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By Sarah O’Grady
Social Affairs Correspondent

RISHI Sunak’s stamp

duty giveaway propelled
the housing market to its
highest values of all time.
Prices rocketed 3.8 per cent
year-on-year in July to hit
the record.
Property experts knew
the Chancellor’s cut in

Chancellor’s stamp duty

stamp duty was a
shot in the arm for
the struggling sector
after it was frozen 97.5F weekend heatwave
holiday gives ‘surprising
during lockdown.

...you’d better get used to it

But they were
surprised by the
spike in house prices.

spike’ to home values Announced at the

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Weather forecast Cat prefers home

to foreign office
By Emily Chudy

PALMERSTON, the Foreign Office’s

chief mouser, is set to retire.
A resignation letter said he wished
to spend more time “away from the
limelight” after enjoying “working
from home” during the pandemic.
“I have found life away from the front
line relaxed, quieter, and easier,” read
the letter signed in his name.
Palmerston, a rescue cat from
Battersea Dogs and Cats Home, was
brought to Whitehall in 2016.
But he will not entirely retreat from
Temperatures in Centigrade
public life. “My 105,000 Twitter
North West: Dry with sunny spells and East Anglia: Dry with lots of sunshine and followers show that even those with
variable amounts of cloud. Gentle easterly a little cloud. Gentle northerly winds. Hot four legs and fur have an important
winds. Warm and humid. High 25C (77F). and humid. High 26C (79F). part to play in the UK’s global effort.”
Paws for
Northern Ireland: Dry with morning cloud London/South East: Dry and fine with
thought... Permanent Under-Secretary Sir
breaking up to give lengthy spells of lengthy spells of sunshine. Gentle easterly Simon McDonald replied on Twitter
sunshine. Light winds. High 21C (70F). winds. Very hot and humid. High 34C (93F). Palmerston
is enjoying a that staff will miss the “mouser and
Wales: Early cloud will break up to reveal a South: Dry with clear skies and bright social media phenomenon”.
dry and sunny day. Moderate north-easterly sunshine. Gentle north-easterly winds. Very quieter life
winds. High 28C (82F). hot and humid. High 33C (91F).
Midlands: Sunny but the risk of an isolated South West: Fine and dry with long
shower. Moderate north-easterly winds. Hot periods of strong sunshine. Gentle northerly
and humid. High 28C (82F). winds. Hot and humid. High 28C (82F).
North East/Yorks: Dry and fine with sunny Channel Isles: Dry with lengthy spells of
spells and variable cloud. Gentle north- summer sunshine. Moderate northerly
easterly winds. High 23C (73F). winds. Warm and humid. High 25C (77F).
Scotland: A fine and dry day with sunny Sea: North Sea: Moderate. Irish Sea:
spells and patchy cloud cover. Gentle Moderate. Channel: Moderate.
easterly winds. High 22C (72F).
UK OUTLOOK TOMORROW: A fine day with early cloud breaking to reveal lengthy spells
of summer sunshine however there is a risk of a few isolated showers developing.
SIX-DAY FORECAST Temperatures in Centigrade
SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI
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Belfast 14 20 14 20 14 20 14 19 12 18 12 18
Birmingham 16 28 17 27 17 27 15 24 14 22 14 22 By Sam Lister consensus for open markets at a time
Cardiff 18 29 18 27 18 26 17 25 15 22 14 22 Deputy Political Editor of heightened protectionism.
Glasgow 13 21 14 21 14 21 14 20 13 19 12 19 “It will deliver more trade and
Is Britain better
Q
Manchester 16 25 16 25 16 24 15 24 13 21 13 21 JAPAN wants to sign a trade deal by investment that will benefit businesses
Newcastle 11 18 12 19 13 20 13 20 12 18 11 19 the end of the month in a £15billion
boost to British businesses.
off negotiating its and consumers across the whole of
the country and help level-up our
Norwich 16 26 17 27 18 27 18 25 15 22 15 22
Plymouth 17 25 16 23 17 23 16 22 16 21 15 20 Foreign minister Toshimitsu Motegi own trade deals? United Kingdom.”
said agreement has been reached in The agreement Japan struck with
Britain Thursday Moon, sun and tides most areas after negotiations in YES: 0901 133 4440 Brussels has been used as a blueprint
Aberdeen 8.3 0.00 13 22 Glasgow 2.6 0.04 15 20 MOON rises: 10.47pm, sets: 10.33am
London this week. for talks but Britain has pushed for
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Manchester rises: 5.37am, sets: 8.51pm The Government has been keen to NO: 0901 133 4441 more tariff reductions and better
Belfast 2.3 0.05 16 20 Leeds 9.1 0.00 15 28 Last Quarter
11 August
secure a pact with Tokyo ready for the Yes text DXYES to 84988 access to markets. Both sides are keen
Birmingham 10.5 0.00 16 29 Lincoln 12.0 0.00 17 30 end of Brexit transition arrangements, to have the deal signed off quickly to
B’mouth
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London B’ge (5.37am), (5.45pm) which terminate in December. No text DXNO to 84988 ensure the new arrangements are in
Cardiff 9.9 0.00 14 24 Oxford 9.2 0.02 11 31 Liverpool (2.33am), (2.54pm) Cabinet minister Liz Truss said Texts cost 50p plus standard charges. Calls cost 50p place for January 1, when Britain is no
Durham 6.7 0.00 14 26 S’hampton 9.4 0.01 16 27 Greenock (4.00am), (4.26pm)
discussions had been positive and a plus your telephone company’s network access charge. longer bound by Brussels’ restrictions.
Edinburgh 1.6 0.01 16 22 St Andrews 6.9 0.01 13 24 Dover (2.45am), (2.59pm) Vote closes at midnight tonight. The Daily Express may
Britain Warmest: Wisely 36C (97F) Lighting-up times Glasgow 9.08pm-5.37am
formal agreement in principle is contact you by post, SMS and/or email with offers, Ministers expect the deal to increase
Extremes: Coldest: Exeter 10C (50F) Belfast 9.09pm-5.49am London 8.35pm-5.37am expected in the next few weeks. goods or services that may be of interest to you. business with Japan by around £15bil-
Wettest: Thomastown 0.21in. Birmingham 8.45pm-5.40am
(24 hours
to 2pm yesterday) Sunniest: Manston 14.1hr. Bristol 8.45pm-5.47am
Manchester
Newcastle
8.51pm-5.38am
8.53pm-5.30am
The International Trade Secretary To stop receiving SMS messages please text lion a year in the long run and boost
said the deal will go “significantly ‘NSNOINFO’ to the originating number. wages across the UK by £800million.
Today Europe forecast Tomorrow beyond” the terms Japan has already SP: Spoke, 0333 202 3390.
Mr Motegi said substantial agree-
Amsterdam Sunny 33C/91F Amsterdam Sunny 30C/86F struck with Brussels. ment has been reached in most areas.
Brussels Sunny 36C/97F Brussels Sunny 35C/95F She said: “Negotiations have been agreement in principle by the end
Dublin Sunny 19C/66F Dublin Cloudy 19C/66F He said: “We agreed to accelerate
Frankfurt Sunny 36C/97F Frankfurt Sunny 37C/99F positive and productive, and we have of August. talks with an aim of reaching an out-
Geneva Sunny 32C/90F Geneva Sunny 33C/91F reached consensus on the major ele- “The UK-Japan Comprehensive line agreement by the end of August.”
Lisbon Sunny 31C/88F Lisbon Sunny 28C/82F
Madrid Sunny 37C/99F Madrid Sunny 40C/104F ments of a deal – including ambitious Economic Partnership Agreement will Japan is Britain’s 11th-largest export
Paris Sunny 37C/99F Paris Sunny 38C/100F provisions in areas like digital, data forge stronger ties between two market, while the UK is the 12th-
Rome Sunny 33C/91F Rome Sunny 31C/88F and financial services that go signifi- democratic island nations with a ranked destination for Japanese goods.
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Dirty Dancing’s Baby is
back for sequel...aged 60
JENNIFER Grey will star in a new
Dirty Dancing film – 33 years after the
original with Patrick Swayze thrilled
the world.
The 60-year-old actress is also
executive producing the movie, which
studio bosses say will be “romantic
and nostalgic”.
Grey’s project has been rumoured
for some time but Jon Feltheimer, of
producers Lionsgate, has now
confirmed it is a Dirty Dancing film.
She played Frances “Baby”
Houseman in the 1987 original, which
saw her fall in love with Swayze’s
hunky dancing instructor Johnny
Castle at a holiday resort.
Feltheimer said: “It will be exactly
the kind of romantic, nostalgic movie
that the franchise’s fans have been
waiting for and that made it the
biggest-selling library title in the
company’s history.”
Jonathan Levine – who usually
works in TV – will direct.
No other details, including plot or
release date, were announced
Hungry
eyes...
Jennifer
Grey, 60,
will star in
and work
behind
cameras
on Dirty
Dancing II
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By Mark Jefferies
although previous US reports have
suggested it could be set in the 90s.
The original movie is now regarded
as a classic and landed an Academy
Award and Golden Globe for Best
Original Song for Bill Medley and
Jennifer Warnes’ (I’ve Had) The Time
of My Life.
It grossed more than $214million
(£163m) at the box office.
Grey previously revealed that she
had practised the movie’s famous
signature lift in a “very cold” lake
even though she didn’t think it was
“healthy” to be in the water.
She said: “I remember swimming in
the lake was very, very, very cold. You
have to be really young and hungry to
get in water that cold for that long. She’s like
A 2004 prequel, Dirty Dancing: the wind...
Havana Nights, starring Diego Luna Grey and
and Romola Garai, flopped. Swayze
Swayze – who had been suffering perfect
from cancer of the pancreas – died impossible
aged 57 in 2009. move in
original
Picture:
MICHAEL
TULLBERG/
GETTY
Picture: SWNS
By Jonathan Coles
A LOTTERY winner has
celebrated becoming a millionaire
– the day after he was
made redundant.
David Adams, 61, lost his job
last Friday after a tough year,
including a double family
bereavement.
But on Saturday he won
£1million and said: “Never
in our wildest dreams did
we think the next thing
thrown our way would be
a million quid.”
David was let go from his
job as a wood machinist last
week having already faced a
run of terrible luck. Cheque this out...David and Shelley Adams celebrate their windfall
He had lost his sister-in-law
to a heart attack and his brother the final straw in a catalogue of ever comprehend. We are not
to coronavirus. difficulties we have experienced. going to rush any of our decisions
But he and wife Shelley’s for- “Just last year Shelley was diag- and will take things slowly but
tunes dramatically improved just nosed with MS and had to give up there are a few plans for our win-
24 hours after he was given the the job she loved as a community nings. A new car is on the cards.”
bad news by his employers. carer, putting a strain on our Shelley added: “We have
David checked his Lotto num- finances and heightening her friends and family in Canada who
bers in the early hours of Sunday clinical anxiety. we thought we would only ever
and discovered he had won a “In April we sadly lost my sis- see online, never in person. I’ve
prize of a million pounds. ter-in-law to a massive heart never even been on a plane or left
The couple, from Chipping attack. Then in early May we the country before, it’s crazy to
Norton, Oxon, plan to be cau- received the news that her hus- think the first time I do it will be
tious with their winnings but said band, my brother, had passed due first class all the way!”
they will buy a new car and book to Covid-19.” David bought his winning Lotto
a holiday. David said: “We’ve always ticket online and matched five
David said: “Many people worked hard and know the value numbers and the bonus ball.
would think the redundancy was of money but this is a number far
the worst news but in fact it’s just beyond anything we could OPINION: PAGE 14
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FROM PAGE ONE

beginning of last month and running until Chris and
next March, buyers of homes worth up to Hannah with
£500,000 will save as much as £15,000. daughter
It has persuaded buyers and sellers in all Phoenix
areas to flock back to the property market,
rejuvenating the sector.
The cost of a three-bedroom semi jumped
by 1.6 per cent – or £3,770 – month-on-
month to £241,604. This is up from £237,834 CHRIS Scott has saved By Sarah O’Grady
in June. £7,400 on his house move
Russell Galley, managing director of in what he described as a make due to the tax cut
Halifax, said: “Following four months of “game-changer” stamp will help significantly.
decline, average house prices in July experi- duty bonus. The 37-year-old, from
enced their greatest month-on-month There were several Basingstoke, Hants, said:
increase this year, comfortably off-setting parties in his chain and “We have lived in two
losses in 2020. doubts about whether or new-builds so far and
“The average house price in July is the not it would hold steady, decided we wished to
highest it has ever been since the Halifax but the Chancellor’s move looking to the
house price index began in 1983. announcement last future, for schools etc.
“The latest data adds to the emerging view month persuaded “Whilst at it, we decided
that the market is experiencing a surprising everyone to go ahead to take on a bit of a
spike post-lockdown.” with their transactions. project, so the £7,400 we
Chief Secretary to the Treasury Stephen And for his young save is going to be massive
Barclay said: “Buying a home is the biggest family, including wife for us due to the amount
financial investment most people will make Hannah and one-year-old of work we wish to do on
in their lives and we want people to feel daughter Phoenix, Chris the house.
the economy is secure enough for them to said the savings they will “It’s a game-changer.”
take this step.
“A secure home is one of the most impor-
tant things in life. And so is job security.
“So what’s great about the stamp duty cut
that we announced in July – raising the
threshold to £500,000 – is that it helps with
We can buy bigger house
DAVE Dickson, 44, from the West By Sarah O’Grady
both of these priorities we all share.” Midlands, has sold his three-bedroom
Islay Robinson, chief executive of Enness home in Solihull and is looking to buy stepdaughter Maddy. He was delighted
Global Mortgages, said: “The The stamp property to house his family.
a bigger pr to hear Chancellor Rishi Sunak
duty holiday has been the prop- The head
h of training for estate announce the holiday.
erty market equivalent of Dave said: “My partner Sally has

£3,770
agent Purplebricks is now set to
agen
Black Friday, bringing a save as much as £10,000 after been desperate for us to find a new
sav
massive influx of buyerss the stamp duty holiday was
th house and get the ball rolling since
who may otherwise have introduced last month.
in virtual viewings and then physical
been sat on the fence He and his partner Sally viewings started again as
until next year.
“It isn’t just the
monthly rise sees cost
FFarmer are looking to spend lockdown eased.”
aaround £400,000 on a Dave added that they can now buy
average home buyer of average three-bed
four-bedroom detached
fo “a larger home with the money we’ve
that’s hitting the market
for a discounted spendingg semi rise to
period home.
pe
Dave is the father of two
D
saved on stamp duty so the stamp duty
holiday announcement will be hugely
spree either.
“Demand has spiked att all £241,604
teenage boys, Thomas, 19, and
teen beneficial to us as a family – it’s a very
Charlie, 17, and has a 15-year-old exciting and very welcome boost.”
Charli Keen to get ball rolling…Dave and partner Sally
tiers with high-end and foreign
oreign
buyers also scram-
bling to secure

COMMENT
themselves a deal. WE have always been clear about the
“The off-shoot of 2 THE UPS AND DOWNS OF THE difficulties ahead for our economy as a
this is a rebound in PROPERTY MARKET THIS YEAR result of Covid-19. New data showing an
increase in activity in the housing market
property
growth and, with
price
1.5 in recent weeks shows our targeted
action is helping boost confidence and
STEVE BARCLAY
the cost of borrow- Chief Secretary to the Treasury
Percentage change

also protect jobs.

ing remaining very 1 Since the pandemic began, buyers and housing ladder. The next generation will
favourable, it’s sellers alike have struggled with the be deprived of the chance to buy their
unlikely to let up uncertainty of knowing what comes next. own home if we cannot build many more
anytime soon.” 00.5
Property transactions had fallen by as high-quality houses and flats. So this
James Forrester, much as 50 per cent and house prices fell week we announced landmark reform of
managing director 0 for the first time in eight years. the planning system so developers can
of estate agent The stamp duty cut announced in July build the homes people need.
Barrows and supports the jobs of the 240,000 people I am determined to help keep this
Forrester, added:
-0.5 directly employed by housebuilders and confidence in our housing market – not
“The stamp duty their contractors, and the roles of more just through cutting stamp duty but by
holiday has acted as -11 than half a million supported by the giving builders, plumbers and the whole
a property market Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul sector. At the same time it saves people construction industry the support they
vaccine against money and helps them get on, or up, the need to bounce back in record time.
pandemic-based
apprehension. While a relatively short-term HMRC shows a rise in UK home sales of +61 per cent compared to -7 per cent and housing market revival will be tested by ris-
fix to a potentially long-term issue, it allows in June. -94 per cent in April and May respectively. ing unemployment and the imminent end of
us to traverse the traditionally quieter Mortgage offers were also up, according to And newly agreed sales figures have moved the furlough scheme. But there’s not much
periods of Christmas and the start of a new Bank of England figures. into positive territory for the first time since evidence of a slowdown at the moment.”
year, at which point the worst should The number of approvals in June was February, with a net balance of +43 per cent, David Westgate, chief executive at Andrews
hopefully be behind us. 40,010, following the low of 9,273 in May – a from -34 per cent in May. Property Group, said: “Continued low supply,
“The stamp duty holiday has helped kick- 331 per cent month-on-month rise. Jeremy Leaf, a London estate agent and exceptional post-lockdown demand and the
start the market and rescued it from the And results from the latest poll of surveyors former residential chairman of the RICS, said: stamp duty cut have injected a real energy
depths of pandemic decline.” point to a recovery emerging across “We are pinching ourselves as strong pent-up into the market.
The housing market has gradually been the market. demand for most types of property, especially “We expected a rebound when the country
reopened after restrictions were imposed Buyer demand, sales and new listings all small houses, and much of it brought forward emerged from lockdown but not one
earlier this year as part of the rallied following lockdown-related falls, said by the stamp duty holiday, is supporting an this pronounced.
coronavirus response. the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. upsurge in the number of sales agreed. “In some areas prices are edging up given
Monthly property transaction data from New buyer demand has moved to a balance “Looking forward, we are being told the the sheer volume of demand. Everyone
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Grand designs...
lockdown inspired

Plenty of zoom many of us to DIY

for improvement!
£55bn splurge
on lockdown DIY
HOMEOWNERS blew By Sarah O’Grady
£55billion during lockdown
on home improvements – set to continue.” Almost a
spending an average £4,035. quarter (24 per cent)
The extra time spent inside used money originally
during the pandemic fuelled intended for a holiday to
spending and it appears finance their home
keeping up with the Joneses improvements.
even played a part. The next most popular way
Millions of us logging on to to fund them was with
Zoom or Microsoft Teams to general savings (26 per cent).
stay in touch with friends, Jon Cooper, head of
family and work realised mortgage distribution, at
our homes also fell under the Aldermore Bank said:
the spotlight. “The lockdown period
This caused 40 per cent of has redefined what our
owners to cite homes need to be so it is not
“Zoombarrassment” over the surprising homeowners are
appearance of their houses. focusing their minds on what
The next most popular changes are required to
reason was adding value to enhance their living
their house or flat, (27 per spaces.”
cent), according to price “Among younger
comparison website people, perhaps in
Money.co.uk. their first home
Garden upgrades (34 per where space can
cent) top the list for the most be tight, lockdown
popular lockdown renovation clearly created
projects, followed by the challenges for
sitting room (23 per cent), people in finding
bedroom (22 per cent) and the right balance
kitchen (22 per cent). in their homes as a
Salman Haqqi, personal place to work,
finance expert at money.co. exercise, raise
uk, said: “Almost three- children, and
quarters of the owners we socialise.”
spoke to said they will Many people
continue to stay home as also turned their
much as possible even with hands to
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there is a sig- T
THE Chancellor’s stamp duty hoped it would do – helped the table. It’s noticeable that
nificant amountt
of economic ic
between May and giveaway has really ignited a
g
fire under the housing market.
fi
buyers who have taken a
financial hit and given a boost
offers coming in now are
sensible rather than optimistic.
uncertainty ahead,ad, June And the housing market is to a property market hit There is clearly a desire to
but for now the
property market et is fir-
r
set to be hotter than the
s
weather this weekend if house
w
price growth in July is
LUCY PENDLETON by lockdown.
The London and South-east
market has benefited more
get the transaction done which
will hopefully keep the
ing about as well as it could.” Independent estate agent market flowing.
However, Miles Robinson, head of mort- anything to go by. than most as the high cost of We would normally be
gages at online broker Trussle, pointed to the A summer mini-housing saw an immediate uplift in housing means more buyers entering a quiet period now for
boom is exactly what the buyer registrations and across the board can enjoy property transactions, but this
difficulties faced by first-time buyers as they market – and the wider the maximum £15,000 year we expect to see high
viewings being booked in, and
struggle to get on the housing ladder. economy – needs to pick itself seller instructions were at saving available. levels of buyer and seller
He said: “It’s important to consider that ris- up and off the floor. levels we haven’t witnessed The freeze has also warded activity throughout August.
ing house prices may be positive for the mar- Once again, house prices since 2017. off the bargain hunters and With most of the country
ket, but some groups of home buyers will not have shown remarkable Homeowners recognised the gazunderers we were seeing taking a staycation or
necessarily see this as good news. resilience in the face of some opportunity to push through a during lockdown. holidaying in the UK, buyers
“First-time buyers are facing challenging fairly blustery economic sale while there are plenty of Sellers have been less are likely to take the
times. Many may feel locked out of headwinds, and Rishi Sunak’s motivated buyers around. inclined to knock money off opportunity to save on stamp
the market.” generous stamp duty bonus The stamp duty holiday has their properties now that duty while sellers set out to
has driven this momentum. We done exactly what Mr Sunak there’s a stamp duty bonus on seal a quick deal.
OPINION: PAGE 14

6 Daily Express Saturday, August 8, 2020
LONG-RANGE
FORECAST:
Heatwaves
will be the
norm in UK
By Giles Sheldrick
Chief Reporter
BRITAIN sizzled on one of the
hottest days in history yesterday, as
experts warned extreme heatwaves
would become the new normal.
Temperatures reached a swelter-
ing 97.5F (36.4C) at London’s
Heathrow airport – the warmest
August day since 2003 – coming
close to the all-time record 101.6F
set in Cambridge last July.
This latest bout of warm weather
is set to last until Thursday, accord-
ing to the Met Office, with almost
every part of the UK basking in
wall-to-wall sunshine.
But further ahead, the impact of
climate change could see the UK
recording regular 104F days that
could kill, experts warned.
Outshone
Yesterday’s weather prompted
health chiefs to issue a level-three
warning – the most severe – with
concerns over the wellbeing of the
very young and old.
Parts of south-east England were
hotter than the Caribbean and put
the relatively modest 91F recorded
in Jamaica in the shade. Britain
also outshone Barbados, Egypt and
parts of central Africa.
The blistering heat sparked
a stampede to the UK coast
with beaches in Bournemouth,
Brighton and Southend bursting
from early morning.
It once again raised concerns
over social distancing with police
forced to turn day trippers away
from Camber Sands in East Sussex
after thousands arrived by car.
Angry locals in Bournemouth hit
out at tourists “heading here with
cars full of rubbish to dump on our
beaches” and slammed “careless
idiots” putting pressure on the
emergency services.
Others urged people to avoid the
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BRITAIN BASKS IN
Packed...crowds
cover the sand
at Bournemouth
yesterday
TEN HOT TIPS ON
HOW TO KEEP COOL
WHEN IT’S ROASTING
1. Steer clear of alcohol and drink
plenty of water throughout the day
to stay hydrated
2. Avoid going outside between
11am and 3pm when the sun is at its
hottest
3. When you do go out, wear light
clothing and a sun hat
4. Draw the curtains to minimise heat
coming into the home
5. Switch off lights and unnecessary
electrical appliances that can
create heat
6. Move to or sleep in a cooler part of
the house
7. Use a fan while sleeping
8. Eat cooler, lighter foods like
salads and fruits rather than heavy
or stodgy meals
9. Take a cold shower or bath before
you go to bed A tale of two THIS lone sunbather had his pick of sunbeds on the
quiet city beach in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria.
Meanwhile, back in the UK, sun-worshippers ignored
10. Refrigerate your bedsheets
beaches… social-distancing rules and packed the sands, such as
Bournemouth beach, in Dorset, main picture.
beaches and warned of gridlock on 14 million intend to take a domes- is likely to change soon. Writing for countries.” His prediction comes
the roads as day-trippers flocked to tic holiday before September, pro- the Daily Express today meteoro- after a disturbing report by the Met
seasides along the south coast. viding a £3.7billion shot-in- logical expert Dr Dann Mitchell Office Hadley Centre for Climate
While workers toiled at home, the-arm for the warned: “For a heatwave, the Science and Services found the
yesterday was still a day to remem- faltering economy. current one is not particu- chances of extreme high tempera-
ber for millions as tourist hotspots Britain has larly extreme. These sorts tures in parts of the UK could
were besieged by families. never recorded of temperatures occur increase significantly by the end of
Many would now be abroad if it two days with on average, once every the century.
was not for quarantine restrictions. temperatures five years.” Dr Nikolaos Christidis, who led
But they enjoyed the very best that over 98.6F in Dr Mitchell added: the study, said: “We found the
Britain has to offer as parks and the same year “And in only two dec- likelihood of extremely hot days
gardens were awash with visitors. since records ades we could see a in the UK has been increasing
Foreign travel restrictions and began, but that new record exceed and will continue to do so during
the hot weather have sparked 40C, a temperature that the course of the century with the
a summer staycation boom Soaking up sun in would be very extreme most extreme temperatures
with Visit Britain saying a record Greenwich Park even in Mediterranean expected to be observed in the

ANOTHER SIZZLER
Only mad dogs...a cocker spaniel dives into Abington Park Boating Lake
south-east of England. Climate
change has already influenced the
likelihood of temperature extremes
in the UK.
“The chances of seeing 40C days
in the UK could be as much as 10
times more likely in the current
climate than under a natural climate
unaffected by human influence.
“The likelihood of exceeding 40C
anywhere in the UK in a given year
has also been rapidly increasing,
and, without curbing greenhouse gas
emissions, such extremes could be
taking place every few years in the
climate of 2100.”
Pictures: ALAMY, PA, SHUTTERSTOCK, LNP, JOHN MCLELLAN
HEATWAVES are perhaps one of
the most direct manifestations of
climate change and have very
clear negative health impacts.
For instance in 2003, the UK
and Europe were caught off
guard by two consecutive
heatwaves, culminating in
around 50,000 excess deaths
across the region.
In London, we know that 30 per
cent of the mortality was
attributable to climate change,
and it is cities that we must be
most concerned with, as they can
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COMMENT
DR DANN MITCHELL
Met Office climate hazards expert
trap heat, leading to far higher
temperatures than surrounding
rural areas.
It is not solely the temperature
we should be concerned with,
however, but also the humidity.
When both temperature and
humidity are high, we lack the
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BELGIUM
From today arrivals to
F
England will have to
E
quarantine for 14 days.
q
Belgium had a rate of
B
52.9 cases per 100,000
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people, as of yesterday.
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THE BAHAMAS
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Travellers will also have
T
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officials say those there
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can stay put. On July 15
tthere were 119 cases,
rrising to 761 this week.
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ANDORRA
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Arrivals now also face
quarantine after cases
q
per week rose five-fold
since the middle of July
LUXEMBOURG
Removed from the “safe
list” on July 31 after a
“tenfold increase in
total cases” since the
end of June.
SPAIN
Spain was taken off on
July 26. Its infection
rate has since risen and
is 79.8 per 100,000.
France, Greece, Italy
and Germany are among
the safe countries
although some have had
a rise in cases and have
threatened to impose
local lockdowns.
From the top: relaxing at Hackney
Marshes, East London; wading into
the water at Weymouth; and paddling
on the River Chelmer in Essex
GLACIERS in New
Zealand’s Southern
Alps – home of the Lord
of the Rings and Hobbit
films – are disappearing
at an “alarming” rate.
Meltwater has
doubled from their peak
during the Little Ice Age
– a very cold spell
around 400 years ago –
and has lost more ice
since the industrial
revolution than remains
today, warn scientists.
Almost a fifth
disappeared between
1978 and 2019, while
last year just 12 per cent
remained in what was
the low altitude region
– known as the
“ablation zone”.
Most are now
completely ice free.
Lead author Dr
ability to dissipate the heat from Jonathan Carrivick, of
our bodies (through sweating). the University of Leeds,
This can lead to heat stroke and said: “The acceleration
cardiovascular failure.
The occurrence of this
in the rate of ice mass
loss may only get worse
heatwave during the Covid crisis
is worrying, especially for
as not only climate but
also other local effects
workers who need to be in full become more
personal protective equipment.
pronounced, such as
Organisations should put
more debris
regular water breaks in place to accumulating on
let these workers take off their
glaciers surfaces and
PPE and cool down, otherwise lakes at the bottom of
we could have a serious heat- glaciers swell,
health concern. exacerbating melt.”

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THE POSITIVE
PROFESSOR
PROFESSOR
KAROL SIKORA
CMO of Rutherford
Cancer Centres and
Former Director of WHO
Cancer Programme
SOCIAL media’s voice of calm Karol Sikora
has been signed up by the Daily Express.
Readers can now enjoy his soothing advice
in these troubled times that have won him
hundreds of thousands of followers on
Twitter. If you need reassuring everything’s
going to be all right read Professor Positivity.
THE whole reason I got involved with the
coronavirus debate was to try to stand up
for the cancer patients who I just knew
would get forgotten about.
Almost six months on and we’re not
moving quickly enough. Where is the
urgency? We saw the whole country shut
down for the virus but when millions are
waiting for cancer tests or treatment it
has barely shifted the dial.
That is not to say nothing has been
done, but we’re a long way from where
we need to be.
However, I was pleased to see
NHS England invest in a £160million
initiative to fund drugs that are less
harmful to the immune system and
require fewer hospital visits, which
clearly has its benefits.
It’s a well thought-out plan and
deserves praise for its innovative
approach.
Swapping injections for tablets is
another way to reduce the risks of
chemotherapy. Over the past few weeks
we have seen the conversion of many
patients with breast and colon cancer
on to oral forms of a drug called
5 Fluorouracil which dramatically reduces
the risk of recurrence in some patients.
The lack of physical contact with staff
means there’s less chance of infection
between both parties.
Permission has been given to
oncologists to use immunotherapy for
certain bladder and colon patients
routinely. These drugs are given less
frequently than the older regimens so
fewer hospital visits are necessary.
New targeted hormone treatments for
prostate cancer given as tablets will
also be allowed.
These are all really welcome
developments and will almost certainly
still be present for years after the virus
has gone.
It’s very easy to criticise all the time
but we are seeing some steps in the
right direction. An awfully long way to
go, but I’m pleased to see some
progress at least.
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CORONAVIRUS:
By Hanna Geissler
Health Reporter IT’S NOT THE TIME TO DISCUSS INDEPENDENCE, SCOTS TOLD
Pictures: AFP, GETTY
A BAN on household gather-
ings comes in to force from Rishi with Scots Tory leader
today in Preston, the latest city Douglas Ross and, below, visit
to a firm on the Isle of Bute
to be hit by a local lockdown.
Curbs are already in place
in parts of the North-west
and Yorkshire plus Leicester
which will remain in place
after a review by ministers
and councils.
Experts found coronavirus
infection rates have failed to
reduce in these areas despite
measures to reduce the spread
of the disease.
Health Secretary Matt
Hancock said: “Unfortunately,
the data does not yet show a
decrease in the transmission of
this terrible virus.
“It means we must keep the
current restrictions in place to
allow more time for the impact
of this ban on indoor gatherings
to be felt, and make sure local
residents and their loved ones
are protected.
“At the request of the
local area we are also
extending these restric-
tions to Preston. CHANCELLOR Rishi Sunak declared
“We are constantly yesterday that the coronavirus crisis
examining the data on shows the “enormous resonance”
the prevalence of of the Union.
the virus in these But he resisted calls to extend the
furlough scheme. He said taking
areas, and we will people out of the labour market for a
review the measures prolonged period was “not good for
again next week. their long-term prospects”.
“As we continue to Mr Sunak was on a visit to
see rising rates of the Scotland to highlight almost
virus across Europe, it £2.5billion support for firms as part
is vital we take every of a fightback against surging
precaution to protect support in polls for independence.
our country. “ He said now was not the time to
Preston was desig- discuss tearing Scotland out of the
nated an “area of union and added: “Let’s focus on
intervention” by the rebuilding for the future.”
Government after a
spike in cases.
Households in the Lancashire households in pubs, as well as numbers of people are mixing recorded a higher level of cases,
city can no longer mix in each in their homes, led to a need for between households. this remains a city-wide issue
other’s homes and gardens and increased coronavirus restric- “That’s a worrying pattern and it’s essential that we all do
should not be meeting up with tions in Preston, the area’s that we really must avoid.” our part to fight the virus.
other people anywhere indoors. director of public health said. Adrian Phillips, Preston City “We’re urging everyone to
Social bubbles are exempt Sakthi Karunanithi, director Council chief executive, said be diligent and follow the
from the restrictions, and of public health for Lancashire, that the number of cases in restrictions, in order to protect
said almost half of the cases Preston had increased rapidly in all of our residents, communi-
residents can meet in groups of
ties and businesses.”
up to six – or more than six if reported were among people recent days.
exclusively from two house- aged 30 and younger. He added: “It is also alarming The rolling seven-day rate of
holds – in outdoor areas. A spike in cases was “affect- to see that the under-30s new cases of Covid-19 in
Households can also visit ing people from both south are contracting it at a Preston has risen from 20.3
indoor hospitality venues, so Asian and white ethnic back- significant rate. cases per 100,000 people in the
long as they do not mix grounds, particularly those “It is clear that coronavirus is seven days to July 27 to 32.8
with others. living in poor socio-economic still here and we all need to in the seven days to August 3.
Restrictions will be reviewed conditions in our city,” he said. work together to keep our- A total of 47 new cases have
again next week with any He added: “I want to pay selves, our friends, families and been recorded.
changes announced by Friday. extra attention to indoor spaces, communities safe from this Extra restrictions come in
People mixing with other particularly pubs, where high virus. While some wards have across the whole of England
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CITY IN CLAMPDOWN
Pictures: DONALD STEWART, ALAMY

Queen keeps safe in her Balmoral bubble

THE Queen has abandoned the
The Queen chats most devout ritual of her summer
to well-wishers on stay at Balmoral and will keep
a previous visit to away from church tomorrow
Crathie Kirk, inset because of coronavirus.
She has decided not to go to
Crathie Kirk, avoiding crowds of
well-wishers at the church on
the edge of the 50,000-acre royal
estate in Aberdeenshire.
The 94-year-old, who flew up
to Scotland with Prince Philip,
99, on Tuesday, has been
isolating at Windsor Castle
since March.
She emerged only briefly to
attend a military ceremony on
her official birthday in June and
to knight NHS fundraiser Captain
Sir Tom Moore last month.
The Queen has not missed her
annual stay at Balmoral during
By Richard Palmer
Royal Correspondent
her 68-year reign. She would
normally entertain official visitors,
including prime ministers and
governors general from
Commonwealth countries, as
well as family members.
This year, to minimise risk, no
visitors will be entertained in the
castle. Instead they will stay in
other properties on the estate,
joining the Queen for socially
distanced walks, horse riding,
picnics and barbecues.
As at Windsor, a “bubble” of
staff have been asked to isolate
around the Queen and Philip.
The Balmoral bubble includes
chefs, housemaids and support
staff based on the estate.

HOLIDAYMAKERS have been By Sam Lister

given a stark warning that the
Government will “not hesitate” to arriving from them will now have to
slap restrictions on more countries. quarantine for 14 days.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak yesterday The Foreign Office has also
said destinations are under constant warned against all but essential
review and travellers must factor in travel to the three nations.
the risk of disruption when they Mr Sunak said: “What I can say to
head overseas. people is we’re in the midst of a
Officials are concerned about the global pandemic and that means
spread of coronavirus in France in there is always the risk of disruption
the past month. The country is to travel plans and people need to
expected to be considered when bear that in mind.”
travel restrictions are reviewed at Margaret Harris, from the World
the end of next week. Health Organization, said: “I would
It is the second most say to travellers you
popular destination really have to look at
after Spain for Britons, whether you need to go,
with more than 10 mil- whether you really
lion visits in 2019. need to move from
Infections in France your country for that
have increased to 13.2 holiday and you need
per 100,000 people to really watch the
compared with 8.4 in epidemiology.”
the UK. Meanwhile, Jet2 has
Belgium, Andorra extended the suspen-
and the Bahamas were sion of flights and holi-
added to the UK’s days to Spain’s Balearic
travel blacklist on and Canary Islands
Thursday night. Anyone Holidaymakers at risk until August 16.

from today making face cover-

ings mandatory in more
indoor areas, including
churches, museums and galler-
ies, bingo halls and libraries.
Rules stopping social visits to
homes in Greater Manchester,
Leicester, parts of West
Yorkshire and East Lancashire
remain in place.
Pools, indoor gyms and
other leisure facilities will
continue to remain closed in
Leicester, Bradford and
Blackburn.
Shielding will also continue
for those communities in
Blackburn with Darwen, and
Leicester city.
Covid ‘to kill thousands indirectly’
THE staggering long-term health
impacts of lockdown were laid bare
last night in a document by health
experts estimating indirect deaths
as a result of the pandemic.
The report from Sage (Strategic
Advisory Group of Experts)
predicted a scenario where fatalities
from Covid-19 remain at a level of
900 per week until March 2021.
A further 16,000 excess deaths
were expected among care home
residents and – if emergency
admission rates did not recover –
with an additional 10,000 people
By Hanna Geissler
dying. Delays to non-urgent NHS
treatment could cause up to 12,500
in the next five years, the report
added. Disruption to cancer care
specifically could result in 1,400.
Meanwhile, a lockdown-induced
recession may cause an initial fall in
those dying of 4,500 within a year.
But within two to five years this
could be followed by 18,000 excess
deaths, largely due to an increase in
heart-related diseases, and a further
15,000 in later years.
INFECTIONS are levelling off
in England after a rise in July.
The Office for National
Statistics estimated 28,300
people had Covid-19 in the
week to August 2, down from
35,700 the previous week.
Figures last week suggesting
infections were up prompted
Boris Johnson to halt easing
some lockdown restrictions.
The survey data is based on
nose and throat swabs from
120,000 people. The ONS said
the rising positive test trend
“may be levelling off when
compared with last week”.
A further 98 UK coronavirus
deaths were announced
yesterday, taking the total to
46,511. Some 871 more people
tested positive.
Meanwhile, the latest official
data for the reproduction
number suggested R could be at
one across the UK.

10 Daily Express Saturday, August 8, 2020
AN easyJet airliner took off
with only 360ft to spare on a
runway after the pilots inputted
incorrect flight data to calculate
their speed, a report has revealed.
The blunder happened when
the two pilots used tablet
computers to work out the
acceleration needed to get
airborne on a flight to
Manchester from Lisbon.
Their error, in confusing the
numbering of taxiways at the
Portuguese airport, meant that the
plane’s autopilot assumed they
By Andrew Young
had an extra 4,500ft in which
to take off.
The report by the Air Accidents
Investigation Branch said that the
crew had been “subjected to
numerous interruptions” during
their flight preparations.
They included a sick passenger,
a change in fuel requirements, a
mix-up over passengers released
from the terminal and a late
change to the loading figures.
The report said the Airbus
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A320-214 carrying 167
passengers finally took off at
more than 185mph with just
360ft to spare.
It confirmed that the airport
had renamed its taxiways last
December to try to avoid
further confusion.
An easyJet spokesman said:
“The safety of our passengers and
crew is always our highest
priority. We take events of this
nature seriously and will always
take action to ensure we maintain
the highest standards of safety.”
Border Force officers bring migrants ashore at Dover yesterday
PRITI WARNS
By Michael Knowles
Home Affairs Correspondent
HOME Secretary Priti Patel has
insisted that France must intercept
and send migrant boats back as
record numbers of people are com-
ing across the English Channel.
People smugglers are said to be
ordering people into boats at gun-
point as they use increasingly brutal
tactics to make huge profits.
Ms Patel said she was “working to
make this route unviable” by pre-
venting boats from leaving France.
Those who do manage to leave
should be intercepted and sent back,
the Home Secretary said.
Immigration Minister Chris Philp
will meet his French counterpart
next week and Ms Patel is seeking
talks with her opposite number.
At least 235 migrants made the
dangerous journey on Thursday, set-
ting a new single-day record. They
included a baby, seen being carried
ashore.
Crossings continued yesterday as
the warm and sunny weather
brought calm waters, with young
families and pregnant women spot-
ted travelling across the world’s busi-
est shipping lane. Children, including
a girl of about eight, were among 30
brought into Dover yesterday lunch-
WHEN the Home Secretary starts
talking about sending in the
Royal Navy you know it’s serious.
Yet the problem of the illegal
migrant boat crossings has been
serious for several years.
It’s not through lack of trying to
stop this flotilla of human misery.
British police are working with
French counterparts to patrol the
Calais coast to prevent boats
getting in the water. Twenty-one
people traffickers profiting from
this serious crime bonanza have
been prosecuted, and hundreds
of those reaching the UK this
year have been deported.
The problem is that it’s
hundreds out of the thousands
time. In all, more than 130 migrants
arrived yesterday on 13 boats.
Ms Patel said: “We also need the
co-operation of the French to inter-
cept boats and return migrants back
to France.
“I know that when the British
people say they want to take back
control of our borders – this is
exactly what they mean.
“The number of illegal small
boat crossings is appalling and
unacceptably high. The figures are
shameful. France and other EU states

In safe hands...A baby was among those picked up in the Channel on Thursday as a new single-day record was set with at least 235 making the crossing
FRANCE OVER BOAT MIGRANTS
COMMENT
TIM LOUGHTON
Home Affairs Select Committee
who are still here. I share taxpayers’
fury at our money going on
accommodating people who have
entered the UK illegally when we
already offer generous safe haven
for genuine asylum seekers who
make their applications legally from
safe countries such as...France.
The problem could be solved
speedily if the French agreed to
intercept boats in the water, returned
are safe countries. Genuine
refugees should claim asylum
there, not risk their lives and break
the law by coming to the UK.
“This is complex to do and we
face serious legislative, legal and
operational barriers”.
Ms Patel held emergency talks
with Border Force and Immigration
Enforcement officials and the
British ambassador to France on
Thursday night.
Almost 4,000 migrants have
crossed the Channel to the UK so
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for advice from officials and taking
the passengers to French territory stock of the situation.
and dealt with them under the EU’s But a MoD source claimed the
Dublin protocols there. Instead that idea of sending in the navy had
only happens if they voluntarily “more holes in it than a slice of
come aboard when at risk of sinking.
For those that make it to British
Swiss cheese”.
They branded it impractical and
waters Border Force, the Royal unnecessary, adding: “It is a
Navy, anyone, would readily give
them a free boat trip back to France
completely inappropriate and dis-
but again the French won’t have it. proportionate approach to take.
If the message got out that if you “We don’t resort to deploying
pay £4,000 to criminals for one of armed force to deal with political
the most hazardous boat trips on failings. It’s beyond absurd to think
offer chances are you will be sent that we should be deploying
back to France £4,000 lighter, then multimillion pound ships and elite
the lure of France as a conduit into soldiers to deal with desperate peo-
the UK would be less. This could be ple barely staying afloat on rubber
a win win for the French if they dinghies in the Channel.
stopped saying non non. Growing problem...dinghies used to carry migrants into the UK “It could potentially put people’s
lives at even greater risk.
“Border Force is effectively the
far this year, compared with 1,850 pulled out a gun and held it to my French to take them back. We are Home Office’s own navy fleet, so
in the whole of last year. head. He spoke my language and looking at what more assets may it begs the question what are
An estimated 7,500 migrants will said, ‘There is no way back’.” need to be deployed. This could they doing.”
come to England using this route Home Office sources last night involve the navy potentially.” Dover MP Natalie Elphicke said
this year if the trend continues. confirmed the department has It is understood smaller craft it was absolutely essential to stop
Migrants have told how they are asked the Ministry of Defence for would be used, rather than large the crossings and that people
threatened with extreme violence Royal Navy ships to be deployed to frigates or destroyers. picked up in UK waters should be
if they refuse to board boats. the English Channel. A Whitehall official added: “We returned to France straight away.
One Kurdish Iraqi man, who was A source said: “The final straw do not want to put the navy in if all She said: “Putting an end to the
charged £3,000, said: “When it was this record number, which led it does is act as a magnet for more small boats crossings crisis will
came to boarding I didn’t want to the Home Secretary to demand people to come over. only happen when migrants and
get in because the sea was very this new initiative. “We do not want the navy to be traffickers alike know they won’t
rough that night and I cannot swim. “The real solution must come a taxi service.” Defence Secretary succeed in breaking into Britain in
I was very afraid. The smuggler from the French – we want the Ben Wallace is said to be waiting this way.”
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12 Daily Express Saturday, August 8, 2020

Lebanon snubs calls for blast probe Pictures: REUTERS, GETTY

By Christopher Bucktin
US Editor
A FUGITIVE on the run
for 46 years has been
caught by the same
police officer he was
jailed for shooting.
Luis Archuleta, now
77, had dodged justice
since his escape from
prison in 1974.
He was jailed for
shooting officer Daril
Cinquanta in the
stomach in Denver, US,
three years earlier.
Daril retired in 1990
but lived by the mantra
“you can run, but you
can’t hide” and vowed
to wreak revenge.
He kept in contact
with a shady network of
other “bad guys” in
the hope of a finally
snaring Archuleta.
Daril finally got his
breakthrough on June
24 when he received a
tip-off, leading to the
FBI capturing one of
LEBANON’S president has ruled out
an international inquiry into the
devastating blast that ripped through
Beirut and killed more than 150
people on Tuesday.
Widespread anger at the govern-
ment’s handling of the crisis has been
seen in the city, as rescuers continue
their search for bodies in the rubble.
But in a speech yesterday,
President Michel Aoun said calls for
an international probe were aimed
at “distorting the truth” and slowing
the process.
Aoun denied French President
Emmanuel Macron had raised the
By Steph Spyro
matter following a visit to Beirut on
Thursday, although Macron urged for
a transparent investigation along
with Lebanese politicians, civil rights
organisations and international human
rights groups.
The blast is understood to have
been sparked by the explosion of
2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate – a
chemical compound used in bomb-
making and fertilisers – which had
been stored for six years at a Beirut
port warehouse.
Aroun claimed authorities were
probing the possibility of “external
interference”, as well as whether it
was an accident or due to negligence.
He said: “The cause of the explo-
sion has not yet been determined,
as there is a possibility of external
interference via a missile, bomb or
any other action.
Aoun added he had asked Macron
“to provide us with aerial photos of
the explosion”.
“If they don’t have them then we
will ask other countries to determine
whether the attack was external or
[caused by] fire.”
A British team of specialist medics
Rescuers
search for
bodies in
Beirut
yesterday
as protests
erupted
across
the city
over the
blast.
Right,
Michel
Aoun
were deployed to Lebanon yesterday
to assess health needs on the ground
and identify what more the UK can
do to help casualties.
The five medics from the UK’s
Emergency Medical Team (UK EMT)
were sent at the request of the
Lebanese government. The team spe-
cialises in trauma, emergency nursing
and rehabilitation and is funded by
UK aid. Another medic from the UK
EMT is already in Beirut.
Earlier this week the UK also sent
a team of four humanitarian experts,
comprising two logisticians, a security
advisor and a field support specialist.

‘Hobby’...Daril Cinquanta
their “most wanted”. He
revealed tracking down
his foe became “like
a hobby”.
He said: “I have never
given up on him. It just
shows you, persistence
does pay off.”
On receiving the
mysterious tip-off, he
said the caller handed
Archuleta to him “on
a platter”.
He added: “He’s been
wanted 46 years for that
and I’ve been working
on him 46 years, and I
found him. [It feels]
wonderful.
“I’ve gotten calls from
all over from policemen
who thinks it’s
phenomenal.”
Until his arrest on
Wednesday, Archuleta
had been living in
Espanola, New Mexico,
for around 40 years
under the alias
Ramon Montoya.
He appeared in court
in the state on Thursday
and will now return to
Colorado to face
charges stemming from
his jailbreak.
The FBI said: “We will
find you, no matter how
long it takes or how far
you run. We will bring
you to justice.”
Pictures: PA
By Chris Riches Horrific...
Truck driver
A HEARTBROKEN mother con- James
demned a “mindless” trucker
Majury, left,
yesterday as he was jailed for eight was jailed
years after killing her 14-year-old son after
while using his phone at the wheel. causing
James Majury, 33, drove on the M58 crash, right,
in January last year while texting his on M58. Joe
mother, playing a phone game, check- Cairns, 14,
ing Facebook and reading news. was killed
Preston Crown Court heard Majury, in the
driving a 19-ton truck laden with scaf- carnage.
folding, was so distracted he failed to Mother
Stephanie,
spot that traffic ahead had stopped. below right
At 56mph, he ploughed into a nine-
with Joe,
seater minibus from Pontville School, spoke of
a special educational needs centre in
her anguish
Ormskirk, West Lancs.
Joe Cairns, 14, from Radcliffe,
Greater Manchester, and school constantly on my mind because I miss face and for him to see mine so he can
support worker Anne Kerr, 50, from his humour and company. see my hurt.”
Southport, Merseyside, died from “We had a special connection. It’s In February Majury, of Chorley,
their injuries at the scene. ripped me apart. This has destroyed Lancs, admitted two counts of causing
Yesterday, Joe’s mother Stephanie my life. death by dangerous driving and five
Cairns, 42, told the judge Majury had “The driver is insignificant even counts of causing serious injury.
“ripped her family apart” as he was now. I know exactly what he Mobile phone records showed he
jailed for eight years and 10 months. did that day. had been looking at Facebook and
The mother of four said: “I cry “His actions were so selfish and fantasy game Hustle Castle in the
every day thinking about Joe. He’s utterly mindless. I do want to see his moments before the collision.
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Claudia and
Tess back
in step for
new show
By Steph Spyro
TESS Daly and
Claudia Winkleman
look overjoyed to be
reunited for the first
time since lockdown
to talk Strictly.
The hosts met to
film spin-off series
Strictly The Best, to
be shown on BBC
One next month.
The three specials
for fans will feature
highlights from the Fun...the girls in the Instagram post
show’s 16 years plus
interviews with past which they shared on
contestants and the judges. Instagram. Tess wrote:
Tess, 51, and Claudia, 48, “Dreamy being reunited
will then return to present with Claudia Winkleman
this year’s competition. today for some (socially
The pair – close friends distanced) filming for our
off-screen – were in high Best Of Strictly shows – on
spirits for their reunion TV in September.”

Together
...Claudia
and Tess
filming the
TV show

By Tom Bryant
SHIRLEY Ballas is vowing to return
to Strictly Come Dancing despite a
setback in her recovery from a
broken ankle.
The head judge, 59, said “things are
not great” after her foot had to be set
in plaster.
The new cast was fitted after
doctors told her the boot she had
been wearing was not working.
Shirley said at the beginning of last
month that she hoped the mystery
injury would heal in six weeks.
The latest setback means she
almost certainly will not be able to
join the other judges in their tradi-
tional dance before they take their
seats for the first time on the show.
But friends say she is determined to
be back on the judging panel.
A pal of the star said: “Essentially,
the boot she had wasn’t secure
enough, so she has been put in plaster
to make sure the bones heal correctly.
great. The NHS was amazing. So, yes,
Waltz clean break, six weeks.”
In October last year, Shirley had
“Scans are to check that the bones her breast implants removed due to
are aligned, which today’s scan shows fears they could be masking signs of
they are. She will definitely be back breast cancer.
on Strictly. Then in January a chipped tooth
“There is no reason for her not to saw her receive emergency dental
be as she doesn’t need to dance to be surgery.
on the panel. But she will be out of A few weeks ago Shirley said she
the plaster by then.” was “99 per cent sure” Strictly would
Shirley revealed her injury – but return this year despite the logistical
not how she got it – early last month. problems during the pandemic.
She said: “A clean break. Six weeks The show has been a Saturday night
to heal. Thank you to the NHS and all staple since 2004.
staff who took care of me. Shirley said: “I did send an example
“So they’re not using plaster of ‘distancing dancing’ so you can do
anymore, they use a boot. So I’m that, little bit more difficult, more
learning to walk on these crutches challenging, but interesting.
which goes crutch, right foot, close – a “I am absolutely positive that they
bit like the waltz. will bring the best show that they can.
“Anyway, I’m going to be abso- “I couldn’t imagine the autumn and
lutely fine for Strictly and I’m sure winter months without the show, the Crocked...Shirley Ballas on crutches and,
everything’s going to be absolutely glitz, the glamour.” above, on dancefloor with pro Joshua Keefe

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Stamp duty success has
given us renewed hope
C our national interest
HANCELLOR Rishi Sunak’s decision
to scrap stamp duty on house
purchases of up to £500,000 was
nothing short of inspired. House
prices have soared 3.8 per cent year on
year and are now at the highest level since
mortgage lender Halifax started keeping its
records nearly 40 years ago.
It is no secret that Britons love a good
deal and eliminating stamp duty was just
the type of intervention needed to get the
market – and people – moving.
A saving of up to £15,000 is simply too
good an opportunity for many of us to pass
up. In June, the number of house
transactions hit 63,250, up 31.7 per cent
on May.
The number of mortgage approvals in
June was 40,010 – up from 9,273 the
previous month.
There is no doubt that the lockdown led
to pent-up demand in the housing market
but it is also clear that Mr Sunak’s
leadership has given people crucial
encouragement to invest in a new home.
Parents whose children long for a
bedroom to call their own, as with
grandparents desperate to downsize, have
dared to make big decisions in a climate of
uncertainty.
The Government should consider other
imaginative ideas that could bring new life
to the economy. If ever there was a time to
seriously consider moving the House of
Lords and Whitehall departments north,
this must be it.
The right decisions taken at the right time
can unlock new hope and opportunity.
Brexit bounce beckons
J
APAN and the UK are on the verge of
signing a trade deal that could boost
British business by £15billion and will
give the world a glimpse of the
post-Brexit dynamism which awaits.
Negotiations this week in London have
set the stage for the signing of a formal
agreement in the next few weeks.
In the long term, the deal with Britain’s
11th largest export market is expected to
boost wages across the UK by £800million.
The rapid progress bodes well for the
future prosperity that Brexit should ignite.
We are discovering our fabled trading spirit
and there is a world to win.
Well-deserved winnings
T
HE whole nation will feel joy for
David Adams, a wood machinist who
became a Lottery millionaire the day
after he was made redundant. He had
recently suffered two close bereavements
and his wife had to give up her job as a
carer for health reasons. Now the couple
are looking forward to flying first class to
Canada to visit friends and family.
We should never give up hope and should
resist despair. Beyond the clouds, a brilliant
light is waiting to crack into our lives.
Turning a blind eye
to atrocities harms
M
OST of us under-
stand that foreign
policy is a fairly
hardball part of the
political process.
Strategic alliances
deemed vital to the national
interest can lead to the turning
of blind eyes about the appall-
ing behaviour of other regimes.
An understandable desire to
protect defence industry jobs
can also cause attitudes towards
human rights to become more
than a little elastic. Sometimes
policy is shaped by the crude
dictum that “my enemy’s
enemy is my friend”.
All these factors fall under
the definition of the German-
term Realpolitik that describes
politics based on practical not
moral considerations.
When the late Robin Cook
was foreign secretary in Tony
Blair’s first administration, he
attracted a degree of scepticism
when he set out an ambition for
the Government to develop an
“ethical foreign policy”.
Given that he had resigned
from office by the time Blair’s
foreign policy led to Britain
joining the US invasion of Iraq,
the sceptics would seem to have
had a point. But so did Cook.
Because turning a blind eye
to monstrous behaviour,
whether due to commercial
pressures or the desire to pro-
tect a strategic relationship, also
entails downsides that can pro-
foundly damage the national
interest. Recent times have
shown this amply.
F
EEBLE responses to pre-
vious assassinations on
UK soil emboldened
Russia to carry out the
Salisbury poisonings and to
conclude it could interfere with
our democracy without sub-
stantial sanction.
Successive UK governments
approaching China with pound
signs in their eyes have also led
us into perilous waters, out of
which we are only now trying
to scramble. But above all, one
relationship stands out as rotten
to the core and it is with the
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B
DEATH SQUAD RIDDLE: Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
Patrick O’Flynn
Political commentator
royal family of Saudi Arabia. We
have turned the Nelsonian
blind eye to the House of Saud’s
atrocities in Yemen, its long-
term sponsorship of militant
Wahhabi Islam around the
world including in our own
country, massive internal
repression and international
assassination squads.
The last of these factors came
to prominence with the grisly
murder of the dissident Jamal
Khashoggi at the Saudi consu-
late in Istanbul in 2018. At first
the Saudi regime lied about
what happened. Then it became
clear Turkey had been bugging
the consulate and the crime was
undeniable. So the regime did
what it tends to in such circum-
‘Princess was executed at 19 for
the sin of committing adultery’
stances – protect the royal at
the centre of the storm and line
up underlings to carry the can.
Many members of that Saudi
hit squad were closely con-
nected to Crown Prince
Mohammed bin Salman, who
has always denied ordering
Khashoggi’s murder and has
never been charged.
Last year a trial in Saudi
Arabia led to the acquittal of
the most senior figures in the
hit squad but death sentences
being handed to five “foot
soldiers”. These sentences were
scrapped when Khashoggi’s
own family recently agreed to
pardons. Now we learn of
another Saudi international
death squad and, surprise,
Picture: REUTERS
surprise, the Crown Prince is at
the centre of allegations once
more. US court documents sug-
gest a plan was hatched by the
Prince to kill another Saudi dis-
sident, Saad al-Jabri, in Canada
because of “damning informa-
tion” he possessed about the
regime. The plot allegedly failed
because Canadian border
guards became suspicious and
refused the hit squad entry.
It would be wrong to say the
UK Government has done
nothing in response to these
disgusting activities. Indeed,
only last month our Foreign
Secretary Dominic Raab set out
plans to freeze the assets of
human rights abusers, including
20 Saudi nationals. But not the
Crown Prince. Mr Raab told
MPs: “Those with blood on
their hands won’t be free to
waltz into this country to buy
up property.”
UT the suspicion
remains that this is just
another Foreign Office
cover story – being seen to pass
a high-profile law mainly to
assist it in protecting a rotten
status quo, under which those at
the very top in Saudi Arabia
remain untouchable.
Those with long memories
will say it has been ever thus.
Back in 1977 another Saudi
atrocity hit the headlines. It was
the killing of Princess Mishaal,
executed by firing squad at the
age of 19 for the sin of commit-
ting adultery. Her story was
later immortalised in the drama
documentary Death of a
Princess and caused a storm of
fury. But it was a storm that the
House of Saud rode out.
If the same cycle is occurring
again then it leaves one ques-
tion hanging in the air: is there
really no limit to what UK
governments are prepared to
tolerate from Saudi Arabia in
return for defence contracts and
it being a regional counter-
balance to Iran? Because there
should be. Emboldening des-
pots with big cheque books is
no way to go about creating a
stable and peaceful world.

Carole FUN, FEISTY AND FEARLESS
Charlie’s got
the right idea
JUST one in 20 civil servants has
gone back to work with many
saying they won’t set foot in the
office until the New Year.
But of course they wouldn’t be
saying that if they weren’t on full
pay. So how about Boris follows
Pimlico Plumbers’ boss, Charlie
Mullins’ lead and sacks those
who refuse to return?
Charlie has binned 30 of his
workforce saying he doesn’t
want people who are using
Covid as an excuse to languish
on their backsides at home. And
he’s prepared to sack more.
So why isn’t Boris doing that?
He can’t be begging everyone
else to get back to work claiming
the country needs them when
the lazy articles in his own
backyard are refusing to and
wrecking the country’s recovery
in the process.
HAVING
■ broken
both feet after
jumping off a
wall at a
theme park in
Turkey (nope,
no idea why
she’d be doing
that), Katie
Price says:
“I’m going to
be on my back
for six
months.” There are so many bad,
bad things I want to say here…
WRITER and comic, Kathy
■ Lette, says her 28-year-old
son has finally ended his
relationship with a 60-something
woman: “If he ever again shows
an inclination to spend time with
a crumbling edifice, I’ll buy him a
National Trust membership.”
This from the woman who on
turning 60 said “No, I don’t feel
antiquated at all. I feel like
swinging from the chandeliers
with a toy boy between my
teeth.” So, she doesn’t want her
son messing with 60-something
women but it’s ok for her to
mess with other mothers’ sons?
Hmmm…
ALBERT Ndreu proposed to
■ his fiancée Valerija Madevic
by putting hundreds of tea
lights all over his Sheffield
flat, a bunch of which
spelled out the words
“Marry Me”. He then
nipped out to collect
Valerija from work and
by the time they got back
the flat had gone up in
flames: “I just wanted to
do something special
from my heart for the
proposal.” he said.
Message to Albert: If
you really love Valerija
don’t be thinking about
doing anything
“special” for the
wedding – or you’ll
never see your first
anniversary...
DX1ST
C Andrew Harper, 28, was married for just
four weeks to the woman he adored before
three thugs killed him by dragging him face
down at 60mph when he tried to stop them
stealing a quad bike. His injuries were so
catastrophic his body was described in
court as looking like “a deer carcass” (the killers
smirked from the dock when they heard that) and he
was naked except for his socks (they laughed at that
too). So traumatised were the colleagues who found
him they were offered counselling to deal with the
horror of what they’d seen. Ditto the jurors.
And for THAT these three cretins – cleared of mur-
der but convicted of manslaughter – got sentences
that will see them back on the streets in just a handful
of years.
The yobs claimed in court they didn’t know PC
Harper’s foot had got tangled up in a strap attached to
the back of the car or that he was being dragged by
them – and if you believe that you’ll believe anything.
Course they bloody knew. They must have heard
him screaming. But they didn’t care.
And now, having shown not one jot of remorse,
they’re in jail – Henry Long, 19 (who when charged
said he didn’t “give a F***” ) for 16 years and Jessie
Cole and Albert Bowers for 13. So, Long will be out in
eight and the other two in six.
Which isn’t just an insult to PC Harper’s memory
it’s a kick in the guts for his family who must now live
knowing a few piddling years is all their beloved
Andrew’s life was worth.
The law needs to be clear – kill a police officer and
expect to spend every minute of the rest of your life in
A NEW poll says nine out
■ of 10 parents back the
reopening of schools in
September. Of course they do
■ THE only
newsworthy
thing Summer
because they understand what
seven months out of school is Monteys-Fullam has
going to do to their children’s ever done in her
future. Unlike the teaching short, shallow life
unions who are still using was to date Bake
every obstructive trick in the Off’s Paul
book to stop kids going back. Hollywood.
How dare these dinosaurs Yet a whole year
pretend their obduracy is all
after their break-up
about children’s safety when she’s still milking it – posing in skimpy
what’s it’s really all about is clothes trying to get her face (but mostly
them trying to thwart a
Government they hate? This
her body) into the papers.
Everything about this narcissistic,
pandemic has been all
publicity-hungry popsie screams: “I love
about them not the kids.
And I’d say shame on
me – who do you love?”
You can see why a man could tire of a
them if I thought they
understood the girl like that…
concept!
WHY CHARGE CAROLINE BUT LET STATUE-PROTEST MOBS GO SCOT-FREE!
EVERY time I think about Caroline Flack
I think, “What a bloody waste.”
The 40-year-old TV host hanged herself
after police charged her with assault when
she admitted hitting her partner, Lewis
Burton, on the head with her phone
because she suspected him of cheating.
Initially prosecutors were only going to
caution her. However, police decided to go
ahead and charge her – even after having
been made aware that she suffered from
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jail. End of. That’s how it used to be. But now
killers get their sentences reduced if they plead
guilty. Why for God’s sake? Long, and his cronies,
got caught red-handed so why does owning up
to what everyone knew they’d done afford
them leniency?
It’s this screaming injustice that’s led PC
Harper’s widow, Lissie, and his mum, Debbie
Adlam, to campaign for a law that would see
killers of police and emergency workers auto-
matically jailed for life. And they’re right to.
Cop killers SHOULD have the book thrown
at them. They should be given harsher, longer
sentences than killers of civilians because
they’re taking the lives of men and women who
lay their lives on the line every day to keep the
rest of us safe. People who go to work every
Pictures: KEVIN MAZUR/GETTY, SHUTTERSTOCK
day not knowing whether they’ll come home.
The Attorney General is currently looking
at the sentences of PC Harper’s killers and if
she doesn’t come back with a harsher one,
I’m pretty sure the British people – and this
newspaper – won’t let it rest.
Because PC Harper, a young officer
devoted to his job (and to us) was flayed alive
by savages who just didn’t give a stuff. And still
don’t. There HAS to be a price to pay for that.
People who think it’s OK to kill cops – or
emergency workers – need to know that they will
never again be free. We owe that to the rank and
file who are out there every day dealing with morons
like Long and his mates and they need to know THEIR
lives are worth more than just six years of a killer’s.
■ CAMERON Diaz, who
hasn’t made a film since
2014, says she retired from
Hollywood’s fast lane
because the pressure of
being responsible for
multimillion-dollar films was
overwhelming: “When you’re
making a movie, they own
you. You’re there 12 hours a
day for months on end.” God
save us from whinging,
self-pitying celebrities who
clearly think 12-hour working
days are unusual. Most of us
do it. Most of us are
stressed. But the difference
between us and 47-year-old
Ms Diaz is that our stress
hasn’t been rewarded with a
£100million fortune!
mental health issues and had previously described as serious) when we’ve seen
tried to kill herself. police turn a blind eye to the pulling down
This week Caroline’s mum, Christine, of statues by angry BLM mobs and to
insisted at her daughter’s inquest that she’d assaults on their own officers by said mobs.
been singled out for what she called a I’m not saying Caroline wasn’t guilty of
“show trial” because of her fame and I fear domestic violence I’m just saying if police
there might be something in that. Why are going to charge people they need to be
decide to charge a troubled young woman fair and consistent. Don’t allow politics, “a
with a very serious charge (even the cause” or any anticipated bad publicity to
coroner said she struggled to see how the influence the decisions they make.
injury inflicted on Burton could be And I think with Caroline – they did!
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Daily Express Saturday, August 8, 2020 17

I’m A Celebrity...get me a castle!

I’M A CELEBRITY hopefuls will
be swapping shorts for thermals
By Mark Jefferies
Show will
Pictures: ITV/REX, GETTY

as the show decamps to the UK
because of travel restrictions.
Rather than heading out to the
blistering heat of the Australian
Bush, contestants are set to
shiver in the ruins of a castle.
Celebrities will still undertake
gruelling trials and challenges to
win food and treats but this time
one of them to be crowned King
or Queen of the Castle instead of
the Jungle.
ITV bosses made the decision
this week after Queensland
closed its border with New South
Wales. As the
show is filmed
almost on the
border, they
‘Contestants can
decided it
would be very
still look forward to
difficult to
move around
rice and beans, with
the area. plenty of surprises’
Also a
quarantine in
place for arrivals and travel
restrictions could be worse by
the time the show starts filming.
Producers feared waiting
longer could have left them
without a 20th series for 2020 in
Oz – and not enough time to
prepare a homegrown version.
It now looks as if they’ll be
swapping New South Wales for
old North Wales – although ITV
has declined to confirm rumours
that’s where the castle will be.
Dozens of new games and
trials will be needed, and the
stars will covet their camp fire
more than ever outdoors in the
UK in November. Some games
such as the Celebrity Cyclone
and eating trials may continue – go on...
but will look very different in the hosts Ant
new setting. and Dec
Richard Cowles, ITV Studios’
director of entertainment said:
“We pulled out all the stops to try
and make the series happen in
Australia. However, we are all
really excited about a UK version
of I’m A Celebrity.
“While it will certainly be
different producing the show
from the UK, the same tone and
feel will remain. Our celebrities
will probably have to swap shorts
for thermals but
they can still
look forward to a
basic diet of rice
and beans and
plenty of thrills
and surprises
along the way.”
The Daily
Express first
revealed back-up
plans for a UK-based show last
month. At that stage bosses still O’Leary suggested stars
hoped to go to Australia, but a could baulk at the prospectt
show source said the UK ended of a UK November.
up as the “only realistic option”. He said: “It’s going to
The source said: “The main be horrific wherever they
thing is we have found a way to are – a whole different
make the show happen. booking exercise. It will
“You still have a group of be a whole different
celebrities camping out and world for the friends and
taking on challenges and you still family. No going out,
have Ant and Dec live every night having that trip to
which millions of people love. Australia!” Last year’s
“It won’t be the same show but Jungle Queen was former
we are confident we can make EastEnder Jacqueline Jossa. sa.
something fans will enjoy.” The runner-up, Corrie actorr Andy
The news received a mixed Whyment, said: “It is certainly
nly Castle capers
capers...right,
right
reception. Guest-presenting This going to be different but it’ll still last year’s Jungle
Morning, X Factor host Dermot be as amazing as it always is.” Queen Jacqueline

Pictures: NA WEST/PA, MARK KEHOE & GETTY

Kim performing, left, and, above, with Marty and mum Joyce.
Below, Marty strums to his wife as a young rocker in 1960

ROCK ’n’ roll godfather Marty Wilde EXCLUSIVE

is back on the hit trail aged 81 –
releasing his first duet with singer
daughter Kim.
Marty, who had a pacemaker fitted
during lockdown after collapsing, said
the single 60’s World celebrates his
wife Joyce.
He revealed: “It’s 60 years since the
start of the decade, 60 years that
we’ve been married and 60 years
since our gorgeous Kim was born.
“Every day of my life has been
special with Joyce and the family, and
I wanted to go back to 1960, where it
all began. And what better way to
‘Every day of my life is special’…Marty at home in Hertfordshire celebrate than by bringing back the
By Mark Jefferies
sound of the Sixties, but with a
modern twist.”
The single comes from new album
Running Together, a 15-song journey
through his life which he wrote alone
or with collaborators.
At 81 Marty is the only living
rocker to have had hit singles or
albums across eight decades – beating
old pal Sir Cliff Richard.
He co-wrote many of Kim’s Eighties
hits such as Kids In America and
Chequered Love with son Ricky.
Marty and Kim have filmed a video
for the single during lockdown – but
stuck to socially distancing.
The new album also features his
other daughter Roxanne Rizzo-Wilde
with input from Ricky.
Marty, real name Reginald Smith,
plans to perform it on a 50-date tour
once virus restrictions are lifted. The
single and album are out in October.
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EXCLUSIVE: COLEEN

S
By Claire Higney
UCH a seismic feeling of shock hit
Coleen Nolan when she heard
about her two sisters’ cancer
diagnoses that there were no tears.
And that was swiftly followed by
absolute fury. Earlier this week her
‘My kids are
terrified. They
“brave and brilliant” older sisters Anne
and Linda revealed they’re both battling
cancer and undergoing gruelling
chemotherapy treatment.
It’s another cruel blow for the close-knit
Nolans who lost sister Bernie to breast
cancer in 2013 when she was just 52.
Anne and Linda received the devastating
diagnoses within days of each other during
the height of the lockdown. Anne, 69, was
diagnosed with stage three breast cancer

want me to
after beating the disease in 2000, while
Linda, 61, has secondary cancer that
metastasized first to her hip and pelvis in
2017 and now her liver, after she battled
breast cancer in 2006.
Coleen says: “I was still in bits after
hearing that Anne had cancer when Linda
called a few days later to tell me about her
diagnosis and I was so shocked I couldn’t
even cry. I just felt incredible anger – ‘Cancer
can **** off!’ is what I thought.

have a double
“It was heartbreaking and felt so unfair,
and I wanted to jump in my car immediately
and drive to Blackpool to give them both a
hug, but I couldn’t because we were in full
lockdown and they were shielding. I felt
totally helpless.”
Coleen, who still hasn’t been able to see
her sisters because of the Covid restrictions,
says she’s taken strength from their
positivity. They keep in touch daily on the
family WhatsApp group.
“I’m completely in awe of their courage,”

mastectomy’
she says. “It’s been hard for both of them not
being able to see family, and especially for
Anne who misses her daughters Amy and
Alex, and her grandkids.
“A few days after chemo they feel very
sick and my other sisters Maureen and
Denise, who are looking after them, keep
the family updated when they’re too ill to
get in touch. But as soon as they feel better,
they’re back on WhatsApp and out of bed
living their lives. Maureen sends photos of
Anne walking in the park, wearing ing her
headscarf and mask. Their determinationmination
reminds me so much of Bernie, who o didn’t
give in until she took her last breath, and I’ve
questioned many times over the past few
LLoose Women star reveals she’s
weeks whether I’d be that brave.”
‘in bits’ with fear, guilt and
C OLEEN admits seeing
photos of Anne and Linda
this week, bravely
exposing their shaved heads, hit
her hard and was a stark
reminder of what her sisters are
going through.
heartbreak as her sisters Anne
and Linda battle breast cancer
eexplained there are so many reveals her children have also talked to her
She says: “We’ve obviously been ggenes they haven’t discovered about having an elective mastectomy. “My
dealing with this as a family for yet and the cancer that’s affected
ye kids definitely think I should investigate it,”
weeks in lockdown, but the photos my sisters could be down to a she says. “They’re absolutely terrified
made everything feel so real, even n rogue
rog gene from my dad’s side of because they’ve seen cancer ravage our fam-
though they were beautiful. I hadn’t ’t the family.”
f ily and they’re very close to their aunties, so
seen Anne and Linda completely ely So has Coleen considered having of course they’re going to worry about me.
bald and it did bring back memories ories elective double mastectomy to
an ele “I want to be here for my kids as long as I
of Bernie. reduce h her risk of developing breast can be, so if I can take that risk factor away,
“I’m doing my best not to dwell on those cancer in tthe future? then I need to think about it very seriously.”
thoughts – I feel I have no right to do that course. Seeing what Anne and Linda
“Of course

when Anne and Linda are coping so well.
But it upset me when I read Anne saying ying she
doesn’t want to die. As the eldest sister,
er, Anne
has always been very strong and to hear her
sound so vulnerable broke my heart.”
Coleen admits her sisters’ latest cancer
battle had made her think about her own
risk of developing breast cancer.
She explains: “The guilt is incredible.
I don’t feel guilty for not having the disease.
I feel guilty for being afraid of it when I think
of Anne and Linda living with it. But of
AWESOME COURAGE:
Linda, left, and Anne
course, it’s hard not to be consumed by fear
when those so close have been affected.”
Linda and Anne don’t carry the mutated
BRCA 1 and 2 genes that raise a woman’s
risk of developing breast cancer in her
lifetime from 12 per cent to 90 per cent, but
a geneticist has told the family it’s unlikely to
be down to bad luck that three sisters have
had the disease. Coleen says: “The geneticist
through has made me think a lot
are going thr
about having a mastectomy,” she reveals.
“Over the p past few weeks, I’ve been lying
in bed at night, looking down at my breasts
and thinking, ‘Am I just walking around with
two time bombs here?’
“And, if that’s a possibility, then maybe
I just need to get rid of them.”
Coleen, who’s mum to Shane Jnr, 31, and
Jake, 27, from her marriage to actor Shane
Richie, and Ciara, 19, from her marriage to
second husband, musician Ray Fensome,
A
FTER a breast cancer scare in 2009
when she was competing in
Dancing On Ice, Coleen now sees a
cancer specialist every year to check her
breasts for abnormalities.
“I found a big lump when I was in the bath
one night,” she recalls. “ I didn’t even have
to search for it. My ex-husband Ray booked
an appointment the next day and it was
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NOLAN INTERVIEW
Pictures: DAN CHARITY,
DAVID ENGLISH/OK, Wireimage

NOLANS’
HEYDAY:
Clockwise
from top left,
Maureen,
Anne, Denise,
Bernie, Linda
Below, Bernie
in 2010

felt
fel lt closer than we have in years.
years It
felt like touring in the Nolan
fel
Sisters back in the ’70s when we
Sis
had
ha no kids and no
responsibilities.”
re
Coleen says she’s immensely
proud of how her family have
pr
pulled together to support Anne
pu
and Linda, and each other.
an
“My kids have been amazing.
They’re hurting, too, but say, ‘Are
T
you all right, Mum?’ about 20
yo
times a day. Maureen and Denise
ti
aare doing an amazing job looking
aafter Anne and Linda, and my big
brothers Tommy and Brian are
b
there for us, too.
th
“And we can still see the
hhumour in things – we’ve cried
llaughing as well as cried in
ssadness. I was devastated for
LLinda when she lost her hair
because her thick blonde hair was such a
part of her identity, but when she came to
terms with it, I sent a message round, saying,
‘Their ‘If nothing else, you can make loads of
determination money as a Right Said Fred tribute act!’
“We all fell about laughing. That’s how the
reminds me so Nolans get through things. The sadness is
much of Bernie who always there, but it’s our way of coping with
a terrible situation. I’m proud of us all – it
didn’t give in until would be easy to crumble into a heap and
she took her last not get out of bed in the mornings, but we
won’t let each other do that.”
breath’

really scary. You

think you’ll walk in
and they’ll immedi-
ately say, ‘Yes, it’s a
cyst’, but when the
doctor examined it
do the same. She says: “It does worry me
that Ciara will have to face making the
decision to have an elective mastectomy
later in life. We’re all worried about our kids
– Anne’s girls Amy, 39, and Alex, who’s 32,
now have a mum and two aunties who’ve
T HE Loose Women star has talked in
the past about how Bernie’s death
made her reassess her life and make
big changes, including ending her marriage
to second husband Ray. So has anything
positive come out of this crisis?
She says: “When Bernie died, I realised
he said I needed to developed the disease, so we’re always life could be too short to be unhappy, so I
have it checked saying, ‘Please check yourself!’ Ciara’s still so confronted the issues in my marriage. It also
urgently. I saw a young and I want her to be vigilant, but not brought Anne and me back together – we’d
specialist, who scared. So we talk about it sometimes and fallen out and weren’t talking before Bernie
aspirated the lump she knows what she has to do.” died, but when she passed away we both
and I had an Coleen hasn’t seen Anne and Linda since thought, ‘What the hell are we doing?’ and
ultrasound and a they filmed their Quest Red reality travel now we’re closer than ever.
LIFE’S TOO mammogram. When series, The Nolans Go Cruising, in February, “Now Anne and Linda’s illness has
SHORT TO BE they told me it was an and feels grateful for the time they spent brought the whole family closer together
UNHAPPY: infected gland, the relief together making the show. and we’re determined that when lockdown is
Losing Bernie was immense.” She says: “When we came off the cruise eased further, we’ll make more time for each
to cancer Because of her family we had to isolate for two weeks in our homes other. We’ve also been so touched by the
prompted history, Coleen checks her and then lockdown happened, and Anne and support from the public and their lovely
Coleen to breasts in the shower every day Linda were diagnosed shortly after that. messages have given us a lot of comfort.
make some and looks at them in the mirror to “So I’ve been watching the show every “I’m just looking forward to giving my
big changes
in her life
check for any unusual changes. And Tuesday night and reliving those wonderful sisters a hug – I only hope it won’t be too
she encourages her daughter Ciara to times we had – we laughed every day and long before we get that chance.”
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A SLIGHTLY belated
happy birthday to Meghan
Markle, who turned 39
earlier this week. The
Palace was generous, considering
the abuse it gets in the
forthcoming “unauthorised”
down the tracks at Meghan and
she’d be wise to consider her
options now. Nothing should be
left off the table.
The big one is the looming
court case against Associated
Newspapers. The Duchess is suing
biography of Meghan and Harry the owners of the Mail on Sunday,
(their fingerprints are all over it). Daily Mail and MailOnline for
The Queen sent warm good running a story which included
wishes, as did Wills and Kate. Not extracts of a “private and
just good manners; it was clearly confidential” letter she sent her
an olive branch and I hope father, Thomas Markle, in 2018.
Meghan (below) took it as such. So far, it’s not gone well for
Thirty-nine is of course a Meghan. She lost a preliminary
“gateway” year: Meghan’s big sparring round earlier this year
one next August is sure to be a and this week a High Court judge
time for reflection. It is for most was sharply critical of her – and
of us when we hit 40. Associated – for waging “tit-for-
But I think she’d be shrewd to tat” publicity campaigns, creating
bring that process forward by 12 “a febrile atmosphere”.
months. There’s a lot coming In other words, the fight’s got
ugly before it’s even started.
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to give evidence against her. She
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Our Iron Lady was no monster
I MET Margaret Thatcher.
R Just the once, in Manchester’s
Midland Hotel. By
appointment. Judy was
meant to be there too but a small
but urgent crisis involving one of
our kids blew up at the last moment
and she couldn’t come.
The problem meant I was at least
20 minutes late. Mortified, and
Judy-less, I rushed into the suite
that had been converted into a
temporary TV studio. Mrs Thatcher
– by now, an ex-PM – was sitting
patiently in her chair and listened
calmly as I babbled explanations
and apologies. When I’d finished she
stood up, crossed over to me, and
patted my arm.
“Family comes first,” she told me
firmly. “Now let’s do the interview.”
She was promoting her
autobiography and as microphones
were clipped on us both I asked if
she’d written it to preserve her
reputation and legacy. Mrs Thatcher
laughed. “Gracious, no! Why would
I need to do that? I won three
general elections in a row. I’ll stand
on that record, I think.”
I remembered those words this
week when I read actress Gillian
Anderson’s musings on being cast
as the Iron Lady in the next series
of Netflix’s The Crown.
“I don’t think I’ve ever taken on
a role that’s presented so much
pressure,” she said. “Taking on
somebody who is hated as much as
Thatcher is a whole other thing.”
I’m sure Ms Anderson has the
potential to make an excellent
Margaret Thatcher – she’s a fine
WHY is Adele getting so
J much abuse for daring
to shed weight? What is
it about a successful
outcome to a diet that enrages
a certain kind of person?
Lovely photos of the singer
(right) looking happy, healthy
and slim at the launch of
Beyonce’s new album this
week drew a shower of vile
comments on social media.
“Will Gastric Band be the title
of your next album?” and “she’s
had her stomach stapled” were
the more printable ones.
What is wrong with these
people? Are they only as vile
as this online, or just as
unpleasant in the “real” world
too? I hope I never meet any of
them to find out.
GREAT
R to see
the first
series of the
always-excellent Line
UNFAIR EXAM GUESSWORK ROBS BRIGHT KIDS OF THEIR FUTURES
WHEN I was at school,
J
Of Duty getting another
outing on BBC1, if only for glandular fever was a big
a flash of Vicky McClure’s deal. Kids who got it
remarkable eyes. They usually took months to
really are extraordinary recover and some missed out on
– I bet she even looks an entire year’s education.
good in a Covid The remedy was obvious: they
facemask! went back to square one and
“repeated” the lost terms. What
Daily Express Saturday, August 8, 2020 21
RESPECT: Margaret Thatcher with US President Ronald Reagan in 1984
actress – however, if her “inner for Mrs Thatcher runs so deep, he’s
motivation” is to be based on managed to successfully
playing a hate-figure, she’s going to dehumanise her. That’s not just
come unstuck. sad: it’s stupid.
Yes, there were people who hated But for every Marlin Schmidt
– and hate – Britain’s first woman there are fistfuls of admirers of the
prime minister. They’re mostly on late premier. Hate figures, in the
the hard Left or represented the wider sense, don’t win multiple
vested interests Thatcher took on election victories. Popular ones do.
during her premierships. Even And Margaret Thatcher was wildly
today, that hatred is expressed in popular (until the ill-judged poll tax
extraordinarily virulent terms. Only undid her).
last month the socialist Canadian Ronald Reagan – now one of the
politician Marlin Schmidt (no, me most venerated of 20th-century US
neither) said the following during a presidents – adored her. So to this
parliamentary debate. day do Falkland Islanders, who she
“If nothing else goes right for me rescued from the clutches of an
in a day, Madam Speaker, I can at odious fascist dictator (General
least count on the fact that Margaret Galtieri was a hate figure, all right.
Thatcher is still dead. The only thing Just ask anyone in Buenos Aries).
I regret about Margaret Thatcher’s So don’t play Thatcher as a
death is that it happened probably monster, Gillian. She was much
30 years too late.” Schmidt’s hatred more interesting than that.
I’ll just get my Cote
THE DAY before we were due to
R drive to Provence, the
Government slapped its absurd
quarantine restrictions on
people coming back from Spain,
including resorts with a lower level of
Covid-19 infections than the UK
(you’re safer from the virus in Ibiza
than you are in Islington).
Should we cancel our own trip in
case the same thing happened to UK
travellers in France?
We considered for about two
milliseconds before continuing to
pack the car.
Now, after the furore over Spain,
I somehow doubt we’ll see anything
similar happening again except in the
most drastic of circumstances.
The Madeley message from the
Cote d’Azur: holiday with confidence!
schools DIDN’T do was to children living in deprived areas
“predict” how the pupil might with underperforming schools.
have fared in missed exams. So stand-out bright sparks who
But that’s exactly what’s being buck the local trend will get lower
attempted now with pupils unable grades than if they’d shone in an
to sit exams because Covid-19 exam. It’s a monstrous injustice.
closed their schools. Based on Write off this past educational
“statistical modelling” it means year. These are just kids. We
that poorer marks will be given to mustn’t rob them of their futures.
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Picture: SWNS
By John Bett
Lucky
escape…
tourists
DAY-TRIPPERS dived out of the
way as a car plunged 20ft onto a
were just tent at a tourist hotspot.
feet away
Miraculously, the driver escaped
with only minor injuries and no one
on the beach was hurt, despite
crowds of people sitting nearby.
Emergency services rushed to
the scene at Mawgan Porth, near
Newquay, Cornwall, on Thursday.
Newquay Police tweeted: “Just
dealt with an incident where a
driver had failed to negotiate the
corner. Car and driver had quite a
drop, beach users shocked!
“Lucky driver with minor
injuries & lucky that no one was
seriously injured on the beach.”
Padstow Coastguard said:
“Reports of the vehicle landing on
a beach tent were confirmed...it
had left the B3276 and dropped
approximately 20ft, thankfully on
to, what was at the time, an empty
beach tent.
“Two team members had
already arrived on scene,
assisting to right the car back on
to its wheels, and remove it from
Lucky escape…rescue services remove car which almost caused a tragedy the beach.”
THIS year’s finest wines and By Steph Spyro
champagnes may be lost after
a huge drop in demand because receive £5.5million for extra
of the pandemic. storage space. But with exports
Tuscan wine makers have also down, Italian wineries face
around two million excess a loss of £900 million, or nine
bottles from last year and now per cent of sales.
face dumping much of the next Meanwhile, in France,
grape harvest. champagne producers’ group
Italy has lost wine-loving CIVC estimated as many as 100
tourists following the closure of million bottles will go unsold
hotels, restaurants and bars. this year. The harvest of
champagne grapes, which starts
Smaller this month, is expected to be
smaller – although champagne
Rome will pay out just over houses and growers have yet to
£90million to compensate agree by how much.
vintners who are expected to The government has not
dump between 15 and 50 per announced compensation.
cent of their grapes. CIVC said more than one
Luca Pollini, of the Avito billion bottles have piled up in
association of high-end Tuscan champagne cellars, representing
wine makers, said many would several years of potential sales.
rather throw them away as “the Both Rome and Paris have set
100 million euros earmarked money aside to distil surplus
will certainly not be enough”. wine into alcohol for use in
Tuscan winemakers are to hand sanitisers and perfumes.

By Michael Knowles
Home Affairs Correspondent
A POLICE chief haunted by the
murder of two officers on his
watch is backing the campaign by
the family of PC Andrew Harper,
saying criminals who kill 999
heroes should face life in jail.
Chief Constable Nick Adderley,
of Northamptonshire Police, said
those who set out to commit a
crime in which an officer is killed
should automatically get a whole-
life term under “Andrew’s Law”.
Mr Adderley said life imprison-
ment was necessary based on his
experience as a chief superinten-
dent at Greater Manchester Police
in 2012, when PCs Nicola Hughes
and Fiona Bone were killed by
Dale Cregan in an ambush.
Cregan is the only police killer in
the past decade to have received a
whole-life order. PC Harper was
caught in a strap dangling from the
back of a car driven by thief Henry
Long and dragged to his death.
Long, 19, and 18-year-olds Jessie
Cole and Albert Bowers were
convicted and sentenced for the
newlywed’s manslaughter.
Long got 16 years while Cole very sensitive issue for the family should face a whole-term tariff.
and Bowers each got 13 years.
Mr Adderley spoke as the
Thames Valley Police
Federation, which is
supporting Lissie
Harper’s Andrew’s Law
campaign, published a
moving poem from
the 29-year-old widow
highlighting her deter-
mination to win the
fight for automatic
life sentences
for killers of
emergency
Pictures: TIM CLARKE, STEVE REIGATE & PA
LISSIE’S MOVING POEM SHOWS HER DETERMINATION TO SEE JUSTICE IS DONE
I will march with an army right up to
their doors,
I will stand strong and demand that
we
change our laws.
I will not break, give up, or fall,
I will be brave for you as I hear your
call.
I will cry in rage when they get mistr
eated,
I will stand up tall for them, never defea
ted.
As they risk their lives in the line of duty,
I promise I’ll push to preserve your beau
ty.
We will win these fights, one day I am
sure.
With the guilty locked up at the end
of our war.
We must show to the world that we stand
with the best,
Never again should loyalty be put to
Widow...Lissie Harper has led the campaign the test.” Victim...PC Andrew Harper died
services workers. He said: “It’s a assaults and kills a police officer,
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murdered in Manchester – that crime a police officer is killed, Name....................................................................................................................
anyone who is in the com- for me what they call in Latin
mission of a crime, who ‘mens rea’ [the intention or knowl- Address ...............................................................................................................
edge of wrongdoing] is laid out, ..............................................................................................................................
and for me that should automati-
Life term... cally be sanctioned by a whole life Postcode .............................................................................................................
Nick Adderley term – life imprisonment.”

By Richard Vernalls
A FORMER warehouse packer was
told he will serve a minimum of
29 years in prison for raping and
murdering a female friend who had
trusted him to walk her home.
Wesley Streete, who towered over
his slightly-built victim, dumped
Keeley Bunker’s body face down in
a brook before trying to conceal his
crime with branches.
The 20-year-old was given a
mandatory life sentence by Mr
Justice Jeremy Baker at Stafford
Crown Court yesterday for the
killing and what the judge called a
“carefully crafted” scheme of lies
following his crime, tailored to fit
the evidence.
Streete repeatedly lied about
what had happened to Keeley, 20,
after they returned to their
hometown of Tamworth, Staffs, on
September 19 last year following
a night out at Snobs nightclub
in Birmingham to celebrate her
birthday.
Keeley had earlier told a female
friend, Monique Riggon: “I’ve
got Wes, he’ll walk me back. It’ll
be fine.”
Jailing Streete, Mr Justice Baker
said: “She told Monique she would
be safe at home, as you had offered
to walk with her back to her house.
Throttling
“Unfortunately nothing could
have been further from truth.
“Because on the way back to her
house I am satisfied you persuaded
Keeley to divert to the rugby club,
probably on the pretext of going for
a smoke.
“However what took place in
Wigginton Park is you proceeded to
rape Keeley Bunker in the course
of which you murdered her by
throttling her, in all probability by
placing her in a choke-hold for
sufficient period of time to kill her.”
The choke-hold would have been
“minutes, rather than seconds”.
The judge added: “When you had
finished with her you decided to
hide Keeley’s now lifeless body by
depositing it in the brook, covering
it up with branches.
“You then walked back to your
home, went to bed and slept.”
Streete, who once had a football
scholarship to play for Tamworth,
initially said he had left Ms Bunker
to walk home alone. He later
claimed that he “accidentally killed
her” during consensual sex.
He changed his account of events
Record breaker...Lee Jeffries with the rare soul 45
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Pictures: SWNS
The body
of Keeley
Bunker,
right, was
found in
a park in
her home
town of
Tamworth
after a
night out.
Wesley
Streete,
left, then
tried to
cover his
tracks
with
‘carefully
crafted’
lies
at least four times before during a massive conviction, Keeley’s mother Debbie to have happened in previous
his trial. search effort involving Watkins said she had been “robbed” years. He was handed prison terms
The judge said that while family, friends and of her “precious and beautiful” of between six months and five
Streete “repeatedly lied” police. daughter. years for those offences, which
about what had happened, it The jury, returning Ms Bunker’s sister described her will be served alongside his
was Ms Bunker’s uncle, Jason verdicts on Wed- sibling as “one of the most vibrant, life sentence.
Brown, who made the nesday, found Streete caring and beautiful souls this earth Det Insp Cheryl Hannan, the
“dreadful” discovery of her guilty in just over has ever seen”. senior investigating officer in the
partially-submerged body eight hours of Streete was also found guilty of case, said: “This devious and
deliberations. two other counts of rape and three manipulative character, someone
Debbie Watkins, After counts of sexual assault against who repeatedly lied and targeted
Keeley’s mother his three other victims, which were said young women, is now behind bars.”
Soul fan pays £100k for
‘Holy Grail’ Motown disc
A MUSIC fan has splashed out By Tom Hitchenor
£100,000 on the world’s most
expensive Motown record. The father of two, of Market
Lee Jeffries said it was like Harborough, Leics, said: “I’m
finding the Holy Grail after buying over the moon.
the seven-inch single Do I Love “I’m ecstatic at the moment, I’m
You, by Frank Wilson. feeling sky high.
It was originally rejected for “Only two copies were ever
release by the legendary label in pressed. One has a heat warp
the 1960s, with only a handful of and doesn’t play, so now I’ve got
copies ever produced. the only playable copy of this
The disc broke the record in classic record.
2009 as the most expensive “I’ve already played it a few
Motown vinyl ever sold when it times and I love it. Getting
was snapped up for £25,742. my hands on this Northern Soul
Lee, 38, a millionaire record gem is like hitting the winning
label owner and entrepreneur, goal in the 1966 World Cup Final
approached the owner of the for England.
record and agreed to pay almost “It really is like finding the
four times the original price. fabled Holy Grail.” Rejected...Frank Wilson’s song was dropped by Motown
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By John Twomey

A MENTALLY disturbed gun-

man who shot a children’s
author before dying in a police
chase feared his victim was
a government spy who
wanted him sectioned, it was
claimed yesterday.
Alex Sartain had a bizarre
obsession with former space sci-
entist James Nash and was con-
vinced he was plotting to have
him locked up.
Neighbour Tony Bennett
yesterday revealed how he
met Sartain, 34, the day before
the shooting.
Mr Bennett said: “He
pointed at Mr Nash’s house and
said, ‘They are trying to get
me sectioned.’
“Because Mr Nash used to
work in aerospace, Alex got it
in his head that this guy
works for the Government. He
had it in his head that he was
being spied on.”

Jumping
Mr Nash, 42, was fighting
for his life yesterday after he
was blasted in the head in the
garden of his thatched cottage in
the idyllic village of Upper

Bright sparks put Enham, Hampshire.

His wife Dr Sarah Nash, 40,
who works for a space agency,
Sarah Nash
was injured and
her husband

lamppost in a tree suffered minor injuries.

Sartain, who lived 200
yards away, is believed to
James, inset,
was shot at
their home, left
By Liz Perkins have used a homemade gun in
the shooting on Wednesday.
BUNGLING workmen put a lamppost in the He was at or near the scene Sartain was a troubled man who heard there was some kind of
middle of a tree – then council bosses when police arrived and fled had a history of drug-taking, issue between Alex and the
blamed the foliage for blocking the light. on foot before jumping on drink problems, paranoia and Nashes but I don’t know what it
Puzzled residents could not understand his motorbike. petty theft. could be.”
why the council had not located the 22ft Minutes later, he crashed But one woman resi- Mr Bennett, a friend of
lamppost just a few yards away. and was killed about three dent, who declined Sartain’s father John, added: “A
Karen Thomas, 42, said: “It is daft thing to miles away. Hampshire to be named, week ago Alex’s dad had been
spend money on. You think someone would Police said they made a said Sartain was trying to get him sectioned. Alex
have seen the light by now.” mandatory referral to a “lovely boy”. had been sectioned three times.
One worker at the site in Newport, Gwent, the Independent Office She added: “On the day it happened, John
said: “It is a joke really – which came first, for Police Conduct. “My daughter didn’t hear Alex go out or any-
the tree or the lamppost? A tree is a work of Residents told of knew him but thing like that.
nature whereas a badly placed street light is I didn’t think
a work of the local council.”
their disbelief at the “His dad told me today that
shooting as Mr Nash’s he was a bad Alex always said he wanted to
A spokesman for Newport City Council person. I have
said: “The issue here is not the positioning family were praying he die on his motorbike.”
of the lamppost, which was replaced, but would pull through. Police said they did not
the tree. We will ask the owner to cut Neighbours said Disturbed... believe there were any outstand-
back the tree.” motorbike mechanic Alex Sartain ing suspects for the shooting.
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Why home’s still

From Chris Bucktin
US Editor

I
T WAS a mammoth crime in a small
Minnesota town and it took way more
than three clicks of a heel to bring Judy
Garland’s Wizard of Oz ruby slippers

no place for
back home. But the hunt for the
famous red-sequined shoes – stolen
from a museum dedicated to the Hollywood
star in her hometown – has seen more plot
twists than the Yellow Brick Road.
The 2005 theft in the northern mining and
timber community of Grand Rapids was a
big story that reverberated around the world,
and for 13 years, despite a £150,000 reward
and hundreds of tips, false leads and
disappointments, there wasn’t so much as a

Dorothy’s stolen
sniff of the magic slippers.
Then, two years ago, the FBI announced
with great fanfare that they had recovered
the stolen treasure.
But the real heroes, I can reveal, were a
small but dogged band of local police officers
who displayed the same brain, heart and
courage as the scarecrow, the tin man and
the lion who accompany Dorothy on her
quest to find the Wizard of Oz.

ruby slippers
“We were determined to bring the ruby
slippers back home,” said Detective
Investigator Brian Mattson who, along with
colleagues Bob Stein and Andy Morgan,
cracked the case. “That is all we wanted
to do.”
The world’s most famous shoes, which
Dorothy clicked together to go home, were
key to the 1939 classic movie which netted a
staggering £2.5million at the box office and
heralded America’s emergence from the
Great Depression.
The Wizard of Oz brought Garland, who
died in London in June 1969 from a drug
overdose, international fame.
RECOVERED:
The stolen
After 13 years, hundreds of
wrong turns and a global
The lavish production cast the star red slippers
alongside 500 actors on 30 sound stages with
65 different sets. The sheer quantity of
lighting used was considered such a risk to
the thatched roofs of Munchkinland that fire
marshals were employed full-time to make
hunt, the FBI revealed
sure the whole lot didn’t go up in flames
midway through filming. Judy Garland’s £2.5m
shoes had been recovered.
W HEN production wrapped, only
five pairs of ruby slippers
remained out of an estimated
six or seven made in shoe size 5 and 6 for
Garland. Today, they are among the most
valuable items of film memorabilia in the
world, with each pair worth as much as the
But the local cops who
REALLY found the Wizard
of Oz relics want them
£2.5million the film earned at the box office
on its original release.
The thief who broke in through a back
back where they belong…
door of the Judy Garland Museum and
smashed the plexiglass display case holding
the shoes left no fingerprints. Neither was a single red sequin, one of 2,300 sewn into had been thrown into one of the area’s hun- said, ‘My mom has drugs in her house,’ I’d
there any CCTV footage to go by, and police the slipper to look like rubies. dreds of lakes, ponds, water-filled pits or the get a warrant. He is that good.
were left with few clues. The No descriptions of the burglar or any nearby Mississippi River by the local hood- “I put him out there as he was connected
only thing left behind was potential assailants were available, leaving lums who had stolen them. with some of the people that we thought had
US chat show host David Letterman to Another theory suggested their owner a local connection.
joke the villains were “described as Michael Shaw, who had loaned them to the “Not once did he ever get any information.
being armed and fabulous”. museum, was behind the theft. It was fuelled He said everyone was really tight-lipped and
The crime, though, was no laughing when, two years later, the Essex Insurance they had nothing to do with it.”
matter. Locals took it personally – a Company paid out the Los Angeles-based

D
slight on the memory of their most acting coach £600,000.
famous daughter. Amateur sleuths pointed to how Shaw,
Grand Rapids police assigned a who vehemently denied any involvement,
team to investigate, but despite had not insisted the heels were put in a safe ETECTIVES were met with brick
thousands of tip-offs from each night. wall after brick wall, amid rumours
across the United States “Everyone was a suspect,” says Sergeant the slippers were stolen to order by
and the world – Stein. “I used to ask people all the time when the mafia.
including from I was working on the road, ‘Have you In addition to the insurance payout, the
psychics and car anything in this car, you’re acting kind of company also offered a £151,000 reward for
boot fanatics – the nervous. Is there something in his car you information about the theft, but initially,
trail quickly went don’t want me to see? Are there Al-Qaeda nothing came back.
cold. grenades, fruits from another country? Red Mattson continued to follow up diligently
In fact, the most Ruby slippers. You know, something’s on every single one of the hundreds of tips
credible tips came up, right?’ police received, including one from a woman
DOGGED DETECTIVES: from within “Most people would say, ‘Ruby slippers? stopped by police who said she had seen the
Mattson, right, and his Grand Rapids. What in the hell is wrong with you?’ shoes and led him to a “gypsy camp”.
colleague Sgt Stein with They included “I had an informant from when I used to She took the veteran detective and
replica ruby slippers rumours the shoes work narcotics. If he came into me today and another officer through woods to a remote

ramshackle home. Staking it out while
hidden in bushes, they observed its owner
pottering around outside.
He was less than 20ft away when suddenly
their cover was completely blown – literally
– when the officer with Mattson let off “the
biggest fart” ever.
“It was the loudest one you’d ever heard,”
he laughs. So all they could do was ask the
man if he had the ruby slippers.
“Yeah, I’ve got them,” he said, “They’re in
a green box.”
Hearts pounding, the officers started
searching, neither one daring to dream that
they had finally found them. Gingerly they
opened the box only to find a pair of
glittery red “stripper shoes” – nothing
like Dorothy’s delicate slippers. the most valuable
“We were gutted,” Mattson recalled.
Then in July 2017, he took a call in
his office which instinct told him was memorabilia, worth
more credible than most. The man,
from somewhere in the Deep South, as much as the
said he had information on the wherea- film grossed on
bouts of the slippers.
“It was clear from the way he was talking,
he was someone I had to listen to,” Mattson
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Daily Express Saturday, August 8, 2020 27
MAGIC:
Judy in a
scene
from the
iconic
musical
and, right,
Dorothy’s
shoes
adds. “He claimed to be a middle man who
was not involved in the theft but was brought
in to have them returned.”
The informant said he’d contacted the Judy
Garland Museum, and the insurer but neither
was interested in what he had to say. He also
asked if a reward was still available.
After checking with the insurers, the
officers said the £150,000 was still on
the table.
From a police perspective, as the statute of
limitations on the original theft had passed,
they could still bring an extortion case or
possession of stolen property charges.
“All we wanted was the shoes back
though,” says Mattson. “If we got an arrest,
that was a bonus, but it was the slippers that
were our focus.”
The following month Mattson was sent
“proof-of-life” camera phone photos of the
slippers. It was a picture of a picture, but
Hollywood memorabilia expert Joe
Maddalena, who had once seen the shoes for
himself, said they looked legitimate.
Foolishly, the sender of the images had
failed to remove the telling metadata
embedded in the pictures, which provided
his location instantly.
A FTER weeks of no contact with the
mystery man, Mattson received a
call from a Minnesota-based
lawyer, explaining why: his client no longer
wanted to talk directly to the police.
Mattson called an FBI agent he knew and
trusted, Christopher Dudley.
“Within 20 minutes or so he said he was
in,” Mattson said.
In July 2018, the lawyer, unaware the FBI
was involved, arranged to have the shoes
returned in exchange for a reward. With 100
agents in place, Mattson travelled to the
Minneapolis art district where the handover
was due to take place.
“We watched the lawyer arrive with a bag
aand saw him enter a coffee shop,” Mattson
rrecalls. “After he ordered he did something I
SCENE OF ccouldn’t believe. He left the shoes in their
THE CRIME: bbox on a table as he went to the bathroom.
Judy “I was tempted to go in and grab them, but
Gardland’s
childhood wwe waited.”
home and They were handed over and after 13 years
the museum oof hunting, the slippers were finally safe – but
dedicated to iit was far from the end of the story.
her in Grand “We got them,” Mattson says. “All the
Rapids, hhundreds of tips, all the miles we covered, all
Minnesota tthe leg work we’d done had finally paid off.”
But the shoes remain with the FBI as the
iinvestigation continues to bring those
rresponsible to justice.
“I call the FBI every month or so to find
‘They oout if there is any development, but they
aassure me the case is still active,” says Stein.
are among “The agents we worked with are awesome,
bbut just like in the movies that talk about the
FFBI screwing people over, that’s exactly what
items of film mmanagement above them does.”
Despite it all, Mattson is happy.
“Our sole objective was to get back what
wwas stolen from our town and that is exactly
wwhat we did,” he says. “Hopefully like
DDorothy, they’ll find their way back home
release’ oone day.
“There is no place like it.”
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28 Daily Express Saturday, August 8, 2020

Pictures: SWNS, GETTY

AN AUCTIONEER thought he was
seeing double when an envelope
arrived in his letterbox containing
spectacles, with a note saying
“these were Gandhi’s glasses”.
The gold rims had been given to
the owner’s uncle by the famous
Indian leader during a trip to South
What’s your
By Jonathan Coles
political activist and ambassador
for peace. He led the campaign
tipple?
for Indian independence from by Matt Nixson
British rule by using non-violent
resistance.
Andrew Stowe, from East Bristol

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through generations, is expected to been quite happy to
fetch at least £15,000 later this receive fifty pounds
month. The owner had also left his for them I’m sure!”
Indian leader

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Mahatma Gandhi, murdered in starts at 10am on left, his iconic
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Miles Beale, chief executive of the Wine and Spirit Trade
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Police at the house where Linda Rainey, right, was fatally injured in the fall
Facing jail...Gray pushed victim down stairs
A MULTIMILLIONAIRE busi-
nessman who tried to have his
mother jailed in a feud over a
£10million caravan empire has
lost a court fight with his
elderly parents.
But Michael Loveridge is
still trying to get his 75-year-
old mum Ivy imprisoned in
the “increasingly bitter” row.
Michael, 50, and his parents
are wrestling for control of the
highly profitable chain of cara-
van parks and a caravan sales
business.
Michael says he has spent
the past 20 years building
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Pictures: EAST ANGLIA NEWS
Pop star Wayne Fontana
Game Of
Love singer
Fontana is
dead at 74
By Laura Harding
SIXTIES pop star Wayne
Fontana has died at the
age of 74.
The singer was best
known for his 1965 hit
Game Of Love with The
Mindbenders.
He later found solo
success with Pamela
Pamela in 1967.
Born Glyn Ellis,
Fontana reportedly took
his stage name from
Elvis Presley’s
drummer, DJ Fontana.
His management
agency Chimes
International said he
died on Thursday at
Stepping Hill Hospital,
Stockport, with his
long-term partner by
his side.
Broadcaster Tony
Blackburn paid tribute
yesterday, tweeting:
A WOMAN who killed her friend By News Reporter down to a tragic accident. Gray had “So sorry to hear about
after they fell out over a cancelled denied murder but a jury took less the passing of great
holiday has been convicted of her stairs.” He said she went flying back- than two hours to find her guilty of Sixties icon Wayne
manslaughter. wards and landed at the bottom. manslaughter on Thursday. Fontana. He was a
In what could have been the “per- The mother of five died two days She and Lawrence were also con- lovely guy and gave us
fect murder”, Rosalind Gray pushed later on August 7 last year without victed of conspiracy to pervert the some great songs.”
Linda Rainey down a flight of stairs, regaining consciousness after her life course of justice between August 5
inflicting a fatal brain injury. support was turned off. and August 12 last year. Lovely
Gray, 56, is said to have owed Gray and Lawrence, 54, both of Judge Stephen Holt adjourned
£200 to grandmother Ms Rainey, 60, Great Yarmouth, set out to pretend sentencing until September 10 for Herman’s Hermits
after a flight mix-up forced them to her death was an accident and tried reports to assess Gray’s danger to frontman Peter Noone
the public. wrote on Facebook:
abandon a trip to Morocco in 2018. to silence witness Emma Walker who
“Wayne Wayne don’t go
The pair exchanged texts in which had been in the flat. But he warned her she faced away. After 59 years of
Ms Rainey asked for her money and They told her to hide in another prison, saying: “The jury has con- friendship, laughter,
Gray called Ms Rainey a “nasty old room when paramedics arrived to victed you of a very serious offence.” tears, jail cells and lost
troll”, Norwich Crown Court heard. treat Ms Rainey because she Thanking Ms Walker, Det Chief brain bells [sic], we
They argued again when they met “couldn’t be trusted to stay quiet”. Insp Mike Brown of Norfolk Police have handed over our
unexpectedly at the home of mutual But Ms Walker spoke to police said: “Without [her] honest and con- lovely lead singer
friend Adrian Lawrence, 54. on August 10 and revealed what had sistent account of the circumstances Wayne Fontana to the
Prosecutor Andrew Jackson said: happened. leading up to, and during the days big band in rock and roll
“That argument ended when Gray Mr Jackson said Ms Rainey’s death after the incident, we may not have heaven.”
pushed Linda Rainey in the chest as would have been an “undetected ever known the truth behind Linda’s Born in Levenshulme,
she stood right at the top of the perfect murder” if it had been put untimely and tragic death.” Manchester, Fontana
performed at the first
Glastonbury Festival in
1970, but struggled to
sustain his solo career,
ending up playing to
cruise ship audiences.
“Then I went into
self-retirement, drank
By Richard Gittins heard that the Loveridge fam- of having “misappropriated” too much and didn’t
ily run their empire of park £1.25million from one of the know where I was half
the business up from modest home sites based in family companies, and used it the time,” he told the
beginnings. Worcestershire, including the to buy another caravan park Daily Express in 2017.
But Ivy and 78-year-old dad Riverside Caravan Park, in for himself. But he quit alcohol in
Alldey insist they are the driv- Bewdley, near Kidderminster, They tried to get him 1977 when he joined the
ing force behind the empire, where Ivy and Alldey live. removed as a director and the Sixties touring circuit.
having set it up in 1973. Michael is a director of sev- fight hit Birmingham High In 2007, Fontana
In April and May, Michael eral of the family companies Court earlier this year which made headlines when
obtained interim High Court involved in the fight, one of made interim orders granting he turned up to court
orders granting him control of which controls £5million Michael day-to-day control. dressed as the figure of
the three family business part- worth of assets and £5million The Court of Appeal Justice and carrying a
nerships and five family firms. more in capital. however announced at the end sword and scales.
He was jailed for 11
But Ivy and Alldey have The family war for control of of the hearing that it was months for pouring
now succeeded in an Appeal the multimillion pound busi- discharging both the petrol on a bailiff’s car
Court fight to get the orders nesses flared up after his partnership order and the and setting it alight.
overturned. The Appeal Court parents accused Michael companies order. Feud...Michael Loveridge
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Cigarette case that saved soldier from a bullet

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Impact...bullet hole in pay

book, found with cigarette
case, above, and medals, left

By Mark Reynolds Allied victory. After returning

A DENTED cigarette case that
took a bullet and saved the life
of a soldier has been found by
his great-grandson.
Private Percy Warner, of the
Royal Fusiliers, was shot on
the Western Front during
the First World War in
September 1918.
But the bullet’s path was
obstructed by a mirror and
cigarette case he kept in his
trouser pocket.
Now, 102 years after he
escaped death, his story has
emerged after his descendant
Ben Mayne was given a tin box
of his belongings.
It had been gathering dust
for years in a wardrobe at the
Warwickshire home of his
uncle Michael Warner,
Percy’s grandson.
His medical records, also
found in the box, revealed that
he had suffered a wound to
his thigh which led to his
War hero
hero...Private
Private Percy Warner in uniform discharge from the Army. He
also had a picture of his
girlfriend Dolly and his pay
book in his pocket, which also
appear to have taken some of
the bullet’s impact.
Ben, 38, a battlefield
historian from Nuneaton,
Warks, said the box also
contained Percy’s campaign
medals, documentation and
letters from the front line.
After going through its
contents, Ben has pieced
together that Percy was born
in 1892 in Badby, Northants.
He joined the Royal Fusiliers
in November 1915, serving with
the 23rd, 1st, 10th and 4th
Battalions over the course
of the war.
He survived the Battle of
the Somme, but was shot
on September 27, 1918, at
the Battle of Havrincourt
during the Hundred Days
Offensive which led to an
from France, he married
Dolly, a Londoner, and they
lived in Coventry.
Ben said: “I sat down and
began to work my way
through the box.
“Then I picked up the
cigarette case and mirror
which both had bullet holes.
“It was poignant to think
that these saved his life.
“If the bullet had
punctured an artery
he would surely have
been killed.
“Percy obviously knew
the significance of what
happened to him and that
his personal effects in his
pocket saved his life.
“He knew he had
been lucky.
“My uncle has had this
collection box for many
years. It has not been
opened very much.”
Percy died in 1957 aged
65, while Dolly passed away
in the 1970s.

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Flashback…Lissa with David; inset, him now
FIRST-TIME dad David Caldwell was
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cared for him as a baby – 34 years ago.
Zayne Caldwell arrived eight weeks
early, just like David, who fondly recalled
his mother Ida’s stories of “wonderful
nurse Lissa” at the hospital.
Father and new mum Renata Freydin,
34, only realised Lissa McGowan was
also caring for their boy when they dug
out a family album to see who the
baby resembled. And there was Lissa
cradling David.
Their baby is healthy and at home
while Lissa is retiring after 39 years.
When Zayne was born, his
parents were anxious about
leaving him with neonatal inten-
sive care nurses. Renata, from
Edison, New Jersey, US, said: “The
time was filled with worries and
uncertainty but we could
breathe easy knowing
his nurse is the
same one that
By Laura Elvin
helped David. She was amazing and to
have her care for Zayne was amazing. We
couldn’t believe it when we found out.”
Ida died when David, a Fedex man-
ager, was in school but she put together
albums of baby photos.
After Zayne was born at Saint Peter’s
University Hospital in New Brunswick,
New Jersey, he pulled them out of
storage, and Renata said she was leafing
through when “there was a photo of
Lissa holding David. I was like ‘wait a
minute’. I had only met her two
days earlier. I got chills”.
They took the snap to show
Lissa, who was overjoyed.
Renata said: “It was very
emotional. David was thinking
it was a sign his mum was
saying ‘everything will be ok‘
– and it was.
“Lissa was so kind and
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The Saturday briefing KNOWLEDGE IS POWER by KAY HARRISON

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YOUR
QUESTIONS
ANSWERED
Is there anything you’re yearning
to know? Send your questions,
on any subject, to the contacts
given below, and we will do our MOLLIE Emmett from
best to answer them... Yeadon in Leeds remembers
a hymn with the line “it’s

Q In the 1950s and 60s I vividly

remember seeing Pearly Kings
and Queens around London. I
what’s turning the world
upside down”.

particularly remember
accompanying my mum to Derby
Day at Epsom and being fascinated
by them. Why were they formed?
Maureen Nixon, Balcairn,
New Zealand
A The original Pearly King was
Henry Croft, who was born
in 1861 and grew up in an
orphanage in Somers Town in St
Pancras. Aged 13, he started
working as a street sweeper
and rat catcher among the
costermongers, who were a poor,
tight-knit community of street
traders. They had coster kings and
queens, who ran the markets and
would go stall to stall, cap in
hand, collecting for families who
had fallen on even harder times.
Costers decorated their scruffy
clothes by sewing mother of pearl
buttons down the seams.
Henry, who wanted to help
other orphans, took things a step
further and smothered a
worn-out suit with thousands of
buttons, and went around
collecting half pennies.
After becoming a bit of a local
attraction, he was approached by
hospitals to help with their
fundraising so drafted in some of
his coster friends, sewed on more
buttons, and started the original
Pearly monarchy. One
story says the buttons
came from a
shipload that
had spilled on to
the banks of
the Thames.
By 1911,
every London
borough had a
Pearly family,
all giving their
time for free to
raise money for
the poor, sick and
needy, under the
YOU’RE HAVIN’ A LARF: Pearly Kings and Queens decorated their clothes with shiny buttons. Inset, Bowie
motto “one never knows”. When
Henry died in 1930, 400 Pearlies
attended his funeral.
Pearly titles are passed down
through families, with Pearly
princes and princesses carrying
on traditions and rattling tins to
raise money for London charities.
Q I saw David Bowie on TV
singing John, I’m Only
Dancing. Who was John?
P Pope, Isle of Wight
A If the rumour is true, it was
his friend John Lennon. The
song, which reached No.12 in
1976, may have been in response
to a comment the former Beatle
made about Bowie’s crossdressing.
It’s worth noting the title’s
similarity to I’m Only
Sleeping, the 1966
track penned by
Lennon that
featured on
Revolver. So
they may have
merely been
winding each
other up.
Some
biographers
believe the song
could be about
a man reassuring
a girl’s partner, but at
the time, Bowie was certainly into
blurring the boundaries of gender.
Bowie and Lennon collaborated
on Bowie’s 1975 album Young
Americans, where they co-wrote
Fame, and Lennon joined him on
a cover of his Across The Universe.
Bowie later claimed he was told
by detectives that Lennon’s
assassin, Mark Chapman, had his
name down as the next to kill.
He was performing in The
Elephant Man on Broadway a few
blocks away when his friend was
murdered on December 8, 1980.
Bowie re-recorded the song
during sessions for his album
Aladdin Sane, with added
saxophone, in 1973.
A year later, Bowie was
influenced by soul and funk, and
made a new version, John, I’m
Only Dancing (Again), featuring
new verses and Luther Vandross
on backing vocals.
It also reached No.12, in 1979.
Q Why are the American
presidential elections always
held in November?
P Rhodes, Leeds
A It’s all down to farmers. This
custom began in 1845, when
election day was set by Congress
as the first Tuesday after the first
Monday in November. So this
year it should be November 3.
The process had been painfully
stretched out before that, with
states allowed to hold elections
any time within a 34-day period
before the first Wednesday in
December. This led to some
results being announced earlier,
which could influence opinion.
A fixed date tightened the
system up.
In 19th-century America,
farmers made up a big chunk of
the electorate.
November was seen as a safe
bet, as it would not interfere with
planting season or harvest but
would also avoid the harshest
winter weather.
It took most Americans at
least a day to travel to a polling
station so Tuesday was picked
– avoiding market days and
Sunday – their day of rest.
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O LORD, ALL THE
WORLD BELONGS
TO YOU
O Lord all the world belongs to
You
And You are always making all
things new
What is wrong You forgive and
the new life you give
Is what’s turning the whole
world upside down
The world’s only loving to its
friends,
But Your way of loving never
ends
Loving enemies too and this
loving with You
Is what’s turning the whole
world upside down.
The world lives divided and
apart
You draw men together and we
start
In your body to see that in
fellowship we
Can be turning the whole world
upside down
The world wants the wealth to
live in state
But You show a new way to be
great
Like a servant You came and if
we do the same
We’ll be turning the whole world
upside down.
O Lord, all the world belongs
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And You are always making all
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To be turning the world upside
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BEACHCOMBER 103 YEARS OLD AND STILL REWRITING HISTORY...

THE year was 1580 and Francis Drake had
returned triumphantly to Plymouth after his
circumnavigation of the globe astonished
to find no cheering crowds to greet him.
Only one sullen passport official and a
customs man approached.
“May I ask which countries you have
visited?” the passport official asked.
“I’ve circumnavigated the globe,”
exclaimed Drake; “I’ve pillaged and looted
Spanish ships around South America; I’ve
sailed the Pacific and rounded the Cape of
Good Hope; now I am home at last.”
“How long was your trip?” asked the
official. “Nigh on three years,” Drake
replied. “Sounds like a tax dodge,” the
customs man said to his colleague. “Ask the passport man said. “You’ll have to details of his latest trip. “I have singed the
him why it took so long.” And the passport quarantine here for a fortnight.” King of Spain’s beard,” Drake boasted.
man did so. “Two weeks in Plymouth?” Drake “We’ve only just reopened hairdressers.
“I couldn’t get a plane,” Drake said. protested. “What am I expected to do all Singeing beards is out of the question.
“They’re all grounded or they that time? Anyway, the There’s all sorts of viruses in beards.”
haven’t been invented yet. Spaniards I looted all So Drake sailed off again and this time
So I went by boat.” looked fine, until I threw destroyed the Spanish Armada. He was
“These Spanish ships them overboard.” given a knighthood on his return, then had
you say you pillaged,” “They were probably to spend the next fortnight in isolation.
said the customs man, symptomless carriers,” As Henry Newbolt wrote centuries later:
changing the subject, the official said. “It’s “Drake he’s in his hammock and a
“did they have Spanish quarantine or off to sea thousand miles away,
sailors on board.” again, I’m afraid.” Captain, art thou sleeping there below?
“Of course,” Drake said. So Drake set sail again and Yes I was until you woke me, please just
“Spanish ships have Spanish crews.” headed for Spain. When he returned to go away.
“Spanish crews have Spanish diseases,” Plymouth, the same officials asked for There’s still another thirteen days to go.”
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Lives remembered
Visionary
pioneered
peace talks
J
OHN Hume was widely
regarded as the architect
of the Good Friday
Agreement that brought
to an end three decades of
violence in The Troubles.
The Northern Irish politician,
who was the second leader of the
Social Democratic and Labour
Party (SDLP) from 1979 to 2001,
spearheaded negotiations between
Sinn Fein and governments.
His efforts earned him the Nobel
Peace Prize in 1998, the same year
in which the conflict ended, plus
the Martin Luther King Peace
Award in 1999 and the Gandhi
Peace Prize in 2001.
Ignoring his many critics, he
advocated cooperation with the
IRA through secret meetings with
Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams,
later known as the Hume-Adams
talks. His approach proved
successful, securing the ceasefire in
1994 that preceded the peace
agreement by four years.
Speaking after his death, former
Prime Minister Tony Blair said:
“His contribution to peace
in Northern Ireland was
extraordinary, I don’t think we
would ever have got the peace
Sydney Lotterby
OBE
Television producer
and director
BORN SEPTEMBER 1, 1926 – DIED JULY 28,
2020, AGED 93
THINK of any British TV
classic sitcom from the 1970s
to 1990s and there is a good
chance Sydney Lotterby was
involved in it.
The TV director-producer’s
credits included Last Of The
Summer Wine, As Time Goes
By, Porridge, Open All Hours,
Butterflies and Some
Mothers Do ’Ave ’Em.
He won four Baftas for
comedy – two for Porridge,
one for Going Straight and
one for Yes Minister – plus a
special award in 2007.
Starting his BBC career as
a cameraman, he was
promoted to technical
manager before joining the
entertainment department.
He received an OBE in 1994.
John Hume
Northern Irish politician
BORN JANUARY 18, 1937 – DIED AUGUST 3,
2020, AGED 83
process going and implemented if
he hadn’t been there.”
Hume was dedicated to
democratic politics throughout his
life. Born in Derry, the eldest of
seven children, he was raised in a
Catholic, working-class family.
He had intended to enter the
priesthood via St Patrick’s College,
Maynooth, but decided against it,
although he obtained an MA there.
Upon his return to Derry he
became involved in the civil rights
movement during the 1960s,
entering into politics in 1969 as an
independent candidate.
Following his election to the
Northern Ireland Assembly in
1973, he helped to found the
SDLP, becoming its deputy leader
before succeeding Gerry Fitt in the
top job in 1979. That same year he
joined the European Parliament,
Record-breaker won with guile
A THREE-TIME champion jump
jockey and the first to 1,000
winners, Stan Mellor’s tactical
brilliance in the saddle made him a
favourite with punters for decades.
All his skills were needed in the
1966 Hennessy Gold Cup at
Newbury when he rode a 25-1
outsider Stalbridge Colonist to
a memorable victory over the
favourite Arkle.
Weighing just 8st 10lb, he used
his weight advantage in a thrilling
race to the line.
His racing career nearly ended
three years earlier following a
horrendous fall at Aintree in the
Schweppes Gold Trophy. Falling
from Eastern Harvest at the second
hurdle he was badly trampled.
His jaw was broken in several
places and he lost six teeth but
thanks to a back protector he had
helped design his spine was not
badly damaged.
Although he won two King
George VI Chases, he only
managed second on Badanloch in
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PEACEMAKER: Northern Irish political leader John Hume
winning one of only three
Northern Ireland seats.
Hume’s approach was always
conciliatory in his beliefs but he
was not afraid to challenge
politicians. He gave Margaret
Thatcher short shrift over her
attitude to the Irish hunger strikes
of 1981 and her dismissal of the
New Ireland Forum. Ultimately the
Stan Mellor
Jockey
BORN APRIL 10, 1937 – DIED AUGUST 1,
2020, AGED 83
the 1960 Grand National, one of
13 attempts to cross the winning
line first at Aintree.
Known for his upright posture,
he put a lot of his success down to
riding with “guile” and disliked
excessive use of the whip.
That style led to him becoming
the first jockey to ride 1,000
winners over jumps with Ouzo at
Nottingham in 1971. His career
tally had risen to 1,035 when he
retired the following year.
Appointed MBE in 1972, he set
up as a trainer in Lambourn.
Among his 700 successes were two
Whitbread Gold Cups and on the
flat, Al Trui, which won the
Stewards’ Cup at Goodwood.
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stresses of engineering peace and
the constant travelling, took a toll
on his health.
He retired from SDLP leadership
in 2001, leaving politics in 2004.
By then he was succumbing fast to
dementia, although it was only
publicly announced in 2015. He is
survived by his wife of almost 60
years, Pat, and their five children.
BRILLIANT: Stan Mellor
When he married his wife Elaine in
1963, following his Aintree fall,
directors at Schweppes sent him
a silver cigarette box inscribed:
“To Stan Mellor – for falling
heavily twice in one year”.
They had two daughters, Linz
and Dana, both winning National
Hunt jockeys.
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Wilford
Brimley
Actor
BORN SEPTEMBER 27, 1934 – DIED
AUGUST 1, 2020, AGED 85
STAR of The China
Syndrome, The Natural, The
Thing and Cocoon, Wilford
Brimley was a stuntman-
turned-actor who excelled at
playing crabby grouches.
He appeared in dozens of
movies and TV shows
across his 50-year career
but he was just as famous
as the face of US breakfast
cereal brand Quaker Oats.
Brimley, who was
instantly recognisable for
his walrus moustache, got
his breakthrough in 1970s
family drama The Waltons
as the quiet-mannered
Horace Brimley.
This led to the role of Ted
Spindler in 1979’s The China
Syndrome, in which he
played a nuclear factory
plant worker who gives an
impassioned speech in
support of shift supervisor
Jack Godell, portrayed by
Jack Lemmon.
This was followed by
a performance as a
quarrelsome Assistant US
Attorney General in 1981’s
Absence Of Malice. Four
PROLIFIC: Brimley
years later, Brimley
endeared himself to film
audiences as the lead
retiree in Ron Howard’s
magical film Cocoon.
He was born in Salt Lake
City, Utah and moved to
Santa Monica, California,
when he was young, after
his real estate broker father
sold their farm.
After dropping out of high
school he enlisted in the
Marines.
He was then a ranch hand,
wrangler, rodeo rider and
blacksmith – and even a
bodyguard for businessman
Howard Hughes.
Brimley was married twice
and had four children.
He died in hospital after
suffering a kidney ailment.
His manager Lynda
Bensky said: “He was a man
you could trust. He said
what he meant and he meant
what he said.
“He had a tough exterior
and a tender heart.”
Written by KAT HOPPS
& JAMES MURRAY
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MILESTONE MOMENT:
Vickers Viscount set to
leave Northolt for its
pioneering flight to Paris

By Leo McKinstry

S
TANDING by the terminal at
Northolt airport near London, ready
for its flight to Paris on a bright
summer afternoon in 1950, the new
aircraft looked elegant but hardly
revolutionary. Its streamlined
fuselage wore the austere livery of the
state-owned airline British European Airways.
Its four long, highly polished engines each
had a propeller, just as a set of turning blades

Turboprop trium
had powered the Wright brothers’ first
conquest of the skies near the beginning of
the 20th century.
Yet this was no conventional aircraft. Called
the Vickers Viscount, it was a pioneer that was
about to transform the nature of air travel,
heralding a new era of comfort and speed, as
well as cementing Britain’s place as a global
leader in aviation.
For the Viscount was the very first plane to
use turboprop engines, where the thrust of jet
turbines drove the propellers. More efficient,

Britain’s airline i
smoother and quieter than a traditional piston
plant, the turboprop was also more
economical than a pure jet.
But when this new technology was first
developed in Britain in the late 1940s, there
was some trepidation as to whether it would
even be suitable for airliners, despite the
promise of the Viscount in early trials. To allay
such doubts and further test the capabilities of
the plane, the Vickers company and BEA
decided to use the prototype on a series of
scheduled flights. It is 70 years since the first

Seventy years ago, against the odds, the Viscount flew into the
of those journeys was undertaken.

O N JULY 29, 1950 a small group of

14 fare-paying passengers gathered
in the Northolt terminal, thinking
they were about to fly to Paris in a Vickers
Viking, the piston-engined warhorse of the
BEA fleet whose airframe was based on the
wartime Wellington bomber. To their
surprise, they were told they were
about to make history by
travelling in a turbine-powered
plane.
The growing sense of
excitement and drama was
heightened by the presence
not only of newsreel cam-
eras but also of a number of
dignitaries, among them
Government officials, the
designer of the Viscount,
George Edwards, and the chief
executive of BEA, Peter Masefield.
But even more noteworthy was the slim,
moustachioed figure of Air Commodore Sir
Frank Whittle, the inventor of the jet engine
and the man whose work made the
Viscount possible.
As they boarded, each of the passengers
was handed a letter by Masefield, explaining
that BEA “is privileged to be the first
airline in the world to operate
‘The commercially an aeroplane
flight was powered with this type of
engine”. He promised that
so smooth a coin the Viscount would set a
“new standard in passenger
could be balanced comfort”, with a significant
edgeways on a “reduction in vibration and
noise”. Captained by Dickie
table without Rymer, who had flown with
falling RAF Coastal Command
during the war, the flight lived
over’ up to those high expectations.
Passengers marvelled at the
quietness and relished the view through the
large oval windows, so big that they could
even serve as emergency exits.
The passengers also appreciated the speed,
with the Viscount reaching Le Bourget in Paris
in just 55 minutes, half-an-hour sooner than
the Viking would have made it. As the BEA
representatives showed, the flight was so
smooth that a coin could be balanced edge-
ways on a table without falling over.
“Passenger reaction was all we hoped it
would,” wrote Masefield.
After the triumph of the first scheduled
flight, the Viscount went from strength to
strength in the 1950s, becoming a shining
symbol of the new Elizabethan age that began
with the radiant new queen on the throne. As
the design was improved, engine horsepower
raised and cabin capacity enhanced to
accommodate 75 passengers, Vickers received
orders from all over the world, including the
crucial north American market. In fact, the
Viscount was the first ever British airliner to
be operated by US companies. One advert for
Capital Airlines, which bought 60, ran: “Swift,
smooth, silent and sure, the powerful Vickers
Viscount introduces the air travellers to an
ease and comfort that comes from an almost
complete lack of vibration. Unprecedented
visibility, wide comfortable seats placed only
two abreast, perfect air conditioning and
pressurization: all these features combine with
the turbine-hushed engines to transform
air travel into something more than a race
against time.”
With a production run of 445, the Viscount
is by far the most successful British airliner
ever built. Its unrivalled reputation for reliabil-
ity was matched by its clean, aesthetic beauty.
For decades, it was seen by airlines as the
ideal short and medium haul plane,
“technically superior to anything in its class,”
to use the words of one Australian operator.
Yet, for all this success, the Viscount had a

mph that helped O
industry take off
record books by making travel fun, fast and more comfortable
troubled beginning. It was first conceived at
the end of the Second World War, when the
British Government decided that a new type
of short-range airliner was needed to supple-
ment the stopgap Viking. George Edwards, the
reserved but creative Vickers chief designer
who had once worked on the Dambusters’
bouncing bomb, believed that this
would be the ideal opportunity to
introduce the turboprop. ‘It
He came up with a proposed
aircraft that had 32 seats, a
became a
pressurised cabin to operate shining symbol
above 20,000 feet and four
Rolls-Royce Dart turbine of the new
engines. Initially it was to be
called the Viceroy, but when
Elizabethan age
India was granted independ- with a radiant
ence in 1947, the title
Viscount was substituted.
queen on the
But then the Viscount ran into throne’
difficulties. The York-based
manufacturer Airspeed, a subsidiary of de
Havilland, was working on a rival airliner
called the Ambassador, which, though piston-
engined, had a greater capacity.
Due partly to heavy lobbying by de
Havilland, and partly to suspicions about the
experimental nature of the turboprop, BEA
decided in September 1947 to order 20
Ambassadors. It was a crushing
blow to the Viscount programme.
As the author Nick Stroud
wrote in his history of the
plane: “Unsurprisingly, with
no firm orders and a kick in
the teeth from the
company’s biggest hope for
its new airliner, work on
the Viscount slowed to a
dribble.”
But Edwards, a man of
remarkable perseverance, did
not give up. He passionately
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FLIGHT:
Passengers
board at
Northolt. Sir
Frank Whittle,
also pictured
below, is fifth
from left in the
front row
believed in the Viscount and threw his energy 60 airlines in 49 countries.
into winning support for the programme.
“The amount of time I spent defeating Isaacthe Viscount story. In 1949 the Daily Express
Newton was nothing compared to what
I spent defeating the doubters in BEA,”
he recorded. He had a major breakthrough
when the prototype had its maiden flight in
July 1948, undertaken by Mutt Summers, the
legendary Vickers test pilot who had been the planes should have ushered in a golden period
first man to fly the Spitfire back in 1936.
When he landed, Summers praised the new
aircraft as “the smoothest I’ve ever flown”.
In September, Vickers had more success
when the plane made an impressive
appearance at the Farnborough air show.
“An airliner of exceptional promise,” was
the verdict of Flight magazine. Edwards’
growing confidence was highlighted when a
journalist asked if the early bugs in the plane
had been ironed out. “That’s what’s worrying
us. We can’t find any.” He also gained a crucial
ally in 1949 when Peter Masefield, a supporter BOEING, BOEING, GONE: PAGE 45
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of the Viscount, became BEA chief executive.
According to Aeroplane Monthly magazine, it
was Masefield’s “vision and enthusiasm” that
overcame the objections of his board. His
optimism was infectious.
When the Viscount protype received its
certificate of airworthiness in September
1949, the Daily Express called the news
“wonderful” and added: “When she first
emerged and flew 14 months ago, only her
makers had faith in her. She threatened to be a
Cinderella. But airlines cannot afford to snub
success. And this liner is a honey.”
NCE the Viscount prototype began
its more regular flights the following
year. BEA were convinced enough
to purchase 26 of a larger, more powerful
version, the Viscount 701, which entered
service in April 1953. By then the worldwide
orders were mounting, passing the 100 mile-
stone in May 1954 and the 350 mark by 1956,
winning Vickers £62.5million in export orders,
the equivalent of £1.25billion today.
The American millionaire eccentric Howard
Hughes was one of the many taken with the
plane. He ordered 15 for his airline TWA after
flying one. By 1957, Vickers were building one
Viscount every three days. The last one did not
come off the production line until 1964, part
of a batch sold to the People’s Republic of
China. Altogether, Viscounts were operated by
Yet there is an element of poignancy about
commented: “What a wonderful year for
Britain’s aircraft industry.”
That referred not just to the Viscount but
also to the de Havilland Comet, the world’s
first pure jet airliner. These two revolutionary
for British aviation, with the Comet
dominating long-haul travel just as the
Viscount prevailed over the short-range.
But sadly, the reputation of the Comet was
shattered when a series of disastrous crashes
showed that it was vulnerable to metal fatigue.
When the problem was rectified, the Comet
had lost its place as the premier jetliner to the
American Boeing 707.
It was left to the Viscount to fly the flag for
Britain, which it did heroically.
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Now that Pong Ping finds that he can
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stick. “Phew! Your pals are an odd lot,
Rupert,” sighs Mr Bear. But Rupert
turns to Tigerlily. “None of us would
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THE END
“And now I’ve got my Dragon Fly,” A new adventure starts tomorrow Laughs Tigerlily, “You’ll learn Chinese
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H can you make from the in Alphapuzzle, every letter of the alphabet is used. But now you have to complete the grid too! Use
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I In making a word, each To add to the fiendish fun, Alphabeater is ‘rotationally symmetrical’. In other words the grid is the
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the right of and below the grid indicate how many of the squares in that row plurals or verb forms corresponding ‘twin’. Solution next Saturday.
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for anyone who wants a special
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a child taking its first tentative
steps in horticulture.
Miniature gardens are totally
absorbing. They open up new
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the fun and rewards of life-sized
gardening but with fewer chores.
Would-be plant collectors can
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themselves into caring for their
tiny charges. And I can tell you
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garden plants and dwarf bulbs.
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drainage. Fill it with a mixture of
good topsoil with 25 per cent
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sufficient depth of soil for plants to
thrive. Build the walls with
drainage holes in the sides so
surplus water can escape.
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of pipe between the bricks or
stones every 18in while building
the walls. Pack coarse rubble
around the ends of the pipes so
they don’t get clogged.
Some of the most delightful
miniature gardens are in
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troughs, but they are desperately
expensive nowadays, so go for
replicas or patio tubs instead.
You may prefer a stainless steel
or zinc container rather than the
traditional stone or wooden
half-barrels, but any strong,
durable and weather-resistant
container will do the job.
Fill your containers in the same
way as a raised bed – an inch or
two of stones in the bottom with
soil and grit mixture to the top.
Once you have sorted out your
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creative. Roughly plan out a
small-scale garden on paper.
Include paths, flowerbed borders
and a pond – or treat the whole
thing as one complete bed.
Start by sketching in key
features of the landscape –
standing stones are fun or arrange
a trio of peaks – and you might
fancy a water feature, which could
be a wide plant saucer of water
sunk into the ground.
Then pencil in plant shapes,
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Even in a small area, my golden
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uprightish, one bushy or blobby
and one low and spreading or
creeping – still works.
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HIEF test pilot Jack Wadell
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four roaring Pratt & Whitney
JT9D engines unleashed
a combined 174,000lbs of
thrust. The mighty plane,
serial number RA001, hurtled down the
runway and soared into the skies over
western Washington State, USA.
It was February 9, 1969 and Jack, with
co-pilot Brien Wygle and flight engineer
Jess Wallick, was at the controls of a
prototype world-shrinking passenger jet
that would change the face of global travel.
While the oh-so-glamorous supersonic
Concorde would be making its first test
flight just a few weeks later, it was only
for the elite – or pools winners – and not
a game-changer like the big bird flying
over the Pacific Coast that winter’s day.
For the Boeing 747 – the glorious jumbo
jet hailed as the Queen of the Skies –
would revolutionise and “democratise”
long-haul aviation for the masses for
five decades.
It was a tremendous engineering and
design innovation with a double-decker
“bubble” for extra seating upstairs and
a twin-aisle wide-body fuselage typically
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JET SET: A retro
liveried 747 in a
flypast with the
Red Arrows last
year to mark
BA’s centenary
carrying up to 416 passengers, which
As BA retires its 747 fleet, Nigel Thompson almost doubled the capacity of aircraft
it replaced. It also offered an impressive
celebrates the game-changing jumbo jet range of 5,320 miles and a brisk cruising
speed of 650mph.
These extra bums on seats enabled
(indeed compelled) airlines to offer much
more competitive fares to fill the “back of
the bus” and make flying long-haul far
more affordable for the travelling public.
And how they responded: in its 50
years of service and in various, ever-larger
versions, the global fleet of 747s have
flown more than 5.9 billion people
– the equivalent of 78 per cent of the
world’s population.
To create this titan of the skies required
the construction of the world’s biggest
building, at Everett near Seattle, for
Boeing to manufacture it, after being
asked by 60s airline giant Pan Am to
design an aircraft more than twice the size
of the then industry-standard Boeing 707
and Douglas DC-8 jets.
Pam Am’s visionary chief Juan Trippe
wanted a plane that would empower
travellers who were “charged with
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TRAV
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HURTIGRUTEN’S attempt to
reintroduce cruises on a modest
scale has ended in failure after a
coronavirus outbreak on a ship.
The Norwegian firm has now
temporarily suspended its
expedition sailings after 36 crew
and five passengers tested
positive for Covid-19 on Roald
Amundsen after its July 17 and
July 24 departures from Bergen to
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It was the first cruise operator
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BY NIGEL THOMPSON
failed,” said Hurtigruten chief executive
officer Daniel Skjeldam. “I apologise
strongly on behalf of the company.
“The only responsible choice is
to suspend all expedition sailings
until we are absolutely confident
we can carry out our operations
in line with all requirements from
the authorities and with the even
stricter requirements we have set
for ourselves.’’
The line had planned a series of
short voyages round the British Isles
next month but these have also been
cancelled. Its coastal business shipping goods
between Norwegian ports is not affected.
Incredibles’ feat
of engineering
FROM PREVIOUS PAGE said on Twitter after the news broke:
“An aviation icon and the aircraft
curiosity, enthusiasm and good will, most pilots grew up wanting to fly...
who can roam the four corners of along with Concorde, the most
the world, meeting in friendship recognisable aircraft in the world.”
and understanding the people of In modern aviation terms, sadly,
other nations and races’’. the 747 is a dinosaur. Today’s
So to work: nicknamed The long-haul fleets are now mostly
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– engineers, mechanics, construction engine aircraft such as the Boeing
workers, administrators – responded 777 and composite-material Boeing
by creating the largest-ever civilian Dreamliner and Airbus A350.
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The 747 was a movie
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abdicated. Boeing thousands of our carriers had
has said it will end colleagues past and economy seats in
production of the present, have spent the 747 bubble
jumbo in 2022, countless hours on and and what a cool
saying the decision with these wonderful “upgrade” it was to
had been made “in planes – they have been end up in that select
light of the current at the centre of so many little cabin. And,
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● (or second-hand up to 60,600lb each Times change and
plane shop) is BA’s Maximum speed: 614mph huge, much-needed
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look British technology mean
Overseas Airways the Queen of the
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● a retro livery to mark the carrier’s engine jets flying further, faster and
centenary last year. more frugally. That first test in 1969
The beautiful icon is loved by was cut short when three flight-deck
pilots, cabin crew and passengers. crew decided to return to the
But the airline accountants do not Boeing plant in Everett, Washington
love her as she’s a four-engined State after the jet developed a
all-metal fuel-hungry giant from technical fault, but it was still
a bygone age. There are just 30 left regarded as a triumph.
in passenger service after the BA Their verdict on what would
announcement, though several become known as the Queen of the
hundred still ply cargo routes. Skies? Appropriately enough:
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Shipshape ferries
for a new normal
TRAVELLING on one of Brittany a one-way system. Anyone who
Ferries’ first sailings to St Malo in once enjoyed the free-for-all of the
France after operations resumed cosmetics counter will have to ask
last month, I boarded the ship staff for a sample squirt of perfume
with optimism. or blob of face cream. The indoor
Check-in at Portsmouth, now soft play area is closed and the
90 minutes before departure arcade games are roped off.
(increased from one hour) to allow At Passport Control in France on
for staggered boarding, was the return leg, I was asked if
slick. At Passport I’d submitted the online
Control, car drivers are government Public
given a colour-coded Health Passenger
windscreen sticker. Locator Form which
This determines records the
when you are movements of
permitted to use travellers bound
the restaurant and for the UK. The
return to your car, form requires you
almost wiping out to enter travel
the need to queue. booking reference
It’s compulsory to numbers, seat/cabin
wear face coverings while number and the address
boarding, disembarking and in where you’ll be staying for the
all public areas on board. next fortnight. Border security at
Gone are the days of buying Portsmouth did ask to see this, so
your ticket and finding somewhere make sure you have it on your
HAUL OF FAME: (Clockwise from top) British Airways Boeing 747s; Harrison Ford as President to crash. All passengers must now smartphone or a print out.
James Marshall in Air Force One; a stewardess serves food and drink in one of the twin book cabins or reserve seats. Due Crossing the Channel to France
aisles in economy class; Bruce Willis in Die Hard 2; tail assembly of a 747; Samuel L Jackson to social-distancing, half the tables remains a pleasant experience and
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TRAVEL
TRAVEL

Italy’s trains right on track

Adam Aspinall
finds exploring its
culture by rail is
just the ticket

B
EING British, the idea of
going anywhere by train fills
us with dread. The
combination of high prices
and bad service puts us off
using the rails for pleasure.
So the notion of train travel on a
foreign holiday might not fill you with
delight. But a trip on the tracks
through Italy could change that. Italy
has some of the best rail infrastructure
in Europe. It is fast, cost-effective and,
best of all, reliable.
Add in the fact that the network has
many direct routes to destinations that
cars and coaches can struggle to get
around, and suddenly you have an
attractive option.
I decided to take a trip from Pisa,
via the walled city of Lucca to the
scenic splendour of the Cinque Terre,
finishing in the grandeur of Turin
– and it couldn’t have been easier.
From Pisa airport I took a short
train ride to the city centre. From
there it was a stress-free amble
through the Tuscan city to see its
famous tower, before my onward
journey to Lucca. If, however, you
were pressed for time you could cheat
and skip visiting the leaning landmark
– as you get a cheeky view of it on the
train ride north.
Travelling by train in Italy is often
quicker than by car. While Lucca is TOAST OF THE COAST: Riomaggiore in the Cinque Terre, a breathtakingly beautiful and rugged coastline on the Italian Riviera
just 12 miles from Pisa by road, the
fraught reality of driving in Italy well as the Guinigi Tower which After a couple of days exploring the
makes the train a more relaxing
option, especially over longer
provides far-reaching views from the
top. From Lucca I then set off for the
Cinque Terre I hopped back on the
train and headed for stately Turin in
How to get around
distances. For example, driving rugged Italian Riviera and the the north. Following a quick change in FLIGHTS
between Rome and Florence can take colourful Cinque Terre. Genoa, in less than four hours I was Fly to Pisa from Luton, Gatwick, Manchester or
more than four hours depending on After a two-hour regional train exploring the city on foot. Bristol with easyJet from £24.99 one way. Fly to
traffic. But by high-speed train it’s journey I alighted in Riomaggiore, one The lovingly refurbished Porta Susa Turin from Luton, Gatwick, Manchester or Bristol
only 90 minutes. of the five centuries-old seaside station also happens to be a gateway from £24.99 one-way. Fly to Turin from Luton,
In Italy you have a choice between villages which make up the stunning to the rest of Europe. French TGV Manchester, Gatwick or Bristol from £38.99 one
the quick trains which span the string of communities. Clinging to the trains, which provide a fast service to way. easyjet.com
country and regional ones which offer coastline, each is an eclectic mix of Paris and Lyon, run from there, as well
more local services but are, of course, characterful houses, steep terraces as daytime coastal trains to the south TRAIN TICKETS
slower. Both often link k up with and quaint harbours filled with coast of France. Buy tickets in advance via trenitalia.com or at
transport options at yourour fishing boats. Turin is a glorious old city in the stations on the day. Tickets on high-speed trains
destination. What they were most
Wh shadows of the Alps, which rise to the will display your train, carriage and seat number.
Once decanted in definitely not made
defi north-west. Italy’s original capital, its Seating on regional routes may be first come, first
Lucca, it was a short for is motor vehicles.
fo refined air is founded on sumptuous served. Some regional routes require tickets to be
walk into the walled But each location baroque buildings and boulevards validated prior to travel via the small green, white
city. Right on the is linked by lined with trattorias and cafés. or yellow machines on the platform.
edge of the Serchio punctual trains Losing track of time wandering the
river, it has which make miles of arcades and sipping coffee in TYPES OF TRAIN
beautiful tree-lined village-hopping the city’s old cafés is all too easy. Try High-speed trains are more expensive but
pathways, incredibly easy. Caffè San Carlo, or Café Al Bicerin, more efficient. Most announcements are in Italian
cobblestone streets The trains pass
T which dates from 1763 and bears and English.
and leafy piazzas. up and down
u the name of the city’s delicious hot
These were once the coastline drink of bicerin, a mix of espresso, AT THE STATION
frequented by the great at through tunnels
thro chocolate and milk. In Italian “arrivi” is for arrivals and “partenze” is
opera composer Giacomo omo carved through Surprisingly Turin is also departures. Your train number is vital as the
Puccini, who was born n in the cliffs, o
the cliffs offering home to one of the “partenze” column will often only show the final
city. His original home, Casa di stunning views of the most impressive destination of your train. Platforms are called
Puccini, is now a museum and just one ocean. You can enjoy collections of “binari” often shortened to “bin” on signs. Be sure
of many fascinating sights in this breakfast in one village, Egyptian artefacts your “binari” is correct as sometimes there can be
Renaissance gem. then have lunch and outside of Egypt. The regional and high-speed tracks at the same
Its most distinctive features are its dinner in another. Museo Egizio, founded station with the same number.
wide rampart walls which date from Alternatively, try in 1824, has more than
the 16th and 17th centuries. hiking from one to the 26,000 objects. TRAVELLING BY TRAIN
They once kept the city safe – they next along the Sentiero So if you are planning a Social distancing on trains in Italy has been
now keep it fit, providing the perfect Azzurro cliffside trail. cultural adventure through relaxed but face coverings for the nose and
platform for a run or sunset walk. Italy, consider taking the mouth are mandatory, along with hand sanitation.
Other spots worth seeking out WALL OF SOUND: train. Cheap, easy and Train from Pisa to Lucca: €3.60 (30mins). Train
include the Piazza dell’Anfiteatro, Lucca old town, punctual, they offer the from Lucca to Riomaggiore: €8.60 (90mins). Train
which traces the shape of the Roman above; and right, a perfect route to the heart from Riomaggiore to Turin: €16.90 (3hrs 46mins).
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with a modern, clean diesel Superb five years ago and still week continues in the tradition of been a big buyer of estates, more grown by 22mm, width by 15mm
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through gaps isn’t worth the extra
millimetres of elbow room.
We’re testing the top of the
range SE L First Edition. Not by
choice but because this is what
Skoda has on its test fleet.
and a six-speed manual gearbox.
Quite an old school combination.
I’m a long way off giving up
on diesel engines, particularly
state-of-the-art and very clean
ones such as the one under our
car’s bonnet. I like to easily
assist system that I’ve ever
experienced. Switching off some
of this nannying requires entering,
via the standard 10.25in
touchscreen on the SE L, the
infotainment system. And then it
all comes back on again after you
A head-up display is available
as an option for the first time on
a Skoda. It costs £690 and I would
have it.
The Octavia estate’s boot, which
was always generous, has grown
by 30 litres and now holds 640
LOGBOOK LOWDOWN
● Model: Skoda Octavia
estate SE L First Edition
● On sale: now
● Price: £27,140
● Engine: Diesel – 2.0
114bhp
● Performance: 0 to 62mph
in 10.4 seconds, 127mph
top speed
● Average fuel economy:

I
N GENERAL I prefer the
entry-level models because
that’s where the value for
money and simplicity lies.
In this spec we have the choice
of three engines: a 1.5-litre petrol
with 148bhp, which is what the
Golf that we tested had under its
bonnet; and two 2.0-litre diesels
– one with 114bhp and the other
with 148bhp. We’ve got the lower
powered of the two diesel engines
manage 65mpg and I like just
as much being able to drive 650
miles without having to stop
off to refuel.
We’re off to a bad start. The
Octavia is telling me what to
do. Backseat drivers are annoying
enough but being told how
to drive by something in front
of you is even worse.
The Skoda’s new virtual cockpit
instrument panel is constantly
telling me when to change gear
and lift off the accelerator pedal.
Plus the most intrusive lane keep
stop and restart the car. I’ve yet to
be convinced that the motorist
asked for all this in the first place.
From 2022 these lane support
systems will be mandatory on all
new cars. I might have to buy a
Morris Minor.
These gripes aside, the new
Octavia estate is as good as it has
always been and better in several
areas. The infotainment system is
easy to use and features
smartphone pairing via SmartLink
(no cables) and there’s wireless
charging for your phone.
litres. Also an Octavia feature is
a comprehensive spread of storage
spaces and cubby holes. And you
still get a free umbrella in the
door. Rolls-Royce give you one
too but it charges a bit more for
the car itself.
Which neatly brings us on to
price. Our test car, without
options, is £27,140. Tot up the list
of standard equipment in the SE L
and you have a very good value
proposition. However it is the
humbler trim levels that deliver.
The entry-level Octavia estate
55.4-62.8mpg
● CO2 emissions: 118g/km
● Rivals: Peugeot 308 SW,
Ford Focus Estate, Kia
Ceed Sportswagon
● Rating: ★★★★★★★★✩✩
SE First Edition costs £24,280
with the same engine and
gearbox. I’d add a few extras such
as the £180 steel space saver spare
wheel. It’d be good enough for me
but possibly not for an Oxford
University boffin.

REBOOTED MERCEDES MODELS ARE E-CLASS APART

MERCEDES-BENZ’S refreshed E-Class
models are now on sale from prices starting
at £39,130 for the entry-level E200 Sport
saloon and £41,460 for the same trim but with
an estate body.
All models feature a very mild facelift with
tweaked grilles and lights but more obvious
■  VOLKSWAGEN is
about to launch a
totally new version of its
Caddy-based camper van.
The vehicle is a smaller
and more affordable
alternative to the
Transporter-based
California and features
several features that come
from its bigger brother.
And the almost two-
metre bed uses the same
springing as those in the
California and Grand
California but is
removable to make the space more
changes are inside with a totally new flexible. A panoramic sunroof is now available as an option.
infotainment system and revised controls Finally, the Caddy camper’s diesel engines all fulfil upcoming emissions
and switches. regulations. You’ve a choice between 75bhp and 122bhp diesels and also a 116bhp
I had got used to the current E-Class’s petrol engine. The new Caddy camper will be launched online next month. No word
system and learning this new one’s takes a on prices yet but even if it is expensive, it will offer a lot of fun. Just like the
bit of time. We’ve driven the new E-Class and California: expensive but you’re getting holidays thrown in.
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3i Group.......................................925½ +7¼ 1184½ 597¾ HSBC Holdings .........................325½ +½ 634¼ 321¾ Next .................................................5714 +94 7340 3390
A.B. Foods .....................................1884 +6½ 2708 1607½ Imperial Brands..........................1249 -13½ 2213 1238½ Ocado .............................................2240 +36 2269 1064 better-than-expected jobs report in
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Kenya 130.26 shilling Croda International..................5840 +62 5860 4070 Severn Trent.................................2467 +18 2696 1958½ FTSE 100 were Hikma, up 236p
Mexico 27.71 peso DCC ..................................................6974 +48 7496 3878 Smith & Nephew.......................1581 +45½ 1990 1152½
Diageo ............................................2567 -8 3625½ 2200 Smiths Group..........................1442½ +6½ 1769½ 814½ at 2,393p, Rightmove, up 52.8p at
New Zealand 1.89 dollar DS Smith......................................268¾ +1 394¾ 254¾ Spirax-Sarco ..............................10590 +145 10745 7330 630.6p, Melrose, up 3.54p at
Norway 11.30 krone Evraz ..............................................310¼ -3½ 617½ 203½ SSE.................................................1329# +6½ 1686½ 1072½
Poland 4.62 zloty Experian Group..........................2766 +40 2921 1882 St James’s Place............................ 996 +12¾ 1199½ 660 101.3p, and Aveva, up 131p at
Saudi Arabia 4.65 riyal
Ferguson .......................................7024 +22 7602 4086 Standard Chartered ................... 401 +5 738½ 368½ 4,505p.
Fresnillo.......................................1294# -36½ 1346¼ 527 Standard Life .............................265¼ +1¾ 337 174
South Africa 22.03 rand GlaxoSmithKline ....................1555¼ +5¼ 1846 1374½ Taylor Wimpey..........................119½ +1¼ 236¼ 101½ The biggest fallers of the day
Sweden 10.88 krona Glencore ......................................174½ -5¾ 261¼ 112½ Tesco..............................................223¾ +1 259 211¼ were Glencore, down 5.78p at
GVC Holdings............................725¼ +1¼ 939 323¾ Unilever.......................................4539# -38 5324 3726
Switzerland 1.15 franc Halma..............................................2250 +32 2338 1667 United Utilities.......................... 902¾ +1¼ 1061 759¾ 174.56p, Fresnillo, down 36.5p at
Thailand 38.48 baht Hargreaves Lansdown............1865 +40 2079 1158 Vodafone Group....................116¾# +¾ 165¼ 98 1,294p, BP, down 8p at 287.25p,
Hikma .............................................2393 +236 2575 1701½ Whitbread.....................................2379 +26 4426¼ 1808½
Turkey 8.81 lira Homeserve...................................1365 +5 1370 768 WPP Group.................................611¾ +1¾ 1077½ 483¾ and Pearson, down 14.8p at
United States 1.29 dollar 590.2p.
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Jet hoping to torment again

THE LIR JET and Ventura By Melissa Jones it looks competitive,” he said.
Tormenta clash once again in “We are taking on Ventura
tomorrow’s Keeneland Phoenix his debut at the royal meeting and Tormenta again and there isn’t
Stakes at the Curragh. has quickly developed into a much between them.”
Qatar Racing’s Royal Ascot useful performer. Top apprentice Ben Cohen was
winner had the Richard Hannon- He battled on bravely to deny booked to ride The Lir Jet but
trained colt six-and-a-half lengths his rival by a short-head last time will now miss the ride following a
behind in the Norfolk Stakes but – and David Redvers, racing fall at Sligo yesterday. Oisin Orr is
the score was levelled in last manager for The Lir Jet’s owners, now on board. Molecomb winner
month’s Prix Robert Papin. expects another tight affair. Steel Bull is among the 10 runners
Ventura Tormenta was making “It’s a big race for our horse and and Betfair’s 9-4 favourite. CLASSY: The Lir Jet

HAYDOCK RACINGTV 2.05

1 (6)
DICK HERN STKS (FILLIES & MARES’ LISTED)
£20,132 (1) 7f 212yds (9) ITV4
160-432 FARZEEN (13) R Varian 4 9-2 .................................L Dettori 107
3.50
1 (4)
BETVICTOR GAMBLE RESPONSIBLY HCAP
£6,728 (3) 6f 212yds (12)
03-L2L0 COLD STARE (14) (C&D) D O’Meara 5 10-4.. R P Downey 90
THE SCOUT 2
3
(5)
(3)
56-4533 FOXTROT LADY (16) A Balding 5 9-2 ..................R Hornby 108
05-9429 ICONIC CHOICE (13) (C,D) T Dascombe 4 9-2....B Curtis 109
2 (6) 692-104 YOUNG FIRE (150) (C&D) D O’Meara 5 10-3 ........D Nolan 90
3 (8) 6-52540 ARBALET (14) (D) D O’Meara 5 10-3 ......................B Curtis 90
12.30 Anna Of Lorraine 3.15 Sansevero 4 (7) 144-555 POSTED (32) R Hannon 4 9-2 ..........................Hollie Doyle 107 4 (3) 56L-148 ● BREATH OF AIR (30) (D) C Hills 4 10-0......R L Moore 91
1.00 Toro Dorado 3.50 Breath Of Air 5 (1) 434124- ● VERACIOUS (294) (D) Sir M Stoute 5 9-2 .R L Moore ★119 5 (5) 8614-77 IRREVERENT (30) (D) R Fahey 4 9-13........ B Garritty(5) 90
1.30 Yes My Boy 4.25 So Sharp 6 (8) 4116-61 FESTIVE STAR (21) (D,F) S & E Crisford 3 8-9 ..P J McDonald 113 6 (1) 10-8774 WAR GLORY (13) (D) R Hannon 7 9-12 .................D O’Neill 90
7 (9) 32347L FINAL SONG (22) S bin Suroor 3 8-9..................H Crouch 112 7 (10) 5521-10 NORTHERNPOWERHOUSE (20) (D) B Smart 4 9-11..G Lee 90
2.05 Veracious 4.55 Glory Fighter 8 (2) 51-4121 TOMORROW’S DREAM (11) (D) W Haggas 3 8-9 . R Kingscote 101
2.40 ZAAKI (nap) 8 (9) 03L-448 TRIGGERED (21) M Loughnane 4 9-9.................... L Morris 89
9 (4) 158-56 WEJDAN (20) W Haggas 3 8-9 .............................J Fanning 106 9 (11) 4314-45 SIR TITAN (31) (D) A Carroll 6 9-5.................Hollie Doyle ★93
TONGUE STRAP: No. 5 CHEEK PIECES: Nos. 3, 9.
12.30
1 (6) 82-6229
BETVICTOR KEYWORKERS HANDICAP (DIV 1)
£3,493 (Class 5)7f 212yds (10 declared)
PUERTO BANUS (21) I Williams 4 10-1 ...........R Kingscote 72
SP FORECAST: 4-5 Veracious, 11-2 Festive Star, 6 Final Song, 10 Farzeen, 16
Foxtrot Lady, Posted, 20 Wejdan, Tomorrow’s Dream, 25 Iconic Choice.
2019: Miss O Connor 4-9-2, Oisin Murphy 11-10 Fav (W Haggas), drn (4), 7 ran.
10 (2)
11 (7)
12 (12)
1024-74 INDIAN CREAK (7) (D) M Channon 3 9-5 ...........R Hornby 88
4215-16 DUTCH DECOY (11) (D) M Johnston 3 9-3 ........J Fanning 86
32-5251 SERMON (13) T Dascombe 3 8-12 ....................R Kingscote 89
2 (9) 2/4 ● ANNA OF LORRAINE (40) Sir M Stoute 4 10-0 .. R L Moore 61 GUIDE: William Haggas has won this race three times in the last six years, but TONGUE STRAP: Nos. 1, 3 CHEEK PIECES: Nos. 1, 7.
3 (10) L0-7167BERTOG (21) J Mackie 5 9-13 .......................................J Hart ★73 his best chance Tomorrow’s Dream has to improve on her handicap win at SP FORECAST: 11-2 War Glory, 7 Breath Of Air, Arbalet, 15-2 Sermon, Cold Stare, 10
4 (8) 33242L AL OZZDI (21) (D) Roger Fell 5 9-12 ......................B Curtis 72 Goodwood (1m, gd) to stand a chance in this, especially with VERACIOUS in the Young Fire, Northernpowerhouse, Dutch Decoy, Sir Titan, Irreverent, 12 Others.
5 (3) 0/4767-4
KENSTONE (18) (D) A Wintle 7 9-12 ...............Hollie Doyle 70 field. Sir Michael Stoute’s mare was second in the Sun Chariot at Newmarket (1m, 2019: No corresponding race.
6 (5) 114L96 DAAFR (32) A Brittain 4 9-10 ..................................C Hardie 70 gd-sft) and fourth in the QEII at Ascot (1m, hvy), form which stands head and
7 (2)
8 (1)
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10 (7)
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HUWAITEB (39) Owen Burrows 3 9-7...................D O’Neill 71
MAGIC VOICE (11) T Easterby 3 9-5 .........................D Allan 69
FAST DEAL (15) T Easterby 3 9-0.....................JP Sullivan 69
CAPTAIN CORELLI (29) Julie Camacho 3 8-9.....T Eaves 70
shoulders above the rest in this. Should she falter on her reappearance, then
perhaps Ascot (1m, gd) second Farzeen could be the one to take advantage. 4.25
1 (6) 42-11
BETVICTOR CASINO FILLIES’ HANDICAP
£6,728 (3) 6f (8)
ARISTOCRATIC LADY (24) (D) S & E Crisford 4 9-12
HOOD: Nos. 5, 7.
SP FORECAST: 9-4 Anna Of Lorraine, 5 Puerto Banus, 6 Bertog, 13-2 Al Ozzdi,
7 Magic Voice, 8 Captain Corelli, 10 Kenstone, 14 Huwaiteb, 25 Others.
2.40
1 (7) 1-13402
ROSE OF LANCASTER STKS (GROUP 3)
£20,983 (1) 1m 2f 42yds (7) ITV4
CERTAIN LAD (21) (C,D,F) M Channon 4 9-5 .....B Curtis 118
R L Moore ★93
2 (4) 0-82268 WEDDING DATE (7) (D) R Hannon 4 9-12.............B Curtis 91
3 (3) 31L-054 BETSEY TROTTER (19) (D) D O’Meara 5 9-9 ..S B Kirrane(5) 85
2019: No corresponding race. 2 (2) 26/921-L
CROSSED BATON (51) (D) J Gosden 5 9-5 .........K O’Neill 113 4 (7) 17L2- ● SO SHARP (311) (D) J Tate 3 9-7 ...........P J McDonald 82
3 (3) 352-652EXTRA ELUSIVE (20) (D) R Charlton 5 9-5 ..Hollie Doyle 118 5 (2) 30-7953 SHE CAN BOOGIE (13) T Dascombe 4 9-6 ...R Kingscote 87

1.00 BETVICTOR KEYWORKERS HANDICAP (DIV 2) 4 (6) 43/14-68

£3,493 (5) 7f 212yds (10)
1 (1) 121-031 STAR OF VALOUR (22) (C&D) Miss L Siddall 5 10-0
C Rodriguez ★74
2 (2) 410204 TREVITHICK (22) (D) B Smart 5 9-13......................... G Lee 72
3 (7) 151953 ● TORO DORADO (21) (D) E Dunlop 4 9-12 ....R L Moore 73
4 (9) 2L6L-L0 BANKSEA (32) (D) Mrs M Fife 7 9-12....................P Dennis 63
5 (3) 234640- GHAYYAR (332) (D) A Whillans 6 9-11 ................... R Scott 70
6 (5) 792611 LE REVEUR (26) (D,F) Sir M Prescott 3 9-8 ...... L Morris 69
7 (10) 260 LEXINGTON STORM (58) R Hannon 3 9-6 ...Hollie Doyle 71
8 (6) 33424-4 KAYEWHYKELLY (22) Julie Camacho 3 9-3 ...........J Hart 69
9 (4) 9-29667 INTERNATIONALTIGER (7) R Fahey 3 8-9 ..... T Hamilton 69
10 (8) 97-590 GRAND PIANOLA (22) T Easterby 3 8-8 ................D Allan 65
BLINKERS: Nos. 4, 10 VISOR: Nos. 6, 9.
SP FORECAST: 13-8 Le Reveur, 4 Star Of Valour, 6 Toro Dorado, 7 Trevithick,
10 Kayewhykelly, 12 Ghayyar, Lexington Storm, 14 Internationaltiger, 33 Others.
2019: No corresponding race.
FOX TAL (20) (D) A Balding 4 9-5 .......................R Hornby ★121
5 (4) 1/05-141
GLOBAL GIANT (20) (D) J Gosden 5 9-5...........L Dettori 120
6 (5) 7138-36● ZAAKI (28) (F) Sir M Stoute 5 9-5 ...............R L Moore 118
7 (1) 5151-10MORISCO (29) (D) T Dascombe 3 8-11 ..........R Kingscote 106
TONGUE STRAP: No. 2 CHEEK PIECES: No. 2.
SP FORECAST: Evens Global Giant, 9-2 Zaaki, 6 Extra Elusive, 7 Fox Tal, 10 Certain
Lad, 12 Crossed Baton, 33 Morisco.
2019: Addeybb 5-9-5, Richard Kingscote 11-10 Fav (W Haggas), drn (4), 6 ran.
GUIDE: GLOBAL GIANT was an impressive winner over Extra Elusive in Listed
company at Newbury (1m2f, gd) last time and John Gosden’s improving
Shamardal entire can land the spoils here. Zaaki ran on well for sixth at Ascot
(1m, gd) in what was a high-class renewal of the Summer Mile, while Mick
Channon steps Certain Lad up in grade after his battling second in the John
Smith’s Cup at York (1m2f, gd). Fox Tal was a long way behind the selection at
Newbury, but he certainly didn’t go unsupported and perhaps better can be
expected of him.
6 (8) 4-11705 DANCING FEET (19) (D) Archie Watson 3 9-5 ... Hollie Doyle 90
7 (5) 6310-97 SHE CAN DANCE (21) K Ryan 3 9-3 ...............K Shoemark 87
8 (1) 4L-4214 SOUND OF IONA (9) (F) (T) J Goldie 4 8-11 ....P Mathers 92
CHEEK PIECES: Nos. 3, 6, 7.
SP FORECAST: 2 Aristocratic Lady, 5 So Sharp, Wedding Date, 6 Sound Of Iona,
8 She Can Boogie, Dancing Feet, 12 She Can Dance, 14 Betsey Trotter.
2019: Princes Des Sables 3-8-11, Tom Eaves 12-1 (K Ryan), drawn (2), 6 ran.
4.55 BETVICTORRACING ON TWITTER HANDICAP
£4,690 (4) 5f (8)
1 (4) 5116-00 DANDY’S BEANO (47) (D) K Ryan 5 9-10 .............T Eaves ★95
2 (5) 001-632 OUR LITTLE PONY (10) (D) L Mullaney 5 9-9
S B Kirrane(5) 89
3 (2) 4L0-L64 OUTRAGE (14) (C&D,F) D & C Kubler 8 9-7 .. R Kingscote 87
4 (8) 47-7215 SEEN THE LYTE (13) (C&D) N Tinkler 5 9-7 ........ R Scott 89
5 (7) 476531 CANFORD BAY (17) (D,F) A Brittain 6 9-7..........C Hardie 90
6 (3) 75-2374 ● GLORY FIGHTER (10) (D) I Jardine 4 8-13 ...C Rodriguez 94

1.30 BETVICTOR MAKE YOUR BEST BET HCAP

£6,728 (3) 7f 212yds (11)
1 (4) 123-135 RED BOND (52) (D) K Dalgleish 4 9-13 .................B Curtis 95
2 (6) 11L4-76 SAMEEM (31) J Tate 4 9-12 ............................P J McDonald 94
3 (7) 5L6-225 SHA LA LA LA LEE (147) (D) T Dascombe 5 9-12..R Kingscote 96
4 (3) 023-023 NICKLAUS (14) (D) W Haggas 5 9-10 .................R L Moore 98
5 (2) 24-5047 SO BELOVED (10) (C,D) D O’Meara 10 9-9 ............D Nolan 95
6 (1) 1122 ● YES MY BOY (15) (D) Archie Watson 3 9-7 .. Hollie Doyle 93
7 (9) 7-L2598 CLUB WEXFORD (10) (C&D,F) R Fell 9 9-7..Paula Muir(3) ★99
8 (8) 131-563 HUBOOR (21) M Johnston 3 9-4 .............................D O’Neill 92
9 (10) 23-10 DUBAI MIRAGE (51) (D) S bin Suroor 3 9-1 .......H Crouch 94
10 (5) 661-72 COUNT OF AMAZONIA (12) (F) R Hannon 3 8-13 ..K Shoemark 96
11 (11)7-46258 STORM AHEAD (11) (D) T Easterby 7 8-13..............D Allan 97
BLINKERS: Nos. 2, 4, 11 CHEEK PIECES: No. 9.
SP FORECAST: 4 Yes My Boy, 11-2 Dubai Mirage, 6 Huboor, Nicklaus, Red Bond, 8
Count Of Amazonia, 10 Sha La La La Lee, 12 So Beloved, Sameem, 20 Others.
2019: Mikmak 6-9-6, Jack Garritty 8-1 (T Easterby), drawn (10), 13 ran.
3.15
1 (7) 1
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£3,493 (5) 6f 212yds (12)
● SANSEVERO (179) (D) J Tate 3 9-7 ......P J McDonald 77
7 (1) L55170 PRIMO’S COMET (7) (D) (T) J Goldie 5 8-11....P Mathers 91
8 (6) 974321 NIBRAS AGAIN (15) (C&D) P Midgley 6 8-10 ........... G Lee 92
BLINKERS: No. 3 HOOD: No. 4.
2 (3) AJYAALL W Haggas 3 9-2 ..................................R Kingscote — SP FORECAST: 10-3 Canford Bay, 5 Our Little Pony, Nibras Again, 6 Outrage,
3 (10) 8 AL TARMAAH (14) W Haggas 3 9-2 .......................D O’Neill 54 Glory Fighter, Seen The Lyte, 8 Primo’s Comet, 14 Dandy’s Beano.
4 (2) DECEPTION VALLEY M Channon 3 9-2 ...............R Hornby — 2019: No corresponding race.
5 (6) FIEROSPEED R Hannon 3 9-2 ...........................Hollie Doyle —
6 (11) 5- KING FAN (345) M Johnston 3 9-2 .....................J Fanning ★78 TRACK FACTS: GOING: Good. Left Handed. TOP TRACK JOCKEY (2015-): Richard
7 (5) L NIAGARA (17) E Alston 3 9-2 .............. Rachel Richardson — Kingscote 18% Strike rate. TOP TRACK TRAINER (2015-): T Dascombe 17% Strike
8 (12) 7 ONE STEP TOO FAR (6) M Channon 3 9-2........T Ladd(3) — rate. FIRST TIME: 1.00 Banksea (blinkers), Internationaltiger (visor), 1.30 Nicklaus
9 (1) 09 SEND IN THE CLOUDS (13) A Carroll 3 9-2 .......H Crouch 55 (blinkers), Sameem (blinkers), 2.05 Wejdan (cheek pieces), Veracious (wind sur-
10 (4) 9 AL HAJEES (67) R Hannon 3 8-11 .......................R L Moore 47 gery), 3.15 Ajyaall (hood), 4.25 She Can Dance (cheek pieces). BEATEN
11 (8) HEER ME Katie Scott 3 8-11.......................................P Dennis — FAVOURITES: 12.30 Puerto Banus(hcp). 1.30 Huboor(hcp), Nicklaus(hcp),
12 (9) 9 SARSANET (12) J J Quinn 3 8-11..................................J Hart 56 Sameem(hcp). 4.55 Glory Fighter(hcp). DRAW: In 5f and 6f races on soft ground
HOOD: No. 2. high numbers have an advantage. LONGEST TRAVELLER: Sound Of Iona (4.25) &
SP FORECAST: 5-2 Sansevero, 3 King Fan, 4 Ajyaall, 5 Fierospeed, 10 Deception Primo’s Comet (4.55) 214 miles. STABLE SWITCH: 1.00 Ghayyar from T Easterby
Valley, 14 Sarsanet, 16 Al Tarmaah, Al Hajees, 50 Others. to A Whillans. 3.15 Sansevero from Archie Watson to J Tate. 4.25 So Sharp from
2019: No corresponding race. Archie Watson to J Tate.

NEWMARKET RACINGTV 2.50

1 (2) 616
BETWAY NURSERY 2YO
£5,822 (3) 7f
SPIRIT OF SISRA (18) (C&D) (T) T Dascombe 9-7... T Marquand 82
(7) 4.35
1 (2) 12LL-45
HEED YOUR HUNCH AT BETWAY HCAP 3YO
£9,704 (2) 1m (7)
TORONTO (35) (D) J Given 9-7 .........................S De Sousa 100
2 (5) 211 MAGISTERIUM (28) (D,F) (T) M Dods 9-5 ...P Mulrennan 80 2 (4) 2-01064
LASER SHOW (28) S bin Suroor 9-5...............C Shepherd 106
THE SCOUT 3 (1) 43 AESTHETE (20) (F) M Bell 9-3 .........................C Shepherd 87 3 (6) 42-13 ● EVENING SUN (14) (C) R Charlton 8-11 ........... W Buick 106
4 (3) 313 ● THANK YOU NEXT (8) R Hannon 9-2...........S M Levey 85 4 (7) 321-331
ZEGALO (18) (D) R Varian 8-8 ..........................T Marquand 107
1.40 Wakening 4.00 Al Rufaa 5 (4) 662 SPANISH COLT (24) A Balding 9-2 .................... D Probert 86 5 (3) 153-6 DUESENBERG (39) R Fahey 8-7 .......................... B McHugh 104
2.15 Ayo Patsy 4.35 Evening Sun 6 (6) 21 HIGH PEAK (53) (D) M Johnston 9-0 ................... W Buick 83 6 (1) L12-88SEA VOICE (13) R Hannon 8-5 ......T Hammer Hansen(3) 104
2.50 Thank You Next 5.10 Emissary 7 (7) 534 SAUNTON (20) R Hannon 8-11...........................Rossa Ryan ★88 7 (5) 1-636 AJAX TAVERN (13) R Hannon 8-4 ...................... H Bentley ★108
3.20 DUBAI FOUNTAIN (nb) 5.40 Coltrane SP FORECAST: 3 Aesthete, 7-2 High Peak, 9-2 Magisterium, 6 Thank You Next, CHEEK PIECES: No. 2.
13-2 Spanish Colt, 7 Spirit Of Sisra, 10 Saunton.
2019: Tomfre 9-1, Rob Hornby 3-1 (R Beckett), drawn (2), 5 ran. SP FORECAST: 15-8 Evening Sun, 3 Zegalo, 4 Laser Show, 7 Ajax Tavern,

1.40 BETWAY MAIDEN FILLIES’ STAKES 2YO Duesenberg, 16 Toronto, 25 Sea Voice.
2019: Davydenko 8-13, Louis Steward 5-1 (Sir M Stoute), drawn (3), 6 ran.
1 (10)
2 (3)
£3,493 (Class 5) 7f (12 declared)
ARION FOX R Varian 9-0 ................................................. S De Sousa
BABINDI W Haggas 9-0 ...................................................T Marquand
3.20
1 (8) 331
SOLERA STKS (FILLIES & MARES’ GRP 3) 2YO
£14,461 (1) 7f (9) ITV4
COUL QUEEN (18) (D) P Evans 9-0 .......................J F Egan 83
5.10 PLAY 4 TO WIN AT BETWAY HANDICAP
£9,704 (2) 1m 2f (5)
3 (2) CLEARLY CRYSTAL M Botti 9-0 ................................ S Cherchi(5) 2 (3) 21 DANILOVA (7) (C&D) C Appleby 9-0 ..................... W Buick 96
4 (8) IN THE GENES E Dunlop 9-0 ................................................N Currie 3 (6) 112 ● DUBAI FOUNTAIN (18) (D,F) M Johnston 9-0 .. S De Sousa ★106 1 (3)31L-210 HARROVIAN (21) (D) J Gosden 4 10-4 ... O Stammers(7) 97
5 (11) JOY CHOI R Hannon 9-0 ................................................... S M Levey 4 (1) 1 FLY MISS HELEN (21) (F) R Hannon 9-0 .........S M Levey 97 2 (2)513-300 GOOD BIRTHDAY (21) (D) A Balding 4 9-12 ..... S De Sousa★102
6 (4) LATE MORNING S bin Suroor 9-0 ................................C Shepherd 5 (2) 55 MERE GREEN (21) R Fahey 9-0 ........................... B McHugh 91 3 (5)1-20 ● EMISSARY (35) (F) H Palmer 3 9-7 ............. H Bentley 95
7 (6) LOOKTOTHERAINBOW C Appleby 9-0 ...............................W Buick 6 (9) L36 SEATTLE ROCK (29) S Kirk 9-0 .......................... D Probert 95 4 (4)30-3641 DATA PROTECTION (14) (C&D,F) W Muir 5 9-2 ....N Currie 99
8 (1) MCGIVERN A Keatley 9-0 ........................................ Killian Leonard 7 (5) 123 SETARHE (18) (C,F) R Varian 9-0....................Rossa Ryan 105 5 (1)312-13 COGNAC (15) M Johnston 3 9-2............................... W Buick 97
9 (12) PEPINILLO R Hannon 9-0................................................Rossa Ryan 8 (4) 1 SPIRIT OF BERMUDA (9) (D) W Haggas 9-0..T Marquand 88 TONGUE STRAP: No. 4 CHEEK PIECES: Nos. 1, 2.
10 (5) SIXNTWOTHREES M Channon 9-0................................... G Bass(7) 9 (7) 2014 STAR OF EMARAATY (18) (D) K Ryan 9-0 ............K Stott 91 SP FORECAST: 2 Emissary, 11-4 Harrovian, 4 Cognac, Data Protection, 8 Good
11 (9) STATEMENT M Meade 9-0 .................................................H Bentley SP FORECAST: 13-8 Fly Miss Helen, 4 Dubai Fountain, 5 Setarhe, Danilova, 8 Spirit Birthday.
12 (7) ● WAKENING J Gosden 9-0 ................................................ R Havlin Of Bermuda, 16 Seattle Rock, 25 Mere Green, Star Of Emaraaty, 50 Coul Queen. 2019: Waldstern 3-9-6, Robert Havlin 11-2 (J Gosden), drawn (5), 7 ran.
HOOD: No. 3. 2019: West End Girl 9-0, Franny Norton 11-2 (M Johnston), drn (1), 8 ran.
SP FORECAST: 3 Looktotherainbow, 9-2 Wakening, 6 Arion Fox, 7 Late Morning, GUIDE: Dubai Fountain had Setarhe (third) and Star Of Emaraaty (fourth) behind
Babindi, 8 Joy Choi, 12 Statement, 14 Pepinillo, 20 Others.
2019: Leafhopper 9-0, Robert Havlin 9-4 (J Gosden),
drawn (4), 7 ran.
when second to Fev Rover at Sandown (7f, gd-fm) and the way Mark Johnston’s filly ran
suggests she’ll have learnt a lot from that Listed contest. Fly Miss Helen won nicely
on debut at Newbury (6f, gd) and certainly wasn’t stopping there, but preference is for
5.40
1 (1) 5434-0L
BETWAY INSIDER HANDICAP
£6,728 (3) 1m 6f
QULOOB (7) (C) G L Moore 6 10-0 ........R Clutterbuck(7) ★90
(6)
DANILOVA. Charlie Appleby’s filly followed up a promising debut second behind a 2 (2) 411517 MOURIYANI (28) (D) Tom Ward 4 9-8 ...........T Marquand 87

2.15
1 (5) 796
BETWAY SELLING STAKES 2YO
£3,493 (5) 7f
ASTAPOR (22) M Channon 8-13 ...........................G Bass(7) 63
(10)
subsequent Group 3-placed filly over C&D (gd-sft) with an accomplished success here
(7f, gd-fm) last time. That course experience could prove crucial in this.
3
4
5
(4)
(5)
(6)
4105/1-4
661228-
2147/21
DAZZLING ROCK (26) R Beckett 5 9-5 ............. H Bentley 79
HORATIO STAR (J183) (D) C Gordon 5 9-4...W Carver(5) 85
HIGH WELLS (23) (D) G McPherson 6 9-4 .........S W Kelly 86
2 (7)
3 (8)
4 (9)
L0 CECCO BRAVO (11) R Eddery 8-13 ..................S Cherchi(5) 36
ICONIC MOVER P Phelan 8-13...............................C Bennett
MR BUZZBEE J S Moore 8-13 .................................... D Brock
—
—
4.00
1 (7)
BETWAY HANDICAP
£9,704 (2) 7f
97L-L06 FOX CHAMPION (42) (D) R Hannon 4 10-4 ...S De Sousa 95
(8)
6 (3) 241 ● COLTRANE (22) (F) A Balding 3 8-11 ............... W Buick 84
BLINKERS: Nos. 1, 5.
SP FORECAST: 5-4 Coltrane, 11-4 High Wells, 6 Mouriyani, 7 Dazzling Rock,
5 (3) 4259 MYBOYMAX (4) (F) R Hannon 8-13 ..................S De Sousa ★80 2 (1)
409L-87 ROYAL MARINE (184) (D) S bin Suroor 4 10-4 ..T Marquand 92 12 Quloob, Horatio Star.
6 (6) OPEN THE EAGLE J Ryan 8-13 ........................D Keenan(3) — 3 (8)
112-831 BEAR FORCE ONE (30) (C,D,F) R Teal 4 9-13 .... W Buick 98 2019: No corresponding race.
7 (10) 0 SAY IT AS IT IS (18) P Evans 8-13 .........................J F Egan 47 4 (3)
51-911 ● AL RUFAA (15) (C&D,F) J Gosden 3 9-7.........R Havlin 97 TRACK FACTS: GOING: Good to Firm. Right Handed. TOP TRACK JOCKEY
8 (4) 65 ● AYO PATSY (8) J Osborne 8-8 ......................... N Currie 71 5 (2)
6250-0L NO NONSENSE (28) D Elsworth 4 9-6.................J Haynes 75 (2015-): William Buick 23% Strike rate. TOP TRACK TRAINER (2015-): C Appleby
9 (2) 7 BEAR ME IN MIND (37) Adrian Nicholls 8-8 ... B McHugh 47 6 (6)
16-7206 TOMFRE (7) (C&D) R Beckett 3 9-5 ................... H Bentley ★99 27% Strike rate. FIRST TIME: 1.40 Clearly Crystal (hood), 2.15 Open The Eagle
10 (1) JESSOP M Channon 8-8.......................................... D Probert — 7 (5)
419-106 ZIGGLE POPS (13) (D) R Hannon 3 8-13 ...........S M Levey 97 (tongue strap), Myboymax (cheek pieces), 5.10 Good Birthday (cheek pieces), 5.40
TONGUE STRAP: No. 6 CHEEK PIECES: No. 5. 8 (4)
123-378 YOSHIMI (28) (D) R Fahey 3 8-5 ........................ B McHugh 94 Quloob (blinkers). BEATEN FAVOURITES: 3.20 Dubai Fountain. DRAW: July Course
SP FORECAST: 7-4 Myboymax, 4 Astapor, Ayo Patsy, 6 Jessop, 12 Open The TONGUE STRAP: No. 2 CHEEK PIECES: No. 3 HOOD: No. 4. - No significant advantage. LONGEST TRAVELLER: Magisterium (2.50) 214 miles.
Eagle, 14 Bear Me In Mind, 16 Mr Buzzbee, 25 Iconic Mover, 33 Others. SP FORECAST: 6-4 Al Rufaa, 9-2 Bear Force One, 7 Royal Marine, Tomfre, 8 Fox STABLE SWITCH: 2.15 Bear Me In Mind from H De Bromhead in Ireland to Adrian
2019: Walkonby 8-8, David Egan 2-1 JtFav (M Channon), Champion, 10 Ziggle Pops, Yoshimi, 25 No Nonsense. Nicholls. 4.35 Toronto from A P O’Brien in Ireland to J Given. 5.40 Horatio Star
drawn (5), 7 ran. 2019: Qaysar 4-9-7, James Doyle 9-4 (R Hannon), drawn (8), 6 ran. from B Meehan to C Gordon.
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RACING: FEATURE CARD Daily Express Saturday, August 8, 2020 63

ASCOT SKYSPORTSRACING 2.25 SHERGAR CUP CELEBRATION HCAP

£12,938 (2)
1 7LLL-10
1m (10) ITV4
CAP FRANCAIS (21) (D) 4 9 7O Murphy 110
3.35 THAMES HOSPICE HANDICAP
£12,938 (2)
1 1324-51
1m 3f 211yds (12) ITV4
SPANISH ARCHER (15) (D) 5 9 7 ...D Muscutt 107
GOSSIP FROM
THE GALLOPS
VITAL STATISTICS
IN-FORM TRAINERS (last 10 days) D & C
JACKPOT: www.totepoolliveinfo.com (1) Runs: 11 Wins: 3(F,GS,G) Places: 2 £33,698 (10) Runs: 11 Wins: 3(F,GS,G) Places: 2 £37,403 Kubler 100% (3 wins and 1 places from 4
Trainer: Ed Walker Owner: John Pearce Racing Ltd Trainer: J Fanshawe Owner: Fred Archer Racing - Iroquois Midlands: LONGHOUSE SALE runners), Julie Camacho 67% (1/5/9), S bin
THE SCOUT 2 23-1205 SILENT ATTACK (14) (D) 7 9 4 2 1314-69 CARADOC (21) 5 9 6 .............. D Tudhope 108
(5.30 Uttoxeter)
Suroor 64% (2/7/14), W Muir 64% (2/5/11), F
O’Brien 62% (7/1/13), W Haggas 60%
Elisha Whittington(5) 111 (5) Runs: 12 Wins: 4(F,G) Places: 2 £81,321
12.40 Megallan 3.00 Australis (3) Runs: 24 Wins: 4(S,A) Places: 7 £138,342 Trainer: Ed Walker Owner: Mr P K Siu North: HIGH PEAK (11/7/30), Sir M Prescott 58% (5/2/12), C
1.15 Jadwal 3.35 Look Closely Trainer: A Carroll Owner: South Yorkshire Racing 3 201/881 JEREMIAH (13) (C&D,F) 5 9 6..J Crowley 107 Appleby 55% (7/4/20), A Ralph 50% (1/1/4).
1.50 Woven 4.10 Al Madhar 3 6546L4 HATEYA (11) (D) 5 9 2 .......... C Fallon(3) 108 (2) Runs: 10 Wins: 2(GS,G) Places: 3 £33,304
(2.50 Newmarket) IN-FORM JOCKEYS Nico De Boinville 83%
Newmarket: AUSTRALIS (2 wins and 3 places from 6 runners),
2.25 Wild Hope 4.45 Whelans Way (9) Runs: 29 Wins: 3(F,A,G) Places: 10 £63,192 Trainer: C Fellowes Owner: Mr Mervyn Ayers
Jonathan Burke 75% (2/1/4), Brian Hughes
Trainer: J Boyle Owner: Inside Track Racing Club 4 1-L52L3 KOEMAN (13) (C&D) 6 9 5 .........P Dobbs 107 (3.00 Ascot) 63% (8/4/19), William Buick 61% (12/19/51),

12.40 BERKSHIRE MAIDEN STAKES 2YO 4 L-08396 KASBAAN (14) (D) 5 9 2.... A Rawlinson 107 (9) Runs: 39 Wins: 6(S,F,A) Places: 9 £104,495 Oliver Stammers 60% (2/1/5), Adam J
(6) Runs: 16 Wins: 3(A) Places: 3 £67,075 Trainer: M Channon Owner: Peter Taplin & Susan Bunney Lambourn: YES MY BOY McNamara 56% (1/4/9), Kevin Stott 54%
£3,881 (Class 5) 7f (12 declared) Trainer: M Appleby Owner: The Horse Watchers 5 1647-17 HYANNA (21) (D) 5 9 4 .........G Dobie(5) 107 (1.30 Haydock) (10/10/37), Hector Crouch 53% (1/7/15).
1 (1) AJRAD E Dunlop 9-5 ......................................................... David Egan
2 (2) ESCOBEDO R Hannon 9-5 ......................................................P Dobbs 5 2/41239- GAME PLAYER (372) 5 9 2 ......A Atzeni 100 (11) Runs: 26 Wins: 6(S,F) Places: 8 £106,590
3 (10) FREDDY FLINTSHIRE M Botti 9-5 ..................................D Muscutt (8) Runs: 12 Wins: 3(A,G) Places: 4 £29,881 Trainer: Eve J-Houghton Owner: Mr G C Vibert
4 (11) FRENCH CONQUEST C Cox 9-5 .......................................D Tudhope Trainer: R Varian Owner: Sheikh Mohammed Obaid Al Maktoum 6 5321-91 ● LOOK CLOSELY (14) (C&D) 4 9 3 . A Atzeni 107
5 (3) IMPACOBLE Mrs L Jewell 9-5 ............................................ W Cox(3) 6 97-8568 SHELIR (14) (D,T) 4 8 13....... D Tudhope 107 (12) Runs: 6 Wins: 2(F) Places: 1 £15,569
6 (8) LANEQASH R Varian 9-5.....................................................J Crowley (7) Runs: 10 Wins: 2(G) £38,631 Trainer: R Varian Sheikh Mohammed Obaid Al Maktoum
7 (12) LAXTON LADD T Dascombe 9-5...................................Jane Elliott Trainer: D O’Meara Owner: Akela Construction Ltd 7 122-57L PROTECTED GUEST (13) 5 9 2 T P Queally★112
8 (7) ● MEGALLAN J Gosden 9-5 ...............................................M Harley 7 816-641 JALAAD (20) (D,F) 5 8 10 .....J Crowley 108 (8) Runs: 19 Wins: 4(F,G) Places: 3 £61,605
9 (6) MOTATAABEQ S bin Suroor 9-5 ................................... C Fallon(3) (5) Runs: 11 Wins: 3(A,G) Places: 2 £24,815 Trainer: G Margarson Owner: John Guest Racing
10 (4) OUTBACK BOY (T) M Johnston 9-5 ....................................A Kirby Trainer: S bin Suroor Owner: Godolphin
11 (9) SPIRIT MIXER (F) A Balding 9-5 ......................................O Murphy 8 1L1L-50 HASANABAD (34) (D) 5 9 1. S Donohoe 106
12 (5) THE WHIPMASTER G L Moore 9-5................................T P Queally 8 1-63 EJTILAAB (13) 4 8 6 ............. David Egan 107 (6) Runs: 8 Wins: 2(G) £20,813
SP FORECAST: 3 Laneqash, 7-2 Megallan, 5 Motataabeq, 10 French Conquest, (2) Runs: 3 Wins: 1(G) Places: 1 £4,522 Trainer: I Williams Owner: Teme Valley 2
Outback Boy, Spirit Mixer, 12 Escobedo, Laxton Ladd, Ajrad, 16 Others. Trainer: I Williams Owner: Mr Paul Wildes 9 21-1646 MEDAL WINNER (11) 4 9 0 ......O Murphy 110
2019: No corresponding meeting. 9 21L050 VIA SERENDIPITY (20) (C&D) 6 8 4 . H Turner 110 (7) Runs: 7 Wins: 2(F,A) Places: 1 £12,225
(10) Runs: 33 Wins: 7(F,A,G) Places: 8 £155,639 Trainer: Archie Watson Owner: Qatar Racing Limited

1.15
1 (4) 1L6
BERKSHIRE VISION NURSERY 2YO
£7,763 (3) 6f
FIRST PROPHET (28) C Fellowes 9-7...............S Donohoe 85
(7)
Trainer: C Fellowes Happy Valley Racing & Breeding Limited
10 4L3-9L1
(4) Runs: 15
● WILD HOPE (14) (D,F,T) 4 8 3 ..J Gordon★112
Wins: 3(F) Places: 4 £19,552
10 1629-13
(1) Runs: 9
Trainer: M Meade
FOX VARDY (30) (D,F) 4 8 13.C Fallon(3) 110
Wins: 2(F,G) Places: 3 £14,847
Owner: King Power Racing Co Ltd
2 (1) 51 ● JADWAL (15) (D) C Hills 9-7 ...........................J Crowley 87 Trainer: K Ryan Owner: Hambleton Racing Ltd Xliv 11 6/33-111 OMNIVEGA (24) (D) 4 8 11 .......H Turner 111
3 (7) L12 ET TU BRUTE (15) (D) Eve J-Houghton 9-5 .......C Bishop 88 TONGUE STRAP: No. 9 CHEEK PIECES: Nos. 7, 10 HOOD: No. 8. (3) Runs: 7 Wins: 3(A) Places: 1 £20,272
4 (6) 3521 LINE OF DEPARTURE (11) (D,F) R Varian 9-2David Egan ★90 SP FORECAST: 3 Jalaad, 4 Game Player, Shelir, 7 Cap Francais, 8 Kasbaan, 12 Wild Trainer: D M Simcock Owner: St Albans Bloodstock Limited
5 (2) 41 ATASER (25) (D) T Kent 9-1 .......................Ray Dawson(5) 89 Hope, 14 Silent Attack, Via Serendipity, 16 Others. 12 5-16625 KYLLACHY GALA (24) (D) 7 8 10..D Egan 108
6 (3) 506 COBWEB CORNER (13) (T) N Tinkler 8-8 .......C Fallon(3) 86 GUIDE: Wild Hope was something of a surprise winner off top weight at (4) Runs: 45 Wins: 8(A,GS,G) Places: 11 £54,550
7 (5) 66 SHANGHAI ROCK (14) R Hannon 8-8.....................P Dobbs 87 Doncaster (1m, gd-fm) but might just have been taking advantage of a 4lb lower Trainer: M Loughnane Owner: Excel Racing
SP FORECAST: 5-2 Jadwal, 11-4 Line Of Departure, 5 Ataser, 11-2 Et Tu Brute, 6 mark there, while Ejtilaab ran respectably on his handicap bow here (1m, gd)
First Prophet, 12 Shanghai Rock, 16 Cobweb Corner. and is only 2lb higher in this. Jalaad has been raised 5lb for his victory at York BLINKERS: No. 3 HOOD: Nos. 1, 11.
(1m, gd) and has claims, but preference is for SHELIR. David O’Meara’s gelding SP FORECAST: 4 Look Closely, 5 Omnivega, Fox Vardy, 11-2 Jeremiah, 8 Spanish
Archer, Caradoc, 10 Medal Winner, 12 Hyanna, Koeman, 25 Others.

1.50 ITV HOME OF RACING HANDICAP got no run at a crucial time here (7f, gd-fm) last time and shaped as though the
(10) ITV4
return to this trip would suit. GUIDE: Plenty of in-form runners here, including Ripon (1m4f, gd) winner
£12,938 (2) 6f Spanish Archer, multiple all-weather scorer Omnivega, who struck latest at
Kempton (1m4f, poly), and Jeremiah, who recent victory came over this course

3.00
1 211826 HIGHLAND DRESS (20) (D) 4 9 12 MILLENIUM MILLIONAIRE HCAP
£12,938 (2) 1m 7f 209yds (11) ITV4
Adam J McNamara 103 and distance (gd). Look Closely also scored over this track and trip (gd-fm) last
time, but preference is for FOX VARDY, who got within half a length of success
(1) Runs: 9 Wins: 3(F,A) Places: 2 £26,023 off this mark at York (1m4f, gd-sft) and looks well treated here with promising
Trainer: Archie WatsonOwner: Hambleton Racing Xlv & Partner 1 5356-00 ERNESTO (29) 5 9 7 .............. S Donohoe 105
(1) Runs: 19 Wins: 2(G) Places: 5 £44,050 claimer Cieren Fallon taking a handy 3lb off.
2 104-905 DAZZLING DAN (20) (D) 4 9 12 A Kirby 101
Trainer: I Williams Owner: Buxted Partnership

4.10
(5) Runs: 14 Wins: 3(S,G) Places: 4 £81,752 ALISTAIR HAGGIS MEMORIAL HCAP 3YO
Trainer: Mrs P Sly Owner: Thorney Racing Partners 2 132-118 HOLY KINGDOM (29) 4 9 5 ...J Mitchell 105
3 35-6164 ● WOVEN (30) 4 9 7........D E Hogan(3) 99 (2) Runs: 13 Wins: 3(F,A,G) Places: 5 £45,179 £7,763 (3) 1m 3f 211yds (6)
(8) Runs: 15 Wins: 2(GS,G) Places: 5 £102,498 Trainer: Tom Clover Owner: The Rogues Gallery 1 (2) 1-1L ● AL MADHAR (30) R Hannon 9-8 ................... J Crowley 99
3 7110-30 EDDYSTONE ROCK (52) (C&D) 8 9 5 2 (1) 335-211 GRAND BAZAAR (15) (D,F) J Gosden 9-0 ......... M Harley 103
Trainer: D M Simcock Owner: Never Say Die Partnership 3 (5) 341- SHANDOZ (322) R Varian 8-11 ...........................David Egan 99
4 212-040 GRACEFUL MAGIC (8) (D) 3 9 5 .C Bishop 98 C Fallon(3) 109
(8) Runs: 62 Wins: 8(S,G) Places: 14 £228,614 4 (4) 3-211 WISE GLORY (29) (D) S & E Crisford 8-10 ..........A Atzeni 102
(7) Runs: 11 Wins: 3(F) Places: 2 £72,606 5 (6) 21-3824 BRONZE RIVER (18) A Balding 8-9 ......................O Murphy ★104
Trainer: Eve J-Houghton Owner: The Kimber Family Trainer: J Best Owner: Curtis, Malt & Williams 6 (3) 52-126 ORCZY (18) R Hannon 8-5 .....................................J Mitchell 101
5 418-762 EQUITATION (13) (C&D,F) 6 9 4 .M Ghiani(5) ★105 4 0281-72 SLEEPING LION (28) 5 9 4.........A Kirby 105 SP FORECAST: 2 Grand Bazaar, 3 Wise Glory, 4 Shandoz, 6 Al Madhar, Bronze
(3) Runs: 23 Wins: 4(F,GS,G) Places: 8 £44,079 (5) Runs: 14 Wins: 3(F,A) Places: 5 £51,891 River, 16 Orczy.
Trainer: S C Williams Owner: Mr A Lyons & Mr T W Morley Trainer: J Fanshawe Owner: Merry Fox Stud Limited
6 112682
(4) Runs: 9
WILL TO WIN (14) (D) 3 9 4 C Fallon(3) 104
Wins: 4(A)
Trainer: S & E Crisford
Places: 2 £24,991
Owner: Mr Mohammed Al Suboosi
5 2231-06
(10)
DIOCLETIAN (18) 5 9 4 ............O Murphy 107
Runs: 16 Wins: 2(S,G) Places: 2
Trainer: A Balding
6 95-3538
£47,702
Owner: Mr Richard Wilmot-smith
ISLAND BRAVE (28) 6 9 2 ....... M Dwyer★111
4.45
1 (7) 10-1612
SPORTSABLE HANDICAP
£6,469 (4) 5f
HAN SOLO BERGER (14) (D,F) C Wall 5 10-0 ....... G Wood 89
(10)
7 01L-117 EQUIANO SPRINGS (15) (D,T) 6 9 2 2 (3) 7-83541BLUE DE VEGA (14) (C&D) R Cowell 7 9-13R Dawson(5) 88
T P Queally 101 (11) Runs: 33 Wins: 8(A,G) Places: 2 £125,139 3 (6) 601-752DASCHAS (5) (C,D) S C Williams 6 9-12 .............O Murphy ★91
(9) Runs: 32 Wins: 9(F,A) Places: 5 £59,069 Trainer: Mrs H Main Owner: Mr Donald M Kerr 4 (8) 236-641● WHELANS WAY (31) (C,F) R Teal 4 9-9 ......J Mitchell 88
Trainer: T Tate Owner: T T Racing 7 2-41215 CHARLIE D (28) (D) 5 9 1 ..Jane Elliott 106 5 (4) 164-111BAY WATCH (14) (D) Mrs T Barfoot-Saunt 6 9-8
(4) Runs: 24 Wins: 8(A,F,G) Places: 6 £62,738 Tyler Heard(7) 88
8 71131-2 CHIL CHIL (17) (D) 4 8 13 ........O Murphy 102 6 (5) 3-66226 SPIRITED GUEST (24) (D) G Margarson 4 9-6 ..T P Queally 90
(2) Runs: 8 Wins: 3(F,A,G) Places: 3 £41,714 Trainer: T Dascombe Owner: Mr D R Passant & Mr T Dascombe
8 4212-12 ● AUSTRALIS (42) (F) 4 9 1David Egan104 7 (10) 347-LL3 PRINCESS POWER (18) (D) (T) N Tinkler 4 9-6
Trainer: A Balding Owner: King Power Racing Co Ltd D Redmond(5) 88
9 1-3121 THEOTHERSIDE (14) (D,F) 3 8 12 P Dobbs 101 (6) Runs: 10 Wins: 2(A) Places: 5 £24,686
Trainer: R Varian Owner: Biddestone Racing Xx 8 (2) 55-L786 KICK ON KICK ON (12) (D) I Williams 5 9-4 ...S Donohoe 86
(6) Runs: 5 Wins: 3(F,G) Places: 2 £22,454 9 (9) 334360 TABAAHY (14) (D) (T) D O’Meara 5 9-3 ..........D Tudhope 89
Trainer: R Hannon Owner: Mrs B Austin And Partners 9 53L-553 KALOOR (18) 4 8 11 ...................J Crowley 105 10 (1) 246125 BIG LACHIE (14) (D) M Loughnane 6 9-2 ........ D Muscutt 89
10 3L-3L73 HAMISH MACBETH (14) (D) 3 8 11 ..J Crowley 103 (9) Runs: 10 Wins: 1(G) Places: 1 £11,239 VISOR: No. 4 TONGUE STRAP: Nos. 2, 3, 8
(10) Runs: 9 Wins: 2(F,G) Places: 2 £37,329 Trainer: D Menuisier Owner: Mr J L Day CHEEK PIECES: Nos. 1, 8.
Trainer: H Palmer Hunscote Stud Ltd & Mrs Lynne Maclenna 10 558-L1L MONDAIN (14) (D,T) 4 8 11........A Atzeni 105 SP FORECAST: 4 Han Solo Berger, 9-2 Blue De Vega, 5 Whelans Way, 6 Bay Watch,
TONGUE STRAP: No. 5. (3) Runs: 17 Wins: 4(A,G) Places: 2 £35,453 13-2 Daschas, 8 Princess Power, 10 Big Lachie, 12 Spirited Guest, 14 Others.
SP FORECAST: 7-2 Theotherside, 4 Highland Dress, 5 Chil Chil, 7 Equitation, M Johnston Sheikh Hamdan Bin Mohammed Al Maktoum TRACK FACTS: GOING: Good to Firm. Right Handed. TOP TRACK JOCKEY (2015-):
Dazzling Dan, Will To Win, 12 Hamish Macbeth, 14 Equiano Springs, 16 Others. 11 119/22-5 RED FORCE ONE (J29) 5 8 10 .M Nicholls(3) 105 Adam Kirby 12% Strike rate. TOP TRACK TRAINER (2015-): J Gosden 18% Strike rate.
GUIDE: Theotherside made it two wins from her last three starts at Newmarket (7) Runs: 16 Wins: 3(F,G) Places: 4 £29,818
(6f, gd-fm) last time but a 7lb rise for that looks harsh, as Will To Win was less Trainer: P Nicholls Owner: Done Ferguson Mason
than two lengths behind that day and is 6lb better off here. Chil Chil was a good TONGUE STRAP: Nos. 7, 9 CHEEK PIECES: No. 7. THE SCOUT’S SCOOP SIX HINTS
second at Bath (5f, fm) last time and has to be of interest off the same mark, SP FORECAST: 2 Australis, 5 Sleeping Lion, 6 Kaloor, 13-2 Holy Kingdom, 8 Red
but preference is for EQUITATION. Stuart Williams’ charge won over this C&D Force One, 12 Eddystone Rock, Charlie D, 14 Diocletian, 20 Others. Leg 1 WOVEN (No 3) Leg 4 LOOK CLOSELY (No 6)
(gd-fm) in September last year and ran on well over 5f here (gd) last month, so GUIDE: SLEEPING LION has run well over this track and trip in the past and
he evidently saves his best for this track. (1.50 Ascot) (3.35 Ascot)
appeared to be hitting top form when second at Newcastle (2m, tpt) last time.
James Fanshawe’s stayer can get the better of Australis, who ran a cracking Leg 2 WILD HOPE (No 10) Leg 5 AL MADHAR (No 1)
FIRST TIME: 4.45 Kick On Kick On (cheek pieces, tongue strap). BEATEN race to be second in the Northumberland Plate at Newcastle (2m, tpt). Kaloor
FAVOURITES: 3.00 Diocletian(hcp), Sleeping Lion(hcp). 3.35 Caradoc(hcp), Fox (2.25 Ascot) (4.10 Ascot)
ran on well for third at Sandown (1m6f, gd-fm) and should enjoy this stiffer test
Vardy(hcp). 4.45 Daschas(hcp), Han Solo Berger(hcp). DRAW: No significant advan- of stamina, while Mondain won the consolation race for the Northumberland Leg 3 AUSTRALIS (No 8) Leg 6 WHELANS WAY (No 4)
tage LONGEST TRAVELLER: Outback Boy (12.40) & Mondain (3.00) 243 miles. Plate (2m, tpt) before struggling bady at Newmarket (1m6f, gd-fm) last time.
STABLE SWITCH: 2.25 Via Serendipity from S C Williams to C Fellowes. (3.00 Ascot) (4.45 Ascot)

YORK IS
ANDREW BALDING could step 2,000 Deauville on Sunday week. After going to the Jacques Le Marois or
Guineas winner Kameko back up in finishing fourth in the Derby at going to York for the Juddmonte
trip in the Juddmonte International Epsom, the son of Kitten’s Joy filled International.

KAMEKO
Stakes at York later this month. the same position on his return to a “We will make a firm decision in
The 10-furlong prize on August 19 mile in the Sussex Stakes at the middle of next week.”
is one of two Group One options Glorious Goodwood last week. A trip to Australia later in the

TARGET under consideration for the

three-year-old, along with the Prix
Jacques Le Marois, over a mile at
Balding said: “Kameko has come
out of the Sussex Stakes great.
“We are going to look at either
year could be on the cards for
Kameko after he was given an entry
in the Cox Plate earlier this week.
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64 Daily Express Saturday, August 8, 2020 RACING: THE SCOUT’S TOP TIPS

Zaaki set to make hay

CLASSY
THE drop in grade and longer trip
will enable Zaaki to take today’s
By The Scout (Chris Goulding) consistent AUSTRALIS (3.00) will
appreciate this slightly shorter trip
CONTENDER:
Zaaki can BetVictor Rose Of Lancaster clearly found his mojo since joining after failing to last home when
prove too Stakes at Haydock. John Gosden this season and will chinned by Caravan Of Hope in
strong for The five-year-old was not make the selection work right to the Northumberland Plate at
his rivals disgraced when sixth behind the winning line. Newcastle.
at Haydock the Sussex Stakes winner Earlier on the card, Michael His trainer Roger Varian can
today Mohaather at Ascot last month. Stoute and Ryan Moore, the make it a double with last month’s
On that occasion, ZAAKI connections of Zaaki, can also impressive course and distance
(2.40, nap) did not have the enjoy success with VERACIOUS winner LOOK CLOSELY (3.35).
clearest of runs. This will be his (2.05). DUBAI FOUNTAIN (3.20, nb)
first crack at 10-furlongs but his She posted some excellent appeals as the best bet at
style of running suggests it will performances in better company Newmarket. Her second behind
be ideal. last term and this will be a perfect Fev Rover at Sandown is linked in
Frankie Dettori’s presence at opportunity for the talented mare with the very smart Dandalla.
the track to ride Global Giant to make a winning return. Over the jumps at Uttoxeter, the
suggests a big run is expected. At Ascot, WILD HOPE (2.25) Duchess of Cornwall can enjoy
The five-year-old impressed on appeals at the weights as he is up further success with PACIFY
his recent outing when successful only 4lb for his impressive victory (5.30, treble) who makes his
at Newbury last month. He has at Doncaster last month, while the chasing debut.

UTTOXETER SSR 6.00 SKY

£8,187 (2) 2m 7f 70yds (8) 7.30 £3,509 (4)
SPORTS RACING HCAP HDLE AT THE RACES NOVICES’ HURDLE
1m 7f 168yds (12)
1 314- JUSTATENNER (239) (C) T Davidson 9 11 12 .H Reed(3) 1 7-21 ● CAPTAIN TOM CAT (23) (C&D) Dr R Newland 5 11 5
2 2-31 ● RHYTHM IS A DANCER (25) P Nicholls 7 11 11 .H Cobden S Twiston-Davies
THE SCOUT 3 PL-3 SHANTOU VILLAGE (33) N Mulholland 10 11 9 2 AMARETTO (F43) J Boyle 5 10 12 .........Page Fuller(3)
Millie Wonnacott(7) 3 3 DECORATION OF WAR (19) A Ralph 5 10 12L Edwards
4.30 Enemy Coast Ahead 6.30 Trumps Benefit 4 P-1L SEBASTIAN BEACH (29) B Pauling 9 11 8 ......Doubtful 4 80 EMPLOYER (16) Dr R Newland 5 10 12 C Hammond(3)
5.00 Yccs Portocervo 7.00 Anywayyoulookatit 5 L0-L GOODBYE DANCER (25) F O’Brien 9 11 7.... P Brennan 5 FOYLESIDEVIEW (F1218) H Chisman 8 10 12 .Doubtful
5.30 PACIFY 7.30 Captain Tom Cat 6 11-1 YEAVERING BELLE (27) (D) K Bailey 6 11 4 ......D Bass 6 000- JIM JA (297) (F) J Butler 6 10 12 ...................J Quinlan
6.00 Rhythm 8.00 John Constable 7 7L-1 MISTER UNIVERSUM (33) (C&D) D Skelton 8 11 4 7 215- WBEE (269) G Hanmer 5 10 12 ......................... H Brooke
H Skelton 8 LEROY LEROY (F21) J Boyle 4 10 11 ......Robert Dunne
Is A Dancer 8.30 Hahadi 8 44-1 YES NO MAYBE SO (16) (C) T Lacey 6 10 3 J J Burke 9 4 LIGHT IN THE SKY (16) P Nicholls 4 10 11 ....H Cobden
BLINKERS: No. 7 TONGUE STRAP: Nos. 3, 4, 5, 7 10 L LOCH NESS MONSTER (20) M Appleby 4 10 11.W T Kennedy

4.30 SKY
1
SPORTS NOVICES’ HURDLE
£3,509 (Class 4)2m 3f 207yds(9 dec)
2-11 ● ENEMY COAST AHEAD (20) Olly Murphy 6 11 12
CHEEK PIECES: Nos. 2, 3, 8 HOOD: No. 1.
W-Factor: Shantou Village (135); Mister Universum (134);
Rhythm Is A Dancer (133).
11
12
0L-P BOB’S GIRL (19) M Mullineaux 5 10 5 ......H Nugent(5)
77 JOIE DE VIVRE (18) (F) M Todhunter 5 10 5 ..S Quinlan
HOOD: Nos. 3, 11, 12.
A P Heskin SP FORECAST: 9-4 Yeavering Belle, 5-2 Rhythm Is A Dancer, W-Factor: Captain Tom Cat (131); Light In The Sky (122);
2 60-5 AHEAD OF SCHEDULE (15) Mrs N Evans 5 10 12 4 Mister Universum, 8 Yes No Maybe So, 10 Others. Decoration Of War (121).
J Nixon(5) SP FORECAST: 8-13 Captain Tom Cat, 4 Light In The Sky,
3 S7-5 ARCADIAN SPRING (23) H Whittington 6 10 12.. D Jacob
4 130- ARCTIC VALLEY (287) G Hanmer 6 10 12..... H Brooke 6.30 £2,924
ATTHERACES.COM HCAP CHS (DIV 1)
(5) 3m (10) 10 Decoration Of War, 14 Wbee, 16 Leroy Leroy, 25 Others.
5 195- ELLEON (183) W Greatrex 5 10 12..................G Sheehan
6 23P/ OI THE CLUBB OI’S (F34) I Williams 5 10 12 ..T J O’Brien
7 0 CRIMSON KING (29) M Appleby 4 10 10....C Hammond(3)
1
2
3
2L-1 THE BOOLA BEE (12) (D) N Hawke 7 12 1T Buckley(7)
423- SCHNABEL (257) T Symonds 8 11 12 .... S Twiston-Davies
F4-L SILVER MAN (20) L Horsfall 13 11 11 ...Tabitha Worsley(5)
8.00 ATTHERACES.COM
1
£5,393 (3)
F4-1
HCAP HURDLE
1m 7f 168yds (8)
DEAR SIRE (27) (D,F) D McCain 8 11 12 ......... B Hughes
8 00-P MIDNIGHT JEWEL (18) K Woollacott 4 10 10J J Burke 4 12-5 LUCK OF THE LEGION (27) Tom Lacey 7 11 10 2 21-3TEQANY (18) (D) F O’Brien 6 11 6 .................. P Brennan

funeral 9 26-8 LEESWOOD LILY (16) Jennie Candlish 7 10 5 .S Quinlan

TONGUE STRAP: Nos. 1, 4 CHEEK PIECES: No. 4.
W-F: Enemy Coast Ahead (125); Leeswood Lily (123); Elleon (117).
SP FORECAST: 6-5 Enemy Coast Ahead, 5-2 Oi The Clubb Oi’s, 6 Others.
Mr Thomas O’Brien(5)
5 L-L2 ● TRUMPS BENEFIT (10)(T) P Bowen 7 11 8 J Bowen
6 P7-3 GO TO COURT (27) Miss J Foster 7 11 8........ H Brooke
7 412 ISTIMRAAR (9) (D,F,T) A B Hamilton 9 11 4.. S Coltherd(3)
8 6PP- PACKETTOTHERAFTERS (198) G Hanmer 11 11 0.. Doubtful
3
4
1P-6LOVATO (16) (C&D) Dr R Newland 8 11 2 S Twiston-Davies
1/L-1
ESPRIT DE BAILEYS (23) (C&D) Miss A Murphy 8 11 0
J Quinlan
5 22-2 PERCY (23) Mrs S Leech 6 10 12................... A P Heskin

wishes?
6 5-54 GATEWAY TO EUROPE (15) N King 6 10 11 .Bryony Frost
5.00 AT£3,964
THE RACES HANDICAP CHASE
(4) 2m 4f (8)
1 U4-2 POKER SCHOOL (9) (D) I Williams 10 12 0 ..C Todd(5)
9 P6-6 PERPIGNAN (27) Christian Williams 8 10 1 J Tudor(5)
10 22-P BITE MY TONGUE (25) J G O’Neill 7 10 0 . L Edwards
BLINKERS: No. 3 TONGUE STRAP: Nos. 2, 5, 6, 7, 8
7 244- WHAT WILL BE (F43) (D) O Murphy 4 10 10 .R Johnson
8 70-2 ● JOHN CONSTABLE (16) (D) E Williams 9 10 8
Isabel Williams(5)
2 L4-3 ● YCCS PORTOCERVO (18) Dr R Newland 5 11 12 CHEEK PIECES: Nos. 2, 7, 8, 9 HOOD: No. 1.
S Twiston-Davies W-F: Perpignan (111); Trumps Benefit (108); The Boola Bee (104). VISOR: No. 3 TONGUE STRAP: Nos. 2, 7, 8
3 73-6 HENRIETTA BELL (29) H Whittington 7 11 12 . G Sheehan SP FORECAST: 3 The Boola Bee, 7-2 Istimraar, 4 Trumps Benefit, CHEEK PIECES: No. 6 HOOD: No. 1.
4 5-36 ELKSTONE (20) (D) Mrs C Bailey 9 11 7 ..........S Bowen 6 Schnabel, Luck Of The Legion, 8 Go To Court, 16 Others. W-Factor: Gateway To Europe (141); John Constable (140);
5 4/L-LAEGLOS (20) Jonjo O’Neill 8 11 4 ...............R McLernon Esprit De Baileys (139).
FREE 6 /83- MINE’S A PINT (195) (D) K Burke 8 10 13 ... T Bellamy
7 32L- BENI LIGHT (260) (C&D,T) D Rees 9 10 5 .. B R Jones(3)
8 353 MURRAY MOUNT (2) (D) S-J Davies 10 10 0 . J Bargary
7.00 £2,924
1
ATTHERACES.COM HCAP CHS (DIV 2)
(5) 3m (9)
P-22 HIDDEN CARGO (20) P Bowen 8 12 0 .. Mr P Bryan(7)
SP FORECAST: 4 Dear Sire, 9-2 What Will Be, 11-2 Teqany, 6 John
Constable, Lovato, 7 Percy, Esprit De Baileys, 10 Gateway To Europe.

GUIDE TONGUE STRAP: Nos. 6, 7 CHEEK PIECES: No. 1 HOOD: Nos. 2, 4, 6.

W-F: Beni Light (132); Elkstone (128); Poker School (127).
SP FORECAST: 9-4 Poker School, 5-2 Yccs Portocervo,
7 Henrietta Bell, Beni Light, 10 Aeglos, 12 Others.
2
3
5-53 MIDNIGHT MAGIC (16) D Pipe 8 11 12 .............D Noonan
21-3 JACK SNIPE (31) R G Hawker 11 11 11.......... B Carver(5) 8.30 ATTHERACES.COM
£2,794 (5)
HCAP HURDLE
2m 7f 70yds (14)
4 U7-2 ● ANYWAYYOULOOKATIT (23) J O’Neill 7 11 9 J O’Neill Jr. 1 37-3 HANDY HOLLOW (27) (C&D) D McCain 7 11 13.L Murtagh(3)
5 2P-4 WEST TO CROSSGALES (25) C Pogson 9 11 7...C Todd(5) 2 72-2 PRESENT CHIEF (23) J O’Neill 6 11 12 Jonjo O’Neill Jr.
6 LP-8 GAME LINE (27) Christian Williams 6 11 6 Jack Tudor(5) 3 U/F- HELLO FELLAS (154) F O’Brien 8 11 11 ...L Harrison(7)

5.30 FINAL
1
FURLONG NOVICES’ CHASE
£6,303 (3) 1m 7f 214yds (5)
65-1 LONGHOUSE SALE (31) D Skelton 6 11 8...... H Skelton
2 2-64 LEAPAWAY (15) P Hobbs 8 11 2......................R Johnson
3 12L- ● PACIFY (184) J Snowden 8 11 2 ...............G Sheehan
4 310- STAND BY ME (343) A Jones 10 11 2 ......... T J O’Brien
5 140- TIMETOCHILL (149) Miss K Morgan 7 10 9 .....A Wedge
TONGUE STRAP: Nos. 1, 3 CHEEK PIECES: No. 4.
W-Factor: Leapaway (145); Longhouse Sale (143).
SP FORECAST: 15-8 Pacify, 9-4 Longhouse Sale, 7-2 Leapaway,
Timetochill, 66 Stand By Me.
BEATEN FAVOURITES: 5.00 Beni Light(hcp ch). 5.30 Stand By Me(hcp
hdl). 6.00 Goodbye Dancer(hcp hdl). 7.00 Hidden Cargo(hcp ch). 8.00
Gateway To Europe(hcp hdl), What Will Be(hcp). 8.30 Hahadi(hcp ch),
Present Chief(hcp hdl). STABLE SWITCH: 6.30 Schnabel from David
Dennis to T Symonds. 7.30 Jim Ja from Michael Butler in Ireland to J
Butler. 8.30 Hello Fellas from Sally Randell to F O’Brien.
7
8
13-6 HONOURMISSION (23) Sam England 6 11 2 J England
L3-L BURNING ISSUES (25) Mrs S Smith 13 10 4
Mr A Fielding(10)
9 P6-4 MISDFLIGHT (27) Miss J Foster 10 10 0......S Quinlan
BLINKERS: No. 3 VISOR: Nos. 2, 9 TONGUE STRAP: Nos. 2, 7
CHEEK PIECES: Nos. 1, 6, 7.
W-Factor: Hidden Cargo (106); Midnight Magic (105);
Anywayyoulookatit (104).
SP FORECAST: 9-4 Anywayyoulookatit, 3 Hidden Cargo, 9-2
Midnight Magic, 10 West To Crossgales, Jack Snipe, 12 Others.
TRACK FACTS: GOING: Good. Left Handed. TOP TRACK JOCKEY
(2015-): Harry Skelton 37% Strike rate. TOP TRACK TRAINER
(2015-): D Skelton 29% Strike rate. FIRST TIME: 4.30 Arctic
Valley (cheek pieces, tongue strap), 6.00 Yes No Maybe So (cheek
pieces), 7.00 Misdflight (visor), 7.30 Joie De Vivre (hood), 8.00
Lovato (visor), What Will Be (tongue strap). LONGEST
TRAVELLER: Istimraar (6.30) & Goldslinger (8.30) 256 miles.
4
5
6
20-5 AIRTON (16) D Pipe 7 11 11 .......................Mr F Gillard(7)
33-P THE DARLEY LAMA (32) C Mann 6 11 10 .H Bannister
99-1 FREDDY FANATAPAN (23) (C) W Kittow 5 11 7
T Scudamore
7 PP-4 BENDY BOW (31) (F) M Bradstock 5 11 3 .N De Boinville
8 40-4 LITTLE SAINT (16) S Conway 5 10 11 ... A Anderson(7)
9 2P-2 SIMPLY MANI (31) P Niven 8 10 10 ................. B Hughes
10 3F-2 GOLDSLINGER (20)(T) A B Hamilton 8 10 9 . S Coltherd(3)
11 969- TIPALONG TYLER (195) K Woollacott 6 10 8 M G Nolan
12 85-3 ● HAHADI (25) T Symonds 8 10 6 .S Twiston-Davies
13 548- SPIRIT OF ROME (188) K Burke 6 10 0.B Godfrey(7)
14 P-43 FRANZ KLAMMER (16) P Pritchard 8 10 0 .C Hammond(3)
VISOR: No. 6 TONGUE STRAP: Nos. 8, 10, 13
CHEEK PIECES: Nos. 4, 8, 9, 12, 13 HOOD: No. 14.
W-Factor: Bendy Bow (112); Simply Mani (111); Airton (110).
SP FORECAST: 7-2 Present Chief, 6 Hello Fellas, Freddy
Fanatapan, 8 Simply Mani, Handy Hollow, 10 Others.

CARTMEL: Good to soft-soft in 5.50—HARD SOLUTION (C Hardie, 16-1) 1;

places
12.15—NAIZAGAI (M Kendrick, 2-1 fav) 1;
Global Agreement (12-1) 2; To Fly Free (11-1) 3. 8
ran. 51/2l, 18l. (F O’Brien). Tote: £2.50; pl £1.20,
£2.90, £1.90. exacta: £23.20. trifecta: £170.40.
CSF: £26.10.
12.50—FINISK RIVER (B Hughes, 10-11 fav)
1; Kilfinan Bay (40-1) 2; Now Children (10-3) 3. 11
ran. 19l, 13l. (D McCain). Tote: £1.70; pl £1.10,
£7.40, £1.30. exacta: £43.90. trifecta: £152.10.
CSF: £37.91. Non-runner: Our Rodney.
1.25—SPEEDY CARGO (H Bannister, 5-1 jt
2nd fav) 1; Whateva Next (5-1 jt 2nd fav) 2;
Ciarabella (40-1) 3. H’cap 12 ran. nk, 10l. (W
Greatrex; 11-4 fav Hidden Cargo). Tote: £6.10; pl
£2.20, £2.00, £10.00. exacta: £35.80. tricast:
£908.33. trifecta: £698.20. CSF: £30.36.
2.00—SWORD OF FATE (D R Fox, 20-1) 1;
Lough Kent (11-2) 2; Dogon (3-1 2nd fav) 3. H’cap
9 ran. nk, 3l. (L Kerr; 11-4 fav Fort De L’Ocean).
Tote: £26.40; pl £5.80, £2.20, £1.30. exacta:
£149.50. tricast: £429.37. trifecta: £975.60. CSF:
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fav) 3. H’cap 4 ran. 21/4l, 3/4l. (T R George). Tote:
to prevent duplicate communications, and for our own business processes. £2.70; exacta: £19.20. trifecta: £48.20. CSF:
EX04 ND £14.05. Non-runner: Paseo.
3.10—STOP THE WORLD (A P Heskin, 7-4
fav) 1; Dee Star (5-1) 2; Rising Marienbard (5-2
2nd fav) 3. H’cap 5 ran. 3/4l, 61/2l. (T R George).
Tote: £2.60; pl £1.40, £2.00. exacta: £9.30. tri-
fecta: £25.00. CSF: £10.10.
3.45—GLAN Y GORS (A Anderson, 8-1) 1;
Authorizo (5-1) 2; The Steward (9-2 2nd fav) 3.
H’cap 11 ran. 31/2l, 5l. (D Thompson; 4-1 fav
Rukwa). Tote: £7.80; pl £2.10, £2.10, £1.60.
exacta: £54.40. tricast: £203.79. trifecta:
YESTERDAY’S RESULTS
£275.40. CSF: £47.03.
4.20—THE BLACK SQUIRREL (B Hughes,
7-1) 1; Holme Abbey (14-1) 2; Talkingpicturestv
(15-8 fav) 3. H’cap 13 ran. 21/2l, 15l. (H Hogarth).
Tote: £7.50; pl £2.00, £5.30, £1.20. exacta:
£96.80. tricast: £257.82. trifecta: £404.70. CSF:
£92.32.
Placepot: £55.70
Quadpot: £22.90
SANDOWN: Good to firm
12.35—POLITICS (O Murphy, 11-10 fav) 1;
Dark Illusion (9-2) 2; Pure Dreamer (3-1 2nd fav)
3. 8 ran. 21/4l, hd. (A Balding). Tote: £1.80; pl
£1.10, £1.40, £1.10. exacta: £6.50. trifecta: £19.00.
CSF: £6.94.
1.10—PEROTTO (M Dwyer, 9-4) 1;
Onaraggatip (14-1) 2; Holwah (7-4 fav) 3. H’cap 4
ran. 13/4l, 1/2l. (M Tregoning). Tote: £3.00; exacta:
£15.60. trifecta: £43.00. CSF: £21.96. Non-
runners: Lothian, One Day, Rania.
1.45—MINHAAJ (J Crowley, 20-1) 1;
Garsman (4-1) 2; Pink Sands (7-2 2nd fav) 3.
H’cap 6 ran. hd, nk. (M Attwater; 10-3 fav Pop
Dancer). Tote: £15.40; pl £7.30, £2.20. exacta:
£78.20. trifecta: £327.30. CSF: £92.26. Non-
runner: Ishvara.
2.20—RECOVERY RUN (O Murphy, 13-8 jt
fav) 1; Lone Eagle (10-1) 2; Symbolic Power (13-8
jt fav) 3. 8 ran. hd, 5l. (A Balding). Tote: £2.30;
pl £1.10, £2.60, £1.20. exacta: £19.20. trifecta:
£50.10. CSF: £20.84. Non-runner: React.
2.55—MON CHOIX (O Murphy, 10-11 fav) 1;
Delicate Kiss (16-1) 2; Coverham (20-1) 3. H’cap
10 ran. 41/2l, 11/4l. (A Balding). Tote: £1.70; pl £1.20,
£4.10, £3.70. exacta: £17.50. tricast: £188.10. tri-
fecta: £154.70. CSF: £17.87. Non-runners: Quarry
Beach, Rectory Road.
3.30—STAR OF WINS (T Marquand, 11-4 2nd
fav) 1; Native Tribe (8-1) 2; Louganini (10-3) 3.
H’cap 4 ran. 3/4l, nk. (W Haggas; 11-10 fav Enemy).
Tote: £3.70; exacta: £15.20. trifecta: £40.40.
CSF: £19.40. Non-runners: Kingbrook, Nova
Roma.
4.05—REVOLVER (L Morris, 6-5 fav) 1;
Dancing Harry (9-2) 2; Punctuation (7-2 2nd
fav) 3. H’cap 5 ran. 11/4l, 13/4l. (Sir M Prescott).
Tote: £1.80; pl £1.30, £1.80. exacta: £6.60. tri-
fecta: £18.70. CSF: £6.80.
4.35—GYPSY WHISPER (W Buick, 9-5 fav) 1;
Arabic Charm (7-1) 2; Strict Tempo (12-1) 3.
H’cap 11 ran. nk, 2l. (D Menuisier). Tote: £2.70; pl
£1.30, £1.90, £4.10. exacta: £15.60. tricast:
£121.50. trifecta: £148.10. CSF: £14.70. Non-
runners: Adelante, Queen Of Silca.
Placepot: £68.10
Quadpot: £18.60
WOLVERHAMPTON: Standard
4.15—PRETTY LADY (O Stammers, 8-1) 1;
Kaafy (13-8 fav) 2; Reims (18-1) 3. H’cap 12 ran.
13/4l, 1l. (M Johnston). Tote: £9.50; pl £3.70, £1.02, £2.70, £4.60. exacta: £45.90. tricast: £419.66.
£5.00. exacta: £24.30. tricast: £241.84. trifecta:
£283.70. CSF: £21.15. Non-runner: Krishmaya.
4.50—ROMAN DYNASTY (J Mitchell, 7-1) 1;
Rivers Lad (12-1) 2; Apres Dark (5-4 fav) 3. 10
ran. 13/4l, 1/2l. (Joseph Parr). Tote: £7.80; pl £2.10,£1.30, £2.00, £3.00. exacta: £11.50. tricast:
£3.20, £1.20. exacta: £71.60. trifecta: £350.30.
CSF: £86.57. Non-runner: Apollo One.
5.20—DANDYS DERRIERE (D O’Neill, 8-15
fav) 1; Semper Augustus (6-1) 2; Light Wakeup
(16-1) 3. 10 ran. 21/4l, 31/4l. (B Meehan). Tote: £1.50; carried over.
pl £1.10, £2.00, £3.70. exacta: £6.40. trifecta:
£32.90. CSF: £4.52.
Captain Ryan (20-1) 2; Teepee Time (9-1) 3.
H’cap 10 ran. hd, 1l. (D O’Meara; 5-2 fav
Independence Day). Tote: £19.00; pl £4.80,
£5.00, £2.90. exacta: £273.30. tricast: £3094.72.
trifecta: £4246.50. CSF: £286.28. Non-runner:
Shesadabber.
6.20—DREAMING BLUE (T Hamilton, 4-1
2nd fav) 1; Escalade (9-2) 2; En Famille (10-3 fav)
3. H’cap 8 ran. 1l, nk. (R Fahey). Tote: £4.60; pl
£2.00, £1.60, £1.30. exacta: £28.00. tricast:
£64.97. trifecta: £98.70. CSF: £21.82.
6.50—MY BROTHER MIKE (J Quinn, 20-1) 1;
Costello (6-1 2nd fav) 2; Swinging Eddie (3-1 fav)
3. H’cap 13 ran. 1l, shd. (J Stimpson). Tote:
£19.60; pl £5.30, £2.40, £1.50. exacta: £146.60.
tricast: £474.09. trifecta: £544.50. CSF: £134.00.
7.20—BIZZI LIZZI (N Mackay, 10-11 fav) 1;
Bint Australia (11-4 2nd fav) 2; Mountain Dreams
(7-1) 3. 7 ran. nk, 1l. (J Gosden). Tote: £1.80; pl
£1.10, £1.90. exacta: £4.20. trifecta: £12.00. CSF:
£3.44. Non-runner: Tefnut.
7.50—NIGHT TIME GIRL (Ray Dawson, 5-1)
1; Vivacious Spirit (6-1) 2; Uncle Sid (14-1) 3.
H’cap 13 ran. 1l, nk. (I Mohammed; 7-2 fav
Freedom And Wheat). Tote: £6.30; pl £2.50,
trifecta: £413.50. CSF: £34.63.
8.20—WRATH OF HECTOR (S De Sousa, 13-8
fav) 1; Jack Ryan (6-1) 2; Giant Steps (28-1) 3.
H’cap 9 ran. 1/2l, 13/4l. (M Appleby). Tote: £2.10; pl
£190.06. trifecta: £223.80. CSF: £11.23. Non-
runners: Banmi, Clover Hill, Upstage.
Jackpot: Not won, pool of £2,189.88
Placepot: £249.70
Quadpot: £81.90

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WE CAN’T
CATCH
LEWIS
Hamilton will set records that
will not be beaten says Norris
LANDO NORRIS believes that
Lewis Hamilton will set
Formula One records that will
never be broken.
He has no doubt his fellow
Brit will go down as one of the
greatest grand prix drivers.
But Hamilton’s position in
the pantheon of F1 legends is
hard to establish because of
Mercedes’ utter dominance of
the sport, said Norris, below.
He said: “They [Hamilton
and his team-mates] have been
driving for the past few years
with a massive advantage over
every other team.
“Mercedes have been the
best with the car, the best with
the engine and that has allowed
him to achieve the things he
has.
“If Lewis was in a McLaren,
he wouldn’t look as good as
what he has done.
“Mercedes have been so
dominant, it’s not been often
they have had to race
many other cars.
“But I don’t think you
can take anything away
from him. He’s had some
good team-mates in [Nico]
CYCLING
FABIO JAKOBSEN
has been woken from
WORLD OF SPORT
his coma and his
condition has been
described as “good”,
My Tiger tots to rule
Tour of Poland race
RUGBY LEAGUE
organisers have said. DARYL POWELL says
The Dutch rider, Castleford playmakers
23, was placed in a Danny Richardson,
medically-induced Jake Trueman and
Paul McShane can lead
coma after sustaining
life-threatening injuries a revival of the little
men under Super
in a high-speed crash
League’s new rules.
near the end of
Wednesday’s opening
Trueman is the tallest of
stage in Katowice and
the trio at 5ft 10 but the
had facial surgery on scrapping of scrums and
Thursday. new six-again rule has
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Parents have got
bad-boy Billy on
right track again
BILLY VUNIPOLA has
admitted he was a bad
RUGBY UNION
By Adam Hathaway
influence on England’s
squad during the World things I could have
Cup – but claims he done better and things
has wised up after that affected the
finally listening to his chemistry of the team.
mum and dad. “I could have been
The Saracens No8 better at the World Cup
was part of Eddie off the field. My head
Jones’s side who fluffed was in the clouds, that
their lines in the 32-12 is something I always
final defeat to South battle with. I find it
Africa in Japan after hard to keep my feet
demolishing the All on the ground when I
Blacks a week before. do something well.
Vunipola, 27, then “That’s been a
blotted his copybook massive challenge for
by ignoring social me over lockdown. If
distancing rules during you reach success
FRONT Covid lockdown when
spotted out with
again, both as a team
or personally, how do I
RUNNER
Hamilton is
chasing a
Sarries team-mates.
But he insists
Saracens and England
stay grounded?
“My parents helped
me. I always looked to
seventh title blame someone else or
will have a new man
and a record on their books after an something else and I
number of finally realised, when I
grand prix
ear-bashing from father
Fe’ao, a former player, spoke to my parents,
victories that I need to take
and mother Iesinga – a
Methodist minister. ownership. Those guys
By Andy Dunn placed Schumacher on 68 in the when you could do as many test never lie to me.”
all-time list. days as you wanted so he came He said: “I talked to
my parents a lot about Saracens have nine
Rosberg and [Valtteri] Bottas. “The records are something in with a lot more experience Premiership games left
Especially with Bottas, he has that will probably not be than new drivers do nowadays. it. They are an amazing
sounding board. I – and at least one in
clearly had the upper hand on beaten,” says Norris, 20, who “And he’s pretty much always Europe – before their
him the whole time they have is a possible successor to been in a race-winning car.” probably didn’t listen
to them as well as I Championship
been at Mercedes.” Hamilton as the Hamilton might have to take
With 87 wins,
Hamilton is closing
He wouldn’t dominant driver in
British motor sport.
a pay cut when agreeing a new
deal with Mercedes.
could have in the last
two or three years.
campaign starts after
their relegation over
the salary y cap p scandal.
“They
ey gave mee
in on Michael
Schumacher’s record be as good in Like Hamilton,
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F1 car. But there is a
title, he would normally expect
a salary increase.
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tri
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got in South
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record seven race-winning car and we are a lot, we face difficult times and
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after returning a positive Covid-19 test result. “I tthe
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1. Which Championship team beat Hull City 8-0 last month?
THE BIG PICTURE 2. Which Samoan-born England centre has joined Sale Sharks after leaving
Leicester Tigers?
3. Who scored two second-half penalties for Watford as they came from behind to
beat Newcastle 2-1?
4. Which Ukrainian tennis player is currently fifth in the
WTA rankings?
sped up the pace and 5. Which England captain did Shane Warne dismiss with his
kept the ball in play for first ball in an Ashes Test?
longer. Powell, whose 6. In what make of car did Graham Hill win the Formula
side face Catalans today, One world drivers’ championship in 1962?
said: “If you look at the 7. Which four-time National Hunt Champion Jockey later
trained 1981 Grand National winner Aldaniti?
stats in Australia, there’s
been the rebirth of the 8. Which Ethiopian runner won the men’s 5,000metres
and the 10,000m at the 2008 Olympics?
little man in terms of the
9. Which ground did the Madejski Stadium replace as Reading’s
way the game’s played. home ground in 1998?
“Half-backs are
Tigers stand-off 10. Which British boxer beat Jose Napoles in Mexico City in 1975 to
running a lot more. We become WBC welterweight champion?
can do well under the
PAINTING THE TOWN RED: Alan Hansen 10 John H Stracey.
new rules. The halves and Jordan Henderson on Liverpool mural 5 Mike Gatting. 6 BRM. 7 Josh Gifford. 8 Kenenisa Bekele. 9 Elm Park.
are excited about that.” ANSWERS: 1 Wigan Athletic. 2 Manu Tuilagi. 3 Troy Deeney. 4 Elina Svitolina.
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HOLDING
SPORT IN BRIEF
UEFA Champions Lge
Round of 16 Second Leg
TODAY’S DIARY
JUVENTUS (1) ........ 2 LYON (1) .............. 1 UEFA Champions Lge
Ronaldo 43 (pen), 60 Depay 12 (pen) Round of 16 Second Leg
Agg: 2-2; Lyon win on away goals. Barcelona (1) v Napoli (1) (8pm) ............
MAN CITY (1)......... 2 REAL MADRID (1) . 1 (Live on BT Sport)
Sterling 9 Benzema 28 Bayern Munich (3) v Chelsea (0) (8pm) ..
Gabriel Jesus 68 (Live on BT Sport)
Manchester City win 4-2 on aggregate. Scottish Premiership
CYCLING Hamilton v Ross County ...........................
TOUR OF POLAND, STAGE 3 Livingston v Hibernian ..............................
(Wadowice to Bielsko-Biala, Motherwell v Dundee Utd .........................

OUT FOR
203.1km): 1 R Carapaz (Ecu) Team (Live on Sky Sports)
Ineos 5h 04m 54s, 11 E Dunbar St Johnstone v Aberdeen (postponed)......
(Irl) Team Ineos, 17 S Yates (Gbr) CRICKET
Mitchelton-Scott both at same First Test Match (day 4 of 5):
time. Overall: 1 Carapaz 13h 02m England v Pakistan (Emirates Old
36s, 10 Dunbar +10s, 20 S Yates Trafford, 11am).
at same time. Bob Willis Trophy (day 1 of 4,
GOLF 11am)—North Group: Durham v
THE USPGA CHAMPIONSHIP, (San Lancashire (Emirates Riverside).
Francisco, California) Early second Leicestershire v Derbyshire (Grace
round leaders—(US unless Road). Nottinghamshire v Yorkshire
stated): 132 H Li (Chn) 67 65, (Trent Bridge). Central Group:
134 T Fleetwood (Eng) 70 64, 136 Gloucestershire v Warwickshire
L Griffin 68 68, 137 M Wolff 69 (Bristol), Northamptonshire v
68, H Matsuyama (Jpn) 70 67, Somerset (Northampton).

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138 H Varner III 72 66, B Worcestershire v Glamorgan (New
Snedeker 72 66, P Reed 68 70, Road). South Group: Essex v
139 V Hovland (Nor) 68 71, J Surrey (Chelmsford): Kent v
Luiten (Ned) 71 68, A Hadwin Sussex (Canterbury). Middlesex v
(Can) 68 71, K Streelman 69 70. Hampshire (Radlett).
ENGLISH CHAMPIONSHIP (Ware, RUGBY LEAGUE BACK IN THE
England) 2nd rnd—(Gbr & Irl
unless stated): 128 A Sullivan 66 Betfred Super League: Castleford ATTACK:
62, 129 D Burmester (Rsa) 66 63, v Catalans Dragons (4.15), Stokes took
Warrington v Hull K R (6.30).
L Canter 64 65, 131 S Brown 66 two wickets,
65, A Johnston 66 65, R Bland 65
but now has to
66, J Donaldson 67 64. TOMORROW pile on the runs
SNOOKER Scottish Premiership
BETFRED WORLD CH’SHIP Kilmarnock v Celtic (4.30) .......................
for England
(Sheffield)—2nd rd: M Williams (Live on Sky Sports)
(Wal) bt S Bingham (Eng) 13-11; M

STOKES
Selby (Eng) bt N Saengkham (Tha) Rangers v St Mirren(3pm) ........................
13-12 (Live on Sky Sports)
TENNIS RUGBY LEAGUE
PALERMO LADIES OPEN (Italy)—Qtr- Betfred Super League (3.15):
finals: (1) P Martic (Cro) bt A Leeds v St Helens (6.30), Salford v
Sasnovich (Blr) 7-6 (7-5) 7-6 (7-3), Hull (1pm), Wakefield v Wigan.
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GOING TO Broad appeals for a wicket,

right, whilst Bess, left, is
THE LINE unable to stop a boundary

SCOREBOARD
England v Pakistan
EMIRATES OLD TRAFFORD: Pakistan lead England by BAPTISM The first Rose Ladies Series final
at Wentworth was suspended
244 runs with two second-innings wickets in hand
PAKISTAN: First Innings 326 (Masood 156, Azam 69) OF FIRE after a fire on a nearby common.
Walk in the Park
ENGLAND: First Innings
(Overnight 92-4)
Mins Balls Runs
O Pope c Khan b Naseem Shah ........179 117 62
(quick with extra bounce, edged low to gully)

as Tommy makes
J Buttler b Yasir Shah .......................155 108 38

HIT THE
(straight one right through the gate to off stump)
C Woakes b Yasir Shah ......................80 48 19
(pushed through a big heave to leg side)
D Bess c Shafiq b Yasir Shah .............18 12 1
TARGET
his Major move
(extra bounce, diving catch at slip off shoulder of bat)
J Archer c Rizwan b Khan....................41 33 16 Pakistan’s
(extra bounce just brushed glove on way through) Yasir Shah
S Broad not out .................................40 25 29 celebrates
J Anderson lbw Khan ..........................19 11 7
(missed reverse sweep, hitting middle) after taking
the key
TOMMY Fleetwood
claimed his game was
GOLF
B8 lb4 w1 nb8 ................................................ 21 By Neil McLeman
Total (70.3 overs) ......................................... 219 wicket of “coming back” after a
Fall: 4, 12, 12, 62, 127, 159, 161, 170, 197. Jos Buttler superb 64 at the US am playing the best I
Bowling: Afridi 18-4-51-1, Abbas 15-6-33-2, Shah 16-4-
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PAKISTAN: Second Innings event since lockdown. as sharp as I have ever
Mins Balls Runs
The Ryder Cup star felt but it is coming
S Masood c Buttler b Broad ................11 11 0
(leg glance straight to keeper) opted not to travel to back. I have shot a
A Ali c Woakes b Bess........................64 46 20 the USA when the great score. Hopefully I
(slog sweep top edge to deep square leg)
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B Azam c Stokes b Woakes ................25 20 5
to action last month. at the 2017 Open after
(loose push outside off, to second slip)
A Shafiq run out .................................63 43 29 After missing the cut in a closing 63, is bidding
(quick single to point, smart pick and direct hit) his first event back at to become the first
M Rizwan lbw Stokes ......................71 43 27
the 3M Open, he shot a Chinese male to win a
(angled in, clipping bails)
S Khan lbw Broad ...........................35 22 15 closing 65 at last Major. In only his third
(full, tailed in and thumped knee roll) week’s WGC-FedEx St start since March, he
Y Shah not out ............................26 15 12
S Afridi c Burns b Stokes ....................17 11 2 Jude Invitational. had a 65 to move to
(bouncer dug in, fended to gully) And the world No13 eight under par.
M Abbas not out ............................2 3 0
went one better at “I did feel pressure
B4 lb1 nb4........................................................ 9
Total (8 wkts., 44 overs)............................... 137 Harding Park last nightg last year because
Fall: 6, 33, 48, 63, 101, 120, 122, 137. with seven birdies
rdies everyone put high
every
Bowling: Anderson 9-2-34-0, Broad 9-3-23-2, Archer
and a single le expectations on
exp
5-0-13-0, Bess 12-2-40-1, Woakes 5-1-11-2, Stokes 4-1-
11-2. bogey to close e me,” Li said.
m
Umpires: R Kettleborough & R Illingworth. within two “For the past
“
shots off ffew months I
clubhouse stayed
st at

WOAKES’ FIGHTING TALK

adding a bowler to cover Stokes had leader Haotong g home
ho doing
already backfired once following their Li. Fleetwood, od, nothing. I want
not
top-order collapse by the end of day two. above, had a birdie to go out here and
And while there was some hope FROM BACK PAGE where we were written off around putt on his final green have fun.”
overnight that the last two specialist know Ben Stokes is capable of about now. to equal the 63 he The big-hitting
batsmen, Ollie Pope and Jos Buttler, might miracles. He has a bit of a golden “We’ll draw on those experiences. carded at the 2018 US Bryson DeChambeau,
just pull something remarkable out of the arm and a knack of picking up We believe we can do it and we know Open. who accidentally broke
bag, that did not last long either. wickets. we have players who can do it.” Now the Southport- his driver during the
Pope added 14 to his overnight score to “When you’re in a dogfight But Pakistan remain confident on based star, who has opening round,
reach his fifth half century in just 11 Tests he’s the sort of player you a pitch proving increasingly difficult spent most of the followed his opening
but he was undone by a bronco from want. But there’s belief for batsmen. summer playing golf 68 with an erratic 70.
teenage firebrand Naseem Shah that reared in this team. Spin coach Mushtaq Ahmed said: with his mates, is in The American tops
on him and snagged his edge on its way low “You’ll be hearing “If we can get another 20 to 30 contention to win his the PGA Tour driving
to gully. After lunch Buttler joined him, about records and what runs that will be a very good score first Major. stats after bulking up
playing for spin from Yasir that never has been chased down at on that pitch. Fleetwood, who during lockdown. But
materialised. Old Trafford, but they’re “Spinners Yasir Shah and Shadab opened with a level- his playing partner
He was the first of six to fall to Pakistan’s there to be broken. [Khan] have hardly played but given par 70, said: “I feel my Adam Scott said: “He’s
spin twins – an ominous portent for a “We’ll definitely look at the way they bowled in the first game is improving day hitting it long but I
fourth innings on a deteriorating track. wins we’ve pulled off in the innings I think they have momentum by day since I have thought it was going to
Unless someone can produce something past few years, the sort now. They can be lethal out there.” come back to playing. be longer.
pretty special. “I like playing golf “There’s been so
and I played golf over much build-up, and
the break. But watching him play I

if he claims his fourth Crucible crown

nothing happening there this
laugh but I got him back for
never gets easier coming here, Neil Robertson or Barry
tournament golf is not
the same as leisurely. I
am not going to say I
thought I was going to
see almost one of those
long-drive guys.”

year. The nation couldn’t bear

to see that again so I’m keeping
my mouth shut because, if I
said it, I’d have to do it in the
unlikely event it happened.”
With players restricted to one
supporter in the arena, Williams
is being cheered on by son Kian,
13. He added: “He is here with
me – he said I was crap after
the first round. You can only
that later. He wasn’t much help
this morning though. He was
supposed to be picking the balls
out in practice but sat there on
his phone.
“I’ll have to crack the whip,
take him out on to the golf
course later and give him a
b********g. He’s quite dry and
takes the mickey – no idea
where he gets that from. It
only more difficult. I can pot
anything or miss the easiest
ones you have ever seen.”
Hawkins. Selby said: “It
is a sense of relief more
than anything else after
BEEF A KNOCKOUT
ANDREW ‘BEEF’ JOHNSTON says boxing has made
Mark Selby breathed a sigh of that. I threw him a contender again at the English Championship.
relief after scraping into the everything at The Londoner pulled out of the first UK Tour
quarters for the first time in Noppon and he kept event because he was “struggling” with golf’s
three years last night. coming back at Covid-19 rules. But he is three shots behind
The Leicester Jester beat me.” halfway leader Andy Sullivan on 11 under after a
Thailand’s Noppon Saengkham 65. Johnston said: “The best thing I’ve done is
13-12 and will now face either RELIEVED: Selby
survived a thriller boxing again. It’s been so good for my head.”
world No 2 and former champion
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Picture: SAM BAGNALL

REBORN
THOSE WERE
THE DAYS
ON THIS DATE IN SPORTING HISTORY
1900: The inaugural Davis Cup took place in Boston,
Massachusetts, with the USA beating Great Britain 3-0.
1998: The Football League centenary season kicked off

SLIPPY
with reserve officials holding up boards displaying
added time at the end of each half for the first time.
2007: Sunderland broke the British transfer record for
a goalkeeper to sign Scotland international Craig
Gordon from Hearts for £9million.
2011: Arsenal bought 17-year-old Alex Oxlade-
Chamberlain from Southampton for an initial fee of
£12m, rising to £15m.
2015: England regained the Ashes after beating
Australia by an innings and 78 runs in the fourth Test
at Trent Bridge to take an unassailable 3-1 lead.
2018: Chelsea made Kepa Arrizabalaga the world’s
most expensive goalkeeper after completing a £72.1m
deal with Athletic Bilbao. Skipper reveals pace
ace Traore puts baby
oil on arms to keep
YOU HAD TO URN IT:
England celebrate their
Ashes triumph in 2015 defenders at bay
SMOOTH Traore has found a novel
way of escaping the clutch

New & Existing Customers

AS SILK of opposing defenders
FLYING winger Adama Traore By Dave Armitage
will get well oiled whether or not
Wolves go on to lift the Europa adding on talkSPORT: “He’s got
League trophy. big arms, so he can pull it off.”
The £70million-rated pace ace’s Scouser Coady is another
cunning plan to give defenders the reason Wolves have
slip is the talk of the Molineux themselves on the tails of the
dressing room. Premier League’s elite over the
Traore smothers his arms in past couple of seasons.
baby oil to prevent opponents The 1-0 win over Olympiakos
making a grab to stop him in his which clinched a last-eight
tracks. clash with five-time UEFA
Wolves clinched a Europa Cup/Europa League winners
League quarter-final place and Sevilla was Wolves’ 59th
skipper Conor Coady later game of the campaign – and
revealed how they are hoping to he hasn’t missed a single
benefit from a bit of greased minute.
lightning. Such has been
Coady said: “It’s something his form since
that’s come from him and the steering Wolves
physios. It makes it harder for to promotion
people to grab him. two years ago
“Everyone knows that he gets that Coady is
fouled such a lot because he’s so now being
quick and so direct. If it works for touted as a
him, it’s not a problem to us. genuine
“To be honest, when I first saw contender
it, I thought, ‘He’s having himself for a call into
a bit here!’ But there’s a reason Gareth
behind it.” Southgate’s England
Muscle-man Traore is one of the defence.
fastest players around, clocking The 27-year-old
times over 100m that would put revealed he has
him in international sprint blinkers on
contention. CAPTAIN’S CALL:
Coady says it would take a Coady hasn’t
brave man to question the ploy, missed a game
whenever there’s talk of a call
from the England manager.
Coady said: “It’s something
other people have talked about
for a couple of years but it’s not
put something I think about.”
Coady puts his astonishing
record of not missing games down
to his total love of what he’s
doing, adding: “The lads make it
all so easy for me and I just
love every minute of playing
for this football club.”
Wolves have escaped
with a wrap over the
knuckles after failing to
meet UEFA’s Financial Fair
Play rules.
They will pay back
up to £540,000 and
also only be allowed
23 rather than the
full 25-man squad if
they reach the
Champions League.
It comes after
they failed to make
the break-even
deficit of
£27million in
the 2019-20
season and they
must balance
the books for
the 2020-21
and 2021-22
season.

Alexis in parting shot at United

ALEXIS SANCHEZ By Jeremy Cross free transfer to Inter this
has taken a swipe at there’s a real desire to week to bring the
Manchester United by win something big. curtain down on his
insisting the team spirit “People here want to nightmare spell at
at Inter Milan is better. fight together as a team United.
Sanchez, 31, took to to give the club the He agreed a £9million
social media to tell success it deserves. pay-off along with
supporters: “I’m really “I’m hungry and I reduced wages.
happy to be here with want to win. My goal He had joined United
you, Inter fans. is to make all the fans in 2018 after being
“I’ve found a family happy. I’m here to win superb at Arsenal,
here and the staff are and I’m happy.” The but made just 21
SANCHEZ: New start great. It’s a group where Chilean completed a league starts.
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Picture: MIKE HEWITT

Salary cap
Lamps has been shining is ‘unlawful’
By John Cross

light to revitalise Blues

PLAYERS’ union bosses have
described the EFL salary caps as
“unlawful and unenforceable”.
It comes after League One
and Two clubs voted to bring in
wage limits of £2.5million and
£1.5m respectively, which are
effective immediately, in a bid

FLICK HAILS ‘EXTRAORDINARY’ JOB RESPECT:

Flick and
Lampard
will meet
Frank won’t
to protect clubs.
Wages, bonuses, taxes and
image rights, plus agents’ and
other relevant fees,
BAYERN MUNICH V CHELSEA
BAYERN LEAD 3-0 AFTER FIRST LEG
in Munich
bad-mouth will be included
within the cap. But
the Professional
By John Cross
BAYERN MUNICH boss Christian Pulisic, i C
Ce
Cesar
sar
ar
wantaway Footballers’
Association are
unimpressed. In a
star Willian
Hansi Flick has praised Azpilicueta, Pedro and
Frank Lampard for doing an Willian all miss out. statement, the PFA
“extraordinary” job at It means Lampard said: “The EFL have
Chelsea. will have to draw on ignored their legal obligation to
FRANK LAMPARD claims Chelsea consult with the PFA and the
Blues boss Lampard goes his young players did everything to keep Willian and
to Munich tonight needing a with Callum Hudson- Professional Football
will hold no grudges if he leaves. Negotiating and Consultative
miracle to overturn the 3-0 Odoi set to start in
The Brazilian winger, who Committee.
first-leg defeat from way Munich against the club
turns 32 on Sunday, is set to “As such, the legal advice we
back in February, with he could have joined
join Arsenal on a three-year have received is clear that the
Bayern red-hot favourites to before committing
contract after rejecting a salary cap envisaged by the EFL
progress into the himself to a new
new deal at Stamford would be unlawful and
quarter-finals. contract at Chelsea.
Bridge and will miss the unenforceable.”
But Lampard was named Flick said Bayern
trip to Bayern Munich.
on the four-strong shortlist will be well
as Premier League manager prepared
of the season along with added: “We know
and
Lampard, below, says
Willian is out with an
Achilles injury and
ADDICKS BAN
CHARLTON have been
Jurgen Klopp, Brendan that Chelsea have a
maintains he will wish him thrown into chaos once more
Rodgers and Chris Wilder big and also great
well should he leave. after three of their owners
after guiding Chelsea into squad with a lot of
“We have done were barred by the EFL.
the Champions League in players who have
everything we can to Would-be chairman Paul
his first season in top-flight fantastic potential.
explain to Willian,” said Elliott and lawyer Chris
management. “I know English
the Chelsea boss. Farnell are understood to be
Flick led Bayern to football, how it is
the Bundesliga title played there and if “Mine and his relationship among those who failed the

18/1
this season and you look at the is very close and I’d have no owners’ and directors’ test.
was part of the developments for feeling of disappointment if They have 14 days to appeal.
Germany set-up years now, it’s he does move on. The EFL have also blocked
which won the Mason Mount unbelievable, it’s “He
He is a fantastic man and Charlton, hit with a transfer
2014 World Cup. to score first
fantastic how a fantastic
fan player. I think embargo in January, from
Former Bayern Chelsea bring up h will feel like that
he signing MK Dons midfielder
midfielder Flick new young players aabout Chelsea. Alex Gilbey and Hearts
reserved special and focus on “I’ll leave him to striker Conor Washington.
praise for Lampard for the the youth.” ssay his own words. I
job he has done at Stamford Flick will be without the ddon’t want anyone to
Bridge in the face of a injured Kingsley Coman
transfer ban and also and he has warned that
bringing through young Bayern must not take it for acted
ttry
ry to find a negative
attitude. The club have
attitu
t d very well in this.
£1m Cody on
LINE-UPS
players.

has been doing an

granted they will get
Flick, 55, said: “Lampard through to Lisbon, .
Flick added: “If I was in
BAYERN MUNICH (4-2-3-1)
“He leaves a hole as a player
who has been here for I think
seven seasons, being part of
way to Leeds
extraordinary job at the position of Chelsea Neuer; Kimmich, Boateng, successful teams. By David Anderson
Chelsea. manager or a Chelsea fan, I Alaba, Davies; Goretzka, “When a player is out of
Thiago; Gnabry, Muller, contract they have the freedom LEEDS are to sign Fulham’s
“It was a difficult would say, ‘We have nothing teenage defender Cody Drameh
situation with difficult to lose, we can try to give all Coutinho; Lewandowski. to play wherever they want.”
Lampard will be without in a deal rising to £1million.
conditions before the start we have and then we will CHELSEA (3-4-3) They have been tracking
of the season when he first see’. This is the approach I’d skipper Cesar Azpilicueta and
Caballero; Christensen, Zouma, Roma-bound Pedro through Drameh, below, for months and
started. take. feel the right-back has great
“But when you look at “The most important Rudiger; James, Barkley, injury, while American winger
Kovacic, Emerson; Hudson- Christian Pulisic could miss the potential, even though he has
what he achieved, he really thing is to have respect for
had an extraordinary season your opponent and be full Odoi, Giroud, Mount. start of next season because of yet to make a senior appearance
with his team.” of confidence during the a hamstring injury. for Fulham.
REF: O Hategan (Romania). It all leaves the odds stacked Drameh, 18, will cost Leeds
Chelsea now face another match. KICK-OFF: 8pm, BT Sport 1.
major test because they are “Lisbon is not in our against Chelsea at Bayern. an initial £300,000,, rising
g to
set to be without big names minds at all, we focus JOHN CROSS ons,
£1m with add-ons,
for the trip to Munich as completely on the match.” while Fulham
are also
insisting on a
IT IS hard to get away from the
feeling Napoli missed their big
chance against Barcelona when Bank on Barca hotshots to deliver home record against Catalan
Dragons, can carry an 8.5 point
handicap at 11-10.
sell-on clause.
Leeds are
also signing

failing to win the last-16 first
leg in Italy in February.
For all that the Spanish
giants are racked by injury and
internal squabbles, facing them
at the Nou Camp has proved
beyond better teams than Serie
A’s seventh best.
Barca are missing midfielders
Sergio Busquets, Arturo Vidal
and centre-back Samuel Umtiti,
but have firepower up front and
TIPPING POINT
as they face a side who had just
three clean sheets in 21 Serie A
games, expect goals.
Back Barcelona to win with a
one-goal handicap at 6-4.
A Chelsea side flagging after
a tense end to the season,
GIDEON BROOKS helps you
beat the bookies this weekend
bruised by FA Cup final defeat
and missing a host of injured
players, also look there for the
taking for Bayern Munich.
And while goalscoring
motivation in a seemingly dead
rubber is not precise science, I
reckon the German champions Regional groupings for the Wigan’s England d
will want to go into the last Bob Willis Trophy have given a Under-18 striker JJoe
eight in good touch. It is a helping hand to better sides in Gelhardt, who will join in a deal
gamble but take Central and North groups where worth an initial £1m, rising to
Somerset and
them to win £2.5m.
minus three on SHOTS ON TARGET Yorkshire face And newly-promoted West
the handicaps ● HOT SHOT – Barcelona to largely Division Brom are ready to join the race
at 5-1. win -1 goal against Napoli at Two sides. At to land Bournemouth striker
In Super 6-4 (8pm tonight). 5-1 and 8-1, Callum Wilson.
League, ● LONG SHOT – Bayern Munich respectively, it Tottenham, Newcastle and
Castleford, who to win -3 goals against Chelsea is worth a few West Ham have also been linked
at 5-1 (8pm tonight). with the player.
have a great quid on both.
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STERLING JOB
MAN CITY
REAL MADRID
2
1
Raheem and
Main picture: PETER POWELL

Jesus keep
MAN CITY WIN 4-2 ON AGGREGATE
By David McDonnell
PEP GUARDIOLA said his
Manchester City players were ready
to humble the kings of Europe – and
how they proved him right.
the dream
City are into the last eight of the
RONALDO: Two goals in vain Champions League
dismantling the 13-time winners
after
alive for Pep
Cristiano’s with a masterclass that has made
Guardiola’s side one of the
favourites to go all the way. Guardiola’s side began to play with

double can’t Real had no answer to City’s

relentless work rate and enterprise
– embodied by match-winner
customary fluency, one sweeping
move ending with Sterling shooting
just over.

rescue Juve Gabriel Jesus, who made the first

JUVENTUS 2 LYON 1
2-2 ON AGG; LYON WIN ON AWAY GOALS
CRISTIANO RONALDO
crashed out of the Champions
League last night despite scoring
twice as Juventus lost to Lyon
on the away-goal rule.
Maurizio Sarri’s Juve, trailing
1-0 from the first leg, fell further
behind in Turin in the 12th
minute through Memphis
Depay, the former Manchester
United man converting a
penalty after a foul by Federico
Bernardeschi.
Hero Depay turned villain,
however, two minutes before
half-time when he conceded a
penalty for handball and
Ronaldo stepped up to level on
the night.
The ever-dangerous Ronaldo
was a constant thorn in Lyon’s
side and, in the 60th minute, his
long-range, left-footed shot
sailed into the top corner of the
net to make it a nervous last
half-an-hour for the visitors
from France.
An injury to substitute Paulo
Dybala – who lasted just 12
minutes before limping off the
field – added to the misery for
Juventus, with Rudi Garcia’s
Lyon celebrating wildly after
holding on to secure victory and
setting up a quarter-final tie
against Manchester City.
and scored the second.
When Karim Benzema cancelled
out Raheem Sterling’s early opener,
it seemed as though the frailties
that had plagued City in Europe
could cost them again.
But Guardiola, below, urged his
side to step up to the e plate and
they did. There were re so
many imperious displays ays
from City players it wasas
hard to single anyone e City
out, though Raphaell
Varane, a World Cup
winner with France,
gave them a helping g Benzema
hand with both goals.
Varane is unlikely to
forget this match in n a
hurry, Jesus seizing on his
vulnerabilities for both goals.
Conditions at the sun-kissed
Etihad were more Mediterranean
than Mancunian, with the
temperature at the end of a balmy
day still nudging 25C when the
sides emerged from the tunnel.
Guardiola told his players to
impose themselves and they did,
pressing their opponents
relentlessly, the policy yielding the
opening goal.
City made the perfect start,
opening the scoring after just nine
minutes.
Jesus honed in on Varane and
forced a mistake, the striker
winning the ball with ease to square
to Sterling, who was presented with
a tap-in for his 100th City goal.
The goal settled any early anxiety
City may have been feeling, as
Sterling was through on goal
again moments later but was
thwarted by a perfectly-timed
tackle from Casemiro just as he
prepared to pull the trigger.
Real served notice of their
enduring threat in the 20th minute
when Eden Hazard found Benzema,
wriggled free of Aymeric
who wrigg
Laporte,
Laport Ederson doing well
to block.
bl
It
I was a reminder to
C of the dangers of
switching
sw off but one
they
t failed to heed in
the
th 28th minute, when
B rose
unchallenged
un to
equalise
equ with a towering
header.
heade
Despite
Despit that setback, City
had chances to restore their lead,
Phil Foden screwing a shot wide
after Kevin De Bruyne had taken
full advantage of a sloppy Thibaut
Courtois goal kick to feed him.
Sterling had a chance to put City
back in front in the 53rd minute,
but Courtois came out to suppress
the danger.
Then De Bruyne was through on
goal, but City’s most influential
player was shackled by Daniel
Carvajal.
Courtois was called upon again to REAL
turn away a Jesus shot, as City
upped the tempo.
BLOW
Sterling
Then Varane sealed Real’s fate, strikes to
Jesus taking full advantage of his put City in
under-hit header back to Courtois the lead,
to beat the keeper to the ball with a notching his
classy flick of his left boot to score 100th goal
superbly from a narrow angle. for the club
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ON THE NIGHT
MAN CITY
PLAYER
ANALYSIS
(4-3-3) By David Anderson
EDERSON 7
Was good in the air and goalkeeper
saved well from Benzema, Hazard
and Modric.

ANSWER WALKER 7
THE CALL
Gabriel
Right-back was defensively solid and
cut inside to go on one mazy run
Jesus seals before blazing over.
City’s place
in last FERNANDINHO 6
eight after Was tidy in possession but playing
claiming at centre-back he did not get tight
their second enough to Benzema for his goal.
LAPORTE 6
Defender struggled at times against
Benzema and his compatriot beat
him to create one chance.
CANCELO 6
Started well but he was beaten all
too easily by Rodrygo for the
equaliser from Real.
DE BRUYNE 8
Grew into the game and City’s man of
the match caused Real problems with
his final balls and his shooting.

SLICKER: De Bruyne in control

MAN CITY v REAL MADRID RODRI 7

55 POSSESSION % 45
7 SHOTS ON TARGET 4 Midfielder did the basics well and he
6 SHOTS OFF TARGET 2 broke up the play for City and passed
6 BLOCKED SHOTS 3 the ball accurately.
7 CORNERS 3
8 FOULS 3 GUNDOGAN 7
0 YELLOW CARDS 1
1 RED CARDS 1 Showed good energy but overhit a
Source: Opta pass to Sterling from a great opening
and the chance for another goal.
STERLING 7
Slotted home the opener with his
100th City goal and should have
scored a second on the night.
FODEN 7
Started as City’s false nine and
worked hard before switching to the
right at half-time.
STILL JESUS 8
OPEN...
Lethal
Robbed Varane to create Sterling’s
opener and pounced on defender’s
Benzema mistake to score City’s second.
keeps Real SUBSTITUTES
in the hunt
B Silva 6 (for Foden 67); D Silva
with an
6 (for Sterling 81); Otamendi (for
equaliser in
Rodri 89).
28th minute

REAL MADRID (4-3-3)

Courtois 7; Carvajal 6 (Vazquez 83),
)
Varane 3, Militao 6, Mendy 7; Modric
7 (Valverde 83), Casemiro 7, Kroos 6;
Rodrygo 7 (Asensio 61, 6), Benzema 8,
Hazard 6 (Jovic 83).
BOOKED – REAL MADRID: Modric.
GOALS – MANCHESTER CITY:
Sterling 9, Jesus 68.
REAL MADRID: Benzema 28.
FEELING Real coach Zinedine
Zidane watched his side’s
STRAIN European hopes slip away
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MAN CITY 2 1 REAL MADRID

MAN CITY WIN 4-2 ON AGGREGATE
TON OF
CLASS:
Sterling
celebrates
100th goal
for City
express.co.uk/sport

WORTH
By David Anderson
PRIDE: Root salutes Stokes at stumps RAHEEM Sterling scored
his 100th goal for

BEWARE OUR Manchester City as they

reached the Champions
League quarter-finals.

MIRACLE MEN
Gabriel Jesus hit the
second as City punished
Real’s mistakes to advance

SAYS WOAKES
163 days after the first leg.
MATCH REPORT: P70-71

By Gideon Brooks

THE WAIT
CHRIS WOAKES has warned Pakistan against
thinking they have the first Test in the bag and
insists England have players capable of pulling
off miracles.
The fast bowler admitted Joe Root’s side
were up against it, facing a significant fourth
innings chase at Old Trafford with Pakistan
137-8 and already 244 ahead.
Ben Stokes gave England hope with two
late quick wickets and Woakes said: “We
TURN TO PAGE 67, COLUMN 3

After 163 days City finally finish off Madrid

IN WITH

F1: LEWIS IN LEAGUE OF HIS OWN

A SHOUT: NORRIS HAILS
Woakes is ALL-TIME GREAT
confident
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PuzzlesEXTRA
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Welcome to your brilliant Saturday Express eight-page puzzles pullout. We’ve got plenty here
to keep you busy, from your favourite crosswords to brain-teasing sudokus and more. Enjoy!

ENTERTAINMENT CROSSWORD
ACROSS DOWN
1 Riley _, actress and eldest grandchild 1 Architectural expert who has Grand
of Elvis Presley (6) Designs on C4 (5,7)
4 _ Wyatt, Pussycat Dolls member (8) 2 _ Murs, former X Factor contestant (4)
10 Song by The Zutons covered by Mark 3 Take That’s main singer and songwriter,
Ronson and Amy Winehouse (7) _ Barlow (4)
11 Suitably-named record-breaking 5 Welsh actor who appeared in Notting Hill,
Jamaican sprinter (5,4) Rhys _ (5)
12 Action movie hero, Bruce _ (6) 6 One-time boxer nicknamed “The Dark
16 Veteran actor Jon _, whose daughter Destroyer”, Nigel _ (4)
is Angelina Jolie (6) 7 Shout performer whose career spans six
18 _ Sevigny, appeared in Boys Don’t decades (4)
Cry (5) 8 Entrepreneur and reggae musician,
19 Often controversial Brit artist, _ Roots (4)
Damien _ (5) 9 Scottish 300 actor, Gerard _ (6)
22 Ally McBeal and Elementary actress, 13 Atomic Kitten member who won Celebrity
Lucy _ (3) Masterchef, _ McClarnon (3)
23 Ms Deschanel, played The New 14 Singer Doolittle or actress Dushku? (5)
Girl (5) 15 Rangers striker who used to play for
Spurs, Jermain _ (5)
24 Gossip Girl star, _ Lively (5)
17 She is married to musician Sting (6,6)
25 Rita _, singer whose debut solo
19 Actress and philanthropist, Salma _ (5)
number one was R.I.P. (3)
20 _ Maguire, The Great Gatsby and
27 The Big Bang Theory’s Penny,
Seabiscuit star (5)
_ Cuoco (5) 21 First name of Paul McCartney’s wife (5)
29 Iconic British actor, Sir Michael _ (5) 22 _ Hamilton, Formula One champion (5)
30 Illusionist and sceptic, _ Brown (6) 26 Former host of the panel show QI,
31 US actress once married to Andre Stephen _ (3)
Agassi, _ Shields (6) 28 Veteran dancer and choreographer, _
37 Josh Brolin’s ex-wife and Hollywood Blair (6)
colleague (5,4) 31 American recording artist, Aloe _ (5)
38 _ Jenner, Kardashian relative (7) 32 Singer who has duetted with Elton John,
39 Mr Cumberbatch, star of BBC’s _ Dee (4)
Sherlock (8) 33 Eggheads presenter, Jeremy _ (4)
40 Arsenal FC’s manager 1996-2018, 34 Lee _, West End star who has appeared
Arsene _ (6) in Casualty and Holby City (4)
35 Elizabeth I star formerly married to James
McAvoy, _-Marie Duff (4)
36 Designer famed for her wedding dresses,
Vera _ (4)

CODEWORD
The number in each square corresponds to a letter. Work out the words in the grid using the letters provided.
Fill in these known letters first, then use skill and judgement to work out the others.

A A A
1 B 2 B 3 B
C C C
D D D
E E E
F F F
G G G
H H H
I I I
J J J
K K K
L L L
M M M
N N N
O O O
P P P
Q Q Q
R R R
S S S
T T T
U U U
V V V
W W W
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
M X N O X L X
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Y 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Y 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Y
O Z Z U Z
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SAMURAI SUDOKU EASY SUDOKU 1

Normal sudoku rules apply for all five 9x9 sudokus, but the 9x9 inner sudoku
shares four of its 3x3 boxes with those of the outside sudokus.

HARD SUDOKU 1

NUMBERFIT 1 NUMBERFIT 2 ALPHADOKU 1

Use logic to fit the listed numbers below into the corresponding grid. A 9 x 9 sudoku with

Y
R U
V Z U T W
T X W R
Z W V
V Y
2 digits: 28 39 2 digits: 22 29 40 41 61 62 66 98 U
3 digits: 185 195 333 345 456 546 564 645 3 digits: 274 289 342 524 595 833
717 778
5 digits: 35563 41873
4
5
digits:
digits:
4273 4635 5454 9495
34567 45678
V X S
6 digits: 185941 188391 642674 914384 7 digits: 3213193 3242399 4563221 7894423
7 digits:
9 digits:
1231951 1236848 1237592 1436411
185615893 391310128 915515782
9 digits: 283452209 454932562 523943462 T V S
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EASY SUDOKU 2 FUTOSHIKI 1 FUTOSHIKI 2

Insert the numbers one to five in each row and each column, making sure that no number is repeated.
The only symbols to guide you are the “greater than” (>) and “less than” (<) signs.

HARD SUDOKU 2 KILLER SUDOKU 1 KILLER SUDOKU 2

Each row and column hold the numbers 1 to 9 and the numbers in the cages must add to the given total.
No number can be repeated in a cage.
12 7 7 15 5 14 18 12 20 19

15 9 13 12 10 11 4

11 13 8 8 15 8 10 7

9 14 17 17 11 19 5 13

17 13 16 10 9 14 16 14

7 15 8 17 6

11 20 5 16 12 9 11 3 14

5 11 17 11 12 13 28 5 21

10 13 6 7

ALPHADOKU 2 KAKURO 1 KAKURO 2

Fill in each series of blank squares using the numbers 1 to 9. Each series – across and down – must add up to the number
h the letters R to Z. in the shaded box at the beginning or top of the series. A number may be repeated in each line but not in a series.

V 8 28 20 14 12 5 14 26 13 4 14
7 12 8 16
R 35 11 19
21 15 23 9
T V Z Y W 20 6
28 13 16
U W Z X 10 12 18 16
14 26 38
S Z X 12 20
13 6 13 8 14
X Y 9 10
7 9 10
X S 4 13 7 14 6 16 10 17
20 27 31
V W
5 9 25
W Z X Y
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BIG CROSSWORD 1 BIG CROSSWORD 2

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

9 10 8 9

11 10 11 12

12 13 14 13 14 15

15 16 17 16 17 18 19

18 19 20 21 22 20 21 22 23

23 24

24 25 26 25 26 27

27 28 29

28 29 30 31 32 30 31 32 33

33 34

34 35 36 37 35 36 37 38

38 39 40 39 40 41 42

41 42 43 44

ACROSS 31 Laid-back (7) 7 Cook up (7) ACROSS 35 Punctuation mark (5) 7 Ladder step (4)

34 Host (9) 8 Distant friend (3,3) 8 Cherubic (7) 36 Shoe part (5) 10 Snub (6)
9 Perfect specimen (9)
36 Training 11 Tool (7) 9 Absent-minded (9) 37 Take advantage of (7) 11 Cradle song (7)
10 Hostage (8)
manoeuvres (9) 16 Cold (6) 13 Go in (5) 39 Inconsistent (7) 12 Facet (6)
12 Border on (4)
38 Lockjaw (7) 19 Uneven (5) 14 Lorry (5) 41 Hold on tightly (5) 19 Manifest (7)
13 Daze (6)
39 Dismays (6) 20 Wager (3) 15 Fruit (7) 42 Recess (5) 21 Unvarying (7)
14 Pilot’s
40 Young sheep (4) 22 English county (5) 16 Innumerable, informally (7) 43 Exactness (9) 24 Supreme
compartment (7)
41 Of the brain or intellect (8) 23 Romp (6) 17 Depart (5) 44 Temporary authority (11)
15 Interfering (9)
42 Unanimity (9) 25 Mandatory (10) 18 Hangman’s halter (5) replacement (5-2) 26 Sport (10)
17 Punctuation mark (9)
26 Annoy (3) 20 Wind instrument (5) 28 Mistrust (9)
18 Infantile (7)
DOWN 27 Advance (7) 22 Eraser (6) DOWN 29 Zodiac sign (7)
20 Nocturnal animal (6)
30 Tractable (8) 23 Soft fabric (6) 1 Foot part (6) 30 Confidential (6)
21 Abominable 1 Underground cemetery (8)
31 White wine (8) 25 Realm (7) 2 Recover (8) 32 Adversary (8)
snowman (4) 2 Nape (6)
32 Undeceive (8) 27 Card game (7) 3 Lounge (7,4) 33 Couch (6)
24 Implied (8) 3 Canine (8)
33 Trailblazer (7) 30 Tempestuous (6) 4 Turf accountant (9) 34 Pariah (7)
26 Borrowing charge (8) 4 Entices (6)
35 Suds (6) 31 Brawn (6) 5 Neglected (7) 38 Flower (6)
28 Beams (4) 5 Informed (8)
36 Anticipate (6) 32 Fertile spot (5) 6 Accomplishment (10) 40 Uncommon (4)
29 Go on board (6) 6 Evade (10)
37 Not dense (6)

QUICK CLUES
TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD ACROSS
7 Unconventional (6,3,4)
8 Punctuation mark (4,4)
This two-speed crossword has two sets of clues, 9 Thoroughfare (4)
10 Soldier (6)
but just one grid 12 Slanting (6)
14 Climb (6)
CRYPTIC CLUES 16 Tyrant (6)
18 Sewing case (4)
ACROSS DOWN 20 Observed (6,2)
7 Far too colourless to be accepted in 1 No answers? (8) 22 Unimportant (13)
society? (6,3,4) 2 Appear on the scene and defy gravity? (4,2)
8 The point of punctuation (4,4) 3 An entrance I’d turn in at (4) DOWN
9 Stick around a street (4) 4 The control of the stock-holder? (4,4) 1 Denials (8)
10 Soldier with papers in order (6) 5 It goes round without joining up (6) 2 Arrive (4,2)
12 Poles strangely following a certain 6 Turn pale - being possibly guilty (4) 3 Mineshaft (4)
inclination (6) 11 Having associations for a Communist who 4 Dominating position (4,4)
14 Dances arranged to scale (6) had nothing on loan (8) 5 Coil (6)
16 New depots he controls, absolutely (6) 13 Offer for money? (8) 6 Entreaty (4)
11 Fragrant (8)
18 Where needles are kept, just in case! (4) 15 Bring out in a felicitous way (6)
13 Suggest (8)
20 Regarded as having taken no active 17 Draw South by boat (6)
15 Bring out (6)
part (6,2) 19 It’s a sound quality (4) 17 Drawing (6)
22 I can’t sing if in distress - though 21 Fools break up the sofa (4) 19 Timbre (4)
trivial (13) 21 Fools (4)
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JUMBO CROSSWORD
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 DOWN
1 Blood (4) 49 Hobby (7)
12 13 14
2 Stands (6) 51 Disappear (6)
15 3 Resolve (6) 53 Fast (6)
4 Farm vehicle (7) 55 Footwear items (5)
16 17 18 19 5 Even (5) 58 Brochure (10)
6 Bewildered (10) 60 Look at (3)
7 Started (5) 62 Material (5)
8 Unproductive (9) 63 Backpack (9)
20 21 22 23 24
9 Shine (7) 65 Deduced (8)
25 26 10 Unruffled (4) 68 Frank (6)
11 Animals (8) 70 Fruit (7)
27 28 29 30 31 32 15 Pair (6) 71 Put back (7)
21 Breed (5) 75 Artist (6)
33 34 76 Changes (6)
24 Quickly (7)
25 Jars (6) 77 Kiosk (5)
35 36 37 38 39 40
26 Toils (6) 78 Deliberate (5)
41 28 Tree (5) 80 Woman’s name (4)
29 Pinch (3) 84 Hood (4)
42 43 44 45 46 47 33 Quarrel (7)
34 Missive (6)
37 Equestrian (5)
48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 40 Commerce (5)
41 Fact (7)
43 Exonerate (5)
44 Headache (6)
56 57 58 59 60 61 62 46 Game (5)
63

64 65 66 67 68 69

70 71
SPOT THE DIFFERENCE
72 73 74 75 76 Can you spot the six differences between these two pictures?

77 78

79 80 81 82 83 84
A

85 86 87

ACROSS
12 Kind (4-7) 32 Separate (5) 56 Severe (7) 82 Crook (9)
13 Certainly not (2,4) 35 Look (4) 57 Bark (4) 83 Apiece (4)
14 Appeared (6) 36 Clue (7) 59 Dog (7) 85 Decline (6)
16 Stamp (4) 38 Plunge (4) 61 Instance (4) 86 Eliminate (3,3)
17 Rebuked (6,3) 39 Souvenir (7) 64 Point (5) 87 Sold (7,4)
18 Wrong (5) 42 Yell (6) 66 Hand (4)
19 Country (4) 45 Sat (5) 67 Engross (6)
20 Continued (7,2) 46 Lineage (7) 69 Thickness (7)
22 Nozzle (5) 47 Remain (4) 72 Shameless (9)
23 Flag (4,5) 48 Maintain (4) 73 Exhausted (5)
27 Illness (7) 50 Recovered from (3,4) 74 Check (9)
30 Chum (6) 52 Disgust (5) 79 Class (4)
31 Table (4) 54 Hurries (6) 81 Relish (5)
B
NUMBERCRUNCH
Follow the instructions from left to right, starting with the number
given to reach an answer at the end of the row
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GIANT SUDOKU MEDIUM SUDOKU 1

Every row, every column and every 5 x 5 box must contain every digit from 1 to 9
and every letter from K to Z.

VERY HARD SUDOKU 1

CROSS OUT 1 CROSS OUT 2 IMPOSSUDOKU 1

Cross out one of the two letters in each divided square to reveal a completed crossword grid.

A A S A R P L L E K
E T L T S S A A N S
W I I L G E
Z E H N L K
T R E O N H D R E E
A H S E S A I A G D
R T X N E B
L R C R M D
S N N S E G R E S T
E E S U T P I A R S
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MEDIUM SUDOKU 2 PATHFINDER 1 PATHFINDER 2

From the top corner, make a path of words linked to the theme. The trail goes through each letter once but never diagonally.
BRITISH TENNIS PLAYERS GEMSTONES
S R K J A M I N G F D P E R G A A R T I N M O P E A P P H I
U A E R R U E O V R E R R I I Q M I A L U M O S R S Y H T R
E B L E R M D E A H L Y N V N U A N E P M E N A E P S T E E
A N E Y A E G L O T A U O A I P O T A L A N S J R P L B M A
B T A C M I A D E K E R S W A A L E C H I O T I C O O B E R
A L A H A I T O A N N A B E D I C N R A T Z U L S D O M I T
H N T I J N S Y N B G R O J O T N E T G E A L S T O L A T A
A N H M N J U A N U N I M E H R I R U I S A P I E N R U I N
Y A E N O O D I E C O N F L N A C Q U O E L V L P E A M T U
D N A M S T U R G I L I O L L R Y B E N I D E I S D N A N R
O N O N A A W R R K S D Y N D N E U R E Y N R A E R A V E I
O J J H T A R E E G S E D A Y I L I G S E A M L T I X E E N
N E S A N M R H T R U O R Y M A N T E R T O M E R A A L D I
T N A N H O A E A L Y G E A U T R Q E L A U E I D L D D N A
A O K N A J Y H R O A T R R R Z A U N I M R N A I S B O O M

VERY HARD SUDOKU 2 WORDSEARCH 1 WORDSEARCH 2

Find 11 words in the left grid and 13 in the right.
BIBLICAL WOMEN CHEMICAL ELEMENTS

IMPOSSUDOKU 2 ARROWWORD 1 ARROWWORD 2

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SOLUTIONS
PAGE ONE

ENTERTAINMENT CROSSWORD CODEWORD

ACROSS: 1 Keough; 4 Kimberly; 10 Valerie; 11 Usain Bolt; 12 Willis; 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
V Q N M X J K Z I W U P H
16 Voight; 18 Chloe; 19 Hirst; 22 Liu; 23 Zooey; 24 Blake; 25 Ora; 1415 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
L T O F D B R E G S Y A C
27 Kaley; 29 Caine; 30 Derren; 31 Brooke; 37 Diane Lane; 38 Kendall;
39 Benedict; 40 Wenger. DOWN: 1 Kevin McCloud; 2 Olly; 3 Gary; 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
Y T N D K V J X F M E O S
5 Ifans; 6 Benn; 7 Lulu; 8 Levi; 9 Butler; 13 Liz; 14 Eliza; 15 Defoe; 1415 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26

17 Trudie Styler; 19 Hayek; 20 Tobey; 21 Nancy; 22 Lewis; 26 Fry;

H I R A B U W Q C Z L G P
3 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
28 Lionel; 31 Blacc; 32 Kiki; 33 Vine; 34 Mead; 35 Anne; 36 Wang. A P R G O Z S T L H C X M
1415 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
N E B Y J Q D V W F K U I

PAGES TWO AND THREE:

SAMURAI SUDOKU EASY SUDOKU FUTOSHIKI NUMBERFIT KAKURO

1 2 1 3 2 5 1 4 2 1 5 2 4 3 1 1 2 3 1 9 5 1 2 4 5 6 3 2 2 1 1
1 8 8 3 9 1 2 7 2 2 9 8 3 1 2 4 9 3
2 5 1 4 3 3 1 5 2 4 1 8 5 3 5 5 6 3 8 3 3 3 4 2 7 5 9 7 5 2 1
4 5 6 5 4 6 9 4 9 5 5 4 5 4 4 7 9 8 6 7
1 4 3 2 5 5 4 1 3 2 3 9 1 3 1 0 1 2 8 4 5 4 9 3 2 5 6 2 6 8 8 5 9 1 3
6 4 5 5 6 4 4 6 3 5 4 2 7 3 4 9 1 2 3
4 3 2 5 1 2 3 4 5 1 4 1 8 7 3 7 7 8 2 7 4 2 8 9 1 2 4
1 9 1 4 3 8 4 3 6 6 4 0 9 3 9 8 9 6 8 4
5 1 4 3 2 4 2 3 1 5 1 2 3 7 5 9 2 3 2 1 3 1 9 3 1 4 1 6 2

HARD SUDOKU KILLER SUDOKU ALPHADOKU

1 2 1 5 6 3 8 7 1 4 2 9 2 3 2 6 5 1 4 7 8 9 1 W T U R X S Y Z V 2 Y W S T X U Z R V 2
7 1 4 9 6 2 8 5 3 7 8 4 3 6 9 5 1 2 S Y R Z W V T X U U Z X R W V T S Y 1 5 2 4 3 9
2 9 8 5 4 3 6 7 1 9 5 1 7 2 8 6 3 4 X V Z U T Y S W R R T V S Z Y X W U 4 9 8 2 3 1 5
6 3 7 1 8 9 2 4 5 6 7 2 9 4 1 8 5 3 T X V S Y W R U Z V Y R U T W S Z X 9 4 2 1
9 5 1 4 2 6 7 3 8 5 4 8 2 3 7 9 6 1 Y Z W T R U V S X S U Z X Y R V T W 9 7 6 3 5 8
4 8 2 3 5 7 9 1 6 1 3 9 8 5 6 4 2 7 U R S V Z X W T Y T X W V S Z U Y R 7 6 7 1 5 9
3 7 5 6 9 4 1 8 2 8 6 3 4 7 2 1 9 5 R S X Y U T Z V W X S U Y R T W V Z 5 1 3 2 8
1 4 9 2 3 8 5 6 7 4 1 5 6 9 3 2 7 8 V W Y X S Z U R T Z V Y W U S R X T 2 5 7 4 9 1 3
8 2 6 7 1 5 3 9 4 2 9 7 1 8 5 3 4 6 Z U T W V R X Y S W R T Z V X Y U S 2 9 6 8

PAGES FOUR AND FIVE:

BIG CROSSWORD 1
ACROSS: 9 Archetype; 10 Prisoner; 12 Abut;
13 Stupor; 14 Cockpit; 15 Officious;
17 Semicolon; 18 Babyish; 20 Badger; 21 Yeti;
24 Implicit; 26 Interest; 28 Rays; 29 Embark;
31 Relaxed; 34 Multitude; 36 Exercises;
38 Tetanus; 39 Appals; 40 Lamb; 41 Cerebral;
42 Consensus. DOWN: 1 Catacomb;
2 Scruff; 3 Eyetooth; 4 Tempts; 5 Apprised;
6 Circumvent; 7 Concoct; 8 Pen pal; 11 Utensil;
16 Chilly; 19 Bumpy; 20 Bet; 22 Essex;
23 Frolic; 25 Compulsory; 26 Irk; 27 Promote;
30 Amenable; 31 Riesling; 32 Disabuse;
33 Pioneer; 35 Lather; 36 Expect; 37 Sparse.
BIG CROSSWORD 2
ACROSS: 8 Angelic; 9 Forgetful; 13 Enter;
14 Truck; 15 Oranges; 16 Umpteen; 17 Leave;
18 Noose; 20 Flute; 22 Rubber; 23 Velvet;
25 Kingdom; 27 Pontoon; 30 Stormy;
31 Muscle; 32 Oasis; 35 Comma; 36 Upper;
37 Exploit; 39 Erratic; 41 Cling; 42 Niche;
43 Precision; 44 Stand-in. DOWN: 1 Instep;
2 Retrieve; 3 Sitting room; 4 Bookmaker;
5 Ignored; 6 Attainment; 7 Rung; 10 Rebuff;
11 Lullaby; 12 Aspect; 19 Obvious; 21 Uniform;
24 Sovereignty; 26 Gymnastics; 28 Suspicion;
29 Scorpio; 30 Secret; 32 Opponent; 33 Settee;
34 Outcast; 38 Orchid; 40 Rare.
JUMBO CROSSWORD SPOT THE DIFFERENCE
ACROSS: 12 Soft-hearted; 13 No fear; 14 Looked; 16 Seal; 17
Ticked off; 18 Amiss; 19 Land; 20 Pressed on; 22 Spout; 23
Blue peter; 27 Ailment; 30 Friend; 31 List; 32 Apart; 35 Peep;
36 Pointer; 38 Dive; 39 Memento; 42 Scream; 45 Posed; 46
Descent; 47 Stay; 48 Keep; 50 Got over; 52 Repel; 54 Rushes;
56 Drastic; 57 Snap; 59 Scottie; 61 Case; 64 Train; 66 Pass;
67 Occupy; 69 Density; 72 Barefaced; 73 Spent; 74 Restraint;
79 Form; 81 Gusto; 82 Chiseller; 83 Each; 85 Refuse; 86 Cut
out; 87 Knocked down. DOWN: 1 Gore; 2 Stalls; 3 Settle; 4
Tractor; 5 Level; 6 Confounded; 7 Began; 8 Fruitless; 9 Glisten;
10 Cool; 11 Reindeer; 15 Couple; 21 Raise; 24 Express; 25
Grates; 26 Slaves; 28 Maple; 29 Nip; 33 Dispute; 34 Letter;
37 Rider; 40 Trade; 41 Reality; 43 Clear; 44 Megrim; 46 Darts;
49 Pastime; 51 Vanish; 53 Prompt; 55 Socks; 58 Prospectus;
60 Eye; 62 Satin; 63 Haversack; 65 Reasoned; 68 Candid; 70
Mangoes; 71 Replace; 75 Turner; 76 Amends; 77 Booth; 78
Meant; 80 Maud; 84 Cowl.
TWO-SPEED NUMBERCRUNCH
ACROSS: 7 Beyond the pale; 8 Full Beginner - 5
stop; 9 Road; 10 Sapper; 12 Aslope; Intermediate - 45
14 Ascend; 16 Despot; 18 Etui; Advanced - 83
20 Looked on; 22 Insignificant.
DOWN: 1 Refusals; 2 Roll up; 3 Adit;
4 Whip hand; 5 Spiral; 6 Plea;
11 Redolent; 13 Propound; 15 Elicit;
17 Sketch; 19 Tone; 21 Oafs.

PAGES SIX AND SEVEN:

PATHFINDER GIANT SUDOKU MEDIUM SUDOKU IMPOSSUDOKU ARROWWORD
1 Sue Barker, Jamie Delgado, Anne 1 2 1 2 1 2
Keothavong, Fred Perry, Laura Robson,
Virginia Wade, John Lloyd, Andy Murray,
Roger Taylor, Heather Watson, Jo Durie,
Greg Rusedski, Colin Fleming, Bunny
Austin, Jamie Murray, Elena Baltacha,
Tim Henman, Ann Haydon-Jones,
Jonathan Marray, Johanna Konta. VERY HARD SUDOKU CROSS OUT WORDSEARCH
2 Aquamarine, Platinum, Moonstone, 1 2 1 A T L A S 2 S A L E S 1 2
Malachite, Garnet, Opal, Citrine,
Turquoise, Lapis Lazuli, Copper, Jasper, W I I L L E
Sapphire, Amethyst, Bloodstone, Pearl, A R S O N A D A G E
Amber, Titanium, Aventurine, Diamond, R T C N M D
Obsidian, Emerald, Alexandrite, Silver, E N S U E G R A S S
Almandine, Ruby, Carnelian, Tiger’s Eye,
Tourmaline, Quartz.