‘sunny broadly speaking, a day of sunny spells and showers. hail mixed in. in the short—term, the main concern is flooding rain and strong winds through sunday. hello. this is bbc news with martine croxall. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment. first, the headlines: the love island presenter caroline flack has been found dead at her flat in london. the ao—year—old had been due to stand trial next month

for assault, a charge she denied. herfamily so for assault, a charge she denied. her family so she took her own life. there have been many tributes. itb‘s philip schofield wrote "you poor darling girl, my heart is breaking". claudia winkelmann tweeted "such heartbreaking news". the army helps to prepare for the worst as storm dennis begins to batter the uk. more than 100 flood warnings are in place, with three of the meaning a threat to life. france announces the first death in europe of a victim of the coronavirus. people returning to beijing risk punishment if they do not go into quarantine for 1h days. the duchess of cambridge says her amazing grannie inspires her parenting in a new pod casts. —— podcast. hello, and welcome to a look at what the papers will be bringing us

tomorrow. with us a entertainment journalist and broadcaster caroline frost and the broadcaster penny smith. the front pages are in. many of them are looking at the death of caroline flack. here is the sunday people. it says 1979— 2020. the love island star ta kes says 1979— 2020. the love island star takes her own life, aged just 40. in star takes her own life, aged just a0. in the mail, kate struggled with mummy guilt. the duchess talks about morning sickness and noisy george in a soul bearing interview. in the 0bserver, the attorney general is in a controversial list sacked, despite its founder being accused of sexual abuse. —— controversial buddhist sect. the coronavirus sparks a dramatic shift in government policy. and in the sunday times, number ten tells the bbc the license fee will be scrapped and replaced with a subscription. there is a consultation under way at the moment, we will talk about that in a

moment. let's start with the sunday people. a very simple and beautiful front—page of caroline flack. a photograph of her, it gives the date that she was born and, sadly, the date she has died. the love island star ta kes date she has died. the love island star takes her own life, aged just a0. and to so many people she had everything to live for, but she could not see what, it appears, what was coming away next absolute helplessness, impaired with, and a juxtaposition with, all the glamour and fun and glitz and everything we have come to associate with her role at the helm of love island and other popular shows. -- and paired with. as you say, a much blubbered figure, particularly with a useful audience. —— much beloved figure. the dates are horrifying reading. a0 is no age, and she looks even younger than that. it is a beautiful photo and just a reminder that everybody, whatever they appear to have going

in their lives, it is everybody‘s very personal story. there has been a lot of comment on twitter, people saying, for goodness sake, if we do one thing can we be kinder to each other? i think that is the problem at the moment, it is about social media, of all sorts. and i know there have been comments about how it was the media, it was down to the media, hounding her, but, you know, we know now from some of the papers today about her management criticising the crown prosecution service for going ahead with the case despite the fact that her boyfriend had said that he didn't support it. this was the allegation that she had assaulted him. we have got all these angles. and we also know that she talked in the past about anxiety and depression. all those things. we have just said, the point is, when you go into that black place, that dark, gloomy place where it is all looming ahead of you

and you cannot see your way through, you just know, you know, when people post and say samaritans, et cetera, yes, but that depends on you not having gone to the extent where you have really not been able to see the point in carrying on in a terrible, terrible situation. we have had this conversation so many times, haven't we? all sorts of problems that happen through social media, but people have to walk the walk. even today there are levels of irony. people are talking about the story and other people are piling onto them, accusing them of double standards. i have received it myself, and i have nothing like the profile of this poor girl. you do think, don't you, social media provides that anonymity and platform. you forget that there are real people on the receiving end of it. it is a powerful tool at its most positive. we saw that even this week. so sad and poignant, her last instagram post was only a8 hours

ago, it had something like 130,000 likes. but is an enormous number of people to be reaching in one go. and i think that these are, this is the sort of double—edged sword of great power and great communication but also, of course, it means it can come back at you. it is a time for all of us to think about this. as we participate in reading the stories i think we're all complicit. david baddiel wrote a very personal comment about the fact that twitter unfortunately plays to our worst excesses, the hideousness of humans sometimes when we become the baying mob. we were saying earlier, we are all descended from people who used to attend coliseum ‘s and public hangings and all sorts, and we are bastille folk and we have been legislated and hopefully guided through some sort of decorum, at least. —— bestial folk. through some sort of decorum, at least. —— bestialfolk. we see lots about on social media. we see virtue signalling, we see good things on

the violent, people getting called out the bad on screen. it is a platform, as with any of these tools. it is how we choose to expend them. the sunday express also has caroline flack on the front page, tv star caroline dead at a0. dies in london flat. yes, we have talked about this before. it is so difficult to know how sustained the concern is, because memories fade and the poison starts again on social media platforms. and the poison starts again on social media platformslj and the poison starts again on social media platforms. i come off these platforms quite often from time to time because it makes my head spin. and i'm not subject to the unpleasa ntness that head spin. and i'm not subject to the unpleasantness that some people are. no. but whatl the unpleasantness that some people are. no. but what i don't do sometimes defend other people, because if you do, you then attract a pylon yourself. and, you have to be, you have to be so robust to be able to cope with it. and also, we are fortunate to have remembered a time when social media was not so integral to our sense of self.

time when social media was not so integral to our sense of selflj feel better when i'm not using it, just saying. that tells you everything. here we are. bbc is on the front page of the sunday times. does that make you feel better? who is the sunday times owned by, i've fo rg otte n ? is the sunday times owned by, i've forgotten? number ten tells the bbc license fee will be scrapped. tv channels face the axe and moved to subscriptions. there is a consultation going on at the moment about the decriminalisation of the licence fee. it does seem very odd, doesn't it? that in this day and e, doesn't it? that in this day and age, when we have so many ways of watching television and listening to radio or anything else, it does seem very odd. but the whole bbc is an anachronism. so is the nhs. but a lot of people believe it is part of the hot cultural fabric of this country. —— the cultural public. the hot cultural fabric of this country. -- the cultural public. and it isa country. -- the cultural public. and it is a huge aspect of soft global power, not to be estimate that underestimated. it is a huge ecosystem. it is easy to pluck out

ha rd ecosystem. it is easy to pluck out hard pulling strings about, yes, we know that there are very, very highly overpaid stars. we know this. but we also know that it is a sort of... it isa but we also know that it is a sort of... it is a tree where plants and a concept sony on local radio... but is where i started. technical, r&d started, there are so many parts of it but i think to sort of say, we know that it doesn't work, because of this or that star who is in an ad... you can speak to anybody who works at the bbc and they will tell you things that could do with being addressed. long—standing problems, you know, all sorts of things. some of them commercial, some of them cultural. yes, of course. but once you have said all that, is the bbc a force for good in the world or not, and of course, sitting here on the tv, we will say yes. and i think when you look at this, it does actually comment quite a way down the article about the general population is generally... buried,

buried quite a way down! high approval ratings with more than 80% of voters. exactly. how often do you get one of those. still the most trusted news organisation. by quite a margin. and also, you know, you have to remember it as a global brand. it is such a big global brand. it is such a big global brand. it is such a big global brand. it would be very sad, i think, tojust throw brand. it would be very sad, i think, to just throw the brand. it would be very sad, i think, tojust throw the baby brand. it would be very sad, i think, to just throw the baby out with the bathwater. well, they will bea with the bathwater. well, they will be a lot of people, it is a0 started, lots of people coming to the bbc prospect events. so we will see. and it is a senior source was even named. —— and the bbc‘s defence. a senior source, i wonder who it could be. and i wonder whether boris johnson who it could be. and i wonder whether borisjohnson agrees. we will see. sorry, i knowi whether borisjohnson agrees. we will see. sorry, i know i am expressing a few, but if i can't expressing a few, but if i can't ex press a expressing a few, but if i can't express a few about the bbc... this is what i am really like, you see? millions told to stay at home if the coronavirus spreads. i couldn't do

much from home on the side it on skype. well, lots of people couldn't. -- unless i did it on skype. there will be people who say, unless i go and get tested, how do i know i have coronavirus? i've probably got a cold. i probablyjust don't feel well. because when people say, i've got a cold, family times have you had a cold and you go, i really feel worse than if i had something else? if you are a man you genuinely do feel worse. when not going to say that! no, we're not. we're not going to allow gender stereotyping. nevertheless. i mean, it is absolutely impossible, isn't it? i do think that all you can do, surely, isjust wash it? i do think that all you can do, surely, is just wash your hands a lot and... don't sneeze on people. please don't cough and then wipe your hand on the escalators! the basic public hygiene. basic public hygiene. do you carry hand sanitiser? i don't, because it does make your hands off i. but i do... i

love it. i rather love a bit of antibacterial. don't worry about the 99% of germs that they are protecting you from. i always think, what is that 1% doing? exactly, the rogue one. ijust think if what is that 1% doing? exactly, the rogue one. i just think if you what is that 1% doing? exactly, the rogue one. ijust think if you are out and about, as soon as you get somewhere and they say, try not to rub your eyes, try not to eat anything without having wash your hands if you have been out and about and all the rest of it, surely that is the most we can do. and then ring 111 if you are feeling really rubbish. don't go wandering around. no, don't carry on wandering around. but i come back to the point i made earlier, they will be lots of people who say, i cannot afford to take ia days off on the off chance that i might have the coronavirus, which, when we look at it, the people who have had it in the uk have all got better. they all had mild symptoms. what is strange is that you go somewhere, you visit asia, everybody is plastered in masks and you think, they are also paranoid. and it is

only afterwards you realise they are trying to be considerate and the reason lots of people are wearing masks is to protect notjust themselves but other people. and perhaps that is something we can think of. we can cherry pick the good stuff from this stranger in british medical history. ——. —— strange era. so, boris johnson has changed his mind about mansion tax and has basically said, we have worked it out it was about 48 hours after the departure of the chancellor, who was in charge of the abacus and has done his sums and there was money. programmes you now that that sum has been rewritten in the mansion tax is no longer. it would have affected people disproportionately. it's gone up people disproportionately. it's gone up hugely? during a re—evaluation of

homes, council taxes would have gone up. if you're going to try to keep voters in the north of england happy, those who have never voted conservative and are hoping they come through with the promises they made about infrastructure and investment, trying to rebalance the north and south. a lot of those boats have been referred to in being lent rather than given. will they be permanent? what they need to do is flog defences? let us finish with the mail on sunday. kate, my struggle against mum guilt, hip no birthing, morning sick this, how george turned my life upside down, duchess gives sole bearing interview. i've know about working mothers guilt, you feel like you are not doing either well. that is the

thing. and let's be kind, this is... this is her sort of saying, i might have this privileged life that i still have all the same worries and call draw the same traumas as many other people who have children the morning sickness she had was unarguable. a cynic might say this is kate and william making a dash for the status expects space vacated by harry and meghan and they adjust to normal struggling to cope. they obviously thought, what do we have in common with the people over whom we will someday rain. and the answer is, noisy children. children and animals are great levellers. they don't care if you have a crown or a trs they've gone for something that does