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:00:15. > :00:17.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be

:00:18. > :00:21.With me are the writer David Torrance and the Broadcast

:00:22. > :00:34.Tomorrow's front pages, starting with...

:00:35. > :00:37.The 'i' leads with an allegation that the Royal Navy

:00:38. > :00:40.It says the islands have been left without warship protection

:00:41. > :00:45.for the first time since before the war of 1982.

:00:46. > :00:50.The Mail reports on a plot to behead British troops.

:00:51. > :00:52.It says the details emerged following the conviction

:00:53. > :00:54.of Junead Khan for a similar plot against American

:00:55. > :00:59.The Times says there's been fierce criticism of David Cameron's

:01:00. > :01:01.handling of the steel crisis after China imposed huge tariffs

:01:02. > :01:08.The Guardian reports that the Prime Minister has defended

:01:09. > :01:10.Britain's decision to reject higher tariffs on Chinese steel,

:01:11. > :01:13.as the Business Secretary Sajid Javed faces the anger of steel

:01:14. > :01:19.The Financial Times reports that Tata Steel is just

:01:20. > :01:22."going through the motions" as hopes fade of a sale

:01:23. > :01:27.The Telegraph says that as many as 33,000 people with granny flats

:01:28. > :01:33.attached to their houses will face tax bills for second homes.

:01:34. > :01:35.The Express says migrant mothers from other European Union countries

:01:36. > :01:38.have cost the National Health Service ?1.3 billion

:01:39. > :01:47.The Mirror leads with more details about the death of Ronnie Corbett.

:01:48. > :01:50.The paper says he hid his suffering from Motor Neurone Disease

:01:51. > :02:03.You could be forgiven for thinking to's paper review comes from the

:02:04. > :02:08.1980s. There are so many stories that feel like they belong to 30

:02:09. > :02:22.years ago. First of all, the plight of the steel industry. Here it is on

:02:23. > :02:27.the times. Oh, the irony. Sorry, steal. China putting up a tariff

:02:28. > :02:34.against British Steel, particularly Welsh steel. But Britain seem to be

:02:35. > :02:38.so wary of doing the same for Chinese imports. But it's quite

:02:39. > :02:41.interesting after a bad week for the government where we have had Anna

:02:42. > :02:52.Soubry on Monday saying that all options were on the table.

:02:53. > :03:00.We see that now there is a fresh human mediation for the British

:03:01. > :03:03.government since it seems that not only has it now admitted that it has

:03:04. > :03:12.been blocking the European Union efforts to stop China flooding the

:03:13. > :03:20.EU with cheap steel by blocking its attempt, at raising tariffs, against

:03:21. > :03:26.China, but China has no such problem in moving extremely swiftly because

:03:27. > :03:32.we learn here in the times that ministers appear to have been caught

:03:33. > :03:37.up in China's announcement which is that it is imposing new tariffs of

:03:38. > :03:42.46% on some steel products produced in Japan, South Korea and the

:03:43. > :03:48.European Union, and some of the very specific products that are targeted

:03:49. > :03:59.and caught up in this union say in Wales is in fact products produced

:04:00. > :04:05.in Newport by first Tata subsidiary. It is confusing with the government

:04:06. > :04:17.saying one thing and the paper saying another. Trying to suggest

:04:18. > :04:27.that it wasn't a matter of weeks or months ahead. A couple of the

:04:28. > :04:31.newspapers today have that picture of Sajid Javid being confronted by

:04:32. > :04:34.the steelworkers, lots of wagging fingers and angry looks. The quote

:04:35. > :04:39.in the Guardian which appears to contradict the previous line is the

:04:40. > :04:46.Prime Minister was speaking from Washington argues that the UK was

:04:47. > :04:51.right to block plans, EU plans, as he argued they would rewrite not to

:04:52. > :04:55.be the tariff rules on steel but the entire tariff infrastructure of the

:04:56. > :04:59.EU. There is definitely been a change there and as you say, it has

:05:00. > :05:10.not been a good week so far and that is yet another twist. Let's look at

:05:11. > :05:15.what it says on the FT. Some commentators suggesting that it is

:05:16. > :05:26.not really inch Tata's interest to find a buyer. The FT has various

:05:27. > :05:31.quotes suggesting that Tata has already made up its mind. Others

:05:32. > :05:37.speculating teaming up with a Dutch company. But there is an interesting

:05:38. > :05:43.aspect to this within the UK. There are two plants in Lanarkshire,

:05:44. > :05:51.Clydebridge and DL which survived the steel closures in the 80s, the

:05:52. > :05:55.processed steel, and Tata sold those to the Scottish Government for ?1

:05:56. > :06:04.and the government has subsequently sold on for ?1 so no cost for the

:06:05. > :06:12.taxpayer and it seems that That he is wanting to turn them around. That

:06:13. > :06:16.is a very particular type of processing, though, isn't it? A

:06:17. > :06:25.niche operation. Although aspects of the new pot plants as well. I find

:06:26. > :06:34.it weird that FT and the time tab mentioned -- haven't mentioned that.

:06:35. > :06:41.Is there any suggestion that Liberty would be interested in the Welsh

:06:42. > :06:51.plants? It has been raised, although that must be slightly political. Let

:06:52. > :07:05.us move on. Staying with the Financial Times. This new tax is the

:07:06. > :07:10.new stamp duty on second homes or investment properties and everybody

:07:11. > :07:14.was trying to beat the April the 1st deadline giving solicitors are bit

:07:15. > :07:18.of a headache as they were trying to get their conveyancing done. It

:07:19. > :07:27.seems like a lot of the managed it. Yes, to the extent that the economic

:07:28. > :07:34.'s director no-ball Francis of the can construction products

:07:35. > :07:39.Association is pointing out that there will be a distortion as a

:07:40. > :07:42.result of this in property transactions, so big spike in the

:07:43. > :07:49.first half of the year and then big dip. As everyone has been rushing to

:07:50. > :07:54.beat the deadline. It is quite a major shift because by to let has

:07:55. > :08:03.been around for 20 years, double the size of the Private rented sector.

:08:04. > :08:07.People have done well out of it but it does distort the rental market

:08:08. > :08:11.and it is interesting to me that it is a Conservative Chancellor that is

:08:12. > :08:17.taking this action, that after all, the Conservatives are the property

:08:18. > :08:22.owning democracy of home ownership. Even they are taking action to try

:08:23. > :08:26.and tackle the distortions. It is a very British and dominant. It is

:08:27. > :08:30.quite interesting to see these new lines caught my attention. The

:08:31. > :08:34.British have become landlords in their millions as buy to let

:08:35. > :08:39.mortgages were first launched 20 years ago doubling the size of the

:08:40. > :08:46.Private rented sector. It has distorted the price, particularly in

:08:47. > :08:50.the south-east. Isn't it looked upon as the madness for owning property

:08:51. > :08:56.in France? I think the particular part, yes, France is a country where

:08:57. > :08:59.you rent much more than you by and I think that French people find the

:09:00. > :09:06.most bizarre is what they think is a very feudal system where you're

:09:07. > :09:13.buying, for example, let's talk about London, you by, or in

:09:14. > :09:20.Manchester Birmingham or wherever, and think you buy it outright and

:09:21. > :09:27.then oh, no, after... You only have 100 or 110 please. This seems very

:09:28. > :09:33.bizarre. This is wit to my eyes as well. In Scotland there is no such

:09:34. > :09:39.system. It is all freehold. It is a very specifically English form of

:09:40. > :09:46.property management. They have changed the tax rules on what is tax

:09:47. > :09:51.deductible and what you get relief on as an owner. People still want to

:09:52. > :09:55.buy them, even though there is not so much money, supposedly, going to

:09:56. > :10:01.be in by two late fools not to look at the interest rates.

:10:02. > :10:06.Hopefully most people don't put money under their mattresses because

:10:07. > :10:11.that is not very advisable. What you do with money that you have? Bricks

:10:12. > :10:16.and mortar is still seen as a way to protect your money. Although you

:10:17. > :10:20.still need to have a lot of money to do buy to let as it takes a big

:10:21. > :10:26.deposit. But what you don't do is build a granny flat. The Daily

:10:27. > :10:29.Telegraph is telling us that granny flats are hit by tax rates and will

:10:30. > :10:35.be regarded as stand-alone properties. If it spills over your

:10:36. > :10:44.garage, can it really be regarded as a second property? An unintended

:10:45. > :10:50.consequence, apparently of the new tax regime and it will catch 33,000

:10:51. > :10:55.homeowners. I think there will be grannies, there will be families

:10:56. > :10:59.really raking in their boots, particularly if you think about how

:11:00. > :11:04.disjointed and different our lives are now and how the whole advantage

:11:05. > :11:08.of having a grandparent or grandparents with you the whole

:11:09. > :11:12.child care, the knowledge that is passed on and everything, and to be

:11:13. > :11:18.caught up in something like that. And not having to put older people

:11:19. > :11:24.in care homes. You can't even get out of this because you can't sell

:11:25. > :11:30.it off? No, it seems an unintended consequence. To qualify for the 3%

:11:31. > :11:35.extra stamp duty they must be valued at ?40,000 or more and be able to be

:11:36. > :11:39.sold separate residence. I don't know much about granny flats and I

:11:40. > :11:46.understand that will pre-much all of them. It is also the contrast with

:11:47. > :11:55.the government, a few years ago it was encouraging people to have these

:11:56. > :11:58.annex as a means to try to combat distortions within the property

:11:59. > :12:04.market. It seems George Osborne hasn't done his homework. Maybe

:12:05. > :12:10.though have to think about that. Let's look at the Guardian. This is

:12:11. > :12:16.an appalling story. First man jailed for forcing his wife into servitude.

:12:17. > :12:21.A lot of campaigners saying this is an important conviction. He had an

:12:22. > :12:32.arranged marriage with a woman from Pakistan. They were apparently both

:12:33. > :12:38.happy to get married but then his wife was treated in the most

:12:39. > :12:42.appalling way. Yes, she was objected to two years to physical and mental

:12:43. > :12:49.torture. He struck her, he threw tins of cat food at her, he sent

:12:50. > :12:55.streams of abusive and demeaning text messages. He told her to jump

:12:56. > :13:02.in front of a vehicle or read it, he broken nose, assaulted her. The list

:13:03. > :13:05.just goes on. And it was a neighbour, we understand, who raised

:13:06. > :13:18.the alarm as he saw her being pulled by her hair. On that point, it seems

:13:19. > :13:21.legal experts and charities who described the case as

:13:22. > :13:26.ground-breaking also describe it as the tip of the iceberg. The

:13:27. > :13:30.implication is that there are a lot of other cases like this. But we

:13:31. > :13:35.simply don't know about. One of the ways this remains a secret is as

:13:36. > :13:40.this man did, the abuser, she said she felt like a prisoner. What they

:13:41. > :13:51.do is isolate you. He made her work from 5am until 12pm, -- 12am, it you

:13:52. > :13:57.get so little sleep. What sort of state are you in to go out and get

:13:58. > :14:04.help. We need to make it clear that people can get help but, how do we

:14:05. > :14:08.let them know? They are trapped. In most cases they're not given access

:14:09. > :14:11.to telephones or the Internet because from the other person's

:14:12. > :14:16.point of view it would be too risky. It's interesting on the sentencing,

:14:17. > :14:21.it appears that there will be concurrent sentences and he could be

:14:22. > :14:23.free within 12 months, as the Guardian says, less than half the

:14:24. > :14:33.time that she lived under his control. Having worked at the

:14:34. > :14:39.Conference, chaired Conference on trafficking to do with women in

:14:40. > :14:46.prostitution, we think of police in this country -- we think of women

:14:47. > :14:50.and think why don't they pick up the phone and call someone? A lot of

:14:51. > :14:56.these women don't trust the police because the countries where they are

:14:57. > :14:59.from the police are corrupt. You may think it's terribly easy to contact

:15:00. > :15:01.the police that they may have all kinds of reasons for not contacting

:15:02. > :15:05.them. And they are terrified to. And The "i" has a story

:15:06. > :15:18.about the Royal Navy Why is that? Why can't we managed to

:15:19. > :15:22.patrol these islands which the islanders of which tell us want to

:15:23. > :15:31.remain British? According to the fuller story and according to

:15:32. > :15:35.Labour, it is a cumulative effect of defence cuts from conservatives,

:15:36. > :15:39.presumably from previous administrations over the last 20

:15:40. > :15:45.years. Of course the MoD budget has not been safe from posterity over

:15:46. > :15:51.the last two administrations. I'm not sure whether this is serious or

:15:52. > :15:55.not, Emily Thornbury, the Shadow Defence Secretary, said the

:15:56. > :16:00.situation is not acceptable and demand the MoD immediately dispatch

:16:01. > :16:03.a warship to the region. Which may send an interesting signal to

:16:04. > :16:18.Argentina which this week was told by the UN that they are the

:16:19. > :16:24.Malvinas. . They do belong in a Marine territory of Argentina. This

:16:25. > :16:29.is a UN working group that has come up with a ruling that is not legally

:16:30. > :16:37.binding. Possibly to be compared in a different way with Julian Assange

:16:38. > :16:42.some weeks ago working group who said he was having his human rights

:16:43. > :16:47.infringed after being locked up in the Ecuadorian Embassy. It is a

:16:48. > :16:52.catchy headline here. Britain struggles to patrol South Atlantic

:16:53. > :16:57.while warship wait for repairs. When you have an economic problem and a

:16:58. > :17:02.difficult situation at home, don't cry for Argentina, but they have a

:17:03. > :17:07.lot to cry out, it's much easier to concentrate on a foreign matter. The

:17:08. > :17:12.MoD has pointed out that they don't agree with that headline, it would

:17:13. > :17:13.surprise you to hear. It is fully under control and the situation is

:17:14. > :17:38.fine. Yes, I can't say radio one is my

:17:39. > :17:46.station of predilection. Perhaps not target audience. Perhaps not. This

:17:47. > :17:52.is what Radio 1 used to be about, distinctive music, new music. John

:17:53. > :17:57.Peel and Jo Wiley. They used to flag up bands and acts that weren't

:17:58. > :18:05.known. It's a difficult balancing act

:18:06. > :18:15.It is the balance between the two. It would be nice to hear more new

:18:16. > :18:21.music. Also its coverage of concerts and festivals. I think that is

:18:22. > :18:26.extremely important to encourage new talent but they face a lot of

:18:27. > :18:27.competition with streaming and all kinds of other things and of course

:18:28. > :18:31.there is YouTube. Don't forget all the front pages

:18:32. > :18:40.are online on the BBC News website, where you can read a detailed

:18:41. > :18:42.review of the papers. It's all there for you - seven days

:18:43. > :18:45.a week at bbc.co.uk/papers. with each night's edition

:18:46. > :18:49.of The Papers being posted on the page shortly

:18:50. > :19:17.after we've finished. It is going to for most of us get a

:19:18. > :19:18.bit warmer through the course