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Weights or running?
What exercise type are you?
Inflation-busting pay rises for doctors, teachers and police
Steven Swinford Deputy Political Editor
Doctors, teachers and police are among
900,000 public sector workers who will
get above-inflation pay rises this year.
Rishi Sunak, the chancellor, said the
increases were recognition for the
“vital contribution” they had made dur-
ing the coronavirus crisis. Economists
said that the rise was likely to make the
Scientists
give hope of
vaccine by
end of year
Oxford University trial passes milestone
Rhys Blakely Science Correspondent
A coronavirus vaccine could be
available this year, Oxford University
researchers said yesterday after a
“milestone” clinical trial produced
encouraging results.
The vaccine stimulated “robust
immune responses” and there were no
serious side-effects in a phase-one trial
involving about 1,100 healthy volunteers.
The subjects displayed sufficient
levels of neutralising antibodies,
thought to be critical in protecting
against viral infection, to give research-
ers grounds for optimism. A second im-
portant aspect of the immune system,
T-cells, were also mobilised, according
to a study in The Lancet.
The researchers emphasised that it
was not known whether these responses
were sufficient to protect against
Covid-19 but they said that the results
were promising.
Sarah Gilbert, professor of vacci-
nology at Oxford University, who is
leading the project, told The Times: “It’s
all very good news: the vaccine is be-
having as we expected. That’s great.
There’s lots more to do, but really it’s a
milestone.”
Adrian Hill, director of the Jenner
Institute at Oxford, where the research
is taking place, said that the pace of
progress would now depend on much
larger trials in the United States, Brazil,
Britain and South Africa, which will
gauge whether the jab prevented
infections and disease. “It’s possible
public sector more attractive to private
sector workers, who are expected to be
hit hardest as the economy recovers.
Teachers will be given a 3.1 per cent
rise; doctors and dentists 2.8 per cent;
and police 2.5 per cent. Pay for the
armed forces, the judiciary and senior
civil servants will rise by 2 per cent; pris-
on officers will receive 2.5 per cent.
With inflation at 0.6 per cent and likely
that there’ll be a vaccine being used by
the end of the year,” he said.
Boris Johnson called the data “very
positive news”, adding on Twitter:
“There are no guarantees, we’re not
there yet and further trials will be
necessary — but this is an important
step in the right direction.”
Two other vaccine projects, one from
the Chinese company CanSino Biologics
and the other from a partnership
between the American drugmaker
Pfizer and BionTech of Germany, also
issued positive trial updates, raising
hopes that several jabs may ultimately
become available.
In other developments
6 The government secured at least
90 million doses of potential vaccines
from overseas companies in an attempt
to spread its risk between different
technologies.
6 A British drug has been found
dramatically to reduce the chances of
coronavirus patients needing intensive
care, according to early results from a
small randomised trial.
6 The UK recorded 11 more deaths,
bringing the total number of corona-
virus fatalities to 45,312. Figures are
frequently lower after the weekend
because of a lag in reporting.
The Oxford team is one of more than
150 working on vaccines, 23 of which are
in human trials. Hedging its bets, the
government has also struck agreements
with German, American and French
companies to supply vaccines. The
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£1.10 to subscribers
to remain low for some time, the rises
will mean more money in real terms.
Mr Sunak said: “These past months
have underlined what we always knew
— that our public sector workers make
a vital contribution to our country and
that we can rely on them when we need
them. It’s right that we follow the rec-
ommendations of the independent pay
bodies with this set of rises.”
Amber Heard arriving to give evidence at the High Court yesterday. She claimed
that Johnny Depp threatened to kill her “many times” during their short marriage
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The announcement means that a
teacher on £30,599 will receive nearly
an extra £1,000 a year. A constable on
£32,025 will earn £800 more.
Paul Johnson, head of the Institute
for Fiscal Studies, said: “It’s obviously
significantly above current inflation. It
looks like a response to a fairly pro-
longed period of pay restraint, which
had begun to pull the public sector
SAMIR HUSSEIN/WIREIMAGE/GETTY IMAGES
Jojo Moyes
I rescued
a dog, then
lost her
down below the private sector and
created issues in relation to recruit-
ment and retention.
“We’re certainly going to see a big
increase in unemployment. In times
like these the additional security of the
public sector is worth something.”
The pay awards for the armed forces,
prison officers, senior civil servants and
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Depp choked
and punched
me, Heard
tells court
David Brown
Amber Heard said that Johnny Depp
frequently threatened to kill or disfig-
ure her as she detailed their tumultuous
relationship for the first time yesterday.
The 34-year-old actress told the
High Court that the Pirates of the Carib-
bean star had threatened to kill her
“many times” and was violent and abu-
sive when using alcohol or drugs, which
“was often”.
The biggest English libel trial of the
21st century entered its third week with
Depp, 57, watching in court as his
former wife began at least four days in
the witness box.
She claimed that he would attribute
his actions, including punching, slap-
ping, kicking, head-butting and chok-
ing her, to his demons. Shows of resist-
ance further angered Depp, she said.
“He was always antagonised by shows
of will, like me standing up after he had
knocked me down.”
Depp is suing The Sun over an article
that described him as a “wife beater”.
Heard claimed that Depp had ordered
a private doctor to “keep me sedated . . .
and basically to stop my body respond-
ing to the world I was living in”.
Depp’s anger, she added, was largely
motivated by jealousy. He believed that
she had had affairs with men she
worked with, she told the court, includ-
ing Leonardo DiCaprio, whom Depp
branded “Pumpkin-head”.
Heard also described “a three-day
hostage situation” during which the tip
of Depp’s finger was severed when she
visited him during filming of Pirates of
the Caribbean in Australia in the month
after their wedding in 2015.
Depp tore off her nightgown and
pushed her naked against a bar, she
said. “He was pressing so hard on my
neck I couldn’t breathe. I was trying to
tell him that I couldn’t breathe. I
remember thinking he was going to kill
me in that moment.”
The testimony was in stark contrast
to Heard’s description of their court-
ship, which she said had been like
“dating a king”.
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C O R O N AV I R U S S U M M A RY
Universities agree steps to cut
Global
confirmed cases

UK confirmed
14,348,858 603,691 Global deaths
number of first-class degrees
cases 295,372 45,312 UK deaths
Greg Hurst Social Affairs Editor flationary. They agreed that rises in the award of top grades since
discounting should be minimised and 2011. Research by the Office for Stu-
Graduates will receive qualifications rounding up of marks should be limited dents showed big rises in first-class deg-
Hope for British drug Nurses’ chief excluded that more realistically reflect their aca- to within two marks of a grade bounda- rees: at Imperial College London they
demic ability after universities agreed ry and occur only once, not at marking rose from 31 per cent to 46 per cent, at
A drug developed at the Ruth May, the chief nursing officer to end grade inflation. and degree classification. University College London from 24 per
University of Southampton by the for England, has confirmed that The pledge should do away with Nick Hillman, director of the Higher cent to 40 per cent and at Durham Uni-
pharmaceutical company she was dropped from a Downing practices such as ignoring students’ Education Policy Institute, who has versity from 18 per cent to 38 per cent.
Synairgen reduces the chances of Street press conference after she worst grades, not counting marks from warned that grade inflation was confus- In a speech this month Michelle
coronavirus patients needing said that she would criticise Boris core or compulsory modules and dou- ing employers who recruit graduates, Donelan, the universities minister, ac-
intensive care, according to early Johnson’s chief aide for driving to ble-counting marks close to grade said: “This is . . . very welcome and some cused universities of taking advantage
results of a trial involving 101 Durham during the lockdown. She boundaries. might argue it is slightly overdue. These of students. She said too many universi-
people, half of whom received a said that she was never told why These steps, which are likely to result steps, taken together, should call a halt ties “have felt pressured to dumb down”
placebo. Hospitalised patients who she had been excluded at the last in fewer first class and upper-second to grade inflation.” with their admissions or standards. She
inhaled a protein designed to minute on June 1. Speaking to degrees being awarded, were among Universities have been under pres- said grade inflation “has to stop”.
stimulate the immune system were MPs yesterday she confirmed that principles agreed by bodies represent- sure from the government and the sec- Andrew Wathey, vice-chancellor of
79 per cent less likely to when asked during a preparation ing universities and the body that mon- tor’s regulator, the Office for Students, Northumbria University, who led the
deteriorate to the point where session about Dominic Cummings itors their standards, the Quality to halt dramatic rises in the proportion work, said: “Universities are committed
they required ventilation. she said that he should have kept Assurance Agency. of firsts and upper-second class degrees to taking visible action to address the
Researchers said that larger trials to the rules. “In my opinion the The QAA’s research into degree- awarded in the past decade. issue of grade inflation.”
were necessary. Page 11 rules were clear,” she said. Page 11 awarding practices found widespread Latest figures show that 28 per cent of Some universities introduced tempo-
variations among universities, with a students graduated with a first in 2018- rary measures this year to give students
Masks ‘good for all’ EU split over recovery third practising “discounting” under 19 with 48 per cent awarded an upper greater scope to ask for certain assign-
which not all marks were used to calcu- second, 19 per cent lower second and ments or exams to carry less weight to-
Masks do help to protect the European Union leaders were late a student’s degree classification. Al- only 4 per cent received third-class hon- wards their final degree after campuses
wearer as well as people they meet, spending their fourth successive most the same proportion used multi- ours. These were the same as the previ- closed. This is likely to mean a rise in
according to a report from the night locked in brinkmanship over ple algorithms whose effect could be in- ous year, bringing a halt to year-on-year the amount of top grades this summer.
University of California, San a €750 billion Covid-19 recovery
Francisco. It says that masks can fund. Angela Merkel, the German
reduce the amount of virus that
enters someone’s system, meaning
that they do not get as sick. In
England face coverings are
chancellor, said the atmosphere
was “incredibly tough”. There were
divisions over the size and
workings of the fund, which will be
Grenfell contractor ‘pocketed savings’
mandatory on public transport underpinned by an unprecedented Greg Hurst ment as lead contractor was confirmed, rence replied: “I would suggest by that
and will become so in shops from debt in the EU budget. President Rydon asked Harley Facades, a sub- Rydon took some of the savings for
Friday. Nineteen per cent of Macron threatened to walk out The contractor that led work to refur- contractor that was to install the clad- themselves.”
Britons oppose the compulsory unless the Dutch and Austrian bish Grenfell Tower misrepresented ding, for cheaper options. When asked if he knew this at the
wearing of masks in shops, a leaders were ready to accept savings arising from changes to its pro- Harley gave options that could save time, he added: “I think I probably did,
survey indicated last week. Page 12 Franco-German proposals. Page 14 posed cladding system and kept some of £419,627 with one type of cladding and yes.”
the money, the inquiry into the fire was £576,973 with another type, emails Earlier in the hearing Mr Lawrence
COMMENT told. shown to the inquiry revealed. told the inquiry that he came to the
Rydon was asked to look at cheaper However, when Rydon presented the conclusion that the refurbishment of
Education, rather than compulsory inoculation, materials for the cladding of the tower choices to the tenant management or- the tower did not need a fire consultant
in west London that was later blamed ganisation it said the alternative clad- to advise on the designs.
is the way to ensure take-up of a Covid vaccine for the rapid spread of the fire in 2017 in ding would save £293,368 and £376,175 Rydon considered recruiting a fire
MELANIE PHILLIPS, PAGE 28 which 72 residents died. respectively. The lower of the two was specialist to provide advice but event-
In these discussions, known as “value chosen. ually decided that it was not necessary.
Governors avoid Trump M&S to cut 950 jobs engineering”, Rydon met Kensington Simon Lawrence, who was Rydon’s Mr Lawrence could not remember
and Chelsea council’s tenant manage- contracts manager for the project until when this decision was made but said
Republican governors frustrated Marks & Spencer is planning to ment organisation, which owned the October 2015, was asked by the inquiry that not hiring specialist fire safety con-
by President Trump’s handling of cut 950 roles as it accelerates an tower, and its consultants Artelia. lawyer Richard Millett, QC, how he sultants was standard practice for Ry-
coronavirus are circumventing the overhaul of the business bolstered In 2014, shortly before its appoint- accounted for the difference. Mr Law- don projects.
White House and trying to deal by the belief that shopping habits
directly with Mike Pence instead. “have been changed for ever” by
David Carney, an adviser to Greg the pandemic. It said that jobs continued from page 1 then you would be deploying in continued from page 1
Abbott, the Republican governor would be lost at its head office and Vaccine ‘milestone’ December — so it’s possible, but we More for public sector workers
of Texas, told The New York Times property and store management certainly can’t make any guarantee. It
that Mr Trump had “got bored divisions. The retailer employs arrangements were part of a series depends on the incidence of disease.” NHS staff will be backdated to April,
with” the pandemic and that Mr 78,000 people, of whom 27,000 of announcements that included an He suggested that the jab was likely whereas the rise for police and teachers
Abbott had been speaking to the have been furloughed under the NHS effort to sign up 500,000 British to cost less than £2.50, based on an starts in September because these pro-
vice-president two or three times a government’s job retention volunteers for future vaccine trials. order for about 350 million doses by the fessions run on different pay schedules.
week. Page 15 scheme. Page 37 The government also secured the US, which will cost about $1 billion. According to the Office for National
option to buy a million doses of an anti- The Oxford vaccine, called Statistics, public sector pay rose signifi-
RBS staff stay at home Lampard’s rugby advice body treatment from the British drug- ChAdOx1 nCoV-19, is made from a ge- cantly during the crisis while pay in the
maker AstraZeneca. It could be used to netically engineered virus that causes a private sector fell. It said that annual
The taxpayer-owned Royal Bank Frank Lampard has advised protect people with compromised cold in chimpanzees. A piece of genetic growth in regular weekly pay was 4.8
of Scotland, one of Britain’s biggest Harlequins on how to return to immune systems, for whom a standard code from the coronavirus has been in- per cent in the public sector in May,
employers, has told more than action when Premiership rugby vaccine is not suitable. serted. This produces a protein found compared with minus 2.6 per cent in
50,000 staff to work from home restarts on August 14. The Chelsea In the Oxford vaccine trial the most on the surface of the coronavirus. This the private sector.
until next year in a decision that head coach, who visited the club serious side-effects were fevers and prompts the immune system to mount The official data excludes bonuses,
deals a blow to the government’s last year as part of his Uefa headaches, which could be managed a defence that, theoretically, should which are more common in the private
efforts to boost the economy. The coaching licence, is understood to with paracetamol. The study suggested work against the real pathogen. sector, but many companies are choos-
bank said previously that workers have told Paul Gustard, Harlequins’ that some people would require two AstraZeneca has agreed to supply ing to suspend additional payments
would be at home until at least the head of rugby, that acclimatisation vaccine doses. 100 million doses to Britain in Septem- during the crisis.
end of September. Boris Johnson will be key to playing in an empty Pascal Soriot, the chief executive of ber or October. It has secured global The National Institute Of Economic
has pledged that employers would stadium, as will the influence of AstraZeneca, which is partnering manufacturing capacity for two billion and Social Research, a think tank, has
have “more discretion” about ultra-competitive players such as Oxford, said: “Our hope is that we can doses and has said that it will not profit forecast that total pay, including bonus-
where staff should work. Page 37 Chris Robshaw. Page 58 actually start delivering a vaccine from the jab during the pandemic. es, will be minus 2.9 per cent by Septem-
before the end of the year. We’re work- In the study, levels of T-cells, which ber. The relevant figure for the public
ing as quickly as we can but of course can destroy infected cells, peaked 14 sector is 4.9 per cent. Garry Young, its
there are things you cannot control.” days after vaccination and levels of anti- deputy director, said: “Pay growth in
COMMENT 27 MARKETS 46-47 SPORT 57 A further 10,000 trial subjects have bodies, which stick to virus particles the private sector has fallen but may
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A Suitable Boy comes of age for TV TAHA AHMAD/BBC; FRANCESCO GUIDICINI/THE SUNDAY TIMES

Matthew Moore Media Correspondent

Stretching to nearly 1,400 pages, A Suit-
able Boy is one of the longest novels in
the English language. So it was perhaps
unavoidable that a six-part TV adapta-
tion would require a few tweaks.
Vikram Seth has revealed that he
gave permission for the BBC’s rework-
ing of his sprawling family saga — say-
ing he felt “teflonised” to changes
because so much time had passed.
The script has been written by
Andrew Davies, the period drama spe-
cialist best known for his “sexed up” ad-
aptations of Pride and Prejudice and
War and Peace. Davies, 83, who inserted
a gay love story into his BBC adaptation
of Les Misérables, had free rein to alter
secondary plot lines and characters
providing he retained the “essence” of
the novel, Seth, 68, said.
Not all novelists have been so accom-
modating. JD Salinger refused to let
Hollywood anywhere near The Catcher
in the Rye, claiming his teen angst clas-
sic was “unactable”, while Stephen King
is known to have loathed Stanley
Kubrick’s take on The Shining — “a
Cadillac with no engine in it”, he de-
clared — after the director ignored the
screenplay he had prepared.
Seth, however, was keen for Davies to
pen the screenplay, having enjoyed his
reimaginings of Victor Hugo’s French
revolutionary epic and Leo Tolstoy’s
War and Peace.
The novelist only put his foot down
on matters of historical accuracy, and Maan, played by Ishaan Khatter, and Saeeda Bai, by Tabu, in Andrew Davies’s adaptation; the screenwriter was given free rein by the author, Vikram Seth, below
says that he is delighted with the Welsh
screenwriter’s innovations. wood actress Tabu, 49, and the 24-year- It was filmed on location in villages
“If something in the script did not Novel approaches old heartthrob Ishaan Khatter. and palaces across northern India, at a
ring true in the context of early post- Nair has nicknamed it “The Crown in reported cost of £15 million. The official
independence India — and how could A Very British Coup The Handmaid’s Tale House of Cards Brown”. BBC trailer has already been viewed
Andrew possibly have known every Channel 4 made several Margaret Atwood’s 1985 The original BBC Seth’s novel about the intertwined more than 2.5 million times since its re-
detail of that? — I pointed it out, and he changes in its 1988 dystopian novel was set version of the political lives of four families in post-independ- lease last week, attracting praise for its
took it on board,” he said. “As for plot adaptation of Chris in the all-white society thriller by Michael ence 1950s India was first published in cinematic production values.
cuts and changes: it had been a Mullin’s novel. The book of Gilead; the text hints Dobbs introduced the 1993, but previous attempts to adapt the However, several commentators on
long time since I wrote A Suita- describes the toppling that black people have world to the book for television foundered. the subcontinent have questioned why
ble Boy, so I was somewhat of Harry Perkins, been forcibly resettled Machiavellian chief The Indian author said that he had the Indian cast speak English with such
teflonised against what hap- a radical socialist to camps in the whip Francis Urquhart. ignored approaches from the BBC and contrived Indian accents. Several posts
pened to every minor incident prime minister. “The Midwest. This was It also popularised his the production company Lookout on YouTube compared their voices to
or character. TV people thought I deemed unacceptable catchphrase “You might Point for several months as he was Apu, the stereotypical Indian shop-
“I would not compro- had allowed Perkins for television so the very well think that; I engrossed in writing the long-awaited keeper in the US cartoon series The
mise with the essence, to cave in and drama was cast with couldn’t possibly sequel. “I just thought it would be one of Simpsons.
the core of the book, resign too easily,” several black and Asian comment”. However, those innumerable projects that never Davies was the brains behind Colin
but I was less both- Mullin said. actors. Some this line never appeared see the light of day. For me, as a writer, Firth’s wet shirt moment as Mr Darcy in
ered about the “The adaptation campaigners have in the book; it was it would simply be time-wasting, dis- the 1995 BBC adaptation of Pride and
periphery. There shows him accused producers of coined by the tracting noise,” he told Radio Times. Prejudice, and has boasted about insert-
were several oc- fighting including race without screenwriter Andrew “Almost 30 years after writing A Suita- ing a bath scene in every drama he has
casions where I back.” depicting racism. Davies. ble Boy, I was now immersed in A Suita- written. This would have been a little
thought: ‘That’s ble Girl. I was not going to let Boy stran- racy for Seth’s novel, however. “Did I
brilliant, An- gle Girl.” put one into A Suitable Boy? Not quite,
drew. It really many of the book’s peri- ter. Nair has also taken credit for insist- After reluctantly agreeing to a meet- no,” he said.
works. It may pheral figures, though it ing that characters who would have ing, he was impressed by the producers’ Despite its doorstop size and
not be what I still boasts a cast of 110. spoken in Urdu and Hindustani used seriousness and enthusiasm. 600,000-word length, A Suitable Boy
wrote, but it’s On the advice of Mira Nair, those languages on screen. “Once I talked to them, I realised that proved a global bestseller, at more than
true to the spirit of the director, Davies also gave A Suitable Boy features an all-Indian even without my involvement, they three million copies.
the book and the greater prominence to certain cast led by the newcomer Tanya Man- had in fact lined up lots and lots of The first episode will be broadcast at
characters’.” characters including Mrs iktala, 23, who plays Lata, a free-spirit- ducks in a row. There were only two or 9pm on BBC One this Sunday. Indian
The television Mahesh Kapoor, the devout ed student who resists an arranged three ducks missing — the largest miss- audiences will be able to stream the
version cuts out wife of a government minis- marriage. Star names include the Bolly- ing duck, of course, was me.” series on Netflix.

Justify your existence or be culled, Ken Bruce tells BBC bosses

Matthew Moore
Ken Bruce, the Radio 2 presenter, has
called for a “cull of managers” at the
BBC, saying that bosses should be
forced to justify their existence to
remain on the payroll.
Bruce, whose mid-morning show is
the most popular programme on Brit-
ish radio, said he loved the national
broadcaster but believed it was over-
managed.
The veteran DJ complained that
licence fee money that should be spent
on programming was wasted on office
bureaucrats and luxuries such as the di-
rector-general’s chauffeur-driven car.
Bruce, 69, said the corporation was a
“frustrating place to work” and it some-
times felt there was a department
devoted to keeping creative ideas off
the air.
“I do sometimes think a cull of man-
agers would be no bad thing,” he told
the Radio Moments Conversations pod-
cast, hosted by David Lloyd. “Every so
often they say ‘we are doing that, we are
going to cut the management layers’.
And somehow, even if they do, they
come back within a few years.”
Bruce challenged BBC staff who
were not directly involved in
programme-making to “justify your ex-
istence”.
He said: “Unfortunately, part of our
slice of the licence fee has to pay for the
director-general’s car, things like that,
and a policy unit. How much does
Radio 2 need a policy unit dealing with
government?”
He added: “The basic thing is the
programmes and once you start forget-
ting about them, you’re in trouble.”
Bruce is Radio 2’s longest-serving DJ,
having hosted the mid-morning slot
since 1992. Last year his show passed
The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show on Radio 2
to become the most listened-to pro-
gramme on British radio, with an aver-
age weekly audience of almost 8.5 mil-
lion, many tuning in for the daily Pop-
Master quiz.
His accusations of BBC profligacy
could prove incendiary, as the corpora-
Ken Bruce
lamented seeing
the BBC “shooting
itself in the foot”
tion plans to strip free TV licences for
millions of over-75s who are not in re-
ceipt of pension credit. The broadcaster
is also laying off thousands of staff as it
seeks to stem £125 million in corona-
virus-related losses on top of its previ-
ous £800 million-a-year savings target.
Bruce earned £280,000 from the BBC
last year, less than Radio 2 colleagues
including Jeremy Vine (£290,000), Zoe
Ball (£370,000) and Steve Wright
(£465,000). Lord Hall of Birkenhead,
the director-general, is entitled to a car
and driver worth £30,000 a year, on top
of his £450,000 annual salary. His suc-
cessor Tim Davie starts in September.
Bruce told the podcast: “It was always
said there was a famous part of the BBC
called the programme prevention de-
partment, which existed purely to stop
you getting your ideas on air. I’m afraid
sometimes it can seem like that at the
BBC. I’m a huge admirer of the organi-
sation. But you can scratch your head
sometimes and see itself shooting itself
in the foot. And you think ‘please,
please don’t do that to an organisation
we all love’.”
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A&E four-hour targets may end as doctors back change
Kat Lay Health Correspondent
The four-hour A&E waiting time target
is a step closer to being scrapped after
senior doctors said that they would no
longer oppose the plans.
The Academy of Medical Royal Col-
leges (AoMRC), which represents 23
medical royal colleges and faculties,
writes in a letter to The Times
published today that it is time to “move
away from one-dimensional metrics,
Lives adrift Boats seized from migrants trying to cross the Channel are piling up at a secure compound in Dover. More than 2,500 have made it to Britain this year
Building companies face ban on
‘exploitative’ leasehold contracts
Andrew Ellson
Consumer Affairs Correspondent
Jonathan Ames, Martina Lees
Builders face a ban on selling leasehold
homes after the government’s legal
advisers called for reforms to stop
freeholders exploiting flat owners.
The Law Commission publishes a
two-year review today which recom-
mends that England and Wales ditch
leasehold in favour of “commonhold”.
In future people buying flats would
not have to pay ground rent or
“excessive” service charges and fees to
third-party investors. Commonhold al-
lows residents of blocks of flats to own
the freehold for their units and manage
the shared areas through a company.
The commission also proposes
making it easier and cheaper for Brit-
ain’s four million leasehold owners to
buy out their freeholds or manage their
own developments.
Ministers will now consider the
recommendations; building companies
are expected to lobby against a ban.
such as the four-hour A&E target”. The
Royal College of Emergency Medicine
(RCEM) is also now backing the
change, highlighting the need to avoid
a repeat of last winter when patients
were frequently left on trolleys in corri-
dors as hospitals were swamped.
Matt Hancock, the health secretary,
and NHS England officials claim the
goal to treat, admit or discharge 95 per
cent of patients within four hours of
arrival at A&E is no longer clinically
Leasehold has been likened to a
“feudal” system of property ownership
because the tenant is only buying the
right to stay in the property for a set
period, usually 99 or 125 years. Over the
term of the lease, the freeholder collects
a ground rent and levies fees for
maintenance and repair. On many
developments, leaseholders have to
apply to their freeholder and pay fees to
be able to make internal changes.
Leaseholders say that the fees are
often excessive and they have little
control over their homes or how their
developments are run. Trying to buy
out a freehold can be costly because the
leaseholder has to pay the freeholder’s
legal costs.
In recent years, builders such as
Taylor Wimpey have sold the freeholds
of their developments to the highest
bidder, with many being held offshore
by anonymous investors.
In the report, the Law Commission
states: “Commonhold can be used in-
stead, and we would go as far as to say
it should be used in preference to lease-
appropriate and they have been piloting
plans to replace it. Critics say the gov-
ernment wants to drop a target it is
embarrassed by and that was last met in
July 2015. In February, before Covid-19
hit the UK, only 82.8 per cent of patients
were seen within four hours and at
major A&Es the figure was 72.9 per cent.
Despite reduced patients, hospitals
achieved only 92.8 per cent last month.
Carrie MacEwen, chairwoman of the
AoMRC, said: “We need to move away
hold, because it overcomes the inher-
ent limitations of leasehold ownership.”
Commonhold has been available in
England and Wales since 2002 but few-
er than 20 developments have used it.
The commission says that developers
prefer leasehold because it allows them
to secure “ongoing income-streams”
once they have sold the property.
“Government must therefore decide
whether . . . commonhold should be
made compulsory or whether develop-
ers should (as is currently the case) be
left to choose between using leasehold
or commonhold for the sale of flats.”
Building companies say penalties or a
ban on leasehold sales would increase
the cost of flats when the government
has set ambitious housebuilding targets.
Katie Kendrick, 40, a nurse who has
campaigned for the changes, took on a
£1.7 billion fund last year run by David
Cameron’s brother-in-law in a group
action. With more than 60 owners of
new leasehold houses across the north-
west, Mrs Kendrick is forcibly buying
the freehold of her home from Adriatic
from one-dimensional metrics, such as
the four-hour A&E target, towards a set
of clinical standards that will drive
improvement for patients from the
minute they seek urgent help until they
are discharged.”
Dr Katherine Henderson, president
of RCEM, said: “Last winter was dread-
ful, we were at an all-time low. The idea
that we could drift back to that state is
just too much to think is possible.”
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Land 3 (GR1) Limited. Their joint free-
holder is controlled by Long Harbour, a
fund founded by William Astor, the
half-brother of Samantha Cameron.
Mrs Kendrick and her husband,
Stephen, who have a son, Jack, eight,
paid £214,995 for a leasehold house in
Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, in 2014. The
price of their freehold trebled to £13,350
when the builder sold it to Adriatic.
After the group notice was served,
Adriatic agreed a price close to the
£3,500 the housebuilder had originally
told Mrs Kendrick. “I’m expecting our
and their legal costs to be almost as
much as the freehold. In future, you
wouldn’t have to pay that.” Home-
ground, Long Harbour’s freehold man-
agement arm, has said that inaccurate
pricing at the time of purchase is a
matter for those involved in that sale.
Luke Hall, the minister for housing,
said: “The current system needs reform.
We will carefully consider the recom-
mendations, which are a significant
milestone in our reform programme, as
we create a better deal for homeowners.”
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Privatisation warning
Speculation is growing that the
London transport network could
be part-privatised after the
government said it would
consider Transport for London’s
“current model” as part of a
review being carried out after a
£1.6 billion taxpayer bailout in
May. TfL runs the Underground,
buses and overground trains. An
official said the study would also
look at higher fares and more
driverless trains, but Mick Lynch
of the RMT union promised “the
mother of all battles” in response.
Mayor racially abused
The mayor of Bristol has revealed
that he was racially abused by
Britain First supporters and Black
Lives Matter protesters after
deciding to remove a sculpture of
Jen Reid, a BLM campaigner,
from the empty plinth on which a
statue of the slaver Edward
Colston had stood. Marvin Rees
said that BLM activists had called
him an “Uncle Tom”.
Taxi driver crackdown
New rules designed to root out
rogue taxi drivers will be brought
in after child exploitation scandals
in towns such as Rochdale and
Rotherham. The national
standards, which councils will be
expected to implement, will
require drivers to undergo an
enhanced criminal record check
every six months instead of up to
every three years at present.
Police officer targeted
A police officer arrived for work
to find their belongings had been
vandalised with a swastika by a
colleague. Greater Manchester
police are investigating the
“disgraceful and disgusting act” as
a hate crime and said that there
was no place for such behaviour
in policing. The force would not
confirm the gender or religion of
the victim to protect their identity.
Material is a cut above
British engineers have helped to
create the world’s first uncuttable
material. Inspired by the skin of
grapefruit and the shells of
molluscs, Proteus is made of
ceramic spheres encased in a
cellular aluminium structure. The
research team, including scientists
from Durham University, say it
could be used to make bike locks
and lightweight armour.
the times | Tuesday July 21 2020
‘Death only way out, Depp told me’
David Brown
Johnny Depp’s former wife accused the
actor yesterday of repeatedly threaten-
ing to kill her, disfigure her face if she
abandoned him and have her raped if
she wore revealing clothes. Amber
Heard told the High Court in London
that their relationship was scarred by
his drug-taking, violence and jealousy.
Depp, 57, is suing Dan Wootton, the
executive editor of The Sun, and the
newspaper’s publisher over an article in
2018 that described him as a “wife beat-
er”. As Depp watched, Heard, 34, told
the court: “The physical abuse and the
worst of the verbal abuse would usually
happen when he was drunk or high on
drugs, which was often. Much of the
time he had difficulty recalling what he
had done once he had slept it off.”
Heard, a star of the Aquaman super-
hero film, claimed that Depp openly
started taking cocaine after Keith Rich-
ards, the Rolling Stones guitarist,
visited his private Bahamas island in
2013. “It soon became clear that it was
turning into a habit, which, combined
with drinking and use of other drugs,
many of them on prescription, became
a problem,” she said.
The Sun relies on 14 alleged incidents
of domestic violence, all denied by
Depp. “The physical abuse included
punching, slapping, kicking, head-
butting and choking me, as well as
throwing me into things, pulling me by
my hair and shoving me or pushing me
to the ground,” Heard said. “He threw
things at me, especially glass bottles.”
Heard said the abuse contributed to
her suffering “a severe decline” in her
mental and physical health. “I was
afraid he was going to kill me, either
intentionally or just by losing control
and going too far,” she said. “He explic-
itly threatened to kill me many times.”
Depp told her that “death was the
only way out of the relationship” and if
she left he would respond by “carving
my face up so no one else would want
me”, she said, adding that his “control-
ling and intimidating behaviour” in-
creased during their relationship.
“When I became involved with John-
ny everything of mine suddenly be-
came not good enough,” she said: “My
clothes weren’t right. My doctor wasn’t
right. I would be offered alternatives
supplied by Johnny.” Heard said she
stopped wearing revealing dresses for
red carpet events because of the “verbal
and psychological abuse”. “He started
saying things like, ‘Well, I’m going to
have to watch you get raped’,” she said.
The Pumpkin and Potatohead claims Fathers4Justice use case
David Brown
Leonardo DiCaprio was “Pumpkin-
head”, Channing Tatum was “potato-
head” and the actor Jim Sturgess was
simply “Jim Turd Sturgess”.
Amber Heard told the High Court
yesterday that Johnny Depp, who
believed that his wife had affairs with
male and female co-stars, including
Kevin Costner, Eddie Redmayne and
Kelli Garner, would make up nick-
names for her alleged
lovers.
Depp was alleged to
have believed that Heard
began sleeping with Elon
Musk, the Tesla and
SpaceX billionaire, soon
after their marriage,
and had an affair
with her former
“wife” Tasya
van Ree, the
court has been
told. Heard
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Like dating a king:
the secret romance
S
oon after “dating a king” (David
Amber Heard Brown writes). After
began a meeting on the set of
relationship The Rum Diary in
with Johnny 2009, a comedy-drama
Depp, she discovered based on the novel by
that a secret romance Hunter S Thompson,
with him was like Heard said the actor
Heard added: “He has a unique ability
to use his charisma to convey a certain
impression of reality. He is very good at
manipulating people. With me, he was
able to express contrition after acts of
violence.
“He would blame his actions on a
self-created third party, which he often
called ‘the monster’. He would speak
about it as if it was another person or
personality.” She claimed that Depp
surrounded himself with doctors, law-
yers and executives who failed to give
him “honest feedback”.
“Johnny lives in a state of weaponised
said Depp was “very jealous” and she
would have to justify to him her role in
any movie, particularly if it involved
kissing or a sex scene.
“He would insist every male actor
was trying to sleep with me and/or that
I had had an affair with them,” she said.
“He accused me of having affairs with
each of my co-stars, movie after movie:
Eddie Redmayne, James Franco, Jim
Sturgess, Kevin Costner, Liam Hems-
worth, Billy Bob Thornton, Channing
Tatum; even women co-
stars like Garner.
“He also accused me of
having affairs with stars I
auditioned with, like
Leonardo DiCaprio.”
Heard said she would
always tell Depp of any
Leonardo
DiCaprio, far
left, and
Channing
Tatum
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JULIA QUENZLER VIA REUTERS
Amber Heard and
Johnny Depp faced
each other across the
High Court yesterday
romantic relationship
then began.”
Depp invited her to
spend a weekend at
the Trump SoHo hotel
in New York in late
2011. “I booked a room
and met him there,”
she said. “I remember
I had to go out to run
an errand, and when I
came back, my bags
were in his room. He
said he had them
moved and I would
stay with him now. At
the time, I thought it
was kind of romantic.”
She said Depp
wanted to keep their
relationship secret as
his separation from
Paradis was not public.
“When we were
together it was always
just the two of us. We
would be at his
compound, behind
had begun pursuing drinking wine and invited her to meet the gates. It was like I was
her. She was in a
relationship with the
talking. We had a lot
of things in common,
actor and the British
director Bruce
dating a king, with his
level of fame and the
artist Tasya van Ree
and Depp was with the
like blues music, I love
blues. After that shoot,
Robinson in a hotel
room. “When I turned
way he lived.
“I learnt then that I
actress Vanessa I didn’t hear from him up, this time it was had to suspend all
Paradis. directly, although he just Johnny,” she said. expectations of
“I thought he was would send me gifts. “By this time I had normalcy, but I later
charismatic and One time he tried to broken up with Tasya. came to understand
interesting,” she told have a guitar delivered Johnny told me that how this protected
the High Court to my house.” his relationship with him, isolated me and
yesterday. “We would Heard said she next Vanessa Paradis was facilitated
hang out sometimes saw Depp two years also over, but it wasn’t unacceptable
with the director, just later. Depp’s publicist public yet. Our behaviour.”
victimhood,” she said. “To hear him talk outbursts of anger and there were times Kate James, Heard’s former personal
about his childhood or past relation- when, yes, I lost my cool,” she said. assistant, said last week that the actor
ships, he is always the victim. He func- She admitted taking the drug asked her to help to draft a letter that
tions off zero accountability.” She said MDMA and magic mushrooms after falsely claimed that Ms McMillan was
she could not confront him about his attending the Coachella festival on her just a friend, which meant she would
alcohol and drug abuse as “he would get 30th birthday without Depp but denied not fall foul of visa regulations. “I knew
angry and call me ‘the moral police’ ”. being addicted to “cocaine and liquor”. this to be untrue, and that Amber was
The court was played part of a re- Heard also denied lying to try to therefore wilfully lying,” said Ms James,
corded conversation in which Heard cover up her British assistant’s illegal who was sacked by Heard in 2015.
admitted “clocking” Depp in the jaw, work in the US. She said she invited Depp has told the court he was never
pelting him with pots and pans and tell- Savannah McMillan to the US as “a violent towards Heard, that she
ing him: “You are such a baby. Grow the friend” who “ran errands”. attacked him, and has accused his ex-
f*** up.” Heard later signed a letter to US wife of “building a dossier” of false
Heard told the court she threw ob- Homeland Security saying Ms McMil- allegations as an “insurance policy”.
jects “only to escape” Depp. “I did have lan was not working for her in the US. The trial continues.
scene that was “even questionably
romantic”.
to start divorce campaign
“He’d accuse me of having this affair
on screen with this sexy person who Charlie Parker for divorce, would make it easier to re-
was younger than him,” she added. “He move fathers from families. The bill is
would also call directors I was working Fathers4Justice seized on the Depp expected to become law next year.
with on set or after he saw the film cut case to launch a new campaign for Matt O’Connor, the group’s founder,
to complain about nudity or how I was divorce reform. said the Divorce4Men campaign would
portrayed.” The group, known for stunts includ- highlight divorces such as that of Jeff
Heard claimed that Depp would try ing scaling Buckingham Palace, parked Bezos, the Amazon owner, “to stop
to control what she wore as he “consid- a van outside the Royal Courts of people getting married”. “It’s a man
ers himself as an old-fashioned guy”. on, bear
Justice in central London, bear- trap, he sa
trap,” said. “The divorce laws
“He demeaned me any time I tried to ing the words “Ditch The g
are a gold-diggers’ charter.
wear anything that could be seen as Witch” over an image of They don’t encourage
sexy, calling me a ‘whore’, ‘slut’, ‘fame- the actor and Amberr wom to be financially
women
hungry’ and ‘an attention whore’, but it Heard. ind
independent following
got worse over time,” she added. Their relationship di
divorce. It’s a licence to
She said Depp had accused her of was “the greatest ad- b
bill, giving greedy
having wanted to “get f***ed on set; get vert for divorce”, the b
bridezillas a lifetime’s
f***ed with f***ing James f***ing group said, adding m
maintenance.”
Franco”. that the process in The campaign seeks
She said that Depp had used his se- Britain was unfair to an end to spousal
vered finger dipped in paint to write the men. It claimed that thee mai
maintenance and a legal
name of Billy Bob Thornton, Heard’s Divorce, Dissolution andnd presu
presumption of 50/50
co-star in London Fields, on a mirror Separation Bill, which shared parenting and div-
during a rampage in Australia in 2015. would add a “no fault”” reason iision
sion of ass
assets.
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News China

Raab bans arms sales to deny

Lucy Fisher Defence Editor Arms Trade, a British-based organisa-
Behind the story tion. This included £2.5 million of licen-
George Grylls
ces for small arms. The government

B
Britain has imposed an arms embargo
on Hong Kong that bans the export of
equipment that could be used for
“internal repression”.
Dominic Raab, the foreign secretary,
also confirmed that Britain’s extradi-
tion treaty with the territory was “im-
mediately and indefinitely” suspended.
Mr Raab told MPs yesterday that the
measures were a “necessary and pro-
portionate response” to a national
security law imposed by China on
Hong Kong that effectively outlaws
dissent. It remains unclear how Beijing
will enforce the legislation but Mr Raab
warned: “The UK is watching and the
whole world is watching.”
The statement came as Mike Pom-
peo, the US secretary of state, was fly-
ing to London to meet the prime minis-
ter. The pair are expected to discuss
security concerns over Huawei, Hong
Kong and the South China Sea.
Mike Pompeo, the US secretary of
state, flew in to Britain yesterday
Mr Raab told the Commons: “Given
the role China has now assumed for the
internal security of Hong Kong and the
authority it’s exerting over law enforce-
ment, the UK will extend to Hong Kong
the arms embargo that we’ve applied to
mainland China since 1989.”
The export of “lethal weapons, their
components and ammunition” are
banned, as well as equipment that could
be used to repress dissent among the
local population, including shackles,
intercept technology, firearms and
smoke grenades.
In 2014 pro-democracy protesters in
Hong Kong alleged that tear gas gre-
nades used against them had been
made in Britain. Questions were also
raised last year about whether British-
made products were used by the Hong
ritain is a major
exporter of arms to
Hong Kong. Since 2014
British companies have
sold at least £9.5 million
worth of weapons to the former
colony, according to the
Campaign Against Arms Trade
(George Grylls writes).
That year Britain said that it
would review export licences to
the territory after Hong Kong
police used tear gas to break up
demonstrators from the
Umbrella Movement, but a year
later exports began again. It is
thought that British-made tear
gas was used by Hong Kong
police last year to suppress
democracy protesters after a
photo of a gas canister was linked
to a Hampshire-based company.
The UK College of Policing is
known to have offered training
courses to Hong Kong police.
Reacting to the protests last
year, Jeremy Hunt, who was
foreign secretary at the time, told
the Commons that Britain would
not issue export licences for
crowd control weapons unless it
was satisfied that human rights
concerns had been addressed.
In recent weeks other Five
Eyes allies, including the US and
Canada, have implemented
export bans on arms sales.
Trade in arms has slowed in
recent years. According to the
South China Morning Post, the
UK sold £1.4 billion of snipers,
machine guns and other weapons
to Hong Kong from 2008 to 2014.
Kong authorities against activists
during mass demonstrations. Last sum-
mer Jeremy Hunt, as foreign secretary,
announced the suspension of future
licences for tear gas and other crowd
control equipment to Hong Kong, after
accusations of police brutality during
demonstrations. It appeared that
existing export licences, including open
licences that only expired this year, had
remained in place, however.
Britain has licensed £9.5 million of
arms to Hong Kong since 2014, includ-
ing “crowd control” ammunition, ac-
cording to the Campaign Against the
also approved 13 open licences, which
allow an unlimited transfer of items
during a period. As recently as last year
the UK College of Policing provided
training for forces in Hong Kong.
Mr Raab said that China’s new
national security law in Hong Kong was
a “clear and serious violation” of the
UK-China Joint Declaration that
underpinned the return of the territory
in 1997 and “a violation of China’s freely
assumed international obligations”.
This month the government outlined
a bespoke immigration route for British
National (Overseas) passport holders
in Hong Kong to live in the UK for five
years and seek a path to citizenship.
About 200,000 people are expected to
take up the offer by 2025, according to
internal Foreign Office estimates.
Mr Raab also said that the govern-
ment had “grave concerns” about the
“gross human rights abuses” against
Uighur Muslims that are taking place in
Xinjiang, in northwest China. Tough
rhetoric on standing up to China was
interwoven with warmer sentiments
about the nation’s economic record and
the need for London and Beijing to
work together.
Stressing that Britain strove for a pos-
itive relationship, Mr Raab acknowl-
edged China’s “remarkable success in
raising millions of its own people out of
poverty” and paid tributes to its science,
technology and renewables sectors.
There was scope for co-operation on
trade and climate change, he said.
Earlier the prime minister had
promised to strike a balance in his ap-
proach to China, resisting pressure
from hawks to adopt a hardline policy.
“I’m not going to be pushed into a
position of becoming a knee-jerk
Sinophobe on every issue, somebody
who is automatically anti-China,” he
said. “But we do have serious concerns.”
The Chinese ambassador to London
criticised Britain’s approach. In a BBC
interview on Sunday Liu Xiaoming
accused Mr Johnson’s administration
of “dancing to the tune” of the US and
said that the West was trying to foment
a “new cold war” with China. He also
rejected allegations of widespread
abuses against Uighurs, accusing “so-
called western intelligence” of making
false allegations against Beijing.
Thunderer, page 28
Anti-China war games, page 32 Police officers detaining a protester at Hong Kong Polytechnic University last

Students silent in fear of retribution Quentin Letts

Charlie Parker in Britain fear that Chinese classmates mised”. The student added: “Such fear

Hong Kong students in Britain will stay

silent during political discussions about
China on university campuses as fears
rise of retribution from Beijing.
Speaking anonymously to The Times,
students at Oxford, Sheffield, Warwick,
Loughborough and Nottingham said it
was too dangerous to openly campaign
for democratic rights in the territory or
even voice opinions in classrooms.
China imposed a law limiting the
freedoms of residents of Hong Kong
last month, breaching the 1997 hand-
over agreement that afforded them
will report them to the embassy in
London if they argue in favour of the
territory’s independence from the
mainland.
The students, aged between 19 and
22, said that their activism would be
driven underground and online to pro-
tect their identities and the safety of
their friends and families back home.
They said that they would be forced
to rely on western students to front
their protests and become the faces of
the movement. It will mark an end to
the often lively and occasionally violent
exchanges between Hong Kong and
does not stop even if we are out of China
due to the toxic culture and practice of
the overseas Chinese community."
A Sheffield student said: "Many of us
Cool croupier plays
have deleted [social media] posts and
self-censored ourselves because there
is a causal relationship between what
a dangerous game
we say and our personal safety.”
A third said: “Even if such a law has China. A few months ago we were
not been passed, people like us face Political Sketch going to be Beijing’s eager handmaid.
doxxing [maliciously searching for Now we are so astonished by the
information about a person online], Chinese government’s behaviour
intimidation from opponents. The that, as Mr Raab disclosed, we were
introduction of the national security ripping up our extradition treaty
law definitely left a huge impact [on] with Hong Kong “immediately and

rights not enjoyed by people in
mainland China.
The law gives Beijing the power to
extradite dissidents in the former Brit-
ish colony to the mainland. Under the
legislation pro-democracy demonstra-
tors or protesters demanding inde-
pendence can be jailed for treason.
Police can also search premises without
a court order. The law also applies to
those living outside China.
Many Hong Kong students studying
mainland Chinese students, which
have coloured campus life in Britain for
years.
Some students said that they would
not participate in student union votes
or sign petitions because using their re-
al names would pose too great a risk.
One student at Warwick argued that
the law “strips us of all sense of security
to speak without fear of being arrested
or abused, and have the personal safety
of our friends and families compro-
our decision-making in terms of the
methods and scale of campaigning
when we are back in the campus.
"Everyone keeps mentioning that the
UK is a free country that allows
freedom of speech. However, the
university keeps letting us down when
they try to classify the arguments
between HK people and China
students like personal arguments.
“The attitude of the UK university
itself is a problem.”
D
ominic Raab does
nonchalant aggression
well. His black-belt-judo
physique helps, as does
that raised vein on the
side of his head. It suggests a throb
of fury below the surface. If you
saw it on a hijacker, you might
negotiate rather than call his bluff.
Mr Raab came to the Commons
to discuss the latest moves against
indefinitely”. A terse expression. It
could have been accompanied by a
Handel chorus singing “forever, and
ever, and ever”, yet the foreign
secretary spoke without theatricality.
There was just that Raab-ish
indifference, so low-key it could be
mistaken for weariness. There is
something of the roulette-table
croupier about Mr Raab. A gambler
(Mr X, or even Mr Xi) has placed a
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Hong Kong tools of repression
year. Pro-democracy campaigners previously claimed that British-made tear gas grenades have been used against them
large, dangerous bet. It is the duty of
the croupier to acknowledge the
stake and proceed in a professional
manner, even while thinking
“jeepers, if that bastard wins, this
place is going to be bankrupt”.
He had begun by paying elaborate
compliments to China: its
“extraordinary transformation in
recent decades”, its “ancient
culture” and enormous economy.
When they mention “ancient
culture”, you know relations are
stinky. Britain, Mr Raab said,
recognised China’s “remarkable
success in raising millions of its own
people out of poverty”. What a pity
western governments
simultaneously did the very opposite
to their own populations. There was
“enormous scope for positive
engagement”, continued Raab. But:
gross human rights abuses, failure to
live by international obligations,
violation of the Hong Kong joint
declaration. The extradition treaty
was toast. Immediate and indefinite.
The House agreed, although as
Alistair Carmichael (Lib Dem,
Orkney & Shetland) sorrowfully
said, ripping up an extradition treaty
is hardly a mark of progress. Mr
Carmichael went on to ask if Mr
Raab agreed we were now looking
at possible genocide with, Lord help
us, claims of shipments of human
hair from Xinjiang province. Several
MPs spoke of alleged state brutality
in Xinjiang province, as shown on
BBC One’s The Andrew Marr Show
on Sunday when the Chinese
ambassador had an awkward time.
That ambassador is one of the
bubblier figures on the London
diplomatic circuit. To see him
wriggle like that was troubling, yet
oddly fascinating. Mr Raab told the
Commons that he himself had not
seen that video footage until the
Marr show. That surprised me.
A rare moment of levity came
when Mr Raab said China wanted to
crowbar some patsy to run the
World Intellectual Property
Organisation. This generated
laughter, either because MPs
thought Beijing was so incorrigible
or because they had not heard of the
organisation and were amused by
the sound of it. I don’t see why. It
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sounds a perfect job for Chris
Grayling.
Lisa Nandy, the shadow foreign
secretary, scratched around for
points of disagreement with Mr
Raab. These are early days but Ms
Nandy, fiddling with her hair, does
not convey much weight. If anyone
put the brakes on Mr Raab it was a
couple of Tory backbenchers:
Andrew Mitchell (Sutton
Coldfield), arguing that on climate
change we had more in common
with China than with Donald
Trump, and Richard Graham
(Gloucester). The latter once did
diplomatic bit and bobs in China.
He spotted that we were still letting
our judiciary work in Hong Kong.
Was that a sign the joint
declaration could yet be saved? Mr
Raab, deadpan: “We are watching
very carefully.”
The judges in question include
our dear friend Lady Hale. What a
wonderful bargaining chip she
could become for croupier Raab.
Beijing may be so eager to get rid of
the old clucker, it might play nice if
we replace her with a sunnier soul.
China hawks split on
who gets any credit
Eleni Courea Political Reporter
It is one of the most powerful groupings
of Tory MPs and has secured two policy
reversals in a few weeks, first on Hua-
wei and now on Britain’s extradition
treaty with Hong Kong. But like the
European Research Group (ERG) of
hardline Brexiteers at the height of its
success, it is riven by division and in-
fighting, The Times has learnt.
The Conservative Party’s China
hawks are divided more over politics
and personality than policy, it is under-
stood. They are a mixed bag, populated
on the one hand with senior figures
such as Sir Iain Duncan Smith and
David Davis, and on the other with
ambitious younger moderates such as
Tom Tugendhat and Tobias Ellwood.
They have formed distinct factions
according to their politics, with Mr
Tugendhat leading a new China Re-
search Group, modelled on the ERG,
which includes Damian Green,
Andrew Bowie and members of last
year’s intake such as Dehenna Davison
and Alicia Kearns.
Sir Iain is chairman of the Inter-
Parliamentary Alliance on China,
while a total of 59 Tory China hawks are
brought together in the so-called Hua-
wei Interest Group. This group signed a
letter to the prime minister calling for a
legally binding date to remove Huawei
from Britain’s 5G network.
One member of the group said it was
a sufficient vehicle for change and that
“another Conservative group isn’t
necessary”, accusing Mr Tugendhat of
“careerism”.
An MP said Brexit hardliners who
were exercised about China were in
search of a new “project”. “There are
some of the usual customers, the old
grandees if you like, who need a project
to keep busy and now that the ERG and
Treatment of Uighurs ‘is
reminder of Nazi crimes’
Eleni Courea
The Chinese government’s treatment
of the Uighurs bears “similarities” with
the atrocities committed by Nazi Ger-
many, the head of Britain’s main Jewish
body has warned.
In a letter to the Chinese ambassador
yesterday, Marie van der Zyl, president
of the Board of Deputies of British Jews,
wrote that “China has a choice between
great glory and eternal shame”.
She cited drone footage of Uighurs
being led, bound and blindfolded, on to
trains that are suspected to be carrying
them to so-called re-education camps
in the Xinjiang region.
When confronted with the video on
BBC One’s The Andrew Marr Show on
Sunday Liu Xiaoming, the ambassador,
said: “Sometimes you have a transfer of
prisons and prisoners, in any country.”
There have been extensive testimo-
nies from survivors of the internment
camps who say they attempt to make
Uighur people, a Muslim minority that
lives primarily in the north of the
country, renounce their religion and
culture.
In her letter to the ambassador, Ms
Van der Zyl wrote: “Nobody could
watch the segment of The Andrew Marr
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Brexit are done, they’ve migrated
across here,” they said.
A row is brewing over which faction
claims credit for the decision to shelve
Britain’s extradition treaty with Hong
Kong after Beijing passed a national
security law which jeopardises its inde-
pendence. The move came amid con-
cerns that Beijing could try to use
the treaty against Hong Kong pro-
democracy activists who have gone
overseas. The UK does not have an
extradition treaty with China.
Sir Iain, a former Tory leader, tabled
an amendment for the treaty to be torn
up this month, while the China Re-
search Group sent a letter to Mr Raab
calling for it to be suspended. Rather
than revel in their shared victory the
two sides are already squabbling over
who was responsible for it.
There is no sign yet of any significant
policy split among the China hawks,
but a group of 20 backbench MPs, the
majority of them Conservatives, are
due to see the US secretary of state
Mike Pompeo today before his meeting
with Boris Johnson. The group includes
Sir Iain, Mr Davis and Mr Green, but
not Mr Tugendhat.
As well as piling pressure on Mr
Johnson to take a harder stance to-
wards Beijing, the result is likely to
stoke further division among the Con-
servative Party’s Sinosceptics.
Mr Tugendhat said he was “delight-
ed” with the decision to suspend the
extradition treaty.
He turned down the meeting with Mr
Pompeo because the China Research
Group has a meeting with the Japanese
defence minister at the same time. “I
was delighted to be invited to meet
Mike Pompeo but he agreed it was
more important to build the alliance
with Japan than to consolidate old
friendships,” he said.
Show on which you appeared yesterday
and fail to notice the similarities
between what is alleged to be happen-
ing in the People’s Republic of China
today and what happened in Nazi Ger-
many 75 years ago.
“People being forcibly loaded onto
trains; beards of religious men being
trimmed; women being sterilised; and
the grim spectre of concentration
camps.”
Ms Van der Zyl urged China to open
its doors to “a full and impartial inter-
national investigation” and end any
oppression of religious and ethnic
minorities. She wrote: “Germany has
rightly paid a heavy price for its perse-
cution of the Jewish people. Its historic
guilt rests heavily on it and, 75 years on,
its leaders and representatives con-
tinue to do all they can to make amends
for the sins of their forebears.”
Dominic Raab, the foreign secretary,
said yesterday that Beijing was guilty of
“gross and egregious” human rights
violations that were “reminiscent of
something not seen for a long time”.
Labour is calling for the government
to impose immediate sanctions on
individuals and organisations who are
associated with human rights abuses
against the Uighurs in China.
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Ministers lavished millions on towns
in marginal Tory seats before polls
Oliver Wright Policy Editor
George Grylls
Ministers used a government regenera-
tion scheme to target millions of
pounds in grants at marginal Conserv-
ative seats before the last election, an
analysis by The Times suggests.
Today a report by the National Au-
dit Office (NAO) reveals the pro-
cess by which ministers selected
101 towns in England to each bene-
fit from a £25 million boost to their
economies last September.
It shows 61 of the towns were
chosen at the discretion of
ministers led by Robert Jen-
rick, the housing and com-
munities secretary. An ana-
lysis shows that all but one of
them were either Conserva-
tive-held seats or Tory tar-
gets before the election.
Of those held by Con-
servative MPs, 80 per cent
had majorities of less than
Cabinet meets in person for first time since March
Eleni Courea Political Reporter
Boris Johnson’s cabinet will meet in
person for the first time in four months
today, around a huge table equipped
with hand sanitiser and individual
water jugs, but ministers will probably
not wear face coverings.
The 26-member top team will hold its
first in-person meeting in a large room
in the Foreign Office, where they will be
able to sit a metre apart. “We’ll be
following all the Covid-secure
5,000. Every single Labour seat target-
ed for funding fell to the Conservatives.
Only two towns chosen had Tory
majorities of more than 10,000 before
the election, one of which was Mr
Jenrick’s seat, Newark.
The revelation is likely to put pres-
sure on Mr Jenrick after controversy
over his approval of a housing develop-
ment backed by a Tory donor against
the advice of officials.
Last night Meg Hillier, who chairs
the Commons public accounts
committee, said it would look
into the matter.
“Taxpayers’ money is not
other people’s money and if
ministers were so closely in-
volved it might be seen by
some as political,” she said.
“Nine out of ten towns were
ruled out with no explana-
tion before they reached
The revelation could put
pressure on Robert Jenrick
guidance that we set out for businesses
when they’re considering having this
kind of meeting,” the prime minister’s
spokesman said.
The government’s latest guidance on
social distancing advises “wearing face
coverings when distances of two metres
cannot be kept in indoor environments,
where possible”.
Ministers have faced criticism for
sending mixed messages on face cover-
ings. They will become compulsory in
shops from Friday and are already
the starting line, while some affluent
towns are still in the running. Those
that lost out have not yet had the
chance to make their case.”
Steve Reed, the shadow communities
secretary, said: “There are now serious
concerns that ministers may have allo-
cated funding for political gain at the
2019 election, something which breaks
strict rules on impartiality.
“The secretary of state must explain
as a matter of urgency how ministers
decided where to spend this money and
why so many communities lost out.”
The £3.6 billion towns fund was un-
veiled last summer shortly after Boris
Johnson entered Downing Street as
part of his early pledges to “rebalance
growth” across England after Brexit.
Those towns selected to benefit from
the scheme were announced by Mr
Jenrick in September but his depart-
ment refused to publish the selection
criteria amid criticism that affluent
towns had been prioritised over poorer
communities. The NAO’s report
required on public transport but Matt
Hancock, the health secretary, said this
month that there were no plans to ex-
tend this rule to offices.
Ministers will enjoy grander sur-
roundings today than they normally do
in the smaller Cabinet Room in No 10.
They are expected to use the Locarno
Room, used to host foreign dignitaries.
Mr Johnson has ordered his cabinet
back to Westminster to set an example
and to help to coax more people back to
the office. The government is revising
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reveals that officials attempted to
create a set of seven criteria for deciding
which towns should benefit, including
income and skill deprivation, low pro-
ductivity and exposure to Brexit.
But while ministers accepted a
recommendation that all 40 high-pri-
ority towns identified be selected to bid
for funding they retained discretion
over the remaining 61 places allocated.
The NAO report shows that these
towns were often less in need of assist-
ance — 12 were officially classed as “low
priority’” of which, The Times’s figures
suggest, nine were in marginal seats.
A spokesman for the Ministry of
Housing, Communities and Local Gov-
ernment said: “As set out in the report
the department put in place a robust
process to identify towns for Town
Deals, which ministers followed
throughout. The selection criteria was
set by officials and took into account
factors including income deprivation,
skills, productivity and investment
opportunities.”
its guidance from August 1 to remove
advice to work from home and is
instead leaving it up to businesses to
reach arrangements with employees.
“As we move forward with the
coronavirus recovery and more people
return to work in person, the PM felt
that it was right for the cabinet to come
together,” the spokesman said.
Ministers are expected to discuss
Britain’s deteriorating relations with
China as well as the latest update on the
coronavirus pandemic.
Tuesday July 21 2020 | the times
Brexit trade
agreement in
the balance
Oliver Wright
Ministers have been warned that EU
leaders are not ready to sign off on a
Brexit trade deal compromise in ad-
vance of the latest rounds of talks that
get under way in London today.
Senior government figures played
down talk of a breakthrough after two
weeks of informal discussions between
Michel Barnier and David Frost, Boris
Johnson’s chief negotiator.
They said that although the talks had
been constructive Mr Barnier had made
clear that the kind of trade-off proposed
by the British side went beyond his ne-
gotiating mandate. He is said to have
warned Mr Frost that it would require
prior approval of member states and
that such approval would not even be
considered until the autumn.
Key sticking points remain the “level
playing field” of measures designed to
ensure fair competition between the
UK and EU and fisheries.
However, a source played down sug-
gestions that the UK would walk away
from the talks.
Mr Johnson’s official spokesman also
dampened suggestions that the latest
round of talks would prove decisive.
“The discussions . . . have continued to
be constructive but significant differen-
ces still remain,” the spokesman said.
“Our position on our sovereignty, laws
and fisheries is clear: we will not give up
our rights as an independent state.”
‘Presidential
PM sidelines
parliament’
Patrick Maguire Red Box Reporter
Boris Johnson and his advisers have
sidelined parliament through a
“presidential” approach to govern-
ment, Sir Lindsay Hoyle has said.
The Commons Speaker suggested
that the prime minister’s move to estab-
lish daily press briefings risked under-
mining MPs’ ability to hold ministers to
account.
Speaking to Matt Chorley on Times
Radio, Sir Lindsay dismissed the sug-
gestion that MPs and peers should
move to York while the parliamentary
estate was refurbished. Any move
north “isn’t going to happen”, he said.
Asked if Mr Johnson could be said to
respect parliament in the wake of last
week’s row over No 10’s attempt to
impose Chris Grayling as chairman of
the intelligence and security commit-
tee, the Speaker said that he had been
“disappointed” by the government’s
engagement with the Commons.
“The government has to respect par-
liament,” Sir Lindsay said. “Any state-
ment should be made to parliament,
not press briefings. We don’t have a
president, we have a prime minister
[who] is answerable to parliament.”
Referring to the hopes of Mr John-
son’s aides to reform Westminster and
Whitehall, Sir Lindsay said: “There is
the danger he’s being pointed towards
a presidential style. I’m not sure [if] it’s
him or people around him. It’s about
trying to change the face of politics.”
Sir Lindsay has clashed with minis-
ters over government statements
which, by convention, are delivered to
MPs. In recent years, however, govern-
ments, including Mr Johnson’s, have
announced policy shifts via the media.
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NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY

Tears as ex-MP Churchill’s

first love
letter, written in 1957, in
which he calls her “My
dear Pamela”, appears

on trial over
to follow a dinner
together that had been
revealed in overshadowed by the
death of Frederick
1957 letter Lindemann, Viscount

sexual assault
Cherwell, Churchill’s

H
e was 21 and scientific adviser during
a junior the war. He wrote:
officer, she “Poor ‘Prof ’ was a great
was the sorrow to those who

admits to affair
daughter of knew him. We had a
Britain’s representative jolly dinner together
in Hyderabad, southern notwithstanding. You
India (Valentine Low were wonderful as a
writes). companion.”
It was love at first The letter is being
Fariha Karim not about his attraction to the parlia- sight, as Winston sold by a private
mentary worker. Churchill would recall collector with
The married former MP Charlie He said: “I didn’t know how to ex- when he wrote to his International
Elphicke sobbed as he told a court that plain it to Natalie. It was an emotional mother after meeting Autograph Auctions, of
he had been having an affair while fall- attachment to someone else — I Pamela Plowden in Malaga, Spain. It is
ing for another woman he is accused of thought she would be very hurt, and I India in 1896. “I must estimated to fetch
sexually assaulting. didn’t want that . . . I didn’t think my say she is the most £1,500.
Mr Elphicke, 49, a father of two who marriage would survive this.” beautiful girl I have Pamela married
was MP for Dover until the December Of admitting the affair, he said: “She ever seen,” he wrote Victor Bulwer-Lytton,
election, told Southwark crown court had already challenged me about it, after meeting her at a 2nd Earl of Lytton, in
he eventually told his wife, Natalie, who and already suspected it, and it wasn’t polo tournament in 1902. She died in 1971.
succeeded him as MP, about the affair that type of emotional attachment.” Secunderabad.
with a woman he met through politics. He told the court he later disclosed Churchill told his Churchill said Pamela
He said that he did not tell her that he his feelings towards the parliamentary mother, who knew Plowden, left, was the
had fallen for another woman, a parlia- worker to his wife, telling Mrs Elphicke: Pamela’s family, that most beautiful girl
mentary worker who has accused him “I did not have an affair [with the she had visited he had ever seen
of sexually assaulting her twice in 2016. woman accusing him of sexual assault] Bangalore, where he
He is on trial accused of two sexual but I did proposition [her] and I wanted was stationed with thee
assaults against this woman in 2016, to have an affair. She was very hurt and Fourth Hussars. “We
and of a sexual assault against another upset. It was very difficult.” are going to try and do o
woman in 2007. He denies the charges. He admitted lying to the police, his Hyderabad together, on
Yesterday, he told the jury that at the wife, and in a defence witness an elephant. You dare
time of the 2016 assaults, he was having statement he signed. “I had dug myself not walk or the nativess
an affair with a third woman he met into such a hole, I didn’t know how to spit at Europeans,
through work. He said he had sex with get out,” he said. “I was in a complete which provokes
her three times while he was an MP. mess and I didn’t know what to do.” retaliation leading to
He said that he was suspended from In relation to the count of sexually riots.”
the Conservative Party in 2017 after assaulting a woman at his former home Pamela later told
press reports that he was accused of in 2007, three years before he became Eddie Marsh, his
sexual misconduct. Afterwards, he said, MP, he said that they had been drinking secretary: “The first
“there were a lot of rumours, a lot of talk wine in his garden before going inside time you meet Winston n
in the constituency” about his alleged his house. They found chocolate stars you see all his faults,
affair, which his wife had heard about. left by his six-year-old daughter and and the rest of your lifee
He had denied the rumours to his wife they fed them to each other, he said. “It you spend discovering
but “didn’t think she believed me”. became very flirty . . . more sexual, in a his virtues.” Although
Meanwhile, he said, in 2016 he met a silly, flirty kind of way.” He added: “I she refused Churchill’ss
parliamentary worker. He “thought she came to the conclusion that we wanted marriage proposal,
was an amazing person . . . and I lost my to kiss, because we were in this silly they remained greatt
head.” She alleged that he sexually mood and in a moment of extreme stu- friends.
assaulted her twice, on one occasion pidity I forgot who I was and I forgot Now a letter
groping her breast, kissing her and put- who she was.” He said: “I kissed her. reveals that
ting his arm around her as she went to And she kissed me back. It was a split they were still
leave. She alleges he put his hand up her second. Then she stopped me and closse 60
close
leg towards her groin on another pulled back. I stopped immediately and year
arss later.
years
occasion. pulled back.” He denies groping her Thee
When police interviewed him in breast or chasing her around singing
March 2018, he told them he was having “I’m a naughty Tory” while smacking
a sexual relationship with the other her bottom, but said of the encounter: “I
woman, but did not disclose his feelings take full responsibility because I should
for the parliamentary worker he is not have let this happen. I think it’s the
alleged to have assaulted. He said that biggest regret of my life.”
he also told his wife about the affair, but The trial continues.

Family feud son wants mother jailed Art historian’s collection of

Jonathan Ames Legal Editor
A businessman has tried to have his
75-year-old mother jailed in a family
feud over a caravan park empire worth
millions of pounds.
Michael Loveridge, 50, is embroiled
in a legal row with his parents over the
business in Bewdley, Worcestershire.
He told a judge that he had spent 20
years nurturing it, but his parents, Ivy
and Alldey, 78, are majority sharehold-
ers in the most valuable elements.
This year the son obtained court or-
ders granting him effective control of
the business partnership and five
family companies. He is now “applying
to commit his mother to prison”, his
lawyers said, for allegedly breaching or-
ders that banned his parents from “in-
terfering” in the caravan business.
Brian Averill, for the son, told the
Court of Appeal in a hearing yesterday
that the parents aimed to take back con-
Michael Loveridge and his mother, Ivy,
are in dispute over the family business
trol and “are so far anti-Michael that
they would do anything to destroy him”.
The Loveridge family runs several
static caravan sites including Riverside
Caravan Park in Bewdley, near Kidder-
minster, where the parents live, the ap-
peal judges heard. The son is a director
of several of the companies, one of
which controls £5 million of assets while
another has almost £5 million in capital,
according to Companies House records.
As majority shareholders in most of the
companies, the parents had control of
the empire until earlier this year.
In April and May, Judge Patrick
McCahill, QC, sitting in the High Court
in Birmingham, granted orders that
handed control of the everyday run-
ning of the business partnership and
several of the companies to the son.
The orders prevented them from try-
ing to remove their son as a director or
from trying to reclaim money from him.
Lawyers for the son told the court that
before the orders were made his parents
had tried “to make him bankrupt”.
The parents are appealing against the
orders, claiming that they have been
unfairly “ousted” from “their life work”.
Their lawyer, Lance Ashworth, QC,
said there was no evidence that they
had been involved in any wrongdoing
since the orders were granted.
Lady Justice Carr ruled that the hear-
ing should be expedited. The case will
return for a full hearing later this year.
friends lights up Sotheby’s
David Sanderson Arts Correspondent
Sir John Richardson found himself,
sometimes naked, at the heart of the art
world until his death last year.
The fruits of the art historian’s friend-
ships with Pablo Picasso, Lucian Freud
and Andy Warhol are now on public
view as Sotheby’s prepares to sell his
distinctive collection. It includes works
inscribed to him by Picasso, Freud and
Georges Braque as well as a Warhol
print of Mick Jagger.
Sir John, who died last year aged 95
only three years after posing nude for
Jenny Saville, is renowned for his unfin-
ished multiple-volume biography of
Picasso, whom he first met in the late
1940s. He continued to be at the centre
of the contemporary art world as a
dealer, curator and writer, forming
close friendships with many of its major
figures. “John Richardson was a man of
ravenous appetites, prodigious curiosi-
ty and impeccable taste with a magpie-
like eye,” Hannah Rothschild, his friend
and former chairwoman of the
National Gallery, said.
She said of the collection, which had
been in Sir John’s Fifth Avenue loft in
New York: “Where else could you find a
Lucian Freud self-portrait hung along-
side a Picasso drawing in a room with a
feather boa resting on a cushion made
from an 18th-century scrap of material
found in a Paris flea market?”
The sales, which are due to begin in
September, include Freud’s only known
self-etched portrait and a series of
Picasso prints including a bullfighting
scene personally inscribed “pour mon
cher ami John Richardson”.
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Bets are placed on 190m doses,

Rhys Blakely Science Correspondent ship with some of the world’s foremost
Analysis pharmaceutical and vaccine compa-
Tom Whipple Science Editor
nies will ensure the UK has the best

W
The government has secured at least hen the vaccines are proven to Until we put these chance possible of securing a vaccine
90 million doses of potential Covid-19 first work we will be ready vaccines into people, that protects those most at risk.”
vaccines from overseas companies in vaccine to go. At that point and then expose them Yesterday’s announcements re-
an attempt to spread its risk between is shown these vaccines — two naturally to the virus, flected a belief, however, that the
different technologies. to work against of which we cannot we have no idea pandemic still has a long way to run. An
The agreements with German, coronavirus, the world make at scale on whether they will NHS Covid-19 vaccine research
American and French pharmaceutical will demand British soil — will be work. registry was also launched. The online
firms were part of a flurry of announce- eight billion doses the most in-demand No vaccine has service should allow members of the
ments which also included plans to sign (Tom Whipple writes). pharmaceutical been shown to beat public to register their interest and be
up 500,000 British volunteers to take To understand what product in history. this coronavirus. In a contacted to participate in clinical
part in future vaccine trials and a deal to that means, consider And there is no year’s time the world studies. The aim is to get 500,000
secure a million doses of an antibody this warning from guarantee that we will hopes one will. We volunteers signed up by October — but
treatment from AstraZeneca, the Brit- Peter Piot, director of get them. So rather must hope that one of they will only be a useful resource if
ish drugmaker. the London School of than buying them Britain’s purchases significant viral transmission remains.
The new deals represent a bet on Hygiene and Tropical after they have pays off. If it doesn’t, Professor Chris Whitty, the chief
three technologies. They include Medicine: the world succeeded in trials, we will have to rely on medical officer for England, said:
30 million doses of an “RNA vaccine” does not even have we buy them before, other countries. “Thanks to Covid-19 patients’ willing-
being developed by Biontech and Pfiz- that many glass vials, as a bet. That is why talks ness to take part in treatment studies,
er. This involves injecting a small piece let alone the vaccine The three vaccines are also under way to we’ve been able to identify treatments
of genetic code into muscle cells, which doses to put in them. Britain has bought make international that work and ones that don’t, which
then produce coronavirus proteins. That is why Britain range from the spread bets, to pool has improved patient care worldwide.
A second deal announced yesterday has secured access to experimental to the risk before and pool Now that there are several promising
morning would allow the purchase of 90 million doses of bog-standard. results after. vaccines on the horizon, we need to call
60 million doses of a vaccine from Val- vaccines that might Biontech-Pfizer’s is It may be that one again on the generosity of the public to
neva, a French company that uses an not work. This is to cutting edge. Oxford’s of the vaccines help find out which potential vaccines
inactivated form of coronavirus to train add to our early is still new Britain has bought are the most effective. Please go to the
the immune system. purchase of a similar technology, but with stops the virus. If so, website and consider volunteering.”
This comes on top of an earlier agree- number of doses of an approach shown to we will vaccinate our As part of a wider £131 million invest-
ment with AstraZeneca to supply the Oxford vaccine, work in the past. In elderly and ment by the government, support has
100 million doses of the Oxford Uni- another that, despite including Valneva’s vulnerable; and we also been given to Imperial College
versity vaccine, which uses a safe virus promising phase 1 offering, an may well donate what London to develop their vaccine candi-
to deliver the code for making a corona- results yesterday, inactivated version of remains to other date, which started human studies in
virus protein. might also not work. the virus, the countries. To give June. The government has also reached
Both the Oxford and the Biontech It is great news that government is away vaccines we can an agreement “in principle” to buy a
vaccine could be available sooner than Oxford has developed accepting that in the use might be million doses of a treatment containing
Valneva’s offering, possibly by the end an immune response, vaccine race the politically difficult but laboratory-made Covid-19 antibodies
of the year, but are more experimental. but all vaccines are tortoise of tried and it will be easier than from AstraZeneca. This could be used
The decision to place orders for long shots. The reason true methods might finding that none of by people for whom vaccines are not
several types of vaccine reflects the un- for these early beat the hare of the ours works and that suitable, such as cancer patients whose
certainty that any of them will work. purchases is simple. speedy but flashy no one is prepared to immune systems are compromised.
Kate Bingham, chairwoman of the When — if — the alternatives. help. Without any guarantee that any
UK Vaccine Taskforce, said the inten- one vaccine will work, talks are being
tion was to have a broad portfolio, in the held internationally to find ways to
hope that one approach succeeded, and ones, not the hairy scary sexy ones. But pledged to back the manufacture of pool the risk between nations, and
then to use that to vaccinate key work- we can’t not make an investment in the another 40 million doses, probably at ensure equitable access for at-risk
ers and the vulnerable. “You’ve got two hairy scary sexy ones in case they pan its factory in Livingston, Scotland. groups. The government has pledged
of the more advanced vaccine modali- out.” Given the promising early results Many would be distributed abroad. £250 million to the Coalition for
ties — they are the least well-under- of the Oxford vaccine, they were hope- Alok Sharma, the business secretary, Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, a
stood,” she said. “And there’s the boring ful for a positive early result, she said. said: “We are doing everything we can global group working to ensure that
one, the inactivated virus, which is bet- If the Valneva vaccine, which has not to ensure the British public get access to treatments and vaccines are available
ter understood but less sexy. If you’re yet entered human trials, is shown to be a safe and effective coronavirus vaccine around the world.
betting you would bet on the boring safe and effective, the government has as soon as possible. This new partner- Drugmaker’s shares boom, pages 38-39 The Tory and Labour leaders focused

The runners
Oxford University
Inactivated virus used to transport the genetic
code for a coronavirus spike into the body,
where it is then manufactured, provoking an
immune response
Gene
Coronavirus Chimpanzee virus
Type Adenovirus vector,
moderately
experimental
Timeline Finished phase
1 trials, phase 2/3 under
way, aiming for full
results by year’s end
Mechanism The Oxford
team think it is enough
to show your immune
system a single bit of the
virus: the spikes on its
outside. The virus uses
these spikes to infect us
and our immune system
learns to destroy them
but on their own they
are harmless. The
Cell
Antibody
Oxford vaccine is a way
of making these spikes
inside you. The vaccine
is itself a virus but one
that cannot reproduce in
humans. Inside this
benign virus is a sliver of
something less benign: a
section of genetic code
from the coronavirus
providing instructions to
make the spike.
After vaccination, your
body starts producing
these spikes and training
the immune system to
spot them. When it sees
them attached to the
coronavirus itself it
should know what to do.
Biontech-Pfizer
Genetic code for a coronavirus spike is transported
straight into body’s cells, which start producing
copies
Genetic
code
Antibody
Type mRNA, very making proteins. It
experimental converts DNA
instructions into the
Timeline Finished molecules used to
phase 1 trials, aiming for power our bodies. The
full results by year end trick is to use this
process for the vaccine’s
Mechanism For own ends. The mRNA
vaccinologists this is not that Biontech is injecting
only the most makes a protein seen on
experimental vaccine the outside of the
but also the most coronavirus: a protein
exciting. It is a wholly spike. The hope is that
new technology, similar our cells will gobble up
to that also being tested the mRNA, turn into
by the Imperial College spike factories and
team, based on a piece churn them out, training
of genetic code called the body to spot the real
mRNA. Inside our bodies thing. Nothing like this
mRNA is the last step in has been done before.
Valneva
Live virus is inactivated and injected
into body, teaching the immune
system what to recognise
Coronavirus Inactivated
virus
Type Inactivated full
virus, standard tech
Timeline Not in human
trials until the end of the
year, full results by
mid-2021 at the earliest
Mechanism Valneva’s
vaccine is, from an
immunological
perspective, the most
boring. It is far closer to
the sort of vaccine that
you will have learnt
about at school than the
sort scientists now
consider cutting edge.
The French company is
making a deactivated
version of the
coronavirus, set to be
manufactured in
Scotland. It is a little like
a car without an engine.
What they inject will
look like coronavirus. It
will have the bodywork
of coronavirus but, like
an engineless car, it
won’t go. Your immune
system will, it is hoped,
make antibodies that
latch on to the spikes on
the outside, and T-cells
that can chomp on to
cells infected by it. When
the real thing revs it can
defeat it before it has
time to get going.
Quarter of
Britons may
decline to
have vaccine
Kat Lay Health Correspondent
More than a quarter of Britons might
refuse to have a Covid-19 vaccine even
if one passes all trials.
Some 14 per cent of people in a poll
said that they would not want to be
vaccinated against coronavirus “if a
high quality vaccine were available”,
with a further 13 per cent “unsure” if
they would have the jab.
There are concerns over anti-
vaccination sentiment, with fears that
misinformation is spreading online.
The poll, carried out by ORB
International, surveyed 2,065 people
across the UK last week.
Women were more likely than men
to say they would refuse a vaccine, at 16
per cent compared with 12 per cent.
People aged 65 or over were least
likely to be against Covid-19
vaccination, at 9 per cent, compared
with 22 per cent of those aged between
25 and 34.
Paul Hunter, professor of medicine at
the University of East Anglia, told the
the times | Tuesday July 21 2020
from safety first to hairy scary
on primary schools, Boris Johnson at the Discovery School in West Malling, Kent and Sir Keir Starmer at Whitmore Park in Coventry, but vaccines stole the headlines
Daily Mail: “If we get an effective
vaccine, and almost everyone takes it
up, overnight all the restrictions can
stop and life will return to normal like it
was before March, with no social
distancing or restrictions.
“The figures suggesting many people
might refuse a vaccine are depressing,
and [people are being] incredibly
selfish. As a doctor, I have known
children die who would have survived
if they had been vaccinated, and if
people do not get vaccinated for
coronavirus other people such as their
grandparents could die. The risks of
vaccines have been maliciously
overestimated.”
Research published this year showed
a drop in the number of children
receiving key childhood vaccinations
during lockdown, although figures are
thought to be improving.
More than 3,500 fewer children had
been vaccinated against measles,
mumps and rubella by April 26 this year
compared with the same time in 2019.
A study by the London School of
Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and
Public Health England, using
electronic health records, found that in
the three weeks after social distancing
measures were introduced the number
of MMR vaccinations was 20 per cent
lower than the same period in 2019.
In August last year the UK lost its
“measles-free” status with the World
Health Organisation after a number of
cases, some of which were attributed to
clusters of unvaccinated children.
Melanie Phillips, page 28
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New treatment shows promise
Tom Whipple, Alex Ralph
A British drug has been found to
dramatically reduce the chances of
coronavirus patients needing intensive
care, according to the preliminary
results of a small randomised trial.
Hospitalised patients who inhaled a
protein designed to stimulate the
immune system were 79 per cent less
likely to deteriorate to the point where
they needed ventilation. However,
other researchers said that larger trials
were needed to be sure of its findings,
with a lot of uncertainty about the
strength of its effect.
The trial of the drug, developed at the
University of Southampton, involved
101 patients, half of whom received a
placebo. The data will need to be exam-
ined closely by other scientists and has
not yet been released for peer review.
Synairgen, the pharmaceutical
company developing the drug, is
obliged by stock market rules to report
preliminary results. If confirmed the
findings would represent a dramatic
breakthrough, adding to the small stock
of drugs able to change the course of the
disease.
Until now only remdesivir, an anti-
viral, and dexamethasone, a steroid,
have been shown to have a clinical
effect on Covid-19. The effectiveness of
remdesivir was relatively low, merely
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Chief nurse:
I would have
criticised
Cummings
Chris Smyth Whitehall Editor
The chief nursing officer for England
has confirmed that she was dropped
from a Downing Street press confer-
ence after she said that she would criti-
cise Boris Johnson’s chief aide for driv-
ing to Durham during lockdown.
Ruth May said that she was never
told why she was dropped at the last
minute on June 1. She confirmed to
MPs that when asked during a prepara-
tion session about Dominic Cum-
mings’s behaviour, she said that he
should have followed the rules.
She said yesterday: “In my opinion
the rules were clear, and they were
there for everyone’s safety and they
applied to us all.”
No 10 was forced on to the defensive
when it emerged in late May that at the
height of the epidemic Mr Cummings
had driven his family to his parents’
home in County Durham while his wife
was showing symptoms of the virus.
After falling ill himself, he later drove
30 miles to Barnard Castle and claimed
that it was to test his eyesight.
Mr Johnson and ministers spent a
week defending Mr Cummings’s deci-
sion to follow his “instinct” in the face of
intense criticism. Chris Whitty, the
chief medical officer for England, and
Sir Patrick Vallance, the chief scientific
Ruth May said she
was not told why
she was dropped
from the briefing
adviser, both declined to give their
views when asked at a Downing Street
press conference, saying that they did
not want to get involved in politics.
On May 30, Jonathan Van Tam, the
dexamethasone, researchers are wary deputy chief medical officer, said that
The national picture of putting too much confidence in it. the rules “apply to all” when asked
Cases Deaths The drug contains a protein called about Mr Cummings. Jenny Harries,
Total UK* 295,372 45,312 interferon beta which the immune another deputy chief medical officer,
England 254,120 40,718 system uses to signal to the body and said the next day that she agreed. Ms
Scotland 18,452 2,491 muster a response. One of the corona- May was due to appear the day after.
Wales 16,943 1,547 virus’s tricks is believed to be that it Professor Van Tam has not been seen
N Ireland 5,857 556 suppresses this response. By inhaling at the briefings since. Reports first
Daily new lab-confirmed UK cases the protein in an aerosol, the scientists emerged last month that Ms May had
believe that it restores the lung’s ability been dropped because No 10 did not
827 726
642 687 580 to naturally neutralise the virus. want a third health service leader to
398 538 “The results confirm our belief that criticise Mr Cummings. At the time
interferon beta . . . has huge potential as Grant Shapps, the transport secretary,
14 Jul 15 16 17 18 19 20 an inhaled drug to be able to restore the said: “I don’t think it is true.”
lung’s immune response, enhancing However, appearing before the
Daily new UK deaths protection, accelerating recovery and public accounts committee yesterday,
138 114 countering the impact of Sars-CoV-2 Ms May said that “it is indeed true I was
85 66 virus,” Tom Wilkinson, professor of dropped from the briefing”.
40 27 11
respiratory medicine at the University She confirmed that she had been
14 Jul 15 16 17 18 19 20 of Southampton, said. preparing for the appearance. “Yes, of
*Counting of cases has changed to remove duplication. Numbers
Regulators typically take months to course, I was asked about lockdown and
now include those tested in all settings. Source: Gov.UK bring a drug from this stage to market rules”, adding that she would have
but if the promising early findings are given a similar answer to the one given
lessening the time people spent in confirmed it is expected to be fast- by Professor Van Tam. Pressed on
hospital, while dexamethasone was tracked. It will still require a far larger whether Mr Cummings broke the rules,
only useful in a subset of patients. trial, during a second wave in the UK or she said: “They applied to all of us.”
The patients involved in the South- abroad. Matt Hancock, the health secretary,
ampton trial were more than twice as Martin Landray, from the University presented the slides himself. She said
likely to recover to the point where they of Oxford, is one of the scientists run- she was asked to attend another brief-
could return to normal life. Three ning the Recovery Trial, the UK’s flag- ing later in June but was stuck in traffic.
people in the placebo group died while ship trial of coronavirus treatments. He Sir Ed Davey, the acting Liberal
all in the treatment group survived. said: “This is a small study, in an early Democrat leader, said: “This is why we
However, because of the size of the phase. It is better to see encouraging re- need to see the timetable for the inde-
study compared with those that sults than negative results, but one pendent inquiry he agreed to last week,
showed the efficacy of remdesivir and shouldn’t get over-excited.” so we can get the truth out in the open.”
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Wearing mask ‘reduces
deadly power of virus’
Kat Lay Health Correspondent
Kaya Burgess
Religious Affairs Correspondent
Masks do help to protect the wearer, as
well as people they meet, according to
research by infectious disease experts.
A report from a team at the Univers-
ity of California, San Francisco, says
that masks can reduce the amount of
virus that gets into someone’s system,
meaning they do not get as badly sick.
In England, face coverings are man-
datory on public transport and will be-
come so in shops and supermarkets
from July 24. The requirement appears
to have strong public support, with only
19 per cent of Britons opposing compul-
sory wearing of masks in shops, accord-
ing to a survey last week by the research
company ORB International.
The paper is due to be published in
the Journal of Internal Medicine but was
made available in advance by the re-
2GM Tuesday July 21 2020 | the times
searchers. Monica Gandhi, one of the
study’s co-authors, who is associate div-
ision chief of the infectious diseases
programme at San Francisco General
Hospital, said: “You will get in a lower
dose of virus if you wear a mask and are
exposed to Covid-19 and are very likely
to have mild or no symptoms.”
She told The Times that her research
suggested the government should go
further in its recommendations for the
wearing of face coverings. “The re-
search suggests that we should go to-
wards universal population-level
masking to control infections and to
limit the severity of disease.”
That would include wearing masks in
workplaces where employees did not
each have a private office, she said. Matt
Hancock, the health secretary, has said
masks do not have a role to play in in-
fection control in offices.
Under the “theory of viral inoculum”,
a lower initial dose of Sars-Cov-2 gives
the immune system a better chance of
fighting the disease. The paper draws
on evidence suggesting that masks
reduce the amount of viral droplets that
get through to the wearer’s airways.
One study, in hamsters, showed that
animals exposed to the virus through a
surgical mask partition had milder
cases of Covid-19. Outbreaks on cruise
ships where passengers wore masks
typically resulted in higher rates of
asymptomatic, or milder infection, the
report says.
The authors concluded: “Exposing
society to Sars-Cov-2 without the
consequences of severe illness with
public masking could lead to greater
community-level immunity and slower
spread as we await a vaccine.”
Some scientists continue to argue
that masks give people a false sense of
security. They point to a lack of high-
quality trials investigating their use.
None of the evidence in the new The study says that masks, as worn by
paper comes from controlled trials in
humans, because of ethical concerns
about deliberately exposing volunteers How the world covers up
to different doses of the virus.
Many proponents of masks say the spain
government should make them com- Masks are mandatory for everyone
pulsory in all indoor settings. The aged over six on public transport
Church of England is expected to ad- and in public places where a
vise its congregations to wear masks in distance of 1.5 metres cannot be
the pews. As well as outlining the re- guaranteed. However, 12 of 16
quirement for masks on transport and, regions have made them
from July 24, in shops, official guidance obligatory under any
now also states: “People are also en- circumstances in public.
couraged to wear face coverings in en-
closed public spaces where there are france
people they do not normally meet, such Masks are now mandatory in all
as a place of worship.” indoor public places amid signs of
A church spokesman said yesterday a rise in coronavirus cases.
that its own guidance was “being updat- Under the measures imposed by
ed in light of this”. The church did go President Macron’s government,
further than following government ad- masks became obligatory
vice when it banned priests from places yesterday for anyone over the age
of worship — a move that was criticised of 11 in shops, shopping centres,
by members of the General Synod last banks, indoor markets and public
week — but it is not expected to make sector buildings.
masks mandatory for worshippers. Those who fail to obey are liable
The church has advised that the risk to a fine of €135 (£120) for a first
of transmission during communion is offence but serial offenders could
“relatively low especially if face cover- be jailed.
ings are worn” and says in its latest gui- The move extended the lengthy
dance that churches should be “using list of places where masks have
protective screens and face coverings” been compulsory since lockdown
but adds that this is voluntary. was eased on May 11, including
The Muslim Council of Britain has public transport, museums,
advised mosques to consider providing libraries, circus tents, river cruise
“facemasks for worshippers without boats, casinos, mountain refuges
their own” while the United Synagogue and places of worship.
has made them mandatory for Jewish
worshippers. italy
Leading article, page 31 Face coverings must be worn in
Work from home until 2021, page 37
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Lockdown is still last

resort as Blackburn
becomes new hotspot
Charlotte Wace
Northern Correspondent
Kaya Burgess
Blackburn with Darwen has overtaken
Leicester as England’s coronavirus hot-
spot, with cases almost doubling.
The official figures emerged as
hundreds of mourners who attended a
funeral at a mosque were told to self-
isolate after an imam tested positive for
the virus.
In the week to last Friday, the
Lancashire authority recorded an
infection rate of 79.2 cases per 100,000.
Cases in Leicester have fallen to a rate
of 77.7 per 100,000.
When Leicester went into lockdown
the infection rate was 135 cases per
100,000 — significantly higher than
the current rate in Blackburn with Dar-
wen. Some of the restrictions in the
Midlands city remain in place.
Dominic Harrison, public health
director of Blackburn with Darwen
council, told the BBC yesterday that a
local lockdown would be “a very, very
last resort”. He said: “We’ve had good
co-operation, so I would be very reluc-
tant to use the powers.”
Last week the authority drew up its
own guidelines for residents, which
included advice to people to wear
facemasks in all public places.
Professor Harrison said last week
that he had expected cases to rise
because of increased testing. Repeating
the point yesterday, he said that he ex-
pected a further rise this week.
It emerged that 250 people who
attended a funeral at a mosque have
been told to self-isolate after the imam
who conducted the service tested
positive. The Jamia Ghosia mosque in
Blackburn held the funeral on July 13
despite government rules that restrict
mourners to 30 people.
Police have said that they are aware
London commuters yesterday, do have a protective effect. They can cut the number of viral droplets that get into airways of the incident but that it was a matter
for the local council to investigate as a
“public health issue”.
It is understood that the mosque had
social distancing measures in place as
well as hand sanitiser and a contact
tracing system for those who attended.
The mosque’s chairman, Mir Zaman,
told the BBC that he believed that there
were no restrictions on the number of
guests if precautions were followed,
and he accepted that they had made a
mistake.
The council leader, Mohammed
Khan, said: “I feel it’s my duty to remind
residents that sadly at the start of this
pandemic three well-known and
well-respected local imams died. There
have been a number of our borough’s
residents who have sadly also lost their
lives due to this virus.”
He said that the deaths should serve
“as a warning about the very real
dangers and the severity of Covid-19”.
Blackburn with Darwen council said
that it was working directly with the
mosque to “establish the full facts”.
Data has shown high infection rates
in the area’s south Asian community,
attributed in part to large families living
in terraced properties.
Local councillors say that the
community should not be stigmatised.
Saima Afzal, a councillor, said: “We
know the facts are there, we are open
about those facts. You go home and you
are caring for a family member, or there
are three or four families living under
one household because of economic
reasons, or financial issues.”
A leaked report stated that the track-
and-trace system had failed to reach
more than half the contacts named in
Blackburn with Darwen. Denise Park,
chief executive of the council, said: “We
are in discussions about how we might
be able to help improve the uptake.”
Rochdale, Bradford and Luton are
also among the top five for current
coronavirus infection rates.

NHS contact tracers told coronavirus in brief

enclosed public spaces such as
shops and on public transport as
well as in the open if social
distancing is difficult. The rules
were introduced when the
lockdown was relaxed in May and
the rules have been extended until
the end of July.
australia
Nationally, the health
department has recommended
wearing masks in areas where new
infections have been recorded. In
the state of Victoria, which forced
nearly five million people into a
partial six-week lockdown on July
9, masks are compulsory. A fine of
AU$200 (£110) can be levied
against those caught without a
face covering.
hong kong
The increase in the number of
infections has prompted the
territory to introduce a fine of
up to HK$5,000 (£510) for people
who refuse to wear a mask on
public transport.
ireland
Legislation that came into force
last week made masks mandatory
on public transport, unless people
can demonstrate “reasonable
cause” not to wear one.
to make even fewer calls
Billy Kenber, Chris Smyth
Tom Knowles
NHS contact tracers have cut back on
their attempts to reach coronavirus
patients and their contacts amid con-
cern that people assumed they were
being targeted by nuisance calls.
The NHS Test & Trace service seeks
to identify and contact all those who
have been diagnosed with Covid-19 or
been in close contact with someone
who has in order to prevent a second
wave of cases.
Last week clinical staff running the
service were issued new guidance that
limited attempts to reach those who
had not yet been traced to three or four
calls a day at different times of day. It
also extended the period of time in
which tracers will try to reach someone
from 72 hours to 96 hours.
Baroness Harding of Winscombe,
the Tory peer who heads the test-and-
trace programme, and Matt Hancock,
the health secretary, have previously
said that tracers tried to contact people
up to ten times during a 24-hour period.
The Department of Health said that
it had not changed its guidance but
could not explain why call handlers had
been told to call less often.
Official figures show that the contact
tracing system has slowed, with only 71
per cent of people who have come into
contact with a known coronavirus
patient reached and asked to isolate.
Tracers suggested the change to call
volumes was because people had be-
lieved they were unwanted marketing
calls. They have now been told to give
the service’s 0300 phone number when
leaving a voicemail and to instruct
those they are trying to reach not to
ignore future calls from that number.
One clinical contact tracer said “our
phone number looks like one of those
sales calls type numbers so I think a lot
of people were not answering”.
Jon Ashworth, the shadow health
secretary, said: “Test and trace is cost-
ing the taxpayer £10 billion and is no-
where near the world-beating system
we were promised. Given how crucial
tracing is to Sage easing of lockdown it’s
astonishing callers have been instruct-
ed to call less.”
Mr Hancock promised yesterday
that councils would be given the names
and addresses of everyone who tested
positive for coronavirus in their area.
England’s test-and-trace system has
faced challenges from privacy cam-
paigners who say it broke the law by
failing to complete a key privacy check
before it began.
Workers are drinking
their way to health crisis
Four in ten households have
been drinking more during the
lockdown, prompting fears that the
pandemic will lead to a surge in
alcohol-related illness. The majority
of furloughed workers and those
who lost their jobs have increased
their intake, a Help4Addiction
survey found. Alcohol sales rose by
43 per cent in the four weeks to
June and the British Medical Journal
has warned that the impact of
pandemic-related alcoholism could
last for a generation.
Cancer diagnosis delays
could cost 3,500 lives
Delays in diagnosis owing to Covid-
19 could lead to 3,500 deaths from
breast, bowel, oesophageal and lung
cancers over the next five years. A
fall in people seeing their GP and
fewer referrals for scans could mean
cancer is spotted too late, according
to a study published in The Lancet
Oncology. NHS figures show GPs
made 106,535 urgent cancer referrals
in May, down 47 per cent from May
last year. A spokeswoman for the
NHS said it was taking “urgent
action” to increase cancer testing.
Plea to stop fake news
thriving on social media
Fake news about the coronavirus is
being allowed to spread “virulently”
across social media, leading to
attacks on frontline workers and 5G
infrastructure because legislation is
still not in place to regulate it, MPs
have said. A digital, culture, media
and sport select committee report
accuses social media platforms of
using business models from which
hoaxers and the technology giants
gain financially by spreading
misleading content. It urges the
government to name a regulator.
Covid has finished us off,
says Q Magazine editor
The music publication Q Magazine
is to close after 34 years. Ted
Kessler, the editor, apologised on
Twitter for the closure and blamed
it on the coronavirus pandemic. The
final edition will be published this
month. Mr Kessler said: “We’ve
been a lean operation for all of my
tenure, employing a variety of ways
to keep our head above water in an
extremely challenging print market.
Covid-19 wiped all that out.” The
Charlatans’ singer Tim Burgess
tweeted that it was “sad news”.
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EU leaders split
for fourth night
on recovery deal
Bruno Waterfield Brussels longest ever EU summit at midnight
World update last night, beating 85 hours of talks held
European Union leaders were spending in Nice almost 20 years ago
their fourth night in succession locked Global cases 14,348,858 Rifts over how to pay for a pandemic
in acrimonious brinkmanship over a recovery fund have revealed deep
€750 billion coronavirus recovery fund Global deaths 603,691 levels of mistrust between many Euro-
in an atmosphere that Angela Merkel pean governments over the prospect of
described as “incredibly tough”. Most new cases increased EU contributions or the
The German chancellor arrived at 1 US 66,963 Brussels strings attached to funding.
yesterday’s session expressing hope 2 India 40,425 Mr Macron, in alliance with Ger-
that a deal could be found after angry many, is pushing for the bulk of the
3 Brazil 28,532
exchanges the previous night, when fund to be paid out as grants rather than
President Macron had likened Mark 4 South Africa 13,449 loans meaning that governments will
Rutte, the Dutch prime minister, to 5 Colombia 8,560 not have to pay the money back.
David Cameron. 6 Mexico 7,615 Italy, Spain and France are the EU
European leaders are deeply divided 7 Russia 5,940 countries worst hit by coronavirus.
over the size and workings of the pan- The Netherlands, Austria, Denmark
8 Guatemala 4,233
demic fund, which will be underpinned and Sweden have opposed the plan,
by an unprecedented level of common 9 Peru 3,963 which needs the unanimous agreement
debt held in the EU budget. 10 Argentina 3,223 of all 27 EU governments, because of
Mr Rutte, leader of one of the four 37 UK 580 concerns that funding will be paid out
“frugal” countries seeking to attach 73 China
without strict conditions on complet-
131 Reported new cases
conditions to the EU handout, faced ing economic reforms.
accusations of endangering the deal. Countries reporting The countries are additionally con-
Mr Macron, who has led the charge most deaths cerned that the plans will lead to big in-
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Austrian chancellor, of “egotism” and US 3,685,460 139,468 421 will never be paid back.
personally threatening the existence of Brazil 2,074,860 78,772 371 Hopes were raised of a breakthrough,
the EU itself. UK 295,372 45,312 667 with a compromise proposal that gives
Diplomats said that the French Mexico 338,913 38,888 302 EU governments the power to block
Italy 244,434 35,045 580
leader threatened to walk out of the payments if promised reforms are not
France 164,247 30,046 460
summit, alongside Mrs Merkel, unless Spain 260,255 28,420 608
implemented. “There were extremely
the Dutch and Austrian leaders India 1,118,043 27,497 20 tense moments,” Mr Macron said. “And
accepted Franco-German proposals. Iran 273,788 14,188 169 there will be more that will still be diffi-
He told Mr Rutte that he would “end Peru 349,500 12,998 394 cult. But things have moved forward.”
badly” like Mr Cameron, whose battles Russia 777,486 12,427 85 As EU leaders met amid expecta-
Belgium 63,893 9,800 846
with the EU were blamed for the Brexit Germany 201,823 9,086 108
tions of finding an agreement between
referendum result in 2016. “You are Canada 109,999 8,848 234 the French-led camp and Mr Rutte’s
taking the place of the United Kingdom Chile 330,930 8,503 445 allies, a new front opened up in the
around this table,” he shouted. Colombia 190,700 6,516 128 battle as central and eastern European
The Dutch leader shrugged off the Netherlands 51,670 6,129 358 governments rejected calls that all EU
Sweden 77,281 5,619 556
criticism, saying: “We are here because Pakistan 265,083 5,599 25
funding payments would be tied to
we do business for our own country.” Turkey 219,641 5,491 65 “rule of law” standards.
Charles Michel, president of the Ecuador 74,013 5,313 301 Mateusz Morawiecki, the Polish
European Council, tabled a compro- South Africa 364,328 5,033 85 prime minister, said that he would veto
mise package last night. “I know that China 86,068 4,653 3 any compromise that included the con-
the last steps are always the most diffi- Egypt 87,775 4,302 42 trol clause. “For it to be acceptable, we
Indonesia 86,521 4,143 15
cult but . . . I am convinced that an Iraq 92,530 3,781 94
must obtain what we’ve asked for from
agreement is possible,” he said. Bangladesh 204,525 2,618 16 the beginning: no discretionary powers
The scheduled two-day EU summit, for EU bodies, EU institutions regard-
Source: WHO
which began on Friday became the ing the rule of law,” he said.

Billionaires are vaccine guinea pigs Sailors stranded at sea can

Tom Parfitt Moscow
Billionaire tycoons and government
officials in Russia have been given the
opportunity to receive an experimental
state-backed Covid-19 vaccine.
Business owners, executives at top
companies and officials began getting
shots as early as April, the Bloomberg
news agency reported, citing people
familiar with the scheme.
Last week the security services of
Britain, the United States and Canada
claimed that Russian intelligence was
trying to hack into research on corona-
virus vaccines in the three countries.
Moscow denied the accusation.
The Russian vaccine is being
developed by the state-run Gamaleya
Institute in Moscow and is financed by
the Russian Direct Investment Fund, a
sovereign wealth fund.
A researcher familiar with the work
told Bloomberg that the programme
allowing the country’s elite to be guinea
pigs was legal but kept under wraps to
avoid a rush of potential participants.
In first-phase tests the vaccine was
tried on about 40 soldiers; larger-scale
trials have since begun. The scheme for
businesspeople and bureaucrats is not
part of the official clinical study, but the
recipients are monitored and their
results are recorded.
Dmitry Peskov, President Putin’s
spokesman, said that the president had
not been inoculated because the
vaccine had not yet been certified. “He’s
the head of state after all; it wouldn’t be
very good to use an uncertified
vaccine.”
Mr Peskov, who is also Mr Putin’s
deputy chief of staff, said that he knew
there were volunteers trying out vacci-
nes in Russia but he was not aware if
any of them were from the presidential
administration. He said that he did not
need a shot because he had already had
Covid-19, a fact he confirmed in May.
People said to have received the vac-
cine include executives at Rusal, the
aluminium giant founded by the
oligarch Oleg Deripaska, 52, who is
worth an estimated £2.4 billion. It was
unclear if Mr Deripaska had received
the inoculation.
Bloomberg confirmed dozens of
participants of the hundreds thought to
have taken part but none agreed to be
identified. They were not charged to
take part and it was unclear how they
were chosen. Some experienced no
side-effects while others reported fever
and muscle aches. Alexander Gints-
burg, director of the Gamaleya Insti-
tute, said that he had no knowledge of
big businessmen receiving the vaccine.
Russia registered 5,940 new corona-
virus infections yesterday, bringing the
country’s official number of cases to
777,486, the fourth highest in the world;
12,427 people have died.
The vaccine is expected to be ready
for national distribution in Russia by
September.
denmark
Merchant sailors stranded on
boats at sea will be allowed to
reunite with their friends and
families. About 200,000 sailors
have been marooned on ships,
some for a year, because travel
restrictions made it almost
impossible to rotate crews.
Maritime welfare charities had
warned of more suicides at sea.
Sailors will be granted visas to
travel through Denmark in
controlled settings. Upon landing
in Denmark, home to Maersk, the
world’s biggest container shipping
group, seafarers will be isolated in
hotels. Airports will establish
transit areas to avoid contact with
other people.
russia
The mayor of Norilsk has resigned
after accusing regional officials of
underestimating coronavirus
figures. The departure of Rinat
Akhmetchin, mayor of the Siberian
city of 175,000 people, came as
President Putin boasted on a trip to
Crimea that the Covid-19 cases and
deaths are far lower in Russia than
in many European countries. Mr
Akhmetchin had claimed that there
had been 832 confirmed cases in
Norilsk while the regional health
ministry gave the figure as 293.
pakistan
Inoculation teams have restarted a
polio vaccination campaign after a
four-month pause. Health officials
feared that the hiatus, caused by
coronavirus restrictions, would
lead to a surge in polio cases.
Pakistan and neighbouring
Afghanistan are the only two
countries where polio remains
endemic. Inoculation teams in both
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land in Denmark and fly to families
countries are often viewed with
suspicion. Vaccination teams in
Karachi went door to door, flanked
by armed police, administering polio
drops into children’s mouths without
touching them, in line with virus
safety guidelines.
china
A cinema in the eastern city of
Hangzhou was the first in China to
reopen after 178 days of compulsory
closure for the industry nationwide.
To comply with distancing rules, the
cinema was only able to welcome 32
fans for A First Farewell, a 90-
minute drama. All tickets sold out
50 minutes before the show started.
Of the 60 biggest cities, 33 reopened
cinemas but Beijing kept theatres
closed because of a recent outbreak.
israel
A doctor has tested positive for
LISA HEINIUS/RIDDARSÄLLSKAPET TORNEAMENTUM
The re-enactment group is
reminding visitors to the
Swedish island of Gotland
that they must observe
social distancing rules
Film fans were socially distanced for a
midnight screening in Hangzhou
Covid-19 after initially recovering
from the disease. The doctor in Tel
Aviv, had fever, cough and muscle
pain symptoms when she tested
positive in April but tested negative
in May and June. Earlier this month
she came in contact with a
confirmed patient and later tested
Knights on a
quest to keep
tourists at
safe distance
A
Swedish island in the
Baltic Sea has taken a
novel approach to
maintaining social
distancing among
tourists by hiring a troupe of
knights on horseback (David
Crossland writes).
In full medieval regalia, knights
from a re-enactment group greet
tourists arriving at the Gotland
island ferry terminal.
“During the week we will go on
the beach and around the city to
tourist sites,” said Dennis
Norrthon of the Torneamentum
society, which normally puts on
jousting tournaments for visitors.
Asked if there were plans to
charge at unco-operative people
with lances, Mr Norrthon said:
“No, we will just talk to people.
The response has been really good,
everyone understands and they
stand apart. It’s working.”
The Swedish government’s
relaxed approach to coronavirus,
which included allowing people to
mix in bars and restaurants and
keeping schools open, has been
blamed for a higher infection rate
than its Nordic neighbours.
The knights were hired by the
Gotland regional authority and
local businesses anxious to avoid a
spike in cases as tens of thousands
of people barred from visiting
neighbouring countries arrive for
their summer holidays.
“We think it will help to remind
people of the message that we all
know by now but which is so easy
to forget when we are distracted by
other things in the summer,” Sven
Montelius, an infectious diseases
expert for the Gotland region, said.
Sweden stands fifth in the global
league table of coronavirus deaths
per capita. A total of 5,639 people
have died in Sweden from Covid-19
compared with 255 in Norway, 611
in Denmark and 328 in Finland, all
of which have populations about
half the size. A YouGov survey
showed 73 per cent of Norwegians
and 61 per cent of Danes opposed
quarantine-free entry to their
countries by Swedish tourists.
Stefan Lofven, the Swedish
prime minister, said last week that
he believed that the country’s
strategy remained appropriate.
positive. It is the latest in a series
of suspected reinfections that have
raised questions over how long
immunity against the virus lasts.
united states
Jack Nicklaus and his wife tested
positive for the virus but have
recovered, the golf star told a TV
interviewer. Nicklaus and his wife,
Barbara, both 80, said it took five
weeks in March and April to
recover at their home in North
Palm Beach, Florida. “We were
very lucky,” Nicklaus said.
venezuela
President Maduro reimposed a
“radical quarantine” throughout
the country. All but essential
workers will be confined to their
homes for seven days. There have
been 11,000 confirmed infections
and more than 100 deaths recently.
Do the patriotic thing
and put on a mask,
Trump tells America
Henry Zeffman Washington
Donald Trump made a public plea to
Americans last night to wear masks out
of “patriotic” duty after frustrated
Republican governors began going
behind his back in an effort to combat
coronavirus.
For months he has been reluctant to
wear a mask and criticised the way Joe
Biden, his Democratic rival, looked
when he wore one.
Earlier this month, though, Mr
Trump wore a mask bearing the presi-
dential seal on a visit to a hospital.
Yesterday he posted on Twitter a
photo of that visit, adding: “We are
United in our effort to defeat the Invis-
ible China Virus, and many people say
ear a face
that it is Patriotic to wear
mask when you can’tt so-
cially distance. Theree is
nobody more Patrioticc
than me, your favour-
ite President!”
The message
came after Republi-
can governors
began to deal direct-
ly with Mike Pence,
instead of the presi--
dent, when co-ordinat- at-
ing their response to the
pandemic. Alarmed by re-
surging infections across the
easingly begun to
country, they had increasingly
break with Mr Trump by ordering resi-
dents to wear masks and re-introduc-
ing restrictions on business activity.
In late-night phone calls among
themselves the governors have traded
insights on how to defeat the pandemic
and how best to manage Mr Trump.
“The president got bored with it,”
David Carney, an adviser to Greg
Abbott, the Republican governor of
Texas, told The New York Times. He said
that Mr Abbott had begun dealing
directly with the vice-president, whom
he speaks to two or three times a week.
On a recent call with Mr Pence and
other governors Gary Herbert, the
Republican leader of Utah, said that the
Italy tests swab that gives
accurate result in minutes
Tom Kington Rome
A coronavirus swab that gives a result
in 12 minutes and costs only €12 (£11)
has been successfully tested in Italy and
may soon be used in Italian airports as
pressure grows to swab every passenger
entering the country.
Manufactured in South Korea, the
swab was tested 1,000 times by the
northern region of Veneto and com-
pared with results from conventional,
more time-consuming testing, with of-
ficials recording only two false results.
“It looks reliable and we hope to get it
into use in Veneto by the autumn,” said
Francesca Russo, who runs the region’s
Covid-19 response team.
Conventional swabbing involves
taking mucus from the nasal cavity,
which is then analysed by trained staff
using costly machinery. The swabs
made by the South Korean firm SD Bio-
sensor come in their own kit with a sub-
stance containing Covid-19 antibodies.
When virus particles in a mucus sample
come into contact with the antibodies,
a colour strip on the kit turns red.
“Some of these types of tests don’t
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White House needed to reverse a sense
of “complacency” about defeating the
virus. “As a responsible citizen, if you
care about your neighbour, if you love
your neighbour, let us show the respect
necessary by wearing a mask,” Mr
Herbert is reported to have told Mr
Pence, adding: “That’s where I think
you and the president can help us out.”
In Washington some senior Republi-
cans are distancing themselves from
the president’s optimism that the virus
will one day disappear. Last week Mitch
McConnell, the Senate majority leader,
said: “The straight talk here that every-
one needs to understand is this is not
going away until we get a vaccine.” Mr
McConnell said he had “total” confi-
dence in Anthony Fauci, the leading
virus expert
exper with whom Presi-
dent Tru
Trump has feuded.
Tod
Today the president,
who for weeks has
see
seemed desperate to
ta
talk about anything
bu
but the virus, will re-
su
sume the daily press
co
conferences he held
in the early stages of
th
the pandemic.
A
As infections rose,
Mr Trump held free-
wheeli
wheeling briefings from
tthe
he Whit
White House, often last-
iing
ng more than an hour and featur-
ing combative ex exchanges with the
press. They petered out in April soon
after the president mused from the po-
dium about whether injecting bleach
into the lungs could kill the virus.
“I was doing them and we had a lot of
people watching, record numbers
watching in the history of cable televi-
sion,” he said yesterday in the Oval
Office during a meeting with congres-
sional Republicans. “There’s never
been anything like it.”
The resumption of the briefings
comes amid a surge in infections that is
showing little sign of abating.
Donald Trump, above, wore a mask
with the presidential seal at a hospital
work well but this one does and we are
talking to Rome’s Spallanzani hospital,
which advises the government, about
doing their own tests,” said Roberto
Rigoli, who managed the Veneto tests
at Ca’ Foncello hospital in Treviso.
A spokesman for the Lazio region,
which includes Rome, said that it was
considering using the swab to test every
arriving passenger at Fiumicino airport.
“This test would be perfect at the airport
— you could test 200 passengers getting
off a plane at once,” he said. “There is a
doubt whether the test is too sensitive
and signals low viral loads which are not
contagious, which is why we want the
Spallanzani to test it.”
Italy has slowed contagion, yet there
has been an increase in people testing
positive flying into the country. In
Rome, of 13 new infected people
registered on Sunday six had arrived
from Bangladesh, one from Iraq, two
from Pakistan and one from India. The
city has traced 205 cases in the
Bangladeshi community to people fly-
ing in from Dhaka. Italy has suspended
flights from Bangladesh and 15 other
countries including Balkan states.
the times | Tuesday July 21 2020 1G M
New secret recipe? KFC grows chicken nuggets in a lab
Tom Knowles
Technology Correspondent
For decades the challenge of creating
artificial meat has occupied scientists,
tech entrepreneurs and food aficiona-
dos. Billions has been spent trying to
produce laboratory-grown burgers,
steaks and bacon that satisfy carnivores
while limiting the environmental dam-
age of industrial farming. Now it is the
turn of the chicken nugget.
The American fast-food chain KFC
says it is building the world’s first lab-
grown chicken nuggets, joining an
increasing menu of artificial meats.
The skill with which foods are being
recreated in the lab has meant that
people are already accustomed to eat-
ing vegetarian burgers that “bleed” like
real meat. Fake beef that has much the
same flavour and texture as the real
thing has been produced by Silicon Val-
ley companies such as Impossible
Foods and Beyond Meat.
Last month an investment fund set
up by Bill Gates, the co-founder of
Microsoft, led a $3.5 million funding
round for a biotech start-up called
TMS
diary@thetimes.co.uk | @timesdiary
I say! Dan’s the
man we need
We have become used to artificial
crowd noise at sports events this
summer but why stop there? Peter
Fincham, a former controller of
BBC One, would also like artificial
commentators. He writes in The
Idler of an idea he once had at
Wimbledon (he admits it was after
a few corporate glasses of Pimm’s)
in which nostalgic viewers could
press the red button and hear Dan
Maskell, who died in 1992,
commentating on current
matches. “Almost any situation
would surely be matched by a line
he had once delivered in his fruity
voice,” Finchem says. “ ‘And with
that cross-court drop volley, the
plucky Norwegian now has two
match points’ or ‘that double fault
suggests the pressure is getting to
the champion’. Or simply, ‘I say!’ ”
With AI much improved, Fincham
feels the time is ripe. “We watch
period drama,” he says, “so what’s
wrong with period commentary?”
That said, artificial intelligence can
still be dumb. Sir Matthew Pinsent
was amused when Linkedin sent him
the details of his wife, Demetra, as a
“suggested connection” with whom
he might want to expand his
network. “We have three kids
together,” the Olympic rower replied,
“so I think we are good, thanks.”
virus stops graceful play
Another elite sporting event has
fallen victim to Covid. The
inter-diocese Church Times
Cricket Cup for clergy, which
would have celebrated its 70th
year this summer, has been
cancelled. The competition has
seen several bishops but not
David Sheppard, former
Bishop of Liverpool, who
was ordained two
months after making
a century in the 1956
Ashes. “He reckoned it
wouldn’t be fair,” Paul
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Biomilq that is attempting to reproduce produce a blueprint of what they want used in a traditional printer, the design- Hence about inventions that he felt
human breast milk. to make then send this to the 3D printer ers use a “bio-ink” of live cells. would soon arrive.
KFC is looking to join in on the action with the raw materials. The printer lays down Alongside predic-
by producing chicken nuggets from The process is still long and expen- layer after layer of tions of growing ba-
animal cells alone. It will rely on 3D sive, however, and for a decade compa- cells to grow a small bies in glass jars, he
printing technology to “print” the food. nies have been claiming that they can piece of muscle tis- envisaged scientists
The company says that its “biomeat” reproduce meat from 3D printing, sue. This is then proc- growing chunks of
will remove the additives used in tradi- without achieving much commercial essed and seasoned for meat.
tional farming, “creating a cleaner final success. the “signature KFC “We shall escape
product”, and cut down on energy con- In KFC’s case, scientists will take taste”. the absurdity of
sumption and harm to animals. How- stem cells from a chicken through a In 1931 Winston growing a whole
ever, the product is based on animal biopsy and let the cells multiply into Churchill wrote an chicken in order to
tissues so is not vegetarian. clusters. Once these cells have multi- essay called Fifty Years eat the breast or wing
KFC has partnered with 3D Bioprint- plied to sufficient numbers they will be by growing these
ing Solutions, a biotech laboratory put into a bio-cartridge alongside other KFC is aiming for parts separately
founded by Russia’s largest private plant-based ingredients to help with nuggets that are still under a suitable medi-
medical company, Invitro, for the texture and taste. Instead of the ink finger-licking good um,” he wrote.
project. The Russian lab creates 3D
printers that are able to produce tissue
and organ-based products. In 2018 one
of its printers was used to print human
cartilage tissue on the International
Space Station. The two companies say
that the cell-based chicken meat will be
as “close as possible” to standard chick-
en nuggets, with a product likely to be
ready by the autumn.
3D printing creates a product by add-
ing material layer by layer. Designers
Handley, the paper’s editor, says.
“Though if he’d known how clergy
can bend the definition of ‘fair’
once in their whites he might not
have been so fastidious.”
In every crisis is an opportunity.
With many of us “staycationing” this
year, Ysenda Maxtone Graham has
picked a good time to publish a
book, British Summer Time Begins,
about the golden years of holidaying
at home. In it, she asked Sir Nicholas
Soames if his parents ever took him
on a foreign holiday. “Certainly not!”
the former MP spluttered. “No one
went abroad except to fight a war.”
of mice and men
Mr Speaker is worried about a
second wave. Not of coronavirus
but of mice. Lindsay Hoyle told
Times Radio that the number of
rodent sightings in parliament had
fallen on his watch — helped by
him bringing in a cat called
Patrick (how kind) — but he fears
the mice have only made a
strategic withdrawal. “They come
back in waves every time a little
bit of building work starts,” says
Hoyle, who spoke in November
about how the Commons mice
have “a little bit of a swagger”
about them. He says Patrick needs
reinforcements but the stumbling
block is the clerk of the Commons.
“I think he’s nervous of cats,”
Hoyle says. Is he man or mouse?
blitz mentality
The explorer Colonel John
Blashford-Snell is ready for the
mandatory imposition of masks on
Friday. While you or I may use a
mere piece of fabric tied over our
faces, the 83-year-old Blashers
has dug out the green canvas
hood in which he spent air
raids as a child, left. “It still
fits!” he declared then,
admiring the concertina air
pump on the front, added:
“Perhaps I can use it as
camouflage when I’m
next on an elephant
expedition.”
patrick kidd
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Poor background affects school success for boys, but not girls
Greg Hurst Social Affairs Editor
Poor boys from Britain are much more
likely to have poorer concentration
skills in class than their counterparts in
China, a study has shown.
Boys from less wealthy families or
whose parents had lower levels of
education were less able to ignore dis-
tractions or switch tasks than boys from
more affluent backgrounds.
The researchers found a much
weaker correlation between concen-
tration in class and socio-economic
status among girls, however. Similar
Tale of two
cities divided
by chance of
a top degree
There are reasons why
London’s state pupils far
outstrip Birmingham’s,
Rosemary Bennett and
Neil Johnston write
All being well, Daniel Adesanya will be
heading to Cambridge to read political
science this autumn. He is one of 44
pupils from Harris Westminster school
to secure an Oxbridge offer this year.
He is pretty certain he would not
have secured an offer from Cambridge
had he stayed at his secondary school. It
has a pretty good record on A levels but
lacked the extra punch to get pupils like
him over the line, the 18-year-old from
Peckham said.
Harris Westminster is a high-
ly selective sixth form, which
has about 300 students in each
year group, targets disadvan-
taged youngsters, and is a joint
venture between the private
Westminster School and the
Harris Federation, a
London academy trust.
So what makes the dif-
ference?
“Harris does a lot
in advancing students
towards those
Oxbridge levels aca-
demically, but also
on the aspiration to
go there,” he said.
“Teachers are always
suggesting ways for
us to push into areas
beyond the syllabus.
My philosophy
teacher is always
bringing up other phi-
losophers and their
views, so that gets you
engaged, you go off and
read about them and that
leads on to other ideas. The
teachers are very passionate
about their subject and are
just able to capture my imag-
ination.”
Preparation starts early.
tests among pupils in China found no
link at all between so-called executive
functions and family backgrounds.
It prompted researchers to conclude
that “specific cultural factors” appear to
hold back poor boys in Britain from
performing better at school. These
could include home life, family attitudes
to education or school curriculums.
Academics from the University of
Cambridge analysed results of
computer-based cognitive games
played by 835 children aged between
nine and 16 in Britain and Hong Kong
to measure executive functions such as
The entrance exam and interview for
Harris, he says, were “a lot more daunt-
ing” than for Cambridge. He had to
analyse a Shakespeare sonnet, and
write an essay on an economic disaster.
The interview was a run through the
key philosophical schools of thought.
“I was definitely scared. I think going
through that process kind of settled my
nerves for Cambridge.”
Selection matters and teaching mat-
ters but location matters too. Last
month Boris Johnson said that he
wanted to “end the current injustice
that means a pupil from a London state
school is now 50 per cent more likely to
go to a top university than a pupil from
the West Midlands.” He added: “That is
not only unjust, it is such a waste of
human talent.” New official figures
show that 15 per cent of pupils from
London got into a university in the
leading Russell Group in 2017-18,
compared with 10 per cent in the
West Midlands, the worst region
on this measure.
When it comes to Oxford and
Cambridge, 5.7 per cent of places
between 2017 and 2019
went to students from
the West Midlands,
who make up 9.3 per
cent of school leavers.
Londoners took 26.7
per cent of places
while making up 13
per cent of school
leavers.
James Hand-
scombe, Mr Adesa-
nya’s head teacher,
agrees that good
teaching and se-
lecting pupils who
will thrive on chal-
lenge are crucial, but
he says that there is
one far more impor-
tant factor: money.
Most A level stu-
dents get 15 hours of
lessons a week. His
pupils get 23. Gov-
ernment funding
is topped up
with an extra
£1,000 per head
concentration and equations to test
their numeracy skills. Their parents
completed surveys about their socio-
economic status and education.
In the first set of tests British boys
from wealthier families tended to
perform better, while those from poor-
er backgrounds did worse. In 30 per
cent of cases a boy’s family status pre-
dicted the concentrative scores, but for
girls any correlation was close to zero.
There was no link at all between the
results of poor boys or girls in Hong
Kong, who outperformed the British
pupils in both sets of the tests despite
Daniel Adesanya says Harris Westminster transformed his opportunities; Sehrish
Mahmood, from the West Midlands, is the first from her school at Cambridge
per year from sponsors and endless
fundraising.
“That money is not going on gold-
plated swimming pools,” he said. “Gov-
ernment funding is predicated on 15
hours a week — that is just not enough
and that’s where the hole is. That is your
problem, and London has an advantage
because there’s a lot more money here
so we can raise it.”
The same is true across town at the
London Academy of Excellence (LAE)
in Stratford, sponsored by a consortium
of private schools, including Eton and
Brighton College, as well as HSBC and
energetic fundraising by the parent
body. It tops up by £1,500 per pupil. Like
Harris Westminster, it prioritises child-
2GM
being less affluent. Children in Hong
Kong and Shandong, in China, were
about two years ahead of the British
pupils in their thinking skills and six
years ahead in their numeracy tests.
Michelle Ellefson, a reader in
cognitive science at Cambridge who led
the research, said that the results
showed that the British pupils
performed overall at the level expected
for their age while the children in Hong
Kong and China were far ahead.
Dr Ellefson said: “Schools and maybe
even the way we socialise girls seems to
be levelling the playing field a bit in
TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER RICHARD POHLE; SEHRISH MAHMOOD; ALAMY
ren on free school meals and has an
impressive academic record, with 37
Oxbridge offers this year.
It is a model that Brighton College
wants to establish in other deprived
areas, and Richard Cairns, Brighton’s
head, says that he has written recently
to the prime minister to discuss this.
“We imagine that it could be an
important focus for communities in the
red wall constituencies, providing
springboards of opportunity for de-
prived youngsters,” he said. They would
need to be funded in full, he added.
Birmingham as the second city
would be an obvious choice. It has no
highly selective standalone sixth forms,
compared with four in London and
Tuesday July 21 2020 | the times
terms of cognitive skills like executive
functions but not yet for boys, so the
thing we need to think about is how we
provide a context for levelling the
playing field for both.”
Claire Hughes, professor of develop-
mental psychology at Cambridge’s
centre for family research, said: “There
is concern in the UK that among
children from less-advantaged back-
grounds, boys in particular often
under-perform academically, and the
possibility has been raised in some
research that features of their home
environment play a role in this.”
another
h on th the way. Heath MonkMonk, who
until last month ran the Schools of King
Edwards VI academy trust, believes
strongly that the absence of selective
sixth forms is costing the entire West
Midlands .
The London model works because
dozens of bright children are all in one
place, so the teaching can be tailored to
the highest level and pupils can com-
pete constructively, he says.
His group of 11 grammar, private and
comprehensive schools educates thou-
sands of children. “We have plenty of
bright pupils but they are spread thinly
across a large number of schools, so
sometimes only a handful of Oxbridge
candidates in each,” he said.
Many families in the large Asian pop-
ulation are also tight-knit and the
children want to study locally.
Even those in the West Midlands
who made it to top universities said that
they felt that many young people did
not consider Oxbridge as they felt it was
beyond them.
Sehrish Mahmood, 19, is from
Cradley Heath and studying law at
Cambridge. She said that she would
have struggled to make it to university
without the help of Access Project, a
charity that worked with her school,
Ormiston Forge Academy.
“From my school no one had ever got
into Oxbridge before. If I’m completely
honest I think I was very hesitant to
apply to Cambridge in the beginning.
That came from a lack of understand-
ing and various preconceptions I had
about the university . . . that there was a
certain type of student that went to
Cambridge and I was probably the
exact opposite.”
Sehrish’s mother was born in
England and her father is from Paki-
stan, and she wears a hijab.
“Even things like my ethnicity, my
postcode, I thought they might look at
it and say no. Now it seems absurd. I got
in, but back then being in Year 12, being
naive, lacking confidence, I thought
there were barriers to even applying.”
Lee Elliott Major, professor of social
mobility at Exeter University, says that
the West Midlands is one of the coun-
try’s largest “opportunity cold-spots”.
“Research on social mobility suggests
the place you grow up in has a genuine
causal impact on your life chances.
Every extra year of childhood spent in
a worse or better neighbourhood can
impact on future life prospects,” he said.
Leading article, page 31
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Oligarch investigated rival’s wealth
Sean O’Neill Chief Reporter
The multimillion-pound fortune of the
Conservative Party’s largest female
donor should have been investigated
under an unexplained wealth order,
another Russian oligarch claimed in a
legal case against her husband.
Lubov Chernukhin, 48, whose hus-
band Vladimir is a former Russian min-
ister, has given more than £1.7 million to
Tory funds since 2012, including
£335,000 this year alone. Her dona-
tions include three separate gifts of
£200,000 in June and November 2019
and March this year.
The scale of donations by wealthy
people with Russian connections is ex-
pected to feature in the intelligence and
security committee’s report on Mos-
cow’s influence on British political life
when it is finally published today.
Mr and Mrs Chernukhin’s wealth
came under scrutiny in a commercial
dispute with Oleg Deripaska in the
High Court in 2018. Mr Deripaska, 51, a
billionaire who is on good terms with
the Kremlin, and Mr Chernukhin, 50,
who fled Russia in 2004 after falling out
of favour with President Putin, were at
odds over ownership of a valuable piece
of land in Moscow.
It emerged in court that Mr Deri-
paska, who hosted George Osborne,
shadow chancellor at the time, on his
yacht off Corfu in 2008, had commis-
sioned a private investigation into the
Chernukhins’ finances. He wanted to
send the report to the National Crime
Agency and urge it to investigate how
the couple came by their millions.
Unexplained wealth orders — called
McMafia powers, after a TV drama —
allow the authorities to freeze property
and other assets and require their own-
ers to explain the source of their wealth.
At the High Court in November 2018
Jonathan Crow, QC, for Mr Chernukh-
in, 50, accused Mr Deripaska of com-
missioning the report to cause trouble
Lubov and Vladimir Chernukhin were
criticised by a judge in the High Court
for the couple in Britain. The judge
ruled in favour of Mr Chernukhin over
the property dispute but criticised the
quality of the evidence given by him, his
wife and Mr Deripaska.
The Conservatives have continued to
accept hundreds of thousands of
pounds from her since the ruling, in-
cluding £135,000 for a private dinner
with Theresa May when she was prime
minister and an auction bid of £45,000
to play tennis with Boris Johnson.
Mrs Chernukhin, who gives her oc-
cupation on Companies House records
as an investment director, is a British
citizen and all her political donations
are legal. She is understood to have
been born Lubov Golubeva in Kazakh-
stan to Russian parents in 1972 and to
have had some of her education in the
United States. She has been listed as a
director of a number of companies.
Presently she is director of just one,
Capital Construction and Develop-
ment, which reported debts of £8 mil-
lion last year.
The Chernukhins have a number of
properties but their main London
home is a flat overlooking Regent’s
Park with an estimated value of more
than £7 million. It is owned through a
company registered in the British
Virgin Islands. Mr Chernukhin is
understood to have extensive
commercial property interests owned
through a number of companies. Mr
and Mrs Chernukhin could not be
reached for comment.
Polar bears
could die out
in decades
Ben Webster Environment Editor
Polar bears could vanish from most of
the Arctic by the end of the century if
greenhouse gas emissions continue to
rise, a study has said.
The bears rely on sea ice to hunt
seals; when it melts they are forced on
to land where they may be unable to
find food. Each year rising tempera-
tures are lengthening the period during
which large areas of the Arctic are ice
free, so polar bears must fast for longer.
This threat to polar bears is well es-
tablished but scientists have for the first
time predicted when the different sub-
populations will begin to decline steep-
ly if the world fails to cut emissions.
They studied records of 200 bears in
the Western Hudson Bay sub-popula-
tion to calculate the number of days
that bears can fast before the survival

Russian ‘spy’ report puts Tory donors in spotlight
Steven Swinford Deputy Political Editor
An intelligence report on Russian
interference in British democracy is
expected to raise questions about
donations to the Conservative Party by
oligarchs and other wealthy figures.
The cross-party intelligence and
security committee will publish a 50-
page report today on illicit Russian
activities in Britain. Its release has been
repeatedly delayed by Downing Street.
The names of individual donors with
links to the Kremlin are expected to be
redacted in the report. The committee
has also prepared a classified annexe to
the document detailing intelligence
about the activities of the Russian
government. It will only be seen by
those with the highest levels of security
clearance.
One of the Conservative Party’s
biggest donors is Alexander Temerko,
who has worked for the Kremlin’s
defence ministry. He has given the
Tories more than £1.3 million. Mr Tem-
erko has denied being a Russian agent,
saying that he was a well-known critic
of the Russian regime. He has publicly
condemned the invasion of Ukraine.
The document also says that Russia
tried to “influence” the result of the
Scottish independence referendum but
not the result of the EU referendum, it
was reported last night.
It says that Russia’s alleged involve-
ment was “the first post-Soviet interfer-
ence in a Western democratic election”.
The report suggests that there is
“credible open-source commentary
that Russia undertook to influence the
campaign on Scottish independence”.
The document is being published
days after Dominic Raab, the foreign
secretary, claimed that it was “almost
certain” that Russia had tried to inter-
fere in the 2019 election. He said that
“Russian actors” had tried to influence
the contest by “amplifying” stolen
government papers online.
The documents — relating to trade
talks between America and the UK —
were picked up by Jeremy Corbyn, who
said they were evidence that the
Conservatives were preparing to open
up the NHS to US drug companies.
The UK, US and Canada claimed
that hackers linked to Russian intelli-
gence agencies tried to steal details of
research into coronavirus vaccines.
Andrei Kelin, Russia’s ambassador in
London, dismissed the accusations in a
BBC interview. “I do not see any point
in using this subject,” he said. “We do
not interfere at all. We do not see any
point in interference because for us,
whether it will be [the] Conservative
Party or Labour Party at the head of
this country, we will try to establish
better relations than now.”
Hugo Rifkind, page 29
Letters, page 30
rates of cubs and adults start to fall.
An adult female with cubs can fast for
117 days before her milk production de-
clines, at which point her offspring may
starve. An adult male’s chances of sur-
viving decline after 200days and for a
solitary adult female after 255 days.
The scientists found some sub-popu-
lations, including those in the Hudson
Bay in Canada and Davis Strait
between Canada and Greenland,
already had low reproduction rates
because bears had to fast for longer.
Peter Molnar, lead author from the
University of Toronto Scarborough,
said: “While our projections seem dire,
the unfortunate thing is they might
even be too optimistic. We assumed
polar bears will use their available body
energy in optimal ways when fasting. If
that isn’t the case, the reality could be
worse than our projections.”
the times | Tuesday July 21 2020 2G M
Tech firms
help pilotless
fighter to get
off ground
W
hen it
finally
takes to
the skies
Britain’s
sixth-generation fighter
jet is set to control a
swarm of unmanned
combat drones known as
“loyal wingmen” (Lucy
Fisher writes).
Britain’s attempt to
develop a fighter that
can be flown with or
without a pilot gathered
pace yesterday as it was
bolstered by the support
of leading defence and
technology companies.
The country’s future
combat air system,
known as Team
Tempest, has attracted
almost £2 billion in
investment. It is aimed
at replacing the
Typhoon fighter jet and
is set to enter the RAF
fleet from 2035.
The programme
began two years ago and
won distinction in its
Call for inquiry into dukes’ charity funds
Valentine Low
The charitable foundations of the Duke
and Duchess of Cambridge and the
Duke and Duchess of Sussex have been
reported to the Charity Commission
for alleged conflicts of interest and
inappropriate use of funds.
Republic, the anti-monarchy cam-
paign group, has asked the watchdog to
investigate the Royal Foundation and
Sussex Royal over money transfers.
One grant of £145,000 was made by
the Royal Foundation, which used to be
the main charitable organisation for
both the Cambridges and the Sussexes,
to help Harry and Meghan to set up
Sussex Royal. Another grant of
£144,901 was made to Sussex Royal to
fund the “continued development” of
Travalyst, Prince Harry’s sustainable
tourism initiative. It was boosted in
April by a further grant of £6,955.
The transfers followed the Sussexes’
decision to leave the Royal Foundation.
Sussex Royal is now being wound up
because the Duke and Duchess of
Sussex can no longer use a royal brand.
Graham Smith of Republic said the
grants to Sussex Royal and Travalyst
appeared “unethical and underhand”
because the money was given for one
purpose but used for another.
In a letter to the Charity Commission
he wrote: “These two charities appear
to be in breach of guidelines regarding
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BAE/MINISTRY OF DEFENCE
The Tempest fighter jet is
due to enter RAF service in
2035. The Hawker Tempest
played a key role during
the Second World War
on the programme,
which is racing a
Franco-German scheme
to develop a European
sixth-generation fighter
jet. Many defence
analysts expect the two
programmes to merge.
This year a formal
decision must be made
about its design. The
RAF favours retaining a
piloted mode but there
is growing pressure in
other quarters for it to
be solely unpiloted.
Justin Bronk, combat
air research fellow at the
Royal United Services
Institute, said he was
sceptical about the
viability of a full-scale
piloted fighter jet funded
through the Ministry of
Defence’s budget, and
pointed out that pilotless
aircraft would be
first phase for designing “When you attract the Aerospace, Martin cheaper. Such a model
a generator that delivers very best of British Baker, Qinetiq, would not be allowed to
unprecedented electrical engineering and design, Bombardier and Thales “select its own targets
power. technological leaps like UK, along with British and go rogue”, he added.
Ben Wallace, the these are guaranteed.” universities and smaller By next year Tempest
defence secretary, told The big companies companies. will employ 2,500 highly
the online Farnborough signing a partnership Italy and Sweden have skilled engineers and
international air show: are GEUK, GKN, Collins also signed up to work programmers.
the proper use of charitable funds and The Royal Foundation’s annual report limited company at Companies House.
may be failing in their duty to act inde- said: “The Royal Foundation agreed to Funds donated cannot go to the partner
pendently and solely in the interests of provide financial and operational companies or be paid out in dividends.
their objectives.” support during the period of transition, Sussex Royal said: “Grants made to
Schillings, the Duke of Sussex’s law- as well as providing a home for legacy the non-profit organisation Travalyst
yers, said that the false claims about the projects set up by the Duke and Duch- are for the ongoing development of
duke and his charitable work were ess of Sussex.” projects that will support communities,
deeply offensive and defamatory and Sussex Royal is being replaced by wildlife and the environment through
insulting to the people and organisa- Archewell, a non-profit group that is sustainable travel and tourism. All
tions that he had worked with. It added due to be launched next year. All assets grants have been made impartially and
that the duke had never had any per- from Sussex Royal are being trans- objectively, fully in line with govern-
sonal financial interest in his charitable ferred to Travalyst, a non-profit organi- ance requirement.”
work. “The interest has always been sation, which works with the private The Charity Commission said: “As
clear: to support others and to make a sector to change how travel affects local with all concerns raised with us we will
positive difference.” communities. assess the information provided to
Both charities also said that the Travalyst was co-founded by Book- determine whether or not there is a role
grants were made in line with charity ing.com, Ctrip, Skyscanner, Trip- for the commission. We have not made
rules and were reported transparently. advisor and Visa, and is listed as a any determination of wrongdoing.”
the times | Tuesday July 21 2020 2GM 23

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GEORGE WOOD/GETTY IMAGES; DANNY LAWSON/PA

Fans ignore social

distancing as they pack
Leeds city centre to
celebrate promotion to
the Premier League

the championship title.

Yesterday he urged
football fans to “be more
cautious”, adding: “I
think what I’ve seen is
not responsible at all.”
Mr Radrizzani issued
his warning amid fears
that similar scenes could
occur at the last game of
the season against
Charlton tomorrow. He
said: “Everybody wishes
to get together and
Leeds counts cost celebrate and we would
love to open the stadium
soon. But if we’re not
of promotion party following the rules and
we take this superficially
this might cause more

A
police officer
was hit on the
head with a
bottle and
seriously
injured when thousands
of Leeds United fans
gathered to mark their
club’s return to the
Premier League after
16 years (Charlotte
Wace writes).
Celebrations took
place in the city’s
Millennium Square after
a 3-1 win over Derby
County on Sunday.
Leeds had already been
promoted as champions
and on Friday and
Saturday fans had
gathered outside its
Elland Road ground.
West Yorkshire police
said that about 7,000
people turned out and
that a “small minority”
had thrown bottles at
police. The female
officer was taken to
hospital for treatment
and several other
officers had minor
injuries. Fifteen people
were hurt and nine were
arrested for public order
offences.
Oz Khan, an assistant
chief constable, said:
“Violence towards
police officers will not
be tolerated and we
deployed an appropriate
police response to
ensure that the
festivities concluded
safely. It is important to
remind the public that
we must not lose sight of
the fact that Covid-19 is
still with us and that
large gatherings are not
permitted.”
Video footage from
the celebrations showed
supporters failing to
maintain social
distancing as they
hugged, drank alcohol
and let off flares. Fans
were seen scrambling on
to the Leeds City
Museum, while several
others climbed up
lampposts.
The city centre was
left strewn with glass,
cans, plastic bags and
other litter and
yesterday morning a
clean-up was under way.
cases, more problems
and then we might have
to postpone what we
want, which is to be
back at Elland Road as
soon as possible.”
Mohammed Rafique,
a councillor, said: “It is
About 20 staff from the vital that people do not
local authority and the seek to replicate what
Leeds Business we saw in Millennium
Improvement District Square in the coming
worked to clean up the days.”
debris, with help from a There was similar
number of football fans. exuberance outside
Andrea Radrizzani, Anfield after Liverpool
the Leeds chairman, had won the Premier League
urged supporters to stay last month.
at home if the club won Wolves win, pages 60-61

How to dodge Alzheimer’s — read, Crumbs of

avoid stress and middle-age spread
Kat Lay Health Correspondent
To avoid Alzheimer’s disease, be edu-
cated as much as possible when young,
take part in “mentally stimulating ac-
tivities” such as reading, and try to
avoid head trauma and stress.
These are among ten suggestions
backed by “strong evidence” and nine
with weaker evidence, in a review of
how people might reduce their chances
of developing the dementia.
The researchers, led by Jin-Tai Yu, of
Fudan University in China, reviewed
243 observational studies and 152 ran-
domised controlled trials to find how
the risks could be reduced.
Their top ten suggestions included
avoiding diabetes, depression and high
blood pressure in midlife. Suggestions
that were less proven included getting
regular physical exercise, sufficient
good quality sleep, maintaining a
healthy body weight and good heart
health in later life, avoiding smoking
and including vitamin C in the diet.
Dementia affects about 850,000
people in the UK, two thirds of whom
have Alzheimer’s disease. It is a leading
The top ten tips
6 Adults aged under 65 should not
be too skinny.
6 Do mentally stimulating activities
such as reading and playing chess.
6 Avoid diabetes by adopting a
healthier lifestyle.
6 Protect your head from injuries.
6 Under-65s should avoid high blood
pressure with a healthier lifestyle.
6 People with a sudden fall in blood
pressure on standing should have
their cognition closely monitored.
6 Maintain good mental health;
monitor people with depression.
6 Relax your mind; avoid daily stress.
6 Receive as much education as
possible in early life.
6 Have a regular blood test for
homocysteine levels. Low levels
should be treated with vitamin B
and/or folic acid.
cause of death, with no new drug treat-
ments for dementia in almost 20 years.
The number of people with dementia
in the UK is forecast to increase to one
million by 2025 and 1.59 million by
2040 if trends continue. Recent re-
search has suggested that the number
of cases may be reducing, however,
possibly due to lifestyle changes.
The study in Journal of Neurology,
Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, is based on
a review of 395 studies.
The researchers concluded that the
top ten risk factors were insufficient
education and cognitive activity, a high
body mass index in late life, high blood
levels of the amino acid homocysteine,
depression, stress, diabetes, head trau-
ma, high blood pressure in midlife and
orthostatic hypotension, a condition
where blood pressure falls significantly
when someone stands up quickly.
Nine further factors with weaker
evidence included obesity in midlife,
weight loss in late life, lack of regular
physical exercise, smoking, insufficient
good quality sleep, cerebrovascular
disease, frailty, atrial fibrillation and
insufficient vitamin C in the diet.
Rosa Sancho, head of research at
Alzheimer’s Research UK, said that the
findings on head trauma and homo-
cysteine were intriguing.
Dr Sancho said: “Identifying risk fac-
tors like this is an important starting
point for further research into ways to
limit their impact and help people live
for longer free from dementia.
“Alzheimer’s Research UK’s Demen-
tia Attitudes Monitor [shows] just a
third of people think it’s possible to re-
duce their dementia risk. The best way
to keep your brain healthy as you age is
to stay physically and mentally active,
eat a healthy balanced diet, not smoke,
drink only within the recommended
limits and keep weight, cholesterol and
blood pressure in check.”
Fiona Carragher, director of research
and influencing at Alzheimer’s Society,
said: “In recent years, research has sug-
gested that nearly a third of dementia
cases may be preventable and this re-
view builds on this idea, specifically in
relation to Alzheimer’s disease and how
certain risk factors, many of which are
associated with cardiovascular health,
may be within our control.”
comfort for
prisoners
Richard Ford Home Correspondent
It's an aroma to remind anyone of
better times. Now, it has emerged that
the smell of toast wafting through
prison corridors and cells also reduces
violence between inmates.
The smell creates a “homely” feel
and, along with porridge packs and
unlimited bread, is winning praise from
inmates at Lincoln prison.
An official report said that self-harm
incidents at Lincoln, which holds about
560 prisoners, had fallen from 620 to
614 in the year to December and
violent incidents by 11 per cent, from
1,087 to 963.
Toasters and unlimited supplies of
bread now supplement meagre break-
fast packs containing cereal, milk, tea
and brown or white bread that are
handed out to inmates. “This enables
prisoners to have a hot breakfast and is
much appreciated, and the homely
smell of toast contributes to a relatively
relaxed ambiance on the wings,” the
jail’s Independent Monitoring Board
annual report said.
It added that the prison kitchen
provided food that was good and varied,

You can sniff out your risk of developing dementia
Rhys Blakely Science Correspondent
Older people who retain the ability to
stop and smell the roses face a signifi-
cantly lower risk of dementia.
People in their seventies who could
identify scents such as roses, turpentine
and lemons and who kept good hearing
and vision had less than half the risk of
developing dementia of those whose
senses deteriorated badly. The study
tracked nearly 1,800 Americans for up
to ten years each. All were in their
seventies and free of any signs of
dementia at the start; over the course of
the study 328 developed dementia.
Among those whose senses declined,
27 per cent developed signs of demen-
tia. Among those whose senses stayed
sharp, the figure was 12 per cent. Of all
the senses, smell appeared to have the
strongest association with dementia.
Participants whose smell declined by
10 per cent had a 19 per cent higher risk
of the condition. A similar decline in
vision, hearing or the sense of touch
translated to an increased dementia
risk of between 1 per cent and 3 per cent.
Dr Willa Brenowitz, of the University
of California San Francisco, who led the
study, said the olfactory bulb, a peanut-
sized part of the brain that is critical for
smell, is affected early in the disease.
Some researchers believe that the
sensory input a person receives could
increase dementia risk by limiting
opportunities for social engagement.
The results were published in
Alzheimer’s and Dementia: The Journal
of the Alzheimer’s Association.
including meals that met the require-
ments of many faith denominations
and those with special health needs.
“Complaints to the board about the
food are rare, and outnumbered by
compliments,” the report said.
The jail operates a four-week rolling
menu with a variety of meals, and fruit
and vegetables are available daily.
Food budgets for jails in England and
Wales are allocated on the basis of £2.02
per prisoner per day. Many prisons now
have kettles and toasters in cells and on
the wings.
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Cicada wings could help us to beat bacteria

Tom Whipple Science Editor
The delicate wing of the cicada,
translucent and almost impossibly thin,
is one of nature’s most beautiful
structures. Not, though, from the view
of bacteria. Then it is neither exquisite
nor gorgeous — its surface is, instead, a
perilous kill zone that slices them open
without mercy.
Scientists have gained more insight
into how the insect does it, in the hope
of copying its tricks.
For cicadas, the antibacterial proper-
ties of their wings are likely to be just a
bonus. The nanostructure on the sur-
face probably evolved to make them
less reflective, and so help them to hide
from predators.
Less than a decade ago, though, sci-
entists found that it had a side benefit.
Any bacteria that landed on the wings
were rapidly killed. This was not a
chemical attack but something about
the surface structure of the wing itself
that disrupted bacteria’s cell mem-
branes and tore them apart.
If we could copy that structure, re-
searchers thought, then it would be
possible to make longer-lasting anti-
bacterial surfaces without the need to
repeatedly use chemicals.
“Chemicals lead to a stronger strain
of bacteria,” Takeshi Ito, from Kansai
University, said. “They can become
immune to chemicals, but with this you
are physically killing them.”
Just as humans can get better at
coping with a disease but not a sword
slashing them, so it is hard for bacteria
to evade a structural enemy. Professor
Ito’s research, published in the Royal
Society of Chemistry journal RSC
Advances, was an attempt to gain more
insight into how the cicada does this. In
particular, by using a dye that changed
colour when the bacteria were dead, he
and his team found that bacteria that
were more mobile were worst affected.
This suggested that the flagella of
bacteria, which they use to propel
themselves, were getting entangled. As
the bacteria writhed on the wing’s sur-
face, its membranes were slashed open.
Professor Ito and his colleagues hope
to recreate this effect with a film they
have modelled on cicada wings. “The
film can be coated on materials that
large numbers of people touch in every-
day life,” he said.
He and his colleagues hope that they
Cicada may also be able to find ways to improve
Cicadidae, Neotibicen on the design — something that might
be possible if, as they think, the bacteri-
Bacterium cidal properties of cicada wings came
about by chance rather than evolution.
Flagella
Fighting antibiotic resistance often
2
involves looking for ideas in the envi-
1
ronment. Many antibiotics come from
the natural world. Laura Fisher, from
the Royal Society of Chemistry, said:
Structure of “Antimicrobial resistance remains one
1 Bacterium’s wing surface of humanity’s biggest threats. We are
flagella get
always amazed by how much more we
caught and trapped
on nanostructure of cicada wing have to learn from nature. Professor
Ito’s work is an example of how
2 Trapped bacterium rubs on surface, chemistry is always finding new
breaking up
solutions, even in unexpected places.”

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Anti-vaxxers threaten
the Covid fightback
Melanie Phillips
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Pubs are open but critical services stay shut
It’s absurd that Whitehall unions are holding up the issuing of vital documents such as passports and driving licences
Rachel
Sylvester
@rsylvestertimes
I
t is more than a week since
Boris Johnson declared at
one of his “People’s PMQs” that
government policy was changing
from “stay at home if you can” to
“go back to work if you can”. On
Friday the reversal was formalised
with the announcement that from
August 1 the lockdown rules would
be relaxed and employers given
“more discretion” over bringing
people back into the office. “I
certainly want to see people coming
back to the civil service here in
London,” the prime minister said, as
he insisted that “normality” could
return by Christmas.
As ever, though, there are mixed
messages coming out of the
government. Sir Patrick Vallance,
the chief scientific adviser, suggested
that there was “absolutely no reason”
to change the guidance on working
from home. Meanwhile, Whitehall
departments remain deserted,
some official agencies show no signs
of reopening and critical public
services are not being delivered in
“Backlog Britain”.
Some people have had to wait
more than four months for passports
to be processed, thousands of elderly
motorists are housebound and
isolated because they have been
unable to renew their driving
licences and more than 150,000
babies lack legal status because their
parents could not register their birth.
Even though the official Gov.UK
Twitter account is sending out the
message that “Whatever you’ve
missed, now is the time to get back
out there and enjoy it safely”, many
recipients of this advice are in limbo,
unable to go on holiday, take a
driving test or buy a house.
The cabinet will meet in person
today for the first time since March
to “set an example” to the country,
but this is gesture politics when what
matters is to get the state functioning
for ordinary citizens.
It is ridiculous, for example, that
pubs, hairdressers and nail salons
are open yet the Passport Office
remains closed to the public. More
than a million passports have
expired during the lockdown but
many holders have been unable to
renew them, meaning families have
been forced to cancel or delay their
holidays. Although it is still possible
to apply for a passport online, the
average processing time has doubled
and some people have had to wait
143 days for their request to be
completed. The premium fast-track
service and the face-to-face
interviews required for a first adult
The time to process
probate is taking nearly
twice as long as normal
passport have been suspended,
leaving travellers unable to get their
documents in time to go abroad
this summer.
This is partly because the Public
and Commercial Services Union,
which represents many of the 2,000
Passport Office employees, has set
stringent conditions on the return
to work and is resisting plans to
use a skeleton staff to keep offices
working until 10pm to clear the
backlog. The transition from
burgundy to blue “Brexit” passports
is also slowing things down,
according to a Whitehall source. Yet
there is no sense of urgency at the
Home Office, which is responsible
for the Passport Office. When I
asked Priti Patel’s department
whether face-to-face services would
resume by August 1, after the prime
minister’s announcement last week, a
spokesman could not give a
definitive answer.
“We encourage those who are able
to do so to apply at a later date and
those that need to apply to do so
online as it will likely be quicker,”
said a statement that arrived by
email, along with a note confirming
that the service had been scaled back
and passports would take “longer
than usual” to process.
A friend who had to delay a
long-planned trip to Turkey
because she was unable to renew her
passport in time says: “Ministers
announced the travel ban was over,
and said we could go on foreign
holidays but they have not reopened
the Passport Office in time for
my family to be able to get away.
It’s so inconsistent.”
Of course, it is not essential to take
a foreign holiday, or indeed a holiday
at all, but this government failure has
consequences for the travel industry
as well as consumers, who will be
unable to reclaim the cost of
cancelled trips. In any case, a
passport is not just a travel
document, it is a proof of identity
that can be required for transactions
such as a mortgage application. One
senior Tory, who is involved in
discussions about civil service
reform, says it is “absolutely absurd”
that issuing offices are still closed.
“Passports are essential services,”
this insider fumed. “If people can
stock supermarket aisles” then the
public sector should be able to
process document applications.
The Passport Office is not the only
Comment
ALAMY
The transition from burgundy to blue
passports is slowing the work down
official body with a bureaucratic
backlog. Driving tests will resume
this week, but only for key workers
and those who had appointments
cancelled when the lockdown was
imposed, meaning that thousands of
teenagers hoping to get a licence will
have to wait months to sit their tests.
People over 70, who are required
to renew their driving licence every
three years, are also facing long
delays because almost 800,000 older
drivers have applied for a renewal
since March. The time for processing
probate, part of the legal process
required after someone dies, is
taking nearly twice as long as usual,
because public sector staff have not
returned to their offices.
Some government departments
have coped perfectly well with the
social distancing restrictions
introduced during the pandemic.
There is no backlog in applications
27
for universal credit because more
than 10,000 Department for Work
and Pensions staff were redeployed to
the front line to help process the
unprecedented number of claims.
The Department of Health built
seven new hospitals in a matter of
weeks and the Ministry of Justice is
setting up ten temporary
“Nightingale” courts to clear the
cases that have built up during the
This is not about
presenteeism but the
delivery of services
coronavirus crisis. It shows it can be
done, but the picture is far too mixed.
I’m not suggesting that
government employees should
return to their offices before it is safe
to do so, but the prime minister
cannot have it both ways. If it is time
to “go back to work if you can” then
the public sector should lead by
example, rather than lagging behind
private companies. This is not about
“presenteeism” in Whitehall — in
fact policy officials may be able to
work perfectly effectively from home
— but about the practical delivery of
critical services.
No 10 is determined to wage a
culture war in Whitehall, ousting Sir
Mark Sedwill, the cabinet secretary,
and attempting to politicise the
Commons intelligence and security
committee. The prime minister’s team
would do better to focus on improving
competence where it counts.
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Anti-vaxxers threaten the Covid fightback
Public education, rather than compulsory inoculation, is the way to defeat epidemic irrationality
Melanie
Phillips
@melanielatest
M
ight the end of this
pandemic nightmare
now be in sight?
Preliminary results
published yesterday
from early trials of a Covid-19
vaccine being developed by Oxford
University suggest that it safely
triggers an immune response.
Other research teams around the
world are racing to develop a vaccine
against the virus. The government
has signed deals for 30 million doses
of one being developed in Germany
and a further 60 million doses of
another being created in France.
Yesterday Kate Bingham, head of
the government’s vaccine task force,
said there was a possibility of Covid
vaccinations by the end of the year.
This may be the only way to return to
normal life. Yet there are suggestions
that an alarming number of people
would refuse to be inoculated.
According to a recent survey,
14 per cent of people say they would
be unwilling to be vaccinated and a
further 13 per cent say they don’t
know if they would refuse or not.
This is part of a global movement
against vaccination identified by the
World Health Organisation (WHO)
last year as one of the top ten threats
to global health.
This is astonishing. Vaccination
Giles Coren Notebook
Down with
Colston . . .
and with
woke artists
O
n balance, I think I would
have pulled the statue of
Edward Colston down,
too, if I had known what
a bad egg he was.
Although perhaps not, if I’d known
how bad it is for middle-aged white
men to try to take control of a
conversation that isn’t about them.
But what I think I can be pretty sure
I would not have done is make my
own sculpture of a black woman
protester, as Marc Quinn did last
week, and stick it up where Colston
used to be.
The reason I would not have done
this is partly because even I can see
that a middle-aged white man
making statues of black women and
sticking them up in public places for
purposes of virtue-signalling and
self-promotion is poor form, and
partly because if I tried to make a
life-sized sculpture of a young black
woman, or anyone else, it would
has enabled one of the greatest
global advances in public health. It is
estimated to prevent two to three
million deaths a year.
So what is the reason for this
anti-vaccination hesitancy? The
WHO’s vaccines advisory group
has identified complacency,
inconvenience in accessing vaccines
and lack of confidence in safety.
Certainly social media is overrun by
“anti-vax” campaigns. Some blame
this on the enormous controversy
that blew up in 1998 over the MMR
jab, after it was claimed that this
triple vaccine had harmed the health
of some children.
Because of that storm I have been
accused of being anti-vaccination.
This is ridiculous. I have always been
strongly in favour of safe and
properly tested vaccination and, like
many others, I am hoping against
hope that a vaccine can be developed
Some homeopaths tell
parents not to get their
children vaccinated
against Covid-19. The false claim
that I oppose vaccination developed
from unfounded allegations that
I helped cause the MMR crisis.
This was because of my analysis
of the evidence and my concern
at the treatment of the doctor at
the heart of the row, Andrew
Wakefield, who was later struck off
the medical register.
Yet I didn’t write a word about the
vaccine until five years after
Wakefield first reported parental
concerns. In any event, anxieties
probably come out looking like a
comedy potato off That’s Life, and I
would find myself in a world of
political pain.
But what I absolutely, positively,
definitely know I would not have
done, if I lived a hundred lifetimes, is
make a statue of a young black
woman and stick it up in a public
place after the black mayor of that
place, Marvin Rees, had
ot
specifically asked me not
to because of the racial
tensions he feared it
would stir up.
But that’s what Quinn n
y,
did, we learnt yesterday,
proving once again thatt all
artists are total morons.. If
the world would only
get rid of art
altogether, how much
simpler and kinder
life would be.
Under-cooked
A
ccording to
yesterday’s
papers, nearly a
quarter of restaurants
eligible to offer half-
price meals under the
government’s Eat Out
to Help Out scheme
have registered to take
part, including All Bar
One, Browns, Burger
King, Frankie &
about that issue were over the
possible ill-effects of combining three
vaccines in one shot; indeed,
campaigners wanted a single measles
vaccine to be made available.
It’s fatuous to say that concern
over this one vaccine has driven a
global paranoia about vaccination in
general. It has surely played a role,
but more and more parents are
refusing to vaccinate their children
against a wide range of childhood
diseases, including diphtheria,
tetanus and whooping cough.
So how did the world get into this
situation? One reason is a rising
libertarian resistance to any move by
the state requiring individuals to do
anything. This was demonstrated at
the weekend’s protests in London
against the wearing of masks, with
some demonstrators announcing
their hostility to vaccination too.
At a deeper level is the attitude
that has been growing for the past
half-century: a belief in the innate
goodness of the natural world and a
deep suspicion of how mankind
interferes with it through science or
technology. This is behind the
popularity of organic food, based on
the belief that fertilisers or pesticides
are harmful to health. The same
certainty lies behind opposition to
genetically modified crops. It also
involves hostility to “big pharma”,
with the belief that companies
subject unsuspecting populations to
poisons masquerading as medicines
in order to make vast fortunes.
Even more significant, perhaps, is
the rise in popularity of homeopathic
treatments, based on the unscientific
notion that a diluted version of a
substance that causes illness has
Benny’s, Harvester, Nando’s, Pizza
Hut and Toby Carvery. It is hoped
that places serving actual food will
soon follow suit.
Shove over, kids
W
e took the kids to the
seaside last week and after
playing on the beach for
several whole minutes, bowed to the
relentless pressure and headed for
the amusement arcade
arcade.
“Whatever you do w with your
money,” I said, handin
handing them each a
paper cup of fifty 2p pieces, “do
not put it in those co
coin push
machines — they are a total scam
and always look as if they are
o
about to fall over the ledge,
but never actually do,”
then, whe
when they
ignored me, spent
re of the
the rest
after
afternoon
ho
hovering at
t
their
shoulders
going, “no,
no, you have
t roll two at
to
th same time
the
bu only when
but
the tray is on the
o not the
way out,
way in, aand then,
just when it . . . here give
me some of th those, I’ll
show you . . .”
1GM
healing properties. Many studies
have shown there’s no evidence that
homeopathic remedies have any
therapeutic effect. In 2010 the
Commons science and technology
committee said that homeopathic
remedies performed no better than
placebos, and that the principles on
which homeopathy was based were
“scientifically implausible”.
Homeopathy and vaccine
resistance are linked, with some
homeopaths telling parents not to get
their children vaccinated. In America
organic food stores have sold
magazines with articles touting
homeopathic therapies as “non-toxic”
alternatives to vaccination. They have
published false claims that the HPV
vaccine causes a number of serious
diseases, that being vaccinated
against flu may increase the risk of
catching it, or that vaccines weren’t
responsible for eradicating polio.
It would be beyond appalling
if so many people refused to be
vaccinated against Covid-19 that
the population at large remained at
risk. So how do we combat such
epidemic irrationality?
Compulsory vaccination would
rightly be viewed as an intolerable
infringement on individual freedom.
Public education campaigns remain
the only viable course.
What’s going on below the surface,
though, is nothing less than the
repudiation of reason and evidence
based on a decades-long revulsion
against progress and modernity.
Public health officials seeking to
persuade everyone to trust scientists
and the state and get vaccinated
may find they have their work cut
out to do so.
Tourists’ cool welcome
O
nce I’d lost the Coren family
fortune in this way (and also
on the fail-to-grab-a-toy-you-
don’t-want-anyway-with-a-crane-
that-has-no-purchase-at-all
machine), I took the kids for (frozen)
fish and (ghastly soggy) chips on the
front, for several hundred pounds.
“How’s it been, having no tourists all
summer?” I asked the whey-faced
local behind the fryer, in a
sympathetic tone. “Bloody lovely,”
she said. “Like winter, except sunny.”
Walk on the wild side
‘D
octors told to prescribe walks
in the country,” ran a
headline yesterday about
plans to boost patients’ physical and
mental health and ease the burden
on the NHS.
This sounds a fine plan. But if you
don’t fancy waiting ages for an
appointment and then having to
answer a load of intrusive questions
from your GP, I know a geezer who
knows a geezer, up the Boston Arms
in Tufnell Park, who can get you as
many walks in the country as you
like for the right price, without a
prescription, no questions asked.
It’s all front-row gear — nature
rambles, wild swimming, park runs,
you name it — just make sure you
have the exact cash and don’t try
anything funny.
Tuesday July 21 2020 | the times
UK must keep out
Hongkongers who
do Beijing’s bidding
Mark Kwan
T
he British government’s
offer of a new life to up to
three million Hongkongers
who are eligible for British
National (Overseas)
passports was welcome news, but can
we be sure that all of those who might
take up the offer believe in freedom
for the city they are leaving behind?
Ordinary Hongkongers like me are
painfully aware that Carrie Lam, our
chief executive, whom Lord Patten of
Barnes, the former governor, has
called a “lamentable and quisling
figure”, has family members who hold
British passports. And not just her.
Many of our top government officials,
who have so diligently brought
misery to Hong Kong on Beijing’s
behalf, have relatives and property in
the UK or elsewhere. Among them,
both Paul Chan, secretary of finance,
and John Lee, secretary of security,
have relatives in Britain; Teresa
Cheng, secretary of justice, has family
in Canada and Kevin Yeung,
secretary of education, in Australia.
Digging down the rabbit hole,
many members of Hong Kong’s
brutal police force are BNO or even
British passport holders as a result of
their colonial ties. It’s easy to
envisage a worst-case scenario:
citizens flee a dying city after a year-
long battle for freedom, only to find
themselves living next door to their
oppressors in their new home.
Worse, these oppressors may
continue to do the bidding of Beijing
or harass their fellow Hongkongers,
whether under instructions or not.
President Xi’s vast United Front
Work Department network has long
been engaged in a campaign of
subversion using members of the
Chinese diaspora and pro-China
corporations. The long-honed arts of
intimidation, disinformation,
espionage and suppression will
continue to be exercised in the
pursuit of dissidents under the
national security law.
Even if Beijing loyalists chose to
live their lives anonymously, their
presence would be a gross injustice
for those who have witnessed all the
structural violence and brutality in
Hong Kong.
These concerns have been
discussed in Australia and it is in
Britain’s interests that the Home
Office should vigilantly vet each
BNO entrant and returning citizen,
to protect British institutions and the
safety of those moving to start a new
life. Vetting isn’t difficult: simply dig
through past deeds, jobs, affiliations
and statements and we’ll have a good
understanding of who they are.
For the sake of the thousands of
genuine BNO entrants that are
talented and hardworking but
vulnerable to China’s grasp, Britain
must stop those who have played
a part in Hong Kong’s tragedy at
the doorstep.
Mark Kwan (not his real name) is a
democracy campaigner in Hong Kong
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Our weird politics can’t all be blamed on Russia
It’s obviously important to root out meddling foreign powers but pointing the finger at villains won’t turn back the clock
Hugo
Rifkind
@hugorifkind
B
ack in the 2019 election,
when Brexit was still an issue
and pandemics weren’t, and
the prime minister could still
make a whole day’s headlines
by hiding in a fridge, a few eagle-eyed
hacks and enthusiasts reckoned
they’d uncovered a conspiracy. On
Facebook, you see, user replies to
posts by the Conservative Party had
gone decidedly fishy.
At first, scores of them just said
“brilliant Boris”, with startling, if
suspiciously bland, unanimity. Then,
in waves, they started to look like
programming gone wrong, saying
things such as “//brilliant”
&name=”Boris”. code:syntatx/error/”.
There were hundreds of them,
scrolling down the page, like some
mad robot having a fit.
“Haha!” some people thought. “It’s
Dominic Cummings! Or the Russians!
Or both! Their evil plan to mislead
the public by means of automated
internet bots has been revealed!”
Only, it wasn’t. Instead, the
phenomenon was traced back to
pro-Johnson humans who were,
individually but together, simply
pretending to sound like pro-Johnson
bots for fun. Because, as one post on
the Facebook page Fight4Brexit put
it, “it’s driving Remainers crazy”.
We all know by now that
automated internet voices — bots —
can sound like people. For those who
research online disinformation,
though, a greater problem can be the
extent to which people sometimes
sound like bots. Usually, they don’t
even mean to. Some call this the “bot
or pensioner” conundrum, which is
funny, if not all that fair on some
pensioners. In 2017, one news website
confidently identified a Twitter user
called @Didgery77332 as a Russian
bot on the basis of its all-day
tweeting, “horrific use of English”
and “pro-Russian posture”. Further
investigation revealed a bored
security guard in Glasgow who just
wasn’t very good at spelling.
This week, probably, the
government will finally publish the
intelligence and security committee’s
report into Russian interference in
British democracy, which has been
sitting neglected in a drawer since
March last year. It will, of course, be
about more than just bots and the
internet. Edward Lucas, who
contributed, wrote on these pages
yesterday about “the penetration and
subversion of our institutions and
processes”.
Yet it must also be a report about
the ease with which shadowy voices
swoop into our national
conversation, and about successive
governments’ failure to care. Last
week, Dominic Raab declared that
Russia had tried to help Jeremy
Corbyn during the 2019 election by
anonymously pushing out leaked
documents about Brexit negotiations.
It is Johnson, not Corbyn, who ought
to be embarrassed about that. He’s
the one who at the time opted not to
release a report about exactly that.
Brexiteers shouldn’t use
winning as an excuse
to close their eyes
If it feels like a damp squib, the
main reason will be because the
expectations are so high. You could
feel it this weekend, as speculative
stories suggested that we were soon
to learn definitively of Russian
efforts in all sorts of areas. As if, were
it not for Vladimir Putin, the Age of
Quite Alarming Populism wouldn’t
have happened, and we’d just have
had Sir Paul McCartney playing Hey
Jude at the 2012 Olympics opening
ceremony for ever. And as if, when
this becomes proven, we’ll just be
able to turn it all off and go back.
Obviously, this is nonsense. For
one thing, while it is possible to
influence people, it is not possible to
uninfluence them. Change a voter’s
mind and their mind is changed.
Sure, perhaps the game was rigged.
Perhaps a campaign spent more
targeting that voter than the rules
allowed, or perhaps hacked data was
used, or perhaps the government
sent them an iffy leaflet, or perhaps a
high proportion of the stories they
saw retweeted were retweeted by
somebody called Dmitri sitting in an
office block in St Petersburg.
Still, so what? Whatever the
reason, those voters now think what
they think, and if you ask them the
same question again they’ll give you
the same answer. There is no going
back. It’s not just that the damage
has been done. It’s more that if it was
done to you then it feels both
offensive and ludicrous for anybody
to suggest it was even damage at all.
Witness, for example, the Brexiteer
Conservative MP Andrew Bridgen,
who this weekend said in response to
the report he hasn’t read yet: “Too
often we have seen that Remainers
cannot accept defeat and have
repeatedly used any means possible
to attempt to undermine and
discredit the result.” Or, if you prefer,
try the lovely Leave.EU backer and
noted Russophile Arron Banks:
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“Russian interference in Brexit has
become a mythical mantra for
hardcore Remainers as they sought
to try to discredit the result in any
way they could.” It may be painful
but recalcitrant Remainers should
take the point. Short perhaps of
identifying a few million fabricated
voters, there is no amount of
meddling or hacking or outright
cheating by Russia or anybody else
that will ever put the clock back.
Brexiteers, meanwhile, should
endeavour not to use winning as an
excuse to close their eyes. The
response of Alyn Smith, the SNP’s
foreign affairs spokesman, is
instructive, particularly as it seems
likely that any independence
referendum meddling veered
towards the cybernattish. In the
context of everything known to have
been happening elsewhere, he said,
“it would be absurd if Scottish
discourse was not being influenced
by external forces”.
With activists seeing Reds under
their beds, and rivals acting like bots
for fun, and security guards acting
the same because they can’t help it,
real malign interference will always
be hard to spot. And afterwards,
when political battles have been won
or lost, it will always be perilously
hard to make the case that it even
mattered. That only goes to show,
though, why it matters so much.
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Letters to the Editor
Covid-19 and A&E
Sir, We are pleased to see additional
funding for the NHS (“£3bn injection
to help NHS weather winter” July 17).
One concern emerging, in the face of
Covid-19, is the need to maintain
patient safety in emergency care.
Many emergency departments will
need to be redesigned to improve
infection control and maintain
social distancing. This will be
costly. However, given the huge
challenges the NHS will inevitably
face this winter, we must also change
the way we work. We have a once-in-
a-generation chance to transform the
service to avoid the extreme pressures
we saw before the pandemic. Medical
royal colleges are committed to
working together to revolutionise
acute care because it affects the
whole health system. This investment
must be underpinned by modernising
performance too. We need to move
away from one-dimensional metrics,
such as the four-hour A&E target,
towards a set of clinical standards that
will drive improvement for patients
from the minute they seek urgent
help until they are discharged. We
should not let this opportunity slip
through our grasp.
Professor Carrie MacEwen
Chairwoman, Academy of Medical
Royal Colleges
Cancel culture
Sir, Surely an even more modern
equivalent to being purged (letter,
July 20) is to be “resigned” — as Sir
Mark Sedwill and several other senior
civil servants have found of late.
Malcolm Oliver
Edinburgh
Corrections and
clarifications
6Reporting on a link between
Al-Kauthur Institute and the
Al-Kauthur Foundation (an institution
of which Mr Sultan Choudhury was
previously an unpaid director), we said
that a speaker at the Institute, Mr
Assim al-Hakim had expressed
extremist views on female genital
mutilation (Female circumcision is
like clipping a nail, claimed speaker, 5
August 2019). This headline appeared
above a picture of Mr Sultan
Choudhury in the online edition. Any
impression that those views were his
was not intended. Mr Sultan
Choudhury did not say that “Female
circumcision is like clipping a nail” (as
explained in the full version of the
article published in print and online).
The article explained that he did not
support any alleged extremist views.
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to Mr Choudhury. We have agreed to
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Cycling revolution could improve all our lives
Sir, Jawad Iqbal is right to be
concerned (“Nimbys are putting the
brakes on our cycling revolution”, July
20), not just for cyclists, but also for
the millions for whom driving is
simply not an option. In Greater
Manchester, where I work, one third
of households do not have access to a
car. Without a safe alternative to
public transport — which can only
operate safely at 30 per cent capacity
— hundreds of thousands will be
forced on to crowded buses, trams
and trains or will not travel at all. In
many places, even before schools
return, services are at capacity.
This road space is not being given
up for cyclists, it is being made
available for shop workers, carers,
NHS staff and childminders. It is not
even a transport decision, it is a moral
imperative. This provision also offers
us a unique opportunity to “try before
we buy”: a trial lasting several months
to see if we want to use our streets
differently. Once they experience it, I
am willing to bet that people will
want to keep it. Ultimately, we have
much to gain from embracing these
measures and little to lose.
Chris Boardman
Cycling and walking commissioner,
Greater Manchester
Honours system
Sir, The letter from Sir Christopher
Coville (July 20) regarding the lack of
a knighthood for Air Chief Marshal
Mike Wigston highlights one of the
problems with the honours system,
namely that holding a position should
automatically entitle one to an
honour. While I am sure the air chief
marshal has earned his position, it
surely ought to be that outstanding
service over a lengthy period is
necessary for further recognition.
Geoffrey Bray
Clare, Suffolk
Sir, Stefan Badham (letter, July 20)
says of Kenneth Clarke, Philip
Hammond and Ed Vaizey that they
showed a flagrant disregard for the
result of the EU referendum. All three
voted for Theresa May’s Brexit deal
on the three occasions that it came up
for a vote in the Commons (unlike, it
must be said, most of the present
government). Even were this not the
case, all three have done more than
enough in their parliamentary careers
to deserve such an honour.
Peter Clark
Walton-on-Thames, Surrey
AMRITSAR
IN
THE LORDS
from the times july 21, 1920
We regret profoundly the result of
the debate in the House of Lords
yesterday. It added nothing to public
knowledge, and revived a
controversy far better relegated to
oblivion. The Government defeat on
their conduct of General Dyer’s case
may have little consequence in home
politics, but it must bear evil fruit in
India. In the Upper House the
Government maintained the attitude
which they assumed in the House of
Commons, and they succeeded, at
least, in preserving the consistency
of their Indian policy. Had they
followed any other course they
Sir, It is disappointing that some
drivers and cyclists can’t see eye to
eye, both on and off the road. Many
drivers are cyclists and many cyclists
are drivers. We are not tribes going to
war. During the pandemic, for one
glorious moment, we thought real
progress was being made. One third
of AA members said they would cycle
and walk more after the lockdown.
We asked ministers and councils to
set up “park and pedal” facilities for
car commuters. Empty car parks and
venues offered the chance of pop-up
parking next to cycle superhighways.
It will never be for everyone, but a
commuter on a bike is not a
commuter in a car and that means
more efficient use of road space and
less pollution. It never happened and
in many areas we have ended up with
a piecemeal approach. People and
planners need to cast aside prejudiced
groupthink and work together.
Edmund King
AA president (and cyclist)
Sir, Travel habits are ingrained, the
default mode motorised. The result:
growing motor traffic and congestion
as air quality and public health
suffers. The lockdown gave a glimpse
of a cleaner way to live and travel,
Maxwell allegations
Sir, I neither know Ghislaine Maxwell
nor the circumstance of her alleged
offences (“Alleged Epstein victim
claims Maxwell told her to undress”,
July 20). Whether she is guilty is a
matter for the American courts. Yet I
do know enough common law to be
concerned about her prospects of a
fair trial. One of the most basic such
principles is the presumption of
innocence, that “golden thread” of the
law eloquently expressed by Viscount
Sankey in Woolmington v DPP in 1935.
Another is the old maxim “justice
delayed is justice denied”. Both are
being tested by aspects of the pretrial
proceedings. Witness the exuberance
expressed by prosecutors after arrest,
which was strongly suggestive of guilt.
As well, the denial of bail, meaning 12
months’ humiliating detention for one
with no previous criminal history.
With so much at stake, for accused
and alleged victims alike, one hopes
for justice to eventually prevail.
John Kidd
Brisbane, Australia
Sir, Sean O’Neill (“UK courts would
keep Maxwell’s name secret”, July 20)
would have challenged the settled
convictions of the British people and
impaired the general understanding
on Imperial administration which is
among the most fortunate
developments of our modern
politics. The growth of a more liberal
conception of Imperial rights and
Imperial duties in our democratic
Commonwealth has outpaced the
slow progress of the older
conservatism. A fortiori, it has been
unwelcome to many Englishmen in
the East, who are out of touch with
the newer conditions of Imperial
rule. Few have the courage directly
to oppose the forces extending
liberal principles of government to
our great Dependency. But the
partisans of reaction carry on a
guerrilla warfare upon the flanks of
progress. We can but regard the
persistency of Brigadier-General
Dyer’s advocates as a serious error. It
is profitable neither to him nor to
the British cause in India that about
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which we risk losing. Councils must
give trials with more space for cycling
and walking time to bed in. Behaviour
change won’t happen on day one but
it will happen with commitment and
capital. The government will back
those English councils with bold and
ambitious visions for the future with
the emergency active travel fund.
Councils have until August 7 to decide
whether to maintain the status quo or
build a better future. It really
shouldn’t be a difficult decision.
Duncan Dollimore
Head of campaigns, Cycling UK
Sir, Jawad Iqbal wants cycling to be
treated as a serious form of mass
transport but a large percentage of
road users will never be able to get on
a bike. Many commuters live too far
from work to make cycling practical.
Parents with young children, older
people and people with disabilities see
large sums being spent on a mode of
transport they will never use. If
schemes have been abandoned after
complaints, perhaps this is because
councils are listening to constituents,
instead of pandering to vocal cycling
pressure groups.
Ross Kelly
London N1
says that privacy “is a law that says
the public cannot be trusted (or lack
the intelligence) to understand the
difference between allegations and
proven facts”. Does not the very
public humiliation, including his
absence from photos of his daughter’s
wedding (“More Beatrice wedding
photos . . . but still no sign of Andrew”,
July 20), of the Duke of York —
against whom there have been only
allegations thus far — demonstrate
why the public should not be trusted
and how intelligence may be lacking.
Michael Stannard
Verbier, Switzerland
Wax off
Sir, Professor Saeed (letter, July 20)
says that the artificial removal of ear
wax is unnecessary. Of course, as he
says, it takes a huge build up to cause
deafness but he ignores the intense
itching that even small amounts of
retained wax can cause. It is a
particular problem for those who, like
me, wear hearing aids because they
block the action of the “remarkable
intrinsic mechanism” he praises.
Prof Tony Wildsmith (retired doctor)
Dundee
his person the supporters of those
old ideals which yield so grudgingly
to the inroads of modernity should
make what is, perhaps, their last
stand. They have chosen their
ground badly. The true tradition of
our Government in India is not
exemplified by Amritsar. Nor does
justification of the horrors of the
Jallianwala Bagh help the cause of
those who hold that the
Government are moving too rapidly.
It conveys the false impression to
India that an important section of
opinion in this country regards
preventive massacre and the
degradation of subject peoples as
serviceable instruments of Imperial
Government. It is the task, as we
believe it will be the destiny, of Great
Britain to reconcile the maintenance
of an Imperial supremacy with the
democratic conscience of a new age.
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Dundas’s legacy
Sir, If the descendants of Henry
Dundas succeed in their defamation
claim (“Legal threat over ancestor
‘defamed on slave trade’,” July 18),
then journalists had better watch out.
As it stands, one cannot defame the
dead because libel or slander are
personal issues that cannot be
brought on someone else’s behalf — a
possible exception being for someone
under age. Unless the relatives of the
viscount have been defamed, I wait to
see what ingenious ruse will be used
to bring legal action.
Barnie Choudhury
Visiting professor of professional
practice, University of Buckingham
Sir, From his brilliant advocacy in the
Knight v Wedderburn case, which
established the principle that no
person could be a slave on Scottish
soil, we could deduce that Henry
Dundas was a passionate abolitionist
or a good lawyer or both. Whatever
his beliefs, his duty as war secretary
during the war against revolutionary
France was to bolster and expand our
slave empire in the Caribbean. He
performed this duty with energy,
organising huge military expeditions.
We failed to conquer St Domingue
but succeeded on the whole. This
included reimposing slavery in St
Lucia, where it had been abolished by
the French in February 1794.
Christopher Dalton
London SE15
Russia report
Sir, There is much in Edward Lucas’s
column (“The Russia report won’t be
a damp squib”, July 20) with which I
agree. The Russia report should
confirm what intelligence agencies
have known for some time about the
extent of interference. But he is
mistaken in thinking that No 10
delayed the intelligence and security
committee investigating Russia in
2015. As national security adviser
until April 2017, I do not recall the
committee expressing interest in such
a report during my tenure. In that
period they were focused on rendition
to Libya and drone strikes in Syria.
Mark Lyall Grant
National security adviser 2015-17
Don’t look down
Sir, Although I only suffer from mild
acrophobia, I am increasingly jolted
into an unexpected shock by the
inclusion of drone pictures on TV
programmes. Panoramas of an area
provide useful context but sudden
vertical downward views of a small
area can be alarming. A warning
would help me and my fellow
sufferers in much the same way as
warnings of flash photography are
issued to aid epilepsy sufferers.
David Hudson
Stoke-on-Trent
Crowd trouble
Sir, In the good old days before Covid,
I could watch Test cricket on TV and
still be able to snatch 40 winks, safe in
the knowledge that whenever a
wicket fell the crowd roar would wake
me up in time for the replay. Sadly,
the recorded crowd hum provided for
the present series, though comforting,
is rather monotonous. The result is
that not only do I nod off more often
but, more seriously, miss the replays.
H Leslie Cousins
West Clandon, Surrey
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Nature notes
Two more spire-like
flowers can now
easily be noticed.
One is purple
loosestrife, which
grows at the edge of
lakes and rivers, and
sometimes in the water itself. Its rich
purplish-pink flowers grow all the way up
the long stalk, and the specimens in the
water seem sometimes to be crashing out of
the reeds. A yellow spire on dry land is great
mullein, which can be as tall as 5ft. It has
very thick, comfortable-looking, downy
leaves at the base, and tightly packed bright
yellow flowers in a sharp point at the top.
Over the ground near by there often grow
the yellow flowers of creeping cinquefoil,
named after its leaves that have five leaflets.
derwent may
Birthdays today
Sarah Waters, pictured,
author, Tipping the Velvet
(1998), 54; Lord (Victor)
Adebowale, chairman,
NHS Confederation,
chief executive, Turning
Point (2001-Mar 2020),
58; Heather Angel,
wildlife photographer, 79; Paul Casey, golfer,
43; Michael Connelly, writer, the Harry
Bosch series, 64; Wendy Cope, poet, 75;
Michel de Carvalho, financier, chairman,
CapGen, 76; Paloma Faith, singer, Picking up
the Pieces (2012), Only Love Can Hurt Like
This (2014), 39; Charlotte Gainsbourg,
actress, Antichrist (2009), Melancholia (2011),
49; Richard Gillingwater, chairman, SSE,
the energy company, and Janus Henderson,
the asset management group, 64; Sir
Richard Gozney, lieutenant-governor, Isle
of Man, 69; Josh Hartnett, actor, Black Hawk
Down (2001), 42; Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens),
Muslim activist and singer, Morning Has
Broken (1972), 72; Norman Jewison, director
and producer, In the Heat of the Night (1967),
Fiddler on the Roof (1971), 94; Richard
Johnson, jockey, four-time British Champion
Jump Jockey (2016-19), winner, Cheltenham
Gold Cup (2000, 2018), 43; Ross Kemp,
actor, EastEnders (1990-2006, 2016), and TV
presenter, 56; Baroness (Susan) Kramer, Lib
Dem MP for Richmond Park (2005-10),
minister for transport (2013-15), 70; Stefan
Löfven, prime minister of Sweden, 63; John
Lowe, darts player, world champion (1979,
1987, 1993), 75; John Neill, chairman and
group chief executive, Unipart Group, 73;
Julian Pettifer, broadcaster, presenter,
Panorama (1969-75), 85; Simon Reeve,
author and TV presenter, 48; Barry
Richards, cricketer and commentator, 75;
Jason Roy, cricketer, Surrey and England,
30; Garry Trudeau, cartoonist, 72; Isabell
Werth, equestrian, holds the record for the
most Olympic medals won by an equestrian
athlete, 51; Claire Williams, deputy
team principal, Williams Formula One
racing team, 44; John Woodvine, actor, Z
Cars (1963-69), The Crown (2016), 91; Sir
David Wootton, lord mayor of London
(2011-12), 70.
On this day
In 1942 the first British murder conviction
using palmprint evidence (on a pawnbroker’s
safe; matching a gun) was secured.
The last word
“Reality has come to seem more and more
like what we are shown by cameras.”
Susan Sontag, writer, critic, film-maker and
human rights activist, On Photography (1977)
A public information campaign is needed to drive home the message that
using masks is important to suppressing the pandemic and reviving the economy
It has been clear since the start of the pandemic
that life would not fully return to normal until
either society had acquired some degree of
immunity to Covid-19, most likely via a vaccine, or
effective treatments had been discovered. The past
few days have raised hopes of breakthroughs on
both fronts. Early trials of a vaccine candidate
produced by AstraZeneca have shown positive
results, according to data released yesterday. That
follows promising trials of other vaccines under
development in Britain, America and Germany.
Meanwhile Synairgen, a British biotech company,
has reported that very early trials of a protein
designed to stimulate the immune system suggest
that it could reduce demand for ventilation in
Covid patients by 79 per cent.
Even so, it is too early to say whether any of
these drugs will fulfil their early promise. The
reality is that the world is likely to be living with
Covid-19 for many more months if not years. That
makes it all the more important that everyone
plays their part in trying to halt the spread of
the virus. This includes wearing masks in all
enclosed public places. On Friday the use of masks
will become mandatory in shops in England. It
has in theory been compulsory to wear masks on
public transport since June. In this, as in so many
Education Challenge
London has a formula for good schools that other cities should follow
Schools in London were once a byword for poor
performance. On all measures through the 1980s
and 1990s, schools in the capital had worse results
than those in the rest of the country. The troubled
inner-city recruitment was thought sufficient to
explain the poor performance. How could we
expect results in urban areas blighted by poverty
and in which tens of different languages were
spoken? Good policy and high expectations over
two decades have shown that fine results can follow.
The turnaround story began in earnest in 2003,
when the Labour government established the
London Challenge. This was a programme of
change, in consultation with local authorities, that
had the objective of improving standards, creating
more outstanding secondary schools and reducing
the gap between the rich and the poor in the
capital. The London Challenge worked in five
areas, Tower Hamlets, Newham, Lewisham,
Hackney and Westminster, and proved to be a
notable success. We report today on the 44 pupils
from Harris Westminster, an academy chain
in a London Challenge area, who have secured
an offer from Oxford or Cambridge this year.
Architects of the ancient world provided easy access for visitors with disabilities
Only in 2004 did it become a legal requirement in
England and Wales that buildings open to the public
should be accessible to people with disabilities.
Modern architects, it turns out, can profitably
learn from ancient wisdom. Archaeologists have
discovered that some public buildings in ancient
Greece, including temples such as the Sanctuary
of Zeus at Olympia, were constructed with ramps
in place of stairs. Scholars conclude that these were
built in part at least to help access for the sick and
infirm, as well others who lacked easy mobility,
such as small children and pregnant women.
Modern mores are remote from those of the
Wear a Mask
other aspects of the pandemic response, Britain
has lagged other European and Asian countries,
where the use of masks has been mandatory for
months. Yet even now, there are many in Britain
who are refusing to follow the new rules. There
have even been protests in London by self-styled
libertarians who object to being “muzzled” on civil
liberties grounds.
This is misguided. If anything, the evidence that
masks can slow the transmission of the virus is
growing. In one study by the University of Florida
published last month, researchers found that a
double-layered cotton mask limited the spread of
droplets to an average of 2.5in compared with an
average of 8ft for an uncovered cough. Another
study, at the University of California, suggests that
by limiting the amount of exposure to the virus,
a mask could lead to a milder infection. Other
studies indicate that masks don’t just protect other
people but the wearer too. Indeed Robert Redfield,
director of the US Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, has said he believes that if everybody
wore masks, the pandemic could be brought under
control in America over the next four to eight
weeks.
Bringing the pandemic under control is vital not
just from a public health perspective but from an
The London Challenge was based on a partner-
ship between schools and with the Department
for Education. There was intensive intervention
in struggling institutions and an emphasis on
inspection. Teach First encouraged top graduates
into the teaching profession. The scheme was
extended to primary schools in London in 2008.
Reports from Ofsted in 2006 and 2010 both found
that GCSE results in London had improved faster
than in England as a whole. A report from the
Joseph Rowntree Foundation in 2014 concluded
that “during the period of the London Challenge,
secondary school performance in London saw a
dramatic improvement, and local authorities in
inner London went from the worst-performing to
the best-performing nationally”.
One other aspect of the London Challenge that
has featured in every evaluation is the academies
programme, which imported effective leadership.
The academies were often sponsored and the
extra funding paid for additional tuition. At the
London Academy of Excellence, for example, the
intellectual weight comes from a consortium of
private schools, which includes Brighton College
Greek Passage
ancient world. Athenian democracy coexisted with
slavery. The greatest minds of the age advocated
ideas that seem repugnant in the light of modern
history. Plato wanted a selective breeding pro-
gramme, in which men and women of exceptional
physical and intellectual prowess should mate
often, with their offspring reared in communal
nurseries. Aristotle argued against bringing up
children with physical impairments. Infanticide
was widely practised.
Even so, adult disability was recognised and
seen as the task of the state to make provision for.
Whereas some cultures saw sickness as punishment
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economic one too. There is growing evidence that
countries that have succeeded best in suppressing
the virus are enjoying swifter economic recoveries.
In Germany, for example, where the rate of
infection is low, the numbers of people dining in
restaurants are up 5 per cent year on year. In
contrast in the US, where 45 out of 50 states are
seeing a rapid rise in infections, the numbers
eating out are down by 60 per cent. This suggests
that it is public confidence, which is closely tied to
control of the pandemic, rather than the easing of
lockdown restrictions, that is key to reviving the
economy.
In this respect, the government ought to be
doing more to encourage the use of masks. In the
US, some surveys suggest their use in public has
now reached 75 per cent. It is far below that in
Britain. Ministers have been slow to set an
example by wearing masks themselves in public
and have sown confusion with mixed messages.
What is now needed is a public information
campaign, led by high-profile figures up to and
including the Queen, to drive home the message
that covering up in public is a civic responsibility.
Everyone needs to accept that in the absence
of a vaccine, the price of a return to any kind of
normality is to look a little odd.
and Eton, and the financial heft comes from the
HSBC bank. Academy schools have not been
popular everywhere. Some local authorities
dislike their autonomy and resent the extra
funding they attract.
These ideological objections need to be
abandoned. Academies have been developed in
some of the poorest boroughs in the country and
they have selected pupils from low-income
families for their potential to get to the top. The
formula is certainly working because London’s
pupils do a lot better than those from other cities.
Fifteen per cent of students from London got into
a Russell Group university in 2017-18. In the West
Midlands, only 10 per cent did so.
At national level, education policy has been
largely bipartisan since the late 1980s. The Baker
reforms to inspection at the end of the Thatcher
period, the academy programme of the Blair
government and its extension by Michael Gove
as education secretary have created a schooling
system that has been greatly improved. London is
where these reforms have come together and
pupils in the capital have been the winners.
for sin or a sign of demonic possession, the dignity
of those with disability is built into Greek myth. In
The Odyssey, Homer depicts the god Hephaestus
cruelly suffering the infidelity of Aphrodite, “who
has always despised me for my lameness”. In the
6th century BC, Athens introduced a grant for
those who had been maimed in war. The welfare
was later extended to all poor male citizens who
were disabled, regardless of cause.
The Enlightenment traces its roots to the
thinking of Hellenic civilisation. It is fitting if
modern notions of the treatment of disability
should have resonance with ancient Greece too.
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India teams up with US
for anti-China war games
India defence agreement with Australia last
month, allowing troops from the two
Hugh Tomlinson
Indian and American warships will
Wong campaigns to be an MP countries to use each other’s military
bases.
hold joint naval exercises in the Indian Hong Kong international case, to In an unofficial India has responded to the fighting in
Ocean in the coming days in a show of show how Hong Kong primary this month for Ladakh by banning scores of Chinese
Didi Tang Beijing
unity prompted by mounting Chinese people refuse to yield, the parliamentary mobile phone apps, including TikTok.
aggression throughout the region. Joshua Wong, perhaps to capitulate under the election, Mr Wong The violence has provoked a nationalist
An American carrier group led by the the best known of the Communist Party’s garnered the most frenzy across the country, with
USS Nimitz, the largest vessel in the US young pro-democracy authoritarian rule,” he votes in the Kowloon Bollywood stars and business figures
navy, passed through the Malacca campaigners in Hong wrote on Facebook. East constituency. The joining calls for a boycott of Chinese
Strait into the Indian Ocean on Kong, filed papers He has said he will poll, however, has been goods. Like Britain, Delhi is also expect-
Saturday. There it will link up with yesterday to run for not declare allegiance rejected by Beijing as ed to bow to US pressure and bar the
Indian destroyers and submarines off the city’s parliament in to the territory’s Basic illegal and in violation Chinese tech giant Huawei from build-
the coast of the Andaman and Nicobar September, setting the Law, which now of the national security ing its 5G wireless network.
islands for a series of war games, scene for another includes the national law. Washington accuses Huawei of assist-
according to Indian media reports. battle with the security law Li Xiaobing, a ing in cyberespionage for the Chinese
The two countries have held regular authorities. imposed last scholar on Hong Kong state, a charge the company denies.
joint naval exercises for more than a Mr Wong, 23, month by Beijing, affairs, told the The USS Nimitz, alongside the USS
decade but the latest round has right, said that as is required for party-run Global Times Ronald Reagan, was part of a large
assumed greater significance amid Beijing had no all candidates that Mr Wong and American naval deployment that
growing concerns over China’s political reasonable cause in the other opposition recently concluded a mission in the
and military ambitions in the South to prevent him election. “I candidates were South China Sea. The “freedom of navi-
China Sea and the greater Indo Pacific standing in a know that seeking to “enhance gation” exercise was billed as a show of
region. “free and fair” the odds their political presence strength and support for America’s
Chinese troops are still encamped on election. “By are by staging such a allies in a region where China has been
Indian soil in Ladakh, high in the Him- running for extrem high-profile defiance”. aggressively asserting its territorial
alayas, after clashes along the border office, I’d ely slim He added: “They claims.
last month that left 20 Indian soldiers like to turn that my name also seek to use their In recent weeks Chinese ships have
dead, the most serious such incident the legislative should appear disqualification as sunk a Vietnamese fishing boat and
between the rival nuclear powers for 45 council election in the ballot,” another excuse to harassed Malaysian oil exploration
years. China got the better of India in a into an he admitted. create further turmoil.” vessels in the South China Sea. With
brief, month-long war fought from the controversial new security law
October 20 to November 21, 1962 over stripping Hong Kong of its remaining
the disputed Himalayan border. prompting a surge of anti-China senti- and it will pursue even deeper security autonomy, China has again laid claim
Indian and Chinese military officers ment throughout India, has raised co-operation, but it won’t be willing just to Taiwan.
are in talks to defuse the crisis but it has American hopes that Delhi is now yet to become a full-fledged ally.” In a India, like the US, has become in-
prompted a trade boycott of Chinese leaning towards a closer alliance with further sign that hostilities with China creasingly alarmed at China’s military
technology and goods by India, and the West. have prompted a strategic rethink in expansion throughout the Indian
allowed Washington to step up its Michael Kugelman, at the Wilson Delhi, India is expected to invite Aus- Ocean. Beijing has established its first
efforts to draw Delhi closer into an Centre think tank in Washington, said: tralia to join its annual naval exercises overseas military base in Djibouti, on
alliance against Beijing. It has urged “There’s certainly a realisation that the with the US and Japan. The move will the Horn of Africa, with a second ex-
India for years to become a closer
military partner and a bulwark against
Ladakh crisis gives India a powerful
incentive to shed its inhibitions about
strengthen the “Quad”, an alliance of
Indo-Pacific powers that has formed to
pected to follow at the Pakistani port of
Gwadar, close to the Strait of Hormuz,
Divers battle
Chinese expansion.
Despite forging closer military ties
antagonising China and to move closer
to the US. But there’s also a realisation
counter China’s rising sea power.
India had blocked Australia’s
the strategic waterway at the mouth of
the Gulf. In 2018 China acquired a port
to free whale
with the US, Delhi has maintained a
strategic neutrality between the two
that Delhi won’t easily jettison a strate-
gic autonomy policy that has come to
participation in the exercises for years,
viewing it as too provocative towards
in Sri Lanka, off India’s southern coast,
and has courted India’s neighbours caught in net
sides until now. The pressure has in- replace non-alignment. Beijing, but Narendra Modi, the prime throughout the region, leaving Delhi’s

T
creased under the Trump administra- “The realistic expectation should be minister, appears to have had a change influence in its own backyard looking he Italian coastguard is
tion, however, and the recent violence, that India will move closer to the US, of heart. India signed a significant increasingly fragile. fighting to free a highly
agitated 24ft sperm whale

Beijing student is expelled New tensions raise prospect ensnared in an illegal

drift net off Sicily (Tom
Kington writes). Divers tried for two

over tweets from America of Winter Games boycott days over the weekend to cut the

Didi Tang
A Beijing university has expelled a
student for posting derogatory
comments about China on Twitter
when he was in America.
Ji Ziyue was dismissed by the
University of the Chinese Academy of
Sciences after he used the word “zhina”
to described China. It is a translation
considered offensive among Chinese.
In a separate post he declared the
Chinese city of Nanjing to be “Japan’s
Nanjing”, a possible reference to the
Nanjing massacre, when Japanese
troops massacred 300,000 civilians
between December 1937 and January
1938. The city was China’s capital at the
time. “Will it be better if China should
disintegrate,” he wrote in one tweet.
The university said: “Ji Ziyue’s acts
have harmed national interest and
honour, violated state and school rules
and hurt the feeling of the people. His
remarks were extremely mistaken.”
Twitter is banned in China but its use by
Chinese people overseas is monitored.
A rising sense of nationalism among
many Chinese abroad has made people
more ready to report any remarks that
could be deemed offensive at home.
In 2017 Shuping Yang, a student at
the University of Maryland, apologised
on social media after she gave a speech
saying “democracy and freedom are the
fresh air that is worth fighting for”.
This year Xu Kexin, a Chinese stu-
dent in the United States, used social
media to attack Beijing’s response to
the coronavirus outbreak. She called
Chinese people “contemptible”. “I will
not return to China, it feels like being in
prison,” she said. Ms Xu later apolo-
gised, saying she loved the homeland.
Henry Zeffman Washington
China’s deteriorating relationship with
the United States could lead to fresh
calls for a boycott of the 2022 Winter
Olympics in Beijing.
The global spread of coronavirus
from Wuhan, the new national security
law in Hong Kong and growing evi-
dence of human rights violations in the
country’s treatment of Uighur Muslims
have all added to tensions created by a
trade war and Beijing’s aggression in
the South China Sea and elsewhere.
In April Mike Pompeo, the secretary
of state, said that he would “take a look”
at whether the US should boycott the
Games, adding: “The time for account-
ability will come”.
Rick Scott, a Republican senator
from Florida, had earlier introduced
legislation calling for the venue to be
changed unless there were “significant
improvements” in China’s human
rights record by January. His colleague
Marco Rubio called for a boycott over
the “dire human rights situation” in
Xinjiang as long ago as 2018.
Yesterday Mr Rubio shared a video
on Twitter of Andrew Marr’s interroga-
tion of the Chinese ambassador to the
UK about the Uighurs.
Beijing was selected to host the
Games in 2015, beating Almaty, in
Kazakhstan. The city hosted the sum-
mer Olympics in 2008, when there
were protests over China’s human
rights record but not a boycott.
A US boycott could be highly influ-
ential in persuading other western
countries, especially its Five Eyes allies,
to follow suit. A total of 66 countries
joined a US-led boycott of the 1980
Olympics in Moscow, including China.
Forgotten
United States
Will Pavia New York
Staff at a Long Island hospital looking
for somewhere to store pandemic sup-
plies have stumbled upon a trove of
paintings and prints by some of the
world’s greatest abstract artists.
More than a hundred artworks, in-
cluding pieces by Willem de Kooning
and Alexander Calder, were found in a
dusty storeroom, piled up in pallets and
propped against the wall.
The coronavirus ravaged New York
in March and April and led to a flight of
many of the city’s wealthiest residents
to the Hamptons, on Long Island. Staff
at the Stony Brook Southampton
the times | Tuesday July 21 2020 2GM
female whale free as the net sliced
into her skin. However, she grew
increasingly agitated, thrashing
around before heading into deeper
water on Sunday with the net still
wrapped around her tail.
“It was getting dangerous for us
so we attached a light to [the whale]
and will continue to track her —
these damn nets are causing huge
damage,” Monica Blasi, a local
marine biologist working with the
coastguard, said.
Carmelo Isgrò, a biologist and
diver, added: “The whale appeared
to be crazy which didn’t help the
art by modern masters found in hospital store
Hospital, fearing that they were about
to be overwhelmed, went looking for
somewhere to store ventilators and ad-
ditional beds and found a storeroom
full of artworks, worth up to $1 million.
“I was shaking when I saw it,” Vincent
Manzo, an art and antiques consultant,
told the New York Post. He said that he
was summoned to the hospital to exam-
ine the find but was initially reluctant
because of the pandemic. When he
ventured in, wearing a mask, “it was like
opening up King Tut’s tomb”.
A hospital spokeswoman disputed
the idea that they were unaware of the
collection. “We knew the artwork was
stored in the hospital,” said Barbara Jo
Howard. A Boston auction house has
Sardinia
dolphins and whales. This year the
ITALY
coastguard has recovered 60 miles
Tyrrhenian of illegal nets in the area. “It’s likely
Sea Lipari
fishermen saw they had trapped the
Salina whale, cut off that piece of net and
Palermo left it to its fate,” Ms Blasi said.
Sicily This month another sperm whale
— there are thought to be about
100 miles
1,800 in the Mediterranean — was
freed from netting in the area, close
rescue operation. We thought she to the Aeolian islands.
would tire after 24 hours but she “It’s getting worse because
didn’t help our work.” whales have been using these
Banned by the EU since 1999, waters as a migration route more
drift nets are towed by fishing boats often since shipping decreased due
to snare swordfish, but can also trap to Italy’s lockdown,” Ms Blasi said.
said that it is compiling a catalogue of
the works for a sale but Ms Howard said
that it had not been appointed by the
hospital, nor had the hospital’s founda-
tion agreed to a sale.
Many of the pieces appear to have
been donated to the hospital between
the 1950s and 1980s, at a time when the
eastern end of the Hamptons con-
tained many artists. Bob Colacello, co-
author of Studios by the Sea: Artists of
the East End of Long Island, said that the
impressionist William Merritt Chase
set up an artist’s colony where “rich
ladies would come out in August and go
down to the beach. He would teach
Willem de Kooning was one of many them plain air painting.”
who donated artworks to the hospital Later Jackson Pollock had a studio
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ITALIAN COASTGUARD
The sperm whale swam
off with net still around
its tail after divers spent
two days trying to free it
The whale in the latest rescue
drama, which was found close to the
island of Salina, was named Fury
because she shook herself so
violently to escape the net. Before
she dived, experts used microphones
to listen to her acoustic signal to
check for signs of stress. There are
fears that she will succumb to
exhaustion as she tries to swim with
restricted movement. “The other
whale, Spike, understood what we
were doing and co-operated, while
Fury didn’t co-operate, but we will
carry on searching for her until we
can set her free,” Ms Blasi added.
there. Mr Colacello visited it, finding
the floor thick with paint. De Kooning
built a studio there too, “shaped like a
ship, because he was from the Nether-
lands and came from a seafaring
family”, he said. It had been kept “the
way it was the day he died in the 1970s,
with a paintbrush dipped in red”.
The artist, a heavy drinker, was a reg-
ular patient at the hospital and donated
paintings. “The Southampton Hospital
always had a big benefit every summer,”
Mr Colacello said. “For a long time it
was almost the only benefit, before
everything got more Manhattanised.
Artists would give their work. It wasn’t
totally surprising that this hospital
would be holding some of the work.”
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Juan Carlos
may be tried
for money
laundering
Spain
Isambard Wilkinson Madrid
The former King of Spain is facing the
growing prospect of a trial for money
laundering after allegations that a
secret Swiss bank account was used to
pay for his holiday in Tahiti.
Juan Carlos flew to the South Pacific
island for a nine-day stay in January
2016. In October 2015, £26,311 was
transferred from a Swiss account to pay
for the trip, it is alleged by El Confiden-
cial, an online newspaper.
The money, paid in sterling to a
London travel agent through a third
party, is said to have come from the
Zagatka foundation, formed in Liech-
tenstein in 2003 by his cousin, Álvaro
de Orleans y Borbón, and is under in-
vestigation by a Swiss prosecutor. The
cousin paid for several flights for Juan
Carlos but denied that the former king
had access to the foundation’s money.
Swiss prosecutors are investigating
multimillion-euro payments into off-
shore accounts linked to Juan Carlos,
82, and the source of a €65 million
payment to Corinna zu Sayn-Wittgen-
stein, his former mistress. The king ab-
dicated in 2014 after a series of scandals.
In Spain public prosecutors are see-
Corinna zu Sayn-
Wittgenstein was
Juan Carlos’s lover
ing if there is enough evidence to start
proceedings for money laundering and
tax crimes against him over his alleged
ties to suspected kickbacks for a con-
tract to build a railway in Saudi Arabia
in 2011. It is a matter of debate, but it is
thought investigators can only focus on
the former king’s activities from 2014.
If the money for his holiday is linked
to illegal funds, he may be tried for
money laundering, legal experts say. “If
the continuity of a crime is proved to
have taken place after 2014, the case
could be judged by the supreme court,”
José Luis Martí, a law professor at Pom-
peu Fabra university, said.
The allegations over Juan Carlos’s
dealings have rocked the monarchy. In
March they reached his son, King Feli-
pe, who disinherited himself from his
father and stripped him of his stipend.
Further allegations claiming that Ju-
an Carlos ferried suitcases of cash from
Switzerland have intensified calls for
reform. This month Pedro Sánchez, the
prime minister, described the allega-
tions as disturbing.
A dispute between Juan Carlos and
Ms Sayn-Wittgenstein, with whom he
had an affair in 2004-09, over how to
deal with the crisis has led to leaks to
the media revealing details of accounts
and payments. Ms Sayn-Wittgenstein’s
lawyers said their client’s position was
that the former king knew the €65 mil-
lion it was documented as a gift and had
always maintained that it was, and
therefore there were no grounds for
him to ask for it back.
Lawyers for Juan Carlos declined to
comment.
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World
Biden looks for
ally who won’t
overshadow him
United States
David Charter Washington
A veteran congresswoman with a
strong personal bond with Joe Biden is
rising fast in the race to become his
running-mate for November’s election
as more polls gave the Democratic
challenger a healthy lead over Presi-
dent Trump.
Karen Bass, a former Speaker of the
California state assembly who was
elected to Congress ten years ago, is
seen as an emerging prospect partly
because she has indicated that she
would not use the role of vice-president
as a springboard to the White House.
At the age of 66 but with a low media
profile, she offers Mr Biden a stark con-
trast to better-known names under
consideration, including senators Eliz-
Karen Bass has
no ambition to be
president, unlike
other candidates
abeth Warren, 71, and Kamala Harris,
55, a fellow Californian, both of whom
ran for the presidential nomination.
Mr Biden, 77, announced that he
would choose a female running-mate
and there has been pressure in the
party for him to pick a black woman
given the protests over racial injustice
after the death of George Floyd. There
is also a belief that Mr Biden would be
a one-term president, putting his vice-
president in pole position for a run for
the White House in 2024 and making
his choice of running-mate even more
significant than usual.
Ms Bass, who is divorced, told The
Atlantic that she “cannot envision” run-
ning for president in 2024 or 2028.
The head of the Congressional Black
Caucus, she has a close affinity with Mr
Biden through personal loss — she
spoke at an event with him about her
struggle to come to terms with the
death of her only daughter and son-in-
law in a car crash. The former vice-
Kanye West launches eccentric Men’s rights lawyer suspected
campaign without filing papers of shooting dead judge’s son
David Charter
Kanye West launched his campaign for
the US presidency with an eccentric
rally during which he suggested that
new mothers be paid a million dollars to
help to deter abortion.
The rapper and music producer, who
is married to the celebrity Kim Kar-
dashian, also claimed that Harriet
Tubman, a 19th-century abolition-
ist, did not free slaves.
The singer, who had “2020”
shaved into his hair, gave a
rambling speech to several
hundred people in South
Carolina, where the
deadline to register for
November’s election
passed yesterday. He
needed to collect 10,000
signatures.
West, 43, a former
backer of President
Trump who would run as
president lost his first wife and one-
year-old daughter in a car accident in
1972. “We both just shared that you
learn how to get up in the morning,” she
told The Atlantic. “You learn how to live,
but your life is fundamentally changed,
dramatically changed.”
Campaign advisers believe that Ms
Bass has other qualities that might be
attractive to Democratic and general
voters alike, as well as Mr Biden. Her
low profile means there is no danger of
her overshadowing the candidate, un-
like some of the frontrunners, while she
is seen as expert at reaching consensus
with Republicans, counting Kevin
McCarthy, the minority House leader,
among her friends from their days mak-
ing political deals in California. This
could make her a less divisive figure to
floating voters than other potential
choices.
At the same time she has pulled off
the trick of satisfying both the moder-
ate and radical wings of the Democratic
party. Ilhan Omar, 37, a Somali-born
congresswoman demonised by Repub-
licans, has called her “a dear friend”.
Other rival black female candidates
include Susan Rice, 55, a former UN
ambassador and national security ad-
viser to President Obama; Val Dem-
ings, 63, a Florida congresswoman and
former police chief; and Keisha Lance
Bottoms, 50, the mayor of Atlanta.
James Clyburn, 80, the senior black
congressman from South Carolina who
was instrumental in Mr Biden seizing
the nomination when he backed him to
win the state primary, has said that Ms
Bass has three big things in her favour:
her “legislative acumen” honed passing
laws in California and the House; the
fact that she “is no stranger to foreign
affairs”; and “the biggest thing of all”,
that Mr Biden would not need to worry
about her “one-upping him” because
“she has no aspirations” to become
president.
Two polls yesterday put Mr Biden in
a strong lead over Mr Trump. Fox News
put Mr Biden on 49 per cent and Mr
Trump on 41 per cent and ABC/Wash-
ington Post had Mr Biden up by 54 to
44 per cent among probable voters.
an independent, said, pausing to wipe
away tears: “My mom saved my life. My
dad wanted to abort me. Even if my wife
wants to divorce me after this speech,
she brought North [their daughter] into
the world even when I didn’t want to.
She stood up and she protected that
child. You know who else protected a
child? Forty-three years ago, who do
you think protected a child?” West
said, crying. “My stance is not to
make abortion illegal at all. It
should always be legal. But there
should be an option . . . everybody
that has a baby gets a million
dollars.”
Fans expressed concern
on social media about the
rapper’s mental health; he
was admitted to hospital in
2016 in a “psychiatric
emergency”.
South Carolina board of elec-
tions said later that West had
not met the deadline.
T
he Israeli model
Top model Bar Refaeli, 35,
above, was given
admits nine months’
community service by
tax dodge a Tel Aviv court after
on $10m admitting not paying
tax on $10 million.
Her mother, Tzipi, 65,
Henry Zeffman Washington
A federal judge’s son was shot dead and
her husband wounded in an attack at
her home in New Jersey by a suspect
identified as a men’s rights activist.
Daniel Anderl, the son of Esther
Salas, 51, a district judge since 2011, was
shot through the heart by a man in a
FedEx uniform. He had turned 20 last
week and was a student at the Catholic
University of America in Washington.
Ms Salas’s husband, Mark Anderl, 63,
was also shot and was in a critical but sta-
ble condition. He is a criminal defence
lawyer. Daniel was their only child.
The suspect was later found dead
with an apparently self-inflicted gun-
shot wound in a car near the town of
Liberty in New York, a two-hour drive
away. NBC reported that law enforce-
ment officials named him as Roy Den
Hollander, a New York lawyer who has
a long history of anti-feminist work.
Hollander’s website calls for clients to
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Translator linked to
Soleimani hit executed
Iran A former translator said by
prosecutors to have helped the
US to track and kill General
Qasem Soleimani in a drone
strike near Baghdad airport in
January has been executed.
Mahmoud Mousavi Majd was
earlier convicted of spying for the
US and Israel. The death of
Soleimani, head of the elite Quds
Force who was identified by
President Trump as the “No 1
terrorist anywhere in the world”,
took Iran and the US to the brink
of war in the days that followed.
Iran said last week that it had
executed another man, Reza
Asgari, for selling details of the
country’s missile programme to
the CIA. (AFP)
Journalist and activist
arrested over protest
Zimbabwe Police have detained a
journalist and a politician before
anti-government protests
planned for July 31. Hopewell
Chin’ono posts about alleged
corruption to a huge following on
Twitter. Jacob Ngarivhume, the
leader of Transform Zimbabwe, is
an organiser of the protest. Police
said the two had been charged
with inciting violence and would
appear in court soon. (AFP)
Missing dog’s 50-mile
walk to old address
United States A
labrador that
vanished from
Olathe, Kansas,
was found at the
house its owner
had left in 2018,
more than 50 miles away. Cleo,
four, was reported missing on July
12. She was found days later at the
home in Lawson, Missouri, and
identified by a microchip implant.
Rescue effort for crew
kidnapped by pirates
Benin Pirates kidnapped 13
was jailed for 16 Ukrainian and Russian crew
months. The pair, who members from a Greek-owned
had signed a plea tanker in the Gulf of Guinea.
bargain deal, agreed MV Curacao Trader was attacked
to pay eight million 210 miles off Benin on July 17 and
Israeli shekels had been left drifting, the Alison
(£1.85 million) in back
taxes and a fine of
Management Corporation said. It
added that a vessel had been sent
five million shekels. to help the tanker and that “no
effort shall be spared” to secure
the crew’s release. (AFP)
Saudi King Salman, 84,
admitted to hospital
Saudi Arabia King Salman bin
Abdulaziz, 84, has been taken to
King Faisal hospital in Riyadh
“help battle the infringement of Men’s with an inflamed gall bladder.
Rights by the Feminists”. Police were The royal court said that he
investigating whether a gun found at would undergo “some medical
the scene was the murder weapon. tests due to cholecystitis”. It is
Ms Salas presided over a 2015 case rare for Saudi Arabia to report on
brought by a New Jersey woman, the health of the king, who came
Elizabeth Kyle-Labell, challenging the to the throne in 2015. A visit by
male-only military draft. Last year she the Iraqi prime minister, Mustafa
ruled that the lawsuit could go forward. al-Kadhimi, was postponed. (AFP)
Hollander had appeared in that case,
court records show. Mexican murders hit
The attack took place at about 5pm
on Sunday in North Brunswick, about 17,400 in six months
40 miles southwest of New York City. Mexico Murders in Mexico edged
“As a judge, she had threats from time up to a record high of 17,439 in
to time, but everyone is saying that the first half of this year. The rate
recently there had not been any,” said has fallen slightly during the
Francis Womack, the North Brunswick coronavirus pandemic but the
mayor and a friend of the family. figure is up 1.7 per cent on the
Bob Menendez, a Democratic sena- same period last year. President
tor from New Jersey, said: “I know López Obrador took office in
Judge Salas and her husband well, and 2018 promising to reduce violence
was proud to recommend her to Presi- but the number of murders is still
dent Obama for nomination to New rising. Other serious crimes have
Jersey’s federal bench.” fallen in the lockdown. (Reuters)
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World

Dorothy Parker’s ashes need a new home

United States
Will Pavia New York
When Dorothy Parker died in 1967 she
left the world poems, fiction, biting
literary criticism and a treasure trove of
wisecracks that would go on to grace
T-shirts and cocktail plates.
All of her money she left to Martin
Luther King Jr, although he could not
recall ever having met her.
When King was assassinated ten
months later the estate passed, as
Parker had instructed, to the National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People (NAACP).
The writer had no children and gave
no instructions about what should
become of her ashes but, after years in
a lawyer’s filing cabinet, they were
interred in a garden at the NAACP’s
headquarters in Baltimore.
Now another debate has begun about
where to put Dorothy Parker. The civil
rights organisation is moving its
headquarters to Washington DC and is
wondering whether to bring Parker’s
ashes along too. “Her legacy means a
lot,” Aba Blankson, a spokeswoman,
said. “It’s important to us that we do this
right.”
Some argue that Parker is too much
of a New Yorker to be kept anywhere
else for long. She complained of having
to go to Hollywood as a screenwriter;
sometimes she seemed reluctant to go
outside at all.
“If the doorbell rang in her apart-
ment, she would say, ‘What fresh hell
can this be?’” a friend told her biogra-
pher, John Keats. Ellen Meister, a writer
who runs a Parker fan page, said:
“People are kind of disappointed that
she didn’t end up in New York. New
York was her home, and her first and
last love.”
Others are keen that her resting
place remains tied to the civil rights
movement. Parker wrote that her com-
mitment to it was fostered by her aunt,
who displayed total indifference to the
plight of the working class.
When she died, King pronounced
himself “deeply touched and gratified”
at the bequest. He said: “What impress-
es and inspires me is that one of Amer-
ica’s most respected and warmly loved
women of letters felt so committed to
the civil rights movement that what-
ever she had she offered to it.”
Francine Gordon, a Parker afi-
cionado, said she hoped that the
NAACP did not leave her in
Baltimore. “She’s always had
abandonment issues,” Ms
Gordon told The New York
Times. “It’s happening
again!”
The poet herself
had once suggest-
ed that the words
“Excuse my dust”
be her epigraph: itt
Dorothy Parker left no
instructions for her ashes
was duly written on a plaque in Balti-
more.
Ms Gordon felt that if Parker
was not wanted in Washington
her remains ought to be trans-
ferred to the lobby of New York’s
Algonquin Hotel, where she once
presided as the in-house wit at a
round table of writers and crit-
ics. “Knowing her, which
obviously I did not, she
probably would prefer to
be thrown in someone’s
face,” said Stuart Y. Sil-
verstein, a literary de-
tective who found lost
poems by Parker.
“There is no shortage
of candidates.”

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Wayne Adams and

Catherine King
have been building
Freedom Cove for
almost 30 years

Island retreat floats

on years of recycling

A
s a young
man Wayne
Adams
reckoned
with the
possibility that he might
not become a wealthy
artist with a city home
and a country studio
(Will Pavia writes).
Instead he and his
wife, Catherine King,
began building a floating
island that they moored
in a cove in British
Columbia. Called
Freedom Cove, it has
been home since 1992.
“We could never buy
real estate,” he told
CNN. “So we had to
make our own.”
Mr Adams said he had
not always envisioned a
subsistence lifestyle,
aboard a giant raft filled
with gaudy buildings
and greenhouses. “I was
hoping to make a lot
more money,” he said.
But he had always
enjoyed building tree
houses, so he built “a
tree fort in the ocean”. and hammer,” Mr carries their waste, and plants in the greenhouses hockey rink, which can lie on the couch, fish
They began using Adams said. “No power solar panels provide and vegetable gardens be slid aside for fishing. from here.” The nearest
timber felled by a storm tools. I know every power. Each morning and goes out in a canoe “I get in my canoe and town is 25 miles away by
in a cove on the western board and nail by name.” Mr Adams gathers to gather seaweed for paddle out and in ten boat and he doesn’t like
shore of Vancouver A waterfall on the firewood for the heating compost. The living minutes I can catch a going there. “I get all
Island. “Everything’s shoreline provides their system while his wife room floor is a piece of fish,” Mr Adams said. jangled up inside. The
done with a hand saw water, a floating tank waters thousands of plexiglass from an ice “But when it’s windy I noise starts to get to me.”

Snapping turtles terrorise German lake Fugitive Ghosn makes his

Germany
David Crossland Berlin
An estimated 200 alligator snapping
turtles that have settled at a German
lake pose such a threat to passers-by
that officials may have to shoot them.
Notoriously combative and armed
with beak-like jaws, the animals,
which are indigenouss to
North America, are be-
d
lieved to have multiplied
since they were released
by pet owners in the
1990s. Their shells can
grow to 45cm and they
can weigh 16kg.
“We are worried
that strollers or child-
ren may want to touch h Alligator
the animals,” Anja Kühne,ne,
istrict
spokeswoman for the district
authority of Viersen, near the Dutch
border, told Bild after two turtles were
removed this month. “They are fast and
have two tonnes of biting power — a
finger would be gone in no time. Even
dogs could be attacked.”
Swimming is prohibited in Lake Witt-
see and the authority has been warning
for years that it is dangerous to
approac the shoreline. The
approach
specie has no natural
species
pred
predators in Germany
an threatens the eco-
and
sy
system by devouring
d
ducklings, fish and
a
amphibians.
The district author-
ity has been rounding
A llig snapping turtles
have powerful jaws and
are not
notoriously aggressive
the animals up and taking them to a
reptile centre, which it says costs more
than €1,000 per turtle. It plans to keep
handing turtles to local centres until
they have reached capacity. After that,
they may be killed. Putting them to
sleep is impractical because it would be
too dangerous for the vets. “Shooting
them would be the most painless
solution,” Ms Kühne said.
Wildlife activists accuse the author-
ity of planning to “execute healthy tur-
tles on an official whim” and threaten
legal action. The case has awakened
memories of a hunt for a snapping tur-
tle dubbed Lotti in 2013 after an eight-
year-old boy had his Achilles tendon
severed. The Oggenrieder Weiher lake
in Bavaria was drained and locals
joined the search. The mayor offered a
€1,000 reward for the turtle’s capture,
but it was never found.
case for return to France
France
Adam Sage Paris
Carlos Ghosn, the tycoon on the run
from Japanese justice, has increased
speculation that he is keen to return to
France by giving an interview to a
French newspaper in which he claimed
he had been falsely portrayed as a
“greedy dictator”.
The former head of Nissan and Ren-
ault has been a fugitive since Decem-
ber, when he was smuggled out of Japan
in a musical instrument case and flown
to Lebanon. He is accused of under-
reporting his salary at Nissan and using
corporate funds to cover personal
losses and buy a luxury yacht.
In the interview in Le Parisienne, Mr
Ghosn, 66, depicted himself as an out-
sider abandoned by the French elite. He
said he had been the victim of a smear
campaign orchestrated by Nissan exec-
utives opposed to his plan to strengthen
its ties with Renault. “The greedy dicta-
tor, the grasping boss, is the invention
of a small group of people at the head of
Nissan who had taken on three French
communication agencies on company
funds to discredit me,” he said.
Mr Ghosn was summoned for
questioning in Paris this month on
separate allegations but failed to appear.
He told the newspaper that a “technical
obstacle” prevented him; his passport
had been confiscated by Lebanese pros-
ecutors. He omitted to mention that he
also has French and Brazilian passports.
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World
Thais risk 15 years in jail
by decrying king in public
Thailand
Kenneth Denby
Anti-government protesters in
Bangkok carried banners calling for
the overthrow of Thailand’s king in
an unprecedented display of hostility
towards a once-revered institution.
Hundreds of protesters defied a
pandemic ban on gatherings to rally
at the Democracy Monument. They
called for the resignation of Prayuth
Chan-ocha, the prime minister, who
took power in a coup in 2014 before
changing the constitution and then
winning last year’s election under a
system opponents say was rigged.
As well as demanding elections
and reforms the demonstrators used
slogans that criticised and insulted
King Maha Vajiralongkorn, which is
a crime in Thailand.
Some chanted “Mi Xo” — Not OK
— a coded way of saying “No to O”,
O being a nickname for Vajiralong-
korn. Others alluded to the case of
Tiwakorn Vithiton, 45, who was com-
mitted to a psychiatric hospital this
month after wearing a T-shirt that
said: “I have lost all faith in the insti-
tution of monarchy.” Slogans at the
rally included “We didn’t lose faith,
because we never had faith” and “We
had no faith in you from the start”.
Vajiralongkorn’s father, Bhumibol
Adulyadej, who died in 2016, was
loved and respected by many Thais,
but his son has an unsavoury reputa-
tion. Under Thailand’s lèse-majesté
laws, any “insult” to the royal family
can be punished with 15 years in jail.
Available intelligence, including
the accounts of US diplomats, indi-
cates that the new king, 67, is at best a
bizarre eccentric and at worst venge-
ful. Since his father’s death he has
spent much of his time in Germany.
Over the years he has taken and
cast off a series of wives and “con-
sorts”. Several slogans made obscene
reference to his alleged womanising.
Displays such as the one in Bang-
kok and Chiang Mai on Saturday
would have been unthinkable even a
few months ago. They are an indica-
tion of growing unrest as the pan-
demic leads to rising unemployment.
One slogan articulated fear of a vio-
lent response from the armed forces.
Addressed to Thai soldiers, it said: “If
something happens in future, point
your guns at the sky, not the people.”
Perfectly ghoulish This photo of Papua New Guinea tribesmen won the Hamdan International Photography people’s choice award
Modi’s £2bn ‘vanity scheme’
downgrades Lutyens’ Delhi
India
Hugh Tomlinson
Parliament House, which has stood
for almost a century at the architec-
tural heart of Delhi, may be con-
signed to history as the Indian gov-
ernment forges ahead with a contro-
versial plan to redevelop the capital’s
famous central vista.
Built by Sir Edwin Lutyens as a
symbol of British imperial might in
India, and later adopted as the seat of
power for a proud, independent
democracy, the beloved circular
building could be little more than two
years from closure. Contractors sub-
mitted tenders this week for the con-
tract to build a new parliament, envis-
aged as the heart of a new India by the
Hindu nationalist government of
Narendra Modi, the prime minister.
The £2.4 billion plan has attracted
ferocious criticism since it emerged
last year, pushed through without
public consultation by the Modi gov-
ernment, emboldened by a second
landslide victory at the general elect-
ion. Alongside the new, triangular
parliament building, the develop-
ment includes a luxurious new resi-
dence for Mr Modi. Critics have de-
Kim sacks builders of his pet project hospital
North Korea
Richard Lloyd Parry Asia Editor
Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s supreme
leader, has publicly sacked the man-
agers of a hospital construction
project for soliciting donations from
the public.
State media reported “serious
problems” in the building of Pyong-
yang General Hospital yesterday, a
huge undertaking that appears to be
linked to the country’s struggle
against coronavirus.
“The construction co-ordination
commission is organising . . . in a
2GM
The new triangular building will
stand beside the round parliament
nounced the plan as a desecration of
India’s heritage and a symbol of fears
that Mr Modi aims to sweep away
India’s secular foundations and
establish a Hindu theocracy.
The parliament complex was
designed by Lutyens and Sir Herbert
Baker after the British decided in 1911
to move the capital of the Raj to Delhi
from Calcutta. The wide boulevards
and lawns echoed European capitals
such as Paris, while the red stone was
the same used by Mughal emperors
to build their forts and palaces. The
parliament buildings showed flour-
ishes drawn from Hindu, Buddhist
and Muslim architecture. The central
vista, down the avenue from the India
Gate war memorial to the Rashtra-
careless manner with no budget
properly set up,” Mr Kim said on a
visit to the site. The report said that
the supreme leader “severely re-
buked [officials] for burdening the
people by encouraging all kinds of
‘assistance’ ”. According to the Kore-
an Central News Agency, “he said . . .
the noble plan and intention of the
party . . . could be distorted and its
image tarnished”.
It seems that the project’s manag-
ers have been reduced to begging for
supplies; unless “assistance” is a
euphemism for extortion.
Mr Kim broke the ground on the
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pati Bhavan, or president’s house, is
seen as the pair’s masterpiece, the
most famous view in India after the
Taj Mahal.
The Indian government and the
architecture firm overseeing the
project, HCP Design, insist that the
old parliament is no longer fit for pur-
pose. The lower house holds almost
550 members, but a proposal to in-
crease the number of MPs to better
reflect India’s growing population,
would demand a radical increase in
the building’s capacity. Rather than
renovate the existing structure, the
government proposes redeveloping
Parliament House as a museum.
“What we are trying to do is respect
history . . . This is exactly what Lut-
yens would have done. It might be a
radical change but certainly not
something that breaks with the past,”
Bimal Patel, head of HCP Design,
said in January.
A group of almost 100 architects,
historians and artists wrote to Delhi’s
planning commission earlier this
year, however, claiming the plans
submitted by the government were
“misleading and illegal”, and de-
manding that the Indian public be
allowed to scrutinise the scheme.
hospital’s construction in March
and ordered that it be built by the
75th anniversary of the founding of
the Workers’ Party of Korea on Octo-
ber 10.
In a speech marking the beginning
of construction he said: “The coun-
try’s health and medical sector . . . was
scientifically and honestly evaluated,
and it pained my heart . . . that our
country’s capital does not wholly
have modern treatment facilities.”
North Korea claims not to have
had a single case of Covid-19, a claim
regarded as unlikely by many foreign
observers.
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M&S cuts 950 jobs in another blow for ‘radically changed’ high street
Louisa Clarence-Smith
Marks & Spencer is planning to cut 950
roles as it accelerates an overhaul of the
business, bolstered by the belief that
shopping habits “have been changed
forever” by the pandemic.
The struggling high street has been
hit already by redundancies at Ted
Baker, Boots, John Lewis and
Debenhams. Almost 70,000 jobs have
been lost and 9,000 stores have closed
RBS: work
from home
until 2021
50,000 staff told to ignore government advice
Ben Martin Senior City Correspondent
Royal Bank of Scotland, one of Britain’s
biggest employers, has told more than
50,000 staff to work from home until
next year.
It said in a memo to employees that
the majority would continue to work
remotely until 2021. It had said previ-
ously that they would be at home until
at least the end of September.
The decision by the taxpayer-owned
lender comes only days after Boris
Johnson said that the government’s
advice to work from home would be
dropped next month in an attempt to
reverse the damage inflicted on the
economy by the pandemic. The prime
minister said that employers would
have “more discretion” about where
staff should work.
RBS, which is led by Alison Rose, is
one of the country’s biggest high street
lenders and has about 63,000 employ-
ees. It is majority-owned by the
government as a legacy of its £45 billion
bailout at the height of the 2008 finan-
cial crisis.
Although about 10,000 of the bank’s
staff have been going into its branches,
call centres and offices since the start of
lockdown, most have been working
from home.
Other businesses across the country
have taken similar steps to protect
workers from the coronavirus and the
shift towards remote working has hit
town and city centres hard. Shops,
cafés, bars and restaurants have been
badly hit by the slump in customer
numbers. Businesses such as Pret a
Manger, the sandwich chain, are clos-
commodities
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since the start of lockdown, according
to the Centre for Retail Research. The
retail sector has lost about 91,000 jobs
and 12,300 stores this year.
M&S said that it was making cuts at
its head office and property and store
management divisions. It said that it
would reduce layers of management
and would improve the use of techno-
logy in its shops.
Sacha Berendji, director of retail and
property, said: “Through the crisis we
ing stores and cutting jobs as they
scramble to reduce costs. Fears have
been raised that closures and redun-
dancies will cause lasting damage to
high streets and the wider economy.
Mr Johnson announced on Friday
that the government’s advice on home
working would change from August 1.
“Instead of government telling people
to work from home, we’re going to give
employers more discretion and ask
them to make decisions about how
their staff can work safely,” he said. “It is
up to employers to decide whether they
think the time has come for them to be
more productive in a place of work for
a greater portion of the week.”
RBS had been due to update its staff
in September about its working
arrangements, but brought forward its
decision. A spokeswoman for the bank
said: “The decision has been made
carefully, including considering the
latest guidance from the UK govern-
ment on Friday and our own health and
safety standards and procedures. It’s a
cautious approach, but we feel the right
one to take currently.”
Sir Patrick Vallance, the govern-
ment’s chief scientific adviser, said the
day before Mr Johnson’s announce-
ment that there was “absolutely no
reason” to change the advice.
One obstacle to companies that are
considering bringing more staff back to
the workplace has been concerns about
using public transport.
After the prime minister’s announce-
ment last week, the CBI, the business
lobby group, had warned that “the
return to offices must not risk an infec-
tion spike”.
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have seen how we can work faster and do’s website in September. Jonathan
more flexibly by empowering store inside today Pritchard, retail analyst at Peel Hunt,
teams and it’s essential that we embed Courier company promises the broker, said: “M&S has always been
that way of working.” A consultation a business that people have perceived
process has begun and voluntary to deliver 10,500 new posts as having a cost base that could be
redundancies are being sought. Page 40 trimmed.”
M&S employs 78,000 people, of Clive Black, an analyst at Shore Capi-
which 27,000 have been furloughed business had learnt what it could do tal, said: “It is a necessary measure for
under the job retention scheme. It “with fewer people in extreme circum- M&S to make it more fit-for-purpose.
warned in May that it would be examin- stances”. The group, which has 1,000 What it announced is just another
ing headcount at all levels, with Archie stores, is shifting to become more digi- notch in a radical restructuring of the
Norman, the chairman, revealing the tally focused. It is due to launch on Oca- retail scene post-coronavirus.”
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Economy has
recovered half
of losses, says
Bank chief
Gurpreet Narwan
Economics Correspondent
The economy has recovered half of the
output lost during lockdown, according
to the Bank of England’s chief
economist.
Andy Haldane told the Treasury
select committee yesterday that the
economy had enjoyed a bounce-
back in activity since output plum-
meted by a quarter after social distanc-
ing measures were introduced in late
March. “Roughly half of the roughly
25 per cent fall in activity during March
and April has been clawed back over
the period since,” Mr Haldane, 52, said.
“We have seen a bounceback. So far, it
has been a ‘V’.”
Mr Haldane’s view contrasts with
that of Andrew Bailey, the Bank’s
governor, who was more cautious in
comments that he made last week. Mr
Haldane, the only member of the nine-
strong monetary policy committee to
oppose expanding the Bank’s asset
purchase programme last month, said
he believed that the economy was
growing by about 1 per cent a week on
average, based on business surveys and
other less conventional figures, such as
traffic and mobility data.
Many economists fear that the
nascent recovery will lose momentum
if economic demand does not pick up in
the coming months. This could lead to
a second increase in unemployment
when the chancellor’s job retention
scheme, which is supporting the in-
they were formed by spokesman said that a comes of about a quarter of the work-
Beefeaters Henry VII in 1485. The
move is part of cost-
voluntary redundancy
scheme had been
force, closes in October.
Britain’s economy returned to
face chop at cutting at the Tower of introduced last month growth in May, expanding by 1.8 per
London amid the and that there could be cent, but economists had been hoping
the Tower coronavirus outbreak. compulsory job losses. for a much bigger rise of 5.5 per cent and
The pandemic has At least two of the warned that the figure dampened
T
he historic led to the temporary thirty-seven Yeoman hopes of V-shaped recovery.
Beefeater closure of six sites run Warders, who guard Mr Haldane said that the latest data
guards are by Historic Royal the Crown Jewels, are suggested that the economy did enjoy a
facing layoffs Palaces, a charity. said to have taken boost in June and July, but he warned
for what is believed to Visitors provide 80 per voluntary redundancy that the future was still uncertain. “The
be the first time since cent of its income. A already. Continued on page 40, col 4
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Business
Need to know
1
Building companies face a ban
on selling leasehold homes
after the government’s legal
advisers called for radical reforms
to stop freeholders exploiting
owners of flats. Page 4
2
Ministers have been warned
that European Union leaders
are not ready to sign off on a
Brexit trade deal compromise in
advance of the latest rounds of
talks that get under way in
London today. Page 8
3
A British drug has been found
to reduce dramatically the
chances of coronavirus
patients needing intensive care,
according to the preliminary
results of a small randomised trial
of the drug made by Synairgen.
Page 11
4
Royal Bank of Scotland, one
of Britain’s biggest employers,
has told more than 50,000
staff to work from home until next
year. RBS has informed its
employees in a memo that the
majority will continue to work
remotely until 2021. Page 37
5
The economy has recovered
half of the output lost during
lockdown, according to the
Bank of England’s chief economist.
Andy Haldane told the Treasury
select committee that the
economy had enjoyed a bounce-
back since output plummeted by a
quarter after social distancing
measures were introduced in late
March. Pages 37, 40
6
Marks & Spencer, the retail
chain, is planning to cut 950
roles as it accelerates an
overhaul of the business bolstered
by the belief that shopping habits
“have been changed forever” by
the pandemic. Almost 70,000 jobs
have been lost and 9,000 stores
have closed since the start of
lockdown, according to the Centre
for Retail Research. Page 37
7
Insurance companies have
been criticised by lawyers for
the Financial Conduct
Authority for comparing the
government’s lockdown advice
during the Covid-19 crisis to
guidance on smoking, drinking
alcohol and eating vegetables,
during the first day of a High
Court test case brought by the
City regulator. Page 40
8
Amigo Holdings, Britain’s
biggest guarantor lender, says
that there is “material
uncertainty” over its ability to
continue as a going concern after
it was hit by a rise in customer
complaints, a regulatory
investigation and the Covid-19
pandemic. Page 42
9
Property investors have
suffered a £1.5 billion shortfall
in rental income that was due
for the second quarter of the year.
Almost a fifth of rent that was due
at the March quarter payday had
not been collected 90 days later,
according to Remit Consulting.
Page 43
10 Ant Group, China’s largest
digital payments company,
which is the financial
technology offshoot of Alibaba,
the giant Chinese internet
commerce group, has lit the touch
paper on one of the most keenly
anticipated stock market floats of
recent years. Page 45
Drug maker’s
shares boom
after Covid
breakthrough
Alex Ralph, Tom Howard
Shares in an Aim-quoted respiratory
drugs company spun off from the
University of Southampton leapt by
more than 400 per cent yesterday after
it announced positive initial trial results
for a treatment for Covid-19 patients
who are in hospital.
Synairgen shares surged by 153½p, or
420.6 per cent, to 190p on the London
Stock Exchange’s junior market after
the company said that preliminary
results from a study of about 100
coronavirus patients had found that the
inhaled drug reduced the chances of
them needing intensive care.
For those who inhaled a protein
designed to stimulate the immune
system the odds of developing severe
disease, such as needing ventilation, fell
by 79 per cent compared with patients
on a placebo, Synairgen said.
Richard Marsden, chief executive,
said that it “could signal a major break-
through in the treatment of hospital-
ised Covid-19 patients” and the com-
pany was contacting regulators, such as
the European Medicines Agency and
the US Federal Drugs Administration,
and potential third-party manufac-
turers and commercial partners to
progress it “as rapidly as possible”.
He said that the share price reaction
was appropriate because Synairgen was
seeking to combat a “massive problem”
and if it went on to “reduce the need for
ventilators and intensive care” for
patients that would be “very valuable”.
Synairgen raised £10.5 million at 130p
per share when it was listed on the
Alternative Investment Market in
October 2004. Yesterday’s sharp jump
in its shares has left two of its University
of Southampton academic co-founders
— Stephen Holgate, professor of
immunopharmacology, and Ratko
Djukanovic, professor of medicine —
holding 0.6 per cent stakes that are
worth about £1.7 million, according to
Refinitiv data.
Synairgen’s management are also
among the largest shareholders in a
wide investor register, with Simon
Employees place great stock in AO World’s price
Ashley Armstrong Retail Editor
More than 3,000 staff at AO World
could be in line for a bumper payday
after the online retailer proposed a new
incentive scheme.
The white goods company has put
forward a new “value creation” plan to
investors, in which staff will share a
£240 million pot if its share price rises
eightfold over the next five years.
Share-based incentive schemes have
come in for criticism from investors,
who fear that it encourages companies
to make short-term decisions to inflate
a share price and reward management.
AO World is trying to ease such con-
cerns by handing 80 per cent of the
Shaw, its chairman since the company
was created in 2003 and chief financial
officer of Savills, holding about 1 per
cent, and Mr Marsden, its chief execu-
tive since 2009, 0.3 per cent.
Synairgen’s largest shareholder is
Lansdowne Partners, the British-based
asset management company, with
11.7 per cent.
Neil Woodford, the former star fund
manager, was also a long-term backer
of Synairgen, holding a stake of more
than a fifth. However, Mr Woodford’s
shares were held in his main Woodford
Equity Income Fund, which is being
liquidated after the demise of his
investment firm. Link Fund Solutions,
administrator of the Woodford fund,
sold the Synairgen stake last month to
Acacia Research, an American inves-
tor, which in turn has reduced its stake
from 14 per cent to 6.9 per cent, accord-
ing to filings.
Adrian Lowcock, head of personal
investing at Willis Owen, a retail
investment platform, said yesterday
that Woodford shareholders had
missed out again. “They’ve had a tough
time and this rubs their noses in it a bit,”
he said.
The drug, SNG001, is an interferon
beta, a naturally occurring antiviral
protein, and Synairgen has been study-
ing it as a lung viral defence in patients
with asthma and chronic obstructive
pulmonary disease.
It had struck a deal worth up to
$232 million in 2014 with Astrazeneca
to give the FTSE 100 company rights to
it as an experimental treatment for viral
infections in severe asthmatics. How-
ever, a trial was stopped in October
2016 after Synairgen said that cold
infections did not affect patients’
asthma in the study as much as pre-
dicted, cutting the commercial appeal,
but adding that it had turned on the
lungs’ antiviral defences and thus bene-
fited lung function.
The following year Astrazeneca
discontinued development of the drug
licence, which triggered a slump in
Synairgen’s share price.
Mr Marsden said yesterday that
award to its employees. The scheme
will start paying out if the company’s
share price increases by almost 250 per
cent over the next five years to above
523p. Employees will share £140 million
if it reaches 941p by 2025 and
£240 million if it reaches £12.55.
John Roberts, 46, the
company’s founder and chief
executive, and Mark Higgins,
42, its finance chief, will be in
line to receive a maximum
£20 million bonus each if the
share price rises above £9.41, but
John Roberts said
he was focused on
long-term success
2G M
How Synairgen
has prospered
£1.3m
Value of management
and founders’ stake
on Friday*
£6.8m
October 2004 Synairgen, a
University of Southampton
spin-out, raises £10.5m at 130p
per share and floats on Aim
Value of management
and founders’ stake
yesterday
130p
Float price in
October 2004
35p
Placing in
March 2020
2006
*among the top ten shareholders
while the trial data was encouraging,
there were “hoops” that the company
needed to jump through before it was in
a position to sell the drug successfully.
“We will do follow-on clinical trials,
but don’t know what the agencies will
want yet,” he said. “They might ask us to
generate safety data in certain popula-
tions. They might just want another
200 patients in the trial.”
Finncap, Synairgen’s adviser, said
that “valuing the Covid-19 opportunity
is nigh-on impossible”. It upgraded its
target price to 360p, but said that it
recognised “that this could go substan-
tially higher, based on upcoming dis-
cussions with regulators, which should
clarify the route to market and the
potential for buying SNG001 ahead of
the winter 2020 flu season and the pos-
sibility of a second wave of Covid-19”.
the company has justified this by saying
investors would have benefited from a
minimum £3.83 billion increase in
market value.
AO World floated in 2014 in a £1.5 bil-
lion listing that valued its shares at
285p. Since then a string of profit
warnings on the back of a botched
international expansion have
dragged its shares down to 164¾p,
although they rose by more than
3 per cent yesterday.
Mr Roberts, who owns 23 per
cent of the business, said
that the scheme en-
sured that “everyone
shares in the success
of AO World”. He
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Shares in Astrazeneca hit fresh
record highs yesterday, boosted by
encouraging early clinical trial data
for a coronavirus vaccine that the
drugs company is developing
alongside the University of Oxford
(Alex Ralph writes).
The Cambridge-based Astra rose
as much as 8.5 per cent to £99.64
ahead of publication of interim data
from the phase one study of 1,077
healthy adults in The Lancet, the
healthcare journal, which showed it
produced an immune response.
The shares later fell back to close
up 133p, or 1.4 per cent, at £93.20.
They have surged by 22.5 per cent
said that the remuneration committee
had already canvassed investors and
had “broad support” for the plan.
“Isn’t it better for a chief executive to
be focused on the long term than one
that’s there for three years, fills their
pockets and p***** off,” he said. He has
already committed to donating all of his
award to Onside Youth Zones, a charity
focused on improving social mobility
for young people.
Last week AO World reported a pre-
tax profit of £1.5 million, compared with
a £20 million loss last year, after shut-
ting loss-making Dutch operations and
eliminating £30 million of cash burn.
Sales jumped by 15.9 per cent to £1 bil-
lion for the year to the end of March.
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hospitalised Covid-19 patients
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from trials of treatment developed with Oxford University
this year to make Astra the most biopharmaceuticals research and
valuable company in the FTSE 100 development, said the data showed
index. The rally has been driven by its the vaccine was capable of generating
non-coronavirus drugs and its role in a “rapid antibody and T-cell response”,
one of the most advanced vaccine but further data was needed.
candidates. The study found that the
vaccine did not prompt any serious
Larger late-stage trials are under
way in Britain, Brazil and South Africa
side-effects and elicited antibody and and are due to start in America.
T-cell immune responses. The Astrazeneca will distribute the
strongest response was in people who vaccine from September, if successful.
received two doses. It has signed agreements to produce
Pascal Soriot, 61, Astrazeneca’s chief and supply more than two billion
executive, said: “We need two doses. doses, including 100 million for the UK.
Other vaccines will need two doses. So It will not seek to profit from the
if we want to vaccinate loads of people vaccine during the pandemic, but
we will need several vaccines.” analysts at Jefferies, said “there may
Sir Mene Pangalos, head of be a future commercial opportunity”.
Directors cash in from rush to market
James Hurley count to the closing share price, while
the average raised was £150 million.
Companies have raised £13.8 billion Such fundraisings can be contentious
from equity-raisings related to Covid- when they override shareholders’ so-
19, with directors sometimes profiting called pre-emption rights, meaning
while ordinary shareholders’ stakes that investors’ stakes, including those of
were reduced. ordinary retail shareholders, are auto-
Peel Hunt, the City broker and matically diluted because they are not
adviser, said that there had been 92 given the chance to take part in the
such fundraisings since the onset of the share placings.
pandemic in Britain in mid-March, Asos, the online fashion retailer,
with companies enjoying an average of raised £247 million from a £15.60 plac-
16 per cent increase on the “pre-raise” ing at a ½p premium to the closing share
share price. price. The shares have since risen to
Of these, 51 were by main market £34.08. Adam Crozier, the company’s
companies, with 41 listed on Aim, chairman, bought 12,820 shares at the
London’s junior market. The average placing, meaning that he made a profit
offer price had been at a 10 per cent dis- of £237,000, while Nick Beighton, chief
GSK agrees
£900m deal
for research
into vaccines
Alex Ralph
Glaxosmithkline has struck a part-
nership worth up to about £900 million
with a German biotechnology com-
pany whose vaccine research was said
to have been sought by President
Trump.
The FTSE 100 group has signed a
strategic collaboration agreement with
Curevac for the research, development,
manufacturing and commercialisation
of up to five vaccines and monoclonal
antibodies targeting infectious dis-
eases.
Glaxo will take a near-10 per cent
stake in Curevac for £130 million and
will make an upfront cash payment of
£104 million. Curevac is also eligible to
receive development and regulatory
milestone payments of up to £277 mil-
lion, commercial milestone payments
of up to £329 million and royalties on
product sales.
The collaboration focuses on the
development of messenger RNA-based
vaccines, a technology in which
proteins, or antigens, can be produced
by the body’s own cells, enabling the
immune system to prevent or fight dis-
ease. It has the potential to expand the
range of diseases that can be prevented
or treated.
Glaxo, based in west London, was
formed through the merger in 2000 of
Glaxo Wellcome and Smithkline Bee-
cham. The company employs about
95,000 people and is valued at about
£83 billion. It operates three divisions
— pharmaceuticals, consumer health-
player in the $35 billion global vaccines
market.
Both companies are involved in the
race to develop coronavirus vaccines
and the tie-up excludes Curevac’s
existing Covid-19 mRNA vaccine
research programme. Last month the
German government outlined plans to
invest €300 million for a 23 per cent
holding in the biotech company to
support the development of its corona-
virus vaccine.
Curevac was reported in June to be
preparing an initial public offering in
the United States and in the spring it
emerged that Berlin was trying to stop
America from persuading Curevac to
move its coronavirus vaccine research
across the Atlantic. The episode
prompted a dispute, with German poli-
ticians insisting that no country should
have a monopoly on any future corona-
virus vaccine.
Shares in Glaxo closed down 11¾p, or
0.7 per cent, at £16.48½ last night.
executive, made £118,000. Retail inves-
tors were diluted by 18.8 per cent.
Other directors who have enjoyed
profits from placings include those of
Safestyle, an Aim-listed window and
door company, and Synairgen, which
raised funds to develop a coronavirus
treatment. Sixty of the 92 companies
enjoyed an increase in their share
prices after the placings: Avacta, a life
sciences company developing Covid-19
tests, drew the strongest reaction, with
a 560 per cent increase, followed by
Asos, up 124 per cent. The highest
number of pandemic-related equity-
raisings was in the travel and leisure
sector, with 17, followed by industrials,
healthcare and construction.
More breathtaking
news for investors
business commentary Alistair Osborne
I
f only people had placed more
faith in the biotech genius of
Neil Woodford. It was only a
year ago that the fallen star of a
stockpicker was the proud
owner of 22.2 per cent of Aim-listed
Synairgen. And look what’s just
happened to that — up 421 per cent
in a day to 190p on a corona trial
that’s thankfully left investors far
more breathless than the patients.
Yes, even now, the respiratory
drug discovery group is valued at
only £284 million, so it hardly makes
up for all of Mr Woodford’s duds.
Still, it shows what can happen with
biotechs, even if once again the
Woodford investors have lost out.
Cash-strapped Woodford had
already top-sliced to 19 per cent
before his funds’ administrator Link
Fund Solutions sold off more in
March: the preamble to flogging the
remaining 14 per cent to Acacia
Research in June. So is that US
investor happily quids in? Not
entirely. Only last week it cut its
Synairgen holding to 6.87 per cent.
So, a trio of investors missing out
on its big day. Even so, who yet
knows if the Synairgen euphoria is
misplaced. The trial from the group
spun out of Southampton University
in 2003 numbered only 101 patients:
small enough to throw up statistical
quirks. It’s also yet to be peer-
reviewed. But it’s no surprise that
chief executive Richard Marsden is
so “delighted”.
The drug, SNG001, is an inhaled
formulation of interferon beta: a
protein used by the immune system
to trigger a response that scientists
believe is suppressed by coronavirus.
Early signs are that it may restore
the lungs’ fighting clout. Synairgen
found that the “odds of developing
severe disease”, requiring ventilation
and possible death, fell by 79 per
cent vs patients on a placebo. They
were also twice as likely to recover
swiftly, while breathlessness was
“markedly reduced”. No one taking
the drug died; three did with the
placebo.
In short, encouraging stuff when a
successful treatment could be the
quickest virus game-changer,
whatever the progress with a
vaccine. And Mr Marsden thought
the share price reaction
“appropriate”, given the drug is
aimed at a “massive problem” —
even at a company that’s lost
£8.9 million over the past two years
and is forecast to lose £13.2 million
more this year. House broker
Finncap has a share price target of
360p.
But there is a long way to go. The
data “is less than a few days old”,
though so price-sensitive that a
small company had to announce it.
Mr Marsden has only just started
talking to European and US drugs
regulators, which are bound to want
safety checks and bigger trials.
Synairgen is struggling to find 120
patients to trial the drug at home.
It’s yet to be tested on patients on
ventilators. And since 2016, when
Astrazeneca backed out of a mooted
$232 million deal and scrapped an
asthma trial with the same drug, the
shares had dropped to 6p.
Getting the drug to market would
also require a lot more than the
£14 million raised in March at 35p.
Still, shareholders who stumped up
39
Business
then will be as “delighted” as Mr
Marsden. Other words spring to
mind for Woodford investors.
Winning at a cost
G
et-rich-quick schemes are not
something you associate with
this crisis. So credit to Peel
Hunt analysts for spotting one:
corona equity-raisings. They’ve
counted 92 since mid-March, with
companies raising £13.8 billion.
They’ve seen an average 16 per cent
jump on the “pre-raise price”. Sixty
have seen some sort of bounce.
The problem? That many of these
cash-calls trampled all over
shareholder pre-emption rights, so
investors who participated — not
least the directors — have lucked
out at others’ expense. Yes,
institutions demand that bosses
cough up, ensuring they have skin
in the game. But the outcome in
some companies looks unseemly.
And nowhere more so than
fashion outfit Asos. True, April’s
£247 million placing at £15.60 was at
a half-penny premium to the closing
share price. And it was only a
fortnight into lockdown, when risks
were particularly tricky to quantify.
But the shares since then? Up to
£34.08. Chairman Adam Crozier
bought 12,820 at the placing, so is
now sitting on a £237,000 profit.
Chief executive Nick Beighton is
more than £118,000 up on his
purchase of 6,410 shares. How do
they justify that to retail investors
diluted by 18.8 per cent?
They’re not alone. Plenty of
directors have coined it: those at
Safestyle, up two thirds, and of
course Synairgen’s. And Mr Crozier
did ensure that the bigger company
he chairs, Whitbread, raised its
extra £1 billion via an all-inclusive
rights issue. But his Asos winnings
do look a bit awkward.
Bank to work
W
hat a triumph for back-to-
work Boris. He can’t even
cajole Royal Bank of
Scotland to bring its workers back to
the office — and the taxpayer owns
62 per cent of the business. True, it
says something for its independence
from government. And its 50,000
staffers do need to time to adjust to
the new reality. From tomorrow,
they’ll be toiling for a bank that’s
neither royal nor Scottish: the result
of a name change to Natwest
Group. But fancy telling them they
should keep working from home
“into 2021”. You wonder if some will
ever go back. Or is that the point?
Smart casual
H
ow activist investing works:
buy a 3.37 per cent stake,
declare there’s as much as
“500 per cent upside” and watch the
shares rise 6 per cent to 118p. It’s
Gatemore’s opening shot at
Superdry. It thinks it’ll “benefit from
the trend towards casualwear”, sped
up by the virus. That’s right. We’ll all
be sporting Japanese-logo’d hoodies.
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Business

Insurers’ Covid payout queries ‘absurd’

Ben Martin Senior City Correspondent
Insurance companies have been
criticised for comparing the govern-
ment’s lockdown advice during the
Covid-19 outbreak to guidance on
affected by the outcome of the case,
which will test the wording of policies
and is being brought against eight
insurers that have agreed to take part.
In their skeleton arguments, some of
the insurers have drawn comparisons
vegetables and that the comparison
was an “attempt to reduce the argu-
ment to the absurd”. Ms Mulcahy added
that the coronavirus guidance “was of a
completely different order” to drinking
and smoking guidelines.
ing them to do in March of this year and
exhortations like to eat more fruit and
vegetables and drink less alcohol.”
He argued that in a free society, as op-
posed to police states, people “realise
that freedom comes with social respon-
part in the case include Hiscox, Ecclesi-
astical Insurance Office and Zurich.
The hearing is expected to last eight
days and is being held by video-
conference because of social distanc-
ing.

smoking, drinking alcohol and eating
vegetables.
Lawyers for the Financial Conduct
Authority questioned the claims made
by insurers during the first day of a
High Court test case brought by the
City regulator.
The FCA is pursuing the case to
resolve disputes between small firms
and insurers after business interruption
policies failed to pay out for the losses
companies have suffered during the
Covid-19 lockdown.
About 370,000 businesses could be
between the government’s guidance in
March to stay at home and NHS advice
to eat five portions of fruit and vegeta-
bles a day and not to drink more than 14
units of alcohol a week or smoke.
The FCA argues that the stay-at-
home instruction was not voluntary.
Leigh-Ann Mulcahy, QC, a barrister
for the regulator, said that the advice
and guidance “was as much of a restric-
tion as any legislative measures” and “it
was taken and obeyed as mandatory”.
She said that the Covid-19 advice was
“a world away” from guidance on eating
She said: “We all know it, we all lived
it, the UK physically shut down and
that was the reality. And, save for the
essential premises or parts of premises
that remained open, like food shops, for
the insurers to suggest, as they do in
some cases, that there was no preven-
tion of access or closure or similar,
defies any reasonable view of what the
lockdown involved.”
Colin Edelman, QC, also for the FCA,
said: “In times of emergency and crisis,
the public understands the difference
between what the government was tell-
370,000
Number of businesses affected by case
FCA
sibility”. Insurance policies “should be
construed and applied in that context”
and not as if they were being “pored
over” by “constitutional and human
rights lawyers”.
The insurance companies taking
The insurance industry has said that
Covid-19 will not be covered by most
business interruption policies. The test
case will examine a sample of 17 policy
wordings and the FCA believes it is the
most efficient way to dispel uncertainty
over business interruption claims.
It is being heard before Lord Justice
Flaux and Mr Justice Butcher. The FCA
said in its skeleton argument, which ran
to more than 320 pages, that it was
seeking “to remove the general ‘road-
blocks’ ” that have been erected by
insurers so that claims can proceed.

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Job cut fears

holding back
household
spending
Gurpreet Narwan
Economics Correspondent
People are anxious about spending
their money because of fears about job
security, even though the economy is
reopening, according to a survey.
IHS Markit’s household finance
index rose to 41.5 in July, up from 40.7
last month but below the 50 mark that
separates pessimism from optimism.
The improvement in financial well-
being was driven by another fall in
household spending, as people cut back
on credit-fuelled consumption and
built their savings instead. The spend-
ing index reached 41.6 for July, up
slightly from the 37.8 recorded last
month but much lower than anything
registered in the 11 years before the pan-
demic struck.
“Households appeared focused on
reining in debt and supporting their
savings where possible,” the report said.
The index measuring demand for
unsecured credit fell to 49.3 in July,
down from 50.1 in June and the first
negative reading since the survey
began in February 2009.
Large parts of the economy are
returning to normal as lockdown res- Shoppers in Oxford Street in central London pass by a shop window display: people remain anxious about spending their money because of fears about job security
trictions are eased, but policymakers
fear that economic demand will remain retention scheme ends in October. that the rate will hit 11.9 per cent. Al- job security during July as those that in- index slipped from 45.9 to 42.5 in July.
weak as long as consumers are worried According to the Bank of England, the most a third of respondents — 31 per dicated an improvement. Tim Moore, a director at IHS Markit,
about jobs and incomes. About a quar- unemployment rate could rise from cent — told IHS Markit that they felt Incomes and workplace activity rose said the “extremely cautious spending
ter of the workforce are on furlough 3.9 per cent to nearly 10 per cent this less secure in their jobs than they had as people returned to work, but opti- patterns” shown by the survey reflected
and economists fear that about 15 per year. The Office for Budget Responsi- done previously. Nearly four times as mism about the financial outlook over “widespread anxiety about jobs and the
cent will lose their jobs when the job bility is more pessimistic, forecasting many respondents reported a decline in the year ahead deteriorated. The sub- outlook for earnings”.

Hermes will deliver 10,500 new jobs Economy has ‘sharp’ rebound
James Hurley
Hermes has said that it will create
10,500 new jobs in Britain to capitalise
on the shift to online shopping.
The delivery company said that it
would invest £100 million after a surge
in demand during lockdown. The jobs
will include 1,500 full-time roles in its
Leeds head office, warehouse and
delivery network and 9,000 freelance
couriers.
The recruitment drive is in stark con-
trast to the job cuts that companies in
industries such as high street retail and
hospitality have made in response to
the economic fallout from Covid-19.
Martijn de Lange, 42, Hermes’ chief
executive, said: “The pandemic has
expedited the already phenomenal
growth of online shopping and we see
no sign of this changing. As a result, it is
important that we have the right infra-
structure and people in place to support
this.
“We are pleased to be able to support
the UK economy with so many jobs at
this time. In that first fortnight of lock-
down, we had thousands of applica-
tions from pub staff, chefs, children’s
entertainers, dog walkers, pub singers,
beauticians, hairdressers, pilots and
many others. We look forward to wel-
coming our new recruits over the com-
ing weeks.”
The business expects parcel volumes
to almost double in the run up to
Christmas to 3.5 million parcels a day,
despite the strain that the pandemic has
placed on family finances. “Recruit-
ment for all roles is starting now in
advance of the busy peak season,”
Hermes said.
Hermes was founded in 1972 in
Germany, where it is the largest inde-
pendent provider of delivery services.
In 2000, it came to Britain, where it now
has a network of more than 15,000 self-
employed couriers.
The company recently responded to
criticism of the treatment of its free-
lance couriers with a scheme agreed
with the GMB union, with protections
including guaranteed holiday pay.
Continued from page 37
V is a description of the past, not a pre-
diction of the future,” he said. “[But]
there plainly has been a recovery, and a
pretty sharp one. So far it has been a V.
That, of course , doesn’t tell us about
where we might go next and we have
still seen a daily diet of news about
redundancies across industries.”
Silvana Tenreyro, an external
member of the MPC, told MPs that she
was less optimistic. The recovery
would look more like an “interrupted
V-shape” and could be compromised by
rising unemployment, cautious con-
sumer behaviour and continued social
distancing, she said.
Professor Tenreyro, 46, said that
much of the initial recovery had been
the natural consequence of policy
easing, but she warned that voluntary
social distancing could continue to
undermine growth. Unlike Mr Hal-
dane, she judged demand to have fallen
behind supply in June.
“Spending in many sectors is going to
suffer because of the perceived health
risks,” she said. “This will drag on
accommodation, food and travel, which
will feed into high unemployment and
lower incomes. So there will be spill-
overs into other sectors, causing
second-round factors that will add up.”
She added that people who fell into
long-term unemployment could suffer
“psychological scarring”.
the times | Tuesday July 21 2020 1GM
Simon French
Recovery will work only if those who
‘‘
are hardest to help are not left behind
Recessions create
scars. The Covid-19
recession will be no
different. The birth
of new companies
and new jobs — replacing those
destroyed by the pandemic — will lag
the eradication of the virus.
Confidence in public health,
household finances and company
balance sheets will take time to
recover. It is the asymmetry in what
John Maynard Keynes called “animal
spirits” that has meant, on average, it
has taken four years for UK output to
return to pre-recession levels.
Proponents of a V-shaped recovery
do not have history on their side.
The most visible impact of a
recession is the resources it leaves
idle, whether these are unemployed
people, unused machinery or
unmined databases. The task of
policymakers is to reduce the length
of time that these resources are left
unused and subject to scarring. The
government deserves credit for its
recent rapid response to protect jobs
and companies. However, much of
this support has generated an
artificial reality. Furloughed
employees can quickly become the
unfurloughed unemployed.
Leading indicators of job
availability have collapsed in recent
months. There were 650,000 fewer
Britons on employer payrolls in June,
compared with March. With furlough
support beginning to taper next week
— and set to be removed at the end
of October — there are concerns that
the UK may once again see an
unemployment rate above 10 per cent.
Investors are also seeing structural
changes accelerating. Those in the
commercial property sector already
knew that online retail and flexible
working were important trends.
Covid-19 has meant changes that
were expected to take ke years
took weeks. Between en
2009 and last year the
share of UK retail
sales generated
online grew from
10 per cent to
20 per cent. This
year it is more
than 30 per cent.
Business models
and investments
John Maynard
Keynes knew publicc
confidence was crucial
cial
based on steady changes in behaviour
have been thrown into chaos.
No one knows how much of this
change in behaviour will persist if, as
the prime minister hopes, the
economy returns to normal this side
of Christmas. Should the way we all
work and use our leisure time alter
permanently, then furlough will have
kept workers in sectors where viable
jobs will simply not return.
Matching labour supply to labour
demand is a key enabler of a healthy
jobs market. While many a recent
opinion piece has focused on the UK’s
productivity and job-quality issues, it
would be incomplete not to mention
the strides the economy has made in
reducing unemployment. Going into
the Covid-19 crisis, UK joblessness
was at its lowest level in more than 40
years. Much of this came from a
greater understanding of what
worked — and what did not — after
the shift in labour demand that took
place during the 1980s. Policymakers
entered that decade with confidence
that transitions could occur by the
unemployed getting on a bike and
looking for work. Subsequent analysis
of working lives, and policy successes
by Labour and Conservative
governments, showed the merit in
more active support.
This means that matching the
supply of potential workers to new
patterns in labour demand after
Covid-19 need not require radical
policy innovation. It is the far less
glamorous job of supporting what we
know works.
First, to find work, potential
employees must be searching for it.
One of the innovations during the
1990s was the requirement to be
actively seeking work to access
unemployment support. This was why
one of the least-reported parts of
Rishi Sunak’s summer update was
perhaps the m most important.
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Covid-19.
Second,
inc
incentives matter.
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he D
Department for
Work aand Pensions in
Work
the early 2000s, I was struck by the
interaction of state benefits and in-
work income that meant that many
leaving unemployment for work faced
benefit withdrawals of upwards of 90p
for every earned £1. The rights and
wrongs of how universal credit has
been introduced in recent years are
not for this column, but the principle
of making work pay is crucial to a
rapid labour market recovery.
Advocates of a universal basic income
or an extension of furloughing
support need to consider whether a
temporary reduction in the 63 per
cent taper rate of universal credit may
be a more effective policy.
Third, the government needs to
build on its vision for the job-creating
sectors. Investors putting capital to
work or students considering
vocational qualifications require
signals of where they will find the
best returns. This is not about picking
winners; rather it is a drumbeat of
which sectors Britain intends to
insource supply for either economic
or strategic reasons. Amid Brexit and
Covid-19, the government has done
insufficient work in translating its
industrial strategy into practical
advice. An efficient job-matching
function requires people to have a
keen sense of what the future holds.
Finally, labour market recoveries
come in two stages. Initially, it is
individuals with transferable skills
that find new jobs. These people
require little support. But there will be
a long tail of workers whose skills do
not neatly match new demand. When
combined with complex care,
occupational health and
accommodation needs, then the
matching function becomes more
challenging. This is where public
investment generates stellar returns
in recognising that some of those who
will lose their jobs because of Covid-
19 will need access to services to
support their return to work.
’’
Ministers keen on hard hats and hi-
vis vests may find such investment
difficult to support — particularly
with eager press officers and advisers
keen on tangible investments. But the
levelling-up agenda
success if the
hardest to help are
left behind.
Simon French is chief economist at
Panmure Gordon
Patrick Hosking is away
Philip Aldrick
Economy may not have
a leg to stand on when
next recession strikes
O
ne of the bleaker
footnotes to the Office
for Budget
Responsibility’s fiscal
sustainability report last
week was that its optimistic scenario
for the coronavirus recovery was
“probably about as good as one
could hope for, but the downside is
by no means a worst case”, as Robert
Chote, its chairman, put it. The
“upside” scenario was a V-shaped
recovery by the middle of next year,
but the “downside” was a 14.3 per
cent fall in GDP followed by a weak
4.6 per cent rebound in 2021, four
million people losing their jobs,
unemployment remaining elevated
in 2024 and it taking four years to
recover the 25 per cent of GDP lost
in April and May.
If a once-in-300-years catastrophe
was not bad enough, David Owen at
GDP scenarios v pre-crisis forecast
March forecast
Sources: ONS, OBR
Central scenario
Upper and lower scenarios
2019 20 21 22
Jefferies, the investment bank,
published another set of possibilities
last week that are the more
worrying for not being outlandish at
all. What, he asks, if there is a
second leg down? Not caused by a
second spike, but by the economy
simply going into a normal
recession, as opposed to one
deliberately induced to prevent a
health disaster.
The OBR dared not speak of a
second recession. Even in the
downside case there is not one
single quarter of negative growth
after June, but a slow and steady
recovery. Yet look closer at the
detail, as Mr Owen did, and the
clues are there. In the worst case,
house prices fall by 15 per cent by
June next year, commercial
property is even “more adversely
affected”, unemployment is
“persistently high” and private
consumption has not recovered even
to its pre-crisis level in real terms in
2024.
Every one of those details
normally would be a flashing
recession sign, but not in these
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projections. And there is more. The
corporate sector is expected to
continue borrowing “contrary to all
recessions in the past”, Mr Owen
said. Normally in a downturn,
businesses go bust, loans default,
debt is written off and banks pull
credit as they start losing money.
Losses on commercial and
residential property loans are often
the catalysts.
This time, though, businesses are
expected to go on borrowing. It is
just about plausible. Banks have
been supportive so far and dividend
and bonus restrictions will help
them to build more firepower.
Companies have been raising equity
and losses on the new coronavirus
loans will be borne largely by the
taxpayer. But there will be big
defaults on pre-existing loans, too,
and when the pain comes, the banks
will have to back away.
It’s not hard to map out the second
leg down. Hospitality, retail, travel
110 and tourism — sectors that account
100 for about 15 per cent of the economy
— cannot bounce back until there is
90 a vaccine. Costs are rising in every
industry, but particularly those most
80 affected by social distancing. At
least one retailer’s Bond Street store
70
23 2024 is little more than a glamorous
online packing site now. Costs up,
sales down spells one thing — job
cuts. And they are already coming
thick and fast. Marks & Spencer’s
950 redundancies are the latest, but
they won’t be the last.
Mr Owen expects a false dawn in
the third quarter, with a sharp V-
shaped bounce of about 13 per cent
GDP growth. But as furlough ends,
jobs are cut, insolvencies rise, credit
is pulled, spending falls and property
prices suffer, the normal recession
will start. If there is to be 1980s-style
mass unemployment, which is the
OBR’s central scenario, why not a
1980s-style recession, a 5 per cent
cumulative fall in output? The
answer is that there probably will be
unless the government is able to
kickstart growth by successfully
changing behaviour with schemes
such as its half-price food vouchers
or with more tax cuts and spending.
A second spike in infections as the
weather turns or a disorderly Brexit
adding more complications for
business, though, and all bets are off.
Philip Aldrick is Economics Editor of
The Times
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Business

Amigo admits survival is in

doubt as complaints pile up
Ben Martin Senior City Correspondent
Britain’s biggest guarantor lender says
that there is “material uncertainty”
over its ability to continue as a going
concern after it was hit by a rise in cus-
tomer complaints, a regulatory investi-
gation and the Covid-19 pandemic.
Amigo Holdings sounded the warn-
ing yesterday in its annual results,
which showed that the sub-prime len-
der had fallen to a £37.9 million pre-tax
loss in the 12 months to the end of
March from a £111 million profit a year
earlier.
Its shares promptly tumbled by
28 per cent, or 2¾p, to 7p, valuing the
business at about £35 million. Amigo
had a market capitalisation of £1.3 bil-
lion when it was listed in July 2018 at
275p-a-share.
The Bournemouth-based business
was set up in 2005 by James Benamor,
43, and focuses on borrowers who have
difficulty securing loans. It lends up to
£10,000 at annual interest rates of
49.9 per cent. The loans are guaranteed
by another individual, usually a relative
or friend of the borrower, who is liable
if repayments are missed.
Amigo has been locked in a bitter
feud with Mr Benamor this year that
has resulted in both its chairman and
and chief executive leaving the busi-
ness. Jonathan Roe, 64, was appointed
as chairman yesterday.
The dispute has weighed on Amigo’s
share price, as has mounting scrutiny of
the guarantor loans industry by the
Financial Conduct Authority. Last
month the watchdog started an investi-
gation into the way in which the lender
assesses the creditworthiness of its
customers.
Amigo also has been affected by a
surge in complaints from borrowers
about its high-interest loans, an issue
that has been exacerbated by a tougher
stance taken by the Financial Ombuds-
man Service, the body that seeks to
resolve disputes between companies
and their customers.
The cost of dealing with these com-
plaints amounted to £126.8 million
during its past financial year, pushing
Amigo to a loss. The lender warned that
it “would need to source additional
financing to maintain adequate liqui-
dity and continue to operate” if high
levels of complaints persisted for more
than 12 months.
The economic fallout from the
coronavirus outbreak, which is expec-
ted to result in an increase in bad loans,
has weighed further. Amigo said that
impairments as a percentage of reve-
nues had increased to 38.5 per cent
from 23.7 per cent a year earlier.
“The economic impact of Covid-19, a
Edinburgh
potential increase in the level of
complaints received and the possible
outcome of the FCA investigation have
ready to
led to a material uncertainty surround-
ing going concern,” it said.
raise the bar
The regulator’s inquiry could result

in “the imposition of a significant fine
and/or the requirement to perform a
mandatory back-book remediation
exercise”, Amigo said.
It cautioned that while remediation
was not considered the most likely
outcome by its directors, such an exer-
cise “could reasonably be expected to
exhaust the group’s available liquid
resources”.
A
department store in the
heart of Scotland’s capital
could be converted into a
hotel and rooftop bar with
views of Edinburgh Castle (Greig
Cameron writes).
Legal & General wants to invest
more than £50 million in an
overhaul of Debenhams on Princes

Cloud has silver lining for

IBM despite slide in sales
James Hurley
The coronavirus pandemic has pro-
vided an extra boost for IBM’s shift
away from its traditional computer
products and towards the cloud.
Although its second-quarter sales fell
by 5.4 per cent to $18.1 billion, the figure
published in its latest results last night
was above Wall Street’s predictions of a
drop to $17.7 billion.
In particular, there were signs that
that Covid-19 lockdowns had encour-
aged its clients to switch to online host-
ing. Revenue from its high-margin
cloud, or online-hosting, business rose
by 30 per cent to $6.3 billion in the three
months to the end of June.
James Kavanaugh, IBM’s chief
financial officer, said: “As we got into
the latter half of the second quarter, we
saw a marked inflection in clients’
acceleration to digital transformation
. . . You saw that play out in our cloud
performance, which was up very
nicely.”
However, areas such as applications
development and consulting were hit
hard by the coronavirus turmoil as
clients cut or delayed spending on dis-
cretionary projects.
IBM, incorporated in 1911, makes
computer hardware and software. It is
headquartered in New York, has
operations in 170 countries and is worth
about $112 billion. It has been trying to
refocus its business on software,
artificial intelligence and cloud com-
puting amid declining demand for its
personal computers and servers. The
company’s cloud division was run pre-
viously by Arvind Krishna, who took
over as chief executive in April.
Shares in the company rose by as
much as 6 per cent to $135 in after-
hours trading last night.
the times | Tuesday July 21 2020 2GM
Street, the city’s main shopping
area, in further evidence of how
high streets are changing amid a
slump in the retail industry.
Alongside the upmarket hotel in
Edinburgh would be retail space, a
spa in the basement and new
restaurants located in the B-listed
buildings. The proposals would help
to create hundreds of new jobs.
Legal & General has its roots in
insurance but provides a range of
financial services products. Its
investment management business is
one of the largest in Europe and has
backed similar projects in Cardiff,
Salford, Newcastle and Sunderland.
The original units, at 109 to 112
Princes Street, date from the 19th
Virus puts Sthree in ‘crisis management’
Louisa Clarence-Smith
A recruiter that has been closely
involved in finding people for roles in
developing coronavirus vaccines and in
assuring the quality of hospital ventila-
tors said yesterday that a sharp decline
in other work had caused a sharp drop
in profit.
Sthree, a London-listed company
that operates in 16 countries, said that
its first-half, pre-tax profit for the six
months to the end of May had fallen to
£12.6 million, from £24 million a year
earlier. It blamed the Covid-19 pan-
demic, as well as investment in growth
areas such as Germany and the United
States, where it has gained market
share.
Net fee income fell by 7 per cent to
£151.2 million as overall demand for
new employees fell as a result of the
coronavirus turmoil. In Britain net fees
fell by 14 per cent in the first half and by
19 per cent in the second quarter alone.
Banking and finance was among the
Legal & General believes that the
Princes Street site is underused
century and have been used as a
hotel, as well as housing the
Scottish Liberal Club and the
Scottish Conservative Club. The site
was taken over by Debenhams in
the 1970s. The store operator went
areas affected most seriously, falling by
47 per cent. The life sciences sector was
more resilient, with its net fees flat.
Sthree said that it had supplied nearly
300 contractors to the NHS.
The British division was outper-
formed by countries where there was
strong growth in life sciences recruit-
ment, including Switzerland, where net
300
Number of contractors supplied to the
NHS by Sthree
fees rose by 46 per cent, and Germany,
where fees fell by 2 per cent. In the
American division, fees increased by
1 per cent as that business recorded
growth in life sciences and technology
recruitment.
The recruitment industry has been
badly damaged by the pandemic. Page
Group, Hays and Robert Walters all
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into administration in April this
year and has since announced
dozens of closures in Britain. In
recent weeks, it has reopened all 15
of its remaining stores in Scotland,
including its main Edinburgh
outlet, as the country emerged from
lockdown.
Legal & General, which owns the
buildings, believes that the existing
retail premises are “under-utilised”.
The cash will be invested through
the Legal & General UK Property
Fund, with pre-planning
consultation documents to be
lodged before the end of this month.
The development timescales will
depend on when planning
permission can be agreed.
reported sharp falls in net fees this
month.
Sthree said yesterday that it was in
“crisis management phase” and that
demand would continue to be uncer-
tain as businesses dealt with the impact
of government responses and adapted
to the new environment. It halted all
hiring activities in April and cut its
dividend and management pay to help
to preserve cash.
Mark Dorman, 50, chief executive,
said that the company had “the right
strategy, positioned between the accel-
erating secular trends of STEM
[science, technology, engineering and
maths] and flexible working. As we con-
tinue to make targeted investments in
the group, we are positioning ourselves
to best capitalise on this growing
opportunity in the future.”
Sthree did not comment on its
present trading and its financial gui-
dance remains withdrawn.
Shares in Sthree fell by 10½p, or
3.9 per cent, to 261p last night.
Rental shortfall
leaves investors
£1.5bn in arrears
Louisa Clarence-Smith
Property investors have suffered a
£1.5 billion shortfall in rental income
that was due for the second quarter of
the year.
Almost a fifth of rent that was due at
the March quarter payday had not been
collected 90 days later, according to
Remit Consulting.
The research, which is based on the
analysis of 125,000 leases, highlights
the pressure on property investors,
including pensions and savings funds,
as analysts predict that the shortfall for
the present quarter will be even wider.
William Hill, JD Sports, Primark, Boots
and Stonegate Pubs are among the
companies that did not pay rent on the
June quarter rent day.
“The data for the beginning of the
current quarter shows that collection
rates are on an almost identical trajec-
tory,” Steph Yates, senior consultant at
Remit Consulting, said. “With average
collection on the June due date over
11 per cent lower than three months
earlier, investments in the UK property
could see an even bigger shortfall this
quarter.”
The retail sector, which was forced to
shut outlets during the lockdown,
accounted for £780 million of the
£1.5 billion of unpaid rent. Only 7 per
cent of residential rent has not been
collected, compared with 12 per cent of
office rent, 32 per cent of retail rent and
16 per cent of industrial property rent.
The British Property Federation, a
lobby group, said that the mass non-
payment of rent had been fuelled by the
government’s six-month moratorium
on evictions and the ban on landlords
using statutory demands to secure rent.
Melanie Leech, its chief executive,
said: “The pensions and savings funds
invested in commercial property clear-
ly cannot continue to sustain rental
losses on this scale. Those who can pay
should pay.” The lobby group has called
Government’s first step to
regulate minibond selling
James Hurley Enterprise Editor
The promotion of certain crypto-
currency assets and minibonds could
be regulated for the first time.
John Glen, the City minister,
launched two consultations yesterday
designed to increase oversight of
financial promotions by the Financial
Conduct Authority. The government
said that the existing approach to
promotions from companies not
“authorised” by the FCA was failing to
do enough to protect investors.
If an unauthorised firm wants to
promote a particular financial product,
such as a “minibond” promising
generous returns, they need to get the
promotion approved by a firm that is
overseen by the City regulator. How-
ever, this approach has failed to prevent
scandals such as the collapse of London
Capital & Finance, which sold £236 mil-
lion of unregulated minibonds to about
12,000 investors.
The proposals would mean that
authorised firms would have to obtain
specific permission from the FCA for
financial promotions. The government
also proposed bringing certain types of
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on the government to cover some of the
property costs for the hardest-hit
tenants. forced to stop trading and un-
able to meet their rental debts.
Phil Clark, global head of real assets
equity at Kames Capital, the invest-
ment group, said: “The majority of
responsible tenants and investors are
working together to find reasonable
solutions, but there is no avoiding the
fact that some businesses simply won’t
be able to pay and some pension funds
will receive less income as a result.”
“crypto” asset, typically digital cur-
rencies, under the influence of the
authority, which would mean that they
would have to meet minimum stan-
dards of fairness, clarity and accuracy.
Cryptocurrencies have no physical
form, existing only as a string of
computer code, and are seen by some as
the future of financial exchange. They
have been the subject of speculation,
wildly fluctuating prices and at times
fraudulent promotion.
Andrew Bailey, the FCA’s former
chief executive, has suggested previ-
ously that the regulator needs more
powers to tackle investment mis-
selling, but he also has pointed out that
the organisation’s resources are finite.
Before his appointment as governor of
the Bank of England, Mr Bailey was
supportive of the FCA having broader
powers to oversee products outside its
remit, an issue sometimes referred to as
the “regulatory perimeter”. However,
he also warned that the regulator could
not “man-mark” firms since it already
oversaw about 60,000 organisations.
The government said that the two
consultations would be closed on
October 25.
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Business
Wirecard trail leads to chain of
Shell companies in Britain are linked with claims
of ‘transaction laundering’, reports James Hurley
British shell companies were at the
heart of an alleged $100 million bank
fraud orchestrated by a porn baron with
links to Wirecard, the disgraced Ger-
man payments group.
Hamid “Ray” Akhavan, an American
citizen, is accused by prosecutors in the
United States of devising a “transaction
laundering” network to fool banks into
accepting credit card payments for
marijuana.
An analysis of corporate filings and
other documents by The Times has
uncovered the extent of Mr Akhavan’s
connections to Wirecard via hundreds
of shell companies in London, Essex and
Co Durham. The connections include
pornographic websites owned by com-
panies in Consett, Co Durham, set up by
an entity in which Wirecard executives
were shareholders.
Mr Akhavan, 42, also has links to hun-
dreds more adult sites registered to shell
companies based in Essex, a network
that allegedly amounted to one of Wire-
card’s biggest customers.
Mr Akhavan and his alleged co-con-
spirator Ruben Weigand, 38, a German
citizen, strenuously deny wrongdoing.
The two men have been charged by
the US Department of Justice with
conspiring with unnamed payment
processors and others to avoid restric-
tions in the financial system so that
Eaze, an American company dubbed
2G M Tuesday July 21 2020 | the times
Smoke and mirrors for cannabis trade Virtual London Offices, which provides
a virtual corporate address and services
The allegations against merchants that existed graphy” run via Euro-
such as mail forwarding.
The company said that Mr Adam had
Hamid Akhavan and solely to “misrepresent” pean banks, filings show. never registered with them or paid for
the “Uber of pot”, could accept card Ruben Weigand centre the transactions, fooling The operation allegedly any services and that the police had
transactions for cannabis. Its sale and on how card banks into thinking that was agreed by Eaze, attended to look into his activities. He is
use are legal in some form in many transactions were payments for marijuana pharmacies and Mr alleged to have done the same with
states, but it is illegal at a federal level processed at Eaze, a were for such things as Akhavan in California, other virtual office providers, an activity
and so most banks are unwilling to California-based start-up drone components. with his “purple Lambor- the industry calls “squatting”.
process associated payments. that delivers medical Cannabis use g p
ghini” parked A document seen by The Times
The alleged scam is said to have in- marijuana to homes and saless are outside the suggests Mr Adam marketed hundreds
volved using British and Cypriot shell (James Hurley writes). legal in meet
meeting. of UK shell companies in Germany for
companies, along with payment proc- Its investors include some T
The £147 each, advertising them as coming
essors that received unusually high fees, Silicon Valley venture form in He
Herban with a “mailbox, account and card” and
to disguise the true nature of transac- capitalists and Snoop most In
Indust- as “liability-free masked companies”.
tions through “fraudulent merchant Dogg, the rapper. states, ri
ries Many have an “AG” or “Inc” suffix, giv-
category codes”, codes used by the pay- Last year, Herban but it is cclaim ing the misleading impression that they
ments industry to identify the type of Industries, owner of illegal w
was are German or American entities.
business being engaged in. Chill and a rival to Eaze, at a se
settled Corporate filings show indirect links
The Wall Street Journal has reported alleged in a lawsuit that federal and the between Mr Adam and an entity called
that prosecutors are examining whether Eaze was involved in level and com
company Deutsche Payment, a company founded
Wirecard executives were involved in defrauding credit and most banksnks no long
no longer by Alexander Herbst, a former Wire-
money laundering in the case. The debit card companies rocess
will not process ttrades.
rades. card chief financial officer.
former favourite of the financial techno- into accepting payment associateded payments. A spokeswom
spokeswoman Mr Akhavan, a Californian resident,
logy sector, which entered insolvency for the products. In h
Mr Akhavan was ffor E
Eaze saidid th
thatt it was was arrested by the FBI in March. Cor-
after a huge accounting scandal claims like those of accused of co-ordinat- co-operating with porate filings gave his address as a 9,000
emerged, has not been charged and was American prosecutors, ing the alleged scam, authorities and had sq ft mansion that sits in 40 acres and is
not named in court filings. Herban alleged that using his “experience of moved to “supporting valued at almost $9 million. He has links
However, after Mr Weigand was Eaze worked with shell payment solutions in new payment systems to a network of porn sites that reported-
arrested, Markus Fuchs, a former firms owning fake gambling and porno- over a year ago”. ly were significant clients of Wirecard,
vice-president at Wirecard, offered to The Times can reveal.
put up $150,000 for his bail and Until last week, he was listed as a
described him as a close friend, court fil- chants”, allegedly set up to mislead when they were fronts for processing person of significant control of a UK
ings show. Mr Fuchs, 41, is a former di- banks, have a common director, Peter money for Eaze, prosecutors claimed. company called Optima Merchant Ser-
rector of an Irish Wirecard subsidiary Adam, an Austrian. These merchants Mr Adam is listed at Companies House vices. Its director is Mark Quirk, of Ani-
and was listed as its sales director for the maintained web pages suggesting that as having an extraordinary 1,283 direct- mo Associates, based at an address in
UK and Ireland. they were involved in selling legitimate or appointments, only two of which are Wickford, Essex, that is the registered
Several British shell companies des- goods, such as carbonated drinks, face still active. Many of the companies were address for 28 companies linked to 1,200
cribed by prosecutors as “phony mer- cream, dog products and diving gear, based at a London address owned by pornographic websites that the Finan-
the times | Tuesday July 21 2020 2G M
fake merchants and porn sites
Ruben Weigand and Hamid Akhavan, far right, who gave his address as this California mansion, are charged with conspiring to avoid restrictions in the financial system
cial Times said were among Wirecard’s
biggest customers. It reported that the
websites were paying about 15 per cent
commission, described by experts as a
red flag for anti-money laundering con-
cerns.
The Times has found evidence that Mr
Ant clears the decks for $200bn Crude prices
pile pressure
float on Hong Kong stock market on Halliburton
Simon Duke Technology Business Editor
China’s largest digital payments
company has lit the touch paper on one
of the most keenly anticipated stock
market floats of recent years.
Ant Group, the financial technology
offshoot of Alibaba, the giant Chinese
internet commerce group, said yester-
day that it would list its shares in Hong
Kong and Shanghai.
China’s dominant mobile payments
company did not disclose the size, time-
table or other details of the offering, but
the flotation could value the company
at more than $200 billion, in line with
Paypal, its American peer and rival.
The deal will give a boost to Hong
Kong and Shanghai’s Star market, a
one-year-old exchange that China
hopes will outgun New York’s techno-
logy-heavy Nasdaq. In the past, many
of China’s highest-profile internet
Magazine jobs go despite promise of bright Future
Simon Duke
The owner of the Tom’s Guide and Tech
Radar gadget websites is to cut about
200 jobs after its takeover of magazines
including Wallpaper*, Horse & Hound
and Woman’s Weekly.
Future said that it had begun a re-
dundancy process at TI Media, which it
acquired recently for £140 million. It is
expected to reduce the magazine pub-
lisher’s 1,500-strong workforce by more
than 10 per cent.
The consultation is part of Future’s
Akhavan is linked to hundreds of porno-
graphic websites via Trade News Corpo-
ration, an internet company. Trade
News Corporation is based in the same
building in Los Angeles as an entity
called Quantum Solutions Inc of Cali-
fornia, part of a group controlled via Mr
companies have opted to go public in
the United States, including Alibaba, its
rival JD.com and Netease, the online
gaming player. Escalating tensions
between Washington and Beijing have
prompted that trio to secure listings in
Hong Kong.
Ant is the world’s most valuable
technology “unicorn” — those busines
start-ups valued at more than $1 billion.
In 2018 it achieved a valuation of
$150 billion after raising capital from
Baillie Gifford, the British fund mana-
ger, Temasek, the Singaporean state
fund, and General Atlantic and
Warburg Pincus, the private equity
investors. Recent private market share
trades suggest that it is worth more
than $200 billion.
Ant Group, previously Ant Financial,
is best known for its Alipay mobile
wallet, which competes with Tencent’s
Wechat Pay. Both apps have become a
plan to reap £15 million in cost savings
from the acquisition. In a trading
update, the publisher said that the
integration of TI Media was “progress-
ing in line with expectations” and that it
had “secured” £9 million of the planned
synergies.
The job cuts are the latest blow to
consumer publishing, with advertising
and sales falling sharply during the
lockdown. The owners of the Mirror
and Guardian newspapers are making
hundreds of staff redundant.
Future, one of the stock exchange’s
Akhavan. A number of these porno-
graphic websites, some almost identical
in design and content, were registered to
entities called Alpha Bright Inc or Arave
Investments, part of the Consett net-
work.
The Times revealed last month how
popular alternative to cash within
China.
The service was first launched in
2003. Eight years later, Jack Ma, 55, the
billionaire founder of Alibaba, spun
Alipay out of Alibaba into an entity he
controlled, causing friction with Yahoo
$2bn
Ant Group’s final-quarter profit in 2019
Ant Group
and Softbank, which at the time were its
largest outside investors. In addition to
payments, Ant Group offers financial
services such as wealth management,
online lending and insurance. More
than 600 million Chinese consumers
invest in Ant’s money market fund.
Alipay has evolved into a superapp,
best performers over recent years, also
predicted that its full-year earnings
would be at the “top end” of City fore-
casts thanks to “strong digital audience
numbers”. Its shares rose 13.9 per cent,
or 168p, to £13.78 yesterday, valuing the
company at more than £1.3 billion.
Founded as a computer magazine
publisher in 1985, Future is among the
London’s largest listed media groups.
Under Zillah Byng-Thorne, 45, who has
run the business since 2014, it has
expanded rapidly through a series of
progressively larger acquisitions. Its
Wirecard staff were shareholders in the
agent behind the Consett network,
which was shut down after the British
government uncovered links to suspect-
ed money laundering and a prosecution
of a German citizen in the United States.
Simon Dowson, who ran the Consett
offering restaurant reviews and online
shopping via Alibaba’s marketplace.
Third-party vendors offer food
delivery, hotel bookings and other ser-
vices.
“Becoming a public company will
enhance transparency to our stake-
holders, including customers, business
partners, employees, shareholders and
regulators,” Eric Jing, 47, Ant’s chief
executive, said.
Ant Group is reported to have made
a profit of more than $2 billion in the
final quarter of last year. Its earnings
are likely to have risen since then, with
Chinese consumers buying more
online because of the Covid-19 pan-
demic.
The float is a significant vote of confi-
dence for Hong Kong, whose status as
Asia’s financial hub has been ques-
tioned after Beijing imposed a tough
new national security law on the city.
takeover of TI Media added 41 titles,
including Country Life and Golf
Monthly. Under Ms Bynge-Thorne, its
share price has risen more than tenfold.
In November she earned £14.7 million
by selling 1.05 million shares at £14
each.
Future, which said that it had
launched gardening, fitness and televi-
sion websites based on TI Media maga-
zines, forecast adjusted underlying
earnings of £86.3 million to £91 million
for the year to the end of September, up
from £54.5 million last year.
45
Business
network, said that Wirecard staff in
Germany had given him referrals for
merchant businesses that wanted a shell
company through which to transact. Mr
Dowson has denied knowledge of any
wrongdoing by the companies.
Identical customer service pages to
those seen on the porn sites appeared on
websites of two other UK companies,
including Optima Merchant Services,
formerly controlled by Mr Akhavan.
A former director of Animo, of the Es-
sex shell network, is Paul Maurice, 66, a
retired accountant who was a director of
several Consett companies.
Mr Akhavan lawyers said that he took
legal advice on corporate, banking and
ccredit card matters in order to do things
iin a “compliance-oriented” manner.
T
They said there was no credit card
iindustry “category code” for cannabis
aand that banks picked such category
ccodes.
According to the indictment, such
b
banks knew they were processing can-
n
nabis and charged extra for it, so the
m
merchant selling the goods “can’t en-
ggage in transaction laundering”, they
aadded. They argued there were no vic-
ttims in the case and expected their client
tto be exonerated.
Wirecard declined to comment.
Animo, Mr Quirk and Mr Maurice did
not respond to an invitation to
comment. Mr Adam could not be
reached. Deutsche Payment said that
“neither Peter Adam nor Ruben
Weigand nor Hamid Akhavan are per-
sonally known to us” and that it did not
process Eaze payments.
Emily Gosden Energy Editor
Losses at Halliburton deepened to
$1.7 billion in the second quarter after
the collapse in crude prices resulted in
work drying up at the oil industry
services group.
Revenues in the United States, its
biggest market, plunged to $1 billion
from $3.3 billion in the same period last
year as oil producers halted fracking
and cancelled new projects.
The quarterly loss compares with a
$77 million profit in the same three-
month period last year and a $1 billion
loss in the first three months of this
year. It reflects $2.1 billion of impair-
ments and other charges as it writes off
the value of pressure pumping
equipment and booked restructuring
charges.
However, shares in the New York-
listed company rose yesterday, closing
32 cents, or 2.4 per cent, up at $13.41,
after analysts hailed progress in cost-
cutting and cash generation that was
stronger than had been expected.
Halliburton, which was founded in
1919, employs more than 40,000 people
in 80 countries. It is the leading
provider of equipment to companies
fracking for oil and gas in the United
States, which have been hit particularly
hard by the coronavirus pandemic.
Lockdown restrictions worldwide
caused an unprecedented drop in
demand for oil and Brent crude, the
global benchmark price, collapsed from
more than $65 a barrel at the start of the
year to less than $20 a barrel in April.
While Brent has recovered to above
$40 a barrel, many oil producers are
struggling to make money at such
prices and have slashed billions of
dollars of spending.
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Business Markets
Tempus news in brief
Buy, sell or hold: today’s best share tips
Miner’s golden float
A goldminer focused on the

Questions on both sides of Atlantic

Americas is applying for a
standard listing on the London
Stock Exchange. Yamana Gold is
already listed in Toronto and
New York. It had revenues of
$1.6 billion and net earnings of
bae systems carriers, amphibious vehicles and $226 million last year and has a
Firing blanks By sector Sales £18.3bn howitzers. It is also a main market capitalisation of more
Order book Estimated profits contractor to the US navy for repairs than $5 billion. It mines gold and
£45bn 2020 £1.6bn Air 52%
Share price and upgrades and has cybersecurity silver in Canada, Brazil, Chile and
700p Maritime 25% contracts with the Pentagon. Argentina. Yamana said that it

A
year ago you might have Land
struggled to predict that Cyber
650
Dominic Cummings and
Rishi Sunak would be in Customers
charge of a defence 600 US govt 45%
review that could change Britain’s
military objectives for a generation UK and other
550 governments 37%
or more (Robert Lea writes).
One of them, the prime minister’s Commercial 18%
very special adviser, marches to his 500
own tune and his well-publicised Employees 87,800
tour of the country’s most important UK 38%
Source: Refinitiv
18% It is a leader in defence and aimed to become the “investment
5% commercial avionics and electronics, of choice” for gold investors in
although the latter market is not so London, backed by “a strong,
good at present. The company’s two sustainable dividend” and mines
biggest recent acquisitions — Collins in “mining-friendly jurisdictions”.
Aerospace’s satellite positioning
systems and Raytheon’s Airborne
Share sale reaps £1.3m
Tactical Radios, for a combined
$2.2 billion — were both in the US. The boss of Persimmon has made
BAE is exposed to some £1.3 million from the sale of
interesting defence budget decisions 50,000 shares in the FTSE 100
in America, especially in light of the housebuilder. Dave Jenkinson, 52,

military establishments is enough to
put the chiefs of staff in a tiz.
The unheralded chancellor of the
exchequer, meanwhile, will have
little or no money in a few months’
time, when the impact of the Covid-
19 economic turmoil begins to tot up.
In any event, no one believes that
anyone at the Ministry of Defence is
in charge of defence policy.
What all this means for BAE
Systems, the country’s pre-eminent
defence company, is anyone’s guess
— but engaging with people who
either care little about the industrial
and military establishment or have
an empty bank account is not a good
start. Then again, a British defence
review is not even its biggest issue.
Of last year’s £18.3 billion of annual
revenues, nearly half came from the
United States. Ever since BAE tossed
away the nation’s sizeable and
strategic stake in Airbus, western
Europe’s aerospace and defence titan,
petropavlosk
Gold production Revenues 2019
2019 517,000 oz $741.6m
2019
Oct Jan
ADVICE Hold
WHY Though not without
upcoming issues BAE is a
long-term, US-focused play
for a pittance in 2006 — and even
more so after Angela Merkel, the
German chancellor, blocked merger
talks between the two in 2012 —
BAE’s focus has been on America.
BAE Systems is the company
created from the 1999 merger of
British Aerospace, itself a
combination of the likes of Vickers-
Armstrongs, Hawker Siddeley and
Royal Ordnance with the defence
plant, one of only two such facilities
in Russia. A decade in the making,
the site started up in late 2018 and
allows the company to process
“refractory ore”, which is abundant
450 US 36%
S Arabia 7%
2020
400 Australia 5%
Apr Jul Others 16%
parts of Marconi, which included
Plessey and the Clyde shipbuilders.
Today it employs 87,000 people in 40
countries. About 40 per cent of
them, more than 33,000 people, are
at 50 sites around the UK.
A parochial view of BAE would see
it as the company behind new
aircraft carriers, building Type 26
frigates, Astute and Dreadnought
submarines and Typhoon aircraft.
However, the UK accounts for only
about 20 per cent of its £18 billion
annual revenues, with the Middle
East — mostly Saudi Arabia —
another 20 per cent and the US just
less than 50 per cent, at £8.6 billion.
For that country BAE builds or is
developing tanks, armoured troop
producer that became
Petropavlovsk’s biggest shareholder
this year, capitalised on low turnout
at its annual meeting to oust most of
the directors, including Mr
elections in November. There were who is leaving the business after
deep defence cuts at the beginning of just over a year as chief executive,
the last decade as the US evaluated has retained 733,290 shares,
its priorities after the global financial worth £19.2 million at last night’s
crisis and the wars in Iraq and closing price of £26.14. He will be
Afghanistan, but tensions with China replaced at the end of the year by
and Russia have grown since then. Dean Finch, the boss of National
BAE announces its half-year Express. Persimmon is working to
results next week. Many in the City recover its reputation after
continue to wonder when the accusations of low-quality work
postponed £460 million final and a bonus scheme scandal.
dividend for last year will be paid. At
a trading update three weeks ago, the Cruise jobs at risk
company said that it expected profits
to be down 15 per cent on flat sales, Hundreds of jobs are at risk after
but indicated that investors should administrators were appointed at
expect a much stronger second half. the Essex-based Cruise &
As Covid-19 began to grip the Maritime Voyages and three
West, shares in BAE went from 669p sister companies. All UK
to 438p and have done only a little employees are likely to be made
better since, closing last night at just redundant and group staff at
under 490p — up 3¾p, or 0.8 per offices in Australia, France, the
cent — valuing the company at United States and Germany face
£15.75 billion and putting it at less an “uncertain future”, insolvency
than 12 times this year’s earnings. practitioners from Duff & Phelps
said. The company has 150 staff
at its head office in Purfleet.
is trying to gain control. A Cruise operations have been
shareholder meeting in the next few suspended because of Covid-19.
weeks will decide whether most of
the original directors are reinstated. Oil giant enters Israel
It’s an unsavoury mess best avoided

I
t was all going so well for
Petropavlovsk (Emily Gosden
writes). After a solid 2019,
mercifully free of the boardroom
coups that dominated previous years,
the Russian goldminer enjoyed a
strong start to 2020.
Gold prices surged as the
pandemic triggered a flight to the
“safe haven” metal. Petropavlovsk
was producing significantly more of
the stuff, too, thanks to a good
performance from its prized new
“pox hub”, or pressure oxidation
in Russia but is much harder to Maslovskiy, 63, the chief executive. by a prospective new investor, but Chevron has bought Noble
process than conventional deposits. Petropavlovsk descended once more those who already hold the shares Energy, an oil and gas producer,
In March, Petropavlovsk was into the kind of corporate turmoil should retain them — and exercise for about $5 billion in stock, in
promoted to the FTSE 250, that investors thought they’d seen their rights to vote for the return of the first big energy deal since the
cementing its recovery from the dark the back of. The company accuses Mr Maslovskiy and his allies, who coronavirus sent crude oil prices
days of 2015, when Peter Hambro UGC of trying to gain control by hold a more credible claim to have to historic lows. Ownership of
and Pavel Maslovskiy, its co- stealth and on the cheap, with the their best interests at heart. Noble’s flagship Leviathan field in
founders, led a painful restructuring presumed aim of gaining access to Israel makes it the first oil major
to stave off collapse. As gold prices the pox hub. to enter the country. The
continued to rise, by late June the UGC denies acting in concert, but ADVICE Hold company said it was “mindful” of
shares were worth more than double its announcement yesterday that it is WHY Shareholders should tensions with nearby countries
their value at the start of the year. further increasing its shareholding by where it has business, including
But then another boardroom battle exercising convertible bond rights vote to bring back ousted CEO Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Qatar,
broke out. UGC, a rival Russian only adds credence to the idea that it but added that it was an
“apolitical” commercial actor.

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Markets Business
ALAMY

Activist believes Superdry

will be back in fashion
Tom Howard Market report

A
notorious activist investor
is betting that the british stocks & shares
coronavirus pandemic will
prove to be the kind of
boon that Superdry needs
to get itself back on track.
London’s vote of confidence
The hoodies and jackets retailer,

J
known for its Japanese-inspired logos, P Morgan has renowned for their
has lost more than 90 per cent of its done away with shareholder returns
value since 2018, which led to Julian its long-held — so, with boards
Dunkerton, the company’s founder, bearish view of cutting or cancelling
forcing his way back on to the board British stocks. dividends, London has
last spring. Mr Dunkerton had been World markets have been hit hard.
critical of the kind of clothes the recovered a big chunk However,
company had been making in his of the losses suffered JP Morgan thinks
absence, while also taking umbrage in February and that “the worst might
“Walmart and Asda firms Apollo Global with what he saw as an addiction to March, when the be behind us”. It likes
Asda is on have restarted Management, TDR discounting. coronavirus outbreak the look of domestic
conversations with a Capital and Lone Star He campaigned to get himself back battered share prices. JP Morgan thinks that stocks, such as
sale once small number of third- Funds were said to be on the board and said that he was the However, UK equities the UK now looks housebuilders and
party investors who are in the running then. man to revive the brand, but in the rebounded with far worth investing in utilities, but remains
again at interested in acquiring Walmart, valued less vigour than in wary of banks and
Walmart a stake in Asda and
partnering with
yesterday at more than
$370 billion, is the Wall Street report
other regions, making
them “by far” the
their global peers in
each of the past five
energy stocks. Its
currency analysts
Walmart,” the world’s largest bricks- worst performers, years. This year’s poor think that the pound

W
almart has American company and-mortar retailer. It A near-8 per cent surge by Amazon, according to the showing stems largely “could soften
restarted said in a statement has been trying to cut lifted by a huge price target hike by American investment from the fact that somewhat” as Brexit
talks to sell a yesterday. back its commitments Goldman Sachs, led the Nasdaq to a bank. Britain is seen as a rumbles on, helping
stake in Asda, Britain’s The talks come just in Britain for years to record close, up 263.90 points, or That’s nothing new. key dividend play, the FTSE 100, whose
third largest over a year after the invest in higher-growth 2.5 per cent, to 10,767.09. The Dow According to boasting big constituents make
supermarket chain competition regulator markets, such as India. Jones industrial average eked out an JP Morgan, UK companies, such as most of their money
(Simon Duke writes). dashed Walmart’s In 2018, it bought a 8.92-point gain to 26,680.87. stocks have lagged Shell and BP, abroad.
The giant American hopes of offloading controlling stake for
grocery group said that Asda through a merger $16 billion in Flipkart,
it had resumed with Sainsbury’s, its an Indian online year or so since his return the stock Superdry, analysts at Peel Hunt had headlines over the weekend. The
discussions with larger rival. In the marketplace. has continued on its downward path, Ultra Electronics on their radar. The more UK-focused FTSE 250 fared
potential investors spring Walmart said Walmart took over not helped by a nightmare Christmas, defence group, whose equipment is slightly better as it edged 37.92 points,
after the process was that it was in talks with Asda £6.7 billion in when its rivals slashed their prices. used in Royal Navy submarines and or 0.2 per cent, up to 17,385.85.
put on hold as it dealt possible buyers of a 1999. Asda has 639 Still, Gatemore Capital, the RAF Eurofighter Typhoons, will International Airlines Group, the
with the impact of the majority stake in the shops in the UK, 340 of American investment group, has faith report its first-half results next week, British Airways owner, was rattled
coronavirus pandemic. group. The buyout which are superstores. in the founder and has built up a when Peel Hunt “fully expects” bosses once again by the continued failure of
3.4 per cent stake worth about to confirm the latest dividend the United States to get the virus
£3.2 million in Superdry, which it payment. The analysts pointed out under control. It fell 8p, or 3.6 per
Results in brief believes is primed to benefit from the that the company’s end markets cent, to 211p. Other travel and leisure
Name Pre-tax figure Dividend growing popularity of comfier clothes. remained “buoyant”, with defence names were also buffeted. Mitchells
Profit (+) loss (-) “Superdry has shown strong budgets both in Britain and America & Butlers, the pubs chain, dripped
Sthree (recruitment HY) £12.6m (£24m) nil resilience despite a challenging still “looking healthy”. 9¾p, or 5.9 per cent, lower to 155½p;
6 Results in brief are given for all companies valued at more than £30 million. f = final p = payable trading environment in recent The upbeat comments pushed SSP, the airport restaurant operator,
months and we are confident the Ultra up 44p, or 2.1 per cent, to £21.32, fell 12½p, or 5.1 per cent, to 233¼p; and
The day’s biggest movers business is poised to benefit from the with some of its rivals following in Tui, the package holiday group, gave
trend towards casualwear, which has tow. Meggitt, which makes crash- up 13p, or 3.6 per cent, to 350p.
Company Change been accelerated by Covid-19,” Liad resistant fuel tanks for helicopters, Rightmove, the online property
Future Trading at “top end” of market expectations 13.9% Meidar, Gatemore’s managing marched 8¼p, or 2.7 per cent, up to portal, said that an “unexpected mini-
Hochschild Huge mine in Peru returning to full production 7.7% director, said. “We are fully supportive 311¾p; Qinetiq, spun out of the boom” caused in part by the stamp-
Weir Stock at a four-month high 3.9% of Julian’s vision for the company, Ministry of Defence in 2002, climbed duty holiday had pushed the average
Equiniti Shares on their best run this year 3.6% including returning the brand to its 8p, or 2.6 per cent, to 316¼p; and BAE UK asking price to a record high this
AO World Stock price has now fully recovered from last Tuesday’s battering 3.4% design-led routes and Superdry’s Systems, a defence all-rounder, flew month. Bellway shares climbed 67p,
Cineworld Investors nervous before cinemas reopen next week -4.5%
strong commitment to sustainability.” 3¾p, or 0.8 per cent, up to 490p. or 2.6 per cent, to £26.86; Berkeley
Trainline Travel and leisure stocks under pressure -4.8%
SSP Coronavirus likely to dent passenger numbers for a while yet -5.1% Superdry shares closed up 6¼p, or The FTSE 100 retreated 28.78 Group advanced 63p, or 1.4 per cent,
First Group Demand recovery for public transport remains uncertain -5.6% 5.6 per cent, at 118p. points, or 0.5 per cent, to 6,261.52, to £44.88; and Barratt Developments
Mitchells & Butlers Pubs’ sales remain well down despite recent reopening -5.9% While Gatemore was taking aim at after a rash of alarming coronavirus put on 5¾p, or 1.1 per cent, to 547½p.

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5.421
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European Assets Trust 98.20 99.20 +1.16 3.05 European ‡@ 2810.00 … +2.00 0.93 Diversified Income A Acc ‡@317.87 … +0.40 2.55 Stg Corp Bd A Inc ‡@ 60.15 … +0.01 1.36 MANEK INVESTMENT MGMT LTD Cautious A Inc ‡@ 106.47 … … 1.54
Extra Income ‡@ 27.38 … +0.02 2.95 Diversified Income A Inc ‡@74.85 … +0.10 4.21 UK Act 350 A Acc ‡@ 199.00 … -2.20 … 0844 800 9401 Dynamic A Acc ‡@ 303.03 … … …
Glob Spec Sits ‡@ 4661.00 … -14.00 0.07 Emerging Mkts Blended Debt A Acc ‡@124.33 … -0.03 3.74 UK Dynamic Acc ‡@ 161.10 … -0.70 3.62 Growth Fd Acc @ 41.47 43.54 -0.01 … Dynamic A Inc ‡@ 278.73 … +0.01 …
Global Focus ‡@ 2598.00 … +4.00 … Emerging Mkts Blended Debt A Acc Gross ‡@125.82 … +0.20 4.21 UK Dynamic Inc ‡@ 120.50 … -0.50 3.56 Growth A Acc ‡@ 321.84 … +0.03 1.50
For Abbey National see Santander International ‡@ 149.50 … +0.20 0.08 Emerging Mkts Blended Debt A Inc ‡@83.49 … -0.02 5.53 UK Equity A Acc ‡@ 401.90 … +0.60 … Income A Acc ‡@ 247.08 … +0.07 2.08
Japan ‡@ 433.10 … -0.60 … Emerging Mkts Equity A Acc ‡@152.59 … +0.35 0.67 UK Equity A Inc ‡@ 46.44 … +0.07 3.49 MARKS & SPENCER UNIT TRUST LTD Sterling Bond Acc ‡@ 242.37 … -0.28 3.52
For Allchurches see Ecclesiastical
Moneybldr Bal ‡@ 45.55 … -0.17 4.31 Emrg Mkts Local Curr Debt A Acc ‡@191.96 … -0.81 4.07 UK Eqy & Bd Inc Acc ‡@ 167.10 … -0.20 3.41 0808 005 5555 Sterling Bond Inc ‡@ 97.00 … -0.11 3.61
ALLIANZ GLOBAL INVESTORS
Inv Serv: 020 7065 1400 Helpline: 0800 317 573 Moneybldr Glob 327.60 327.60 -0.10 0.21 Emrg Mkts Local Curr Debt A Inc ‡@87.75 … -0.37 4.62 UK Eqy & Bd Inc Inc ‡@ 90.29 … -0.48 3.50 High Income 110.30 110.30 +0.10 4.30
Moneybldr Gwth ‡@ 76.12 … -0.95 … Emrg Mkts Local Curr Debt Gross I Acc ‡@220.49 … -0.05 … UK Higher Inc A Acc ‡@ 1132.00 … +7.00 … High Income Acc 276.40 276.40 +0.10 4.19
Gilt Yield A ‡@ 206.01 … +0.27 1.05 Moneybldr Inc ‡@ 37.99 … … 2.68 UK Higher Inc A Inc ‡@ 531.30 … +2.00 … UK 100 Comp Acc @ 346.70 346.70 +2.10 4.58
Enhanced Natural Resources A Acc ‡@120.60 … -0.03 1.76 THREADNEEDLE INVESTMENTS
Strategic Bond Fund ‡@ 212.18 … +0.67 0.67 Moneybldr UK Ind ‡@ 98.93 … -0.55 4.24 UK Sm Cos A Acc ‡@ 480.70 … +1.50 1.08 UK 100 Cos @ 186.10 186.10 +1.10 4.72
UK Corp Bond C ‡@ 104.79 … -0.78 … Global Bond A Acc ‡@ 139.30 … +4.03 0.82 Client Serv: 0800 0683000
Special Sits ‡@ 3162.00 … -6.00 2.90 Global Bond A Inc ‡@ 109.33 … +3.00 0.82 UK Str Eq Inc A Acc ‡@ 143.70 … -1.10 … UK Select Pflo @ 274.40 274.40 +0.20 2.78
UK Eqty C ‡@ 6317.26 … -14.91 … Wealthbuilder 69.75 72.18 +0.53 0.44 UK Str Eq Inc A Inc ‡@ 77.30 … -0.64 5.18 Intermediary Serv: 0800 0684000
Global Bond I Gross Inc ‡@1167.00 … +29.78 1.25 UK Selection Port Acc @ 531.20 531.20 +0.40 2.73
UK Eqty Inc A ‡@ 243.04 … +1.09 5.85 US A Acc ‡@ 1036.00 … +25.00 … Institutional Shares (Class 2) (163500,000 min)
Global Dynamic A Acc ‡@ 173.47 … -0.12 0.11 Worldwide Mgd Acc @ 839.70 839.70 +0.10 1.78
UK Gwth A ‡@ 5115.29 … +24.28 2.32 US Sm Cos A Acc ‡@ 916.20 … +7.50 … Wwide Mgd @ 504.20 504.20 +0.10 1.81 UK Oseas Earns ‡@ 97.78 … -0.44 2.86
UK Index A Inc ‡@ 1423.81 … -5.83 3.01 Global Energy A Acc ‡@ 151.14 … -1.40 2.33
HALIFAX INVESTMENT FUND MGRS LTD Global Equity A Acc ‡@ 181.39 … -0.09 0.38
UK Mid Cap A ‡@ 4261.96 … +0.77 0.29
01296 386 386 Global Franchise A Acc ‡@271.19 … -0.61 … MORGAN STANLEY INVESTMENT MGMT LTD
Authorised Inv Funds Global Free Enterprise A Acc ‡@1003.44 … -0.11 0.52 Managed Funds
Enquires: 0800 0961 962
Share Class `C Global Gold A Acc ‡@ 248.24 … +5.78 … The Morgan Stanley Funds (UK)
JUPITER UT MGRS LTD Def Eqty & Bd Acc @ 123.60 123.60 -0.10 0.76
Corporate Bond ‡@ 39.80 … +0.01 2.65 Global Special Situations A Acc ‡@202.05 … -2.41 0.01 Class A Shares Eqty & Bd Acc @ 165.30 165.30 -0.10 0.79
ARTEMIS FUND MGRS LTD 020 7581 3020
Ethical ‡@ 91.48 … -0.35 0.43 Global Special Situations A Inc ‡@156.29 … -1.87 0.53 Equity Mgd Income @ 69.60 69.60 -0.04 4.38
0800 092 2051 Absolute Return ‡@ 43.03 … -0.13 0.78
European ‡@ 93.15 … -0.15 1.51 Managed Growth A Acc ‡@235.67 … +0.41 …
Authorised Inv Funds Distribution and Growth ‡@93.43 … -0.20 4.84 Eur (Ex UK) Eq A Acc ‡@1310.92 … +4.24 1.25
Far Eastern ‡ 111.70 … -0.30 1.93 Monthly High Income A Acc ‡@223.93 … +0.58 3.35
Emg Euro Opps ‡@ 209.21 … +0.51 3.29 Glob Brands A Acc ‡@ 11590.80 … +18.71 0.92
Capital R Acc ‡@ 1366.81 … -6.52 3.16 Fund of Inv Tst ‡@ 117.60 … -0.90 0.81 Monthly High Income A Inc ‡@62.40 … +0.16 5.16
Euro Special Sits ‡@ 451.98 … +1.59 0.17 UK Eq A Acc ‡@ 1184.53 … -0.02 1.66
Euro Opps R Acc ‡@ 91.26 … -0.48 1.29 Intl Gwth ‡ 96.62 … -0.29 1.24 Multi-Asset Protector A Acc ‡@168.27 … +0.10 … Retail Shares (Class 1)
Euro Opps R Inc ‡@ 85.36 … -0.46 1.30 Japanese ‡ 60.58 … -0.28 1.20 European ‡@ 2721.60 … +18.08 …
Strategic Bond A Acc ‡@ 244.54 … +0.19 1.96 Stg Bd Ret Inc ‡@ 64.83 … -0.05 0.93
European Growth R Acc ‡@297.96 … -0.21 2.19 North Amer ‡ 110.70 … -0.40 0.45 Financial Opps ‡@ 773.56 … +4.91 … Fixed Income
Strategic Bond A Inc ‡@ 119.47 … +0.09 3.32 Strat Bd Ret ‡@ 46.80 … +0.07 2.58
Global Energy R Acc ‡@ 19.77 … -0.39 1.38 Smaller Cos ‡@ 92.45 … -1.73 0.56 Income Trust ‡@ 391.70 … -2.87 6.26 Stg Corp Bd A Acc ‡@ 2618.35 … -3.81 2.00
Target Return A Acc ‡@ 102.03 … +0.44 0.82 UK Corp Bond ‡@ 65.67 … +0.02 2.31
Global Growth R Acc ‡@ 268.49 … +0.94 1.71 Special Sits ‡@ 41.37 … -0.32 1.64 Merlin Bal (Acc) ‡@ 200.11 … +0.57 2.18 UK Ind Lnkd A Acc ‡@ 1350.60 … -3.80 …
Target Return A Inc ‡@ 87.63 … +0.01 0.87 UK Corp Ret ‡@ 65.55 … +0.01 1.97
Global Income R Acc ‡@ 115.45 … -0.23 3.69 UK Equity Inc ‡@ 72.56 … -0.37 5.45 Merlin Gwth (Acc) ‡@ 454.85 … +0.06 … UK Long Bd A Acc ‡@ 1288.90 … … …
UK Alpha A Acc ‡@ 2395.59 … -18.31 1.90 UK Eqty Inc Ret ‡@ 80.76 … -0.18 4.04
Global Income R Inc ‡@ 80.53 … -0.16 3.78 UK FTSE 100 IT ‡@ 53.59 … -0.32 3.92 Merlin Inc (Acc) ‡@ 318.92 … -0.18 2.67
UK Blue Chip A Acc ‡@ 770.11 … +3.15 … UK Gwth & Inc Ret ‡@ 77.05 … -0.14 4.26
Global Select R Acc ‡@ 132.38 … +0.55 … UK FTSE All-S IT ‡@ 61.42 … -0.31 3.76 Merlin Wwide (Inc) ‡@ 334.17 … +0.03 …
UK Smaller Companies A Acc ‡@4594.94 … -4.61 0.76 UK Hi Yld Bd 1 ‡@ 41.04 … +0.32 3.94
High Income R Inc ‡@ 69.77 … +0.05 5.31 UK Growth ‡@ 68.23 … -0.28 3.56 UK Growth ‡@ 218.81 … -0.46 2.19 SANTANDER UNIT TST MGRS
UK Smaller Companies A Inc ‡@4121.38 … -4.14 0.76 UK Inst Acc ‡@ 138.56 … +0.15 2.45
Income R Acc ‡@ 383.27 … -1.90 4.48 UK Special Sits (Inc) ‡@ 150.72 … -1.02 3.06 08457 413002
UK Special Situations A Acc ‡@948.33 … -9.62 2.67 UK Mnthly Extra Inc ‡@ 73.03 … -0.08 4.01
Income R Inc ‡@ 185.46 … -0.92 4.63 Bal Pfolio Inc ‡@ 110.50 … +0.40 … UK Mnthly Inc Ret ‡@ 58.96 … -0.34 5.15
Monthly Dist R Inc ‡@ 63.10 … -0.03 4.00 UK Special Situations A Inc ‡@351.13 … -3.57 2.80
HSBC GLOBAL ASSET MGMT (UK) LTD Bal Port Gwth Acc ‡@ 210.60 … -0.40 … UK Retail ‡@ 115.80 … -0.89 2.50
Strategic Assets R Acc ‡@ 68.09 … -0.43 … Enq: 0845 745 6123 Dlg: 0845 745 6126 Mon-Fri 8-6 Equity Inc Inc ‡@ 190.00 … -1.30 … UK Sel Retail ‡@ 108.75 … -0.64 2.54
Strategic Bond R M Acc ‡@102.29 … +0.07 2.23 HSBC Index Tracker Investment Funds (OEIC) N&P UK Gwth Inc ‡@ 182.80 … +0.10 3.09 UK Smaller Cos ‡@ 329.91 … +0.39 …
Strategic Bond R M Inc ‡@ 57.18 … +0.03 2.26 LEGAL & GENERAL (UT MGRS) LTD Stkmkt 100 Tkr @ 199.10 199.10 +0.80 1.64
Strategic Bond R Q Acc ‡@102.11 … +0.07 2.10 Amer Ind Acc ‡@ 684.75 … -0.82 1.43 Enquiries: 0870 050 0955 Dealing: 0870 050 0956 UK Growth Acc ‡@ 391.00 … -1.40 3.08
Strategic Bond R Q Inc ‡@ 57.26 … +0.04 2.12 Amer Ind Inc ‡@ 561.80 … -0.67 1.45
Equity Acc @ 2616.00 2639.00 -8.00 2.12 UK Growth Inc ‡@ 225.70 … -0.70 3.05
UK Growth R Acc ‡@ 477.72 … -4.07 2.70 Euro Ind Acc ‡@ 973.06 … -0.41 2.25 For Resolution see Ignis
Euro Ind Inc ‡@ 648.35 … -0.27 2.16 For ISIS Asset Mgmt see F&C Fd Mgmt Ltd (OEICS) Equity Dist @ 893.80 902.00 -2.70 2.15
UK Smaller Cos R Acc ‡@1315.18 … -2.64 2.10 Euro Ind Acc @ 433.30 433.30 -0.10 2.31 TU FUND MANAGERS LIMITED
UK Special Sits R Acc ‡@ 519.78 … -3.22 1.83 FTSE 100 Ind Acc ‡@ 207.52 … -1.52 4.37 JANUS HENDERSON INVESTORS SCOTTISH MUTUAL INV MNGRS LTD
FTSE 100 Ind Inc ‡@ 101.43 … -0.75 4.48 Euro Ind Inc @ 299.00 299.00 … 2.37 0141 248 6100 British 847.10 847.10 +2.30 0.62
FTSE 250 Ind Acc ‡@ 243.66 … -0.26 2.64 Investors Serv: 0800 832 832 Dlng: 0845 946 4646 Fixed Int Acc @ 156.70 158.10 +0.10 1.89 European 210.70 219.40 +1.00 …
Fixed Int Dist @ 76.87 77.63 +0.03 1.92 European Inc 1485.04 1566.77 +1.10 1.83
FTSE 250 Ind Inc ‡@ 154.64 … -0.18 3.07 Far Eastern Inc 584.69 617.09 -0.73 …
All Stks Credit A Inc ‡@ 143.20 … … 1.78 Glob Gwth Acc @ 243.90 243.90 -1.30 1.15 * Yield expressed as CAR (Compound Annual Return);
FTSE All-S Acc ‡@ 536.31 … -2.97 4.17 Intl Growth Inc 380.56 400.59 +0.02 0.75 † Ex dividend; ‡Middle price; . . . No significant data. #
AXA FRAMLINGTON UNIT MGMT LTD FTSE All-S Inc ‡@ 292.51 … -1.62 4.40 Asian Div Inc U Trst Inc ‡@96.79 … +0.22 7.50 Glob Health Acc @ 92.33 92.57 +1.08 0.91
Dling: 0845 602 1952 Priv Clients: 0845 777 5511
Japanese Inc 41.85 41.85 +0.43 … Periodic charge deducted from capital; @ Exit charge
Jap Ind Acc ‡@ 128.88 … -0.32 1.91 Mutual European 2357.04 2486.11 +1.73 1.80
Equity Inc ‡@ 572.40 … -2.70 4.43 Jap Ind Inc ‡@ 104.09 … -0.26 1.94 Mutual Far Eastern 935.28 987.10 -1.62 1.43
Gilt Acc @
Gilt Inc @
201.30
74.35
211.80
78.24
+0.10
-0.39
1.08
1.09
Pac Ind Acc ‡@
Pac Ind Inc ‡@
408.04
264.71
…
…
-2.92
-1.90
2.89
2.98
Mutual North Am 1983.00 2092.88 +6.23 0.24 British funds
Mutual UK Eq 1093.32 1153.90 -5.09 3.00
Health Acc ‡@ 2494.00 … +27.00 … Nth American Inc 1227.65 1295.67 -7.28 …
Jap Smlr Co Ac @ 62.56 66.09 -0.19 … 12 month Price Int Yld Grs rd
UK Equity Inc 484.37 511.21 -2.25 3.06
Managed Inc ‡@ 138.30 … … … High Low Stock (£) +/– % yld
HSBC Investment Funds (OEIC) - Retail Share Class
Monthly Inc Inc ‡@ 199.30 … -0.40 5.97
Balanced Acc ‡@ 214.27 … -0.66 1.57 SCOTTISH WIDOWS UNIT TRUST MGRS
UK Growth Inc ‡@ 217.30 … -0.10 1.17
Balanced Inc ‡@ 151.95 … -0.14 … 0845 300 2244
Index-linked
UK Select Opps Inc ‡@ 1800.00 … +6.00 1.35 117.49 110.70 Tr IL 1Y% 2022 110.98 + .11 1.74 –2.65
Corp Bd Acc ‡@ 312.76 … +0.16 2.22 Authorised Inv Funds (OEICs)
UK Sml Cos Inc ‡@ 262.10 … -0.30 … 377.93 352.66 Tr IL 2K% 24 * 360.40 + .59 1.50 –2.75
Corp Bd Inc ‡@ 129.91 … +0.07 2.25 OEIC A Class 115.79 108.34 Tr IL 0V% 24 110.83 + .20 … –2.66
Gilt & Fd Int Acc ‡@ 531.34 … -0.49 1.41 Managed Investment Funds 123.52 113.18 Tr IL 0V% 26 118.11 + .18 … –2.80
Gilt & Fd Int Inc ‡@ 80.14 … -0.07 1.11 141.09 127.25 Tr IL 1N% 2027 134.04 + .19 1.02 –2.88
Income Acc ‡@ 534.53 … -4.54 5.07 Bal Port A Acc ‡@ 214.90 … +0.40 0.57 132.95 119.40 Tr IL 0V% 28 127.42 + .16 … –2.88
AXA FUND MANAGERS LTD Income Inc ‡@ 241.07 … -2.04 5.33 Caut Port A Acc ‡@ 201.80 … … … 134.70 120.50 Tr IL 0V% 29 129.53 + .18 … –2.85
Admin & Enq 0117 989 0808 Caut Port A Inc ‡@ 148.90 … … 1.08 404.22 360.53 Tr IL 4V% 30 * 387.51 + .48 1.67 –2.89
Monthly Inc Acc ‡@ 268.01 … -1.53 4.25 167.61 144.89 Tr IL 1N% 2032 160.45 + .31 0.78 –2.81
AXA Trusts Monthly Inc Inc ‡@ 120.36 … -0.69 4.37 Opps Port A Acc ‡@ 232.40 … +1.10 0.64
164.20 140.01 Tr IL 0O% 34 157.60 + .29 … –2.70
UK Grth & Inc Ret B Acc ‡@110.92 … -0.98 4.92 Prog Port A Acc ‡@ 228.10 … +0.80 0.62 314.07 269.24 Tr IL 2% 35 * 304.46 + .56 0.80 –2.68
Gen Acc ‡@ 2101.00 … +6.00 …
UK Grth & Inc Ret B Inc ‡@53.63 … -0.47 5.18 162.43 134.20 Tr IL 0V% 36 155.80 + .43 … –2.60
Gen Inc ‡@ 1079.00 … -2.00 2.70 190.18 157.14 Tr IL 1V% 2037 182.64 + .51 0.65 –2.61
UK Gth & Inc Acc ‡@ 110.92 … -0.98 4.92 Overseas Growth Investment Funds 185.76 148.88 Tr IL 0X% 40 177.98 + .54 … –2.44
UK Gth & Inc Inc ‡@ 53.63 … -0.47 5.18 Eur Sel Gth A Acc ‡@ 3044.00 … +35.00 … 177.09 139.06 Tr IL 0V% 41 169.63 + .59 … –2.40
197.84 154.83 Tr IL 0X% 42 188.99 + .60 0.33 –2.37
184.36 142.10 Tr IL 0V% 44 177.05 + .60 … –2.30
UK/Global Investment Companies Tracker and Specialist Investment Funds 190.81 144.18 Tr IL 0V% 46 183.56 + .60 … –2.26
HSBC Specialist Investment Funds (OEIC) 223.26 168.17 Tr IL 0O% 2047 214.50 + .69 0.36 –2.26
Euro Acc A ‡@ 244.70 … +0.10 2.57 UK Trkr A Acc ‡@ 293.50 … +1.90 4.19 200.53 147.47 Tr IL 0V% 48 192.37 + .60 … –2.23
American Index Retail Acc ‡@684.75 … -0.82 1.43
Extra Inc Inc B ‡@ 86.74 … +0.24 1.16 UK Trkr A Inc ‡@ 158.40 … +1.00 4.32 223.34 163.69 Tr IL 0K% 50 214.11 + .60 … –2.20
American Index Retail Inc ‡@561.80 … -0.67 1.45 221.88 158.49 Tr IL 0N% 52 212.13 + .59 … –2.19
Global Gwth Acc R ‡@ 236.20 … … 0.85
Asian Gth Acc ‡@ 147.77 … -0.07 … 296.98 211.39 Tr IL 1N% 2055 283.83 + .71 0.48 –2.18
Japan Acc A ‡@ 158.30 … -0.30 1.82
Asian Gth Inc ‡@ 130.99 … -0.06 … UK and Income Investment Funds 239.65 161.25 Tr IL 0V% 56 228.04 + .66 … –2.17
Pac Gwth Acc A ‡@ 477.40 … +1.40 2.19 245.15 162.44 Tr IL 0V% 58 233.59 + .66 … –2.16
Chinese Eq Acc ‡@ 513.81 … +0.27 0.40
Corp Bond A Acc ‡@ 348.40 … -0.40 1.84 282.43 182.62 Tr IL 0W% 62 268.53 + .71 … –2.12
Chinese Eq Inc ‡@ 434.76 … +0.22 0.34 289.79 176.73 Tr IL 0V% 65 274.80 +1.12 … –2.14
Corp Bond A Inc ‡@ 134.50 … -0.20 1.86
Euro Gth Acc ‡@ 796.09 … -1.57 1.89 309.08 183.95 Tr IL 0V% 68 293.73 +1.43 … –2.17
Envir Invtr A Acc ‡@ 341.00 … +2.70 1.02
Euro Gth Inc ‡@ 667.28 … -1.31 1.91
CIS UNIT MANAGERS LTD Hi Inc Bond A Ac ‡@ 232.40 … +0.40 4.05
08457 46 46 46 Hi Inc Bond A Inc ‡@ 77.55 … +0.16 5.47 Longs (Over 15 years)
Hi Res A Acc ‡@ 334.00 … +1.40 4.28
European Gwth ‡@ 176.40 … +0.10 0.22 IGNIS ASSET MGMT 160.46 145.12 Tr 4N% 36 157.41 + .15 2.70 0.44
Hi Res A Inc ‡@ 114.10 … +0.50 4.39 122.20 107.68 Tr 1O% 37 120.02 + .12 … 0.53
Sus Leaders ‡@ 679.00 … +0.70 0.67 Dlg: 0141 222 8282 Safety Plus A Acc ‡@ 40.49 … … … 178.53 159.30 Tr 4O% 38 174.14 + .16 2.73 0.52
UK Growth ‡@ 521.20 … -1.00 2.16 American Gth Inc @ 322.55 340.42 -3.34 … Strat Inc A Acc ‡@ 217.50 … -0.10 2.26 171.40 151.78 Tr 4N% 39 166.96 + .19 2.55 0.56
UK Income ‡@ 189.10 … -0.90 5.99 Balanced Growth @ 262.17 276.69 -0.93 … Strat Inc A Inc ‡@ 101.90 … -0.10 2.29 174.76 153.76 Tr 4N% 40 169.94 + .22 … 0.60
115.15 98.58 Tr 1N% 41 112.29 + .19 … 0.63
Balanced Growth Acc @ 393.13 414.92 -1.40 1.49 UK Gwth A Acc ‡@ 162.90 … +1.20 3.76 186.37 162.55 Tr 4K% 42 180.74 + .26 2.49 0.63
Corporate Bond ‡@ 99.69 … -0.89 … UK Sel Gwth A Acc ‡@ 1916.00 … +16.00 1.30 161.41 138.69 Tr 3N% 44 156.21 + .24 … 0.66
European Growth @ 403.88 426.26 -3.57 … 169.66 145.35 Tr 3K% 45 164.02 + .23 … 0.66
CLOSE FUND MANAGEMENT LTD European Growth Acc @ 475.71 502.07 -4.21 2.24 193.38 165.20 Tr 4N% 46 186.53 + .26 2.28 0.67
OEIC B Class 125.21 103.24 Tr 1K% 47 120.56 + .22 … 0.67
0870 606 6402 Glob Gwth @ 331.53 349.90 -3.09 0.12 133.12 109.31 Tr 1O% 49 128.13 + .21 … 0.66
Tracker and Specialist Investment Funds
Beacon Inv ‡ 84.88 … +0.35 0.01 Higher Yield @ 83.98 88.64 -0.29 4.43 203.44 171.45 Tr 4N% 49 195.57 + .30 2.17 0.66
Higher Yield Acc @ 275.04 290.28 -0.92 4.32 UK Trkr B Acc ‡@ 322.00 … +2.10 4.75 101.54 97.70 Tr 0X% 50 98.57 + .16 … 0.68
Japan @ 49.06 51.78 -0.03 … UK Trkr B Inc ‡@ 157.70 … +1.00 4.91 198.36 164.59 Tr 3O% 52 189.55 + .33 … 0.65
Cautious Man Fd A Acc ‡@256.80 … -1.10 3.47 Glob Tech Acc @ 71.18 71.30 +0.55 0.38 137.00 108.44 Tr 1X% 54 129.67 + .24 … 0.66
Managed @ 130.89 138.15 -0.06 0.66 Cautious Man Fd A Inc ‡@136.70 … -0.60 3.55 Gwth Tst Acc @ 106.00 106.50 -1.00 0.17 225.53 184.51 Tr 4N% 55 214.21 + .55 1.98 0.64
Managed Trust @ 71.96 76.96 +0.17 … China Opp Fund A Acc ‡@1694.00 … +10.00 0.22 High Inc Acc @ 128.10 130.20 +0.20 5.12 UK and Income Investment Funds 145.53 113.20 Tr 1O% 57 137.19 + .44 … 0.62
Dealing: 020 7426 6232 Mngd Pfolio Inc @ 95.54 100.84 -0.11 0.58 231.12 184.78 Tr 4% 60 218.97 + .63 … 0.61
Emg Mkts Opps Fd A Acc ‡@206.90 … +0.20 0.27 Japan Ind Acc @ 63.57 63.57 -0.15 1.63 Corp Bond B Acc ‡@ 361.00 … -0.40 2.08
Winchester ‡ 3073.25 … +26.11 1.18 Pacific Grth @ 498.71 526.34 -2.81 … 102.03 93.21 Tr 0K% 61 96.25 + .40 … 0.60
Erpn Grth Fund A Acc ‡@ 244.40 … -0.20 0.87 Pacific Ind Acc @ 164.40 164.40 -1.10 2.95 Corp Bond B Inc ‡@ 134.40 … -0.20 2.11 186.29 141.77 Tr 2K% 65 174.66 + .63 … 0.60
Smaller Comp @ 756.24 798.14 +1.64 0.15 Erpn Sel Opps Fd A Acc ‡@1883.00 … -1.00 0.18 UK 100 Ind Acc @ 180.90 180.90 +0.90 3.20 236.70 179.45 Tr 3K% 68 221.54 + .89 … 0.59
Smaller Cos @ 628.94 663.79 +1.36 0.21 UK Gwth B Acc ‡@ 176.10 … +1.30 4.17
Fix Int Mnthly Inc Fd Acc ‡@32.47 … +0.05 4.03 UK Active Opps Acc @ 249.90 252.90 -0.10 … 161.53 113.23 Tr 1X% 71 149.59 + .76 … 0.52
UK Sel Gwth B Acc ‡@ 2007.00 … +17.00 1.58
Global Equity Fund Acc ‡@3873.00 … -21.00 … UK Index Acc @ 264.50 264.50 -1.40 4.05
EDENTREE INV MGMT LTD Global Equity Income A Inc ‡@58.11 … -0.07 3.40 UK Index Dist @ 137.50 137.50 -0.70 4.18
0800 358 3010 INSIGHT INVESTMENT FDS MANAGEMENT LTD Global Tech A Acc ‡@ 2605.00 … -4.00 … US Ind Acc @ 617.90 617.90 +5.80 1.11 OEIC C Class Mediums (5-15 years)
Client Servs: 0207 163 4000 M-Asset Abs Ret A Acc ‡@144.40 … -0.10 0.79 Worldwide Acc @ 308.00 308.00 +0.10 1.05 UK and Income Investment Funds 102.61 100.47 Tr 0O% 23 102.61 + .04 … –0.12
Amity European A ‡ 253.00 … +1.40 … 107.95 105.98 Tr 2N% 23 107.36 + .04 … –0.10
Insight Investment Multi-Manager Funds M-Man Active Fd A Acc ‡@231.90 … +0.10 … UK Gth C Inc ‡@ 113.80 … +0.80 4.94
Amity International A ‡ 286.80 … +1.00 0.82 104.23 101.53 Tr 1% 24 104.21 + .05 … –0.12
Amity Sterling Bond A ‡ 104.10 … +0.10 3.94 Well Bldr Bal Acc ‡@ 96.05 … -0.32 … M-Man Inc Grth A Inc ‡@ 149.60 … +0.10 2.53 UK Sel Gwth C Acc ‡@ 2096.00 … +17.00 1.86 112.46 109.75 Tr 2O% 24 111.85 + .05 … –0.11
Amity UK A Inc ‡ 215.20 … -0.20 1.78 Well Bldr Gwth Acc ‡@ 93.79 … -0.36 … M-Man Inc Grth Fd A Acc ‡@180.50 … +0.10 1.96 126.04 121.74 Tr 5% 25 123.59 + .06 4.05 –0.08
Sterling Bond U Trst Acc ‡@248.60 … +0.10 1.58 M & G SECURITIES 103.49 99.71 Tr 0X% 25 103.46 + .06 … –0.08
Higher Income A ‡ 114.00 … -0.20 5.16 STANDARD LIFE INVESTMENTS 110.99 107.73 Tr 2% 25 110.91 + .07 … –0.12
Sterling Bond U Trst Inc ‡@70.13 … … 1.60 Enq: 0800 390 390 Dealing Line: 0800 328 3196
UK Equity Growth A ‡@ 258.20 … -1.70 1.68 0845 279 3003 100.88 99.94 Tr 0V% 26 100.87 + .09 … –0.03
Strategic Bond A Inc ‡@ 130.60 … +0.10 2.71 Authorised Inv Funds 109.48 105.40 Tr 1K% 26 109.42 + .10 … –0.07
INVESCO FUND MGRS LTD Investment Funds (OEIC) - Retail Shares
Dling: 0800 085 8571 Inv Serv: 0800 085 8677 UK Abs Ret Fd A Acc ‡@ 161.90 … +0.10 … Charifund Inc ‡ 1280.78 … -2.12 6.48 108.90 103.96 Tr 1N% 27 108.86 + .11 … –0.01
UK Alpha Fund A Acc ‡@ 124.90 … -0.60 2.18 AAA Inc CAT Acc ‡@ 103.50 … … 1.25 132.76 127.00 Tr 4N% 27 131.43 + .11 3.23 –0.01
Brkr Serv: 0800 028 2121 100.54 99.08 Tr 0V% 28 100.46 + .11 … 0.06
UK Index Fund A Acc ‡@ 645.20 … +1.20 3.04 AAA Inc CAT Inc ‡@ 59.81 … -0.02 1.25
F & C FUND MANAGEMENT LTD (OEICS) INVESCO Funds 113.26 107.25 Tr 1X% 28 113.16 + .12 … 0.03
UK Irsh Sm Co Fd A Acc ‡@548.90 … -0.40 0.27 AAA Income Acc ‡@ 111.50 … -0.10 1.61 152.14 144.76 Tr 6% 28 149.45 + .13 4.01 0.08
Enqs: 0870 601 6183 Dealing: 0870 601 6083 UK Str Inc N/Trl ‡@ 326.54 … -1.63 5.69 UK Property A Acc @ 229.28 241.38 +0.04 3.01 Sterling Class A Investment Funds 1 Amer Eq Gth Acc ‡@ 180.10 … -0.60 … 107.38 100.14 Tr 0Y% 29 107.27 + .11 … 0.09
Share Class 1 - Retail UK Property A Inc @ 95.91 100.96 +0.02 3.37 Corp Bond Acc ‡@ 184.90 … +0.10 2.61 102.10 99.84 Tr 0W% 30 101.94 + .12 … 0.18
Euro Smlr Cos Acc ‡ 369.06 … +1.08 0.64 148.82 140.24 Tr 4O% 30 147.41 + .14 3.22 0.15
Corporate Bd ‡@ 60.05 … +0.03 1.86 UK Tracker Fund A Acc ‡@289.30 … +0.60 … Euro Smlr Cos Inc ‡ 330.84 … +0.98 2.42 Corp Bond Inc ‡@ 66.21 … +0.04 1.99
148.26 137.84 Tr 4N% 32 146.52 + .14 2.90 0.27
Emerging Mkts ‡@ 116.80 … -0.30 0.54 INVESCO PERPETUAL Funds US Growth Fund A Acc ‡@1525.00 … -1.00 … Euro Eq Gth Acc ‡@ 224.10 … -0.80 1.06 159.28 145.74 Tr 4K% 34 156.84 + .13 2.87 0.37
Euro Gwth & Inc 1 ‡@ 1164.00 … … … Childrens Acc ‡@ 371.20 … -3.35 3.21 Glb Advtg CAT Acc ‡@ 141.00 … -0.20 1.13
Extra Inc Bond ‡@ 48.89 … +0.05 2.08 Corp Bond Acc ‡@ 221.37 … +0.12 2.25 Glob Advtg Acc ‡@ 186.40 … -0.30 1.11
FTSE All-Shr Track ‡@ 352.00 … -1.80 3.89 High Income Inc ‡@ 276.41 … -1.63 5.17 Sterling Class A Investment Funds 2 Glob Eq Uncstrd Acc ‡@ 155.60 … +0.30 0.20 Shorts (under 5 years)
Global Gwth SC1 ‡@ 276.60 … +0.50 … Income & Grth Inc ‡@ 347.04 … -1.76 4.70 Higher Inc Acc ‡@ 138.70 … +0.30 3.00 101.46 100.00 Tr 2% 20 100.00 + … … 2.01
JP MORGAN ASSET MGMT Extra Income Inc ‡ 640.76 … -2.59 5.13
High Inc Trst @ 12.07 12.72 +0.01 … Income Inc ‡@ 1080.80 … -5.53 5.00 Higher Inc Inc ‡@ 47.93 … +0.08 3.07 103.61 100.50 Tr 3O% 20 100.50 – .01 … –0.04
OEIC Gilt & Fxd Int Inc ‡ 108.19 … -0.08 1.10 101.58 100.76 Tr 1K% 21 100.76 + … … –0.02
Max Inc Bond ‡@ 47.95 … +0.09 2.76 Money Acc ‡@ 91.18 … +0.01 0.32 Japan Eq Gth Acc ‡@ 110.10 … -0.30 0.20
Asia A Acc ‡@ 266.90 … -0.80 0.15 Gl Hi Yd Bd Inc ‡ 46.05 … +0.10 5.48 107.05 104.29 Tr 3O% 21 104.29 + … … –0.04
Multi Man Caut ‡@ 70.41 … … 3.18 Monthly Inc Plus Inc ‡@ 101.81 … +0.09 5.24 Managed Acc ‡@ 298.60 … +0.50 0.87 114.12 107.00 Tr 8% 21 107.00 – .02 7.48 0.04
Emerging Mkts ‡@ 274.30 … … 0.24 Index Linked Bd Inc ‡ 160.59 … -2.26 …
Multi Man Distr ‡@ 60.44 … … 3.37 UK Aggressive Inc ‡@ 157.12 … -0.46 3.12 Select Inc Acc ‡@ 92.33 … +0.07 1.55 101.25 99.79 Tr 0K% 22 101.21 + .02 … –0.10
Eur Dyn (ex-UK) A Acc ‡@227.50 … -1.10 1.17 Index Trckr Inc ‡ 63.73 … -0.32 4.14
North Amer ‡@ 626.80 … -1.00 0.12 UK Growth Acc ‡@ 551.93 … -1.58 3.14 Select Inc Inc ‡@ 54.55 … +0.04 1.56 104.42 103.13 Tr 1O% 22 103.95 + .02 … –0.10
Euro Smllr Cos ‡@ 810.80 … +0.40 0.68 Short Dated Corp Bd Inc ‡ 25.77 … … 1.94 109.49 106.67 Tr 4% 22 106.68 + … 3.75 –0.09
Pacific Gwth ‡@ 479.60 … -3.50 0.25 UK Sml Cos Eqty Acc ‡@ 1164.12 … +1.48 0.73 UK Eq Gth Acc ‡@ 305.00 … -0.90 3.02
Europe A Acc ‡@ 1511.00 … -2.00 1.37 UK Select A Inc ‡ 2808.57 … -0.32 2.49 100.53 … Tr 0V% 23 100.53 + .04 … –0.08
Strategic Bd ‡@ 202.70 … +0.20 0.90 UK Sml Cos Gwth ‡@ 82.54 … +0.04 … UK Eq Hi Alpha ‡@ 180.30 … -0.90 3.08
UK Equity ‡@ 2850.00 … -9.00 1.52 Gbl Hi Yld Bd A Acc ‡@ 114.80 … +0.20 5.83 UK Eq Hi Inc Acc ‡@ 200.10 … -0.80 5.74 * maturities as having a 8-month indexation lag.
UK Gwth & Inc Acc 1 ‡@ 658.50 … … … Gbl Hi Yld Bd A Inc ‡@ 33.64 … +0.05 6.01 UK Eq Hi Inc Inc ‡@ 61.19 … -0.23 5.98
UK Gwth & Inc Dist ‡@ 234.70 … … … Gl ex-UK Bd A Acc ‡@ 293.30 … -0.10 0.48 UK Ethical Acc ‡@ 177.20 … +0.10 2.13
Sterling Class A Investment Funds 3
UK Smaller Cos ‡@ 834.50 … +0.30 1.06
INVESTEC FUND MGRS Gl ex-UK Bd A Inc ‡@ 224.40 … -0.10 0.44 UK Opps Acc ‡@ 247.30 … +0.60 0.55 This is a paid for information service. For
Broker Support and Dealing: 020 7597 1900
OEIC Series i,ii,iii, & iv
Glb Fins A Acc ‡@ 1077.00 … +1.00 1.03 Corp Bd A Inc ‡ 41.37 … +0.01 3.39 UK Opps Inc ‡@ 224.80 … +0.60 0.56 further details on a particular fund, readers
Global A Acc ‡@ 1837.00 … +2.00 … Dividend Inc ‡ 45.09 … -0.67 8.07
American A Acc ‡@ 534.92 … +0.59 … Japan A Acc ‡@ 588.80 … +0.40 … Recovery A Inc ‡ 97.64 … -0.29 4.01
UK Smlr Cos Acc ‡@ 815.00 … +2.20 0.53 should contact their fund manager.
Asia ex Japan A Acc ‡@ 802.93 … -2.67 0.39 Multi-Man Tst A Acc ‡@ 1152.00 … -5.00 0.92 Sml Cos Inc ‡ 308.79 … +0.30 3.41
FIDELITY INTERNATIONAL Capital Accumulator A Acc ‡@173.82 … -1.43 0.02 Multi-Man Tst A Inc ‡@ 1037.00 … -4.00 0.94 SVS BROWN SHIPLEY FUNDS
Private Clnts 0800 414161 Broker Dlgs 0800 414181 Enquiries: 0141 222 1151 Data as shown is
Cautious Managed A Acc ‡@376.23 … +0.83 0.26 Nat Resources ‡@ 571.90 … -0.10 2.48
Amer Spec Sits ‡@ 1563.00 … -8.00 0.01 Cautious Managed A Inc ‡@247.37 … +0.54 0.26 New Europe A ‡@ 218.10 … +1.10 4.54 Balanced A Acc ‡@ 133.70 … +0.05 1.45 for information
American ‡@ 4808.00 … -20.00 … Diversified Growth A Acc ‡@123.66 … +0.30 1.19 Portfolio ‡@ 268.30 … +0.20 1.61 Sterling Class A Investment Funds 4 Balanced A Inc ‡@ 122.13 … +0.04 1.47 purposes only. No offer is made by
Euro Opps ‡@ 532.80 … -0.30 0.40 Diversified Growth A Inc ‡@132.35 … +0.33 … Stg Corp Bd A Acc ‡@ 104.10 … … 1.37 Episode Allocation A Inc ‡@131.08 … -0.41 3.07 Cautious A Acc ‡@ 118.71 … … 1.53 Morningstar or this publication
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Business Equity prices

Dividend yields Please note dividend yields are 12 month Price 12 month Price 12 month Price 12 month Price

supplied by Morningstar. The yield is the sum of a High Low Company (p) +/- Yld% P/E High Low Company (p) +/- Yld% P/E High Low Company (p) +/- Yld% P/E High Low Company (p) +/- Yld% P/E

company’s trailing 12-month dividend payments 58894W 338O Liberty Group 338O – V 11.0 5.6 2Y 1W Aukett Fitz Robv 1Y … … 9.2 165K 126V Primary Hlth‡ 150V + 1W 3.7 … 1950 1150 Braime Groupv 1650 … 0.7 17.4
divided by the last month’s ending share price 1450 700 Liontrust‡ 1275 – 15 2.1 35.7 293W 189K Balfour Beatty 262 – O 2.0 13.9 51O 28N Raven Property 32Y … … 4.3 425 260 Caffyns 260 … 8.6 -6.9

50 33X Livermore Invsv 37 – K … … 878W 364X Barratt Devs 547W + 5O 5.3 7.4 137 82 Raven Property Gr 119 … … … 5 1O Cap XX Ldv 2W – N … -6.4

12 month Price 12 month Price 67N 27X Lloyds Bkg Gp 30W – V 3.6 12.6 4310 1879 Bellway 2686 + 67 5.6 6.3 112K 65 Raven R CNV Pref 87 … … … 440 281 Castings‡ 368 – 6 4.0 13.0
High Low Company (p) +/- Yld% P/E High Low Company (p) +/- Yld% P/E 137K 46 RDI REIT 93W + 4K 10.7 -3.9
59K 22X LMS Capital 32W … … -5.8 5474 3131 Berkeley 4488 + 63 0.6 11.2 38K 16 Chamberlinv 16 – 1K … -0.2
58 30O Real Estate Invsv‡ 30O – 1V 12.1 15.9 56K 24 Checkitv 39 … … 24.3
4V W Location Sciencesv W … … -0.7 1240 697K Big Yellow Group‡ 1003 – 2 3.3 10.3
74K 52 Downing ONE VCT 52 … 9.6 -7.2
Automobiles & parts 196O 97K EFG-Hermes Hldg 126K + 7Y 5.2 8.6
8542 5626 Lond Stk Ex Gp 8482 + 82 0.7 71.8 445 242 Billington Hldgsv 314 … 4.1 7.8
848 313V Redrow 460 – W 6.7 5.2 729 432K Cohortv 563 + 13 1.6 31.6
867 501K Safestore‡ 755 + 7 2.2 12.0
251W 93X M&G 178O + O … 4.3 342 185 Boot (Henry) 236 … 4.0 8.4 99 58 Croma Securityv 70K … 2.5 12.5
1 K Energiser Invv X … … -4.8
332N 30X Aston Martin Lagonda 55 – 2W … -3.4 1258 651 Savills 740 – 2K 2.1 12.5
200 127K EPE Special Oppsv 175 … … 1.5 175V 96W Man 129K + V 5.8 9.3 99Y 58 Breedon Groupv 78K … … 16.9 1125 775 Dewhurstv‡ 892K … 1.4 27.5
9 5O Secure Propertyv 6K + K … -5.1
876N 529O FBD 597 … 7.1 2.5 10N 6N Manx Finv 7N … … 4.6 638O 313O Br Land 369K – 3 8.4 -5.4 390 160 Dialight 307 + 2 … -6.1
Banking & finance 64 59 Fiskev 64 … … …
1 X Marechale Capv Y … … -3.0 235 117K Caledonian Tstv 132K + 5 … 8.1
941K 659W SEGRO 931 + 9O 2.1 11.8
2336K 922 Electrolux 'B' 1496O + 15W 4.6 28.0
46K 20 Frenkel Toppingv 41K … 4.6 33.2 126O 16O SIG 33O – K 11.1 48.2
9479W 6086 Marsh McLn 8957 – 32W 2.0 31.8 270K 135K Cap & Count Prop 144 … 1.0 … 1Y N Feedbackv Y … … -3.3
37K 12K 1PMv 18 … 5.1 2.7 1046 370 Georgia Capital 395 – 14K … 0.9 52K 23K SigmaRocv 41K – 1K … 50.6
857K 550 Mattioli Woodsv 710 … 2.8 22.3 293 68N Cap & Regnl 84K + 4K 18.9 -0.5 1460 670 Gooch Hsegov 1040 + 20 1.1 55.7
2508 1887 Admiral 2374 + 11 3.8 16.0 5W 2N GLI Financev 2K … … -0.7 124K 108K Smart (J) 115 … 2.7 8.2
31 12 ADVFNv 16 … … -6.9 3700 1810 Goodwin 3205 + 35 3.0 21.9
152O 102 Greencoat UK Wind 146O + 2 4.6 10.5 26 7O Metal Tigerv 24O – N … 49.5 1775 1700 Cardiff Prop 1725 … 0.9 13.4 530 302 St Modwen Prp 344K – 1 2.2 15.2
450 246 AJ Bell 417 + 2K 1.1 50.0 2338 1667 Halma 2270 + 12 0.6 47.7
682K 470 Gresham Housev 642K + 15 0.4 … 500 71 Metro Bank 113X + 4K … -0.9 43 21 Carecapitalv 25K – 1 … -2.0
196 90 Amryt Pharmav 177K … … -3.0 37 19 Steppe Cementv‡ 23 … 12.4 6.9
1355 865 Gresh Hse Stratv 1050 + 10 1.8 … 1510 901 Hill & Smith 1298 – 26 2.5 21.3
18842V 11545V Aon Corpn 16091K – 11O 0.8 28.6 1662 771 Nat Aust Bk 987N – 16 8.3 17.9 137 73 Clarke T 97V – 1N 4.2 5.5 236V 101K Taylor Wimpey 140 – 1K 5.4 6.8
64K 27K Appreciate Groupv 30 – K 10.6 6.1 107K 71O Gulf Invest 89X + 2N 2.5 4.4 45 31K Holders Techv 41 … 1.8 9.5
317 167 Numisv 310 + 5 3.8 36.0 312K 160 CLS Hldgs 201 + 1 3.5 6.0 232 93 Town Centre 101 + 1 11.6 …
1390 625 Arbuthnot Bkgv 752K – 52K 4.7 18.2 398 232 H&T Groupv 333 … 3.3 7.6 3W O Image Scanv 2W … … …
4Y 1N Arc Mineralsv 3W + N … -1.0 452 190 Onesavings Bank 272V + 3V 5.5 5.2 540K 269 Countryside Prop 367O + W 4.4 11.2 1720 650 Travis Perkins 1165 + 22K 4.0 24.0
48 23X Hansard Global 31N … 14.2 10.4
1206 674O IMI 994K + 8K 4.1 17.6
19 2K Arden Partnersv 6K … 15.3 -0.9 2122 1158 Hargreaves L 1589 + 29 2.1 28.7 N … Origo Partnersv V … … -0.3 393 46W Countrywide 117 – 5 … … 159X 85Y Tritax Big Box REIT 147 + 1Y 4.6 17.5
25 15 Argo Groupv 18K – K … 12.2 V … Inspirit Energyv … … … -5.3
206O 148Y Hastings Gp 174K + 3 7.7 16.4 1088 446K PayPoint 558 + 3 7.0 8.8 420K 59N Craven Housev 59N … … -1.0 291 134 Tyman 172K – 1W 7.0 19.0
570 307V Ashmore Gp 410 + 1V 4.0 16.3 6020 3265 Judges Scientificv 5210 – 130 0.8 28.9
1593V 783N Aus New Z 1011X – 12V 7.8 13.2 137K 82K Helios Underv 100 … 1.5 4.0 38 13K PCF Groupv 18K … 2.1 8.0 3100 1574 CRH 3077 + 35 1.9 18.1 1339 634K Unite Group 934 – 14 3.1 …
438W 211 Aviva 291K – 1 10.3 4.6 … … Highway Capital# 15K … … -5.0 375 191O Urban&Civic plc 226 – 1 1.7 7.3 116 62 LPAv 62 – 1K 4.6 …
803 467W Phoenix Gp 666W + W 7.0 77.4 4282 2690 Derwent London 2802 – 2 2.4 11.0
372V 163O Banco Santander 199 – 8W 7.3 8.3 1772 666W Hiscox 805V – 4W 3.9 63.1 1478 510 Vistry Group 702K – 7 8.3 6.9 697W 217 Meggitt 311O + 8V 5.4 11.0
1818 770 Bank of Georgia 860 – 36 7.2 5.6 N … Plutus PowerGenv … … … -0.3 5 2 Dolphin Capitalv 3V … … 3.7
670Y 370 HSBC 374N – 5N 6.4 25.7 248K 74N Melrose 116O … 4.0 …
117 70V Warehouse REITv 109K – K 5.4 13.1
192W 80V Barclays 116V – V 2.5 9.7 4 1K Polo Resourcesv 1Y … … -0.8 O … EQTECv W … … -1.2
864K 530K IG Group 819 + 2 5.2 20.2
628 323W Beazley 423O – 10O 2.7 12.7 1307 560 Workspace Grp‡ 590K + 3 5.7 14.8 324O 178O Morgan Advanced 232K + K 4.7 9.3
405 191 Impaxv 372 + 12 1.4 34.4 491K 144V Provident 166 – 2N 11.4 5.0 48 22K First Propv 38 … 4.3 7.2
V … Blue Star Capitalv V … … -6.0 625 570 Wynnstay Propsv 605 … 3.1 6.8 367 168 Mpac PLCv 295 + 14 … 10.0
286 142K BP Marsh&Ptnrsv‡ 235 – 4 2.0 7.2 1877 559K Intermediate Cap‡1407 + 7 3.2 19.9 1506 710O Prudential 1218 – 34K 3.9 21.4 45 25 Fletcher Kingv 32K … 5.3 14.3
211 114 MS Intlv‡ 130 … 6.3 24.0
41 7 Braveheart Invv 16N + 3O 3.0 -2.0 179O 32K IPF 61O – 2K 20.0 2.0 6N 1V Quadrise Fuels Intlv 2V + N … -4.6 95 31K Foxtons Group 39 + O … …
375V 138W Brewin Dolphin
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171V 128V Intl Public Pntshp 166W – 1 4.2 18.1
174X 97K Quilter PLC 146O + X 3.4 … 886 101 Galliford Try 103N + W 56.1 0.9 Consumer goods 159 64K Northbrdg Indv 91 … … …

397X 128O Investec 171 – 3W 14.3 3.5 1654 955 Oxford Inst 1352 + 36 1.0 22.9
65 31K Cenkos Secsv 46K + 1 9.6 … 213N 107K Randall & Quilterv 152K … 3.6 7.0 990 534 Gleeson (MJ) 686 – 4 5.0 14.6
355 252 Investment Co 272 – 8 5.5 4.3 4137X 2681X Philips El nv 4136K + 208 1.8 40.3
345 203 Charles Stanley 261 + 9 3.4 9.4 8 4K Agriterrav 4K … … -0.4
78K 43 IP Group 67Y + 1Y … -9.5 2470 1230 Rathbone Brs 1522 + 22 4.4 31.2 990 371 Grafton Gp Uts 693K + 11 2.6 11.5
357K 215 Chesnara 287K + 3 7.2 5.4 54 19K Aireav 29K – 1K 9.4 7.4 7N 3O PipeHawkv 4N … … 3.3
145 92K City of Lon Gpv 92K … … -7.0 … … IRF Euro Fin Inv V … … … … … Robeco N/V … … … … 338 207W Grainger 293 + 5V 1.7 17.0
617 336 Anglo-Eastern 485K – 14K 0.4 15.8 143K 78K Pressure Techv 95K … … …
474 275 City Lon Inv Gp 416 + 1 6.4 11.0 645 359 Jarvis Securitiesv 645 + 20 4.0 18.0 … … Rolinco N/V … … … … 966 550 Gr Portland‡ 582V – 2 2.1 25.7
N … Clear Leisurev N … … -0.5 197K 134 Animalcarev 165 + 2K 2.6 … 78K 37W PV Crystalox Solar 52K – 1O … …
418Y 164X Jupiter Fund Mgmt 249K – 2V 6.8 9.3
261 101O Ryl Bk Scot 119W – 1V 1.6 5.3 322 43K Hammerson 75N – 3K 34.4 -1.0
1663 926K Close Bros 1131 – 8 5.8 8.8 2708 1607K AB Foods 1929K + 13 2.4 21.5 4800 2276 Renishaw 4800 – 80 1.2 73.3
87 36 Just Group 47N – 1K … 1.6
364K 83W CMC Markets 364K + 8 0.5 41.9 585 326Y RSA Ins 433X + Y 4.8 13.3 156 88 Harworth Gp 102K – 2 0.9 12.9
850 528 Lancashire Hdgs 810 + 1 1.3 18.5 149K 58K Bakkavor Group 74 + 4X 8.1 11.7 25Y 4K Renoldv 11 … … 3.4
612N 261K Commerzbk 418Y – N … 31.5
21K 9K Leeds Groupv 12K + 1K … -1.2 2500 1430 S & U 1625 + 5 7.3 6.7 295 200 Heath (Samuel)v 200 … 6.1 7.0
925X 441Y Deutsche Bk 802Y + 12N 1.2 -3.2 686 426 Barr (AG) 440K – 1K 3.8 16.6 891V 247 Rolls-Royce 264O + W 4.4 -3.8
348 227N Direct Line Ins 295K – W 7.1 10.1 318W 138K Legal & Gen 225K – 1Y 7.4 7.4 58 30 Schroder REIT 35W + 2W 5.5 -5.6 526 243 Helical Bar‡ 303 – 3 3.3 11.9 34K 3 Bidstack Groupv 4N … … -1.9 2N 1W Ross Gp 1W … … …
3507 2382 Brit Amer Tob‡ 2705K – 79K 7.5 10.8 341V 191N Rotork 283W + 3V 2.1 26.2

Investment companies 1068 601 Britvic 792K + 3K 3.7 24.9 91X 36N SDI Groupv 54K … … 24.0
2332 1085 Burberry Grp 1425K – 37K 2.9 16.4 208 51 Senior 58 + O 12.9 8.2
12 month Price Yld Dis(-) 12 month Price Yld Dis(-) 410K 149V C&C Grp 235 – 1K 5.8 10.6 93 58K Severfield 61K … 4.5 11.5
High Low Company (p) +/- % or Pm High Low Company (p) +/- % or Pm
160 88 Carr's Grp 113O – 1K 4.1 8.2 21K 7N Six Hundredv 8Y … 8.4 2.9
580 190 Character Grpv‡ 336 … 7.7 10.5
1189 529O 3I Group 865 + 2V 4.4 9.7 640 285V IP UKSmallerCos 384K – 3K 2.1 -15.5 1764N 1013O SKF B 1628Y – 11 1.5 17.9
317O 184Y 3i Infrastructure 298K – 1 3.6 19.8 527K 328K JPM American 500 + 3K 1.2 -6.6 2020 722K Churchill Chinav 975 – 45 3.1 11.9
125 65 Slingsby (HC)v 125 … … 0.5
116 66V Abrdn Div I&G 93O – V 4.6 -14.9 420 272 JPM Asia 408 + 5K 3.8 -2.8 2898 1494 Coca Cola HBC‡ 2063 – 29 2.3 18.3
1547X 608N Aberforth Smlr 883 … 3.6 -10.0 80O 35 JPM Brazil 65O … 1.1 -9.1 1769K 814K Smiths 1486 – 5 3.0 60.1
510 315 Colefaxv 395 … 1.3 11.1
880 536 Alliance 806 – 2 1.6 -6.2 540 284K JPM Chinese 497 … 1.2 -6.9 675 245 Solid Statev 560 … 2.2 13.4
438 302K Asia Dragon Trv 406 … 1.0 -14.9 798 446 JPM Claverhs 576 … 4.9 -3.5 4000 2488 Cranswick 3658 + 28 1.5 25.8
302K 152 Somero Enterv 225 … 6.4 8.0
247 141 Athelney Trust 165 … 4.1 -29.1 106 99 JPM Elect Mg C 102K … 0.3 -1.1
210 126V Devro 140O + 1O 6.3 -5.6
802 459 AVI Global Trust 712 … 2.6 -10.6 929O 565V JPM Elect Mg G 800 … 1.8 -4.8 3005 2132 Spectris 2635 + 30 2.3 13.0
1140 594 Baillie Gifford Euro Gr1120 + 5 2.8 -5.3 114 64 JPM Elect Mg I 84K … 5.2 -6.4 3625K 2200 Diageo 2793 – 23 2.4 21.7
10645 7330 Spirax-Sarco 10645 + 170 0.9 47.2
851 514 Baillie Gifford Jpn Tr 802 + 2 0.4 -5.9 1277K 706 JPM Em Mkts 1048 + 10 1.3 -9.2 1N K Distil PLCv 1 … … …
197K 105 Baillie Gifford SN 192W – K … -1.6 305 170Y JPM Eur IT Gth 279 + 3K 2.7 -15.5 27Y 14 Surface Trsfmsv 26 … … …
206N 111 Baillie Gifford UK Gr 177N + N 1.5 -6.3 166 78O JPM Eur IT Inc 119K – 2 4.7 -14.4 1K N Equat Palm Oilv N … … -0.1
… … Tex Hldgs# 73 … 3.4 -4.9
1038 689 Bankers 1020 – 6 2.1 1.4 405N 209 JPM Euro Smlr 365 … 1.6 -16.9 104 53 Finsbury Foodv 60 + K 5.8 8.0
1950 1460 BH Global 1807K + 10 … -2.8 144X 82 JPM GEMI 114K + O 4.1 -10.9 359 231 Thorpe FWv 302 … 1.8 23.6
8505 3590 Games Workshop 8455 – 250 1.8 42.1
3670 2097 BH Macro 3450 … … 8.7 351K 218 JPM GG&I 350 – 1 3.8 2.8
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214 117 BlckRck Inc & Gwth 162 + 4 4.1 -11.9 107 63 JPM Mlti-Ass 85W … 3.3 -9.2 2292 1515 Ultra Electrncs 2132 + 44 2.4 20.3
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108 36 Mission Groupv 58 … 3.7 8.1 2283 1277 Bunzl 2283 + 21 2.2 21.8
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the times | Tuesday July 21 2020 1G M
Popular and thoughtful
chaplain to the Queen
The Rev Prebendary Bill Scott
Page 54
Obituaries
Tony Elliott
Visionary founder of Time Out magazine who built a global media empire from a listings pamphlet that he started as a student
In 1968 Tony Elliott was a student read-
ing French and history at Keele Uni-
versity when a well-heeled aunt gave
him £75 (about £1,100 in today’s money)
for his 21st birthday.
He was due to spend the final year of
his course on an exchange programme
in France and the cash might have
funded a bacchanal in the clubs and
cafés of Paris’s Latin Quarter. Instead,
Elliott decided to abandon his studies
and use the money to start a magazine.
The first issue was put together on his
mother’s kitchen table and was going to
be called Where It’s At until a last-
minute change to Time Out, after a
classic jazz album by Dave Brubeck. It
was initially a one-sheet pamphlet that
folded out to give detailed information
on where to go and what to do in
London; the first issue had a print run of
5,000. With no distributor, Elliott and
his partner and co-editor Bob Harris —
who would later achieve fame as “Whis-
pering Bob” of The Old Grey Whistle Test
— delivered copies to record shops,
Kings Road fashion stores and other hip
outlets around the capital.
“It was an era of dope, sex and
rock’n’roll, heavily laced with serious
cultural and political intellect,” Elliott
recalled. “I was fully connected to the
cultural changes and the new wave,
whether that was music, theatre,
poetry, books. The only place where
you could find out about these things
was in what was called the under-
ground press, but none of them were
doing the information in a focused or
dedicated way.”
Time Out covered not only London’s
burgeoning counterculture but also the
mainstream arts, the listings laced with
editorial copy on the radical political
issues of the day. “We had the best of the
established and the best of the new,” he
said. “I think people took one look at
the clarity of what we were doing and
thought ‘why hasn’t anyone thought of
doing this before?’. Itt was really
plugging a need.”
He had taken the pre-
ee-
caution of asking Kee-
le whether he could d which bought a controlling stake.
return to complete
his course if the
venture failed, but
he never went
back. Harris soon
departed for a
career as a radio DJ
but Time Out grew
rapidly to become a
touchstone of life in
London, expanding from
fortnightly to weekly ly publi-
cation and coveringg food, drink
and travel in addition on to the arts and
street politics. By 1970 it had grown to
68 pages and was stocked in WH Smith.
At about the same time, Richard
Branson, a contemporary of Elliott at
Stowe School, was running another hip,
youth-orientated magazine called
Student and preparing to launch into
record retailing. Both went on to
feature prominently in The Sunday
Times Rich List, with Elliott’s wealth
peaking at an estimated £91 million.
Although he did not diversify with
the same profligacy as Branson, he built
Time Out into a global brand, licensing
the name until his empire comprised 40
magazines in cities around the world
Elliott in his office in 1971, and with his wife Janey in 2011
E that because of the downturn and our
fr
from New York to
C
Cape Town, along
w
with dozens of
tra
travel books and
city guides. Ener-
getic and imbued
with a boyish enthusi-
asm, he was a benevolent
if demanding
if demand boss whose
bui on a hands-on
success was built
style He involved him
style. himself in every as-
pect of editorial, design and marketing.
A Sunday Times interview in 1988 mark-
ing Time Out’s 20th birthday noted that
Elliott’s “Peter Pan exterior disguises an
astute businessman”.
Cyndi Stivers, the first editor of Time
Out’s New York edition, which Elliott
launched in 1995, recalled his forensic
attention to detail. “Once, someone ac-
cidentally opened up the file containing
the logo and shifted the text something
like 1/128th of an inch. None of us
noticed it, but he did, immediately.”
Throughout the 1970s Time Out posi-
tioned itself as an alternative publica-
tion covering issues such as racial dis-
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crimination, police harassment and the
role of the state. “It was a very political
period,” Elliott later said. “We had the
disaster of Ted Heath and the miners’
strike through the Labour government
and then Thatcher coming in.”
The magazine backed initiatives such
as the Anti-Nazi League and Rock
Against Racism and risked prosecution
in 1976 by publishing the names of 60
alleged CIA agents stationed in Britain.
At first it operated on a collective
The first issue was
put together on his
mother’s kitchen table
basis in which all staff were paid the
same. In 1981 Elliott attempted to place
the magazine on a sounder commercial
footing by introducing pay scales and
asserting what he called “the manage-
ment’s right to manage”. The staff went
on strike, resulting in Elliott closing the
title for three months and firing most of
Register
them. The sacked workers launched the
rival City Limits with a grant from Ken
Livingstone’s Greater London Council.
Elliott was particularly bitter that the
dispute scuppered his move to buy the
bankrupt music magazine ZigZag. His
plan involved expanding the maga-
zine’s coverage to include “fashion,
clubs, sport and anything of interest to
the younger stylish generation”. Once
again he had smartly identified a gap in
the market and he remained convinced
that a revamped ZigZag could have ri-
valled The Face as the most significant
style magazine of the 1980s.
When Time Out re-emerged after the
strike to go head-to-head with the nas-
cent City Limits, it easily won the circu-
lation war but lost most of its political
radicalism. Elliott characterised the
magazine’s shift towards the main-
stream as simply a reflection of the
yuppified times.
He might have built Time Out into an
even more formidable global enterprise
but for being a self-confessed control
freak. “I’d always hoped I’d never, ever
end up selling the business,” he said.
“Control was always going to be a diffi-
cult issue with me because I’d never
worked for anyone else in my life.”
Yet he came to regret twice turning
down a partnership with Condé Nast,
first in the 1970s when the publishers of
Vogue, Vanity Fair and Tatler offered to
invest in return for 30 per cent equity
and again three decades later when
talks with Jonathan Newhouse, the
Condé Nast chairman, foundered on
the company’s insistence on taking
control. “I told him that he had ‘crossed
the line’ and I was quite cross,” Elliott
said. “With hindsight, the partnership
would have been a good fit.”
He was forced to sell a 50 per cent
stake in 2010 when Time Out found it-
self heavily indebted in the aftermath of
the recession. Ceding control for the
first time in more than 40 years, Elliott
appointed David King, a former BBC
finance director, to run the day-to-day
operations. King brought in the private
investment company Oakley Capital,
“I’m a practical person and I accepted
debt position, something
had to happen,” Elliott
said. His prediction that
the share he retained
would become “worth
hugely more than if I
held on to 100 per cent”
proved right. Six years
later the Time Out
Group was
floated on the
stock ex-
change with
a valuation
of £200 mil-
lion and a
global reach
of 116 mil-
lion users
across print
and digital
platforms.
Elliott re-
mained closely
involved with
the business,
even after a dia-
gnosis of lung
53
cancer. “Tony kept sending emails and
calling until the last minute, about every
aspect of our content, the design, the
typeface, our social channels, our
market, our purpose,” said Julio Bruno,
chief executive of the Time Out Group.
Elliott, a reformed drinker turned
teetotaller, was a shy man who kept a
low profile. His early flames included
Anna Wintour, now the editor-in-chief
of US Vogue. In 1975 he married Janet
Street-Porter, the broadcaster and jour-
nalist; they divorced two years later but
remained friends. In 1989 he married
Janey (née Coke), with whom he shared
a six-bedroom house in St John’s Wood,
London. She survives him along with
their sons, Rufus, a producer in the me-
dia industry, and twins, Bruce, a teacher,
and Lawrence, a singer-songwriter.
Anthony Michael Manton Elliott
was born in London in 1947, the son of
Alan Elliott, the managing director of a
food wholesaling company, and Kath-
A self-confessed control
freak, he turned down
offers of partnerships
erine Elliott, a doctor. After attending a
private infant school in Knightsbridge
run by the mother of the actress Susan
Hampshire, he boarded at prep schools
in Surrey and Sussex, an experience he
enjoyed as an opportunity to escape
from home life and a father whom he
admitted he found “intimidating”.
At 11 he was sent to Stowe, where the
highlight of his five years was the Beat-
les playing a concert at the school in
1963. “John Lennon got out of the car
and said: ‘My God, it’s all boys!’,” he re-
called. As a student Elliott claimed he
was “definitely Division Two”. He
transferred to Westminster College for
his A levels and discovered a love of
Godard films; at Keele he edited a
magazine called Unit, for which he
interviewed John Peel and Jimi
Hendrix, making invaluable contacts
in London’s counterculture.
He prided himself on having his
finger on the cultural pulse, al-
though his judgment was not
infallible. He recalled inter-
viewing the little-known
David Bowie for an early
issue of Time Out after a
sparsely attended gig in
Beckenham. “He was
very quiet and
hard to involve
in conversa-
tion,” Elliott
said.
“I remem-
ber think-
ing, ‘Oh, just
another
hippy folk
singer’, so
his later
emergence
was a sur-
prise.”
Tony Elliott,
publisher, was
born on January
7, 1947. He died of
lung cancer on July
17, 2020, aged 73
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The Rev Prebendary Bill Scott
Unflappable Anglo-Catholic clergyman and popular, thoughtful chaplain to the Queen in a variety of royal preferments
Bill Scott’s ministry took him from the
back streets of the Gorbals to the corri-
dors of Buckingham Palace.
He occupied several ecclesiastical
roles in the royal household, including
that of sub-almoner, overseeing the
annual royal Maundy service in which
the Queen distributes purses of spec-
ially minted silver coins to pensioners.
His other royal roles included sub-
dean of Her Majesty’s Chapels Royal,
deputy clerk of the closet and domestic
chaplain to the Queen from 2007 to
2015, reinstating the Wednesday ser-
vice of Holy Communion in the chapel
at Buckingham Palace and attending
the Queen each year at the Cenotaph
on Remembrance Sunday. He was the
only full-time clerical member of the
household which, he said, meant being
“a sort of ‘vicar’ in the London palaces”.
Scott was a man of deep prayer and
spiritual wisdom, the daily offices of
the church being the bedrock of his
life. He was a trusted confessor and
spiritual director, and countless priests,
nuns and lay people sought his counsel.
He knew his way around the most com-
plex liturgy, yet was equally at home in
the simplicity of an early Mass in a
country church or convent chapel and
had a simple, direct style from the
pulpit.
Firmly embedded in the Anglo-
Catholic wing of the Church of En-
gland, Scott found a comfortable home
at St Mary’s Bourne Street, the high-
profile church near Sloane Square that
was once described in a Times headline
as “More Roman than Romans”.
Soon after his arrival as vicar of St
Mary’s in 1991 the Church of England
decided to ordain women priests, a
move opposed by the congregation.
Some wanted him to lead them into the
Roman Catholic Church, an idea to
which he was not unsympathetic, but
he eventually concluded that it was not
the right thing for him or for the parish.
Joanna Cole
Prolific children’s author whose enduring Magic School Bus series made science entertaining and easy to understand
Where her fellow New Yorkers saw
vermin, Joanna Cole spied opportunity.
Living in a low-rent apartment building
in the notoriously pest-infested city, the
aspiring author was used to sharing liv-
ing space with six-legged flatmates.
A Wall Street Journal article piqued
her curiosity about cockroaches. After
some digging, Cole determined that —
unsurprisingly — no one had yet writ-
ten a children’s book about the much-
loathed insects. She closed that gap in
the market in 1971 with Cockroaches,
launching a prolific career chiefly
known for the multimillion-selling
Magic School Bus series that made her a
trailblazer for science education, espe-
cially for girls.
Thorough research was one of the
hallmarks of Cole’s approach. This was
evident from the very start, when she
kept a container of cockroaches in her
apartment to study them.
“One of them she became very fond
of,” her daughter, Rachel, told National
Public Radio. “Her name was Grace
because her antennae were so graceful.
And Grace became pregnant. Then,
one day, the container tipped over, and
the roaches ran out. And my mother
couldn’t bring herself to stomp on
Grace, so she let her go, and then her
apartment became infested with cock-
roaches.”
In the mid-1980s an editor at the edu-
cational publishing house Scholastic
sought an author and an illustrator to
develop science-led stories for primary
school-age children that could humor-
Scott, far left, welcomes the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh to Westminster Abbey in 2011
Scott was no administrator. Curates
would be alarmed to find a family turn-
ing up for a private baptism that Scott
was convinced he had asked them to
take. It was all written down, illegibly, in
a little black diary that only he saw. One
curate lent him a book on time manage-
ment and organisational skills, but
when the curate asked for it back a
month later, Scott had misplaced it.
Despite his high-church leanings,
Scott was never liturgically fussy; “de-
cently and in order” was what mat-
tered. When arranging the requiem for
a former vicar he asked a colleague to
keep an eye on the bishop, who was in-
clined to be unpredictable in the sanc-
tuary. Scott instructed: “Sit next to him
and if it looks as if he’s going to wander
off, just stand on his cope.”
William Sievwright Scott was born in
Glasgow in 1946, the son of David Scott,
a marine engine fitter, and his wife
Joanna Cole with Bruce Degen, the longtime illustrator of her acclaimed books
ously blend fact and fiction. Cole was
recruited and the first in the series, The
Magic School Bus at the Waterworks,
was published in 1986, with detailed
illustrations by Bruce Degen, who be-
came her longtime collaborator.
A chipper teacher, Ms Frizzle, takes
her students on fantastical field trips,
leading them inside the human body, to
outer space, and to meet dinosaurs. The
flame-haired, flamboyantly clothed Ms
Frizzle, an unabashed eccentric, is part-
ly based on one of Cole’s childhood
Amelia (née Sievwright). He told how
his vocation was sparked by standing in
the pulpit of the local Presbyterian
church to give a reading at the school
carol service. He was educated at Har-
ris Academy, Dundee, studied for holy
orders at Edinburgh Theological Col-
lege and in 1971 was ordained priest in
the Scottish Episcopal Church.
His first curacy was at St Ninian’s
church, in the Gorbals area of Glasgow,
which he recalled being rather wild.
“The police went round in threes, but I
went out alone,” he said. “The Catholic-
Protestant divide was still very alive,
and I was often asked if I was a priest or
a minister, to which I always replied,
‘a little bit of both’, before retreating
quickly.”
After a couple of years it was decreed
that he would benefit from a taste of the
Church of England and he was sent to
be the first curate of St Francis of Assisi
SCHOLASTIC
teachers, who made her students do an
experiment each week. The books gar-
nered acclaim for their dexterous blend
of education and entertainment. A
critic for The New York Times Book Re-
view wrote in 1988 that they do for
science education what Sesame Street
did for teaching letters and numbers,
“by making it so entertaining that
children had no idea they were actually
learning something”.
Joanna Reid Basilea was born in
Newark, New Jersey, in 1944, to Mario,
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its fair share of social
problems. He then
enjoyed a village ge curacy
esting his voca-
before briefly testing
tion as a Benedictine monk at Nash-
dom Abbey, Buckinghamshire.
It was not to be and he returned to
another rural West Country parish
before in 1984 being appointed chap-
lain at the Community of All Hallows,
Ditchingham, in the depths of the Nor-
folk countryside.
The first step towards royal prefer-
ment came with his appointment as
vicar of St Mary’s. In 1996, during the
80th anniversary commemorations of
the Battle of the Somme, he preached to
the Duke of Gloucester and other dig-
nitaries at a solemn service beneath Sir
a house painter, and Elizabeth, a stay-
at-home mother, and was fascinated by
science and nature from an early age.
She graduated from the City College of
New York with a degree in psychology
and took a job as an elementary school
teacher but found it too gruelling. She
then worked as a librarian and had a
stint at Newsweek magazine, where she
had to respond to letters to the editor
that were deemed unsuitable for publi-
cation. “It was tremendous fun,” she
told the Ottawa Citizen. “We wrote on
old manual typewriters.”
In 1965 she married Phil Cole, a thera-
pist who also co-wrote a couple of her
books. In her later years they moved to
Iowa to live near Rachel, who is married
with two children. Phil also survives her.
They first met when she was 14 and
began dating a few years later when they
encountered each other again at a civil
rights march.
In the 1970s she worked as a book edi-
tor while writing stories of her own. The
success of the Magic Bus tales spawned
a collection of video games, merchan-
dising tie-ins including McDonald’s
Happy Meal toys, and an animated se-
ries that debuted in 1994 with a theme
song performed, implausibly but with
characteristic zest, by a 62-year-old
Little Richard (obituary, May 11, 2020).
Ms Frizzle was voiced by Lily Tomlin,
urging her charges to “take chances,
make mistakes and get messy!”. And, of
course, to wear their seatbelts.
The potential of “The Friz” as a fe-
male role model attracted fresh atten-
Tuesday July 21 2020 | the times
Edwin Lutyens’s great Thiepval memo-
rial, telling his congregation: “It has
been said that never have so many men
walked so confidently to a certain
death.”
The unflappable Scott, who retained
a distinctive burr that rarely rose above
mezzo forte no matter the calamity, was
unmarried but soon discovered, partic-
ularly at St Mary’s, there was no short-
age of clergy widows who perceived a
vacancy. He observed of one: “Her
problem is she wants to be the mistress
of the manse and while I am here, she is
not going to be.”
He was a candidate in the 1997 elect-
ion for Bishop of Brechin, back in the
Scottish Episcopal Church, but was not
chosen. Instead, he became addition-
ally priest-in-charge
prie of St Barnabas,
Pim
Pimlico, area dean of Westmin-
st (St Margaret) and, from
ster
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2000, prebendary of St Paul’s
Cathedral. From 1991 to 2007
he was also chaplain to the
Priory of Our Lady of Wals-
ingham in Norfolk.
came to be chosen for a
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more confounded to be invited
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in 2002 by the Duchy of Lancas-
ter to serve as chaplain of the
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Queen’s Chapel of the Savoy, an ancient
chapel that nestles at the side of the
Savoy Hotel, before serving in the royal
household. He retired in 2015.
Scott was a great reader of novels and
poetry, and loved convivial dinner par-
ties, whether as host or guest. One of his
biggest was the bash he organised for
his 70th birthday at the Savile Club
where, even in a venue that large, there
was not room for all his friends.
The Rev Prebendary Bill Scott, CVO,
former chaplain to the Queen, was born
on February 1, 1946. He died of liver
cancer on July 17, 2020, aged 74
tion in the United States two decades
later when the Obama administration
announced a drive to increase the par-
ticipation of girls and women in
science, technology, engineering and
maths (Stem) subjects. Tomlin also fea-
tured in a reboot, The Magic School Bus
Rides Again, released on Netflix in 2017.
It was reported in June this year that
Elizabeth Banks will star as Ms Frizzle
in a live action-animation hybrid film
adaptation. A book finished shortly
before Cole’s death, The Magic School
Bus Explores Human Evolution, is
scheduled to be published next year.
Cole was content to lead a far less
adventurous life than her characters.
Away from work, she cared for her pets
— dogs, guinea pigs and cats — or used
her hands to garden, knit, crochet and
draw pictures of animals. She wrote
more than 250 books and the Magic
School Bus series has sold in excess of
93 million print copies in 13 countries.
She was stunned by the popularity of
her creations.
“I wanted to write children’s books
and be successful at it but this is some-
thing else all together. This is a once-in-
a-lifetime experience. And I have a
sense of amazed pride that these books
will attract kids to science,” she told The
New York Times in 1994. “A friend of
mine said this is a dream come true, but
it’s beyond any dream I had.”
Joanna Cole, children’s author, was born
on August 11, 1944. She died of lung
disease on July 12, 2020, aged 75
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Chrysostomos Panayiotopoulos
Neurologist who specialised in the treatment of epilepsy
Approbation was never in short
supply for Chrysostomos Pan-
ayiotopoulos, but he was under
no illusion that it was the most
important thing in life. One of
the fathers of the study of epi-
lepsy, he put his name to a varie-
ty of the condition and taught its
treatment at the universities of
Harvard, Colorado, Riyadh and
Western Australia. Yet these
plaudits did not matter much to
him, because his difficult early
years had given him an indelible
sense that a good life consisted
of helping others, and being
grateful for being able to meet
one’s basic needs.
He was born on the Greek is-
land of Tinos in the Aegean to
Pavlos and Sophia in 1938. Still
in the throes of the Depression,
the islanders struggled to feed
themselves. During the years of
Nazi occupation and the bitter
civil war that followed, he had to
share his food with his dog to
During the war he
shared his food with
his dog to save it
stop it starving. The family
moved to the island of Kos
because its fishermen and farm-
ers had an easier time of it. Pan-
ayiotopoulos excelled in his
studies and was able to train as a
medic at the military school in
Thessaloniki, after which he
went to Birmingham to study
neurology.
He chose to specialise in the
study and treatment of epilepsy
because “from the early stages
of my medical career, I was im-
pressed by the kindness, loyalty,
patience, and unmet needs of
children and patients with epi-
leptic seizures. I was also ad-
versely impressed, frustrated,
and sometimes angry that tradi-
tional medical teaching and atti-
tudes to the diagnosis and man-
agement of epilepsies often dif-
fered from those applied in
other medical conditions.”
He saw that doctors were lazi-
ly lumping together several dif-
Court Circular
Clarence House
20th July, 2020
The Prince of Wales, Duke of
Cornwall, and The Duchess of
Cornwall this morning visited
Tintagel Bridge, Tintagel, and
were received by Her Majesty’s
Lord-Lieutenant of Cornwall
(Colonel Edward Bolitho).
The Duchess of Cornwall,
Patron, this afternoon visited
Cornwall Air Ambulance
Headquarters and named the
new Duchess of Cornwall
helicopter, Trevithick Downs,
Newquay.
St James’s Palace
20th July, 2020
The Countess of Wessex this
morning attended the
Preventing Sexual Violence in
Conflict Steering Board
Meeting via a video
conference call.
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ferent kinds of epilepsy, thereby
forcing many patients to under-
go unnecessary treatment.
He discovered that many
children were undergoing dras-
tic chemical and surgical treat-
ment to be cured of a form of
epilepsy that was largely harm-
less, and which goes away of its
own accord after a few years.
Many researchers in his field
were hostile to his purported
discovery of this “Panayioto-
poulos syndrome”, but he was
later vindicated by several large
clinical studies.
The neurologist authored or
co-authored
over 140 papers
about epilepsy,
and co-wrote
The Atlas of Ep-
ilepsies and A
Clinical Guide
to Epileptic
Syndromes and
Their Treat-
ment. He
would work on
these publica-
tions late into
the night, sift-
ing through a
snowdrift of
data sheets,
leaving his
ld forgotten
cigarette to smoulder f tt
in an ashtray. As well as identify-
ing Panayiotopoulos syndrome
he also described another form
of epilepsy, and F-wave chrono-
dispersion, a highly sensitive
measurement of motor nerve
conduction. His strong work
ethic was driven not only by a
sense of obligation to help
people, but an irritation that
some of his colleagues seemed
not to take that obligation as se-
riously as they should.
Alongside his academic work
he was for nearly 20 years a con-
sultant in clinical neurophysiol-
ogy and epilepsies at St Thomas’
Hospital London. He lived in
Dulwich, south London, with
his wife Thalia (née Valeta), an
actress and writer whom he had
met in Athens through a mutual
friend. They had one son, Paris,
a senior managing director at
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FOR just as we share abundantly in the HAMLIN Deborah Mary (née Baker) RICHARDSON Jean (née Pring) died
sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort
abounds through Christ.
died peacefully at St. George's
Hospital, Tooting on 13th July 2020.
peacefully on 17th July 2020, aged 93.
Much loved wife of David and mother
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Bible verses are provided by the Benjamin and Timothy and stepmother grandchildren.
and Sophia, who is a stay-at- Bible Society to Katy and Andrew. She contributed
home mother. Both survive him, much to the lives of many through her SHAW Revd Prof D.W.D. (Bill) OBE
careers in the health service, the RNIB Peacefully on 14th July 2020, in
as does Thalia. In later life Pan- and her much loved club and county Edinburgh, the Reverend Bill Shaw,
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in his Edzell home on the 17th July, mother to Gregory, Isabel, Juliana
on the island of Spetses. Once aged 94. and Alexander and cherished
there he would invariably find a grandmother of nine. Funeral at
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sure he saw them all.
Claudia has never known a life
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was born on January 31, 1938. He
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Today Sunny spells in southern areas. Cloudy with patchy rain in the northwest. Max 24C (75F), min 5C (41F) Weather Eye
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Amsterdam 20 PC Madrid 35 S
The first tourist guide to the islands
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dry with spells of sunshine at first, but NE Scotland, Moray Firth, Aberdeen, 20C (68F), minimum 10C (50F). published after the First World War
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with a few showers in north Wales. Edinburgh & Dundee, Borders, N Isles: Channel Is, SW Eng, Cen S Eng, SE Eng, described it in a pithy sentence:
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Geneva 29 PC São Paulo 22 S Liverpool 00:11 9.0 12:38 8.9
Gibraltar 27 PC Seoul 24 B 17 London Bridge 03:02 7.0 15:27 6.9
Synoptic situation Highs and lows Hours of darkness
Harare ** ** Seychelles 28 PC Lowestoft 10:44 2.5 23:15 2.4 24hrs to 5pm yesterday Aberdeen 22:12-04:18
Helsinki 23 PC Singapore 31 B Milford Haven 07:29 6.6 19:47 6.9 An area of high pressure ridging Belfast 22:13-04:48
Hong Kong 33 PC St Petersburg 25 PC from near the Azores will Warmest: Gospot Fleetlands,
17 Morecambe 00:14 9.0 12:38 9.0 Hampshire, 23.8C Birmingham 21:46-04:43
Honolulu 31 B Stockholm 20 S lead to dry and largely sunny Coldest: Cairngorm, 1.9C
21 Newhaven 00:00 6.4 12:30 6.5 Cardiff 21:46-04:53
Istanbul 27 PC Sydney 16 S conditions across much of Wettest: Balmoral, 8.8mm
Newquay 06:19 6.7 18:37 6.9 Exeter 21:44-04:57
Jerusalem 32 S Tel Aviv 32 S England, Wales and southern Sunniest: Morecambe,
Oban 07:14 3.7 19:20 3.9 Lancashire, 14.6hrs* Glasgow 22:13-04:35
Johannesburg 17 S Tenerife 27 S Ireland. Sunny spells to start
20 Penzance 05:51 5.2 18:12 5.5 Liverpool 21:55-04:43
Kuala Lumpur 32 PC Tokyo 28 PC farther north, but a set of
28 PC 20 B Portsmouth 00:25 4.6 12:55 4.6 Sun and moon London 21:34-04:40
Lanzarote Vancouver fronts will spread cloud and rain For Greenwich Manchester 21:52-04:39
Las Palmas 26 PC Venice 27 S Shoreham 00:05 6.0 12:35 6.1 Sun rises: 05.09
The Times weathererr Southampton 02:21 4.1 11:58 4.4
across northern parts of Ireland Newcastle 21:57-04:29
Lima 16 DU Vienna 27 PC Sun sets: 21.03
and Scotland, spreading into Moon rises: 05.32 Norwich 21:34-04:29
Lisbon 28 S Warsaw 28 PC page is provided Swansea 07:36 8.9 19:51 9.2
northern England during the Moon sets: 22.00 Penzance 21:50-05:08
Los Angeles 20 B Washington 36 B Tees 04:46 5.2 17:13 5.2
39 S 27 PC
by Weatherquestt evening and overnight. First quarter: July 27 Sheffield 21:48-04:37
Luxor Zurich Weymouth 08:10 1.9 20:22 2.2
the times | Tuesday July 21 2020 1G M 57

Sport JAMIE SQUIRE/GETTY IMAGES

Majors the next Europeans at world No 1

Rahm is the tenth European to top the world
rankings and the second player from Spain

target for Rahm

First at Last at Total
Player
No 1 No 1 wks
B Langer Ger April 1986 April 1986 3
S Ballesteros Sp April 1986 Aug 1989 61
N Faldo Eng Sept 1990 Feb 1994 97

after completing I Woosnam Wales April 1991 Mar 1992 50

L Westwood Eng
M Kaymer Ger
L Donald Eng
Oct 2010 May 2011 22
Feb 2011 April 2011
May 2011 Aug 2012 56
8

a ‘lifelong dream’ R McIlroy N Ire

J Rose Eng
J Rahm Sp
Mar 2012 July 2020 106
Sept 2018 April 2019 13
July 2020 July 2020 1

In his rise to world No 1 was still a special occasion for Rahm

ranking, fiery Spaniard
has shown talent to win
golf’s greatest prizes,
writes Stuart Fraser
in these strange and surreal times. He
recent years — marriage to his
longtime girlfriend, Kelley Cahill, in
can never have imagined that the
moment in which he became the best
December appears to have had a
mellowing effect — although he still
golfer on the planet would take place has his moments. On Sunday he
behind closed doors, with no cheers slammed his club into the 11th tee box
and only a smattering of broadcasters after a poor drive. He was leading by
and tournament staff to offer a ripple seven shots at the time.
of applause. This fiery competitive nature will
Rahm, 25, has done something that surely make Rahm a crucial Ryder

I
n 2016 a 21-year-old Jon Rahm José María Olazábal and Sergio Cup stalwart for Europe. He has only
travelled to Muirfield Village to García, both major winners, could not played in one so far, making his debut
be presented with the Jack by following in the footsteps of Seve at Le Golf National in 2018.
Nicklaus National Player of the Ballesteros to become only the second Impressively, he recovered from two
Year award, recognising his Spaniard to be ranked No 1 in the defeats in the four-balls to claim a 2
achievements on the American world. It caps a meteoric rise for a and 1 victory over Tiger Woods in the
college golf circuit. He made the most player who, unlike many before him, singles.
of the opportunity, picking the brain has well and truly fulfilled the Becoming the world No 1 without
of Nicklaus in preparation for turning promise he showed in his amateur winning a major brings a monkey on
professional. days. the back to shake off, but many
Four years later golf’s greatest Born and raised in the Basque within the sport do not foresee this
champion stood by the 18th green of country, Rahm believed from an being a problem for Rahm. His best
his Ohio course on early age that he was chances will likely come on American
Sunday at the capable of such an soil, on which he has already claimed
conclusion of the achievement. He moved to top-four finishes at the Masters, US
Memorial the United States at the Rahm kept his cool to win the Memorial Tournament by three shots and go top PGA Championship and US Open
Tournament, which age of 17 and became a of the rankings, with his wife Kelley Cahill, left, on hand to congratulate him since the start of 2018.
Rahm won by three star on the college “Jon Rahm is a remarkable talent,
strokes, to be among circuit for the confident in his potential that he this quickly, in less than ten years. and you’re seeing it,” Mickelson said.
the first to Arizona State made a casual bet with a friend in How many people get to achieve a “You’re seeing it in his play week in
congratulate him Sun Devils, 2016 that Rahm would be ranked lifelong dream in their mid-twenties? and week out from a game that has
on the completion of spending a inside the world’s top ten within a It’s incredible. To be the second no weaknesses. He drives it long,
his ascent to world record 60 weeks year. Rahm delivered with two weeks Spaniard to do it, given there’s not drives it straight, has good iron play,
No 1. “I’m really happy at the top of the to spare and, unsurprisingly for many Europeans that have gotten to good wedge play and is a great putter.
for you,” Nicklaus said. world amateur Mickelson, has gone on to replace this spot, it’s a pretty unique feeling, He just doesn’t have a weakness.
A personal rankings. Rory McIlroy as No 1. so I’m going to enjoy it for a while.” “He also has great course
congratulations Rahm’s “I made this deal with myself very The hot-headed Rahm has often management, thinks himself around
from Nicklaus, exploits caught young,” Rahm said. “I believe at 13 or made more headlines for his tantrums the golf course, and he knows himself.
albeit with an the eye of Phil 14 I started working towards that goal, on the course than his steady play, He knows that to relax sometimes he
awkward fist bump Mickelson, who and everything I’ve done golf-wise and it seemed perfectly apt in 2017 has to let some of his anger out. He
rather than a warm the Action has been to become No 1 in the world when he hired a former bomb- can’t hold that in. It might upset some
handshake, went a long Network and become the best player I can be. disposal expert as his mental coach. people, but he knows that it allows
way to ensuring that this reports was so It’s pretty surreal that it’s happened There have been improvements in him to be at his best.”
558 2G M Tuesday July 21 2020 | the times

Sport

Harlequins quiz Lampard Helpline opened for athletes

Gymnastics The helpline is being funded by UK

on playing without fans Matt Lawton Chief Sports Correspondent

The British Athletes Commission has
said that it is already reviewing several
cases relating to allegations of bullying
Sport and Sport England.
“This is a significant moment for
sport as a whole,” Aggar said. “It is
important that athletes who come
forward are heard and supported.”
Rugby union in school — where there is no crowd joined the club. “We had a frustrating and other forms of abuse within British The BAC’s members include 1,200
Alex Lowe Deputy Rugby Correspondent and no one there,” Gustard said. first half of the year. Our injury rate was Gymnastics. athletes across 40 sports. But the
“What you want are the people who crippling,” Gustard said. “The possible The BAC yesterday launched a help- seriousness of this issue means that the
Frank Lampard has given Harlequins are most instinctively driven to team is 50 per cent different from the line in tandem with the NSPCC to BAC is “opening its doors” to elite
tips on how to emulate Chelsea and compete and the likes of Brown and first part of the year. support athletes and, if necessary, athletes from other sports.
make a successful return to action Chris Robshaw have never shirked the “Mike’s [Brown] professionalism is direct them to the relevant authorities. “The helpline is a safe space for fur-
when the Premiership season resumes ability to compete. incredible. If you told him to get up at Vicki Aggar, the chairwoman of the ther whistleblowing and will offer ath-
on August 14. “Those are the personality 3.16am to put an ice pack on, he BAC, told The Times that it has been letes the opportunity to input into the
The Chelsea head coach, who visited types you want when there is no would do that. “busy” since claims about abuse independent review,” a statement read.
Harlequins last autumn as part of his one driving you from outside.” “He is fiercely determined to play surfaced this month. The confidential helpline is free and
Uefa coaching licence, guided his team After talking with Lampard, and we anticipate having him Last week British Gymnastics said it staffed by trained NSPCC counsellors.
into the FA Cup final with a 2-0 victory Gustard will try to organise a fully available for game one. would step aside and allow UK Sport The helpline will be available 8am-10pm
over Manchester United on Sunday. friendly or an intra-squad “We have themed this and Sport England to conduct an inde- on weekdays and 9am-6pm on weekends
Chelsea are also third in the Premier match at the Twicken- ‘Prime Time’. We are pendent review into the allegations. on 0800 056 0566
League and are aiming to secure ham Stoop to replicate priming ourselves for
Champions League football for next what it will be like when our launch on the
season. Sale Sharks visit on
Harlequins will resume their
Premiership campaign seven points off
August 14.
“As Eddie [Jones]
Premiership and then
it is a knockout. Each
game, if you get a
Enable has O’Brien to beat
the play-off places but with a rebuilt often says, with clarity positive result, we will get
back division after they had been you get confidence. So as closer to where we ultimately Racing regain the winning thread and her main
ravaged by injuries during the first half coaches and players it’s good want to get.” Rob Wright Racing Editor market rivals are all trained by O’Brien,
of the campaign. for us to know and experience Lampard visited Harle- who is seeking a fifth King George
Paul Gustard, the Harlequins head of what we’re about to play,” quins with Michael Carrick, The Irish trainer Aidan O’Brien will victory.
rugby, has spent lockdown studying Gustard said. the Manchester United provide the biggest barrier to the The shortest-priced of O’Brien’s
Super Rugby for tactical developments Harlequins will resume the first-team coach, and brilliant Enable as she chases a third sextet is Magical, an 11-4 chance who
and picking the brains of British & Irish campaign with a new-look back Gustard has also built a win in the King George VI and Queen has been beaten by Enable on all five
Lions tour veterans on how best to line. Brown, the 34-year-old full relationship with Sean Elizabeth Qipco Stakes at Ascot on meetings. Nonetheless, she is a five-
manage midweek matches. back, has not played since under- Dyche, the Burnley Saturday, having made six of the eight times group one winner and made a
Last week he called Lampard for going knee surgery in December manager, through his entries for the midsummer showpiece. successful return to action when
advice on playing in an empty stadium. but he is on course to be fit for the involvements in FA Enable is attempting to become the beating Cayenne Pepper in the Pretty
Acclimatisation will be vital, he learnt, Sale game. coaching courses. first horse to win the prize three times, Polly Stakes at the Curragh.
so too the influence of ultra-competi- Nathan Earle, the wing, is fit again, “We have to learn from other having been successful in both 2017 and O’Brien also has 5-1 chance, Japan,
tive players such as Mike Brown and Joe Marchant is back from a stint in sports, Gustard said. “It’s good last year. John Gosden’s charge was who will appreciate a return to a mile
Chris Robshaw. Super Rugby with the Blues, while An- just to share knowledge, see runner-up to Ghaiyyath in the Coral- and a half after a one-paced third in the
“I have been talking to Frank Lam- dré Esterhuizen and Chris Ashton have what we can learn, see what Eclipse at Sandown Park on her reap- Eclipse, as well as last year’s Derby
pard about these players going into an we can take . . . and then see pearance this month but is likely to be winner, Anthony Van Dyck, who per-
environment which they probably have Earle has not played since suffering a how we can move our pro- sharper with that race under her belt. haps found the ground too soft when
not experienced since they have been knee-ligament injury in April last year gramme forward.” She is generally the 8-11 favourite to below par at Royal Ascot.
4 (4) 42433 VOI 17 (T,D) C Allen 6-9-6 W Carver (5) 7.45 Handicap (£9,704: 1m 6f) (7) 10 (6) 6 BAMA LAMA 18 B Millman 9-0 D Muscutt
Sandown Park 5 (1) 220-6 CRANEUR 28 H Dunlop 4-9-4 T Marquand
1 (2) 6-503 AMAZING RED 11 (D) E Dunlop 7-9-7 C Shepherd
Chepstow 11(11) 5 CHORAL EVENSONG 21 J W Mullins 9-0 J Quinn
Rob Wright 6 (3) 6-514 ALVARO 32 M Wigham 4-9-4 P Cosgrave
2 (1) 231-0 DIOCLETIAN 35 (H,D) A Balding 5-9-5 O Murphy Rob Wright 12(15) 33 COUL QUEEN 36 P Evans 9-0 J F Egan
7 (7) 26012 SHAFFIRE 27 H Whittington 4-9-1 Hollie Doyle 13(13) 0 LOBESI 18 R Brisland 9-0 W Carson
3 (3) 00-00 HOCHFELD 16 (D) M Johnston 6-9-2 P J McDonald
4.25 Mutahamisa 7.15 Fev Rover 8 (6) 04603 ENGRAVE 17 (P) Miss J Feilden 4-8-13 D E Hogan (3) 1.05 Zulu Zander 3.45 Good Time Charlie 14 (5) 0 THE YELLOW MINI 21 P Gundry 9-0 S Hitchcott
5.00 Pop Dancer 7.45 Diocletian 4 (5) 3-406 MANCINI 10 (P,D) I Williams 6-9-0 B Curtis
1.40 Shobiz 4.15 Scarlet Ruby
9 (8) 21223 DYAGILEV 28 (B,D) Simon Pearce 5-8-12 J Mitchell 15(14) YOU'LL SEE P Evans 9-0 F Marsh (3)
5.35 Sandy Steve 8.15 Kings Royal Hussar 5 (6) 50-45 PLATITUDE 10 (D) Mrs A Perrett 7-8-12 P Dobbs 2.15 Sun Festival 4.50 Purple Jazz
7-2 Sandy Steve, 4-1 Shaffire, 6-1 Three C's, Voi, 8-1 others. 13-8 Sun Festival, 4-1 Coul Queen, 9-2 Paws For Thought, 6-1 others
6.05 Greek Kodiac 8.45 Zegalo 6 (7) 36-55 KALOOR 25 (T) D Menuisier 4-8-11 W Buick 2.45 Newton Jack (nb) 5.25 Mousebird
Wright choice: Sandy Steve drops in trip after being 7 (4) -0005 BUSY STREET 20 A Carroll 8-8-8 T Marquand
6.40 Amir Kabir (nap) 3.15 Lola Showgirl
collared late on at Kempton Dangers Shaffire, Voi 11-4 Amazing Red, 4-1 Platitude, 9-2 Diocletian, 5-1 Kaloor, 6-1 others. 2.45 Handicap (3-Y-O: £2,782: 7f) (10)
Going: good, good to firm in places Going: good Sky Sports Racing
Draw: 5f, low numbers best Racing TV Wright choice: Diocletian failed to last home over three- Draw: no advantage 1 (1) 0001 KNIGHT'S GATE 11 B Millman 9-8 C Bennett
6.05 Handicap (£3,493: 1m 2f) (9) quarters of a mile further at Ascot Danger Platitude 2 (6) 5-06 FORONCEINMYLIFE 171 (W) J Osborne 9-7
1 (9) 14-24 ISLE OF WOLVES 25 (BF,D) J Boyle 4-9-9 P Cosgrave Saffie Osborne (7)
4.25 Fillies' Stakes (2-Y-O: £4,140: 5f) (13) 2 (7) 5-510 GREEK KODIAC 33 (P,D) M Quinn 4-9-7 S W Kelly
1.05 Handicap (£3,493: 5f) (8) 3 (2) 650 COROFIN 32 R Hannon 9-7 Rossa Ryan
8.15 Handicap (£4,690: 1m 6f) (10) 4 (7) 330-0 ALFIES WATCH 40 J G O'Shea 9-7 L Morris
1 (2) 0 A DAY OF MISCHIEF 25 H Dunlop 9-0 C Shepherd 3 (8) 50-32 HARLOW 17 (H,BF) I Williams 6-9-6 W Buick 1 (7) 13343 TABAAHY 10 (D) D O'Meara 5-10-2 D Tudhope
2 (5) FLIRTY RASCAL Tom Ward 9-0 T Marquand 4 (3) -0400 PENTIMENTO 40 J Best 4-9-6 A Kirby 1 (4) 0-253 ZUBA 10 Mrs A Perrett 4-9-7 M Dwyer
2 (6) -6605 PRINCE OF ROME 129 (P,T,D) R Hughes 4-9-11 5 (5) 65000 BARKING MAD 18 (D) P Evans 9-7 K Shoemark
3 (1) 4 HOLWAH 30 (BF) Owen Burrows 9-0 D O'Neill 5 (1) -4000 ONE COOL DADDY 35 D Ivory 5-9-4 G Downing 2 (9) 64512 MONJENI 25 (V,D) I Williams 7-9-7 W Buick Tyler Heard (7) 6 (9) 3436 ARAFI 17 (BF) R Hannon 9-7 M Crehan (5)
4 (7) MIRROR KISSES M Channon 9-0 C Bishop 6 (5) 355/5 IDIDITFORYOOOO 28 R Rowe 6-9-2 D Costello 3 (1) 33-54 SASHENKA 16 S Kirk 4-9-4 B Curtis 3 (3) 12111 BAL MAL 21 (D) J J Quinn 3-9-8 D Redmond (5) 7 (8) 50-4 CITY ESCAPE 45 R Guest 9-6 R Hornby
5 (10) 6 MISS JINGLES 12 (T) C Appleby 9-0 W Buick 7 (4) -5255 CROESO CYMRAEG 17 H Evans 6-9-0 R Da Silva 4 (6) 52-00 ARCHIMENTO 30 (P) D Menuisier 7-9-4 J Watson 4 (1) 06-66 SECRETFACT 11 (P,CD) M Saunders 7-9-7 J Quinn 8 (10) 46-02 NEWTON JACK 18 W Kittow 9-5 R Kingscote
6 (8) 25 MUTAHAMISA 18 (BF) R Varian 9-0 A Atzeni 8 (2) 03-06 YAGOOD 12 (H) R Ingram 4-8-13 Josephine Gordon 5 (5) 0-355 BLUE MEDICI 26 M Loughnane 6-9-3 O Murphy 5 (4) 63-00 PORT WINSTON 3 (D) J Bradley 3-9-6 D Muscutt 9 (3) 0-050 CROWDED EXPRESS 16 W Kittow 9-3 K O'Neill
7 (3) 5 ONALEDGE 30 S C Williams 9-0 J Watson 9 (6) 551-0 BORN TO PLEASE 38 (P,C,D) M Usher 6-8-7 M Dwyer 6 (10) 435/0 CRASTER 20 H Morrison 4-9-2 P J McDonald 6 (5) 60022 ZULU ZANDER 7 (D) P Evans 3-9-5 Rossa Ryan 10 (4) 66-0 TWELVE DIAMONDS 32 J Gallagher 9-2 D Probert
8 (4) 6 PACOPASH 44 M Mullineaux 9-0 J Garritty 13-8 Harlow, 9-2 Isle Of Wolves, 7-1 Pentimento, 8-1 others. 7 (3) 5-104 TRALEE HILLS 13 (V) S Hodgson 6-9-1 T Marquand 7 (8) -0526 AQUADABRA 11 (CD) C Mason 5-8-11 11-4 Knight's Gate, 7-2 Newton Jack, 4-1 Arafi, 5-1 City Escape, 8-1 others
8 (2) 33-03 FIBONACCI 18 A King 6-9-0 M Harley T Hammer Hansen (5)
9 (6) 6 PERFECT SUNRISE 15 J Tate 9-0 P J McDonald Wright choice: Greek Kodiac could appreciate this return 8 (2) 01312 ALBA DEL SOLE 7 (P,BF,D) R Brisland 5-8-9 W Carson
10 (9) RHYTHM R Hannon 9-0 S M Levey to a faster surface Dangers Pentimento, Isle Of Wolves 9 (7) 10-13 SHIFTING GOLD 24 (BF) W Knight 4-8-11 David Egan 3.15 Fillies' Handicap (£3,493: 7f) (7)
10 (8) 6-453 KINGS ROYAL HUSSAR 13 (P) A King 4-8-6 Hollie Doyle 15-8 Bal Mal, 4-1 Alba Del Sole, 9-2 Tabaahy, 6-1 Zulu Zander, 10-1 others.
11(12) TIPOFTHETONGUE C Cox 9-0 H Crouch 1 (3) 320-3 SWEET PURSUIT 14 B Millman 6-9-13 F Marsh (3)
12(13) VENTURA DIAMOND R Fahey 9-0 S De Sousa 6.40 Handicap (3-Y-O: £6,728: 1m 2f) (8) 7-2 Zuba, 4-1 Kings Royal Hussar, 5-1 Sashenka, 7-1 Tralee Hills, 8-1 others 11 ETERNAL BLUSH 18 D O'Meara 3-9-8 D Tudhope
2 (1)
13(11) 33 ZOETIC 21 James Ferguson 9-0 O Murphy Wright choice: Kings Royal Hussar was unsuited by a slow 1.40 Maiden Stakes (2-Y-O: £4,140: 6f) (10) 136-1 GERT LUSH 32 (CD) R Teal 3-9-5
1 (7) 02-22 IT'S GOOD TO LAUGH 17 (P) C Cox 9-7 A Kirby 3 (5) M Ghiani (5)
3-1 Miss Jingles, 9-2 Mutahamisa, 5-1 Zoetic, 7-1 others.
2 (1) 11-30 SUMMERONSEVENHILLS 34 (B,D) R Hughes 9-6 S W Kelly
early pace at Newbury Dangers Shifting Gold, Craster 1 (7) BRECKLAND M Appleby 9-5 T Ladd (3) 4 (4) 00-32 GILT EDGE 10 C Mason 4-9-5 Rhiain Ingram (5)
Rob Wright’s choice: Mutahamisa’s saddle slipped at 2 (3) 5 GENUFLEX 31 R Hannon 9-5 Rossa Ryan 02-00 MORE THAN LIKELY 19 Mrs N Evans 4-9-4 J F Egan
3 (4) 1-24 ENEMY 33 J Gosden 9-3 O Murphy 5 (6)
Chepstow and she can do better Dangers Zoetic, Holwah 4 (2) 25-1 SEA TROUT REACH 22 W Haggas 8-12 T Marquand 8.45 Handicap (£4,690: 1m) (15) 3 (2) 6 HOSCAR MOSS 19 P Evans 9-5 K Shoemark 6 (2) 622 LOLA SHOWGIRL 23 David Loughnane 3-9-4
5 (8) 2-10 THE FIRST KING 45 (B) P & O Cole 8-12 C Fallon (3) 4 (6) 00 LETO THE FIRST 21 B Millman 9-5 O Searle (7) T Greatrex (3)
1 (14) 1060- KATTANI 284 (D) M Appleby 4-10-0 T Marquand
5.00 Handicap (£4,690: 5f) (7) 6 (5) 1-302 BRONZE RIVER 14 A Balding 8-11 W Carver (5) 2 (12) 4-645 KODIAC HARBOUR 22 (D) R Brisland 5-10-0 B Curtis 5 (4) 0 ONE EIGHTY DEGREES 8 P Evans 9-5 J F Egan 7 (7) 405-4 SPINACIA 22 Eve J-Houghton 3-9-2 Georgia Dobie (5)
7 (3) 52-12 ORCZY 22 R Hannon 8-8 P Dobbs 6 (1) 2 SHOBIZ 16 C Hills 9-5 D Probert 7-4 Eternal Blush, 4-1 Lola Showgirl, 9-2 Gert Lush, 7-1 others.
1 (6) 4-150 JACK THE TRUTH 49 (D) G Scott 6-9-13 A Atzeni 3 (11) 600-0 ENIGMATIC 38 (D) Joseph Parr 6-9-13 Josephine Gordon
8 (6) 5-21 AMIR KABIR 41 R Charlton 8-5 J Watson 7 (5) 0 TALLY'S DOUBLE 12 Grace Harris 9-5 F Marsh (3)
2 (4) 100-2 SECRETINTHEPARK 25 (B,D) M Mullineaux 10-9-12 4 (5) 52401 MOSTAWAA 26 (D) Mrs H Main 4-9-12 S De Sousa
J Garritty 11-4 Enemy, 4-1 Sea Trout Reach, 5-1 It's Good To Laugh, 6-1 others. 5 (1) 0-053 MR TYRRELL 11 (D) R Hannon 6-9-10 S M Levey 8 (9) HEAT AND DUST Sir M Prescott 9-0 L Morris 3.45 Handicap (£3,493: 1m) (8)
3 (2) 40-00 PRINCESS POWER 21 (D) N Tinkler 4-9-12 R Scott (3) Wright choice: Amir Kabir is progressive and should relish 6 (8) 62115 FORTUNE AND GLORY 26 (BF,D) J Tuite 7-9-10 9 (10) 60 IN IT AGAIN 10 P Evans 9-0 N Currie
1 (2) 03-62 QUARRY BEACH 18 H Candy 4-10-1 A Villiers (5)
4 (1) 0-304 JUNGLE SPEED 13 David Loughnane 4-9-11 Hollie Doyle this step up in trip Dangers Enemy, The First King George Rooke (5) 10 (8) 0 SHRARA 15 R Beckett 9-0 R Hornby
2 (3) 4060- KENSTONE 313 (H,CD) A Wintle 7-9-13 F Marsh (3)
5 (3) 50-05 POP DANCER 37 (D) A Carroll 3-9-8 T Marquand 7 (10) 01050 DELICATE KISS 10 (B,D) J Bridger 6-9-7 A Beech (5) 1-2 Shobiz, 9-2 Heat And Dust, 10-1 Genuflex, 12-1 Shrara, 16-1 others 3 (7) 05-04 BIOTIC 38 (D) B Millman 9-9-12 O Searle (7)
8 (9) 33-2 PLEDGE OF HONOUR 152 D Ivory 4-9-7 J Haynes
6 (7) 6-623 OUR OYSTERCATCHER 5 (CD) Mark Pattinson 6-9-5
H Crouch
7.15 Listed Stakes (2-Y-O: £13,327: 7f) (7) 4 (4) 50040 MR TOP HAT 17 P Evans 5-9-9 Gina Mangan (7)
1 (5) 12 CONCESSIONS 23 (D) R Hannon 9-0 W Buick
9 (2) 41-11 NOTFORALONGTIME 21 (D) C Cox 3-9-6 A Kirby 2.15 Maiden Stakes (2-Y-O: £3,493: 7f) (15) 5 (5) 4230 BUSINESS 28 (B,BF) J J Quinn 3-9-9 D Tudhope
7 (5) -6540 ZAC BROWN 11 (T,D) C Wallis 9-9-1 David Egan 10(13) 0-31 KAFEE 23 (D) A Balding 3-9-6 O Murphy
2 (2) 11 DUBAI FOUNTAIN 17 (D) M Johnston 9-0 P J McDonald 1 (3) 005 BOMB SQUAD 32 (P) J S Moore 9-5 K O'Neill 6 (1) 5-4 DAHEER 19 Owen Burrows 3-9-7 J Crowley
3-1 Jungle Speed, 4-1 Secretinthepark, 9-2 Our Oystercatcher, 5-1 others. 11(15) -0150 LIGHTNING ATTACK 28 (D) A Newcombe 4-9-5
3 (3) 1 FEATHERS 36 (D) R Hannon 9-0 P Dobbs G Downing 2 (12) 004 BURRISTO 9 R Hannon 9-5 Rossa Ryan 7 (6) 00-0 ESTATE HOUSE 41 J Fanshawe 3-9-4 D Muscutt
Wright choice: Pop Dancer was a close fifth at Goodwood 3 (4) 06 CUBAN FOX 18 J Portman 9-5 R Hornby 8 (8) 0-362 GOOD TIME CHARLIE 26 (P) C Cox 3-8-12 L Keniry
4 (1) 22 FEV ROVER 11 R Fahey 9-0 B Curtis 12 (7) 61-5 SURREY PRIDE 17 (D) J Tuite 3-9-4 C Bishop
and remains unexposed at this trip Danger Princess Power FULL MARKS Sir M Prescott 9-5 L Morris 11-4 Quarry Beach, 7-2 Daheer, 4-1 Good Time Charlie, 6-1 others
5 (6) 12 SETARHE 32 (BF) R Varian 9-0 A Atzeni 13 (3) 21-33 ZEGALO 17 (D) R Varian 3-9-2 A Atzeni 4 (1)
6 (7) 61 SPIRIT OF SISRA 31 (D) T Dascombe 9-0 Jane Elliott 14 (6) 50-11 ALIBABA 22 (D) Miss J Feilden 3-9-2 Doubtful 5 (10) 3 PAWS FOR THOUGHT 39 T Dascombe 9-5 R Kingscote
5.35 Handicap (£3,493: 1m 2f) (9) 7 (4) 201 STAR OF EMARAATY 8 (D) K Ryan 9-0 K Stott 15 (4) 64216 NOTE BLEU 30 (D) G L Moore 3-9-1 H Crouch 6 (2) SAY IT AS IT IS P Evans 9-5 Gina Mangan (7) 4.15 Handicap (£2,782: 1m 4f) (14)
1 (9) 250-0 GERANIUM 47 (CD) H Morrison 5-9-9 D O'Neill 13-8 Fev Rover, 3-1 Dubai Fountain, 4-1 Setarhe, 11-2 others. 9-2 Kafee, 5-1 Notforalongtime, 6-1 Mostawaa, 7-1 Zegalo, 10-1 others. 7 (9) 2 SUN FESTIVAL 21 M Bell 9-5 K Shoemark
1 (6) 40111 SUNSHINEANDBUBBLES 4 (CD) P Evans 7-10-2(4ex)
2 (2) 610-2 SANDY STEVE 41 (D) S C Williams 4-9-8 O Murphy Wright choice: Fev Rover ran a cracker when second in Wright choice: Zegalo could appreciate this return to a 8 (8) 00 WHOLELOTAFUN 26 (P) J S Moore 9-5 L Keniry Doubtful
3 (5) 12115 THREE C'S 34 (P,BF) George Boughey 6-9-7 B Curtis group two company at Newmarket Danger Dubai Fountain shorter distance Dangers Pledge Of Honour, Note Bleu 9 (7) AYO PATSY J Osborne 9-0 N Currie 2 (8) 234-2 GENERAL BROOK 19 (P,CD) J G O'Shea 10-9-11Rossa Ryan

Yesterday’s racing results

Ayr 5-6 fav); 2, Pythagoras (10-3); 3, Innse Gall (11-
2). 4 ran. NR: Summa Peto. Nk, 3Nl. M Johnston.
Going: good to firm
12.45 (5f) 1, Ice Ice Lady (P Mulrennan, 4-1); 2,
Mecca’s Hot Steps (3-1 fav); 3, Silver Start (12-
1). 10 ran. Sh hd, hd. Archie Watson.
1.20 (6f) 1, Darvel (Kevin Stott, 11-8 fav); 2,
Toussarok (15-8); 3, Captain Magnum (4-1). 7
ran. 2l, Ol. K A Ryan.
1.50 (6f) 1, Epeius (P Mulrennan, 16-5 fav); 2,
Ventura Express (11-2); 3, Pearl Of Qatar (10-
3). 8 ran. NR: Prissy Missy, See My Baby Jive.
Ol, nk. B Haslam.
2.20 (6f) 1, Jordan Electrics (Ben Robinson, 5-
1); 2, Grace And Virtue (12-1); 3, Star Cracker
(9-1). 10 ran. Ol, Ol. A C Whillans.
2.50 (7f 50yd) 1, Chase The Dollar (J Fanning,
Market Rasen
3.20 (7f 50yd) 1, Hachert (J Fanning, 6-1); 2,
Aliento (9-2 jt-fav); 3, Swinging Eddie (11-2).
12 ran. NR: Jungle Book. 1l, ns. Jennie Candlish.
3.50 (1m) 1, Catch My Breath (Darragh Keenan,
3-1); 2, Dreamseller (16-5); 3, Khazaf (40-1). 8
ran. NR: Celtic Artisan, Reaver. 1Kl, 2Ol. J
Ryan.
4.20 (1m 2f) 1, Glasses Up (P Mathers, 5-1); 2,
Returnofthemac (7-2 fav); 3, Time Voyage (4-
1). 8 ran. 1Kl, 1Ol. R M Smith.
4.50 (1m 5f 26yd) 1, Nataleena (A Mullen, 6-1);
2, Lizzie Loch (3-1 fav); 3, Nearly There (6-1). 8
ran. Sh hd, Ol. B Haslam.
Placepot: £31.00.
Quadpot: £17.50.
Going: good
12.00 (2m 125yd, hdle) 1, Sangha River (Aidan
Coleman, 2-9 fav); 2, Pisgah Pike (10-1); 3,
Decoration Of War (50-1). 8 ran. NR: Easy
Bucks. 1Kl, 13l. Olly Murphy.
12.35 (2m 125yd, hdle) 1, Collodi (C Brace, 11-4
fav); 2, Lleyton (5-1); 3, Love The Well (11-1).
12 ran. 3l, 3Ol. C R Dore.
1.10 (2m 1f 43yd, ch) 1, Tricky Customer
(Benjamin Poste, 13-2); 2, Tim Rocco (7-4 fav);
3, Iconic Hero (3-1). 10 ran. 3Ol, 1Kl. Katy Price.
1.40 (2m 7f 191yd, ch) 1, El Presente (David
Bass, 15-8 fav); 2, Vice Et Vertu (13-2); 3,
Hepijeu (17-2). 6 ran. 17l, 3Kl. K C Bailey.
2.10 (2m 7f 16yd, hdle) 1, Craigmor (Aidan
Coleman, 9-2); 2, Lungarno Palace (5-2 jt-fav);
3, Western Rules (11-2). 7 ran. NR: Putting
Green. Ol, 6Kl. Olly Murphy.
2.40 (2m 7f 16yd, hdle) 1, Millie Of Mayo (Danny
McMenamin, 20-1); 2, Grageelagh Girl (17-2); 3,
Somethinboutangela (10-3). 9 ran. 5l, ns. N G
Richards.
3.10 (2m 5f 89yd, ch) 1, Black Anthem (J J
Burke, 11-8 fav); 2, Simply Loveleh (7-2); 3,
Ballycrystal Court (11-2). 6 ran. 8l, Kl. Tom
Lacey.
3.40 (2m 125yd, flat) 1, Ultimate Getaway
(Liam Harrison, 5-4 fav); 2, Dens Delight (5-2);
3, Rickety Gate (3-1). 6 ran. 3l, 2Kl. F O’Brien.
Placepot: £29.30.
Quadpot: £13.40.
Windsor
Going: good to firm
4.30 (6f 12yd) 1, Fairy Dust (Jack Mitchell, 8-11
fav); 2, Rania (10-3); 3, Alone Time (11-1). 11
ran. NR: Ambarella. 2N, 4Nl. Tom Clover.
5.00 (6f 12yd) 1, Mountain Brave (F Norton, 6-
1); 2, Theotherside (11-8 fav); 3, Second
Collection (7-2). 7 ran. 1Ol, 1Nl. M Johnston.
5.30 (1m 31yd) 1, Furqaan (W Buick, 7-2 fav); 2,
Treaty Of Dingle (6-1); 3, Ascraeus (5-1). 12
ran. 1l, 3l. Ian Williams.
6.00 (1m 31yd) 1, Sun Bear (R Havlin, 3-1 Co
fav); 2, Grande Rumore (9-2); 3, Arabic Charm
(3-1 Co fav). 13 ran. NR: Lover’s Moon. 1l, Kl. J
H M Gosden.
6.30 (1m 31yd) 1, Kettle Hill (Tom Marquand,
5-6 fav); 2, King’s Knight (7-2); 3, Burke And
Wills (7-1). 13 ran. NR: Just Albert. Kl, 6Kl. W
Haggas.
7.00 (5f 21yd) 1, Glamorous Anna (William Cox,
13-2); 2, Free Love (4-1); 3, Yimou (10-3 jt-fav).
7 ran. NR: Flippa The Strippa, Grandfather Tom.
ns, hd. C Mason.
7.30 (1m 2f) 1, A La Voile (P J Dobbs, 3-1); 2,
Lottie Marie (25-1); 3, Dalanijujo (15-2). 8 ran.
1Nl, Ol. Sir Michael Stoute.
8.00 (1m 2f) 1, Star Of Wins (Tom Marquand,
15-8 fav); 2, Winter Thorn (16-1); 3, Bright
Start (14-1). 16 ran. Ol, hd. W J Haggas.
8.30 (1m 3f 99yd) 1, Forge Valley Lad (S
Donohoe, 11-1); 2, Pearl Beach (9-2); 3,
Evaporust (13-2). 6 ran. NR: Boom Boom Boom,
Caribeno, Lady De Vega, Margaretha, Tigerten.
Nk, 1Kl. E F Vaughan.
Placepot: £15.90. Quadpot: £10.50.
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out of the
Aubameyang staying Super League
Football team to take risks. “I get nervous when
Gary Jacob, Graham Hill we kick the ball long,” he said. “The Rugby league
quicker it goes there, the quicker it
Mikel Arteta is growing in confidence comes back. I’d rather do that with the Toronto Wolfpack will not restart the
that Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang will right structure, the right timing and Super League season after withdrawing
stay at Arsenal having urged the club to using the right spaces. It’s something from the competition because of
finalise his contract. that we have to do more often.” “overwhelming financial challenges”.
The striker, 31, has scored five times If Villa are beaten by Arsenal and The league’s only transatlantic club
in his past six games including twice in Watford avoid defeat against Manches- had been due to resume the 2020
the victory over Manchester City to ter City in tonight’s other game, Dean campaign against Hull Kingston Rovers
take Arsenal to the FA Cup final. Aub- Smith’s team will be relegated. If Villa on August 2 and their decision to pull
ameyang has entered the final year of can get a better result than Watford out drew a strong response from Super
his deal, worth £190,000 a week, and tonight, they will still be capable of sur- League and the RFL.
wanted a new and improved three-year vival going into their final game of the In a joint statement, they said: “Super
contract to stay. His position has season at West Ham United on Sunday. League Europe and the RFL have been
changed in recent months since Smith said that the financial in dialogue with Toronto regarding the
he told Arsenal he wanted to backing of the club’s co-own- club’s ability to take part in the competi-
leave, partly in recognition ers — who are both billion- tion and firm assurances had been
of Arteta’s impact on the
team, and also because
Aston Villa v aires — the American
Wes Edens, who also
received as recently as last Thursday.
The club’s decision is especially
teams that might have Arsenal owns the Milwaukee disappointing given the imminent
bid for him have had Premier League, Bucks NBA team, and restart of the season.”
transfer budgets cut by Tonight, 8.15pm the Egyptian business- Despite the high-profile signing of
the impact of the coro- TV: Sky Sports Main man Nassef Sawiris – Sonny Bill Williams, Toronto had lost
navirus crisis. Radio: talkSPORT would ensure that Villa the first six matches of their debut
“With Auba, I think I’ve were in a strong position top-flight season. Toronto said that
been very clear with what I even if they are relegated. they would work with Super League
want,” Arteta said. “The quick- “The short-term future of the The Tottenham and the RFL to “understand the
er we do it, for me personally, the club is not in jeopardy at all. If we Kane hits Hotspur and England process” of moving into next season.
better because the player will be more get relegated it’s one of those things
focused, more determined and more we’d have to deal with. We’re in great
target with striker took a penalty
to burst a football
Featherstone Rovers had expressed
an interest in taking Toronto’s place.
calm. But we have to respect the hands with the owners we have got. But baby news balloon that However, the RFL confirmed last night
timings and the needs of the football we all want to keep our Premier League contained blue smoke that this Super League season is to have
club.” status,” Smith said. Harry Kane showed and then posted the no relegation and this year’s
Aubameyang opened the scoring “We are very fortunate that we have off his shooting as he event on Instagram. Championship and League 1 cam-
against City after an 18-pass move, two billionaire owners who have been found an unusual way Kane, 26, and Kate paigns will not resume.
eight of which were within their own fantastic. But we also know what is at to announce that he already have two Instead, second and third-tier clubs
penalty area. Arteta, whose side face stake and how ambitious they are. If we and his wife, Kate, are daughters: Ivy, three, will be invited to play in a competition
Aston Villa in the Premier League this remain in the Premier League we have expecting a baby boy. and Vivienne, one. this autumn, which has a £250,000
evening, said that he encouraged his certainly got the power to compete.” prize pot.
3 (7) 0004- KISMAT 345 A King 5-9-10 D Probert 4 4PB3- DON'T NEED TO KNOW 127 R M Smith 6-11-0 R Mania 6.55 Handicap Hurdle 3 3353- INNOCENT TOUCH 278 (CD) H Daly 9-11-9 R Johnson
4 (11) 45/00 JENNY REN 15 (H,D) Sarah Hollinshead 5-9-8 R Hornby 5 30/5- THE GREAT GEORGIE 262 Mrs J Stephen 5-11-0 (£3,509: 2m) (8) Stratford 4 P312- CUBSWIN 303 (BF,D) N King 6-11-9 Bryony Frost
5 (14) 050-5 RAVEN'S RAFT J9 (D) Dave Roberts 5-9-7 L Morris D McMenamin (3) Rob Wright 5 1016- GUNNERY 199 (BF) N Henderson 7-11-9 N De Boinville
3 CHECK MY PULSE 15 Rebecca Menzies 4-10-12 1 /104- BOOK OF INVASIONS 158 (W,D) Miss L Russell 5-11-12
6 (4) 0-033 BECKY SHARP 21 (B,D) J Boyle 5-9-5 C Bennett 6 S Mulqueen (3) 6 /321- TEQANY 318 (W,T,CD) F O'Brien 6-11-7 P Brennan
N Moscrop (3) 12.50 Hiconic 3.30 Seaborn
7 (12) 60-00 URBAN SCENE 9 (P) Mrs L Jewell 4-9-4 K O'Neill 2 5213- HIGHWAY COMPANION 149 (T) K Dalgleish 6-11-10 7 1142- ADJUTANT F160 (B,CD) Olly Murphy 5-11-6 L Stones (7)
7 UPUF- ACCOST 129 (P,T) Miss L Russell 7-10-7 D R Fox B Hughes 1.20 Oscar Rose 4.00 Two Blondes
8 (2) /5-00 BOUTAN 19 (B,C) Grace Harris 7-9-4 Megan Nicholls (3) 2- BOWDEREK 307 Mrs H Graham 5-10-7 8 6120- BEACH BREAK F36 (B,CD) D McCain 6-11-2 T Gillard (7)
8 C Bewley 3 1130- GOLDEN TOWN 151 (CD) J Moffatt 9-11-9Charlotte Jones (7) 1.55 Now Children 4.30 Battle Of Ideas
9 (10) 0-560 TALLY'S SON 11 (B,C) Grace Harris 6-9-4 F Marsh (3)
0 JOIE DE VIVRE 13 M Todhunter 5-10-7 9 436-2 SCORCHED EARTH 20 (D) D Skelton 4-11-1 H Skelton
9 S Quinlan 4 1054- PURPLE KING 229 (CD) Dr R Newland 6-11-6 2.30 Court Royale 5.05 Kayarnah
10(13) 4/530 KAISAN 11 (P,T) B J Llewellyn 7-9-4 Joshua Bryan (3) 10 /324- STATUARIO 280 (D) P Bowen 5-10-13 S Bowen
10 10- SHE'S A ROCCA 226 (D) N Richards 5-10-7 B Hughes S Twiston-Davies 3.00 Scorched Earth
11 (9) -6630 SELLINGALLTHETIME 11 (D) M Usher 9-9-4 0- TARAMANDA 441 I Jardine 5-10-7 C O'Farrell 5 414F- RUKWA F15 Sam England 6-11-5 J England 10-3 Gunnery, 9-2 Some Day Soon, 5-1 Teqany, 6-1 others.
Isobel Francis (7) 11 Going: good to soft
12 (5) 065/0 ALMONTASER 148 (P,T) Mrs N Evans 6-9-4 J F Egan 12 6P- TARSET HINNY 226 (T) Miss L Russell 5-10-7 6 F/FP- NEEDS TO BE SEEN 186 (W,D) Miss L Russell 5-10-12 Racing TV
T Willmott (5) B Campbell (3) 3.30 Handicap Hurdle (£3,509: 2m) (10)
13 (1) 00-04 SCARLET RUBY 21 R Charlton 3-8-12 T Greatrex (3)
14 (3) 0-006 GINGER BOX 21 R Brisland 3-8-9 W Carson
7-4 Petrastar, 7-2 Archi's Affaire, 5-1 She's A Rocca, 6-1 others. 7 1303- CEDAR HILL 142 (D) A M Thomson 6-10-9 C Bewley 12.50 Hurdle (3-Y-O: £3,509: 2m) (10) 1 305-1 PERFECT CITY 15 (D) Jonjo O'Neill 5-12-1 Jonjo O'Neill Jr.
8 5364- WISE COCO 200 (BF,CD) A Whillans 7-10-0D McMenamin (3) 2 1/P6- SPIN THE COIN 258 (T,D) D McCain 7-11-12 T Gillard (7)
3-1 Scarlet Ruby, 5-1 Becky Sharp, 6-1 General Brook, 7-1 others. 1 11 HICONIC 9 A Hales 11-5 W T Kennedy
4.40 Novices' Handicap Chase 9-4 Highway Companion, 5-2 Purple King, 7-1 Book Of Invasions, 8-1 others.
2 BANNISTER F288 (H) T R George 10-12 J J Burke 3 600- MEMPHIS BLEEK 153 A Ralph 4-11-10 T J O'Brien
4.50 Handicap (£2,782: 1m 4f) (14) (£3,964: 3m) (6) 3 CLAN SPIRIT F30 (T) J Portman 10-12 H Bannister 4 6306/ BUONAROTTI BOY F18 (P,D) Mrs S Leech 8-11-10H Reed (3)
1 PP43- COURT DREAMING 179 N Richards 7-11-9 R Day 7.30 Handicap Chase (£2,924: 3m) (12) 4 DRAGON MAN F43 Maxwell Young 10-12 J Best 5 5/3-3 FOR PLEASURE 11 A Hales 5-11-10 H Bannister
1 (8) 15223 GOLD STANDARD 9 (BF) A Carroll 4-9-12 1 222P- PRINCE DUNDEE 225 (P,T,D) Miss L Russell 7-11-12 6 3634/ LONDONIA F21 (T,D) G McPherson 8-11-8 R Johnson
Elisha Whittington (5) 2 /2U4- MILLARVILLE 205 Mrs H Graham 7-11-6 C Bewley 5 FIACH STONEY F19 M Loughnane 10-12 A Cawley
3 PP0-4 SEROSEVSKY 15 (B,T) Oliver Greenall 7-11-6 B Hughes B Campbell (3) 7 5FRP- THE ARTFUL ROGER 128 Sheila Lewis 6-11-1Sean Houlihan (3)
2 (10) 5360- PURPLE JAZZ 310 (T,D) J Scott 5-9-10 Tyler Heard (7) 6 KINGS CREEK F12 A King 10-12 T Cannon
3124- IM TOO GENEROUS 154 (T) Rebecca Menzies 10-11-4 2 4354/ AMILLIONTIMES 570 (T,C) Mrs J Stephen 12-11-9 8 /0PP- CAPTAIN KISSINGER F21 (D) R Teal 5-10-12 J McGrath
3 (9) 300-5 HARRY THE NORSEMAN 21 (P) P Webber 4-9-9 4 Lucy Alexander 7 PINK JAZZ F27 S Curran 10-12 G Sheehan
L Keniry N Moscrop (3) 8 ROYAL BASSETT F10 (T) R Dickin 10-12 J Quinlan 9 045/ SEABORN F38 G L Moore 6-10-8 Jamie Moore
3 3UU4- QUICK BREW 294 (T) M Barnes 12-11-4 Ross Chapman
4 (12) -0311 PLEASURE GARDEN 6 (D) Sir M Prescott 3-9-7(6ex) 5 1331- HEAVEY 259 (T) N Mulholland 6-11-2 Robert Dunne
SALENTO F51 (P) W Kittow 10-12 D Noonan 10 P/PP- JUSTTHEGREY 379 Mrs R Gasson 8-10-0 B Poste
4 3/03- RISING MARIENBARD 129 (W,T) Miss L Russell 8-11-4 9
L Morris 6 2620- FYFIN PATSY 249 (W,T) Miss L Russell 6-11-0 9-4 Perfect City, 11-4 Seaborn, 5-1 For Pleasure, 7-1 Londonia, 12-1 others.
Mr Cameron Wadge (7) 10 SWELL SWILLY F17 C Hills 10-12 J McGrath
5 (7) 004-4 BARRIER REEF 35 (V) T Vaughan 5-9-6 Charlie Price (5) S Mulqueen (3)
5 4300- BROTHERLY COMPANY 131 (P) A M Thomson 8-10-12 5-6 Hiconic, 4-1 Bannister, 6-1 Kings Creek, 8-1 Pink Jazz, 12-1 others.
6 (1) 25364 HOWARDIAN HILLS 19 (V,D) V Dartnall 7-9-5 K O'Neill 15-8 Heavey, 4-1 Court Dreaming, 9-2 Im Too Generous, 5-1 Serosevsky, 6-1 R Mania
Millarville, 10-1 Fyfin Patsy. 4.00 Handicap Hurdle (£3,509: 2m) (9)
7 (5) 44/00 GRAMS AND OUNCES 19 (P,T,CD) Grace Harris 13-9-4 6 2P54- WALKIN IN THE RAIN 136 J Goldie 7-10-10 B Hughes
F Marsh (3)
7 45P0- REVERSE THE CHARGE 202 (P) Mrs J Walton 13-10-9
1.20 Novices' Chase (£6,303: 2m 5f) (7) 1 0/5-1 JAMACHO 13 (CD) C Longsdon 6-11-12 Paul O'Brien (3)
8 (4) 06-04 GIBRALTARIAN 32 (P) J Boyle 4-9-4 W Cox (3) 5.15 Handicap Chase (£2,924: 2m) (12) Miss A Waugh (5) 1 10/0- DENMEAD F24 (T) D Skelton 7-10-12 H Skelton 2 150P- GREEN ETOILE 216 (D) A Ralph 4-11-11 L Edwards
9 (3) 5050- DELTA BRAVO J216 J S Moore 4-9-4 J F Egan 8 4P6P- HAVANA JACK 289 (P,CD) L Kerr 10-10-7 D R Fox 2 /P00- EXIT PLAN 182 Kayley Woollacott 7-10-12 J Best 3 3/30- BROMANCE F186 P Niven 7-11-10 T J O'Brien
1 5504- OUR LUCAS 146 R M Smith 8-11-12 R Mania
10 (6) 0-00D ROYAL BORN 7 David Loughnane 4-9-4 T Greatrex (3) 9 3030- APACHE PILOT 307 (P,T,D) M Barnes 12-10-5 D Irving (3) 3 40/4- HAUL AWAY 431 N Henderson 7-10-12 N De Boinville 4 304F- RIGHT DESTINATION 243 (BF) F O'Brien 6-11-10 P Brennan
2 04P3- SWORD OF FATE 145 (D) L Kerr 7-11-10 D R Fox
11 (2) 0/0-6 SHADOW'S GIRL 3 (P) B J Llewellyn 8-9-4 10 11P2- DUTCH CANYON 129 (BF,D) W Coltherd 10-10-5 4 /024- LEONCAVALLO F38 (P,T) D Pipe 8-10-12 T Scudamore 5 4140- EXCELLENT TEAM 278 (T,CD) M Blake 8-11-9 T Cannon
Joshua Bryan (3) 3 3250- LAKE BAIKAL 278 N Mulholland 6-11-7 R McLernon
Sam Coltherd (3) 6 00U2- TWO BLONDES F26 D McCain 4-11-8 H Brooke
12(11) 0650 UP THE AISLE 10 J Portman 3-8-13 R Hornby 4 3312- ROLL OF THUNDER 283 (C,D) J Walton 11-11-4 C O'Farrell 5 1130- WEST COAST FLYER 272 (W) O Sherwood 7-10-12 J J Burke
11 535-4 ISTIMRAAR 13 (P) A B Hamilton 9-10-3 S Mulqueen (3) 7 30P-0 UNSUSPECTED GIRL 13 (T) J Bradley 7-10-12 B R Jones (3)
13(14) 005 PEAT MOSS J14 N Hawke 3-8-11 Rossa Ryan 5 /253- CHAIN OF BEACONS 225 (T,D) Katie Scott 11-11-4 6 2104- YCCS PORTOCERVO 248 (H) Dr R Newland 5-10-12C Hammond (3)
C Bewley 12 P046- JACKOFHEARTS 269 Mrs J McGregor 12-10-0T Willmott (5) 8 4P0-6 ROCK ON AUSSIE 13 (T) M Sheppard 9-10-11 S Sheppard
14(13) 0-450 DEPARDIEU J9 F Brennan 3-8-8 Ray Dawson (5) 7 146-6 OSCAR ROSE 20 F O'Brien 8-10-5 P Brennan
6 5550- FELIX MENDELSSOHN 133 (B,CD) W Coltherd 9-11-2 4-1 Istimraar, 9-2 Prince Dundee, 5-1 Walkin In The Rain, 6-1 others. 9 /65-0 COURT IN MATERA 9 (B) Oliver Greenall 6-10-7Ross Turner (5)
Evens Pleasure Garden, 4-1 Gold Standard, 7-1 Barrier Reef, 12-1 others. 13-8 Leoncavallo, 5-2 Haul Away, 6-1 Denmead, 7-1 Oscar Rose, 8-1 others.
Sam Coltherd (3) 4-5 Jamacho, 7-2 Right Destination, 7-1 Two Blondes, 16-1 others.
7 3/02- VINO'S CHOICE 145 (H,T) Miss L Russell 8-11-1B Campbell (3) 8.00 Handicap Hurdle 1.55 Novices' Hurdle (£3,509: 2m 3f) (12)
5.25 Handicap (£2,782: 2m) (13) 8 /64P- PLAN OF ESCAPE 197 M Todhunter 7-10-13 S Quinlan (£2,794: 2m 4f) (12) 4.30 Handicap Chase
1 (4) 6-500 MASTER GREY 21 (CD) B Millman 5-9-7 D Muscutt 9 0/P5- COOL VALLEY 135 William Young Jnr 11-10-8 1 BALTIC EAGLE F160 Joseph Parr 6-11-0 J Quinlan
T Willmott (5) 1 2020- TRONGATE 146 R M Smith 8-11-12 R Mania (£3,964: 2m 7f) (10)
2 (2) 66-23 WITH PLEASURE 21 (B) J Flint 7-9-6 Rossa Ryan 2 P BONJOUR 14 Mrs S Gardner 8-11-0 Lucy Gardner
10 U426- GO GUARANTOR F20 (P,T) R M Smith 6-10-7 D Irving (3) 2 1132- COURT BALOO 200 A Whillans 9-11-11 Ross Chapman 1 202-4 BBOLD 11 (BF) Dr R Newland 6-11-13 C Hammond (3)
3 (13) 000-0 TIN FANDANGO 39 (P,D) M Usher 5-9-4 N Currie 1/24- SOUTHFIELD TORR 419 (H,D) M Bradstock 7-11-9 3 /2F-3 COURTANDBOULD 11 (BF) F O'Brien 6-11-0 P Brennan
11 2U3-5 ELIXER 13 F Murtagh 7-10-4 L Murtagh (3) 3 2 450-6 CALIN DU BRIZAIS 15 N Hawke 9-11-12 D Noonan
4 (11) 53-32 NORAB 26 (B,BF) B J Llewellyn 9-9-4 Joshua Bryan (3) Robert Dunne 4 55- HIGH RENOWN 242 (W,T) J Snowden 5-11-0 G Sheehan
12 006-3 AGENTLEMAN 13 P Winks 10-10-3 N Moscrop (3) 3 /255- MISTER TICKLE 178 (T) G L Moore 6-11-11 Jamie Moore
5 (5) 36-36 THE DETAINEE 26 (P,C) N Mulholland 7-9-3 L Keniry 4 0502- RAYMOND 151 K Dalgleish 5-11-6 Craig Nichol 5 40- JOINT ACCOUNT 203 D Frankland 7-11-0 D Bass
7-2 Roll Of Thunder, 4-1 Vino's Choice, 6-1 Agentleman, 7-1 Elixer, 10-1 Our 4 251-4 MISTERCOBAR 11 (T,BF) Olly Murphy 8-11-7 R Johnson
6 (3) 340-4 SEARCHING J11 (P) Grace Harris 8-9-3 K Shoemark 5 4540- LOUGH KENT 208 (CD) J Moffatt 11-11-4Charlotte Jones (7) 6 2- NOW CHILDREN 252 (W,T,BF) Oliver Greenall 6-11-0 H Brooke
Lucas, 12-1 Sword Of Fate, Chain Of Beacons, Plan Of Escape. 5 3605/ DREAM BOLT 509 (T,C) D Rees 12-11-7 S Bowen
7 (8) 06-63 PARIS PROTOCOL 29 (P) M Walford 7-9-2 H Russell (7) 6 3433/ KARAMOKO 560 N Richards 8-11-4 B Hughes 7 320- SPONTHUS 172 Sam Thomas 5-11-0 J Bowen
7 4263- LASTOFTHECOSMICS 133 (P,T) I Jardine 5-11-2 C O'Farrell 6 P1FP- ROYAL MAGIC 358 (W,P,T) Sam Thomas 8-11-7 C Deutsch
8 (12) 4-432 MOUSEBIRD 29 (BF) H Morrison 4-9-2 D Probert 8 0- YABASS 179 (W,T) B Pauling 5-11-0 D Jacob
9 (6) 43362 ADAMS PARK 10 (P) M Appleby 5-9-1 L Morris
5.45 Handicap Chase (£3,964: 2m 4f) (8) 8 /163- LADY SAMBACK 253 (T,C) M Barnes 8-11-1 D Irving (3) 9 00- MIDNIGHT JEWEL 173 Kayley Woollacott 4-10-11 J J Burke
7 3234- BATTLE OF IDEAS 218 (P,T) C Tizzard 7-11-5Jonjo O'Neill Jr.
10 (9) 210-2 SPRING RUN 25 J Portman 4-9-1 R Hornby 1 2P44- MONSIEUR CO F31 (P,T,BF) K Dalgleish 7-11-12 Craig Nichol 9 0545/ BURLINGTON BERT 721 (T) Mrs J McGregor 9-11-0 8 330-0 CANNY TOM 13 (T) D Frankland 10-10-0 C Brace (3)
10 5-5 YOU NAME HIM 20 Tom Lacey 4-10-11 R Johnson
11 (1) 0-000 ROUDRAPOUR 18 A Carroll 5-8-11 2 56PF- FORTUNES HIDING 135 (W,T) Miss L Russell 7-11-12 T Willmott (5) 9 14P0- ST MERRYN 159 (C) B Summers 9-10-0 J Best
11 45/0- ESPECIALLY SO 185 Kayley Woollacott 5-10-7 T Scudamore
T Hammer Hansen (5) T Willmott (5) 10 P164- SOUTHEAST ROSE 138 M Todhunter 7-10-12 S Quinlan 10 456-0 SUSSEX ROAD 9 (P) A Sadik 10-10-0 A Anderson (7)
3 31/P- IMADA 144 (CD) N Richards 10-11-10 S Quinlan 12 16-3 GAOT 13 (H) H Fry 4-10-4 A Coleman
12(10) 40-01 BIRD FOR LIFE 39 (P,D) M Usher 6-8-7 R Tate 11 0061- OCEANUS F9 (P) Mrs D Sayer 6-10-11 D McMenamin (3) 5-2 Mistercobar, 3-1 Battle Of Ideas, 4-1 Bbold, 6-1 Mister Tickle, 10-1 Calin
4 P655- ACDC 171 (T) C Grant 10-11-9 Ross Chapman 12 P4P0- GRIPPER F20 (B) Miss L Russell 5-10-8 D R Fox 2-1 Now Children, 7-2 Courtandbould, 4-1 Gaot, 7-1 others.
13 (7) 00-04 DANGLYDONTASK 26 (B,C) Mike Murphy 9-8-2 J Quinn Du Brizais, 12-1 Royal Magic, Dream Bolt, 25-1 Canny Tom.
7-2 Mousebird, 5-1 Paris Protocol, 6-1 Norab, 7-1 Bird For Life, 8-1 others. 5 /214- CHATEAU ROBIN 239 (BF,D) N Richards 9-11-9 B Hughes 7-2 Karamoko, 4-1 Southfield Torr, 7-1 Lastofthecosmics, others.
6 4/40- MASTER BURBIDGE F158 (P,D) N Mulholland 9-11-7 2.30 Handicap Chase (£3,964: 2m 1f) (10) 5.05 NH Flat Race (£2,794: 2m) (10)
Millie Wonnacott (7)
8.30 Handicap Hurdle 1 333-0 DANDRIDGE 11 (T,V) C Longsdon 11-11-11 R Johnson
Perth 7 1P25- BOY'S ON TOUR 285 (CD) Miss L Russell 8-11-7
S Mulqueen (3) (£2,794: 2m 4f) (12) 2 453-0 COURT ROYALE 13 E Williams 7-11-11 A Wedge
1
2
PF3- FLEURY 265 (T) Mrs D Hamer 5-10-12
F/14- GET IN ROBIN 133 (BF) D McCain 5-10-12
B R Jones (3)
H Brooke
Rob Wright 8 F/40- BEAU ET SUBLIME F20 (P,T,D) R M Smith 10-10-0 1 6241- PAMMI F9 (P,D) J Goldie 5-11-12 B Hughes 3 442-4 CUT THE CORNER 13 (CD) A Ralph 12-11-11 Doubtful
3 2- HIT THE BOTTLE 366 (W,BF) L Horsfall 5-10-12
D R Fox 2 036P- EFFET SPECIAL 225 (H,T) Miss L Russell 6-11-11 D R Fox 4 546-3 ATLANTIC STORM 20 (T,CD) B Summers 8-11-7C Hammond (3) Tabitha Worsley (5)
4.10 Archi’s Affaire 6.55 Cedar Hill 2-1 Monsieur Co, 5-2 Chateau Robin, 6-1 Imada, 8-1 others. 5 14P-5 BEAUTIFUL BEN 11 (P) L J Morgan 10-11-6 Jonjo O'Neill Jr. 4 43/2 KEYBOARD JOAN 15 N King 6-10-12 Bryony Frost
3 3224- TITUS BOLT 154 (B,CD) I Jardine 11-11-9 C O'Farrell
4.40 Serosevsky 7.30 Walkin In The Rain 6 15P-0 ROYAL PLAZA 14 (T,D) Mrs K Stephens 9-11-6 N Scholfield 5 LAZARINA N Hawke 5-10-12 T Buckley (7)
4 4600- NO REGRETS 155 N Richards 6-11-7 Craig Nichol
5.15 Elixer 8.00 Lough Kent 6.20 Handicap Hurdle (£8,187: 2m 4f) (6) 7 455-0 CESAR DU GOUET 11 (B,T) Olly Murphy 8-11-6 6 P3/ MOVE CLOSER 457 (T) A Hales 6-10-12 H Bannister
5.45 Imada 8.30 Pammi 5 2242- KING'S WHARF 145 A M Thomson 11-11-5 Mr D Hurst (10)
C McKinnes (7) 7 NELLIE KERNOW H Fry 6-10-12 S Bowen
6.20 Ardera Cross 1 13PP- AMALFI DOUG 202 (CD) K Dalgleish 10-11-11 B Hughes 6 0354- HARBOUR FORCE 245 (V) N Mulholland 6-11-3
Millie Wonnacott (7) 8 5224- ADMIRAL'S SUNSET F23 (T) D Weston 7-11-3 D Bass 8 3 BONNIE GOLIGHTLY 15 D Skelton 4-10-10 H Skelton
2 565-1 CLEVER AS A FOX 15 (D) Dr R Newland 7-11-11
Going: good S Twiston-Davies 7 00P6- SALTMARKET 127 R M Smith 5-11-2 R Mania 9 334-U ETAMINE DU COCHET 9 (T,BF) D Skelton 6-11-1 H Skelton 9 KALA MOCA E Williams 4-10-10 A Wedge
Racing TV 3 126-0 BEENO 20 (H) Mrs D Sayer 11-11-11 C O'Farrell 8 0060- LAST KING OF WALES 205 (W) Miss L Russell 6-11-2 10 4060- DEISE VU 328 (P,CD) R Brotherton 12-11-0 D Noonan 10 KAYARNAH G Baker 4-10-10 M Goldstein
4 5P13- ARDERA CROSS 136 (CD) William Young Jnr 9-11-6 B Campbell (3) 11-4 Etamine Du Cochet, 4-1 Atlantic Storm, 9-2 Dandridge, 11-2 others. 9-4 Bonnie Golightly, 4-1 Keyboard Joan, 6-1 Nellie Kernow, Get In Robin, 7-1
4.10 Novices' Hurdle (£3,509: 2m) (12) Sam Coltherd (3) 9 603-6 FOLKS LIKE US 15 A Whillans 5-11-1 C Bewley
Fleury, 8-1 Kala Moca, 14-1 Hit The Bottle, 25-1 others.
1 1- PETRASTAR 142 (H,T,D) D J Jeffreys 5-11-7 T Bellamy 5 13F6- DOLLY DANCER 257 (T,D) M Barnes 6-11-4 D Irving (3) 10 2533- CHOSEN FLAME 154 Mrs R Dobbin 8-10-13 3.00 Handicap Hurdle (£5,393: 2m) (10)
2 2- ARCHI'S AFFAIRE 169 (W) W Coltherd 6-11-0 L Murtagh (3)
6 2343- WOLFCATCHER 286 (P,T) Mrs J Stephen 8-11-0 Craig Nichol
Sam Coltherd (3) 11 0/P0- GO COMPLAIN 307 (T) Mrs J McGregor 8-10-11T Willmott (5) 1 1110/ BEYOND THE CLOUDS F284 (T,D) C Longsdon 7-11-12 Blinkered first time: Chepstow 3.45 Business; 4.15 Boutan
6-5 Clever As A Fox, 3-1 Amalfi Doug, 7-1 Wolfcatcher, 8-1 Beeno, Dolly A Coleman
3 50-2 BLUESKYANDSUNSHINE 15 K Dalgleish 5-11-0 12 600P- MILL ISLAND 186 (P) W Coltherd 6-10-9 Sam Coltherd (3) Perth 8.00 Gripper Stratford 2.30 Cesar Du Gouet; 3.00
Craig Nichol Dancer, 12-1 Ardera Cross. 2 134-2 SOME DAY SOON 9 (P,CD) J Snowden 7-11-12 G Sheehan
7-2 Pammi, 11-2 Chosen Flame, 6-1 Titus Bolt, Harbour Force, 7-1 others. Adjutant
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Wolves are the only team
yet to have an English

after Podence goalscorer in the Premier

League this season
(excluding own goals)

opens his account

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clearly, been to reach the Champions in two minutes of the restart, the Palace
Wolves
2
League — still a possibility if they can front man capitalised on a wayward
Podence 41, Jonny 68
win the Europa League next month — pass from Willy Boly, playing in Jeffrey

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Crystal Palace
Tom Roddy
A combination of little and large was
enough to help Wolverhampton
Wanderers reclaim their hold on a
European place and inflict further pain
on Crystal Palace.
Daniel Podence, the diminutive
forward who stands at 5ft 5in, has
emerged as the latest Portuguese talent
in Nuno Espírito Santo’s side. His best
performance since signing from Olym-
piacos in January was capped off with
his first goal in gold, sending Wolves
back up to sixth in the Premier League.
Nuno’s more muscular frontman,
Adama Traoré, confirmed victory with
his 13th assist of the season, wrestling
between two players to set up Jonny
and leave Roy Hodgson’s team facing
their seventh straight defeat.
It was a crucial win for the West Mid-
lands side whose season began here a
year ago on Saturday in the Europa
League and will most likely end there
now. Wolves, who play away to Chelsea
on Sunday in their final league game,
can now finish no lower than seventh.
Beat Frank Lampard’s side and they
will seal sixth and guarantee European
football.
For a man who continually talks of
improvement and progression, there is
no sign as clear. “It pleases me a lot and
the credit is all for the players,” Nuno
said. “It has been a long season, one
calendar year, every day was working
and trying to become better and it was
a fair reward for us to more points than
last season.”
Nuno had spoken emotionally this
week of the impact coronavirus has had
on him personally, as he has been
unable to see his wife and three child-
ren for more than ten weeks because
they are staying in Porto. Yet there is a
family feel to what he has been building
at Molineux. Both goals, as is normal,
were met with the group of coaching
staff embracing each other in a huddle.
Their aim this season had, quite
but their charge was ended by just one Schlupp who dragged his shot wide.
win in four games before this. Palace had been the far brighter side,
If form were the measuring stick for and to go into the break with the lead
concern, Hodgson would have had would have been deserved. To find
more reason to worry. The veteran themselves behind was a bitter blow,
manager is on his worst run in the but it was a thing of a beauty that broke
Premier League, and his team have fail- them down. Palace had done well to
ed to score in six of the seven straight suffocate the influential João Moutin-
losses. “It’s a really bad spell — the cor- ho but when the Portuguese midfielder
onavirus and lockdown has not done picked up the ball on the edge of the
any good,” Hodgson, 72, said. “We kept area and spotted Matt Doherty’s dart-
going. We have to keep picking ing run, a clipped pass fell perfectly into
ourselves off the floor. The players are his path. Doherty squared first time and
finding it hard. They have to recover.” Podence nodded into an empty goal.
Motivation, Hodgson insisted, had Nuno beamed. “Talent, talent, but
not been the problem for his side. talent only comes after the organisa-
tion, after you are organised and com-
pact,” he said.
Route to the Europa League Ominously for Palace, the majority
of goals that Wolves have scored this
If Chelsea beat Arsenal in the FA season have come in the second half.
Cup final next month, then the They looked to continue the trend by
teams finishing in fifth to seventh exploiting the inexperience of Mitchell.
place in the Premier League will Traoré picked up the ball on the
qualify for the Europa League. That byline and, despite James McArthur’s
is because Manchester City won the support, the unstoppable force pushed
League Cup but have already the ball between Mitchell’s legs and
qualified for the Champions League. bulldozed his way though. Traoré’s
But if Arsenal win at Wembley and cross found Jonny, who shifted to his
finish seventh or lower, then they left at the far post and lost Joel Ward
and only the clubs in fifth and sixth with a full 360-degree rotation before
will progress to the Europa League. firing past Vicente Guaita.
Palace came closest to a consolation
through Zaha late on, but he was denied How they stand
Instead, injuries had impacted Palace’s by a diving Boly. Hodgson’s side will
form and influenced Hodgson’s line-up. have to stop José Mourinho’s Totten- P W D L F A Pts
Liverpool (c)............36 30 3 3 77 29 93
Owing to the long list of sidelined ham — Wolves’s rivals for the Europa Man City.....................36 24 3 9 93 35 75
defenders, Tyrick Mitchell, 20, was League spot — on Sunday if they are to Chelsea.......................36 19 6 11 64 49 63
handed a Premier League debut as well prevent the losing run reaching eight Leicester.....................37 18 8 11 67 39 62
Man United...............36 17 11 8 63 35 62
as the biggest challenge of any man in games. “We will have to try and pick Wolves.........................37 15 14 8 51 38 59
red and blue stripes. ourselves up,” Hodgson said, “dust our- Tottenham ................37 16 10 11 60 46 58
Mitchell was up against Traoré, who selves down, freshen up tired legs, and Sheffield Utd............37 14 12 11 38 36 54
Burnley........................37 15 9 13 42 48 54
drove past him twice in the opening 45 play another one of the top teams.” Arsenal........................36 13 14 9 53 45 53
minutes, in the second case teeing up Everton........................37 13 10 14 43 53 49
Podence for an acrobatic effort. Southampton..........37 14 7 16 48 59 49
Newcastle..................37 11 11 15 37 55 44
The experienced Mamadou Sakho Wolverhampton Wanderers (3-4-3): R Patrício 6 Crystal Palace.........37 11 9 17 30 49 42
— L Dendoncker 6, C Coady 7, W Boly 5 —
offered support to Mitchell, yet limped M Doherty 7, J Moutinho 7, R Neves 6, J Otto 7 —
Brighton......................37 8 14 15 37 53 38
West Ham..................36 10 7 19 47 60 37
off after 22 minutes with a muscle A Traoré 8 (P Neto 81min), R Jiménez 6, Watford.......................36 8 10 18 34 57 34
strain. “It’s a Groundhog Day situation D Podence 8 (D Jota 72). Booked Coady, Traoré. Aston Villa.................36 8 7 21 39 66 31
for us,” Hodgson said. Crystal Palace (4-3-3): V Guaita 6 — J Ward 6, Bournemouth..........37 8 7 22 37 64 31
S Dann 6, M Sakho 6 (C Kouyaté 22, 6), Norwich (r)...............37 5 6 26 26 70 21
The midfielder Cheikhou Kouyaté T Mitchell 6 — J Schlupp 6 (J Riedewald 73),
replaced Sakho during the drinks J McArthur 6, J McCarthy 6 — A Townsend 6,
break, which Hodgson spent gesticu- J Ayew 5, W Zaha 6. Booked McCarthy.
Referee P Bankes.
lating to the lively Wilfried Zaha. With- Podence, making his third successive start, celebrates his first goal for the club,

Carroll ‘beating himself up’ as miss allows Brighton

0
headline-grabbing flourish should they There were two disap- Watts never even came off the bench the stats of David Ginola to become the
Brighton
2
defeat Liverpool, the champions, and pointments to deal with for what would have been his debut. leading exponent of dribbles in one
Brighton will find Burnley tough given on the south coast even The second blow was that Bruce opt- season of the Premier League by a

1
0
Newcastle
Alyson Rudd
Brighton & Hove Albion needed a point
to be absolutely certain of staying up
but it would be pushing the boundaries
of credulity to state that this draw truly
mattered enough to excuse its overall
lack of entertainment.
Well before the final whistle thoughts
turned to who each team faced next
and whether it could be as gruelling a
watch as this turned out to be. Newcas-
tle United could end the season with a
their fine run of form towards possible
European qualification.
On the other hand, it would be churl-
ish to withhold congratulations as both
clubs were touted as relegation candi-
dates at the start of the season and if
Brighton defeat Burnley, they would
record their highest Premier League
points tally.
Graham Potter has engineered
another season for the club in the top
flight while fine-tuning various styles of
play and Steve Bruce has had to handle
the backlash in replacing the beloved
Rafael Benítez and the uncertainty
over a takeover.
before a ball was kicked. ed not to play Andy Carroll in defence. Frenchman, was able to start in spite of
Many Newcastle fans had This was not quite as ludicrous as it being one of many doubts for Newcas-
expected that Kelland might seem given that defenders Flo- tle.
Watts would start given rian Lejeune, Fabian Schär, Jamaal The inclusion of Saint-Maximin is
that this was a game ripe Lascelles and Ciaran Clark were usually a boon as he adds a layer of aes-
for experimentation. all unavailable through injury thetic intensity to most games but at
Watts, 20, came through and that the frequently in- the Amex Stadium last night he played
the Newcastle academy jured but imposing striker more centrally than normal, behind
and has been on loan at had recovered from a Dwight Gayle, and the position did not
Stevenage, his recall hamstring injury and really suit him. It was when he drifted
having been approved by played a bit part at the wide that he occasionally caused Brigh-
the Premier League, but back early in his career. ton problems.
Indeed, Bruce has had a There was a pleasant surprise in that
Carroll headed wide from plethora of injury concerns since both teams were full of energy, briefly,
a Ritchie corner after the restart but Allan Saint-Maxi- from the off as if relegation was still on
coming on as a substitute min, the winger who has outshone the cards for both of them.
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created by a sublime Moutinho pass that was pulled back by Doherty, as Wolves went back into the Europa League places
to seal their survival
The goalmouth action, however, was
limited. A Lewis Dunk header was too
easy for Martin Dubravka, Leandro
Trossard might have done more with a
shot from just inside the box but then
came much closer after Neal Maupay
stayed on his feet after a stumble to set
him up for a close-range strike that was
diverted for a corner.
Newcastle only began to threaten as
the first half ended, with Gayle coming
close through a headed effort from a
Jonjo Shelvey corner.
In the second half it became an irrita-
ble affair littered with so many fouls
that it resembled a dour derby game.
This is the Premier League contest that,
on average, produces fewest goals.
Carroll did come off the bench but, un-
imaginatively, played up front and
should have done better with a Matt
Ritchie corner to the far post than to
head wide.
“Carroll’s beating himself up in
there,” Bruce said. “He knows he should
have maybe scored the winner.”
Brighton & Hove Albion (4-2-3-1): M Ryan 6 —
T Lamptey 7 (S Duffy 85min), A Webster 6,
L Dunk 5, D Burn 5 — D Stephens 5, Y Bissouma 5
(D Pröpper 73) — P Gross 5 (A Mac Allister 58, 5)
L Trossard 6, A Mooy 5 (S March 58, 5) —
N Maupay 6 (G Murray 73). Booked Gross,
Bissouma, Stephens, Webster.
Newcastle United (4-4-1-1): M Dubravka 6 —
J Manquillo 5, E Krafth 5, F Fernández 5, D Rose 6
— J Shelvey 6, N Bentaleb 5, M Almirón 6
(V Lazaro 86), M Ritchie 6 — A Saint-Maximin 5
(Joelinton 74) — D Gayle 6 (A Carroll 74). Booked
Ritchie, Rose.
Referee S Hooper.
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Wilder’s Europa
dream fizzles out
0
Sheffield United
2
1
Everton
Richarlison 46
Martin Hardy
Three minutes of stoppage time had
been played and Dominic Calvert-
Lewin had just cleared a cross from his
own penalty area. “Out, out, out!” he
screamed. His team-mates followed
the instruction.
On his first return to Bramall Lane
since leaving four years ago for what he
called “an opportunity too good to turn
down”, here was proof that the Everton
striker, who left Sheffield United as a
boy, had become a man.
There is little space for criticism of
what his old club have achieved in this
campaign, their first in the Premier
League since 2006-07. Theirs has been
one of the great stories and it says much
that only defeat in this, their penulti-
mate game of the season, ended hopes
of a top-seven finish and a place in next
season’s Europa League.
It looked a game too far, however, as
they failed to muster even one shot on
target. Calvert-Lewin was a rare threat
in a poor game. United’s defenders
knew they had been in a battle.
He did not find the winning goal.
That went to Richarlison, who scored
with a fine glancing header within a
minute of the start of the second half.
Calvert-Lewin did head against a
post in the opening 45 minutes, the only
incident of note, and, with his team in
front, he outmuscled John Egan and
drew a save from Dean Henderson with
a deflected shot from 20 yards on the
hour mark. Aside from the goal, it was
the game’s only effort on target.
There would be a yellow card when
he put his hand into the face of Enda
Stevens as he went for a header with 13
minutes remaining. He has looked a
more physically imposing player as the
season has developed. It will not hurt
that his manager wants more.
“We have to find new steps for him
because he will be better next season
for sure,” Carlo Ancelotti, the Everton
manager, said of Calvert-Lewin, 23. “I
arrived in December and he scored a lot
of goals and he helped us a lot, like
Richarlison. Some games he didn’t
score but he worked hard. The step he
has to do is be more focused and more
affecting in the box. It is true he spent a
lot of energy fighting and jumping.”
Richarlison’s moment of quality was
a reminder of the gulf that Chris
Wilder’s players have bridged; a
£50 million player against a team that
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Brighton (0) 0 Newcastle (0) 0
Sheff Utd (0) 0 Everton (0) 1
Richarlison 46
Wolves (1) 2 C Palace (0) 0
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was in League One three seasons ago.
Everton have spent heavily in the trans-
fer market only to finish beneath their
opponents and the win, though
deserved, was their first in five games.
Wilder spoke of pride in his men,
tempered with the disappointment of
watching something greater slide away.
“We lacked the quality that we needed,”
he said. “I’m sure people understand I
can’t be too critical of my players. It is
maybe time to talk about the bigger
achievement, [being] one of the best
promoted sides for quite a while.
“We haven’t yo-yoed and had the
parachute payments, the journey is
there for all to see. They can be very
proud of their efforts this year.
“There’s a lot of tired bodies and a lot
of tired minds out there. We shouldn’t
even be talking about a bridge too far at
all. We’ve had some fabulous perform-
ances and results this season. It’s been a
huge challenge. Nobody is going to put
£200 million into our back account. We
need better players in the building and
we need more competition.
“The football team is ahead of the
football club in a lot of senses and it is up
to the football club to catch up.”
David McGoldrick had a shot
blocked in the 50th minute and bal-
looned an effort over in stoppage time.
That was the sum of his side’s efforts.
Gylfi Sigurdsson bent a fine free kick
from the right to create the winning
goal in the 46th minute. Richarlison
stole ahead of Stevens and sent his
header into the corner of Henderson’s
goal.
“His performance was good,” Ancel-
otti said of the Brazilian. “The defend-
ers are really strong and tough. He is a
fantastic player so it is not unusual to
use this treatment on him. He has a
warm character so he can lose some
focus. Where he is focused is in the box.
He is dangerous and cold there.”
There was another bonus for
Everton: the composed full debut of the
central defender Jarrad Branthwaite,
an 18-year-old signed from Carlisle
United. “Usually when you talk about
young players you say ‘pay attention’,
but he is really focused and really
humble,” Ancelotti said.
Sheffield United (3-5-2): D Henderson 6 —
C Basham 7 (R Zivkovic 83min), J Egan 6,
J O’Connell 6 — G Baldock 5, S Berge 6,
O Norwood 7 (J Lundstram 69, 4), B Osborn 5
(B Sharp 60, 5), E Stevens 5 — D McGoldrick 6,
O McBurnie 5 (J Fleck 60, 4). Booked Norwood.
Everton (4-2-3-1): J Pickford 6 — D Sidibé 6,
M Keane 7, J Branthwaite 7, L Digne 6 — A Gomes
7, T Davies 6 — T Walcott 6 (A Gordon 84),
G Sigurdsson 6 (S Coleman 88), Richarlison 7 —
D Calvert-Lewin 8. Booked Davies, Calvert-Lewin,
Richarlison.
Referee S Attwell.
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Henderson eyes United No 1 spot
after string of errors by De Gea
Paul Hirst
Dean Henderson believes that he is
good enough to displace David de Gea
as Manchester United’s No 1 next
season, but he will seek another loan
move unless he receives assurances
that he will have a serious chance of
being first choice at Old Trafford.
De Gea’s place in Ole Gunnar
Solskjaer’s team has been brought into
question again after he let Mason
Mount’s shot squirm through his hands
in United’s 3-1 FA Cup semi-final defeat
by Chelsea — the latest in a string of
costly blunders.
Solskjaer could replace De Gea, 29,
with Sergio Romero for tomorrow’s
crucial match at home to West Ham
United but, in the longer term, Hender-
son, 23, is convinced that he can
displace De Gea as Solskjaer’s
first-choice goalkeeper next season
after enjoying a successful second year
on loan with Sheffield United.
It is understood that the England
Under-21 international is willing to
return to Old Trafford next season, but
only if Solskjaer suggests that he will
have a chance of being No 1. If not, the
academy graduate, who is expected to
be called up to the senior England
squad in September, will seek a loan
move elsewhere.
Sheffield United want Henderson
back next season but he may seek a
loan move to a bigger club if a suitable
offer comes along.
Henderson is also believed to be in
talks with United over a new and
improved deal. His present
contract, which he
signed 12 months ago,
expires in two years’ time
and is worth £35,000 a week. k
He is after a bigger deal worth about
£100,000 a week after his form at Bram-
all Lane has enhanced his reputation.
De Gea signed a new four-year
contract worth £375,000 a week last
September.
Henderson is regarded as one of the
best English goalkeepers in the Premier
League alongside Nick Pope, of
Burnley, and Gareth Southgate’s No 1,
Jordan Pickford, who has struggled at
times this season for Everton.
De Gea’s form is a source of concern
for Solskjaer and his squad. It is under-
stood that some United players are
worried about the fact that De Gea has
made several costly mistakes over the
past two years. This season alone the
Spain international has been culpable
Sacked Pearson set to get his £1m bonus Chelsea near Havertz deal
Gary Jacob
Nigel Pearson is to be paid a £1 million
bonus if Watford stay in the Premier
League despite being dismissed as their
head coach with two matches of the
season left.
Watford are three points above the
relegation zone and their fate will be
decided on the final day unless they
avoid defeat at home to Manchester
City tonight. Pearson’s bonus is not
dependent on him being in charge and
the money would reflect him collecting
25 points from 20 league matches to lift
the team from the bottom of the table
when he took charge in December.
Pearson, 56, signed the deal until the
end of May and it was extended to cover
the prolonged season.
Zlatko Dalic, the Croatia manager, is
among the long-term candidates to
succeed Pearson, who remains shocked
by his sacking. Some of the disagree-
David
de Gea
Atletico Madrid B, 2008-09
(31 games, 37 goals conceded);
Atletico Madrid, 2009-11
(84, 112); Manchester
United, 2011-present
(402, 414)
for conceding soft goals against Totten-
ham Hotspur, Everton and Watford.
In some training sessions this season,
his performances have not been up to
scratch either, according to sources.
Solskjaer’s decision to start De Gea
ahead of Romero annoyed the
33-year-old, who had played in each of
United’s FA Cup games until last
weekend. Romero, who joined United
on a free transfer in 2015 and has won
96 caps for Argentina, is arguably the
best back-up goalkeeper in the Premier
ment with the club appeared to stem
from their unhappiness that he
replaced the injured Étienne Capoue
with Tom Cleverley instead of Natha-
niel Chalobah in the 3-1 defeat by West
Ham United on Friday. Pearson gave
the team a “dressing-down” at half-time.
Pearson has exchanged good luck
messages with Hayden Mullins, who
has been put in temporary charge for
the second time this season. Under
Mullins, Watford lost 2-0 to Leicester
City and drew 0-0 with Crystal Palace
in his two matches in December. He
said that the players have a sense of
responsibility and wanted to complete
the job for Pearson.
“The players know the enormity of
the task,” Mullins said. “We can’t be
complacent. We have worked hard to
get ourselves into a good head space.”
Mullins rejected the suggestion that
Troy Deeney, the striker, would also
help with coaching. “Troy’s focus is
Dean
Henderson
Man Utd 2015-present (0
games); Grimsby, loan, 2016-17
(7 games, 6 goals conceded);
Shrewsbury, loan, 2017-18
(48, 39); Sheff Utd, loan,
2018-present (85, 75)
Records this season
De Gea Henderson
36 Appearances 35
35 Goals conceded 30
63.1 Save % (inside box) 68.6
90.5 Save % (out box) 94.4
7 Catches 15
1 Drops 4 out at the Arsenal board, claiming that
32.6% Long pass accuracy 31.2%
98.5% Short pass accuracy 98.6%
League. He has kept 38
clean sheets in his 59
appearances for the club.
Solskjaer will need an assured
performance from whoever he picks in
goal tomorrow. A win would lift United
above fourth-placed Leicester City,
whom they play in the final game of the
season on Sunday. Chelsea, who are
one point and one place above
Leicester, take on Liverpool tomorrow
before facing Wolverhampton Wan-
derers in their final match.
solely on playing,” he said. “He is a
fantastic leader for us.”
When Mullins reported for training
on Sunday morning he was asked to
meet Gino Pozzo, the Watford owner,
and Scott Duxbury, the chairman, who
told him he would be taking charge.
Pozzo and Duxbury then held a meet-
ing with the players. Watford’s survival
could depend on maintaining a better
goal difference than Aston Villa and
Bournemouth. At present they have a
four-goal advantage but have conceded
14 times without scoring in the past two
meetings against City.
Pearson has tweeted his appreciation
for the support he had received from
fans. “Although not able to finish the
task I was brought in to achieve, I wish
Watford the best for their final two
games,” he said.
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Eric Bailly, meanwhile, has thanked
the supporters who wished him well
after he suffered a head injury in an aer-
ial collision with Harry Maguire, his
team-mate, on Sunday. The 26-year-
old United centre back was taken to
hospital but was released on Sunday
night.
“I am OK,” he wrote on Twitter. “It
was just a scare. I feel the pain of yester-
day’s defeat even more. But we have to
get back up and refocus on the two big
games we have this week.”
Gary Jacob
Chelsea have edged closer to signing
Kai Havertz, the Germany attacking
midfielder, while also stepping up their
interest in West Ham United’s Declan
Rice.
The west London club are willing to
meet Havertz’s wage demands and
appear to face no rivals for the Bayer
Leverkusen star’s signature. However,
they appear to be offering less than
£70 million plus bonuses for a player
whom Leverkusen value at closer to
£90 million.
Havertz, 21, has told the Bundesliga
club that he wants to leave and
Leverkusen are expected to hold talks
with Petr Cech, the Chelsea technical
and performance adviser, after the
Premier League season ends on
Sunday.
Leverkusen have told Havertz and
Chelsea that they are counting on him
Tuesday July 21 2020 | the times
City keen on
Aké to bolster
their defence
Paul Hirst
Manchester City made their first move
in the transfer market yesterday when
they inquired about the Bournemouth
defender Nathan Aké.
Pep Guardiola wants to sign two
centre backs this summer and likes the
25-year-old Holland defender because
he is left-footed and can also play at left
back, which has proven to be another
problem position for the City manager.
City have not at this point told
Bournemouth how much they are
willing to bid for Aké but have made it
clear that they would be interested in
buying him at the end of the season.
Bournemouth are resigned to losing
the player. They have previously valued
him at £35 million, although that figure
may go down if the club are relegated.
Chelsea are also thought to be interest-
ed in Aké, who left Stamford Bridge for
Bournemouth in a £20 million deal
three years ago.
Guardiola, meanwhile, has lashed
he has little respect for how they
conduct their affairs.
It is understood that Guardiola and
the City hierarchy are annoyed with
Arsenal over their role in a campaign
linked to the club’s appeal to the Court
of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) and the
way in which they went about appoint-
ing Mikel Arteta. When City played
Arsenal in December, officials from the
north London club offered Arteta the
job in a secret meeting at his Manches-
ter house. Arteta was Guardiola’s assist-
ant at the time and no one else at City
was aware of the meeting despite the
two clubs’ executives sharing a board-
room hours earlier.
Three months later Arsenal were one
of ten clubs who wrote to the CAS in an
effort to thwart any City attempt at
delaying their two-year Champions
League ban while their appeal was
being considered. Last week the CAS
lifted the ban.
“Arsenal, I have all the respect for
what they are on the pitch — not much
off the pitch — but on the pitch, a lot,”
Guardiola said, after they had beaten
his side 2-0 in the FA Cup semi-final.
It is not the first example of bad blood
between the clubs. In 2009 Arsène
Wenger, then the Arsenal manager,
suggested that City were guilty of
“financial doping” by spending so much
in the transfer market after signing
Samir Nasri and Emmanuel Adebayor
from Arsenal.
playing for them in their Europa
League campaign next month. They
hold a 3-1 lead over Rangers from the
first leg of their round-of-16 tie. The
club, who finished fifth in the Bundesli-
ga, would qualify for next season’s
Champions League if they can win the
Europa League.
Meanwhile, Chelsea have faced
resistance in their efforts to bring Rice
back to Stamford Bridge. The England
midfielder, 21, joined West Ham from
Chelsea at the age of 14. West Ham are
in a stronger position to keep the player
having all but secured their Premier
League status with victory over
Watford on Friday. It is understood that
they do not want to sell.
Chelsea are willing to offer Ross
Barkley and Michy Batshuayi, both 26,
as part of a swap deal, but West Ham
are not believed to be interested in
either the England midfielder or the
Belgium striker.
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Henry Winter
Chief Football Writer

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n the season that never seems to end, the despite the fact that only two of the past eight re
really shouting at everybody,
race for Footballer of the Year is finally a Footballers of the Year, Sterling and Jamie k
keeping everybody on their toes,”
straight sprint between Kevin De Bruyne, Vardy, are English. Cantona, Ronaldo and K
Klopp said at Molineux. “But it’s
Manchester City’s genius of a ball-player, Luis Suárez all felt the wrath of local laptops n just about shouting, it’s about
not
probably the most accomplished and yet were eventually celebrated. w
what you say and he only asks for
effective midfield player in Europe at present, As always, the debate is far more nuanced th
things he expects from himself.”
and Jordan Henderson, the heartbeat of than it may first seem. Henderson is better D
Demanding, driving the team on
Liverpool, who will walk, far from alone, technically than frequently credited by to
towards the title. “We couldn’t be
on to the Kop tomorrow night to lift the those outside Anfield. in this situation without this type
Premier League trophy. Exhibit A: the clever o character,” Klopp said. Too true.
of
The deadline for voting for Footballer of the disguised pass to Roberto Henderson will hoist the
Year arrives at midnight sharp on Thursday, Firmino to score at P
Premier League trophy aloft, but
with the winner announced by the Football Molineux in January. If D Bruyne deserves to be
De
Writers’ Association on Friday. Whoever wins that were De Bruyne, the a
acclaimed as Footballer of the Year.
follows in famous footsteps: Stanley Matthews, Cityrati would pump out W
Why? It’s his nervelessness under
Tom Finney, Bobby Moore, Bobby Charlton, video tributes to such p
pressure, burying four out of four
George Best, Kenny Dalglish, John Barnes, Gary exquisite execution. If the p
penalties, defeating Thibaut
Lineker, Eric Cantona, Thierry Henry, Cristiano feeling is that Henderson C
Courtois of Real Madrid, Bernd
Ronaldo and, most recently, Raheem Sterling. will sweep the emotional L
Leno of Arsenal, Karl Darlow of
De Bruyne and Henderson walk among giants. vote, being the realiser of N
Newcastle United and Alisson of
It’s always uplifting at the awards evening to Liverpool dreams, the man L
Liverpool. It’s his versatility, his
see the recipient and his family discreetly with the moral compass sh
sharp footballing mind swiftly
inspecting the names of past winners on the who did so much for the ab
absorbing the varying demands of
wall, the pictures of legends framed community, locally and P Guardiola, willingly playing
Pep
prominently, and the celebration of not only nationally, during the d
deeper, on the right, or starting as a
their technique but also their contribution to the pandemic, then the breadth fa 9 against Real Madrid in the
false
footballing community and to society. This is of De Bruyne’s hinterland C
Champions League round-of-16 first
where the Footballer of the Year honour also needs recognition. le creating City’s equaliser, then
leg,
differentiates from the Professional Footballers’ He was involved heavily n
nailing that winning spot-kick at the
Association’s prestigious Player of the Year; “by with Henderson in the B
Bernabéu, one of the most pivotal,
precept and example”, as the voting emphasises, #PlayersTogether initiative Henderson and De Bruyne are impressive pe performances of the season.
matters. Being a role model is important. during the pandemic, and frontrunners for the Football It is in his spectacular numbers, not simply
In assessing the duel for the crown between although not City’s captain, Writers’ Association prize the 11 goals but the 18 assists in 33 Premier
De Bruyne and Henderson, it needs recording De Bruyne proved a powerful League games, with two games left to eclipse
that other special talents also command voice in meetings around such charitable th NHS, the Premier League and the PFA. He
the Thierry Henry’s division record of 20 from
attention, notably Liverpool’s quicksilver Sadio campaigns as well as the morality and logistics was also ringing England fans who work for the 2002-03. It is the gallery of snapshots of De
Mané, with his 17 goals and nine assists in of Project Restart. He’s a leader with strong NHS, thanking them, tweeting others and Bruyne’s technical mastery: the nimble way he
33 Premier League appearances, and his views. De Bruyne joined (with Henderson) in expressing his appreciation for those cooking lifts the ball over Giovani Lo Celso’s foot against
transformative work helping communities in Sterling’s powerful “We are tired” video after the meals for nurses. He scores highly on the Tottenham Hotspur; the strength to break away
his native Senegal, and the flying feet and death of George Floyd. The Belgian has been precept and example criterion. from West Ham United’s Declan Rice; the quick
fulsome heart from Wythenshawe, Marcus involved in many fundraising activities, playing But ultimately, for all the focus on those feet to steer the ball past Caglar Soyuncu
Rashford, with his 17 goals and nine assists in Fortnite with Dele Alli to generate donations for qualities, the award must be for contribution against Leicester City; the free kick curled over
29 games for Manchester United and his Covid-19 relief, as well as supporting the Special on the field. Henderson’s showreel contains the Chelsea wall and into the top corner before
campaign feeding hundreds of thousands of Olympics. plenty of evidence underpinning his case: the Kepa Arrizabalaga can react; the volley against
schoolchildren, and making short-sighted Henderson’s tireless work on long pass to release Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain Newcastle United; dribbling past Real’s Luka
politicians see sense. #PlayersTogether to raise funds for “those against Bournemouth; the calm finish against Modric and racing away from Arsenal’s Mattéo
I know shrewd minds in the media voting for fighting for us on the NHS frontline as well Southampton, ignoring James Ward-Prowse’s Guendouzi, supercar against go-kart.
Mané and Rashford, and respect their judgment, as other important areas of need” was immense. despairing lunge; the half-volleyed cross-field Cross after cross heralds De Bruyne’s gifts
but it is clearly between De Bruyne and He fielded so many calls as he liaised with pass to Andy Robertson to race on to against — deliveries on the run, faded around the first
Henderson, the men for all reasons. It has other footballers that he would have his earbuds Arsenal; flicking the ball past Nemanja Matic defender, appearing suddenly across goal, too far
almost become a collision of philosophies, in while out running, taking calls on the hoof to Mo Salah against Manchester United; from the goalkeeper’s grasp but perfectly judged
between the purists’ worship of a sublimely during lockdown. That image is so powerful, showing timing and strength to rise above for Gabriel Jesus or Sergio Agüero; the passes
technical Belgian and the lionhearts’ passion embodying the lungs of Liverpool’s midfield and Wolverhampton Wanderers’ defence to score teased behind left backs for Riyad Mahrez or
for an Englishman who fought adversity and heart of the nation’s dressing rooms. from Trent Alexander-Arnold’s corner; and Kyle Walker, or driven down the inside-left for
criticism, and won through. Amusingly, the As that ill-informed health secretary Matt that pass to Firmino, also against Wolves. Sterling. Henderson was exceptional this season,
football-writing fraternity and sorority are Hancock cravenly questioned footballers’ At the end of that game at Molineux in but De Bruyne raised the game to another level,
frequented castigated for backing their own, altruism, Henderson was already working with January, Henderson marched across to the which is why he has my vote.

Huddersfield target Bielsa assistant to be new manager
Huddersfield Town are in talks with
Carlos Corberán, a key member of
Marcelo Bielsa’s backroom staff at
Leeds United, about becoming their
manager (Martin Hardy writes)
The move is a blow for Bielsa, who
is keen for Corberán to remain at
Elland Road after their promotion to
the Premier League.
Huddersfield made the surprise
decision to sack Danny Cowley on
Sunday, two days after he had
secured the club’s safety in the Sky
Bet Championship with a 2-0 win
over West Bromwich Albion.
The club said at that point that they
were “not seeking applications” for
the position. Talks had already started
with Corberán, the 37-year-old from
Spain, by that point and it is thought
that he told celebrating Leeds players
on Sunday night that it was his
intention to leave the club and take
over at their Yorkshire rivals.
‘Not fair’ to award Ballon
d’Or amid coronavirus
There will be no winner of the Ballon
d’Or this year owing to “a lack of
sufficient fair conditions”, the
organisers have announced.
The disruption to the football
season caused by the pandemic
means that “the fairness that prevails
for this honorary title could not be
preserved,” France Football magazine,
which has given the world player of
the year award since 1956, said.
Dortmund say Hey Jude to £30m teenager Bellingham
Borussia Dortmund announced the
signing of Jude Bellingham with a
little help from the Beatles yesterday
after he completed his £30 million-
plus transfer from Birmingham City
(Paul Hirst writes).
Dortmund published a video on
their social media platforms in which
several players — and the 17-year-old
midfielder himself — sang Hey Jude.
Bellingham signed a five-year
contract worth £54,000 a week after
rejecting an offer from Manchester
United. If all add-ons are met, his
price will rise to £30 million, making
him the most expensive 17-year-old
in history. He will join his new club
after Birmingham’s final game of
the season against Derby County
tomorrow.
Bellingham has played only one full
season in the Championship, scoring
four goals in 43 appearances, but will
join Dortmund’s first-team squad.
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Sound technique
and a thrilling
ability to attack
Steve James
The preamble should not have been so
straightforward. Scoring runs at a rate
that was quick enough to allow suffi-
cient time to bowl out West Indies
should not have been so easy. That
much had been obvious on Sunday
evening, at the start of England’s
second innings and throughout this
Test on a sluggish surface.
But then you have to remember that
all the rules and the assumptions can be
torn up in a jot when Ben Stokes is
around. And that is what happened
here, as Stokes played a quite extraordi-
nary innings, striking the ball with fero-
cious power to make 78 not out from
only 57 balls so that England could set
their opponents 312 in 85 overs. They
made 92 in 11 overs on this last morning.
It was always a tricky decision for the
captain, Joe Root, to make as regards
his declaration — and, believe me, dec-
larations are infinitely clearer to decide
upon when you are not the one making
them and facing the consequences —
but it would have been a whole heap
harder without Stokes and his excep-
tional talents.
Stokes’s innings was all the more
remarkable for its contrast with his first
innings 176 off 356 balls, his slowest
Test century and one that he called
“different”, prompting him to declare in
astonishment afterwards: “It’s some-
thing I never thought I’d be capable of,
facing 300 balls in an innings.”
The truth is that he appears capable
of anything right now. It was little
surprise that he took the key wicket of
Jermaine Blackwood just before tea, as
well as that of Alzarri Joseph later. As
the former Kent and England batsman
turned Sky commentator Rob Key
remarked later in the day: “At the
moment it is Ben Stokes’s world and we
are just living in it.”
Promoting Stokes to open on Sunday
evening (his first appearance at the top
of the order in first-class cricket) with
Jos Buttler was a wise move, an instant
statement of intent, but when he began
again here on 16 from 18 balls this
morning, nobody could surely have en-
visaged the carnage that would ensue.
How
England
rated
by Simon Wilde
Moving in the right direction: Stokes’s Test averages
10 20 30 40 Tests
Stokes’s strike rate more than doubled
from the first to the second innings
From the very first ball of the day that
he faced from Kemar Roach you could
tell he was in the mood, as he crashed
the ball out on the off side to the bound-
ary sweeper with a resounding thud.
By the end of that first over England
had added 14 runs to their overnight
total as Stokes hit a four and then a six
that was struck so hard down the
ground that it left his partner, Root,
gasping in amazement. So too the rest
of us. Even Stokes reacted as if he knew
he had hit a thunderbolt of a shot.
There may have been eight fielders
on the boundary — they spent plenty of
time collecting the ball from the empty
stands like club cricketers retrieving
slogged sixes from the undergrowth —
but the boundaries just arrived one
after the other.
There were three sixes and four fours
in all, with his half-century coming off
36 balls, the fastest by a Test-match
opener since David Warner’s in 23 balls
for Australia against Pakistan in 2017.
John Campbell made a huge error in
dropping Stokes on 29, but otherwise
4 Rory Burns Quiet game, falling
leg-before to Chase’s second
ball of the match for 15 — he
reviewed, but it was stone-dead
Dom Sibley Painstaking 120 off
8 372 balls, his second century in
eight Tests, laid the groundwork
for a big first-innings total
4 Zak Crawley Fell to earth after
his innings of 76 in the first Test
with a tame first-ball duck and
a score of 11 chasing quick runs
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His incredible game
Fastest openers
Only three times has a batsman
opened a Test innings and scored as
many as Stokes at a higher strike rate
(runs per 100 balls)
Chris Gayle 80* WI v NZ, 2014
173.91
Sanath Jayasuriya 89 SL v Bang 2001
158.92
Chris Gayle 102 WI v Aus 2009
Ben Stokes 78* Eng v WI 2020
141.66
136.84
Balls were not always recorded in Test matches
until recent decades
Biggest difference in strike-rate
50 between two innings of 50+ in the
same Test
Batting
38.58 Runs Balls
40 Joe Burns Aus v Ind, Sydney 2015
118
58
30
114
Bowling
31.73 66
39
20
50 60 70 Misbah-ul-Haq
Pak v Aus Abu Dhabi 2014
Stokes was in utter command of 117
England’s total of 129 for three.
It takes a player of the highest class 101
and technique to change gears so 168
rapidly, as he had from first innings to
101*
second. In the first innings his strike
rate was 49.43 and in the second it was 57
136.84. That is some acceleration.
It emphasised the cricketing verity Ben Stokes
Eng v WI Old Trafford 2020
that your best batsmen are your best
batsmen in whatever format. If a player 87
has a good, solid basic technique — and
176
crucially with a backlift that pushes
their hands up and back behind their 355
body — then they can usually learn the 78*
more aggressive and dynamic shots re- 57
quired in the shorter forms of the game.
Stokes has a defensive game now —
4
having worked diligently to play the Players who have scored
ball later and align himself after going 250+ runs, taken three or
back and across in a more pronounced more wickets and a catch
trigger movement — of which any in the same match
opener would be proud, but he also has Frank Worrell
the power of the very biggest hitters. (WI v Eng, Trent Bridge 1950)
The face of his bat can be slightly
more closed than you might like but he Sanath Jayasuriya (SL v India, Aug 1997)
works around that, and one of the more Tillakaratne Dilshan
jaw-dropping shots of his innings was a (SL v Bang, Jan 2009)
deft late cut down to third man — with
Ben Stokes in this game
the face closed rather than open — the
ball after he had drilled Jason Holder
for six. Muscle and touch combined.
Stokes has now made 43, 46, 176 and
78 not out in this series for a rather de-
cent average of 114.33. His overall Test
average is still only 38.58. I say “only”
because it does seem rather low for the
calibre of the batsman now presented
before us, but Stokes has never really
cared too much for the statistics.
Batsmen are generally a selfish
breed, but Stokes takes selflessness to
new levels. And he is now taking his
batting to new levels. That average will
surely rise into the realms of greatness
soon enough. After his slowest Test century in the first innings, Stokes threw off the shackles
5 Joe Root Carved a wide ball to
slip, the fourth time in five
innings he had fallen to Joseph;
6 Jos Buttler Dragged on in both
innings but took a fine diving
catch to break the crucial
5 Dom Bess Useful late-order
runs but struggled to settle on a
helpful surface; produced a jaffa,
quick 22 in second innings
Ben Stokes Another remarkable
Blackwood-Brooks stand
Chris Woakes First-ball duck
though, to get Holder
Stuart Broad Vowed to be on
9 match, 254 runs in two innings,
and a momentum-shifting
8 was not a promising start but
bowled wonderfully in both
8 the money after his omission
in Southampton — and he was,
11-over spell on the fourth day innings. Jimmy who? with two key three-wicket bursts
4 Ollie Pope A cheap dismissal
7 Sam Curran Late stand-in for
and a walk-on part in the pre-
declaration biffing before his
stunning catch ended the match
Jofra Archer again displayed his
knack for useful contributions
with three top-order wickets
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59.38
Stokes’s Test batting
average in the past 12
months — 1,247 runs in 13 he has played at home —
matches with four
centuries. He has also
taken 29 wickets at
30.93
in the second innings as he scored 78 from 57 balls with some ferocious hitting
How
West Indies
rated
By Simon Wilde
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TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER BRADLEY ORMESHER
Unsung Woakes shows there
8
Sam Curran has won
can be life after Anderson
all eight Test matches
his record away
is W5 L4 D1
Simon Wilde
de
If Ben Stokes again took the plaudits
yesterday, and much was made of
Stuart Broad performing so strongly
after being left out of the first Test, it
should not be overlooked that Chris
Woakes had a very good game on his
own return to the side. Like Broad, he
must have been champing at the bit;
like Broad, he took the opportunity to
remind everyone of his abilities.
Here, the England attack unpicked
the West Indies batting in far more
skilful fashion than at Southampton
and the know-how of the two thirtyso-
methings, Broad and Woakes, was one
of the principal reasons why. They
picked up 11 wickets between them,
nine with the second new ball on
Sunday and the first new ball yesterday.
“The way they bowled was really
phenomenal,” Stokes said. “How they
managed to get those wickets [on Sun-
day] was a massive point in this game.”
Woakes’s dismissal of Kraigg Bra-
thwaite yesterday with a terrific nip-
backer was also a huge moment given
Brathwaite’s capacity to hold up an end,
although the sweeter wicket on a per-
sonal level might be that of Shane Dow-
rich as it was Woakes’s 100th in Tests.
As he had already scored 1,177 runs,
he also became the 16th England crick-
eter to complete the double of 1,000
runs and 100 wickets, and it is worth
noting that it took him only 34 Tests to
get there, fewer than Stokes and An-
drew Flintoff (both 43 Tests) or Jason
Holder (39 Tests).
Woakes’s runs are an important part
of what he brings to the side because
whoever bats at No 8 has got to be able
T20 World Cup pushed back to 2021
Elizabeth Ammon
The T20 World Cup that was due to be
played in Australia in October and
November has been postponed until
2021 because of the pandemic.
The decision, which was confirmed
by the ICC yesterday, means that there
will now be a T20 World Cup in both
2021 and 2022.
India were originally due to stage the
event in 2021. The ICC is yet to decide
whether Australia or India will play
host to the 2021 event, with the other
staging the new 2022 edition. The 50-
over World Cup in 2023, also scheduled
to be played in India, has been moved
from February and March to October
and November of that year.
India have pulled out of the proposed
tri-series in September against England
6 Kraigg Brathwaite First-innings
75 was his team’s best score of
the match but they needed him
8 Shamarh Brooks A pair of
sixties was a fair reflection of a
classy performance in what was
to drop anchor yesterday
John Campbell Failed twice
only his fifth Test appearance
Roston Chase Another
2 with the bat and his dropping
of Stokes yesterday morning
7 respectable all-round game
with five wickets and a half-
proved to be very costly century in the first innings
3 Shai Hope Scores of 25 and 7
continued his disappointing run
in Test cricket; he could be
7 Jermaine Blackwood Fell to
Broad for a first-innings duck
but a fifty yesterday threatened
dropped for the decider to halt England’s victory march
to bat and of all the many frontline fast-
bowling candidates Woakes and Sam
Curran offer most with the bat.
What is also not fully appreciated
outside the England camp is how solid
a citizen Woakes is. One senior source
has said of the 31-year-old that he
always provides “Rolls-Royce service”,
a message Joe Root endorsed last night.
“He is one of the most consistent
blokes on and off
the field. He is a
senior player who
sets a fantastic ex-
ample. For him to
be sat on the side-
lines at times is very
hard to see. Especially
in these conditions, we
know how useful he can
be.”
In an attack containing
younger men such as Dom Bess,
22, and Jofra Archer, 25, who are
still learning their craft, players
who turn in regular performances
are especially valuable.
Goodness knows which attack
will be deployed on Friday in the
third Test but Woakes is going to
have a tough job to hold on to his
place given that he is regarded as
the closest match-up to James An-
derson, 37, who is a hard man to
keep out of the side.
It is worth noting that Woakes’s
match figures here of 37-13-76-5 are
the sort that Anderson might have
happily taken alongside his name.
For the record, Anderson’s figures in
the first Test were 40-14-104-3, and he
went without a wicket on the final day
when England were pushing for vic-
tory. Here Woakes achieved more
swing than any other bowler in the
side.
It is also worth reflecting on
Woakes, 31, claimed five
wickets at Old Trafford
Women and South Africa Women
because of coronavirus concerns.
Instead, England are likely to play a
bilateral series against South Africa
with seven limited-overs fixtures
across three weeks in September, all to
be played at the County Ground in
Derby under the same biosecure
conditions as the men’s Test series
between England and West Indies.
The matches will form part of
England’s preparations for defending
their 50-over World Cup title in New
Zealand in February, an event that is
still, as it stands, going ahead because
New Zealand is deemed a Covid-safe
country.
Mohammad Amir, the Pakistan fast
bowler, will join the squad in the UK for
the T20 series at the end of August
having initially made himself
2 Shane Dowrich The West Indies
gloveman had a shocker with
the bat, falling leg-before in both
innings for a pair of ducks
Jason Holder Lost out heavily in
5 his duel with Stokes: fell cheaply
in the first innings and was
outwitted by Bess in the second
5 Alzarri Joseph Wicket of Root
was his one success and he may
sit out the final Test; scored 32
as nightwatchman
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how well Woakes might have bowled
last year had he played the Test on this
ground against Australia — it was the
one Test in the series that he missed as
the selectors favoured Craig Overton
instead; that, despite Woakes taking
seven wickets in the Old Trafford Test
of 2016 against Pakistan. If he were to
play on Friday, England know what
they would get.
Sadly, Woakes lives in Anderson’s
shadow as much as he does that of
Stokes. Anderson may be fêted as the
classic English-conditions bowler, but
Woakes’s record in Tests in this country
is unrivaled in modern times.
Among England bowlers
with 75 Test wickets in home
Tests — and precisely 75 of
Woakes’s 100 wickets for En-
gland have been taken at
home — his average is
lower at 22.90 than
anyone who has
played in the past 50
years. Anderson
averages 23.85
and the late, great
Bob Willis 23.50.
Broad trails quite a
way behind on 26.53.
For the time being
Woakes is likely to continue
to serve as Anderson’s un-
derstudy. It is revealing that
Woakes has actually per-
formed better when Anderson is
not alongside him than when
he is, presumably because he
is granted a more senior
role and gets to see
more of the new ball. In
12 Tests without Ander-
son, he has taken 40
wickets at about 20
apiece.
But the time will come
when Anderson is gone, and the ever-
green Woakes may finally get his
chance on a regular basis.
unavailable to tour. Amir, 28, pulled out
of the tour because the dates clashed
with the birth of his second child and he
was concerned about travelling during
the pandemic. However, the baby was
born earlier than expected, which
means that he will now be able to join
up with the squad, provided he receives
a further negative Covid-19 test result.
Amir, who was banned from cricket
for five years and sentenced to six
months in prison for his part in a spot-
fixing scandal in 2010, retired from Test
cricket last year at the age of 27 but has
continued to play international
limited-overs cricket.
The Pakistan squad are in a biosecure
bubble in Derby, where they will stay
until the week before the first Test,
which starts on August 5 at Emirates
Old Trafford.
7 Kemar Roach His side’s best fast
bowler with four wickets —
admittedly two of them in the
slog. Must play on Friday
Shannon Gabriel Man of the
5 match in Southampton went
wicketless and could now make
way for a second spinner
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Stokes the enforcer hauls
Mike Atherton
Chief Cricket
Correspondent
England v West Indies
Emirates Old Trafford (final day of
five): England beat West Indies by
113 runs
There will be many moments of match-
turning magnificence that we remem-
ber when Ben Stokes’s career is done.
The World Cup final, the Headingley
Ashes Test and, no doubt, many more
to come. There are also minor vignettes
that will be forgotten; smaller, more
insignificant pieces of action that of
themselves have had little impact upon
the game, but which demonstrate what
an inspirational cricketer he is to those
around him.
One such came on the point of tea
yesterday, the first ball of the 43rd over,
during the eighth over of an afternoon
spell from Stokes. With virtually every
fielder on or behind square, Jermaine
Blackwood punched the ball back down
the ground and, with no fielders in his
vicinity, Stokes had to set off in pursuit
of the ball.
He sprinted fully 80 yards after
completing his follow-through, made a
full-length dive at the ball and flicked it
back before it reached the boundary.
That the batsmen had made an all-run
four was, to him, immaterial.
Three balls later, with Blackwood still
on strike, Stokes produced a brute of a
ball that reared up towards the right-
hander’s armpit, took the glove and
ballooned towards Jos Buttler, who
sprinted four yards to his left and took
an excellent diving catch. After a part-
nership of exactly 100 between Black-
wood and Shamarh Brooks, one that
had lasted throughout the afternoon
and had given West Indies hope, Stokes
had given England a vital breakthrough
again. England’s players walked off to
tea a little taller, with belief renewed.
Back in the ranks after a brief spell in
charge, the “Stokes Effect” was there
for all to see in a match that ended just
inside the final hour, England levelling
the series with a 113-run victory. Stokes
was man of the match, of course, for his
all-round performance, but the first-in-
nings century of Dom Sibley should not
be forgotten, nor the seam bowling of
Stuart Broad, who backed up his fight-
ing talk from last week with six wickets
that came in two vital clusters that
‘He even looks like Mr Incredible – but skinnier’
continued from back
think of a better one. He looks a bit like
him, although a bit skinnier.”
It was not only a match-winning
performance from Stokes with bat and
ball — not least in the second innings
during an 11-over spell of aggressive
short-pitched bowling extracting
movement and bounce even with the
soft old ball — but one that showed
what a complete cricketer he is.
“This game showed more than any
other Ben’s ability to read different
situations, his adaptabililty, his
versatility,” Root said.
“He can do so many different roles
with the bat. That first innings showed
great maturity — him and [Dom] Sibley
set the platform.
“It’s the third time in four games we
have made 400-plus which is a massive
step forward for us as a team. Ben really
led the way with that and then you look
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England’s never-say-die hero
Stokes’s relentlessness in pursuit of victory was encapsulated as he dived to
stop a boundary off his own bowling. The batsman, Jermaine Blackwood, still
ran four but Stokes took his wicket three balls later with a brute of a delivery
allowed England breathing space,
given the loss of the third day to rain.
That Stokes did not usher the victory
in with ball in hand was the only sur-
prise, but even he was feeling the effects
by the end, having pulled up four balls
into his 15th over. England will be hop-
ing dearly that he recovers to play a full
part in the deciding third Test, which
starts on Friday. He remained on the
field for the victory moment, but it was
a pair of 22-year-olds who supplied the
cherry on top of the cake — Dom Bess,
the off spinner, who had struggled until
switched to a more favourable end, and
Ollie Pope, who flung himself to his left
to take the winning catch, a magnifi-
cent diving effort at short leg.
Everyone, though, stood in the shad-
ow of the Sun King, Stokes. What a
match he had: a mighty hundred in the
first innings; a rapid half-century after
being promoted to open in the second,
and vital wickets bowling what the pro-
fessionals call the “grunt” overs when
the ball was old and not doing much at
all. In the first innings he was withheld
until the 51st over, and took the key
wicket of Kraigg Brathwaite during an
11-over spell. Now, in the second, as En-
gland’s edge was blunted, he bowled
another 11-over spell, in which Black-
at the rest of the game, his impact with
the ball — he made something happen
when nothing was.
“He ran in on what seemed like a
flat wicket at that point with the old
soft ball and made things happen
and changed the game.
“His runs this morning
meant there was only
two possibilities in
terms of results and
gave us some
breathing space and
we could attack more
with the ball because off
those runs.”
Stokes did not complete his
15th over yesterday after what,
at the time, looked to be a groin
injury but he says he is not hurt
and was just feeling stiff. “I am
fine,” Stokes insisted. “My
Root likened Stokes to the
Disney animation star
wood fell to his charms. Without either
of the quick bowlers, Jofra Archer and
Mark Wood, Stokes took that enforcer’s
role upon himself.
Until that stubborn partnership
between Blackwood and Brooks,
England’s day had gone entirely to plan.
Initially, we wondered how far Joe Root
was prepared to risk defeat for victory,
how far he was prepared to open the
door to West Indies. The answer was
not much, but not because Root was
especially conservative in his declara-
tion but because the vehemence of
Stokes’s stroke-play in the morning,
during which 92 runs were added in 11
overs, simply snuffed out any thoughts
of a West Indian run-chase.
Stokes signalled his intent immedi-
ately, crunching a towering six off
Kemar Roach’s fifth ball that had Jason
Holder craning his neck at long-off.
Roach’s first over went for 14 and, there-
after, Root looked to give as much of the
strike as possible to his right-hand man,
which ultimately cost him his own
wicket when he was run out in the
eighth over of the morning.
Stokes was dropped badly at deep
cover by John Campbell off Shannon
Gabriel, and then rubbed salt into the
Gabriel wound by taking him for
body was starting to get really stiff and
I spoke to Broad and said I was feeling
stiff and he told me just to stop,
especially with them being nine
down. It made the decision a bit
easier but I am absolutely fine.”
Root confirmed that Jofra
Archer, who was removed
from the squad for the
second Test and fined
£15,000 after breaching
the strict biosecure
protocols surrounding
the series by visiting his
home in Hove after the
first Test, would be available
for selection for the third Test,
which starts on Friday, with
England bidding for victory to
regain the Wisden Trophy.
“It was disappointing,” Root
said. “He’s been through a
disciplinary process and is very
aware now of the
consequences of his actions
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another six over long-off to bring up his
half-century in a rapid 36 balls, the
sixth fastest in England’s history, and
his second fastest after his 34-ball affair
at Cape Town in the winter — another
all-round performance that had hauled
his team to victory. Brute force was not
his only option, though, one glance
down to third man off Holder being as
delicate as a porcelain vase.
West Indies’ need to take time out of
the game was highlighted by Holder’s
decision to review a leg-before decision
against Stokes in which the ball had
pitched fully three feet outside leg
stump and hit the batsman in the gut, a
plainly ridiculous call designed only to
hold up England, something repeated
in Alzarri Joseph’s first over shortly
afterwards. That time-wasting had
come so early in the day told you every-
thing about the state of the game and
Root’s declaration set West Indies a
nominal 312 in 85 overs, allowing for a
second new ball if necessary.
England’s golden morning was
complete when three wickets fell to the
new-ball combination of Broad and Broad’s
Chris Woakes. Broad accounted for
Campbell, to the faintest of edges that influence
was not detected by Buttler but was by
technology, and then Shai Hope, who From his first wicket
ended on his haunches as the ball in the first innings to
scuttled through on to the off stump. In his third in the second
between, Woakes produced the perfect innings
nip-backer to trap Brathwaite on the
crease, and when Roston Chase fell to
Broad immediately after the break,
West Indies looked done for.
11.5
overs
Brooks and Blackwood played game-
ly, then. The decision not to review a
caught-behind against Brooks when on
17, which replays showed had come off
5
maidens
glove as well as elbow, looked to be a
costly one for England — and for
Woakes, whose 100th Test wicket this
would have been. Eventually, Shane
25
runs
Dowrich, looking ever jumpier against
the short ball, provided the Warwick-
shire man with this milestone — and in
Woakes’s 34th Test, it has come at a
6
wickets
decent lick. It would be a surprise were
Woakes to ever emit the kind of noises
Broad made on omission last week, but
with his record at home, he may be
entitled to a grumble or two.
Given England’s win, and given that
Jofra Archer, Mark Wood and James
52cm
Broad has started
Anderson are waiting in the wings, a pitching the ball up
bowler or three will be grumbling come more and is on average
Friday. With Test matches coming bowling just over half a
thick and fast, Holder must look on metre fuller than he
England’s seam bowling riches with did in 2014
envy and England must be favourites to
win the series now.
58%
As a result, since the start
and is very remorseful about what he of 2018 more than half of
has done. Now it is time for us to look at his wickets at home have
him as available to be selected.” been bowled or lbw, up
Jason Holder, the West Indies from 33 per cent until
captain, said that England’s burst with the end of 2017
the second new ball on the fourth
evening, when West Indies slumped
from 242 for four to 287 all out in their
first innings, was probably what cost
them the game. “England played really
good cricket, especially Ben Stokes,
but I think yesterday’s performance
against the second new ball really let us
down,” he said. “If we had got through
that we could have stretched the game
a bit deeper and given ourselves a
chance to win.
“England’s bowlers really challenged
our batters, although maybe they got a
bit stuck on the crease. That is
something we need to pay attention to.
In these conditions you have to commit
to being forward or back and get into a
good position to make a decision
whether you want to play at the ball.” Broad celebrates the wicket of Chase
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Final scoreboard from Emirates Old Trafford

ENGLAND First innings R B WEST INDIES First innings R B

R J Burns 15 35 K C Brathwaite 75 165
lbw b Chase c and b Stokes
Missed straight one Short ball, leading edge
P Sibley 120 372 J Campbell 12 34
c Roach b Chase lbw b Curran
Underneath it, wide long on Trapped in front
Z Crawley 0 1 A Joseph 32 52
c Holder b Chase c Pope b Bess
Gripped, tickled down leg Smart catch at short leg
*J E Root 23 49 S D Hope 25 71
c Holder b Joseph c Buttler b Curran
Drive on the up, second slip Cutter, thin edge
B A Stokes 176 356 S S J Brooks 68 137
c Dowrich b Roach lbw b Broad
Reverse-sweep, thin edge Full and straight, plumb
O J D Pope 7 8 R L Chase 51 85
lbw b Chase lbw b Woakes
Squared up, hit knee roll Full and straight, hitting leg
†J C Buttler 40 79 J Blackwood 0 6
c Joseph b Holder b Broad
Skied, leg side boundary Kept low, castled off stump
C R Woakes 0 1 †S O Dowrich 0 5
c Hope b Roach lbw b Broad
Drawn in to drive, to gully Inswinger, hitting leg
S M Curran 17 39 *J O Holder 2 12
c Campbell b Chase c Root b Woakes
Reverse-sweep to point Back of a length, first slip
K A J Roach 5 24
D M Bess 31 26
not out
not out
S T Gabriel 0 5
S C J Broad 11 14 b Woakes
not out Moved away, hit off stump
Extras 29 Extras 17
(b 4, lb 7, nb 8, w 10) (b 1, lb 12, nb 2, w 2)
TOTAL (162 overs; 9 wkts dec) 469 TOTAL (99 overs) 287

Fall of wickets 1-29, 2-29, 3-81. 4-341, 5-
352, 6-395, 7-395, 8-426, 9-427.
Bowling Roach 33-9-58-2;
Gabriel 26-2-79-0; Joseph 23.1-5-70-1;
Holder 32-10-70-1; Chase 44-3-172-5;
Brathwaite 3.5-0-9-0.
Fall of wickets 2-70, 3-123, 4-199, 5-242,
6-248, 7-252, 8-260, 9-287, 10-287.
Bowling Broad 23-7-66-3;
Woakes 21-10-42-3; Curran 20-4-70-2;
Bess 21-3-67-1; Root 1-1-0-0;
Stokes 13-3-29-1.

ENGLAND Second innings R B WEST INDIES Second innings R B

B A Stokes 78 57 K C Brathwaite 12 23
not out lbw b Woakes
†J C Buttler 0 3 Bang in front, didn’t review
b Roach J D Campbell 4 4
Wide delivery, dragged on c †Buttler b Broad
Z Crawley 11 15 Flashed at a wide one
b Roach S D Hope 7 26
Ugly hoik, middle stump b Broad
*J E Root 22 33 Kept a tad low, a beauty
run out S S J Brooks 62 136
Tried single to wicketkeeper lbw b Curran
O J Pope 12 7 Trapped round the wicket
not out R L Chase 6 19
Extras 6 lbw b Broad
(b 1, lb 1, nb 1, w 3) Nip-backer, no shot offered
J Blackwood 55 88
TOTAL (8.0 overs; 3 wkts dec) 129 c †Buttler b Stokes
Fended off a short one
Fall of wickets 1-1, 2-17, 3-90. †S O Dowrich 0 3
Bowling Roach 6-0-37-2; Gabriel 7-0-43- lbw b Woakes
0; Holder 4-0-33-0; Joseph 2-0-14-0 Tried to work one to leg
*J O Holder 35 62
b Bess
Ripped one through the gate
K A J Roach 5 31
c Pope b Bess
Fine reflex catch at short leg

12
Times in history a team
A S Joseph
c Bess b Stokes
Chipped wide one to point
S T Gabriel
9 17

0 12
has come back from not out
1-0 down to win a
Extras (lb 3) 3
three-Test series.
England previously did TOTAL (70.1 overs) 198
it at home in 1888
Fall of wickets 1-7, 2-19, 3-21, 4-37, 5-137,
6-138, 7-161, 8-183, 9-192, 10-198
Bowling Broad 15-5-42-3;
Woakes 16-3-34-2; Curran 8-3-30-1;
Bess 15.1-3-59-2; Stokes 14.4-4-30-2;
Root 1.2-1-0-0.

Umpires R Illingworth (Eng) and M Gough (Eng). Man of the match Ben Stokes.
Series level at 1-1: First Test Ageas Bowl, West Indies won by four wickets. Second
Test Old Trafford, England won by 113 runs. Third Test Old Trafford, July 24-28.
on his way to a six-wicket match haul that vindicated his dissatisfaction at being left out of the first Test in Southampton
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6 Pope’s brilliant catch seals win over West Indies Ollie Pope takes a
diving one-handed
6 Root hails Stokes as his ‘Mr Incredible’ catch to dismiss
Kemar Roach and
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Elizabeth Ammon
Joe Root has hailed Ben Stokes as
“Mr Incredible” after the England
all-rounder led his team to a 113-run
win against West Indies to level the
three-match series.
Stokes, 29, was named man of the
match after two epic performances
with the bat, scoring 176 in the first
innings and an explosive 78 not out
from 57 balls in the second that
allowed England to push for victory.
He helped set West Indies a
target of 312, with England leaving
themselves 85 overs in which to
bowl them out. Stuart Broad and
Chris Woakes made early inroads as
the touring side slumped to 37 for
four before a 100-run partnership
between Jermaine Blackwood and
Shamarh Brooks held up the
England charge.
But Stokes broke that partnership
before West Indies lost their final
five wickets for 60 runs, with Broad
finishing with three for 42 and
Woakes two for 34, prompting Root,
the England captain, to call the
Warwickshire all-rounder “Mr
Dependable”. When asked which
“Mister” Stokes is, Root replied, in
reference to the Disney animated
character, “Mr Incredible. I can’t
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