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Three-Month-Old
Prince George
Christened In
London

By Gregory Katz
DRESSED IN a lace and satin gown
designed in the 1840s, Britains threemonth-old future monarch, Prince
George, was christened October 23
with water from the River Jordan at
a rare gathering of four generations of
the royal family.
The occasion had historic overtones:
the presence of Britains 87-year-old
monarch and three future kings,
Princes Charles, William and, of
course, little George.
The Queen, usually the center of
attention, quietly ceded the spotlight
to her rosy-cheeked great-grandson,
who seemed to wave at her when he ar-

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RRBiting Spiders Force UK

School Closure

CREEPY crawlies, in the form of a

venomous spider infestation, has forced
a school in Britain to close a week before
Halloween.
The Dean Academy, a secondary
school in southwest Englands Gloucestershire, closed October 23 to get rid of
the false widow spiders. The spiders are
commonly mistaken for their relative,
the black widow spider, whose bite can
be fatal.
The school said no one has been bitten
by the spider but local health authorities
have advised it to close for the day to
deal with the infestation.
Experts say the Steodata nobilis, a
species of the false widow, are becoming more common in the UK and are
the most dangerous of the 12 species of
biting spiders known in Britain.
But they stress that spider bites are
rare in Britain, and in most cases the
symptoms are mild. The spiders bite
may sting, swell up or cause discomfort
like a wasp sting, but has not been known
to cause deaths.

rived an illusion created by his father,

Prince William, playfully moving the
infants arm.
The private affair at the Chapel
Royal at St Jamess Palace was also
attended by Prince Charles, next in
line to the throne, and the queens
92-year-old husband, Prince Philip,
who has shown remarkable stamina
since returning to the public eye after
a two-month convalescence following
serious abdominal surgery.
All told, it was an exceptional day for
a monarchy that seems to be basking in
public affection since the 2011 wedding
of William and Kate Middleton and
the maturing of Prince Harry, who

BONFIRE
NIGHT

The Fifth of November

Remember, remember!
The fifth of November,
The Gunpowder treason and plot;
I know of no reason
Why the Gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot!
* circa 1870

FOR MANY who have lived in the US for

more than a few years, November 5 sometimes slips by without real recognition.
So, this year we thought wed give you a
little reminder.
Bonfires, the Guy effigy for burning,
fireworks, baked potatoes, toffee apples,
treacle toffee, parkin all came together
every November 5 to celebrate a piece of
history that may have, at the very least,
changed the seat of the English government, literally!
Guy Fawkes Night, also known as Guy
Fawkes Day, Bonfire Night and Firework
Night, is an annual commemoration
observed on November 5, primarily in
Great Britain. Its history begins with the
events on the same date in 1605, when the
religious dissident Guy Fawkes, a member
of the Gunpowder Plot, was arrested
while guarding explosives the plotters
had placed beneath the House of Lords.
Celebrating the fact that King James I had
survived the attempt on his life, people lit
bonfires around London, and months later
the introduction of the Observance of 5th
November Act enforced an annual public
day of thanksgiving for the plots failure.
Need more? Go here: http://www.historylearningsite.
co.uk/gunpowder_plot_of_1605.htm

appears to have put his playboy days

behind him.
George, who was born on July 22,
wore a replica of a christening gown
made with exquisite antique lace for
Queen Victorias eldest daughter, and
first used in 1841.
As trumpets blared, baby George
arrived at the chapel in his fathers
arms with his mother by their side.
Kates parents, Michael and Carole
and sister, Pippa and brother, James,
were also at the ceremony, where Pippa
read from the Gospel of St Luke and
Prince Harry from the Gospel of St John.
The chapel has a strong connection
to Williams mother, the late Princess

Diana, whose coffin was laid before

the chapels altar for her family to pay
their last respects in private before her
1997 funeral.
William and Kate chose seven godparents, among them Williams cousin,
Zara Phillips, daughter of Princess
Anne and a close friend of the couple.
Palace officials said water from the
River Jordan where Christians believe Jesus Christ was baptized was
used for the christening.
Some royal watchers camped outside
the palace for more than 24 hours to
obtain a good vantage point to watch
the guests arrive, but the ceremony
was private.

Hurricane-Force Gusts
Batter UK, Europe; 13 Dead
By Gregory Katz
A SAVAGE coastal storm powered by
hurricane-force gusts slashed its way
through Britain and western Europe October 21 and 22, felling trees, flooding
lowlands and snarling traffic in the air, at
sea and on land. At least 13 people were
reported killed.
It was one of the worst storms to hit the
region in years. The deadly tempest had no
formal name and wasnt officially classified as a hurricane due to a meteorological
standard but it was dubbed the St Jude
storm (after the patron saint of lost causes)
and stormageddon on social networks.
Gusts of 99mph were reported on the
Isle of Wight in southern England, while
gusts up to 80mph hit the British mainland. Later in the day, the Danish capital
of Copenhagen saw record gusts up of to
120mph and an autobahn in central Germany was shut down by gusts up to 62mph.
All across the region, people were
warned to stay indoors. Hundreds of trees
were uprooted or split, blocking roads
and crushing cars. The Dutch were told to
leave their beloved bicycles at home for
safetys sake.
EXPLOSION
Two people were killed in London by
a gas explosion and a British teen who
played in the storm-driven surf was swept
out to sea. A man in Denmark was killed
when a brick flew off and hit him in the
head.
Despite the strength of its gusts, the
storm was not considered a hurricane because it didnt form over warm expanses
of open ocean like the hurricanes that batter the Caribbean and the United States.
Britains national weather service, the
Met Office, said Britain does not get hur-

ricanes because those are warm latitude

storms that draw their energy from seas far
warmer than the North Atlantic. This storm
also did not have an eye at its center like
most hurricanes.
Londons Heathrow Airport, Europes
busiest, cancelled at least 130 flights and
giant waves prompted the major English
port of Dover to close, cutting off ferry
services to France.
BLOCKED
Nearly 1,100 passengers had to ride
out the storm on a heaving ferry from
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Phone-Hacking Trial
Opens In London

THE TRIAL in a case sparked by a

tabloid phone-hacking scandal began
last month with the selection of a jury.
The defendants: Rebekah Brooks and
Andy Coulson, both one-time senior
aides to Rupert Murdoch and associates of British Prime Minister David
Cameron, are charged with conspiring
to hack the phones of celebrities and
making illegal payments to officials for
information. Brooks and Coulson were
top editors of Murdochs defunct News
of the World. Six other defendants, all
but one former Murdoch employees,
are also on trial.
This is the first criminal trial stemming from revelations in 2011 of phone
hacking by tabloid journalists, a scandal
that shook Murdochs media empire
and tarnished the image of British
journalism.

RRPM Threatens To Act

Against Press Over Leaks

PRIME MINISTER David Cameron

has threatened unspecified action over
the Guardian newspapers remarkable
disclosures of American intelligence material, saying officials would find it tough
to stand back if the media dont show
enough restraint over what they publish.
Although Britain has no First Amendment-like protection guaranteeing
freedom of the press from official
interference, governments have generally relied on informal lobbying to keep
sensitive national security stories out of
the papers.
Cameron told lawmakers last month
that his government is trying to talk to
media outlets about how damaging
some of these things can be. But he
said that if the outlets dont demonstrate
some social responsibility it would be
very difficult for government to stand
back and not to act.

RRBrother Of Man Killed In

French Alps: It Wasnt Me

THE BROTHER of a British man who

was killed along with his wife, motherin-law and unrelated cyclist while vacationing in the French Alps has broken
his silence to deny having anything to
do with the attack.
Zaid al-Hilli, from southern England,
told the BBC that French authorities had
engineered a cover-up aimed at hiding
the real target of the 2012 killings, whose
brutality shocked people in France and
Britain.
Al-Hilli remains free on bail after
having been arrested in June over the
deaths of Saad al-Hilli, his wife Iqbal,
her mother, and a French cyclist.
French police are investigating the
possibility of a hired hit amid a feud
over the brothers inheritance. But
Zaid al-Hilli said the allegation was
ridiculous, saying he and his brother
were very close.

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Bacon Portrait Of Freud Could

Sell For Up To $100m

the city of Bristol over the summer, and had

been decorated by artists and designers
including Cath Kidston, Paul Smith and
Quentin Blake.
The top lot was Gromit Lightyear designed by Pixar and based on the Toy Story
character. It sold for 65,000.
The funds raised from the sale will go
toward the expansion of Bristol Childrens
Hospital.
Bristol is the home city of Aardman
Animations, which created the stop-motion
comedy series about cheese-loving inventor
Wallace and his dog.

A PAINTING that brings together two of

Britains greatest artists could become one
of the most expensive modern artworks
ever sold when it is auctioned in New York
this month.
Christies auction house says Francis
Bacons Three Studies of Lucian Freud could
sell for as much as $100m, above the current
record for Bacons work.
Christies contemporary art specialist
Francis Outred said that the market has
moved on since Bacons Triptych sold in
2008 for $86m. He said the Freud portrait,
Angus Makes Own Silly
can comfortably beat this record and posStamps
Featuring His Own
sibly even get closer to $100m.
Face And Mails For Free
Bacons three-panel portrait of his friend
Freud was painted in 1969 and has never ANGUS MCDONAGH, 64, says he has duped
been sold at auction.
Royal Mail with over a hundred of his designs
It will go under the hammer in New York on letters posted all over the world.
on November 12.
Many feature his own face in the Queens
traditional side profile complete with a comic
eye patch or weird hat and at Christmas he has
British Passenger Tasered
created some of himself with a white Santa
After Stripping On
beard while others have used family photos.
A European Flight
McDonagh, an architect who calls himself
A DRUNK plane passenger last month found an anarchist philatelist, began his personal
out that challenging the pilot to a fight while freepost system three years ago in protest at
the plane was in flight, and later stripping, bland stamp design.
was not a good idea.
He objected to what he felt was a decline
The captain had earlier left the cockpit to in the design and detail of official Royal Mail
order the passenger to calm down after he stamps and the demise of posted letters
swore at other holidaymakers on the flight because of email.
from Malta to Manchester.
McDonagh said: When I started I wanted
An eye-witness told The Mirror: As he them to be deliberately silly, so I had a fake
got off after landing he took his top off and moustache or beard or eye patch that was
shouted, Come on, then. He was drunk and very obviously drawn on very crudely.
trying to get the captain to fight him.
Angus has created 50 individual stamp
He was then videoed taking all his designs and printed them on his home comclothes off and getting a real slap from the puter and stuck them to envelopes with glue.
woman he was with.
All stamps have a fake value of 50c his
The passenger then urinated in the ter- own invented currency and are franked
minal and resisted police, who then used a with a location mark by Angus before he
dry Taser, where the gun is held against posts them.
a target.
Angus, of Bridgwater, Somerset, claims
The passenger was arrested and received My solicitor has sent the Royal Mail a few
a fixed penalty notice.
cheques for around 200 with a letter saying
it is for unpaid postage, but they are always
Bronze Henry Moore Sculpture returned.
He said: Im actually a great fan of Royal
Stolen In Scotland
THIEVES have stolen a valuable bronze Mail. I think the local postmen in our rural
sculpture by Henry Moore from an open-air community are very important people who
do a great job.
park in Scotland.
The Royal Mail has confirmed they are
Standing Figure, created in 1950, was
one of four Moore works in Glenkiln Sculp- investigating.
A spokeswoman said: We would like to
ture Park, near Shawhead.
Police said last month that the piece has make it clear that it is a crime to create or use
a high value and are appealing for informa- counterfeit stamps.
tion from the public.
Moore, who died in 1986, was one of Hotel Lobby Becomes Exercise
Britains best-known 20th-century artists
Space For A Horse
and thieves have targeted his works over SOME HOTEL lobbies display interesting
the years.
pieces of art and architecture, but not too
Two men were jailed in 2012 for steal- often a runaway horse.
ing The Sundail, a sculpture worth up to
But the lobby of the Best Western Metro
500,000, from the grounds of the Henry Maypole Hotel in Birmingham saw a horse
Moore Foundation in eastern England.
charge into the lobby last month. The animal
In 2010, his painting Three Reclining had already bolted across the car park of a
Figures On Pedestals was stolen from a nearby shop and dodged attempts to lasso
gallery in Worcestershire, England.
it with a tow rope.
The animal rushed into the hotel through
Dozens Of Giant Gromit
its glass sliding doors then briefly entered the
Figures At Charity Auction
lift before it was captured by West Midlands
WHERES Wallace?
Police officers and returned it to its owner.
A collection of 81 sculptures of ingenious
A Best Western spokesman said the
animated dog Gromit has netted more than nag was later put down, leaving hotel staff
2.3m at a charity auction in England.
devastated.
The five-foot dogs were on display across
Heather Thornton, director of sales at the

TODAYS
BRITAIN

hotel, off Maypole Lane, said: I saw two

police officers when I arrived at 9:50am and
there were a lot of people standing around
the hotel looking bemused. The horse tried to
get into the lift and then it reversed out again.
It was stressed and frightened. It did a lot
of damage to the lobby. It made some dents
in the wall and knocked over plants but the
staff were worried about the horse.

US & Worldwide
Immigration Service

POLICE, last month stopped a man they

spotted cycyling on the hard shoulder of the
M1 motorway.
The man was later labelled a dummy
after being apprehended by police. The
offender had been reported by drivers after
being spotted travelling on the southbound
carriageway near Redbourn, Hertfordshire.
Road policing officers safely escorted
the cyclist off at the next junction and later
tweeted a picture with the hashtag dont
be a dummy.
A spokeswoman confirmed the man was
advised that cycling on a motorway was
illegal but said no further action would be
taken, reports BBC News.
The cyclist told officers he would catch a
train to London instead, she added.

Mercedes With Bonnet Up

Driven At 50mph On Major Road

ASTOUNDED drivers couldnt believe their

eyes last month when they spotted a man
driving his Mercedes with the bonnet up,
and a battery charger attached to the engine.
The vehicle was filmed on a busy dual
carriageway as it traveled at 50mph on a
stretch of the A31 near Cadnam, Hampshire.
BBC presenter Jon Cuthill, who was a
passenger in another car said: I couldnt
believe what I was seeing. Why would
anyone think driving along a public highway
with your bonnet up was a good idea? The
bonnet obviously hadnt just sprung open
accidentally.
I just think its crazy that someone would
drive along a dual carriageway stretch of
road without being able to see through the
windscreen.
A Mercedes dealership in Winchester will
carry out an investigation to try and identify
the driver after confirming that the vehicle is
currently up for sale for 24,000.
Hampshire police are also investigating
the incident.
Video: http://web.orange.co.uk/article/quirkies/Man_
drives_Mercedes_with_bonnet_up

Sexy Video By Two Air

Stewardesses Could Bring
Trouble From BA

A RAUNCHY video shot in a bath by what

appears to be two British Airways air stewardesses could land the pair in hot water.
The airline is trying to track down the pair
behind the video which shows one stewardess massaging and showering the other
before removing her uniform.
The eight minute clip entitled Sexy
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New Composition Names 270

Tube Stations In Three Minutes

A NEW song pays tribute to Londons Tube,

now in its 150th year.

Man Labelled a Dummy After

A singer has penned a ditty in which he
Police Stopped Him Cycling On M1 rattles off the names of all 270 Tube stations

Leading the Way in

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watched by more than 113,000 people on

YouTube.
It is thought to have been shot during a
stopover at a hotel between flights, reported
the Daily Telegraph.
BA was said to be trying to trace the pair
and had known about the clip for some
time and were yet to confirm if the women
were current employees.
A spokeswoman said: Were aware of
the video. Investigations continue to establish their identity.

in just over three minutes.

Singer-songwriter Jay Foreman plays
the guitar and recites the stations, while the
visuals were shot by record-breaking Tube
station hopper Geoff Marshall.
The clip lasts three minutes and 15
seconds and has been viewed over 12,000
times.

Trivial 999 Calls Continue

To Amuse, But Frustrate
Emergency Workers

YET AGAIN firefighters in the UK are forced

to release a list of the most trivial 999 calls
to which they responded.
It was reported last month that some
of the most trivial calls were over a spider
crawling on a pillow and a squirrel wedged
behind a wardrobe.
London Fire Brigade received around 100
non-emergency calls a week in the past year.
Animals and creepy crawlies featured
prominently in the list of weird calls to its
control room, with one person phoning in
to report a fox in their garden and another
to seek advice about a bat in their kitchen.
An elderly woman dialled 999 after
throwing a glass of water containing her
false teeth at fighting dogs, while another
asked firefighters to help retrieve a shoe
stuck on a roof.
Senior Officer Dave Brown said: Our
advice is simple if its not an emergency,
dont ring 999.
If youre calling because you have a serious phobia, then arrange for a housemate,
friend or neighbour to help you.
If youre calling because theres an unexpected animal in your home, call the RSPCA.
Firefighters are here (to help) but we
cant be on speed dial when something
trivial happens.
We are here to respond to real emergencies, so if you do find a squirrel in your
kitchen or you lose your keys down the toilet,
dont dial 999.

Best And Funniest Insults

Issued By Sir Winston Beat
Out All Others
ANY PERCIEVED challengers to Sir Winston
Churchills knack of delivering wonderful
insults laced with humour, have been duly
beaten to the punch line!
A poll set out to find the best insults of
all-time, and saw Churchill lead the way.
This winning insult has had people giggling over the years:
In a response to MP Bessie Braddock,

who had criticised him for being drunk My

dear, you are ugly, but tomorrow I shall be
sober, and you will still be ugly.
Churchill pops up again on the list at
number five with, Tell him I can only deal
with one s**t at a time. For those with a need
to use a quality insult heres the complete
top ten:
1) Winston Churchill (when berated for
being drunk by MP Bessie Braddock): My
dear, you are ugly, but tomorrow I shall be
sober, and you will still be ugly.
2) Barack Obama (After Sarah Palins
quip that the only difference between a pitbull
and a soccer mom is lipstick): You can put
lipstick on a pig...its still a pig.
3) Liberace (In response to a negative
review from a critic): Thank you for your
very amusing review. After reading it...I
laughed all the way to the bank.
4) Noel Gallagher (speaking about Robbie
Williams): You mean that fat dancer from
Take That?
5) Winston Churchill (After being disturbed while at the toilet by the Lord Privy
Seal): Tell him I can only deal with one
s**t at a time.
6) Frank Sinatra (speaking about Robert
Redford): Well at least he has found his true
love what a pity he cant marry himself.
7) Elizabeth Taylor: Some of my best
leading men have been dogs and horses.
8) Groucho Marx: She got her good looks
from her father, hes a plastic surgeon.
9) Bette Midler (speaking about Princess
Anne): She loves nature, in spite of what
it did to her.
10) Liam Gallagher (speaking about
Victoria Beckham): She cant even chew
gum and walk in a straight line, let alone
write a book.

Britney Spears Songs Used To

Scare Off Pirates In Somalia
BRITNEY SPEARS is being used as a secret
weapon to scare off Somali pirates reports
Metro.
Her hits are blasted out to deter kidnap
attacks, merchant navy officer Rachel Owens
revealed.
Spearss chart-toppers Oops! I Did
It Again and Baby One More Time have
proved to be the most effective at keeping
the bandits at bay.
Second Officer Owens, who works on
supertankers off the east coast of Africa,
said: Her songs were chosen by the security
team because they thought the pirates would
hate them most.
These guys cant stand Western culture
or music, making Britneys hits perfect.
Ships in the region are in constant danger
from gun-toting pirates boarding and kidnapping crews for multi-million-pound ransoms.
Owens, who regularly guides huge tankers
through the waters, said the ships speakers
can be aimed solely at the pirates so as not
to disturb the crew.
Its so effective the ships security
rarely needs to resort to firing guns, said the
34-year-old, from Gartmore, near Aberfoyle
in Scotland.
As soon as the pirates get a blast of Britney, they move on as quickly as they can.
Steven Jones, of the Security Association
for the Maritime Industry, said: Pirates will
go to any lengths to avoid or try to overcome
the music.
He added: Id imagine using Justin Bieber
would be against the Geneva Convention.

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good time to bring the show into the West

End after a previous short run on the fringe.
Were from Keelers point of view, but
its not about Christine Keeler making herself
look wonderful. It is a pretty honest straightforward version of events.

Palace Playing At Home

Drama At The Royal Albert Hall

THOUSANDS of classical music fans were left disappointed after a sellout concert at the Royal Albert Hall was cancelled when smoke began
filling part of the venue.
The historic concert hall was evacuated after an electrical fault in the basement. The problem
was thought to have been caused by an electrical unit that operates the lighting rig. About
3,500 concert goers and performers were forced to leave as a precaution.
Among them was 11-year-old Liverpool team to race against US and Commonwealth
choirboy Jack Topping, who was set to groups.
After emerging from the testing facility,
make his Albert Hall debut at the Classic FM
Live event only weeks after becoming the Harry blew on his hands to warm up and chatyoungest person to be signed by the Decca ted with his teammates over tea and biscuits.
record label.
A Profusion Of Profumos In The
Another was singer Hayley Westenra, who
told how she was 15 minutes away from go- West End
The West End premiere of a play on the
ing on stage when she had to leave.
Fans who travelled long distances and paid Profumo scandal will take place on the eve
up to 90 for a ticket voiced their frustration of Andrew Lloyd Webbers musical on the
at the cancellation. However, a spokesman same subject.
While Lord Lloyd-Webber puts the spotfor the Royal Albert Hall said: Customers
who purchased tickets directly from the light on Stephen Ward, the osteopath fall
Royal Albert Hall by telephone or online need guy of the affair, the play is based on the
take no action; we will contact them with book, The Truth At Last, in which Christine
information about how to obtain a full refund Keeler gives her story of the affair with War
Minister John Profumo that shocked Britain.
on their tickets.
Entitled Keeler, the play was commisHe said a further announcement would be
made on the scheduling of events due to sioned from writer Gill Adams by the actor
Paul Nicholas after he read the book. It has
take place at the Royal Albert Hall.
the blessing of its subject, who said: Gill AdResidents Back Tunnel Plan For
amss play is brilliant she tells it like it was.
Hammersmith
Nicholas, 67, stars as Stephen Ward, with
Residents have welcomed ambitious plans Sarah Armstrong in the title role. He said the
to replace the notorious Hammersmith flyover 50th anniversary of the scandal seemed a
with an underground tunnel but warned
against allowing developers free rein.
The proposal could see a tunnel running
beneath the existing A4 from the Hogarth
roundabout to Earls Court with north-south
links in a bid to ease congestion, reconnect
the town centre with the river and regenerate
the area.
It was presented to the community as
the aspirational choice of four options at
a packed public meeting in Hammersmith
Town Hall last week.
The bridge, which carries 90,000 vehicles
a day, is about to have a 60m 18-month
patch-up, but will still need replacing in 15
to 20 years.
Many residents spoke out forcibly in favour of burying the flyover. Tony Boys, who
works with various residents associations in
the area, said:Be careful not to sell us a big
vision and then for it to get lost.

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Part of the Queens garden was transformed into a football pitch last week as it
played host to two amateur teams to mark the
150th anniversary of the Football Association.
Prince William, president of the FA and
an Aston Villa fan, dreamed up the idea of
the match between two west London-based
teams Civil Service FC, the last survivor
of the 11 teams that formed the Football
Association in 1863, and Polytechnic FC,
formed back in 1875.
He also had a kickabout as he hosted
the first official football match to be played
at Buckingham Palace and after the match
was presenting medals to 150 grassroots
volunteers in recognition of their dedication
to the sport.
The match formed the centrepiece of the
FAs Grassroots Heroes Day, celebrating the
work of volunteers.
Gardeners are under strict instructions to
get the garden back to normal before Her Majesty return to London from Balmoral. Queen
Victoria would NOT have been amused!

Captain Hankss Launch Of Film

Festival

Tom Hanks was the biggest name on the

red carpet in Leicester Square last month for
the launch of the BFI London Film Festival,
which runs until October 20.
The 57-year-old star takes the title role
in Captain Phillips, the real-life story of an
American container ship hijacked by Somali pirates. Directed by Paul Greengrass of
Bourne Supremacy fame, the movie received
its European premiere at the start of this
years festival of more than 230 films.
Hanks, who met the real captain, Richard
Phillips, to prepare, has said the job takes a
particular kind of personal fortitude.

For the filming, off Malta and at Longcross

Studios in Surrey, the actors playing the
ships crew and those appearing as pirates
were kept apart until the hijacking scenes.
Hanks said: When they storm the bridge,
the verisimilitude was just incalculable. The
hair stood up on the backs of our necks.
Other stars expected on the red carpet
during the festival include Kate Winslet,
Tom Huddleston, Jesse Eisenberg and
Charlie Cox.

in London and the South East.

Housing pressure group Shelter issued a
report warning that even two-earner families
risk being priced out of the market.
A study found fewer than one in five
London families would be able to own property by the age of 65 if house price inflation
continued.
Its time for an era of stable house prices
with politicians taking the lead so that
families on normal incomes can catch up.

Fear Of Bubble As House Prices

Hit Record High

Globe Turns To Youth For

Jacobean Drama

London house prices are surging upwards

by 8.7 percent, stoking fears of a bubble.
The boom in the capital helped drive UK
prices to a new record average of 247,000
beating the pre-crash peak recorded in
January 2008, a feat that London achieved
two years ago.
Excluding London and the South East, UK
prices went up by just 2.1 percent in the 12
months to August, official statistics revealed.
London buyers paid an average price of
437,000 in August, down 1,000 from the
July level.
But the good news for property owners
deepened anxiety among economists that
boom could turn to bust.
Howard Archer, of IHS Global Insight,
said: There is a significant risk that house
prices could really take off over the coming
months.
He said the Help to Buy mortgage
scheme, combined with a shortage of new
properties, could be increasingly significant

The Globe Theatre has chosen 20 young

people from 1,000 applicants to take part in
its plan to perform Jacobean drama as it was
originally written
The Globe Young Players are now starting
work on classical training in voice and verse
ready to present John Marstons satire The
Malcontent when the Globes new indoors
venue, the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse,
opens next spring. The new company which
has the 21st century twist of including girls
aims at extending the Globes tradition of
exploring the craft of early modern drama.
Globe artistic director Dominic Dromgoole
said: It will be amazing to hear work that was
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British Judge Clears Madoff

Sons Of Wrongdoing

By Raphael Satter
A BRITISH judge has cleared Bernard
Madoffs sons of wrongdoing in a case
brought against them by the liquidator of
his estate in Britain, saying in a written ruling that the pairs honesty was not in doubt.
Judge Andrew Popplewell said last
month that the brothers, Mark and Andrew,
were among several UK directors of Bernard Madoffs London-based securities
firm whose reputations had been tainted
by association with the elder Madoffs
multibillion-dollar fraud. In dismissing
the civil case against them all, the judge
delivered a glowing endorsement of their
character.
Their honesty and integrity has been
vindicated, he said.
Mark and Andrew Madoff long played
a lead role in the drama surrounding their
disgraced financier father. They first
alerted authorities in 2008 after the elder
Madoff confessed that his highly regarded
investment business was nothing more
than a Ponzi scheme.
SILENCE
The pair held their silence as the details
of the breathtaking fraud spilled out into
the public domain, but following Marks

suicide in 2010and ahead of the release of

a book telling the Madoff familys side of
the storyAndrew spoke to the press, saying the Madoff family had been completely
hoodwinked by his father.
What he did to me, to my brother, and
to my family is unforgivable, Andrew
Madoff said at the time.
Nevertheless, suspicion has lingered,
and a lawsuit filed in Londons High Court
against the Madoff brothers and various
company directors alleged that they subverted the companys finances by approving $27m in payments, more than euros5m
($6.8m) in perks, and millions more in
interest parceled out to well-connected
Austrian businesswoman Sonja Kohn, who
had helped the elder Madoff win billions
in new business.
BREACH
Judge Popplewell ruled that the Madoff
brothers and another director, Philip Toop,
were in breach of their duty to exercise
reasonable skill and care by failing to investigate whether the payments were in the
companys best interests. But Popplewell
said that the payments would most likely
have been made in any case, and in general
his judgment was a big win for the defense.

Government Introduces
Tough Immigration Bill
By Cassandra Vinograd
THE GOVERNMENT took another crack
at curbing illegal immigration last month,
introducing a bill that would require immigration checks to accompany private housing applications and health care access.
The bill has been slammed by lawyers
and human rights campaigners, who warn
it will lead to unlawful discrimination.
Immigration is a sensitive political issue
in Britain given the countrys struggling
economy and cuts in public services.
The conservative-led government of
Prime Minister David Cameron wants to
reduce net migration from non-European
countries from 176,000 last year to fewer
than 100,000 before the next election in
2015.
Immigration Minister Mark Harper said
that the new bill will stop migrants from
using public services they are not entitled

to and reduce the factors which encourage

people to come to the UK
Critics argued the proposals could lead
to racial discrimination and hurt immigrants in the UK legally.
For instance, private landlords will face
fines for not carrying out the proper checks
under the new legislation.
But checking immigration status is
complicated so landlords may shy away
from letting to anyone who they believe
not to be British, said Gavin Smart, director of policy and practice at the Chartered
Institute of Housing. Discrimination laws
will not protect these people.
New measures to check the immigration status of those applying for drivers
licenses will be introduced and temporary
migrants, including students from abroad,
will be required to contribute to the National Health Service.
The government says the latter move
will cut down on health tourism, but
charity Doctors of the World said there is
no credible evidence of rampant health
tourism in the UK
Migrants dont come here to see a
dentist. They come to work and provide for
their families, or to seek protection from
persecution, the charity said.
The bill also will require banks to check
the status of prospective account holders
and cut the number of grounds for appealing a deportation order from 17 to four an
effort to prevent deportation sagas akin to
the 12-year battle to deport radical cleric
Abu Qatada to Jordan.

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Newcastle to the Dutch port of Ijmuiden
after strong winds and heavy seas blocked
it from docking in the morning. The ship
returned to the North Sea to wait for the
wind to die down rather than risk being smashed against the harbors walls,
Teun-Wim Leene of DFDS Seaways told
national broadcaster NOS.
In central London, a huge building crane
near the prime ministers office crumpled
in the gusts. The citys overburdened transit system faced major delays and cancellations and did not recover even once the
weather swept to the east.
A nuclear power station in Kent,
southern England, automatically shut its
two reactors after storm debris reduced
its incoming power supply. Officials at the
Dungeness B plant said the reactors had
shut down safely and would be brought
back once power was restored.
The storm left Britain in the early
afternoon and roared across the English
Channel, leaving up to 270,000 UK homes
without power.

Barclays Compliance
Chief On Leave
Amid Exhaustion

BARCLAYS BANK says Hector Sants,

the man who was brought in to help it overcome a costly scandal, is stepping down
temporarily due to stress and exhaustion.
The bank said in a statement last month
that rather than carry on working, and risk
more serious consequences to his health,
he is following medical advice and will
be taking a leave of absence until the end
of the year.
Sants started work at the bank 10
months ago, after five years heading Britains Financial Services authority through
the global banking crisis.
His appointment was part of reforms
by Barclays new chief executive, Antony
Jenkins.
Last year, Barclays was fined 290m
for manipulating a key interbank lending
rate. CEO Bob Diamond stepped down
amid the scandal.

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DEAR EDITOR,
Re: Problem of Ex Pats getting insurance for cars they leave in holiday homes
in England .. or a second home. I just had
to spend over 250 to drive a car one way
from Heathrow to another branch. Even
though I was hiring a car to return to
Heathrow Same charge Huge fee for
one way hire. And Enterprise had only one
Automatic available most of their cars
away from Heathrow are manual.
Been battling for weeks Now that
the DMV have decided we expats can no
longer keep our British Driving Licences,
we also cant get car insurance. However
I have found a company who advertise
they can help. Seems I needed to get an
International Driving Licence to overcome
this hurdle. I did so at my local AAA office

in Temecula, CA they take your photo

and in minutes you have the Passport. It
has a chip in it that translates to the language of whatever country you are visiting
.. Seems many countries wont accept
your US Driving Licence!! And with this
International licence, you keep it with
your passport and makes for an easier life
going through immigration etc. You have
to renew it annually, $15.
We can have our UK Passports renewed
but not our driving licences?
Delyse Sharpe
Fallbrook, CA
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Leaders Of Far-Right UK
Group Quit Over Extremism

TWO LEADERS of a far-right, antiMuslim group in Britain announced last

month that growing extremism in the
organizations ranks has led them to quit
a decision helped by a group founded by
former Islamist radicals.
Tommy Robinson and Kevin Carroll
said they were leaving the small but highprofile English Defense League, the group
they founded in 2009.
The Quilliam Foundation, an antiextremism think tank founded by former
Muslim jihadists, said it had helped facilitate the pairs departure.
The League claims to be a peaceful
opponent of radical Islam, but its opponents accuse it of racism and anti-Muslim
prejudice. Its protests which are usually
met by large counterdemonstrations have
often turned violent.
Robinson, whose real name is Stephen
Lennon, has been arrested several times,
once for entering the United States using
false ID.
Quilliam co-founder Maajid Nawaz
said the announcement was a very proud
moment for his group.
But Mohammed Shafiq, chief executive
of Muslim think-tank the Ramadhan Foundation, said Robinson and Carroll should

explicitly renounce their fascist views on

Islam and Muslims.
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IMMIGRATION
By Stephen Ure

California Drivers Licenses

For Undocumented Immigrants
IN OCTOBER 2013, Governor Jerry Brown
signed a law that will allow illegal immigrants
to obtain drivers licenses in the state of
California. Governor Brown stated that the bill
will enable millions of people to get to work
safely and legally, and hopefully it will send
a message to Washington that immigration
reform is long past due. This new law takes
effect no later than January 2015.
California now joins a growing list of states
that allow illegal immigrants to drive legally.
Nine states and the District of Columbia
currently issue drivers licenses to undocumented immigrants. Currently, applicants
for a California drivers licenses must prove
that their presence in the United States is
authorized under federal law. For legal nonimmigrant drivers license applicants, the
DMV may issue a temporary license only
for the specific dates for which the person
is authorized to be in the country. The new
law will be a great improvement for all such
immigrants.
California has the largest immigrant
population in the United States and a study
from the University of Californias Center for
the Study of Immigrant Integration estimates
that about seven percent of California residents more than 2.6 million people are
in the country illegally. State officials estimate
that about 1.4 million drivers will apply for
licenses under the new law over the next
three years.
Written by Democratic Assemblyman
Luis Alejo, the legislation will grant licenses
to anyone who passes the written and road
tests, regardless of immigration status. This
new law marks a major victory for Latino

UK Police Arrest 10-YearOld Boy In Killing

BRITISH POLICE have arrested a
10-year-old boy in the killing of an
elderly man who died of head injuries.
West Yorkshire police said the boy
was arrested in the death of a 79-yearold retired man.
The boys name has not been released. The killing happened last month
in the city of Leeds in northern England.
Children of 10 and over can be held
responsible for criminal offenses in
England.

and other immigration rights activists, who

have fought for decades for such a law.
Assemblyman Alejo stated that millions of
immigrant families have been looking forward
to this day It will allow them to go to work,
go to school, take their kids to a doctors
appointment without fear that they are going
to have their car taken away from them, or
worse, be put into immigration proceedings.
State and local officials also emphasized the
importance of getting immigrants properly
trained and tested so that they know how to
drive and are familiar with the rules of the road
in California. Having a drivers license will
also make drivers eligible for car insurance.
Under the bill that was passed (AB-60)
and signed into law, the licenses granted to
undocumented immigrants would be different
from regular licenses. The licenses will have
the initials DP (drivers privilege), rather
than DL (drivers license), and would state
that the document does not establish eligibility for employment or public benefit. Of the
states that grant license privileges to illegal
immigrants, some states issue only one
license to all drivers regardless of immigration status while others, such as Oregon and
Colorado, distinguish between the categories.
The California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) said it would begin to develop
regulations required by the new law. All
undocumented applicants will need to meet
all standard requirements for issuance of a
drivers license but the DMV still needs to
determine what type of documentation will be
required to obtain a drivers license. The DMV
will also come up with a prototype for what
the actual licenses will look like and it will be
submitted to the US Department of Homeland
Security to ensure the licenses comply with
federal rules. Whether the licenses would
count as government identification for the
purposes of other social services remain
unclear at the bills signing.
For more information about immigrant
and non-immigrant visas, Stephen Ure
can be contacted at (619) 235-5400 or
email: ure@prodigy.net

Police Called Over

Attacks On RedHaired Pupils

POLICE SAY they were called after a

string of attacks on red-haired pupils at a
school in northern England.
South Yorkshire Police said in a statement last month the force had been alerted
to the assaults at Wingfield Academy
in Rotherham, about 160 miles north of
London.
It said a small number of pupils had
sustained minor injuries after being attacked by fellow students. No arrests were
made, but police said they had given some
of the students involved a talking to, while
the school said it condemned the attacks.
The issue of bullying of red-haired
children periodically arises in Britain,
and some commentators have attributed
the phenomenon to lingering anti-Celtic
prejudice.

Rufus Norris
Named Chief Of
National Theatre
By Jill Lawless
BRITAINS National Theatre last month
named stage director and former actor
Rufus Norris as its next chief. He is the
first actor since Laurence Olivier to lead
Britains biggest and most influential
theater company.
Norris will take over in April 2015 from
Nicholas Hytner, who has led the statesubsidized company through a decade of
commercial and critical successes, including Broadway runs for shows such as One
Man, Two Guvnors and War Horse.
Last year the Nationals shows played to
3.6 million people around the worldat its
London home, on tour and in live cinema
broadcastsand it took in 87m.
Norris acknowledged nerves about the
scale of the job, but said he would approach it with gusto and continue efforts
begun under Hytner to attract younger
and more diverse audiences and artistic
collaborators.
Norris, 48, trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and worked as an
actor I wasnt quite as good as Olivier
before making a name as a bold and versatile director of plays, musicals and opera.
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X-Ray Machine To Find TB

Being Used In London
LONDON is famed for its historic sites,
its double-decker buses and its West
End shows, but the city now has a more
dubious distinction: Britains public
health agency says it has become the
tuberculosis capital of Western Europe.
In response, health officials are taking to the streets in an effort to stop the
spread of the infectious lung disease. A
high-tech white van equipped with an Xray machine is driving around London
offering free check-ups.
Similar vans were once common in
Europe and the US in the 1950s but most
disappeared about two decades later
when TB rates dropped. But in recent
years, the disease has surged in the UK
Last year, London had about 3,500
TB cases more than the Netherlands,
Belgium, Greece and Norway combined. It also had more TB than some
African countries, including Eritrea
and Gambia.
Britain as a whole however still pales
against India, China and South Africa,
which all have hundreds of thousands
of TB cases.
PROBLEM
We kind of took our eye off the ball
and now TB has become a big problem
again, said Dr Alistair Story, who runs
the mobile TB van for University College London Hospitals.
He said the vast majority of TB in
the UK is among the homeless, drug
users and prisoners because they live in
cramped conditions that make them susceptible to infections. Despite the belief
that TB is being imported into the UK
by recent immigrants, Story said their
rates of infection are low.
Its certainly not the case that we
could have closed the borders and

avoided the problem, he said, pointing

out that other European countries with
high levels of immigration, including
France and Germany, have not had
similar spikes of TB.
Tuberculosis is a highly infectious
bacterial disease often spread by coughing or sneezing that kills more than one
million people worldwide every year.
It most often attacks the lungs and is
highly treatable. More than 95 percent of TB deaths occur in developing
countries. Experts are increasingly concerned about the rise of drug-resistant
strains of TB, which require more toxic
drugs to treat.
SCREENS
Londons 460,000 TB van has an Xray machine whose scans can be instantly
read by a radiographer. On average, the
van picks up about one new TB case per
week and screens about 10,000 people a
year. If an X-ray looks worrying, staffers
call a hospital to arrange confirmatory
tests. The entire process of getting an Xray and its results takes about 90 seconds.
On a recent morning, a steady trickle
of patients streamed into the van after
getting a ticket for a free X-ray from a
nearby homeless shelter. To convince
homeless people to get tested, the van
relies on former TB patients including
Horace Reid, 58, who got tested in 2009
after running out of breath trying to
catch a bus.
I didnt know anything was wrong
until I missed the bus and couldnt
breathe, he said. (The doctors) told me
I had TB and that I could die.
Dr Norman Edelman, senior medical
adviser at the American Lung Foundation, said the van is a practical attempt
to curb TB.

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November 2013

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November 1963

IT WAS A month written indelibly into the

history of the twentieth century. So much
happened in it and much of that remains.
On November 1, in the Australian general elections, indigenous people were first
given the right to vote and the Coalition was
returned with an increased majority.
Three days later in a fish and chip shop
in Rothesay on the River Clyde a girl, Lena,
was born to an Italian immigrant. She became
a singer, the little Zavarone, winning the top
spot on Hughie Greens Opportunity Knocks,
and becoming at the age of 10 years and 146
days the youngest
singer to get a Top
Ten hit. Ma, hes
making eyes at me
still has the power
to produce a tear in
the eye for the tragic
life of Lena affected
us all. She died in
misery at the age
of 35, having suffered from anorexia
nervosa since the age of 13.
On the sixth, Laura Bush was involved in
a fatal car accident in Midland, Texas. Death
in cars happened again that month also
in Texas
HAPPIER
Happier news the next day for Alec
Douglas-Home. This was the Thursday of
the Kinross and West Perthshire by-election
which the noble lord, having abrogated his
peerage, used as his stepping-stone to Parliament and the Premiership. A couple of years
later, he was to lose the General Election to
Harold Wilson, bringing to an end 13 years
of Conservative rule.
Two days later, two catastrophic accidents
overtook Japanese society: first 458 miners
perished in a pit explosion, then within hours
161 passengers died in a railway collision.
President Kennedy gave a news conference the following Thursday answering
questions about the arrest on espionage
charges in Moscow of Frederick Berghoorn.
He was a visiting Yale professor who was
just entering his hotel when a stranger thrust
a roll of papers into his hands and abruptly

disappeared. Before he could look at them,

a secret policeman handcuffed him and he
was driven off post haste to the Lubyanka.
He spent sixteen days in clink before being
whisked back home. He died at the age of 80
in 1991, destined to be remembered only by
readers of the Union Jack.
RUMBLING
On the 15th, a huge rumbling beneath
the sea off Iceland announced the arrival of
the worlds newest island. Surtsey. Today it
is 169 metres high and a resting-place for
migrating birds, notably the Herring Gull.
The first bird born on the warm lava was a
fulmar in 1972.
Big things were happening in London
where the Dartford Tunnel opened to traffic
on the 18th. Now a free shuttle operates for
pedestrians and cyclists. Cars, lorries and
coaches cross free at night or are charged
between 2 and 5 for daytime transit.
AT&T customers this day profited from the
introduction of the push-button phone while
over in the States, you could buy a ticket at
the Fisher Theater, Detroit, for the very first
performance of Hello Dolly.
Moving on a few days, Friday 22 was a big
day for the Beatles with their second album,
With the Beatles, and its big Paul McCartney
hit, All My Loving. Two famous writers died
that day Aldous Huxley and CS Lewis.
QUIET
And then it all went quiet.
For this was 22 November 1963 as you
will have worked out long ago.
The world went dead. I was living at the
time in a quiet part of North Shropshire,
Whitchurch, and that evening my wife and
I were going to a friends birthday party. I
thought it was quite a nice day to have a birthday, St Cecilias Day, patron saint of music,
and my friend was a musician but the day
for anyone over the age of 55 is inextricably
linked with the death of JFK.
The shock that hit us was utterly devastating and its echo remains so 50 years later. In
those days, so innocent as they seem now,
Kennedy was an entirely golden man. With
a beautiful wife and a liberal commitment to
change the world, he seemed the perfect man

to be the most powerful politician on earth.

To us, outside the USA, there was not the
slightest hint of scandal or sleaze attaching
to his name, just a golden promise that the
world was changing unstoppably into a better
place. The bullets that cut him down cut down
all our optimism. Nothing would ever be quite
the same again. The world could never be as
good again. That was why we were all hit so
dreadfully in Dallas.
INNOCENCE
For all of us, despite the terrible war
through which we had lived, the death of
Kennedy was the death of innocence.
Yet even as it was happening, the world
was moving on. The next day, the Saturday,
the BBC screened its first episode of Doctor
Who. That same evening, those evil monsters
Myra Hindley and Ian Brady (he, still alive
after all these years) were abducting and
murdering John Kilbride. His mother died a
matter of weeks ago, still not knowing where
her sons body is lain.
The following day, Kennedys murderer
Lee Harvey Oswald was himself shot dead
on live television. Jack Ruby claimed to have
done this to save Jackie Kennedy being
obliged to return to Dallas for the trial of Oswald but as with the death of JFK there are as
many unanswered questions about Oswald,
The State Funeral of John F Kennedy took
place on Monday, November 25, 1963.
There was still time for yet another appalling air crash before the month was out.
Canadian Airlines Flight 831 crashed after
taking off near Montreal airport. The death
toll was 118.
A grim end to one of the grimmest months
in the last 50 years.
And just as a matter of interest, had you
noticed that the pattern of days repeats on a
50th or 100th anniversary?
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OVER THE past few months many people

have called or written, saying that their UK
financial institutions have asked them to
close their accounts. The excuse for this is
FATCA (Foreign Account Tax Compliance
Act) passed by Congress in 2010 as part
of the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act. (I dont know about the US, but
its certainly helped employment in the
financial sector overseas!) I have previously
written about this Act, and suggested last
year the likelihood of US taxpayers becoming undesirables so far as the UK banks
and investment companies are concerned.
FATCA requires foreign financial institutions to notify the IRS about accounts held
by US taxpayers. You may wonder why
these companies are allowing themselves
to be bullied by the US government! The answer is that if a company does not comply,
its own US investments will be subject to a
30 percent withholding tax. The result is the
sacrifice of clients who are US taxpayers.
Because all foreign financial institutions
are affected, not just those in the UK, these
rules affect all US taxpayers with investments outside the US. It will not help to use
a Channel Islands or Isle of Man organization, because the law applies there as well.
The UK was the first country to make a
separate FATCA agreement with the US for
the exchange of information. (Incidentally,
this means information held by the IRS
about US accounts held by UK residents
will be given to HMRC for the first time.)
After a consultation period in autumn 2012,
draft regulations and guidance issued by
HMRC total hundreds of pages. Please
dont get too excited about the idea of guidance its all for the financial institutions,
not for individual account owners!
FATCA was due to take effect from the

beginning of 2014, but in July 2013, the IRS

announced a delay. The UK regulations, as
currently written, will come into effect on or
after June 30, 2014. Requests to customers to close an account have a deadline well
before then. The UK banks and investment
companies are working to their internal
deadlines, rather than those imposed on
them by the US or UK government.
Your current investment company may
be able to offer suggestions for alternative
investments. I have heard of a few companies that are particularly geared for the US
investor market its good to feel wanted
by somebody!
Another issue is whether you will be
identified by your investment company as
a US taxpayer. Clearly if they write to you
in the US, or you have regular contact with
someone who has your US phone number,
the company should be able to work out
that you are in the US, and therefore (let
us hope!) a filer of US tax returns! But
if your annual statement and any other
correspondence goes to an address in
the UK, it maybe more difficult for them to
make the link.
This may not be to your advantage!
Although you may have made this arrangement for reasons completely unconnected
to tax, it is quite likely the IRS and HMRC
wont see it this way! My advice is therefore
to make sure any UK financial institution
(including pension funds and life assurance
companies) has your current US address
and add them to your list of companies to
notify of any future new address.
Mary-Heather Styles has 30+ years
of tax consulting experience in the US
and the UK. Her legal training (in the UK)
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whilst being an Enrolled Agent (in the US)
enables her to understand the myriad
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Watchdog: Governments Go Home Ads Misleading

BRITAINS advertising watchdog has ruled

that a government campaign urging immigrants who entered the country illegally
to go home used misleading arrest figures.
The Home Office poster, displayed on

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vans driven throughout London, featured a

picture of a pair of handcuffs and read: In
the UK illegally? Go home or face arrest
and 106 arrests last week in your area.
The watchdog ruled last month that the

arrest figure was misleading, in part because

details of your area area were in tiny print.
It said the poster could not be used again in
its present form, but concluded that it was
not offensive.

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KEEPING UP WITH BRITAINS FAVOURITE SOAP OPERAS

MOTHERS and sons are a soap staple and

on Corrie this month there was one with a
twist. Hayley wanted very much to meet her
son Christian again, even though last time
they met he beat her up, unable to cope with
the fact that his dad was now his mum. So
it doesnt bode well when Christian turns up
at Roys Rolls after Hayley contacts him out
of the blue and asks to meet up. They retire
to the Rovers but Christian still has trouble
with transsexual Hayley. Christians a dad
to two kids, and Hayley tells him to to be a
good dad. I couldnt be worse than you,
he replies. Hayley takes her cue, and with Roy
beside her, walks out of the pub and her sons
life. Back at the flat, Hayley encourages Roy
to continue his driving lessons and to plan
for his life when theres a great big Hayleyshaped hole in it. Ive already ordered my
bulk-buy of tissues, have you?
Over at Underworld, Peter upsets Michelle
so wonderfully that she walks out and takes a
job at the Rovers instead. When Carla returns
from a business trip abroad she tries but fails
magnificently to get Michelle back knickerstitching. And it looks like Michelle might
be staying behind the bar of the pub, not as
barmaid but as girlfriend of owner when the
Price family put the pub up for sale and Steve
wants to buy it and install mum Liz behind
the bar as landlady.
Desperate to get away from Sally, Tim tells
her hes going away to work then hides away
up in his flat. Tims got Jason at his beck and

call bringing him takeaways and booze while

he hides from Sally, whos not suspicious of
Tims whereabouts yet.
At the hospital Nick wakes from his coma.
When he starts talking, the first word from his
lips is David and he throws a panic attack
when his eyes open to see David standing
over his hospital bed. Scared that Nick will
remember everything about the baby and the
crash and about sleeping with his wife, David
sneaks back into the ward when everyones
gone and threatens Nick to stay quiet. Its all
rather creepy and wonderfully evil in that way
that David does so very well.
Owens deep in debt due to customers
who cant, or refuse to pay their bills. One
customer in particular is causing Owen some
grief, a big fella by the name of Pat Phelan
whos built like a brick out house and looks
like the sort whos got dodgy mates, very
dodgy mates. To get the money that he owes
him, Owen pops round to Pat Phelans house
and when he finds the door locked and Pat
out, he and Gary break in. No alarms go off
and Owen rides off on Pats motorbike just
as Pat returns home and collars Gary who
speeds off in the van. Pat Phelan tracks Owen
down and just when you think theres going
to be a gang of his dodgy mates, very dodgy
mates, backing Pat up to help knock Owen
down, Pat goes all soft and mushy and gives
Owen an envelope with thousands of pounds
of used notes inside to get the motorbike
back, which belongs to his wife.
Michelles dad Barry Connor arrives from
Ireland but Michelles confused as to why
her dad would turn up without her mum. She
finds out that her mums chucked her dad out,
and so hes turned up in Weatherfield now.
Glenda Young
Coronation Street Blog
http://coronationstreetupdates.blogspot.com

Program Launched To
Help Home Buyers

A NEW Government plan will be funded

to the tune of 12bn to help first-time
homebuyers, a landmark program that
tries to offset banks reluctance to lend
but which critics argue could create a new
property bubble.
Under the plan, potential homebuyers
will only need to put up five percent of the
homes value, rather than the standard 20
percent that most banks are demanding.
The government will guarantee the remaining 15 percent in the event of a default.
The government started this portion
of the program earlier than planned after
the first phase, which offered government
loans to help buyers of newly built homes
make down payments, proved popular.
Critics suggest the program, called Help
to Buy, will fuel a surge in the market,
where prices are already increasing even
though the economy remains weak. Fears
of a new housing bubble are growing.
Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny
Alexander told the BBC that the program
would not drive up prices by putting more
buyers into the market.
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the next 12 months and 4.9 percent per
year on average over the next five years.
For London, prices are expected to rise
significantly more than that, with average
increases of more than nine percent over
the five-year period.
Help to Buy is going to make the dream
of home ownership a reality for many who
would otherwise have been shut out,
Prime Minister David Cameron said.
However, the opposition Labour Partys
Chris Leslie challenged the governments
actions, arguing that if Cameron and others were serious about helping people get
homes, the government should build more
affordable housing.
Duncan Stott, a director of the campaign
group PricedOut, said that while politicians
on the national level may espouse the construction of more homes, local politicians
are reluctant to grant planning permission.

THIS MONTH its all about blasts from the

past...
And speaking of pasts, Biancas is always
catching up with her because she never
seems to learn from it. In the aftermath of
the vandalism that destroyed Ians new
restaurant, Jean is the weak link; the only
one who feels guilty enough to break and
confess to Ian and when she sees how
broken up Ian is, she does. Now Ian is on the
warpath. Bianca is in pieces because shes
still on parole and fears getting sent down,
so Shirley tries to take all the blame herself,
but Ian sees through it and places most of the
blame on Bianca because shes family and
he expected more of her. Angry he threatens
to call the old Bill, but Denise (whos still his
girlfriend though she is starting to see the real
Ian) prevails on him, but not before he forces
Bianca to agree that Tiffany will never play
with Bobby again (theres a whole Capulet vs
Montague thing going on here with the two
ten-year-olds). So Bianca thinks she is free,
again, and then her old paedophile ex rears
his ugly head by contacting Whitney to tell her
he always loved her. She goes to see him in

prison only to find out he committed suicide,

for which she blames herself...
Across the Square, diva real estate tycoon
Janine is currently without the services of
soon-to-be-ex Michael, and recently fired
(again) Billy, she needs someone new, and
she finds that someone in Danny. Remember Danny, the creep who came between
Christian and Syed? Well, hes back and his
game this time is playing with Janine. And
while hes flirting with her just enough to get
her on side, he also makes a bit of a play
for Michael...
Elsewhere... It seems that Tanya has sold
the salon right from underneath Poppy and
Lola and they await news on who the new
owner is... Sharons little chip off the old
Watts block son, Dennis, is a spoiled little
brat who has his Mum wrapped around his
little finger. He knows when to lie and when
to turn on the crocodile tears and she cannot see through him... With Max gone Kirsty
gets closer to Carl (who we come to learn
has an abusive old bag of a Mother)... Sam,
the ex who dumped Ava when Dexter was
three months old reappears and after some
protests and arguments, she falls for him all
over again (and Dexter is not happy)... Ian
gets the restaurant back up on its feet but
not before falling out with Lucy once again.
He tricks her into signing his properties back
over to him and shes not happy...
And then there is the Taylor and Burton
of Albert Square: Kat and Alfie. Their Decri
Nisi comes through but instead of being

overjoyed that he can now move forward

with Roxy, Alfie is apprehensive but they
announce their engagement anyway with
Kat claiming she is happy for them. Well see
about that! Can Kat and Alfie really ever be
over? I think William Hill would place those
odds at zero none...
Hey Downton Abbey fans! Until Season 4
of Downton Abbey premiers on PBS January
5, my blog Dispatch From the Downton Abbey
Diaspora, will keep you up on all the latest.
Read it on PBS Thirteens website: www.thirteen.org/program-content/dispatch-fromthe-downton-abbey-diaspora-19/ And this
month there is a bonus for fans of Michael
Apteds Up Series: The most recent, 56Up
was broadcast on PBS as part of the POV
series. To mark the occasion, in a separate
blog, is my recent interview with cabbie Tony
Walker who has lots of interesting things to
say about being a subject of this remarkable
documentary since he was seven-years-old:
www.thirteen.org/topic/arts-culture/babyyou-can-drive-my-car-catching-up-with56up-cabbie-tony-walker/ Enjoy and join in
the discussion!
And if youd like to keep up with all things
EastEnders, just email me here at the Launderette and Ill sign you up for our FREE,
weekly EastEnders e-newsletter called The
E20 Chronicles: E20Launderette@gmail.
com
Signed, Your Faithful Reporter
Deborah Gilbert AKA E20Launderette

British TV Comes To The USA This Christmas!

CHRISTMAS just wouldnt be Christmas without the one-off television specials, the incredible film schedule and
the classic British comedy shows that
dominate the TV schedules at Christmas
time. British telly in the run-up towards
Christmas is the absolute highlight of
the year. It is so much fun watching the
momentum build towards the big day.
As the nights draw in and the snow
begins to fall the classic Christmas adverts start playing and all our favourite
Christmas songs and jingles start filling
our homes. It is impossible not to get
completely caught up in the magic of
this time of year.
If you fancy curling up at home this
year with the very best of British telly
you can use ExpatTelly.com to watch
BBC iPlayer, ITV Player, 4OD and
Demand 5 from the USA. You can
watch your favourite chefs create mouth
watering feasts, laugh raucously along
with some classic British comedy and
just envelop yourself in a little bit of
Britishness!
A whole months access to all the
action costs less than $15 or you can
choose to sign up for longer and enjoy

incredible discounts. As well as accessing British television from the USA, you
can also use the service to access your
favourite US shows when you are visiting the UK or other part of the world.
Its a very low cost way to stay connected
with home.

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THE UNION JACK, and Im quite sure our

readers as well, join together in welcoming
our new Consul General Chris OConnor,
his Canadian wife Martha Nelerns and their
two daughters for the next four years. For
us Brits living on the West Coast. It is a vital
connection for all of us, as our leader and
representative overseeing all thats British
from Trade, and Industry, to commerce; to
the huge entertainment industry, to tourism
to the UK. There is a lot of work done behind
the scenes. Its a plus that the UJ has always
had a good open relationship with the UK
government/consulates. We have found
over the years that our readers do get a little
homesick . They do love to hear and feel that
there is still that connection, which the Union
Jack newspaper has strived to maintain for
32 years.
Karen and I met up with the CG at a recent
BABCLA breakfast meeting at 7:30am. The
CG was presented by Paul Wright Esq, BABC
chairman and recent recipient of the OBE and
was also given the honor of welcoming Prince
William and Kate when they toured Southern
California last year.
Im always amazed how, in Los Angeles,
we can be in traffic jam at 4am in the morning, thats just not reasonable! But what we
do know is that Brits have an incredible support team here, starting with Andrew Lewis,
OBE, and Fiona Francois. You are also with
family in the British Community here in LA.

UJ Writer Leo Lewis with MSNBC

commentator Chris Matthews.

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We Brits in the US are always promoting

Anglo American Trade and tourism. For
pleasure, while here, there are a few great
Pubs such as Ye Old Kings Head in Santa
Monica with three magnificent British shops;
the British Connection in Torrance owned by
Pam and Michael Bennett; The Olde Ship in
Fullerton and Santa Ana; Susanne Molloys
Rosie Lee Imports in Ventura; then in the
quaint town of Santa Barbara, Angela Torins
Hampstead Village; Raff and Carol Rafferty
own The Press Room Pub; and Mac and Kate
MacNaughton have Macs Fish and Chips as
well as welcoming a new daughter Annabella
to the family.
With all the nonsense thats happened
lately in Washington DC, I couldnt resist
the invitation to visit with Chris Matthews,
one of the best and most outspoken political
commentators in the US. He has a national
syndicated show Hardball on MSNBC. Chris
was at the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley talking about and promoting his new book,
Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked (in
the US). They fought like cats and dogs all
day and then had a pint together after 6pm.
Chris Matthews worked for Tip ONeill
in the 60s and 70s as his speech writer,
among other things. Chatting and laughing
with him later when he stated, You know my
grandfather was born and raised in Torquay,
Devon. Do you know it?
Never heard of it. I explained.
And how come they grow palm trees on
the sea front? What do you think of Katty Kay
from the BBC? he asked. A national treasure! Shes intelligent, bright, beautiful, and
British! I replied, I agree he said, thats
why we booked her as often as we could on
The Chris Matthews Show. I chuckled to myself on the drive home. I might have guessed
one of the most outspoken men in America
would have Devon roots, just like me!
Chriss book Tip and the Gipper is currently on the best sellers list. Great to meet
you Chris. Youre our best source of information on Washington!
Chris emailed the next day to let me
know his Dads father Robert Bruce Matthews arrived in Philadelphia from Torquay
in the early teens of the 20th Century, with
his grandmother arriving there from Antrim
around the same time. He signed off with:
It was great meeting you Sir. Best. Chris
(a real gentleman).
As we get closer to Christmas dont forget
its Panto season. Book your reservations for
Aladdin and His Winter Wish at The Pasadena
Playhouse December 11-29 and the best
British Christmas luncheon is the 54th annual
BABCLAs party December 13th with guest
speaker Fergie, the Duchess of York. Now,
thats going to be fun!! Can wait!!

Prince Charles Issues

Warning About Pensions

PRINCE CHARLES has warned pension fund managers to move beyond

short-term thinking or risk creating a
miserable future for coming generations.
In a pre-recorded speech delivered
last month, he said the current system
of investing pensions with an eye toward
quarterly profits will not work for Britains aging population.
A copy of the speech released by
Charles office shows the future monarchs concern about possible environmental calamity as he calls for pension
funds to be invested in ways that help
preserve ecosystems.
He said the world faces a perfect
storm of overpopulation, increased pol-

lution, overconsumption of finite natural

resources, and the very real and accumulating risk of catastrophic climate
change coupled with higher than ever
levels of debt and financial uncertainty.
The future king said the short-term
focus on quarterly profits is not adequate against this troubled backdrop,
particularly as pension liabilities stretch
out many decades. He said investors
have a duty to develop a sustainable
financial system.
The speech marked a rare foray into
the world of high finance for Charles,
who is prohibited from becoming directly involved in political matters. He
has in the past spoken out strongly about
the environment and architecture.

Police Arrest 8 In
International Silk
Road Busts

AUTHORITIES in Britain, Sweden, and

the United States have arrested eight more
people following last months closure
of Silk Road, a notorious black market
website which helped dealers to sell drugs
under the cloak of anonymity, officials and
media said.
In the UK, the countrys newly-established National Crime Agency warned that
more arrests were on the way.
Most if not all the arrests took place
within a couple of days of last months
capture of Silk Roads alleged mastermind,
Ross Ulbricht, in San Francisco, suggesting that authorities may now be busy unraveling the network of drug dealers who
made fortunes peddling illicit substances
through the site.
Britains National Crime Agency said
it had seized millions of pounds worth of
bitcoins, the electronic currency used on
the site, and the agencys director general,
Keith Bristow, said in a statement that
other online drug dealers should expect a
knock on their door.
These latest arrests are just the start;
there are many more to come, he said.
Officials say the black market website
brokered more than $1bn in sales before
the FBI collared Ulbricht at a public library
on October 1. In its complaint, the bureau
said it had managed to copy the contents
of the sites server something one expert
said would likely provide international
authorities with detailed information about
the sites dealers.

Official: UK E-Border
Program Is Full
Of Problems

THE UKS electronic border program is

full of holes, an official report said last
month, warning that the expensive effort to
digitize Britains border defenses is failing
to stop terror sympathizers and smugglers
from getting in.
Britain, like the United States and some
other nations, is increasingly trying to
project its borders outward, drawing on
government databases and international
watch lists to flag suspicious travelers
before they reach the country. Britains
e-border program, proposed in 2003,
aims to pre-screen air passengers, deny
entry to dangerous criminals and generally
speed processing at Britains busy border
crossings.
Yet Independent border inspector John
Vine, author of the report, told BBC television that simply was not happening.
Despite spending about 427m since
2007, there has been no appreciable
difference in processing speeds and the
promised savings have yet to materialize,
the report said.
Most worrying was his contention
that terror alerts werent being properly
followed up. He said in one case nearly
650,000 alerts relating to drug smuggling
and contraband tobacco were deleted,
partly because the quality of the data was
so poor.
Vine did say the e-border system had
proven a helpful tool for the British police, whose use of border data has led to
hundreds of arrests.
Britains government said in a statement
that its Border Force is making significant
improvements.

November 2013

Passenger Lands Small Plane

After Pilot Collapses

By Sylvia Hui
WHEN THE pilot of his small plane
collapsed in the cockpit, passenger John
Wildey took the controls of the Cessna 172
over England, and suddenly began his first
experience of landing with some help
from instructors on the ground.
I hadnt a clue what to do to get down,
the 77-year-old Wildey told the BBC. Ive
never flown a plane before.
Officials at Humberside Airport in
northwest England put emergency plans
into place and flight instructors were
called in to help Wildey after the mayday
call went out.
Soon after he landed, his friend the
pilot, the only other person aboard the
aircraft, died.
Wildey praised the flight instructors
who talked him through several attempts to
land before he touched down in the dark in
what he described as a controlled crash.
He said he began to veer off the runway
as he was attempting to reach the brakes
and could see a wall rapidly approaching.

BUMPS
I thought I aint going to do it, but
we managed to stop in the end, he said.
Emergency services were waiting when
the plane touched down, after a few bumps.
Rob Murray, one of the flight instructors, said he was glad to have helped and
that Wildey did a remarkable job, given
he had never flown a plane before.
Its a fantastic feeling, knowing I have
achieved something and probably saved
somebodys life, Murray said.
He said the atmosphere in the control
tower was tense and there were handshakes
but no cheers when the plane touched
down.
The emergency landing occurred not
far from Sandtoft Airfield, where the plane
had planned to return after a short flight.
At a news conference at Humberside
Airport, commercial director Paul Litten
expressed his condolences to the family of
the man who died. Police said an inquest
will be carried out to establish what caused
the pilots death.

Eleanor Catton Wins Fictions Booker Prize

By Jill Lawless
YOUTH and heft triumphed at Britains
Booker Prize last month, as 28-year-old
New Zealander Eleanor Catton won the
fiction award for The Luminaries, an ambitious 832-page murder mystery set during
a 19th-century gold rush.
The choice should give heart to young
authors of oversized tales. Catton is the
youngest writer and only the second New
Zealander to win the prestigious awardand
her epic novel is easily the longest Booker
champion.
Catton said after accepting the award
that she didnt think about the length of
the book while she was writing it, partly

because I was inside it for the whole time.

It wasnt until I received the proof
of the book that I thought, Jeepers, this
is actually quite heavy, she said. Ive
had to buy a new handbag, because my
old handbag wasnt big enough to hold
my book.
She thanked her British publisher,
Granta, for protecting her from feeling the
commercial pressures around a tome that
could be seen as a publishers nightmare.
Travel writer Robert Macfarlane, who
chaired the judging panel, called The Luminaries dazzling, luminous and vast
without being sprawling.
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MI5 Spy Chief Defends Need For Secrets

I have a memory like an

elephant. In fact, elephants
often consult me Noel Coward
AH YES, memories the older I am getting,
the more the memory is going however
there are still many good ones, and I find
it wonderful to share with an old friend. In
fact, that is just what I recently did, I was
able to have a couple of weeks in England,
and the second week, I was with my oldest friend from schooldays, we talked,
reminisced, ate, drank, shopped, and ate,
drank, shopped, talked etc etc! Was luverly.
The weather was quite decent mostly in
the 60s with only a couple of days of rain.
Since I have been in the States for over 40
years now, it is easy to remember things,
how they were, and expect them to stay the
same. However there was so much during
this trip that I was able to still find ... yes I
know there are vast changes in the lifestyle,
population, etc, but it is the food I thought
was great ... no great emphasis all the time
on how things were organic and fresh,
because it all was. Wonderful to have the
fabulous fish from around Britain, and, even
though Indian food is a very popular cuisine
now, I had three lots of fish and chips from
different places, and they were all fabulous!
Also all shops were very busy!
I thought I would like to just share a few
observations from my visit;
Still no screens on the windows, so often
had wasps and the odd fly in the house
getting all emotional with my friend watching
the last night of the proms (she had taped it
for me) and both of us singing out to Land of
Home and Glory and Jerusalem! wonderful roast lamb the food prices on the whole
I found comparable to here, just a little more
expensive for the joints of meat clothes
and shoes very expensive but the quality
at Marks & Spencers still terrific TV on
the whole not as good generally and the ads
drove me mad, but got to see two episodes
of the new Downton, some old Dads Army
still funny a special on 85-year-old
Bruce Forsyth still on the telly currently
as a host for Strictly Come Dancing a lot
of old American TV shows and movies such
as Columbus!...finally got to see The Hairy
Bikers, two quirky chefs who I had seen
advertised in BBC Good Food but hadnt seen
before, enjoyed their show, they featured a
lot of traditional Brit Food, also James Martin
another TV chef but didnt see Gordon
Ramsey at all!! I thought the driving was
very aggressive, and a lot of tail-gating, felt
nervous trying to park a car in the little spaces
actually they were reporting on the news
that it is a common problem, as the parking
spaces are the same as theyve been for
years, with larger vehicles now going to
the C&E village church at my brothers, and
as a visitor asked to carry the host to the altar,
found out later the gentleman who invited me
to join him in his pew was local aristocracy,
then meeting Lady someone who knew my
brother from his days as a terrific decorator
generally the small village churches do
not have their own vicar any more, but there
are now travelling vicars who will get to 3-4
churches each Sunday, congregations very
small didnt see as many tea rooms as
I used to, but loads of Indian, Chinese, and

BRITAINS new domestic spy chief

warned last month that leaks exposing
how the government keeps secrets will
play into the hands of terrorists and curtail
powers to fight terrorism an allusion to
the mass data collection program exposed
by US National Security Agency leaker

Sun Journalist Charged

Over Theft Of MPs Phone

food in general, and spicier visited a

few pubs including a great Gastro Pub in
my friends village, outstanding food I
took the coach for travelling this time, and
a magic moment for me was coming out of
Victoria at dusk, and a light drizzle, seeing
the lit Houses of Parliament and Big Ben and
the Eye as we drove over the Thames on a
bridge ... magical!
During a shopping day in Market Harborough where my brother lives, I stopped
for tea at a local bakery tea room, and
rediscovered Florentines, hard to choose
from all the goodies offered, but was glad
for that one. Yummy
So, I have tried to recreate the Florentine
recipe as I couldnt find any, and tried it
out at our last Board meeting for the Sarasota British Club (www.sarasotabritishclub.
com), and again for an invited tea for friends,
and they were decreed a great success. So
I thought it would be a great treat to have
on hand with the upcoming holidays. I hope
you like my version.

Florentines

3/4 cup brown sugar

1/2 cup clear honey
1/2 cup Lyles golden syrup
1 sticks salted butter
1/2 cup shredded coconut
1/3 cup flaked almonds
1 cup candied cherries
1/4 cup raisins
4 Tbsp flour
10oz good dark or semi dark chocolate
Preheat oven to 400F. Place the sugar,
honey, syrup and butter in a large heavy
saucepan and gently melt together, stirring
frequently. When all the sugar has dissolved,
stir in the coconut, almonds, sliced cherries,
raisins and flour. Line a large baking tray
with parchment paper, and roughly spread
the mixture onto a thin layer, it should melt
together as it bakes so you dont have to be
too particular about spreading it out. Bake
for 10-15 minutes or until a light golden
brown, then set aside to firm up.
Melt the chocolate either in a bowl over
gently simmering water or carefully a few
seconds at a time in the microwave. Line a
second large tray with parchment paper, and
carefully flip the cooled Florentine bakes on
it. Peel off the parchment paper, and spread
the melted chocolate all over the top. Leave
aside until set up, then stamp out in shapes,
I suggest small ones as they are very rich;
they are a little hard to cut through, or you
could just slice into squares. Keeps well
in the fridge.
Yield about 24.

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A JOURNALIST from The Sun newspaper

has been charged in relation to the theft of
a British lawmakers mobile phone.
Nick Parker, chief foreign correspondent for the Rupert Murdoch-owned
tabloid, is already facing charges over
alleged corrupt payments to public
officialscharges that stem from Britains
wide-ranging phone-hacking scandal.
British prosecutors said last month that
Parker has been charged with unauthorized
access to computer material and receiving stolen goodsnamely, a mobile phone
belonging to Labour Party lawmaker
Siobhain McDonagh.
Prosecutors also charged a 29-year-old
London resident, Michael Ankers, with
stealing the phone.
The pair will appear in court in London
on November 6.

Edward Snowden.
Citing the deadly mall attack in Kenya
and the ongoing Syrian conflict, MI5s
Director General Andrew Parker also said
terrorism had become more diffuse and
more unpredictable. He said terrorists were
also turning to technological advancements

such as encryption to hide their tracks.

Debate on balancing security and
peoples individual privacy has been
percolating since Snowden detailed the
extent to which the NSA collects data on its
citizens and shares some of that data with
partner nations around the world.

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November 2013

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RRThis paper reaches the British community in all parts of Florida and, of course, the US

THE MIAMI DOLPHINS team will play

at Wembley Stadium again in late 2014
they have just announced. (Date TBA, call
Dolphins HQ (954) 452-7000 for details).
Sports analysts think the NFL have long-term
plans to put a franchise over in London,
claiming there has been a 30 percent increase in avid British fans since 2011, with
total UK fan base of 12 million Brits watching the annual Superbowl up 25 percent.
Hmmm is that those same Brits who
always derided American Football as wussy
Yank players who need padded bums and
helmets, not like us real men playing rugby.
SCOTTISH COMEDIAN Craig Ferguson, appears at the King Centre in Melbourne
November 15 with his hilarious stand up
performance. Tickets from King Center Box
Office (321) 242-2219.
QUEEN the musical one not the
bethroned one. This has always been one of
our most beloved British bands. I once dated
an English naval officer who played, sung
or hummed Queen hits unabated. Which of
us Brits has not sung lustily along to We
are the Champions? I own the complete
collection of their music myself. So if youre
a fan, catch the smash hit musical We Will
Rock You by Queen and Elton John, from
Londons West End. At the Arsht Center
downtown Miami, We Will Rock You features greatest hits of the legendary Freddie
Mercury fronted British rock group. Runs
December 10-15. Tickets www.arshtcenter.
org. Save money by going in person to the
Box Office (305) 949-6722.
SOUTH FLORIDA BRITS! Help bring
a Major League Soccer franchise team to
Miami. David Beckam has chosen our lovely
city. Sign the petition on www.mia4mls.com
NOVEMBER 10. Join local Brits for
British Movie Night in Sun City Center (near
Tampa), presented by the British Connection club. Enjoy the UK classic A Man for

all Seasons about Sir Thomas More, who

stood up to King Henry VII, which won
six Academy Awards. Cost $5 includes a
cheese and wine reception after. To attend
phone Kathy Howell (813) 567-3358.
YOUR BRITISH GOVERNMENT in
Florida: Each office has different roles and
resources for you, so phone each to ask.
Am not publishing a website because I
know (from the constant calls to MY office!)
that British expats in Florida want to talk
to somebody: Miami-Consulate-General
(305) 400-6400 Orlando Consulate (407)
254-3300, You can also email queries to
askflorida@fco.gov.uk
BRITISH AUTHORS appear at the
annual Miami International Book Fair, the
biggest in the USA. It runs from November
17-24 in downtown Miami and features
dozens of top writers from around the world,
plus an explosion of literary events and a
Street Fair over two days. Consult website
for details www.miamibookfair.com
SEEKING BRITISH golfers, of all
levels. The British-American Chamber
holds its annual Dreamflight charity golf
tournament December 5 from 10:30am to
6pm. Entry only $50 includes brunch and
your chance to win tournament prizes. To
attend, play or sponsor call the BACC Office
(407) 226 7251. Also on December 11 the
BACC Orlando holds its authentically English
Christmas Party phone them for details.
NEWS OF THE BOOZE: Bull McCabes
new Irish pub (561) 557-1190. A pub by
Alan Craig is guaranteed to be worthwhile.
The renowned pub developer who launched
Ft Lauderdales landmark pubs McGuires,
Sally OBriens, the Field (where I held several of my own British functions) and others
over the years, has just opened a superb
destination pub in Wellington near Palm
Beach. It offers rousing live music, yummy
home-cooked pub grub and welcoming

Irish ambiance. Wellington is a quiet area

with a considerable British population with
few entertainment choices, so this place will
boom Im sure.
BRITISH CLUBS CORNER..DAUGHTERS of the BRITISH EMPIRE for ladies
of British heritage, with chapters across
Florida. Call DBE President Claire Fairclough
on (561) 691-9916 for nearest one. ELSEWHERE: Seeking British clubs in your Florida
manor? Email me queries with your name,
city and phone. On the subject line put UJ
Clubs. Incoming club Presidents please
email me updates.
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 10, 2013. The
Royal British Legions Annual Remembrance
Service will take place at the Shepherd
of the Coast Lutheran Church, 1901 East
Commercial Boulevard, Ft Lauderdale just
west of US1. Service starts at 3pm prompt.
Wear your poppy with pride, available at the
event. The Legion is for anybody who served
in the RAF, Royal Navy or British army or
their relatives and supporters. Phone Neil
Hennessy for info (954) 485-1142.
NEW BRITISH BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT: A new British owned horse farm!
Brits are horse-lovers of course. Daisy
Trayford, age 31, is a well-known threeday event rider, who just moved here from
Dorset with husband Richard to set up their
horse farm in Ocala. They joined the Florida
Association of British Business to that end
and gain their E2 visa. Daisy is an international standard competitor and Madonnas
long term UK riding coach. Madonna became an avid horsewoman while in the UK
with Brit husband Guy Ritchie. Daisy wants
to hear from equine enthusiasts, eventing
sponsors and anybody interested in Three
Day Eventing. Its the sport that made the
Queens Granddaughter Zara Phillips, British
Sports Personality of the Year. The Trayfords
have set up a permanent base in Ocala and
invite UJ readers to visit some of the most

beautiful places in Florida whilst enjoying

the thrill of watching your horse compete
for Great Britain, network in the equestrian
community and absorb a social, fashionable, high energy sport. Daisy is a born and
bred Exmoor girl and has run her equestrian
business, Exmoor Eventing since 2002 with
husband, Richard. Reach her on (352) 4257767 or email info@exmooreventing.com
BRITISH-AMERICAN Chamber of
Commerce Broward/Palm Beach holds its
fabulously festive Christmas Party Saturday
December 14 at Lighthouse Point Yacht
Club. Join fellow naughty and nice Brits for
an unforgettable evening of Yuletide merrymaking. Im going a deterrent or lure
for you! To attend call BACC President Roy
Yates (954) 942-7330.
SARASOTA English British author
Patricia Friedberg will be discussing and
signing her latest book Letters From Wankie
November 17 at 2pm in Sarasotas Bookstore1 on Main Street. All welcome. Contact
the author by email pfriedbe@gmail.com
SUBMIT BRITISH NEWS ITEMS from

all crannies of Florida. This Miami-based

columnist cant know whats happening
amongst the Sunshine States huge British
diaspora unless readers notify me. Have you
launched a British business in the last six
months? Have a British event coming up?
Has a British pub, shop or English tearoom
opened near you? Email details to britishflorida@aol.com. Must include senders
name and phone number. On subject line
put UJ Florida Column. When I started this
page 21 years ago it was to serve and inform
our British community. That still holds true.

BRIT BUSINESSES
DONT BE LEFT OUT!

Stock the UJ Newspaper

And get a FREE LISTING in UJ

newspaper (see page 11) and on the
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plus more.
Call NOW for details:

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The opinions in this column are Patricia Kawajas and not necessarily shared
by Union Jack Publishing, Inc.

November 2013

IIII BRITBIZ IN THE US & CANADA IIII

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813-832-2665
AMES BRITISH FOODS, IA
THE CORNER SHOP, GA
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BAKER ST PUB & GRILL, TX
CROWN & ANCHOR BRITISH PUB, NV
512-691-9140
702-739-8676
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www.crownandanchorlv.com
BAKER ST PUB & GRILL, CO
ENGLISH GARDENER GIFT SHOP, NJ
720-974-9490
856-354-5051
www.sherlockspubco.com
www.shophaddonfieldnj.com/retailers/englishgardener.php
BAKER ST PUB & GRILL, TX
817-377-9772
ENGLISH SHOP, MO
www.sherlockspubco.com
636-946-2245
www.theenglishshoponline.com
BAKER ST PUB & GRILL, CO
720-382-1026
THE ENGLISH TEACUP, CO
www.sherlockspubco.com
303-751-3032
www.englishteacup.com
BAKER ST PUB & GRILL, TX
713-830-1858
EURO CAF DELI & GROCER, FL
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813-681-9125
www.eurogrocerystore.com
BAKER ST PUB & GRILL, CO
303-953-5510
EVERSEW ENGLISH, VA
www.sherlockspubco.com
540-371-3547
http://eversewenglish.com/
BAKER ST PUB & GRILL, CO
303-577-2790
FOX & PARROT TAVERN, TN
www.sherlockspubco.com
865-436-0677
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405-751-1547
4&20 PASTY COMPANY, FL
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713-942-9900
GEORGE & DRAGON PUB, AZ
www.sherlockspubco.com
602-241-0018
www.georgeanddragonpub.net
BAKER ST PUB & GRILL, TX
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HARE & HOUNDS PUBLIC HOUSE, WA
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360-779-4273
BAKER ST PUB & GRILL, TX
HIGHLANDER CAFE, FL
281-517-0828
352-563-0028
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HILLERS MARKET, MI
248-355-2122
BAKER ST PUB & GRILL, TX
281-362-7431
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www.sherlockspubco.com
HITCHCOCKS SUPERMARKETS, FL
386-462-2284
BASICALLY BRITISH, OH
937-222-1488
HORSE BRASS PUB, OR
www.basicallybritish.com
503-232-2202
www.horsebrass.com
BRITISH BEER COMPANY, MA
508-888-6610
HOSPITALITY USA, TX
www.britishbeer.com
713-464-8167
http://hospitalityusa.com
BEST OF BRITISH, VA
757-723-7480
HOT RED BUS, CA
www.bestofbritishonline.com
213-804-5692
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BEST OF EUROPE, CA
661-943-0257
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805-968-3353
BLACK WATCH PUB, CA
909-981-6069
INDO-EURO FOOD, INC, AZ
602-485-0776
BLARNEY CASTLE MOTEL, FL
954-523-1259
JOHN BULL ENGLISH PUB, FL
561-697-2855
BLUE ANCHOR PUB & RESTAURANT, FL
561-272-7272
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www.theblueanchor.com
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503-635-7298
BOBS NEWS AND BOOKS, FL
954-524-4731
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210-798-4154
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321-639-6839
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THE BRITISH AISLE, WA
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253-200-2342
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440-237-3913
831-372-0581
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310-214-1790
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MACNIVENS RESTAURANT & BAR, IN
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BRITISH ISLES CONNECTION COMPANY, FL
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478-953-4009
NINAS
INDIAN
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317-253-2739
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805-963-8121
916-984-3706
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603-431-0407
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www.bullandbarrel.ca
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Savile Says He Had Never Done Any

Wrong Interview Transcripts
TRANSCRIPTS released last month of
an interview with Jimmy Savile showed
that the former DJ star felt he was
completely innocent to any child sexual
abuse allegations that had been aimed
at him four years ago.
Surrey Police conducted the interview
on October 1, 2009, at Saviles office at
the National Spinal Injuries Centre at Stoke
Mandeville Hospital in Buckinghamshire.
After telling police his name and date of
birth, he said: In 83 years Ive never, ever
done anything wrong.
The presenter, who died in 2011 aged
84, added: That doesnt mean to say that
in my business you dont get accused of
just about everything because people are
looking for a bit of blackmail or the papers
are looking for a story.
So they keep going up but if you gotta
clear conscience which I have, everythings
okay.

UKs Top Court Rejects Inmates Voting Rights Bid

BRITAINS top court has struck down

an attempt by two convicted murderers
to win the right to vote, upholding a ban
on inmates casting ballots that has been
condemned by European judges.
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Supreme Court last month unanimously

dismissed the two mens claims.
Prime Minister David Cameron said the
verdict was a victory for common sense.
But Juliet Lyon, director of the Prison
Reform Trust, accused the government of
flouting human rights law.

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Savile, who, since his death in October

2011, has been exposed through hundreds
of sexual abuse accusations, with many suggesting that others knew of his behaviour.
In the interview Savile denied asking
any girl at Duncroft to perform a sexual
act and called the allegations a complete
flight of fancy.
He was also questioned about another
girl in a choir attending a concert at Stoke
Mandeville was kissed by Savile who then
put his tongue in her mouth.
Replying to police, Savile said: Out of
the question.
The DJ was not prosecuted over the
allegations. He said the claims were completely fictional and made up.
He told officers he was assaulted by
women when he worked for BBC Radio 1
and Top of the Pops, and boasted he brushed
off girls like midges.
Savile said the allegations had only
surfaced because his accusers were after
money.

(In) my business theres women looking

for a few quid, we always get something
like this coming up for Christmas, because
we want a few quid for Christmas right,
he told police.
And normally you can brush them away
like midges and its not much of a price to
pay for the lifestyle.
Savile was questioned in an out of custody interview and was not under arrest.
The transcripts also showed Savile was
prepared to see the allegations go all the way
to the Old Bailey. Savile said he had already
had five newspapers settle with him after he
threatened to sue them. He even referred to
himself as the Litigiousness, given his
willingness to take people to court.
In January, a Metropolitan Police and
NSPCC joint report revealed the extent of
Saviles alleged crimes. To date it says 450
people have come forward alleging sexual
abuse at the hands of Savile, who has now
been described as one of Britains most
prolific paedophiles.

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Vauxhall Astra

LAST MONTH I wrote about the most expensive cars in the world with a mention of the
cheapest car also.
Well, the majority of the new cars sold today are the less expensive models, compact
cars as they are referred to in the US. I call
these bread and butter cars. An example of
this is that new car sales volume in the UK at
the moment are at the highest they have been
for over five years and the leader is the Ford
Fiesta which has a base price of 9,759. A
few enhancements though and the price can
escalate to 17,545.
It has been about 10 years since the last
Ford motor car was built in England which
proves that many British motorists are not
too patriotic when purchasing a new motor
car. The Ford Fiestas that are for sale in the
UK are all made in Germany, despite the fact
that the cost of producing a car in Germany
is about 1.5 times the cost of what it would
be to build the same car in the UK.
September 2013 sales figures in the UK
for the Ford Fiesta showed a little over 20,600
units, next in line was the Vauxhall Corsa, with
14,500 units sold in September 2013. Sizewise, and looks-wise for that matter, there
isnt much between the both, yet the majority
of British buyers have been unpatriotic and
have opted for the German Fords.
After the Ford Fiesta and the Vauxhall

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Corsa the same period sales figures are as

follows: 3. Ford Focus, 14,295 units. 4. VW
Golf, 12,265. 5. Vauxhall Astra, 11,014. 6.
BMW Series 1, 10,084. 7. BMW Series 3,
8,309. 8. Peugeot 208, 7,953. 9. Nissan
Qashqai, 7.771 and 10. Fiat 500 with 7,422
units sold.
My pick
... many Brits may
would be, and
its a bit smaller
not realize this, the
than the rest, is
Vauxhall Corsa is not the Fiat 500, or
perhaps would
made in Britain, it is Iopt
for the Abmade in Germany just arth, which is a
souped-up verlike the Ford Fiesta. sion of the Fiat
500. Im not too
patriotic either, I just think that the Fiat has
a bit more style about it than the rest of the
compact cars. Even the less expensive cars
can outshine the luxury models when it
comes down to style.
The UK new car market is the second
biggest in Europe, Germany takes top spot.
Buyers typically tend to replace new cars
after three years, but because of economic
conditions in recent years may have left that
longer. It is three years since the ending of
the vehicle scrappage scheme, which gave
people incentives to trade in their old cars.
Cars bought under that scheme would now
be around three years old. Total new car sales
in Britain so far this year are at 1.79 million
compared to Germanys 2.22 million.
One car that is out of the picture now, as
it has been discontinued, is the Aston Martin
Cygnet. The company had targeted annual
sales of this mini car at 4,000 units when it
was debuted in 2011, this year however the

total sales for this model has been less than

150. It is a stylishly cute little car, perfect for
speeding around the city, plus, being coupled
with the great name and status of Aston
Martin one would have thought it to be an
immense success. Its demise is due to just
one thing, the price. At 32,000 this price
was just too much for a little city runabout
even with its stylish looks and Aston Martin
pedigree. So it is discontinued starting this
month. If you happen across one languishing
in a showroom somewhere it might be worth
buying immediately, as this Cygnet now has
become somewhat of a rarity and could be
worth considerably more than the original
cost sometime in the future. The Aston
Martin Cygnet is basically the same car as
the Scion iQ which costs about half of the
price of the Aston Martin version. The Cygnet
was upgraded all round of course but not so
much as to double the price. Facial features
and the Cygnet has got it, whereas the Scion
iQ doesnt rather like the best looking girl at
the dance and the plain Jane, there isnt much
between them but its strikingly apparent all
the same, much of it is because of the iconic
Aston Martin radiator grille. But does the best
looker rate double the cost of the plain Jane;
well the British public didnt think so.
Anyway, top dog amongst the British
made cars this year is Vauxhall so good
luck to them, neither the Vauxhall Corsa or
the Astra are my cup of tea but Im in the
minority so hats off to the Vauxhall for being
the most popular British made car in Britain.
But wait, and many Brits may not realize this,
the Vauxhall Corsa is not made in Britain, it
is made in Germany just like the Ford Fiesta.
Fortunately though the Vauxhall Astra is made
in Britain, in Ellesmere Port to be exact, so
its the Astra that takes
the prize. It is not the
greatest British car but
it is the most popular.
Happy Motoring

Ministers Plan
WWI Centenary
In Paris

By Greg Keller
FOR THE 100TH anniversary of World
War I, officials from about 30 countries
are meeting in Paris to plan four years of
commemorative events.
At least 8.5 million soldiers are believed
to have perished in the 1914-18 war.
France, where the majority of Western
Front fighting took place, is taking a leading role in the preparations.
Senior officials from countries including the US, Britain and Australia were
gathering Thursday under the Arc de
Triomphe for a ceremonial re-lighting of
the eternal flame that marks the tomb of
Frances unknown soldier.
Meetings were held last month under the
golden dome of the 17th-century Invalides
monument, hosted by Frances veterans
affairs minister, Kader Arif.
President Francois Hollande is to unveil details of the commemorations on
November 8.
The Australian minister for veterans
affairs, Michael Ronaldson, said it was
important that participants start defining
where we all want each other to be and
when.
COMMEMORATE
Well be talking about those key events
that everyone wants to commemorate.
Well be talking about what the hopes and
aspirations of each country are regarding
the different commemoration events, Ronaldson told The Associated Press.
Each nation has their own significant
wartime eventsAustralia and New Zealand, for example put particular emphasis
on the 1915 battle of Gallipoli, where their
joint force was defeated by the O
ttoman
Turks.
The fact that we do all have different periods we want to commemorate is
important, Ronaldson said. I think that
will make it work as opposed to detract
from it.
Ronaldson, whose grandfather fought
on the Western Front, also visited the
Australian National Memorial in VillersBretonneux, where the names of over
10,000 Australians who died in France
during World War I and who have no
known grave are inscribed.
Those visits for all Australians are
always deeply emotional and it was the
same for me yesterday, Ronaldson said.

Finding Frances...
Love Letters From
A Flight Lieutenant
By Catherine Harris
UNION JACK newspaper reader Cathleen
Harris is the author of Finding Frances...Love
Letters From A Flight Lieutenant which was just
released in March 2013 on Outskirts Press.
Eric Hutchin was
17 when he joined the
Royal Air Force to fight
the Nazis in World War
II. This book is the tender side of a military
young man in love.
He trained as a fighter
pilot at Falcon Field, a
Hollywood-financed
military base built in
Mesa, in the Arizona desert, and there he fell
in love with 17-year-old Frances Mackenzie.
For the remainder of that savage war, Eric
flew iconic Spitfires and Typhoons, protecting the shores of England, intercepting V-1
rockets, liberating Holland and writing to
Frances. Clever and poignant, his love letters, sketches and photos form the personal
chronicle of one young flight lieutenant and
his love for his special girl, but of course this
is also a universal story the coming-of-age
tale of every young man who goes to war.
The 188 page book is a quick read but
a very thought provoking book. It is a bittersweet yet poignant clever book and hard
to put down. A must have for any history
buff who loves learning about the Royal Air
Force and the fascinating story behind Falcon
Field plus a bit of Arizona history too. The
relationship that kept this young soldier going
through war is a true testament to the power
of love in the toughest of times. It took 60
years for it to be written and published.
Finding Frances is filled with historical
photos, interesting information about WWII
aircraft and life as a wartime pilot. The letters
are an intimate connection with the real life
personalities in Finding Frances. The story is
about the amazing journey of a pilot required
to do his duty and serve the nation. His love is
revealed in his letters which bare the struggle
of separation and his desire for his future.

OBITUARIES

Windmills Of Your Mind Singer Noel Harrison Dies

NOEL HARRISON, 79, British actor
and musician who sang the Academy
Award-winning ballad The Windmills of
Your Mind.
Harrisons wife, Lori Chapman, said
that he suffered a heart attack after a performance in Devon, southwest England,
and died in a hospital.
The son of actor Rex Harrison, Noel Harrison
was a British champion skier and represented the
country at the 1952 and 1956 Olympics before
becoming a professional musician.
He moved to the United States during the 1960s
British invasion and had his greatest success
with The Windmills of Your Mind, which was the
theme to 1968 heist movie The Thomas Crown Af-

fair and won the best-song Oscar.

Harrison wrote on his website that did
not immediately realize the power of the
song, by French composer Michel Legrand
and American lyricists Alan and Marilyn
Bergman.
I went to the studio one afternoon and
sang it and pretty much forgot about it,
he wrote.
Harrison also appeared opposite Stefanie
Powers in the 1966-67 TV series, The Girl From
UNC.L.E.
He lived in Canada for many years but returned to Britain in the 1990s. He was married
three times, and is survived by his wife, several
children and grandchildren.

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NOVEMBER
1-3: Tucson Celtic Festival & Highland Games
at 4502 N 1st Ave, Tucson, AZ. www.tucsoncelticfestival.org
2-Dec 8: Louisiana Renaissance Festival in
Hammond, LA. www.la-renfest.com
o By popular demand, the Doctor Who
Exhibit will return to the House of England cottage in Balboa Park, San Diego for the month of
November. Pop in for a cuppa tea and photo op!
2-3: Middlefaire Renaissance and Medieval
Festival Magical & Medieval Fantasy Faire Hillsboro TX. www.middlefest.com
3: Corinthian Cricket Club Fall Golf Classic
Brookside Golf Club, Pasadena (Adjacent to
Rosebowl) corinthiancricketclub@gmail.com
28: Ye Olde Kings Head of Santa Monica, CA
invites you to join them for Thanksgiving with
a set menu available. Have you booked your
Holiday Party ? Make your reservations now. And
dont forget to pop in for a quick pie and coffee
from the bakery, a pint with your favorite game,
or treat yourself with an Afternoon Tea during your
holiday shopping!! (310) 451-1402
5-Nov 24: Carolina Renaissance Festival at
Huntersville, NC. www.royalfaires.com/carolina
6: Plaza Pantry invites you to enjoy an English
Afternoon Tea 1:30pm (805) 646-6325.
o Camerons Inn of Half Moon Bay, CA is in
full Fall mode offering all your favorite sporting
events, a quick pint and Killer Burger or BBQ,
while counting the beer can collection on the
wall...good luck, on that one! (650) 726-5705.
6: Los Angeles / Orange County Pagan Pride
Day at Rainbow Lagoon, Long Beach, CA. www.
paganpridela.org
7: Hampstead Village in Santa Barbara, Ca is
carrying a new line of chocolates, Charbonnel
et Walker, purveyors of fine English chocolates
since 1875. Made exclusively in Royal Tunbridge
Wells in England. Please join them 5-8pm to
sip champagne and taste the most wonderful
exquisite chocolate truffles! (805) 845-3343.
7: Corinthian Cricket Club Banquet Dinner
in Santa Monica at The Georgian Hotel & Bubba
Gump Shrimp Co corinthiancricketclub@gmail.
com
4, 11, 18: Mayflower Club of N Hollywood
offers Celtic Irish Dance workshop; Dec 1 and 8
is annual Christmas Tea; get reservations in now
for the Laughlin trip December 18.
9-11: Saint Augustine Pirate Gathering at
70 W Castillo Dr St Augustine, FL 32084 www.
pirategathering.com
9-24: Sarasota Medieval Fair at Sarasota
Fairgounds, Sarasota, FL. www.SarasotaMedievalFair.com
o You Say Tomato in San Francisco is your
one-stop shopping experience for All Things
British. If you dont see what you want, talk to
David, Im sure its just on the next aisle (415)
921-2828.
14: The BABC of LA holds their Inaugural Marketing and Digital Media Committee Reception
Branding Your Business in Todays Digital
World www.babcla.org
17: St Andrews Day with celebration dinner
6pm at Spumantes in N Hollywood, CA 91601.
St presented by the St Andrews Society of LA
(818) 634-4158.
29-Dec 22: The Great Dickens Christmas Fair
at The Cow Palace in San Francisco, CA 94134.
www.dickensfair.com
29- Jan 4: Christmas on Main Street Festival
of Lights Main Street, Downtown Riverside, CA
92501 www.missioninn.com www.riversideca.
gov
DECEMBER
6-7: House of England, Balboa Park, San
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tional cottages Friday 6 from 3-11pm Saturday
December 7 noon to 11pm.
7: Scottish Treasures in Coronado, CA celebrates 15 years in Coronado with an open house
and anniversary celebration 10-5 pm at the new
store location 916 Orange Ave (619) 435-1880.
11-29: Lythgoe Family Production presents
Aladdin and His Winter Wish at the Pasadena
Playhouse (626) 792-8672. (See a in this issue)
13: The BABC (British American Business
Council of Los Angeles) holds their 54th annual
Christmas Luncheon www.babcla.org

Northeast Ohio Calendar

By Joe Nicholls. Joe & Kevin McGinty can
be heard on The Sounds of Britain and Ireland
Sundays 4-5pm (EDT) on Clevelands WCPN
90.3FM) & www.wcpn.org
NOVEMBER
1, 16: British-American Club, Fish & chips dinners, 8564 Ravenna Rd, (off Rte 82), Twinsburg,
6:30-8:30pm, (330) 963-6370.
1, 8, 15, 22, 29: West Side Irish American
Club, Irish-American style dinners, 8559 Jennings Rd, Olmsted Township, 6-9pm, (216)
251-4075.
3: Scottish American Society, monthly meeting, Akron Public Library, Downtown Akron, 3pm,
(330) 882-0342.
8, 22: British-American Club, Pub Nights,
8564 Ravenna Rd., Twinsburg, 8pm, (330)
963-6370.
12: SHANO, Scottish Heritage Meetings, Community Presbyterian Church, 5132 Mayfield Rd,
Lyndhurst. 7:30pm, (330) 463-5559
13: Calon Lan Welsh Club, Lunch Meeting,
Dennys Restaurant, Rte 224, Boardman, 1pm
(330) 758-4202.
16: Cleveland Manx Society, monthly luncheon, Vittorias Restaurant, Wickcliffe, 1pm,
(216) 481-2476.
22: British-American C of C Link Club,
Business Luncheon, Delmonicos Restaurant,
Rockside Rd & I-77, Independence, 11:30am,
(216) 621-0222.
25: Daughters of the BE, Westminster
Chapter, meeting, Lyndhurst, 7:30pm (440)
461-2533.

Police: McCann
Disappearance
Timeline Changed

BRITISH POLICE said last month

the timeline and version of events
surrounding the disappearance of
Madeleine McCann has significantly
changed, allowing them to build
their most detailed reconstruction of
the case yet.
Londons Metropolitan Police said
that investigators have been able to
place more significance on events the
night the then-three-year-old vanished
from a Portuguese resort in May 2007.
Det Chief Inspector Andy Redwood
says Scotland Yards investigation has
significantly changed the timeline
and accepted version of events of that
night. He did not elaborate on what
has changed, but said he hopes when
the public sees the new reconstruction
more information will come in that
will move the investigation forward.
The reconstruction and pictures
of men police would like to speak
to who were seen in and around the
resort where Madeleine disappeared
featured in a BBC Crimewatch
program.
Since launching its own investigation, 41 people of interest have been
identified by Metropolitan Police,
including 15 UK nationals.

Ferdinand And
Hodgson Join
FA Commission

ENGLAND coach Roy Hodgson and Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand
have agreed to join the Football Associations commission to improve the state of
English football.
The appointments came a day after
the FA was accused by one of its board
members of letting down so many black
and ethnic minority people after setting
up an all-white commission.
FA chairman Greg Dyke said the body
had been in touch with Ferdinand for
some time but needed to make sure he had
enough time to participate in the debate.
Last month, board member Heather
Rabbatts, who was born in Jamaica and
is of mixed race, criticized the lack of
diversity on the commission.
Ferdinand, who has retired from international football but still plays for
Manchester United, is the first non-white
member of the panel.
JOKE
Hodgson found himself at the heart of
a media storm after making a joke about a
monkey at halftime during Englands 2-0
World Cup qualifying win over Poland.
Hodgson, who has apologized for his remarks, said he made the joke to encourage
his players to pass the ball more to Andros
Townsend, who is black.
Dyke is also counting on Hodgsons
experience to help the FA build long-term
success for the national team.
It is important Roy can offer his views
as the current manager of the national team
and share the knowledge he has gained
when working for many years in a number
of countries, Dyke said. I wanted the international fixtures to be completed before
announcing this to avoid any distractions
for Roy at such an important time.
~ SNOOKER ~

Lee Appeals 12Year Fixing Ban

Newcastle Fan Jailed For

Horse-Punching Incident

NEWCASTLE United football fan Barry

Rogerson was filmed standing his ground
and then punching a police horse during a
crowd disturbance outside St James Park
last season. Last month Rogerson said he
was stupid and wrong to hit the horse,
more than once, but this did not prevent
a judge from jailing the 45-year-old for
a year, and issuing a six-year football
banning order.
Almost 100 Newcastle fans were
charged following clashes with police
after the game. Rogerson pleaded guilty
at Newcastle Crown Court to violent
disorder.
Judge Paul Sloan QC, said Rogerson
had had plenty of opportunities to move
away.

He added: You stood your ground and

attacked the horse by punching it in the
head. There was a risk of serious injury,
the officer could easily have been thrown
from the horse and could have sustained
serious injury.
Police horse Bud was not hurt in the
attack. Rogerson, from Bedlington, Northumberland, had previously told the BBC
he was not a thug and was wearing a
scarf across his face to stop the cold wind
getting into his mouth after a filling had
dropped out.
Chief Supt Gary Calvert said: The images of Rogersons behaviour were seen
right across the country and further afield
through the media and internet coverage
of the disorder.

Coe Appoints Puma Executive As

British Olympic CEO

THE SPORTS executive responsible for Usain Bolts Puma sponsorship has been hired
as chief executive of the British Olympic Association.
Bill Sweeney will start in the BOA role next month, running the day-to-day operations
under chairman Sebastian Coe.
The 55-year-old Briton has spent the past three years as head of business development
at Puma, which included directing Bolts commercial activities for the sportswear firm
in connection with the 2012 London Olympics.
Sweeney will oversee Britains preparations for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi
and the 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro.
He replaces Andy Hunt, who left in February 2013
Coe says Sweeneys business and sport experience, and his impressive record in
developing global sports brands, makes him the right choice for this role.
Sweeney spent seven years as a senior vice president of the Adidas Reebok group
before joining Puma.
~ BOXING ~

Machida Defeats Munoz By Knockout

LYOTO The Dragon Machida confirmed his title contender credentials in
the UFC middleweight ranks last month
with a stunning first-round knockout
win over Mark Munoz.
Machida scored a direct kick to the
head of Munoz to knock out his training partner at 3.10 minutes into the first
round in the UFCs first show in the city
in four years.

BRITISH snooker player Stephen Lee

is appealing against his 12-year ban for
match-fixing.
World Snooker
says in a statement
last month it has been
informed by Lees
lawyers that the
former fifth-ranked
player is appealing
against the finding
of the tribunal, the
sanction and the costs
awarded.
The 38-year-old
Lee, who won five
events in his 21-year
professional career,
was found guilty last
month of manipulating seven matches
in 2008 and 2009.
He said he is totally innocent of the
Entrepreneur
charges.

Earlier, Jimi Manuwa took his MMA

record to 13-0 with a TKO victory over
Ryan Jimmo, who appeared to sustain
an achilles injury that caused him to
verbally submit to referee Neil Hall at
4:41 of the second round.
In his UFC debut, Scotlands Nico
Musoke scored a submission victory
over veteran Alessio Sakara with a beautiful transition from guard to armbar.

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SPORTS: CYCLING - BOXING - CRICKET - MOTOR RACING - ATHLETICS - FOOTBALL - RUGBY - SNOOKER - GOLF - WRESTLING - SAILING - HOCKEY - DARTS - TRIATHLON

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Durham Are County Champions

Durham won their final five games to lift

them atop the County Championship, and
win their third title since 2008. They won ten
of their sixteen county games, finishing with
245.5pts, while Yorkshire were runners up
with 221pts. Yorkshires 18-year-old Dominic Sibley, became the youngest player ever
to hit a double century in a first class match
as the tykes battled Surrey in the last game
of the season. Surrey and Derbyshire were
relegated. Lancashire won the second division with eight wins from sixteen games with
238pts. Northamptonshire are the division
two runners up with 202pts. Both move to
Division One next season. The wooden spoon
went to Leicestershire, who went the whole
season without a county championship win,
and finished 60pts adrift at the bottom of
division two, having accumulated just 79pts.
The domestic trophy winners of 2013, saw
Northamptonshire win the Friends Life T20
Cup, Nottinghamshire won the Clydesdale
Bank, CB40 trophy.

International Cricket

Ireland and Afghanistan have qualified

for the 2015, ICC World Cricket Cup to be
hosted in Australia. The two, second tier
cricket nations will join the other ten mainline countries Pakistan brought South
Africas unbeaten Test run of 15 matches to
an end at Abu Dhabi, winning the First Test
by seven wickets. South Africa 249 (Hashim
Amla 118) and 232. Pakistan 442 (Khurram
Manzoor 146, Misbah-ul-Haq 100) and 45-3
at close Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar
announced his complete retirement from
cricket last month. The 40-year-old Indian
skipper has made 200 Test match appearances, scoring 15,837 runs and hit a century
of centuries during a long career in all facets
of the game.

Golf: David Howell & David Lynn

On The Podium

Englands David Howell captured his first

podium appearance in seven years, when he
won the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship at
St Andrews old course after winning on the
second hole during a play-off against Peter
Uihlein. Howell and the American finished
tied with a 23 under 265 Couple of international golf tournaments based on the Ryder
Cup format witnessed the worlds top men in
action last month. At Saint-Nom-la- Breteche,
Britain and Ireland faced Continental Europe
in the three day, Seve Ballesteros Trophy
concluding October 6. The Continentals beat
Britain and Ireland 15-13, claiming their first
victory since 2000. At Dublin, Ohio, same
weekend, American golfers faced off against
an international side absent of Europeans in
the Presidents Cup. The United States won
18 and a half points to 15 and a half points.
It was the eighth time the US has won in the
last ten challenges, having drawn one and lost
one Glaswegian Scott Jamieson, livened
up the Portuguese Masters at Vilamoura,
when he fired off an 11 under 60 during
the third round. Jamiesons was unable to
continue his formidable form however, and
it was David Lynn who took the honours,
where an 18 under 266 put the Englishman,
one stroke ahead of South African, Justin
Walters, October 12. Same weekend at Cary,
N Carolina, Sir Nick Faldo, made his American senior debut at the SAS Championship.
The 56-year-old seven time Major winner,
did not last long. He pulled his elbow out on
the thirteenth tee during the first round and
was forced to withdraw Englands Ross
Fisher got pipped in a play-off at the Perth
International in Australia, where Koreas Jin
Jeong took the honours after both had finished with ten under pars. Same Weekend,
Rory McIIroy finished joint second in the
Korean Open, at Cheonan. McIIroy started
the final round ten strokes off the lead, but
shot a 4 under par that included five birdies
that put him one stroke behind winner Kang
Sung-hoon.

More Sport

Sir Bradley Wiggins had to be satisfied

with the silver medal in the time trial at the
World Road Cycling Championships at Toscami, Italy, September 22-29. Germanys
Tony Martin won the Gold medal for the third
consecutive year, this time winning by 46.09
seconds over the recent Tour of Britain winner
Europes richest horse race, the Prix de

lArc de Triomphe, October 6,

was won by 9-2 shot, Treve,
by five lengths. The favourite
Orfevre (2-1f) was second
with Intello at 9-1 third. 17 ran
Britains Jamie Murray and
Australian partner John Peers
claimed their third doubles title
of the tennis year, after prevailing
in the Thailand Open An NFL
game drew a 83,000 plus crowd at Wembley,
late September, where the Minnesota Vikings
beat the Pittsburgh Steelers 34-27 Yorkshireman Tom Sykes, captured the World
Superbike Championship at Jerez, Spain,
October 20. Sykes missed out on the 2012
title by just half a point. Im absolutely over
the moon, said the motor-cyclist.

Boxing
Former British heavyweight champion
Dereck Del Boy Chisora (18-4) stopped
Edmund Gerber (23-2) when the referee
halted the contest in the fifth round to claim
the vacant European heavyweight crown, late
September, at the Copper Box in London.
Chisora severely bloodied the German in
the third round, followed by a series of aggressive combinations Olympic medalist
Anthony Joshua, who took gold in the superheavyweight division, got his professional
career off to a flying start at Londons O2
Arena, October 4, with a first round knockout
of Emanuele Leo. While the Italian had remained unbeaten after eight fights, the 238lb
Londoner remained unruffled and untroubled
by the challenger WBA, IBF and WBO
champion Wladimir Klitscho, pushed his
record to 61-3, after beating the unbeaten
Russian, Alexander Povetkin (18-1) with a
unanimous decision in Moscow.

People
Part of the deal for David Beckhams move
to the Los Angeles Galaxy some years ago,
was a promise by the MLS that he would be
able to buy a new franchise team for around
$25m. Beckham is talking with Bolivian
cell-phone mogul Marcelo Claure, and has
been investigating the possibility of a Miami
franchise. The lack of a suitable stadium
may have tempered enthuisiasms, because
MLS officials are looking for a new 18,00020,000 seated venue that would cost around
$85m to build with modern media facilities.
Beckham and Claure may not have Miami to
themselves any longer however, as a London
group of financiers led by Alessandro Butini,
have recently held exploratory talks with MLS
Commissioner Don Garber. The Italian, like
Beckham and Claure, feels Miami has distinct
possibilities.
Dario Franchitti, four time IndyCar
champion and three times winner of the
Indianapolis 500, got in a nasty collision with
Takuma Sato, during the final lap of the Grand
Prix of Houston, October 6. The Scottish
driver became airborne as he crashed into a
spectator fence, where debris injured thirteen
fans and an Indycar official. Franchitti was
rushed to hospital and treated for a broken
ankle, several fractures of his spine, cracked
ribs, plus multiple abrasions and bruises. Its
been a lean year for the Lothian Scot, who
recently had a temporary split from actress
wife Ashley Judd, and remains winless during this years IndyCar schedule.
International soccer coaches make big
money, and become fashionable sporting
icons, but at the other end of the scale things
are very different. Matthew Green coaches
the Turks and Caicos Island, which is the
worst team in the world according to FIFA,
who gives it a 207th world ranking alongside
Bhutan and San Marino. The 41-year-old
Englishman, who was signed by Hull City as
teenager, has been in the Caribbean for over a
dozen years and loves the sandy beaches and
blue seas. The Turks and Caicos are made
up of forty small islands, eight inhabited, with
a population of around 20,000. The oversea
British territory has six teams, mostly ex-pats,
leaving coach Green a squad of around 25
actual players to pick an international side. In
fact, the Islands have not played an international game for two years because they could
not raise the regulation, eleven man team,
but FIFA funding did get a 5,000 capacity
stadium built. They were eliminated from the
2014 World Cup in the first qualifying round,
losing to the Bahamas after a 10-0 losing
aggregate. Coach Greens enthusiasm has
led to some 500 youngsters registering for
his youth programmes, making his dream of
moving off the bottom of FIFAs world ranking
system an eventual reality.

European Soccer
The second game of the group series in
the Champions League, October 1-2, saw
Chelsea outplay Steaua Bucherest 4-0 in
Romania. Ramires got two in the 19th and
55th minutes, an own goal made it three,
and Frank Lampard made it four just before
the final whistle Arsenals new 42m

signing from Real Madrid, Mesut Ozil put

the Gunners ahead at the Emirates in the
eighth minute. Olivier Giroud scored seven
minutes later, giving Arsenal a 2-0 win over
Napoli A full house at Parkhead witnessed
Celtic trying to make headway against an aggressive, but Lionel Messi absent Barcelona.
Skipper Scott Brown missed the last thirty
minutes after getting a red card, while a Cesc
Fabregas netting in the 75th minute saw the
Spaniards prevail by the only goal of the
match Danny Welbeck put Manchester
United ahead in the 18th minute against Shaktar Donetsk in the Ukraine, but the home side
got an equalizer fourteen minutes from time
for a 1-1 tie European champions Bayern
Munich were in terrific form at the Etihad
Stadium, where a sluggish Manchester City
succumbed to a 3-1 defeat as the Germans
turned on the magic. Franck Ribery got the
Munich side started with a long, hard drive
in the 8th minute. Thomas Muller (56th) and
Arjen Robben (59th) scored within three
minutes of each other, while Jerome Boateng
was sent off five minutes from time, though
the sky blues could not take advantage.
Alvaro Negredo put City on the scoreboard
in the 79th minute.

SOCCER

shorts
Englands Wilshere Stirs
Debate On Nationality

ENGLAND midfielder Jack Wilshere has

stirred a debate about foreign-born players in football, declaring that only English
people should be eligible to represent the
national team.
Wilsheres stance was immediately described as too extreme by the head of the
English Football Association.
The issue of foreign-born players being
selected by England resurfaced after the FA
said it was looking into whether Manchester
Uniteds Belgium-born midfielder Adnan
Januzaj could play for England.
The 18-year-old Januzaj, who joined
United in 2011, scored twice on his Premier
League debut last month, leading his side to
a 2-1 win over Sunderland.
Januzaj could become eligible for England
in 2018 on residency grounds if he hasnt
played for a senior national team in a competitive fixture by then. He has so far declined
to play for Belgium. Because of his parents
heritage, he is also eligible to represent Serbia, Albania and Turkey, as well as Kosovo,
which is not yet recognized by FIFA.
Wilshere, one of Englands top young
stars, does not believe players such as
Januzaj should be allowed to pull on an
England shirt.

England Looks To Change

Rules After Torres Scratch

THE ENGLISH Football Association plans to

strengthen the rules allowing it take retrospective action against players after Chelsea
striker Fernando Torres escaped punishment
for scratching an opponent.
The FA altered its laws before the new
season to make it easier to take retrospective
action using video evidence, but was unable
to charge Torres for scratching Tottenham
defender Jan Vertonghens face in a Premier
League match last month because part of the
incident was seen by a match official.
Torres was booked for the clash, but the
scratch was not fully seen.
FA chairman Greg Dyke says the fact no
action was taken was understandably baffling to everyone and has to be addressed.
Dyke was unhappy that the FAs disciplinary department was in a position where
they dont feel they have the authority to
take action for what was an obvious scratch
to the face.

Five-Match Stadium Ban For

Blackpool Manager Ince

THE ENGLISH Football Association has given

Blackpool manager Paul Ince a five-match
stadium ban over his abusive and violent
post-match behavior.
The former England midfielder had been
sent to the stands late on in the September
14 second-tier match at Bournemouth for
throwing a bottle which struck a steward.
The misconduct charges related to Inces
behavior around the tunnel after the game.
The FA found Ince guilty of violent conduct
toward a match official and said his behavior
was threatening while using abusive or insulting language.

Prem Struggler Sunderland

Hires Poyet As Manager

GUS POYET was last month hired as Sunderlands sixth permanent manager in less than

There was three British victories in the

second match, group schedule of the Europa
League, October 3. Two goals before halftime in Moscow, gave Tottenham a 2-0 win
over Anzhi Makhachkala, when Jermain
Defoe opened the scoring in the 34th minute,
followed by a Nacer Chadli netting five minutes later Wigan prevailed 3-1 at home
against NK Maribor. Nick Powell put the
Latics on the board in the 22nd minute, then
Ben Watson netted twelve minutes later. The
Slovenians got one back in the 59th minute,
before Powell hit his second in the closing
seconds At the Liberty Stadium, Swansea
gave away a penalty in the 14th minute, but
St Gallen of Switzerland, failed to take advantage. Wayne Routledge scored the only goal
of the game seven minutes after the break,
giving Wigan their very first European victory.

Cup Soccer
The third round of the Capital One English
League Cup, September 24-25, witnessed
Championship strugglers Birmingham City
oust the Capital One Cup holders Swansea
City, as the premier League side crashed
3-1 at St Andrews. All the goals came in
the second half. Manchester City smashed
five years with the task of reviving the English
Premier League clubs fortunes.
The 45-year-old Uruguayan was handed
a two-year contract to replace Paolo Di
Canio despite having no previous topflight
managerial experience and being fired by
second-tier team Brighton in June in contentious circumstances.
Poyet takes over a Sunderland side at
the bottom of the Premier League with just
one point after seven matches, and looking
for stability after the stormy six-month reign
of Di Canio.
We analyzed a wide range of candidates
and believe that Gus track record, experience, commitment and passion make him
the right man to take us forward, Sunderland
chairman Ellis Short said.

Newcastles Tiote Avoids Jail

For Fake License

NEWCASTLE midfielder Cheick Tiote has

been given a suspended jail sentence after
admitting to possessing a fake driving
license.
The Ivory Coast international was handed
a seven-month sentence, suspended for
18 months, by a judge at Newcastle Crown
Court last month.
Tiote bought a fake Belgian license when
traveling through Belgium for 15,000 euros
($20,700) and then attempted to swap the
forgery for a full British license.
Judge James Goss told Tiote that he would
have to complete 180 hours on unpaid work.

Blatter Says Kick Out Teams

For Fans Racism

FIFA President Sepp Blatter wants teams

kicked out of competitions if their fans hurl
racial abuse.
The push for tougher anti-racism sanctions was revealed last month by Blatter in a
speech in England, days after the Manchester
City team was subjected to racial abuse in
Russia, which is hosting the 2018 World Cup.
CSKA Moscow is facing UEFA disciplinary
action for its fans abuse of City midfielder
Yaya Toure, with a partial stadium closure
for the Russian capital clubs next European
match the likely punishment.
But Blatter believes the sanctions championed by UEFA President Michel Platini are
not strong enough, saying just banning fans
from stadiums, or fining national associations
or teams is not the solution to eradicating
racism from football.
It has been decided by the FIFA Congress
that it is a nonsense for racism to be dealt
with, with fines, you can always find money
from somebody to pay them, Blatter told a
gala dinner celebrating the 150th anniversary
of the English Football Association.
What we shall do is be very tough, we
need to eliminate teams from a competition
or deduct points. Only by such decisions
is it possible to go against racism and discrimination. If we dont do that it will go on
and go on. We have to stop it. We need the
courage to do it.
The FIFA Congress in May approved much
tougher penalties for serious racist abuse,
including point deductions and relegation.
Speaking on the site of the English FAs
first meeting in 1863, Blatter praised the
worlds oldest national football association
for creating the perfect environment for
matches by eradicating the hooliganism and
racism that once blighted the game here.
FA President Prince William, the second
in line to the British throne, told the dinner
that there is sadly more work to do still to
combat racism in football.

Wigan 5-0 at the Etihad Stadium, while a

Javier Hernandez goal just after the break,
gave cross city rivals United, a 1-0 win
over Liverpool at Old Trafford. Tottenham
demolished Aston Villa 4-0 at Villa Park
The same couple of days, the third round
of the Scottish League Cup, saw Celtic get
bounced from the competition at Parkhead.
Coach Neil Lennon watched the Hoops
claim 26 corners during the match, but never
found the net. Efe Ambrose was penalized
for hand-ball during the extra time period,
and Greenock Mortons Dougie Imrie put
the spot kick away in the 97th minute for an
unexpected 1-0 win. Coach Allan Moore was
ecstatic with the clubs first win over Celtic
since 1985. Scott Vernon got a hat-trick for
Aberdeen as the Dons won 5-0 at Falkirk,
while Liam Craig got three in Hibernians 5-3
home win over Stranraer The semi-finals
of the Ramsden Challenge Cup saw a double
by Calum Elliot, put Raith Rovers through to
the final after a 3-0 win over Annan Athletic.
Rangers visit Stenhousemuir in the other
semi-final October 29, but must be feeling
confident after swamping the Stennies 8-0
at Ibrox, in a Division One league game late
September.

Beckhams Endorsement
Income Rises To $26m

DAVID BECKHAM earned more than $26m

from personal sponsorship deals in his final
full year as a footballer.
The former England captain retired from
playing in May after five months at Paris
Saint-Germain, having left Major League
Soccer in December 2012 following more
than five years at the Los Angeles Galaxy.
The latest accounts for Beckhams
company, Footwork Productions, showed
that turnover rose in 2012 by 10 percent
to 16.5m.
During 2012, Beckham was highly visible at the London Olympics, both in the
opening ceremony and with his Samsung
sponsorship.
The accounts show the 38-year-old
former Manchester United and Real Madrid
player received a salary of 14.1m from his
company.
The accounts dont include Beckhams $4
million salary from the Galaxy.

Sessegnon Receives
20-Month Driving Ban

WEST BROMWICH Albion midfielder Stephane Sessegnon has been banned from
driving for 20 months after admitting charges
of drunk driving.
The Benin international also pleaded guilty
to driving without a licence and without
insurance.
Sessegnon, who was playing for Sunderland when he was arrested in August while
his teammates were playing a League Cup
match, was also fined 7,605.
Sessegnon, a former Paris Saint-Germain
player, was warned he could be jailed if he is
caught driving during the ban.
FIFA World Cup

European Qualifying
(Top teams qualify automatically)
GROUP A

Belgium
Croatia
Serbia
Scotland
Wales
Macedonia

P
10
10
10
10
10
10

Germany
Sweden
Austria
Rep Ireland
Kazakhstan
Faroe Islands

P
10
10
10
10
10
10

Russia
Portugal
Israel
Azerbaijan
N Ireland
Luxembrg

P
10
10
10
10
10
10

England
Ukraine
Montenegro
Poland
Moldova
San Marino

P
10
10
10
10
10
10

W
8
5
4
3
3
2

D
2
2
2
2
1
1

L F
0 18
3 12
4 18
5 8
6 9
7 7

A GD
4 14
9 3
11 7
12 -4
20 -11
16 -9

Pts
26
17
14
11
10
7

A GD
10 26
14 5
10 10
17 -1
21 -15
29 -25

Pts
28
20
17
14
5
1

A GD
5 15
9 11
14 5
11 -4
17 -8
26 -19

Pts
22
21
14
9
7
6

A GD
4 27
4 24
17 1
12 6
17 -5
54 -53

Pts
22
21
15
13
11
0

GROUP C

W
9
6
5
4
1
0

D
1
2
2
2
2
1

L F
0 36
2 19
3 20
4 16
7 6
9 4

GROUP F

W
7
6
3
1
1
1

D
1
3
5
6
4
3

L F
2 20
1 20
2 19
3 7
5 9
6 7

GROUP H

W
6
6
4
3
3
0

D
4
3
3
4
2
0

L F
0 31
1 28
3 18
3 18
5 12
10 1

FIFA WORLD CUP PLAY-OFFS

EUROPEAN REGION
(Winners of two-leg play-offs qualify for Finals)
FIRST LEGS
Friday, November 15
Greece v Romania
Iceland v Croatia
Portugal v Sweden
Ukraine v France
SECOND LEGS
Tuesday, November 19
Croatia v Iceland
France v Ukraine
Romania v Greece
Sweden v Portugal
CONCACAF REGION
Wednesday, November 13
Mexico v New Zealand
Wednesday, November 20
New Zealand v Mexico

November 2013

FIXTURES, DRAWS
AND RESULTS
UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE

GROUP A
Tuesday, November 5
Real Soc v Man Utd; Shakhtar Dtsk v B Levksn
Wednesday, November 27
B Levksn v Man Utd; Shakhtar Dtsk v Real Soc
Tuesday, December 10
Man Utd v Shakhtar Dtsk; Real Soc v B Levksn

Man United
B Leverkusen
Shakhtar D
Real Sociedad

P W D L F A GD Pts
3 2 1 0 6 3 3 7
3 2 0 1 8 5 3 6
3 1 1 1 3 5 -2 4
3 0 0 3 1 5 -4 0

GROUP D
Tuesday, November 5
Man City v CSKA Moscow; Viktoria Plzen v B Munich
Wednesday, November 27
CSKA Moscow v B Munich; Man City v Viktoria Plzen
Tuesday, December 10
B Munich v Man City; Viktoria Plzen v CSKA Moscow

Munich
Man City
CSKA Moscw
Viktoria Plzen

P W D L F A GD Pts
3 3 0 0
11 1 10 9
3 2 0 1 6 4 2 6
3 1 0 2 4 7 -3 3
3 0 0 3 2 11 -9 0

GROUP E
Wednesday, November 6
Basel v Steaua Bucharest; Chelsea v FC Schalke 04
Tuesday, November 26
Basel v Chelsea; Steaua Bucharest v FC Schalke 04
Wednesday, December 11
Chelsea v Steaua Bucharest; FC Schalke 04 v Basel

Chelsea
FC Schalke 04
Basel
St Bucharest

P W D L F A GD Pts
3 2 0 1 8 2 6 6
3 2 0 1 4 3 1 6
3 1 1 1 3 3 0 4
3 0 1 2 1 8 -7 1

GROUP F
Wednesday, November 6
Borussia Dortmund v Arsenal; Napoli v Marseille
Tuesday, November 26
Arsenal v Marseille; Borussia Dortmund v Napoli
Wednesday, December 11
Marseille v Borussia Dortmund; Napoli v Arsenal

Arsenal
Borussia D
Napoli
Marseille

P W D L F A GD Pts
3 2 0 1 5 3 2 6
3 2 0 1 6 3 3 6
3 2 0 1 4 4 0 6
3 0 0 3 2 7 -5 0

GROUP H
Wednesday, November 6
Ajax v Celtic; Barcelona v Milan
Tuesday, November 26
Ajax v Barcelona; Celtic v Milan
Wednesday, December 11
Barcelona v Celtic; Milan v Ajax

Barcelona
Milan
Celtic
Ajax

P W D L F A GD Pts
3 2 1 0 6 1 5 7
3 1 2 0 4 2 2 5
3 1 0 2 2 4 -2 3
3 0 1 2 2 7 -5 1

UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE

GROUP A
Thursday, November 7
Kuban Krasnodar v Swansea; FC St Gallen v Valencia CF
Thursday, November 28
Kuban Krasnodar v FC St Gallen; Swansea v Valencia CF
Wednesday, December 12
FC St Gallen v Swansea; Valencia CF v Kuban Krasnodar

P W D L F A GD Pts
Swansea
3 2 1 0 5 1 4 7
Valencia CF 3 2 0 1 7 4 3 6
FC St Gallen 3 1 0 2 3 6 -3 3
Kuban Krasnodar
3 0 1 2 1 5 -4 1
GROUP D
Thursday, November 7
Rubin Kazan v Wigan; NK Maribor v SV Zulte Waregem
Thursday, November 28
Rubin Kazan v NK Maribor; Wigan v SV Zulte Waregem
Wednesday, December 12
NK Maribor v Wigan; SV Zulte Waregem v Rubin Kazan

P W D L F A GD Pts
Rubin Kazan 3 2 1 0
10 3 7 7
Wigan
3 1 2 0 4 2 2 5
NK Maribor 3 1 0 2 6 9 -3 3
SV Zulte Waregem
3 0 1 2 1 7 -6 1
GROUP K
Thursday, November 7
Tottenham v Sheriff Tiraspol; Troms v Anzhi Makhachkala
Thursday, November 28
Anzhi Makhachkala v Sheriff Tiraspol; Troms v Tottenham
Wednesday, December 12
Sheriff Tiraspol v Troms; Tottenham v Anzhi Makhachkala

P W D L F A GD Pts
Tottenham 3 3 0 0 7 0 7 9
Anzhi Makhachkala 3 1 1 1 1 2 -1 4
Sheriff Tiraspol 3 0 2 1 1 3 -2 2
Troms
3 0 1 2 1 5 -4 1

CAPITAL ONE CUP

Fourth Round
Arsenal 0, Chelsea 2;
Birmingham 4, Stoke 4 (Stoke 4-2 on pens);
Burnley 0, West Ham 2; Leicester 4, Fulham 3;
Man Utd 4, Norwich 0
Newcastle 0, Man City 2
Hull City 2, Tottenham Hotspurs 2 (Spurs 8-7 on pens);
Wednesday, November 6
Sunderland v Southampton
Quarter-Final
Tuesday, December 17
Leicester v Man City; Stoke v Man Utd;
Tottenham v West Ham; Sunderland or Soton v Chelsea

SCOTTISH COMMUNITIES
LEAGUE CUP

Quarter-Final
Inverness CT 2, Dundee 1; Hibernian 0, Hearts 1;
Morton 0, St Johnstone 1; Motherwell 0, Aberdeen 2

RAMSDENS CHALLENGE
CUP SEMI-FINAL
Stenhousemuir 0, Rangers 1
Raith Rovers 3, Annan Ath 0
FINAL
Sunday, April 6, 2014
Rangers v Raith Rovers

THE WILLIAM HILL SCOTTISH CUP

Third Round
Saturday, November 2
Albion v Deveronvale; Alloa v Inverurie Loco Works;
Arbroath v Brechin; Ayr v Queens Park;
Clyde v Brora Rangers; Culter v Berwick;
Dumbarton v Cowdenbeath; East Stirling v Raith Rovers;
Elgin v Dunfermline; Forfar v East Fife;
Fraserburgh v Montrose; Queen of Sth v Hamilton;
Rangers v Airdrieonians; Stenhousemuir v Annan Athletic;
Stranraer v Auchinleck Talbot; Turriff United v Stirling

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Arsenal: Mikel Arteta converted a penalty kick early in the
second half and then was sent
off as the Gunners held first place
by winning, 2-0, at Crystal Palace. Arteta
fouled ex-Gunner Marouane Chamakh about
50 yards from goal yet still was dismissed;
keeper Wojciech Szczesnys save denied
Palace until Olivier Girouds late clincher.
Mezut Ozil scored twice after Jack Wilsheres
opener had set the Gunners on track for a 4-1
defeat of Norwich City. Wilshires secondhalf equalizer provided a 1-1 tie at West
Bromwich Albion.
Aston Villa: Christian Benteke,
back in the lineup after sitting out
with hip trouble, failed to convert a
penalty kick in the eighth minute at
home against Everton in what became a 2-0
loss. Andreas Weimann, Gabriel Agbonlahor,
and Benteke failed to beat Tim Howard in the
run of play as well. Without Benteke, Villa
piled up an impressive 18-6 advantage in
shots at Hull City but were unable to break
through in the 0-0 tie.
Cardiff City: Ex-Canary David
Marshall frustrated his former club
numerous times in Cardiffs 0-0
tie at Norwich. He recorded 10
saves and got some help from the referee
when Leroy Fer put the ball into the net after
receiving a throw-in awarded when Cardiff
had intentionally put the ball out of play. The
goal was disallowed. Near the end of the first
half Marshall tipped a shot onto the post and
then smothered an attempt to stuff in the
rebound. Jordon Mutch scored in the 10th
minute to give them a 1-0 lead at Chelsea,
but a first-half equalizer and three goals inside
of 16 minutes left them with a 4-1 defeat.
Chelsea: Fernando Torres
pounced on a Willian through
ball misplayed by the goalkeeper
to score the winner in stoppage
time of a 2-1 home victory over Manchester
City. Willian had replaced Andre Schurrle,
who scored his first Chelsea goal in the
33rd minute. Eden Hazard and Willian scored
late goals one minute apart to break open a
1-1 game and knock off Norwich City, 3-1.
Two Hazard goals bookended tallies by
Samuel Eto and Oscar in a 4-1 demolition
of Cardiff City.
Crystal Palace: Caretaker
manager Keith Millen, appointed
after the dismissal of Ian Holloway, debuted in a 2-0 home
loss to Arsenal. He made six
changes, including centerback
Danny Gabbidon, forward Marouane Chamakh (against his former club), and Adlene
Guedioura, whose foul produced the penalty
kick by which the Gunners went ahead. Holloway departed after a 4-1 home loss to Fulham
in which Adrian Mariappa headed home his
first Palace goal for a brief lead.
Everton: American keeper
Tim Howard repelled an early
penalty kick with a stunning onehand save, and Romelu Lukaku
and Leon Osman scored in the second half to
earn Everton a 2-0 win at Aston Villa. Osman
set up Lukakus goal in the 68th minute and
tallied himself 13 minutes later. Kevin Mirallas
scored in the eighth minute and set up the
winning goal in the 57th with a perfect cross
that Steven Pienaar, who had missed six
weeks with a hamstring injury, with his first
touch of the game. Howard tipped a penalty
kick onto the post, only for it to rebound off

his head and into the net as Everton fell, 3-1,

at Manchester City.
Fulham: The Cottagers fell
behind early at Crystal Palace, then
stormed back with goals from four
different players to take a 4-1 lead
10 minutes into the second half and
hold it the rest of the way. Goals by Pajtim
Kasami, Steve Sidwell, Dimitar Berbatov
and Philippe Senderos overshadowed the
appearance of Darren Bent, who chose a
loan deal with Fulham rather than a transfer
to Palace. Bents goal in the 83rd minute
downed Stoke City, 1-0, for Fulhams first
home win since April 1.
Hull City: Yannick Sagbo replaced Danny Graham in the 16th
minute and scored in the 30th to
forge a 1-1 tie at Everton, but the
Tigers conceded again in the second half
and were beaten, 2-1. Allan McGregors
four saves were only two fewer than the six
shots mustered by Hull at home in a 0-0 tie
with Aston Villa.
Liverpool: Luis Suarezs
fourth hat-trick of his tenure with
the club blew away West Bromwich Albion, 4-1. He scored five
minutes apart in the first half and
then again 10 minutes into the second period
to up his tally to 57 goals in 101 Liverpool
appearances. He also hit the crossbar with an
overhead kick. Equalizers by Steven Gerrard
(a penalty and his 100th League goal for the
club) and Daniel Sturridge earned a 2-2 tie
at Newcastle.
Manchester City: Keeper Joe
Harts mistimed challenge of a
through ball enabled Chelsea to
score a late winner in a 2-1 defeat
of City. Sergio Aguero had equalized early in
the second half. Aguero scored in each half
and David Villa added a clinching goal with
10 minutes remaining in a 3-1 win at West
Ham, and Aguero also scored as did Alvaro
Negredo in a 3-1 victory over Everton in
which Negredos equalizer came one minute
after City had fallen behind.
Manchester United: Wayne
Rooney and Javier Hernandez
headed goals two minutes apart
to rally United past Stoke City,
3-2. Robin van Persies goal in the 43rd
minute cancelled an early goal conceded but
United needed to come back again after falling behind on the stroke of halftime. Rooney
scored from van Persies corner kick in
the 78th minute and Hernandez tallied on a
Patrice Evra cross. Adnan Januzaj celebrated
his new five-year contract with a 50-yard ball
that set up van Persie to provide a 1-0 lead
against Southampton and he later tested the
keeper himself, but the defense went slack
late and conceded an equalizer in a 1-1 tie.
Newcastle United: Mathieu
Debuchy equalized with his first
goal for the Magpies but they faltered in the final minutes and lost
a derby match at Sunderland, 2-1. They failed
to hold two leads at home against Liverpool:
Yohan Cabaye scored midway through the
first half from long range and substitute Paul
Dummett, an emergency replacement for
red-carded Mapou Yanga-Mbiwas departure,
marked his third senior appearance with his
first goal in a 2-2 tie. Loic Remys two goals
within eight minutes propelled the Magpies
to a 2-1 victory at Cardiff City.
Norwich City: A lean spell for the
Canaries dropped them into 18th
place. They were held to a 0-0 tie

at home by Cardiff City. Jonathan Howsons

goal in the 70th minute at Arsenal triggered
a two-goal burst from the hosts and a 4-1
defeat, and Anthony Pilkingtons equalizer
at home against Chelsea prompted the same
response and a 3-1 loss.
Southampton: First-half headers by Rickie Lambert and Jay
Rodriguez along with a sixth clean
sheet of the season powered
the Saints past Fulham, 2-0, in a dominant
performance (20-2 advantage in shots). They
snagged a 1-1 tie at Manchester United when
Adam Lallana touched in a Dejan Lovren shot
in the 89th minute. Rodriguez and Lallana
were the scorers in a 2-0 defeat of Swansea
that was the Saints third straight victory.
Stoke City: One-goal leads at
Manchester United provided by
Peter Crouch and Marko Arnautovic
evaporated in a 3-2 defeat. Crouch
scored in the fourth minute and Arnautovic
struck a superb free kick just before halftime,
but in the end Stoke were denied in their attempt to win at Old Trafford for the first time
since 1976. A 0-0 tie at home against West
Bromwich Albion left them with just four goals
scored in their first eight league matches.
Sunderland: Manager Gus
Poyet won his home debut
thanks to a Fabio Borini goal.
The loanee from Liverpool
smashed home a shot in the 85th minute to
beat Newcastle United, 2-1. Steven Fletcher
headed the Black Cats a leading in the fifth
minute, and 16 minutes after coming on
as a sub Borini connected with US striker
Jozy Altidores layoff to hit the winner. The
Black Cats contributed two own goals and a
conceded penalty kick during a second-half
collapse and a 4-0 defeat at Swansea City.
Swansea City: The Swans
snapped an eight-match home
winless run by belting Sunderland,
4-0, with a lot of help. Own goals
sandwiched a fine strike by Jonathan de Guzman strike and a Wilfried Bony penalty kick.
Chico Flores header went off an opponent
for the final goal. Angel Rangel cleared a shot
off the goal line and the Swans also needed
four saves by keeper Michel Vorm to eke out
a 0-0 tie at home against West Ham.
Tottenham Hotspur: Roberto
Soldado converted his third matchwinning penalty kick of the season
to down Hull City, 1-0. Andros
Townsend scored with a cross that
skipped into the net and Soldado put away
a serve from Paulinho to ice a 2-0 win at
Aston Villa.
West Bromwich Albion: James
Morrisons penalty kick midway
through the second half gave the
Baggies a consolation goal in a 4-1
thumping at Liverpool. Claudio Yakobs goal
near the end of the first half was good enough
to secure a 1-1 tie at home against Arsenal.
West Ham United: Ricardo
Vaz Tes goal in the second
half cut a 2-0 deficit against
Manchester City in half, but the
Hammers could do no more on manager
Sam Allardyces birthday and were beaten,
3-1. The Hammers pounded Tottenham with
three goals in 13 minutes by Winston Reid,
Vaz Te and Ravel Morrison to win at White
Hart Lane, 3-0, for the first time since 1999.

DID YOU KNOW:

Just seven clubs have participated

in all 20 EPL seasons. Only Arsenal,
Aston Villa, Chelsea, Everton,
Liverpool, Manchester United,
and Tottenham have never been
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LEAGUE
TABLES
As of October 30

BARCLAYS PREMIER

Arsenal
Chelsea
Liverpool
Tottenham H
Southampton
Everton
Man City
Man United
Swansea City
Hull City
Newcastle U
West Brom
Aston Villa
Fulham
West Ham U
Cardiff City
Stoke City
Norwich City
Sunderland
Crystal Pal

P W D L F A GD Pts
9 7 1 1
20 9 11 22
9 6 2 1
16 6 10 20
9 6 2 1
17 8 9 20
9 6 1 2 9 5 4 19
9 5 3 1
10 3 7 18
9 5 3 1
14 10 4 18
9 5 1 3
21 11 10 16
9 4 2 3
14 12 2 14
9 3 2 4
12 11 1 11
9 3 2 4 7 10 -3 11
9 3 2 4
12 16 -4 11
9 2 4 3 8 10 -2 10
9 3 1 5 9 12 -3 10
9 3 1 5 9 12 -3 10
9 2 3 4 8 8 0 9
9 2 3 4 8 13 -5 9
9 2 2 5 6 10 -4 8
9 2 2 5 6 13 -7 8
9 1 1 7 7 21
-14 4
9 1 0 8 6 19
-13 3

nPower Championship

P W D L F A GD Pts
Burnley
13 10 2 1
24 7 17 32
Leicester City 13 9 2 2
21 13 8 29
Queens Pk R 13 8 4 1
14 6 8 28
Blackpool 13 6 6 1
16 11 5 24
Reading
13 6 5 2
20 12 8 23
Nottingham F 13 6 5 2
21 15 6 23
Watford
13 6 4 3
25 15 10 22
Derby Cty 13 5 4 4
25 21 4 19
Huddersfield 13 4 5 4
17 14 3 17
Leeds United 13 5 2 6
16 16 0 17
Bournemouth 13 5 2 6
20 27 -7 17
Blackburn R 13 4 4 5
19 16 3 16
Wigan Ath 12 4 4 4
14 11 3 16
Ipswich Town 13 4 4 5
19 17 2 16
Brighton
13 3 6 4
12 13 -1 15
Millwall
13 3 4 6
15 26
-11 13
Middlesbro 12 2 6 4
19 21 -2 12
Doncaster R 11 3 3 5
11 16 -5 12
Charlton Ath 12 2 5 5 9 14 -5 11
Birmingham 13 3 2 8
14 20 -6 11
Bolton Wan 13 1 7 5
11 20 -9 10
Yeovil Town 13 2 3 8 9 19
-10 9
Barnsley
13 2 3 8
15 30
-15 9
Sheffield Wed 12 0 8 4
12 18 -6 8

English League One

P W D L F A GD Pts
Leyton Orient 14 11 2 1 33 11 22 35
Wolverhmptn 13 10 2 1
25 8 17 32
Peterborough 14 10 2 2
24 9 15 32
Preston NE 14 7 5 2
22 15 7 26
Brentford
14 7 3 4
19 17 2 24
Bradford City 14 6 4 4
24 14 10 22
Walsall
14 6 4 4
17 14 3 22
Swindon T 14 6 2 6
24 18 6 20
Port Vale
14 6 2 6
19 19 0 20
Rotherham U 14 5 5 4
19 20 -1 20
Milton KD 14 5 4 5
23 20 3 19
Crawley T 13 5 4 4
18 19 -1 19
Coventry City 14 8 3 3
31 22 9 17
Colchester U 14 3 7 4
13 18 -5 16
Carlisle Utd 13 4 3 6
13 24
-11 15
Oldham Ath 14 4 2 8
18 22 -4 14
Stevenage B 14 4 2 8
15 21 -6 14
Shrewsbury T 14 2 7 5
13 16 -3 13
Gillingham 14 3 3 8
17 24 -7 12
Sheffield Utd 14 3 3 8
13 21 -8 12
Tranmere R 14 3 3 8
14 28
-14 12
Crewe Alex 14 3 3 8
12 31
-19 12
Notts County 14 3 1 10 17 26 -9 10
Bristol City 13 1 6 6
20 26 -6 9

English League Two

P W D L F A GD Pts
Oxford Utd 14 7 5 2
23 12 11 26
Rochdale
14 8 2 4
22 17 5 26
Fleetwood T 14 8 1 5
22 15 7 25
Chesterfield 14 7 4 3
20 13 7 25
Exeter City 14 7 3 4
18 14 4 24
Burton Albion 14 7 3 4
20 17 3 24
Newport
14 6 5 3
21 15 6 23
Dag & Red
14 6 5 3 21 18 3 23
Scunthorpe U 14 6 5 3
16 16 0 23
Morecambe 14 6 4 4
21 20 1 22
Wycombe W 14 6 3 5
20 17 3 21
Mansfield 14 5 6 3
15 12 3 21
Southend Utd 14 6 2 6
15 14 1 20
Hartlepool U 14 5 3 6
17 16 1 18
Portsmouth 14 4 6 4
21 21 0 18
Wimbledon 14 5 3 6
15 18 -3 18
Cheltenham T 14 4 4 6
19 25 -6 16
York City
14 4 3 7
19 22 -3 15
Plymouth A 14 4 3 7 9 15 -6 15
Bury
14 3 4 7
15 17 -2 13
Bristol Rov 14 2 5 7
11 18 -7 11
Torquay Utd 14 2 5 7
14 24
-10 11
Northampton 14 2 4 8
13 21 -8 10
Accrington 14 2 4 8
11 21
-10 10

Scottish Premiership

Celtic
Aberdeen
Inverness CT
Motherwell
Dundee Utd
St Johnstone
Hibernian
Partick Th
Ross County
Kilmarnock
Hearts
St Mirren

P W D L F A GD Pts
10 8 2 0
22 9 13 26
11 6 2 3
14 8 6 20
10 6 1 3
16 10 6 19
11 6 1 4
13 14 -1 19
11 4 4 3
16 8 8 16
11 4 3 4
17 13 4 15
11 4 3 4 9 11 -2 15
11 3 4 4
12 13 -1 13
10 3 1 6
11 20 -9 10
11 2 3 6
12 16 -4 9
11 2 2 7 7 16 -9 8
10 2 2 6 9 20
-11 8

Scottish Division 1

Get Your
Own
Waving
Queen
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P W D L F A GD Pts
Hamilton Ac 11 7 3 1
16 5 11 24
Raith Rovers 11 6 4 1
19 12 7 22
Dundee
11 6 2 3
20 12 8 20
Falkirk
11 4 3 4
15 12 3 15
Alloa Athletic 11 4 2 5
12 14 -2 14
Livingston 11 4 2 5
17 20 -3 14
Dumbarton 11 4 2 5
17 22 -5 14
Queen ot S
11 3 3 5 16 16 0 12
Cowdenbeath 11 3 2 6
15 21 -6 11
Morton
11 1 3 7
11 24
-13 6

Scottish Division 2

P W D L F A GD Pts
Rangers
10 10 0 0
42 5 37 30
Ayr United 11 5 4 2
19 14 5 19
Dunfermline 10 6 1 3
22 18 4 19
Stenhousemr 11 5 3 3
18 23 -5 18
Stranraer
11 4 2 5
14 17 -3 14
Brechin City 11 3 3 5
19 22 -3 12
Arbroath
11 4 0 7
19 27 -8 12
Forfar Ath 11 3 2 6
16 17 -1 11
East Fife
11 3 1 7 8 24
-16 10
Airdrie Utd 11 2 2 7
14 24
-10 8

Scottish Division 3

East Stirling
Stirling Alb
Clyde
Annan Ath
Montrose
Peterhead
Elgin City
Berwick Ran
Albion Rov
Queens Park

P W D L F A GD Pts
10 6 1 3
17 15 2 19
10 5 1 4
14 15 -1 16
10 5 1 4
11 12 -1 16
9 4 2 3
19 16 3 14
10 4 2 4
17 14 3 14
9 3 4 2
15 13 2 13
10 3 4 3
19 18 1 13
10 3 3 4
15 11 4 12
10 3 3 4
13 12 1 12
10 1 3 6
11 25
-14 6

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November 2013

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Compiled by Larry Gardner

England Get Ticket To Brazil

THE CONCLUSION of the 2014 World Cup

qualifying matches, October 11 and 14,
saw England finish their schedule with two
victories that qualified them for their 14th
World Cup, appearing at the finals for a fifth
consecutive time. Against Montenegro at
Wembley, it took them a little time to get
the motor running, but a Wayne Rooney
goal just after the break set the stage for a
4-1 win. A Boskovic own goal made it two,
Andros Townsend, making his international
debut, made it three in the 78th minute, and
Daniel Sturridge put a penalty away in the
final minute. England needed to beat Poland
to qualify, as a point distant Ukraine, were
away to Europes minnows San Marino,
(eventually winning 8-0.) Some 20,000 Poles
made it to Wembley, but Wayne Rooney
broke their hearts in the 14th minute. The
spirited Poles caused a fairly open game,
and coach Roy Hodgson, commented he
died a thousand times, every-time Poland,
crossed the half-way line. Steven Gerrard
put it beyond doubt two minutes from time
to give England a ticket to Brazil with a 2-0
victory. Roy Hodgson who took Switzerland
to the World Cup in 1994, and the European
Championship in 1996, confessed it was
the proudest moment of his football career.

The Home Nations Finish On

Positive Note

Scotland ended their schedule at Hampden Park, when they claimed their first home
victory in Group A. Robert Snodgrass edged
them ahead of Croatia in the 28th minute,
Barry Bannan missed a penalty in the 72nd
minute, but Steven Naismith scored seconds
later. Gordon Strachan was happy with the
2-0 result, and sees Scotland as qualifiers
in the 2016 Euro-championships At the
Cardiff City Stadium, Simon Church cracked
in a winner on the 67th minute, while Aaron

Ramsey should have made it two five minutes from time, but he missed a penalty.
It was Chris Colemans first win as Welsh
coach, as Wales prevailed 1-0 over FYR
Macedonia. In Brussels, the Welsh faced the
most improved side in Europe, but held on
until De Bruyne put Belgium ahead in the 64th
minute. Aaron Ramsey equalized just before
the final whistle for a 1-1 result. Little bit of
Welsh football history occurred near the end
when Harry Wilson came on as substitute.
Wilson, a Liverpool Academy player at just
16 years and 207 days old became the
youngest player to ever appear for Wales
Northern Ireland went 2-0 down at Baku,
against Azerbajian, and Jonny Evans got
his marching order in the final minute. At Tel
Aviv, Israel took the lead two minutes before
the break, while Steven Davis leveled it for
the Irish in the 72 minute for a 1-1 tie.

Klinsmanns US Squad Qualifies

Top Of The Concacaf Group
The United States have already qualified
for Brazil, but won the remaining two games
with Jurgen Klinsmann giving some of his
second tier players some game time. At
Kansas City they beat Jamaica 2-0, courtesy
of Graham Zusi in the 77th minute, while four
minutes later Jozy Altiidore made it two. In
Panama City, the central Americans took the
lead in the 18th minute, while Michael Orozco
equalized in the 64th minute. Panama made it
2-1 with six minutes to go, then Graham Zusi
and Aron Johanssen scored in injury time to
give the Americans a 3-2 victory. The USA,
Costa Rica, and Honduras qualified from
the CONCACAF section, while fourth placed
Mexico will meet Oceania winners, New
Zealand, in a play-off for a World Cup place.
Mexico went through their third manager
during this qualifying stage, when Victor
Manuel Vuceta, resigned, after engaging in
a screaming match with TV Azteca announcer
Christian Martinolli, on how the US victory
in Panama had given Mexico a World Cup
life-line.
Those qualified for the Brazil finals late
October are; Belgium, Bosnia-Hervegovina,
England, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands,
Russia, Switzerland Spain, plus Australia,
Argentina, Chile, Columbia, Ecuador, Iran,
South Korea, the USA, Costa Rica and
Honduras.
Continued on page 14

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Beckhams Mission
Was To Be Famous
By Rob Harris
A DECADE after kicking a boot at David
Beckhams head, Alex Ferguson used his
autobiography to criticize the stars apparent
pre-occupation with fame.
At Manchester United, Ferguson developed Beckham into one of the worlds most
recognizable sportsmen, but the midfielder
left United in 2003 for Real
Madrid under a cloud after his
relationship with the manager
broke down.
David was the only player
I managed who chose to be
famous, who made it his mission
to be known outside the game,
the 71-year-old Ferguson wrote
in his autobiography, released
last month. I felt uncomfortable with the celebrity aspect
of his life.
By moving to the Los Angeles Galaxy in 2007 after four
years at Madrid, Ferguson said Beckham
surrendered a part of his career.
In the 2002-03 season, Ferguson had concerns that Beckhams application level had
dropped and his work-rate was dropping.
There was no way back after the February
2003 match against Arsenal. Ferguson was
unhappy that Beckham neglected to track
back when Arsenal scored its second goal
in a 2-0 win.
In the dressing room, Ferguson recalls
Beckham swearing nearby before the boot
flew.
I moved towards him, and as I approached I kicked a boot. It hit him right
above the eye, Ferguson recalled. Of
course he rose to have a go at me and the
players stopped him.
After that, Ferguson told the board that
Beckham had to leave.
WAYNE ROONEY
The final days of Fergusons reign were
overshadowed by Rooney asking to leave
United due to his lack of playing time. The
transfer request was refused by successor
David Moyes.
In the book, Ferguson recalled Rooney
telling him United should have signed Germany playmaker Mesut Ozil in 2010 before
he joined Real Madrid from Werder Bremen.
My reply was that it was none of his
business who we should have gone for,
Ferguson wrote.
Do you think I would drop Wayne
Rooney if he was playing the way he is now?
Absolutely no way, Ferguson said at the
Institute of Directors in London.
ROY KEANE
In the book Ferguson criticizes the savage tongue of former captain Roy Keane,
who was forced out of United in 2005 after
the Irishmans rant against his teammates and
assistant coach Carlos Queiroz on Uniteds
television channel. The interview has never
been aired.
I just couldnt lose my control in this
situation, Ferguson said last month. If I
had let it pass and allowed it to happen the

players would have viewed me differently

... throughout my career I have been strong
enough to deal with important issues like
that. Roy overstepped his mark. There was
no other thing we could do.
Keane accused Ferguson of bringing his
dispute with shareholder John Magnier over
a racehorse into the club.
ENGLAND JOB
As a Scotsman who briefly
coached his country at the
1986 World Cup, Ferguson
was never going to take charge
of rival England.
The English Football Association tried twice. First,
in 1999 before Kevin Keegan
took charge, and again the
following year before SvenGoran Eriksson was hired.
It wasnt a bed of nails I
was ever tempted to lie on,
Ferguson wrote.
Later on, Ferguson was irritated by Englands medical staff turning up at Uniteds
training ground to check on players.
Often I felt that this was an insult to us,
Ferguson wrote. I wondered whether my
Scottishness was a factor, a reason not to
trust me.

BARCLAYS PREMIER
FIXTURES FOR THE MONTH
Saturday, November 2
Newcastle v Chelsea
Fulham v Man Utd
Hull v Sunderland
Man City v Norwich
Stoke v Southampton
West Brom v Crystal Palace
West Ham v Aston Villa
Arsenal v Liverpool
Sunday, November 3
Everton v Tottenham
Cardiff v Swansea
Saturday, November 9
Aston Villa v Cardiff
Chelsea v West Brom
Crystal Palace v Everton
Liverpool v Fulham
Southampton v Hull
Norwich v West Ham
Sunday, November 10
Tottenham v Newcastle
Sunderland v Man City
Man Utd v Arsenal
Swansea v Stoke
Saturday, November 23
Everton v Liverpool
Arsenal v Southampton
Fulham v Swansea
Hull v Crystal Palace
Newcastle v Norwich
Stoke v Sunderland
West Ham v Chelsea
Sunday, November 24
Man City v Tottenham
Cardiff v Man Utd
Monday, November 25
West Brom v Aston Villa
Saturday, November 30
Aston Villa v Sunderland
Cardiff v Arsenal
Everton v Stoke
Norwich v Crystal Palace
West Ham v Fulham
Newcastle v West Brom
Sunday, December 1
Tottenham v Man Utd
Hull v Liverpool
Chelsea v Southampton
Man City v Swansea

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Faces Doubtful
Future

ENGLISH and French clubs are working

towards a new configuration of European
rugby by pulling out of the Heineken Cup.
They intend to set up a Rugby Champions Cup
excluding Welsh, Irish and Scottish teams.
This has predictably caused fury among the
Celtic nations and they have announced that
their sides will not play in any competition not
authorised by the International Rugby Board.
Currently twenty-four sides contest the
Heineken Cup, seven from France, six from
England, with Ireland (4), Wales (3) and
Scotland and Italy having two apiece.
The problem of what will happen next year
is already being felt. A couple of Welsh players,
Sam Warburton and Leigh Halfpenny find their
contracts running out next summer but do not
know where to go. The bigger rugby market
obviously lies in France and England with 50
million followers, five times as many as in the
rest of the Europe.
Both men play for Cardiff Blues but uncertainty over the Heineken Cup has meant that
neither can be offered new contracts since the
cub cannot be sure how much money will be
generated next year.
A similar situation arose in 1999, four years
after rugby went professional, when Cardiff
and Swansea opted out of a Welsh league to
play English clubs in friendlies. It lasted only a
year but caused much ill feeling. There seems
no easy way out of the current impasse. One
thing is certain, as far as Cardiff captain Matthew Rees is concerned, that Wales will lose
its top players,
International players in Wales want to be
playing in the best competition available to
them and, as far as Im concerned, thats got
to involve the (top European teams). Thats
the only way you can do it.
All Blacks Win The Championship
Down under, the Rugby Championship
was won by reigning World Champions, New
Zealand. Their final game was a thrilling 38-27
victory over South Africa. This came despite
the fact that for a quarter of the game, they
played with a man short, having lost Liam
Messam and Ben Franks to yellow cards.
There were nine tries in all, with the All
Blacks having the extra one. The key moment came when Brian Habana was forced
off through injury after scoring two tries. The
Boks lost their attacking edge and never
found it again.
Australia were playing for pride in their
final game against Argentina in Rosario. They
turned on the heat and ran out 17-54 winners,
with Israel Folau to thank for three of their six
tries. The Wallabies came third behind the
Springboks in the Championship table leaving
Argentina with the wooden spoon.
Tatafu Polota-Nau will return to the Aussie
squad for the autumn UK tour. The bruising
forward has suffered a broken arm and a hamstring injury which denied him the opportunity
of being mauled by the Lions!
Can Wales win this time?
It will be intriguing to see if Wales can get a
win this month. They havent won an autumn
international at the Millennium Stadium since
beating Samoa in 2009. This year they are
facing South Africa, Tonga, Argentina and
Australia. They should be able to scrape a
couple of wins there in the middle two games.
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Fiji Brushes Aside Ireland 32-14

WINGER Akuila Uate scored three tries and

had another disallowed as Fiji ran over Ireland
32-14 in the Rugby League World Cup at its
home away from home last month.
The result put Fiji, a semifinalist in 2008,
on course for the quarterfinals. The top three
from Group A, which includes Australia and
England, advance.