:00:00. > :00:00.weekend. Super league action and Ireland's fate. That is all in 15
:00:00. > :00:14.minutes after The Papers. Hello and welcome to our look ahead
:00:15. > :00:18.to what the the papers will be With me are Sue Matthias of the FT
:00:19. > :00:26.and James Millar of the Sunday Post. The Times says Britain is suffering
:00:27. > :00:38.from a sexting crisis with tens of thousands of schoolchildren
:00:39. > :00:40.caught sharing sexual imagery online The Independent reports on warnings
:00:41. > :00:44.that the North of England is in danger of becoming a cultural
:00:45. > :00:46.wasteland as town hall leaders The Mail says the true scale
:00:47. > :00:50.of immigration to Britain by EU citizens is being kept secret
:00:51. > :00:54.by Government officials. The Telegraph reports benefits
:00:55. > :00:56.payments to the disabled are to be cut in a move that could clear
:00:57. > :01:00.the way for George Osborne to cut taxes for the middle
:01:01. > :01:03.classes in the Budget. The FT says George Osborne faces
:01:04. > :01:07.an eighteen billion pounds black hole that has opened up
:01:08. > :01:10.in the economy since November. The Guardian reports on a warning
:01:11. > :01:12.that Britain risks becoming "permanently divided" as a result
:01:13. > :01:17.of intergenerational inequality. And the Sun has what it calls
:01:18. > :01:20.an exclusive investigation into Victoria Beckham's
:01:21. > :01:34.fashion company. A lot of focus on George Osborne
:01:35. > :01:39.tonight. He might not like it. The Financial Times front page showing
:01:40. > :01:43.no preference at all. George Osborne faces an ?18 billion Blackwall and
:01:44. > :01:47.there are deeper spending cuts to come in the budget. Seems to have
:01:48. > :01:54.got his sums wrong. It is a bit awkward. This is one of a number of
:01:55. > :02:01.George Osborne related stories today and general budget related stories.
:02:02. > :02:06.It has been discovered that the official size of the UK economy in
:02:07. > :02:21.2015 was 1% smaller than they thought it was. That does not sound
:02:22. > :02:28.a lot. It represents ?18 billion. How has he got it wrong? He will say
:02:29. > :02:33.he hasn't got it wrong, it is the budget of fiscal responsibility that
:02:34. > :02:37.come the predictions and they are to blame for the rubbish collections.
:02:38. > :02:41.But then the Treasury has to find the money to bridge the gap? He
:02:42. > :02:46.likes to fix the roof when The Sun is shining, but according to the OBR
:02:47. > :02:52.The Sun was shining in the autumn and he did not fix the roof. It can
:02:53. > :02:57.work the other way around. He can benefit from this. He did in
:02:58. > :03:00.November when it turned out that he had more money than any had to he
:03:01. > :03:04.did not have to cut the tax credits. This sounds like it is going to be
:03:05. > :03:10.back to this territory and it is unfortunate really. All someone has
:03:11. > :03:13.to imagine how George might be thinking about this, not the most
:03:14. > :03:19.popular man in Britain next week probably. He might be with some
:03:20. > :03:24.depending on what he chooses to do. The interesting thing is that there
:03:25. > :03:32.are a few of these George Osborne stories around. Usually the Treasury
:03:33. > :03:37.would be pumping out stories to every paper with its prebudget
:03:38. > :03:41.teaser, but they do not seem to have done that, perhaps because of the EU
:03:42. > :03:44.referendum, hence you get the stories that the newspapers, with
:03:45. > :03:48.themselves and their choosing to kick George Osborne. The Daily
:03:49. > :03:53.Telegraph looks at money in a different way. Welfare to be cut by
:03:54. > :03:57.?1 billion to pave the way for tax breaks. On the one hand we have this
:03:58. > :04:01.Blackwall but he thinks he can find another billion pounds to help the
:04:02. > :04:05.middle classes. Usually the argument is is that if you give the money to
:04:06. > :04:11.low paid people they will spend the money anyway. It is a bit of a
:04:12. > :04:14.George Osborne kicking story but it depends on your point of view,
:04:15. > :04:18.whether you are receiving welfare or you will be on the receiving end of
:04:19. > :04:22.the tax break that probably determines how you approach this.
:04:23. > :04:27.What is going to apparently mean is that he's going to raise the
:04:28. > :04:32.threshold for 40p tax, so hundreds of thousands of people will be
:04:33. > :04:37.pulled out of the higher tax rate. By raising that to ?50,000 is not
:04:38. > :04:43.called to happen until 2020, so how that help now. He's trying to push
:04:44. > :04:46.on with this because it was in the manifesto but I am wary of the idea
:04:47. > :04:51.that the 40p tax rate is for the middle classes because the average
:04:52. > :05:00.income is in the mid to high ?20,000. We're talking about the
:05:01. > :05:04.squeeze middle, you're not rich when you are earning ?50,000 of the
:05:05. > :05:08.people might like to earn that much. But in parts of the country that
:05:09. > :05:15.amount of money is not huge. But affects hundreds of thousands of
:05:16. > :05:19.people then that is substantial. This is being offset in The
:05:20. > :05:26.Telegraph against potential enormous losses to disabled people. Disabled
:05:27. > :05:32.people will lose our proportion of their benefit and they have already
:05:33. > :05:37.seen it squeezed. He will reject the points system so that you get less
:05:38. > :05:43.points if you need help going to the toilet or getting dressed. It sounds
:05:44. > :05:47.like an unsavoury way to save money. Welfare has been kicked into touch
:05:48. > :05:58.by the Lords, but they have been warned not to do the game. Yes. In
:05:59. > :06:07.The Times, schools are hit by sexting academic. Children risked
:06:08. > :06:12.damage. It seems that the argument here is that if there was better sex
:06:13. > :06:16.education, mandatory sex education, they could address these issues and
:06:17. > :06:21.warn children about the risks of getting involved in sending images
:06:22. > :06:26.of themselves. There is one thing I don't understand first paragraph
:06:27. > :06:30.refers to children sharing sexual imagery online. I thought sexting
:06:31. > :06:41.meant sending pictures to each other. Once it is out there it can
:06:42. > :06:48.end up online. They do define it as sharing the in mobile phone, WebCam,
:06:49. > :06:52.or website. There have been experiments to show children if you
:06:53. > :06:55.send a picture how far it can go and how quickly, but the worrying thing
:06:56. > :07:00.is that it is not just children who are seen in some of these pictures.
:07:01. > :07:07.It is tricky because as grown-ups we did not have sexting, and you think
:07:08. > :07:12.it is a terrible thing. Rightly or wrongly, it is a normal thing. It
:07:13. > :07:21.seems to be something that a lot of kids do. More than one in ten cases
:07:22. > :07:24.involved an adult. A terrible story of the 16-year-old sharing a with
:07:25. > :07:30.the paedophile and possible gang grooming going on. The numbers are
:07:31. > :07:38.really large. 44,000 secondary school pupils in the last three
:07:39. > :07:43.years. A teenager can end up with a criminal record, because it is
:07:44. > :07:47.illegal to send these images, even if it is of yourself and is to
:07:48. > :07:51.someone you know. They want schools to have to report it when they come
:07:52. > :07:59.across it, at the moment it is at the discretion. It seems
:08:00. > :08:02.straightforward, do mandatory sex education, but the government voted
:08:03. > :08:08.it down recently. I struggled to see what the problem is. Does preclude
:08:09. > :08:12.schools, even if they are not having to give sex education, they can
:08:13. > :08:18.still talk about these issues, can they not? It would send a strong
:08:19. > :08:25.message of the government said you had to do sex education. A pitcher
:08:26. > :08:28.story now. The question that is posed is whether America is being
:08:29. > :08:34.made to hate again after another incident of Valley -- incident of
:08:35. > :08:39.violence at the Donald Trump protest. There are protests taking
:08:40. > :08:44.place at some of his rallies, which are supposed to be peaceful but then
:08:45. > :08:50.violence can flare. It is hard to follow and really understand. I
:08:51. > :08:56.don't know quite what Donald Trump is about at the moment. The story
:08:57. > :09:01.today seems to shows using supporters to jump in and have a
:09:02. > :09:09.goal and the good fight, and at the same he is presenting, beginning to
:09:10. > :09:16.present, are much more nuanced image. He is trying. It is open to
:09:17. > :09:21.interpretation. He could be speaking metaphorically and saying stand up
:09:22. > :09:25.for yourself. I'm trying to be generous. He did say there is land
:09:26. > :09:32.his America that is quite inflammatory. If someone turns up at
:09:33. > :09:37.his rally and shows something, and someone had the guy in the face. He
:09:38. > :09:42.was interviewed afterwards and he said he deserved it and if he comes
:09:43. > :09:45.back again he will kill him. There was a reporter who was verbally
:09:46. > :09:51.abused as well by one of his officials. There is an area of the
:09:52. > :09:57.bully about him and his campaign. It is going to be interesting to see
:09:58. > :10:04.how that begins to develop as he moves towards the nomination. It is
:10:05. > :10:09.tighter than we are led to believe. We can say with The Independent. The
:10:10. > :10:12.betrayal of the North, it can be turned into a cultural wasteland due
:10:13. > :10:17.to the closure of galleries and museums. Some difficult decisions
:10:18. > :10:22.that councils have to make and it seems that museums could be for the
:10:23. > :10:28.chop. George Osborne in the frame again here. It is his austerity
:10:29. > :10:35.measures. They are forcing the slashing of the budgets. Museums are
:10:36. > :10:41.closing their doors all over the North. There was a report earlier in
:10:42. > :10:48.the week saying that he was going to allow higher council tax hills,
:10:49. > :10:52.wasn't he? It would be up to a council tax to decide how to set the
:10:53. > :10:54.level and spend the money. If they wanted to raise the taxes they would
:10:55. > :11:04.have the money to save these resources. The northern powerhouse
:11:05. > :11:11.needs to involve culture. A lot of people in Whitehall think the zero
:11:12. > :11:16.is -- think that the North is a cultural badlands and when they
:11:17. > :11:20.think of culture they think of London and the museums they like to
:11:21. > :11:28.go to that get the attention. The northern powerhouse is centred on
:11:29. > :11:33.Manchester, Leeds, not Durham and there is a number in here which is
:11:34. > :11:42.worrying, in the small print here, that Durham County Council faces
:11:43. > :11:51.cuts of more than ?370 million. That is a massive figure. Not all aimed
:11:52. > :11:58.at the arts, but as a whole. The culture of the North is not purely
:11:59. > :12:07.in their museums. What I'm trying to say is that the northern powerhouse,
:12:08. > :12:12.that policy isn't evenly spread across the North. Finally, letters
:12:13. > :12:16.look at The Daily Telegraph. Driverless cars in Haddington Road
:12:17. > :12:23.near you soon, including heavy goods vehicles. All connected with one
:12:24. > :12:29.driver. There will be a driver in his lorry. Not a driver, a person.
:12:30. > :12:39.She will not actually be touchingly real. I think we should have robots
:12:40. > :12:46.touchingly real. That is coming. How do these things work? Magic. It is
:12:47. > :12:50.delivered cameras and lean fencing technology meaning the vehicles
:12:51. > :12:56.follow each other. They maintain a safe distance between them. When one
:12:57. > :13:00.stops the other stops. Robots are better than people at this sort of
:13:01. > :13:07.stuff. The interesting question is who is liable if one of those things
:13:08. > :13:11.cost of the serious accident? Sending robots to prison. We know
:13:12. > :13:13.how well automated systems work in the studio with cameras doing their
:13:14. > :13:23.own thing. Thank you for now. Thank you Sue and James,
:13:24. > :13:25.you'll both be back at 11.30pm for another look at the stories
:13:26. > :13:28.making the news tomorrow. But coming up next,
:13:29. > :13:36.it's time for Sportsday. I'm Tim Hague and we have
:13:37. > :13:44.plenty for you tonight. Rafael Benitez is named
:13:45. > :13:47.the new manager, after Steve McLaren