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:00:00. > :00:00.medal prospect is out of the competition after an accident on the

:00:00. > :00:00.snowboard course, a course which several of the competitors have

:00:00. > :00:17.labelled as dangerous. That is all coming up after The Papers.

:00:18. > :00:23.Welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us

:00:24. > :00:31.tomorrow. With me, Mina al-Oraibi, from the London based Asharq Alawsat

:00:32. > :00:34.newspaper, and James Rampton, from the Independent. We are going to

:00:35. > :00:38.start with the Financial Times, which is leading with a report that

:00:39. > :00:41.fund managers based in Scotland could be facing a multi-million

:00:42. > :00:45.pound bill to pay for a new regulator, if the Scots vote for

:00:46. > :00:49.independence. The Daily Telegraph has the news that schools could be

:00:50. > :00:53.encouraged to take children from as young as two to help with the

:00:54. > :00:58.country's childcare crisis. Research has found that people are getting

:00:59. > :01:05.more than a 10th of their daily calories from added sugar, according

:01:06. > :01:11.to this report. The Guardian says experts have warned that alcohol and

:01:12. > :01:14.obesity are fuelling a surge in cancer. Starting with the Daily

:01:15. > :01:19.Telegraph, children to start school at the age of two, nursery places to

:01:20. > :01:23.help solve childcare crisis will look it is a story which a lot of

:01:24. > :01:35.people will be interested in, but is it the way forward? Well, it is

:01:36. > :01:44.quite interesting. It is about how you can get mostly mothers, but also

:01:45. > :01:47.fathers, back to work. These are really toddlers, at the age of two.

:01:48. > :01:51.It is interesting because we have quite a few headlines regarding

:01:52. > :01:56.educational reform and what the Government is trying to do to help

:01:57. > :02:03.solve some of the crises. But this story refers to the fact that by the

:02:04. > :02:08.end of this year, 40% of all two-year-olds, estimated to be

:02:09. > :02:12.130,000 children, from poorer backgrounds, will be entitled to 15

:02:13. > :02:19.hours of free care week. This is trying to help parents to create at

:02:20. > :02:23.least part-time jobs. The story is very much about facts and figures of

:02:24. > :02:29.what this means for the parents, in being able to have their kids at

:02:30. > :02:31.school rather than nursery. It really takes a lot of the position

:02:32. > :02:35.of the Government, which is basically to say that some of the

:02:36. > :02:40.schools are being supported with ?1000 grants to look into how they

:02:41. > :02:45.could do this and make sure that they are accessible for these young

:02:46. > :02:48.children. But it is difficult to imagine a two-year-old being in a

:02:49. > :02:53.school atmosphere. So, the Telegraph is writing it up as a good idea? The

:02:54. > :03:00.main thrust is taking the Government's position. I mean, they

:03:01. > :03:05.do say that there is one stay at home mother who confronted Nick

:03:06. > :03:09.Clegg, having said that it was too much to have a full day for a

:03:10. > :03:13.two-year-old, even in nursery. So they have given the other side as

:03:14. > :03:20.well. It would be interesting to know what other parents might say. I

:03:21. > :03:24.think it is interesting that childcare has become a political

:03:25. > :03:27.football. Perhaps it is a sign of The Times, when many families are

:03:28. > :03:31.thinking about going back to work instead of staying at home. It goes

:03:32. > :03:35.on to say that the Government is once again ignoring the relationship

:03:36. > :03:39.that mothers have with very young children, that is according to the

:03:40. > :03:50.lady they interviewed. And there is a cartoon, with somebody going into

:03:51. > :03:55.work for ten hours, saying, I do not know if my phone battery will last

:03:56. > :03:57.that long. A ten hour day, for a two-year-old, that is an extremely

:03:58. > :04:03.demanding position to put children in! In a way, the Government is not

:04:04. > :04:07.exactly coercing parents, but suggesting that it might be a very

:04:08. > :04:10.good thing, and there might well be some pressure on parents to take

:04:11. > :04:14.that up. And would the children suffer because of it? I think it is

:04:15. > :04:20.a really personal question. Staying with the Daily Telegraph,

:04:21. > :04:24.environment chief admits, I have yet to visit the Somerset Levels. The

:04:25. > :04:29.Government seems to be lurching from mistake to mistake on this one, in

:04:30. > :04:35.the eyes of some people. Well, they are being flooded with stories! Last

:04:36. > :04:40.year, a minister forgot his boots and got criticised for wearing shiny

:04:41. > :04:44.shoes, and got some the citrus comments about the lack of dredging

:04:45. > :04:48.which had taken place. And now, another PR disaster, Lord Smith

:04:49. > :04:56.admitting that he had visited three or four times before, but not in the

:04:57. > :04:59.last few weeks. The local MP is calling for the resignation of the

:05:00. > :05:04.minister. He says it is the story of his entire tenure at the head of

:05:05. > :05:09.this bloated organisation, plenty of talk and no action, as he puts it.

:05:10. > :05:13.But the Daily Telegraph has come up with some fantastic stats. They have

:05:14. > :05:19.found out that the agency spent nearly ?10,000 on business class

:05:20. > :05:22.flights to attend a forest day in Durban, South Africa, to discuss the

:05:23. > :05:26.role of trees in mitigating climate change. If that was in a Jonathan

:05:27. > :05:32.Swift novel, you would say it was impossible. And all of this added to

:05:33. > :05:36.the fact that you are wading through water in your front room, and you

:05:37. > :05:44.pick up the phone to call the helpline, and you have got to pay

:05:45. > :05:53.41p a minute! Exactly. It suggests the agency has spent nearly ?18

:05:54. > :05:59.million on travel and subsistence, which is any credible figure. The

:06:00. > :06:03.issue of Lord Smith visiting is, it is always a dilemma, because it can

:06:04. > :06:08.become a photo opportunity. But if you go to try to pretend that you

:06:09. > :06:14.are caring, are you actually making a difference?! You are damned if you

:06:15. > :06:18.do, and damned if you don't. But maybe you should take the line, I

:06:19. > :06:24.will take the photo Op, because at least you can be seen to be down

:06:25. > :06:27.there. It is catastrophic what is happening in that area. Some people

:06:28. > :06:31.have been marooned, literally, for four weeks. They cannot get

:06:32. > :06:37.insurance, they could be wiped out by this. And the fact that he has

:06:38. > :06:42.not been smacks to me of, let them eat cake. I am too busy in London,

:06:43. > :06:47.defending the cities, as he said the other day. You remember when George

:06:48. > :06:51.W Bush flew over New Orleans. They said that was the turning point in

:06:52. > :06:55.his presidency, more than the invasion of Iraq, the fact that he

:06:56. > :06:58.seemed to care so little about the people who had been devastated I

:06:59. > :07:10.hurricane Katrina. I wonder if that could be the same for this

:07:11. > :07:18.government. Moving on to the Financial Times - a warning about a

:07:19. > :07:24.possible yes vote and the fact that a new regulator would have to be put

:07:25. > :07:28.in place, which would cost a lot of money. Yes, and also the indications

:07:29. > :07:32.of what it would mean for the Scottish economy, and also, those

:07:33. > :07:36.companies which are UK companies but based in Scotland. It is an

:07:37. > :07:44.interesting conversation, as we have less than nine months to go. It is

:07:45. > :07:50.quite significant, because it says that firstly, it would cost millions

:07:51. > :07:56.to do, and also, that fund managers would need to tailor their products

:07:57. > :07:59.and services for a new tax and consumer protection regulator,

:08:00. > :08:07.everything would change. A potential new currency! Exactly. It comes

:08:08. > :08:13.after the statement from Mark Carney as well. I think we will see more

:08:14. > :08:17.and more of these stories. I am sure the SNP would say that they have

:08:18. > :08:19.looked into all of this, and yes, they understand that there is

:08:20. > :08:25.Brobbel be good to be a financial penalty to pay. They would say that,

:08:26. > :08:32.wouldn't they?! But it seems to me that it may not have been a full

:08:33. > :08:37.consultation which has taken place. There is one consultant mentioned

:08:38. > :08:40.here who said that he spoke to an American fund manager who told him

:08:41. > :08:47.that a yes vote would be bad news for Scottish fund managers. Hundreds

:08:48. > :08:51.of jobs would have to be created to staff the new agency, and the new

:08:52. > :08:56.agency would then have to work in tandem with the old agency in

:08:57. > :08:59.London. A new raft of regulation and red tape would be brought in,

:09:00. > :09:04.creating a huge new level of bureaucracy, it is the last thing

:09:05. > :09:10.business wants. Fund management is a big sector in Scotland. I think it

:09:11. > :09:16.is worth ?520 billion. Scotland invented many of these things, to

:09:17. > :09:21.clergymen in 1748 invented the assurance fund. It is a great

:09:22. > :09:32.heritage in that country. -- two clergymen. Sticking with the

:09:33. > :09:35.Financial Times, news about the new head of the Federal Reserve, and she

:09:36. > :09:43.has got a tough job, to say the least? Yes, and of course, the

:09:44. > :09:47.figures coming in today, saying that there has been a stumbling in the

:09:48. > :09:53.markets in the US. It also says the Dow Jones has had its worst January

:09:54. > :09:57.performance since 2009. And that is always a bad year in people's

:09:58. > :10:01.heads, with the financial crisis. So, she comes into a very tough

:10:02. > :10:07.position. She has for years in her new job, and this is a good photo of

:10:08. > :10:14.her swearing the oath. She is the first woman in the job. James, the

:10:15. > :10:20.fact is, the global economy, actually, in contrast to that in the

:10:21. > :10:28.UK, seems to be stumbling at the moment, because of concerns about

:10:29. > :10:33.Asia? Exactly, I believe the Dow fell 2% today. Welcome to the

:10:34. > :10:37.pleasure dome, for this woman! It is an extremely turbulent time for the

:10:38. > :10:44.markets. On a different note, it is amazing that it is a woman in this

:10:45. > :10:48.role. For so long, it was seen as a bastion of the patriarch a of the

:10:49. > :10:51.financial world. For anyone who has seen The Wolf Of Wall Street,

:10:52. > :11:03.traditionally, a very match oh, Mail industry. It is an extremely

:11:04. > :11:08.exciting film, but the fact that a woman is finally in charge I ink is

:11:09. > :11:21.to refit. But she does have stormy seas ahead of her. Moving onto this

:11:22. > :11:29.one, in the Metro... Stopped drinking those sugary drinks!

:11:30. > :11:36.I am alarmed by this because we might be putting our health at risk.

:11:37. > :11:41.Research is suggesting that we might have a raised risk of a heart attack

:11:42. > :11:45.if we drink sugar through fizzy drinks because the sugar is inserted

:11:46. > :11:51.after the event, and apparently that can be much more damaging to your

:11:52. > :12:00.health. This was just one Canada Day. As little as one can today. --

:12:01. > :12:05.one can per day. Sugar addiction is interesting and the impact that

:12:06. > :12:10.sugar has. We had this with salt while ago and now we have sugar.

:12:11. > :12:19.Clearly it not good for you. It is incredibly saying that 15%... Let me

:12:20. > :12:25.read this. The risk of dying from cardiovascular disease notably rises

:12:26. > :12:30.with intake of 15%, equivalent of drinking one can of fizzy drink in

:12:31. > :12:34.the daily diet. It is quite something. It has moved from

:12:35. > :12:40.cigarettes on to saturated fats and now it is targeting sugar. That

:12:41. > :12:48.seems to be what they are going for now. We see the stories all the

:12:49. > :12:53.time. I am going back to one the other great Scottish exports,

:12:54. > :12:59.whiskey. Joking aside, the strings are often marketed at children.

:13:00. > :13:02.There was a big campaign to take fizzy drinks machines out of schools

:13:03. > :13:06.because there was possibly a reality and a perception that children were

:13:07. > :13:11.drinking too much but this research backs up how dangerous they can be.

:13:12. > :13:18.There is also fruit drinks that have added sugar. We always think of

:13:19. > :13:25.sugary drinks, but the University of Cambridge says that sugar sweetened

:13:26. > :13:31.drinks need to be part of the conversation. It is something that

:13:32. > :13:38.you can eliminate from your diet. Having water with meals and so on.

:13:39. > :13:43.Processed food, right, all manner of things, you would not expect sugar

:13:44. > :13:50.to be in them but it is there. The hidden danger. The authorities, the

:13:51. > :13:54.papers and The Metro are making sure the public know all about that. You

:13:55. > :14:02.will be back in an hour to look at more stories making the headlines.

:14:03. > :14:05.And at 11 o'clock we will have more on the education secretary's

:14:06. > :14:10.comments today that he wants state-run schools to be more like

:14:11. > :14:14.those in the private sector. Your local comp looking different is what

:14:15. > :14:32.he wants. Coming up now, it is Sportsday.

:14:33. > :14:34.Hello and welcome to Sportsday. On the way tonight: Chelsea