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t£1 “ni fi£1§iifli “£121 t£1 “fl! fi£1§iih ”£121 ‘u£1 “£1 than that heat. temperatures here will probably be hitting 30 degrees in one or two spots. temperatures will be in the mid to high 20s. around 30. goodbye. hello. this is bbc news with shaun ley. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow mornings papers in a moment. first, the headlines: the government wins a key vote over the expansion of heathrow, paving the way for a third runway at the airport. the aye‘s to the right, a15. the no‘s to the left, 119. the lead firefighter in the initial response to the grenfell fire says he wasn't trained in how to evacuate people from a burning tower block. and the government decides to reject a scheme to build a tidal power lagoon in swansea bay. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow.
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with me are caroline wheeler, who's deputy political editor at the sunday times, and jessica elgot, political correspondent for the guardian. walked back to —— welcome the new both. —— welcome to you both. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. the i, which leads on tonight's vote in the commons in favour of heathrow expansion — it focuses on foreign secretary borisjohnson‘s no show for the vote — after he promised to oppose any expansion to the airport. the telegraph has also put heathrow on it's front page, but it says borisjohnson has cast doubt on if the third runway ever will be built. the foreign secretary is reported as saying it could be "a long time coming if indeed it ever comes about". the times is another paper leading on the heathrow vote. it also reports on the increased use of drugs to manage children's behaviour — describing them as a "chemical cosh". the chief inspector of schools has warned parents are trying to "medicate away" bad behaviour. the express says the long hours that doctors are being forced to work are leaving them so exhausted they "act like drunks" and warns patients health could be at risk.
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and finally, the mail says it has uncovered fake and stolen british passports that are being sold on facebook. the paper alleges genuine and fake versions of uk travel documents can be bought for as little as £800. let's plunge in, it is heathrow. possibly to the annoyance of others in the uk, given the government said it would affect the economy uk wide, it would affect the economy uk wide, it isa it would affect the economy uk wide, it is a story that newspapers think is quite important. perhaps the best headline of the lot is the i. air farce 0ne, headline of the lot is the i. air farce one, i think we know what that refers to, the flight that the foreign secretary took out of the country today so he doesn't have to make good on his promise to lie down in front of bulldozers. presumably
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he didn't fly out of heathrow? we think not. he has gone to afghanistan, it appears to have been a hastily arranged trip to afghanistan, hours before the vote. no one would say where he was going, citing security reasons, even afterwards they would not say how long the visit had been planned for. at the end of that, with the security reasons explaining everything, he was revealed to have beenin everything, he was revealed to have been in afghanistan by a tweet by the foreign minister. who clearly didn't get the briefing about security. his argument appears to be, he has released an open letter to his constituents which the evening standard published. he says basically, it would have been pointless me resigning, i can have much more impact inside government influencing this decision. given mps
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have voted overwhelmingly for it to happen, one wonders what influence he could bear? he is trying to make that argument now with one of the newspapers, i think it is the telegraph reporting that he said it might never happen. this story has been rumbling around the years and years and years. this is the most decisive thing that has happened on the whole history of the third ru nway the whole history of the third runway at heathrow in all the time it has been running a long. the argument that somehow he will change the weather on this story is quite frankly, rather ludicrous. equally, there has been some suggestion among there has been some suggestion among the backbenchers of the conservative party that the idea that you can say in one breath i am going to oppose this, i will lie down in front of bulldozers and stop this from happening, then to turn around and say actually, i will not resign, it will be totally pointless because it won't change the vote and it would not. the vote was emphatically in
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favour of a third runway. but i think greg hands, the minister who resigned said he would oppose it. when he said today this was just a vote or debate about heathrow, it was a vote or debate about heathrow, it wasa dab vote or debate about heathrow, it was a dab eight —— debate about being true to your constituents. you could raise the charge of being a hypocrite against many politicians. labour politicians were in favour and now are against. tory politicians like david cameron said that its or buts, no third runway. -- ifs. there were people resigning over it from the tony blair government. i think that one of the things, because the vote was so emphatic, we know that there will be legal reviews, it may still be that the
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third runway doesn't get built but one of the things that certainly seems to be on the ropes...” one of the things that certainly seems to be on the ropes... i said the headline this morning was on the independent, this is the eye... do you think it will be likely to damage, given the decision, to you think this does him any damage in terms of his leadership ambitions are most tory mps who will be shortlisting down to two candidates? yes, what is unusual is that you might hear rumblings behind the scenes and people whispering behind closed doors. very happy to hear any rumblings. to actually get people standing up in the house and making those statements or doing it on twitter... this is conservative colleagues. he has form in terms of
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flip—flopping and not being this honest and open as you would want him to be, obviously remembering there will be lots of criticism of there will be lots of criticism of the £350 million on buses. and equally, the sunday times political editor revealed spectacularly that he had also penned an article where he had also penned an article where he would come out in favour of remain before he decided which way he was going to swing on that. so it does raise questions around integrity. 0ne does raise questions around integrity. one of the difficulties here is that if you were ever to become prime minister, and that is a big if. we can both agree that we have seen their support for him adding away since the last leadership contest, these are the kind of headlines that come back to haunt you. and i think certainly his tenure as foreign secretary, there has been a lot of diplomatic gaffes, libya at the party conference, bad language that is supposedly used
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only a couple of weeks ago about business and brexit. and there just seems to be countless stories and i think it makes tory colleagues, even those among his fans, start to think i don't know if this guy is really the right fit to be prime minister. and i think his chances are slipping to his fingers at. how many times have we talked about sacking him and another moment, another gaffes, something else you think clearly, when you write a long essay undermining the prime minister days before she delivers a speech and nothing happens to him! and he lives to fight another day and he does something else which seems to go on all bets are off. nine political lies. lies. —— lives. let's move on to the times of. story at the top. the use of chemical cosh
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on children doubles in a decade. will show people the article there. it isa will show people the article there. it is a very striking description. it is a very striking description. it clearly is to be one of the striking thing about this is the comments from the head of cap offset, she comes in hard and says it is really implausible that there are this many more cases emerging and it seems to come the norm for us to medicate children who are badly behaved. the use of a favourable drugs that are used to suppress the aggressive behaviour patterns of children. it tells us what ought to be preventable and if this is the case, what is really the group cause? —— route cause was like a psychiatrist here saying that maybe some parents being able to prescribe medicine for eight badly behaved child might reduce the stigma, these
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are quite provocative comments and some parents might find them provocative. is really thought—provoking. provocative. is really thought-provoking. caroline, where you shop why this? we have seen these numbers creeping up over the years and it is not news that they are getting bigger and bigger years and it is not news that they are getting biggerand biggerand only four or five years ago they hit 1 million. what i find interesting about this is that i have three children and i and also chair of governors at a local primary school, so governors at a local primary school, sol governors at a local primary school, so i know quite a bit about children's behaviour and i speak to a lot of parents and one of the things i find quite striking, the school that my children go to is fairly unremarkable, in a london school, it is very ethnically diverse, ina school, it is very ethnically diverse, in a very average area. is a fabulous school, but one of the things i find is that we all worry about our children's behaviour, but there is a real push about not trying to label children. not
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sitting around and saying so—and—so must we dislike sick —— dyslexic, but saying hang on, they are only nine years old, we all develop at different rates. —— dyslexic. the school that my children go to out the school that my children go to our excellent at saying calm down, don't panic and don't be a middle—class parent, in some ways. i have to say, that is obvious we going to be a difficulty to me. but actually think about what you are doing here and actually let us get oi'i doing here and actually let us get on doing what we do best which is teaching your children and not trained to pigeonhole them. i wonder if any of this will start to change gradually because i think there is a bit of pushback from parents who are actually much happier to let their children be children. let's move on to the guardian. jessica, your paper. this is a fairly dramatic
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headline. urgent action to defend uk democracy. which watchdog said this? the electoral commission, they are calling for matic changes to electoral law, some scandals like cambridge analytica scandal, russian interference and generally how special interest groups can affect the outcomes of elections without being regulated because they can spend money online. they say there must be much more stricter regulations of the kind of political outlets you can see on a facebook page or twitter, you have to be really clear who paid for those advertisers. when you look you should know who has paid for it. they are also calling to increase the maximum fines. at the moment, overspending by campaigns, acting pretty much every political party has been fined every time there has been an election because they go over and don't get the spending
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rights to be they say it is currently £20,000. if political organisations are banking that into what they are spending on what incentive do not go over the limit? they say it must be not stricter action around it. what is interesting is how they can do it as one of the things we saw on the referendum and at the general election, around this organic content, lot of what we saw with omentum, was stuff that hadn't come from the centre, it could have been something that was very grassroots, haddi control that? a lot of what people are saying at the general election is that they had quite a lot of impact. that is different because in the days when i started reporting elections at the beginning of the 1990s, it was still the case that the stuff most people were seeing was through the letterbox of. all of that had to see printed and published on behalf of so—and—so.
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now as you say, pretty much anybody can put stuff up and eat my hat —— it might have an impact, we don't know. if you are someone who feels very strongly about an issue in your area that one party is getting it wrong, it takes an awful lot of effort to print a leaflet, but if you want to target a certain person on facebook, you just have to make an advert and if you pay enough, you can reach really quite a huge amount of people would not an enormous amount of effort. so it really does com pletely amount of effort. so it really does completely change who has got the power. in a way, that is a good thing. but also, it does sort of raise questions... you need to know who the message is really from. let's look at the telegraph. i think this is a story that is going to continue throwing up new surprises. this is the evidence that was given by michael dowd, the first lead fire
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officer at the start of the grand shellfire when the london fire brigade first attended the scene. i have to say he had a pretty rough ride at the enquiry today. is suggested, at least, that he simply had not been given the training to prepare him for dealing with the fire. absolutely, and if you listen to the evidence he gave, describing what had happened, and the kind of circumstances of the event, it's very ha rd circumstances of the event, it's very hard not to feel extremely towards him. this is the first firefighter within the authority on the scene and he does admit, the thrust of the story, but he was out of his comfort zone in making decisions he had never made before and had not been trained to do. the main allegation against him is the advice of an expert was that basically the families should have been evacuated a good 50 minutes before they actually were there had been a policy which was for them to
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stay put and he basically admits he didn't do anything to counter that advice that he had been given. i have to say, arriving at that scene, i think anybody that arrived to see that kind of inferno that was unfolding, and the devastation that was going to take place with a number of people involved, would have felt out of their comfort zone. is sorted talks about the realisation of the fire growing, how this is really different to anything he had trained for. he describes him as seeing the way the fire was spreading and he began to feel uncomfortable, he had been a firefighter for 15 years and he had seen nothing like it. you do feel for someone in that situation, it must have been such a stressful
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scenario to must have been such a stressful scenario to someone must have been such a stressful scenario to someone and although it's clear there really were significant dahlias and how the training was done, on a human level... pinning the blame, it feels like... relatively down the food chain. you do feel a level of compassion for him and we don't deal with a number of fires that were used to. that's interesting point. i remember this debate in london about 15 years ago when the fire authority was looking at closing fire stations. people feel passionately about having a local fire station. the point was, most were not in residential properties, they were in industrial estates and fire stations we re industrial estates and fire stations were built on the old model which is when the fires were in houses. cigarettes on sofas, all the things that used to cause fires which don't generally any more. and whether the fire service simply doesn't have the
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level... it doesn't deal with those kind of residential fires level... it doesn't deal with those kind of residentialfires in the same level but certainly not in terms of high—rises. it's not often but when it does happen, it is headline news. you're talking about once every decade that you get something like that. another side of the public service under stress is the public service under stress is the daily express. exhausted doctors act like drunks. which can't help when an a&e is full of drunks half the time. this piece of research debated by the british mental association, not only do doctors do the same test they might do to see they are drunk or not, not only do they are drunk or not, not only do they fail the test —— the test because they are so overworked, they don't realise there'd judge their —— theirjudgement don't realise there'd judge their —— their judgement is don't realise there'd judge their —— theirjudgement is impaired. when they are working so hard, they don't
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realise the effect of tiredness and stress is having on them. there is an evocative description by one doctor saying, he starts to find it really difficult to concentrate towards the end and becomes really, really nervous about making a mistake and you get relatives who distressed around you wondering why you aren't paying attention, when there is another crisis going on. that kind of scenario can impaired judgement. it must be frightening. it's fascinating this is not such concerns around it that the bma has voted to back a motion which sets out their serious concerns about the number of doctors experience turnout. the daily express, itjust reminds me that they were on the side of the junior doctors and campaigns really hard in favour of where they were going in terms of the new contract and this was always one of the concerns around that,
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longer working hours, the fact there was going to be this level of burnout. it's interesting that gone back to pick this up. your paper did something on this on sunday. we are in the run—up to the 70th anniversary of the nhs which many are celebrating but simultaneously, are celebrating but simultaneously, a lot of stories about the day—to—day function of the health service, highly critical. the story out of hospital of the days ago. this story about exhausted doctors. suggesting we have fewer doctors and nurses per capita than many co mforta ble nurses per capita than many comfortable countries. had he think this is going to play out? it's interesting these stories have come out. jeremy hunt, the longest serving health secretary, saying one of the main motivations was the
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report of our patient safety and he has made patient safety that kind of key thing that he's wanted to campaign on throughout the whole of his tenure at the department of health that then you still get headlines about this. even with the $20 billion —— £20 billion that theresa may has said the nhs is going to get, there is this chronic under resourcing, particularly of staff and you wonder with brexit, when that starts to become even more restrictive on the number of doctors and nurses you can give visas to, how that's go to play out. and just in the run—up to gosport, there were drumbeats about patient safety. the story that we had on sunday was about the opiate debts and basically there was a syringe pump that was in use in the nhs for decade longer than other countries. concerns about
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accidental overdoses. it had been magnified by what had happened. what is really interesting about it, you expected him to come out and hit back immediately. it had acknowledged there had been concerns about it. we had this announcement about it. we had this announcement about funding. the next day, there was a backlash. what is it he can do next but really make it work the conservative party. trying to take it away from the labour party. let's move on to a lovely story, jessica, which you spotted on the bottom. next to another cartoon. we often do mac cartoons. a great one. we will
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leave it and talk about the column to the right. what has happened to french butchers who feel under threat. french butchers raise the " ?steaks threat. french butchers raise the " ? steaks against threat. french butchers raise the " ?steaks against the threat. french butchers raise the "?steaks against the big is they have asked for police protection from bega and is to say they are spreading terror among meat lovers. —— vegans. there is exposure of the cause of vegans, whatever that is. and it came days after a lille rotisserie was vandalised. we aren't getting enough detail here. apparently, it's all on page 15. militants vegans attacking butchers. they do take their meat very seriously. as a vegetarian, i would go to france. how were you treated? a second—class citizen. here we go, i've got some chicken. you say you
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don't eat it and they would bring you fish. and eventually, they would bring you a bowl of soup, that was fine and very tasty but it's interesting over the last few years, in france, they are much, much better at providing vegetarian fare. enthusiastic or still reluctant? i wouldn't say enthusiastic but they are taking it on board finally. the least, france's always been the champion, dare i say it, of the common agricultural policy of the farmer and particularly the beef farmer. this protection is extraordinary. the police in france are rather strained as it is. it's usually the farmers who are protesting. now they need the protection. jessica and caroline, a real pleasure to have you both with others. that's it for the papers tonight. don't forget you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website. it's all there for you, 7 days a week at bbc.co.uk/papers — and if you miss the programme any evening you can watch it later
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on bbc iplayer. thank you to caroline and jessica. from us all, goodbye. thank you for your company this evening as well. the weather will stay hot, whether you like it or not. the temperatures will once again hit tomorrow 30 degrees and we certainly got that today in london and most major places had temperatures, most major cities with temperatures in the mid or high 20s. no real change on the weather front. the jet stream or high 20s. no real change on the weatherfront. thejet stream is or high 20s. no real change on the weather front. the jet stream is to the north of others. across iceland and into scandinavia. a bit of a dip here. big high—pressure sitting on
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top of us. extending into scandinavia and the baltic. it's going to be hotting up. temperatures rising in the coming days. the required on the weather front. a rising in the coming days. the required on the weatherfront. a bit misty around some off the coast but thatis misty around some off the coast but that is it. these temperatures, 15, that's not what it is now. it's still around 20 degrees. the weather tomorrow is not much to say. sunny and hot. skyrocketing through the course of the afternoon. what does that mean? if you live in norwich or the coast, quite a bit cooler, 22 celsius to the heat will be transported across the western parts of the uk. anybody that's gone on
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holiday to greece right now, it's not looking great. in the forecast, showers and thunderstorms. 25 in athens. it's warmer here in the uk thanit athens. it's warmer here in the uk than it is in greece. we still have an onshore breeze. all the hot colours you can see here across these western areas, across the lowla nds these western areas, across the lowlands of scotland, maybe glasgow and edinburgh will be a bit hotter than london —— london. do the next few days, into the next weekend. i will point out, by the time we get from saturday night into sunday, there is the possibility of thunderstorms in the south. that is all from me for now. goodbye. welcome to newsday.
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