Sunday, June 08, 2008


Hillary Clinton's picture is on the front page of many of the Sunday's as she concedes defeat to Barack Obama

Hillary's tour de force says the Independent

Hillary Clinton formally suspended her presidential campaign yesterday, graciously and enthusiastically backing her rival Barack Obama after coming within an ace of being the first woman contender for the White House.
The former first lady ended her campaign for the world's top job at a rally in a Washington museum, where thousands of supporters and staff had gathered for a bitter-sweet celebration. "This isn't the party I planned, but I sure like the company," she told them.


Hillary bows out says the Observer

In repeated moments throughout her speech, she vowed to work for Obama, even though some in the audience of thousands of supporters booed at the first mention of his name. 'We have to help elect Barack Obama as president,' she repeatedly emphasised to the crowd gathered in the atrium of the American capital's National Building Museum


The Times says

Her concession ended a chapter of American history that has seen a President Bush or Clinton in the White House for nearly 20 years. It also heralded the possibility, which seemed almost unthinkable a year ago, that Obama, 46, could become America’s first black president after the election in November.



Doctors' anger at cruelty to patients is the lead story in the paper

THE medical establishment is in revolt against Labour’s policy of denying National Health Service treatment to patients who pay privately for cancer medicines.
The outcry from eminent consultants and doctors’ leaders came as news emerged of two more patients whose NHS care was removed while they were dying of cancer


adding that

Baroness Ilora Finlay, president of the Royal Society of Medicine, said the issue went to the heart of the purpose of the health service.


The Observer stays with health,Doctors 'lying' about polyclinics: minister

Alan Johnson, the Health Secretary, has accused leaders of Britain's doctors of lying by claiming that many GPs' surgeries will close to make way for polyclinics, the new super-health centres.
Writing in today's Observer, Johnson rebukes the British Medical Association, the doctors' professional body, for misrepresentation, scaremongering and peddling 'untruths' over the plans.



There is much coverage of the 42 detention vote this week

Security chiefs offer late boost to plans for 42-day detention says the Independent

Gordon Brown's plans to hold terror suspects for 42 days without charge received a late boost yesterday when some of Britain's top police and security officers said the controversial proposals were "workable".


The Observer says

Public backs 42-day detention plan

A Sunday Telegraph poll last night showed the public firmly behind plans for 42-day detention. Some 65 per cent of those questioned backed Brown's plan, against just 30 per cent who supported Tory leader David Cameron's position of retaining the 28-day limit.


The Telegraph says that

Conservatives would 'look hard' at reversing 42-day terror detention

Tough talking is what you expect from David Davis. But it is daring even by his standards to accuse police chiefs of not playing an entirely straight game on counter-terrorism.
The shadow home secretary is trying to demonstrate that no one has produced hard evidence that the period of detention without charge for terror suspects should be extended. He is deeply critical of ministers, whom he accuses of plucking 42 days out of thin air to see "what they can get away with


Meanwhile the latest poll in the same paper shows Labour Party hits a record poll low

An ICM survey for The Sunday Telegraph puts the Tories on 42 per cent, 16 points ahead of Labour’s 26 per cent - the lowest figure the party has recorded in any poll by the company.
Labour, which recorded 40 per cent in a poll shortly after Mr Brown entered No 10 last June, are only five points ahead of the Liberal Democrats, who are on 21 per cent.


There is much coverage of the latest political sleaze

Tory chief to be quizzed over pay for nanny reports the Times

The nanny employed with taxpayers’ cash as a constituency secretary by the Tory party chairman, Caroline Spelman, is understood not to have written letters or to have resolved constituents' queries.
Spelman is to go before Parliament's standards commissioner John Lyon tomorrow to explain exactly what secretarial duties her nanny performed and why she received parliamentary expenses


Spelman nanny row pushes sleaze back on to Tory agenda says the Independent

The Mail leads with more sleaze

Channel 4 paid race chief Trevor Phillips to deal with fallout of Big Brother's Shilpa row

The Government's equality chief, who is responsible for making businesses and public bodies obey anti-discrimination laws, was paid by Channel 4 for giving advice following the Big Brother racism scandal.
Trevor Phillips, the £110,000-a-year chairman of Labour's new Equality nd Human Rights Commission 'super quango' was hired by the TV company after the furore over the treatment of Indian actress Shilpa Shetty


There is much coverage of the rescue of the divers in Indonesia

Three British divers feared dead after being swept away from their boat told last night of their incredible fight for survival.
Castaways Jim Manning, 30, and girlfriend Charlotte Allin, 25, along with dive master Kathleen Mitchinson and two others had been missing for nearly two days.
Last night - just hours after being rescued from a remote Indonesian island - they told how they:
Clung to a piece of driftwood for nine hours as they drifted more than 20 miles in shark-infested seas
says the Mirror

The Times adds

A BRITISH couple who went missing while scuba diving described yesterday how they swam and and floated for 12 hours in shark-infested waters only to scramble ashore on a desert island inhabited by 10ft-long komodo dragons.
They had to fight off one of the giant lizards, which have shark-like serrated teeth and have been known to kill humans, by pelting it with rocks


Pride of Britain says the front of the Express

BRITISH soldiers are better equipped and in better shape than at any time in the history of modern warfare, according to SAS hero Andy McNab.
While doom merchants claim our troops’ morale has been sapped by the amount of British blood spilled in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Bravo Two Zero legend says the truth is that our infantrymen are chomping at the bit to fight for their country.


The News of the World has a pucture of the pregnant man on its front page under the headline My Baby joy the paper reveals

extraordinary new pictures show the world's first pregnant man—captured just four weeks from the birth of his baby girl.
In an exclusive and moving interview with the News of the World, sex-change dad Thomas Beatie and his wife Nancy tell of their joy. And he reveals unseen family snaps of his astonishing early life as a teenage beauty queen.


The Mail reports on a

Drink-drive quiz for soccer star

A professional footballer has been arrested on suspicion of drink-driving and causing the death by dangerous driving of two young brothers and leaving their father badly injured in a motorway smash early Saturday.
Luke McCormick, goalkeeper with Plymouth Argyle, was returning from a former team-mate's wedding in his black Range Rover when it was involved in a collision with a Toyota Previa people carrier, which was sent plunging down an embankment and into trees.


Amongst the Sunday celeb news the Mirror's front page leads with

Rhys Ifans sinks into deep depression after being dumped by Sienna Miller

Broken Rhys Ifans shuffles to the pub at 11.30am as friends reveal he has sunk into a deep depression at being dumped by film beauty Sienna Miller.
The Notting Hill star has spent almost every day drowning his sorrows since his fiancee phoned him to say their relationship was over.


The News of the World reports Tracie Out

EVIL blonde boyfriend-killer Tracie Andrews gets a taste of freedom after just 11 YEARS behind bars.
Shackled to a guard, she enjoys a day trip in the sunshine wearing smart new clothes and sporting a trendy shoulder-length hairdo.
Our exclusive pictures show crazed Andrews—given life in 1997 for stabbing her fiancĂ© to death then trying to cover it up as a road rage murder— getting a taste of freedom as a step towards being let out for good.


Star chef brings Tesco's chickens home to roost says the Independent

Tesco has demanded that the chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall pay more than £86,000 for putting his concerns about chicken welfare to its shareholders.
The Channel 4 presenter is putting a resolution to Tesco's AGM that would force it to adopt RSPCA standards or renounce its claim to allow its birds a life free of pain. The motion was tabled before a final deadline, but Tesco has demanded he pay £86,888 for posting it separately to its 235,000 shareholders. It has given Fearnley-Whittingstall until noon on Wednesday to find the money.


Finally the Express reports that

AN EXCLUSIVE seaside resort has put the brakes on campervans parking on the sea front to share its glorious views.And the ban by picturesque Aldeburgh in Suffolk has drawn cries of protest from the weekend army of holidaymakers who take up the invitation on the town’s website.
Its welcoming message reads: “Let the stress of everyday life evaporate into Aldeburgh’s wide, atmospheric sky. Take a walk on the beach, take time out to recharge your batteries
and the reason

residents of the seaside town, voted one of Britain’s top coastal spots last week, complain motorhome owners empty their toilets into the sea, leave piles of rubbish behind and contribute little to the local economy.

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