26/12/2017 The Papers

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This is BBC News.

We'll be taking a look at tomorrow

morning's papers in a moment -

first the headlines.

A British woman accused of smuggling

drugs into Egypt has been sentenced

to three years in jail.

Laura Plummer, who's 33

and from Hull, was arrested

in October for having nearly 300

Tramadol tablets in her suitcase

The Universities Minister,

Jo Johnson, has warned academic

institutions they could face fines

if they fail to protect free speech,

within the law.

South Yorkshire Police say

an officer has died in a car crash

which happened near

Sheffield last night.

The 46-year-old man died along

with a 61-year-old female passenger

of another car when their

vehicles collided.

There has been a lower

turnout than expected

at the Boxing Day sales.

The research group Springboard

believes there was a 4% drop

in the number of shoppers -

up to midday today -

compared with last year.

Coming up later this hour will come

just over one month to go until the

winter Olympic in South Korea and I

will check out some of our biggest

medal prospects.

Hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the papers will be

bringing us tomorrow.

About 25 minutes

we are poised and ready to bring you

up-to-date with the front pages. The

Times say that paedophiles is using

YouTube as a shop window.

Shoplifting spikes after police are

not investigating.

Three Brexit also fronts the eye

following an immense by the

conservative mayor of the West

Midlands, cautioning against a hard

Brexit. The case of Laura Plummer,

the British woman jailed in Egypt is

on the Mirror. The Financial Times

says that retail is disappointing

with a drop in footfall for

traditional Boxing Day sales. The

Sun leads with British troops being

asked to use gender neutral words.

And in the express says a stroll in

the garden could help to fight

dementia. Thank you for being with

us to beginning with the time and a

distressing story about the use,

potentially, of the Internet for the

abuse of children.

It is a horrible

story but it is no real secret that

abused children have appeared on

YouTube. The brazen part about this,

the new part, is that now

paedophiles are emblazoned in the

videos with any mail addresses.

People can get in touch with them.

-- e-mail addresses. A legal expert

is questioning whether or not this

would be illegal. In a sense, you

are putting children for word and

there is always a danger of what

might happen after that. It is an

opinion but any right minded person

will think that this needs to be

closed down and closed down quickly.

If in any way Google will not do it

themselves it needs to be done for

them. yes.

And to be fair it does

say that most channels were shut

down but only after the newspaper

contacted YouTube. It is about

algorithms. It is about evil people

but the mass that creates search

engines that puts these things are.

I am afraid it will only be people

removing their business if they

don't want to be associated and

YouTube has already had 250 big

advertisers leaving this year.

As

you say, the companies say this is

not a doing an and someone says

there has to be a way of stopping

this and somebody has to do

something. It becomes a way of

minimising some of the online

traffic. Moving on to the Telegraph.

This one is curious. Please been

blamed for shoplifting. In a sense.

Police sparked a shoplifting boom.

What has happened is that since

2014, police forces who have to use

their limited resources increasingly

judiciously, have agreed not to

investigate shop lifting cases if

the value of the goods is under

£200. The new angle on this is that

retail leaders have been meeting

with the Home Office ministers

because they are getting concerned.

They say that gangs of corrupt

thieves who know the law and now

that they are unlikely to get

collared if it is under 200 quid.

They are going around and one of

them is quoted as saying they used

stores and supermarkets as a piggy

bank to fund drug and alcohol abuse

problems or they sell goods that

they can then use for other

nefarious activities. It is an awful

lot of money. £6 billion a year.

That is an awful lot of 199.99...

And it always goes on to prices for

everybody. Talking of prices and

putting a value on something

difficult to price, Brexit rears its

head. How could we get through

Christmas without mentioning Brexit?

Next year we will be discussing it

almost hourly. Philip Hammond is in

some trouble. David Davis was not

releasing documents and now Labour

MPs are saying that Philip Hammond

should release his documents which

give an idea about the effect of

Brexit on the British economy

depending on different scenarios. He

also made the mistake of telling the

Select Committee he had them.

Ministers should now agreed to never

talk about any papers even what

happened to David Davis. Is meant to

have them in the Labour MPs want

them, which is why bright. We have

one heck of a year ahead. It has

taken us all of 2017 to get to first

base. Now we have a long way to go

and everything should be in place by

October if we are to have a deal.

It

would be nice if there was not a

running commentary on nothing

happening. To be honest, by the time

I got to Christmas Eve I thought

that this was like... All they

needed was Cliff Richard to come out

and sing congratulations. It was

like the rain washing our Wimbledon

because nothing is happening. Much

of this is political manoeuvring. It

is a reasonable story, it is

generally quite right that the

taxpayer funded research should be

made available.

They should be

running commentary on the basis that

it is the biggest constitutional

change that we have had. It is

getting so complicated that the more

you actually explain it as we go

along...

People might understand it

a bit better. There are too many

invested interests. The BBC is the

only organ that explains it

properly. You just peddle the Labour

line.

Now, I am not.

I mean, your

paper. I do try to explain to

readers what is happening there.

It

explains the basics of wrecks that

and there is always something

happening. That is the problem.

Keeps continuing. The front page of

the Mirror has the front -- case of

Laura. They take the line that she

is an innocent person in an

appalling conditions and needs to be

released.

As we have heard

throughout the day with interviews

with her sister and her mother, she

is an ordinary girl from Hull. She

loves to eat it and has been going

there for quite awhile. Her partner

is and lives in Egypt but she now

finds herself sentenced to three

years in prison for arriving in the

country with 300 tramadol tablets.

It is a painkilling drug and there

are questions, I would have thought,

that if it is not for her, she would

not have had a prescription, then,

maybe the Egyptian authorities were

not as heavy-handed as it may have

seemed.

Is difficult because when

these stories was first reported

back in October, people in Egypt's

were saying that they have a problem

with use of drugs of this kind.

It

is the most seriously abused drug in

Egypt so they are on lookout for a.

The various points made are

absolutely right. The important

thing for everybody to make sure if

you take drugs abroad that the

country you go to, that those drugs

are illegal. Or if not, take a

prescription which you.

Even her

family have said that if it is

anything it is naivete rather than

criminal intent. One would hope,

judging from what they said...

Perhaps there may be some clemency

in the New Year spirit? Moving on to

the Financial Times. Vladimir Putin,

retail but let's talk about the

third story down. Spymaster.

A

listening post in Cheltenham is

desperate to recruit new offices

tomb man it and having trouble. They

are having trouble with the vetting

process. It take so long to get

somebody. Everybody needs to go

through a high-level vetting. It is

a long and involved process. And I

am being asked questions that I have

forgotten answers to. The trouble is

that people are getting fed up. The

applicants are being set up with it.

And now they are going off for

lucrative jobs in banks...

Read paid

and without protracted enquiries?

What you need to do is to vet

people. -- are better paid and

without ongoing enquiries.

Here is

one thing that they may be wanting

to find out about. The former

fighters for the group that calls

itself Islamic State who are on the

run in Turkey.

This story, worth

noting that it was written by

Michael Evans and Anthony Loyd who

is a -- has a fantastically good

track record and he is writing from

Syria. These British fighters have

joined Isis, they are hiding in

Turkey and prompting fears from

Western intelligence agencies of an

increased risk of terrorist attacks

in Europe. This research is being

carried out in the area by somebody

who dealing in Western intelligence

agencies. What is interesting is

that the work that is going on

between American intelligence

services, and the MI6, they are

working together. Only three of the

40 attacks in Europe since 2015

involved terrorist fighters

returning, these incidents caused

over half the fatalities.

The idea

that they come back with the skill,

if I could use that word, and will

harden from the frontline.

I think

that is something to exercise

caution.

Ending on a happier note,

if we can. Good news but before

that... Every time I switch Q I end

up waiting longer. Passport control,

supermarkets...

The answer is? Don't

switch queues. It is a last place a

version. Apparently if you are the

last person in a queue you don't

like that so you want to shift to a

different line. This keeps happening

and as a result, if you do too off

in you can find yourself waiting

significantly longer. There is an

answer to this, that is to stay in

the line and wait till somebody else

arrived.

The other thing is that one

solution the researcher says is that

you could start talking to people,

struck up a conversation to pass the

time.

Let me end finally, I know Joe

is itching to tell us about this.

Who is this man on the front page --

back page of the Guardian?

That is

King Harry. The Tottenham striker

scored a hat-trick today and he had

already come with his first goal in

that match, had beaten a 22-year-old

record for the most goals scored in

a premiership season within a

calendar year. What is fantastic if

he is modest about this astonishing

achievement which puts him up there

with international footballers. He

has promised to put -- take his

teammates to dinner.

What I like is

that he has not even reached its

peak. He has another five years.

Both of you, thank you very much. A

little early, but happy New Year to

you both. We look forward to seeing

you in 2018. You can always look

ahead to the papers. Coming up next,

we