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0:00:04 > 0:00:05Hello.

0:00:05 > 0:00:06This is BBC News.

0:00:06 > 0:00:09We'll be taking a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment.

0:00:09 > 0:00:11First, the headlines.

0:00:11 > 0:00:13The Government considers a judicial review into the decision to release

0:00:13 > 0:00:17serial sex attacker John Worboys.

0:00:17 > 0:00:20Every victim out there, every friend and family of victims,

0:00:20 > 0:00:22and everybody who has read about this case will

0:00:22 > 0:00:25want to know that we are doing everything we can to make sure that

0:00:25 > 0:00:27the victims are properly protected.

0:00:27 > 0:00:29Police searching for a man in connection with a suspected

0:00:29 > 0:00:33crossbow attack, which left one man dead and a pregnant woman injured,

0:00:33 > 0:00:36discover a body in a vehicle.

0:00:36 > 0:00:39The future of the engineering giant Carillion remains in doubt.

0:00:39 > 0:00:41Ministers are due to resume crisis talks tomorrow

0:00:41 > 0:00:44to save it from collapse.

0:00:44 > 0:00:47The leading fashion photographer Mario Testino has been suspended

0:00:47 > 0:00:49from working for Vogue, following allegations

0:00:49 > 0:00:53of sexual harassment.

0:01:05 > 0:01:08Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be

0:01:08 > 0:01:09bringing us tomorrow.

0:01:09 > 0:01:11With me are Martin Bentham, home affairs editor

0:01:11 > 0:01:13at the London Evening Standard, and Owen Bennett, deputy political

0:01:13 > 0:01:20editor at HuffPost UK.

0:01:20 > 0:01:27Welcome to you both. And this, all being well technologically, is the

0:01:27 > 0:01:31last time the papers will look like this. It's all going to be different

0:01:31 > 0:01:34tomorrow, fingers crossed. The front pages for tonight.

0:01:34 > 0:01:36The Metro leads on the future of Ukip's leader, Henry Bolton,

0:01:36 > 0:01:39after his girlfriend was suspended from the party for sending

0:01:39 > 0:01:41apparently racist text messages about Meghan Markle

0:01:41 > 0:01:44The FT reports on the trouble-hit contractor Carillion.

0:01:44 > 0:01:46It asks why it was awarded £2 billion in government

0:01:46 > 0:01:56contracts, despite issuing a profits warning last year.

0:01:56 > 0:02:01The Times also has that story. It also pictures a claim which skidded

0:02:01 > 0:02:02off a runway in Turkey.

0:02:02 > 0:02:05The Express has research claiming that adding more fibre to your diet

0:02:05 > 0:02:06can help fight rheumatoid arthritis.

0:02:06 > 0:02:09The I has a special report about arms deals to countries

0:02:09 > 0:02:11such as Saudi Arabia following the Brexit vote.

0:02:11 > 0:02:13The Sun reports on the marriage difficulties of TV star

0:02:13 > 0:02:16Anthony McPartlin.

0:02:16 > 0:02:24The Mirror also leads on that story.

0:02:24 > 0:02:26He is to divorce his wife of 11 years.

0:02:26 > 0:02:29The Telegraph claims medical records of British cancer victims have been

0:02:29 > 0:02:31passed to a US firm working for one of the world's

0:02:31 > 0:02:35biggest tobacco companies.

0:02:35 > 0:02:39Let's start with the Ukip story, it's on the front of the Metro. Your

0:02:39 > 0:02:44racist lover or your job. A warning to the Ukip leader, Henry Bolton.

0:02:44 > 0:02:51Remind us of the story.Many people might have forgotten, and you might

0:02:51 > 0:02:56understand why, but Henry Bolton was elected Ukip leader last autumn, and

0:02:56 > 0:02:58since then it's emerged he's left his wife for a younger party

0:02:58 > 0:03:05activist. Some text messages have emerged, in which she made some

0:03:05 > 0:03:09racist and disparaging comments about Meghan Markle. Ukip know how

0:03:09 > 0:03:14to turn these things into even more of a drama than a crisis, and now

0:03:14 > 0:03:18they say he has to choose between his girlfriend of his job, the

0:03:18 > 0:03:20comments of the party chairman today. We understand other papers

0:03:20 > 0:03:26are printing other messages, referring to other things equally

0:03:26 > 0:03:32despicable, to be honest. Ukip, they are a party without a purpose, and

0:03:32 > 0:03:36seemingly a party without a leader again, it seems.They seem to have

0:03:36 > 0:03:41trouble getting the right leader in post for any length of time.I

0:03:41 > 0:03:44suppose, when he was elected, he might have seemed a decent choice,

0:03:44 > 0:03:49an ex-army person and so on, and he might have seemed a safe pair of

0:03:49 > 0:03:52hands at that time, and it's all gone horribly wrong with his romance

0:03:52 > 0:03:57and now these revelations about these rather distasteful comments

0:03:57 > 0:04:05that his new girlfriend has been making. Although clearly one person

0:04:05 > 0:04:09should not necessarily be liable for the actions of their partner and so

0:04:09 > 0:04:13on, on the other hand, I think in this case, it's a bit too close to

0:04:13 > 0:04:17home, isn't it? He becomes identified with it himself, and I

0:04:17 > 0:04:20don't think he can be identified with the sort of things she is

0:04:20 > 0:04:26saying. The headline here, your racist lover or your job, is

0:04:26 > 0:04:31probably an accurate summation.It's the association, isn't it? You

0:04:31 > 0:04:35mentioned the purpose of Ukip, with Nigel Farage suggesting there might

0:04:35 > 0:04:38need to be a second referendum just to make sure we leave the EU, once

0:04:38 > 0:04:46we know a deal, that purpose, isn't it?Whenever Farage made that claim,

0:04:46 > 0:04:50Ukip distanced themselves from it. Of course, Farage is still the face

0:04:50 > 0:04:53of the party. I don't think there is going to be a second referendum and

0:04:53 > 0:04:56I don't think was going to call it would the Tories Labour wouldn't

0:04:56 > 0:05:05call it.And Farage then distanced himself from it.He is very good at

0:05:05 > 0:05:11getting himself off the front page. This just shows really, and I'm

0:05:11 > 0:05:17surprised it's even on the front page now, toonie owes to Henry

0:05:17 > 0:05:22Bolton is really? -- who knows who the real is.Financial Times and

0:05:22 > 0:05:25Times covering the story about Carillion, the engineering giant

0:05:25 > 0:05:32with £900 million worth of debt from various banks. They were in trouble

0:05:32 > 0:05:34and issued a profits warning last year, but still awarded this

0:05:34 > 0:05:41government contract.The issue here is it's a massive company that,

0:05:41 > 0:05:45until recently, most people had never heard of, they are running all

0:05:45 > 0:05:50sorts of public sector maintenance and construction contracts across a

0:05:50 > 0:05:55huge range of areas, and they have a massive debt pile. The question in

0:05:55 > 0:05:59today's story in the FT and the Times is the allegation that the

0:05:59 > 0:06:05government awarded them, they had issued profit warnings last year and

0:06:05 > 0:06:08the government kept awarding them contracts, and the criticism is that

0:06:08 > 0:06:12they shouldn't have been doing so, and there are rules that suggest

0:06:12 > 0:06:15they shouldn't have done it, and that therefore they were throwing

0:06:15 > 0:06:20taxpayers money, and money after bad. On the other hand, there was a

0:06:20 > 0:06:24line in the FT from somebody from the government, suggesting that the

0:06:24 > 0:06:27problem would have been, if they haven't put that money in at the

0:06:27 > 0:06:30time, the company would have to the wall immediately. It still

0:06:30 > 0:06:37potentially will go to the wall, but it's lived longer and there might be

0:06:37 > 0:06:49of risking it.So many subcontractors to the companies,

0:06:49 > 0:06:53which do the look of the HotBot Carillion, will be watching closely

0:06:53 > 0:07:01to see if they have a future. -- which do the work of Carillion.It

0:07:01 > 0:07:04could be that other companies come in and cherry pick and it's all

0:07:04 > 0:07:09divvied up by administration.Lord Adonis was criticising the decision

0:07:09 > 0:07:14to offer hand-outs to those running the East Coast Main Line, and

0:07:14 > 0:07:17saying, if this is privatisation, they have to stand fall on their

0:07:17 > 0:07:21merits. The government, a Conservative government

0:07:21 > 0:07:24particularly, if it believes in the free market, it shouldn't be handing

0:07:24 > 0:07:31out taxpayers money to prop them up. I agree with Lord Adonis about east

0:07:31 > 0:07:34coast, that was a disgrace, but in this case I think the problem is,

0:07:34 > 0:07:38and he might be right on this one as well, but the only trouble is it's

0:07:38 > 0:07:44like the banks, too big to fail. As you said, they are running all of

0:07:44 > 0:07:47these contracts that maintain prisons, the NHS, hospitals, quite a

0:07:47 > 0:07:54view of those, and that work has to be done, so the question ultimately

0:07:54 > 0:07:58will be, the company, the work, a lot of it, will continue, so it's a

0:07:58 > 0:08:01question of whether losses will come. The company will probably be

0:08:01 > 0:08:03restructured and formulated in underway and somebody will have to

0:08:03 > 0:08:10take a hit. And one is the investors in the company at the moment taking

0:08:10 > 0:08:14a loss, or the other one is that the government has to step in and do it

0:08:14 > 0:08:19on their behalf. Obviously, the right course is probably for the

0:08:19 > 0:08:22individual investors to take that hit, as private investors, and

0:08:22 > 0:08:26that's probably what should happen. Whether that does happen or not is

0:08:26 > 0:08:30the big political question of the coming weeks.Let's look at the

0:08:30 > 0:08:36second story on the Times. Households face big fines in

0:08:36 > 0:08:39fly-tipping crackdown food how do you trace it back to a particular

0:08:39 > 0:08:44house?These things make headlines and it looks good, households will

0:08:44 > 0:08:50be fined £400 for paying in an man in a van or taking were rubbish. We

0:08:50 > 0:08:55know that local government has been decimated by austerity, so how are

0:08:55 > 0:08:59they going to have time to police this and bring prosecutions? It's a

0:08:59 > 0:09:06lengthy process already declined to prosecute people for fly-tipping. --

0:09:06 > 0:09:14to try and prosecute. It's come from death row -- Defra, and the

0:09:14 > 0:09:17Conservatives seem to be using this as a battering ram to get into the

0:09:17 > 0:09:22public good books. A lot of the reason why people are fly-tipping is

0:09:22 > 0:09:29that bin collections have been cut by cuts to local government.And

0:09:29 > 0:09:32also recycling centres and household waste disposal centres, which seem

0:09:32 > 0:09:36to be open less and less and it's harder and harder to get them to

0:09:36 > 0:09:41dispose of your stuff. They have always been people who fight it

0:09:41 > 0:09:46though.That's no excuse. It is possible to take things to be

0:09:46 > 0:09:50recycling centre or the local tip or stick it in your bins at not at the

0:09:50 > 0:09:54end of the road. If that does happen. I think the activity is

0:09:54 > 0:09:59reprehensible and I'd be entirely in favour of hitting those people hard.

0:09:59 > 0:10:04If they can back it up.But it's one thing having an aspiration and

0:10:04 > 0:10:08another actually doing and achieving it. But the principle has to be

0:10:08 > 0:10:12right, because what happens is people through their old sofa down a

0:10:12 > 0:10:15lay-by somewhere or whatever and then somebody else, the taxpayer

0:10:15 > 0:10:19ultimately ends up having to pay for it, and it creates a hell of a mess

0:10:19 > 0:10:30and costs somebody off the money. And move on to the I. UK's Brexit

0:10:30 > 0:10:33arms deals exclusive, exports to the world's most repressive regimes rise

0:10:33 > 0:10:39by nearly a third. The year after the vote to leave the EU is the

0:10:39 > 0:10:43connection they are making. Personally, I think that's a bit

0:10:43 > 0:10:51spurious. Of course, we've always wanted, and the Independent and the

0:10:51 > 0:10:55I will not like this, and I think their position was always to be

0:10:55 > 0:11:01critical of that type of trade, and that's a legitimate position. If you

0:11:01 > 0:11:04believe we have arms industry and want to support that, of course we

0:11:04 > 0:11:08are going to try and sell the arms. There is a question about who we

0:11:08 > 0:11:13sell them and some of the people listed here, Equatorial Guinea, with

0:11:13 > 0:11:16a terrible record of human rights abuses, so you wonder what we are

0:11:16 > 0:11:22selling to them. Uzbekistan, not the greatest country for human rights.

0:11:22 > 0:11:25The country they list is responsible for the largest chunk of this

0:11:25 > 0:11:31increased is oh man, and they talk about it as an authoritarian regime,

0:11:31 > 0:11:37and it's not a democracy in the pure sense or whatever, but I don't think

0:11:37 > 0:11:42it's high up on the worst in the world. I don't think it's to do with

0:11:42 > 0:11:48Brexit, probably just the timing of a good deal with Oman skewing the

0:11:48 > 0:11:55figures.The article argues that, if you look at the freedom index, it's

0:11:55 > 0:11:58those countries you mention that these deals are being struck with.

0:11:58 > 0:12:05They are trying to develop a post Brexit industrial strategy to plug

0:12:05 > 0:12:11any gap over trade with the rest of the EU.They quote a speech Michael

0:12:11 > 0:12:15Fallon made when he was Defence Secretary about that thing, wanted

0:12:15 > 0:12:20to spread our arms across the world, if you'll pardon the expression. I

0:12:20 > 0:12:23agree that linking it to Brexit, it doesn't need that in there. You can

0:12:23 > 0:12:26be annoyed that we are selling weapons to those regimes, if you

0:12:26 > 0:12:32like. I don't see why the Brexit angle is in there.We've been doing

0:12:32 > 0:12:40it for a long time, whether we should be or not.They quote

0:12:40 > 0:12:42Thailand is being a military dictatorship, but would you put that

0:12:42 > 0:12:47in the same category as Saudi Arabia? Tying it to Brexit, I just

0:12:47 > 0:12:53think it confuses it a bit too much. Guardian, students drafted in to

0:12:53 > 0:13:00plug NHS gap. While these students? This is now a tabloid!Yes, a new

0:13:00 > 0:13:11shape.All those who have worked for tabloids can now be sniffy about the

0:13:11 > 0:13:16Guardian. But it was a good format before and it will no doubt do very

0:13:16 > 0:13:19well, and it is possible to produce a good, quality paper in tabloid

0:13:19 > 0:13:28format.Says a man from the Standard!The Times with tabloid and

0:13:28 > 0:13:33produces a good newspaper wasis easier to cope with on the train.It

0:13:33 > 0:13:39is. It is driven by cost cutting, that's the long and short.So the

0:13:39 > 0:13:44students, who are they?Fourth and fifth year medical students who are

0:13:44 > 0:13:51being asked to help on wards, according to the letter that the

0:13:51 > 0:13:54Guardian has got hold of saying it shouldn't be beyond their

0:13:54 > 0:13:57competence, and the BMA is quoted saying that it is indicative of the

0:13:57 > 0:14:02terrible situation the NHS is in. That's probably true that isn't a

0:14:02 > 0:14:06desirable situation but, on the other hand, perhaps we shouldn't

0:14:06 > 0:14:10panic entirely, and these people are quite close to becoming completely

0:14:10 > 0:14:17trained doctors.I'd rather have a completely trained doctor though.It

0:14:17 > 0:14:20was always August you should avoid being in hospital, because that's

0:14:20 > 0:14:25when the medical graduates were let loose on the ward.These are

0:14:25 > 0:14:29undergraduates, and this is a terrible situation to put them in

0:14:29 > 0:14:33full we spoke to people working in A&E departments and the stress they

0:14:33 > 0:14:35are under, not just putting undergraduates into this situation

0:14:35 > 0:14:40to carry out minor medical procedures, they will be stressful

0:14:40 > 0:14:43environment and I am worried they will not have the capacity to deal

0:14:43 > 0:14:50with it they haven't finished their training.The Daily Express. A fibre

0:14:50 > 0:14:54diet can help fight arthritis and how much have you got to eat and

0:14:54 > 0:14:59what?A bowl of muesli per day. That's what it is for the how many

0:14:59 > 0:15:05bacon sandwiches? It doesn't say.Do we know what science is involved?Is

0:15:05 > 0:15:10there any?Something about fatty acids. Who knew that eating fried

0:15:10 > 0:15:23was good for you.It's about beating information.Is it? That's good. --

0:15:23 > 0:15:27beating inflammation.Let's finish with the FT. Lloyds brings thrill

0:15:27 > 0:15:34seekers back to Earth.This is the Lloyd's building which has all of

0:15:34 > 0:15:38its interior workings, he lifts and all that, outside.Like the Pompidou

0:15:38 > 0:15:43centre in Paris.Yes, and disastrous for maintenance. An award-winning

0:15:43 > 0:15:48building, grade one listed, but apparently also easy to climb, so

0:15:48 > 0:15:53they are trying to stop thrill seekers who are all climbing up into

0:15:53 > 0:15:58the top, taking selfies and creating a risk to themselves, and probably

0:15:58 > 0:16:05to people walking below.It must be an expensive operation.They have

0:16:05 > 0:16:08spent £80,000 on enhanced security, including patrols and cameras to

0:16:08 > 0:16:13detect climbing. Personally, I think if these idiots want to do it, but I

0:16:13 > 0:16:15suppose it's not fair on the table below. If you witnessed something

0:16:15 > 0:16:21terrible.I've got a head for heights, but even that would put me

0:16:21 > 0:16:25off.I will not be one of those thrill seekers!

0:16:29 > 0:16:31That's it for The Papers this hour.

0:16:31 > 0:16:33Thank you, Martin Bentham and Owen Bennett.

0:16:33 > 0:16:35You'll both be back at 11:30pm for another look at the stories

0:16:35 > 0:16:36making the news tomorrow.

0:16:36 > 0:16:38Coming up next, it's Meet The Author.