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Euro Edition: Morning Papers

Aired September 09, 2003 - 05:44   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.


FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: Let's check what's making headlines overseas in this morning's "Euro Edition." For that we turn again to London and our Tony Campion -- Tony.
TONY CAMPION, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hello, Fredricka. Three stories for you this morning. First one a bit more serious, I suppose, than the other two.

Going to start out with the "Daily Telegraph" or the "Daily Torygraph" it is often known here because of its very safe right wing stance. And it's talking about the fact that our home secretary in the United Kingdom is rather obsessed with U.S.-style policing to the extent that he's actually appointed the chief commissioner from Boston to supervise the British Police Standards Unit. Paul Evans is his name and he's 54 years old. I'm not showing the picture very well. There we go. And essentially the whole point here is that he's that impressed with the way that Paul Evans has got the crime figures down in Boston. He's hoping he's going to do the same thing here in Britain.

What perhaps Mr. Blunkett has failed to notice, says the article, is that the crime figures have actually fallen through Mr. Evans' nine-year tenure in Boston right the way across the U.S. So is it really him? Well I guess we might find out. Irony is, of course, that one of the things that Paul Evans is famous for is community policing, which used to be the mainstay of guess which European policing system? Yes, the British one, so what goes around comes around.

Now let's move on, talk about a guy here who you've probably heard of, Mr. David Blaine. Now here's the headline for you, London mob shows its support for Blaine's public hanging. Now I get the impression that he had rather more popular support in the United States when he was doing that thing, you know, encased in ice. Would it be fair to say millions of people stood around him, watched in awe just to see how this guy was going to achieve...

WHITFIELD: Well certainly a lot of people were interested.

CAMPION: Well now what's happened here is that you know he's hanging himself in a box kind of near the River Thames and people have turned up with eggs and they have thrown eggs at him. One guy actually took golf clubs and golf tees and actually tried to get -- you know drive golf balls up and bounce them off the thing.

WHITFIELD: Is it distracting him at all? CAMPION: Somebody threw their fish and chips. Yes, well this is the whole point. I mean what they're trying to do is ridicule the guy, really, which when you think about the fact that he could actually be pushing himself to the extent that his health is in danger and his life is in danger of this, it's kind of harsh. But then that is, I suppose, the European sense of humor for you. It's actually made him sort of break his own rules because they had to lower the box down so they could wipe the eggs off. And he actually had a little chat with his girlfriend while she was kind of wiping the eggs off.

WHITFIELD: Because he wanted to still be able to get a good view.

CAMPION: Yes, I mean it's really hard. There was some guy even went out and he was said brought the -- the guy was watching David Blaine live on TV who was asleep in his box. So what did he do middle of the night, went round with a drum and played it to wake him up.

And just finally need to explain to you something from one of the Sunday papers before I can bring you up to date with the crucial development today. This guy here, a hairy bloke called Barry who died in India a few years back, it was thought that they had found Lord Lucan. Now this guy, Lord Lucan, disappeared in 1974, English aristocrat. His nanny, the nanny who looked after his three children, was murdered a horrible murder. Lord Lucan disappeared and never heard of again.

Some guy has written a book and there are extracts in the "Sunday Telegraph" review two days ago. Written a book called "Dead Lucky." Lucky was his nickname. He thought he had found him, written a book about it. Funny thing is today's "Guardian" newspaper, Lord Lucan, no, it's Barry the Banjo Player from St. Helens.

WHITFIELD: Oops.

CAMPION: Hundreds of letters have been written in. So the book is called "Dead Lucky," but the author presumably isn't.

WHITFIELD: Not at all, rather unlucky. All right, thanks a lot, Tony.

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Aired September 9, 2003 - 05:44   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: Let's check what's making headlines overseas in this morning's "Euro Edition." For that we turn again to London and our Tony Campion -- Tony.
TONY CAMPION, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hello, Fredricka. Three stories for you this morning. First one a bit more serious, I suppose, than the other two.

Going to start out with the "Daily Telegraph" or the "Daily Torygraph" it is often known here because of its very safe right wing stance. And it's talking about the fact that our home secretary in the United Kingdom is rather obsessed with U.S.-style policing to the extent that he's actually appointed the chief commissioner from Boston to supervise the British Police Standards Unit. Paul Evans is his name and he's 54 years old. I'm not showing the picture very well. There we go. And essentially the whole point here is that he's that impressed with the way that Paul Evans has got the crime figures down in Boston. He's hoping he's going to do the same thing here in Britain.

What perhaps Mr. Blunkett has failed to notice, says the article, is that the crime figures have actually fallen through Mr. Evans' nine-year tenure in Boston right the way across the U.S. So is it really him? Well I guess we might find out. Irony is, of course, that one of the things that Paul Evans is famous for is community policing, which used to be the mainstay of guess which European policing system? Yes, the British one, so what goes around comes around.

Now let's move on, talk about a guy here who you've probably heard of, Mr. David Blaine. Now here's the headline for you, London mob shows its support for Blaine's public hanging. Now I get the impression that he had rather more popular support in the United States when he was doing that thing, you know, encased in ice. Would it be fair to say millions of people stood around him, watched in awe just to see how this guy was going to achieve...

WHITFIELD: Well certainly a lot of people were interested.

CAMPION: Well now what's happened here is that you know he's hanging himself in a box kind of near the River Thames and people have turned up with eggs and they have thrown eggs at him. One guy actually took golf clubs and golf tees and actually tried to get -- you know drive golf balls up and bounce them off the thing.

WHITFIELD: Is it distracting him at all? CAMPION: Somebody threw their fish and chips. Yes, well this is the whole point. I mean what they're trying to do is ridicule the guy, really, which when you think about the fact that he could actually be pushing himself to the extent that his health is in danger and his life is in danger of this, it's kind of harsh. But then that is, I suppose, the European sense of humor for you. It's actually made him sort of break his own rules because they had to lower the box down so they could wipe the eggs off. And he actually had a little chat with his girlfriend while she was kind of wiping the eggs off.

WHITFIELD: Because he wanted to still be able to get a good view.

CAMPION: Yes, I mean it's really hard. There was some guy even went out and he was said brought the -- the guy was watching David Blaine live on TV who was asleep in his box. So what did he do middle of the night, went round with a drum and played it to wake him up.

And just finally need to explain to you something from one of the Sunday papers before I can bring you up to date with the crucial development today. This guy here, a hairy bloke called Barry who died in India a few years back, it was thought that they had found Lord Lucan. Now this guy, Lord Lucan, disappeared in 1974, English aristocrat. His nanny, the nanny who looked after his three children, was murdered a horrible murder. Lord Lucan disappeared and never heard of again.

Some guy has written a book and there are extracts in the "Sunday Telegraph" review two days ago. Written a book called "Dead Lucky." Lucky was his nickname. He thought he had found him, written a book about it. Funny thing is today's "Guardian" newspaper, Lord Lucan, no, it's Barry the Banjo Player from St. Helens.

WHITFIELD: Oops.

CAMPION: Hundreds of letters have been written in. So the book is called "Dead Lucky," but the author presumably isn't.

WHITFIELD: Not at all, rather unlucky. All right, thanks a lot, Tony.

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