Friday, 2 October 2009

Friday's papers

A mixed bag of headlines in the papers this morning.

Patients’ lives may be put at risk by “widespread problems” in GP out-of-hours care, claims a report by the Care Quality Commission, the health care regulator. claims the Telegraph as the paper says

A review into the NHS was ordered after the inquiry suggested that badly trained doctors were being employed to look after patients at nights and weekends.


The NHS features on the front of the Guardian as well as it reports that

Britain was served notice by the International Monetary Fund todaythat reforms to healthcare and pensions will be needed to repair the long-term damage to public finances caused by the global recession.


Many of the papers report on the case of the Nursery worker Vanessa George who yesterday admitted sexually abusing children who the Mail says

subjected distraught parents to one last agony yesterday.The 39-year-old classroom assistant maintained a cruel silence over the names of children she sexually assaulted.


The Sun reports that

Parents of children who went to Little Ted's wept as evil mum Vanessa George, 39, admitted to a paedo triangle with Angela Allen, 39, and Colin Blanchard, 38 - both parents themselves.


According to the Times,Tony Blair is in line to be proclaimed Europe’s first president within weeks if the Irish vote “yes” in today’s referendum.

Senior British sources have told The Times that President Sarkozy has decided that Mr Blair is the best candidate and that Angela Merkel has softened her opposition.


The decision by Iran to concede to the atomic inspectors is the lead in the Independent

Iran appeared to pull back from confrontation with the West over its nuclear programme last night, agreeing to admit inspectors to a newly revealed nuclear plant and to surrender some of its enriched uranium to be processed abroad, a concession which could delay or at least complicate its efforts to acquire a nuclear bomb.
says the paper

The head of the Serious Fraud Office signalled his intention today to prosecute the arms company BAE on corruption charges, an unprecedented move immediately supported by the former attorney general, Lord Goldsmith.reports the Guardian

Gordon Brown is ready to leave Britain’s biggest defence manufacturer, BAE Systems, to the mercy of the courts over allegations that it paid millions of pounds in bribes to win contracts,
says the Times

The aftermath of the Sumatran earthquake is covered in all the papers.

Rescue workers on the Indonesian island of Sumatra have said they expect to find several thousand bodies in the wreckage caused by a series of earthquakes.
says the Telegraph

A red letter day for China in the Independent which reports how

China marked six decades of Communist rule with a parade that had everything – a detachment of women soldiers carrying machine guns and wearing purple mini-skirts, lessons in ideological correctness, nuclear missiles and elaborate fireworks, all of which underlined China's powerful new role in the world.


Staying with letters and the Express leads with the news that

CHRISTMAS cards must be sent within three weeks or they may not arrive in time, striking postal unions warned yesterday.
as the paper says that

Thousands of Royal Mail staff are set to walk out nationwide later this month in a dramatic escalation of their bitter and long-running dispute over working conditions.


Finally many of the papers report on the 1st ape women who the Mail says First ape woman wsa only 4ft tall and rather hairy...

She lived at the dawn of a new era, when chimps and people began walking (or climbing) along their own evolutionary trails.
This is Ardi - the oldest member of the human family tree we've found so far
. adding that

Her discovery, reported in detail for the first time today, sheds light on a crucial period when we were just leaving the trees.

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