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:00:00. > :00:00.championship. Tennis players have gathered to remember Elena

:00:00. > :00:17.Baltacha, who has died at the age of 30.

:00:18. > :00:23.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the headlines will be

:00:24. > :00:26.bringing us tomorrow. With me are Fay Schlesinger, Home Editor at The

:00:27. > :00:33.Times, and Sarah O'Connor, who's Economics Correspondent at the FT.

:00:34. > :00:40.Let's go through the front pages first of all. The Daily Express has

:00:41. > :00:44.news of a super pill that will save millions of lives and adds years to

:00:45. > :00:47.life. The Daily Telegraph says hundreds of

:00:48. > :00:51.asthma deaths could be prevented according to a national review which

:00:52. > :00:54.is blaming GPs and health services. The Metro carries a photo of Elena

:00:55. > :00:59.Baltacha and the tributes to, "a shining light of the game". One in

:01:00. > :01:02.seven hospital beds are occupied by someone with diabetic ` the Daily

:01:03. > :01:09.Mail says it's costing the NHS ten billion pounds a year. The Financial

:01:10. > :01:11.Times frontpage is dominated by the politics surrounding the takeover

:01:12. > :01:20.battle between the pharmaceutical giants Astrazenca and Pfizer. The

:01:21. > :01:23.plight of asthma victims also dominates the Times which says top

:01:24. > :01:30.doctors condemn shocking standards of care. The Guardian has details of

:01:31. > :01:37.a ministerial letter which could mean job`seekers could lose their

:01:38. > :01:41.benefits if they don't take 0`hours jobs. Let's go through some of those

:01:42. > :01:46.stories. We will start with the Daily

:01:47. > :01:53.Telegraph and the story about asthma. They are saying two thirds

:01:54. > :01:56.of deaths from asthma could be prevented, according to statistics

:01:57. > :02:03.they have got. This is from the Royal College of physicians. People

:02:04. > :02:07.do die from asthma at the rate of 1002 and a year, including 40

:02:08. > :02:15.children. I was asthmatic when I was a child. For mild sufferers you have

:02:16. > :02:23.your inhaler and you get on with life. This is a reminder of how bad

:02:24. > :02:29.it can be. The NHS is doing badly. The Royal College of physicians are

:02:30. > :02:34.using the word, horrifying. Not only that, in western Europe, Britain is

:02:35. > :02:40.doing really badly. It is not just that it is a difficult condition,

:02:41. > :02:45.people are having an attack, going to hospital and then being sent home

:02:46. > :02:48.again. They are laying this at the door of costs and the doctors are

:02:49. > :02:57.not comfortable with how they should be dealing with people with asthma?

:02:58. > :03:03.This is a story the American anti`Healthcare people would jump

:03:04. > :03:08.on. Doctors are prescribing inhalers to the wrong kind of people. They

:03:09. > :03:16.are trying to keep costs down. The story says there is a 10% rise in

:03:17. > :03:21.asthma deaths, that is a big rise. It is a condition you would think we

:03:22. > :03:29.would be adept at taking on. We all know somebody with asthma. There was

:03:30. > :03:32.an inquest last month about a girl who had a horrible asthma attack and

:03:33. > :03:38.the ambulance went to the wrong place. There was some stats out last

:03:39. > :03:42.week looking at child mortality rates in Britain and showing we were

:03:43. > :03:52.worst across the whole of Western Europe. We were on a par with Serbia

:03:53. > :03:56.and Poland. Iceland have half of the child deaths we have. We are very

:03:57. > :04:03.proud of the NHS, and rightly so, but what are we doing? There is a

:04:04. > :04:12.theme to the stories, health is one of them. The other one is the issue

:04:13. > :04:17.of ethnic identity and, " foreigners" if we say it that way.

:04:18. > :04:21.It is to do with the ethnic make`up of England and how different ethnic

:04:22. > :04:30.groups will change English identity. Tell us about this policy exchange

:04:31. > :04:34.figure? It is a significant story. Policy exchange is a new think tank

:04:35. > :04:40.but it looks like a rigorous piece of work. They said the non`white

:04:41. > :04:44.population make up 20% of the population by 2050. That will be a

:04:45. > :04:49.radical shift in the way this country looks and feels. Big

:04:50. > :04:52.political implications, if you are a Conservative minister reading that,

:04:53. > :04:59.I think you might be a little bit nervous. You can argue about this

:05:00. > :05:03.case, whatever UKIP are saying, they are not foreigners, they will be

:05:04. > :05:10.people living here. We will be just talking about the colour of skin.

:05:11. > :05:15.Nevertheless, these are not foreigners, but there are

:05:16. > :05:19.differences we should be happy about. Ethnic minorities have a

:05:20. > :05:26.higher vertebrate and this country needs people of working age to

:05:27. > :05:34.support the ageing population. `` higher birth rate. The study does

:05:35. > :05:40.point out it may not help because you could get more segregation

:05:41. > :05:45.depending on where people live. And educational attainment. Not across

:05:46. > :05:49.the board of the Bangladeshi community is doing great as is the

:05:50. > :05:55.Indian born community, or second and third generation Indians. Better

:05:56. > :05:59.than young, white boys. You hope it is good news, but the impact for the

:06:00. > :06:06.Tory party who are doing so badly among ethnic minorities, Enoch

:06:07. > :06:11.Powell is still on their shoulder and they cannot shake it. One of the

:06:12. > :06:16.point is this raises is political parties need to think differently.

:06:17. > :06:23.They cannot put people into non`white Britons and white British.

:06:24. > :06:28.They have found different ethnic groups may have different feelings

:06:29. > :06:33.about the Conservative Party or the Labour Party. Lumping it into two

:06:34. > :06:40.big groups is ridiculous. I am sure the parties are becoming aware of

:06:41. > :06:45.that now, but the Tories, 2050 is a wake`up call. You say they are

:06:46. > :06:55.realising, but the election Dureau for the Tories said targeting the

:06:56. > :07:01.ethnic minority vote is a bad idea. I don't know whether they are

:07:02. > :07:07.targeting it. This issue should not be confused with the issue of

:07:08. > :07:16.foreigners. But that is what the Daily Express, on page two, have

:07:17. > :07:23.said. This is not about the nuance of the way society is made up that

:07:24. > :07:29.scandal of foreign rapists on our streets. The headline figure is,

:07:30. > :07:36.4000 convicted migrants are still wondering around on our streets.

:07:37. > :07:43.These are people who have served their time and been let out and have

:07:44. > :07:49.been given leave to stay here. It is not as if they are evading the

:07:50. > :07:52.authorities. But 4000 is at the top, but it concedes later on only eight

:07:53. > :08:00.of these are murderers and 48 rapists. They have been through our

:08:01. > :08:06.courts to have decided they are exceptional circumstances. Will we

:08:07. > :08:10.endorse the idea of somebody who has committed an horrific crime in

:08:11. > :08:15.Britain to be sent back to his country to be killed in that

:08:16. > :08:18.country? We are complicit in that. There are interesting issues on

:08:19. > :08:23.human rights when you hear about the government taking on the legal

:08:24. > :08:28.system. We have had Theresa May saying on more than one occasion, "

:08:29. > :08:34.I don't like the decision that has been taken". We are meant to have an

:08:35. > :08:41.independent judicial system. This is a misleading story because they are

:08:42. > :08:44.not just free to roam the streets, it has been decided in a court of

:08:45. > :08:51.law. But this kind of territory makes people cross in a run`up to a

:08:52. > :08:58.general election. How come if people have done dreadful things can evade

:08:59. > :09:03.deportation by saying, what about my human rights. They cannot marry the

:09:04. > :09:12.two together. We have not said the word, " UKIP" yet. AstraZeneca

:09:13. > :09:23.calling on the Prime Minister to be neutral over Pfizer. Elements of

:09:24. > :09:28.caution emerging? AstraZeneca are saying to the Prime Minister, can

:09:29. > :09:33.you just be quiet. Your comments are not helpful. The Prime Minister is

:09:34. > :09:39.saying, I am not trying to interfere, it is a big deal for the

:09:40. > :09:45.UK. AstraZeneca has rebuffed Pfizer's approach. It is endorsing

:09:46. > :09:50.what Ed Miliband said over the weekend, which was David Cameron was

:09:51. > :09:58.in danger of sounding like a cheerleader for the Pfizer

:09:59. > :10:05.acquisition. Last week I was taking the view, white is the government

:10:06. > :10:10.getting involved in a private deal between two big drug companies. When

:10:11. > :10:18.you think there is this public interest test for some deals. Deals

:10:19. > :10:24.involving financial stability and national security, there is a public

:10:25. > :10:29.interest test the government steps in for. Why wouldn't they get

:10:30. > :10:38.involved in a deal that could cost a lot of jobs and the back story from

:10:39. > :10:43.Pfizer on jobs is not great. You cannot keep adding a new industry

:10:44. > :10:47.every time something comes up you might get upset about. We need a

:10:48. > :10:54.foreign policy of what we think about foreign takeovers and I think

:10:55. > :10:59.the lines are a bit blurred. This takeover has stuttered, but not yet

:11:00. > :11:07.stopped. And this 26th of May deadline, also talks of a hostile

:11:08. > :11:12.takeover bid? It is almost certain that Pfizer will come back with a

:11:13. > :11:19.higher offer. AstraZeneca has a point. If you value all of their

:11:20. > :11:26.savings, I think they need to offer a bit more. Whether it goes hostile,

:11:27. > :11:31.I don't know, but it will be an interesting story to watch. Let's

:11:32. > :11:36.stay with the business world every move to the Daily Telegraph, people

:11:37. > :11:41.at home will be interested in this. It is about Amazon linking with

:11:42. > :11:50.Twitter. We see the commercial opportunities with Twitter. If you

:11:51. > :11:54.have a product advertised on Twitter, and you want to buy it, you

:11:55. > :12:00.just have to do a tweet with a hash tag and that product will be put

:12:01. > :12:05.into my Amazon basket. That is a small step but it is the world

:12:06. > :12:10.Amazon and Internet shopping needs to conquer. The ease at which we can

:12:11. > :12:18.buy products just makes us more likely to buy them. I shop so much

:12:19. > :12:21.on Amazon because it is easy and in one place. With the choice the

:12:22. > :12:27.Internet offers, I find myself more streamlined. If I was on the high

:12:28. > :12:32.street I would go into a few shops to try it on shoes or whatever. But

:12:33. > :12:39.online I use Amazon. It is to go to place. There is a study showing that

:12:40. > :12:48.we are so flummoxed by choice it is too much for us. Simplify the

:12:49. > :12:52.offering. There's is a feature, add it now, buy it later. So you are not

:12:53. > :13:04.hitting a button and then parting with a lot of cash. This idea is

:13:05. > :13:09.bizarre. It is so easy. One click and you have bought it. It is great

:13:10. > :13:19.and Amazon always does it. It adds an extra step. Then you have to go

:13:20. > :13:24.into Amazon and then buy it. Not sure how many of my followers on

:13:25. > :13:29.Twitter would keep following the if they had to clicking into other

:13:30. > :13:38.things to see what DVD I have wrought. It is a way of telling your

:13:39. > :13:44.friends you have just bought this. Who wants to know? Amazon would.

:13:45. > :13:51.Twitter is a forum where your daily life, your boring walk to work

:13:52. > :14:00.becomes public knowledge. You can say, that Granny is their feeding

:14:01. > :14:08.her cat. Private lives have become external, so why not our shopping

:14:09. > :14:12.lives. The Daily Express ` super pill adds years to life. We're

:14:13. > :14:16.talking not about asthma, this is heart disease, talking of

:14:17. > :14:20.simplifying the offering. This is about getting four drugs into one

:14:21. > :14:27.magic pill. It's the most obvious thing in some ways, and yet really

:14:28. > :14:30.important. So it's a polypill, which contains two blood pressure drugs,

:14:31. > :14:34.aspirin and statins and the combination of those drugs is proven

:14:35. > :14:37.to reduce your risk of heart attack and strokes. Brilliant. We know that

:14:38. > :14:43.already. They're saying when you put them into one pill, you're more

:14:44. > :14:47.likely to stick with it, because sitting and having to take four

:14:48. > :14:51.pills a day is annoying, so taking one is easier, so the adherence to

:14:52. > :14:55.the pills is higher. It's important because we don't have unending

:14:56. > :15:00.streams of money. Our NHS budget is through the roof. We need to get

:15:01. > :15:03.control on that. A way to do that is by influencing people's behaviour

:15:04. > :15:06.around drugs, not just doing what Pfizer and AstraZeneca do,

:15:07. > :15:11.developing the drugs, but saying we have the drugs in place, how can we

:15:12. > :15:15.make people take them? It's a simple thing but it works. Will talk more

:15:16. > :15:22.in an hour. For now, thanks very much. That's it from the papers for

:15:23. > :15:26.now. We'll be back as we say 11. 30, for another look at the stories

:15:27. > :15:32.making the news. More front pages coming in between now and then. Stay

:15:33. > :15:39.with us. At 11, we have the latest on the abduction of the 200 girls in

:15:40. > :15:43.Nigeria. Now it's time for Sportsday.