Man from sheffield, will appear before magistrates tomorrow. Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are broadcaster, david davies, and journalist, dina hamdy. To the thank you very much for coming in. Nice to have you both here. Tomorrows front pages, starting with. The times, which reports that the best paid Family Doctors can earn up to £700,000 a year. The telegraph reports that the minister for the constitution has accused Jeremy Corbyn of trying to rig the next election by planning to block proposed reforms to constituency boundaries. The i leads with a suggestion that drunk revellers should be treated in what its described as drunk tanks, rather than our hospitals. The guardian leads with an mp warning social media giants they could face sanctions if they continue to stonewall parliament over russian interference in the brexit vote. The daily mails front page covers a study suggesting britain has a growing problem with addiction to prescription drugs. The Financial Times says worldwide merger and acquisitions surpassed 3 trillion this year. The mirror is launching a campaign to end charges in hospital carparks. The sun reports that uk supermarkets will start selling bacon that doesnt have harmful added nitrites. Lets start with the guardian this time and facebook was sanctioned over russia in quarry, notjust facebook and twitter as well. They have not thought to be complying with politicians who are looking into alleged russian interference. No, they are not. They are allegedly stonewalling and ignoring the parliamentary committees requests for information, when they have submitted a lot of data to a similar congressional hearing in america. And they are now threatened with unspecified sanctions, possibly where it hurts, their revenue, their advertising revenue, and of course it is very bad pr if they keep being hauled in for questioning every now and then, in front of the parliamentary committee. But i think the moral of the story for me, for my personal opinion, is that their days of monopoly, without liability, unnumbered. I think that they will not be able to. Attends to the mutual platforms for long. They need to. They will have to clarify their algorithms at one point or another, and how they come up with the news and if it has been tweaked to, they are acting as editors or senses. This is the point, isnt it . They have always said that, we are not publish here, we are not subject to that sort of regulation, we at just a digital platform. Digital platform, yeah. Well, ithink they are going to struggle to maintain that position and in the middle of this guardian story as well, there isa line this guardian story as well, there is a line that ministers are understood to be concerned by the companys attitude and could be sympathetic to any request for action, and that it will be very interesting to see whether the government itself takes a line on all this. And having been provoked into it, by damian collinss select committee. And if you look at it in europe, we are rather behind them. Germany, for example, it is parliament has passed legislation that could see these forms, these giants, fined up to 50 Million Euros if they do not take down hate speech ina timely if they do not take down hate speech in a timely fashion. So much gets posted on these sites, and even with the right will to do it, it would be ha rd to the right will to do it, it would be hard to keep track of all that traffic, wouldnt it . I think that is right and it is very well to sit as little englanders in this situation and that is the this is the absolute opposite, of course. The evidence, and the way they gave their evidence, do i compare the Football Association which gave some evidence to the same committee a few weeks ago, it was almost an object lesson in how not to give evidence toa lesson in how not to give evidence to a select committee. A look at the times, snow and ice forecast to bring more traffic chaos. Northern england as well suffers with this weather a lot more than we do down here. Well, you know, i come from a tradition and heritage outside london, where we sort of dont expect much attention unless london and the south east sees no. And what was that sentence about, that if london should stay in but the northerners should get a big coat. show. Northerners should get a big coat. Snow. But northerners should get a big coat. Snow. But i mean, this is serious stuff, and some of us feel, we declare our interest that we sat in the european airport yesterday for several hours and we have had an apology today, it took 24 hours but we got it, to get an apology today from an airline whose first part of its name is easy, and i will leave you to fill in the other bits. What theyre doing at the moment is not good enough and in 2018, it is not to say i well, we cant afford to help. It is not a british problem then,is help. It is not a british problem then, is it . Well no, it was actually a british problem because at the end of the day, the staff for this airline, british, were not able to get out of englands two get to, to get out of englands two get to, to come to europe to bring english people here. Thank goodness you hear. Well, i am very relieved to be here. Thank you for bringing him to us. Here. Thank you for bringing him to us. Thank you. It says here that the revellers were advised to bring blankets, torches and shovels, it does not sound very like a party, it sounds like they are going to visit a refugee camp. Well, no, you might get stuck in the snow. The daily mirror, other mps have noticed this before, axe the hospital parking tax on the six. It can be very expensive if you are at the hospital as a visitor or a patient. This campaign has its origins, i think inJeremy Corbyns proposal in may, where he has called it a tax on serious illness, and it is, people have to pay a small fortunes to park their cars, including not only the family of the six what nurses and nhs practitioners, up to £100 per month. And that is just exorbitant. Practitioners, up to £100 per month. And that is just exorbitantm practitioners, up to £100 per month. And that isjust exorbitant. It did not used to be this way, did it . Well, i think that you are going back a long way to when it was. have long memories. Well, you may have long memories. Well, you may have long memories. Well, you may have long memory, perhaps even even longer one than me. I dont know is true, i longer one than me. I dont know is true, lam longer one than me. I dont know is true, i am certain it isnt. What is happening is that charges have got way, way out of kilter and they have got to such a level in places like the West Midlands that people have said enough is enough. Now, it will be very interesting to see how the government reacts, if it reacts at all, because to actually stop hospital trusts from putting up these charges will need, one suspects, legislation. Yeah, and there will be a gap of £175 million that will need raising to do it. The guardian, the back page this time. When i am racially abused, ijust wa nt to when i am racially abused, ijust want to be alone and left to think about it. This is rhian brewster, who is one of the england under 17 winners and he feels frustrated that there is not enough action against racism by authorities stop loop this is an extraordinary interview, a huge credit to him and the liverpool football club. I cannot think of anything comparable in recent times. This is. With a 17 year old player, who has never actually paid for the senior team in liverpool yet but he has played for england very successfully, the england under 17 team, and he is talking about seven occasions when he says he has been racially abused or witnessed the same happening 20 mate. Now, those of us who go back to helping the setting up of the kick in 0ut campaign using football as a power to fight racism, there are people who think i well, it is all history. It isnt history and frankly, if you think it is history, i recommend you go to the local park on a saturday or sunday afternoon in several parts of the country, and you will still see racism. But having said that, i absolutely sympathise with this and somebody, having the guts and the courage, not least a 17 year old quy courage, not least a 17 year old guy, to do this and to say uefa, fifa, you are not doing enough. And what isnt of is players walking off the pitch and grounds being shut, thatis the pitch and grounds being shut, that is the only thing people understand. Because it is an international problem, isnt it . This young man describes one of his teammates being racially abused by an opposition player, when they were playing in spain. And in russia and elsewhere. I mean, i dont know. Do you feel that as you say, you have got a long memory, do you feel that this is a recent phenomenon . That we could tie to the rise of far right populism, for example . That gives people the room to rent their ugly beliefs . But let me tell you, it has been there. It is not, Margaret Thatcher might have said this, it is not, might have been told this, it is not footballs problem but it is in football. And the reality, you can argue that foot ball the reality, you can argue that football has done as much as anybody to try and count it and it has been successful in certain places, but england is not the world. England is not europe and there is, in eastern europe, dare i say it, and in parts of the. In italy, i was on, europe, dare i say it, and in parts of the. In italy, iwas on, part of the. In italy, iwas on, part ofa of the. In italy, iwas on, part of a committee where the italians used as they do not highlight it because you will make it worse, that was the traditional attitude. Lets go to the daily telegraph. Ask doctor google before your gp. I am sure that i have read something that was exactly the opposite. sure that i have read something that was exactly the opposite. I have read it as well, and you are going to be told up by your gp for coming in and seeming to know what is wrong with you, and now you are told to do exactly the opposite and find out what is wrong with you and not only that, hopefully get treated for you call on the gp at all. There are several pieces of advice, one is asking pharmacist. You second that. Lama asking pharmacist. You second that. I am a great fan of that. You have to have confidence in your pharmacist, that is true, and im not quite sure who has agreed that pharmacist should take on greater and greater responsibilities. They are highly trained. Our highly trained and they are overwhelmingly kind, in my experience, kind people who offered this advice if you ask for it, but it is very difficult if you go to, you know, a pharmacy on euston station and you go into a busy pharmacy, customers everywhere and all the rest of it, and somebody has got some ailments that they dont want to go and see their gp about, is asking a lot of that pharmacist to give particular time to person after person after person. Iam i am surely they would send you to the doctor if they could not help. We have a panda. She underlined it three times. I am not taking a panda with me. Pandas and politicians are not happy omens. It was later revealed that she meant not love omens. This was suggested to Margaret Thatcher and we have just learned about it because of the release of the national archives, as we get at this time of year when they are no longer secret and can be publicised. She thought this was not a good idea because it would remind people of a previous conservative. fear, drs say it, that has more to do with it. Their isa it. The late edward heath brought a paperback from china. They were a big thing at that time. Now i am happy to say i think they are flourishing in key parts of the world. That era has something to do with it. It is extraordinary that it was such an issue that a former Prime Minister should be underlining it in her private memos. And that it was even secret, all this time. To be honest, i dont blame her. You dont know what a panda might do. Sitting next to her eating me peanuts. Finally, the sun. That saves oui peanuts. Finally, the sun. That saves our bacon. Fry up and rejoice. Rashes are free of cancer chemicals. All thanks to boffins rashers. What have they done . For those of us who love our bacon and poached eggs, and have done for too many years, it has probably come too late for me. They can without nitrates from the curing process will be available in supermarkets in the new year. Note letter in numbers and nitrates e numbers. The Food Industry has a lot to a nswer numbers. The Food Industry has a lot to answer for. They have listened and thanks to the boffins it has all been dealt with. Get those hangover savages ready. Thats it for the papers tonight. Thank you david davies and dina hamdy. Coming up next, its meet the author. Vera stanhope rides again. The seagulll is the eighth book by ann cleeves featuring her slightly scruffy, determined but very warm detective inspector, whos drawn into a mystery touching rather uncomfortably on the story of her own father and his dodgy friends on tyneside. Its been an immensely successful series from a writer whos been high in the league table of British Crime writers for many years. Her other detective inspector, jimmy perez, for example, having become a favourite tv cop in shetland. Welcome. When you get a character invent a character that you really like, like vera stanhope, you like to stick with them, dont you . I do, and i think thats one of the joys of writing crime fiction. There are very few other genres where you can follow a character through a number of books. Theres some literary fiction, but crime, its expected that were going to write a series, and its great to be able to develop a character that grows. Thats an interesting phrase its expected. You know that youre writing not for a specific audience, but for a general audience that likes this kind of story. You must feel that you now know them quite well . Yes, because i go out and meet them. I love doing Library Events and book shop events and meeting readers. And im a reader, im a fan as well. I read crime fiction, so i love that sense of getting to know a character very well, and watching him grow or her grow. I think crime writers as a breed are like that, arent they . I mean, they all read each others work. Yeah. Even though maybe they dont like to admit it . Yeah, i think were a very jolly bunch. Were so used to people looking down their noses at us, because were genre fiction, that we come together and we fight back. Those days have gone, havent they . Imean. I think theres still a little bit of that. You think theres a wee bit of snobbishness about . Yeah, still a bit of that. But you all enjoy paddling around in gore, and all these dark deeds, and actually youre like sort of, i dont know, anybody who works in a kind of profession or trade, where theyre facing death all the time, theyre actually quite full of fun and stories. Yeah, i think so. Im not really into the gore. Im more into using that as a framework to develop characters and to look at the things that really interest me, so. Well, we dont want to talk about the plot in great detail, because obviously that would spoil it for people who havent read the book yet. But we can say that vera stanhope, your detective inspector in this series, the eighth book in the series, is taken, by chance she doesnt really expect it into her own past, and this rather dodgy neer do well father of hers, who had been sort of slightly grand, but then shall we say, fell into bad company . Yeah. Its classic fictional material, isnt it . I think it is, and i love that idea of looking at the relationship between the daughter and the father, and that theme, i think, goes through the book there are other daughters and other fathers. And she is a character who is, you know, a bit scruffy and very determined and sometimes quite rough with people. But the essential thing, it strikes me about her, is her fundamental warmth. I mean, shes a good person . 0h, she is a good person in the tradition of classic crime, i think. That the detectives are flawed, they appear brusque, but they are good, because at the end, i think thats why, especially now in times of trouble and uncertainty, people are going back to classic crime, because there is at the end a sense of order restored, of good triumphing and we need that sense at a time of confusion, that things will be well. Well, thats good that you define, or interesting, that you define classic crime as order being restored. Somehow, you know, people may not all be happy, but at least the fundamentals have been revealed to be still there. Yeah. So, theres a reassurance involved. I think so, and i think thats why its so popular at the minute, why the British Library Crime Classics are doing amazingly, the between the wars books, that are selling fanta. Yes. Because people like that sense of, as i say, in a time of confusion, that in the end, justice prevails. And we know where we are. We know where we are, and we know the difference between good and evil, and even if there are ambiguities in all the characters, and confusions, which there have to be, otherwise its a pretty boring story, we find at the end with a sigh, that its ok somebody may have come to a sticky end, a good person may have been brought down, but something remains. Yes, and the end of the seagull is quite ambiguous, and youre not quite sure that the killer has been unmasked, but there is that sense ofjustice prevailing, i think. Its quite good, at the same time, isnt it, to have people wondering about the alternative explanations to an ending to say, ok, order has been restored, but i wonder how it happened . Yeah. No, i think thats. Because you want the book to live on after the readers finished it. Thats interesting, yes. Because everybody sees the book in a different way, thats why book clubs are so interesting, as you know. Yes. People have different ideas, they see different pictures in their heads when they read. You have a way of creating an atmosphere, and im thinking, for example, of the shetland books, which, of course, made it to the small screen very, very successfully. And what was it about that atmosphere, there, the bleakness and bareness of shetland which is very beautiful as well that gave you the spark . I suppose i first went there 40. More than 40 years ago, because i dropped out of university and just by chance i got the job working in the Bird Observatory in fair isle. And since then, ive been going back, but i havent really been there in midwinter. I went in midwinter and there was snow, and it is very bare, because there are no trees, really, in shetland. No trees. And so its that contrast, i think, between the. You can see for miles, but then the contrast between that and any possible secrets. And the warmth of the domestic scenes within the croft houses, that attracted me first. Yes, the fact that even on a bare landscape, all kinds of things can be concealed. Yes. Youve also got the feeling in shetland of stepping away from the world, havent you . Im not saying that pejoratively about what goes on in shetland. But it is distant. It is. It is the edge of our known universe in the uk. Its14 hours by boat from aberdeen, so its a long way. And it does feel separate, and it feels. And theyre very self reliant, shetlanders, so they do things their own way. Do you write, you know, in a continuous stream, really, or are their big gaps . I alternate between. I wouldnt just want to write vera, because. No. At the end, ive had enough and i want to go off and try something new. You want a break. Yes, so ive been alternating with shetland. So, ive just finished the very last shetland book, just now, so. The very last, the end of the series. The end of the series. Did you come to the end just because you thought, well, that it, time to close the covers on this, its done, i am not going to keep it, give it artificial resuscitation . Id said all that i can about the place, and about the characters that id created, i think. Yes. And i dont want to be bored by them and i certainly dont want the readers to be bored by them. So, better end while im still enjoying it. Do you find writing, which youve been doing for a long time, very successfully, and with great dedication, do you find it a kind of therapy as well . Oh, its an escape, isnt it . We lose ourselves in a different world when were writing, just as when were reading. So, certainly its an escape. But you need to be there living as well, otherwise you run out of things to write about, so its a good balance. But when youre in full flow in a story, and its working, the rest of the world doesnt exist . No, theres nothing like it. Its an amazing feeling. Ann cleeves, author of the seagulll, thank you very much. Thank you. Hallett once again. Something that is not done with us just yet is the wintry weather we have enjoyed over the past couple of days or so. At its best it looks as glorious as that. It was a bit of a date across many parts of the british isles. But as we slipped our way into friday the met office have this amber warning for the amount of snow likely to fall across the high ground of northern england. We are seeing the first signs of the rain getting into devon and cool and knocking on the door of western side of Northern Ireland. If it stays as read that would not be an issue. But because it is falling into a very called atmosphere, as you have heard in the news headlines, somewhere over the snowfields, not downtown glasgow, it will be around 12, minus 13. There will be a widespread problem with highs even before this great belt of whether a rise. 0nce it arrives we will know about it, because even to low levels in the central belt of scotland there will be lying snow around and up again over the high ground in northern england, this is where you have that amberwarning, england, this is where you have that amber warning, because we could see 15 centimetres of snow lying. The lull you are the less you are likely to see in snow. It will lay down into the midlands and fleetingly perhaps even further south, where again, because it falls on coal services, you will end up with a widespread ice problem is the critters have not got to your neck of the woods. At least the southern portion of this weather front clears out of the way and the afternoon is one of sunny spells and showers across southern britain. Further north, it comes back at you out of Northern Ireland and into southern scotla nd Northern Ireland and into southern scotland and into the top end of the pennines will stop a cold day. Further south you might make eight. Brega into saturday, another set of weather fronts in. We brega into saturday, another set of weatherfronts in. We will see brega into saturday, another set of weather fronts in. We will see wet and windy weather. Further north, the weather front are content with. As it runs into some cold air that will convert quite readily, either side of the central belt into further snowfall. Further south, too warm for snow. Ten, 12, 13, stomach of that order. New years eve, sunday, and other system brings a speu sunday, and other system brings a spell of wet and windy weather. Then it isa spell of wet and windy weather. Then it is a mix of sunny spells and showers. Relatively mild fare for the greater part of england and wales. Further north, chilly. Passing showers. 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