10/12/2017 The Papers

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This is BBC News.

We'll be taking a look at tomorrow

mornings papers in a moment -

first the headlines at 11:30.

Up to 30cm of snow has fallen

in some areas of the country,

affecting travel on the roads,

railways and at airports,

and causing hundreds of school

closures tomorrow morning

The Foreign Secretary has left Iran

without any agreement on the release

of the British-Iranian woman,

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.

Disgraced celebrity publicist

Max Clifford has died in hospital

at the age of 74.

He had been serving an eight-year

sentence for historical sex

offences.

The Brexit Secretary, David Davis,

has warned that the UK

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Hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the papers will be

bringing us tomorrow.

With me are the parliamentary

journalist, Tony Grew and journalist

and broadcaster, Caroline Frost.

Tomorrow's front pages starting with

the Metro leads with the heavy snow

that's caused travel chaos

in many

areas of the UK today.

It also has news that the average

house price has dropped.

The FT leads with Brexit -

it says Britain's chemical

and pharmaceutical industries have

asked the Government if they can

remain within EU rules.

The Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson

is also pictured in Iran as he tries

to secure the release

of Britons jailed there.

The Times focuses on Brexit

and Ireland's unhappiness

over comments by David Davis that

a hard border on the Island

is a statement of intent' rather

than a cast iron guarantee.

The Daily Telegraph leads with news

that 10-year-olds are being asked

if they feel comfortable

with their gender in

an official NHS health study.

And the Express warns of more cold

weather to come - it says

we are to experience arctic

conditions in the run

up to Christmas Day.

Let's start with the Metro and the

front page about the biggest fall in

house prices for five years.

Tony?

According to reports, the average

asking prices tumbled in a month

8000 average and 23,000 in London.

For people looking to get into

housing, this may appear to be good

news but it is still a sellers

market as it has been for decades.

Actually prices will continue to

rise next year but may rise less

slowly. All in all, it's marginally

good news for people looking to get

on the housing ladder. . It's

certainly not, as I say, break out

the bunting

certainly not, as I say, break out

the bunting.

It's the trend people

look out for and it is mixed.

Different price pressures. That is a

deliberately vague term. As Tony

says, it's good news for aspiring

first-time buyers coupled with

Philip Hammond's gift of stamp duty

exemption. I'm not sure how far

£300,000 goes in the capital.

Extraordinary. It's all about trends

in this comes against the context of

ever inflating prices over the last

crash which was the late 90s. Watch

this space. Another demonstration of

deep Brexit uncertainty.

Which

brings us to the front page of the

Guardian. Resch doubts over the

Brexit deal.

-- fresh doubts. Phase

one, money, the Irish border and the

rights of EU citizens in the UK but

it appears from this morning's

interviews, David Davis is putting

out a different narrative, saying

it's not a deal, it's an aspiration.

It that it's technically correct but

the age -- the arrangements, the

assurances they have given over the

Irish border would appear to

preclude the idea of no deal being

on the table and also David Davis's

own idea of a hard Brexit appear to

be off the table. He doesn't want to

tell that to the right wing of his

own party and MPs to support Brexit

because he could possibly still be a

leadership contender. This has upset

people in Dublin. They thought the

deal was done and the DUP appeared

to scupper that deal. They then it

appeared to have done a late-night

deal that Ireland thought was not

progress to be made. It's important

to out -- it's important to point

out that the two countries are co-

guarantors for the Good Friday

Agreement and it's hard to see how

this could work. It's like watching

a silent disco. David Davis is

listening to his own headphones,

everyone is dancing to a different

tune.

You say that that the Guardian

says it has gotten hold of a letter

or seen a letter the Prime Minister

has written to all Tory MPs about

Friday's agreement. Promising

nothing is agreed until everything

is agreed.

Even just the top of the

Guardian headlines, David Davis in

his clash with Ireland. I've never

seen such an elegant understatement.

Northern Ireland peace agreement,

everything that was agreed against

everything that's now been put on

table to appease the EU and create

this strong position over Brexit.

Theresa May declares a new sense of

optimism. I don't know what tea

leaves she has been reading. I think

Theresa May urged from last week's

debacle with dignity. She was placed

in an impossible position because of

these opposing demands.

This proves

how weak shears. She doesn't just

right, the deal that has been

reached must be approved by European

leaders. I question whether this

Sunday was a good time to be

stomping around television studios.

This is all about political

manoeuvring, not national interest.

Much more to come later in the week

on that. Let's stick with the

Guardian. The other story is the

death of Max Clifford, the disgraced

celebrity publicist. Why are we so

interested?

He is a man who defined

in the era of tabloid journalism.

When you think of the headline

"Freddie Starr ate my hamster", that

was Max Clifford's doing. He

mastered the art of the kiss and

tell. When you think of those great

headlines, the Parliamentary

standards. So many hands in so many

pies. It becomes a very dubious

legacy. The support came after.

The

publicist behind all these lewd

stories became himself the centre of

a very deluded and eventually

criminal story.

His legacy, we have

to question whether that has been

helpful. The sort of Gotch culture

that they surround themselves with.

And the fact they dealt with him,

very quick turnaround and attacked

him. He says that she has

fundamentally changed our political

media approach and reporting but I'm

not sure it was for the better.

The

front page of the Telegraph, the

optimistic sound of these

transactions at tills. What is it

mean?

These have done huge amounts

of laboratory testing and they

realised it all it's a bit

monotonous, perhaps not inspiring

and aspirational in shops survey

have come up with this thing called

sensory branding which is twofold.

One, to create a new sound which is

meant to be optimistic, energetic,

all of those things which will

accompany a Visa transaction and

also they've come up with a very

personalised app on your phone. I

don't know this will be the latest

thing, you have to be seen having

heard having but they are convinced

this is going to add an extra

element to very mundane, normal

affairs. One is that make -- is it

meant to make you better about

spending your money?

Months of

neurological research and the

company claims users are left

feeling happy and excited. They are

putting a serious amount of money

into this. This is from the

marketing manager. He says we are

all becoming very responsive to the

use of sound. Thanks to that, good

to know. Sensory branding is on its

way to you.

Let's go to the front

page of the Financial Times. An

interesting story about the Labour

policy.

Labour have been looking

into what they might do should they

become the next government. They

have a plan to set up Birmingham as

an alternative centre for the

finances and regulation. As part of

that, they think about moving some

of the functions of the Bank of

England. They want to base

themselves in Birmingham. I'm fully

in support of this. I think far too

many of these institutions,

particularly with the modern

technology we have these days. There

is no reason to people not to be

able to work together so the

constant argument that you have to

be in London. Whenever and had this

idea that we would move the civil

service to York or Manchester, the

senior ones did not leave London and

55,000 other staff went up the road

but that has proven that it is

possible for you to have a small

base in London. And the bulk of your

operation ever else.

It would be

symbolically important but also

economically important.

We have seen

this when there have been other big

institutional shifts. It's so much

of a chance in such a precedence. We

assume these big levers of

government and finance have to stay

rooted in the city and once you take

that purport and say what does work?

Mr McDonald has come up with some

very convincing statistics.

Let's go

to the front page of the Times and

be British and talk about the

weather. Here is a novel way of

getting to work tomorrow morning, on

your skis.

We will be talking about

London again. It's a perennial

obsession for this country.

Something that anyone can talk

about. A judge can talk to a dust

and about the weather.

It's not

about whether, it's about

communication.

There is a great

school of thought that says because

this country has been so creative is

because of the unpredictable

weather. That means the likes of the

Beatles will have to go inside. That

is thought about why this country

punched so far above its weight in

centuries go by. We will talk about

the weather forever.

Excellent. Very

good to talk to you. That is it that

the papers tonight. Coming up next,

the Film Review.