Monday 6 July 2009

Monday's papers


Differing headlines in the papers this morning.

The Independent reports that

City accountancy firms are putting proposals to investment banks that would see high-earning bankers avoid the full impact of the new top rate of income tax on their bonuses.


According to the Telegraph,Police officers are spending an increasing amount of their time on paperwork, despite the Government's claim to have cut the burden of red tape,

The Times has learnt that health records could be transferred to Google or Microsoft under a Tory government.

Patients will be given the option of moving their medical notes to private companies after the Conservatives said that they would replace Labour’s “centrally determined and unresponsive national IT system”.


The Guardian reports that

Former Guantánamo detainee Binyam Mohamed has launched an urgent legal attempt to prevent the US courts from destroying crucial evidence that he says proves he was abused while being held at the detention camp,


Coffee may well stave off Alzheimers is the lead in the Express and finally the Mail continues its campaign to prevent the deportation of Gary Nckinnon as it reports that

The Home Secretary has been warned by his own adviser on terror laws not to allow the extradition of autistic computer hacker Gary McKinnon.

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