:00:00. > :00:00.place. Two of them are around parts of the River Severn and its estuary.
:00:07. > :00:10.Protest disrupts Thailand's general election. Hundreds of polling
:00:11. > :00:20.stations were unable to open in parts of Bangkok and the South.
:00:21. > :00:28.Hello and welcome to our look at the close. With me are broadcast Henry
:00:29. > :00:34.Bonsu and Randeep Ramesh, from the Guardian. We will look at the front
:00:35. > :00:39.pages. The Metro leads with the death of Philip Seymour Hoffman,
:00:40. > :00:44.claiming the star lost his battle with drugs. The Independent has a
:00:45. > :00:54.picture of the star on its front page but its top stories is research
:00:55. > :01:02.which it says shows half of six form colleges have scrapped... The Daily
:01:03. > :01:05.Telegraph says the chairman of the Environment Agency claims Britain
:01:06. > :01:11.cannot afford to protect both town and country from flooding. The
:01:12. > :01:15.Financial Times reports the fallout from the row over the sacking of the
:01:16. > :01:21.Labour peer Lady Morgan is the head of Ofsted. Finally, another striking
:01:22. > :01:27.image on the front page of the express. A stranded bus cotton
:01:28. > :01:30.floodwater in Wales. The paper's top story is summed up by its headline,
:01:31. > :01:38.which calls for benefits blitz on scroungers.
:01:39. > :01:42.Our first story, the one that has been dominating headlines is
:01:43. > :01:50.evening. Starting with the Metro and the death of Philip Seymour Hoffman.
:01:51. > :01:58.Who wants to start? I suppose it is a very familiar tale, unfortunately,
:01:59. > :02:03.of a star with a glittering resume and some pretty to effect films, but
:02:04. > :02:11.fighting his own demons and losing. -- pretty to horrific films. It
:02:12. > :02:22.seems he relapsed. That has obviously triggered some spiral.
:02:23. > :02:30.Henry, who wasn't a household name in the same way as Tom Cruise, but
:02:31. > :02:35.to film buffs, he was. Absolutely. People have been saying he's up
:02:36. > :02:39.there with Robert De Niro, Marlon Brando, people who are household
:02:40. > :02:49.names but are respected by the acting community and critics.
:02:50. > :02:58.Apparently, I look to my back catalogue and there are very few
:02:59. > :03:03.films I have watched. I was thinking, I should have seen Capote,
:03:04. > :03:11.for example. I have not seen the hunger games. I am slightly out of
:03:12. > :03:19.the target audience for that. He has got this Jack Nicholson, brooding,
:03:20. > :03:24.gentle intensity on his face. Maybe that speaks of the turmoil there
:03:25. > :03:29.was. I did not really know he had been struggling with these demons
:03:30. > :03:35.for such a long time. You can be talented, lauded by critics and
:03:36. > :03:40.Auden -- audiences, but it is not enough and you want to get out of
:03:41. > :03:46.your skin. A sad story. We will move onto Daily Telegraph. An amazing
:03:47. > :03:58.couple of pictures on the front page. Two images. Maidstone in Kent
:03:59. > :04:05.on the left, and on the right, the Somerset Levels. Flooding, with more
:04:06. > :04:09.on the way, it is going to be something the papers will be
:04:10. > :04:31.dominated by. Yes. It is a clever pitch from a
:04:32. > :04:36.former minister. They need somebody to turn around and say, it is not
:04:37. > :04:44.us, it is them. Chris Smith posed this question, saying there was all
:04:45. > :04:56.-- saying there is only so much money. He quite cleverly listed the
:04:57. > :05:05.number of people killed in the towns. The pictures are very
:05:06. > :05:10.dramatic. That is the subtext. Chris Smith, now Lord Smith, saying that
:05:11. > :05:14.the country has to make difficult choices. Nevertheless, a brave thing
:05:15. > :05:35.to say. It is brave because he is now a peer. Surely, you want to
:05:36. > :05:41.protect people that are most in need. It is extremely difficult. The
:05:42. > :05:58.government will want to see him as a fallback. Somebody said that maybe
:05:59. > :06:09.we have to surrender some of the coastline to rising waters. Others
:06:10. > :06:18.say their of this coastline we feel we know so well that will have to be
:06:19. > :06:26.given up. In 50 years or hundred years, the picture of Britannia will
:06:27. > :06:42.look different. There is a quote about retreating. It is great
:06:43. > :06:55.language. This chap, the language, retreat. On to the Guardian. Ofsted.
:06:56. > :07:08.This is a story that has been going on for the last 15 powers also. --
:07:09. > :07:13.the last 15 hours or so. It would be interesting to see who the
:07:14. > :07:26.replacement is. We're starting with the Guardian Henley. The big
:07:27. > :07:30.question today will be, was it Michael Gove's decision to get rid
:07:31. > :07:35.of Sally Morgan did it come from higher up, from the Prime Minister?
:07:36. > :07:38.Michael Gove said it was his decision. He said although she was
:07:39. > :07:47.fantastic, brilliant, she had served her term. Time for a fresh pair of
:07:48. > :08:02.eyes. Yes. The big problem is, and others are saying, like Harriet
:08:03. > :08:09.Harman, you have got rid of another woman. It would appear the
:08:10. > :08:21.government is getting maybe more tribalistic about some
:08:22. > :08:31.appointments. They said they are bringing in the best people for the
:08:32. > :08:39.job. This Guardian article points to a hub of discontent. In the story,
:08:40. > :08:43.it says the number of people appointed to bodies that can be
:08:44. > :08:49.counted as Conservatives is quite high. There is the head of the
:08:50. > :09:01.health regulator, the former Tory MP. The is a good contrast for
:09:02. > :09:05.Labour to go on. That is very much what the Financial Times is
:09:06. > :09:18.running. It is a sense Tory with a different angle. It suggests that
:09:19. > :09:27.the education secretary's preference as the successor would be the Tory
:09:28. > :09:32.donor. I think he will have to be very careful about this appointment.
:09:33. > :09:37.Harriet Harman challenged him and said, with you appoint another man
:09:38. > :09:47.to this position? He said, who knows? I suspect now he will be
:09:48. > :09:56.looking for a respected noble Conservative Baroness. When you're
:09:57. > :10:06.own partners in government are crowing about it, I think there is a
:10:07. > :10:15.problem. Laws is not known as being particularly left wing. I think
:10:16. > :10:35.there is a discontent there. To lose him would be difficult for go. What
:10:36. > :10:49.did Baroness Morgan to wrong? If the free schools are not doing as well
:10:50. > :11:02.as the state schools, or their... There is one story I do want to come
:11:03. > :11:06.onto. On to the Daily Telegraph. The headliners, a romantic film is the
:11:07. > :11:20.secret to a happy marriage. What do you make of this? I am wondering
:11:21. > :11:33.what kind of couples were interviewed. Are they as diverse as
:11:34. > :11:44.New York is? We're happy watching Ironman. With young children, I
:11:45. > :11:51.never get to watch an entire movie. Better things for others tend to be
:11:52. > :12:04.the saviours. Channel four, BBC. You are trying to impress. I have never
:12:05. > :12:11.seen Guess who's coming to dinner. Didn't inspire a more romantic
:12:12. > :12:21.relationship? No. I think I left the person I was with. Thank you both.
:12:22. > :12:27.That's it for the papers this hour. My guests will be back at 11.30pm
:12:28. > :12:35.for another look at the stories making the papers.
:12:36. > :12:36.We'll have more on the death of the Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour
:12:37. > :12:38.Hoffman. Now on BBC News, it's time for
:12:39. > :12:53.Click. You are the keeper of people's
:12:54. > :12:54.secrets. The government wants access. Do you give them the keys?