Sunday 9 August 2009

Sunday's papers


The Telegraph leads with the story that the Conservatives are studying plans to increase VAT to 20 per cent if they win power at the next election as part of an “emergency” package to pull Britain out of the red.

David Cameron, the Tory leader, and George Osborne, the shadow chancellor, are understood to have reluctantly concluded that the state of the public finances they are likely to inherit will mean that simply cutting spending by tens of billions of pounds will not be enough.


The Sunday Times reports

Lord Mandelson is drawing up plans to overhaul university entry that could see applicants from poor families awarded a two-grade “head start” over better-off candidates.
adding that

One of the effects would be to “bump out” many middle-class candidates at high-performing independent and grammar schools from popular courses at leading universities.


The Mail has its sights firmly on the BBC.Under the headline jobs for the boys it reports that

BBC1 Controller Jay Hunt was engulfed in new controversy last night after it was revealed the Corporation paid her first husband for media consultancy work. GR Media was set up in 2006 – when Ms Hunt was in another senior BBC post – and won a lucrative contract only months later


Meanwhile the Express claims that a multi millionaires could be interviewed byMadeleine McCann investigators this week over the movements of her luxury motor cruiser

The Australian socialite, who is believed to be aboard the £5million yacht this weekend, cruising in the Mediterranean, is aware that she has become embroiled in the international hunt for Madeleine.


Britain is facing an infertility timebomb, as couples delay parenthood and damage their chances of having children in later life.says the Observer

Couples are "sticking their heads in the sand" and one expert urged 30-year-old women to take a "fertility MoT" test to reveal their prospects of bearing children. "Women do not realise the importance of age when it comes to fertility,


Finally the The Independent on Sunday has learnt that

Britain is to commit itself to a massive increase in domestic food production to feed the population in the next 40 years,

The UK will announce tomorrow that it intends to "play a full part" in meeting a United Nations target of raising food production by 70 per cent by 2050.

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