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Newspaper review: Rebekah Brooks arrest under scrutiny
The news that the ex-chief executive of News International, Rebekah Brooks, is facing criminal charges makes many newspaper front pages.
<link> <caption>The Guardian leads on what it calls her defiant attack </caption> <url href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/may/15/rebekah-brooks-defiant-phone-hacking" platform="highweb"/> </link> on the decision to charge her with perverting the course of justice.
<link> <caption>The Independent has her on its front page with the caption "The Accused". </caption> <url href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/brooks-is-enraged-by-perversion-of-justice-charges-7754454.html?origin=internalSearch" platform="highweb"/> </link>
<link> <caption>The Daily Mirror feels this development is bound to heap further political embarrassment</caption> <url href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/rebekah-brooks-and-husband-brand-phone-hacking-834487" platform="highweb"/> </link> on the prime minister.
<link> <caption>The Independent reports that government plans to reduce Disability Living Allowance</caption> <url href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/fury-as-blind-people-hit-by-benefit-reform-7754452.html" platform="highweb"/> </link> paid to thousands of blind people have sparked a revolt among Liberal Democrat MPs.
Drugs wait
David Cameron is considering billions of pounds of extra welfare cuts, <link> <caption>according to the Daily Telegraph.</caption> <url href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9268411/David-Cameron-considers-extra-25bn-of-welfare-cuts.html" platform="highweb"/> </link>
The plans, which include a crackdown on housing benefit, were laid out in a confidential policy paper.
It says another Β£25bn can be cut off the welfare budget.
<link> <caption>The Daily Mail reports that patients can wait for up to nine years </caption> <url href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2144957/New-cancer-drugs-held-NHS-years-rationing-body-accused-letting-patients.html" platform="highweb"/> </link> for the NHS to approve new drugs to treat Alzheimer's and cancer.
<link> <caption>The Daily Express says the pound has reached its highest level </caption> <url href="http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/320444/25-off-your-summer-family-holiday" platform="highweb"/> </link> against the euro for three-and-a-half years.
And it strengthened against 80% of the world's currencies over the past year.
Pyjama party?
<link> <caption>The Financial Times says officials in Brussels </caption> <url href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/35bcd8f6-9ea8-11e1-9cc8-00144feabdc0.html" platform="highweb"/> </link> are pushing to give shareholders in Europe's listed companies a binding vote on pay.
For readers whose leisure pursuits include a weekly book club, <link> <caption>the Mail reports on the pitfalls to beware. </caption> <url href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2144806/Middlemarch-death-knell-book-clubs-Stuffy-19th-century-literature-readers-running-hills.html" platform="highweb"/> </link>
It says the top tip is to ban over-opinionated friends from discussions.
<link> <caption>The Telegraph reports that officials at Brasenose college in Oxford</caption> <url href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/universityeducation/universities-and-colleges/9266844/Oxford-students-told-off-for-wearing-pyjamas-to-breakfast.html" platform="highweb"/> </link> have complained that "slovenly" undergraduates have been arriving for morning meals in pyjamas.
But one student tells the paper fewer people will go to breakfast if they cannot wear pyjamas.
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