Daily News Summary
Wednesday, 20 May 2009
Main stories
Advanced warning of death toll
The Met Office warns that thousands of elderly could die this summer during a heat wave. In summer 2003 over 2,000 were killed when temperatures reached up to 38 degrees in a ten-day heat wave. DTel17
`Why is the NHS killing so many with drugs?'
The number has more than doubled in a decade from 520 to 1,299 recorded last year. DMail12. Meanwhile, The Ind2 reports that over 800 haemophiliacs have been given blood at risk of variant CJD.
Upward mobility rage
Working class man from Scotland gets £1.4 million pension and a peerage...the DMail1
is not happy. Coverage in all papers of the unfolding debacle as the papers ask whether one mob sacrifice will be enough. The Ind9 reports that Douglas Hogg has decided to spend more time with his moat.
Other stories
Threatened closure of secure children's homes criticised
Plans by the Youth Justice Board to stop buying places in secure children's homes have been attacked for various reasons. It is argued, in particular, that vulnerable young people placed in custody will be more likely to self harm and commit suicide.
GdnSoc3
Girl gang story
A group of teenage girls charging round the West End of London with an imitation firearm (a ball bearing gun) earn the headline `The girl gun gang' in the Mirr11. Will this lead to a series of summer stories about the `rise and rise of girl gangs'? Watch this space.
£25 million goes missing
Over 30,000 people are still waiting to get £25 million back from the collapse of the XL travel firm in summer 2008. Mirr35
Bomb clots
MI5 blames failure to identify 7/7 bomber on lack of resources. Times5
Claim that proposed new law on prostitution has been weakened
Campaigners argue that Jacqui Smith is `backtracking' by changing the wording in the bill so that the offence covers `subjected to force, deception or threats' rather than the original `controlled for gain by a third party'. Eaves, the charity that runs The Poppy Project is leading the charge. Gdn17
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