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:00:00. > :00:00.building. Celtic seas in Sheffield after the city 's half marathon was

:00:00. > :00:13.cancelled due to a shortage of water for those taking part. Hundreds of

:00:14. > :00:23.runners ran anyway. `` Chaotic scenes.

:00:24. > :00:32.Welcome to our preview of the morning's papers. With me are Vicky

:00:33. > :00:38.Beeching and Henry Bonsu. First let's look at the front pages

:00:39. > :00:41.in brief. The Independent leads on the Labour leader Ed Milliband

:00:42. > :00:46.promising to rescue Britain's struggling middle classes. The Daily

:00:47. > :00:50.Telegraph as Maria Miller on its front page and claims she faces

:00:51. > :00:57.questions on tax paid over the sale of the property. The hunt for the

:00:58. > :00:59.killer of the British millionaire found dead in Spain. The Guardian

:01:00. > :01:08.leads on Maria Miller, saying that she is at odds with prominent

:01:09. > :01:11.Conservatives. The Daily Mail claims that elderly people are insuring

:01:12. > :01:18.appalling NHS care because they do not speak up. The Times front page

:01:19. > :01:24.says that Irish voters should remain unsolved. Drinking milk could stop

:01:25. > :01:30.arthritis getting worse, according to the Daily Express. And NT

:01:31. > :01:32.nine`year`old pensioner who kills herself because she cannot cope with

:01:33. > :01:40.the digital age, according to the Daily Mirror. The Daily Telegraph

:01:41. > :01:46.revealed Maria Miller 's expenses and led to her having to make that

:01:47. > :01:54.apology. Another headline on the front page ` Miller faces questions

:01:55. > :02:00.over tax on home sale. The BBC has been in touch with Maria Miller 's

:02:01. > :02:06.office and a spokeswoman says that it is utter nonsense. She confirmed

:02:07. > :02:09.that Maria Miller had sold the Wimbledon home in February and that

:02:10. > :02:15.she would pay any capital gains tax that was due, but that assessment

:02:16. > :02:19.had not yet been made and any tax was not yet achieved. She insisted

:02:20. > :02:26.that the culture secretary would have a HMRC rules to the letter. She

:02:27. > :02:35.would not have been charged tax yet. But this emphasises that the hope of

:02:36. > :02:41.a line being drawn under her expenses is not going to happen

:02:42. > :02:45.yet. The newspapers, particularly the Telegraph, maybe succeeding in

:02:46. > :02:48.big`ticket picture of her as a cabinet minister and a senior

:02:49. > :02:56.parliamentarian whose financial status is being enhanced and

:02:57. > :03:01.enriched by her political status. We don't enter politics in this country

:03:02. > :03:07.to get rich. That is what they do in other countries, banana republics.

:03:08. > :03:12.The problem is that although she is rejected by being a woman in the

:03:13. > :03:17.Cabinet, one of five, David Cameron will ask how much support she has at

:03:18. > :03:25.the grassroots. I suspect he will want to keep her for a variety of

:03:26. > :03:29.reasons but it is not want to throw her overboard and it is not like

:03:30. > :03:33.getting the ministers anyway. He does not want to be seen to be

:03:34. > :03:39.dragged away from the position of relative strength by the tabloids.

:03:40. > :03:47.It may not be the prime ministers decision. He needs to make sure that

:03:48. > :03:54.he tests they will be hoping that after the recess this will blow

:03:55. > :03:59.over. That she is one of a few women is relevant in some ways but not in

:04:00. > :04:02.others. I am a passionate feminist but I do not think that someone

:04:03. > :04:08.should be given more leniency because they are a woman. There is a

:04:09. > :04:12.lot of irony around this. It was not just giving the leniency because she

:04:13. > :04:18.is a woman but it is about keeping women in the Cabinet. Just because a

:04:19. > :04:26.rather few women... I know but people have asked if David Cameron

:04:27. > :04:30.has a problem with women. Leaving her in because she is a woman is

:04:31. > :04:38.problematic. (CROSSTALK).

:04:39. > :04:50.Let's move on to The Times. The different story here. This is a

:04:51. > :04:58.former minister calling for an end to Troubles prosecutions. President

:04:59. > :05:02.Higgins arrives today and is seeing the Queen tomorrow and Martin

:05:03. > :05:05.McGuinness will be in attendance as well. This is a call on Amnesty of

:05:06. > :05:10.the unsolved murders have occurred in the Troubles. They want to put

:05:11. > :05:16.the past behind them and the second is and it will be hanging over the

:05:17. > :05:19.relationship for the future. We could potentially bring an end to

:05:20. > :05:23.it. My sympathies are with the families of the victims and it is

:05:24. > :05:29.all well to say let's put the past behind us but it is not in any way a

:05:30. > :05:36.caring decision for them. Is talking in a big political sense, these are

:05:37. > :05:42.individuals and families. I didn't realise that the figure was as high

:05:43. > :05:49.as 3000 unsolved murders. Is the judgement of the government being

:05:50. > :05:56.affected by the case of South Africa. The most heinous crimes of

:05:57. > :06:02.the apartheid state were forgiven or explain away by the Reconciliation

:06:03. > :06:07.Commission. There is still a lot of trauma going through there. I don't

:06:08. > :06:13.think these things can be wished away. There was huge outcry when it

:06:14. > :06:18.was revealed that letters were sent to some IRA suspects on the run and

:06:19. > :06:25.that was huge outcry about that and questions about who knew what and

:06:26. > :06:29.when. He says you can't apply a sense of normal fairness and justice

:06:30. > :06:31.to an unusual situation but you are still left with lots of individuals

:06:32. > :06:38.who will not feel like they have justice. What constitutes a

:06:39. > :06:42.political crime? How many murders can be attached to the troubles and

:06:43. > :06:48.how many are ordinary crimes that can be dressed up? If you lost

:06:49. > :07:02.somebody, you will want Justice. Let's turn to the Sun reports on

:07:03. > :07:11.so`called benefit cheats. They are being forced to sell homes to pay

:07:12. > :07:19.back fraud debt. How many people will be forced to do this? There are

:07:20. > :07:29.many figures quoted here, 440 million pounds of handouts. But the

:07:30. > :07:36.overall pound is ?3.5 billion. `` amount. It would help if we knew how

:07:37. > :07:47.many people will have two payback by selling their home. Suspect very

:07:48. > :07:54.few. It is a huge amount of money. We have to remind ourselves that the

:07:55. > :08:00.Sun has this campaign going. The Mirror has a shocking front`page

:08:01. > :08:06.story. I would sooner die than live in the age of the e`mail. A British

:08:07. > :08:14.pensioner who evidently killed herself at an assisted suicide

:08:15. > :08:18.clinic, saying she could not cope with the digital age. There are many

:08:19. > :08:25.people struggling to cope with with the digital age. You are

:08:26. > :08:30.investigating this, Ah Chee? I'm looking at the effects of technology

:08:31. > :08:34.society. It does surprise me. The symptoms of older people feeling

:08:35. > :08:39.isolated by technology as a shock me, but this result does. She has

:08:40. > :08:48.gone abroad to commit suicide. She died on March 27. She was not

:08:49. > :08:52.terminally ill or seriously handicapped but her comments were

:08:53. > :08:57.that she wanted to stop the world and get off. She could not cope that

:08:58. > :09:07.the world was becoming more machine oriented. She felt we were becoming

:09:08. > :09:13.robotic. She has never owned a TV or radio. When I read that I thought

:09:14. > :09:19.that there were a lot of other things going on here. When did

:09:20. > :09:23.televisions come into? Televisions and radios are lifelines for the

:09:24. > :09:30.majority of people, especially elderly people. I have sympathy here

:09:31. > :09:33.but actually I would not blame the e`mail age. She was upset with

:09:34. > :09:38.people not cooking properly and going for ready meals. Do you think

:09:39. > :09:45.this will raise serious questions about assisted suicide? What

:09:46. > :09:49.constitutes a genuine reason? There is a responsibility to train

:09:50. > :09:58.yourself, is that? Lifelong learning. Loneliness was probably at

:09:59. > :10:05.the core of it. Who was around her? There are loads of people who are

:10:06. > :10:22.bridging that digital divide in their 80s or 90s. Parents should be

:10:23. > :10:30.banned from The Independent reports on Ed Milliband and the middle

:10:31. > :10:38.class. Let Prescot once said that the old middle class now. The people

:10:39. > :10:43.that Ed Milliband is talking about, are they begin to give him a surge

:10:44. > :10:48.next year? There are many people who do not think he has his strategy

:10:49. > :10:50.right. She will give a big speech tomorrow about setting the

:10:51. > :10:56.industrial heartland free, an attempt to outflank David Cameron

:10:57. > :11:04.and George Osborne. The message it from them is that the economy is

:11:05. > :11:09.recovering. Milliband was to appeal to those who are not feeling the

:11:10. > :11:14.benefit from the tax cuts. Things that you value like university

:11:15. > :11:23.funding and pensions are under attack. There is not much detail. He

:11:24. > :11:30.has time to get meat on the bones of policies. What will the Labour Party

:11:31. > :11:34.heartlands think of this? Nigel Farage says that it is not just

:11:35. > :11:45.disenchanted conservatives but that labour people are also coming. The

:11:46. > :11:48.Daily Mail talks about tens of thousands of elderly patients

:11:49. > :11:51.enduring appalling NHS care and they are too frightened or polite to

:11:52. > :11:55.complain. This is another issue that will be apart of next year 's

:11:56. > :12:01.election. We are also aware that we are living longer and have less

:12:02. > :12:09.money for when the older. This is Britishness the core. Aren't we all

:12:10. > :12:13.like that offered. There is a lot of concern about all the people who are

:12:14. > :12:17.in hospital who are too frightened to make a fuss for fear of being

:12:18. > :12:22.punished by nurses and people who are there to care for them, if they

:12:23. > :12:29.make a fuss or complain. Relatives are often very concerned. We have

:12:30. > :12:34.cases of people setting up their own CCTV operations in private homes and

:12:35. > :12:44.hospitals and have found appalling care. Most nurses are probably doing

:12:45. > :12:49.a great job. Nurses get upset when lacy stories like this. There are

:12:50. > :12:52.calls for a significant cultural shift and even suggestions that

:12:53. > :12:57.there should be a body that handles all complaints about the NHS and

:12:58. > :13:01.social care and other services. People need to know that that is

:13:02. > :13:04.behind them. All the people do not even want to tell their families

:13:05. > :13:10.because they don't want to be a burden. U complain when you are in

:13:11. > :13:19.that bed and you are not being taken care of? Thank you. Stay with BBC

:13:20. > :13:43.News. Hello, and welcome to the Film

:13:44. > :13:49.Review and BBC News, what have we got? As I am sure you know, this is

:13:50. > :13:50.the week that Noah opens, the great big controversial, or is it

:13:51. > :13:51.biblical,