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Downing Street
goes to the dogs
A Jack Russell that just weeks ago was
facing almost certain death after being
abandoned by dog traders will today
take up residence in one of the most
famous addresses in the world after
being adopted by Boris Johnson and
Carrie Symonds. It will join the Prime
Minister and his girlfriend – as well as
the notoriously territorial Larry the cat
– in Downing Street. The 15-week-old
dog was rescued by a charity after a
tip-off that it was being abandoned.
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news
Far-Right falls short in
key German elections
The nationalist Alternative for
Germany party (AfD) has failed to
make a widely forecast breakthrough
in key regional elections, easing
pressure on Angela Merkel, the
German chancellor. The AfD made
significant gains in two states in the
former communist east, but fell short
of winning first place amid a late surge
for the established parties. Mrs
Merkel’s Christian Democrats held on
in Saxony, according to initial
projections, despite suffering its worst
ever result in its former stronghold,
and it must now try to form a coalition.
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comment
William Sitwell
Britain has
ingredients
to be the
world’s
tastiest
nation
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business
US bidder dismisses
Cobham security fears
The US private equity house behind a
£4bn bid for defence contractor
Cobham has dismissed fears the deal
would threaten national security.
Advent International said “this is not
some sort of nefarious deal to sell to
the Russians or Chinese”, and played
down claims jobs would go overseas.
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Puzzles 18
Obituaries 27
TV listings 29
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during dramatic
North London derby
PM warns
rebel MPs:
back me or
be sacked
Tories who defy Johnson by trying to stop
no-deal Brexit will be expelled from party
By Christopher Hope
CHief politiCal Correspondent
BORIS JOHNSON delivered an ultima-
tum to Philip Hammond and other
rebel Tory MPs last night, warning
they will be expelled from the party if
they join forces with Jeremy Corbyn to
try to halt a no-deal Brexit this week.
In a plan agreed by a dozen whips
and Mr Johnson over lunch at Cheq-
uers yesterday, any Tory MP who de-
fies No  10 will lose the party whip and
be banned from standing at a future
election. The ultimatum could see a
host of former ministers fighting to
block a no-deal outcome – including
Mr Hammond, David Gauke, David
Lidington, Margot James, Anne Milton
and Sam Gyimah – effectively “purged”.
A senior source in the Whips’ Office
said: “The whips are telling Conserva-
tive MPs a very simple message: if they
fail to vote with the Government on
Tuesday, they will be destroying the
Government’s negotiating position and
handing control of Parliament to Jer-
emy Corbyn.
“Any Conservative MP who does this
will have the whip withdrawn and will
not stand as a Conservative candidate
in an election.
“There is a chance of a deal on Oct 17
only because Brussels realises the
Prime Minister is totally committed to
leaving on Oct 31 ... all MPs face a simple
choice [tomorrow]: to vote with the
Government and preserve the chance
of a deal or vote with Corbyn and
destroy any chance of a deal.”
Mr Johnson’s threat comes in a week
Heart checks to be available on high streets Watson faces calls to quit
By Laura Donnelly
HealtH editor in Paris
SHOPPERS are to be offered on-the-
spot NHS heart checks to detect signs
of killer conditions.
High street pharmacies will be over-
hauled under a plan to prevent up to
150,000 heart attacks and strokes
within a decade.
England’s most senior doctor said
the new approach would be a “game
changer”, helping to identify risks far
earlier, with advice on lifestyle over-
hauls, as well as targeted medication.
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which will define his Brexit ambitions,
with John Bercow, the Commons
Speaker, set to hand control of the par-
liamentary agenda to opposition MPs
so they can pass a law to force the Gov-
ernment to delay Brexit.
Ejecting as many as 21 Tory MPs from
the party would decisively wipe out Mr
Johnson’s Commons majority and set
him on course for an autumn general
election. But the Tory leader will hope
that his “take it or leave it” offer, com-
bined with his decision to break off
talks, will put pressure on the rebels –
who now have to choose between end-
ing their political careers over a plan
which may run out of time if it fails to
clear the Lords by next week.
Michael Gove, the Cabinet Office
minister, suggested Mr Johnson could
even ignore any law forced on his Gov-
ernment that tries to keep the UK in the
EU after Oct 31. He told the Andrew
Marr Show on BBC One that the Gov-
ernment would “wait and see” what
legislation was put forward.
Labour is also expected to agree its
plans at a meeting of the shadow cabi-
net, hours after former leader Tony
Blair is set to warn his party not to sup-
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port a general election until a no-deal
Brexit is ruled out.
Mr Johnson had initially planned to
meet the rebels today to discuss their
concerns. But that was abruptly can-
celled last night, citing a “diary clash”.
No  10 then offered a one-to-one be-
tween Mr Johnson and Mr Hammond,
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Next month, chemists will begin roll-
ing out the “rapid detection service”,
medical director, said: “Heart disease
and strokes dramatically cut short
By Robert Mendick CHief reporter influenced by Mr Watson’s pursuit of
historic sex abuse allegations. It is un-
which will include checks on blood
pressure and cholesterol levels, along
lives, and leave thousands of people
disabled every year, so rapid detection
TOM WATSON is preparing to face
calls to quit as Labour’s deputy leader
derstood to express concern that police
may have felt under pressure.
with mobile electrocardiograms to of killer conditions through high street in the wake of a damning report into The 150-page report is due to be
spot irregular heartbeats. If successful, heart checks will be a game-changer.” the catastrophic police inquiry into a published within a fortnight – although
it will be extended to every pharmacist The plans, launched to coincide with Westminster paedophile ring. victims fear the Met Police may try to
in the country by 2022. the world’s biggest heart conference, Mr Watson has attempted to mini- slip it out on a day dominated by Brexit,
Pilot schemes have seen some types follow proposals to scrap “one size fits mise his contacts with Carl Beech, a in order to minimise its impact.
of strokes fall by a quarter. all” health MOTs at GP surgeries. fantasist now serving 18 years in jail for The report will be devastating for
Pharmacists will be expected to ad- In future, GPs will be expected to in- perverting the course of justice, fraud Scotland Yard and raise serious ques-
vise on exercise and diet, with results creasingly target checks on those and paedophile offences. tions about senior officers.
passed directly to GPs, who can pre- thought to be at greatest risk, due to But a report written by Sir Richard Mr Watson has tried to distance him-
scribe the right medication. their medical and genetic history, Henriques, a retired High Court judge, self from Beech, who was widely
Prof Stephen Powis, NHS England Continued on Page 2 will suggest that police were heavily Continued on Page 2
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Record 336 migrants cross Channel
By Alex Shipman
MORE than 300 migrants were found
crossing the Channel last month – a
greater number than in the whole of
last year.
On Saturday, boats containing 66
men, women and children were inter-
cepted along the Kent coast – taking
the tally to 336, a record monthly fig-
ure, according to the BBC.
In 2018, 297 people were caught at-
tempting to cross the Channel.
One of the four vessels intercepted
on Saturday was carrying 27 adults and
eight children, the Home Office said.
Border Force officials were alerted to
a small boat in the Channel at about
Corbyn plans
to force private
landlords to
sell to tenants
By Christopher Hope
PRIVATE landlords could be forced to
sell their properties to their tenants in a
new “right to buy” scheme being
worked on by Jeremy Corbyn.
An investigation by the Financial
Times said the plan was intended to
“penalise wealthy landlords”.
During his campaign for the Labour
leadership in 2015 Mr Corbyn put for-
ward his own plan to extend the right
to buy to the private rented sector. He
suggested funding subsidised mort-
gages for private tenants by withdraw-
ing £14 billion of tax allowances that
were at the time given to buy-to-let
landlords.
The policy is thought to be modelled
on plans introduced in the Eighties by
Margaret Thatcher’s government,
which allowed council house tenants
to buy their homes. The policy was
aimed squarely at supporting the so-
‘I believe this idea could
open up the possibility of
real secure housing for
many faced with insecurity’
called “generation rent” – those peo-
ple, mainly in their 20s and 30s, who
are increasingly unable to get a foot on
the property ladder as prices soar.
Mr Corbyn said in 2015: “We have
seen some good ideas from Labour to
establish more secure tenancies for
renters. Now we need to go further and
think of new ways to get more people
into secure housing.
“So why not go with right to buy,
with the same discounts as offered by
way of subsidised mortgage rates, but
for private tenants and funded by with-
drawing the £14 billion tax allowances
currently given to buy-to-let landlords?
“I believe this idea could open up the
possibility of real secure housing for
many currently faced with insecurity.”
A Labour Party spokesman was ap-
proached for comment last night.
Watson’s involvement in Beech case may
have influenced Met Police, report claims
Continued from Page 1
known as “Nick”. In a statement after
Beech’s conviction, Mr Watson insisted
“I met the man I knew as ‘Nick’ once”
and that he encouraged him to take his
allegations to Scotland Yard.
Mr Watson neglected to mention
that he remained in email contact with
Beech, who told police that he was
“part of the little group supporting me”.
It is understood that Sir Richard’s re-
port will suggest that Mr Watson’s in-
volvement influenced their decision to
take Beech’s claims seriously.
Beech, 51, had claimed in interviews
that he had witnessed the murders of
three children by a VIP paedophile ring
whose members included Lord Brittan,
the former home secretary, Edward
Heath, the former prime minister and
Field Marshal Lord Bramall. Police said
his claims were “credible and true”.
A second report written by Sir Rich-
ard will underline Mr Watson’s alleged
interference in a separate claim made
by a woman known as “Jane”. The
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5.35am on Saturday. They deployed the
cutter HMC Seeker, along with a
coastal patrol.
The boat was found to contain 35 mi-
grants – 29 males and six females – who
told officials they originated from
countries including Iran, Iraq, Afghan-
istan, Syria and Kuwait.
French authorities made Border
Force aware of a second vessel heading
towards Kent at about the same time.
This boat contained 16 people, includ-
ing six men, five women and five chil-
dren. Fifteen said they were Iranian,
the other claimed to be Lebanese.
One of the women on board was
taken to hospital for treatment but has
since been discharged. Four hours
TERRY HARRIS
Moving heaven and Earth Extinction Rebellion (XR) staged a “die-in” at Peterborough Cathedral on Saturday as part of its
campaign against climate change. Activists lay down for 11 minutes under the Gaia Earth installation inside the cathedral,
before a talk by Dr Rupert Read, the Green Party campaigner and XR spokesman, on climate catastrophe.
woman had claimed she was raped by
Lord Brittan in the Sixties. Police con-
cluded there was no evidence and
found glaring inconsistencies in her
account. But Mr Watson was accused
of deliberately undermining the first
inquiry, writing to the director of pub-
‘His attempt to apologise…
in the wake of the guilty
verdict is disingenuous
and untruthful’
lic prosecutions to complain that the
case had been dropped. It was reo-
pened and Lord Brittan was questioned
under caution in June 2014, seven
months before he died. He was never
told that he did not face charges.
Victims of Beech’s lies are expected
to call for Mr Watson to step down as
deputy Labour leader when the report
is published. It was written in 2016 but
Scotland Yard only made public a heav-
later, at around 9.55am, Border Force
was alerted to a rigid-inflatable boat in
the middle of the Channel containing
seven people – five men, a woman and
a child who all claimed to be Iranian.
All three migrant vessels were taken
to Dover.
Another boat reached Kingsdown,
near Deal in Kent, where eight men
were passed on to immigration officers
after being held by police.
Coastguard and rescue teams were
sent from Folkestone and Deal to assist
operations.
A spokesman for the Coastguard said
the crews were helping to rescue those
in trouble and bring them to safety,
where they would be “handed over to
ily redacted version that makes no
mention of Mr Watson.
It is not clear if a second part of the
report into “Jane’s” false claim of rape
will be made public but there will be
clamour for that to be released as well.
Both reports, when pieced together,
are said to be very damaging for Mr
Watson and will raise serious concerns.
Mr Watson has denied he was in-
volved in any form of support group for
Beech and that he made no judgment
on whether he believed his claims.
But when Lord Brittan died in Janu-
ary 2015, Mr Watson – quoting an email
from Beech whom he described as a
“survivor” – wrote in a tabloid newspa-
per: “Yesterday, one survivor said to
me that … [Brittan] was ‘as close to evil
as a human being could get’.”
Lord Brittan’s widow has said: “It is
too late for Tom Watson to apologise
but his attempt to distance himself
from the false allegations of Carl Beech
in the wake of the guilty verdict is dis-
ingenuous and untruthful.”
the relevant partner emergency ser-
vices or authorities”
A Home Office spokesman said:
“Crossing the Channel in a small boat is
a huge risk.”
The record figure of migrants found
crossing the Channel in August
emerged following a meeting between
Priti Patel, the Home Secretary, and
Christophe Castaner, her French coun-
terpart, in Paris on Thursday, which
was arranged in response to the soar-
ing rise in crossings.
They agreed to develop an “en-
hanced action plan” to prevent boats
containing migrants leaving France.
The Home Office spokesman added:
“This week the Home Secretary and
Tests will turn pharmacies
into ‘local health hubs’
Continued from Page 1
while routine screening tests are of-
fered by pharmacists.
Heart attacks, strokes and circula-
tory diseases account for 160,000
deaths in the UK every year.
Speaking at the European Society for
Cardiology (ESC) conference, in Paris,
Professor Bryan Williams, author of its
guidelines on disease prevention, said:
“Heart disease and stroke remain the
most important cause of premature
death. The key is early detection of
those at risk. Doing this is a way that is
convenient for the public, not having
to wait for a GP appointment.”
Dexter Canoy, clinical epidemiolo-
gist at the University of Oxford, said:
“We need ways to target the people
who aren’t seeing their GP regularly,
middle-aged men who think they’re
healthy but haven’t been checked.”
The checks are part of a £13 billion
five-year contract for community phar-
macists to expand their roles.
More than 100 pharmacies in Chesh-
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her French counterpart agreed to in-
tensify joint action to tackle small boat
crossings in the Channel.
“This includes drawing up an en-
hanced action plan to deploy more re-
sources along the French coast to
intercept and stop crossings.”
Police said on Thursday that the
body of a man who fell from a boat off
Ramsgate on Aug 9 had been found.
The Iraqi migrant, who is believed to
have drowned while trying to swim to
Britain, was found at a wind farm off
the Belgian coast on Aug 23.
The Home Office said since January
it had returned to the Continent more
than 65 people who had arrived after
crossing in small boats.
ire and Merseyside have begun offer-
ing blood pressures screening services
under a local initiative backed by the
British Heart Foundation.
Pilot schemes in Lambeth and South-
wark in South London identified more
than 1,400 patients suffering from
atrial fibrillation – an irregular heart
rhythm – who should have been taking
blood thinning drugs, but were not. In
total, 1,300 of the patients have now
been put on the medication, leading to
a 25 per cent reduction in the rate of
strokes linked to their heart condition.
Keith Ridge, England’s chief phar-
maceutical officer, said: “This new con-
tract makes the most of the clinical
skills of local pharmacists and estab-
lishes pharmacies as local health hubs.”
Simon Gillespie, chief executive of
the British Heart Foundation, said:
“Reaching more people and encourag-
ing them to check their blood pressure,
working with them to lower it where
necessary, will play a critical role in
saving lives.”
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Commuters face travel
misery as strikes begin
Rail passengers returning to work
after their summer break today face
travel disruption because of a rail
strike in the long-running dispute over
guards on trains.
Members of the Rail, Maritime and
Transport union on South Western
Railway (SWR) have begun a four-day
walkout. Some trains will be cancelled,
others replaced with buses and fewer
services will run into London
Waterloo.
SWR said it planned to run just over
half its normal timetabled service over
the course of the strikes, and advised
passengers to check its app for travel
updates.
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Majority of consultant
doctors suffer fatigue
Almost all consultant doctors suffer
from work-related fatigue, a survey
suggests.
A total of 3,847 consultants in
anaesthesia and paediatric intensive
care medicine in the UK and Ireland
responded to a survey and 91 per cent
said they experienced work-related
fatigue, while 50 per cent said this had
a moderate or severe impact on their
health, wellbeing, work and home life,
according to the findings published in
the journal Anaesthesia.
Dr Emma Plunkett, of Queen
Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, said:
“The impact of fatigue continues to be
a major area of concern.”
BA may strip striking
pilots of travel allowance
British Airways is contemplating
stripping striking pilots of their travel
allowances perk as they prepare for
next week’s walkouts, according to
The Times.
Hundreds of passengers have
endured flight cancellations before the
pilot walkouts scheduled for Sept 9, 10
and 27. Staff who have been employed
by the carrier for more than six
months can obtain standby tickets for
themselves and up to three family
members for 10 per cent of the fare.
Airline bosses are now looking at
removing travel perks for striking
pilots for a set period.
Baby girl attacked by
grandfather’s dog
A baby girl was airlifted to hospital
after she was mauled by her
grandfather’s Staffordshire bull terrier.
The child was attacked at a house in
Mynydd Isa, Flintshire, North Wales,
on Saturday afternoon and airlifted to
Alder Hey in Liverpool for treatment.
The baby’s grandfather, who has not
been named, told North Wales Live
that she was bitten on the head.
“The baby was playing in the back
room when she banged her finger and
screamed,” he said. The child was due
to have a scan yesterday and had been
“playing with toys in the hospital”, he
added. “I have signed the dog over. It
is going to be destroyed,” he said.
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Downing St’s new

residents may fight
like cats and dogs
By Hayley Dixon have been in place for weeks and the
puppy has been living in a foster home
JUST weeks ago, this Jack Russell alongside a cat to get it ready to share
was facing almost certain death, territory with Larry, the notorious
abandoned by dog traders who Chief Mouser.
thought that a misaligned jaw But Mr Johnson and Miss Symonds
would mean that it would never will not escape the checks every per-
find a home. son adopting a dog has to have.
But today the puppy is taking Ms Jones will be carrying out

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up residence in one of the most home checks and will en-
famous addresses in the world af- sure “everything is being
ter being adopted by Boris John- done in the same way as
son and Carrie Symonds. It will every other adoption”.
join the Prime Minister and his Ms Jones said: “He
girlfriend – as well as Larry the has been living with a
cat – in Downing Street. cat for a few weeks
The 15-week-old dog was and from my under-
rescued by Eileen Jones, who standing there are a
runs Friends of Animals lot of things in place
Wales, after a tip off that the for training. He is
animal had an undershot jaw only a baby so he is
and was being abandoned. going to be very
Ms Jones said she often workable and he is a
received calls about puppies delightful little pup. The 15-week-old permanent resident at No 10, the puppy Ms Jones, said that he was “over-
that were at risk and would “I think he will set- Jack Russell puppy will belong to Miss Symonds and Mr whelmed” that the couple had chosen
go to meet the tipsters in lay- tle in fine although has been living in a Johnson and live with them at No 11. to draw attention to the work of smaller
bys to rescue the animals. there may be more issues foster home with The couple is said to have chosen the volunteer-led charities.
Her volunteer-run charity on the side of the cat, but as another cat in dog to highlight strict new anti-puppy “Lucy’s Law is now being high-
specialises in taking sick dogs long as the puppy learns who preparation for it farming legislation, which comes into lighted by the Prime Minister and that
and arranges for them to be fos- is boss – the cat – then every- meeting Larry, force in April. is being seen by the world and hope-
tered before a permanent home thing will be fine.” though it will live Named Lucy’s Law after a Cavalier fully they will take notice,” he said.
can be found. It thought that if the Mr Johnson’s suggestion with the Prime King Charles spaniel that died after it “They have saved a life and it will
puppy had not been rescued by Ms of getting a dog at Downing Minister and Carrie was rescued from a puppy farm, it bans save so many others as it will open peo-
Jones it would have been shot. Street was said to have been Symonds at No 11 the sale of kittens and puppies from ple’s minds.”
Ms Jones, 66, will be delivering welcomed enthusiastically third parties, meaning buyers must The Government passed the legisla-
the Jack Russell today along with by staff, some of whom are deal with breeders directly. tion in May and Wales has since fol-
one of her volunteer coordinators said to have offered to Marc Abrahams, the TV vet who has lowed suit, with pressure on to
and the person who has been fos- help with walks. led the campaign for Lucy’s Law and Scotland to introduce similar restric-
tering it. Plans for the adoption Unlike Larry, who is a who put Miss Symonds in touch with tions on puppy farming.

Thames is back from the dead as seal pups thrive on its shores
By Jessica Carpani
THE river Thames in 1957, was so heav-
ily polluted that it was declared “bio-
logically dead”, leaving little hope for
natural life in its waters.
But now, more than 60 years after
the Natural History Museum’s procla-
mation, experts have counted more
than 100 seal pups on the river’s shores.
Scientists from the Zoological Soci-
ety of London (ZSL), an international
conservation charity, were “thrilled” to
discover 138 pups on the sandbanks
and creeks of the river in the first com-
prehensive count of the offspring.
Using a light aircraft, they were able
to capture images of harbour seals dur-
ing pupping season. The count is evi-
dence that the river’s ecosystem has
come back from the brink after the mu-
seum said its low oxygen levels and
polluted waters would mean nothing
could survive in its murky tides.
The pioneering research took place
in 2018, with the data released for the
first time today. Scientists analysed
hundreds of photos taken as part of a
UK-wide seal monitoring initiative.
Explaining the decision to base the
count on photographs, ZSL said it was
“much easier, and so more accurate, to
count the seals in photos instead of the
constantly moving, playful creatures”.
The figures are good news for the
harbour seal population, which was
decimated by outbreaks of Phocine Dis-
temper Virus (PDV) in 1988 and 2002.
Anna Cucknell, who leads ZSL’s
Thames conservation, said: “Incredi-
bly, harbour seal pups can swim within
hours of birth, which means they are
well adapted to grow up in tidal estuar-
ies like the Thames. By the time the
tide comes in they can swim away on it.
Grey seals, on the other hand, take
longer to be comfortable in the water,
so breed elsewhere and come to the
Thames later to feed.”
Thames seal population estimates
have been conducted annually by ZSL
since 2013. The most recent results,
from 2017, recorded 1,104 harbour seals
and 2,406 grey seals.
Other species are also thriving in the
river’s ecosystem, including over 100
species of fish, two types of shark,
short-snouted seahorses and the criti-
cally endangered European eel.
But, experts warn that marine life re-
mains threatened. Last year, the RSPCA
told The Telegraph that it was the worst
year for seals encountering “horrify-
ing” plastic-related injuries.
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Parliament prorogued

Gaukeward squad
faces stark choice
as Labour dithers Alistair
Burt
Former foreign
office minister
Samuel
Gyimah
Former universities
minister
Anne
Milton
Former education
minister
Rory
Stewart
Former international
development secretary

week ahead. Sir Keir Starmer, the

Tory rebels will stick to Day by day How explosive shadow Brexit secretary, suggested the
week might play out party should focus on passing laws to
principles, source says, but prevent no deal, rather than forcing a
opposition remains Today Commons confidence vote in Mr Johnson that
divided over next move Boris Johnson agenda to vote could result in a general election.
had offered to on and pass the Sir Keir fears that in the event of an
By Christopher Hope meet Philip no-deal law. election – which would lead to the sus-
and Danielle Sheridan Hammond, the Possible pension of Parliament – the UK could
ex-chancellor outcomes? leave the EU automatically on Oct 31
IF THE Tory rebels had their way, they and leader of Rebel MPs who with no way of MPs preventing it.
would be holding a series of meetings the Tory rebels. defy the Tory He told The Andrew Marr Show:
today with Boris Johnson to seek assur- But this and a whip will be “What we’re not going to do is allow
ances over his Brexit plans. larger meeting expelled from Boris Johnson, on top of what he’s al- David Greg
But last night the Prime Minister with all 21 Tory the party. ready done, to say, ‘well, I’ll arrange Lidington Clark
cancelled the meetings and instead rebels was Wednesday things so that we crash out during the
presented the rebels with a simple ulti- cancelled last If MPs have course of a general election, which I,
Former ‘de facto’ Former business
matum: back him or side with Jeremy night. taken control of Boris Johnson, may not win.’”
deputy prime minister secretary
Corbyn’s plan to stop no deal and lose The MPs have the order paper, On Sky News, John McDonnell, the
the Tory whip. been warned opposition shadow chancellor, proposed pushing
Those rebels now have 24 hours to that if they vote politicians with for a confidence vote as early as this
mull the take-it-or-leave-it offer before for a Bill to Tory rebels will
Labour is expected to begin its attempt
to have Parliament legislate to prevent
block a new
deal, they will
try to pass a law
to block no deal.
‘We have moved beyond the NO DEAL ...
point when threats or gongs
no deal.
The tactic was deployed at the end of
a day which began with David Gauke –
be expelled
from the party.
Former Labour
Mr Johnson is
set to debate Mr
Corbyn for the
will persuade people to OR NO JOB
the leader of the so-called rebel
“Gaukeward squad” – suggesting that
PM Tony Blair
will urge
first time in the
Commons.
abandon their principles’ NEXT WEEK?
he was prepared to lose his job in his Jeremy Corbyn Possible week, if the bid to delay Brexit faltered.
attempt to stop no deal.
Mr Gauke told Sophy Ridge on Sun-
not to vote for
“the elephant
outcomes?
The “no-deal”
“Let me just say, general election?
Bring it on ... If he wants to bring a gen-
The 21 senior
day, on Sky News: “Sometimes there is
a point where you have to judge be-
trap” of an
autumn general
bill will be
watched closely
eral election about, bring it about,” Mr
McDonnell added.
Philip Hammond
Conservative MPs
tween your own personal interests and election. to see if it is In the midst of the confusion, the
the national interest and the national
interest has to come first, but I hope it
Possible
outcomes?
making enough
progress in the
Tory rebels had hoped to receive assur-
ances from Mr Johnson that may have Former chancellor
at risk of expulsion
doesn’t come to that.” Downing Street Commons to prevented them from joining an alli-
But just moments after Mr Gauke hopes that as pass through ance with Mr Corbyn’s MPs.
had vacated his chair in the Sky News many as later stages in A senior source close to the rebel Caroline
studios, Michael Gove was telling The possible of the the Lords. group said it wanted “proof that the ne- Nokes
Andrew Marr Show on BBC One that 21 rebels will Thursday gotiation [with the EU] is real”.
the Government might not abide by come back The Bill must be The source added: “As determined as
any legislation which attempted to onside. considered in they are to prevent a no-deal Brexit,
keep the UK in the EU beyond Oct 31. Tomorrow the Lords by this they want more than anything to ena-
Mr Gove said the Government would Labour will point if it has ble a deal ... They will wait to see what
“wait and see” what legislation was put publish details any chance of the Prime Minister has to say. None of
forward by MPs before deciding of the Bill to passing before this group wants to destabilise the
whether it would abide by it. force Mr prorogation. Government.”
His comments raise the prospect Johnson to ask Possible However, that option was removed
that the Tory rebels could ultimately for an extension outcomes? last night when Mr Johnson issued his
end their careers to vote for legislation to the Oct 31 If the no-deal ultimatum. The threat to strip them of
which the Government then refuses to deadline to leave Bill falls, Labour the whip was “sheer hypocrisy”, the Caroline Paul Richard
comply with. the EU. may table a source said, because “eight attendees Spelman Masterton Harrington
Mr Gove said: “Let’s see what the John Bercow is no-confidence of Cabinet have defied the whip this
legislation says … you are asking me expected to motion in an year on Brexit”, adding: “We have
Former Cabinet MP for East Former business
about a pig in a poke.” allow MPs to attempt to bring moved beyond the point when threats
minister Renfrewshire minister
Meanwhile, the Labour Party was at vote on taking down the or gongs will persuade people to aban-
odds over how it should approach the over the Government. don their principles.”

Richard Simon Nicholas

Benyon Hoare Soames
Former environment Chairman of the Northern Former defence Former immigration
minister Ireland affairs committee minister minister

Futile games in the Commons only

develop an attractive policy portfolio
Comment on important domestic issues like
schools funding, the NHS, policing and
infrastructure investment. All of
which need to be previewed in a
Queen’s Speech. Similarly, after three
By David Davis years of frustrating impasse, a strong
and radical Budget will be imperative
sealed until the few weeks prior to the
UK’s departure. It is noticeable that the
Dutch and French have softened their
aggressive rhetoric, and now there is
even the suggestion that the EU will
want to extend the Oct 31 deadline.
They are engaging because they see
the UK getting serious.

P
ut aside the hyperbole and
exaggeration about “the death of
democracy” and “constitutional
outrage” that have accompanied the
Prime Minister’s plans to prorogue
Parliament. It is actually a sensible
strategy that can potentially reset the
tortured Brexit negotiations.
In politics, momentum is key but it’s
also crucial to have a sense of purpose.
Had the Government pursued such a
strategy from June 2017, who knows
what position we would be in now?
It’s absolutely right that Boris
Johnson’s administration begins the
detailed forensic work needed to
to reassure voters and businesses that
whatever the outcome of Brexit, the
Government has a grip and is
competent and clear-sighted.
By reducing the options of
unreconciled Remainer MPs, and
making it abundantly clear that no
deal is much more likely and that
Parliament cannot block it, Boris
Johnson has signalled to the EU that
they need to focus on what a new
Withdrawal Agreement would look
like. At the very minimum it needs to
be shorn of the backstop.
I have consistently stated for the last
three years that any deal will not be
This is why the futile parliamentary
games in the Commons next week are
so damaging to our negotiating hand.
Those MPs who shout loudly that they
are doing this “for the national
interest” should consider how that is
served by giving succour to our EU
interlocutors. These MPs will seek to
block Brexit in defiance of the
expressed national wish.
The Cabinet is at last united on
prorogation and the new robust
negotiating stance. The current
strategy envisages a deal involving the
Withdrawal Agreement minus the
backstop. This would be far from a

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Continued from Page 1
however that was rejected by the for-
mer chancellor as “discourteous”.
Last night, Charles Walker, the act-
ing chairman of the 1922 Committee of
backbench Tory MPs, appealed for
calm and urged Mr Johnson to “resist”
stripping the whip from the rebels.
Mr Walker told The Daily Telegraph:
“I say, as a committed Brexiteer and
acting co-chair of the 1922, that talk of
purging good Conservatives, who were
serving in Government up until late
July ... is extremely unpleasant and the
idea is one that must be resisted.”
The threat against the senior Tory
MPs will now be discussed at a meeting
of the 1922’s executive tomorrow, The
Telegraph understands.
The plan to threaten to throw out the
Tory rebels was hatched over a lunch
of spicy lamb and curried vegetables
followed by plum tart at Chequers, the
Prime Minister’s country residence.
Mr Johnson, his chief adviser Domi-
nic Cummings, and more than a dozen
whips worked on the details. Earlier
that morning Mr Gauke, the former
justice secretary, disclosed details of
the planned meeting with Mr Johnson.
In a challenge to Mr Johnson on Sky
News, Mr Gauke said he wanted to
hear “what is his plan to deliver a deal,
when are we putting forward proposals
to deal with this backstop issue”. He
added: “I want to hear how he plans to
deliver the legislation if we get a deal
by October 31 because ... frankly I can’t
see how he has got time to do that.”
Mr Gauke threatened to side with
the rebels, saying: “Sometimes it’s
between personal and national inter-
ests and the national interests have to
come first.”
Hours later, Mark Spencer, the Chief
Whip, phoned Mr Hammond to say: “It
has become impossible for the Prime
Minister to make this meeting.” Mr
Spencer’s offer of a one-to-one was
then declined “on the basis that it is dis-
courteous that the Prime Minister has
rejected the meeting with the 21 MPs”.
A source said: “The question is: ‘why
is Boris so afraid to meet his own MPs?’.
“Given that the group were going to
ask for proof that the Prime Minister’s
negotiation is a sincere one, the fact
that he has cancelled it without good
reason suggests that it isn’t.”
The source said the rebels will spend
the “next day or so” finalising whether
or not to side with Labour and vote
down a no-deal EU exit.
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Gove assures public that food will not

run out as no-deal campaign launches
Chancellor of the Duchy of
Lancaster says everyone
Margot Alberto
James Costa will have the food they
need after UK leaves EU
Former digital Former PPS to David Mundell
By Danielle Sheridan
minister ex-Scotland secretary
POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT
MICHAEL GOVE has clashed with re-
tailers after claiming there would be
“no shortages of fresh food” in the
event of a no-deal Brexit.
The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lan-
caster, who is in charge of no-deal
preparations, said that while some food
prices would increase in the event of
no deal, “everyone will have the food
they need”.
“There will be no shortages of fresh
food,” he told The Andrew Marr Show.
When pressed on whether food
Stephen Sarah prices would rise, Mr Gove said: “I
Hammond Newton think that there are a number of eco-
nomic factors in play. Some prices may
go up. Other prices will come down.”
Former health Former health
However, his comments were criti-
minister minister
cised by the British Retail Consortium
(BRC). “It is categorically untrue that
the supply of fresh food will be unaf-
fected under a no-deal Brexit,” a
spokesman said. “The retail industry
has been crystal clear in its communi-
cations with Government over the past
36 months that the availability of fresh
foods will be impacted as a result of
checks and delays at the border.”
Last night there was growing pres-
sure on the Government to set out how
no deal would impact the food supply.
Gordon Brown warned that “im-
ports of almost a third of our food could
be subject to disruption”.
The former prime minister said:
“Uncertainty, restricted supplies and a
weakened pound could raise prices.
This would be a catastrophe for the
food industry but also for family budg-
ets, hospitals and those driven to food
banks due to the decimation of our
social security system.”
His comments were echoed by Tim
Roache, general secretary of the GMB
union, who added that the risks of no
deal were “writ large when it comes to
the food we eat”.
“It’s time for Boris Johnson to come
clean,” he said. “With no deal, we’re
likely to see a huge impact on every-
‘There are a number of
economic factors. Some
prices may go up. Other
prices will come down’
Tory party politicking than making
sure we have a stable food supply”.
His remarks come as Sir Mark
Sedwill was asked to review the Gov-
ernment’s £100 million no-deal adver-
tising campaign, amid concerns that
information designed to “instill confi-
dence … and reawaken enthusiasm for
Brexit” could be applied to a general
election campaign.
Meanwhile, doctors warned that a
no-deal Brexit will have a devastating
impact on the NHS as services prepare
for the onslaught of winter pressures.
A report, published today by the
British Medical Association and titled
Michael Gove told thing from increased cost of the family “A health service on the brink: dangers
The Andrew Marr shop and less choice on shelves, to job of a ‘no deal’ Brexit”, states the “NHS is
Show that ‘everyone losses in food production and reduced already routinely overwhelmed by sea-
will have the food nutrition in school and hospital meals.” sonal pressures” and how “the addition
they need’ in the Mr Roache accused the Government of another, complicating factor is cer-
event of a no-deal of “walking us to a cliff edge” as they tain to dramatically exacerbate that
Brexit “seem more interested in ideological problem”.

David Gauke
Former justice secretary

Stephen Thomas
Brine Tugendhat
Former health Chairman of the foreign
minister affairs select committee

damage our hand

‘A strong panacea, and we should remember
that it would be only the start of a
and united negotiating process leading to a free
Cabinet and trade deal. We would still hand over
£39 billion, which under the current
Government document carries no guarantee of a
and a long-term agreement in return, so we
need to look at conditionality. This
confident means only completing UK
Prime contributions when progress is made.
So there is much more to do. To
Minister is quote Churchill: “This is not the end.
the best It is not even the beginning of the end.
But it is, perhaps, the end of the
vehicle to beginning.” It is time for action as well
secure the as words. A strong and united Cabinet
and Government and a confident
elusive deal’ Prime Minister is the best vehicle to
secure the elusive deal. It is within our
grasp if we trust our own judgment
and keep our nerve.

David Davis MP was Brexit secretary

from 2016-18

Stocking
the larder
Jeremy
Corbyn
took a
break from
Brexit to
cycle to his
local
grocery
store. The
Labour
GAVIN RODGERS/ PIXEL 8000

leader
balanced
the two
heavy bags
as he rode
home.
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National Trust blames heat for fewer visits

Charity says hot summer
led to a fall in visitor
numbers amid fears over
effects of climate change
By Jack Hardy
THE National Trust has blamed the
heatwave of last summer for failing to
hit its visitor targets, as it warned that
climate change could threaten the fu-
ture of its sites.
The charity said admission incomes
were down nearly £5 million against
budget due to what it described as “one
of the strangest weather patterns in
modern times”.
Scorching temperatures prevailed
from June to August last year, leading
to widespread crop failures, wildfires
and, it seems, an apathy for wholesome
excursions.
Around 26.9 million people paid to
visit trust sites in the year ending Feb-
ruary 2019, short of the 27.4 million tar-
get it set itself, according to its annual
report.
It said: “We had set a budget of
£123 million for the year but the diffi-
cult weather conditions in the early
season and the very hot weather in the
summer affected our visitor numbers
– admissions income was down nearly
£5 million against budget and our com-
mercial contribution missed its target
by £10 million.”
The changing climate was a recur-
ring theme throughout the 94-page
review which raised concerns that it
could have a ruinous impact on the
land which the trust works to preserve.
The trust has committed itself to
slashing energy use and minimising its
properties’ carbon footprint.
Earlier this summer, it pledged to
cease investment in fossil fuel compa-
26.9m
The number of people who paid to visit
National Trust sites in the year ending
February 2019, short of its 27.4m target
nies and now claims to get more of its
energy from renewable sources than
from “oil and liquid petroleum gas
combined”.
However, due to the remote location
of many of the trust’s holdings, the
organisation conceded that both it and
its visitors would have to rely on fossil
fuels for “some years to come”.
A strategy has now been put in place
to ensure properties are able to cope as
best they can with “long-term changes
in climate and extreme weather”.
It said the risks posed by climate
change were “numerous and diverse”,
especially if coupled with any cuts to
public funding for the environment.
The report added: “The impact of
failing to adapt effectively to climate
change will be considerable and could
significantly impede the delivery of our
strategic aims.
“In particular, there may be implica-
tions for our ability to restore a healthy,
beautiful natural environment and to
look after the places in our care both
now and into the future.”
The trust overseas 780 miles of
coastline, 248,000 hectares of land and
more than 500 historic houses, gar-
dens and parks.
It also said it was at increasing risk of
digital fraud after moving much of its
information online. “The trust recog-
nises that any digital fraud or theft
would have a greater impact than it
would ever have done in the past,” the
report said, adding that measures were
being taken to repel cyber attacks.

Men heard
screaming for
help after ‘acid
attack’ in van
By Daily Telegraph Reporter
TWO men were taken to hospital with
serious burns after being doused in
what was believed to be acid as they sat
in their van yesterday morning.
Police and ambulance crews were
called to Amblecote, near Stourbridge,
West Midlands at around 10.30am.
A minor crash also happened at the
scene in the aftermath of the incident
and the road was closed, according to
West Midlands Police.
No arrests have been made but offic-
ers urged witnesses to come forward.
Analysis is due to be carried out on
the liquid as part of the investigation.
Witnesses said they heard screams
for help following the suspected acid
attack, which happened near a branch
of Laser Quest.
A local business owner told the Bir-
mingham Live website: “I could hear

‘I could hear someone

screaming, ‘Help me, help
me’ … whatever it was, it
was more than an accident’
someone screaming, ‘Help me, help
me’, and there was about three police
cars, two fire engines and an incident
support unit. Whatever it was, it was
more than an accident.
“It’s quite a decent area, it’s the first
incident we’ve had like this.”
Another added: “I thought it was just
a small crash because we could see the
van had been hit.”
CHRISTOPHER ISON FOR THE TELEGRAPH

A spokesman for West Midlands Po-

lice said: “Police are investigating after
a potentially hazardous substance was
thrown at two men while sat in a van on
Wollaston Road in the Stourbridge area
of Dudley just before 10.30am this
morning.
“The men have been taken to hospi-
tal with serious burn injuries as en-
quiries continue to establish the
circumstances around the incident.
“The road has been closed following
a minor collision which resulted after
Sticky wicket Members of the Royal Southern Yacht Club and the Island Sailing Club play their annual cricket match on Bramble Bank in the centre of the
the attack.” Solent. The bank is a shallow lying in the channel between the mainland and the Isle of Wight, which is exposed at very low tides. The event near Cowes has
Witnesses were asked to call 101 or been taking place since the Fifties, although on different dates depending on the tides. The sandbank is only visible for about an hour.
Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.

Facebook’s encryption move ‘spectacularly harmful to children’

By Mike Wright
SOCIAL MEDIA CORRESPONDENT
FACEBOOK should be barred from en-
crypting children’s accounts unless it
can prove it will not put them in danger
from paedophiles, the NSPCC has said.
The charity warned Facebook’s
plans to encrypt its messaging services,
including its Messenger app which has
more than one billion users, would see
the tech giant “lose the ability” to de-
tect grooming on its site.
The NSPCC argued this would put
the company in breach of the incoming
statutory duty of care the Government
is looking to impose on tech giants.
The call comes as Prof Hany Farid,
the man who invented the ground-
breaking software that detects and
blocks millions of abuse images online,
told The Daily Telegraph that Face-
book’s encryption plans were “spec-
tacularly harmful to children”.
Facebook has been facing mounting
criticism since it announced plans to
encrypt all its messaging services in
April. Mark Zuckerberg, the company’s
CEO, hailed encryption, saying it “pre-
vents anyone, including even us, from
being able to see what you share on our
services”. He also pledged to wait a year
to consult governments and law en-
forcement about safety implications
before introducing encryption.
In July, Priti Patel, the Home Secre-
tary, said the plans could have “serious
consequences” for efforts to purge
child abuse and terrorist content from
social media. The Government out-
lined plans in a White Paper earlier this
year to impose a legal duty of care on
tech companies to protect users. The
NSPCC said that tech companies’ re-
sponsibility under the duty of care
could only be “feasibly met” if mes-
sages were unencrypted.
Andy Burrows, the NSPCC’s head of
child safety online policy, said: “You
absolutely lose the ability to detect
what is going on on your site (with en-
cryption) and we know from our own
research that Facebook and Facebook-
owned apps are the predominant sites
where (grooming) offences are being
recorded. That’s why we have called …
for children and young people’s ac-
counts not to be encrypted unless and
until a platform can demonstrate that it
doesn’t compromise the duty of care.”
The fight against child abuse images
online has been spearheaded by soft-
ware called PhotoDNA, which assigns
known abuse images a unique signa-
ture that prevents it being re-uploaded.
Prof Farid warned encrypting
Messenger would hinder the use of
PhotoDNA and could create a “safe har-
bour” to trade child abuse images.
“There is no question that this is
spectacularly harmful to children and
dangerous,” he said. “This is morally
reprehensible and we should not allow
this to happen.”
Facebook said that keeping young
people safe on its services was its “top
priority”. A spokesman added: “In addi-
tion to using technology to proactively
detect grooming and prevent child
sexual exploitation on our platform, we
work with child protection experts, in-
cluding specialist law enforcement
teams like CEOP in the UK, to keep
young people safe.”

One in five bullied pupils Mother admits sex

say they have felt suicidal
By Charles Hymas HOME AFFAIRS EDITOR
 AT LEAST two children in every class
have contemplated suicide because of
bullying, a study for the Diana Award
has shown.
More than half (57 per cent) of chil-
dren say they have been bullied at
some point at school, of whom almost
one in five (17 per cent) say it made
them feel suicidal.
More than three quarters (78 per
cent) of those bullied said it made them
anxious and more than half (56 per
cent) struggled to sleep at night.
The Diana Award, a charity set up in
honour of the late Princess of Wales
and backed by her son the Duke of
assault in pinching
policeman’s bottom
Okolie and model and TV personality By Daily Telegraph Reporter
Penny Lancaster.
The research, by Survation, also A MOTHER who pinched a policeman’s
shows that 54 per cent of children aged bottom in a busy town centre has ad-
11 to 16 who were bullied avoided social mitted sexual assault.
events, 35 per cent missed school and Rosie Smith, 41, groped the officer’s
20 per cent changed schools or were bottom in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, mag-
home-schooled because of it istrates heard.
As 10 million children return to Neil Sweeney, prosecuting, told
school this week, 40 per cent say they Maidstone magistrates’ court: “Miss
are worried about going back because Smith reached out [and] pinched his
bottom, causing him to react. He
turned around. The officer warned her
57pc about the behaviour, saying ‘that’s as-
sault, I could nick you for that’, and
they engaged in a conversation about
The percentage of children who say they her brother who died last year.”
have been bullied at some point at school, After the officer was called away
CHARLOTTE GRAHAM FOR THE TELEGRAPH

Cambridge campaigns for anti-bully-
ing pupil ambassadors in schools.
In support of the campaign, Chris El-
more, a Labour MP, reveals for the first
time on a video that he thought of tak-
ing his own life after bullies kicked him
until he bled, urinated on his PE clothes
and spat at his face.
“There were points when I was 13 to
14 years old when I would have happily
not have been here any more. I googled
taking my own life. I thought it would
have been easier than dealing with the
bullies,” he said.
Others who have made videos in
support of the campaign are TV pre-
senter Peter Andre, boxer Lawrence
according to the Diana Award from the scene, a shocked onlooker
complained to police, the court heard.
Ben Pite said his client, who was
of bullying and 23 per cent think their dealing with “difficult family circum-
school does not tackle bullying effec- stances” as a mother of three children
tively. More than a third (36 per cent) of and the legal guardian of a fourth, had
parents are worried that their child has since apologised to the officer.
behaved in a bullying manner, accord- Smith pleaded guilty to sexual as-
ing to the survey of 1,003 parents and sault and one count of breaching a
children. criminal behaviour order.
Mr Elmore described how bullying As she was serving a suspended
“made my life a misery”. After being prison sentence when she committed
punched in the face twice, his head- the offence, Smith faced being sent to
teacher told him “not to worry about
Ewe there Katy Cropper gathers her flock, assisted by dogs Butch and Abi, in the national prison. But the bench instead extended
it”. The Diana Award has trained more finals of BBC Countryfile’s One Man and His Dog contest in the Scottish Borders. Katy, a the suspension for a further six months.
than 33,000 anti-bullying ambassadors sheepdog trainer from Cumbria, was the first woman to win the competition, in 1990. She was also given a 12-month com-
in 3,800 schools. munity order.
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Half of cancers diagnosed ‘too late to help survival’

By Lizzie Roberts
MORE than 100,000 cancer patients a
year are being diagnosed too late to
give them a good chance of survival, a
report warns.
A study by Cancer Research UK said
Britain needed to triple the number of
specialists in less than a decade.
And it suggested that without major
staffing increases across the NHS, a
government pledge to boost early diag-
nosis of cancer could not be honoured.
The study found that every year
around 115,000 patients are diagnosed
with stage three or four cancer in Eng-
land, meaning that the disease has pro-
gressed to an advanced stage. This
represents nearly half of all cancers.
The estimates follow pledges last
year from Theresa May to ensure that,
within a decade, three in four Britons
with cancer are diagnosed at an earlier
point. The new calculations show that
every year, 67,000 people are not be-
ing diagnosed until they reach stage
four – the most advanced stage – leav-
ing them with fewer treatment options
and less chance of survival. The charity a decade – and says the number of radi- rals to hospital mean we urgently need
Worrying GPs ‘unaware’ of said shortages of staff were a major ologists must also rise, increasing from more staff.
men’s prostate disease risk contributor to late diagnosis in Britain, 3,038 to nearly 4,800. “The Government’s inaction on staff
where survival rates lag far behind If bowel cancer is diagnosed at the shortages is crippling the NHS, failing
Many GPs are Its research major European nations. earliest stage, more than nine in 10 peo- cancer patients and the doctors and
unaware of the found that 43 The charity’s experts said pledges to ple will survive, say the experts, but if it nurses who are working tirelessly to di-
risk factors for per cent of men boost early diagnosis had increased is diagnosed at the latest stage, just one agnose and treat them.”
prostate cancer, were diagnosed strain on services, with rising numbers in 10 patients will survive their disease A Department of Health and Social
meaning that at a late stage – a of patients being referred for checks, for at least five years. Care spokesman said: “Cancer is a pri-
men are often rise from 32 per despite job shortages, with one in 10 Emma Greenwood, the charity’s di- ority for this government – survival
not offered the cent in just five posts in diagnostic services now stand- rector of policy, said: “It’s unacceptable rates are at a record high and in the
right checks, years – and ing vacant. that so many people are diagnosed late. NHS Long Term Plan, we committed to
cancer charity described it as The report calls for a near tripling in Although survival has improved, it’s detecting three quarters of all cancers
Orchid warns. “very worrying”. oncologists – from 1,155 to 3,000 within not happening fast enough. More refer- at an early stage by 2028.”

Brief glimpse ‘It’s

absolutely
of a unique beyond our
expectations.
Roman mosaic We know it’s
is a big draw a unique
mosaic but to
By Callum Adams
find it in
A ROMAN mosaic found in a Berkshire
little old
field and hailed as one of UK’s most ex- Boxford is
citing archaeological discoveries will something’
soon be reburied, it has emerged.
Archaeologists and volunteers spent
nine days uncovering the mosaic,
which depicts a mythical chariot race
for the hand of a princess, in the village
of Boxford.
Anthony Beeson, an expert on Ro-
man and Greek architecture and art,
said it is one of just three known mosa-
ics of its kind in the world.
Matt Nichol, an archaeologist who
worked on the dig, described the mo-
saic’s imagery and iconography as “sec-
ond to none”.
When it was first partially uncovered
in 2017 it was described as the most ex-
citing mosaic discovery in Britain for
the last 50 years. The project, which
had been running since 2011, had pre-
viously uncovered the remains of a
large Roman villa, a bath house and a
farm building.
Featuring the Greek hero Bellero-
phon riding the winged horse Pegasus,
the mosaic, which dates from around
AD 380, was uncovered by volunteers
and resident historians working with
Cotswold Archaeology and the Boxford
Heritage Project.
After being fully uncovered, it was The mosaic, opened
opened to the public on Saturday but is to the public on
now to be carefully reburied because Saturday, depicts
of its location on private farming land. the Greek hero
Joy Appleton, from the Boxford His- Bellerophon riding
TOM PILSTON

tory Project, said “It’s absolutely be- the winged horse

yond our expectations. We now know Pegasus and it
it’s a unique mosaic but to find it here dates from around
in little old Boxford is quite something.” AD 380
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Travellers seize
the seaside by
setting up camp
of 50 caravans
Business owners claim
‘takeover’ was planned at
weekend so officials would
have less time to respond
By Jack Hardy
TRAVELLERS in caravans have set up
camp on the protected lawns of Hove’s
seafront, to the irritation of nearby
businesses who complained little effort
was being made to evict them.
Around 50 caravans and motor
homes gradually began to “take over”
the Hove Lawns on Saturday, and cars
have since been seen driving at speed
along the grass.
The occupants were said to be Irish
travellers, groups of whom caused sim-
ilar trouble last summer after parking
to The Daily Telegraph yesterday after-
noon, he claimed there had been no
obvious attempt to disturb the encamp-
ment since it had appeared more than a
day earlier.
The businessman, who asked to re-
main anonymous, said: “We had some
young lads driving straight across the
lawns. Obviously that is not supposed
to happen.
“They were going along the middle
of the lawns at around 20-25 miles per
hour – it is not crowded on the lawn
today but it is not something to be ad-
vised.
“There is no sign of any police pres-
ence at all at the moment. I think they
knew what they were doing. The bulk
of them arrived on a Saturday, when
there is no chance of getting a court
order to remove them straight away.
“We have had trouble before, with
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further along the promenade.
The mile-long stretch of green space
fringing the Brighton and Hove sea-
front is afforded special legal protec-
tion to stop it being occupied by
vehicles. Under the protection, any
“vehicle, caravan, tent or other struc-
ture” should be removed by the police
after 12 hours, once they are given the
authority by the council.
However, one business owner on the
seafront said the arrival of the travel-
lers appeared to have been timed to
ensure it was after offices and courts
had closed for the weekend. Speaking
kids trying to nick things and rampag-
ing through the tables – it is not some-
thing we look forward to.”
Groups of children aged between 11
and 12 were said to have been pestering
neighbouring businesses by using dis-
traction tactics to steal food.
A member of staff at a different busi-
ness said: “They have been trying to
take some food from here; they have
been taking ketchup too. They have
been leaving a mess in the toilet – cus-
tomers are complaining.”
While the traveller camp is perhaps
the most egregious example of the pro-
Caravans and motor tection order being flouted in recent
homes on Hove years, it is not the first.
Lawns in East Individuals have been seen camping
Sussex yesterday and parking on the grass in recent
months, largely due to the city’s home-
lessness problem, residents claimed.
Travellers have parked on the main
road near the promenade before. Pic-
tures yesterday showed the usually pic-
turesque lawns strewn with litter, with
caravans and motor homes parked in
two parallel lines.
One onlooker said several of the ve-
hicles did not appear to be displaying
number plates. Sussex Police said they
were aware of the problem and were
waiting for the council to authorise any
further action.
A councillor in the area expressed
anger at the lack of action taken by
authorities against the invasion. Dawn ‘They were
Barnett, a Conservative, said: “It is a
public space. If I were to go and park going along
my car at Preston Park or Queens Park the middle of
or anywhere else, I guarantee it would
be moved within 12 hours.” the lawns at
One man said: “It’s relatively peace- around
ful, just a bit irritating.”
Brighton and Hove Council did not 20-25mph’
respond to a request for comment.

Council to pull
plug on family’s
canal boat home
By Mike Wright
A FAMILY who have lived
on a canal boat for more than
a decade are facing eviction
from the water for failing to
move their home often
enough.
Steve and Sarah Holder
have been told to remove
their houseboat from the
Kennet and Avon canal in
Wiltshire after the Canal and
River Trust (CRT) refused to
grant them a new licence.
The couple, who have two
children and have lived near
Bradford-on-Avon for 14
years, said they were told
they had not travelled
enough for a boat without a
permanent mooring.
The CRT said it only re-
fused licences as a “last re-
sort” when boaters “refuse
to follow the rules over a
long period of time”.
The British Waterways
Act 1995 requires that boats
without a home mooring be
used for “bona fide naviga-
tion”, defined as not remain-
ing in one place for more
than 14 days at a time. Boats
must be engaged in a con-
tinuous journey of 20 miles.
Mr Holder said his chil-
dren, aged 14 and 18, went to
school nearby and a perma-
nent mooring would cost as
much as £6,000 a year. He
had pictures to prove he had
moved every two weeks. He
said: “I have to protect my
family here. I need to make
sure they have a home. They
are trying to take us to court
to make an example of us.”
The CRT said it only re-
moved houseboats in rare
circumstances. Of more than
34,000 boats on waterways
last year, only 17 had been re-
moved due to licence issues.
“Taking action to remove
a boat … is always a last re-
sort,” said Jon Horsfall, the
CRT head of customer ser-
vice support. “In all cases
any decision to remove a
boat [is] independently scru-
tinised by a judge.”

Broken ferry strands

tourists on Scilly Isles
By Jessica Carpani
TOURISTS stranded on the
Isles of Scilly for four days
yesterday began to leave the
island as 18 emergency
flights were scheduled after
the only ferry broke down
last Wednesday morning.
The Scillonian III experi-
enced a double engine fail-
ure while on its way from the
mainland, forcing it to turn
back to Penzance, Cornwall.
The only other way to get
on and off the island, which
is 28 miles off Land’s End, is
via small aircraft that seat a
maximum of 18 people.
The ferry, which can carry
485 passengers, usually
completes a return trip once
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a day. Although it does not
usually fly on Sundays, Isle
of Scilly Travel scheduled 18
flights yesterday to bring
back 400 of the 1,300 af-
fected ferry customers.
The Scillonian III was also
back in action at 3.30pm yes-
terday and is expected to do
a double sailing today to
cope with the backlog.
One stranded passenger
said on Twitter that while it
was “a beautiful place to be
marooned”, it was a “hugely
frustrating” and “expensive”
ordeal. He added: “We
should have left on Friday.
I’m staggered that there isn’t
a vessel that can be hired, as
the knock-on effect is huge
on such a delay.”

Roving raft Dolphin 1, a remote-control

buoy that propels a swimmer to safety, has
been used for the first time in Brighton.
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Government to raise new teacher salary to £30,000
Plans aim to boost the
profession’s appeal
to graduates as pupil
numbers continue to rise
By Camilla Turner Education Editor
TEACHERS’ starting salaries are to rise
to £30,000 within three years under
plans announced by the Government.
The £6,000 pay rise by 2022, which
ministers say is the biggest reform to
teachers’ pay in a generation, is aimed
at boosting the appeal of the profession
to graduates and follows rising con-
cern about recruitment and retention
Bomb disposal
squad called to
home of arrested
terror suspect
  Bomb disposal experts were called
to an address near Middlesbrough last
night after a man was arrested on
suspicion of terrorism offences,
according to police.
The 21-year-old suspect, who is from
the Middlesbrough area, was arrested
and held in north London on Saturday
in a pre-planned operation led by
Counter Terrorism North East and
Cleveland Police.
Following the arrest, police have
been searching four addresses – one in
north London, two in Middlesbrough
and one in nearby Teesville.
Searches took place yesterday at one
of the addresses in Middlesbrough and
in Teesville after some potentially
suspicious items were found at the
latter, which meant that bomb disposal
experts were called in.
One of the properties that has been
searched is the suspect’s home,
Cleveland Police said.
Ch Supt Dave Sutherland said he
wanted to “reassure” people in the
wake of the arrest, adding that the
force would be stepping up patrols.
The suspect is being held on
suspicion of being involved in the
commission, preparation or instigation
of acts of terrorism contrary to Section
41 of the Terrorism Act 2000.
Ch Supt Sutherland said: “I know
that the nature of this police activity
will be concerning to residents in our
local communities, and I want to
reassure people that safety is our main
priority.
“You will see increased patrols from
the neighbourhood teams and I would
ask anyone with concerns to speak to
these officers.”
Duck eggs blamed for man’s death
  A man is believed to have died of
salmonella after eating duck eggs
bought from a village fete.
Niptoon Tavakoli, 65, died of organ
failure in intensive care two months
after he ate four fried duck eggs.
Donna Martin, Mr Tavakoli’s
sister-in-law, “strongly believes” he
contracted salmonella from eggs
bought at the Messingham Show in
North Lincolnshire on June 2.
Ms Martin said: “If you buy duck
eggs you should cook them
thoroughly.” Public Health England
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of teachers, against a backdrop of soar-
ing pupil numbers.
Last year, a government report
warned that there was a “growing
sense of crisis” in teacher recruitment.
Ministers had failed to “get a grip” on
teacher retention, a Public Accounts
Committee said, adding that it was
“particularly worrying” that the num-
ber of secondary-school teachers had
been falling since 2010.
At the same time, secondary school
pupil numbers are due to increase by
540,000 – almost 20 per cent – by
2025, according to the Department for
Education’s (DfE) official forecast.
Announcing the pay rise, Gavin Wil-
liamson, the Education Secretary, said:
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has confirmed a second case of
salmonella in the West Midlands with
the same strain type. It said:
“Investigations have established that
prior to their infection, the two cases
ate duck eggs from the same trader
who purchased them from a farm in
the East Midlands, though it is
important to note that these eggs are
not confirmed as the source of
infection.” Holly Farm near Leicester
supplied the eggs, but it “found it hard
to believe” the salmonella was from its
batch. “No one else has got ill,” it said.
“I want the best talent to be drawn to
the teaching profession and for schools
to compete with the biggest employers
in the labour market and recruit the
brightest and the best into teaching.
“Teachers should be in no doubt that
this Government fully backs them in
every stage of their career, starting
with rewarding starting salaries, and
giving them the powers they need to
deal with bad behaviour and bullying
and continue to drive up school stand-
ards right across the country.”
Mr Williamson said flexible working
should be the “norm” for teachers, add-
ing that a group of schools have been
appointed to champion this and share
best practice.
A third of flexitime requests rejected
 Almost a third of requests for
flexible working are being turned
down, a study suggests.
Just over half of the 2,700 adults
polled by the TUC said flexitime was
not an option in their job, rising to
almost two thirds for people in
working-class occupations.
Almost a third said flexible hours
would be one of the main reasons to
look for another job.
The union is joining the Flex For All
alliance, along with Pregnant Then
Screwed, Fawcett Society, Mother
While other sectors had embraced
flexible working, he went on, the lack
of opportunity for the practice in the
teaching profession was “often cited as
a reason for leaving”.
The pay rise is the latest in a string of
announcements. From September the
Government will fund increased em-
ployer contributions to the teachers’
pension scheme.
The DfE is also planning a crack-
down on bad behaviour, with teachers
to be given training to make them
tougher with unruly children.
Ministers are to launch a review into
teacher training, which will focus on
implementing stricter behaviour strat-
egies to tackle disruption in schools.
Pukka, the Young Women’s Trust and
the Fatherhood Institute, which has
launched a petition to change the law
so that flexible working is open to all
employees from day one in the job.
Frances O’Grady, the TUC general
secretary, said: “It’s not right that
millions are struggling to balance their
work and home lives. Ministers must
change the law.”
A Department for Business
spokesman said the Government was
working with businesses to “make
flexible working a reality for all”.
Monday 2 September 2019 The Daily Telegraph
Last week, the Government an-
nounced that schools in England would
be given a cash boost of £14  billion
between now and 2020-23.
Every secondary school will receive
a minimum of £5,000 per pupil next
year, while every primary school will
get at least £4,000 from 2021-22.
Downing Street said the investment
delivers on Prime Minister Boris John-
son’s pledge to increase annual school
funding by £4.6 billion above inflation.
Paul Whiteman, general secretary of
National Association of Headteachers,
called it “the right thing to do”. But he
added that teachers needed to be prop-
erly rewarded at all stages of their
career. “We desperately need to make
32,000 need help to change a light bulb
  DIY-shy Britons turned to Google
more than 30,000 times in a year to
ask how to change a light bulb.
Analysis of more than 1.2 million
searches related to household
problems revealed 32,130 hits a year
for “how to change a light bulb”.
It came ninth in the top 10 “how
to...” queries on Google. How to fix a
dripping tap is searched 422,000 times
a year, while how to bleed a radiator is
searched on 322,000 occasions.
Treating damp, reading gas and
electric meters, and fitting laminate
teachers’ pay competitive if we are
going to plug the leaky pipeline. A third
of new teachers leave the profession
before they’ve completed five years’
service. That’s a crazy situation.”
Geoff Barton, general secretary of
the Association of School and College
Leaders, said that addressing wages
was “long overdue and much needed”.
But he added: “We also need to see
an improvement across the board to
teachers’ pay ensure that we are also
able to retain experienced teachers in
the profession.
“It is also vital that any increase is
fully funded by government and that it
does not fall on school budgets, which
are already under severe strain.”
Still in cracking
form, the Bletchley
Park codebreakers
who thwarted Nazis
  More than 80 veterans who played a
vital but secret role in the efforts to
end the Second World War gathered
yesterday to mark the 80th
anniversary of the start of the conflict.
Scores of former staff were reunited
at Bletchley Park, where they had
helped crack German codes to unravel
Nazi intelligence.
The site in Buckinghamshire, where
the German Enigma cipher was
broken, welcomed the former
workers, who are now well into their
90s.
Betty Webb, 96, who joined the
Auxiliary Territorial Service in 1941 –
which was the women’s branch of the
British Army at the time – said it was
“immensely important” for her to
attend the reunion.
She worked in the estate’s mansion
and was involved in registering the
signals – made up of figures and letters
– which had come in.
Asked if she has a favourite memory
of her four years at Bletchley, Ms
Webb said: “No, it is all favourite. For
me it was all great, because it was a
mix of people that I wouldn’t have
found unless I’d gone to university. It
was an education for me.”
With Sept 1 marking the day
Germany invaded Poland, Ms Webb
said she never had any idea she would
play such a pivotal role in the conflict.
Some 10,000 staff – three quarters
of them women, including aristocrats
and secretaries – worked at the stately
mansion at the height of the war, while
thousands more were posted overseas.
Bletchley was chosen as the main
intelligence site as cities were more
likely to be bombed.
flooring also featured on the list. They
were joined by how to hang a door,
hang a picture frame and put up a
curtain. Safestyle, the home
improvement company that carried
out the research, described Google as
the “go to” for millions of DIY tasks,
suggesting many people do not have
handyman skills.
The firm believes users may also be
baffled by new technology, such as
smart meters, and the increase in LED
bulbs, spotlights and other versions of
the traditional light bulb.
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Betting sites
forced to join
scheme to
help gamblers
By Jack Hardy
BETTING companies will be required
to sign up to a system that allows prob-
lem gamblers to block themselves from
all casino and bookmaker websites un-
der rules to be approved by the indus-
try regulator.
The Gambling Commission has
given the green light to the move – 18
months after initially anticipated –
meaning licences will only be given to
operators signed up to the software,
called GamStop.
The online self-exclusion scheme al-
lows gambling addicts to cut them-
selves off from all online betting for
periods ranging from six months to
several years.
Users register their details and select
the length of time they wish to be ex-
iled from the sites. Its roll-out was
hampered at the start of the year after it
emerged gamblers could change their
details to sidestep the restrictions.
GamStop was forced to admit the
software was not working well enough.
The regulator subsequently de-
manded tougher ID and age checks for
all gamblers to combat the problem.
It is understood the Gambling Com-
mission is now satisfied that the
scheme is effective, with plans to for-
mally announce the new requirements
for companies as soon as this week.
Tens of thousands of gamblers have
already signed up to the service, which
launched last year, with around 99 per
cent of operators willing to commit to
it, according to The Guardian.
Surveys carried out by the charity
GambleAware found the system ap-
peared to be providing results, with 83
per cent of respondents saying it had
helped to reduce or stop their gam-
bling activity.
A Gambling Commission spokesman
said: “We have nothing further to add
at this time.”
Harry eager to take Archie to ‘second home’ of Africa
Duke and Duchess of
Sussex will visit South
Africa with their son on his
first official overseas trip
By Mike Wright
THE Duke of Sussex has said he cannot
wait to introduce his son to his “second
home” of Africa as he prepares for a
royal tour of the continent.
The Duke and Duchess will visit
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South Africa this autumn with baby
Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Wind-
sor before the Duke carries out a series
of solo visits to Angola, Malawi and
Botswana.
Archie will be around five months
old when his parents take him on his
first official overseas trip.
The Duke’s comments come months
after it was reported that his aides were
considering plans for him and the
Duchess to live in Africa for a period to
further their charity and Common-
wealth work. In a post on the couple’s
Instagram account yesterday, the Duke
expressed his excitement about the
much-anticipated trip as well as high-
lighting organisations “working to-
wards positive change”.
He said: “In just a few weeks our
family will be taking its first official
tour to Africa, a region of the world that
over the past two decades has been a
second home to me.
“Our team has helped create a mean-
ingful programme that we’re so excited
to share with you. On a personal note, I
can’t wait to introduce my wife and son
to South Africa! Our monthly social
awareness approach follows key ac-
counts that inspire us and highlight
those working towards positive
change.
“As a lead-up to the tour, for the
month of September, we wish to cele-
brate the beauty of this wonderful con-
tinent as a whole: from local
organisations working hard to better
the environment to the young leaders
paving the way for a better future for
the Commonwealth and beyond.
“These selected groups are a small
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Cover girl Suicide vest
Cara
Delevingne music video
in a picture
reminiscent ‘an insult’ to
of the work
of Richard arena victims
Avedon, for
an interview By Jessica Carpani
in the THE mother of a victim of the Man-
October chester Arena attack has criticised pop
edition of band The 1975 after a music video
Elle UK showed its singer appearing to blow
himself up in a suicide vest.
magazine. In The video, which has a trigger warn-
it, the model ing for people with epilepsy, shows
reveals that frontman Matt Healy detonating a sui-
she hopes cide vest, which explodes into flames
and then emojis.
Harvey Figen Murray, whose son Martyn
Weinstein is Hett was one of 22 people killed in the
prosecuted. suicide bombing in 2017, said the video
She says: “I was an “insult” to those who had died.
Healy and fellow band members
want there
to be justice. ‘What the hell were you
It turns out
nearly every thinking … it is disgusting
and an insult to the 22
single
woman I people murdered’
know or
Adam Hann, Ross MacDonald and
have worked George Daniel are all former pupils of
with has Wilmslow High School, Cheshire, and
been are now said to be based in Manchester.
harassed or Ms Murray wrote on Twitter: “What
the hell were you thinking of releasing
assaulted in a music video where you carry a sui-
some way. I cide vest and blow yourself up? You are
just didn’t from Manchester. Be ashamed… be
know about very ashamed. It is disgusting and an
insult to the 22 people murdered.”
it.” Pat Karney, a Manchester council-
lor, described the video as “totally in-
sensitive.” He wrote on Twitter: “He is
one of us so should know what we
would think.”
The band was criticised last month
after recording a track with Greta
Thunberg, the climate campaigner,
and announcing that all proceeds
would go to Extinction Rebellion be-
fore embarking on a world tour.
The 1975’s management have been
contacted for comment.
representation of the incredible work Parks and patron of Rhino Conserva-
being done in Africa today.” tion Botswana.
The couple asked people to consider During the forthcoming visit, Harry
following or supporting more than 20 is likely to champion the work of his
Instagram accounts, including Sente- mother Diana, Princess of Wales, who
bale, which was founded by Harry and famously walked through a cleared
Prince Seeiso two years after he spent landmine field in Angola to highlight
his gap year in Lesotho in 2004. the devastating injuries the military
The Duke has previously spoken of munitions can cause.
Botswana as his “second home” and Sentebale has recently expanded its
chose the country as the destination to work into Malawi and the Duke may
take the Duchess for their first journey see the latest developments and its
together just weeks after they met. work in Botswana, helping young peo-
The Duke is president of African ple living with HIV and Aids.
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Hong Kong activists block access to airport
Dozens detained by police
in latest demonstrations
as mass rallies disrupt
city’s transport links
By Sophia Yan CHINA CORRESPONDENT
and Katy Wong in Hong Kong
PRO-DEMOCRACY protesters ob-
structed access to Hong Kong’s inter-
national airport yesterday after police
arrested dozens of people and used wa-
ter cannon and tear gas against activ-
ists lobbing petrol bombs and bricks.
The protesters snarled up road and
rail links, erected barriers and flooded
stations en route to the airport, while
shouting: “Stand with Hong Kong, fight
for freedom!”
Others drove cars slow slowly to hin-
der traffic. Some built barricades out-
side the airport, dispersing when riot
police charged and aggressively pinned
people down to make arrests.
The plan was to recreate the mass
chaos last seen in mid-August when a
five-day occupation of the airport – one
of the world’s busiest transport hubs –
led to hundreds of flight cancellations.
Scenes briefly turned violent when
protesters assaulted two men from
mainland China and clashed with riot
police. “The airport is extremely im-
portant to the city’s economy and tour-
ism,” said Toby Pun, 23. “I hope this
will force the government to respond.”
Although some flights were can-
celled, most still took off as scheduled
yesterday, the planes roaring above
GETTY IMAGES; REUTERS
Colonial legacy Hong Kongers wave British National Overseas passports, a symbol of rights which they believe are being eroded by Communist China
Introduced in arms, looks like
the last decade of a regular British
British colonial passport.
rule over Hong The BNO
Kong, the British passport grants
National its holder the
Overseas (BNO) right to be
passport, with married under
its burgundy British law, and
cover and coat of to join the
Britain must be clearer with China over our values
Commentary
ry
By Bob Seely
I
t felt apt to spend the fifth
anniversary of the Umbrella
Movement under a brolly in the
thunderstorms in Hong Kong,
observing thousands of residents
protesting against Beijing and in
defence of civil rights.
I was a guest of Stand with Hong
Kong, a civil society group
campaigning to raise awareness in the
West about events in Hong Kong.
Hong Kong is in the front line of a
clash of political civilisations, which
helps to explain some of the great
global trends happening now. Two are
particularly important: China’s place in
the world, and the struggle between
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protesters’ heads. The unrest came just
a day after some of the city’s most
intense clashes this summer. Activists
marched in the rain through several
neighbourhoods before hurling Molo-
tov cocktails and projectiles at govern-
ment offices and police headquarters.
Police responded with tear gas, rub-
ber bullets and water cannon laced
with blue dye to help identify, and pos-
sibly arrest, protesters later.
By nightfall, officers shot two live
rounds into the sky as warnings, while
protesters lit a strip of stadium seats on
fire, setting ablaze a main road and
sending black smoke billowing around
brightly lit skyscrapers.
Protests began in early June against
British Army, exception. It
Royal Navy or does not grant
Royal Air Force, the owner the
as well as vote or automatic right
stand for to live and work
election in their in the UK.
constituency of As a result,
residence. But some Hong
there is one Kongers feel that
controversial Britain has left
liberal and authoritarian visions for
humanity’s future.
Of the protesters I met, few were set
on civil disobedience, but the
overwhelming majority were there to
protest against Beijing’s alleged
authoritarianism. Activists believe
Beijing and its Hong Kong appointees
want to slowly extinguish the One
Country Two Systems rule agreed by
Britain and China in 1997, which
means Hong Kong’s freedoms should
be respected for at least 50 years.
Twenty years ago it was hoped that
as China traded with the world, it
would become more “liberal” and less
authoritarian. The opposite is
happening.
Hong Kong is just one of a series of
touch points. Others include Beijing’s
extension of territorial claims into the
South China Sea, its aim to dominate
global communications and the
intense lobbying campaign to let
Huawei into the UK’s critical national
an extradition proposal that would
have sent people to face trial in main-
land China, where Communist Party
influence contributes to a 99.9 per cent
conviction rate.
That proposed law was suspended
but the activists’ demands have since
expanded to include greater political
accountability and wider democratic
freedoms, plunging Hong Kong into its
worst political crisis in decades.
Police stood guard at the airport yes-
terday, placing heavy water barriers
around entrances and only allowing
passengers through. Later, several
teams were spotted at ferry piers and
train stations in an effort to catch re-
treating protesters.
The nearly 1,000 arrests are starting
to weigh on protesters, with many en-
couraging each other to flee quickly
when police arrive to prevent being
cuffed themselves. Closures of the
A protester smashes city’s subway stations have also im-
an office window in peded protesters’ mobility.
Tung Chung railway By early yesterday afternoon, the
station, Hong Kong. subway operator shut the airport ex-
Right, a policeman press line and a number of bus links
beats an activist in a were down, forcing demonstrators,
lavatory inside Hong passengers, flight crew, and journalists
Kong International to walk more than three miles to the
Airport, Below, police airport from the nearest, open subway.
block an entrance to One visitor from Taiwan trying to re-
the airport after turn home said the disruption didn’t
thousands of bother him. “Protesting is the right of
protesters gathered citizens,” said Mr Liu, 35, declining to
outside yesterday give a full name.
“If the flight is delayed, then we will
stay at the airport and support the pro-
testers,” said Peter, a Hong Konger who
left early and walked nearly an hour to
them behind,
even as China
continues to
diminish the
rights and
freedoms
enjoyed by those
in Hong Kong as
a part of the “one
country, two
Hong Kong 5G infrastructure, and the
is now
development of the Belt and Road
Initiative into the developing world.
on the It also includes China’s intensive
cyber espionage as well as the growth
global front of overt and covert influence in other
line for states, accompanied by an increasingly
harsh tone.
civil What can we do in Hong Kong?
freedoms We can be clearer about defending
values and calling on China to respect
the basic law, however much it irks
them. We can make sensible changes
to the British National Overseas
passports. Above all, we need a global
strategy, post-Brexit.
In a recent study with the Henry
Jackson Society, I argued for a more
integrated foreign policy and a greater
understanding of how we deal with
the new authoritarianism.
Kevin Rudd, the former prime
minister of Australia and an expert on
China, spoke to the foreign affairs
committee last year, telling us: “China
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get to the airport. Despite escalating ‘If the flight is first few days of university and second-
violence and disruption to daily life in ary school classes.
Hong Kong, known for being an effi- delayed, then Calls are also growing for the UK to
cient global business centre, the youth- we will put pressure on Beijing to uphold the
driven movement has continued to Sino-British Joint Declaration, which
draw wide public support. stay at the kicked in when Hong Kong was returned
“I’ve attended most protests since airport and to Chinese rule in 1997 and said the Com-
June,” said Miu, 58. “Those teenagers – munist system would not be practised in
they have been really kind. One day support the the territory for at least 50 years.
when police threw lots of tear gas, a re- protesters’ In the central business district, hun-
ally young protester, only 20, took off dreds also gathered yesterday outside
her gas mask and gave it to me.” the British Consulate, waving the
But that may not remain the case Union flag and holding signs that read
with increasing disruptions to regular “SOS”, calling on the UK to recognise
life and school due to start this week, that freedoms were disappearing.
which could keep activists – many of “The UK government is not standing
whom are students – off the streets. up or doing enough, and just lets the
To prevent that, a citywide strike has Chinese government speak,” said
been called as well as a boycott on the Shirley Lo, 22, “I feel like they left us
behind here and didn’t take enough
action for us.”
Some also chanted “Make Hong
Kong British again!” and “We love Brit-
ish, we are British, equal rights for
BNO!” demanding the right to live and
work in the UK for holders of the Brit-
ish National Overseas passport.
Hong Kong has long had a compli-
cated relationship with the UK, though
many have long attributed a robust
capitalist system and strong rule of law
to the British.
Tom Tugendhat, the chairman of the
Commons foreign affairs committee,
has called on the UK to treat BNO status
holders as UK citizens. “It would right a
wrong we should never have imple-
mented and give people options,” he
wrote in The Daily Telegraph.
Additional reporting by Michael Zhang
systems” policy. as a BNO leave the UK The Daily was handed the
Even so, as the passport holder because of Telegraph. British legal
tension and as a possible Brexit, we can “Hong Kong system and rule
violence of Hong escape route to fill in the labour people are of law, which is a
Kong’s pro- the UK, provided market,” Rex hard-working, symbol of pride
democracy they are able to Wong, 42 – a intelligent. We for the city
protests receive a visa or protester whose can help make compared with
continues to work permit. entire family of the UK better.” the legal system
escalate, some “If people four holds BNO Under British of mainland
see their status from the EU passports – told rule, Hong Kong China.
respects strength and is contemptuous
of weakness. China respects
consistency and is contemptuous of
wavering.”
Frankly, we have been weak and
wavering. We need to be proud of our
values, and be more consistent about
defending them and our interests.
There are two visions for humanity.
The first is the Western liberal model
of a law-governed society, universal
rights and limited government.
The second is the new authoritarian
model championed by China, Russia
and other states where freedoms are
more curtailed, politicians above the
law and where surveillance will
become ubiquitous. In this struggle,
Hong Kongers are campaigning for
that first vision. China wants the
second. Hong Kong is now on the
global front line for civil freedoms.
Bob Seely is the MP for the Isle of Wight.
He sits on the foreign affairs committee
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President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-lago resort in Palm Beach County was also included in mandatory evacuation orders issued for parts of southeast Florida.
Israel and Hizbollah exchange border fire
Lebanese prime minister
asks for support from US
and France as barrages
raise regional tensions
By Sara Elizabeth Williams
INCREASING tension between Israel
and Hizbollah threatened to boil over
yesterday as they fired missiles and
artillery at each other over the south-
ern Lebanon border.
Saad Hariri, the Lebanese prime
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minister, contacted Mike Pompeo, the
US Secretary of State and the adviser to
Emmanuel Macron, the French presi-
dent, asking for US and French support
along the southern border.
Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli
prime minister, announced an order to
be “prepared for any scenario”.
Shortly after 3pm local time, the first
of several anti-tank missiles was
launched from southern Lebanon at
military targets in northern Israel.
The Israeli army responded by
deploying a military helicopter and fir-
ing a barrage of around 100 artillery
shells back over the Lebanese border.
Neither side reported any casualties,
but it was the most significant escala-
tion between the two since January
2015, when clashes saw two Israeli sol-
diers killed.
The latest cross-border duel follows
a month where both sides have pushed
the other’s defences.
Last week, two drones came down
over a Hizbollah media centre in south-
ern Beirut. One exploded in mid-air
and the other came down in pieces
large enough for Hizbollah to register a
significant threat and a likely origin.
Hassan Nasrallah, Hizbollah’s leader,
declared that things were “different
now” and warned that Israelis every-
where should not rest easy.
An Israeli military spokesman called
yesterday’s clashes “tactical events”
against the backdrop of “strategic
threats” posed by Hizbollah.
Analysts believe a major conflict still
doesn’t look likely due to both sides
preferring détente.
“The likelihood of an all-out war is
low,” said Elizabeth Tsurkov, Fellow
with the Foreign Policy Research Insti-
tute. “Since 2006, Hizbollah has not
Syria ceasefire at risk after US
fires missile at al-Qaeda leaders
By Sara Elizabeth Williams
A TENTATIVE ceasefire in north-west
Syria, the second in a month, threat-
ened to unravel yesterday after the US
launched an airstrike to target promi-
nent al-Qaeda figures.
At least 40 people were killed when
the missile struck a meeting of leaders
of the terror group at a base near the
city of Idlib on Saturday, just hours
after a ceasefire brokered by Russia
ended months of bombardment of the
last bastion of anti-regime fighters.
“This operation targeted al-Qaeda in
Syria leaders responsible for attacks
targeting US citizens, our partners, and
innocent civilians,” said a spokesman
for US Central Command, adding that
the strike would “degrade their ability
to conduct further attacks and destabi-
lise the region”.
“North-west Syria remains a safe
haven where [al-Qaeda] leaders
actively co-ordinate terrorist activities
Smoke signals An aerobatic display team performs at the
MAKS-2019 International Aviation and Space Salon in
Zhukovsky outside Moscow, Russia yesterday.
Monday 2 September 2019 The Daily Telegraph
100 killed in
Yemen as
airstrike hits
Houthi ‘prison’
By Our Foreign Staff
MORE than 100 people are believed to
have been killed in an airstrike on a de-
tention centre in Yemen, the Interna-
tional Committee of the Red Cross
(ICRC) said yesterday.
The Saudi-led military coalition said
it had targeted a facility run by Houthi
rebels that “stores drones and missiles”,
but the rebels claimed the attack had
hit a building they used as a prison.
The ICRC rushed medical teams and
hundreds of body bags to Dhamar, a
south-western city.
“It’s a college building that has been
empty and has been used as a detention
facility for a while,” said Franz
Rauchenstein, ICRC head of delegation
for Yemen. “What is most disturbing is
that [the attack was] on a prison. To hit
such a building is shocking and sad-
dening – prisoners are protected by
international law.”
More than 100 people were esti-
mated to have died, he said, and at least
40 survivors were being treated in hos-
pitals in the city.
His team was “working relentlessly
to find survivors under the rubble”, he
said, but cautioned that the chances of
bringing out anyone alive were slim.
Footage obtained by AFP showed
heavy damage to the building and sev-
eral bodies in the rubble, as bulldozers
cleared away huge piles of debris.
The coalition intervened in 2015 to
support Yemen’s government after the
Houthis, who are aligned with Iran,
seized Sana’a, the capital, and much of
the country, which is the poorest in the
Arab world.
The fighting has claimed tens of
thousands of lives in what the UN calls
the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
Both sides stand accused of actions that
could amount to war crimes.
only replenished its stocks of rockets
Deadly drone Iran unveils and missiles, but grown them signifi-
jet-propelled UAV cantly. Hizbollah is capable of hitting
every point across Israel with waves
Iran yesterday Dubbed the upon waves of rockets and missiles.
unveiled a “Kian”, the “Hizbollah also gained ground com-
jet-propelled unmanned bat experience in Syria, where it inter-
drone it said is aerial vehicle vened to help preserve the regime
capable of can fly more in power,” she added.
finding and than 1,000 km “On the other side, Israel is capable
attacking (620 miles) and of obliterating Lebanon.
targets far from to heights of “Both parties are aware of the other’s
the country’s 15,000ft, said capabilities, and as a result, are much
borders with state news more careful to avoid an escalation that
precision. agency IRNA. will lead to conflict.”
throughout the region and in the West,” have been corralled into the north-
the spokesman said. western corner of the country.
But Russia, one of the key power Members of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham,
brokers in Syria, accused the US of “en- al-Qaeda’s Syrian offshoot, their allies
dangering” a hard-won ceasefire that and other anti-government groups,
was scarcely a day old. Citing the Rus- along with civilians including fleeing
sian defence ministry, the Tass news women and children, are among those
slowly being swept north.
Whether al-Qaeda or other groups
400,000 retaliate for the strike will determine
the longevity of the ceasefire and the
length of respite granted to the inhabit-
The number of people who have fled the ants of Idlib, a city of three million.
Idlib area, according the UN, which said The UK-based Syrian Observatory
950 civilians had died since April for Human Rights, which relies on a
network of sources on the ground, said
more than 950 civilians had been killed
agency said the US had failed to warn in Idlib since the end of April.
Russia or Turkey before the strikes. More than 400,000 people have
Idlib is the last holdout for Syria’s fled, according to the UN, but activists
armed resistance. Over recent years, say the number on the move is far
those who could not agree surrender higher, although few have anywhere
deals, or those whom the government left to go.
of Bashar al-Assad has no interest in al-
lowing into regime-controlled areas, Editorial Comment: Page 17
Attack on second
Afghan city as US
nears pull-out deal
By Ben Farmer in Kabul
THE Taliban launched an assault on a
second Afghan city in two days as Don-
ald Trump’s envoy said the US and the
militants were on the brink of a prelim-
inary deal to withdraw US troops.
The US envoy, Zalmay Khalilzad, ar-
rived in Kabul for the conclusion of the
ninth round of talks in Qatar as he at-
tempts to secure a US pull-out that
would pave the way for Taliban talks
with the Afghan government.
But fighting continued in the city of
Pul-e Khumri, about 140 miles north of
the capital, Kabul.
It came a day after an attack on Kun-
duz, one of Afghanistan’s most impor-
tant northern cities, that killed at least
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25 people and wounded 85.
Mr Khalilzad said: “We are at the
threshold of an agreement that will re-
duce violence and open the door for
Afghans to sit together to negotiate an
honourable and sustainable peace and
a unified, sovereign Afghanistan that
does not threaten the United States, its
allies or any other country.”
Suhail Shaheen, the spokesman for
the Taliban, said: “We are on the verge
of ending the invasion and reaching a
peaceful solution for Afghanistan.”
The Daily Telegraph Monday 2 September 2019
Relief for Merkel
after far-Right
falls short in key
German election
By Justin Huggler in Berlin
THE pressure on Angela Merkel was
eased last night as the nationalist Alter-
native for Germany party (AfD) failed to
make a widely forecast breakthrough
in key regional elections.
The AfD made significant gains in
two states in the former communist
east, but fell short of winning first place
amid a late surge for the established
parties.
Mrs Merkel’s Christian Democrats
(CDU) held on to first place in Saxony
with 32 per cent, according to initial
projections, ahead of the AfD on 27.5.
Her main coalition partners, the cen-
tre-Left Social Democrats (SPD), came
first in Brandenburg, with 27.5 per
cent, ahead of the AfD on 22.5.
“It is good that the people of
Brandenburg have said we do not want
the far-Right extremists of the AfD to
win,” said Lars Klingbeil, the general
secretary of the SPD.
“The friendly face of Saxony has pre-
vailed,” said Michael Kretschmer, the
CDU regional leader. “This is a great
day for our state.”
Alexander Gauland, the AfD leader,
said: “Our slogan was ‘20 per cent plus’.
We have achieved that and are very sat-
isfied … but yes, we did not come first.
There is still a piece missing and the
work starts now.”
The AfD led in the Brandenburg
polls for much of the campaign and
was widely expected to win first place.
But it was held at bay by a late swing
towards the established parties amid a
AfD’s failure to land killer blow buys chancellor a little breathing space
Analysis
By Justin Huggler
A is not up to the job
ngela Merkel will have slept a
little easier last night after her
allies managed to pull off
something of a last-minute escape in
the regional elections.
While the nationalist Alternative for
Germany party (AfD) managed to
inflict losses on Mrs Merkel’s party and
on her coalition partners, it failed to
Italy’s PM tells would-be
coalition partners to stop
migration squabbles
By Josephine McKenna in Rome
ITALY’S prime minister has said he is
confident that squabbling political par-
ties would set aside their bitter differ-
ences over mass migration and security
to form a workable coalition this week.
Giuseppe Conte said yesterday in a
video address that the centre-Left
Democratic Party and the populist Five
Star movement, until now political ri-
vals, had created a “good working envi-
ronment”.
Mr Conte said he expected to tell
President Sergio Mattarella he was
ready to form a government by tomor-
row or Wednesday.
“I see a good working atmosphere,”
Mr Conte said. “From this point of
view, I am absolutely convinced that
everyone is willing to set aside the past
and concentrate on this important pro-
posal that affects the whole country.”
Mr Conte was asked to form a coali-
tion after the collapse of Italy’s populist
coalition last month. Matteo Salvini,
the former deputy prime minister and
head of the far-Right League, has been
sidelined and left his position as inte-
rior minister last week.
But on Friday the prospect of a deal
nearly collapsed when Luigi Di Maio,
the Five Star leader, presented a
20-point plan with an ultimatum
demanding every one of the proposals
be accepted or he would back fresh
Pope given pause for thought
while trapped in Vatican lift
By Josephine McKenna in Rome
IT HAS long been claimed by support-
ers of the Catholic faith that God moves
in mysterious ways.
But so, apparently, does Pope Fran-
cis’s personal lift in the Vatican – which
broke down yesterday, trapping the
world’s most powerful clergyman in-
side for 25 minutes.
The 82-year-old pontiff had to be
freed by Vatican firemen after an elec-
trical fault brought his tiny private lift
to a halt inside the ornate Apostolic Pal-
ace, making him 10 minutes late for his
regular Sunday audience.
“I have to apologise for being late,
but there was an accident,” the Pope
said with a smile.
“I was trapped inside an elevator for
25 minutes. Thank God the firefighters
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dramatic rise in turnout. The result
will ease the immediate pressure on
Mrs Merkel and her chosen successor
as CDU leader, Annegret Kramp-Kar-
renbauer, who has endured a difficult
first year in charge.
But the CDU still suffered its worst
ever result in Saxony and faces the dif-
ficult task of building a new coalition in
the fractured regional parliament.
The election leaves the CDU divided,
after Mr Kretschmer pulled the party
back in the polls by distancing himself
from Mrs Merkel’s government.
Despite an unexpected comeback,
the SPD suffered significant losses at
the hands of the AfD in Brandenburg, a
state it has ruled since reunification.
Yesterday’s results came hours after
the German president asked forgive-
ness for the crimes of the Nazis as he
marked the 80th anniversary of the
start of the Second World War.
“I bow my head before the Polish
victims of Germany’s tyranny. And I
ask forgiveness,” said Frank-Walter
Steinmeier at a ceremony in the Polish
town of Wieluń, where the first bombs
fell on Sept 1 1939.
He used the ceremony to issue a
thinly veiled criticism of the AfD. “Any-
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one who claims that this is all in the
past, that the National Socialists’ reign
of terror over Europe was a marginal
event in German history, casts judg-
ment on himself,” he said.
It was a clear reference to Mr Gaul-
and, who last year described the Nazi
era as “a speck of birds--- in 1,000 years
of glorious German history”. A concentration camp survivor attends a ceremony in Warsaw, Poland, yesterday to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War
land a decisive blow against either. potentially wrecking Mrs Merkel’s who favour remaining in her coalition. more populous west in last year’s
That could ease the pressure that was carefully laid plans for her succession. Holding Saxony will ease Although the AfD will seek to spin its Bavarian elections, and limped in
threatening to plunge Mrs Merkel’s But the unexpected success of the anxieties that Annegret gains as a success, the results were a fourth in this year’s Euro elections.
government into crisis just as the Social Democrats (SPD) in holding on disappointment for the party. If it It was hoping to reverse that trend
Brexit deadline looms. to neighbouring Brandenburg may Kramp-Karrenbauer cannot come first in its former by coming first in at least one of
The fact that her Christian prove more significant for Mrs Merkel. communist eastern heartlands, there Brandenburg or Saxony. A dramatic
Democrats (CDU) were able to hold on The SPD is set to choose a new must be doubt over whether it can rise in turnout yesterday suggests
to the key state of Saxony will ease leader and review its role in Mrs the party’s leadership election due on ever emerge as a national force. many people may have been spurred
anxieties that Annegret Kramp- Merkel’s coalition. Oct 26, that could have left Mrs Merkel Although it is currently the main to vote by polls showing the AfD
Karrenbauer, Mrs Merkel’s chosen A bad result in Brandenburg would fending off a crisis at home as the opposition party in Berlin, that is only neck-and-neck with the SPD in
successor as party leader, is not up to have strengthened calls within the Brexit deadline loomed. because the two biggest parties are in Brandenburg. The AfD has one more
the job. Another disappointing result party to pull out of the coalition, Now she will hope the Brandenburg coalition. The AfD has suffered a chance to make a breakthrough this
and there would have been calls for Ms leaving Mrs Merkel without a majority. results will provide a boost for those difficult 12 months. It failed to make year when the former communist state
Kramp-Karrenbauer to step aside, With the results of the first round in among the SPD leadership candidates the hoped for breakthrough in the of Thuringia votes on Oct 27.
WORLD BULLETIN
Maldives reporter who
vanished ‘killed at sea’
A Maldives commission of inquiry has
concluded that a journalist missing
since 2014 has been killed, possibly by
elections. “Either we are in agreement those linked to fighters in Syria at the
on carrying through the points of our time, its president said yesterday.
programme, or we stop here,” Mr Di Husnu Suood said that Ahmed
Maio said. Rilwan, attached to the Maldives
The talks are understood to have Independent news website, had been
become bogged down over policy dif- abducted outside his flat on the
ferences including security and reduc- Hulhumale island and was taken to a
ing the number of MPs, while both boat and transferred to a bigger vessel
out at sea where he was killed. He
added that Rilwan had received threats.
Giuseppe Conte is
expected to say he is
ready to form a Schools stay shut amid
government by
tomorrow or
Notre-Dame lead fears
Wednesday The Paris education authority has
ordered five private schools that were
to have reopened today after the
parties are competing for key cabinet summer holiday to remain closed until
positions. the threat of toxic lead from the
Mr Di Maio is reportedly reluctant to Notre-Dame fire is removed.
give up his role as deputy prime minis- All schools in areas near the
ter, a critical issue given that the una- cathedral were deep cleaned during
ligned Mr Conte is heavily backed by the holidays after unsafe levels of lead
the Five Star Movement. The prime were detected, exceeding 70mg per
minister even stressed yesterday he square metre. Health inspectors say
was not a member of the populist party. five schools still require a more
Roberto D’Alimonte, professor of po- thorough decontamination.
litical science at Rome’s Luiss Univer-
sity, told The Daily Telegraph he
expected the new coalition to proceed Death toll in Texas mass
but no one knew how long it would
last.
shooting rises to seven
“It might last a few months or last The death toll in a mass shooting that
the entire legislature,” he said. “We unfurled on highways in western
need a crystal ball.” Texas has risen to seven, local media
reported yesterday.
Police had said on Saturday that five
people died and 21 were wounded in
the extended shoot-out on roads
between Midland and Odessa. The
gunman died in a shoot-out with
police. Yesterday, an Odessa city
spokesman told reporters that there
arrived, I want to thank them so much.” were now eight confirmed deaths,
The relieved pontiff asked the pil- including the attacker.
grims in St Peter’s Square to give the
firemen a round of applause.
In a separate statement yesterday, Citizen list backfires as
Francis called for urgent action to stop
the planet’s environmental destruction
2m Indians left stateless
and warned that the Amazon was A controversial citizenship list in
“gravely threatened” in a reference to north-east India that has left almost
the fires ravaging the region. two million people facing statelessness
He challenged governments to take has been criticised by its backers, with
“drastic measures” to combat global local politicians claiming that many
warming, blaming “sin, selfishness Bengali-speaking Hindus, a key vote
and a greedy desire to possess and ex- bank for the ruling party, were left off.
ploit” for the damaging effects of cli- Prime minister Narendra Modi’s
mate change in a message to mark the Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata
World Day of Prayer for the Care of Party, which runs Assam state where
Creation. the National Register of Citizens (NRC)
“We have caused a climate emer- was collated, claimed it was needed to
gency that gravely threatens nature and detect “foreign infiltrators”. But local
life itself, including our own,” he said. BJP politicians now say it has backfired.
16 ***
School uniform
is a fine British
ritual bordering
on sadism
rowan pelling
N
othing says “back to
school” more
eloquently than a trip
to Clarks for some
playground-proof shoes. It’s
the one part of school
uniform purchase that has
remained unchanged down
the decades. Even the kindly
women who negotiate a
truce between the parent’s
request for sensible
footwear and their
offspring’s yearning for
street style seem to have
teleported in from the
Eighties. I misted up a little
while buying black lace-ups
for my 11-year-old, but part
of that was the agony of
parting with £40 on top of
other clobber for his first
day at our local academy. I
knew I’d have to fork out for
sports kit, but I’d forgotten
about the calculator, pens
and peer-approved
Superfine rucksack. I
naively thought my boy
would wear his big brother’s
cast-offs, but that was
without factoring in
different physiques and my
younger son’s view of
himself as a style maven. My
husband and I felt faint at
the extra expenditure this
week, so heaven help those
on lower incomes.
Charities who help
cash-strapped families with
donated or second-hand
uniforms say they have seen
demand rocket in the past
year. Part of the problem is
the trend for schools to opt
for branded uniform
requiring specialised
retailers, meaning parents
can’t nip to Tesco for basics.
Many state schools seek to
channel the pride and
identity they feel strict dress
codes bestow upon children
– which means blazers with
badges, ties and polished
shoes. I have mixed feelings
about this as someone who
fled from uniform to the
joys of sixth-form mufti, like
a moth from an endless
cocoon. I saw my sons
flourish at a primary school
where the only stipulation
was “wear blue and white,
but only if you feel like it”.
Even so, part of me admits I
may have benefited from the
weird rite of passage that is
Comment
wearing school garb so
unflattering the
enforcement borders on
sadism. It’s no exaggeration
to say the ingenuity
required to subvert clothing
“regs” were as essential to
my creative flourishing as
writing short stories.
My alma mater’s uniform
was by general consent the
most hideous in all of Kent:
deep mud-brown with a
vomit-yellow trim. I wore
that colour combo for five
whole years. No wonder
girls at the local secondary
modern, clad in racing
green, used to spit at us. I
had cackled at my big
brother when he first set off
for nearby Sevenoaks
School in his straw boater
– still a requirement in the
late Seventies – but stopped
laughing once I donned the
poo-brown Gym Culottes of
Despair. We even had huge
brown regulation pants that
reached to just below our
chests (my sons refuse to
believe school authority
once stretched to your
knicker drawer). My school
years were spent dreaming
up innovative ways to slim
my A-line skirt into a
hobbling pencil version, and
saving money for chestnut
character shoes. Pretty
much every classmate
devoted hours to the art of
the badly-knotted tie –
pulled tight like a noose,
loosened like a cravat, or
tugged down to half-mast.
Fifteen or so years ago the
school wisely changed the
colour scheme. Girls now
wear charcoal grey and
black with a pleated skirt.
Less offensive perhaps, but
also far less fun than our St
Trinian’s-style anarchy.
Let’s pity all those poor
souls preparing to submit to
the scratchy, torturous
British tradition of school
uniform, as September once
again creeps in.
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Tory rebels must back down or risk
a ruthless general election purge
MPs at war with No 10
need to ask themselves
what their insurrection
will actually achieve
nick timothy
thy
T
hree years ago, the
British people were
asked, “Should the
United Kingdom remain a
member of the European
Union or leave the
European Union?” They were not
asked whether we should leave only
once the Government had negotiated
our terms of withdrawal. They were
not asked whether we should leave
only once our future relationship had
been decided. Making the question
conditional in this way would have
been a signal to voters that ministers
would not implement what they
decided. With Britain unable to walk
away with no deal, it would also have
made a one-sided and punitive treaty
inevitable.
Yet this is exactly what MPs will try,
yet again, to do this week. First they
will seek an emergency debate under
Parliament’s Standing Order Number
24. Then they will use the debate to
amend Standing Order Number 14,
which allows the Government to
control the Commons timetable. And
then, having seized control of the
order paper, they will legislate
ordering the Prime Minister to reverse
his policy. They will instruct him to
extend, with the EU’s agreement, the
Brexit Britain will be world’s tastiest nation
From superb cheeses to
terrific wines, the UK has
all the ingredients to be a
serious gastronomic player
william
sitwell
A
summer’s evening recently and I
was sipping a glass of Sussex.
Ahead of me were hundreds of
precise lines of vines stretching out
into the distance. I was standing on the
terrace of the Rathfinny Wine Estate
and would soon repair inside, to sit
behind vast windows that framed the
wonderful views of vineyard, hills of
the South Downs beyond and a
glimpse of the sea. Beneath the
restaurant was the winery, a vast
warehouse filled with enormous steel
tanks which soon, once the harvest
was underway, would be filled with
the juice of chardonnay, pinot noir and
pinot meunier grapes for a variety of
sparkling wines.
Dinner would be a six-course menu
Article 50 deadline and prevent a
no-deal Brexit on October 31.
Several known unknowns could
scupper their plans. They might fail to
secure the emergency debate,
although with John Bercow in the
Speaker’s chair, this is highly unlikely.
They might fail to amend Standing
Order Number 14, but with so many
Tory rebels this seems improbable.
They might pass their legislation in the
Commons, yet find themselves
filibustered in the Lords. But peers
could sit through the weekend to
create time to approve the bill before
the PM can prorogue Parliament and
kill off incomplete legislation.
None the less, with all this talk
about process – not to mention
hysteria about prorogation – we are in
danger of missing the wood for the
trees.
For there is a simple question that
Tory rebels need to answer. They say
they respect the referendum result.
They say they do not want to stop
Brexit. They say they just want us to
leave with a good deal. But what do
they hope their rebellion will achieve
this week?
Consider what will happen if they
get their way. Presumably, they expect
ministers to return to the negotiating
table in Brussels. But why would the
EU offer any changes to the existing
deal if it knows that Parliament is
unwilling to allow no deal? The
warning from the EU’s chief negotiator
Michel Barnier yesterday – insisting
that alternative arrangements to the
backstop can be discussed only once
the existing Withdrawal Agreement
has been approved – may reflect
nothing more than the fact he has not
been given an updated remit by the
European Council. But it is also a
reminder that without Britain credibly
threatening to walk away from the
of local delicacies: a tart of freshly
picked peas, roasted tomato
consommé with wild garlic, pork belly
and a panna cotta of strawberries and
cherry blossom. Each course would be
matched with a blancs de blancs, a
sparkling rosé and one of the estate’s
still wines: their Cradle Valley white, a
mix of pinot blanc and pinot gris.
Outside the vines work their way
down through the chalky soils to find
moisture. The striking buildings of
Rathfinny – vast warehouses nestling
on an edge of the valley and in the
600-acre estate – have the capacity to
produce a million bottles of sparkling
wine, which is now officially called
Sussex, each year. The owners are
looking out to Europe and beyond to
Asia and North America for customers.
I had to pinch myself both at the
extraordinary achievement thus far
and at the mesmerising ambition. But
this is no mere punt that Britain might
have a golden future in the food and
wine business. Rathfinny is just one
example of the belief now emerging
across Britain that this country is a
serious player in the world of
gastronomy.
How many would have scoffed a few
decades ago at the idea of English
vineyards with smart restaurants. Yet
across the south of England – and an
talks, the Europeans will not consider
changes to the Withdrawal Agreement
nor to the backstop.
Pro-European Tories are normally
as keen as French mustard to accept
what Brussels says at face value. Yet in
this case they seem to believe the EU
will do the opposite of what its
representatives say. The only
alternative explanation is they believe
that the existing Withdrawal
Agreement – complete with the
backstop that Boris Johnson rightly
calls anti-democratic – can win the
support of the House of Commons.
Yet the Withdrawal Agreement has
been rejected by MPs three times
already. They have no solution.
In contrast with their vacillation and
vacuity, the Prime Minister at least
knows his preferred solution. He
might not use his predecessor’s
discredited phrase, but his belief is
that no deal is better than a bad deal.
By making it plain he is preparing the
country to leave the EU without a deal
on October 31, he is making it more
likely, in fact, that he will win a better
deal from Brussels. And behind the
scenes, he is proposing alternatives to
the backstop to Europe’s leaders.
While the response from Dublin has
been cool, the hearing he received in
Berlin and Paris was notably warmer.
He might yet succeed, but if he fails he
is happy to leave without a deal.
Yet if the rebels get their way this
week we will go back to square one.
The threat of no deal will disappear,
and the incentive for Brussels to
compromise will evaporate. The
rebels will trap us in the EU for several
more months, with no way out.
The opposition parties would be
more than happy with this outcome.
The Liberal Democrats want to hoover
up Remain voters and push for a
second referendum. Many Labour MPs
odd smattering further north – each
year another opens. Within a decade
you will be able to do what many
thought only possible overseas;
through Burgundy in France, for
example or across the state of Victoria
in Australia.
Visitors will come to Britain for
culinary journeys. And to a nation that
was, in the many years that followed
the Second World War, not just a bleak
desert when it came to food, but one
that no one would have believed ever
had the urge to improve.
Today, you can’t find a space in the
car park of a provincial town for want
of farmers’ markets. Our cheeses beat
those of France – softer, stinkier,
harder, you name it. Our cider is
certainly fruitier and drier than
anything coming out of Normandy,
we have the finest beef cattle in the
world, the most succulent lamb – fed
on the lushest grass and the best
insects – and I don’t know about you,
but have you ever tried a glass of milk
anywhere else?
In 1962 the then young writer
Bernard Levin wrote a diatribe against
the state of this nation’s food and drink
sector. There was one word, he said,
that summed up the British hotel and
restaurant industry and that was
“disgusting”. In an episode of That Was
Monday 2 September 2019 The Daily Telegraph
– including the shadow Brexit
secretary Keir Starmer – desire a
read more at second referendum and for Britain to
telegraph.co.uk/ stay in the EU. Many Labour MPs who
opinion say they respect the referendum
result, like Lisa Nandy, seem
determined to keep voting against
every proposed way out. Jeremy
Corbyn, desperately trying to plaster
over Labour’s divisions, wants to keep
the onus on the Conservatives.
But what about the Tory rebels? If
they defeat the Government this week,
the only remaining solution for the
Prime Minister might be to hold an
election. Having been accused,
ridiculously, of staging a coup d’état
last week, the PM could choose to
administer a coup de grâce to this
sorry Parliament of Remainers and
Remoaners.
Boris would lead the Tories into this
Brexit election with a clear promise to
win a better deal from Brussels or
leave with no deal at all. And he would
need to be ruthless. Despite Philip
Hammond’s squeals, nobody opposing
Johnson’s policy could possibly stand
as an official Conservative candidate.
If they did, the Commons could still
block him even if he wins a clear
mandate for no deal.
And so we return to the question
facing the rebels. What in the end do
they hope their actions will achieve?
The purgatory of ongoing EU
1 membership? A second referendum
and all the division that would bring?
Or a general election presenting a
Front Bench choice between Boris’s no-deal
Everything you strategy and the crazy communism of
Jeremy Corbyn? The rebels might not
need to know like Boris’s policy, but they need to
from Westminster, think their actions through very
every weekday carefully. The stakes could scarcely be
morning higher. For the sake of their country,
telegraph.co.uk/ and the fortunes of their party, they
front-bench need to back down now.
the Week That Was, he continued:
“There are other words that might be
pressed into service in an emergency:
lazy, inefficient, dishonest, dirty,
complacent, exorbitant, but disgusting
just about sums it up.”
In the Sixties the idea of restaurant
service as a respectable profession was
Can-do a joke and most people looking for
employment as chefs were probably
too stupid to be hod carriers. Today,
UK service is seen as an art and our
restaurants are sought after by young
chefs seeking apprenticeships from
across the world.
My pleasure as a restaurant critic for
this paper is that most of my reviews
are positive. Much as the critic relishes
the prospect of a turkey on the horizon
they are a rarer beast these days.
Of course, the food and drink
industry faces huge challenges. But we
can, for once, look within our shores
for talent – we have the farmers, the
land, the retail outlets and a growing
number of spirited independents. And
a large bunch of hungry, sophisticated
follow William consumers.
Sitwell on Twitter Our Prime Minister likes to eat out,
@WilliamSitwell; so let’s hope he can help to nurture the
read more at talent and circumstances to make
telegraph.co.uk/ Britain the tastiest nation on the
opinion planet. Let’s raise a glass of Sussex to
that.
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Remainer Tories
face a stark choice
I
t’s astonishing to think that senior Tories
who sat in the Cabinet roughly six weeks ago
are now prepared to turn on the Prime
Minister, walk away from their party and
vote to stop a no-deal Brexit. But that’s what
we’re likely to see happen this week.
Tomorrow, when the Commons reconvenes,
Remainer MPs, including several Conservatives,
will try to take control of the order paper and vote
to block a no-deal Brexit. This is madness: it’s why
swathes of the public are now sick of this particular
Parliament and its seemingly endless attempts to
delay and therefore thwart Brexit.
MPs voted to trigger Article 50, true, but since
then they have voted against every possible
withdrawal deal, including Theresa May’s
underwhelming agreement, which amounted to
Brexit-in-name-only.
For an orderly Brexit to happen, Mr Johnson has
now only one choice left, which is to reopen
negotiations with the EU and seriously rewrite Mrs
May’s agreement. MPs, especially within his own
party, really should support him. But Mr Johnson
can only get a proper new deal if he has the ability
to walk away from the negotiating table – and
Remainers want to seize control of House business
tomorrow precisely to remove that option,
effectively undermining talks with the EU. Why?
Because their one, overriding goal all along has
been to prevent Brexit itself.
Remainers who once served in Mrs May’s
Cabinet would argue that, in fact, they tried to get
Brexit completed by backing her deal. But the only
Brexit they were willing to accept was one that
kept us trapped in the EU’s orbit potentially
forever, and now that Britain finally has a PM
properly committed to leaving, they have openly
joined the Remainer alliance.
If they succeed in the Commons then it’s
possible that Mr Johnson will feel he has no choice
left but to force a general election. In which case,
what happens to the Remainer Tories? It will be an
election they have precipitated by opposing their
own Government’s policy – and the whip,
presumably, will be removed from them. Thus we
stand on the brink of a remarkable realignment in
British politics that could see some MPs divorced
from the party they have served in for years.
But be in no doubt: it is a choice of their own
making, and all because they couldn’t accept the
result of the referendum and its full implications
for Britain.
America’s gamble
I
f Brexit seems like a never-ending problem, try
fixing Syria and Afghanistan. In Syria, Bashar
al-Assad has clung to power with the help of his
Russian and Iranian allies and, let us be honest, the
tolerance of the West – but the country remains a
tinderbox. At the weekend, the US launched an
attack on al-Qaeda leadership in Idlib. The
Russians accuse the Americans of endangering a
ceasefire. The contrary argument is that any peace
that provides cover for terrorists to regroup under
is hardly a peace at all.
But that’s the gamble America is taking in
Afghanistan. Taliban assaults on Afghan cities
come, believe it or not, in the midst of peace talks
with the US. They send a message. The Taliban has
shown that it can carry out military attacks; the
Afghan government that it can hold the line; and
the US that it remains committed to the country,
even as it is effectively negotiating its own
withdrawal. The idea of the US sitting down to
talks with the Taliban will shock many, but this
conflict has gone on for 18 years and Donald Trump
wants to wind it down.
One of Washington’s conditions is that the
Taliban doesn’t offer a base to international
jihadists – and that’s the real tension in US policy.
Mr Trump wants to get out of the Middle East and
Central Asia but this would leave behind a
dangerous vacuum, filled either by hostile states
(Russia, Iran) or by terrorists who will eventually
bring the fight to America itself, as al-Qaeda did in
2001. Nevertheless, the President is prepared to
take that risk, and it’s easy to see why. Whether he
wins re-election in 2020 or not, the White House is
unlikely to go on bleeding its country dry in
defence of an already bloody status quo.
Seal of approval
A
nd finally, for some good news: scientists
have counted more than 100 seal pups on the
shores of the River Thames. We are often
told that the environment is on the brink of
destruction, but how often do we hear of success
stories, such as the transformation of the Thames?
In times past, the Thames functioned as a giant
open sewer. During the Great Stink of 1858,
Parliament was inoperable. At first they tried to
escape the smell by covering the curtains in
chloride and lime, but eventually MPs gave in and
voted through reform in an unusually fast 18 days.
The Blitz, alas, destroyed some of the Victorian
sewers; by the Fifties, the river had been declared
biologically dead. Now, thanks to declining
pollution, there are seals, porpoises and sharks
living in it – and the smell is vastly improved, too.
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The prorogation protests were just another attack on the democratic vote to leave the EU
sir – The demonstrations over the
weekend against the prorogation of
Parliament – which is standard
procedure at the end of a
parliamentary session – were clearly
just an excuse to demonstrate against
leaving the EU.
On June 23 2016, 17.4 million people
made the effort to get to their local
polling stations in order to give the
thumbs-down to the undemocratic EU.
No amount of Momentum-
orchestrated anti-Brexit activity can
change that.
Gerald Heath
Corsham, Wiltshire
sir – I find it odd that those out on the
streets at the weekend, allegedly in
defence of democracy, should feel
such a strong sense of loyalty to an
organisation run by a secretive cabal
of unelected officials.
Sue Pickard
Epsom Downs, Surrey
sir – I was greatly amused by some of
the slogans I saw at the protests. My
We accept letters
by post, fax and Chlorinated chicken
email only. Please
include name, sir – Sir Ian Boyd, chief scientific
address, work and adviser at the Department for
home telephone Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
numbers. (Defra), argues that consumers should
have a choice over whether or not to
111 Buckingham buy chlorine-washed chicken in the
Palace Road, event of a UK-US trade deal because
London animal welfare is a “values-based
SW1W 0DT choice” (report, August 29).
This is disappointing. Defra,
fax supported by the British veterinary
020 7931 2878 profession and farming unions,
proudly trumpets this country’s high
email animal welfare standards and has
dtletters@ sought to reassure consumers that
telegraph.co.uk these would at least be maintained
after Brexit.
follow We know that shoppers not only
Telegraph Letters value high animal welfare standards
on Twitter but they also expect them. Chlorine
@LettersDesk washing is used to disinfect carcasses
at the end of a production process in
which chickens may have been kept in
conditions associated with poor health
and welfare. Additionally, we consider
that there are increasing public health
concerns about the practice. A recent
study found that bacilli such as listeria
and salmonella remain completely
active after chlorine washing. The
process merely makes it impossible to
culture them in the lab, giving the
false impression that the chlorine
washing has been effective.
The British Veterinary Association
has argued strongly to the
Government that exports to Britain of
chlorine-washed chicken should be
excluded on animal-welfare grounds.
We would appreciate Defra’s support
on this.
Simon Doherty
President, British Veterinary
Association
London W1
Learning the language
sir – I suspect one reason why
foreigners dislike British tourists
(report, August 31) is that so few of us
make any attempt to learn the
languages of the places that we visit.
If you can afford to travel abroad,
surely you can afford to buy a bilingual
dictionary and pick up a few words
and phrases. There are also free
websites and online videos. Yet many
British tourists do not even have the
courtesy to learn how to say “hello”,
“please” or “thank you”.
English may be a global language,
but we mustn’t be so arrogant as to
assume that everyone speaks it, or
speaks it well. Trying to communicate
with someone in their mother tongue
is a display of empathy that opens all
kinds of doors.
Emilie Lamplough
Trowbridge, Wiltshire
For politicians, smiling is no laughing matter
Boris Johnson’s ready
smile is one of the secrets
of his success – it wins trust
and helps people relax
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brandreth
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H
ave you noticed how Boris
Johnson is always smiling?
Meeting Macron or Merkel,
breakfasting with Trump in Biarritz,
entertaining schoolchildren at No 10, he
is beaming all the while. Even when
being earnestly quizzed by beetle-
browed political correspondents
desperately channelling the
prorogation outrage, there is an impish
grin playing around the Prime
Minister’s mouth as he offers his genial
replies. That’s why he is going to win
this thing – and the election that follows
it. His smile is his secret weapon.
I know because some years ago I did
research on happiness with the late,
great Dr Anthony Clare, professor of
clinical psychiatry at Trinity College,
Dublin, and fondly remembered for
his radio interviews, In the
Psychiatrist’s Chair. Dr Clare made a
study of successful politicians and
concluded that the most successful
were the ones who smiled the most.
Grinning is good for your health, and
personal favourite was “Save
Democracy: Stop Brexit”.
Sam Jefferis
Keynsham, Somerset
sir – The Archbishop of Canterbury’s
call for Remainers to accept the result
of the referendum in the interests of
democracy is admirable.
Theresa May’s time in office showed
that reconciliation cannot be achieved
with a half-in, half-out solution. That
approach has only led to greater
discord. Remainers must not only
accept the referendum result; for their
own well-being, as much as that of the
nation, they must unite behind it and
embrace the opportunities.
Henry Speer
Lincoln
sir – Ross Clark (Comment, August 29)
is right to fear that Boris Johnson’s
prorogation of Parliament could be a
mistake. It may be legal and
constitutional, but is it wise? Without
it, the opposition parties could be
relied on to oppose the Government
Victoria and Albert played by Emily Blunt and Rupert Friend in The Young Victoria (2009)
What if Prince Albert had lived into old age?
SIR – Last week’s bicentenary of
Prince Albert’s birth received little
attention. His death, aged only 42,
was a tragedy – not only for Queen
Victoria and Britain, but also for
Europe and the rest of the world.
Their plan to ensure a peaceful
Europe through their wide family
connections never had a chance.
Had he lived until 1901, as she did,
he would surely have had a
beneficial influence over the newly
united Germany’s development after
1870, providing a counterbalance to
Smart motorways make drivers’ lives harder
sir – I regularly commute along the
southern stretch of the M25, which
was increased from three to four lanes
some years ago in a move that wasn’t
very smart (Comment, August 31).
In the absence of a hard shoulder,
the unavoidable lane closures that
follow a breakdown result in chaos
and long queues as traffic attempts to
squeeze into the remaining lanes. If
there is an accident, even in the inside
lane, traffic police rarely hesitate to
close the entire carriageway
completely.
Lane discipline is worse than ever
with four lanes, as “middle lane
wallies” gravitate to the third of four,
where they bumble along holding
everyone up, blinkered by
complacency or perhaps fear. The
second lane is often almost empty, for
good reason: lorries use it as their
overtaking lane, and cars find it nigh
impossible to move into the third
lane to pass them because it is too
people warm to you. When you smile,
dopamine, endorphins and serotonin
are released into your bloodstream,
lowering your heart rate and your
blood pressure, relaxing your body
and enabling you to function more
effectively. Better than that, when you
smile, people treat you differently.
Look at the footage of Mrs May with
with her successor. When Bojo
bounces onto the dais, everyone is
beaming – even against their better
judgment. Dr Clare explained to me
that whatever the truth might be, a
smiling person is perceived to be more
appealing, sincere and trustworthy
than a po-faced one. According to the
science, seeing a happy face activates
your orbitofrontal cortex, the part of
your brain that processes sensory
rewards. When you look at a person
smiling, you feel that you are being
rewarded – and you smile back. It’s an
unconscious automatic response
(triggered in the cingulate cortex) and
it explains why Boris, in spite of
everything, has got to where he is
today and looks set stay there. The
scowling Jeremy Corbyn, poor fellow,
doesn’t stand a chance.
 You will recall the moment in the
1967 film, The Graduate, when the
young Dustin Hoffman, just out of
college, at a party by the family
swimming pool, is given a piece of
career advice by a middle-aged
neighbour: “In a word, plastics.” If
I was asked to give a comparable piece
of advice today, it would have to be:
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but would not agree on anything else.
Mr Johnson could have kept the
moral high ground and still won on
Brexit. Now he has given ammunition
to the real enemies of democracy – the
opponents of Brexit masquerading as
opponents of no-deal.
John de Waal
Eastbourne, East Sussex
sir – Can it be right that a prime
minister’s advice to the Queen can be
challenged in court but unilateral
changes to our constitutional
arrangements by a partisan Speaker
cannot?
His Honour Charles Wide QC
Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
sir – Hugo Vickers’s understanding of
our constitution (Comment, August
30) is in error. He takes Walter
Bagehot’s line to an extreme to make a
very dangerous point, namely that the
monarch must always accept the
advice of her ministers.
This must be corrected. The Queen
is bound to uphold the rule of law. She
ALAMY
the militaristic Prussian education
which his eldest grandson, Wilhelm,
received from his tutors and during
his army training.
Wilhelm’s father, the relatively
liberal Kaiser Frederick III, also
suffered an untimely death after
only three months on the throne in
1888. Wilhelm became Kaiser
Wilhelm II aged 29 with no suitable
mentor, falling out even with
Bismarck. The rest is history.
John Birkett
St Andrews, Fife
tightly packed. Smart motorways are
dumb.
David Miller
Tunbridge Wells, Kent
sir – I am an ambulance paramedic.
The hard shoulder is our usual path
through a traffic jam. Making rapid
progress on motorways is now more
difficult and stressful, as there can be
four lanes of traffic blocking the way.
I now radio our control room when
we are delayed because of this
situation. I feel that an early record is
necessary in case there is a fatality and
a delay in medical treatment is
questioned in the coroner’s court.
Smart motorways appear to have
been designed and approved by
people who spend little time on them
and have a poor understanding of the
unplanned and unpleasant events that
occur on them.
Tim Bradbury
Northwich, Cheshire
“In a word, tattoos.” When I was
young, only sailors and people in
prison had tattoos. Now everyone in
the world under 40 seems to be
emblazoned with them. Our new
national hero, Ben Stokes, has both his
brilliant batting arms crammed with
“tats” (as they are known in the trade),
while he has a three-lions-meet-Māori
design on his back, which the New
Zealand-born cricketer created as a
16-year-old to appease his parents after
being told by them that he could only
get a tattoo if it had a meaning.
Friday’s Telegraph boasted a picture
on the front page of American actress
Scarlett Johansson at the Venice Film
Festival showing off her back tattoo
featuring an elaborate climbing rose
and a lamb – a tat tribute to her
daughter Rose.
Tattoos are big business. I know a
man who got into tattoo ink only 10
years ago and is now worth in excess
of £10 million. My publishers
suggested to me that if I had the title of
my new book tattooed somewhere
about my person – “anywhere” they
said – it would “guarantee great
publicity”. I told them I am already
doing Twitter and Instagram. At my
age, that is quite enough.
 It seems that – like smiling –
learning poetry by heart is good
for you. It stimulates the brain in all
sorts of ways and helps keep dementia
at bay. Successfully memorising a
piece of verse is satisfying: performing
it alongside others is as rewarding as
being a member of a choir. That is
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has sworn on oath to do this to the
“best of her powers”. Written bits of
our constitution, such as the Bill of
Rights and the Act of Settlement, aim
to control the Crown in its governance.
The Queen must uphold these while
they remain unrepealed. They secure
the right of the people to make their
own laws and customs. In order to sit
in Parliament, all MPs have sworn
oaths of allegiance and agreed to abide
by the rule of law. So long as they do
so, the Queen will indeed accept the
advice of her ministers – but, should
they propose to disregard the rule of
law, she is bound by the law to refuse.
This is the true status of our
constitution, and thus it places
limitations on the power of our
Parliament so that it may not destroy
its own omnipotence and betray the
people to a foreign potentate. The
Speaker’s stance should be tested
against these principles.
John Bingley
Lord James of Blackheath
Rear Admiral Roger Lane-Nott
Freddie Forsyth
Hospital flowers
sir – The reason why hospitals have
banned cut flowers (Letters, August 31)
is infection control.
Water in flower vases is teeming
with bacteria, including Pseudomonas,
within 24 hours of being changed. The
banning of cut flowers in burns wards
in the Eighties was accompanied by a
rapid decrease in wound infection,
sepsis and death caused by this
organism, which is challenging to
treat, resistant to many antibiotics and
difficult to eradicate from the fabric of
the building, especially sink outlets.
Dr Sarah A Pape
Longwitton, Northumberland
Sacred sounds
sir – It’s easy to imagine from much of
the media coverage that the only
worthwhile classical music concerts
held at this time of year have been at
the Proms or the Edinburgh Festival.
One example that proves this is not so
was the astounding recital at
Westminster Cathedral last
Wednesday evening by the young
British organist Peter Stevens, the
cathedral’s Assistant Master of Music.
It included a rare performance of the
seminal, concentration-demanding,
seven-movement work by Olivier
Messiaen composed in the Thirties, Les
Corps Glorieux. To hear this played in
that building on that most appropriate
organ by such a wonderful musician
was an experience that will live long in
the memory.
James Little
Saffron Walden, Essex
Ruffling feathers
sir – Bob Stebbings (Letters, August
28) claims that staring down seagulls
does not work.
I stared one down in Llandudno just
a few days ago. I performed energetic
head movements and made sure it
knew I was watching it. The bird
became increasingly anxious at my
behaviour (as did some human
observers) and eventually it flew off.
Neil Hudson
Leeds, West Yorkshire
Guilty pleasure
sir – You report (August 30) that many
hotels are now going to use refillable
dispensers for all toiletries.
Part of the pleasure of staying in
luxury hotels is being able to bring
home the free mini products.
What are we going to do now?
Daphne Johnstone
Havant, Hampshire
why, with support from the Duchess of
Cornwall, patron of Silverline and wife
of the founder of the Prince’s Trust,
I am launching a modest project
designed to get young and old away
from their iPhones and television
screens for a few hours, and doing
something active and amusing
together. With the Poetry Together
project, groups of schoolchildren
(aged anything from five to 18) are
learning a poem by heart and inviting
old people from local care homes to
learn the same poem. Then, around
National Poetry Day in October, the
old and the young are going to meet
up to recite their poem together and
have tea.
We did a pilot of the idea earlier in
the year at the Chelsea Hospital and to
see 80 and 90-year-old soldiers
marching up and down with primary
schoolchildren while reciting
A A Milne’s poem about changing the
guard at Buckingham Palace was
heart-warming. And, yes, it had
everyone smiling. (If you know a school
or care home that might like to take
part, details are at poetrytogether.com).
‘Dancing by the Light of the Moon’ by
Gyles Brandreth is published by
Penguin Michael Joseph on Thursday
Charles Moore is away
follow Gyles Brandreth on Twitter
@GylesB1; read more at
telegraph.co.uk/opinion
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RYAN MCNAMARA
Can teenagers training and supervision but, as in
Germany, they offer energy,
enthusiasm and a free source of
labour. Winfield is now looking at
ways in which the hospital’s existing
volunteer force could be more

with nothing to do
integrated into clinical care. She
believes a wider volunteer
programme for young people across
the NHS could both relieve pressure
on the health service and help attract
them into rewarding careers in
healthcare they might not otherwise

save the NHS? consider.

Not everyone will be cut out for it,
but the Derby experiment suggests
that even volunteers who don’t seem
promising can come into their own.
A million miles from Charlotte and
her “head girl” approach was
20-year-old Will Muncey, who was
urged to take part by his parents.
A new BBC experiment placing young volunteers in hospitals has Charming, chatty but rudderless,
Will had been drifting from one job
to another, working for an estate
had a profound effect, participants tell Margarette Driscoll agency, then pulling pints. When he
arrived at his first placement, on the

T
his time last year, Charlotte
Buck regarded herself as an
unemotional person. Not cold
exactly, but headstrong and
determined, focused on her studies
and launching her career. She
became a volunteer at the Royal
Derby Hospital mostly out of
self-interest: if she wanted to
specialise in medical law it would
help tick the box marked “relevant
elevant
experience”.
Instead, her six weeks on the
wards proved a physical, mentalental and
emotional challenge that hass
changed everything. “It made de me
think about how I connect with
people, about my family, made ade me
question things I’d never questioned
estioned
before,” she says. “You build d such
strong bonds with patients so
quickly. It’s really intense.”
Charlotte, 21, was one of 14 4 young
people from around Britain chosen
to take part in a trial in Derby,
y, based
on a German scheme which sees
some 90,000 young people every
year volunteering in hospitals als and
care homes.
In the latter years of conscription
cription
in Germany, which ran from m 1956 to
2011, youngsters could choose se to do
their national service either in the
military or by volunteering in the
care sector, a tradition which h has
continued, giving German hospitals a
constantly refreshed band off
enthusiastic – and free – workers,
rkers,
similar to British healthcare
assistants.
Could a similar programme me work
here? The NHS already has an army
of volunteers to help with admin jobs,
manning reception desks, chatting to
patients and providing emotional
support. This group – filmed by the
BBC for The Big Hospital Experiment,
which starts this week – is the first to
get involved in clinical treatment,
feeding and washing, taking hourly
observations, monitoring patients in
the high dependency unit and helping
with wound care.
The idea came from a chance
conversation in a south London pub 15
years ago when James O’Reilly,
creative director of The Big
Hospital Experiment, was at
university. He got talking to a
visiting German student who
seemed “so much older and
cooler than us”. It turned out
he had just spent nine months
volunteering in a German
hospital: “While we’d
been acting like idiots
and getting drunk,
he’d had first-hand
experience of life
and death and
could amaze us
all with eye-
opening
experiences of
emergency and
trauma and all the
things you
experience on a
hospital ward.”
O’Reilly
continued to be
fascinated by the
concept and, when
he got the chance
to make a documentary about the
‘Young NHS, was determined to make it
people happen. Which might make for a great
TV, but when life in the NHS is a
offer constant battle against the odds, with
staff and funding at crisis levels,
energy overflowing wards, ageing patients
and a free and a social care sector unable to
relieve the strain, why would anyone
source of agree to throw a group of young,
inexperienced amateurs into the mix?
labour
labour’ The Royal Derby’s gamble was that
such volunteers might become part of
the solution.
“Obviously, there’s a level of risk
involved and, as far as I’m aware, there
isn’t anyone in the acute sector using
trained volunteers alongside clinical
staff,” says Cathy Winfield, the trust’s
executive chief nurse. “But we
saw this could enhance the team
around the patient. Family
isn’t always there for our
patients, you can be on your
own and your daughter lives
150 miles away. We saw this
as having the potential to fill
that gap.”
The volunteers, who
spent six weeks at the
Royal Derby late last
las
year, were put
through basic
training, learning
to administer firs
first
aid, CPR and take
blood pressure.
On her first day,
Charlotte struck up
a conversation with
Audrey, one of the
patients she had
been assigned, and to her surprise a
caring instinct came to the fore. “I’d
thought connecting with people was
going to be a challenge, but we got
really close. I was helping her to the
bathroom and rubbing cream on her
because she couldn’t reach her legs. So
that was a start,” she says.
Her most challenging stint was on
the renal ward, where there were
some seriously ill patients – some
needing dialysis, others at risk of
seizures or sepsis – three of whom died
on the same day. Charlotte had got to
know one of the men who was
terminally ill and spent the last few
hours of his life by his side, cooling his
forehead with damp cloths as his
temperature soared.
“I kept stroking his hand and
chatting to him, trying to get him to
hold on until his family arrived,” she
says. “I used to be someone who could
not talk about death, did not want to
think about it, but though my mind
was racing, I thought: ‘OK, you need to
do this.’ ”
Though she is as determined as ever
to make it to bar school, she has
moved home for a year to save money
and spend time with her mother,
Janine. “I’d moved away from Kent
and hadn’t been home for ages. I
worked two jobs while at university in
Leicester, so I didn’t get to see my
mum very often at all,” she says. “I was
just thinking about my goal and not
the people who’d supported me all the
way along to achieve it.”
The experiment became food for
thought for the hospital, too.
Youngsters may soak up resources in
head and neck ward, his main
Helping hands:
Charlotte Buck, concern was not whether he was up
main, and Will
Muncey, above,
to the job but whether he could split
his half-hour break time into three
took part in ten-minute slots to nip out for a fag.
The Big Hospital Then, a week or so later, as he was
Experiment, which taking routine observations, he
was project
managed by Karen
noticed something was wrong. A
patient he was talking to did not
Hill, senior nurse, seem properly responsive and had a
left very weak pulse. He raised the alarm
and the hospital’s crash team arrived:
to his surprise, he might have saved
someone’s life.
Will’s breezy chit-chat as he took
observations brought a smile to his
patients’ faces but, like Charlotte, he
was unprepared for the closeness he
began to feel towards them.
When he heard a man he had got
to know on the cancer ward was
being allowed home, he was
delighted – but then realised it was
because there was no more the
doctors could do: “He was the most
lovely guy. I was a bit lost for words.”
As with Charlotte, facing up to
these hard realities has changed his
outlook.
“The biggest thing I learnt was a
whole new respect for the NHS. It
doesn’t matter whether you are a
doctor or a porter, everything you’re
doing really matters.”
Though he is now back pulling
pints, Will has arranged an interview
for a more permanent job. His stint in
The Big Hospital
the NHS was his parents’ idea – what
will they think when the programme
Experiment begins
is broadcast? “I’m told my mum will
on BBC Two on
be quite proud of me,” he says. “We’ll
Wednesday, 9pm
see.”
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D O C T O R’ S D I A RY MIND HEALING Commitment is the third
quality. Both are prepared to

The Navigating
your toxic
put time and effort into the
relationship, even when
they’re physically far apart.
Fourth, balance. Although

torture of friendships
at any given moment one
may ask more of the other,
over time each individual
gives and takes equally.

restless Fifth, the relationship is

uplifting and rewarding,
allowing both individuals to
feel energised and positive.

legs The size of our social

network appears to be fairly
stable across age groups,
gender, time and culture.
According to Robin Dunbar
at the University of Oxford,
the number of individuals
Linda Blair – about 150 – any of us can
claim to recognise and feel

F
riendship is vital – and familiar with is based on the
it isn’t exclusive to amount of interpersonal
humans. Ethologists information the human brain

James Le Fanu
he startling news
reported last week
T that those troubled by
restless legs are three
times more likely to
attempt or commit
suicide is a salutary reminder of the
morale sapping torture of this
enigmatic affliction. “Some say they
never have a moment’s peace,”
noted Swedish physician Karl-Axel
Ekbom half a century ago. He
likened the most unpleasant
sensation, typically occurring when
lying in bed at night or sitting for
any length of time, to “ants running
up and down the bones” or “a leg
full of small worms” and described
how “the discomfort forces them to
walk up and down continuously like
a caged bear”.
Though initially thought of as a
neurological curiosity, it is
surprisingly common – and
remained untreatable until the
chance observation of several
patients with Parkinson’s disease
who found that the drugs they were
taking to boost the level of the
neurotransmitter dopamine also
markedly alleviated their restless
legs. At the time this seemed an
amazing breakthrough but
despairingly, after a few months’
blessed relief, the drugs tend to
become gradually less effective or
paradoxically worsen those
creeping and crawling sensations
– known as augmentation.
Over the years, readers of this
column have written to tell of the
several ways they have found to
ameliorate their symptoms –
notably heat, in the form of a hot
bath late at night, or, conversely,
pouring icy water over the legs.
“When I feel this infernal irritation
is about to start up,” wrote one long
term sufferer, “I pull on my calf
muscle so tightly so as to induce a
cramp, then letting go find it has
almost disappeared.”
The disappointments of drug
treatment in the long term has
prompted renewed interest in such
methods – presumed to work by
“drowning out” the unpleasant
nerve signals from the brain –
summarised as “Non-
Pharmacological Treatments for
Restless Legs” in the journal Sleep
Review, available to read online.
They include graded exercise, and a
range of medical devices such as a
Initially thought of
as a neurological
curiosity, it is
surprisingly
common
Tens machine and the compressive
Restiffic that wraps around the foot
and is reputed to be “superior to
drug treatment”, reducing the
intensity of symptoms from “severe”
to “mild”.
More faint theories
The conundrum of the gentleman
who, to his and his hairdresser’s
alarm, has collapsed twice this year
when having a “trim” has prompted
considerable interest with several
ramifications. The most likely
explanation would be impaired
blood flow, as ophthalmologist
William Coddington describes:
“When I have my hair cut I
invariably flex my neck so the
barber can more easily get to the
back of my head,” he writes. For
those with arthritis in the cervical
spine, this manoeuvre can compress
the two vertebral arteries running
up the back of the neck, reducing
the blood flow to the posterior part
of the brain to cause transient loss
of consciousness.
A similar sequence of events
occurs more commonly following
the reverse manoeuvre of extending
the neck backwards to have the hair
shampooed. Here the blood flow
through the vertebral arteries is
reduced still further by their being
compressed by the lip of the basin
GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO
Robert Seyfarth and Dorothy
Cheney at the University of
Pennsylvania describe the
evolutionary origins of
human friendship using
their observations of other
animals, including horses,
dolphins and monkeys, and
conclude friendship is
Restless legs: a condition akin to adaptive across all species.
‘morale-sapping torture’ Those of us who are part
of a strong friendship group
to cause the signs and symptoms of are more likely to live longer,
a mini stroke. as Julianne Holt-Lunstad at
Nor is that the end of it – there are
two further forms of hairdressing-
Brigham University
discovered in her meta-
related fainting. The first,
“hairdryer syncope”, occurs in older
analysis of 148 studies across
the world. Laura Pittman and
women who have sat under a hood Adeya Richmond at
hairdryer for some time and is Northern Illinois University
attributed to the heat generated by found undergraduates who
the dryer dilating the blood vessels had more good friends were
to cause a fall in blood pressure. less likely to feel depressed
Then, at the other end of the age or anxious during the
spectrum, there is “hair-grooming transition from home to
syncope” in adolescent girls who university. And those who
have been standing still for some have good workplace
time having their hair combed or friendships perform better
braided. Here the action of pulling and report a more positive
on the scalp stimulates the vagus work attitude, according to
nerve, leading to a reflex slowing of Seok-Hwi Song at the
the heart rate. The predisposition of University of Seoul.
hairdressing to cause fainting in There are countless
these diverse ways, though definitions of good friendship
interesting, might be a bit esoteric. but, in my opinion, five
On the contrary, recognising the qualities stand out.
link is vital in sparing the The first is that the
unfortunate fainter a panoply of friendship nourishes both
intrusive investigations for individuals. Each feels
disturbances of heart rhythm,
epilepsy and other possible causes
supported and cared for, and
both look forward to
of loss of consciousness. spending time together.
Second, there is trust.
Each knows they can count
Email medical questions confidentially
to Dr James Le Fanu at drjames
on the other to be honest but
accepting, even when one or
@telegraph.co.uk
both change.
can process. Within the 150
are three layers – five or so
intimate friends, about 15
very good friends and
around 50 close friends.
However, not all
friendships are beneficial.
Some, known as “toxic
friendships”, can actually
damage wellbeing, causing
low self-esteem, self-doubt,
anxiety and fatigue. There
may even be physical
consequences – some
researchers have found
correlations between toxic
friendships and systemic
inflammation as well as
higher rates of heart disease.
If you think one of your
friendships is toxic, what
should you do?
Write down which aspects
cause distress. Ask yourself
how you’d like things to
change. Can you make any of
those changes? If not, try
talking to your friend.
If they’re willing to make
changes, give the friendship
a chance as long as you feel
it’s safe to do so. If not, or if
there are no changes within
three to six weeks, it would
be best to end the
relationship and focus
instead on other, healthier
friendships.
Linda Blair is a clinical
psychologist and author of
Siblings: How to Handle Rivalry
and Create Lifelong Loving
Bonds. To order for £10.99,
call 0844 871 1514 or visit
books.telegraph.co.uk

‘I didn’t want my
sister to die for
nothing. It just
seemed such a waste’
As organ donation laws are
set to change next Spring,
Harry de Quetteville meets
those helping to navigate

L
the process
loyd Dalton-Brown can
still remember the
moment he saw his sister
Jane, then 29, in hospital
after her accident. “When
I went in to the hospital
she looked fine,” he recalls with
startling clarity, nearly 20 years on.
“Her cheeks were rosy, she was
breathing.” But looks were terribly
deceiving.
The rise and fall of her chest was
maintained only by machine. Jane Agonising decision: Lloyd Dalton-Brown,
had suffered fatal head injuries after right, had to approve donating the organs
being hit by a lorry. “When the of his sister Jane, above centre
consultant showed me the scan of her
brainstem,” says Lloyd, “I changing in a way that could see “families can be divided over the
understood.” many more bereaved relatives faced issue”. He should know – his mother is
What happened next changed his with similar agonies to Lloyd. For against donation; his children are in
life – and those of five others. “The next Spring, organ donation will favour. His wife, as next of kin, will
consultant asked me about donating move to an opt-out basis, where make the call, should the worst
her organs,” says Lloyd, now 67. consent for donation is assumed, happen.
But, like the vast majority of unless someone has noted that they In recent years, families in the UK
people, he had never discussed the do not wish it. have stepped in to prevent donations
possibility of such a medical It is a watershed moment. After all in about 40 per cent of suitable cases.
catastrophe with Jane, who had yet to today, which marks the start of Organ So while next year’s law change is
reach her 30th birthday. “I agonised Donation Week, only 24.9 million expected to result in a many more
about it,” he says. “I wobbled. And you people have recorded their decision potential donors, it will be for nothing
don’t have long to make your unless families give are prepared to
decision. Because the organs don’t give their approval.
last long.”
‘I’ve never met a That is where SNODs – Specialist
Eventually he gave consent for her
organs to be donated. “I didn’t want
family who regret Nurse for Organ Donation – come in.
A cadre of 300 experienced nurses,
her to die for nothing. It just seemed the decision to usually drawn from intensive care and
such a waste.” emergency units, they are given six
Jane’s heart, lungs, and kidneys donate an organ’ months of training to prepare for the
went to others. Her liver went to a girl uniquely sensitive task of caring for
so desperately ill that an appeal for to be an organ donor on the Organ and supporting a donor’s family.
help was broadcast on the radio. Even Donor Register. That is 38 per cent of “You can’t imagine what people are
so, Lloyd couldn’t help wondering if the population. going through at that time,” says
he’d done the right thing: “I did a lot In 12 months’ time, however, all of SNOD Rachel Rowson. “It’s the
of soul searching,” he remembers. us bar those who register an objection darkest day of their lives.” That’s
It was only later, when he managed will in effect become card-carrying because the process of organ
to speak to many of Jane’s friends, donors. Of course, that will not be the donation requires someone to die on a
who reassured him, that he could set end of the matter. Because then, as ventilator, and that, as Rowson says
his mind at ease. now, bereaved families will still have delicately, “usually means donors
Now, the law in England is the ultimate say. And, as Lloyd says, have suffered a traumatic event: a fall,
The Daily Telegraph Monday 2 September 2019
HEALTH
Alternative
ways to relieve
menopause
As hormone replacement therapy faces
a supply crisis, Victoria Lambert looks
at natural methods to ease the pain
H
RT is rarely out of the
news. But whether
you’re starting with
the odd hot flush or
already experiencing
the full tidal wave of
menopause symptoms, news of
national shortages of hormone
replacement therapy y (HRT) will be
most unwelcome.
The crisis over supplies
pplies of HRT –
thought to have begun un after China
forced some manufacturers
cturers to
stop producing HRT patches – is
reportedly seeing some me British
women flying abroad, d, with
warnings they could struggle to
get hold of patches foror nearly a
year. It’s thought thatt two
thirds of HRT products cts have
been affected.
To make matters worse, a
report published thiss week
revived the debate overver
whether HRT raises women’s
risk of breast cancer. The study
published in The Lancetncett found
a small increased risk k for all
types of HRT except topical
vaginal oestrogens, and that for
some, the risk remains ns for more than
a decade after use stops.
Around one in 10 women going
through the menopause are
prescribed HRT – which restores
falling levels of hormones –
amounting to around 200,000
women in the UK. But worries over
supplies, and a new breast cancer
scare, will no doubt add to growing
interest in alternative ways to
manage the symptoms of the
menopause. “This is an ideal time to
look at all the latest ways to take care
of yourself as you approach and go
through the menopause,” says Dr
Louise Newson, a GP and menopause
specialist based in Stratford-upon-
a traffic accident, some kind of injury
to the brain like a stroke. It’s probably
happened very quickly.”
Most families, then, have said
goodbye to the potential donor at
breakfast, fully expecting to see them
again for supper. Instead they are
confronted with tragedy, and, on top
of that, asked to consent to organ
donation too. “Understandably some
say ‘I just can’t make that decision,’”
says Rowson. “But unfortunately
saying that is also saying ‘no’. Time
isn’t on our side. We only have one
time to ask, one time to get it right.”
She describes a process of almost
unbearable delicacy in which, she is
quick to say, there is absolutely no
pressure placed upon the family one
way or the other.
Rather, it is about helping them to
process what has happened fast
enough to ensure that, should they
agree, the organs are still in a good
enough condition.
“Getting them to the point of
accepting that their loved one is going
to die is the first step,” she explains.
“It is very sensitive and needs to be
done in the right way.”
Often the SNODs find it is not
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Testosterone
begins to
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you don’t pile on
the weight as
you age.”
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35, and some Powles, who
studies suggest recommends a
that boosting diet rich in
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strength, energy shellfish
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however – so is synthesis – can
Avon. For those who want to cut their it possible to be found in
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completely, a number of alternative hormone levels and spinach.”
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close to death now full of life, back at
work, it does feel amazing.” Who
benefits from those transplants, he
says, is down to a computerised
weighting system, which is “quite
complicated,” with everything from
outcomes to geography taken into
account. But one thing is sure,
Wigmore adds: “Children take
priority.”
Long delays remain – three years
for a heart transplant, more than two
for a kidney. Some 6,000 people are
on the waiting list. But it was 8,000
only a few years ago. That, says
Wigmore, is down to an organ
donation task force which, in 2006,
studied and improved the whole
pathway of donation, and put in place
greater family support, helping boost
public approval of donation (it now
stands at 80 per cent).
The greatest change has occurred
in Wales: as recently as 2015, almost
half of families there refused
‘When you see
someone who was
close to death full of
life, it feels amazing’
donation. Today, that figure is just a
quarter, the lowest in the UK and
described by Williment as “world-
leading”.
The difference, she says, has been
JAY WILLIAMS
Wales’ own opt-out law, in place for
four years. “It got the nation talking,”
she says. And talking, as Lloyd
Dalton-Brown knows, is the crucial
thing. “You have to have the
donation itself that is the issue, but discussion before anything happens.”
that grieving families are The benefits, he says, are
overwhelmed by mundane tasks. “We inestimable. “My sister died and
find they are worrying that the kids helped five other people. Jane was
need collecting from school,” says able to do something to save others.”
Claire Williment, who is ensuring that In the NHS, Rawson says she has
the several hundred staff on the NHS’ “never met a family who say they
nationwide Blood and Transplant regret it. But we have had some
Team are up to speed with the families who have regretted the
forthcoming law change. “But we can decision to say no”.
sort it all. That’s the unseen side.” Minimum estimates suggest that
If families then agree to donate, a the law change will see several
plan swings into action, managed hundred extra donors and around
from an operations base in Bristol. seven to 800 more transplant
A surgical team from the National operations in England each year: “For
Organ Retrieval Service stands ready patients with organ failure there’s
around the clock, 365 days a year, to never been a better time,” says
operate. The organs are then passed Wigmore.
to couriers to be dispatched to up to And time is crucial, no more so than
nine recipients around the country. on the “super urgent list” in the
“It’s an amazing logistics feat,” says Bristol hub. “It is very, very
Williment. “If we have a heart, the powerful,” Williment says. “When
recipient will be being prepped at the you see a name has gone from that list
same time the organ is being in the afternoon because they’ve had
retrieved from the donor.” the transplant – nothing makes you
What happens next is then up to happier. But nothing makes me
people like Steve Wigmore, professor sadder than when that name is gone
of transplantation surgery in because they’ve died waiting.”
Edinburgh, who speaks of how
remarkable the process is.
organdonation.nhs.uk
“When you see someone who was
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‘Broken and hopeless – I felt
like I had let everyone down’
Quitting as Lib Dem leader left Tim Farron MP’s mental health in a parlous state.
He chose prayer over politics – and doesn’t regret it for a moment, finds Joe Shute
P
rior to launching his bid
to lead the Liberal
Democrats in 2015, Tim
Farron MP spent a day
with 10 or so close friends
and advisers holed up in
a Lake District hotel. On the agenda
was a new slogan for his embryonic
campaign – “a fresh start” – and to
look at anything in his character or
history that could prove to be a
potential pitfall.
“My faith was seen both as a
strength and weakness,” recalls
Farron, a born-again evangelical
Christian. It turned out to be very
much the latter.
Soon after being elected by the
party he was confronted with a
question that he still visibly winces
at when I raise it today: “Do you
believe gay sex is a sin?”
The short answer was – and
remains – yes. He admits now that
the first time he was asked his view
on the matter he knew it would not
go away, unless he were to explicitly
deny his own faith, which transpired
was something he was not prepared
to do.
Surely that is the “rabbit hole” –
Farron’s words – he and his advisers
should have been better prepared
for when it reared its head in the
run-up to the 2017 general election?
“If I blame anybody at all, I blame
me,” Farron says, before adding
cheerfully. “And I don’t even think I
do that.”
In 2017 the party increased its
number of seats from 8 to 12, but
fared unexpectedly badly in some
progressive metropolitan areas
(Nick Clegg and Farron’s friend Greg
Mulholland lost their seats in
Sheffield Hallam and Leeds North
West respectively). With some party
figures blaming the focus on
Farron’s views for the slump, he
resigned soon after, saying he felt
“remaining faithful to Christ” was
incompatible with leading his party.
Yet Tony Blair managed it – his
press secretary Alastair Campbell
once famously interrupted him as
he began to speak about his faith
with the edict: “We don’t do God.”
Similarly, Theresa May, a devout
Christian, managed to sidestep
questions about her faith. When
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asked by a reporter what she prayed
for as she left church, the then prime
minister replied: “Better questions
from journalists.”
“Perhaps Theresa May was wiser
and more careful than me,” Farron
reflects. Or simply a better politician?
“Maybe. That might be all it is.”
Still, Farron insists that during his
time at the helm he put his party on to
the resurgent path it occupies today,
pointing to the fact that membership
doubled under his leadership.
The Lib Dems’ firm Remain stance,
championed by Jo Swinson, the new
leader, has already scooped up MPs
from other parties and, it is hoped, will
attract disgruntled Tory and Labour
voters. “It is very important in our
tone to be inclusive,” he says.
So what about the recent Lib Dem
campaign slogan “B------- to Brexit”,
chosen for the European elections?
“It’s not the kind of thing I would have
come up with,” Farron admits.
I meet the 49-year-old in his
Westmorland and Lonsdale
constituency in the Lake District ahead
‘That there is a
perception of me that
I’m not loving or
tolerant is painful’
of the publication of his autobiography,
which comes out this week. It is only
two years since he stepped down from
the leadership, though such is the
febrile pace of modern politics that it
feels like a lifetime.
Our interview is on the same
morning that Boris Johnson
announces the proroguing of
Parliament, a move Farron describes
as “a clear attempt to undermine
accountability and scrutiny and a theft
of democracy”. On working with other
opposition parties to prevent no deal
– Swinson has been involved in talks
– Farron issues a word of caution. “I’m
happy to work with the Tories or
Labour to stop bad things happening,
but we need to be aware they are both
just playing games here,” he says.
Farron’s fresh-faced features and
youthful zeal are oft remarked upon.
He wears oxblood Doc Martens and
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done for decades. I’m not blaming
any of them, but that is the impact.”
He did not seek therapy, but
naturally he prayed. “What is
massively important to me is to
demonstrate and feel a sense of grace
to others,” he says. “To be utterly
forgiving, take it on the chin, not to
sulk or whine.”
He is thankful his family were
kept, largely, out of the fray. If he has
a word of warning for Swinson about
what to expect, it would be the
impact on home life. “She doesn’t
need me to tell her it’s a great joy and
honour to be leader, but you need to
protect yourself,” he says.
His wife Rosie works in human
resources at a nearby university and
they have four children. He has
raised them Christian and says the
family attend church together. I
wonder whether he has encouraged
any constituents to convert?
“I’m not going to talk about
individuals I may have spoken to and
may or may not have come to faith,”
he says. “But it is important for
Christians to do. Not be intolerant or
ram it down people’s necks, but at
the same time gently, respectfully,
when the opportunity arises, to set
out the case.”
However, he is insistent he never
brings God into his constituency
surgeries. “If a bus driver while
handing over tickets said ‘let me
share Jesus with you’, they would be
rightly sacked, so I never do that.”
Back on to politics and I wait in
vain for a note of regret to creep into
his voice. Instead I am met with
waves of enthusiasm. “I’m absolutely
lacking in any regret,” he says.
“People who have been leaders
beforehand have a sense of
disappointment around
them, I don’t feel that in
the slightest.”
Partly that is explained
by his love for the
constituency he has served
since 2005. But more so it
is his unshakeable faith in
God that lifts him far above
the fray, even to the
detriment of his career.
“It is all flipping
temporary,” he says. “It is
close to being pointless
and yet it is what fills the
papers, social media, our
attention and is all over in
an instant. What I believe
in is something that
matters far more.”
When it comes to faith
and politics, Tim Farron
was only ever going to
make one choice.
points out to the photographer his Viz Keeping the faith: Tim Farron A Better Ambition by Tim
jigsaw (Farron adores the cult comic). in his Westmorland and Farron (RRP £19.99). Buy
He combines fell running with pints of Lonsdale constituency, above, now for £16.99 at books.
local ale and the occasional crafty and with Jo Swinson in 2015, telegraph.co.uk or call
cigarette. “Don’t tell the kids,” he when he was leader of the 0844 871 1514
whispers. Far from any lingering sense Liberal Democrats
of regret, he exudes relief to have left
the Westminster bubble (and back-
stabbing) behind.
With politics entering full-blown
crisis mode, he spent the previous day
playing football with youngsters on
estates in Kendal and after our
interview was planning a hike up one
of Wainwright’s smaller fells with his
two teenage sons.
“Being leader of the party is a great
mission and duty,” he says. “But I
won’t pretend my mental health isn’t
significantly better because I can
immerse myself in the life of this
community.”
Farron’s book about his troubled
tenure is called Better Ambition (his
suggestion), with the more
mischievous subtitle Confessions of a
Faithful Liberal (his publisher’s). It
charts his journey from working class
Preston boy to joining the Lib Dems
aged 16, to finding God while on a trip
to Singapore aged 18.
Predictably, Farron devotes pages to
patiently explaining his views on sin.
“It’s not for me to pontificate on what
the Bible tells you,” he says. “I accept
what the Bible says humbly and treat
everyone equally.”
He attempts to further explain his
position – which is essentially, I think,
that we are all sinful in the eyes of God
– and it becomes ever more apparent
how easily voters could fail to grasp
the nuances of his message. Eventually
he breaks off. “We all want to be
known and understood. That there is a
perception of me – and probably still is
– that I’m not a loving or tolerant
person is to me quite painful.”
His book describes the subsequent
dark times. “It is a sense of being
broken, hopeless and useless, that I
have let everyone down, especially my
family, not for any particularly logical
reasons,” Farron writes.
But in person he proves much more
circumspect. “At times it felt pretty
grim,” he says, briskly. “I do not feel
like a victim. I don’t want people
thinking that I do at all.”
He says he was never officially
diagnosed with depression, but
certainly recognised his mental health
was suffering. “It was clearly triggered
by external events you could trace.
This wasn’t any darkness that was
untraceable. It was obvious what had
happened. One can understand that
better and fear it less.”
The lowest point for Farron came in
May last year when he cancelled an
appearance at a church event in
Manchester after the promotional
literature criticised the “gay lobby” as
well as “increasing problems with
immigration” – sentiments with which
Farron insists he wholly disagrees.
He won’t name names but the
subsequent social media pile-on
involved plenty of members of his own
side. “People form an opinion of you
which is hurtful. I guess it is just the
Twitterati but many are people I
genuinely know and love and have
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Arts

To save a life, should police break the rules?

takes a measured view of Fulcher’s
A true-life drama actions. “We wanted Steve to do
whatever he could to get answers
about the murder of about what happened to Sian, like
anybody would, but at the same time,
a young woman asks once finding out what had actually
taken place, I also fully understood
if our system favours that there would be legal ramifications.
“Homicide (I still struggle to say the
suspect over victim, “m” word),” she adds, “comes with so
much to deal with on top of the
writes Chris Harvey enormity of the loss.

A
“I feel it’s important that people see
that when hit with trauma and grief
riveting true-life drama we all handle it in our own way. There
which begins on ITV is no right or wrong way to feel, there
tonight poses a blistering is no stereotype. It is instinctive,
question: is Britain’s self-protecting, raw and
police and criminal overwhelming; it’s OK to cope in
justice system set up to whatever way gets you through it and
protect the rights of a suspect over allows you to move forward.”
those of an innocent 22-year-old Paul Andrew Williams, the director,
abducted on her way home? And, in was influenced in style by
the words of Jeff Pope, the UK’s documentaries such as 24 Hours in
premier factual dramatist: “How do we Police Custody, and uses hand-held
want the police to behave if, god cameras throughout. Both director
forbid, it was one of our loved ones and screenwriter raise the issue of
that had gone missing? Is this how we answering “no comment” to all
want our police to be?” questions – which anyone who has
A Confession, starring Martin watched fly-on-the-wall
Freeman, tells, over six episodes, the documentaries on crime in this
agonising story of the hunt for Sian country will recognise as common.
O’Callaghan, who disappeared in the “Solicitors will almost universally
early hours of March 19 2011, after advise their client to offer no comment
leaving a Swindon nightclub. She had in order to not further incriminate him
become separated from friends, but it or herself,” says Pope, “so what you get
was only an 800m walk to the flat she is a situation where the art of a police
shared with her boyfriend, Kevin officer being able to sit face to face
Reape. Sian never made it home. with a suspect and question them and
CCTV showed she had vanished in a try to form an opinion as to that
blind spot between cameras, and a person’s guilt, or to gain information
flash of car headlights suggested she
had been driven away. But as the clock
ticked down on the chances of Sian
‘What was the purpose of
being found alive, the investigation, [solicitors] trying to fight for
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led by detective Steve Fulcher (played

by Freeman), had a breakthrough. A
Halliwell’s innocence?
patrol car that had been in the vicinity That’s what I struggle with’
was fitted with automatic number
plate recognition (ANPR) technology, and the local community united to Halliwell, without caution: “Tell me which could clear or incriminate that
which made Christopher Halliwell, a help find her, Halliwell was judged a where Sian is?” According to Fulcher, person, that’s been taken off the table.
taxi driver, the primary suspect. suicide risk and a decision was made Halliwell replied: “Have you got a “Really, all police officers have to
In the book Fulcher later wrote to arrest him. In what is known as a car? We’ll go.” He took Fulcher to deal with now in terms of criminal
about the events, he detailed the series safety or urgent interview – essentially the site where he had moved Sian’s investigation is passive data, phone
of decisions that ultimately
ltimately led to him to save someone’s
someone s life – conducted body after murdering her. It was miles records, CCTV, that kind of thing. It’s
being charged with th gross misconduct without a solicitor at the scene of his from where the police had been also a fact that since PACE came in [in
and leaving the police.
olice. Operating a est, Halliwell returned
arr
arrest, ret “no searching and Fulcher was struck by 1984], there are now more solicitors in
within what he believed
lieved to be c ment” to all questions,
com
comment” q and the thought: “We would never have the UK than police officers.”
an ever-diminishing ng window under the guidel
guidelines of the Police found her.” Rough justice: Pope wonders if it would be such an
of opportunity to save Sian if and Criminal E Evidence Act Halliwell told Fulcher how he had Martin Freeman, impediment to justice if England and
she was being held d hostage, he (PACE)
( CE) had to be
(PA b taken to a killed Sian, and then added: “You and I top and left, leads Wales had an inquisitorial legal
elected to put Halliwell
liwell under police
p ice station and
pol a allowed should have a chat.” He took him to the the cast in the role system, where there is not an
surveillance ratherr than arrest access to a solicitor.
solici burial site of a second victim – Becky of real-life detective automatic right to silence, as in France
him and have him invoke his ins
Fulcher instead directed that Godden-Edwards, who was aged 20 Steve Fulcher, and Italy, rather than the adversarial
right to silence, which
hich he be brought
brou to the when last seen in 2002 (Halliwell above. Far left, system it has at present.
would almost certainly
ainly location
l ation where he
loc claimed he had killed her in 2003). writer Jeff Pope “I’ve always slightly questioned how
lead to Sian’s death.
h. believed
believ Sian had most Then, for Fulcher, the case began to grand and theatrical we’ve become. I
Five days into the
he likely
likel been taken and unravel. Halliwell was taken to a police interviewed under caution. He would seem to be saying that the priority had think justice should be about truth,
search, as media in a second urgent station and, after seeing a solicitor, later plead not guilty to Sian’s murder, to be the other way around.” The clear that’s what I think is the most
pressure mounted d interview
inte asked offered “no comment” when but DNA evidence found on her body, implication of the official response to important thing, not who performs
as well as her blood in his car, tied him Fulcher’s actions, he says, is that best on the day in court.
to the murder, and he subsequently detectives will now be very wary of “I absolutely agree with the
changed his plea to guilty. doing what Fulcher did. principle that everyone should have
The charge against Halliwell for the “I do want to leave to the audience, their case presented in court, I’m not
killing of Becky was dropped, thinking ‘did Fulcher do the right suggesting Halliwell should have been
however, after a judge ruled his earlier thing or not?’,” says Pope. “On one shunted into court like a Soviet show
confession inadmissible as evidence side, he perhaps stretched the idea in trial, but where’s the common sense?”
because Fulcher had breached his mind that Sian was still alive. It was Pope adds: “What was the purpose
Halliwell’s rights by failing to caution certainly a very, very small chance that of [solicitors] trying to fight for
him and denying him a solicitor. she was still alive at the point that he Halliwell’s innocence? That’s what I
“What’s incomprehensible almost is went to that car park and interviewed struggle with – there’s something
why the police felt the need to Halliwell in person, but if it was my weird about a system which says we’re
instigate disciplinary proceedings daughter, and there was a two per cent fighting for this man’s innocence …
against Fulcher for gross misconduct,” chance that she was still alive, I’d want incredibly skilful, highly trained
says Pope, who won Baftas for his that chance taken. Isn’t that more advocates in court fighting for the
work on See No Evil: The Moors important than Christopher Halliwell’s innocence of Christopher Halliwell,
Murders (2006) and Philomena (2013), rights in that situation? who has confessed to two murders and
which he co-wrote with Steve Coogan. “What the drama asks is, have we taken the police to the bodies, what’s
“What the disciplinary proceedings arrived at a point now in the history of that about?
in effect said was, PACE is inviolable policing when the pendulum has “Halliwell’s team were not too far
and there are no circumstances under swung too far in favour of the away from having him walk free.”
which it can be breached. Fulcher suspect?”
argued that his priority was Sian, not Sian’s mother, Elaine O’Callaghan
A Confession starts on ITV tonight at 9pm
Christopher Halliwell, but the police (played by Siobhan Finneran), says she

Why was nobody singing their heart

out for Handel’s crowning triumph?
Prom 55

Jephtha
Royal Albert Hall

★★★★★
By Rupert Christiansen

H
andel’s final significant creation,
composed as his eyesight failed
CHRIS CHRISTODOULOU

him, the oratorio Jephtha is

generally ranked very highly in the
canon – “the crown” of his “unique
achievement in music”, thinks the
scholar Jonathan Keates.
It retells a story found in the Old
Testament Book of Judges, similar to
the Greek myth of Agamemnon and
Iphigenia: Jephthah [sic], a general,
vows to God that if he is granted
victory in battle he will sacrifice the
first person he meets on his return.
This turns out to be his daughter. In
the Bible, it is left ambiguous as to
whether or not he does the terrible
deed; in Handel’s oratorio, an angel
conveniently descends to commute
the girl’s sentence to life as a nun.
For all the queasiness its subject
matter provokes, Jephtha can seem a
work of high drama and human
poignancy, with its central act
climaxing in the chorus’s terrifyingly
fatalistic assertion that “Whatever is is
right” – a creed often interpreted as
Handel’s grim acceptance of his
encroaching blindness – followed by
one of his most heart-tugging
melodies in the aria “Waft her, angels”.
Yet its potential emotional impact
In fine voice: Allan Clayton brought ideal softness and sweetness to the title role
was not sparked in this superficially
attractive and competent
performance: there was no urgency to
the narrative and too many of the arias
in the expansive first act seemed
inconsequentially pretty rather than
psychologically meaningful. Oratorio
doesn’t need to be staged theatrically
to hit home, but it does have to be
sung as more than a chain of numbers;
here it wasn’t.
Although Richard Egarr’s tempi
were generally fast and energising, he
seemed to glide across the score’s
surface, and the Scottish Chamber
Orchestra never sounded deeply
engaged. The chorus sounded a bit
woolly in the awkward Albert Hall
acoustic, but it came alive for those
crucial cries of “Whatever is is right”.
Hilary Summers, the stately alto, and
Jeanine De Bique, the diamantine
soprano, sang agreeably as Jephtha’s
wife and daughter, and Tim Mead, the
counter-tenor, and Cody Quattlebaum
(bass) gave virile and forthright
performances as the daughter’s suitor
and Jephtha’s brother.
Aside from a tussle with the
coloratura runs, tenor Allan Clayton,
in the title role, was in fine voice,
bringing ideal softness, sweetness and
smoothness to “Waft her, angels”. But
nobody on the platform was singing
their heart out, and it’s that sort of
commitment that Jephtha requires.
This Prom is available to watch and
listen to for 30 days on BBC iPlayer and
BBC Sounds. The Proms continue until
Sept 14; bbc.co.uk/proms
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A wickedly funny cocktail
of scandal and human greed
Robbie Collin
CHIEF FILM CRITIC
in Venice
The Laundromat
Cert tbc, 95min
★★★★★
Dir Steven Soderbergh
Starring Gary Oldman, Antonio
Banderas, Meryl Streep, David
Schwimmer, Matthias Schoenaerts,
James Cromwell, Nonso Anozie,
Jessica Allain, Nikki Amuka-Bird,
‘P
Jeffrey Wright
rivacy is when you lock
the bathroom door
while taking a pee,”
explains Antonio
Banderas in his
reassuring chocolate-
mousse baritone around halfway
through Steven Soderbergh’s The
Laundromat. “Secrecy is when what
you are doing in the bathroom is not
what people normally do.”
This is a useful distinction to have
spelt out during a film about the 2016
Panama Papers scandal, in which the
money-laundering and tax-dodging
tactics of the rich and famous were laid
bare in leaked documents from the
Panamanian law firm Mossack
Fonseca. And Banderas and his co-star
Gary Oldman – who play Mossack and
Fonseca themselves – do a lot of this
kind of thing in it: cordially
expounding on concepts such as shell
companies and offshore accounts
while swanning around in tuxedos. As
the German-born Mossack, Oldman
Polanski plods his way to catharsis
An Officer and a Spy
Cert TBC, 126min
★★★★★
Dir Roman Polanski
Starring Jean Dujardin, Louis Garrel,
Emmanuelle Seigner, Gregory
Gadebois, Hervé Pierre, Mathieu
Amalric, Melvil Poupaud
W
hen it was announced that
Roman Polanski would be
bringing his new film about
the Dreyfus affair to the Venice Film
Festival – though not in person, thanks
to the extradition treaty between Italy
and the US – it was widely supposed
that the story must hold for its director
a certain personal resonance.
Naturally, there was outrage that
this 42-year fugitive from justice had
been selected in the first place:
Polanski has been living in exile in
Europe since pleading guilty in a Los
Angeles court in 1977 to unlawful sex
with a minor. But he clearly sees the
subject of his latest film as something
of a kindred spirit. Alfred Dreyfus, a
Jewish army captain in fin-de-siècle
France, found himself shipped off to a
South American penal colony in 1894
after being wrongly convicted in a
scandalous espionage case, and was
only exonerated following a public
outcry led by the writer Émile Zola.
Exactly how much common ground
the two cases share is up for debate.
(I’ll concede the two are both Jewish.)
In an interview in the press notes
accompanying the film, Polanski notes
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deploys a ripe Bavarian accent that
suggests Werner Herzog moonlighting
as a sommelier. When an underling
bridles at a request to fiddle the dates
on his accounts, he philosophically
offers: “Some peeeeple believe that
time is chust an illooshun.” There’s
always a justification if you look hard
enough.
The Laundromat was adapted by
Scott Z Burns from Jake Bernstein’s
book Secrecy World, and uses the
scandal as the basis for a wickedly
comic, full-spectrum analysis of
human greed. It follows a number of
characters from all walks of life who
either actively plunge into, or become
involuntarily swept up in, the tax-
avoidance racket.
Foremost among them is Meryl
Streep’s (fictional) crusading widow
Ellen Martin, who follows the thread
of a low-level Texas insurance scam all
the way to a Mossack Fonseca outpost
on the Caribbean island of Nevis. The
much-honoured actress is content to
be part of the ensemble, albeit in a
bigger part than you initially realise,
for reasons that are too much fun to
spoil here. But the film’s base notes of
outrage and bewilderment at this
hidden world of financial sharp
practice are rooted in her.
Its twist of moral ambiguity is, too.
Ellen is ostensibly out for justice. Her
husband (James Cromwell) has
drowned during a ruby wedding
anniversary boat trip, and since the
charter company’s insurer has refused
to pay out, she decides to track them
down in person.
But when it comes down to it, by
“justice” she actually means “money”,
in the form of a life-changing
settlement. The theme is repeated in a
lightly farcical subplot in which a
Late thrills: Polanski’s stiff-collared procedural is lifted by a rousing finale
that his familiarity with “the workings
of the apparatus of persecution”
helped shape his on-screen treatment
of the Dreyfus case.
Yet though An Officer and a Spy is a
personal film for Polanski, it doesn’t
much look or act like one. This is a
sober, stiff-collared procedural,
handsomely shot but also oddly
bloodless until the more conventional
paranoid-thriller rhythms of its final act
kick in. The only recurring image that
feels from the heart are the rows of
caricaturish faces that stare in sombre,
silent, and as it turns out completely
ill-founded judgment during the crowd
and courtroom scenes – the subtext of
each one being see how you like it.
Dreyfus himself, played by Louis
Garrel, is a relatively marginal figure
in the script by Robert Harris. Instead,
the plot centres on Colonel Georges
Crafty crusader: Meryl Streep uncovers a
hidden world of financial sharp practice
married Los Angeles-based
businessman (Nonso Anozie) offers
$20 million (£16 million) in Panama-
based shares to his daughter Simone
(an impressive turn by the young
British actress Jessica Allain) to keep
schtum about his affair with her
room-mate. The young woman is
appalled, but her eyes also flash with
opportunity. In short, she’s
immediately compromised, even
though the money itself – stashed in
companies with wispy names like
Jetstream, Whitecloud and Nimbus –
remains an airy figment.
The sketch-show structure and
do-try-to-keep-up tone both smack of
The Big Short, Adam McKay’s 2015
financial crisis caper, and there is no
question that this is another topical
comedy designed to galvanise viewers
into outrage, and perhaps also action.
(It ends with a thrillingly crafty
monologue from Streep that drew
cheers in yesterday’s screening at the
Venice Film Festival.)
Even its creators aren’t spared. A
section on the Delaware boom in
shell companies – essentially,
corporations on paper that are
primarily used to move money
around – dobs in Soderbergh and
Burns themselves.
“The director of this movie has
five!” Oldman tuts, while Banderas
marvels: “Even the writer has one.”
(Soderbergh, who has directed four
films and two TV series since his
supposed retirement in 2013 following
Behind the Candelabra, his Liberace
biopic, clarifies in the accompanying
notes that he creates them for
administrative reasons for each
Picquart (Jean Dujardin), the army
intelligence chief who unravels the
charges against Dreyfus in the face of
resistance from his superiors.
Dujardin plays the role as poker-
straight as Picquart’s rank requires,
while his long nose and thick whiskers
make him look like a figure from a
Toulouse-Lautrec painting.
By the very nature of the story, the
best parts arrive late: a foot chase, the
retrial, the rousing Zola stuff, a sabre
duel with the taurine Major Henry (a
terrific, steam-snorting Grégory
Gadebois). Before then, the
investigation is painstaking, the pace
heavy footed. The film pours out its
catharsis like concrete: you have to
wait for it to set. RC
UK release tbc
Venice Film Festival
Stewart’s spirited turn
lifts haphazard thriller
Seberg
Cert TBC, 102min
★★★★★
Dir Benedict Andrews
Starring Kristen Stewart, Jack
O’Connell, Anthony Mackie, Vince
Vaughn, Margaret Qualley, Zazie
Beetz
B
enedict Andrews’s punchy
period piece about the FBI’s
illegal surveillance of the actress
Jean Seberg has enough material for
two fascinating stories, and enough
space to do justice to one. The first
centres on Seberg herself (Kristen
Stewart): Hollywood’s prodigal
daughter who quit town after finding
fame to make offbeat films in Europe
and returned five years later as a
crop-haired, art-house icon. (I’m
talking about both of them.)
The second follows Jack Solomon
(Jack O’Connell), a (fictional) young
radio specialist at the bureau, whose
bugging and spying of Seberg,
supposedly justified by her
involvement in civil rights activism,
takes on a voyeuristic, stalkerish edge.
Solomon is the obsessive superfan
who dreams himself into the starlet’s
bedchamber, yet has the government
funding to actually do it. Meanwhile
his wife Linette – a mostly thankless
role for Margaret Qualley – is the jilted
spouse waiting meekly at home while
the light in her eyes slowly fades.
A film about either one of these
characters could have been gripping
– particularly since Stewart and
O’Connell are two of the most
compelling young actors around. But
screenwriters Joe Shrapnel and Anna
subsequent project, rather than using
them to generate an income.) The
Laundromat often uses this kind of
fourth-wall-breaking jolt to bring its
message into focus, although a
horribly graphic surgery montage
during a sequence set in China is
overkill, and makes you forget the
point it’s trying to make.
Still, the cumulative message comes
over loud and clear, and the fun and
indignation make for a tasty, bracing
cocktail. This is a film that wields its
sledgehammer with panache.
Released in select UK cinemas on
September 27 and on Netflix on October 18
Vivacious: Kristen Stewart embodies the sheer now-ness of New Wave star Jean Seberg
*** 25
Waterhouse split their attentions
between the two in a prescriptive,
almost dutiful way, and the result,
though still worthwhile, is an
occasionally haphazard thriller
diptych that doesn’t match in the
middle as neatly as it should.
Still, Stewart is a wonder as Seberg
– the billion-watt embodiment of the
vitality, presence and sheer now-ness
that made the actress a leading light of
the French New Wave. A beautifully
done flashback to Seberg’s peppy
screen-test at the age of 17 enables
Stewart to play notes well outside her
comfort zone – vivacity, naivety, archness
– and she does so with breathtaking ease.
After an opening shot that pointedly
recreates Seberg’s first screen role,
lashed to a stake in Otto Preminger’s
Saint Joan – martyrdom subtext alert!
– the film commences with her return
to the US in 1968 to audition for Paint
Your Wagon, a western musical
pitched as “a housewife with two
lunks”. On her flight she meets Hakim
Jamal (Anthony Mackie), the black-
power activist, and, seemingly on a
whim, poses with him for a clenched-
fist photograph on the tarmac.
Observing from afar are agents
Solomon and Kowalski (Vince Vaughn),
who peg her as trouble and embark on
a staggeringly invasive surveillance
regime with an obsessive fixation on
her relationship with Jamal. As an agent
notes when they discuss wiring her
bedroom: “[J Edgar] Hoover likes to
hear the bedsprings creak.”
So too does the film – occasionally at
the expense of psychological depth or
historical context. But it’s a snappy,
absorbing watch nonetheless. RC
UK release tbc
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Court & Social

Court Supreme Allied Commander

Europe, 1993-94, is 84; Sir
ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO

Circular Richard Gibbs, a former High

Court Judge, 78; Sir Robert SMITH.—On August 15th 2019, at
Wilson, Chairman, BG Group the John Radcliffe Hospital, to Vicky 
plc, 2004-12, 76; Mr Jimmy (née Bayliss) and Ben, a daughter, Emily
LONDON, TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 2, 1919 Louise, a sister for Charlotte (Lottie).
Connors, tennis player;
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Champion, 1974 and 1982; now
commentator, 67; Prof Peter
DEARER MILK health for the city (Dr. Robertson), the execu- SPENCER.—On 27th June, to Hannah
Furness, President, Royal tive food officer (Mr. Richardson), and repre- and Thomas, a son, Arthur James Jagoe. 
BALMORAL CASTLE
September 1st
College of Pathologists, 2008-11,
64; Sir Keir Starmer, QC, MP,
PROTECTING THE sentatives of the Dairymen’s Association.,
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Divine Service was held in Crathie

Parish Church this morning.
The Right Reverend Colin Sinclair
(Moderator of the General
Assembly of the Church of
Scotland) preached the Sermon.
For more details about the Royal
Family visit www.royal.uk
Today’s birthdays
Gen Sir John Waters, Deputy
Mr W.H. Paine and
Miss G.M. Quinan
The engagement is announced
between William, youngest son of
Mr and Mrs Anthony Paine, of
Cherington, Warwickshire, and
Georgina, youngest daughter of
Mr and Mrs Duncan Quinan, of
Seaview, Isle of Wight.  and friends are invited. Family flowers
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Order of the Fleur de Lys
The Order of the Fleur de Lys
celebrated its 580th anniversary
with a muster and dinner at St
Columba's Church of Scotland,
Pont Street, SW1, on Saturday. No
4 City of London Company of the
Order was the host and Princess
Elizabeth of Yugoslavia, Grand
Patron, attended. Prof Hugh
Montgomery, Sovereign Grand
Commander, presided.
SUFFOLK LIEUTENANCY
The following have been
appointed Deputy Lieutenants for
Suffolk:
   Mr Roger Finbow, Lt Col Anthony
Fairbanks Weston, Mrs Lucinda Hutson
and Lord Somerleyton.
Legal news
Mr Martin Griffiths, QC, has been
appointed a Justice of the High
Court, assigned to the Queen’s
Bench Division, with effect from
Oct 1, 2019, consequential to the
elevation of Lady Justice Davies.
Director of Public Prosecutions,
2008-13, 57; Mr Lennox Lewis,
former boxer and undisputed
World Heavyweight Champion,
54; and Ms Mel Clarke, archer;
Paralympic silver medallist,
individual compound – open,
London 2012, 37.
Today is the anniversary of the
start of the Great Fire of London
in 1666. It is also the anniversary
of the Battle of Omdurman in
1898.
Clergy news
Retirements and Resignations
The Ven Michael Anthony
Johnson, acting archdeacon of
Bristol (Bristol), has resigned;
Revv Michael Learmouth, tr,
Barnsbury team (London), to retire
with effect from Oct 31; Michael
Nelson, asst c, St Mark, Holbrook
(Chichester), has left the diocese;
Paul Andrew Smith, r,
Cottingham (York), has resigned
with effect from Oct 31; Judy
Robinson, c, Holy Trinity, Swiss
Cottage, known as The Lighthouse
(London), has resigned with effect
from Aug 31; Oli Robinson, c, Holy
Trinity, Swiss Cottage, known as
The Lighthouse (London), has
resigned with effect from Aug 31;
M. Kathryn Twining, p-in-c,
Ovingdean (Chichester), has
resigned; Clive Woodward, asst c,
Willingdon (Chichester), has
retired; Brian Woollaston, tv,
Stroud tm (Gloucester), to retire
with effect from Sept 30.
Prize-winners of
Crossword 29,128
Three first-prize winners: Mrs
Elizabeth Matthews, Ponteland,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Mrs M. A.
Hopkins, Larkhall, Lanarkshire;
John Nimmo, Kilsyth, Glasgow.
Runners-up: Ken Owen, Rainham,
Essex; Roy Travers, Billinge,
Wigan; Mr R. Dytor, Shrewsbury,
Shropshire; Mr P. D. Tucker,
Waterlooville, Hampshire; Mrs M.
A. Wright, Ashton-under-Lyne,
Lancashire; Mrs R. M. Sherman,
Mevagissey, Cornwall; Frances
Harris, Hatfield, Hertfordshire;
Gary Harrison, East Dulwich,
London; Brian Sharrocks, Chard,
Somerset; Colin Drew, Sandbach,
Cheshire; Brian Hammond,
Wimborne, Dorset; Mrs M. G.
Gunn, Balsall Common, Coventry.
CHILDREN
NEED FOR
CO-OPERATION
Throughout the country local authorities are
engaged upon schemes to meet the serious posi-
tion likely to arise should the price of milk be
increased to a shilling a quart. Reports from our
correspondents in many centres show that what-
ever be the cost, nursing mothers, children and
invalids are not to be allowed to suffer, and that
steps will be taken to see that the price to them
will not be unreasonable for an adequate supply.
The need for co-operation is impressed upon all,
and to this end municipal and other bodies are
preparing schemes by which the poorer classes
shall not be deprived of their milk, and to ensure
that no district shall benefit at the cost of another.
Infant welfare centres, health visitors, and
others are giving valuable help to local
authorities in formulating plans, and every-
thing will be done for the protection of infant
life. Liverpool Municipality, in carrying out
the advice of the Food Ministry, is merely con-
tinuing a system which has been in force in
that city since 1901. At that time special
arrangements were made by which a number
of milk depôts were established for the pur-
pose of supplying suitably prepared milk for
infants.
During the war the system was considerably
extended, and on the issue of the circular of the
Local Government Board in 1918 further develop-
ments took place, and all houses in which births
take place are visited by the health visitors. Steps
are taken to see that every infant is properly fed
with suitable food, procurable at a reasonable
price, or in certain necessitous cases at a reduced
price or even free of charge. An official of the local
health department states that whoever else may
have to go without milk this winter in Liverpool,
the mothers and young children may be certain of
obtaining their requirements.
There is no apparent danger of a grave milk
famine in the Midland area, of which Bir-
mingham is the centre, but already precau-
tionary measures are being taken to secure
equality of sacrifice in the event of shortage.
Last winter the Birmingham and District
Dairymen’s Association worked in co-opera-
tion with the medical officer of health in
securing an equitable distribution, and a
regular supply of milk was thereby procured.
For the coming winter Mr. Ledbury, the Milk
Commissioner for the Birmingham area, has
prepared a milk “pool,” which he will manage
the cost of another.
Beginning last Saturday, the retailers will supply
WOOTTEN.—On 26th August 2019, to
Alix (née Odgers) and Bill, a daughter,
Rosy Elizabeth Joy.
weekly returns showing the demand, and if the Online ref: A235697
deficiency generally is 15 per cent., and if in any
town or district 25 per cent. deficiency is reached,
the poorly-supplied parts will draw on their more Anniversaries
fortunate neighbours. It is hoped by the operation
of this scheme to prevent the necessity for ration-
ing. The shortage at the worst period of last winter
was 15 per cent., and Mr. Ledbury’s view is that
this winter it may touch 20 per cent. as the limit. MCCLURE - ARMSTRONG.—On 2nd
September 1954, at the Baptist Church,
DRIED MILK DISTRIBUTION. Thornaby on Tees, Yorkshire, Harry to
Beatrice (Betty). 
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The municipal authorities in Newcastle-on-Tyne
have in their Health Department an organisation
specially to see that young mothers and children
are assured of a regular supply of milk, and this,
BAXTER.—Margaret Reid
through the work the health visitors, applies par- (Margie). Peacefully at home on
ticularly to the poorer districts of the city. A little Wednesday August 28th 2019, aged 86
more than a year ago, owing to the then great scar- years. Beloved wife of the late Ian, loving
mother of Penny and Mike, inspirational
city of milk, it was decided to introduce the distri-
grandmother of Chris, Mary, Nina,
bution of dried milk, which is supplied to appli-
Stewart, Alex and Jack. The Funeral
cants at cost price, and in necessitous cases free of Service will take place at Masonhill
Crematorium by Ayr on Thursday 5th
charge. Dried milk is regarded as being quite as
September at 12 noon to which all family
nutritious as liquid milk. It is said to be much
only please, but donations in lieu may be
cheaper and more economical than handling
made to the Ayrshire Hospice.
fresh milk. The cost price is about 2s 2d per lb. A
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large number of persons are receiving the dried
milk at cost price at the Health Department’s BOLTON.—Margaret Jean (née Forsyth)
Offices weekly, while at present there are about died peacefully on 25th August 2019,
aged 87. Much loved wife of the late Jim,
100 cases in which it is being supplied gratis. mother of Andrew and Catherine and
Members of the municipal authority at Bris- grandmother of Emily, Henry, Alice and
tol state that they propose to take any precau- Thomas. Thanksgiving Service 12 noon
on 25th September at St Nicholas’s
tionary steps that may be possible to ensure a Church, Harpenden AL5 2TP. Family
fair supply of milk to mothers and young chil- flowers only please. Donations, if
dren during the coming winter. For some desired, to Parkinson’s UK c/o L.C.
Weston, Harpenden AL5 2TQ.
time past a system has been in existence by Tel: 01582 712865.
which, on the recommendation of medical
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men, orders to obtain milk free of charge have
been supplied to needy mothers with infants, BRASSEY.—Midgie, died aged 74 at
home on 27th August. Widow of Lord
as well as to tuberculosis patients. Dairymen David Brassey, darling mother of Zara
honour the orders given out by the medical and Chloe and adored Granny of Al�e
officer’s department, and it has not been nec- and William. Private burial.
Thanksgiving Service at St Leonard's
essary to open a milk depôt. Church, Apethorpe PE8 5DL on Friday
Matters such as the milk supply for young chil- 20th September 2019 at 3 p.m. Bright
dren and nursing mothers have been delegated to colours only. Donations to Hospital at
Home. Enquiries to Crowsons & Toby
the Infant Welfare Committee by the Dover Cor- Hunt FD, Barnwell. Tel: 01832 272269.
poration for several years past. This committee is Online ref: A235683
strengthened by the inclusion of philanthropic
workers from outside the Town Council, and it DAVIES.—Angela Mary died peacefully
at home on 22nd August 2019, aged 89.
has done excellent work. The committee fully rec- Dearly loved widow of John, mother of
ognise the seriousness of the position that will be Charlie, Alex, Ed and Frankie,
created by the price of milk being increased to 1s grandmother of ten and
great-grandmother of eight. Service of
a quart for the winter months, and will take all Thanksgiving at St Peter's Church,
steps in their power for the protection of infant Limps�eld on Thursday 10th October at
life. It is anticipated that the further funds that 12.30 p.m. Coloured/club ties. Family
flowers only. Donations, if desired, to
will be necessary for the purpose will be readily Limps�eld Chart Golf Club or The
voted by the Corporation. Poppy Appeal. 
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DUCKETT.—Juliet Anne, at home

The Night Sky in September on 18th August after a short illness.
Beloved wife of Dickie, and much
loved by her wider family and her
Jupiter low in the south-southwest. invoking the memory of the squat
pete The so-called Ice Giants, Uranus and alien in ET: the Extra-Terrestrial.
many friends. Service of Thanksgiving
at St Mary's Church, Henley-on-Thames
lawrence
ce Neptune follow on later in the night Extend the line from the Cassiopeia’s on 11th September at 2 p.m. No flowers
please, but donations, if desired, to
with a better height relative to the central star through Ruchbah for Sue Ryder, Nettlebed. Enquiries to
A.B. Walker & Son. Tel: 01491 413434.
horizon. This gives us an improved approximately twice that distance
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opportunity to study them above the again and you’ll arrive at the
murky, turbulent atmosphere which wonderful sight of the Double

S
eptember hosts the second
equinox of the year, when the
Sun moves from the northern to
the southern half of the sky. It also
represents, for the Northern
Hemisphere at least, the period
when the rate of increase in the
length of night is at its greatest.
Neptune comes to opposition, when
a planet appears in the opposite part
of the sky to the Sun, on Sept 10.
For planets closer to Earth such as
Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, opposition
makes a big difference to their
appearance. For the outer planets
Uranus and Neptune, opposition
doesn’t really make much of an
adjustment to our view, although it
does mean that they are visible all
night long.
The big, bright and detailed gas
giants of Jupiter and Saturn appear
low from the UK. As darkness falls
you can see Saturn low above the
southern horizon with brighter
This month’s chart
This chart shows how the
sky appeared at 1am on
Sept 1 and will appear at
midnight on Sept 15 and
11pm on Sept 30. All times
are BST. The planets are
shown along with the
location and phase of the
Moon at five-day
intervals. The Moon is
full on Sept 14. This will
be the 2019 Harvest
Moon. Stars are shown as
circles; the larger the
circle, the brighter the
star. The hazy area
represents the Milky
Way. Orientate the chart
by rotating so the bearing
at the bottom matches
the direction you’re
facing. The bottom of the
chart then reflects your
horizon with the middle
representing the view
directly above your head.
The chart is designed to
be viewed using a red
torch outside, allowing
you to read the while
having minimal impact
on night vision.
occurs low down.
Neptune is easy to locate as it is
well placed close to the dim star Phi
Aquarii. Neptune is the only planet
that requires optical assistance to
see, its brightness being below
naked-eye threshold of even the
darkest skies.
Uranus hovers just above this but
it’s a far from easy spot. Through
binoculars, both worlds look like
stars. It’s not until you engage the
extra-light grasp and magnification
of a telescope that the planetary
nature becomes evident. Both show
tiny discs but it’s their colours that
make them stand out.
Neptune appears with a blue hue
while Uranus looks like a tiny
emerald. Early during a September
evening, the W-shaped constellation
of Cassiopeia the Seated Queen can
be seen climbing high in the
northeast. A binocular sweep reveals
many impressive star clusters. A
A different view: the appearance of the
planet Mars when it is in opposition
particularly interesting example lies
just south of the star Ruchbah (Delta
Cassiopeiae). Here you’ll find the dim
star Phi Cassiopeiae, which has an
even dimmer neighbour known as
HIP 6229 (HIP indicates that this is
the star’s Hipparcos Catalogue
reference).
Together these stars represent the
eyes of an owl, the body of which is
formed by the adjacent cluster NGC
457, the Owl Cluster. It’s also known
as the ET Cluster, the star layout
Cluster, Chi and H Persei.
This resides in the constellation of
Perseus the Greek Hero. It is also
known as the Perseus Sword Handle.
Both clusters are just visible with the
naked eye on a dark night, but it
takes binoculars to see their full
glory: a stunning sight which
resembles two piles of salt poured on
black velvet.
The W of Cassiopeia can be used
to locate another interesting object
known as Kemble’s Cascade. This
resides in the frankly obscure
constellation of Camelopardalis the
Giraffe. It was named after the
Franciscan friar, Father Lucian
Kemble. A keen astronomer, Kemble
wrote about the pattern to Walter
Houston, who named it Kemble’s
Cascade in a magazine in 1980.
Through binoculars or telescope it
really is quite impressive,
resembling a waterfall of stars
ending in a splashpool.
EVANS.—Carole (née Johannesson),
passed away peacefully on 24th August
2019 in Southport Hospital, aged 69. She
will be sadly missed by her loving
husband Gren, sister Deborah,
daughters Louise and Joanna,
sons-in-law Darren and Jonathan and
her treasured grandchildren Kirsty, Katy
and Louis. Carole's Funeral will be held
at St Luke's Church, Formby on 12th
September 2019 at 12.30 p.m. Family
flowers only please. Donations to Cancer
Research UK gratefully received
c/o Barrington's Funeral Services,
49 Liverpool Road, Formby, L37 6BT.
Tel: 01704 461511.
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GIRDLER.—Peter Thomas Michael
Hilsdon, 21.11.1948 - 18.08.2019, after a
long illness fought courageously. Born in
Malaya and from Wetherby, Yorkshire.
Celebration of Peter’s life will be on
Friday 13th September at 2 p.m. at
Clayton Wood Burial Ground, Brighton
Road, Hassocks, West Sussex BN6 9PD.
No flowers.
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La TOUCHE.—Pamela, aged 83 years.
Died peacefully at RD&E Hospital,
Exeter on 25th August. Mourned by her
husband Michael, daughter Nicola and
son Gareth. Funeral Service to be held
at Exeter and Devon Crematorium on
Monday 9th September 2019 at 3 p.m.
Enquiries to Drew & Sons Funeral
Directors. Tel: 01647 231306.
Online ref: A235685
WATSON.—Stephen Daniel Mackman.
Passed away on 24th August, aged 76
years. Much loved brother of Jane and
brother-in-law of Michael. Funeral
Service to take place at Rotherham
Crematorium on Thursday 12th
September at 1.15 p.m. Donations to
Diabetes UK via
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Obituaries

Valerie Harper Singing teacher who shaped

Patrick McGuigan

Actress propelled to television stardom as the wisecracking title character in the 1970s sitcom Rhoda future careers of opera stars

V P
ALERIE HARPER, who has (1986-87), a sitcom that was more ATRICK McGUIGAN,
died aged 80, played remarkable for its behind-the-scenes the baritone who has
Rhoda Morgenstern on The intrigues than the on-screen action. died aged 86, enjoyed a
Mary Tyler Moore Show and She had been cast as Valerie Hogan, a successful performing
its 1970s spin-off, Rhoda, working mother with three boys and a career before going on to
creating one of television’s husband who, as an airline pilot, was become one of the most
most memorable brash, Bronx-bred usually away from home. inspiring vocal teachers of
Jewish-American comedy princesses, Within a year, however, Valerie his generation.
although she was neither Jewish nor a Harper had become embroiled in a As an early recruit by Sir
native New Yorker. row with the producers over her salary John Manduell for the newly
One of television’s best-loved that eventually proved intractable. She created Royal Northern
sidekicks, Valerie Harper initially was abruptly fired, written out in a College of Music in 1973,
played Rhoda as the frumpy friend of fatal car crash, and her role in the over the next quarter of a
the glamorous Mary Richards (Mary show taken by her character’s century McGuigan not only
Tyler Moore), the cool career girl unmarried sister (Sandy Duncan). moulded the creative
cutting a swathe through a television When Valerie Harper sued the personalities of many of this
newsroom in Minneapolis, Minnesota. producers for breach of contract, a country’s leading singers, McGuigan as Dr Bartolo in
By contrast, as the girl in the flat jury awarded her $1.4 million plus a but also played a major role Rossini’s The Barber of Seville
above, Valerie Harper looked every percentage of the show’s profits. While in establishing the college as
inch the lovable loser, unlucky in love, the show’s title mutated through a noted centre of musical No less innovative was
worrying about her weight and Valerie’s Family to The Hogan Family, excellence, its reputation McCabe’s earlier setting of
wrapping herself in a grubby dressing- she went on a star in a new sitcom, spreading far beyond the C S Lewis’s Christian
gown – the actress described Rhoda’s City (not shown in Britain), scheduled confines of Manchester. allegory, The Lion, the Witch,
bohemian style as “camouflage head-to-head on a rival network. Patrick Joseph McGuigan and the Wardrobe, which
dressing” – while off-duty from her job In 2007 Valerie Harper returned to was born in Dublin on premiered at Manchester
as a window-dresser at a department Broadway, playing Golda Meir in February 8 1933 and Cathedral in April 1969.
store. Golda’s Balcony, then Tallulah educated at the O’Connell McGuigan starred as Aslan,
“Women really identified with Bankhead in Looped, for which she School from 1953 until 1957, his wife, Caroline Crawshaw,
Rhoda because her problems and fears was nominated for a Tony Award. after which he studied with as the White Witch.
were theirs,” Valerie Harper explained She appeared in films intermittently, Adelio Vianni at the Royal Meticulous and expecting

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many years later in her memoir.
“Despite the fact that she was the butt
of most of her own jokes, so to speak,
running down her looks and her
potential, she never acted defeated.
Her confident swagger masked her
insecurity. Rhoda never gave up.”
Valerie Harper herself grew in
self-belief after winning three Emmy
awards for The Mary Tyler Moore Show,
and in 1974 Rhoda, now more chic and
self-assured, was given her own series.
In Rhoda, she returns to New York for
a short holiday lodging with her shy
younger sister Brenda, played by Julie
Kavner. But she meets and marries Joe
(David Groh), a handsome demolition
man, and stays.
When the on-screen couple later
divorced, the ratings faltered and
Rhoda was eventually cancelled after
five series. But in its heyday it was
acclaimed as one of the most successful
spin-offs in American television
history, not least for Valerie Harper’s
fiery portrayal of the central character.
As the New York Times critic noted,
viewers identified with “the schlep she
was to begin with – something we all
feel about ourselves. Like you and me,
she’s uncertain and battered … and we
cheer her on, as – with all her foibles
– she tends to cope and prevail.”
Rhoda was shown in Britain on BBC
Two between 1974 and 1981. The
Sunday Telegraph’s Philip Purser was
an early cheerleader for Rhoda’s
“funny, quacking, Jewish-girl
resilience”. Valerie Harper enjoyed
borrowing her character’s
wisecracking shtick: before recording
a take, she invariably inquired of the
director what kind of shot it would be.
“Two Ts?” she would ask, explaining
that “two Ts” meant “two tits”, or from
the chest up.
Valerie Harper as Valerie Kathryn Harper was born on
Rhoda: ‘We cheer August 22 1939 in Suffern, a village
her on, as – with all some 30 miles from New York, the
her foibles – she daughter of a sales executive whose
tends to cope and job with a lighting company required
prevail’; below him to move himself and his family
right, in The Mary from town to town. After sojourns in
Tyler Moore Show, Oregon, Michigan and California, they
of which Rhoda was finally settled in New Jersey, only for
a spin-off Valerie’s parents to divorce when she
was 17. She was educated at Lincoln
High School in Jersey City.
A cradle Roman Catholic, she had
lost interest in religion as a teenager
and devoted herself instead to
dancing, graduating from the corps de
ballet at the Radio City Music Hall to
winning Golden Globe nominations
for the buddy cop comedy Freebie and
the Bean in 1974 and in Chapter Two
(1979), based on a play by Neil Simon.
A lifelong non-smoker, she
discovered in 2009 that she had lung
cancer; she underwent surgery and
that appeared to be successful. In 2013,
however, leptomeningeal
carcinomatosis was diagnosed: a rare
complication in which the cancer
the chorus line of the musical Li’l spreads to the membranes
Abner during its run in Las Vegas and, surrounding the brain. That year
in 1959, the Hollywood film version. she published her autobiography,
She supplemented her wages as a I, Rhoda.
dancer in various Broadway musicals Valerie Harper had always
by taking casual jobs in telesales and campaigned vigorously for women’s
working as a hat-check girl before rights, and with fellow actor Dennis
joining the Second City acting troupe Weaver founded an organisation in
in Chicago in 1964. There she met and Los Angeles called Love Is Feeding
married her fellow actor Richard Everyone (LIFE), which provided food
Schaal, moving in 1969 to Los Angeles, for 150,000 needy people a week.
where he founded his own theatrical Now she spoke out in interviews
company. and public lectures about the need for
The following year she successfully greater funding for lung cancer
auditioned for The Mary Tyler Moore research and the importance of early
Show (which aired in Britain on BBC diagnosis. She took part in Dancing
One in 1971 and 1972). “She croaked out with the Stars, the popular American
one line,” one producer remembered, version of BBC Television’s Strictly
“and we had what we’d been looking Come Dancing.
for.” Despite her illness, Valerie Harper
It was a hit from the start, Valerie recently provided guest voices for The
Harper’s Rhoda striking a particularly Simpsons, reuniting with her Rhoda
responsive chord with viewers, some co-star Julie Kavner (who had gone on
of whom wrote in with advice such as to fame as the gravelly voice of Marge
how to cope with her stereotypical Simpson, Marge’s mother, and her
Jewish mother. At the end of the chain-smoking sisters Patty and
show’s first series, she won an Emmy Selma).
award for best supporting actress in a Valerie Harper divorced her first
comedy, an achievement she repeated husband Richard Schaal in 1978. In
for the following two seasons. 1987 she married Tony Cacciotti, who
The Rhoda series brought Valerie survives her with their daughter
Harper a fourth Emmy, in 1975, for Cristina.
outstanding lead actress, and a Golden
Globe, for Best TV Actress. She Valerie Harper, born August 22 1939,
subsequently starred in Valerie died August 30 2019
Irish Academy of Music.
He then refined his vocal
technique in the company
of Tino Pattiera in Vienna
and Herbert Caesari in
London before, in 1960,
enrolling at the Royal
Manchester College of
Music. There he came under
the influence of the great
singing teacher Frederic
Cox. It was Cox who
instilled in McGuigan the
academic rigour that
brought a raft of awards,
most notably the 1962
Ricordi Prize.
Combining a powerful yet
flexible vocal range with a
commanding stage
presence, McGuigan made
his professional debut
playing Golaud in Debussy’s
Pelléas et Mélisande at the
1965 St Pancras Festival.
Alongside appearances
with the English Stage
Company at the Royal Court
Theatre, he served as
Principal Baritone at
Sadler’s Wells Opera. Later
with Welsh National Opera,
Glyndebourne Touring
Opera and Kent Opera his
sensitive interpretations
endeared him to audiences
nationwide. Likewise, his
sense of humour and
generous spirit won him the
high regard of colleagues.
In 1973 McGuigan’s
virtuoso contribution as the
onstage baritone in John
McCabe’s first ballet, The
Teachings of Don Juan, won
particular praise.
Commissioned by Northern
the highest standards,
McGuigan taught at the
Royal Manchester College of
Music from 1965 until 1973.
Appointed a principal
lecturer at the new Royal
Northern College of Music,
he served as Head of Vocal
Studies from 1995 until
retirement in 1999.
Never concealing his
overriding preoccupation
with voice production and
individual voices, what
made him stand out was his
unerring ability to recognise
and encourage individual
talents.
Whether it be the
celebrated bass, Sir John
Tomlinson, or the popular
tenor Russell Watson,
whose career McGuigan
helped rescue after serious
illness, countless pupils
sought his help and advice
long after finding success.
In later years McGuigan
proved no less successful as
an operatic producer, be it
at the Royal Northern
College of Music or with
professional companies
further afield. He also found
himself in regular demand
as a jurist at singing
competitions and as a
keynote speaker at a wide
range of seminars,
workshops and master
classes.
It was at the Royal
Manchester College of
Music that McGuigan first
met his future wife, then a
fellow student, the
Yorkshire-born soprano

The Reverend Angus Smith

Dance Theatre, this highly
unusual work takes as its
subject not the
misadventures of Don
Giovanni or Don Juan but
the Yaqui (from Mexico)
‘Wee Free’ minister who made headlines in 1965 trying to stop a Sunday ferry service to Skye Indian shaman, Don Juan
Caroline Crawshaw. They
married in 1966 and she
survives him, together with
their two daughters.
Patrick McGuigan, born
February 8 1933, died

T
Matus. August 27 2019
HE REVEREND ANGUS Church committee, only for the
SMITH, who has died aged 90, decision to be later overturned,
was a minister in the prompting Smith, in 1999, to petition
fundamentalist Free Church the Isle of Lewis presbytery,
of Scotland – the “Wee Frees” – who challenging it find out which one was
made headlines in 1965 when he lay lying: “Either there was a conspiracy
down on a road leading to the slipway against Prof Macleod by us, or there
at Kyleakin on the east coast of Skye to wasn’t. If Macleod is right, then I am a
prevent cars coming off the ferry from liar. If I am right, he is a liar. If the
the mainland. presbytery finds there was no
The protest was the culmination of a conspiracy, then it must clear my
nine-month campaign by islanders name.”
against proposals by the Caledonian Macleod described the petition as “a
Steam Packet Co, a subsidiary of piece of nonsense” and dismissed it as
British Rail (now Caledonian part of the campaign against him.
MacBrayne or CalMac), to introduce a Subsequently, a number of Macleod’s
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Sunday ferry service to the island. critics formed a new denomination,

In the run up to Smith’s protest, a
petition sponsored by the Church of
Scotland, the Free Church of Scotland
and the Free Presbyterian Church of
Scotland was signed by 3,883 people
out of Skye’s population of 7,400. The
service, it declared, was a “desecration
of the Biblical Sabbath”.
But their pleas fell on deaf ears.
On Sunday June 6 Smith and
another minister led protesters at
Kyleakin Free Church in a Gaelic
prayer service, then Smith marched
them out to the narrow road leading to
the slipway as the first Sunday ferry
arrived. As police asked them to move,
Smith told his followers in Gaelic,
“Seas eir an toiseach!” – “stand fast
before them” – then lay down in front
of the first car.
After a 25 minute struggle, more
than 30 policemen managed to clear
some 50 islanders, mostly crofters, off
the road, lifting some bodily, including
Smith. “It took seven constables to
move one 20-stone crofter,” reported
The Daily Telegraph.
Then the demonstrators held an
open-air Gaelic prayer meeting and
sang the 40th Psalm: “I waited
patiently for the Lord and he inclined
unto me and heard my calling”.
Fourteen, Smith included, were
hauled away and charged with breach
of the peace.
But not all Smith’s fellow
Sabbatarians supported the
demonstration. After all, by
demonstrating on a Sunday the
protesters themselves were breaking
the Sabbath. The Rev Archibald
MacVicar, clerk to the Church of
Scotland described the occasion as
“the most massive breach of the Lord’s
Day that Skye has ever known”, while a
The ‘Ferry Free Church elder accused the
Reverend’ in 1980 demonstrators of making an
outside his kirk on “exhibition of themselves and the
the Isle of Lewis: he island,” adding: “It was sad to see them
later joined the Free following each other like sheep.”
Presbyterian Inevitably, perhaps, Smith became
Church – aka the known as the “Ferry Reverend”.
‘Wee Wee Frees’ Angus Smith was born in Govan,
Glasgow in 1928 to parents from the
Isle of Lewis. Ordained in 1958 into the
Free Church of Scotland, he served as
minister at the Snizort Free Church in
Skye, before moving in 1968 to Lewis,
one of the last bastions of
Sabbatarianism, as minister of Cross
Free Church, Ness. In 1986 he was
appointed Moderator of the Free
Church General Assembly.
He retired as minister of Cross Free
Church in 1997 but remained steeped
in controversy to the last.
In 1996 he was named in court as
one of several accusers during the
trial, on four charges of sexual assault,
of the Free Church theologian Donald
Macleod, a professor of systematic
theology at the Free Church College in
Edinburgh, whose comparatively
liberal and reformist views, including
his tolerant approach towards the
rights of Roman Catholics, brought
him controversy and enemies.
Macleod was cleared of all charges,
the Free Church of Scotland
(Continuing).
Smith went even further, leaving
the Free Church for the ultra-Calvinist
Free Presbyterian Church – also
known as the “Wee Wee Frees”.
He continued to thunder from the
pulpit until earlier this year. In 2006
he laid part of the blame for the
decline of the Sabbath on the Royal
Family, politicians and television
soaps, “which portray an immoral
the court finding that his female culture involving drink and drugs”. In
accusers “had all lied in the witness 2009 he protested when Caledonian
box to further the ends of [his] MacBrayne proposed a new Sunday
enemies in the Free Church of ferry service between Lewis and
Scotland”. During the hearing it was Ullapool, predicting that crime would
alleged that he had been the victim of rise on Lewis as a result and the
a conspiracy involving ministers from services would bring “things that
within the church, including Smith, terrified parents”.
who also happened to be his brother- When the vessel due to make the
in-law. first Sunday crossing broke down due
The revelation prompted Smith to to a faulty exhaust the day before,
issue a statement denying the claims Smith hailed it as a reminder of “God’s
and accusing Macleod of describing providence”, though in the event
fellow ministers as “Nazis” and another ferry was drafted in for the
“ayatollahs” and putting “blasphemy inaugural Sunday sailing.
in the West Highland Free Press”. “I am “Neither CalMac nor its managing
loath to say anything about the Donald director understand that the God of
Macleod affair and I have carefully the Sabbath was speaking to them,”
kept these matters from my pulpit, but Smith protested. “It means nothing to
deliberate distortion, untruth, and them. If they do not have a heart or an
confusion in the minds of people force ear to hear, they may as well be
me to act,” the statement read. pagans. CalMac is fighting God – not
But the row continued. After being the people of these islands.”
cleared, Macleod was the subject of Asked if the breakdown was divine
moves to have him removed from the intervention, a spokesman for
church on charges of heresy, and there Caledonian MacBrayne said: “I really
were accusations that the church had do not think there is anyone here
failed to investigate more allegations qualified to comment on that one.”
about his private life. Smith was married and had four
Meanwhile Macleod’s claims that children.
Smith and other church figures had
conspired against him was The Reverend Angus Smith, born
subsequently dismissed by a Free 1928, died August 28 2019
28 ***
The weekend on television
This forensic, unflashy
film made a damning case
F
Held to account: movie mogul Harvey Weinstein (centre) faces trial next year
rom Jimmy Savile to Bill
Cosby and Michael Jackson
to R Kelly, a number of
high-profile, influential men
whose high-profile,
influential connections and
enormous success seemingly rendered
them invulnerable, have recently been
held to account – albeit posthumously,
in some cases – by the courage and
determination of a few individuals.
The latest is Harvey Weinstein, whose
trial on charges of rape, criminal sex
acts and predatory sexual assault was
recently put back to January next year.
(He has pleaded not guilty.)
But for all the mention of “sex” on
the Weinstein rapsheet, his alleged
crimes are, of course, as much about
power, or rather the imbalance of
power that has defined Hollywood.
Ursula Macfarlane’s quietly furious
Untouchable: The Rise and Fall of
Harvey Weinstein (BBC Two, Sunday)
was both an indictment of that culture
and a solemn acknowledgement of the
women bringing about change.
Rumours of Weinstein’s bullying
and aggressive behaviour were legion
even before they became public
knowledge. Former employees at
Miramax, the production company he
ran with his brother Bob, spoke
belatedly of their unease and dawning
realisation that they may have enabled
his behaviour. In dismissing the stories
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as mere philandering and the women
as having reluctantly succumbed to
advance their careers, they said they
opted not to rock the boat. The
combination of confessional and back-
covering made for a grim spectacle,
emblematic of the wider malaise of
complicity in the entertainment world.
There was useful context on
Weinstein’s psychology and
background, as well as necessary
acknowledgement of his central role
in the 1990s revival of American indie
cinema that made him such an
irresistible figure to so many. The film
said that his pattern of abuse was
established from his earliest days
as a music promoter: flatter, bribe,
threaten, isolate, intimidate, attack.
Ditto the cover-up techniques: bluster,
bully and, if all else fails, buy silence.
The focus was rightly on the
accusers as much as the alleged
perpetrator. Macfarlane trained the
camera on former employees, actresses
who never quite made it (Caitlin
Dulany, Erika Rosenbaum) and those
whose careers were abruptly curtailed
(Roseanna Arquette, Paz de la Huerta),
it was implied, by Weinstein’s
machinations. These were not
scattergun accounts, but bolstered by
dates, names and places. When they
have their day in court, Weinstein may
find his past catching up with him.
Gabriel Tate
I
f you’re entering middle-age, you
might be thinking about ways to
make yourself seem younger. Give
yourself a sparkly new look, perhaps;
maybe see new people. And certainly
have an astonishing dental makeover.
This is what long-running Britain’s
Got Talent has done with its new
spin-off series Britain’s Got Talent:
The Champions (ITV, Saturday) in
order to continue to make itself look
youthful and alluring. It’s filmed inside
the huge SSE Arena at Wembley, with
even more spectacular production
values than before, with competing
acts who have previously done well
on BGT, plus performers from the
spin-off shows from around the world.
And there were new teeth aplenty,
from head judge Simon Cowell’s
suspiciously neat, nuclear white grin,
through to first BGT victor Paul Potts’s
new gnashers. Connie Talbot, who
came second to Potts when she was a
gappy six-year-old reappeared too,
now aged 18, with the requisite
amount of teeth, tinkling the ivories
and singing a song she’d written.
While it was good to catch up with
our home-grown favourites, it was the
international acts who had a touch of
old-fashioned spectacle that made the
show enjoyable family fun. Bad Salsa,
a dance act from India, were fast and
furious, and brought a real touch of
Bollywood to the screen. The stand-
out act, however, was American father
and daughter stunt act Bello and
Annaliese Nock, who performed
dangerous moves on two giant
hamster wheels. Their danger and
athleticism made the audience gasp,
and the “Super Fan” panel in the arena
voted them their winners. Along with
Ukranian sand-artist Kseniya
Simonova, given the Golden Buzzer by
judge Amanda Holden whose week it
was to vote for a favourite, they went
through to the final.
But here was the problem. Bar
Holden’s buzzer, the judges seemed
redundant. All the acts had been
proven to be talented; what was the
point of Messrs Cowell, Holden, Dixon
and Walliams reiterating how fantastic
they were? Clair Woodward
Untouchable: The Rise and Fall of
Harvey Weinstein ★★★★
Britain’s Got Talent: The Champions
★★★
What to watch
A Confession
ITV, 9.00PM
 Jeff Pope, perhaps the
best docudramatist
at work today, has done it
again. After the relatively
slight Hatton Gardens
comes another rigorous
and sometimes gruelling
interrogation of how
human frailties can be
brutally exposed on the
wheels of justice. The
story of six-parter A
Confession is a fascinating
one and, like Little Boy
Blue et al, based on real
events. Martin Freeman
plays DSI Steve Fulcher,
who leads the search for
Sian O’Callaghan, a
Swindon woman who
went missing on a night
out, and immediately fears
the worst.
Pope’s dramas are
an adept balance of
the procedural and the
personal, and this one is
smartly cast too. Freeman
is joined by an ensemble
that includes Siobhan
Finneran as Sian’s mother,
Imelda Staunton as the
mother of Becky Godden
(another young woman
whose disappearance
eight years earlier may
be connected) and This
Country’s Charlie Cooper,
in an accomplished
dramatic debut, as Sian’s
boyfriend. False trails are
carefully laid, the victims
Arts
Celtic Woman: Ancient
Land/The Power of
Women
SKY ARTS, 8.00PM AND 10.00PM
 In the first of Sky Arts’
best offerings tonight, the
multi-platinum Irish folk
band Celtic Woman play a
lively concert in the shadow
of Co Wexford’s Johnstown
Castle to mark their 13th
studio album, Ancient Land.
Afterwards, the second
episode of the excellent
The Power of Women sees
wildlife experts Jane
Goodall and Virginia
McKenna sitting down
together and having a
good go at setting the
world to rights. GT
Radio choice Charlotte Runcie
As Others See Us
RADIO 4, 9.00AM
 Neil MacGregor returns
for another series that
examines what people in
other countries think about
Britain, a question probably
more important than ever
as Brexit approaches. The
first episode is in Singapore,
potentially a model for how
Radio 1
FM 97.6-99.8MHz
6.30am The Radio 1 Breakfast Show
with Greg James 10.00 Clara Amfo
12.45pm Newsbeat 1.00 Scott Mills
4.00 Nick Grimshaw 5.45 Newsbeat
6.00 Nick Grimshaw 7.00 Phil Taggart
8.00 Radio 1’s Power Down Playlist
with Phil Taggart 9.00 Rickie, Melvin
and Charlie 11.00 Radio 1’s Indie
Show with Jack Saunders 1.00am
Radio 1’s Drum & Bass Show with
Rene LaVice 3.00 Radio 1’s Hype
Chart with Phil Taggart 4.00 -
6.30am Adele Roberts
Radio 2
FM 88-90.2MHz
6.30am The zoe Ball Breakfast Show
9.30 Gary Davies 12.00 Jeremy Vine
2.00pm Craig Charles in the
Afternoon 5.00 Sara Cox 7.00 Jo
Whiley. Music and chat 9.00 The Blues
Show with Cerys Matthews. New and
classic blues tracks 10.00 Trevor
Nelson’s Rhythm Nation 12.00 Paddy
O’Connell 3.00am Sounds of the 70s
with Johnnie Walker 5.00 - 6.30am
Vanessa Feltz
Radio 3
FM 90.2-92.4MHz
6.30am Breakfast 9.00 Essential
Classics 12.00 Composer of the Week:
Schubert 1.00pm News 1.02 Proms
Chamber Music 2019 2.00 Afternoon
Concert 5.00 In Tune 7.00 BBC Proms
2019. John Eliot Gardiner conductsa
performance of Berlioz’s Benvenuto
Cellini 10.30 New Generation Artists.
A concert by French-Spanish guitarist
Thibaut Garcia 11.00 Jazz Now
12.30am - 6.30am Through the Night
On the case: Martin Freeman as DSI Steve Fulcher
and their families are
treated sensitively, and
Freeman (who’s excellent)
lays the groundwork for a
The Power of Women: Goodall
Documentary
Rise of the Nazis
BBC TWO, 9.00PM; NOT SCOTLAND
 With the far-Right on
the march once again,
this timely three-part
documentary examines
Britain could function in
the world after leaving
the EU, with insights from
diplomat Tommy Koh,
novelist Catherine Lim
and businessman Sunil
Amarasuriya. Also in this
series are viewpoints from
the United States – taking
stock of the “special
relationship” – as well as
Spain, Australia and Poland.
Radio 4
FM 92.4-94.6MHz; LW 198KHz
6.00am Today 9.00  As Others See
Us. See Radio choice 9.45 Book of the
Week: Winds of Change 9.45 LW: Daily
Service 10.00 Woman’s Hour 11.00
Three Vicars Talking 11.30 Loose Ends
12.00 News 12.01pm LW: Shipping
Forecast 12.04 The Offing 12.18 You
and Yours 1.00 The World at One 1.45
The Political Butterfly Effect 2.00 The
Archers 2.15 Drama: How to Build a
Supertower 3.00 Counterpoint 3.30
The Food Programme 4.00 Auditory
Illusions. Trevor Cox examines how
sounds that trick the ear can be used
in music 4.30 Beyond Belief. Ernie Rea
and guests discuss the nature of God.
Last in the series 5.00 PM. Presented
by Evan Davis 5.54 LW: Shipping
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The Archers. Lexi is thrilled to be back
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Story of British Slavery. See Radio
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character whose life will
be upended by a single
rash (if maybe defensible)
mis-step. Gabriel Tate
how Germany was
transformed from a liberal
democracy into a violent
dictatorship within just four
years, opening with Hitler’s
decision to swap street
fighting for parliamentary
politics. GT
Paxman: Why Are Our
Politicians So Crap?
CHANNEL 5, 9.00PM
 Not what Westminster’s
embattled politicians want
to see: here comes Jeremy
Paxman to ask why our
representatives are failing
us, whether the two-party
system is compromised, and
what can be done about it?
At 10.00pm, Jeremy Vine
chairs a studio debate on
the subjects raised. GT
The Hidden Story
of British Slavery
RADIO 4, 8.00PM
 Modern slavery is a
hidden crime that seems
almost impossibly difficult
to fight, and according
to recent Home Office
statistics, the largest
national grouping held in
slavery in the UK is British.
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Drama
Copper
ALIBI, 10.00PM
 An import from BBC
America that originally aired
in 2012, this period policier
from Oz creator Tom
Fontana feels a little bit
post-Deadwood, but has
plenty of extremely strong
performances (look out for
Tessa Thompson and a fine
turn from Franka Potente as
a brothel madam) and a
keen feel for New York City
during the Civil War. Tom
Weston-Jones (Dickensian)
is the tormented Irish-
American out on the Five
Points neighbourhood beat,
while also trying to discover
the truth behind his
daughter’s death and his
wife’s disappearance. GT
Entertainment
Celebrity MasterChef
BBC ONE, 9.00PM
 Twenty more famous
faces enter the kitchen to
face the scrutiny of John
Torode and Gregg Wallace,
with Zandra Rhodes and Oti
Copper: Tom Weston-Jones
Mabuse among the first
quintet tasked with making
their own sausages for
a debut dish of bangers,
mash and gravy, before
being tested in Indian
cuisine and cooking over
open flames. GT
Factual
Jamie’s Meat-Free Meals
CHANNEL 4, 8.00PM
 Jamie Oliver jumps on
the vegetarian bandwagon
with this new series; the
opener tonight features a
nice slate of recipes such
as cottage pie, chip butties
and macaroni cheese. GT
Sangita Myska looks at the
vulnerabilities that make
victims susceptible to being
taken into slavery, the
psychological mechanisms
of imprisonment that are
often used to more powerful
effect than physical chains,
and the systems in place
to bring support and justice
to the people who have
been enslaved.
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Carlingford Chronicles: Miss
Marjoribanks 11.00 TED Radio Hour
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1.00 BBC National Short Story Award
2018 1.30 Me, Putin and Judo 2.00
Wide Sargasso Sea 2.15 Charisma:
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Skool Days of Nigel Molesworth 2.45
Discontent and Its Civilizations 3.00
The Carlingford Chronicles: Miss
Marjoribanks 4.00 The Unbelievable
Truth 4.30 The Senses 5.00 A Whole
’Nother Story 5.30 Just a Minute 6.00
Before the Screaming Begins 6.30 A
Good Read 7.00 Marriage Lines 7.30
Dad’s Army 8.00 BBC National Short
Story Award 2018 8.30 Me, Putin and
Judo 9.00 TED Radio Hour 9.50
Inheritance Tracks 10.00 Comedy
Club 11.00 The News Quiz 11.45
Comedy Club 12.00 Before the
Screaming Begins 12.30am A Good
Read 1.00 BBC National Short Story
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2.00 Wide Sargasso Sea 2.15
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2.30 The Skool Days of Nigel
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Senses 5.00 A Whole ’Nother Story
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 Set at the height of the Second
World War, this extraordinary film
tells the true story of Odette Sansom
Hallowes, who was approached to
serve as a British secret agent and
became the only woman to have
received the George Cross. Anna
Neagle gives a stirring performance
and a fine collection of British actors,
including Trevor Howard and Peter
Ustinov, lend their support.

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Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse

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 The first of the highly successful
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swashbuckling adventure with a
gutsy heroine (Keira Knightley) and
a lovable hero (Johnny Depp). They
offset drippy Orlando Bloom, who
falls for Knightley and works to rescue
her from undead pirates. Dead Man’s
Chest (no 2, average) airs tomorrow, At
World’s End (no 3; bad) on Wednesday.

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Cobham is The winds of

change that are
renewing the
safe in our east coast ports
ambrose evans-
pritchard
d
vans-

hands, says I
n the First and Second World Wars,
Grimsby’s fishing trawlers fought

US bidder
Moving jobs overseas
would be a ‘dumb decision’
and not part of the £4bn
plan, claims equity house
By Alan Tovey
THE American private equity house
behind a £4bn bid for Cobham has bro-
ken its silence to hit back at sugges-
tions that the deal would threaten
national security or damage Britain’s
industrial base.
In an exclusive interview, Advent In-
ternational dismissed national security
fears saying “this is not some sort of ne-
farious deal to sell to the Russians or
Chinese”.
The firm also played down claims
that UK jobs would quickly disappear
overseas. Transferring work away from
established sites would be “a pretty
dumb business decision”, said Shonnel
Malani, the partner spearheading a
165p-a-share offer on behalf of Advent.
About 1,700 of Cobham’s 10,000 staff
are based in the UK. Mr Malani said the
company’s “unique selling point” was
“its technical skills and R&D”.
their own forgotten Battle of
Britain. They swept mines in the North
Sea. They hunted U-boats.
They escorted Arctic missions to
Russia, and ran the Nazi gauntlet on
moonless nights for vital supplies
(disguised as butter) from Sweden.
Crews were decimated. Their families
headquarters in both the US and UK, felt the sharp end of Luftwaffe
though about 100 back-office jobs bombing for good measure.
could go, mostly at its Dorset base. Grimsby was still the biggest fishing
However, he refused to be drawn on port in the world in the Fifties. One
any guarantees Advent might give to can only weep at pictures of packed
win Government-backing. boats along the piers, framed by the
Lady Cobham, the widow of former hydraulic Dock Tower built in 1852
chief executive Sir Michael Cobham is and modelled on the 14th Century
leading a campaign to try to stop Ad- Torre del Mangia in Siena.
vent’s bid. She has raised concerns that Whether it was the Icelandic Cod
Cobham’s manufacturing work will be Wars or the EU’s Common Fisheries
relocated abroad. Sir Michael was the Policy – arch-villain for most Grimsby
son of founder Sir Alan Cobham. veterans – or a general British failure
Advent has met Andrea Leadsom, of neglect, the fishing fleet shrivelled
the Business Secretary, and the Minis- to nothing. By the Nineties the
try of Defence, which both have the tradition was dead.
power to block the deal on national se- The direct railway line to London
curity grounds. was closed in 1992. Life went on. There
However, Mr Malani claimed that was still food processing and the
the deal will pay off only if Cobham nearby port of Immingham. But male
wins more business. unemployment rates matched the
“The only way we make money is if highest in the country.
Cobham is bigger and more success- The town lurched further
ful,” he said. Cobham’s largest single downwards in the post-Lehman
contract – building air-to-air refuelling austerity years, a reliable top-ten
systems for the US air force’s fleet of fixture in iLiveHere’s worst places to
aerial tankers – is based out the com- live in Britain. The nadir was Sacha
pany’s base at Wimborne in Dorset. Mr Baron Cohen’s portrayal four years ago
Malani said that part of logic behind of coarse drunks, hooligans, and
the deal was that US ownership would benefit cheats in the film entitled,
open up more defence contracts. simply, Grimsby.
AMA / MEGA

“For us the importance of Cobham is
its engineering skills, knowledge and
intellectual property, which is located
in its sites and people – why would we
risk that?” he added. “Relocating to
low-cost countries is not part of our in-
vestment thesis, ” Mr Malani said.
Advent has said it will maintain
Advent says it has written to Lady
Cobham offering to meet to try to allay
her concerns.
“We realised she had some concerns
and we felt those were probably not
based on all the facts,” Mr Malani said.
“She can choose to believe it or not...
she hasn’t responded to our letter.”
Great Yarmouth, Hull, Blyth, and
other east coast towns each had their
own such stories, each among the most
forlorn pockets of this country.
Taking stock Jeff Bezos, the Amazon chief executive, was in Venice with his new girlfriend But what is now emerging – yet to
Lauren Sanchez following his divorce from MacKenzie Bezos, who walked away, after 26 register in London’s metropolitan
years of marriage, with a settlement that included $3bn (£2.4bn) worth of Amazon stock. consciousness – is the first evidence of
Continued on Page 6

Labour plans £300bn share grab

By Jack Torrance
LABOUR’s plan to force
every large business to hand
a 10pc equity stake to their
workers would amount to a
£300bn share seizure, new
analysis has found.
John McDonnell, the
shadow chancellor, wants to
shift the balance of power
away from bosses by creat-
ing so-called “inclusive
ownership funds” that
would receive 1pc of a com-
pany’s shares per year for 10
years. The rules would apply
to the 7,000 UK companies
that have more than 250
workers. Staff would be paid
dividends of up to £500 per
year, with the rest being
handed over to the Treasury.
Analysis by Clifford
Chance and the Financial
Times found that the compa-
nies have a combined book
value of roughly £3 trillion,
of which one tenth would be
shunted into the new funds.
The plan is one of a series
of radical policies being con-
sidered by Mr McDonnell,
including naming every in-
dividual who earns more
than £150,000 per year, in-
troducing a four-day work
week and giving private ten-
ants the right to buy their
homes from landlords.
Other policies being
looked at include breaking
up the Big Four auditors and
banning “golden hand-
shake” payouts.
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wis
Virtual assistants have failed to
We need to match their once-grand promises
channel james
titcomb
in the series. Five years after it sold its
first Echo speaker, Amazon says it has

capitalism
sold more than 100m devices
equipped with Alexa.
But while Alexa’s ability to
understand us and the range of tasks it

more equitably
T
can do have improved, the experience
of using it has not changed
he big five American significantly.

N
o human-designed system is
perfect. Everything can and must
be improved, because that is the
only way society can progress.
technology companies – Surveys suggest that people mostly
Apple, Amazon, use it for simple tasks, such as playing
Facebook, Microsoft and music and checking the weather.
Google – are often talked Anything more intricate than that, and
about as one. When we they will turn to their smartphone or
worry about Big Tech’s growing laptop.

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Although one can argue capitalism
has achieved more than any other
social force to improve billions of lives by lifting
them from poverty – the World Bank said global
poverty was reduced by half between 1990 and
2010 alone – as a system it can, of course, like any
other, be refined and made better.
No one can have failed in recent years to be
struck by the inherent – and increasingly marked
– imbalances capitalist societies manifest. We are
all by now familiar with depressing statistics
about wealth inequality, or with the lengths to
which many of the world’s wealthiest individuals
and organisations will go to avoid paying taxes.
Speaking as the CEO of a business that every
day, on behalf of both public and private sector
organisations, provides services upon which
millions of people rely, I strongly believe
capitalism is the best system humanity has to
ensure as many people as possible lead fulfilling
lives – but I also believe we will fail to harness its
full potential unless we seek to channel its
energies more equitably.
The most obvious way to achieve this goal is to
consider meaningfully the impact the engines of
capitalism – which are businesses – have on the
full spectrum of stakeholders upon which they
rely to function properly. In the West, where
capitalism has traditionally flourished, for too
long it has been underpinned by an ideology that
overwhelmingly prioritises the needs of
investors above all other concerns.
As a result, we have seen – and continue to see
– innumerable instances of worker
maltreatment, or of communities and the
environment being damaged egregiously in the
pursuit of return on investment for shareholders.
It is for this reason that I applaud the decision
taken recently by the influential Business
Roundtable in the US, whose membership
comprises leaders from many of America’s most
powerful companies, to no longer recognise the
notion of shareholder primacy as the guiding
principle for American businesses, and to urge
all companies to do more to balance
environmental and employee wellbeing with the
imperative to achieve profitability.
We must, of course, not lose sight of the
importance of investment, nor of the fact that
when we talk about ‘investors” often we are
talking about people’s life savings or pension
power, or talk about “Silicon Valley” as
a phenomenon, we often group these
five together, as if they move as a pack.
It is an oversimplification that
disguises fundamentally different
characteristics. Apple and Amazon sell
mainly to consumers, while Facebook,
Google and Microsoft make most of
their money from businesses. Amazon
and Microsoft are based not in
Silicon Valley at all, but 800 miles
away in Seattle.
But in recent months, all have
managed to become affected by the
same controversy. The companies all
offer some form of voice recognition
software – virtual assistants in the
cases of Amazon, Apple, Google and
Microsoft, and language translation in
Facebook’s instance.
And each of them have been
revealed, one by one, to have
developed their software by
employing humans to listen to
recordings of their users’ voices.
In April it emerged that Amazon
employs hundreds of people to listen
to customers speaking to Alexa, the
company’s virtual assistant.
Incidents ranged from the
embarrassing (singing in the shower),
to the serious (a child screaming for
help). Similar examples followed with
Apple’s digital assistant Siri, as well as
Google and Microsoft’s counterparts.
Users naturally felt their privacy
had been violated, not only because it
makes one uneasy to know that their
private conversations could be heard
by a stranger, but because none of the
companies involved had disclosed that
they used humans to listen to real
people’s voice recordings.
Their privacy statements, as is often
Business much-maligned Govia
Thameslink Railway
Insight (GTR). But analysts expect
it to report annual profits
the case, were vague: Apple’s said that
data was used to improve Siri, but
made no mention that humans were
part of this process. At least two of the
companies now face scrutiny from
European regulators over the matter.
After the controversies emerged,
the tech companies involved
suspended the practice, or at least
made steps to tell users they were
doing it. Last week, Apple apologised
over the matter, and said that in future,
only those who had opted in would
have their commands reviewed by
humans, and even then, only in
text form.
In examining what went wrong
here, we can of course say that the
companies should have been more
clear about their work.
But such controversies are often less
about the facts of the case as the
moment it takes place in. Today, we
are in one of those moments for
privacy, thanks to the reckless
behaviour of some of the major
tech companies.
But privacy is a funny thing. We are
outraged when we feel it has been
abused, as in the case of Facebook’s
Cambridge Analytica scandal, but
surprisingly willing to trade it away
when there are benefits to be had.
Supermarkets use loyalty card
schemes to sell details of our shopping
habits, data that is invaluable to
advertising companies, but millions of
us agree to it because there are
financial benefits to doing so.
Facebook’s privacy practices were
once much worse than they are today,
but were forgiven because people
loved to use it. Today, much of the
excitement of being on Facebook has
vanished, and so we feel we are not
getting the same reward for the data
we hand over.
Google has suffered much less of a
political backlash than Facebook,
despite its fair share of privacy
controversies, because people still find
its services immensely useful on a
daily basis.
This brings us back to the present
furore around voice recognition. Part
of the privacy backlash surrounding
them may well be because the
technological revolution digital
assistants promised us has not
materialised.
When Amazon’s Alexa, the most
popular household assistant, began to
take off, executives at the company
talked about it as a new wave of
computing, in the same way that the
mouse and keyboard gave way to the
touchscreen. Jeff Bezos, a famous Star
Trek fanatic, envisaged the software
eventually acting like the fully
intelligent voice-controlled computer
Artificial intelligence has not made
large enough strides for us to trust our
smart assistants with booking flights
or doing our shopping.
The experience of talking to a
computer, and having it talk back to
you, is painstakingly slow for anything
but the most straightforward of
processes.
Mark Zuckerberg, That is the experience within the
Facebook’s chief home, the safest environment for
had to face a voice assistants. The experience is
congressional significantly less comfortable in
hearing after the public, where smartphone-based
data scandal, since assistants might be used, or in the
then it has been office, where Microsoft focuses
revealed the tech its efforts.
giants have been Voice recognition is undoubtedly an
monitoring digital impressive technology. But many
assistants impressive technologies fail to make
much of an impact.
People are often wowed by virtual
reality the first time they try it, but
sales of the headsets have been slow,
and many of those that were
purchased are now gathering dust.
Virtual assistants are more
successful than that, but they may
ultimately end up as glorified light
switches and alarm clocks, rather than
‘Surveys the leap forward in computing they
suggest that have been sold as.
This may go some way to the
people privacy outcry that tech companies
mostly use it have faced over how they develop
their voice recognition software.
for simple People are happy to sacrifice a little bit
tasks, such of their privacy when they feel they
are getting something in return. But
as playing when voice assistants are not
music and delivering on their sci-fi promises, it is
no wonder that they start to look less
checking the like a technological breakthrough, and
weather’ more like devices for eavesdropping.
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can, of despite its ubiquity, is still of £3.5bn.
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properly productive o-Ahead’s newly- end in June, Go-Ahead
refined and harmony is struck between extended boasted of better
investors, employees, Southeastern punctuality, improved £14.17 14
2018 2019
made better’ communities and the railway franchise will
environment. come under fresh Strengths Threats
Although the challenge is scrutiny when the David Brown
a great one – nothing less transport operator sets Chief executive
than a fundamental re-engineering of the out its annual results  Holds some of the UK’s  Could lose profitable
concept of corporate purpose – I am optimistic it later this week, writes most high-profile train Southeastern franchise
can be achieved, not least because statements Jack Torrance. franchises next year
such as that of the Business Roundtable Ministers handed the  Huge bus business  Labour could
demonstrate the will to do it is now there. And bus and rail operator an spread across the country, nationalise railways
where there is a will, there is always a way. extra five months in including London’s largest  Rising competition
At Capita, we are working hard to build into charge of the route last performance in its bus operation from foreign rivals
our commercial systems structures that ensure month, calling off a international bus business
we remain sincerely mindful of our commitment competition to run the and the launch of new Weaknesses Opportunities
to the people and communities without whom franchise until a highly- German train services
our achievements would not be possible, and anticipated review of the following years of
that we never lose sight of the importance of railways is complete. preparations.  Govia Thameslink  Launched a new
inclusion and diversity. Southeastern, a joint Clare Hollingsworth, franchise has become on-demand minibus
We still have much more to do, but I am venture with France’s the former Eurostar deeply unpopular service
immensely proud, for example, to lead the only Keolis, has become a chairman, is due to take  £262m debt pile  Growing international
FTSE-listed business that has appointed two profitable business for over the same role at  Complex nature of business
employees to its board of directors, which means Go-Ahead, whose other Go-Ahead next month, franchise bidding  Stake in car-sharing
views from within Capita’s wider workforce now operations include the replacing Andrew Allner. Transport group Go-Ahead is the capital’s largest bus operator process business Mobileeee
inform the making of decisions that relate to
long-term strategy. I am also proud of the work
we have undertaken recently to address our
pension deficit or to publish our supplier charter,
a document that ensures the day-to-day
interactions we have with often small or
medium-sized businesses conform to the highest
Domestic political turmoil should not panic investors
standards of global best practice.
More than anything, I am proud to be part of a economy is not well prepared for through Help to Buy, and its results unsettle these investors. Another
growing community of UK businesses thinking
tom stevenson
nson leaving the EU without an agreement. will be good. But the stock market is reason not to worry unduly about this
hard about how to reconnect with a public that Growth is weak, even adjusting for the clear what it thinks of the outlook for week’s events is the message from
in recent years has grown, often with good distortions to the GDP figures caused the sector – a dividend yield of 7pc and history. There have been plenty of
reason, increasingly mistrustful of corporatism, by the spring’s two aborted exits. a share price that’s only a single-digit UK-focused political crises in the
and that is acting decisively to do so. Productivity is low after four years of multiple of forecast earnings is hardly post-war period. All have, with the
Societies and commercial enterprises are Brexit-fuelled underinvestment by a vote of confidence. Its chief benefit of hindsight, proved to be good
nothing if not co-dependent, and I am strongly businesses. Even if you think some of executive recently sold a third of his

motivated by the desire to be part of a movement
that brings people and businesses closer
together. However, I recognise this goal will not
be achieved until businesses come once again to
be widely viewed as powerful agents of positive
change, capable of being part of the solution to
the greatest challenges of our time – from climate
change to food security to severe global
inequality – rather than as a major part of the
problem. Each of us from time to time needs
properly to think about what our purpose is, ie
what we are motivated by, what we want to
achieve and how we want our impact to be felt
by those around us. This is as true for people as it
is for companies and for society itself.
A well-defined purpose provides context,
meaning and goals to which we can aspire and
against which we can measure progress.
Certainly, one of capitalism’s most enduring
strengths is the freedom it extends to individuals
and to groups to define for themselves their own
purpose. What a shame it would be if we did not
now seize the opportunity we have to shape
collectively our common purpose toward the
creation of a reality in which capitalism’s benefits
are channelled yet more effectively through
every level of society.
This, I believe, is the purpose that should be
the motivating force of our time and, ultimately,
our legacy to future generations.
Jon Lewis is the chief executive of Capita, the
outsourcer
I
nvestors have a tendency to pay too
much attention to domestic news.
At the very least, it can lead to home
bias in portfolios. The local headlines
can certainly over-influence market
sentiment, as we forget that most of
the world’s markets are indifferent to
our self-inflicted political and
constitutional crisis. This week,
however, we might be forgiven for our
navel-gazing.
Whatever happens, and there
remains a bewildering array of
possible outcomes, the reporting of it
will be a key chapter in the first draft
of the history of Brexit. By Friday, the
options will be narrower, and we will
have a clearer idea of where we are
heading at the end of October.
So, this is a good time to think about
our exposure to the UK in our
portfolios. In most cases, this will be
higher than a neutral analysis of
Britain’s place in the global markets
would suggest (about 6pc). Most
investors overweight their own stock
market thanks to the familiarity of the
local investment opportunities. How
things pan out may determine
whether that is a good or a bad thing.
One thing looks clear to me. The
economic impact of no deal is less
controversial than it was. The British
the scenario-planning is alarmist, no
one can deny there will be more trade
friction after a no-deal exit than
before. Mitigating fiscal and monetary
measures can be taken (interest rates
will fall to near zero, government
spending will ramp up, quick-win tax
cuts such as VAT will be implemented)
but leaving without a deal will hurt.
Domestically-focused firms have
been at the sharp end of Brexit
uncertainty for what seems like an
interminable four years since the EU
referendum was set in stone by David
Cameron’s unexpected majority at the
2015 election. This week, a string of
companies whose fates are driven
almost wholly by their home market
will report on their progress. In
different ways, they illustrate the
challenges faced by businesses in
Brexit Britain.
Take Restaurant Group, owner of
the Wagamama, Frankie & Benny’s
and Garfunkel’s chains. Its shares
traded at over 500p four years ago.
Today, they are around 150p, having
halved the dividend as consumers
tightened their belts and the sector’s
overexpansion proved over-optimistic.
Barratt Developments has had an
easier ride thanks to the Government’s
manipulation of the housing market
shares. Go-Ahead Group, the trains
and buses group you might expect to
be the most stable of businesses, is
expected to deliver no growth in
earnings and dividends over the next
three years.
Perhaps fortunately for investors,
this kind of domestic company is less a
feature of the UK stock market. We
will learn tomorrow who is in and out
when in the latest FTSE reshuffle.
Almost certainly, Marks & Spencer will
fall out of Britain’s blue-chip index for
the first time since the FTSE 100 was
created in 1984. It will likely be
replaced by Polymetal International, a
gold miner operating in Russia and
Kazakhstan. Fewer than 30 of the
original FTSE 100 constituents remain
in an index which has less and less to
say about the British economy.
The overseas focus of leading
British firms is one reason to relax
about this week’s political drama.
Whether there is a vote of no-
confidence in Boris Johnson’s
Government, whatever we think about
prorogation, these are neither here nor
there to Polymetal’s shareholders and
probably of little interest to those in
BP, HSBC or Glaxo. Perhaps only
Jeremy Corbyn outliving a caretaker
premiership has the potential to
times to stick with the domestic
portion of your portfolio. After the
devaluation of the pound in November
1967, the FT 30 rose by a quarter in
1968. Following the “who governs
Britain” elections of 1974, the market
doubled the following year. The ERM
crisis was quickly welcomed by
investors in 1992.
A key difference between those
times and today, of course, is that the
stock market is not at crisis levels. BP
is not trading on three times earnings
and yielding nearly 13pc as it was in
January 1975. Valuations in the UK are
attractive relative to perceived safer
havens but are not in the bargain
basement. Investors still calculate that
the doomsters have got it wrong.
The UK still merits a place in a
well-diversified portfolio because
sentiment is weak and valuations
attractive. The next few months will
probably be choppy, but the
‘Most of the fundamentals of our internationally-
focused market are unlikely to change
world’s much. I wouldn’t dive deeper into the
markets are UK market in these uncertain times
but am relaxed about the exposure I do
indifferent to have.
our self-
Tom Stevenson is an investment director
inflicted at Fidelity International. The views are
crisis’ his own. He tweets at @tomstevenson63
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House prices set to plunge in no-deal exit

fall could be as severe as 20pc with
KMPG warns of homes London and Northern Ireland the
worst affected, it predicts.
slump with valuations Yael Selfin, chief economist at
falling by as much as 20pc KPMG, said that in a worst-case sce-
in some parts of UK nario, “more severe falls of around 10-
20pc [are] also possible if we look at
By Marianna Hunt and Isabelle Fraser historic precedents”.
This is still some way off the Bank of
A HOUSING slump is expected to England’s predictions however, which
sweep across the country affecting previously warned that there could be
every region if Britain leaves the EU a 30pc fall in house prices in the event
with no deal, according to research. of no deal. Fears over a collapse in
House prices are likely to drop by house prices is likely to cause buyers to
around 6pc on average, according to retreat from the market, said Capital
analysis by KPMG. In some areas the Economics, a research consultancy. It
predicted that a no-deal Brexit could No-deal house price forecast turn could mean the value of homes in crease in unemployment which would
cause mortgage approvals to slump by 2018 2019 2020 London is slashed by almost 7pc in cause these kinds of falls,” he said.
as much as 10pc. 2020, equal to £55,000 on average. KPMG added that while it expects
It could also have an impact on
-8 -6 -4 -2 0 2 4 6
Its analysts warned that house prices the price correction to be milder than
housebuilders, according to Jan East of England -6.4
-1.1 1.5 in Northern Ireland, more heavily reli- the crash in 2008, a “further shock to
Crosby, head of housing at KPMG. He London -7 -4.8
-0.4 ant on EU trade than the rest of the buyer confidence could tip the overall
said: “Transactions volumes will likely -1.3 0.5 country, could fall by 7.5pc in 2020. market into a much deeper slump”.
North East -6.5
fall much more than prices, making Property values in the North West This is in the context of a slowing
government housing delivery targets North West -6.1 0.3 3.2 and Scotland are likely to remain rela- property market and stretched afford-
impossible to achieve and slowing new Scotland -6 0.7 2.9 tively protected from the downturn. ability, unrelated to Brexit.
building across the sector.” South East -6.7 -0.6 0.6 Hansen Lu, of Capital Economics, Even if a deal is reached, house
KPMG’s analysis, which took into ac- -0.4 3.1
said that although uncertainty will prices in London are still expected to
South West -5.9
count the potential impact of Brexit on drive down the number of sales, a sig- fall sharply: by almost 5pc in 2019, and
local economies, suggested that prop- Wales -5.4 -0.3 4.5 nificant crash in house prices is un- by around 1pc in 2020. “People have
erty prices in Northern Ireland and the West Midlands -5.8 -1.3 4.4 likely. “Yes, there will be disruption, been priced out and deposits are unaf-
capital would fall the most. A down- but we are not expecting a large in- fordable,” Mr Lu added.

Britons can net Secret Escapes

£5bn from ‘PPI hires finance
on steroids’ chief as it
fees mis-selling considers float
By Laura Onita
By Lucy Burton
SECRET ESCAPES has hired a chief fi-
WEALTHY UK investors are in line for nancial officer for the first time in its
windfalls of thousands of pounds fol- eight-year history as it plots a possible
lowing a mis-selling scandal involving stock market listing or sale.
Swiss banks and asset managers. The travel website has brought in
Claims specialist Liti-Link believes Andy Botha, the ex-finance chief of
as much as £5 bn is owed to British cli- property company Zoopla. Although it
ents. It has described the situation as has always had a finance director, this
“PPI on steroids”. role is newly-created.
The firm insists that investors are en- Botha, who also looked after the fi-
titled to a refund on commission fees nances of online retailer notonthehigh-
that may have secretly been charged to street.com, was instrumental in
them without their consent, a practice growing Zoopla via acquisitions until
banned in 2012. It said UK investors are its £2.5 bn sale to Silverlake last year.
coming forward in far smaller numbers Secret Escapes was the brainchild of
than other Europeans and are running Alex Saint and Tom Valentine. It offers
out of time to make a claim. members-only discounts on upmarket
A spokesman said: “Tens of thou- holidays across 22 countries. Mr Saint
sands of people are entitled to five or
six-figure payouts that are currently

‘I don’t think there’ll ever be £403m

another claims scandal as The latest available gross bookings figure
large as PPI, many of the for Secret Escapes, which is thought to be
planning a stock market listing or sale
small firms will close down’
going unclaimed.” has made no secret that a float is some-
The claims management industry thing he would explore in the future
grew rapidly after the PPI scandal blew but previously referred to it as only
up, making the founders of some of “one of the options open to us”. An out-
Britain’s largest compensation shops right sale could also be on the cards.
multimillionaires. He said: “Andy’s experience will be
The expectation is that many will particularly relevant as we focus on
now either cash in and close or focus strengthening our presence in [other]
on other, less profitable, scandals. markets and growing the business.”
Greg Stevens, who runs the Con- Last July, Secret Escapes secured
sumer Credit Trade Association, be- more than £50 m from Merian Global
lieves claims firms are already busy Investors, a cash injection that the
trying to spot new opportunities. He company’s chief executive labelled “a
said the industry has recently been great signal to markets”. It employs
“carpet-bombing lenders” with “thou- 1,000 staff and has a string of travel-re-
sands of bogus, at best speculative ‘af- lated businesses and brands.
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fordability’ claims” over historic loans. Tens of millions in funding has also
Negar Yazdani, who runs claims law- been provided by the likes of Google
yers BlackLion Law, said: “I don’t think Ventures, Octopus Investments and At-
there’ll ever be another claims scandal las Venture.
as large as PPI. My opinion is that many Secret Escapes posted a £14.2 m pre-
of the smaller [claims firms] that were tax loss on £73 m of sales for 2017. Gross
focused on PPI are likely to shut down. bookings were £403 m, some 48pc
“Larger ones will remain, and new higher than the previous year.
products are likely to be claims relating Analysts said bankers would price
to pension mis-selling, GDPR, cavity the company based on a single multiple
walls, payday loans, packaged bank ac- of future gross bookings, meaning a
counts and leasehold mis-selling.” Fruit sellers provide a colourful and friendly welcome to Madagascar, one of the 22 countries to which travel website Secret Escapes offers its members discounted luxury holidays float would value it at roughly £500m.

Google moves to ban ‘deceptive and exploitative’ payday loan apps

By Margi Murphy extortionate interest rates. It will cut marketplaces that place those in need ucts is high, and there is a need for the app’s metadata, Google said. One

GOOGLE plans to wipe “deceptive”

and “exploitative” payday loans from
off crucial channels for online-only
lenders, which three years ago were
blacklisted from advertising on Goog-
the Android operating system, in an- le’s search engine along with guns and
other blow to the short-term lending tobacco.
industry. Predatory payday loans and loan
Loans that require repayment in full shark apps have become commonplace
in 60 days or less, also referred to as on both Apple and Android app stores,
pay-cheque advances or short term with many promising consumers quick
loans will soon be banned, Google has cash but little clarity on how much
warned app developers in an email. they will have to pay back.
It is the latest setback for the indus- Peer-to-peer lending, which has
try, which has long been criticised for soared in popularity thanks to online
of quick capital with those looking to
make money, will also be prohibited. It
is only recently that apps have become
a popular way for consumers to get ac-
cess to capital and have been a catalyst
for the cryptocurrency boom, enjoying
grey regulatory areas. But many have
proved controversial.
The move was criticised by the Con-
sumer Finance Association (CFA),
which represents short-term lenders.
Jason Wassell, chief executive of the
CFA, said: “It is disappointing to see
60
The length of loans in days that will be
banned by Google as the tech giant cracks
down on the short term lending industry
Google take the decision to ban short-
term loan apps. It doesn’t seem to re-
flect the improved regulation and
protection here in the UK. Nor does it
recognise that demand for these prod-
short-term lending.”
“We are not surprised because it
does reflect an approach where Google
believes it knows best. The Govern-
ment and Financial Conduct Authority
should make decisions on ‘bans’.”
American smartphone users will
also be shielded from apps that lend
money with an annual percentage rate
of 30pc or higher. However Britons
will still be shown apps with higher
APR due to looser laws in the UK, pro-
vided that the rate is made explicit in
Silicon Valley, venture-backed start-up
Earnin has come under close scrutiny.
The app allows users to withdraw up to
$100 (£82) per day, but can change over
time to upward of $500 or as low as
$50. It asks, but does not require, peo-
ple to tip “what you think is fair for ac-
cess to your earnings,” for the service,
according to its website.
Adverts on Snapchat encourages tips
equating to 10pc of the payout re-
ceived. It claims this means it cannot
be labelled a loan company.

MPs call for air passenger Chancellor urged to tackle

tax to be cut by at least 50pc industrial skills shortage
By Jack Torrance routes. Meanwhile, two thirds would By Tom Rees It also said that the Chancellor should
look to reduce or remove services if the back big infrastructure projects, in-
A CROSS-PARTY group of MPs has tax was increased. BUSINESS leaders have urged the cluding HS2. Mr Javid will hold a one-
urged the Government to slash or scrap The report said: “APD runs counter Chancellor to tackle an acute skills year spending review to apportion
the UK’s sky-high airline taxes. to many of the Government’s stated shortage in major industries as part of money to departments amid specula-
A report by the All-Party Parliamen- priorities, including increasing exports this week’s spending review. tion that the expected funding boost
tary Group for Air Passenger Duty Re- and creating jobs; its removal will The Confederation of British Indus- could be a pre-election gambit.
form claims APD is the highest tax of its give Britain’s aviation sector the chance try, the UK’s biggest business organisa- Ms Newton-Smith said: “The UK has
kind in Europe and that cutting it to flourish once more, boosting con- tion, has told the Treasury that a challenge about having the right
would open up dozens of new routes nectivity and driving economic companies want more investment in technical skills, and skill shortages
growth.” skills and training, infrastructure and have been a problem.”
The report also berates the “imprac- She warned that a change to the UK’s

£78 ticalities and absurdities” of how the

tax is collected, including the fact that
those travelling on domestic return 0.5pc
immigration system after Brexit could
make the worker shortage “much more
acute”, adding that “businesses are
The cost of air passenger duty levied on a journeys are forced to pay twice – dis- anxious for their staff ”.
long-haul economy flight, almost seven couraging regional routes. The Apprenticeship Levy percentage level Business leaders from the industries
times as high as when it was introduced Even if the levy was slashed in half, it of employers’ gross annual pay bills to be most affected by the skills gap have
would still be the highest in Europe, used for training apprentices raised concerns about a worker short-
just ahead of second-placed Germany. age in IT, construction and hospitality.
both domestic and international. The Government is expected to raise Vinous Ali at TechUK warned that
Introduced in 1994, APD adds £13 to £3.7bn in APD this year, equivalent to accelerating the move to a low-carbon the technology sector is facing a “big
the cost of every short-haul ticket and 0.5pc of total tax receipts. economy. skill shortage”. In particular, small and
£78 for long-haul in economy, rising to Henry Smith, the Conservative MP Rain Newton-Smith, its chief econo- medium-sized businesses have been
£176 for long-haul flights in first or and the group’s chairman, said: “We mist, said the skills gap is one of the helped by sourcing workers from Eu-
business class. have the highest aviation taxes in Eu- main challenges facing businesses, rope at a low cost and quickly.
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The long-haul rate is now almost rope. calling on the Government to invest in “Our members would say skill short-
seven times higher as when it was first “This is simply not sustainable and young people to ease the shortage. ages are the biggest challenge they face
introduced and the short-haul rate has runs counter to the Government’s aims Ahead of Wednesday’s spending re- today,” she said. “The main hurdle lies
more than doubled. for a truly global Britain. view, the CBI urged Sajid Javid, the with how long and bureaucratic our
A survey of airlines found that more “We are calling for the Chancellor to Chancellor, to restore per pupil fund- immigration system currently is.”
than two thirds would invest in new act decisively and remove this barrier ing for 16 to 18-year olds to 2011/12 lev- Graham Watts, chief executive of
routes outside of London and the to growth by cutting APD by at least Love hearts Two diamonds worth £494,000 are shown els, deliver new technical courses trade body the Construction Industry
south-east if APD was cut by 50pc and 50pc to ensure that Britain has a flying at International Jewellery London, Kensington Olympia. known as T-levels and maintain the Council, said the need for workers in
9 in 10 would invest more in existing start to our post-Brexit future.” 0.5pc rate of the Apprenticeship Levy. construction is “very volatile”.
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Driverless car revolution is in dangg

The benefits of AI
vehicles have been
massively oversold
and the industry
hasn’t even got out
of first gear, argues
sceptic Roger Bootle

W
e simply don’t know
what sort of jobs
will be available in
the future. After all,
imagine yourself in
the year 1900
peering into the future. How could
you know then that the proportion of
people employed in agriculture in the
USA would fall to a twentieth of what
it was then? Or that there would now
be more people employed as mental
health nurses in the NHS than there
are sailors serving in the Royal Navy?
Or that large numbers of people would
pay good money to personal trainers
to put them through their paces and
ensure that they suffered the requisite
amount of agony?
History is full of people who have
made long-term predictions and who
have been proved utterly wrong.
Among economists one of my
favourites is the great William Stanley
Jevons, one of the most distinguished
economists of the nineteenth century.
In 1865 he predicted that industrial
expansion would soon come to a halt
due to a shortage of coal. Poor
old Jevons.
So we must tread warily. Having
said that, and having dosed ourselves
with lashings of humility, and drunk
deep from the well of scepticism, there
is a lot that we can say about the future
of employment in the new robot- and
AI-dominated future.
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Self-driving vehicles
One of the most widely talked about
categories of jobs supposedly at risk is
drivers: bus drivers, truck drivers, taxi
drivers, chauffeurs, delivery drivers,
and many more. A 2017 trucking
industry report predicted that by
2030, out of 6.4m trucking jobs in
America and Europe, about 4.4m of
them could have disappeared as impact, before moving on to the that he aimed to have “fully driverless cost to middle income countries at
“robots” do the driving. criticisms and problems. cars” in use by 2021. about 2pc of annual GDP. And these
But things aren’t quite as You can readily understand the accidents are generally caused by the
straightforward as they seem. On The potential and promise reasons for the enthusiasm. This is common failings of human beings –
driverless vehicles there is a yawning only partly about cost saving. Human drunkenness, tiredness, sickness, and
gap between the hype and the reality. I Driverless cars are not a fantasy: they drivers kill 1.2m people a year, and distraction.
will start by discussing the positive are already working. Philip Hammond, additionally injure between 20 and Moreover, imagine all those old and
case and reviewing the potential when he was chancellor, told the BBC 50m people. Some estimates put the infirm members of society who can no
longer drive, as well as all those who
never could drive, who, in a world
with driverless cars, would not need to
drive. They would have as much
mobility as the rest of the population,
freed from the inadequacies of public
transport and the expense of taxis.
Meanwhile, parents would be freed
from the regular chore of dropping off
and picking children up from parties,
ballet lessons, football, and so forth.
And going to the pub would no longer
bring on the agonised choice over
whether to drive and not drink.
Over and above all this, there is the
saving of the time that we all spend
driving ourselves to work, to meet
friends and family, doing the
shopping, going on holiday, or
performing some errand or other. It is
fine if we actually enjoy the driving
but most of us don’t – particularly not
congested urban driving or being
stuck in a motorway traffic jam. Think
how much better things could be if
someone – or rather something – else
did the driving. We could watch films,
learn a language, work, drink to our
heart’s content, or go to sleep. What
bliss! Although the effects would not
show up in the GDP figures, the result
would surely be an increase in human
well-being.
Wider still and wider
Furthermore, if driverless vehicles
really take off, the ultra-enthusiasts
talk of a transformation of urban land
use as people en masse forgo their
individual cars and are transported in
driverless, shared-use, electric
vehicles. It is quite possible that car
ownership would fall sharply as
people predominantly chose to take
rides in driverless vehicles from a
floating pool.
The results would include fewer
cars needing to be built (as well as
sold, repaired, insured, etc.).
Additionally, there would be less
demand for space to park cars that
remain idle most of the time. While
they are waiting for users, driverless
cars can be parked end to end and
stacked. This could potentially
transform urban landscapes and free
up much scarce space for other uses.
In 2016, Google’s Chris Urmson told a
US Congressional committee that in
the US parking takes up an area the
size of Connecticut. By implication, if
everything went according to plan
with driverless cars, this space could
be freed up for other uses.
And there are potentially major
effects on the insurance industry. In
the US, vehicle insurance accounts for
about 30pc of all insurance premiums.
There are particular issues with regard
to who bears the liability when a
driverless vehicle is involved in an
accident. Doubtless this would provide
a fruitful area of business for insurance
companies – as well as, inevitably, for
an army of lawyers. But a sharp
reduction in the number of vehicles to
In 2012 be insured would deal a heavy blow to The crash
insurance companies’ revenue
Sergey Brin, streams. rate is higher
the founder for driverless
Serious problems
of Google, vehicles. The
said that So the implications of driverless problem
vehicles are potentially huge. But it is
driverless now time to take account of the more seems to be
cars would sceptical view about their prospects,
before making an overall assessment.
that human
be available The idea of driverless vehicles has drivers find
on the been doing the rounds for almost as
long as vehicles have existed. General
it difficult to
market in no Motors introduced the idea at the 1939 interact with
more than World’s Fair in New York. Of course, other
since then the technology has become
six years. much more capable than what could vehicles
That means even be imagined then. (The 1939 when the
2018. We are concept was of a radio-guided car.)
Indeed, this whole issue has been latter are
still waiting characterised by over optimism since driverless
then – and it still is. In 2012 Sergey
Brin, the founder of Google, said that
driverless cars would be available to
Google’s employees within a year and
would be available on the commercial
market in “no more than six years.”
That means 2018. At the time of
writing, we are still waiting.
In practice, there is no reason for
the three elements of the ultra-radical
vision of the future of car travel –
driverless, shared-use, and electric – to
occur together. We need to unpick this
attractive, and supposedly inevitable,
triad. We could see the widespread use
of shared-use vehicles or electric
vehicles, or both, without seeing a
large-scale move to driverless vehicles.
Feasibility is not the issue. Safety is.
Demis Hassabis, one of the founders of
Extracted from DeepMind, said in May 2018: “How do
The AI Economy: you ensure, mathematically, that
Work, Wealth and systems are safe and will only do what
Welfare in the we think they are going to do when
Robot Age by they are out in the wild.”
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ger of motoring into a brick wall
cars. The problem seems to be that What is the
human drivers find it difficult to point of
interact with other vehicles when the
latter are driverless. This is such a going
problem that some tech companies are driverless if
trying to make driverless cars less
robotic, even inducing them to cut you, the
corners, be aggressive, and inch human
forward at junctions.
In fact, things aren’t quite so simple driver, the
as even this might seem to imply. For
all the boasts about what their
safety driver,
autonomous vehicles can do and the or whatever
reports that their vehicles have passed they call you,
so many tests with flying colours, the
claims of the manufacturers and have to pay
developers of autonomous vehicles attention the
cannot be taken seriously. For these
tests are usually conducted in secret whole time?
and without independent verification.
We do not know – and we are not
allowed to know – the road and
weather conditions that the vehicles
were subjected to, nor how far they
were dependent on any human
intervention.
It is significant that so much of the
experience with driverless vehicles so
far has been in locations like Phoenix,
Arizona, a place blessed with a
predictable and attractive climate and
good driving conditions. No snow, no
fog, and no convoluted road systems
or random congestion. A more serious
test would be to put these cars
through their paces in London,
Moscow, or Istanbul – in February.
Human intervention
Legislators, courts, and insurance
companies are having to deal with
some very tricky issues created by
driverless vehicles. Under new UK
legislation, drivers of self-driving cars
must not take their hands off the
wheel for more than a minute. And in
April 2018 a motorist was banned from
driving after being caught on the M1
motorway in the passenger seat, with
the driving seat vacant as the AI
“drove” the car. The British
government is planning to scrap the
requirement for a “safety driver” to
enable advanced trials on public roads
of fully automated vehicles by the end
of 2019. It will be interesting to see
how far this goes.
The American experience invites
scepticism. In June 2018 a report from
the Tempe, Arizona police department
into the crash of a “self-driving” Uber
vehicle that killed a 49-year-old
woman who was crossing the street
said that the crash was “entirely
avoidable”. The report said that
evidence showed that the safety
driver had been distracted as she had
been streaming a show on her phone.
In fact, among the developers of
driverless vehicles and AI enthusiasts,
such distinctions have gone much
further. Discussion is dominated by
the so-called six levels of autonomy,
ranging from level 0 to level 5. At level
0 there is no autonomy at all: human
drivers do everything and there are no
intelligent system aids. At level 1 the
driver must control all normal driving
tasks, but limited tasks can be
assigned to an intelligent system
installed in the car, for example
parking assistance. Level 2 is
characterised as “semi-automation.”
The driver must monitor the system
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or cannot cope with a particular set of people will want to avail themselves of
circumstances, that intervention by these services. But, of course, this is a
humans is required, humans who are long way from the human user, the
supposed, at that moment, to be more erstwhile “driver,” being able to switch
capable than the machines/automatic off altogether. And while human
systems that have failed. But how can drivers are still needed to be capable of
they be more capable if they have been taking control then most of the
used to sitting passively while an much-hyped economic consequences
automatic system did all the work and of driverless vehicles won’t happen.
made all the decisions? Mind you, journeys with restricted
This isn’t an issue with level 5 routes, where the scope for things to
automated driving because in this case go wrong is limited, will surely be
human intervention isn’t even wide open to the full replacement of
possible. But, to reach level 5, humans by AI drivers. In fact, we
driverless cars will need to be able to already experience such AI drivers
cope with all weather conditions, quite frequently. Driverless rail
including fog, blizzards, and snow, be shuttles at airports and underground
able to distinguish between a football trains have been common for some
being kicked into a road and the child time. Four-person driverless pods to
chasing it, distinguish between a dog shuttle passengers between
and a child, and be able to negotiate Heathrow’s Terminal 5 and the car
their way along streets crowded with park have been in operation since 2011.
people, often doing unpredictable, and And there is clearly scope for an
sometimes apparently nonsensical, increase in the use of driverless
things. None of these things can tractors and other farm vehicles
driverless cars readily do now. operating on agricultural land.
Robert Dingess of Mercer Strategic Norway has introduced a driverless
Alliance, which is a lobbying firm that ferry. Mind you, so far it has been
specialises in automobile technology, confined to a 320-foot stretch of water
has put the current state of play most in Trondheim. The journey takes only
pithily. He notes that the 60 seconds. I am sure that there will
manufacturers have become good at be plenty of instances of such “auto-
“developing self-driving systems that ferries” moving people and goods
operate safely 90pc of the time, but short distances across restricted
consumers are not happy with a car waterways. But this is a far cry from a
that only crashes 10pc of the time”. fully automated oceangoing cargo ship
Accidents are one thing but suppose or liner sailing without a captain.
that a nefarious person or organisation Whether the vehicle is a car, a plane,
was able to hack into the system or a boat, what has been achieved so
controlling a vehicle or set of vehicles? far, and what is likely to be achieved in
This risk is scary enough with regard the foreseeable future, is a far cry from
to disaffected individuals or criminals, the wholesale replacement of humans
but think about terrorist groups. If by AI drivers that the AI enthusiasts
there were no human drivers in think is imminent. In that case, the
vehicles, including planes and cars, benefits of driverless vehicles have
and a terrorist group were able to hack been massively oversold.
into the computer systems controlling The whole thing has an aura of the
these vehicles then they could emperor’s new clothes about it. It
deliberately cause mass slaughter on reminds me of the excessive
an industrial scale by turning the enthusiasm about all things digital in
whole transport system into a weapon. the run-up to the bursting of the
It falls appropriately to an dot-com bubble. Of course, there was
economist to raise another key issue much to admire about some of the
that seldom seems to be discussed by ideas and the companies that
the techies, namely cost. The kit proliferated then. And some have
necessary to enable a car to operate more than endured: they have grown
autonomously is phenomenally like Topsy and transformed the
expensive. Just because something is business landscape. But there was also
technically feasible does not make it an awful lot of dross that was blown
necessarily economically desirable, as away as soon as the bubble burst and
the operators of the Concorde people recovered their senses.
aeroplane painfully discovered. If it is right to think of the time and
treasure spent on driverless cars as
Overall assessment reflecting a bubble, then there is
and the environment continuously. going driverless that you, the erstwhile going to be one hell of a reckoning
But the driver can assign control of the driver, can read the newspaper, fall This is not to say, though, that there is when it bursts.
vehicle, including steering, asleep, or get drunk? no scope for driverless vehicles.
acceleration, and braking, when A further problem derives from the Already, cars can drive themselves, Roger Bootle is chairman of Capital
conditions are appropriate. de-skilling of drivers as a result of unassisted, on motorways and can Economics. His new book ‘The AI
At level 3, described as “conditional relying on technology. This is ironic park themselves. These features can Economy: Work, Wealth and Welfare in
automation,” the car drives itself, but because it is precisely when, for and do bring some benefits to their the Robot Age’ is published by Nicholas
the human driver needs to be ready to whatever reason, the technology fails, users. And doubtless over time more Brealey on Sept 5
resume control when necessary. And
the system knows its own limitations
and will periodically request driver
assistance.
At level 4, described as “high
automation,” cars drive themselves
without any input from the driver, but
“drivers” retain control over pedals
and the steering wheel in order to be
able to take over when necessary. At
level 5, no human involvement at all is
possible, even in emergencies.
Levels 2 and 3 have proved to be
unsafe as humans at the wheel
become inattentive and distracted and
are therefore unable to intervene
promptly when necessary. There is a
well-known case of an accident in
Florida in 2016. Joshua Brown, a keen
advocate of Tesla cars, had put his car
on autopilot but the car’s sensors
failed to register that a large truck was
crossing the car’s path. The car steered
itself under the truck, killing Brown.
Recognising these problems, within
the industry the great ambition now is
to develop vehicles at level 4. Actually,
a level 4 autonomous truck is awaiting
regulatory approval in Sweden. There
is no driver cabin or controls but, if
need be, the vehicle can be operated
remotely by a supervisor sitting
hundreds of miles away, who can
supervise up to 10 vehicles at a time.
This vehicle, known as a T-Pod, would
initially travel only six miles a day and
would be allowed to operate on only
100 miles of public roads where it
might encounter vehicles with human
drivers. Yet substantially the same
issues arise, unless the car really is
capable of dealing with all
circumstances. If not, how can you be
ready to intervene in an emergency if
you are not constantly alert? What if
you are drunk – or asleep?
And what is the point of going
driverless if you, the human driver,
the “safety driver,” or whatever they
call you, have to pay attention the
whole time? Isn’t the
point of
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energy at these low prices on the
doorstep of an interlinked industrial
ecosystem could drive a larger revival.

for 20 years, green revival in the UK Compare this to the strike price for
Hinkley Point. The nuclear project
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energy is huge’
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arrays by 2030. This may rise to 40GW
Continued from Page 1 170 staff in Grimsby with a further 500 as long-term energy storage at low
economic and social renaissance. A contractors. “When we advertised for cost becomes a reality.
North Sea energy boom has broken six apprentices we got a thousand Excess electricity at times of low
the vicious cycle. applicants,” said Darren Ramshaw, the demand could be used to make
“We hit bottom four or five years regional head of operations. The local hydrogen – or green gas – through
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decline because now we are really Ørsted canteen – Deli-licious – has and trains, or go into heating homes.
turning around,” said Philip Jackson, expanded to twenty people. “We believe we’re going to see the
head of the North East Lincolnshire The hub manages the Hornsea 1 same sort of falling cost curve as
Council in Grimsby. wind farm, the biggest offshore cluster electrolysis scales up,” he said.
The revival resembles the early on the planet. The array is being Wind combined with electric
stages of the oil and gas boom around erected at a staggering pace, one giant beefed up his fleet with six high-speed blades – some stretching 81 metres wind industry has found a loophole. vehicles and green gas production
Aberdeen in the Seventies. This time it turbine every couple of days. catamarans to transfer crew to the (265ft) – that pitch automatically into Projects outside the 12-mile coastal could eliminate Britain’s need for
is renewable energy. Installation out at sea is lightning Hornsea I field. the wind as the direction changes. limit are technically not in the EU so imported fuels. The energy trade
Grimsby has become the nerve fast. “They put up the tower, the “We’ve been managing industrial Ray Thompson, Siemens Gamesa’s the components can be imported into deficit (2pc of GDP) could become a
centre for the UK’s thriving offshore nacelle, and blades, in a single day. The decline here for forty years. We were development chief, hosts a constant bonded-warehouses without duties. big surplus. The other beauty of
wind industry. Hull across the team switches it on the next day,” said treated as an also-ran. Now we’re parade of visitors from Asia and The Treasury had assumed that offshore wind is that it picks up the
Humber hosts a Siemens Gamesa Matthew Wright, Ørsted’s UK getting unemployment down to record around the world. They no longer go tenders would come down to £100 per baton from North Sea oil and gas as
blade factory for wind turbines, the managing-director. lows,” he said. Hull has been on a roll to Bremerhaven first. “All our projects megawatt/hour (MWh) by 2020. In fossil reserves are depleted. Both rely
biggest manufacturing plant built in Hornsea 1 began in April and will be since it became a City of Culture in are on time, and on budget. It’s hard to fact the bids fell to £57.50 in the 2017 on the same support ships, rig skills,
Britain this century. The company is finished later this autumn with 174 2017. Japanese and Korean tourists can find an angle that is not positive even if round. “Offshore wind has outper- and local knowledge.
currently adding a second production turbines providing 1.2 gigawatts (GW), be seen with guidebooks, seeking out you try,” he said. formed every forecast ever made Decarbonising Britain’s energy
line to meet demand. comparable to a large nuclear reactor Papa’s famous fish & chips (as did I). Critics cite the threat to marine about the cost curve,” said Mr Wright. looked at first like an exorbitant cost.
“Green energy is going to be huge. but built in a fraction of the time. Siemens arrived in 2011 and habitats. Others point the finger at The next round (held up by a legal The venture is instead turning into an
There will be jobs for 20 years or Hornsea 2, 3, and 4, are lined up for recruited its first 800 staff, from Ørsted’s Hornsea 1 for the electricity challenge) should be closer to £50. economic and social bonanza faster
more,” said Mr Jackson. the early 2020s. Together they could 28,000 applicants. The plant makes a blackout in August but that may have This implies a profit for taxpayers. than almost anybody ever imagined.
The Danish group Ørsted has based potentially produce 6.2GW. gigawatt of rotor blades each year been a failure by the National Grid. We Such cheap power opens up the The most deprived towns in Britain
its gleaming new hub beneath the Tim Rix heads a 150-year family made of fibreglass and balsa wood will have to await the Ofgem verdict. prospect of direct cables to chemical have been given another chance.
Dock Tower. The company employs shipping business in Hull. He has from Ecuador. These are hi-tech Brexit is not a game-changer. The plants on the Humber, or at Teesside, What’s not to like?

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1849.9 Finsbury Gwth ● 934 932 1.7 34.3 MS Intl 205 2.8 4.0
222.2 De La Rue 214 0.7 11.7
Construction Mkt Cap Mkt Cap
105.4 Hend Alt Strat 272½ 338 1.8 (£m) Stock Price (p) NAV Yld (£m) Stock Price (p) Cvr Yld 250.0 Numis 237½ 2.1 5.1
Healthcare 6868.5 DCC 6984 2.0 2.0
177.3 Hend Div Inc Tst 93½ 90 4.7 405.9 Ruffer Inv Pref 224½ 231 0.8 670.2 Premier Oil ● 80¾ — 10.6 Prime People 87½ 2.6 5.9
31.3 Alumasc 86½ 1.6 8.5 1057.6 Essentra ● 402 0.4 5.1
3447.5 ConvaTec Grp ● 174⅜ 2.0 2.6 221.2 Hend High Inc 172 179 5.7 340.6 Schroder Asian TR 359 356 1.7 97273.3 Royal D Shell A 2275½ 1.5 6.8 503.5 Restore 405 2.0 1.6
1487.1 Balfour Beatty ● 215⅝ 3.7 2.5 22941.3 Experian 2518 1.7 1.5
5223.4 NMC Health 2502 5.4 0.7 299.2 Hend Intl Inc 159½* 162 3.5 599.0 Scot American 412* 393 2.8 84615.5 Royal D Shell B 2265 1.5 6.8 43.8 Share 30½ 1.8
6437.4 Barratt Dev 632⅜ 2.4 4.3 13844.7 Ferguson 6044 2.8 2.5
2502.2 Mediclinic Int ● 339⅜ -2.6 2.3 602.5 Hend Smaller Co 806½* 895 2.9 605.0 Scot Invest ● 814 896 2.6 249.6 Soco Intl 62¾ 1.3 8.8 64.2 SRT Marine Sys 41½ —
3573.1 Bellway ● 2901 2.9 5.0 2698.2 G4S ● 173⅞ 0.5 5.6
17184.6 Smith & Nep 1965 2.1 1.5 69.5 Hend Opp 880* 1101 2.4 7720.9 Scot Mortgage 520 525 0.6 2568.7 Wood Grp (John) ● 376⅞ -0.0 7.6 100.1 StatPro 152 -0.3 1.9
4923.1 Berkeley Grp 3917 17.7 0.7 3841.2 Homeserve ● 1148 1.5 1.9
896.2 Herald Inv ● 1312 1545 — 196.1 Sec Tst of Scot 188 200 3.3 20.2 Sterling Energy 9⅛ —
328.2 Boot H 246½ 3.0 3.9 8760.4 Intertek Group 5428 1.7 1.9
871.6 HgCapital ● 216½ 215 2.1 86.8 Seneca Global 176½ 174 3.8 131.5 Tribal Gp 66 1.9 1.7
161.4 Costain 149⅝ 2.2 9.2 Household goods Pharmaceuticals 3727.2 IWG ● 417¼ 1.8 1.6
3034.2 HICL Infrastructure ●169⅜ 155 4.9 1349.3 Smithson Inv Tst ● 1256 1219 — 36.6 Union Jack Oil 0¼ —
892.0 Crest Nicholson ● 347¼ 1.7 9.5 612.3 Johnson Serv 165⅝ 2.4 1.9
8904.1 Burberry 2164 1.9 2.0 71.5 Highbridge MultiStrt 211 217 — 1355.1 TR Property ● 427 428 3.2 96003.1 AstraZeneca 7318 0.6 3.0 60.3 Walker Green 85 2.2 3.8
21815.4 CRH 2737 4.2 2.4 335.4 Menzies J 398 -0.3 5.2
101.1 McBride 55¼ 0.4 7.8 597.3 ICG Enterprise Tst 866* 1056 2.5 1912.3 Tmpletn Em Mt ● 775 851 2.1 3079.6 Dechra Pharma ● 3000 1.3 0.9 5.3 Xtract Resources 1¼ —
1789.2 Grafton Gp ● 752½ 3.4 2.5 536.5 MITIE Gp 146⅝ 2.1 2.7
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542.1 Morgan Sindall 1192 2.7 4.6 8325.7 Rentokil 450¼ -1.1 1.0
45372.7 Reckitt Benck 6399 1.8 2.7 126.2 Invesco Enhcd Inc 74¼ 74 6.7 396.5 Tritax Euro Box £ 93¾* 5.1 85381.9 GlaxoSmKline 1711⅝ 0.9 4.7 220.3 Young & Co - N/V 1150 2.7 1.8
55.9 NMCN 537½ 2.3 3.9 365.3 Ricardo Gp 684 2.3 3.0
324.2 Superdry 395⅜ -10.5 2.9 156.3 Invesco Inc Gth Tr 267 317 4.3 239.6 Troy Inc & Gr 81¾ 82 3.3 4886.8 Hikma ● 2017 2.9 1.6 The Alternative Investment Market is for young and
6060.0 Persimmon 1902½ 1.2 12.4 385.7 Robt Walters 508 3.3 3.0 growing companies. Shares may carry higher risks than
7.8 InvesPerp Bal Rk 139 144 — 208.3 UIL Ord 236 381 3.2 440.8 Indivior 60⅜ — those with a full quotation, and may be difficult to sell.
1944.1 Redrow ● 552 2.4 5.5 746.0 SIG ● 126⅛ 0.8 3.0
55.6 InvesPerp Sel UK E 170½ 171 3.9 58.7 UIL Fin ZDP 20 150½ 143 — 8.8 Premier Vet 57½ —
4786.9 Taylor Wimpey 146 2.6 5.2
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30.4 BSD Crown 23½ — 332.1 JPM Asian 353 389 4.4 531.4 Utilico Emerg 233 266 3.1 1667.4 Assura ● 69¼ 3.9 Telecommunications 3320.6 Alcoa $ 17⅞ — —
115.2 Dialight 354 — 54.6 CML Micro 320 2.0 2.4 23.6 JPM Brazil Inv 70¼* 85 1.1 1847.2 Witan ● 211½* 218 2.4 1787.5 Big Yellow Gp ● 1070 3.1 99826.3 Amer Express $ 120⅜ 1.3 5.2
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86.8 JPM ElecManInc 100½* 102 4.6 1743.5 Capital&Count ● 204¾ -4.5 0.7 223937.4 Chevron $ 118 4.0 1.6
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6246.7 Admiral 2147 1.2 5.2 577.3 JPM Eur Sm Cos 362 417 1.9 (£m) Stock Price Cvr Yld 1494.8 Grainger ● 244¼ 3.6 2.1 50402.1 DuPontDeNemrs $ 67⅝ 1.8 2.9
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29879.5 Nat Grid 858½ 0.9 5.5 3016.1 Beazley ● 569½ 0.8 2.1 153.5 JPM Eur Inc 152½ 170 4.3 177.0 Bloomsbury 235 1.6 3.4 1739.5 Hammerson ● 227* 11.4 66061.6 Brit Am Tob 2880 1.3 7.0 20220.0 Fiat Chrysler $ 13 5.6 1.0
11754.6 SSE 1151 1.4 8.5 3892.6 DirectLineIns 283⅛ 1.6 7.5 456.9 JPM Gbl Gth & Inc 342 331 3.8 1703.8 Daily Mail ‘A’ 810 8.3 2.9 397.0 Hansteen Hldgs 92⅞ 6.2 20254.6 Imp Brands 2124½ 0.7 9.1 4021.7 Foot Locker $ 36⅝ 4.1 3.2
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Wagamama’s new owners face the heat over £550m deal

Share price performance has been Group, GCP, Oxford Biomedia, Secure
louis strong, but the Frankie and Benny’s Inc Reit Economic week ahead
ashworthh owner needs to prove widening its
the week ahead scope has not caused it to lose focus, Full-year- results Sajid Javid, the will give
and the departure of boss Andy McCue Barratt, Dunelm Group, Frontier Chancellor, gives evidence to the
earlier this year hasn’t backfired. Develop his first Treasury Select
“When Restaurant Group paid spending round Committee on
£550m for Wagamama over a year ago, Economics on Wednesday. the Bank’s latest
Analysts who questioned there were many who questioned the Services PMI and composite PMI (UK He faces a economic
The Restaurant Group’s wisdom of a move, in a sector that has and eurozone), Mortgages and trade tricky balancing forecasts and the
seen several high profile names close balance (US) act in setting out UK’s relationship
deal for the noodle chain in the past few months,” said CMC departmental with the EU.
will scrutinise its figures Markets’ Michael Hewson. Thursday budgets for the On Thursday
next financial the Office for
Today Trading statement Interims year, with National
Severfield, DS Smith Interims Gamma Melrose, Mpac pressures and Statistics will
With extra US/China tariffs now in Communications, Highland Gold, promises to publish new data
place, sentiment on Wall Street may be Impact Healthcare, India Capital Trading statement increase on GDP in each
muted – but US markets will be closed Growth Fund, IQE, Restaurant Group, Dixons Carphone spending, set of the UK’s
for Labor Day, so it won’t be until STV against other nations and

JULIAN SIMMONDS
Tuesday that the impact will be Full-year results promises to stick regions.
known. Full-year results Alumasc, Genus, Go-Ahead Group, to borrowing Based on VAT
Craneware McBride, Redrow, Mid Wynd targets. returns from
Full-year results Investment Trust, HSS, SIG The public thousands of
Dechra Pharma Economics finances have firms, these
Construction PMI (UK), BRC sales The Restaurant Group, the new owners of Wagamama will release a trading statement Economics deteriorated in figures will give
Interims (UK), ISM manufacture and prices New car registrations (UK) recent months, a picture of
Old Mutual paid (US) has afflicted rival Persimmon. is likely to suffer from any slowdown limiting his growth in each
“Given the industry has been of the last few months. Friday room for area six months
Economics repeatedly rocked by quality Home furnishing chain Dunelm manoeuvre, after the end of
Manufacturing PMI (UK and eurozone) Wednesday scandals, we’ll want some has bucked the trend on the high Interims while pledges to each quarter -
reassurance that street this year, raising forecasts for International Public Partnerships cut taxes will twice as fast as
Tomorrow Barratt Developments has revealed it this continues to be the case,” the year. Preliminary results on make this harder the numbers are
is on course for record profits after said Hargreaves Lansdown’s Thursday will provide a sense of Full-year results still. calculated in the
Investors will scrutinise a trading choosing to focus hard on Laith Khalaf. whether that ambition is likely to Ashmore, Pacific Horizon On the same traditional way,
statement from Restaurant Group for improvements to its margins. A Brexit malaise is hanging be met. Economics Halifax house prices day Mark largely through
signs that its decision to swallow The company has also avoided across the whole UK housebuilding (UK) GDP (eurozone), Non-farm Carney, the more time-
noodle chain Wagamama was the right the slowdown in completion rates sector, however, and Barratt is no Trading statement payrolls and unemployment Governor of the consuming
one. and customer satisfaction fall that safer than its peers: underlying profit Halfords Interims Ferroglobe, Just rate (US) Bank of England, surveys.

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World market indices  Friday close
Discretionary Unit Fund Multi-Mgr Mangd A Acc† 5.00 *288.5000 +1.80 JPM Global Uncons Eq A Inc 3.00 115.6000 +1.5000 Jupiter Euro Inc Acc – 79.35 +0.74 M&G Global Macro Bd A Inc 3.00 *92.05 -0.04
Index Change
No 1, Poultry, London EC2R 8JR. 020 7415 4130 Multi-Mgr Mangd A Inc† 5.00 *280.5000 +1.70 JPM Japan A Acc 3.00 501.6000 +6.1000 Jupiter Euro Inc Inc – 51.30 +0.47 M&G Global Macro Bd A Acc 3.00 *146.15 -0.06
Ç Australia All Ordinaries 6698.20 +92.50 +1.40pc
Ç Brazil Bovespa 101134.61 +610.18 +0.61pc Maitland Discretionary Inc 3.00 2360.85 2507.37 +5.35 Sterling Bond Acc† 4.25 *240.6000 +0.10 JPM Japan A Inc 3.00 120.7000 +1.5000 Jupiter Euro Special Sits – *429.02 +3.90 M&G Global Themes A Inc 4.00 1011.6 +7.85
È China Shanghai Composite 2886.24 -4.68 -0.16pc Sterling Bond Inc† 4.25 *68.9300 +0.02 JPM Multi-Asset Income A Acc 3.00 *98.9300 +0.3300 Jupiter Fin Opp – 755.44 +7.01 M&G Global Themes A Acc 4.00 1601.72 +12.42
Ç France CAC General 5480.48 +30.51 +0.56pc
AXA Investment Managers UK Strategic Bond A Inc 4.00 *129.9000 -0.20 JPM Multi-Asset Income A Inc 3.00 *64.3100 +0.2100 Jupiter Fund Of Inv Trusts – 257.66 +1.56 M&G Managed Growth A Inc 4.00 108.15 +1.34
Ç Germany DAX 11939.28 +100.40 +0.85pc
Limited +0.10 +0.2200 +0.96 +0.11
Ç Hong Kong Hang Seng 25724.73 +21.23 +0.08pc UK Absolute Return A Acc 5.00 155.8000 JPM Multi-Asset Inc A Mth Inc 3.00 *64.2900 Jupiter Global Emg Acc – 64.74 M&G Optimal Income A Inc 3.00 147.06
7 Newgate Street, London, EC1A 7NX
Ç India S&P CNX500 8977.55 +71.45 +0.80pc UK Alpha A Acc† 5.25 139.6000 +1.20 JPM Multi-Man Gwth A Acc 3.00 1082.0000 +7.0000 Jupiter Global Eq Inc Acc – 78.08 +0.83 M&G Optimal Income A Acc 3.00 214.76 +0.16
www.axaframlington.com Cust Svs: 0845 777 5511
Ç Japan Nikkei 20704.37 +243.44 +1.19pc
UK & Irish Small Co A Acc 5.00 578.4000 +3.30 JPM Multi-Man Gwth A Inc 3.00 982.8000 +6.7000 Jupiter Global Eq Inc Inc – 66.40 +0.71 M&G Property Portfolio A Inc – 110.45 110.45 +0.01
Ç Russia RTS 1293.32 +8.38 +0.65pc Fidelity International
Ç Singapore Straits Times 3106.52 +24.69 +0.80pc Amer Gwth Acc – 776.9 +4.5 UK Equity Income A Inc 5.00 *532.2000 -1.70 JPM Natural Res A Acc 3.00 623.4000 +4.4000 Jupiter Global Managed Acc – 288.70 +3.32 M&G Recovery A Inc 4.00 125.01 +2.29
130 Tonbridge Road, Tonbridge, Kent TN11 9DZ
Ç Spain Madrid SE 881.64 +1.47 +0.17pc Biotech Acc – 176.4 -0.2 UK Index A Acc – 638.0000 +3.90 JPM Natural Res A Inc 3.00 43.0600 +0.3100 Jupiter Global Managed Inc – 275.73 +3.17 M&G Recovery A Acc 4.00 305.51 +5.6
Call free: Private Clients 0800 414161
Ç Switzerland SMI Index 9895.65 +57.17 +0.58pc Broker Dealings 0800 414181
Emerg Mkts Acc – 284.6 +5 UK Tracker A Acc – 288.9000 +1.60 JPM Sterling Corp Bd A Grs Acc 3.00 *100.9000 … Jupiter Growth & Inc – 90.16 +0.45 M&G Strategic Corp Bd A Inc 3.00 76.5 -0.01
Ç USA Dow Jones 26403.28 +41.03 +0.16pc
È USA Nasdaq 7962.88 -10.51 -0.13pc European Acc – 952.5 +6.7 Unit Trust US Growth A Acc 5.00 1369.0000 +6.00 JPM Sterling Corp Bd A Grs Inc 3.00 *58.8900 … Jupiter Income – *509.80 +2.09 M&G Strategic Corp Bd A Acc 3.00 123.99 -0.01

FinTech R Acc – 810.9 +5 †Available as an ISA JPM UK Dynamic A Acc 3.00 *192.6000 +2.6000 Jupiter India Fd – *108.10 +1.45 M&G UK Inc Distribution A Inc 4.00 748.12 +2.31

Commodities summary Friday close Global Tech – 144.6 +1.3 Open World A Acc 3.00 190.2 … JPM UK Dynamic A Inc 3.00 *145.9000 +2.0000 Jupiter Int Financials – 114.21 +1.24 M&G UK Inc Distribution A Acc 4.00 7302.68 +22.53

Price Change Global Thematics R GBP Acc – 1701 +13 JPM UK Equity Core E Acc – *368.0000 +2.3000 Jupiter Japan Inc Fd Acc – *124.44 +2.12 M&G UK Infl Lkd Corp A Inc 3.00 115.9 -0.01
Investment Funds (OEIC)
È Gold per troy oz $1523.61 -3.72 -0.24pc Health Acc – 2140 +6 JPM UK Equity Core E Inc – *60.5100 +0.3900 Jupiter Japan Inc Fd Inc – *94.00 +1.60 M&G UK Infl Lkd Corp A Acc 3.00 121.1 -0.02
Ç Silver per oz £15.05 +0.11 +0.72pc
Japan R GBP Acc – 585.2 +11.3 Cash Fd Y – 100.06 … JPM UK Equity Gwth A Acc 3.00 146.7000 +0.5000 Jupiter Merlin Bal Prtfo Acc – 202.58 +0.16 N.A.A.C.I.F. Inc – 85.69 +0.48
È Krugerrand £1240.82 -0.24 -0.02pc
È New Sovereign £289.84 -0.23 -0.08pc Managed Balanced Acc – 434.5 +2.2 Cash Fd Y Accum.Units – 101.20 … JPM UK Equity Gwth A Inc 3.00 128.7000 +0.5000 Jupiter Merlin Bal Prtfo Inc – 137.14 +0.12 N.A.A.C.I.F. Acc – 8948.03 +50.19
È Maples £1243.70 -0.24 -0.02pc Managed Income Acc – 174.3 -0.3 J.P. Morgan Asset Management JPM UK Higher Inc A Acc 3.00 *1023.0000 +6.0000 Jupiter Merlin Conserv Prtfo Acc– 63.01 +0.05 †CAR - Net Income reinvested.
Income Funds
Ç Platinum per oz £757.05 +16.13 +2.18pc 60 Victoria Embankment, London, EC4Y 0JP
Managed Income Inc – 109.5 -0.2 JPM UK Higher Inc A Inc 3.00 *492.2000 +2.5000 Jupiter Merlin Conserv Prtfo Inc– 52.58 +0.04
Ç Palladium per oz £1255.74 +48.34 +4.00pc Clients:0800 204020.Brokerline 0800 727770
È Copper grade A £4640.78 -35.15 -0.75pc Monthly Inc Inc – 238.0 -0.4 Enhanced Inc Fd 3.50 98.54 … JPM UK Sm Cos A Acc 3.00 474.6000 +2.8000 Jupiter Merlin Grth Prtfo Acc – 462.11 +3.97
Ç Tin high grade £13346.74 +404.27 +3.12pc Monthly Inc Acc – 609.8 -1.1 Extra Income Fd 3.50 28.39 … JPM America Eq A Acc 3.00 *113.5704 +1.8000 JPM UK Sm Cos A Inc 3.00 89.3900 +0.5300 Jupiter Merlin Grth Prtfo Inc – 449.11 +3.86
È Lead £1665.57 -17.48 -1.04pc
Pan Euro HY Bond Acc – *167.0 +0.30 Moneybuilder Bal – 48.57 … JPM America Eq A Inc 3.00 *113.5649 +1.8000 JPM UK Strat Eq Inc A Acc 3.00 *175.3000 +0.5000 Jupiter Merlin Inc Prtfo Acc – *320.99 +0.96
È Zinc special high grade £1822.81 -25.35 -1.37pc
Ç Aluminium high grade £1442.65 +5.41 +0.38pc Pan Euro HY Bond Inc – *105.2 +0.20 Moneybuilder Inc – 38.21 … JPM Asia Growth A Acc 3.00 228.4000 +3.6000 JPM UK Strat Eq Inc A Inc 3.00 *97.4300 +0.3000 Jupiter Merlin Inc Prtfo Inc – *139.13 +0.42 Merian Global Investors
Ç Nickel £14701.54 +1255.12 +9.33pc UK Growth Acc – 331.5 +2.1 JPM Asia Growth A Inc 3.00 125.6000 +2.0000 JPM Uncons Bond A Acc 3.00 *73.0700 -0.0100 Jupiter Merlin WW Prtfo Acc – 334.51 +3.08 (formerly Old Mutual Global Investors)
Growth & Income Funds
Ç Baltic Dry Index* 2378.00 +101.00 +4.44pc For further information visit merian.com or contact
UK Select Opps R Inc – 1973 +10 JPM Div Gth A Net ACC 3.00 275.7000 +1.0000 JPM Uncons Bond A Inc 3.00 *55.2900 -0.0100 Jupiter Merlin WW Prtfo Inc – 334.49 +3.07
È Wheat per tonne £131.50 -0.35 -0.27pc your financial adviser.
UK Select Opps R Acc – 3662 +17 Moneybldr Div 3.50 240.8 … JPM Emg Euro Eq A Acc 3.00 233.4000 +3.4000 JPM US Eq Inc £ Hdg A Inc 3.00 *121.8000 +1.1000 Jupiter Monthly Alt Inc Acc – 123.85 +0.30
È Brent Crude Oct settlement $60.43 -0.65 -1.06pc
*Copyright Baltic Exchange Information Services Ltd. UK Smllr Cos Acc – 291.1 +0.8 JPM Emg Euro Eq A Inc 3.00 49.6800 +0.7300 JPM US Eq Inc A Acc 3.00 *212.4000 +2.4000 Jupiter Monthly Alt Inc – 31.07 +0.08 Merian Corporate Bond Fund – 140.3 …
Growth Funds
Jupiter N.American Inc Acc – *180.90 +1.97 Merian Eur (ExUK) Small Co – 16.4347 +0.106
AXA IM Funds www.axa-im.co.uk
Exchange rates Friday close American 3.50 4656 … Jupiter N.American Inc Inc – *145.78 +1.58 Merian Global Emerging Mrkts - 14.7941 +0.227

£ > € Rate 1.1059 Change +0.31¢ £ > $ Rate 1.2179 Change -0.25¢ Amer Sp Sits 3.50 1727 … Jupiter Responsible Inc Fd Acc – 112.50 +0.61 Merian Global Equity – 279.2 +3.30
Tourist £1= Sterling £1= 1 Euro = 1 Dollar = European 3.50 2582 … Jupiter Responsible Inc Fd Inc – 68.55 +0.37 Merian Gold & Silver – 16.1907 -0.458
Australia Aus $ 1.7186 1.8075 1.6345 1.4842
European Opps 3.50 515.5 … Jupiter Strategic Bond Acc – *105.98 -0.07 Merian North American Equity – 322.3 +4.30
Canada Can $ 1.5426 1.6183 1.4633 1.3288
Denmark Krone 7.8211 8.2455 7.4561 6.7706 Global Special Sits 3.50 4305 … Jupiter Strategic Bond Inc – *66.85 -0.05 Merian Strat Abs Return Bond – 10.1298 -0.001
Euro € 1.0525 1.1059 … 0.9081 BNY Mellon Fund Managers Japan 3.50 400.6 … Jupiter UK Growth – *281.19 +2.02 Merian UK Alpha - 163.6 +1.10
Hong Kong HK $ 9.0597 9.5422 8.6287 7.8354 Investors: 0800 614330 Brokers: 08085 660000 Japan Smaller Cos 3.50 302.0 … Jupiter UK Smaller Cos – *353.41 +1.10 Merian UK Equity Income – 159.9 +1.00
India Rupee 76.8300 86.9636 78.6375 71.4075 www.bnymellonim.co.uk,
Israel Shekels 3.8780 4.2999 3.8883 3.5307 clientservices@bnymellon.com Global Focus 3.50 2354 … Jupiter UK Special Sits Inc – 183.51 +0.81 Merian UK Mid Cap – 285.3 +3.30
Japan Yen 123.2700 129.2687 116.8922 106.1450 Index UK A Acc – 110.2800 … Jupiter US Sm&Md Inst I Acc – 80.99 … Merian UK Smaller Company – 260.9 +1.60
Kuwait Dinar … 0.3702 0.3348 0.3040 BNY Mellon Investment Funds (ICVC)
Opps A Dis – 100.8 … Jupiter US Sm&Md Cap Ret Acc – 74.46 …
New Zealand NZ $ 1.8000 1.9309 1.7461 1.5855 Sterling Income Shares Natwest Investment Funds
Norway Krone 10.5800 11.0900 10.0282 9.1062 Special Sits 3.50 3857 …
Marks & Spencer Unit Trust (RBS Collective Investment Funds Ltd)
Pakistan Rupee 179.6300 190.4718 172.2355 156.4000 +0.05
Insight Corporate Bd 0% 97.18 South East Asia 3.50 1420 … Management Ltd PO Box 249, York YO90 1ZY
Saudi Arabia Riyal 4.2670 4.5678 4.1304 3.7507 0117 940 3848
Insight Eq Inc Fund 0% 159.48 +0.95 UK Select Acc 3.50 321.8 … Kings Meadow, Chester, CH99 9UT
Singapore $ 1.5766 1.6894 1.5276 1.3872
0870 333 1835
South Africa Rand 17.4900 18.4916 16.7211 15.1837 Insight Eq Inc Booster 0% 108.28 +0.72 †CAR - Net income reinvested Global Bond Fund Inc – 103.9 …
Sweden Krona 11.3800 11.9432 10.7997 9.8068 Insight Glob Abs Ret Inc 0% 114.83 +0.28 High Income Inc – *113 113 … Mangd Eqty Grwth Fnd Acc – 102.2 …
Switzerland Franc 1.1457 1.2050 1.0897 0.9895
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Business

Reinventing
the minibus
as the Uber
of the future
Tech start-up entrepreneur Daniel Ramot
tells Olivia Rudgard why Via can succeed

B
where other ride-hailing apps have not
efore Daniel Ramot
started Via, he and his
co-founder wanted to
fix your overflowing
inbox. “You know
how you get way too
many emails? We
were going to make a
filter that randomly
deleted 50pc of your incoming email.”
What if someone important got in
touch? “I figure if something is really
important they’ll email you again.”
Laughing, he says: “We were mostly
joking about that one. We didn’t really
think we were going to make money.
We thought we might find it useful
because we were getting so many
emails.”
recently, has been insulated from
technology”.
In particular, inspired by the Israeli
sherut, Via wants to revive the
minibus. Ramot believes the US and
western Europe have a lot to learn
from these informal buses which
appear all over the world in slightly
different guises. They’re known as
matatus in Kenya and Uganda,
colectivos in Mexico and marshrutkas
in Russia. “They’re very efficient and
actually successful at moving lots of
people in inexpensive ways,” he says.
Despite this, they are almost non-
existent as public transport in the US
and UK.
British readers might blanch at the
idea of being crammed into a minibus
DAN CALLISTER

He and Oren Shoval had served
together in the Israeli air force in the
Nineties and early 2000 but were
ambitious wannabe tech
entrepreneurs. The pair explored all
kinds of projects looking for a tough
problem they could get their teeth into.
Ramot has a PhD in neuroscience, and
Shoval has one in biology, so they
considered a medical device start-up.
Eventually they settled on buses.
Via, founded in 2012, is a shared
minibus and taxi company, with an
algorithm designed to make sure
passengers can be picked up and
dropped off in convenient places. Its
app means no hard cash changes hands
and the driver knows where everyone
needs to go. Customers could see it as
Uber with a bigger vehicle and some
‘They’re very efficient and
actually successful at
moving lots of people in
inexpensive ways’
strangers added in.
Buses have a low-tech reputation.
They’re widely regarded as dirty,
unsafe, slow, unreliable and to most
people, a last resort. Ramot, 43, and
now based in New York, wants to
change that. His company has raised
$387m (£318m) since it was founded.
Ramot is chief executive, and Shoval,
chief technology officer.
“We were looking to do something
that we thought was a really
interesting math, computer science
problem, that would be hard to solve,
and one that if we were able to get it
right, it would allow us to build
something big and have a really
positive effect on society,” he says.
Transport, with the exception of cars,
is “such a massive space that, until
with some perfect strangers. But to
Ramot, it makes perfect sense. “We
have the extremes, the private car, we
have the large bus. But actually, the
rest of the world is teaching us that
these intermediate modes can be super
valuable and efficient.”
But is the transport app sector really
a desirable place to be? Uber lost
$5.2bn in the second quarter of the
year, an enormous deficit that was
mostly due to its flotation on the stock
market, but neither it nor major rival
Lyft has ever been profitable.
Via is also not alone in its mission to
reinvent the bus. Other companies
have tried and failed, including
Chariot, a minibus start-up which was
acquired by Ford in 2016 and shut
down earlier this year. Analysts have
highlighted low ridership numbers on
such routes to argue that it’s not a
viable business model.
Ramot thinks Via can avoid both of
these pitfalls. Like Uber and Lyft, Via
has a consumer “ride-hailing” taxi
business, but it also makes a decent
proportion of its income from more
than 80 partnerships with cities and
transport authorities. And unlike
Chariot, it has no fixed routes but
changes where the bus goes at
passengers’ convenience.
In these deals, Via lets the bus
operator use its software, but in all
other respects the bus is integrated
into the local public transport system,
keeping overheads low while
guaranteeing income for the company,
and letting local experts decide where
the buses are most needed. One such
programme is in Liverpool, where its
technology is behind an Arriva app
running minibuses in the city.
In the UK, it operates ViaVan, a joint
venture with Mercedes-Benz, which
provides the physical buses, while
customers book rides on an app. One
Daniel Ramot, who
previously
such service operates in Sutton, in the
suburbs of London, a contract awarded
developed avionic by Transport for London. It’s currently
systems for the
Israeli air force,
co-founded Via to
help solve the
a one-year pilot and passengers can’t
use Oyster cards yet, but Ramot sees
these services as becoming entirely
absorbed into the city’s public
world’s transport transport system.
issues Ramot says Via’s selling point is
really this partnership side, which
wasn’t originally its core business, but
is “growing extremely quickly and is
very profitable”. The company has
plans to go public. “I think we have the
opportunity to grow very significantly,
and our plan would be to translate that
into an IPO in two or three years, that
would be our target,” he says.
These partnerships also mean they
enter a market with the full blessing of
the authorities, something Uber did
not do in its early days, when
aggressive, rapid expansion led to it
being barred from many cities,
including London, where it faces
having to renew its temporary licence
later this month.
Ramot also believes his competitors
won’t be able to keep their prices low.
Uber and Lyft have been able to grow
so quickly because they are able to
operate at a loss due to the millions of
dollars in venture capital funding that
has been pouring in over the past
decade. “Ride-hailing services are
really taxi services. They’re not as
cheap as maybe we would like them to
be, because they cannot be subsidised
forever,” he says.
Taxi apps have also claimed that
self-driving cars are key to making it
profitable in the future. Ramot thinks it
might not be that simple, though his
company did launch a driverless
shuttle in Australia this summer. “If
you think about what a driver is doing,
it’s not just driving, they are washing
and cleaning the vehicles, they are
paying for the time they’re driving to
and from the job, they’re paying for
maintenance,” he says. “It’s not as
immediate and I don’t know that it
saves quite as much as people are
hoping it will save.”
Another problem for Uber has been
the hundreds of competitors that have
sprung up all over the world to try to
eat into their market share. Uber was
established as a luxury black car firm
and has since expanded to allow
price-conscious riders to cut their
costs by sharing.
Ramot says the technical problem
Via is trying to solve is much trickier
than summoning a cab immediately
when and where you need it and
having it take you where you need to
go. “It’s not something that we can just
send a query to Google Maps and tell it
‘Hey, can you tell me the fastest route
among these 10,000 or hundred
thousand possible routes,” he says.
In recent years Uber and Lyft have
rolled out their own shared services.
Customers who use these taxis will be
familiar with the sudden changes of
direction caused by another passenger
unexpectedly joining the journey,
pushing the arrival time back by 10
minutes and sending you back in the
direction you came from. Ramot claims
Via’s algorithms make it a more
efficient journey.
In particular, he says, they’re better
at identifying a “virtual bus stop”, the
Facts place where a passenger meets their
ride, that won’t send the bus too far out
of its way, and at planning a route most
2012
When the shared
likely to pass other people who want to
go the same way, limiting the chance
that you’ll be sent off in the wrong
direction in search of another
minibus taxi firm passenger. “[Uber] just wants to get
you there the fastest possible way. We
was founded
have to find that trade-off,” he says.
He might have fallen into running a
387m
The amount in
bus company almost by accident, but
he definitely sounds like a transport
nerd now. He talks up the potential of
his tech to take cars off the road and
dollars that Via reduce traffic. “I’m intrigued in how
has raised so far cities are designed and how that drives
how people end up getting around,” he
says, talking about how mandatory
2-3yrs
When Via is
parking spaces are often required to be
built with new housing and how cities
should instead create “parking
likely to go scarcity” to encourage walking or
taking public transport.
public Can he really challenge Silicon
Valley’s taxi giant? Via is still much
80
The number of
smaller but does appear to be eating
into Uber’s market share, albeit in a
limited way. In Manhattan, where its
giant rival has been hamstrung by laws
partnerships requiring drivers to receive a
with authorities minimum pay-rate, and can’t cut its
prices as aggressively as in other
places, Ramot says Via drivers carry
out 50pc of all shared rides.
Elsewhere, the public transport side
of its business puts it entirely out of the
way of its larger competitor. Unlike
Uber, which wants passengers to use
its app as a one-stop shop to get
wherever they want to go, Via’s tech
could end up as part of people’s daily
commute without them even realising.

The US has shot itself in the foot Every complaint deserves scrutiny
but a trade deal is still within reach but the customer isn’t always right
global trade increase in three years. By
starting this trade war, the US has shot
liu xiaoming
ng itself in the foot and given the already
comment sluggish world economy an even
harder time. And yet the constant
indecision on the US side has sent the
trade talks through a bewildering
series of twists and turns.
Huawei affiliates to the Entity List,
going back on its words that “US
companies can sell their equipment to
Huawei”. Such disrespect for
commitments and consensus
dampened confidence in consultation.
The second key is equality and
mutual respect, both of which have
Whether it’s poor workmanship,
sir john bad attitude or unhelpful service,
timpson shoppers could be doing you a big
ask john favour by highlighting causes for
concern. Unsolicited comments can
become your best form of market
research. But don’t put your colleague
on the naughty step before making
firm is now being run by a new boss or
that the old regime has hired a new
consultant. In my book, top
management should stick to strategy
and culture, leaving daily details to
people like you: the front line
operators who know your part of the
business inside out. Too many bosses

S
ome in the US will tell you that the
trade war they have declared on
China is “easy to win” because
“the tariffs are hurting the Chinese
and not Americans”. But is that really
the case? The statistics tell a different
story.
According to a report by the Federal
Reserve Bank of New York, the tariffs
on Chinese imports will cost the
average US household $831 (£683) a
year and incur a total cost of $3bn in
tax on companies and consumers
every month.
Moody’s Analytics predicts that if
the US were to follow through on the
outstanding tariff threats, American
businesses and consumers will have to
pay $100bn in the coming year.
According to World Bank research,
the biggest victims of a trade war will
be American farmers and blue-collar
workers.
Recently three major US stock
indices plunged, wiping off trillions of
dollars in market value. JP Morgan
Chase & Co says the probability of a US
recession in the coming 12 months had
risen to nearly 40pc.
Elsewhere in the world, growth is
faced with stronger headwinds as a
result of the trade war.
The International Monetary Fund
downgraded its outlook for world
A deal is, though, within reach if we
have the right keys.
The first is to always go into the
talks with good faith, the lack of which
is causing the current difficulty.
Last June, the presidents of China
and the US reached a three-point
agreement during their meeting at
Osaka, namely that the two sides will
‘The constant indecision on
the US side has sent the talks
through a bewildering
series of twists and turns’
restart the trade talks, the US will not
add new tariffs on Chinese imports,
and the negotiation teams will begin
discussions on specific issues.
As a follow-up to this agreement,
China bought agricultural products
from the US, including 2.27m tons of
soybeans from the end of June to the
end of July.
Instead of reciprocating, the US
accused China of not purchasing its
agricultural products at all and
recently announced a 10-25pc increase
of tariffs on $550bn of Chinese
imports.
This was increased by a further 5pc
following retaliation from China,
often been lacking from the US side.
This was seen in the recent US move to
label China a “currency manipulator”,
which goes against the facts, is in
breach of IMF rules and fails to satisfy
the quantitative criteria set by the US
itself. This is typical of the bullying
tactics used by the hegemonic power,
but such action will not only hurt
trade partners but may also backfire.
The third key is responsibility. Big
countries should have the audacity to
shoulder their due responsibilities. It
is natural that China and the US have
differences. The key is to take actions
to find solutions, not simply to blame
others for your own problems.
In the West, you say that “honesty is
the policy”. In China, we have a
teaching from Confucius that carries a
similar message: “He who has no
credibility cannot stand tall.”
China does not want to escalate a
trade war, but nor will it surrender on
major issues of principle. It is time for
the US to demonstrate its good faith
and sense of responsibility and work
with China to reach a mutually-
beneficial deal through consultation
and co-operation on the basis of
equality and mutual respect. This will
be good for the people of both
countries and help ensure the steady
growth of the world economy.
Straight-talking, common
sense from the front line
of management
Q To what extent is the customer
“always right”? I’ve had
shoppers accuse staff members of
wrongdoing, but I struggle to know
with whom to side. I want to show
confidence in my employees and
protect them, but I also don’t want
to alienate customers. What do I do?
A Customers aren’t always right, but
even if they don’t have a genuine
complaint, most genuinely believe that
they do. Some protest politely, while
others indignantly threaten to tell all
their friends and “never use your shop
again”. In my experience, the most
aggressive complainers are the least
likely to have a justified grievance.
Don’t jump to an early conclusion
– take your time and listen to both
sides. If a complaining client contacts
me via letter or email and adds their
phone number, I’ll sometimes ring
them up. The shock of finding
Timpson’s chairman on the phone
often leads to a friendly and frank
conversation that quickly indicates
how the problem can be resolved.
But I’m not an expert at handling
sure that they’re guilty as charged.
At Timpson, customer-facing
employees are trusted with the
freedom to do what they think is right.
We would be undermining their
authority if we backed every bit of
public criticism. It’s important to
listen to both shopper and colleague,
and discuss any problems with the
area management team, who are best
placed to know whether an
indiscretion is out of character.
No one likes criticism or tricky
problems, but every complaint
deserves a detailed investigation. Take
plenty of time and listen carefully
before you decide what to do. Give the
customer the benefit of any doubt, but
sympathetically stand by any
employee who believes that they have
done their best.
Q The company where I work
recently introduced a new
workplace management system. I
personally hate it and find that it
harms my productivity. Is there a
way for me to work in a different
way without disobeying orders
from above?
A I can understand why you’re so
perplexed and, although I believe
there’s a chance that your dictatorial
just can’t resist creating policies that
turn into a compulsory process that
tell experienced front line teams how
to do their job.
If you ignore the new regime, make
sure that you outperform the rest of
your team and keep your fingers
crossed that central management are
too busy to realise that you haven’t
adopted their systems. But there’s still
a chance that you’ll be caught out; too
many head office executives are sadly
more interested in monitoring their
processes than measuring the results.
With a bit of luck, head office will be
so occupied running new training
courses that they fail to notice you
have become a maverick. But don’t
hold your breath; command and
control companies concentrate on
discipline and don’t do delegation.
Even if you increase sales by 10pc and
double the net margin, they may still
insist that you do things their way.
Be true to yourself: keep managing
in the way you know best and hope
your boss moves to a new job before
you’re asked to toe the line. If that
doesn’t happen, it’s probably time to
work for a different business – one that
understands the value of trusting
people prepared to use their initiative.

Sir John Timpson is chairman of the

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in almost a decade. The World Trade American businesses out of the Liu Xiaoming is China’s ambassador to customer support team, who spend fail to follow their latest rules, you Send him an email at
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England captain denies trying
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dramatic derby draw Harry Kane
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under a
challenge from
Arsenal’s
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Pochettino suffers system failure

Matt Law
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dium
at the Emirates Stadium
Arsenal
Lacazette 45, Aubameyang 71
Tottenham Hotspur
Eriksen 10, Kane 40 pen
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This should have been the reboot
moment for the team manager
Mauricio Pochettino has labelled
Tottenham Hotspur version 6.0,
but, as so often has been the case at
the Emirates, the computer said
“no”.
Two goals up and with the Arse-
nal fans ready to lynch captain
Granit Xhaka, Spurs were motoring
towards a first league victory in
their rivals’ backyard since 2010
and only a second in 27 games.
But Alexandre Lacazette pulled
one back on the stroke of the break
and Tottenham suffered a system
failure, as Pierre-Emerick Au-
bameyang levelled the scores and
Arsenal finished disappointed not
to complete the turnaround.
Sokratis thought he had with
11 minutes remaining, but Sead
Kolasinac had been offside when
he received the ball on the left
before crossing for the Arsenal
defender.
Already billed as a “best of the
rest” encounter in the race to finish
behind Manchester City and Liver-
pool, this entertaining north Lon-
don derby only really confirmed
what we already knew. For all their
firepower, Arsenal remain capable
of defensive calamity, while Spurs
have not strengthened enough to
trouble the top two.
A draw at the Emirates is by no
means a bad result for Tottenham,
closing today, and, on this evi-
dence, Pochettino will lean heavily How another crazy north London derby unfolded
on him again.
Arsenal had started the brighter
and threatened through Nicolas
Pepe and Ainsley Maitland-Niles
2 before they were caught cold.
Kane beat Sokratis to a header
and Son Heung-min pulled David
2 Luiz out of position as he darted
across the Brazilian before passing
to Erik Lamela. Goalkeeper Bernd
Leno should have dealt with the
forward’s low shot, but he palmed
the ball tamely into the path of
Eriksen, who could not miss.
All of a sudden this was the Tot-
tenham team who had won Po-
chettino so many admirers. The
home defence could not cope with
the direct running of Son, who had
a curling shot well saved by Leno
and almost set up Kane with a
cross that was cut out by Matteo
Guendouzi.
Danny Rose had produced a bril-
liant headed block to stop Pepe’s
effort at the back post from an Au-
bameyang cross, but it was not a
surprise to see Tottenham double
their lead – even if Kane’s penalty
owed much to the stupidity of
Xhaka. There were plenty of bodies Arsenal 0 Tottenham 1, Eriksen 10 min
between Son and the goal as the
South Korean tried to find space for This was Christian Eriksen’s 50th Premier League goal, the first Danish player to
a shot and yet Xhaka took him out reach the landmark. The opener came from Bernd Leno’s save falling into Eriksen’s
with a late, wild challenge. path, his sixth error leading to a goal since the start of last season, the most of any
Kane made no mistake from the player in the Premier League. Arsenal have made 13 errors leading to goals in that
spot and the Emirates exploded period, the most of any club.
with anger towards Xhaka.
Had they made it to half-time, it
is hard to imagine Tottenham
would have given up their lead, but Arsenal 1 Tottenham 2,
they let the hosts back in and Arse- Lacazette 45
nal seized the momentum. Alexan-
dre Lacazette received Pepe’s pass, Tottenham have dropped 42
touched the ball past Jan Vertong- points from winning positions
hen and blasted it into the net. in the Premier League against
Lacazette’s goal transformed the Arsenal; 11 more than any
mood among the home players and against any other side. And
fans, and they came straight back the home side’s comeback
out on the front foot with Pepe began when Danny Rose
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following a home defeat by New-
castle United, and there was
encouragement to be taken for
Pochettino.
Yet this will still feel like a missed
opportunity to kick-start their sea-
son and there is little to disprove
the feeling that Spurs are still rely-
ing on the same set of star names to
show that, as a collective, they have
not already peaked.
For all the talk of this being the
latest incarnation of the Pochettino
era, there were nine players in-
volved yesterday who also drew at
Arsenal during the Argentine’s sec-
ond season in charge in 2015. Harry
Kane netted for Tottenham four
years ago and his 40th-minute pen-
alty that gave e this Spurs side a
two-goal lead was his 10th goal
in 12 north London
ndon derbies.
Christian Eriksen, another
veteran of Pochettino’s
chettino’s reign,
was brought back into the
team and responded
ponded with
an impressive ve perfor-
mance and his is 50th
Premier League
goal to open n the
scoring.
The Dane looks likely to
nham for an-
stay at Tottenham
other campaign, gn, with the
nsfer window
European transfer
Missed opportunity:
nity: Tottenham
manager Mauricio
cio Pochettino
forcing Hugo Lloris to save from his failed to clear on the stroke of
header. The Frenchman did even half-time, turning over
better to tip Guendouzi’s shot possession, the ball eventually
around a post, and from the corner, reaching Alexandre Lacazette,
Kolasinac poked Lacazette’s flick who skipped past Toby
agonisingly wide. Alderweireld’s challenge to
Arsenal looked certain to equal- finish in style.
ise and yet Kane almost buried
them with a brilliant move on the
break. He played a one-two with
Eriksen before beating Leno with a
shot only to see the ball bounce
back off a post. There was a blow
for the home side when Lacazette
Kane denies diving after going
was forced off with an injury in the
67th minute. But Henrikh Mkhi- into Sokratis but insisted after- the closure of the European trans-
taryan’s introduction allowed Spurs striker claimed a wards that it was a “50-50” decision fer window today – would draw a
Aubameyang to move into the mid- last-minute penalty for referee Martin Atkinson. line under a turbulent summer at
dle and he was in just the right posi- “The defender made a tired the club.
tion to divert Guendouzi’s pass tackle,” Kane said. “On halfway Pochettino has been complain-
into the net four minutes later. It was a 50-50 decision [line] I think I would get that foul. ing for much of the season about
Arse
Arsenal sensed a winner and for the referee, he adds The ref probably thinks I am look- the lack of unity in the Tottenham
t
they thought they had got it ing for it. It is 50-50, I could get it in squad as a result of the doubts over
whe Sokratis put the ball in
when some games. In the box you don’t the futures of players such as Chris-
th net, but Kolasinac was
the By Sam Dean always get them. He’s come through tian Eriksen, who is in the final year
o
offside. There was still time at the Emirates Stadium the back of me.” of his contract. The Dane, who
f some late controversy,
for The incident brought a contro- scored the opening goal at the
a Kane was accused of
as Harry Kane denied that he had versial end to a match which Kane Emirates, had hoped to leave this
d
diving under a challenge dived in an attempt to win a last- felt was ultimately disappointing summer but looks almost certain to
fro Sokratis and Pochet-
from minute penalty in Tottenham Hot- for Tottenham, who surrendered a stay after interest from Europe’s
tino punched the ground in spur’s breathless 2-2 draw with two-goal lead. biggest clubs failed to materialise.
frus
frustration when Moussa Sis- Arsenal. “We expect to see the game out,” “The team wasn’t settled and I
soko blazed the last chance of The England captain went to Kane said. “It is a shame we could told you from day one when we
the ggame over the bar. Had that ground in the final moments of the not kill it off. But it is the Premier started the pre-season in London
gone in, then there would be match after a challenge by Arsenal League and if you don’t kill teams and then we moved to Singapore
more optimism that Tottenham defender Sokratis in the penalty off they come back at you.” that I wasn’t happy,” said Pochet-
6.0 wi
will be a genuine upgrade on area. Mauricio Pochettino, the Totten- tino. “I was a little bit worried about
past re
releases. Kane appeared to throw himself ham manager, said the point – and the situation because we knew very
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as Arsenal roar back Player ratings

Arsenal
4-3-3
By Oli Stein at Emirates Stadium
Tottenham
4-2-2-2

6 Bernd Leno
Guilty in Tottenham’s
first goal for parrying
7 Hugo Lloris
Reliable when called
upon and made a
into Eriksen’s path, but number of decent
redeemed himself with saves in. Had a
some good saves, moment of madness in
particularly from Son. the second half.
Arsenal 0 Tottenham 2,
Kane 40 (pen)
6 A Maitland-Niles
Combined well with
Pepe and offered an
5 Davinson Sanchez 
Played out of position
and never looked
Granit Xhaka’s challenge on
Son Heung-min was described attacking threat on the comfortable against
as “disgraceful” by Graeme overlap, but it meant Pepe or Aubameyang.
Souness and “absolute he vacated his position, Poor clearance led to
madness” by Gary Neville on which Son exploited. an Arsenal goal.
Sky Sports. It was the fifth he
has conceded since his debut
in August 2016, the joint most 5 Sokratis 
Guilty of poor
positioning for
6 Toby Alderweireld
What would Tottenham
do without him? He
of any player in that time. He
escaped a booking but Harry Tottenham’s first and made the most
Kane stepped up to score his seemed vulnerable clearances of any
10th goal in the north London every time they player and was
derby from 12 games, the joint countered. generally assured.
most in the fixture with
Emmanuel Adebayor and
Bobby Smith. It was the 19th
5 David Luiz
Caught out of position
for Eriksen’s goal, like
5 Jan Vertonghen
Not the best return to
the team. Mostly dealt
penalty in the fixture, the
Sokratis, and with whatever Arsenal
most of any match-up in
susceptible to threw at him, but was
Premier League history.
Tottenham beaten by Lacazette for
counter-attacks. the first goal.

6 Sead Kolasinac
With Maitland-Niles
bombing on, maybe
5 Danny Rose 
Like Sanchez, he
struggled to deal with
Kolasinac should have Aubameyang and Pepe
stayed back a little and did not offer his
more. Let himself down typical attacking
defensively. threat.

6 Luca Torreira
Industrious in midfield
and tenacious in
8 Harry Winks 
Another excellent
performance. Calm in
winning back the ball, possession and
Arsenal 2 Tottenham 2, but overshadowed by disciplined positionally.
Aubameyang 71 Guendouzi. His pressing led to the
penalty.
Arsenal have lost only one of
their past 27 Premier League
home games against Spurs
while Mauricio Pochettino has
8 Matteo Guendouzi
Important in winning
back possession, tested
6 Moussa Sissoko
A competent defensive
display and he
won only three top-flight Lloris with a snapshot effectively regained
games away from home and capped an possession, but his
against the “Big Six” since he impressive display with performance lacked
took over in 2014. The match an assist. runs from deep.
went to form when Pierre-
Emerick Aubameyang scored
in his seventh league start at
home in succession. Thierry
5 Granit Xhaka 
Assured on the ball for
the most part, but he
6 Erik Lamela 
His shot led to
Tottenham’s opener,
Henry holds the record with needlessly lunged at but contributed little
nine in a row in 2000. Son in the box and beyond that. Rightly
gave away a penalty. taken off after
He was punished for it. an hour.

down at Sokratis ‘tired tackle’ 7 Nicolas Pepe

A promising display.
Forced a save and
assisted Lacazette’s
7 Christian Eriksen 
What a difference he
makes. Offered a
consistent counter-
goal in the first half, but attacking threat with
well what was going on. But now I that it’s only 24 hours. I hope tailed off after the smart passing and
am optimistic, happy. Table that everything will be clear for break. Encouraging. great awareness.
“I think the most important thing everyone.”
is to be all on the same page, with
the club – that the players have a
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Unai Emery defended Arsenal
captain Granit Xhaka after the mid- 7 A Lacazette 
Contributed to
build-up, dropped deep
7 Son Heung-min
Another threat. Spent
most of the game
clear idea of where we want to fielder conceded a first-half penalty
arrive and how we need to move.
Leicester 4 2 2 0 6 3 3 8
with a clumsy challenge on Totten- to facilitate Pepe and waiting for passes in
[We need] clear minds, like today
Crystal Palace 4 2 1 1 3 2 1 7
ham forward Son Heung-min. Aubameyang’s runs in behind, but made the
Christian and different players.
Arsenal 4 2 1 1 6 6 0 7
“In 90 minutes I am very proud behind and took his most of them. Won the
“Tomorrow, they are going to be
Everton 4 2 1 1 4 4 0 7
of his work,” said Emery. “Some goal superbly. penalty with tricky feet.
West Ham 4 2 1 1 6 7 -1 7
only focused 100 per cent on Tot- mistakes we can have and I want to
tenham, not thinking about differ-
ent things that make management
Man Utd
Tottenham
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use [them] to progress and improve.
There are more positive things col-
8 P-E Aubameyang
Arsenal’s biggest
threat. Neither Sanchez
7 Harry Kane
Not hugely involved,
but his penalty was
so difficult.” Chelsea 4 1 2 1 6 9 -3 5 lectively, individually and with nor Rose could cope unstoppable and he
Asked if he believed Eriksen was Burnley 4 1 1 2 5 6 -1 4 Xhaka. with his directness and was reliable when
now certain to stay at the club Southampton 4 1 1 2 4 6 -2 4 “The penalty is really one action speed. Ghosted into called upon. Inches
beyond today’s European dead- Newcastle 4 1 1 2 3 5 -2 4 that is very disappointing. He the box for equaliser. away from a second.
line, Pochettino added: “No, there AFC Bournemouth 4 1 1 2 5 8 -3 4 worked very well. He played very
are still hours – one day. I don’t Brighton 4 1 1 2 4 7 -3 4 well. If we won the match maybe Substitutions Substitutions
want to say it is impossible but it is Wolverhampton 4 0 3 1 4 5 -1 3 we would speak about the mistakes Dani Ceballos (for Torreira 63) Made an immediate Dele Alli (for Lamela 60) Understandable given this is
going to be difficult. I think noth- Aston Villa 4 1 0 3 4 6 -2 3 less. Really there were two mis- impact with his range of passing. Henrikh Mkhitaryan his first appearance after injury, but offered little once
(for Lacazette 67) Failed to impose himself. he came on. Giovani Lo Celso (for Son 79).
ing is impossible in football. I am Norwich 4 1 0 3 6 10 -4 3 takes in the first half and they
optimistic. The most important is Watford 4 0 1 3 2 8 -6 1 scored two goals.” Referee: Martin Atkinson
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All-action Guendouzi
shows spirit that puts
senior men to shame
Sam Dean
Midfield leader, just 20,
became unlikely hero
as many of his Arsenal
team-mates looked lost
A
s the players dropped
to the turf at the end
of an exhausting north
London derby, the
sense among the
home fans at the
Emirates would have been a
familiar one. They have seen this
all before here, watching in
anguish as their defence melted
under the slightest heat and then
roaring in joy as their attackers
made up for it at the other end.
This time around, though, there
were different characters in the
story. Alexandre Lacazette and
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang are
two of the usual protagonists, yes,
but they were joined by two others.
Nicolas Pepe’s involvement was
to be expected, given Arsenal’s
£72 million outlay on the winger
this summer, but the same cannot
be said for Matteo Guendouzi,
perhaps the least likely hero of the
day, but the hero all the same.
Unai Emery, the Arsenal head
coach who looked to have aged a
decade during the most fraught of
90 minutes, likes to speak about
“mentality”. He wants characters
on the pitch and strong
personalities on the ball. In
Guendouzi, he had a midfield
leader who drove Arsenal forward
when so many of his team-mates
looked lost.
Big hair, bigger heart. Guendouzi
ran, tackled, intercepted, passed
and ultimately created the key
moment for Arsenal, curling in a
delightful cross for Aubameyang’s
second-half equaliser. He was
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involved in Lacazette’s goal, too,
winning the ball high up the field to
start the move that reignited
Arsenal’s belief.
At 20, and in only his second
season in England, Guendouzi
showed a spirit that was missing
among more senior members of
the team, particularly in the first
half. Arsenal’s midfield was not
functioning and two of their more
experienced players, Granit Xhaka
and Sokratis, had damaging roles
to play as Tottenham Hotspur took
a two-goal lead.
Arsenal needed drive and
inspiration. They found it in the
usual suspects up front, but also in
Guendouzi, who arrived from
Lorient for just £7 million last
summer.
“He is very young, but he is
progressing,” Emery said. “Last
year was amazing for him. This
year he has started giving us one
step more. Tactically, with the ball,
he gives us a lot of control.”
‘Last year was
amazing for him.
This year he has
started giving us
one step more’
Emery insists that his side must
be able to adopt different shapes
and systems from week to week. In
many ways, it is a strength of the
modern Arsenal.
There are occasions, though,
when the players simply look
uncomfortable with what they
have been asked to do. Rarely has it
been more evident than in the first
45 minutes here, when Arsenal’s
midfield was stretched and
misshapen against a Tottenham
attack who could not believe the
space they had been given. Lucas
Torreira kept charging out to the
right wing. On the other flank,
Guendouzi drifted left.
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Driving force: Matteo Guendouzi
gave Arsenal control and belief
It all meant that Xhaka was left
manning the fort in the centre. As
anyone who has seen Arsenal in
recent years would attest, this is a
situation of considerable peril. He
soon charged in on Son Heung-
min, sliding into a tackle with all
the grace of a truck on an ice rink.
Harry Kane, inevitably, scored the
penalty.
Xhaka remains a strange and
infuriating player for Arsenal. He is
both an essential member of the
squad, the captain this season, and
a permanent liability in defensive
moments.
His foul on Son was almost as
brainless as the penalty he
conceded in a damaging draw at
home to Brighton last season. With
every year he becomes a more
senior part of the team, growing
into a genuine leader and taking
the armband, but still the same old
mistakes blight his game.
In these early exchanges,
Arsenal looked bewildered by the
movement and angles in the Spurs
midfield. Harry Winks was
dominant, all swerving hips and
delicate touches, while Son was
a permanent threat on the
counter-attack.
Arsenal reeled, on the verge of
a collapse similar to their
meltdown at Anfield last weekend,
but they steadied themselves
before Tottenham could swing
another fist. Crucial to that, as
ever, were Aubameyang and
Lacazette, who were aided by
Pepe, the latest addition to their
freewheeling clique.
The excitement around Pepe
manifested itself in a growling hum
that rolled around the Emirates
whenever he received the ball.
With Lacazette dropping in and
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Pepe and Aubameyang pushing on,
there were echoes of Liverpool’s
front three, where Sadio Mane,
Roberto Firmino and Mohamed
Salah incite so much fear in
opposition defences.
This was the first time that Pepe,
Aubameyang and Lacazette had Frenchman’s huge influence on the game
started a match together. To say
they had been unleashed would In possession With his
perhaps be an overstatement, Guendouzi’s touches attitude
given Tottenham’s control in the Guendouzi was Arsenal fans
first half, but there can be no everywhere for love Guendou-
questioning the role they each Arsenal and zi’s combative
played in the comeback. emerged as the attitude and he
There was Pepe, flicking a cross dominant force in refused to take
to Lacazette at the end of the first midfield, popping up a backwards
half. There was Lacazette, drifting all over the pitch as step
past Jan Vertonghen and crashing shown by his touch throughout,
his finish into the roof of the net. map. particularly in
There was Aubameyang, deep in this confronta-
the second half, darting in behind tion with Dele
and nudging the slightest of Alli.
finishes beyond Hugo Lloris. Direction of play
And there, behind, straining to
his limits and pushing his team
forward, was Guendouzi.
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groove to fire Everton
Everton
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By Richard Jolly
at Goodison Park
When Richarlison began his Ever-
ton career with two goals against
Wolves at Molineux, this was the
sort of explosive impact the club
must have expected to see more
often.
He had scored only twice on
Merseyside since December but, 13
months after that dramatic debut
and with the Brazil flag flying from
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an executive box packed with
friends and family, he matched that
tally in an eventful afternoon that
indicated Everton can assume
Wolves’ title as the best of the rest
in the Premier League.
Richarlison made a slow start to
the season, which manager Marco
Silva attributed to his summer com-
mitments at the Copa America, but
it was consigned to the past yester-
day. If few Brazil internationals are
booked for celebrating a League
Cup goal against Lincoln, the
£40 million winger was on Wednes-
day. His manager and mentor, Silva,
who had substituted Richarlison in
his previous two league games, felt
that strike was the morale boost
that kick-started his campaign.
“He needs good performances to
win more confidence,” Silva said.
“The way he celebrated the last
goal against Lincoln shows he
needs these kinds of moments. We
are talking about a fantastic football
player and a fantastic boy. He is the
spirit inside our dressing room. He
started the first game against Crys-
tal Palace after [ just] 13 days work-
ing with us. We cannot do miracles.”
Yet if Everton’s victory was se-
cured by a 2018 buy, their 2019 re-
cruitment drive proved crucial to
suggest they are stronger for their
spending. Silva unleashed £70 mil-
lion of signings, with Fabian Delph,
Alex Iwobi and Moise Kean all mak-
ing their full Premier League
debuts for the club.
Delph was influential and excel-
lent in midfield. Iwobi, who aver-
aged a goal every 10 games for
And in defence
Defensive contribution
That combative
streak serves
Guendouzi well in his
defensive role. The
Frenchman won the Interception
ball back on 11
occasions for his
side, with eight of
those coming in Ball
Tottenham’s half to recovery
complete a brilliant
all-round display.
Direction of play
Tackles
Dancing partners: Richarlison (right) celebrates his first goal with Moise Kean
Arsenal, answered his manager’s
call to become more prolific on
Merseyside by scoring for the sec-
ond time in five days.
“Fabian and Alex know the Pre-
mier League,” added Silva. “For
them, nothing is new; just that they
are playing now in our blue shirt.”
He believes that Everton have
acquired leaders who helped them
recover after twice conceding
equalisers. They responded in a way
they might not have done before.
“In some moments last season, we
didn’t show that,” he said. “For us to
react, it was really difficult and we
lost our confidence so fast.”
Instead, the Portuguese manager
with much to regret was Nuno
Espirito Santo. Only Wolves and
Watford are yet to win in the Pre-
mier League and, after three
respectable draws, his side were
unusually error-prone, losing their
unbeaten record and then their dis-
cipline as they ended with 10 men.
Three of Wolves’ six yellow cards,
including both of Willy Boly’s, were
for fouls on Richarlison. They had
no answer to him
“We didn’t start very good,”
Nuno accepted. “We should not be
happy with the mistakes we made.
When we score two times, we
should do better defensively.”
But Wolves were the architects
of their own downfall. Two who got
an assist were then culpable for a
goal a few minutes later, Adama
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Traore failing to track Iwobi
and Boly being outjumped by
Richarlison. Captain Conor Coady
was first to err, a former Liverpool
player aiding Everton as two teams
who had mustered only three previ-
ous league goals between them got
as many in 12 minutes of mayhem.
Coady’s stray back-pass played Rui
Patricio into trouble. The stretching
goalkeeper’s clearance struck Kean
and fell for Richarlison to finish.
Everton captain Seamus Cole-
man was in similarly generous
mood as Traore’s cross bounced off
him for Romain Saiss to level. Ever-
ton responded with Iwobi’s second
headed goal in a week coming from
Gylfi Sigurdsson’s fine cross.
After an impasse for an hour,
with Jordan Pickford making a ter-
rific save from Patrick Cutrone, the
drama continued.
“The only thing I didn’t like was
the two goals we conceded,” said
Silva. Set-piece frailties have been
a theme of his reign and Everton
allowed Boly to flick on Ryan Ben-
nett’s long throw for Raul Jimenez
to finish. Yet Boly then let Richarli-
son head in Lucas Digne’s cross.
Wolves looked tired and frayed,
as though their Europa League
efforts were taking a toll in their
10th game of the season, but
Nuno rather strangely insisted: “I
have more than 60 players availa-
ble. There is no manager with so
many options.”
Australian duo get
hot reception
Australian cricketers
Nathan Lyon (left) and
Peter Siddle were
guests at Goodison
Park yesterday as they
took in another sport
ahead of the fourth
Ashes Test at Old
Trafford. Both were
greeted with loud
boos from the crowd.
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Liverpool would What draw at Southampton told us about Solskjaer’s United

By Tom Prentki

‘be lost without’ REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL

Daniel James

unsung Firmino “Fantastic” was the word Ole

Gunnar Solskjaer used to
describe the young winger’s
impact at St Mary’s in the 1-1
draw. His 10th-minute strike,
cutting in from the left and
thumping the ball into the top
corner, was devastating. James
Klopp and Robertson Premier League (right) has the same number of
hail ‘intense’ forward goals in four appearances as
match details Alexis Sanchez managed in 18
Pages 12-13 months. Perhaps signed with
Manager defends Salah the future in mind, James, 21,
after Mane outburst is already indispensable.
Klopp’s view of Firmino was
Most goals for Man Utd this season
backed up by the players, with left-
By Adam Lanigan at Turf Moor back Andy Robertson admitting Daniel James 3
that Liverpool would be “lost with- Anthony Martial 2
While Liverpool manager Jurgen out him”. Macus Rashford 2
Klopp was keen to downplay the The Scotland international
suggestion of any friction between added: “I don’t think there is any- Crosses
Sadio Mane and Mohamed Salah, one like him, with his work rate, his
he was much happier to extol the technique, his goals and his all- Daniel James 17
virtues of the ultimate team player, round play. People will say there Aaron Wan-Bissaka 13
Roberto Firmino. are better strikers, but for me what Macus Rashford 5
The Brazilian scored one and he does is so important to our team.
made one for Mane in the 3-0 vic- “He’s world class. He does every- Touches in opposition box
tory over Burnley on Saturday, thing and that’s the beauty of
Macus Rashford 25
which established a club-record of Bobby. He can do it all.
13 straight league wins, as well as “He’s our first line of defence, Daniel James 21
keeping the two-point lead over and I’ve not seen anybody better at Anthony Martial 19
Manchester City at the top of the doing that. He presses the defend-
table. Striker ers and doesn’t give them a minute.
In doing so, Firmino became the leading He comes back and nicks the ball in
first Brazilian to reach 50 goals in midfield for us. Promise of youth
the Premier League as he under-
the way “He’s so important for us defen-
lined his value to the European sively and then he goes up the park
champions. Top Brazilian and scores goals and makes assists. The long-term future
There have also been 29 assists scorers in the That’s what we need him to do.” may be bright for
in his 141 league appearances in Premier The only note of caution sur- United given the form
England as regular watchers of League rounding Firmino would be his in- and promise of their
Liverpool have become used to his tense schedule. He helped Brazil younger players, but
all-round brilliance.
With an eye for a goal and a pass,
plus the flicks and tricks that are
50 win the Copa America in July, so his
summer break was a brief one.
Now, as the Premier League
no manager can look
too far ahead. Mason
Greenwood (left), in
synonymous with Brazilian play- Roberto takes time to catch its breath just the eight minutes
ers, the 27-year-old has the quali- Firmino during the international break, the he was given, did
ties of both a No 9 and a No 10. But (Liverpool) striker will fly to Miami and Los more than both Juan
he does not rest on those Angeles for his country’s friendlies Mata and Andreas
laurels and sets the example for
others to follow by leading from the
front in closing down opponents
41 against Colombia and Peru. All
Klopp can do is cross his fingers
and hope his player returns fit and
Pereira, who started.
Aaron Wan-Bissaka
was again impressive.
and trying to win the ball back. Philippe healthy when action resumes on It was a less
Klopp recognises this special Coutinho Sept 14 at home to Newcastle. impressive showing
mix and acknowledges that his (Liverpool) While Firmino was smiling at from Marcus
players recognised it most when Turf Moor, Mane was growling Rashford, but Scott
Firmino was missing for the first
leg of the Champions League semi-
final in Barcelona in April when
29 when taken off, still unhappy about
not getting the ball off Salah when
better placed in an attack. But
McTominay was busy
and industrious.

they lost 3-0. Juninho given the Egyptian’s sensational

“What a player,” laughed the (M’brough) goal record, Klopp knows it is hard
manager. “It’s just unbelievable to be too critical. Solidity in
defence
just how smart he is in decision-
making, how good he is techni-
cally, how fit he is, how much he
28 “I could describe five or six situa-
tions where everyone thought,
‘pass it, pass it, pass it’ and Mo
enjoys the really hard work. Willian scored,” he said. “That is the Though they failed to
“I remember when we played at (Chelsea) freedom of the player. win, the fault lay
Barcelona and Gini Wijnaldum dum had “It is not a big challenge, but y you much more with the
to play in that position. Ginii was sit-
ting in the dressing room m saying,
‘What the heck are you doing in
28 can always have this with
sstriker.
st
wit a
riker. We will leave it 100
per cent because we won w
lack of ruthlessness
in attack than any
deficiencies in
that position? It’s unbelievable.
able. It’s Gabriel 3-0 and everyone goes g defence – just as in
so intense’. Jesus away
aw in different
differ the previous games
“That was probably the e biggest (Man City) directions.
di No one will ttalk against Wolves and
respect you can get, when you play about this in a week.” Crystal Palace. “I feel
the position once and you see that. like we’ve been fairly
“Nobody can play it like e Bobby solid defensively, but
Firmino, but I don’t think what he Vital presence
presence: the fine margins are
preci-
is doing there is under-appreci- Roberto Firmino
Firmi the set plays and
ated. Everybody sees it. goal
scored one go they’re punishing us
“Being skilled like Bobby by and made and we’re not being
is one thing. Mix it up another in clinical at the other
with the attitude he puts in,n, Liverpool’s w
win end,” said defender
ly is
that is unbelievable. It really at Burnley Harry Maguire.
exceptional.”
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City survivor Aguero

REASONS TO BE FEARFUL
sees off challengers and
Lack of strength in depth proves Guardiola wrong
The ruthlessness with which
Manchester City and Liverpool are
swatting away the smaller clubs is only Manager jokes that At home
highlighting the yawning chasm striker will ‘die scoring’ Aguero in
between them and United. One only has the charts
to glance at the respective substitutes’
benches of City and United from the Laporte injury leaves
weekend to see how much more menace central defence exposed Most Premier
Pep Guardiola has at his disposal than League goals
Solskjaer (right) and, though United for Man City
exerted greater pressure following the By Richard Jolly at the Etihad
dismissal of Southampton defender at the Etihad Stadium 99
Kevin Danso in the 73rd minute, they Sergio Aguero
failed to find a winner. If there are times when Manchester 38
City’s accumulation of trophies Carlos Tevez
feels as inevitable as Sergio Aguero
35
celebrating goals, perhaps it is not.
Pogba For a glimpse at an alternative,
Raheem Sterling
uncertainty
uncert rather less glorious, form of his- 31
tory, look at the freefalling fortunes David Silva
of the man who could have been 30
With the European Aguero’s replacement. Yaya Toure
transfer window When Alexis Sanchez joined In-
closing ttoday, stories ter Milan on loan, he had scored Most Premier Injury concern: Aymeric Laporte could
linking Paul
P Pogba five goals for Manchester United in League face a lengthy spell on the sidelines
(left) wit
with a move to a period when Aguero got 44 for goals at
Real Ma
Madrid will still City. Since Pep Guardiola tried to one venue over. He may chug where he once
not go aw
away. His buy the Chilean in the summer of glided, but he drags defences out of
performance at St
perform 2017, the Argentine has struck 68 114 position. Quietly, he has got more
Mary’s w was in many times. He is the only player to have Thierry Henry Premier League assists than Gian-
ways a m microcosm of scored in each of the first four Pre- - Highbury franco Zola or David Ginola.
his longer-term
long mier League games this season, 101 The City manager probably took
impression. There
impress including twice in the 4-0 win over Wayne Rooney more pleasure from Aguero’s
were moments
mo of Brighton on Saturday. No wonder - Old Trafford unselfish pass for Bernardo Silva’s
brilliance, notably an
brillianc his manager said: “We need his 99 goal than for either of his clinical
outrageous turn
outrageo goals.” Sergio Aguero double.
away from
fro two Aguero has been scorer and sur- - Etihad Stadium Aguero is now only five behind
players in the second vivor. When David Silva leaves next 97 Thierry Henry, the top foreigner
half to set up a summer, the striker will be the sole Alan Shearer on the Premier League goalscorers’
chance
chan on the remaining member of the 2012 - St James’ Park list. He should overtake Frank
edge
ed of the title-winning team at City. He Lampard by Ch Christmas, perhaps
Southampton
So threatened to be displaced
splaced by the 85 Andy Cole later this season. It
bbox. Equally, more versatile Sanchez,
hez, an old ally Robbie Fowler would leave only onl Wayne Rooney
tthere were of Guardiola’s from Barcelona. He - Anfield and Alan Shearer ahead of him.
pieces of
p mes to Gabriel
lost his place at times to
That scoring touch could matter
carelessness
car Jesus, whose pressing sing the City still more if City are keeping fewer
and an manager loves. He was even omit- clean sheets
sheets. Aymeric Laporte
unwillingness to
unwill ted when Kevin De e Bruyne oper- could face a lengthy spell on
hold of the
seize ho ated as a false nine. t e sideli
th
the sidelines with a knee
game whwhen it was He has adapted, evolved
volved and yet injury, de
depriving them of
most neneeded. The carried on scoring with enviable c
their best centre-back. City’s
Frenchman
Frenchm consistency. He has lost the sprint- big-spendin
big-spending past means they
limped off
limped o the field er’s speed, the quicksilver
icksilver drib- are unlikely to be afforded
and onto the team bling that brought ht echoes of much sympathy
sympat when Guardi-
coach. His
H short- and Romario and Jimmy y Greaves. He ola, who brought
broug in £60 million
long-term future
long-ter has compensated with a preda- right-back Joao Cancelo in the
remain far f from tor’s precision. When n he curled summer, claimed they could not
certain. his second goal past Mat Ryan, centre-ba
buy a centre-back. United were
he had scored with seven
even suc- willing to pay £80
£80 million for Harry
cessive shots on target
get in the we not.
Maguire. City were
Premier League. He may not “Sometimes we w cannot afford it
Form away be as exciting, butt he is like other teams afford it,” Guardi-
from home unerringly precise. City’s ola said. “We co could not pay the
record scorer has deliv- money wanted.”
ered at least 28 goalss in six With Vincent Kompany gone to
United are winless in successive seasons. manage AnderlAnderlecht, City were
eight away matches, “Sergio will die scoring
coring down from four available senior
their worst such run goals,” said Guardiola.
ola. The centre-backs to one on Saturday,
since 2014. “We manager has become e a convert to Sto
though John Stones will be fit for
should have won. Aguero’s cause. Manuel uel Pellegrini Norwic on Sept 14. “We
the trip to Norwich
Wolves, clearly we used to refer to the striker as the are going to find ssolutions,” pledged
should have won. We world’s third best player. At Guardiola.
do create chances, we times under Guardiola, ola, he has Fernandinho came on for
do create pressure. It’s been City’s second-choice
nd-choice B
Laporte against Brighton and, like
about those scrappy striker. No longer. Mascheran could be a mid-
Javier Mascherano,
goals now,” Solskjaer “Even on the days ys when fielder Guardiol
Guardiola converts into a
said. Rashford (right) he doesn’t score goals,als, his defender.
was tasked with that astic,”
commitment is fantastic,” “He needs some processes
responsibility on said Guardiola. It is how defensively bubut he is intelligent
Saturday. “He’s Aguero has won him and has a lo lot of experience,”
getting there. We m
said the manager. “One day
keep practising those Leading the way: Sergioo m
maybe we need to
finishes and crosses,” Aguero has scored in p
put Kyle Walker
Solskjaer added. each of the first four a
as a central
Premier League gamess de
defender.”
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‘One of worst
decisions ever’
angers Smith
Villa manager condemns
disallowed equaliser
Friend under fire over
late VAR confusion
By Ian Winrow at Selhurst Park
Dean Smith admitted he thought
he had left behind refereeing
decisions like the one that denied
his side a point at Crystal Palace
when Aston Villa gained promotion
into the Premier League.
Kevin Friend’s view that Jack
Grealish had dived immediately
before the midfielder moved the
ball on to Henri Lansbury, who
struck what would have been
an added-time equaliser, prompted
feelings of anger, frustration
and confusion for Smith and his
players.
“The officials are human and
they make mistakes, but they have
to be better than they were today,
in my opinion,” said the manager,
coming to terms with the fact his
side had been beaten by Jordan
Ayew’s 73rd-minute goal.
“We’ve moved up to a higher
level, a higher standard where the
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players you are playing against are
of a higher level and I expect the
officiating to be better but that was
similar to some of the games in the
Championship last year.”
Smith, who thought Friend was
inconsistent in his use of the yellow
card but had no complaints about
the 54th-minute dismissal of
Trezeguet for a second booking,
certainly had a point about the
referee’s late decision and was not
alone in the view that his side had
been hard done by.
“This is one of the worst
decisions I have ever seen in the
Premier League,” said Jermaine
Jenas, as the Match of the Day pun-
dits picked over the incident.
The lack of clarity about the rea-
son for the match official’s decision,
and therefore the extent of video
assistant referee involvement, did
nothing to ease the confusion in the
stadium. The incident was followed
by ugly clashes between visiting
supporters and stewards and
police, who arrested one man on
suspicion of affray.
Confirmation came later that
Friend had whistled for the diving
offence before Lansbury’s shot
crossed the line, limiting VAR’s role
to an assessment of Grealish’s going
to ground and whether the referee
Bemused: Dean Smith, the Aston Villa manager, reflects on their disallowed goal
should instead have awarded a got it wrong. “The referee said to us
penalty. at the end he had a clear view of it,
Grealish was encouraged to keep but that is not my opinion,” said the
his thoughts to himself as he left the Villa goalkeeper. “I think there
stadium but clearly was not happy. were a couple, maybe even three
“Sorry, I would talk but I have been fouls in there, a shove in the back
told not to,” he said. “I will get my- and then Gary Cahill wipes him
self in trouble.” out. I’m not sure with VAR, when it
Tom Heaton, Grealish’s team- lands to Henri and it goes in, can
mate, was more forthcoming and in you bring it back or not – I am lost
no doubt that the match official had on the details.”
Wilshere’s career at a crossroads
as Noble return lifts West Ham
By Arindam Rej
at London Stadium
Jack Wilshere was already a man
eels
with a point to prove – but it feels
like life has just become even ven
harder for him.
The West Ham United midfielder der
had finally scored his first goal in
600 days, against League Two side ide
Newport in the Carabao Cup, in
midweek. On Saturday, though, gh,
Manuel Pellegrini left him out of his
squad who beat Norwich City 2-0 0 at
the London Stadium.
Pellegrini has said that he is
managing the player’s minutes utes
carefully. But less game time will
not help him. Wilshere had startedted
West Ham’s first two Premier mier
League games and been substituted ted
in both, with the team winning nei-
ther.
Mark Noble has stepped up to
replace him in the subsequent two wo
Premier League games and been na
key cog in the team’s machine, ne,
which delivered two key victories.ies.
The ovation that Noble received ved
from home fans here showed how ow
highly they valued their long-serv-rv-
ing captain’s contribution.
West Ham again lined up in a 4-2-
der
3-1 with the other holding midfielder
ing
in the team, alongside Noble, being
Declan Rice, who has just been een
ain.
called into the England squad again.
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As frustrated as Smith was,
however, he was unsure how
procedures could be improved. “I
don’t know what else they can do to
change it,” he said. “We’ve got
people looking at it in Stockley Park
[where VAR decisions are made],
what else can we do to change it?
We hope that it rights more wrongs
than it does and we felt that it didn’t
today.”
Nor did it help the manager’s
mood that the chaotic final
moments at Selhurst Park contrib-
uted to the feeling that his side
should have more to show for their
efforts so far this season.
“Our performances have been
OK, with the exception of the open-
ing half-hour at Tottenham,” he
said. “I felt we were the better team
against Bournemouth and we beat
Everton. And we should be leaving
here with something as well. So we
have been OK, but our points tally
isn’t what we would like it to be.”
Heaton will spend the interna-
tional break with Gareth South-
gate’s squad, along with team-mate
Tyrone Mings, who has earned a
first call-up.
“I’ve said to him if he needs any
info on next week or anything he
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needs to bring, it is always difficult
on your first trip on what to bring
along or what is going on, so I’ve
told him to give me a bell,” said
Heaton.
Ayew’s second goal in two games
was timely given Roy Hodgson’s
admission that he wants to add to
his attack in the next transfer win-
dow. “We looked dangerous and
though we didn’t get the centre-
forward we were hoping to get in
the transfer window, we still have
good firepower up front and we still
have our powder dry and maybe a
player will come up in January,”
said the Palace manager.
Strong reaction: Noble is hoping Rice steps out for
Mark Noble has Gareth Southgate’s side again, say-
forced his way ing: “He is good on the ball and
back into the reads the game so well. He makes so
West Ham side many tackles and does the stuff that
nobo
nobody wants to do.”
Noble was a bundle of energy,
N
help
helping to nullify a Norwich mid-
field that is capable of more creativ-
ity. TThat laid the platform for a win
that would have been more
emp
emphatic had Norwich goalkeeper
Tim Krul not played, in the words
of Noble,
N “like Superman”.
IIt raises the question of how
Wils
Wilshere can fit into this West Ham
team with neither Noble nor Rice
team,
look
looking worthy of missing out.
View
Viewing the fluency with which
Wes Ham attacked at times, Pel-
West
legr
legrini might be reluctant to sacri-
fice a more attacking player.
R
Rice and Noble can protect their
back four in a way Wilshere might
not be able to. And, even when
Wils
Wilshere is fitted in, he is under
pres
pressure to deliver now.
Th former Arsenal midfielder is
The
still only 27 and, having once been
such a promising prospect, has
time to fulfil some of his potential.
But, as West Ham flourished with-
out him, it felt he was coming to a
cruc juncture in his career.
crucial
W
While Rice heads for the Eng-
land camp though, Wilshere’s own
days as a national team hope are
look
looking distant.
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Lack of clarity over VAR is making officials look foolish

or when it is used, with players, intervene. Further training is the that the officials at Stockley Park We have to remember the
KEITH managers and supporters in the
dark over when VAR is, or is not,
only solution because learning on
the job is not going too well at the
will make the final call, rather than
the men in the middle.
standard referees are aspiring to
here. Riley has stated that before
HACKETT
KETT
KET
TT
T going to intervene.
Referees are looking foolish.
moment.
That said, there are two changes
The issue with that is it compels
the video referee to decide what
VAR the officials were getting 82
per cent of the big decisions right,
REFEREE’S
EE’S
EE’S
S You are seeing almost identical
incidents result in different
Riley could make that would have
an immediate impact. The first is to
constitutes a “clear and obvious”
error, rather than a referee
and so it is reasonable to expect
that the percentage of correct
VIEW decisions. These include Wolves’ deciding themselves they have got decisions would be somewhere in
disallowed goal at Leicester City on a decision wrong. the high 90s with access to
the opening weekend, or
Further training is As we are increasingly seeing, technology. That isn’t the case,

T
he international
break has come at a
good time for the
Premier League’s
referees because at
the moment they are
really struggling with the video
assistant referee process and how
to use it correctly.
I have always been a big
supporter of technology, but we
are seeing no consistency in how
Newcastle United’s equaliser
against Watford on Saturday
– both of which came after
inadvertent handballs.
The situation is untenable and I
hope that Mike Riley, who oversees
the elite refereeing panel, calls
them together over the next
fortnight and makes them watch
countless videos of key incidents,
so there is a consensus on what
constitutes a clear and obvious
error and when the VAR should
the only solution
because learning
on the job is not
going too well
ask the referee to use the pitchside
monitor to make the final decision,
rather than the video referee.
That is the protocol elsewhere,
but in England we have decided
unless it really is clear as day, then
the man in the studio will always
side with his on-field colleague,
and it introduces a grey area to the
process that need not be there.
Second, we are sometimes
asking our best referees to be
VARs, rather than be out in the
middle. On Saturday, Michael
Oliver was VAR for Southampton v
Manchester United and Burnley v
Liverpool, and did not take charge
of a game. I think that is wrong.
though. True, we are in the early
stages of VAR in English football
but the system has been around for
some time and we should have
learnt from mistakes elsewhere.
Clearly, practice and time spent
back in the classroom is the only
way the current state of affairs will
be rectified, and I am sure that will
happen over the next fortnight. Let
us hope the officials’ studies go
well, because they are falling short
at the moment.

How glaring
errors went
uncorrected

Jack Grealish dive

The video assistant referee cannot intervene on the goal itself because Kevin Friend has already blown his whistle to penalise Jack Grealish
for what he saw as a dive. That is a refereeing error, rather than a mistake by VAR. However, I believe that Gary Cahill’s challenge on
Grealish was strong enough to merit a penalty being awarded. It was a foul, inside the area and should have been punished. It was not, and
Villa can count themselves incredibly unfortunate.

Youri Tielemans’
challenge on Callum
Wilson
The worst of the lot. This is the
definition of a dangerous and
reckless tackle, which puts an
opponent’s safety at risk. I am
extremely surprised that Peter
Bankes, the referee, did not
issue an immediate red card to
the Leicester midfielder, but I
am stunned that VAR Martin
Atkinson did not step in and
instruct him to do so. This is
exactly the type of challenge
we want taken out of the game
and is precisely the reason why
VAR was introduced. It is a
complete failure of the system
that Youri Tielemans was not
even booked.
Fabian Schar’s goal for Newcastle v Watford Sebastien Haller not
being awarded a penalty
against Norwich
It is a foul and therefore a
penalty should have been
awarded. I am struggling to see
why it was not, but perhaps this
is the type of incident that is not
seen as “clear and obvious”
enough to overturn. However, if
Paul Tierney, the referee, had
awarded it then I have no doubt
that Andre Marriner, the VAR,
would not have overruled him.
A poor decision.
This is the sort of incident that makes VAR look foolish because of a
lack of consistency. The ball clearly hits Isaac Hayden’s arm before
falling for Fabian Schar to score, and under the current laws the goal
should have been ruled out for handball. We saw the same incident
when Wolves’ Willy Boly was penalised on the opening weekend and
for this incident to have a different outcome is difficult to justify.
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Azpilicueta shows How right-back is

being targeted
Lampard’s problem Where teams attack
versus Chelsea

is not his youth club

ATTACKING THIRDS BY PERCENTAGE
Man Utd

weakness there and are now

Chelsea manager insists targeting him.
to Nick Szczepanik that Reece James, only 19 but with 44
starts for Wigan Athletic last
49 21 30
age is no issue as side fall season under his belt, is waiting in

T
to own-goal equaliser
he reactions among
their supporters to
Chelsea letting a 2-0
half-time lead slip to
draw with Sheffield
United at Stamford
Bridge were predictable, and in
one aspect grimly so: when Kurt
Zouma was debited with the own
goal that levelled the scores in the
87th minute, racist abuse followed
on social media.
The civilised majority of critics
among the fan base mostly pointed
at the youth of the two central
defenders, Zouma, 24, and
21-year-old Fikayo Tomori. Tomori,
who played for Frank Lampard on
loan at Derby County last season,
was making his first Premier
League start, dropping the average
age of the starting XI to 24 years
and 158 days, the youngest during
the club’s time in the Premier
League.
But perhaps they were aiming at
the wrong target. At the other end
of the age spectrum is club captain
Cesar Azpilicueta, a veteran of 342
appearances for Chelsea, with 528
career club and full international
matches on the clock.
True, 30 is no age these days,
even for a full-back, and crosses he
provided for Tammy Abraham to
score the opener and almost grab
his hat-trick suggest he is still a
valuable contributor to Chelsea’s
attack. But the Spain defender is
suddenly looking vulnerable in his
All smiles: Oliver Norwood celebrates
United’s equaliser with Lys Mousset
right-back berth, which is
worrying for Chelsea when
experience is in relatively short
supply, especially at the back.
On Saturday he made no
challenge as Callum Robinson
headed Chris Basham’s cross just
wide in the first half. He was
nutmegged by United left-back
Enda Stevens before Robinson
scored just after half-time and
clenched his fists in frustration.
And although he was in the right
place at the right time to have
prevented the same player crossing
for Zouma’s unfortunate equaliser,
he was unable to do so. He also
conceded possession 20 times.
At Carrow Road the previous
week, Azpilicueta provided
another assist for Abraham but
Norwich City’s first goal was
created by an interchange on his
side and statistics suggest that
opponents have spotted a
the wings, which would drop the
average age of the team still Norwich
further, but the fans who cheered
when 18-year-old Billy Gilmour
made his Premier League bow as a
late substitute seem behind the
young players, for now at least.
And Lampard clearly does not
regard age as a barrier. “I couldn’t
care less that we’ve got our
youngest team in Premier League
history,” he said after the match. “It
58 14 28
was a plus last week [at Norwich,
when he fielded the club’s
youngest team since 1994] and I Sheffield United
don’t think it relates at all. It is not
just the young players. It is up to all
of us to resolve the issue.”
Sheffield United’s issues,
according to Chris Wilder, their
manager, were initially about
nervousness at the prospect of a
first encounter with one of the
“Big Six”, with four of his matchday
squad having played for the club in
50 15 35
League One. But he feels that
Saturday’s performance should Cesar Azpilicueta has been
dispel it. one of the Premier League’s
“I get that little bit of best full-backs since joining
apprehension because of where Chelsea in 2012 but in three of
they’ve been,” he said. “But their four games so far this
hopefully we’ll grow out of that
season the opponents have
pretty quickly and today will be a
day we can look back on and say heavily favoured attacking
‘we’re here and we deserve to down their left flank, target-
be here’. ing the Spaniard. Chelsea have
“We go in toe-to-toe with you conceded eight goals in those
and if we don’t get a result it won’t three games.
be for a lack of doing it our way.
And if we do, we feel we can cause
problems for teams in this
division.”

Why high-flying Leicester can break into elite again

The manager
Leicester City’s start to the season
following their 3-1 defeat of
Bournemouth – eight points from
four matches, third in the table –
exactly matches how the title-
winning 2015-16 season began. As
then, City have a manager with a
winning pedigree.
Brendan Rodgers does not have
the length of service of Claudio
Ranieri, who memorably led
Leicester to that title, but brings a
history of success after twice
guiding Celtic to the Scottish
treble. He won promotion to the
Premier League with Swansea and
went close to a Premier League
title himself as Liverpool fell just
short in the 2013-14 season, so he
has experience of title-chasing
pressure and knows the pitfalls.
Vardy v Liverpool, February 2016
Defence
A back four of Ricardo Pereira,
Jonny Evans, Caglar Soyuncu and
Ben Chilwell looks the equal of
Danny Simpson, Wes Morgan,
Robert Huth and Christian Fuchs.
Soyuncu has begun the season well.
He and Evans may grow into one of
the best central defensive
partnerships in the division. Behind
them, Kasper Schmeichel, like
Jamie Vardy and a couple of others,
provides a link with the Ranieri
team and remains a dynamic
Vardy v Bournemouth, Saturday
goalkeeper and strong leader.
Midfield
In the defensive midfield position
in which N’Golo Kante once looked
peerless, Wilfrid Ndidi has grown
into one of the most consistent in
the division, while home-grown
Hamza Choudhury is showing
much potential. Further forward,
James Maddison is a technically
proficient No 10 with creative
imagination and an eye for goal,
while former Monaco midfielder
Youri Tielemans has the ability to
justify his £40 million price tag.
Wings
Here lies the most obvious
shortfall. Where Riyad Mahrez was
a regular goalscorer, contributing
17 to the title-winning cause, none
of the other wide players has
hinted at similar, much as Marc
Albrighton, Harvey Barnes and
Demarai Gray have outstanding
qualities. There is more to come
from Barnes, though. Summer
signing Ayoze Perez, Newcastle
United’s top scorer last season but
left out on Saturday, is the one to
whom fans will look to provide a
Mahrez-like return.
Strikers
Vardy’s opening goal against
Bournemouth, encompassing a long
ball over the top, a turn of speed that
left back-pedalling defenders for
dead, and an outrageous looped
finish that defied distance, angle and
the degree of technique required,
rekindled memories of his screamer
against Liverpool. He is now 32 but,
having quit international football,
has every prospect of being every bit
as effective as four years ago. His two
goals on Saturday looked proof of
that.
Jon Culley
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How vital Spaniard How Sheffield United found success on his flank Celtic silence
has been to his club
SHEFFIELD UNITED V CHELSEA doubters and
MOST MINUTES BY OUTFIELD PLAYERS
IN THE PREMIER LEAGUE SINCE 2016-17
Successful dribble Assist Successful cross Unsuccessful cross
give Gerrard
10,513 Cesar
Azpilicueta headaches
9,405 Ben
Mee SCOTTISH FOOTBALL

9,394 Christian
Eriksen Rangers
0
9,339 N'Golo
Kanté
Sheffield United’s
attacking direction Celtic
Edouard 32, Hayes 90 2
9,333 Steve
Cook Att: 49,873

By Roddy Forsyth at Ibrox Park

Azpilicueta has been such a
consistent presence that in the
past 114 Premier League Celtic did not so much put one in
matches he has played all but the post for Rangers with this vic-
tory, they dumped a mailbag full of
107 minutes, far more than
questions on the doorstep at Ibrox,
anyone else in the division Sheffield United SHEFFIELD UNITED’S FIRST
F GOAL
where Steven Gerrard has much to
clearly targeted
contemplate as he attempts to
Azpilicueta, as
devise effective replies.
shown by the Having prevailed in both league
sheer number Old Firm derbies at home last sea-
of crosses they son, Gerrard had raised expecta-
put in from tions among the Rangers fans by
their left - the reinforcing his squad over the sum-
side the mer while successfully negotiating
30-year-old was eight games in the Europa League
defending – Azpilicueta qualifiers.
compared to on Celtic, too, had booked a passage
the right. Four into the group stage of the Europa
of their seven League and started the domestic
successful campaign in swashbuckling style,
dribbles were Azpilicueta is easily beaten by
but their improbable 4-3 home
also down Enda Stevens and the wing-back
defeat by CFR Cluj in the Champi-
Azpilicueta’s pulls the ball back for Callum
ons League qualifiers exposed Neil
flank and it was Robinson to slot home.
Lennon to vitriolic criticism from
no surprise that the Hoops support.
both their goals SHEFFIELD UNITED’S SECOND
S GOAL Yet, yesterday Rangers were,
came from quite simply, out-thought and out-
crosses from the fought and would have lost by more
left. had it not been for goalkeeper Allan
McGregor. Gerrard chose to start
with Jermain Defoe rather than Al-
fredo Morelos in attack. Lennon and
his players, though, refused to allow
Chelsea’s Frank Lambard Rangers to impose themselves.
and Cesar Azpilicueta Celtic made the breakthrough
from an error by Connor Goldson in
Azpilicueta the 32nd minute, when he tried to
thread a pass through the green-
and-white midfield cordon and
played it straight to Mikey John-
Again Azpilicueta cannot ston. Johnston’s return ball was
prevent the cross as Robinson judged perfectly to allow Odsonne
whips a wicked ball in that Kurt Edouard to stride through the
Zouma deflects into his own net. Rangers back line, draw McGregor
from his line and shoot below the
goalkeeper.
Three minutes into injury time

Bruce keeps faith with misfiring Almiron
The ball bounced off him and
By Luke Edwards goalkeeper Ben Foster cleared,
at St James’ Park wiping out the Paraguayan in the
process. St James’ Park groaned and
It was the perfect moment for Almiron disappeared, unable or
Miguel Almiron to score his first unwilling to get on the ball.
goal for Newcastle United, shortly Another mistake came, his deci-
after the team had fallen behind, at sion-making fried by the earlier
home, in front of an expectant and miss. Newcastle had Watford where
edgy crowd. they wanted them, a high defensive
Christian Atsu had run clear line and Almiron – the fastest player
down the left, his cross was a dan- on the pitch – had open space to run
gerous one, the ball bounced into. But he went too quickly and,
through to Almiron, unmarked at overexcited, he was flagged offside
the far post. The crowd gave out long before he rounded Foster and
one of those collective gasps of ex- put the ball into the net.
citement, the audible anticipation Almiron did not hide after half-
of a goal about to be scored, but time, but he missed another chance
Almiron could not live up to their when he scuffed a shot. Groans
expectations. The ball kicked up off again. Fortunately Fabian Schar
the grass, his body was stiff, his had been on target just before the
touch heavy and, rather than take interval to cancel out Will Hughes’s
control of the situation, he lost it. early goal in a 1-1 draw.
Almiron is the final piece in the
team who stormed clear of relega-
tion last season under Rafael Ben-
itez, but he keeps falling apart in
the box.
This was his 14th appearance for
Newcastle without a goal and it is
starting to affect him. He scored 21
goals over two seasons with Atlanta
United in Major League Soccer, but
has not scored in 20 appearances
for his country.
Not good enough? Having sold
Ayoze Perez to Leicester City in the
summer, Newcastle need Almiron
to replace his goals – 13 in all com-
petitions last term – but there is
little sign of that happening.
His new manager loves him, but
that does not mean he is not testing
Steve Bruce’s patience. The prob-
lem is, there is nobody who can
replace him in the squad. Almiron’s
pace is a potent weapon. He needs
to be managed carefully.
“He’s a great lad, probably the
most popular player here,” Bruce
said. “He’s bright and effervescent,
he’s a great pro. He just needs to get
one of those opportunities to fall for
him. I’ve been pleasantly surprised
at what a good player he is.
“He scores goals in training, but
it’s a bit different doing it in front of
50,000 people and he probably just
snatches at it a little bit.
“When he gets up and running,
he might learn to go at things a little
bit calmer. The great goalscorers go
calm in front of goal. We need to be
patient with him and I will be.”
If Newcastle are to pull clear of
relegation danger again, they need
more from Almiron than his speed.
They need goals, because he cost
them two points against Watford.
Jonny Hayes added the second in a
move he started and finished.
There was still time for a misera-
ble afternoon for Rangers to deteri-
orate when Jordan Jones slammed
into Moritz Bauer and was dis-
missed by Bobby Madden.
“The dressing room has been
fantastic for me, but I’m part of why
it went wrong today,” Gerrard said.
Of Jones’ late dismissal, Gerrard
said: “He deserves his red card, his
ban, and he’s got everything to do
now to get back in my team.”
Lennon, meanwhile, addressed
his detractors. “If you believed all
the hype, we shouldn’t have turned
up today. We’ve kept our counsel,
we’ve stayed calm and we’ve put in
a brilliant performance,” he said.
Rangers (4-3-3): McGregor; Tavernier, Goldson, Katic,
Flanagan; Davis, Jack, Kamara (Ojo h-t); Aribo (Jones 70),
Defoe (Morelos 60), Arfield. Subs Foderingham (g),
Helander, Barisic, King.
Booked Arfield. Sent off Jones.
Celtic (4-2-3-1): Forster; Elhamed, Jullien, Bitton (Bauer
65), Bolingoli; Brown, McGregor; Forrest (Ntcham 65),
Christie, Johnston (Hayes 85); Edouard. Subs Gordon (g),
Morgan, Bayo, Griffiths. Booked Hayes.
Referee Bobby Madden.
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5 Goalscorer Goalscorers 6 Goalscorer Subs Davis (Jota 7 Goalscorers Goalscorer
Arrizabalaga Abraham 19, 43 Robinson 46, Guaita Ayew 73 59), Hourihane Schmeichel Vardy 12, 73, Wilson 15
Zouma 89 og 6 7 7 6 (Douglas Luiz 71), Tielemans 41
6 5 6 5 Subs Willian Subs Sakho (Kelly 7 8 7 7 Subs Ibe (Smith
(Barkley 60), Subs McGoldrick Ward Kelly Cahill van Aanholt 79), Townsend Lansbury (Wesley Subs Gray 64), Solanke (H.
Azpilicueta Tomori Zouma Emerson 85) Not used Pereira Evans Soyuncu Chilwell
Batshuayi (McBurnie 63), (Schlupp 84), (Albrighton 64), Wilson 64),
(Kovacic 83), Mousset 6 7 6 Benteke (Ayew Steer (g), Konsa, 7 Choudhury Surman (King 79)
6 6 6 McArthur Milivojevic ■ Kouyate ■ El Ghazi, Ndidi
Gilmour (Freeman 79), 86) Not used (Barnes 71), Fuchs Not used Boruc
Barkley Jorginho Kovacic
(Abraham 84) Not Osborn (Basham Meyer, Hennessey Elmohamady 7 7 8 7 (Maddison 86) (g), Stacey, Rico,
used Alonso, 84) Not used (g), McCarthy (g), Albrighton ■ Tielemans Maddison Barnes Not used Justin, Simpson
Christensen, Sharp, Stearman,
6 8 6 Victor Camarasa Ward, Perez, Praet
6 7 5 Zaha ★Ayew★ Schlupp 9
Caballero (g), Moore (g), Besic
Pulisic Abraham Mount ★Vardy★
Giroud
4 7 4 6 6 7 6
McBurnie ■ Robinson Referee S Attwell (Warwickshire) Referee K Friend (Leicestershire) Referee P Banks (Norwich)
Trezeguet ■ Wesley Jota C. Wilson ■ King
5 Shots on target 2 5 Shots on target 2 5 Shots on target 2
❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙ ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙ ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙
7 8 6 8 Shots off target 7 7 6 7 17 Shots off target 8 7 8 Shots off target 6
6 6 7 6 6
Stevens ★Norwood★ Baldock ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙ Grealish ■ Luiz ■ McGinn ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙ ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙
Freeman Lundstram 3 Corners 4 13 Corners 2 Fraser Lerma ■ Billing ■ H. Wilson 4 Corners 5
❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙ ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙ ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙
6 6 6 6 Fouls committed 11 6 6 6 6 15 Fouls committed 15 6 5 5 6 9 Fouls committed 10
O’Connell Egan Basham
❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙ ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙ ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙
2 Offsides 0 Taylor ■ Mings Engels Guilbert ■ 2 Offsides 0 Ake Cook Mepham Smith 2 Offsides 1
6 ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙ 7 ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙ 5 ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙
63 Possession% 37 55 Possession% 45 53 Possession% 47
Henderson ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙ Heaton ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙ Ramsdale ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙

Man City 4-0 Brighton Attendance 54,386 Newcastle 1-1 Watford Attendance 44,157 Southampton 1-1 Man Utd Attendance 30,499

Man City Brighton Newcastle Watford Southampton Man Utd

7 Goalscorers De Subs Murray 7 Goalscorer Goalscorer 7 Goalscorer Goalscorer
Ederson Bruyne 2, Aguero (Bernardo 67), Dubravka Schar 41 Hughes 2 Gunn Vestergaard 58 James 10
42, 55, B. Silva 79 Connolly (Maupay
7 6 6 8 67), Gross
6 7 7 5 7 Subs Manquillo Subs Chalobah 6 7 7 7 Subs Long Subs Lingard
Subs Fernandinho Krafth Schar Lascelles Dummett■ Willems (Krafth 78), Muto (Doucoure 71), Cedric Bednarek Vestergaard Danso ■ (Adams 62), (Andreas Pereira
Walker Otamendi Laporte ■ Zinchenko (Laporte 37), (Trossard 74) Not (Atsu 82), Success (Hughes Armstrong ■ 68), Matic (Mata
Gundogan (De used Duffy, Fernandez (Schar 71), Deulofeu 8 7 (Boufal 71), 68), Greenwood
Jahanbakhsh, 5 6 5 7
8 7 8 Bruyne 69), B. 85) Not used (Gray 82) Not 6 Romeu Hojbjerg 7 Yoshida (Ings 77) (McTominay 82)
Mooy, Button (g) Almiron Hayden ■ Longstaff Atsu
De Bruyne Rodri ★D. Silva★ Silva (Silva 78) Clark, Ki, Shelvey, used Gomes (g), Not used Not used Rojo,
Ward-Prowse Boufal
Not used Bravo Darlow (g) Welbeck, Masina, McCarthy, Romero (g),
7 8 7 (g), Tasende, Joao 7 Sarr 6 6 Stephens, Tuanzebe, Chong
Mahrez Aguero Sterling Cancelo, Foden Joelinton Adams Ings N’Lundulu, Valery

7 6 5 5 6
Referee J Moss (W Yorkshire) Referee G Scott (Oxfordshire) Referee M Dean (Wirral)
Trossard Maupay March 5 Gray 8 Rashford
6 Shots on target 1 5 Shots on target 3 8 5 2 Shots on target 8
❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙
Pereyra ★Hughes★
❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙ 5 ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙
Shots off target Shots off target ★James★ Pereira Shots off target
5 6 6 6 9 5 5 7 6 6 8 10 Mata 8 13
❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙ ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙ 6 6 ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙
Bernardo Propper Stephens Montoya 8 Corners 1 Femenia Cleverley Doucoure ■ Janmaat 6 Corners 5 2 Corners 3
McTominay Pogba
❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙ ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙ ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙
5 6 7 9 Fouls committed 6 6 6 7 5 Fouls committed 11 6 7 6 7 15 Fouls committed 6
Burn Dunk ■ Webster ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙ Cathcart ■ Kabasele Dawson ■ ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙ ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙
1 Offsides 3 6 Offsides 0 Young ■ Maguire ■ Lindelof Wan Bissaka 0 Offsides 1
6 ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙ 7 ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙ 7 ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙
53 Possession% 47 48 Possession% 52 40 Possession% 60
Ryan ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙ Foster ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙ de Gea ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙

West Ham 2-0 Norwich Attendance 59,950 Arsenal 2-2 Tottenham Attendance 60,333 Everton 3-2 Wolverhampton Attendance 39,374

West Ham Norwich Arsenal Tottenham Everton Wolverhampton

6 Goalscorers Subs Amadou 6 Goalscorers Goalscorers 7 Goalscorers Goalscorers Saiss
Fabianski Haller 24, (Zimmermann Leno Lacazette 45, Eriksen 10, Kane Pickford Richarlison 5, 80, 9, Jimenez 75
6 6 6 7 Yarmolenko 56 36), Drmic 6 5 5 6 Aubameyang 71 40 pen 5 7 7 7 Iwobi 12 Subs Joao
Fredericks ■ Diop Ogbonna Masuaku Subs Snodgrass ■ (Stiepermann 77), Maitland- Sokratis ■ Luiz Kolasinac
Subs Ceballos Subs Alli (Lamela Subs Bernard Moutinho (Saiss
Coleman Keane Mina Digne
McLean (Cantwell Niles
6 (Yarmolenko 71), (Torreira 63), 60), Lo Celso (Son
7 7
(Iwobi 76), 59), Jota (Cutrone
Sanchez (Noble 78) Not used 8 6 6 Mkhitaryan 79) Not used Calvert-Lewin 68), Pedro Neto ■
Rice Byram, Vrancic,
85), Fornals Guendouzi Xhaka ■ Torreira (Lacazette 67) Gazzaniga (g), Gomes Delph ■ (Kean 76) Not (Neves 84) Not
7 6 7 8 Fahrmann (g),
(Felipe Anderson Not used Ozil, Aurier, Lucas 8 7 8 used Holgate, used Vallejo ,
Yarmolenko Noble Lanzini ★Anderson★ 88) Not used Tettey Chambers, Moura, Skipp, Tosun, Gibbs-White,
7 7 8 ★Richarlison★ Sigurdsson Iwobi
Balbuena, Nelson, Martinez Davies Schneiderlin, Jonny, Ruddy (g)
7 Zabaleta, Roberto
Pepe Lacazette ■ Aubameyang
(g), Willock
6 Sidibe,
Haller (g), Ajeti Kean Stekelenburg (g)

6 7 7 7
Referee P Tierney (Lancashire) Referee M Atkinson (W Yorkshire) Referee A Taylor (Cheshire)
Pukki Kane Cutrone Jimenez ■
7 6 7 Shots on target 3 8 Shots on target 9 6 Shots on target 5
6 ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙ 7 7 6 ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙ ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙
Cantwell Stiepermann Emi 11 Shots off target 5 Eriksen ■ 8 Son 6 Lamela ■ 18 Shots off target 4 5 6 6 9 Shots off target 3
6 6
6 6 ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙ ★Winks★ ■ Sissoko ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙ Vinagre ■ Neves Traore ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙
8 Corners 2 11 Corners 6 Saiss Dendoncker 7 Corners 7
Leitner Trybull
❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙ ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙ ❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙
6 6 6 7 15 Fouls committed 10 5 5 6 5 13 Fouls committed 18 5 5 6 12 Fouls committed 12
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Lewis Godfrey Zimmermann Aarons ■ 2 Offsides 3 Rose ■ Vertonghen Alderweireld Sanchez■ 3 Offsides 1 1 Offsides 2
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This week’s fixtures Sky Bet EFL Scotland

Kick-off 7.45 unless stated
TOMORROW
Championship League One League Two Premiership
HOME AWAY HOME AWAY HOME AWAY HOME AWAY
Leasing.com Trophy North Group A: Grimsby v
P W D L F A W D L F A GD Pts P W D L F A W D L F A GD Pts P W D L F A W D L F A GD Pts P W D L F A W D L F A GD Pts
Scunthorpe. Group B: Accrington v Fleetwood. Group C:
Salford City v Aston Villa. Group D: Macclesfield v Swansea 6 3 0 0 8 3 2 1 0 4 1 8 16 Ipswich 6 2 1 0 6 2 2 1 0 8 2 10 14 Exeter 6 2 1 0 3 1 2 1 0 4 2 4 14 Celtic 4 2 0 0 10 1 2 0 0 7 2 14 12
Newcastle, Port Vale v Shrewsbury. Group E: Crewe v Charlton 6 2 1 0 5 2 2 1 0 6 3 6 14 Lincoln City 6 3 0 0 8 0 1 0 2 4 4 8 12 Newport Co 6 2 1 0 4 2 1 2 0 2 0 4 12 Rangers 4 1 0 1 6 3 2 0 0 3 1 5 9
Burton (7.30). Group F: Bolton v Bradford (7), Rochdale Leeds 6 1 1 1 2 2 3 0 0 8 1 7 13 Blackpool 6 2 1 0 5 2 1 2 0 5 3 5 12 Crewe 6 2 0 1 3 4 2 0 1 4 3 0 12 Livingston 4 1 1 0 2 1 1 1 0 6 3 4 8
v Man City. Group G: Blackpool v Morecambe (7.30).
Group H: Doncaster v Lincoln City. South, Group A: West Brom 6 1 2 0 5 4 2 1 0 5 3 3 12 Coventry 6 3 0 0 4 0 0 3 0 6 6 4 12 Grimsby 6 1 2 0 8 5 2 0 1 5 2 6 11 Aberdeen 4 2 0 0 6 2 0 1 1 0 1 3 7
Gillingham v Colchester, Ipswich v Tottenham Hotspur. Bristol City 6 1 1 1 5 5 2 1 0 6 3 3 11 Wycombe 6 3 0 0 9 5 0 3 0 1 1 4 12 Swindon 6 2 0 1 6 4 1 2 0 5 3 4 11 Motherwell 4 1 0 1 5 5 1 1 0 3 1 2 7
Group B: Oxford Utd v Norwich, Portsmouth v Crawley. Fulham 6 2 0 1 7 2 1 1 1 3 3 5 10 Sunderland 6 2 1 0 6 3 1 1 1 3 5 1 11 Plymouth 6 2 1 0 6 2 1 0 2 4 4 4 10 Kilmarnock 4 0 1 1 1 2 1 0 1 1 2 -2 4
Group C: AFC Wimbledon v Brighton (7.30), Leyton
Orient v Southend. Group D: Coventry v Walsall, Forest Preston 6 3 0 0 8 2 0 1 2 3 5 4 10 Peterboro’ 6 1 1 1 6 5 2 0 1 6 1 6 10 Macclesfield 6 2 0 1 4 1 1 1 1 4 4 3 10 Hamilton 4 1 0 1 3 3 0 1 1 2 5 -3 4
Green v Southampton (7). Group E: Exeter v QPR 6 1 1 1 5 5 2 0 1 4 4 0 10 Burton 6 1 0 2 2 2 2 1 0 6 3 3 10 Crawley 6 2 0 1 4 2 1 1 1 6 6 2 10 Ross County 4 1 0 1 4 4 0 1 1 0 3 -3 4
Cheltenham. Group F: Plymouth v Bristol Rovers. Group Birmingham 6 2 1 0 5 2 1 0 2 1 6 -2 10 Fleetwood 6 2 1 0 5 2 1 0 2 5 6 2 10 Forest Green 6 2 0 1 2 2 1 1 1 3 3 0 10 Hibernian 4 1 1 0 3 2 0 0 2 1 9 -7 4
G: Stevenage v Milton Keynes Dons. Group H:
Northampton v Peterborough (7.30). Nottm Forest 6 1 1 1 5 3 1 2 0 4 3 3 9 Rochdale 6 0 2 1 2 3 2 1 0 6 2 3 9 Port Vale 6 2 1 0 4 2 0 2 1 4 7 -1 9 St Mirren 4 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 2 1 3 -2 3
Women’s International Sheff Wed 6 2 0 1 4 2 1 0 2 4 4 2 9 Doncaster 4 2 1 0 6 4 0 1 0 1 1 2 8 Cheltenham 6 2 1 0 8 3 0 1 2 0 2 3 8 Hearts 4 0 2 0 2 2 0 0 2 3 6 -3 2
Norway v England (5, BBC 2). Millwall 6 2 1 0 3 1 0 2 1 2 6 -2 9 Shrewsbury 6 1 2 0 1 0 1 0 2 3 6 -2 8 Bradford 6 1 1 1 3 1 1 1 1 3 3 2 8 St Johnstone 4 0 1 1 2 3 0 1 1 2 9 -8 2
WEDNESDAY Cardiff 6 2 1 0 5 3 0 1 2 2 6 -2 8 Rotherham 4 0 1 1 1 3 2 0 0 3 1 0 7 Cambridge 6 1 1 1 4 4 1 1 1 2 2 0 8
Leasing.com Trophy South, Group E: Newport Co v Brentford 6 1 1 1 4 2 1 0 2 1 2 1 7 Bristol Rvs 6 2 1 0 5 1 0 0 3 0 6 -2 7 Colchester 6 1 1 1 3 3 1 1 1 3 3 0 8 Aberdeen 3-0 Ross County
West Ham. Leigh 34
Luton 6 1 1 1 6 6 1 0 2 4 4 0 7 MK Dons 5 2 0 1 3 5 0 0 2 3 5 -4 6 Ley Orient 6 1 1 1 3 3 1 1 1 4 6 -2 8 Cosgrove 37 (pen)
THURSDAY Hedges 50 (13,006)
Reading 6 1 0 2 4 5 1 1 1 4 3 0 7 Gillingham 5 1 1 1 8 4 0 1 1 1 2 3 5 Salford City 6 1 2 0 4 2 0 2 1 4 6 0 7
European Championship qualifying Group D
Gibraltar v Denmark (Sky Sp Red Button), Rep of Blackburn 6 1 1 1 2 2 1 0 2 3 5 -2 7 Portsmouth 5 1 1 0 5 3 0 1 2 2 4 0 5 Northamptn 6 1 0 2 4 4 1 1 1 2 2 0 7 Hearts 2-2 Hamilton
Clare 20 Oakley 50, 73
Ireland v Switzerland (Sky Sp Main Event). Middlesbro’ 6 1 1 1 2 2 0 2 1 5 6 -1 6 Oxford Utd 6 1 1 1 6 7 0 1 2 3 6 -4 5 Carlisle 6 1 1 1 4 5 1 0 2 3 5 -3 7 Berra 58
Group F Derby 6 0 2 1 2 3 1 1 1 4 6 -3 6 Tranmere 5 1 0 1 7 3 0 1 2 1 5 0 4 Mansfield 6 0 2 1 4 5 1 1 1 4 3 0 6 (15,347)
Faroe Islands v Sweden (Sky Sp Red Button), Norway v
Hull 6 1 0 2 3 5 0 2 1 3 4 -3 5 Accrington 5 1 0 1 4 4 0 1 2 1 5 -4 4 Morecambe 6 0 1 2 2 5 1 1 1 4 5 -4 5 Livingston 2-1 St Mirren
Malta (Sky Sp Red Button), Romania v Spain (Sky Sp Lithgow 26 Magennis 64
Football). Barnsley 6 1 1 1 4 5 0 1 2 0 4 -5 5 AFC W’don 6 0 2 1 2 3 0 0 3 3 7 -5 2 Walsall 6 0 2 1 2 4 1 0 2 1 4 -5 5 Dykes 58
Group G Wigan 6 1 1 1 3 4 0 0 3 1 7 -7 4 Southend 6 0 0 3 1 8 0 0 3 3 9 -13 0 Oldham 6 0 1 2 1 3 1 0 2 2 5 -5 4 (2,346)
Israel v North Macedonia (Sky Sp Red Button). Huddersfield 6 0 0 3 2 6 0 1 2 3 5 -6 1 Bolton 5 0 1 1 0 5 0 0 3 0 12 -17 -11 Stevenage 6 0 1 2 2 4 0 2 1 0 2 -4 3 Motherwell 3-0 Hibernian
Group J Seedorf 23
Armenia v Italy (5, Sky Sp Football), Bosnia- Stoke 6 0 1 2 3 7 0 0 3 3 8 -9 1 *Bolton deducted 12 points **Bury Expelled from EFL Scunthorpe 6 0 1 2 2 5 0 0 3 3 8 -8 1
Donnelly 80 (pen)
Herzegovina v Liechtenstein (Sky Sp Red Button), Hylton 86 (5,964)
Finland v Greece (Sky Sp Red Button). Birmingham 2-1 Stoke AFC Wimbledon 0-0 Wycombe Crawley 1-0 Cheltenham St Johnstone 0-1 Kilmarnock
Friendly International Jutkiewicz 73 Lindsay 58 (4,521) Palmer 90 O’Donnell 40
Northern Ireland v Luxembourg (Sky Sp Premier Bellingham 76 (3,427)
League). (20,652)
FRIDAY Brentford 3-0 Derby Accrington 2-1 Milton Keynes Dons Crewe 2-1 Bradford Rangers 0-2 Celtic
European Championship qualifying Group C Mbeumo 17 Bishop 52 Agard 18 Kirk 42 Vaughan 32 Edouard 32
Watkins 18, 45 Hughes 59 Lowery 60 Hayes 90
Estonia v Belarus (Sky Sp Football), Germany v Holland (11,055) (2,218) (49,873)
(Sky Sp Mix).
Group E Bristol City 2-2 Middlesbrough Blackpool 1-1 Portsmouth Exeter 1-0 Mansfield
Slovakia v Croatia (Sky Sp Red Button), Wales v Palmer 44 Moore 64 (og) Gnanduillet 58 Harness 17 Bowman 5 Championship
Rowe 81 Assombalonga 68 (10,605) (4,316)
Azerbaijan (Sky Sp Premier League). (20,757) HOME AWAY
Group G P W D L F A W D L F A GD Pts
Leeds 0-1 Swansea Burton 2-0 Bristol Rovers Forest Green 0-2 Newport Co
Austria v Latvia (Sky Sp Red Button), Slovenia v Routledge 90 Akins 87 Amond 4 Dundee Utd 4 2 0 0 10 3 2 0 0 4 1 10 12
Poland (Sky Sp Red Button). (34,935) Edwards 90 Haynes 90 Ayr 4 2 0 0 5 2 1 0 1 3 3 3 9
Group I (2,831) (2,897)
Cyprus v Kazakhstan (Sky Sp Red Button), San Marino Inverness 4 2 0 0 7 1 0 1 1 1 4 3 7
Luton 2-1 Huddersfield Bury P-P Doncaster Northampton 3-1 Plymouth
v Belgium (Sky Sp Red Button), Scotland v Russia (Sky Collins 57 (pen) Ahearne-Grant 47 Watson 7 (pen) Riley 10 Arbroath 4 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 2 2 1 7
Sp Football). Shinnie 66 Williams 21, 41 Morton 4 2 0 0 7 3 0 0 2 2 9 -3 6
Friendly International (10,062) (5,535)
Chile v Argentina (3). Dundee 4 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 4 8 -3 5
Millwall 1-1 Hull Gillingham 5-0 Bolton Oldham 0-1 Colchester
Tunnock’s Caramel Wafer Cup Third Round J Wallace 10 (pen) Grosicki 18 Ogilvie 27 Nouble 45 Alloa 4 0 1 1 1 2 1 0 1 2 4 -3 4
Waterford v Hearts (12,495) Lee 39, 57 (3,091) Queen of S 4 0 1 1 1 2 0 1 1 0 1 -2 2
Hanlan 54, Boon 76 (og) (5,065)
SATURDAY Kick-off 3pm unless stated Dunfermline 4 0 1 1 2 4 0 1 1 1 2 -3 2
European Championship Qualifying Group A Nottingham Forest 1-1 Preston North End Ipswich 3-0 Shrewsbury Port Vale 1-0 Cambridge Utd
Adomah 79 Bodin 40 Jackson 2 Davies 84 (og) Partick 4 0 0 2 3 5 0 1 1 3 4 -3 1
England v Bulgaria (5, ITV 1), Kosovo v Czech Republic (27,249) Norwood 10 (pen) (4,874)
(2, Sky Sp Football). Arbroath 1 Dunfermline 0-Partick 2 Ayr 3-Queen of the
Downes 69 (19,161) South 0 Alloa 1-(Friday) Dundee Utd 6 Dundee 2-Inverness
Group B CT 5 Morton 0.
Lithuania v Ukraine (5, Sky Sp Football), Serbia v Reading 0-2 Charlton Lincoln City 2-0 Fleetwood Salford City 1-1 Leyton Orient
Leko 51 Walker 34, 36 Towell 13 Neal 87 (og)
Portugal (7.45, Sky Sp Premier League).
Group H (16,906)
Taylor 80 (pen) (8,361) (3,154) League 1
France v Albania (7.45, Sky Sp Football), Iceland v HOME AWAY
Sheffield Wednesday 1-2 QPR Oxford Utd 3-3 Coventry Scunthorpe 0-1 Carlisle P W D L F A W D L F A GD Pts
Moldova (5, Sky Sp Red Button), Turkey v Andorra Fletcher 23 (pen) Hugill 60, 64 Mackie 64 Westbrooke 35 Loft 60
(7.45, Sky Sp Red Button). (23,446) Dabo 85 (og) Godden 56, O’Hare 90 (3,359) Raith 5 2 0 0 8 2 1 0 2 5 7 4 9
Friendly International Moore 90 (8,080) Dumbarton 5 1 0 1 3 2 2 0 1 5 9 -3 9
Colombia v Brazil (2.30). West Brom 3-2 Blackburn Peterborough 3-0 Sunderland Stevenage 2-2 Macclesfield
Sky Bet League One Falkirk 5 2 0 0 8 1 0 2 1 0 1 6 8
Phillips 22 Dack 1 Maddison 36, 64 Guthrie 69 Stephens 27
Bristol Rovers v Accrington, Coventry v Blackpool, Livermore 31 Johnson 45 Knight 52 Wildin 72 Ironside 85 (pen) East Fife 4 2 1 0 9 4 0 1 0 1 1 5 8
Doncaster v Rotherham (12.30), Fleetwood v Oxford Diangana 40 (23,792) (10,005) (2,504) Peterhead 5 1 1 1 3 3 1 1 0 3 2 1 8
Utd, Milton Keynes Dons v AFC Wimbledon (12, Sky Sp Wigan 0-0 Barnsley Rotherham 1-1 Tranmere Swindon 3-1 Morecambe
Football), Portsmouth v Southend, Rochdale v Ipswich, Forfar 4 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 2 1 2 7
Wiles 73 Payne 90 Doyle 5, 21 Alessandra 13
Shrewsbury v Peterborough, Sunderland v Burton, (8,691) Yates 17 Airdrie 5 1 1 1 3 3 1 0 1 2 4 -2 7
Tranmere v Gillingham, Wycombe v Lincoln City. Clyde 5 1 1 0 2 1 0 1 2 3 8 -4 5
Sky Bet League Two Cardiff 1-1 Fulham Southend 0-3 Rochdale Walsall 1-3 Grimsby Stranraer 5 1 1 1 6 6 0 0 2 1 4 -3 4
Bradford v Northampton, Cambridge Utd v Forest Murphy 42 Mitrovic 45 Henderson 35 Lavery 5 Whitehouse 41
Green, Carlisle v Exeter, Cheltenham v Stevenage, (22,631) Morley 37, Camps 77 Hanson 68, 81 (pen) Montrose 5 0 0 2 1 3 0 1 2 3 7 -6 1
Colchester v Walsall, Grimsby v Crewe, Leyton Orient v (Friday) (5,614) (4,812)
Airdrieonians 0 Falkirk 0-East Fife 4 Raith 2-Forfar 0 Clyde
Swindon, Macclesfield v Crawley, Mansfield v 0-Montrose 1 Dumbarton 2-Stranraer 1 Peterhead 2.
Scunthorpe, Morecambe v Salford City, Newport Co v
Port Vale, Plymouth v Oldham. Vanarama League League 2
Ladbrokes Scottish League One HOME AWAY
Forfar v East Fife. National North South P W D L F A W D L F A GD Pts
Tunnock’s Caramel Wafer Cup Third Round
Airdrieonians v Bohemians, Clyde v Queen of the South, HOME AWAY HOME AWAY HOME AWAY Cove R 5 3 0 0 11 2 1 1 0 6 5 10 13
Connah’s Quay Nomads v Cove Rangers (5.15, S4C), P W D L F A W D L F A GD Pts P W D L F A W D L F A GD Pts P W D L F A W D L F A GD Pts Edinburgh C 5 2 0 0 3 1 1 1 1 6 9 -1 10
Dundee Utd v Arbroath, Dunfermline v Alloa, Woking 8 3 0 1 6 3 4 0 0 10 3 10 21 York 8 2 2 0 4 1 4 0 0 13 4 12 20 Wealdstone 8 4 0 0 10 3 3 0 1 11 4 14 21 Cowdenbth 5 3 0 0 6 2 0 0 2 2 6 0 9
Formartine United v Glenavon, Inverness CT v Morton, FC Halifax 8 4 0 0 9 2 2 1 1 7 4 10 19 King’s Lynn 8 4 0 0 11 3 2 1 1 6 6 8 19 Havant & W 8 1 3 0 7 1 3 1 0 11 5 12 16 Queen’s Pk 5 0 2 0 1 1 2 0 1 4 3 1 8
Kelty Hearts v Solihull Moors, Montrose v Partick, Raith
v Falkirk, St Mirren v Stirling, Stenhousemuir v The New Bromley 8 2 2 0 9 6 3 1 0 6 3 6 18 Alfreton Tn 8 3 1 0 10 1 2 0 2 7 6 10 16 Hemel H 8 3 0 1 8 4 2 1 1 6 6 4 16 Annan Ath 5 1 2 0 5 4 1 0 1 2 3 0 8
Saints FC, Wrexham v Ayr. Maidenhead 8 1 1 2 6 5 4 0 0 8 1 8 16 Guiseley 8 3 0 1 9 5 2 1 1 10 5 9 16 Billericay 8 4 0 0 9 3 1 1 2 4 8 2 16 Albion 5 1 1 1 6 6 1 0 1 5 5 0 7
SUNDAY Dover 8 1 0 3 5 7 4 0 0 7 2 3 15 Chester FC 8 3 1 0 11 3 1 2 1 4 4 8 15 Dulwich 8 2 1 1 7 6 2 1 1 5 2 4 14 Elgin 5 1 1 1 6 4 0 2 0 1 1 2 6
European Championship Qualifying Group D Stockport C 8 3 0 1 7 3 1 2 1 5 5 4 14 Concord R 8 3 0 1 7 3 1 1 2 6 5 5 13 Sten’muir 5 0 0 2 3 6 1 2 0 3 2 -2 5
Georgia v Denmark (5, Sky Sp Football), Switzerland v Leamington 8 3 1 0 8 2 1 1 2 5 6 5 14
Solihull Mrs 8 3 0 1 8 4 1 1 2 9 7 6 13 Weymouth 8 2 1 1 11 7 1 2 1 4 4 4 12 Brechin 5 0 0 2 0 4 1 0 2 3 4 -5 3
Gibraltar (5, Sky Sp Red Button). Hereford FC 8 1 3 0 4 3 2 0 2 5 7 -1 12
Group F Barnet 8 1 2 1 5 5 2 2 0 6 4 2 13 Braintree Tn 8 2 0 2 10 9 2 0 2 6 5 2 12 Stirling 5 0 0 2 1 3 0 0 3 1 4 -5 0
Brackley 8 3 1 0 6 1 0 1 3 1 6 0 11
Romania v Malta (5, Sky Sp Red Button), Spain v Hartlepool 8 1 1 2 9 10 2 1 1 3 3 -1 11 Bath City 8 2 1 1 5 3 1 1 2 6 5 3 11 Albion 2 Stirling 1-Annan Athletic 1 Stenhousemuir 1-Cove
Faroe Islands (2, Sky Sp Premier League), Sweden v Gateshead 8 1 2 1 3 4 1 3 0 4 3 0 11
Torquay 8 2 0 2 5 5 1 2 1 7 9 -2 11 Rangers 3 Queen’s Park 0-Cowdenbeath 2 Brechin 1-Elgin 3
Norway (7.45, Sky Sp Red Button). Boston Utd 7 2 2 0 8 2 0 2 1 1 4 3 10 Maidstone 8 1 2 1 6 4 2 0 2 5 4 3 11 Edinburgh City 3.
Dag & Red 8 2 0 2 7 9 1 2 1 4 4 -2 11
European Championship qualifying Group J K’minster 8 0 1 3 4 7 3 0 1 9 5 1 10 Chelmsford 8 3 1 0 10 2 0 1 3 3 10 1 11
Armenia v Bosnia-Herzegovina (5, Sky Sp Red Button), Yeovil 8 2 1 1 6 4 1 0 3 5 6 1 10
Finland v Italy (7.45, Sky Sp Football), Greece v Sutton Utd 8 0 2 2 4 8 2 2 0 6 3 -1 10 Farsley Celtic 8 2 0 2 5 6 1 1 2 5 5 -1 10 Welling 8 3 0 1 8 6 0 2 2 3 7 -2 11 Other
Liechtenstein (7.45, Sky Sp Red Button). AFC Telford 8 1 1 2 4 6 2 0 2 5 5 -2 10 Dorking 8 2 1 1 6 3 1 1 2 4 10 -3 11
AFC Fylde 8 1 2 1 2 4 1 2 1 7 9 -4 10 BETVICTOR SOUTHERN.-Prem central: Barwell 3 Kings
Tunnock’s Caramel Wafer Cup Third Round Gloucester 8 1 1 2 6 6 2 0 2 5 10 -5 10
Chippenham 8 2 1 1 5 3 0 2 2 1 3 0 9 Langley 1-Bromsgrove Sporting 0 Banbury 2-Hednesford 0
Dundee v Elgin. Notts Cnty 8 1 2 1 8 5 1 1 2 5 6 2 9
Slough 8 1 2 1 5 5 1 1 2 5 6 -1 9 Needham Market 1-Hitchin 0 Tamworth 3-Leiston 1
Wrexham 8 2 1 1 5 4 0 2 2 6 9 -2 9 Curzon Ash 8 2 1 1 9 3 0 2 2 2 6 2 9 Alvechurch 2-Nuneaton Borough 4 Lowestoft
Eastbourne 8 2 1 1 7 5 0 2 2 0 6 -4 9 1-Peterborough Sports 2 Stourbridge 2-Redditch 1 Rushden
Other Boreham W 8 0 2 2 5 7 2 0 2 7 4 1 8 Southport 8 1 2 1 4 2 1 1 2 3 4 1 9
Oxford City 8 1 0 3 4 10 1 2 1 5 6 -7 8 & Diamonds 1-Royston 2 Rushall Olympic 1-St Ives 1
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Cooper plays down
Swansea chances
FOOTBALL
Swansea City manager Steve
Cooper has refused to get carried
away after his side went top of the
Championship thanks to Wayne
Routledge’s late winner at Leeds.
The victory was Swansea’s first at
Elland Road for 70 years but Cooper
says he wants to keep a lid on
expectations despite being two
points clear of second-placed
Charlton Athletic.
“It’s a good start and a good tally
to get so far but the only thing that’s
important for us is to keep going
and keep working,” he said.
“For us it’s not about making
statements. It’s just looking at our-
selves and striving to get better in
the way we want to play and want
to work. I love the football club and
I think it’s a football club I’m proud
to be part of, the way that the staff
and supporters are when they come
to the football club.
“I can see they’re really proud of
it and I’m just one of them and com-
pletely bought in to what it stands
for. I’m hoping the fans are seeing a
Lukaku abused in Cagliari
Romelu Lukaku suffered racist
abuse as he hit the winning penalty
for Inter Milan in their 2-1 win at
Cagliari.
The former Manchester United
striker, who moved to Italy this
summer, was the target of monkey
chants from the home supporters
as he stepped up to shoot.
The sickening scenes come just
five months after Moise Kean was
also the victim of racist chants
while playing for Juventus at the
same ground. That display of
racism was made even more
noteworthy by Kean’s then
teammate Leonardo Bonucci
reportedly claiming Kean, now at
Everton, was partly responsible.
Kean, 19, spread his arms while
facing the crowd after scoring
Juve’s second goal in their 2-0 win,
prompting Bonucci to say: “[Kean]
Football in brief
Bale scores and is sent off
Gareth Bale scored his first goals
since March and was shown a late
red card as Real Madrid were held
to a 2-2 La Liga draw at Villarreal.
Bale, on the sixth anniversary of
his £85million move to the Spanish
capital, salvaged a point for Real by
twice levelling at El Madrigal. But
the 30-year-old’s evening ended on
a sour note as he picked up a pair
of stoppage-time yellow cards for
late challenges and was dismissed.
Bury hope to re-enter league
Bury MP James Frith is seeking a
meeting with the English Football
League to request that the town’s
football club is reinstated to Sky
Bet League Two next season under
new ownership. “We are going to
write to the remaining 71 clubs and
ask for their support and ask for
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coaching staff, performance staff
and group of players doing their
very best for the football club.
We’re really proud to be part of it.”
Leeds winger Stuart Dallas,
meanwhile, says his own side’s
promotion push will not be badly
derailed by their defeat.
“We’ve had a great start to the Poignant day: Charles Leclerc dedicates his win to Anthoine Hubert (right); the
season and we shouldn’t forget drivers pay tribute (above); Hubert’s brother and mother (below) with his helmet
that; we’re disappointed at the min- and consoled by Lewis Hamilton (right centre); the mangled car (top right) and a
ute, but we will regroup and go board of remembrance which fans signed (bottom right)
again,” said Dallas after a loss that
leaves Leeds third. “We know if we
continue to play like we did, we will
win more games than we lose, it’s
just unfortunate we couldn’t do
that against Swansea.”
But Leeds manager Marcelo
Bielsa felt his side should have won
after dropping points at home for
the second time this season.
“We have now lost five points
playing at home, so you have
enough space you can be a little bit
disappointed. We cannot criticise
the style of the team who play, but
we were creating conditions to be
able to win all six games we’ve
played until now.”
could have done it differently” and
“the blame is 50-50”. Bonucci later
rowed back, saying: “I was
interviewed right at the end of the
game, and my words have been
clearly misunderstood.”
The racist abuse directed at
Lukaku will do little to help the
image of both Cagliari and Italian
football and attitudes towards
monkey chants directed at black
players. In the aftermath of the
Kean incident, Kick It Out
launched a blistering attack on the
Italian Football Federation, saying
there had been a “clear failure in
process” and the game should have
been abandoned.
The racist abuse understandably
overshadowed the Inter Milan win,
one that earned new coach Antonio
Leclerc dedicates surprise
Conte two victories from two at the
start of the season. FORMULA ONE friend. I would like to dedicate my edy unfolded, cried as he stood
first win to him.” alongside her.
Two hours earlier, Leclerc had Formula One drivers, team
Tragedy overshadows stood shoulder to shoulder with the bosses and dignitaries formed an
Ferrari driver’s win sport’s grief-ridden community for arc around the grieving mother and
Bury to be returned to League Two an emotional one-minute silence in son as silence fell over the Ardennes
from the 2020-21 season,” he told honour of his contemporary. forest.
BBC Radio 5 Live’s Sportsweek. Hamilton in second to Hubert, 22, died at 6.35pm on Daniel Ricciardo, the usually
“I will be seeing to present a increase lead over Bottas Saturday evening following a jovial Australian, kept his eyes
complete package to the EFL 160mph Formula Two crash at the closed throughout the reflective
without the deafening noise of a fearsome Eau Rouge corner. pause, before appearing to wipe
ticking clock and apply to enter By Philip Duncan He was the first driver fatality at a away tears – his actions summing
League Two next season.” in Francorchamps Formula One race weekend since up the sombre mood here before
Ayrton Senna and Roland Ratzen- yesterday’s race.
Ubogagu joins Real Madrid Wearing a black armband as he berger were killed at Imola in 1994. Leclerc, who is 22 next month,
Chioma Ubogagu has joined Real stood on the top step of a Formula Hubert’s distraught mother, hugged Hubert’s mother. Ferrari
Madrid’s women’s team, CD One podium for the first time, Nathalie, took centre stage on the team principal Mattia Binotto then
Tacon. The England winger has Charles Leclerc pointed to the sky grid. Dressed in a green jumper, put an arm around his young star.
left Orlando Pride to join Tacon, to acknowledge Anthoine Hubert, blue jeans, and hiding her eyes Speaking prior to the race,
who were bought by Madrid the young French driver killed at behind sunglasses, she was at the Binotto said: “It is not easy for
in June. Spa-Francorchamps. scene of her son’s death after Charles. He knew Hubert very well,
There was no customary cham- making the five-hour car journey but he also knows a win is the best
Republic lose quartet pagne spraying. The motor racing from her home outside Paris to way to keep his head up.”
James McCarthy, Sean Maguire, world was in mourning. Belgium. Leclerc did just that. He made the
Matt Doherty and Keiren “On one hand a childhood dream She held her son’s pink and white perfect start, racing away from pole
Westwood have all withdrawn has been realised,” said Leclerc. crash helmet. Hubert’s brother, position. Leclerc briefly traded
from the Republic of Ireland’s “On the other hand it has been a Victhor, who was trackside with places with Ferrari team-mate
squad to face Switzerland. very difficult weekend. I have lost a father, Francois, as Saturday’s trag- Sebastian Vettel, owing to different
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e victory to friend Hubert
Friends: Charles Leclerc (left) and
Anthoine Hubert raced together
tyre strategies, but once the four-
time world champion was ordered
aside, the Monegasque’s win rarely
looked in doubt – even though
Lewis Hamilton ran him close.
Hamilton finished a second be-
hind Leclerc to extend his title lead
over Valtteri Bottas, who took third,
to 65 points.
Leclerc led as the tens of
thousands of spectators at the 4.3-
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round of heartfelt applause on lap
19. Hubert carried the number 19
on his car.
“We grew up together,” said
Leclerc as he reflected on their
friendship. “Losing Anthoine takes
me back to 2005 and my first
French championship.
“There was him, Esteban [Ocon,
the Mercedes reserve driver],
Pierre [Gasly, the Toro Rosso
driver] and myself. We were four
kids dreaming of getting to For-
mula One.
“We have grown up in karting to-
gether, so to lose him is a big shock
for me, and everyone in the sport.
“It is obviously quite challenging
to close the visor and go through
the exact corner [where he died]
at the same speed as I did the day
before. It is difficult to enjoy this
victory, but hopefully in two or
three weeks I will realise what
happened.”
Following Leclerc’s faultless
start, Max Verstappen tagged Kimi
Raikkonen. The force of the impact
sent Raikkonen temporarily on to
two wheels. Verstappen sustained
damage to his Red Bull and
slammed into the barriers at the top
of Eau Rouge. The sport held its
breath but, mercifully, Verstappen
walked away unscathed.
Leclerc’s victory at his 34th
attempt ensures he becomes the
third-youngest winning driver in
the sport’s history after Max Ver-
stappen and Sebastian Vettel. It also
ends Ferrari’s winless run this year.
Vettel finished fourth after a two-
stop tyre strategy backfired.
“It is not easy for any driver to
jump into a top team, let alone
Ferrari, and continually outper-
form, out-qualify and out-drive a
four-time world champion,” said
Hamilton of the sport’s latest race
winner.
“But Charles’s results speak for
themselves. There is a lot more
greatness to come from him and I
am looking forward to racing along-
side him in the future.”
*** 15
Norris: It could
have been me, it
starts shaking you
Whiting following his sudden death
By Philip Duncan in March.
Norris took advantage of a cha-
British teenager Lando Norris otic opening first corner in which
admitted he was left shaken by Max Verstappen collided with Kimi
Anthoine Hubert’s death at the Raikkonen. The incident allowed
Belgian Grand Prix. Norris to make up six places from
Norris, the 19-year-old McLaren his starting spot of 11th. That was
rookie, graduated from Formula
Two after finishing runner-up in
the feeder championship last year.
“I didn’t feel great ahead of
today’s race,” said Norris, who was
on course to finish a career-best
fifth before his McLaren hit trouble
on the final lap.
“What happened here on
Saturday could happen to any of us.
It could have been me last year
racing in Formula Two.
“When you think like that, it
starts shaking you. Maybe some
people take it better than others,
but I didn’t take it too well.
“At the end of the day, my job is to
race for the team. I still need to live
my life, move on and do things that
sometimes I don’t want to do. Paying respects: A tribute to Anthoine
“I wanted to race today, but at Hubert on Lewis Hamilton’s Mercedes
the same time I felt so sorry for
everyone involved. I don’t even like where he remained until he broke
talking about it. He was a racer like down following an engine failure
we all are but he was just the with just four miles of the race to
unlucky guy. run.
“It was something that is so rare, “I said the f-word very, very
but at the same time it could still loudly,” he added. “I am pretty sure
happen in Formula One.” people in the grandstands heard.”
The FIA, Formula One’s govern- The London-born Thai Alex
ing body, has opened an investiga- Albon assumed Norris’s fifth place
tion into Saturday’s tragedy. It will after battling back from 18th on his
work alongside Belgian authorities. impressive Red Bull debut.
The inquiry is being led by “If you told me I would finish
racing director Michael Masi, the fifth before the start of the week-
Australian who succeeded Charlie end, I would have taken it,” he said.
Results and standings
Spa-Francorchamps 44 Laps World Ch'ship Standings
1
Charles Leclerc Drivers
(Monaco) Ferrari
1 Lewis Hamilton (GB) 268pts
1hr 23mins 45.710secs
2 Valtteri Bottas (Finland) 203
2 Lewis Hamilton
(GB) Mercedes GP
1:23:46.691
3 Max Verstappen (Holland) 181
4 Sebastian Vettel (Germany) 169
5 Charles Leclerc (Monaco) 157
3 Valtteri Bottas
(Finland) Mercedes GP
1:23:58.295
4 Sebastian Vettel (Germany)
6 Pierre Gasly (France) 65
7 Carlos Sainz (Spain) 58
8 Daniil Kvyat (Russia) 33
9 Kimi Raikkonen (Finland) 31
Ferrari 1:24:12.132 10 Alexander Albon (Thailand) 26
5 Alexander Albon (Thailand) 11 Lando Norris (GB) 24
Red Bull 1:25:07.035
12 Daniel Ricciardo (Australia) 22
6 Sergio Perez (Mexico) 13 Sergio Perez (Mexico) 21
Racing Point 1:25:10.158
14 Nico Hulkenberg (Germany) 21
7 Daniil Kvyat (Russia)
15 Lance Stroll (Canada) 19
Scuderia Toro Rosso 1:25:15.367
16 Kevin Magnussen (Denmark) 18
8 Nico Hulkenberg (Germany)
17 Romain Grosjean (France) 8
Renault 1:25:32.349
18 Antonio Giovinazzi (Italy) 1
9 Pierre Gasly (France)
19 Robert Kubica (Poland) 1
Scuderia Toro Rosso 1:25:34.878
20 George Russell (GB) 0
10 Lance Stroll (Canada)
Racing Point 1:25:35.548 Manufacturers: 1 Mercedes GP 471pts, 2 Ferrari
326, 3 Red Bull 254, 4 McLaren 82, 5 Scuderia
11 Lando Norris (GB) McLaren at 1 lap; Toro Rosso 51, 6 Renault 43, 7 Racing Point 40,
12 Kevin Magnussen (Denmark) Haas F1 at 1 lap;
13 Romain Grosjean (France) Haas F1 at 1 lap;
8 Alfa Romeo Racing 32, 9 Haas F1 26,
10 Williams 1
14 Daniel Ricciardo (Australia) Renault at 1 lap;
2019 Race schedule
15 George Russell (GB) Williams at 1 lap;
16 Kimi Raikkonen (Finland) Alfa Romeo Racing at Italian Monza Sep 8
1 lap; 17 Robert Kubica (Poland) Williams at 1 lap; Singapore Marina Bay Sep 22
18 Antonio Giovinazzi (Italy) Alfa Romeo at 2 laps Russian Sochi Sep 29
Not Classified 19 Carlos Sainz (Spain) McLaren 1 Japanese Suzuka Oct 13
lap completed, 20 Max Verstappen (Holland) Red Mexican Mexico City Oct 27
Bull 0 laps completed United States Austin Nov 3
Fastest Lap Vettel 1:46.409 (36) Brazilian Sao Paulo Nov 17
Pole Leclerc 1:42.519 Abu Dhabi Yas Marina Dec 1
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Konta fights back from the
brink to edge past Pliskova
Simon Briggs
TENNIS
CORRESPONDENT
at Flushing Meadows
ws
Big-serving Czech held
off to reach the last eight
Battling display will rank
as one of best in career
Johanna Konta has pulled off some
magnificent wins at the majors this
year, but yesterday’s was arguably
the best of the lot: a comeback
from a set and a break down against
Karolina Pliskova, the big-serving
Czech who had beaten her in six of
their previous seven meetings.
The shots of Hollywood star
Tom Hiddleston holding his fist in
the air after the final point – which
saw Pliskova slam a forehand long
– might have given a hint as to the
inspiration that underlay this
result. Konta is normally serene
after a win, but this time she placed
her hand over her face in what
looked like disbelief.
The victory felt particularly spe-
cial, she said, because of “having
everyone here”.
It was a bumpy ride, especially
because Pliskova had burgled the
first set against the run of play, sur-
viving a lengthy sequence of break
points.
Standing 6ft 1in, with legs like
lamp-posts, she has the most lethal
serve on tour – and yesterday’s 16
aces carried her to the top of the
tournament table by a comfortable
margin.
But if Pliskova has been the most
dangerous server in this US Open,
then Konta has thumped more
winners off the ground than any-
one else – by an absolute street. At
the time of writing, she had hit 69
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off the forehand side and 39 off the Turnaround: Johanna Konta lost the
Top three backhand, with the second-high- first set and was a break down in the
on today est totals standing at 56 and 29 second, before a thrilling recovery
respectively.
The challenge yesterday was to ing serves that cracked the match
Naomi Osaka maintain that eyeballs-out aggres- open.
v Belinda sion when the prize at stake was so Pliskova dumped a drive volley
Bencic significant. Konta was looking to into the net off the first, then drove
World No 1 become the first Briton to reach a forehand long off the second,
plays Bencic, the quarter-finals here since Jo with the court at her mercy both
who has a 2-0 Durie in 1983, and it would have times.
winning been all too easy to ease off and With a glimmer of hope at 0-30,
head-to-head play the percentages. Konta finished off the break and
record She did in fact fall prey to this then held her own serve, under
against her temptation late in the first set, but enormous pressure, to the delight
and is back in Pliskova is a wily customer who of a large and passionate crowd on
form after can survive a long baseline rally Louis Armstrong Stadium. Perhaps
some with surprising ease, using those there was a slice of canny match
horrible stork-like legs to cover the court in management, too, in the way she
injuries. just a couple of strides. had changed the sweatbands on
The only way to beat her yester- her wrists before that Pliskova
Rafael Nadal day was to bombard her with sheer service game at 5-5, giving her
v Marin Cilic pace. And to Konta’s credit, she opponent a few extra seconds to
Second seed made that adjustment midway think.
Nadal has not through the second set, just when Konta’s reward was a 6-7, 6-3, 7-5
dropped a set things were beginning to look victory that will go down among
yet but 2014 bleak. her finest. Pliskova might have a
champion The final set, in particular, was a track record of underperforming
Cilic will take triumph both of technique and at the slams but she is also the third
confidence mental steel. Konta landed three- seed, and has already won three
from third- quarters of her first serves and WTA titles this year – one of them
round win maintained that fiery resolution to with a thumping victory over
over US No 1 strike first wherever possible, even Konta in the Madrid final.
John Isner. though the fact that Pliskova With a deeper run here, she
served first meant that she was would have had a shot of climbing
Taylor always coming from behind. to No 1 in the world for the second
Townsend v There was one moment when time.
Bianca Hiddleston – who is appearing on Konta’s first visit to the US Open
Andreescu Broadway and has attended two of quarter-finals means that she is
The serve- Konta’s four wins to date – plunged now part of the “Last Eight” club at
volleying his head into his hands after she each of the four slams. This is more
Townsend botched a smash. than just a catchphrase: former
has been one “I didn’t see it,” said Konta after- quarter-finalists are entitled to
of the wards, “but I think when people various privileges, including
feel-good come to support you, they’re living access to tickets for life.
stories but every moment of the match. It’s While Konta was clocking up
Andreescu’s normal for them to express emo- that second-week debut, Serena
variety and tion in every possible way. It’s Williams was moving into the last
touch will been good to have people here eight for the 16th time in her
make her a who are rooting for me”. extraordinary career with a com-
tough nut In the end, it was a couple of des- fortable 6-3, 6-4 win over Croatia’s
to crack. perate chipped returns off boom- Petra Martic.
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Osaka tugs at heartstrings as she

consoles crushed Gauff on court
By Simon Briggs

After a disputatious first week at

the US Open, Arthur Ashe Stadium
took on a very different mood on
Saturday night. An intriguing battle
between world No 1 Naomi Osaka
and 15-year-old Coco Gauff ended
in touching scenes as Osaka con-
soled her devastated opponent.
It is a sign of Gauff ’s potential
and high expectations that she felt
so crushed by a 6-3, 6-0 defeat at
the hands of the defending cham-

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pion. In fact, the first set had been
highly competitive, and kept the
fans – who filled every one of
Ashe’s 23,771 seats – screaming in
excitement throughout.
But Osaka admitted afterwards
that she had been more focused for
this contest than any other since
she won the Australian Open in
January. She gradually exposed the
creaky parts of Gauff ’s developing
game – especially a second serve
that missed its target almost a third
of the time.
Then, as the pair shook hands,
Osaka made an unusual decision.
She suggested to Gauff – who was
already tearful – that they should
perform the on-court interview to-
gether, rather than taking the spot-
light herself as convention suggests.
Agony and This was a hugely popular deci-
empathy: Naomi sion. One reason why there is such
Osaka (right) empathy between the pair is that
comforts Coco they both grew up training on pub-
Gauff lic courts in Delray Beach, Florida.
“I was around the later teenage
years,” Osaka explained later. “I feel
like we would get there around the
same time, maybe like 8am or
something.
“But she would train by herself,
then she would train with other
people. That was the crazy part to
me. She was, like, 10.”
Osaka became choked up when
she turned to Gauff ’s parents in the
stands and said: “You guys raised an
amazing player. For me, the fact
both of us made it is incredible.”

Federer casts doubt over Olympics

By Simon Briggs
After moving through to the quar-
ter-finals with an almost effortless
6-2, 6-2, 6-0 victory over 15th seed
David Goffin, Roger Federer ex-
pressed uncertainty about whether
he will compete at next year’s
Olympics in Tokyo.
Federer has been imperious here
in the past two rounds, dropping
only five games against Dan Evans
on Friday and then four yesterday.
But he remained cagey about his
scheduling – even though he has
confirmed that he will play the ATP
event in Tokyo next month.
“It’s still a year away,” Federer
said. “The time is slowly coming
around for me, in my mind, my
team, my family, to find out what’s
the best schedule after Wimbledon
next year.
“As I don’t know if I will be
playing, I don’t know the require-
ments,” added Federer, in reference
to the fact that a certain number of
Davis Cup appearances are re-
quired before a player has auto-
matic access to the Games.
Even so, it is hard to imagine the
International Tennis Federation
would block the world’s most popu-
Quick work: lar player from competing.
Roger Federer “The Olympics have always been
conceded just very memorable,” Federer said. “Ei-
four games to ther with carrying the flag, meeting
David Goffin my wife in 2000, winning gold.
“Naturally it’s always going to be
a possibility for me to play Tokyo if
there is an exemption. I don’t know
if I’m actually going to do it or not
because it all depends on family, on
scheduling, on body, on future.”
Federer will play Grigor Dim-
itrov, a former client of his manage-
ment stable Team 8, in the
quarter-finals after Dimitrov – who
used to be known as “Baby Fed” –
overcame Australia’s Alex de
Minaur in straight sets.
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Prop Evans out as

Gatland picks ‘best Josh Adams
(Cardiff Blues)
Age 24 Caps 13
Hallam Amos
(Cardiff Blues)
Age 24 Caps 20
Aled Davies
(Ospreys)
Age 27 Caps 19

World Cup squad’

Saracens’ Carre gets nod
after impressing in camp
Selections show strength
in depth, claims coach
By James Corrigan
Perhaps it is no surprise that War-
ren Gatland sent a few shock waves
through Wales by leaving out
Grand Slam winner Rob Evans and
picking the young, green hulk Rhys
Carre in the World Cup squad he
named yesterday. After all, the
Kiwi’s 11 years as national coach
have been anything but boring.
As his reign in the Principality
reaches its closing act – and what a
finale it could be in Japan – this is a
reminder that his actions can speak
even louder than his words. “We
are not afraid of anyone,” he said.
“This is the best squad we have
ever taken to a World Cup.”
It must be, if not only Evans is
deemed surplus to requirements
but also tighthead Samson Lee and
centre Scott Williams. Gatland con-
ceded that Carre over Evans had
been “the hardest call”.
It was almost unthinkable that
Evans would be overlooked for a
21-year-old who has not even been
first-choice loosehead for the Car-
diff Blues and whose international
experience amounts to the first 40
minutes in the defeat by Ireland
on Saturday.
Evans has won 35 caps since his
debut in 2015 and started all five Six
Nations matches this year as Gat-
land completed his third clean
sweep as Wales coach. Nobody ex-
pected this. Credit to Evans be-
cause Alan Phillips, the team
manager, revealed that the 27-year-
old was the first to appear on the
squad’s collective WhatsApp group
to congratulate the 31 who were se-
lected and to urge them forwards.
The reason for Evans’s demotion is
linked to his injury problems – he
underwent a shoulder operation in
April – and to the potential of Carre,
who has signed for Saracens.
“It was a massive call and it is
Rhys’s durability,” Gatland said.
“He carried well against Ireland
and scrummaged OK. He is 128kg
[20st] and is a big man and is only
going to get better. He came in at
138kg [22st] and was really strug-
gling but by the end [of the warm-
weather camp in Turkey last week]
he was beating the other props in
terms of fitness. He’s got some en-
gine on him – the progress that he
has made over the 13 weeks we have
had in camp has been phenomenal.
“Is it a risk? The thing when you
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group fixtures
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pick a youngster is you know you’re
going to go through some pain. He’s
learning and making mistakes, but
you need to see the long-term de-
velopment and often we haven’t
seen that in Wales because of [the
need for] results. It’s ironic some-
times that we’re developing players
at the international stage rather
than doing it at regional level.”
Gatland is going with only five
props, which is an eye-opener in it-
self. Wyn Jones, Evans’s Scarlets
team-mate and, invariably, his dep-
uty, can cover tighthead. Lee’s ab-
sence is another surprise. “Samson
has missed a few campaigns, had a
hamstring issue during the cam- Gareth Davies Jonathan Davies Leigh Halfpenny
paign,” Gatland said. “When we de- (Scarlets) (Scarlets) (Scarlets)
cided to go with the five props, one Age 29 Caps 43 Age 31 Caps 75 Age 30 Caps 81
of the big discussion points was
how durable they are.”
On the flank, James Davies must
have been fearing the worst, but as
one of the nation’s favourite charac-
ters there is widespread satisfaction
that the openside will join brother
Jonathan on the plane. Davies, a
member of Team GB’s silver-win-
ning sevens squad at the 2016
Olympics, can thank the fact that George North Hadleigh Parkes
Gatland has chosen to select six (Ospreys) (Scarlets)
back-rowers, with Aaron Shingler Age 27 Caps 85 Age 31 Caps 17
covering second row, should Cory
Hill not recover from a leg fracture.
This proves the importance of
27-year-old Hill. The Dragons lock
will not be available until the sec-
ond game – against Australia – at
the earliest, but Gatland is prepared
to wait for his main line-out caller.
No worries about durability there.
With an 18-13 forwards-backs
split, there are only two No 10s in Owen Watkin Tomos Williams Dan Biggar
the party, as Gatland had indicated (Ospreys) (Cardiff Blues). (Northampton)
beforehand, and it was obvious that Age 22 Caps 16 Age 24 Caps 8 Age 29 Caps 72
Rhys Patchell would be named
alongside Dan Biggar after making
such a difference in Saturday’s sec-
ond-half comeback. Jarrod Evans is
one for the future.
But where does Scott Williams go
next, after being snubbed in favour
of Owen Watkin? That is the thing
with the World Cup four-year cycle
– it does seem so final for those such
as Williams. But he is only 28 and
could still play a part in this World Liam Williams Rhys Patchell
Cup, of course, as could so many of (Saracens) (Scarlets)
the discarded. Age 28 Caps 56 Age 26 Caps 12
Elsewhere, Gatland resisted the
temptation to go with wing Owen
Lane, who impressed on his debut;
Hallam Amos earned the nod. “Our
strength in depth is shown by the
calibre of the players we are leaving
behind,” Gatland said. “I think this
Backs
squad is good enough to win the
World Cup.”

Stockdale believes Ireland are ‘back on track’ after

17
Wales It may have been a tentative step England inflicted with a 57-15 right out there, but I thought we A series of dominant tackles
rather than a stride in the right di- thrashing seven days previously. came out for the first half and ensured that Ireland were not bul-
rection, but Ireland have at least re- However, a much-changed played really well. lied for the second weekend in suc-

22
Ireland minded themselves of their
all-conquering 2018.
That was the view of resurgent
wing Jacob Stockdale, who scored
two of the visitors’ three tries as
By Charlie Morgan Wales eventually went down 22-17
at the Principality Stadium in the final home game of Warren
Gatland’s 12-year tenure.
Gatland had mischievously sug-
gested that his team could “derail”
Ireland’s Rugby World Cup prepa-
rations by picking at the scars that
Wales were overpowered for the
first hour, conceding a 22-3 lead,
and crippled throughout by a crum-
bling scrum. Although replacement
fly-half Rhys Patchell stirred a
steely comeback, Ireland held on.
“It was definitely a case that we
let ourselves down as much as any-
thing last week,” Stockdale said.
“We let an awful lot of other people
down. We just wanted to make sure
that we changed that. It didn’t all go
“There was a good energy, a good
bounce about us that we haven’t
seen for a while. We’re definitely
back on the right track.”
Significantly, Joe Schmidt had re-
instated James Ryan to the starting
line-up. Aided by strong outings
from loosehead prop David Kil-
coyne and stand-in captain Peter
O’Mahony, shifted to openside
flanker, the 23-year-old lock ex-
celled at the Principality Stadium.
cession. If fly-half Johnny Sexton,
poised to feature next weekend
against the same opponents, is
Schmidt’s chief strategist, Ryan is
his dynamic enforcer – a pivotal fig-
ure despite his tender years.
Stockdale’s display would have
been encouraging, too. The prolific
Ulster wing, who endured a tough
afternoon at Twickenham, sup-
ported Andrew Conway’s break to
bag a 15th Test try and made it 16 in
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Forwards

World Rugby must

act on the issue of
Jake Ball
(Scarlets)
Age 28 Caps 35
Adam Beard
(Ospreys)
Age 23 Caps 15
Rhys Carre
(Saracens)
Age 21 Caps 1
James Davies
(Scarlets)
Age 28 Caps 5
transgender players
rugby is hampered by a lack of
BRIAN scientific evidence. Current studies
are confined to purely athletic
MOORE measurements. There is little or no
rugby specific evidence and no
information on the issue of contact,
which differentiates it from other
sports. It is not surprising that
Elliot Dee Ryan Elias Tomas Francis Cory Hill rugby has followed athletics in its

J
(Dragons) (Scarlets) (Exeter) (Dragons)
Age 25 Caps21 Age 24 Caps 8 Age 27 Caps 42 Age 27 Caps 24
ust over a week ago BBC
Sport ran an article
about Kelly Morgan,
who was born Nicholas
Gareth Morgan, and
after transitioning to a
transgender female now plays in
Wales for Porth Harlequins Ladies.
If you doubt the divisiveness of this
issue, witness the debate on social
Wyn Jones Dillon Lewis Ross Moriarty Josh Navidi media. It is toxic even for a
(Scarlets) (Cardiff Blues) (Dragons) (Cardiff Blues) platform not known for civil
Age 27 Caps 14 Age 23 Caps 14 Age 25 Caps 33 Age 28 Caps 18 discussion. The rugby authorities
have to recognise how disruptive
this issue could be, and it must be
taken seriously, for many reasons.
Rugby, rightly, aims to be an
inclusive sport, but this will be
undermined if it does not get its
policy right on the issue of
transgender players. If it is not
careful the agenda will be dictated
by a variety of groups who do not
Ken Owens Aaron Shingler Nicky Smith care about the consequences for
(Scarlets) (Scarlets) (Ospreys) the game, provided their
view prevails.
Age 32 Caps 66 Age 32 Caps 20 Age 25 Caps 30
Despite there being very few
transgender rugby players, the
Morgan story attracted hysterical
comments like: “This is the death
of rugby.” I read many claims that
women’s rugby will be flooded by
men who suddenly decide to
become transgender so that they
can succeed when they could not
do so in men’s rugby.
As an initial observation, men do
not suddenly decide they want to
become transgender women. Even
a cursory glance at their stories
Alun Wyn Jones shows the decision is taken over
(Ospreys) time, frequently years. It often
Age 33 Caps 127 provokes ridicule, exclusion and,
Justin Tipuric Aaron in extreme cases, abuse and
(Ospreys) Wainwright violence. It is not a trivial decision.
Age 30 Caps 65 (Dragons) Many comments betray
Age 21 Caps 11 ignorance of the fact that in both
men’s and women’s rugby there are
disparities in the size, weight and
power of players, not least because
of the physical requirements of
policy for transgender females,
requiring them to take medication
to lower their testosterone levels to
a specified range before they
qualify to play women’s rugby.
The problem is this is not
universally accepted. Some
academics claim the range is
wrong and needs to be five times
lower to remove physical
advantages. They also point out
that transgender women retain the
advantages of denser bone
structure, greater muscle memory
and overall size. Bone density is
important in rugby, as it affects the
ability to absorb impacts.
It is not only the fairness of
competition; rugby has the added
dimension of physical safety. The
case of Smoldon v Whitworth and
Nolan (1997) ruled on the duty of
officials and governing bodies and
highlighted the issue of physical
disparity when considering safety.
Rugby has a duty to ensure players
For now it is wise to
restrict transgender
women to playing
non-contact rugby
are as safe as is reasonably
practical. Until rugby has better
information on this safety issue, it
would be wise to restrict
transgender women to playing
non-contact rugby. This would be
allowed by section 195 of the
Equalities Act 2010, which makes it
lawful to restrict the participation
of transsexual people to uphold fair
or safe competition.
Two of my four daughters have
played rugby and women’s rugby
has my total support. It accounts
for more than a quarter of the
global playing population and
participation in England has grown
28 per cent since 2017. These

ruining coach’s home finale different positions. This does not

21 caps after hacking through an
errant offload from Aaron Shingler
and gathering ahead of Hallam
Amos.
While an impish kick-pass from
Jarrod Evans lobbed him and found
Wales debutant Owen Lane, Stock-
dale delivered a sturdier defensive
effort that included a breakdown
turnover.
“You feed off players around
you,” added Stockdale, withdrawn
by Schmidt at half-time. “You try
and make the players around you
feel good and they try and do the
same and the best way to do that is
have energy.”
Referee Romain Poite lost pa-
tience with Wales’ scrum, yellow-
carding prop Leon Brown in the
52nd minute and awarding Ireland
a penalty try soon afterwards.
That would be a belated cue for
Wales to rouse themselves. Patch-
ell, having replaced Jarrod Evans at
the break, promptly played his way
into Gatland’s Rugby World Cup
squad. He swung wide, crisp passes
that stretched Ireland. Another
bench man, burly Jake Ball, im-
pressed with more muscular con-
tributions.
Lane slalomed over out wide to
mark his maiden cap with a try and
Patchell darted inside Garry
Ringrose to score late on. Ireland
finished slightly flat, yet survived.
Schmidt is expected to inform
World Rugby of his 31-man party
for Japan today, announcing it pub-
licly next Monday following an-
other encounter with Wales. On
Saturday evening, he labelled the
process of culling Ireland’s wider
squad as “horrible”.
automatically make rugby unsafe
for smaller, lighter or less powerful
players and contact sports involve
the risk of injury.
These comments should not be
ignored, because left unchallenged
they become accepted wisdom.
Women’s rugby has had to fight
hard to overcome the impression
that it is not suitable for females
because of the collisions that are an
intrinsic part of the game. This
struggle will be far more difficult if
people believe that transgender
women render the game unsafe
because of their physical
superiority.
Making informed decisions
about transgender females playing
achievements could be jeopardised
by just one incident of serious
injury or one successful legal
action caused by participation of a
transgender woman.
Legally, morally and for the good
of women’s rugby, World Rugby
needs to act now. As soon as
comprehensive research shows it
is possible to put transgender
female rugby players in a position
where they pose no greater risk of
harm than natal females, they
should be able to play full contact
and be welcomed into an inclusive
sport that has a good record of
accommodating lesbian and gay
people. Those who still disagree
should be honest and admit their
real agenda is not safety.
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Business helping Kruis on and off the pitch
E XC LU S I V E I N T E RV I EW
Entrepreneurial spirit
has helped take the
England lock up a level,
W
he tells Charlie Morgan
ithout wishing
to disparage
either party, it is
not easy to
imagine Dan
Bilzerian and
George Kruis in the same room.
One is an unashamedly
ostentatious, poker-playing
international playboy who supplies
photos of scantily-clad women to
his 28 million Instagram followers.
The other, a more understated
character, hit close to 140 rucks
during the 2019 Six Nations –
roughly one in every three that
England accumulated while in
possession over the tournament –
and is poised for an influential role
at the World Cup in Japan.
Both men did attend this
summer’s Europe CBD Expo in
London, an annual event that aims
to forge connections between
those working in the cannabis
industry. Kruis was networking on
behalf of the business he founded
with former team-mate Dominic
Day, fourfivecbd, which sells
painkilling products manufactured
from CBD (cannabidiol). Bilzerian,
having recently launched his own
range, passed through on a
promotional tour.
The pair did not meet properly.
A curious Kruis merely caught
sight of Bilzerian briefly.
Regardless, the Saracens lock
believes entrepreneurial pursuits
provide a healthy balance to his life
that has helped performance.
“I thought it was quite cliched
before,” he ponders. “But the more
I think about it, the more [business
commitments] have helped me off
the field and on it as well.
Especially when you are injured.
“Quite a big thing I’ve found is
that you can talk about something
other than rugby. After 10 or 12
years, that’s refreshing.”
Kruis does not turn 30 until
February, but it is a decade since
his first-team debut for Saracens
and he is a seasoned professional
with silverware – and scars – to
Townsend’s discipline problem highlighted by Georgian brute force
10
Georgia
44
Scotland
Gregor Townsend admits his side
need to improve their discipline
after seeing Georgia force penalty
after penalty out of Scotland.
The Dark Blues were never in
any trouble of losing to the Lelos in
Tbilisi as they cruised to a 44-10 tri-
umph.
But with less than a month to go
before his side kick-off their World
Cup campaign against Ireland in
Yokohama, Townsend, who is due
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‘You can talk about
something other
than rugby. After
10 or 12 years,
that’s refreshing’
prove as much. During an epic
European Champions Cup final
victory over Leinster in May, he
rolled his right ankle.
Despite battling to the end of the
season, helping Saracens thump
Gloucester in the Premiership
semi-final and then edge out
Exeter at Twickenham, Kruis opted
to undergo surgery in June. The
operation inserted “a couple of
fake ligaments” to stabilise the
to name his squad tomorrow, was
concerned to see his players cough
up numerous penalties as the
Georgians’ brute force gave his
men problems.
Now he says that will be one of
the areas the Scots focus on as the
clock ticks down to their Japan
2019 opener.
Speaking after the Finn Russell-
inspired victory, Townsend, who
welcomes the Georgians back to
Edinburgh for their final warm-up
clash on Friday, told BBC Radio
Scotland: “I saw what I wanted to
tonight. We knew we’d be tested in
defence around the ruck area, that
we’d be tested on our line-out maul.
joint, something he explains matter
of factly. Kruis does not seem
squeamish.
That was the third time he had
gone under the knife to repair
ankle damage, the previous
occasion ruling him out of last
year’s tour to South Africa and
capping a disappointing season
following on from the British and
Irish Lions tour to New Zealand.
Feeling far sharper for the 2018-19
campaign, he excelled.
“I felt like I was playing some of
my better rugby,” says Kruis ahead
of Friday’s Quilter International
against Italy in Newcastle. “I’d be
kidding myself if I said that I was at
the same level the year before.”
When it comes to discussing his
own form, Kruis does not get much
more animated than that.
Late decisions:
Gregor Townsend
names Scotland’s
World Cup squad
tomorrow
“While there are still areas to
improve there, I thought that was a
big step up. Our attack game got
going. I still think there’s things we
can do better but we did see where
the space was, whether that be by
moving the ball wide or chipping
over the defence.
“It was great to see some of the
back-line players get on the ball. It
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Strategic: George Kruis studies the
game during the recent defeat to Wales
Two things about the most
recent Six Nations sum up what he
brings to the England set-up. The
first is a statistic. According to
Opta, Kruis made effective
was a real good performance for
maybe the first 20 or 30 minutes.
“After that, we know we didn’t
apply ourselves as well. The opposi-
tion came back into the game and
we gave away a few penalties.
That’s what we’ll be working on.”
Russell stole the limelight for the
Scots on their final audition before
Townsend announces who has
made the cut. The Racing 92
maverick had a hand in four tries
before the head coach decided
there was no point taking any
further risks with his health and
replaced him with 18 minutes left.
Ben Toolis crossed over first in-
side a quarter of an hour before
contributions at 136 attacking
rucks over five matches – including
31 clear-outs in the 51 minutes
before he was replaced in Dublin.
No other player came within 10.
“I know my role within the
team,” he adds. “I’m not going to be
making line-breaks, I’m not going
to be scoring tries. I’ve fully
accepted that. Someone like Billy
Vunipola might ask you how many
rucks you’ve hit knowing full well
that he has done all the carrying
and the exciting stuff.
“I embrace it. Focusing on
making the most of every impact is
something I’ve tried to do.”
The second Six Nations snapshot
comes from the final minute of a
57-14 win over Italy. Kruis had
already scored his second Test try
after charging down Jayden
Hayward on the hour mark.
Around 20 minutes later, still
harrying the Azurri on their own
try-line, he blocked a box-kick
from scrum-half Tito Tebaldi. The
ball looped to Brad Shields, who
touched down. Clenching both
fists, Kruis celebrated wildly.
“I was probably happy because
you might do 100 of those and one
will come off. It’s more of a long
game. But then I understand that
of those 100, even if you don’t get
[the charge-down], a lot of them
will have an effect on how the kick
is kicked.
“Then your back three might be
in a better position to run it back –
there’s a reason [you do it]. As I say,
I know my role.”
Saracens wanted to be admired
for their mental and physical
toughness last season. “There has
to be a realisation that the game is
not lost until it actually is,” says
Kruis, remembering one simple
but uncompromising message. He
and his club colleagues in the
national set-up – Jamie George,
Billy and Mako Vunipola, Maro
Itoje, Owen Farrell – backed that
up by coming from behind in two
deciders in club colours.
It will need a similar blend of
resolve and composure for England
to achieve what they want to at
Rugby World Cup 2019.
Determined, dependable and
diligent, Kruis can set the standard.
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Northampton centre Rory Hutch-
inson did his chances of going to
Japan no harm as he marked his
first start with a double.
Forward Karen Asiesvili pulled
one back for Georgia but Darcy
Graham and Scott Cummings
completed a win which will have
helped make up Townsend’s mind
on a number of big decisions.
Townsend believes their expedi-
tion to the Caucasus was just what
they needed as they prepare for the
World Cup. “The fact we went to a
different venue with a noisy home
support with a team we’re not used
to playing and adapted well is en-
couraging,” he said.
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Knight’s tough
summer ends
in final flourish
K I A S U P E R L E AG U E
Isabelle
Westbury
at Hove
Unbeaten 78 clinches
Western Storm victory
England captain back to
her best after Ashes loss
If Ben Stokes was in, England’s men
had a chance. If Heather Knight is
in, Western Storm do too. As the
England captain reservedly raised
her bat to the crowd for her 38-ball
50, it was not quite in the guise of
Stokes last week, so intent on the
task at hand that he failed to
acknowledge his century landmark
at all. But it was close. Knight is a
woman with a lot to prove, and in a
hurry to do so.
An Ashes humiliation, a coach
subsequently removed and Knight
the one still standing. What the
crowd was offered at Hove, as au-
tumn begins and the fourth and fi-
nal version of the Kia Super League
ends, was Knight back at her best,
and at the very first opportunity.
Her unbeaten 78 in an improba-
ble chase showed that Knight has
the mettle to succeed for a long
Finals day results
Semi-final
Loughborough Lightning 143
Southern Vipers 145-5
Southern Vipers won by 5 wkts
Final
Southern Vipers 172-7
Western Storm 174-4
Western Storm won by 6 wkts
time to come. She will need a holi-
day first, as she joked post-match,
but she will be back.
As for the Storm, dominant in the
group stage, the most consistent
performers over the short-lived life
of the KSL, they were deserved
winners of the tournament’s de-
nouement, the closing scene before
the Hundred replaces it next year.
A record chase, a captain’s knock,
the sun setting on a turbulent sum-
mer of English cricket. This is how
endings are meant to be.
We saw the steely intent as
Knight muscled full deliveries skil-
fully over extra cover. We had the
touch and timing as she planted her
front foot, using the pace and angle
of the Southern Vipers’ seam attack
to guide the ball over backward
square leg. And we saw the confi-
dence and fleetness of foot as she
danced down the track to any spin-
ner who erred in line or length. As
Knight skipped to 16 runs, a drop
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and run in the fifth over, she be-
came the first, and now only,
woman to hit 1,000 career runs in
the Super League. A personal land-
mark but, at that stage in the game,
unlikely to have even crossed her
mind – so far behind the rate did
Western Storm appear to be.
When the Storm’s Smriti
Mandhana, star of last year’s tour-
nament but underachiever in this
one, fell first ball to Tash Farrant
(two for 19) with only two runs
scored, 172 looked a towering chase.
The Storm had just conceded
their equal-highest number of
runs, and to win would require the
highest successful run chase in a
knockout game. When Rachel
Priest – big hitting, clean clubbing
Rachel Priest – fell not long after,
the headlines were being written.
Danni Wyatt’s 28-ball half-century
and 73 in all, the tournament’s lead-
ing run scorer, had surely steered
the Southern Vipers to victory. Not
in Knight’s world.
PA
“I thought that they were on for
200-plus at one point, the way that Champions:
Danni and Tammy [Beaumont] Western Storm’s
were going,” conceded Knight. Heather Knight
“When they were in the middle, it celebrates
was a very good track, really hard with the Super
to defend, really hard to stop the League trophy
flow of runs. But I thought we – the Storm’s
bowled outstandingly. Freya second in four
[Davies] and Anya [Shrubsole] years – after
pulled it back nicely, managed to her superb
pick up a few wickets. We knew if match-winning
one of the top four was there at the innings (below)
end we were in with a good chance,
so I’m delighted it was me and
happy to pick up the trophy.”
Chapeau, too, to Deepti Sharma
(39 not out from 22). If Stokes had
Jack Leach, then Knight had a
more-than-able accomplice in the
Indian all-rounder. In just her first
overseas tournament, Sharma has
been denied much of a chance to
bat this season, so dominant and
consistent have the Storm’s top
five been. But she was ready, and
waiting, and with a comforting
thwack of the bat first ball,
four runs, Knight exhaled
in relief – it was not all on
her to do it alone.
“When she came in
she took the pressure off
me massively” Knight
said. “And that’s when it
became quite an easy
equation. That’s actually
the point when I started to
get nervous! But I’m just
delighted that we were able
to do that in a high-pressure
situation and what a final to
finish off the competition.”
It has been a tough season
for England’s women and
next year carries a lot of
uncertainty. But there is
hope, too. With Knight at
the helm, a steely
expression and a glint in
her eye, this is a woman
just getting started.
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‘Archer can beat
Australia with
reverse swing –
like I did in 2005’

I
t was one of the images of
Simon Jones starred at the 2005 Ashes series. A
Old Trafford 14 years ago huge crowd at Old
Trafford as Simon Jones
and tells Nick Hoult the bent the ball in from way
England paceman can outside off stump to
smash into the wickets of
shine there this week Michael Clarke, who was
so flummoxed by the
reverse swing he shouldered arms.
Reverse swing dominated that
golden summer, with Jones and
Andrew Flintoff brilliant
exponents of unplayable deliveries
that Australia never managed to
counter successfully.
Jones has retired now, but was
back at Old Trafford last week
where he believes reverse swing
could play a part for the first time
in this current Specsavers Ashes
series – making Jofra Archer even
more dangerous for England.
Archer was in Hove on Friday
practising with the Dukes ball and
making it swing. Coaches at Sussex
say he can bowl reverse and if he
Conditions in the series so far
Ashes have worked against reverse. It
deciders was too wet at Edgbaston and
Lord’s, while Headingley is a soft
Fourth Test pitch that does not abrade the ball.
Old Trafford But Old Trafford and the Oval will
From be better suited, especially if the
Wednesday, weather remains dry, and
11am Australian batsmen have a history
of struggling to handle reverse
Fifth Test swing.
Kia Oval Jones looks as fit as when he
Thursday Sept took seven wickets, including six
12, 11am for 53 in the first innings, during
that dramatic drawn Test in
Manchester 14 years ago when
Ashes fever gripped the country
and thousands were locked out on
the final day, unable to buy a ticket.
Jones said it was the only time he
warmed up an hour before play in
front of a full house. It was the
moment when the players realised
they were in the middle of a special
summer.
The World Cup triumph and Ben
Stokes’s heroics at Headingley to
PA

can start making the old ball talk at
speeds above 90mph then it will
complete him as the all-round
fast-bowling package.
Old Trafford is the hardest pitch
in the country. It has pace and
carry, but it is abrasive too. The
recent hot spell should also have
dried out the used pitches next to
the Test strip, making it easier for
the ball to be scuffed up – thus
promoting reverse swing.
‘It will
always
be in the
level the Ashes 1-1 have led to
comparisons with 2005 for the way
the Ashes has once again become a
topic of national conversation. But
while Stokes is playing the Flintoff
role, can Archer reprise Jones and
be a threat with new and old ball?
“Of course he can reverse it,”
Jones told The Telegraph. “He has
played in all different conditions in
different countries, and it is when
you rub shoulders with guys in
different leagues they give you
advice and you learn skills like
reverse swing. He has the talent
and cricket brain to make the most
of reverse. Old Trafford is a great
place to bowl reverse swing. If he
can get the ball reversing both
The battle with Steve Smith will Flashback:
be the headline moment of the England’s Simon
next Test. Smith has dismissed Jones celebrates
suggestions Archer has a taking the wicket
psychological hold over him after of Australia’s
hitting him on the neck and Michael Clarke
leaving him with concussion. during the
“Jofra has now had a week off, memorable third
so he should be fresh,” Jones said. Ashes Test at Old
“The Aussies will know that and Trafford in 2005,
they will fear it because he has had when he took
such an immense impact on the seven wickets;
series. I have no worries about and (far left) back
him. His action is so beautiful. It is in Manchester
so easy. It does not look like there ahead of the
is any stress on his body. He is so fourth Test last
easy at the crease, he has a quick
arm. He is tall, so he gets that
week

back of a ways then he is the complete

business because of his extra pace.”
batter’s Jones admits he struggled to
sleep in 2005, could not eat and
mind lost weight due to the tension of
if they that summer. He never played for
England again after bowling
have himself into the ground at Old
Trafford and in the fourth Test at
been hit. Trent Bridge. He worries about
I don’t England over-bowling Archer, but
believes the Sussex man has the
care who lithe athleticism and laid-back
personality to cope better with the
they are ’ workload and stress.
extra bounce.
“For me the bouncer is the
dangerous ball because of its
length. It is not that short, and that
is where batters get in trouble. It is
coming at them at that awkward
height of the throat or face. He
knows when to bowl it and doesn’t
overdo it. He can also pitch the ball
up and swing it, so he has
everything. England just need to
look after him and he will have a
lengthy and successful career.
“I love the way he is so relaxed.
He has taken to it like a duck to
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water. He does not look fazed by
anything. He looks like he enjoys
himself. For instance, in that last
Test he grabbed the inflatable ball
and threw it back into the crowd.
That shows how relaxed he is.
Players in the past have got caught
up in the emotion and playing in an
Ashes series has really got to them.
But he is not one of those people.”
Archer preferred to pitch the
ball up at Headingley, but still
clunked Marnus Labuschagne on
the head when he went short in the
second innings. Jones says he must
dish it out again to Smith.
“Massively, yes. Give him more
of the same,” he said. “It is always
in the back of a batter’s mind when
they have been hit. I don’t care
who they are. If they say it is not in
the back of their mind, then they
are lying. It is always there and
always will be.
“I know Smith has said, ‘He has
not got me out’ and Archer said,
‘He was not there long enough to
get him out’. It is good for the
game, good for the build-up and
I’m sure Jofra will go after him as
soon as he gets the chance.”
Jones, now 40, struggled, as so
many do, when he retired six years
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ago after injuries took their toll on
his body. He moved away from
cricket but is now back in the
game, studying for his level-three
coaching badge, working in a
private school in Cardiff and
applying for jobs in county cricket.
With the Hundred competition
starting next year, the England and
Wales Cricket Board has missed a
trick by not involving the 2005
squad. The number of foreign
overseas head coaches has caused a
stir, but it could be clawed back if a
few more young English coaches
are given back-room jobs.
“It is still difficult at times. I do
miss the routine. I am applying for
different roles at the moment and
hopefully when I get one of those
and have some success, life will be
a bit easier,” said Jones.
“Just being self employed can be
tough at times. I am still involved
in the game, so that is great.
“I spent time away from the
game due to nature of injuries I
had and frustrations I felt in my
last year. I needed time away. I did
not like being around the players
or watching cricket when I
finished. It brought back stuff that
reminded me of the tough days.
But now I have had six years
away I have slowly reintegrated
into the game and found my love
for it again.
“I am desperate to be a fast-
bowling coach at one of the
counties. I feel as if I have a lot to
offer with experience and skill sets
from my career.
“You get some coaches that have
not experienced the highs and lows
of playing professional sport. I’ve
been there and experienced both.
It can be the best thing in the
world one minute, but then it can
be the worst place to be and until
you have experienced that you
can’t really advise someone,
encourage them or give support.
The fact I can relate to players is
the biggest thing.
“The coaches they have got for
the Hundred are vastly
experienced and very good, but it
would have been nice to see some
British people involved. It is a little
bit sad that people are not used.
But I will finish my level three and
see where it goes.”
Simon Jones was speaking on behalf
of Specsavers, the Official Test
Partner of the England cricket team.
Stokes pleaded
to be reinstated
as vice-captain
All-rounder badgered us
for the role, says Giles
Team director hopeful
Anderson will return
By Isabelle Westbury
Ben Stokes lobbied England’s man-
agement for a return as Test vice-
captain, a position he was stripped
of in late 2017 following a late-night
brawl in Bristol, Ashley Giles has
revealed.
Giles, the national team director,
said yesterday that it was Stokes
who had approached both him and
Tom Harrison, the chief executive
of the England and Wales Cricket
Board, to reprise the role, rather
than the other way around.
“It is [an incredible turnaround],”
explained Giles, of the 12 months
since August 2018 when Stokes was
cleared of affray following charges
brought after the Bristol incident.
“And this is one of the responses
that we want to see, really.
“It was actually Ben Stokes who
was badgering away as well about
having the vice-captaincy back,
because this means so much to him.
Not just the vice-captaincy, but the
Ashes series, Test cricket and he
believes that as Joe [Root’s] right-
hand man he can deliver for him,
and he is demonstrating that pretty
well at the moment.
“He badgered myself and Tom
Harrison. He was desperate to do it.
He really is one of your warriors
when you take to the field. And he
has demonstrated that a couple of
times this year at least, and on two
of the biggest stages in the World
Cup final and last week in the Test
match. He is almost, when you
write the team down, going to be
your first name on the list.”
The renewed maturity – and
responsibility – has suited Stokes
and his evolving game this summer.
However, it was not immediately
clear that the Durham all-rounder
would react well to such an eleva-
tion. Even when he was announced
as vice-captain in July, there were
worries that he was trying too hard
to redeem himself of his past
actions, and fears of burnout were
voiced. Against India last year,
there were occasions where his
eagerness to impress appeared at
odds with the Test mentality
required to succeed.
These issues seem to have been
ironed out. “I love having that
responsibility,” insisted Stokes
when he was appointed. “It is
something that I thoroughly enjoy
doing. I take pride in being vice-
captain. Being part of that think-
tank is pretty cool.”
Giles, meanwhile, is optimistic
about England’s prospects for the
rest of the Ashes series following
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Stokes’s unbeaten 135 at Heading-
ley last weekend. His heroics in
Leeds mean the series is level at 1-1
going into the final two Tests – an
unlikely prospect when England
were bowled out for 67 in their first
innings at Headingley.
“What sport can deliver in terms
of drama, joy, ecstasy, despair. I
don’t think there is anything quite
like it and last weekend had all of
that in a day, it felt like,” the 2005
Ashes winner said on BBC’s
Sportsweek radio programme.
“Morale wise, being back in the
series, that’s how fine the lines are.
We could [have been] looking at
some very different interviews
[last] Monday and Tuesday. We are
very much back in the Ashes series
now and I’m sure that the guys will
be full of confidence. And just that
performance that Ben Stokes deliv-
ered, I’m sure it will raise everyone
else as well.”
Following the news that James
Anderson has had to withdraw
from the rest of the Ashes series
after a recurrence of the calf injury
that had sidelined him since
bowling just four overs on the first
day of the first Test, Giles remains
sanguine.
Responsibility:
Ben Stokes was
handed back the
vice-captaincy
before the Ashes
“Jimmy will be desperate really
[to return],” said Giles, before
admitting that he was not sure how
long he would be out for.
“He was obviously looking for-
ward to this series and had worked
so hard to try and get back for these
last two Test matches. I would hope
that there is enough time leading to
New Zealand for Jimmy to be fit,”
he continued, referring to Eng-
land’s next Test series, which starts
in late November following a series
of tour matches and five T20 inter-
nationals. After the tour of New
Zealand, England will travel to
South Africa, with the first of four
Tests starting on Boxing Day.
“In terms of strategy, we have got
a couple of options really. We are in
the year of a T20 World Cup, so we
could play our best T20 team and
give our guys a break from Test
cricket.
“But if you look at it the other
way around, most of our top players
play a lot of T20 cricket already.
We’ve talked a lot about refocusing
on red-ball cricket, maybe it’s an
opportunity to play a really strong
team in those Test matches,
particularly leading into a South
Africa series which follows on
almost a week or 10 days later.
We’re still juggling with that at the
moment. I do hope Jimmy is
available.”
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Sport Boxing

Lomachenko lesson just ‘seven out of 10’

Champion is harsh critic
as Campbell earns credit
Edwards keeps title after
‘VAR’ overturns decision
By Gareth A Davies BOXING
CORRESPONDENT at the O2 Arena

Vasyl Lomachenko marked himself

as “seven out of 10” in defeating
Luke Campbell in their riveting
world lightweight title clash in Lon-
don on Saturday. The Hull fighter
pledged that he would be back “to
become a world champion”, mean-
while history was made as the
sport’s version of the video assistant
referee was used in a championship
fight for the first time in the UK.
On a night British fans witnessed
the leading technical fighter in the
world, Lomachenko, a double
Olympic gold medallist who has
dominated the professional sport in
three weight division in just 15
fights, proved once more he is near
unbeatable due to his physical gifts
and knowledge of the art of boxing.
And yet Campbell was a willing,
thrilling dance partner, in spite of
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being hurt in the fifth round and

dropped in the 11th.
Lomachenko – known as “The
Matrix” – won a landslide decision
on the cards – 119-108 on two, 118-
109 on the third – and if he has
flaws, it is not clear who will find
them. There was the finest of
chances that Campbell’s height and
reach advantages, as well as his
identical southpaw stance, might
give him an edge, but it simply led
to a non-stop brutal chess match of
dancing feet and flashing fists.
Fifteen million fans – half of the
population in Ukraine – were watch-
ing on free state television, while the
O2 Arena was sold out. “There is one
genius in this group, and that is Ana-
toly, Loma’s father,” said Bob Arum,
the American promoter, continuing
to make the comparison in skills be-
tween Lomachenko and Muham-
mad Ali. “The atmosphere in London
is better than in Las Vegas. The Brit-
ish fans are so knowledgeable.”
Brutal examination: Vasyl Lomachenko goes to work on Luke Campbell’s body as the Ukrainian shows his array of skills en route to a landslide decision in London
The reigning champion himself?
“Am I pleased [with the perfor-
mance]? I want to see my fight on
TV, and after I will understand,” he
said. “I promise I’ll come back to
the UK, with the best fans in the
world. I give myself seven out of
10.”
But that was credit to Campbell.
“Last night was one hell of a battle,”
he said yesterday after being taken
to hospital as a precaution on Satur-
day night, having taken 211 punches.
“I’m gutted it didn’t go my way
but respect to Loma. Nothing is
worse than the pain of a loss, but
this will not stop me, I will be back
and I will be world champion.”
Campbell’s stock will have risen
after a brilliant technical perfor-
mance. The event also marked the
first time at a fight in Britain that an
instant replay was used – effectively
VAR – to reverse a decision in a
world-title fight. It was used by the
World Boxing Council and was
effective in overturning a fight
involving London’s Charlie
Edwards, who was defending his
world flyweight title against Mexi-
can Julio Cesar Martinez Aguilar.
The champion was hurt and went
to the ground after a ferocious body
assault in the third round.
Mark Lyson, the referee, counted
Edwards out and called the fight
over, although replays showed that
Edwards had been punched in the
ribs by a left hand when he was al-
ready on his knees. “I’ve never seen
anything like that before, I think it
was completely the right thing to
do,” said the promoter Eddie Hearn.
Mauricio Sulaiman, president of
the WBC, who was ringside,
explained yesterday it was “obvious
a decision needed to be made” and
that it was done “after consulting
briefly with the WBC supervisory
team”, also beside the ring. “We
have done it before, and many other
sports do this, so why shouldn’t
we?” he added
Elsewhere, another riveting class
of elite fighters was announced for
Oct 26 at the O2, where light-
welterweights Josh Taylor and
Regis Prograis meet in the final of
the World Boxing Super Series.
American Prograis (24-0, 20 KOs)
and Scotland’s Taylor (15-0, 12 KOs)
meet with chief support from heav-
yweights Joseph Parker, the former
World Boxing Organisation cham-
pion, and Dereck Chisora. “It has
always been a dream for me to fight
in London,” Prograis said. “I can’t
wait to go and put on a show. I know
once they [UK fans] see me fight
they’ll be fans for life.”
Taylor, the International Boxing
Federation world champion, added:
“I want to take on the best fighters.
Now it’s finally over the line I can
concentrate on getting to work in
the gym. I’m very confident that I
can both outbox him and outfight
him. I believe that I am the best
fighter in the division and now it’s
time to prove it.”

Sadness as Bradford fans bid farewell to iconic Odsal home after 85 years
R U G BY L E AG U E victory against Sheffield Eagles
marked the end of an era.
Raw emotion dripped from
The emotion was raw as every corner of Odsal, a decaying
the troubled Bulls left but unique amphitheatre.
In 1954 it housed a then world-
their historic stadium, record crowd of 102,569 but a
writes Ross Heppenstall ground where the ashes of several
the 7,531 crowd at how it had come redundant but worked without
Super League Leeds take to this. Early in the millennium, pay for three months.
Bradford reached five successive After a third spell in
huge step towards safety Super League Grand Finals and administration in November 2016
won three of them. They did the came liquidation and an
Leeds interim “It was a tough treble in 2003 and were World unthinkable fall into the third tier.
coach Richard game and pitch Club champions three times during In January 2017, the reformed club
Agar said his and I’m highly that glorious era. were handed to Chalmers.

A
generations of Bradford supporters side took a delighted the Since 2012, however, Bradford The RFL owns the lease on Odsal
are scattered will now close after giant leap boys stuck have suffered three but now has no tenant and closure
s hundreds, if not owner Andrew Chalmers said he towards together and administrations, two relegations of the site will lead to numerous
thousands, of Bradford could no longer afford its rates, survival with a stuck through and a liquidation. Various owners Bradford employees losing their
Bulls supporters rent and maintenance. 36-10 victory at it,” Agar said. “I have talked about returning the jobs. With only 14 players
descended on the More alarming still is the club London know that club to their former glories but contracted for next season and
pitch at the final being placed in special measures Broncos. The mathematically none have delivered. coach John Kear unable to sign
hooter, it did not look by the Rugby Football League due win gives we’re still not Odsal itself and its associated anyone while the club remains in
or feel like a club ready to part to concerns over their financial Leeds a safe but it’s a costs has partly proved the club’s special measures, the future
company with their iconic home of sustainability. four-point fair old swing undoing. In 2012, the RFL bought remains uncertain. Despite this
85 years. From next season, the Bulls will cushion over with two the lease on the stadium from the victory, Bradford’s play-off hopes
Rugby league’s fallen giants have share a ground with Dewsbury their hosts, games and two Bulls and later that year came the ended due to results elsewhere.
suffered an extraordinary fall from Rams some 10 miles away and with a further other teams first financial meltdown and spell Kear said: “It is sad to be leaving
grace during the past decade and outside the Bradford district. three teams battling each in administration. The club’s Odsal, but we have just got to keep
yesterday’s 30-10 Championship There was great sadness among between them. other.” entire coaching staff were made this club alive and kicking.”
The Daily Telegraph Monday 2 September 2019
Lake finds her
voice in looking
to become a role
model for Tokyo
E XC LU S I V E I N T E RV I EW
Charlie Eccleshare
hare
The gifted high jumper,
one of The Telegraph
Eight, is willing to have
her say beyond athletics
I
f something is bothering
Morgan Lake, she will have
no hesitation about saying so.
It is not that the young
British high jumper is
confrontational – far from it
– it is just that she is determined to
use her profile to send a positive
message.
A quick glance at her social-
media presence illustrates that
this is someone who refuses to trot
out sponsor-approved platitudes.
Instead subjects as diverse as
climate change, prejudice and
poaching have all appeared on
Lake’s Twitter account over the
past few months. As someone who
juggles her status as a British
Olympian with studying for a
psychology degree at
Loughborough University, Lake is
well practised at learning about a
range of different topics.
When we meet to discuss her
chances at the World
Championships that begin in Doha
this month, she is similarly
engaging. Naturally Lake, 22, is
determined to make good on the
enormous potential that brought
her two junior world
championships gold medals five
years ago, but there are also more
important issues to discuss.
Take body image, which
continues to be an unhealthy
preoccupation for those
commenting on women’s sport. “A
lot of the time in women’s sport, if
someone isn’t performing as well
a lot of people will say it’s because
they’ve put on weight,” Lake says.
“They don’t do the same kind of
thing for men. With a man they’ll
tiptoe around it, try and find every
other excuse – whereas a woman
they’d say, ‘You looked heavy so
that’s why you didn’t jump well’.”
For Lake, jumping well or not
should be the focus – and it has
been a mixed year in that regard.
Having switched from heptathlon
to high jump – where she finished
10th in Rio – Lake began this
year strongly and equalled the
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The Telegraph
Tokyo Eight
‹ Morgan Lake is one of eight
specially chosen athletes whose
progress Telegraph Sport will be
tracking and who will be
contributing to our pages in the
build-up to the Olympic and
Paralympic Games next year.
The other athletes, with a vast
range of backgrounds and ages,
but united by the dream of glory
in Japan, are boxer Frazer
Clarke, 11 year-old skateboarder
Sky Brown, Paratriathlete Joe
Townsend, cyclist Ethan Hayter,
Alice Tai, a Paralympic swimmer,
climber Shauna Coxsey and
gymnast Nile Wilson.
coached her from childhood in
British indoor record by clearing Windsor all the way up to the Rio
1.97m in Hustopece, Czech Olympics.
Republic. But in February despite being an
Since then, though, she has extremely fit 50-year-old, he
struggled for consistency and has suffered a stroke. Eldon’s progress
been plagued by niggling injuries. since has been astounding. Having
She is hopeful that those fitness been unable to walk in the
concerns are behind her, in time immediate aftermath, he is now
for a proper crack at the worlds healthy and back in the gym.
ahead of the main event at the “His recovery has been
Tokyo Olympics next year. absolutely incredible,” Lake says.
Retaining her high-jump gold “The way I’ve seen him recover
medal at the British from not being able to walk to
Championships last month jogging a few weeks later was just
certainly suggests Lake is back such a huge inspiration for me.
firing. Looking further ahead, Lake “If I think about myself, I only
has been selected as one of The have small changes to get to where
Telegraph Tokyo Eight, which I need to be, and seeing what he
celebrates the future stars did in five weeks he’s made it seem
targeting gold in 2020. completely possible.”
Should Lake achieve that sort of Since her father’s recovery,
glory in Japan then her profile Lake’s life has settled back to
would explode. Either way, she is something approaching normality,
‘Sportspeople are ‘The way my dad
scared. They say recovered from a
what they think stroke was a huge
people wish to hear’ inspiration to me’
determined to be a positive role although it is worth noting that
GEOFF PUGH FOR THE TELEGRAPH
model. normality for her would seem
“Having a voice is something I’m absurd to most people.
conscious of,” she says. “Because As both a British athlete and
when I see other athletes tweet psychology student, Lake does
about things that are a bit more much of her revision while on the
political and having their opinion road and, when at university,
about things, I’m more inclined to shuttles from the lecture theatre to
investigate it. the gym. Her house-mates are also
“I think a lot of issues I probably a far cry from the standard
wouldn’t have known about if it combination of geographers,
weren’t for social media. Because I Target: Morgan Lake competes at the World Championships in Doha this month economists and historians – they
don’t really watch the news every are all highly promising young
morning, but to be able to have interviews so they just say what much inspiration she takes from athletes, including world junior
some time out and see things when they think people want to hear the positive role models in her life. heptathlon champion Niamh
I’m online or travelling, I’m like, rather than saying what they really From a sporting perspective she Emerson.
‘Wow, I didn’t know anything believe. So, yeah, it would be nice admires female trailblazers such as Lake insists though that she
about that’. if people spoke more about these Serena Williams from afar, while thrives on her hectic lifestyle, and
“I think sportspeople are scared issues.” on a more personal level Lake believes the hours spent in the
of saying the wrong thing in Listening to Lake, it is clear how counts Dina Asher-Smith, who she library can help with her
has known since their junior days, performances.
as a close friend. Asher-Smith’s “Rather than sports psychology,
humility after a stellar couple of I focus more on neuroscience and
years has served as a powerful clinical psychology,” she explains.
example. “It’s good to get my mind away
Former Olympic gold medallist from thinking about sport the
Denise Lewis has also acted as a whole time, and it’s nice to have
mentor, while going further back it that balance.”
was seeing Kelly Holmes win the For now the main focus is on
800m and 1500m double in Athens Doha, and then – assuming she
15 years ago that captured the qualifies – Tokyo. She laughs
seven-year-old Lake’s imagination. thinking about it now, but back on
“That was the moment when I the famous Super Saturday of 2012
decided I really wanted to be an when Britain scooped up three
Olympian,” she says. track and field golds, Lake was
The principal source of Lake’s huddled round a tiny TV in Stoke
motivation and inspiration though at a junior event trying to catch a
comes from closer to home. She glimpse of her heroes.
and her father Eldon have always Seven years on, she is relishing
Winner: Morgan Lake goes clear on her way to retaining the British title last month been extremely close – after all he the chance to take centre stage.
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Sport Racing

Brighton
De Sousa targets Doncaster return 2.00 Nursery (5) 2YO 6f £3,429
1 513 Fashion Free [P](18) (D) (BF) Archie Watson 9 10
Marlborough
Hollie Doyle 1 2.00 - War of Clans
Silvestre de Sousa could be back in the aim will go slightly further, who bone. Because it was so bruised we 2 547 King’s View (27) R Hannon 9 7 S M Levey 2 2.30 - Daily Times 4.00 - Esspeegee
3 4D5 War of Clans (20) K Burke 9 2 H Shaw (3) 3 3.00 - Monarch Maid 4.30 - Hassaad
the saddle in time for Doncaster’s St knows, but hopefully he will be went back in on Tuesday for 3.30 - De Little Engine 5.05 - Three Little Birds
4 532 Enjoy The Moment (14) (BF) M Channon 9 1 David Egan 4
Leger meeting, which starts on back for Doncaster,” said De Sousa’s another X-ray and the collarbone S.P. f’cast: 10-11 Fashion Free, 3-1 Enjoy The Moment, 9-2 War of
Wednesday week, after it emerged agent, Shelley Dwyer. was fine, there is just ligament dam- Clans, 13-2 King’s View. Going: Good to firm TV: Sky Sports Racing
Draw: In sprint races low numbers tend to have an advantage over five
his collarbone was not broken after “He is going to Sir Peter age round there. 2.30 EBF Maiden Fillies’ Stakes (Plus 10) (5) 2YO 6f £3,429 furlongs, high best over six furlongs.
1 3 Baracca Rocks (32) K Burke 9 0 [B] Blinkers [V] Visor [E] Eyeshield [T] Tongue Strap [P] Cheekpieces
all. O’Sullevan House [at Newmarket] “It is still sore but it is getting H Shaw (3) 7
2 6 Belle Anglaise (22) S C Williams 9 0 R Kingscote 2 3.30 Dave Wood 60th Birthday Handicap (5) 7f £3,429
De Sousa was not expecting to re- on Monday, so we will know a bit there. He is much better. He is still 3 422 Daily Times (53) J Gosden 9 0 R Havlin 1 1 222 Seprani (10) Miss Amy Murphy 5 9 7 G Wood 2
turn until Champions Day at Ascot bruised, but the bruising is coming 4 Diamonds And Rust W G M Turner 9 0 L Morris 4 2 937 Pour La Victoire [B](13) (CD)(C)(D) A Carroll 9 9 7
next month, but his comeback tar- out. If he progresses as he did last 5 4 Indyzeb (11) J W Mullins 9 0 Hollie Doyle 6 Hollie Doyle 5
get date has now been brought for- On the mend: week then touch wood we will be 6 40 Queen Salamah (28) Richard Spencer 9 0 D Muscutt 3 3 345 Bint Dandy [B](8) (D) C Wallis 8 9 7 David Egan 3
Silvestre de Sousa 7 77 Sorteo (27) A Balding 9 0 L Keniry 5 4 356 Fieldsman (10) (CD)(C)(D) A Carroll 7 9 6 G Downing 1
ward after it was found nothing was back. It is good news.”
8 9 Trouser The Cash (140) Miss Amy Murphy 9 0 G Wood 8 5 423 De Little Engine [P](18) (CD)(D) Alexandra Dunn 5 9 5
broken and that his injury was re- hopes to be back The Charlie Appleby-trained S.P. f’cast: 4-7 Daily Times, 13-2 Sorteo, 8-1 Queen Salamah, C Fallon (5) 4
stricted to ligament damage. in action at the Ghaiyyath ran out an impressive Baracca Rocks, 10-1 Belle Anglaise, 25-1 Others. 6 271 Blessed To Empress [V](2) (CD)(C)(D)
Miss Amy Murphy 4 8 13 J Mitchell 6
The three-times champion St Leger meeting winner of Germany’s top race, the 3.00 Ian Carnaby Selling Handicap (6) 6f £2,782
S.P. f’cast: 9-4 De Little Engine, 3-1 Seprani, 9-2 Blessed To
jockey was injured in a fall at Grosser Preis von Baden, at Baden- 1 715 Red Tycoon [B](12) (D) K C-Brown 7 9 7 F Marsh (3) 2 Empress, Fieldsman, 13-2 Pour La Victoire, 14-1 Bint Dandy.
2 224 Monarch Maid (13) (D) P Hiatt 8 9 2 E Whittington (7) 11
Chelmsford City on Aug 23 when Baden yesterday. 3 R74 Knockabout Queen (2) (D) A Carroll 3 9 0 K Fox 5 4.00 Handicap (6) 1m 4f £2,782
Alnadir, trained by Simon Crisford, The unexposed colt made all the 4 998 Congress Place [P](10) M Appleby 3 8 13 A Rawlinson 4 1 341 Esspeegee [V](13) (CD)(D) A Bailey 6 9 7 D Keenan (3) 2
came down after being squeezed more as the week goes on as to running under William Buick and 5 511 Nervous Nerys (24) (CD) A Hales 3 8 10 Amelia Glass (7) 9 2 465 Beer With The Boys (9) (D) M Channon 4 9 5 David Egan 4
for room in a five-runner handicap where we are at. cruised home 14 lengths clear of 6 269 Waneen (18) J Butler 6 8 9 David Egan 3 3 008 Sea Of Mystery [T](24) M Appleby 6 9 2 A Rawlinson 7
7 427 Red Snapper [P](41) W Stone 4 8 8 Hollie Doyle 6
over 10 furlongs. “It is all good, all positive, no Donjah with German Derby winner 8 0-6 Regal Miss (61) P Chamings 7 8 8 George Rooke (7) 10
4 163 Contingency Fee [H,P](6) (C)(D) P McEntee 4 9 1
Grace McEntee (7) 8
De Sousa was taken to Adden- neck braces or anything on now so Laccario a further four lengths 9 089 Indian Affair [P,T](11) (D9) J Bradley 9 8 8 P Prince 8 5 093 Kirtling [T](13) (D) Andi Brown 8 8 12 J Mitchell 6
brooke’s Hospital in Cambridge for we are hoping he can get back for away in third. The Godolphin four- 10604 Willa’s Wish [B](22) A Carroll 3 8 6 D Keenan (3) 7 6 968 Brockagh Cailin (26) J S Moore 4 8 11 L Keniry 3
assessment and a return visit there Doncaster. year-old, who has run just seven 11980 Spring Holly [H](12) J Bradley 3 8 6 L Morris 1 7 627 Roy Rocket (13) (CD)(C) J Berry 9 8 11 J F Egan 1
S.P. f’cast: 5-2 Nervous Nerys, 4-1 Red Tycoon, Monarch Maid, 7-1 8 357 Foresee (18) (D) A Carroll 6 8 10 Hollie Doyle 5
revealed better news. “When he was in Addenbrooke’s times, was given a 16-1 quote for the Knockabout Queen, 10-1 Red Snapper, 12-1 Congress Place, Waneen, S.P. f’cast: 11-8 Esspeegee, 4-1 Beer With The Boys, 6-1 Foresee,
“The aim is Doncaster. Whether there was a shadow on the collar- Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe. 16-1 Indian Affair, 20-1 Others. 13-2 Kirtling, 8-1 Contingency Fee, 10-1 Roy Rocket, 25-1 Sea Of
Mystery, Brockagh Cailin.

Chepstow 4.30 Novice Stakes (5) 5f £3,429

1 0-3 Spirited Guest (175) G Margarson 3 9 5 T P Queally 1
2 5-2 Katherine Place [H,T](14) W G M Turner 4 9 1 R Tate 3
2.15 Fillies’ Novice Stakes (Plus 10) (5) 2YO 5f £3,429 Going: Good to firm-good in places TV: Sky Sports Racing 4.15 BMC Bucket Manufacturing Handicap (5) 1m 2f £3,429 3 -39 Abuja [H](23) M Madgwick 3 9 0 L Keniry 2
Marlborough Draw: High numbers have a slight advantage in races up to a mile.
1 404 Chasanda [H](87) (D) P Evans 9 7 Angus Villiers (7) 9 1 0/4 Banish [T](26) T R George 6 9 9 H Turner 6 4 3 Hassaad (114) Archie Watson 3 9 0 Hollie Doyle 4
1.45 - Prissy Missy 2 423 Allez Sophia (40) Eve J-Houghton 9 0 C Bishop 4 3.15 Novice Stakes (5) 7f £3,429 2 138 Gendarme [V](12) (CD)(D) Alexandra Dunn 4 9 7 S.P. f’cast: 4-7 Hassaad, 5-2 Spirited Guest, 10-1 Katherine Place,
2.15 - Allez Sophia (nb) 3.45 - Graphite Storm 3 29 Band Practice (18) Archie Watson 9 0 O Murphy 7 1 2-2 Alrajaa (18) (BF) J Gosden 3 9 5 J Crowley 4 S P Davis (3) 3 12-1 Abuja.
2.45 - Kwela 4.15 - Freckles 3 186 Arctic Sea (22) (C)(D) P Cole 5 9 3 Rossa Ryan 1
4 0 Erika (14) N Mulholland 9 0 Rossa Ryan 5 2 Edraak Owen Burrows 3 9 5 D O’Neill 5
3.15 - Alrajaa 4.45 - Mr Nice Guy 4 072 Freckles [H](17) M Tregoning 4 8 12 O Murphy 5 5.05 Apprentice Handicap (5) 5f £3,429
5 0 Handful Of Gold (12) K Bishop 9 0 J Fahy 2 3 09U Four Feet (18) H Candy 3 9 5 Emma Taff (7) 2 1 753 Wiley Post [B](25) (CD)(D) (BF) A Carroll 6 9 12
6 3 Just May (26) C Cox 9 0 H Crouch 1 4 8 Auntie June (18) R Brotherton 3 9 0 C Shepherd 3 5 057 Less Of That (111) (D) Debbie Hughes 5 8 10 Elisha Whittington (6) 2
1.45 Nursery (6) 2YO 5f £3,429 Racheal Kneller (5) 2
7 47 Liscahann (25) J W Mullins 9 0 R Hornby 3 5 8 Plum Duff (212) M Blanshard 3 9 0 C Bishop 1 2 331 Three Little Birds (26) (D) S Kirk 4 9 11 Georgia Dobie 1
1 266 Beignet (17) (BF) R Hannon 9 7 Rossa Ryan 10 6 635 Essenaitch (28) (CD)(D) P Evans 6 8 7 Angus Villiers (7) 4
8 Minhaaj W Haggas 9 0 DOUBTFUL 6 S.P. f’cast: 2-9 Alrajaa, 4-1 Edraak, 16-1 Four Feet, 50-1 Plum 3 078 Bernie’s Boy [P](5) (D) P McEntee 6 9 3
2 448 Tilly Tamworth (42) B Millman 9 7 R Hornby 1 Duff, 100-1 Auntie June. S.P. f’cast: 11-8 Freckles, 7-2 Arctic Sea, 9-2 Banish, 5-1 Grace McEntee (6) 5
9 65 Where Next Jo (28) P Evans 9 0 Rhiain Ingram (5) 8 Essenaitch, 12-1 Gendarme, 16-1 Less Of That.
3 658 Full Spectrum [P](14) Paul George 9 7 M Nicholls (3) 5 S.P. f’cast: 6-4 Allez Sophia, 4-1 Band Practice, 5-1 Chasanda, Just 4 092 Tan (7) (C)(D) (BF) M Appleby 5 9 3 M Crehan 4
4 544 Carmel [P](24) Archie Watson 9 6 O Murphy 7 May, 8-1 Liscahann, 10-1 Where Next Jo, 50-1 Others. 3.45 Acorn Property Group Handicap (4) 7f £5,208 4.45 Apprentice Handicap (6) 3YO 1m 4f £2,782 5 515 Haveoneyerself [P](6) (CD)(D) J Butler 4 9 1
5 722 Prissy Missy (6) David Loughnane 9 4 T Greatrex (5) 6 1 214 Graphite Storm (16) (D) C Cox 5 9 11 H Crouch 6 Morgan Cole (5) 3
1 217 Bug Boy [P](21) Paul George 9 10 Rhiain Ingram (3) 5
6 550 Good Times Too (39) M Channon 9 4 C Shepherd 9
2.45 Handicap (5) 3YO 7f £3,429 2 563 Bungee Jump (7) (CD)(C)(D) Grace Harris 4 9 10 S.P. f’cast: 2-1 Three Little Birds, 9-4 Wiley Post, 7-2 Tan, 5-1
1 669 Indomitable (58) A Balding 9 7 O Murphy 2 Rossa Ryan 4 2 544 Twenty Years On [P](26) (D) R Hughes 9 7 A Villiers (5) 2 Haveoneyerself, 12-1 Bernie’s Boy.
7 567 A Go Go (32) P Evans 9 1 H Crouch 3 3 347 Four Mile Bridge (14) M Usher 9 1 T Greatrex (3) 4
2 673 Kwela [P](18) (D) Eve J-Houghton 9 7 C Bishop 3 3 317 I Am A Dreamer [V](9) (D) M Johnston 3 9 8 F Norton 1
8 330 Jane Victoria (23) Adam West 9 1 R Da Silva 4 J Crowley 5 4 794 Mr Nice Guy (16) S Kirk 9 1 Poppy Bridgwater (3) 1
3 556 Jungle Juice (10) (CD)(D) M Channon 9 7 4 321 Aluqair [H](18) (D) S Crisford 3 9 4 Whistler’s Nap
9 782 Blue Venture (20) A Carroll 9 0 H Turner 8 Scott McCullagh (5) 5 5 148 Ragstone View [H](27) (D) B Millman 4 8 12 C Bishop 3 5 360 Bonneville [B](78) B Millman 8 8 O Searle (7) 8
Freckles (4.15 Chepstow) is today's nap for Whistler (Marcus
10890 Lethal Sensation [B](22) P Webber 8 11 M Dwyer 11 4 588 Molaaheth [T](31) Alexandra Dunn 8 13 Rossa Ryan 4 6 246 Sir Roderic [V](16) (C)(D) B Millman 6 8 11 O Murphy 2 6 596 Magic Act (14) M Johnston 8 8 A Breslin (3) 7 Armytage), of The Sunday Telegraph.
11869 Red Cinderella (32) P Evans 8 8 Angus Villiers (7) 2 5 855 Plumette (22) (CD) David Loughnane 8 12 L Coughlan (7) 1 7 257 Waqt [P](10) (D) Alexandra Dunn 5 8 10 S P Davis (3) 7 7 605 Keith [WS](78) B Millman 8 6 S P Davis 6
S.P. f’cast: 2-1 Prissy Missy, 9-2 Beignet, 11-2 Carmel, 8-1 Good 6 529 J’ouvert (195) P Evans 8 10 Angus Villiers (7) 6 S.P. f’cast: 9-4 Aluqair, 3-1 Graphite Storm, 5-1 Bungee Jump, 8 563 Ocean Reach (11) R J Price 8 4 Isobel Francis (7) 3 Tomorrow's Meetings
Times Too, Blue Venture, 10-1 Tilly Tamworth, A Go Go, 16-1 Full S.P. f’cast: 3-1 Indomitable, 7-2 Plumette, Kwela, 5-1 J’ouvert, 6-1 13-2 I Am A Dreamer, 15-2 Sir Roderic, 10-1 Ragstone View, 12-1 S.P. f’cast: 7-2 Magic Act, 9-2 Mr Nice Guy, 5-1 Ocean Reach, 11-2 Catterick 2.00 to 5.40; Goodwood 2.15 to 5.35; Kempton Park 5.45 to
Spectrum, 20-1 Jane Victoria, 33-1 Red Cinderella, Lethal Sensation. Molaaheth, 7-1 Jungle Juice. Waqt. Bug Boy, 6-1 Twenty Years On, Four Mile Bridge, 10-1 Others. 8.45; Salisbury 4.50 to 7.30.

Hexham Windsor Results

Marlborough
4.35 - Lawtop Legend
5.10 - Ringaringarosie 6.40 - Prancing Oscar
5.40 - Melody Of Scotland 7.10 - Classical Milano
6.10 - Murphy’s Law 7.40 - Gennady
Going: Good-good to firm in places TV: Sky Sports Racing
[B] Blinkers [V] Visor [E] Eyeshield [T] Tongue Strap [P] Cheekpieces
4.35 Handicap Hurdle (5) 2m 7f £4,159
1 6-0 Moorlands Mist (114) (CD) Sara Ender 12 12 2
N Moscrop (3)
2 131 Chocolat Noir (7) M Todhunter 6 12 0(7ex) D Cook
3 043 Oscar Ceremony [P](72) Stef Keniry 8 11 12 H Brooke
4 322 Quivvy Lough (31) Olly Murphy 5 11 9 R Johnson
5 5-5 Benarty Hill (16) Kenny Johnson 9 11 2 Alison Clarke (7)
6 448 Lawtop Legend [P](66) (CD) G Bewley 7 11 1 J Bewley (3)
7 P84 Elixer [H](34) F Murtagh 6 11 0 L Murtagh (3)
8 -24 Angel’s Envy [P](60) I Jardine 7 10 9 B Hughes
9 757 Court Baloo [P](47) (D) A Whillans 8 10 4 Ross Chapman
S.P. f’cast: 5-4 Chocolat Noir, 11-4 Quivvy Lough, 5-1 Angel’s Envy,
10-1 Oscar Ceremony, 16-1 Lawtop Legend, 20-1 Court Baloo, 25-1
Benarty Hill, Moorlands Mist, Elixer.
5.10 Visit attheraces.com Handicap Chase (5) 2m £4,419
1 341 Teeton Power [V](12) Miss Kelly Morgan 8 12 3 A Wedge
2 116 Hurricane Rita [P](73) (D) C Dore 9 11 12 A P Heskin
3 5-1 Reverse The Charge [P](121) (CD)(C) Mrs J Walton 12 11 8
Miss A Waugh (5)
4 162 Ringaringarosie (4) (CD)(D) (BF) M Todhunter 6 11 6
T Willmott (7)
5 P66 Jacobite Rising (16) (D) M Sowersby 6 10 12 L Murtagh (3)
6 333 Roll Of Thunder (34) (CD) J Walton 10 10 12 C O’Farrell
7 P41 Gentleman James [B](16) Mrs D Sayer 7 10 4 B Hughes
8 264 Wisecracker [B,T](16) (BF) B Case 6 10 2 C Gethings
S.P. f’cast: 3-1 Gentleman James, 4-1 Ringaringarosie, 5-1
Wisecracker, 6-1 Teeton Power, 8-1 Hurricane Rita, Reverse The
Charge, Roll Of Thunder, 12-1 Jacobite Rising.
5.40 Handicap Hurdle (4) 2m 4f £6,108
1 162 Melody Of Scotland [V](11) (CD)(C) B Haslam 5 11 12
R McLernon
2 P-8 Applaus [P](19) (C) M Hammond 7 11 2 A Cawley
3 001 Something Brewing [P](31) (C)(D) I Jardine 5 11 1
Ross Chapman
4 33- Transpennine Star [B](156) (BF) Jonjo O’Neill 6 11 1
R Johnson
5 7-2 Craig Star (14) (D) D McCain 9 10 13 B Hughes
6 563 Placedela Concorde [T](4) M Barnes 6 10 9
Sam Coltherd (3)
7 56- Oldtimer (165) M Todhunter 8 10 8 R Day
S.P. f’cast: 5-2 Something Brewing, 3-1 Transpennine Star, 9-2
Melody Of Scotland, 5-1 Craig Star, 13-2 Placedela Concorde, 12-1
Oldtimer, 16-1 Applaus.
6.10 Novices’ Handicap Chase (4) 2m 4f £6,433
1 421 Murphy’s Law (14) K Dalgleish 5 11 12 B Hughes
2 407 Inca Gold (55) B Haslam 5 11 11 R McLernon
3 244 Desert Island Dusk [T](34) (CD)(C) M Barnes 8 11 3
Sam Coltherd (3)
4 P25 Braavos [B](29) (D) Sam England 8 11 3 C Bewley
5 485 Tokaramore [H](16) (D) I Jardine 7 10 9 Ross Chapman
6 0-P Ripstick (16) (D) J Walton 8 10 0 C O’Farrell
S.P. f’cast: 4-6 Murphy’s Law, 5-1 Braavos, 6-1 Inca Gold, 8-1
Tokaramore, 10-1 Desert Island Dusk, 50-1 Ripstick.
6.40 Handicap Hurdle (4) 2m £5,458
1 U11 Desert Point (4) (D) K Dalgleish 7 12 7(7ex) B Hughes
2 Prancing Oscar [P](11) B Haslam 5 12 1 R McLernon
31
3 521 Capitoul (16) (D) Dr R Newland 7 11 12 C Hammond (3)
4 653 Green Zone (16) (D) Miss L Harrison 8 11 0
D McMenamin (5)
5 5-4 Frame Rate [P](F41) I Jardine 4 10 13 C O’Farrell
6 9P4 Gripper (34) Miss L Russell 4 10 12 B Campbell (3)
S.P. f’cast: 6-5 Desert Point, 3-1 Prancing Oscar, 4-1 Capitoul, 6-1
Green Zone, 20-1 Gripper, 25-1 Frame Rate.
7.10 Handicap Chase (4) 3m £5,133
1 4P- Gold Patrol (168) (D) Jake Coulson 11 11 12 T Gillard (7)
2 331 King Golan [B](16) (D) Kenny Johnson 8 11 10
Alison Clarke (7)
3 -14 Classical Milano (71) (CD)(C) G Bewley 8 11 10 J Bewley (3)
4 /PP Onlyfoolsownhorses [P,T](38) (D) M Hammond 8 11 8
A Cawley
5 228 Damiens Dilemma [B](44) (CD)(D) (BF)
W Coltherd 11 10 13 Sam Coltherd (3)
6 71P Pena Dorada [P](9) (C)(D) A Whillans 12 10 9
Rachel McDonald (5)
7 U39 Apache Pilot [T,V](44) (CD)(C)(D) M Barnes 11 10 3
Mr D Hurst (10)
8 33P Miss Batten [T](33) (D) Miss L Russell 5 10 2 B Campbell (3)
S.P. f’cast: 11-4 King Golan, 4-1 Classical Milano, 5-1 Miss Batten,
Pena Dorada, 6-1 Damiens Dilemma, 10-1 Apache Pilot, Gold Patrol,
25-1 Onlyfoolsownhorses.
7.40 Maiden Hurdle (5) 2m £3,355
1 Connerys Hill Kenny Johnson 6 11 0 Alison Clarke (7)
2 P-6 Darry Desbois [V](71) M Todhunter 6 11 0 R Day
3 P2/ Duc De Grissay (499) A M Thomson 6 11 0
Rachel McDonald (5)
4 222 Emerald Rocket [B](13) (BF) Olly Murphy 4 11 0 R Johnson
5 4- Footloose [T](307) J Snowden 5 11 0 G Sheehan
6 4-2 Gennady (11) (BF) K Dalgleish 5 11 0 B Hughes
7 2 Raashdy (9) Sam England 6 11 0 J England
8 Unite The Clans (F24) A M Thomson 5 11 0 C Bewley
9 -60 Wherewouldugetit (78) Sara Ender 5 11 0 N Moscrop (3)
10 3 Misscarlett (16) P Kirby 5 10 7 R McLernon
S.P. f’cast: 6-5 Emerald Rocket, 4-1 Gennady, 5-1 Raashdy, 8-1
Misscarlett, 10-1 Footloose, 16-1 Duc De Grissay, 20-1 Darry Desbois,
25-1 Unite The Clans, 50-1 Others.
4.25 Zupermann Automotive Handicap (5) 6f £3,429 Marlborough Brighton Going: Good to firm
1 433 Mr Buttons [P](19) Mrs L Stubbs 3 9 7 C Noble (3) 7 2.00 (5f60yds h’cap): Urban Highway (T Marquand 7-2) 1;
4.25 - Chil Chil (nap) Thegreyvtrain (2-1F) 2; Zaula (9-1) 3. 8 ran. 13/4l, shd. (A
2 225 Shake Me Handy (40) R Teal 4 9 6 W Cox (3) 6 Carroll). Tote: Win £4.90; places £1.20, £1.02, £2.70. Exacta:
3 515 Good Answer [P](30) R Cowell 3 9 4 P Dobbs 4 4.55 - Phuket Power 6.30 - Verify
£11.20. Tricast: £56.78. Trifecta: £43.10. CSF: £10.81.
5.30 - Max’s Thunder 7.00 - Lumination
4 271 Chil Chil (5) (D) A Balding 3 9 3(6ex) James Doyle 2 2.30 (5f60yds mdn): Spanish Angel (O Murphy 4-6F) 1;
6.00 - Look Surprised 7.30 - Culture Newyorkstateofmind (6-4) 2; Freshwater Cliffs (9-1) 3. 3
5 514 The Groove (21) (D) P Evans 6 9 2 H Bentley 1
ran. 23/4l, 11l. (A Balding). Tote: Win £1.60; Exacta: £2.00.
6 705 Porto Ferro [T](47) (CD)(C)(D) J Bridger 5 8 7 K O’Neill 5 Going: Good to firm TV: Sky Sports Racing Trifecta: £1.40. CSF: £2.05.
7 447 Caledonian Gold [V](9) Mrs L Williamson 6 8 7 G Ashton (7) 3
Draw: High numbers hold a slight advantage in sprints. 3.00 (5f215yds h’cap): Red Alert (T Marquand 8-1) 1;
S.P. f’cast: 9-4 Chil Chil, 3-1 Mr Buttons, 4-1 The Groove, 6-1 Good [B] Blinkers [V] Visor [E] Eyeshield [T] Tongue Strap [P] Cheekpieces Chatham House (11-8F) 2; Cent Flying (11-4) 3. 6 ran. 3/4l,
Answer, 7-1 Shake Me Handy, 12-1 Porto Ferro, 25-1 Caledonian Gold. 1/2l. (A Carroll). Tote: Win £9.30; places £3.00, £1.10.
6.30 Visit attheraces.com Handicap (5) 3YO 1m 2f £3,429 Exacta: £26.80. Trifecta: £78.20. CSF: £19.70.
4.55 EBF Novice Stakes (Plus 10) (4) 2YO 6f £4,852 1 530 Society Guest (19) M Channon 9 7 G Mosse 8 3.30 (6f210yds nov): Ziggle Pops (S M Levey evs F) 1;
1 8 Bad Company (60) J Boyle 9 5 C Bennett 12 2 853 Slade King (13) G L Moore 9 7 T P Queally 11 Herodotus (3-1) 2; Anglo Saxson (9-1) 3. 4 ran. 5l, 1/2l. (R
Hannon). Tote: Win £1.60; Exacta: £4.50. Trifecta: £11.90.
2 5 Barking Mad (12) P Evans 9 5 H Bentley 2 3 273 No Dress Rehearsal [H](45) M W Easterby 9 7 A Kirby 10 CSF: £4.23.
3 55 Bryn Du (14) W Haggas 9 5 James Doyle 6 4 537 Glory (19) R Hannon 9 5 T Marquand 1 4.00 (7f211yds h’cap): Harlequin Rose (C Fallon 11-2) 1;
4 57 Burniston Rocks (38) E Vaughan 9 5 S Donohoe 8 5 722 Verify (18) Ed Walker 9 5 J P Spencer 3 Limerick Lord (14-1) 2; Joyful Dream (5-2F) 3. 9 ran. 11/2l,
11/2l. (P Chamings). Tote: Win £4.40; places £1.60, £3.80,
5 223 Cotai Again (10) C Hills 9 5 K Shoemark 3 6 745 Toybox [P](33) J Portman 9 3 R Hornby 4
£1.40. Exacta: £63.40. Tricast: £239.75. Trifecta: £290.40.
6 Dance Fever C Cox 9 5 A Kirby 10 7 158 Lieutenant Conde [T,WS](55) H Morrison 9 2 C Bennett 6 CSF: £77.84. NR: Weardiditallgorong.
7 9 Gift Of Youth (14) Mrs A Perrett 9 5 R Havlin 11 8 462 Elsie Violet [P](17) (D) R Eddery 9 1 A Atzeni 7 4.30 (1m1f207yds h’cap): Quick (T Marquand 15-2) 1; The
Jean Genie (11-10JF) 2; Cafe Sydney (11-10JF) 3. 3 ran.
8 8 Ivadream (19) R Charlton 9 5 J Watson 1 9 490 Wall Of Sapphire [E](26) (C) M Loughnane 9 1 S W Kelly 9 1/2l, 10l. (R Hannon). Tote: Win £5.30; Exacta: £11.90.
9 55 Kassab (47) P Chapple-Hyam 9 5 S W Kelly 4 10954 Sea Of Marengo [P](18) (D) Grace Harris 9 0 L Morris 12 Trifecta: £7.00. CSF: £15.36. NR: Geetanjali.
10 50 Numinous (54) H Candy 9 5 T Marquand 9 11650 So Strictly [T](26) P Cole 8 13 S M Levey 5 5.00 (1m1f207yds h’cap): Light Of Air (Miss Katy Brooks 8-1)
11 44 Phuket Power (9) (BF) T Dascombe 9 5 R Kingscote 7 12776 Your Thoughts (17) P Webber 8 11 F Norton 2 1; Luna Magic (7-4F) 2; Brother In Arms (7-1) 3. 7 ran. ns,
12323 We’re Reunited (10) R Harris 9 5 D Probert 5 11/2l. (G L Moore). Tote: Win £11.30; places £5.10, £1.50.
S.P. f’cast: 10-3 Verify, 5-1 Elsie Violet, 11-2 No Dress Rehearsal, Exacta: £28.80. Trifecta: £187.40. CSF: £23.84.
S.P. f’cast: 11-4 Phuket Power, 4-1 We’re Reunited, 5-1 Cotai 6-1 Slade King, 8-1 Toybox, 10-1 Glory, 12-1 Society Guest, 14-1
Again, 7-1 Bryn Du, 10-1 Dance Fever, 12-1 Others. Sea Of Marengo, Lieutenant Conde, 16-1 Others. Placepot: £180.10. Quadpot: £81.00.
Worcester Going: Good
5.30 Nursery (5) 2YO 1m £3,429 7.00 Novice Stakes (5) 1m 3f £3,429 2.10 (2m4f h’cap ch): Invincible Don (J J Burke 7-2) 1;
Caveat Emptor (11-4F) 2; Max O (15-2) 3. 7 ran. 1/2l, 5l. (S
1 134 Incinerator [T](10) (BF) H Palmer 10 0 James Doyle 2 1 Chicago Socks W De Best-Turner 9 9 9 R Da Silva 5 Durack). Tote: Win £4.60; places £1.90, £2.80. Exacta:
2 541 Lethal Talent (19) J Portman 9 7 T Saunders (7) 4 2 33 Knockacullion (13) R Hughes 3 9 2 S W Kelly 6 £15.40. Trifecta: £77.50. CSF: £13.85.
3 696 Pitcher (10) R Hannon 9 4 S M Levey 6 3 53 Lumination (147) M Meade 3 9 2 R Hornby 10 2.40 (2m7f nov ch): Go Another One (R Johnson 1-3F) 1;
Notnow Seamus (11-4) 2; Lady Markby (10-1) 3. 5 ran. 31l,
4 846 Slavonic Dance [B](10) R Beckett 9 3 H Bentley 5 4 66 Riverfront (23) A Balding 3 9 2 D Probert 8
21/4l. (J McConnell (IRE) ). Tote: Win £1.20; places £1.10,
5 403 Max’s Thunder (24) D M Simcock 9 3 J P Spencer 3 5 Scarlett Sun G Margarson 3 9 2 T P Queally 1 £1.10. Exacta: £1.60. Trifecta: £2.00. CSF: £1.91.
6 750 Kentucky Hardboot (10) M Channon 8 13 G Mosse 1 6 Social City A Carroll 3 9 2 L Morris 9 3.10 (2m nh flat): Present Chief (R McLernon 7-4F) 1;
S.P. f’cast: 9-4 Lethal Talent, 5-2 Incinerator, 4-1 Slavonic Dance, Stimulating Song (12-1) 2; Witness Protection (6-1) 3. 7
7 06 Aspiring Diva (17) Mohamed Moubarak 3 8 11 G Mosse 3
11-2 Max’s Thunder, 8-1 Pitcher, 12-1 Kentucky Hardboot. ran. nk, nk. (Jonjo O’Neill). Tote: Win £2.50; places £1.30,
8 57 Gibraltarian (14) J Boyle 3 8 11 C Bennett 7 £4.40. Exacta: £19.80. Trifecta: £71.00. CSF: £24.02. NR:
6.00 Jon And Sonya Anniversary Handicap (4) 5f £5,208 9 26 Heavenly Tale (171) R Beckett 3 8 11 H Bentley 11 Breffniboy.
1 601 Harry Hurricane [P](14) (CD)(D) G Baker 7 9 9 10 8 Torbellino (14) J Best 3 8 11 K Fox 4 3.40 (2m7f h’cap hdle): Hot Ryan (T Scudamore 7-2) 1;
C Fallon (5) 1 11 39 Waterfall (26) Mrs L Wadham 3 8 11 H Turner 2
Rubys Cube (6-1) 2; Superefficient (11-4F) 3. 11 ran. 13/4l,
41/2l. (D Pipe). Tote: Win £3.70; places £1.30, £2.20, £1.40.
2 076 Line Of Reason (12) (D) P Midgley 9 9 9 H Bentley 2 S.P. f’cast: 9-4 Lumination, 11-4 Knockacullion, 5-1 Heavenly Tale, Exacta: £24.50. Tricast: £66.51. Trifecta: £58.80. CSF:
3 160 Benny And The Jets (53) S Kirk 3 9 7 R Hornby 8 15-2 Riverfront, 8-1 Scarlett Sun, 16-1 Waterfall, 20-1 Gibraltarian, £23.59. NR: Lapalala.
25-1 Chicago Socks, Torbellino, Social City, 33-1 Aspiring Diva. 4.10 (2m4f h’cap hdle): Doubly Clever (Luca Morgan 2-1) 1;
4 535 Foxy Forever [B,T](9) (D9) M Wigham 9 9 7 F Norton 5
Jimmy Rabbitte (15-8F) 2; Bally Longford (9-1) 3. 5 ran. 6l,
5 757 Waseem Faris (19) (D) K C-Brown 10 9 7 P Dobbs 11
6 654 Just Glamorous (19) (D) Grace Harris 6 9 6 C Noble (3) 9
7.30 Sky Sports Racing On Sky 415 Handicap (5) 1m 3f £3,429 9l. (J Farrelly). Tote: Win £2.90; places £1.60, £1.40. Exacta:
1 11- Roundhead [WS](J263) R Phillips 4 9 12 J P Spencer 1 £6.50. Trifecta: £20.40. CSF: £6.19.
7 359 Excellent George [T](35) (D) S C Williams 7 9 5 4.40 (2m7f mdn hdle): Hattaab (Kielan Woods 13-8) 1;
M Ghiani (7) 10 2 452 Carp Kid [P](12) (CD) J Flint 4 9 11 F Marsh (3) 6 Jonnigraig (8-1) 2; Ballygown Bay (5-6F) 3. 6 ran. 10l, 7l.
8 531 Maid Of Spirit (19) (CD)(D) C Cox 4 9 4 A Kirby 6 3 815 Tiar Na Nog (64) (CD) D Coakley 7 9 10 C Bishop 4 (G McPherson). Tote: Win £2.30; places £1.20, £2.60. Exacta:
9 836 Joegogo [V](19) (D) P Evans 4 9 0 T Marquand 7 4 801 Culture [P](21) (C) G Baker 3 9 7 C Fallon (5) 3 £12.50. Trifecta: £14.90. CSF: £12.95. NR: Make The Switch.
5 454 Bartholomew J [P](13) (D) Mrs L Pearce 5 9 6 D Probert 5 5.10 (2m h’cap hdle): Hallings Comet (D McMenamin 5-4F)
10912 Look Surprised (14) (CD)(D) R Teal 6 8 11 W Cox (3) 4 1; Competition (7-2) 2; Solstalla (9-2) 3. 5 ran. 12l, 12l. (S
11255 Celerity [V](4) Mrs L Williamson 5 8 7 G Ashton (7) 3 6 732 Dubious Affair (19) (BF) Sir M Stoute 3 9 1 R Kingscote 2 Lycett). Tote: Win £1.80; places £1.30, £1.60. Exacta: £5.40.
S.P. f’cast: 5-2 Maid Of Spirit, 7-2 Look Surprised, 9-2 Harry S.P. f’cast: 2-1 Dubious Affair, 7-2 Culture, 9-2 Tiar Na Nog, Trifecta: £13.80. CSF: £5.96.
Hurricane, 8-1 Foxy Forever, 10-1 Others. Roundhead, 11-2 Carp Kid, 20-1 Bartholomew J. Jackpot: £1,289.90. Placepot: £30.80. Quadpot: £12.90.
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Sport

McIlroy’s dazzling fightback Britain stack up Olympic

denied by Soderberg victory
GOLF
World No2 beaten in
play-off in Switzerland
My hands were shaking
playing Rory, says Swede
By James Corrigan
GOLF CORRESPONDENT
There are not too many uncon-
quered summits in the golf career
of Rory McIlroy, but the Omega
European Masters in the Alps
remains one. Eleven years after he
was beaten in a play-off at the
picturesque mountainous Swiss
course of Crans-sur-Sierre, the
same fate befell the world No 2
yesterday.
It was actually to McIlroy’s im-
mense credit that he was part of the
five-man, sudden-death shoot-out
won by the Swede Sebastian Soder-
berg. After last week’s exertions in
Atlanta, where he won $15 million
(£12.2 million), the 30-year-old made
a 4,500-mile journey to compete in
this European Tour event.
There because of a sponsor’s
commitment, it would have been
easy and almost forgivable if he had
coasted in when he found himself
four off the pace at the turn. But
McIlroy battled back, conjuring
Winner: Sebastian Soderberg of
Sweden poses with the trophy
five birdies in the last seven holes to
reach the 14-under mark.
The Northern Irishman even
emulated Severiano Ballesteros’s
iconic shot on the 18th. Ballesteros’s
“great escape” in 1993 is marked
with a plaque from where “El Con-
quistador” somehow discovered a
gap in the trees. McIlroy’s effort
was not in that league but it was still
a magical shot on to the fairway that
allowed him to go into the play-off.
Finland’s Kalle Samooja, Italy’s
Lorenzo Gagli (67) and Argentine
Andres Romero were also playing
for the £375,000 first prize, with
28-year-old Soderberg holing a
10-footer for a birdie to win his
maiden title.
“I thought it was exciting enough
simply to be playing here with
Rory,” Soderberg said. “My hands
were shaking.” McIlroy’s head was
doing the same, although perhaps
he was being unfair to himself. This
was his 15th top 10 out of 19 starts in
2019, a remarkably consistent ratio.
Whatever anyone says about his
barren run in the majors – five years
– there can be no doubt he is at the
peak of his powers. The fact he has
not won a European Tour event in
four years is also a mystery.
“Too many mistakes,” McIlroy
said of a week that included 14
bogeys. “I made enough birdies,
but I just didn’t quite have it over
the weekend. This is my seventh
event in eight weeks. I think play-
ing so much, sometimes mental
errors creep in here and there.”
Soderberg, ranked 287th in the
world, was suitably delighted. “It’s
unbelievable,” he said. “I’ve dreamt
of playing on the European Tour,
even better doing it this way. I was
in the lead, lost it, went into the
play-off with Rory among it.
“I was more nervous in the
beginning than I was towards the
back nine. Got on a good run and
the ball kept going in. Just playing
with Rory, so many people around,
playing with a guy like that adds
heat to it right away. I proved to
myself that I can play out here.”
qualification places but
fall short in medal hunt
R OW I N G Ukrainian winner Roman Polian-
skyi set a world-best time. Pritchard
was only one second behind Aus-
By Rachel Quarrell in Linz tralia’s bronze medallist and 2018
world champion Erik Horrie, and
Britain finished ninth in the World set a personal best by 20 seconds.
Championships medal table but “It was a very quick race,” he
joint top in Olympic qualification, said. “Unfortunately I didn’t have
and leading the way in para-rowing. the pace this year, but I’m looking
The closing finals yesterday forward to going again next year.”
added a single bronze medal to the John Collins and Graeme Thomas
British tally, as the men’s eight were finished fourth in the men’s double
caught off balance by early speed despite medal aspirations, and
from Germany and New Zealand,
but pushed on from 600 metres
So close: Vicky
gone, staying ahead of Australia, to
Thornley was two
claim third in an intense race where
seconds off a
any slip could have cost them
medal in the
qualification.
women’s singles
“Each year we come away with
the medal I least like the colour of,
but this regatta was all about get-
ting boats to the Olympics, and this Vicky Thornley was two seconds
year we’ve really evolved as a off a medal in the women’s singles,
squad,” said Mat Tarrant. “We’ve another rapidly accelerating race.
really learnt a lot.” The women’s team qualified six
In an equally competitive wom- boats out of seven for the Olympics,
en’s eights final, the British opted the first time they have outdone the
for prudently confirming Tokyo men with four.
tickets, doing so by 1.5 seconds over Rowing has changed in the past
Romania, while New Zealand and three years. Fields have tightened,
Australia surprisingly beat defend- minor slips can cost many places,
ing champions the United States. and more crews are reaching the
“It wasn’t our prettiest row, but it medal zone. In such close contests
was about getting that qualification there can be small gaps between
spot,” said cox Matilda Horn. gold and sixth, and Britain have
Para-sculler Benjamin Pritchard work to do with three Olympic-class
performed beyond his experience, bronzes compared to New Zealand’s
finishing fourth in a field where tally of four golds and two silvers.

Database

Baseball
MLB: Arizona 6 Los Angeles Dodgers 5-Atlanta 11
Chicago White Sox 5-Chicago Cubs 0 Milwaukee
2-Colorado 4 Pittsburgh 11-Detroit 10 Minnesota
7-Kansas City 7 Baltimore 5-LA Angels 10 Boston
4-New York Yankees 4 Oakland 3 (11 innings)-
Philadelphia 3 New York Mets 6-San Francisco 1
San Diego 4-St Louis 10 Cincinnati 6-Tampa Bay 9
Cleveland 6-Texas 3 Seattle 2-Toronto 6 Houston
4-Washington 7 Miami 0.
Bowls
NATIONAL CH'SHIPS (Royal Leamington Spa).-
Tony Allcock Trophy, Semi-finals: Camberley,
Surrey bt Brimfield & Little Hereford,
Herefordshire 39-33; Box, Wiltshire bt
Eastbourne, Sussex 35-33. Final: Camberley,
Surrey bt Box, Wiltshire 42-36. Rink scores:
Camberley skips first): D McCallum drew with N
Grenfell 21-21; M Sampson bt A Jacobs 21-15.
White Rose Trophy, Semi-finals: Surrey Swifts
bt Northamptonshire Saints 13-6;
Northamptonshire Cobblers bt Wiltshire
Moonrakers 16-3. Final: Surrey Swifts (H
Cushen, J Tindall, J Wilson & C Souter) bt
Northamptonshire Cobblers (D Walker, K Rollings,
N Betts & C Cinato) 18-9.
Amy Rose Bowl, Semi-finals: Northants Roses
bt Devon Belles 34-33; Somerset Scrumpies bt
Essex Lionesses 43-13. Final: Northants Roses
bt Somerset Scrumpies 34-15. Rink scores
(Northants Roses skips first): R Wigfield bt S
Branfield 14-6; K Smith bt L Holden 20-9.
Boxing
LONDON (O2 Arena).-WBA Super, WBC & WBO
World Lightweight titles: Vasyl Lomachenko
(Ukraine, holder) bt Luke Campbell (Hull) UD.
British & Commonwealth Lightweight titles:
Joe Cordina (Cardiff, holder) bt Gavin Gwynne
(Merthyr) UD.
Cricket
WOMEN'S KIA SUPER LGE FINALS DAY.-Hove,
Semi-final: Loughborough Lightning 143 (19.5
overs); Southern Vipers 145-5 (19 overs).
Southern Vipers win by 5 wkts.
Final: Southern Vipers 172-7 (20 overs, Wyatt
73); Western Storm 174-4 (19 overs, Knight
78no). Western Storm win by 6 wkts.
1ST T20 INT'NAL.-Pallekele: Sri Lanka 174-4
(20 overs; B K G Mendis 79); New Zealand 175-5
(19.3 overs). New Zealand won by 5 wkts.
2ND TEST.-Kingston: India 416 (140.1 overs;
Vihari 111; Kohli 76; Sharma 57; Agarwal 55;
Holder 5-77) and 119-4 (46 overs); West Indies
117 (47.1 overs; Bumrah 6-27).
TOUR MATCH.-Derby: Derbyshire 172 (u Plooy
86) and 112 (Starc 4-39); Australia 338-5dec.
(Marsh 74; Khawaja 72; Harris 64).
Australia won by an innings and 54 runs.
Cycling
LA VUELTA (Spain).-Stage 8 (Valls to Igualada
166.9km): 1 N Arndt (Germany) Team Sunweb 3h
50m 48s; 2 A Aranburu (Spain) Caja Rural-
Seguros RGA; 3 T van der Sande (Belgium) Lotto
Soudal at same time. Stage 9 (Andorra la Vella to
Cortals d’Encamp, 94.4km): 1 T Pogacar
(Slovenia) UAE-Team Emirates 2h 58m 09s; 2 N
Quintana (Colombia) Movistar Team +23s; 3 P
Roglic (Slovenia) Team Jumbo-Visma +48.
Overall: 1 Quintana 35h 18m 18s; 2 Roglic +6s,
3 M A Lopez (Colombia) Astana Pro Team +17; 21
J Knox (GB) Deceuninck - Quick Step +13m 23s;
53 Geoghegan Hart +49-36; 102 O Doull (GB)
Team Ineos +1h 20m 29s; 134 I Stannard (GB)
Team Ineos +1-40-52; 153 S Bennett (Rep of
Ireland) Bora - Hansgrohe +1-57-06.
DEUTSCHLAND TOUR.-Stage 3 (Gottingen to
Eisenach 189km): 1 K Asgreen (Denmark)
Deceuninck-QuickStep 4h 27m 53s.
Stage 4 (Eisenach to Erfurt, 159.5km): 1 S
Colbrelli (Italy) Bahrain Merida 3h 44m 48s; 2 Y
Lampaert (Belgium) Quick Step, 3 A Kristoff
(Norway) UAE-Team Emirates, B Swift (GB) Team
Ineos all at same time. Overall: 1 J Stuyven
(Belgium) Trek-Segafredo 16h 23m 9s; 2 Colbrelli
+3s; 3 Lampaert +12; 18 Swift +1m 26s.
European Football
FRANCE: Angers 2 Dijon 0-Lyon 1 Bordeaux
1-Nantes 1 Montpellier 0-Nimes 3 Brest
0-Toulouse 2 Amiens 0-Marseille L St Etienne
L-Reims 2 Lille 0-Rennes 1 Nice 2-Strasbourg 2
Monaco 2.
GERMANY: B Leverkusen 0 Hoffenheim 0-B
Munich 6 Mainz 1-Freiburg 1 Cologne 2-Schalke
04 3 Hertha Berlin 0-Union Berlin 3 Borussia
Dortmund 1-Wolfsburg 1 Paderborn 1-Eintracht
Frankfurt 2 Fortuna Dusseldorf 1-W Bremen 3
Augsburg 2.
ITALY: AC Milan 1 Brescia 0-Juventus 4 Napoli
3-Atalanta 2 Torino 3-Cagliari 1 Inter Milan
2-Genoa 2 Fiorentina 1-Lazio 1 Roma 1-Lecce 0
Verona 1-Sassuolo 4 Sampdoria 1-Udinese 1
Parma 3.
SPAIN: Getafe 1 Alaves 1-Levante 2 Valladolid
0-Osasuna 2 Barcelona 2-Real Betis 2 Leganes
1-Atletico Madrid 3 Eibar 2-Espanyol 0 Granada
3-Valencia 2 Mallorca 0-Villarreal L Real Madrid L.
Golf
WOMEN'S CAMBIA PORTLAND CLASSIC
(Portland, Oregon).-3rd rd leaders (US unless
stated): 197—Y Noh 65 68 64; 200—H Green
(Australia) 64 63 73; 202—B Altomare 69 65
68; B M. Henderson (Canada) 67 68 67; 203—D
Finkelstein 66 69 68; P-Y Chien (China) 69 67
67; S Schmelzel 72 62 69; M Jung Hur (S Korea)
64 70 69; 204—S Burnham 69 66 69; 205—S Y
Kim (S Korea) 71 61 73; S Hyun Park (S Korea)
67 65 73.
OMEGA EUROPEAN MASTERS (Crans-sur-Sierre,
Switzerland).-Leading finals scores (GB &
Ireland unless stated): 266—S Soderberg
(Sweden) 64 70 66 66 (won at first extra play-off
hole); R McIlroy 67 63 69 67; K Samooja
(Finland) 66 71 62 67; A Romero (Argentina) 69
61 66 70; L Gagli (Italy) 64 68 67 67; 267—A
Arnaus (Spain) 66 67 70 64; M Lorenzo-Vera
(France) 63 72 67 65; 268—L Herbert
(Australia) 70 67 67 64; T Fleetwood 65 65 68
70; W Ormsby (Australia) 66 64 67 71; M
Schwab (Austria) 63 67 70 68; 269—M Kinhult
(Sweden) 67 72 65 65; A Pavan (Italy) 70 68 66
65; C Bezuidenhout (S Africa) 67 67 65 70; G
Green (Malaysia) 65 64 69 71; E Van Rooyen (S
Africa) 65 69 68 67; R Paratore (Italy) 67 66 67
69; S Jamieson 70 65 67 67; T Pieters
(Belgium) 67 67 70 65; 270—T Detry (Belgium)
68 71 65 66; N Bertasio (Italy) 66 70 65 69; H
Tanihara (Japan) 66 66 71 67; 271—A Johnston
69 69 66 67; D Drysdale 65 70 70 66; S Garcia
(Spain) 66 68 66 71; M Angel Jimenez (Spain)
67 66 69 69; J Luiten (Holland) 69 68 68 66;
272—L Bjerregaard (Denmark) 66 68 70 68; A
Bjork (Sweden) 67 68 67 70; S Crocker (US) 68
67 68 69; L Westwood 67 72 64 69; J Morrison
67 67 70 68.
Ice Hockey
ELITE LGE CHALLENGE CUP.-Gp A: Glasgow 3
Dundee 6-Dundee 7 Glasgow 2. Gp C: Sheffield 8
Nottingham 4-Nottingham 5 Sheffield 1.
Rowing
WORLD CH'SHIPS (Linz-Ottensheim, Austria).-
Men, Singles C-final: 1 Bulgaria 6-59.06; 2 GB
(T Barras) 6-59.45. Doubles A-final: 1 China
6-05.68; 2 Ireland 6-06.25; 3, Poland 6-07.87; 4
GB (J Collins/G Thomas) 6-10.35. Eights A-final:
1 Germany 5-19.41; 2 Holland 5-19.96; 3 GB* (T
George/J Rudkin/J Bugajski/M Sbihi/J Dawson/O
Wynne-Griffith/M Tarrant/T Ford/cox H Fieldman)
5-22.15. Women, Singles A-final: 1 Ireland
7-17.14; 2 New Zealand 7-20.56; 3 US 7-22.21;
4 GB (V Thornley) 7-25.48. Doubles C-final: 1
Poland 7-00.05; 2 GB (R Siddorn/K Edwards)
7-01.79. Eights A-final: 1 New Zealand
5-56.91; 2 Australia 5-59.63; 3, US 6-01.93; 5
GB* (F Gammond/Z Lee/J Wratten/H Taylor/R
McKellar/R Shorten/K Bennett/H Norton/cox M
Horn) 6-06.96.
PARA-ROWING
PR1 (arms-only) men's singles A-final: 1
Ukraine 9-12.99#; 2 Russia 9-19.43; 3 Australia
9-23.86; 4, GB (B Pritchard) 9-24.80.
BOATS QUALIFIED TO TOKYO = 10 (joint top
with Holland): Olympic women's = pair, four, sin-
gle, lightweight double, quad and eight (total 22
seats). Olympic men's = double, four, quad and
eight (total 19 seats). Paralympic = PR1 men's
single, PR2 mixed double, PR3 mixed coxed four
(total 8 seats).
MEDALS: 1 New Zealand (4G+2S+0B); 2 Italy League 1: Coventry 6 Oldham 50-Doncaster 48 (Kazakhstan) 6-4 6-3 6-2; A ZVEREV (Germany, 6)
(3G+4S+3B); 3 China (3G+1S); 9, GB (2G+4B). Keighley 12-Hunslet 16 Workington 30-Newcastle bt A Bedene (Slovenia) 6-7 (4-7) 7-6 (7-4) 6-3 7-6
GB MEDAL CREWS: Gold PR2 mixed double, PR3 46 North Wales 22-Whitehaven 74 West Wales 6. (7-3); D S SCHWARTZMAN (Argentina, 20) bt T
mixed coxed four. Bronze lightweight women's Sandgren (US) 6-4 6-1 6-3; M CILIC (Croatia, 22)
single, lightweight women's double, men's four Rugby Union bt J ISNER (US, 14) 7-5 3-6 7-6 (8-6) 6-4; R
and men's eight. Internationals NADAL (Spain, 2) bt H Chung (South Korea) 6-3
Georgia 10 Scotland 44 6-4 6-2. 4th rd: R FEDERER (Switzerland, 3) bt D
*= British entry has newly qualified the boat class
Georgia: S Matiashvili (L Khmaladze 54), M GOFFIN (Belgium, 15) 6-2 6-2 6-0; G Dimitrov
to Tokyo * = British entry has newly qualified the
Modebadze, Z Dzneladze (T Mchedlidze 56), D (Bulgaria) bt A De Minaur (Australia) 7-5 6-3 6-4.
boat class to Tokyo today # = new world best time
Kacharava, A Todua, T Abzhandadze, V Women’s Singles 3rd rd: N OSAKA (Japan, 1) bt
Lobzhanidze (G Aprasidze 54), M Nariashvili (K
Rugby League C Gauff (US) 6-3 6-0; B BENCIC (Switzerland, 13)
Asieshvili 56), S Mamukashvilli (G Chkhaidze 56), bt A KONTAVEIT (Estonia, 21) w/o; D VEKIC
Betfred Super League B Gigashvili (L Chilachava 56), S Sutiashvili (L (Croatia, 23) bt Y Putintseva (Kazakhstan) 6-4 6-1;
Catalans Dragons 6 Hull K R 24 Lomidze 66), K Mikautadze (G Nemsadze 59), O J GOERGES (Germany, 26) bt K BERTENS (Holland,
Catalans Dragons—T: Mead. G: Gigot. Giorgadze, B Saghinadze, B Gorgadze. 7) 6-2 6-3; T Townsend (US) bt S Cirstea
Hull K R—T: Shaw (2), McGuire. G: Shaw (6). Scotland: B Kinghorn, D Graham, R Hutchinson, S (Romania) 7-5 6-2; B V ANDREESCU (Canada, 15)
HT: 6-16. Johnson (H Jones 48), S Maitland, F Russell (A bt C WOZNIACKI (Denmark, 19) 6-4 6-4; K Ahn
London Broncos 10 Leeds 36 Hastings 65), G Laidlaw (A Price 59), A Dell (J
(US) bt J Ostapenko (Latvia) 6-3 7-5; E MERTENS
London Broncos—T: Dixon, Morgan. G: Dixon. Bhatti 59), S McInally (G Stewart 65), W Nel (Z (Belgium, 25) bt A Petkovic (Germany) 6-3 6-3.
Leeds—T: L. Briscoe, Seumanufagai, Walker (2), Fagerson 59), B Toolis, G Gilchrist, J Barclay (S
4th rd: J KONTA (GB, 16) bt KAROLINA PLISKOVA
Handley, Dwyer. G: Martin (6). HT: 10-18. Cummings 69), H Watson, M Fagerson (J Strauss
(Czech Rep, 3) 6-7 (1-7) 6-3 7-5; S WILLIAMS (US,
59). Scores: 0-3 Laidlaw pen (7 mins); 0-6
Wakefield 16 Wigan 24 8) bt P MARTIC (Croatia, 22) 6-3 6-4; Q WANG
Laidlaw pen (12); 0-11 Toolis try (14); 0-13
Wakefield—T: Batchelor, Miller, Jones-Bishop. G: (China, 18) bt A BARTY (Australia, 2) 6-2 6-4.
Laidlaw con (15); 0-18 Hutchinson try (19); 0-20
Brough (2). Wigan—T: Marshall (3), Powell. G: Men’s Doubles 2nd rd: J S CABAL (Colombia) & R
Laidlaw con (20); 3-20 Matiashvili pen (33); 3-23
Hardaker (4). HT: 12-12. FARAH (Colombia, 1) bt D Evans (GB) & C Norrie
Laidlaw pen (40); 3-28 Hutchinson try (47); 3-30
P W D L F A Pts (GB) 5-7 6-4 6-3; L Bambridge (GB) & B
Laidlaw con (48); 8-30 Asieshvili try (58); 10-30
St Helens 27 24 0 3 846 383 48 McLachlan (Japan) bt N MEKTIC (Croatia) & F
Abzhandadze con (59); 10-35 Graham try (63);
Wigan 27 16 0 11 627 519 32 10-37 Russell con (64); 10-42 Cummings try SKUGOR (Croatia, 9) 6-3 6-7 (4-7) 6-3; J MURRAY
Warrington 27 15 0 12 682 491 30 (73); 10-44 Hastings con (74). HT: 3-23. (GB) & K SKUPSKI (GB, 15) bt R Berankis
(Lithuania) & J I Londero (Argentina) 6-3 6-4; R
Salford 27 15 0 12 746 569 30 Wales 17 Ireland 22
RAM (US) & J SALISBURY (GB, 10) bt A De Minaur
Hull 27 15 0 12 627 702 30 Wales: H Amos, O Lane, S Williams, O Watkin, S
(Australia) & M Reid (Australia) 6-4 7-5. 3rd rd: L
Castleford 27 14 0 13 594 520 28 Evans (J Holmes 47), J Evans (R Patchell 41), A
Catalans 27 13 0 14 519 675 26 Davies (T Williams 47), R Carre (R Evans 41), R
Bambridge (GB) & B McLachlan (Japan) bt J
Chardy (France) & F Martin (France) 6-3 7-6 (7-4);
Leeds 27 11 0 16 612 620 22 Elias (E Dee 63), S Lee (L Brown 41), A Beard, B
K KRAWIETZ (Germany) & A MIES (Germany, 12)
Wakefield 27 10 0 17 573 690 20 Davies (J Ball 47), A Shingler, J Davies, J Navidi.
bt M Arevalo (Spain) & J O’Mara (GB) 3-6 6-3 6-4.
Ireland: W Addison (G Ringrose 43), A Conway, C
Huddersfield 27 10 0 17 541 706 20 Mixed Doubles 1st rd: B Mattek-Sands (US) & J
Farrell, B Aki, J Stockdale (D Kearney 41), J Carty,
Hull K R 27 10 0 17 516 731 20 Murray (GB) bt S Zhang (China) & J Peers
K Marmion (L McGrath 60), D Kilcoyne (A Porter
London B's 27 9 0 18 475 752 18 (Australia) 6-4 6-7 (2-7) 10-7.
45), N Scannell (R Best 52), J Ryan (T Furlong
BETFRED.-Ch'ship: Toronto 62 Barrow 8-Toulouse 52), I Henderson, J Ryan (D Toner 52), T Beirne,
42 Dewsbury 14-Batley 0 Featherstone P O’Mahony (J Murphy 60), J Conan. Triathlon
Scores: 0-3 Carty pen (9 mins); 3-3 J. Evans pen ITU WORLD GRAND FINAL (Lausanne,
64-Bradford 30 Sheffield 10-Halifax 58 Rochdale
0-Leigh 23 York 24-Widnes 36 Swinton 28. (16); 3-8 Stockdale try (18); 3-10 Carty con (19); Switzerland).-Elite, Men: 1 K Blummenfelt
P W D L F A Pts 3-15 Stockdale try (28); 8-15 Lane try (64); (Norway) 1h 50m 47s; 2 M Mola (Spain) 1:51:3;
10-15 Patchell con (65); 15-15 Patchell try (76); 8 J Brownlee (GB) 1:52:32; 13 A Yee (GB)
Toronto 26 25 0 1 964 344 50
Toulouse 26 19 0 7 851 422 38 17-15 Patchell con (77). HT: 3-15. 1:53:26. Women: 1 K Zaferes (US) 2h 02m 45s;
2 J Learmonth (GB) 2:02:49; 3 G Taylor-Brown
York 26 18 1 7 598 521 37
Leigh 26 18 0 8 780 512 36
Speedway (GB) 2:03:03; 13 S Coldwell (GB) 2:06:49; 18 V
CH'SHIP RIDERS’ INDIVIDUAL (Sheffield): 1 E Holland (GB) 2:08:02.
Featherstone 26 17 0 9 813 445 34 Riss (Redcar); 2 D King (Sheffield); 3 R Douglas
Fixture
Bradford 26 15 1 10 635 522 31 (Leicester); 4 S Masters (Edinburgh).
Sheffield 26 15 0 11 732 646 30
Cricket
Halifax 26 10 1 15 594 671 21 Tennis
US OPEN (Flushing Meadows, New York, Seeded 2ND TEST (day 4 of 5).-Kingston: West Indies v
Swinton 26 9 1 16 571 787 19
players in capitals, seeding in brackets).-Men’s India (3.30pm).
Batley 26 8 1 17 446 732 17
Singles 3rd rd: A Rublev (Russia) bt N KYRGIOS
Widnes 26 13 0 13 624 578 14
(Australia, 28) 7-6 (7-5) 7-6 (7-5) 6-3; M Sport on TV
Dewsbury 26 6 2 18 505 699 14 BERRETTINI (Italy, 24) bt A Popyrin (Australia) BASEBALL: MLB, New York Yankees v Texas
Barrow 26 4 1 21 455 845 9 6-4 6-4 6-7 (3-7) 7-6 (7-2); G MONFILS (France, Rangers - BT Sport/ESPN 6pm.
Rochdale 26 1 0 25 342 1186 2 13) bt D Shapovalov (Canada) 6-7 (5-7) 7-6 (7-4) CRICKET: West Indies v India - Sky Sports The
*Widnes deducted 12 points 6-4 6-7 6-3 (6-8); P Andujar (Spain) bt A Bublik Ashes 3.25 & Sky Sports Main Event 3.30pm.
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Final whistle
here there is too happy to receive the
mention of seemingly limitless free
W football, money from the TV
money is rights deals, while clubs
never far get themselves into
behind. Even the briefest financial messes trying to
scan through the football get their snouts in
pages of a paper or the trough.
New book puts website gives plenty of And it is the fan who
cause to feel uneasy has suffered: alienated
case for reducing about the Premier from the players on their
television’s League. obscene salaries, treated
For instance: as a cash cow, and via
influence on our Manchester United will paid-TV, priced out of
national game, be paying £175,000 a even watching our
week this season for the famous clubs play the
writes Alan Tyers white elephant of their national sport live.
nightmares, Alexis Nicholson argues that
Fans suffer Sanchez, now on loan at
Inter Milan, not to play
for them.
fans should boycott
pay-walled televised
football and demand that
as TV now Fifteen miles up the
M60 from Old Trafford,
Calling the shots: John Nicholson’s book argues that TV has taken ownership of the game government make league
football available for free
runs the Bury were thrown out of
the English Football
League; in the aftermath,
pyramid. At Newcastle
United, beloved former
players such as Rob Lee
Regrettable though he
and Sports Direct may be,
Ashley is far from being
us that we were once the
most important part of, to
the point where we are
on the BBC and ITV,
believing that the
national sport is a public
Premier some Premier League
clubs made half-hearted
are urging fans to lay off
Steve Bruce and focus
the only club owner in
the division whose
now bit-part players in
their drama. They have
good, and also good for
the public.

League murmurs about maybe

possibly offering a few
more crumbs to teams
their ire instead on the
man Lee calls “the real
villain”, the owner Mike
further down the Ashley.
background and methods
demand more scrutiny
than they get: the
morality or otherwise of
Abu Dhabi’s so-called
sportswashing via
Manchester City being
the highest profile
example, but far from the
only one.
The common thread in
those four stories is
money and, or so a book
out this week argues,
specifically the money
that comes into the
Premier League from
subscription television.
Can We Have Our Football
Back? How the Premier
League Is Ruining
Football And What We
Can Do About It, by John
Nicholson, is an
intriguing and thoughtful
attempt to crystallise a
sense that many people
have about how the
Premier League is
contested, marketed and
consumed in 2019. And
that sense is that
something is rotten.
Nicholson argues that
the money Sky pumped
into the Premier League
has corrupted and
co-opted the sport
in England.
He writes: “Since 1992,
those who run the
Premier League have
tried to sell something to
taken television from
being a guest at football
to football being a guest
on television.”
This book posits that
the Premier League has
pulled off a mind game
regarding its television
reach. With barely a
million watching many
matches in the UK on
He argues
that league
games should
be available
for free
what we once called
satellite TV, Nicholson,
speaking to broadcasters,
owners, TV executives
and former players
including Mark
Chapman, Chris Sutton,
Clive Tyldesley and
Simon Jordan, argues
that the Premier League
has conflated brand
awareness with
popularity and that
television has been
allowed to take
ownership of the people’s
game far beyond what
would be justified given
the actual number of
paying punters.
Top-flight football club
owners have been only
He also calls for salary
caps for players and an
end to gambling
advertising, citing its
corrosive effects on the
mental health of the
gamblers.
Nicholson, whom I
have known for nearly 20
years as a writer on the
Football365 website, is an
unusual, powerful writer
whose gifts are for the
polemic and the
provocative.
There will be plenty
who dismiss his book as a
pipe-dream or as an
irrelevance compared to
the realpolitik of big
money and large
institutions. But I think it
sits rather neatly in the
overarching debate of
our time: who gets to
control, and who has to
sit and take what they
are given?
“Can We
Have Our
Football
Back? How
the Premier
League Is
Ruining
Football
And What We Can Do
About It” is published on
Thursday by Head
Publishing.
See www.johnnicholson
writer.co.uk

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