06/04/2014 The Papers

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cancelled due to a shortage of water for those taking part. Hundreds of

runners ran anyway. `` Chaotic scenes.

Welcome to our preview of the morning's papers. With me are Vicky

Beeching and Henry Bonsu. First let's look at the front pages

in brief. The Independent leads on the Labour leader Ed Milliband

promising to rescue Britain's struggling middle classes. The Daily

Telegraph as Maria Miller on its front page and claims she faces

questions on tax paid over the sale of the property. The hunt for the

killer of the British millionaire found dead in Spain. The Guardian

leads on Maria Miller, saying that she is at odds with prominent

Conservatives. The Daily Mail claims that elderly people are insuring

appalling NHS care because they do not speak up. The Times front page

says that Irish voters should remain unsolved. Drinking milk could stop

arthritis getting worse, according to the Daily Express. And NT

nine`year`old pensioner who kills herself because she cannot cope with

the digital age, according to the Daily Mirror. The Daily Telegraph

revealed Maria Miller 's expenses and led to her having to make that

apology. Another headline on the front page ` Miller faces questions

over tax on home sale. The BBC has been in touch with Maria Miller 's

office and a spokeswoman says that it is utter nonsense. She confirmed

that Maria Miller had sold the Wimbledon home in February and that

she would pay any capital gains tax that was due, but that assessment

had not yet been made and any tax was not yet achieved. She insisted

that the culture secretary would have a HMRC rules to the letter. She

would not have been charged tax yet. But this emphasises that the hope of

a line being drawn under her expenses is not going to happen

yet. The newspapers, particularly the Telegraph, maybe succeeding in

big`ticket picture of her as a cabinet minister and a senior

parliamentarian whose financial status is being enhanced and

enriched by her political status. We don't enter politics in this country

to get rich. That is what they do in other countries, banana republics.

The problem is that although she is rejected by being a woman in the

Cabinet, one of five, David Cameron will ask how much support she has at

the grassroots. I suspect he will want to keep her for a variety of

reasons but it is not want to throw her overboard and it is not like

getting the ministers anyway. He does not want to be seen to be

dragged away from the position of relative strength by the tabloids.

It may not be the prime ministers decision. He needs to make sure that

he tests they will be hoping that after the recess this will blow

over. That she is one of a few women is relevant in some ways but not in

others. I am a passionate feminist but I do not think that someone

should be given more leniency because they are a woman. There is a

lot of irony around this. It was not just giving the leniency because she

is a woman but it is about keeping women in the Cabinet. Just because a

rather few women... I know but people have asked if David Cameron

has a problem with women. Leaving her in because she is a woman is

problematic. (CROSSTALK).

Let's move on to The Times. The different story here. This is a

former minister calling for an end to Troubles prosecutions. President

Higgins arrives today and is seeing the Queen tomorrow and Martin

McGuinness will be in attendance as well. This is a call on Amnesty of

the unsolved murders have occurred in the Troubles. They want to put

the past behind them and the second is and it will be hanging over the

relationship for the future. We could potentially bring an end to

it. My sympathies are with the families of the victims and it is

all well to say let's put the past behind us but it is not in any way a

caring decision for them. Is talking in a big political sense, these are

individuals and families. I didn't realise that the figure was as high

as 3000 unsolved murders. Is the judgement of the government being

affected by the case of South Africa. The most heinous crimes of

the apartheid state were forgiven or explain away by the Reconciliation

Commission. There is still a lot of trauma going through there. I don't

think these things can be wished away. There was huge outcry when it

was revealed that letters were sent to some IRA suspects on the run and

that was huge outcry about that and questions about who knew what and

when. He says you can't apply a sense of normal fairness and justice

to an unusual situation but you are still left with lots of individuals

who will not feel like they have justice. What constitutes a

political crime? How many murders can be attached to the troubles and

how many are ordinary crimes that can be dressed up? If you lost

somebody, you will want Justice. Let's turn to the Sun reports on

so`called benefit cheats. They are being forced to sell homes to pay

back fraud debt. How many people will be forced to do this? There are

many figures quoted here, 440 million pounds of handouts. But the

overall pound is ?3.5 billion. `` amount. It would help if we knew how

many people will have two payback by selling their home. Suspect very

few. It is a huge amount of money. We have to remind ourselves that the

Sun has this campaign going. The Mirror has a shocking front`page

story. I would sooner die than live in the age of the e`mail. A British

pensioner who evidently killed herself at an assisted suicide

clinic, saying she could not cope with the digital age. There are many

people struggling to cope with with the digital age. You are

investigating this, Ah Chee? I'm looking at the effects of technology

society. It does surprise me. The symptoms of older people feeling

isolated by technology as a shock me, but this result does. She has

gone abroad to commit suicide. She died on March 27. She was not

terminally ill or seriously handicapped but her comments were

that she wanted to stop the world and get off. She could not cope that

the world was becoming more machine oriented. She felt we were becoming

robotic. She has never owned a TV or radio. When I read that I thought

that there were a lot of other things going on here. When did

televisions come into? Televisions and radios are lifelines for the

majority of people, especially elderly people. I have sympathy here

but actually I would not blame the e`mail age. She was upset with

people not cooking properly and going for ready meals. Do you think

this will raise serious questions about assisted suicide? What

constitutes a genuine reason? There is a responsibility to train

yourself, is that? Lifelong learning. Loneliness was probably at

the core of it. Who was around her? There are loads of people who are

bridging that digital divide in their 80s or 90s. Parents should be

banned from The Independent reports on Ed Milliband and the middle

class. Let Prescot once said that the old middle class now. The people

that Ed Milliband is talking about, are they begin to give him a surge

next year? There are many people who do not think he has his strategy

right. She will give a big speech tomorrow about setting the

industrial heartland free, an attempt to outflank David Cameron

and George Osborne. The message it from them is that the economy is

recovering. Milliband was to appeal to those who are not feeling the

benefit from the tax cuts. Things that you value like university

funding and pensions are under attack. There is not much detail. He

has time to get meat on the bones of policies. What will the Labour Party

heartlands think of this? Nigel Farage says that it is not just

disenchanted conservatives but that labour people are also coming. The

Daily Mail talks about tens of thousands of elderly patients

enduring appalling NHS care and they are too frightened or polite to

complain. This is another issue that will be apart of next year 's

election. We are also aware that we are living longer and have less

money for when the older. This is Britishness the core. Aren't we all

like that offered. There is a lot of concern about all the people who are

in hospital who are too frightened to make a fuss for fear of being

punished by nurses and people who are there to care for them, if they

make a fuss or complain. Relatives are often very concerned. We have

cases of people setting up their own CCTV operations in private homes and

hospitals and have found appalling care. Most nurses are probably doing

a great job. Nurses get upset when lacy stories like this. There are

calls for a significant cultural shift and even suggestions that

there should be a body that handles all complaints about the NHS and

social care and other services. People need to know that that is

behind them. All the people do not even want to tell their families

because they don't want to be a burden. U complain when you are in

that bed and you are not being taken care of? Thank you. Stay with BBC

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