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:00:00. > :00:00.which was reportedly triggered after the death of a detainee. Plans are

:00:07. > :00:09.being finalised to fly Ashya King, the five`year`old British boy with a

:00:10. > :00:20.brain tumour, from Spain to the Czech Republic for specialist

:00:21. > :00:23.treatment. Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will

:00:24. > :00:25.be bringing us tomorrow. With me are the Independent columnist Yasmin

:00:26. > :00:36.Alibhai`Brown and journalist Eve Pollard. Previously we sold the MPs

:00:37. > :00:41.or housing conundrum and considered a move to Scotland. The Observer

:00:42. > :00:44.says Scots will be offered a "radical new deal" on more powers

:00:45. > :00:47.for Holyrood to try and persuade people to vote 'no' in the

:00:48. > :00:50.independence referendum. A new YouGov poll suggests support for the

:00:51. > :00:53.yes vote is growing stronger. The Sunday Times claims Scotland is on

:00:54. > :00:56.course to vote for independence later this month. The Mail on Sunday

:00:57. > :00:59.carries a warning from the Labour leader Ed Miliband that manned

:01:00. > :01:03.border posts could be introduced if Scotland votes for independence. The

:01:04. > :01:06.Sunday Telegraph carries a picture of the author JK Rowling ` who

:01:07. > :01:13.famously donated to the Better Together campaign. Their main story

:01:14. > :01:16.is that MPs are likely to get a ten percent pay rise next year. The

:01:17. > :01:20.Independent on Sunday also focuses on Scotland, and asks if a suggested

:01:21. > :01:24.rise in support for the 'yes' vote could spell the end for the union.

:01:25. > :01:27.The Daily Express claims that soldiers are on standby on the

:01:28. > :01:32.French coast, as tensions grow about the rising number of migrants

:01:33. > :01:35.gathering there. And the Welsh singer Katherine Jenkins is pictured

:01:36. > :01:40.on the front of Scotland's Sunday Post, with the slightly confusing

:01:41. > :01:46.tagline "I'm so proud to be Scots". I still haven't worked it out. Let's

:01:47. > :01:53.begin then with the Observer. Scots to be offered radical new deal in

:01:54. > :01:58.bid to save the union. New opinion polls shock written, apparently. The

:01:59. > :02:02.idea of a sort of federal future is being discussed here in the

:02:03. > :02:06.Observer. Interesting that it has just happened about ten days before

:02:07. > :02:11.the vote. I think it is sad, because I think that we are Better Together,

:02:12. > :02:15.but you can see that the Scots obviously believe that nobody is

:02:16. > :02:19.taking them seriously, because this is only happening because YouGov and

:02:20. > :02:23.other polls are finding that the vote is very close, and

:02:24. > :02:27.interestingly, YouGov has a reputation, because it is all on

:02:28. > :02:34.computers, of catching the young people, more than anyone else. And

:02:35. > :02:37.we were discussing before, you can vote when you are 16th in this

:02:38. > :02:46.election, may be your first election. You are living in Bute, or

:02:47. > :02:49.somewhere in Scotland, wouldn't you rather it was Edinburgh running your

:02:50. > :02:55.life? I have heard of what is happening there. I think the Scots

:02:56. > :02:58.might be even more cynical. Might just work, if you offer Scots the

:02:59. > :03:03.right to set their own Budget, the right to have a say over what tax

:03:04. > :03:08.they charge? I think whatever happens, the Scots have really got a

:03:09. > :03:14.better deal at the end of this, than anything that any of them would have

:03:15. > :03:18.imagined. I think whatever he did, Alex Salmond really played it well.

:03:19. > :03:24.I think some of them know things. Gordon Brown and John Prescott, I

:03:25. > :03:28.read today or yesterday, were going to go out and fight to stay

:03:29. > :03:38.together. Not very persuasive, those two. It certainly won't be now. And

:03:39. > :03:45.it just seems to me that especially as was said, the Anyon Scotland feel

:03:46. > :03:48.this is their moment. I think it away we have to be prepared for

:03:49. > :03:55.either think `` the young in Scotland. The Sunday Times, who

:03:56. > :04:00.commissioned this YouGov poll. We are led to believe that the Queen is

:04:01. > :04:05.now very concerned about the idea of a breakup, and that apparently,

:04:06. > :04:10.according to this article, there could be some kind of constitutional

:04:11. > :04:15.crisis, as we are in uncharted territory. But there is another

:04:16. > :04:22.poll, commissioned by Yes Scotland, the campaign for the yes vote,

:04:23. > :04:26.saying the no vote is ahead. It is going to be close. And it will

:04:27. > :04:31.change every ten minute. The thing is, just a few days ago, people had

:04:32. > :04:38.written off the yes camp. Because there was a lot of push going on,

:04:39. > :04:44.and I think there was a bit of complacency that, this is not going

:04:45. > :04:49.to happen, and is now, it is equal. It is interesting and exciting.

:04:50. > :04:56.People are really going to have to think. There were two polls, and

:04:57. > :05:05.Alex Salmond did very well in the first, and `` two debates. It is

:05:06. > :05:09.part of what is going on across the world, parts of Spain want to split

:05:10. > :05:16.away from Spain, you've got all sorts of country saying we want to

:05:17. > :05:20.be ourselves. And Great Britain doesn't want to be in the EU. I'm

:05:21. > :05:24.very interested in how we use all these arguments to stay in one

:05:25. > :05:36.union, and want to leave the other. That is true. Great Britain has a

:05:37. > :05:43.much longer history, doesn't it? At the European link since the Second

:05:44. > :05:46.World War `` but the European link. The reasons it happened were quite

:05:47. > :05:51.cynical on both sides. The Scots wanted to get in, and they get very

:05:52. > :05:55.angry when I say this. The Empire, because the English were better at

:05:56. > :05:59.the Empire, and they tried a couple of jaunts in South America, and

:06:00. > :06:03.failed miserably and lost a huge amount of money. So partly, it was

:06:04. > :06:12.to get into the imperial adventure as not as anything else. The other

:06:13. > :06:16.thing is, of course, many MPs have been Scottish or partly Scottish.

:06:17. > :06:20.Many successful Brits have been Scots, but they usually had to come

:06:21. > :06:24.to London. And this is the problem. As a nation, we are London centric.

:06:25. > :06:31.They have always had to come here to make it. Maybe people feel in

:06:32. > :06:35.Scotland, if we are our own country, they will go and develop what they

:06:36. > :06:38.are going to do in Edinburgh. Getting to London from Scotland

:06:39. > :06:40.might be difficult, according to the mail on Sunday. Ed Miliband says

:06:41. > :06:53.they will put guards on the Scottish border. Inside they are talking

:06:54. > :07:00.about the idea of a new Hadrians Wall. What are we going to have to

:07:01. > :07:05.do, we will be penalised for taking goods back to England's? Will we

:07:06. > :07:43.up to Scotland and talk to people in centres? Every now and then,

:07:44. > :07:45.up to Scotland and talk to people in the street, in England, people say

:07:46. > :07:48.they don't know who they are going to vote for, I don't know what I'm

:07:49. > :07:52.going to do. In Scotland, they are passionate. It has made them

:07:53. > :07:56.passionate about politics. I've got to admire them for that. It feels

:07:57. > :08:01.like it matters to them. And I wish we were a bit more like that. Across

:08:02. > :08:06.the country, actually, politics absolutely should be mattering a lot

:08:07. > :08:10.more. But the first Hadrians Wall, when it was built, the first

:08:11. > :08:15.battalion there was African. The Romans put an African battalion at

:08:16. > :08:21.Hadrians Wall, to keep the divide. Did you know that? I didn't know

:08:22. > :08:26.that, and it worked. The Sunday Telegraph, away from the Scottish

:08:27. > :08:32.referendum, MPs to get a 10% pay rise. The suggestion that they will

:08:33. > :08:35.have a salary of ?74,000 per year. The argument being, for the work

:08:36. > :08:40.that they do it it is not a huge amount of money, but the expenses on

:08:41. > :08:45.top. The expenses on top, which they don't have to justify, I always

:08:46. > :08:50.find, we are journalists, and we did use to... You don't even get them

:08:51. > :08:56.any more. They were the good old days. But you had to justify every

:08:57. > :09:06.penny. And I can see why millions of people feel that 74,000 is a lot.

:09:07. > :09:11.And it is a lot. We are now so cynical about MPs' expenses,

:09:12. > :09:14.flipping houses, people making money out of property, and you have the

:09:15. > :09:19.whole of the rest of the private sector having to survive on a 1%

:09:20. > :09:22.rise at the moment. And I think those people in the public services

:09:23. > :09:29.have been told over several years that they can get half a percent, if

:09:30. > :09:37.anything, or 1%. Why are they still in this caste system? David Cameron

:09:38. > :09:40.has said there is no way this should happen. He has talked about

:09:41. > :09:45.disbanding the organisation responsible. That would make

:09:46. > :09:49.politicians in an election year so unpopular, nobody would vote for

:09:50. > :09:55.anybody. Turnout is low enough as it is. I think he is right. People

:09:56. > :09:58.might say it is all very well to him because he is a millionaire, what

:09:59. > :10:02.about the others who have not got that kind of money, I still think

:10:03. > :10:06.?74,000 is enough, and if that's not enough, and if you want to put it

:10:07. > :10:11.up, you have to be fair to everybody. Staying with the Sunday

:10:12. > :10:33.Telegraph, one more story I want to talk about. Bookshops say non. A

:10:34. > :10:39.memoir has been written about France Francois Hollande by his mistress.

:10:40. > :10:48.Some bookshops have sold out in Paris. Some refuse to sell it.

:10:49. > :10:52.Fronts is traumatised, across party lines they have condemned her. But I

:10:53. > :10:55.want to know what she says about Francois Hollande's first partner,

:10:56. > :11:05.the mother of his many children. Does she feature in this pity me,

:11:06. > :11:09.sorry me. I have not read it, sadly, but I look forward to it, because we

:11:10. > :11:13.all like a bit of a gossip. But I think that she goes on about how he

:11:14. > :11:20.says that he cares desperately about the poor, but then called them

:11:21. > :11:26.toothless ones. He wasn't terribly interested in scores of people in

:11:27. > :11:30.public. It is not going to do much for his popularity. He has the most

:11:31. > :11:36.popularity of any president in France. It is down to about 18% ``

:11:37. > :11:40.police popularity. If it goes any lower it will sink into being as

:11:41. > :11:45.channel. It won't help him, and a woman scorned? The only thing that

:11:46. > :11:52.is interesting. The helmet that he wore to go and visit his mistress,

:11:53. > :12:03.has sold out. Clearly it had its purposes. Man, men, men. The helmet

:12:04. > :12:08.was very bitter. You always bring out such juicy titbits. It will be

:12:09. > :12:10.sold out here no doubt. That's it for The Papers this hour. Thank you

:12:11. > :12:14.Independent columnist Yasmin Alibhai`Brown and journalist Eve

:12:15. > :12:17.Pollard. Stay with us here on BBC News: At midnight we'll have the

:12:18. > :12:20.latest on the crisis in Ukraine ` where tonight there have been

:12:21. > :12:21.reports of shelling during the ceasefire. But coming up next it's

:12:22. > :12:44.time for The Film Review. Hello, and welcome to Shetland, and

:12:45. > :12:50.a special edition of The Film Review at the Screenplay Film Festival. We

:12:51. > :12:51.are at the harbour and the Mareel Arts Centre. Mark Kermode