News digest 17 January 2012
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Mirror: Saved by human ladder
(cruise ship)
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Sun: Olympic security secrets
left on train
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Express: Old age care to cost
you double
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Mail: Britannia can rule the
waves (yacht)
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Times: Hiding with the Syrian
rebels
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Indie: Tory MPs at war over
gay marriage
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Guardian: Labour’s chief
union backer attacks Miliband
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Telegraph: State to help
elderly to downsize
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FT: Monti warns of
backlash
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Morning Star: Sell off sparks
tax office walkout
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Today’s top story sees bad news for Ed
Miliband as Unite’s general secretary Len McCluskey takes the
Labour party to task for backing the Con-Dem coalition’s pay freeze
for public sector workers. Many of the other papers advice the
opposition leader what to do, but it would be best if he listened
to the millions of ordinary people that form the party’s core
supporters. Miliband should stop following the government line and
instead lead the opposition, the clue’s in his job title. At least
Miliband can console himself with the fact that it knocked the
story about the resignation of his twitter tsar out of the
headlines.
Other political stories see Clegg’s call
for a ‘John Lewis’ economy rubbished as well as his hopes for a
mansion tax which the Tories have blocked, Huhne is accused of
leaking the letter about the new royal yacht which has now got the
backing of the prime minister but Cameron says we will not have to
pay for it, is he planning on magicing the money out of thin
air?
On the economic front as 10,000 jobs
remain under risk at the high street Müller has taken over UK dairy
Wiseman, there’s more coverage of Shell closing its research
centre, Nestle is closing a coffee factory while strike action at
Unilever is about to ramp up despite what the Guardian’s economic
correspondent Philip Inman says. Tanker drivers are also preparing
to take action while thousands of Minis are being recalled over a
mystery fire risk.
The eurozone crisis is continuing to cause
concern with more money needed for the bailout fund, and while
rescued UK bank RBS has sold off its aviation leasing business for
£4.7 billion, that does include £4.6 billion of assets so may not
be as good a deal as expected, although there’s a high probability
of bonuses being awarded. And not all is good in the air, as
easyJet kicks off a disabled passenger while a Thomas Cook jet was
forced to return after a fight on board and a BA plane flying over
the Atlantic played its crash warning twice during the flight;
there is however good news for workers at Luton airport as 4,000
new jobs have been created…
Daily Mirror
Sun
Express
Mail
Times (no links all
stories behind paywall)
- Posts are cut and training made tougher as nurses admit decline
in standards (p6)
- Union turns on Miliband (p7) – Unite cited
- Mirror admits it did not look into hacking claims (p15)
- No funds for her majesty’s new ship (p16)
- Nick Clegg may not look sad much longer – Rachel Sylvester
(p19)
- Ratings agency takes red pen to Europe’s defence fund
(p31)
- Minis in major recall (p31)
- Germans splash out on milk (p32) [Müller acquisition]
- RBS sells off company jets (p37)
- Thousands prepare to strike (p39) [Unilever, Balfour Beatty] –
Unite quoted
Indie
Guardian
Telegraph
FT (no links all stories behind
paywall)
- Monti warns of backlash (p1)
- Cameron sails into rough waters after backing yacht (p1)
- Employers eye landmark court case on forced retirement
(p2)
- Recession forecast as small business slumps (p2)
- Luton airport in push to expand (p2)
- BAE looks abroad to save jobs (p4)
- Regional pay unworkable says former IMF adviser (p4)
- Salmond warned over legality of referendum (p4)
- Fears for charities over benefits move (p4)
- RBS offloads aircraft leasing business to Sumitomo (p17)
- RBS views end for ‘machine of execution’
- Germany’s Müller secures Robert Wiseman (p20)
- Rail industry braced for shake-up (p20)
- Bovis bullish on profits (p20)
- Morrison cools its interest in Iceland (p20)
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GM urged to shift Chevrolet output to Europe (p21) [Telegraph
link]
Morning Star
Yesterday’s
Unite releases
Edited by Mik
Sabiers
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