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MORONIC
For 300 years this majestic
sycamore graced Hadrian’s
Wall... until an act of utterly
mindless vandalism felled it.
Now, as the nation reels in
disgust, a 16-year-old
boy is arrested Breathtaking: The spectacular
sycamore and, above, the sickening
scene after it was felled yesterday

A BOY of 16 suspected of cutting down
Britain’s most famous tree was being
quizzed by police last night.
It had stood in the Sycamore Gap – a
dip along Hadrian’s Wall – for around
By Liz Hull
300 years. But yesterday rangers
discovered the tree, which is among
the most photographed in the world,
had been felled overnight with a chain-
saw. Northumbria Police confirmed they
had arrested the teenager over a
‘deliberate act of vandalism’.
The sycamore was nicknamed Robin
Hood’s Tree after it featured in the 1991
blockbuster film, Robin Hood: Prince of
Thieves, starring Kevin Costner and
Morgan Freeman. Part of the Hadrian’s
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Page 2 Daily Mail, Friday, September 29, 2023

Labour plotting ‘inheritance

tax raid’ on family businesses
LABOUR was accused of planning a
cash raid on family farms and busi-
nesses yesterday after the party’s
proposals to tighten inheritance tax
rules emerged.
In a bid to raise an extra £4 billion,
Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves is final-
ising plans to end a series of tax breaks.
Under the proposals, Labour could
close exemptions to inheritance tax that
allow agricultural land to be passed on
without paying death duties.
The party is also looking at ending busi-
ness relief for inheritance tax – which can
exempt some duties on shares, land,
machinery and a business or an interest
in a business. Both measures are esti-
mated to raise £1.5billion a year, accord-
ing to The Times.
The newspaper also reported that Ms
Reeves was looking to scrap or reduce
business asset disposal relief, which
reduces capital gains tax payable on the
sale of certain business assets or shares.
Critics branded the proposals ‘class war’,
By Harriet Line
Deputy Political Editor
and said they would have a ‘catastrophic’
impact on family businesses and damage
farms. The farmland exemption is
designed to ensure small family farms can
be passed intact down the generations.
A Treasury source told the Mail: ‘This
looks like an old-school Labour tax raid
on aspiration, savings, British farming and
‘Sold, liquidated
or broken up’
small businesses. Despite the Blairite trib-
ute act, (Keir) Starmer and Reeves are
just vintage tax-and-spend old Labour.’
Another Tory source added: ‘With a war
in Europe and food security at the front
of everyone’s minds, launching a tax raid
on family farms is beyond stupid.
‘Labour should park the class war and
back British farming.’ The Government is
considering whether to make slashing or
abolishing inheritance tax an election
manifesto pledge.
Neil Davy, of campaign group Family
Business UK, said: ‘Business property
relief – now known as business relief – was
specifically designed to facilitate the
handing of a family business from one
generation to the next without creating a
significant inheritance tax charge.
‘It is gives business owners the confi-
dence to invest and plan for their busi-
nesses to continue trading and providing
employment after their death.’
He said that without BPR, many family
businesses would need to be ‘sold, liqui-
dated or broken up in order to raise the
necessary cash to pay the charge’.
This would have clear knock-on effects
on jobs and investment, he added.
A Labour source told The Times: ‘Rachel’s
team has built up a war chest of money
that can be found by closing down some
loopholes in the tax system.’ A Labour
spokesman said: ‘We will set out our final
tax and spend plans at the election.’

By Connor Stringer PM: Starmer’s

class war over
RISHI SUNAK has accused
Labour of ‘punishing’ par-
ents by stoking a ‘class war’
with its pledge to charge VAT

school fees will

on private school fees.
The Prime Minister said the
party would be ‘clamping down’
on hard-working parents with
aspirations to send their chil-
dren to independent schools.

punish parents
His comments came after Labour’s
education spokesman refused to
back down from the widely criti-
cised policy, warning private schools
would have to make ‘cutbacks’.
Shadow education secretary
Bridget Phillipson told a Mumsnet
online discussion yesterday that
schools should ‘reflect on
where they could be making

Burnham reverses on Ulez

savings’ to cover the proposed
VAT hike. She said: ‘I’ve
always been focused on how
we end the tax breaks and
how we then use that money
to deliver high standards in
our state schools.’
Mr Sunak told BBC South
‘Not going to help
any child’
Today: ‘Labour’s approach
illustrates that they just don’t
understand the aspiration of
families like my parents who
were working really hard.
They wanted to do something
for their kids that they thought
would make a difference to
them. Labour’s approach to
that is to clamp down on it.
‘They don’t understand the
aspiration that people have to
provide a better life for their
kids. They want to punish them
for that as part of some class
war. I don’t think that is right.’
Labour has U-turned on plans
to abolish the charitable status
of private schools but insisted it
would still add VAT to fees. The
ANDY Burnham was last night body upgrade their vehicles,’
criticised for U-turning on his he told GB News. ‘As long as
pledge to impose a clean air I’m there, I will not have a
zone for Greater Manchester. congestion charge scheme or
More than 1,300 clean air a clean air style scheme.’
zone signs have already been Tory MP James Daly, who
put up after he announced his represents Bury North, said:
plans in 2019. But the Labour ‘Do you know why he changed
mayor, who paused the levy his mind? Before the last may-
last year, said yesterday there oral election the backlash
will be no low emissions zone against his plan was so much,
while he remains in power. the man of great principle
‘There was meant to be that he is, he dropped the
U-turn: Andy Burnham enough money... to help every- clean air zone charging plan.’
policy could hit families with ing VAT relief on school fees He told Times Radio: ‘Every-
unaffordable charges from as was ‘not going to help any one knows this isn’t really
early as next September. child be better educated’. going to raise any money and
Labour, citing a study by the Reigate Grammar in Surrey it’s not going to solve any edu-
Institute for Fiscal Studies switched from being a state to cation problems’.
think-tank, believes changes an independent school while Last night Labour said Mr
to the tax rules could raise as Sir Keir was in attendance. Sunak’s comments showed
much as £1.5 billion per year. Mr Fenton predicted the how ‘out of touch’ the Prime
B u t S h a u n Fe n t o n , added tax would drive ‘thou- Minister was. Ms Phillipson
headteacher at Sir Keir’s sands’ of children into the said: ‘The Prime Minister’s
former school Reigate Gram- state system as parents are words are an insult to the
mar, said the policy of abolish- priced out by the hike in fees. aspiration families across Brit-
ain have for their children.

Clarifications & corrections ‘Yet again, he is out of touch

with families and out of step
with the change we need.
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Daily Mail, Friday, September 29, 2023 Page 3

Beck to normal?
First Brooklyn’s bride repairs rift
with Posh, now she’s made it up
after feud with Romeo’s girlfriend
By Katie Hind
Consultant Editor Showbusiness

SHE buried the hatchet with her mother-

in-law Victoria Beckham last year.
And it seems Nicola Peltz is in a peace-
making mood, wrapping her arm around
Romeo Beckham’s girlfriend following
years of tension with the British model.
Ms Peltz, who is married to Romeo’s
brother Brooklyn, was seen posing with
Somerset-born Mia Regan at a lavish Yves
Saint Laurent party in Paris this week – in
their first ever picture together.
The women both looked chic in black
outfits. Ms Peltz, 28, wore a snakeskin
leather skirt and sheer top while Ms Regan,
21, wore a black vest top and matching
low-rise trousers with a red handbag.
Things had first turned sour when Ms
Regan was said to have taken Mrs Beck-
ham’s side amid the former Spice Girl’s fall-
out with Ms Peltz.
One source close to the women said:
‘There were tensions between Nicola and
Mia – they come from really, really differ-

‘Victoria is keen for

everyone to get on’

ent places. Nicola is from a family of billion-

aires in the US and Mia is from Somerset
and is very down to earth.
‘Then they were thrown together as part
of the Beckham family, so perhaps there
were always going to be difficulties.
While Nicola and Victoria had a tricky
relationship, Victoria and Mia are very
close and even released a clothing range
together. But time is a healer and the girls
decided to have a night out together.’
They added: ‘While Victoria has had her
own issues with Nicola in the past, she is
keen for everyone to get on.’ Ms Regan
has been dating Romeo, 21, for three years
but they split for a short time last year.
Ms Peltz and Mrs Beckham ended their
high-profile feud, prompted by the fashion
designer being unable to make her daugh-
ter-in-law a wedding dress in time for the Warm embrace:
ceremony last year. Mia Regan, left,
Having also put that battle to bed with a
with Nicola Peltz
APRIL public embrace at a fashion show, it seems
the hottest new accessory is the humble at Paris party
Happy families: With mother-in-law Victoria olive branch.

For healthiest breakfast of all, cook up a kipper

LOVERS of the full English or
a plate of kippers in the
morning may have cause
to celebrate.
Apparently we should all be eat-
ing a savoury breakfast to stay
healthy – and should ditch sugary
cereals, orange juice and toast.
This would avoid the daily
‘rollercoaster’ of sugar highs and
lows, according to a leading gut
health expert.
Jessie Inchauspe, a French bio-
chemist, said the British have
been duped into reaching for sug-
ary breakfasts by ‘marketing
which has lied to us for decades’.
She said she would ‘eradicate
orange juice’, which has been sold
as healthy, despite typically con-
By Kate Pickles
Health Editor
taining around seven teaspoons of
sugar per glass.
Eating savoury dishes first thing
keep us full for longer, stopping
us from snacking to get the next
sugary fix. No foods are off-limits
but need eating in the right quan-
tities and at the right time of day,
she added.
She told Randox’s Cost of Poor
Nutrition conference: ‘People have
told you for a very long time “have
an orange juice in a morning, it
will give you energy”, “breakfast
should be sweet – it should be
pastries, cereal” but it’s all lies.
‘Eating sweet breakfasts was
invented by the food industry just lish breakfast is actually not too cado or oily fish, and fibre
to make money because break- bad if you make it at home and it’s from vegetables, the body would
fasts are very profitable. not processed.’ get more steady energy and
‘The best breakfast is a savoury The author, whose book Glucose avoid a ‘crash’.
breakfast that is based around Goddess was serialised in the Mail Food campaigner Dr Chris van
protein. Protein is a very earlier this year, said sweet Tulleken, speaking at yesterday’s
important substance to breakfasts lead to less conference at Goodwood House in
eat to keep you very circulating energy. Chichester, said sugary foods
satiated, the body People then ‘interrupt our ability to say I’m
needs it and we experience a full’, with breakfast cereals being
don’t eat nearly sugar – or glu- some of the worst offenders.
enough of it. c o s e – l o w, It comes after landmark research
‘ Yo u can which can revealed Britain is facing ‘a tidal
have leftovers cause tired- wave of harm’ from ultra-proc-
from your din- ness, hunger essed food, with millions at risk of
ner for break- and also heart problems. A study presented
fast – so maybe increase crav- at the European Society of Cardi-
you had fish, veg ings. By switch- ology Congress found those who
and fritters – have ing to something eat the most mass-produced foods
that instead. with more protein, are 24 per cent more likely to suf-
‘The full Eng- such as egg, fat like avo- fer a heart attack and stroke.
Page 4 Daily Mail, Friday, September 29, 2023

Alarming £114bn bill shows we’re paying more than EVER

Didn’t the Tories used

to be party of tax cuts?
By John-Paul Ford Rojas
Associate City Editor
THE HUGE SUMS WE’RE HANDING OVER
TAXPAYERS are facing a bill of
£114 billion in what is on course  Total tax  Total tax take  Projected in 2024/25 if tax
to become the biggest tax- take in 2019/20 projected in 2024/25 burden had stayed the same

£744bn £996bn
raising Parliament on record, a
shock report has warned.
By next year’s election, the Govern-
ment will be raising the huge extra sum
£882bn
– which amounts to £3,500 per house- Source: IFS/OBR
hold – over and above what it would
have received had the tax burden stayed
at 2019 levels, analysis by the Institute
for Fiscal Studies (IFS) shows.
Ben Zaranko, senior research fellow at
EXAMPLES OF WHERE THE TAXES
the IFS, said: ‘It is likely that this Par-
liament will mark a decisive and perma- WILL BE COMING FROM IN 2024/25
nent shift to a higher tax economy.’
The report will add to the pressure
from Tory MPs on Chancellor Jeremy
(AND WHAT THEY WERE IN 2019/20)
Hunt to cut taxes.
Stealth taxes – where households are  Income tax £282.2bn  Inheritance £7.2bn
tax
dragged into higher bands – and a big
 (2019/20) (£192.4bn) TAX
 (2019/20) (£5.1bn)
increase in corporation tax are among
the key policies being blamed.
The tax burden is expected to rise to
 National
about 37 per cent of national income,
insurance £176.4bn  Stamp
£12.4bn
up by 4.2 percentage points over the
course of the Parliament. That would
(£143.7bn) duty
be the highest increase since records  (2019/20) £
‘Some unwinding  VAT £167.9bn
 (2019/20) (£12.5bn)
of austerity’ VAT  (2019/20) (£134.7bn)
 Capital £19.5bn
began in the 1950s. The next biggest
increase, of 2.9 percentage points, was £  Corporation £90.7bn gains tax
during Tony Blair’s first term as Labour tax  (2019/20) (£9.8bn)
prime minister from 1997 to 2001.
‘The Government may decide to  (2019/20) (£48bn) Source: OBR
announce tax cuts in the run-up to the
next election,’ the report said. ‘But there
is no world in which this Parliament – or
indeed the period since Rishi Sunak
became Prime Minister – turns out to be EXAMPLES OF WHERE YOUR MONEY
WILL BE SPENT IN 2024/25
anything other than a tax-raising one.’
Tory MP Sir John Redwood, a former
trade minister who has been among
those pressing for tax cuts, said: ‘We
are spending too much and getting too (AND WHAT THEY WERE IN 2019/20)
little back for it. We are taxing too
 Pension  NHS
much and we are not growing fast
enough. When you grow faster you’ll
and benefits £307bn England £165.9bn
get more tax revenues.’
Sir John argued that easing the bur-
den of tax rules that are holding back  (2019/20) (£228bn)  (2019/20) (£124bn)
self-employed workers and small busi-
nesses would help to unlock growth,
and the ‘rip-off’ of fuel taxes also
needed to be addressed as rising of GDP from 33.1 per cent in 2019/20 calculates that if the tax burden But wider measures of govern- tax-raising Parliament since at
oil prices threaten to push up – when Boris Johnson won his land- had been held constant at 2019 ment revenues, which date back least the Second World War.
motorists’ costs at the pumps. slide general election victory – to a levels, the figure for would have further, suggest the increases seen ‘It reflects decisions to increase
The IFS calculation is based on projected 37.3 per cent in 2024/25. been around £882 billion. since 2019 are unprecedented in government spending, in part
official forecasts pointing to an That is based on a total tax take Comparable records for tax peacetime. Mr Zaranko said: ‘It driven by demographic change,
increase in tax revenues as a share of £996 billion in 2024/25. The IFS receipts go back only to the 1950s. looks nailed on to be the biggest pressures on the health service,
and some unwinding of austerity.’
The analysis by the IFS suggests

Mortgage boost as five-year deals fall below 6%

THE average five-year fixed-rate mortgage
has fallen below 6 per cent for the first
time in almost three months.
In a welcome boost to homeowners, the
typical deal is now 5.99 per cent, according
to rate scrutineer MoneyfactsCompare.
The last time the average five-year home
loan was below 6 per cent was on July 3,
with rates down from a peak of 6.37 per
cent on August 1. Two-year fixes have also
fallen to an average of 6.5 per cent.
Falling rates will offer some relief to the
800,000 homeowners due to remortgage
before the end of the year, as well as pro-
By Adele Cooke
Money Mail Reporter
spective buyers put off purchasing a home
because of the higher cost of borrowing.
Mortgage rates have soared since the
Bank of England began hiking its base rate
in a bid to tame inflation, which now stands
at 6.7 per cent. But last week the Bank
voted to keep its base rate at 5.25 per cent
in a sign interest rates may have peaked.
Barclays reduced its two-year fixes by up
to 0.6 percentage points yesterday, while
NatWest has lowered several fixed rates by
up to 0.25 percentage points. The nation’s
largest lender, Halifax, will cut the price of
two and five-year deals from Monday.
David Hollingworth, of broker L&C, said the
market ‘is looking a lot more positive for
borrowers’. But those with a fixed-rate deal
expiring soon are still likely to face much
higher payments when they remortgage.
Just two years ago the average five-year
fixed rate was at 2.63 per cent. A home-
owner with a £150,000, 25-year mortgage
would now pay £283 a month more. And
average standard variable rate mortgages
now sit at a 16-year high of 8.09 per cent.
that Conservative governments
will have been responsible for both
the biggest increase in the tax
burden and the biggest fall – when
it was cut by more than 5 percent-
age points under the Churchill
government of 1951-55.
Over six parliaments under
Labour-led administrations since
the 1950s, only one cut the tax bur-
den. Under eight Tory-led admin-
istrations up to the 1990s, only two
increased the tax burden.
A Treasury spokesman said:
‘Driving down inflation is the most
effective tax cut we can deliver
right now, which is why we are
sticking to our plan to halve it,
rather than making it worse by bor-
rowing money to fund tax cuts.’
Comment – Page 14
Daily Mail, Friday, September 29, 2023 Page 5

Centuries-old icon and star of Robin Hood movie

Glowing: The glorious tree catches the evening light while in full leaf in 2020 Prince of Trees: Kevin Costner filming his 1991 Robin Hood under the sycamore

Continued from Page One

Wall UNESCO world heritage site, it has

drawn walkers and visitors from all over
the globe. And in 2016 it was named Tree
of the Year by the Woodland Trust.
Photographs yesterday showed the syc-
amore, which is in an isolated spot almost
a mile from the nearest road, on its side
with its trunk resting on the wall and sur-
rounded by blue and white police tape.
Spray paint could be seen just below the
cut in the trunk.
News of the felling provoked a furious
reaction from politicians, environmen-
talists and the public. Many said they
felt ‘appalled’ and ‘saddened’ at the loss
of such a feature of the landscape.
‘This is a heartbreaking act of mindless
vandalism of a much loved, famous land-
mark in the North East,’ said Mary Foy, Toppled: Officials inspect the severed
Labour MP for Durham. ‘A very sad day trunk lying on Hadrian’s Wall yesterday
which will upset so many people around
the country – and across the world.’
Si King, the TV cook and Hairy Biker,
posted a video online accusing the
‘warped’ culprit of ‘murdering a sentinel
of time and an elemental spirit of
Northumberland’.
Jamie Driscoll, North of Tyne mayor,
said the perpetrator must be brought to
justice: ‘People have had their ashes
scattered there.
‘People have proposed there. I’ve pic-
nicked there with my wife and kids. It’s
part of our collective soul.’
Confirming that the tree had been
deliberately felled, a spokesman for

‘Murdering a
sentinel of time’
Northumberland National Park said:
‘Sadly, the famous tree at Sycamore Gap
has come down overnight. We have rea-
son to believe it has been deliberately
felled. We are working with the relevant
agencies and partners with an interest
in this iconic North East landmark.’
Officials warned against visiting the
site, near Crag Lough, but yesterday
walkers gathered to see the destruction
for themselves. One woman laid a single
pink rose close to the stump.
Andrew Poad of the National Trust,
which jointly looks after the site with the
national park, expressed ‘deep shock’.
Matt Brown, 37, of the nearby Twice
Brewed brewery, said the tree
appeared to have been cut down

Sycamore admired by countless hikers

‘in an act of malice’ by someone
who knew how to handle a large
chainsaw. Telegraph: ‘Most broadleaf trees
‘It was quite a shock to see it lying that are cut down will sprout back
there,’ he said. ‘That tree is a real NESTLED in the dramatic dip in Hadrian’s Wall, lar route for hikers close to Milecastle 39, known up into multi-stemmed trees.’
icon. To those of us born in this the iconic sycamore is thought to have been as Castle Nick, which since 1987 has been a But gardener and broadcaster
area, it really means something. planted around 300 years ago. UNESCO world heritage site. Alan Titchmarsh said: ‘It may well
‘It looks as though it has been It was originally part of a cluster of trees, but The gap is essentially a channel, naturally re-grow but it will most likely
cut through with one stroke, over time these were removed, leaving it to chipped away by vast amounts of meltwater become multi-stemmed and not
which means the blade must have stand alone as an 118ft monument in the North- flowing beneath the ice sheets that once cov- nearly so statuesque. It would really
been about two metres long. umberland landscape. As well as appearing in ered the area during the Ice Age. be better if a new one was planted,
‘It seems to be a thought-out and carefully watched over.’
and planned act. The tree can be
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, it has been seen in The area around the tree has been excavated The sycamore is thought to have
seen from the old military road crime drama Vera and in Robson Green’s docu- twice, in 1908 and 1982, when archaeologists dis- been planted in the early 1700s.
but to access it you have to climb mentary More Tales from Northumberland. covered an ancient stone oven in the south-east Superintendent Kevin Waring of
over barbed wire and walk through The tree sits next to the Roman wall on a popu- corner and other Roman artefacts. Northumbria Police said: ‘If you
marshy ground for a mile. have seen or heard anything sus-
‘This is someone who knows how picious that may be of interest to
to fell trees and made sure it top- would have to be a disturbed indi- a part of the North East. It’s like be possible to protect the stump us, please let us know.’
pled in the right direction.’ vidual to do something that delib- cutting down the Tyne Bridge.’ so that the tree could regrow. The Alison Hawkins, a walker who
Jack Taylor of the Woodland erate and heinous.’ Since January the illegal felling organisation is looking into gath- was one of the first to see the dam-
Trust told the BBC: ‘If it’s been Photographer Ian Sproat, 42, of trees has been punishable with ering the seeds. age, said: ‘It was a proper shock.
deliberately felled, as reports sug- said he felt his ‘heart was ripped unlimited fines and prison terms. Tristan Gooley, author of How It’s the iconic picture that every-
gest, it’s totally unforgivable. It out’, adding: ‘They have destroyed The National Trust said it might To Read A Tree, told the Daily one wants to see.’
Page 6 V1 Daily Mail, Friday, September 29, 2023

We’re struggling to
comprehend what
has happened to
our beautiful
daughter Elianne
Parents’ grief at 15-year-old’s murder

Tears: Elianne’s aunt Marian with Victim: Elianne Andam was murdered on her way to school
the Bishop of Croydon
By Andy Jehring
and James Fielding Family who worked so hard
THE heartbroken mother of a
girl stabbed to death going to
to pay her £20,000 school fees
school broke down in tears yes- ELIANNE Andam’s aunt told 45, is a specialist nurse in child
terday as she laid flowers at the yesterday how the teenager’s safeguarding. The couple live
spot where her daughter died. adoring Christian parents in a two-bedroom flat that cost
Dorcas Andam was consoled by worked to fund her dreams of them £62,000 in 1999.
husband Michael and dozens of rela- becoming a lawyer. Mrs Andam’s sister Marian
tives as they paid their respects to Michael and Dorcas Andam said: ‘Elianne went to private
aspiring lawyer Elianne, 15. sent their bright 15-year-old school paid for by my sister and
It is claimed the keen gymnast and daughter to Old Palace of John had a great future ahead of
cheerleader died as she stepped in to Whitgift School in Croydon, her. You just can’t comprehend
defend her friend who was attacked as
she got off a bus in Croydon, south Lon- where fees are £20,000 a year. the heartbreak of the last 24
don, at 8.30am on Wednesday. Dr Andam, 52, is a care home hours, how Elianne went to
Elianne was on her way to classes at manager who holds a doctor- school and never came home.’
Old Palace of John Whitgift private ate in Christian education and When Dr Andam set up his
school when she was killed – leaving her set up a religious youth charity charity he said: ‘I saw many
loved ones devastated. in response to the 2011 riots. people looting with energy.
Yesterday evening around 30 relatives He was born in Lewisham but ‘It’s time to channel energy
held a vigil at the city centre bus stop attended school in Ghana for the right purpose through
where she died, laying flowers as they Vigil: Elianne’s mother, circled, leads mourners at the
consoled one another.
before returning. Mrs Andam, positive youth activities.’
Bishop of Croydon, Rosemarie scene of her daughter’s death in Croydon yesterday
Mallett, read a powerful family
statement alongside Elianne’s Elianne’s dreams of becoming a they were so close. She always anne. Police arrested a 17-year-old you because she was just perfect.’
aunt Marian. lawyer ‘have now been shattered’. looked after him. He is going to be boy at New Addington tram sta- The senseless killing has reignited
‘We, as a family are struggling to The GCSE student’s senseless so heartbroken.’ tion an hour later. He was in cus- anger over the knife crime epi-
comprehend this painful tragedy stabbing has shocked the nation Witnesses said Elianne was killed tody last night. Friends paid trib- demic sweeping London with
that has happened to our beautiful with Rishi Sunak yesterday saying after intervening in a row between ute to the victim last night, with Croydon among the worst areas in
daughter and beloved sister Eli- a friend and a boy as they got off one writing: ‘Elianne died saving
the number 60 bus. her friend. She died for the people
anne,’ she said. ‘Our hearts are
broken. We are overwhelmed by ‘Died for those she The boy is said to have tried to she loved the most.
‘Absolutely
sorrow and grief but our faith in loved the most’ offer the other girl flowers and a ‘She was there for her friends and shocking’
the Lord is strengthening us.’ love letter to get back together family in a second, she made peo-
The statement described Elianne with her but was rejected. ple laugh with her annoying jokes
as ‘a beautiful person inside and he was appalled. Elianne has a six- Elianne was stabbed in the neck and was a right hand to the people the capital. Mr Sunak called for
out’ who was ‘intelligent, thought- year-old brother who she helped with a ‘sword-like’ zombie knife as she loved the most.’ longer sentences for ‘the most hei-
ful, kind and had a bright future look after. Family friend Adama she tried to stand between them. Another wrote: ‘Elianne is my sis- nous crimes’.
ahead of her’. Dumbuya, 30, said: ‘I just can’t A bus driver tried to revive her ter, no words could even describe The Prime Minister told the BBC:
Hours earlier they had told how imagine what he is going to be like. and emergency services dashed to the person she was. People who ‘It just illustrates the importance
their ‘lives have fallen apart’ while She had a little brother. I know the scene but could not save Eli- met her can’t even describe her to of clamping down on knife crime.
 Daily Mail, Friday, September 29, 2023
The 15 other teens who were murdered in London this year
APRIL 6
Tiffany Regis, 15, died in a fire
in a block of flats in Beckton
that police treated as arson
JUNE 19
Khaled Saleh, 17, was found
with fatal stab wounds in
Paddington Green
JULY 14
Claudyo Jauad Lafayette, 17,
was killed in a street fight
after a party in Kilburn
The idea that a girl not much older
than my own kids would have their
life just cruelly ended in that way is
absolutely shocking.’
Transport minister Richard
Holden said London mayor Sadiq
Khan must focus on knife crime.
But Mr Khan hit back, accusing
the Tories of using the alleged mur-
der ‘as a political football’.
Elianne’s friends were said to be
sobbing and ‘so emotional’ at her
school yesterday, according to
Donna Murray-Turner, chairman
of the local safer neighbourhood
board. She said: ‘Staff, teachers,
talked about when Elianne
APRIL 10
Chima Osuji, 17, was fatally Tyler McDermott, 17, died after
stabbed by a knife-wielding being found with a gunshot
pursuer in Chingford wound in Tottenham
JUNE 26
Victor Lee, 17, was found
stabbed to death in a canal
near Willesden Junction
JULY 28
Stefan Valentine Balaban, 19,
suffered a fatal stab wound
to his chest in Edgware
entered a room you knew she was
there. And her friends, as you can
imagine, were sobbing. They were
so emotional.’
Detective Chief Inspector Rebecca
Woodsford, who is leading the
investigation, said: ‘My thoughts
and the thoughts of my team are
with Elianne’s family.’ She said
officers were making good progress
and were confident the attack hap-
pened near the bus stop rather
than on the bus. A post mortem
was conducted yesterday.
Comment – Page 14
Additional reporting: Sam
Merriman and Jacob Dirnhuber
Page 7
APRIL 13 MAY 5 MAY 5
Wazabakana Elenda Jordan Renell Charles, 16, was fatally
Kukabu, 18, was stabbed to knifed in an ambush near his
death in Dagenham school in Walthamstow
JUNE 29 JULY 3 JULY 9
Leonardo Reid, 15, was killed Andre Salmon, 18, was fatally Rahaan Ahmed Amin, 16, was
during the shooting of a shot in the chest while riding stabbed to death in the heart
music video in Archway his moped in Tottenham in West Ham Park
AUG 7 SEPT 4 SEPT 20
Yusuf Mohamoud, 18, was Anis Omar Zen, 19 and from Max Moy Wheatley, 19, was
found with fatal knife wounds Harrow, was fatally stabbed stabbed to death in Jubilee
near a Finchley supermarket in nearby Stanmore Country Park in Petts Wood
Boy, 15, locked up for knifing teacher
A MASKED teenager who teacher Jamie Sansom, 27, at a motive, admitted attempting
brought terror to a school by Tewkesbury Academy. to unlawfully wound as well as
stabbing a teacher was locked The Gloucestershire school possession of a blade.
up for 14 months yesterday. was put into lockdown for four He was given a 14-month
The 15-year-old, who cannot hours with teachers barricad- detention and training order at
be named for legal reasons, ing pupils in classrooms. Bristol Magistrates’ Court.
went equipped with a snood Mr Sansom suffered a punc- ‘This is something you see on
and a hooded top to cover his ture wound to the stomach and the television about America –
face with a six-inch knife from was treated at hospital. not Tewkesbury,’ district judge
home. He used it to stab maths The boy, who has never given Lynne Matthews told him.
Page 8
By Kumail Jaffer
Political Reporter
RISHI Sunak is set to
unveil pro-motorist
measures limiting council
powers to impose 20mph
zones and levy fines from
traffic cameras.
The Prime Minister is hop-
ing to gain support from driv-
ers by announcing a ‘Plan for
Motorists’ at the Tory confer-
ence early next week.
His pledges are set to include
a restriction on the number of
hours a day that cars are
banned from bus lanes and
curbing the use of number plate
recognition cameras.
Local authorities are also set to
be limited in their ability to levy
fines and raise revenue from traf-
fic cameras and enforcing box
junction infringements, accord-
ing to The Guardian.
Last night a Department for
Sunak’s fightback
in war on motorists
He’ll curb councils’ powers to impose
20mph speed limit and issue penalties
Transport source described the
reported policies, which have not
yet been discussed with councils,
as ‘speculation’.
Mr Sunak has already pledged
to crack down on ‘anti-motorist’
V1
policies enforced by local
authorities and has already
ordered a review into low-traffic
neighbourhoods (LTNs).
It is believed to be part of a
strategy to draw a dividing line
between the Tories and Labour by
portraying the Government as
being on the side of drivers.
Last night Mr Sunak said he will
‘probably be driving’ to Manchester
for the party’s annual conference,
which starts this Sunday, due to
train strikes.
He also told BBC Radio Manches-
ter that the ‘vast majority of the
journeys that people make are in
their cars. The journeys that people
use in Greater Manchester and
across the North, it’s in their cars,
right now, getting to work, taking
their kids to school.
‘Making sure the roads are free of
potholes, that’s priority number one
people raise with me,’ he added.
The reports come just days after
the PM announced a relaxation of
Net Zero policies, including delay-
ing a ban on the sale of new petrol
and diesel cars from 2030 to 2035.
Speaking in July, Mr Sunak said:
‘The vast majority of people in the
country use their cars to get around
and are dependent on their cars.’
He said: ‘When I’m lucky enough
to get home to North Yorkshire, it’s
more representative of how most
of the country is living, where cars
are important.
‘I just want to make sure people
know that I’m on their side in sup-
porting them to use their cars to do
all the things that matter to them.’
...as clamping firms
saddle drivers with
30,400 fines A DAY
MOTORISTS were hit with a record
30,400 parking tickets every day
last year, figures show.
The 29 per cent surge in
fines compared to the year
before comes despite ministers
promising to crack down on pri-
vate operators.
The shocking statistics released
yesterday show that private com-
panies issued a record 11.1million
tickets in the year 2022-2023 – an
average of 30,410 a day or
21 every minute.
It means ruthless parking firms
issued demands for up to £1.1bil-
lion in fines. The fig-
ures apply only to
car parks run by pri-
vate firms, not
councils.
Ministers face
renewed calls to get
tough on parking
firms, who were last
night accused of act-
ing like ‘sharks’. The
Government last year
withdrew key parts of
a long-awaited code
of practice aimed at
protecting drivers.
Ministers caved in
after parking firms
Daily Mail, Friday, September 29, 2023
At the time, the Daily Mail revealed
how the rollout of green traffic
schemes was set to be slowed or even
reversed under government plans for
a ‘new deal for the motorist’.
Ministers are also considering a
big expansion of funding to fill in
potholes. A Tory source said:
‘Labour are vulnerable on this stuff
because they do not understand
how ordinary people live.
‘When you look at how they act in
power, whether it’s London or Wales
or Oxford, they just want to penal-
ise drivers at every turn. We have an
opportunity here to stand up for
those people.’ In the Uxbridge by-
election this summer, Labour were
‘Making lives
a misery’
punished by voters after London
Mayor Sadiq Khan pressed on with
the expansion of the capital’s Ultra
Low Emission Zone (Ulez), which
imposes a £12.50 daily levy on non-
compliant vehicles.
This week, Welsh deputy climate
change minister Lee Waters faced a
no-confidence vote after leading
the introduction of a new default
20mph speed limit, although the
bid to have him sacked failed.
Bob Bull, chairman of the Alliance
of British Drivers, said: ‘This would
be a welcome shift in attitude from
the Government.
‘Overzealous council leaders
across the country have proved that
they cannot be trusted to imple-
ment sensible transport policy. They
have made drivers’ lives a misery.’
By David Churchill
Chief Political Correspondent
threatened a judicial review of
the proposals, which included
slashing the maximum fines from
£100 to £50.
It is believed officials may now
have found a legally watertight
way to bring in the proposals.
RAC Foundation director Steve
Gooding said of the surge in park-
ing fines: ‘Something is seriously
awry, creating distress for drivers
and hassle for legitimate parking
managers alike.’
Jack Cousens, head of
roads policy for the AA,
said: ‘Private parking
firms are acting like
sharks – attacking driv-
ers in the hope that
innocent victims simply
pay up rather than
challenge the charge.’
Levelling Up Secre-
tary Michael Gove,
whose department has
drawn up the code,
said: ‘Our new Private
Parking Code of Prac-
tice will [deliver] a
much fairer system for
drivers.’
Daily Mail, Friday, September 29, 2023 Page 9

Mopping f loor can give you clean bill of health

iT will come as welcome news to those
who aren’t regulars at the gym or don’t
like the idea of heading out for a run.
For short bursts of everyday exercise like
mopping the floor or walking up flights of
stairs can be enough to cut your risk of
heart attacks and strokes, a study shows.
Researchers gave 25,000 ‘non-exercisers’
wrist devices which measured their daily
activity, recording the length of the tasks
and how vigorously they were carried out.
The majority of this activity was in bouts
lasting less than ten minutes, it was found.
The medical records of those who took part
were then followed over eight years and
By Xantha Leatham
Deputy Science Editor
compared with the activity records. it was
discovered that even the shortest of bouts of
movement – at a moderate to vigorous inten-
sity – were linked to a steep decrease in the
risk of life-threatening conditions.
However, the benefits do not kick in until
at least a minute of activity, with consistent
movement of up to three minutes shown to
cut the risk of heart attacks and strokes by
29 per cent compared with those doing
under a minute. it also led to a decreased
mortality risk of 44 per cent. The frequency
of the activity was also found to protect
against health problems, with those who
huffed and puffed for at least ten seconds
per minute seeing the greatest benefit.
Prof emmanuel Stamatakis, who led the
study at Sydney University, said: ‘From
walking up the stairs to speedily mopping
the floors, in recent years we’ve come to
understand it is not just structured exercise
that is good for our health, but we know very
little about how these short bouts of inci-
dental activity translate to health benefits.’
The study, published in The Lancet Public
Health journal, said the idea of brisk activ-
ity being part of a person’s daily routine can
make exercise seem much more accessible
to those who are unable or unwilling to take
part in sports or workouts.
Co-lead author Dr Matthew Ahmadi said:
‘The take-home message here is any type of
activity is good for your health, but the
more effort you put into those daily tasks
and the longer you keep up that energy, the
more benefits you are likely to reap.’
WATCHinG television can be good for
you, as seeing your favourite shows can
increase happiness, a study by Radio Times
found – with levels of anxiety also decreas-
ing immediately after viewing.

By Paul Revoir
Media Editor

GARY LinekeR has been

given the green light by the BBC
to carry on giving his political
views on social media, despite
the impartiality crisis sparked
by his anti-Tory tweets.
The BBC yesterday revealed how
Lineker 1 - BBC 0
Fudge by bosses leaves host free to air
political views, despite his anti-Tory
in its updated rules, stars on ‘flag-
ship programmes’ will be ‘free to
express opinions about the issues
that matter’ to them, including on
‘issues that may be the subject of

tweets that sparked impartiality row

public political debate’.
The updated guidance follows a
review ordered after the Match of the
Day host compared the language used
in the Government’s migration crack-
down to nazi Germany.
The new guidelines make clear that
top stars cannot ‘endorse or attack a
political party’ or ‘criticise the charac-
ter of individual politicians in the Uk’ HIS CONTENTIOUS WORDS
during the period in which their shows
are running on television schedules. OCT 2016 t r t s s y n suppos r u s
The new rules also state that these n C s oo o r t n 8 tw ts:
high-profile presenters cannot com- ‘T tr t nt y so tow r s t s youn r u s
ment on an issue that is ‘a matter of s ous y r st.
political debate’ during general elec-
tions and referendums. FEB 2022 Tw ts out L z Truss: ‘An r p rty w
The BBC said the specific guidance n t r on t ons ro Russ n onors?
for flagship programmes ‘recognises the
importance of freedom of expression’. AUG 2022 H r t s s Tory s t on tw t n :
But critics have accused the BBC of ‘As po t n ow ou you v r un r ny
‘empowering’ the presenter to con- r u st n s r n yours to vot or pu p n
tinue tweeting about highly-conten- s w nto our s s?
tious issues through the open-
ended and poorly defined JAN 14, 2023 H r tw ts post n Ho S r t ry
guidelines. Su Br v r n ‘utt r y vo o s ns ty t r r
And, because the rules only apply x n w t Ho o ust surv vor.
to ‘flagship programmes’, many well-
FEB 15 H posts ro rport rr v s: ‘Anot r
‘I think it probably is onst r qu u t usto s t Europ n ty n xt to
s rt n s or EU rs. T ts o Br x t.
a win for Gary’
FEB 20 S r s v o n or r nts
rr v n on s o ts to r nt t z ns p:
known BBC hosts are not covered,
including Springwatch star Chris ‘ y v t to st r n ot w t t r-R t
Packham, who has publicly defended s r n us t t ?Gv t st tus n
eco-activists breaking the law. tt on .
Former head of the corporation’s edi-
torial policy Richard Ayre said on BBC FEB 27 App rs to o R s Sun s n r EU
news: ‘The fact that Gary Lineker has Nort rn Ir n : ‘So w r tt n Br x t on ... n.
welcomed these guidelines tells you MAR 7 H s Mrs Br v r ns sur s to stop t
quite a lot about what Gary thinks
about them. i think he must believe s o ts ‘ yon w u n ‘ n sur y
that they empower him to say pretty ru po y r t tt ost vu n r p op n
much what he has already said.’ n u t t s not ss r to t t us y
He added: ‘i suspect Gary will feel G r ny n t 30s...
able to continue to say the sort of
things he said before, i think it proba- Flagship shows (and their
bly is a win for Gary Lineker.’
BBC staff working in news and cur-
Outspoken:
Gary Lineker
presenters) under new rules...
rent affairs and factual journalism will 1 Ant qu s Ro s ow F on Bru
still have to abide by stricter
rules on impartiality than tors and pundits to boycott they are going to pay extraor- new requirements for pre- 2 The Apprentice Lord Sugar
other types of on-air stars. the corporation’s shows. dinary amounts of money to senters of our flagship pro- 3 Dr ons D n Ev n D v s
The new rules come after a BBC director-general Tim presenters, they should be grammes, is both proportion- 4 The One Show Alex Jones
review was carried out by Davie ended the crisis by politically neutral. i don’t want ate and fair and protects
former iTn chief executive reinstating Lineker and to know what their political these commitments.’ 5 M st r Jo n Toro & Gr
John Hardie into the issue. promising a review into the views are.’ Mr Ayre said that the guide- 6 Match Gary Lineker
This came in the wake of the guidelines, which he had Setting out his recommen- lines were so open to inter- of the Day & Mark Chapman
impartiality crisis sparked in admitted were affected by dations, Mr Hardie said: pretation, it was possible
March when Lineker used ‘grey areas’. ‘High-profile presenters out- that the tweet comparing a 7 Str t y Co T ss D y &
social media to compare the But for many the new rules side of journalism should be Government minister’s rhet- D n n C u n n
language used in the Govern- have done little to settle the able to express views on issues oric to nazi propaganda may
ment’s migration crackdown issue over the guidelines over and policies – including mat- well be allowed under the 8 Radio 1 Greg James (breakfast)
to ‘1930s Germany’. the social media activity of ters of political contention – new rules. 9R o2 o B ( r st
The BBC stood the Match of BBC stars, with complaints but stop well short of cam- He said: ‘i don’t see any- rnon K y ( - orn n
the Day host down from the they are still confusing. paigning in party politics or thing in the new guidelines & S ott M s ( t rnoon
show following the comment, Tory MP Peter Bone said: ‘in for activist organisations’. which will stop him from say-
ing that again.’
*Some of these presenters are already covered by guidance
which prompted other BBC my book if we are going to Mr Davie said: ‘The new for news and current affairs hosts
sport presenters, commenta- have a state broadcaster and guidance, which includes Comment – Page 14
Page 10
Perverts’ charter
By Rebecca Camber
Crime and Security Editor
A NEW anonymity law for
suspected sex offenders
came into force in North-
ern Ireland yesterday
which would have made it
illegal to call Jimmy Savile
a paedophile.
The draconian legislation,
which introduces a blanket
ban on the identification of
sex offender suspects until 25
years after their death if they
are not charged, was
described as an ‘affront to
open justice’ yesterday.
Under the law, reporters would
have faced the prospect of a six-
month jail sentence just for
naming Savile, the late TV pre-
senter, as a notorious sexual
predator. The Bill, which came
into force yesterday, will also
exclude the public from rape
and other sexual offence trials.
The anonymity applies from
the point when either an allega-
tion about the suspect is made
to the police, or the police take
steps to investigate the suspect.
Northern Ireland is the first
area in the UK to introduce the
restrictions. But the Law Com-
mission, which recommends
legal reform to Parliament, is
consulting on similar measures
for England and Wales, where
there could be an ‘automatic
entitlement’ for rape victims to
exclude members of the public
when giving evidence. Yesterday
Fears over anonymity law
on sex abuse suspects that
would mean monsters like
Savile couldn’t be named
media groups and lawyers
warned the prohibition on iden-
tifying suspects would have a
disastrous impact on prosecu-
tions, preventing victims and
witnesses from coming forward.
The law, passed by the devolved
Stormont Assembly in March
2022, would prohibit the naming
of suspects currently under
police investigation such as
‘An affront to
open justice’
comedian Russell Brand. Any-
one who breaks the law faces the
prospect of a six-month prison
sentence and/or a fine of £5,000.
Dawn Alford, head of the Soci-
ety of Editors, said the laws ‘are
not only an affront to open jus-
tice, but they will have a devas-
tating effect on the reporting of
sexual abuse allegations and the
willingness of victims to come
forward. Today’s new law will
not improve confidence in the
criminal justice system – it will
have the total opposite effect.’
Belfast media lawyer Fergal
McGoldrick said: ‘The unin-
tended consequence may be
that police can only obtain infor-
mation from one complainant,
since no other victims or wit-
nesses would have knowledge of
the police investigation.’
It follows a review of proce-
dures relating to sexual offences
led by retired senior judge Sir
John Gillen after a rape trial of
two former Ulster rugby players,
Paddy Jackson and Stuart Old-
ing, ended in their acquittal.
Sir John had noted the ‘utter
humiliation of being obliged to
recite the most intimate and
distressing details of their expe-
riences before, potentially, a
packed courtroom’.
‘It was one of a number of fac-
tors deterring victims from
engaging in the criminal justice
process. That particular fear has
now been removed,’ he said.
Notorious: Paedophile Jimmy Savile
Daily Mail, Friday, September 29, 2023
Mums-to-be
‘at risk’ over
5-day wait to
be induced
By Shaun Wooller
Health Editor
PREGNANT women are waiting
up to five days to be induced
because of maternity staffing
shortages, a report reveals.
Inspectors and managers have
identified issues at ten hospitals
amid fears the delays are putting
women and their babies at risk.
Seven hospitals have been
issued with warnings by the
Care Quality Commission since
last year and three have
reported problems in board
papers. In some cases, women
classed as ‘high risk’ waited five
days for the inducing of labour.
The procedure is encouraged
if babies are overdue, or if there
are risks due to conditions such
as high blood pressure. In other
cases, women were forced to
wait more than 48 hours to be
transferred to the delivery
suite after the process had been
started. Carolyn Jenkinson at
the CQC said they had also found
‘a lack of effective monitoring
during periods of delay’.
Birte Harlev-Lam, executive
director midwife at the Royal
College of Midwives, said ‘well-
known staffing and resource
issues’ mean there ‘may some-
times be a delay, which is why
effective monitoring by mid-
wives is so important’.
Daily Mail, Friday, September 29, 2023 Page 11

Helen puts on brave face after film role row

SHE suffered a torrent of abuse
for playing a role that many
believed should have been
given to a Jewish actress.
But last night Helen Mirren
was all smiles in the face of criti-
cism as she attended a screen-
ing of the much-anticipated
Golda movie in London.
The actress, who stars as Isra-
el’s first female prime minister
Golda Meir, wore a chic black
velvet suit with a white blouse.
Ms Mirren, 78, has been lam-
basted for using prosthetics to
appear like a Jewish woman.
She went through up to three
hours of preparation a day to
transform herself into the
chain-smoking Meir.
The biopic by Guy Nattiv takes
place during the 19-day Yom
Kippur War of 1973, when Arab
By Katie Hind
Consultant Editor Showbusiness
forces, led by Egypt, attacked
Israel during its holiest time of
the year. Ms Mirren admitted
that playing the role despite
having no connections to Juda-
ism has been met with ‘utterly
legitimate’ criticism.
‘It was certainly a question I
had, before I accepted the role.
I said, “Look Guy, I’m not Jew-
ish, and if you want to think
about that, and decide to go in
a different direction, I will abso-
lutely understand,”’ she said.
‘It was an adventure. I got so
used to being that person in the
daytime that when the make-
up all came off and I saw myself
as I am, I’d forgotten that was
what I looked like.’ Backlash: Playing Golda Meir

MMR warning
to parents as jab
uptake plunges
to a 13-year low
Daily Mail Reporter
PARENTS have been urged Women ‘more likely to be
to get their children vacci-
nated against life-threatening
diseases after jabs fell to their
ill after flu shot than men’
lowest level in over a decade. WOMEN are more likely to By Victoria Allen
The number of children who had suffer reactions such as a Science Editor
received their first MMR vaccine fever, headache or a pain-
fell to 92.5 per cent in 2022/23, the ful arm after their flu jab pain or swelling. In this age
smallest proportion since 2010/11, than men. group, women were also 27
according to figures from NHS Female immune systems per cent more likely to have
England and the UK Health and may react more strongly to a ‘systemic reaction’ such
Security Agency (UKHSA). vaccinations, making side as fever or a headache.
And just 84.5 per cent of five-year-olds effects more common, sci- The study, published in the
had received their second dose of the entists believe. Journal of Epidemiology
jab, which protects against measles, and Community Health,
mumps and rubella – also the lowest Researchers analysed data
level in the same period. on more than 34,000 people found women under 65
NHS data revealed no vaccination who took part in 18 studies were also more likely to
programme in England achieved the on reactions to flu jabs. have side effects. But the
uptake recommended by the World Among over-65s, who are authors note that women
Health Organisation (WHO). the largest group to receive are generally more likely to
The WHO recommends that, nation- the flu jab in the UK, women report health problems,
ally, at least 95 per cent of children have were 43 per cent more which may mean their risk
jabs for diseases that can be stopped of reacting to flu jabs
by vaccines to prevent outbreaks. likely to have a problem in
Dr Gayatri Amirthalingam at the their injected arm, such as appears higher.
UKHSA said the downward trend is a
‘serious concern’.
He said: ‘The diseases that these They are also offered the second of the British Society for Immu-
vaccines protect against, such as pneumococcal jab and further nology, said: ‘Measles is one of
measles, polio and meningitis, can protection against meningitis B. the world’s most contagious dis-
be life-changing and even deadly. The second MMR jab is offered eases and cases are currently on
‘No parent wants this for their at three years and four months. the rise in England.
child especially when these dis- In 2022/23, 91.8 per cent of babies ‘We must ensure that vaccina-
eases are easily preventable.’ in England received the 6-in-1 vac- tion rates improve to... give our
Babies are offered immunisa- cine by their first birthday, with communities the best possible
tion against meningitis B and protection available against this
serious illness.’
rotavirus at eight-weeks-old as
well as the six-in-one jab, which
‘Cases are on Earlier this month, NHS Eng-
helps fight polio, tetanus, whoop- the rise’ land warned more than 32,000
ing cough, diphtheria, hepatitis B children in London alone are at
Take a bow: Helen and haemophilus influenzae type risk of catching measles due to
Mirren, 78, wore B (Hib) – a bacteria that can 93.7 per cent up to date with the the decline in vaccination rates.
a black velvet cause life-threatening infections. pneumococcal jab and 91 per cent A Department of Health spokes-
The doses are topped up at 12 protected against meningitis B. man said: ‘We urge parents and
trouser suit and and 16 weeks. Only 88.7 per cent were vacci- carers to check that their chil-
bow at the event One-year-olds should receive nated against rotavirus, which dren are up to date on their vac-
the first MMR jab, along with the can cause diarrhoea in infants. cines and if not they should book
Hib/MenC (meningitis C) vaccine. Dr Doug Brown, chief executive an appointment to catch up.’
Page 12 Daily Mail, Friday, September 29, 2023

Hospital gun rampage

Man, 32, held
after three
people killed
in Rotterdam
By Arthur Parashar

A GUNMAN wearing a bullet-

proof vest opened fire in a class-
room at a Dutch university hospi-
tal and a nearby house yesterday,
killing at least three people.
Terrified students, patients and
health workers ran for their lives out
of the Erasmus Medical Centre, affil-
iated with Erasmus University in the
port city of Rotterdam.
Some patients were wheeled out
of the building in beds. Others bar-
ricaded themselves in rooms and
put hand-written signs on windows
to show their location.
A 32-year- old suspect was
arrested at the scene. Police said a
39-year-old woman, her 14-year-old
daughter, and a 46-year-old teacher
at the university were killed.
Rotterdam’s chief prosecutor
said the suspect, who has not yet
been named, was known to law
enforcement after being convicted
Terror: Health workers and patients flee the medical centre in Rotterdam
of animal abuse in 2021. In one
video posted online, those fleeing
could be heard screaming after a
loud bang, while a fire breaks out
inside the building.
Footage later showed a man
being arrested by armed police
after they stormed the building.
Officers said the suspect, who was
reported to be a student at the uni-
versity, was carrying a handgun.
The De Telegraaf newspaper
said a man shot the mother and
daughter in a house on Heiman
Dullaertplein in the west of the
city. It is understood he then drove
to the university, less than a mile
away. Dutch media reported that
there were fires at the house and
the university hospital.
‘We have been shocked by a hor-
rible incident,’ Rotterdam mayor
Ahmed Aboutaleb said. ‘Shots
were fired in two different places
in the city. Many people witnessed
it. Emotions in the city are very
Suspect: A man is arrested by armed police
high. My condolences go out to
the victims – it is a black day.’
Dutch King Willem-Alexander
and Queen Maxima expressed
their sympathy on social media.
‘Our hearts go out to the family
and friends of the victims of the
violence this afternoon in Rotter-
dam,’ the royal couple wrote. ‘We
also think of everybody who lived in
fear during these terrible actions.’
Dutch prime minister Mark
Rutte expressed his ‘great dismay’
at the shootings. ‘My thoughts are
with the victims of the violence,
their loved ones and all those who
have been in great fear,’ he wrote
on X, formerly Twitter.
‘Many thanks to the people of
the services for their actions and
assistance at the scene.’
In July, two members of the pub-
lic were injured in a shooting at a
summer carnival in Rotterdam.
The gunman was shot and injured
by police officers.
Daily Mail, Friday, September 29, 2023 Page 13

Yours for
£150, the
advent
calendar
that’s fit
for a king
By Rebecca English
Royal Editor

IT’S the ultimate gift for royal

fans awaiting the countdown
to Christmas – but it comes
at a king’s ransom.
This year, the Royal Collection
Trust is offering an environmen-
tally friendly reusable red velvet
advent calendar at an eye-water-
ing £150.
Designed as a collector’s item to
be handed down from generation
to generation, the festive decora-
tion is inspired by the facade of
Buckingham Palace.
With distinctive gold stitching and tas-
sels, it also comes with its own special
‘palace pouch’ for storage. Festive: The lavish calendar inspired by the facade of Buckingham Palace
It’s among a special seasonal collection
about to go on sale by the RCT, a depart- a fine bone china bauble marking the King’s ‘lumps of coal’ – £6.95 chocolate-covered
ment of the Royal Household. Coronation costing £60 – hand-made and honeycomb – and a £19.95 guardsman
The organisation is a registered charity decorated in Stoke – and other decorations teddy bear.
which is responsible for the care of the including one featuring the Coronation coat Some collectors may plump for the Royal
priceless collection of art and antiques held of arms for £30, one of a Buckingham Palace Christmas tea towel – a snip at £9.95 – or
in trust by the sovereign on behalf of the fireplace for £25 and another of a Windsor the matching jute shopper at £12.95.
nation, widely considered to be one of the Castle knight, also for £25. There is also a book, entitled Monarch In
largest and most important in the world. There is also a hand-made matching red The Making Accession, about Charles’s
All of the money raised by the sale of their velvet stocking decorated with traditional path from prince to King, for £19.95.
souvenirs and collector’s items is ploughed silk embroidery by artisans in northern The cheapest items include mulled wine
back into their work. India costing £60. spices for £4.95 and ‘chocolate wreaths’ in
Their Christmas range this year includes Some are fun items including royal a matchbox for the princely price of £5.95. History: Monarch In The Making book

Sorry for demeaning you...

Fox issues an apology at last
Ofcom probe
By Paul Revoir Media Editor rules to achieve these objectives.
Contrary to some claims, these
rules remain unchanged.’ It came
LAuRENCE Fox yesterday after former prime minister Gor-
apologised for his highly
as complaints
don Brown told Sky News that
offensive comments about Fox and Wootton ‘have got to be
a female journalist on kept off the air’, while suggesting
that Ofcom needed ‘more teeth’
GB News.

into TV rant
to deal with breaches.
It came as Ofcom launched a Technology Secretary Michelle
formal investigation after Donelan described the exchange
receiving 7,300 complaints as ‘unacceptable and disgraceful’,

at journalist
about Fox’s remarks. while Caroline Nokes, the Com-
The actor-turned-Reclaim Party mons Women and Equalities Com-
leader, 45, was suspended by the mittee chairman, said the channel
broadcaster on Wednesday after should be ‘taken off air’.

he made vulgar sexual remarks
about political reporter Ava Evans,
who works for news website JOE.
Amid a growing sense of crisis
surrounding GB News, the TV
watchdog yesterday said it would
be probing the episode of Dan
Wootton Tonight against rules
governing material which may
cause ‘offence’. Fox’s remarks are
understood to have made it the
second most complained-about
moment on television this year.
GB News, which is backed by
hedge fund tycoon Paul Marshall,
had also suspended Wootton after
Fox released messages appearing
to show the host laughing at his
remarks. The former Lewis star
reach 7,300
sparked outrage after he said ‘Who
would want to s**g that?’ as part
of a sexist attack on Ms Evans fol-
lowing her controversial remarks
about male suicide. He also asked
‘what self-respecting man’ would
‘climb into bed’ with ‘that woman’,
describing her as a ‘little woman’.
Yesterday Ms Evans, who said
the comments made her feel
‘physically sick’, told Good Morn-
ing Britain that she had now
received ‘astounding’ threats in
direct messages on social media.
Sexist attack: Laurence Fox
While he had originally stood by
his remarks, Fox apologised to Ms
Evans in a lengthy video state-
ment last night. He said: ‘It’s not
right, it’s demeaning to Ava, so
I’m sorry for demeaning you in
that way, however angry I am with
you still for doing that, and it
demeans me because it’s not rep-
resentative of who I am.
‘I’m not saying any of this stuff
because I know I’m going to get
sacked tomorrow. I’m saying it to
clear my own conscience.’ He also
Receiving abuse: Ava Evans
denied that he was a ‘misogynist’
and accused GB News of being
the ‘home of cancel culture’. But
his comments, which he described
as ‘bar-room banter’, left the
young channel facing its seventh
investigation by the regulator,
which had faced criticism over its
delayed response.
In a bullish statement last night,
Ofcom chief Dame Melanie Dawes
said: ‘Parliament sets objectives on
how the broadcast sector should
be regulated. We set and enforce
After the discussion aired on
‘Unfortunate lapse
in judgment’
Tuesday night, Wootton ‘unreserv-
edly’ apologised for a ‘very unfor-
tunate lapse in judgment’.
Yesterday Wootton had his con-
tract terminated by MailOnline. A
spokesman from the publication’s
parent company, DMG Media,
said: ‘Following events this week,
DMG Media can confirm that Dan
Wootton’s freelance column with
MailOnline, which had already
been paused, has now been termi-
nated, along with his contract.’
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COMMENT
True Tories should
end such taxing times
GLANCE at the colossal tax burden that
Britain is labouring under and your first
instinct might be to rub your eyes in
disbelief. The second? To recoil in horror.
According to the Institute for Fiscal
Studies, the share of GDP extracted by the
Government in tax has soared from 33 per
cent in 2019 to a jaw-dropping 37 per cent.
It is equivalent to hitting every household
with another bill for £3,500. This Parliament
is set to hold the ignominious distinction of
overseeing the steepest tax rise in history.
This alarming state of affairs might be
understandable if Labour, which has never
seen a tax hike it disliked, was in power.
That it has happened under a Tory
government is especially depressing.
Successive prime ministers, including
Rishi Sunak, have stated their belief in a
small state and low taxes. Yet their appetite
for delivering them has been roughly zero.
Yes, the Government is up to its eyeballs
in debt, which is why the PM and his
Chancellor are trying to balance the books.
But thanks to tax thresholds being frozen
for years, stealth charges and punishing
new levies on companies, property, capital
gains and much more, the take has reached
an unacceptable and unsustainable level.
Individuals, including those on modest
incomes, are clobbered ever harder. For
firms, the outlook is equally bleak as they’re
hit with a huge corporation tax hike.
If our public services were top class, the
Treasury’s relentless plundering might be
palatable. But they’re shambolic. Which of
us can look around and truly say they are
getting value for money? The NHS, handed
record funding, is collapsing. Police often
don’t bother to investigate crime. Social
care provision can be woeful.
The answer to these problems is reform,
not throwing ever greater sums at them.
Dispiritingly, that seems to now be the
Tories’ default setting. It’s not unrelated
that as taxes nudge a post-war high,
economic growth is so feeble. Mr Sunak
should be bold and take an axe to them.
Slashing taxes would not only ease
households’ pain. It would incentivise
ambition, hard work and entrepreneurialism
and fuel job creation.
The Prime Minister insists he is at heart a
tax-cutting Thatcherite. When might we
expect him to prove it?
BBC’s botch of the day
THE BBC review of its social media rules,
triggered by Gary Lineker’s disgraceful
post equating government policy with
Nazism, was a chance to repair damaged
trust in the corporation’s impartiality. To
no one’s surprise, it has flunked it.
Instead of a blanket ban on presenters
expressing political views, it has given
those outside the news department carte
blanche to carry on, so long as they don’t
‘endorse or attack a party’.
For those on so-called ‘non-flagship’
programmes, including eco-hysteric Chris
Packham, even this footling restriction
doesn’t apply. What a complete cop-out.
The BBC is treating viewers – who expect
presenters to be scrupulously neutral, not
political motormouths – with disdain.
As for Lineker et al, if they want to spout
on about the issues of the day, why don’t
they stop taking licence fee-payers’ money
and stand for election?
Khan’s crime cop-out
AFTER 15-year-old Elianne Andam was
stabbed to death on her way to school, the
Mail asks: What is Sadiq Khan playing at?
As London’s Labour mayor, one of his key
responsibilities is working with the police
to tackle crime. Yet 16 teenagers have been
killed in the capital already this year.
While he engages in stunts about
decriminalising cannabis, virtue-signals
with green schemes and bellyaches about
statues from the distant past, a bloodbath
is happening on his watch. His priorities
are warped. London deserves better.
Do we really want
tobacconists of the
future to be obliged
to ask 60-year-olds
for ID before they’ll
sell them 20 Silk Cut?
E
VERY once in a while when
I was in my 20s, under-age
schoolboys would accost
me as I went into the tobac-
conist for my daily fix of
cigarettes and beg me to buy some
for them: ‘Pssst! Mister! If you get
us ten Woodbines, I’ll give you
the cash!’
This hasn’t happened to me for many
years — partly, I suspect, because few
under-18s can afford the prices shops
charge for gaspers these days, at well over
£14 for a packet of 20, but also because I
now look so elderly and forbidding that
they don’t fancy their chances of recruit-
ing me as a co-conspirator.
Anyway, why would they bother to hang
around outside newsagents, pleading with
strangers to buy them cigarettes, when
they can get all the poison they crave from
the dirt- cheap, black-market, fruit-
flavoured vapes flooding schools?
Even in those far-off days of the 1970s,
however, I always refused to buy cigarettes
for minors. I would never encourage any-
one, of any age, to take up smoking. It’s a
revolting, smelly habit — and that’s quite
apart from its ruinous effects on our health
and our wallets.
Indeed, my watchword where my 50-year
smoking addiction is concerned, as in so
many other areas of my life, has always
been: ‘Do as I say, not as I do.’
Addicted
That said, I’m in two minds about the
latest proposal Rishi Sunak is said to be
considering in his doomed effort to make
Britain smoke-free by 2030.
This is the policy, pioneered by the New
Zealand government last December, under
which the legal age for buying cigarettes
will rise yearly until the last smoker in the
country is dead. To be precise, the law in
New Zealand now bans the sale of tobacco
to anyone born after January 1, 2009.
My first reaction to this news was that it
seemed much fairer than an immediate
ban on all tobacco sales, long favoured by
anti-smoking fanatics.
Like so many others, after all, I became
addicted to the evil weed at a time when it
was perfectly legal to buy and smoke it. As
I’ve often complained, it would be cruel
and wrong to make the law-abiding among
us suffer the agonies of withdrawal, simply
because fashions have changed and an
intolerant, non-smoking majority is now
in the ascendant.
Say what you like about the plan now
under consideration, but at least it would
answer that objection, deterring young
people from taking up the filthy habit
while leaving me and my fellow ageing
addicts free to carry on destroying our
health and impoverishing ourselves on the
pavement outside the pub.
Certainly, the Prime Minister will have
been encouraged by the YouGov poll in
yesterday’s i newspaper which found that
a huge majority supports a yearly increase
in the legal smoking age, either ‘strongly’
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TOM UTLEY
(49 per cent) or ‘somewhat’ (22 per cent),
while only 17 per cent oppose it.
Who can blame Mr Sunak if he calculates
that by adopting the New Zealand plan,
he may find himself on to a much-needed
vote-winner?
Think the policy through, however, and
you’ll soon see how strange it begins to
look. Will tobacconists of the future be
obliged to ask 50 and 60-year-olds for ID,
before they can sell them 20 Silk Cut or a
couple of ounces of Gold Leaf?
More surreal still, will our grandchildren
live to see 85-year-olds, born after 2008,
loitering outside newsagents, begging a
passing 86-year-old: ‘Oy, mate, be a sport
and buy us a packet of Marlboro Reds!’
All right, I grant you that if we follow
New Zealand, it’s highly improbable that
anything like this will come to pass. It’s
much more likely that as the years go by,
and the market for legally-sold tobacco
ages and shrinks, legitimate outlets will
simply stop selling the stuff, which is
clearly what Mr Sunak wants.
But I reckon he’s fooling himself if he
reckons that by progressively restricting
legal sales, he’ll ever achieve his goal of a
smoke-free Britain. As for his hopes of
stamping out smoking before 2030, by
which time a policy modelled on New
Zealand’s would hardly have begun to
bite, well, that’s surely pure fantasy.
Scarce
Indeed, we’ve already seen how one of
the chief effects of recent Budgets, in
which successive chancellors have tried to
make us quit by hugely increasing the tax
and duty on tobacco, has been to boost
cigarette-smuggling and the lucrative
black market, much as Prohibition in
America was a godsend to Al Capone.
Which brings me to the question of
policing a New Zealand-style scheme.
While shoplifting and knife-crime grow
ever more rife, and burglaries go
uninvestigated, can you really see the
authorities devoting scarce resources to
checking the dates of birth of shoppers
emerging from the tobacconist?
The example of cannabis hardly gives
grounds for optimism. This mind-altering,
psychosis-inducing drug has been banned
for recreational use in the UK since 1928.
Daily Mail, Friday, September 29, 2023
Yet with the police turning a blind eye to
those who smoke it publicly, the streets in
my neck of South London veritably stink
of the stuff these days, as never before.
Does anyone seriously think the authori-
ties would show greater zeal, or enjoy
greater success, in stamping out smoking
tobacco among people born before 2009?
If the Prime Minister believes that, he’ll
believe anything.
Mind you, I have a great deal of time for
Mr Sunak. I like his obvious intelligence
and his reassuring air of unflappable
competence. I’m also impressed by his
decision to devote himself to public
service, despite his being rich enough to
live a life of pure self-indulgence.
But if he has a fault, apart from his failure
to excite (perhaps not such a bad thing
after our surfeit of excitement under Boris
Johnson and Liz Truss), it’s that he seems
to believe we could all be a lot more like
him, if only we had the right guidance.
I’m thinking in particular of his ambition
to make all children study maths up the
age of 18. Of course, he himself has a very
good head for figures — and he’s far from
the only mathematical wizard who believes
any child can master the subject, if
properly taught.
Humiliation
Well, all I can say is that at my fearfully
expensive schools, I was taught by some
of the best maths teachers money could
buy. But though I’m not proud of it, I’ve
always been utterly hopeless with numbers
— and not, I assure you, for want of trying.
Being forced to plug away at maths until I
was 18 would have killed my enjoyment of
school stone dead.
It’s the same with my smoking addiction.
Mr Sunak may think it’s easy to give up,
since he’s never been hooked. Indeed,
I’ve lost count of the number of people
who have told me over the years that I’d
find it a doddle to quit, if only I put my
mind to it. To them, I can only reply:
‘Speak for yourselves!’
For longer than I care to remember —
ever since cigarettes reached the dizzying
price of £1 a packet — I’ve often tried to
kick the filthy habit. I just can’t.
Indeed, my latest attempt began at the
end of last month, when I embarked on a
four-week break from work — the longest
I’ve ever gone without appearing in the
public prints since I started in journalism
almost half a century ago.
My hope was that without the pressure
of having to write, I might at last summon
the willpower to break free of my enslave-
ment to tobacco. Five weeks on and here
I am miserably shelling out almost £15 a
packet, enduring all the humiliation mod-
ern society heaps upon us smokers — and
puffing away more than ever.
Now, no doubt this would be a much
healthier, more productive country if only
the population were more like Mr Sunak
— God-fearing, hard-working, public-
spirited, devoted to family, good at maths
and a teetotal, non-smoker to boot.
But please, Prime Minister, have pity on
those of us less perfect than yourself —
and stop trying to force us to be as good.
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by Jane Fryer

Pictures: GLEN MINIKIN

K
EIGHLEY Library —
housed in a wonderful old
stone building, smack-bang
in the middle of town — is
Grand as owt: (l-r) Bill Owen,
not usually the liveliest Brian Wilde and Peter Sallis in
of places. Last Of The Summer Wine.
There’s a gentle ‘knit and natter’ on
Above, Rod Dimbleby

EY
Wednesdays and a chess club on Thursdays,
and it’s a lovely quiet spot to seek shelter
from the driving rain.
But pop in on a Friday morning and you’ll
find it heaving with people, all ‘well chuffed’
to have snagged a highly coveted spot on
Rod Dimbleby’s Yorkshire dialect course.
‘It’s all been quite a shock. Quite a shock
indeed!’ says Rod, 80, a very neatly
presented former German teacher and
chairman of the Yorkshire Dialect Society.
Because Rod’s six-week Let’s Talk Tyke
course is the first of its kind, and demand
has been extraordinary.
UP!
into the social and economic
history of the area.
But also because, invariably,
they’re written by miners, mill-
workers and weavers. Men usually
so buttoned-up and stoic, who
wrote in vivid detail about their life
down the pit, the poverty, the hun-
ger, the infant mortality, the death
in childbirth. And the good bits, too
— love, beer, family. There’s even an
entire poem about an oatcake.

How a former T
‘I thought it might appeal to a few people.
I was hoping to get a handful, maybe ten if
I were lucky — a nice intimate group,’ he O MY surprise, the first
says. ‘But, well, it’s rammed. And the hour flies by. In the
media! We were on the TV last week . . . and break, over coffee and
on the Today programme. We’ve even had biscuits provided by
to start a waiting list! It turns out people

teacher’s classes
Pam (who hails from Birmingham
feel very strongly about Yorkshire dialect.’ and says she struggled to under-
They certainly do. stand Rod when she first met
When I arrive, Rod’s wife Pam is wrestling him), I chew the cud with Chris
with an unexpectedly long register of and Frank, who’d look more at
attendees at the door. ‘I’m not sure we’ll home with tankards in their huge
have enough space this week,’ she says.

in Yorkshire
fists than discussing poetry.
Inside, there’s a hubbub of people trying ‘Both my grandparents were
out their best ‘Yarkshar’ — ‘Ey up!’, ‘Ow do’ dialect-speakers, so I had it all as
— and every blue plastic chair is filled. a child,’ says Frank. ‘But school
But of course they are. Because this is knocks it out a’ you. And TV. And
Yorkshire — ‘God’s own land, with more life. And when I moved to the

dialect are
acres than words in the Bible’ — as at least bright lights of Keighley when I
four people tell me proudly. were 14, I started work and you
I am also reminded, several times, that lose the natural way of speaking in
Yorkshire is bigger than Wales and richer your villages.’
than Scotland, but for some reason is being Chris, meanwhile, has written his
starved by Westminster when it comes to own poem in dialect that he’s hop-

suddenly so
funding and infrastructure. ing to share at the end of the class.
‘Perhaps they’re jealous of us!’ says a big ‘We’ve got to protect it. We’ve
burly chap called Frank who spotted an ad got to keep it going. It’s part of
in the local paper and booked on the spot. us,’ he says.
‘We need to fight back with dialect.’ In the front row are two local
Certainly, everyone I know from England’s ladies, Carol and Jane.

popular he’s
biggest county has an extraordinarily ‘I’m here because I’m interested.
strong sense of identity. And it’s not just It’s history, it’s Yorkshire, it’s us!’
about Yorkshire pudding, cricket, the says Jane.
Brontes and Wensleydale cheese. Carol chips in. ‘I’ve always liked
There’s an annual Yorkshire Day, something that’s a little bit, well,
organised by the Yorkshire Party, a political deviant and secretive. And in a

even had to start

outfit that campaigns for a regional parlia- way, dialect is just that.’
ment. Even an official Yorkshire flag, for Rod tells me he caught the bug
goodness’ sake. And a searing pride that — when he took early retirement
unlike across the border in Lancashire — and volunteered for Age Concern
can sometimes be a teeny bit exclusive. ‘We telling stories in care homes.
do sometimes have a touch of inverted He noticed if he sprinkled his

a waiting list
snobbery,’ admits Frank, 70. stories with dialect remembered
But despite all this, the precious Yorkshire from his Bradford youth, his audi-
dialect, that long ago was recorded in a giant ence was more tuned in. Perhaps
dictionary containing 350,000 words and in the way that music does with
phrases, is fading away at an alarming rate. dementia sufferers, dialect tapped
In fact, according to one study, it’ll be into something deep inside them.
gone in a couple of decades, swamped by It opened up a whole world to
the homogenous English of the Rod, too.
Home Counties. working class — it is social history. woman next to me, who grew up English. It’s real language,’ he says Because as well as the Yorkshire

W
The language of folk,’ says Rod. on a farm nearby. ‘It’s like being firmly. ‘It’s poetic and musical and Dialect Society, there’s the (quite
Next, in pairs, we try to put an back at school, but I love it.’ part of our heritage. A lot of it separate) East Riding Dialect
English passage into dialect. Her neighbour, meanwhile, could well date back in linguistic Society, with its own monthly
HICH is why Rod Some, like Frank and Chris, 69, is transported. terms over 1,000 years to our publication and regular meetings.
has made it his a retired electrician, are total ‘I spoke dialect with my granny Anglo-Norse ancestors.’ Plus at least eight societies
mission to encour- naturals, sounding just like Compo and great-aunt, but I was told off For me, while the vocab is fun, convening in places like Cornwall,
a g e p e o p l e t o and Clegg chewing the fat in Last at school — they said it was slang.’ the best bit by far is the verse. the Black Country, Cumbria, the
speak, read, write, hear and, most Of The Summer Wine. Others are An outrage that Rod can get Partly because the poems — many West Country and Lancashire.
of all, protect the dialect, including more self-conscious. rather worked up about. from the mid-to-late-19th century And all with members currently
its precious glottal stops — the ‘Ooh, this is hard,’ says the ‘Dialect is not slang or sloppy — provide an extraordinary insight limbering up for the national ‘dia-
sharp breath occasionally used lect jamboree’, in Bridlington, on

HOW TO SPEAK PROPER ‘YARKSHAR’

instead of a consonant.
And finally, when the room
couldn’t get any fuller, it’s time to
‘put wood l’ t’oile’ (shut the door)
and begin.
‘Now then! Ows tha been. Fair t’
middlin?’ cries Rod. And everyone
sits up very straight.
We begin with a spot of vocab.
So ‘hullet’ means owl, ‘clammed’
is cold, ‘nakt’ stands for naked
and we learn that, in West York-
shire, few words are more than
two syllables because they had to
be pithy enough to be yelled over
the racket in the mills and mines.
‘This is the language of the
the Yorkshire coast, next month.
‘There aren’t a fantastic number
of us, maybe 50,’ says Rod. ‘But
it’s a whole weekend and it’s
great fun.’
It mud o’ bin war – It might have Cat hawed – Drunk With entertainment, competi-
been worse Bait – Packed lunch / food tions (Rod is one of the judges)
and a much-anticipated keynote
Put wood I’ t’oile – Shut the door Maftin – Uncomfortably hot or humid speech — this year given by a chap
Addle – To earn called Colin Speakman, who has
Sile – Rain heavily written a super book on Yorkshire
Nithered – Shiver with cold Piking off – Leave without paying and is here today as a special treat
to give a poetry recital in the
Mardy – Moody, petulant Lap – To cover or wrap second half of our class.
Dog’s shelf – The floor Attercop – A spider But, of course, what the
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Shamed hospital trust
is facing a new probe Hardcastle
into its maternity care
AN NHS trust at the centre of a
baby- death scandal is facing
another inquiry into maternity care
amid fears children’s lives remain
at risk, the Mail has learned.
University Hospitals of Morecambe
Bay NHS Trust was criticised in the
Kirkup Report eight years ago after 11
babies and a mother died unnecessarily
because of ‘cavalier’ midwives and fail-
ings at Furness General Hospital. Today,
By Liz Hull and
Richard Marsden
a coroner is expected to order an
‘enhanced’ inquest into maternity care
at another of its hospitals, the Royal
Lancaster Infirmary.
It follows a four-year fight by the parents
of a baby girl who died at seven days old
because of alleged birth blunders by mid-
wives. Sarah Robinson and Ryan Lock say
hospital staff repeatedly insisted there had
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been no failings when daughter, Ida, was
born and that employees tried to cover up
what happened – even after experts flagged
up a catalogue of concerns.
Only after they alerted the coroner them-
selves and an inquest had been scheduled
did the trust finally accept – almost four
years on – that she may have lived had mis-
takes not been made.
Coroner Dr James Adeley told a pre-
inquest hearing in Preston this week he was
concerned it had been left to Ida’s parents
to report her death to his office after hospi-
tal managers failed to do so.
He said he was worried ‘sys-
temic’ problems in maternity
care identified by Dr Bill Kirkup
in March 2015 had not been
addressed. He said he could
‘not recall’ a single baby death
being reported to him since.
Dr Adeley said. ‘There’s no
indication that matters identi-
fied in the Kirkup Report have
been addressed before this
case. That suggests a lack of
learning from the report con-
tinues to exist, and continues
to place lives at risk.’
Mr Lock, 40, a secondary
school teacher, accused the
trust of being ‘barbaric and
cruel’. ‘It is shameful the way
we’ve been treated,’ he added.
Anna Mills-Morgan, a law-
yer with Mackenzie Jones
Solicitors who is representing
Ida’s parents, told the Mail:
‘How many other cases are
there where the coroner
hasn’t been notified? Parents
and families shouldn’t be the
ones forcing action.’
The inquest will be held early
next year.
FROM PREVIOUS PAGE
societies need most are
younger members. Glancing
round Rod’s class, it seems
Friday morning isn’t the best
time to snag the youth.
‘They’ll all be a bed. Or look-
ing at t’ phones!’ says one old
boy. ‘Most of ’em struggle to
actually converse with actual
people at all, just t’ phones,’
barks the chap next to him. ‘So
they’ll be nae good, anyway.’
In fact, pretty much
everyone here is retirement
age or older — with the
exception of a dialect-poetry
enthusiast from London, and
Tyler Callum Wilson-Kerr, a
parish councillor from Gar-
forth in a flat cap, who used
to be lead campaigner for the
Yorkshire Party.
‘I love everything Yorkshire,’
he says. ‘This is a really good
class and it’s important to
get more young people in
here and be proud. I’m doing
my best to spread the word.’
Let’s hope he does. Mainly
because, without the next
generation on board, this won-
derful dialect will fade into his-
tory and take so much herit-
age with it. But also because
youngsters are missing out on
some real joy here today —
particularly when Colin starts
reciting in his best ‘Yarkshar’.
These poems are really
something else. Lyrical, magi-
cal, musical, full of warmth,
humour, history, desperate
sadness and tragedy.
And by the time we finish,
I’d bet my Yorkshire terrier
there isn’t a dry eye in the
house — particularly among
the big burly men.
Daily Mail, Friday, September 29, 2023
Ephraim
HISTORIAN Andrew
Lownie has failed in his
bid, under the Freedom of
Information Act, to find
out if Scotland Yard ever investigated
Virginia Giuffre’s allegations against
Prince Andrew. He’d asked if police had
looked into her claims of being trafficked
to the UK and, if not, who had authorised
that the probe be dropped. The Met
replied: ‘We cannot confirm or deny
whether information is held in relation to
any allegations from this individual.’
While Andrew has always denied the
allegations and settled her civil claim
with no admission of liability, Lownie
states: ‘I believe the public are entitled to
know whether the police even bothered
to investigate the allegations made
against the Duke of York. We need clarity.
Let us hope the police do not consider
the Royal Family are above the law.’
JEFFREY Archer’s biographer Michael
Crick makes mischief over the millionaire
scribbler’s latest tome, where the hero
aspires to become Met Police Commis-
sioner. He urges interviewers to ask Jef-
frey why he abandoned his own career as
a London bobby after five months.
Answering his own question, Crick claims:
‘He was bluntly advised to leave after
constantly complaining about his police
trainee living conditions in Kennington.’
Move along Crick, nothing to see here!
ACTOR Michael
Gambon, who has
died aged 82,
regretted never
managing to seduce
English rose Joanne
Whalley, pictured in
her prime in hit 1986
TV series The Singing
Detective. Recalling
his co-star, who
played Nurse Mills,
Gambon remarked: ‘Joanne Whalley? I
tried, but no luck. I loved Joanne
Whalley... even [the show’s writer] Dennis
Potter whispered to me when we were
talking about her. He said, “Any luck?”’
Remembering Whalley’s character having
to apply lotion on his skin in the story,
Gambon cheekily added: ‘The greasing
was good. We rehearsed it ten times.’
DISCUSSING the Laurence Fox contro-
versy, broadcaster Joan Bakewell, 90,
bluntly announces on the Times Radio air-
waves: ‘Laurence is a d***, isn’t he? I
mean, he’s just an idiot.’ Host Aasmah Mir
chuckles: ‘Oh dear Joan, you shouldn’t
use that word. But anyway, go on.’ No
word from Ofcom yet!
HARRY and Meghan, as well as Archie
and Lilibet, have been sent Coronation
medals as the King continues the late
Queen’s tradition of distributing them to
the wider Royal Family. If they don’t fancy
the gong, which might be tricky for Harry
as it includes an image of Camilla, they
could choose to sell them. As we reported
in the summer, some scamps were selling
their medal, before it had even been
struck, for up to £750. Now they are
swamping the internet at just £25 a pop.
CHARLES Dickens boffins, delighted that ‘it
was the best of times, it was the worst of
times’ (A Tale Of Two Cities) has been voted
the most iconic novel opening, claim –
tongue in cheek – that prior to publication
it was serialised in two local newspapers:
It was the Bicester Times, it was the
Worcester Times. Well suit yourself!
Email: john.mcentee@dailymail.co.uk
 Littlejohn
Daily Mail, Friday, September 29, 2023 Page 17

richard.littlejohn@dailymail.co.uk

Tommy Atkins
knows how the
gun cops feel
AS ONE Met police firearms officer
appears at the Old Bailey charged with
murder, we now learn a second
copper who fired a fatal shot is facing the
sack — despite being cleared of criminal
wrongdoing.
On Tuesday, I wrote about more than
100 firearms specialists handing back
their weapons permits over the decision
to charge an officer known only as NX121
over the shooting of suspect Chris Kaba
in South London.
Even though the Army has been stood officer, known as W80, who shot and the prosecution finally decided not to well-founded suspicion that those who
down after being put on standby, killed Jermaine Baker in 2015. He proceed with the charges. pull on the King’s Uniform will not receive
armed cover in London is not back maintained that Baker was reaching for In a further twist, however, in July this support from above when they are called
to full strength. an imitation sub-machine gun, found at year a judge overturned the decision not upon to fire, with lethal effect, in the line
The latest news — that a marksman who the scene. But the independent police to prosecute. Soldier B died without of duty. Nothing much seems to have
shot dead a gangster preparing to spring watchdog, the IOPC, is going ahead with having the chance to clear his name. changed since Rudyard Kipling’s 1890
two prisoners from Wood Green Crown a disciplinary hearing which could result Whether the case should ever have got poem, Tommy, about the gratitude
Court is to face a gross misconduct in the sack. this far is highly contentious. As part soldiers (and, it seems, police firearms
hearing which could end in his We also learned this week that of the Good Friday peace deal, the amnesty officers) can expect.
dismissal — is likely to provoke a similar Soldier B, who shot and killed a teenager given to terrorists was not extended to For it’s Tommy this, and Tommy that,
level of disquiet. who approached an Army patrol during members of the Armed Forces. An’ Chuck him out, the brute.
The Crown Prosecution Service the Troubles in 1972, has died. Yes, we hold the military and the police But it’s Saviour of ’is Country,
decided not to bring charges against the He was accused of murder, but in 2021 to the highest standards. But there is the When the guns begin to shoot . . .

O
ver the past couple of

Oh to be in
20mph blanket speed limit as
weeks I’ve been on a mini Wales? I know I shouldn’t laugh,
but had to chuckle at the news that
Grand Tour, taking in Welsh bus timetables have had to
North Norfolk and North

England
be revised because buses struggle
Yorkshire, both a far cry to get up hills at 20mph.
from my usual North London It’s not funny if you’re trying to
get to work, or hospital. But at least
stomping ground. that dismal Druid Drakeford can
As the poet robert Browning almost feel good about himself.
wrote: Oh, to be in england now that Things will only get worse once
Autumn’s here. The weather was a bit Wales goes all-electric. If you

now Net
hit and miss, but the scenery was can’t afford a Tesla, you’ll have
glorious and the driving, for once, was to treat yourself to a pony and
stress-free. trap, boyo.
For the first time since I bought my (So that’s what they mean by

T
ULeZ-compliant hybrid, I was able to how Green Was My valley.)
drive responsibly without keeping one
eye permanently on the speedo and

Zero’s here?
one foot on the brake pedal.
Thanks to Genghis Khan’s money- he problem with the
grubbing 20mph limits, empty cycle self-righteous, Left-
lanes everywhere, Low Traffic wing metropolitan Net
Neighbourhoods, width restrictions, Zero zealots is that,
yellow boxes, red routes, speed humps, never mind North Norfolk or
absurd one-way systems and, now, North Yorks, they rarely venture
pay-by-app-only parking, owning a car,

No thanks
beyond the North Circular.
even in Outer London, is an ordeal. They should take a leaf out of my
Further afield, away from the main book and try to get out more.
centres of population, driving can be, if Then they might learn how the
not an unbridled joy, then certainly a other half live. Listen to the good
darn sight more relaxing than crawling folk in the Dabbling Duck, Great
along congested suburban streets within Massingham, not the virtue -
the M25. For now, at least, those living in signalling Guardianistas in the
rural areas are spared the attentions of Babbling Berk, Islington.
the eco-zealots and the ULeZ Yes, we all want cleaner air and
tyrants. In Norfolk, North Yorks community is going to manage licence to open up a new gas and along the windmill-pocked M8 in lower emissions, but there’s room
and elsewhere, cars aren’t luxu- when Net Zero forces them to go oil field in the North Sea. But Scotland on my way to Murray- for compromise. It doesn’t have to
ries, they’re essential. But the Net all-electric. where else do they think the power field to see Springsteen. be all-electric or nothing. hybrid

W
Zero nutters are closing in. even if the technology is up is going to come from, especially (As Joni Mitchell might have vehicles, like mine, are a happy
to powering heavy-duty tractors in remote rural areas? Gas and oil observed: They’ve paved paradise medium. They’re self-charging,
and combine harvesters, will will still be needed to supply 25 per and put up another bloody more economical, are happy to
there be enough electricity to cent of our energy needs, even if wind farm.) pootle along on electric power at
heN the ban on meet demand? And, more to the Net Zero targets are hit in 2050. And if plans for more offshore low speeds, and emit far, far fewer
n e w p e t r o l a n d point, where are they going to Admittedly, there’s a giant War wind turbines go ahead, vast pollutants than equivalent cars
d i e s e l v e h i c l e s be plugged in? Of The Worlds wind turbine next swathes of rural Britain, starting even ten years ago.
comes into force — Yesterday, it was reported that to Waitrose in Swaffham, which with Norfolk and essex, are Plus, you don’t have to gamble
albeit now five years later than the owners of electric cars in rural looms over the surrounding going to be scarred by hideous on finding a roadside charger
provisional wing of the polar bear- areas have to drive 13 times countryside like that statue of pylons built to carry the electric- which isn’t either permanently
huggers demanded — it will have a further than those in London Christ the redeemer in rio de ity to urban centres. occupied or out of order. On the
seriously adverse impact on to find a charging point. Janeiro. But I can’t see that being In North Yorks, there were a few way home from North Yorks, I
the countryside. Some english counties have just up to the job, particularly when Teslas knocking around. ripon had to fill up with petrol outside
Bombing around the back-roads a single charger for every ten miles the wind doesn’t blow. and harrogate are pretty wealthy, Pe t e r b o r o u g h . I t t o o k f i v e
of Norfolk and North Yorks, I didn’t of road. Not surprisingly, only North Norfolk has escaped so more folk can afford to go green minutes, tops. The charging
see many Teslas. hybrids were in two per cent of vehicles registered relatively unscathed, so far, from without going broke. even so, points were busy and there were
fairly short supply, too. In farming in these areas are plug-in evs. the turbine terror. At least, charging points are still few and long queues.
country, the internal combustion The Just Stop Oil fanatics, and onshore. (Don’t mention The far between. If I’d have bought an all-electric
engine still rules, OK. deranged metropolitan eco-freaks Wash.) But elsewhere, these bird- england’s green and pleasant ev, rather than a sensible, state-
Sitting over a splendid lunch in such as Zac Goldsmith and the shredding monstrosities blight won’t be safe from the Net Zero of-the-art hybrid, I’d still be there,
the Dabbling Duck, at Great Green Party’s Caroline ‘Looby’ some of the prettiest scenery on nutjobs for much longer. having lost the will to live.
Massingham, I couldn’t help Lucas, are howling about the earth — as I remarked a couple of how long before the rest of the Oh, to be in england now Net
wondering how Norfolk’s rural Government’s decision to grant a months back, after travelling UK is forced to accept the same Zero’s here? No thanks.
Page 18
By David Barrett
Home Affairs Editor
PUBLIC concern over immigra-
tion has jumped to its highest
level for six years, according to
the latest polling.
A survey showed 26 per cent of
adults said it is one of the most
important issues facing Britain
today. That is almost triple the level
seen a year ago, when it was men-
tioned by 9 per cent of those polled,
Ipsos found.
And immigration was the number one
issue among over-65s and Conservative
voters, with 47 per cent of those in both
groups saying it outstripped fears
over inflation and the economy.
Ipsos, which polled 1,000 adults
for its monthly survey on the key
issues on the minds of UK adults,
said concern over immigration
was at its highest since July 2017.
‘Betrayal of the
electorate’
Overall, the economy still topped
voters’ concerns – mentioned by
37 per cent of those polled – fol-
lowed by inflation at 30 per cent
and the NHS at 28 per cent.
Mike Clemence at Ipsos said:
‘Immigration is becoming a bigger
concern, with the proportion men-
tioning it almost doubling since
the start of the year.’
It came as a campaign group
attacked the Tories’ ‘appalling’
record on immigration. Migration
Watch UK, which lobbies for
tougher border controls, said the
Government had allowed too many
lower-skilled foreign workers to
come to Britain, and described the
Conservatives’ immigration policy
as a ‘betrayal of the electorate’.
The intervention by the group
V1 Daily Mail, Friday, September 29, 2023
Migration fears Eco-zealots
found guilty
over Lord’s
at their highest
pitch invasion
By Sabrina Miller
level in six years
INFAMOUS eco-radical Daniel
Knorr has been found guilty of
aggravated trespass after he
stormed Lord’s cricket ground
during an Ashes Test match.
The Oxford biochemistry stu-
dent, 21, was one of three Just
Stop Oil activists to run on to
the field and throw orange
Europe court ‘beyond reform’ powder into the air. Footage of
Knorr being hauled off by Eng-
land wicketkeeper Jonny
THE ‘arrogant’ European Court of its arrogant self-assurance... is Bairstow was subsequently
Human Rights is incapable of being capable of changing direction.’ beamed around the world.
reformed, according to one of Writing in the Spectator maga- Judit Murray, 69, and Jacob
Britain’s leading legal minds. zine, Lord Sumption said by Bourne, 27, were also found
Lord Sumption, an ex-Supreme expanding its remit the court had guilty of aggravated trespass
Court justice, said the ‘unwieldy’ made itself ‘a legislative and politi- during a trial at City of London
institution had ‘devalued the cal authority for the whole of Magistrates’ Court yesterday.
whole concept of human rights’. Europe’. He added there is ‘no rea- All three attempted to run on
‘I once thought the Strasbourg son’ why UK courts ‘should not be to the field on June 28, while
court could be reformed from trusted to enforce human rights wearing Just Stop Oil T-shirts.
within,’ he said. ‘But I no longer without usurping the functions of Knorr told the court: ‘It was
not a surprise I was intercepted.
believe this unwieldy body with its democratic institutions in the way
Blast: Lord Sumption isolated splendour in Strasbourg, the Strasbourg court has done’. It was a bit of a surprise it was
one of the cricket players.’
comes after Home Secretary Suella six-fold rise in skill-related work Mehmet said: ‘The Government’s Last week the Mail revealed
Braverman delivered a provoca- visas for non-EU main applicants attempts to focus now on asylum Knorr is now leading Just Stop
tive speech this week calling for a from 27,000 to 159,200,’ it said. will not fool the public. Allowing Oil’s student recruitment drive,
global re-think of asylum laws. In a ‘Nearly 60 per cent of all foreign immigration to continue at any- hoping to inspire them to join
report published today, Migration workers in the UK are in jobs that thing like present levels will change illegal slow-march protests in
Watch noted the 2019 Tory elec- are not highly-skilled – just over the nature of the country within a London in November. He has
tion manifesto pledged the immi- three million people.’ The propor- generation.’ The Home Office said
bragged about hiding the
gration system would prioritise the tion of skilled work permits being it is committed to reducing net
‘brightest and the best’. But the granted for below-graduate level migration, adding: ‘We will con- orange powder inside bread to
report said the pledge turned out jobs rose from 11 per cent in 2021 tinue to strike the right balance smuggle it into the cricket
to be ‘the reverse of the truth’. to 62 per cent this year, it added. between supporting the economy ground. All three will be sen-
‘Since 2019, there has been a near Migration Watch chairman Alp and protecting resident workers.’ tenced on October 24.
Daily Mail, Friday, September 29, 2023 Page 19

Will AI shades see Could Haley

the hawk be
a challenger

off the tour guide?

By Jim Norton
to Trump?
Mail Foreign Service
A FORMER state governor has
emerged as a possible chal-
lenger to Donald Trump after a
strong performance in the US
Technology Editor HOW GLASSES PUT SIGHTSEERS IN THE FRAME Republican primaries.
Nikki Haley, who was South
THEY are near the top of most Carolina governor before being
travellers’ packing checklists. 1 Wearer views a sight on their holiday appointed UN ambassador, has
And now sunglasses could become received the backing of some
even more of a holiday essential thanks 4 Republican donors. But the
to a technology which will see them former president has benefited
double as an electronic tour guide. 3 the most from the debates so
Luxury brand Ray-Ban has teamed up far, despite not being there.
with Meta – the firm behind Instagram In heated exchanges Ms Haley
and Facebook – to incorporate AI tech- derided one rival, biotech mil-
nology inside the frames. With cameras, 2 lionaire Vivek Ramaswamy, say-
ing: ‘Honestly, every time I hear
‘See what you see and you, I feel a little bit dumber.’
hear what you hear’ Politicians took swipes at Mr
Trump, who is embroiled in
microphones and speakers, the glasses Cameras then record the scene and send legal cases, for ‘ducking’ a
will allow the user to ask for information 2 images and video back to an AI chatbot seven-way presidential debate.
of what they are seeing, or get help trans- But he has a 54 per cent poll
lating signs or menus. Microphones pick up any questions the lead, with nearest rival Ron
Tourists will also be able to share their 3 wearer might have and send them back DeSantis at 20 per cent.
experiences with friends and family back Republican donors have
home by streaming videos live on social Speakers on the frame just above the ears reportedly fallen out of love
media, or sending photos back instantly.
The smart glasses are among the first
4 can then provide the chatbot’s answers with Mr DeSantis. One, who
devices to use Meta’s new AI chatbots – gave his campaign $1million,
technology which aims to mimic said Ms Haley had shown her-
human conversation. instantly be able to give users feed- many times over, the latest exam- be an important platform in the self to be a foreign policy hawk,
The company says the chatbots back on what they are looking at. ple being the Google Glass model future... because soon you’ll be
the Daily Telegraph reported.
will have ‘personality’ and be tai- However, tour guides who might scrapped earlier this year. able to let your AI see what you
‘Until the first debate, I hadn’t
lored to specialise in certain sub- be fearing for their future will be Meta says it is confident that by see and hear what you hear.’
seen her force of will and her
jects, such as travel. encouraged by smart glasses’ making its sunglasses stylish and The £245 glasses, weighing not
Using real-time information chequered history. Often touted comfortable to wear, it will buck much more than an ordinary pair presence,’ they said.
cross-referenced against a library as ‘the next big thing’, they have the trend. Product manager Hind of Ray-Bans, will be available in ‘I absolutely would consider
of images and data, they will been launched unsuccessfully Hobeika said: ‘Smart glasses will Britain from next month. donating to her.’
Goodbye to the
Page 20 Daily Mail, Friday, September 29, 2023

by Richard
Kay
EDITOR AT LARGE

F
oR those who like their screenen
heroes larger than life, Sir ir
Michael Gambon, who has as
ed
died at the age of 82, fulfilled
an awful lot of fantasies.
K/CAMERA PRESS

From the bedridden crime writer in The he

Singing Detective whose naked body is
slathered in lotion by an alluringly beautifulful
Joanne Whalley to the all-knowing Dumble- le-
dore — be-whiskered headmaster of the he
wizarding school Hogwarts in the Harry ry
Pictures: SHUTTERSTOC

Potter franchise — and sadistic crime boss ss

eddie Temple in layer cake, his roles were as
complex and obscure as the man himself.
WIFE
WITH HIS LOVER
He was the master of the disarming one- ne-
liner, telling one interviewer who wondered d if
it was difficult to play the homosexual author or
oscar Wilde for a TV film that it was easy sy
since he used to be gay himself. After a Gambon began affair with Philippa Hart in 2000. They had two sons Anne remained married to the star for 61 years
theatrical pause he added: ‘i had to give it up
up.
it made my eyes water.’

His unmistakably rich voice lit up a

Such light-hearted dissembling, along with
playing practical jokes on everyone from
fellow actors to his own devoutly catholic
mother — who believed his story that he once

string of classics from the Harry Potter

appeared on stage with the future Pope John
Paul ii — was all part of Gambon’s near-
obsessive preservation of his privacy.
one reason, perhaps, was the double-life he

movies to The Singing Detective. But

led. on the one hand there was Anne, his
mathematician wife of 61 years, and their son
Fergus, a ceramics expert who has appeared
on the BBc’s Antiques Roadshow, and who

behind Michael Gambon’s deliberately

were both at his hospital bedside when he
died following a bout of pneumonia.
And then there was set designer Philippa
Hart, 25 year his junior and with whom he had
two further children.

enigmatic public persona was a complex

For some, maintaining such a complicated
domestic life would be an impossible burden
— but not Sir Michael, who was knighted in
1999 for services to drama. For more than a

double life with a wife in Kent and

decade he played the dual role of lord of the
manor at the £5 million marital home he
shared with lady Gambon near Gravesend,
Kent — while also being an adoring father to

a London lover 25 years his junior

his teenage sons Tom and Will at Philippa’s

B
house in West london.

Y All accounts, the

arrangement — for
Gambon, at least — was
a happy one. ‘Michael
was never happier than when his
boys were on the set,’ Hetty
Baynes, who appeared opposite
him in The casual Vacancy, told
the Mail in 2015.
‘They were so sweet, and you can
see he absolutely adores them. But
i’m sure they run him ragged.
Having a child later in life can be an
exhausting thing, but it brings so
much joy. But Philippa is amazing.
She does an awful lot of the work
and she’s absolutely delightful.’
Gambon was 67 when he became
a father second time around.
This was a rare insight into the
intensely private Sir Michael’s life.
His affair with Ms Hart began in
2000 when they worked together
on the film longitude, in which he
starred as the 18th-century watch-
maker John Harrison.
Within a year of their meeting, he
was openly introducing Philippa, an
attractive brunette, as his girlfriend
to Dame Maggie Smith and other clocks and watches, were his pride know about you, the better. ideally often took the form of ‘corpsing’ to
cast members on the set of his next and joy. an actor should be a blank canvas.’ test his fellow actors’ ability to
film Gosford Park, in which he indeed, his love of motoring saw in many ways, irish-born Gambon keep a straight face. in one poorly
played a philandering aristocrat. him making an appearance on Top was an accidental actor. He left attended matinee of the Russian
And while his wife was initially Gear in 2002. His drive in the
school at 15 with no qualifications, playwright Anton chekhov’s work
said to have been devastated by the famous ‘star in a reasonably priced then took up an apprenticeship as Uncle Vanya, Gambon took excep-
news, with Sir Michael moving out car’ segment saw him take the final
a toolmaker with Vickers - tion to the presence of a painter
of their village home, she seemingly corner on two wheels, completing Armstrong. By the age of 21, he and his easel in the front stalls,
came to terms with the arrange- the then-fastest lap in wet weather.
was a fully qualified engineer but doing a portrait of his co-star Greta
ment, because he subsequently The producers were so impressed only worked for a year before giving Scacchi during the performance.
moved back in. they named the corner after him.
it up to act. in one scene, Gambon’s Vanya
As his young sons grew, he divided Gambon became one of Britain’s He is said to have written to an has to pick up a heavy samovar
his time between the two families, most prolific actors on stage,
irish impresario including a cV filled with water and rush across
speeding between london and television and film. But of his own with an imaginary theatre career. stage with it. But Gambon unex-
Kent in his selection of classic cars life he was deliberately vague.
But with such an unusual back pectedly went off-script, feigning a
including a Ferrari, Mercedes and Asked about his wife, he once
story, the challenge over the years trip and emptying the samovar
Audi R8 which, along with his enigmatically replied: ‘What wife?’,
passion for collecting antique guns, before adding: ‘The less people has been establishing fact from over the unfortunate artist — who
fiction, not least because he made fled, never to be seen again.
up so many myths about himself. As he told the New York Times
He told several interviewers that critic Mel Gussow, actors have to
‘Michael was just a magnificent he used to be a ballet dancer (in
truth, he wished he could have
been) but had to give it up after fall-
be childish because acting itself is
a childish thing, showing off, dress-
ing up and saying: ‘look at me. i
trickster. There was nothing like ing off stage into the orchestra pit
and landing on the kettle drum.
His mischief-making earned him
can’t think of any other reason why
people do it.’
Acting did not run in the family:
him, he could do anything’ a reputation as a compulsive
theatrical prankster. on stage, this
his mother was a seamstress while
his father, a machine operator,
Great Gambon
Daily Mail, Friday, September 29, 2023
Wizard acting: Gambon as Albus Dumbledore, a role he took on after the death of Richard Harris
moved to London after World War
II to find work in the building
trade. Gambon always maintained
his mother never understood what
he did: after once telling her he
was playing King Lear, she thought
he meant King Kong, or at least
that’s the story he told. He also
claimed that he once faked having
a heart attack at the controls of
his single engine light aircraft — he
had a pilot’s licence for years — to
wind up fellow actor Terence
Rigby, who had a fear of flying. ‘I
did the whole thing, gasping, col-
lapsing against the side, then I
said: “Just a bit of indigestion.” He
was furious.’
But that was in the future. His
acting actually began with a spell
as a stage - carpenter and set
builder and his first role as ‘Second
Gentleman’ in a production of
Othello at Dublin’s Gate Theatre.
He claimed he then bluffed his
way to the attention of theatre
great Sir Laurence Olivier, who
was recruiting for Britain’s new
national theatre company as a
spear-carrier.
The breakthrough that led the
actor Ralph Richardson to
describe him as ‘the great Gambon’
came with a performance in
Brecht’s The Life Of Galileo at
London’s National Theatre in 1980.
The NT’s then-artistic director
Peter Hall said he was ‘unsenti-
mental, dangerous and immensely
powerful’. He went on to win three
Olivier awards for performances in
National Theatre productions.
But while the theatre was his
first love, it was his TV and
screen roles that made him a
household name.
Decades after appearing in
Dennis Potter’s The Singing
Detective in 1986, he confessed to
attempting to seduce his
glamorous co-star, Miss Whalley,
who was 24 years his junior.
‘I tried it, but no luck. I loved
Joanne Whalley. I got to know her
quite well. I tried. Even Dennis
Potter whispered to me when we
were talking about her and he
Star of TV: Nursed by Joanne Whalley in The Singing Detective
Class act: A drink with Hayley Atwell in Brideshead Revisited
said: “Any luck?”’ One scene fea-
tured Gambon’s character having
lotion applied to his body by Miss
Whalley’s nurse to ease the pain of
his skin condition. The actor
joked: ‘The greasing was good. We
rehearsed it ten times.’
There was more success as the
pipe-smoking French detective
Maigret and appearances in
arthouse films such as The Cook,
The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
with Helen Mirren, as well as the
spooky Sleepy Hollow.
In Layer Cake he starred with a
young Daniel Craig — yet to be
unveiled as James Bond — as a
vicious drug dealer. But his biggest
role was as Albus Dumbledore in
the Harry Potter films, taking over
from Richard Harris after the
latter’s death in 2002.
Fiona Shaw, who played Petunia
Dursley in the films, told BBC
Radio 4’s The World At One: ‘He
varied his career remarkably and
never judged what he was doing,
he just played.’
She said she would always think
of him ‘as a trickster, just a brilliant,
magnificent trickster’, adding:
‘With text, there was nothing like
him. He could do anything.’
His other film work included the
big-screen adaptation of Dad’s
Army (he played Private Godfrey),
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Picture: BBC FILMS
Gosford Park and The King’s
Speech, in which he portrayed
George V, father of the stammering
King George VI. He also starred in
Brideshead Revisited with Hayley
Atwell.
He lent his rich voice to many
films such as Uncle Pastuzo in
both Paddington movies and as
the narrator in the George Clooney
H
vehicle Hail, Caesar!
E WAS nominated for
an Emmy for playing
President Lyndon B
Johnson in the TV
series The Path To War in 2002 and
appeared in the Kevin Costner’s
western Open Range.
But abruptly in 2015 he had to
give up stage work after revealing
that because of memory loss he
could no longer learn his lines. For
a while his words were fed to him
through an earpiece by a full-time
assistant, but eventually that too
no longer worked.
Happily, his catalogue of films
and TV shows means that
Gambon’s unmistakeable voice
will remain part of our cultural
heritage. But with his double life
he will also remain something of
an enigma.
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All I want now is to
hug my wife and kids
...and hear the sound of silence, says astronaut
who broke record by spending over a year in space
Down to Earth: Landing in Kazakhstan
Welcome home: He climbs out of capsule
NASA astronaut Frank
Rubio has returned to Earth
after breaking the record
for the longest continuous
mission in space ever com-
pleted by an American.
After 371 days aboard the
International Space Station
(ISS) and orbiting the Earth
5,936 times, Rubio safely arrived
in Kazakhstan alongside his
two Russian crewmates, Sergey
Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin.
Rubio also became the first
American to spend a year in orbit.
Space odyssey: Frank Rubio gives a thumbs-up after completing 371 days aboard the ISS
By Wiliam Hunter
Asked what he was looking for-
ward to most, father-of-four Rubio
said that ‘hugging my wife and
kids is going to be paramount, and
I’ll probably focus on that for the
first couple of days’.
He also said that he was excited
at the prospect of enjoying the
‘trees and silence’ of his garden at
home after a year spent amid the
constant hum of the ISS’s life-
supporting machinery.
However, breaking records was
not the original intention of
Rubio’s trip, as the mission was
only planned to last six months.
Rubio and his crewmates had
hoped to return to Earth in March
but became trapped aboard the
ISS when their original Soyuz
spacecraft sprung a coolant leak
after it was hit by a micrometeor-
ite or piece of space debris.
Space junk is an increasingly
dangerous problem as more satel-
lites are launched, leaving clouds
of cosmic litter that risk clogging
up near-Earth orbits.
In a press conference from
aboard the ISS, Rubio said that if
he had been asked to spend a year
in space before starting training,
Daily Mail, Friday, September 29, 2023
he most likely would have said
‘thank you but no thank you’.
He was selected to be an astro-
naut in 2017 after serving 600
hours of combat as a UH-60 Black
Hawk helicopter pilot in Bosnia,
Afghanistan, and Iraq.
Following post-landing medical
checks Rubio will return to Kara-
ganda in Kazakhstan, before
boarding a plane back to Houston.
Nasa administrator Bill Nelson
said that the record-breaking jour-
ney was not just a milestone but
also a ‘major contribution to our
understanding of long-duration
space missions’.
Why just 3%
of overweight
Britons get
help to slim
By Victoria Allen
Science Editor
ONLY 3 per cent of overweight
and obese people are being
referred to weight loss pro-
grammes, a study has found.
Men are 31 per cent less likely
than women to be sent to slim-
ming classes or schemes tack-
ling their diet and fitness.
Middle-class patients are less
likely to be referred than those
from deprived backgrounds.
People in rural areas are less
likely to be sent for help.
Researchers looked at about
1.8 million people recorded as
overweight or obese in Eng-
land between 2007 and 2020.
They found only 3.1 per cent
were referred by their GP or
another healthcare profes-
sional to a weight-loss scheme.
Dr Karen Coulman, who led
the study, said some health pro-
fessionals did not raise patients’
weight for fear of ‘stigmatising’
them. She added: ‘We need bet-
ter training so doctors and
‘We need better
training’
other healthcare professionals
feel more confident in having
these conversations.’
The research, published in the
journal PLOS Medicine, looked
at community-based pro-
grammes such as slimming
classes and dietitian referrals.
It said men may be less likely
than women to be referred
because they are reluctant to
discuss their weight.
And those in rural areas could
be missing out due to a lack of
weight management groups.
The study found the least
deprived are 16 per cent less
likely to be referred than the
most deprived, possibly because
their doctors see them less.
It said doctors should not rely
too heavily on online diet and
exercise programmes, which
may not work for older people
who prefer face-to-face help.
Daily Mail, Friday, September 29, 2023 Page 23

Capability Green Wonky pub

blaze: Man
and woman
are arrested
A ‘biodiverse’ By Liz Hull
A MAN and a woman have been

revamp for arrested in connection with a

fire which gutted ‘Britain’s
wonkiest pub’.

historic garden
The 260-year-old Crooked
House in the village of Himley,
near Dudley in the Midlands
was severely damaged in the
By Colin Fernandez blaze on August 5 before being
Environment Editor reduced to rubble without
local authority permission.
Staffordshire police yesterday
THE formal garden at Wimpole confirmed that a woman of 34
has been a source of beauty and and a man of 44, both from
delight for some 300 years. Leicestershire, had been
But, like so many things these days, arrested on suspicion of con-
climate change means the 1.3 acre spiracy to commit arson with
plot on a country estate in Cam- intent or being reckless as to
bridgeshire must change. whether life was endangered.
The parterre – a series of box-hedged
triangular beds planted with annual
They have been released on
bedding plants and bulbs – is now conditional police bail.
looked after by the National Trust and Three other men, aged 66, 51
is part of a property landscaped by and 33, previously arrested on
Capability Brown. suspicion of arson with intent
The Trust says the planting scheme is Ornate: The parterre at Wimpole in Cambridgeshire is getting more difficult to look after to endanger life, also remain
increasingly unsustainable on conditional bail, police said.
because it needs so much water- den that can withstand significant at Wimpole was created in the for a bold new chapter.’ Capability The pub had been sold by
ing and requires regular replace- temperature changes, where 17th century but was swept away Brown, the 18th century figure brewers Marston’s to ATE Farms
ment. The charity also said the there’s less need for watering and when fashions changed in the 18th viewed as the father of English
Ltd, owned by former nail tech-
garden is under stress from cold replacing plants and, therefore, a century. It was revived in the 19th landscape design, is said to have
nician, Carly Taylor, on July 27.
winds and drought. lower carbon footprint. century before being lost again. laid out a lake at Wimpole.
It has appointed a landscape ‘It will be less susceptible to Andy Jasper, Trust director of Biodegradable bags produce Her husband Adam is a share-
architect team to make it a more pests and disease, improve the gardens and parklands, said: ‘When more toxins than conventional holder and ex-director of Him-
sustainable, climate-resilient and condition of the soil and reduce we took on Wimpole, the parterre plastic ones when they break ley Environmental Ltd, which
biodiverse. It is not clear how or if the stress from the extreme had been lost for several decades. down, according to the Spanish runs a landfill site next to the
its distinctive layout will change. weather conditions becoming The scheme was created in the National Research Council, possi- pub. They live in a gated com-
Tom Fradd, head gardener at Wim- more prevalent in East Anglia.’ 1990s to replicate what had been bly because of chemicals used to pound between Hinckley and
pole, said: ‘We need to create a gar- The Trust said the first parterre there in the 19th century. It is time make them biodegradable. Lutterworth, Leicestershire.
Page 24 Daily Mail, Friday, September 29, 2023

‘Dramatic’ ice loss sees 10% of

Swiss glaciers melt in two years
SWITZERLAND has lost 10 per cent of its
glaciers in the past two years as hot
summers and a lack of snow ‘dramati-
cally’ accelerate the loss of ice.
A Swiss Academy of Sciences panel is
reporting quicker melting speeds in the
country – which has the most glaciers in
Europe with an estimated 1,400.
It lost 4 per cent of its total glacier vol-
ume in 2023 – the second-biggest decline
in one year – on top of a 6 per cent drop
in 2022, the academy’s commission for
cryosphere observation said. The acad-
By Colin Fernandez
Environment Editor
emy said: ‘The acceleration is dramatic,
with as much ice being lost in only two
years as... between 1960 and 1990.’
Matthias Huss, of the GLAMOS monitor-
ing centre, which participated in the
research, said in an interview Switzer-
land has lost up to 1,000 small glaciers.
The team said the ice loss stemmed
from a winter with very low volumes of
snow and high summer temperatures.

Rishi hints HS2

cash could be
better spent on
fixing potholes
RISHI Sunak yester-
day hinted he was
ready to scrap the
Manchester leg of HS2
– and suggested the
money could be put to
better use on other
forms of transport.
During a bruising round
of interviews with local
BBC radio stations, the
Prime Minister ducked
more than a dozen ques-
tions about whether the
troubled rail line would
ever reach Manchester.
He confirmed the project
was under review to ensure
‘we get value for money’.
And he suggested the esti-
mated £35 billion saved
could be better spent fund-
ing other transport projects,
such as new rail lines con-
necting northern cities,
improved rural buses, or
even fixing potholes.
Whitehall sources con-
firmed that the Prime Min-
ister was all but convinced
that the soaring cost of the
flagship rail scheme, which
By Jason Groves
Political Editor
began life under the last
Labour government, can no
longer be justified.
But the plan has triggered
a huge political backlash,
and a formal decision has
been put on hold until after
the Conservatives hold their
annual conference in Man-
chester this weekend.
Mr Sunak said there were
already ‘spades in the
‘Huge political
backlash’
ground’ on the first phase of
HS2, which will run from
Birmingham to Old Oak
Common in west London.
But he repeatedly refused
to confirm the line would be
extended to Manchester, or
whether it would run into
Euston in central London
as planned.
The PM denied that cur-
tailing the high-speed line
at Birmingham would be a
‘betrayal’ of the North,
Take a break! Coffee cup
that turns into a biscuit
pointing to his own creden-
tials as MP for Richmond, in FANCY a biscuit with your coffee
North Yorkshire.
that’s also a tasty way to save the
He told BBC Radio York: planet? Zero Green, an eco-friendly
‘When I speak to people store in Bristol, is serving hot
when I’m at home or any-
where else around, what eve-
drinks in a thick wheat and barley
ryone tells me is that you’ve wafer cup which can be eaten after
you’ve had your caffeine fix.
got to make it easier to get
around all our northern The Cupffee lasts 40 minutes
towns and cities, whether before going soggy, leaving a recy-
it’s Hull, York, Leeds, Shef- clable paper sleeve. A Zero Green
field, all the way over to Liv- barista said: ‘This is as close to a
erpool. Connecting all those zero-waste cup as we can get.’
cities up is really important
and we’re doing that.
‘But we’re also investing in
the local transport that peo-
ple use every day, making
sure that our potholes are
filled, making sure that our
bus services are running.’
Asked to say ‘yes or no –
are you scrapping the HS2
line between Birmingham
and Manchester?’, he said:
‘I’m not speculating about
future things.’
Martin McTague, chairman
of the Federation of Small
Businesses, said scrapping
the Manchester leg would be Good enough to eat: Zero Green’s Cupffee
a ‘huge letdown’.
 Daily Mail, Friday, September 29, 2023
The PhD student
who built terror
drone to carry
a bomb for IS
A PHD engineering student is
facing prison after being convicted
of building a kamikaze drone for
the Islamic State terror group.
Mohamad Al-Bared, 26, whose parents
are both doctors, copied the design of a
Tomahawk missile to build the device,
which was capable of delivering a bomb
or chemical weapon over a distance of
five miles. The mechanical engineering
Victims in ‘limbo’ as backlog in
courts hits record 65,000 cases
THE crown court backlog has soared to
a record high of nearly 65,000 cases,
new figures revealed yesterday.
It means victims of crime are facing
years of delay before getting justice.
Ministry of Justice (MoJ) data showed
English and Welsh crown courts had 64,709
cases on the books at the end of June, up
four per cent on the previous quarter.
The MoJ has set a target to cut the
backlog to 53,000 by March 2025, but
progress over recent months has gone
into reverse. Tana Adkin KC, chairman of
By George Odling
and Duncan Gardham
graduate made the wings on a 3D printer
and sent weekly updates to IS so his
designs could be replicated.
The terror group was so impressed by the
student’s work that it shared one of his vid-
eos in a propaganda film on the encrypted
messaging app Telegram.
Police who raided Al-Bared’s family home
By David Barrett Home Affairs Editor
the Criminal Bar Association, said vic-
tims, witnesses and defendants were
being ‘held in limbo’.
‘If justice is not served in good time, it
is not served at all,’ she said, calling on
the Government to ensure resources
are available to help clear the backlog.
The MoJ said it was ‘letting courts run
at full throttle’ as ‘more criminal cases
are now reaching the crown court than
at any point over the last two years’.
in Coventry in January found the drone in
his bedroom along with a completed appli-
cation form for IS membership, in which he
had stated he had a master’s degree in elec-
tronic engineering.
He was yesterday found guilty of preparing
acts of terrorism by researching and devel-
oping an unmanned aerial vehicle, sharing
technical design details and registering a
UK company as false cover for travel abroad
to join Islamic State.
A judge told him to expect a lengthy jail
term when he returns to Birmingham Crown
Court for sentencing in November.
Al-Bared, who has a mechanical engineer-
ing degree from Coventry University, a mas-
ter’s from Warwick University and was stud-
‘A lengthy sentence
is inevitable’
ying for a PhD at Birmingham University,
told his IS contacts in January that he
wanted to leave Britain and join them.
He registered a fake food import-export
firm with Companies House as cover for the
trip and was advised by the terrorist group
to travel to Turkey then on to Nigeria.
Al-Bared, a keen gardener who grew fruit
and vegetables in an allotment, had a docu-
ment called ‘Science of explosives’ with
handwritten notes on the properties of
phosgene, a poisonous gas used during the
First World War, along with documents on
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Deadly:
Al-Bared built
this drone with
the help of a
3D printer
sarin gas and the poison ricin. The student’s
parents were both in court as the unani-
mous guilty verdict was returned. Al-Bared’s
mother broke down in tears and had to be
helped from the courtroom.
Judge Paul Farrer KC told Al-Bared: ‘You
have been convicted of an offence of the
utmost gravity. A lengthy prison sentence in
the inevitable consequence of it but the
length and nature of the sentence is a mat-
ter for careful consideration.
‘The court will benefit from a risk assess-
ment from the probation service in relation
to dangerousness.’
Al-Bared’s parents were born in Syria but
moved to study medicine in Romania, where
they had their three children and remained for
20 years. The family settled in Britain in 2014.
Det Chief Supt Mark Payne, head of Coun-
ter-Terrorism Policing West Midlands, said
Al-Bared was a ‘really, really dangerous indi-
vidual who was quite some way towards
helping to instigate an attack by IS’.
‘Anybody who has the qualifications and
the knowledge and the skills that he has,
that gives them a dimension that they don’t
seem currently to possess,’ he added.
‘He’s a prized asset and somebody who,
I’m sure, would be very valuable to them.’
Page 26 Daily Mail, Friday, September 29, 2023

Don’t bring politics

into ITV Ripper drama Are you
The Long Shadow is a thinking
what she’s
new ITV drama about the
Yorkshire Ripper case, for
once focusing on the
victims instead of the

madman who killed them.
It is beautifully acted,
scripted and produced —
but is it my imagination or
is Margaret Thatcher
being blamed for these
terrible murders? In the
first episode, much is
made of the economic
situation that faced the
UK in the 1970s. The tacit
suggestion seems to be that
it was cruel Tory economic
policies that forced these
women on to the streets.
emily Jackson (played by
Katherine Kelly, pictured)
was Sutcliffe’s second
victim, shown here as a
hard-up mum who became
a prostitute to buy
Christmas presents for her
kids. Yes, emily was an
innocent woman who met
a terrible death, but let’s
not turn this into a Tory-
bashing fairy tale. The
person to blame for
emily’s death — and all
the other murders — was
Peter Sutcliffe. No one else.
THE horror of the machete
attack near a London bus stop
is absolutely chilling — but this is
what happens when young men
feel free to roam the streets
of the capital armed with knives
and machetes.
They do so with impunity
because they know they are not
going to get stopped and
searched. The London Mayor is
thinking?
against stop and search, no sur-
prises there. Yet while it wouldn’t
solve everything, it might make
some troublemakers think twice
about leaving home with a knife.
The police need more powers to
keep the streets safe. Especially
when they are dealing with
youths who don’t seem to
understand the consequences of
their actions.
jan.moir@dailymail.co.uk
MICK JAGGER hints that
he might bequeath his
$500 million fortune to charity
instead of leaving it to his eight
children by four different women.
But his children have already
won the golden lottery ticket of
life, living the kind of gilded exist-
ence that only nepo babies know.
Let’s put it this way, none of them
is doing a shift in a factory.
Karis, 52, is a Netflix executive

Terrifying drug epidemic Braverman must stop

Suella Braverman shrugs and says it is
‘inevitable’ that fentanyl will soon flood the
uK’s drug market.
Talk about giving up before the going gets
tough. Surely the Home Secretary should be
doing everything, everything, everything in her
power to stop the horror of fentanyl from
reaching these shores. For every narcotic we
have seen before — spice, heroin, crack, opium,
ketamine — is a picnic compared with the
devastating effects of this dead-end drug.
at the moment, Braverman is on a u.S. trip to
see first-hand evidence of the country’s
horrendous opioid crisis. I hope it shocks her to
the core because opioids are wrecking america.
last year, almost 110,000 people died — a
record — most of them youths. I saw such peo-
ple staggering around los angeles when I was
last there, zombies living on the streets, their
lives ruined, their deaths soon and inevitable.
San Francisco, once the most beautiful of all
american cities, has been ravaged, with the
downtown area almost a no-go zone. The
streets of Philadelphia are ground zero for the
opioid crisis, where new and even worse strains
of the drug are emerging. The latest horror is
producer; Jade, 51, is a jewellery
designer; Elizabeth, 39, is a model;
James, 38, is an actor; Georgia, 31,
is also a model; Gabriel, 25, ‘has a
something called Tranq Dope — a mix of fen- website’; Lucas, 24,
tanyl and a veterinary drug called xylazine, travels and ‘likes
which is used as a sedative for cows and fashion’ while Dev-
horses. It is sold on the streets for just a few eraux ‘likes petting
dollars and is popular because it maximises sheep’, but that
the opioid hit — at a terrible cost. It literally is OK because
rots people’s skin, causing raw wounds which, he is only six
if untreated, lead to the need for amputation. years old. Any-
The Government can’t stop people coming
to Britain illegally; now they can’t stop these way, none of
terrifying drugs coming in illegally. We are not them is going to
a sovereign state any more, we are a pathetic starve, so save
free-for-all. How did this happen? your tears, dears.
 Jan
Daily Mail, Friday, September 29, 2023
MOIR
There was me
thinking the
do-good dopes
of Montecito
couldn’t sink
any lower
J
ust when you
think Meghan and
H a r r y c o u l d n’ t
possibly sink to
new depths, they
go 20,000 fathoms deeper
into the sludge.
Just when I think I am done with
this couple of do-good dopes,
believing myself to be indifferent
to any more of their conceits
a n d g h a s t l y, h o l l o w e d - o u t
souls, they go and exceed all
negative expectations.
this week documents have
come to light detailing arrange-
ments for a visit the couple made
to a primary school in New York
in september 2021.
staff and the class of seven-year-
old pupils involved were asked to
sign a release form sent by
Archewell that prevented them
from making negative statements
about the event or the Duke or
Duchess of sussex; posting about
it on social media; or attempting
to make any money in the future
from their involvement. that was
Archewell’s job, after all.
Release forms in the film indus-
try are nothing new, but the level
of secrecy the sussexes insisted
upon and the gagging clauses
they pressed on teachers and
pupils alike is staggering.
the head of the CIA could slip
into the Kremlin with fewer confi-
dentiality clauses. Roosevelt and
Churchill met in secret to bang
out the Atlantic Charter with less
fuss. Not for the first time the
question has to be asked: who do
Harry and Meghan think they
are? And what is it about the
prospect of openness and trans-
parency they fear so terribly?
Back then, Meghan had just
published her first children’s
book, the Bench. Do you remem-
ber it? What a load of old toot. It
made Budgie the Little Helicop-
ter, written by the Duchess of
York several decades earlier, seem
like Proust.
the Bench was 169 words long,
inspired by the birth of the
HAVE you tried to get a
doctor’s appointment
recently? It is a desperate task,
when you almost have to prove
you are at death’s door before
you can secure a face-to-face
with your GP. So it is rather
galling to hear that two-thirds of
GPs are opting to work part
time. Do you know why they are
working reduced hours, even
during this health crisis? Because
they can afford to, that is why.
sussexes’ son, Archie, and aimed
to celebrate the relationship
between a father and a son in
rhyming couplets. Although,
please, no one mention the rela-
tionship between Harry and his
father, which has since gone from
bad to worse to non-speaks.
Meghan dedicated her book to
‘the man and the boy who make
my heart go pump-pump’, which
gives you an idea of the level of
literacy on display.
You’d think she’d want to keep
the whole embarrassing project
under wraps, but instead she
planned a visit to this carefully
chosen inner-city school in Har-
lem, which has a 91 per cent black
and Hispanic student population,
95 per cent of whom qualify for
free or reduced-price lunches. It
was perfectly underprivileged, in
other words.
the sussexes’ team did insist
upon new cushions for the children
to sit on during the ‘read aloud’ in
the school grounds. For if poverty
is regrettable, at least it can be
photogenic. Especially when the
sussexes’ Netflix crew was filming
every oh-so-casually humanitarian
moment for the Harry & Meghan
documentary, which was released
in December 2022.
For what was this event, except a
promotional exercise to plug the
Bench? Emails from Archewell to
the school detailed the 11 broad-
cast outlets, 17 photographers and
the words
love story
seven reporters who would attend
the event, while greasily urging the
school to say it was a charity event
and not something ‘promotion-ey’.
this is the kind of humdrum event
the Royal Family in the uK take
part in any day of the week. the dif-
ference is they do this as part of
charity work or investment in local
initiatives and sundry worthy
causes for the good of others rather
than themselves. Certainly not to
punt a crummy book they’ve writ-
ten while pretending to be royals in
exile in a country that is a republic.
And don’t quote the Duchess of
York and Budgie at me, because
at least when she did it, she didn’t
strangle the freedoms of the poor
urchins corralled into listening to
her deathly prose.
Of course, any filming involving
children comes with complica-
tions, put in place to protect the
innocent from being exploited.
I can’t stop thinking about those
poor kids in Harlem, believing
that someone was taking a genu-
ine interest in them; that this nice
lady in the diamonds was coming
L
along to read them a funny story.
IttLE did they realise
they were merely unpaid
extras in an ongoing
production called st
Harry & st Meghan: the Cru-
sader Years. And made to sit on a
nice clean cushion to boot.
It is no secret that the Duke and
Duchess of sussex have gone to
desperate lengths to protect the
privacy of their own children.
since Archie and Lilibet were
born, all the public has seen are
pixelated baby faces, a foot here,
the back of a head there. It all
seems rather ridiculous, but if
that is what they want, then fine.
However, when it comes to
respecting the privacy of other
children, or honouring their rights
as fellow citizens of the world who
are free to express their own opin-
ions, a very different set of rules
applies. typical.
Page 27
Taylor
can write
to this
TAYLOR SWIFT once
wrote a song called
Fifteen, urging teenage
girls not to sweat the
small stuff.
‘In your life you’ll do
things greater than
dating the boy on the
football team,’ she
sang, in her young but
oh-so-wise way.
Yet all these years
later, here she is, dating
the boy on the football
team — and it is just
too fabulous.
Travis Kelce (below) is
an all-American hero
who plays for the Kan-
sas City Chiefs, and
when Taylor attended
one of his matches this
week it was such big
news in the U.S. that it
made the national
evening bulletins.
Travis is a tight end,
which doesn’t mean he
is not going to pay for
Taylor’s dinner, but is
Picture: DFG DFGDFGDFG DFGDFGDF
his playing position.
When he drove off
after the game against
the Chicago Bears — in
which he scored a
touchdown — with
Taylor sitting next to
him in the front seat of
his purple convertible,
it was so perfect that it
seemed like a hit song
already.
‘Hey, shout out to
Taylor for showing up,’
Travis said on his pod-
cast after their date.
‘That was pretty ballsy.
I sure as hell enjoyed
the weekend.’
Oh dear. He doesn’t
sound like the kind of
man who can turn a
moment into a monu-
mental chorus. But thank
goodness we all know a
woman who can.
Pictures: DIA DIPASUPIL/GETTY IMAGES/ITV
Page 28 Daily Mail, Friday, September 29, 2023

Police ‘turn off

By Rebecca Camber Now decaying
concrete is
Crime and Security Editor

Police officers are switching

off their body-worn cameras
discovered at

bodycams when
and deleting footage to cover
up wrongdoing, an investiga-
tion has revealed.
There have been more than 150
Oxford college
reports of misuse of the cameras in By Sabrina Miller
england and Wales, from footage and Bintia Dennog

they use force’

being deleted to officers sharing
clips of victims on social media. OXFORD University students are
Footage which has been lost, deleted having to study in marquees
or not marked as evidence includes a and share bedrooms after
video filmed by Bedfordshire Police of a crumbling concrete was dis-
vulnerable woman alleging she had been covered at a college.
raped by an inspector. The force blamed St Catherine’s has been forced
the loss on an ‘administrative error’. to close its library, dining hall
in another instance, images of a naked
and 152 bedrooms.
person were allegedly shared
between officers. A two-year BBc The discovery of reinforced
probe found officers in seven police
forces had shared footage with
friends or colleagues, either in per-
Fatal shooting cop faces sack autoclaved aerated concrete,
or RAAC, at Oxford comes after
it was found in many schools,
son or via social media. A MET Police officer who killed a the Crown Prosecution Service said forcing around 100 to close.
There were also reports of officers gangster plotting a prison break is the officer would not face criminal St Catherine’s College, which
switching off cameras during inci- was founded in 1962, has put up
dents and facing no penalty. Two to face a gross misconduct hearing, charges. A public inquiry concluded
which could see him being sacked. Baker had been lawfully killed. marquees in its gardens to
The officer, known only as W80, The move comes a week after be used as a makeshift
‘Dark things happen shot dead Jermaine Baker in Decem- another officer, known as NX121, dining room, common room
that we don’t see’ ber 2015 as the 28-year-old was was charged with murder over the and study space.
attempting to spring two prisoners shooting of Chris Kaba in east Lon- Students have been asked to
from Wood Green Crown Court in don last year. The prosecution led volunteer to sleep on mat-
siblings accused of assaulting tresses in shared rooms to help
officers at a Black lives Matter North London. Following the death to uproar in the ranks, with around
protest in May 2020 had to fight it emerged Baker had an imitation 300 firearms officers refusing to ease accommodation pres-
for two years to obtain body-worn submachine gun in the car. In 2017, carry weapons over the weekend. sures, while others will be
video evidence showing the use of Misuse? Police bodycam moved to nearby hotels or
force against them by police. neighbouring colleges.
Both were eventually acquitted of evidence. But freedom of infor- the fact it’s a tool that would help of technology... must be lawful, One student moaned: ‘Some
and the judge said it seemed the mation requests have revealed them build trust they’d be on to proportionate and justified.’ guy in 1960 had an obsession
prosecution had deliberately failed more than 150 reports of misuse of something – instead of hiding it.’ The police ombudsman for with concrete and now Catz sec-
to disclose relevant information the cameras which have emerged Acting chief constable Jim col- Northern ireland has recom- ond years are being asked to
regarding the actions of Metro- from police sources, misconduct well, lead for body-worn video at mended that armed response sleep on the floor indefinitely.’
politan Police officers. hearings and regulator reports. the National Police chiefs’ coun- officers be provided with head-
Baroness louise casey, whose cil, said the incidents ‘go to the mounted cameras to provide bet-
RAAC, which was widely used
The roll-out of bodycams at a from the mid-1950s to the
cost of £90million over the past review into the Met was published heart of what undermines confi- ter footage of weapons discharges.
decade was intended to benefit in March, said: ‘There are too dence in policing’. He added that it follows a probe that found foot- mid-1990s, has a typical lifespan
victims and the police by protect- many dark things that go on that publication of footage should be age from the shoulder-mounted of 30 years. St Catherine’s Col-
ing officers against malicious com- we are not seeing. The sooner they the default where lawful. A Home camera of an officer who fired a lege has been contacted for
plaints and improving the quality (officers) get their heads around office spokesman said: ‘Police use Taser had been obstructed. comment.
Daily Mail, Friday, September 29, 2023
Daily Mail Reporter
AN office manager whose
boss regarded anyone who
called in sick as a snowflake
has won £37,000 in compen-
sation after he told her she
used the menopause as an
‘excuse for everything’.
Karen Farquharson, 49, was
left hysterical after company
founder Jim Clark accused her
of ‘strolling in’ when it suited
her and said ‘just get on with it’
when she explained she had
been off the day before because
of her symptoms.
The businessman had a ‘pet hate’
of staff not turning up to work, an
employment tribunal heard.
Mrs Farquharson, who had
worked the firm for 27 years, was
‘He called sick
staff snowflakes’
so upset by his remarks that she
took time off with stress and even-
tually quit her £38,000-a-year job.
She sued Mr Clark’s firm for
unfair dismissal and harassment
and has been awarded £37,379.56.
The tribunal in Aberdeen heard
she joined the engineering com-
pany Thistle Marine in Peterhead
on the east coast of Scotland, in
1985 as an office manager.
The firm – which provides serv-
ices to the oil and fishing indus-
tries – had been founded in the
late 1970s by Mr Clark, 72.
‘Over the years, Mrs Farquhar-
son had observed that Jim Clark
had an issue with employees tak-
ing holidays or being off ill,’ the
tribunal heard. ‘He would refer to
employees off sick as snowflakes’.
In August 2021, Mrs Farquhar-
£37,000 payout for
mum whose boss said
she made menopause
‘excuse for everything’
Insults: Karen Farquharson and her former boss Jim Clark
son told her employers she was
experiencing a number of ‘serious
symptoms’ of the menopause. The
firm paid for her to have a private
assessment of her condition.
By the autumn of 2022, she was
suffering from bleeding, anxiety, a
loss of concentration and brain
fog. In December 2022 Mrs Farqu-
harson – then 48 – worked from
home for two days.
The next day she went in, arriv-
ing at 2pm, passing Mr Clark in a
corridor. He said sarcastically: ‘Oh
I see you’ve made it in!’ When she
explained why she had not been
in, he gave her a disgusted look.
He later said she was strolling in
and out of work whenever she
pleased. He swore and said the
menopause was ‘your excuse for
everything’. He also dismissed it
as ‘a biddy has aches and pains’.
She left work in tears and
launched a grievance. She later
resigned and took Thistle Marine
to the tribunal.
Mr Clark suggested Mrs Farqu-
harson had engineered the resig-
nation to get money. The panel –
chaired by Employment Judge
James Hendry – said: ‘Jim Clark
can best be described a blunt, self-
made man. He no doubt has many
admirable qualities but empathy
for others is not among them.’
His ‘deeply insulting’ remarks to
Mrs Farquharson violated her dig-
nity, the panel concluded.
Mrs Farquharson said her former
boss was a dinosaur, adding: ‘I just
can’t get my head around that I
had known this company 27 years
and they treated me like rubbish.’
Page 29
Just blown in!
Storm brings
rarely-seen
birds to UK
By Colin Fernandez
Environment Editor
HIGH winds have blown ultra-
rare songbirds across the Atlan-
tic to Britain this week.
The arrival of more than a
dozen small birds, one of which
has never been seen in Britain
before, has been a once-in-a-
lifetime event for birdwatchers.
The Rare Bird Alert website
described the ‘spew of uber-
rare land birds’ on September
20 and 21 as ‘one of the most
memorable couple of days in
British and Irish birding history’.
Species include a Tennessee
warbler, a Baltimore oriole and
a Philadelphia vireo. John
White, co-founder of bird-
watching app Birda, said: ‘It’s
been amazing for us to have
seen species such as the Canada
Warbler turning up in the UK.
‘It’s an incredible opportunity
to see them, but their presence
is bittersweet given their sur-
vival rate is low having been
blown this far off-course.’
With climate change ringing
in more extreme weather glo-
bally, many migratory birds are
in freefall. The birds are unlikely
to fly across the Atlantic to
warmer climes unless they find
enough food, meaning they will
not survive unless they adapt
to the colder British climate.
Page 30
Boy band star Ryan
avoids jail over race
abuse of f light crew
LEE Ryan joked that his day in
court was ‘terrific’ after dodging jail
for a racially aggravated assault on
a black flight attendant who he told:
‘I want your chocolate children.’
The Blue singer, 40, was handed a 12-
month suspended prison sentence after
attacking Leah Gordon on July 31 last
year. He had earlier pleaded guilty to
being drunk on an aircraft, for which he
By Jon Brady and Vivek Chaudhary
was handed a four-month suspended
jail term to run concurrently.
Asked by reporters outside Isleworth
Crown Court, west London, how the hear-
ing went, Ryan replied: ‘Oh, it was terrific,
thank you very much.’
Passing sentence, Judge Nicholas Wood
told Ryan: ‘You brought shame on yourself
for this. I think you are aware of that.’ He
V1
Joker: Lee Ryan yesterday
was also ordered to pay £2,500 compensation
to Ms Gordon plus £750 to her colleague.
The boy band singer had been described
as ‘slurring his words and staggering
around’ after downing an entire bottle of
port in a lounge at Glasgow Airport before
his flight to London on July 31 last year.
After he was refused alcohol on the plane,
Ryan approached Ms Gordon from behind,
saying he needed a kiss. He then called her
a ‘chocolate cookie’ before grabbing her
wrists and adding: ‘I’m going to have your
chocolate children.’ It came
just months after Ryan mar-
ried X Factor star Verity Paris.
Judge Wood added: ‘It was
your decision and your deci-
sion alone to get drunk.’
But explaining his reasons
for not giving a custodial sen-
tence, he said Ryan struggled
with autism, PTSD, dyslexia,
ADHD and alcohol abuse.
Ryan, who was tearful in the
dock, told the court that his
‘Told court he was
being playful’
actions were ‘playful’ and
denied that using the word
‘chocolate’ was racist.
In footage of his arrest, Ryan
could be seen crying on the
floor and ‘snarling’.
Ryan has four children – two
teenagers with former partners
Jessica Keevil and Samantha
Miller and two younger chil-
dren with Ms Paris, with whom
he is expecting another child.
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ON THIS
DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE
SePteMBer 29, 1965
LOuD and clear the pilot’s voice came over
the radio in the air control tower at Lon-
don Airport. Flight LZ130 requesting per-
mission to land. Over and out. Roger. But
it wasn’t Roger. It was Maria Atanassova,
the first woman to land a jet passenger
flight at London’s Heathrow Airport.
SePteMBer 29, 1992
A YEAR ago, Chesney
Hawkes, 21, was the golden
boy of pop. His hit The One
And Only could be heard
every day. Now the heart-
throb earns less than the PR
men who promote his flagging
career. Hawkes earned just
£20,000 this year, he revealed to magistrates
at Epping, Essex, admitting speeding.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
MATT GOSS, 55. The London-born singer-
songwriter found fame, alongside twin
brother Luke, with 1980s group Bros, whose
hits included When Will I Be Famous?. In
their heyday, they had lunch with Princess
Diana. In the 2018 documentary Bros: After
The Screaming Stops, he came out with
one-liners including: ‘I was a rectangle and
[Luke] was a rectangle and we made a
square that became a fortress.’
ALFIE BOE, 50. The car mechanic-turned-
tenor from Lancashire has had three uK
number one albums and appeared with
the English National Opera. But he never
goes to the opera. It leaves him ‘bored
stiff ’. When he appeared on Radio 4’s
Desert Island Discs, he opted for Led
Zeppelin and Pink Floyd.
BORN ON THIS DAY
BARBARA MERTZ (1927-2013). The u.S.
novelist wrote under names including Bar-
bara Michaels and Elizabeth Peters but
said she was so grateful to get her first book
published that ‘I would’ve accepted the
pen name Jack the Ripper’. Mertz was a
heavy smoker who preferred her gin neat.
LIZABETH SCOTT (1922-
2015). The u.S. model-turned-
actress and singer, born Emma
Matzo, starred in The Strange
Love Of Martha Ivers and
Humphrey Bogart, Burt Lan-
caster and Elvis Presley
camera: ‘There was something about that
lens that I adored, and it adored me back.’
ON SEPTEMBER 29…
IN 1976, on his 41st birthday, rock ’n’ roll’
singer Jerry Lee Lewis accidentally shot his
bass player Norman Owens twice in the
chest while blasting holes in an office door
[he survived and sued Lewis].
IN 2015, the contract signed by The
Beatles and their manager Brian Epstein
sold at Sotheby’s for £365,000.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION:
Potter’s field (coined 1777)
A) The windward side of a hedge.
B) An area of a field without stones or grit.
C) A burial ground for burying paupers
and unclaimed bodies Answer below.
PHRASE EXPLAINED
To come a cropper: to fall heavily or fail
ignominiously, it is likely to derive from a
horse’s hind quarters, the ‘croup’ or ‘crupper’;
when falling from a horse in the 1700s, you
were said to have fallen ‘neck and crop’.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
As long as she thinks of
a man, nobody objects
to a woman thinking
Virginia Woolf, English writer (1882-1941)
JOKE OF THE DAY
What’s the one job you should never give
a cactus at your birthday party?
Blowing up the balloons.
guess the Definition answer: C.
Compiled by ETAN SMALLMAN
and ADAM JACOT DE BOINOD
Daily Mail, Friday, September 29, 2023 Page 31

Freud family Fun and dames for

Twiggy and Emma!
battle green IT WAS Twiggy’s big
night, but another
dame appeared to be
screenwriter and
actress. Twiggy says it
was ‘very, very emo-

energy threat
in danger of stealing tional’ seeing her par-
the show. ents and ex-husband
Sixties icon Twiggy, portrayed on stage.
74, who became The musical recreates
Dame Lesley Lawson the moment she found
four years ago, is the out husband Michael

to village idyll
subject of Close-Up: Witney had collapsed
The Twiggy Musical. and died while taking
At its first night at their five-year-old
The Menier Chocolate daughter for dinner.
Factory theatre in Twiggy says said she
Southwark, South Lon- refused previous offers
don, the model was to dramatise her life

O
embraced enthusiasti- but was flattered when
NLY last year, will build a haulage access road cally by friend Dame Ben Elton asked and
they suffered the width of the M6,’ says Emma Thompson, 64, agreed because he
the shock of Esther, adding that, by doing the Oscar-winning was a friend.
so, the power companies will
seeing flames turn Walberswick into an
tear through ‘industrial wasteland, destroy-
their 18th-century, timber- ing the beach, wildlife and KATE GARRAWAY to take part in a trick.
ancient ecosystem’. has endured a They were all asked to
framed house. At Esther’s urging, locals traumatic time since think of a song and
The blaze was eventually
quelled by 14 fire engines and packed into the village hall at her husband Derek not tell anyone. Then
crews, but that hasn’t ended the weekend for a meeting with Draper’s near-fatal a musician played the
the pain for romantic comedy the power companies. fight with Covid in tunes on the piano.
king Richard Curtis and his ‘It galvanized the village,’ she 2020. So the Good Garraway, 56, was
partner, Emma Freud. tells me. ‘They were pretty over- Morning Britain shocked when the
The couple face further trauma whelmed by the sheer power of presenter was grateful woman played her
at Walberswick, which has been the village’s outrage,’ she adds, for a night out at number: ABC by The
a sanctuary to the Freud family explaining that the same fury is illusionist Derren Jackson 5. And the
for 90 years or more. felt in the coastal towns of Brown’s show, surprises didn’t end
The idyllic seaside village has Southwold and Aldeburgh.
The Freuds’ key ally is Fiona Unbelievable, in there. A magician
become a battleground, thanks London’s West End. announced to the
to ‘green energy’ plans to con- Gilmore, organiser of
Suffolk Energy Action And her evening took audience how much
nect offshore power to the a magical twist when change Garraway’s
national grid via a 50ft-high Solutions, who points
out that current plans she was invited to join friend, Mike, had in
substation on a 35-acre site members of the his pocket: £3.11 — the
— plans which, say locals, will require 200ft wide
cable trenches and audience on stage at exact amount.
will industrialise swathes
of the Suffolk coast. substations. the Criterion Theatre Spooky.
Emma tells me she’s Time for Richard
delighted the village’s Curtis to put
together a short LET’S hope there are until one night I came
plight is receiving no major shocks at this back to go to bed,’ he
national attention film, like his
but lets another four-minute clip year’s Labour Party recalls. ‘When I put the
f a m i l y m e m b e r, in 2010 about conference for journal- key in my door it didn’t
h e r cousin, the cutting carbon ist Stephen Pollard. The work, which was annoy-
novelist Esther emissions? former Jewish Chroni- ing, but when I turned
Freud (right), Since then, the cle editor has revealed the handle it opened.
whose books UK has reduced
them faster than he once walked into And sitting there in bed
include Hideous Tony Benn’s Blackpool in his pyjamas reading
Kinky, lead the any other country
in the G20. hotel room. ‘We were is Tony Benn. The key
charge. ‘They
Picture: GETTY staying in the same didn’t work because it
B&B. I didn’t know this, wasn’t my room.’

AUTHOR DID
NOT PLACE Raducanu can Explorer’s secret
STAR’S FACE still smash it, gift to Afghan girls
BEST-SELLING author Ken
Follett was invited to the banquet
president Emmanuel Macron of
says men’s ace TV EXPLORER Levison
Wood witnessed the Taliban
capture of Kabul during the
West’s bungled withdrawal
teaches girls English,’
Wood, 41, reveals at a talk
for the Chelsea History
Festival about his book,
France gave for King Charles and SINCE her fairy-tale victory at the from Afghanistan — where Escape From Kabul: The
Queen Camilla last week. US Open in 2021, she has won only he previously spent four Inside Story.
But the writer might not have 24 of 51 matches, jettisoned five years fighting with the ‘I can’t disclose the
recognised many famous faces Parachute Regiment. l o c a t i o n b e c a u s e i t’ s
at the Palace of Versailles, as he coaches and had three major
operations — but Emma Raducanu, But the former Army technically illegal,’ he adds.
proved when he collected his officer hasn’t given up on ‘The Taliban wouldn’t like
CBE from the then P rince 20, can still dominate women’s
the troubled nation. that, but these people are
Charles at Buckingham Palace tennis, insists BBC Wimbledon ‘I help fund a school in going to do it with or
in 2018. commentator Andrew Castle. northern Afghanistan that without my help.’
‘I did make a bit of a faux pas, ‘When Emma comes back in
because behind me in the queue January, she can be a force,’
there was this bloke quite a lot Castle tells me. Britain’s former KinG Charles’s around the estate to
Picture: DAVE BENETT

younger than me,’ Follett says. Ayrshire mansion, seek out bat roosts.’ it
‘Eventually, I turned to him and
men’s No 1 adds: ‘Nobody believes
it any more; it’s so bizarre — Dumfries House, is adds: ‘Please note, this
said, “What did you do to get staging a ‘bat walk’. event will take place
your CBE?” He said, “I’m an she’s won the U.S. Open. She can
do great things in the game. An advert explains: after the sun has set
actor — I’m Tom Hardy.” ’
He adds of the Hollywood star’s She just needs to grow and ‘Join volunteers for the and so we will be
reaction to his gaffe: ‘He was very Bat Conservation Trust walking in the dark.’
build physically.’ on an evening walk Look out!
nice about it.’

Follow me on Twitter @richardaeden and on Instagram @edenconfidential richard.eden@dailymail.co.uk

Page 32
T
here comes a stage in
every woman’s life when the
words of the late, great
journalist, screenwriter and
all-round sage Nora ephron
spring to mind.
I Feel Bad About My Neck (And Other
Thoughts On Being A Woman) was the title of
ephron’s 2006 collection of characteristically
razor-sharp observations on the trials and
tribulations of being a woman of a certain age;
the menopause, the empty nest, the aching
joints and fading faculties; and also of the
effort it takes — as the years creep by — to
counter the disconnect between the crone
staring back at us in the mirror, and the person
we remain in our mind’s eye.
‘According to my dermatologist,’ she writes,
‘the neck starts to go at 43 and that’s that. You
can put make-up on your face and concealer
under your eyes and dye on your hair, you can
shoot collagen and Botox and restylane into
your wrinkles and creases, but short of surgery
there’s not a damn thing you can do about
your neck. The neck is a dead giveaway. Our
by SARAH VINE
faces are lies and our necks are the truth.’ And,
for years, she’s been absolutely right, of course.
Necks are like hands (and feet, although feet
are easier to hide), blunt, honest indicators of
age. I would also include in that list jowls and,
in some cases, ears and noses. As we get older
the former sag and droop, and the latter have
an uncanny tendency to get bigger and more
pronounced. The sharpness of youth deserts
us, and our faces and bodies slowly but
unmistakably seem to melt, like Tarmac in the
hot sun. It is not a happy experience.
For men, the issue is less pronounced. Men
have one huge advantage in this respect over
women: beards. A beard is a wonderful tool of
concealment. It can hide a double chin or a slack
jawline, it can even mask a turkey neck. If I were
a man, that would definitely be my strategy.
But I’m not. And although I do, as I get older,
find myself increasingly battling the occasional
chin hair, not to mention a persistent and
annoyingly swarthy presence on the upper lip,
at 56 there is nowhere to hide.
In truth, I have always felt a bit bad about my
neck. even when I was a young, unwrinkled
thing, it was not the shape and length I wanted
it to be. It was not long and elegant, it did not
in any way resemble that of a swan, which I
was taught early on by fairytales and films was
— and probably still is — the optimum shape
of a human female’s neck.
Mine was instead short and rather stocky
and solidly embedded in my wide shoulders, a
part of my anatomy very much constructed for
utilitarian, not aesthetic, purposes. To make
matters worse, I’m one of those people who
puts weight on around their face, so the double
chin was (is) an ever-present threat.
With the passing of years, matters have not
necessarily improved. Granted, the situation is
not terrible. Thanks to my intense
dislike of the sun and sunbathing,
the quality of my skin is not too bad.
But there is a heaviness, a loss of
definition and a laxity that cannot
be denied.
It doesn’t help that I can’t stop
looking at myself. Not out of choice,
I should add. Just because you can’t
escape it these days. That little
electronic mirror in our hands makes
sure of that.
God, I miss those innocent, pre-
Instagram and TikTok days, when
smartphones didn’t exist, when we
were not constantly snapping selfies
with friends, or being filmed dancing
after too many glasses of wine, or
accidentally activating some sort of
FaceTime button that ambushes us
when we’re least expecting it, jowls,
wrinkles, bags, surly, downturned
mouth, resting bitchface and all.
There were mirrors, of course, but
they could be easily avoided. And if
you did find yourself in front of one,
you took steps. My friends and I used
to take the mickey out of each other
for our various ‘mirror faces’, one
turning her head this way or that, the
other striking a certain pose, another
pouting and raising her eyebrows.
Now you never know when the camera
might catch you unawares.
And it’s not all selfies and self-
inflicted: there’s no escaping the
tyranny of the Zoom or video call.
The latter are particularly
unflattering, especially for the lower
half of the face because we tend to
be looking down at the screen. No
wonder everyone is so anxious about
their appearance. No wonder the
aesthetics industry is booming.
There are advantages and
disadvantages to this. The
disadvantages are the botched
treatments, the lack (still) of proper
regulation, the proliferation of
unscrupulous clinics and practitioners.
The advantages are that, where best
practice exists, some really innovative
B
options are now available.
Ack when ephron wrote
her book, she was right:
the only way to improve
the appearance of the
neck and jowls was expensive, pain-
ful surgery with weeks of recovery
time in some remote Swiss clinic.
Almost two decades on, that is no
longer the case. There are now a
plethora of treatments aimed at tack-
ling this most tiresome of problems,
ranging from the more invasive —
lasers, threads, microneedling, heat
and radiofrequency — to the more
subtle (and less painful) such as ultra-
sound. results, of course, vary accord-
ing to the treatments — but the gen-
eral rule (I’m afraid to say) has always
been the more pain, the more gain.
One of the more popular
treatments, for example, Morpheus 8
(endorsed by the likes of kim
kardashian, Amanda holden and
Judy Murray, who revealed last year
that she had undergone the
treatment to ‘tighten’ her turkey
neck) is famously very painful.
It combines radiofrequency with
Daily Mail, Friday, September 29, 2023
microneedling, creating minor
trauma to the skin and deeper
tissues, which in turn stimulates the
body to produce collagen and elastin
fibres for healing, helping to firm up
the area treated.
Likewise, another favourite, the
thread lift, in which very fine surgical
threads studded with tiny hooks are
inserted deep into the tissues of the
face and then, not to put too fine a
point on it, yanked upwards to
elevate the muscles, is also painful
A
— albeit very effective.
G A I N, t h e i n t e r n a l
trauma encourages
the body to produce
collagen, which in turn
improves the texture of the skin.
The effect is instantaneous — but it
hurts like hell, there can be bruising,
and it is imperative to have it done
by a really experienced medical
practitioner, otherwise you can end
up with all sorts of complications,
including a wonky face.
There are many others, too. The
endolift (in which a laser fibre just
bigger than a human hair is inserted
under the skin to tighten it and
remove fat); Ultherapy, an ultrasound
treatment that many experts in the
business recommend as a once-a-year
maintenance option; Ultracel, another
ultrasound-based treatment which
also uses microneedling; and endless
at-home gadgets, from Newa, an at-
home radiofrequency device to Lyma,
one of a new generation of skin lasers
licensed for domestic use.
In my personal quest to feel less
bad about my neck I have, over the
course of the past few years, dabbled
with a few of these options myself.
I tried the Lyma, for example, but
just couldn’t get into it — although I
know people who swear by it.
I was too chicken for the Morpheus
8 (I was put off by the agonising
tales). But I did have a thread lift in
2019, and loved the results, even
though it felt like I had barbed wire
in my face for about a week (which in
essence, I did). And it lasted longer
that I had anticipated — they say
18 months to two years, but it was
probably more like three before I
noticed the effect wearing off. I
suspect that was down to the skill of
the doctor who did it, Dr charlotte
Woodward at river Aesthetics. can’t
recommend her enough.
But the truth is time marches on
and, earlier this year, I noticed that
things were starting to head
inexorably south once more. I didn’t
want to have another thread lift: just
too painful. Yes, I feel bad enough
about my neck, but not bad enough
to go through that again. So I decided
to go a different route: injectables.
Injectables have had a bit of a bad
rap of late. Not just the over-use of
Botox, resulting in frozen expressions
and so-called ‘bowling-ball’ foreheads;
but also poorly administered fillers,
resulting in that awful pillow face
you see on so many celebrities.
But I had heard about one woman
with the lightest of touches and the
tiniest, thinnest of needles who had
developed a technique using a
combination of micro fillers, tiny,
individual threads and Botox to
treat the neck and jowls. I decided to
take the plunge.
Dr Ivy Igerc is of croatian and Italian
extraction, slim, impeccably dressed
and impossibly glamorous with 20
years’ experience in the business.
When not tending to her client list of
bashful celebrities and supermodels,
she is to be found lecturing on the
latest techniques in aesthetic
enhancement all over the world.
She works out of the hale clinic
(haleclinic.com) in London. But when
we meet she has just returned from
china, and is full of excitement and
energy about some of the new
technology emanating from that part
of the world. She’s also fascinated by
the differences in beauty standards
between cultures — did you know,
for example, that in china having
ears that stick out from your face is
considered highly desirable?
She laughs: ‘Over here, everyone
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Picture: JOHN NGUYEN/JNVISUALS
Light touch: Dr Ivy gives Sarah ‘micro’ doses of filler into her neck and jawline
Can the
beauty
industry
finally fix
the one bit of
your body that’s
always given
your AGE away?
wants their ears pinned back;
there, it’s the opposite.’
But Dr Ivy is nothing if not
inventive. She uses tiny amounts
of filler to reposition the ears — a
technique not dissimilar to that
used in non-surgical rhinoplasties,
where the nose is reshaped using
the cleverest of optical illusions.
In fact, most of what Dr Ivy does
is about tricking the eye into
thinking what it’s seeing is not, as,
in my case, a slightly weary-looking
divorcee who honestly can’t
remember the last time she had a
facial and whose skincare regime
consists of shoving on whatever
cream happens to be lying around
the bathroom, but a sophisticated,
well-preserved woman of
indeterminate middle years.
One of the most striking things is
her technique. Most practitioners
will have you lying back on a bed.
Not Dr Ivy. After sterilising the
skin with something that smells
like swimming pools and applying
numbing cream to the face, she
has you standing up, hair back,
against a white backdrop.
You are instructed to in turn
frown, smile, raise your eyebrows,
let your jaw go slack while she
marks out the areas to be treated
with a surgical pencil.
Using the finest of needles, she
then injects quickly and confidently,
stepping back every few punctures
to observe the effects, rather like an
artist applying paint to a canvas.
It’s a bit like being attacked by a
small but determined swarm of
little bees, only one must resist the
urge to run away. When you think
Picture: LEZLI + ROSE; Hair & make-up: DESMOND GRUNDY
about it, the standing up thing
makes perfect sense. When I lie
down, all the jowls and wrinkles
obligingly slide around the side of
my face. If Dr Ivy can’t see the full
horror, how on earth is she
supposed to treat it?
After Botox in the vertical frown
lines between my eyes — not to
erase them, just to soften them
slightly, I get little nips of the stuff
in my crow’s feet, and then she
asks me to clench my jaw.
Here she goes in slightly deeper,
to turn off the powerful masseter
muscle and stop me a) grinding my
teeth and b) reduce the volume of
muscle for a slimmer silhouette.
Lastly, she injects those big
vertical muscles in the neck which
are responsible for pulling the
mouth and jaw down over time.
Then it’s time for the filler. And
this is where the magic really
happens. Using tiny jabs of filler,
she widens my cheekbones almost
imperceptibly just beneath my
temples. Again, this is all part of
the illusion: emphasise the
cheekbones and you detract from
the lower part of the face.
Then she goes in on the jawline,
injecting microscopic doses of filler
underneath the muscle in order to
lift and support it — rather like
scaffolding holding up a sagging
roof — to create definition.
A final bit of filler to soften the
dreaded marionette lines at the
corners of my mouth, and it’s time
for the mini threads, just that little
bit of extra support beneath the
skin (these, by the way, don’t hurt
at all). The whole thing has taken
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The result: Sarah
after her treatment
probably no more than three
minutes. It costs from £800. But
the effect is unmistakable.
The Botox takes a few days to
kick in; but the fillers and the mini
threads do their work instantly.
And there it is: my jawline. Hello,
old friend.
Over the course of the next few
weeks, as the Botox in my neck and
masseter starts to work, the results
get even better. And it’s exactly
what I had hoped for: not so drastic
I look like someone’s taped my chin
around the back of my neck, but
noticeable enough (to me, anyway)
to give me a new-found confidence.
It will need maintenance, of course.
Ephron was right: the only truly
permanent solution is a surgical lift.
But I really don’t want that.
More to the point, I don’t need it.
I am not a supermodel or an
actress, no one really cares what I
look like.
No one except me, that is. Now I
am happy to say that, when I look
in the mirror these days, I feel quite
good about my neck. And, at 56,
that’s not bad going at all.
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Holly’s hubby
shrewdly signs
up Gladiators to
his OWN agency
N
OBODY will be
keener to see the
success of the
BBC’s reboot of
Gladiators than
TV executive Dan Baldwin
— also known as Mr
Holly Willoughby.
Not only is he making the show
for the Beeb via his company
Hungry Bear, he has also pulled a
shrewd move by setting up a
talent agency to represent all the
new stars he hopes it will create.
This ‘brand new generation of
superhumans’ (that’s according
to the Beeb) have been signed up
to the HB agency, which was
quietly set up by Baldwin in June,
just before the show was filmed.
So far, Steel, Viper, Sabre, Fire,
Bionic, Legend, Diamond,
Athena, Apollo, Dynamite, Nitro
and Giant are on board — which
is 12 out of the total of 16.
They are athletes, bodybuilders
and sporting stars who will
become familiar to viewers as
they battle members of the
public during the show, which
will go out later this autumn.
The news means that Baldwin
can make money from successes
the show’s stars have outside
of Gladiators, if they sign
advertising deals, appear in other
programmes, make personal
appearances and so forth. A 25
per cent cut would be standard.
In a similar way, Simon Cowell
made money from the successes
of the X Factor recording
Power couple: Dan and Holly
artists, whom he signed to his
record label.
It also means Holly and Dan
have his ’n’ hers talent agencies.
Holly Willoughby, a stalwart of
This Morning, left her long-time
agency YMU in August 2020 to
set up her own company, Roxy
management. She remains
Roxy’s sole client.
There was a legal battle with
her old agents, which was settled
finally in the summer of 2022.
That has left her free from the
‘sunset clause’ which would have
seen YMU taking a cut of her
future earnings.
Baldwin’s Hungry Bear Media
is a highly successful production
company which was founded in
2014. Other shows it makes
include Michael McIntyre’s Big
Show, The Wheel and Freeze The
Fear With Wim Hof.
Latest accounts show that in
the year to December 2021 it had
net assets of £256,000 — a sharp
fall compared with £1.8 million
the previous year, due no doubt
to the disruption caused by the
Covid pandemic. It was said that
the company claimed £10,000 in
furlough payments.
Holly is said to be worth around
£10 million after her successful
career on daytime TV.
The couple met in 2004 when
Dan was a producer on the
Ministry Of Mayhem show and
she was a presenter.
They were married in 2007 and
have three children.
T h e y l i v e i n S o u t h -We s t
London and have a second home
in Portugal.
Willoughby has been
presenting This Morning along-
side a roster of other co-hosts
since her ‘best friend’ Phillip
Schofield quit the show earlier
this year. He said that he’d had
an ‘unwise’ and brief relationship
with a runner on the programme,
and apologised for lying to
conceal it.
Gladiators — a UK version of
an American show — was made
by LWT for ITV and ran from
1992 to 2000. Presenters included
Ulrika Jonsson — who famously
had a fling with Gladiator Hunter,
real name James Crossley.

TEMPLE, the Sky drama series set in the
tunnels beneath a London Underground
station, has been axed. Says an insider: ‘Sky felt
they had taken the story of surgeon Daniel
Milton, played by Mark Strong, as far as they
could over two series and the show won’t be
coming back.’ The hard-edged thriller, which
was based on the Norwegian series Valkyrien,
starred Strong — agent Merlin in the Kingsman
movies — as a doctor trying to save his dying
wife, who sets up an illicit medical clinic in a
bunker underneath Temple station.

BRITISH film fiction film, you try to THE premiere of the

director Gareth
Edwards jokes that we
have about ‘a month’
before the AI
apocalypse, as
depicted in his film
The Creator, is upon us
(see review p38).
Edwards, who also
directed Rogue One: A
Star Wars Story, said:
‘I think the trick with
AI is to get the timing
right — there’s a sweet
spot where it’s before
the robot apocalypse
and not after, which I
think is in November,
or maybe December.
‘When you write a film,
especially a science
avoid putting in a Netflix Beckham docu-
date. But at some point mentary will be big news
you have to, so I picked next week — there is a
2070. Now I feel like an
idiot because I should screening in Mayfair
have gone for 2023.’ followed by a party at
He added: ‘When I The Twenty Two hotel
started writing this it for David Beckham . . .
was 2018 and it did feel and his wife Victoria and
back then like this was their family will be front
30 years away. But and centre.
when we were filming, But don’t hold your
we were in the middle breath for a Spice Girls
of the jungle and I reunion. Neither Geri
looked at my phone nor Mel B will be
and there was a there, and Mel C is also
whistleblower account looking ‘unlikely’.
from one of the big tech Emma Bunton (pictured
companies, thinking far left with Posh) will
that the AI had become attend, though.
self-aware.’
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Daily Mail, Friday, September 29, 2023 Page 35

PRESENTER Dermot O’Leary the Marathon des Sables [an

has revealed he turned down
Strictly Come Dancing because
it’s too physically demanding.
He said: ‘It’s brutal. I’m good
friends with (current contestant)
Angela Scanlon — that poor
girl! You know when people do
ultra-marathon in the Sahara]?
She’s going through that now.’
He added: ‘I had a lunch a
couple of years ago, because the
people that work on it are good
friends. But it’s just not a
burning desire for me.’

Sandra who? After the Oscars, you’ll know!

GERMAN actress Sandra Huller, 45, is shaping up to be the
woman of the moment at the 2024 Oscars. Zone Of Inter-
est, in which she plays the wife of a Nazi camp comman-
dant, is the UK entry in the International Film category.
She is also being tipped for a Best Actress nomination
for Anatomy Of A Fall, in which she plays a novelist
accused of killing her husband. The two films were
premiered in Cannes this year, with Anatomy taking the
Palme D’Or — and Zone Of Interest, based on the Martin
Amis novel, winning the runner-up Grand Prix.
Her dog in Anatomy Of A Fall is also in world-conquering
form. Border collie Messi plays a pivotal role in the film
as family pooch Snoop and won the Palme Dog, a just-
for-fun contest in Cannes.

DID anyone hear a starting gun? This

month’s Vogue has landed with a heavy
thud . . . and with Leonardo DiCaprio
and his Killers Of The Flower Moon
co-star Lily Gladstone gracing the
cover. Inside the pair talk about the
film, which also stars Robert De Niro,
in detail, over 11 pages.
The magazine observes that they
‘lead the season’ — the awards season,
of course. Yes, March is a long way off,
but everyone is thinking about the
Oscars already.
The two stars give interviews Contenders: De Niro, Scorsese, Lily Gladstone and Leonardo DiCaprio
conducted before the strike, and pose

And they’re off! The awards

in finery, styled by editor Edward
Enninful in a shoot also undertaken
before July. But with the publicity
being printed deep into the industrial
action, some might see it as a rather
cynical circumvention.
Meanwhile, the film’s director, Martin
Scorsese, will be in London to support
the movie when it has its UK premiere
race hots up, despite strike
conversations with their respective Fennell of Promising Young Woman
next Saturday, as part of the BFI’s films (Gerwig for Barbie and Coppola fame. The Brideshead-meets-Talented-
London Film Festival. for Priscilla). Directors are allowed to Mr-Ripley tale divided audiences at
He is going to give a talk to a selected talk, but actors not — at least not Telluride Film Festival, with one critic
audience — as are fellow film-makers until the strike is resolved. calling it laborious, puerile and empty
Greta Gerwig and Sofia Coppola. All The festival opens with Saltburn, — although the performance of its star,
three will be part of Oscars written and directed by Emerald Barry Keoghan, was generally lauded.

Phoebe’s millions saved by deal

SOME girls have all the luck! I hear
Phoebe Waller-Bridge was told her
£60 million Amazon deal would be sus-
pended — less than a week before the
writers’ strike was resolved, mean-
ing she won’t be affected after all.
Waller-Bridge initially signed up to
develop, write — and possibly star in
— high-profile TV series in 2019, when
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stance blamed on a combination of
Covid and her ‘perfectionism’.
Earlier this month, with the writers’
strike in its fourth month, many of
the biggest names in telly saw their
deals put on ice, including Donald
Glover, her stablemate at Amazon.
But happily that’s all now resolved.
Meanwhile, I hear that she

she was super-hot thanks to the absolutely IS engaged to film-maker

international success of Fleabag. Martin McDonagh — but absolutely
That deal was renewed in January, will not be talking about it, and has
even though she hadn’t gone into asked her friends to keep their
production on anything — a circum- mouths shut, too.

Film’s king of camp cosies up to Saudis

SURPRISE and dismay has
greeted the announcement
that long-time LGBTQ+
ally Baz Luhrmann will be
the president of the jury of
the Red Sea International
Film Festival — held in
repressive Saudi Arabia.
Luhrmann, pictured, who
is married to costume
designer Catherine Martin
but has declined to catego-
rize himself as ‘straight’ and
whose over-the-top aes-
thetic has seen him reign
as the king of camp cinema,
will be in Jeddah from
November 30.
There he will undertake
publicity and judging
duties for the festival,
which is run by a founda-
tion chaired by the Saudi
culture minister.
Critics regard it as a part of
the regime’s ‘arts-washing’
and ‘sports-washing’, in
which glamorous interna-
Leading roles: tional events are held in
order to distract from
Sandra Huller human rights abuses. Homo-
and, left, Messi
sexuality remains a crime
punishable by death in the
kingdom. Cinema itself was
banned in Saudi until 2017.
A spokesperson for
Human Rights Watch told
me: ‘For a number of years
the Saudi government has
been using this high-profile
festival as a means by
which to draw attention
from its egregious human
rights record — and they
are continuing to do this.
‘It is deeply concerning
that this festival is
engaging powerful artists
and performers and celeb-
rities who have made use of
freedom of expression
through their art and yet
are participating in a
festival which is hosted
by the government
which does not tolerate
that freedom.’
The message to Luhr-
mann from the charity is:
‘If you must go, then use
your platform to raise
awareness about the
Controversial: Saudi film
festival judge Luhrmann
human rights situation in
Saudi Arabia.’
Luhrmann’s publicist has
not returned requests for
comment. In a statement
he said: ‘It’s an honour to
be presiding over this year’s
Red Sea International Film
Festival Jury, alongside
leading and emerging lights
in the industry, and to be
part of the evolution of
change happening through
cinema across the Arab
region, Asia and Africa.’
Earlier this month Luhr-
mann attended Vogue
World in London on the
arm of close pal Edward
Enninful, the gay editor-in-
chief of British Vogue.
Last year’s festival presi-
dent was Oliver Stone. He
caused outrage when he
said that the imprisonment
of Julian Assange was
worse than ‘cutting some-
one up’, a reference to the
2018 murder of journalist
Jamal Khashoggi at the
behest of the Saudi regime.
The financing arm of the
festival backed Johnny Depp
film Jean du Barry and his
forthcoming picture Modi,
about the artist Modigliani.
Funds were also directed to
the Netflix film Ferrari, star-
ring Adam Driver, and Guy
Ritchie’s The Ministry Of
Ungentlemanly Warfare.
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 It’s Friday! MUSIC
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by Adrian Thrills
ED SHEERAN: Autumn Variations
(Gingerbread Man)
How Elgar
inspired Ed
Verdict: Mellow and fruitful
BEVERLEY KNIGHT: The Fifth Chapter (BMG)
Verdict: Potent return to pop

W to compose
HEN Ed Sheeran
released his last
album in May, he
admitted he was
‘jumping off the cliff’
by shunning singalong, radio-

his sweetest
friendly earworms in favour of
songs with bolder arrangements
and greater emotional heft.
After a tip from his pal Taylor Swift,
he hooked up with new producer Aaron

Picture: NDZ/STAR MAX

Dessner and surprised us all with
‘—’ (Subtract).

melodies yet
Coming in the wake of Plus, Multiply,
Divide and Equals, it was the final
instalment in his sequence of
mathematically titled albums, but it
sounded nothing like its predecessors.
Dessner, of rock band The National,
enhanced Sheeran’s acoustic strumming
with shimmering electronics, piano,
strings and mandolin.
‘We wrote and recorded non-
stop,’ says Ed. The new record was to the music here that echoes a Cats and The Drifters Girl. In disco, funky electronics and
inspired by classical composer more familiar Ed, with Dessner’s April, she won an Olivier Award orchestral ballads, all sung with
Edward Elgar’s Enigma Variations, stripped-back arrangements for her portrayal of Emmeline Pan- warmth and intensity: she’s a
in which each movement was a prompting some of the sweetest khurst in Sylvia at The Old Vic. Knight with shining ardour.
sketch about one of Elgar’s friends; melodies of his career. The Day I But success has come at a cost. The album is bookended by
although Sheeran concedes that Was Born (‘another birthday In becoming big in theatreland, barnstorming disco numbers Last
many of the 14 songs here were alone’) has a tunefulness that the Wolverhampton-born singer One On My Mind and Everything’s
penned from his own perspective. harks back to the Laurel Canyon put her original calling on hold. Gonna Be Alright, with Beverley
This isn’t Subtract Part Two. singer-songwriters of the 1970s. She crept into the Top Ten with assisted by the London Commu-
That was informed by hard-hitting When Will I Be Alright is a soul- 2015’s covers LP Soulsville, but nity Gospel Choir on the latter.
events in Sheeran’s personal life, baring bluegrass ballad. has otherwise concentrated on Kylie, Jessie Ware and Sophie
including the death of his best Not everything hits the spot. the stage. Until now . . . Ellis-Bextor have all explored
friend, Jamal Edwards, and the Page and Punchline feel Having turned 50 disco recently, but Knight isn’t
cancer diagnosis of his wife, Cherry, laboured, despite the
now mercifully behind her. latter’s weighty orches-
TRACK OF i n M a r c h , s h e merely following fashion. She
wanted to make began singing in church, and
Autumn Variations feels less raw, tration, but this is a
even if some of its songs are under- beautifully balanced
THE WEEK her own music brings a distinctive gospel edge.
again, and the The yearning is strong on Nos-
pinned by heartache. record. It climaxes
It opens optimistically. Driven by with an anthem
WINDOWS BY TAKE THAT u p s h o t i s talgia, where she complains about
T h e F i f t h a DJ playing only oldies at a party
folky guitars, Magical is a straight- that encapsulates NOW a trio of Gary Barlow, Chapter, an before admitting to being over-
up love song, while England is a E d ’ s k n a c k f o r Mark Owen and Howard Donald, a l b u m o f whelmed by her own memories.
poppy celebration of Ed’s home- expressing univer- Britain’s favourite man-band dazzling Bluesy ballad Cold World uses New direction: Ed Sheeran,
Sheeran
land. ‘I find this country of mine sal emotions. make a move towards Crosby, versatility. religious imagery as the basis of a top, and Beverley Knight
gets a bad reputation for being Stills & Nash on their first H e r f i r s t pep-talk. A Little More Love, with
Sung as ‘head and release in London musician Andrew
cold and grey,’ run the lyrics.’ But heels’ — but enig- song in five years, ahead orchestral ballad arranged in a
. . . ‘there’s a peace and a quiet on matically titled Head of their new This seven years, Roachford on piano, is a plea for similar style to Paloma Faith’s
this island of ours that can’t be ] Heels — the closing it’s the first on kindness from those in power. 2014 hit Only Love Can Hurt Like
Life album. which she sings But there’s escapism, too, on
mirrored by anywhere else’. track is a piano -and- This (also written by Warren).
It’s not all sweetness and light. strings ballad one can imag- songs written for funky Systematic Overload. Both are great examples of
‘Silence ain’t golden, you know ine being sung back to Sheeran her by others — a There are also two moments of Knight’s ability to shift the dial.
that it’s only blue,’ he sings on by thousands of fans when he change that has broadened musical class from Hollywood ‘My career isn’t a shiny billboard
Blue, while folky rap That’s On Me plays it live. her stylistic range. songwriter Diane Warren. The poster that gets replaced with the
is more philosophical. ‘This is not To the soul, country and R&B One I’m Gonna Love Is Me is an next star in waiting . . . it’s a novel,’
the end of our lives . . . this is just a AS ONE of the UK’s most that has defined her career to electronic dance banger. she says. Fittingly, The Fifth
bump in the ride.’ powerful female vocalists, Beverley date, we can now add belting Not Prepared For You is an Chapter is a real page-turner.
Another song, Spring, is about Knight made light work of pivoting
the pandemic, with lines about from pop to the West End. Beverley Knight starts
working from home and being Since making her debut in The MORE MUSIC REVIEWS ON MAIL+ her UK tour on October 17 at
the reading hexagon
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IT’S A.I. ARMAGE

The Creator (12A, 133 mins)
Verdict: Awesome-looking A.I. blockbuster
The Old Oak (15, 113 mins)
Verdict: Last orders for Ken Loach
Saw X (18, 118 mins)
F
Verdict: X-rated gore galore
ROM Tom Cruise’s enemy in
Mission: Impossible 7 to the
recent actors’ and writers’
strikes, there’s one baddie
dominating Hollywood right
now and that’s Artificial Intelligence.
The latest blockbuster to tackle this timely
And in this breathtaking sci-fi thriller
the only way to save humans is by
destroying an adorable robot child
by Larushka Ivan-Zadeh
threat is The Creator, a smart and truly
spectacular looking sci-fi action thriller. The
year is 2070 where — according to an inspired
opening montage of archive TV newsreels,
brimming with 1950s-style optimism — the
bright future that A.I. promised has resulted
in humanity’s near extinction.
After a nuclear bomb obliterates Los Angeles,
instantly wiping out more than a million people,
‘the West’, led by the United States, vows to
eradicate Artificial Intelligence. The East,
however, refuses to follow their lead. So America
wages an all-out war, not against ‘New Asia’ per
se, but the A.I. that it harbours.
Cue strong visual echoes of
Apocalypse Now, including a thrilling
sequence where Radiohead’s
Everything In Its Right Place plays
out (a la Ride Of The Valkyries) as
U.S. Army choppers swoop across
the jungle, suggesting America hasn’t
learnt much from history.
Caught in the eye of this storm
is Joshua (a solid John David
Washington), an undercover Special
Ops Sergeant tasked with seducing
a leading A.I. resistance fighter,
Maya (Gemma Chan). He does his
job so well he’s not only in love with
Maya, she’s expecting his child.
So, when his comrades brutally
attack Maya’s camp, Joshua is

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left devastated.

AT T E R S u n r a v e l
further still, after
Joshua reluctantly
accepts a new mission
from his commander (an always
excellent Allison Janney): to destroy
a secret weapon A.I. has developed
before it destroys mankind.
But when Joshua finds that the
‘weapon’ is in the form of a super-cute
synthetic child he calls ‘Alphie’
(Madeleine Yuna Voyles), he can’t
bring himself to terminate her.
Instead, our embittered hero finds
himself drawn towards protecting
Alphie — redeeming his own
humanity along the way.
Story wise, there’s clearly a lot of
familiar elements at play in this
humans vs machines scenario. And While The Creator is a significant
while The Creator may not be as upgrade, it similarly grafts futuristic
visionary as The Terminator — to tech on to realistic backgrounds. The
which it owes the most obvious debt result is often breathtaking — this is
— or as cerebral (or bleak) as definitely one to catch in the cinema
Oppenheimer, it deserves respect if you can.
for being that increasingly rare The Creator may not be the defining
blockbuster phenomenon: an original A.I. movie of a generation, but I’ll
project (i.e. not based on a comic be amazed if there’s one that
book/toy/videogame). looks better.
Above all, it creates a vividly
plausible new A.I. world. With a WE’RE back to Earth with a bump
background in special effects, British with The Old Oak. And let’s just say
director Gareth Edwards first shot this self-declared final film from
to fame with Monsters (2010), a low- veteran British director Ken Loach is
budget sci-fi he created on his laptop. not gunning to break new ground.

Anderson’s perfect
HAS all our grumbling about movies
getting too long finally paid off? Hot
on the heels of last week’s 31-minute
Strange Way Of Life by Pedro
Almodovar, welcome to The Wonder-
ful Story Of Henry Sugar (PG, 41 mins,
), which is short and sweet.
Following The Fantastic Mr Fox, Wes
Anderson’s second successful Roald
Dahl adaptation sees Ralph Fiennes
head an all-star cast, including
Benedict Cumberbatch as the titular
rich dilettante who learns about a
guru (Ben Kingsley) who can see with-
out using his eyes and sets out to steal
his skills so he can cheat at gambling.
Exquisitely constructed in his trade-
mark style, this playful fantasy is the
ALSO SHOWING
perfect spoonful of sugar for those
who find a little of Anderson’s artistic
genius goes a long way.
In contrast, fellow Netflix release
Fair Play (18, 115 mins, ) leaves
a deliberately sour taste. Co-workers
turned lovers Emily (Bridgerton’s
Phoebe Dynevor) and Luke (Alden
Ehrenreich) have just become
secretly engaged. But their ever
after starts to look decidedly less
than happy when Emily is promoted
by her toxic boss (Eddie Marsan) —
and Luke feels emasculated.
An unsatisfactory throwback to
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EDDON
Out of this world: John David Washington and (left) Madeleine Yuna
Voyles as robot child ‘Alphie’ in sci-fi spectacular The Creator
Written by long-term collaborator
Paul laverty, it’s another social
realist fable wherein good-hearted
working-class folk are ground down
by evil capitalists and the uncaring
wheels of the state. it’s set a few
years back, in 2016.
a busload of Syrian refugees arrive
in a deprived, northern, former
mining village, to be greeted by racist
abuse hurled by locals. Conflict
comes to a head in The Old Oak, the
last pub left standing.
The angry unemployed white bigots
just about keep beleaguered land-
lord (Dave Turner) and his business
propped up — but their custom
comes at a cost. Can this warring
community find a way to pull
together in a village still licking the
wounds of the 1980s miners’ strike?
a largely non-professional cast
often struggles to deliver laverty’s
more heavy-handed lines. Yet if you
can bear the soapboxing, the human
sentiment tugs at your heart. Those
who’ve endured a loach film before
will be braced for tragedy and
enraged fist-waving at the faceless
‘them’ who’ve caused it.
Yet could it be that — at 87 — loach
t spoonful of Sugar
Sweet: Cumberbatch (l) and Kingsley
1990s erotic thrillers like Indecent
Proposal, it’s neither erotic nor
thrilling. The characters are both
unlikeable and implausible, leaving
little to root for despite the
commitment from the young actors.
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GAMES
Sorry, Fifa fans: this falls flat
FC 24 (PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, PC, £69.99)
Verdict: Different name, same old game
aNOTHeR year, another fifa. except, this year,
it’s not. This year, the makers of the most popular
series in football video-gaming, ea Games, have
split with those (er, my lawyer tells me) utterly
splendid chaps in the sport’s global governing
body — to go it alone. The result is fC 24.
So how is this artist formerly known as fifa? i
must admit, i had high hopes. Part of me suspected
that, after a couple of years of mostly iterative
efforts, ea had simply been keeping their best in
reserve — waiting to blow us all away with their nor much else that might add character. even the
first own-brand release. branding on the (weirdly slow) menu screens seems
Sadly, that turns out not to be the case. There more corporate, a mix of grey and fluorescent green,
have been changes: some small (the players now as though it’s been designed by a management
run in more lifelike ways); some bigger (the cash- consultancy firm trying to be cool.
grabbing Ultimate Team mode now allows for in terms of actual gameplay, this is probably the
mixed teams of men and women); all welcome. But best fifa — sorry, fC 24 — ever. But when it comes to
nothing that truly smacks of the revolutionary. everything around that, it’s less full than we might
in fact, it could even be said there’s less here have hoped. Oh well, there’s always next season …
than in previous releases. fC 24 doesn’t have the and the one after that …and the one after that …
enjoyably daft story mode of some recent fifas — PETER HOSKIN
is mellowing with age? The Old Oak
can’t compete with classics like Kes.
But its hopeful, rather beautifully
modest testament to the kindness of
strangers is as welcome as it is
unexpected. Say what you like about
loach, but there’s a corner of British
cinema that is forever his.
if YOU haven’t seen any of the
previous nine instalments of the
psycho-killer franchise, i’d steer
clear of Saw X . With gore this
relentless, a build-up of gastric
tolerance is definitely required.
arguably the best outing since the
2004 original, the story travels back
in time to focus on the character of
Tobin Bell’s ageing Jigsaw Killer — a
former civil engineer turned sadistic
man-trap designer — as he seeks a
miraculous cure for his brain
cancer . . . before descending into a
fan-pleasing morass of inventively
realised torture porn.
The splatter is more giggle -
inducingly cartoonish than of the
true video-nasty variety. even so, i
felt my stomach lurching on several
occasions. But then i guess that’s
the idea.
Much-delayed thanks to China’s
censors, 2018 Hong Kong crime
drama Where The Wind Blows (15,
144 mins, ) belatedly gets a
release. Sumptuously realised by
director Philip Yung, it co-stars Aaron
Kwok and Tony Leung as two real-life
officers in Hong Kong’s corruption-
riddled police force.
The film hops around between the
1940s and 1970s, flicking between black
and white and colour: an ambitious,
well acted, genre-bending, sprawling
epic that doesn’t always grip in the
right places.
BRIAN VINER IS AWAY
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It’s Friday! THEATRE Daily Mail, Friday, September 29, 2023

by Patrick Marmion One to

Quiz (Chichester Festival Theatre)
Verdict: Judged, and found wanting Chekhov
Octopolis (Hampstead Theatre
Downstairs, London) your to
do list ...
Verdict: Octo-puzzler

O
ne of the best lines in
James Graham’s play
about Who Wants To Be A Vanya (Duke of York’s
Millionaire? remarks on
how the British love a pub Theatre, London)
quiz because it combines two of Verdict: Not so great Scott
their favourite things: ‘drinking and
being right’. HOW about this for a defini-
That wasn’t enough to satisfy one woman tion of mixed feelings: an
in the audience, who collared me in the hour-and-three-quarters in
interval after seeing me taking notes. She purgatory, with Andrew

Picture: JOHAN PERSSON

demanded to know if I was the director or a Scott. On the one hand, the
critic. ‘A critic’, I bleated meekly, fearful of solo show is a chance to
what was coming next. ‘Well I’m leaving,’ spend time with Fleabag’s
she said ‘I think it’s c***.’
That’s a harsh assessment of Daniel evans’s ‘hot priest’. On the other,
genial revival of his hit 2017 production well . . . it’s purgatory.
about Major Charles Ingram and his wife, The particular flavour of
Diana. They were convicted with college this torment is a gloomy
lecturer Tecwen Whittock for their part in a Final answer: Rory Bremner, immaculate as the quiz show host Chris Tarrant drama of wasted lives and

Do YOU think
supposed coughing scam they used unrequited love, by the
to cheat their way to the ITV quiz great 19th-century Russian
show’s jackpot in 2001. writer Anton Chekhov. But
Graham sets out to re-examine Chekhov’s gorgeously pain-
the Ingrams’ conviction, offering ful and exquisitely toned
the case for the prosecution in the
first half, and for the defence in dialogue has been stripped

the Coughing
the second. The audience gives its out, flattened, and bled of all
verdict by voting at the end. colour by writer Simon
Yet the show also treats the Stephens’s new version.
whole episode as a bit of joke. The idea must have been to
nothing less should have been provide a showcase for
expected of Rory Bremner, who is Scott, in a production that
immaculate as the adenoidal, is now effectively sold out.
Gromit-grinning, arm-folding,
The Dublin-born actor plays

Major cheated?
chin-stroking host, Chris Tarrant.
But Mark Benton, as the trial
judge, turns His Honour into a
wise-cracking clown — with little
interest in the truth.
As Charles and Diana Ingram,
Lewis Reeves and Charley Webb
have precious little to play with.
Both regimentally conventional,
they are mainly suspicious for
their dress sense: he with his hide-
ous harlequin short-sleeved shirt;
she with her eternal Alice band. At the end of this retelling of the Millionaire
Picture: MARC BRENNER
quiz scandal, the cast asks the audience
Daniel evans’s touring produc-
tion (co - directed with Sean
Linnen) uses video projections to
create the febrile atmosphere of
the television studio, with close- eight, nine, 16 or one? The answer investigate whether octo- anthropology. But it’s also an
ups of contestants. But at this is . . . nine! One in its head, and puses might believe in God. intriguing meditation on the
week’s final preview they were out one in each leg. That’s roughly The move follows the dis- enigma of animal consciousness.
of sync with the action, making it how many you will need to covery that groups of Luckily, Horn has taken the pre-
hard to know where to focus. keep up with Marek Horn’s f a m o u s l y h e r m i t - l i k e caution of including a more acces-
Perseverance: Andrew Scott
even so, it’s a neatly choreo- brilliant, but intellectually octopuses have been sible love story involving the two
graphed performance, including a demanding play about two found in ‘contingent eggheads, while ed Madden’s pro- all the characters, from
karaoke sequence where Marc academics and a cephalo- cohabitation in begrudg- duction — set in what feels like a woebegone Sonya to the
Antolin (playing a number of pod, starring Jemma ing communities’ — much subterranean aquarium — is country doctor obsessed
roles) sings both the Lionel Richie Redgrave (right) and like us humans. energised by the two regularly
and Diana Ross parts in endless ewan Miller. with local tree populations,
The play could almost be dancing to songs by David Bowie. with whom she is in love. The
Love in a surreal interlude. Redgrave is a a BBC podcast by Professor Redgrave fascinates as the
The TV show’s heart-thumping bereaved professor title character is Sonya’s
Brian Cox with its bold bereaved academic with a fearful,
music does add tension; and Quiz of biology who has mixture of philosophy, haunted look. And Miller brings depressed uncle, who man-
nuts may find it irresistible. been sent a hand- r e l i g i o n , s c i e n c e a n d fierce intelligence to his role as the ages their remote farm and
The rest of us may prefer to keep s o m e young young anthropologist who numbs himself with vodka.
our cash — that’s my final answer. anthropologist becomes emotionally entangled Scott impresses with his
YOUR starter for ten . . . how to work along- with Redgrave and her multi- sleight of hand and deploys
many brains does an octopus have? s i d e h e r a n d brained mollusc. subtly different accents from
his native Ireland for each

For our first trick, let’s make Derren vanish

THe first jaw-dropper in Unbelievable is that
the magician and mentalist Derren Brown has
himself vanished.
In his place he has left a team of actor-musi-
cians to demonstrate the point made by French
illusionist Robert-Houdin, that ‘a magician is
an actor playing the part of a magician’. Acting
is, after all, a game of let’s pretend.
In this show (a co-production with the
Mercury Theatre, Colchester, masterminded
by Brown, Andrew O’Connor and Andy nyman)
they play it with astonishing skill and pace,
combining the physical dexterity of jugglers
with the verbal springiness of stand-ups.
But this game is a peculiarly elaborate one in
its determination to reveal the trickery which
makes assistants ‘disappear’ from wardrobes
and boxes. Paradoxically, the more the
mechanics are exposed, the more gasp-making
the ‘magic’ seems to be.
All the acts involve audience volunteers
role. But the writing lacks
the poetry of Irish idioms
and is steadfastly beige.
And yet Scott perseveres,
decorating each character
Unbelievable (Criterion Theatre, London) with ticks and habits — puff-
ing a herbal cigarette,
Verdict: You’ll believe in magic bouncing an old tennis ball,
twiddling his necklace and,
chosen through so many filters (someone
catches a ball, throws it to another, then eventually, murmuring
another who chooses another) so surely none Jacques Brel’s all time wrist-
can be a plant? Or is there some brainwashing slasher If You Go Away (aka
going on? But even that can’t account for one Ne Me Quitte Pas).
of the comperes knowing how much change a Sam Yates’s pallid produc-
random chap has in his back pocket. tion is a little too good at
Simon Lipkin bewitches as the trickster in recreating the story’s ener-
Prohibition America, who turns water into vating despair — aided by
electric blue WKD and full-fat Baileys.
Samuel Creasey has a James Corden-like from the audience place their fingers on the Rosanna Vize’s stage design
swagger as he uses ‘astral projection’ for a shoulders of Hannah, the pianist (above), who of a draughty school gym.
piece de resistance so astounding I would love proceeds to play the tune each is thinking of. It’s a spectacle bleached of
to see how it is managed in front of a different It’s called musical telepathy and I simply all interest that sucked the
audience every night. couldn’t believe my ears. life out of me, too. P.M.
In another awesome feat, ten people plucked GEORGINA BROWN
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WHAT
BOOK?
AVA GLASS
Author
… are you reading now?
THE Body In The Library by Agatha Christie.
I’d never been a particular fan of Christie,
and I realise this is sacrilege. But I
was always looking for something more
modern, more fast-paced, more
cutting edge.
Then, about a year ago, I was searching
for an audiobook to listen to while I
painted a room in our house, and my
husband recommended Christie’s
The Moving Finger, read by Richard
E. Grant.
And reader, I fell in love. Her incredible
ear for voices, combined with her twisted
crimes, simply blew me away.
She skewers the upper class, the middle
class and the working class with equal
delight. And her murders are truly dark.
In The Body In The Library, a young
woman’s body is found in the library of a
wealthy couple’s country house.
She’s been strangled with the waistband
of her own dress. The couple claim never
to have seen her before. And so the
detectives from the local force begin to
trace the woman’s last days, hunting for
a killer.
Somehow Christie brings humour to this,
and I think it’s this balance of light and
dark that I love. In her hands, a grim story
of murder is soothing to read and I look
forward to returning to it every day.
… would you take to
a desert island?
THE Likeness by Tana French. I’ve read it at
least five times and I know I’ll read it
many more.
This Dublin-set novel tells the story of an
Irish detective assigned to investigate the
murder of a woman who could be her
doppelganger. She goes undercover as
the victim, trying to identify who killed
her. It’s mad, twisty and beautiful, and I
could live happily in its pages for years.
… first gave you
the reading bug?
THIS is hard to say as
I’ve been a vora-
cious reader since I
learned the alpha-
bet. When I was 11, I
wo n a n a w a r d
for reading and
writing reports on
the most books in
my school year
group. I read 151.
How could I
choose just one? But the book that made
me want to be a writer was The Secret
History by Donna Tartt. It starts with the
murder of a major character and then
jumps back in time and gradually reveals
a story about beautiful, clever killers in a
gorgeous wintry setting. It absolutely
knocked me flat. I still think about it all the
time.
… left you cold?
I’VE already confessed my past difficulties
with Christie and I was wrong about her
books so I’m probably wrong about this,
too. But I couldn’t get through Wolf Hall
by Hilary Mantel.
I sometimes use it as a sleeping aid. One
page and I’m out like a light. It cured my
chronic insomnia.
Honestly though, I suspect I’m simply
not mature enough for it yet. Ask me
again in 20 years and it will probably be
my favourite book of all time.
THe Traitor by Ava Glass is out now
(Penguin £8.99, 416pp).
It was
Chamberlain
who really won
us the war...
BOOK OF
THE WEEK
SING AS WE GO:
by Simon Heffer (Hutchinson
Heinemann £35, 960pp)
YSENDA MAXTONE GRAHAM
C
RiTiCiSinG Sir neville
Chamberlain for failing
to stand up to Hitler’s
rapacious territorial
demands in September
1938, one cabinet minister, Sir
Thomas inksip, remarked, ‘Mr
Chamberlain descended into the
thieves’ kitchen as though he was
walking into the Carlton Club.’
That’s an all-too-accurate image of
what it was like when the 69-year-old
Prime Minister, a true english gentleman
who expected other men to behave like
gentlemen, flew to Munich at the end of
September 1938 and tried to extract a
promise from Hitler.
He believed — or desperately wanted to
believe — that if he and Hitler were alone
together in a room, having a clubbable,
gent-to-gent chat, a relationship of genu-
ine trust could be established, and war
could be averted.
Hitler promised: if he was allowed to
take over the Sudetenland without Brit-
ain and France declaring war to defend
it, that would be the end of his territorial
claims in europe.
When Chamberlain flew back to eng-
land and announced ‘peace for our time’
to a profoundly relieved population, he
wrote to his sister Hilda, ‘i came home
nearer to a nervous breakdown than i
have ever been’. But he was sure Hitler
had told him the truth. ‘This time is
different,’ he said to her. ‘This time, he
has made his promises to me.’
That was pure delusion. Hitler’s prom-
ises meant nothing. Within five-and-a-half
months he had invaded the whole of
Czechoslovakia, rightly guessing that no
The day Ricky Gervais tried
D
avid Baddiel is ‘a
Cambridge - educated,
entitled man- child’.
Ricky Gervais ‘landed
from Planet ego and
tried to get us to go along with his
plan for our show’. Theatre direc-
tor Max Stafford-Clark held an
audition in a hotel bedroom and
‘there was a whiff of Weinstein
about the whole set-up’.
Show business memoirs are usually
complimentary about other performers
or, at least, they refrain from being nega-
tive about them but doon Mackichan
isn’t one for false compliments.
By any standard, she is a very successful
actor. She’s starred in several classic
comedy shows including The day Today,
Toast Of london and the double-emmy
For years he has been
painted as a naïve
coward but a persuasive
new history says that, in
fact, he bought Britain
much-needed time to get
our military battle-ready
one would stop him. and that was the
moment when the British public started to
feel a deep sense of shame about the policy
of appeasement that had thrown Czecho-
slovakia to the wolves.
as Simon Heffer writes in his persuasive
overview of the previous two decades, ‘the
journey to the Second World War, begun at
versailles, accelerated by the rise of Bol-
shevism and sent headlong by Hitler, had
reached the point of no return.’
That’s what this whole sprawling 960-
page book covers: those two roller-coaster
decades sandwiched between one world
war and the next — a turbulent time of
unrest, unemployment, anxiety, anger,
denial, fun, jazz, radio-listening, cinema-
going and road-building.
its title, Sing as We Go, is inspired by
the 1934 Gracie Fields film of that name.
‘Our Gracie’, born in 1898 over her grand-
mother’s chip shop in Rochdale, summed
up what Heffer sees as the British
national character, which saved us from
the kind of revolution that had engulfed
Russia and the Right-wing extremism
that would engulf Germany.
That character consisted of ‘a sense of
humour, resilience, and an absence of
MEMOIR
MY LADY PARTS
by Doon Mackichan
(Canongate £16.99, 256pp)
NEIL ARMSTRONG
winning Smack The Pony, which she
co-wrote. She’s done numerous straight
roles and won acclaim for her perform-
ances on stage. But she’s angry and the
short book she describes as ‘a selection of
stories, front and backstage, of a life so far
spanning forty years in the business’
explains why. Many of the chapters
contain accounts of casual sexism and
she is in no mood to gloss over them.
an awful experience at school in Surrey
when she was eight seems to still haunt
Daily Mail, Friday, September 29, 2023
FRIDAY
pity’, making it possible to pull through
whatever life threw at you. as soon as
P. G. Wodehouse invented the absurd
character of Sir Roderick Spode, the Fas-
cist who happened to be an underwear
magnate, it punctured the pomp of Fas-
cism and Britain could never quite take it
seriously.
i measured this book against a brick in
our garden, and it’s precisely the same
thickness. at times, i got bogged down in
its seemingly unending 80-page chapters,
and its never-ceasing onslaught of statis-
tics about unemployment figures and
whether sterling was up or down.
B
UT Heffer’s knowledge and his
deep research are impressive,
and he clearly couldn’t bear to
leave anything out, as every
detail, every cabinet meeting, every ripple
of unrest in towns across the land, adds
something to the larger picture, and in
order to understand (say) the General
Strike, you need to live through every
political and industrial event that led up
to it. But gosh, it can be heavy-going. Cer-
her. She was summoned to a circle of boys
in the playground and told to lift up her
skirt and pull her pants down.
She complied but felt a sense of burning
humiliation. Her mother complained to
the school and the boys were made to
apologise but Mackichan was the one
tainted by the incident, thereafter never
invited to play with her peers. ‘So many
women have experienced so much worse
than this,’ she writes. ‘it just steals a little
bit of the light in your soul.’
By the time she had finished studying
drama at Manchester University, she was
nicknamed ‘Millie Tant’ after the satirical
militant feminist character in the viz
comic. She goes on protest marches, van-
dalises posters and writes furious letters
to the advertising Standards authority.
and once her career starts, her views on
sexism are confirmed by many of those
she works with. Baddiel ruins her first
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had made it clear to him
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armed enough to fight a war
in 1938, so his staving-off of
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give the country time to
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And whose fault was it that
the British military was in
such a decrepit state in the
early 1930s, with not nearly
enough aircraft or a large
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THE
SINGULARITIES
by John
Banville
(Swift Press
£9.99, 320pp)
‘YES, he has
come to the end of his sen-
tence, but does that mean
he has nothing more to say?
No, not by a long stretch.’
The first sentence of
Banville’s 20th novel
reintroduces us to Freddie
Montgomery, the murder-
ous protagonist of earlier
novels. Freddie emerges
from prison with a new
name — Felix Mordaunt —
and a sports car supplied by
a former cell mate.
and he became suicidal.
That period began a jour-
ney of self-discovery which
Rylan tells with a stream-
of-consciousness candour
that is sometimes painful,
but more often hilarious.
His brilliantly unfiltered
riffs on his teeth (so famous,
they had their own X/Twit-
ter account), his crumb
phobia, and his mum’s habit
of keeping whelks in his
fridge are pure comedy
gold, while his tragicomic
dating stories, and his
tributes to the friends and
family who supported him
in his darkest moments, tug
the heartstrings with their
raw honesty.
EXILES
by Jane
Harper

Promises: Neville Chamberlain and Hitler in Munich, September 1938
tain details shine out, bringing the
interwar years vividly to life. Dame
Nellie Melba did the first live broad-
cast from a studio in a disused pack-
ing shed in Marconi’s factory, using a
microphone made from a telephone
receiver, a cigar box and a hat stand.
There were still 875,000 horses work-
ing the land in 1935. George V’s final
words were either ‘How’s the Empire?’
or ‘Bugger Bognor!’ (someone sug-
gested he might need to go to Bognor
to convalesce, and he was having none
of that). And when Chamberlain flew
to Munich in 1938 it was his first-ever
flight, apart from one brief demon-
stration flight over Birmingham.
One of the most enriching aspects of
this book is that it makes us
re-evaluate Chamberlain, whose rep-
utation was ‘crucified’ after the failure
of Munich. Watching the agonies he
went through as he took the country
utterly unwillingly towards the one
thing everyone most dreaded, another
war, is like watching a tragedy unfold
both for a man and for a nation.
His letters to his sisters Hilda and
Ida are really touching, and show us
a man doing all he can to save his
beloved nation from destruction.
That first week of September 1939,
Heffer writes, ‘was Chamberlain’s
personal moment of confronting the
failure he had manufactured’.
Yet Heffer argues that Chamberlain
could be seen to have been deft and
full of acute foresight. His chiefs of staff
A
Thus equipped, he heads
for Coolgrange, the estate (Pan
in County Wexford where £9.99, 422pp)
he ‘learned at a tender age AT THE Mar-
S HEFFEr
writes, ‘these that violent death is the ralee Valley
underfunded, abiding fac t of life’. Annual Food and Wine Fes-
moribund forces Renamed Arden House, it tival in South Australia, a
w
were an invitation for poten- was formerly home to baby is found abandoned in
tia
tial enemies to throw their physicist Adam Godley. her pram. A name-tag on
w
weight around, but in the Now Adam is dead, and his her onesie identifies her as
m
mid-1920s no one seemed to Zoe Gillespie.
no
notice’. And you can hardly eccentric descendants live
there amid decaying gran- Her mother, 39-year-old
bl
blame them for not noticing,
or not wanting to notice — deur, while his biographer, Kim, had been to the festi-
th
they’d only just buried their William Jaybey, goes val with husband, Rohan,
ow
own fathers, sons and broth- through his papers. An air who left her there with the
er
ers, and the thought of of elegant menace suffuses infant. The only clue to Kim’s
an
another war was anathema. Banville’s brilliant medita- fate is a muddied trainer
C
Churchill’s other great mis- tion on the shifting nature found at a reservoir.
tak
take, Heffer believes, was to go A year later, detective
ba
back to the Gold Standard in of reality.
Aaron Falk visits Marralee
192
1925, which made British TEN: THE
ind
industries less competitive and for the christening of
cau
caused a huge rise in unem- DECADE THAT Henry, the baby son of his
plo
ployment, later exacerbated by CHANGED MY old friend Charlie Raco.
the Wall Street Crash and the FUTURE Charlie was Kim’s partner
ens
ensuing slump — although Hef- by Rylan Clark for two decades, and they
fer reminds us that Britain share a daughter, 17-year-
did
didn’t suffer nearly as badly as (Seven Dials
£9.99, 384pp) old Zara, who clings to the
Am
America did as a result of the hope that her mother is
Cra
Crash — ‘no jumping out of ELEVEN years ago Ross Rich- still alive. In the final instal-
win
windows in the Square Mile’. At ard Clark, better known as
its worst, the decline in real ment of the award-winning
Rylan, made it to the X Fac- mystery trilogy, Falk’s
inco
income for Americans was 37 tor quarter-final. Since then
per cent; in Britain it only ever investigation reveals dark
reached 0.8 per cent. his career has soared, while secrets and hidden frac-
This is a richly persuasive portrait his personal life followed a tures within an apparently
of interwar Britain and its politi- more troubled trajectory. close-knit community.
cians, reminding us just how hard His memoir begins at his
it is for anyone to run a country. lowest point, in March 2021, JANE SHILLING
Headache follows headache. It
seems to be the human condition. Picture: MARK DUMBLE
TON/GETTY IMAGES
‘Give us a moment’s peace!’ I
found myself begging, when the
book opens in 1919, and looters
were already burning down Luton
Town Hall, furious about the plight
of war veterans, just months after
the end of World War I.
But no — it was straight back into
strife: domestic and international
fury, wrangling and protesting,
which never stopped and perhaps
never will.

to take over my TV show ever radio recording with his
rudeness. When developing the
second series of the hit sketch
show Smack The Pony with her
co-stars Fiona Allen and Sally
Philips, Gervais shows up unin-
vited at the rehearsal room and
starts trying to take over. There
are several creepy auditions.
She is still angry now. One late
chapter describes how, a couple
of years ago, at the age of 57,
she pitched up outside a thea-
tre at 6am and spray-painted
‘STOLEN’ across the posters
advertising its new musical
because she believes two
women writers who worked on
it have been badly treated.
Also, anyone who thinks act-
ing is a cushy number will be
disabused of the notion by this
Award winner: Mackichan on Smack The Pony book. When her son is seriously
ill and neither she nor her then
husband — also an actor — can
work, they are so hard-up that
they are dependent on hand-
outs from friends.
Starring in a prestigious David
Mamet play with John Malkov-
ich, her expenses exceed her
fee. Playing the Wicked Queen
PICTURETHIS
in a pantomime, she has to wear REMEMBERING LEOPARDS
a huge velvet gown ‘heavy with byWildlife Photographers United
the sweat of a thousand Anita (Remembering Wildlife £49.50, 166pp)
Dobsons’. It can’t be washed
and is simply sprayed with
‘LEOPARDS can take us or leave us, show themselves or
vodka around the armpits after hide. Quite simply, they are heartbreakers’, says wildlife
every show — the glamour! photographer Margot Raggett MBE. Their aloofness is
Mackichan’s book might have depicted across these photographs as they are caught up
benefited from a stricter edit —
there’s some repetition — and trees, prowling and hunting. As Dr Luke Hunter writes in
I would have liked it to be a the book, which is fundraising for leopard conservation:
little more detailed but it’s a ‘Don’t let Remembering Leopards become an epitaph.’
real page-turner; raw, urgent
and entertaining. LILY AMORY
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SCIENCE
MOUNTAINS OF FIRE
by Clive Oppenheimer
(Hodder £25, 368pp)
MARK MASON
T
hroughout
much of Europe
and North Amer-
ica, 1816 was
known as ‘the year
without a summer’.
temperatures plummeted
and crops failed.
In June, bricklayers in New
hampshire had to stop work
because their mortar had ice in it.
Farmers who had sheared their
sheep had to tie the fleeces back
on to the shivering animals.
Why was the weather so freak-
ishly cold? Believe it or not, the
cause lay on the other side of the
world, and had happened the pre-
vious year. It was the eruption of
tambora, a volcano in Indonesia
on the island of Sumbawa.
A report from the time said ‘the
whole mountain . . . appeared like a
body of liquid fire . . . and soon after
a violent whirlwind . . . blew down
nearly every house . . . tearing up
by the roots the largest trees and
carrying them into the air, together
with men, horses, cattle’.
Some 12,000 people died
instantly, but many tens of thou-
sands more perished in the
following months due to starvation
and disease.
the cloud of sulphur particles
released by the eruption spread
around the world, blocking out
the sun’s rays. It was this that
gave 1816 its nickname.
As a reminder of the terrifying
power volcanoes possess, the
story of tambora is hard to beat.
this book presents the knowl-
edge accumulated by Cambridge
V1
The
fiery
mouths of HELL
professor oppenheimer during his
volcano-climbing career.
Actually going up the things
might seem unwise, but oppenhe-
imer can’t resist. Volcanologists
pursue their research partly to
improve predictions about when
the next eruptions will occur.
these days satellites can photo-
graph volcanoes from space, but
oppenheimer says the results are
still not as useful as humans exam-
ining things on the ground.
one of his colleagues compares
the outcrops on a volcano, formed
by past eruptions, to the black
box recorder on a plane.
It’s amazing how precise some
conclusions can be. one technique
is to examine the rings on trees.
oppenheimer once found one that
had been killed by an eruption of
the North Korean volcano Paektu.
he located a particularly large
Daily Mail, Friday, September 29, 2023
Priests sacrificed
women and children
to them and they were thrown into the magma as
well. Meanwhile, some volcanoes in
the Sahara (a region so quiet, a col-
obsess scientists to league told him, that you can hear
shooting stars) were close to terror-
ist training camps. oppenheimer’s
this day. How
travel insurance, he was told, would
not cover hostage negotiations.
volcanoes are...
Some of the book’s facts are
awe-inspiring. A volcano oppen-
heimer visited in Iceland was at
that point throwing out enough
lava to fill four average-sized
houses per minute.
the bubbles in the magma lake
of Mount Erebus in Antarctica
can be the size of the dome of St
Paul’s Cathedral; when they burst,
they fling huge dollops of lava over
the crater rim.
But just as fascinating as the vol-
canoes are the people who study
them. the American Frank Alvord
Perret was an obsessive Vesuvius-
watcher. In 1906, ‘sensing a constant
buzzing from below, he bit the metal
frame of his bed to amplify the
tremors with his skull’. It told him
that an eruption was imminent.
ring, denoting a year that the tree erupting in 1995. By 1997, its capital his work also included experi-
grew a lot, and knew that this city, Plymouth, had been covered ments on whether caged parrots
must be 774AD when (existing by so many boulders that only the can detect imminent earthquakes
records tell us) the sun gave off a upper storeys of its buildings were (they can’t), and recordings of the
massive flare. showing: ‘You could only guess sounds coming from gas vents on
Counting out from this, where the streets had been.’ the volcano in Montserrat — ‘one
one ring per year, he Mankind wasn’t always that roared a B flat in December
reached the tree’s
edge and deduced
that the eruption
1000 so rational in its
approach. When 16th-
century Spanish explor-
was trilling F sharp by March’.
But the prize for strangest
behaviour goes to Sir Philip Brock-
took place in The number of ers reached the Nicara- lehurst, a member of the party
946AD.
Scientists some-
people killed guan volcano Masaya
— its glow so strong
that scaled Mount Erebus in 1908.
things were far from comfortable
times use tiltmeters, by volcanoes you could read a book — the group survived on ‘hoosh’,
an Antarctic staple containing
such as the one which
monitored movements
every year by it at night — they
found that people believed dehydrated beef and fat, with
of the volcano on the it to be the mouth of hell. biscuits made from dried milk.
Caribbean island of A priest had exorcised it, It was three men to a sleeping
Montserrat. the instruments are planting a tall cross at the crater’s bag, and ice crystals would form
so sensitive they can detect the edge, and regular offerings of food when their breath froze on the
equivalent of a one-mile-long bar were left for the prophetess who bags’ reindeer-hair linings. Brock-
being raised by less than 2mm at was believed to dwell inside. Some- lehurt lost a big toe to frostbite.
one end. times these weren’t seen as Back at home, he kept it in a jar
the Montserrat volcano began sufficient, so women and children on his mantlepiece.

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LITERARY FICTION
CLAIRE ALLFREE
KIBOGO
by Scholastique Mukasonga
(Daunt Books
£9.99, 152pp)
HErE’s how the great
rwandan writer Muka-
songa describes a famine
that ransacks rwanda at the start of
her new novel.
‘Children with great gaping eyes ate
dirt, the elderly went off to die quietly,
columns of families wandered the
paths, vainly searching for scraps.’
Both specific and mythic, it’s entirely
typical of her electric prose style,
which has the uncanny power of
placing the reader right at the centre of
the story.
this short, shapeshifting book — part
fable, part act of testimony — follows
her excellent memoir about the
rwandan genocide, and reaches back
in time to the 1940s to tell a story of
colonial-era culture clash pivoting on
the contested myth of Kibogo, a figure
of folklore who may or may not have the
power to summon the rain and thus
end the drought.
Mukasonga tells the tale of Kibogo
from various angles in this campfire-
intimate, elegantly compressed novel,
whose bewitching prose emphatically
makes its own case for the suggestive
power of storytelling.
LET US DESCEND
by Jesmyn Ward
(Bloomsbury
£18.99, 320pp)
LEt Us Descend is an apt
title on several levels for
the hellish journey the
National Book Award
winner Ward takes us on in her latest
novel, which reaches deep into the
historic abuses of slavery in the
antebellum south.
it’s narrated by Annis, a young slave
girl who learns the art of survival and
the importance of resilience from her
mother, but from whom she is wrench-
ingly separated when her white enslaver
father forces her to walk to New Orleans
to be sold on.
Annis has also fallen in love with
another slave girl, safi, and the name of
this lover points to the literary and
mythic structure underpinning this
intensely lyrical novel which deftly
nods to ancient Greek and italian
epics while remaining rooted in
American history.
As Annis embarks on the great walk
south, this harrowing, extravagantly
beautiful novel at times seems to hover
halfway between the real world and the
spirit one. A sublime work.
LAND OF MILK AND HONEY
by C Pam Zhang
(Hutchinson
Heinemann
£16.99, 240pp)
BiLLiONAirE ‘tech bros’
are a current bete noire in
literature — both deliciously easy to
satirise and to characterise as the shady
avatar of all our modern woes.
One crops up in Zhang’s new climate
change dystopia, a wealthy entrepre-
neur who lives on an italian mountain
top that remains untouched by the
blight affecting the rest of the planet,
and who has tasked various investor
and scientific types to bioengineer new
crops of rare and extinct species of
plants and animals in order to sustain
his Eden.
into this elite community steps our
narrator, an American chef ostensibly
hired to cook up lavish meals but
who gradually finds herself both
falling in love with her employer’s
geneticist daughter and increasingly
embroiled in the project’s murky
underpinnings.
Zhang’s succulent, outrageously sen-
sual prose, which lingers lovingly on
taste and bodily sensation, is ironically
fabulously at odds with the aridity this
future world is facing, and as such
underscores this full-fat novel’s bitter-
sweet pleasures.
After all, our obscene appetites are
partly the reason why we are facing a
climate crisis in the first place.
BOOKSFICTION
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The dystopian gets a makeover
POPULAR
WENDY HOLDEN
YOU COULD BE SO PRETTY
by Holly Bourne
(Usborne £8.99, 400pp)
IN A style reminiscent of
Orwell’s 1984, this brilliant,
timely, scary novel explores
The Doctrine — the pressure
on young girls to conform to
high-maintenance beauty
norms and the porn-fuelled
patriarchy that supports it.
Sound familiar?
Belle, the most beautiful girl
Illustration: CHRIS COADY
in school, starves, works out
and makes herself up while
Joni, the opposite, is a rebel-
lious feminist. Their mothers
reflect the same values and
the girls despise each other
until they’re competing for a
scholarship to The Education, Jess has run away from a toxic reassured by the decent to the shocking fate of their
which will get them out of boyfriend and is sleeping characters and calmed by all American father.
their town and into a career. rough in Wales. the painting and decorating. She describes her childhood
An unlikely friendship devel- One night she lets herself among a colourful crowd of
MY BLUE
ops, with Belle and Joni ques- into an empty house. Its sin- artist grandmothers, sexy
tioning ever ything they
PENINSULA
gle-man owner, when he turns by Maureen Freely cousins, mysterious Russians
thought they believed. up, is not just content to have and French grande dames.
(Linen Press
THE BEGINNING her stay but presses her into £9.99, 242pp) Wafting through it all is her
helping with the refurb. We go charismatic, witty and unreli-
OF EVERYTHING THE languid, mint-
by Jackie Fraser from kitchen to carpet show- tea glamour of able mother Delphine.
(Simon & room as the house takes shape 1900s Istanbul pervades this It’s as exotic and impression-
Schuster — as, glacially slowly, does the complex, compelling tale. istic as a film by Swedish direc-
£8.99, 400pp) odd couple’s romance. Dora explains to her daugh- tor Ingmar Bergman — no one
A GENTLE slow- A few twists make the ending ters their roots in wealthy is quite what they seem and
read of a novel about trust less predictable. I was enter- Ottoman society and its link, ultimately perhaps the truth
and the good in humanity. tained by the lively writing, via modern sectarian politics, makes little difference.
CLASSIC CRIME weaves an intriguing tale, full of surprises
and misadventures while building up to a
FIVE LITTLE PIGS
by Agatha Christie
BARRY TURNER terrific climax.
(Harper Collins
IN A LONELY PLACE £14.99, 272pp)
SUDDENLY AT HIS RESIDENCE by Dorothy B. Hughes My first reading of five Little
by Christianna Brand (Penguin Modern Classics Pigs convinced me that it is
(British Library £9.99, 240pp) one of the best novels in the
£9.99, 240pp) tHE big question is whether a Christie canon.
A CANtANKErOUs old rogue serial killer can get away with Now, many years later, i find no reason to
declares he is changing his will it. from the start, we know — retract that opinion.
to cut out his nearest and not or think we know — that Dix the story is deceptively simple. Hercule
so dearest. Big mistake. steele is not safe to have around. Poirot is called in to reassess a murder
When sir richard March is found dead, While putting up a plausible act of earning verdict brought in 16 years earlier.
every member of his extended family of a living as a writer, his violent temper and five close observers (dubbed the five little
misfits is a suspect. periods of morbid introspection make him a pigs by Poirot) of the death by poisoning of
Heading the list is the mercurial grand- prime suspect in a string of murders. a famous artist are persuaded to write their
daughter, who stands to lose most under the As steele becomes increasingly erratic, his version of events that led to the victim’s
revised will. then there is sir richard’s only protection is a close association forged widow serving a lengthy prison sentence.
widow, who never quite measured up to the in wartime with a Los Angeles detective and Each character, from the arrogant,
attractions of his former wife, and a doctor his too-understanding wife. But before long, self-centred mistress to an alter ego intent
who can’t account for a missing quantity of even his devoted friend finds it hard to stifle on sanitising his hero’s reputation,
strychnine — a very strong poison. their suspicions. unwittingly reveals their weakness as a
Oddest of all is an indulged teenager who Crime novelist Hughes is brilliant at reliable witness. it is Poirot’s task to spot
is convinced he is capable of unconscious portraying a deranged personality, one who the inconsistences, lies and deceit that led
acts of violence. is knowingly in the grip of malign forces but to a miscarriage of justice.
Enter inspector Cockrill, whose disreputa- can find no way of escape until . . . but why With Christie playing fair with the clues,
the attentive reader may beat Poirot at his
ble appearance belies a talent for spotting give away the nail-biting ending to one of
obscure clues. Always good value, Brand the finest noir novels of the 1940s. own game. But i wouldn’t bet on it.
CHILDREN’S transport the daughter of a
distraught nobleman who
accepts an invitation to enter
the secretive Thieves’ Gambit
widowed scientist Dad are
back home. But when she
SALLY MORRIS refuses to accept her death
and wants to reclaim her.
competition, where the victor
has one wish granted — Ross
receives a message that Bear
has been shot, she persuades
ISLAND OF Pursued by him and his magi- could save her mum. her father to fly them back to
WHISPERS cians, Milo faces chilling, super- But all other competitors are search for him.
by Frances natural danger but must fulfil equally driven and after each In a dramatic and dangerous
his task to save her spirit. task the weakest one will leave. quest, April’s spiritual connec-
Hardinge
Atmospheric illustrations add Should Ross team up with tion to the wild animal over-
Illustrated by Emily to the ghostly drama. Age 12+. someone or go it alone? Can comes all obstacles, and Bear’s
Gravett (Two Hoots you actually trust anyone? need to protect his motherless
£14.99, 120pp) THIEVES’ GAMBIT
Terrific fun with great charac- cub mirrors April’s own
HARDINGE is an extraordinary by Kayvion Lewis ters, edge-of-the seat tension relationship with her father.
(Simon &
writer for teenagers so don’t and a sequel and movie Stunningly illustrated, this
be misled by the extended Schuster planned. Age 14+. touching environmental story
picture book format — this £8.99, 384pp) of surviving and thriving is both
powerful, multi-layered gothic STRAP in for the FINDING BEAR scientifically accurate and
fantasy exploring death, ride with this by Hannah Gold magically inspiring. Age 8+.
grief, destiny and identity isn’t twisty, fast-paced heist that’s (Harper Collins
for toddlers. part elimination game show £12.99, 352pp)
Milo’s father is The Ferryman IN THIS sequel to
and part Ocean’s Eleven.
who carries souls of the dead Seventeen-year-old Rosalyn G o l d ’s a w a r d -
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GREEN FINGERS
Gardeners’ World, 7.30pm, BBC2
MONTY DON is very busy indeed at
PICK OF TODAY’S TV
Longmeadow — the end of summer
doesn’t mean he can put his feet up just
AMAZING RAILWAY ADVENTURES
yet. He’s planting onions and garlic,
putting bulbs in pots, transplanting
WITH NICK KNOWLES, 9PM, CH5
foxgloves, tidying his strawberry bed NICK KNOWLES continues Herculaneum in AD 79, and hears
and adding camassias to his bog garden. his latest series of about efforts to decode the text on
Plus, we catch up with the sisters in Dorset
whose fallen-down greenhouse gave adventures with a trip charred papyrus scrolls discovered
them the chance to transform their plot, across Italy that he’s dubbed at the site, before driving a bubble
Joe Swift visits a gravel garden in the ‘Volcano Express’, car on the stunning Amalfi Coast,
Kent, and Tom Brown is in Salford to travelling by rail then crossing the sea to Sicily. The
check out RHS Garden Bridgewater. between Mount intrepid presenter also takes to the
Vesuvius and Mount skies in a gyrocopter, and it turns
MUSIC QUIZ Etna. Both are out to be a flight he’s grateful to
PopMaster TV: Grand Final, considered active, survive after the tiny aircraft
8pm, Ch4 with smoke rings encounters bad weather and gives
THE heats are over and the five spotted above him a serious fright. Nick must have
weekly winners take their places Etna as recently wished he’d stuck to the brief of his
for the chance to take the first-ever as August. Along ‘Railway Adventures’ and remained
PopMaster TV crown. This show the way, he learns with ground-based transport.
doesn’t go in for big-budget effects
and high-octane personalities; it’s been about the destruction Good thing he planned a trip to
all about the music, with Ken Bruce of Pompeii and nearby the local vineyard (pictured) . . .
(pictured) as our easy-going guide.

BB C 1
6.00 Breakfast (HD)
9.15 Morning Live (HD) Magazine show.
10.00 Fraud Squad (AD,HD)
10.45 Claimed and Shamed (HD)
11.15 Homes Under the Hammer
(AD,R,HD) Houses in Derby and
South and West Yorkshire.
12.15 Bargain Hunt (HD)
1.00 BBC News at One; Weather (HD)
1.30 BBC Regional News; Weather (HD)
1.45 Five Bedrooms (HD) The gang
camp out for Little Benny
Chigwell’s birthday.
2.30 Money for Nothing (HD) A retro
swivel chair is rejuvenated.
3.00 Escape to the Country (AD,R,HD)
Jules Hudson heads to Suffolk.
3.45 The Bidding Room (HD) Nigel
Havers hosts as five dealers
battle each other to buy items
brought in by the public, including
Iranian copper bowls and a
collection of weaving artefacts.
4.30 The Vintage French Farmhouse
(HD) Three dealers head to the
wine-producing town of Vauvert
in search of antiques, curios and
collectibles that they think will
appeal to the British marketplace.
5.15 Pointless (R,HD) Quiz, hosted by
Alexander Armstrong.
6.00 BBC News at Six; Weather (HD)
6.30 BBC Regional News; Weather (HD)
B B C 2
6.30 The Bidding Room (R,HD)
7.15 The Vintage French Farmhouse
(R,HD) Items are bought in France
for the British marketplace.
8.00 Gardeners’ World (BSL,R,HD)
9.00 BBC News (HD)
12.15 Politics UK (HD) The week’s political
proceedings around the UK.
1.00 Impossible (R,HD) Quiz show.
1.45 Eggheads (R,HD) Quiz show,
hosted by Jeremy Vine.
2.15 Wanted Down Under (R,HD)
A couple and their two children
sample life in Melbourne for a week.
3.00 Murder, Mystery and My Family
(AD,R,HD) The case of an 18-year-old
hotel employee who was accused of
murdering a titled guest in 1922.
3.45 Great Canadian Railway Journeys
(AD,R,HD) Michael Portillo explores
the city of Calgary, Alberta.
4.15 Serengeti II (AD,R,HD) There is
trouble for the lions and baboons.
5.15 Flog It! (R,HD) A rare Watcombe
clock is among the items brought
to Powderham Castle in Devon.
6.00 Richard Osman’s House of
Games (HD) With Ken Bruce,
Alice Roberts, Perri Shakes-
Drayton and Kiell Smith-Bynoe.
6.30 Strictly: It Takes Two (HD)
Fleur East is back with more
exclusives and backstage gossip.
I TV 1
6.00 Good Morning Britain (HD)
9.00 Lorraine (HD)
10.00 This Morning (HD) Daily magazine,
featuring a mix of celebrity chat,
showbusiness news, lifestyle
features, topical discussion, health
and beauty advice and more.
12.30 Loose Women (HD) Celebrity
interviews and topical debate
from a female perspective.
1.30 News; Weather (HD)
1.55 Regional News; Weather (HD)
2.00 James Martin’s Spanish
Adventure (AD,HD) The chef visits
an anchovy producer, sees how
ratafia is made, and meets an
award-winning chocolatier. James
also visits Celler de Can Roca.
3.00 Tenable (HD) A family team of five
from Clitheroe answer Top 10 list
questions and attempt to top the
Tenable tower and win a big
cash prize. Quiz show hosted by
Warwick Davis; Regional Weather
4.00 Tipping Point (HD) Quiz show,
hosted by Ben Shephard.
5.00 The Chase (HD) Bradley Walsh
presents as Carolen from Brixham,
Angus from Keighley, Leah from
Essex and Adam originally from
Ealing take on one of the Chasers.
6.00 Regional News; Weather (HD)
6.30 News; Weather (HD)
CHA N N EL 4
6.05 Countdown (R,HD)
6.45 Cheers (R,HD)
7.10 Cheers (R,HD)
7.35 Everybody Loves Raymond
(AD,R,HD) Ray Romano stars.
8.00 Everybody Loves Raymond
(AD,R,HD) Robert and Amy split up.
8.25 Frasier (AD,R)
8.55 Frasier (AD,R)
9.25 Frasier (AD,R)
9.55 Chateau DIY (AD,R,HD)
10.55 George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces
(AD,R,HD) George looks back at
his most ambitious big build.
11.55 Channel 4 News Summary (HD)
12.00 Steph’s Packed Lunch (HD)
Weekday magazine show.
2.10 Countdown (HD)
3.00 A Place in the Sun (R,HD)
4.00 A Place in the Sun (HD) A woman
seeks her dream holiday home in
La Zenia, south-western Spain.
5.00 A New Life in the Sun (R,HD)
In France, a couple host their
final event of the season.
6.00 Four in a Bed (HD) Maxine Walker
and Tegan Styles digest the
group’s breakfast bugbears.
6.30 The Simpsons (AD,R) Another trio
of spirited Halloween tales, including
a mysterious fanged student
wooing Lisa. With the guest voices
of Daniel Radcliffe and Hugh Laurie.

7
7.00 The One Show (HD) Live 7.00 Beechgrove Garden (HD) Carole 7.00 Emmerdale (AD,HD) Marlon 7.00 Channel 4 News (HD)
magazine show, hosted by Baxter and George Anderson look offers reassurance to Chas.
Alex Jones and Roman Kemp. back at the 2023 growing season. 7.30 Rugby World Cup 2023 Live
7.30 Make It at Market (HD) 7.30 Gardeners’ World (HD) (HD) New Zealand v Italy (Kick-off
Dom Chinea gives three makers PICK Tom Brown travels to RHS 8pm). Mark Pougatch presents
the opportunity to make Garden Bridgewater in Salford coverage of both teams’ third
PM their crafts into day jobs. to see their plant trials. and penultimate match in Pool A,

8
held at OL Stadium in Lyon. New
8.00 Dragons’ Den (AD,R,HD) 8.30 Golf: Ryder Cup Highlights (HD) Zealand have won all 15 of the 8.00 PopMaster TV: Grand Final
A German brewer’s high-strength Eilidh Barbour presents action previous meetings between the PICK (R,HD) The grand final of
hooch pole-axes a Dragon, while from day one at Marco Simone nations, with the most recent the first television version of
another budding entrepreneur Golf and Country Club in Rome, of those contests coming in the radio quiz, with the winners
and her four-legged friend where Team Europe and Team November 2021, when the All of each of the previous five
present a booking service for USA contested foursomes and episodes returning for the
PM dog-friendly businesses. fourballs matches at the 44th
Blacks prevailed 47-9 in Rome,
scoring seven tries in the ultimate test. Last in series.

9
staging of the competition. process. However, Italy go
9.00 Would I Lie to You? (R,HD) With The Europeans are bidding to into this match ahead of their 9.00 Gogglebox (AD,HD) The armchair
Lady Leshurr, Philippa Perry, Alan recapture the trophy claimed opponents in the pool, having critics share their opinions on
Titchmarsh and Mike Wozniak. by Team USA in a 19-9 victory recorded victories over Namibia shows including The Great British
9.30 Mrs Brown’s Boys (AD,HD) two years ago, and maintain and Uruguay. With commentary Bake Off, Strictly Come Dancing,
Dermot and Maria renew their their record of having not from Martin Gillingham, Ugo Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins,
wedding vows. Last in series. lost on home soil since 1993. Sex Education and Blankety Blank.
PM Monye and Ben Kay.

10
10.00 BBC News at Ten (HD) 10.00 Red Dwarf (R,HD) Lister’s 10.25 News (HD) 10.00 Open House: The Great Sex
10.30 BBC Regional News (HD) hallucinations cause chaos. Sci-fi (Followed by Weather) Experiment (AD,HD) Nicolle
(Followed by Weather) comedy, starring Chris Barrie, 10.55 Regional News (HD) and Ben spice things up with
10.40 The Graham Norton Show (HD) Craig Charles and Norman Lovett. (Followed by Weather) Kiki and Sophia, while thrill-
PICK New series. The host launches 10.30 Newsnight (HD) seekers Katey and Dan pursue
his latest series with guests Kylie (Followed by Weather) a live sex show experience.
PM Minogue and Stephen Graham.

11
11.30 RuPaul’s Drag Race UK (R,HD) 11.05 Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond 11.10 The NFL Show (HD) Craig Doyle 11.00 Joe Lycett: I’m About to Lose
Ten new drag queens enter the Lobby (AD,R,HD) Monica presents a look ahead to the Control and I Think Joe Lycett
the werk room for the first Galetti and Rob Rinder visit weekend’s clash between (AD,R,HD) The comedian shares
time. Kristen McMenamy joins Glenapp Castle in the borders Jacksonville Jaguars and jokes, paintings and some of the
Michelle Visage and Alan Carr of Scotland, working alongside Atlanta Falcons at Wembley trolling he has been up to.
as RuPaul determines which the staff to find out how they Stadium, plus highlights of Green
PM queen is the first to go. deliver a five-star experience. Bay Packers v Detroit Lions.

12
12.40 Blankety Blank (R,HD) Rylan,
Emma Willis, Desiree Burch, Sue
Perkins, Anita Rani and Iain Stirling
help the contestants to fill in the
blanks. 1.15 Weather for the Week
Ahead (HD) 1.20 BBC News (HD)
MNT
(R) Repeat. (HD) High Definition. (AD) Audio Description. (b/w) Not in colour. (BSL) British Sign Language.
12.05 FILM: His House (2020) (15) (HD)
FILM Horror thriller, starring Sope Dirisu.
1.30 Picasso: The Beauty and the
Beast (AD,R,HD) 2.30 Panorama:
Downfall of the Crypto King
(BSL,R,HD) 3.30 This Is BBC2 (HD)
12.05 Heathrow: Britain’s Busiest 12.05 FILM: Happy Death Day 2U (2019)
Airport (AD,R,HD) 12.55 All Elite FILM (15) (HD) Horror comedy,
Wrestling: Collision (R,HD) 2.35 starring Jessica Rothe. 1.45
Tipping Point (R,HD) 3.25 James Ramsay’s 24 Hours to Hell and Back
Martin’s Spanish Adventure (R,HD) 2.30 Come Dine with Me
(AD,BSL,R,HD) 4.15 Unwind with (AD,R,HD) 4.45 Tool Club (R,HD)
ITV (HD) 5.10 Tenable (BSL,R,HD) 5.35 Kirstie’s House of Craft (R,HD)
5.55 The King of Queens (AD,R,HD)
Family viewing Generally suitable for all Caution recommended
 Daily Mail, Friday, September 29, 2023
FRIDAY NIGHT FUN
The Graham Norton
Show, 10.40pm, BBC11
GRAHAM is back,
and he kicks off the
new series of his chat
show with superstar
guest Kylie Minogue.
Also on the sofa are
Stephen Graham,
David Mitchell and
Mawaan Rizwan, while
the UK’s 2023 Eurovision
on entrant,
entrant Mae
Muller (pictured), performs her new single.
FILM CHOICE
Angel Has Fallen, 9pm, E4
FOLLOWING the fall of Olympus and
London, this action-heavy, rather bonkers
franchise returns for a third film following
Gerard Butler’s worn and weary Secret
Service agent, Mike Banning. This time,
he’s forced to go on the run after being
framed for an attack on the President
(played by Morgan Freeman). The series is
set to continue with the next film, Night
Has Fallen, currently in development.
CH A N N E L 5 a walker stuck in mudflats.
6.00 Milkshake! Sunny Bunnies (R,HD)
6.05 Daisy & Ollie (R,HD) 6.10 Milkshake!
Monkey (R) 6.15 Peppa Pig (R,HD) 6.20
Peppa Pig (R,HD) 6.25 Oggy Oggy (R,HD)
6.35 Odo (R,HD) 6.45 Peppa Pig (AD,R,HD)
6.50 Fireman Sam (R,HD) 7.00 Thomas &
Friends: All Engines Go! (R,HD) 7.10 Peppa
Pig (AD,R,HD) 7.15 Peppa Pig (R) 7.25 Paw
Patrol (R,HD) 7.35 Pip and Posy (HD) 7.50
The Adventures of Paddington (R,HD) 8.05
Chip and Potato (R,HD) 8.20 Milo (R,HD)
8.30 Paw Patrol (R,HD) 8.45 Ben and Holly’s
Little Kingdom (R,HD) 8.55 Peppa Pig (R,HD)
9.00 Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go!
(HD) 9.05 Operation Pawsome (HD)
9.15 Jeremy Vine (HD)
11.15 Storm Huntley (HD)
12.40 Alexis Conran (HD)
1.40 5 News at Lunchtime (HD)
1.45 Home and Away (AD,R,HD)
2.20 My Deadly Ex (2020) (PG) (HD)
FILM An engaged couple’s lives turn into
a nightmare after they experience a
mysterious break-in at their home.
Thriller, starring Vivica A. Fox.
4.00 Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun
(HD) Former policeman Rod sets
up a market at a local ex-pat club.
5.00 5 News (HD)
6.00 Susan Calman’s Grand Day Out
(R,HD) The presenter heads to
the lush county of Cumbria.
6.55 5 News Update (HD)
7.00 Shop Smart, Save Money (HD)
New series. Angellica Bell and
Ortis Deley help families to make
the best choices when buying
items to make their lives better.
7.55 5 News Update (HD)
8.00 Live: Harvest on the Farm 2023
(HD) In the finale at the Essex
farm, Helen Skelton and Jules
Hudson present a harvest festival
extravaganza. Last in series.
9.00 Amazing Railway Adventures
PICK with Nick Knowles (HD) The
presenter travels from Mount
Vesuvius to Mount Etna on a
journey from Naples to Sicily.
10.00 Blood Money: The Curse of
Brink’s-Mat Robbery (R,HD)
Nearly 40 years on from Britain’s
biggest gold robbery, police
officers and key witnesses, many
speaking for the first time, reveal
the inside story behind the heist.
11.30 Ocean’s Eleven (2001) (12) (HD)
FILM A suave ex-convict assembles a
gang of crooks to help him to
pull off the daring robbery of
three casinos in Las Vegas. Crime
comedy, with George Clooney,
Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts.
1.35 PlayOJO Live Casino Show (HD)
3.35 Friends (R,HD) 4.00 Friends
(R,HD) 4.25 Never Teach Your
Wife to Drive (BSL,R,HD) 5.20
Wildlife SOS (BSL,R,HD) 5.50
Entertainment News on 5 (HD)
Particularly liable to offend
TELEVISION 51
Gales and lashing waves give this
rescue service show added drama
R
ROLAND
eal-life dramas in antibes. Why? Because
Picasso took advantage of his
don’t come much friends’ free love philosophy to
more dramatic than
Saving Lives At Sea WHITE sleep with one of their wives.
as his grandson Olivier put it
(BBC2). it has all the
go-go-go thrills of the other
LAST NIGHT’S TV with masterly understatement:
‘He was not a faithful man.’
Saving Lives At Sea Picasso believed from an early
rescue service shows, with age that he was better than
the added bonus of gale-force Picasso: The Beauty And The Beast other people, a psychoanalyst
winds and waves lashing explained. He worked hard to
against the camera lens. an interesting face. i feel we ously had a new model, and she maintain that position, but also
This is the eighth series now, and will do great things together. i knew what that meant. schemed against other artists.
am Picasso.’ a week later, they He and Olga divorced, and in 1931 there was a big Matisse
they don’t seem to be struggling
were lovers. Marie-Therese gave birth to exhibition in Paris. Picasso
for material. far from it. There was then demanded that he too
a race against the clock on the Wir- He was 45 at the time, and a daughter. But that didn’t stop
married. She was 17. his wandering eye. have an exhibition — but in a
ral Peninsula, where the in-shore bigger gallery.
rescue hovercraft launched to save His wife Olga only discovered He spotted the surrealist pho-
she had competition when she tographer Dora Maar at a café in
began to notice a change in Paris, but their relationship CHRISTOPHER STEVENS
With the tide coming in fast, is away.
would they get there in time? her husband’s work: he obvi- cooled on a holiday with friends
especially as a high wind was blow-
ing. The hovercraft is ideal for
gliding over the mud, but the wind
slowed it down from 22 knots to a
five-knot crawl.
it was a more conventional life-
boat, from another station, that was
first to reach rambler Mark. another
five minutes, estimated one of the
crew, and he’d have drowned.
Most of the crews are volunteers,
and it can be an emotional busi-
ness. Crew member Kelley welled
up as she remembered bringing a
jet-skier back to life.
Dan hit his head on a jet-ski in
the Solent, and was effectively life-
less by the time he was carried to
shore. Kelley’s CPR didn’t seem to
STIFF UPPER LIP: The Real Crown:
Inside The House Of Windsor
(ITV1) recalled how a nationalist
bomb went off as Prince Charles
travelled in an open coach to
his 1967 investiture as Prince of
Wales. ‘What was that?’ he
asked Welsh secretary George
Thomas. ‘Royal salute,’ said
the quick-thinking minister.
be working, but as she was stand-
ing clear for the defibrillator, Dan
began to breathe again.
He was in a coma for three weeks,
and now remembers nothing of
the accident.
Crew members are remarkably
non-judgemental. in Hartlepool,
lifeboats helped in the huge
search for a canoeist who disap-
peared in 2002.
The search was called off after 33
hours with no sign of the missing
man. That was hardly surprising. it
was John Darwin, who had disap-
peared deliberately and was later
jailed for insurance fraud.
‘Despite all that’s happened,’ said
one of that Hartlepool search
party, ‘we’re just relieved that he
was safe.’
Picasso: Beauty And The Beast
(BBC2) was a story about women
and war. The Nazis and the Spanish
Civil War got a mention, but it was
mostly women.
it began with the day that the
artist met Marie-Therese Walter,
his long-term lover. Well, one of
them. ‘Mademoiselle,’ he said after
spotting her in Paris, ‘you have
WELSH TV VARIATIONS
BBC1: 1.30pm Wales Today; Weather. 6.30 Wales
Today; Weather. 7.30 Yarnbombers — Our Lives.
ITV: 10.55pm News Cymru Wales; Weather.
S4C: 6.00am Cyw. 12noon Newyddion S4C a’r
Tywydd. 12.05 Richard Holt: Yr Academi Felys.
12.30 Heno. 1.00 Dan Do. 1.30 Cymry ar Gynfas.
2.00 Newyddion S4C a’r Tywydd. 2.05 Prynhawn
Da. 3.00 Newyddion S4C a’r Tywydd. 3.05 Noson
Lawen. 4.00 Awr Fawr: Timpo. 4.10 Awr Fawr: Tomos
a’i Ffrindiau. 4.20 Awr Fawr: Oli Wyn. 4.30 Awr Fawr:
Patrol Pawennau. 4.45 Awr Fawr: Deian a Loli. 5.00
Stwnsh. 6.00 Bwyd Epic Chris. 6.30 Garddio a Mwy.
6.57 Newyddion S4C. 7.00 Heno. 7.30 Newyddion
S4C a’r Tywydd. 8.00 Ralio+. The Ceredigion Rally.
Emyr Penlan and Hana Medi present highlights of
the prestigious event that took place around
Aberystwyth. 8.55 Newyddion S4C a’r Tywydd. 9.00
Lorient 2023. Musicians Al Lewis and Mari Mathias
set out on a pilgrimage to the Lorient Intercelt-
ique Festival, a celebration of the Celtic countries
in north-west France. 10.00 Y Gem. 10.30 Yn y Lwp.
52 DIGITAL & ON DEMAND Daily Mail, Friday, September 29, 2023

Time BBC 4 E4 ITV2

PICK OF DIGITAL & ON DEMAND TV 9 (Scot 24) 13 6
FLORA AND SON, Top of the Pops Hollyoaks Sienna Ninja Warrior UK:
7.00pm Music from February fears for her Race for Glory Ben
APPLE TV+ 1995, featuring PJ and
Duncan and Bon Jovi
children’s future Shephard, Rochelle
Humes and Chris
WITH Once and Sing Street on by Carney and Top of the Pops Music 7.35 Young Sheldon Kamara host as more
his CV, writer-director John with great by Elton John, Faith No The youngster tries contenders take on
Carney has amply demonstrated performances 7.30pm More and Celine Dion to learn the violin the obstacle course
his gift for creating heartfelt, from Hewson, from March 1995
feel-good musical tales from Kinlan and Joseph
material seemingly better Gordon-Levitt (as Top of the Pops First Dates Ireland Superstore Cheyenne
suited to gritty dramas. And a washed-up LA 8.00pm With Hannah and Her
Sisters, Bizarre Inc
The final episode of
the series offers a
enlists Bo’s help to
make her birthday
with Flora And Son he manages musician who and Sabrina Johnston romantic reverie from memorable
it again. Trying to give her becomes Flora’s pre-pandemic times,
aimless son Max (Oren Kinlan) online guitar Top of the Pops Superstore It is
With Ram Jam, David revisiting memorable March 2020 and
some direction, Dublin single
mum Flora (Eve Hewson,
teacher), this is a
perfectly pitched
8.30pm Essex, the Stylistics moments from the
First Dates restaurant
the pandemic is
and Donna Summer beginning to hit
pictured with Kinlan) rescues drama that hits
a guitar from a skip. When some real high Phil Collins at the BBC Angel Has Fallen There’s Something
Max rejects her attempts to
get him to play, she takes up
notes. And it was a brave role
for Hewson to take on — she’s
talent are inevitable. Has the
star of Bad Sisters (also on
9.00pm Archive footage of the
singer’s performances
(2019,15) Secret
Service agent
About Mary
(1998,15) A lovesick
the instrument herself — with the daughter of U2 frontman Apple TV+) inherited her rock on BBC programmes, Mike Banning finds man hires a seedy
including You Can’t himself framed for detective to track
life-changing effect. Chockful Bono (aka Paul Hewson), so star dad’s musical genes? Watch Hurry Love, One More an assassination down his high-
of fantastic songs co-written comparisons of their vocal this charming film to find out.
9.30pm Night, I Missed Again
and Two Hearts
attempt on the
President. Pursued
school sweetheart
— but discovers he
CREATURE FEATURE the way, which is more than you by his own agency has many rivals for
65, 12noon, 8pm, Sky Premiere get from a ghost train at the fair. The Old Grey and the FBI, Banning her affections.
races to clear Comedy from
YOU can see this man vs dinosaurs SUPERHERO SERIES 10.00pm Whistle Test: Genesis
A Genesis concert his name and the Farrelly
action thriller coming most of the Gen V, Amazon Prime Video uncover the real brothers, starring
from 1980
time, but it’s still good Friday night terrorist threat. Cameron Diaz, Ben
fun. Adam Driver plays the pilot AMAZON’S The Boys redefined 10.40 TOTP2: Action thriller Stiller, Matt Dillon
the landscape of small-screen
who crash lands on an alien planet.
superheroics, depicting cape- 10.30pm Genesis Archive
performances by
sequel, starring
Gerard Butler
and Lee Evans.
Includes FYI Daily
GHOST HUNTERS wearing heroes as psychotic the band
Spooked Ireland, egomaniacs. This new weekly series
delves back into the same world 11.25 Mark Lawson 11.20 Naked
9pm, Really/Discovery+
THE model Vogue Williams Charleville Castle in County Offaly
but focuses on an academy for
younger heroes being run by the
11.00pm Talks to Phil
Collins The musician
Attraction A retired
divorced dentist is in
(pictured) joins American psychic — it’s the perfect creepy setting and evil Vought corporation, a breeding discusses his life and search of a sexually
Chris Fleming for a new series of seems to be home to some restless ground for dark goings-on behind work, including experimental
his success with man (To 12.30) Family Guy Stewie
spook hunts, using ‘the most up-to- spirit children. Whether you believe its shiny facade. The resulting
date science’ in their peeks beyond what happens or not, there are some show is sinister, exciting, blackly 11.30pm Genesis and as a solo attempts to combat
ageing with plastic
the veil. They start at the imposing nice history lessons to be had along funny and — beware — rather gory. artist (To 12.25)
surgery (To 12.00)

ENTERTAINMENT & FACTUAL RADIO

ALIBI
Sky 109 Virgin 114
12noon Frankie Drake Mysteries.
1.00 Death in Paradise. 2.00
Murdoch Mysteries. 4.00 Miss
Fisher’s Murder Mysteries. 5.00
Hudson & Rex. 6.00 Without a
Trace. 7.00 Elementary. 8.00 Death
in Paradise. 10.20 Shakespeare &
Hathaway: Private Investigators.
11.15 Person of Interest.
ANIMAL PLANET
Sky 162 Virgin 178
12noon The Pool Master. 1.00 Life at
Vet University. 2.00 Wild Dubai.
3.00 Deadliest Sharks. 4.00 My
Cat from Hell. 5.00 Animal
Cops Philadelphia. 6.00 Tanked.
7.00 Pit Bulls & Parolees. 8.00
Legends of the Wild. 10.00 Alaska:
Surviving the Last Frontier. 11.00
Monster Hammerhead.
BBC ALBA
Sky 169 Virgin 161
6.00am Alba Today. 5.00pm Treubh
an Tuathanais. 5.15 Na Clangers.
5.25 Sionnach agus Maigheach. 5.35
“rain CBeebies. 5.40 AH-AH/No-No.
5.48 ’S E Iasg a Th’Annam. 5.50
Stoiridh. 6.00 Aithne air
Ainmhidhean. 6.25 @12. 6.30 Stri.
6.35 Ronia, Nighean a’ Mheirlich/
Ronja, the Robber’s Daughter. 7.00
An La. 7.25 Dan. 7.30 Live FOSROC
Super6 Rugby. Boroughmuir Bears
v FOSROC Future XV (Kick-off
7.35pm). 9.25 Fraochy Bay. 9.30 An
Clo Mor. 10.00 FILM: Doineann.
(2021) (15) 11.30 Belladrum.
BBC THREE
Freeview 23 Sky 115 Virgin 107
7.00pm Phoenix Rise. 8.00 Gavin &
Stacey. 9.00 Life and Death Row.
10.00 FILM: End of Watch. (2012) (15)
11.40 The Bold Type.
COMEDY CENTRAL
Sky 112 Virgin 132
11.00am Home Improvement.
1.00pm Last Man Standing. 2.00
Friends. 9.00 Lee Evans: XL Tour.
10.00 Kevin Bridges: The Brand
New Tour. 11.00 Key & Peele.
DAVE (DAYTIME)
Freeview 19 Sky 111 Virgin 127
12noon Ultimate Movers. 1.00
Repair Lot. 2.00 Top Gear. 4.00
Building Cars: Secrets of the
Assembly Line. 5.00 Rick Stein’s
Mediterranean Escapes. 6.00 Rick
Stein’s India.
DISCOVERY
Sky 125 Virgin 177
9.00am Alaska: The Last Frontier.
10.00 How Do They Do It? 11.00
Wheeler Dealers. 12noon Salvage
Hunters. 1.00 Deadliest Catch.
3.00 Alaskan Bush People. 4.00
Mystery of Egypt’s Mega Temple.
5.00 Wheeler Dealers. 6.00
Salvage Hunters. 7.00 Gold Rush.
9.00 Expedition Bigfoot. 10.00
Expedition X.
DRAMA (DAYTIME)
Freeview 20 Sky 143 Virgin 116
11.40am The Bill. 12.50pm Classic
EastEnders. 2.05 Pie in the Sky. 3.05
Bergerac. 4.20 All Creatures Great
and Small. 5.30 The Upper Hand.
6.05 ’Allo ’Allo! 6.40 Last of the
Summer Wine.
E4 (DAYTIME)
Freeview 13 Sky 135 Virgin 106
8.40am Melissa & Joey. 9.10
Brooklyn Nine-Nine. 10.00 The Big
Bang Theory. 11.00 Modern Family.
12noon The Big Bang Theory. 2.00
The Goldbergs. 3.00 Modern Family.
4.00 Married at First Sight UK. 5.10
The Big Bang Theory.
EDEN
Sky 166 Virgin 176
10.00am Abandoned Engineering.
5STAR (DAYTIME)
Freeview 32 Sky 128 Virgin 126
12noon Traffic Cops. 2.00 Police
Interceptors. 5.00 Call the
Bailiffs: Time to Pay Up. 6.00
Home and Away.
5 ACTION
Freeview 33 Sky 150
11.15am Police Interceptors. 12.15pm
FILM: Dawn at Socorro. (1954) (PG)
1.55 FILM: Canyon Passage. (1946)
(PG) 4.00 Outback Truckers. 5.00
Traffic Cops. 6.00 Police
Interceptors. 9.00 Police: Night
Shift 999. 10.00 Motorway Cops:
Catching Britain’s Speeders. 11.00
999: Police Hour of Duty.
5 SELECT
Freeview 46 Sky 153 Virgin 138
11.00am The Yorkshire Vet. 12.55pm
Entertainment News on 5. 1.00
World’s Most Scenic Railway
Journeys. 2.00 The Yorkshire Vet.
3.50 Entertainment News on 5. 4.00
The Highland Vet. 5.00 Ben Fogle:
New Lives in the Wild. 6.00 World’s
Most Scenic Railway Journeys. 7.00
The 1970s Supermarket. 8.00 Jimmy
Tarbuck: 60 Years of Laughs. 10.00
Britain’s Favourite Gameshows.
5 USA (DAYTIME)
Freeview 21 Sky 141 Virgin 120
12noon Law & Order. 6.00 NCIS.
FOOD NETWORK UK
Freeview 43 Sky 140 Virgin 190
6.00pm James Martin’s United
Cakes of America. 7.00 The Great
British Bake Off. 8.00 Michel Roux’s
Provence Masterclass. 9.00 Bobby’s
Triple Threat. 10.00 The Hairy
Bikers’ Food Tour of Britain. 11.00
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives.
GOLD
Sky 110 Virgin 124
11.40am Keeping Up Appearances.
12.20pm 2point4 Children. 1.00
Dad’s Army. 1.40 Blackadder Goes
Forth. 2.20 Porridge. 3.00 Hi-de-Hi!
3.40 Last of the Summer Wine. 5.00
Keeping Up Appearances. 5.40
Porridge. 6.20 Blackadder Goes
Forth. 7.40 Dad’s Army. 9.00 The
Royle Family. 9.40 The Royle Family
at Christmas. 10.20 Not Going Out.
11.00 The Fast Show. 11.40 The
Royle Family.
GREAT! TV
Freeview 50 Sky 157 Virgin 170
9.00am Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye.
11.00am Castle. 1.00pm Sue Thomas:
F.B.Eye. 3.00 Diagnosis Murder.
5.00 Murder, She Wrote. 7.00
M*A*S*H. 9.00 Randall and Hopkirk
(Deceased). 10.00 The Persuaders!
11.00 Return of the Saint.
ITV2 (DAYTIME)
Freeview 6 Sky 118 Virgin 115
9.00am Totally Bonkers Guinness
World Records. 9.35 One Tree Hill.
10.05 Dawson’s Creek. 11.00 Dress
to Impress. 12noon Dinner Date.
1.00 Family Fortunes. 2.00 Chuck.
3.05 One Tree Hill. 4.05 Dawson’s
Creek. 5.00 Dinner Date. 6.00
Celebrity Catchphrase.
ITV3 (DAYTIME)
Freeview 10 Sky 119 Virgin 117
8.35am Bless This House. 9.10
Where the Heart Is. 11.20 Agatha
Christie’s Poirot. 12.25pm Heartbeat.
1.30 ITV Racing: Live from
Newmarket. 4.00 Classic
Emmerdale. 5.00 Classic Coronation
Street. 6.00 Heartbeat.
ITV4 (DAYTIME)
Freeview 26 Sky 120 Virgin 118
8.25am The Saint. 9.35 The Return
of Sherlock Holmes. 10.40 Magnum,
PI. 11.45 The Motorbike Show.
12.45pm Snooker: British Open
2023. 4.30 Hot Shots. 4.40 Minder.
5.40 The Motorbike Show. 6.45
Snooker: British Open 2023.
ITVBE
Freeview 28 Sky 131 Virgin 119
9.00am LittleBe. 12noon Sugar
Showdown. 12.25 The Real
Housewives of Beverly Hills. 1.20
Mummy Diaries Extra. 2.20 The
Only Way Is Essex. 3.05 Million
Dollar Listing: LA. 4.05 The Real
Housewives of Atlanta. 5.00
The Real Housewives of Potomac.
6.00 Making It Home with Kortney
RADIO 4
FM: 92.4-94.6MHZ; LW: 198KHZ
5.30am News Briefing.
5.43 Prayer for the Day.
5.45 Farming Today.
5.58 Tweet of the Day.
6.00 Today.
9.00 Desert Island Discs.
With horse trainer
Lucinda Russell.
9.45 (LW) Daily Service.
9.45 (FM) Book of the
Week: Great-Uncle
Harry: A Tale of War
and Empire. Michael
Palin visits Mametz
Wood, where his
great-uncle was killed.
10.00 Woman’s Hour.
11.00 The Briefing Room.
11.30 What’s Funny About.
12noon News; (LW)
Shipping Forecast.
12.04 Archive on 4: The
Holy Blood.
12.57 Weather.
1.00 The World at One.
1.45 Uncharted with
Hannah Fry.
2.00 The Archers.
& Kenny. 7.00 Buying and Selling.
8.00 Dinner Date. 9.00 Botched.
11.00 Million Dollar Matchmaker.
12midnight The Only Way Is
Essex. 12.45 Unwind with ITV.
1.00 Teleshopping.
MORE4 (DAYTIME)
Freeview 18 Sky 136 Virgin 147
8.55am Kirstie’s Handmade
Treasures. 9.15 A Place in the Sun.
10.05 A New Life in the Sun. 11.05
Find It, Fix It, Flog It. 1.10pm Heir
Hunters. 2.10 Four in a Bed. 4.50
Kirstie and Phil’s Love It or List It.
Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer
help a couple in Cowbridge,
Wales. 5.50 The Secret Life of
the Zoo. 6.55 The Dog House
Australia. Life at Animal Welfare
League NSW, a picturesque dog
sanctuary where people come in
search of a canine soulmate.
NAT’L GEOGRAPHIC
Sky 129 Virgin 183
9.00am Air Crash Investigation.
10.00 Apocalypse: The Rise of
Hitler. 12noon World War II: The
Apocalypse. 6.00 Seconds from
Disaster. 7.00 Air Crash
Investigation. 8.00 Airport
Security: Rome. 9.00 Air Crash
PICK OF TODAY’S RADIO
CROWDSCIENCE,
8.30PM, BBC WORLD SERVICE
IS THERE any chance of us
reining in our destruction
of nature, and perhaps
even helping the planet’s
biodiversity? That’s today’s
question from a listener in
California, who’s witnessed
first-hand the devastation
caused by the mining and
timber industries. It has
been claimed that only
three per cent of land on
2.15 Drama: The System.
2.45 Close Encounters.
3.00 Gardeners’ Question
Time. From Mousehole
in Cornwall.
3.45 Short Works.
4.00 Last Word.
4.30 More or Less.
5.00 PM; (LW) Shipping
Forecast.
5.57 Weather.
6.00 Six O’Clock News.
Investigation. 10.00 Inside Cocaine
Wars: Cartel Crackdown. 11.00 Air
Crash Investigation.
PBS AMERICA
Freeview 84 Sky 174 Virgin 187
11.50am Frontline. 1.00pm Beautiful
Serengeti. 1.30 The War. 2.40
Auschwitz in 33 Objects. 3.50
America’s Dangerous Trucks. 5.00
Frontline. 6.10 The War. 7.20
Auschwitz in 33 Objects. 8.30
America’s Dangerous Trucks.
Frontline investigate deadly truck
accidents. 9.40 Frontline. Frontline
investigates retired US general
Michael Flynn and how his far-right
influence affects America. 10.50
Auschwitz in 33 Objects. 12midnight
America’s Dangerous Trucks. 1.15
Beautiful Serengeti.
REALLY
Freeview 17 Sky 142 Virgin 128
12noon Money for Nothing. 1.00
A Place in the Sun. 2.00 My 600lb
Life. 4.00 Animal Cops Phoenix.
5.00 Ambulance. 6.00 Celebrity
Yorkshire Auction House. 7.00
Antiques Road Trip. 9.00 Spooked
Ireland. 10.00 Celebrity Help!
My House Is Haunted. 11.00
Ghost Adventures.
Earth remains untouched
by human influence, so
the omens are not good.
But the programme also
hears from members of
the Karuk tribe, who live
along California’s Klamath
River. They have always
had a close relationship
with nature, and continue
to work at restoring the
landscape around them.
6.30 The News Quiz. Andy
Zaltzman hosts the
comedy panel game.
7.00 The Archers.
Susan attempts
something different.
7.15 Screenshot. The
unsung heroes of
cinema, stunt artists.
8.00 Any Questions?
From One Sixth Form
College in Ipswich.
SKY ARTS
Freeview 11 Sky 130 Virgin 123
12noon The Joy of Painting. 1.00
Tales of the Unexpected. 1.35 FILM:
The House of Fear. (1945) (PG) 3.00
Thomas Hardy: Fate, Exclusion and
Tragedy. 4.00 Discovering: Diane
Keaton. 5.00 Tales of the
Unexpected. 6.00 Alfred Hitchcock
Presents. 7.00 The Joy of Painting.
8.00 Discovering Tommy Lee Jones.
9.00 The Who: Tommy Live at the
Royal Albert Hall. 10.30 Maximum
R&B — The Birth of The Who. 11.30
Bob Dylan: No Direction Home.
SKY ATLANTIC
Sky 108
8.55am Six Feet Under. 10.00 Ray
Donovan. 12.05pm Game of Thrones.
1.10 Quarry. 3.35 Six Feet Under.
5.45 Ray Donovan. 7.55 Game of
Thrones. 9.00 Billions. 10.10 Drift —
Partners in Crime.
SKY COMEDY
Sky 114 Virgin 112
11.30am Looking. 12.50pm House
of Lies. 1.30 The Fresh Prince of Bel-
Air. 2.20 Entourage. 3.30 The
Conners. 4.30 Sort Of. 5.30 Mr
Mayor. 6.00 The Fresh Prince of
Bel-Air. 7.00 Will & Grace. 8.00
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ITV 3 ITV 4 MORE 4 PICK QUEST DAVE DRAMA 5STAR 5 USA
10 26 18 36 12 19 20 32 21
Heartbeat Gina 6.45 Snooker: 6.55 The Dog House Star Trek: Voyager Outback Opal Richard Osman’s 7.20 Last of the GPs: Behind Closed NCIS Tony and Ziva
struggles to cope British Open 2023 Australia Life at The crew races to the Hunters The Tunnel House of Games Summer Wine Doors A woman with trace a suspected
with Phil’s death, Coverage of the Animal Welfare rescue of a ship, but Rats struggle working With Kaye Adams and Foggy tries to injuries sustained in a terrorist to a
but refuses Carol’s evening session on day League NSW discovers it is a mirror on unfamiliar ground, Mark Chapman cheer Compo up fight, on top of warehouse, where
attempts to help five from The Centaur 7.55 Grand Designs image of Voyager — while the Boulder Boys 7.40 Richard Osman’s ongoing alcoholism they find evidence
her, and Don feels at Cheltenham Kevin McCloud and ends up in danger try to keep their jobs House of Games Kate and depression, suggesting a nuclear
guilty about his Racecourse, featuring follows a couple’s of being sucked with a last-ditch hunt Williams and Tom makes a return visit attack on Washington,
colleague’s shooting the concluding project to transform into a black hole Allen compete DC, is being planned
quarter-finals. Mark a 1960s forester’s
Doc Martin In the Allen overcame the lodge into a unique Magnum P.I. Salvage Hunters 8.20 Would I Lie to Father Brown A body Million Pound NCIS An Iraq war
final episode of the challenge of Mark Japanese home, A journalist hires Drew visits a disused You? With David is discovered in a Motorhomes veteran asks Gibbs
ninth series, Martin Selby with a 5-3 win at complete with a Thomas to track down fuel shed on a former O’Doherty, Richard vineyard and Father Celebrating the Great to investigate the
rushes to Ruth’s for a this stage last year to tatami room and an anonymous source air force base in Osman, Susan Calman Brown is tasked with British obsession with killing of another
medical emergency set up a semi-final sliding paper walls who has mysteriously Suffolk, where he and Carol Kirkwood searching for the all things motorhome. former marine,
meeting with Noppon gone silent, and discovers vases carved murderer. Fifties-set Last in series who was murdered
Saengkham, who Higgins receives a new from cow bones crime drama, starring while working as a
defeated Jamie Jones assignment from MI-6 Mark Williams lorry driver
by the same score line.
Doc Martin After Presented by Rishi For Life New series. The Murderer & Me Ambulance The work QI XL Extended Father Brown The Outbreak (1995,15) NCIS Gibbs’s former
having his career Persad, with analysis Crime drama about a New series. Factual of the North West edition. Janet priest becomes An expert in mother-in-law
scrutinised by the from Stephen Hendry, tough, straight-talking crime stories Ambulance Service. Street-Porter, Sandi embroiled in an infectious diseases surfaces as a witness
General Medical Alan McManus, Ken detective. A child is beginning with mother A panicked caller Toksvig and Johnny audacious art heist races against time in a murder
Council, Martin makes Doherty and Neal found in a forest near of two Joanna needs help for a friend Vegas join regular masterminded by his to find a cure for a investigation,
efforts to overcome Foulds, and her murdered mother. Dennehy, who killed who has given birth panellist Alan Davies adversary Flambeau. rapidly fatal and it transpires the
his fear of blood commentary by David With Tone Mostraum. three men in in a hotel room Crime drama, starring airborne virus victim had ties to a
Hendon and Phil Yates In Norwegian and around Mark Williams which is wiping drug cartel
Peterborough in 2013, out the population
10.05 Endeavour All Elite Wrestling: 24 Hours in A&E then tried to murder Border Control QI XL Extended New Tricks The team of a small town, and Law & Order: Special
When the detective is Dynamite Hard- Cameras follow two dog walkers Sweden A man gets edition. Victoria Coren re-examines the case is threatening to Victims Unit A six-
called to investigate hitting action Lawrence, 26, who is aggressive when his Mitchell, Sue Perkins of a writer found dead turn into a year-old girl tests
what appears to be a from the world of rushed to St George’s bags are being and the Rev Richard in a scrapyard. Brian pandemic. Thriller, positive for a sexually
freak accident at Lady All Elite Wrestling - after being hit by a car checked. Plus, Alex Coles join Alan Davies believes the secret of with Dustin transmitted disease
Matilda’s College, he the roster features while crossing the Snapped Stories of discovers a canister and Stephen Fry the murder lies in Hoffman, Rene
uncovers a potential world-class talent road on a night apparently normal and suspects that it the man’s poetry Russo, Morgan
link between a series including Jon out in Eastbourne women who turned to might contain drugs Freeman, Kevin
of peculiar incidents Moxley, Chris Jericho, murder, investigating Spacey and Donald
across Oxford. Despite Bryan Danielson what causes such Sutherland. Includes
11.05 24 Hours in A&E dramatic changes in How Do They Do It? Taskmaster Doc 11.20 Silent Witness Entertainment News Law & Order: Special
Thursday’s scepticism, and Claudio Castagnoli, Cameras follow a Looking at how car Brown, Joe Wilkinson, Thomas performs a Victims Unit The team
he becomes and many more who behaviour
10-year-old who has windows are made Jon Richardson, post mortem on a go undercover to
convinced the bring a freshness and severed his finger at Katherine Ryan and soldier who died in expose a drug ring
accidents are the energy into school and a Richard Osman are military training
result of foul play. professional stonemason who has How I Caught the How Do They Do It? confronted with an (To 1.40) 11.45 The 11.55 Blue Bloods
Drama, starring wrestling (To 12.00) dropped a marble slab Killer Detective Mike How aircraft seats are intimidating man in Manchurian Crime drama, starring
Shaun Evans (To 12.10) on his hand (To 12.10) Southwell talks about tested (To 12.00) gold chains (To 12.05) Candidate Tom Selleck (To 12.55)
a 1981 case (To 12.30) (2004,15) (To 2.25)

BBC 6 MUSIC continues

SPORT
to celebrate the bands who RADIO 2 FM: 88-90.2MHZ EUROSPORT 1 SKY FOOTBALL 1899 Hoffenheim v Borussia
Dortmund (Kick-off 7.30pm). 9.30
made shoe-gazing an art 6.30am Zoe Ball. 9.30 Vernon Kay. Sky 413 Virgin 521 Sky 403 Virgin 503
Live U.S. Open 9-Ball Pool.
form in INDIE FOREVER 12noon Jeremy Vine. 2.00pm Scott 2.00pm Live Cycling: CRO Race. 2.15pm SPFL Highlights. 2.30 EFL
(7PM, BBC 6 MUSIC). Each Mills. 3.30 Scott Mills’ Wonder 4.00 Cycling: Agostoni Cup. 5.00 Goals: Leagues 1 & 2. 3.00 Bundesliga TNT SPORTS 1
Years. 4.00 Sara Cox. 7.00 Michelle Climbing World Cup. 6.15 Olympic Weekly. 3.30 EFL Highlights. 4.30
Friday, Nathan Shepherd Games: The Power of the Olympics. Scottish Premiership Round-Up.
Sky 410 Virgin 527
hosts a four-hour indie party, Visage. 8.30 Michelle Visage’s 12.30pm Live World Rally
Handbag Hits. 9.00 The Good 6.30 The Power of Sport. 7.00 4.45 SPFL Highlights. 5.00
featuring classic tracks from Cycling: Tour of Langkawi. 8.00 Bundesliga Weekly. 5.30 EFL Cup Championship. 3.15 Sports Reload.
Groove with DJ Spoony. 11.00 The 3.45 New Signing. 4.15 Badminton
the likes of The Smiths, Sonic Rock Show with Johnnie Walker. Cycling: CRO Race. 9.00 Olympic Highlights. 6.30 WSL. 7.00 WSL
Games: The Power of the Olympics. Chelsea Special. 7.30 Live EFL. Unlimited. 4.45 Massive. 6.00
Youth and Pixies. Meanwhile, Premier League Preview. 6.30 The
Indie Forever Back To Back RADIO 3 FM: 90.2-92.4MHZ 9.15 Live Mountain Biking. 10.00 Sheffield Wednesday v Sunderland
Fantasy Show. 7.00 Deaf Away Days.
Live Mountain Biking. (Kick-off 8pm). 10.30 WSL
Sounds, on BBC Sounds, 6.30am Breakfast. 9.00 Essential Chelsea Special. 7.15 Ligue 1 Show. 7.45 Live Ligue 1.
features playlists including Classics. 12noon Composer of the SKY MAIN EVENT Strasbourg v Lens (Kick-off 8pm).
Indie Floorfillers and Britpop, Week: Anniversary Special: A Sky 401 Virgin 501 SKY CRICKET 10.00 Champions League Magazine.
Welsh Quintet. 1.00pm Radio 3 6.00am Live Ryder Cup Golf. 11.30 Sky 404 Virgin 504 10.30 Premier League Preview.
plus DJ sets from La Roux Lunchtime Concert. 2.00 Afternoon Live Ryder Cup Golf. 5.30pm Live 9.20am Live One-Day International TNT SPORTS 2
(pictured) and the Libertines’ Concert. 4.30 The Listening Ryder Cup Golf. 7.30 Live Betfred Cricket. New Zealand v Pakistan.
Carl Barat and Gary Powell. Service. 5.00 In Tune. 7.00 Classical Super League. Hull Kingston Rovers 5.30pm ICC Men’s Cricket World Sky 411 Virgin 528
Mixtape. 7.30 Radio 3 in Concert. v Leigh Leopards (Kick-off 8pm). Cup 2023: The Expert’s View. 6.30 1.00pm AFL. 3.00 WWE NXT. 4.44
Pianist Paul Lewis joins the Royal 10.15 Live U.S. Open 9-Ball Pool. Cricket World Cup. 7.30 World Cup TNT Sports Goals Reload. 5.00
Liverpool Philharmonic. 10.00 The Cricket Classics. 8.00 The Barest of The Fantasy Show. 5.30 Premier
8.50 A Point of View. 11.00 Americast. SKY PREMIER LEAGUE League — The Big Interview. 6.00
Verb. 10.45 The Essay: The Little Margins. 9.00 ICC CWC Qualifier
9.00 Archive on 4: 20 Years 11.30 ‘Whatever Next?’ Sky 402 Virgin 502 2023: The Official Film. 10.00 ICC Deaf Away Days. 6.12 TNT Sports
Secrets of Great Works. 11.00 Late
of Funny Women. with Miles Jupp. Junction. 1.00am Ultimate Calm. 12noon Total Football. 1.00 Total Men’s Cricket World Cup 2023: The Reload. 6.30 Live World Rally
Kerry Godliman looks 12midnight News and Football. 2.00 Total Football. 3.00 Expert’s View. Championship. 9.30 Badminton
at 20 Years of the Weather. RADIO 5 LIVE Total Football. 4.00 Total Football. Unlimited. 10.00 Amplified.
5.00 Premier League 100 Club. SKY MIX
Funny Women Awards. 12.30 Book of the Week: MW: 693/909KHZ
6.00 Premier League Legends. Sky 416 Virgin 510 TNT SPORTS 3
9.59 Weather. Great-Uncle Harry: 5.00am Wake Up to Money. 6.00 5 6.30 Fantasy Show. 7.00 Premier 9.20am Live One-Day International Sky 417 Virgin 529
10.00 The World Tonight. A Tale of War and Live Breakfast. 9.00 The Ryder League Preview. 7.30 Premier Cricket. Bangladesh v Sri Lanka. 9.00am Serie A. 4.00pm Vanarama
With Shaun Ley. Empire. Michael Palin Cup. 6.00pm 5 Live Drive. 7.00 5 League — The Big Interview. 8.00 5.30pm ICC Men’s Cricket World National League. 5.30 ODI Cricket
Live Sport: The Friday Football Fantasy Show. 8.30 Gary Neville’s Cup 2023: The Expert’s View. 6.30 Highlights. 6.30 MotoGP Highlights.
10.45 Book at Bedtime: visits Mametz Wood. Social. 9.00 Rugby World Cup. Soccerbox. 9.00 Premier League Women’s Super League. 7.00 My 7.30 TNT Sports Reload. 8.00 Fight
The Secret Hours. 12.48 Shipping Forecast. New Zealand v Italy. 10.00 Stephen Preview. 9.30 Premier League — The Icon: Thierry Henry. 7.15 Bundesliga Night Live. 10.00 New Signing.
By Mick Herron. 1.00 As World Service. Nolan. 1.00am Johnny I’Anson. Big Interview. Legends. 7.20 Live Bundesliga. TSG 10.30 V8 Supercars Highlights.

The Office (US). 9.00 Sex and the

City. 10.00 Breeders. 11.00 My Dad
Wrote a Porno.
SKY DOCUMENTARIES
Sky 121 Virgin 188
12noon Sergio Leone: The Italian
Who Invented America. 2.00 FILM:
Against the Tides. (2019) (12) 3.50
My Icon: Casey Stoney. 4.00 The
Directors. 5.00 Discovering: Nicolas
Cage. 6.00 Rolling Stone: Stories
from the Edge. 6.55 The Movies.
7.45 Telemarketers. 9.00 FILM: I Am
Bruce Lee. (2011) (15) 10.50 Rise of
the Superheroes.
SKY HISTORY
Sky 123 Virgin 131
9.00am Pawn Stars. 10.00 Craig
Charles: UFO Conspiracies. 11.00
Shipwrecks: When History
Resurfaces. 1.00pm Storage Wars.
2.00 Ultimate Mysteries. 4.00
Britain’s Most Historic Towns. 5.00
Pawn Stars. 6.00 American Pickers.
7.00 Forged in Fire. Four smiths are
challenged to make a five-layer
knife. Later, the two remaining
smiths recreate the notorious 16th-
century Naga sword. 8.00
Shipwrecks: When History
Resurfaces. Kevin explores a
battleship in the Atlantic Ocean.
9.00 WW2 Air Crash Detectives.
10.00 Air Crash: Disasters
Uncovered. 11.00 Robbie Coltrane’s
Critical Evidence.
SKY MAX
Sky 113 Virgin 111
12noon The Flash. 1.00 NCIS: Los
Angeles. 3.00 Hawaii Five-0. 4.00
S.W.A.T.. 5.00 DC’s Legends of
Tomorrow. 6.00 Stargate SG-1. 8.00
Strike Back: Retribution. 9.00
The Lazarus Project. 10.00
Warrior. 11.10 FILM: The Way of
the Dragon. (1973) (18)
SKY SCI-FI
Sky 139 Virgin 122
11.00am Fringe. 12noon Star Trek:
The Next Generation. 2.00 Merlin.
3.00 Fringe. 4.00 Stargate SG-1. 5.00
Stargate Atlantis. 6.00 Star Trek:
The Next Generation. 8.00 Star Trek:
Voyager. 9.00 Westworld.
SKY WITNESS
Sky 107 Virgin 110
12noon Bull. 1.00 Caught on
Dashcam. 2.00 Blue Bloods. 3.00
Caught Red Handed. 4.30 Nothing
to Declare. 8.00 Blue Bloods. 9.00
FBI: Most Wanted. 10.00 Law &
Order: Special Victims Unit. 11.00
Law & Order: Organized Crime.
W FILM4
Freeview 25 Sky 132 Virgin 125
11.00am DIY SOS: The Big Build.
1.00pm Tipping Point. 4.00 My
Dream Home. 6.00 Property
Brothers: Forever Homes. 7.00
MasterChef Australia. Pastry chef
Kirsten Tibballs brings in a dessert
pantry for today’s challenge.
8.30 999 Rescue Squad. The team
treat a lorry driver trapped
behind his twisted steering
wheel. 9.30 24 Hours in A&E. A
woman is airlifted to hospital after
falling off her mobility scooter.
10.30 Gavin & Stacey.
YESTERDAY
Freeview 27 Sky 155 Virgin 129
9.00am Abandoned Engineering.
10.00 Rise of the Nazis. 11.00
World War Weird. 12noon Great
Indian Railway Journeys. 1.00
Antiques Roadshow. 2.00 Bangers
& Cash. 4.00 World War Weird.
5.00 Rise of the Nazis. 6.00 Great
British Railway Journeys. 7.00
Antiques Roadshow. 8.00 Secrets of
the London Underground. 9.00
Bangers & Cash.
MOVIES
Freeview 14 Sky 313 Virgin 428
11.00am Last Train from Gun Hill.
(1959) (12) 12.55pm The Furies.
(1950) (PG) 3.05 Hangman’s Knot.
(1952) (PG) 4.45 Shenandoah. (1965)
(PG) 6.55 Footloose. (1984) (15) 9.00
Let Him Go. (2020) (15) 11.15 Raging
Bull. (1980) (18) 1.55am Blood
Simple. (1983) (18)
GREAT! ACTION
Freeview 42 Sky 323 Virgin 426
12noon Wild West Chronicles. 1.00
FILM: They Rode West. (1954) (U)
2.40 FILM: Massacre at Buffalo
Valley. (2013) (12) 5.00 FILM:
Hanover Street. (1979) (PG) 7.10
FILM: 10,000 Days. (2014) (12) 9.00
FILM: Reprisal. (2018) (15) 10.55
FILM: Stratton. (2017) (15)
GREAT! MOVIES
Freeview 34 Sky 321 Virgin 425
1.00pm FILM: Secrets of My
Stepdaughter. (2017) (12) 3.00
FILM: An Aurora Teagarden
Mystery: Honeymoon, Honeymurder.
(2021) (PG) 5.00 FILM: Dying for
a Baby. (2019) (PG) 6.55 FILM:
The Rundown. (2003) (12) 9.00
FILM: Homefront. (2013) (15) 11.05
FILM: 13. (2010) (15)
GREAT! CHRISTMAS
Freeview 52 Sky 319 Virgin 424
10.00am Holiday Road Trip. (2013)
(PG) 12noon A Dogwalker’s
Christmas Tale. (2015) 2.00
Enchanted Christmas. (2017) (PG)
4.00 My Santa. (2013) (PG)
6.00 Santa’s Secret. (2014) (PG)
8.00 Christmas with a Prince.
(2018) (PG) 10.00 A Royal Christmas
Ball. (2017) (U)
SKY DRAMA
Sky 310 Virgin 410
11.55am Captain Fantastic. (2016)
(15) 2.00pm Big Fish. (2003) (PG)
4.10 A Monster Calls. (2016) (12)
6.05 Eternal Sunshine of the
Spotless Mind. (2004) (15) 8.00
Coach Carter. (2005) (12) 10.25 The
Impossible. (2012) (12)
SKY PREMIERE
Sky 301 Virgin 401
12noon 65. (2023) (12) 1.40 All My
Puny Sorrows. (2021) (15) 3.40
Accident Man: Hitman’s Holiday.
(2022) (15) 5.20 Tar. (2022) (15) 8.00
65. (2023) (12) Premiere. When an
astronaut crashes on a mysterious
planet, he fights for survival amidst
the deadly wildlife. Action
adventure, starring Adam Driver.
9.50 All My Puny Sorrows. (2021) A
concert pianist is obsessed with
ending her life, while her sister
makes profound discoveries about
her herself. Drama, starring Alison
Pill and Sarah Gadon. (15) 11.50
Swallowed. (2022) (18)
TALKING PICTURES TV
Freeview 82 Sky 328 Virgin 445
11.00am FILM: The Golden
Madonna. (1949) (U) 12.50pm FILM:
The Flemish Farm. (1943) (PG) 2.30
Crown Court. 3.00 In Suspicious
Circumstances. 4.05 FILM: The
Purple Heart. (1944) (PG) 6.00
Time to Remember. 6.30 FILM:
Sewers of Gold. (1979) (PG) 8.30
Dial 999. 9.00 Cellar Club with
Caroline Munro. 9.05 FILM: The
Revenge of Frankenstein. (1957) (15)
10.55 Cellar Club with Caroline
Munro. 11.00 FILM: Fragment Of
Fear. (1970) (15)
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Page 56
PETERBOROUGH
Filling the days with
dreams of my dentist
Who’d have thought that love
could burgeon
’Twixt patient and one’s
dental surgeon?
But mine is feminine —
more beside
She’s very highly qualified.
My feelings yet
are undeclared
That tip-up chair still has
me scared
And there is never much to say
When gurgling jets get in
the way
And tongue’s beyond a
merry quip
Perchance the probe should
make a slip.
Even in that welcome pause
When one may rinse and ease
the jaws
I’m at a loss, for respite’s fled
And back once more,
disguising dread.
Wordy Wise
WE DON’T WALK ANY MORE —
it’s so funny, we got ourselves
a brand new car.
LOVE IT — the rhythm that gets
into your heart and soul.
EVIL WOMAN — the lady with
long black hair is gonna
get you!
THE YOUNG ODES — once in
every lifetime comes a poem
like this.
HIRED FOR SOUND — small
speakers and tall speakers.
MISTLETOE AND PINE — not so
good for the logs on the fire,
Picture that!
Follow-up
WHen, after the war, we
moved to the seaside, mother
unravelled a cardigan she had
made for herself, to make
knitted swimsuits for my
brother and me. The fronts
had two long straps which
went over the shoulders,
crossing at the back to go
through two waist-level loops
and be tied in a bow. The
inevitable happened; as soon
as we ran into the sea the suits
sagged to our knees. my three-
year-old brother thought this
was hilarious and, stepping
out of his suit, dragged it
behind him as he pranced
naked up the stony beach. I
followed, clutching sodden
armfuls of suit to protect my
six-year-old modesty. rinsed
in tap water at home, the suits
were unravelled. mother’s
replacement cardigan did end
up smaller than the original
with a rather tufty texture!
Carola morton, hereford.
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LETTERS Write to: Daily Mail Letters,
9 Derry Street, London W8 5HY
email: letters@dailymail.co.uk
Sick note disgrace Straight to the
JOHn O’cOnnell’s article about
POINT
sickness absence from work in the
public sector (mail) made me recall
a conversation I heard in the 1980s.
my office was on the 11th floor of a
building occupied mainly by ÷ WHEN the motor car was
companies in the private sector, but introduced, they didn’t ban
on the fifth floor was the local the horse.
government rent office. Tony Wheal, laxfield, Suffolk.
Two women entered the lift at the
fifth floor and struck up a conversa- ÷ SIR Alok Sharma is stepping
By she who gives me such tion. ‘Have you taken all your sick down from Parliament. How
a thrill leave yet?’ asked one. will I sleep at night?
As she leans over with ‘not yet,’ replied her colleague. ‘I PeTer ChaPman,
that drill. still have five days left.’ Barnsley, S. yorks.
‘Well, you’d better take them or ÷ I WAS called up at 18, when
‘In six months please see you’ll lose them,’ said the first the voting age was 21. But I
me again woman. ‘It’s not long now until the
end of the year.’ was old enough to get shot at.
Unless before you have
some pain.’ I began to wonder how many days roy hodSon, Bedford.
Stiff-upper-lipped I of sick leave they were allowed and ÷ RAISING the smoking age?
bid goodbye
how much this all added to the local Oh dear. I’ll have to give up
council tax, but I resisted the puffing my pipe when I’m 150.
Rather sadly, ever shy... temptation to ask.
It might be said I’d had a. STaCkman, Calne, Wilts.
By contrast, I was proud to know
my ‘fill’— that my 20 staff took fewer than two ÷ MANCHESTER City manager
Borne the treatment, paid days’ sick leave each on average; and Pep Guardiola is angry his team
the bill. many took none at all. couldn’t get a flight back from
Yet half a year’s too long Ian STromdale, Wokingham, Berks. a Newcastle game. Couldn’t
to wait — they have driven there in their
THaT public employees take more
Might there be an days off than those in the private Bentleys and Rolls-Royces?
earlier date? sector is a disgrace, as those in the B. BeST, high Wycombe, Bucks.
Meanwhile, I shall hope public sector work only five or five-
and ponder — and-a-half days a week but the not to use ‘presumptive language’
I open wide, as is required private sector must work six or seven that might encourage customers to
Would ‘abscess’ make the drink too much.
And wonder if my days a week to create the wealth to
heart grow fonder? pay all the public sector employees. It is obvious that whoever issued
pluck’s admired Ian Beverley, Poynton, Cheshire.
John loWarCh, oswestry, Salop. this advice from the International
alliance for responsible drinking
Rhymes for Whose oil? has never worked behind a bar. you
wouldn’t put a customer in the posi-
but a must for the gifts on as a Brexiteer, I regarded the tion of looking mean or cheap by
the tree.
LIVING DULL — I do my best to
Our Times announcement that rosebank, a big
new north sea oilfield, has been
asking if they wanted a ‘small or
large’ measure. and ‘same again?’
please her but she still insists Somewhere over given the go-ahead as great news, shows they are recognised and
on living a boring life. the Channel reasoning that this should further important to the establishment,
Skies are blue, help us to become more independ- which makes them feel appreciated.
SUMNER HOLIDAY — we’re going ent and in charge of our own affairs.
There are boats full Trust me, bar staff know their
where the sun shines brightly, But my joy was short-lived when I
of migrants customers and their industry.
with sting. learnt that it is owned by a largely
Who want the good life too. BoB maCdonald GruTe,
MISS YOU KNIGHTS — lay down norwegian company. are all our newquay, Cornwall.
all thoughts of your Somewhere over assets continually to be given away?
surrender; their aim’s not asKed if he would like a whisky, my
the Channel n.P. SuTClIffe, durham.
late brother Peter would always
accurate anyway. Waves ride high,
WIll the government insist that a reply: ‘Just a large one, please.’
BACHELOR COY — when I was 16 Migrants desperate to proportion of oil from rosebank is
I fell in love . . . but I was too roGer VInCe,
get here, sold to the uK? upper Brynamman, Carms.
shy to tell her. Risking their lives to try. PaTrICk BeaSley, Worcester.
T. nichols, Basildon, essex.
The RNLI wait for boats
Catch-all concern School fee threat
Until their motor stops and
floats towards them. VernIe and easther Bennett,
IF laBOur wins the next general
election and goes ahead with its
They pick them up then members of eternal who are involved ridiculous class war by adding VaT to
take them to in a row over the pop group’s re- private school fees, those schools will
CARROT union, are correct in asserting that have no incentive to benefit commu-
CHORUS? A hotel meant for me
and you, the gay lobby has been hijacked by nities by fundraising for charities,
Seen in the the trans community. offering bursaries and scholarships
kitchen by Then claim asylum. The term lgBTQ+ implies that all or sharing their facilities with state
Tim Parker, Somewhere this side of groups represented by a letter share schools, as they do now.
Bournemouth,
Dorset. the Channel the same views. They don’t, and it’s JaCquelIne derInG,
Skies are grey, about time the acronym was aban- Corsham, Wilts.
But one day MPs may listen, doned. lesbians have their own
Then things can go our way. views, gay men theirs, bisexuals and
transgender people likewise.
Phone takes priority
Joke (But don’t hold your breath).
m. Tovey, Swansea.
m. SImS, Warrington, Cheshire. HaVIng read (letters) people’s
complaints about mothers on their
On a recent run I achieved a
Pb. The next day my legs felt Limerick Drinks directive mobiles ignoring their children, I
had to pick up my grandson from
like lead. THe mail’s shaun Wooller reports school. I thought this would be a
russell Gamble, An end to that damned HS2? that bar staff are being encouraged good opportunity for us to do a bit of
Woodley, Cheshire. What on earth are we
going to do?
Picture that!
Extraordinary
No more great diversions
And crazy excursions,
And millions more spent on
it too!
robert Ben-nathan,
denham, Bucks. MY DAUGHTER JO well as acquiring a few NVQs in
catering-related subjects.
by Isabella Dutton
One-line JO PASSED away far too early after
My husband Tony and his family,
who are from Yorkshire, had long
Philosophers a long battle with multiple
sclerosis. But during her first 22
despaired at my failed attempts to
make a decent Yorkshire pudding.
I’Ve never been in a Jacuzzi years, while she was still young ‘I’m fed up with your frisbees,’
before, but I thought I’d give it and healthy, she lived life to the said Jo one day. ‘I’ll teach you
a whirl. full. She had a love of cooking, how to make proper Yorkshires.’
Warren Brown, which she’d inherited from a long And she did.
falmouth, Cornwall.
line of us — me, my mum (who At the age of 20 she left our family
THe mind is like a
TWO CHEERS: a bargain in worked as a cook in retirement home in Coventry and moved to
the Co-op in Crowthorne! parachute — no use unless Bristol. Her friends, Simon and
it’s used, and is open.
homes) and her mum. As a child,
W. Cho, Wokingham, Berks. Jo liked nothing better than Alan, asked her to come and work
rhod Tibbles, norwich, norfolk.
helping me in the kitchen, for them as a sous-chef at the
prepping the vegetables. When Three Crowns pub (Simon was its
she left school at 16 she started chef, Alan the manager). There
working in the kitchen at the local was a large flat above the pub that
Walsgrave Pub and Carvery, as the three of them were to share,
Daily Mail, Friday, September 29, 2023 Page 57

Don’t excuse theft

Picture: AFP/GETTY IMAGES

by middle classes
I WASn’T at all surprised by Sadie
WHAT is Brigitte Macron saying as Queen
Camilla plays ping-pong during the State Visit
to France? Our weekly picture feature offers
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nicholas’s article about middle-class
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in the speech bubble in the picture. Email
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behaviour is commonplace. by Thursday, October 5, 2023. The writer of
We are very familiar with the strategies the caption judged the best will win a £20
mentioned — yes, ‘Lucy’, we know book token.
you’ve got unpaid-for items under your
child’s buggy — and many others; but
THIS week’s winner of the £20 book token is
too often our hands are tied by lack of Martin Redwood, of Pontypool, Gwent, who has
staff and resources. Sir Keir Starmer saying to Emmanuel Macron
There are just as many, if not more, as they meet in Paris:
apparently respectable men stealing

Picture: HARRY COLE

alcohol and expensive cuts of meat.
But until major supermarkets take
responsibility for tightening up security
and/or employing more staff, instead of
leaving it to the police to prosecute (or
not), the pattern will continue. ‘I’m
A warning, though, to all the smug, going

amoral middle-class shoplifters out
there: we know who most of you are
and you will eventually be stopped,
searched, made to pay for stolen items
and given a letter prohibiting you from
shopping at the store again.
not much of a deterrent for hardened
criminals, I know, but absolutely
mortifying for the rest of you.
g.h., Folkestone, kent.
I WAS appalled to read about the
middle-class professionals shoplifting
for fun (Mail). Worse than that, there
are even professional gangs stealing
No sympathy: Mail article about shoplifting sparked an angry reaction
meat from supermarkets to sell on to
restaurants. We all pay for this theft
through higher prices at the till — and
pleading ‘baby brain’ is not a defence.
k. sunderLand, huddersfield, W. yorks.
CAn we please call this what it is,
namely stealing? There is no excuse for
Picture: ALAMY
back by
dinghy.
It’s a
lot less
hassle.’
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contributes to you stealing. A nosedive 525273. e-mail: copy@nla.co.uk
in your income during maternity leave
is no reason to steal. Be responsible for
your own actions and stop blaming
everything else.
irene heaTh, bexleyheath, se London.

bonding by having a chat.

Alas, I was beaten by the
power of his mobile phone.
Paddy Johnson Toye,
downpatrick, Co down.
Shame shrinkers
GOODS such as chocolate
bars keep getting smaller
while the price continues to
rise. Why don’t our super-
markets follow the example of
Carrefour, in France, and
name and shame these com-
panies with ‘shrinkflation
warning’ signs on their
shelves? Then we could
boycott those goods. If the
manufacturers were denied
shelf space in supermarkets
because their products
weren’t selling, they would
soon mend their ways.
a. young, Paignton, devon.
Renewal trick
My ADvICe to the reader
whose insurance premium is
set to double (Letters) is to
find a cheaper option online,
over-influenced by Star Trek
and Star Wars. I believe almost Fine by me
then phone your usual com- every planet is lifeless but even as a pensioner, I fully
pany and challenge the price. some will have very primitive agree with the suggested impo-
They usually go a few pounds life forms. As for intelligent life sition of a £10 fine for missed
forms, to reach earth, even
above the internet quote.
Fran CambeTTie-davies, from the centre of our own
galaxy would take at least
appointments. Both my GP
and my nHS dentist produce
monthly ‘appointments missed’
Carshalton, surrey.
26,000 years, travelling at the figures — and I’m appalled that
Not as we know it speed of light. That’s one heck
of a round trip just to flash a
unless it is a real emergency, I
must often wait weeks for a
AS TO the likelihood of life on few lights and create the routine appointment.
other planets (Letters), l think occasional corn circle. mark broadbenT,
our imaginations have been d. Warner, Fleckney, Leics. barnsley, s. yorks.
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have you lost a relative or friend in 500-word tribute and a favourite photo

lives
recent months whose life you’d like to
celebrate? our Friday column tells the
stories of ordinary people who lived
extraordinary lives. email your
and Jo was excited about
her new life.
She was only there for a
few months when she fell
down the stairs, tearing
ligaments in her legs, and
needed weeks to recover.
This was the first indication
of the onset of MS,
although she wouldn’t
receive the diagnosis for
several more months.
When it came, it was a
huge shock to us all. Jo
returned home and for a
while worked in the
kitchens at Walsgrave
Hospital. But it became
hugely missed: Joanne dutton gradually impossible as
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her illness made it difficult celebrate her life at the
for her to lift and carry. Walsgrave Pub, where
Finally, when she was 22, she’d begun her career.
she had no choice but to Many of her old
stop work altogether. workmates and friends
She spent many years were there to pay tribute.
going to and from There was lots of food and
hospitals, then she needed drink, live music and a
a wheelchair, and after six disco. Jo had been a real
years she was bed-bound. party girl in the good
We looked after her at times, and she would have
home, where she wanted loved it. Throughout her
to be. And she managed to life she gave us pleasure
smile and even laugh and a lot of love, and we
through everything she miss her loads.
had to endure. Joanne ChrisTine
More than 300 people duTTon, born august 28,
attended Jo’s funeral and 1981; died February 8,
most came afterwards to 2023, aged 41.
Page 58
Compiled by Charles Legge
QUESTION What are the
most bizarre
samples in songs?
Sampling is the process of incorporat-
ing a portion of an existing song, rhythm,
melody, speech or sound-effect into a new
song. it’s the foundation of hip-hop and
has influenced many other genres of
music, particularly electronic and pop.
One group that goes out of its way to
sample weird sounds is gorillaz, a
conceptual band formed by Damon
albarn, formerly of Blur fame. The spoken
lyric ‘press the button to begin’ at the
start of the track Saturnz Barz is taken
from an electronic children’s educational
toy called interactive planetarium.
Superfast Jellyfish samples an ad for
Swanson’s great Starts Frozen Breakfast
Sandwiches. The Japanese language
sample used in Doncamatic is taken from
an interview with a Korg synthesizer
executive describing a drum machine
called Donca matic. The electronic music
and the ‘hello is anyone there!’ comes
from george a. Romero’s 1985 zombie
film Day Of The Dead and the yodel from
Seattle Yodel was taken from a novelty
plastic pickle.
a popular sample is The magic mirror
speech from Disney’s 1937 classic Snow
White and The Seven Dwarfs, which
features in me myself and i by De la
Soul, Revolver by madonna, Juice by
lizzo and Swish Swish by Katy perry, to
name a few.
Jay-Z’s Hard Knock life (ghetto
anthem) samples the andrea mcardle
song it’s a Hard Knock life from the 1977
film annie. Britney Spears famously sam-
pled the Bollywood song Tere mere Beech
mein for her song Toxic, and Fall Out Boy
sampled the theme song from The
munsters for their song Uma Thurman.
norman Cook, aka Fatboy Slim, magi-
cally weaves songs together from the
most disparate samples. a good example
is his song praise You. For the vocal he
used Camille Yarbrough’s song Take Yo’
praise and slightly sped it up. The main
piano riff came from a 1970s test record
called JBl’s Sessions, used to demon-
strate basic speaker sounds. He also
weaved in the theme tune from the U.S.
cartoon series Fat albert and The Cosby
QUESTIONS
Q: Jim Thorpe has been described as
‘the greatest athlete of all time’.
Who was he?
Gloria Sutton, Bushey, Herts.
Q: Was the notion of the Higgs
Boson ridiculed when it was
first described?
Roger Morris, Blackpool, Lancs.
Q: Does real ale have any possible
health benefits?
Dan Curran, Hyde, Cheshire.
Masters of pick
and mix pop . . .
Hits: Damon Albarn, right, and Gorillaz
Kids, the electronic keyboard from lucky
man by the Steve miller Band and the
drums of the song Running Back To me
by Tom Fogerty and Ruby. The funky
guitar riff comes from a mickey mouse
disco track called it’s a Small World.
Mike Walsh, Malvern, Worcs.
QUESTION Why is the
Gadsden flag
subject to criticism?
THe gadsden flag is a historical U.S. flag
that features a coiled rattlesnake and the
phrase Don’t Tread On me on a yellow
background. it is named after Christo-
pher gadsden, a U.S. general and politi-
cian from South Carolina who designed it
in 1775 during the american Revolution.
The flag was intended to convey a
message of resistance against British
rule. it has become controversial because
it has been adopted by conservative
movements, in particular the Tea party, a
fiscally conservative political movement
within the Republican party.
in the late colonial era, the rattlesnake
became a popular emblem of resistance.
it originated with Benjamin Franklin; in
1751, Franklin made the satirical sugges-
tion that the colonies might repay the
British Crown for shipping convicts to
america by distributing rattlesnakes
around england, ‘particularly in the
gardens of the prime ministers, the
lords of Trade and members of parlia-
ment; for to them we are most particu-
larly obliged’.
later, in what may be america’s first
political cartoon, Franklin published the
‘Join or Die’ image, depicting american
colonies as segments of a snake.
gadsden also chose the rattlesnake as a
Daily Mail, Friday, September 29, 2023
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 Property Mail
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Online listings are now more detailed than ever – but can be used by canny burglars
Don’t make
it easy for
criminals N armchair house-
A hunting revolution is
under way. Gone are the
days when searching for
a new home meant an
energy-sapping trudge around
various estate agents only to find
at the viewing that the property
didn’t live up to expectations.
and the trend continues, with most
potential buyers now starting the search
for their perfect home on the internet.
it’s beneficial to the vendor, too. The
access to potential purchasers is much
wider. So, if you are marketing your prop-
erty online, you’ll want to offer as much
visual detail and information as possible.
But while multi-angle photos of your
newly decorated sun lounge may get
things moving, unfortunately there’s also
a darker side to dishing up such forensic
detail of your home.
Principally that it gifts canny criminals
with simple online tools and easy access
intelligence to help plan a break-in.
‘This kind of information gives the
burglar time to plan their crime, giving
them those vital minutes to get in, rob
your home, and make a clean getaway,’
says mark hall of rubbish removal
company divert.co.uk.
‘and coupled with Google Street View,
they’ve probably already got a good idea
of access points and ccTV blind spots.’
a floor plan, for example, could offer
detailed directions of how a crook should
proceed once they’ve broken into the
house. a walk-through video can unwit-
tingly offer guidance as to whether the
burglar could be seen from the street.
Break-ins are on the increase, with new
data from Statista revealing there were
more than 279,000 burglaries in England
and Wales last year alone.
Plus, recent analysis revealed no break-
ins were resolved in 48.2 per cent of
neighbourhoods across England and Wales
in the three years to march 2023.
and since the majority of home searches
are now done online — either through indi-
vidual agencies or dedicated websites such
as Zoopla — the prospect of rich pickings
for the resourceful robber is huge.
Of course, a burglary is a horrible and
traumatic experience since it represents a
violation of the one place you should feel
safe. But a break-in can also have a
catastrophic impact on the sale of the
property, too.
Potential buyers may pull out as it gives
the impression that they will be living in a
crime hot spot. Or the vendors may be
unable to move on to their next buy if
expensive repairs are needed after the
break-in. So how can you market your
home effectively without offering its
contents to an opportunistic thief?
remember, says mark hall, that you’re in
Daily Mail, Friday, September 29, 2023
by Angela Epstein
total control of what the public gets to see
when selling your home online, no matter
what pushy estate agents might tell you.
So make sure, he says, that any
photographs that show a room’s layout
are generic views.
‘if you have a problem with any of the
images they produce, then reject them,’
says mr hall. ‘it’s your house, your privacy,
your security, and totally your decision.’
Property fraud expert colum Smith,
from law firm Taylor rose mW points out
that empty homes are particularly
susceptible to a break-in.
he says: ‘i’d avoid putting pictures up
online of a property which you can clearly
see is not being lived in. criminals scour
the internet for details of empty properties
which are on the market and then try to
use those details to carry out fraud.
‘Signing up to the Land registry’s free
property alert service means you will
receive an email if anyone attempts to deal
with your property title.’
he adds that 3D tours should be
considered carefully, too.
‘These can be a great tool for criminals.
it allows them to download and replay
frames of the tour. They could also
potentially zoom in on specific areas of
your home that might be vulnerable or of
interest to them.’
H
OWEVEr, if you do want to
go ahead with a virtual tour,
Javvad malik, lead security
awareness advocate at
KnowBe4, suggests scrutinising any video
before posting it online.
‘Look at what personal information is
available to see and either move it or
obscure it before posting online.
‘many times, letters are visible that have
homeowner details on it. Family photos,
location of house keys, and car registration
details can all provide information that
can be used by criminals looking to profile
the house or occupants.’
This even means making sure that no
keys are photographed. ‘With high resolu-
tion pictures, it is even possible to dupli-
cate keys from just a photo,’ he adds.
Of course, there’s nothing wrong with
generic pictures that give a broad feel for
the dimensions of your home. But Sumier
Foster-Shah, product support manager of
locksmiths Era, says that it’s vital to keep
anything worth stealing out of sight.
‘Valuables, such as electronic goods,
wallets, jewellery, and other expensive
items should all be kept in closed
cupboards or drawers, rather than out in
the open where they can be easily seen.
‘When it comes to particularly expensive
items and other important personal
possessions, a small safe is recommended
for the highest levels of security.’
The internet remains an effective way to
sell your home. Just make sure that the
invitation to view isn’t more welcoming
than you’d like it to be.
INTERIORS —
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 Interiors
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Even if you can’t afford a pool like the ex-PM, water features can be a welcome addition
Keeping
up with the
Johnsons e may be used to
H making a splash
in politics. But
now it seems that
Boris Johnson
will be able to do that closer
to home, too.
This week, it was revealed that
the former prime minister has
been given permission to build a
swimming pool in the garden of
his £3.78 million Oxfordshire
country home. a move which will
doubtless provide a restful place
to unwind, exercise and relax as
he navigates post-political life.
But even if you don’t have deep
pockets for such deep -water
projects, it’s still possible to create
the tranquil benefits of waterside
living. Whether it’s through
installing a hot tub, pond, or even
decorative fountains. But, as our
experts point out, it’s important
to weigh up the pros and cons
before splashing out …
FREQUENT ATTENTION
InTrOducIng any kind of water
feature to your garden requires
some upkeep.
during the spring and summer,
you’ll need to top up your water
feature regularly to replenish
water loss caused by evaporation.
and there’s also the task of
removing branches and leaves as
well as pruning bushes nearby.
‘It’s also a good idea to give your
water feature a thorough clean
and add a wildlife -friendly
algaecide or uV steriliser after
cleaning,’ says Will Haxby, home
and garden sales director at
Haddonstone, which specialises in
stonework ‘as this will prevent
Deep pockets: A country home with outdoor swimming pool
algae growth build-up caused by
the warm conditions.’ When the
temperatures drop, drain off water
before the winter to protect your
feature from frost. you’ll also need
to clean the pump to remove any
limescale build-up.
WILL IT ADD VALUE?
I n s Ta l l I n g f e a t u r e s l i k e
fountains can add to the kerb
appeal of your home, says Tabitha
cumming, a property expert at
The lease extension company,
‘This means that it will make a
better first impression and poten-
tially add value to your home.’
amer siddiq, founder and ceO
at landlord Vision, believes that
water features such as fountains
can have other benefits, too.
‘They can help mask unwanted
noises from roads or neighbours.
They can also attract birds and
wildlife, adding a touch of nature
to your surroundings.’
andrew landers, director at
Property rescue, a home-buying
service, says, ‘The post-covid
world has seen the importance of
outside space massively increase,
and any enhancements that make
this space more enjoyable is going
to have a positive impact on the
value of a home.’
HIDDEN COSTS
FacTOr additional costs into
your budget, too, since water
features rarely boil down to a
single, one-off payment.
‘For example if any of your water
features have fish, these can incur
additional costs from the food and
care that they will require, and
you will also need to be vigilant to
keep them safe from predators,’
says cumming. some features can
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Picture: CHRIS ROSE/
PROPERTYSTOCK/ALAMY
cause structural issues, too.
‘Fountains may become damaged
through wear and tear or have
cracks caused by water freezing
over,’ she adds.
BEWARE RISKS
In summer, having a water
feature will make you a magnet for
friends and family who want to pop
around and cool down. all of which,
says anna giles, an associate at
law firm Wedlake Bell, could
increase scope for accidents
‘Homeowners should bear in
mind that they could be subject to
a claim for compensation if
someone injures themselves at
their property, so reasonable care
needs to be taken to ensure that
visitors and/or occupiers of the
property will be safe.’
HUGH GORDON
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City Editor: Alex Brummer www.thisismoney.co.uk Group Business Editor: Ruth Sunderland

EUTELSAT SET TO LAND

ON LONDON STOCK
MARKET AS IT SEALS
ONEWEB MERGER
THE new French owner of UK satellite
firm OneWeb is set to list on Britain’s
stock market as soon as today.
Eutelsat, whose shares trade in Paris,
has been targeting a secondary listing
in London as part of the deal agreed last
year. Its main listing and headquarters
will remain in France.
OneWeb had been rescued by the Gov-
ernment in 2020 – a move championed
by then Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s
adviser Dominic Cummings – after going
By John-Paul Ford Rojas
bust. The UK will retain a ‘golden share’
under the Eutelsat takeover.
Its secondary listing in London is likely
to be seen as a boost for the City at a
time when a number of firms, most
notably Cambridge-based chip designer
Arm Holdings, have deserted the UK
market. Arm opted for a blockbuster
float on Wall Street earlier this month
but has left the door open to a second-
ary listing in London too. OneWeb, a
rival to Elon Musk’s Starlink network,
operates low-earth orbit (LEO) satel-
lites, aimed at providing access to high-
speed internet where traditional ground
infrastructure is hard to reach.
Applications include broadband on
aeroplanes and parts of the Third World
as well as the farthest-flung reaches of
the UK.
The tie-up brings it together with
Eutelsat’s more conventional geosta-
tionary orbit (GEO) satellites – used for
decades for tasks such as weather fore-
casting or TV broadcasting.
Shares rose 2pc in Paris as the comple-
tion of the deal was announced yester-
day. But they have fallen by around half
since the merger was revealed in July
last year.
Eutelsat said revenues at the new com-
pany are expected to see double-digit
growth over the medium to long term,
reaching around £1.7bn.

‘One of the worst Inflation

fears push

cases we’ve seen’

up global
bond yields
By Hugo Duncan
GOVERNMENT borrowing costs
By Emily Hawkins
A ‘dISHONeST’ financial FCA blasts soared around the world
yesterday as mounting concerns
over the global economy wreaked

financial
adviser at the heart of the havoc on the bond markets.
British Steel pension scandal As investors fretted over persist-
was yesterday fined and banned ent inflation and ‘higher for

adviser after
from working in the industry. longer’ interest rates, bond yields
darren reynolds was fined £2.2m rose in the United States, Britain
by the Financial Conduct Authority and across Europe.
after he ‘duped’ savers into leaving That threatens to push up bor-
gold-plated retirement schemes
and placing their money in ‘high-
risk investments’.
British Steel rowing costs for households
and businesses – further denting
the economy.

pension
The regulator said he ‘dishonestly’ The yield on ten-year US treasur-
advised more than 670 people – includ- ies hit 4.688pc – its highest level
ing 150 in the British Steel Pension since 2007 – while the yield on
Scheme – with 511 losing £42.3m while

he picked up more than £1m in fees.
Announcing the fine and ban, the FCA
said reynolds ‘had a clear disregard for
customers’ interests in favour of his
own personal gain’.
Therese Chambers, joint execu-
tive director for enforcement and
market oversight at the FCA,
said: ‘This is one of the worst
cases we have seen.’
Campaigners for steelworkers
who lost out in what has been
described as ‘the biggest pension
scandal in a generation’ wel-
comed the ruling but warned it
was ‘a pyrrhic victory’ given rey-
nolds – who has appealed – leaves
‘many ruined lives in his wake’.
scandal
ten-year German bunds rose to a
12-year high of 2.98pc. French
bond yields were also at a 12-year
high while Italian yields rose to
levels not seen for a decade.
Target: Port Talbot steelworks UK ten-year gilt yields hovered
‘DISHONEST’ DARREN REYNOLDS tomer’. The FCA said £19.8m
around 4.5pc, though this was
below the 15-year high of over
has been paid out to 511 former
4.7pc reached last month.
Fees he
£1.01m
Active Wealth customers by the
670 Customers
‘dishonestly’ received Financial Services Compensa-
tion Scheme. But at least 270
lost more than the compensa-
Borrowing costs have been ris-
ing in recent days on warnings
that the US Federal Reserve may
advised, including...
£42.3m tion limit of £50,000.
Chambers said: ‘Mr reynolds,
need to raise interest rates once
again to control inflation.
Lost by customers who allowed evidence to be And while inflation has eased
150 Members of
British Steel Fine from
destroyed and who has consist-
ently sought to evade accounta-
across the West in recent months,

£2.2m
The scandal dates to 2017 when bility, and Mr deeney, lied and
the rising oil price has sparked
Pensions Scheme fears the battle is far from over.
members of the British Steel FCA lied again. First, to dupe people
Oil hit a fresh ten-month high
Pension Scheme – including into leaving safe pension schemes
many workers at Port Talbot – and placing money meant for above $97 a barrel yesterday with
were given the choice of leaving pot. A total of 8,000 steelworkers £397,400 having scooped £200,000 their retirement in unsuitable, many analysts now expecting it to
their savings in the old scheme or were convinced to transfer out a in commission payments offering high-risk investments. top $100 once again.
joining a new, less generous one. combined £2.8bn – some by finan- dodgy advice. ‘Then to try and hide their mis- ‘A wall of worry is hitting the
With the old scheme likely to cial advisers such as reynolds The FCA said reynolds ‘dis- conduct from us. Such people bond market, and the latest trig-
fall into the Pension Protection and his firm Active Wealth. honestly established, main- have no place in our industry.’ ger is the oil price,’ said Jim Leav-
Fund, resulting in a 10pc ‘haircut’ reynolds, 53, was not the only tained and concealed a business Financial adviser Al rush, who
for savers, and the new offer also financial adviser involved in the model which incentivised rec- has helped British Steel pension iss, a fund manager at M&G Invest-
leaving members with less, many scandal and did not just target ommending products which holders recover their finances, ments. He said the rise in the
workers were encouraged to take steelworkers. Another, Andrew produced the highest commis- said: ‘For these steelworkers and price of crude was leading inves-
their money out completely and deeney, 57, was also banned by sion for the adviser rather than their families, his [reynolds’s] tors to wonder: ‘What if inflation
move it into a private retirement the FCA yesterday and fined the best outcome for the cus- actions can never be atoned for.’ is not dead?’
Daily Mail, Friday, September 29, 2023 Page 67

Keeping predators at bay

T
rue grit is a missing qual- invoke the National Security and Invest- ings to Wall Street, London is in second place

Alex
ity when it comes to flaccid ment Act. Much is made of the premium only to New York, and gaining ground.
offered in bids of this kind. Nearest european competitor Geneva is
directors of uK companies evaluated against a shrunken share price, in tenth place and will not be helped by the
faced with overseas or pub- the 40pc Danaher premium becomes mean- Credit Suisse debacle.
lic-to-private takeovers. ingless. The current London discount has In spite of posturing by president

Fighting the good fight is not made
any easier by uK long investors who
have evacuated equity investment in
London, leaving the field open to Amer-
ican asset managers and an assortment
of activists, hedge funds, private equity
ghouls and get-rich-quick merchants.
It is enormously encouraging that
Jonathan Milner, founder and 6.1pc share-
holder in Cambridge-based life sciences
pioneer Abcam, is taking to the barricades
and building a head of steam against the
£4.5bn takeover by uS behemoth Danaher.
It is unhelpful that current management,
headed by Alan Hirzel, ran up the white flag
so easily, and was responsible for switching
Abcam’s share listing from Aim (where it
had been nestled since 2005) to Nasdaq in
2020. It dropped the uK quote last year.
New York is not proving the money spin-
ner for uK firms, as is demonstrated by the
vast discount in Abcam’s shares before the
firm put itself up for sale. My concern is that
eventually science and skilled uK-trained
researchers will be sucked overseas.
The uK is brilliant at science and technol-
Brummer
CITY EDITOR
ogy, which is why the eu wanted Britain
back in Horizon and why the latest Times
Higher education league table has three
British campuses in the world’s top ten.
Oxford is top, Cambridge fifth and Impe-
rial College eighth. No european universi-
ties make the top ten.
uK broker Peel Hunt has been engaged to
fight the Danaher deal for Abcam, and has
written to shareholders urging a vote against
the deal. As founder, Milner wants to dis-
place Hirzel as boss and return to the fray.
Milner cannot ask the uK’s deal referee,
the Takeover Panel, to set the rules. It has
no jurisdiction because the London listing
has gone. As a vital uK cancer-fighting bio-
tech firm is at stake, Business Secretary
Kemi Badenoch has a powerful case to
made the FTSe and its exiles too happy a
hunting ground for predators.
Aussie vampire Macquarie is back on the
prowl. It has been told to get lost by waste
management group renewi after making a
hostile £636m cash offer for the firm.
It is going over the board’s head by seek-
ing shareholder support. Macquarie has a
contentious record in the uK and renewi’s
board is right to resist.
regulators on both sides of the Atlantic
are currently agitated by exaggerated pri-
vate market valuations in a world where
higher borrowing costs are a new reality,
greatly changing financing models.
The public-to-private bandwagon, with
pitfalls for disclosure and tax avoidance,
must be firmly resisted.
Leader board
ON THe subject of league tables, it is worth
noting that in spite of dire warnings about
the threat to the City from Brexit, it remains
as firmly entrenched as ever as a financial
centre. The Global Financial Centres index
shows that, in spite of losing a handful of list-
emmanuel Macron, Paris is stuck in 15th
place behind Frankfurt. A senior uS banker
recently let it be known that he enjoyed
stylish French entertainment, but the oper-
ation it had set up in Paris was simply a
skinny duplicate in case things became
rough post-Brexit.
Amid the turmoil in China, the uK’s larg-
est bank HSBC, veteran of the 19th century
‘Opium Wars’ and much else, is doubling
down, buying Citigroup’s consumer wealth
operations in the People’s republic with
£2.5bn of assets. Politically dodgy maybe,
but displays brave long-term thinking.
Gas threat
THere is no quenching of Saudi supreme
leader Mohammed bin Salman’s vaunting
ambition. Not content with squeezing the
pips of Western oil consumers, the quoted
state controlled oil colossus Aramco has
acquired a strategic stake in uS natural gas
extractor MidOcean energy for $500m.
A small but critical step in what is a drive to
become a leading Liquefied Natural Gas
(LNG) player. Beware.

‘RESILIENT’ DIAGEO SHRUGS

OFF RISING COST PRESSURES Macquarie in
THE boss of Guinness maker
Diageo struck an upbeat note
in the face of ‘ongoing cost
pressure’ as well as economic £636m swoop
on waste firm
and geopolitical uncertainty.
In one of her first public
statements since her prede-
cessor Sir Ivan Menezes died
aged 63 in June, Debra Crew
– who was appointed on July
1 – said that the company is
‘well-positioned’ to deliver
sales growth of 5pc to 7pc A BrITISH waste manage- By Jessica Clark such an environment on the
between now and 2025. ment firm has rejected a value of the company.’
‘borderline hostile’ £636m London, although most of its It said the recycling firm’s
Crew, 52, ( pictured) said business is in the Netherlands ambitions are currently ‘con-
Diageo was resilient and can takeover bid from Austral-
and Belgium. strained’ under its existing
navigate the headwinds ian predator Macquarie. The company, which has capital structure.
caused by the economy. London-listed renewi turned 6,000 employees and 174 sites renewi said it had considered
‘As I take the helm, I am down the 775p per share offer across europe, turns waste the proposal in detail but felt it
yesterday morning, saying it into paper, metal, plastic, undervalued the company. A
excited to lead our teams ‘fundamentally undervalues’
around the world and by the building materials, compost spokesman said: ‘The board
the company. and energy. strongly urges shareholders to
many growth opportunities But Macquarie – which has Macquarie approached take no action at this time.’
we see in front of us,’ Crew been dubbed the ‘Vampire renewi with the offer on Mon- Macquarie, which manages
said ahead of Diageo’s Kangaroo’ in the past – pub- day before it was rejected yes- assets worth almost half a
annual meeting. lished its proposal anyway, terday. Going public with the trillion pounds, has until
‘While we expect operating and urged the renewi board October 26 to announce
environment challenges to to ‘engage constructively’ whether it will make an offi-
persist, with ongoing cost about a deal. ‘Not going down cial bid for the company.
pressure and geopolitical Analysts branded the move
‘borderline hostile’ and said it
without a fight’ Sophie Lund-Yates, an equity
analyst at Hargreaves
and macroeconomic uncer- shows Macquarie ‘won’t be Lansdown, said Macquarie’s
tainty, we will move with going down without a fight’. details after the rejection, the ‘bold moves suggest it won’t be
speed and agility and con- Shares in renewi, which is Australian group said: ‘Mac- going down without a fight’.
tinue to invest in marketing based in Milton Keynes, soared quarie invites the board to She said: ‘This takeover bid
and innovation. 38.7pc, or 197p, to 706p. engage constructively to agree was borderline hostile, but the
‘I am confident in the resil- The swoop will fuel fears that the terms of a recommended market reaction has been very
ience of our business and our overseas suitors are looking to transaction to be put forward positive. Despite renewi
ability to navigate these snap up British companies on to renewi’s shareholders. rejecting the deal, there’s a
headwinds.’ the cheap. ‘Macquarie notes the difficult great deal of excitement swirl-
renewi provides waste man- macroeconomic environment, ing, and a large portion of that
Diageo shares rose 0.5pc. which is impacting different will be excitement that other,
agement services to six uK
local authorities, including sectors including waste man- more lucrative, deals could be
Doncaster, Cumbria, and east agement, and the impact of on the way.’

White goods deal warning Abcam founder slams £4.5bn sale

THE tie-up between the owners of
Hotpoint and Beko could harm com-
petition, watchdogs warned.
The Competition and Markets
Authority (CMA) said it found compe-
tition concerns surrounding Turkish
white goods giant Arcelik’s takeover
of rival Whirlpool’s European domes-
tic appliances business.
The regulator said that unless Arce-
lik can address its worries, it will
launch a full scale in-depth probe
into the deal. The CMA said the
merged company would be the big-
gest supplier of washing machines,
tumble dryers, dishwashers and
cooking appliances in the UK, a mar-
ket worth over £3.8bn.
Whirlpool makes household appli-
ances, including the Hotpoint and
Indesit brands, while Arcelik supplies
the Beko and Grundig brands.
THE founder of a UK life sciences giant has
urged investors to reject a £4.5bn takeover
by US conglomerate Danaher.
Jonathan Milner, who co-founded Abcam in
1998 and retains a 6.1pc stake, blasted the ‘low
ball’ offer for the Cambridge-based company,
which is one of the most successful British
biotech firms. He has written to sharehold-
ers asking them to vote against the deal.
Abcam, which is listed on New York’s Nas-
daq exchange, is a supplier of medical
research products, including antibodies. Mil-
ner, who is trying to oust boss Alan Hirzel as
part of his campaign to defeat the takeover
deal, said the decision to leave London to list
in New York last year was ‘misguided’.
‘I left a ship that was in really good shape
and it got navigated into choppy waters,’
Milner, who stepped down as deputy chair-
man in 2020, told Bloomberg.
‘New York is not the panacea that every-
body thinks it is.’
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Babcock shares fired STOCK

WATCH
up to a three-year high
ShareS in defence group pany, which is sitting on £1.3bn of its ‘highly accurate’ prostate can-
Pence
400

300
Deliveroo

Babcock hit their highest level for
more than three years after a bull-
ish update to investors.
In a statement ahead of its aGM,
the company said ‘trading has
been encouraging’ since the start
of the new financial year in april.
The company, which maintains
Britain’s fleet of nuclear subma-
rines and is building the royal
Navy’s Type 31 frigates, pointed
to ‘good’ revenue growth and
‘improved operational perform-
ance’ as well as higher cash flow
than a year ago.
‘Babcock International looks
well placed to deliver solid profit
growth over the medium term,’
said analysts at Peel hunt.
Shares rose 5.5pc, or 21.2p, to
409.6p, the highest level since
June 2020.
The rally in the share price, from
lows of below 200p in early 2021, is
a welcome boost for investors
after a decidedly rocky patch.
The company, which also main-
tains the Challenger 2 tanks pro-
vided by the UK to Ukraine, was
left reeling five years ago by a
52-week High Low
Aerospace & Defence
Aston Martin ...........261 -258
BAE Systems..........101812+412
Chemring Gp ..........275 -1
QinetiQ ...................31814 -114
Rolls-Royce ............22112 +234
Senior .....................162 +58
TI Fluid Systems .....11734 +158
Close:
120p
MARKET REPORT debt, slumped 39.5pc, or 21.9p, to
33.5p after it clocked up half year
cer test in the UK and the US. But
after two storming sessions, shares 200
losses of £57.4m having made a plunged 7.2pc, or 2.2p, to 28.5p.
By Hugo profit of £27.4m in the same period
last year.
HSBC was said to be in talks
all Bar One owner Mitchells &
Butlers is cashing in as customers
pop out for drinks and food
100
Duncan about acquiring Citigroup’s con-
sumer wealth management busi-
despite rising prices.
The group, which also owns 0
ness in China, which looks after chains including Toby Carvery Mar 2021 Sep 2023
more than £2.5bn of assets. Shares and harvester, posted a 9.7pc rise
damning report from Boatman gained 0.8pc, or 5p, to 644.9p. in sales in its fourth quarter to DELIVEROO shares shot up
Capital research. and despite the British life insurer Phoenix September 23. yesterday after it announced
recent rally – which has been Group posted a marginal rise in It said cost pressures were ‘abat-
driven in part by increased defence
plans to return up to £250m
profits amid a steady demand for ing’ for the firm after a year that to shareholders.
spending following russia’s inva- its corporate pensions scheme has seen hospitality firms hit hard
sion of Ukraine – the shares insurance. But shares dropped by soaring inflation, supply chain The food delivery group said
remain well below their 2014 peak 7pc, or 35.4p, to 472.4p. woes and rising staff wages. it will buy up to 217.4m
of close to 1300p. It was another good day for Sales growth has also been existing ordinary shares for
amid ongoing concerns over the investors in Ithaca Energy. Shares strong despite the ongoing cost- between 115p and 135p each.
state of the global economy – from rose nearly 9pc on Wednesday of-living crisis, with fourth quarter Shares in the company rose
high interest rates in the US to a after the rosebank oilfield in the food sales up 11.6pc while drinks 8.8pc, or 9.7p, to 120p.
property crisis in China – the North Sea – which it operates with were up 6.4pc. Shares rose 4.3pc, The surge took gains for the
FTSE 100 rose 0.1pc, or 8.63 points, Norway’s equinor – received the or 9.2p, to 223.8p.
to 7601.85 while the FTSE 250 lost
year so far to 35.1pc. The firm
green light. The stock rose another hydrogen fuel cell maker Ceres
0.7pc, or 121.55, to 18098.68. 3.4pc, or 6p, to 183.6p yesterday. Power said half-year losses wid- is valued at nearly £2.1bn.
The biggest faller on the mid- But there was some profit-tak- ened from £22.6m in 2022 to The stock remains well below
cap index was Digital 9 Infrastruc- ing at Oxford BioDynamics after £26.3m this time around. Shares the 390p it floated at in 2021 in
ture, which invests in everything an 184pc rise in its share price in in the firm, which was recently a listing that valued the com-
from underwater fibre cables to the past two sessions. The surge promoted to the FTSe 250 index, pany at £7.6bn.
data centres. Shares in the com- came after the company launched slipped 0.8pc, or 2.6p, to 326.8p.
52-week High Low
TOP RISERS TOP FALLERS
Bunzl.......................2908 +45 3225 2664
CLOSING DAILY CLOSING DAILY DCC ........................4597 +44 5024 4030
39538 8958
1059 714 PRICE CHANGE REASON PRICE CHANGE REASON Diploma ..................3002 +48 3308 2314
323 25512 Essentra .................15858xd+134 252 14438
37934 29714 Babcock 409.6p +5.46% Encouraging trading Digital 9 33.5p -39.53% Dividend disappointment Experian .................2670 +9 3160 2568
22738 6614 Mitchells & Butlers 223.8p +4.29% Strong demand 888 97.7p -11.58% Profit warning Hays .......................10734 -34 13034 9858
18114 11614
150 9234 Hill & Smith 1732p +3.96% Chairman investment Crest Nicholson 169.5p -7.98% Housing gloom Intertek Gp ..............4039xd-11 4528 3619

Banks Ithaca Energy 183.6p +3.38% Oilfield approval Barratt Developments 432.7p -7.62% Zoopla warning IWG ........................141 -358 19734 11538
Mitie Group .............10214 +114 106 6258
Banco Santander ....31512 +17 34112 21134 Mobico 86.6p +3.34% Passenger boost Hunting 305p -7.15% Profit taking
Network Int .............39014 +14 400 23834
Bank of Georgia......3660 +90 3730 1944
Barclays ..................15918 +1 18934 13378 52-week High Low 52-week High Low 52-week High Low 52-week High Low 52-week High Low Pagegroup ..............41114xd-114 49158 36934
HSBC Hldgs ...........64478 +5 65478 44214 BH Macro................35612 +4 4815 33912 Schroder Asia .........483 -1 551 446 Temple Bar .............237xd -12 249 19734 ITV ..........................7012 +18 90 5714 Hammerson ............2358xd -18 3012 1758 Rentokil Initial .........600 +1438 65514 46518
Lloyds Banking .......4414 - 14 54 3918 BlackRock Smlr ......1254 +2 1450 1170 Schroder Oriental ...248 +1 281 23112 TP ICAP..................168 -314 20438 141 Moneysprmkt.com ..23958 +1 28038 17238 Land Securities .......57434xd-438 74314 48878 RS Group................728 +258 1035 69658
BlkRckWldMining ....580xd -4 771 559 Scot American Inv...500 + 12 542 452 Pearson ..................868 4 +6 4 99514 754 LondonMetric Prop .16778xd -3 207 16134
NatWest Group .......23438 -234 30978 21238 Health Care Equipment & Services
1 1
Serco ......................14714xd+218 17258 13678
Stan Chartered .......756 4xd+658 79034
3
51958 Bluefield Solar ........11738 -34 142 10758 Scottish Mortgage ...661 +358 83334 61214 RELX ......................2764 +23 2828 2157 Primary Hlth Prop ...9178 -214 12018 8834
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1 1 3

TBC Bank ...............2995xd+10306212 1668 Sequoia Econ Infra .8218 + 14 9178 71 1 5 5 3

44538
Caledonia Inv..........3340 +15 4055 3110 Smithson Inv ...........1287 -7 1485 1151 Smith & Neph .........101512 +7 131412 98458 WPP .......................72434 -34 105112 72134 Savills .....................841xd -5 1055 78812 Travis Perkins .........82258 -1 108212 755
Virgin Money UK .....16614 -118 198 11838
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Beverages Digital 9...................3312 -2178 9458 3338 Mining
Templeton Em ........14538 -2 16458 13058 Housebuilders Shaftesbury ............11134 -138 13114 9512
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C&C Group .............139 -138 18334 12338 Euro Sml Co. ..........147 172 126 Bellway ...................2264 -36 2500 1620 Centamin ................8318xd -18 12512 83
VinaCapital Vietna ..43112 -212 47412 392 Target Healthcare ...73 8 -118 9112 6612 Spirent Comms .......13514 -212 28614 135
1

Coca-Cola HBC ......2235 -13 2565 1840 European Opp ........792 +1 818 629 Berkeley Grp...........4054 -69 4504 3190 Endeavour Mining ...1576xd -9 2184 1461
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Crest Nicholson ......16912xd-1434 27214 16912 Ferrexpo .................75 8 -3 175 7414
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1

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Airtel Africa .............12534 +114 13814 10334
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1 1 1 3 3

Elementis ................120 -114 129 89 Fidelity Spec Val .....27012 +12 29212 23612 Bakkavor.................94xd +1 121 8878 Vistry Group............892 -19 946 51912
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Johnson Matt ..........1594 -27 2373 1543 Finsbury G&I Tst .....849 +2 920 783 Cranswick ...............3500 -30 3642 2586 Industrial Transportation
Nonlife Insurance
Admiral Gp..............2372xd -7 2490 188112 Workspace Gp ........48514 -1438 537 34338 Telecom Plus ..........1450 -36 2500 1449
Victrex.....................1397 +28 1913 1338 Foresight Solar .......92 - 14 11934 8834 Hilton Food Gp .......711 -30 791 500
Construction & Materials GCP Infra Inv ..........6734 - 12 10358 6734 Premier Foods ........11538 -3 13438 9234
Clarkson .................2660 -85 3375 2630 Beazley ...................554 +7 68712 503 Retailers Vodafone Gp ..........7734 -158 10614 70
Intl Dist Serv ...........25818 -514 27238 18412 Direct Line Ins.........17478 -218 23514 13378 B&M ........................58114 +138 59058 29678
Balfour Beatty .........31434 -334 39338 29458
Global Smaller ........141 - 38 16214 12514 Tate & Lyle .............68412 +2 83112 65938
Redde Northgate ....336 -3 43712 28912 Hiscox .....................1007xd -7 1193 842 Burberry Gp ............191012+2512 2641 1808
Tobacco
Greencoat UK .........14012 -114 165 13338 Unilever ..................403412+212 444312 3838
Breedon ..................329 - 12 385 250 Lancashire Hldgs ....58812 -2 664 46134 Currys .....................4818 +18 8538 Br Am Tob ..............257012 -54 3465 248412
CRH ........................4624 +130 4674 285812
Harbourvest ............2290 -80 2435 1930
Forestry & Paper Industrials 48
Imperial Brands ........168012xd+14122185 163912
Genuit Group ..........320xd +1 349 25212
Henderson Sml Co .700xd -9 902 680
Mondi ......................136412xd+10121601 1180
Bodycote.................649 -312 715 46234 Oil & Gas Producers Dr. Martens .............14014 +114 29238 11518
Herald Inv Trust ......1702 -10 1950 1634 Dunelm Gp .............1038 -1 1275 730
Grafton Gp ..............90112xd+378 98834 63058 HG Capital Trust .....384 -6 41612 32012
Hill & Smith .............1732 +66 1810 911 BP ...........................54118 +258 56758 43318 Travel & Leisure
Ibstock ....................13912 +58 178 13534 HICL Infr .................12114xd -2 17234 121
General Financial IMI...........................1572 -3 1680 1119 Diversified Energy ..81xd -1 13614 81 Frasers Group ........804 899 621
888 Holdings...........9734 -1234 13018 5158
Keller Group ...........756 +2 856 591 3i Group ..................2066 +29 2085 1062 Melrose Ind .............474 8xd +1 543 4 286 8
7 1 5
Energean ................1158xd+10 1569 995 Greggs ....................2404xd 3 29041 1712
Hipgnosis Songs .....8212 -114 9478 74 Howden Joinery ......729 + 4 759 4 481 Carnival ..................104812 +15 135612 50138
Marshalls ................245 -4 36658 22538 ICG Enterprise ........1190 -2 1204 966 Ashmore Gp ...........18678 +78 28638 18078 RHI Magnesita ........2796 -4 3060 1584 Harbour Energy ......26138xd-214 45338 219
Rotork .....................307 +2 342 234 Ithaca Energy .........18358xd +6 210 13858 Inchcape .................75872 -91 941 68212 Compass Gp...........2006 +1312 2235 178812
1
Tyman.....................28912 +212 318 18458 Impax Enviro Mkts ..365 -1 457 358 BR Throgmorton .....562 -2 668 490 2
1
3
4 5
8 1
4 1
4

Bridgepoint Group ..19138 +2 256 16678 Smith (DS) ..............282 4xd+1 4 368 2 241 4 Shell........................266012 +31 2665 220012 JD Sports Fashion ..14258 -132 18618 89 4
5 1
Volution...................35134 -834 448 29312 JPM American ........799xd +1 829 660
3 3 1 3
Dominos Pizza ........37314 -3 42458 21514
Kingfisher................219 8 - 4 291 2 203
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1 1
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11934 9214
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Marks & Spencer ....235 4 -1 8 240 2 9314
1 5 1

JPM Euro Disc. .......36512 -2
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1 3

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1 1

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Renishaw ................3514 +14
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Aberforth Smlr Cos .1220
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ME Group ...............15738 -234 171 8358
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3 3 3 3
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Daily Mail, Friday, September 29, 2023 Page 69

London closes in on New

York as top global hotspot
By Hugo Duncan
London is closing in on new
York as the world’s leading
financial centre while European
rivals such as Frankfurt and Paris
do not even make the top ten.
The Big Apple was ranked the top
global financial hub for a fifth year
in a row – but its lead over the City
has shrunk.
But while London is looking to reclaim
top spot – having been overtaken by
new York in 2018 – it faces stiff competi-
tion from Singapore in third and Hong
Kong in fourth.
San Francisco makes up the top five.
But Frankfurt and Paris – which hoped
WORLD’ TOP FINANCIAL CENTRE
Brexit would offer them a chance to
eclipse London – are languishing in 14th 1 New York 6 Los Angeles 11 Seoul
and 15th respectively.
The only other European city in the 2 London 7 Shanghai 12 Shenzhen
top ten is Geneva, in Switzer-
land – which, like Britain, is not new York. ‘it must never be came top with 763 points, up
part of the EU. forgotten that London is the three, while London gained 13 to 3 Singapore 8 Washington DC 13 Beijing
The findings – in the latest edi- centre of the time zone, with score 744.
tion of The Global Financial the best lawyers and account- Singapore, however, is now 4 Hong Kong 9 Chicago 14 Frankfurt
Centres index published by ants in the world,’ he said. only 2 points behind London at
think-tank Z/Yen and the China ‘Though iPo business has 742, itself only a point ahead of 5 San Francisco
development institute – make a been very disappointing this Hong Kong in fourth place, sig- 10 Geneva 15 Paris
mockery of claims that London year due to a dearth of deals, as nalling an intensifying battle for
has lost its lustre since Brexit. has been the case relatively in the second spot. 112 46h
And it comes as a vote of confi- new York, London’s prowess in The report noted that the
dence amid concerns over the foreign exchange and deriva- vast majority of financial cen-
City’s standing after a wave of tives is all but peerless. tres improved their ratings in
foreign takeovers and decisions ‘London’s real competition the past year, despite economic
by companies – such as British and political turmoil rocking
chip designer Arm – to list in
new York rather than London.
‘London’s prowess global markets.
‘Confidence in international
david Schwimmer, chief execu- is all but peerless’ financial centres remains strong,’
tive of the London Stock said economist Professor
Exchange Group, last week said comes from new York and the michael mainelli, chairman of Z/
the doom and gloom about the Far East. Without being disre- Yen. ‘Skills and talent develop-
City was ‘overplayed’. spectful, European centres must ment is vital for financial cen-
‘Anything that is seen as nega- continue to satisfy themselves in tres, increasingly so with new
tive commentary about London the role of spear carriers in the skills required in areas such as
as a financial centre has become financial services arena.’ Ai and ethics.
kind of clickbait,’ he said. The survey ranks cities globally ‘Combining continuing pro-
Reacting to the latest rank- on everything from regulation fessional development with
ings yesterday, david Buik, a and the rule of law to the tax formal tertiary education is a
consultant to Aquis Exchange, burden and transport links as key strategy to ensure that the
said it was ‘no surprise’ that well as the economy and the financial sector workforce is fit
London was second only to availability of capital. new York for the future.’

Gambling clampdown
takes toll on 888 profits
By Jessica Clark
WiLLiAm Hill owner 888 became
the latest betting firm to warn
that profits have been hit by
tighter gambling restrictions and
punter-friendly sports results.
days after Entain, which owns
Ladbrokes and Coral, sent
shares across the sector tum-
bling, 888 said revenues in the
third quarter fell 10pc.
That sparked another sell-off,
with the three biggest listed
gambling firms seeing £1.7bn
wiped off their value so far this
week. 888 shares fell another
11.6pc yesterday, taking losses
since monday to 18pc.
Entain has shed 12.5pc of its
value this week while Betfair
and Paddy Power parent Flutter
is down more than 3pc.
888 yesterday said revenue in
the third quarter would be down
10pc to around £400m, in part
due to regulatory crackdowns
on online gambling firms, and
warned that earnings will come
in below expectations.
The Gambling Commission
has brought in stricter rules over
the last few years to protect cus-
Safe bet: Striker Erling Haaland
is a top scorer for Man City
tomers, including marketing
and bonus restrictions which
have slowed the number of punt-
ers signing up to betting sites.
meanwhile, the Government
has announced rules for online
bookies, including stake limits
and tougher checks on players,
which are expected to be imple-
mented over the next few years.
888 said regulations in the UK
and other markets were having
a significant impact, having
restricted online customer activ-
ity, although its physical betting
shops continue to perform well.
‘The William Hill owner’s profit
warning also reflects the impact
of regulation as it is forced to do
more compliance work, slowing
down customer acquisition,’
Russ mould, investment direc-
tor at AJ Bell, said.
‘Combined with the warning
from Entain, it’s clear the sector
is coming under ever greater
regulatory pressure as countries
look to reduce the social harm
caused by gambling.’
888, which also owns online
sports betting site mr Green,
said customer-friendly sporting
results – where the favourite
wins – put pressure on win mar-
gins in September, echoing
Entain’s announcement.
Entain said on monday that
online gaming revenue in the
third quarter would be impacted
by stricter regulations, as well as
more punters winning bets on
football matches. many custom-
ers had successfully bet on man-
chester City to win and their
striker Erling Haaland to score.
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n JIM CROWLEY has

SPORT IN BRIEF shrugged off a difficult WORCESTER SSR ROBIN GOODFELLOW
2.15 Mofasa 2.15
GIMCRACK
Grand Roi
SPANISH LGE: Celta Vigo 1 Alaves 1,
Granada 1 Real Betis 1.
E Peronnin (F); S Kibsgaard Nielsen
(Den); R Meekers (Hol); N Iturrioz
6-11 14-12 11-9; L Beecroft (Eng) bt
M Tomlinson (Eng) 11-5 11-7 11-2.
wide draw for Hukum in
Sunday’s Prix de l’Arc de 1
2.15 —NOVICES’ CHASE (3) £12,000 added (£6,535)
2m 7f (5)
U11- BROADWAY BOY 163 N Twiston-Davies 5-11-2
2.50
3.25
4.00
Chess Player
Mylesfromwicklow
Our Scholar
2.50
3.25
4.00
Chess Player
Flying Fortune
Young Merlin
ITALIAN LGE: Frosinone 1 Fioren- (Sp); C Alonso (Sp); E Arvidsson 4.30 Blue Sans 4.30 Ma Belle Noire
tina 1, Monza 0 Bologna 0, Genoa (Swe); C Angurasaranee (Tha). ÷TENNIS Triomphe. Paddy Power S Twiston-Davies
2 2B-P COCONUT SPLASH 146 E Williams 8-11-2 ........... A Wedge 5.05 Getaway Tom 5.05 Walkinthewoods
4 Roma 1.
÷SNOOKER ATP CHINA OPEN (Beijing) — 1st eased the odds of the 3 0-5L GRAND ROI 11 (B) James Owen 7-11-2 ................ S Bowen
÷GOLF BRITISH OPEN (Cheltenham)
rnd: A de Minaur (A) bt A Murray
(GB) 6-3 5-7 7-6 (8-6). Owen Burrows-trained 4 L3L- MOFASA 168 (T) P Nicholls 7-11-2 ....................... H Cobden
5 927- AIMEE DE SIVOLA 154 Mrs J Williams 9-10-9 .... D Noonan 4.00 —NOVICES’ HANDICAP HURDLE (2) £70,000
added (£36,421) 2m 4f (16)
WOMEN’S EURO TOUR (Deauville)— — 3rd rnd: D Gilbert (Eng) bt I King George VI & Queen Probable SP: 2 Mofasa 9-4 Grand Roi 5-2 Broadway Boy 1 112 AJP KINGDOM 41 (CBF) F O Brien 6-12-0 .............. C Brace
1st rnd (GB & Ire unless stated): 65 Chadha (Ind) 4-1; B Hawkins (Eng) ÷TODAY’S ACTION 6 Coconut Splash. 2 1L-2 IKARAK 144 (P) M Harris 5-11-13 ....................... B Harris (5)
bt K Wilson (Eng) 4-1; S Donaldson Elizabeth Stakes winner 3 2L-2 HUELGOAT 135 (T) (BF) P Nicholls 6-11-10........ H Cobden
— E Young; L Fuenfstueck (G); A
Dimmock; 66 — J Gustavsson (Swe);
M MacLaren; 67 — M Folke (Swe); S
(Sco) bt R Williams (Eng) 4-1; X
Guodong (Chn) bt S Lam (Eng) 4-1;
SKY BET CHAMPIONSHIP
Sheff Wed v Sunderland ...........(8.0)
to 6-1 from 4-1 after he 2.50 —HANDICAP CHASE (4)
(£4,859) 2m 110yds (9)
£9,200 added 4
5
111 OUR SCHOLAR F23 Jack Jones 4-11-10..............T Bellamy
111 YOUNG MERLIN 34 (S) Miss A Murphy 7-11-10 .. J Quinlan
Kouskova (Cz); P Marfa (Sp); M M Selby (Eng) bt S Jiahui (Chn) 4-1; Live on Sky Sports Football landed stall 14 of 15. 1 321 CHESS PLAYER 29 (P) (C&DD) B Pauling 8-12-0
Beau Morgan (5)
6 221 IKE SPORT 81 (PT) (C&D) (S) N Mulholland 5-11-9
J Lisowski (Eng) bt M Selt (Eng) S Twiston-Davies
Skarpnord (Nor); 68 — S Soenderby
(Den); L May Humphreys; E Grechi 4-2; T Ford (Eng) bt J Robertson CINCH SCOTTISH LEAGUE ONE But Crowley said: ‘It’s just 2 P-L3 MASTER MALACHY 30 (T) (D2) (G) D McCain 7-12-0 T Gillard 7 121 ALLIHIES 71 (T) (C&D) D Skelton 4-11-6 .............. H Skelton
3 3LP VINNIE THE HODDIE 17 (D) (S) Miss G Haywood 9-11-9
(F); E Givens; H Burke; K Rudgeley (Eng) 4-0; F Zhengyi (Chn) bt R
Lawler (Eng) 4-2.
Hamilton v Annan Athletic ..... (7.45) a number and I am on a B Ffrench-Davis (7)
8
9
212 MANIMOLE 7 (CBF) N Twiston-Davies 6-11-5 Mr J Turner (10)
123 THE GALAHAD KID 18 F O Brien 7-11-5 .............P Brennan
(A); R Hjelle Grimstad (Nor); L RUGBY LEAGUE — Betfred Super
Osala (Fin); E Nummenpaeae (Fin); League Play-offs, 1st rnd: Hull K R very uncomplicated 4
5
L73 DR T J ECKLEBURG 38 E Williams 5-11-9 ........... A Wedge
U-22 CHESTNUT PETE 138 (T) Mrs S Leech 8-11-7
10 1LL HOBIE 22 (C) David Dennis 6-11-1 ......................G Sheehan
69 — P Schmidt (G); G Cowley; ÷SPEEDWAY v Leigh (8.0). horse. It’s been won from S Twiston-Davies
11 U11 EN AVANT 28 (T) (C) (S) O Murphy 7-10-13 D Johnston (7)
L Beveridge; K Metraux (Swi); V RUGBY UNION — World Cup Pool 12 102 GAIUS 31 (C) O Murphy 4-10-12 ............................. S Bowen
Elena Carta (It); S Schober (Aut);
SPORTS INSURE PREMIERSHIP
PLAY-OFF — Semi-final, 2nd leg: A: New Zealand v Italy (8.0). out there before. I am on 6
7
91-2 IRON HEART 17 (BT) P Bowen 6-11-7.......... NON RUNNER
53L MIX OF CLOVER 17 (P) (D) A Ralph 9-11-6 ....... A Edwards
13 21P FADED FANTASY 89 (D) Christian Williams 4-10-11 N Scholfield
14 331 PAINLESS POTTER 17 (C&D) (S) O Greenall & J Guerriero
J Melichova (Cz); N Komulainen
(Fin); E Spitz (Aut); V Knecht (Swi);
Sheffield 39 Wolverhampton 21. P W D L B F A Pts the right horse to 8 7-FP HERECOMESHOGAN 30 (P) M Keighley 6-11-4 ........J Best 5-10-10 Craig Nichol
Abandoned, result stands. Sheffield 9 612 MUTUAL RESPECT 17 (PT) (D) (S) Billy Aprahamian 7-11-0
A Taylor; 70 — S Lee Bregman (SA); win 89-61 on aggregate.
France . . . . . . 3 3 0 0 1 150 25 13
Italy . . . . . . . . 2 2 0 0 2 90 25 10
overcome it if he is good H Bannister
15 213 WOODIE FLASH 31 (B) (C) O Murphy 5-10-10 L Stones (3)
16 781 BAIKAL 22 (T) (C) A West 4-10-6 ........................ L Edwards
C Boutier (F); K Napoleaova (Cz);
U Wikstroem (Fin); N Garcia (SA); New Zealand 2 1 0 1 1 84 30 5 enough. You always need Probable SP: 6-5 Chess Player 5 Mutual Respect Probable SP: 6 Young Merlin 7 Allihies 8 Our Scholar En
÷SQUASH 11-2 Chestnut Pete 6 Herecomeshogan 12 Master Malachy.
R Davies; S Witt (G); F Johnson; K Uruguay. . . . . 3 1 0 2 1 65 91 5 a bit of luck. You can’t Avant 10 Ike Sport Gaius Ikarak 12 Huelgoat A p Kingdom.
Henry; C Fuschelberger (Aut); A
Foersterling (G); S Kjellker (Swe);
SOUTH WESTERN OPEN (USA) —
Women’s 1st rnd: G Adderley (Sco)
Namibia . . . . . 4 0 0 4 0 37 255 0
Premiership Cup (7.30): Don- change the draw, you just 3.25 —MAIDEN HURDLE
(£4,357) 2m 4f (9)
(4) £8,000 added

1 410- BEACHCOMBER 198 Jon o O Neill 5-11-4........R McLernon

S Nuutinen (Fin); B Morgan; V
Kapoor (Ind); 71 — L Landgraf (F);
NEWMARKET
4.30 —MARES’ HANDICAP HURDLE (4) £8,000
added (£4,225) 2m 7f (8)
bt J Shiha (Egy) 8-11 12-10 11-6 11-7; Z
Mickawy (Egy) bt G Gear (Eng) 11-9
caster v Bristol, Hartpury RFC v
Gloucester (7.45).
make the best of it.’ 2 1 36- CARRIGMOORNA ROWAN 172 (H) H Fry 6-11-4 J J Burke
1
2
111 BLUE SANS 22 (C) F O Brien 8-12-0 ..... Mr T Broughton (7)
352 ARTEMIS ANGEL 30 (H) C O Keeffe (IRE) 6-11-13 B Bromley (5)
3 440- CLASSIC LORD 173 T Vaughan 5-11-4 .................. A Johns 3 131 MA BELLE NOIRE 26 (BT) (C&D) H Fry 6-11-9 ... J J Burke
4 3LP- HARJO 230 C Longsdon 6-11-4 ................... Lilly Pinchin (3) 4 P37 SHEILA NASH 59 (C&D2) R Phillips 8-10-12 ......... A Wedge
RTV ITV4 1.50, 2.25, 3.0, 3.35 ROBIN GOODFELLOW
1.50 Tarawa 1.50 Silver Lady
GIMCRACK
5 0-3L ISMAEL 26 (P) K Frost 5-11-4 .............................. L Edwards
6 222- MYLESFROMWICKLOW 180 (BF3) D Skelton 6-11-4 H Skelton
7 351- PUSH THE BUTTON 160 N Twiston-Davies 4-11-1
5
6
5P2 PENNSYLVANIE 19 Alexandra Dunn 4-10-9..... N Scholfield
4P3 MAROOCHI 38 K Burke 6-10-7.............................. H Cobden

1.50 —AL BASTI EQUIWORLD, DUBAI BRITISH EBF ROSEMARY STAKES ITV4 7 421 JOLIE BAIE 31 (H) (C) (S) Miss J Davis 4-10-3. NON RUNNER
2.25 Novakai 2.25 Sea Theme S Twiston-Davies
(FILLIES’ & MARES’ LISTED) (1) £50,000 (£28,355) 1m (12) 8 4L2 STAMINA CHOPE 11 Dave Roberts 7-10-3 ........ L Edwards
3.00 Ylang Ylang 3.00 SHUWARI (nap) 8 6L SIDE STEPPER 11 Christian Williams 4-11-1 .... N Scholfield Probable SP: 2 Ma Belle Noire 5-2 Blue Sans 7 Stamina
101 (9) 21-1334 ASTRAL BEAU 77 (C2D) (S) Mrs P Sly 4-9-7..........................S W Kelly 3.35 Mutasaabeq 3.35 Epictetus 9 41-1 FLYING FORTUNE 139 P Bowen 4-10-8................ S Bowen
4.10 Zain Blue Chope Maroochi Artemis Angel 8 Pennsylvanie.
102 (1) 1112-L9 AMANZOE 20 (B) (D2) (GS) W Haggas 4-9-4......................T Marquand 4.10 Symbol Of Power Probable SP: 15-8 Mylesfromwicklow 9-2 Flying Fortune
103 (8) 2 16-47 AMEYNAH 44 (C) R Varian 4-9-4 ...........................................David Egan
104 (11) 130-54L CRYSTAL CAPRICE 100 (D3) (GS) Sir M Stoute 4-9-4 ..... R Kingscote
4.45 Broadway Act
5.20 Candleford
5.55 Real Gain
4.45 Markoon
5.20 Lion’s Pride (nb)
5.55 Real Gain
5 Beachcomber 6 Push The Button 13-2 Classic Lord.
5.05 —CONDITIONAL
1
JOCKEYS’ HANDICAP HURDLE
(4) £8,000 added (£4,225) 2m (8)
222 GETAWAY TOM 27 (PT) (DBF) T Lacey 5-12-0 ...C Iles (10)
105 (6) 112L66 LIGHTSHIP 82 (D2) K P De Foy 4-9-4 .....................................D Muscutt TRACK FACTS: L-H course. GOING: Good-good
106 (5) 14-P553 POTAPOVA 27 (D) Sir M Stoute 5-9-4.................................... R L Moore NEWMARKET – 4.10 Accumulate (nb); 5.20 LION’S PRIDE (nap). to soft in places.Top jockey: Sam Twiston-Davies. 2 3F2 GLOBAL FAMENGLORY 121 (P) D Skelton 7-11-13 T Durrell (3)
107 (10) 771382 QUICK CHANGE 29 (D2) (G) K R Burke 4-9-4 .............................. C Lee Top trainer: F O Brien. Headgear first time: 2.15 3 6FL GERARD MENTOR 56 (TV) (D2) (S) K Bailey 7-11-10 K Lenihan (8)
108 (7) 1-01159 COPPICE 27 (D2) (G) J & T Gosden 3-9-0 ................................ L Dettori Mofasa 4.00 Ikarak Woodie Flash 5.05 Getaway 4 461 UP FOR APPEAL 36 (D) Christian Williams 5-11-10 E Collier (8)

4.45 STAKES
109 (3) 1-0513 NAOMI LAPAGLIA 36 (H) (D) (S) R Spencer 3-9-0................ O Murphy —AL BASTI EQUIWORLD, DUBAI BRITISH EBF ‘CONFINED’ MAIDEN Tom. Longest travellers: Artemis Angel (4.30) Ire- 5 804 CARDANO F15 (T) B Brookhouse 7-11-8 ...... NON RUNNER
110 (2) 12552 QUEEN FOR YOU 27 (P) (D) J & T Gosden 3-9-0.....................R Havlin (C & G) (DIV 2) (4) (2-Y-O) £10,000 (£5,400) 7f (9) 6 2L-1 WALKINTHEWOODS 143 (D) (S) E Williams 6-11-6I Williams
land Flying Fortune (3.25) 176 miles. Drop in Class: 7 P11 EMANATE 17 (P) (C&D2) (S) N Mulholland 5-10-12 .T Eyston (8)
111 (4) 13 SILVER LADY 133 (H) (C&DBF) (S) C Appleby 3-9-0............... W Buick 601 (9) 22 BROADWAY ACT 35 (BF) C Appleby 9-2.................................. W Buick 2.15 Mofasa is down 5 grades on last run (Grade 1
112 (12) 242325 TARAWA 20 (P) (S) D K Weld (IRE) 3-9-0 ............................ C D Hayes 8 9-P1 SWIFT TUTTLE 24 (HT) O Greenall & J Guerriero 4-10-12
Probable SP: 7-2 Coppice 9-2 Potapova 5 Queen For You 8 Silver Lady 602 (8) EZRA CEE P Chapple-Hyam 9-2................................................ J F Egan to Class 3) 3.25 Beachcomber (6). First run since Toby Wynne (3)
Ameynah 10 Astral Beau Tarawa 14 Lightship 16 Amanzoe 20 Crystal 603 (4) LAVENDER HILL MOB M Bell 9-2 ...................................... James Doyle wind surgery: 2.50 Master Malachy 4.30 Sheila Probable SP: 11-4 Getaway Tom 3 Up For Appeal Global
Caprice Naomi Lapaglia Quick Change. 604 (1) MARKOON W Haggas 9-2 ........................................................ J Crowley Nash 5.05 Gerard Mentor. Famenglory 5 Walkinthewoods 6 Emanate.
FAVOURITES: 0 0 3 0 2 0 0 2 0 2 AGES: 3 3 4 3 5 3 4 3 3 3 605 (2) 4 PLACO 17 J & T Gosden 9-2 ................................................ K Shoemark
2022: Zanbaq 3 9 0 (Jim Crowley) 10-3 R Varian drawn (5) 10 ran. 606 (3) PSALM A P O Brien (IRE) 9-2................................................. R L Moore
NEWCASTLE SSR ROBIN GOODFELLOW GIMCRACK
2.25 —PRINCESS ROYAL AL BASTI EQUIWORLD, DUBAI STAKES
(FILLIES’ & MARES’ GROUP 3) (1) £80,000 (£45,368) 1m 4f (11)
ITV4 607 (6) SIR GALAHAD J Ferguson 9-2 ................................................D Muscutt 4.55 Denis Anthony 4.55 Unplugged

4.55
608 (7) 45 TEN BOB TONY 21 E Walker 9-2 .........................................T Marquand —HANDICAP (5) £7,400 added (£3,873) 5.30 Moon Flight 5.30 Solray
201 (3) 124-165 PERIPATETIC 55 (D2) (G) R Varian 4-9-5.......................... James Doyle 609 (5) WHIP CRACKER R Hughes 9-2 ............................................... O Murphy 1m 4f 98yds (10) 6.00 Roaring Ralph 6.00 First Of May
202 (11) 2-24431 TIME LOCK 27 (C&DD) (GS) H & R Charlton 4-9-5 .............. R L Moore Probable SP: 2 Broadway Act 11-4 Psalm 4 Placo 6 Markoon 10 Ten Bob 1 (5) 229 DARK ISLAND 22 H Main 4-10-2 ......................K O’Neill 6.30 Sea Girt 6.30 Merry Secret
203 (2) 157-531 VOODOO QUEEN 96 (CD) (G) R Varian 4-9-5 .....................David Egan Tony 16 Lavender Hill Mob. 2 (6) LL7 SENSE OF WORTH 18 S Spencer 7-10-2 ..... Dale Swift 7.00 Bernie The Bear 7.00 Bernie The Bear
204 (10) 2-31272 AZAZAT 47 (P) (DBF) D K Weld (IRE) 3-8-12....................... C D Hayes FAVOURITES & 2022: See Div 1. 3 (2) 153 GENESIUS 65 (D4) Sir M Prescott 6-10-1 7.30 Mawada 7.30 Zapphire
205 (4) 5-44211 ELEGANCIA 20 (H) (GS) H & R Charlton 3-8-12 ......................... K Stott 8.00 Eldrickjones (nb) 8.00 Dreamrocker
206 (7) 22-2017 NOVAKAI 36 (D) (G) K R Burke 3-8-12 .......................................... C Lee
207 (9) 11-11L2 RUNNING LION 44 (CBF) (S) J & T Gosden 3-8-12............... O Murphy 5.20 —AL BASTI EQUIWORLD, DUBAI GODOLPHIN STAKES (LISTED)
(1) £50,000 added (£28,355) 1m 4f (6)
Morgan Cole (5)
4 (9) 525 ADAMARIS J22 (V) A Keatley 6-10-0............. D Costello
5 (1) 0-L3 KHILWAFY 18 (C2) D Thompson 7-9-13 ..... S B Kirrane
8.30 Blackcurrent 8.30 John Kirkup
NORTHERNER – 8.00 ELDRICKJONES (nap)
208 (6) 6-22134 SCARLETT O’HARA 47 (P) (D) J Harrington (IRE) 3-8-12 N M Crosse 1 (3) 33-3312 CANDLEFORD 20 (D2) (G) W Haggas 5-9-10 .....................T Marquand 6 (4) 342 UNPLUGGED 22 (D) M & D Easterby 7-9-13
209 (8)
210 (1)
311 SEA THEME 36 (D2) (GS) W Haggas 3-8-12.......................T Marquand
4-11 SWEET MEMORIES 55 (D) (S) J & T Gosden 3-8-12 .............. L Dettori
211 (5) 13L22 VEIL OF SHADOWS 22 C Appleby 3-8-12 ................................. W Buick
2
3
(2) 2112-35 NEW LONDON 47 (T) (C2D) (GS) C Appleby 4-9-7 .................. W Buick
(5) 11-4833 TREGONY 36 (GS) C Cox 5-9-2.............................................. S Osborne
Joanna Mason
7 (8) 314 SILVER NIGHTFALL 16 (C2D) G Kelleway 3-9-11 H Doyle 7.00 —HANDICAP (DIV 2)
(£3,245) 7f 14yds (9)
(6) £6,200 added

1 (1) 3L4 SEE MY BABY JIVE 24 (B) D Whillans 7-9-9 . H Russell

4 (1) 6212-8 BLANCHLAND 163 J Chapple-Hyam 3-9-0 ........................... R L Moore
Probable SP: 3 Running Lion 9-2 Novakai 5 Sweet Memories 6 Time Lock 5 (6) 213 LION’S PRIDE 34 J & T Gosden 3-9-0....................................... L Dettori
8 Sea Theme 10 Veil Of Shadows Azazat 12 Voodoo Queen.
FAVOURITES: 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 3 2 1 AGES: 3 3 3 4 3 3 4 4 4 3 6 (4) 51 IMPERIAL QUARTER 22 (H) (G) R Varian 3-8-9 ..................David Egan
2022: Eternal Pearl 3 9 1 (William Buick) 6-4 Fav C Appleby drawn (3) 8 ran. Probable SP: 2 New London 11-4 Candleford 3 Lion s Pride 11-2 Blanchland
8 (10) 2P4 KING OF THE PLAINS 35 C Johnston 3-9-11 .. C Fallon
9 (7) 324 DENIS ANTHONY 23 (P) (DBF2) J Fanshawe 3-9-4
R Scott
10 (3) 3-7L EASTER ISLAND 55 J Camacho 4-9-3 Ryan Sexton (3)
Probable SP: 10-3 Denis Anthony 7-2 Dark Island
2 (4) 606 MAKALU 16 (D) R Carr 4-9-6........................ JP Sullivan
3 (3) 644 MALINHEADSEAROVERS 45 (P) (BF) J Wainwright
3-9-6 P Mulrennan
4 (8) 405 TEES GEORGE 21 Adrian Nicholls 3-9-4 .......C Murtagh

3.00 —AL BASTI EQUIWORLD, DUBAI ROCKFEL STAKES (FILLIES’ ITV4 12 Tregony 20 Imperial Quarter. 5 (7) 500 RUM RUNNER 11 (CD5) G Harker 8-9-3 ............. S Gray
4 Unplugged 11-2 Genesius 8 Silver Nightfall 10 Adamaris.
GROUP 2) (1) (2-Y-O) £107,000 added (£60,680) 7f (8) FAVOURITES: 2 2 – 1 1 1 3 0 2 2 AGES: 3 5 – 3 4 3 5 6 4 4 6 (5) 53L CLIMATE CHANGE 50 (P) J Camacho 3-9-2 Ryan Sexton (3)
301 (8) 113 ALSHINFARAH 22 (D2) K P De Foy 9-2 ................................. J Crowley 2022: Siskany 4 9 7 (William Buick) 11-4 C Appleby drawn (4) 6 ran.
5.30 —NOVICE
6f (8)
STAKES (5) £7,600 added (£4,104) 7 (9) 421 BERNIE THE BEAR 46 (D) R Fahey 3-9-1 ...... Oisin Orr
8 (6) LLL GALTON 27 (P) A Brittain 4-9-0 .........................A Mullen
302 (1)

304 (3)
182 CARLA’S WAY 34 (T) (D) S & E Crisford 9-2..................... James Doyle
303 (4) 46151 CAROLINA REAPER 30 (D2) (S) C Johnston 9-2 ................... J Mitchell
015 MARCELLA 20 (D) (S) A Balding 9-2.......................................... W Buick
5.55 —AL BASTI EQUIWORLD, DUBAI HANDICAP (3) £25,000 added
(£13,500) 1m 1f (9)
1
2
3
(3) 224 CROWN DREAMS 43 R Cowell 3-9-7 ...... P J McDonald
(4) 42 MOON FLIGHT 30 Sir M Prescott 3-9-7 ............ L Morris
(1) 6 PRIDE OF SPAIN 11 A Watson 3-9-7................. H Doyle
9 (2) 74L SECRET JOY 24 (B) M & D Easterby 3-8-11 Joanna Mason
Probable SP: 2 Bernie The Bear 7-2 Malinheadsearovers.

7.30 —FILLIES’
305 (6) 11 SHUWARI 64 (D2) (GS) Ollie Sangster 9-2 ............................. O Murphy 1 (2) 11-07L8 TURNTABLE 15 (C&D2C2) (GS) Harry Eustace 7-9-12 Kaiya Fraser (5) HANDICAP (5) £7,400 added
2 (6) 800130 BALTIMORE BOY 16 (V) (BF) M Bell 4-9-11 ..................... James Doyle 4 (7) 32 SOLRAY 25 J Chapple-Hyam 3-9-7................J Peate (3)
306 (5) 1 SPIRITUAL 17 (H) (D) (S) J & T Gosden 9-2....................... K Shoemark 5 (6) 73L SUNFYRE 127 B Ellison 3-9-7...................... B Robinson (£3,873) 7f 14yds (9)
307 (2) 11L YLANG YLANG 19 (D2BF) (S) A P O Brien (IRE) 9-2.......... R L Moore 3 (7) 1-13 REAL GAIN 19 (BF) R Hughes 3-9-10........................................ F Marsh 1 (8) 521 ZAPPHIRE 48 (D) J Camacho 3-9-10 ... Ryan Sexton (3)
6 (2) 63 NO AW THERE 12 I Jardine 3-9-2 .....................A Mullen
308 (7) 311 ZENJABEELA 27 (D2) R Varian 9-2 ......................................David Egan 4 (5) 8-L1417 ISLAND BANDIT 31 (B) (G) H Main 4-9-7 .................... Gina Mangan (3) 7 (8) L SHOUT TO THE TOP 11 J J Quinn 3-9-2 ....G Sanna (5) 2 (6) LL0 MISTY BLUES 36 (PT) T Easterby 3-9-9 ............ D Allan
Probable SP: 7-4 Shuwari 4 Carla s Way Ylang Ylang 6 Spiritual 5 (4) 137728 MAYSONG 21 (P) (GS) Alice Haynes 6-9-6 ...................... C Howarth (5) 8 (5) 03 WILLOW BABY 11 J Ward 3-9-2 .................... C Beasley 3 (4) 332- MAWADA 374 R Fahey 3-9-7 ........................... Oisin Orr
10 Alshinfarah 12 Zen abeela 16 Carolina Reaper. 6 (1) 91251 CRACK SHOT 31 (G) E Walker 3-9-6 ...................................T Marquand Probable SP: 15-8 Solray 11-4 Moon Flight 7-2 Crown 4 (7) 33L CONCON CANDY 32 (P) A Watson 3-9-7......... L Morris
FAVOURITES: 2 1 3 0 0 2 1 2 0 2 7 (8) 51612L SUDDEN AMBUSH 33 (T) (G) A Balding 3-9-5 ....................... O Murphy Dreams 12 Sunfyre Willow Baby 14 No Aw There. 5 (3) 865 JUST JANET 10 (D) D O Meara 3-9-7..... Jason Watson
2022: Commissioning 2 9 2 (Robert Havlin) 7-2 J & T Gosden drawn (1) 6 (1) 241 ABBEY’S DREAM 28 (P) (C&D2D) A Watson 3-9-6 . H Doyle
6.00 —HANDICAP
8 (9) 31-5763 BODORGAN 48 (C) (S) C Hills 3-9-4 .......................................... W Buick (5) £7,400 added (£3,873)
14 ran. 7 (5) 351 TURQUOISE DIAMOND 18 (D) W Haggas 3-9-4 ..C Fallon
9 (3) 742L84 IN THESE SHOES 43 (GS) C Johnston 3-8-13 ....................... J Fanning 6f (11)
3.35 —AL BASTI EQUIWORLD, DUBAI JOEL STAKES (GROUP 2) ITV4 8 (2) 3L-5 ALEXA’S PRINCESS 16 (D) K R Burke 3-9-4 ..... S Gray
Probable SP: 11-4 Crack Shot 4 Real Gain 9-2 Bodorgan 6 Baltimore Boy 1 (7) 580 BELLAGIO MAN 7 (P) (C&DD) A Brittain 5-10-0 . H Russell 9 (9) 755 CARLTON AND CO 14 (C&D) M & D Easterby 4-9-0
(1) £125,000 added (£70,888) 1m (6) 7 Sudden Ambush 10 In These Shoes 12 Maysong 14 Island Bandit. 2 (11) 421 SUN POWER (5lbex) 10 (V) (CD2) A Brown 6-9-13 R Scott
401 (2) 41-1507 MUTASAABEQ 34 (B) (C&D2C2) (S) C Hills 5-9-9 ................ J Crowley Lewis Chalkley (7)
FAVOURITES: – – – – – – – 2 0 0 (W 9-9). AGES: – – – – – – – 5 5 6 3 (3) 165 FIRST OF MAY 49 (C&DD) J Fanshawe 3-9-12 Oisin Orr Probable SP: 2 Turquoise Diamond 4 Mawada
402 (6) 126311 CHINDIT 9 (D5) (GS) R Hannon 5-9-6 ....................................... P Dobbs 4 (4) 317 ROARING RALPH 42 (B) M Dods 3-9-10 ...... C Beasley
403 (1) 1114- MALJOOM 472 (D2) W Haggas 4-9-6................................... T Marquand 2022: Turntable 6 9 3 (Kaiya Fraser) 11-1 C Wall drawn (6) 9 ran. 11-2 Abbey s Dream 6 Zapphire 10 Concon Candy.
5 (2) 468 GOLDEN DUKE 10 (D3) N Tinkler 4-9-8 .F McManoman
404 (4) 2515-51 MIGHTY ULYSSES 43 (P) (C&DD3) (G) J & T Gosden 4-9-6 . O Murphy
405 (3) 15-4133 REGAL REALITY 20 (D2) (GS) Sir M Stoute 8-9-6................ R L Moore
406 (5) 155015 EPICTETUS 34 (DBF) (GS) J & T Gosden 3-9-2 ...................... L Dettori TRACK FACTS: JACKPOT & PRINCIPAL MEETING. R-H
6 (5) 7L0 HOUGOUMONT 37 (H) (C&DD) J Camacho 3-9-7
Ryan Sexton (3) 8.00 —HANDICAP
1m 5yds (14)
(5) £7,400 added (£3,873)

1 (6) 991 ELDRICKJONES (5lbex) 10 (C) R Fell & S Murray

7 (10) 640 ASADJUMEIRAH 7 (TV) (C&D2D2) A Brittain 5-9-6 . C Hardie
Probable SP: 3 Chindit 7-2 Mutasaabeq 4 Mal oom 9-2 Mighty Ulysses course. GOING: Good to firm-good in places. STALLS: Far side 8 (8) 260 CAPTAIN VALLO 10 (B) (C&DD2) Phillip Makin 5-9-5 4-10-3 J Peate (3)
5 Epictetus 8 Regal Reality. 2 (1) 131 BUSHFIRE 23 (D2) Gemma Tutty 4-9-11 C Hutchinson (3)
FAVOURITES: 1 0 1 0 1 1 2 2 2 2 AGES: 4 5 3 5 3 5 5 3 7 4
course 1m4f centre remainder far side. DRAW ADVANTAGE: S Gray
9 (1) 334 ROSHAMBO 28 (E) (C&DBF) J Camacho 4-9-5 C Fallon 3 (14) 569 KING TRITON 19 (D) G Tuer 5-9-11........... O Stammers
None. Top jockey: William Buick. Top trainer: C Appleby. 4 (5) L62 IRISH FLAME 21 (P) (C&D) M Dods 4-9-11 .. C Beasley
2022: Mutasaabeq 4 9 6 (Jim Crowley) 5-2 C Hills drawn (2) 6 ran. 10 (6) 7-LL UNSUNG HERO 29 (B) H Main 4-9-4....... P J McDonald
Placed in the race last year: 1.50 Crystal Caprice (3rd) 2.25
4.10 —AL BASTI EQUIWORLD, DUBAI BRITISH EBF ‘CONFINED’ MAIDEN 11 (9) 066 POCKET THE PACKET 14 (H) (C&D2D) N Tinkler 3-9-2 5 (13) L61 SHOWMEDEMONEY 28 (PT) (C&DD) I Jardine 4-9-10
STAKES (C & G) (DIV 1) (4) (2-Y-O) £10,000 (£5,400) 7f (9) Peripatetic (2nd) 3.35 Mutasaabeq (1st) 5.55 Turntable (1st). A Jary (7) A Mullen
Probable SP: 5-2 Sun Power 9-2 First Of May 5 Roshambo 6 (12) 61 DREAMROCKER 43 E Walker 3-9-10...... P J McDonald
501 (6) 2 ACCUMULATE 21 R Varian 9-2 .............................................. R L Moore Headgear first time: 1.50 Amanzoe Silver Lady Tarawa 2.25 7 (4) 608 STAR ZINC 16 (D) R Menzies 4-9-9 ...................... G Lee
502 (1) 3 AL SHABAB STORM 17 A Balding 9-2 ............................... R Kingscote 15-2 Asad umeirah 8 Roaring Ralph 12 Pocket The Packet.
Azazat. Longest travellers: Tarawa (1.50) Scarlett O Hara 8 (9) 8L4 TUSCAN 7 (V) D O Meara 4-9-8 .............. Jason Watson
503 (2)
504 (7)
505 (5)
05 BRADMAN 14 C Fellowes 9-2 ................................................... J Mitchell
HONRADO M Bell 9-2 ............................................................... O Murphy
0 KING OF FRANCE 25 G Boughey 9-2..................................... J Crowley
(2.25) Azazat (2.25) Ylang Ylang (3.00) Psalm (4.45) Ireland
Carolina Reaper (3.00) & In These Shoes (5.55) 200 miles. Drop 1
6.30 —HANDICAP (DIV 1)
(£3,245) 7f 14yds (9)
(6) £6,200 added

(8) 690 BLAME THE FARRIER 34 D Thompson 6-9-10 S B Kirrane

9 (3) 151
10 (2) P9L
LADY WORMSLEY 23 (P) (D2) J Fanshawe 3-9-8 P Mulrennan
RISE HALL 23 (V) (D) G Oldroyd 8-9-8 ........... H Russell
11 (7) 613 PLAYUPSKYBLUES 28 (T) (D2) Alice Haynes 3-9-6.. K O’Neill
506 (3) MILETUS C Hills 9-2 ....................................................................... K Stott in Class: 1.50 Astral Beau is down 3 grades on last run (Group 1 2 (1) 880 ANGEL AMADEA 91 (T) R Menzies 5-9-9 . P Mulrennan 12 (10) 807 NATZOR 28 (PT) A Watson 3-9-5 ....................... H Doyle
507 (8) NATIVE WARRIOR K R Burke 9-2 ......................................... D Tudhope 3 (2) 2L0 CORAL REEF 15 (P) A Watson 3-9-6 ................ H Doyle
to Listed) Tarawa (2) 2.25 Novakai (2) 4.10 Zain Blue (2). First 13 (8) 3L1 CUSACK (5lbex) 10 (P) (C&DC2D) D Thompson 5-9-4
508 (9) SYMBOL OF POWER C Appleby 9-2 ......................................... W Buick 4 (5) L8L SEA GIRT 98 (H) I Jardine 3-9-6 ........................A Mullen S B Kirrane
509 (4) 22 ZAIN BLUE 35 J Butler 9-2 .....................................................David Egan run since wind surgery: None today. 5 (9) 410 ELETTARIA 22 (P) (D) J Wainwright 4-9-4 Ryan Sexton (3) 14 (11) 353 CONCERT BOY 23 (P) (C) D O Meara 3-9-3 . B Robinson
Probable SP: 13-8 Accumulate 7-2 Symbol Of Power 4 Zain Blue 6 (7) 735 MERRY SECRET 22 (T) (CD3) A Brittain 5-9-2 C Hardie Probable SP: 9-2 Bushfire 11-2 Eldrick ones 6 Dreamrocker
5 Al Shabab Storm 10 Native Warrior 20 Miletus Honrado. 7 (3) 026 HIGHLAND QUEEN 30 B Smart 4-9-2 .................. G Lee 13-2 Lady Wormsley 8 Showmedemoney Playupskyblues.
FAVOURITES: 0 0 3 0 2 0 1 3 2 1 8 (4) 547 FINAL FRONTIER 32 (D) R Carr 10-9-0 ...... JP Sullivan
2022: Kolsai 2 9 2 (David Egan) 10-11 Fav R Varian drawn (7) 10 ran. 9 (6) 979 PINK SKY AT NIGHT 24 J Coward 4-9-0 Joanna Mason
8.30 —HANDICAP (6) £6,200 added (£3,245)

HOTSPOTS Probable SP: 3 Merry Secret 7-2 Highland Queen 5f (14)

6 Elettaria 13-2 Coral Reef 8 Final Frontier Sea Girt. 1 (9) 701 PHOENIX STAR 18 (P) (C&D2D3) Jessica Macey 7-9-9
Tommie Jakes (7)
RACING SERVICES WORK WHISPER
SCARLETT O’HARA
TRACK FACTS: L-H Tapeta course. GOING:
Standard. STALLS: Straight centre 1m4f outside.
2 (4) 684 GOWANBUSTER 13 (T) (C&DC2D2) S Corbett 8-9-8 G Lee
3 (11) 816 BASHOLO 34 (D2) Mrs Stella Barclay 4-9-8 Z Wheatley (5)
(Newmarket, 2.25)
CAPTAIN HEATH TRIO DRAW ADVANTAGE: High. Top jockey: Paul Mul- 4 (6) 475 NELLIE FRENCH 176 (T) (C&D2D3) K Scott 6-9-7
rennan. Top trainer: R Fahey. Headgear first time: Ryan Sexton (3)
UK/IRISH COMMENTARY AND RESULTS WEIGHTING GAME NOVAKAI (nap) 4.55 Adamaris Denis Anthony 6.00 Captain Vallo 5 (2) 652 MUMCAT 18 (BF2) J Coward 4-9-7 .........Joanna Mason

09016 09 29 39
6 (13) 424 JOHN KIRKUP 27 (B) (D6BF) D Thompson 8-9-6.. J Peate (3)
ASADJUMEIRAH (Newmarket, 2.25) Unsung Hero 7.00 Climate Change Galton Secret 7 (10) 88L CLASH OF THE ASH 35 T Davidson 3-9-6 ......A Mullen
Joy 7.30 Misty Blues 8.00 Natzor 8.30 Kasino.
(Newcastle, 6.00) MALJOOM (nb) Longest travellers: Pride Of Spain (5.30) Coral
8 (8) 93-0 DALGLISH 32 (H) A Brittain 4-9-4......................C Hardie
FOR RACING TIPS CALL Down 13lb from last (Newmarket, 3.35) Reef (6.30) Abbey s Dream (7.30) Concon Candy
9 (7) 321 BLACKCURRENT 18 (P) (C&D4C2D3) A Brown 7-9-3

09016 09 53 39
Paula Muir (3)
winning mark. (7.30) Dreamrocker (8.00) Natzor (8.00) 284 miles. 10 (3) 847 JOSHUA R 100 (C&D2D) Helen Cuthbert 6-9-3 .JP Sullivan
BURNT FINGERS YLANG YLANG Drop in Class: 4.55 Dark Island is down 2 grades on 11 (12) 027 BIRDIE BOWERS 22 (D2) D Thompson 6-9-3.... D Allan
(Newmarket, 3.00) last run (Class 3 to Class 5) King Of The Plains (3) 12 (5) 027 THE GREY LASS 10 (D) M & D Easterby 4-9-2. L Chalkley (7)
Calls cost 65p per min plus your telephone company’s network access charge. HERECOMESHOGAN 6.00 Bellagio Man (3) Asad umeirah (3) 7.30 Misty 13 (14) L03 TURBO TIGER 66 (B) A Brittain 3-9-1 ............. H Russell
Tipster information updated at 10am daily. SP: Spoke. Help: 0808 272 0808 (Worcester, 2.50) Blues (3) 8.30 Clash Of The Ash (4). First run since 14 (1) 607 KASINO 11 (B) (C) B Smart 3-8-13 ............ A Breslin (3)
wind surgery: 4.55 Easter Island 7.30 Mawada. Probable SP: 4 John Kirkup 9-2 Blackcurrent 5 Mumcat.
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Cricket 71

It’s angry Murray! CRICKET SCOREBOARDS

LV COUNTY CH’SHIP
Division I
Northants v Essex
NORTHAMPTON: Northants (22pts)
beat Essex (3) by inns and 39 runs.
NORTHANTS First Innings 369
HE MAY be 36 but the ESSEX First Innings
fire burns as fiercely Break point: (Overnight: 125-4)
T Westley c McManus b Procter. 49
as ever inside Andy Murray loses his P Walter b Taylor ......................... 41
A Rossington c Procter b White 19
Murray. The Scot
obliterated his cool in Beijing S Harmer lbw b Procter .................. 4
U Yadav c Zaib b Keogh .............. 24
racket in the second EPA S Cook not out ............................. 12
J Porter b Taylor ............................ 0
Extras (b2 lb7 w1 nb4) ........... 14
set as he lost to Alex
de Minaur in a Total (74.2 overs) .................... 211
Bowling: Sanderson 19-10-17-3
nailbiting first round White 18-6-55-1 Taylor 18.2-0-82-2
at the China Open. L Procter 18-5-47-3 Keogh 1-0-1-1.
Second Innings
The near-three-hour N Browne b Sanderson.................. 0
A Cook c McManus b Sanderson .. 6
epic came down to a T Westley c Broad b White ........... 1
third-set tiebreak D Lawrence c Gay b Sanderson .... 4
M Critchley c Gay b White ............. 1
and the Scot had a P Walter c Zaib b White ............... 73
A Rossington b Taylor ................ 4
match point at 6-5. S Harmer b White........................... 6
But his Australian U Yadav not out ........................... 11
S Cook c Nair b Keogh................... 0
opponent won three J Porter b White ........................... 11
Extras (lb2) .................................. 2
points in a row to
complete a 6-3, 5-7, Total (27 overs) ....................... 119
Bowling: Sanderson 7-1-14-3
7-6 win and leave White 11-2-57-5 Taylor 5-1-20-1
Murray simmering Keogh 4-0-26-1.
(Day 3 of 4 today 10.30am)
with rage.
Hampshire v Surrey
AGEAS BOWL: Surrey with four
2nd-innings wkts in hand require
73 runs to beat Hampshire.
HAMPSHIRE First Innings 219
Second Innings
(Overnight: 1-0)
T Albert lbw b Worrall .................... 3
F Middleton c & b Jacks ................ 9
N Gubbins st Foakes b Steel ....... 30
J Vince c Overton b Steel ........... 56
T Prest lbw b Jacks ........................ 9
L Dawson c Overton b Steel ........ 34
B Brown lbw b Jacks ................... 6
I Holland c Worrall b Jacks ............ 0
J Fuller b Steel............................... 0
K Abbott lbw b Jacks ................... 12
Mohammad Abbas not out ............ 0
Extras (b7 lb2 nb4) .................. 13
KENT First Innings
(Overnight: 345-4)
J Denly lbw b Balderson ............ 136
H Finch b Balderson .................. 44
J Evison b Hartley ....................... 12
A Nijjar c Blatherwick b Bailey ..... 42
N Gilchrist b Balderson ................. 0
M Quinn c Bell b Bailey ................ 22
Y Chahal not out ............................ 5
Extras (b16 lb11 nb28) ............ 55
Total (135.1 overs) .................. 494
Bowling: Bailey 31.1-6-97-2
Williams 17-3-37-0 Blatherwick
10.5-1-62-1 Balderson 21-2-69-4
Morley 30-4-117-2 Wells 8.1-0-47-0
Hartley 17-6-38-1.
Nottinghamshire
v Middlesex
TRENT BRIDGE: Middlesex with
all 2nd-innings wkts in hand are
trailing Notts by 8 runs.
MIDDLESEX First Innings 366
Second Innings
M Stoneman not out ...................... 2
S Robson not out ........................... 8
Extras ......................................... 0
Total (0 wkts 3 overs) ................ 10
Bowling: Hutton 2-0-8-0 Ball 1-0-2-0.
NOTTS First Innings
(Overnight: 92-2)
B Slater c Yadav b Helm ............ 140
J Clarke lbw b Yadav ................... 70
M Montgomery st Simpson
b De Caires. 52
T Moores c Simpson b Helm........ 0
L James b Yadav ......................... 19
C Harrison c Simpson
b Roland-Jones ... 27
B Hutton c Roland-Jones
b De Caires......... 26
J Ball c Robson b De Caires ........ 11
D Paterson not out ......................... 4
Extras (lb6 w5 nb16) ............... 27
Total (107.4 overs) .................. 384
Bowling: Bamber 18-4-61-2
Roland-Jones 21-2-63-1 Helm 20-2-
64-2 J Yadav 30-5-111-2 De Caires
14.4-1-56-3 Robson 4-0-23-0.
Warwickshire v Somerset
EDGBASTON: Somerset with
eight 2nd-innings wkts in hand are
leading Warwickshire by 32 runs.
SOMERSET First Innings 215
Second Innings
T Lammonby c Mousley b Barnard 22
S Dickson not out ........................ 36
L Goldsworthy c Burgess b Barnard 8

Surrey go back to back

Total (62.3 overs) .................... 172 A Umeed not out .......................... 20
Bowling: Roach 7-3-7-0 Worrall Extras (nb4) ................................. 4
6-1-10-1 Jacks 25-3-87-5 J Clark 6-
1-19-0 Steel 18.3-3-40-4. Total (2 wkts 31 overs) .............. 90
SURREY First Innings 207 Bowling: Hannon-Dalby 8-1-18-0
Second Innings Rushworth 5-1-8-0 Barnard 7-1-27-2
R Burns b Prest .......................... 27 Miles 6-0-27-0 Briggs 5-2-10-0.
D Sibley c Brown b Dawson........... 2 WARWICKSHIRE First Innings
J Smith lbw b Abbott ...................... 7 (Overnight: 112-3)
B Sudharsan not out.................... 31 A Davies lbw b Brooks ................. 44
B Foakes c Brown b Prest ........... 8 D Mousley c Umeed b Davey ........ 6
W Jacks c Dawson b Fuller.......... 24 E Barnard c Goldsworthy b Davey73
C Steel c Holland b Dawson........... 1
Alec StewArt saw Surrey wrap up By PAUL NEWMAN year. It’s certainly not a question of two J Clark not out................................ 4 M Burgess c Rew b Wagner ........ 3
D Briggs c Lammonby b Wagner. 38
another championship title yesterday titles and that’s it.’ Extras (b5 lb1 nb2) .................... 8
C Miles c Rew b Wagner................ 5
before being given a little family reminder Cricket Correspondent Surrey should be able to dominate for Total (6 wkts 30 overs) ............ 112 O Hannon-Dalby b Gregory........... 5
of how far they still have to go to match some time yet, with their strength in Bowling: Abbas 5-1-11-0 Dawson C Rushworth not out ..................... 8
15-4-46-2 Abbott 3-0-11-1 Prest Extras (b8 lb3 w1 nb14) ......... 26
the greatest of all county sides. victory today, but that will not matter to depth emphasised by them using 19 6-0-32-2 Fuller 1-0-6-1.
Surrey’s second successive title, and Surrey and their director of cricket, players across 14 games having lost so Total (84.1 overs) .................... 273
their third in the last six years, was con- Stewart. the Oval and england legend many to england and the IPl. they will Kent v Lancashire Bowling: Gregory 19.1-5-50-2
CANTERBURY: Lancashire with Davey 17-4-62-3 Wagner 21-7-67-3
firmed when essex were bowled out for is well placed to judge how good this only add to that strength next year when all 2nd-innings wkts in hand are Brooks 13-4-33-2 Goldsworthy
10-1-34-0 Abell 4-0-16-0.
211 by Northants in their forlorn pursuit modern powerhouse of a side are com- Dan lawrence joins from essex. trailing Kent by 41 runs.
of a score of 400 that might have taken pared with the very best teams in their lawrence bid a miserable goodbye to LANCASHIRE First Innings 327 Division II
Second Innings
this one-sided title race to a final day. illustrious history. essex when they were beaten by an L Wells not out ............................. 69
RIVERSIDE: Durham 457-8 dec
Leicestershire 143 and 13-0.
In truth it had been all but decided ‘Dad still goes on about being part of innings yesterday by relegated North- K Jennings not out ..................... 52 CARDIFF: Derbyshire 450-8 dec and
when essex were defeated by Hampshire the team who won it seven times on the ants, while there was also no fitting fare- Extras (b1 lb2 nb2) .................... 5 68-0 Glamorgan 301-5 dec (81.5 overs
Ingram 82 Thomson 4-97).
last week, with Surrey not needing to be trot,’ smiled Stewart of his father Micky’s well for Alastair cook. england’s record Total (0 wkts 37 overs) ............ 126 HOVE: Sussex 202 and 505-7 dec
at anywhere near their best at the Ageas role in the all-conquering Surrey side of runscorer and former captain was dis- Bowling: Quinn 12-6-28-0 Gilchrist
6-2-16-0 Evison 6-1-25-0 Ni ar
(Coles 128) Gloucs 195 and 113-5.
Bowl against the same opponents. the 1950s. ‘we have now won it back to missed for just six in what seems certain 5-0-28-0 Chahal 7-0-26-0 Leaning HEADINGLEY: Worcestershire 389
and 18-2 Yorkshire 262-6 dec.
Hampshire are favourites to wrap up back and we will try to do it again next to be his last innings before retirement. 1-1-0-0.

HAYDOCK RTV ROBIN GOODFELLOW

2.00 Fascinating Lips 2.00
GIMCRACK
Kells
NEWMARKET
1.50 BELLUM JUSTUM
RACING RESULTS 5.30 LOTTING’S
(Josephine Gordon) 33-1 1 Amroon
LASS

2.00 —CAVANI.CO.UK THE SARTORIAL SPRINT APPRENTICE 2.35 Stop The Cavalry 2.35 Estelle (O Murphy) 11-2 1 Inisherin 50-1 2 5.50 2.20 1.60. Ex: 15.40. Tf: 5-2F 2 Elliott 11-1 3. 12 ran. (J J
HANDICAP (5) £10,000 added (£5,234) 1m 2f 42yds (6) 3.10 Global Skies 3.10 Avoria Ortelius 7-4F 3. 17 ran. (A Balding). 44.10. CSF: 14.64. Quinn). 11 4 1 2. Tote: 35.30 4.30
3.45 Say Hello 3.45 Due For Luck 31 4. Tote: 7.30 1.80 11.30 Jackpot Not won pool of 5 562.97 1.50 3.20. Ex: 257.80. Tc: 1046.31.
1 (4) L11315 DOGGED 22 (P) (D2) (S) R Menzies 6-10-3 .................Archie Young (3) 1
2
carried over.
2 (6) 5LLL23 WESTERN STARS 15 J Boyle 4-10-2...........................................M Tabti 4.20 Urban Outlook 4.20 Maxident 1.30. Ex: 355.40. Tf: 1228.00. CSF: Tf: 3307.60. CSF: 119.04. NR: Quiet
4.50 Billy No Mates 4.50 Zillion 274.88. NRs: Brave Call Normandy Placepot 543.10. Q’pot 85.60. Affair.
3 (1) 123-785 FASCINATING LIPS 24 (P) (D2) G L Moore 6-9-13 .... Anna Gibson (3)
4 (5) 244021 BARNEY’S ANGEL 25 (H) (D) (G) I Williams 4-9-11 .............J Leavy (3) 5.25 PEARL EYE (nap) 5.25 Pearl Eye Legend. PONTEFRACT 6.00 SIR TERENCE HADLEY
2.25 STORMY WAVES 2.10 GRANNY B (Laura (G Downing) 18-1 1 Marie Laveau
5 (2) 934 MISTRESS LIGHT 25 W Haggas 3-9-7.............................NON RUNNER NORTHERNER – 4.50 Billy No Mates (nb)
(W Buick) 4-1 1 The Camden Colt Coughlan) 16-1 1 Bla ing Hot 12- 5-4F 2 Knights Affair 18-1 3.
6 (3) 894614 KELLS (5lbex) 5 (PT) (BF) (S) I Jardine 6-9-1 ............................. W Pyle Sonnet Star 8-1 3. 10 ran. (E J-
14-1 2 Lambert 5-2(2ndFav) 3. 8 1 2 Autumn Flight 4-1JtFav 3.
4.20 —CAVANI.CO.UK
Probable SP: 9-4 Barney s Angel 4 Western Stars 5 Kells 6 Fascinating JOCKEY AND JACKET LIVE HANDICAP (3) Houghton). ns 21 2 dht. Tote: Sir
Lips 7 Dogged. ran. (C Appleby). hd 11 4. Tote: 13 ran. (M Mullineaux). shd nk.
(3-Y-O) £30,000 added (£15,462) 1m 6f (5) 5.00 1.50 3.70 1.30. Ex: 52.00. Tc: Tote: 17.80 4.40 4.30 1.60. Ex: Terence Hadley 19.10 Sir Terence
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Probable SP: 9-4 Billy No Mates 4 Lucky s Dream 9-2 Zillion 5 Daaris
4-1 1 Boiling Point 12-1 2
Eben Shaddad 10-3(2ndFav) 3.
12 ran. (Owen Burrows). shd 21 4.
3.10 7.20. Ex: 82.40. Tf: 524.30.
CSF: 90.71.
4.30 BEYOND BORDERS (S
Spencer) 8-11F 1 Raqeebb
3-1(2ndFav) 2 Running Star 22-1 3.
10 ran. (D M Simcock). 3 4 13 4. Tote:
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4 (2) 97 DARK DREAMER 10 R Cowell 9-2 ............................................ M Ghiani 2022: Pentland Hills 7 9 4 (Sean Levey) 11-4 Fav N Henderson drawn (1) 14 ran. 50.62. NRs: Soldier s Gold Who Burke). 2 3l. Tote: 3.00 1.20 1.50
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9 (3) MOSWAAT R Varian 9-2 ....................................................NON RUNNER 3 (3) 1-36324 SHAHBAZ 50 (V) (S) C Fellowes 3-9-9................................. C Shepherd (H & R Charlton). nk shd. Tote:
Probable SP: 9-4 Fusterlandia 7-2 Avoriaz 4 Global Skies 6 Others. Enemy. 606.30. CSF: 41.89.
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72 Rugby Union V1 Daily Mail, Friday, September 29, 2023

Wallaby woe is no
JAPAN VICTORY
SIR CLIVE PUTS ENGLAND
IN LAST EIGHT
laughing matter
WOODWARD
WORLD CUP
WINNING COACH JAPAN 28

SAMOA 22
I AM really enjoying this
World Cup. There have ENGLAND qualified for the

I’m serious... rivals may enjoy demise

already been plenty of highs World Cup quarter-finals last
and lows — and it’s only going night, with Japan’s victory
to get better. Here are my here meaning Steve

but rugby needs a strong Aussie team

tournament talking points from
the action we’ve seen so far…
NO TRUE RUGBY FAN
SHOULD BE CELEBRATING
AUSTRALIA STRUGGLES
IT HAS been alarming to see a
great rugby country like Australia
struggle so badly, even while
acknowledging how brilliant Fiji
and Wales were in confirming
their obvious decline.
The Wallabies are two-time
winners and have never been
knocked out before the
quarter-finals. But after two
losses, eddie Jones’s men are set
to go out at the pool stage this
weekend. If Fiji beat Georgia,
their exit will be confirmed. Many
english supporters might revel
in one of their rivals being in
disarray, but not me. For rugby to
thrive as a global sport, it needs a
strong Australia.
Going out in the pool stage
should not happen to leading eading
ustral-
countries. It seems clear Austral-
ctural
ian rugby has a lot of structural
problems. I couldn’t believe ieve
their boss Hamish McLennan nan
said after the Wales loss thatat
Australia can and will still ll
attract players from rugby y Wales in Marseille.
league. I’m not sure that’s
the answer.
Jason robinson is the
only player I can think
of who has had global
success transferring from
league to union. Thatt
includes all the Australian n
converts. did they really lly
make a difference?
ague
Bringing players in from league
is not the best way to fix
tralia. In fact, the opposite
x Aus-
site is
needed. They should be looking
at their own pathway systems
ooking
and how they develop players of
their own to get back to being
one of rugby’s leading nations.
TERRESTRIAL TV IS
CRUCIAL TO SUCCESS
OF WORLD CUP
I APPreCIATe I’m biased
because I’m working for ITV
at this World Cup, but I was
surprised to hear comments from
the senior leadership at World
rugby that they would consider
taking their biggest tournament
to paid-for television.
Why say that in the middle
of the competition? Why not
wait until the end? World rugby
should be very careful. Taking the
World Cup away from terrestrial
Humiliation:
Australia
lock Pone
Fa’amausili
after the
thrashing by
Wales and
(below) the
underfire
Eddie Jones
GETTY IMAGES
television could be another huge
own goal. It would be another
nail in the game’s coffin.
When you work in rugby day in,
day out, you can think it’s the
biggest sport in the world. In
reality, it’s not. Having the World
Cup on ITV widens the game’s
audience and makes it accessible
to as many people as possible.
It’s the same with the Six
Nations. I’m not privy to
the finances, but sometimes
decisions have to be about more
than the money. This is one of
them. Maybe a joint bid from ITV
and the BBC would work to keep
it away from pay-to-view.
IS IT TIME WE HAD A
TWO-TIER WORLD CUP?
I’Ve seen lots of people say rugby
should be looking to expand the
World Cup from 20 to 24 teams
to grow the game in developing
nations. Of course, it is vital the
sport does that.
But I’m not sure putting more
teams into the World Cup is the
answer, not unless you split the
tournament in two. You could
have an ‘A’ World Cup and a ‘B’
World Cup — call it whatever
you will.
It’s crucial that teams such
as Namibia and Chile are given
chances to progress, but I’m not
sure how much they learned from
losing 96-0 and 71-0 to France and
england respectively.
We want competitive games
at the highest level and, if you
speak to more casual rugby fans,
they don’t understand why such
one-sided games are happening.
In football, it’s different. Upsets
do happen. Teams can win 1-0
against all the odds.
I have been impressed with
Georgia, Portugal and Uruguay
at this tournament. Georgia’s
draw with Portugal was a fantas-
tic game. So too was Uruguay
against Namibia. In a two-tier
Borthwick’s side will finish
top of Pool D.
Michael Leitch scored two
tries for the rejuvenated
Brave Blossoms, who now
face a showdown with
Argentina in Nantes a week
on Sunday to decide which
of them reaches the last
eight along with England,
who take on Samoa the
previous night in Lille.
The Pacific islanders will be
without wing Ben Lam, who
was sent off for an ugly
head-on-head tackle.
On this evidence, an English
clean sweep in the first
stage is all but assured.
Samoa have plenty of
physicality, a solid scrum
and the dexterous brilliance
of Theo McFarland in their
armoury, but they should
not have sufficient
creativity, pace and kicking
pedigree to upset England.
In contrast, Japan appear
to be regaining lost fluency
as they chase a likely
quarter-final clash with
CHRIS FOY
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World Cup, we would have more
games like that.
Teams such as england and
Ireland should still play against
so - called weaker nations to
grow the sport overall, but I’m
not sure doing it at a World Cup is
beneficial to them.
In my view, england should
have an ‘A’ side who play far more
regularly against the likes of Chile
in autumn and summer Tests and
not just every four years.
Crowds are turning up in
big numbers to watch these
mismatches, which is a great
credit to the French fans. But
that will just not happen four
years from now in Australia,
where rugby is not as popular.

JESSE ISN’T A FREE

AGENT AFTER ALL
JeSSe LINGArd’S unsuccessful
trial at West Ham cost the club
thousands of pounds as they covered
his living and travel expenses while
he was training with the squad.
As well as putting Lingard up in a
hotel for several weeks, West Ham
are understood to have arranged
transport for the former england
winger, as he was given a six-month
driving ban earlier this summer after
pleading guilty to failing to name the
driver of his car when it was caught
speeding last year.
Lingard spent around six weeks
training with West Ham before flying
to Saudi Arabia for trials with Steve
Gerrard’s club Al ettifaq.
MATT HUGHES
AHEAD OF
THE GAME
THE Saudi Pro League are
offering tax-free salaries of
£330,000 to European referees,
more than three times higher than
the wages paid to top officials in
the Premier League. Polish
referee Szymon Marciniak and
Spain’s Antonio Mateu Lahoz (left)
are both understood to have
rejected offers to move this year,
but more approaches are
expected before next season.
THe Premier League may move
their lucrative pre-season
tournament back to Asia next year
despite hosting a successful Summer
Series in the United States ahead of
this campaign. The top flight’s US
rights holders NBC are understood
to have expressed concerns about a
clash between the Summer Series
and the Olympics, which the
broadcaster regard as their priority.
The clash could see the Premier
League revive the Asia Trophy,
which was held on a biennial basis
from 2003 to 2019, when it took place
in Shanghai. China are unlikely to be
considered as hosts due to
worsening diplomatic relations in
recent years, leaving the Premier
League with limited options, while
their plans for 2025 are also up in
the air due to a clash with the
Club World Cup in the US.
THE need for closer
cooperation between the
Premier League and Women’s
Super League is illustrated by
Brighton’s fixtures next
weekend, with the club’s women’s
and men’s teams kicking off at
noon and 2pm respectively on
October 8. While both games are
at home, the 20-mile journey
between Broadfield Stadium in
Crawley and the Amex means it
will be impossible for fans of the
club to attend both fixtures. The
FA want the Premier League to
run the WSL from next season,
which should improve matters.
But, as Mail Sport revealed this
month, the clubs are yet to agree
to pay the competition’s
£25million running costs.
Daily Mail, Friday, September 29, 2023
Football 73

Four-midable:
Hayes collects
the WSL trophy have to learn about the differ-
by KATHRYN again after ences in the women’s game. As
Chelsea’s win at
BATTE Reading in May
women, we’re not small men.’
Hayes surrounds herself with
Women’s Football GETTY IMAGES people she can trust. Reddy and
Correspondent

E
Green have been imperative to
her success. Hayes says she and
Green are ‘wired differently’. ‘I’ll
MMA HAYES tell him I want to get to the
knew some- moon, he’ll tell me the rocket
thing was not isn’t built yet.’
right. The Chel- Reddy has been with
Chelsea since 2020 but her
sea manager relationship with Hayes dates
had learned to cope but back to their days at Chicago
she could not hide her Red Stars in 2010. In Kill the
pain any longer. Her body Unicorn, Hayes reveals she
was fired in a Starbucks. She
had stopped fighting. called Reddy, her assistant, to
As she stood in the tunnel at break the news and told her
Prenton Park ahead of her team’s she must take the manager’s job
first game of last season against if she was offered it. A few hours
Liverpool, Hayes confessed to later, Reddy picked Hayes up, her
opposite number Matt Beard: car full of stuff. She had quit on
‘I don’t want to go out there.’ the spot and cleared her desk in
Beard organised for a bed to be what Hayes describes as ‘an act
put in a private room so Hayes of profound loyalty’.
could rest. Somehow, she found When you are wanted by Hayes,
the strength to manage her team it is hard to say no. ‘You immedi-
through that match. ately fall in love with her and her
In her own words, Hayes, 46, mentality,’ new signing Catarina
spent the entire second half Macario tells Mail Sport.
knowing Chelsea needed a goal ‘She’s a very passionate individ-
but doing nothing about it. ‘All I ual. She has tough love with her
could think was, “I’m going to players which is something that
lose more than this game if I’m brings out the best in you. But
not careful”.’

Guardiola of the
she’ll also give you praise, the
Two days later, Hayes told her little things when it’s needed.’
players she needed an emergency There have been challenges. In
hysterectomy and would require March last year, Chelsea’s owner
time off. Roman Abramovich was sanc-
After the five-and-a-half-hour tioned by the UK Government as
operation, Hayes was told she part of the response to Russia’s
would probably have had a heart invasion of Ukraine. Hayes’s team

women’s game
attack, fuelled by stress, within had to play West Ham live on Sky
five years if she had continued to Sports later that day.
struggle on in ‘survival mode’. Her book explains: ‘The players’
Hayes missed six matches. response as they assembled
General manager Paul Green and
assistant Denise Reddy took the
reins and won every game. In 11
years as Chelsea boss, Hayes SUNDAY’S WSL
has built a machine that keeps
running, no matter who is at
OPENING FIXTURES

Emma Hayes is the trailblazing

the wheel. A VILLA v MAN UTD (12.30pm)
The story of her emergency
hysterectomy — complicated by
chronic endometriosis — is one
EVERTON v BRIGHTON (1pm)

manager who’s turned Chelsea ARSENAL v LIVERPOOL (2pm)

of many details in Hayes’s
audiobook, Kill the Unicorn,
which gives a fascinating insight BRISTOL C v LEICESTER (2pm)
into her management and
leadership style.
The title is derived from the
concept of a head coach
being seen as a ‘magical
h or leader
al creature
into a trophy-winning machine WEST HAM v MAN CITY (3pm)
CHELSEA v SPURS (5.30pm)
able to solve any for that night’s game was
problem’. ‘She knew I’d lost my mum dur- understandably direct, “What the
Hayes says: ‘We’ve iing the time I was with her, she f*** is going on?”
got to kill the unicorn. llooked after me,’ Telford says. ‘My message to the squad was,
All leaders make poor ‘It’s a winning environment but “I know this is a s*** situation.
decisions at some point iit’s very human. The girls have Stand tall. Don’t be ashamed.
in their careers because h
huge respect for her.’ You have a fanbase, families, a
they are human. None Hayes shows her team motiva- badge to play for”.’ Chelsea
of us have a crystal ball. ttional videos and gives them won 4-1.
Perhaps it’s best not to b
books to read. There are psycho- When Chelsea co-owner Todd
believe the hype.’ llogical methods, too. Hayes Boehly visited Hayes at her home,
There is hype around rrecalls making her players wear she was impressed by his vision,
Hayes because of how w A
Arsenal shirts in training — she but he was not going to get an
successful she has been n h
had to do something ‘stark’ to
— a tally of 14 trophies easy ride. Boehly stayed for three
eradicate the inferiority complex hours and left with four separate
since 2012 has drawn n after the Gunners had won their
comparisons with seriall presentations on his laptop.
n
ninth successive title in 2012. The question Hayes has become
winner Pep Guardiola,, Sir Alex Ferguson is one source
manager of Manchesterr tired of answering is whether she
of inspiration and has become a will work in the men’s game.
City. On Sunday Hayes’ss sounding board for advice. Yet
team begin the defence e tthere are some things she cannot ‘Could I do it? Without a shadow
of their Women’s Superr p
pick his brains about. ‘As a of a doubt,’ Hayes says. ‘Would I
League title for a fifth h w
woman, I have different chal- do it? That depends on the nature
season running. She e llenges,’ Hayes says. ‘I can’t ring of the opportunity.’
is one of the greatestt Sir Alex up and ask him how he She has had offers, a Champion-
managers this country y deals with his players’ periods.’ ship club and a lower league side.
has ever produced. Blue is the colour: Eriksson and Bright (second from right) lift the WSL Hayes’s passion for developing Neither were right.
What makes Hayes trophy beside their Chelsea team-mates and club staff GETTY IMAGES expertise around women’s bodies The day will come when Hayes
tick? Family is one com- led Chelsea to become the first moves on, whether it be to a new
ponent. In 2017, Hayes became a part of her football journey and it was thinking, “This is going to club to use a specialist tracking role in the women’s game, the
mother to Harry, who she says will be an emotional moment be cool to be a part of”... except app to tailor training around men’s game or retirement — but
has made her a better coach. But when she steps out at Stamford I was one of those players players’ menstrual cycles while it is hard to imagine. Chelsea is
her early managerial traits were Bridge on Sunday for her first she released (in December 2013). monitoring the links between Emma Hayes as much as Emma
developed during childhood. Her game without him. That was my first taste of hormonal changes and injury. Hayes is Chelsea.
upbringing was built around When Hayes arrived at Chelsea Emma’s brutality.’ It is no coincidence none of their ‘You’ll find me tomorrow in
hard work. in 2012, players were part-time Telford, 36, now the club’s com- players has suffered an ACL north London on a park bench
When Hayes had finished her and Carly Telford was captain. mercial player and relationships injury since 2017. Speaking at a with a bottle of gin,’ Hayes said
A-levels she worked for her father, They were only allowed into the manager, returned to Chelsea FIFA convention this summer, after her side had clinched last
Sid, and would get up at 5am men’s training ground before 7am four years later and went on to Hayes explained that members of season’s WSL title.
each day to make 500 baguettes and after 7pm. win nine trophies with Hayes. staff who come from the men’s She can understand why people
and sausage rolls for his business ‘She came in with all these ‘We always stayed on good game do not have any interaction find her relatable. ‘I’ve never tried
in Covent Garden. She was taught amazing ideas and grand plans,’ terms. She took me under her with her players until at least six to be anything or anyone I’m not,’
to never take anything for Telford tells Mail Sport. ‘She said, wing and developed me as a weeks, until they have ‘removed Hayes says. ‘At heart, I’m still the
granted. Hayes’s father died “We’re going to release a lot of player and a person.’ But Hayes their own biases’. ‘They need to girl from the Curnock Street
earlier this month. He was a huge players. Change up, shake up”. I sees her players as people first. learn about women’s bodies, they estate in Camden.’
74 Football
SIGN
OF THE
TIMES!
Iconic West Ham crest
back at Upton Park after
fans recover lost emblem
T
hose entering the
Bobby Moore stand
at Upton Park used
to peer up at their
marvellous emblem
as they clanked through
turnstiles 52 to 56. Now
they can marvel at it again,
after the old West ham club
crest was rescued, restored
and returned to e13.
The 10ft by 8ft crest was feared
lost after the demolition of Upton
Park in 2016 until, by chance, it
was discovered gathering dust in
a storage unit in Greenhithe,
Dartford, Kent in 2021. It cost
£8,750 to prise from its owner,
with the money raised by fans
who wanted to keep it in the West
ham family amid interest from an
overseas buyer.
It will now adorn the side of the
old supporters’ Club in Castle
street — currently occupied by
UK Fitness Club and opposite
where the Bobby Moore stand
once stood — after an additional
cost of £164 for planning permis-
sion and £1,860 for installation.
Beneath the badge will be a
plaque which reads: ‘The Boleyn
Ground may be gone but this gen-
eration will never forget and future
generations will always know that
this was once the beloved home
of West ham United.’
An official unveiling is set for
noon tomorrow before West ham
take on sheffield United at their
EXCLUSIVE
By KIERAN GILL
new home, the London stadium.
supporters are being invited to
come and indulge in some nostal-
gia if they can navigate their way
there amid the train strike.
Tony Carr — West ham’s former
academy director who helped Rio
Ferdinand, Joe Cole, Frank Lam-
pard, Declan Rice and many more
find their feet in football — will be
among those present.
supporters’ group hammers
United, who boast a 20,000 mem-
bership, led the fight to reclaim
the crest, but their chair Paul
Colborne stresses this was only
achieved by the fanbase coming
together as one. It took countless
volunteers, not least sean Burke,
who restored the badge to its
former glory without charge at
his workshop.
‘It was the West ham fans who
put their hands in their pockets
and made this happen,’ says
Colborne, a hammers supporter
of more than 50 years who used
to have a season ticket in the
Bobby Moore stand.
‘Many gave their services and
time. sean and his team fully
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refurbished the crest. Garry
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applications. Ben and Jason of
Durrant Removals collected it.
sanjai Patel initially stored it and
steve Lowley has produced com-
memorative T-shirts. All in their
own time and free of charge.
‘We have to thank the WhU
supporters’ Club for their
support, too. And, of course, none
of it would have happened but for
Terry Jewell and a chance encoun-
ter on a cruise!’
That is how the crest was
discovered. As Colborne explains,
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Jewell made a friend on that
cruise and was later invited to
come and see what they had in
storage. how it came into this
person’s ownership instead of the
club’s is not known.
‘We wrote to the club explaining
an important part of West ham
had been found and asked did
they want it? We hoped they
would buy it,’ Colborne says.
‘They replied saying it wasn’t
possible. so the fans raised the
money instead.
‘Now, it’s going to stand about
40 yards from where it originally
was. You could fall out of the
supporters’ Club and straight
into the turnstiles of Upton Park,
that’s how close it now is to its
spiritual home. We must look to
the future now, but also never
forget our past.’
Daily Mail, Friday, September 29, 2023
FA ban may
delay James
comeback
ReeCe JAMes’s return from
injury is set to be delayed by an
FA ban. The Chelsea captain
and england defender, 23, who
is nearing full fitness following a
hamstring issue, has been
accused of confronting referee
Jarred Gillett in the stamford
Bridge tunnel after sunday’s 1-0
defeat by Aston Villa.
Chelsea’s legal department will
today finalise their response to
the FA ahead of this afternoon’s
deadline, but James is expected
to accept the charge.
The case is considered
‘non-standard’ by the governing
body, meaning there is no
pre-determined sanction
offered with the charge. Instead,
a regulatory commission
hearing will convene, regardless
of how James responds, to
determine any punishment. It is
unlikely the commission will
meet before the Blues’ trip to
Fulham on Monday.
It would suit Chelsea for the
case to be heard as soon as
possible, because that raises
the prospect of James serving
any ban while he is still injured.
James has been out since
Chelsea’s opening-day draw
with Liverpool but there is
growing hope he will be able to
rejoin full training within the
next 10 days.
SAMI MOKBEL
FSG SELL LIVERPOOL
STAKE TO USA FIRM
LIVERPOOL’S owners Fenway
Sports Group have agreed to
sell a minority stake in the
club to American investors
Dynasty Equity.
The New York-based firm’s
stake is understood to be
worth in the region of
£80-£160million and does not
give Dynasty any say in the
day-to-day running of the club.
The deal has been struck to
pay down debts accumulated
since the pandemic, such as
building a new training facility
in Kirkby, Anfield’s renovation
and covering the last transfer
window. ‘Our long-term
commitment to Liverpool
remains as strong as ever,’ said
FSG president Mike Gordon.
DOMINIC KING
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T Winning is a
WHEN I was a young
HE best thing reporter on the
about going for a Nottingham Evening Post, I
run is that you was tasked with developing
can’t lose. You a relationship with Notts

habit so why do
always feel better County manager Colin
at the end than you did at Murphy. Murphy was one of
the start. It’s one of the few football’s most idiosyncratic
things it has going for it. characters. He used to write
Football is not like that, though. his own programme notes —
It is results-driven. No matter which didn’t always make
what they tell us, winning and sense — and gave me the run

clubs write off

losing is what it’s about. And around in my early days in
when you come out on the wrong this profession.
side, it makes you want to hide But Murphy was a deep and
under the bed. innovative thinker about
Which makes me wonder why, in football and left his indelible
weeks like this, some managers
seem to sacrifice their teams’ mark across our landscape

chances so willingly.
Rob Edwards won’t admit this,
of course. The Luton manager
said after his team lost at Exeter
City of League One in the
Carabao Cup on Tuesday that
he had wanted to ‘go deep’ in
the competition.
But he made 10 changes for the
game. He played his second string
and they lost. Go deep? Really?
Not that this is the point. Not
this time. No, the point today is
about winning and what it does
and how it makes you feel ahead
of the next game which, for Luton,
is against Everton at Goodison
Park tomorrow.
Everton have also struggled
this season in the Premier League
and haven’t picked up a point or
scored a goal at home. So this
game could well be close.
But Everton, having won
in the league at Brentford
last Saturday evening, have
subsequently won at Aston Villa
in the cup. There is a video of
their supporters celebrating in
the away section at Villa Park.
They are, frankly, going wild.
So those fans will take that
feeling and that sense of recovery
and momentum into tomorrow’s
game. So will Everton’s players
and in particular forward dominic
Calvert-Lewin, who has now
scored two in two.
He will feel as though he is on a
roll and so will his team. It’s only
two games but that doesn’t
matter. Sometimes it doesn’t take
much to transform a mood and
lift a season.
I don’t know about you but I
fancy Everton tomorrow. They
will be feeling good whereas
cups so readily?
Luton — one goal in open
Premier League play all season —
will feel flat. And Edwards, in
part, will be to blame.
There is mitigation, for sure.
Edwards will have a team of
sports scientists at Kenilworth
Road who would have been
telling him his first-team players
needed a rest, that some of them
are in danger of entering the ‘red
zone’ where overload threatens
to turn into injuries. Edwards has
a small squad and cannot afford
that.
He will also have his own years
in the game telling him players
need rest and need to be kept
fresh, and that any game against
a lower-league team looking to
make a point and leave its mark
comes with a risk of injury
Back in business: Dominic
Calvert-Lewin scores again
for Everton at Villa REUTERS
attached. He is a bright bloke,
Edwards, and has earned the
right to live or die by his own
decision. But even so, 10 changes?
That seems excessive.
Everton manager Sean dyche
made five of his own for the
game at Villa. But dyche has
a deeper squad and in key
positions — like in goal and across
the back four — Everton were
just about unchanged.
This is a conversation we have
every year. So many clubs do it.
They are prepared to write off
the Carabao Cup and indeed the
FA Cup in exchange for improved
prospects in their respective
leagues. Whether there is
statistical evidence that it works
is another point entirely.
Anecdotally, I have heard
managers testify to the opposite.
When Nigel Clough’s Sheffield
United were progressing to the
semi-final of the FA Cup in 2014,
his team managed to climb from
the League One relegation places
up to 11th.
Clough stated that the feeling of
winning in cup games rubbed
off on his players in the league.
Equally, Sir Alex Ferguson wrote
at clubs such as Lincoln,
Derby, Hull, Stockport and
Southend.
After he left Notts County, he
wrote to me and wished me
well in my career. Such
kindness is rare and I still
have the note.
Murphy died aged 79 earlier
this month. His was a life in
football well-lived.
in his first book that the sheer
weight of games at the back
end of their 1999 Treble season
actually helped Manchester
United over the line.
His players simply forgot how to
lose, he said.
There will be examples to the
contrary, of course. Certainly I
wonder whether qualification for
the Europa League — as deserved
as it is — will help Brighton in
the Premier League this season.
Going from Thursday to Sunday
so many times is never easy.
But Luton’s need is more real
and it’s here and now. If they
don’t start winning in the Premier
League soon it will be too late.
They will be cut adrift. So they
need victories — they need a lift
— and they need it soon.
Burnley are down with the dead
men, too. They won 4-0 at Salford
on Tuesday having made 11
changes. So Vincent Kompany is
on the same page as Edwards. So
are many others.
But the detail is that Edwards
is the one who has been caught
out and who knows what the
ramifications may be tomorrow
afternoon and beyond.

ADMIT IT MIKEL, RAMSDALE IS No 2 PEP GUARDIOLA thinks Newcastle kicked

AARON RAMSdALE’S
selection for Arsenal’s Carabao
Cup tie at Brentford on
Wednesday confirmed his new
and diminished status as the
club’s No 2 goalkeeper. david
Raya will continue in the
Premier League.
I have seen it discussed
elsewhere that Arsenal manager
Mikel Arteta may alternate
Ramsdale and Raya the way
England manager Ron
Greenwood did with Peter
Shilton and Ray Clemence in
the 1980s. But there is an
important distinction here.
Greenwood made his decision
out of weakness. He couldn’t
decide between two world-class
goalkeepers so he fudged it,
confusing England’s defence
and jeopardising his team’s
chances of success.
Arteta, on the other hand, has
made his decision to demote
last season’s No 1 and that has
taken great strength. What he
has not been strong enough to
do just yet is admit it.
Manchester City out of the Carabao Cup
on Wednesday night but a snippet of the play
told a truer story.
Chased across the pitch and then subjected to
a thumping but fair tackle by Anthony Gordon,
City midfielder Mateo Kovacic climbed back to
his feet with a smile on his face.
Kovacic — hardly a dancefloor wallflower —
knew what everybody else knew, namely that
City were in a game.
If more clubs approached City matches with
the attitude Newcastle showed, they may not
stroll to the Premier League title quite so
comfortably this year.
SPURS PLAYING KETCHUP
dURING his time at Tottenham Antonio Conte
banned tomato ketchup from the training
ground and it was hailed as a masterstroke as his
team won some early games. Too much sugar,
you see.
Under Ange Postecoglou, we hear it’s back on
the table in the players’ canteen. This version of
Tottenham are also winning games.
So what this tells us is that some of the fine
margins our modern coaches talk about don’t
really matter at all. What really matters is the
coaching and the football.
Tottenham are on the march and on the sauce.
Look back through time and you will find we
have been here before.

THE BEST COLUMNISTS THE BEST WRITING EVERY DAY TOMORROW GRAEME SOUNESS

76 RYDER CUP
Captain Sensible versus
Luke and Zach ditch the
Seve-style emotion and
put faith in ‘nerd herd’
L 9
uke DonalD
and Zach Johnson,
the respective
europe and
uSa Ryder Cup
captains, have spoken often
this week without saying
much. That is not a
criticism. In fact, it is meant
as a compliment.
It is just their style. Johnson has
the air of a man terrified that he
might say something interesting
in public. Donald exudes the
contentment of a man who knows
that will never happen.
They are determined this Ryder
Cup will not be about them but
their players. Centre stage is not
their natural habitat. ‘I don’t think
you need loud voices,’ Donald said
on Tuesday morning. ‘Sometimes,
words don’t need to be said.’
at a competition where the
preamble is dedicated to shows of
conspicuous consumption and
meretricious wealth and where
the motto ought to be ‘More is
More’, Donald’s dedication to
minimalism of expression makes
for a welcome contrast.
and amid the excess, Johnson’s
relentless Iowan modesty feels
like a beautiful antidote to the
loudness that is all around.
‘even I have never heard of me,’
Johnson said after he won the
Masters in 2007. ‘My boring, mun-
dane, diligent kind of golf works
sometimes. Boring works. I like to
Ballesteros
micro-managed
victory to a
manic degree
play what I call a-motional golf.
emotion doesn’t grab me much.’
So this will be the Ryder Cup
where the Quiet american and his
english counterpart take the reins.
Their captaincies, their distrust of
the spotlight, their obsessive
attention to detail and their
shared reserve will be a fascinat-
ing alternative to the obligatory
abandon that has become such a
feature of the event.
There have been previous edi-
tions of the Ryder Cup dominated
by the character of the captains
but this is not going to be another
one. at some Ryder Cups, the
captains have been the leading
men, not necessarily to the benefit
of their teams.
at the 2004 event at oakland
Hills, just outside Detroit, many
were convinced the uSa were
walking into a disaster even before
a ball had been struck, as soon as
they heard Hal Sutton Jnr’s
speech at the opening Ceremony.
The uS captain thanked his
fourth wife, ashley, who was
sitting nearby, for bearing him
three children. ashley managed
a rictus smile and held up four
fingers, to remind him of the
number of kids they actually had.
RYDER CUP
Oliver
Holt
Chief Sports Writer
in Rome
Sutton’s captaincy went downhill
from there.
Sutton — nickname Halimony —
spent the weekend riding around
in his golf buggy wearing a cowboy
hat. His decision to pair Tiger
Woods with Phil Mickelson, for
both the morning and afternoon
sessions on the first day, has gone
down as one of the worst moves in
Ryder Cup history. europe romped
to a record away victory.
Four years later, nick Faldo
proved that great players do not
necessarily make great captains.
once again, the die seemed to be
cast at the opening Ceremony
when Faldo made a speech that
betrayed a lack of thought and
preparation.
He referred to Soren Hansen as
Soren Stenson, got confused
about whether Graeme McDowell
came from northern Ireland or the
Republic and cracked a series of
awkward jokes that fell flat.
When his projected pairings were
captured on his notebook by a
photographer, earlier in the
build-up, Faldo claimed they were
a sandwich order.
There are more. If Faldo got
Soren Hansen’s name wrong,
Corey Pavin went one better by
forgetting to introduce Stewart
Cink altogether ahead of the uSa’s
defeat at Celtic Manor in 2010.
Tom Watson, the uS captain in
2014, was ripped to shreds by
Mickelson at the post-competition
press conference at Gleneagles as
they sat on the same dais.
and if there was one captain who
inspired by force of personality,
it was Seve Ballesteros, who
micro-managed europe’s famous
victory at Valderrama to a manic
degree and gave the impression
that he was perilously close to
seizing a club from his players at
any given moment and taking a
shot himself.
It is interesting that the image of
Ballesteros, the epitome of pas-
sion and charisma, is everywhere
in the european team room at the
Marco Simone Golf and Country
Club. His image will be the last
thing the players see before they
walk out to play, next to a sign
saying ‘Forever in our hearts’.
‘Seve is our ultimate symbol of
what makes a european player
great,’ Donald said in his video
tour of the team room that was
released on social media earlier in
the week. ‘His spirit and his enthu-
siasm and his soul will be with us
all the way. Forever in our hearts.’
But if Ballesteros is revered by
Donald as a player, he and John-
son will take a very different
approach to the Spaniard as cap-
tains. Their leadership will be less
about emotion and more about
the ‘nerd herd’ of analysts that
help to inform their decisions.
Their style will be less Balles-
teros, more Bernhard langer, Hal
Daily Mail, Friday, September 29, 2023
THREE
KEY HOLES
OLES
PAR 5
587
YARDS
13
PAR 3
145
YARDS
13
Big hit:
Rahm gets
to grips
with the
course
yesterday PA
THE OVERALL RECORD RECENT HISTORY QUICK-FIRE STATS
4
TIED Margin of victory A GOOD start is key. Since
1 2002 3 pts 1979, only four of the 21
2004 9 Ryder Cups have seen a
team overturn a deficit going
USA EUROPE 2006
2008
9
5 into the final-day singles.
9 PLAYED 11 2010 1
2
2012 1 USA have only won two
21 2014 5 foursome sessions in the
HOW TEAMS COMPARE
USA EUROPE
2016
2018
2021 10
6
7
last seven Ryder Cups in
Europe (2002 and 2010).
30 ........... Average age .............30
5
4 ................Debutants .................4 US win Europe win THE visiting team
13 ... Average world ranking....30
15 ............. Majors won................9
17 ........Ryder Cups played ....... 21
PS USA haven’t won back-
to-back Cups since 1993,
also their last away win. 11 of
includes six of the world’s
top 10 and no players
ranked over 25th. Five
69 ......Ryder Cup matches .......87 the 24 players competing in members of Team Europe are
68 .......RC average win % ........40 Italy weren’t even born then! ranked 33rd or lower.
ONLY 10 PER
Sutton’s meticulous nemesis at
oakland Hills. It was no surprise
that both Johnson, who has
spoken often of how he is bolstered
by his religious faith, and Donald
delivered humble, considered, THE RYDER CUP is giving every
intelligent opening Ceremony impression of loving Italy — but
speeches yesterday. no gaffes and whether that feeling is
no premonitions of impending reciprocated is far more open
doom for one side or the other. to question.
Johnson even strayed from that
a-motional approach briefly when For the host nation, not unlike
he seemed to be on the brink of Paris five years ago, it is a case
tears as he paid tribute to his of playing host to other
childhood golf coach, who is here nationalities, and to walk the
in Italy. course is to be struck by the
Donald scored an early win for conspicuous lack of locals.
diplomacy by delivering the The DP Tour were being distinctly
opening lines of his speech in coy this week about the exact
Italian and thanking his caddies.
now, at least, the talking can Making his point: a USA fan breakdown of fans at the Marco
stop, the action can begin and the enjoys himself in Rome — Simone Club, but well-informed
two quiet men of the 44th Ryder where American spectators sources have told Mail Sport
Cup can vacate centre stage. outnumber the locals AFP the percentage of tickets sold
 Daily Mail, Friday, September 29, 2023

77

the Quiet American

KEY
Risky Safe

The second longest hole on the course but it mamay

9 well feel like the toughest, thanks to a gradu
gradual
uph ill climb. Boomers may try to make it in two, althoug
uphill although
ffairway
i bunkers will need to be avoided. A well-protected
well-protecte
green may encourage some to lay up with their secon second
and pick their spot with a wedge.
wedg

13

The prettiest hole on a beauty pageant of a course may only be a short par
three, but it could well end in heartache thanks to a beast of a green. A large
knoll features in the middle of the dancefloor and there is little room for error.
Expect three putts for those who hit the wrong part of the green.

PAR 4
16 352
YARDS
Risk and reward. Do you lay up on a
generous fairway or do you take
on a pond and three bunkers and
go for the green, 66 feet below the
tee? Expect plenty of the latter in
the four-balls, where you would
expect half of those
involved to go for 16 In the
it. One of the swing:
beauties of Koepka
team golf.
tees off in
practice
GETTY IMAGES

CENT OF CROWD ARE ITALIAN AS LOCAL FANS COOL ON CUP

RYDER CUP
Mike Dickson in Rome
within Italy has amounted to
barely 10 per cent. The only
official word is that the five
nations most highly represented
in spectator numbers are the
UK, the US, Ireland, Germany
and Italy, and it is probably in
that order. A bumper turnout
from the US sees their fans
contriving any which way to
exhibit the Stars and Stripes,
while the locals appear more
like reserved onlookers.
The problem for the host nation
— although clearly not
perceived as an issue in winning
the bid — is that golf is around
the 15th most popular sport in
this country.
Moreover, the strongholds of
the game are much further
north, around Turin and Milan.
These cities have a far higher
concentration of Italy’s 229
18-hole courses, and certainly
more than Rome.
Turin is home to the Molinari
brothers, who still make up two
of the three highest-placed
Italians in the men’s rankings,
although these days Francesco
leads the way with the modest
listing of 185.
At least the mistake of Paris in
2018 has not been repeated,
when nobody from France was
involved with Team Europe. The
Molinaris are both vice-captains
here but, strangely, have kept a
low profile this week.
Neither Francesco nor stats
guru Edoardo have been front
and centre, which will not have
done much to entice quizzical
locals to tune in. The Italian Golf
Federation (FIG) are
nonetheless hoping that the
event will create enough of a
buzz to increase their figure of
94,000 registered golfers.
They are trying to combat the
perception of the sport being
elitist. Italy would also like to be
seen more as a golf destination
to help grow the number of
courses although, as one
industry figure pointed out, in
this they are up against the
hugely developed southern
Europe markets of Spain and
Portugal. ‘Golfers are obviously
not as recognisable as
footballers here, and not as
recognisable as the top tennis
players, for example,’ said an
FIG spokesperson. ‘Francesco
did become very popular after
what he achieved in 2018
(winning the Open at Carnoustie
and five points at the Ryder
Cup), while Costantino Rocca
(1995 Open runner-up) was big
because he was the first.
‘We are trying very hard to
change the image of golf in Italy
and we are currently running a
large project of putting golf in
schools, which we think will
make a long-term difference.’
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78 RYDER CUP
MATCH ONE MATCH TWO
HOW IT ALL 6.35am 6.50am
WORKS...
THERE are 28 points available
over the next three days,
one for each match.
As holders, the USA only
need a tie to retain the
trophy. Europe need 14.5
points to win outright and
regain the Ryder Cup.

TODAY
(EIGHT POINTS AVAILABLE)
FOURSOMES (from 6.35am)
Four matches. Each team has
one ball and pairs play JON RAHM & VIKTOR HOVLAND
alternate shots. The lowest TYRRELL HATTON & LUDVIG ABERG
score wins the hole. If they
tie, the hole is halved. Match
winners take one point. If it
is drawn they take half each.
FOURBALLS (from 11.25am)
Four matches. Each player
has their own ball and the SCOTTIE MAX HOMA
lowest score counts. The SCHEFFLER & & BRIAN
lowest score wins the hole. SAM BURNS HARMAN
If they tie, the hole is halved.
Match winners take one
point. If it is drawn they take
half each.

TOMORROW
(EIGHT POINTS AVAILABLE)
FOUR FOURSOMES
MATCHES (from 6.35am)
FOUR FOURBALLS MATCHES
(from 11.25am)

SUNDAY
(12 POINTS AVAILABLE)
TWELVE SINGLES MATCHES
(from 10.35am)
All 12 players from each side
feature. Match winners take
one point. If it is drawn they BRILLIANT match-up. Scheffler is world No 1, Burns DONALD has gone with an all-Scandinavian pair,
take half each. is the reigning champion of the WGC Match Play and unleashing fearless prodigy Aberg alongside
TV: LIVE on Sky Sports from they are close friends. Up against them are the Hovland, the world No 3. Harman, the Open
6am today and tomorrow, most fiery men on either side. Rahm and Hatton champion, is a monstrously good putter, which is
9am Sunday. Highlights: have played together only once before in the Cup worth its weight in gold, but Hovland and Aberg is
BBC2 at 8.30pm today and but are likely to thrive in this environment. the most exciting partnership of the session.
tomorrow, 7.30pm on Sunday
Radio: BBC 5 Live & talkSPORT2. PREDICTION: EUROPE PREDICTION: EUROPE

RYDER CUP
Riath
Syrup, singing and
schmaltz... now it’s
Al-Samarrai
in Rome

A
FTER all the

time for the swinging

pomp, all the
ceremony, all the
syrup, speeches,
schmaltz and
singing, finally we get to
the swinging.
The 44th Ryder Cup will com-
mence at Marco Simone Golf and
Country Club this morning, bring-
ing an end to the preamble of fluff
and guff and heralding a start to
what matters — the actual sport.
Glorious, wonderful sport.
For Zach Johnson, that cannot
come a moment too soon, because
it is hard to imagine a chap less
fond of the glare and silliness of
these occasions.
By 5.30pm local time yesterday
evening, so after he had endured
the formalities of a stage-mounted
address to a large audience,
Johnson was shuffling around with
his tie loosened and lopsided, his
face flushed with fatigue. He car-
ried the look of a groom staggering
towards the end of a particularly
stressful wedding.
He had done a reasonable enough
job in the previous hour up on the
stage. He had mostly said the right
things, mostly thanked the right
people, wobbled with emotion in
mostly the right places and then
he got away from the mic as fast as
his legs would carry him.
It was fine, if we care for such
business.
But Luke Donald was smoother,
more assured. He had remem-
bered to thank the caddies — the
bridesmaids? — and Johnson
had not.
He also spoke in Italian, which
drew local approval, and Johnson
had not done that either. The easy
gag is that Europe are one up, but
that would fit with the truism of a
Ryder Cup week — everything
before they hit the balls is bo****ks.
What counts is what comes now,
when the meaningful examina-
tions begin.
It is truly a fascinating show-
down, enlivened by a compelling
set of match-ups for the opening
foursomes and the broader
context of US travel sickness —
they have not won away since 1993
but they are marginal favourites
against a European team in
transition.
In response, Donald — never the
most cavalier in an excellent play-
ing career — has rolled the dice
with his four pairings and the
order of their deployment.
The first of those is utterly com-
pelling, for Donald has gone with
Jon Rahm and Tyrrell Hatton, two
men who could burn down a
rainforest with their tempers and
language. If we are to evoke the
film Gladiator, and to borrow from
a superb headline this week,
Donald has made a call to ‘Unleash
f****** hell’.
No environment rewards passion
quite like the Ryder Cup, but of
course that can go either way.
Will they thrive or fall when they
step on to that first tee, sur-
rounded by a towering and spec-
tacular ‘Coliseum’ stand that will
rock with 4,000 screaming fans?
A tough question to answer, and
tougher still when you consider
who Johnson has sent out to get
red on the board early: Scottie
Scheffler, the world No 1, and his
closest friend on the team, Sam
Burns, the winner of the WGC
Match Play in March.
No one strikes a ball like Schef-
fler; no one among the game’s elite
has blown so many putts, either,
which will possibly favour Europe
if Hatton and Rahm gel.
They have played together only
once before — a half point against
Scheffler and Bryson DeCham-
beau two years ago — but Rahm is
an all-round magician, the
Masters champion, and Hatton is
a very fine iron player and putter.
In this alternate-shot format,
there is technical logic to go with
the tub-thumping.
Donald said: ‘I think Jon feeds
 Daily Mail, Friday, September 29, 2023
MATCH THREE
7.05am
SHANE LOWRY
& SEPP STRAKA
RICKIE
FOWLER
& COLLIN
MORIKAWA
FOLK have doubted Lowry, who is fired up here
with a point to prove. Alongside him, Straka is a
superb driver, which will help greatly on this
course. Fowler has had a great season of
restoration and partners one of the best iron
players in golf — a tough match.
PREDICTION: USA
off a playing partner with similar
kind of fire and passion — he wants
to feel like he’s out there with a
team-mate that’s really engaged
with him. Tyrrell really fits
that bill.’
Donald’s second gamble is also
his most exciting — he has gone
with the kid. At 23, Ludvig Aberg
is a phenomenon. Amid all the
hype, it is worth remembering less
than four months have passed
since he was an amateur, but here
he is, alongside the world No 4,
Viktor Hovland, and taking on
Max Homa and the Open cham-
pion, Brian Harman.
The latter, the ‘Butcher of
Hoylake’, is possibly the best
putter in the field, but Hovland’s
game, supplemented by his vastly
improved play around the greens
this year, is arguably the most
complete of the 24 in Rome.
It is a great duel and Aberg’s
presence is a key component — he
has a tee-to-green game that is
perfect for these pinched
fairways.
Europe might be considered
slight favourites for each of those
two opening matches, but Rickie
Fowler and Collin Morikawa — the
former a picture of resurgence, the
latter a two-time major winner
with laser accuracy from the fair-
way — would seem to have a theo-
retical edge on Shane Lowry and
the rookie, Sepp Straka. Lowry’s
form has at least picked up follow-
ing the difficulties of this year and
Straka is excellent off the tee, but
that is a tough draw. The point
they contest could well swing the
CANTLAY and Schauffele are a brilliant team.
They won both their foursomes matches in 2021,
including the demolition of McIlroy and Ian Poulter.
McIlroy and Fleetwood will mesh well — the driving
distances of McIlroy and Fleetwood’s approaches is
rich with potential.
session. Of course, most eyeballs
might be on the group behind,
because that brings with it the
question of Rory McIlroy.
He cried at Whistling Straits
after bombing with one point from
four, but he has been a ball of
intense energy this week. He goes
out with Tommy Fleetwood, the
‘flusher’ as Donald calls him, and
they are an extremely good fit.
But they face the understated
monsters of the US — Patrick Can-
tlay and Xander Schauffele. If the
road to success in the Cup is built
on proven pairings, then there are
few opponents more intimidating
— they won both their foursomes
matches at Whistling Straits,
including the hiding given to
McIlroy and Ian Poulter.
It would be a brave soul who bets
against them, but it would also be
an immense statement if McIlroy
and Fleetwood take them down.
McIlroy said: ‘I feel like this is as
excited and as ready a group as
I’ve been a part of.
‘We know the task at hand. It’s a
really strong American team, and
they have a lot of really tough
partnerships. We’re going up
against one of them tomorrow in
Xander and Patrick.’
After all the pageantry and filler
of the past week, it is the sort of
clash on which the Cup has built
its reputation.
The sort that might make all
those public speaking engage-
ments worthwhile for Johnson.
The sort Donald might well need
to win if Europe are to avoid being
reduced to ruins in Rome.
MATCH FOUR
7.20am
RORY McILROY
& TOMMY
FLEETWOOD
XANDER
SCHAUFFELE
& PATRICK
CANTLAY
PREDICTION: USA
Fearless dozen will write
own history, says Donald
From Back Page
deployed Rory McIlroy and
Tommy Fleetwood in the
anchor slot against Patrick
Cantlay and Xander Schauffele,
said: ‘Jon feeds off a playing
partner with similar fire and
passion — he wants to feel he’s
out there with a team-mate
that’s really engaged with
him. Tyrrell fits that bill.’
Donald has also taken an
exciting punt on 23-year-old
Swedish phenomenon Ludvig
Aberg, pairing him with Viktor
Hovland in the second match
just four months after he
turned professional. They face
Max Homa and the Open
champion Brian Harman, with
Aberg’s fellow rookie Sepp
Straka going out alongside
Shane Lowry against Rickie
Fowler and Collin Morikawa.
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Donald has sat out Justin Rose,
Matt Fitzpatrick, Robert
MacIntyre and Nicolai
Hojgaard, though later
confirmed they would each
feature in today’s fourballs.
Asked if he was deploying 12
‘gladiators’ in Rome, Donald
said: ‘They’re very fearless.
The atmosphere in the team
room is fantastic. I couldn’t be
more excited and happy for
these 12 guys to go out and
write their own history.’
If there was a surprise from
Zach Johnson’s selections, it
came from his decision not to
use the successful pairing of
Jordan Spieth and Justin
Thomas in the first session.
He has also benched Brooks
Koepka, whose name was
booed by parts of a typically
partisan crowd at the opening
ceremony yesterday evening.
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RYDER CUP
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BY MIKE KEEGAN
WHILE the threads may have cost a
fortune, the reds did not.
On Wednesday night, WAGs in their
finest dresses and their
suited-and-booted other halves
headed to a rooftop terrace at
Terme di Caracalla for the
glamourous Ryder Cup Gala Dinner.
However, a menu obtained by
Diary (below) reveals Europe and
the United States’ stars and their
partners were served £12.99 bottles
of wine at the swanky shindig.
Diners were offered a choice of a
Villa Antinori Tuscan red or white of
2020 vintage, along with a
similarly priced 2022 Puglia rose.
All retail at around £12.99 online.
Moet & Chandon was also available
for the
champagne
drinkers.
For dinner,
guests were
treated to a
calamari and
rockfish
starter with
olives, capers
and a red
gurnard
ragout,
before a main off bbeeff fill
fillett
with Barolo reduction and
snow peas. Vegetarian options
were available.
Desserts were from the Federico
Prodon Patisserie.
An exclusive show from Georgia
singer-songwriter Phillip Phillips
capped off the night before
coaches transported those
involved back to their hotels.
MORE organisational issues. For the
first time yesterday serious crowd
numbers descended on the Marco
Simone Golf & Country Club,
arriving on buses — only to then
endure a walk of around a mile to
enter the venue.
Officials have designed a somewhat
convoluted route, and a number of
angry punters confronted staff in
yellow bibs to ask the entirely
rational question of why they
could not just walk in a straight
line to the entrance.
With temperatures of 30°C expected
throughout the weekend and a large
number of elderly spectators, it is to
be hoped common sense prevails.
THE choice of Europe captain at the
next Ryder Cup is already causing
head-scratching. The emergence of
LIV has narrowed the pool
considerably, with the likes of Ian
Poulter, Lee Westwood and Sergio
Garcia out of contention having
signed up for the breakaway
competition.
Insiders believe that, should
he oversee victory here, Luke
Donald will be a very strong
candidate to retain the position at
Bethpage Black in New York two
years from now.
WHILE there may well be a mood
change when the serious action
starts this morning, it has been
all smiles so far on the chipping and
putting greens at Marco Simone.
Both sides have happily shared the
practice areas, swapping jokes and
good wishes.
At one point Jon Rahm walked in
front of a Scottie Scheffler chip, with
the ball rebounding off the
Spaniard’s basket. ‘That was going
in!’ laughed the American.
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from village A 11 12
to village B.
The numbers
indicate how
many sections of
rail go in each 13
row and column.
There are only 3d. Cuts into sections the 5d. Carriages to rob
spa built on a curve (6,2) Castile of its culture (10) 14 15
straight rails and
curved rails. The
track cannot 16 17
cross itself.
SOLUTION
ON MONDAY

6d. Shattering way to 9d. Newts on a mission 18

MINDBENDER
3. Which TV cook might
take out the bends (10) to find the cutter (5,3)
have LIMITED ASH?
1. The number of visitors to 4. Which is the odd one out:
Javanese Jungle, Chilean ACROSS 13 Zealous, but not as DOWN 9 Picture Clue
the railway museum on 1 Picture Clue perhaps, a blackbird 2 Drain that’s pebble- 10 ‘Champagne’ that’s
consecutive days was 107, Desert, Russian Blue,
Tanzanian Red Claw? 7 Swollen root lookalike (5) dashed (3) all fizzled out (4)
227, 311 and 278. If, after the resulting from 14 Picture Clue 3 Picture Clue 12 Bit naive to hold
fifth day, the average number 5. Rearrange the letter brute force (5) 16 Garment in which to 4 Breathe easily in, you back against (4)
of visitors per day was 235, groups to make three 8 Picture Clue avoid the issue? (5) ancient one! (4) 15 Lion-speak, right in
how many people visited the ballet terms: QUE REC 11 Quickly, it could be 18 Picture Clue 5 Picture Clue front of the rower (4)
museum on the fifth day? OUE BES ENT ARA TTE HAT PIR.
just one step (5) 6 Picture Clue 17 Chilled out, but unwell (3)
2. What connects wire,
lane and lets? SOLUTION: PULLOUT BACK PAGE YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION — ACROSS: 1 Refutations. 5 Grant. 7 Tonga. 9 Car seat. 11 Ash. 12 Ace. 13 Weed out. 16 As yet. 17 Tidal.
18 Nobel Prizes. DOWN: 1 Right as rain. 2 Tutor. 3 Title. 4 Stag beetles. 6 Archway. 8 Notated. 10 Sad. 14 Extol. 15 Outer.

KILLER 14 7 9 14 8 7
MAILWORD
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QUICK QUIZ
SUDOKU
FILL in squares in the
8 15 14
ACROSS
1 Zygotes
5 Unsociable
34 Chunks
36 European river
37 Lecherous
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13

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1. What name is given
to a Greek wine that is
flavoured with pine resin?
7 11 11 12 person look 2. What is the surname of
grid so each row, column
and each 3x3 square 10 African 38 Monarchs 18 19 20 21 Eric, author and illustrator
contains all digits from nation 39 Rind of the children’s book The
10 24 5 21 11 Verification 22 23 24 25
1 to 9. Each set of cells Very Hungry Caterpillar?
12 Mild oath DOWN
joined by dotted lines 14 Illumination 1 Decorate 26 27 28 3. Which Dutch football
must add up to the 20 10 5 17 15 Elderly 2 Sailing ship team beat Rangers
number in the top-left 16 North 3 Flirtatious 29 30
7-3 on aggregate in
corner. Numbers can’t American lake glance a recent Champions
10 13 11 31 32 33 34 35
be repeated within 18 Behold 4 Bro’s League play-off?
each set of cells. 19 Slackens counterpart 36 37
22 Salty dressing 5 Leguminous 4. Which band had 1980s
SOLUTION ON MONDAY 7 18 13 14 23 Drink like a cat food hits with Relax and The
38 39
NEED A CLUE? Call 0901 293 24 Furious 6 Star sign Power Of Love?
6238 or text KILLER to 65700 26 Lie 7 Labrador,
and receive four clues to 6 8 17 7 comfortably for example 21 Biblical story 32 21st Greek letter 5. What was the name
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cost £1 plus your standard item 9 Frequently 27 Catapult actor character in The X-Files?
network charges. Today’s 13 14 5 29 Tibetan priest 13 Gossips 31 Noah’s vessel 35 Sever
clues available between 30 Barge 17 Kingdom SOLUTION: PULLOUT
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 Daily Mail, Friday, September 29, 2023 Page 41

KENKEN S T S WORLD’S SMALLEST, CROSS NUMBER

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column should
contain 1 to 6
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THAN ONE SOLUTION
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square with a
number, 1 to 9.
without repeats. Horizontal
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must combine left (abbr) (3) up to totals on

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target number T E E squares add
shown at start of
6. Remorse (archaic) (4) 4 5 up to totals
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Diagonal
in any order, the
mathematical
sign given. Single-
NINE TO FIVE DOWN
1. Above (Fr) (3)
2. Responsibility (4)
6 squares
through centre
add up to totals
box cages can be FIT the scrambled letters
filled with the of the given word into the 3. (L) quickly (4) in top and
number given. grid to form six five-letter 5. Doctor of 7 bottom right.
SOLUTION ON words across and down. Theology (abbr) (3) Today’s challenge time: Your working time: SOLUTION ON
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CODEWORD WIN
EACH number in our Codeword grid represents a different
letter of the alphabet. Today 23 represents H, so fill in H every
time the figure 23 appears. You have two letters in the control
grid to start you off. Enter them in the appropriate squares in
the main grid, then use your knowledge of words to work out
£750
which letters should go in the missing squares. SOLUTION TOMORROW
COMPLETE Codeword to reveal the word in the shaded boxes.
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D A P A T C O B M WORD SEARCH WIN

THE listed words can all be
Z J U M Q C O B M found in the grid — running

T D R A O B Y E K
forwards, backwards, up,
down and diagonally —
EXCEPT ONE. For a chance to
£500
Z H N K O O L K R win, discover which word from
the list can’t be found in the Word Search.
K P E N E L G E I EIGENHARP MOOG
F Y D R O Y L H R GUITAR OCTAPAD
KEYBOARD ONDES
G E C T E P T N T KEYTAR SAMPLER
S F R X M M H A D MELLOTRON THEREMIN
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between 00.01 Monday and 23.59 Friday. Answers
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network charges. Today’s clues available between 00.01 today and 23.30 only. E I G E N H A R P change daily at 00.01. UK residents aged 18+, excl NI.
Terms apply, see Page 58. SOLUTION ON MONDAY

NAME GAME HIDDEN in the grid is the name of a fashion model. Answer
the questions, then rearrange the letters corresponding
to your answers to fill in the name. SOLUTION ON MONDAY
GOGEN
BALM
BOX 1: Gigi Hadid (pictured)
has a daughter with which
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 CLAMP R F B J D
of these British singers? ENOUGH
Tom Fletcher (L)
Zayn Malik (K)
EXAM
FLAWED
L A W E T
Lewis Capaldi (G)
HUSKY
BOX 2: The 1970s children’s TV
drama Follyfoot was based on
UK No. 1 hit, released in 1953, BOX 8: Which of the JET M C X O N
the works of which author?
which topped the chart in 1955? Hollywood Ten was not MISQUOTED
Blue Velvet (F) given full screenwriting NOW
Helen Cresswell (H)
Monica Dickens (E)
Stranger In Paradise (M)
Here In My Heart (C)
credits for 1953’s Roman
Holiday until 2011? VICAR P I S U G
Anna Sewell (D) Dalton Trumbo (T)
BOX 6: By what name are birds
BOX 3: What is the smallest big
cat in the Panthera genus?
in the order Strigiformes
commonly known?
Lester Cole (U)
Herbert Biberman (G) Y K V Q H
Leopard (S) Lion (V) Jaguar (U) Cassowaries (P)
BOX 4: Which rock band Flamingos (T) Yester
Yesterday’s answer:

HIDATO COMPLETE the grid so

that all the numbers, 1 to
90, connect consecutively — horizontally,
recorded the 2021 album
Blue Weekend?
Shark Annie (W)
Croc Abigail (N)
vertically or diagonally. Hint: you don’t
Wolf Alice (O)
have to begin with 1 or 90. Working on
the mid-numbers might give you a BOX 5: What was American
singer Tony Bennett’s only
better start. SOLUTION ON MONDAY
Owls (A)
BOX 7: Jilly Goolden wass
once renowned on TV for
PETER KAY
2 3A, 4Y,
(1P, 2R,
6K 7E, 8T).
5E, 6K,
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXY
INSERT letters to form listed words, moving
between adjacent cells horizontally,
at?
her descriptions of what? vertically or diagonally in any direction.
Wine tasting (S)
Insert all remaining letters of the alphabet
Political rallies (I)
Horoscopes (B) Picture: PA
(except Z) in the grid so all listed words
are spelt out. SOLUTION ON MONDAY
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WIN
BRIDGE MASTERCLASS CRYPTIC CROSSWORD £500 ACROSS
1 Formally admits elected
Democrat facing
DOWN
1 Momentum shown by
politician staying in
No 17,196
awkward cuts (7) fancy suite (7)
West East 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 5 Be in charge of 2 Optimist’s panned sadly
actors without revealing regrets (15)
♠AQJ543 ♠K9 8 intervening factors? (6) 3 Credit associated with
♥– ♥K765 9 Standpoint from parking posh vineyard (3)
♦7642 ♦3 9 10 by varied routes (7) 4 Old type of wheat is written
10 One pressing for down in proper order (5)
♣AQ3 ♣ K J 10 7 4 2 a living? (7) 5 Greatly astonish pair
11 Ram in time in a endlessly with doctor
11 12
higher position (3) given nothing in kitty (9)
12 Where one might take 6 Actress Rene has to make
How would you play the west hand in 4♠ after a snooker ball, having haste shortly in this way (5)
South had opened 1♥, and North leads ♥3? lost money? (3,2,6) 7 Building superintendent
During the week, i’ve been preaching the 13 First sign of substandard damaged locker following
importance of making safety plays as declarer.
13 14 15 wine produces full range of options (5,2,3,5)
indignation (5) 8 Some secret anniversary
And i must finish by putting this topic in 14 Painkiller in pub for for a Mediterranean
perspective. if you’re playing high-stakes rubber eccentric infused with island resident (6)
bridge, or an important teams match, you do not 16 17 18 little energy (9) 12 Old ropes acceptable
(or should not) jeopardise a 100 per cent contract 16 Made light of note around a dump
for the sake of a couple of overtricks, which may introducing current essentially (5)
have only a 75 per cent chance of success. That’s second edition (9) 14 Nicer post devised for a
just bad bridge. But, if you always adopt the same 17 Chinese city starts to police force member (9)
19 20 21 22
safety line at pairs, your results are likely to suffer welcome umpteen 15 Agricultural employee
because safety generally involves catering for the holidaymakers heading off is one in
as normal (5) four, maybe (5)
most adverse lie of the cards, which will often be 19 A helper, temp, upset one 16 Gloomy Maureen has
very much against the odds. 23 24 25 writing booklets? (11) impatient expression (6)
Pairs events are great fun, but the strategy is very 22 Greatly excite circle among 18 Three directions over
different from other forms of bridge; it is generally Welsh repeatedly (3) harbour in Isle of
wisest to follow the rule of ‘playing with the field’. 23 Dispatch noted Wight town (7)
26 27 U.S. novel (4,3) 20 Limited covering over
in the above illustration, everyone is likely to ruff 24 Experience in accordance clubhouse offering inferior
the lead, draw trumps and cash six clubs to claim 11 with indoor game (7) alcoholic drink (5)
tricks. This will succeed 95 per cent of the time, but FOR your chance to win, solve the crossword to reveal the word reading down the 26 Woman here wandering 21 Show elation in spandex,
you go down when north holds all the outstanding shaded boxes. HOW TO ENTER: Call 0901 293 6233 and leave today’s answer and your around street (6) ultimately (5)
trumps. Making the safety play of finessing ♠9 at details, or TEXT 65700 with the word CRYPTIC, your answer and your name. Texts and 27 Kind ready to work in 25 Diana and Penny have
trick two to cater for this 5 per cent chance would calls cost £1 plus standard network charges. Or enter by post by sending completed the print industry? (7) hummus, perhaps (3)
crossword to Daily Mail Prize Crossword 17,196, PO Box 28, Colchester, Essex CO2 8GF.
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PETER DONOVAN 23.59; answers change at 00.01. UK residents aged 18+, excl NI. Terms apply, see Page 58.
available between 00.01 today and 23.30 only.

SOLUTIONS TO YESTERDAY’S PUZZLES

SUDOKU PRIZE SUDOKU
30-SECOND CHALLENGE www.30secondchallenge.com
START on left with number given and follow instructions as you go across. In 30 seconds, beginners have to
complete their own challenge; intermediates have to complete their own challenge and the beginner’s; YOUR
advanced players have to complete their own challenge and the intermediate’s. SOLUTION BELOW ANSWERS
Beginner 28 ÷14 ×80 -6 ÷11 ×5 +2 ÷6 ×7 ¼
OF IT
4/19 5% TIMES 4/7 75%
Intermediate 70 -13 OF IT ×15 OF IT ITSELF -39 OF IT ×8 OF IT
WORD SEARCH HIDATO KAKURO
TIMES LESS LESS 7/11 LESS 25%
Missing: CUARON
V
7
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2
1
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3 9 8
9
7 Advanced 15 ITSELF 20% 30% +17 OF IT +8 ×4 33 1/3% OF IT
G G 6 8 9 7 7 5
V 9 7 8 9 7 5 1 3
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7 6 8 9 2 1 KENKEN SUDOKU X CRYPTIC CROSSWORD No. 17,193 SMALLEST, HARDEST CROSSWORD — ACROSS: 1 Hiss. 5 Daw.
S
6 9 1 3 2 3 4 6 5 1 ACROSS: 6 Three-point turn. 6 Nox. 7 Slew. DOWN: 2 Idol. 3 Saxe. 4 SW. 6 Ns.
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P G G S
7 3 1 2 4 3
1 5 6 4 3 2 9 Angora. 10 Fiendish. 11 Sinkhole.
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9 5 7 3 1
1 3
2 7
5 8 9
5
7 6 1 3 5 2 4
13 Atwood. 15 Thatch. 17 Adopts.
19 Berate. 20 Kohlrabi. 22 Cagliari.
SOLUTIONS TO TODAY’S PUZZLES
G P S 3 2 1 9 7 6 8 9 5 4 2 1 6 3
S 1 4 2 8 9 6 8
24 Niggle. 26 Sleeping tablet. QUICK QUIZ: KUROSU:
3 6 1 2 4 5 DOWN: 1 Sting in the tail. 2 Arno. 1 Retsina. 2 Carle. 3 PSV
XXOXOO
NINE TO FIVE CROSS NUMBER TRAIN TRACKS 4 2 5 3 1 6 3 Pedalo. 4 In demand. 5 Stud. Eindhoven. 4 Frankie Goes
7 Offset. 8 Responsibility. 12 Koala. to Hollywood. 5 Fox Mulder.
T R P KILLER SUDOKU GOGEN 14 Wiper. 16 Clematis. 18 Skiing.
S H O U T 1
6
9
2
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4
9
3
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J L W H B 21 Hangar. 23 Lies. 25 Gull.
MINDBENDER:
1 252 people. 2 They all form OOXXOX
OXOOXX
P E S T O 3 4 7 8 6 2 5 9 1 M A C O N new words with the prefix
7 1 4 3 2 8 6 5 9 MAILWORD trip. 3 Delia Smith. 4 Russian
O M I T S 8 3 9 4 5 6 1 7 2 Q V P R F ACROSS: 1 Test. 5 Marc. 9 Swear. Blue, a cat; the others are
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Y U E I G 10 Esau. 11 Chilli. 12 Limb. 13 Hot.
14 Across. 16 Arc. 17 Deed.
scorpions. 5 Arabesque,
pirouette, entrechat. XOXXOO
MOUTHIEST 4 5 6 1 3 9 8 2 7 K S D X T 18 Rehab. 20 Lying. 24 Magi.
26 Moo. 27 Toerag. 29 Pin.
MASTERQUIZ: 1 16th. 2 Asana.
3 Threadneedle Street. OOXOXX
XXOOXO
WORD WHEEL: amen, lame, GENERAL KNOWLEDGE DOWN: 1 Magic 30 Gown. 31 Misuse. 33 Aged. 4 Pakistan. 5 Alexander
lames, lams, male, mall, mane, CROSSWORD — ACROSS: Roundabout. 2 Kinetic. 34 Moire. 35 Gods. 36 Ante. Hamilton. 6 Paul Hindemith.
manless, mans, manse, mase, 1 Mikhail Bulgakov. 8 Genetic. 3 Anthology. 4 Lycra. DOWN: 1 Twitch. 2 Eel. 3 Salad bar. HONEYCOMB:
mases, mass, masse, masses, 9 Fielder. 10 Cutto. 11 Al Jarreau. 5 Greer. 6 Kidneys. 4 Trice. 5 Melody. 6 As is. 7 Rams. 1 Adapts. 2 Adrift. 3 Ferret. 30-SECOND CHALLENGE:
meal, mean, mesa, mess, 12 Crochet. 14 Basil. 15 Nighy. 7 Virtual Insanity. 9 Fajitas. 8 Cub. 9 Shore. 11 Char. 15 Religion. Beginner: 21.
4 Render. 5 Decide. 6 Icicle.
name, names, same, seam, 17 Wastrel. 19 Abseiling. 22 Onana. 13 Hawkins. 14 Bardolino. 19 Amends. 21 Impure. 22 Noise. 7 Larvae. 8 Vrooms. 9 Smooth. Intermediate: 144.
seams, slam, slams, small, 23 Orleans. 24 Origami. 16 Giselle. 18 Leakage. 23 Gone. 25 Gamma. 27 Togo. 10 Torpid. 11 Diktat. 12 Status. Advanced: 66.
smallness, smell, smells. 25 The King Of Comedy. 20 Iraqi. 21 Groff. 28 Owed. 30 Gag. 32 Sit.*