Monday, 21 September 2009

Monday's papers


Another day and more spending revelations.

Both the Times and the Telegraph lead with the story that a year-long review of funding by business leaders and vice-chancellors, set up by the CBI, urges ministers to abandon their target of getting half of young people into university.with one of its outcomes being that

Middle-class students should bear the brunt of a significant increase in the cost of going to university,


The Independent is at the Lib Dems conference and it leads with Nick Clegg's inteview in which he turned

his fire on the super-rich, revealing proposals to hit owners of million-pound houses in the pocket under Liberal Democrat plans to overhaul the tax system.
adding that

he argued that the wealthiest in society had profited from soaring property prices and tax dodges. His solution is to make them pay their fair share, promising that the extra cash collected would be channelled back into tax cuts for low- and middle-income homes.


Meanwhile the Guardian reports that Vince Cable, will declare that Britain's public spending bill should be cut by £2.4bn a year by freezing the entire budget for millions of public-sector workers,

In an attempt to cast the Lib Dems as the party prepared to take the boldest action to repair the public finances, Cable will warn that only tough and unpopular decisions can work.


Whose lying? asks the Mail as it reports that Labour and the Tories have been trading increasingly personal insults over the economy.

The Telegraph reporting that George Osborne

was embroiled in a fierce row with Labour ministers and the Treasury after he released what he said were “secret” Treasury figures projecting what would amount to a 3 pence in the pound increase in income tax in the years ahead.


The Guardian leads with Barack Obama whom the paper says

has demanded the Pentagon conduct a radical review of US nuclear weapons doctrine to prepare the way for deep cuts in the country's arsenal,


The Times reports that

The White House has announced that Mr Obama will host a meeting of Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister, and Mahmoud Abbas, the President of the Palestinian Authority, tomorrow as he makes his first appearance at the annual UN General Assembly


Meanwhile the Telegraph discloses that

Gordon Brown will this week risk stoking the row over Britain’s relationship with Libya by meeting Col Muammar Gaddafi,


According to the Mail

Drunken behaviour is raging unchecked because offenders are escaping with a 'slap on the wrist'.
adding that

A dramatic collapse in prosecutions has been blamed for removing the shame of being found paralytic in the street.


The Express leads with a simlpe blood test that will

diagnose two of ­Britain’s biggest killer cancers could help save tens of thousands of lives every year,The breakthrough procedure for stomach and bowel cancers will cost as little as £5.


Finally the Sun leads with the story that

THE son of former Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt was yesterday charged with possessing cocaine.
adding that

Nicholas Hewitt Birtles, 21 - whose dad is a judge was held close to his parents' £1million home.
Police had searched him and two friends seen acting suspiciously in a car in Camden, North London.Small wraps of powder are alleged to have been found.

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