05/07/2014

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:00:15. > :00:17.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers

:00:18. > :00:23.With me are the barrister Sophia Cannon, and Oliver Brown,

:00:24. > :00:29.chief sports feature writer from the Telegraph.

:00:30. > :00:32.Hello. Let's have a look at the front pages. Starting with... The

:00:33. > :00:34.Observer. 'Triumph and Pain' is the Observer's

:00:35. > :00:36.verdict on the Grand Depart first stage

:00:37. > :00:40.of the Tour de France in Yorkshire. The picture of the peloton making

:00:41. > :00:42.its way across Grinton Moor The Sunday Telegraph says the

:00:43. > :00:48.Home Office claims it has 'lost' or destroyed 114 files connected to

:00:49. > :00:53.the investigation into the handling of a dossier

:00:54. > :00:59.about child abuse allegations. The Mail on Sunday claims that

:01:00. > :01:02.an unnamed Labour peer is being investigated by police following

:01:03. > :01:15.allegations of historical abuse. The Sunday express has an interview

:01:16. > :01:23.with Vanessa Feltz who claims that she was assaulted on live television

:01:24. > :01:28.I Rolf Harris. Let's kick off with the Observer newspaper. This is a

:01:29. > :01:33.very striking picture. We always like a fantastic picture on the

:01:34. > :01:42.front page of a national newspaper but this is a cracker. I am local.

:01:43. > :01:50.You can say that with pride. The way to Yorkshire is shining. Other

:01:51. > :01:55.counties are available. Not at this moment in time. 2 million people

:01:56. > :02:02.have turned up here all across the country, they have come to see the

:02:03. > :02:08.Tour de France and it is a big success. Apart from what has

:02:09. > :02:13.happened to Mark Cavendish. Look how we have presented this beautiful

:02:14. > :02:20.kente. Let's hope it can come back and becomes a fixture. You never

:02:21. > :02:26.know. This is pretty spectacular, isn't it? It looks like a scene from

:02:27. > :02:31.Wuthering Heights. It is at times like this that Britain feels a

:02:32. > :02:40.little less like an island. This Continental connection we have is

:02:41. > :02:45.going crazy. It is lovely that this section of the tour was designed to

:02:46. > :02:49.capture Yorkshire's sense of humour. There were sheep in the fields

:02:50. > :02:55.hinted yellow and they had polka`dots on them. I think there

:02:56. > :03:01.was a sheep made out of cheese in Wensleydale. It was a cultural nod

:03:02. > :03:06.to wear that he had taken place. Everyone is there. Wallace and

:03:07. > :03:12.Gromit. An inflatable Wallace and Gromit. The hope that boys. You

:03:13. > :03:18.could say these are Yorkshire cliches. In terms of making

:03:19. > :03:27.Yorkshire more international, are we taking Yorkshire to the world or is

:03:28. > :03:30.it the other way around? This is the high`speed, this is how we do it and

:03:31. > :03:39.that is the best way to be seen. Mark Cavendish. A sad end to that

:03:40. > :03:42.first stage. It is not what they wanted. There are concerns he had

:03:43. > :03:46.broken his collar bone but a dislocated shoulder is pretty

:03:47. > :03:53.serious for a sprinter in a race like this. His assault on the green

:03:54. > :04:01.jersey will be difficult to say the least. What one may consider more

:04:02. > :04:09.serious news here, child abuse files lost at the Home Office, fears of a

:04:10. > :04:17.cover`up. Is Sue is that there has always been a conspiracy about a

:04:18. > :04:22.conspiracy. `` the issue is that. Surrounding the issue of children

:04:23. > :04:27.and abuse. And it appears that despite the fact that for years

:04:28. > :04:33.prominent people have been claiming this has been happening, and

:04:34. > :04:36.obviously Geoffrey Dickens physically handed a dossier to a

:04:37. > :04:41.government minister and that has disappeared. The other documents may

:04:42. > :04:47.have also disappeared. That suggests that there was perhaps a system in

:04:48. > :04:55.place to ensure that both vulnerable were not being protected. It speaks

:04:56. > :04:59.to the issue of impunity. From the poorest homes we have had issues of

:05:00. > :05:04.abuse in children's homes through to prep schools in the most wealthy

:05:05. > :05:09.homes. This is a problem and we need to wake up to it. And an area who

:05:10. > :05:14.know very well from your job in the legal profession. Our reopening a

:05:15. > :05:20.canny hero that is going to proliferate? Will there be vast

:05:21. > :05:28.amounts of these cases coming out? Yes. We have to open this can. The

:05:29. > :05:32.way our democracy works, it is at its healthiest when we expose the

:05:33. > :05:37.truth and we have to have an inquiry and that is what we are good at. If

:05:38. > :05:41.this was going on at the time and it was being covered up to this extent,

:05:42. > :05:47.what is the level of criminality involved? We must look at how we

:05:48. > :05:54.have treated our children. How do we enquire into this? A full`scale

:05:55. > :05:58.inquiry? I think we need a Royal Commission. It is that serious. It

:05:59. > :06:05.involves those whose reach extends into the law and we have had issues

:06:06. > :06:09.as to whether it extends to the House of Lords as well as the house

:06:10. > :06:17.of parliament. And whether a Levenson style inquiry will work. We

:06:18. > :06:20.need to have a Royal Commission. This tax into everything we have

:06:21. > :06:24.heard about Jimmy Savile and Cyril Smith. I don't think the public will

:06:25. > :06:29.tolerate anything less than a full`scale public inquiry. It is

:06:30. > :06:31.interesting that the newspaper have invoked the Hillsborough precedent

:06:32. > :06:36.because that is the Hillsborough precedent because that is this date

:06:37. > :06:42.it has reached. ) looks so long to get to a point where the public

:06:43. > :06:50.trusted the inquiry. `` Hillsborough took so long. It is about having an

:06:51. > :06:55.inquiry that public trust. I think clearly the government must realise

:06:56. > :07:05.the seriousness of what they are on the cusp of. The central notion of

:07:06. > :07:11.politicians, even the intimation of a cover`up is so damaging. The very

:07:12. > :07:17.notion they could have harboured a piggy floor in, they will see that

:07:18. > :07:33.as a long way from an allegation. The sheer gravity of that has to

:07:34. > :07:39.lead... It is a depth and width gravitas. It has been undertaken in

:07:40. > :07:44.Canada and Australia, they have had Royal Commission is about how deep

:07:45. > :07:51.this went. We have to also. It is that question of competence.

:07:52. > :07:57.Documents being lost, and that is something that people will query. It

:07:58. > :08:05.is that Richard Nixon thing, it is either a cover`up or incompetence.

:08:06. > :08:07.Yes, that is the issue. We have had Operation Yewtree and that has been

:08:08. > :08:15.criticised widely because it has been a witchhunt, a thorough,

:08:16. > :08:20.judicial approach. The correct approach, we do not live in a

:08:21. > :08:25.society where we have witchhunts, we have the rule of law and the issue

:08:26. > :08:31.is, do we allow our society to be recognised as one that sweep things

:08:32. > :08:36.under the carpet just because it is a difficult and even a dangerous way

:08:37. > :08:42.to approach things. It is dangerous because we will have many people

:08:43. > :08:44.seeing that this did not happen. We heard about Vanessa Feltz seeing

:08:45. > :08:50.things happen to her live on television. It has been an issue

:08:51. > :08:53.that people have been saying it has happened for years, women and

:08:54. > :08:59.children, we need to have a Royal Commission. Probably what happened

:09:00. > :09:03.with Jimmy Savile has profoundly changed that, we are much more in

:09:04. > :09:11.claimed as a nation to believe these sorts of allegations. Yes. Jailed

:09:12. > :09:16.protection is paramount. 130 MPs are supportive of the notion of a public

:09:17. > :09:21.inquiry. Everything we have heard of Rolf Harris and what Vanessa Feltz

:09:22. > :09:28.is claiming in the Sunday express speaks to that. `` child protection

:09:29. > :09:35.is paramount. The Sunday express has covered the same story. The public

:09:36. > :09:41.says the Sunday Telegraph, too complacent about terror threats in

:09:42. > :09:49.the UK. Tell us a bit more about this. They are talking about the

:09:50. > :09:56.technical skill to make explosive devices concealed in tablet

:09:57. > :10:06.computers. We are approaching the ninth anniversary of seven slash

:10:07. > :10:16.seven. `` the ninth anniversary of 7/7. Obviously barring the terrible

:10:17. > :10:20.murder of Lee Rigby. Who on Earth would have thought that civilian

:10:21. > :10:26.aircraft could have been used as lethal weapons in 9/11? Who would

:10:27. > :10:30.have thought a soldier could be murdered so sickeningly in broad

:10:31. > :10:37.daylight? The fact that so much time has elapsed should be no cause to

:10:38. > :10:44.become pleasant. On the flip side, one person's too complacent is

:10:45. > :10:48.another person saying, not paranoid. At the start of summer reword gently

:10:49. > :11:02.mocking eyes is, they were the James Bond bag eyes in Iraq. `` by guys.

:11:03. > :11:04.`` bad guys. They have got a research and development department

:11:05. > :11:10.looking into ways of getting around current technology. War on terror is

:11:11. > :11:15.not going to be about flying planes into buildings or leaving bombs on

:11:16. > :11:22.trains, it is going to be online, digital, it is going to be on the

:11:23. > :11:27.microscopic level, small, tablet computers, it is not going to be the

:11:28. > :11:35.large bombs, it is going to be the devilish way of getting round this

:11:36. > :11:44.issue. We are going to be saying, war on terror, is there an app for

:11:45. > :11:47.that? It was said that the mobile phone network was switched off when

:11:48. > :11:56.Abu Bakr al Baghdadi gave his address in Mosul. Further down the

:11:57. > :12:02.article you have Al`Qaeda's chief weapons expert, he has linked up

:12:03. > :12:11.with jihadist in Syria to pass on his skills. Running bomb`making

:12:12. > :12:14.workshops. Extra one hour at airports is something people will

:12:15. > :12:20.accept once they hear about that. Let's look at the Mail on Sunday.

:12:21. > :12:32.Let's go back to a sporting theme. There are not that many famous

:12:33. > :12:39.Eugenies in the world. She got to the final of Wimbledon. She got

:12:40. > :12:43.annihilated. Yes. I was on Centre Court this afternoon, she was

:12:44. > :12:55.obliterated. And Vince is Eugenie actually turned up. `` kept Max. She

:12:56. > :12:58.said earlier this week it would be amazing to meet the Princess she was

:12:59. > :13:04.named after. The royal presence did not bring her much luck. `` Princess

:13:05. > :13:11.Eugenie. It was the shortest Wimbledon final for 31 years. 55

:13:12. > :13:16.minutes. I know. It is almost as if the god of sport is not listening to

:13:17. > :13:23.how things should go. It would have been a dream final if she pulled it

:13:24. > :13:31.out of the bag. And her twin sister is called Beatrice. Her mother must

:13:32. > :13:38.be a fan of the Royal Family. It was horrific to watch. The Duchess of

:13:39. > :13:42.Cambridge was at the Tour de France. It is never a bad thing, for oils to

:13:43. > :13:46.associate with big sporting occasions. They are young and

:13:47. > :13:54.vibrant and they are the best of British. They are pulling out what

:13:55. > :14:02.we do best, World Cup, cricket, all of the big tournaments. They seem to

:14:03. > :14:06.be bad luck, though! The Duke and Duchess turning up for Andy Murray's

:14:07. > :14:13.quarterfinal exit and then Mark Cavendish's crash. You can probably

:14:14. > :14:17.draw a parallel about anybody, if they had turned up and Andy Murray

:14:18. > :14:20.had won in straight sets, you would say it was despite them. Thank you

:14:21. > :14:24.both very much indeed for a moment. You'll both be back at 11.30

:14:25. > :14:27.for another look at the stories Coming up next,

:14:28. > :15:11.it's time for Reporters. Hello and welcome to Reporters. I'm

:15:12. > :15:13.Tim