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