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:00:00. > :00:07.acrobats are injured after an aerial platform collapses at a circus in

:00:08. > :00:18.the US state of Rhode Island. One is said to

:00:19. > :00:35.condition. Time for a look at the front pages.

:00:36. > :00:39.Thank you for joining us. The Guardian has the release of Gerry

:00:40. > :00:44.Adams from police custody tonight. It says he insists his party still

:00:45. > :00:48.supports the police. The Telegraph has a picture of Gerry Adams at his

:00:49. > :00:52.news conference this evening. The other main story is news that there

:00:53. > :00:56.has been an increase in the number of housing estates being pushed by

:00:57. > :00:59.developers in England. A warning by the fertility expert Professor

:01:00. > :01:04.Robert Winston is the Daily Mail's tops story. Breakthroughs in IVF

:01:05. > :01:10.could see rich parents paying for smarter children. According to the

:01:11. > :01:14.Times, fraud in the care system has almost double in one year, as

:01:15. > :01:24.middle`class families try to hide their tax assets. The investigation

:01:25. > :01:28.into the disappearance of Madeline McCann continues. Pensions will be

:01:29. > :01:33.boosted by a 15 year boom in stocks and shares. Allegations that two

:01:34. > :01:40.students at a school in the Midlands tried to poison their teacher.

:01:41. > :01:49.We will begin with how some of the newspapers are covering the release

:01:50. > :01:53.of Gerry Adams this evening. No charges for the Sinn Fein leader

:01:54. > :02:00.after four days in custody over a 1972 murder. I suppose this is the

:02:01. > :02:03.indication that people would be looking for after the very strong

:02:04. > :02:08.words that Martin McGuinness had for the police about the timing of their

:02:09. > :02:12.decision to question Gerry Adams now and whether Gerry Adams would

:02:13. > :02:18.continue in a similar fashion. Absolutely. Great relief here and in

:02:19. > :02:23.Northern Ireland. The tone that Gerry Adams struck upon being

:02:24. > :02:27.released. There were genuine concerns and fiery rhetoric from

:02:28. > :02:31.both sides, actually, that the peace process in which so many people have

:02:32. > :02:38.invested so much time and energy could have been on the brink of

:02:39. > :02:42.falling apart. That seems to have receded with the way that Gerry

:02:43. > :02:45.Adams has behaved and responded since he was released by the police,

:02:46. > :02:51.although the charges against him have not completely gone away. A

:02:52. > :02:54.file has been handed to the prosecution and Jean McConville's

:02:55. > :03:03.family says they will pursue a civil case in any eventuality. It is not

:03:04. > :03:08.that easy for everyone to go along with this but to show that sort of

:03:09. > :03:16.intention made him look very statesmanlike. Of course, the family

:03:17. > :03:19.in this case will be pushing for other avenues if there are no

:03:20. > :03:24.charges, but as Gerry Adams said himself upon his release, loss of

:03:25. > :03:29.the strongest supporters of the peace process are victims

:03:30. > :03:32.themselves. `` many of the strongest supporters. Many people have

:03:33. > :03:38.invested an awful lot in this process. I wonder how much of a

:03:39. > :03:43.miscalculation it was by Sinn Fein to be so robust in their criticism

:03:44. > :03:47.of the police and how much of a miscalculation it was by the police

:03:48. > :03:52.to choose this point in the middle of an election campaign to question

:03:53. > :03:57.him. On the Sinn Fein rhetoric, it does play into their hands for their

:03:58. > :04:00.support base to say that the timing seems political when they are in the

:04:01. > :04:05.middle of an election campaign. You are right. The timing seems slightly

:04:06. > :04:11.odd. Derry Adams says he has made himself available to the police in

:04:12. > :04:17.numerous cases and there is the sense that this could have been

:04:18. > :04:20.handled badly. He was possibly more conciliatory than a lot of people

:04:21. > :04:25.would have expected, James, in terms of taking responsibility for

:04:26. > :04:29.accepting that Republicans need to take responsibility, any of those

:04:30. > :04:34.groups who are responsible for people being killed or disappeared.

:04:35. > :04:42.He went quite a long way to apologise for that. Absolutely. He

:04:43. > :04:45.said he very much supports the process of trying to find the

:04:46. > :04:53.remaining bodies that are yet to be found. He said his main complaint

:04:54. > :04:58.about his time in prison was that the food was so terrible. He was

:04:59. > :05:03.using humour. He went a long way to try to ease the tensions that have

:05:04. > :05:08.been mounting over the weekend. But four days and 33 recorded

:05:09. > :05:10.interviews? Police now have those tapes which they may have not

:05:11. > :05:16.expected to have the opportunity to get. Whether the content will ever

:05:17. > :05:19.see the light of day in our lifetime we do not know but it's an

:05:20. > :05:24.extraordinary amount of time they have had to ask him a lot of

:05:25. > :05:28.questions. Yes but you would not expect anything else. If police call

:05:29. > :05:34.in a suspect in a crime they are trying to get to the bottom of, they

:05:35. > :05:37.go through that process. It might have been a shorter period of time

:05:38. > :05:40.than four days but justice has been allowed to take its course. The

:05:41. > :05:44.police made their case in court and the court granted that extra time to

:05:45. > :05:49.question him. This file is still live. It has not been... They could

:05:50. > :05:54.have asked for even more time. It can be up to 28 days. The police

:05:55. > :05:58.cannot change their methods or determination to get to the truth

:05:59. > :06:03.just because of who they have got in front of them. And he made that

:06:04. > :06:07.point as well. He said he did not expect to receive special treatment

:06:08. > :06:12.or not to be called in if that was what they wanted to do. Care home

:06:13. > :06:16.fraud soars among the middle classes. People trying to hide

:06:17. > :06:19.assets to avoid having to pay fees when their elderly or infirm

:06:20. > :06:27.relatives have to go in to care homes. 82% increase in the amount of

:06:28. > :06:32.money lost to councils each year. Isn't this what many people will try

:06:33. > :06:35.to do? To be honest, if you know that your home may possibly have to

:06:36. > :06:42.be sold or remortgaged to pay for care, many people would be tempted

:06:43. > :06:46.to try this, wouldn't they? Yes. And this figure does sound shocking. So

:06:47. > :06:49.shocking that they have used it twice in the space of three

:06:50. > :06:56.sentences. But if you look at the figures, the money involved is very

:06:57. > :07:00.small. The 82% increase takes you to ?4 million. It sounds like a lot of

:07:01. > :07:05.money but nationally, it's not. And there is a 64% rise to 200 cases.

:07:06. > :07:10.These figures are small, particularly when you bear in mind

:07:11. > :07:14.that it also says that councils lose ?2 billion per year in fraud. What

:07:15. > :07:22.is most interesting, I think, is what one of the experts said. He

:07:23. > :07:29.says that the capacity that there is for fraud in the system... Even two

:07:30. > :07:33.cases a year could lose a council the best part of ?500,000. There is

:07:34. > :07:41.a massive potential there and it does seem to be a problem. Should

:07:42. > :07:44.people just pay the money? Do you have sympathy? Absolutely I have

:07:45. > :07:50.sympathy. People go through an awful time if you have a relative who has

:07:51. > :07:56.to go into this kind of care. What it does speak to is the skyhigh cost

:07:57. > :07:59.of care in this country and people feeling that they want to care for

:08:00. > :08:05.their loved ones and not have to lose their house to do it. I had no

:08:06. > :08:09.idea that someone from the Sun would be so soft on benefit fraud! It

:08:10. > :08:17.might seem like a hypocritical position to take... It might. But

:08:18. > :08:21.having to sell your home to keep your grandmother alive... I'm not

:08:22. > :08:27.defending people who defraud the benefit system that many of them are

:08:28. > :08:31.quite serious situations as well. I'm seeing a more human and caring

:08:32. > :08:42.side from you and your employers. I'm a very caring person. Thank you.

:08:43. > :08:46.You have not disappointed. Former Tony Blair adviser says the party

:08:47. > :08:51.should mandate to increase the burden on the rich. Labour is being

:08:52. > :09:02.urged to come clean with us all and admit they will have to raise taxes

:09:03. > :09:06.after the next general election. He advised Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.

:09:07. > :09:12.He is very nice and very bright but I think he has got this wrong. They

:09:13. > :09:17.should not admit to it or they should not raise taxes? Talking

:09:18. > :09:21.about raising taxes is not ideal ahead of an election. They should be

:09:22. > :09:27.discreet to the point of lying to us? Lying is a very strong word. I

:09:28. > :09:31.don't think there is anyone who thinks their taxes will not go off.

:09:32. > :09:37.I just don't think we should go on banging on about it. This is going

:09:38. > :09:42.to be a disaster for Labour. It will take the Tories 30 seconds to bring

:09:43. > :09:45.out their old campaign posters. It also does not chime with Ed Miliband

:09:46. > :09:52.'s cost cost`of`living crisis agenda. But it would not be all of

:09:53. > :09:57.us who would be taxed, it would be those of us who can afford to be.

:09:58. > :10:00.It's what both parties call hard`working people, as if people

:10:01. > :10:06.who earn lots of money don't work hard. I don't know how they think

:10:07. > :10:08.the money is coming to them. This is someone in labour making it clear

:10:09. > :10:17.that Labour will try to tax everybody. It does say middle and

:10:18. > :10:24.higher income. What we... We have the Tories and Labour trying to

:10:25. > :10:31.outbid each other on tax cuts. `` the Tories and the Liberal

:10:32. > :10:37.Democrats. And it's exactly what they were talking about before the

:10:38. > :10:44.last election. You just said that honesty was not a good idea! I'm

:10:45. > :10:47.just saying that there is a false debate going on now and it would be

:10:48. > :10:52.an unwise politician who decided to jump in. He is not just saying it is

:10:53. > :10:56.Labour who should come clean, the Conservatives should as well.

:10:57. > :11:01.Whoever is in power is going to have to raise tax. The Conservatives have

:11:02. > :11:06.come close and we will probably see as we get closer to the election, to

:11:07. > :11:11.saying that the consolidation that comes around... That is the Holy

:11:12. > :11:16.Grail for George scored. To say that Ed Miliband has called for tax rises

:11:17. > :11:26.but for him to say that balancing the budget will then become through

:11:27. > :11:30.cutting the state. He will probably come to the election with a sort of

:11:31. > :11:37.Ronald Reagan 's vision. The all`new how well that went. George Osborne

:11:38. > :11:40.would love to do that. George Osborne told us all sorts of things

:11:41. > :11:43.that he would do in terms of balancing the books and sorting out

:11:44. > :11:50.the economy before the last election that has not happened. All

:11:51. > :11:54.politicians do that, don't they? We will be told all sorts of things

:11:55. > :11:57.that when they get into power it will be, we have not seen the books

:11:58. > :12:03.and it is all worse than we thought and so on. And this is complicated

:12:04. > :12:10.by the fact that we may have coalition negotiations again. Isn't

:12:11. > :12:14.that a great thing? If they go in saying no tax cuts and then they can

:12:15. > :12:21.just blame the Liberal Democrats. I thought that was exactly what they

:12:22. > :12:25.were planning to do. The Daily Telegraph. David Cameron says he

:12:26. > :12:28.resents higher fares in school holidays full of travel companies

:12:29. > :12:34.deliberately put up their prices of wood into the Prime Minister. He is

:12:35. > :12:38.calling for schools to stagger templates to help families with

:12:39. > :12:41.young children. He is also suggesting that the long summer

:12:42. > :12:46.holiday that we have all got used to is out of date. How many people will

:12:47. > :12:56.believe that David Cameron struggles to pay for his summer holiday? I

:12:57. > :13:00.think they will be glad to feel that he is feeling the same pain as them.

:13:01. > :13:05.Whether they feel malicious enough to question that, I don't think many

:13:06. > :13:09.people will do that. It's an easy leap from one fought to the next,

:13:10. > :13:25.isn't it? I don't think people will be that malicious. Not malicious,

:13:26. > :13:29.just hard up. A man who is worth the best part of ?4 million and takes

:13:30. > :13:33.home that much money per year and lives in a nice house in central

:13:34. > :13:38.London while renting out his Notting Hill mansion... Looked after the

:13:39. > :13:41.pennies and the pounds will look after themselves. This is very

:13:42. > :13:44.prudent that you should try to save everywhere, whether that means

:13:45. > :13:50.flying easyJet or taking the National Express to Cornwall.

:13:51. > :13:54.Samantha Cameron is going to hate you for saying that. They will have

:13:55. > :14:00.to do it now. You could go with them. Would you like that? You could

:14:01. > :14:08.take them to Cornwall on the Sun boss. Some people I knew were

:14:09. > :14:12.horrified by and they were going on holiday in the next bay around from

:14:13. > :14:19.him. What do you think about staggering school holidays? It is

:14:20. > :14:23.happening in some areas. But I don't understand how you will avoid that

:14:24. > :14:28.kind of super peak. There will always be a core of a few weeks

:14:29. > :14:37.holiday. You can go whenever you like. I cannot go in the middle of

:14:38. > :14:46.the parliamentary calendar. I suffer the penalty without having the

:14:47. > :14:50.children. Let's move on to the Financial Times. Mindfulness gives

:14:51. > :14:57.financiers have something to think about. Fast paced financiers are

:14:58. > :15:02.embracing this Buddhist idea. I don't suppose it is really grasping

:15:03. > :15:07.the right idea to say that I don't have time for mindfulness? I had

:15:08. > :15:12.never really heard of it until this weekend. Now this is the second

:15:13. > :15:16.article in two days that I have read about it. I don't know, maybe I am

:15:17. > :15:21.lucky, but I have never felt the need to turn to meditation. That's

:15:22. > :15:27.because you work for a Sunday newspaper and only have to write

:15:28. > :15:32.once a week. Lots of time to sit and contemplate. Would it fit with a

:15:33. > :15:38.journalist's deadlines to be mindful? Or Mac I can't really work

:15:39. > :15:43.out when to do it. I don't know when bankers managed to do it `` I can't

:15:44. > :15:50.really work out when to do it. If you sat there contemplating, I don't

:15:51. > :15:56.know what you contemplate. Eating one Raisin at a time. That is what

:15:57. > :16:07.you are encouraged to do. I haven't tried it, I have to say `` raisin.

:16:08. > :16:13.It will confront greed, materialism, and income inequality. Who knew it

:16:14. > :16:19.could do so much? We will see if it works. That's it for The Papers

:16:20. > :16:22.tonight. Thank you Craig and James. Stay with us here on BBC News: At

:16:23. > :16:25.midnight we'll have much more on what Gerry Adams had to say after

:16:26. > :16:28.being released from police custody tonight, without charge. But coming

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