02/05/2014 The Papers

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papers. `` that is all in Sportsday. Hello and welcome to our look ahead

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

the broadcaster Alice Arnold and Alison Phillips, weekend editor at

The Mirror. Good to have you here, and thank you to the newspapers

which were in in double time tonight. Tomorrow's front pages: The

Independent has more on Pfizer's rejected bid for British drugs

company AstraZeneca. It claims a former top scientist for

Pfizer has warned against the takeover, saying it could be

devastating. The Mail has an interview with one

of Max Clifford's victims, who says she's angry at the celebrities who

queued up to defend him. Exercise does beat arthritis,

according to the Express. The paper says even a gentle trip to the

kitchen during an ad break can make a difference.

The FT says the Treasury is set to benefit to the tune of ?4.5 billion

thanks to the new Help to Buy scheme.

The Telegraph has a photo of Stephen Sutton, the teenager who has raised

more than ?3 million for charity while fighting cancer. He's been

discharged from hospital, describing his own recovery as "quite

remarkable". The Mirror says Lord Hanningfield,

the peer whose expenses scam the paper exposed, said he needed the

money so he could pay a man to look after his chickens while he was in

Westminster. The Guardian leads on the sentencing

of celebrity publicist Max Clifford. The paper says his contemptuous

attitude during the trial had added to the length of sentence given by

the judge. And it is with the Max Clifford

trial that we will begin. It is on a number of papers, as you would

expect. We will look at how the i was covering it. Clifford jailed for

eight years for sex attacks, contempt for victims promised the

judge to impose consecutive prison sentences. Often we hear prison

sentences are imposed concurrently. I think there was a surprise. Most

of us, when we heard eight years went, gosh, eight years. And he is

due to serve at least four. He will do half his sentence before being

eligible for parole. But it does seem that his attitude seems to have

made the judge quite cross. The Mail on Sunday three has this picture of

him behind this news reporter, the famous clip which did not go out, in

which he was mimicking the reporter, shadowing his actions, not taking

the thing very seriously. His whole attitude all along has been, I am

not taking this very seriously. He has shown no remorse. His lawyers

say he may appeal. He would not show remorse if he might appeal because

that would be contradictory. The other thing is that because these

are historic offences they would be regarded differently if they were

committed now. The judge said that now some of these would be regarded

as rape. But what is really interesting is that this is the

first successful conviction that Operation Yewtree have had. Today

they have been trying to get that out there. They are right to do so.

One of the victims speaks today in an interview in the Mail. She says

that she thinks it is so important that justice is seen to be done,

because for a long time people were saying, it is another witchhunt,

everyone is after the celebrities, these women are fantasists and

liars. We have had four women whose evidence was so compelling that

there has been a conviction, and it shows that even on very historic

cases, they can be taken seriously, they will be taken seriously and

there is a conviction from it. It is a hugely important case. If it had

failed, we would have seen very few people prepared to come forward in

the future, believing that every time the cases come up, people say

it is a witchhunt and the person gets off. The same problems. These

women who felt they could do nothing at the time would then feel they are

still not being believed now. It is fantastic that it can be shown that

historic cases are treated seriously and a jury can take enough evidence

to convicted on it. Especially at a time when statistics suggest

convictions for sex offences are going down. This is bucking the

trend. And a serious sentence, which does not belittle what went on.

Let's look at the Mirror. I did it for my chickens. This is Lord

Hanning Field, who looks rather different to the last time I saw

him. He is 73 and was exposed by your paper, Alison. Tell us how that

happened. This is a lord who has a ready been imprisoned for falsely

claiming on expenses. He was jailed in 2011 but unlike the rest of us,

if we went to prison, we would not be able to step back into our jobs.

He is able to step back into the House of Lords because that is

allowed. Not only that, but he then gets his ?300 tax free daily

allowance. But what the Mirror discovered last summer was that he

was actually able to be seen going in, coming out, sometimes for as

little as 20 minutes, for which he picks up ?300. He has obviously been

called to account their by the committee on privileges and conduct.

At the time when we confronted him he said, I am not the only one doing

it, there are 50 of them. So they called him in and said, what has

been going on? He said, I needed the money to pay someone to look after

my chickens when I am at Westminster. He says, I don't have

any money and I need money to look after my dog, clean my house,

electricity, food. I have to live, don't I? I am a working peer. He

omitted to say, not very hard`working. This is public money

as well. We are paying for him. You would think there would be some

minimum amount of time that anyone would have to spend. The minimum

amount of time was long enough to get in, catch the eye of the

recorder and say, I am here. Use the car parking facilities! The Guardian

has a study revealing the death rate of under fives in the UK. This is a

rather alarming story that children in the UK are more likely to die

before reaching their fifth birthday than any other Western European

country, except for Malta. There was a doctor raising concerns about

infant death rates last week and this is adding to the concern. The

country that always seems to do best in these figures is Iceland. Their

death rate and cancer survival rates are very high as well. It was a

shocking figure to find that we are so low. We cannot see the rest of

the piece, which would analyse the reasons of death, the causes of

death, which are incredibly important. Some of them say they are

linked to people smoking during pregnancy, and deprivation, and

people not getting the right health care treatment, or disorganisation

in health care treatment for children. I don't think we can

unpick this until we know the causes of death. They think there are

issues around poverty and deprivation, children born with low

birth weight. The editor of the Lancet saying this, this argument

about the problem of poor organisation with childcare. There

is clearly an issue around midwifery at the moment, a shortage of

midwives. And all sorts of difficulties in providing an

all`round service for newborns. But these figures are taken from some

time ago, obviously, so they are not the most up`to`date necessarily. It

would be difficult to know whether it is because of changes in the NHS,

whether any of those were linked to this. I think there is a societal

issue as well. One of the figures is from 2012. 3000 children in the UK

died before their first birthday, which is quite up`to`date. It says

the deaths are mostly linked to injuries, accidents and serious

diseases. Between one and five. So I am not sure what the preventable

things are for injuries, accidents and serious diseases, or whether the

main problem is for the under one year, with the help of the mother

being crucial. It is difficult to unpick, to reveal the causes and do

anything about it. It is not where we want to be in the league tables.

The Financial Times says top AstraZeneca investor resists Pfizer.

This is a fund manager rejecting this raised offer. There is a lot of

concern, Alison, about this British company being taken over by this

American giant. If it went ahead it would be one of the largest

purchasers of a UK group by a foreign investor. David Cameron and

George Osborne have both been quite welcoming, it would appear, of the

bid, whereas AstraZeneca themselves are feeling very cautious, in that

although it might be a short`term gain for shareholders, what will be

the long`term future for the company. And jobs is or is a

concern. The government are welcoming the bid because they say

they will pay taxes in the country. The worrying thing is what would

happen to the research wings of AstraZeneca, and how would they be

affected. That is why they are fighting it, I think. They fear they

may be stripped. Another story, Help To Buy. Help To Buy profit makes

Treasury a ?4.5 billion winner from the housing boom. How is this going

to work? If the government helps you buy a house, how will they make

money? They will want their money back at some point and with house

prices going up they will gain as much as anybody else. The concern is

that although obviously they will want house prices to increase so

they get their money back, it is fuelling this problem we have with

house prices going up and up, and young people, and even older people,

struggling to afford anything. David Cameron says this scheme helps

people who would not be able to get on the property ladder because they

might not have rich parents. It has done, hasn't it? I don't know. That

is what David Cameron says. I am not quite sure about the headline,

because the figures are based on the fact that the Government gives you a

20% loan, a 20% stake in the property that you buy, and that is

interest`free for the first five years. These figures assume you will

sell the house at the end of that period, but why would you? You

might. If you want to help young people buy a house, why not build

more cheap flights, accommodation that is available? If you have to

deal with the lack of supply. Clive Betts, the chair of the communities

and the committee, says the Government ought to be ploughing

profits back into it. 20% to help to buy in London will still not help a

lot of people. They will need 90% help! It is also helping to put

house prices up for a lot of potential Conservative voters for

the next election. Cynicism at the end of the week, let your hair

down! The Telegraph, Stephen Sutton, what a fantastic story, we have been

hearing an awful lot about him, he raised ?3 million for charity whilst

suffering from cancer. He has been discharged from hospital. I didn't

know this was even on the horizon. Well, it wasn't, he has been

incredibly ill. I know he spoke at a motivational thing not that long

ago, and someone said he was the most impressive young man, and is

aimed, before he died, and he knows he's going to, was to raise 1

million. `` his aim. All these celebrities got behind his campaign

and started sending things to him, and you can see is wonderful smile,

the stuffy right on Facebook is so positive and so mature. `` the stuff

he writes. I wish him well. A fantastic picture. He has raised

more than ?3 million and touched so many people and made people think,

oh, what am I worrying about?! Amazing. The Express, exercise beats

arthritis, never too late to end crippling pain, even gentle exercise

can help. I should be all right, I have a puppy that needs a lot of

walking! I should never have arthritis, but I should not speak

too soon! This would be great if it were true. Of course it is true!

Laziness is not good for you, it was a wombles song, before your time!

No, it was not! A little bit of exercise might stop you getting

arthritis, oh! And it is supposed to stop it hurting so much if you can

get through the stiffness. It is common sense, if you sit in one

position for too long, it is not going to do you any good physically

or mentally. If you do extreme things like ballet and gymnastics,

that can cause arthritis. I shan't try out my venerable age! I'm going

to go and move around in a minute, but we will be back again for

another look at the papers that are at 11:30. On BBC News, at 11

o'clock, more of Max Clifford's trial as he is jailed for eight

years for assaults on women and girls. Coming up next, it is time

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