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the Ashes and failed to reach the semifinals of the World Twenty20 in | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Bangladesh. That is all coming up in Sportsday in around 15 minutes after | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
the Papers. Hello, and welcome to our look ahead | :00:07. | :00:17. | |
to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are the | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
political commentator Miranda Green and James Millar of the Sunday Post. | :00:21. | :00:26. | |
Tomorrow's front pages, starting with the Mirror, and a warning that | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
cuts to the NHS could lead to waits of up to four weeks to see your GP. | :00:31. | :00:37. | |
A different warning in the Guardian, this time over wind farms. The paper | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
says David Cameron is considering reducing financial support for | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
onshore projects. Immigration leads on the Mail, which claims four | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
migrants died in Calais trying to board lorries bound for Britain. The | :00:49. | :00:57. | |
Metro has a court case featuring a woman who allegedly claimed benefits | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
for agoraphobia while working as a travel writer. | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
More migration on the Express, figures from migration watch | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
estimates that half a million people will come to the UK from the EU over | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
the next five years. The Times has news that the Met | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
Office has developed a new weather modelling system that could lead to | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
more accurate predictions and long`range forecasting. That would | :01:21. | :01:26. | |
be nice! Not that they get it wrong much, they do a great job. OK, we | :01:27. | :01:32. | |
will start with the Gudgin, Tories planned new attack on wind farms, | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
Cameron considering commitment to curb onshore turbines. He is getting | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
hassle from some of his own MPs on this. Absolutely right, and we have | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
come very long way from the David Cameron who used to say vote blue, | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
go green. You sound like Ed Miliband! Do I?! How do I take that | :01:52. | :01:59. | |
today?! This is interesting, not just because of the substance of the | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
policy. People who do not like wind farms really don't like wind farms, | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
they think turbines are a blot on the landscape, and the story says | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
there are people who want Cameron to go as far as promising they will | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
dismantle existing wind farms, not just put a block on building | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
anymore. This is one of those stories where, within the | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
coalition, the Conservatives and the Lib Dems take totally different | :02:25. | :02:27. | |
points of view, and both of them appeal to their own supporters. I | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
call these the Jack Spratt coalition rows, because if you take these | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
anti`turbine boaters, we will take the green policy voters, and | :02:38. | :02:39. | |
everybody is happy until the election. Sure. James, branded made | :02:40. | :02:47. | |
it clear, as Ed Miliband has made it clear, go green, vote blue, he has | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
attacked David Cameron, the taxes that were part of the green levy and | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
made great play of the suggestion that these were responsible for a | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
company like SSE, one of the big six energy firms, actually freezing its | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
prices. Are we seeing a major shift here in policy? Especially one day | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
after the climate change report from the EU. No, this is not a major | :03:12. | :03:18. | |
shift, this is not a major story. Nonsense? Well, what I suspect as | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
happened here, the way it was reported, the Lib Dems got all the | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
benefit, if you like... The Tories felt like, hang on, we're supposed | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
to get some of the benefit, we want our supporters to understand we do | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
not like wind farms, and so something may have been confected to | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
keep the story running for another day, and suddenly the Tories are | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
getting the benefit. As I understand it, most wind farms are built | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
offshore, most plans for offshore now anyway. So you can say, I will | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
crack down on onshore wind farms, but it will not make a huge amount | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
of difference. There is a potentially serious consequence, | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
though, of all of this grandstanding on energy is used, which is | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
investment. Because nobody on any side of the political spectrum once | :04:07. | :04:13. | |
the lights to go out, and for energy security you do actually need | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
investment to continue during these years when we are having a sort of | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
pause, where people stayed out political territory on these energy | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
policies. And this is a problem, and there are warnings in this story | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
that there is yet more uncertainty about where the subsidies will go, | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
whether support will be withdrawn for one sort of renewable or | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
another. That will inhibit people from making the investments we need. | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
On top of that, the investigation that will be taking place into the | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
big six energy firms. Yeah, we need energy. It is all very well saying, | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
we will dismantle wind farms, but you need to say what you will | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
replace it with. Look, at the moment, both parties, all parties | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
are knocking the energy companies. They are not really presenting a | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
vision as to how the energy market and how the light will be kept on in | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
the future. Sure, all right, staying with the Guardian, fears mount over | :05:12. | :05:18. | |
fraud in Afghan vote, foreign troops will be pulling out, but there is a | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
fear by some that it will be a flawed election. Yeah! I would | :05:24. | :05:30. | |
suggest the years of quite a lot of fraud. One of the interesting fact | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
of the story is that only a quarter of Afghans expect the vote to be | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
clean. I'm amazed a quarter expected to be clean, because it is just not | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
going to be. But you know, the ultimate question is, is a dodgy | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
election better than no election? Given what these people have put up | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
with for decades now, it is a lot better than the alternative. Sure. | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
And the fear is that, whatever the results of the election, the Taliban | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
will come back anyway. Well, that is right. The main story that has been | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
running so far in the run`up to the election this coming weekend is | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
actually the massive upturn in Taliban attacks. There have been | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
some really nasty murders in the last two weeks. But I think, | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
actually, hiding within this story, which is presented as, you know, | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
fears mount, as the Guardian says about the quality of the election | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
results ` there is some positive stuff hiding in the story. For | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
example, four in five Afghans say they are planning to vote. If that | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
comes to pass, that would be a massive, massive vote of confidence | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
in the idea of a future that could be peaceful and democratic. So you | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
know, obviously there are massive problems with mounting a | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
presidential election at the moment, with the levels of violence, with | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
the uncertainties of what will follow when NATO troops pull`out. | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
But you know, it could be the start of a new era, and they need support | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
from us to try to make it so. All right, OK, to the front of the | :07:03. | :07:09. | |
Mirror, a four`week wait to see your GP, exclusive cuts Shane! Is this | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
over the top from a left`leaning paper or not? Surely not! What are | :07:16. | :07:29. | |
you suggesting?! Conder and `` condemn with no N on the end. That | :07:30. | :07:37. | |
is their phrase for the coalition. There are two big problems with the | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
NHS at the moment, the A crisis we have heard a lot about in the last | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
six months, that has been on the front pages a lot. Also, a problem | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
with primary care, with GPs surgeries, and this is a new study | :07:51. | :07:58. | |
which is suggesting that they quite serious funding cut which will come | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
to surgeries will result in patients not been seen very quickly by their | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
GP, in fact four`week delays. There are warnings from GPs about this, | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
they are worried about disease is not being spotted in time, which | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
would have serious consequences for individual patients. But you know, | :08:19. | :08:20. | |
we know the background to this is that there are not enough people who | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
want to be GPs going through training, what structural problems. | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
The Government says it is doing what it can to get more people into the | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
profession. Yeah, this hits a nerve, because everybody, most people, have | :08:36. | :08:43. | |
a problem phoning up the GP and not being able to get an appointment, or | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
having to stay on the phone for an hour to get an appointment that day. | :08:47. | :08:53. | |
So whatever the pros and cons, the weight of the story, it strikes a | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
nerve with readers, and I think you can possibly judge how strong a | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
story it is on the opening paragraph, which is patients will be | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
harmed if they have to wait up to a month. That is pretty obvious, if | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
you have to wait a month to see a doctor. But it is a big issue, it is | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
certainly worth putting some light on it, I think. Indeed. Onto the | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
Daily Mail, interesting story, this, James, four desperate migrants | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
killed in Calais as they target lorries bound for the UK, dying to | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
get into Britain. Yeah, this is on the front of the Express as well, | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
both leading on migration, a report by migration watch, clearly they | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
have an axe to grind. That does not mean their statistics are bad, but | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
they have a point they want to get across. I think most journalists | :09:45. | :09:54. | |
today got an e`mail from the Royal statistical Society suggesting that | :09:55. | :10:00. | |
they enter their stories for use of stats awards. I do not think either | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
of these will be in that category! The figures about hundreds of | :10:05. | :10:06. | |
thousands of people arriving over five years, if you divide that up, | :10:07. | :10:13. | |
it is not as bad as it suggests. We were bitten by that, with all the | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
suggestions that the Romanians and Bulgarians were going to come over | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
here. The Mail, this is about Miranda, people, I've covered this | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
story several times, from northern France and I've seen these migrants | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
wait for a lorry to slow down at the light and run out and try to get | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
into the back. I've seen some of them hanging on to the doors as the | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
lorries drive away. This is the story that the Mail is highlighting, | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
including the figures. These are desperate people in some of those | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
refugee camps. Sangatte was the very famous one, which became a standoff | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
between the British and French governments because they were | :10:57. | :10:58. | |
concerned that the French were effectively just letting too many | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
people escape and risk their own lives quite seriously trying to get | :11:03. | :11:10. | |
foo Britain through the Eurotunnel. I think MigrationWatch have released | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
this report. They've got the dramatic photographs that you | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
referred to, of the guys desperately trying to get into the lorry. The | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
reason they're on the front pages tomorrow morning, because tomorrow | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
night is the second debate between Nick Clegg and Nigel Fer rather and | :11:30. | :11:36. | |
the debate is `` Nigel Farage and the debate is about immigration and | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
it's a huge issue and it's more and more unpopular. This is going to be | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
ammunition for Nigel Farage tomorrow night. Yeah. He picks it up with the | :11:48. | :11:55. | |
welfare system and it's kind of a separate issue to the immigration | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
issue. I don't care how generous it is, would you be willing to jump on | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
the back of a moving lorry? Maybe. It depends what you're leaving. I | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
have covered this story a number of times and the migrants I were | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
talking to, they wanted to get over here because there were networks | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
here. That's why they wanted to get here. No point staying in France. | :12:18. | :12:23. | |
OK. The front of the express express too. `` The Express too it talks of | :12:24. | :12:30. | |
the 12`year`old girl who was crushed to death when a wall collapsed at | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
her school. Internal wall at Liberton High School. We'll go on to | :12:36. | :12:41. | |
that about a story about The Sahara dust that's on the front page. We | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
have got the inside page of one of the papers here that's covering this | :12:47. | :12:49. | |
story. A lot of people woke up to their cars covered in dust. We have | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
got it from The Telegraph site now. I have got building work next door | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
to me and I thought it was the builders who were pretty sloppy in | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
their clearing up and they were potentially going to come to see and | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
say it's the desert. It turns out they were not spinning you a line. | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
No, they got it right. They did. That's right. Those of us who get | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
hayfever have noticed it's a lot worse and that's to do with | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
pollution too. They're saying it's quite serious for the vulnerable and | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
people with lung conditions, the very elderly and young and they're | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
gloomy, saying we shouldn't be taking exercise outside tomorrow. | :13:32. | :13:38. | |
It's a shame because obviously the summer weather we're getting early | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
is fantastic and we would like to be out enjoying it. The answer is to | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
move to Scotland. You don't have to worry about dust there. Will we need | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
a passport soon to get in? That is a separate issue. How long have you | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
got for that one? Thank you both. You'll be back in an hour's time and | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
the industry has been holding its Oscars, the Press Awards. It's been | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
announced the front page of the year has gone to... Sunday People for | :14:09. | :14:15. | |
their piece on Charles Saatchi and Nigel Lawson from June last year, | :14:16. | :14:18. | |
which became one of the year's biggest stories. That was an | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
arresting front page. Probably worthy winner. So many | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
congratulations to them. Stay with us for the top of the hour because | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
we'll have much more on the Government insisting that the | :14:34. | :14:36. | |
privatisation of Royal Mail has been success, after the sell`off was | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
accused `` after the Government was accused of selling it off far too | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
cheaply. Now time for Sportsday. Welcome to Sportsday. Here's what's | :14:45. | :15:06. | |
on the way ` Manchester United hold the European champions to a draw to | :15:07. | :15:09. | |
keep their Champions League quarter final tie alive. Tiger Woods will | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
miss the first Major of | :15:15. | :15:16. |