Tuesday, 29 September 2009

Turesday's papers


The verdict in the inquest of Fiona Pilkington and her daughter Francecca Hardwick, . knocks the Labour party conference off many of the front pages.

Why did nobody listen to them asks the Independent reporting that

A series of blunders by police and social workers left a mother feeling so isolated that she burned herself and her disabled daughter to death after a 10-year hate campaign by youths made their lives intolerable.


An inquest jury decided that a mother who killed herself and her disabled daughter after a decade of abuse from a gang had been let down by a criminal justice system that did little or nothing to protect them. says the Telegraph

Whilst the Mail reveals reveals one of the families behind the reign of terror about which the police and council appeared either powerless or indifferent.

The Sun outs the hoodie it says was at the centre of the abuse

THIS is the yob branded a "street rat" whose gang terrorised fireball suicide mum Fiona Pilkington.
Hoodie Alex Simmons, 16, is pictured for the first time - after an inquest jury yesterday accused cops and officials of failing Fiona, 38, and her disabled daughter Francecca, 18.

The Times leads with the news that

A 14-year-old schoolgirl has died after being given a vaccine to protect against cervical cancer as part of the national immunisation programme.


Natalie Morton, a pupil at Blue Coat Church of England school in Coventry, died yesterday afternoon at the city’s University Hospital hours after receiving Cervarix. The NHS in Coventry said that no link had been made between her death and the HPV jab, but that it had quarantined the batch used at the school as a precaution.


To the Labour conference and the Guardian reports that the Prime minister will attempt to woo Middle Britain with tough line on anti-social behaviour saying

parents of errant children must lose access to benefits unless they agree to accept support to improve their parenting skills. It reflects overwhelming internal polling evidence that the public want stronger action on antisocial behaviour and blame society's ills on family breakdown.


Lord Mandelson's speach is well covered.The Times says he

electrified the Labour conference yesterday with a barnstorming call to arms in which he told his flagging party that if he could make a comeback it could do the same.


The Independent describes how he

received a rapturous reception and announced a £100m boost for the motor industry by extending the cash-for-bangers scheme. He told his party to cheers: "If I can come back, then we can come back."


Was this the moment that the party finally fell in love with him asks the Mail

The Express leads with a European story reporting that

Brussels wants European Union countries to allow its bureaucrats the right to delve into millions of people’s personal financial details.


The Telegraph describes how Roman Polanski's arrest has provoked a diplomatic row as the French government accused the United States of behaving in a "sinister and scary" manner.

Bernard Kouchner, France's foreign minister, and his Polish counterpart Radek Sikorski, jointly wrote to Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, to protest at the Oscar-winning director's arrest in Zurich. "This affair is frankly a bit sinister. This is not nice at all," Mr Kouchner said.


Finally the Times reports on the death of the girl who inspired the song Lucy in the Sky with diamonds

Lucy O’Donnell was 4 years old when her classmate at nursery painted a picture of her, surrounded it with stars and squiggles and took it home to show his parents.
“It’s Lucy in the sky with diamonds,” Julian Lennon told his father, inspiring one of the Beatles’ most enigmatic songs and carving his friend a slice of musical immortality.
adding that

Real life could never match that and yesterday St Thomas’ Hospital, Central London, said the woman the world knew as “the girl with kaleidoscope eyes” had died on holiday in Norfolk after suffering for years from lupus, a vicious disease of the immune system that causes the body to attack its own cells. She was 46.

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