Nasty, brutish and short: The horrific life of Baby P reports the Independent
There was nothing in the circumstances of Baby P's birth on 1 March 2006, at the North Middlesex Hospital in Edmonton, north London, to suggest his life was destined to be brutal and tragically short.
The North Mid, as it is known, had long since cast off its workhouse origins. Its children's facilities, run as they are by specialists from the world renowned Great Ormond Street Hospital, are first rate. He was born, at least, in good hands.
The News of the World has the untold story
TODAY the News of the World finally reveals the COMPLETE and UNTOLD horror of what really happened to tragic abuse victim Baby P.
Our chilling dossier, froma 15-year-old girl who WITNESSED the stepdad's sickening torture, damns bungling social workers who failed to step in.
The terrified teenager said: "What went on was sadistic. Social Services have blood on their hands."
The Times reports that
A sister of Baby P, the 17-month-old boy killed while under the protection of Haringey social services, was allegedly seriously abused despite also being on the council’s “at risk” register.
The girl and Baby P, who died in August last year at the hands of his mother, stepfather and a lodger, had both become subjects of child protection plans eight months earlier.
Baby P council falsely accused me of abusing a child says the Mail
In a devastating interview, the social worker who blew the whistle on Haringey’s dire treatment of children before Baby P's death tells how the council tried to destroy her life - for telling the truth.
Baby P sparks call to put more in care says the Observer
Judges and social workers should review the traditional doctrine that children at risk are usually better off with their parents than in care, the independent childen's watchdog warns today.
Sue Berelowitz, the new deputy children's commissioner and a former social worker, said the 'received wisdom' that it was better to keep families together wherever possible was based on assuming that children did not thrive in care homes. But it was time to consider whether taking children away earlier, before they had become damaged by years of neglect, might produce better outcomes, she said.
All the papers choose different lead stories.
Ministers tell councils to push contraceptive jabs and implants says the Telegraph
Ministers have ordered council and health chief executives to increase the uptake of "long-acting" contraception in teen pregnancy "hot spots".
The government also wants more school-based clinics to administer the jabs, which can make girls infertile for up to three months.
Teenagers can receive the injections or implants without their parents' knowledge.
The Express claims that
Prince Charles will become King at 65 in five years’ time, according to senior Palace sources.
The Queen, now 82, has apparently said she is willing to stand aside when she reaches 87 and allow Charles to take over.
Senior courtiers were openly discussing the arrangement at a private function to toast Charles’s 60th birthday last week.
Charles will speak out as king reports the Times
The Prince of Wales, who celebrated his 60th birthday on Friday, has told confidants he would like his role to “evolve” so that his knowledge and experience are not wasted once he inherits the crown, Jonathan Dimbleby, his friend and biographer, reveals today.
Osborne faces storm over warning of run on pound is the main story in the Observer which says that
The shadow Chancellor was forced to defend himself after Labour aides and small business organisations accused him of talking down sterling despite a convention that politicians do not predict currency collapses. Kenneth Clarke, the man some MPs now want to replace Osborne, had to ride to his rescue, insisting his words were 'perfectly sensible'.
Brown prepares to unveil tax cuts for Christmas says the Telegraph
He will make changes to the tax credits regime and target extra help at less well-off families "as quickly as possible" to meet what he said was the government's "fairness agenda."
The better off are not expected to be among the winners from the package, to be announced by Alistair Darling, the Chancellor, in the Pre Budget Report (PBR) next week.
Brown looks to tax cuts by Christmas as Tories’ poll lead dives says the Times
Speaking at a G20 financial summit in Washington, which endorsed action to ease the economic pain caused by the credit crunch, the prime minister said the case for tax cuts was now “unanswerable” and they would “show results as quickly as possible”.adding that
It comes as an opinion poll for The Sunday Times, carried out by YouGov, shows that the Conservative lead over Labour has slumped to just five points, its lowest in a comparable poll this year, mainly as a result of Brown’s handling of the financial crisis. The Conservatives are down two on 41%, while Labour is up three on 36%. The Conservative lead has halved from 10 points in the space of a month. In September, when the financial panic erupted, the Tories were 19 points ahead
The Observer meanwhile reports that
The Prime Minister was last night struggling to win over world leaders with his ambitious and much-trumpeted global anti-recession package involving tax and interest rate cuts. Many countries indicated they were not ready to sign up to Gordon Brown's 'fiscal stimulus' solution
Second G20 summit planned for London says the Independent
The heads of 20 countries, meeting in Washington, endorsed a series of broad goals to fend off future economic calamities and to revive economic growth. They are expected to reconvene in London in April, with the incoming US President, Barack Obama, to decide on longer-term measures. “We must lay the foundation for reform to help ensure that a global crisis, such as this one, does not happen again,” the leaders said in a joint communiqué issued after the conclusion of the G20’s emergency two-day economic summit.
Political intrigues on the front of the Mail which reports on the traitor in the headscarf
Labour was rocked by a Cold War spy scandal last night over allegations that a Party activist linked to two members of Tony Blair's Cabinet spied for the Czech Government when the country was controlled by the Soviet Union.
Left-wing activist Cynthia Roberts, who stood as a Labour Parliamentary candidate, worked for the Communists under the codename Agent Hammer, according to documents obtained by The Mail on Sunday.
The files, held by the Czech security service, state that she wrote secret dossiers for the communist regime on Tory politicians including Margaret Thatcher and ex-Cabinet Minister David Mellor after moving to Prague in 1985. She also gave the Czechs details of a British arms factory.
According to the Telegraph
Iraqis accused of murdering British troops get thousands of pounds in legal aid
Faisal Al-Saadoon and Khalaf Mufdhi are accused of killing Staff Sergeant Simon Cullingworth and Sapper Luke Allsopp in cold blood during the beginning of the Iraq war in 2003.
The British government wants to hand the two Iraqis over to the Iraqi government for trial. But their British lawyer has launched a High Court legal challenge saying such a trial would breach his clients' human rights.
Friends fight for ‘forgotten’ hostage says the Times
Friends of a motorcycle- loving computer consultant who was kidnapped with his bodyguards as he worked in Iraq’s finance ministry 18 months ago are launching a campaign to increase pressure for the men’s release.
They say Peter Moore, 32, who took a lucrative job in Baghdad to pay off his student loan after years of Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) on an allowance of £140 a month, is strong-willed and will not be defeated by his ordeal.
Chief medical officer condemns organ donor decision reports the Observer
The government's chief medical officer last night lashed out at the decision to ditch planned reforms for organ donations, warning that dying patients had been left on a 'knife-edge of despair'.
A review commissioned by the government will tomorrow conclude the public is not ready for a change to the system of presumed consent where patients' organs would be made available for transplant after death unless they had explicitly opted out or their families objected. Currently people have to sign up as donors, unlike the system in European countries such as Spain.
According to the Independent
One in 10 Army recruits 'bullied and intimidated'
A series of previously unpublicised reports obtained by this newspaper highlight growing concern surrounding the issue this weekend. They include a new annual survey of recruits by the Ministry of Defence that reveals that hundreds report having been beaten or intimidated by their superiors. More than one in 10 of all trainee soldiers – what the report describes as a "notable minority" – claimed to have been unfairly or badly treated and, of these, more than one in five said they had been picked on continually.says the paper
The Mail reports that
Speaker fights Harman plan for big increase in gay MPs
Controversial Government backed plans for a massive increase in the number of gay MPs are being opposed by Commons Speaker Michael Martin, it was revealed last night.
Ministers are likely to support a demand by gay-rights campaigners for a target of electing 39 openly gay MPs - nearly four times the present number.
BULLIES STILL WINNING says the News of the World
SHOCK figures have revealed the government is LOSING its battle to curb school bullying.
More than HALF of all pupils say they have been bullied—but the new statistics prove most thugs get off SCOT-FREE.
The Independent reports how The Canine credit crunch starts to bite
They are the forgotten victims of the credit crunch. As money becomes tight in millions of homes throughout the country, it is the four-legged members of the household that are most likely to feel the chill wind of recession.
Thousands of families are giving up their pets as they count the cost of their day-to-day upkeep, soaring insurance premiums and vets' bills. Animal shelters across Britain report a steep increase in pets being left with them over recent months, as well as a decline in the numbers of people willing to take on their abandoned dogs and cats.
Finally many of the papers report on the £1m find by BBC's antiques expert
Expect an upsurge in attendances at car boot sales across the UK after Antiques Roadshow, the long-running BBC TV programme, values an item brought in by a member of the public at £1m for the very first time.
The nature of the item that has been found and valued is a closely guarded secret until the show is broadcast tonight. The estimate was made by fine art expert Philip Mould, whose specialism will be known to diehard Roadshow fans, but to reveal it might give away the surprise. Mould broke the news to the item's lucky owners during the recording of the show at The Sage music and conference centre in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear last August. Although the owners knew it as valuable they were still left shocked. The owners are said to have 'gone a bit silent' when they were given the valuation, though they later insisted that they would not be parting with the object in question, which has been described as 'delicate'.
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