05/04/2014 The Papers

Secretary tried to intimidate the parliamentary watchdog that was

investigating her. Welcome to our look ahead at what

the papers will bring us tomorrow. Whitney is a regular face, Vincent

Moss, political editor of the Sunday Mirror. We are also joined by Martin

Bentham. Let's look at the front pages. More detail on the possible

signals from the black box of the Malaysia airliner.

The Sunday Times says the Army is thinking about lifting the ban on

women serving in armed combat units. One story, as expected, still

dominates. That is Maria Miller. Calls

increasing for her to go. The Telegraph `` the Sunday Telegraph

broke the story. These are the other headlines.

The Observer pushes the story down to the bottom corner, but it is

still there, support ebbing away from the league administered. Those

headlines despite support still coming out of Downing Street. We

heard from Grant Shapps today, the Conservative chairman, the Prime

Minister supporting her. But it is not going away. The Sunday Telegraph

has spoken to a minister saying her position is incompatible and she

must go. Most are speculating that she will go at the next reshuffle.

There is not a huge amount of public support. Grant Shapps you, you would

expect to publicly support. So if the row trundles along, she will be

an trundle that she will be in trouble. If she can get past the

spring forum, she will be fine in the short term. Do you think,

particularly when the Mail On Sunday say that 80% of the public thing,

will they be worried? David Cameron might think it will blow over

although if you leave a sour taste. As far as her actually going in the

short`term, one of the things about the stories is that there is no

dynamite new revelation. That is what with sink in the next few days.

Cameron wants cling onto her. They are not named ministers, either. The

Telegraph 's talks about speaking to 50 activists who said there was no

support. But they cannot get a major named Conservative minister to talk.

She has also not had a huge amount of public support, either. But

Vincent, you have to remember it was mainly the expenses scandal which

led to such a low turnout in the last election which is why we are

left with a coalition government. That's right. If this was somebody

fiddling their benefits, they would probably get a jail sentence. The

way that she has behaved over her housing expenses it is hard to see

why she has got so lightly. I completely agree. Any normal member

of public would think there was something not right here. Her

apology was lacking in grace, to say the least. Her conduct in trying to

put pressure on, argue with, not cooperate with the enquiry was also

distasteful. More than the actual thing itself. If she had said it was

an error and she thought she was applying the rules, but to behave as

she has following all that is, that leaves a sour taste. The person who

might gain most from this is Nigel Farage as the outsider. It does not

cast a good light on politics. It has been terrible handling by

Downing Street. When the Prime Minister says that we are drawing a

line under this, you think, no we are not!

The other story that dominates is the signal, not confirmed, from the

black box. The Malaysia airliner that has been missing for some time

now. If you find that black box, you could find the plane as well. That

is covered on the front page of the Sunday Telegraph. You think about

the relatives of those lost on the airliner. They just want answers.

All the answers lie in the box at the bottom of the sea bed. We have

had a lot of false alarms. This looks like it may not be. The

Chinese themselves put it out directly. That suggest that they are

quite confident. The frequency is right and if they can track it down,

that will allow them to eventually locate the black box and have some

indication, maybe not definitive, as to what happened. But it will be a

little clearer. The problem is, the suggestion is in the Telegraph, that

the black box could be as deep as 4500 metres. And recovery vehicles

only go down 3000 metres. And the pinger only goes on for a certain

amount of time and we may not find it in time. It has all the elements

of a race against time. We do not know if they will find it in time. I

think somebody was saying it dies out after 30 days because `` so

we're running out of time. I was speaking to a salvage master. He

said that finding the black box was difficult enough, try getting it to

the surface. Staying with the front page of the

Sunday Telegraph, a tiny box but a shocking story. A Britain is shot

dead in Brazil carjacking. `` a British man. Lots of stories about

violence in Brazil. This is not a tourist case, he has lived there for

some years. It may be just an example of violent crimes against

people in Brazil as opposed to the tourist areas, so it might be

different. Obviously, we will got a lot of this kind of profile for this

kind of story about anything in Brazil because of the World Cup

coming up. Lots of people travelling out there and potentially at risk. I

have just come back from there and the divide in Brazil between those

living in human misery and turning to crime, and those not, is quite

shocking. There will be a lot of stories like that coming up in the

build`up to the World Cup about just how safe British people will be in

Brazil. Let's move on to the Independent on

Sunday. A story there, a story you have written about as well, Vincent.

Supermarkets in the dock over waste. Quite a shocking headline. The rest

throws away 222 million tonnes of food a year. That is as much as is

produced in the sub Saharan Africa. This report is coming up tomorrow

from a committee of peers in the House of Lords. We have looked on

food waste and they have astonishing figures. ?5 billion a year wasted in

England `` in the UK. This controversial report will suggest

that supermarkets are in the dock and one of the problems is buy one

get one free. It encourages us to buy fresh fruit which we don't use

and throw away. It's a supermarkets are also terrible for getting us to

buy food and then they cancel the order and the farmers are forced to

plough it into the ground and it goes to waste. Europe should do more

to tackle this, food waste is going `` is a growing problem and it is a

good report. Why do they end up cancelling the order? Because they

don't know what the demand will be? Yes, they can't sell the order

because it is misshapen, consumer demand changes, they then tell the

farmers they do not want it and it ends up being wasted. This also

makes the point of the fact that producers have big penalties if they

don't deliver the right amount. So they overcompensate so that they are

not caught the right way. They produce more than they need to so

the result is that food is wasted. It says here that the European

Commission estimates that 5% of food waste comes direct retailers, 42%

from consumers and 39% from this `` from producers. But the onus is on

the supermarket because some of the practices encourage us to buy too

much. Or with the producers where are encouraged to produce more by

cancelling late and they are throwing it away so it goes on their

books as a waste rather than your books as the retailer. What a

shocking about this, it was not that long ago that there was a report

about how much food we throw away. The price of food is shocking, it is

not cheap! Supermarket food is not cheap, is it? The food bill is

really high for everyone. So you would think people would not be

throwing it away. It is tempting though, when you see a special

offer. They are quite right to apply pressure on supermarkets and

consumers to think about it. Also sell by dates. Ignore those little

bit and actually just look at things. They are smart packaging.

Rather than use by date, have a date that you really should not have it

by. Extend the period that you can eat it. And also, although I need to

look in this `` look at this in more detail, if you think about it, if we

are expecting the most perfect looking fruit, that'll bump up the

cost. You will throw away food, and the cost of that must be somewhere,

so that put up the cost in the supermarket as well.

Finally, in the Observer, revealed, Michael Gove's build `` bid to limit

fallout from failing free schools. It looked like he is after damage

limitation. They are making this out to be a big scandal. Free schools

are a big political divide between the Tories and the Labour Party. It

is saying that this document says that in the Department for

Education, they have asked for any problems with free schools to be

flagged up and rapid action taken. The contrast with the normal local

authority school where often has to declare them to be failing. That

this is somehow all about politics. I think it is probably just reality,

as it says in the story, as free schools just having been setup have

specific problems like the new sites and people running the business.

They have had one two failures and they need to protect parents by

taking rapid action. That is not a bad thing. That is true, but that is

generous to Michael Gove. He cannot have his flagship measure `` policy

failing in the run`up to an election. There will be schools

which have had issues about setting up, but there are schools which will

be badly run and that should be highlighted. I am not sure that it

is saying they should not highlight it, they are saying that action

should be taken to sort it out. If you were a parent, you would want

something to happen pretty rapidly. But they should do that with all

schools. But there is a structure with all schools. Thank you to you

both for now. Thank you for watching. Vincent and Martin will be

back at 11:30pm for another look at the stories. Stay with us. Here on

BBC news at 11, more on the search for MH370. Australian authorities

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