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Watch the birdie...drone’s eye view of Simon in dinghy
THE tranquil surface of Ullswater in
the Lake District spreads into the
distance with barely a ripple.
Only a lone boatman disturbs the
peace as he sends up a drone to take
the ultimate selfie of himself in his
dinghy at one with nature.
Photographer Simon Everett, 60,
was visiting Cumbria’s second-
largest lake on Sunday...when he was
lucky to have at least some sunshine,
along with wind, rain, hail and snow.
By Chris Riches
Simon, of Uttoxeter, Staffs, said that
his day was crowned by catching,
and putting back, two beautiful
brown trout.
He explained: “The water was gin
clear and fresh and it was a
wonderful morning. I didn’t see a
single soul.
“I wanted to see the lake from the
air so sent up my drone and the
images were breathtaking. I had all
four seasons in one day with
sunshine, rain, hail, snow and wind. It
was the real great outdoors.”
Simon can count his blessings as
the Met Office says we now face a
week of downpours. There could
even be thunder storms.
Netweather TV said: “At last we
have much needed rain for the
farmers and growers in a crazy
spring so far.

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Ullswater’s
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Shooting star...Elizabeth
BUDDING astronaut Elizabeth
Norman is so out of this world that
she has earned the chance to send
something to the moon.
The seven-year-old space fanatic
– known as Astro Liz – stages
homemade launches in her garden,
writes blogs and posts experiments.
The team planning the first lunar
landing in nearly 50 years were so
impressed they invited her to be the
first child to send an object to space.
The schoolgirl has chosen her blog
sticker and she and her family will get
By Amy Reast
to wave it off when it launches inside
a time capsule on the Vulcan Centaur
mission from Florida later this year.
She said: “I can’t wait to see a
video of the capsule with my sticker
on the moon. I’m so excited to watch
the launch and my friends are excited
for me. I love science and space
because there is so much to learn.”
Astro Liz launched a homemade
7ft replica from her Leicester garden
earlier this year. It soared 30ft into
the air, wowing the rocket scientists at
United Launch Alliance who offered
to take something for the shooting
star who wants to be an astronaut.
She is one of just a handful of
people to include a personal item on
the first mission of its kind.
ULA is taking the unmanned
Peregrine Lunar Lander to the moon
for Nasa. Astrobotic – who made the
lander – was charging $1.2million
(£850,000) per kg for others sending
mementos but there is no fee for Astro
Liz’s sticker. She said: “Astrobotic is
making my space dreams come true.”
The junior rocketeer hopes to be
reunited with her sticker on the moon
and recently completed a five-week
virtual mission to Mars run by Nasa.
She added: “My goals are to walk
on the moon and explore the highest
mountain on Mars. I also hope I can
fly on the Vulcan Centaur one day.
“I already know what space snacks
I want to bring.”
Proud mum Jennifer 34, said: “We
are inspired by Elizabeth. We truly
believe she will go to space one day.”
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CORONAVIRUS:

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FROM PAGE ONE
efforts have so visibly paid off.” He
called on the public to enjoy the
hard-won freedoms responsibly,
after zero virus deaths were
recorded in most of the UK.
Mr Johnson said that the time
had now come for people to make
their own decisions about how to
protect others.
But he urged them not to “throw
caution to the wind” once the
restrictions end on Monday.
He said yesterday at No 10: “This
unlocking amounts to a very con-
siderable step on the road back to
normality and I am confident we
will be able to go further.”
The Prime Minister called on
people to “protect the gains” made
in driving down the infection rate.
The Covid alert level has been
reduced from 4 to 3 following a fall
in cases and deaths, on the advice

LIFTING OF CLASS
MASKS DISPUTED
THE move to allow secondary
school pupils in England to
no longer wear face masks in
class from next week has
been opposed by unions.
Some parents and MPs had
been concerned that face
coverings were disrupting
learning and wellbeing since
being introduced in March.
But union leaders and
scientists have called for
them to remain in classrooms
to ensure pupils, staff,
parents and the community
are not put at any risk.
Representatives last week
wrote to Education Secretary
Gavin Williamson urging him
to keep masks in place until
at least June 21. Don’t flag...Boris Johnson
yesterday urges people to
stay cautious about Covid
of medical chiefs. Step 3 of the
roadmap out of lockdown lets peo-
ple in England meet indoors for the
first time since New Year, in groups Cinemas, theatres, concert halls then on have five regular visitors, step towards that moment when we on close contact between friends
up to six and from two households. and conference centres will be rather than the current two, with learn to live responsibly with and family, setting out the risks for
The go-ahead for the biggest lift- allowed to reopen while overnight more freedom to leave. Covid, when we cease eventually everyone to make their own
ing of restrictions came after not stays in homes, hotels, b&b accom- Outlining the sweeping changes, to rely on detailed Government choices.
one Covid death was notified in modation and hostels can return. Mr Johnson said: “We are announc- edicts and make our own decisions “This does not mean we can sud-
England, Scotland and Northern ing the single biggest step on our – based on the best scientific advice denly throw caution to the winds.
Ireland yesterday – four fatalities
were recorded in Wales, up from
Visitors roadmap and it will allow us to do
many of the things we’ve yearned
– about how to protect our families
and those around us.”
“In fact, more than a year into
this pandemic, we all know that
two the day before. Pupils will no longer have to to do for a long time. People would have to make their close contact, such as hugging, is a
From Monday, people will be wear Covid masks in classrooms “So let’s protect these gains by own judgments about precautions direct way of transmitting this
able to sit inside pubs and restau- and face-to-face teaching can continuing to exercise caution and to protect themselves and others disease.
rants; table service and mask wear- restart for all university students. common sense.” from coronavirus infection, he said. “So I urge you to think about the
ing for staff will still be enforced. Care home residents can from He continued: “We are taking a “We are updating the guidance vulnerability of your loved ones –
whether they have had a vaccine,
one or two doses, and whether

COMMENT
THINGS are looking pretty to reduce the daily case number the virus is fighting. Opening up there has been time for that vac-
optimistic now. Most adults have to below 1,000 for all of July – indoor activities is the natural cine to take effect.”
had at least one vaccine dose, without the help of any vaccine next step in our return to The PM added: “Remember out-

which are all mostly effective
against the Kent variant.
Daily case numbers are down
to around 2,000 per day and
there are hardly any deaths.
The next step of relaxations
is coming as scheduled on
Monday, which will allow dining
and other activities indoors.
This is the step that most
experts have been concerned
about. It is very likely some
“inadvertent” social mixing
indoors has already been
DR JULIAN TANG
Clinical virologist at
University of Leicester
occurring and schoolchildren
have been mixing indoors for
several months now with no
obvious surge in cases.
However, the rate of decrease
in daily case numbers has fallen.
This is a subtle but important
point. Last summer, we managed
– and with even fewer people
having natural immunity.
So how should we interpret
this? And, importantly, what
does this mean for the coming
May 17 relaxation?
My impression is that the virus
is still trying to spread – it is
“pushing” hard against the
vaccine wall we have set up.
The ongoing rollout is closing
the virus down a little at a time,
but this is also exerting a
selection pressure against which
normality and I’m not saying that
we shouldn’t do it.
But we need to be vigilant and
monitor case numbers carefully,
because increased contact will
give the virus more chance to
find holes in the vaccine wall.
If we see signs of this, we
must ensure there are enough
“fingers” – updated vaccines
and/or return to masks, social
distancing etc – to plug these, so
the wall does not come crashing
down – as it has before.
doors is always safer than indoors.
And if you are meeting indoors,
remember to open a window and
let in the fresh air.
“And whatever you decide, I
must ask that you continue to fol-
low social distancing when not
with friends and family, including
in workplaces, shops, pubs, restau-
rants and other settings.”
The Prime Minister cautioned
that outbreaks around the world
showed continued vigilance about
Covid was necessary: “We only
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Q&A
BORIS Johnson has given the go-
ahead to further relaxations of the
lockdown rules in England.
Revellers will be able to enjoy food
and drink inside with the reopening of
indoor hospitality from Monday, May
17, while friends and relatives will be
given the choice on whether to
socially distance from one another.

■
Here, we look at what is set to
change under step three of the WHAT ABOUT LIFE EVENTS?
Government’s roadmap. Up to 30 people will be able to

■
WHAT WILL BE
ALLOWED  INDOORS?
Gatherings inside homes are to be
permitted once again, with a limit of
up to six people or two households.
join together to celebrate weddings,
receptions, wakes and religious
ceremonies like christenings. The
cap is also being lifted on the
numbers attending funerals.

A return to museums, cinemas,
restaurants and pubs is also on the
cards – without any 10pm curfews.
Pub-goers will also be free to meet
for a drink without being required to
buy a substantial meal, but they
must order while seated.
■
 WILL PERFORMANCES AND
SPORTING EVENTS RESUME?
May 17 will herald a return to
theatres and indoor sporting arenas,
with a maximum capacity of 1,000
people. Outdoor arenas will be able
to host events with a maximum

■
number of 4,000 spectators, or up
HOW ARE SOCIAL CONTACT   to 10,000 for larger venues.
RULES CHANGING?
People will be given an individual
choice on whether to socially
distance from friends and family
■ ARE THERE ANY CHANGES
TO EDUCATION AND WORK?
Yes. All university students can
from different households, meaning return to campus next week for
loved ones will be allowed to hug for in-person teaching with Covid tests
the first time in over a year. twice a week. Face coverings will also
But the Government is urging no longer be required in secondary
people to remain “cautious” . schools and colleges. Employees are
Wider social-distancing rules will advised to still work from home
remain in place in adult social care, where they can.
medical, retail, hospitality and
business settings.
■
IS IT SAFE TO BOOK
FOREIGN HOLIDAYS?
■  WHICH OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES The ban on overseas holidays will be
WILL BE ALLOWED? lifted. Mr Johnson has previously
People will be able to meet outdoors announced green list countries. In
Ready to reopen: in groups of up to 30 people. The England, hotels, hostels and B&Bs
Laura Holbrooke roadmap advises people to “decide
prepares table at can reopen. Also domestic overnight
Waddesdon Manor, on the appropriate level of risk for stays will be allowed for groups of up
Aylesbury, Bucks their circumstances” . to six people or two households.

have to look at the very sad situa-
tion in other countries to see the
lethal potential of this virus and we
must continue to fight the spread
of variants here in the UK.”
The country is on track for the
lifting of the majority of remaining
Covid restrictions on June 21, Mr
Johnson pledged, but he resisted
calls to end lockdown early.
“The secret of the success that
we’ve had so far is that we’ve been
guided by the data and we’ve given
time to see the effect of each suc- to be done “carefully and
cessive stage on the roadmap. steadily”.
“We think it’s prudent, we think He warned the virus variant first
we can do it, but it’s got to be done identified in India “is beginning to
in a way that’s cautious. spread in certain parts of the coun-
try. The threats are significantly
Issues reduced but there are still some
residual issues that we need to
“I think that we will want to keep a very close eye on”.
have time to see the effects.” Sir Patrick Vallance, the
Prof Chris Whitty, the Government’s Chief Scientific
Government’s Chief Medical Adviser, said vaccines were provid-
Adviser, said easing lockdown had ing good protection against death
and serious illness: “Everything is
pointing in the direction that the
vaccines are producing very effec-
tive reductions. They are also
reducing onward transmission.
“It points to a lower increase
than you might have otherwise
expected with another wave.”
Mark Harper, chairman of the
Covid Recovery Group of Tory
MPs who want a faster exit from
lockdown, last night urged Mr
Johnson to scrap all social distanc-
ing rules from June 21. He said: “I
welcome confirmation that step 3
of the roadmap will go ahead from
next Monday. This is clearly justi-
fied by the very positive data.
“Getting rid of social distancing
is crucial to the very survival of
many sectors of our economy such
as hospitality, that simply cannot
make any money and pay wages
with social distancing in place.
Clarity

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NO Covid deaths were reported
in England for the first time in
nearly 10 months yesterday.
Scotland and Northern Ireland
also avoided tragedy while four
lives were claimed in Wales.
It was the first day in which
England recorded zero deaths
since July 30 last year.
The reassuring data came as
Public Health England shed new
light on just how well the vaccines
By Hanna Geissler
are protecting us. Real-word data
shows a single AstraZeneca-
Oxford or Pfizer-BioNTech jab
cuts the risk of dying from
Covid-19 by around 80 per cent.
And two doses of the Pfizer
injection reduced the chance by
an incredible 97 per cent. There is
not yet enough evidence on two
Oxford shots. Health Secretary
Matt Hancock said: “The evidence
is clear that vaccines provide
significant layers of protection.
“People across the country can
breathe a sigh of relief knowing
that their risk of becoming
seriously ill or hospitalised is
significantly reduced.
“This news will be life-changing
for many who have worried about
the devastating impact of this
virus. The vaccine is saving
thousands of lives and giving us
hope on our road to recovery.”
A separate PHE report also
showed the Pfizer vaccine was
highly effective at reducing the
risk of being hospitalised,
especially among older people.
For the over 80s, it was
estimated two shots slashed it by
93 per cent. Dr Mary Ramsay,
head of immunisation, said: “It is
vital to get both doses.”
“I also welcome the Prime
Minister’s confirmation that he will
provide clarity about step 4, due
from June 21, by the end of this
month.
“The data does, and will con-
tinue to, support the ending of
social distancing completely.”
Mr Harper added: “I also wel-
come the fact that the Prime
Minister has made it clear that we
will all have to learn to live with
the virus, stop relying on
Government edicts and make our
own decisions about balancing
risks in living our lives.”
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QUEEN’S SPEECH: THE

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Senior Political Correspondent

EDUCATION reforms for older

teenagers and adults will be
“rocket fuel” in levelling-up the
nation, pledged Boris Johnson.
The Prime Minister said the
plans, to be unveiled in today’s

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Queen’s speech, will revolutionise
adult education and training.
It will be Her Majesty’s first
major ceremony since the death of
Prince Philip last month.
New laws could cover Northern
Ireland veterans, social care, asy-
lum, the environment, planning
and building safety.

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Downing Street said the promise
of a “lifetime skills guarantee” will
be central to plans for the new par-
liamentary session.
The student loan system will be
reformed to give every adult
access to a flexible loan for higher-
level education.

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Mr Johnson said: “These new
laws are the rocket fuel that we
need to level up this country and
ensure equal opportunities for all.
“We know that having the right
skills and training is the route to
better, well-paid jobs.

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“I’m revolutionising the system
so we can move past the outdated
notion that there is only one route
up the career ladder, and ensure
that everyone has the opportunity
to retrain or upskill at any point in
their lives.”
Education Secretary Gavin
Williamson will also be given

greater powers to intervene in
colleges seen as failing to meet
local needs.
He said: “As we rebuild from the
pandemic, we’ve put reforming
post-16 education and skills at
the heart of our plans to build
back better.
“I have championed the often
forgotten 50 per cent of young
people who don’t go to university.
“Through legislation, our vision
is to transform the sector and
expand opportunity right across
the country, so that more people
can get the skills they need to get
good jobs.”
The usual pomp and ceremony at
the opening will be scaled back
drastically to reduce the potential
for spread of Covid, and all those
attending will need a negative test
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beforehand. More than 25 Bills, expected to mention laws Operations Act, covering conflicts in March, people seeking protec-
or proposed pieces of legisla- to restrict future prose- overseas, made law last month. tion as refugees would have their
tion, could be included. cutions of British sol- Tory MP Johnny Mercer cited claim assessed based on how they
Ministers have suggested diers who fought in this as a reason for his departure as arrived in the UK.
there will be a long-antici- Northern Ireland Veterans Minister. The speech is also expected to
pated overhaul of the social- during the Troubles. The Government has confirmed reference new legislation to deliver
care sector. Mr Johnson has proposals to overhaul the post- a hotly contested overhaul of the
Reports suggest that discus- been under pressure Brexit asylum system will be planning system in England.
sions are continuing in from Tory MPs to act included in new legislation. The Government unveiled pro-
Government about the following commitments posals last summer to replace case-
potential cost of he made during the Hotly by-case assessment of planning
changes, which party leadership race. applications with a new zoning sys-
could run Troubles-era veter- A Sovereign Borders Bill is tem. Ministers say the changes will
Championed
into billions. ans were not expected as part of a bid to dis- speed up the planning process and
the forgotten
The ...Williamson included in the suade migrants from crossing the help councils to meet new
speech is Overseas Channel. Under plans announced house-building targets. The return

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PENSIONERS who need more
help at home after the pandemic
are putting the collapsing social
care system under even more
pressure, campaigners say.
One in four retired people are
now finding it harder to carry
out the everyday tasks needed
to live independently.
Isolation and inactivity has
led to weakened muscles and
deteriorating strength, balance
and flexibility, according to a
report by charity Age UK.
Some 23 per cent of people
aged 60-plus now find activities
such as washing, cooking, cleaning
and using the stairs more difficult
than they did at the start of the
By Sarah O’Grady
Social Affairs Correspondent
first lockdown last March.
Although social care will be
mentioned in today’s Queen’s
Speech, no specific legislation
for reform of the sector is
expected to be outlined.
Care groups, charities and
politicians have long been calling
for a plan, as promised by the
Prime Minister in his first speech
after being elected in July 2019.
The Local Government
Association (LGA) said the
Queen’s Speech and the spending
review later this year are “key
opportunities” for the
Government to make good on its
promise to “fix” the sector.
During that speech, Mr Johnson
said he was “announcing now
– on the steps of Downing Street
– that we will fix the crisis in
social care once and for all with a
clear plan we have prepared”.
But no such scheme has yet
been published.
Caroline Abrahams, charity
director at Age UK said: “It’s sad
that the pandemic has taken such
a toll on the mobility, confidence
and capacity of millions of older
people to live independently
without extra support.
“Specialists in older people’s
health warned that this was likely
to happen after months of
enforced isolation, inactivity and
lack of stimulation. And,
unfortunately, our new analysis
shows they were absolutely right.
“The inevitable consequence of
this pandemic-related damage is
that older people’s demand for
social care is set to go up quite
markedly, beyond what would
otherwise have been expected.”
Ms Abrahams said the gap
between the care system “we
have and the one we need”
is growing.
She continued: “It is more
important than ever that the
Prime Minister fixes social care.
“ A clear statement to this

REVOLUTION BEGINS
of the controversial Police, Crime,
Sentencing and Courts Bill is
also expected.
It was shelved as demonstrations
took place over concerns it would
curtail the right to protest.
New legally binding environ-
mental targets are also expected.
Ministers have confirmed the
Queen’s address will commit to
introducing a Bill to replace the
2011 Fixed-Term Parliaments Act.
That law, passed during the
Conservative-Lib Dem coalition,
created a fixed five-year period
between general elections. Under a
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effect in the Queen’s Speech
would give us hope that he and
his Government really do intend
to follow through this year.”
The survey of 1,487 pensioners
found 42 per cent who
previously had difficulty
using the stairs said this
had become harder.
The same proportion
who had difficulty
walking short distances
outside before 2020
said it was now trickier.
Respondents who had
struggled with cooking,
washing and preparing
Fix it...Ms Abrahams
draft Bill published in December,
this would be scrapped. The power
to call early elections would be
returned to the prime minister.
Another area the Government
has already said will feature is that
of building regulations.
Safety
A Building Safety
was included in the 2019 Queen’s
Bill
Speech and published in draft form
last July but is yet to
be introduced.
It would introduce a new system OPINION: PAGE 12
food in the past also said these
chores had become harder.
One in 10 respondents now
have difficulty walking up and
down stairs when previously they
did not. And nine per cent are
emerging from lockdown
unable to walk far without
a struggle.
Councillor James
Jamieson, LGA
chairman, said: “The
decisions on social care
funding and reform in
the coming weeks will
potentially impact
both the millions of
people who draw
on or work in
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new future
...Tory
promise
for regulating the safety of high-
rise buildings, and inspecting build-
ings under construction.
Alongside the recently passed
Fire Safety Act, it is the second Bill
designed to improve building
safety after the 2017 Grenfell dis-
aster. Survivors are also calling for
increased rights for social housing
tenants following a Government
policy paper in November.
The Lords meet at 11.25am for
the Queen’s address with the tele-
vised ceremony ending at 12.30pm.
care and support now, and the
many millions more who will do
so in the decades ahead.
“Our latest poll of MPs
demonstrates the broad support
across Parliament for additional
funding for councils’ social
care budgets.”
He added: “This is about an
investment in people, in all of us.
A failure to act will be a bitter
blow to everyone connected to
social care.”
The Daily Express is
campaigning on social care,
including calling for a Minister
for Older People to be appointed
and radical changes to nursing
and care home funding.
Boris has made
the Tories a true
workers’ party
Leo McKinstry
Daily Express columnist
BORIS Johnson’s political
hero might be Winston
Churchill but in his style he
increasingly resembles
Benjamin Disraeli, the giant
of late Victorian politics.
Another charismatic populist
with a maverick streak and a
gift for vivid language, Disraeli
tremendously enhanced the
appeal of the Tory party to the
working-class with his mix of
colourful patriotism and
economic reform.
Today, as shown by the
dramatic election results,
Boris is doing the same
through Brexit and his
agenda of “levelling up”
the economy.
Under his leadership the
Tories are becoming the true
workers’ party, dedicated to
prosperity and opportunity for
all while Labour wallows in its
destructive obsession with the
woke ideology.
The potent Conservative
message will be reinforced
today in the Queen’s Speech,
which will set out 25 new
pieces of
‘Buccaneering
legislation to
improve life in
project to
Britain, from
tougher jail
terms for
criminals to a refashion the
new push to
increase the economy will be
housing supply
through reforms transformative’
in the planning
system.
But at the centre of the
speech will be the bold
scheme to rebalance the
post-schools education sector
so that it meets the needs of
the whole nation rather than
just the interests of a middle-
class elite.
As part of this far-reaching
initiative, there will be a new
“lifetime skills guarantee”, by
which every adult will have
access to a flexible loan,
usable at any point in their
lives, that will allow them to
retrain at university or college.
Ministers have also promised
that this legislation will be
accompanied by “a massive
investment in further education
and lifelong upskilling so
people can take on better-paid
jobs in their local area”.
The impact of these
measures could be enormous,
regenerating local
communities, fuelling
innovation, creating a more
highly skilled workforce, and
compelling institutions to focus
Daily Express Tuesday, May 11, 2021 7
on practicalities rather than
academic self-indulgence.
The change proposed by the
Prime Minister could not be
more necessary.
For far too long, vocational
and skills training has been the
poor relation of tertiary
education despite its economic
importance, while a fortune has
been poured into useless
humanities courses.
In a well-managed economy,
more emphasis would be put
on engineering or design
apprenticeships than on
degrees in media or
gender studies.
As an independent nation
again after Brexit, our future
lies in the encouragement of
areas like research, science,
construction and technology.
With his dynamic outlook
and his boyish love of transport
and infrastructure projects,
Boris is pointing the way to a
brighter future.
So often derided as a clown
by his achingly sophisticated
critics, he is engaged in a huge,
buccaneering
project to
refashion the
British economy
on a scale not
attempted since
Margaret
Thatcher’s
embrace of free
enterprise in
the 1980s.
He is moving
in a different direction to her,
one that features a highly
interventionist state.
But the results could be
equally transformative to
her achievements.
Already there are signs of a
growing boom in Britain.
Only yesterday it was
revealed that vacancies are
at their highest level since
1997, while last week the
Bank of England predicted
that the economy will grow
this year by 7.25 per cent,
the fastest expansion since
the war.
All his optimism helps to
explain why Boris is winning
over the working class.
At Hartlepool in the North-
east, scene of last week’s
historic by-election triumph,
voters could already see the
benefits of the establishment
of the local Teesside freeport.
His party offers regeneration
and wealth creation.
Labour offers nothing except
the entrenchment of grievance
and misery.
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has been signed up by the Daily Express.
Readers can now enjoy his soothing advice By Hanna Geissler

in these troubled times that has won him
hundreds of thousands of followers on
Twitter. If you need reassuring everything’s
going to be all right read Professor Positivity.
I WOULD hope that if this last year has
taught us anything it’s that we should be
extremely cautious of the unintended
consequences from certain policies.
The latest of these, I fear, is
“telemedicine” – the idea that far more
consultations should be done via video or
phone. On the face of it, the idea seems
sound but it is no substitute for a proper
in-person appointment in my view.
It’s not an exaggeration to say I have
seen tens of thousands of patients over
my time in medicine. It’s probably even
more. Bar my
stint at the WHO,
Health Reporter
THE number of people diag-
nosed with diabetes has dou-
bled in 15 years to a staggering
4.1 million, analysis reveals.
A record 4.9 million people
in the UK are now living with
the condition, including
850,000 who are undiagnosed
and unaware they have type 2,
said charity Diabetes UK said.
Experts warned that the
Covid-19 pandemic must act as
a wake-up call to increase pre-
vention efforts and tackle the
obesity crisis.
Chris Askew, chief executive
IN A period that’s been hard
for all of us, we know that
people with diabetes and
their loved ones have been
disproportionately affected
by the pandemic.
And new figures show that
diabetes is, and remains, a
very serious and rapidly
growing health condition.
The number of people
diagnosed has doubled in
the past 15 years, mainly due
to the rise in type 2 diabetes.
Right now, 4.9 million in
the UK are living with
diabetes − 90 per cent of
those with type 2.
And there are an estimated
850,000 with type 2 diabetes
COMMENT
not waver in its bold obesity
strategy outlined last year.
This includes restricting
promotion of unhealthy food
HELEN
and mandatory calorie
labelling in larger takeaways
KIRRANE
and restaurant chains.
Delivering the promises of
the obesity strategy is just
Diabetes UK the start. We need measures
that make it easier for all of
they haven’t been diagnosed. us to live healthier lives, and
Research shows that living better care and support for
with obesity is the single people living with obesity.
greatest risk factor for As we look to the future,
developing type 2. we must focus on diabetes
With 13.6 million people and in particular ramp up the
now at increased risk, it is essential preventative
more important than approaches
approach to stop type
ever that the 2 diabetes
diab in its

4.9m
I’ve been at Diabetes UK, said: “The who don’t know it because Government does es tracks.
trac
holding number of people with diabetes
face-to-face is increasing year on year.
appointments “As we look to the future factors include age, family his- next to nothing nosis. A recent
n
for almost 50 post Covid-19, preventing cases tory and ethnicity. to tackle obesity, study
s suggested
years. I have a of type 2 diabetes must be a The number of people living diabetes’ princi- The total number of there
t were
fairly good idea
of what works
public health priority. with obesity in England has pal trigger.”
almost doubled in the past 20 He predicted
people living with 60,000
6 missed or
delayed
d diagnoses
and what Complications years from 6.9 to 13 million, the Diabetess diabetes in of type 2 diabetes
doesn’t. There
is a place for “The pandemic has shown
the charity said.
Even though the number of Programme – her-
Prevention
r
the UK during
dur 2020.
Researchers
Res warned
technology in
with devastating clarity how people diagnosed with diabetes alded as the answer wer to the NHS
NH may see
consultations but the idea it should
become the default is wrong. Being in the diabetes puts you at increased across the UK has soared from preventing further escalation – patients coming forward with
room with the patient allows the doctor to risk of poorer outcomes when to 4.1 million in 2019-20, will fail. worse symptoms because of
get a far better understanding and feel of contracting the virus. Diabetes UK predicts that the Mr Fry added: “Until Boris the delays.
what’s going on. That is just not possible “Yet, we know that with the total – including the undiag- Johnson wins his fight against They also noted their figures
over a video link. It’s great for follow-up right support, up to half of type nosed population – will reach fat, which he announced a year may be an underestimate if
when the doctor knows the patient but not 2 diabetes cases – and the 5.5 million by 2030. ago this week, the UK will be lifestyle changes during
for the first consultation. accompanying risk of develop- Tam Fry, chairman of the plagued by increases in both lockdown have increased
Yellowing eyes or skin? The shape or ing life-threatening complica- National Obesity Forum, called obesity and diabetes.” obesity rates.
consistency of any unusual lumps? Other tions – can be delayed or for tougher action to combat The latest figures cover the The latest analysis was
physical examinations? Properly prevented.” the increase in weight. period before the pandemic and released to mark Type 2
conducting these examinations over a Diabetes occurs when the He said: “For 20 years succes- do not take into account the Diabetes Prevention Week, a
grainy Zoom link is not an option. body is unable to control blood sive governments have done impact of coronavirus on diag- joint initiative between
I don’t want to sound like a dinosaur. In sugar levels properly. Diabetes UK, Public Health
fact, through Rutherford Cancer Centres,
we have brought some of the world’s
High levels can lead to seri-
ous complications including
Is the Government doing England and NHS England tak-
ing place until Sunday.
heart and kidney disease as enough to tackle Britain’s diabetes crisis?
leading cancer technology to this country.
I’d like to think I’m fairly up to speed with Mr Askew added: “This

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replace an in-person appointment.
If I’d have conducted most of my
appointments through a camera, there is
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cancer would have been missed. It’s not a
risk we should take.
well as nerve damage.
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90 per cent of cases and is often
linked to lifestyle.
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THE wife of Britain’s longest
known Covid patient fears he
has finally “given up” after his
condition worsened and he
started having fainting attacks.
Jason Kelk, 49, has spent
more than 13 months in
intensive care at St James’s
Hospital, Leeds, after the virus
ravaged his lungs and kidneys.
Jason’s wife Sue launched a
crowdfunding appeal to help
By Paul Jeeves
convert their home for his
return after he made huge
strides in his recovery.
But Jason’s condition has
deteriorated and former nurse
Sue, 63, is now terrified he no
longer believes he can get well.
She said: “A couple of times
he’s had like a faint and lost
consciousness, but they don’t
know why. He’s a bit more
confused, he’s not sleeping
properly. He’s not interacting
with people on the internet
like he was.
“I suppose in the bigger
scheme of things it is a little
blip. But the impact it’s had on
Jason is absolutely massive.
“I don’t think he believes in
himself any more. He’s never,
ever lost belief in himself. He’s
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and her GP were
astonished at
her diagnosis
post-Covid’
By Hanna Geissler

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remote and face-to-face doctor
appointments in a post-Covid world, the

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Royal College of GPs says.
While remote consultations should be an
option, they must not become the
“automatic default” for care.
Its report comes as new NHS planning
By Hanna Geissler guidance says a system of “total triage”
must be embedded into general practice,
despite GPs’ reservations.
ALTHOUGH obesity is a major risk It was introduced during the pandemic,
factor for type 2 diabetes, not all and means that patients are remotely
sufferers fit the stereotype. screened and directed to the most
Nicki Hornby, 52, initially thought appropriate health service, with
she was suffering from early menopause appointments by phone, video or online,
when she started feeling tired, weepy unless clinically appropriate.
and moody. Currently around half of consultations in
But following a blood test at her GP general practice are delivered in person.
surgery, she and her doctor were Before the pandemic, some 70 per cent
shocked to discover she had diabetes. were, but the personal consultations
She said: “For a lot of people, I don’t dropped to around 30 per cent during the
peak of the crisis.
fit the stereotypical idea of a person A Royal College study pointed to
with type 2 diabetes. benefits of online and phone care,
“It hadn’t even been bandied about including offering patients convenience
as a possibility – because I hadn’t and flexibility.
shown any of the other symptoms.” But it said remote consultations are

Assumptions
better suited to more straightforward
conditions or queries and where a physical
examination is not required.
Doctors have struggled to bring her
diabetes under control since her 2015
diagnosis, with drugs not lowering her
Exhausting
blood sugar levels quickly enough.
She has regular blood tests every More complex conditions or those of a
three months to monitor her condition. sensitive nature are better suited to
Nicki, who lives in Somerset, finds it face-to-face appointments, signs of
anxiety, self-harm or smelling alcohol on a
frustrating when people make
patient’s breath, may be missed remotely.
assumptions about her diabetes, The report warned that the long-term
including that she must have type 1. impact is currently unknown, with some
A nurse practitioner once told her: GPs reporting “that remote consultations
“Oh you’re a type 2 diabetic, have you can often be exhausting, leading to “Zoom
lost a lot of weight?” fatigue”.
Nicki said: “The hardest part of living Some 63 per cent of GPs in a poll said
with diabetes for me is the stigma – the delivering all or mostly remote
assumptions that people have about consultations reduced their job
type 2 diabetes. I find that they’re satisfaction and 61 per cent said they
judging me.” made the role “more transactional”.
Some 88 per cent thought face-to-face
consultations were important for building
and maintaining patient relationships.
The study said the extent to which

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always thought positively. It’s
not like that now.
“He’s frustrated. I think he
knows what’s going on but it’s
almost like he’s given up.”
After spending several
weeks without a ventilator
before his relapse, Jason is
back on it and also needs
kidney dialysis.
Doctors also think the
primary school IT worker may
need a permanent tube to
remove fluid that builds up in
his throat and windpipe.
Before his condition
worsened, Jason, from Leeds,
was drinking tea, eating soup
and chatting online virtually
every day, Sue said.
But when she last spoke to
her husband, who has lost six
stone in hospital, she said he
was “talking absolute
gobbledygook”and had been
waking up confused and
thrashing around.
Jason was admitted on
March 31 last year, the day
after Derek Draper, the
husband of TV presenter Kate
Garraway, who is seriously ill
after his fight with coronavirus.
Derek has recently returned
home after spending a year
in hospital.
Virus victim...Jason in hospital
patients really have a preference for
remote care as the need for social
distancing is lifted, is also unknown.
The college is calling on the Government
to conduct a comprehensive review.
Professor Martin Marshall, college
chairman, said: “It is possible to build
relationships via video or phone
consultations, but it’s a very different skill
to doing so in person.”
There was“certainly going to be a place”
for remote. “But we know many patients
prefer to see their GP face to face and that
many GPs prefer consulting in person, as
well,” he added.
“Furthermore, these new ways of
working do not reduce GP workload. In
fact, there is evidence to suggest triage
results in an increase in consultation
numbers and remote consultations can
take longer.”

10 Daily Express Tuesday, May 11, 2021
Army in
talks on
Taliban
By Michael Knowles
BRITISH military head
General Sir Nick
Carter met Pakistan’s
army chiefs yesterday
amid growing concern
over violence in
Afghanistan.
Sir Nick spoke with
General Qamar Javed
Bajwa after 85 people,
mainly schoolgirls,
were killed in bomb
blasts in Kabul.
Another 147 people
were wounded in
Saturday’s attack.
A car bomb was
detonated and two
more bombs exploded
when students
rushed out in panic.
Pakistan is a key
player in the Afghan
peace process and is
said to have been
trying to convince
Taliban insurgents to
commit to a ceasefire.
Security forces are
in daily combat with
the Taliban, who have
waged war to
overthrow the foreign-
backed government
since they were
ousted in 2001.
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OXFORD University
accepted record numbers
of students from the
UK’s most deprived
areas last year.
It comes as elite
institutions are under
pressure to widen access
and encourage the more
disadvantaged to apply.
Students from the
poorest regions rose to
nearly one in six (15.9
per cent), up from 12.2
per cent in 2019.
Chaos
An Oxford spokesman
said: “We are increasing
our focus on reaching
regional ‘cold-spots’
where the most talented
young people are still
under-represented.”
The Undergraduate
Admissions Report
confirmed the university
admitted a record
number of state pupils
(68.6 per cent) following
last year’s A-level
grading chaos.
But statistics also show
nearly half (48.3 per
cent) of starters between
2018 and 2020 came
from London and the
South East and just 15.1
per cent from the North.
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By John Twomey
A BOOTLACE found at the scene of
the Lin and Megan Russell murders
could be “absolutely huge” in the
campaign by their convicted killer to
clear his name, it was claimed
yesterday.
Michael Stone is serving life sen-
tences for the murders of the mum
and daughter, who were found bludg-
eoned to death in Kent in July 1996.
Lin’s other daughter, Josie, then
nine, suffered severe head injuries in
the attack.
The potentially vital clue was
recently recovered after it had been
lost by police for 14 years.
DNA testing on the lace could
“undoubtedly point away” from
Stone, said his lawyer. It could also
remove any doubt that he is the killer.
Lin, 45, and Megan, six, were
murdered in Chillenden, Kent, as
they walked home following a
swimming gala.
Stone, now 60, was arrested in 1997
and was jailed for life the following
year after two prisoners told how he
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TWENTY people including some
children were killed in an Israeli air
strike on Gaza after rockets were
fired from the territory towards
Jerusalem yesterday.
The rockets were launched after
a Hamas ultimatum passed for
Israel to withdraw forces from
flashpoints in the city. One hit a
house but there were no casualties.
Hamas is demanding the release
of all detained Palestinians, the
removal of Jewish settlers from an
East Jerusalem neighbourhood,
and the withdrawal of police from
Al Aqsa mosque.
Earlier, hundreds of Palestinians
were hurt in clashes with Israeli
police at Haram al-Sharif
From left,
Amman
protests;
a rocket
leaves
Gaza and
medics
evacuate
injured
amid tear
gas in
the Old
City in
Jerusalem
now being considered by the Criminal
Cases Review Commission (CCRC).
His legal team believes advances in
DNA technology will prove vital in
their bid to get his conviction referred
back to the Court of Appeal.
Barrister Mark McDonald claimed
yesterday that Stone was made a
“scapegoat” and that the real killer is
still free.
He said: “My message is simple:
Michael Stone is innocent of this
crime which means that the real
person who committed this crime is
still at large.
“We have got to find the person
Stone, right, was convicted who committed this awful crime
of murdering Lin and Megan and make sure we lock him up.”
Fragments of the lace were
confessed to them. Three tested for “genetic finger-
years later, he stood trial for prints” around the time of the
a second time after one of murder investigation.
the convicts retracted his But the science was in
statement. He was con- its infancy and
victed again and a there were no
later application firm results.
for an appeal The testing
was rejected. process
Stone’s file is reduced the
By Michael Knowles
compound, the site of the mosque.
Officers fired tear gas and stun
grenades. In the chaos one man
was injured in a road crash.
The compound is Islam’s
third-holiest site and considered
Judaism’s holiest. A planned march
by Israeli nationalists was called off
over fears of further unrest.
Ofir Gendelman, spokesman for
PM Benjamin Netanyahu, claimed
“extremist Palestinians planned
well in advance to carry out riots”
at the holy site.
There have also been protests at
Israeli action in neighbouring
Jordan’s capital, Amman.
size of the lace. The 80cm remnant
was discovered last year.
Mr McDonald said there is “no
forensic, no identification evidence at
all” against Stone.
The bootlace could yield DNA that
would point the finger at someone
else, he added.
The lawyer added: “This is huge. It’s
absolutely huge.”
Mr McDonald described the jailing
of Stone as “the biggest miscarriage of
justice since the Birmingham Six.”
Evidence
He was referring to the six Irishmen
wrongly convicted of the 1974
Birmingham pub bombings.
Det Chief Supt Paul Fotheringham
of Kent Police said: “We are engaged
with the CCRC and have been provid-
ing them with all the relevant
information and evidence required in
relation to the case.
“Much like a live investigation, it
would not be appropriate at this stage
of the review to disclose the nature of
the materials provided.”
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Vigilance still needed as

we enjoy new freedoms
W
new Tory converts
E’VE heard the word “caution” a lot
this past year. But once again the
Prime Minister deployed the word as
he appealed to Britons to take care as we
emerge from the cloud of Covid.
From next Monday we move onto step
three of the roadmap. People can sit inside
pubs and restaurants. Cinemas, theatres and

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concert halls can reopen. Overnight stays
will be allowed with foreign holidays on
the horizon.
Children will no longer have to wear

masks in class and students can return to
face-to-face teaching. Thank heavens, care
home residents will be allowed five regular
visitors, and there will be no limits on
funeral mourners.
All of this is because of the vaccination
programme. According to Public Health
England, two doses of the Pfizer vaccine
offers 97 per cent protection against death
and a single dose of either of the two key
vaccines gives 80 per cent protection.
Infections are at their lowest since last
July and the last recorded day showed no
Covid deaths in England, Scotland or
Northern Ireland. Even so, we will have to
live with Covid for some time and although
government guidelines will cease, we must
continue to bear our own responsibilities.
So Boris Johnson is right to promote
caution and common sense. We know the
drill, and that the price of our freedom is
vigilance. We owe it to those we have lost
this past year.
Plugging the skills gap
T
HERE has been so much
focus on Labour’s crisis
in the wake of last
week’s elections that the
real significance of the
votes has been under-
played. The important lesson is
not that Labour is losing sup-
port. Rather, it is that the
Conservatives are winning sup-
port – and in areas and among
people who previously spurned
the party.
There are many long-term
reasons behind this reshaping of
British politics but there is also
one very specific reason: not
since Margaret Thatcher was in
her pomp has a Conservative
leader had such sway among
working people.
For all the Prime Minister’s
electoral magic, however, that VULNERABLE: A social care bill is expected but we may not be given the finer details today
comparison with Baroness
Thatcher is important in
another respect. The man who progress, voters will have little
was US president for most of hesitation in deserting the Tories.
her time in office, Ronald
Reagan, used to quote the lyrics Stephen Pollard In that context there are two
huge issues that need to be
of a song, that you “Dance with tackled urgently, both of which

T
ODAY’S Queens Speech really sets the
agenda for post-pandemic Britain. And
among the positive recommendations
is a skills and retraining revolution.
The Lifetime Skills Guarantee is to be
announced, shining a light into our national
reconstruction. As we “build back better”,
it’s crucial we nurture the talent that the
country needs for a sustainable recovery.
The skills programme aims to create a
pattern so that no one becomes obsolete
and it will be backed by The Lifelong Loan
the one that brung ya”. In other
words, in politics you should
always remember who it was
that voted for you and why.
So long as Baroness Thatcher
remembered that, she was able
to win landslide re-elections.
When she started to forget it
and introduced ideas like the
Poll Tax, everything unravelled.
That’s why today’s Queen’s
Speech is so important to the
Political commentator
restricting future prosecutions
of Northern Ireland veterans.
But in the context of red wall
voters and the need to retain
their support, it’s bread and
butter issues that are key.
In that context, the phrase
“levelling up”, which is used
almost every time a Tory MP
port, jobs, schools, training and
street crime, for starters.
There is no God-given reason
why some towns decline and
others thrive; it’s about the poli-
cies pursued by governments
and local authorities and how
they shape education, training,
investment and the attractive-
extend far beyond the red wall.
There will apparently be a
social care bill today but it
seems likely to be more about
saying that action will be taken
than proposing what that action
should be. Famously, on his first
day as Prime Minister Boris
Johnson pledged to act, and the
pandemic’s focus on the vulner-
able now makes it urgent he does.

T
Conservatives. opens his or her mouth, is not ness of an area to businesses.
Entitlement – giving every adult access to that useful. Because the funda- We can debate whether a
loans for education and training throughout

their lives.
While Covid-19 has been devastating,
with policies such as these the country can
rise like a phoenix from the ashes.
A leader in so many ways
B
ORIS Johnson’s land-
slide in December 2019
was driven by the same
type of red wall voters who
voted for the Conservatives last
week. They were willing to give
mental issue has always been
that voters feel ignored.
When seats such as
Hartlepool supported Brexit, it
was because they were fed up
with how the political elites
forced the EU’s agenda on them.
And in the 2016 referendum
they were given a say on the
more free-market approach to
these issues works best – such
as cutting business rates – or
whether it’s better to have more
state-driven tools, such as subsi-
dies to business. But what can-
not be debated is that these pol-
icies matter and that both
approaches have failed many of
HE pandemic has also –
for entirely understand-
able reasons – wrought
havoc for non-Covid NHS
patients, with 4.7 million wait-
ing to start hospital treatment.
Reports have suggested that the
Government is planning to

Q
UEEN Elizabeth II never fails to
astonish. In a video call with the Royal
Life Saving Society last week she was
surprised to learn that she was ahead of
the pack 80 years ago – by earning a
life-saving qualification as a mere 14-year-
old princess in 1941.
She was the first youngster in the
Commonwealth to receive a Junior
Respiration Award at a London pool which
she attended with Princess Margaret.
From wartime mechanic to world leader
and now life-saver – her skills are limitless.
a chance to the party when it
promised they would no longer
be ignored and that their con-
cerns would form the spine of
the Government’s agenda.
Covid put paid to any plans
for last year and it’s only now
that Boris Johnson can begin to
deliver on those promises.
According to reports, there will
be some 25 bills pledged in the
Queen’s Speech, from reform-
ing the asylum system to
issue for the first time since
1975. As it is, levelling up is
almost impossible to define. Far
better to focus on issues which
are clear and important and can
be seen directly – such as the
state of town centres, local
infrastructure, housing, trans-
‘In politics you should remember
who it was voted for you and why’
the red wall areas in the past.
The Conservatives’ electoral
success since 2019 has been
built on persuading voters that
things will be different. That’s
why today’s Queen’s Speech is
so vital, because it is aimed at
starting that process. Without
divert funds to help the NHS.
That is vital as wherever you
live, your health and that of
friends and family comes first.
There are some elections that
mark a genuine shift in politics:
Attlee in 1945, Mrs Thatcher in
1979. It may be that 2019 will
come to be seen as another. But
that depends on what the
Government actually delivers –
and much of that depends on
today’s Queen’s Speech.
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PROPERTY prices have hit another
record high – putting £20,000 on a
typical house.
An 8.2 per cent annual rise last
month put the cost of an average
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three-bedroom semi at £258,204.
This is up from the £238,501 a year
earlier and it is the second month in a
row a record has been broken, the
Halifax bank says.
Values were also up month-on-
month by 1.4 per cent and 0.9 per
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cent quarterly.
Lucy Pendleton, of estate agents
James Pendleton, said: “This market
isn’t standing still for a second.
Blazing
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“The feeding frenzy for property
was already feeling pretty ferocious
but then along comes another big
leap in the annual rate of growth.
“The new record high also leaves
clear water behind it and the previous
peak. In a blazing hot seller’s market
like this, most buyers don’t even com-
pare prices locally to make their offer,
they work out what they can afford
and they go for it. Timing is crucial
and not wasting time is essential.”
Jeremy Leaf, north London estate
agent and ex-chair of the Royal
Institution of Chartered Surveyors,
said: “These record figures reflect not
just what’s been happening to the
property market in the past few
months but add to growing confi-
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the whale
in the
Thames.
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A WHALE stranded in the
Thames has been put down
after frantic efforts to save it.
Vets took the decision after
ZDVe it became “very distressed”.
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Rescuers said the lost
13ft-long minke calf simply
“ran out of Thames” and
ended up stuck.
It was first spotted on
Sunday night at Richmond
Lock, south-west London.
The animal was refloated
and towed a mile towards the
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Subject to availability. Participating stores only. Group property company.
Its part-owners and directors are
ex-Brighton striker Bobby Zamora,
40, and West Ham United captain
By Sarah O’Grady
Social Affairs Correspondent
dence over the longer-term sustaina-
bility of the recovery.
Mr Leath says he has noticed an
increase in new potential buyers who
have little chance of profiting from
the stamp duty holiday which
prompted so many earlier moves – as
well as buyers who are using savings
they have been able to accumulate
during lockdown.
“Limited supply and faster vaccine
rollout is driving activity and upward
pressure on prices,” he added.
However, the Halifax expects
growth to slow later in the year.
Managing director Russell Galley
said: “The stamp duty holiday contin-
ues to add impetus to an extremely
active market, magnifying the current
shortage of available homes as buyers
aim to take advantage of the govern-
ment scheme.
“The influence of the stamp duty
holiday will fade gradually over the
coming months as it’s tapered out but
low stock levels, low interest rates
and continued demand is likely to
continue to underpin prices in
the market.”
The stamp duty holiday in England
and Northern Ireland was extended
to the end of June in March.
And a new government-backed
mortgage guarantee scheme has led
to five per cent deposit deals.
By Steph Spyro
was freed, it swam further up
river, to Teddington Lock
where crowds gathered and
rescuers decided last night to
end its suffering.
Port of London’s Martin
Garside said earlier: “It is
injured and so far from home.
There’s no sign of his mother.”
Julia Cable, of the British
Divers Marine Life Rescue
service, said: “It’s basically
lost any energy that it had.”
Mark Noble, 34. The firm sought
permission from Brighton and Hove
City Council to build the flats – the
first of three blocks.
But councillors rejected it. Coun
Carol Theobald said: “It is a
ridiculous height. We are not New
York.” The plans also received
numerous objections from locals.

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A MAN aged 20 was
yesterday charged with
the murder of a mother
of two who is thought to
have been attacked after
visiting a hospital.
The body of Maria
Rawlings, 45, was found Pictures: DOMINIC LIPINSKI/PA
by a dog walker in
bushes in Little Heath,
Romford, east London,
on May 4.
A post mortem found
that she had been
strangled and suffered
“blunt force” head
injuries.
Police believe she was
attacked the previous
night after leaving the
King George Hospital in
nearby Goodmayes
and heading towards
the A12.
Valentin Lazar, from
Barking, was charged
with murder and is due
to appear from custody
before Barkingside
magistrates today.
Detective Chief
Inspector David Hillier,
who is leading the
investigation, said: “My
thoughts remain with
Maria’s family at this
incredibly difficult time.”
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By Chris Riches
A NURSE accused of the
murder of eight babies in
a year-long period at a
hospital neonatal unit
has appeared in court.
Lucy Letby appeared
at Manchester Crown
Court yesterday via
videolink from
Peterborough prison.
The 31-year-old, who
wore a dark shirt, blue
jeans and had shoulder-
length dark hair, spoke
Attack fear...Rachel Riley arrives at court yesterday; the tweet, inset
only to confirm her
name and that she could
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hear the proceedings.
Letby is alleged to
have murdered five boys
and three girls at the
Countess of Chester
Hospital in Cheshire.
She is also accused of
the attempted murder
of five baby boys and
five baby girls, all
between June 2015 and
June 2016.
Letby, of Hereford,
was arrested in 2018 and
again in 2019.
Mr Justice Dove
adjourned the case until
next Monday for a
further case hearing. She
remains in custody.
THE Brit Awards has courted
controversy by paying tribute
to killer Phil Spector.
The producer, who worked
with The Beatles and Tina
Turner, is included in an online
list of “creative talents who
were sadly lost to us” but
“whose legacy in shaping our
musical heritage and popular
culture will always endure”.
The Brit Awards’ “in
Web tribute... memoriam” page also includes
Phil Spector brief eulogies to Bill Withers,
Eddie Van Halen and Kenny
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By Cyril Dixon
RACHEL Riley suffered an “onslaught of
abuse” after she was wrongly accused of
inciting violence against Jeremy Corbyn,
the Countdown host told the High Court.
The TV presenter said the former Labour
leader’s supporters tried to get her sacked.
Mother-of-one Ms Riley, 35, told Mr
Justice Nicklin yesterday the ordeal trig-
gered by Corbyn aide Laura Murray left
her fearing vigilante attacks.
She said it began when Ms Murray called
her “dangerous” online.
Giving evidence at the opening of her
libel action, Ms Riley said: “The response
to the defendant’s libel of me was a con-
certed attack on me and my career. Aide...Laura Murray with Jeremy Corbyn
“A concerted campaign was initiated to
get me fired from my job, as being some- spoken out against anti-Semitism and con-
one who had advocated violence. People tinue to. The growth of anti-Semitism on
thought very badly of me because they the Left of British politics led me to criticise
took what the defendant had said about the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn.
me at face value.” “My view is that the Corbyn-led Labour
Party was fostering anti-Semitism.”
Vulnerable Ms Riley added: “I believe that I was tar-
geted by the defendant because I had been
She said she increased her security. critical of the Labour Party’s handling of
Ms Riley added: “I was very concerned anti-Semitism. It was an attempt to shut
that I could be easily tracked down me up or to stop people listening.
because I am a public figure. The volume of “The allegations in the tweet have made
abusive and threatening messages was me feel vulnerable to physical attack,
all-consuming.” which is naturally very worrying.
The saga began two years ago when a
Brexit supporter threw an egg at the then
“I found it hard to focus on my work and
suffered sleepless nights. The abuse has
Labour leader as he visited Finsbury Park gone unchecked and my reputation is not
Mosque in north London. vindicated.”
Ms Riley retweeted a post by political Ms Riley’s barrister William Bennett QC,
commentator Owen Jones from January
2019 about an attack on former British
National Party leader Nick Griffin. He had
said the tweet “did cause serious harm.
She was accused of risking inciting vio-
lence and told she was dangerous.”
said: “I think sound life advice is, if you William McCormick QC for Ms Murray,
don’t want eggs thrown at you, don’t be a seen below yesterday, said in a written out-
Nazi.” line: “The claimant chose to tweet to
Ms Riley wrote: “Good advice” her 625,000-plus followers about a
with emoji of a rose and an egg. violent attack in a manner which
Ms Murray tweeted: “Rachel was both stupid and dangerous. It
Riley tweets that Corbyn was obvious that her tweet would
deserves to be violently provoke hostile reactions.
attacked because he is a Nazi. “What the defendant tweeted
This woman is as dangerous as was true, reflected her honestly held
she is stupid. Nobody should opinions and was a responsible exer-
engage with her. Ever.” cise of her own rights of
Oxford-educated mathe- expression on a matter of
matician Ms Riley told real public importance.”
the court she was The trial is due to last
Jewish, adding: “I have all week.
By Ashleigh Rainbird individually and as a band – describing the producer as
producing Let It Be and “talented but flawed” in a
Rogers, who have all died Imagine – The Righteous headline for his obituary.
since the last ceremony. Brothers, Leonard Cohen and The Brit Awards has been
The website’s blurb on The Ronettes, and also wrote asked for a comment.
Spector, who died in January, numerous era-defining songs.” The awards are being held
reads: “American record The violent producer died tonight for a crowd of 4,000 at
producer, songwriter and aged 81 from Covid in London’s O2 Arena.
pioneer of the iconic ‘Wall of California where he was Organisers have given 2,500
Sound’, who will equally be serving a life sentence for the tickets to people working on
remembered for his conviction murder of the actress, who he the front line of the pandemic.
for murder of the actress shot in the mouth at his Audience members will not
Lana Clarkson. Spector mansion in 2003. be socially distanced or told to
collaborated with many of the He was convicted in 2009. wear masks but they must
greats including The Beatles The BBC had to apologise for have had a negative Covid test.

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By Paul Jeeves
RAIL passengers face yet
more days of travel
misery after trains were
thrown into chaos by
cracks in carriages.
Travellers endured a
third day of skeleton
services yesterday.
But bosses refused to
put a timescale on when
timetables would return
to normal on Great
Western Railway (GWR)
and London North
Eastern Railway (LNER).
GWR advised
passengers with tickets
for long-distance
journeys yesterday that
the service between
London and Bristol
Temple Meads, Swansea,
Penzance, Hereford and
Cheltenham Spa was all
but out of action.
LNER reduced its
service between London
and Edinburgh via
Newcastle, Leeds, York
and Newcastle.
Hitachi Class 800
trains were withdrawn
on Saturday after cracks
were discovered in the
chassis of some trains.
Robert Nisbet, of the
Rail Delivery Group,
said: “These trains are
relatively new.”
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By News Reporter
CHINA has defended its
“irresponsible” handling
of a rocket that burned
up over the Maldives.
Nasa accused Beijing
of acting recklessly by
allowing the booster to
fall to Earth seemingly
uncontrolled on Sunday
after carrying a space
station into orbit.
The Chinese space
agency said most of the
100ft-long main section
of the Long March 5B
rocket burned up above
the holiday islands.
A foreign ministry
spokesman said: “China
has been closely tracking
its trajectory and issued
statements on the
re-entry situation in
advance. There has been
no report of harm.
“We also share the
results of re-entry
predictions through
the international
co-operation
mechanisms.”
Nasa administrator
Bill Nelson accused
China of “failing to meet
responsible standards”.
China plans 10 more
launches to finish
building space station
Heavenly Harmony.
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COMMENT
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ARGO founder
Decking crew...skipper Ian
left, shows Stuart O’Donnel
Betts,
l, Jackie
ropes
Chandler and Laura Muir the
WHEN I started Turn to
Starboard, the vision was to
help serving and retired
Armed Forces personnel
readjust, focus on
reintegration and reinforce a
sense of belonging.
By providing sailing
courses and building career
opportunities we are able to
help beneficiaries to make
the “right turn”.
Similarly, we want to offer
sailing opportunities in
Cornwall for our NHS
frontline workers from Sea air...Karen
across the UK. Crudgington
Mental health is quite
and Amy Noble
rightly becoming more of a
focus. We’ve seen that being
at sea and out in nature has
a profound impact on the
wellbeing of individuals who
have experienced both
physical and mental trauma
and fatigue.
Sailing gave me a new
perspective on life and
really helped me find
renewed purpose after my
time in the Royal Air Force.
There’s a shared
connection between the
service of our NHS and
Forces personnel, with
NHS staff describing Emotional
their work environment ...Nikki
during the pandemic as Powell
a war zone.
I feel now we have the
opportunity to do something
extraordinary for our NHS.
And where better than in
Cornwall, using a flotilla of
yachts and pairing them
with veterans who care and
understand what they’ve
been through?
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FORMER England keeper Chris EXCLUSIVE the North-west with wife Leeona
Kirkland has revealed how depres- By Giles Sheldrick and daughter Lucy and did not
sion drove him to consider suicide. Chief Reporter want to move, so drove to South
Years of anxiety and self-doubt Yorkshire daily.
culminated on a hotel roof – and The gruelling round trip meant
flew me straight home and that’s
Chris was determined to jump off. he missed taking six-year-old Lucy
when I asked for help. I made the
The former Liverpool football to school as well as watching her
right decision.”
star was in Portugal for pre-season plays and netball practice, and the
Chris, 40, is using Mental Health
games with then club Bury in 2016. comfort of being at home.
Awareness Week to encourage
He told the Daily Express: He was tortured by panic attacks
other sufferers to speak out and
“Every minute of every day was but did not understand why.
seek help, saying there is no shame
painful. It got to the point that I Chris said: “I was leaving home
in admitting to struggling.
stood on a hotel rooftop and I was at 05.30 and travelling to Sheffield,
going to jump. Demons getting there at 7am. I was getting
“I’d had enough. It was a seesaw home late but sometimes having to
moment. I either jumped or I stay over. I was away from my fam-
His 18-year pro career also
stepped back and started to fight.” ily, a routine I’d had for 11 years.
included stints with Wigan and
He added: “I didn’t want my “My mind was racing all the time
Sheffield Wednesday, as well as an
daughter to grow up without a and it made me anxious. I was
England game in 2006.
father or my wife to be widowed. always checking the traffic trying to
It was while he kept goal for
“That’s when I phoned [my wife] get home as quick as I could, which
Wednesday from 2012 that his
and told her everything. She is where I felt safest. This carried on
Speaking out...Goalkeeper Chris Kirkland demons surfaced. He was settled in
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AWARENESS WEEK
Pictures: MATT KEEBLE

ZDUG]RQH OLYMPIC hero James Cracknell

treated nurses to a day on the
water yesterday to help the
frontline NHS heroes decompress
from the Covid crisis.
EXCLUSIVE
By Giles Sheldrick
in a very different environment so
they are able to lift their heads up
Even keel
...a Project
ARGO yacht

Project ARGO is being rolled out
Calmer waters... to health service staff after the
James and nurse horrors of the past 14 months,
Lesley Hyland during which half the 1.3 million
yesterday NHS workforce said their mental
health had suffered.
The military-inspired relief and
recovery course is run alongside
double rowing gold medallist
James’s Forces sailing charity Turn
to Starboard, in the South-west.
James, 49, inset, battled a mental
health crisis after being hit by a
petrol tanker during a record-
breaking US cycling bid in 2010.
A horrific brain injury
left him with epilepsy
and a changed
personality and he
said: “I know
how hard it is to
admit you
might be
struggling.
“But one
of the good
things of
the past
year, if there
can be one, is that
people are admitting
finding life tough.
“The best thing we can do is
support each other and for people
to ask each other whether they
are genuinely OK, rather than just
a cursory, ‘How are you doing?’.
“Project ARGO supports
military personnel who have
suffered PTSD. The reality is NHS
staff have been working in an
active theatre for more than a year,
wearing full PPE every day and
kept away from family and friends.
“As we come out of lockdown
the realisation of what has
happened is hitting them.”
James added: “Taking them out
and see the sky and feel the wind
in their faces is life-affirming. It is
an honour to be involved.”
Yesterday, 16 nurses from the
Royal Cornwall Hospital cast off
from Falmouth to navigate the
choppy English Channel.
Senior staff nurse Nikki Powell,
48, said: “Our emotional buckets
have been overflowing. This was
great because we had a chance to
empty that bucket and fill it with
happy things.”
Official figures show the
pandemic has affected 4.4 million
UK people and killed
127,000. Many frontline
NHS heroes have
likened their
environments to a
war zone.
The mental
trauma is only
just becoming
evident, with
500,000 staff
reporting anxiety
and 220,000
fighting depression.
NHS Charities Together
has set aside £150million
to deal with the aftershock.
Project ARGO was founded by
former RAF squadron leader
Shaun Pascoe, who served in
Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Iraq and
Afghanistan with the Medical
Emergency Response Team.
After he left the RAF, Shaun felt
isolated and depressed. Then he
had the idea to use sailing to help
the service members overcome
the challenges of adjusting to
civilian life.
His pioneering Project ARGO
has the backing of Health
Secretary Matt Hancock and NHS
chief Sir Simon Stevens.

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SAMARITANS SAVED
ME SAYS SCARLETT
By Alex Green
SCARLETT Moffatt has
said negativity and sadness
were “consuming” her before
she called the Samaritans to

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for three years.” He hoped his anx-
iety would improve but it got
worse. In 2015 he was poised to
sign a new deal but could not face
it any longer.
He lied to the club that his wife
was battling depression, something
he says now he is ashamed of, and
returned to the North-west, play-
ing at Preston and, lastly, Bury.
Chris said: “I was too far gone.
The brain is a very powerful thing.
You can’t dictate the way you feel. I
was losing interest in football and
couldn’t wait to get to sleep. I just
wanted to go to bed and not wake.”
He sought counselling and dur-
ing a relapse in 2019, entered
Parkland Place, a rehabilitation
centre in Colwyn Bay, North Wales.
Although he still has bad days,
Chris is a passionate advocate for
The former Gogglebox star,
who won I’m A Celebrity in
2016, said social media trolls
attacked her over her weight
mental health awareness and regu- help others. “When I was at school this didn’t whatever her size. The
larly receives calls from “They say one in four experience happen. But it is crucial we teach 30-year-old,
players – retired and cur- mental health difficulties. children to be honest about how right, who is
rent – to discuss a subject Rubbish. It’s more like three in they are feeling and that they can a Samaritans
that has too long been four. These past 14 months have seek help when it is needed.” ambassador,
taboo in sport. been a horrendous time for Chris is now a Liverpool FC told BBC
He said: “Mental health everyone. We have all Foundation community ambassa- Breakfast:
robbed me of three or suffered during Covid, dor, teaching children about look- “People were
four years towards my wife and daughter ing after their mental health as well saying, ‘You
the end of my career. included. should just
But I owe the game “There have been Rewarding go and kill
yourself’,
everything. times when [Lucy]
“Opening up and has come down as running street soccer for refu- and I just thought I can’t do
the stairs in floods gees and the homeless. this anymore.
talking about my
“I felt really sad, I spoke to
experience is the of tears. But I feel He said: “Some people will ask Samaritans, I got help from
best thing I have my experience why a professional footballer earn- my GP and now I am in such
ever done. I hope it can help and I ing good money doing a job mil- a good place. I just love life.
has helped and try to encour- lions would love to do could ever “I feel like I’m the old
continues to age her to talk suffer with mental ill-health. Scarlett again, the 18-year-
about her feel- “It doesn’t discriminate. It all old that was carefree. I feel
England goalie ings, honestly happens between the ears. I like I am that girl again.”
...Chris Kirkland and openly. wouldn’t wish it on my worst
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Bloody machete
fight erupts on
suburban street
THIS shocking footage
has emerged of two men
in a bloody street fight
with machetes.
The pair are seen
slashing at each other in
a suburban area in a
video that went viral.
Video shows one man with neck wound Police officers were
called to the scene in
Morecambe, Lancashire,
on Sunday afternoon.
The minute-long clip
begins with the two men
trading insults in the
street.
One of them, wearing
a hoodie, wields a
machete.
The other strips off his
top and is handed a
machete by a pal and
the pair swing wildly at
each other.
Witnesses urge them
to put the weapons
down while others
encourage them.
The hooded man ends
up on the floor being
punched and kicked in
the head as a third man
joins in.
The other fighter wielded a huge blade Two men, aged 31 and
By Chris Riches
26, both from
Morecambe, have been
arrested on suspicion of
assault.
Sgt James Pinder,
said: “The incident has
been recorded and
uploaded to social
media. For evidential
purposes, I would urge
people not to share it
further at this time.
“I would encourage
witnesses to contact us.
“I realise this will
have caused concern in
Morecambe but
incidents of this nature
are rare and patrols
have been increased
in the area.
“If you have any
information which
could assist our
enquiries – or you
witnessed the
incident – please
come forward.” Pair slash at
Anyone with each other.
information should Inset, third
call Lancashire Police man arrives
on 101.

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THE number of children receiv-
ing their first conviction or cau-
tion for carrying a weapon has
increased every year since 2012,
the Daily Express can reveal.
In 2019, 2,063 young people
EXCLUSIVE
By Michael Knowles
Home Affairs Correspondent
Kinsella knife-crime trust, told
the Daily Express: “What this
raise awareness. We are trying to
make parents aware of this as an
issue. We are not about criminal-
ising young people.
“We want to try and identify
early if there is an issue. We want

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were either prosecuted or
cautioned after being caught
with knives, knuckle-dusters,
guns or machetes.
This is almost double the 1,083
youths in 2012.
Experts fear these figures indi-
really shows is that we are clearly
not tackling the root causes of
knife crime.
“There is a lot of focus on
intervening after a crime has
been committed. But I don’t
think there is enough focus on
people to know the risks around
weapons. Parents in particular.”
“We want to ensure young
people don’t get drawn into
these kind of behaviours where
knives get used and people get
hurt or killed.”

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cate a failure to intervene early
and prevent children from being
sucked into a life of crime.
Vulnerable
The statistics, compiled by the
catching people before they
make a mistake.
“Should we not be going one
step further back to find these
young people who are more
likely to make bad choices or are
vulnerable to drift into
Charged
Police and prosecutors agree
that children under 16 caught
with a knife for the first time
should be cautioned. They will

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Ministry of Justice, show 194
youngsters under the age of 12
were convicted or cautioned for
carrying a weapon in 2019.
And the number of those
accused of weapons offences
aged 13, 14 and 15 also reached
criminality?
“There is a lot of work done
with young people in custody,
but to an extent the damage has
already been done.”
Parents who fear their children
could get involved in knife crime
then have to see social workers.
If the child is arrested for a
second time with a weapon, they
should be charged, according to
Crown Prosecution Service
guidance.
It adds: “The offence of threat-

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the highest level in a decade.
Data from the Ministry of
Justice and Police National
Computer revealed 232 13-year-
olds, 343 14-year-olds, and 459
15-year-olds were caught.
Patrick Green, of the Ben
are being asked to contact police
themselves.
Northumbria Police’s Assistant
Chief Constable Neil Hutchison
said children as young as eight
can be identified and given help.
He said: “We are trying to
ening a person in public or on
school premises will result in a
youth aged 16 or over going
straight to charge, as this offence
carries a minimum sentence of a
four-month detention and train-
ing order.”

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A FATHER of four who died By John Twomey birthday in Laindon, Essex. said: “Mr Gibbons was found his murder and appeared at
outside his home had been A post mortem found Mr unconscious lying outside his Chelmsford Crown Court.
stabbed multiple times in the after he went to the aid of Gibbons, a plumber, had home address.” The inquest There was no application
stomach, an inquest heard. another man on May 2. died from stab wounds to was adjourned pending for bail and the youth, who
James Gibbons, 34, was He had been attending a the abdomen. police investigations. cannot be named, was
killed during a confrontation family barbecue to celebrate Chelmsford Coroner’s Meanwhile, a 16-year-old remanded in custody to
Confrontation...James with a number of youths his twin daughters’ second Court officer Paul Baker boy has been charged with reappear on July 2.

20 Daily Express Tuesday, May 11, 2021
It’s so much fun to
get a return ticket
for Railway Children
EXCLUSIVE
By Deborah Collcutt
L
IFE, Jenny Agutter believes, moves in
circles and it seems that for her all
roads lead back to a small railway sta-
tion in West Yorkshire. It was there in
1968 that she filmed the BBC adapta-
tion of The Railway Children, playing
Roberta “Bobbie” Waterbury, and again in
the iconic feature film version based on E.
Nesbit’s 1906 book two years later.
The Railway Children tells how the afflu-
ent Waterbury family are thrown into pov-
erty when their father Charles Waterbury,
who works at the Foreign Office, is falsely
convicted of spying.
The family move from London to Yorkshire
and Bobbie and her siblings Phyllis, played
by Sally Thomsett, and Peter, Gary Warren,
amuse themselves by watching the trains in
nearby Oakworth station, where the original
filming took place.
They befriend Albert Perks, the station
porter, played by Bernard Cribbins.
Now, more than 50 years later, at the age
of 68, Jenny is to portray “granny Bobbie”
in a sequel, set in the 1940s, with Sheridan
Smith playing her daughter. And Jenny
couldn’t be more delighted.
“It’s charming,” she says, during a break in
filming the 11th series of TV drama Call the
Midwife. “I’ve read people have said, ‘You’ve
got a lot to live up to,’ but what is fun about
it is that I get to play Roberta again.
“It’s a story set in the same place, as
though this is Bobbie’s house in the Forties,
during the Second World War.
“Bobbie has lived through the First
World War, she’s an Edwardian child but
it’s about 1940s evacuee children
and I am providing the back-
ground for their
adventures.”
The iconic Keighley &
Worth Valley Railway
from the original film
will also feature but
Jenny is the only mem-
ber of that cast involved.
Sir Tom Courtenay
plays Bobbie’s brother-
in-law (he is married
to Phyllis who’s
away working with
the Red Cross).
So not only is
Jenny rehearsing
for the film, she is
currently up to her
ankles in fake
snow as Sister
Julienne while film-
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after the
original hit,
Jenny Agutter
on playing
Bobbie as a
granny... while
filming Call
the Midwife
BACK TO
THE
FUTURE:
Jenny,
below, and
in the ing the Christmas episodes of the eternally
original
popular BBC show which airs in December.
film, above,
with Sally Last week Jenny met her new Railway
Thomsett Children co-stars for the first time during a
as Phyllis script read-through on Zoom.
and “Sheridan Smith plays my daughter and
Bernard she has a son, Tom, who I sort of met with
Cribbins as the cast en masse during a read-through
Mr Perks online. It was a bit odd going from Call the
Midwife to The Railway Children, but it’s
totally delightful that Tom Courtenay’s in it
because I just think he’s so brilliant.
“He is playing someone who would have
been married to my sister Phyllis, he’s great
Uncle Walter to Tom. It’s a really charming
tale and it’s really well told.”
Written by Danny Brocklehurst,
whose credits include TV shows like
Brassic, Accused, Clocking Off and
Shameless, and directed by Bafta-
winning director Morgan Matthews,
The Railway Children Return follows
a group of children who are evacu-
ated to Yorkshire where they
encounter a young soldier who, like
them, is far from home. Filming
started yesterday and it is due in
cinemas on April 1 next year.
Jenny, like Bobbie, is a proud
grandmother.
Her son Jon – with Johan Tham,
a Swedish hotelier who she mar-
ried in 1990 – and his wife, Maude,
son, Oliver,
had a son Oliver born last October.
October With the
restrictions of Covid, she has seen precious
little of her grandson but they were reunited
on Christmas Day at the family home in
Cornwall.
“He’s the most beautiful boy,” coos Jenny,
“of course he is!”
Born to a British army officer in Taunton,
Jenny spent her childhood in Cyprus and
Singapore. She returned to ballet school in
England and at the age of seven successfully
auditioned for Walt Disney for his film,
Ballerina.
After landing the role of Bobbie in the
BBC series and 1970 Lionel Jeffries-directed
film of The Railway Children at the age of 19,
Jenny moved into adult roles.
S
HE won critical acclaim for
Walkabout, about a teenager lost
with her younger brother in the
Australian outback, Logan’s Run, An
American Werewolf In London and The
Eagle Has Landed. She has revisited her
breakthrough story once already, taking on
the role of Mother in a 2000 TV film of The
Railway Children.
But, she says, as far as UK audiences are
concerned she will only ever be Bobbie.
“The Railway Children has been a part of
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THE SEQUEL
IS ON TRACK
A NEW generation
of young actors
have tickets to
ride as filming
begins on The
Railway Children
Return.
The iconic
movie has moved
forward from
Edwardian times
to the 1940s and
most of the child
stars play wartime
evacuees.
But the beautiful
countryside
around Keighley,
Yorks, still has a
leading role in the
sequel, as does
Oakworth Station,
where much of
the original film’s
action took place.

FAST FORWARD: The

new movie sees a return
to Oakworth Station,
inset above. Main, the
young cast enjoy the
hills around Keighley in
West Yorkshire

my life, it’s been joyous to do,” she says. “It
was lovely to make the film, we had a won-
derful royal premiere for it but then I went to
America for 17 years and no one mentioned
The Railway Children.
“I did Logan’s Run, I worked at the
National Theatre and it was only when I
came back to the UK that people asked
same world in many ways but it’s a different vaccination and is cautiously optimistic Jenny also raises funds for The Cystic
one. In 1968 when the first TV series was about a return to the theatre. Fibrosis Trust.
made, we were only 62 years away from “I think we’re all aware, as we weren’t Call the Midwife fans enjoying the current
when Nesbit wrote the book. before, that this is still a long journey and series have just seen the occupants of
“Now we’re further away from that time we’re looking at India, we’re looking at Nonnatus House celebrating England’s 1966
there’s so many other Europe and mutations World Cup victory, but in the next series,
things that have happened, will continue to occur which is being filmed now under strict Covid
society has changed.” until we’ve actually put a restrictions, time has moved on.

A
about The Railway Children because it had a Jenny says The Railway lid on it globally.
new life. But by that time I had established Children Return offers “So we haven’t con-
completely other work and I had a son and I family entertainment in an quered the thing yet but
was married, and my life was very different.” ever shrinking market. we do have this rather
There may be a part in the sequel for “It’s rare nowadays to extraordinary time in the S IF to reinforce her theme of life
Bernard Cribbins, a personal friend who is find something you can UK right now, which does revolving, Jenny adds laughing:
now 92, Jenny hints, but she is not sure watch with your children feel a lot freer. But in “Very shortly I will be able to watch
whether he will be able to make it. Although and it’s about wanting to terms of work we have to myself on the set of Call the Midwife in the
she is not on screen much, Jenny says Bobbie hang on to our imagina- remain very, very careful.” first incarnation of The Railway Children in
has always been intrinsic to the story. tions, and innocence, and As ever she has numer- 1968!”
As a result of Covid, the sequel, produced families trying to make ous projects on the go, She knows the original Railway Children
by StudioCanal, nearly didn’t get made. things work,” says Jenny. including making a docu- film holds a special place in people’s hearts,
“I was first approached about it two years Can the sequel ever mentary about The but hopes that fans will accept that Bobbie
ago,” reveals Jenny, “but it kept getting put measure up to the origi- Tempest. has aged, and life has moved on.
off because of the pandemic. I thought I’m nal? “Who knows? I didn’t “When people phone “People were critical when I played
going to be a great granny by the time it gets know that Call the up and say, ‘Right, The Mother in the 2000 film because I wasn’t the
off the ground!” Midwife would be the suc- Railway Children Return child any more, but children grow up.
She is at pains to stress that whilst the cess it was. When I made is on’ I just say ‘yes’ and “And this sequel is another passage of
ethos of the original book is there it is a com- The Railway Children I POPULAR: Jenny as Sister then ‘can I have 20 extra time. I think anyone who’s gone past half a
pletely different story. didn’t know that it would Julienne in Call the Midwife hours in each day century realises that you revisit things in
“They’ve kept the feeling but it’s changed have a continuing success. please?’” your life again and again. And you revisit
to another world because you’ve had two “I feel lucky to be doing it and I’m sure it For the past decade, she has also been a them in different ways. And that’s quite
world wars in between,” she says. will be well received because there is a huge dedicated patron of St Giles Trust, a charity exciting because it gives you a different way
“And it’s changed children, it’s changed affection for it in the UK.” which helps former drug addicts and people to look at something and gives you a differ-
families and you’ll see in the film it’s the Jenny has just booked her second Covid who have been in prison or are homeless. ent understanding of the world.”
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AN angry pensioner has been jailed
  after he tried to run over his neigh-
bour but missed and hit his wife.
Michael Goodenough, 73, reversed
his white Mercedes at Michelle

 Palmer but instead struck 72-year-old
Lynda, seriously injuring her.
She was rushed to hospital with a



broken spine in July 2019.
At Warwick Crown Court, Judge
Peter Cooke told Goodenough: “Your
wife suffered significant and lasting
injury. You tried to reverse into the


 


lady next-door and hurt her but
ended up running over your wife and
causing her a spinal crush fracture.
“You did not just take a risk that
you would hurt Mrs Palmer by driv-
ing recklessly, you intended to do so.
That is why to prison you must go.”
Goodenough had lived next door Jail term...Michael Goodenough, 73
to Mrs Palmer for 30 years’ but they
fell out in 1994 when she built a wall Prosecutor David Jackson said
Reader
between their properties in Coventry. Goodenough had reversed slowly at
Offer On the day of the injury the father
of three deliberately blocked an alley-
Mrs Palmer who was “seen pressing
her hands against the rear window”
way between the homes with his car as it forced her backwards. His wife
but flipped when Mrs Palmer started then walked behind the car.
filming him with her Mr Jackson said: “As
phone. his wife walked back
Judge Cooke told
him: “What I have
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Goodenough suddenly
seen on that video is a
display of petty, small-
off leaving her reversed, knocking her
to the ground and
minded petulance by to be tended going over her.”
all concerned. It broke a vertebrae
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initiated it by the boxing-in of your behaviour of Mr Goodenough.”
neighbours for using an alleyway you Adam Western, defending, said:
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halted yesterday after an alleged Activists claimed titles printed at the
activist glued himself to the dock and sites, including The Sun, The Times,
started filming on his phone. Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail, failed
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By Chris Riches I’M THRILLED, NOW WE CAN PLAN A FUTURE
this century. CYSTIC fibrosis patients were
Some 15.24 celebrating last night after wonder
million tuned in, drug Kaftrio was finally approved for
beating an episode
of ITV’s Heartbeat in
full, widespread use across the UK.
2000, which had Up until yesterday only some
15.16 million. sufferers aged 12 and over were
The BBC One allowed to receive the treatment.
police thriller The Daily Express launched a cam-
starring Adrian paign after reporting how CF access to lifesaving medicine.” There
Dunbar as patients who could benefit from are 10,500 people in the UK with
Superintendent Ted Kaftrio in Northern Ireland, Wales the genetic condition, which slowly
Hastings is the and Scotland were on it – but not destroys the lungs with sticky mucus.
highest-rated TV those in England. Every human has two copies of the
drama series since Due to NHS England having a CF transmembrane conductance
March 1999, when stricter protocol, many sufferers had regulator (CFTR) gene but anyone
ITV’s A Touch Of to prove a “clinical unmet need” to who inherits two mutated CFTRs is
Frost was watched have it prescribed. born with CF. The most common
by 15.83 million. Now, in a major mutation is F508
The final episode
of Bodyguard, also
victory for CF suffer- and anyone with
by Line Of Duty ers, the Medicines two of them
writer Jed Mercurio, and Healthcare (around 50 per cent
broadcast in 2018, products Regulatory of sufferers) can
was viewed by Agency (MHRA) take Kaftrio, while
14.34 million. has rubber-stamped kids under 12 can
Kaftrio for all eligi- take Symkevi or
ble patients aged 12 Orkambi, all made
and older. by US firm Vertex.
Express writer But Kaftrio is
Carlie Pleasant is more advanced and
delighted that more works for 90 per
people can now cent of sufferers.
access the drug that NHS England
changed her life. (NHSE) agreed a
Angst...film star Jolie The campaigner deal with Vertex last
and mum of one, 31, June – the first UK
Angelina’s from Sittingbourne,
Kent, said: “Kaftrio
has done so much
Triumph...campaigner Carlie
Pleasant with David Ramsden
nation to do so.
Yet
Northern
Scotland,
Ireland
hurt still for me since I started it before and Wales beat England in tearing up
Christmas – it’s been amazing. red tape so all those with at least one
lingering “I don’t cough constantly and have F508 gene could benefit.
more energy and appetite. It has NHSE withheld Kaftrio from
been everything I hoped it would be. around 1,000 sufferers.
New beginning...Faith Hudson-Ward with her daughter Mavis-May Jane

FAITH Hudson-Ward is delighted physiotherapy and exercise.

By Laura Harding “I love the fact everyone who is The Daily Express campaign called she will soon be taking Kaftrio Faith, of Uckfield, East Sussex,
ANGELINA Jolie able to have Kaftrio in the UK can for easier “off-label” prescribing – – as it will give her extra strength said: “I am thrilled. Kaftrio will
has described now have it and experience this where doctors can give the drug to to raise her baby daughter. not just maintain my health it will
feeling traumatised for themselves.” those not technically yet included The 29-year-old mum of three increase it. This can save so
before she took on David Ramsden, chief executive of under the drug’s strict licence. gave birth in March to Mavis-May many lives and give people a
her latest film role. the Cystic Fibrosis Trust, said: “The By the end of March NHSE issued Jane, named in honour of two chance to plan for not just
The star, who split friends with cystic fibrosis (CF) tomorrow but the future.
MHRA’s decision is great news. new guidance, paving the way for the
from former who died. Mavis-May does not “The red tape in getting Kaftrio
“It means all eligible people should MHRA to amend the licence. have CF and is thriving. was at times soul-destroying.
husband Brad Pitt in be able to access this transformative A spokesman for Vertex said:
2016 after a 10-year Only 40 to 50 per cent of Faith’s “It is all good news for our
treatment. This is another critical “With this extension, the majority of lungs function and she spends at future and the rest of the
relationship, said it milestone and a tribute to everyone people aged 12 years and older with
was important for least two hours a day doing CF community.”
who is part of the vital campaign for CF in Great Britain are now eligible.”
her children to see
her as a survivor.
In her new film,

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Those Who Wish Me
Dead, Angelina, 45,
plays a firefighter.
She said: “We all
have times in our STAGE and screen star Tony By Liz Perkins him dearly. He was a Jelly Roll Soul, before taking
lives where we just Armatrading died yesterday wonderful actor and a a series of roles with the
feel broken. after a cancer battle. and shared a snap of true friend.” Royal Shakespeare Company.
“And so I came Tributes have been pouring Armatrading, taken with The Birmingham-born star Mr Armatrading’s credits
into this not feeling
strong at all, and
in for the 59-year-old who devoted wife Suzan Crowley first joined the Birmingham included Grange Hill,
not knowing if I had was known for his film roles and their pet dog Dash Repertory Theatre stage crew. Brookside, police drama The
it even in me to pull in The Saint and Notting Hill. shortly before his death. He later acted on stage Bill and A Touch Of Frost
through this. He was the younger Mr Bentinck wrote: “Very with stars including Imelda alongside David Jason.
“And, like brother of celebrated sad news. My dearest friend Staunton, Jeremy Irons, Pete He also starred in Colour
everybody, I carry singer-songwriter Joan Tony Armatrading died of Postlethwaite and Sean Bean. Blind with Niamh Cusack.
my own trauma, my Armatrading. cancer an hour ago. He also toured Britain as The actor also did
own grief.” Archers actor Tim Bentinck “I had the privilege of Jelly Roll Morton, one of the voiceover parts for several
With Niamh Cusack in TV drama revealed the news on Twitter being his best man, and loved founding fathers of jazz, in Star Wars video games.

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A PREGNANT woman has won
£14,000 after she informed her boss
she was having a baby but was told,
“I’m too busy for this”.
Yuliia Khimicheva was sacked by a
“discourteous” letter that used her
initial rather than first full name, a
tribunal was told. She had been
forced to take time off work due to
an illness related to her pregnancy.
Victory…Yuliia Khimicheva She claimed that when she was
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fired her manager told her “we are
not a charity who pay people who
don’t work”.
Ms Khimicheva worked as a maga-
zine finisher at Key Promotions (UK)
Ltd, a company involved in packing
books and magazines.
An employment tribunal held in
Ashford, Kent, heard she joined the
business in March 2019. She was still
on her probationary period when on
July 9 she told her manager, Caroline
Edwards, that she would be having a
baby.
The tribunal heard that Mrs
Edwards responded by saying, “I’m
too busy for this.”
Concerns
She claimed she already had con-
cerns about Ms Khimicheva’s perfor-
mance at work and that she was also
absent, with an illness related to her
pregnancy, on numerous occasions.
On July 26, Mrs Edwards spoke to
Ms Khimicheva and informed her
that she was to be dismissed.
In aletter addressed to “Y
Khimicheva”, Mrs Edwards stated:
“As your production was lower than
it should be after such time your
Pawsome...visitor shares golden moments with the adorable retrievers
Bed and bark fest..video makes
dog centre overnight sensation
DOG lovers are straining at the
leash to go walkies with a pack of
cute golden retrievers, after an
online video went viral.
Business at the Golden
Retriever Experience (GRE) has
gone barking mad with hundreds
of daily inquiries since Tilly
Washer posted footage on TikTok
of dozens of the dogs frolicking
and competing for her attention.
The farm in Minehead,
Somerset, owned by Nicolas
Grant-St James and his daughter
Lauren, are offering two-hour and
six-hour visits – and even
overnight staycations – costing
attendance started to fall behind. As a
result being very busy with work and
your continued absence I have
decided this job is not working for
you or for the company.”
Employment Judge Martha Street
found that Mrs Edwards knew of the
pregnancy before the date she
decided to dismiss Ms Khimicheva,
adding: “That would point to
the pregnancy being a factor in
her thinking.”
Judge Street concluded: “As a preg-
nant woman under dismissal, Ms
Khimicheva is entitled to a statement
of reasons for dismissal and the
reasons are mentioned only briefly
and in the most general terms.”
Ms Khimicheva was found to
have been unfairly dismissed and
discriminated against because of
her pregnancy. The company was
ordered to pay her a total of £14,820.
Picture: TRIANGLE NEWS
By Steph Spyro
£60-£180. Visitors are invited to
play with the dogs and pups, go
on walks together, or just chill
out with one on their lap.
Thanks to Tilly’s video, which
has been watched almost five
million times, the farm has 8,500
Instagram followers who gush
over adorable snaps of the pets.
Ciara Knight wrote: “This is
what heaven will be like for me.”
The GRE said on its website:
“Due to our business going viral,
we are currently receiving
hundreds of inquiries every day.”

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White-tailed eagles will soar over Wild Ken Hill, above
Eagle on return
flight to England
SIXTY white-tailed
eagles are to be
reintroduced to Norfolk
in a plan to bring the
birds back to England.
Known as “flying barn
doors” because of their
8ft wingspan, the birds
became extinct in this
country in the early 20th
century. Britain’s
biggest bird of prey,
they were reintroduced
to Scotland in the 1970s.
Now 60 young birds
will be moved from a
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NEARLY 59 million hectares of
forest have regrown since 2000
but such green shoots cannot be
taken for granted, experts warn.
An area larger than mainland
France has returned globally,
which could store the equivalent
of 5.9 gigatonnes of carbon diox-
ide (CO2) – more than the
annual emissions of the US.
William Baldwin-Cantello of
the World Wide Fund for Nature
called for a halt to deforestation
to ensure gains were not wasted.


 

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regeneration for granted – defor-
estation still claims millions of
hectares every year, vastly more
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healthy population in
Poland to west Norfolk
over 10 years.
Wild Ken Hill, a
rewilding, conservation
and sustainable farming
project, will receive
the birds.
Manager Dominic
Buscall said: “We are
delighted to have the
go-ahead to bring back
white-tailed eagles to
eastern England.”
Lush...a thriving Canadian forest
released today. An estimated 4.2
million hectares – about the size
of the Netherlands – has been
restored there over two decades.
Better industry practices and
migration trends towards cities
helped the regeneration.
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you can just rinse under
forest regeneration is often
cheaper, richer in carbon and
better for biodiversity than
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LADY luck shone on
Luke Ashman who won
£250,000 with a £2
scratchcard on the day
he went on a first date
with his girlfriend.
Now the TK Maxx
security guard, 22, will
be taking her out in a
flash Ford Mustang
after his National
Lottery windfall. Fizzing...Luke celebrates
Luke of Dudley, West his big scratchcard win
Midlands, said: “When I
saw the amount my
heart was thumping
and I literally started
to shake.
at first. I ordered a bottle
of prosecco and we
celebrated an amazing
day of both a lottery win
“I somehow drove and a first date.
home, stumbled along “You could say I’d won
the drive, opened the twice in one day.”
door and started to As well as buying a
shout to whoever was Mustang, Luke, who is
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HICKEY EXCLUSIVE By James Murray

He rowed his way to
his second 100-mile

WHILE the new BBC TV adaptation of
Nancy Mitford’s novel The Pursuit of Love
has been fiercely dividing opinion since the
first episode was broadcast on Sunday night,
Ab Fab star Jennifer
Saunders, pictured, is
among those publicly
championing the drama.
Agreeing with a
favourable verdict
on Twitter, she announces:
“I thought it was marvel-
lous too.” It’s only fair to
add that Jennifer’s
daughter Beattie Edmondson happens to
play Louisa Radlett in the series!
RE-ELECTED Mayor of Greater
Manchester Andy Burnham these days
enjoys admirers comparing him to the
“King of the North” from epic series Game
Of Thrones.
The politician, 51, is decidedly less keen
on being cheekily described as “doe-
eyed” in the media, courtesy of his
prominent eyelashes.
NEWLY-APPOINTED Shadow Chancellor
Rachel Reeves has never been considered
among Westminster’s colourful performers.
Following one of 42-year-old Reeves’s less
than riveting appearances on BBC 2’s
Newsnight, the show’s then boss Ian Katz
had to apologise after describing her in
a tweet (accidentally made public to
26,000 Twitter followers) as “boring,
snoring Rachel Reeves.”
OBLIGED to listen to Sir Mick Jagger
lecturing him on the art of songwriting, Sir
Tom Jones remembers: “A Rolling Stones
record then came on. I said to Mick, ‘Did
you write this?’ He said, ‘Yes.’ So I replied,
‘Well you should be ashamed of yourself!’”
The Welsh star insists: “He laughed,
thank God.”
A
S launches go, it is distinctly low
key. With no member of the Royal
Family on hand and no bottle of
champers to smash over the bow,
“Captain” Mick Stanley simply
nudges the stern of his corrugated
iron rowing boat to set her sliding into the
canal with barely a splash.
A passing swan looks on curiously as Mick
flings his feet over the stern and then gingerly
turns his body around, half an inch at a time,
so as not to unbalance his craft, and sits
down, ready to take up his oars.
“This is the bit where it tips up and I fall
into the canal,” jokes the 80-year-old retired
Army major with a hearty laugh as passers-
by reach for their mobile phones – whether
to take photos or call 999 isn’t quite clear.
Buoyancy aids on either side of the vessel
control the rocking as Mick finally casts off.
“See how easy it is to get her moving,” he
says confidently as he glides over the water
while onlookers wave from the safety of the
banks of Chichester Canal at Hunston, just a
few miles from the West Sussex cathedral city.
Major Mick, a tad eccentric despite his
35-year career with the Royal Scots
Dragoon Guards, touched
hearts last autumn with
perhaps the second best-
known lockdown ‘Building it
charity fundraiser
after Captain Sir Tom
was pretty
Moore’s epic 100 easy. I found a bit
laps of his garden.
In his homemade
of driftwood on
boat, swiftly dubbed the beach and
Tintanic, Mick rowed
100 miles along the used some old
Chichester Canal in a shelving’
bid to raise £1,000 for St
Wilfrid’s Hospice at nearby
Bosham.
To cope with the physical
demands, he split the challenge
into three-mile long rows over
many weeks. In the end, he raised
more than £40,000.
Supporters thought he had hung
up his oars for good, especially
when he sold Tintanic for £480 to a
fellow resident in Hunston in an
eBay auction, with all monies
going to the hospice.
and hopes to complete his challenge by
September.
His wife Sally, 80, is slightly concerned
about him becoming a Captain Calamity, far
away from his comfort zone of the local
canal, which is only a few feet deep.
“In Scotland, I’ll be rowing along Loch
Ness for a few miles but I won’t go too far
from the lochside,” he insists. “Sally’s not
keen on me going out in the open sea, so I’ll
stick to estuaries, canals and rivers. I’m not
too sure how Tintanic II will cope with big
waves, but I will have my baked bean can
with me all the time for bail outs.
“I’ll be staying at 22 locations and doing
about two or three miles of rowing a day. I’m
really looking forward to getting around the
country and meeting people. Rowing is very
sociable, people just love to come along and
have a chat.”
While the Daily Express watched Mick
river-testing Tintanic II, canoeist Felicia
Grainger, 27, came over to pass on her good
wishes. “I was a bit worried when I saw you
getting in but I can see you are a good
rower,” she told him.
“You’ve got good control of the oars. Your
boat looks surprisingly stable. I work in a
care home, so I think it’s a great way of
raising money. I’ll mention this at
work and ask people to look at your
CHALLENGE:
Tintantic II, left,
has stabilisers
on the side of
its corrugated

AMERICAN movie veteran Robert De Niro,
pictured, appears in a new video for Swiss
Tourism with the country’s favourite
sporting son and eight-times Wimbledon
champion Roger Federer.
While diehard fans of
the Raging Bull star, 77,
these days cringe at some
of his commercial career
choices, De Niro’s lawyer
only recently claimed he
can no longer afford to be
choosy about acting
work...due to the costly tastes of estranged
wife Grace Hightower.
LOOKING forward to getting back on
stage in the not too distant future, The
Who’s Roger Daltrey now recalls of his
trademark microphone swinging: “I’ve
only ever hurt one other person, and that
was deliberate.”
The singer adds that the said occasion
was a 1969 concert at the Royal Albert
Hall when his band shared the bill with
Chuck Berry.
Explaining he was responding to an “old
teddy boy” throwing a coin at his head
from the front of the crowd, Roger, 77,
proudly concludes: “I pointed at him,
swung the mike...and hit him smack bang in
the middle of the nose. Serves him right!”
CELEBRITY polymath Stephen Fry, 63,
warns his enthusiasm might get the better of
him when the hugging ban is finally lifted in
the coming days. He advises: “If you see me
in the street – run for it.”
I
steel hull.
Getting in
and out of the
boat, below,
can be tricky
NSTEAD, it’s clearly whetted his
appetite for adventure. So later this
month he will take his new craft –
Tintanic II, of course – across the country in
another epic 100-mile row in different
locations, this time in aid of Alzheimer’s
Research UK.
“It was pretty easy building Tintanic II,”
explains Mick. “I bought some corrugated
metal sheets and nuts and bolts. I found a bit
of driftwood on the beach for the bow and
used some old shelving for the stern.
“The oars were the most expensive thing.
They cost about £100. I’ve got some sealant
for leaks and an old baked bean can for bail-
ing out in case it gets pretty bad. I reckon
Tintanic II has cost me about £200, but I
have some interesting innovations.
“To make the wooden seat a bit more com-
fortable, I’ve used a dog’s bed which we had
for our old greyhound Spindle, who died a
while ago. It’s amazing how much more com-
fortable I am and much better supported.
“I’ve also attached an old kitchen strainer
to a cane, which I can use to collect any
donations while I row. There’s also a clothes
peg in case people want to offer any notes. I JustGiving page. I think you’re fine here but I disease, awful. I thought it would be good to
love chatting to people and telling them don’t know how Tintanic would cope in raise some money for research.”
about why I am rowing – if they want to rough seas. I wouldn’t fancy that. You be His children, Robin, 45, and Jane, 43, are
donate there and then, that’s great.” careful out there.” taking their father’s nautical adventure in
As well as carrying the Union Flag, Mick’s “Thanks for your support,” responds Mick, their stride, even though his past exploits
vessel also flies the flags for Scotland and pleased to get another convert on his first have given them a few scares.
Wales as his adventure stretches into both major outing for his new vessel. “I’ve lost “He is actually quite sensible,” says Jane.
countries. He will be in Scotland in August some friends to Alzheimer’s. It’s a filthy “Getting in and out is tricky and he has hurt
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Picture: JONATHAN BUCKMASTE
BUCKMASTER

£40k in his D-I-Y boat. Now the octogenarian is planning

charity voyage and the Express witnessed the trial run

AWESOME:
Mick, casting
off, left, had a
35-year army
career, right. A
handy kitchen
strainer on a
pole, below,
makes it easy
for passers by
to donate

The five
boxing wizards
jump very quickly
and zombies arrive
to quickly fax
Judge Pat

Major Mick
managed properties. When he completed his
first 100 mile row for his local hospice, Jane’s
son Toby was there to celebrate and bystand-
ers were amused when Toby got out his
trumpet and played Drunken Sailor.

M
launches
ICK served in Kenya in 1960,
shortly before independence, with
the National Service Infantry
Platoon. He commanded 8 Platoon, C
Company of The Queen’s Own Buffs and
enjoyed the rugged challenges so much he
went on to serve with the regular army in
Germany, Singapore, Cyprus and Northern
Ireland.

Tintanic II...
In all those postings, he had his comrades
to look out for him but now he faces the dan-
gers alone – although friends and family will
shadow him along canals and river banks.
Television presenter Ben Fogle has
become a fan and will see Mick off on his
next challenge on May 28 at the Phyllis
Court rowing club at Henley-on-Thames,
Oxfordshire.
“Ben read about me raising money for the

the sequel
himself before. He fell into the canal once
and my cousin had to jump in and get him
out but he is careful and he doesn’t go out if
it’s bad weather.
“His grandfather and father had boats and
he’s always loved sailing. This has been great
for him because it’s given him something to
do in lockdown, making the boat. He’s got a
good workshop and there’s always some
project on the go.
“In the past he made what we called Jesus
shoes. They were six feet long and he thought
they might help him walk on water. But he
tried it out at his cousin’s swimming pool
and sank – so that was that.
“I remember when I was a child he was
hospice and when I told him about this
challenge he said he wanted to be there at
the launch,” says Mick. “I might even bring
along a fake bottle of champagne for him to
bash over the bow.”
Although Tintanic II will dip its toe into
the Thames, the tidal watercourse is too chal-
lenging for him to row much of it.
But what is certain is that he will be wear-
ing his Royal Armoured Corps Yacht Club
blue cap – the initials of the club adorn the
stern of Tintanic II – and all his fellow club
members will be there to give him a rousing
making an aeroplane kit in the kitchen. It send-off.
looked very good but it only flew for about “I’ll be raising my cap at the end of the
13 seconds before it crashed. Tintanic is his challenge,” says Mick. “You can be sure of
most successful project.” that.”
After Mick left the Army in 1995, he went
on courses to learn how to restore antiques ● To support Mick Stanley, please go to
and he makes beautiful furniture in the www.justgiving.com/fundraising/
workshop he built for that purpose. He also majormick-tintanic
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yourhealth
Four million Brits
have some kind of
autoimmune
illness – and
75  per cent of
those are women.
But, as Michele
O’Connor
discovers, simple

Livin
lifestyle changes
can make a big
difference

A
utoimmune diseases develop
from a dysfunction of the
immune system, where it
mistakenly attacks your body.

with
While some affect specific organs, such
as type 1 diabetes, which affects the
pancreas, others – like lupus – affect
the whole body. Symptoms vary
according to the condition but can
include fatigue, rashes and achy joints.
The exact causes remain a mystery,
although scientists have several
theories. Genetics plays a part, as does

enem
our environment – low vitamin D levels
have been shown to be a risk factor for
multiple sclerosis. Certain infections,
such as glandular fever, can also trigger
an immune response while lifestyle
links include obesity, prolonged stress,
the western diet and poor sleep.
“There are two theories as to why
women are more likely to be affected,”
says Paul Howard, CEO of Lupus UK

withi
(lupusuk.org.uk).
“Firstly, women are more likely to
inherit a faulty gene if it’s linked to
the X chromosome because they have
two X chromosomes.”
“Secondly, hormonal activity plays an
important role.
“With lupus, many women
experience the first signs of the disease
during puberty, pregnancy and
menopause. Disease flare-ups can also
be associated with the menstrual cycle.”
Treatment varies according to the
autoimmune disease, explains Paul.
For example, the main treatment for
type 1 diabetes is insulin while those believed may be causing the damage, Richa
with coeliac disease need to eliminate eating foods which contain nutrients 100 re
gluten from their diet. needed for the gut to repair itself and Way B
“For lupus, the first line of treatmentones that are anti-inflammatory in „ Ke
is anti-malarial medication nature,” she explains.
than 7
(hydroxychloroquine).” Although sceptical at first, within
weeks, Richard noticed improvements is loca
Other common treatments believ
include immunosuppressants and over the following year slowly got

‘‘
and steroids. better. He is now totally
pain-free without any
How to help Modern
medication.
“Richard followed the
yourself medicine had diet for nine months,
Dogged determination led no answers before easing off some
physiotherapist Louise except to take of the strict measures.
Blanchfield to create a diet to a tablet and Now, he can eat gluten
help improve her husband get worse and dairy on a
Richard’s health. rotational basis, and
He had developed the can even go off the
painful bowel disease ulcerative colitis plan on holiday for up to three
and was forced to use a walking stick weeks,” says Louise.
due to arthritis. Inspired by this success,
“Modern medicine had run out Louise qualified as a nutritional
of answers, except ‘take the tablet and therapist and is now The Food
get worse’,” she says. Physio (thefoodphysio.com). She
“We started removing foods we now offers advice and guidance with

ng
the
my
in
ard, plus they created more than autoimmune disorders begins here.
ecipes in their book, Eating My The gut microflora (trillions of organ-
Back to Health. isms, mainly bacteria) profoundly
eep your gut healthy As more influences the immune system and can
be damaged by antibiotics, infection,
70 per cent of our immune system
stress, diet and lifestyle. Experts advise
ated within the gut, many experts
ve that the development of including fermented foods, such as
sauerkraut, in your diet and taking a
DETERMINED
Louise created good quality probiotic.
Richard a diet „ Look at your whole diet There’s
to improve growing evidence that diet can play a
his health
part in the management of symptoms
associated with autoimmune disease,
says Paul.
“Some research suggests eating a
plant-based, wholefood diet,
avoiding pro-inflammatory foods
and increasing intake of anti-
inflammatory foods can
potentially benefit some people,”
he explains.
Everybody is different, says
Louise, who advises discussing any
big diet changes with your doctor. For
instance, following a gluten and
DX1ST
dairy-free diet helped Richard to
remove food intolerances that were
inflaming and damaging the gut.
She says aim for eight to 10 servings and crisps.
of colourful fruit and veg per day to
boost antioxidants, vitamins and
minerals needed for optimum body
function. Include sweet potatoes,
beetroot, turnip and carrots, as they
feed beneficial bacteria.
Raw garlic helps balance gut bacteria. lupus developed following a traumatic
Chicken bone broth contains collagen
to help heal the gut while cabbage
contains glutamine, which is
needed as a fuel by gut
cells. She advises
including
anti-inflammatory
spices like ginger and
turmeric and
avoiding
inflammatory foods,
including white
potatoes and white
rice, processed foods,
pork products, vegetable
Edited by AMY PACKER
‘‘
Without good, also sun-sensitive so
deep sleep,
our system
just doesn’t
function as
efficiently
oils, alcohol and
fizzy drinks,
cakes, biscuits
„ Deal with
stress This is an
important trigger because
of its effect on our immune
system, says Paul.
“People have reported that their
event and their symptoms are more
active in stressful times.”
Try to minimise work
stress, advises Louise.
“Leave your desk at
lunchtime to go for a
walk, have a change of
scenery, to switch off
from your work and to 60 per cent water, so it is no surprise we
bring down your stress need to make sure we replenish it often
levels before you eat.”
Feel stressed? Try
listening to music or
10 minutes of deep
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breathing exercises to calm you down.
“Take time for yourself each day –
have a hot bath, read a book, meditate
or take up a hobby,” she adds.
„ Prioritise sleep Getting seven to
eight hours a night is vital, says Louise.
“Without good, deep sleep, the body
has less time to perform its necessary
jobs and our system simply does not
function as effectively.”
Go to bed and get up at the same
time each day. Paul suggests going back
to basics with sleep hygiene – no
gadgets, winding down before bed and
avoiding naps if possible.
And have an Epsom salt bath.
“Magnesium is a calming mineral
that stops an overactive brain, but it
also relaxes muscles so helps us settle
down and drift off to sleep,” Louise says.
„ Get vitamin D This plays an
important role in the immune system,
says Paul. “Many people
with lupus are deficient.
Unfortunately, the
majority of patients are
require dietary
supplements rather than
getting it from exposure
to sunlight.”
If you’re not sun-
sensitive, a walk outside
in the sun for 10-15 minutes will boost
your vitamin D levels, suggests Louise.
And take a supplement from October
until the end of March.
„ Keep moving Exercise boosts
energy, produces endorphins that act as
natural painkillers and helps to reduce
inflammation throughout the body.
It can also help combat the
depression and anxiety that often
accompany autoimmune illness.
“Some people with an autoimmune
disease may be less active so the body
can become deconditioned,” says Paul.
“This can lead to muscle loss and less
energy, causing a negative cycle leading
to further deterioration. Activity can
help break this cycle.”
He urges people to pace themselves
and listen to their body. “It’s
tempting to try to fit a lot into
good days but it can be
counter-productive.”
Find what works for
you, get into a routine
and stick to it. Always
include body resist-
ance, like squats, to
maintain muscle mass.
“Some days will be
harder than others,
adjust your workout
accordingly and remember,
low-impact activities are easier
on joints, backs and knees,” says
Louise.
„ Find out more “Those who learn
about their condition feel in control and
empowered,” says Paul.
“They feel more confident attending
medical appointments and are more
likely to ask questions and have a better
relationship with their doctor.”
Find support through the relevant
charities and patient forums.
„ Stay hydrated “Our bodies are
for optimum function,” says Louise.
Make water your drink of choice.
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Tora was saved by world’s
most expensive treatment
Danny Buckland
hears about a
revolutionary gene
therapy costing
£1.79million per
patient, which is
now available
on the NHS
T
he squeaky toy, the hand
waves and words of gentle
encouragement – every parent
has done it to usher in that
landmark moment where their baby
sits unaided.
For six-month-old Tora Patgiri, the
exercise had a lethal undercurrent. Sit
up independently for 10 seconds and
she would be admitted to a clinical
trial for a revolutionary gene therapy;
fail and she would be at the mercy of a
devastating condition.
Tora was born with severe spinal
muscular atrophy (SMA), a genetic
disorder that causes irreversible
muscle wastage and comes with a
two-to-three-year life expectancy.
Her lifeline to the new treatment
depended on her holding that pose to
meet strict trial entry criteria. Parents
Rajdeep and Taisiya had spent hours
coaxing her to sit but when the
clinicians started the stopwatch she
could only manage three seconds
before using her hands for balance, so
a place on the trial was denied.
It was another setback on the
family’s quest to save their precious
daughter with access to a gene therapy patient’s faulty gene mechanisms are
that costs £1.79million per patient
– the most expensive drug in the
world. It led the family to move from
the UK to the US before they secured
treatment nearly two years ago.
Tora is now almost three years old
and speaks three languages – English,
Russian and Assamese. There are still been too late.
some issues with her physical
development but they won’t stop her
from going to school or getting a job,
having a family and living a full life –
every parent’s dream.
“It is incredible. This drug is a
miracle,” says 41-year-old Rajdeep,
who transferred jobs to the US,
moving from London to Ohio
after Tora did not meet the
criteria for another trial at Great
Ormond Street Hospital.
“We are so happy, and ECSTATIC
Parents
relieved, and we can now
Rajdeep
watch Tora grow and thrive. and Taisiya
“We had to consider the with Tora
worst as 95 per cent of
children born with SMA do not
survive beyond two years. Now
we can talk about her future.”
The drug, Zolgensma, is part of
DX1ST
a new wave of treatments where a
corrected by replacement genetic
material engineered in a laboratory.
The innovative nature of the drug and London, where
its sky-high cost meant it was only
available on clinical trials in the UK nursery school.
until the NHS approved it this year.
For Tora, that decision would have is high but it is a one-off treatment
“She was losing physical abilities It is amazing that other
every day and we could not families in the UK will now
wait,” adds
Rajdeep who
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started crying and we were in a state
of shock. I don’t remember anything
that happened from there until the
next day. We were faced with the
SECOND prospect of having to say goodbye to
CHANCE her at some point soon. Our life was
Tora is two turned upside down.”
With Zolgensma yet to be licensed,
the family applied for a trial at Great
Ormond Street Hospital, but Tora did
not qualify. The refusal prompted
Rajdeep to ask his company for a
transfer to America. US medical
authorities had approved the
treatment for children up to the age of
two, which made Tora eligible through
Rajdeep’s company insurance.
“We would do anything to help our
daughter, just like all parents, and
were hugely fortunate enough to get
her treatment before it was too late,”
adds Rajdeep, a financial trader.
SMA, which affects about 80 babies
and children a year, is a hereditary
genetic mutation triggered when both
parents are carriers. It causes the
motor neurons that are responsible
for muscle movement to die. As they
do not regenerate, people with SMA
suffer progressive muscle weakening
HOPE and generally die of
On the pneumonia as their
move lungs fail.
with her
walker The gene therapy,
given as a one-time
infusion, works by
delivering replacement
genes into the
bloodstream which
cause the motor neurons
to work normally.
“SMA is so awful
because you cannot
has now moved recover the damage
his family back already done. But you can
to Kingston, stop the damage
South West continuing,” said Sally-
Anne Tsangarides, of
Tora has just started Novartis Gene Therapy
that developed the drug.
“The cost to the healthcare budget “It is difficult to spot as a baby starts
sitting unsupported from about three
that will last Tora’s lifetime.
‘‘
months and then develops
other motor skills up to
nine months.
benefit from it too.” “It is vital therefore to get
We were
The first signs that her an early diagnosis. If we
development was off track faced with the could treat a baby at two
came at three months prospect of
weeks old with gene therapy
when she was reluctant to having to say they will have suffered much
spend time on her tummy goodbye to
less damage than at nine
and the movements in her her soon months. We really need to be
arms and legs were considering adding SMA to
significantly less than other babies. the baby heel prick test.”
“The alarm bells really went off The landmarks for Tora may be
when my wife took a video of her
different, but they will come.
with another baby and their range of “She can walk a few steps with a
movements were vastly different,” says walker but we have been told not to
Rajdeep. “We took her to hospital and focus on specific milestones,” adds
a series of assessments followed. We Rajdeep. “The cost of this treatment is
worried it was cerebral palsy and then very high but it is a gift of life.
they mentioned SMA and we “Tora now has a future – at one
discovered the prognosis was dire. stage she would have been unable to
“My mind went blank. My wife survive. We are so thankful.”

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Dr Rosemary Leonard
Q I recently had a blood test done
which showed I had a slightly low
albumin level. I’ve been vegan for a
couple of years so could this be why?
A Albumin is an important protein
in the bloodstream that works to
maintain blood vessel pressure and
also helps transport substances
throughout the body, such as
hormones and many medications.
Low levels can cause a range of
symptoms, including build-up of fluid
in the legs or your face, rough, dry
skin, feeling tired, stomach upsets
and also a poor appetite. But many
people with only slightly low levels do
not have any symptoms.
Albumin is made in the liver and
low levels can be caused by liver
disease, or having inflammation in
your body, such as a recent severe
illness or surgery. It may also be
caused by underlying medical
problems such as diabetes, an
overactive thyroid and autoimmune
conditions such as lupus.
However, it can also be due to a
shortage of nutrients in the blood,
which can occur as a result of
conditions where there is a problem
absorbing these from the intestine,
for example, coeliac disease, and also
by a poor diet.
Research has shown that people
eating diets low in protein, especially
those on vegan diets, tend to have
lower albumin levels than those who
eat more protein from animals. You
should check with your doctor if you
need any further tests to rule out
other conditions and also ensure you
keep your alcohol intake within
recommended limits.
If you are otherwise well, then it is
possible that your diet is to blame
and you should make sure you eat
plenty of protein. Good sources
include soybean and products made
from them, like tofu and pulses such
as chickpeas.
Q I have recently been diagnosed
with lichen sclerosus after six
months of discomfort. I can find little
information about the complaint and
what there is isn’t optimistic.
I have been told to use the
prescribed steroid cream a couple of
times a week to keep flare-ups at bay
but as soon as I stop using it, I find
I’m permanently uncomfortable. Even
sitting is an effort.
My next appointment with the
consultant is a year from when I had
the biopsy, so that I can be checked
that it has not turned cancerous.
I am using Betnovate having tried
Daktacort which didn’t work. I don’t
use soap or scented products. Would a
change of diet help? I have type 2
DX1ST
GETTING TO
THE HEART OF
MEDICAL MATTERS
condition can usually be diagnosed
by the appearance of the skin, but in
some cases a tissue biopsy is done.
Treatment is with very strong
steroids, usually clobetasol, which is
much more effective than the
Betnovate you have been given. This
stops the underlying inflammation.
Your GP can prescribe the steroid
and this usually needs to be used
daily at night for about a month, then
slowly reduced. In most, once the
inflammation has settled, only
occasional use may be required,
though some find they need to
continue once a week.
There is no evidence that dietary
changes make any difference to the
condition. Using strong steroids on
the genital skin can increase the risk
of a fungal infection and any sugar in
your urine will also increase this risk,
so it is important that you continue
to keep your diabetes under control.
If you do develop itching despite
using the steroid, contact a doctor.
The Daktacort you were previously
given contains an antifungal agent,
along with hydrocortisone, but this is
too weak a steroid to help with the
inflammation of lichen sclerosis.
Q I’ve had a cough and some
wheezing, which I thought was
asthma, but after a breathing test my
doctor has told me its chronic
obstructive pulmonary disease. The
inhaler I’ve been given is the same
one as asthmatic use, so what’s the
difference between the conditions?
Could vegan diet
A Both chronic obstructive
pulmonary disease (COPD) and
asthma cause narrowing of the
airways inside the lungs, but the big
difference is that in asthma this is
reversible, while in COPD the airways
be doing me more
are permanently narrowed.
Most cases of COPD are caused by
exposure to cigarette smoke or other
industrial fumes that damage the
lining of the airways, while asthma is
usually caused by an allergic reaction.
harm than good?
Treatment with inhalers that
widen the airways, such as
salbutamol, and steroids to prevent
inflammation of the airways can be
helpful in both conditions. But COPD
especially can be helped by staying
active and doing exercises to improve
diabetes, which is reasonably well itchy and are often mistaken for men, the foreskin and the head of the your breathing. Get information
controlled with tablets. thrush. However, thrush treatments penis are often affected, which can about COPD from the British
Lung Foundation (03000 030 55,
A Lichen sclerosus is thought to
be an autoimmune condition
where the body’s own immune
do not work and the lesions become
more itchy and sore. As the skin
becomes scarred, cracks can develop,
make it difficult to retract the
foreskin and erections may also
become painful.
blf.org.uk/support-for-you/copd).
system attacks the skin, causing it can be difficult to have sex without The trigger for lichen sclerosis has ● If you have a health question for
inflammation then scarring. discomfort and it can also be not been identified, but about one in Dr Leonard, email her in confidence
Though it can happen anywhere uncomfortable to pass urine. four people with it have another at yourhealth@express.co.uk.
on the body, it mainly affects the If the skin around the anus is autoimmune condition such as Dr Leonard regrets she cannot
genital area. To begin with, small affected, it can become difficult and thyroid disease or vitiligo where there enter into personal correspondence
white areas of skin appear, which feel uncomfortable to pass a motion. In is loss of pigment in the skin. The or reply to everyone.
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While most pregnant women know they need soft tissues in the mouth undergo certain While it might seem sensible to reach for
tto take folic acid to protect their baby, and changes due to increased oestrogen and your toothbrush, Lisa doesn’t recommend it.
moisturise their bumps regularly, many are
m progesterone levels, which can increase “After vomiting, we suggest that you
sstill blissfully unaware their teeth need some sensitivity and irritation to gums. use a mild mouthwash and/or wait 30
extra care too.
e Morning sickness also brings issues. minutes before brushing to avoid brushing
Dr Lisa Creaven, co-founder of Spotlight “Common health concerns during pregnancy the acid into your enamel, which would
Oral Care, says: “Our oral health is constantly
O such as vomiting, heartburn and acid reflux, worsen the erosion.”
ch
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oral health when women become pregnant.”
ora “Repeated vomiting can really result in remineralise teeth and therefore prevent
During pregnancy and breastfeeding the loss of enamel and thinning of your teeth.” decay.
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44 Daily Express Tuesday, May 11, 2021
Letters
We got the message OK
but we just didn’t like it
WE ARE constantly being told by
Labour politicians that the reason
for their dismal showing in the
recent elections is that they have
failed to get their message across
to the electorate.
Has it occurred to them that
perhaps they have got their message
across and nobody wants it?
Ian Macpherson,
Glemsford, Suffolk
Renaming shambolic party
will just paper over cracks
THE Labour Party is suffering. If Sir
Keir Starmer wonders why, he
needs to look at the blandness of his
policies and shadow cabinet.
Perhaps he should do what
Labour has done in the past,
rename itself. I would suggest
instead of (New Labour) go for (Old
Labour). I see some are laughing at
his wallpaper stunt. Well we must
be kind, after all he does have to
paper over the cracks.
Keith Woods,
Manchester
Buck for humiliation stops
at sniping Starmer’s door
IF SIR Keir Starmer is wondering
why the Labour Party did so badly,
he has himself to blame.
Instead of laying out his plans for
the future of the country, he spent
weeks trying to disgrace Boris
Johnson and get him in serious
trouble. He came across to the
electorate as nasty and vindictive.
Good thing we didn’t have to rely
on him ordering the vaccine.
Patricia Hepper,
Brentwood, Essex
Tories victorious because
they always get job done
IT SHOULD come as no surprise
that the Conservatives did so well
in last Thursday’s elections.
The electorate recognised in Boris
Johnson a leader who gets the job
done whether it be Brexit, rolling
out the Covid vaccination
programme or protecting the rights
of the people of Jersey.
We should also not dismiss the
invaluable assistance from the
“woke brigade” in turning voters
against what they perceive as absurd
“Loony Left” posturing.
Colin Judge,
Poynton, Cheshire
Maggie showed us how it
pays to vote Conservative
I THINK it is time for an ordinary,
working-class person to advise the
Labour Party.
I was a young woman over 40
years ago when Margaret Thatcher
came to power. She persuaded us
working-class people that hard
work would bring us wealth.
I was a working mother who
could afford family holidays, buy
my council house and pay for my
son’s university fees. I carried on
voting Conservative. My salary
didn’t always rise but my tax
benefits did. I am now retired and
can do what I want financially. Why
would I vote Labour?
Glenda Stock,
Cambridge
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May 11, 2021
ON THIS DAY
Letter of the day
Ignoring core
Picture: GETTY
voters giving
Labour pains
FOLLOWING recent elections, Labour’s
psephologists are floundering to explicate its
81 years ago (1940)
political humiliation (“Labour’s decline into
We revealed Winston
irrelevance is gathering pace”, May 10).
Churchill had replaced Neville
Some blame the residual animosity toward Chamberlain as Britain’s War
Jeremy Corbyn while others point to the Premier following a no-
rudderless approach of Sir Keir Starmer. confidence vote.
Labour’s commentariat identify the need to Dissatisfaction with
re-engage with voters, which suggests the idea Chamberlain’s premiership
has, until now, been anathema. It’s all very had mounted following
well advocating a democratic approach but it Germany’s successful
counts for nothing when voter perspectives invasion of Norway forcing
the withdrawal of British
have been ignored as a result of ideology e.g.
troops. A War Cabinet was
Brexit, patriotism and the woke agenda.
formed after Labour, under
When a party is at odds with its core vote
Clement Attlee, agreed to join
it is destined to remain a party in opposition.
Ivor Heard, Churchill’s Government of
ON THE ROPES: Under-fire Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer Wynyard, Co Durham National Unity.
58 years ago (1963)
British businessman
independence trial by stopping all think that the FA are taking Greville Wynne was
Come on Sturgeon, tell us the help the other three nations give something else. convicted of spying by the
how you can make it work to Scotland, putting a border across John Kennedy, Russians and sentenced to
all roads in and out of the country Hornchurch, Essex eight years in prison,
READING Frederick Forsyth’s including five years’ hard
column and others in your excellent and stop using the pound.
labour. His Russian
newspaper, it beggars belief that no Let’s see how the people react It’s a tax jungle out there co-accused, scientist Oleg
to their lifestyle and have a
one has interviewed Nicola
referendum then. but let’s make Amazon pay Penkovsky, was executed.
Sturgeon to ask her to explain how Wynne was released the
Alan Brown, THANK you for a very interesting, following year as part of a
Scotland could survive on its own Warrington, Cheshire
(“Independent Scotland’s only for if blood pressure raising, article prisoner exchange.
the very brave”, May 7). about Amazon’s financial juggling
Perhaps she has been avoiding it. Why don’t Uefa think of (“£38bn sales... how did Amazon 36 years ago (1985)
pay no corporation tax?”, May 6). A fire at Bradford City’s Valley
It seems to stand out a mile that it the fans just for once? We might expect there are others Parade stadium during a
just couldn’t work, yet nobody ever WHY are stadiums for European similarly placed, so can you please Third Division match against
brings it up. It seems to be club football finals determined commission another article putting Lincoln City killed 56 people.
completely ignored. before the teams are known forward practical measures that the The blaze began in a
Jeff Bradley,
(“Istanbul final plans in chaos”, Government could take to eliminate wooden stand earmarked for
Wimborne, Dorset May 8)? or minimise the situation to the demolition and caught hold
amid windy conditions.
Why don’t Uefa wait until they benefit of the nation’s finances?
Give Scots referendum but know who will contest the trophies Peter Monk,
The disaster would lead to
new safety standards in UK
only if England votes too and choose a stadium that is Banbury, Oxon football grounds.
equidistant for both sets of fans?
AS A stout believer in the United Ken Willoughby, It’s Jed Mercurio’s Duty
Kingdom the Indyref2 calls are Pontefract, W Yorks BIRTHDAYS
becoming tiresome. We need to to give us another series
Singer Holly
concentrate on other matters but
I’m tempted to suggest let Scotland
Own goal of Three Lions on I THINK Line Of Duty creator Jed Valance is
Mercurio has played a blinder in
have their referendum but only if a politically correct shirt making the ending to the last
38. She
started her
we in England get a vote too. SO THE Football Association has episode such a damp squib career on
Tony Ratcliffe, decided now’s a good time to play (“Mercurio’s hard Line on critics Neighbours.
Stockport, Cheshire about with the England badge of finale”, May 6). It has made this Rosemary &
beloved by fans in the name of programme one of the most talked Thyme star
Two-year trial run will see diversity (“Three Lions rebranding about series ever. The public will Pam Ferris is
73. She grew
them come crawling back is ‘PC nonsense’”, May 8).
Perhaps they could put the male
be so hungry for a follow-up with
hopefully a more satisfying ending. up in New
I THINK Boris Johnson should offer lion in a dress and have all three Stephanie Ponting, Zealand.
Ex-snooker
Nicola Sturgeon a two-year Scottish lions take the knee? Personally I Corsham,Wilts player John
Parrott is 57.
DO YOU THINK YOU’VE GOT ENOUGH SAVED FOR RETIREMENT? He started off
playing
bowls.
A LONG time joined the company THE thought could, even when we
Yes ago when I pension scheme aged 22 No of retirement
terrifies me. I’ll
couldn’t really afford
it, and just whacked it
Designer
Valentino is
was just and then about 20 years 89. His full
starting out, my first ago began to pay 15 per have to work right up on the plastic. name is
boss said to me that if cent of my income into until the day I qualify Then we spent the Valentino
you don’t find a way to an Isa every month. for the state pension, next year trying to pay Clemente
make money while you There have been a few and probably beyond, it off before doing the Ludovico
sleep then you’ll work ups and downs in the because all through my same again that summer. Garavani.
until the day you die market in that time but life I’ve spent every The kids have all
(“‘Nudge’ workers to it has steadily made me penny I’ve earned. grown up now and left TODAY’S GIGGLE
save more for their a pretty healthy sum. When our children home and we’re potless. What did one plate say to the
pensions”, May 10). Helen Oliver, were little we went on Duncan Hill, other? Dinner’s on me!
I took his advice, Birmingham holiday as often as we Exeter
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POPULAR SHARES ON THE RISE
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Barclays 185½ +4
BP 315¾ +2¼
BT Group 170¾ +1¼ PROFITS at bakery chain Greggs could By Graham Hiscott
HSBC Holdings 454½ +3¼ bounce back to pre-Covid levels thanks
Lloyds Banking Group 47¾ +1¼ to a rapid boost in sales. our overall sales performance for the
Marks & Spencer Group 163 +3½ The company credited the reopening of year to be stronger than we had previ-
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Royal Mail 519 +4 gering the upturn in business. In March, Greggs revealed plans to hire
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Sainsbury (J) 256 +5 to the stock market following plough ahead with opening
Tesco 230 +2½ Greggs’ first loss for 36 years in another 100 shops this year.
Unilever 4278½ +5½ 2020 because of the impact of It now has more than 2,100
Vodafone Group 142½ +½ the pandemic. stores, and opened 34 shops in
Chief executive Roger the first 18 weeks of this year.
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Royal Dutch Shell 'B' 1364¼ -4¼ The Newcastle-based busi- return to normality Russ Mould, investment boosted its takings. “It was an Easter of
Standard Life Aberdeen 276½ -2¼ ness said sales in the eight director at AJ Bell, believes The luxury chocolate generosity and that was a
Whitbread 3188 -104 weeks to May 8 were just 3.9 per cent that Greggs will also see a further retailer said it expects trading great thing to be part of.”
below the level in 2019, before the pan- increase in high street trade despite a rise for the current year to June to Sales for the eight weeks to
WORLD MARKETS demic struck. in home-based employment. be “significantly ahead of April 25, which included six
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TOKYO 29518.3 +160.5 impact of Covid-19. England, jumped by 60 per
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HONG KONG 28595.7 -15.0 Chief executive Angus cent compared with the same
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FRANCE 6386.0 +0.5
In the announcement to the stock mar- tures of habit.
“incredible” online demand The group also confirmed it
ket, the company said: “Sales have recov- “It wouldn’t be surprising to see
over Easter. will repay around £3.1million
STERLING VALUE ered well in recent weeks as out-of-home queues return to Greggs’ stores as more He said: “Families were in government furlough
Dollar 1.414 +0.015 activity levels have increased. Government restrictions are lifted and incredibly generous in support due to its strong
Yen 153.766 +1.850 “If restrictions continue to ease in line companies lay down their long-term sending chocolate to other financial position.
Euro 1.162 +0.012 with current plans then we now expect working strategies.”
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BRENT CRUDE($) 68.30 Up to 311,000 customers will be The arm has also struggled to the coronavirus crisis. and rehire” by unions.
affected by the Bradford company’s recover from a botched 2017 shake- The year-on-year slump coincided Mr O’Shea claimed it had been
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Halifax mortgage rate 3.99% down its consumer credit arm. Losses ballooned from £20.8million non-essential service visits. cent of staff had now signed up to
Retail Price Index +1.5% (CPI +0.7%) Provident chief executive Malcolm to £74.9million last year. It came as Chris O’Shea, chief the new conditions.
House price Index +8.6%
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BT Group .....................................170¾ +1¼ 171¼ 97¾ National Grid ................................. 930 -1¾ 991 806½ Scottish Mortgage................1139½ -75½ 1415 675 provided the biggest boost as
Israel 4.27 shekel Bunzl................................................2316 -32 2603 1640 NatWest Group ............................ 197 -3 205 93¼ SEGRO.........................................1018½ +7 1021 789½ copper prices touched record highs
Japan 145.43 yen Burberry Group..........................2190 -1 2211 1252½ Next .................................................8320 +56 8338 4422 Severn Trent.................................2498 -9 2589 2168
Coca-Cola HBC ...........................2568 +22 2583 1755 Smith & Nephew....................1545# -38 1736 1336½ on expectations of improved
Mexico 26.31 peso Compass Group.....................1600½ -24½ 1642 1050½ Smiths Group.......................1590½# -29 1661 1172
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New Zealand 1.86 dollar
Norway 11.03 krone
Croda International...............6700# -32 6930 4871 Spirax-Sarco ........................... 11800# -255 12285 8836 The domestically-focused
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Poland 4.96 zloty Diageo ............................................3265 -19 3316½ 2440 St James’s Place...................1383½# -1½ 1394 795 mid-cap FTSE 250 index was
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Saudi Arabia 4.98 riyal Evraz ..............................................698¼ +9 707½ 241¼ Taylor Wimpey............................181# +¼ 191¾ 99¼ In company news, Greggs shares
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Switzerland 1.22 franc
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Turkey 10.68 lira Halma..............................................2561
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Scottish Mortgage Investment
United States 1.38 dollar Trust, down 75.5p at 1,139.5p.
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BOB’S TUMOUR SCARE
Grand National hero now
BOB CHAMPION, who
overcame cancer to land the
Grand National on Aldaniti 40
years ago, faces a new battle
after doctors found a tumour
on his kidney.
But Champion, currently
finishing a 191-mile walk to
mark his 191 days of cancer
treatment in 1979-80, is
playing down his latest health
scare.
“No, it’s not come back,”
said the 72-year-old. “It’s just a
tumour on the kidney. It won’t
need any treatment or
anything, just an operation at
the end of month.”
Champion’s achievements in
NEW FIGHT: Bob Champion the saddle and after he retired
By Chris Goulding
FORMER FRENCH-trained ,
MIQUELON (7.25, nap)
should be ready to open
his account at Wetherby
tonight.
By The Scout
Australia was staying on
with promise in a decent
maiden won by Beau
Formerly under the care Jardine at Newmarket last
of Andre Fabre, Miquelon season.
faces surgery on kidney finished an excellent
second behind Ametist for
Archie Watson when
At Sedgefield SEVEN
ARCHES (4.35, treble) can
show that he is a star of
have been inspirational to the village,” he said. “I haven’t recently returning from an the future by taking the
thousands. And he added: “I sat on a horse for nine or 10 absence of 573 days at bumper. He looked a smart
was determined to carry on years.” today’s track. prospect when making a
with my 40th anniversary walk  Champion’s National victory The step up in trip will winning racecourse debut
to raise money for the Bob is regarded as one the greatest be ideal for APPRECIATE in a similar event at
Champion Cancer Trust. sporting occasions in history (5.50, nb). The son of Newcastle in December.
“So far, we have raised over and he is full of praise for
£55,000 (adding to the £15m Rachael Blackmore who last
he has raised over the years) month became the first woman
and it’s still coming in.” to win the race.
His epic walk will be “It was fantastic,” said
completed on Saturday at Champion. “Great for racing.”
Findon where Aldaniti was To support Bob Champion:
trained by the late Josh Gifford. https://www.justgiving.com/
“I’m going to ride through fundraising/bob-champion2

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CHEEK PIECES: Nos. 3, 4, 7.
SP FORECAST: 9-4 Villeurbanne, 7-2 Khezaana, 4 Wor Willie, 7 Space Kid, 8 Carter
S B Kirrane(5) 80 Cowboy, 10 The Fast Lion, 20 Spirit Of Sisra.
8 (8) MANILA SCOUSE T Easterby 9-5...............................D Allan — 2 (3) 381L-60 EAST STREET REVUE (10) (C&D) T Easterby 8 9-7 .D Allan ★85
9 (1) SIR LELO T Dascombe 9-5 .................................R Kingscote — 3 (7) 5-56914 VENTURA FLAME (9) (C&D) (T) K Dalgleish 4 9-6
10 (13)
11 (10)
12 (5)
13 (6)
TAREEKH R Fahey 9-5......................................P J McDonald
MYTHICAL MOLLY B Ellison 9-0........................B Robinson
SAPPHIRE’S MOON K Burke 9-0........................David Egan
STRIPZEE T Easterby 9-0..................................... L Edmunds
—
—
—
—
P Mulrennan 82
4 (8) 564L-U7 TERUNTUM STAR (19) (C&D) D C Griffiths 9 9-5 .....K Stott 71
5 (4) 52959-0 MR WAGYU (10) J J Quinn 6 9-3 .................................J Hart 82
4.15
1 (1) 46-3
VACCINATION CENTRE VOLUNTEERS H’CAP
3YO £2,430 (6) 1m 4f 23yds (7)
ALNAJEEB (35) M Johnston 9-9 ...........................D O’Neill 71
6 (1) 21123-5 LADY CELIA (11) (D) R Fahey 4 9-2.................. T Hamilton 84 2 (6) 906-5 ● RED GLORY (24) E Dunlop 9-7 .................M Crehan(5) 72
14 (9) WOODLANDS CHARM N Tinkler 9-0 ....F McManoman(3) — 7 (5) 38/0-143 DEBAWTRY (19) (D) B Smart 6 9-1 ......................... N Evans 83 3 (2) 403-9 PRISON BREAK (27) R Fahey 9-7 ..................... T Hamilton 70
SP FORECAST: 11-4 Caio Shark, 7-2 Come Quick, 6 Sir Lelo, 8 Aleezdancer, 8 (9) 35590-9 STAR PRIZE (19) (D) N Tinkler 4 9-0 .F McManoman(3) 80 4 (5) 658-51 CAN CAN GIRL (8) (C) D Brown 9-7(6ex) ..............K Stott 71
Beloved Of All, 14 Tareekh, Dandy Dinmont, Sapphire’s Moon, 16 Others. 9 (6) L0L-8L2 VAN GERWEN (19) (C&D) P Midgley 8 8-12 ...B Robinson 83 5 (4) 80-L LOUIS THE WARRIOR (24) M Dods 9-2 .......P Mulrennan ★73
2020: No corresponding meeting. 10 (10) 628206- BURTONWOOD (175) (C&D) J Camacho 9 8-9 .... R Scott 83 6 (3) 895-4 WILDCITYDIVA (16) T Easterby 8-10........................D Allan 68
VISOR: No. 5 CHEEK PIECES: Nos. 4, 8. 7 (7) L86- MITCHAM FAIR (216) N Tinkler 8-5 ........................ R Scott 68

2.15
1 (3) 348580
BET WITH THE TOTE SELLING STAKES
3YO £2,322 (6) 5f (5)
BLUE HERO (14) M Appleby 9-2 ............................. L Morris 68
SOFT/HEAVY WINNERS: Nos. 2, 6, 5, 4, 9, 3.
SP FORECAST: 15-8 Soul Seeker, 5 Van Gerwen, 6 Debawtry, 13-2 Ventura Flame,
7 Lady Celia, 12 East Street Revue, 16 Burtonwood, Teruntum Star, Star Prize, 20
CHEEK PIECES: No. 6.
SP FORECAST: 5-4 Can Can Girl, 7-2 Alnajeeb, 4 Red Glory, 10 Louis The Warrior,
12 Prison Break, 16 Wildcitydiva, Mitcham Fair.
2 (1) 7-4611 MO CELITA (3) Adrian Nicholls 9-2 .. Laura Coughlan(5) ★84 Mr Wagyu.
3
4
5
(2)
(4)
(5)
LL48
066-87
443-9
PETERBUILT (15) J L Eyre 9-2 ........................... L Edmunds 61
KRYSTAL MAZE (34) O Pears 8-11............................K Stott 67
● LEXINGTON BULLET (15) (F) R Fahey 8-11
T Hamilton 75 3.15 RACING WELFARE HANDICAP
£4,449 (4) 1m 100yds (7)
4.45
1 (1) L-
LECONFIELD MAIDEN FILLIES’ STAKES
£3,140 (5) 1m 100yds (9)
POOL FUND (246) M Wigham 4 10-0 ............... T Hamilton 31
1 (4) 095L-L1
POET’S DAWN (19) (C&D,F) T Easterby 6 9-7 . E McCain(5) 92 2 (7) 700- ALERTA ROJA (238) Sir M Prescott 3 9-1 .......... L Morris 52
VISOR: No. 3. 2 (3) 8111L-L
SONG OF THE ISLES (44) (D) H Main 5 9-4 .David Egan 92 3 (5) 22- DANCING TO WIN (188) H Palmer 3 9-1.......P Mulrennan ★79
SOFT/HEAVY WINNERS: Nos. 2. 3 (6) HUMBERT (34) (D) R Fell 7 9-2 ...................................J Hart ★98
37408-4 4 (9) HELLENISTA T Easterby 3 9-1.....................................D Allan —
SP FORECAST: Evens Mo Celita, 9-4 Lexington Bullet, 7-2 Blue Hero, 20 4 (7) L60352
MYTHICAL MADNESS (12) (D) D O’Meara 10 9-1 5 (4)9- LUBNA (193) S bin Suroor 3 9-1 .............................D O’Neill 54
Peterbuilt, 25 Krystal Maze. S B Kirrane(5) 94 6 (3)8 NATURAL COLOUR (16) S bin Suroor 3 9-1
TRACK FACTS: GOING: Good to Soft. Right Handed. TOP TRACK JOCKEY (2016- 5 (5) 81L-071 ● ZIHAAM (8) (C&D) R Fell 7 9-1(4ex) ......P J McDonald 93 P J McDonald 55
21): David Allan 13% Strike rate. TOP TRACK TRAINER (2016-21): M Johnston 6 (1) 3/1860-6 STRONGBOWE (32) T Easterby 5 9-0......................D Allan 97 7 (8) 3 ● TIMELESS SOUL (17) R Varian 3 9-1 ...........David Egan 68
20% Strike rate. FIRST TIME: 2.15 Peterbuilt (visor), 3.45 Invincible Gift (cheek 7 (2) 22711-1 MIDNITE BRIDE (15) K Ryan 4 8-13 ..........................K Stott 95 8 (6) 2-7 VISION OF VICTORY (26) K Ryan 3 9-1 ..................K Stott 69
pieces), Spirit Of Sisra (cheek pieces), 4.45 Pool Fund (tongue strap), Dancing To Win VISOR: No. 4 CHEEK PIECES: No. 5. 9 (2) 32-2 WATER IRIS (15) D O’Meara 3 9-1................................J Hart 76
(hood). BEATEN FAVOURITES: 3.15 Mythical Madness. 4.45 Dancing To Win, Water SOFT/HEAVY WINNERS: Nos. 7, 1, 2. TONGUE STRAP: No. 1 HOOD: Nos. 2, 3.
Iris. DRAW: High best over 5f. LONGEST TRAVELLER: Hot Diggity Dog (1.45) & SP FORECAST: 5-2 Poet’s Dawn, 11-4 Midnite Bride, 4 Zihaam, 13-2 Mythical SP FORECAST: 11-8 Dancing To Win, 3 Timeless Soul, 7-2 Water Iris, 8 Vision Of
Ventura Flame (2.45) 239 miles. STABLE SWITCH: No Qualifiers. Madness, 10 Humbert, Song of The Isles, 12 Strongbowe. Victory, 16 Lubna, 20 Natural Colour, 25 Hellenista, 50 Pool Fund, 66 Alerta Roja.

CATTERICK: Soft LINGFIELD: Standard Placepot: £37.90 WINDSOR: Good to soft-good in

1.08—LITTLE EARL (K Stott, 7-2 2nd fav) 1;
Poppy Petal (11-1) 2; Province (17-2) 3. 8 ran. 11/2l,
3
/4l. (R Cowell; 2-1 fav Mr Professor). Tote: £3.20;
pl £1.30, £2.50, £2.60. exacta: £30.80. trifecta:
£286.20. CSF: £40.20.
1.40—A PINT OF BEAR (B Curtis, 11-4) 1;
Ehrmann (9-4 jt fav) 2; Fashion Advice (9-4 jt
fav) 3. H’cap 6 ran. shd, 2l. (S Dixon). Tote:
£3.40; pl £1.70, £1.80. exacta: £9.30. trifecta:
£20.60. CSF: £9.41.
2.15—ELHAFEI (R Dawson, 14-1) 1; Ooh La
Lah (7-2 co fav) 2; Whitwell (7-2 co fav) 3. H’cap
10 ran. 13/4l, 3l. (J Mackie; 7-2 cofav Euro
Implosion). Tote: £16.50; pl £3.30, £1.80, £1.80.
exacta: £82.20. tricast: £216.40. trifecta:
£509.50. CSF: £63.54. Non-runners: Major
Snugfit, Mobham, Strict Order.
2.50—SEVENTEEN O FOUR (S James, 6-1) 1;
Flammarion (13-8 fav) 2; Tippler (80-1) 3. H’cap
10 ran. 71/2l, 21/4l. (G Tuer). Tote: £8.30; pl £2.20,
£1.20, £9.20. exacta: £22.10. tricast: £728.58.
trifecta: £845.40. CSF: £16.16. Non-runners:
Idilico, Straight Ash.
3.25—IT MUST BE FAITH (Erika Parkinson,
25-1) 1; Captain Jameson (3-1 fav) 2; Paddy
Power (11-2) 3. H’cap 12 ran. ns, shd. (M
Appleby). Tote: £21.90; pl £4.00, £1.90, £2.20.
exacta: £93.40. tricast: £423.94. trifecta:
£512.10. CSF: £98.68.
4.00—PERFECT BALANCE (E J Walsh, 5-6
fav) 1; Estad (5-1) 2; Walter (50-1) 3. 6 ran. 61/2l,
4l. (S bin Suroor). Tote: £1.70; pl £1.10, £2.50.
exacta: £4.40. trifecta: £28.80. CSF: £5.78. Non-
runner: Fast Medicine.
4.30—LET ME BE (C Rodriguez, 4-6 fav) 1;
Bollin Neil (4-1 2nd fav) 2; Tonto’s Spirit (16-1) 3.
H’cap 12 ran. 71/2l, 11/4l. (K Dalgleish). Tote: £1.50;
pl £1.10, £1.50, £4.40. exacta: £4.20. tricast:
£24.18. trifecta: £29.20. CSF: £3.24. Non-
runners: Frequency Code, Pound Off You,
Wemyss Point.
5.00—ZUMURUD (Ella McCain, 7-2 jt fav) 1;
Nordic Fire (8-1) 2; Donnelly’s Rainbow (20-1) 3.
H’cap 9 ran. 1/2l, 1l. (M Walford; 7-2 jtfav The
Great Heir). Tote: £4.40; pl £1.70, £2.40, £5.00.
exacta: £32.50. tricast: £494.66. trifecta:
£331.80. CSF: £32.58. Non-runner: King Of
Tonga.
Placepot: £33.50 Placepot: £6.70
(Race 1) 1, 7, 8; (2) 4, 5; (3) 1, 5, 8; (4) (Race 1) 1, 9, 4; (2) 4, 14, 7; (3) 2, 5;
7, 2, 1; (5) 10, 2, 8; (6) 5, 2; (4) 7, 1, 8; (5) 1, 3, 2; (6) 6, 2, 3;
Quadpot: £5.50 Quadpot: £2.70
1.15—MYKONOS ST JOHN (S Osborne, 2-1
fav) 1; Prince Rock (28-1) 2; Yuften (7-1) 3. H’cap
12 ran. 1l, 21/4l. (J Osborne). Tote: £2.80; pl £1.30,
£5.30, £2.20. exacta: £62.50. tricast: £350.37.
trifecta: £526.10. CSF: £74.06.
1.50—VITESSE DU SON (A Kirby, 9-4 fav) 1;
Mungo’s Quest (16-1) 2; Global Acclamation
(10-1) 3. H’cap 12 ran. shd, ns. (W Kittow). Tote:
£2.80; pl £1.50, £4.80, £2.70. exacta: £44.10.
tricast: £315.39. trifecta: £320.90. CSF: £39.46.
Non-runners: Dark Crocodile, Perfect Symphony.
2.25—GOLDEN RAINBOW (L Morris, 5-6
fav) 1; Freyabella (6-1) 2; Arlecchino’s Gift (10-1)
3. 6 ran. 1/2l, 21/2l. (A Watson). Tote: £1.70; pl £1.10,
£2.30. exacta: £6.60. trifecta: £26.00. CSF: £6.34.
3.00—LETHAL BLAST (K O’Neill, 11-5 fav) 1;
Vandad (11-2) 2; Lua De Mel (12-1) 3. Aguerooo
(17-2) 3. H’cap 9 ran. 2l, 13/4l, dht. (J Bridger).
Tote: Lethal Blast £2.80; pl Lethal Blast £1.40,
Vandad £1.90, Lua De Mel £1.70, Aguerooo £1.10.
exacta: Lethal Blast, Vandad £16.60. tricast:
Lethal Blast, Vandad, Lua De Mel £59.70, Lethal
Blast, Vandad, Aguerooo £43.40. trifecta:
Lethal Blast, Vandad, Lua De Mel £57.10, Lethal
Blast, Vandad, Aguerooo £37.60. CSF: Lethal
Blast, Vandad £14.97.
3.35—LIKE SUGAR (S Cherchi, 7-2 2nd fav)
1; Violet’s Lads (14-1) 2; Headley George (5-4
fav) 3. H’cap 12 ran. 21/2l, hd. (K P De Foy). Tote:
£4.20; pl £1.70, £3.40, £1.10. exacta: £36.70.
tricast: £94.06. trifecta: £101.70. CSF: £50.30.
4.10—I’M DIGBY (T Heard, 7-2) 1; Mostaqqer
(5-2 jt fav) 2; Recuerdame (8-1) 3. H’cap 10 ran.
3l, 4l. (T Gallagher; 5-2 jtfav Junoesque). Tote:
£4.50; pl £1.70, £1.50, £2.10. exacta: £18.20.
tricast: £65.65. trifecta: £84.10. CSF: £12.53.
Non-runner: Just Albert.
4.45—ARTHUR’S ANGEL (A Kirby, 12-1) 1;
Zikany (15-8 fav) 2; Spirit Mixer (3-1 2nd fav) 3.
H’cap 6 ran. 1/2l, 11/2l. (J Ryan). Tote: £13.30; pl
£5.50, £1.60. exacta: £47.80. trifecta: £142.10.
CSF: £34.56. Non-runner: The Tide Turns.
5.15—ALCHEMYSTIQUE (D Probert, 50-1) 1;
Viaduct (33-1) 2; Thorn (5-2 2nd fav) 3. H’cap 9
ran. 1l, 1l. (J Tuite; 7-4 fav French Minstrel).
Tote: £25.70; pl £5.20, £6.10, £1.50. exacta:
£628.20. tricast: £5580.83. trifecta: £1995.20.
CSF: £1075.36.
RESULTS
FFOS LAS: Good to soft
1.00—EQUUS DANCER (S Bowen, 2-5 fav) 1;
Billygwyn Too (25-1) 2; Prime Pretender (25-1) 3.
6 ran. 8l, 6l. (P Bowen). Tote: £1.20; pl £1.10,
£6.90. exacta: £9.60. trifecta: £85.80. CSF:
£13.43. Non-runner: Deeper Blue.
1.30—BEMBRIDGE (J J Burke, 7-1) 1; Beau
Haze (11-2) 2; Eaton Collina (17-2) 3. H’cap 12 ran.
2l, 9l. (O Sherwood; 4-1 fav Balkardy). Tote:
£7.90; pl £2.40, £2.30, £2.60. exacta: £39.00.
tricast: £340.88. trifecta: £677.50. CSF: £46.22.
2.05—LERMOOS LEGEND (S Bowen, 3-1
fav) 1; Snougar (8-1) 2; Dunbar (17-2) 3. H’cap 12
ran. 13/4l, 3l. (P Bowen). Tote: £3.60; pl £1.60,
£3.40, £3.00. exacta: £27.00. tricast: £188.52.
trifecta: £237.50. CSF: £28.21. Non-runner:
Crackle Lyn Rosie.
2.40—MINELLA BOBO (S Bowen, 7-2 2nd
fav) 1; Landofsmiles (6-4 fav) 2; Gwencily
Berbas (15-2) 3. H’cap 9 ran. 11l, 3/4l. (R Curtis).
Tote: £4.70; pl £1.80, £1.30, £1.70. exacta: £10.40.
tricast: £36.75. trifecta: £75.20. CSF: £9.88.
3.15—GEORDIE DES CHAMPS (A Wedge,
18-1) 1; Morning Spirit (4-1 fav) 2; Imperial Knight
(5-1) 3. H’cap 12 ran. nk, 5l. (R Curtis). Tote:
£17.60; pl £4.60, £2.20, £1.80. exacta: £131.00.
tricast: £433.89. trifecta: £620.00. CSF: £93.35.
Non-runners: Little Awkward, Umndeni, Vive Le
Roi.
3.50—MARBLE MOON (A Wedge, 11-2) 1;
Robin Of Sherwood (5-2 2nd fav) 2; Lex Talionis
(6-1) 3. H’cap 8 ran. 8l, 6l. (E Williams; 2-1 fav
Hang Tough). Tote: £7.40; pl £2.00, £1.20, £1.90.
exacta: £20.80. tricast: £87.37. trifecta: £84.90.
CSF: £21.35. Non-runners: Bellamy’s Grey, Chain
Smoker, Danilo D’Airy, Hedgeinator.
4.20—TUDORS TREASURE (T J O’Brien,
15-2) 1; Minella Voucher (10-1) 2; Clondaw Rigger
(9-2 2nd fav) 3. H’cap 11 ran. 3/4l, 15l. (R Stephens;
4-1 fav Arthur’s Reuben). Tote: £8.10; pl £2.80,
£3.20, £1.80. exacta: £61.30. tricast: £381.01. tri-
fecta: £196.70. CSF: £79.97.
4.50—TIMEFORATUNE (R T Dunne, 33-1) 1;
Landacre Bridge (5-2 jt fav) 2; Godrevy Point
(11-1) 3. 14 ran. 11l, 9l. (B Eckley; 5-2 jtfav
Dynamite Kentucky). Tote: £38.50; pl £7.30,
Placepot: £614.70
£1.60, £3.10. exacta: £166.60. trifecta: £1269.90.
CSF: £111.69. Non-runner: Mojito Royale. (Race 1) 3, 5, 4; (2) 4, 3; (3) 10, 9, 13;
Jackpot: Not won, pool of £11,255.92 (4) 1; (5) 4, 6; (6) 5, 6;
carried over to Wetherby. Quadpot: £50.80
(Race 1) 4, 2; (2) 8, 11, 4; (3) 7, 4, 3;
(4) 7, 4, 6; (5) 10, 6, 9; (6) 4, 3, 1;
Quadpot: £9.30
SOUTHWELL: Good-good to soft in
places
5.20—DO IT FOR THY SEN (B J Powell,
10-3 fav) 1; Old Harry Rocks (11-2) 2;
Blossoming Forth (7-1) 3. H’cap 8 ran. 5l, 1/2l.
(Kerry Lee). Tote: £4.10; pl £1.60, £2.10, £2.60.
exacta: £25.80. tricast: £118.79. trifecta:
£184.90. CSF: £22.00. Non-runner: Chief
Sittingbull.
5.50—LICKLIGHTER (B Hughes, 9-2) 1;
Commodore Barry (13-2) 2; Ballycross (9-2) 3.
H’cap 6 ran. 13l, 5l. (L Morgan; 3-1 jtfav That’s A
Given, 3-1 jtfav Smuggler’s Blues). Tote: £5.60;
pl £2.60, £3.60. exacta: £33.90. trifecta:
£130.40. CSF: £29.93.
6.20—FLAMINGO ROSE (J Quinlan, 22-1) 1;
Brianna Rose (28-1) 2; Ma Belle Noire (5-2 fav)
3. 10 ran. 13/4l, 21/4l. (A Carson). Tote: £21.40; pl
£4.90, £7.50, £1.50. exacta: £424.00. trifecta:
£2356.70. CSF: £491.91. Non-runners: Do You
Think, Queen Antoinette, Quiet Pride, Ticket To
L A.
6.50—GLENCASSLEY (B Hughes, 5-6 fav) 1;
Imperial Hope (7-4 2nd fav) 2; Methusalar (6-1)
3. 4 ran. 91/2l, 13l. (C Longsdon). Tote: £1.70;
exacta: £2.50. trifecta: £3.70. CSF: £2.73. Non-
runner: Train Hill.
7.20—MACKELDUFF (A Coleman, 4-6 fav) 1;
Mozzaro (12-1) 2; P T Barnum (7-1) 3. 6 ran. 11l,
11/4l. (O Murphy). Tote: £1.40; pl £1.10, £4.10.
exacta: £8.90. trifecta: £32.50. CSF: £9.66. Non-
runners: Close Friend, Moonlight Flit.
7.50—PEPPER STREET (J England, 13-2) 1;
Just Once (16-1) 2; Supreme Yeats (5-2 fav) 3.
H’cap 7 ran. 13/4l, 11/4l. (S England). Tote: £9.50; pl
£4.20, £5.20. exacta: £93.90. trifecta: £438.80.
CSF: £85.82.
8.20—HURRICANE ALI (B Hughes, 11-4 2nd
fav) 1; Phoebus Lescribaa (33-1) 2; Billy The
Squid (14-1) 3. H’cap 12 ran. 1/2l, 7l. (J Mackie; 2-1
fav El Jefe). Tote: £3.40; pl £1.80, £3.90, £3.20.
exacta: £102.70. tricast: £1083.72. trifecta:
£801.40. CSF: £96.78.
places
4.25—HMS PRESIDENT (W Buick, 7-2 2nd
fav) 1; Bad Company (11-1) 2; Water’s Edge (20-1)
3. H’cap 12 ran. 1l, 1l. (E J-Houghton; 3-1 fav Amir
Kabir). Tote: £3.30; pl £1.60, £4.00, £5.00.
exacta: £44.90. tricast: £677.99. trifecta:
£692.60. CSF: £41.08.
4.55—BEAUTIFUL SUNSHINE (Rossa Ryan,
4-6 fav) 1; Tippy Toes (3-1 2nd fav) 2; Rattling
(12-1) 3. 10 ran. 1l, 21/2l. (G Boughey). Tote: £1.60;
pl £1.10, £1.30, £2.70. exacta: £4.40. trifecta:
£20.40. CSF: £2.83.
5.30—COLOMBE (W Buick, 15-8 fav) 1;
Mahale (9-4 2nd fav) 2; Glamorous Breeze
(40-1) 3. 10 ran. 11/2l, 11/4l. (H Candy). Tote: £2.70;
pl £1.20, £1.30, £8.90. exacta: £6.60. trifecta:
£81.40. CSF: £5.80.
6.00—FIZZY FEET (P Cosgrave, 7-1) 1; Crazy
Luck (9-4 fav) 2; Kindred Spirit (3-1 2nd fav) 3.
H’cap 6 ran. 1/2l, 1l. (D Loughnane). Tote: £6.10; pl
£2.70, £1.70. exacta: £31.00. trifecta: £95.60.
CSF: £23.03. Non-runner: Minhaaj.
6.30—SOLID STONE (R L Moore, 11-4 2nd
fav) 1; Stormy Antarctic (6-1) 2; Qaysar (7-2)
3. 6 ran. 21/2l, 43/4l. (Sir M Stoute; 5-2 fav
Brentford Hope). Tote: £2.90; pl £1.20, £2.90.
exacta: £13.60. trifecta: £60.90. CSF: £18.40.
7.00—THE WHIPMASTER (R L Moore, 10-3 jt
fav) 1; Legendary Day (10-3 jt fav) 2; Don’t Look
Back (16-1) 3. H’cap 13 ran. 1/2l, 4l. (G L Moore).
Tote: £4.20; pl £1.60, £1.70, £5.10. exacta:
£20.50. tricast: £161.74. trifecta: £338.20. CSF:
£12.65. Non-runner: Aussie Rascal.
7.30—ZURAIG (O Murphy, 5-2 2nd fav) 1;
Remedium (6-5 fav) 2; Fire Eyes (11-1) 3. 15 ran.
3
/4l, 1/2l. (A Balding). Tote: £3.20; pl £1.20, £1.10,
£4.40. exacta: £6.70. trifecta: £46.80. CSF:
£6.08. Non-runner: Spacesuit.
8.00—BEAUTY STONE (James Doyle, 20-1)
1; Secret Shadow (4-1) 2; Lady Pendragon (11-2)
3. H’cap 7 ran. 5l, hd. (T Ward; 10-3 fav
Atacamena). Tote: £10.20; pl £3.60, £2.90.
exacta: £70.60. trifecta: £428.10. CSF: £93.60.
Placepot: £47.80
(Race 1) 1, 8, 2; (2) 1, 10, 7; (3) 3, 6,
4; (4) 2, 7; (5) 4, 5; (6) 6, 3, 8;
Quadpot: £15.50
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CRICKET: NATIONAL SERVICE COMES FIRST
TOUR OF Buttler has been signed up
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THE DAYS
ON THIS DATE IN SPORTING HISTORY
1985: A fire at Valley Parade, home of Bradford,
claimed the lives of 56 people in a match against
Lincoln that was supposed to be a celebration of the
Bantams’ Third Division championship win.n.
2003: West Ham were relegated from thee
Premier League after a 2-2 draw with
Birmingham on the final day.
2008: Manchester United secured their
10th Premier League title under Sir Alex
Ferguson with a 2-0 win at Wigan.
England are
2013: A last-minute header by Ben Watson, above,
handed Wigan the FA Cup for the first time as they
provided one of the competition’s great upsets by
beating Manchester City 1-0 at Wembley.
the premier 
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after coming off the bench in their 1-1 draw at home to AC Milan?
2. Which big-hitting golfer won the Arnold Palmer Invitational at
Bay Hill?
3. Who scored Brighton’s winning goal in their 2-1 Premier League victory
at Southampton?
4. Who scored a hat-trick of tries for Bristol Bears
in their 24-23 Gallagher Premiership win at
Worcester?
5. Who was the first England batsman to bat on all five
days of a five-day Test match?
6. Which American figure skater was ladies’
champion at the 1992 Winter Olympics?
7. How many players are there in a netball team?
8. Which British team beat Stuttgart in the final of
the 1998 European Cup Winners’ Cup?
9. Which female Malaysian squash player has won the World Open title a
record eight times?
10. Which French jockey rode High-Rise to victory in the 1998
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late September has been mooted for
the IPL to fulfil the remaining 31
fixtures ahead of the T20 World Cup
in October.
But it would have to go ahead
without most of the England players –
including the likes of Jos Buttler – who
would be selected for the white-ball
tours of Bangladesh and Pakistan.
England’s managing director had his
hands tied over the original dates, with
agreements and contracts in place
before the home New Zealand Test
series was arranged.
This time Giles, who hinted some
IPL returnees might sit out next
month’s series with the Black
Caps, has made it clear the
national side takes priority.
“We’ve got a full Future
Tours Programme,” said
Giles. “If those tours are
the IPL. 
“None of us knows what a
rearranged IPL will look like, where
it’s going to be, when or if. But from
when we start this summer against
New Zealand, our programme is
incredibly busy.
“We’ve got a lot of important
high-profile cricket including the
T20 World Cup and Ashes. So we’re
planning on the involvement of
England players in England matches.”
It would appear the only reason the
best players might miss matches is for
recuperation. Some of England’s IPL
stars, still in quarantine, may miss
facing the Kiwis. “We’re not going to
rush them back,” said Giles.
His caring side is regularly on
show but there is a steeliness to
Giles that helped him dispense with
Ed Smith as national selector and
make Chris Silverwood the most
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Thiago urges team-mates to believe in

sealing a Champions League ‘miracle’

HOPE GRAVINA: Tired of tug of war

Juve facing

IN OUR
expulsion
from Serie A
JUVENTUS face expulsion
from the Italian league if they
persist in their association with

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the European Super League.
Only last week the three
remaining clubs – Real Madrid,
Barcelona and Juve – defended
their plans in the face of what
they called “threats” from
UEFA.
MAKING The Premier League’s rebel
A POINT
Thiago
six clubs of Manchester United,
Manchester City, Liverpool,
dedicated Chelsea, Tottenham and Arsenal,
his first along with AC Milan, Inter
Liverpool Milan and Atletico Madrid, all
goal to their withdrew from the breakaway
substitutes Super League following outrage
on Sunday from fans and pressure from
their respective leagues and
THIAGO believes Liverpool can By David Maddock De Boer has told the defender, not feature again this season for the governing bodies.
still qualify for the Champions and Chris McKenna below, it is his decision if he wants Reds but has not been ruled out of The remaining trio are still
League. to play in the tournament. the Euros. committed to the project, but
The midfielder scored his first goal explained how he has a bond with Van Dijk, 29, has not played since De Boer said: “He has to decide, 36-time Serie A champions Juve
for the Reds to secure victory over his team-mates. suffering a serious ACL injury it is his career. I can imagine that he are under increasing pressure to
Southampton on Sunday, just their “For sure I have a special against Everton in October. He will is in a dilemma. I hope he has made withdraw.
second Premier League win at relationship with thee guys there that giant steps in h his rehabilitation.” “If Juventus is still part of the
Anfield in the past 11 matches. didn’t play, so my goal oal was for the Reds goalk
goalkeeper Alisson’s wife Super League when it enters
It offers a glimmer of hope for a players on the bench,” ,” he said. Natalia has givgiven birth to their third next season, it can’t participate
top-four finish, with Jurgen Klopp’s “When you are playing, you child, a boy. in Serie A,” Italian Football
side six points behind fourth-placed always think about them,
hem, how means Klopp’s No.1 will
It mea Federation president Gabriele
Leicester, but with a game in hand. they work and how w they available for the showdown
be availa Gravina said.
And the Spain star is adamant behave even when they with MManchester United on “The rules foresee the
they will battle to the bitter end to don’t play.” Thursday.
Thur non-participation in our
pull off a miracle. Virgil van Dijk, jk, And
A Alex Oxlade- championship if the principles
Thiago said: “We try to be as meanwhile, has been en Chamberlain
Ch announced established by the federation
objective as possible. There is a very told he has a that
th he and partner and UEFA are not accepted.
small chance, but we had chances in “dilemma” aboutt Perrie
P Edwards are “We are tired of this tug of
the past. playing in thiss expecting
e their first war between UEFA and these
“The door sometimes closed for summer’s Euros. child.
c three clubs. I hope this dispute
us but the window is open, so we Holland boss Frank Liverpool have been can be resolved soon. I hope to
will try to get through the window. given the all-clear by be able to mediate between
“So now we have to keep fighting THE REDS’ RUN-IN the local authority’s Juventus and UEFA.
for this small miracle.” THURSDAY Man United (away) Safety
S Advisory Group “It’s not good for international
Thiago has taken time to settle at to allow 10,000 fans football, Italian football or
Anfield after a serious injury in SUNDAY West Brom (away) into
in their final home Juventus. We have already said
October’s Merseyside derby. MAY 19 Burnley (away) game
ga of the season that the football association
His celebration against Saints was MAY 23 Crystal Palace (home) against
aga Crystal Palace on respects the rules.”
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named him on a five- promotion. ● DANNY COWLEY has rookie boss Brian Dutton.
38 Roma v Lazio ........................1
39 Spezia v Torino ......................X Rangers, Atletico Madrid, man shortlist – and The 52-year-old signed a new long-term ● CAMBRIDGE have tied
40 Udinese v Sampdoria .............X Barcelona, Real Betis,
Valencia, AC Milan, Roma,
excluded Jokanovic. Serb wants to return to deal to remain in charge of down Mark Bonner, 35, to
German League
41 Augsburg v Werder Bremen ...2 RB Leipzig, Schalke 04. But there are England after a good Portsmouth despite failing a new three-year deal after
42 A Bielefeld v Hoffenheim........X Perm any 8 from 9 = 9 bets,
or any 9 from 10 = 10 bets.
growing doubts about spell in Qatar, where he to make the League One he led them to promotion.
43 B Leverkusen v Union Berlin ..X
44 B M’gladbach v Stuttgart ......X
Heckingbottom. led Al-Gharafa into the play-offs. ● MARCUS BIGNOT has left as
45
46
Freiburg v Bayern Munich ......2
Hertha Berlin v Cologne ........X
SIX AWAYS: West Ham, He would not be a qualifying rounds of ● PORT VALE have released interim Aston Villa boss after
Celtic, Hartlepool, Real
47 Mainz v Borussia Dortmund ...2 Madrid, Napoli, Borussia
popular appointment the AFC Champions the club’s record post-war the club preserved their
48 RB Leipzig v Wolfsburg ..........1 Dortmund. with Blades fans League. goalscorer Tom Pope. Women’s Super League status.
49 Schalke 04 v E Frankfurt .......1
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Rooney’s FULHAM
BURNLEY
0
2
Westwood and Wood combine to told his flops to “be brave” – but their
abject, embarrassing first-half display
was the exact opposite.
Ademola Lookman did head over
Rams not By Paul Brown
FAREWELL Fulham. Better luck next
rubber-stamp Fulham relegation an early chance for the Cottagers. But
after that it was all Burnley.
Ben Mee wasted a free header. Wood
yet safe time. God knows you will need it
because after this you should hang
your heads in shame.
Fulham were abysmal. If you are going
to go down, at least go out in style.
The way Norwich and Watford have
had scored just nine goals at home all
season, winning twice. You do not
deserve to survive with a record
had a goal ruled out for Matej Vydra
taking the ball out of play.
Only Tosin Adarabioyio’s chest
By James Nursey
Knowing a Burnley win would bounced straight back will give them like that and it’s a miracle they
hey then denied Wood, whose
DERBY could still be relegate them, Scott Parker’s flops put hope. But few of this bunch will be went into this game with their ir he
header was goalbound, and
heading for life in in one of their worst performances of sticking around for a slog through the relegation not confirmed. Alphonse Areola also did well
A
League One after the the season. Championship. Parker gave it one lastt to stop the striker at point-
EFL successfully And many of them will not be back, On this evidence, that may well be a throw of the dice, starting blank range.
b
appealed a Financial because this is a squad containing six good thing. with misfit strikerr But it was not long before
Fair Play ruling. loan players and plenty of others with If only they had a striker like Wood. Aleksandar Mitrovic. Fulham cracked. Vydra chased
Fu
The Rams avoided uncertain futures. Since March 6 he has been directly He has scored more times for and won a simple long ball, beat
relegation from the Two up through Ashley Westwood responsible for 11 goals – better than Serbia this season than he has for Joachim Andersen with ease, and
Championship on the and Chris Wood, Burnley had their anyone else in the Premier League in Fulham, though admittedly he has not slid it to Westwood, left, to force in.
final day. But it has survival in the bag by half-time. But that time. But before kick-off Fulham often been first choice here. Parker Wood then rounded off a slick one-
emerged the EFL have touch move by smashing one in the

SORRY SCOTT’S
won an appeal relating top corner.
to an FFP charge Fulham improved after the break.
brought against Derby They couldn’t get any worse. Andre-
in January last year. Frank Zambo Anguissa smashed a
The sanction could side-footer off the crossbar, but Areola
range from a fine to a was lucky to get away with what
points deduction, looked like handball outside his box.

BOYS GO DOWN
which may be applied And the Fulham keeper then did
to the current season. well to pull off a diving save from Jay
Wayne Rooney Rodriguez to deny Burnley a third.
steered the Rams to But you never really believed for a
survival by a point, with moment that Fulham would find a
Wycombe, Rotherham score, let alone mount the sort of
and Sheffield comeback that could have saved them.

WITH WHIMPER
Wednesday relegated. FULHAM (4-2-3-1): Areola 7; Tete 6 (Maja 54, 6), Andersen
The Rams have a 5, Tosin 6 (Loftus-Cheek 75), Robinson 6; Anguissa 5, Lemina
better goal difference 5; Cavaleiro 4, De Cordova-Reid 5 (Onomah 66, 6), Lookman 6;
Mitrovic 4.
than Wycombe, but any
BURNLEY (4-4-2): Pope 6; Lowton 6, Tarkowski 7, Mee 6,
more than a one-point Taylor 6; Brownhill 6, Westwood 7, Cork 6, McNeil 6; Vydra 7
deduction would spare (Rodriguez 69, 6), Wood 8. Goals: Westwood 35, Wood 44.
the Chairboys – and
their chairman Rob
Couhig has told fans to
“watch this space”.

SPORT IN BRIEF
Premier League
FULHAM (0) ........... 0 BURNLEY (2).........2
Westwood 35
Wood 44
PREMIER LGE 2—Div 1: Leicester
U23 0 Liverpool U23 2, Man Utd U23
1 Derby U23 3. Div 2: Sunderland
U23 1 Stoke U23 1, West Brom U23
3 Norwich U23 2, Wolverhampton
U23 2 Reading U23 2. .
CRICKET
SECOND TEST MATCH—Pakistan
v Zimbabwe (Harare): Pakistan
510-8dec. (147.1 overs; Abid Ali
215no, Azhar Ali 126, Nauman Ali
97). Zimbabwe 132 (60.4 overs;
Hasan Ali 5-27) and 231 (68.0
overs; R W Chakabva 80; Nauman
Ali 5-86, Shaheen Afridi 5-52). Paki-
stan beat Zimbabwe by an innings
and 147 runs.
CYCLING
GIRO D’ITALIA (Biella - Canale,
190km)—Stage 3: 1 T van der
Hoorn (Ned) Intermarche-Wanty-
Gobert Materiaux 4:21:29, 2 D
Cimolai (Ita) Israel Start-up Nation at
4s, 3 P Sagan (Svk) Bora-Hansgrohe,
all at same time. Overall: 1 F Ganna
(Ita) Ineos Grenadiers 8hrs 51mins FULHAM v BURNLEY
26secs, 2 T Foss (Nor) Jumbo-Visma
at 16s, 3 R Evenepoel (Bel) CHRIS 68 POSSESSION %
3 SHOTS ON TARGET
32
5
Deceuninck-QuickStep at 20.
Selected Others: 25 H Carthy (Gbr)
EF Education-Nippo at 41s, 27 S
BLISS
Wood puts
11 SHOTS OFF TARGET 6
7 BLOCKED SHOTS 3
Yates (Gbr) Team BikeExchange at 8 CORNERS 4
same time, 33 N Roche (Irl) Team game out 11 FOULS 10
DSM at 43, 73 D Martin (Irl) Israel of reach 2 YELLOW CARDS 0
Start-up Nation at 1m 0s. for Fulham 0 RED CARDS 0
TENNIS with the Source: Opta
ATP & WTA INTERNAZIONALI BNL
D’ITALIA (Rome)—Men’s 1st rnd: second goal
T H Fritz (USA) bt D EVANS (Gbr) 6-3 for Burnley
6-2.

TODAY’S DIARY
(7.45pm unless stated)
Premier League
Southampton v Crystal Palace (8.15) ......
Few can Tuch us at our very best claims Havertz
(Live on Sky Sports Main Event)
Man Utd v Leicester (6pm) ......................
KAI HAVERTZ believes few By Tony Banks experience and young players League did not surprise me. I
(Live on BT Sport 1) teams can match Chelsea when who are very hungry. knew it was a high level.
goals in his past seven games
Scottish Ch’ship Play-off they perform with confidence. “Technically, tactically, Everything is faster, harder,
Semi-final 2nd Leg The £71million Germany and some clever assists have almost everything fits, so it’s more intense but fun.”
Airdrieonians (1) v Cove Rangers (1) .......
forward made a slow start after seen Havertz blossom for very important we keep the Looking forward to the clash
Morton (1) v Montrose (2) .......................
Scottish Lge One Play-off leaving Bayer Leverkusen last the Champions League and momentum because there are with the Gunners, Havertz
Semi-final 2nd Leg summer – due to Covid-19 and FA Cup finalists. more big games coming. added: “Arsenal are very
Edinburgh City (1) v Elgin (0) .................. Havertz, whose team take
Dumbarton (0) v Stranraer (0) ................. some niggling injuries. “The competitiveness is dangerous.”
Vanarama National Lge: Aldershot But since Thomas Tuchel on Arsenal at Stamford Bridge very hard. ●To read the interview in
v Yeovil (7pm), Chesterfield v
King’s Lynn Tn, Maidenhead Utd v took over as manager in tomorrow, said: “When we “You have five or six teams full, purchase the Chelsea
Notts County, Solihull Moors v January, the 21-year-old has play with confidence, there are who can win the Premier matchday programme by
Weymouth (7pm), Stockport Co v
Dagenham & Redbridge (7pm), found his feet, operating in a not many teams that can beat League and many in the race visiting: reachsportshop.com/
Sutton Utd v Woking (8pm) (Live on HAVERTZ: ‘A good mix’ ‘false nine’ role up front. Three us. The mix is very good with for the top four. The Premier programmes
BT Sport 1), Wealdstone v Bromley.

SINKING
FEELING
Allardyce’s
incredible
survival
record went
down the
pan at the
weekend
WEST BROM face star player exits
and potentially more managerial
upheaval as a result of their
relegation.
Manager Sam Allardyce refused
to reveal whether he intends to stay
after the Baggies were sent straight
back down to the second tier by
Sunday’s 3-1 defeat at Arsenal.
The former England manager has
a break clause in his contract
following his appointment in
December and talks are
scheduled this week,
with the Baggies board I do wonder
to decide his future.
Allardyce, 66, wants
assurances on funds to
what might’ve
mount a promotion push
if he stays. been if we’d
But sporting director
Luke Dowling has to
weigh up whether the
had the fans
veteran is the right man to build the
club’s future around under their
Chinese owners, who operate a
self-sufficient model.
It is shaping up to be a summer
of change in Albion’s squad, with
influential loanees Ainsley Maitland-
Niles, Okay Yokuslu and Mbaye
Diagne all leaving. Star duo Sam
Johnstone and Matheus Pereira are
NUNO: Has dropped wing-back system
FOOTBALL: PREMIER LEAGUE
FUTURE UNCERTAIN FOR ALLARDYCE
AND A HOST OF HIS STAR NAMES
By James Nursey
also likely to be sold, with Allardyce
confirming that the club are unlikely
to be able to turn down bids.
Former Manchester United
goalkeeper Johnstone tops the table
for Premier League saves this season
and has only one year remaining on
his contract.
Brazilian playmaker Pereira is
also in demand after five assists and
10 goals, and Allardyce
admitted: “I think, in the
position the club is in,
they will find it very
difficult if the right offer
comes in to keep a player
of Pereira’s quality.”
Allardyce replaced
Slaven Bilic in December
and has improved the
Baggies after a baptism
of fire and several heavy losses.
They have picked up 14 points
from their past 12 games – including
a stunning 5-2 win at Chelsea –
and the upturn coincided with
Maitland-Niles, Yokuslu and Diagne
joining in January.
But it is back to the drawing board
now, with the trio set to leave and
other departures – including Big
Gibbs-White: Nuno’s plan was a no-no
WOLVES stars are pleased boss
Nuno Espirito Santo has ditched
his three-man defence, according
to Morgan Gibbs-White.
Nuno changed his traditional
blueprint with wing-backs after a
4-0 home thumping by Burnley.
Wolves have since gone to a
back four and earned a 1-1 draw
at West Brom before beating
10-man Brighton 2-1 on Sunday,
with Gibbs-White scoring a
last-minute winner. The academy
graduate believes the drastic
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Relegated
West Brom
braced for
summer of
discontent
Sam – in the pipeline. Born survivor
Allardyce, who suffered the first
Premier League relegation on his
CV, said: “We have tried our best
and I’m very sorry that we haven’t
made it.
“We had the opportunity in late-
January, February to close the gap
and get much-needed points on the
board when we played teams such
By James Nursey
change in formation can help
them finish the season strongly.
The 21-year-old midfielder
said: “Changing to a back four is
a massive confidence boost.
“Especially for me, because we
want to create and get forward
more, but at the same time be
careful defensively.
“We need to know our roles
but have that freedom to go and
create. Now we are starting to
Daily Express Tuesday, May 11, 2021
Main picture: STUART MacFARLANE
BOWING
OUT...
Relegation
is confirmed
for weary
Baggies
with their
defeat by
Arsenal
as Fulham and Sheffield United. We
should have put those games to bed
but we didn’t [the Baggies drew
with the Cottagers and lost to the
Blades].
“I do wonder what might have
been if we’d had the fans behind us
at home, but unfortunately they
couldn’t be there to help us because
of the pandemic.”
kick on a bit more, we are
starting to build a good
relationship and morale is high.
“Let’s keep playing the way we
are playing and hopefully more
goals and points will come.”
Gibbs-White spent the first
half of the season on loan at
Championship side Swansea and
the goal was his first in the
Premier League.
He added: “I feel like I have
progressed as a player. I’m
starting to read the game better.”
57
CEFERIN: Wants fans at event
Wembley
stand-off
over final
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standby to provide the venue if
the quarantine stand-off cannot
be resolved.
Talks have taken place
between UEFA and the
Government – who have
publicly supported the move to
Wembley – to allow those
involved in setting up and
broadcasting the match to
circumvent strict rules and enter
the country without quarantine.
But Government sources said
that UEFA’s request for 2,000
VIP, sponsors and other non-
essential guests was “quite
challenging” and a “stumbling
block” to reaching an
agreement.
UEFA have had to set a
24-hour deadline on the
quarantine waivers in order to
proceed with the ticketing
process. Portugal is on the
Government’s green list,
allowing free movement without
restrictions, which would mean
fans could travel to the game,
with Porto prepared to host.
UEFA president Aleksander
Ceferin insisted the showpiece
event should be moved from
Istanbul and given back to the
fans. The decision to put Turkey
on Britain’s red list of countries
meant supporters were being
told not to travel.
The EFL, who were due to
hold the Championship play-off
final at Wembley on the same day,
have already agreed to step aside
and play the game elsewhere.
RELIEF FOR
BAMFORD
PATRICK BAMFORD admits he was
frustrated by his mini-drought
after scoring his first goal in six
games in Leeds’ win over
Tottenham on Saturday.
The striker has now netted 15
times and needs one more goal to
equal his best tally for Leeds.
He said: “In the past few games,
for some reason we’d shored up at
the back and were not shipping as
many chances, but we’d barely
created any in four or five games.
“So it has been frustrating for
me, but it was nice that we got
both, we got the balance right.
“I didn’t set myself a target at
the start of the season, but I
said double figures would be
respectable and I would be happy.”
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MAN UNITED V LEICESTER

HASENHUTTL: Missing family
6PM, BT SPORT Ole is urging Southgate to
Saints boss By Gideon Brooks

OLE GUNNAR SOLSKJAER select ‘special’ young gun

cannot wait has urged Gareth Southgate to
pick Mason Greenwood in his

for cuddles
26-man squad for next month’s
European Championship.
Solskjaer insisted the teenage
Greenwood for the Euros
striker has “something special”
SOUTHAMPTON V CRYSTAL PALACE 8.15PM and a rare ability to “change a learning all the time. It’s difficult something that
THE mountaineer meets the game in a split second”. and he’s had to bear a lot of everyone
hermit on the slippery slopes of And while the Manchester responsibility and he’s popped understands
the Premier League tonight. United boss conceded it was not up with so many important and they can
Southampton manager Ralph his place to tell the England goals for us. see it every
Hasenhuttl is missing the manager his job, he said he “Against Roma last Thursday day when
Austrian Alps, where he loves to would not hesitate if the choice he worked his socks off and they
go climbing the canyon walls. was his. then he’s going again against look
Palace counterpart Roy Greenwood has not figured in Aston Villa and he’s tired. at
Hodgson, meanwhile, admits he Southgate’s team since being “His body is not really filled
has been living like a hermit. sent home in disgrace from out yet and he might not be
Hasenhuttl has been unable to Iceland in September for a ready for all of these him,
see his children and his parents breach of coronavirus protocols. games but he’s got which is
for almost 12 months now. But Solskjaer says he has something great for my
He and wife Sandra keep in learnt from his mistakes and is special. The young team.”
touch with sons Patrick and improving at just the right time kid United are set to
Philip via Zoom calls but he to make an impact at the Euros. turn to younger
said: “I have not been home to “It’s not my job and I’m sure options as Solskjaer seeks
Austria for nearly a year. to negotiate a path through a
“Coming from the mountains, fixture pile-up complicated by
you miss them. We have the turns the rescheduling of the
internet but a cuddle would be the game postponed Liverpool game.
nice. We cannot go home as around and the That will mean playing time
when we go back we must for goal against Villa on for Amad Diallo and possible
quarantine two weeks.” Sunday was excellent. outings for Shola Shoretire,
Hasenhuttl, whose side still “I’m delighted he’s got back Hannibal Mejbri and Anthony
need to ensure their safety, Gareth to his scoring best and he’s Elanga against Leicester tonight.
cannot imagine Hodgson knows Mason learning the other bits as well.”
ever giving up management well enough,” he The “other bits” are as much
– and the 73-year-old agreed. said. “But he can turn a off the field as on it and in
The Palace boss said: “I live a game in a split-second. that regard United have been
hermit-like existence. My wife “He’s working, learning on pleased at the impact on
Sheila and I live a pretty quiet the job, getting more robust. Greenwood of veteran
life. It’s tough for the foreign He’s played more than 100 striker Edinson Cavani.
players who have not had a games for us and is top scorer as While the Uruguayan
chance to see their families.” a teenager, he’s been incredible. does not speak
SOUTHAMPTON (probable): McCarthy; Walker-
“Mason will have a long English, he has been
Peters, Bednarek, Vestergaard, Stephens; Walcott, future with England. I like the generous with his
Ward-Prowse, Armstrong, Tella; Ings, Redmond. boy, which says itself what I time and
CRYSTAL PALACE (probable): Guaita; Ward, would have done.” knowledge.
Kouyate, Cahill, Mitchell; Townsend, Schlupp, Greenwood made an eye- “Even with
Milivojevic, Eze; Zaha, Benteke.
catching breakthrough with 17 his little English,
TONY BANKS goals for the club last season. football is a
However, despite finding the language everyone

GO EZE ON net 11 times this term – and

eclipsing Wayne Rooney’s
record as United’s highest-
understands,”
Solskjaer
recently.
said

ADULATION scoring teenager in the Premier

League – the 19-year-old has
had a more testing spell.
“Preparation and
focus
concentration
and
and
COME IN Greenwood could line up
in attack next month with
ROY HODGSON wants Eberechi
Eze to aim for the England squad Solskjaer said: “Mason is professionality is HANDY Raheem Sterling, above

– but he does not want his young

Crystal Palace star getting too
much praise.
Eze’s mazy runs have provided
We can’t be sloppy in front of goal says Lingard
four goals and five assists this JESSE LINGARD says West By Paul Brown Said Benrahma, who has now us as a team, we’re together
season and boss Hodgson said: Ham will refuse to let poor failed with 31 attempts on and trying to help each other
“Eberechi should have ambitions still make a top-four push by
finishing destroy their winning their final three goal in the Premier League. to score.”
of playing for his country. He’s Champions League dreams. Benrahma, a £30million West Ham have lost three
had a good season. I hope he can games of the season.
The Hammers lost 1-0 to He said: “We could not buy from Brentford, missed a of their past four but have
produce more performances like Everton on Sunday after golden opportunity against three winnable games against
the one he did against Sheffield. create clear-cut chances and
missing several chances – and finish them. It is about Everton, who closed within Brighton, West Brom and
“But I hope even more he won’t have now hit the woodwork a three points of the fifth- Southampton to come.
be built up to such an extent that focusing, concentrating and
joint league-leading 21 times not being sloppy. placed Hammers. Lingard, whose side go to
it makes it difficult for him. I’ve along with Aston Villa. But Lingard said: “I don’t Brighton on Saturday, said:
had years of experience seeing “We need to have the right
But Lingard, who has attitude so we can start quick think he’s putting pressure on “The dressing room was
good young players hampered by
too much praise, but he’ll handle it scored nine goals since his and win those matches.” himself. He’s arriving in the down afterwards. Everyone’s
even if goes over the top.” loan move from Manchester Nobody has had more right areas to score and it’s disappointed but we need to
LINGARD: Time to focus United, insists the team can shots without scoring than about executing, that’s all. For pick ourselves up.”

FAN CLUB
A GOOD SHOUT:
Solskjaer predicts a
long England future
for Greenwood
Follow Schmeichel to keep us
in top-four hunt says Rodgers
BRENDAN RODGERS has told
Leicester’s stars to match Kasper
Schmeichel’s concentration levels if
they want glory this season.
Leicester have slipped to
fourth in the Premier League
after a shock 4-2 home defeat
by battling Newcastle.
Rodgers blamed a
lack of focus
as the hosts
conceded
after several
costly mistakes,
including defender
Caglar Soyuncu getting
robbed when attempting a
Cruyff turn.
The Foxes boss has ordered a huge
improvement ahead of a massive week,
with a top-flight trip to Manchester
United tonight followed by the FA Cup
final against Chelsea on Saturday.
Rodgers absolved Schmeichel from
any blame for the Newcastle defeat.
The Foxes keeper made an incredible
save, reminiscent of his father Peter, to
deny Allan Saint-Maximin. And Rodgers
believes the club’s long-serving stars
such as Schmeichel, with
HOW THEY STAND title winning experience
P W D L F A Pts from 2016, can play a key
Man City 35 25 5 5 72 26 80 role in the run-in.
Man Utd 34 20 10 4 67 36 70
Chelsea 35 18 10 7 55 32 64
He said: “His
Leicester 35 19 6 10 63 43 63 concentration is at the
West Ham 35 17 7 11 55 45 58 highest level all the time.
Liverpool 34 16 9 9 57 39 57 “He is such an important
Tottenham 35 16 8 11 61 41 56 player for us. When you are
34 16 7 11 46 42 55 challenging at the top end of
Everton
Arsenal 35 15 7 13 49 38 52 the table or for trophies, the
Leeds 35 15 5 15 53 53 50 concentration level has to
Aston Villa 34 14 6 14 49 41 48
increase.
Wolves 35 12 9 14 35 47 45
Crystal Pal 34 11 8 15 36 56 41 “That’s the real hard part
Burnley 35 10 9 16 33 47 39 of it this season. If you
Newcastle 35 10 9 16 40 58 39 don’t, you go loose and you
Brighton 35 8 13 14 36 41 37 get punished, that’s what
Southampton 34 10 7 17 41 61 37 happened to us on Friday.
Fulham (R) 35 5 12 18 25 47 27 Our concentration was
West Brom (R) 35 5 11 19 32 68 26 nowhere near good enough
Sheff Utd (R) 35 5 2 28 18 62 17
OLLIE’S MATES INSIST HE IS NO DIVER
OLLIE WATKINS’ Aston Villa
team-mates have leapt to his defence,
insisting the striker is no diver.
Villa will be without Watkins for the
first time this season at home to
Everton on Thursday night.
The 13-goal ace is suspended after a
contentious sending off against
Manchester United on Sunday.
Watkins received his second yellow
for simulation late in the 3-1 loss. But
replay angles suggested faint contact
between United keeper Dean
WATKINS: Sent off Henderson and Watkins, with John
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Daily Express Tuesday, May 11, 2021 59
United joy
as Cavani
agrees to
stay on
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player. This means
he will hopefully get that
opportunity.”
Solskjaer, below, added:
WILLIAN: Staying positive
“Edinson has been
everything I thought he
would be and more. We knew
about his goalscoring record,
Arsenal spell
By James Nursey
however it is his personality
that has brought so much to
this squad. Edinson is one of
Will improve
in aspects of our defending and we
made too many mistakes.
“It’s about concentration and if you
concentrate you give fewer possibilities
the last to leave the training
ground and sets the tone for
the upcoming youngsters
says winger
to make mistakes.”
with his approach every By Tony Banks
single day.”
da
Rodgers is pleased Leicester are back WILLIAN has admitted his first
United’s board
Un
in action ahead of the FA Cup final, year at Arsenal has been
believe extending
be
adding: “It’s good to get Friday out “difficult” – but the Brazilian
tthe contract is
th
for the system.” has never lost faith in his ability.
ggood value given
After the cup final, Leicester finish The winger joined Arsenal in a
tthe Uruguayan’s
with Premier League matches surprise switch from Chelsea
fform
o and his
against Chelsea and Tottenham. last summer as a free agent but
positive impact as
po
Rodgers is undaunted, as his side on a bumper three-year contract
a role model.
have already beaten Manchester worth a whopping £220,000 a
The 34
Th 34-year-old had
City, Manchester United, week.
come close to taking up the
Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal But Willian has flopped and
offer of a two-year deal with
and Spurs in either come under fire from frustrated
Boca Juniors in Buenos
the league or cup Gunners fans.
Aires.
this He finally broke his duck in
But he said yesterday the
front of goal with a free-kick in
prospect of playing in front
the win against West Brom on
of fans next season was a
Sunday to evoke memories of
key factor in his decision.
his glory days across London.
“I feel a deep
season. That was a rare highlight in a
bond with my
But he knows dismal season for Arsenal, and
team-mates and
they will have to for the 32-year-old personally,
the staff who work
do much better than where he has failed to nail down
behind the
their past two a place in Mikel Arteta’s team.
scenes here.
performances, having only Willian said: “It was difficult,
“I know that
drawn against 10-man I’m the first to admit that.
together we can
Southampton before the “When I don’t play well I am
achieve special things. I
Newcastle loss.
He added: “We are very close to
haven’t yet been able to play the first to criticise – and me and
in front of the Old Trafford my family, we know how
achieving what we want, but we have difficult it was for me this
crowd and that is something
made it difficult for ourselves. In the last season.
I can’t wait to do.”
two games we haven’t got the results we “But I was never in doubt
wanted. That about what I can bring to this
means we have to TEENAGE KICKS AT OLD TRAFFORD
team – my quality.
really push and The top-10 teenage scorers of all-time for Top teenage scorers in “I finally scored this beautiful
look to win these Manchester United in all competitions Premier League history
goal – and let’s keep it going.”
games, starting Norman Whiteside 39 Michael Owen 40 Willian admitted it had been
with the next George Best
37 Robbie Fowler 35 tough for the Gunners to pick
one.” Mason Greenwood 29 Wayne Rooney 30 themselves up after last week’s
MAN UTD (probable): De Marcus Rashford 26 Nicolas Anelka 19 disappointment of losing to
Gea; Williams, Bailly, Lindelof,
Villarreal in the Europa League
Ryan Giggs 22 Alan Smith 17
Telles; Matic, Mata; Greenwood,
semi-final.
Van de Beek, Diallo, Cavani. Wayne Rooney 22 Francis Jeffers 17
21 Mason Greenwood 16
He said: “It was a difficult one
LEICESTER (probable): Alex Dawson
Schmeichel; Pereira, Fofana, to take, that result.
Soyuncu, Castagne; Albrighton,
Brian Kidd 21 Chris Bart-Williams 14 “We really wanted to go to
Andy Ritchie 13 Romelu Lukaku 14
Ndidi, Tielemans; Perez; the final but football is always
Iheanacho, Vardy.
Bobby Charlton 12 Raheem Sterling 14 changing.
“We did a great job against
West Brom – we played very
well from the beginning and we
deserved the result.”
By James Nursey Davis his first Premier League start
Emile Smith-Rowe scored
Arsenal’s first goal before
limping off with a hamstring
since last year. injury which Arteta hopes is not
McGinn saying: “Anyone who knows serious and will allow him to
Fit-again Brazilian Wesley is also
Ollie’s character knows he’s not that in contention for mid-table Villa, play against Chelsea tomorrow
type of player. who will use the incident as night.
“I think there is going to be a motivation. Smith-Rowe, 20, has been one
coming together, so he has to protect Midfielder McGinn added: “We are of Arsenal’s major successes in a
himself. looking to bounce back. We want to troubled season and Willian said:
“From where I was looking it looked finish as high as we can – we don’t “He is a fantastic player and he
like contact but the referee decides it’s want this season to peter out. has a great future.
a second yellow and a red card, which “We want to be competing still for “He has the technique and
is harsh.” places higher up the table in the top everything he needs to become
With Watkins banned, Villa manager half. And we have a chance to do that one of the best players in the
Dean Smith is likely to hand Keinan in the last four games.” league.”
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By Paul Brown FULHAM 0 BURNLEY 2 MATCH REPORT:

SEE PAGE 56
GOALS from Ashley Westwood and

FULHAM DOWN AND OUT

Chris Wood sent feeble Fulham
plunging back down to the
Championship last night.
Burnley clinched their own
Premier League survival by
playing Scott Parker’s flops off
their own pitch at Craven Cottage.
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See Page 53

Solskjaer joy
after Cavani
extends stay
By Gideon Brooks
EDINSON CAVANI has given
Manchester United a huge lift by

STAND-OFF
abandoning plans to return to
South America and choosing to
stay at Old Trafford for next
season.
The striker, who has scored
eight goals in his past seven
games, agreed to an extended
contract worth £12million a year
to keep him in the Premier League
– a massive boost as he was close
to quitting the club at Christmas.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is believed
to have been particularly
influential by telling Cavani, below,
he deserved to play in front of a
packed home crowd next season.
The United boss said: “I have
always wanted him to stay and
experience the way our fans will
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1. Deposit (4) 9 of (8)
8. Restraint (10) 9 Room for
9. Good-looking (8) 10 11 manoeuvre (6)
10. Otherwise (4) 10 The Queen’s
12. Dwarf (6) 12 13 daughter (4)
14. Pill (6) 11 Sagacious (4)
14 15
15. Fret (6) 13 Command (5)
14 Meaty norm
17. Sermonise (6) 16 17 18
(anag.) (9)
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19 20 16 In the air (5)
19. Still (8) 19 Bird’s bill (4)
21. Polish (10) 21 20 Scandinavian
22. Stockings (4) capital (4)
22 21 3D shape (6)
DOWN 22 Hold sacred (8)
2. Unknown (10)
DOWN 8 All the people (9)
3. Poke (4) 1 Combustible (9) 12 Serious and dignified (6)
4. Eradicate (6) 3 Snake poison (5) 15 Illegal fire-setting (5)
5. Refuse (6) 4 Pitcher (4) 17 Rowing blades (4)
6. Gather (8) 5 Skilled storyteller (9) 18 Asian desert (4)
7. Formerly (4) 6 Eager or zealous (4)
11. Dumbfounded (10) 7 Sadness (6) Solution tomorrow
13. Huge (8) For today’s
16. Followed (6) solution call:
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Can you make two common five-letter words from the nine 13 15 33 13
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0901 322 5601 one letter features in both words in the squares on the right. 3
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QUIZWORD
ACROSS 4 Hunter in the Old Testament famed
for his prowess (6)      
7 Unit of geological time during
which a rock series is deposited (5) 5 Roberto, Pittsburgh Pirates baseball
star killed in a plane crash in  
8 Ancient region on the Adriatic Sea 1972 (8)
including parts of present-day
Albania, Croatia and 6 Tube that conveys inhaled air from
Montenegro (7) the larynx to the bronchi (7)
9 South American republic whose 11 Fictional chocolatier in the novel
capital is Quito (7) Charlie And The Chocolate
Factory (5,5)   
10 Large tropical American parrot
having a brilliant plumage (5) 13 Fine slightly stiff cotton fabric used
for dresses (8)
12 Woodland plant, Hydrastis
canadensis, of North America (10) 14 Town and resort that is the capital
of the Isle of Man (7)
15 British composer whose volumes of
poetry include War’s Embers (4,6) 16 Plant such as Raphanus sativus  
whose root is eaten raw in
18 Carl, US astronomer and author of salads (6)
the 1985 novel Contact (5) 
17 Ray, US inventor of a system used
19 Game in which a spinning top is for noise reduction in tape
thrown and caught on a cord recorders (5)
fastened to two hand-held sticks (7)  
20 Genus of plants native to southern
21 Contagious skin infection caused by Africa with red or yellow flowers (4)
the mite Sarcoptes scabiei (7)

22 Rifat, Turkish-born fashion designer
who was named British Designer of Solution tomorrow
the Year in 1992 (5)   

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Solution tomorrow contains the same 3 3 Summary
letters as the 4 4 Graze
6 5 8 1 8 9 3 4 previous word, plus 5 5 Tends for
5 4 1 9 5 or minus one. 6 6 Area of land
Solution tomorrow
5 3 9 5 1 4 8 7 7 Expert

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two below, what 1 Velodrome,
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9 Crab,
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23 23 24 12 Coma,
2 4 1 7 13 Nocturnal,
14 Iris,
5 4 8 11 12 11 13
16 Tanks,
18 Vain,
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5 6 3 7 Solution
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5 Ova,
1 7 2 1 7 5 2 6 Mammal,
8 Dealings,
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12 Cravat,
3 1 8 8 4 1 27 29 30 15 Fade,
17 Nag.
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QUICK WORDSEARCH ARROW-WORD SUDOKU EASY SUDOKU MEDIUM SUDOKU DIFFICULT
CROSSWORD 3 7 % 3 & 6
5 + 3 $ 3 5 , . $ ( 0 . ) 7 9         
% $ 1 $ 1 $ ( ' , 7 +
Across: 7 Elite; ( / 7 , 5 $ 8 < 1 , & 0 : 1 0
5 ; ' 5 $ , 1 (         
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10 Drive; 12 Astringent; 2 9 3 7 < ( , ' ) 8 0 = 0 0 $ / ( $ 5 0 ( 7         
15 Talebearer; 18 Revel; & ( / / $ 5 6 7 $ 3 6
/ $ < ( ) 5 4 4 ( 1 6 8 0 1 1
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< $ 7 ( 6 ( ( $ 5 / , ( 6 7
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VAINGLORY Across: Sick, Campaign, Black squares: 2, 4, 7, 11, 12, 16, 18, 21, 1 8 2 7 2
anvil arvo gravy ivory loving Uncouth, Veers, Needy (clue), 25, 28, 30, 32, 35, 39. 1 2 3 4 3 2 1
navy nova oval ovary raving Lethal, Embody, Writhe, Cuckoo, Across: Asking, Price, Bodily, Avatar, 2 3 9 9 8 4
ravingly rival roving vail vain Focal, Curio, Bandeau, Modelled, Ambushes, Interject, Misquote, Reflux, 1 8 9 3
VAINGLORY vainly vary varying Grey. Earwig, Jowls, Portly.
vial vino viny vinyl viol viola Down: Squander, Scam, Cache, Down: Splat, Himself, Avails, Scat, Who,
virago viral vying Blurred, Buoyed, Knoll, Awhile, Graze, Ought, Kebab, Jeers, Nod, Flow, CROSS DOUBT
Zombie, Pivot, Refine, Inexact, Hatful, Odyssey, Exist. Across: GUIDE
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27 Fancy Anthony having 4 Interim, 5 Incisor, 7 Tuber, 8 Profanely, 9 French Canadian,
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24 Yalta. Prizeword: Singing

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TARGET THE ALPHABEATER TIME:
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THE ALPHAPUZZLE®
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Verb forms ending in S permitted. I 5 38 31 31 36 26 40 35 30 9 16 26 37 M 25 12 19 17 18 23 12 10 7
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BATTLESHIPS T W 2 25 25 26 11 18 16
FIND where the fleet of ships shown is hidden U 1 16 15 8 37 12 27 40 19 27 14 20 12 X
in the grid. The numbers to the right of and V Y 7 2 3 4 17 19 12 11 24 10 16 17
below the grid indicate how many of the W 18 38 9 31 33 18 5 9 6 8 32 31 34 Z
squares in that row are filled in with ships or X
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other, even diagonally. Some squares have Z G B
been filled in to start you off. 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
Solution tomorrow
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3 4 4
G 1 the grid so that
H 2 four different
numbers and four
I 2
1 1 2 4 different shapes
J 2 appear in each row THE DAILY EXPRESS 30-SECOND CHALLENGE
and column.
3 3 2 2 2 2 0 2 3 1 1 3 2 3 4 Solution
TODAY’S ANSWERS: BEGINNER = 56; INTERMEDIATE = 287; ADVANCED = 504.
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