11/12/2017 The Papers

Hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the the papers will be

bringing us tomorrow.

With me are Kate Proctor,

Political reporter at

the London Evening Standard

and the broadcaster John Stapleton.

And Manchester City fan... Always a

pleasure to have you on the show,

especially after the weekend we've

had.

The Metro leads with

"President Trump is a pervert" ,

reporting that 16 women allege

the 45th President

sexually assaulted them.

The I describes new research

into Huntingdon's disease

as the biggest breakthrough in brain

science for 50 years.

The FT's front page picks up

on the attempted bomb

attack in New York...

While the Mirror reports

on the forecast drop

in temperatures tonight.

Saying Britain is expected

to be colder than Moscow.

The Daily Telegraph says rail

passengers are being denied

the right to book cheap travel

for Christmas, and the

The Guardian reports that a senior

QC has said the Grenfell Tower fire

was a "national atrocity"

with warnings being ignored.

The Times picks a report

coming out tomorrow,

urging the government to toughen

rules on social media groups that

fail to stop online abuse.

And finally The Daily Mail reports

that a former Facebook boss

has said the company

is 'ripping society apart'.

Start with the daily Mirror,

apparently it will be colder than

Moscow overnight. That's pretty

cold.

That is really cold, and I

grew up in Cumbria, and I didn't

even get down to those temperatures

when I was young. -15, that's

freezing, we've already seen the

chaos caused over the last 24 hours

because of the snowfall. Tomorrow

morning will be a really difficult

morning for drivers, they will have

very icy roads and I expect you will

have school closures as well for

another day.

I know, I know. I know

I sound like an old soul and so when

I say this but she was brought up in

Cumbria, I was brought up in Bolton,

at the top of the Pennines, I don't

remember a single day when our

school was closed. Our old Grammar

School in Oldham. I know times have

changed, health and safety rules the

world, kids are understandably

scared of slipping. In our day, you

slipped and fell, tough bananas. And

we all got by. I was slightly

snowbound at the weekend, a

wonderful party in Oxfordshire and I

couldn't help thinking, we have had

two or three days of this and still

motorways closed, trains don't run.

I know it's not the easiest job in

the world, and I'm sure many did

their level best to keep the country

running but you do think, why does

this not happen in Poland, in

Norway, in Scandinavia?

They spend a

lot more on gritters and are a bit

more in control, frankly. The front

page of the Telegraph, it talks

about slow keeping schools shut for

second days as teachers are told not

to travel. That's part of the

problem, teachers can't get in.

They

don't always necessarily live near

the schools, its rate you would have

all the teachers live in one town

one village. It might not just be

that it's cold, you cannot get staff

into the school. That seems like a

pretty reasonable reason why you

would have to close a school down.

But parents, it's really difficult

because lots of them might have to

be slipping in a day 's holiday just

before the Christmas holiday so they

can look after their children.

It's

a tricky one. We are going to go to

the Telegraph. Dosages denied cheap

Christmas rail tickets. If we are

going to get stuff over when it

comes to the cost of travel, it will

be Christmas time.

A 4% increase

coming in after Christmas for all

rail journeys. They have increased

dramatically the last couple of

years, we know that. The prices are

steep, they have gone up

dramatically in the last few years

or so it seems, a very interesting

report by a government watchdog

committee, the official watchdog

committee, saying rail passengers

are being denied the chance to buy

cheap tickets for the Christmas

break by train companies that

routinely mislead them. One of the

things they allege is that they did

not make all the advance tickets

available, did not make public the

fact these advance tickets were

available, which are cheaper. But

also they were selling tickets for

trains that could not make the

journey they were supposed to make.

A couple of examples quoted, a great

Western Railway ticket being on sale

in early October direct London

Paddington services running on

December the 27th, well, that can't

happen on December 27, Paddington is

shut. Actually selling tickets for

journeys that they could not

possibly make, at least not without

changing, or taking buses as well.

The rail companies, the six big

ones...

Network Rail always the

bogeyman, always. It is always

blamed. They have some huge

engineering works happening over

Christmas holidays, so £160 million

worth of engineering works going on

over the Christmas holidays around

London and Manchester. That will

affect so many people. All of this

will feed well into what the

government is pushing for, which is

to switch Network Rail and the train

companies together. To bring track

and train together. The first phase

this will be rolled out as the East

Coast Main line, who knows in the

future whether that will improve

things?

The reason people are being

misled, is that Network Rail did not

tell them, the rail companies, about

their final plans. Therefore they

sold these tickets hoping the works

would be completed when they were

indeed.

There's always someone else

to blame. Front page of The Times,

and executing web giants for abuse,

Mae urges, treating social media

giants as publishers.

This has come

up before. We have crossbench peers

compiling this report, which will be

delivered to the government

tomorrow. He says you need to treat

Facebook and all the big social

media giants as publishers, which

means so far, some would say they

have got out of various

responsibilities because they

describe themselves as platforms. If

you are a publisher, it means you

end up having all sorts of

responsibilities.

Like us.

Exactly.

This obviously is a good step

forward but I think what is next is

what kind of sanctions you will see

on these companies.

And how do them

do it? How do you make them

efficient, to make sure every

inappropriate message...

These

companies are having to hire

thousands of staff to cope with

their obligations already so if the

government were to take this forward

and actually make them come

publishers, they would have a vast

amount of scrutiny on what was being

put on their websites all the time.

They can afford it. Most of them.

This is just the start of this, I

the home affairs Select Committee is

also looking into this, and might be

taking some evidence from some of

these big social media companies in

the next week. For Christmas I think

we will see a lot of this in

Parliament.

Plastics aid, front page

of The Times.

A suggestion that

Michael Gove is going to push for

more of Britain's overseas aid

budget. More of that should be spent

trying to reduce plastic pollution

in the oceans after a study found

90% of the waste came from ten

rivers in Asia. This will strike a

chord with people watching Blue

Planet. And the Daily Mail has had a

big campaign on this. It really is

horrifying to see what this does to

see life. Arguably, it is a good

cause.

Yeah, I think it's a great

idea. You don't think about the

cycling really happening in other

parts of the world, you only know

about what you do yourself. --

recycling. The idea you would start

encouraging other countries as part

of an aid investment, and aid

payments, would actually be quite

effective probably.

It might assuage

some critics of foreign aid as well.

If you can make it clear that

foreign aid is useful in a

particular way. Sad news, front page

of the Daily Mail, Keith Chegwin.

Died at the age of 60. You knew him.

I was a GMTV, the breakfast station,

20 years. Cheggers was at least a

decade, used to be the morning

competitions. I don't know anyone

else could have brought those

competitions to life in the same way

he did. He was such a barrel of

laughs, bright ideas and cheerful.

Really a warm, generous guy, born on

television. When that red light on

helix up. He came in every day with

some terrific ideas. -- when that

red light came on, he lit up. He

used to surprise people on the

doorstep, they would come down,

teeth not in, still on their

nightwear, he would always have such

fun and never in a demeaning or

patronising way. He knew where they

came from and he knew where he came

from T. Really good guide, sad.

Do

you remember him?

Not a great deal,

I'm aware of him but don't remember.

You listen to radio four.

LAUGHTER

Now, she was too young! That's what

you should have said. You a united

fan or a City fan, come on, which is

it?

Come on... I even come dressed

for the occasion.

Speaking of the

big game... Milk eight. Back page of

the Guardian. Apparently there was a

fracas, Mr Mourinho believed the

City players were too exuberant in

their celebrations of that famous

victory on Saturday. Apparently

cartons of milk were thrown.

That's

what was suggested. Apparently he

thought the noise from the dressing

room is not respectful, and had an

altercation with our goalkeeper,

talking in Portuguese. Then one of

the City assistant coaches, who

played for Arsenal, received a cut

over the eye. It seems to me a bit

of a fuss over not much frankly. You

and I, we saw what happened after

the game, Mr Mourinho who I believe

is becoming the Donald Trump of

soccer, a narcissist, actually a

producer of fake news. Whenever

things go badly, what was he saying?

We were lucky. Come on, that is

beyond parody to say Manchester City

were lucky in that game. Then he has

to complain about cities

celebrating? Someone tweeted a

wonderful picture of Mourinho

celebrating like this on his knees,

and he complains about celebrating?

Kate, Kate, what have you got to say

about all this?!

It sounds

absolutely ridiculous.

I am being

told my earpiece apparently Mourinho

did the same thing last season

Chelsea trounced United.

He does not

like a celebration.

Are you a

Chelsea fan, yes, he's a Chelsea

fan? But it does look as if the

title might be heading...

I'm not

saying, we are too long in the

tooth.

Very true.

No more football.

OK, I have let you had your time.

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Goodbye.