10/01/2016 The Papers

Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers

With me are London Evening Standard's Home

Affairs Editor Martin Bentham and Cassell Bryan-Low, UK Editor

The Metro says there's been a huge rise in crimes linked to Tinder.

Users of the app say they've been raped, robbed and blackmailed

The Daily Telegraph says some of the country's highest-paid public

sector workers, including civil servants and head

teachers, are pushing for big pay rises to make up for pensions cuts.

The Times has the story that human organs are being grown for

According to the i, 4000 operations could be cancelled in Tuesday's

Sean Penn's handshake with the now-captured drugslord El Chapo

features on the front of the Independent.

The Daily Mirror has the story that 25 former Coalition ministers

are now employed in industries they oversaw while in government.

The Guardian warns of a funding crisis for the Labour

Party, which it says could be set to lose ?6 million under new rules.

And, Cameron aims for a summer vote, the Financial Times on the EU

We will start with a health story on The Times. Redundant NHS staff

rehired in ?92 million farce. You assume that if someone is made

redundant it is because their post no longer exists and they are not

needed. Yes, this is an eye-catching story, as you say, ?90 million in

redundancy being paid to staff who were immediately rehired. This is a

particularly bad time forgot us, who are about to go on strike, feeling

that they are being shortchanged. A bad time to them. Why is it

happening? What happened was that the previous Health Secretary had

reorganisation of the NHS, and abolished lots of trusts, and are

therefore lots redundant. They then get rehired

often by other NHS bodies that have been created in their place. That is

basically what this story years, these figures all come from

labour's Shadow Health one public sector authority and then

rehired by another one on similar terms, the government has actually

promised to cap pay-outs for people at ?90,000, which would obviously

reduce the amount of money spent in these situations. But if someone is

made redundant and rehired, there is nothing you can do. Just looking at

the Daily Mail, no end to the witch-hunt, it says. Pounding

British troops over their role in the Iraq war. With more than 1000

compensation claims. But the paper says that these are compensation

claims paid out where there has been no prosecution for conviction. These

are civil claims, and there was a judgement in the High Court a while

ago that said that the Convention of human rights could apply to actions

on human rights when they shot people, and those people who were

shot could bring civil claims. You can bring a civil claim even when

there is not a prosecution of someone, what the mail is aiming

at, and it does seem distasteful to have a lot of sympathy for those

involved, given that many instances were a long time ago. It is likely

they are opportunistic claims, that is what the defence is suggesting.

These being applied to alleged actions being carried out overseas

and dragging on for years and years hanging over these soldiers.

Multiple investigations being faced sometimes. We have a lot to get

through. We are going to go back to the Times and look at the EU story.

David Cameron was talking about this on the Andrew Marr Show, and he said

that even if he was on the losing side he wouldn't feel compelled to

resign. If you remember, he said something similar and head of the

Scottish Referendum. Afterwards, he admitted that actually he probably

would have had to resign if he had lost out. I understand why he says

he isn't sure, he has a choice in saying that, but I don't... It seems

to think he can get a move on with this. Yes, and it is enraging his

critics within the Conservative Party and outside it. He hasn't yet

got a deal, he thinks he can get one next month even, and potentially

have a referendum in June. That has always been his objective, to get it

out of the way, and although it theoretically if he doesn't get a

deal, he would recommend a no vote, but most of his critics think that

is a fiction and he is completely committed to staying in, and it

almost doesn't matter what the deal is. Today, he has admitted there is

no plan for leaving, which is like threatening military action and

having all your tanks and planes parked over here, and having no way

of actually doing something that you have threatened to do. There is a

quote here from the vote leave campaign, saying that he hasn't

promised anything. Clearly, this story is going to go on. It will,

and we will be following up. The Guardian, a picture story of Sean

Penn meeting the then fugitive drug lord kingpin, nobody ever calls

anyone kingpin in normal language, but anyway, El Chapo. This interview

seems to have led to his recapture. It is a twist worthy of Hollywood.

It seems that the drug lord was captured partly because of his

silver screen ambitions. It is good to know that drug lords are as

everyone else, and the Mexican authorities seem to have been led to

him after Sean Penn went to speak to him. The White House is not happy

that this happened. Not that it has happened, although I'm sure they are

very happy they have got him. To be fair to Sean Penn, the question is

not that he did the interview, but maybe about the exact content and

methods and how he conduct it. But, as long as you are not paying them

and glorifying them, journalists can do this. It casts an interesting

light and insight on to this man. He talks about how he had a fleet of

submarines, aeroplanes and boats, and he has supplied more drugs than

anyone else in the world. He has obtained some interesting material

about this man, and inadvertently it has led to his capture as well,

which is apparently not as good for the would-be drugs lord. With all

that wealth, that was the shirt he chose to buy! We need to cover this

fast, Labour fears ?6 million funding crisis. Why is this? This is

because they have union members who are already had into paying the

levy, and at the moment they are automatically opted in that they

will be required to physically decide to opt in. In most cases the

Labour Party believes that people will choose to do so, so they will

lose our lot of the money, which will leave them with a large funding

hole. Look at the Metro. Crimes linked to Tinder soar. Suggestions

that people who have met up with people through these applications

have suffered some terrible crimes. Yes, it seems there is an increase

in rape and attempted murder, the idea of people having met people who

have no framework for knowing where they come from, it is a risky

position. All these dating websites in the past, this is just the latest

version, if you meet someone that you don't know, have no knowledge of

their background, then perhaps you should be meeting them in a public

place, and not in places where you will potentially be vulnerable. Many

people don't take that advice, and that is why they have been given

that advice by the people who run these applications. Back to the

Daily Mail, we have Cheryl Cole who is likely to face a hefty divorce

bill. She didn't have a prenup, and I believe she didn't have one last

time around either. She has amassed a lot more wealth this time around,

so while I believe her current husband is from a wealthy family,

she is clearly the wealthiest. This will keep the tabloids happy and

obsessed for quite a long time, I suspect. There will be infinite

mileage on this. The divorce lawyers will no doubt be e-mailing their

clients, suggesting they have prenuptial agreements. This idea

that you are in the throes of this romance, and you think everything

will last forever, it is not a very romantic idea, is it, to have such

an agreement? I believe when she got married she said she thought it was

disgusting. You would have thought someone who is an astute

businesswoman in some ways would have been different. She might not

like losing ten, but she has still got ten left. No, it wouldn't be

nice, but she has worked hard for it. That is it for tonight, thank

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