Wednesday 29 July 2009

Wednesday's papers


According to the Telegraph

A billion pounds is to be spent on creating tens of thousands of "soft" public sector jobs for unemployed people including dance assistants, tourism ambassadors and solar panel engineers.


Jobs are also the focus in the Times which has learnt that

More than 100 jobs at the British Council are to be
outsourced to India as part of a massive cost-cutting drive to save the taxpayer money,


The Sun focuses on the story of Cpl Tony Duncan, whom the paper reports

had shown amazing determination to recover from a leg wound he received when shot in Iraq and join Operation Panther's Claw.
He ignored the pain caused by nerve damage in his once-shattered limb to take part in the four-week battle to oust 500 Taliban from a Helmand stronghold.


but now says that the MOD is trying to claw back compensation awarded to a wounded soldier.

According to the Independent

Britain's top accountancy firms are channelling resources and staff worth hundreds of thousands of pounds into the Conservative Party ahead of an anticipated Tory government after the general election.


Rather unusually the Guardian and the Mail lead with the same story this morning and it's a health scare story.

Ministers are preparing to clamp down on the cosmetic tanning industry after international experts on cancer said sunbeds belonged in the same category of carcinogenic risk as tobacco smoke.
reports the Guardian


whilst the Mail's headline Sunbeds as lethal as cigarettes reports that

Before this, sunbeds and sunlamps had been classified as ‘probably carcinogenic’, placing them one rung below the most dangerous products.


Finally the Express reports on the comments of a judge who

launched a blistering attack on Britain’s ­“desperate” immigration ­policy and the Government’s failed welfare system.Judge Ian Trigger also savaged the delay in kicking immigrants out of the UK once it had been ruled that they were here illegally.

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