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Weather 36
Yard agrees to publish
damning Beech report
YouTube and Netflix
in top four channels
Drugs biggest killer
for men aged 35-
US accuses Beijing of
manipulating market
Scotland Yard has finally agreed to
publish the damning report into its
disastrous handling of the VIP
paedophile investigation. The Met has
been under intense pressure to make
public the unredacted findings of Sir
Richard Henriques, who carried out
a review into Operation Midland in- The report, which identified
43 separate failings by Scotland Yard,
was only partially released due to the
ongoing criminal investigation into
the fantasist Carl Beech.
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The four most popular television
channels in Britain now include
YouTube and Netflix, an Ofcom report
has found, as the streaming giants
eclipse BBC Two and Channel 4 in a
drastically changing media landscape.
British adults now watch an average of
34 minutes of YouTube and 18 minutes
of Netflix a day, beaten only by BBC
One at 48 minutes and ITV at 37.
A study of young adults aged 18 to 34
placed the two video services as the
most-watched viewing platforms.
Page 7Suicide is no longer the biggest killer
of middle-aged men, data has revealed,
as deaths caused by drug overdoses
have overtaken them for the first time.
Of the 1,336 deaths of men aged be-
tween 35 and 49 in 2018, one in eight
were attributed to accidental poison-
ings last year, figures published yester-
day by the Office for National Statistics
show, up to 12.5 per cent from 10.9 per
cent in 2017. The figure for men in the
same age group who took their own
lives was 1,249, or 11.7 per cent.
Page 8The US and China lurched closer
towards a currency war after the
Trump administration formally
accused Beijing of manipulating
markets. After the worst day of trading
on global markets in 18 months,
a tentative rebound in stocks faltered
as tensions between the world’s two
largest economies threatened to boil
over. The US officially labelled China
a “currency manipulator” for the first
time since 1994, after Beijing allowed
the yuan to slide to an 11-year low.
Page 29newsnews newsbusiness‘Stifling’
rules on GP
pensions to
be relaxed
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Ministers say they will review controversial
tax laws to clear NHS waiting times logjam
By Camilla Tominey
AssociAte editor
THE Treasury is to review George Os-
borne’s controversial tax rules on pen-
sions amid concerns they are stifling
the delivery of public services and
pushing up NHS waiting times.
Higher earners are restricted from
putting more than £10,000 annually
into pensions without facing punitive
taxes. The rules have been blamed for
consultants and GPs turning down
work, undermining patient treatment.
It was also suggested the rules have
led to entrepreneurs losing faith in cor-
porate pension schemes, reducing the
attractiveness of plans to employees.
Many high earners have put their re-
tirement savings into buy-to-let prop-
erties to avoid the punitive tax charges.
Last night, ministers announced they
would relax pension contribution rules
for doctors. Sajid Javid, the Chancellor,
also set out plans for a wider review of
pension tax rules that could result in
caps being lifted for all workers, includ-
ing private sector employees.
Writing for The Telegraph, Matt Han-
cock, the Health Secretary, said the
“major overhaul” would allow senior
doctors in England and Wales to “take
on additional NHS work and be fairly
rewarded for it without the worry of an
unexpected tax bill”.
He said: “The way the system works,
doctors and some nurses in certain cir-
cumstances have to pay to do overtime.
They actually earn less, overall, if they
work more. This is obviously unfair
and completely counterproductive.”
The Treasury will also carry out a re-
view of the way the tapered allowance
operates, “to support the delivery of
public services such as the NHS”. Cur-
rently, the maximum annual limit for
saving into a pension is £40,000, but
this is reduced to £10,000 for those
earning more than £150,000, with
those earning between £110,000 and
£150,000 progressively losing the
more generous allowance.
The pension cap was initially tar-
geted by Gordon Brown as one of New
Labour’s infamous “stealth taxes” be-
fore being seized upon by Mr Osborne
as Chancellor to raise revenue. This
and other tax changes to pensions have
been blamed for undermining Britain’s
private pension system, once regarded
as among the world’s best.
The move fulfils a campaign pledge
by Boris Johnson, who promised to ad-
dress the issue amid concerns it was
contributing to the NHS staffing crisis,
leading to rising waiting times.
The British Medical Association said
six in 10 consultants were considering
early retirement, while four in 10 fam-
ily doctors and three in 10 consultants
had already reduced their hours. Some
clinicians reportedly had to remort-
gage their homes to cover the financial
burden of the taxes. Mr Johnson told a
hustings event last month that the cur-
rent pension rules were “obviously
wrong”, pledging to address the issue
for all workers, not just doctors.
The move was called a “step forward”
by BMA head Dr Chaand Nagpaul: “It is
good to see the Government finally sit-
ting up and taking notice,” he said.
But the HCSA union of hospital doc-
tors warned it would not prevent an-
other “winter meltdown” in the NHS.
Dr Claudia Paoloni, its president,
said: “It is bitterly disappointing that
the Government is resorting to spin
and hot air when it has known for many
months that the crisis was deepening.”Matt Hancock: telegraph.co.ukRest easy, coffee
doesn’t disturb
your sleep
By Sarah Knapton science editorCAFFEINE is a known powerful stimu-
lant that perks you up, increases alert-
ness and promotes wakefulness.
Yet a surprising new study has found
drinking tea or coffee within four hours
of bedtime does not affect sleep at all.
Researchers from Florida Atlantic
University and Harvard Medical School
recorded how much caffeine, alcohol
and nicotine 785 volunteers consumed
and compared their sleep diaries and
wrist sensors.
Around 40 per cent of the group ad-
mitted consuming caffeine on at least
one night of the study. But although
nicotine and alcohol did disrupt sleep –
with a night-time cigarette knocking 42
minutes off total sleep for insomniacs –
caffeine appeared to have no effect.
The findings were unexpected, as
physiologically, caffeine blocks sleep-
promoting chemicals in the brain.
Writing in the journal Sleep, Dr
Christine Spadola, of the Florida uni-
versity, said: “Considering the public
health importance of obtaining quality
Continued on Page 2Muslims need
not assimilate,
says top officer
By Martin Evans
crime correspondentBRITISH Muslims should not be forced
to “assimilate”, the country’s most
senior counter terrorism officer has
said, as he called for greater under-
standing of marginalised communities.
Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu,
who is the country’s highest ranking
Asian officer, said in a successful,
integrated society, people should be
free to practise their religion and
culture openly rather than having to
hide away.
He also said more needed to be done
to eradicate poverty, improve educa-
tion and increase social mobility if
community cohesion was to improve.
But he admitted that Prevent, the
Government’s flagship counter-terror-
ism strategy, had been “badly handled”
and warned it needed to be more com-
munity-led if it was to be successful.
Mr Basu said it was no longer enough
to rely on just the police and security
services to win the fight against ex-
tremism and terrorism explaining that
wider society also had a role. He said
the majority of those who were seeking
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Parliament
and win the
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