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:00:00. > 3:59:59semi-finals. Dwain Chambers also won his heat. That's all in Sportsday in

:00:00. > :00:21.15 minutes after The Papers. Hello and welcome to our look at

:00:22. > :00:26.what the papers will be bringing tomorrow. With us, Peter Conradi,

:00:27. > :00:29.foreign editor of the Sunday Times and Ben Chu, economics editor of the

:00:30. > :00:32.Independent. The Independent has a picture of

:00:33. > :00:35.lawyers on strike outside Parliament. Its main story - the

:00:36. > :00:39.Government's reforms have hit women's incomes four times harder

:00:40. > :00:42.than men, according to new figures. The Mail has more about the police

:00:43. > :00:45.spy who targeted Stephen Lawrence's parents.

:00:46. > :00:48.The Mirror leads on the condition of Michael Schumacher, who remains in a

:00:49. > :00:51.coma. The Express says Lib Dems are

:00:52. > :00:56.proposing policies which would relax immigration rules.

:00:57. > :00:59.The Telegraph says not paying the TV licence may no longer be a criminal

:01:00. > :01:03.offence under Government plans. The Guardian says Ofsted is drawing

:01:04. > :01:07.up plans for a big shake up in the way it inspects schools.

:01:08. > :01:19.And the Sun has Prince Harry on its front page, with a friend.

:01:20. > :01:23.I don't have many friends like that. Let's begin with the Mail and a

:01:24. > :01:29.story that has been dominating the bulletins all day today. Police

:01:30. > :01:32.spies snooped on Lawrence marriage. This gives further details about

:01:33. > :01:39.just how intrusive this undercover police officer was, who made his or

:01:40. > :01:46.her way into the Lawrence family, and knew that the marriage was in a

:01:47. > :01:49.mess. It's absolutely extraordinary. This is something one thought was

:01:50. > :01:56.over and it has come back again with a vengeance. The extent of

:01:57. > :01:59.surveillance that was going on by this officer from the Special

:02:00. > :02:03.Demonstration Squad was just incredible, looking into the

:02:04. > :02:09.marriage of Stephen Lawrence's parents. There is -- there are some

:02:10. > :02:16.very poignant quotes from Neville Lawrence. He says, what in heaven 's

:02:17. > :02:21.name has the state of my marriage got to do with Stephen's murder? Did

:02:22. > :02:24.they think that Doreen and I had fallen out and one of us had decided

:02:25. > :02:29.to have our son murdered to spite the other? That is the only reason I

:02:30. > :02:34.can think of for them taking an interest in our relationship. He

:02:35. > :02:36.also says, I think they are worse than criminals because they get paid

:02:37. > :02:43.with taxpayers money for what they do. The level of distrust this will

:02:44. > :02:48.cause is incredible. You can see the frustration of the family boiling

:02:49. > :02:51.over. They fought this very long campaign to get justice for their

:02:52. > :02:53.son and they said from the start that justice had not been done and

:02:54. > :02:58.the police were not investigating properly. This week, they have been

:02:59. > :03:02.completely vindicated on that and it has become clear that the Met did

:03:03. > :03:07.not give documentation to the Macpherson inquiry, and it was not

:03:08. > :03:12.up front, and this has now come out. Other reports suggest that in 2003

:03:13. > :03:16.there was shredding of evidence, so there will be some evidence they

:03:17. > :03:21.can't find. That is the root of their frustration. The truth may not

:03:22. > :03:26.come out. This is why there will be a new public enquiry into the role

:03:27. > :03:31.of this special force, the spying force, and the Lawrence family have

:03:32. > :03:38.said, we are not sure we trust it any more. What is the point? Lord

:03:39. > :03:41.Condon, former head of the Met, was saying today that he knew nothing

:03:42. > :03:45.about the Special Demonstration Squad and if he had done he would

:03:46. > :03:51.have stopped it. That beggars belief, doesn't it? How can you have

:03:52. > :03:54.an organisation where something like that is going on and the bust is

:03:55. > :04:08.going on and the borstals not know? Extraordinary. -- the boss does not

:04:09. > :04:11.know what is going on. Earlier, someone was saying that if the

:04:12. > :04:15.evidence is missing, what can we do? The enquiry has to be

:04:16. > :04:20.forward-looking to set out rules for what can be done and what cannot be

:04:21. > :04:24.done by undercover officers. The most important thing is that they

:04:25. > :04:27.try to establish what has happened. We are seeing that they are starting

:04:28. > :04:33.to look back properly for the first time, probably. The head of

:04:34. > :04:38.counterterrorism, Richard Walton, who was removed from his position on

:04:39. > :04:41.that particular force today, because of his links with the special

:04:42. > :04:45.demonstration force, and links with Macpherson, and the fact that he,

:04:46. > :04:50.presumably, was one of the people who was not upfront. So I think they

:04:51. > :04:56.are finally saying, who knew what and when, and obviously not before

:04:57. > :05:02.time. Let's move onto another story in the Mail. This is depressing for

:05:03. > :05:06.many people, I am sure. Four out of ten old age pensioners are still

:05:07. > :05:11.supporting children. Not with luxury items, according to this, but with

:05:12. > :05:17.everyday living expenses. That is worrying, if you are expecting comfy

:05:18. > :05:21.retirement. This is the cost of living crisis rearing its head

:05:22. > :05:26.again, I suppose. What is striking is that it is pensioners. Ed

:05:27. > :05:33.Miliband will be thrilled you have described it like that. Many people

:05:34. > :05:36.are still feeling the pinch. Presumably these OAPs have children

:05:37. > :05:41.in their 30s and 40s and are still feeling the need to pay them about

:05:42. > :05:46.?250 a month, just to help them make ends meet, to meet their expenses.

:05:47. > :05:53.It is quite stark. That is what occurred to me. If many of us have

:05:54. > :05:57.children when we are older, we will inevitably be supporting them for

:05:58. > :06:03.longer in our lifetime. The other side of it is that children are --

:06:04. > :06:07.people are having children later in life. Hopefully they are better off

:06:08. > :06:15.by them. Maybe it is not so shocking if you are 65 and you have a child

:06:16. > :06:19.who is 20-25. That may be a minority of cases. It is a very short story

:06:20. > :06:23.and I would have liked to have known more about it, whether it is a

:06:24. > :06:28.temporary thing or whether it is part of a long-term shift. It would

:06:29. > :06:31.be interesting to find out if they are helping to pay mortgages.

:06:32. > :06:38.Helping people get on the housing ladder might be a factor, but we

:06:39. > :06:45.just don't know. Let's move on to the Independent. The main story

:06:46. > :06:49.here, Osborne's war on women, the Chancellor's performs are hitting

:06:50. > :06:53.women four times harder than men, as Labour highlight the gender gap. We

:06:54. > :06:57.have to start with you, as it is your paper. The idea that it is a

:06:58. > :07:04.war on women sounds like it is deliberate. George Osborne came in

:07:05. > :07:07.with a large budget deficit which he needed to get down and there is

:07:08. > :07:12.controversy about the pace with which he has decided to go about

:07:13. > :07:15.doing that, but I am sure that was his primary objective. The charge

:07:16. > :07:21.levelled against him is that he was not careful enough to make sure that

:07:22. > :07:25.the impact of that was equitable manner that it did not penalising

:07:26. > :07:31.women more than men. These figures show, from the House of Commons

:07:32. > :07:37.library analysis, that four times, women have been hit four times

:07:38. > :07:40.harder than men, which is striking. It is at odds with efforts the

:07:41. > :07:45.coalition has made to try to make sure that women who have taken time

:07:46. > :07:50.out to have children, or who are carers and do not clock up enough

:07:51. > :07:55.working years for a state pension, are not penalised later. It is

:07:56. > :07:58.certainly not joined up government. No political party would set out to

:07:59. > :08:05.alienate more than half the population, so I think it just was

:08:06. > :08:10.not well thought through. I think, clearly, there was a need to save

:08:11. > :08:14.money and there were obvious targets and no one sat down and did an

:08:15. > :08:19.impact review of which group would suffer more as a result. We know

:08:20. > :08:25.that all the main political parties are seeking the female vote.

:08:26. > :08:30.Exactly. The Conservatives are perceived to have a problem with

:08:31. > :08:32.women, relative to Labour. The opinion polls show that David

:08:33. > :08:36.Cameron and George Osborne are less popular with women than they are

:08:37. > :08:41.with men. This feeds into that existing criticism and will be used

:08:42. > :08:44.against them. George Osborne has a budget macro later this month and it

:08:45. > :08:51.will be interesting to see whether he puts anything in there to try to

:08:52. > :08:55.ameliorate the impact on women. There is a photo on the front of the

:08:56. > :09:00.Independent, objection, my lord, as lawyers strike outside Parliament,

:09:01. > :09:03.bringing the courts to a halt. How great is the sympathy for barristers

:09:04. > :09:09.who rely on legal aid, do you think? I don't know. I find it

:09:10. > :09:13.difficult to work out whether they are well paid or not well paid at

:09:14. > :09:17.all, because there is a discrepancy within the profession. One comes

:09:18. > :09:21.across some who are hugely well paid and then you see the statistics of

:09:22. > :09:26.young people setting out who earn less than minimum wage, kind of

:09:27. > :09:30.thing. I know some criminal barristers who have had to turn to

:09:31. > :09:35.other areas of the law because there is no money in criminal law. There

:09:36. > :09:38.is a big divide between corporate law barristers and the sort of

:09:39. > :09:43.people who would be doing legal aid criminal stuff. The corporate side

:09:44. > :09:50.are very well paid. These guys, less so. Some of them earn hundreds of

:09:51. > :09:59.thousands from legal aid, the top ones. It is a particularly

:10:00. > :10:04.well-dressed picket line. This lot do not look on the bread line. They

:10:05. > :10:11.do not look too hard done by, but the picture is not always the whole

:10:12. > :10:18.story. The Daily Express has, open door for new migrants. Outrage over

:10:19. > :10:24.plans for entry visas. This has created a lot of interest in social

:10:25. > :10:29.media. The lead story in the express is not property prices, arthritis

:10:30. > :10:32.cure is the weather. It is immigration, which they turned to

:10:33. > :10:39.from time to time. This is another way of the Lib Dems, if it is true,

:10:40. > :10:41.making themselves different from the Conservatives. It is

:10:42. > :10:44.differentiation, but that is what the Liberal Democrat conference

:10:45. > :10:49.stars. They are unique in that they come up with what would be perceived

:10:50. > :10:53.to be quite offbeat policies, unusual policies for a mainstream

:10:54. > :10:59.political party. This is in keeping with that. The mood in the country

:11:00. > :11:05.is anti-immigration, trying to stop so many people coming in. They are

:11:06. > :11:15.flying in the face of that. This is something we think they have made

:11:16. > :11:18.up, this title, made up themselves. We now know there will be a

:11:19. > :11:22.grandparent 's superb ease. Whether you have to wear an outfit with it,

:11:23. > :11:27.I don't know. Apparently it lets people come from abroad, special

:11:28. > :11:32.provisions for grandparents. But it is not that super. It only allows

:11:33. > :11:44.you to stay for two years. When they get here, they will be supporting

:11:45. > :11:49.their kids! Moving on to the Guardian a foreign affairs story.

:11:50. > :12:08.You have picked out this turn of phrase which Nick Clegg has chosen,

:12:09. > :12:12.Indeed, in order to do that, he says Russia has a very pronounced imprint

:12:13. > :12:16.on Crimea. I suppose it is the imprint of all those boots of all of

:12:17. > :12:24.the Russian soldiers. It is quite a gentle euphemism. I think it is.

:12:25. > :12:27.Just a lot of chaps that have turned up in Russian army uniforms,

:12:28. > :12:36.sometimes driving Russian army trucks, and just happen to be

:12:37. > :12:39.volunteers and so on. So, quite how plugged in Nick Clegg is to the

:12:40. > :12:43.highest level negotiations on the subject, I do not know. He has been

:12:44. > :12:48.very critical of what Putin has been doing. Interesting that Crimea might

:12:49. > :12:54.be a different case, there might be some accommodation that Britain

:12:55. > :12:59.could foresee, if Vladimir Putin goes about it in the right way. Yes,

:13:00. > :13:05.I think they are clearly trying to find some way that they can reach

:13:06. > :13:10.the tone of phrase is he, the imprint, recognising that there is a

:13:11. > :13:16.constituency for Russia in the Crimea. It is not a simple case of

:13:17. > :13:19.Russia, uninvited, marching in. There is an element of the

:13:20. > :13:23.population who are afraid of what is going on in the rest of the country,

:13:24. > :13:30.and who are favourable to a Russian presence. After all, Crimea was part

:13:31. > :13:32.of Russia until 1954, 50 9% of the population of Russians, it is sort

:13:33. > :13:38.of different from the rest of Crimea. Moving on to the Telegraph,

:13:39. > :13:46.dodging a TV licence will not be a crime. It says people will no longer

:13:47. > :13:50.be prosecuted in court. Before I get your reaction, I will tell you what

:13:51. > :14:03.the Culture Secretary, Maria Miller, is saying. This is an interesting

:14:04. > :14:06.idea, but the timing is crucial. The BBC has also issued a statement,

:14:07. > :14:13.saying legislation is a matter for the Government. However, a change in

:14:14. > :14:19.the law could lead to more evasion, and a 1% increase in evasion could

:14:20. > :14:33.lead to a loss of 35mm is, the equivalent of ten BBC local radio

:14:34. > :14:38.stations. -- 35mm pounds. Should it be a criminal offence? It depends on

:14:39. > :14:43.your political perspective, I suppose. A lot of people dismissed

:14:44. > :14:50.the licence fee as a kind of poll tax, which people have no say over.

:14:51. > :14:55.Well, they do not have to have a TV. They do not, but... Increasingly,

:14:56. > :15:01.people won't, probably, they will be watching us online. But if they

:15:02. > :15:04.watch you online live, I think they are still required to have a

:15:05. > :15:10.licence. I am surprised by the sheer number of people but do not,

:15:11. > :15:15.180,000, class 70 people a year jailed for not paying. It is

:15:16. > :15:22.extraordinary. And a lot of them are women of course. We knew you paid.

:15:23. > :15:26.We have got our eye on everybody. That is it from The Papers for this

:15:27. > :15:32.hour. We will be back again at half past 11. Stay with us, because at 11

:15:33. > :15:38.o'clock, the Metropolitan Police are under fire after a new report

:15:39. > :15:39.revealed that it spied on the family of the murdered black teenager

:15:40. > :15:50.Stephen Lawrence. Coming up next, Sportsday.

:15:51. > :15:54.Hello and welcome to Sportsday - I'm Lizzie Greenwood-Hughes. The

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