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in the Queen Mother Champion Chase. And another British Paralympic medal | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
at the Winter Olympics in Sochi as well. | :00:00. | :00:16. | |
Hello. Welcome to our lookahead at what the papers will be bringing us | :00:17. | :00:23. | |
tomorrow. With me Jenny Wilson, columnist for the Times, and Neil | :00:24. | :00:25. | |
Midgley, media writer the Daily Telegraph. We are going to start | :00:26. | :00:32. | |
with the main picture story in the Independent. It is of the news | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
conference today for the missing flight, MH370. The main story is | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
that tens of thousands of people are being unlawfully detained in care | :00:40. | :00:46. | |
homes according to a House of Lords inquiry. That's also the main story | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
on the front of the Daily Mail. One in ten adults will pay two thirds of | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
all income tax according to analysis done by the FT. It says there is a | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
growing debate about whether next week's budget should do more to help | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
top rate taxpayers. The Telegraph's leaders that statins have no side | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
effects according to research done by Imperial College. Billions of | :01:07. | :01:13. | |
funding will be needed for NHS reforms according to the outgoing | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
boss of the service with an interview with the Guardian. The | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
Express says there are ten days of sun on the way. We like that | :01:21. | :01:28. | |
FrontPage! We hope it's true. A lot of express stories about the weather | :01:29. | :01:34. | |
turn out to be mistaken. Was there supposed to be a big freeze this | :01:35. | :01:44. | |
winter? At least three times a week! That plane crash, MH370, still | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
missing, five days after it disappeared. Nobody seems to have a | :01:48. | :01:53. | |
clue what happened to it. A huge press conference, where it is clear | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
it is not just potential debris that's at sea, it is the search for | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
this plane at sea as well? The word farcical is in inverted commas in | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
the headline, that is exactly how it teams to be going. It seems there | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
were images taken by the Chinese satellite on Sunday showing daydream | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
in the sea, almost precisely on the flight path. -- debris. Since then, | :02:16. | :02:23. | |
they have been searching hundreds of miles to the west of air. The real | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
tragedy is that there were hundreds of families waiting in Beijing, who | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
know nothing about the fate of their loved ones. They are now being fed | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
all of this inconsistent information. It must be not only | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
heartbreaking for them, but really trying as well. Very frustrating. | :02:41. | :02:48. | |
There is probably a lot of politics involved as well. The satellite | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
image was apparently taken on Sunday. It was only released today. | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
The Chinese, it is daily Chinese nationals on the plane, the Chinese | :02:57. | :03:04. | |
authorities need to be seen to be doing something? If the Chinese knew | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
they had pictures of debris on Sunday, why have they spent so long | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
not telling anybody about us? It's a mystery to all of us to realise that | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
aeroplanes don't automatically send out signals telling everybody where | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
they are. We can get tracks every 100 metres by mobile phone signals. | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
It wasn't until this crash happened that I discovered that the | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
transponder sends out those signals. But if it is turned off or | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
if the aeroplane crashes, or if somebody, a hijacker, decides that | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
it should not operate any longer, there is no automatic signal being | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
sent by the plane. Apparently it is perfectly technically possible that | :03:44. | :03:45. | |
you could make an aeroplane turned out a signal every few milliseconds | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
on a low band of the radio, but it has never been a matter of course. I | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
would have thought that now everybody would want that to happen. | :03:53. | :04:00. | |
It seems impossible you could lose something so large in a contemporary | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
age. The last-minute occasion suggested everything was fine. All | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
of a sudden's flat. Does make you wonder, after 9/11, you would have | :04:10. | :04:17. | |
thought all of these things, God forbid there was a hijacking in this | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
case, you would have thought that all of the aviation authorities all | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
around the world would have got together and thought, what can we | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
do? That was another fascinating theory that I've read. We don't have | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
any idea what happened to this plane, but I read a book by a pilot | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
that said, what happens if you turn off the transponder is that the | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
plane then becomes invisible to the civil aviation authorities because | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
it is no longer sending a signal. It is only military radar which is | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
picking up objects which are reflecting back to them, which can | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
then read what a plane is doing. One of the series is if a hijacker had | :04:52. | :04:59. | |
come into the cockpit and turned the transponder off, only the military | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
would be able to detect it. Post 9/11, why would we expect that to be | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
an acceptable fate for any aeroplane? If they were able to | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
detect it, the military, why aren't they telling us? I know this is | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
incredibly serious, but there are many journalists that are absolutely | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
rubbing their hands with glee about the fact, as the story continues, it | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
is riveting all of us, it is on the front pages and nobody can make any | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
sense of it. It's like an episode of Lost. Nobody can make sense of it, | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
and because there is a shortage of concrete information, that vacuum is | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
filled with all kinds of theories. Let's move on to The Financial | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
Times. Boom in higher rate tax fuels relief calls. The suggestion may be | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
that there may be pressure on Mr Osborne to cut the top rate of tax? | :05:51. | :05:57. | |
I'm sure that the boom will lead to calls from readers of The Financial | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
Times, just as many readers of the Times, which also run this story | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
this morning, will have a vested interest. But I don't know that the | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
majority of the population is going to be joining this call. I think | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
what it indicators there is a lot of political pressure on George Osborne | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
from the Conservative Party, saying, let's make sure our people are being | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
rewarded here. At a time of austerity, it doesn't make sense to | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
be saying to the people that are only one in ten voters, earning | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
enough to pay higher rate tax, it does not make sense to be saying, | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
these people above all must be getting relief, it really doesn't. | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
The FT has a fascinating statistic. It says that, had the threshold kept | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
pace with wage growth over the last few years, somebody earning ?75,000 | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
would only be paying 20p basic rate tax at this point. So it should have | :06:49. | :06:56. | |
gone up? That is assuming we still have money to spare. We know that we | :06:57. | :07:03. | |
haven't got money to spare. Over a couple of decades, it shows you the | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
change in the political landscape. There was a time, dim and distant, | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
we can all remember, when tax cuts won elections. John Major got | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
re-elected in 1992 because of his tax policy, more than anything. The | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
Tories in this government seemed to be fighting shy of saying, not just | :07:21. | :07:28. | |
that we need an enterprise economy, but that includes a lower tax base | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
and giving people's money back to them, as Margaret Thatcher did in | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
the 80s. It would be very difficult to sell at a time of austerity. It | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
would not be difficult to sell a cut in the basic rate, it might for the | :07:41. | :07:48. | |
top rate. To be fair, they are trying to raise the lower rate of | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
income tax. But that is really a Lib Dem initiative? Speak to Tories and | :07:52. | :07:58. | |
they'll tell you furiously at not, it's just the Lib Dems trying to | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
take credit for it. Tories being on the side of lower taxes used to be a | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
motive. When you have to cut the deficit, I can see why there are | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
internal oddments going on. But we are in strange Financial Times? Ed | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
Miliband has done a fantastic job about making it about what he calls | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
the cost of living crisis. That is the political dialectic at the | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
moment. The Tories, if they had any sense, in my opinion, would try to | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
move away from twiddling with electricity bills and talk about | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
bringing prosperity to the masses. That is how Margaret Thatcher won | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
elections. I think we might take it from all of the lobbying going on to | :08:45. | :08:47. | |
these papers and behind-the-scenes that there may be some change next | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
week, that actually the threshold may go up a little bit. With some | :08:51. | :08:57. | |
any people briefing that senior nurses, and we all love nurses, are | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
being caught in this tax regime. It indicates Osborne is being pushed | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
and perhaps he's going to jump a little. Prisoners of care homes, | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
front page of the Daily Mail? Interesting story. A devastating | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
report, revealing tens of thousands of elderly and vulnerable people are | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
being locked up against their will? There is something called the mental | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
capacity act, enacted by the Labour government in 2005, which the Daily | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
Mail politely says was botched. Apparently, according to this House | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
of Lords report coming out tomorrow, tens of thousands of | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
people are being held against their will. Tens of thousands is an awful | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
lot. The prison population is, what? Around 100,000? Something like that. | :09:40. | :09:46. | |
70,000, just under. If there are tens of thousands of people in care | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
homes, being held against their will... The idea is that this law | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
was passed so that people could be protected, people that were not | :09:57. | :09:58. | |
capable of managing their own affairs could be detained against | :09:59. | :10:05. | |
their will if they were demented or otherwise incapacitated. According | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
to the report, it's been used too much. It might be against their | :10:09. | :10:15. | |
will, but it could be good for them? Of their will is not rational, it | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
could be. It's getting the balance right between those that you have to | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
keep in homes and those you allow out into communities? That's the | :10:25. | :10:27. | |
problem with the issue of mental health. How much autonomy do you | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
give people that may not be capable of making decisions in their | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
interests. I think it is a reflection of the mess that mental | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
health policy has been in for 25 years, since it was decided to close | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
so many homes that looked after the mentally ill and put them back into | :10:44. | :10:46. | |
the committee. Lots of people I know that have friends or relations, or | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
who themselves have been mentally ill, as soon as you enter the system | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
you find that care is very short, in very short supply. You find yourself | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
being committed, when you know, and you feel, you should not be there. | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
Or you are pleading desperately for some kind of respite care, | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
short-term assistance, and it's not available. Basically, we just don't | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
know what to do with people that temporarily conduct after | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
themselves. -- temporarily conduct after themselves. Difficult area, | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
another difficult area. Statins apparently have no side effects | :11:21. | :11:23. | |
according to Imperial College, despite many, many years of being | :11:24. | :11:34. | |
told that they do. All sorts of side effects, muscle problems, renal | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
disorder. But apparently, Imperial College have surveyed 29 pieces of | :11:40. | :11:47. | |
academic research and they say there's no greater risk of | :11:48. | :11:49. | |
side-effects from statins than if you a placebo, which seems hard to | :11:50. | :11:56. | |
credit but is obviously, if it's true, or if it is held to be true by | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
the health service, then that will have important consequences because | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
statins are set to be prescribed much more widely to people over the | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
age of 50, almost as a matter of routine. New NHS guidelines, which | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
were out just when I was last on this programme, are going to | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
recommend that the majority of men over 50 and women over 60 should | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
take statins in the future. From your experience and members of your | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
own family, is that there are side effects? Absolutely appalling | :12:30. | :12:32. | |
side-effects. The second half of this piece has all the evidence that | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
says actually, statins do have severe side effects. There are | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
doctors saying that the trouble is in clinical trials lots of people | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
and a report side-effects. It says here, last week a survey revealed | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
that the majority of GPs would not take statins themselves or recommend | :12:52. | :12:54. | |
them to a relative. The argument is they are the people who are seeing | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
the patients coming in day by day, saying, I am feeling terrible on | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
these. They find that symptoms disappear when they come off them. I | :13:02. | :13:07. | |
know many people who were put onto statins and found that things like | :13:08. | :13:10. | |
muscle fatigue and weakness was so severe that they could hardly walk | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
or get out of their chairs. We will have to end it there. You are back | :13:16. | :13:21. | |
in an hours time. Stay with us on BBC News because at 11pm we will | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
have the latest that missing Malaysia Airlines plane, as the | :13:27. | :13:29. | |
Chinese government releases satellite images of floating objects | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
in the South China Sea. Are these clues to what happened? Time for | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
Sportsday. Hello, I'm Olly Foster. Here's | :13:38. | :13:54. | |
what's coming up on Sportsday. Messi puts City to the sword as another | :13:55. | :13:57. | |
English side are knocked out of the Champions League. At Cheltenham, the | :13:58. | :14:00. | |
favourite, Sire de Grugy, wins | :14:01. | :14:01. |