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:00:00. > :00:15.Andy Murray is through to the finals. `` wins silver.

:00:16. > :00:20.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing

:00:21. > :00:22.us tomorrow. With me are Kate Devlin, the Westminster

:00:23. > :00:23.correspondent for the Herald, and Amol Rajan, editor of the

:00:24. > :00:31.Independent. The Daily Mail headlines the police

:00:32. > :00:34.search of a property in Berkshire owned by Sir Cliff Richard, in

:00:35. > :00:39.connection with an allegation of a sexual nature dating back to the

:00:40. > :00:41.1980s. Sir Cliff says he's totally innocent.

:00:42. > :00:43.The Sun says the pop star faces questioning by police when he

:00:44. > :00:48.returns from his holiday in Portugal. That story also features

:00:49. > :00:51.on front page of The Daily Telegraph. The paper also headlines

:00:52. > :00:56.the thousands have been saved from Mount

:00:57. > :01:00.Sinjar. The Financial Times leads with the news that eurozone recovery

:01:01. > :01:03.has shuddered to a halt. The Guardian reports that the UK is

:01:04. > :01:08.ready to arm Kurds to help forces fighting IS. And it pictures

:01:09. > :01:12.teachers jumping with joy after the success

:01:13. > :01:14.Staying with A`level results, the Times says exams are ending the

:01:15. > :01:19.class divide as poorer teenagers are ignoring debt worries and are

:01:20. > :01:21.surging into universities. Finally, the Independent pictures the

:01:22. > :01:30.controversial Russian aid convey bound for the Ukraine. It has exams

:01:31. > :01:35.on the front page, too. It's headline ` 'Gove gets his A`level

:01:36. > :01:40.results'. `` its headline.

:01:41. > :01:52.That's one of my favourite headlines tonight. Let's look at The Daily

:01:53. > :01:55.Mail. One of a number of papers that has the allegations regarding Sir

:01:56. > :02:00.Cliff Richard on its front page. I'm totally innocent, it says. Police

:02:01. > :02:08.raid his home after claims of sexual assault. He denies that there is any

:02:09. > :02:11.truth in these allegations. He is out of the country at the moment but

:02:12. > :02:21.says he will co`operate with police fully. Moving onto the Times. It

:02:22. > :02:30.poised to armed Kurdish forces against

:02:31. > :02:33.help tackle the jihadists who have taken over a huge swathe of Iraq and

:02:34. > :02:50.Syria. and meanwhile large swathes of Syria

:02:51. > :02:55.and north`western Iraq have been taken over by the Islamic State.

:02:56. > :03:00.What this story signifies is that Britain is now involved in military

:03:01. > :03:03.operations in Iraq. It's a different Iraq to that which was invaded by

:03:04. > :03:08.the West many years ago and it is different involvement. Technical

:03:09. > :03:15.support, surveillance. But Britain is engaged in that region again. The

:03:16. > :03:25.idea is to help the PKK, this Turkish group, fight the onslaught

:03:26. > :03:31.of Isis. `` Kurdish group. The UK and US will want to make that

:03:32. > :03:39.distinction, but it is not troops on the ground. That's right, but I

:03:40. > :03:43.think they will also be quite keen to make sure that it answers the

:03:44. > :03:49.people they've been quite annoyed about all week, the people who think

:03:50. > :03:54.something must be done. We've seen quite a few Conservative MPs, some

:03:55. > :03:59.very high profile, former senior army people as well making that kind

:04:00. > :04:04.of argument. There's been quite a bit of frustration in Downing Street

:04:05. > :04:08.about that. People have been putting a lot of pressure on without

:04:09. > :04:11.understanding how difficult it is to make these decisions. This will at

:04:12. > :04:17.least say, we are doing something. But the public point of view surely

:04:18. > :04:23.will be somewhat moved by the plight of the Aussie `` Yazidis in

:04:24. > :04:35.particular? The line that came out today, they say things are as bad on

:04:36. > :04:39.the mountain as they fault. The Yazidis, the persecuted minority,

:04:40. > :04:49.are being helped, which is a good thing. `` are as bad as they feared.

:04:50. > :04:55.But people will be moved by the humanitarian situation and they will

:04:56. > :04:58.also be moved by what IS are doing. These guys are mediaeval in their

:04:59. > :05:03.outlook and are killing on site at the moment. There will be some

:05:04. > :05:07.impulse to try to resist their advance. Staying with the Times, the

:05:08. > :05:14.A`level results. Exams and class divide, it says. A`levels results

:05:15. > :05:23.sees poorer people surging into university and A`level pupils from

:05:24. > :05:30.Ashford in Surrey who are invited to form part to open their envelopes.

:05:31. > :05:34.It will be interesting to see the divide between what girls and boys

:05:35. > :05:39.are getting. Often we say girls surge ahead. We haven't got the

:05:40. > :05:44.break down yet. Interesting if this headline turns out to be true, that

:05:45. > :05:48.people say it will cost me money but I'll go anyway to university because

:05:49. > :05:53.in the long run it will pay me to do it. I think it's a great picture for

:05:54. > :05:56.lots of reasons. It is a version of the classic girls jumping up and

:05:57. > :06:02.A`level results and they look so happy. So pleased. It is probably a

:06:03. > :06:09.really good year to be going to university. We saw today that people

:06:10. > :06:17.are getting offers of iPad is, `` iPads, one university is offering

:06:18. > :06:21.students free flights home. But I just wonder if maybe there is a bit

:06:22. > :06:28.of a sting in the tail, that more people are going to university...

:06:29. > :06:32.The government says it is what it wants to do but they also say it

:06:33. > :06:35.will cost a lot of money. The way they say they will pay for it is

:06:36. > :06:40.they will sell off the student loans book. Vince Cable said that wasn't

:06:41. > :06:44.going to happen a couple of weeks ago, not least because they wouldn't

:06:45. > :06:50.be able to get enough money for it. There's a financial reckoning coming

:06:51. > :06:55.form this today. `` coming from. Political context is interesting.

:06:56. > :07:01.The way in which the Times have presented this. This idea that the

:07:02. > :07:10.results and is the class divide comes after years of protests over

:07:11. > :07:15.tuition fees. Many people worry `` people worry that's resulting in

:07:16. > :07:21.some people not going to university. We have some evidence that free

:07:22. > :07:28.schools are sending people to top universities. This is a politically

:07:29. > :07:30.loaded story. Let's look at the Guardian Row. We have to give the

:07:31. > :07:38.teachers some credit. Jumping for joy. `` Guardian. People from

:07:39. > :07:44.Bristol celebrating their success. What strikes me as peculiar is all

:07:45. > :07:49.these years when teachers have been knocked because their results have

:07:50. > :07:52.gone up, this year they aren't getting criticised even though

:07:53. > :07:57.results have gone down a little bit. It seems back to front. I don't

:07:58. > :08:00.think teachers can win. They feel very persecuted. They get all this

:08:01. > :08:05.interference. I don't want to compare them to the Yazidis, which

:08:06. > :08:12.is very different, but teachers in Britain feel they can't do anything

:08:13. > :08:15.right. A `` A`levels is a wonderful story of achievement. We should be

:08:16. > :08:22.applauding all of the students today. Absolutely. The Independent.

:08:23. > :08:27.Collision course. Eastern Europe edges closer to war, why is the

:08:28. > :08:31.Western looking the other way? This is an aid convoy, according to

:08:32. > :08:36.Moscow, that's taking aid to rebel held areas in Ukraine. The suspicion

:08:37. > :08:38.in Kiev is there is some kind of military support mustering on the

:08:39. > :08:44.border. The thing that's incredible about this story is that with most

:08:45. > :08:47.complex, with most hotspots around the world, you can get a pretty

:08:48. > :08:52.decent grasp of what's going on when you speak to state agencies and

:08:53. > :08:59.journalists on the ground. The fact is there's an extraordinary

:09:00. > :09:07.propaganda exercise going on. There are 300 big vans heading from Moscow

:09:08. > :09:11.to the eastern edge of the Ukraine. Moscow says they are full of aid and

:09:12. > :09:17.are to support the people of Ukraine. Ukrainians are they aren't

:09:18. > :09:20.sure about that, this doesn't make sense to us. So, guitar to know

:09:21. > :09:24.what's going on. What we can be sure of is many vehicles are moving

:09:25. > :09:29.towards Ukraine and will reach there soon. `` it's hard to know. Someone

:09:30. > :09:38.said the other day to me, a Russian friend, why isn't this being

:09:39. > :09:43.reported further up the bulletins? Because more than 2000 people have

:09:44. > :09:47.died since the middle of April. Yes. There has been a lot of reporting.

:09:48. > :09:52.Part of it has been it has been difficult to work out what is going

:09:53. > :09:54.on and part of it has been that the international community has

:09:55. > :10:00.struggled to respond to this. What this definitely shows is that Russia

:10:01. > :10:03.is not backing down. We've had a massive increase in sanctions a

:10:04. > :10:13.couple of weeks ago and it's basically a huge 300 law white van

:10:14. > :10:20.convoy, saying we won't back down. `` long. Talks over the Stirling.

:10:21. > :10:24.This is in the Scotsman. The suggestion is that technical talks

:10:25. > :10:29.have or haven't taken place between the yes for independence campaign

:10:30. > :10:32.and the Bank of England. In some ways it is an argument over

:10:33. > :10:37.definitions but what it really shows is that Alex Salmond is finding it

:10:38. > :10:44.impossible to change the conversation and he isn't being able

:10:45. > :10:51.to change the conversation away from what an `` what currency and

:10:52. > :10:55.independent Scotland would have. This argument on the front pages

:10:56. > :10:58.about whether or not they have the technical discussion, not that

:10:59. > :11:02.they've actually set you can't have Stirling. It's about whether or not

:11:03. > :11:08.the conversation took face. It doesn't make much sense. On the one

:11:09. > :11:13.hand, the finance secretary says they have had discussions. The Bank

:11:14. > :11:17.of England says they haven't. Presumably they've had some kind of

:11:18. > :11:21.discussion but it's a question about whether it is technical discussion,

:11:22. > :11:30.what about the currency. It is a strange story. It looks like the

:11:31. > :11:39.vote is going to go towards staying together. It is an incredibly hot

:11:40. > :11:44.subject. As you say, this issue of the currency just won't go away. You

:11:45. > :11:48.are close to the star. He wouldn't have predicted 12 months ago that it

:11:49. > :11:54.was all about the currency. Someone decided strategically to go over the

:11:55. > :11:57.`` go after the currency. It's a real pound in your pocket argument

:11:58. > :12:02.and it seems to be hitting home. At this stage, the SNP would not want

:12:03. > :12:07.the main thing... This is on the front of our newspaper as well. They

:12:08. > :12:11.wouldn't want a massive row with the Bank of England a couple of weeks

:12:12. > :12:16.before this. It would affect their credibility. Yes. I think Mark

:12:17. > :12:20.Carney has also left a problem for the UK government, because he

:12:21. > :12:28.announced yesterday that he was doing contingency planning for an

:12:29. > :12:31.independent Scotland. There's a lot of pressure now on the UK

:12:32. > :12:34.government, which has said for months that it is doing no

:12:35. > :12:39.contingency planning. The Ministry of Defence insisted this afternoon

:12:40. > :12:43.that it was still doing no planning... Coming really believe

:12:44. > :12:47.the Bank of England wouldn't do something and have a think about it?

:12:48. > :12:52.Contingency planning is what they do at the Bank of England! You would

:12:53. > :12:56.hope so! The Ministry of Defence is claiming that it isn't doing it.

:12:57. > :13:01.There is a contingency planning committee somewhere, I'm sure. If

:13:02. > :13:06.there is a yes vote, I feel a very senior servant will be able to go to

:13:07. > :13:08.that `` the Defence Secretary and stay, we just happen to have this

:13:09. > :13:13.report. Yes, in a bottom drawer somewhere.

:13:14. > :13:23.Let's have a look at the Daily Mirror. Robin Williams and his

:13:24. > :13:34.wife, Susan Scneider, on the top. It is right at the top. What are we

:13:35. > :13:38.looking at? This is the revelation that in addition to having struggled

:13:39. > :13:45.with drink and drug addiction of the years, and anxiety and depression,

:13:46. > :13:50.he was having to get used to the idea of having Parkinson's disease.

:13:51. > :13:54.It is difficult to speculate on causes but the implication of this

:13:55. > :13:58.is one of the things that led to his sad and was a new medical

:13:59. > :14:02.realisation. But what we discussed earlier, it is impossible for

:14:03. > :14:12.someone like Robin Williams to grieve privately. His daughter had

:14:13. > :14:20.to come off Twitter because of the abuse. It makes you feel sick, the

:14:21. > :14:24.way people, because they are public figures, can't remain private. The

:14:25. > :14:30.other thing is he was sober when it happened. It must be difficult for a

:14:31. > :14:32.wife who has lost her husband. Some of the terms being used in very

:14:33. > :14:56.premature. Downton Abbey is returning to our

:14:57. > :15:05.screens. There is a picture of Lady Edith and Lord Grantham. There is a

:15:06. > :15:12.water bottle that was left on the set. I wonder how often that

:15:13. > :15:19.happens. It is the difficulty with recreating the period. My heart goes

:15:20. > :15:28.out to them. It must be incredibly difficult. They have put so much

:15:29. > :15:34.work in. It is inconceivable that it would be this much of a problem

:15:35. > :15:40.before Twitter. It just goes out so fast. Ten years ago, they would have

:15:41. > :15:55.done another picture. Now they are stuffed. And who cares? We are

:15:56. > :16:04.talking about it. That is The Papers. Stay with us after midnight.

:16:05. > :16:07.We have more details about Cliff Richard and his apartment being

:16:08. > :16:19.searched after allegations of a historic sex offence.

:16:20. > :16:28.Hello and welcome to Sportsday. I'm Nina Warhurst. Two days before the

:16:29. > :16:30.first ball is even kicked,