News digest 2 December 2011
In today’s experimental digest the main
news of the day is the apology from Clarkson over the execution
story which has sadly wiped out coverage of the real message behind
the strikes. The other main issue is the fears for the collapse of
the eurozone and a warning from Bank of England governor Mervyn
King which could herald major pressures for all of us ahead,
although the investment bankers will probably be OK.
On the industry front there’s more misery
for manufacturing which drops again but Greene King is planning to
expand pub jobs and Bombardier reported a 31 per cent rise in
profits which brings the story back to Osborne’s false claims over
the Thameslink deal in the Mirror, and there’s more on the collapse
of plans for Battersea powerstaion hearladed by Osborne in the
Autumn statement.
There’s some good news of a couple of
U-turns, the first on legal aid cuts and second on disability
benefits, but millions still face the heat or eat trap and the
government cuts are falling ever harder on women, while work and
pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith says counselling is better
than benefits, he’d be the last one you’d want to talk to when in
trouble….
Daily Mirror
Sun
-
Clarkson apology (p1/4-5)
-
A new €U – Sarkozy plan for closer European Union (p2)
- Ed Miliband’s £500 suit (p2)
- Dreaming of a tight Christmas – Spending
crunch hits presents (p12-13)
- Bercow coat of arms actually cost £7,000 more
than original £37,000 estimate (p35)
- School’s new bus driver is one of its 18 year
old six formers (p42)
- Greene King to create 3,000 jobs (p64)
-
SABMiller purchase of Foster’s approved (p65)
- Manufacturing fell for second month in row
(p64)
Express
Mail
Times – no paper
delivered
Indie
Guardian
Telegraph
FT (no links all stories behind
paywall)
- Draghi hints at eurozone aid plan (p1)
- King urges banks to build up reserves
(p1)
- Strike was like an ‘extra Saturday’ for
Britain’s battered high streets (p1)
- Huhne wrestles with green agenda (p2)
- Miliband hits out at Osborne’s attack on
women workers (p2)
- Carillion energy jobs under threat (p2)
- Reveal leverage ratio ahead of rivals banks
told (p3)
- Property magnate’s Labour party ties under
scrutiny after gifts £1 million to party (p4)
- Clarkson strike apology (p4)
- Disabled transport benefits U-turn welcomed
(p4)
- Balfour forces new strike vote (p4) – Unite
cited
- Eurozone turmoil (p6)
- Caught in the grip: Return of the credit
crunch (p11)
- This time they may save the euro – Philip
Stephens (p13)
- Risks of sleepwalking into a war with Iran -
David Miliband & Nader Mousavizadeh (p13)
- Thomas Cook accuses TUI of unfair jibe in
online advert (p18)
- Energy speculators return in wake of Enron
(p19)
- Lloyds makes £5 billion bond exchange offer
(p20)
- Kingfisher sales warm up (p20)
- Coke insists product safe after death of
child in China (p22)
- Brussels extends state aid rules for banks
(p24)
- Bombardier reports 31 per cent rise in
profits (p24)
- BMW in deal to supply diesel engines to
Toyota (p25)
Morning Star
Yesterday’s
Unite releases
Edited by Mik
Sabiers
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