correct, you're going to have problems. People want to believe

things that coincide with what they believe. His argument is that if you

tell children not to believe everything, they will go home and

said the same to their parents. I think that is an interesting way to

think about it. It is like children telling their parents to recycle.

The Express, the EU is warned that they will not believe us. Brussels

once ?49 billion. That sounds expensive. When you leave a club,

you have to pay leaving charge. What is it for? One of the things it is

covering is making the MEPs redundant, so that includes Nigel

Farage who want to be in Europe and is still receiving a salary. Perhaps

he won't take the redundancy... He claims his expenses and takes a

salary. Why would we pay? We have to. MPs all used to pay something if

they lost an election, and I think that has been dramatically cut. I

think we can cut this. If you are due, irrespective of Brexit, you

will want the UK to pay a heavy price for leaving to stop anyone

else going down the same pattern. Therefore, they are going to extort

as high a price as they can. We need to find a way to counteract that. Do

you charge extra for speaking French on this programme? Not with my

accent. On page ten of The Mail, no estate agents make buyers pay ?1000

reservation fee just to take homes of the market. If you find a home

want to buy and you don't want competition you pay ?1000 and no one

else can find it. Critics have understandably labelled this another

property rip-off. Because people are so desperate to find a house want

the property to come off the market, they are being made to pay this fee.

This is not in Scotland, I assume. It is banned there. I believe they

have a system without gazumping. It is a simpler system. Lots of people

want England and Wales to copy Scotland in that regard. There are

estate agents who are charging a couple of hundred pounds to sell

your home. My theory is that the market is slow at the moment though

there are not many properties coming on the market. Prices are not

falling but there is an expectation that they will stagnate. You get

desperate sellers doing it, but that means there are not many properties

which means fewer transactions and estate agents are finding other ways

to make money. Also there was the competition but the online estate

agents who are charging much less than the established estate agents.

They have no overheads. Very few anyway. On page three of The Times,

here comes red-hot TV. This is the end of those Scandinavian series

where we bought the jumper. It will not be dark, it will be warm and

bright and still murder. These are television as well are famous in

Brazil. They also pick out Narcosis, a programme about the Colombian drug

trades which is just completed its second series. There is lots of

drama. I think it is inevitable that we get a bit sick of the same

stories. There is always a missing child, a cop who has problems, so

there comes a time when you try to do the opposite. There are hardly

uplifting. One top alert in Brazil is about a serial killer thing that

with police. It is in a nicer location. One uses a honey making

businesses a front for a male escort service. Another one is about a

young couple that befriend their neighbours with disastrous

consequences. Have got time talk about the back page... We do. We

have one minute left. Which one are we looking at. The Times. This is

going to hurt, Wales against England on BBC One. It is a proper game.

England played badly and one last week. This could be the defining

match of the Six Nations. If England when they will look very strong. The

Welsh are determined to send them back with a fully behind their ears.

-- a fleet of time. Wales are the underdogs and they like being the

underdogs. England do not do well in Cardiff. It is going to be a great

battle between two good teams. England are the favourites but it

will be on the edge. It will be brutal. I would like to point out

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