:00:00. > :00:00.format in an international coach who has died at the age of 80. That is
:00:00. > :00:13.all coming up in 15 minutes after the papers.
:00:14. > :00:16.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers
:00:17. > :00:22.With me are author David Torrance and The Independent's political
:00:23. > :00:31.A flooded street scene from York dominates the front
:00:32. > :00:35.It also reports on how Britain leaving the EU could lead to
:00:36. > :00:37.the loss of funding into scientific research.
:00:38. > :00:41.Storm Eva is the focus of the Daily Express,
:00:42. > :00:44.which warns of 80 mile an hour gales and torrential downpours hitting
:00:45. > :00:49.The FT reports on the trouble facing American banks because of their
:00:50. > :00:54.The Telegraph leads on an Oxford University study, calling
:00:55. > :00:58.for more people to be offered cheap blood pressure pills, to cut the
:00:59. > :01:03.The Mail reports on struggling maternity units - claiming that half
:01:04. > :01:08.have had to turn away women in labour because of a lack of beds.
:01:09. > :01:11.After threats in Brunei to imprison people who
:01:12. > :01:14.celebrate Christmas in public, the Times reports on faith leaders
:01:15. > :01:17.from across Britain, condemning what it calls a growing crackdown
:01:18. > :01:25.And if you haven't done your Christmas shopping yet, the Sun
:01:26. > :01:28.says you could be contributing to the 3 billion pounds expected to be
:01:29. > :01:43.I've not even done my Christmas cards yet. Let us start with the
:01:44. > :01:48.male. It continues to focus on the NHS and on the maternity ward. They
:01:49. > :01:54.are saying that they can't cope. We have known that on occasions
:01:55. > :02:02.maternity wards have too many people and as a consequence they cannot
:02:03. > :02:09.function. Have you turn a woman away in labour? It depends where you are
:02:10. > :02:13.and whether or not you have two act immediately. If there is a clinical
:02:14. > :02:17.reason, you will not do that. But there are women who can go to
:02:18. > :02:22.another hospital. Often, the distance is not massively great in
:02:23. > :02:37.London. And imagine if that is your first child. That is the point that
:02:38. > :02:45.the mail is making. Last year, 175 women were turned away. At some
:02:46. > :02:50.stage, they do shut their doors. It is an important story and we know
:02:51. > :02:57.that maternity units are stretched. The difficulty you have, is that you
:02:58. > :03:02.can't predict demand. And I am sure, after Labour's warning, the money
:03:03. > :03:06.being piled into the NHS is just going to go into pensions and other
:03:07. > :03:14.things they need to pay for with prudent care. It is another problem
:03:15. > :03:24.for the administration. The course of this is actually covered in the
:03:25. > :03:29.main headlines. No surprise, but the mail should find that there is a
:03:30. > :03:34.migrant connection there. It is an interesting story and one full of
:03:35. > :03:40.Christmas residents, given the time of year. In the Daily Telegraph also
:03:41. > :03:44.has an NHS story about warnings of patient safety again in the
:03:45. > :03:55.Telegraph. The headline says that agency nurses in during long shifts
:03:56. > :04:01.are endangering our safety. I find this story a little bit dubious. It
:04:02. > :04:06.appears to amount to one nurse who said that he booked two separate 12
:04:07. > :04:11.hour shifts at two different agencies and was therefore able to
:04:12. > :04:16.work 24 hours. That is against the guidelines and he has broken those.
:04:17. > :04:19.He could potentially be struck off. One person doing to me that they
:04:20. > :04:24.should not do should not make a headline story. Potentially is the
:04:25. > :04:33.crucial word in the third paragraph. It seems quite specular. It was like
:04:34. > :04:36.they went looking for it. This was their undercover investigation
:04:37. > :04:41.unit, and I don't think they found what they were looking for. A
:04:42. > :04:46.spokesperson for the hospital has said that they expected agency staff
:04:47. > :04:54.to not, the ability to provide safe care. They are freelance and they
:04:55. > :04:59.can take different shifts are different hospitals. It is not about
:05:00. > :05:05.these firms. That situation has always been known. A does not mean
:05:06. > :05:11.that there are huge amounts of demand, it is just that one person
:05:12. > :05:14.could do it. At the top of the Daily Telegraph they took about how the
:05:15. > :05:25.NHS could save money through heart pills. This is a much better story.
:05:26. > :05:32.Because you are a big fan of preventative care rather than
:05:33. > :05:41.reactive care. This is what a lot of healthcare vessels have been
:05:42. > :05:52.advocating. I will not try to pronounce that. Each ten millimetre
:05:53. > :05:59.HD drop has been found to reduce heart pressure by a fifth and death
:06:00. > :06:04.from all causes by 13. Distributing this number of heart pills might be
:06:05. > :06:10.challenging, logistically, but if they pulled it off that could save,
:06:11. > :06:13.that sort of impact is only different areas, could save the NHS
:06:14. > :06:17.a lot of money further down the line. You can't actually see it, but
:06:18. > :06:23.there is a brilliant cartoon in the middle of that piece. It is a chart
:06:24. > :06:30.telling its mother on Christmas Eve, just before the fireplace, I am
:06:31. > :06:37.leaving Santa a leaflet on obesity and blood pressure pills. Obviously,
:06:38. > :06:44.instead of a cookie and a glass of milk. Very funny. They are so small
:06:45. > :06:55.and they are difficult for us to get them. Let us move on to the time. --
:06:56. > :07:02.The Times. This is about the persecution of Christians that has
:07:03. > :07:04.not been covered quite a bit. This is about Christians in Muslim
:07:05. > :07:13.countries. We're not talking about Iraq or Syria. We're talking about
:07:14. > :07:19.Brunei that we would think is pro-Western. You can be put in jail
:07:20. > :07:28.for five years for celebrating Christmas in public. Places like
:07:29. > :07:35.Somalia, and China. What is interesting is that they have a man
:07:36. > :07:39.who goes a little bit further against uniting against persecution
:07:40. > :07:51.of Christians but what he describes as the religiously illiterate
:07:52. > :07:54.religious intelligentsia. He is having a go at the West saying you
:07:55. > :08:02.are not taking this seriously enough and you have to stand up. The Pope
:08:03. > :08:06.released a statement expressing his huge concern about the persecution
:08:07. > :08:12.of Christians across Asia, across the Middle East and many parts of
:08:13. > :08:19.the world. Talking about Asia, they left out China which has 70 million
:08:20. > :08:22.Christians who are set to take over the United States as the world 's
:08:23. > :08:28.largest Christian country in a decade. A lot of them have been
:08:29. > :08:38.dismantled by officials of the Communist Party, who are atheist.
:08:39. > :08:45.Evidently, number 10 shows the Cabinet members are speaking out.
:08:46. > :08:50.Will he? Or won't he? This is a long-running parliament joke. This
:08:51. > :08:58.is the time saying that Downing Street is going to allow ministers
:08:59. > :09:08.to speak out and campaign to leave the EU -- The Times. Of course you
:09:09. > :09:14.can campaign. It is not in the spirit of a referendum. If you want
:09:15. > :09:18.to, David and George feel very strongly that this is a good idea
:09:19. > :09:25.and if you value your place in the government you will either at keep
:09:26. > :09:30.quiet and support them. To be honest, there are some people on
:09:31. > :09:33.their way out of government anyway to take a stance and campaign, but I
:09:34. > :09:41.would have thought, some of the rising Eurosceptic stars aren't
:09:42. > :09:54.likely to be too vocal. The president is in 1975 gave them
:09:55. > :09:59.similar circumstances. It is simply a way of managing a very difficult
:10:00. > :10:06.situation. We were talking about this before we came on air. How much
:10:07. > :10:09.is at stake or David Cameron and his premiership with the EU referendum
:10:10. > :10:15.and how is he going to try to play this so it is all not just down to a
:10:16. > :10:22.make or break it? He knows deep down that it is. What will worry, not
:10:23. > :10:25.just David Cameron, but the campaign in general, is that some voters will
:10:26. > :10:29.use the referendum to kick David Cameron rather than anything else.
:10:30. > :10:36.It is sort of an anti-government feeling that may get behind the lead
:10:37. > :10:41.campaign. This is what happens at the referendum, and they use a proxy
:10:42. > :10:48.for wider issue. It is huge pressure from both camps. They aren't as
:10:49. > :10:52.engaging for the other camps. They have to go down there and explain
:10:53. > :10:56.how the EU works to an awful lot of people and explain the benefits and
:10:57. > :11:03.maybe some of the non- benefits of member ship. It will be an
:11:04. > :11:12.interesting one, pitifully few. -- particulates for you. The
:11:13. > :11:27.Independent. See what I was doing? It was all planned. They are warning
:11:28. > :11:31.against leaving the EU. I had an overwhelming sense of deja vu when I
:11:32. > :11:34.did this story. I cover the Scottish Referendum and there were a similar
:11:35. > :11:39.line of academics who were very worried about losing research money,
:11:40. > :11:47.the UK and Scotland punch well above their weight in relative terms. UK
:11:48. > :11:52.gets 25% of all European Council grants, and naturally, academics who
:11:53. > :11:57.depend on money from Brussels for their research and livelihood are
:11:58. > :12:18.concerned about that. Becomes, as all of the nose, -- as all the -- as
:12:19. > :12:22.Oliver knows. It is collaborative. You will have groups of scientists
:12:23. > :12:27.in different situations using different equipment. That becomes
:12:28. > :12:33.that much harder when you have freedom of movement limited, your
:12:34. > :12:39.wife has to get a Visa. Being part of a wider union makes this much
:12:40. > :12:48.easier. They pointed to the success of Europe and some of the research
:12:49. > :12:52.things we have done. And the UK will lose out for not being part of the
:12:53. > :12:56.wider community. They put a value on how much this contributes to the UK
:12:57. > :13:07.economy, and they think it is about ?7.6 billion. It would be really
:13:08. > :13:20.nice if starters could tell us how we can avoid these winter washouts,
:13:21. > :13:22.which is what the i talks about. It is not the storm that is bringing
:13:23. > :13:30.the rain, that means that the Dell force winds all adds to people being
:13:31. > :13:35.affected really badly. More flooding. These things happen every
:13:36. > :13:40.year and you have to wonder, in terms of flood defences that these
:13:41. > :13:48.happen in different parts of the country. The difficulty is he get
:13:49. > :13:51.several bouts of rain and the error becomes that much more prone to
:13:52. > :13:57.flooding. The ground is already waterlogged. I suspect, that the
:13:58. > :14:00.storm will come on it's own it would not bring the flooding, but after
:14:01. > :14:06.everything that has happened, it is going to go all over again. It seems
:14:07. > :14:09.to be happening more and more. Not a great day, whether wisely shopping
:14:10. > :14:18.tomorrow, but according to the Sun, a lot of us will be spending ?3
:14:19. > :14:27.billion in a day. They will save just 4% of pay. Why do people leave
:14:28. > :14:44.it so late? Know I am quite organised. Amazon. It is the last
:14:45. > :14:49.big spending rush, and a staggering amount of money which is good for
:14:50. > :14:55.the economy. Interestingly it offers evidence of some sort of economic
:14:56. > :15:02.recovery, and we have seen take-home pay start to soar. It might be an
:15:03. > :15:06.exaggeration but it is going up. I wish you both a very Merry Christmas
:15:07. > :15:11.and I look forward to receiving my present. Have a fantastic Christmas
:15:12. > :15:15.and New Year. Thank you for taking us through the papers tonight.
:15:16. > :15:27.Thanks to you for watching and coming up next is Sport Today.
:15:28. > :15:39.Hello, and welcome to Sportsday. I'm Hugh Woozencroft.
:15:40. > :15:40.There is a distinct lack of Christmas