tv The Papers BBC News December 19, 2017 10:45pm-11:01pm GMT
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all over the front pages, but face all over the front pages, but it is the victim is we should be thinking about. and by pleading not guilty, he forced them to go to court and relive the horror of what happened. and they say that every year now, one of them was celebrating her birthday and every year now, it will be the anniversary of that attack and their lives will never be the same again. they have to disclose evidence. that obligation lapses. like the same scale but the
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ex—girlfriend of his who was on the tv show, because she had an element of fame she gets mentioned in every story about this awful person. let's move on to the daily telegraph and another crime story. the paper points out that the conviction rate is 11%. the paper points out that the conviction rate is 1196. they the paper points out that the conviction rate is 11%. they are ha rd to prove conviction rate is 11%. they are hard to prove and it is one word against another. it is difficult. in our system, the right thing is to contest these as best you can. not withholding material that is plainly releva nt. withholding material that is plainly relevant. it was clear they had held back material that was plainly disclosed. let's go on to the daily
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express which shares the same front page story. both these middle market tabloids look very similar this morning. concentrating on how much this will cost individuals. the reason it will happen is this massive funding crisis. in part it is the need for police and growing commissioners to get more resources into combating crime but more important is the social care bill. the government has failed to come up with a solution to this. the government have not
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stepped in and local government are having to step up the cost. this money is going into that. it seems to me we've ducked some of the big questions on council tax, and plenty of properties are worth a great deal more money than they were when they we nt more money than they were when they went into the bands initially. furthermore, the increase in value means we probably need some higher bands to represent more significant value. they don't necessarily reflect income, do they? true. these are regressive and will hit poor people the most. that's why these papers have run identicalfront pages. the front page of the i. it isa pages. the front page of the i. it is a second day front page. it was
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that the nhs was running a deficit of 100,000, that the nhs was running a deficit of100,000, and that the nhs was running a deficit of 100,000, and now that the nhs was running a deficit of100,000, and now it that the nhs was running a deficit of 100,000, and now it has the health secretary agreeing that there isa health secretary agreeing that there is a problem. he disputes that number. he says it is not accurate. that is a labour figure, number. he says it is not accurate. that is a labourfigure, an number. he says it is not accurate. that is a labour figure, an estimate he says is not right. but he does say there's a problem. notwithstanding more people working as professionally qualified staff, 32,000 more people working there since 2010 but nevertheless he concedes there is a very big problem. what a thing to have to say having been one of the longest ever serving health secretary is. imagine if he had not said it. he would have been laughed out of court. there are
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times in politics when you have to ta ke times in politics when you have to take it on the chin and recognise that you are facing a problem, provided you can indicate that there are things in the pipeline designed to address that problem. the problem is that a lot of those things take a lot of time to come through in terms of training new doctors or making sure those going through medical school go into general practice. in the short term, the nhs is hoping we don't have a really cold winter. gps are the first port of call. let's move on to the financial times. it has a very happy looking paul ryan.
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let's put some context into it. people view this as if it is a rampage through the tax rate. it will still be higher than ours but not by much. ten years ago the tax rates were broadly comparable. there is was a bit higher, ours was 28%. now we have a flat rate of 20. the americans have been so uncompetitive that it americans have been so uncompetitive thatitis americans have been so uncompetitive that it is a wonder they've done as well as they have. you can criticise this administration for many different things but this is desperately needed. they are smiling because they can say that they've got to the end of the year and actually passed something. it is a significant. his first victory. the other front page
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story is banker bonus hopes dashed as the eu insists on rules for access. we've bitterly opposed any limits on bankers bonuses. we say it will not be global if you pause across the eu. people earn megabucks across the eu. people earn megabucks across the eu. people earn megabucks across the world. one of the things people have hoped for, written by people have hoped for, written by people like mark carney, is that when we leave the eu we can be outside the banker bonus caps and preserve the city of the's edge. it seems that the eu wants to say you need to maintain equivalents on things like goods, to make sure your material is the same standards but also have equivalents in the rules. it becomes almost impossible to envisage the eu —— the uk agreeing
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to that. it's stymies the point of leaving. we want to trade with the world and not just leaving. we want to trade with the world and notjust the eu. great front cover of city am. it happens every year. somebody gets likened to scrooge. he is stating the obvious. if the united kingdom wants to have freedom of access, which now trade deal has ever been offered to anybody else with that advantage, we will be to stick by the rules. anybody else with that advantage, we will be to stick by the rulesm
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anybody else with that advantage, we will be to stick by the rules. it is not obvious at all. nobody else outside the eu have bankers bound by requirements imposed by the eu. leaving the single market is a fundamental, not least because it is about freedom of movement. that doesn't mean they get to dictate what are bankers do. news in brief on the front page, promote parking to get the green light. on the front page, promote parking to get the green lightli on the front page, promote parking to get the green light. i thought ca rs to get the green light. i thought cars could already do this. this is great news for everybody who finds parking in tight spaces difficult. they need to rewrite the highway code. it must be safer. i think you are both hopeless. it is part of the skill of driving. that is it from
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us. skill of driving. that is it from us. you can find the front pages on the bbc website. if you missed the programme you can watch it on bbc iplayer. good evening. some of us started today with some fog. it was all about cloud invading from the west. we saw some sunshine but we saw more clouds in the sky and further north west. the close was pretty thick, patchy rain and drizzle, you can see the patch of clothes edging towards us. the patch of clothes edging towards us. we are drawing in very moist air from the south—west which is giving
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us from the south—west which is giving us missed and mark over hills in the west. not as much as we had overnight. we start tomorrow morning ona mild overnight. we start tomorrow morning on a mild note. 10 degrees in plymouth. this is extending across the hills of wheels. four east anglia, not so much fog around. to the north of that, that's where we have the best chance of starting the day with some brightness. it will be breezy in the far north, but there will be shown is here. as we go through the day are a frontal system, what is left of it, we'll trudge painstakingly slowly south, bringing patchy rain into north england. to the south, very cloudy. it is relatively mild. that week front starts to move northwards.
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some patchy rain on that. a lot of mist and mark. the mildest air down to the south—west. these frontal systems will be squashed as we get through the week. we're trying to dominate the weather. a lot of dry weather. north—eastern areas will see the best of the sunshine. it looks mild up to christmas. a lot of dry weather around. this is bbc news. the headlines at 11:00: police say they've taken action to foil an alleged islamist terror plot that could have been
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carried out this christmas. four men have been arrested in sheffield and chesterfield. jailed for 20 years — the man who threw acid into a crowded nightclub in east london. social media companies are taken to task by mps as they're accused of not doing enough to tackle hate crime. and on newsnight: an interview with zelda perkins, a broadcast world exclusive, with the woman who tried two decades ago to bring harvey weinstein tojustice.
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