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:00:00. > :00:00.Plus how Rosberg and Hamilton got on in today's practice sessions for the

:00:00. > :00:17.Italian Grand Prix, all in Sportsday in 15 minutes, after The Papers.

:00:18. > :00:25.Wellcome to our look at what the newspapers will bring us tomorrow.

:00:26. > :00:30.With me is James Miller of the Sunday Post, and joining us from

:00:31. > :00:34.Glasgow is Jean Freeman from Women for Independence. Thank you for

:00:35. > :00:39.being with us tonight. Let's look at the front pages of the morning

:00:40. > :00:42.papers. The Daily Mail leads the story claiming some of our biggest

:00:43. > :00:46.banks have been intimidating customers. NATO leaders gaze at a

:00:47. > :00:50.fly past on the cover of the Independent on the day they set up a

:00:51. > :01:04.rapid reaction force to defy Russia over Ukraine. The FT has the same

:01:05. > :01:07.picture but talks about a new bid by the no camp to halt the charge of

:01:08. > :01:09.nationalists in the Scottish referendum. The Daily Telegraph says

:01:10. > :01:11.Britain could become involved in a three`year battle with Islamist

:01:12. > :01:14.militants. Five yet `` five old Ashya King dominates the front page

:01:15. > :01:17.of the Guardian. He is going to Prague. The express says there is

:01:18. > :01:21.outrage at claims that police are dropping rate prosecutions. The

:01:22. > :01:24.Times carries a picture of the American president at Stonehenge

:01:25. > :01:31.following the NATO summit in Newport.

:01:32. > :01:34.Let's begin with the Telegraph. The headline, three`year battle to

:01:35. > :01:40.degrade and destroy ISIL, the Islamic State, the militants who

:01:41. > :01:44.have been cutting a swathe across Syria and Iraq, Britain signs up to

:01:45. > :01:48.coalition led by the United States, and the Prime Minister of verses a

:01:49. > :01:52.plan to mothball an aircraft carrier. When you read into this

:01:53. > :01:58.article, Jean, it feels like we have been here before, very reminiscent

:01:59. > :02:05.of the Iraq war. It does. I found it quite disturbing an article to read

:02:06. > :02:11.because we have a number of assertions and statements and no

:02:12. > :02:16.clear plan, certainly in the article, no clear acknowledgement

:02:17. > :02:21.that there needs to be some kind of democratic process behind this. So

:02:22. > :02:25.we have the commitment to 1000 troops, the idea of the rapid

:02:26. > :02:30.reaction force, but we do not have much of an idea, so far at least,

:02:31. > :02:37.about exactly what that force would do. The article also tells us that

:02:38. > :02:46.not every member of NATO is as convinced of this as the UK and the

:02:47. > :02:50.US are, and again, that does have a close of having been here before.

:02:51. > :02:57.And indeed Germany and particular is somewhat reticent. They are.

:02:58. > :03:02.Reticent, and also reticent in terms of whether the principal target, if

:03:03. > :03:05.you like, is the Islamic State, or whether in the view of Germany, we

:03:06. > :03:10.shouldn't be more concerned about what is going on in Afghanistan and

:03:11. > :03:15.Ukraine. Certainly it struck me in the past week that we have not had a

:03:16. > :03:22.lot of attention to what was going on in Ukraine, and I wondered if

:03:23. > :03:26.that was the wise course to take, to be so focused on what is happening

:03:27. > :03:31.outside Europe, knowing what might be happening here. Let me turn to

:03:32. > :03:36.James. Often there is talk of a mandate, having a mandate to take

:03:37. > :03:39.action of this type. How is this mandate in comparison with the one

:03:40. > :03:45.they thought they had against Saddam Hussein? There is an element of

:03:46. > :03:48.having been here before, certainly, I was particularly struck by the

:03:49. > :03:54.three`year battle, this sounds like it will be over by Christmas, the

:03:55. > :03:59.three`year figure is picked out of nowhere, but it is different to

:04:00. > :04:03.Iraq, because these guys are baddies... You know, we know they

:04:04. > :04:07.are doing horrific things, beheadings, they have a British

:04:08. > :04:11.hostage. In Iraq they had to come up with a dossier and the evidence, the

:04:12. > :04:15.evidence that these guys need to be dealt with is very clear, and in

:04:16. > :04:21.that sense I think there is a moribund mandate, more of a public

:04:22. > :04:25.feel that something must be done. `` more of a mandate. In the Telegraph,

:04:26. > :04:30.Ashya King, the five`year`old boy who needs brain tumour treatment

:04:31. > :04:33.being given permission to fly to Prague. It has been an extraordinary

:04:34. > :04:37.week for the family, pursued across Europe, then having the arrest

:04:38. > :04:42.warrant dropped. A lot of people still don't really know what this

:04:43. > :04:45.story is all about, what happened, why they were chased across Europe,

:04:46. > :04:50.what they were doing in Spain when they were trying to get to Prague.

:04:51. > :04:53.It sounds like we were going to have a happy ending in the sense that

:04:54. > :04:57.hopefully now they will be left to do what they were going to do in the

:04:58. > :05:03.first place and get on with it and maybe be left alone by the media to

:05:04. > :05:06.deal with at their own way. Briefly, Jean, do police have much choice

:05:07. > :05:11.over whether to pursue the family in this way, given that doctors in

:05:12. > :05:15.Britain were concerned for his health? It depends a little on what

:05:16. > :05:21.information the police were given, and that is still not clear. If the

:05:22. > :05:27.police were told that the medical profession in the hospital believed

:05:28. > :05:30.the child was at risk in terms of how the parents might be able to

:05:31. > :05:34.look after him or not, I don't know if that was the case, but if they

:05:35. > :05:38.had been told something like that and hadn't done anything, we would

:05:39. > :05:44.be criticising them as well. The whole thing is a bit of a sad mess,

:05:45. > :05:48.I think. I suspect that in a sense, at the end of the day, everyone has

:05:49. > :05:55.acted in what they believe were the best interests of the child, but the

:05:56. > :05:59.consequences of that have been a tragic set of circumstances, and

:06:00. > :06:03.hugely distressing for the family, but also for the kids of that

:06:04. > :06:09.family, including the little boy himself. The Daily Mail, shaming of

:06:10. > :06:12.bodily banks, intimidating customers with fake debt collection letters,

:06:13. > :06:17.bosses confess. This is a campaign they have been mounting after they

:06:18. > :06:22.claimed thousands of letters had been sent, which were apparently

:06:23. > :06:28.rather intimidating, to customers. Now it seems the bosses admitted

:06:29. > :06:33.using these tactics. They have, yes. There has been so much news going on

:06:34. > :06:37.with Ukraine, Iraq and Scotland, it has been lost today. This has not

:06:38. > :06:43.been missed by the Daily Mail, which is good, because it is outrageous.

:06:44. > :06:46.If your front`page story is supposed to be dropped your toast stuff at

:06:47. > :06:50.breakfast, this would mind me `` want to make me smash up the

:06:51. > :06:54.kitchen. These banks, their customers, they are looking after

:06:55. > :07:00.people 's money, and they were making up names of solicitors to

:07:01. > :07:03.send them scary letters. It is the will drink how they thought they

:07:04. > :07:08.could get away with it. Is your crockery safe when you read a

:07:09. > :07:15.headline like that, Jean? Just about, but the interesting thing

:07:16. > :07:19.was, if I pretended to be debt collecting firm or a law firm and I

:07:20. > :07:24.sent you that kind of letter, I would expect the police at my door,

:07:25. > :07:29.and what I find extraordinary in all of this is that after everything we

:07:30. > :07:34.have been through with the banks, they still think they are perfectly

:07:35. > :07:39.legitimate in behaving in this way, and the article points out, they

:07:40. > :07:45.have not really apologise. The thing I was surprised that was that the

:07:46. > :07:50.Student Loan Company is part and parcel of this. I don't know what we

:07:51. > :07:55.need to do for people to understand that behaving in this way is immoral

:07:56. > :07:59.and totally unacceptable. Let's move on to the Independent, coalition

:08:00. > :08:03.rocked by bedroom tax revolt, a quandary here with this one because

:08:04. > :08:07.we have to call it the spare room subsidy as well to not cause

:08:08. > :08:14.partiality, but this was the vote not by a backbench Lib Dem MP,

:08:15. > :08:22.Andrew George, to try to CBN is of this tax, which has proved to be

:08:23. > :08:25.very damaging `` see the end of this tax `` damaging for people deemed to

:08:26. > :08:30.have an extra bedroom they don't need. It has indeed, very damaging

:08:31. > :08:36.in terms of the impact it can have in moving families away from the

:08:37. > :08:42.rest of their family and their community and so on. For example, in

:08:43. > :08:48.some parts of Scotland, there simply are not houses with only one

:08:49. > :08:52.bedroom. Here in Scotland, The Scottish Government has acted to

:08:53. > :08:56.mitigate the effects of the bedroom tax, but the thing that struck me

:08:57. > :09:03.about this story was that you can spot a 2015 general election coming,

:09:04. > :09:07.I think. I don't mean to be dismissive of the backbencher who

:09:08. > :09:11.brought it forward, I am sure he is genuine, but we have that coalition

:09:12. > :09:15.emerging between Labour and the Liberal Democrats, and the Liberal

:09:16. > :09:18.Democrats suddenly very much opposed to the bedroom tax, but they were

:09:19. > :09:24.part of the government that introduced it. You pulled a bit of a

:09:25. > :09:28.face, James. There is a Scottish angle to this because the SNP MPs,

:09:29. > :09:33.most of them, didn't turn up for the vote, despite all this talk about

:09:34. > :09:37.vote for independence to get rid of the bedroom tax. That is a decision

:09:38. > :09:43.they took. They obviously thought time would be better is spent

:09:44. > :09:48.campaigning for a yes vote and they might rewrite, but from a PR point

:09:49. > :09:54.of view it has given Labour big win because they are to say, our MPs

:09:55. > :09:58.turned up and voted. The FT has come up trumps with a story about the

:09:59. > :10:03.Scottish referendum, which is fantastic, as Jean is with us from

:10:04. > :10:07.Glasgow. Union camp in push to halt yester, David Cameron warning Scots

:10:08. > :10:12.they will be more vulnerable in a dangerous and insecure world of they

:10:13. > :10:16.vote for independence, as No campaigners try to stop the swell of

:10:17. > :10:22.support for Yes. Gordon Brown also saying there might be an option of

:10:23. > :10:32.greater devolution of powers to Scotland, James, if the No voters

:10:33. > :10:40.successful. I'm not much or how we can offer a guarantee now. The FT

:10:41. > :10:44.have been on the independence referendum from the start. Like a

:10:45. > :10:49.lot of papers who are just waking up to it as it gets tight and closer,

:10:50. > :10:55.I'm not sure there is a huge amount exciting in this story per se. But,

:10:56. > :11:00.it is the big issue now. Despite the other stuff in the papers this is

:11:01. > :11:06.the big issue affecting the country. It seems the momentum is with yes at

:11:07. > :11:11.the moment. We'll know that for sure when we see some pulse at the

:11:12. > :11:17.weekend. They say there is panic in the no camp. `` polls. What will

:11:18. > :11:24.work best at this point? Stand in the other people 's shoes for a

:11:25. > :11:30.moment. More carrot or more stick, to get people to vote no? Certainly

:11:31. > :11:37.not more stick or more scary stories about possible stick. People here

:11:38. > :11:42.don't believe it. Even in the early days when it was said a few months

:11:43. > :11:47.ago there wouldn't be a currency union. Even before there was paper

:11:48. > :11:52.coverage of a government insider who said of course there would be. Even

:11:53. > :11:56.before then the polls showed people in Scotland didn't believe it. What

:11:57. > :12:02.is happening here, and it is interesting, there is not a lot in

:12:03. > :12:07.this story, but it is interesting inasmuch as not particularly the

:12:08. > :12:10.Financial Times because we've also covered the referendum consistently

:12:11. > :12:15.throughout, but there is certainly a mood of, oh my goodness, it is

:12:16. > :12:19.coming very soon. From the no camp, it looks like we might lose. It does

:12:20. > :12:25.look like we might lose. I'm not sure what they can do. They've left

:12:26. > :12:29.it a bit late. They are trying to scare people into voting no. They've

:12:30. > :12:33.tried to tell us how much they love us so please don't vote no. Now we

:12:34. > :12:37.have guarantees that frankly can never be honoured. And the offer of

:12:38. > :12:46.additional powers that contrast sharply with the fact that it was

:12:47. > :12:49.not allowed on the ballot paper because of the stance of the

:12:50. > :12:53.Unionist parties. Just because people don't believe it doesn't mean

:12:54. > :12:57.it is not true. I think that it's worth pointing out on all of these

:12:58. > :13:03.charges. But there has certainly been a lot of scaremongering. But it

:13:04. > :13:12.doesn't mean it is not true. Lots of shoe warning tonight. We will try to

:13:13. > :13:18.do it even more slickly later. `` shoehorning. Stay with us will stop

:13:19. > :13:24.there will be more on the truce in Ukraine which came into effect

:13:25. > :13:38.today. Coming up next, sports stay. `` sports

:13:39. > :13:41.Hello and welcome to Sportsday ` I'm Nina Warhurst.