Wednesday, August 20, 2008


Two stories dominate the front pages and the Mail sums them up with its headline

Best of British,worst of British as it looks at further Olympics Golds on the same day that Gary Glitter is deported from Vietnam

Christine Ohuruogu won Britain's unlikeliest and most controversial gold medal in Beijing yesterday to cap another day of Olympic glory.
Only a year after serving a ban for missing three drugs tests, the 24-year-old Londoner won a stunning victory in the 400m final, coming from fourth with just 70m left to become the first British woman ever to win Olympic gold at the distance.
It climaxed another remarkable day for the record-breaking British team after golds for cyclists Chris Hoy and Victoria Pendleton, and sailor Paul Goodison.


Whilst reporting that Glitter

On the flight from Vietnam, he sat in an aisle seat wearing a baseball cap, flicking through a duty free catalogue.
He even signed autographs for some fellow passengers, but hid behind his scarf to avoid conversation with others who approached him.



The Mirror says Club Class Paedo on its front page while the Sun headlines Gary Gloater
SMUG paedophile Gary Glitter clenches his fists as he is released from jail in Vietnam yesterday — just like he did when he was an idolised glam rocker.
Glitter, 64, boarded a flight to Bangkok with a connection to London, insisting he was heading home
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It just gets better and better says the Independent

It was the golden moment that crowned the glorious, golden day. As Christine Ohuruogu powered her way past the four rivals who had entered the home straight ahead of her in the Beijing National Stadium yesterday, she might as well have been the entire British sporting nation clearing a path to the established global superpowers. When she crossed the line, as the winner of the women's 400m final, she collapsed to the ground in disbelief. You did not need to be a professional lip reader to get the message: "Oh, my God."



The Telegraph's front page headlines the Great British Olympics and all the papers carry Olympic pictures on their front pages.

The Guardian and the Times chose other headlines,the former reveals the massive scale of UK's water consumption

The scale of British water consumption and its impact around the world is revealed in a new report today, which warns of the hidden levels needed to produce food and clothing.
The UK has become the sixth largest net importer of water in the world, the environment group WWF will tell a meeting of international experts in Stockholm, with every consumer indirectly responsible for the use of thousands of litres a day. Only 38% of the UK's total water use comes from its own resources; the rest depends on the water systems of other countries, some of which are already facing serious shortages.


The Times reports that

The computer games industry has launched an unprecedented assault on illegal downloads, demanding payment from thousands of families who obtained the latest releases over the internet without paying.
Five of the world’s top games developers will serve notice on 25,000 people across the UK, requiring each one to pay £300 immediately to settle out of court. Those who refuse risk being taken to court. The companies will target their initial legal actions on 500 people who ignore the letters


Meanwhile Georgia continues to get coverage,the same paper reporting that

Nato united in the face of Russia’s failure to withdraw from Georgia yesterday, freezing regular contacts with Moscow and declaring that there could be “no business as usual under present circumstances”.
However, there will be no Nato troops rushing to Tbilisi to put military muscle behind the tough statement, which was issued at an emergency meeting of the 26 foreign ministers of the alliance in Brussels. Military assistance will be restricted to training exercises and talks about prospective membership of the alliance


The Telegraph says that

Major divisions opened up between Nato members as European countries rejected an American proposal to suspend ties with Russia over its actions in Georgia
adding

Even Britain, which has been broadly supportive of Washington's robust condemnation of the Kremlin, chose to side with the Europeans in rejecting a proposal to freeze the Nato-Russia council, established in 2002 to boost relations between Moscow and the West


The Guardian reports that

Ten French soldiers killed in Afghanistan

and 21 wounded after a Taliban ambush 40 miles east of the Afghan capital, Kabul. According to Afghan officials, four of the soldiers were executed after being captured or "kidnapped" during a two-day running battle with more than 100 insurgents.
President Nicolas Sarkozy was due to arrive in Afghanistan this morning to show troops that "France was by their sides". The casualties were mostly from France's 8th parachute regiment, recently arrived as part of a controversial reinforcement of the French presence in Afghanistan ordered by Sarkozy earlier this year.


Back to the Uk and the Independent reports that

Johnson loses another deputy

A high-flying businessman brought in by the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, to head his staff resigned suddenly yesterday – the third senior figure in his team to quit in as many months.
Tim Parker, the private equity magnate appointed as Mr Johnson's first deputy mayor with a brief to shake up City Hall and take over the crucial chairmanship of Transport for London (TfL), stood down after Mr Johnson said he would chair the transport body himself


The Telegraph reports that

The study by the TUC union found that while disposable income for the wealthiest in society has risen to more than £700 a week, that of the poorest has only gone up marginally - and is still less than £200.
It claims more Britons are living below the breadline than 20 years ago, and that no other European country has such a gulf between rich and poor.
The report also claims inequality dramatically affects children's chances in life, with babies born to poor mothers more likely to develop health problems in later life, and working-class pupils half as likely to get five good GCSEs as their wealthier classmates.


Brown has failed to do enough to tackle poverty, Tories claim says the Guardian

The battle lines of an autumn contest between the main political parties are drawn today when the Tories deliver a blunt assessment that Gordon Brown's main instrument for tackling poverty - the redistribution of wealth - has failed.
In a Guardian article, ahead of a speech on fairness, the shadow chancellor, George Osborne, declares that free markets are the fairest way of rewarding people.
"We know that redistribution alone, as the sole policy tool to tackle poverty, has failed," Osborne writes. "There are 900,000 more people in severe poverty than in 1997 and child poverty has been rising for two years in succession."


The Mail meanwhile reports that

Immigration under Labour has soared eight-fold compared with the last decade of Tory rule, it emerged last night.
The astonishing impact of the Government's controversial 'open door' policy is revealed for the first time in a study by the independent House of Commons Library.
Between 1997 and 2006, the population increased by 1,196,000 as a direct result of immigration - the equivalent of almost 330 extra people arriving each day.


Grapes are a heart cure is the lead in the Express

RED grapes reduce blood pressure, cholesterol levels and even the risk of heart disease, scientists have found.
They believe that the antioxidants and fibre found in a combination of grape skin and seeds could be superfoods in the battle against heart attacks.
The latest discovery was given as a dietary supplement to volunteers, who saw their blood pressure reduced by up to five per cent and cholesterol by up to 14 per cent.


The Independent reports how the code-breaking nerve centre that helped win the war. descended into ruin?

Sixty-six years ago in Block B of the old Bletchley Park, a discovery was made that saved thousands of lives. A young woman, doing the filing, noticed a lot of coded messages, all concerning fuel deliveries to a small village in northern Germany called Peenemünde.
She didn't think much of them at the time. But she reported the information upwards – and the Allies stumbled on the concealed factory site where the Germans were constructing the V1 and V2 flying bombs. An air strike later and the factory was destroyed. Proof, if ever it was needed, that a well-run filing system can help win a war.
Today moss, weeds and wild flowers have taken over in Block B, a place where the course of history was changed. Nature has reclaimed its ceiling and its floor, and unless something is done soon it will either collapse or be pulled down


Scientists grow blood in a lab reports the Times

Vials of human blood have been grown from embryonic stem cells for the first time during research that promises to provide an almost limitless supply suitable for transfusion into any patient.
The achievement by scientists in the United States could lead to trials of the blood within two years, and ultimately to an alternative to donations that would transform medicine.


The Guardian reports that

Pushy parents have been granted a licence to interfere after the university admissions service Ucas caved in to pressure to allow parents to manage their children's applications for the first time this year.
One in 10 of this year's half a million university applicants have ticked a new box on the form and named a parent or guardian as their agent in the race to secure a place at university.
Students currently confirming their university places for the autumn term are the first to be affected by the rule allowing parents to act on their behalf.


The Times reports that

The BBC’s Children in Need charity donated £20,000 to an organisation that funded the propaganda activities of the July 7 bombers, it has emerged.
The financial support was provided between 1999 and 2002 to the Leeds Community School, which funded and shared premises with an Islamic bookshop where the suicide bombers Mohammed Siddique Khan and Shezhad Tanweer regularly met. Siddique Khan attempted to radicalise youths by showing propaganda films at the bookshop, a focal point at the time for young Muslims.


The Mail reports that

'House husband' is accused of killing Vodafone executive wife at their country home

The husband of a top Vodafone executive has been charged with stabbing her to death at their £1.3million country home.
The body of Sally-Ann Sinclair, 40, was discovered in a pool of blood at the secluded five-bedroom detached house the couple shared with their twin sons.
Alisdair Sinclair, 47, has now been remanded in custody after being charged with murder.



Jade is very upset and frightened reports the Sun

The reality star arrived at Heathrow in tears after the flight from Mumbai where she discovered her cancer bombshell during India’s BB-style TV show.
Jade, who returned for cervical cancer treatment, sobbed: “I don’t want this.”
Earlier her publicist Max Clifford said: “She’s very upset and frightened as you can imagine.
“The most important thing is to get Jade back and get her with the right people so they can take care of her.”


Finally the Telegraph reports that

A wild dolphin may have passed on the skill of 'tail-walking' she witnessed during a brief period in captivity.scientists were stunned to see it used by a group of wild dolphins who live in waters off Adelaide on the south Australian coast.
They believe Billie, a female bottlenose dolphin, may have picked up the trick - where a dolphin rises vertically to the surface and uses its powerful tail to drive itself backwards - in a dolphinarium.

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