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:00:00. > :00:00.the return of Martin Adams, back to his best, in the darts. That is all

:00:00. > :00:21.to come, after the papers macro. Hello and welcome to our look ahead

:00:22. > :00:26.to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me Jennie Bond and

:00:27. > :00:29.David Davies. We are going to start with the Independent, and it is

:00:30. > :00:33.leading with a leaked report from 2002, suggesting organised criminals

:00:34. > :00:39.were able to infiltrate Scotland Yard at will by bribing corrupt

:00:40. > :00:43.officers. The Telegraph says there are concerns for the elderly, over a

:00:44. > :00:47.proposed NHS policy which could see drugs being licensed only if they

:00:48. > :00:51.are deemed to be of a wider benefit to society. On the front of the

:00:52. > :00:55.Express is a man who has avoided prison after telling the judge he

:00:56. > :01:00.needed to be at home to look after his youngest baby. He has 22

:01:01. > :01:04.children by 11 different women. The Guardian says thousands could get

:01:05. > :01:07.refunds from the Department for Work and Pensions following errors in

:01:08. > :01:14.calculating the spare room levy. The Mirror also features the story of

:01:15. > :01:17.that adult 22, whom it claims has avoided jail because of his

:01:18. > :01:22.childcare duties. The Mail says the new on benefits has revealed more

:01:23. > :01:26.than 30,000 families who were previously claiming sums amounting

:01:27. > :01:31.to a salary of more than ?60,000. So, let's begin with the Guardian,

:01:32. > :01:39.Jennie Bond, and the fallout continuing after the verdict into

:01:40. > :01:41.Mark Duggan's death, that he was unlawfully killed by police. The

:01:42. > :01:52.headline, stop-and-search could be curtailed. -- that he was lawfully

:01:53. > :01:56.killed. I am old enough to remember, you guys are barely old

:01:57. > :02:02.enough to remember, the 1981 Brixton riots, and the 1985 Broadwater Farm

:02:03. > :02:11.riots. We had exactly the same comments after those, with regards

:02:12. > :02:15.to stop-and-search. It is deja vu, isn't it? Yes, it did not happen

:02:16. > :02:20.then, I would hope it might happen now. Maybe this is one good thing

:02:21. > :02:23.which might come out of this very sensitive and delicate situation,

:02:24. > :02:25.following the inquest verdict. The Guardian says Theresa May is

:02:26. > :02:32.considering curtailing stop-and-search. It also has some

:02:33. > :02:36.quite interesting, you will not find it shocking, research, which says

:02:37. > :02:41.that over a 10-year period recently, ethnic minority Britons

:02:42. > :02:44.were subjected to 1.5 million times more stop and searches than if they

:02:45. > :02:54.had been treated as white Britons. They are shocking. It seems to me a

:02:55. > :02:59.misused power. My mind goes back to the 1980s, in my case covering riots

:03:00. > :03:04.in Moss Side and in Liverpool. As you rightly say, this

:03:05. > :03:09.stop-and-search issue has dogged successive home secretaries. The

:03:10. > :03:14.interesting thing is, right in the middle of this Guardian story, one

:03:15. > :03:17.official report found that in over a quarter of cases, officers did not

:03:18. > :03:21.have reasonable suspicion, as required by legislation, and may not

:03:22. > :03:26.understand their powers. This whole thing about reasonable suspicion, a

:03:27. > :03:33.similar thing actually on the motorways, when the police stop you,

:03:34. > :03:38.you are either meant to have visibly been breaking the law, or they have

:03:39. > :03:43.reasonable suspicion that you are breaking the law, or that you have

:03:44. > :03:51.been drinking or whatever it is. This reasonable suspicion thing, it

:03:52. > :03:54.is so easy to interpret it as you see fit. And it is quite shocking

:03:55. > :03:58.that they do not apparently understand their powers in the first

:03:59. > :04:03.place, so basic education of our police officers. And some people

:04:04. > :04:05.might be thinking, well, you know, back people or ethnic minorities are

:04:06. > :04:12.stopped more because they are more likely to commit crime - that is not

:04:13. > :04:19.the case. The crime figures clearly show that we are going to stay with

:04:20. > :04:25.the Guardian, and we are going to go to another story. Thousands due

:04:26. > :04:32.refunds on bedroom tax after blunder by DWP. Well, this so-called bedroom

:04:33. > :04:38.tax continues to dog the Government and Iain Duncan Smith's welfare

:04:39. > :04:42.reforms. We are told that thousands of people have been wrongly

:04:43. > :04:48.identified as liable for this tax, including some who now face

:04:49. > :04:52.eviction. Now, how many people have been wrongly categorised? Well,

:04:53. > :04:58.housing experts, we are told, saying it could be 40,000 people. The DWP,

:04:59. > :05:02.surprise, surprise, says it leaves only a small number of tenants are

:05:03. > :05:09.affected, which could be 5000. That is a rather startling difference.

:05:10. > :05:17.But his bedroom tax, we were saying before we came on air that actually,

:05:18. > :05:21.are we surprised that it has survived? Absolutely, it has been a

:05:22. > :05:25.cook up from beginning to end, it seems. But this is a huge

:05:26. > :05:28.bureaucratic thing, and the Department has been going through a

:05:29. > :05:34.massive shake-up as a result of the fallout of the national debt and the

:05:35. > :05:39.problems with the country's finances, and as a result, there are

:05:40. > :05:43.going to be problems and teething troubles, should we be more

:05:44. > :05:51.understanding? Understanding of the DWP, I don't think so! I am playing

:05:52. > :05:55.devil's advocate. I am not a natural fan, necessarily, of Iain Duncan

:05:56. > :05:59.Smith, but I happen to believe, without patronising him, as

:06:00. > :06:03.virtually everybody believes, that his heart is very much in the right

:06:04. > :06:08.place. And the work that he did after he was dumped out as

:06:09. > :06:12.Conservative Party leader, and he has dedicated his life to this sort

:06:13. > :06:16.of work. But talking about the policies themselves, and whether

:06:17. > :06:21.they are right or wrong, but also, the scale of what he was trying to

:06:22. > :06:25.do, it was so huge. And you say, isn't it inevitable that there

:06:26. > :06:28.should be teething problems, and of course you are right. But this is

:06:29. > :06:36.the price you pay when you are in government. They say they are going

:06:37. > :06:40.to close the loophole, but they an interesting story on the front of

:06:41. > :06:42.the Daily Telegraph, fears for the elderly under the new NHS drugs

:06:43. > :06:48.policy. Apparently, drugs may only be licensed in the future if they

:06:49. > :06:53.are of a wider benefit to society? This is a really scary story, I

:06:54. > :06:57.think. It is the national Institute for health and care excellence, the

:06:58. > :07:02.guys who decide how funding is going to be allocated. And apparently,

:07:03. > :07:06.they have put forward a draft proposal that basically, if you are

:07:07. > :07:14.not deemed to be worthy of a place in society, if you are not good

:07:15. > :07:19.enough... By whom? They are not going to fund the medicines which

:07:20. > :07:23.will keep you alive. Cancer is one example, where it afflicts many,

:07:24. > :07:28.many older people, and maybe they will not fund the cancer drugs. I

:07:29. > :07:35.would have thought the majority of the people who were on the board of

:07:36. > :07:39.NICE all of a certain age, surely? I am not sure this is going to fly at

:07:40. > :07:46.all. Firstly, to be fair, we are told that this is a possible new

:07:47. > :07:50.development. It is a consultation. Yes, and it is the sort of story

:07:51. > :07:53.which, if you are sitting in the press office of the Department of

:07:54. > :07:59.Health tonight, you are thinking, oh, my God, what is this case we are

:08:00. > :08:04.told, sources close to Jeremy Hunt insist the proposal is at an early

:08:05. > :08:09.stage, and he will intervene if the elderly are being discriminated

:08:10. > :08:14.against. You bet he will. I think it is a nonsense story. Sorry, Daily

:08:15. > :08:18.Telegraph. Maybe, but you see, it says in here that in the past 12

:08:19. > :08:22.months, NICE has given the go-ahead to just one cancer drug, even though

:08:23. > :08:26.more than a dozen were put forward. I think that is a shocking

:08:27. > :08:30.statistic. But isn't that potentially to do with the efficacy

:08:31. > :08:33.of the cancer drug itself? I do not know. If they are now going to look

:08:34. > :08:41.at the efficacy of the person who might be receiving it?! But it is a

:08:42. > :08:46.thankless task, judging between this potential cure and that potential

:08:47. > :08:49.cure, and how many more people you are going to cure, if you go down

:08:50. > :08:54.that road, than the other road. And it will not get any easier. Who

:08:55. > :09:02.would want to be on the board of NICE? Moving on to the Independent,

:09:03. > :09:11.an interesting story, Scotland Yard's rotten core exposed, it says.

:09:12. > :09:15.The Met isn't the only public institution whose persona has taken

:09:16. > :09:18.a pasting in modern times. But nothing is more damaging than

:09:19. > :09:23.allegations of corruption within the police force. Now, this story

:09:24. > :09:29.relates to a decade ago, and yet, here it is, that Britain's biggest

:09:30. > :09:36.force, the Metropolitan Police, suffered endemic corruption at the

:09:37. > :09:41.time. And in the middle of the story, we find figures such as, 18

:09:42. > :09:46.corrupt individuals with links to the police, including 42 then

:09:47. > :09:55.serving officers, and 19 former detectives. -- 80 corrupt

:09:56. > :10:01.individuals. But the significant question now is, is this still

:10:02. > :10:10.there? And the story would certainly imply that it is, albeit to a lesser

:10:11. > :10:15.extent, we hope. The Independent says they have spoken to one former

:10:16. > :10:19.senior officer, who says, that is just the way it was 14 years ago, of

:10:20. > :10:24.course! There were extraordinary examples in the middle of the story,

:10:25. > :10:29.that senior police officers co-owned properties, and indeed racehorses,

:10:30. > :10:34.with a. Who was suspected of being one of Britain's most hardened

:10:35. > :10:47.criminals. I don't know if we should be surprised by that. -- with a. Who

:10:48. > :10:50.was suspected... -- with a chap. The wider thing is, were these

:10:51. > :11:00.allegations of corruption pursued with enough vigour which Mike and

:11:01. > :11:04.clearly, they weren't. According to the Independent, they shifted a few

:11:05. > :11:07.officers around, hardly any of those named were convicted of anything,

:11:08. > :11:13.they shifted them around and even put all the bad apples in one

:11:14. > :11:17.barrel, in one office, and had a strong management team behind them,

:11:18. > :11:22.apparently. If you talk to younger police officers today, they are

:11:23. > :11:28.hugely resentful about what they see as the sins of the past, and how

:11:29. > :11:34.damaging those sins are to them today.

:11:35. > :11:42.One wonders what the reaction will be from Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, one

:11:43. > :11:48.assumed he knew about this report. He was not in the force in 2002, but

:11:49. > :11:52.very interesting. And a crestfallen and forlorn looking governor of New

:11:53. > :11:57.Jersey, Chris Christie. This is turning into quite a huge story. And

:11:58. > :12:01.the suggestion that this is a man, one of the front runners,

:12:02. > :12:07.potentially, for the red presidential nomination for the

:12:08. > :12:11.republicans. You can argue, the front runner. A man who would have

:12:12. > :12:18.been a very different candidate for the republican Party than anything

:12:19. > :12:29.we have seen recently. And he very clearly in those days leading up to

:12:30. > :12:33.the most recent American election day for the tea party, absolutely

:12:34. > :12:40.was treacherous in siding with Obama, as they saw it, in saying how

:12:41. > :12:47.he had reacted to the problems and the awful storms in New Jersey. And

:12:48. > :12:53.was offering a much more bipartisan approach to his candidature, and was

:12:54. > :13:01.thought to be not just a front runner, many pundits think that he

:13:02. > :13:05.was the front runner. I think it is hilariously could be scuppered by

:13:06. > :13:11.one of his aides. The specifics of the story... It seems that one of

:13:12. > :13:20.his aides decided that she would cause massive traffic jams in a

:13:21. > :13:24.rival's district. In fact she closed two of the three traffic lanes to

:13:25. > :13:29.the George Washington Bridge, absolute chaos ensued, so everyone

:13:30. > :13:32.would think this guy was a hopeless mayor. And Christie would then have

:13:33. > :13:38.it. It has gone rather the other way. It is so petty and silly, yet

:13:39. > :13:48.is only happen in America, couldn't it? I was in traffic the other day,

:13:49. > :13:56.what was the bridge? Boris? We didn't say that!

:13:57. > :14:11.This perhaps makes the way even clearer... There are a few other

:14:12. > :14:17.would-be Republican candidates. The thing about Christie was he was seen

:14:18. > :14:21.as Mr bipartisan. Someone who could struggle the island. The suggestion

:14:22. > :14:26.is that the Republicans have got a bit fed up of the tea party and

:14:27. > :14:31.their particular brand of ideology. But anyway, it is still not a done

:14:32. > :14:35.deal in terms of him deciding not to run. But some of the mud is

:14:36. > :14:45.potentially beginning to stick to him. Let's go back to the Telegraph.

:14:46. > :14:49.What is this about? Apparently, deciding who is going to get what in

:14:50. > :14:56.any divorce is difficult. Apparently, fighting for your dog is

:14:57. > :15:02.quite as bad. Liam Gallagher and Nicole Appleton went to court over

:15:03. > :15:06.who would keep the dog. It says that Charles Saatchi and Nigella Lawson

:15:07. > :15:15.were fighting over custody of their stuffed dog. It is probably a work

:15:16. > :15:19.of art worth millions of pounds. There is a serious side. The dogs

:15:20. > :15:25.trust says they have kept 400 abandoned pets because of break-ups.

:15:26. > :15:34.Seriously asking a prenuptial agreement? Hey! You will be back in

:15:35. > :15:38.our. Stay with us because at 11:00pm, we will have more reaction

:15:39. > :15:44.on the finding that Mark Duggan was lawfully killed by an on lease

:15:45. > :15:49.office. His family said they will campaign peacefully to get a

:15:50. > :16:02.judicial review -- lawfully killed by an armed police officer.

:16:03. > :16:07.Hello and welcome to Sportsday - I'm Mike Bushell. The headlines tonight.

:16:08. > :16:10.There's a new man at The Hawthorns - West Brom appoint 50-year-old

:16:11. > :16:15.Spaniard Pepe Mel as their new head coach.

:16:16. > :16:19.Toby Flood is left out of England's elite squad for the Six Nations, as

:16:20. > :16:20.George Ford is preferred instead. And back to his best