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a lot of small, really big chains. a lot of small, independent shops are going out of business with big rent rises. councils are saying they have been cut over again by central government and must pass on the costs. everybody is trying to balance it everywhere. one way the government might be tried to help is on the front of the i. it links in a bit with the story on the front of the times. it is about amazon being given a bit of a clobbering. what the i says is something they might do, not save the high street that mitigate the crisis. he is talking about temporary tax measures against multinational companies like amazon. that may mean they would have to charge us more for the products. what the times is reporting tomorrow isa what the times is reporting tomorrow is a different story about amazon, which is the next week the
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advertising standards authority will tell amazon they can no longer say they are amazon prime in the adverts that promises next day delivery to customers. who knows how many amazon prime subscriptions have been sold solely off the back of that promise, at least indirectly or as part of the picture behind it? it speaks to the picture behind it? it speaks to the nagging doubts, i think, the picture behind it? it speaks to the nagging doubts, ithink, in the picture behind it? it speaks to the nagging doubts, i think, in the backs of quite a lot of consumers brains which is, i want to shop online, it is more convenient. i really trust the companies i am buying from in the same way we trust the family department store? do you succumb to that? i know i have. when i want something, i want it immediately. i am very patient. i did yesterday ordered something from amazon. i needed a machine to feed my cat while i am away. i was told it would come next day and it is not coming next day, so i have to get a
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human to come in and do it. i notice next day delivery was not quite there and everything was cheaper. that is the killer. it is cheaper, partly for taxation reasons. they are not taxed in the country.” think government have repeatedly tried to claim they are too scared to do anything. amazon is very big. the government could do something and we cannot have these big companies like google, facebook and amazon do exactly what they want and act as if they are above government and ruin things in the process. i think the government can and should do things we are beginning to see a slight tide turning against them in this way. i'm sure on my companies would not said a swindle anyone out of anything. the broader point you are making which was not tied in
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specifically to amazon. having dipped his toe in the water in this way, philip hammond, will yet to put his money where his mouth is come the budget? certainly in the short—term there will have to be something that the government can do, can be seen to be doing, to try to mitigate this. in the longer term the government will have to think about why people care about high—street shops going. that is something much broader about community in what globalisation is doing to how people see their village, their town, their city. that is more, the gated than one budget and one throwaway comment by the chancellor. let's look at the daily telegraph. leaving aside the cricket in the rain, they have hammond eyes amazon tax and also a story about boris johnson. let's focus on the story about universities. this is really intriguing after all years of student struggling to get in on all the arguments over student finance. maybe now the boot is on the other
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foot. basically, the story points out that, over the past years, when the government came in and said they would raise these two £9,000, they said that would come with a lift in cap on student numbers so universities could, because they had their teaching grant taken away, they could bring in more students make more money that way and it would be balanced out. the problem is they cannot fill those places. i worked in clearing at warwick university. we any had a small number of places to fill but whenever i speak to academics now, they select clearing has become huge. 0ne successful university encourages people to fill places even at this late stage. it is strange that
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universities mentioned in this story are russell group universities with long heritage is and good reputations. ones who you would expect to be turning pupils away. bristol and leeds and liverpool. there is something really striking here which speaks to the heart of what universities are on what they have become since the cap on fees was raised first by tony blair and then rapidly by david cameron and nick clegg. can they take on as many students as they one question that should they want to take on as many students as they want? might the university ‘s something putting off people? since labour and the tories raised fees, the culture at university has changed. before fees, stu d e nts university has changed. before fees, students would apply and they wanted a university experience so if they did not get into one university they would go to another. a lot of stu d e nts would go to another. a lot of students are thinking if they do not
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get into theirfirst students are thinking if they do not get into their first choice university, why not do an apprenticeship or go to europe and study for free question other has been a big culture change. students are treating university, instead of just an enjoyable thing where you might have fun, they are treating as a big investment. has come back to her at the universities. all the things we now see which did not exist before like online rating of courses and staff and the institutions. stuff in my day, very long time ago in the late 805 did not exist. you had really the univer5ity pro5pectu5 and whatever that glossy to document told she was the information you had. that is not always a bad thing. when you was very ha rd always a bad thing. when you was very hard to find that information good and bad. it is good for the prospective student to know what they are letting themselves in for. 0n the other hand it is also important we do not commodified whole thing too much. it is tempting danger, i suppose.
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whole thing too much. it is tempting danger, i5uppo5e. let's move whole thing too much. it is tempting danger, i suppose. let's move onto the front of the sun newspaper. we have done our best to avoid boris john5on tonight but we cannot quite avoid it and we cannot re5i5t john5on tonight but we cannot quite avoid it and we cannot resist it at lea5t avoid it and we cannot resist it at least for newspaper review, if only for the story in the times. i5 least for newspaper review, if only for the story in the times. is this ju5t for the story in the times. is this just a silly summer 5tory? for the story in the times. is this just a silly summer story? it is not. of the range of sanctions available to be conservative party as they are investigating boris johnson, one of them is to send him to diversity shredding. there is no way they will expel him from the tory party or remove the whip. it would provoke the mother of all i’ows. would provoke the mother of all rows. even tory mps like who think you should apologise, i do not genuinely think this is worthy of an expulsion. i was wondering what would borisjohnson expulsion. i was wondering what would boris johnson and expulsion. i was wondering what would borisjohnson and his diversity training looked like. it
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is the perfect daily telegraph column for that he could go and it could be mocked in the following daily telegraph on monday. could be mocked in the following daily telegraph on mondaym could be mocked in the following daily telegraph on monday. it is a win — win situation. do you find that frustrating? i think you for a long time, boris johnson that frustrating? i think you for a long time, borisjohnson has managed to cultivate this image of teflon boris, funny boris, whatever. he has had a number of symbols. his resignation did not go as well as wa5 resignation did not go as well as was hoped. the backlash has been incredible. there is an investigation as to whether he took thejob to quickly investigation as to whether he took the job to quickly and it should have been referred to a parliamentary body before he started it. it shows the conservative party needs stronger disciplinary action. if you send someone on disciplinary training it is because they misunderstood something and they will get something out of it. boris will see as a joke. most media on
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his side will see as a joke. you need to do something to get boris to explain why this is an issue, why he has upset a lot of potential voters, why lots of people wearing the veil real he has victimised them. dawn is right this is —— dawn is right. if this is the sanction that is imposed, it is about in general where they stand on zist—century britain in the tory party. in america they are allowed to call a cultural war. it is not at that stage yet but we are seeing the contours of a future tory leadership election emerge. in terms of the advantage of having kind of referred this to a complaints process, presumably this means the party could say, i am sorry, it has to go
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through the complaints committee, we have to stand back from that. call us have to stand back from that. call us in have to stand back from that. call usina have to stand back from that. call us in a couple of months. the tory party chairman is defending himself against angry pro—boris tory mps by saying a complaint was received, we had to begin the preliminary process. quietly, next week i will not proceed beyond that stage foot in this case it came from lord sheikh, a long—standing tory peers. it is other more serious and more within the family status and if i started calling up to complain about tory mps. that be quite a handy way to generate stories in august. does it feel like the dog days of august? maybe about real four years ago we saw the end of silly season and a lot of journalists and saw the end of silly season and a lot ofjournalists and politicians felt that over the summer months they could have a bit of a break and kickback. we are living in such a
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polarised environment we do not have silly season anymore, we constantly have political schism is happening. henry is right. it shows the tories have to decide whether they embrace 215t—ce ntu ry have to decide whether they embrace 215t—century britain or follow along with boris. lord sheikh is very upset. he has had many threatening e—mails which he is referring to the police. the tories still have to have this argument and they have to make a decision on where they stand here. suddenly it does not look so funny. thank you both for now. any will be back at 11:30 p:m., taking a look at all the other papers which have come through. —— i know you will be back. you can watch the papers online on the bbc news website. if you missed this programme any evening of the week, it is on the eye player. thanks to my guests. they will be back shortly. —— the bbc i'd player. i
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will be back with a summary of the news. good evening. very changeable weather for this weekend. not as extreme as we saw today because there were short lived monsoon like downpours leading to flash flooding, particulars and the south of england. things have calmed down for a little while and we may be largely dry on saturday. more places will have rain at times on sunday. it is very changeable because weather is coming in from the atlantic but it is very slow with this area of cloud eventually pushing our way. that cloud go storms earlier on. we still have a few showers lingering in the north east of scotland for a while but these are becoming fewer and lighter. 0n the whole we have clear skies and light winds with temperatures falling away quickly. a call night, four or 5 degrees. —— a cool night. there has not been much
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play for the first two days of the test match but it is setup to be a cracking third day. starting sunny and ending cloudy and probably staying drivers to be start sunny across many parts of the uk. —— staying dry but we start sunny. increasing cloud across scotland and eastern england. the sunshine is a bit hazy. 0n the whole temperatures may be a bit higher than today. we still have this rain around as we head into the evening and it will continue to work its way north and east, further across the uk. it is hit and miss. east, further across the uk. it is hitand miss. no east, further across the uk. it is hit and miss. no more than a moderate to fresh wind around those western coast. 0ur area of low pressure is slowing down, filling, and this weather front is slowing down as well which will bring headaches for the second half of the weekend. a fair bit of cloud around. rain moving northwards slowly,
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rather than eastwards. equally there may be brightness and a bit of sunshine with heavy rain towards the south and south—west later on. it is muqqy' south and south—west later on. it is muggy, humid air. when the sun is out it will feel warmer temperatures of 22, 20 three. not a wash—out as we head into the early part of next week with near normal temperatures for the time of year. rain in the north—west on tuesday and getting warmer in the south east. this is bbc news.
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i'm ben bland. our top stories: the struggling department store house of frasier is bought for £90 million. what it means for its 17,500 staff remains unclear tonight. i think we are alljust trying to keep each other up, trying to stay motivated and find a good outcome. we hope they will find some solution, finally, you know? nothing is finished yet. the uk's feelgood summer boosts the economy. the warm weather, the royal wedding and the world cup ring improved growth figures of 0.4%. a muslim convert is facing life in jailfor a muslim convert is facing life in jail for plots to kill 100 a muslim convert is facing life in jailfor plots to kill 100 people in a terror attack outside a department store on 0xford a terror attack outside a department store on oxford street. also this hour, 1600 people have been evacuated from campsites in southern france to front —— flash floods hit
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