28/04/2014 The Papers

for failing to meet UEFA's rules. That's all coming up in around 15

minutes. Hello, and welcome to our look ahead

to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are

Emily Ashton, Whitehall correspondent for The Sun. And

freelance journalist Eva Simpson. Let's look at the front page is now

starting with the tragic death of that teacher Anne Maguire. It on the

front page of the Independent. She was stabbed to death in front of

pupils in Leeds. That story is also on the front page of the Metro. It's

also leading with Max Clifford's convictions for indecent assault.

The financial Times goes with the ?60 billion takeover bid made by

AstraZeneca. The Daily Telegraph, another paper leading with the

killing of the teacher in Leeds, Anne Maguire. The paper says she was

seen as the figurehead of Corpus Christi Catholic College. The Daily

Express also believes that teacher's death, reporting that Mrs

Maguire was in their final term before taking retirement. The

Guardian claims a cross`party claim to brand UKIP as racist is to be

launched this week. We will start with the Independent. Death in the

classroom is a front page of the Independent. It's been the story

leading the bulletins all day. Absolutely appalling story. It's

unbelievable. It's the first time we believe a teacher has actually been

murdered in a classroom. People will remember the headteacher Philip

Lawrence was murdered outside a school in London but this was

outside the school gates. He had gone to the aid of a pupil being

attacked. This was actually inside the classroom where this young

15`year`old boy, who is in custody, is believed to have stabbed this

teacher and everyone spoken about her such glowing terms. It's

interesting to note that in the Independent, they got some research

which shows that figures show nearly 1000 students were caught with

lethal weapons such as guns and knives, axes and hammers, between

2011`13. I mean, as appalling as this is, actually, what we don't

hear about is that there is a lot of violence, a lot of that going on in

the classrooms which goes under the radar. Why are we not hearing all

about? I think there are these figures about pupils bringing in

these weapons into schools. But I think you know, a lot of the focus

has been on gang violence, and pupils attacking each other. When

you think back to Philip Lawrence, when he was murdered outside that

school in London in 1995, it was, that was a very different

situation. He was breaking up a fight. He was stabbed through the

heart by one of these gang members. This was a pupil, 15`year`old boy,

who turned on a teacher. In front of a classroom. How would you ever get

over that? As a child, how would you even get over that? There's more

detail emerging about the boy in custody. He's meant to be a very

bright boy, very gifted, predicted that top grades at GCSE. A very

talented artist. Obviously more will emerge as to what the motives behind

this attack was, but it's still fresh in everyone's minds, very

chilling. Shocking. Emily, is going to be a concerted debate, do you

think, now, looking at whether or not kids should be searched before

they go into schools? We know there this anecdotal evidence of kids in

inner`city city areas of London wearing stab vests going to school.

In America, they have metal detectors and so on. I'm sure the

debate will reopen, but I think the reports addressing tonight about

this particular incident... It seems isolated. I have no doubt this

debate will be reopened. As appalling as it is, I don't think we

need to start introducing metal detectors and all that sort of thing

for every teacher. I think it's very premature. The Daily Telegraph, the

teacher on the front. She was actually in her final year as a

teacher. She'd been doing it for 40 years, celebrated 40 years on the

job, job she loved. She had been at the school since she left

university. You know, this is obviously a teacher who was widely

respected, and well loved by many of her former pupils. People were

travelling to put flowers down there for her. I think she was due to

retire this summer, as well, which makes it all the more poignant and

very, very sad indeed. Staying the Daily Telegraph, a tipping point for

cancer as half of patients are now killed. This is a landmark new

research showing half of patients diagnosed with cancer today will be

effectively killed. That means that they will be diagnosed to expect to

survive for at least ten years, by which point their prognosis is as

good as those without the disease 40 years ago less than one quarter

would have survived. Researchers are saying... It's good news. Yes,

cancer should no longer be seen as death sentence but just a chronic

condition. That's incredible. We've all been touched by cancer. Before

lost loved ones through cancer, so the fact that 50% of us, people who

get cancer, could be jewelled, it's incredible. We have seen the recent

government campaign, haven't we, where the emphasis is on trying to

get at cancers as early as possible, so watching for the

possible signs. That's the kind of thing we are looking at. Absolutely,

but this development and research going on all the time, these new

drugs being developed, to help, as you say, people are learning to

diagnose for themselves when things are wrong. There's some great

statistics which saved women with breast cancer now have a 78%

survival rate. And also ten years ago, men diagnosed with prostate

cancer only had a 25% survival rate and now it's as high as 80%.

Incredible. Let's go to the metro. Victims join as Max Clifford found

guilty. He assaulted girls as young as 15. These were for historic

offences. He was found guilty of eight of the charges. I believe he

will be sentenced on Friday. You know, he is the first sort of guilty

verdict under Operation Yewtree. I think it will come as some relief to

the police and the CPS, who have come in for a lot of criticism

bringing these historic cases forward and prosecuting them, so I

think that's all a relief to the CPS and to the police. Also to the

victims. They had said their faith in the justice system has been

restored. This cannot be an easy process for anyone involved. No one

wins at the end of the day, even if he was no guilty. There is no

winners. It's good they can feel justice has finally been done.

Briefly, you were a 3am girl on the sun for the showbiz columnist. The

Daily Mirror. No one could have been in the entertainment business and

not come across Max Clifford. You would've come across him. He dealt

with all the tabloid editors. He was the king of kiss and tell is, the

guy who was sort of providing some of the biggest showbiz scoops, the

biggest newspaper scoops for decades. Yes, he was hired by many

people more to keep their secrets out of the papers than in them, but

according to the Sun newspaper which we haven't got it, they say Simon

Cowell has been the first person to find him. I'm sure it will follow.

The problem the CPS has had with Operation Yewtree which were set up

after the Jimmy Savile claims, these claims go back decades. It's very,

very difficult for a jury to make a decision. This was the eighth day of

deliberations. I'm not many people expected to come back with a guilty

verdict today. These are very, very difficult cases and we have seen

similar cases which are not part of Operation Yewtree, Michael Le Vell,

Bill Roache cleared. The CPS, the police will be grateful that this

has happened because it kind of shows it is worthy to take forward

these prosecutions and listen to these complaints because it can

work. They will feel justified with us. Onto the financial Times. The US

steps up pressure on President Putin's in circle with tougher

sanctions but the Americans have pointed out this is not an attack on

Vladimir Putin himself. The US has toughened sanctions by targeting

several officials, several companies linked to oligarchs because they

want to tie up the money. There's a lot of oligarchs close to Putin.

They hope to have influence in persuading him to back off eastern

Ukraine, because there has been talk of his sending in people under

cover, even though he says nothing to do with us. They just happen to

be pro`Russian separatists. The West doesn't believe that for a minute.

But the Deputy Prime Minister has been added to this sanctions list.

Vladimir Putin is not on this list, which involves travel bans, asset

freezes. The reason for that is because they want Putin to get

involved in diplomacy. Can't cut him off completely. They need him to

move around. If you slap on a travel ban, he can't get involved in talks.

You have to hope that diplomacy doesn't work what are `` what have

you to hope is that diplomacy works. One credit rating agency has already

suggested that Russia's credit worthiness is pretty near junk

status at the moment. Which is a knock`on effect across Europe and in

the UK in. America, they're a bit more removed from it. They're

further away. This is point as well, the US steps up the pressure on

Putin. The sanctions are heavier than the EU. The EU have been

cautious, adding names to the list, always warning that there might be

big economic sanction as head but never quite moving to it. That's

because Europe is next door to Russia and they're dead nervous.

You're going to be back in an hour to look at the stories behind the

headlines, many thanks for that. Stay with us here on BBC News. At

the top of the hour, we will have the very latest from Leeds on the

death this afternoon 61`year`old teacher, stabbed by a pupil at her

school. Now, it's time for Sportsday.

Hello, welcome to Sportsday. Here's what's on the way tonight: Arsenal

seize control of fourth in the race for Champions League football next

season. Footballers go bananas in support of Barcelona's Dani Alves.

Despite missing a record century of centuries, world number one Neil

Robertson makes the quarter finals