Welcome to a belated Daily View on this fine first day of the month. 1st October marks the 166th anniversary of the News of the World; the anniversary of the death of Ned Sherrin; and we say happy birthday to comedian Harry Hill.

Two big news stories

Earthquake hits stricken Sumatra (Guardian)

A second powerful earthquake has hit the Indonesian island of Sumatra, a day after the first devastating quake left more than 500 dead, thousands of people buried in rubble and a major city cut off from the outside world.

Today’s quake, of magnitude 6.9, struck in the early hours about 180 miles from the epicentre of yesterday’s more powerful tremor out at sea.

Cervical cancer jab girl Natalie Morton died from large chest tumour

You can’t help but feel sorry for this poor young woman who dropped dead from a chest tumour at school, not something you wish on anyone. But the unsavoury tabloid scramble to link her death to a vaguely controversial vaccination programme has been deeply unedifying, and hasn’t helped anyone, least of all the family and friends. The ensuing comments on all the news articles I’ve seen have been a scary eye-opening experience.

Natalie Morton, the schoolgirl who died after receiving a vaccine as part of a national immunisation campaign, died from a large malignant tumour in her chest.

Her sudden death was unconnected with her cervical cancer jab, an inquest in Coventry was told today.

See also: Mark Pack on SEO and cancer jabs.

Two must-read blog posts

Charlotte Gore on the bin strike in Leeds

I’m getting in touch with the people involved to write more about this, but in the meantime I’m drawing attention to a new Facebook group: Leeds Tax Payers against the Bin Strike. If you live in Leeds and you want people to actually take your bins away, please join up and spread the word.

(Interesting to my mind for the long battle in the comments – How does Charlotte know what she says she knows – and where she is being accused of ultra-loyalism. Also interesting because Councils across the country are facing issues similar to this as a result of “single status” campaigns to make sure that women’s work in local government is remunerated at the same rate as men’s work – which, to grossly oversimplify, means massive pay rises for dinner ladies and cleaners and pay cuts for binmen and street sweepers.

Stuart Bonar’s cut out’n’keep guide to Labour’s unfunded pledges

I’m not saying I oppose the idea of these policies, but money doesn’t grow on trees… when Lib Dems announce a new policy we spell out how it will be funded – Labour cannot just list a whole raft of costly new policies without explaining how it will be paid for.

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