Papers debate swine flu jabs

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Details of the first swine flu vaccinations get wide coverage in the papers.

The <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/swine-flu/6023403/Healthy-children-and-over-65s-are-not-swine-flu-vaccine-priority.html">Daily Telegraph reports that healthy children and pensioners will not be among the 11 million people to receive the vaccination,</a> which will concern parents.

The <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1206330/Swine-flu-vaccine-rolled-October--11million-vulnerable-first.html">Daily Mail's take on the same story is that the programme is being rushed</a> through without sufficient testing.

The paper points out that babies are to receive the jab even though it has not been tested on children under three.

'Unexpected bounce'

The <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/120467/The-UK-recession-is-over-">Daily Express claims Britain's worst recession for more than half a century is over</a> after positive figures from France and Germany.

The Financial Times also reports on the "unexpected bounce back" of the French and German economies.

The paper concludes that the worst of the economic crisis is coming to an end in the eurozone.

Elsewhere, the Sun launches what it calls a <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2587530/From-unemployment-to-Sunemployment.html">"crusade"</a> to get the UK working by allowing bosses to advertise vacancies on its website for free.

'Political classes'

The <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/aug/13/david-cameron-conservative-ministers-pay">Guardian's</a> main story tells us David Cameron plans to make his ministers take significant salary cuts if he forms the next government.

A senior Tory source said to cut public spending the political classes would have to take a financial hit.

The <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/expara-faces-death-sentence-for-murders-1771861.html">Independent</a> reports the case of a British military contractor accused of shooting dead two colleagues in Iraq.

It says he was hired despite being sacked from another security firm and having a psychiatric illness.

Music pioneer

The <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6794382.ece">Times</a> says a transatlantic row has broken out over Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi's possible release.

It says US families and government officials have condemned the plans and international politics may have guided the decision more than concern for his health.

The paper also reports on the <a class="bodl" href="http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article6795384.eceID=">death of the "gifted" musician Les Paul</a> .

It says the solid-bodied guitar he invented would have guaranteed his place in music history, but that he also pioneered recording techniques.