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tv   The Papers  BBC News  June 16, 2018 10:30pm-10:45pm BST

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possibly as high as high 20s. parting day, hello. this is bbc news. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow mornings papers in a moment — first the headlines. the home secretary has issued a special license allowing doctors to treat severely epileptic, billy caldwell — with illegal cannabis oil. it's prompted calls for wider access to the medication. the home office can no longer play a role, in fact play any role, in the administration of medication for sick children in our country. no other family should have to go through this sort of ordeal. work is continuing to make the glasgow school of art safe, following the fire which gutted the historic building. fire crews will be staying at the scene throughout the night. delegates at sinn fein‘s annual conference in belfast have voted to liberalise the party's policy on abortion. on meet the author this week, my
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guess is the american writer paula mclain whose novel love & ruin tells the story of ernest hemingway and martha gellhorn. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are owen bennett, deputy political editor at huffpostuk and the journalist and broadcaster penny smith. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. the observer pictures the mackintosh building in glasgow destroyed by fire late on friday night. the paper leads on details of a £20 billion injection of extra cash for the nhs, expected to be unveiled by theresa may tomorrow.
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the mail on sunday also leads with the announcement claiming the timing comes as mrs may faces "intense pressure" on her leadership ahead of the eu withdrawal bill debate on wednesday. the sunday express says theresa may's announcement will be accompanied by a crackdown on nhs waste and inefficiency in a bid to ensure all the extra money is well spent. the sunday telegraph says the additional £384 million per week into the nhs after brexit exceeds the amount mooted by the official leave campaign. and, the sunday times pictures 12—year—old billy caldwell being fed cannabis oil by his mother after the home office issued an emergency licence allowing him to have the medicine, the paper leads on its own investigation into uk crime figures claiming fewer than 5% of street robberies and burglaries are being solved. so most papers leading
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on theresa may's announcement tomorrow for a big funding boost for the national health service. shall we start with the telegraph and the nhs announcement?m shall we start with the telegraph and the nhs announcement? it is the 70th birthday of the nhs next month and of course when there was that very unpleasant campaign that went on whether or not we should leave the eu, i think there were a number of people who probably voted to leave, a lot of other reasons, but there were many people who voted because they were told that it would immediately mean a cash injection into the nhs. this is a long time coming but people are finally saying, there we go, there it is. only, is it really? owen. people like borisjohnson will only, is it really? owen. people
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like boris johnson will be only, is it really? owen. people like borisjohnson will be delighted by this like borisjohnson will be delighted by this because he has got this bus hanging around his neck, this 350 million a week and he is desperately to get it off his neck to show that yes, brexit can deliver. when you dig into it it says some money will come from the so—called brexit dividend. let's acce pt so—called brexit dividend. let's accept there is one that some of the money will have to come from tax rises and increased borrowing. the government says for many years it wants to get borrowing down but it wants to get borrowing down but it wants to get borrowing down but it wants to honour the campaign the leave campaign made stop it wants to borrow the money and raise taxes but we do not know where these taxes will come from. some people might say it is a £20 billion a year way to make sure the papers are not running with anti—brexit stories or brexit chaos stories because it is all over the papers tomorrow. the sunday telegraph has a piece with jeremy hunt, the sunday times has an interview withjeremy jeremy hunt, the sunday times has an interview with jeremy hunt and a
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piece with theresa may. they are desperate get this good news about the nhs all over the papers. and the observer is saying now the nhs has more money everyone else's jumping up more money everyone else's jumping up and down saying, i want more, for the police, defence and education. you could argue a case for all of those. i read somewhere that jeremy hunt said he would resign if he did not get the money. apparently, it is all—out war and he will get his hands on the money. this is what people like to say, i will threaten to resign and it is great easy to say you threatened to resign once you got your own way. who could have leaked that to the sunday times, jeremy hunt's great moral stance? is it because he wants to be the next leader and he is unpopular. it because he wants to be the next leaderand he is unpopular. no it because he wants to be the next leader and he is unpopular. no one will ever be annoyed for getting more money to the nhs. a lot of people will say it is all very well pouring money into the nhs but where is the reform that goes with it? if it is the case that a lot of these trusts are running up huge debts, a lot of money is going to pay off
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interest on the debts, surely there needs to be reform to go with it? isn't this a bank cheque to carry on doing what they are doing. in five years' time we will be back here again. maybe we need more political courage. that is so toxic whenever a tory government says that, people say, you mean privatisation.|j tory government says that, people say, you mean privatisation. i have the labour response to this. this is that the nhs is in crisis after eight years of tory cuts and privatisation. this isjonathan astra were the shadow health secretary. theresa may has failed to give the nhs to funding needs and much of the funding announced today is based on wishful thinking. they go on to say labour would have carried on investing properly and therefore you would need this at this particular time. theresa may has failed the nhs in its 17th year this says. and a figure of 3p i have
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picked up, a possible rise in income tax. a lot of people hold the nhs very dear in the hearts and they say, i will pay for that if it keeps the nhs going. would you?” say, i will pay for that if it keeps the nhs going. would you? i don't know if i am allowed to have all sorts of opinion! i think the problem with anything to do with tax is they have tried before to try and ring—fenced money and then it doesn't work because something somewhere needs something immediately and then it will get corralled into... i think if there was a ring—fenced tax and it was going into social care as well... social care reform is a big subject. if people start the money was going to that they would be sympathetic. people think the money should hit the high earners. should not be coming from people suffering from
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austerity, it should have be coming from people who are not. that would be the labour argument. another medical story. this concerning billy coldwell and the government now having to look at legalising medicinal cannabis. first off, what have you made of billy's story?” cannot believe they did not let them through. when you are talking about somebody‘s health, we are talking about the nhs giving opiates to people which can kill you. they are giving essentially medical heroin to people which can kill you. they give all these drugs which can kill you and yet they stall at this one. canada is legalising cannabis. i know alderney in the channel islands is bidding to legalise it and some places in america. so why are we being so tetchy about it? is it a bit of a hot potato? it is. it has
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the word cannabis in there. a lot of newspapers and wings of the establishment get very head—up and think this is the thin end of the wedge and it will lead to other things. sometimes it does take a case like this. this poor boy, 100 seizures a day he suffers and this was reduced dramatically because of this medicine. you would have to have a heart of stone not to feel for this. sajid javid at the home office has been rightly heralded but it should not have been there. if this leads to, for once, my goodness, an intelligent debate about drugs laws in this country, if we could have this without having the hysteria which has surrounded the hysteria which has surrounded the drug debate and we knows around the drug debate and we knows around the brexit debate, we could have a sensible conversation about the medicinal use of cannabis. i know a lot of people want to have that and
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that would be a good thing. lot of people want to have that and that would be a good thingm lot of people want to have that and that would be a good thing. it is interesting. like you say, we have opioids. other people have said when you look at the pharmaceutical companies, you have the synthetic drugs, they won the drugs to come from there and yet so many drugs have started in nature. that is the source of aspirin, you have willow and what have you. maybe it is just the amount of admin involved in getting it through! who knows? let's go to the times. under 5% of burglaries and robberies have been solved. i was looking through this and there will be a lot of people's guarin their home town or city.“ you live in the derbyshire dales, watch out. there were 355 burglaries la st watch out. there were 355 burglaries last year. none were solved. interesting facts, the areas where they have solved the most are the areas they where have put more
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police on the streets. obvious police on the streets. obvious police presence, and that is where they have reduced it. they are saying, that is how you do it. you need people who are around, police officers in the area who know the drill, who can spot something going on and say, that does not look right. that does not sniff right! that is not right. if you are wondering where it is, it is in essex. you have the best figures when it comes to solving crime. it is like you say, because of boots on the ground. that is what they are saying. there are number of comments saying. there are number of comments saying that is what we need. and we come back to the nhs and you could argue that the police therefore need more money. i think one of the things that whenever there are cuts to any kind of force, there are things which it is hard to quantify how good they are and i was thought
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police community support officers, often dubbed plastic bobbies because they did not have power of arrest, i know from working as a local journalist they were vital. they knew what was going on. since they have been reduced and they have been cut back, crime has gone up in certain areas. that intelligence on the ground is not there. they were not running around arresting people, they were a presence and they knew what was going on. i suppose you build up that relationship with the community. you care, i will come and report it. ok, we're going to finish off with the scottish mail on sunday and there can only be one lead story. the headline here: how could it happen again? even worse than that, how could it happen again and is this the time that it will not be resurrected and will not rise like the phoenix from the ashes? this is
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such a sad story. anyone who loves design loves charles rennie mackintosh. this was a grade a art deco building. i have not been in there but i have seen it. when you go to glasgow, there are lots of beautiful buildings but this is a building which has a place in the hearts of people in glasgow. he was such a famous designer. i have looked at pictures of how it was inside and, my goodness, it is so difficult. when i first saw the headline i thought, they are looking back on history. i could not believe it. what were your thoughts? you think not again, surely? there will be questions about how this started. the main question is now, can it be restored and what is the cost? nicola sturgeon says in one paper we will do everything we can but kind of thing reason. is it 35 million
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that has already been spent on doing it up? at what point do you think, we are not able to restore it? that will be a tragedy. i have never been there but i know the building because it is internationally famous. 35 million, do you think that should come from art lovers, donations or should it be coming from the government? and maybe that money that would have been used going into something like bobbies and boots on the ground. that is the trouble when you talk about where should it come from? should it come from wealthy philanthropists perhaps? we were talking to a professor of architecture and he said, idoubt professor of architecture and he said, i doubt it can be saved. they are saying because the very stone, the very fabric of the building has gone, that is the problem. there is damage from the last one. thank you very much. are you coming back? we
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might! go on! that's it for the papers this hour. penny and owen will be back at 11.30 for another look at the papers. now on bbc news, it's time for meet the author.

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