Thursday 3 September 2009

Thursday's papers


The Independent leads with reports that Alistair Darling, warned yesterday that International complacency risks plunging the world into a double-dip recession.

In a stark message aimed at Germany and France, which want the G20 leading nations to discuss "exit strategies" from measures to stimulate their economies, Mr Darling insisted that governments must carry on spending to ensure the global economy returns to sustainable growth next year.


The Times also leads with the world's financial problems

Alistair Darling is scrambling to plug a gaping hole in the $1.1 trillion global rescue package agreed by G20 leaders in London — hailed at the time as Gordon Brown’s biggest success.
adding that

Some countries, led by Germany, are even calling for the bailout to be scaled back amid fears that it risks burdening economies with too much debt and could encourage inflation.



The Telegraph reports that patients are being sentenced to death on the NHS.

A group of experts have written to the paper

claiming that some terminally ill patients are being wrongly judged as close to death.Under NHS guidance introduced across England to help doctors and medical staff deal with dying patients, they can then have fluid and drugs withdrawn and many are put on continuous sedation until they pass away.


Meanwhile the Times has seen a document which suggests that

The NHS may need to cut its workforce by about 10 per cent — the equivalent of 137,000 staff — to help to meet planned savings of £20 billion,


According to the Sun's latest opinion poll

DAVID Cameron is on course to win a sensational landslide general election victory next May,The Tory leader has notched up a 14 percent lead over Labour in the most crucial opinion poll for five years as voters' fury over the PM's handling of Afghanistan grows.


The fallout from the deal to free

The Mail reports that

Britain was accused yesterday of 'bare-faced lies' over the Lockerbie bomber's release which will damage its special relationship with the U.S. for years.
Gordon Brown faced a backlash at home and abroad after it was confirmed that the Libyans had been told privately that he did not want Abdelbaset Al Megrahi to die in jail.
And the Foreign Office was accused of tearing up a 'cast-iron' promise given to the Americans and the United Nations a decade ago that the terrorist - released last month on compassionate grounds - would stay behind bars in Scotland.



Meanwhile many of the papers report on the story that two British teenagers planned to emulate the Columbine Massacre in America by blowing up a shopping centre and shooting dead their fellow pupils and staff at their school in Manchester.

The Telegraph reports that

Matthew Swift, 18, and Ross McKnight, 16, are alleged to have wanted to put their plan into action on April 20 this year - the 10th anniversary of the rampage by Colorado high school students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold.


In an interview with The Independent,John Prescott has warned that

Europe's climate targets of cutting carbon emissions by 30 per cent by 2020 and 80 per cent by 2050 may not be tough enough to get developing countries into a worldwide global warming deal

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