06/09/2014 The Papers

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

being finalised to fly Ashya King, the five`year`old British boy with a

brain tumour, from Spain to the Czech Republic for specialist

treatment. Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will

be bringing us tomorrow. With me are the Independent columnist Yasmin

Alibhai`Brown and journalist Eve Pollard. Previously we sold the MPs

or housing conundrum and considered a move to Scotland. The Observer

says Scots will be offered a "radical new deal" on more powers

for Holyrood to try and persuade people to vote 'no' in the

independence referendum. A new YouGov poll suggests support for the

yes vote is growing stronger. The Sunday Times claims Scotland is on

course to vote for independence later this month. The Mail on Sunday

carries a warning from the Labour leader Ed Miliband that manned

border posts could be introduced if Scotland votes for independence. The

Sunday Telegraph carries a picture of the author JK Rowling ` who

famously donated to the Better Together campaign. Their main story

is that MPs are likely to get a ten percent pay rise next year. The

Independent on Sunday also focuses on Scotland, and asks if a suggested

rise in support for the 'yes' vote could spell the end for the union.

The Daily Express claims that soldiers are on standby on the

French coast, as tensions grow about the rising number of migrants

gathering there. And the Welsh singer Katherine Jenkins is pictured

on the front of Scotland's Sunday Post, with the slightly confusing

tagline "I'm so proud to be Scots". I still haven't worked it out. Let's

begin then with the Observer. Scots to be offered radical new deal in

bid to save the union. New opinion polls shock written, apparently. The

idea of a sort of federal future is being discussed here in the

Observer. Interesting that it has just happened about ten days before

the vote. I think it is sad, because I think that we are Better Together,

but you can see that the Scots obviously believe that nobody is

taking them seriously, because this is only happening because YouGov and

other polls are finding that the vote is very close, and

interestingly, YouGov has a reputation, because it is all on

computers, of catching the young people, more than anyone else. And

we were discussing before, you can vote when you are 16th in this

election, may be your first election. You are living in Bute, or

somewhere in Scotland, wouldn't you rather it was Edinburgh running your

life? I have heard of what is happening there. I think the Scots

might be even more cynical. Might just work, if you offer Scots the

right to set their own Budget, the right to have a say over what tax

they charge? I think whatever happens, the Scots have really got a

better deal at the end of this, than anything that any of them would have

imagined. I think whatever he did, Alex Salmond really played it well.

I think some of them know things. Gordon Brown and John Prescott, I

read today or yesterday, were going to go out and fight to stay

together. Not very persuasive, those two. It certainly won't be now. And

it just seems to me that especially as was said, the Anyon Scotland feel

this is their moment. I think it away we have to be prepared for

either think `` the young in Scotland. The Sunday Times, who

commissioned this YouGov poll. We are led to believe that the Queen is

now very concerned about the idea of a breakup, and that apparently,

according to this article, there could be some kind of constitutional

crisis, as we are in uncharted territory. But there is another

poll, commissioned by Yes Scotland, the campaign for the yes vote,

saying the no vote is ahead. It is going to be close. And it will

change every ten minute. The thing is, just a few days ago, people had

written off the yes camp. Because there was a lot of push going on,

and I think there was a bit of complacency that, this is not going

to happen, and is now, it is equal. It is interesting and exciting.

People are really going to have to think. There were two polls, and

Alex Salmond did very well in the first, and `` two debates. It is

part of what is going on across the world, parts of Spain want to split

away from Spain, you've got all sorts of country saying we want to

be ourselves. And Great Britain doesn't want to be in the EU. I'm

very interested in how we use all these arguments to stay in one

union, and want to leave the other. That is true. Great Britain has a

much longer history, doesn't it? At the European link since the Second

World War `` but the European link. The reasons it happened were quite

cynical on both sides. The Scots wanted to get in, and they get very

angry when I say this. The Empire, because the English were better at

the Empire, and they tried a couple of jaunts in South America, and

failed miserably and lost a huge amount of money. So partly, it was

to get into the imperial adventure as not as anything else. The other

thing is, of course, many MPs have been Scottish or partly Scottish.

Many successful Brits have been Scots, but they usually had to come

to London. And this is the problem. As a nation, we are London centric.

They have always had to come here to make it. Maybe people feel in

Scotland, if we are our own country, they will go and develop what they

are going to do in Edinburgh. Getting to London from Scotland

might be difficult, according to the mail on Sunday. Ed Miliband says

they will put guards on the Scottish border. Inside they are talking

about the idea of a new Hadrians Wall. What are we going to have to

do, we will be penalised for taking goods back to England's? Will we

up to Scotland and talk to people in centres? Every now and then,

up to Scotland and talk to people in the street, in England, people say

they don't know who they are going to vote for, I don't know what I'm

going to do. In Scotland, they are passionate. It has made them

passionate about politics. I've got to admire them for that. It feels

like it matters to them. And I wish we were a bit more like that. Across

the country, actually, politics absolutely should be mattering a lot

more. But the first Hadrians Wall, when it was built, the first

battalion there was African. The Romans put an African battalion at

Hadrians Wall, to keep the divide. Did you know that? I didn't know

that, and it worked. The Sunday Telegraph, away from the Scottish

referendum, MPs to get a 10% pay rise. The suggestion that they will

have a salary of ?74,000 per year. The argument being, for the work

that they do it it is not a huge amount of money, but the expenses on

top. The expenses on top, which they don't have to justify, I always

find, we are journalists, and we did use to... You don't even get them

any more. They were the good old days. But you had to justify every

penny. And I can see why millions of people feel that 74,000 is a lot.

And it is a lot. We are now so cynical about MPs' expenses,

flipping houses, people making money out of property, and you have the

whole of the rest of the private sector having to survive on a 1%

rise at the moment. And I think those people in the public services

have been told over several years that they can get half a percent, if

anything, or 1%. Why are they still in this caste system? David Cameron

has said there is no way this should happen. He has talked about

disbanding the organisation responsible. That would make

politicians in an election year so unpopular, nobody would vote for

anybody. Turnout is low enough as it is. I think he is right. People

might say it is all very well to him because he is a millionaire, what

about the others who have not got that kind of money, I still think

?74,000 is enough, and if that's not enough, and if you want to put it

up, you have to be fair to everybody. Staying with the Sunday

Telegraph, one more story I want to talk about. Bookshops say non. A

memoir has been written about France Francois Hollande by his mistress.

Some bookshops have sold out in Paris. Some refuse to sell it.

Fronts is traumatised, across party lines they have condemned her. But I

want to know what she says about Francois Hollande's first partner,

the mother of his many children. Does she feature in this pity me,

sorry me. I have not read it, sadly, but I look forward to it, because we

all like a bit of a gossip. But I think that she goes on about how he

says that he cares desperately about the poor, but then called them

toothless ones. He wasn't terribly interested in scores of people in

public. It is not going to do much for his popularity. He has the most

popularity of any president in France. It is down to about 18% ``

police popularity. If it goes any lower it will sink into being as

channel. It won't help him, and a woman scorned? The only thing that

is interesting. The helmet that he wore to go and visit his mistress,

has sold out. Clearly it had its purposes. Man, men, men. The helmet

was very bitter. You always bring out such juicy titbits. It will be

sold out here no doubt. That's it for The Papers this hour. Thank you

Independent columnist Yasmin Alibhai`Brown and journalist Eve

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

latest on the crisis in Ukraine ` where tonight there have been

reports of shelling during the ceasefire. But coming up next it's

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