News digest 16 January 2012
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Today’s front pages
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Mirror: Left to fend for our
lives (cruise)
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Sun: Cheating rat Ryan
(footballer)
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Express: Captain left us to
drown
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Mail: Was the captain showing
off?
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Times: Right to jury trail
faces axe
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Indie: Clegg wants budget to
target the rich
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Guardian: Give Queen new
royal yacht says minister
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Telegraph: Clegg plans a
‘John Lewis’ economy
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FT: Greece’s creditors seek
end to deadlock
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Morning Star: Lax safety to
blame for cruise horror
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Most of the papers cover the search for survivors on the stricken
cruise ship the Costa Concordia, although as usual the education
secretary puts his foot in it as the Guardian leads with news that
Michael Gove has called for the Queen to be given a taxpayer funded
yacht as a gift for the jubilee.
On the economic front the main news is
that all markets are falling this morning after the downgrade late
last week, but if the UK government thinks it is immune then it’s
time to check the economic data as leading economists think the UK
is already in a double-dip and industrialists have called for
longer term thinking on manufacturing. Chancellor Osborne is
however in China promoting the financial sector and talking of
which as bonuses start to rain down again – Barclay’s Bob Diamond
could be in line for £10 million this year – RBS has been slated
for pulling the funding for struggling retailer Peacocks, if the
retailer falls 10,000 jobs will go.
The Morning Star reports that the job
crisis is expected to worsen, while the Telegraph reports civil
servants fear for their jobs at the MoD, some of the papers also
report on action by 20,000 tax officers who are walking out over
government plans to bring in private companies to do their
work.
On the political front the knives remain
out for Ed, as a Blairite advisor defect to the Tories Miliband
backs the government’s public sector pay freeze (the line was
announced by Balls on Saturday), while Clegg tries to move onto the
compassionate capitalism ground by talking of a ‘John Lewis’
economy and Cameron tries not to be outfoxed by Alex Salmond and
agrees to meet to discuss the future of the UK and one minister in
trouble is Welsh secretary Cheryl Gillan who sold her home on the
HS2 route two months before the link was given the go
ahead.
For the rest of us it may well be time to
tune in to the FT’s ‘Adjusting to austerity’ analysis of the future
for the UK economy, it’s headline is ‘Brutal for Britain’ a pretty
fair summation of the Con-Dem government’s achievements to date,
and if you think that’s depressing well today is ‘Blue Monday’
officially the most depressing day of the year as the Christmas
glow fades, credit card bills drop on doormats, new year
resolutions are broken and the cold sets in, well suppose it means
the only way is up…
Daily Mirror
Sun
Express
Mail
Times (no links all
stories behind paywall)
- Right to jury trail faces axe (p1)
- Deal with China shows way forward, Osborne says (p1)
- Children of 10 not criminals (p6)
- Modernise party or we’ll lose, new MPs tell cameron (p15)
- Miliband still against deep cuts (p15)
- Powers for Scotland must be decided by all Britons, say Lib
Dems (p17)
- £2bn prisons sell-off opens door to mass privatisation
(p31)
- Unilever workers to start strike action (p32) – Unite
cited
- Balfour Beatty members to be reballoted (p32) – Unite
cited
- Air traffic control more than a blip on Lufthansa’s radar
(p36)
- HMRC set for spring offensive against online traders (p37)
Indie
Guardian
Telegraph
FT (no links all stories behind
paywall)
- Greece’s creditors seek end to deadlock (p1)
- Call to rein in ‘shadow banking’ (p1)
- Military warns UK gas imports at risk if Iran blocks Gulf
strait (p1)
- Osborne promises extra cash for IMF (p2)
- Coalition faces backlash on regional pay (p2)
- Miliband calls for clamp on Channel tax havens (p2)
- Cameron wants to discuss vote with Salmond (p3)
- Rise in women directors peters out (p4)
- Clegg to push for ‘John Lewis’ economy (p4)
- Airport operator reviews growth options (p4)
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Fury as minister sells HS2 house (p4) (link to Telegraph
article)
- Triple action on jobs and pensions [including Unilever]
(p4)
- Eurozone crisis fall out (p6)
- Adjusting to austerity (p9)
- Faltering banks threaten to knock US recovery hopes (p17)
- Murdoch attacks Obama over opposition to online piracy laws
(p17)
- Pub group Wetherspoons warns of tax threat to plans (p17)
- RBS staff consider buy-out of advisory business (p18)
- High speed rail link praised (p19)
- Pressure on RBS to help save peacocks (p20)
Morning Star
Edited by Mik
Sabiers
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