Wednesday, 25 March 2009

Wednesday's papers


Yesteday's comments by the governor of the Bank of England make many of the front pages.

The Times says that his remarks laid bare tensions between Gordon Brown and the Treasury yesterday by warning that Britain could not afford a second economic stimulus in the Budget.

The Telegraph reports that the warning is likely to anger the Prime Minister, who yesterday called on other countries to deliver “the biggest financial stimulus the world has ever seen”.

Whilst the Mail under the headline the bank and No 10 at war says

The extraordinary warning to Gordon Brown not to blow billions on a second 'fiscal stimulus' came perilously close to breaching the convention that the head of the Bank does not question Government policy.


According to the front page of the Independent,social networking sites will be coming under the gaze of the government as

Millions of Britons who use social networking sites such as Facebook could soon have their every move monitored by the Government and saved on a "Big Brother" database.


The Guardian also leads with the digital age as it reports that draft plans to overhaul the primary school curriculum will

require children to master Twitter and Wikipedia and give teachers far more freedom to decide what youngsters should be concentrating on in classes.


There are many pictures on the front pages of the British yachtsman,Malcolm Robertson who was murdered by pirates off the coast of Thailand when a robbery went wrong

Finally the latest cancer cure is on the front page of the Express

Eating oily fish just once a week could help men to survive prostate cancer, scientists revealed yesterday.

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