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:00:00. > :00:00.Paralympics opening ceremony takes place tomorrow, and we will be

:00:00. > :00:00.introducing you to a young athletes picked to carry the British flag.

:00:07. > :00:19.That is all on Sportsday in 15 minutes after the Favours.

:00:20. > :00:25.Welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will bring us tomorrow,

:00:26. > :00:30.and with as a Michael Booker of the Express, and Louise Court, editor in

:00:31. > :00:36.chief of Cosmopolitan magazine. The moral's front pages, and we start

:00:37. > :00:41.with many of them reporting on the same story. -- tomorrow. 21 years of

:00:42. > :00:45.struggle and there is still more to come on the Daily Telegraph, leading

:00:46. > :00:48.with that comment from Doreen Lawrence as she was told about

:00:49. > :00:52.police corruption during the investigation into the murder of her

:00:53. > :00:54.son Stephen. The Guardian leads with the same story, the report

:00:55. > :00:59.confirming that Scotland Yard spied on the family. On the same story,

:01:00. > :01:05.you can't trust the police, that is the headline on the front page of

:01:06. > :01:08.the Times. Lies, spies and cover-ups, the Daily Mail also

:01:09. > :01:15.leading with the Stephen Lawrence case. The Express as the new fight

:01:16. > :01:18.to boost savings with a call from savers to protect their pensions

:01:19. > :01:22.from the effects of record low interest rates. The Metro leas with

:01:23. > :01:27.a different story about a teenager whose heart stopped three times

:01:28. > :01:30.after binge drinking Jagerbombs. And the Mirror also has that story,

:01:31. > :01:35.claiming it was the caffeine in the shots that caused the teenager to

:01:36. > :01:41.have a heart attack. We will begin with the coverage of

:01:42. > :01:44.the Stephen Lawrence case, those developments in the last 24 hours,

:01:45. > :01:50.you cannot trust the police, the headline on the front of the Times.

:01:51. > :01:54.Take us through their take on this. The angle the Times are taken is

:01:55. > :01:57.that hundreds of political activists could have their convictions quashed

:01:58. > :02:04.after the publication of this report, and so it is due to the fact

:02:05. > :02:09.that the records of the special demonstration squad, you know, they

:02:10. > :02:16.seem to have proven to be unsafe, and these are the people who have

:02:17. > :02:21.infiltrated these investigations. And you know, that is a very

:02:22. > :02:27.powerful angle, but for me the main story on this is how much does one

:02:28. > :02:31.family have to go through? Next month it will be 21 years since

:02:32. > :02:39.Doreen Lawrence saw, you know, had her son killed in the vilest way,

:02:40. > :02:43.and the people who are meant to be there giving her strength and

:02:44. > :02:46.support, she is now discovering they were the people who were spying on

:02:47. > :02:50.her family and trying to find stuff out about the family, rather than

:02:51. > :02:53.trying to get the killers. When you meet the Lawrence family, they are

:02:54. > :02:58.such an incredibly strong, dignified, amazing family, and they

:02:59. > :03:03.have set up this Stephen Lawrence Trust to do amazing good work, and

:03:04. > :03:07.then it just seems that something else comes and knocks them sideways.

:03:08. > :03:12.And I don't know what else they can be expected to cope with. Every

:03:13. > :03:15.couple of years, they get their hopes raised and crushed once again,

:03:16. > :03:19.and you just hope this public inquiry will actually get somewhere,

:03:20. > :03:23.but then you read what Neville Lawrence has to say, he has gone

:03:24. > :03:26.back to Jamaica, and he says he has not got the energy to do it any

:03:27. > :03:31.more. They have been struggling for so long. They have got the will of

:03:32. > :03:34.the British people behind them, but it seems the establishment has been

:03:35. > :03:41.against them all along. Theresa May says the time has come, you know, we

:03:42. > :03:48.need to look now at this properly. Well, it is 21 years now! It is that

:03:49. > :03:54.feeling... And a lot of records have been destroyed so... It is that

:03:55. > :03:56.feeling of having made progress, eventually convictions, but now you

:03:57. > :04:00.feel as if from the point of view of the family it has all gone

:04:01. > :04:04.backwards. Neville Lawrence says he does not want to go back to square

:04:05. > :04:07.one, and that is what it appears to be. We had the MacPherson inquiry,

:04:08. > :04:11.which was supposed to sort everything out, but in the end of

:04:12. > :04:15.the Cannes has been kicked down the road again. It all sounds good, but

:04:16. > :04:24.what is actually going to get achieved? Again, it has moved to

:04:25. > :04:28.police spies, rather than the Lawrences. And while this has been

:04:29. > :04:32.going on he says his family has been destroyed. You mention the dignity

:04:33. > :04:36.of the family, and the Daily Telegraph has Doreen Lawrence

:04:37. > :04:39.pictured when she spoke in the House of Lords, and again a quote from

:04:40. > :04:47.her, 21 years of struggle and still more to come. And, you know, she has

:04:48. > :04:52.been incredibly composed throughout this whole terrible time, and she

:04:53. > :04:56.was close to tears. And her dignity and everything as she took the floor

:04:57. > :05:02.apparently had the Home Office minister in the Lords in tears. So I

:05:03. > :05:09.just feel as though, as a country, you know, it's... Something has to

:05:10. > :05:15.be done to draw a line on this family's suffering and to make it

:05:16. > :05:27.clear that justice can be done and has been done. But when you look at

:05:28. > :05:31.investigations into this SDS, a lot of people in it are guaranteed

:05:32. > :05:37.lifetime anonymity, so I am not sure how it can be brought to closure.

:05:38. > :05:41.The report by Mark Ellison QC does not quite bring closure. There are

:05:42. > :05:44.some mealy-mouthed words, reasonable grounds to suspect one of the

:05:45. > :05:48.detectives may have been involved in corruption. It still has not got

:05:49. > :05:52.quite to the nub of it, and you get the impression they won't, because

:05:53. > :05:57.people don't want them to, and they will put everything in their way to

:05:58. > :06:02.stop them. The Home Secretary as Astin to look further, so maybe some

:06:03. > :06:05.of those points will come back. -- as asked him. He must have been

:06:06. > :06:11.hitting brick walls with this, so we might be able to get around some of

:06:12. > :06:16.them, but there will be more. Doreen Lawrence said, we were not asking

:06:17. > :06:20.for anything special, just what we should have had like any other

:06:21. > :06:24.citizen of the country. That is it, your son has been murdered, one of

:06:25. > :06:28.the most horrific things that could ever happen, and you are in the care

:06:29. > :06:31.of the police, the justice system, you are treated like everyone else.

:06:32. > :06:38.They have not been treated like everyone else should have been. In

:06:39. > :06:43.other matters, Michael, the front of the Guardian, reference to events

:06:44. > :06:46.involving Theresa May, but the West imposing sanctions on Russia as

:06:47. > :06:50.Crimea cuts loose from Ukraine, an update on the diplomatic moves of

:06:51. > :06:53.the last 24 hours which does not necessarily take as much further

:06:54. > :06:57.forward. The Crimean parliament appeared to be wanting to get away

:06:58. > :07:02.from Ukraine. What is interesting is they are talking tough, they are

:07:03. > :07:04.going to punish Russia, according to be United States and the European

:07:05. > :07:10.Union, and then we really it is imposing visa restrictions and

:07:11. > :07:17.sharpening rhetoric. That is not go to send a chill down food and's

:07:18. > :07:21.spine particularly. Visa restrictions, scary! It is not clear

:07:22. > :07:25.who that would be on, certain Russian and Ukrainian individuals.

:07:26. > :07:29.There is not a lot they can do, and you get the impression that they are

:07:30. > :07:33.going around, having all these meetings, the EU and the right of

:07:34. > :07:38.states. It sounds as though Russia is still leading them a merry

:07:39. > :07:42.dance. -- the United States. You are doubtful, Louise, that the West is

:07:43. > :07:49.making much of an impression here. Well, they are trying to talk tough,

:07:50. > :07:57.but as you say, the EU says Moscow had days to open negotiations with

:07:58. > :08:01.an international contact group, so lots of words, but what can they do

:08:02. > :08:10.without escalating it into something that none of us wants to me that

:08:11. > :08:12.doubt perhaps more so in European governments that there are things

:08:13. > :08:17.that could be done that would hurt those who do it as much as the

:08:18. > :08:22.people you are targeting. Exactly, it is on a knife edge at the moment.

:08:23. > :08:26.We don't know what's going to happen, but you get the impression

:08:27. > :08:29.that those in charge have no idea what's happening, and they are

:08:30. > :08:33.enjoying having a good chat about it, but still we get no further. And

:08:34. > :08:37.in the meantime the Russians are thinking, we are enjoying this very

:08:38. > :08:41.much! The front of the Daily Express, I'm interested to you your

:08:42. > :08:46.thoughts on this, the new fight to boost savings, time we got bigger

:08:47. > :08:51.pay-outs, say pensioners. This is your paper, your take on it in terms

:08:52. > :08:55.of your readership would be interesting. Week at the express

:08:56. > :09:00.have an older reader, and we get a lot of letters, that shows you the

:09:01. > :09:04.age of the readers! -- we as the Express. They talk about cheaper

:09:05. > :09:10.home loans for people, all well and good, interest rates being low, but

:09:11. > :09:15.the people who have saved all that lives, they are on a fixed income,

:09:16. > :09:20.and nothing is being done to help them. We have a very low interest

:09:21. > :09:23.rates, the return on what we have been saving is pathetic this last

:09:24. > :09:26.five or six years, it is about time that interest rates should be

:09:27. > :09:33.raised, about time to give us a break. We have been following this

:09:34. > :09:37.group called Save Our Savers, , outside the Bank of England, saying

:09:38. > :09:41.savers have lost a total of 326 billion over the past few years as a

:09:42. > :09:44.result of low interest rates, and they want some money back for all

:09:45. > :09:49.the hard work, the scrubbing and saving they have done. Why should

:09:50. > :09:52.they be punished? Personally, I am enjoy the low interest rates for my

:09:53. > :09:56.mortgage! I think it is about time that the other side was put,

:09:57. > :10:04.millions of people are in that position. I had large, your readers

:10:05. > :10:08.are going to be younger and might not have a mortgage yet, but would

:10:09. > :10:12.like one? The bulk of our readers are in our 20s. The sad fact is that

:10:13. > :10:16.the average age of getting a mortgage now is 37. While I have

:10:17. > :10:21.great sympathy for people that have done the right thing, they have

:10:22. > :10:23.saved or whatever, a lot of those pensioners do have equity in

:10:24. > :10:28.property. They were fortunate enough to be able to start their families

:10:29. > :10:31.in their 20s, and to get a mortgage, to get their foot on the housing

:10:32. > :10:39.ladder. A lot of young people now can't do that. The only chance is to

:10:40. > :10:44.have low interest rates, and therefore affordable mortgages. The

:10:45. > :10:48.price of property, they just can't get started, especially if you live

:10:49. > :10:53.in the south-east. I think you have both delved inside this piece and

:10:54. > :10:58.dugouts and figures? There are some figures from the Bank of England,

:10:59. > :11:01.where they say that borrowers with ?100,000 standard variable mortgages

:11:02. > :11:05.would have saved around ?19,000 because their repayments are now

:11:06. > :11:17.?3300 per year lower than in early 2008. Savers with ?100,000 on a cash

:11:18. > :11:21.Isa have lost 18 point -- ?8,500. There are two camps, you want to be

:11:22. > :11:25.good to both of them, but you can't and the Bank of England are

:11:26. > :11:29.struggling to please everyone. Neither side is winning, young

:11:30. > :11:42.people can't get on the housing ladder and older people are losing

:11:43. > :11:48.interest. The Mirror, ten Jagerbombs, three heart attacks. An

:11:49. > :11:56.average night out! Jagerbombs have been a drink of choice. We should

:11:57. > :12:00.point out what it is. It is an alcoholic beverage, the spirit, and

:12:01. > :12:10.you combine it with something like a high caffeine drink. The point of it

:12:11. > :12:14.means that you can carry on drinking for longer, because alcohol is a

:12:15. > :12:18.depressive, caffeine is a stimulant, so you are capable of

:12:19. > :12:24.having ten Jagerbombs in one go. In America, they actually have and

:12:25. > :12:28.premixed caffeine and alcohol drinks because of the dangers, because it

:12:29. > :12:33.has been acknowledged that people have a higher chance of blacking

:12:34. > :12:38.out, of alcoholic poisoning. It is just a much riskier way of drinking

:12:39. > :12:42.because you do drink more. This girl has had ten Jagerbombs and had three

:12:43. > :12:47.heart attacks, which she blames not on the alcohol, but on the caffeine.

:12:48. > :12:51.She and the rest of the family seemed to be blaming the caffeine?

:12:52. > :12:55.Was the alcohol has worn off, the caffeine kicks in, the heart rate

:12:56. > :13:02.soars and she has three heart attacks. She was kept in a coma, she

:13:03. > :13:07.spent three weeks recovering, this girl. And she is blaming the

:13:08. > :13:12.caffeine, rather than the booze. I think that leads you to the

:13:13. > :13:15.caffeine, to be fair. It is not a great accommodation, but if you had

:13:16. > :13:22.ten incredibly strong coffee is, you would not feel that great. A quick

:13:23. > :13:26.final word, back to the Telegraph. In the Maldives, but no sign of

:13:27. > :13:29.George? They have been spotted, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge

:13:30. > :13:35.getting on a British Airways plane, flying to the Maldives. I think it's

:13:36. > :13:42.a holiday before they go to Australia and New Zealand. Which is

:13:43. > :13:45.something that some people might think is a holiday, less charitable

:13:46. > :13:51.royal watchers. Fellow passengers even gave up their seats for the

:13:52. > :13:53.royal pair, which leads you to believe they hadn't actually booked

:13:54. > :13:59.and were hanging around waiting for a seat! There was no apparent sign

:14:00. > :14:04.of Prince George, prompting speculation that he may have been

:14:05. > :14:08.left at home? Surely somebody knows? Aren't heirs to the throne not

:14:09. > :14:14.allowed to be on a plane at the same time? On that note, time has beaten

:14:15. > :14:18.us. We will speak to you again in an hour. Thank you very much indeed for

:14:19. > :14:24.the time being. That's it for the papers this hour. Michael and Louise

:14:25. > :14:27.are both back at 11:30, four more looks at the stories making the

:14:28. > :14:30.front pages tomorrow. We'll have more on the public inquiry into

:14:31. > :14:33.undercover policing after it was confirmed that an officer did spy on

:14:34. > :14:49.the family of Stephen Lawrence. Coming up next, time for Sportsday.

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