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THE
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By Sam Lister
Deputy Political Editor
BORIS Johnson has
been urged to “rise
above” attacks by his
former aide Dominic
Cummings and focus

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on continuing to
deliver for the nation.
The Prime Minister
should not be distracted
by his ex-adviser’s bitter
assault and plough on in
winning the war against
Covid, senior Tories have
warned.
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Former Conservative
leader Sir Iain Duncan
Smith said the public do
not want politicians to
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Parts of the
broken-up
submarine on
the seabed

Heartbreak as missing sub is discovered

THE missing Indonesian
submarine has been
found on the sea floor
off Bali, broken into
three pieces.
All 53 sailors on board
were confirmed dead by
authorities.
The 44-year-old KRI
Nanggala, which lost
contact on Wednesday
By News Reporter
as it prepared to
conduct a torpedo drill,
was found 2,600ft
beneath the sea’s
surface by a rescue
vehicle loaned from
Singapore.
It had been built to
survive depths of
1,300ft. There was
enough oxygen on
board to last till
Saturday.
Indonesia’s President
Joko Widodo said: “All
of us Indonesians
express our deep
sorrow, especially to
the families of the
submarine crew.” Grief...relatives hear news

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By John Twomey
AN ARMY veteran facing trial over a
shooting in Northern Ireland 46 years
ago is seeking to take his case to the
European Court of Human Rights.
Lawyers for Dennis Hutchings say
his prosecution is “discriminatory and
vexatious” and will urge the court to
halt the prosecution.
They accused ministers of betraying
former soldiers who served during the
Troubles and claim politicians are
attempting to “whitewash” the IRA’s
role out of the conflict.
Today the Overseas Operations Bill
is set to become law, protecting
veterans who saw action on foreign
soil from vexatious prosecution.
But it does not extend to soldiers
who fought the IRA in Ulster – which
Mr Hutchings’ lawyers say adds
another “discriminatory” layer.
They have written to the
Government seeking its consent to
take his case to the court in Strasbourg.
‘Promise
after promise
has been
broken’
...Dennis
Hutchings
will take
his fight to
Strasbourg
The move was revealed as two
ex-soldiers, known as A and C, are due
to go on trial in Belfast today for the
alleged murder of IRA terrorist Joe
McCann.
Dozens of similar prosecutions are
expected, despite the Government
vowing for years to protect Ulster
veterans, said Mr Hutchings’ lawyers,
McCue & Partners.
They added: “Kowtowing to those
who would seek to whitewash the
IRA’s role in the history of the
Troubles, it has failed to do so.”
Former soldiers are up to 54 times JAMES WHALE: PAGE 13
more likely to face charges than
Republican paramilitaries.
Last week Johnny Mercer resigned
as Minister for Veterans on the issue.
He will be in Belfast today to support
former paratroopers A and C.
Mr Hutchings, 78, said yesterday:
“The Government has let us down. It
always has. Promise after promise has
been broken. We just can’t wait any
longer while the human rights of those
who fought to protect this country’s
security are trampled over. It’s time to
let the courts decide.”
Mr Hutchings, who is seriously ill, is
facing charges relating to the death of
John Cunningham in 1974 – despite
being cleared three times.
Mr Cunningham, 27, who had a
mental age of between six and 10, was
shot as he ran away from a patrol. Mr
Hutchings, who was in command, is
accused of attempted murder and
attempted grievous bodily harm. He is
due to go on trial in October.

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FACEBOOK and Google By Martyn Landi has called for online sites to regulators and the
have been accused of be given legal responsibility government need to go to
leaving scam adverts online same. Consumer group for preventing fake and greater lengths to prevent
after concerns were raised. Which? called on the fraudulent adverts from fraud from flourishing.”
Research found that 34 Government to tackle the appearing on platforms, Facebook said: “Our
per cent of people who issue in its upcoming rather than reacting to them teams disable billions of
notified Google after falling Online Safety Bill. once it was too late. fake accounts every year.”
victim to a con said it was The study also found 43 Adam French, of Which?, Google said: “We take
still not taken down. per cent of fraud victims said: “Victims are action on potentially bad
And 26 per cent of those said they did not report it to worryingly exposed to ads reported to us and these
duped on Facebook said the the host platform. Which? scams. Tech giants, are manually reviewed.”
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Mother of God...Adrian
Give me
strength...
Adrian’s
in a rush
for a ride

nearly misses his bus

HE’S more used to rushing around chasing
“bent coppers”. But Line Of Duty’s Adrian
Dunbar shows he’s still a fit fella when it
comes to catching the bus.
Adrian, who plays AC-12 Supt Ted Hastings,
known for his “Mother of God” catchphrase,
in the hit BBC series, had to sprint to avoid
missing his ride near his home in north
London ahead of next Sunday’s finale.

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EVERY Line Of Duty series has at
least one BIDSTOC moment. As fans
of its famous acronyms will tell you,
this stands for Blimey I Didn’t See
That One Coming.
In almost every case it refers to the
sudden, brutal elimination of a
seemingly key character.
In 2014, series two newcomer
Jessica Raine – fresh from Call The
Midwife – was rudely dispatched
from a jolly high hospital window in
the 58th minute of episode one.
In 2016, series three newby Daniel
Mays was fatally gunned down.
Both had been expected to play
pivotal roles. Instead, to our aston-
ishment, they’d been swiftly con-
signed to oblivion, much as an actor
would be now if they disagreed with
Meghan Markle on Twitter.
So the big question last night as
we braced ourselves for the penulti-
mate part of series six, was: blimey,
had they killed off Kate?
Had Vicky McClure’s DI Kate
Fleming, until recently an AC-12
stalwart, become the latest victim of
Gun drama...Vicky McClure writer Jed Mercurio’s make-their-
plays DI Kate Fleming jaws-hit-the-floor policy? The big
REVIEW
MIKE WARD
Daily Express TV critic
answer? Er, no. We’d heard gunshots
over last week’s closing titles and
feared the worst.
But both bullets had ended up in
PC Ryan Pilkington, who’d been
responsible for a BIDSTOC moment
in 2019, having cut the throat of
Stephen Graham’s DS John Corbett.
So had we spent the week fretting
over nothing? Not quite. Horrid
DCS Patricia Carmichael (Anna
Maxwell Martin), ordered Kate and
Jo’s arrest. “Consider them armed
and dangerous,” she’d declared.
Bombshell
Across town, Kate was accusing Jo
(Kelly Macdonald) of having tried to take!” he cried.
lure her to her death. Jo insisted
anything bad she’d done had been
forced upon her. A patrol car had OPINION: PAGE 12
spotted them. A chase ensued. Then
an armed stand-off. Jo surrendered.
Kate was less keen. Would she get
shot after all? Fortunately, no.
But a bombshell was to follow
nonetheless.
Under interrogation (almost 30
minutes, a Line Of Duty record), the
truth emerged about Jo Davidson’s
horrific family history.
It seemed to explain how she’d Killed ...PC
ended up the way she had. Jo con- Pilkington and
fessed she’d killed Pilkington. Even chief suspect
though she probably hadn’t, it meant DCI Davidson
Kate was off the hook.
Then came live footage of Spanish
police raiding the home of ex-DCI
Marcus Thurwell (James Nesbitt).
Ted Hastings was on tenterhooks.
Top brass were forcing him out, but
this could be a key step towards
bringing down the bent cop net-
work, allowing him to leave on a
high. But – blimey – Thurwell was
dead. And Ted was left in despair.
“There’s only so much a man can
I’m starting to know how he feels.
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THE TORIES

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COMMENT
PATRICK O’FLYNN
Political Commentator

IT may have escaped the notice of

inhabitants of the Westminster
bubble that the UK has been going
through some very tough times.

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The British public has knuckled
down in the face of the Covid
pandemic, temporarily giving up
many freedoms for the greater good.
Key workers have meanwhile
heroically kept the NHS available,
the supermarkets stocked and the
economy ticking over.
More than 127,000 people have
lost their lives to Covid, and without
lockdowns and the vaccination
programme it would have been many
more. All this has been going on

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during the Brexit endgame too.
The people have kept calm and
carried on. Thanks to them, above
all, we are now entering a new phase
in which we can hope to see social
and economic recovery gather pace.
And yet, over in Westminster,
self-indulgence appears to be the
order of the day. Different
Conservative factions have resumed
feuding and back-stabbing, while
Labour is seeking to hype the idea
of “Tory sleaze” being the biggest

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problem facing the country.
Rather than focusing on the big
issues of recovery, civil liberties,
safeguarding against the return of
the pandemic and pressing ahead
with “levelling up” Britain, the Prime
Minister finds himself mired in rows
about the refurbishment of his
Downing Street flat and who leaked
news of a second lockdown.

Channelled

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These come hard on the heels of
further rows about one of his
predecessors lobbying for public
funds to be channelled into a
company that employed him (they
weren’t) and the PM assuring Sir
James Dyson that his employees
wouldn’t face tax penalties if they
helped out in a drive to secure more
ventilators. That the last of these
should be considered scandalous by
anybody at all beggars belief.
The breathless excitement in the
broadcast media indicates that it is
not only the politicians and their
aides who are in danger of getting
their priorities wrong.
Whether his critics like it or not,
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Boris Johnson won a landslide
election victory on a mandate of
getting Brexit done and getting on
with levelling-up. While the first key
FROM PAGE ONE out of lockdown, the Government Tory MP said the public has wanted Tory donors to secretly
wants to focus on its plan to such a low opinion of Mr fund a revamp of his Downing
priority has been achieved, the waste time dealing with the create new jobs, level-up the Cummings after he flouted Street flat.
second was effectively put on hold. country, strike global trade deals, lockdown rules that he has a Tory MP Sir John Redwood
It is time for it to come to the fore.
“personal vendettas” of ousted
Mr Johnson has earned the right former advisers. invest in infrastructure and “credibility problem” and is said: “These opposition MPs who
to have a proper crack at it. He Writing in the Daily Express, rebuild the economy. viewed as “close to the bottom of are trying to make something of
would do well now to remind his he said the Government should A No 10 spokesman said: “The the pile”. it have got to put up or shut up.
courtiers that spreading opportunity “rise above” the “settling of Government is totally focused on The MP said: “Nobody is going “They have got no strong alle-
to all corners of the land must be scores” of ex-aides. delivering the people’s priorities to say Dominic Cummings is a gation. The Prime Minister said
their top priority. Not jostling for Sir Iain wrote: “This self- as we continue our vaccination really good bloke and wants the he paid for his own refurbish-
position in the pecking order. indulgent tit for tat risks calling programme and recover from best for Britain. ment, well that’s fine then. What’s
Labour, meanwhile, would do far into question the very effective- coronavirus – creating new jobs “They are going to say Dominic the story?”
better to address its own many ness of government at a critical and building back better.” Cummings got sacked and now International Trade Secretary
risible shortcomings than to fool time. And those in government he is trying to pay back the peo- Liz Truss dismissed Mr
itself that it can hitch a free ride
back to power on the back of Tory
should rise above it and do the Frustration ple who sacked him.” Cummings’s allegations as “tittle
job they were elected to do.” A briefing war erupted after it tattle” and said she had been
infighting. Some constructive The successful vaccination pro- The Prime Minister’s row with was alleged Mr Cummings was assured the rules for ministers
policies of its own would be a start. gramme and lockdown restric- Mr Cummings after days of the mole leaking private mes- had been followed.
The PM will no doubt be pressed claims about the access of busi- sages between the Prime Minister She said: “I have been assured
hard on the saga of the upgrade to
tions have seen Covid levels
his living quarters. If he learns one plummet. nessmen to top ministers has- and businessman Sir James that the rules have been fully
lesson from it, let it be that while Ministers are poised to sign a caused frustration among Dyson over tax rules. complied with and I know that he
informality and unconventional new deal with Pfizer for more Conservative backbenchers. The tycoon had been asked to has met the costs of the
approaches have generally served vaccines this autumn to “protect They believe the attacks are a help provide ventilators at the flat refurbishment. I absolutely
him well on political problems, they people over the winter and let us distraction at a time when the height of the Covid crisis. Mr believe and trust that the Prime
are not necessarily a good idea in enjoy Christmas”. Government is trying to keep the Cummings then made a series of Minister has done that.
personal finance. As the country moves through country on track to end Covid allegations about his former boss, “What people want to know is
the next phase of the roadmap restrictions in June. But a senior including claims that Mr Johnson that in line with the rules the
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IN TURMOIL
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COMMENT
SIR IAIN
DUNCAN SMITH
Former Conservative
Party Leader
WITH the Government embroiled in
allegations of sleaze and facing calls
for enquiries, you might assume
these issues transfix the country.
Yet engaged as I and others are in
the local election campaign,
knocking on doors, I don’t hear
anything about it. The streets of
Westminster look, as they often do,
a thousand miles away from the
streets of the rest of the UK.
People know they have just been
through the worst year since the
Second World War – with three
lockdowns, schools closed and
people dying as a result of this silent
killer, coronavirus.
This, not Westminster arguments
about sleaze, is what has etched
itself into our shared psyche.
Thanks to the Government’s
successful vaccine rollout, we are
now being inoculated ahead of our
European neighbours. People, while
they grieve for loved ones who died,
can hope for a family holiday to put
this nightmare behind them.
I don’t say that the issues about
ministerial and Civil Service codes of
conduct aren’t important; they are.
The Government has in its hands
vast sums of taxpayers’ money and
has to be careful not to leave itself
open to the charge that it favoured
any business for personal financial
or political reasons.
But what we don’t need now, on
top of the Covid nightmare, is the
eruption of personal score-settling
by advisers, ex-advisers and some
ministers. This self-indulgent tit for
tat risks calling into question the
very effectiveness of government at
a critical time.

Issue
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Should Boris Johnson just above it and do the job they were
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It’s about their lives. It’s the sort
Prime Minister has met the cost Prime Minister, who I work very on the PM, the Tories are cur- rows about lobbying that led to of issue that’s rightly raised on
of this refurbishment. That has closely with, has consistently rently on 45 points to Labour’s the text messages between Sir doorsteps.
happened. through this crisis acted in the 36, according to the latest James Dyson and Mr Johnson That’s why, despite this new
“All the costs will be declared best interests of the country. Opinium poll. being revealed. provocation of threatened attacks
in line with the rules. That, as far “These noises off are simply Bookmaker Coral said its odds Mr Case will be asked on the judgement of the Prime
as I am concerned,, com- not helpful,
p , they are not con- on the Tories winning the next about “the effectiveness of the Minister by Dominic Cummings, it
seems to me that the Government
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Ministers are reflect what is
refle It comes as the country’s most business is conducted ethically rules and never apologised to the
braced for a actually going on
act senior civil servant is grilled and with propriety,” the British people, may not be the
fresh onslaughtt in Downing today by MPs over how busi- committee said. credible source some suppose he is.
from Mr Street.”
S nesses interact with the Either way, as the Prime Minister
Cummings Labour has Government. Conflicts said the other day, the big decisions
when he gives sseized on the Cabinet Secretary Simon Case the public face are urgent and
evidence
MPs investi-
to The odds on the cclaims made
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faces questions about the
collapsed lender Greensill
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they look to the Government to get
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tinue
tin its attack
Capital’s links to the Government
when he appears before the
issues concerning the relationship
between Greensill, current and
Westminster and its personal
vendettas are not what they want the
response to the
pandemic
he
next
next election on the Tories
about
abou the way
Public Administration and
Constitutional Affairs committee.
former ministers, and senior civil
servants.
Government to waste its time on.
The successful vaccine rollout has
month. the GoGovernment is Former Prime Minister David “This will include Lex put the UK on a glidepath to unlock
Cameron faced criticism after and get back to normal, while other
He is widely known to being run. Greensill’s exact role in Number countries struggle with new
have been criticall off Mr The
h party is demanding texting Chancellor Rishi Sunak 10, and potential conflicts of outbreaks of coronavirus.
Johnson’s delay in launching a ministers answer questions about directly on behalf of the com- interest for civil servants and That is what the public wants when
second lockdown in England the row in the House of pany, which he had a financial ministers.” they say the Government should do
when cases began rising last Commons today. interest in. its job and rise above Westminster.
autumn. Ms Truss added: “The But, despite continued attacks The revelations triggered the OPINION: PAGE 12
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CORONAVIRUS:

What a win...crowds
flock back to Wembley
WEMBLEY Stadium played host to 8,000
fans yesterday as Manchester City beat
Tottenham Hotspur 1-0 to win the League
Cup – the UK’s most-attended outdoor
event for over a year.
The showpiece final was part of a set
of pilot events trialling the return of
audiences, doubling the number that
attended last week’s FA Cup semi-final
between Leicester and Southampton.
The allocation for the Carabao-
sponsored showdown gave each side’s
fans 2,000 tickets, while the other 4,000
By Dan Townend
were shared between NHS workers and
local residents. Attendees had to take a
lateral flow test 24 hours before the final.
The sight of fans filling a fraction of
the 90,000-seater national stadium was a
welcome one. The FA Cup Final between
Chelsea and Leicester will have a crowd
of 21,000 on May 15. Wembley then hosts
eight games in this summer’s Euros.
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By Giles Sheldrick
Chief Reporter

PEOPLE in their 30s will be told to

come forward for their Covid jabs
within days as the world-beating
vaccination programme reaches a
new generation.
The move comes as the NHS out-

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flanked Europe once again to
secure an extra 40 million doses of
the Pfizer shot – double the origi-
nal order.
Thirty-somethings are expected
to be invited for their injections at
the end of this week as the rollout
races on.
Today a new TV advertising cam-
paign headlined “Every vaccina-
tion gives us hope” will urge under-
50s to get the jab.

Protective Booster Hancock said: “The UK vaccina- cines – Pfizer, AstraZeneca

It was originally thought those
aged between 35 and 39 would be
told to come forward in the second
half of May or June, with those
aged 18 to 24 and 25 to 29 receiv-
ing theirs in July.
But the programme is ahead of
time with 33.5 million people,
more than half the UK population,
receiving their first jab.
Some 12 million have also had a
second dose.
Around 46 per cent of those
aged between 40 and 49 have
already received a protective shot.
Yesterday it emerged Britain had
outmanoeuvred Europe once more
and placed an “in principle” order
for a yearly booster shot.
The French-Austrian vaccine,
manufactured by pharmaceutical
giant Valneva in Scotland, is
thought to be an ideal annual
shot against Covid and potential
variants.
A third clinical trial has just
started and subject to regulatory
approval could be available before
the end of the year.
The company said it wants bilat-
eral agreements with individual
countries rather than a centralised
order from the EU. Britain started
hopes... tion programme will go down in
the Valneva history as a phenomenal national
plant in effort in the battle against Covid.
Livingston, “Vaccines are helping us get
West back to doing the things we have
Lothian, missed. They protect you and those
could
provide an
around you.
“This campaign is a remarkable
annual
vaccine and poignant reminder of every-
top-up thing we’ve been through as a
country and everything we have to
look forward to – as well as the
negotiations with the company tireless efforts of our volunteers,
in September and now has the NHS heroes and the British people.
option to buy 190 million doses by “Every vaccination gives us hope
2025. and I urge everyone to take up
Vaccination and lockdown have the offer of one when it comes, as
drastically reduced the death toll. we continue on the path back
As of yesterday a further 11 people to normality.”
had died after testing positive, Britain was the first country to
bringing the UK total to 127,428. order the Pfizer jab, months before
There were 1,712 new cases. there was evidence it even worked.
Last night Health Secretary Matt It has already approved three vac-
(Oxford) and Moderna.
In all eight different vaccines,
some of which have not yet been
approved, have been ordered. They
include 100 million AstraZeneca
doses and seven million made by
US company Moderna.
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In addition there are 60 million
doses each of Novavax and
GlaxoSmithKline/Sanofi Pasteur,
50 million of CureVac and 30 mil-
lion of Janssen (Johnson &
Johnson).
A booster programme is likely to
start in the autumn. It aims to give
a third dose to 10.3 million
over-70s and care home residents
and those deemed clinically
extremely vulnerable.
Another 4.3 million health and
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ROLLOUT BOOST
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FOUR thousand volunteers are
being recruited to test a new
coronavirus vaccine.
The jab, developed by
Valneva, is being manufactured
at the company’s Scottish site in
Livingston, West Lothian.
It is the only inactivated,
adjuvanted Covid-19 vaccine
– meaning it has an ingredient
to create a stronger immune
response – in clinical
development in Europe.
Inactivated jabs have been
used over the last 100 years to
vaccinate billions of people –
including for seasonal flu,
hepatitis A, polio and rabies.
After positive safety results
By Hanna Geissler
Health Reporter
Valneva candidate, or two doses
of the Oxford/AstraZeneca jab,
which has already been
approved.
Participants aged 18 to 29 can
also be enrolled to receive the
Valneva vaccine but they will
not be offered the Oxford/
AstraZeneca vaccine.
If the trials are successful,
Valneva aims to make
submissions for approval in the
autumn. It says it can provide
up to 250 million vaccine doses
to the UK and other countries
around the world.

from the first two phases of the
trial – which showed the study
vaccine dose was “well
tolerated with no safety
concerns identified” –
recruitment for the final phase
of the study will start before the
end of April.
The study will run across 22
National Institute for Health
Research (NIHR) sites in
Role
Up to 100 million doses of the
vaccine have been secured by
the UK. Volunteers will be
vaccinated at the beginning of
May. Some will be on the NHS
Covid-19 Vaccine Research
Registry, which has over
480,000 sign-ups.

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England, and two devolved
administration sites in Scotland.
It is open to healthy adults
who have not had a Covid-19
vaccine yet. But unlike previous
vaccine trials, those over 30
who participate will not be
given a placebo and will instead
receive either two doses of the
Thomas Lingelbach,
chief executive officer of
Valneva, said: “The world
needs multiple vaccines and
we believe that ours has
an important role to play –
including boosters or
potential modifications to
address variants.”

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social care workers may also
be included.
Evidence suggests two doses of
any vaccine provides long-lasting
immunity but experts hope giving
a third jab before the winter will
protect against another surge.
Ruth Rankine, primary care
director at the NHS Confederation,
said: “The remarkable efforts of so
many people across the NHS,
including across primary care, have
led to the overwhelming success of
the vaccination campaign with
nearly two-thirds of UK adults hav-
ing had at least one jab.”
The success of the programme
comes as some scientists think
Britain should be set free from
lockdown restrictions and enjoy a
summer of liberty.
In England all legal limits on
social contact will be removed by
June 21 at the earliest. In an open
letter, 22 signatories, including
Prof Carl Heneghan, of Oxford
University, and Daily Expresss
columnist and cancer guru Proff
Karol Sikora, believe mandatory
face coverings, physical distancing
and mass community testing
should end.
But Prof Stephen Reicher, of Stt
Andrews University, said: “We
have heard from these people
before. They were wrong then and
they are wrong now.
“It seems remarkably insular to
repeat the claim in a week where
infections are their highest level
ever worldwide and global deaths
passed the three million mark.”
The vaccination programme
started on December 8 when
Margaret Keenan, 91, received
her Pfizer jab.
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times more likely to die from
Covid-19 than other women, a
ttop medic claims.
Professor Aris Papageorghiou
ssaid his findings show that
pregnant and post-pregnant
p
By Chris Riches
1,400 pregnant women without
Covid, one died. But in 700
pregnant women with Covid, 11
died – with the majority of the
deaths said to be virus-related.
women should be prioritised
w Prof Papageorghiou added:
ffor vaccinations. “Our study unequivocally
y Currently they have the jab as shows women who are pregnant
g normal with their age group
n and become infected with Covid
g unless they have specific
u have worse outcomes.
underlying health conditions.
u “Covid in a pregnant woman
increases complications that
e Complications can lead to premature birth,
which is the No 1 contributor
Prof Papageorghiou said that to newborn death and long-
mums-to-be having Covid
m term disability.
doubles the risk of premature
d “Pregnant women should
birth. It also raises the risk of
b constitute a high-risk group by
ccomplications during pregnancy virtue of their pregnancy.”
by more than 50 per cent,
b The Department of Health
iincluding a fivefold higher risk said: “We are focused on saving
of needing intensive care.
o lives and we follow the advice
The professor, who is a foetal of the Joint Committee on
m
medicine expert at Oxford Vaccination and Immunisation
University, studied more than
U to vaccinate the most
2,000 pregnant women. Of
2 vulnerable first, based on age.”
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THE Covid surge in India has left
crematoriums so overwhelmed that grieving
families are burning victims in their gardens.
The country announced a record 349,691
infections and 2,767 deaths in the past 24
hours amid concerns their second wave
could spark a new world health crisis.
It is feared the huge number of infections
of the Indian variant could lead to deadly
coronavirus mutations.
So far 132 cases of the variant have been
detected in Britain – around half of which
are in London.
India was added to the UK’s travel “red
list” last Friday, prompting a last-minute
scramble for flights to Heathrow.
In Delhi, one coronavirus victim was
dying every four minutes and in some states
the government has allowed families to
cremate victims on their own land.
Horrific
Experts worry that India’s true death toll
could be 10 times higher than the official
figure because of poor recording of data and
mass ad hoc cremations.
And the situation could become even
worse, with senior virologists warning the
second wave could soon reach a peak of
500,000 infections a day.
Dr Shahid Jameel, director of biosciences
at Ashoka University, said modelling
suggests that cases will keep rising in the
next fortnight.
He said: “You will find two, sometimes
three patients in one bed in some
government hospitals. I’ve never ever seen
anything like this.”
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken
said: “Our hearts go out to the Indian
people in the midst of the horrific
outbreak.
“We are working closely with the
Indian government and we will
rapidly deploy support to India’s
health care heroes.”
Pakistan has also offered to
send medical supplies to its
neighbouring country in a
gesture of solidarity. It
has offered venti-
lators, oxygen
supply kits,
digital
X-ray
machines
and PPE.
Flipping fantastic…a crowd watches Two-up players hurl coins in the air
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By Chris Riches
The offer came after Prime Minister Imran
Khan prayed for the “speedy recovery of the
Indian people affected by the virus”.
In the past month, daily cases have gone
up eight times and deaths by ten times in
India. People were arranging stretchers and
oxygen cylinders outside hospitals as they
desperately pleaded for authorities to take
patients in yesterday.
Atul Gogia, a doctor in New Delhi, said:
“It’s very hectic, physically, mentally and
emotionally. Everything is full, we are over-
pressed, staff are catching the disease. We do
not have places in the emergency room.”
Saswati Sinha, an intensive care doctor in
Kolkata, said: “We are already over-
whelmed. All of our wards, all of our critical
care beds are already at capacity.”
Experts accused India of complacency
after just 10,000 new cases a day last winter
led authorities to lift restrictions, allowing
for the resumption of big gatherings.
In February overconfident Prime Minister
Narendra Modi said his nation was “inspir-
ing the world” with their Covid fight.
He said then: “In a country which is home
to 18 per cent of the world population, that
country has saved humanity from a big
disaster by containing corona effectively.”
Now one third of the world’s Covid-19
infections are taking place in India.
Global health expert Dr Anant Bhan said:
“It’s not the virus variants and mutations
which are a key cause of the current rise. It’s
the variants of ineptitude and abdication of
public health-thinking by our decision mak-
ers. We should have been messaging
clearly for people to take vaccines
in January and February
when cases were down.”
At least 20 coronavirus
patients died overnight on
Friday at New Delhi’s Jaipur
Golden Hospital when the
“oxygen pressure was low”,
the hospital admitted. The
High Court in New Delhi,
home to 26 million, has ruled
that anyone restricting oxygen
supplies to hospitals “will
be hanged”.
PM Boris Johnson
has pledged to aid
Complacency...
Dr Anant Bhan
Beer we go...Australia is on
the Up for Anzac celebrations
PUBS across Australia
were packed as crowds
gathered to celebrate
Anzac Day with a few
tinnies and a traditional
game of Two-up.
Covid restrictions last
year put a stop to the
custom as the country
went into strict lockdown.
But this year the streets
of Sydney buzzed again
as spectators, who were
CORONAVIRUS:
UK SENDS MERCY FLIGHT
By Gavin Cordon
BRITAIN is sending more than 600
pieces of urgently needed medical
equipment to India.
It comes as a devastating surge in
Covid-19 cases has overwhelmed the
country’s health services.
The first of nine plane-loads of
life-saving kit – including ventilators
and oxygen concentrators – will arrive
in New Delhi early tomorrow.
It follows Foreign Office discussions
with the Indian government.
Further consignments are due to be
despatched later this week.
For the fourth straight day on
Sunday, India set a global daily record
for new infections, with another
349,691 confirmed cases.
It took the country’s total to more
than 16.9 million, behind only the
United States.
Boris Johnson, who was due to visit
India this week before the latest
deadly wave forced him to cancel,
said in a statement the UK would do
whatever it could to help the country.
He added: “We stand side by side
with India as a friend and partner
during what is a deeply concerning
time in the fight against Covid-19.
“Vital medical equipment, including
hundreds of oxygen concentrators
and ventilators, is now on its way from
the UK to India to support efforts to
prevent the tragic loss of life from this
terrible virus.
“We will continue to work closely
with the Indian government... I’m
determined to make sure that the UK
does everything it can to support the
international community in the global
fight against (this) pandemic.”
The equipment includes 495 oxygen
concentrators, 120 non-invasive
ventilators and 20 manual ventilators
from surplus UK stocks. The
Government said it was in contact
with Indian authorities to establish
what further assistance is required.
India in its battle against the devastating Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh have quadru-
surge. He said: “Thanks to the huge efforts of pled infection rates from the first wave,
British manufacturers we’re better able to others have yet to even suffer the surge.
deliver ventilators to other countries. It means the colossal Indian figures could
“But also possibly send therapeutics, dex- climb far higher once the whole country –
amethasone, other things. We’ll look at what with its population of more than 1.3 billion
we can do to help.” – comes under pressure.
Mr Johnson cancelled a trip to New Delhi Prof James Naismith, of Oxford University,
where he had hoped to secure millions of said: “Vaccination means we will not ever
doses. While northern states such as Gujarat, see such scenes from Covid-19 here.”
By News Reporter
not wearing masks,
cheered the return of the
loved coin-tossing game.
Two-up is a gambling
game made popular by
Australian soldiers during
the First World War.
Anzac Day is the only
day of the year that pubs
and clubs can legally hold
the event. Last year…Anzac Day in Sydney was a low-key affair
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INDIA IN CRISIS

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Tears...a boy
grieves for his
father as the
Covid victim’s
body burns at a
crematorium in
New Delhi

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A WOMAN living in London says she feels “angry and
frustrated” at being unable to help her unvaccinated
82-year-old mother in India as Covid-19 cases there soar.
Sumita Singha – an architect, author and non-executive
director at Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
– moved to the UK from India in 1988.
The country is on the Government’s travel “red list”,
with non-residents
banned from the UK
and returning Britons
forced to quarantine.
Ms Singha’s mother
Namita lives in Delhi
with another daughter
in an apartment she has
not left for months.
She was recently
offered a Covid jab. But At risk...Namita and grandsons
the new wave of cases in
India convinced her family it was best for her to stay in
her flat to cut her risk of exposure.
“We can’t afford to let my mum get ill. I just feel very
sad (and) a bit unable to help her,” said Ms Singha, 56,
who stressed she was not speaking on behalf of the NHS.
“I feel sort of embarrassed because I’ve had the Covid
vaccination here.
“I work for the NHS, so it’s kind of ironic that I’ve got
the vaccination and I have means for regular testing, but
my own mum is not able to access all that.”

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‘Achingly alone’...Kate shares the couple’s journey
By Mark Jefferies
KATE GARRAWAY has described
feeling “achingly alone” the moment
husband Derek Draper went into a
coma and feared she would never hear
him speak again.
The Good Morning Britain presenter
has spoken of “big ups and downs”
since Derek, 53, was rushed into
intensive care with Covid-19 in March
last year, with fears initially that he
would never recover.
He recently left hospital and is
recuperating at home after major organ
damage caused by the virus, but in a
new book Kate, 53, describes the day
when he was put into an induced coma
in April last year.
At the time her beloved husband told
her: “You saved my life. And I don’t just
mean now because I’m going into the
coma to help me. I mean, everything,
Progress into a coma and read: “It’s mental
...Derek torture. I need a break. I want to be put
is back unconscious.”
at home Another asked the TV and radio star
after the to tell their two children – Darcy, 15,
virus and Billy, 11 – how much he loved them
caused and said: “I don’t think you realise how
major
bad it is, it is unimaginable.
organ
damage
“I literally feel like I’m drowning and
every breath is my last.
“Please tell them both I love them.
The doctor says there’s no chance of me
dying. I just have to keep going.”
with the children, the family, our Kate returned to hosting GMB last
wonderful life. You saved me.” July after three months off when Derek
Mother-of-two Kate writes in The was first taken into hospital. She is
Power Of Hope: “The line went dead. I juggling her work with caring for Derek
suddenly felt alone, achingly alone. I and receives support from specialists.
didn’t know if I would ever hear Derek’s ● Kate Garraway: The Power Of Hope,
voice again.” is published by Bantam Press on
She also details the worrying text Thursday.
messages he sent describing his pain
when in hospital. One begged to be put THANKING MY LUCKY STARS: PAGES 18 & 19
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By Tom Campbell
GIVING unborn babies
vitamin C can prevent
them from losing their
memories in later life,
according to a study.
The vitamin ensures
babies’ brains develop
properly – even if their
oxygen supply is cut
short, say scientists.
Low oxygen in the
womb, known as chronic
foetal hypoxia, is one
of the most common
complications women
face during pregnancy.
Cambridge University One of
researchers found it life’s
good
reduces the number of guys...
nerve cells and Jack
connections in the
child’s brain.
Study author Professor
Dino Giussani said: “It’s

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exciting to think we
might be able to protect
the brain health of an
unborn child by a simple
treatment that can be
given to the mother

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during pregnancy.”
The research, funded
by The British Heart
Foundation and The
Medical Research
Council, was published
in The FASEB Journal.

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By Ben Mitchell
A WOMAN died after
being pulled unconscious
from the sea.
A passenger hovercraft
was alerted to her
presence in the water off
Southsea, Hampshire,
on Saturday afternoon,
but police said it was not
involved in the incident.
The 59-year-old was
rescued by a lifeboat
crew and taken to
hospital, but died later.
A Hampshire Police
spokesman said: “Next
of kin have been
informed and are being
supported by officers.
Police do not believe the
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AN ambulance worker who had five
shifts left until he retired for good has
been killed after an object struck his
windscreen.
Police said yesterday they were
“satisfied” that the death of ambu-
lance technician Jeremy “Jack” Daw,
66, was not due to a “deliberate act”.
He had retired as a paramedic in
November but rejoined West Midlands
Ambulance Service in January to help
his colleagues during the winter wave
of coronavirus.
The unidentified object struck his
ambulance at 8am on Saturday as he
and the driver were on their way to an
emergency. The driver, who was also
injured, tried to revive Jack.
Other ambulances raced to the
scene on the A49 outside Hereford
but Jack could not be saved.
Nathan Hudson, West Midlands
Ambulance Service’s emergency oper-
By John Twomey
ations delivery director, said: “We
don’t think this was malicious, we
think this is a tragic accident.”
He added: “Jack was a remarkable
character. He was one of life’s good
guys and he will be sorely missed in
and around Hereford.”
Messages of sympathy have poured
in from emergency services across the
country, he added.
“Jack was a loving husband, a father
and for us in the ambulance service,
he was not just a colleague but a dear
friend as well.”
A picture of the damaged vehicle
showed a large hole in the windscreen
on the passenger side.
Early reports that an object had
been thrown at the vehicle were dis-
missed. Insp Chris Watson, of West
Mercia Police, said the force contin-
ued to investigate the “tragic” and
“difficult” incident.
He added in a statement: “We are
still thoroughly investigating this inci-
dent and, although at an early stage,
we are satisfied that this was not a
deliberate act despite some specula-
tion on social media.
“We are continuing to support the
victim’s family at this challenging time
and would ask that they are given
time to grieve.
Unconscious
“They would like to thank everyone
for the support and well-wishes they
have received.” Speaking about the
incident, Mr Hudson said: “We had a
999 call where the crew responded on
Saturday shortly before 8am. About a
minute after eight, we had a 999 call
to say the crew had been involved in
an incident, whereby an object of
some description had gone through
and pierced the windscreen and one of
the crew members was unconscious.
“The driver of the vehicle, who was
also injured, was able to get out
and try and help Jack and started
life-saving treatment to try and resus-
citate him.”
Jack served for 25 years in a light
infantry regiment before becoming a
paramedic in 1992, his family said.
They added that he was a keen
metal detectorist and accomplished
tour guide as well as being a “devoted
husband, father, grandfather and
great-grandfather”.
NHS chief executive Sir Simon
Stevens said he “represented the
best” of the health service.
West Mercia Police are asking any-
one who saw the incident or has dash-
cam footage to contact them on 101.

hovercraft to have been
involved in any way.”
The death is not being
treated as suspicious.
A Coastguard
spokeswoman said it
received “multiple 999
calls” and despatched a
lifeboat and helicopter.
Hovertravel, which
runs services to the Isle
of Wight from Southsea,
confirmed its Solent
Flyer craft was alerted
but said it was not
involved in the incident.
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POLICE trying to find the
mother of a newborn baby
boy found in a park have
released footage of a woman
they believe could help with
their inquiries.
West Midlands Police
shared the video online as
they continue to search for
the mother.
The baby was discovered at
By Tom Pilgrim
a park in King’s Norton,
Birmingham, at around
5.30pm on Thursday.
The CCTV footage shows
a woman walking along a
nearby road just before
5.10pm that afternoon.
The force said it was “very
concerned” for the welfare
of the baby’s mother. A
police statement said: “The
baby boy was possibly only
hours old when he was
found, clothed and wrapped
in a blanket, by a dog walker.
“He is being cared for at
hospital, where he is thought
to be full-term, healthy and
doing well.
“Sadly we’ve still not been
able to find the mother. We’re
very concerned for her and
want to check she is doing
OK, physically and mentally.
“Giving birth is a big thing
and we’re concerned she will
need medical help.
“If anyone recognises the
woman in the CCTV, please
get in touch, she may hold
vital information.” CCTV... woman walking

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By Paul Jeeves
PRINCE Charles is expected
to step into his late father’s
shoes by accompanying the
Queen to the State Opening
of Parliament next month.
Following Prince Philip’s
death, he is to be designated
the Queen’s official “consort”
and will join his mother for
the ceremony on May 11.
Charles, 72, will be the first
member of the Royal Family
to assume duties to help
support his bereaved
95-year-old mother.
Before the Duke of
Edinburgh died aged 99 on
April 9, Charles visited him in
hospital and Prince Philip
gave emotional advice on how
to look after the Queen and
lead the Royal Family.
It will not be the first time
the Prince of Wales has
accompanied the Queen to the
State Opening of Parliament,
having sat alongside his
mother many times since 1996.
A House of Lords source
said: “It is a clear signal that
the Queen does not want the
crown to skip a generation and
that Prince Charles will start
taking on an even bigger role.”
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Revelations...Meghan and Harry
Anne’s salute to Anzac war heroes
Anne at the
Australian War
Memorial and,
inset, with Sir Tim.
Below, laying a
wreath at the New
Zealand memorial
AN EXPLOSIVE new version
of Prince Harry and Meghan’s
biography Finding Freedom is set
to fan the flames of their royal rift
even further.
Out this summer, it will tackle
their infamous Oprah Winfrey
interview.
And it will include denials
that Meghan bullied royal staff
and cover the recent death and
funeral of Prince Philip.
The first edition, by Omid
Scobie and Carolyn Durand, was
published last August.
It painted a sugar-coated picture
of the Duke and Duchess of
Sussex’s four years together lead-
ing to their decision to withdraw
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By Paul Jeeves
from official duties and move to
America last year.
The new version, out on August
5, is also expected to discuss their
multi-million pound deals with
Netflix and Spotify, and their new
life in California.
But it could also deal with the
Queen’s decision to strip them of
their royal patronages including
Harry’s military roles.
Royal fans had hoped Harry and
his brother William would rebuild
their fractured relationship after
they were seen speaking at the
Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral this
month. But insiders fear the
reissue of Finding Freedom will
aggravate the simmering tensions.
A senior courtier is reported to
have said: “The Oprah interview
detonated a bomb under the Royal
Family and most of them are still
reeling in shock. The book will
not help.”
Another senior royal source
added: “After Oprah, what else is
there to say?”
Harry, 36, flew back to the US
last Tuesday after the funeral – his
first trip back to Britain in a year.
It was also the first time he had
seen his family since making
explosive allegations about royal
racism during the interview with
Oprah. He also claimed his father
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By Tony Jones
RESPLENDENT in purple
Princess Anne marks Anzac
Day yesterday, paying
tribute to the Australian and
New Zealand military.
It marks the brave soldiers
who died in the First World
War Gallipoli landings.
Anne and her husband,
Vice Admiral Sir Tim
Laurence, attended two
commemorative services in
London on behalf of the
Royal Family.
They were among a
reduced number attending
the Anzac Day dawn service
in central London.
There the princess laid
wreaths at both the
Australian and New Zealand
War Memorials, and signed a
book of remembrance.
Thanksgiving
The couple then visited
Westminster Abbey for a
service of commemoration
and thanksgiving.
Prince William, who
was also present, said:
“The Anzac qualities of
endurance, courage,
ingenuity, good humour and
mateship are admired as
fiercely as ever before.”
Thousands of Australian
and New Zealand troops
died in the ill-fated 1915
Gallipoli campaign.
Allied forces launched an
amphibious attack on the
strategically important
Turkish peninsula which was
key to controlling the route
to the Black Sea and Russia.
But the plan, backed by
Winston Churchill, who
was then first lord of the
admiralty, led to stalemate
and withdrawal eight
months later.
Charles and William are “trapped
in the system”.
Harry missed the Queen’s 95th
birthday on Wednesday and is
believed to have met Charles and
William only once.
Both were both badly wounded
by his decision to emigrate and
pour his heart out on TV.
After the funeral William and
Harry walked back to Windsor
Castle. Later there was a face-to-
face meeting within the grounds of
the castle between the brothers
and Charles.
Harry missed his grandmother’s
birthday, but wanted to get home
to Meghan, 39, who is pregnant
with their second child, a girl.

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Forget the tittle tattle,
just look at the facts
D
OES anyone take seriously the spiteful
threats from divisive Downing Street
aide Dominic Cummings? Or lose sleep
over the substance of leaked texts?
As Liz Truss says, it is all just tittle tattle.
The only person to whom it matters is
Labour leader Keir Starmer, who is
desperate to concoct a story of Government
sleaze to cover his own failings.
That’s the same Keir Starmer who was
happy to clamour for ventilators, along with
PPE, at the height of the first lockdown but
now sees something dubious in the Prime
Minister’s efforts to urgently secure such
equipment with help from industrialists like
James Dyson.
What really matters to people is when
they will get their vaccinations, when they
will see the end of Covid restrictions, and
whether they will have a job as we come
out of lockdown.
So far, the vaccine roll-out has been
an astonishing success, the economy
is looking set fair to bounce back from
the pandemic, and there are already
welcome signs of levelling up around the
country.
Boris Johnson must not let himself get
side-tracked by petty nonsense but must
stick to the task of governing.
Summer smiles ahead?
W
ITH more than half of the population
having already had a first dose of
Covid vaccine, the good news just
keeps coming.
Those over 45 can already book their jab
and, with millions more doses secured,
vaccinations will be offered to Britons in
their 30s within days as the roll-out ramps
up again.
The effectiveness of the vaccines has been
proved to such an extent that many experts
want to see an end of all Covid restrictions,
including masks and social distancing, by
June 21.
We only need to look at the crisis in India
to see the perils of declaring victory over
the pandemic too soon, but the light at the
end of the tunnel is coming into sharper
focus and it looks like a glorious British
summer.
At this rate, thanks to our brilliant
scientists, the summer solstice will not only
be the longest day, but the happiest.
One last acronym duty
O
MG! So, ex-AC12 DI Kate survived last
week’s shoot-out cliffhanger and it was
the OCG man left dead, only for an
ARU to be sent after Kate and her MIT
DCI Jo by the nasty DCS.
Then followed a grilling of the DCI, for
the DIR, but we’re still left waiting for H to
be unmasked as the arch-acronym.
If you’re not a fan of TV’s Line Of Duty
you won’t have a clue.
Even if you are, you’re probably still lost.
QED, we’ll all have to wait until next
week’s nail-biting finale. OK?
Britain is ready to
boom thanks to
a Brexit bounce
A
MOOD of frenzied
excitement now grips
Westminster. As embit-
tered former aide
Dominic Cummings
pours his vitriol on the
Prime Minister, the air is thick
with claims of chaos and sleaze.
Leaking, plotting, feuding and
demanding inquiries seem to be
the current favourite enthusi-
asms of the political class.
Yet these colourful antics
appear to have had little impact
on public opinion. In fact, one
poll yesterday showed the
Tories have extended their lead
over Labour to 11 points. That
could be because, despite the
headline-grabbing furore, voters
believe the Government is
doing a decent job on combat-
ting the Covid pandemic and
promoting economic recovery.
The vaccine programme has
been a phenomenal success, far
beyond anything achieved by
other European countries. With
around half of the population
having received at least one
dose, the country is moving
towards normality again.
At the same time, post-Covid
prosperity beckons. According
to the IMF, Britain will enjoy
the fastest expansion of any
major developed nation over
the next two years, reaching 5.3
per cent this year and 5.1 per
cent next.
I
NDEED, the economic
revival is already here,
helped by the vaccine roll-
out. The Office for National
Statistics reported last week
that growth in February was a
healthy 0.4 per cent, while
unemployment actually fell in
the first two months of the year.
In an interview published at the
weekend, Ben Broadbent, the
Deputy Governor of the Bank
of England, bullishly predicted
“very rapid growth at least over
the next couple of quarters”.
It was not meant to be like
this. An army of experts kept
telling us the coronavirus and
Brexit would leave us a bat-
tered, broken island. Cut off
from the protective embrace of
the EU, it was argued our trade
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BIG DEAL: International Trade Secretary Liz Truss with Australian Trade Minister Dan Tehan last week
border would be an insur-
Leo McKinstry
mountable stumbling block.
Such misplaced negativity illus-
trates how the Europhiles have
allowed their judgment to be
Daily Express columnist warped by anti-British ideology.
Yet the facts keep contradict-
ing their dogma. As with the
would be wrecked as surely as promising. A recent survey vaccines and economic growth,
our healthcare. The Remainers’ showed one in three German Britain is triumphing as a nego-
narrative of despair featured businesses plans to increase tiator of trade deals.
meltdown at our ports because their investment in Britain.
W
of border checks and vaccine Financial giant Goldman Sachs
shortages because of our exclu- has just announced it is to open
sion from the EU’s scheme. a new office in Birmingham,
But the sclerotic Brussels explaining “we see this as a tre- ITH the formidable
empire is the one in real trou- mendous opportunity to enhance Liz Truss at the
ble, as Britain forges ahead. our UK presence and continued helm as Trade
What we can see now is not a delivery for global clients”, Secretary, the Government has
post-Brexit decline, but a Brexit words that confound all the secured agreements worth
bounce. “Forecasts of unmiti- bleak warnings from the pro- £900billion since Brexit.
gated gloom have been wrong EU brigade about Britain’s Last week saw a major break-
and deceitful,” writes Wolfgang post-Brexit isolation. through in talks with Australia
Münchau, director of specialist In the same vein, Guillame for a £19billion deal, which
news service Eurointelligence. Faury, head of the mighty could boost our exports by
Contrary to the grim Airbus conglomerate, declared another £900million. “It shows
Remainer propaganda about recently that “we want to grow what we can do outside the
dwindling trade and paralysed in the UK”, having been reas- EU,” Ms Truss rightly said.
docks, British exports to the EU sured by our trade deal with the The EU lumbers on, pulled
recovered in February by EU. down by federalist ideology and
£3.7billion to £11.6billion, That deal is due to be for- bureaucracy. Typically, the
close to last year’s £12billion mally ratified by the European Commission last week pub-
monthly average. Similarly, a Parliament tomorrow, making a lished a 108-page document on
vast exodus of financial services mockery of eager Remainer its plans for digital regulation.
jobs to Europe never happened. speculation that the current dis- In contrast, from the vaccines
Other indicators are just as pute over the Northern Irish to international deals, Britain
has demonstrated how to
‘The sclerotic Brussels empire is
exploit our post-Brexit flexibil-
ity, harnessing our talent for
the one that is in real trouble’
innovation to our entrepreneur-
ial spirit for a bright future.
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James Whale
Daily Express Monday, April 26, 2021 13

STRAIGHT TALKING AND TAKES NO PRISONERS

Football’s only
goal is money 3URWHFWWKH1+6E\
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YOU know how people say never
talk about something you don’t
know about?
Well, I’ve made a living out of it
and I’m afraid I can’t really resist
sticking my oar in about this
flipping football fiasco.
I don’t follow football as I’ve

7
never really been that interested Pictures:BPM; GETTY
in spectator sport, but I know

lots of people do and most of the
arguments seem to go back to
their memories of the old days,
Mr Mercer,
HESE days you can’t write a
column without menacing
music in the background and
a deep gravelly voice intoning

whatever that means, and how
this new Super League would
have killed off the little clubs.
I thought they had already
gone but one thing I don’t
understand is how the grossly
overpaid guys get so much.
Because, let’s face it, the
girls don’t get paid anywhere
near as much. There’s no parity
in football.
Football is an entertainment
business, not a sport. So let’s
not confuse the two. And the
stars want to get as much as
they can but the amount of
money all these guys seem to
get is unbelievable.
Apparently it’s our national
sport. I couldn’t care less.
Leave them to it and if you
don’t like it or what they’re doing
don’t watch it. Easily solved.
I salute you
the word “lockdown”. I’ve
done my time self-isolating, as
we all have, and I don’t think a national
lockdown can or should happen again.
But a word to the wise, Boris: the WELL done Johnny Mercer.
other night I was out in Soho in the The defence minister,
centre of London and there was a most who quit last week, didn’t
amazing atmosphere. I was sitting with like the way veterans are
my friend, Nanny, outside a little Italian being treated. Johnny
restaurant and there was no social dis- had a number of tours in
Afghanistan: he was a
tancing, not much mask wearing and real soldier and has now
everybody was happy and smiley.
turned to politics and
There were a lot of police hanging is trying to make a
around and people with the words
difference.
“Covid Marshal” written on their high- He’s highlighted the
vis jackets. But even if they had been ridiculous way some MPs
ordered to clear the crowds, there were and civil servants
simply too many people. behave, feeling that
I’ve had two jabs and most of my they are in some way
friends have had at least one. And we superior to the rest of
can’t shut down the economy again but us. They are not.
here is my suggestion for what it’s worth. They are simply
The main reason for closing every- members of the public

■ OH dear. Nanny has thing down was to protect the who decide they want to
just phoned. I had NHS. But to protect it from be public servants. That
to hold the phone means to serve us.
what? In my view, bad man- I think a lot of Members
away from my ear agement and the inability to
as she was of Parliament on all sides
tell the politicians what of the House forget this.
screaming like they need to do has con-
a banshee. Well done, Johnny.
tributed to the greatest These guys need to wake
I wondered what risk. Similarly, in trying to
was going on. up. The way they tried to
Somebody must improve it, politicians have sack you before you had
surely have had a messed up the NHS. the chance to resign was
catastrophe. In fact It’s free at the point of use, just rude.
they had, but it was and that must never change, And the issue that
hedgehogs she is worried but in the 21st century a lot of Johnny resigned over –
about – and rightly so. sensible adjustments do need to be the treatment of
I love hedgehogs but apparently made. Because, if, God forbid, we have veterans, particularly
there is an epidemic of nutty another crisis like this, it is clear the sys- those who served in
gardeners with electric strimmers. tem might not be able to cope. Northern Ireland – does
Those prats like to have stripey need to be addressed and
While those Nightingale hospitals can today, not tomorrow.
lawns and then go round the edges be rebuilt easily enough, we don’t have
in the long grass with a strimmer. enough staff to run them. The NHS must
Nanny tells me there have been be better staffed for the next tragedy.
several cases of hedgehogs with

severe facial injuries as a result of
the stupid strimming brigade.
You might want your garden
looking pristine, but spare a
thought for our little prickly friends
doing the gardeners an enormous
amount of good eating the slugs.
Remember: check, check, check
before you cut.
There is no doubt it is the greatest
health system in the world, but that
doesn’t mean it is perfect.
Politicians have failed to make tough
decisions because they’re frightened of a
public backlash.
They need to grab the NHS by the
neck, shake it vigorously, change the
system and then put in the money it
needs. I thank you.
■
I’VE just been chatting to my friend Timmy
from Timmy’s World on TV. He’s known as
the celebrity hairdresser, in case any of you
are still in need after lockdown.
Anyway Timmy is also a singer and is
rehearsing with a guy who was in Phantom Of
The Opera. He has been told if you want to get
the best out of your voice you shouldn’t speak
until midday. So I’ve been canvassing opinion
from friends to see if they agree, because I’m
thinking of giving it a try.
So if anybody needs to speak to me before
midday, forget it. My vocal cords are resting.
Some people have even said maybe I should
rest my voice from 7pm. I’ve pointed out that’s
when I’m on the radio, but maybe they knew
that. Best of luck, all those that are joining the
stay-silent-till-midday gang.

SAVING THE PLANET ISN’T REALISTIC UNLESS WE’RE ALL IN IT TOGETHER

CLIMATE change, climate change. I’m
fed up with hearing about it. The climate
has always changed – though I accept
mankind and our technology advances are
not helping.
I cannot believe that this Government is
pushing harder than anywhere else to
become carbon neutral. This will cost a lot of
money for a lot of people who can’t afford it.
At the moment, unless of course you bring
down the price of electric cars, solar panels
and all the rest of it, until you address the
problems of China, America and other large
nations where the populations are double or
treble our own, what is the point?
If we got rid of all our fossil fuel, our diesel
and petrol cars and took away our log
burners, it would make no difference at all if
the rest of the world carries on as usual.
Politicians surely need to make every
country adhere to what we are going to do.
Then I would be on board with you
right away because I agree we need to save
the planet. Eventually, if mankind
continues to reproduce the way we are
doing, the planet will probably kick us off
like dogs’ fleas. But cleaning the planet up,
getting rid of the enormous amount of
waste, stopping people dropping litter
and locking up the graffiti artists messing
up the centre of towns and cities would be
a start.
And let’s stop buying everything from
China. I’m told even the test and trace
system equipment is coming from China.
Politicians, you have got to wake up.

14 Daily Express Monday, April 26, 2021
Horror...for star Ashley
Torment
as Ashley
baby dies
By Sherna Noah
THE eight-month-old
daughter of former
footballer and Ex On
The Beach star Ashley
Cain has died from an
aggressive form of
leukaemia.
Azaylia Diamond
Cain was diagnosed
when she was just
eight weeks old.
A fundraiser to help
her reached more than
£1.5million.
Posting an image of
his daughter in his
arms, Ashley, 30, who
played for Coventry
City, wrote on
Instagram: “Rest In
Paradise Princess.
“I will always hold
you in my heart until I
can hold you again in
heaven.” Azaylia’s
mother, Safiyya
Vorajee, wrote: “You
are my angel, my
heartbeat, my soul.
“RIP my precious
baby, you will
always be with me
like a handprint on
my heart.”
In November, the
couple made a plea for
people to register as a
stem cell donor after
being told their
daughter required a
transplant, which led
to 41,000 people
applying within
48 hours.
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By Sam Lister
Deputy Political Editor
CHEAPER Australian wine will be on
the supermarket shelves once the
Government signs a trade deal with
the nation.
International Trade Secretary Liz
Truss said the agreement will help
UK shoppers by lowering the prices
of imports.
And it will fuel growth by creating
jobs as the number of exports
increase, including in premium items
such as cars and Scottish whisky.
Ms Truss dismissed claims that
Australia will do five times better out
of the deal than the UK as “very
defeatist” and “pessimistic”.
She said it was based on a “static
analysis” of the position now but
the world will be “very different
in 2030”.
Protect
The minister added: “Of course,
what we need to do is encourage
more British businesses to export.
“Currently, only one in 10 British
businesses export. I want to get more
of them doing that.
“So, it’s not a fixed prediction. We
can change the way we do things.
“But actually bringing products in
from Australia at more affordable
prices is great for British consumers –
whether it is wine or other Australian
products.”
An ambitious free trade agreement
could increase UK exports to
Australia by up to £900million,
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Full of
cheers...
Liz Truss is
confident in
talks with
Dan Tehan,
below
according to the Government. And
Ms Truss insisted the deal will protect
British farmers from unfair competi-
tion from Australian counterparts.
She told BBC’s The Andrew Marr
Show yesterday: “I can absolutely
promise we are not going to lower
our excellent food standards in order
to do this trade deal.
“But what we will do through
this trade deal is to make sure
we get fantastic British products
into Australia at a much cheaper
price – whether it’s whisky or cars –
which will drive jobs and growth
across Britain.
“It also gives us access to a
fantastic, fast-growing part of the ing parts of the world.” Ms Truss and to be signed off by respective
world, the Asia-Pacific. Australian trade minister Dan Tehan parliaments.
“We’re expecting 66 per cent of vowed last Friday to “enter a sprint” Australia was the UK’s fifth largest
the world’s middle-classes to be there to the finish in talks after making trading partner in 2019, with total
by 2030. significant progress in the latest round trade between the nations that year
“So this is all about creating new of negotiations. worth £18.8billion.
jobs and growth for the future and An agreement is expected to be
hitching Britain to the fastest-grow- finalised in June and will then need LEO McKINSTRY: PAGE 12

16 Daily Express Monday, April 26, 2021
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By Ian Fletcher
AT least 1.6 million charity
donors have cancelled their
direct debits to a good cause
since the pandemic started.
The figure is forecast to
rise to 2.2 million this year
and into 2022 as financial
hardship continues.
The Covid-19 Support
Fund, launched a year ago by
the insurance and savings
industry to help charities,
commissioned the survey.
It found 40 per cent of
charities expect a fall in
donations, as giving by the
public plummets.
The survey also reveals
that the way people give may
change. Of those who do still
intend to donate, one in 10
plans to give to smaller
charities. The same number
wants to volunteer.
The survey questioned
2,000 consumers and 25
charities.
Colm Holmes, chair of the
Covid-19 Support Fund
governance committee and a
director at Aviva, said: “Our
findings suggest charities could
face a funding shortfall going
into 2022 which could have
serious repercussions on those
who depend on them.
“Keeping charities afloat in
these tough times is crucial.”
Decline
Among the beneficiaries
of the £100million raised by
the support fund is
Streets2Home, a charity
based in Harlow, Essex,
which runs a day centre for
homeless people in the
community to rest, make
friends and get assistance.
Chief executive Kerrie
Eastman said: “Whilst it’s
difficult to predict what the
next year will bring, we are
anticipating a fall in donations
from the public post-pandemic.
“Many of our supporters
are local people and small
businesses who have and will
continue to suffer the decline
in the economy.
“But we have been fortunate
to benefit from the Covid-19
Support Fund. The funds
we received allowed us to
continue supporting those in
need with essential services.
Gee Cook, chief executive of
New Routes, a refugee charity
in Norwich, said: “We have
noticed the impact that the
prolonged crisis is having on
people’s ability to give.
“Large businesses are in a
position to really help plug
this funding gap. Our grant
came via the Covid-19
Support Fund, and was
massively important for us
at a time when other sources
of funding dried up.”
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A PLAN to start charging tourists
who visit the balcony where
By News Reporter owned. Courts found in their
favour. The Casa di Giulietta is a
Romeo is said to have wooed
Juliet has been thrown out.
The iconic courtyard in Verona,
featured in William Shakespeare’s
to the romantic heroine. Verona
mayor Federico Sboarina wanted
to install turnstiles and make
visitors book online to boost
renovated 14th-century home
that belonged to the Cappello
family, possibly the inspiration for
the Capulets in Romeo and Juliet.
famous 1597 play, is one of the Covid safety. The protruding balcony was
few free tourist hotspots in Italy. He said: “We can no longer added in the 20th century.
It was also in the 2010 film allow overcrowding.” Around three million
Letters to Juliet in which Amanda But the plan was blocked by holidaymakers visit every year
Seyfried plays one of the women B&B and gift shop owners who – some even rub the right breast
That’s where art thou...Verona balcony who answers letters left by people said the courtyard is not publicly of a Juliet statue for good luck.
Life behind Barbies... By Stian Alexander
THIS prison cell looks dazzling in bright
pink after being spruced up as part of a
radical initiative.
Female inmates at HMP Peterborough,
Cambs, were allowed to choose colour
schemes for their cells to make them
more “homely”.
And one prisoner transformed her bleak
grey room by redecorating it in “Barbie
pink”, complete with pink curtains,
bedsheets, pillow and laundry bag.
Managers at the jail were praised for
the initiative in a report by Her Majesty’s
Chief Inspector of Prisons, Charlie Taylor.
It said: “Women were able to personalise
their cells, which they appreciated, and
many we saw were painted in bright
colours, which women said made them feel
more homely.”
Weight
The inmates have also been issued
with pedometers to help them stay fit
after the pandemic forced the closure of
the prison gym.
The report said: “PE staff had made
efforts to offset the lack of structured
exercise by offering women advice on
in-cell fitness and nutrition on request,
as well as some yoga in the mother and
baby unit.
“Weight management was important to
a number of women we spoke to, and the
prison encouraged them by issuing
pedometers. PE staff visited units each
week to allow women to weigh
themselves.”
Inspectors visited the 396-capacity
privately run jail, which shares a site with
a men’s prison, last month.
Three-quarters of the women said they
suffered mental health issues, but only 15
Jailhouse shock... per cent found it easy to see a mental
pink cell at HMP health worker, it was said.
Peterborough
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A LOVELORN police sergeant has By Chris Riches
been kicked out – for sending his
estranged wife links to their favour- hearing before Chief Constable
ite romantic songs. Darren Martland – he was dismissed
Cheshire Police’s Sgt Stuart Berry, for two counts of gross misconduct.
41, was under a family court non- Mr Martland said afterwards: “It is
VDFNHGIRU
molestation order banning him con- my view the behaviour of Sgt Berry
tacting his ex for a year. has fallen so far below
But drunkenly brows- the expectation of a serv-
ing YouTube, the officer ing police officer.”
found “songs that meant Deputy Chief Con-
something to him and stable Julie Cooke added:
VHQGLQJH[
his wife” and sent her “It is essential people
three links. have both confidence
He also breached the and trust in the service
ban by emailing her after we deliver.”
hearing she had taken At the police hearing,
their marital home off Punishment... Preston Oliver King, defending,
the market. magistrates’ court said Sgt Berry was “cour-
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At Preston magistrates’ teous and polite” during
court last week, the former corporal the messaging. But while drunkenly
and UN peacekeeper was given 18 browsing YouTube, he came across
months’ community service, a songs “from happier” times.
12-week curfew and ordered to pay Sgt Berry, who was in the force for
£540 in costs and victim’s surcharge. 18 years, is appealing against his
Last Thursday – after a disciplinary criminal conviction for harassment.
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MXQNIRRG Striking... the
tornado is
illuminated by
By William Janes the rainbow
EVEN small amounts of
junk food can leave
children stunted with
weaker bones,
researchers have found.
Tests on mice showed
that fare high in fat
and sugar with lots of
additives damaged
growth plates.
Made of cartilage, the
plates are found at the
end of long bones, such
as those in arms and legs
and are areas of growth
in youngsters.
Previous studies say
around half of children
eat junk food every day.
Prof Efrat Monsonego-
Ornan, of the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem,
said: “Even in reduced
amounts, the ultra-
processed foods can
have a negative impact
on skeletal growth.
“Even if we reduce
fats, carbs, nitrates, and
other known harmful
substances, these foods
still possess damaging
attributes. Every part of SOMEWHERE over the By Frances Millar
the body is prone to it.” rainbow... there’s a giant
The study was tornado and its heading this expecting it to be quite so
published in Bone way. spectacular. There is
Research. This may look like a scene definitely an adrenaline rush
from movie The Wizard Of that kicks in. It always starts

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Oz but this isn’t Kansas...
it’s a striking image of wild
Texan weather.
Storm chaser Greg
out with a lot of waiting and
anticipation.
“Then the storm revs up in
a hurry and everything clicks

ZRPHQV McLaughlin, 40, from Tulsa

in Oklahoma, travelled 650
miles to capture the moment
into high gear almost
instantly. I also have to drive
and navigate to keep up.

EDFNSDLQ a cluster of twisters ripped

across the town of Vernon.
And he had his camera
“I am operating around
hundreds of other storm
chasers and it is quite a
ready last Friday when a circus. I am almost always
By Joe Morgan rainbow lit up the stormy worn out the day following a
skies. He said: “I wasn’t big storm chase.”
WOMEN who suffer
chronic back pain are
more likely to die young

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without proper
treatment, warns a study.
Both sexes are equally
affected by the problem,
with around 80 per cent
of adults reporting it in
their lifetimes, but
findings suggest only

women face a higher risk
of premature death.
Scientists say older
women are more likely
to suffer, limiting
activities which can lead
to weight gain or worsen
chronic conditions.
Often the issue is
treated with dangerous
opioids, when massage,
chiropractic care and
acupuncture are effective
alternatives.
Dr Eric Roseen,
assistant professor at the
Boston University
School of Medicine, said:
“I hope this study will
lead to a better
understanding of the
long-term impacts of
back pain.”
The study’s findings
were published in the
Journal of General
Internal Medicine.
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HALF of Britons may be suffering
from hay fever, including sneezing,
itchy eyes and runny noses – almost
double the previous estimates.
A poll found that 49 per cent had
symptoms and more than a third of
them – 37 per cent – had only
become afflicted in the last five
years.
Charity Allergy UK said the
increase could be linked to climate
change and rising temperatures.
Amena Warner, at Allergy UK,
said: “There is evidence that cli-
mate change, with increasing tem-
peratures, may contribute to
extending the grass pollen season
In the pink...Samantha and Rosie enjoy blossom in the UK. Grass pollen is the cause
By Hanna Geissler ness due to poor sleep, while nearly
half of workers said it affected their
of the majority of pollen driven concentration. Yet 44 per cent had
hay fever symptoms. never discussed their hay fever
“Furthermore, with warmer with a doctor.
weather, pollen counts can be high However the blossom didn’t
as a response to high atmos- put off Samantha Gibson and
pheric levels of carbon diox- daughter Rosie, three, who
ide.” It polled 7,000 people in went to the Tai Haku
partnership with Kleenex to Cherry Tree Orchard in
mark the start of Allergy Northumberland yesterday.
Awareness Week. Met Office forecaster
More than a third of Martin Bowles said: “Over
sufferers are con- the next few days tem-
cerned about peratures are going to
spending time out- be dropping a bit to
doors, almost two 59F in the South and
thirds report tired- 53F in the North.”
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THE miraculous survival of a
First World War soldier has been
discovered after his medal was
bought on eBay.
Adam Simpson-York, 35,
researched Pte Harry Risings
after buying his British War
Medal for £32.
He found a “statement of
wounds” telling how the soldier
was shot in the chest on the
Western Front in April 1917,
during the Second Battle of the
Scarpe. Pte Rising’s report said:
“I suddenly fell and remember
nothing more
for a time. The
bullet had
passed
through the
left chest and
out of the
back.”
Adam, left,
tracked down
Pte Rising’s
great-granddaughter Sharon
Field, 55, to give her the medal.
She said: “I feel proud and
honoured to now have it in my
possession and to be able to
hand it down to my children.”
Adam has bought more than
20 medals and hopes to return
them to family members.
Sharon said she knew of Pte
Rising’s army career, but had
no idea about him being shot.
She said: “What Adam does
is such a lovely thing and I am
so grateful.”
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By John Besley
MI6 has begun monitoring large industrial
countries to ensure they uphold their climate
change commitments, its chief has revealed.
Richard Moore said the Secret Intelligence
Service is “green spying” on the world’s
biggest polluters to support what he calls the
“foremost international foreign policy agenda
item for this country and the planet”.
Mr Moore, known in Whitehall as C, told
Times Radio: “Where people sign up to
commitments on climate change, it is perhaps
our job to make sure what they are really
doing reflects what they have signed up to.
“As somebody used to say, ‘trust, but ver-
ify’. On climate change, where you need eve-
That’s Somme garden makeover
A STUDENT filmmaker has shown his
commitment to his craft – by digging an
authentic First World War trench in his
parents’ back garden.
Chris Richards, 22, who starred as an
extra in 2019’s blockbuster, 1917, decided
to combine his degree in film production
at the University of Winchester in Hants
with his passion for military history.
Chris wrote, directed and starred in his
short film Crossed Lines: The Story of the
Signallers, which is based on the role
played by signallers in the Great War –
one of whom was his great-grandfather,
Private Lewis Blackman.
Chris, from St Albans, Herts, said: “It’s
very important to me that stories such as
ryone to come on board and to play fair, then the UK stands.”
occasionally check to make sure they are.”
His comments come just days after US
President Joe Biden warned world leaders Climate pledge...Joe Biden
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Trench
footage...
Chris shot
his scenes,
left, in the
specially-
constructed
set built
in his
parents’
back
garden, right
By Sarah Lumley
my great-grandfather’s aren’t forgotten,
and keep getting told. Sadly, my great-
grandfather passed away in the early
1980s, before I was born, so I never got to
meet him.
“But I hope he would have been proud
of what I’m doing. This project has made
me feel very close to him.”
Chris and his brother spent three days
constructing the trench and braved wind,
rain, and even a brief spell of snow.
He said: “My mum was a bit concerned
when I first told her what I wanted to do
– as she kind of sees the garden as a bit
of a haven for her. But she’s been really
that this is the “decisive decade” to avoid the
worst of the climate crisis as he outlined tar-
gets for the US to halve its emissions by 2030.
The MI6 chief said Vladimir Putin’s regime
is top of his concerns. The Russian president
last week pulled back almost 100,000
troops from the Ukraine border, just
as an invasion looked imminent.
C revealed that Britain and the US
had warned Putin a significant toll
would be exacted if the invasion
went ahead. He said: “The Russians
are in absolutely no doubt of where
Last week it was revealed
Daily Express Monday, April 26, 2021 21
supportive – I think it means a lot to her
that I’m keeping our family history alive,
and telling her grandfather’s story.
“I’m very much a perfectionist when it
comes to set-building and design, and
historical accuracy is also very important
to me.”
He added: “It was quite the undertaking.
We did it all using hand tools, just as it
would have been done at the time, to
make it more authentic.
“It makes you realise what strenuous
work it was.”
Chris also filled his trench with hired
military equipment, including ammunition
crates, food tins, a Lee-Enfield rifle, and a
First World War field telephone.
that Russia’s notorious military intelligence
agency, the GRU, blew up a Czech arms
factory, killing two.
C said: “When you get that pattern of reck-
less behaviour, you then look at what is hap-
pening around Ukraine and it worries
us. It is why we have co-ordinated so
closely with our allies to make sure
we are getting firm messages back to
President Putin.
“Russia is a declining power
economically and demographically.
The treatment of Alexei Navalny saw
thousands of protesters on the
streets. It shows that there is
a deal of disaffection
with Mr Putin.”
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EXCLUSIVE: MY FARMING LIFE BY

How a clapped-out tractor

By Emma Gray

M
Y SISTER swept in on a breeze of
glamour and scent. Caroline is a
blonde bombshell, sophisticated
and tastefully dressed, but hardy
as they come. She can lamb a
sheep as well as anyone. She’s not
a farmer (she has more sense) but had been
a godsend to me in the weeks after I had
broken my back when my parents’ quad
bike overturned while I was herding sheep
for them.
Caroline and my other sister, Elizabeth –
respectively three and seven years younger
than me – are my greatest friends. Growing
up on the family farm, we were always full
Following a series
of mischief. We also fought like cat and dog;
to this day, I still bear the scars of some of
the vicious battles we got ourselves into.
of setbacks, a new
“Are you living on cereal?” Caroline had
stepped through the front door and into the
kitchen, where she was confronted with all
the bowls in the sink. “And have you got all
farming project, a
the dogs in the house?” She sniffed at the
distinct aroma of work dogs. It was true, I
had let things slip since my accident.
handsome Scottish
fireman and an
NEW LIFE: Emma with baby
Len and, below, Fallowlees
Farm in remote Northumberland
embarrassing
I HAD left hospital on a sunny June day
wearing a corset brace from my neck to my
hips. I stayed at my parents’ farm while I
mechanical failure
healed and got used to the brace, and one of
the first jobs I did on my arrival was ring up
and cancel all my forthcoming contractual
combine to bring
work shepherding. I hated doing it. I felt
guilty and unreliable.
Even worse, it meant I had zero income
the change of luck
until I was able to work again. I was used to
getting by on very little, but this was sup-
posed to be one of my most profitable times
Emma richly
of the year. I had my lambing money, of
course, but I’d been planning to invest it in
things for the farm rather than fritter it away
just existing.
deserves in our
final extract from
A FTER a few weeks I was
at last allowed back to
Fallowlees, the National
Trust farm in Northumberland
where I’d taken the tenancy
two years earlier aged 23,
becoming Britain’s youngest
‘Are you
living on
cereal? And have
you got the dogs
Tinder? It’s a new dat-
ing app. Now you have
mobile reception up
her memoir
Scotland rugby top, I was reminded of Mel first date. I had entered into a farming part-
Gibson in the film Braveheart. “Ping a mes- nership with John and Rosalind Murray. The
sage,” Caroline said. I had nothing to lose. farm was called Healey Mill and was a
solo shepherdess. I was in the house? It here it’ll be so much 25-minute drive away, near the village of
delighted to be home.
Restricted by my brace, I was true, I had easier. It doesn’t take a
minute.”
Netherwitton.
I would, effectively, be in charge of it with
couldn’t bend down or pick let things slip’ Until recently, recep- 240 acres of ground at my disposal, rent-
anything up but I was mobile. tion at Fallowlees had been free, in return for looking after 200 ewes. I
This lack of structure gave me a lot so poor I had to rely on a would need to stay on at Fallowlees but that
of time for contemplation about where temperamental satellite, which suited me. My heart was jumping as I saw
I was going and what I wanted. My dreams only worked on nice days and when NOVEMBER 5, Guy Fawkes Night, was the new place laid out in front of me. I had
seemed so outrageously big, so unreachable. the swallows weren’t perched on top of it. chilly and mizzly – a typical autumnal my own steading, a cattle shed and some
As well as giving up contract work, I The arrival of 3G had revolutionised my Northumberland day. Some of the leaves sheep pens set firmly in concrete.
wanted to be better at competing with dogs life. Well, it had made me feel less isolated. remained on the trees, but they would all be But the land was the real jewel in the
at trials, I wanted to improve the appear- I downloaded the app. It couldn’t do any gone in the next big storm. It’s this time of crown. The terrain consisted mostly of roll-
ance of Fallowlees – to get rid of junk, to harm, I reasoned. I didn’t have to do any- year when the farming calendar really ing hills, with some rougher land. Some of
keep it tidy – and, finally, I really wanted thing about it if I didn’t want to. begins for me. Sheep mated on Bonfire the fields were edged by trees, others were
someone to share it all with. I thought of By that afternoon, it had already pro- Night start lambing on April Fools’ Day, the almost arable. It was, in short, the perfect
how the year had panned out up until now duced results: “Look, I’ve matched with this traditional start for upland farms. “In with a land for schooling sheepdogs. I knew I could
– breaking up with Dan, my dog Bill’s death, guy, a firefighter from Galashiels.” bang, out like a fool,” the old saying goes. really turn my dogs into something here.
the attack on my sheep, and now this. Caroline took the phone from me. After a long text flirtation, I was finally Ewan would meet me at Healey Mill,
Perhaps I wasn’t cut out for this life after “Mmmm, looks nice. But you know, being in going to meet the firefighter I had met on where he would hopefully be wowed by my
all? Now Caroline told me: “You really the fire service is the most lied-about occu- Tinder. Ewan Irvine had volunteered to give new tractor-trailer combo as well as my
should try dating again. There are loads of pation on Tinder.” me a hand moving my flock to a new farm. amazing organisational skills. Then he would
options these days. Have you heard of With his blue and white face paint and So today, rather weirdly, was going to be our help me with a job that was hard on my own

SHEPHERDESS EMMA GRAY – PART THREE
helped me find true love
– to colour (or raddle) the tups (rams). Ewan
assured me he would be happy to help; it
would be an experience if nothing else.
In truth, I would rather have met him on
neutral ground, but with my work and his
shift pattern, we both realised it might be
the only way we’d manage a date.
In some ways, I felt I already knew Ewan.
He was divorced and had two young chil-
dren who lived with their mother, and whom
he saw regularly. He seemed confident
but also self-effacing, always a
good sign, and I often found ‘We
myself smiling when reading
his texts. married in
I saw the best of him Kelso, with all
when my yellow goddess
broke down en-route to our families
Healey Mill and I couldn’t together. Ewan
looked very
unlink the trailer. Ewan
came to rescue me. He
donned a pair of overalls
from the boot of his car (how
fetching in his
organised) and gave the tractor kilt’
tow a hefty bang with a hammer
from his toolkit (also in the back of his car).
This was my kind of man! The tractor (which
had turned out to be not quite as impressive
as I’d hoped) released her grip and we left
the sheep and trailer with a bewildered
farmer as Ewan ran me across to Healey
Mill to borrow another tractor. So much for
the capable, organised farmer he had been
supposed to meet. As I installed myself in
the passenger seat, I realised what a mess I
must look. My face felt flushed from
the exertion, my hands were cov-
ered in grease, my nicely blow-
dried hair was now in a man-
gled ponytail.
“I’m so sorry. And thank
you! But honest, this is my
life all over,” I sighed.
But at the end of the
afternoon, the job com-
pleted, I realised I hadn’t
laughed so much in ages.
My stomach was hurting. As
well as joining in my laughter
– often at his own expense –
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Pictures: GLEN MINIKIN
HAPPY FAMILIES
AT LAST: Emma
Gray, husband
Ewan and their
son Len with two
prize sheepdogs
Ewan asked lots of questions about my our son Len was born, my biggest challenge
work. He seemed genuinely interested. Dare yet. Everyone – myself included – assumed
I hope that there might be a future for us?
BY THE time Ewan asked me to marry him, idiot I was. Gradually, with Ewan’s help, I
there was only one answer. Yes! We were kicked the baby blues. Spring turned into
married in the registry office in Kelso, close summer and life was sweet again.
to my parents’ house, and had a big party
back at Fallowlees. Ewan looked very fetch- helper.
ing in his kilt.
It was wonderful to have all our nearest and
dearest together in the place that had been my
mainstay. I had grown up here. I had arrived as
a naive 23-year-old and I was now 32.
Little did our friends know, but I had been
drinking orange juice all night. Ewan and I
had only told our families about the baby,
given I was just a few weeks’ pregnant. I was
induced on the evening of April 9, 2019, and
Daily Express Monday, April 26, 2021 23
BARKING BRILLIANT...
MEGAN SETS A RECORD
ONE of my dreams – back when I was
recovering from my broken back – was
to make an income breeding, training
and selling sheepdogs. I knew there
was a gap in the market. By the time
I went to Skipton, a world-renowned
auction for working sheepdogs, with
my dog Megan in February 2020, I had
won national trials as well as competed
in the World Sheepdog Trials.
Three days before the auction, an
American who followed me online
offered me £10,000 for Megan.
It was a great offer. But he added,
“It’s this or nothing. If you turn it down
and take her to auction, I won’t be
bidding.” Ten thousand pounds was a
lot of money. But I had pitched the idea
of selling a dog at auction to the
producers of the BBC Two series This
Farming Life and I was committed to
going.
The next day Meg was lame. She
couldn’t even put her foot to the floor. The
vet gave her a 50-50 chance for the sale. I
was kicking myself for not taking the offer.
But the next day Meg was almost sound,
and the day after that, auction day, you
couldn’t tell she had been lame.
“And for the last time... £18,000,” said
the auctioneer. The hammer fell. It was
a new world record. And for a dog that I
had trained! I was totally stunned.
Meg was sold to a big cattle and sheep
rancher in Oklahoma. As I felt a random
raindrop drip off my nose, I reflected that
she was off to a better climate.
STUNNED: Emma with
her record-breaking
sheepdog Megan
that as I was so maternal with animals, I
would be a natural mother. But after a diffi-
cult birth I didn’t get that lightning bolt of
overwhelming love. That took longer. A
sheep in the same situation would have
rejected her offspring outright.
I had imagined going straight back to
work, lambing with baby in tow. What an
Today I can’t imagine life without my little
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2021. Extracted from My
Farming Life by Emma Gray,
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HICKEY &DULQJIRUP\ZLIH
SIR Tom Jones remembers providing
all-important assistance to late pal Elvis
Presley when the King of Rock ’n’ Roll
attempted to squeeze into a pair of tight-
fitting leather trousers.
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“They were North
Beach Leather, which were
hard to get up,” says Sir
Tom, pictured. Explaining
it fell to himself and Elvis’s
bodyguard Red West to
pull them up on Presley’s FORMER Sex Pistols front- By Mark Jefferies
behalf, the Welshman man John Lydon says he
recalls: “Red looked up at has been left “quite sui- Lydon, who has suffered
me and said, ‘If you told somebody this, cidal” caring for his wife. vision problems since a
they wouldn’t believe you.’” Nora Forster – who he childhood battle with men-
Musing on his own leather trouser- affectionately calls Babbie – ingitis, won’t leave 78-year-
wearing days, meanwhile, Sir Tom wisely suffers from Alzheimer’s. old Nora’s side to visit the
clarifies: “An 80-year-old man in leather And Lydon admitted optician, even though his
pants? I don’t think that would cut it.” there are moments that are eyesight is deteriorating.
“overwhelmingly sad” and He told the Sunday
“full of rage”, Times: “What I have is
AFTER taking aim at fellow British rock But the former punk star, floaters. Sometimes it is
veteran Sir Mick Jagger’s “weirdly fake 65, said he won’t let himself black dots that float around
American” singing accent, Jethro Tull wallow for too long because inside my eye; the others
frontman Ian Anderson, 73, adds: “And he knows he needs to be look like hair strands so I’m
there are other people who also sing in there for her. Lydon said: constantly thinking my hair
ridiculous American accents, like Elton “Things are what they are, is in my eye but it’s not.
John. It doesn’t sound that way at all when “There’s no way I can
he speaks to you, he just puts on this silly take a day out and leave
voice to sing it.” Babbie alone just on some
I fear prickly Sir Elton will not take kindly selfish problem.”
to such mockery. The Anarchy In The
UK hitmaker knows
things can only get
MONTHS after making headlines with her worse for Nora but
controversial behind-the-scenes memoir on he’s determined to
life among the Tory hierarchy, Sasha Swire do the best he can.
remarks of current political hostilities: He said: “I know
“Who are the dumb people in Number 10 it’s going to deterio-
who thought it clever to take on Dominic rate into something
Cummings?” really, really terrible,
The wife of former MP Sir Hugo Swire, but we’re facing it with
Sasha warns: “A maverick, yes... but let me a sense of dignity. It
tell you, he’s a whole lot cleverer than a lot would be easy enough to
of them there. He also knows where all the run away and say, ‘Oh, it’s
bodies are buried. I’d make peace with and you have to take that not my responsibility;
him... pronto!” and accept it and, sadly I’ve things aren’t the same’.
got to say, almost enjoy it “When I make a commit-
for the experience. ment it’s forever and I
ALMOST 45 years since the first Star Wars
film premiered, Luke Skywalker actor Mark
“You don’t have those stand by that and I’m very
Hamill points out that hairy franchise moments [of despair] for proud to do the best I can
favourite Chewbacca, very long. But there can be for her.
pictured, could have accidents and you’ve just “We’ve been together
ended up adopting a got to deal with it and get now 45 years. We’re not
rather different look. on with it. going to change anything.
With the late Peter “Just take it as it is and “You know, what’s an ill-
Mayhew in the outfit at keep yourself intact men- ness between true friends,
the time, Hamill, 69, True love...the tally and be proud of what man and wife, lovers, what-
recalls: “Studio execs couple, inset you’re doing. ever you want to call it?
expressed deep concern in 1986, have “Life must continue to “We are a proper pair of
that Chewie didn’t wear been together the absolute; you must fight people who love and adore
any pants and suggested for 45 years for life to the bitter end.” each other.”
he wear a pair of lederhosen.”
Mercifully, director George Lucas
ensured Chewbacca was spared this
sartorial fate.

FRISKY writer and socialite Kathy Lette,

62, claims her strict domestic regime has
fallen by the wayside more than a year into
the pandemic. “I finally got up the courage
to fire myself from cleaning my house,” she
playfully announces. “Not only did I catch
myself drinking heavily on the job... I had
a lousy attitude.”
Having split from lawyer husband
Geoffrey Robertson after 27 years – and
these days known to be romancing a
mystery younger beau – glamorous Kathy
adds: “Who cares about a clean house when
you’ve got a dirty mind?”
MISCHIEVOUSLY posting a photo of elderly
mother Brenda’s empty gin bottles on Twitter,
comedy star Julian Clary, 61, concludes:
“A peek inside my mother’s recycling box
reveals the key to her sunny disposition.”
Rollers star Les ‘struggled with demons’
Happy couple...Les McKeown and Peko in 1983
THE widow of Bay City Rollers star
Les McKeown has paid an emotional
tribute to him but admitted they had
some hard times in their relationship.
Peko Keiko said the singer was
a “good husband” but “struggled
with his demons”.
Les died last Tuesday from a
suspected heart attack aged 65.
Peko, originally from Japan, said:
“Les was a good husband but, of
course, everybody has ups and downs.
We had lots of good times and hard
times. I went everywhere to the
concerts with our son.
“Les struggled with his own
demons. His dying is a terrible shock
but now he is in peace.” The pair
By Mark Jefferies
and John Dingwall
began dating in the Seventies as
“Rollermania” was sweeping the
country with hits like Bye Bye Baby
and Give A Little Love.
Peko also revealed Les arranged a
surprise wedding.
She added: “Les woke me up and
said, ‘Peko, wake up, come on, we are
going to get married today.’
“He kept saying, ‘Come on, get
going.’ Les kept insisting and told me
that he had already taken my passport
and registered for us to marry at
Chelsea town hall. We got married that
day and we kept it a secret.”

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EXCLUSIVE
By Emma Dunn
A WOMAN who saved her husband’s
life by donating a kidney insists he
saved her too – after doctors found
she had a deadly heart condition
during the operation.
Elaine Geekie, 45, had agreed
to give a kidney to husband Mike, 63,
when his failed due to Type
2 diabetes.
But she almost died during the
surgery after an unknown heart
problem was discovered during
the procedure.
Elaine, a funeral director from
Aberdeen, said: “In a way, Mike has
saved me too. Without going through
the op, I might never have known
about my heart.
“It was scary that my heart almost
failed me while I was on the table, but
I have no regrets.
“When we found out Mike’s kidney
was failing I knew I wanted to see if I
was a match.
“I wanted to do what I could to save
him and help him have a life again.
Amazing
“It was so difficult to see him so ill.
Giving him a kidney really was an
amazing thing I could do.
“I feel so privileged I could.”
Mike said: “I can’t thank my wife
enough for all she has done for me.
“She’s quite literally saved my life
and made my quality of life so
much better.
“Almost losing her was terri-
fying. I am so relieved she
pulled through and we’re both
here to tell the tale.”
House inspector Mike was
told he had a failing kidney
and needed a transplant in
order to survive.
After discovering his wife
was a match, the couple went
ahead with the surgery at Royal
Edinburgh Hospital.
The transplant proved to be
Marriage...the couple on their
wedding day, before the surgery
%UHDVWFDQFHUFDUHDWKRPH
A BREAST cancer patient has
become the first person in the UK to
receive a life-saving chemotherapy
drug in the comfort of her home.
Retired store manager Jean Woods,
74, has pioneered a treatment which
could soon be rolled out to thousands
– with a 30-minute injection instead
of a four-hour intravenous drip.
The grandmother of seven, who had
her first dose last week, said: “I’m
thrilled I’ll now be able to have my
treatment at home once every three
weeks. It will be much more
convenient and a lot less stressful.
“You know the nurse will come at a
particular time and can then get on
with the rest of the day.”
The breast cancer homecare
EXCLUSIVE
By Paul Jeeves
initiative is being overseen by The
Christie NHS Foundation Trust in
Manchester – the first cancer centre in but recently it has been once a week.”
the UK to offer it.
Up to 250 of its patients from the
local area and Cheshire could now be Christie – which now has 5,000
eligible to help pilot the treatment
called Phesgo – a combination of
Herceptin (Trastuzumab) and Perjeta
(Pertuzumab), two of the most
effective drugs for breast cancer.
Patients will no longer need to
undertake arduous hospital trips with shielding and it reduces footfall at The
each dose and clinical observation
afterwards taking less time. Previously, saves them long journeys and waits.”
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life-changing for Mike – who can now
go on walks with his dogs again.
Elaine insists had it not been for the
procedure, she might never have
known about her heart condition.
She is now undergoing tests to find
out what it is and has been put on
beta blockers.
Mike had been told he needed
the transplant just a few months
before the pair were due to be
married.
He had already had his hernia
removed a year previously, in
June 2019, and desperately
needed a new organ to survive.
They were still able to have
their wedding, but admitted
it was a huge weight on
their shoulders on their
a patient would have had to spend
around four hours in a clinical setting.
Jean, from Rochdale, added: “I was
diagnosed in November and was
travelling to Oldham for treatments.
“This was once every three weeks
The breast cancer treatment is the
latest homecare offering from The
patients receiving chemotherapy in
this way for various conditions.
Outreach manager Stephanie
Hechter said: “The service has proved
to be ideal during the pandemic.
“Patients can be treated while
Christie. They find it convenient and it
Daily Express Monday, April 26, 2021 27
Prosperity
depends
on parents
By Vicky Shaw
THE growing size of
inheritances means
people’s wealth is likely
to be determined by
their parents’ assets
rather than their own
earnings, a think tank
has revealed.
Inheritances have
been growing since the
1970s, said the Institute
for Fiscal Studies (IFS).
It believes they will
soar compared with
other sources of income
– widening the gap
between rich and poor.
The number of people
expecting to receive an
inheritance has grown
from 72 per cent of
those born in the 1960s
to 81 per cent of those
in the 1980s.
David Sturrock, of the
IFS, said: “The
increasing levels of
wealth held by older
generations and the
lack of income growth
for younger generations
are together driving an
inter-generational
economic divide.”
“These trends also
mean inheritances are
set to become more
Top op...Mike important, which has
and Elaine worrying consequences
recover in for social mobility.”
hospital
big day. Although the operation was a
success, Mike had to be rushed back
Earth crust
into hospital a few days later as his
testicular cord had wrapped around
the kidney.
500m years
After removing the cord, Mike was
able to recover and is now back to
good health.
out of date
Elaine said: “His colour has By Mark Waghorn
returned and he can take the dogs for
a walk. I’ve got my husband back and EARTH’S crust is 500
it feels amazing. million years older than
“I feel so proud of him and I know previously thought,
he is proud of me for donating my scientists say.
kidney. It formed 3.7 billion
“But to me it was the least I could years ago, meaning our
do.” world was ready to host
Mike added: “I don’t think I realised life much earlier.
quite how bad I was. The discovery may
“I am so proud of my wife.” even help in the hunt
for alien life on other
planets and moons.
Professor Desiree
Roerdink, a geochemist
at Norway’s University
of Bergen, said: “That is
a huge time period. It
has implications for the
way we think about how
Picture: SWNS
life evolved.
“We don’t really know
if it is possible that life
could have developed at
the same time on land.
But then that land has
to be there.”
Scientists previously
thought the crust was
3.2 billion years old.
They came up with
the new age after
analysing core samples
of barite – a mineral
used for drilling oil and
gas wells – from three
continents.
The date was unveiled
at the European
First...Jean with nurse Ellie Heaton Geosciences Union.
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at fine threat
By Andy Robinson
AN ANIMAL centre
faces a £2,500 fine if it
can’t keep its geese
and cockerels quiet.
The Happy Pants
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Ranch, which cares for
350 rescued or special-
needs animals in
Sittingbourne, Kent,
received a warning from

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over it animals’ “anti-
social manner” which
had upset locals.
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36, said: “We’re trying
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A CENTENARIAN separated from
her family because of Covid was
astonished after 788 birthday cards
dropped through her letter box.
After a Facebook plea by Helen
Maxwell-Lefroy’s carer went viral,
her 100th birthday was greeted with
messages from around the world.
Helen’s care home received cards
from the Queen and well-wishers
from as far as Canada, Abu Dhabi
and Australia.
The bumper postbag was the
brainchild of Laura Sheldrake, who
knew Helen would have no family
visits on her birthday due to lock-






down restrictions.
Laura, 33, said Helen could not
believe she was so popular.
The companionship leader at
St Catherine’s View care home in
Winchester, Hants, added: “She just
kept saying, ‘They can’t all be for me’.
“She was overwhelmed, especially
by the cards from schoolchildren as
they had drawn them for her.
“She absolutely loved looking
through all the cards.”
Laura said Helen, who has demen-
tia, was at first shocked to see the
Best wishes...Helen with her 788
cards, top, and as a teenager, above
Helen is a distant relative of Pride
and Prejudice author Jane Austen and
spent much of her life writing about
and giving lectures on the novelist.
She was part of the Jane Austen
Society and helped others produce
books about the writer.
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Meet the
AT HOME
Issy loves
getting out
in the surf

silver surfers
Surfing is soaring in the British Isles and not just among the young.
Here three women explain why they’ve taken to the waves in midlife

CREST OF
A WAVE
I’VE WAVED Surfing
brings great
health
GOODBYE TO benefits

DEPRESSION
AND ANXIETY
Issy Galbraith, 64, lives in
Tyninghame, East Lothian
Until about five years ago I’d
never known depression or
anxiety. My mum died when I
was seven, I left home at 14,
and raised both my children Shonagh,
31, and Fraser, 26, as a single mum. I’ve
grown up strong, resilient and
independent, never letting anything get

I’LL BE SURFING FOR AS

me down.
Then in 2015 SURFING HAS BROUGHT ME A
SENSE OF CALM AND FOCUS LONG AS MY BODY ALLOWS IT
I returned to
work, as a
home care
Angie McLeman, 54, Ciara, had attended the Michelle Harris, 58, is a mum of NEW LIFE
manager, too Michelle’s a
is an occupational same surfing camp 12 two. She lives in Ware, Herts, and CAP
soon following
therapist. She lives in months before me and surfed away two-and-a-half stone changed
Use hard
major surgery woman
return at
Dunbar, East Lothian, we’ve surfed together All my working life I’ve
and ended up
with husband Garry, 66, ever since. Use hard
been a sensible return at
on long-term
and daughters, Christie, She’s brilliant accountant, crunching
sick leave.
22, and Amy, 20 company and numbers and bringing up
I couldn’t
Like many motivation as neither of my two children, James, now 25, and
sleep, worried WELL
Surfing mums, I us wants to let the other Vicky, 28. But in the last year I’ve
about
helped Issy would one down. undergone a complete
everything and
recover patiently hold It’s a lovely transformation.
entered a
the coats while my connection as is I’ve lost weight, bought a camper
downward
children did various PALS chatting over a post-
Angie and van, dyed my hair purple, had a
spiral. I felt numb and barely left the
activities, including Ciara hit surf cup of tea by her tattoo and am selling my home so I
house. I tried meditating but there was
learning to surf on our the beach car. Like many working can relocate to the South Coast to
too much going on in my head.
local beach. The thought parents I felt quite spend the rest of my days surfing.
I despaired of ever feeling well again. com) in Newquay to try various
of having a go myself overwhelmed by It all started four years ago, on a
Finally, I was referred to Groundswell activities. I was still convinced surfing
never entered my head. lockdown – trying to balance home and family holiday in Bude, Cornwall,
Scotland (groundswellcommunity.org), was out of the question and had to
Four years ago, my youngest work, master new technology and when I booked a surfing lesson for
a new surfing therapy for women who be coaxed into it. After 20 minutes
daughter Amy went on a Coast to Coast support the children – but having Ciara James, as a treat. He was on such
have experienced trauma. practice on the sand we were in the
surfing holiday (c2csurfschool.com) to there to listen and offer quiet and wise a high afterwards. I thought ‘I need
We started off with outdoor yoga, water with boards. Getting up on to
the Hebrides with her best friend’s reflections helped so much. a piece of that’ but, as a bigger
talking and having walks along the my knees on the board felt amazing.
family and returned begging for me to As well as being great fun, surfing lady, I thought there was no way it
beach before finally getting wetsuits on There was just a sea of smiles –
go with her the following year. brings an enormous sense of calm, while would happen.
and heading into the sea. I spent most every single person was beaming
At first I was horrified, but I realised sunrise or sunset surfs make it extra The following summer, on holiday
of my time underneath the surfboard, and laughing regardless of ability.
that if I didn’t push myself out of my magical. You clear your mind of rubbish in Newquay, I enviously watched a
giggling like a child. I returned every spare weekend
comfort zone in my 50s, I never would. I and focus purely on the waves. group of women learning to
It was the key that opened the door for more lessons. Riding a wave
was the oldest on the trip by 20 years bodyboard and thought it looked so
to my recovery. I found the sound of the properly, for the first time, was
and while my fitness and stamina weren’t Best friend, fellow surfer, mum of much better than just sitting reading
waves so cathartic. Catching a wave is exhilarating. Surfing is brilliant
great, I was determined to keep up. two and archaeologist, Ciara Strachan, a book, as I was.
brilliant but even just wading through exercise and really works your core
By the end of the trip I had the 53, says: I signed up for lessons with Rob
them with your board, feeling the force muscles.
technique but not the fitness to see it I really treasure the close friendship Barber’s bodyboarding school
of the sea, is incredible. I’ve lost two-and-a-half stone so
through. I returned home exhausted but with Angie that surfing has brought me. (bodyboard-school.com). It was so
I either sit or kneel on the board. I’m far, thanks to my passion for surfing.
determined to continue. I started yoga It’s like being children again, looking much fun I went on his body-boarding
still working on standing up, and I You can swim out further and stay
classes to help with my balance and out for good waves, grabbing our holiday to Portugal the following
love swirling into the surf. It may up for longer if there is less of you, so
strength, and the first time I got up on toys and going out to play year.
not work for everyone but I’m walking more and
the board was phenomenal. until we’re too tired to My daughter Vicky and I then
it’s totally changed my way eating healthily ready for
Then I discovered a school mum, carry on. enrolled on a Women + Waves
of being. my next course in May.
weekend (womenandwavessociety.
INTERVIEWS BY FIONA DUFFY
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Q My 18-year-old cat has developed a
swollen abdomen. I am not sure if he
is just fat or if it’s something more
Both of these diseases are routinely
included in vaccines and I wonder if they
are needed any more?
serious. I don’t want to put him through
the stress of a vet visit if it’s nothing to
worry about.
A If ever we needed reminding,
vaccines are incredibly effective in
controlling disease outbreaks.

A It could just be an accumulation

of fat in the abdomen. If this is so,
he will look overweight elsewhere,
I am old enough to have seen
epidemics of feline panleukopenia and
canine distemper in my early career.
particularly between the legs, which The highly contagious virus canine
often wobble as the cat walks. He would distemper was subsequently brought
also be well in himself, eating well, not under control by a massive vaccination
losing weight anywhere else, and campaign. All dog rescue services joined
urinating normally. in, having previously advised vaccination
I recommend a trip to the vet because after rehoming. Vaccinating dogs before
an accurate diagnosis is very important rehoming made a huge difference.
so you can decide on a treatment plan. I also saw what happens if the
A physical examination by your vet is number of vaccinated animals drops
the first important step, as it should below herd immunity levels. There was
suggest some likely diagnoses and any a major outbreak in the 70s of feline
further investigations that might be panleukopenia, an incredibly infectious
required. If your cat is overweight all disease that’s almost 100 per cent lethal.
that will be required is a diet. I remember long queues of anxious
From a disease point of view, an owners getting their cats a booster. A
enlargement of one of the abdominal new virus (parvovirus) caused havoc
organs – commonly, for example, the around then too, racing through UK
liver – can cause abdominal swelling, as dogs that had never encountered the
well as some abdominal tumours. virus before.
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samples and urine analysis are seen cases, that could quickly change if
necessary, and ideally an abdominal vaccine numbers drop. Isolated
ultrasound examination. distemper cases have been reported in
Knowing what you’re dealing with is the UK recently, and illegal importation
far better than being unsure and the of puppies is another risk. Vaccination is
resulting worry that this causes. still very important for our pets.
● David Grant MBE was a vet at the

Q My vet has been qualified for a few

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ONIGHT at 8pm we
have the final of this
year’s MASTERMIND
(BBC2). The specialist
subjects, reassuringly,
are Shackleton’s
Antarctic expedition of 1914-17,
Cole Porter, the Vienna Secession,
Jimmy Carter, Flanders and
Swann, and the films of David
Cronenberg.
I say “reassuringly” because, call
me old-fashioned, but I expect a
Mastermind final to contain an
awful lot of questions I couldn’t
possibly answer myself – surely
that’s the point? Here, we have six
subjects which pretty much
guarantee this. I do know Cole
Mike Ward
previews
tonight’s TV
Porter wrote Who Wants To Be A
Millionaire? and that former US
President Jimmy Carter used to
grow peanuts, but mostly these are
hefty, challenging topics.
And rightly so. I’d rather that
than have a champion who’s got
there by specialising in, say, the hits
of Haircut 100.
Also, this is Mastermind
quizmaster John Humphrys’ final
show. So yes, it’s the last time he’ll
be handing a lovely glass bowl to
a deserving winner.
Unless, of course, he gets himself
a job at a fairground.
Also at 8pm, this time on
Channel 4, we have HOW TO
SAVE A GRAND IN 24 HOURS,
a new series that promises to show
us how to cut costs across the
board – on shopping, cooking,
cleaning, you name it.
I say “us”. What it’s actually
doing is focusing on the finances
of a different household each
week, bringing in various experts
to help cut their bills.
Specifically, there’s a food expert
(“renowned restaurateur Gary
Usher”), a do-it-yourself expert
(“doyenne of DIY, Eve
Humphreys”) and a cleaning
expert (“Peachy Clean will be
showing us how to bring order
to chaos”).
And yes, I do know what you’re
all thinking. You’re all thinking:
“Gosh, fancy being christened
Peachy Clean and then growing
up to be an expert on cleaning –
it’s almost as though it were
written in the stars…”
Yes, I was thinking that myself.
But I was also thinking: “Let’s
hope this show visits households
who represent a real challenge,
who’ve already done all the
common-sense things, budgeting-
wise, and yet still can’t balance the
books. That would make it
genuinely helpful.
“Let’s hope it’s not just people
who keep buying silly stuff that
they don’t need, where any old
ninny could tell them what the
answer is…”
Elsewhere tonight, ITV’s latest
five-night crime thriller
VIEWPOINT (9pm) stars Noel
Clarke as a surveillance cop, spying
on a suspect from a flat directly
opposite. It may sound like a story
with somewhat limited scope but
take my advice and stick with it.
It soon develops into something
satisfyingly tangled and intense.

PICKS OF THE DAY DID YOU KNOW? During his early life John Humphrys
Film: Bullitt, ITV4, 9pm had a bout of whooping cough and, concerned that he
Steve McQueen (left) did better work
would be known as ‘Dismal Desmond’, his mother
in his tragically shortened career but opted to use his middle name John instead.
this is one of the films that helped
make him a screen icon. He’s at his
deadpan best as the maverick cop
who’s assigned to protect a key
government witness against a crime
syndicate. Director Peter Yates gives
it more, in terms of urban reality, than
the predictable script deserves, and
Frank P Keller won an Oscar for
editing the famous San Francisco
car-bouncing hill chase. But it’s
always McQueen’s movie. He’s
snappy and cynical and his
performance is complemented by the
assured support of Robert Vaughn as
a sleazy politician, whose interference
gets under the cool cop’s skin.

Climate: Greta Thunberg:

A Year To Change The
World, BBC1, 9pm
The pandemic reveals the
enormity of the challenge
that climate change
poses, as the drop in
emissions during
lockdown proves far from
enough to get the world
back on track. Greta (left)
explores new measures
to reduce the level of Health: Baby Surgeons: Delivering Miracles, C4, 9pm
emissions further, visiting
a tree plantation and Following patients and staff at one of the UK’s leading
learning about a machine fetal medicine units, This episode follows three
that sucks carbon dioxide expectant mothers navigating complex pregnancies.
out of the air. She also Randika’s dwarfism makes giving birth a difficult
explains the choices that proposition (above), while Ann-Marie is carrying twins,
members of the public one of which has selective growth restriction,
can make to reduce their jeopardising the survival chances of both babies, and
environmental impact. Becky’s unborn baby has a rare lung tumour.

Soap: Coronation Street,

ITV, 7.30pm/8.30pm
Dev meets up with
Corey’s dad Stefan (Paul
Opacic, right) but it’s soon
clear that Stefan couldn’t
care less what his son
gets up to. Meanwhile,
Sharon sets her plan in
motion and Chesney acts
as a peacemaker. In the
second episode, Corey
Documentary: Alan Titchmarsh: Spring Into Summer, reveals that Dev had a
ITV, 8pm word with his dad and
Asha’s no longer welcome
Genial host Alan Titchmarsh is joined by legendary to stay, leaving the
model Twiggy (above, with the presenter), who pays youngster furious.
tribute to the Great British seaside, while respected Elsewhere, Sharon steals
horticulturist David Domoney selects some of the very from Gail as the pressure
best garden furniture to help people entertain and mounts and George
enjoy this summer at home. Plus, Alan goes behind disapproves of Todd’s
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The Daily Express, One Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London E14 5AP
Email: expressletters@express.co.uk (include your full name, address and telephone number)
‘Sorry’ isn’t enough after
this appalling injustice
WHAT a brilliant outcome of this
court case to clear the names of
these totally innocent people
(“JUSTICE: Years of hell end for
victims of Post Office scandal”,
April 24).
It has taken 16 years and all the
while the Post Office has stood atop
of its pedestal. All branded as
thieves, some serving prison
sentences and some have since
passed away and what have the post
office said? “Sorry”.
Is that it then, end of story? For
destroying these people’s lives they
need to feel the full weight of the
law. Plus who were the idiots who
said the Horizon program was
performing perfectly? Are they
going to be prosecuted? Publish
their names and let the country see
how they cope with the shame.
Mick Horsman,
York
Innocent staff persecuted
by callous Post Office
THE long-running saga of the Post
Office scandal has finally come to
an end with the good name and
reputation of all those postmasters
and postmistresses being restored.
An apology from the Post Office
cannot possibly be enough for the
appalling way in which they
persecuted these blameless,
hardworking people even after
doubts over the competence of the
IT system had been revealed.
Nothing less than a root and
branch investigation into those
responsible followed by appropriate
action will start to provide closure
for this most widespread case of a
miscarriage of justice in our history.
Roger Hopkins,
Eastbourne, E Sussex
Scottish independence is
Boris has gift of the jab a genuine risk to security
so let’s give some to India I AM very concerned by the
WHAT are you waiting for, Boris?
India is overcome by Covid-19
(“India reeling from surge of cases”,
April 23).
While I feel it’s right that we cut
back on overseas aid it surely
doesn’t mean that we have given
up caring about people. We have
more than enough vaccines and it’s
high time we sent some to India.
Teresa Gunter,
Wollaton, Notts
Hypocritical EU does not
deserve our tourism cash Bye Bye Les, you were an
I WILL not be going on a European
amazing rock ’n’ Roller
holiday this year or next, staycation I WAS sorry to hear of Les
is the way to go (“Spain boosts McKeown passing away (“Bay City
summer holiday hopes”, April 23). Rollers singer dies suddenly at 65
For all that the EU has thrown
at us since Brexit, it now has the
audacity to want UK tourists to
holiday abroad.
This is the same EU that took its
eye off the ball with vaccines,
pilloried the UK for “hogging”
them and tried to commandeer all
production for itself.
Graham Roberts,
Rotherham, S Yorks
China should be paying us, crack
not the other way around and we really put the
WHY on earth are we, the British
taxpayers, paying almost £1million
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ON THIS DAY
Letter of the day
Picture: GETTY
Sky’s vested
interests in
blocking ESL
PROPOSALS for a new European Super
League have been universally condemned
(“Damage has been done.. now it’s our job 39 years ago (1982)
We announced that the Royal
to win back supporters’ trust”, April 23). Marines had recaptured
Leading the charge was the high priest and South Georgia in the Falkland
self-appointed shop steward of all football Islands after overwhelming
related matters, Gary Neville. the small Argentine garrison
He seems to have championed the views of there while Argentina’s
many football supporters and opined the plan Foreign Minister Costa
to be founded on greed. His sentiments were Mendez said the country was
underscored by all those at Sky Sports. now “technically at war” with
In the early 1990s Sky TV split the Football
League and helped create the Premier League.
Great Britain.
Two weeks later an invasion
Would a new Super League not significantly force followed and the 22
Marines on the island were
impact on a TV company with contractual
obligations to the Premier League? forced to surrender.
Ivor Heard,
Wynyard, Co Durham 59 years ago (1962)
OPINIONATED: Sky Sports football pundit Gary Neville The US rocket Ranger IV
landed on the Moon but
due to a technical fault
in aid to China (“UK aid to China as family left ‘heartbroken’”, April away with it elsewhere in the world. failed to send back any
slashed to £1m”, April 22)? 23). The group epitomised an era of It’s time we got tougher with this pictures. The mission’s aim
They are the second largest youth innocence and I have fond lot. had been to transmit TV
economy in the world and have memories of their concerts in the Tony Moore, pictures of the lunar
their own space programme. 1970s, when we knew how to enjoy Preston surface but all power on the
rocket failed. The Russians
Given the fiasco over Covid-19 ourselves without artificial additives.
were the first to land an
China should be paying the rest of There was no woke nor cancel Imagine HMS Prince Philip object on the Moon in 1959.
the world’s nations for the damage
done to the economies and should
cultures and we didn’t sue each
other with “I’m offended” with HMS Queen Elizabeth
28 years ago (1993)
be subjected to massive sanctions litigation, just getting on with I HAVE been reading with interest The Government announced
on world trade. gigging, no strings attached. the suggestion of naming a Royal Britain was officially out of
Peter Smith, A big hit for the band was Bye Navy ship HMS Duke Of Edinburgh recession after the economy
Worthing, W Sussex Bye Baby, so we say our final (April 19). We generally refer to the grew by 0.2 per cent. But
goodbyes to a Bay City Roller who Duke of Edinburgh as Prince Philip, Chancellor Norman Lamont
leaves behind him a musical legacy so why not simply name the ship never recovered from Black
of golden days. HMS Prince Philip? Wednesday when the pound
crashed out of the European
David Fleming,
Downham Market, Norfolk
Just imagine HMS Prince Philip
escorting HMS Queen Elizabeth Exchange Rate Mechanism
prospect of an independent on her future deployments. at a loss of £3.14billion and
Scotland, either in the near or Arrest and convict these Alan Reeve, resigned a month later.
In his speech he famously
distant future (“Sturgeon promises
Scotland will be Oz – but it’s a hooligans into Extinction Heanor, Derbys accused John Major of being
in office but not in power.
yellow brick lie”, April 23). THE time has come to take a stand Forecast looks bright for
Two sure outcomes from this are
the removal of Trident, our last and
against those who breach the code
of conduct for peaceful protest. new Met Office computer BIRTHDAYS
vital line of defence, and secondly I refer to the hooligans of UNLESS your correspondent is The Vow actor
a largely undefended border on our Extinction Rebellion who receiving different weather forecasts Channing
beautiful island that is wide open constantly break the rules in his home city (Letters, April 23), I Tatum is 41.
to the North Sea and our enemies. (“Extinction Rebellion protesters really can’t understand why he He also works
Luke Pollard, attack HSBC headquarters with laments that the new billion-pound behind the
Sittingbourne, Kent mallets in Earth Day stunt”, computer will enable the Met Office camera.
April 22). to get it wrong twice as quickly. Donald
This bunch are only bent on I have found that the weather Trump’s wife
Melania is 51.
causing trouble and it’s time the
Government redefined what
forecasts are more accurate these
days than they ever have been, and She played
peaceful protest is and brought in herself in
are seldom, if ever, wrong.
2001’s
legislation that will put these idiots Peter Lakin,
Zoolander.
behind bars. They would not get Leicester Duran Duran
drummer
HAVE YOU OVERINDULGED IN POST-LOCKDOWN DRINKING? Roger Taylor
is 61. He quit
the group from
Yes No
PRUE Leith, that knocking back half GOOD grief, kick up the backside I
did we not needed to go sober. 1986 to 1994.
I hear what a dozen bottles of the Citizen Khan
neck enough It was shameful,
you’re saying cold stuff four nights a creator Adil
booze during lockdown dozens of empty bottles
(“Prue: I have a rum week has a terrible Ray is 47. He
effect on your waistline. to sink a battleship? of every drink you can
paunch after freedom sometimes
cocktails”, April 23). Still, it’s worth it to be Have we not sickened think of. It was at that
presents
Every chance we get able to properly ourselves of the demon moment I knew enough Good Morning
we light up our fire pit, socialise with friends, drink and had enough was enough. I haven’t Britain.
instead of those to last us a lifetime? had a drink since. The
open a few beers
with a couple of friends interminable Zoom quiz I know I have. One weight has dropped off TODAY’S GIGGLE
nights during lockdown. look at our recycling and I feel great. Why don’t eggs tell jokes?
Because they’d crack each
world to rights. Stuart Benson, bins last month was Cheryl Cody,
The only problem is Nottingham enough to give me the Oxford other up.
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RUPERT’S RAINY ADVENTURE No 2
He sets off feeling very gay,
And by the river makes his way.
Using good quality ready-made pastry makes this pie particularly easy to make.
You can use leftover chicken rrather than fillets if preferred. Serves 8.
INGREDIENTS
500g skinless, boneless
chicken breast fillets, cubed
4 carrots, sliced or cubed
150g frozen garden peas
3 to 4 stalks celery, sliced
75g butter
1 onion, chopped
5 tbsps plain flour
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp black pepper
1/4 tsp celery seed
400ml chicken stock
150ml milk
1 packet shop-bought puff or
flaky pastry
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Chicken and vegetable pie
METHOD
1) Preheat the oven to 220C . In a saucepan,
combine chicken, carrots, peas and celery. Add
water to cover and boil for 15 minutes. Remove
from heat, drain and set aside.
2) In a heavy-based saucepan over a medium
heat, cook the onion in butter until soft and
translucent. Stir in flour, salt, pepper and celery
seed. Slowly stir in chicken stock and milk.
Simmer over medium-low heat until thick.
Remove from heat and set aside.
3) Line a 23cm pie dish with pastry, reserving
some to cover.
4) Place the chicken mixture in the bottom of
the prepared pie dish. Pour the hot liquid
mixture over. Cover with top pastry, seal edges
and cut away excess pastry. Make several small
slits in the top to allow steam to escape.
5) Bake in the preheated oven for 30 to 35
minutes, or until the pastry is golden brown
and the filling is bubbling.
6) Serve with fresh vegetables and mashed
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A MASSIVE £5.33billion was
BUSINESS leaders collected from inheritance
are replacing tax by the Government in
suppliers that do not the last financial year.
share their ethical That is up from
values, a study By Henry Saker-Clark
BOXING CLEVER: £5.12billion the year before,
suggests. Gousto delivered despite the total amount
Research by SOARING pandemic demand saw meal
53 million raked in from taxes falling
services giant kit business Gousto more than double
meal kits nearly eight per cent.
Sodexo indicated its sales last year. It was not far off the peak
bosses believe the The firm gained market share from in inheritance tax receipts
pandemic has had a supermarkets in 2020, delivering of £5.4billion in 2018/19.
profound impact on 53 million meals to customers’ doors. Sean McCann, chartered
procurement Founder Timo Boldt said Covid financial planner at NFU
decisions. restrictions had a positive impact on Mutual, said: “It’s no
Two-thirds of more demand. However, he does not expect surprise to see the
than 250 senior this to reverse as restrictions ease. Government collecting more
managers surveyed from inheritance tax as the
The British business’s founder added:
said that, in the last standard tax-free allowance
year, they’ve started “We had incredibly positive growth
prior to the pandemic so can see that of £325,000 hasn’t changed
replacing suppliers for 12 years.
that do not live up to continuing even as things ease.
their diversity and
inclusion values, or
“Like anyone, we are really happy to
see hospitality reopen and don’t expect
Raise
environmental a major shift – we are still looking at “Since then, the amount
policies. hundreds of millions of meals being of inheritance tax HMRC
Sean Haley, of eaten at home across the UK. collects has more than
Sodexo, said: “It is “There have been really strong signs doubled. However, the
often said that you with new customers over the past year average UK house price has
can tell a great deal sticking as well, recognising the increased 60.7 per cent
about someone by convenience and value of Gousto.” since 2009, so a £325,000
the company they Revenues jumped 129 per cent to house in 2009 would now be
keep. This is also £189million in 2020. worth around £522,275.”
true for businesses. The firm posted its first full-year In the March Budget,
centre in December. Gousto expects to technology used at its distribution sites.
“As our research Chancellor Rishi Sunak
shows, the ability to profit, with underlying earnings of double its delivery capacity again by Mr Boldt added: “It is undoubtedly
£18.2million for the period. 2022 with new distribution centres in very early but it is easy to see that confirmed he was freezing
demonstrate a inheritance tax allowances
positive social Mr Boldt said the strong growth Essex and Cheshire. opportunity.”
continued into 2021, with more than It also expects to double its work- “We are really proud of our technol- for five years, which is
impact is a expected to raise almost
responsibility that 25 million meals sold in the first three force of around 1,000 employees. ogy platform and our focus is utilising
£1billion in extra tax.
extends beyond months. The group believes demand More than a fifth of current staff are that to ensure we have the best proposi- By 2026, the £325,000
your own business has been bolstered by its value proposi- in technology roles and Mr Boldt tion possible for customers. tax-free allowance will have
to the organisations tion, amid investment to keep pricing believes this will be a major opportu- “But we know that if we are getting remained at that level for 17
with which you below that of its major rivals. nity for the business. this completely right, then there might years, “meaning more and
choose to partner.” It pumped funding into boosting He said Gousto is looking at the be licensing opportunities further more people will be caught
capacity, launching a second fulfilment licensing potential for the automation down the line.” in the net,” McCann said.

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THE NHS, financial and IT
companies could miss out
on highly skilled workers
because of the inclusion of
India on the Government’s
“red list” for travel, a report
has suggested.
Even those exempted from
the ban on travel from India
because they are essential
workers will still be forced to
quarantine in a hotel for 10
days. It will create a “major
disincentive” for staff to
come, said the report by city
law firm Bates Wells.
Spokesman Chetal Patel
said: “The UK is potentially
missing out on highly skilled
workers who are effectively
banned from coming.
“We’ve had multinational
clients having to put a halt
on the start dates for some
Indians as the Government’s
addition of India to the red
list came at too short notice.
“The Government needs
to review the ban regularly
and lift it as soon as it is safe.
Indians comprise 42 per cent
of those applying for health
and care worker visas.
“To stem the flow of work-
ers when the NHS is severely
understaffed is problematic.”
SMALLER companies say it
will take an average of a year
for their business to make up
for lost revenue due to the
pandemic, research suggests.
However, a survey of 500
small to medium-sized firms
(SMEs) found one in five
feared they may never
recover.
Nucleus Commercial Fin-
ance said its study indicated
medium-sized businesses are
most confident about recov-
ering while younger owners
are more optimistic about
making up lost revenue.
Smaller companies in
London and the South-east
are most  optimistic about
their recovery.
North-west and South
-west firms are the least opti-
mistic, the report showed.
Chirag Shah, chief executive
of Nucleus Commercial
Finance, said: “While the
trepidations of the pandemic
and subsequent restrictions
will have lasting effects for
many British businesses,
it’s  encouraging to see such
optimism among SMEs
about their projected
finances as they return to
business as usual.”

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IT has been a dire time for the high
street and Primark owner Associated
British Foods has certainly faced
difficulties.
Primark is the group’s biggest
division. That’s why total group
revenues fell 18 per cent at the half year
to £6.3billion. With Primark stores
closed for over half the trading period,
that isn’t a surprise.
Large shops come with a lot of costs
that can’t be flexed. So the drop in
revenue saw an even more dramatic fall
in operating profits. These declined 46
SOPHIE LUND-YATES per cent to £369million. ABF also
EQUITY ANALYST expects Primark closures and social
Hargreaves Lansdown distancing to knock £700million off
www.hl.co.uk sales in the second half. But underneath
Primark still impressive despite store closures
these disappointing numbers is quite an
impressive business.
Demand for Primark’s recently
re-opened stores has been
phenomenal. The group is so confident
in the outlook for Primark, it feels able to
repay £121million received from job
retention schemes. That’s even more
remarkable when you consider
Primark’s lack of online offering.
ABF also has an eclectic mix of food
businesses. These have been a real
asset because they’ve offset some of
the profit and cash outflow caused by
closures. The grocery division saw
operating profits rise six per cent to
£199million in the first half. The
business is enjoying higher
supermarket sales because of the
pandemic. Twinings and Ovaltine have
been very good performers.
Performance from the food
businesses is expected to soften in the
latter part of the year. That’s probably
because as the vaccine roll out
continues, spending will normalise.
These businesses offer a back-up
source of income. They are one of the
reasons ABF feels comfortable
re-starting the dividend. It announced
an interim dividend of 6.2p per share
and the prospective yield for the next 12
months is 1.8 per cent.
The outlook for ABF in the short term
is mixed. But its competitive retail
product and diversified interests means
we think it’s well placed longer-term.
“This article is designed for investors who make
their own decisions without advice, if unsure
whether an investment is right for you, you
shouldseek advice. Shares can rise and fall in
value so you could get back less than you invest.”
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IN THE
THOSE WERE
1924: The FA Cup final
between Newcastle and FRAME
THE DAYS
Aston Villa at Wembley Owen Farrell
was the first all-ticket beats Ealing
affair. defenders
in Saracens’
2001: Scotland defender ON THIS DATE IN SPORTING HISTORY heavy win
Colin Hendry was banned
for six international 2013: Former Pakistan and 2017: Joey Barton was
matches and fined £4,500 Essex bowler Danish banned for 18 months for
for elbowing San Marino Kaneria lost his appeal breaking betting rules.
substitute Nicola Albani in against a life ban after 2018: Arsene Wenger’s last
the throat during a World being found guilty of European home game in
Cup qualifier at Hampden. spot-fixing. charge of Arsenal ended in
It turned out to be his 51st a 1-1 draw with Atletico
and last cap. Madrid after the Gunners
conceded a late equaliser
2005: The Royal & Ancient in the Europa League
Golf Club voted in principle semi-final second leg.
to allow women to compete
in The Open Championship. 2020: England paceman
Jofra Archer finally found
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Croatia midfielder Luka winner’s medal after
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perfect as they completed a hat-
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The 95-cap Red Roses skipper to do ahead of next year’s
lifted the trophy after England World Cup. She said: “They need
ground out victory over France at a plan B. If plan A is not working,
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what is next? What else can they
do to mix up the game?” won his second
The two nations meet again in European Tour title in THE BIG PICTURE
France this Friday, and Scarratt the Gran Canaria
said: “The aim was to win the Six Lopesan Open.
Nations and we managed that. The South African
It certainly wasn’t a perfect left-hander, 21, carded
performance but a flawless closing 63
sometimes it doesn’t to finish 25 under par.
need big flamboyant German Max
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“We had to dig in play-off in Austria a
and a lot of our week earlier, finished
defence was unreal. three shots adrift after
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after he suffered a serious we are actually dealing with.”
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FORGOTTEN England Keogh centuries saw MARK WILLIAMS believes he can
opener Haseeb Hameed
ROUND-UP Northants chase down box clever all the way to a fourth
had a record-breaking day He also set a new record Glamorgan to win by world title.
to earn Nottinghamshire of 635 balls faced. seven wickets. Yorkshire The Welshman, 46, is through to

being in the
a draw from their County Matt Parkinson took needed an hour to take the quarter-finals of the Betfred
Championship match seven wickets as the four Sussex wickets. World Championship after 29 years
with Worcestershire. Lancashire beat Kent by Durham and Derbyshire on tour.
Hameed batted all day an innings and five runs played out a draw while Wily three-time winner Williams
as Notts closed on 236-0. while Rob Yates’ century a last-wicket stand by tied old rival John Higgins up in
His 114 made it two tons helped Warwickshire to Gloucestershire’s Josh knots with snooker’s equivalent of

ring with
in a match for the second a win by seven wickets Shaw and Dominic the rope-a-dope at the weekend.
time in his career after over Essex. Ricardo Goodman frustrated A bamboozled four-time
111 in the first innings. Vasconcelos and Rob Hampshire. champion, Higgins felt his 13-7
defeat was “like being in a ring with
COUNTY CRICKET SCOREBOARDS Floyd Mayweather – I got my head
jabbed near clean off, he is so

LV= COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP -
GROUP 1
Durham v Derbyshire (Emirates
Riverside): Durham 475 (147.4
overs; D G Bedingham 257, J T A
Burnham 75; S Conners 5-83)
and 175-2dec. (44.5 overs; A Z
Lees 78no, D G Bedingham
53no). Derbyshire 267 (83.1
overs; W L Madsen 76, H R
Hosein 63; C Rushworth 6-58)
and 280-5 (97.0 overs; W L
Madsen 74, M J J Critchley 69).
Durham (14pts) drew with
Derbyshire (11pts). Essex v
Warwickshire (Edgbaston): Essex
295 (89.5 overs; N L J Browne
68, P I Walter 66, R N ten
Doeschate 56; O P Stone 4-89, O
J Hannon-Dalby 4-73) and 244
(94.0 overs; S R Harmer 82no, D
W Lawrence 55; C N Miles 4-70).
Warwickshire 284 (111.1 overs;
D R Briggs 66no; S R Harmer
4-89) and 256-3 (80.4 overs; R M
Yates 120no, S R Hain 60, G H
Vihari 52). Warwickshire (21pts)
beat Essex (5pts) by 7 wickets.
GARDENING
RHS AWARD-WINNING
Lilium Regale
Worcestershire v Nottinghamshire
(New Road): Worcestershire 436
(145.1 overs; J D Libby 117, J
Leach 84, A S Joseph 61, D K H
Mitchell 59, E Barnard 58; L A
Patterson-White 4-114).
Nottinghamshire 276 (104.4
overs; Haseeb Hameed 111, T J
Moores 62) and 236-0dec.
(109.0 overs; Haseeb Hameed
114no, B T Slater 114no).
Worcestershire (15pts) drew with
Nottinghamshire (12pts).
GROUP 2
Hampshire v Gloucestershire
(The Ageas Bowl): Hampshire 470
(144.1 overs; T P Alsop 149, I G
Holland 114, L A Dawson 65, J M
Vince 52; R F Higgins 4-78, D J
Worrall 4-75). Gloucestershire
320 (132.1 overs; R F Higgins
73, J R Bracey 65, K C Brathwaite
60; Mohammad Abbas 4-41) and
197-9 (97.0 overs; B T J Wheal
4-59). Hampshire (12pts) drew
with Gloucestershire (11pts).
GROUP 3
Lancashire v Kent (Canterbury):
Lancashire 525 (167.2 overs; D J
Lamb 125, L Wood 119, J J
Bohannon 87, D J Vilas 53). Kent
169 (50.3 overs; Z Crawley 60; T E
Bailey 4-46) and 351 (138.0 overs;
D J Bell-Drummond 114, J M Cox
80; M W Parkinson 7-126).
Lancashire (22pts) beat Kent (2pts)
by an innings and 5 runs. Glamorgan
v Northamptonshire (Northampton):
Glamorgan 407 (113.1 overs; C B
Cooke 136, D L Lloyd 65, K S
Carlson 54) and 311-5dec. (82.0
overs; N J Selman 69, K S Carlson
59, C B Cooke 57no, W T Root 56).
Northamptonshire 364 (105.0
overs; A M Rossington 76, G K Berg
69no, W D Parnell 54) and 357-3
(72.4 overs; R Vasconcelos 185no,
R I Keogh 126). Northamptonshire
(22pts) beat Glamorgan (7pts) by 7
wickets. Yorkshire v Sussex (Hove):
Yorkshire 150 (50.5 overs) and 305
(103.4 overs; G S Ballance 74, A
Lyth 66; J J Carson 5-85). Sussex
221 (76.3 overs; T J Haines 86; S A
Patterson 4-26, D Olivier 4-61) and
186 (69.5 overs; D M Bess 6-53).
Yorkshire (19pts) beat Sussex (4pts)
by 48 runs.
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clever”.
And former schoolboy amateur
boxer Williams, who was unbeaten
in 12 fights before turning to
snooker, admits he has grown up
admiring the most canny exponents
of a sweet science.
He said: “Years ago I boxed as a
junior, but I still love watching it.
The Billy Joe Saunders fight coming
up should be great, I’ll be glued to
that and all the big ones really.
“You have the different styles.
The heavyweight division gets the
most attention, with the big
punchers and the knockouts.
“But I used to love the era with
Naseem Hamed, who had a bit of
flair and skill, and also Chris Eubank
for his real boxing skills.
“With me on the table, a lot of
shots I go for might look crazy, but
somewhere there is an element of
putting the white where I don’t
leave much on.
“It’s not quite as erratic as it
looks, and there is thought and
method behind it.
“And even the crazier shots can
put opponents under pressure
sometimes, because
they know if they
miss then I’m
going to go for it,
literally
anything.
“If you get one
and make a
Mayweather
HIGGINS HAILS WILLIAMS
break of 80 or 100, it creates
SHAUN MURPHY has one
pressure on their safety. There is no
holding back and, if they go in, I can
❑ foot in his first Crucible
quarter-final for six years.
be dangerous.
The 2005 champion has not
“It does feel on the table like I am
got past the second round since
21 again, that’s the way and the
finishing runner-up in 2015.
speed I am playing at. I was quick
The Magician was in superb
back then, and I wanted to get back
form for most of the first two
to that.
sessions against 21-year-old
“That’s the way I won
Masters champion Yan Bingtao.
tournaments then.”
But the Chinese prospect
Meanwhile, Scotland’s Anthony
kept himself in the contest by
McGill admits he is sweating on
fighting back from 8-2 down to
today’s final player Covid test after
10-6 adrift at the close of play.
knocking out defending and six-time
Three-time winner Mark Selby
world champion Ronnie O’Sullivan
leads former Masters champion
on Friday.
World No.1 Judd Trump failed a
Mark Allen 9-6 overnight ahead
of their final session.
test at January’s Masters and
They were unable
had to withdraw after being
made favourite to scoop the
£200,000 first prize.
The stakes are even higher at
to complete the
eight frames and
were hauled off
early before
the Crucible, with £500,000 as
evening play.
well as a first world title up for
grabs.
McGill said: “It would be
heart-breaking for that to
happen to anyone.”

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FLY ME TO
THE MOON:
Manager Xisco
revels in that
promotion
feeling as do
happy fans
around the
pond, below
Rocket Men bring
back Taylor years
FAR from the madding crowd
cavorting around the pond, a lone
Watford supporter on the park
bench cracked open a can and
raised a toast to promotion.
His choice of seat for an almost
religious gesture was calculated
and deliberate – because it was
dedicated by former chairman Sir
Elton John to the memory of
Hornets godfather Graham Taylor.
The simple shrine to a great
manager is located in Cassiobury
Park, where Taylor used to take
his players on cross-country runs
and hide up in the trees to bark at
any slackers.
It is 39 years since Taylor and
the Rocket Man took Watford into
orbit for the first time
and established Watford
as the original family
club where hooligans
were not welcome.
Now they are back,
courtesy of a penalty
from Ismaila Sarr and
after an astonishing
surge under genial
Spaniard Xisco Munoz,
and all the sneering
‘experts’ who deride
the Golden Boys’ high
turnover of head
Ayew answers emergency call
ANDRE AYEW produced
sublime skills to confirm
Swansea’s passage into
the play-offs – and coach
Steve Cooper was quick
to praise the medical
staff that got him there.
While Reading’s failure
to win meant their hopes
of making the finale are
over, Ayew created his
AYEW: Talisman side’s first goal for Jamal
FOOTBALL: SKY BET CHAMPIONSHIP
WATFORD 1 talisman Troy Deeney will be 33
MILLWALL
By Mike Walters
0 surface of the team’s limitations
coaches have fallen silent. Watford
are the club who keep getting it
right. On the pitch 22 clean sheets
in 44 games provided the bedrock
for promotion.
Xisco’s cheerful demeanour,
sustained by his record of 54
points from 24 games since taking
over in December, will be tested
in the Premier League.
And Watford’s squad will need
urgent replenishment, especially
in the attacking third, where
READING 2 SWANSEA 2
Lowe with an exquisite
flick and then put them
ahead with a screamer.
The striker had missed
Swansea’s home defeat
by QPR and limped out
of their draw with
Wycombe – results that
ended their pursuit of
automatic promotion.
Cooper gambled by
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CHAMPIONSHIP
* Watford secured
automatic promotion by
beating Millwall.
* Swansea’s draw with
Reading confirmed their
place in play-offs with
Brentford, Bournemouth
and Barnsley, while the
Royals miss out.
* Wycombe are all but
down after defeat at Cardiff
left them needing a 13-goal
swing in goal difference to
have any survival chance.
LEAGUE ONE
Hull have been promoted
while Peterborough are
guaranteed a play-off
place. But Bristol Rovers
and Swindon are down.
LEAGUE TWO
Cheltenham, Cambridge
and Bolton are guaranteed
a play-off spot.
in June. But scratch beneath the
and the beating heart of a club
built on Taylor and Sir Elton’s
values is still standing.
Watford’s favourite son Luther
Blissett, whose charitable exploits
during the pandemic have been
heroic, was given the freedom of
the town last month.
And Watford’s conversion of
executive boxes into sleeping pods
for exhausted NHS staff fighting a
deadly plague last year was
inspired. The Hornets’ community
trust continues to excel, delivering
500 cream teas to the isolated and
vulnerable on Valentine’s Day.
And the morning after
the party before, fans
volunteered to clean up
the debris around the
pond.
WATFORD (4-3-3): Bachmann 8;
Femenia 6 (Cathcart, 31, 6), Troost-
Ekong 6, Sierralta 6, Masina 7; Cleverley
6 (Sanchez, 84), Hughes 6, Gosling 6
(Chalobah, 60, 7); Sarr 8, Pedro 5 (Gray,
60, 6), Sema 6. Goal: Sarr 11 pen.
MILLWALL (3-5-2): Bialkowski 6;
Romeo 6, Evans 7, Cooper 7; McNamara
7 (Muller, 78), Kieftenbeld 6, Mitchell
6 (Williams, 71), Bennett 5 (Burey, 81),
Malone 7 (Mahoney, 77); J Wallace 7,
Bradshaw 6 (Zohore, 70, 5).
putting him on the bench
here and he is now set to
be saved for the play-offs.
“We needed Andre
today,” said Cooper.
“We knew he’d been
medically cleared to play
as a sub and it ended up
being good work from
the medical team and
great for Andre.”
GRAHAM THOMAS
Daily Express Monday, April 26, 2021 53
Hull wait for return of
fans to pop open corks
GRANT McCANN plans to put the
promotion champagne on ice until
LEAGUE ONE
Hull’s supporters return. third-placed side were pegged back
The Tigers booked an instant return in a 3-3 draw.
Joey Barton admitted Bristol
to the Championship after Josh
Magennis and Mallik Wilks scored Rovers deserved to be relegated after
in a 2-1 victory at Lincoln. their demotion was confirmed with a
Boss McCann, above, said: “It’s a 1-0 defeat at play-off chasing
shame the fans weren’t there to see Portsmouth. “Some teams do not
deserve to go down but I think we
that. Hopefully soon we can get
together and have a proper party.” do,” said Barton.
Peterborough, 1-0 winners at Swindon were also relegated after
Charlton, will join Hull in the second four goals from Will Grigg fired MK
tier if they beat Doncaster tomorrow. Dons to a 5-0 victory. Caretaker
Sunderland striker Charlie Wyke Robins boss Tommy Wright said: “It’s
scored twice against Accrington to a very tame way to get relegated. It
take his season’s tally to 30 but his could have been 10.”
MARINERS AND SHRIMPERS HANG ON
GRIMSBY and Southend, LEAGUE TWO boss Paul Hurst. “But
the bottom two clubs, we’re in the fight.”
kept their hopes of Tranmere, with three Southend manager Phil
staying in the Football matches remaining. Brown said: “There is a lot
League alive with 2-1 wins Southend, who go to of support for this club.”
over Oldham and Leyton Barrow on Saturday, are Cheltenham beat
Orient respectively. five points adrift having Colchester 1-0 to go top.
Grimsby are six points played a game more. Boss Michael Duff said: “I
behind third-from bottom “It is a mammoth ask told the players there is
Barrow, who lost 1-0 at for us still,” said Grimsby no coming off it now.”
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WOOD
SINKS
WOEFUL
WOLVES
STRIKER BAGS HAT-TRICK
AS CLARETS NEAR SAFETY
THE only saving graces for
Wolves were that it could have
been a lot worse and their fans
were not there to see it.
Molineux legend and record
scorer Steve Bull was present –
and he could not hide his
despair as he put his head in his
hands in the directors’ box.
Bull clearly could not
stomach the lack of energy and
desire in the home side, which
was noticeable.
But battling Burnley were the
exact opposite and got their
reward by racing into a 3-0 half-
time lead.
Chris Wood was the
hero for the visitors, his
hat-trick taking his
recent tally to six goals in
as many games.
Ashley Westwood
added a fourth late
on when Wood
turned provider as
Burnley secured
their biggest top-
flight away win
since 1965.
It lifts Sean
Dyche’s side to
14th and away
from lingering
relegation danger.
Wolves have
been rocked by the
absence of their star
striker Raul Jimenez
since November after he
No need for a rebuild insists Klopp
JURGEN KLOPP denied his
Liverpool side need
rebuilding after they were
lucky to escape with a point
from this embarrassing late
capitulation.
An inept final 15 minutes
ended with two high balls
into the box and two goals
for Newcastle, Callum
Wilson’s disallowed by VAR
for an incidental handball
before Joe Willock struck the
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HEADS
Wood nods in to seal his
WE WIN
first top-flight hat-trick on
a perfect day for Burnley
THE 60
SECOND
WEEKEND
PIC OF THE BUNCH
ReD FLAG:
Balbuena
was harshly
sent off for
catching
Chilwell
5
8
8
1
WOLVES v BURNLEY
58 POSSESSION %
2 SHOTS ON TARGET
BLOCKED SHOTS
CORNERS
FOULS
YELLOW CARDS
42
5 SHOTS OFF TARGET 6
7
1
5
9
2
We’re going to have to
look at these crazy rules
STEVE BRUCE ON HANDBALL LAWS
PREMIER LEAGUE TEAM OF THE WEEKEND
MARTINEZ
0 RED CARDS 0
Source: Opta
WAN-BISSAKA LAPORTE
Aston Villa
MEE CHILWELL
Man United Man City Burnley Chelsea
after turning past Conor Coady. before the break as he
WOLVES 0 The Clarets doubled their lead completed his first Premier
in the 21st minute after Dwight League hat-trick. The striker PEREIRA WILLOCK FODEN
BURNLEY 4 McNeil was alert enough to nip had a free header inside the six- West Brom Newcastle Man City
By James Nursey in and intercept Adama Traore’s yard box from McNeil’s corner
lay-off on the edge of his box to in the 44th minute. SALAH WOOD McGOLDRICK
suffered a fractured skull. But Semedo. Burnley wrapped things up Liverpool Burnley Sheffield Utd
last summer’s big-money buys – McNeil then simply rolled the when Romain Saiss lost
Fabio Silva for £35million and ball across goal for Wood to tap possession and Wood teed up
Nelson Semedo for £27m – in his second. Westwood to lash in from the SETTING THE BENCH MARK
have not improved the side. Traore’s frustrations nearly edge of the box five minutes Against Newcastle on Saturday, Liverpool’s James
And it would be natural for boiled over when he pushed from time. Milner made his 159th appearance as a substitute in the
manager Nuno Espirito Santo, Jack Cork in the face amid a WOLVES (3-4-1-2): Patricio 4; Saiss 5, Coady 5, Premier League, overtaking Peter Crouch as the all-time
linked with Tottenham, to melee after Daniel Podence Boly 5; Semedo 2 (Silva 58, 6), Neves 5 (Vitinha 69, record holder for sub appearances in the competition.
question whether he has taken went down injured. 6), Dendoncker 5, Ait-Nouri 3; Podence 5 (Gibbs-White TOP-10 PLAYERS WITH MOST SUB APPEARANCES IN PL:
69, 6); Traore 6, Silva 3.
Wolves as far as they can go. The Wolves flier escaped with James Milner 159 Carlton Cole 129
Wood opened the scoring in a booking despite VAR BURNLEY (4-4-2): Pope 7; Lowton 7, Tarkowski
the 15th minute with a low reviewing the footage. Wood
7, Mee 8, Taylor 7; Brownhill 7, Westwood 7, Cork 7, Peter Crouch 158 Joe Cole 123
McNeil 8; Vydra 7 (Rodriguez 73), Wood 9. Goals:
finish into the far corner effectively sealed the win Wood 15, 21, 44, Westwood 85. Jermain Defoe 149 Theo Walcott 123
Shane Long 148 Nwankwo Kanu 118
Nuno: I will not allow that again Shola Ameobi 142 Ryan Giggs 110
3
FUMING Wolves boss Nuno defending, not the right we usually over-run our THINGS WE LEARNT IN
Espirito Santo warned
there must never be a
decisions in the right moments
when we were under pressure.
opponents. The game is about
that hard work and Burnley ran
THE PREM THIS WEEKEND
repeat of yesterday’s “We didn’t have movement, more.” 1 After a run of eight defeats in 10 league
horror show. everybody was without Burnley hat-trick hero Chris games, Newcastle have lost just one of their
After the biggest mobility. We didn’t have Wood, left, said: “It was a game past eight in the Premier League (W2 D5).
home defeat of his possession. we knew we had to take on and
four-year Molineux “There were many mistakes be on the front foot, and we 2 Since beating Spurs and Liverpool back to
reign, Nuno said: “We had that you shouldn’t make. started off very well as a team. back in January/February, Brighton have
a very bad performance. “We will stick together like “We knew our position was in won only two of their past 11 games in the
Today was clearly the path we always do.” our hands and that was the competition (D4 L5).
that we should not take and Burnley’s players out-ran main thing. We wanted to keep
I will not allow it. their Wolves counterparts by it that way and this has made it 3 Manchester United are unbeaten in 24 PL
“I am disappointed with 6km and Nuno added: “That a little bit easier now but there away games with only Arsenal having a longer
many parts. There were disappoints me a lot. One of our are still five tough games to go
too many things – bad characteristics is and we will see where we lie.” run (27 from April 2003-September 2004).
FOX CUBS ALL GROWN UP NOW
BRENDAN RODGERS is LEICESTER V C PALACE 8PM We have evolved. You’ve
LIVERPOOL 1 NEWCASTLE 1 so we’ll all of a sudden
play well again. But each confident his side will the race for a top-four spot. seen the control in the team,
equaliser. Asked if this is a player in the world needs not falter this time in Rodgers, right, said: “It’s the maturity. They’re
long-term decline even when momentum, needs their bid for Champions definitely a different improving all the time
players such as Virgil van Dijk positive feedback. League football. feel this season but it and at a good level.”
and Jordan Henderson “We have to They stumbled doesn’t make it any LEICESTER (probable):
return, Klopp replied: “No, become again a very, badly last season but easier. It’s just Schmeichel; Fofana, Evans,
entertain Palace Soyuncu; Castagne, Ndidi,
no. The long-term solutions very tricky team to play experience. Tielemans, Ricardo, Maddison;
are fine but the short-term against, an angry team in tonight knowing “Last year, a lot of Vardy, Iheanacho.
we have to think about. a positive football way.” victory would see the players hadn’t had PALACE (probable): Guaita; Ward,
“I know it’s not as simple DAVID MADDOCK them extend their the experience of being Kouyate, Cahill, Van Aanholt; Ayew,
as the season is over and JOe 90: Willock after lead over Chelsea consistently up there, so it Milivojevic, Riedewald, Eze; Zaha, Benteke.
some defenders come back, stoppage-time goal and West Ham in was a great learning process. DAVE ARMITAGE
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WEST BROM’S unlikely escape
plot took a sickening twist as they
threw away two crucial points right
at the death.
Defender Kyle Bartley hesitated
for the briefest of moments and
allowed Aston Villa substitute Keinan
Davis to poke home an equaliser.
How crucial that will be only time
will tell. But with Albion now nine
points adrift of safety it looks like
they will have to win all of their
remaining five games to have the
faintest chance of avoiding the drop.
Sam Allardyce, right, and his side
are not in the last chance saloon yet
– but they have certainly taken up a
seat in the beer garden. By the time
lockdown is fully lifted it is almost
certain that last orders will have
been called on their brief stay in the
Premier League.
Their next stop is a trip to rivals
Wolves and, though they will at
ASTON VILLA
WEST BROM
2
2
By Dave Armitage
least be spared the indignity of
being relegated at Molineux, their
survival will still be hanging by a
thread by the time they leave there.
They were all set for their third
win in four games as the clock
clicked into stoppage time
but there was one last
bitter twist. They were
leading thanks to a Tyrone
Mings own-goal two
minutes into the second half
– the unfortunate Villa
defender diverting home Mbaye
Diagne’s cross-turned-shot into the
net with his studs.
The Baggies looked good value
for all three points when they failed
Villa sub’s last-gasp leveller
pushes rivals closer to drop
to deal with an Ollie Watkins header
knocked back into the mix.
Bartley took it on his chest,
seemed to feel Sam Johnstone
would deal with it and,
in that split-second of
indecision, Davis poked
out his foot and popped
the ball over the keeper.
Allardyce’s face said it all
as he threw something into
the dugout in anger and frustration.
He is proud of his record of never
having been relegated, but that is
something that looks to be on
limited time. The Baggies got off to
the worst possible start when they
fell behind to a ninth-minute
penalty but managed to rectify that
by getting themselves level – also
from the penalty spot – midway
through the first half.
When referee Stuart Attwell
pointed to the spot after Semi Ajayi
sent Ross Barkley tumbling in the
box, the odds looked stacked
against Allardyce’s men.
Anwar El Ghazi sent Johnstone
the wrong way from the spot.
But credit to the visitors, they set
about repairing the damage and
came close to equalising when
Matheus Pereira curled a 20-yard
free kick inches over the bar.
But in the 23rd minute they got
their reward when Ezri Konsa
fouled Ainsley Maitland-Niles in the
box. Pereira stepped up and made
no mistake, converting a powerful
penalty to level things up.
They nearly went in front
immediately after when Okay
Yokuslu powered a header just wide
and Pereira crashed a free-kick
against the bar.
Konsa screwed a header onto his
own post and was then rescued by
Emiliano Martinez, who also tipped
over a Pereira effort.
ASTON VILLA (4-2-3-1): Martinez 8; El Mohamady 6,
Konsa 6, Mings 6, Targett 7; Luiz 6 (Ramsey 78); McGinn
7; Traore 6 (Wesley 90), Barkley 7 (Davis 82), El Ghazi 7;
Watkins 7. Goals: El Ghazi 9 pen, Davis 90.
WEST BROM (4-4-2): Johnstone 8; Furlong 7, Bartley 6,
Ajayi 7, Townsend 7; Yokuslu 8, Maitland-Niles 7(O’Shea 86),
Gallagher 7, Pereira 8; Robinson 6 (Phillips 67, 6), Diagne 7.
Goals: Pereira 23 pen, Mings 47 og.

DAGGER FROM DAVIS

DERBY
DRAMA
Keinan
Allardyce to
Davis hits
the ball over
keeper Sam
stay strong
Johnstone SAM ALLARDYCE refused to throw in
to equalise the towel, despite his West Brom
late on side’s latest setback.
The Baggies boss said: “All we can
do is continue to try and win every
game. The defeats have been close
to draws and the draws have been
close to victories.
“When I arrived we found it
difficult to compete at this level, we
have done now consistently for 10 or
12 matches, but unfortunately we
haven’t won enough.
“You can imagine how we feel. The
HOW THEY STAND three points were so vital to us and
P W D L F A Pts when you are that close it hurts.
Man City 33 24 5 4 69 24 77 “Pressure can get to you in those
Man Utd 33 19 10 4 64 35 67 situations and the mistake we made
Leicester 32 18 5 9 58 37 59 got them the equaliser. We can’t
Chelsea 33 16 10 7 51 31 58 afford drawn or lost games.
West Ham 33 16 7 10 53 43 55 “People thought we would go
Liverpool 33 15 9 9 55 39 54
Tottenham 33 15 8 10 56 38 53 under, but we didn’t. But for their
Everton 32 15 7 10 44 40 52 goalkeeper we could have won this
Leeds 33 14 5 14 50 50 47 much earlier.
Arsenal 33 13 7 13 44 37 46 “But I can’t be too critical. The
Aston Villa 32 13 6 13 46 37 45 lads gave everything.”
ASTON VILLA v WEST BROM Wolves 33 11 8 14 32 45 41 Villa boss Dean Smith says he’s
70 POSSESSION % 30 Crystal Palace 31 10 8 13 33 52 38
11 SHOTS ON TARGET 4 considering coaching non-contact
Burnley 33 9 9 15 30 45 36
7 SHOTS OFF TARGET 5 Southampton 32 10 6 16 40 58 36
football next season following West
6 BLOCKED SHOTS 1 Newcastle 33 9 9 15 36 54 36 Brom’s penalty.
11 CORNERS 4 Smith said: “I’m still wondering
14 FOULS 9 Brighton 33 7 13 13 33 39 34
0 YELLOW CARDS 2 Fulham 33 5 12 16 25 43 27 why that was given. It looks like a
0 RED CARDS 0 West Brom 33 5 10 18 30 64 25 toe touches his heel. The referee
Source: Opta Sheff Utd (R) 33 5 2 26 18 56 17 must have some eyes to see that.”

THIGH’S NOT LIMIT FOR MBAPPE Blades will go down fighting

PARIS SAINT-GERMAIN
expect Kylian Mbappe to be
fit to face Manchester City
in the Champions League
semi-finals.
The France star,
right, scored twice
before limping
out of the 3-1
Ligue 1 win at
Metz with a thigh
injury. But despite
the injury casting
doubt over his availability
for Wednesday’s first leg,
EURO ROUND-UP with Real Betis on
Saturday, Hazard caught
boss Mauricio Pochettino
the eye in a late cameo.
is banking on the striker Real boss Zinedine Zidane
being OK. He said: “Kylian said: “He played with spark
suffered a dead leg and with energy. He feels
but was calm.” very good.”
Fit-again Arsenal’s Europa League
Eden Hazard is semi-final foes Villarreal,
pushing to start managed by Unai Emery,
for Real Madrid blew a lead to lose 2-1 to
against his former Barcelona. Manchester
club Chelsea in United’s opponents Roma
tomorrow’s semi-final. lost 3-2 to lowly Cagliari.
Although Real drew 0-0 IAN WINROW
DAVID McGoldrick’s
goal in this scrappy game
will have no material
effect on the outcome of
Sheffield United’s season
beyond late pride.
But the striker said he
hoped it sent a message
to their next manager.
Just a fifth win of this
relegation season came
courtesy of the 33-year-
old’s seventh league goal
of the campaign and he
McGOLDRICK: Vow said: “We have our
SHEFFIELD UTD 1 BRIGHTON 0
futures to play for. While
Paul Heckingbottom has
done a great job [as
caretaker], he has said
he’s not going to be
manager next season.
“The new manager is
probably watching. We
all want to stay here and
we’re all fighting for that.
“Brighton are a good
team and play some
good football but we
showed we’re not giving
up – we’re not going to
be an easy ride.”
Brighton had the
better chances but found
red-and-white stripes
flinging bodies on the
line.
Boss Graham Potter
said: “We have to stay in
the moment and think
about the next thing. It’s
easier said than done
because they’re human.”
GIDEON BROOKS
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Main picture: LAURENCE GRIFFITHS

KALVIN’S Phillips keeps Fernandes

quiet while, below, Maguire
LEEDS v MAN UTD
44 POSSESSION %
3 SHOTS ON TARGET
56
4
FIRST IN gets the better of Harrison
Protests no
problem for
1 SHOTS OFF TARGET 7
2 BLOCKED SHOTS 5
2 CORNERS 6
21 FOULS 11
4
0
YELLOW CARDS
RED CARDS
Source: Opta
0
1

the players
claims Ole
FROM BACK PAGE
such a determination to finish the
season strong.”
United face Roma in the Europa
League semi-finals on Thursday
hoping to go one better than last
year, then Liverpool at Old Trafford
on Sunday – and Solskjaer insists
they will not be distracted.
He said: “The Europa League
disappointment from last season
still sticks in their minds and
hearts. We are focused on Roma
and Liverpool in between. I’m not
worried about that at all. We have
focused on the game, every single
one, although, of course, it was a
difficult week.”
Leeds ended
United’s five-match
winning league
run to leave
Manchester City
just two wins away
from the title.
“I think our fitness
has been really good and in the
second-half we looked strong,”
said Solskjaer, above.
“We missed that spark. A draw
is disappointing because we

Leeds teach ‘elite’

wanted to put pressure on City.”
LEEDS 0 Leeds remain unbeaten at home
against the ‘Big Six’ and their
MANCHESTER UTD 0 manager Marcelo Bielsa said: “The
way in which we administer the
By David Anderson different periods in the game has
THAT’S another one in the eye for been improving and the capacity
for the players to go up against

a big lesson again

one of the so-called Big Six.
Leeds dented Liverpool’s top-four these very good players has also
hopes last Monday and now they increased aggressively.
have frustrated Manchester United “We can impose ourselves over
to all but end their faint title chances. the opposing defence and avoid
Throw in a win at champions-elect being overcome by attackers of
Manchester City and a draw with the highest level.”
Chelsea, and Leeds’ form underlies

UNITED LOOK SO BLUNT

the sheer arrogance of the Big Six to
feel they should be in a different
league to the likes of the Whites.
The visitors, like Liverpool last
week, certainly did not look like
they belong among Europe’s elite
such has been Leeds’ progress
under Marcelo Bielsa.
Yes, this no-score bore will not
live long in the memory, but this
fixture between two such fierce
rivals is the sort of game punters
around the world love to see.
This was yet another match that
suffered badly without fans to inject
some passion into it and there was
too much of a lazy Sunday
afternoon feel to it. Credit for that
must go to Leeds and they nullified
the visitors to end their five-match
winning run in the league.
Kalvin Phillips did a real number
on Bruno Fernandes to snuff out his
huge threat, while Pascal Struijk and
Ezgjan Alioski impressed in Leeds’
new mean defence.
The upshot of Leeds’ shut-out
against Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s side
is that City are just two wins away
from a third title in four years.
It could all be over next Sunday if
City beat Crystal Palace on
Saturday and United lose to bitter
rivals Liverpool 28 hours later. It
says it all about this game that
perhaps the best moment of action
came when Harry Maguire called
Fred “a f***** idiot” in the second
half and Scott McTominay had to
quieten things down.
Solskjaer took heart from
dominating Leeds at home in the
second half, which is a rare feat.
But that felt a bit like clutching at
straws and the bottom line is the
visitors just were not good enough.
Maguire scuffed an early
Fernandes free-kick over during a
flat opening. Leeds claimed a
penalty when Jack Harrison’s cross
hit Luke Shaw’s left arm, but VAR
Mike Dean ruled his limb was not in
an unnatural position.
Stuart Dallas mustered the first
effort on target with a left-foot shot
after good work by Phillips, but it
was straight at Dean Henderson.
United threatened twice just
before half-time when Marcus
Rashford’s dipping 25-yard free-
kick was pushed over by Illan
Meslier and Maguire missed with a
free header from the corner.
With Phillips as his shadow,
Fernandes was restricted, but he
still missed arguably the best chance
when he shot wide from Aaron
Wan-Bissaka’s cross.
Mason Greenwood had an effort
saved by Meslier and one-time
Leeds target Dan James took too
long over a good chance and was
denied by Alioski.
Leeds did have opportunities and
Helder Costa’s shot was deflected
off Wan-Bissaka on to the roof of
the net before Mateusz Klich’s weak
effort was saved.
LEEDS (4-1-4-1): Meslier 6; Ayling 6, Llorente 6, Struijk 7,
Alioski 7; Phillips 8; Costa 6 (Klich 72), Dallas 6, Roberts 5
(Koch 77), Harrison 6 (Poveda 68, 6); Bamford 5.
MAN UTD (4-2-3-1): Henderson 6; Wan-Bissaka 7, Lindelof
6, Maguire 6, Shaw 7; Fred 6 (Van de Beek 89), McTominay 5;
Greenwood 6, Fernandes 6, James 5 (Pogba 76); Rashford 6
(Cavani 86).

TIMO ON FINAL MISSION AFTER ROW Chelsea still in it

WERNER: Hungry for glory
TIMO WERNER has unfinished
business in the Champions
League.
Last year, the Germany
forward opted not to play for
RB Leipzig in the latter stages
when the competition restarted
after he completed his
£48million move to Chelsea
early so he could take part in
their pre-season.
Leipzig then beat Atletico
Madrid but went out to Paris
Saint-Germain in the semi-finals
WEST HAM 0 CHELSEA 1
and Werner was criticised for his
decision in his homeland.
Now he has reached the
semi-final with his new club who
face Real Madrid tomorrow, and
his matchwinner in this game
strengthened Chelsea’s chances
of a top-four finish.
Werner said: “Last year I had
a lot of criticism for that in
Germany because it is not often
you’re in the quarter-finals of
the Champions League. But now
I have reached it again. I can
show everybody I can do it not
only with one team but with
two, two years in a row.
“It makes me proud and more
hungry to make it to the final.
And maybe to win.
“To reach the final is the
dream of every kid.”
On Saturday, West Ham had
Fabian Balbuena controversially
sent off for his clash with Ben
Chilwell in Chelsea’s win.
TONY BANKS
at halfway point
CHELSEA grabbed a
precious away goal as
they were pipped by
Bayern Munich in
the first leg of their
Women’s Champions
League semi-final.
Emma Hayes’ team
are looking to reach the
final for the first time
and it is all to play for
heading into the second
leg on Sunday after the
B MUNICH 2 CHELSEA 1
German side won 2-1
yesterday. Chelsea’s
former Bayern player
Melanie Leupolz,
above, cancelled out
Sydney Lohmann’s
opener but Hanna Glas
scored after the break.
Hayes said: “We’ve
got an away goal and
it’s half-time.”
IAN WINROW
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CITY LAP UP
It took only 7,773
fans for Wembley
to feel alive again
IT MAKES a difference
raising a trophy to Neil
PEP’S LEAGUE CUP FINAL RECORD
supporters rather than
seats.
SQUIRES
COMMENT After losing 1-0 to Manchester United in the fourth round
There have been as defending champions in October 2016 – his first season
many more deafening in charge at Manchester City – Pep Guardiola’s side has
noises at this ground was the European
Super League, it was lifted the trophy in every season since.
but as Fernandinho
only right they were at
lifted the Carabao Cup 2018 Man City 3-0 v Arsenal
the season’s first
the roar was back at
showpiece. 2019 Man City 0-0 v Chelsea. City won 4-3 on pens
Wembley.
The knock-on effects
And you didn’t have of the popular uprising 2020 Man City 2-1 v Aston Villa
to be a Manchester continue – ‘Fans 1,
City fan for it to sound 2021 Man City 1-0 v Tottenham
Greedy Pigs 0’ – read
wonderful. one banner smuggled
Blue Moon ringing into the Spurs section
around Wembley is
nothing out of the
from where emanated
the hearty strains of JOY AND City enjoy making it four in
a row but Heung-Min Son,
ordinary after a
Carabao Cup final, but
‘we want Levy out’
before kick-off.
DESPAIR below, breaks down in tears
human beings singing But this was a final
it and not just a and after so long
soundtrack felt extra locked out the lucky
special after a season fans let in were there to
of silence. enjoy it. The Spurs
Kyle Walker had an fans, starved of these
audience to dance for, occasions in recent
Pep Guardiola years, dusted off their
someone to wave to… full back catalogue of MAN CITY v TOTTENHAM
this was professional songs and chants and 62 POSSESSION % 38
football set against its released a new one 4 SHOTS ON TARGET 1
proper backdrop and it 10 SHOTS OFF TARGET 1
with ‘Ryan Mason 7 BLOCKED SHOTS 0
felt so much better. – he’s one of our own’ 8 CORNERS 3
The first game back to take in the change of 11 FOULS 11
with fans of both clubs management. 2 YELLOW CARDS 1
present was elevated To be frank, they had 0 RED CARDS 0
by the intensity and Source: Opta
hardly anything to
excitement they cheer but they carried
brought with them. on anyway. Real,
There may have been devoted, one-eyed,
only 7,773 inside illogical, emotional
Wembley but the fans. They’re not always
stadium felt alive again. perfect but it’s good to
Throaty, raw, energised. have them back.
At the end of a week Hopefully, this is the
in which supporters precursor to greater
helped topple the numbers at the FA Cup
tower of avarice that final and the Euros.

ROAR POWER:
City fans make
presence felt

HIGH IN THE SKY

BLUE: Aymeric
THE VIEW FROM THE STANDS Laporte heads the
winning goal
Manchester City and Tottenham had 2,000 fans each
at Wembley yesterday and, at the end of a week
dominated by the European Super League fiasco, we
asked a representative from each club:
1. What was your view on your team being in the ESL?
2. Are protests the right thing to do and how happy
IT COULD have been won by
a freak breakaway goal or on
the lottery of penalty kicks.
MANCHESTER CITY
TOTTENHAM
1
0
Pep’s worthy winners are
are you being back watching live football? A fully-fit Harry Kane might
RAY, 70, Spurs fan who saw first game v Wolves in 1967
1. I can understand why Spurs and Arsenal went for it, they
were worried about being left behind. But what is the point
have conjured some match-
changing moment to turn the
balance of play on its head.
By Matthew Dunn
the identity of their
lauded by their supporters
of even playing sport if it doesn’t matter if you win or lose? Instead, Pep Guardiola matchwinner.
2. It has p***** me off but how can you knock Daniel Levy, earned the right to lift his But as extra-time loomed, half-time. But the winner was of City’s supporters at one end
ENIC and Joe Lewis? A new stadium and Champions fourth League Cup the same Aymeric Laporte arrived at the one of 21 efforts on Tottenham’s of the famous stadium seemed
League final. But I understand why fans are angry. I had a way as he did the rest – purely far post to head in a free-kick goal, with only two at the other like a magnet to the ball as
brush with death three years ago so not a lot gets to me. on sporting merit. impeccably delivered by Kevin end. Mourinho-style statistics, Guardiola’s side demonstrated
Manchester City got to fill the De Bruyne after a tired foul one might cruelly conclude. once again that, when they are
ANTHONY, 66, Manchester City fan for 54 years
1. I didn’t think City would ultimately join and I wasn’t Wembley air with champagne by Serge Aurier on Raheem However, no buses were functioning like a well-honed
surprised they were the first to pull out. Sheikh Mansour bubbles and dance with the cup Sterling. being parked at Wembley this unit, they are in a “super”
has been so kind to the east of Manchester and been great in front of long-missed fans Laporte was lucky still to be time. It was clear Ryan Mason’s league of their own.
for the club, so they know their fans and understand. because they had been by far on the pitch given he probably team had been told to go out As soon as Spurs got 40 yards
2. I understand why fans at other clubs have protested the better team. should already have been and play, but City simply had from their own line, some
because they didn’t want it. It has not taken any gloss off.
I’m happy to be here. The only real surprise – booked before he was shown a not allowed it. For the opening invisible force seemed to push
perhaps even to himself – was yellow card on the stroke of half in particular, the presence them backwards again as City
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THE CHEERS
MANCHESTER CITY
PLAYER ANALYSIS
(4-3-3) By Matthew Dunn
STEFFEN 6 DE BRUYNE 9
Was alert to Lo Celso shot Like a demented whack-a-
after break and maintained mole, he kept popping up.
his concentration well. And an inch-perfect assist.
WALKER 6 FERNANDINHO 7
One down Strong when he needed to Offered powerful simplicity
be and made sure he won his in midfield which kept the
battles comfortably enough. tide pouring forward.

and now DIAS 6 MAHREZ

Lucky not to be booked early Licensed to drift, he
8

for Paris
FROM BACK PAGE
everyone, so it’s great to
share it with them. There
was some good noise. The
reason why we do it is for
them.”
Matchwinner Laporte
branded it the ideal
response to the FA Cup
semi-final defeat by
Chelsea.
“It’s very special for us
after we lost to get
confidence and keep
going,” he said. “In the
last two months we have
been so good. We have to
keep this rhythm, to win
more titles.”
Guardiola warned Paris
Saint-German he now has
them in his sights. The
dominant
performance
– and an
impressive
return from
injury by
Kevin De
Bruyne - teed
City up perfectly
for the first leg of their
Champions League
semi-final in Paris on
Wednesday night.
“We’re really happy to
win the first title and
four in a row in this
competition,” said the City
manager, above.
“We are in the
Champions League
semi-final for only the
second time, we always
had one eye on that but we
take every game seriously
– otherwise you can’t win
four in a row.
“We’ve won the first
one, we’re close to a
second one [Premier
League title] and now we
go to Paris for another
one. The way we played
today was fantastic.”
but other than that he never tormented from all angles –
really looked troubled. just could not find target.
LAPORTE 7 STERLING 8
Got himself booked after so Pace and invention. Possibly
many near misses, was in the should have done better with
right place to score the goal. early chances.
CANCELO 6 FODEN 8
Unlucky with the If he lights up Wembley all
deliberately-placed shot summer like he did here,
just before the break. England have a Euro chance.
GUNDOGAN 6 SUBSTITUTES
Often the quiet link man and Rodri (Fernandinho 83);
when he got his chance he Silva (De Bruyne 87).
shinned it badly wide.
TOTTENHAM
PLAYER ANALYSIS
(4-3-3)
LLORIS 7 WINKS 5
Stretched every sinew to Not played much of late
keep Manchester City at bay under Mourinho and seemed
for as long as he could. rusty and sluggish.
AURIER 5 HOJBJERG 6
Really struggled defensively Drifted left to try to combat
and conceded the free-kick De Bruyne unsuccessfully
for the goal. Careless. and wasted best chance.
DIER 7 MOURA 6
Old-fashioned backs-to-the- Threatened to get into his
wall defending but could not stride a couple of times but
pass out of the press. Spurs needed much more.
ALDERWEIRELD 7 KANE 6
Joined Dier in some stalwart Touches and vision justified
defending. Not pretty but his inclusion. Might have
kept the game alive. made difference if totally fit.
REGUILON 5 SON 6
Seems to have tailed off in Sloppy touches and none of
form recently and the final the individual brilliance that
continued that trend. would have troubled City.
LO CELSO 6 SUBSTITUTES
Good effort after the break Bale (Moura 67) 5; Sissoko
might have made difference (Lo Celso 67) 6; Alli (Hojbjerg
but easily bypassed. 84); Bergwijn (Aurier 90).
BOOKED – MAN CITY: Laporte, Fernandinho.
TOTTENHAM: Reguilon
GOAL – MAN CITY: Laporte 82.

dictated play in and around
their opponents’ penalty area
for vast swathes of the game.
Riyad Mahrez was a decent
finish away from being at his
tormenting best.
Sergio Reguilon, presented
with a prized ham by Jose
Mourinho for the way he
defended against City in the
league, was making a pig’s ear
of keeping the irrepressible
Phil Foden at bay. Even Sterling,
short on form, was back in his
element and could have had a
hat-trick before the game had
got started properly.
Only the back-to-the-wall
defending of Eric Dier and Toby
Alderweireld, together with a
World Cup-winning goalkeeper
in Hugo Lloris, kept Foden,
Sterling and the rest of City
from rattling up a cricket score.
In fact, the sustained
deadlock seemed so unlikely,
you began to wonder if one of
those unbelievable upsets was
about to be served up. You could
feel in the air how desperately
Spurs fans wanted it.
Kane, a passenger in the 2019
Champions League final after
injury, looked fit enough despite
his latest knock to play a
significant part. Could he finally
get the silverware he craved?
Spurs’ interim head coach
Mason, 29, was in the stands
the last time the club won a
trophy in 2008 and played in
the Spurs team who lost the
2015 final.
Barely four years after his
playing career ended with a
fractured skull, was fate going
to offer up some sort of apology
by making it third time lucky
for such a likeable young man?
Emphatically, no.
An enterprising Giovani
Lo Celso effort just after the
break which was neatly saved
and a horrible confusion when
Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg broke
through soon after to waste
Spurs’ best chance saw silverware
again slip through their fingers.
Ominously, Manchester City
are just getting started.
Mason: It hurts but I’m proud
TOTTENHAM caretaker
manager Ryan Mason
revealed the dressing room
was desolate after his side’s
Carabao Cup final heartache.
Mason, 29, had targeted
Spurs’ first trophy in 13
years in just his second game
in charge but they left
Wembley empty-handed
again after Aymeric
Laporte’s late winner.
However, he was proud of
his outgunned team after a
stressful build-up that
started with the sacking
of manager Jose Mourinho.
“It hurts and it is normal
they are hurting because it
shows they care,” said
former Spurs and Hull
midfielder Mason, who
retired from playing after
fracturing his skull in 2017.
“They gave everything,
absolutely 100 percent.
“Manchester City are a
great side, an incredible
team, but I think our group
of players gave everything
considering what they have
had to deal with in seven
days. That is something to be
proud of. We tried but it
wasn’t enough and that is
tough to take.”
Tottenham must now turn
their attention to securing
Champions League
qualification via the
Premier League.
“We now have to pick
ourselves up because we still
have some huge games left
to play,” added Mason, who
has been put in charge for
the rest of the season.
NEIL SQUIRES
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