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:00:00. > :00:00.Sheffield. And play`off places up for grabs in rugby union Leagues. We

:00:00. > :00:00.will have the results. At is all in Sportsday in 15 minutes after the

:00:00. > :00:17.papers. `` that is all in Sportsday. Hello and welcome to our look ahead

:00:18. > :00:20.to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are

:00:21. > :00:26.the broadcaster Alice Arnold and Alison Phillips, weekend editor at

:00:27. > :00:29.The Mirror. Good to have you here, and thank you to the newspapers

:00:30. > :00:32.which were in in double time tonight. Tomorrow's front pages: The

:00:33. > :00:34.Independent has more on Pfizer's rejected bid for British drugs

:00:35. > :00:37.company AstraZeneca. It claims a former top scientist for

:00:38. > :00:38.Pfizer has warned against the takeover, saying it could be

:00:39. > :00:41.devastating. The Mail has an interview with one

:00:42. > :00:44.of Max Clifford's victims, who says she's angry at the celebrities who

:00:45. > :00:47.queued up to defend him. Exercise does beat arthritis,

:00:48. > :00:50.according to the Express. The paper says even a gentle trip to the

:00:51. > :00:53.kitchen during an ad break can make a difference.

:00:54. > :00:56.The FT says the Treasury is set to benefit to the tune of ?4.5 billion

:00:57. > :00:58.thanks to the new Help to Buy scheme.

:00:59. > :01:01.The Telegraph has a photo of Stephen Sutton, the teenager who has raised

:01:02. > :01:03.more than ?3 million for charity while fighting cancer. He's been

:01:04. > :01:07.discharged from hospital, describing his own recovery as "quite

:01:08. > :01:10.remarkable". The Mirror says Lord Hanningfield,

:01:11. > :01:14.the peer whose expenses scam the paper exposed, said he needed the

:01:15. > :01:17.money so he could pay a man to look after his chickens while he was in

:01:18. > :01:21.Westminster. The Guardian leads on the sentencing

:01:22. > :01:23.of celebrity publicist Max Clifford. The paper says his contemptuous

:01:24. > :01:25.attitude during the trial had added to the length of sentence given by

:01:26. > :01:37.the judge. And it is with the Max Clifford

:01:38. > :01:42.trial that we will begin. It is on a number of papers, as you would

:01:43. > :01:47.expect. We will look at how the i was covering it. Clifford jailed for

:01:48. > :01:51.eight years for sex attacks, contempt for victims promised the

:01:52. > :01:56.judge to impose consecutive prison sentences. Often we hear prison

:01:57. > :02:01.sentences are imposed concurrently. I think there was a surprise. Most

:02:02. > :02:08.of us, when we heard eight years went, gosh, eight years. And he is

:02:09. > :02:13.due to serve at least four. He will do half his sentence before being

:02:14. > :02:19.eligible for parole. But it does seem that his attitude seems to have

:02:20. > :02:23.made the judge quite cross. The Mail on Sunday three has this picture of

:02:24. > :02:28.him behind this news reporter, the famous clip which did not go out, in

:02:29. > :02:32.which he was mimicking the reporter, shadowing his actions, not taking

:02:33. > :02:37.the thing very seriously. His whole attitude all along has been, I am

:02:38. > :02:41.not taking this very seriously. He has shown no remorse. His lawyers

:02:42. > :02:46.say he may appeal. He would not show remorse if he might appeal because

:02:47. > :02:49.that would be contradictory. The other thing is that because these

:02:50. > :02:54.are historic offences they would be regarded differently if they were

:02:55. > :02:59.committed now. The judge said that now some of these would be regarded

:03:00. > :03:02.as rape. But what is really interesting is that this is the

:03:03. > :03:06.first successful conviction that Operation Yewtree have had. Today

:03:07. > :03:14.they have been trying to get that out there. They are right to do so.

:03:15. > :03:20.One of the victims speaks today in an interview in the Mail. She says

:03:21. > :03:24.that she thinks it is so important that justice is seen to be done,

:03:25. > :03:28.because for a long time people were saying, it is another witchhunt,

:03:29. > :03:33.everyone is after the celebrities, these women are fantasists and

:03:34. > :03:35.liars. We have had four women whose evidence was so compelling that

:03:36. > :03:40.there has been a conviction, and it shows that even on very historic

:03:41. > :03:45.cases, they can be taken seriously, they will be taken seriously and

:03:46. > :03:50.there is a conviction from it. It is a hugely important case. If it had

:03:51. > :03:52.failed, we would have seen very few people prepared to come forward in

:03:53. > :03:56.the future, believing that every time the cases come up, people say

:03:57. > :04:02.it is a witchhunt and the person gets off. The same problems. These

:04:03. > :04:06.women who felt they could do nothing at the time would then feel they are

:04:07. > :04:10.still not being believed now. It is fantastic that it can be shown that

:04:11. > :04:14.historic cases are treated seriously and a jury can take enough evidence

:04:15. > :04:20.to convicted on it. Especially at a time when statistics suggest

:04:21. > :04:25.convictions for sex offences are going down. This is bucking the

:04:26. > :04:30.trend. And a serious sentence, which does not belittle what went on.

:04:31. > :04:35.Let's look at the Mirror. I did it for my chickens. This is Lord

:04:36. > :04:40.Hanning Field, who looks rather different to the last time I saw

:04:41. > :04:48.him. He is 73 and was exposed by your paper, Alison. Tell us how that

:04:49. > :04:52.happened. This is a lord who has a ready been imprisoned for falsely

:04:53. > :04:56.claiming on expenses. He was jailed in 2011 but unlike the rest of us,

:04:57. > :05:00.if we went to prison, we would not be able to step back into our jobs.

:05:01. > :05:05.He is able to step back into the House of Lords because that is

:05:06. > :05:10.allowed. Not only that, but he then gets his ?300 tax free daily

:05:11. > :05:13.allowance. But what the Mirror discovered last summer was that he

:05:14. > :05:17.was actually able to be seen going in, coming out, sometimes for as

:05:18. > :05:24.little as 20 minutes, for which he picks up ?300. He has obviously been

:05:25. > :05:29.called to account their by the committee on privileges and conduct.

:05:30. > :05:34.At the time when we confronted him he said, I am not the only one doing

:05:35. > :05:39.it, there are 50 of them. So they called him in and said, what has

:05:40. > :05:42.been going on? He said, I needed the money to pay someone to look after

:05:43. > :05:47.my chickens when I am at Westminster. He says, I don't have

:05:48. > :05:52.any money and I need money to look after my dog, clean my house,

:05:53. > :05:57.electricity, food. I have to live, don't I? I am a working peer. He

:05:58. > :06:03.omitted to say, not very hard`working. This is public money

:06:04. > :06:06.as well. We are paying for him. You would think there would be some

:06:07. > :06:11.minimum amount of time that anyone would have to spend. The minimum

:06:12. > :06:18.amount of time was long enough to get in, catch the eye of the

:06:19. > :06:23.recorder and say, I am here. Use the car parking facilities! The Guardian

:06:24. > :06:28.has a study revealing the death rate of under fives in the UK. This is a

:06:29. > :06:31.rather alarming story that children in the UK are more likely to die

:06:32. > :06:36.before reaching their fifth birthday than any other Western European

:06:37. > :06:41.country, except for Malta. There was a doctor raising concerns about

:06:42. > :06:47.infant death rates last week and this is adding to the concern. The

:06:48. > :06:52.country that always seems to do best in these figures is Iceland. Their

:06:53. > :06:56.death rate and cancer survival rates are very high as well. It was a

:06:57. > :07:01.shocking figure to find that we are so low. We cannot see the rest of

:07:02. > :07:04.the piece, which would analyse the reasons of death, the causes of

:07:05. > :07:09.death, which are incredibly important. Some of them say they are

:07:10. > :07:13.linked to people smoking during pregnancy, and deprivation, and

:07:14. > :07:15.people not getting the right health care treatment, or disorganisation

:07:16. > :07:21.in health care treatment for children. I don't think we can

:07:22. > :07:25.unpick this until we know the causes of death. They think there are

:07:26. > :07:27.issues around poverty and deprivation, children born with low

:07:28. > :07:33.birth weight. The editor of the Lancet saying this, this argument

:07:34. > :07:36.about the problem of poor organisation with childcare. There

:07:37. > :07:41.is clearly an issue around midwifery at the moment, a shortage of

:07:42. > :07:45.midwives. And all sorts of difficulties in providing an

:07:46. > :07:50.all`round service for newborns. But these figures are taken from some

:07:51. > :07:53.time ago, obviously, so they are not the most up`to`date necessarily. It

:07:54. > :07:57.would be difficult to know whether it is because of changes in the NHS,

:07:58. > :08:07.whether any of those were linked to this. I think there is a societal

:08:08. > :08:11.issue as well. One of the figures is from 2012. 3000 children in the UK

:08:12. > :08:16.died before their first birthday, which is quite up`to`date. It says

:08:17. > :08:24.the deaths are mostly linked to injuries, accidents and serious

:08:25. > :08:28.diseases. Between one and five. So I am not sure what the preventable

:08:29. > :08:33.things are for injuries, accidents and serious diseases, or whether the

:08:34. > :08:37.main problem is for the under one year, with the help of the mother

:08:38. > :08:41.being crucial. It is difficult to unpick, to reveal the causes and do

:08:42. > :08:46.anything about it. It is not where we want to be in the league tables.

:08:47. > :08:52.The Financial Times says top AstraZeneca investor resists Pfizer.

:08:53. > :08:57.This is a fund manager rejecting this raised offer. There is a lot of

:08:58. > :09:02.concern, Alison, about this British company being taken over by this

:09:03. > :09:06.American giant. If it went ahead it would be one of the largest

:09:07. > :09:11.purchasers of a UK group by a foreign investor. David Cameron and

:09:12. > :09:16.George Osborne have both been quite welcoming, it would appear, of the

:09:17. > :09:19.bid, whereas AstraZeneca themselves are feeling very cautious, in that

:09:20. > :09:22.although it might be a short`term gain for shareholders, what will be

:09:23. > :09:28.the long`term future for the company. And jobs is or is a

:09:29. > :09:33.concern. The government are welcoming the bid because they say

:09:34. > :09:37.they will pay taxes in the country. The worrying thing is what would

:09:38. > :09:40.happen to the research wings of AstraZeneca, and how would they be

:09:41. > :09:47.affected. That is why they are fighting it, I think. They fear they

:09:48. > :09:53.may be stripped. Another story, Help To Buy. Help To Buy profit makes

:09:54. > :09:57.Treasury a ?4.5 billion winner from the housing boom. How is this going

:09:58. > :10:01.to work? If the government helps you buy a house, how will they make

:10:02. > :10:04.money? They will want their money back at some point and with house

:10:05. > :10:08.prices going up they will gain as much as anybody else. The concern is

:10:09. > :10:12.that although obviously they will want house prices to increase so

:10:13. > :10:16.they get their money back, it is fuelling this problem we have with

:10:17. > :10:22.house prices going up and up, and young people, and even older people,

:10:23. > :10:25.struggling to afford anything. David Cameron says this scheme helps

:10:26. > :10:27.people who would not be able to get on the property ladder because they

:10:28. > :10:41.might not have rich parents. It has done, hasn't it? I don't know. That

:10:42. > :10:44.is what David Cameron says. I am not quite sure about the headline,

:10:45. > :10:49.because the figures are based on the fact that the Government gives you a

:10:50. > :10:54.20% loan, a 20% stake in the property that you buy, and that is

:10:55. > :10:57.interest`free for the first five years. These figures assume you will

:10:58. > :11:03.sell the house at the end of that period, but why would you? You

:11:04. > :11:07.might. If you want to help young people buy a house, why not build

:11:08. > :11:15.more cheap flights, accommodation that is available? If you have to

:11:16. > :11:18.deal with the lack of supply. Clive Betts, the chair of the communities

:11:19. > :11:25.and the committee, says the Government ought to be ploughing

:11:26. > :11:31.profits back into it. 20% to help to buy in London will still not help a

:11:32. > :11:36.lot of people. They will need 90% help! It is also helping to put

:11:37. > :11:40.house prices up for a lot of potential Conservative voters for

:11:41. > :11:45.the next election. Cynicism at the end of the week, let your hair

:11:46. > :11:52.down! The Telegraph, Stephen Sutton, what a fantastic story, we have been

:11:53. > :11:56.hearing an awful lot about him, he raised ?3 million for charity whilst

:11:57. > :12:00.suffering from cancer. He has been discharged from hospital. I didn't

:12:01. > :12:05.know this was even on the horizon. Well, it wasn't, he has been

:12:06. > :12:08.incredibly ill. I know he spoke at a motivational thing not that long

:12:09. > :12:13.ago, and someone said he was the most impressive young man, and is

:12:14. > :12:19.aimed, before he died, and he knows he's going to, was to raise 1

:12:20. > :12:22.million. `` his aim. All these celebrities got behind his campaign

:12:23. > :12:28.and started sending things to him, and you can see is wonderful smile,

:12:29. > :12:34.the stuffy right on Facebook is so positive and so mature. `` the stuff

:12:35. > :12:39.he writes. I wish him well. A fantastic picture. He has raised

:12:40. > :12:43.more than ?3 million and touched so many people and made people think,

:12:44. > :12:51.oh, what am I worrying about?! Amazing. The Express, exercise beats

:12:52. > :12:55.arthritis, never too late to end crippling pain, even gentle exercise

:12:56. > :12:59.can help. I should be all right, I have a puppy that needs a lot of

:13:00. > :13:03.walking! I should never have arthritis, but I should not speak

:13:04. > :13:10.too soon! This would be great if it were true. Of course it is true!

:13:11. > :13:16.Laziness is not good for you, it was a wombles song, before your time!

:13:17. > :13:23.No, it was not! A little bit of exercise might stop you getting

:13:24. > :13:27.arthritis, oh! And it is supposed to stop it hurting so much if you can

:13:28. > :13:30.get through the stiffness. It is common sense, if you sit in one

:13:31. > :13:35.position for too long, it is not going to do you any good physically

:13:36. > :13:42.or mentally. If you do extreme things like ballet and gymnastics,

:13:43. > :13:46.that can cause arthritis. I shan't try out my venerable age! I'm going

:13:47. > :13:50.to go and move around in a minute, but we will be back again for

:13:51. > :13:55.another look at the papers that are at 11:30. On BBC News, at 11

:13:56. > :13:59.o'clock, more of Max Clifford's trial as he is jailed for eight

:14:00. > :14:01.years for assaults on women and girls. Coming up next, it is time

:14:02. > :14:04.for Sportsday.