06/03/2014 The Papers

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Welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will bring us tomorrow,

and with as a Michael Booker of the Express, and Louise Court, editor in

chief of Cosmopolitan magazine. The moral's front pages, and we start

with many of them reporting on the same story. -- tomorrow. 21 years of

struggle and there is still more to come on the Daily Telegraph, leading

with that comment from Doreen Lawrence as she was told about

police corruption during the investigation into the murder of her

son Stephen. The Guardian leads with the same story, the report

confirming that Scotland Yard spied on the family. On the same story,

you can't trust the police, that is the headline on the front page of

the Times. Lies, spies and cover-ups, the Daily Mail also

leading with the Stephen Lawrence case. The Express as the new fight

to boost savings with a call from savers to protect their pensions

from the effects of record low interest rates. The Metro leas with

a different story about a teenager whose heart stopped three times

after binge drinking Jagerbombs. And the Mirror also has that story,

claiming it was the caffeine in the shots that caused the teenager to

have a heart attack. We will begin with the coverage of

the Stephen Lawrence case, those developments in the last 24 hours,

you cannot trust the police, the headline on the front of the Times.

Take us through their take on this. The angle the Times are taken is

that hundreds of political activists could have their convictions quashed

after the publication of this report, and so it is due to the fact

that the records of the special demonstration squad, you know, they

seem to have proven to be unsafe, and these are the people who have

infiltrated these investigations. And you know, that is a very

powerful angle, but for me the main story on this is how much does one

family have to go through? Next month it will be 21 years since

Doreen Lawrence saw, you know, had her son killed in the vilest way,

and the people who are meant to be there giving her strength and

support, she is now discovering they were the people who were spying on

her family and trying to find stuff out about the family, rather than

trying to get the killers. When you meet the Lawrence family, they are

such an incredibly strong, dignified, amazing family, and they

have set up this Stephen Lawrence Trust to do amazing good work, and

then it just seems that something else comes and knocks them sideways.

And I don't know what else they can be expected to cope with. Every

couple of years, they get their hopes raised and crushed once again,

and you just hope this public inquiry will actually get somewhere,

but then you read what Neville Lawrence has to say, he has gone

back to Jamaica, and he says he has not got the energy to do it any

more. They have been struggling for so long. They have got the will of

the British people behind them, but it seems the establishment has been

against them all along. Theresa May says the time has come, you know, we

need to look now at this properly. Well, it is 21 years now! It is that

feeling... And a lot of records have been destroyed so... It is that

feeling of having made progress, eventually convictions, but now you

feel as if from the point of view of the family it has all gone

backwards. Neville Lawrence says he does not want to go back to square

one, and that is what it appears to be. We had the MacPherson inquiry,

which was supposed to sort everything out, but in the end of

the Cannes has been kicked down the road again. It all sounds good, but

what is actually going to get achieved? Again, it has moved to

police spies, rather than the Lawrences. And while this has been

going on he says his family has been destroyed. You mention the dignity

of the family, and the Daily Telegraph has Doreen Lawrence

pictured when she spoke in the House of Lords, and again a quote from

her, 21 years of struggle and still more to come. And, you know, she has

been incredibly composed throughout this whole terrible time, and she

was close to tears. And her dignity and everything as she took the floor

apparently had the Home Office minister in the Lords in tears. So I

just feel as though, as a country, you know, it's... Something has to

be done to draw a line on this family's suffering and to make it

clear that justice can be done and has been done. But when you look at

investigations into this SDS, a lot of people in it are guaranteed

lifetime anonymity, so I am not sure how it can be brought to closure.

The report by Mark Ellison QC does not quite bring closure. There are

some mealy-mouthed words, reasonable grounds to suspect one of the

detectives may have been involved in corruption. It still has not got

quite to the nub of it, and you get the impression they won't, because

people don't want them to, and they will put everything in their way to

stop them. The Home Secretary as Astin to look further, so maybe some

of those points will come back. -- as asked him. He must have been

hitting brick walls with this, so we might be able to get around some of

them, but there will be more. Doreen Lawrence said, we were not asking

for anything special, just what we should have had like any other

citizen of the country. That is it, your son has been murdered, one of

the most horrific things that could ever happen, and you are in the care

of the police, the justice system, you are treated like everyone else.

They have not been treated like everyone else should have been. In

other matters, Michael, the front of the Guardian, reference to events

involving Theresa May, but the West imposing sanctions on Russia as

Crimea cuts loose from Ukraine, an update on the diplomatic moves of

the last 24 hours which does not necessarily take as much further

forward. The Crimean parliament appeared to be wanting to get away

from Ukraine. What is interesting is they are talking tough, they are

going to punish Russia, according to be United States and the European

Union, and then we really it is imposing visa restrictions and

sharpening rhetoric. That is not go to send a chill down food and's

spine particularly. Visa restrictions, scary! It is not clear

who that would be on, certain Russian and Ukrainian individuals.

There is not a lot they can do, and you get the impression that they are

going around, having all these meetings, the EU and the right of

states. It sounds as though Russia is still leading them a merry

dance. -- the United States. You are doubtful, Louise, that the West is

making much of an impression here. Well, they are trying to talk tough,

but as you say, the EU says Moscow had days to open negotiations with

an international contact group, so lots of words, but what can they do

without escalating it into something that none of us wants to me that

doubt perhaps more so in European governments that there are things

that could be done that would hurt those who do it as much as the

people you are targeting. Exactly, it is on a knife edge at the moment.

We don't know what's going to happen, but you get the impression

that those in charge have no idea what's happening, and they are

enjoying having a good chat about it, but still we get no further. And

in the meantime the Russians are thinking, we are enjoying this very

much! The front of the Daily Express, I'm interested to you your

thoughts on this, the new fight to boost savings, time we got bigger

pay-outs, say pensioners. This is your paper, your take on it in terms

of your readership would be interesting. Week at the express

have an older reader, and we get a lot of letters, that shows you the

age of the readers! -- we as the Express. They talk about cheaper

home loans for people, all well and good, interest rates being low, but

the people who have saved all that lives, they are on a fixed income,

and nothing is being done to help them. We have a very low interest

rates, the return on what we have been saving is pathetic this last

five or six years, it is about time that interest rates should be

raised, about time to give us a break. We have been following this

group called Save Our Savers, , outside the Bank of England, saying

savers have lost a total of 326 billion over the past few years as a

result of low interest rates, and they want some money back for all

the hard work, the scrubbing and saving they have done. Why should

they be punished? Personally, I am enjoy the low interest rates for my

mortgage! I think it is about time that the other side was put,

millions of people are in that position. I had large, your readers

are going to be younger and might not have a mortgage yet, but would

like one? The bulk of our readers are in our 20s. The sad fact is that

the average age of getting a mortgage now is 37. While I have

great sympathy for people that have done the right thing, they have

saved or whatever, a lot of those pensioners do have equity in

property. They were fortunate enough to be able to start their families

in their 20s, and to get a mortgage, to get their foot on the housing

ladder. A lot of young people now can't do that. The only chance is to

have low interest rates, and therefore affordable mortgages. The

price of property, they just can't get started, especially if you live

in the south-east. I think you have both delved inside this piece and

dugouts and figures? There are some figures from the Bank of England,

where they say that borrowers with ?100,000 standard variable mortgages

would have saved around ?19,000 because their repayments are now

?3300 per year lower than in early 2008. Savers with ?100,000 on a cash

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

good to both of them, but you can't and the Bank of England are

struggling to please everyone. Neither side is winning, young

people can't get on the housing ladder and older people are losing

interest. The Mirror, ten Jagerbombs, three heart attacks. An

average night out! Jagerbombs have been a drink of choice. We should

point out what it is. It is an alcoholic beverage, the spirit, and

you combine it with something like a high caffeine drink. The point of it

means that you can carry on drinking for longer, because alcohol is a

depressive, caffeine is a stimulant, so you are capable of

having ten Jagerbombs in one go. In America, they actually have and

premixed caffeine and alcohol drinks because of the dangers, because it

has been acknowledged that people have a higher chance of blacking

out, of alcoholic poisoning. It is just a much riskier way of drinking

because you do drink more. This girl has had ten Jagerbombs and had three

heart attacks, which she blames not on the alcohol, but on the caffeine.

She and the rest of the family seemed to be blaming the caffeine?

Was the alcohol has worn off, the caffeine kicks in, the heart rate

soars and she has three heart attacks. She was kept in a coma, she

spent three weeks recovering, this girl. And she is blaming the

caffeine, rather than the booze. I think that leads you to the

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

ten incredibly strong coffee is, you would not feel that great. A quick

final word, back to the Telegraph. In the Maldives, but no sign of

George? They have been spotted, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge

getting on a British Airways plane, flying to the Maldives. I think it's

a holiday before they go to Australia and New Zealand. Which is

something that some people might think is a holiday, less charitable

royal watchers. Fellow passengers even gave up their seats for the

royal pair, which leads you to believe they hadn't actually booked

and were hanging around waiting for a seat! There was no apparent sign

of Prince George, prompting speculation that he may have been

left at home? Surely somebody knows? Aren't heirs to the throne not

allowed to be on a plane at the same time? On that note, time has beaten

us. We will speak to you again in an hour. Thank you very much indeed for

the time being. That's it for the papers this hour. Michael and Louise

are both back at 11:30, four more looks at the stories making the

front pages tomorrow. We'll have more on the public inquiry into

undercover policing after it was confirmed that an officer did spy on

the family of Stephen Lawrence. Coming up next, time for Sportsday.

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