Thursday, 22 January 2009

Thursday's papers

Plenty of pictures of Barack Obama in the papers for a second day running with many showing him dancing with his wife as the Inaugural balls.

Perhaps though the best on the front of the Guardian which shows him sitting in the Oval office under the headline,Whirlwind hits Washington as the paper decscribes how the President spent his first day getting of one Bush policy after another.

The Mirror carries a similar picture under the headline taking care of business.

The Independent follows the same lead as the Guardian talking about how Obama's first executive orders were to close Guantanamo prison and calls to Palestinian, Israeli and Egyptian leaders in bid to bring peace to Middle Eastand the Times calls yesterday an Obama peace drive reporting that Obama's first phone call was to President Abbas in the West Bank

The Telegraph concentrates on the news that four out of ten criminal are let off with a caution and that there has been a rise of 82% in violent crime in five years.

The Mail is unhappy that Northern Rock will be paying £9m in bonuses to its staff,the payout to all 4,400 staff is just the first stage in a £50m incentive scheme.

The Sun leads with an exclusive reporting that squatters have set up home in two seven-storey £30m mansions on London’s Park Lane

The Express is the only paper to lead with yesterday's employment figures asking what planet the governemnt are on.saying that it stood accused of losing its grip on reality last night after the full horror of Britain’s economic ­crisis was laid bare.

According to the Independent,businessmen are warming to the idea of a Tory government and think that Gordon Brown's measures to revive the economy are failing.

But if Gordon Brown has problems then as leats he is not in Iceland where the Guardian reports that

Protesters who have mounted vocal demonstrations in recent weeks against
the collapse of the economy squared up to police, spattered parliament with eggs
and paint, and at one point surrounded the prime minister's car as he tried to
leave his office.

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