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:00:00. > :00:25.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be

:00:26. > :00:28.With me are broadcaster David Davies and Helen Joyce,

:00:29. > :00:29.International Editor at The Economist.

:00:30. > :00:31.The Financial Times leads with the rebellion by BP

:00:32. > :00:36.shareholders over the 20% pay rise for its Chief Executive,

:00:37. > :00:39.Bob Dudley, after a year in which the company

:00:40. > :00:48.It says the BP chief's ?14 million payout caused an investors' revolt.

:00:49. > :00:51.New Day leads on the young mother, Lauren Heath, who was killed

:00:52. > :00:57.by a lorry as she walked her baby daughter in her pram

:00:58. > :01:00.The Metro has the story of a policewoman

:01:01. > :01:04.It says a hero dragged her to safety.

:01:05. > :01:06.The Independent has a banner picture of the old political foes united

:01:07. > :01:11.in their support of the campaign to remain in the EU,

:01:12. > :01:13.but it warns "Brexit is no laughing matter" because the uncertainty

:01:14. > :01:21.leading up to the vote is hurting Britain's economy.

:01:22. > :01:23.And the Daily Express leads on what it hails

:01:24. > :01:29.as a new breakthrough in research to cure type one diabetes.

:01:30. > :01:34.Let's look at at least some of those. The Independent is where we

:01:35. > :01:40.are going to start, it is almost like a caption competition. David

:01:41. > :01:45.Cameron, Paddy Ashdown and Neil Kinnock sharing what seems to be a

:01:46. > :01:50.funny moment. It strikes me that we start with David Cameron looking

:01:51. > :01:58.mildly cheerful, and Paddy Ashdown is an absolute hysteria. This may be

:01:59. > :02:07.laughing gas. I wondered that somebody has said, why not have a

:02:08. > :02:17.particle Lycian. -- three party coalition. The point is they are all

:02:18. > :02:21.on the same side, the EU referendum. The warning below is the must vote

:02:22. > :02:26.to stay, so everybody know these mainstream parties, everyone is

:02:27. > :02:30.saying that if you go there will be lots of problems and I wonder if

:02:31. > :02:36.that is the problem. Which can of course work both ways? It can work

:02:37. > :02:43.both ways. Are there really ten weeks to go? Starting at midnight

:02:44. > :02:46.tonight officially. I don't know what other people think but for

:02:47. > :02:50.those of us who want there to be a good argument and perhaps want to be

:02:51. > :02:57.convinced one way or the other, up to this point, I am really

:02:58. > :03:01.disappointed by some of the one-sided coverage we're getting in

:03:02. > :03:10.so many parts of the media and from politicians. This is not a simple

:03:11. > :03:15.choice. Nobody can surely think that, that it is blindingly obvious

:03:16. > :03:22.that you should vote in or out, and we are told, you drone corresponded

:03:23. > :03:28.today, your political editor, was saying today that Jeremy Corbyn had

:03:29. > :03:36.been grudging in going in with the in crowd. Actually, I think there's

:03:37. > :03:40.a amongst a lot of people that they grudgingly they might be going one

:03:41. > :03:48.way or the other. The other thing I saw today was Alan Johnson is coming

:03:49. > :03:54.out front at the early part of the day, supporting Jeremy Corbyn who he

:03:55. > :03:59.has not always been very kind about, and I wondered, we have had a few

:04:00. > :04:05.lost leaders in my lifetime, and he is a lost leader of our country. I

:04:06. > :04:08.am interested in this feeling and I am sure people at the Bank of

:04:09. > :04:14.England are seeing sincerely what they think, but with all the

:04:15. > :04:18.organisations and parties and so on on one side, the mainstream parties,

:04:19. > :04:23.that is the problem people start to feel, like they are being pushed and

:04:24. > :04:27.they want to dig their heels in and feel like I don't care if you are

:04:28. > :04:31.all against me, you are all saying the same thing and I will not

:04:32. > :04:39.listen. But they also don't like uncertainty. And the difficulty for

:04:40. > :04:46.the bricks at people is to say, you when, and what happens then. --

:04:47. > :04:53.Brexit. Whatever you say you can't be sure. Takers to the coverage of

:04:54. > :05:01.Bob Dudley because they appears on the front page, the BP chief and

:05:02. > :05:04.shareholders were not happy today. He has been given a 20% pay rise

:05:05. > :05:08.even though his firm lost an awful lot of money, that is because the

:05:09. > :05:14.oil price fell and that is not exactly be a fault, but you feel

:05:15. > :05:19.that when the oil price falls it is not your fault but when it dries you

:05:20. > :05:22.must be an amazing boss! And not just this firm, but everyone is

:05:23. > :05:25.willing to see how well they were doing when the market went up and

:05:26. > :05:31.when it went down it is not their fault. This is a multi-year formula

:05:32. > :05:38.that was set and that shareholders voted and agreed on by 90%. Not

:05:39. > :05:43.close. And this is them saying after the fact, this is last year's pay

:05:44. > :05:48.and received that, that when the company has lost that much money

:05:49. > :05:51.they don't like the look of him coming out. They say they will not

:05:52. > :05:57.take the money back and I doubt they could take it back. They have hair

:05:58. > :06:01.band are listening and well think again for next year. This has a

:06:02. > :06:08.bigger significance. For the first time I suspect in the past few

:06:09. > :06:13.months, I think that any quality, the failure of successive

:06:14. > :06:18.governments to do anything about the inequalities, the gap between rich

:06:19. > :06:23.and poor in our lifetime is coming home to roost, and people are

:06:24. > :06:28.saying, it is no good any more and it is damaging to companies, and the

:06:29. > :06:34.number of business people have come out and said absolutely this, to be

:06:35. > :06:39.paying one person 14 million or perhaps even 20 million, and on the

:06:40. > :06:46.other hand we all know with or without a living wage, there are

:06:47. > :06:52.horrendous pockets of inequality in our country. They are busy line, the

:06:53. > :06:55.rebellion highlighted the growing trend of institutional investors and

:06:56. > :07:00.advisers taking a more aggressive stance over pay. It happened years

:07:01. > :07:06.ago and nothing came of it. The shareholder spring so let's see what

:07:07. > :07:09.happens this time. The daily Mirror, the superbug story quoting the

:07:10. > :07:13.Chancellor, we haven't got enough to get to the bottom as to why he is

:07:14. > :07:20.being quoted, but the warming is alarming? I was going to say, the

:07:21. > :07:25.job of Health Secretary has taken over from the job of Home Secretary

:07:26. > :07:31.as the poisoned chalice of government. Poor old Jeremy Hunt is

:07:32. > :07:35.being beaten up in all quarters at the moment. Today you have been

:07:36. > :07:40.reporting about accident and emergency waiting. Some of us have

:07:41. > :07:43.experienced that even quite recently, and they are horrendous

:07:44. > :07:50.figures, but now, the is this real worry about antibiotics that are

:07:51. > :07:54.going to work and that increasingly arrant going to work. And not the

:07:55. > :08:00.first time we have heard the warning about Andy Gray ticks but the

:08:01. > :08:05.figures here are telling. The apocalypse scenario is that they all

:08:06. > :08:10.stop working. Evolution and the bacteria evolved to cope with them.

:08:11. > :08:15.We haven't producing new ones, so I have no idea why the story is on the

:08:16. > :08:21.cover today but it is a genuine story. George Osborne said it will

:08:22. > :08:28.become a greater threat to mankind than cancers today. But among all

:08:29. > :08:34.the other thing is worrying as this should be worrying us. This caught

:08:35. > :08:41.your eye, finds to end misery of unmanned roadworks. Hooray for the

:08:42. > :08:46.Transport Minister. Councils and utilities companies that use --

:08:47. > :08:50.cause misery by leaving roadworks with Lord Pearce taking place will

:08:51. > :08:57.be fined as part of a government crackdown. The fines don't seem to

:08:58. > :09:02.be so huge, but for goodness sake, not before time. The only worry I

:09:03. > :09:11.have about this is that as you go down the story, you get to A roads

:09:12. > :09:16.and some of us might have stronger view about certain waterways we have

:09:17. > :09:22.sat on for many weekends. There was the famous cones hotline so I am not

:09:23. > :09:29.hopeful this will lead to a revolution in roadworks being left

:09:30. > :09:35.to set. However, I would like to hope something will come of it. I

:09:36. > :09:38.have doubt about this. If you have in the middle of doing some

:09:39. > :09:41.comprehensive roadworks and you have got the weekend off, do you really

:09:42. > :09:46.want to be clearing up the whole site on a Friday evening and putting

:09:47. > :09:53.it back again on Monday. The idea is you don't take the weekend. I guess

:09:54. > :10:03.you sometimes work shifts, rather late? Are you working 9-5 yourself?

:10:04. > :10:08.Fair point. Is that a fair concern? I think it is a very fair concern,

:10:09. > :10:13.some of us are so wizened that we look at the story is rather like

:10:14. > :10:17.health stories in another daily newspaper that loves having health

:10:18. > :10:25.stories on the front page. You look at them, not another one! Possibly.

:10:26. > :10:30.Possibly, a concession of sorts. I am also being told of its sites

:10:31. > :10:33.where temporary traffic lights are left in place after roadworks are

:10:34. > :10:38.completed which is an unnecessary delay and the burden on the economy

:10:39. > :10:43.so it is clear where he stands. We will talk briefly, we have minute

:10:44. > :10:46.left, about the Duchess of Cambridge's archery skills and I

:10:47. > :10:53.know this is a media of expertise for you. I have never even tried but

:10:54. > :11:00.I suspect it is rather difficult. That is my entire contribution. I

:11:01. > :11:05.have been to the world archery Championships in Dover, near the

:11:06. > :11:10.White cliffs, and I have seen the fantastic skills of these archers.

:11:11. > :11:23.But you haven't fired? It frightened the life out of me, but good for the

:11:24. > :11:34.Duchess having a go. She is lucky to go to Bhutan. On that note, thank

:11:35. > :11:40.you both very much indeed and thank you, Helen and David, and before you

:11:41. > :11:47.go, these front pages have been coming and while we are only. I am

:11:48. > :11:53.told we haven't! But they normally do. Don't forget the front pages are

:11:54. > :12:02.on the BBC website where you can read a detailed review of the

:12:03. > :12:04.papers. Each night's edition of the papers is posted on the page after

:12:05. > :12:22.we finish. Goodbye. Good evening. Thursday brought us a

:12:23. > :12:23.day of sunny spells and