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Kiran Randhawa and Sebastian Mann THIS is the moment a woman trapped beneath the wheels of a black cab was saved by a crowd of Londoners who lifted the car off her. Dozens of City workers raced to her aid after the pedestrian, believed to have left her office to get lunch, was dragged under the car. Dramatic video footage obtained by the Evening Standard shows how the front and rear wheels on the driver’s side were lifted up and the cab was rolled back to free the victim beneath. Witnesses told how workers on their lunch hour ran from inside their offices on King William Street, near Bank Station, to help after an onlooker shouted “help, help, we need men”. Laura Fares was one of the first on the scene after seeing the woman under the wheels. The 37-year-old from Finsbury Park said: “I saw this woman under the cab and I couldn’t quite
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Taking the helm: Sundar Pichai Pichai won a scholarship to Stanford University in California the $1,000 air fare cost more than his father’s entire annual salary. After dropping out of his PhD course to focus on a business career he joined Google on April 1,
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THE surprise shake-up at Google has propelled an Indian-born executive whose family did not even own a phone until he was 12 to one of the most powerful jobs in Silicon Valley. The technology giant revealed last night that Sundar Pichai is the new boss of the core Google internet business as well as other established brands such as YouTube under a new parent company called Alphabet. The promotion is the latest upward step in the meteoric rise of the 43-yearold from Chennai. He grew up in a two-room apartment and slept on the living room floor alongside his brother. The family did not own a TV or a car. His father Regunatha worked for the British conglomerate General Electric Company and first introduced him to the world of technology. When Mr
2004, the day that the company launched Gmail. He first started working on the Google search bar and Firefox and Internet Explorer browsers, but made his name as a serious high flyer by devising and launching Google Chrome. He went on to run the Android mobile operating system, where he was renowned for improving relations with the leading handset maker Samsung. Mr Pichai, who is married with two young children, is reported to have been locked into incentive schemes worth tens of millions of dollars to stop him being poached by rivals. Mr Pichai has built a reputation as a model corporate diplomat with few enemies. One Google executive said: “I would challenge you to find anyone at Google who doesn’t like Sundar.”
AS many as eight British jihadists are in the UK waiting to carry out a terror attack, it was claimed today. Around “four or five” are said to have received training in bomb and gun attacks in Iraq and Syria and have returned here in readiness to commit an atrocity. A further three extremists are claimed to have been radicalised here and are preparing to strike. The dramatic allegations are made in an investigation by Sky News which used an undercover journalist to contact jihadists in Syria using Twitter and instant messaging apps. The inquiry claims Islamic State is now more focused on urging British would-be recruits to carry out “lone wolf ” attacks in the UK rather than travelling to fight in Syria. Scotland Yard has been warning about the threat of “lone wolf” attacks for several months, with senior officials saying around half the 700 British extremists who have travelled to Syria have returned to the UK. Not all of the 350 or so people are a threat but police believe there is a core minority who may be plotting terrorist attacks. The fictional characters created online by Sky were sent terror guidebooks by senior jihadists in Syria — including advice on raising funds and making weapons. The TV journalist posed as two individuals committed to
Extremists: IS recruiter Junaid Hussain and his wife Sally Jones posing in Syria jihad — one male, one female — and exchanged online posts with two prominent extremists over a period of four months. One was Junaid Hussain, a 21-year-old hacker-turned-jihadist from Birmingham, who runs the IS information and recruitment arm from Syria and the second was his wife, Sally Jones, a former punk from Chatham, who is in Syria working alongside Hussain in Raqqa. Communicating on encrypted messaging sites, Jones struck up a conversation with what she thought was an 18-year-old woman. She started by asking what she wanted to do in the UK — to cut a head off or detonate a bomb. Jones explained she could guide the teenager through bomb-making and told her to get materials and show her a receipt, to check she was authentic. At that point she claimed there was another potential bomber in Scotland
and two others who had so far failed to attack. She also claimed this Saturday’s VJ commemorations in London, marking the 70th anniversary of the end of the war against Japan and involving the Queen and the royal family, were a target, a claim also made at the weekend in a Sunday newspaper. Police have urged people to attend the VJ events as normal and there have been no counter-terror arrests in connection with the claims. The undercover reporter then travelled to the Turkish city of Urfa, near the Syrian border, where he says he spoke to an IS recruiter. The man claimed “four or five” English jihadists had received training in Syria and Iraq and had already returned to Britain to launch an attack. Asked if the training was to carry out a variety of different terror attacks, he was adamant it was. “Yes, yes, yes everything, all of this — using the Kalashnikov, the pistol, the bomb, grenades and other things,” he said. “They have lessons after training that last an hour then they leave. “We don’t see too much, we are there for their protection; seeing what they are actually doing or what they are talking about is impossible, it is forbidden.” The Met said in a statement today that there was “a real threat” from jihadists who had not travelled abroad being incited to commit attacks in the UK, but it said it constantly reviewed secu@_jdavenport rity measures.
Fresh deal on Greek bailout close after all-night talks Joe Murphy Political Editor GREECE has edged closer to a new bailout deal worth an estimated £60 billion after all-night talks. Finance minister Euclid Tsakalotos said a deal was “very close” after a meeting with negotiators at a central Athens hotel. “Two or three very small details remain,” he said. Greek shares rose and bond yields fell on the news.
The Athens government hopes to push the three-year proposals through parliament this week, relying on support from opposition parties, before talks with eurozone finance ministers on Friday. But Germany, the biggest contributor to Greece’s two previous bailouts, has yet to sign up, and the deadline for a final deal is August 20, when a repayment of more than £2 billion
is due to the European Central Bank. Costas Lapavitsas, an MP for the anticuts Syriza party, said he would not vote for the deal. “Left-wing governments must take Left-wing actions,” he said. Greece owes £170 billion after losing market confidence after 2010, forcing spending cuts, tax hikes and reforms. @JoeMurphyLondon
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Ritchie’s family day out on red carpet GUY RITCHIE turned the premiere of his latest movie into a family affair as he took to the red carpet in New York. The British director, 46, was supported at the screening of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. by his wife Jacqui, 33, who he married this month, and Rocco, 15, and nineyear-old David, his sons from his marriage to Madonna. The spy movie is based on the Sixties TV series of the same name. Ritchie was joined on the
red carpet by the film’s stars, including Swedish actress Alicia Vikander, 26, who wore a white outfit featuring a cut-out waist with a leather detail. It also stars American Armie Hammer, 28, as Soviet agent Illya Kuryakin, and British actor Henry Cavill, 32. He plays Napoleon Solo, a role taken by Robert Vaughn in the original. Hammer and Cavill looked dapper on the red carpet in suits as did Hugh Grant, 54, who has a cameo. Reviews have so far been mixed. Alistair Foster
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))))* VERONICA LEE WHAT a busy man the Mayor of London is: running our fine city, serving as the newly elected MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip, writing a Daily Telegraph column — and now appearing in a Fringe show. Actually, David Benson (best known for his spot-on portrayals of Kenneth Williams and Frankie Howerd) is doing the performing duties in this very funny satire, with an unruly blond mop-top wig and an uncannily accurate voice. The title comes from an anecdote gleefully told by Boris Johnson’s sister
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Rachel, who revealed that when he was a child her brother declared that he wanted to be “world king” when he grew up. Boris tells us the story of his (so far) charmed life: head boy at Eton, president of the Oxford Union, shadow arts minister and survivor of enough sackings and scandals to scupper the careers of an entire Cabinet. Now, to add to his list of achievements, Boris wants to win the best
Fringe show award, and how difficult can that be? But from his wobbly entrance on a Boris bike, to a hilariously chaotic game of (as he calls it ) whiff-whaff and the final meltdown,
everything goes wrong in the hour he’s thrown together — and bumbling Boris finds that saying “Oh cripes!”, quoting some Latin and behaving like a fool doesn’t cut it. There’s a very good run-
ning gag in which Boris flirts outrageously with the women in the audience, using variations on the chatup line “We’re looking for someone just like you in the Mayor’s office — here’s my card”, and some sly digs at the man who may yet become his nemesis, fellow Old Etonian and Bullingdon Club member David Cameron. Written by Tom Crawshaw, directed by Yaz Al-Shaater and with various roles played by Alice McCarthy, this is a very amusing show with a bite in its tail, and surely deserves a London run. Who knows, perhaps the real Boris might pop along to challenge his onstage persona to a game of pingpong, and then recreate that notorious zipwire incident... O Until August 31 (edfringe.com)
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Khan wins support of former DPP in Labour mayoral race Joe Murphy Political Editor SADIQ KHAN was given a boost today when his bid to become London Mayor was backed by former top prosecutor Sir Keir Starmer. Mr Khan, right, was hailed as a “dynamic human rights lawyer� by former Director of Public Prosecutions Sir Keir, now MP for Holborn & St Pancras and a rising Labour party star. “Sadiq made his name rooting out injustice and righting wrongs,� he said. “He was never afraid to take on powerful vested interests in the government, the police or the prison service. This is precisely what we need in a mayor.� The battle for the Labour mayoral selection will enter its final stage on Friday when ballot papers are posted to thousands of London members and registered supporters, with a result due on September 13. Sir Keir said the Tooting MP had
impressed him by defending access to justice, the Human Rights Act and Britain’s membership of the European Convention on Human Rights in Commons debates. “These might not excite all voters, but they’re crucially important issues,� he said. “Without these kinds of protections, it’s the homeless, the unemployed, the elderly and victims of crime who’ll suffer.� Sir Keir said the Muslim son of a bus driver “symbolises all that’s good about London�. David Lammy today asked supporters to email their contacts list with an endorsement for his candidacy. His team issued a draft email that supporters are asked to cut and paste, praising the Tottenham MP as “the independent minded leader we need�. @JoeMurphyLondon
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People power: office workers help to lift the taxi off the stricken woman in King William Street in the City, above. London Ambulance Service paramedics then treated the woman in the road, top right, before taking her to a local hospital
‘All these City workers just dropped their briefcases and ran over to help’ Continued from Page 1 believe it. At that point, nobody was doing anything. “Something inside me kicked in and suddenly I just started shouting at people to help. I started screaming ‘help or she’s going to die’. “I started shouting at men passing by, screaming ‘you’re a man, we need you’. All these bankers and City workers then just started dropping their briefcases and running over.� Ms Fares, who runs the Aztec music label, added: “We all started lifting the cab and I could see her legs underneath. Her face was turning blue and she was just blinking. A builder who was helping started joking with her to keep her spirits up.� Tiaan Trahms, who captured the incident on his phone from his office above, said he raced to the window after he heard a woman scream outside. “When I looked out I saw this woman under the cab, her body was
twisted to one side. Her salad was strewn all over the ground nearby,� he said. “One guy ran into the cab to release the hand-brake and everybody else worked together to lift the cab off the ground. It all happened so quickly.� The 26-year-old, a consult-
‘To see this in the heart of London, where people are always so busy, was the most amazing thing’ Tiaan Trahms ant for a technology company, added: “The cab was rolled off her and her work colleague was stroking her hair and talking to her. “There were also two paramedics there who were talking to her and she was moving her legs and responding.� Mr Trahms, from Fulham, added:
“To see this in the heart of London, especially in the City where people are always so busy rushing around, was one of the most amazing things I’ve ever seen. It was quite a moment.� The London Ambulance Service said a motorcycle responder and members of the air ambulance, who arrived by car, were first on the scene. They can be seen in the video footage talking to the woman as the cab was lifted up. A spokeswoman said: “We sent a number of resources to the scene including an ambulance crew and London’s Air Ambulance trauma team by car. We treated a woman reported to be in her forties for leg and pelvic injuries. She was taken as a priority to hospital.� City of London Police said the woman had now been dishcarged after suffering soft tissue injuries. There have been no arrests.
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TENS of thousands of EU citizens working in Britain are entitled to claim NHS funds to treat partners and children living in their home countries, the Department of Health admitted today. Their families qualify for European health insurance cards (EHIC) even if they have never set foot in the UK, which means British taxpayers foot the bill for treatments not provided at home, the Evening Standard learned. MPs called on David Cameron to reform the system and to take it up if necessary as part of his attempts to renegotiate European free movement
rules. Tory MP John Redwood, the former Welsh Secretary, said: “This is just bizarre. The idea of EHIC is that people coming here from France have their health care billed to France. It is not supposed to mean that the NHS pays for people who do not live here.” Under EU rules, any citizen working in the UK is entitled to the same benefits as British people. Some £55 million is already paid each year in child benefit to children of EU immigrants who live in other countries. A Department of Health spokeswoman said that anyone living and working in Britain was classed as being insured by the UK and entitled to NHS care. “If that person is insured then their spouse and
family can apply to have the UK responsible for their health care costs, regardless of the country of residence.” She was unable to say how many people living in other EU countries took up the right or what the cost to UK taxpayers was. The disclosure comes after the cost of EHICs was spotlighted in a Daily Mail investigation into illegal use of the cards by people who falsely claim to live in the UK to claim the cost of treatments abroad. However, claims under EU rules are perfectly legal. In a speech in November, the Prime Minister said: “Changes to welfare — to cut EU migration — will be an absolute requirement in the negotiation that I’m going to undertake.”
Janner’s lawyers to appeal if he is forced to appear in court Paul Cheston Courts Correspondent
LAWYERS representing Lord Janner are set to appeal against the decision to force him to appear in court in person to face historic child sex charges. The High Court will be asked either tomorrow or Thursday to rule that the decision was unlawful. If they lose, lawyers for the peer, who has Alzheimer’s, today indicated they will take the case to the Appeal Court. At a hearing
Legal row: Lord Janner, who has Alzheimer’s, faces child sex charges dating from the Sixties to the Eighties at Westminster magistrates’ court, Paul Ozin, defending, said that bringing Janner, 87, to court would violate his rights. Last Friday Chief Magistrate Howard Riddle rejected arguments that
the peer, who faces 22 charges dating from the Sixties to the Eighties, was unfit to attend. He ordered that the former Labour MP must appear this Friday at the magistrates’ court to be committed to Southwark crown court for trial. Today Mr Riddle put forward a plan for Janner to be brought into court via step-free access and a side door. But he said that as long as the High Court or Appeal Court hearings were not completed the case would not take place on Friday as he had envisaged.
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“Concerns”: Steve Reed MP called for Labour to review the leadership election
A LONDON MP today called for an end to the “abuse” of Labour’s leadership contest after a hard-Left union activist joined the party, despite standing for a different party at the general election. Glen Hart, 44, who hit out at Labour
when he stood as the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition candidate for Croydon North, will now get a vote on the party’s future leader. Steve Reed, who won Croydon North, said: “There are serious concerns that Labour’s opponents are attempting to infiltrate our party so they can influ-
ence the leadership election. Glen Hart, who stood as the hard-Left TUSC candidate in Croydon North in May, has registered to vote. Goodness knows how many more of our opponents are abusing this new system. “Labour’s interim leadership needs to conduct an immediate review of the process to reassure Labour’s real supporters that the leadership election is not being undermined.” TUSC, an alliance of Left-wingers and unions, fielded candidates against Labour in 26 London seats at the general election. Mr Hart, a father of three and a member of the RMT rail union, admitted becoming a Labour member. He said the RMT was backing Mr Corbyn, but joining Labour had been his decision, and he denied a plot. Mr Hart, a Tube station supervisor for 17 years, said: “I’m being accused of infiltration, which is wholly inappropriate. I’ve not tried to influence a thing or go to any meetings. It was a personal, independent choice [to sign up]. No one in the TUSC [or RMT] was aware I had decided to do that.” At the general election, Mr Hart pledged to renationalise the railways, buses, utilities and Royal Mail, and introduce a £10-an-hour minimum wage. He came sixth in Croydon North, with 261 votes to Mr Reed’s 33,513. Reports have claimed that up to 140,000 new Labour members and supporters may have signed up to vote in the leadership contest by the time the registration deadline has passed at
“Personal decision”: Glen Hart denied his Labour membership was part of a plot midday tomorrow. Some are new full party members, others are “affiliate members” registered to vote via their trade union, and others have paid £3 to become “registered supporters”, under rules brought in by Ed Miliband. A senior Tory councillor today revealed he signed up to vote in Labour’s leadership election. Croydon finance spokesman Jason Cummings said: “I was amazed at how simple the process was. They didn’t ask if I was a member of another party. Even though I’m an elected Tory councillor, it went through. I did it through curiosity, never really intending to vote.” Some Labour figures are calling for the contest to be halted. Ex-minister Barry Sheerman said “malign” people were signing up. Former general secretary Baroness McDonagh warned of “entryism on an industrial scale”. The TUSC, co-founded by the late RMT boss Bob Crow in 2010, denied its members were “infiltrating” Labour. It plans to field candidates in next year’s elections for the Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly, Greater London Authority, and English councils. @David_Churchill @JoeMurphyLondon
Inviting: supporters of Mr Corbyn, inset, have a Facebook page to plan a celebration
Party time as Corbyn lead grows Joe Murphy Political Editor JEREMY CORBYN’S supporters were today planning a “massive” victory party in Trafalgar Square as a poll revealed he is further ahead in London than anywhere else. Some 600 people have already said they will go to the unofficial “Tentative Victory Party”, which is being organised on Facebook for September 12. A YouGov poll for The Times claimed the Left-wing Islington North MP was on course for a “knockout” win with more than half of first-preference votes. Mr Corbyn had 53 per cent of first preferences — some 32 points ahead of Andy Burnham. Yvette Cooper was on 18 and Liz Kendall trailing on eight. Mr Corbyn’s support is highest in London (62 per cent) and lowest in the Midlands (47). He urged supporters to be “cautious” over his poll lead, telling BBC London 94.9 his campaign was going “very well”.
Bookmakers slashed his odds to 1/2 — from 100/1 at the start of the contest. He urged critics to accept his leadership if he won: “If they choose somebody others don’t like, well I think we have to accept the democratic process.” Shadow work and pensions minister Stephen Timms said a Corbyn win would be “damaging for Labour and for the country”. The party’s former communications director, Alastair Campbell, has urged members to back “anyone but Jeremy Corbyn”. Mr Campbell accused Labour MP Diane Abbott of “talking crap” in a furious Twitter spat over the Corbyn surge. He said a Corbyn win would drive Labour “over a cliff ”, but she accused him of claiming credit for Left-wing policies he initially “d e r i d e d ” . M r C a m p b e l l retorted: “You’re talking utter crap not for first or last time.” She hit back: “Remind me of your support for civil partnerships when first introduced by Ken Livingstone?”
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ARMY bomb disposal experts were this afternoon battling to defuse a 500lb Second World War bomb in the East End, as hundreds of residents waited to be allowed back into their homes. Locals said they were told: “Get out now!” after the device was unearthed at lunchtime yesterday by builders converting a former factory in Bethnal Green into flats. Ministry of Defence sources admitted it was in a “tricky location” and said the Royal Logistics Corps had been working through the night in a bid to make it safe. Fire chiefs were hopeful of the incident ending this afternoon. The Rev Adam Atkinson, vicar of St Peter’s Church, said locals were worried about how long it would take to get back into their homes. “What is being talked about by the uniformed services is more in hope than expectation that it will be resolved today,” he added. He said about 40 per cent of residents had summoned up the “Blitz spirit” and refused to leave their homes: “There is a certain amount of playfulness but that may not last if this continues.” About 150 people spent the night at Bethnal Green Academy while others chose to stay with friends. Many were evacuated at midnight when a safety cordon was widened to 650ft. Pauline Carter, 26, said: “Police knocked on the door and said, ‘leave immediately.’ Someone bought a plot of land behind Temple Street and wanted to build 10 apartments with basements. That’s how they discovered it. They’ve been digging for months. The bomb is 10ft from my flat “ I’ve had so many parties, if it was going to blow up, it would have done so by now.” After the bomb was found an operation involving the Royal Logistics Corps, police and fire brigade was launched. Ministry of Defence photos showed the rusting shell, dropped during the Blitz in 1940-41, encased in earth about two feet below ground. Road closures were in place between Hackney Road and Old Bethnal Green Road. Visual artist Oers Sardi, 28, said: “I didn’t know anything until I went outside and it was like being in [zombie film] 28 Days Later. There was no one around. I saw a policeman who looked as surprised to see me as I was him.” Tower Hamlets council staff provided camp beds and ordered pizzas, potato wedges and soft drinks for evacuated residents. Katie Ling, 23, said: “There’s some good east London community spirit coming through.” Bernard Lewis, and his wife Joyce,
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both 76, were told to leave their home in Winkley Street. Mr Lewis said: “I was evacuated to an air raid shelter in my mother’s arms when I was four when we heard sirens warning a bomb was dropping. The people at the rest centre have been fantastic. We’ve had Domino’s delivered and teas and coffees. We didn’t have that last time.” Today residents appealed on social media for Tower Hamlets to update them on when they could get back into their homes. London Fire Brigade station manager Matt Burrows said: “A great deal of work is being carried out by firefighters, army, police and local authorities to
safely remove and defuse this bomb. This however, will be a protracted incident and we thank the local residents for their patience.” During the war about 2,000 homes in Bethnal Green were levelled by German bombs, while another 900 were left uninhabitable. Authorities have previously identified almost a dozen unexploded bombs within a half-mile radius of the latest discovery, including one just yards away in Canrobert Street. In March this year a 1,000lb bomb was found in Bermondsey. Another unexploded device was discovered near Wembley Stadium in May.
National Gallery staff set up picket lines in privatisation row Rashid Razaq STAFF at the National Gallery have launched an indefinite strike in a longrunning row over privatisation. Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have staged a series of walkouts in recent months in protest at visitor services — including security — being privatised. The dispute worsened when a union representative, Candy Udwin, was
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sacked. Today, picket lines were mounted outside the gallery. Labour leadership contender Jeremy Corbyn said: “National Gallery workers have been forced to take this action because of the intransigence of management. These low-paid workers are proud public servants and don’t want their jobs sold off. “The management of the National Gallery must reinstate Candy Udwin and call off plans to privatise the staff
who look after our cultural assets. I urge the incoming director Gabriele Finaldi to meet with the union and resolve this dispute.” PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka said: “We had asked the new director to step in to resolve this dispute before taking over but now his first week will be greeted by a continuous strike. We remain ready to negotiate.” The gallery has insisted that no jobs will be lost.
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‘London universities will struggle to get students due to high living costs’ Anna Davis Education Editor
NEW universities in London face a battle to attract A-level students this year because of a “double whammy” of changes to admission rules and money worries. London colleges outside the elite Russell Group of universities could be left without enough students to fill course places after A-level results are
published on Thursday, experts warned. Universities outside the capital are already targeting teenagers with the prospect of cheaper living conditions, following George Osborne’s announcement that maintenance grants will be scrapped from next year. But changes to rules on student numbers will also have an impact. For the first time the cap on student numbers has been lifted, so universities
can take as many students as they like. It means non-Russell Group universities can no longer rely on benefitting from the “overspill” of bright pupils who missed out on places at top institutions. Some universities have already responded by handing out unconditional offers to ensure they grab the best pupils. Professor Alan Smithers, director of the Centre for Education and Employment Re search at Buckingham
University, said: “Some Russell Group universities have given unconditional offers and a lot of their places are already spoken for. They might not have any places available after Thursday. But the newer institutions may be struggling to fill their places.” He added that the problem will be worse for universities in London because they could also lose students who are put off by its high cost of living. He said: “We are seeing the first year of the impact of lifting the cap on student numbers. It is a double whammy in London. “Universities will have to market themselves harder this year and point out the advantages they have, such as Greenwich University has a lovely building, and there are plenty of opportunities in London. “It will cause all universities to think about the value of their degrees.” But Professor Patrick Bailey, deputy Vice Chancellor at London South Bank University, said he is not unduly concerned by the changes. “Universities offer very different types of courses. Southbank has always offered programmes that are very relevant to employment and a lot are more vocational,” he said. He added: “London has a lot of other things. There is a buzz to the city and opportunities you would not get elsewhere. I hope the students who choose to go to other universities do so because of what they have to offer, not because they are cheaper.” Professor Bailey said it has been hard to predict student numbers for many years since the introduction of tuition fees and changes to the student cap. This year Hull university will have a “pop-up” campus in King’s Cross on A-level results day to target students applying for places through clearing. Leicester has entered into a “partnership agreement” with seven London schools and will offer one student per school a £1,000 scholarship to study @_annadavis there.
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Man stabbed to death in the street A MAN in his twenties was stabbed to death in a street in south London yesterday. The man was treated by paramedics from the London Air Ambulance service on the pavement after the stabbing at Barnfield Road, Plumstead, at 6.24pm. He died soon after arriving at hospital. The man’s family have been informed. Police said there had been no arrests.
Cipriani sought help for depression after split RUGBY player Danny Cipriani today told how he battled depression after being dropped from the England team and splitting up with girlfriend Kelly Brook, pictured. Cipriani, 27, told the Sun: “I had depression for nine months… I had to see somebody to get help. It’s part of growing up and going through that in the spotlight is tough.”
ITV invests in YouTube network Channel Mum ITV HAS bought a minority shareholding in Channel Mum, the YouTube network for mothers set up by the founder of Netmums. Siobhan Freegard launched the multi-channel network in January with a group of vloggers sharing their experiences of motherhood. Simon Pitts, ITV’s managing director of online, pay, interactive and technology, said: “We’re delighted to be working together.”
Two fifths of five-year-olds are not ready to start school, warns report Ross Lydall Health Editor TWO in five London children are not “school-ready” at the age of five and face a struggle throughout their life to catch up, according to a new report. Public Health England found that about 39,500 children did not achieve a “good level of development” in cognitive, social and emotional skills. There was wide disparity in achievement across the capital’s 33 boroughs. “School-ready” five-year-olds recognise numbers and quantities and are able to communicate their needs and have a good vocabulary. They eat independently, can take turns in groups to sit, listen and play, can dress themselves and go to the toilet independently. Boys were 1.3 times less likely to meet the required standard than girls, while those who receive free school meals were behind those who did not. Standards in London improved faster in 2013/14 than in the country as a
whole, rising from 52.8 per cent to 62.2 per cent on the previous year. Hillingdon had the lowest proportion of “school-ready” children — 52.5 per cent. Lewisham had most with 75.3 per cent. Low development levels during the “critical” first five years can have an impact on later life, particularly around health, future earnings, involvement in crime and premature death. Key factors in a child’s development are the good mental health of the mother, learning activities such as parents speaking to and reading with a child, enhanced physical education and high-quality early education. One in 10 women suffer from mental illness before or after childbirth. Their children are five times more likely to have mental health issues themselves. The report said that by age three, children from low-income families have heard on average 30 million fewer words than children from high-income families and had half their vocabulary.
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Gardener killed in Bentley ‘hit-and-run’ was doting father, say grieving family David Churchill, Matt Watts and Benedict Moore-Bridger
Sam’s waxwork is good enough to eat SINGER Sam Smith couldn’t resist licking his own cheek — and giving himself a kiss — as he came face-toface with his wax doppelganger in San Francisco. Smith, 23, had tweeted: “Heading to Madame Tussaud’s right now. Can’t believe I’m even saying this” — and was so impressed with his model that he posed for a selfie and later told fans: “Feel free to touch my wax bum!”
THE family of a landscape gardener knocked down and killed by a £120,000 Bentley in an alleged hit-and-run today paid tribute to a “doting father”. Chris Jones, 23, was directing traffic around his broken-down van in Notting Hill when he was struck by the highpowered GT Coupe allegedly being driven at around 70mph. The driver and a passenger are said to have climbed out of the silver Bentley Continental and fled, leaving the headlights on and hip-hop music blaring from the speakers. Mr Jones, who had just moved from Deal in Kent to London with his girlfriend and had a young daughter, was hit at around 11.50pm last Thursday. Today his devastated family and friends paid tribute to a “fantastic young man”, “amazing dad”, and a “one-off with a giant smile”. His uncle Andrew Cowell, 49, said: “He was just a nice, normal guy starting a new episode in London whose life has been tragically cut short. “We feel incredibly upset for his daughter, who he doted on. The tragedy of it all is that he was only trying to help people avoid his van. If he’d walked away he might still be here.” Writing online, his mother Ruth Jones said: “I cannot express my aching heart but Chris I loved you so very much but in my heart you will live forever my baby you will always be.” Sophie Lee, mother of his daughter, wrote: “He was a one in a million guy and the best dad we could have hoped for.” Mr Jones had organised a surprise 22nd birthday party for his student
Victim: Chris Jones, left. Above, accused bodybuilder George Claudiu Albu. Below, the crash scene in Notting Hill
■ A woman aged 54 was seriously injured when she was hit by a lorry in Kensington High Street yesterday afternoon. The driver of the lorry, which was turning left into Young Street, was not arrested.
girlfriend Trudy Friend on the evening before he was killed. She posted a photo on Facebook of the couple blowing out candles on her cake. Romanian bodybuilder George Claudiu Albu, 31, from Paddington, was arrested at his £1 million flat and appeared at West London magistrates’ court yesterday charged with causing death by dangerous driving, driving without insurance, and failing to stop at the scene of a collision. He was remanded in custody. @benm_b
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International | News Briton dies after being hit by massive wave at Biarritz Peter Allen in Paris A BRITISH father of four has died on the south-west coast of France after being hit by a giant wave. Police believe Michael Walton, 36, suffered severe whiplash injuries after the wave struck him from behind while he was swimming. He drowned at Labenne beach near Biarritz. Mr Walton was on holiday with his wife and young children. They had arrived at Plage Centrale at 11am yesterday. It is a popular spot for families because it has supervised bathing area. A police source from nearby Mont-de-Marsan said: “He was
hit in the spine by a big wave, and suffered whiplash injuries.” Caught up in the surge, he was spun round and round before his body was released. “The force of the water may have broken his spine,” said the source, adding that “conditions were not particularly rough”. Holidaymakers spotted him floating in the water and he was pulled out by lifeguards, but they and paramedics could not save him. Mr Walton was the head coach at Rugby Lions and from Hinckley, Leicestershire. His death was confirmed by North Midlands RFU, which sent its condolences to his family.
Legionnaires’ outbreak kills 12
Protest violence: police arrest a demonstrator in Ferguson. Officers with riot shields rushed into a crowd and were pelted with rocks and bottles
State of emergency as Ferguson clashes go on Rashid Razaq THE streets of Ferguson endured fresh violence following the anniversary of the shooting of black teenager Michael Brown, as riot police clashed with protesters and a state of emergency was imposed. Early today about 200 demonstrators, waving flags, beating drums, and shouting anti-police slogans, marched along a road that was a flashpoint during last year’s riots after white officer Darren Wilson shot dead the unarmed 18-year-old. At about midnight, police carrying shields rushed into a crowd of protesters. Some screamed and ran and others threw water bottles and rocks
at officers, who used loudspeakers to warn people to leave or face arrest. The state of emergency was declared after exchanges of gunfire in the suburb of St Louis, Missouri, following a day of mainly peaceful protests. One man reported to be a friend of Michael Brown — Tyrone Harris, 18 — was shot by police and is in a critical condition in hospital. He was later charged with four counts of assault on law enforcement, five counts of armed criminal action, and one count of shooting at a vehicle. But his father insisted he did not have a gun. “He was running for his ... life because someone was shooting at him,” Tyrone Harris Snr said. St Louis County police chief Jon Bel-
mar claimed the gunfire started when two groups of agitators apparently began shooting at each other. Police said Harris darted across a car park and was confronted by four officers in an unmarked vehicle, who injured him in an exchange of fire. Reports claimed he had been on bail accused of stealing a motor vehicle, theft of a gun and resisting arrest. Activists across the US had called for civil disobedience to highlight the shooting of Mr Brown and other unarmed black men by police. Clergy and civil rights groups staged a protest at a St Louis courthouse where 60 people were arrested, including Princeton University philosophy professor and activist Cornel West.
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Man, 91, on drugs smuggling charge A 91-YEAR-OLD has been charged with importing cocaine into Australia hidden in soap, prompting police to warn travellers to beware they are not tricked into becoming drug mules. Victor
activists. All of Japan’s nuclear plants were shut after the tsunami and earthquake of March 11 led to a meltdown and a radiation leak at the Fukushima Daiichi plant. A total of 25 plants have applied to be restarted but all are facing legal challenges from concerned locals. Twartz, from Sydney, was bailed after being charged with bringing 4.5 kilograms of the drug on a flight from New Delhi last month. He did not enter a plea and will next appear in court in October. Police say it appears he was scammed by a group he befriended online.
AT LEAST 12 people have died from Legionnaires’ disease and more than 100 cases reported in New York’s biggest outbreak. Health officials are struggling to contain the deadly bacteria which has been traced back to
cooling towers in more than a dozen buildings in the South Bronx. Cleaning crews have been dispatched to kill the bacteria. All but one of the 12 victims were over 40, and all of them had underlying health problems.
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Mechanic ‘killed wife in frenzied attack’ Paul Cheston Courts Correspondent A MECHANIC allegedly stabbed his wife to death at her home two weeks after he was cleared of beating her up. Shonhiwa “Gibson” Mazikana, 41, blamed Emily Munemo, 42, for the case and had asked a friend if he knew anyone who could “do the job for me”, Southwark crown court was told. On the day of the killing in January Mazikana was due to be sentenced at Isleworth crown court for assaulting a police officer during the same domestic incident. Ms Munemo, a mother of two, worked as a nurse at Watford General Hospital.
“Wound up”: the court heard that Shonhiwa Mazikana blamed his wife for his conviction for assault Prosecutor Anthony Orchard QC told jurors: “Mazikana used two knives to inflict multiple wounds. One broke, leaving the knife blade embedded in her scalp. The stabbing bore all the hallmarks of a frenzied attack.” The court heard the couple were both born in Zimbabwe and Ms Munemo came to the UK in 1999. Mazikana fol-
Knifed to death: mother-of-two Emily Munemo had previously accused Mazikuna of assault
lowed her a few years later. In November 2013 police were called to the matrimonial home in Uxbridge and Ms Munemo alleged that Mazikana had assaulted her. During his arrest Mazikana attacked a police officer. Mazikana was acquitted of assaulting his wife but was convicted of assaulting the officer. Mr Orchard said: “He blamed Emily Munemo for his conviction. There is no doubt he was very wound up about his domestic situation. So much so that approximately two weeks before the murder he discussed killing Emily with a friend.” Mazikana, of Hayes, Hillingdon, denies murder. The trial continues.
Medics ‘sabotage the fight against FGM by carrying it out themselves’ Martin Bentham Home Affairs Editor
LONDON doctors have warned that medical staff are undermining the fight to eliminate female genital mutilation by carrying out a rising proportion of the “cutting” surgery inflicted on girls. The finding comes in a study of 27 young FGM victims conducted by four doctors who specialise in child safeguarding work at London’s University College and Whittington hospitals. It discloses that 10 of the girls had suffered “potentially illegal” mutilation carried out when the victims were either residents or citizens of this country. The doctors warn of a “huge disparity” between “the number of cases coming to light” and estimates of the true number of victims living in Britain. This shows “a failure to protect girls who are UK citizens” and means there is a “largely hidden burden of safeguarding, medical and psychological problems” among young women. But their most significant conclusion from analysis of the victims is that FGM is increasingly being carried out by medical practitioners: “It is a striking finding that many had FGM in a ‘medical setting’ or that it was performed by a person described as a ‘doctor’.” “This trend towards increasing medicalisation of this practice... is reported in international data, but here it has occurred in a significantly higher proportion of cases, a trend which may be greater in migrant communities in the
UK. The medicalisation of FGM, although it reduces immediate medical risks, serves to legitimise and prolong the practice in some communities.” The doctors — Deborah Hodes, Alice Armitage, Kerry Robinson and Sarah Creighton — say the study is the first “to report on FGM in children presenting to healthcare services in the developing world”. They list bleeding, pain, bedwetting, recurrent infection, and posttraumatic stress as among the problems found in the girls they assessed. The doctors also disclose that most were under 10 when cut and warn that mutilation is occurring at an increasingly young age, with 15 per cent of procedures involving girls under one. Eighteen of the 27 girls assessed were from Somalia. Others came from Ethiopia, The Gambia and Zambia. The most common form of FGM inflicted was “Type 4”, which involves pricking or nicking the genitals and leaves minimal or no visible evidence. Eleven were victims of this practice. Eight other girls had suffered partial or total removal of their clitoris and labia, known as Type 2 FGM. Another two had suffered partial or total removal of their clitoris. On potential criminal offences, the study, which covers girls treated between 2006 and May last year, says that 10 potentially illegal cases were found. It says investigations are ongoing in some, but other cases were abandoned because of a lack of evidence or doubts about the perpetrators.
Benedict boosts iPlayer radio downloads A RADIO 4 legal drama starring Benedict Cumberbatch has helped BBC iPlayer hit more than a million downloads in its first month of allowing people to save shows to listen to later. Rumpole, featuring the Sherlock star, 39, currently playing Hamlet at the Barbican, has been downloaded 81,411 times
since the function was launched. The second most popular show was Radio 1’s Summer Mixes, downloaded 47,446 times. Andrew Scott, general manager of radio and music at BBC Digital, said: “Hitting one million downloads across the whole of BBC radio and music has far surpassed our expectations.”
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‘My father has weeks to live so I called off wedding but hotel held on to our deposit’ Matt Watts A BRIDE-to-be accused a hotel of “unbelievable heartlessness” after it refused a refund when she cancelled her wedding having found out her terminally ill father had just weeks to live. Advertising executives Tara Mendelsohn, 35, and fiancé Tarun Naipaul, 41, the nephew of Nobel prize-winning writer VS Naipaul, had booked the boutique Foxhill Manor Hotel in the Cotswolds for September 9. But they decided to cancel the £17,000 wedding after learning that Ms Mendelsohn’s father Peter was losing his battle with a rare form of cancer and would be unable to walk her down the aisle. However, the eight-bedroom private manor house hotel declined to return their £3,000 deposit — stating that the couple could postpone their wedding by up to six months. Ms Mendelsohn, who lost her mother to cancer seven years ago, said: “I am just devastated. I’m heartbroken I am going to lose my dad. “It was my dream he would give me away. I wanted him there so much. I don’t want to go ahead with the wedding there without him. “It’s unbelievable heartlessness that the hotel would behave in this way. The
‘I’m just devastated… It was my dream he would give me away’ Tara Mendelsohn
“Heartbroken”: Tara Mendelsohn with fiancé Tarun Naipaul, far left, and, above, with her father Peter. Left, the Foxhill Manor Hotel booking was made not long ago. I can’t believe they will have lost out on business as a result of us cancelling. As a business you would just hope they had some heart and could see these are exceptional circumstances.” The couple, who live in Kensal Green, had planned to marry next year but brought the wedding forward so Ms
Mendelsohn’s father, a retired dentist from West Hampstead, could give her away. They were told last week he was losing his battle with a neuroendocrine tumour and could live “just weeks”. The Foxhill Manor Hotel, which describes itself as providing “a heartfelt personal service” is in the woodland estate of Farncombe. After being con-
tacted by the Standard, the hotel said it would refund the couple’s deposit. Andrew Grahame, chief executive of Farncombe Estate, which owns Foxhill Manor, said: “We have fully refunded the wedding for Ms Mendelson and Mr Naipaul, as we would always do under these circumstances. “As a family-owned business with
strong values, we would never knowingly conduct business in a manner that was not sympathetic to our valued customers.” Ms Mendelsohn added: “We are both really pleased Foxhill Manor have now apologised and offered to refund our deposit in full. My dad is really happy with the news.”
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Let all talent thrive in the capital’s universities THE warning that London’s new universities might find it harder to recruit students this year reflects the increasing role market forces are playing in this country’s higher education system. Two factors are being cited. One is the high cost of living in London and the lure of a cheaper existence at institutions outside the capital for students already facing the burden of £9,000-a-year tuition fees. The other is the Government’s decision to lift the cap on the number of students that universities can admit. The best institutions, such as London’s UCL, Imperial and King’s, will be able to recruit more as a result. That will be good for students and benefit the capital by allowing its most outstanding universities to take more of the world’s brightest young people. That is the positive side of the new market in students. The potential downside is that some new universities might struggle to compete with more famous rivals. Change is inevitable. New universities provide valuable vocational courses and often attract students from poorer backgrounds who might otherwise shun higher education. They play an important role in London’s education world. As London’s South Bank points out today, it is for these institutions to respond to the market by convincing students of the quality of the courses and experience they offer. Higher living costs will not be a deterrent if the benefits of study are sufficient. Excessive restrictions on visas for foreign students must be avoided too. Talented migrants can fill gaps and enhance educational standards. London needs all its universities to prosper.
The ideas economy THE proposed reorganisation of Google into a new holding company called Alphabet is eye-catching. For the billionaire co-founders of one of the most successful companies of the past 20 years, it is a statement of intent. Google might be all-powerful in the world of internet search but it does not intend to rest on its laurels. In time, Alphabet hopes that ventures such as driverless cars and “smart home” devices can take centre stage. Too often, the spirit of innovation in big business is dulled by the need to deliver short-term returns. Google has always tried to be different — and can afford to be so because of the large amount of money its advertising business generates. Its innovative spirit should be a lesson to companies large and small, especially as the Government ponders how to foster entrepreneurship in all corners of the United Kingdom. Even in London, which sits at the crossroads of creativity and corporate finance, more entrepreneurial role models are required. The latest to be propelled forward is lingerie tycoon Michelle Mone, who is carrying out a Government review to discover why people from disadvantaged backgrounds are reluctant to set up in business. One reason — well understood by Google yet still to be hardwired into the British national psyche — is that failure is fine, especially if it leads to success later on.
London’s people power THE images of City workers rushing to lift a black cab to rescue a trapped pedestrian from a car crash yesterday are as heart-warming as they are heart-stopping. Their actions recall a similar recent incident when Walthamstow residents saved a man caught under the wheels of a bus. When it matters, London’s people power comes to the fore.
Looking to the future: a poster by Iraklii Toidze, titled In the Name of Peace, 1959
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hen a n o t h e r millennium or two has passed there’s no doubt in my mind about what historians of the future will highlight as the most significant event of the 20th century, one that sent out shockwaves across culture, from art and science to politics and technology too. It is that gravity-defying moment that humans first ventured beyond the confines of their home world to launch the next great phase of exploration. Our efforts to capture and record that moment perfectly illustrate the profound role of culture to soar above politics, along with the enduring legacy of the Cold War. The space age dawned on October 4, 1957, with the “beep-beep” of a little silver sphere, the Soviet Union’s Sputnik 1, and was followed by the launch of an assortment of stray Moscow street dogs, before the first spaceman and spacewoman, Yuri Gagarin and Valentina Tereshkova, made headlines around the world in 1961 and 1963. Those epic events will be celebrated next month at the Science Museum with our autumn blockbuster exhibition Cosmonauts: Birth of the Space Age, which will recount this greatest of human adventures through original spacecraft, memorabilia and works of art. I don’t want to downplay the significance of America’s Apollo programme. If I could name my favourite inspirational object currently on show in the museum it would be the Apollo 10 command module, launched in the dress rehearsal for the Moon landings. Every time I look at this brown, burnt and cracked spacecraft it seems even more amazing today, in 2015, that it got within a few miles of the Moon than it did to short-trousered me back in May 1969, when it blasted off. But there’s a much deeper, richer narrative to be found in Cosmonauts. Many trace the ancestry of modern rocketry back to Peenemünde in Nazi Germany, where the first long-range guided ballistic missile, the V-2 rocket, was developed and used to attack London, falling out of the sky at more than twice the speed of sound. However, the real story dates back much further than this harbinger of the Cold War missile age, to the late 1800s and the rise of the Cosmists, a Russian movement that meditated on the origin, evolution and future of the cosmos and humankind. Their roots can in turn be traced back much further, to Ancient Greece. One Russian who was gripped by this philosophy was the polymath Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857-1935), who is often portrayed as the grandfather of Soviet space travel. He was inspired by a dream that still strikes a deep chord: that space travel would allow humanity to abandon an Earth that has been ravaged by natural catastrophes. He dreamt of international space stations as early as the 1890s and in 1903 was the first to calculate it was possible to reach outer space using liquid-propellant rockets. Russia’s October revolution of 1917 not only saw the revitalisation of its literary and artistic scene but a renaissance of sciences too. A decade later, in Moscow, on Tsiolkovsky’s 70th birthday, the Association of Inventors and Inventists opened “The World’s First Exhibition of Interplanetary Equipment, Mechanisms and Historical Materials”. One of various
Conquering space has transcended political differences The Science Museum’s new exhibition tells the Russian side of the story of humanity’s greatest achievement
What more ancient common ground between nations is there than our fascination with the heavens?
clubs preparing for the conquest of outer space, it promoted vegetarianism, denounced sleep and sought a new international language of outer space. Meanwhile, artists such as painter Pavel Filonov and art theorist Vasily Kandinsky, while not depicting spacecraft and so on, hungered to escape the dimensions and limits of concrete reality in favour of the astral plane. My curatorial colleague Doug Millard has dreamt of telling the stories of Russia’s space quest for a decade. When Ian Blatchford took over the museum five years ago he was determined to capture this story of a nation’s love affair with the cosmos, from the birth of the Russian Cosmist movement to the missions and spacecraft of those first brave cosmonauts. Given concerns about Russian belligerence, about human rights and Ukraine and the circumstances around the poisoning of Alexander Litvenenko, one could not think of a better example of the transcendent power of culture to foster understanding and reveal common interest when there is dissent and division. We were delighted when the British Museum announced it was to loan a Parthenon sculpture to the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg to celebrate its 250th anniversary. We are also a museum of the world. We have benefited from the generosity of no fewer than 18 different Russian institutions, some of which have never lent before,
to obtain around 150 iconic objects for our Cosmonauts exhibition. After all, what more ancient common ground between nations is there than our fascination with the heavens, which is as old as human history, indeed as old as human consciousness itself? The night sky is, of course, achingly beautiful. This simple fact, alas, is mostly lost on many city dwellers (Londoners might see a meagre 100 or so stars with the naked eye, as a result of light pollution, but under dark skies you can see more than 1,000). In ancient times, understanding of the celestial spheres conferred an ability to a wise man to foretell the future, guiding him through the seasons, even predict eclipses. In this sense, knowledge of the heavens sheds light on our destiny. I hope that when our visitors look around Cosmonauts they will not think of it as an exhibition about Russian endeavour (though it most certainly is that) but as a vivid testament to the remarkable courage and ingenuity of our species, one who in coming millennia will realise its destiny in the heavens, not on Earth. ■ Roger Highfield is director of external affairs at the Science Museum. Cosmonauts: Birth of the Space Age, runs from September 18-March 13, 2016, at the Science Museum. sciencemuseum. org.uk/cosmonauts
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Class war: life is either a comedy or an outrage eremy Corbyn is not what lads would call a joker. Indeed, his lack of humour is ideological. What is there to laugh about? Wa r? Pove r t y? I n j u s t i c e? Corbyn’s earnestness is part of a return to traditional Labour values and deepens the social division between socialism and conservatism. The strain of champagne socialism embodied in the late John Mortimer is out of fashion. Holidays are no longer in Tuscany, in fact why have holidays at all when you can have rallies? Tony Blair was suntanned, smiling and a closet Catholic. Corbyn is pale, mirthless and an atheist who appeals to Methodists. A return to tribal politics means defining the enemy. I once asked Ken Livingstone, when he was Mayor of London, who his policies were intended to punish. He answered, pleasantly: “People like you.” If I had to guess who Corbyn is marching against, I would hold up a copy of Tatler. Page after page of people roaring with laughter and having a Jolly Good Time. People with guns, crawling across windswept landscapes for pleasure rather than fighting against oppression. People at the races, braying. Lightheartedness is a motto. For the cartoon ruling class, subjects for jokes are rarely irony, wordplay or political satire in the manner of the News Quiz. What is actually funny is falling in a river with your clothes on,
making comical faces and mooning. Seriousness is extremely funny. The great division is between those who see life as a comedy and those who regard it as an outrage. To the cavaliers, a refusal to see the funny side of things is a provocation. I remember, while working on the Daily Telegraph with the future mayor of London, spats between Boris Johnson and the Left-wing commentator Polly Toynbee. Johnson’s t ac tic was affectionate teasing, which was intolerable to Toynbee. She accused him and his Etonian cronies of childish flippancy. The responding Telegraph leader had the headline: “Polly, put the kettle on”. To Corbynites, social merriment smacks of insensitivity and crassness. Of course well-off people are laughing, they have never had to feel sick with fear about paying the bills, or care for the weak and the suffering. As a political centrist I would question the stereotyping on both sides. Being rich does not insulate you from tragedy. It always struck me as bad taste for people to accuse the Camerons of having it easy when they had lost a son. Being a socialist does not bar you from being excellent company. To name a few greats, the late Paul Foot and Christopher Hitchens, or David Hare. But class emblems have their uses. John Prescott welcomed the upending of Clause 4 on the grounds that debate reinvigorated the Labour Party. I assume he looks forward to knocking the syntax gags on the head at the same t i m e . T h e t r i b a l w a r b e t we e n cheerfulness and anger is bracing and should enrich our cultural life. @sandsstandard
■ The conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner encouraged the pace of the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique playing Beethoven’s 5th and Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique at the Proms on Sunday
by keeping the strings standing up. Offices have already embraced the idea that standing makes you impatient. If we abolished chairs throughout our lives imagine how much more we might pack in.
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White House rules: Hugh Laurie has recently joined the cast of Veep as Tom James, alongside Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s Selina Meyer
Masterful Laurie has taken Veep to a whole new level The new way of watching television is feast or famine. I don’t know how I will manage the end of this season of Veep. The final genius is the introduction of Hugh Laurie as Tom James, the running mate of
President Selina Meyer (Julia LouisDreyfus). I had not realised what a top-rank actor Laurie has become. I cannot think of an American actor who could play the part better. James’s charm with voters and
political nous starts to appal Meyer and I imagine he will have a bigger role in the next series. This could coincide with Joe Biden entering the Democrat race against Hillary Clinton. Art is just better than life.
Germany leads by example over migrants The two great unifying symbols of my lifetime have been the opening of the Channel Tunnel and the Berlin Wall coming down. It is shaming that Germany has faced up to the human consequences of freedom of movement more generously and calmly than we. The migrants who arrive in Britain from Calais are a fraction of those pouring into Italy or Germany. A German official I spoke to the other day challenged our claim to be
a Nirvana of social benefits. The benefits are at least as generous in Berlin. The German suggestion, combining humanity with deterrence, is to lift the bar for all benefits. You should not discriminate between those in need but you can be stricter on entry level. My German companion mused that our sense of threat is directly disproportionate. We fear migrants most because we see so few of them. Our identity is as an island nation.
We should recognise courage and migrants who make it this far deserve a shot at living here. I am glad that the BBC is going ahead with its plan to screen Songs of Praise from the Calais camp. It should strike a note of kinship with the migrants. Of course we cannot take everyone but I suggest we take the boldest, those who cherish our values and the orphans. These are more dignified categories than scroungers and asylum seekers.
More drivers in London should think of living the electric dream Sol Campbell Prudential RideLondon gave me a wonderful insight into what London would be like with electric cars. Yes, the bike ride caused disruption over the weekend but the noise level in London via the route was almost non-existent. It was almost like 150 years ago. I know it is just a dream but I believe we can work towards it. For London, electric cars are the way forward. Imagine if at least half of all car journeys in London were by electric vehicles and hybrids including domestic cars, taxis and
vans. The noise level would drop considerably, which is one of the main gripes of living in London. Some time ago black cabs made the move to diesel. We now know that was not the best solution. How much would it cost to change black cabs to hybrids? City Hall is helping make taxis and buses more environmentally friendly but it is not just about buses and taxis. What about personal responsibility? One million Londoners are still living in areas above EU levels for nitrogen dioxide. Also, an equivalent of 4,300 deaths in London per year are attributed to air quality-related illnesses; the level of mortality attributable to longterm exposure to particulates is higher in each borough of London
than the UK average. Some people might say that’s because there are more people in London. Isn’t that an even better reason to do more to reduce these figures? It is now up to councils and car manufacturers to design a clever and inexpensive way of charging electric vehicles. The motor industry is pushing towards designing more attractive and hybrids cars. The Mayor and councils could help by increasing the number of charging points — currently you can locate them via an app but it is pot luck if there is one available. At home, if you do not have a garage you have to drag a charging lead across the pavement from your house to your car. Smart cities should be addressing
these issues in their planning strategies and development programmes and developers must be made aware that this is going to be a big part of the future of London. It will take a team effort from all of us. I was unsure before I bought an electric car myself, a BMW i3, but I wanted to play my part in providing the solution. I thoroughly enjoy driving it — the convenience and practicality make my journeys around London so much easier. I was
The Mayor and councils could help by increasing the number of charging points in the capital
also attracted by the perks of driving an electric car. The Government may now introduce electric vehicle tax: this will not be helpful to the expansion of electric cars if the Government starts to take away the various perks of driving one. That being said, London has improved greatly in recognising and putting in measures to reduce nitrogen dioxide and carbon emissions but if we want to continue to be one of the leading cities in the world we need to keep up with our green solutions. I am realist and I know we cannot achieve 100 per cent electric cars on London roads. But let’s all try and work towards a quieter, less polluted London for cyclists, pedestrians and children alike.
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Who’s nicked Alan Yentob’s Brompton bike? It is one of the great jokes of the BBC’s self-satire series W1A — hapless head of values Ian Fletcher and his folding bike. Now it transpires that its real-life muse, the Brompton bike of Alan Yentob (said to be worth £1,000), has been stolen. The crime occurred last Thursday at the height of the Kids Company crisis. BBC creative director Yentob, who is also chair of trustees for Kids Company, was being pursued for an interview by his own Beeb colleagues, and his KC involvement lead to some in-house tensions: he was seen tearing a strip off BBC News’ special correspondent Lucy Manning for her reporting of the matter. So imagine the harrumph when the BBC journalists turned on Channel 4 News to find Yentob opening his heart about Kids Company to a rival channel. He had pedalled over to Channel 4’s Westminster studios for an interview with its Europe editor Matt Frei, to proclaim accusations against Kids Company were unfair. As he was protesting everyone’s innocence, his beloved Brompton bike was swiped. According to The Londoner’s source, the reaction within the corridors of the real W1A has been none too charitable. “There has been some sniggering,” says my man in the house. “We thought there was a bit of poetic justice that he couldn’t make the journey back after his treacherous trip over to the other
Pedal power: the BBC’s Alan Yentob side. These days he is to be seen forlornly riding one of his old bikes. Karma, we thought.” When we put in a call to the BBC to commiserate we were told, enigmatically, that there would be no comment “for reasons of security”.
Paul Mason’s even-handed publicity push All publicity is good publicity, right? Such is the sound principle Paul Mason is using to publicise his new book, Postcapitalism, which predicts the death of the economic system thanks to information technology. The Channel 4 economics editor is re-tweeting every review — irrespective of whether they are favourable. Thus Mason has happily linked followers to the Socialist Worker (“Paul Mason’s enthusiasm
Quote of the day “I’ve never actually walked 500 miles. I like walking, but that’s a bit much” The Proclaimers’ Craig Reid kills romance for a generation as he reveals the cold truth behind the Eighties anthem
about high-tech work sounds like he’s just seen an advert for a job at Google”) and Gillian Tett in the FT insisting there is “nothing new in such Left wing critiques” although Mason’s happens to be “unnervingly dense” and “irritatingly shrill”. Helpful tweeters are now seeking out bad reviews, ensuring Mason doesn’t miss, for instance, The Telegraph’s Liam Halligan, who calls Postcapitalism “deeply misguided”. Isn’t IT wonderful?
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There might have been a Brit invasion at the CBS Stars Party in LA last night but at least they weren’t too cliquey. Old Etonians showed they don’t have to stick together as Dominic West posed with his co-star in The Affair Ruth Wilson, above, and Damian Lewis pow-wowed with Matt Le Blanc, below. Actress Emmy Rossum, left, would be forgiven for feeling well-disposed towards the UK — she is riding high on the success of Shameless, which has been transposed by Showtime from Manchester to Chicago.
When is a hotel not a hotel? It’s a deep philosophical question. Alain de Botton was last night propounding the idea of “travel as a really deep area of life” in St Pancras. Short-term rental agency Airbnb has sponsored the egghead philosopher to write a new foreword for his 2002 Art of Travel. When we ask “What is travel?”, de Botton says, what we’re really asking is “What is the meaning of my life?” The book will be given out free in Airbnb properties around the world, in a bold move to challenge Fifty Shades of Grey’s coveted position as Book Most Left Behind In Hotel Rooms. A great proponent of mindful travel, de Botton,
■ Who said champagne socialism was dead? This weekend, The Londoner saw Diane Abbott drinking bubbly at Quo Vadis in Soho. Could she have been celebrating the unexpected leadership bid of her old friend Jeremy Corbyn or is it just her tipple of choice? She was, after all, seen in June ordering a glass of champagne from the House of Commons tearoom. Cheers!
pictured, also proclaimed that “If I was running a hotel, the emphasis wouldn’t be on the drinks, it would be on the mind”. A hotel, Alain? Funny you should mention that. Earlier this year de Botton was at war with Hampstead’s yummy mummies over the proximity to a primary school of his proposed “Philosophers Hotel”, a guesthouse with rooms named after Freud et al. So how’s the hotel coming on? “There is no hotel!” he interjected before our sentence was out. “That was just a box we had to tick on the planning forms.” If a hotel is built in Hampstead and no one calls it a hotel...
Friends in the spare room Given our media’s incessant coverage of Corbynmania, you’d be forgiven for not reading what Europeans make of the new Labour star. The Londoner’s eye was caught, however, by a profile written for Italian magazine L’Espresso, by a certain Gian Maria Volpicelli. The hack seemingly got good access to Corbyn for the piece, and not without reason: he’s a housemate of Corbyn and his wife Laura Alvarez. A quick chat with The Londoner revealed that he amusingly had “no idea who Jeremy was” when he moved in to
the Finsbury Park house, and had only found the room through friends. They do now seem to be getting along well, having discussed “the future of Labour after the defeat”, and Volpicelli revealing Corbyn isn’t teetotal. Sounds good to us.
■ Correction of the day: on Saturday, The Times said Karol Wojtyla was the “first non-Catholic Pope in 450 years”. Today’s apology? It meant “first non-Italian Pope”. Does the bear, etc.
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EING pressured into sex at a young age, becoming the target of online bullies, developing cancer and being thrown out of home. These are not situations that teenagers learn about in lessons or are tested on in GCSEs. But they are a reality for many pupils in London who juggle the realities of adult life with their school work. This is something Amma Mensah is battling to change. The 26-year-old psychology graduate from Streatham believes the school curriculum is failing to impart vital life skills at a crucial time for teenagers. She has set up a charity which is helping the “guinea pig generation” — teenagers who are under extreme pressure to grow up ever earlier while living under the unforgiving eye of social media. From the girl who developed a phobia of large groups of schoolchildren after her picture was posted online and ridiculed, to the teenager forced to have sex with her drug dealer boyfriend, Ms Mensah believes there are hundreds of young people being left unprepared to navigate the murkier challenges of modern life which many adults know nothing about. She set up Beyond the Classroom to give young girls the chance to talk
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about issues that they would not normally discuss even in sex and relationships classes or PSHE (personal, social and health education) lessons. “Life skills are missing from the school curriculum,” Ms Mensah said. “I have a vision of being able to help create a troop of young women who are really well-informed, really confident, really able and capable and really keen to share those positive attributes with other young women in their communities.” The flagship project, Girlhood to Womanhood, is aimed at female pupils because Ms Mensah fears they are more likely to be overlooked. “They tend to be quieter. They don’t get excluded or have fights,” she said. She had the idea while studying psychology at Birmingham university in 2010: “There was a lot in the media about black boys needing extra support and I wondered what there is for girls.” The unusual way she gets young women to talk about their worries is by using drama. Vulnerable sixth-
There was lots of talk about black boys needing help ... but what about girls? Beyond the Classroom aims to give young women vital life skills and is among 68 groups given grants by the Dispossessed Fund and Comic Relief formers get together to discuss the issues that are really bothering them — often older boyfriends, sexual abuse and being coerced into sex. The girls then create a series of role plays which develop into a full theatre production where their problems are aired through “fictional” characters. Ms Mensah said: “It takes away the stigma of some of the topics. They are acting out their lives without having to talk about it. You can question the character’s actions rather than the individual’s.” The plays are then performed to younger girls, and the sixth-formers are trained to become their peer mentors to help pass on the advice to the next generation. Beyond the Classroom is one of 68 organisations to receive grants from Comic Relief and the Evening Standard Dispossessed Fund. The social enterprise was awarded £18,000, which will allow Ms Mensah to manage the project full time for one year. She will be able to train 24 more young people in Lambeth to become peer mentors, ultimately benefiting 144 teenagers. Ofsted has said that more than a third of schools in England are failing to provide pupils with decent sex-and-relationships education (RSE), leaving
‘I have met young women who are being sexually abused and they don’t even know’ Amma Mensah, charity founder
children vulnerable to sexual exploitation. Some 78 per cent of teenagers from Lambeth and Southwark who have worked with Beyond the Classroom said sex education classes were not good enough — but 83 per cent said the G2W programme addressed their needs. Ms Mensah said she has never been shocked by the topics the girls bring up, but what is eye-opening is the young age at which girls now experience seemingly adult problems. “I have met young women who are being emotionally or sexually abused and they don’t even know that it’s happening,” she said. “Sometimes when they present it [the play] you are like, ‘Oh, he probably shouldn’t speak to you like that’. And you can get into those discussions. “But if no one’s talking about intimate relationships they go on thinking it’s normal.” The aim of the project is to support young women who have been through traumatic times, and to prevent others from having to go through the same things. The scripts are written by the girls themselves, because even Ms Mensah realises she does not know what it is like to be growing up now. “The first year we did it it was all about Facebook. Facebook is almost obsolete
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Parents of Ealing Self-Help Training Scheme (PESTS) Ealing, £15,000 ■ Supports parents of children up to the age of five who have a disability. It runs play sessions for the children and a support line for parents. The money will pay for activities including a specialist toy library. Smart School Councils Community Haringey, £14,974 ■ The charity helps empower young people by developing school councils. The money will
help train three people to give training sessions in schools. Mental Fight Club Southwark, £15,000 ■ The money will fund a project manager to run the weekly Dragon Café, a mental health café and activity space in Southwark for people who are excluded from society due to mental ill health. Rise Community Action Hackney, £12,000 ■ The group works with African communities. This money will go towards a
support group for 25 survivors of FGM and a community outreach programme to educate people about the issue in Hackney. Southside Young Leaders Academy Southwark, £15,000 ■ SYLA is an early intervention programme for black boys aged eight to 16 in Lambeth and Southwark. ■ The money will run a programme for 60 boys who are exhibiting difficult behaviour and at risk of exclusion.
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| News Beyond the Classroom Amount received from Dispossessed Fund and Comic Relief: £18,000 Where: Works mainly with young women in Lambeth. How grant will be used: To pay a full-time executive director, enabling 24 new peer mentors to be trained. Crucial age: Amma Mensah, left, felt normal lessons left young people unprepared for the real world. Main picture (from left) Jennifer Mensah, Zoe Garshong, Abbi Asante, Kemi Atamagbowo and Beryl McCormack were in the first Girlhood to Womanhood group
in this age group now. It’s all about Instagram. The second year it was Twitter. There’s a new thing called Yik Yak. You can only use it in a particular area and everyone is anonymous. “It’s really horrible, I can’t see the positive outcomes in this at all.” Even the first group of students to
complete the Girlhood to Womanhood programme — now aged 18 to 20 — believe they no longer understand the exact pressures their younger peers are under, so there is scant chance their teachers would understand. The girls met at St Francis Xavier Sixth Form College in Balham and are passionate
about passing on what they learned. Jennifer Mensah, 21, from Streatham, said: “This should be integrated into PSHE lessons — how to use social media and not to abuse it. Now when you look for a job they sometimes ask for your Twitter or Facebook accounts, so be careful what you put on there. We are
not taught that in school.” Kemi Atamagbowo, 20, from Croydon, said: “We have grown up with cyber bullying and all of this social media and we haven’t been taught from a young age, ‘Don’t put this there, don’t do that’.” One anonymous participant who benefited from the programme explained:
“I lost my virginity at a young age to my older boyfriend. He was a drug dealer and I was very scared of what he would do to me if I didn’t make him happy. After we had sex, he said and did anything he could to suppress my selfesteem. He made me feel disgusting and unwanted and then dumped me. I had never told anyone about this before joining the Girlhood to Womanhood programme because it made me feel stupid, used and guilty. “For a long time I blamed myself for getting into such a situation. I thought that if I just suppressed my emotions, tried to erase the memories and continue as normal it would never affect me. Going through the G2W programme, writing songs and participating in workshops provided me with a safe place to deal with my pain.” Another young woman said: “Since I was a child I have been picked on for the way I look, I have had constant name-calling, I’ve had people take pictures of me and put them online. I’ve had streets of school kids laugh at me on my way home from school. To this day I still have a phobia of walking past a group of school kids.” She said she developed depression but when she enrolled on the Girlhood to Womanhood programme her life changed: “Our sessions created a safe place for me to express my thoughts through the arts as I still sometimes find it difficult to do this through words. My confidence has blossomed. “It’s the small things about the G2W programme that I adore the most, like the smiles, the genuine ‘how are you?’, the group hugs and of course the performances.”
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It’s the season when one parent jets off with the kids in tow, abandoning partners to their own devices.
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t first it appears to be an unfair trade-off. The partner with the generous holiday allowance takes the children off somewhere sunny, with barely a fleeting backwards glance and a promise to buy souvenirs, while the hardworking breadwinner is left alone in an empty house with a week of work stretching out in front of them. Is this tale of martyrdom tugging at your heartstrings yet? Summer is in full swing, which means London’s population is temporarily decimated and the talk is of yachtiquette and villa shares. But someone has to hold everything
Home alone? together back at base and keep business ticking over. This month the capital is filled with home-aloners, facing a summer reverting back to single life while their partners valiantly take on the holiday childcare. These summer singletons (both men and women) can usually be spotted out late at night,
slightly wild-eyed, thinking they can get away with embarrassing dancing, or in the local restaurant waiting for a takeaway for one. But do they really deserve the moral high ground or is having a house to yourself in the capital actually even better than a break abroad?
The first few hours are the most challenging. One man who works in the media and is currently wife and childless in London, says: “There is a mild sense of panic when you are left home alone. Should you catch up on sleep if the kids aren’t there to wake you or ramp up your social life?” Another temporary lone wolf, who works in finance and had to stay in London this week to supervise a deal while his interior designer wife took their daughters to Cornwall, says: “The house was eerily quiet. It was a flashback to when I lived alone. But t h e n I re a l i s e d t h a t i t w a s a n opportunity to rediscover who I am — not having to worry about being a father or husband.” Holidays mean freedom — for the people left behind. It’s all the fun of being single without the crippling fear that you will be alone forever. In the City August is a sociable time. A man whose wife is currently on holiday with her parents and their kids says: “Lots of my colleagues are home alone at the moment so we are going out together in the evenings after work and entertaining clients more. It’s nice not to have to rush back for bath and bedtime. When I come home late I don’t have to worry about making noise and on the weekend I can have a lie in because I don’t have to be up for the kids, or I can play golf — that’s seven hours out of the day.” He admits he is getting less sleep because he is “burning the candle at both ends working and partying” than when his baby is home and he has to wake up in the night. Another temporary bachelor invites his friends to the family home for sleepovers and
‘It’s a bit like regressing into your twenties for a week. Hang the chores until the day before they get back’ there is always the option of putting a room on Airbnb if you’re desperate for pals. A man who works in finance has managed to fill his days by playing Football Manager and becoming reaquainted with the pub, saying: “London is emptier than usual so I’ve been able to catch up with friends at restaurants which would usually have long waiting lists, and not worry about what time I get back. My wife has been calling a lot and obviously I tell her how much I miss her. Then I go to bed and hog the duvet.” Entertaining as your family may be, there is no shortage of other pursuits — England may have have retained the Ashes but there’s still one Test to come, lifestyle management company Jeeves and Jemima report a rise in golf course bookings during the school holidays, and many people who have stayed in London during the summer say it’s far easier to catch up on reading when you are at home than when faced with the pressure of sightseeing in a foreign land. Other home-aloners use their time more tactically. One says: “I think
parents who have to spend time in the office in August while the family are away can be quite selfish. They try to get ahead at work while there are fewer meetings in the diary — but they pack evenings with drinks with old friends who are in the same boat. It is a bit like regressing into your twenties for a week or two. Hang the chores until the day before they get back.”
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t is common to wait for the day before your darling family return to book a cleaner. Whether you confess this to your other half is up to you. Some absent partners make contingency plans themselves. When Jamie Smalley, co-founder of Runderwear sports clothing company, was left in London for five weeks without his wife she arranged for a friend to help him with the laundry. “I can’t iron for toffee,” he says. “But I can cook. The Tour de France was on so I ate while watching the highlights.” Others admit they “treat the house like a hotel”, only doing the washing when they have run out of pants. While plenty of people pine for their absent loved ones or do DIY to make sure the house looks nice for their family’s return, not everyone is as wellbehaved. Extramarital dating site IllicitEncounters.com says there is a seasonal rise in users between late July and mid-August. One client says: “The three weeks that
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Susannah Butter talks to the men and women left with just an Xbox and Tinder for company because he was having to work and we were having a great time on holiday. I don’t think he gets up to nearly as much when I’m away. Read: beer, pants, couch.” But this summer he has taken their daughter to see family. “When he’s away, I do long days at the restaurant,” she says. “I haven’t had to cook all week, which has been great, and it has the knock-on effect of not having to go grocery shopping (except for wine). Despite the work schedule, I’ve managed to get some me time. I fit in a bikini wax and a pedicure, finished reading a book over a pad Thai and a beer, caught up on lots of recorded programmes that my partner won’t watch and haven’t once had to watch children’s TV shows like In the Night Garden.”
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my wife takes the kids to visit their grandparents in Ireland over the school holidays is pretty much the only metime I ever get. And what better way than being with somebody else to make me feel like myself again? Being the male figure and breadwinner of the household I feel that a lot of responsibility is lumped on me. I’m the husband, father, bank account, handyman, taxi driver — I actually sometimes forget that I’m also a
person, not just a list of things I do.” It’s not just the people who stay behind who use their summer breaks fo r ext ra - c u r r i c u l a r a c t iv i t i e s . According to IllicitEncounters, 33 per cent of people say they don’t feel it is cheating if they are on holiday. Of course, others have slightly less racy intentions. A media professional says he plans to spend his alone time writing his first novel, eating as much cheese as possible, washed down with
She spent Saturday with another home-aloner, barhopping and reminiscing about their party years expensive red wine and generally being “an unashamed, single slob for the first time in years.” One executive has lobbied her
partner to take their daughter away on holiday a day early so that she can have a night out unfettered by guilt. She hasn’t completely shirked, though. “The next day I will stay late at work, which I can’t usually do because I feel the pull of going home and seeing my family.” Maria Savage, who runs Bombay Burrito restaurant with her husband, went away with their daughter recently and says: “I felt guilty most of the time
he spent Saturday evening with a friend who was also on her own, bar- hopping on Upper Street and reminiscing about the party years. Every night she has Facetimed her daughter and says: “It will be nice to give her a hug next week but I think the time apart is healthy.” A man in his thirties whose wife often travels for work says: “Of course I love my wife and miss her but when she’s away it’s a chance to indulge — eat chips and beans, watch gangster films and go on the PlayStation.” Cooking can be a challenge. There are stories of men forgetting to take out the rubbish and having to justify to their fiancées why they were subsisting on Jaffa Cakes and faggots for a week. Jeeves and Jemima says it once had a “desperate late-night email asking why the shiny hob wouldn’t switch on”, while some panic and go to their parents’ houses — one banker told his mother he was using the time as an opportunity to catch up with her when really he wanted to be looked after while his wife and daughter were away. “It’s good to have a taste of single life,” says Smalley. “I don’t think my wife felt guilty about leaving.” A man who works in the City adds: “We live such busy lives that not having my family around for a bit is an opportunity to do things I usually miss out on.” Who needs a holiday? Just remember to hide the evidence of all the fun you’ve been having in time for your family’s return. And then revel in having that moral high ground. @susannahbutter
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Des and Tarby team up for entertainers’ charity at Palladium Robert Dex Arts Correspondent
KATE’s got it nailed
KATE MOSS leaves a nail salon in Primrose Hill. Earlier she had lunch with her ex Jefferson Hack and their daughter Lila Grace.
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LILY ALLEN emerges from the Colony Casino in Mayfair in a classic all-black outfit. She was also spotted at the Chiltern Firehouse.
LIGHT entertainment veterans Jimmy Tarbuck and Des O’Connor will perform together for the first time at a one-off West End show. They will appear in Sunday Night At The Palladium on October 4 to raise funds for the Royal Variety Charity. East End-born O’Connor and Liverpudlian Tarbuck will each perform a solo set and then share the stage. The charity helps support good causes including Brinsworth House in Twickenham, which is a residential and nursing home for entertainers. Known as The Old Pro’s Paradise, it has been home to dozens of veteran stars in their twilight years. Former variety show star
O’Connor, who holds the record for solo shows at the Palladium said: “The Entertainment Artists’ Benevolent Fund has been doing such amazing work to help people in the entertainment business when they are facing hard times, and so I’m honoured to be able to support the charity and celebrate the change of name to The Royal Variety Charity.” Tarbuck said: “Being able to appear on stage at the Palladium alongside my dear friend Des O’Connor in aid of such a worthy charity will be both hugely enjoyable and exciting at the same time. We hope to give the audience a night to remember, full of laughter and celebrations.” ■ Box office 0844 412 4655, reallyusefultheatres.co.uk
Sir Patrick has the (Professor) X factor at premiere SIR Patrick Stewart beams as he is mobbed by dancers at the premiere of his US comedy Blunt Talk in Los Angeles. The actor, 75, who plays Professor Charles Xavier in the X-Men films, stars as “America’s most trusted newsman” in the series, which will be broadcast on the Starz network.
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Can you feel summer slipping through your fingers? Slip one of these snazzy straw clutches under your arm and you won’t mind if the sun is shining or not.
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The brightest beach babes are keeping cool in cossies this summer — there’s one to suit all, says Emma McCarthy
Fruit of the loom
Crochet watermelon wicker clutch, £188, Sarah’s Bag (matchesfashion. com)
The dare to bare one
When it comes to a bit of poolside peacocking, no swimsuit can match the power of the cut-out. Monochrome block colours work particularly well to allow the revealing slices to steal the limelight — opt for black for the first few days of your holiday and white for the last. Because let’s face it, uneven tan lines are a small price to pay to look as good as these girls. (Left, white halter-neck swimsuit, £36 and black cut-out swimsuit, £32, Topshop; topshop.com)
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Woven striped clutch, £59, J Crew (jcrew.com)
The one to plunge in
There are two types of women in this world — one’s who dare to plunge, and those who don’t. And I’m not talking about the deep end of the pool. If you fall into the first camp, this show-stopping ocean print cossie from Mikoh — a swimwear label by surf-mad Californian sisters Oleema and Kalami Miller — is sure to tick all the boxes. But if you prefer to cover up, they also offer the same print in a crochet halter-neck style. (£200, selfridges.com)
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Woven embellished clutch, £205, Caffe (revolveclothing.com) See you later: main, cut-out swimsuits by Topshop. Above left, a plunging cossie by Mikoh
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Much like skincare, traffic jams and cheese, the French do swimwear best
Don’t let a chilly August get your wardrobe down. This snazzy embroidered sweatshirt by London label LF Markey features happy motifs — from smiley faces to rainbows — in the shape of a sunburst to help put the sizzle back into your summer. But if that doesn’t help, the cosy fleece lining will. (£183, lfmarkey.com) EM
TRY Being organised
Stylish tech accessories brand Knomo is celebrating 10 years of keeping the capital’s iGeneration juiced up and fully-equipped on the go. In honour of the occasion, it has launched an anniversary edition of its best-selling organiser. With separate compartments for your tablet, smartphone and a built-in battery pack, along with room for your oldschool stationary. It’s a must-have for any multi-gadget addict. (£99, EM knomobags.com)
Hit the surf: left, an all-in-one rashguard by New York designer Mara Hoffman. Below, gingham seersucker swimsuit by Lisa
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The one for water babies
There’s more to hitting the beach than worshipping the sun. If you really want to be taken seriously in the surf, an all-in-one rashguard is the only way to go. Perfectly suited to watersports — whether they involve a surf board in Cornwall or a banana boat in Zante — this style of bather will not only preserve your modesty but protect from scrapes and sunburn too. This eye-catching beauty by New York designer Mara Hoffman is top of our list for prettiness and practicality. (£249, harrods.com)
The sweet one
For those whose tastes are more sweet than sexy, swimsuit shopping can be a tricky business. Where does one turn if frills, ruffles and bubblegum pink isn’t your bag? If you’re feeling flush, you could start with Lisa Marie Fernandez — an American-born stylist turned designer who’s cult swimwear label fuses body sculpted cuts with uber feminine details. This gingham seersucker swimsuit is not just super-cute, the bow bandeau style also makes it great for sunbathing.
But if you can’t afford to blow the budget before you’ve stepped foot on a beach, ASOS also have a host of swimsuits with punchy floral prints and ladylike Fifties cuts. (£325, net-aporter.com)
The minimalist one
If you’re the sort of person for whom clean lines and flattering cuts trump look-at-me prints every time, be sure to conduct your swimsuit shopping within the comfortable confines of COS. Much like its white shirt offering, the Swedish high street chain is second to none when it comes to proving reliable and fuss-free swimmers to suit even the most discerning minimalist. This sophisticated black one-piece will suit both simple tastes and modest budgets. (£49, cosstores.com)
The chic one
Much like skincare, traffic jams and cheese, the French do swimwear best. Just look at the Riviera. But if you haven’t go time to hop on the Eurostar and make a beeline for the nearest Monoprix (whose swimwear selection, naturally, is top notch) seek out Petit Bateau’s chic maillots here in the capital. We love this jolly sailing boat-print halter-neck style. Team with a marinière and wide brim hat for extra je ne sais quoi. (£74, petit-bateau.co.uk) @standardfashion
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o matter how conservative you consider your dress code, all bets are off by the time mid-August hits. Perhaps it’s something in the air. More likely, it comes down to what’s in the shops. As holiday season lurches forward, the high street is still awash with seriously loud prints for lads — and it’s a case of the bolder, the brasher, the better. And why not? If there’s a month to take yourself less seriously, it’s this one. After all, they don’t call it silly season for nothing. Here’s our pick of the prints worth shouting about.
1. A bit fruity
Prints don’t come much tastier than YMC’s Le Poolwear collection. Created in collaboration with Stella Artois Cidre, each of the three snappy suits features bold summer fruits — from peach and elderflower to apple and raspberry. And if the vibrant prints weren’t inspired enough, each one has been tailored from an Italian technical swimwear fabric, so they’re not only sharp but entirely waterproof too. Ideal if you’ve had a few too many around the water’s edge. ( Jackets, £195, shorts, £75; youmustcreate.com)
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Food Our pick of the capital’s best breakfast martinis Go low: left, scoop-back swimsuit from COS. Right, Petit Bateau printed one-piece
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Bold prints don’t always have to equal bright hues. This striking shirt and short combo from Whistles is perfect for colour-phobes — the soft grey linen fabric is low-key enough to wear together, while the unique bamboo leaf print ensures you still stand out from a crowd. Just add box-fresh trainers and a London Fields beer garden. (Shirt, £39, shorts, £55; whistles.com)
3. Greetings from Bermunda
With the possible exception of being able to eat three Soleros a day, nothing says summer more than a pair of Bermuda shorts. True, they’re not everyone’s cup of tea but if you’re the type to stay within the parameters of navy and denim when shorts season comes calling, it’s worth giving them a try before you dismiss them entirely. You may find these palm print options from Hentsch Man are just ticket. Just like that
third Solero. (From a selection from hentschman.com)
4. Fancy a floral?
Are you a sucker for a sunflower? Or a lover of lavender? For boys who like blooms, the best in show floral prints are picked from the English garden this summer. Keep an allover print fresh not fussy by mixing in a sporty stripe, like this offering from Londonbased designer Markus Lupfer. (Print-mix polo, £185, stripe jumper (worn underneath), £235, and shorts, £300; markuslupfer.com)
5. Palm beach
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But when the sun has got his hat on there is no substitute for a cheeky little floral number. Avoid the mistakes your dad made by seeking out washed-out vintage colourways — think burgundy and beige over scarlet and turquoise — and opting for leafy floral prints over exotic birds and lobsters. This option by AllSaints fulfils the brief nicely. But resist the temptation to team with a flower garland. (£78, allsaints.com)
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Attention animal and loud shirts lovers, get yourselves down to Liberty: the home of the best print selection in the capital has outdone itself with this wild addition. Designed by children’s author and illustrator, OK David, the Queue for the Zoo printed shirt features giraffes, chameleons, flamingos and elephants (which, if you look very closely, wears a tiny wristwatch on his tusk). It’s main function? To ensure dinner party conversation never runs dry. (£130, liberty.co.uk) @standardfashion
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my children! my africa! Trafalgar Studios 2, SW1
★★★✩✩ fiona mountford IT’S ALWAYS a profound pleasure to revisit the work of Athol Fugard, that indomitable South African chronicler of the long years of the anti-apartheid struggle. My Children! My Africa! (1989) is one of his lesser-known plays and though worthy and watchable, it’s excessively wordy and, in this production from Roger Mortimer and Deborah Edgington, not free from some unfortunate outbreaks of over-ripe acting. The structure is a tight-knit threehander, involving an inspirational teacher, Mr M (Anthony Ofoegbu) and two potential-packed 18-year-old students, white Isabel (Rose Reynolds) and black Thami (Nathan Ives-Moiba). The pair have met across the apartheid divide thanks to a debating competition and Mr M has high hopes for them going forward. Yet in these days of political struggle, Thami finds
Great divide: Thami (Nathan Ives-Moiba) and Isabel (Rose Reynolds) play students brought together by a competition
himself drawn to the argument that the inferior “Bantu” education system for black students should be boycotted, possibly violently. Thami and Isabel are two of the most eloquent 18-year-olds world drama has seen, an appeal which starts to wear thin in the drawn-out second half. Nonetheless Reynolds captures well the blithe confidence of privileged youth, a confidence which starts to canker on a set which comprises a cage of barbed wire. ■ Until August 29 (0844 871 7632, atgtickets.com)
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All aboard for the ride of a lifetime You Me Bum Bum Train is the ultimate theatrical experience — a promenade performance that taps into your wildest dreams, its creators tell Henry Hitchings
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magine being a surgeon asked to amputate a patient’s leg without anaesthetic, a bomb disposal expert confronted with an unfamiliar device, an architect p re s e n t i n g v i s i o n a r y p l a n s t o unsympathetic bureaucrats, or a rapper battling a sworn enemy in front of a hostile crowd. It is scenarios of just this kind that make up the finely calibrated madness of You Me Bum Bum Train, a c ross bet ween a fairground ride and a gloriously lucid dream, in which every audience member has to negotiate a series of tests — some genuinely bizarre, others more like a sly twist on normality. This oddly named show has been around since 2004, and each time it returns it serves up a fresh array of challenges. The scenes I’ve pictured above are my own invention, because everyone who takes part is expected to keep mum about exactly what’s involved. But who’s to say the latest version won’t include rap battles and bomb disposal — or require participants to pose as the rotating skewer of meat in a kebab shop? When I meet Kate Bond and Morgan Lloyd, the effervescent duo behind You Me Bum Bum Train, they’re politely amused by my daft suggestions about scenes they could work into this year’s offering. “It’s meant to be a fantasy
experience,” Bond acknowledges, and she reflects on how cheering it is to learn that people who enjoy the show are inspired to develop their own creative visions. We’re in a disused retail space on Charing Cross Road. I don’t initially cotton on but this used to be the bookshop Foyles — its distinctive sign currently amended to read “O Yes”, which besides being catnip for Instagram-users seems apt given the euphoric effects of You Me Bum Bum Train. The room is windowless, and the only clue that it is a testbed for theatrical ideas is a crude papier-mâché hat in the shape of a toadstool, which Lloyd says is indicative of this year’s unsophisticated aesthetic. Is he managing my expectations or simply being playful? When the pair started out, modest production values were inevitable. Bond, who is 35 and from Brighton, met Lloyd, who is 29 and originally from Cheltenham, at art school, where they were studying illustration and film. A couple of years after graduating, Bond found herself washing dishes at a now-defunct restaurant in Brighton, surrounded by imaginative people who seemed to lack an outlet for their creativity. She craved more — “I wanted to find something that was exciting and
Revving up: You Me Bum Bum Train founders Kate Bond and Morgan Lloyd on set in the old Foyles bookshop
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IF YOU look on Wikipedia for notable people from Kettering, James Acaster’s name comes up first. This may be because celebrity charts tend to be in alphabetical order, but Acaster is not just top of the Northamptonshire town’s list, he is a front-runner for this year’s Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Award. After three consecutive shortlisted shows, Acaster’s latest, Represent, is his most conceptually ambitious set yet. While superficially it is
Skilful riffs: James Acaster the story of his time doing jury service, this is merely a peg to hang all manner of skilful riffs on, from the comically pedantic to the seriously existential. The fun would be spoiled by giving too much away, but the
thumbnail sketches of fellow jurors, particularly the overenthusiastic log flume employee, offer copious scope for laughs. The description of Secret Santa presents being exchanged mid-trial is priceless. Everything is delivered with absolute precision. Sometimes the pauses are as funny as the patter. Various digressions take the tale in different directions before, as if by magic, disparate elements are beautifully tied together at the end. Nitpickers might wonder if anything here is true. Did he even do jury service? Represent is so hilarious, so expertly crafted, it hardly matters. Verdict? Guilty of comic genius. ■ Until August 30 (0131 556 6550 pleasance.co.uk).
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Arts | London Life ‘Everybody who performs in a scene remembers every single audience member who goes through it’
machinery from the inside dispels s c e p t i c i s m . I f t h e p e o p l e wh o contribute to the show were all paid at industry minimum rates, it would cost more than £3 million to stage and tickets for the 2,000 individuals who ride the train would command £1,600 a pop — a price tag that would ensure exactly the kind of crowd Bond and Lloyd don’t want. Besides, the volunteers don’t think they’re being exploited. “Everybody who performs in a scene remembers every single audience member who goes through it,” says Lloyd, and they feel as if they’re attending a giant party rather than toiling thanklessly.
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spontaneous” — and with Lloyd began putting on events in the basement of a nearby office block. “We didn’t even know it was theatre,” she says, and Lloyd chips in to observe that their remoteness from the conventions of the theatre world meant the project was “undefined, it was just happening, which is what was exciting and refreshing”. From those DIY beginnings Bum Bum (as they call it) has grown into something akin to a religion. In 2010, having won the Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award, the pair put on an ambitious 40-minute promenade piece in what used to be the Bethnal
Green offices of the London Electricity Board. It attracted rave reviews — my own concluded that “this carousel of fantasies made me rejoice in being alive”—- and earned them this paper’s theatre award for Outst anding Newcomer (previous recipients included Chiwetel Ejiofor, Tom Hardy and Jake Gyllenhaal). The show returned the following year in an old postal sorting office in Holborn, and in 2012 a fresh incarnation formed part of the Cultural Olympiad in Stratford. It was due to rematerialise last year but didn’t because of venue problems. Finding locations is one of the many
challenges the pair face, and Lloyd talks vigorously about the technical and logistical complexities of assembling a layered, immersive experience. Actually, neither of them cares for the term “immersive”, which Lloyd calls “a buzzword for people who want to make money”. They’ve heard it too many times as they’ve been courted by producers or companies eager for them to originate wacky advertising concepts. Unimpressed, they’ve stuck to doing things on their own terms, boosted by welcome jolts of largesse — including on this occasion from Soho Estates, which isn’t charging for the venue. But there’s another crucial act of
generosity. The show, Bond tells me, “depends on luck and the spirit of the people who come on board”. It requires an army of volunteers — 5,000 last time. This year one of those lending a hand is a New Zealander who has postponed his wedding to take part and will fly in from Canada to do so. The reliance on unpaid workers has prompted criticism. The performers’ union Equity considered taking legal action against the company in 2012, and a small but vocal group of commentators has continued to question their values. While such concerns are understandable, seeing the project’s
o where does the money go? Not into the pockets of Bond and Lloyd, who describe the welfare state as their biggest funding body. “We were on jobseeker’s allowance for 10 years,” says Bond. Now their endeavours are subsidised by working tax credits. Some of the heftiest costs are banal. By the time the show’s run ends (in late October) they’ll have forked out more than £75,000 in business rates and £60,000 for electricity. Hiring skips is £6,000, and even getting their rubbish taken away comes in at £1,200. Despite having to grapple with these daunting numbers Bond and Lloyd retain an appetite for the surreal. But I sense that what sustains them is the show’s potential to unlock participants’ memories and desires. Bond describes it as therapeutic, and Lloyd talks pointedly about the beneficial effects of surprise, making it clear that he’d prefer to see new faces rather than established fans. He likens the process of making Bum Bum to building a den — it demands nimble collaboration but is by definition temporary. I’m moved to wonder if the pleasure of creating temporary fun palaces is wearing thin. The pair show no signs of exhaustion — yet — and Bond speaks of being “really greedy creatively”. Still, could this be the last time the Bum Bum Train will hurtle through town? “It feels like it might be,” says Lloyd. But then, almost as an aside, he remarks that “every show opens a door somewhere else.” That’s as true for the people who experience the ride as it is for its creators. ■ For details of how to volunteer and enter the ticket lottery, see bumbumtrain.com
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Ladbrokes posts £51m loss to go into the red BOOKIE Ladbrokes crashed into the red today with a £51.4 million pre-tax loss as it racked up £78.9 million in exceptional costs on shop closures, writedowns of its shop estate and software plus costs from its looming merger with Coral. The bookie has been hit by a new tax on online betting as well as punter-friendly football results at the start of the year.
Greece deal ‘must hold for three years, not days’ GERMANY’S deputy finance minister Jens Spahn today warned that Greece’s latest €86 billion (£60.8 billion) bailout sealed today “must hold for three years, and not for three days”. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, above, will present the deal to Greece’s parliament tomorrow, to be agreed before an August 20 deadline.
Heathrow hits record passenger numbers Heathrow passenger numbers hit a record 7.29 million last month, with more than 250,000 passengers using the airport on three separate days. Passenger numbers were strong to Mexico, China, Brazil and the Middle East, while cargo volumes were up 3.2% over the year. In July the Airports Commission recommended a third runway for Heathrow.
Quote of the day ‘You can make it if you work hard, set your goals and never give up’ Ultimo founder Michelle Mone, who will lead a review into encouraging start-ups where unemployment is high
Shockwaves as panicky China slashes currency Russell Lynch LUXURY goods firms and Europe’s biggest car manufacturers were among the casualties today as China joined the global currency wars in dramatic style by slashing the value of the yuan. In a move signalling rising panic in Beijing over the health of the world’s second-biggest economy, China’s central bank cut the value of the currency by 1.9%, the biggest one-day move in a decade, catching markets completely off guard. The state-controlled yuan is traded in a narrow band around a value set by China’s central bank. But moving the marker lower instantly makes Chinese exports cheaper, while making a host of multinational giants selling goods to Chinese customers less competitive. The impact was immediately felt by Burberry (pictured), whose Chinese customers account for around a third of its overall revenues. The shares slipped 31.5p to 1575.5p, leaving the firm the biggest faller in the FTSE 100. Mulberry was also on the back foot, down 17p, or 2%, at 882.5p, while across Europe other leading players including LVMH were also hit. The shockwaves were also felt in Germany, which sends more than 6% of its overall exports to China including nearly $30 billion (£19 billion) worth
of vehicles last year. Investors dumped shares in BMW, Volkswagen and Porsche. London’s legion of listed miners suffered as the fall in the yuan made dollar-denominated commodities more expensive to Chinese buyers. China has been cutting interest rates since last November in a bid to shore up sluggish growth and was forced to stem a stock market rout last month. CMC Markets analyst Michael Hewson said Beijing’s move “had the stench of panic” following the latest dire weekend figures showing an 8.3% plunge in exports in the year to July. He said: “This is a competitive devaluation. Whether it will work is another thing entirely. It is the latest shot in the currency wars.” Leading central banks including the European Central Bank have embarked on money printing this year while the Bank of Japan has stepped up stimulus, weakening their currencies. The central bank took action because the yuan is heavily influenced by the US dollar, which has been strengthening amid rising expectations that the Federal Reserve will raise interest r a t e s t h i s ye a r. C h i n a pledged to give market forces a stronger role in setting the value of the yuan, although the devaluation is likely to raise protests from US manufacturers. @russ_lynch
gold star pandora sales sparkle
Jewellery business Pandora has cashed in on the extra money in our pockets as sales jumped 31% in the UK. Charm bracelets at the firm, advertised by Tess Daly (pictured), are the most popular product, though rings have been impressive, with sales up 20% in the past three months compared with a year ago. The Danish company’s recent
success has been, in part, put down to its former chief executive Allan Leighton, who stepped down this year to take over as chairman of the Co-op group. The jeweller — now led by Anders Colding Friis — has opened 13 stores in the UK so far this year and a total of 169 here in the past five years. Simon Neville
Bring order to Google’s chaos but don’t kill its dreaming I guess it couldn’t last for ever. Google’s corporate structure — essentially a process of chucking high-tech spaghetti at the wall and seeing what sticks — was always more business mess than business model. Larry Page and Sergey Brin, having won the lottery a million times over with their genius search algorithms, created a beast that generated so much cash they could amply afford to sling it around on wacky pet projects that may or may not come off. Google Glass? Give it a whirl. Driverless cars? Cool! In today’s restructuring, under new finance boss Ruth Porat from Morgan Stanley, order is being forged from the chaos. From alphabetti spaghetti to Alphabet. The wilder stuff — poetically known in techland as moonshots —
Jim Armitage City Editor
commentary will be hived off into a separate entity which will publish its own financial figures. The core moneymakers — online search, Maps and YouTube — will be ringfenced under the Google name. Wall Street predictably cheered the move, delighting in what analysts dubbed “a new era of fiscal discipline”. Investors and analysts will be given far more insight into how much cash Google pumps into its wilder inventions in the laboratories of its Google X, biotech and venture capital divisions.
But Google must not give too much power to Porat’s beancounters. We all need fabulously wealthy companies like Google to keep splurging money on high-risk innovation to improve our day-to-day lives. And Google investors, remember: Maps, Gmail and Android probably looked like moonshots once. For all our sakes, don’t stop Google dreaming.
China a stroll for Pru Two events formed a backdrop to today’s first outing of Pru’s new chief Mike Wells: a merger of two annuities specialists stricken by Number 10’s pensions revolution and a titanic move by China to boost its flagging economy. The first was a reminder of the
Pru’s strength in diversity. The annuities change in the budget, while strychnine for the likes of Just Retirement and Partnership Assurance, registers barely a pimple on a global beast like the Pru. But the second pointed to the risks it faces by having so much of its business in the Chinadominated Asian region. Wells, a keen historian of the European renaissance, isn’t losing sleep. The rise of the middle classes in Asia is on a scale akin to the Europe of the Medicis. It will be the biggest demographic theme of the 21st century. Selling these folks affordable savings and protection products, particularly where state welfare provision is practically nonexistent, should be a doddle. @ArmitageJim
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Prudential’s new chief on the hunt for takeover deals in Asia Jamie Dunkley The new Man from the Pru today hinted that Britain’s largest insurance company is on the lookout for takeovers across its landmark Asian business. Mike Wells, who replaced Tidjane Thiam as chief executive in June, said the group would consider “inorganic activity” across the region, where it now makes a large chunk of its profits. The FTSE 100 giant saw its operating profits rise 17% to
£1.88 billion during the six months ending June 30 with new business profits up 12% to £1.2 billion. Reflecting on economic uncertainty in China, where the company has a joint venture, he said: “We like China a lot. It remains an important area with a large growing population and an underpenetrated insurance market.” He added: “I have visited all of our major business operations, which has confirmed to me that our strategy is the right one.” @jdunkley6
Three letters spell one good reason to bet long-term on bank shares Bike power: Pru sponsored RideLondon
Nick Goodway
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nvestors are facing a bank shares sales fest over the next few months. The Treasury is leading the charge with another £8 billion of its Lloyds shares and probably another £5 billion tranche of Royal Bank of Scotland before the end of the year. On top of that there is the £800 million flotation of Clydesdale, also this year, and the spin-off of Williams & Glyn from RBS to come in 2016. We even have the probability of HSBC spinning off what was Midland Bank once it completes its ring-fencing plans in 2018. That will be worth several billion pounds. So, with all the legacy issues of PPI and interest rate swaps, mis-selling, creaking IT systems and an ever more expensive regulatory regime, what is there to make investors want to buy shares? The simple answer is just three letters; NIM. This stands for net interest margin — a measurement used by every bank to indicate their most basic level of profitability. In simple terms it measures the difference between how much the bank pays savers in interest and receives in interest from its borrowers. The latest round of half-year results from UK banks showed NIM rising at all of them. Lloyds was top of the pile with an improvement of 26 basis points
to 2.62% against mere 6 basis points rises at Santander UK and TSB. All of these reflect improving returns, lower costs and a benevolent economic environment for the banks. This has been achieved against a background in which the base rate has not moved from 0.5% for a staggering 78 months. But recently we have seen lenders gently raising borrowing rates — particularly in the mortgage market — in anticipation of the Bank of England
When and however small the base rate rise is, it is likely to be the first of many over the next two years increasing the base rate around the turn of the year. When and however small the Bank’s rise is, it is likely to be just the first of a number of increases over the next couple of years as we return to a more normal rate of around 2%. It is a virtual given that as interest rates rise the banks’ NIM will rise proportionately more. It is easier to make fatter margins on a 2% base rate than it has been at 0.5%. One good reason to tuck some bank shares away as a long-term investment. @NickGoodway
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I don’t know whether news which came out over the weekend about millions of Carphone Warehouse customers’ data having been hacked turned out to be a PR triumph or disaster for owner Dixons Carphone. The point is that when the two companies with meaningless monikers merged almost exactly a year ago they chose an equally meaningless name for the combined businesses. Dixons’ name comes from a Southend photographic studio founded in 1938 and Charles Dunstone’s Carphone Warehouse
was founded in 1989 and has little to do with phones made for cars. Be that as it may, the headlines over the weekend were all about Carphone and it was only when the stock market reopened on Monday that people recalled it is part of the larger Dixons Carphone, which also owns Currys PC World. On the bright side, reputational damage was done to only one half of the business. On the other hand no one actually remembers the Dixons Carphone mouthful. Perhaps they should portmanteau the name to Dicksphone. Or not.
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United: Andrew Harrison, left, and Seb James are leading the merged business
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male order new look to open menswear branches High street fashion chain New Look is set to launch its first set of menswear stores as it hopes to take a slice of the male clothing market. Chief executive Anders Kristiansen said a series of menswear offerings in current stores had proved so successful that it was opening menswear-only stores. “We have been working with our menswear range for the past couple of years,” said Kristiansen, “and the reaction has been very good. Before, it used to be the partners buying for the guys. But now guys come in themselves.” New Look will open five stores later in the year, and will close menswear departments in around 25 stores because there is too little space to show the full range. It comes as the company, which was bought by South African businessman Christo Wiese for £1.9 billion in May, revealed sales in the three months to June 27 rose 4.3% to £369.8 million, with underlying pre-tax profits up 9% to £19.3 million. A major restructuring of the company’s debt cost £93 million but does mean debt interest falls from 9% to 6.6%, saving around £30 million a year and the scrapping of high-interest PIK payments. Simon Neville
Serco clears first fence in long race to recovery Joanna Bourke The boss of scandal-hit outsourcer Serco today said the company had “climbed the first fence” as it attempts to claw its way back after a dire 2014. Chief executive Rupert Soames, a grandson of Winston Churchill, said the six months to June 30 was better than expected as the company posted sales of £1.8 billion. The drop from £2 billion in the same period in 2014, was not as steep as analysts had expected for the company, which is trying to bounce back from controversy and contract losses. In July the New Zealand government took control of Mount Eden Corrections Facility, which was run by Serco, after evidence of a “fight club” within the prison walls emerged. Video footage showing inmates brawling was posted to YouTube. Soames said Serco’s work will “be subject to controversy and scrutiny”,
b u t t h a t a n i nve s t i g a t i o n w a s under way. He added that the prison’s reputation of being poorly run had improved since Serco took on the contract. The incident follows a turbulent few years for the business, which admitted in November it needed to tap investors for £550 million after identifying £1.5 billion in writedowns. But in the first half of this year it agreed contracts for £1 billion of new business, and is bidding for some £5 billion of new deals. They will help lessen the blow of losing its historic deal to run London’s Docklands Light Railway last year. Soames told the Evening Standard: “We have come out of the traps and climbed the first fence.” He joined in May 2014 to revive the firm, whose problems stem from its admission in July 2013 that it had charged the Government for tagging criminals who were dead, imprisoned
Jail row: a scene from the film Fight Club or non-existent. It turned off investors last year with a series of profit warnings, but earlier today shares were up 2.6p to 128.1p. Andy Brown, equity analyst at Sanlam Securities, said: “The fall from grace has been high profile, and new chief executive Rupert Soames acknowledges that recovery is at an early stage. Progress, none the less, is being made in implementing change.” @es_jobourke
Annuity firms merge after Osborne pension reforms Jamie Dunkley GEORGE Osborne’s radical pension reforms today spelt the end for Just Retirement and Partnership Assurance as stand-alone companies. The two groups, which specialise in selling annuities to people who are ill or smoke, plan to merge in a deal that values Partnership at £668.5 million. Just Retirement investors will have 60% of the new company. Both businesses have been hit hard
Radical shake-up: the Chancellor freeing savers from buying annuities on retirement has hit the business hard
by the Chancellor’s decision to hand savers more freedom with their money when they stop working.
From April, people have not had to buy an annuity when they retire. The enlarged firm will be called JRP Group with Just Retirement’s boss Rodney Cook chief executive and Partnership’s chairman, Chris GibsonSmith, keeping his role. The tie-up is expected to save £40 million a year. “Our two businesses will be bigger, stronger and more efficient together,” said Just Retirement’s chairman Tom Cross Brown. @jdunkley6
Watchdog attacks Co-op bank but holds back from hitting it with fine Russell Lynch THE City’s watchdog delivered a damning verdict on the Cooperative bank today, accusing previous management of “serious transgressions” but stopping short of imposing a £120 million fine. The bank was bailed out by a consortium of hedge funds in 2013 after a £1.5 billion black hole was uncovered in its finances. The rescue was the culmination of years of mismanagement as the group struggled to digest the Britannia building society and its bid to buy 632 branches from Lloyds was scuppered by the capital shortfall. In a strongly worded public censure, the watchdog’s first, the Prudential Regulation Authority accused the bank’s management of being unable to handle risks, fostering a short-termist culture and a “lack of openness” with the regulator between July 2009 and the end of 2013. These included not keeping the regulator informed of senior
Scandal: ex-chairman Paul Flowers changes. Ex-chairman Paul Flowers, known as the “Crystal Methodist”, resigned in a drug scandal in 2013. PRA chief executive Andrew Bailey said: “Co-op bank’s failings stand out both for the duration and seriousness of the risk management and control deficiencies uncovered. This was compounded by a lack of openness with their regulator. These were serious transgressions.” @russ_lynch
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Air Partner................. 433..........-4...... 44512.......245 BBA Aviation............. 31414.........+6........362.......290 Braemar Ship........... 48912.....+1914...... 53312.......390 Clarkson...................2774....... -12......2855.....1835 FirstGroup................ 11712.........+1........130.......8834 Fisher J.....................1131.........+1......1445.....1003 Go-Ahead Grp...........2602.........+6......2745.....2161 Irish Cont Uts............ 29912..........-6........322.....20634 Nat Express.............. 30012..........-1...... 32434.....21312 Stagecoach............... 39212..........-14........438.....33112 Wincanton................ 19014........-112...... 20012.....13214
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Accesso Tech.............. 732.......+11........732.....49334 Active Energy................612....................... 12......... 212 ADVFN...........................95.....................133.......7834 Alexander Mining..........034......................... 3......... 012 Alkane Energy.............2334..................... 4014.......1912 Alpha Returns Group.......1..........-14............ 5........... 1 Ambrian.........................714..................... 1212......... 514 Amino Techs............... 162........-312........171.......7514
Direct Line Ins.......... 382......-534. ...38834...... 284
Hiscox......................92412*........-812........959.....61512 JardnLlydThm...........1017..........-8......1112.......815 Lancashire.................. 641................... 70312.......506
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Big Yellow Gp............ 71012.........+2........720.....47912 Cap & Reg....................6314......... +14........ 6412.......4514 Capital & Cnties.......... 466..........-1...... 46834.......313 Cardiff.......................1045.................108512.......950 CLS............................1900.......+25......2023.....1270 Derwent Lond...........3704....... -18......3732.....2610
Marks&Sp...............550 ....... + . .....600....380 Meggitt..................... 506......-312. ...59312....42134 Merlin Ent..............39914......-434. ...47314....32734 Mondi.....................1585..... -26.. 161414...... 919 Morrison(Wm).......... 183................21434....15012 Natl Grid.................85112......-834. .....965....81534 Next........................7920..... -20.. 801634....6130 Old Mutual............... 226......-234. ...24112....16334 Pearson..................1186........-6.. 151712....1092 Persimmon.............2085..... -21.....2114 122112 Prudential............150012........-6.. 176112....1287 Randgold Res.........4083.. +152.....5752....3638 Reckitt Benck.........6173..... -79.....6300....4895 RELX..................... 1085*..... -10.....1199....92112 Rio Tinto.................2602..... -33.. 353012....2373 Rolls-Royce.............80134......-534. ...1061....71712 Royal Bank............... 344....... +14. .....414...... 326 Royal D Shell A.......1878......-112. 247512 172512 Royal D Shell B.....189134......-114. 258012 174534 Royal Mail..............50012........-2.....53212...... 388 RSA Insurance........50312......-112. .....528....39134 SABMiller............. 3355*..... -38.....3857....3105 Sage.......................... 524......-112. .....584....34634 Sainsbury...............26314......-114. ...31434....20912 Schroders...............3112..... -16.....3441....2086 Severn Trent...........2182..... -13.....2227....1814 Shire.......................5360..... -20.....5870 344814 Sky..........................1077..... -15.....1180....83912 Smith & Neph.........1179..... -11.....1216...... 881 Smiths Group.........1198........-8.....1363....1006 Sports Direct..........81512........-2.....81912...... 559 SSE....................... 1545*........-7.....1696....1423 StanChart................. 909........-8.. 125014....86712 Standard Life.........44134......-212. ...50534...... 425 St James Place......... 977........-7.....1008...... 637 Taylor Wimpey.......20034........-1.....20412....10412 Tesco........................ 211......-134. ...25334....15512 Travis Perkins........2108..... -14.....2270....1571 TUI AG..................105034.....+534. 129434....99634 Unilever..............292412*... -2812. ...3087....2397 United Utilities.......88134......-514. ...1045...... 784 Vodafone Grp........... 242......-214. .....258...... 179 Weir Group.............1544.....+12.....2786....1454 Whitbread..............5265.....+35.....5475....3767 Wolseley.................4243..... -30.....4398....2990 WPP........................1444................1616....1091
Compass.................1041........-9.. 122314....92412
INSURANCE
-0.59%
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Carillion.................... 34812.......+312...... 37112.......294 Communisis.................5034..........-34.......... 70.......4434
Persimmon.............2085..... -21.....2114 122112
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Bunzl......................1852........-3.....1969....1517 Capita.....................1290..... -10.....1336 100012
Drax Group................. 327.......+312........664.......246 Pennon Group...........800*........-212........925.....74514
Amlin.......................... 522........-312........533.....41814 Beazley....................33434*........-234...... 34612.....23712
3i Group................... 537........-1.....571 ....343 Aberdeen Ast.........34512......-314. ...509 ....343 Admiral Group.......1453..... -17.....1640 1175 Ang Americn........ 81234*.....+412. 162012...... 758 Antofagasta...........58912......-412. ...82612....55212 ARM Holdings.......... 959.......+7.....1233....77812 Ashtead Group......... 963........-6.....1231....87712 Assoc Brit Fds........3186..... -41.....3293....2407 AstraZeneca...........4333..... -25.. 493134....4019 Aviva......................... 518......-312. ...57834....45814 Babcock Intl........... 984*........-3.....1207....92412 BAE SYSTEMS.........46912......-334. .....549....42312 Barclays................ 28034*......-134. .....290...... 204 Barratt Dev............64614......-734. .....659...... 334 BG...........................1105........-1.. 130112....78012 BHP Billiton..........119012... -1812. 210212 111712 BP......................... 38614*....... +34. ...49914....36412 BrAmTobacco.........3784... -3812. ...3894....3303 British Land.............. 870........-4.....89112...... 649 BT Group................46634......-434. ...48134...... 352 Bunzl......................1852........-3.....1969....1517 Burberry................1564..... -43.....1929....1388 Capita.....................1290..... -10.....1336 100012 Carnival..................3467..... -57.....3576....2093 Centrica..................27312.....+114. .....327....23412 Coca-Cola HBC........1344.....+20.....1497....1051 Compass.................1041........-9.. 122314....92412 CRH.........................1954........-7.. 197234....1220 Diageo..................180912..... -20.....2055 168912 Direct Line Ins.......... 382......-534. ...38834...... 284 Dixons Carph..........45412......-314. ...49034....32112 Easyjet....................1693........-9.....1929....1239 Experian.................1188........-9.....1264...... 910 Fresnillo................... 672...+2212. ...1037....61612 G4S.........................26734......-134. ...30912....23934 GKN.......................... 313......-812. .....389...... 281 GlaxoSmKline.......144212..... -15.....1645 129612 Glencore.................20214......-312. ...37612....19434 Hammerson............. 681........-4.......708...... 537 Hargrve Lans.......119434......-214. ...1299...... 827 Hikma Phms...........2296..... -27.....2617....1580 HSBC......................... 578........-6.....67412....54414 Imperial Tob...........3342..... -39.....3413 248014 Inmarsat................... 968....... +12. 104114...... 653 InterCont Htls.........2584........-8.....2967....2085 Intl Cons Airlines...... 550......-612. .....630...... 317 Intertek Gp.............2689..... -21.....2888....2141 Intu Props..............33734........-14. ...37612....30512 ITV..........................26014........-3.......282...... 192 J Matthey................2924..... -34.....3590....2695 Kingfisher...............37334....... +12. ...38612...... 283 Land Sec.................1324..... -11.....1363....98812 Legal Gen................. 273......-314. .....296....20914 Lloyds Bkg Grp......... 8012........-34. .....8914........ 71 Lond Stk Ex Gp.......2577..... -17.....2725....1475
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Berendsen................1032..........-1......1161.....89512 Brammer.................. 29212........-612........455.......265
Oxfrd Biomed................834..........-14........ 1312......... 234 Premier Vet.................9714........-234...... 10514.......2714 Shire.........................5360....... -20......5870...344814 Skyepharm................. 280................... 37914.......230
-0.21%
1 2 3 4 1 4
Babcock Intl........... 984*........-3.....1207....92412
Bovis Homes........... 1188 ........-5 ......1199.......723 Churchill China........... 550.....................630.......425 Games Wshop..........57512*.......+114...... 62412.....48714 McBride.................... 11712........-212........125......... 74 1 2
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Hikma Phms...........2296..... -27.....2617....1580
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Price (p) Chg (p) %Chg
Beowulf Mining........... 2.45......+0.23.....+10.1 Harmony...................66.33......+4.23.......+6.8 Max Petroleum........... 0.17......+0.01.......+6.2 Anglogold...............408.11....+23.71.......+6.2 Hochschild Min.........81.50......+4.50.......+5.8
falls
Price (p) Chg (p) %Chg
CIC Gold Group........... 2.35.......-0.40..... -14.5 Moly Mines................. 3.28.......-0.56..... -14.5 Alpha Returns Group.. 1.10.......-0.15..... -12.0 UK Mail Grp............423.65.... -31.35........-6.9 Trap Oil....................... 0.21.......-0.01........-4.9
ftse 100 index hour by hour Prev Cls 6736.22 08:30 6697.90 09:00 6697.53 10:00 6694.33
s 17.73 t 38.32 t 38.69 t 41.89
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2.0124 1.9344 10.0700 1.3529 11.4500 184.9400
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london bullion market Gold per oz
Close $1097.00 Sterling £706.51
2.2095 18.5900 12.9900 1.4553 5.3604 1.4852
*net of vat Prev Close $1093.50
economy Bank of England base rate (Jun) Consumer prices index (Jun) Brent crude ($) Halifax mortgage rate
0.5 % +0.00 % 49.94 3.50 %
2014/15 High Low
Andes Energia.............2734..........-1........ 4912.......1612 Angle...........................9212................... 10734.......5334 Arian Silver....................24..................... 4214......... 22 Armadale Cap................414..................... 1612......... 212 Ascent Res.....................014........................012........... 0 Ashley Hse.....................714..................... 1012........... 3 Asian Citrus...................10....................... 15......... 514 Aukett Swanke.................7........................912......... 534 Aurasian Minerals.........034......................... 1......... 014 Aurora Russia................914....................... 14........... 8 Avesco Gp................... 221.....................233......... 95 BCB Hldgs......................712..................... 1414........... 6 Bango....................... 10112.....................144......... 74 Beowulf Mining..............212......... +14............ 4......... 114 Biome Tech............... 13612.....................185......... 70 BMR Mining...................312..................... 2334......... 314 BP Marsh&Prtnrs..... 14812................... 15634.....11634 Caretech..................... 256..........-1...... 26314.......190 Castleton Tec...................3........................312........... 1 Catalyst Media.............3012....................... 64......... 30 Celtic............................7514....................... 79.......7234 Chamberlin..................7612.....................112.......7212 Character Grp........... 51914.......+134........525.......183 Chi-Med....................1880...................2020.....95012 Christie Grp................ 142.....................162.......115 Circle Oil........................714..................... 2834........... 7 Cohort......................... 369..........-5........390.......193 Colefax........................ 485.....................515.......325 Concha...........................634........................734......... 112 Coral Products...........1514*..........-12.......... 18........... 8 Cyprotex........................54....................... 65......... 33 Dart Group................ 48834.....+1414........490.....19914 DCD Media.................. 335.....................590.......110 e-Therapeutics.............3712..................... 4912.......2414 Earthport.....................4214.......+114.......... 48.......3012 ECR Minerals...................0........................014........... 0 Eden Research.............1912..........-14........ 2534......... 612 EG Solutions................6712....................... 84.......5214 Egdon Res......................11..........-14.......... 26......... 614 Elecosoft......................2412....................... 27.......1612 Elektron Tech...................7........................834......... 314 Empresaria..................8312..................... 9112......... 38 Energiser Inv.................334........................412......... 212 Energy Tech.............. 31712.....................448.......255 Envir Recyc Tech............014........................034......... 014 EpiStem Hldgs............ 195.....................339.......195 Eurasia Mining...............034........................214......... 014 Evans(M.P.)............... 41514.....................485.....35934 Fairpoint................... 16914.......+434........170.....10534 Finsbury Food.............9712.....................100......... 56 Firestne Dmnd...............27....................... 39......... 25 Fitbug..............................3..................... 2612......... 014 Forbidden Tech............1014....................... 24......... 612 Futura Medical..............35....................... 59......... 26 Gable Hldgs.................1912....................... 84.......1812 GB Group.................23014*........-114........235.......134 GCM Resources............1034..................... 3914........... 9 Global Energy................30....................... 64......... 29 Goals Soccer............. 20034......... +14........242.......196 Grafenia.........................20....................... 26.......1512 Great West Mining.........014......................... 2......... 014 GW Pharma................. 566........-312...... 70812.......299 Hague&Lon Oil...............612..................... 3114......... 614 Herencia Res.................014........................012......... 014 Highlnd Gd Mn.............4534.........+1........ 7412.......1734 Hotel Corpn...................112........................214......... 034 IDOX.............................3712..................... 4434.......3412 Immedia Grp................1534....................... 28.......1312 ImmuPharma..............4314....................... 67......... 37 Impellam Grp.............. 844..........-6...... 85912.......455 Indep Resources............034........................534......... 012 Inland Homes..............6912..................... 7312......... 43 Interbulk Grp.................534......................... 6......... 314 Intl Greetings.............141*..........-2........161......... 68 Iomart........................ 278.......+212...... 28814.......160 ISG............................ 16812.....................356.......140 ITM Power.....................23..........-34........ 3612......... 18 IXICO............................2912....................... 51......... 21 Johnson Serv.................88......... +14.......... 91......... 56 Journey Grp................ 166................... 16812.......113 Karelian Diamond............1......................... 2......... 034 Kemin Resources...........234....................... 12......... 214 Landore.........................112........................312........... 1 LGO Energy....................112......................... 7......... 114 LiDCO...........................1014..................... 1734......... 514 Lighthouse Grp..............614......................... 9......... 312 Lok’n Store................. 285................... 30014.....19914 Lombard Risk..............1212..................... 1534.......1014 London Sec...............2145...................2450.....1900 LPA Grp..........................69.....................112......... 60 M&C Saatchi............... 320..........-12........395.......235 Maintel Hldgs........... 65212.....................710.......491 Majestic Wine........... 45212........-312........480.......280 Manx Fin........................11..................... 1712.......1014 Marechale Capital.........112......................... 3........... 1 Max Petroleum............014†........................112........... 0 MBL Group.....................714..................... 1334........... 7 Messaging Intl...............012........................134......... 012 Metal Tiger....................034........................112......... 012 Minco.............................114........................312........... 1 Minoan Gp.......................9..................... 1534......... 714 Mission Mktg...............4712....................... 51......... 37 Mulberry Group........ 89912.....................969.....56212 Mwana Africa................114........................312........... 1 Nature Grp...................1234....................... 29.......1012 Next 15 Comms.......... 189.....................198.......116 Nighthawk Energy.........334..........-14........ 1134........... 3 1Spatial.........................612........................712......... 412 Optimal Pmts............ 28734........-214...... 33334.....15634 Oxus Gold......................234......................... 5......... 134 Palace Cap.................. 365.....................405.......295 Pan African Res.............612..........-14........ 1512......... 614 Panmure Gordon...... 14612.....................165.......108 Panther Sec................ 375.....+1212........375.......295 Park Group....................73..................... 7712......... 47 Pathfinder Mins.............014......................... 2......... 014 People’s Operator..... 12612................... 14712.....12112 Petards........................1112....................... 16......... 934 Petroceltic Intl.............5414..........-34........224.......5414 PHSC..............................28....................... 35......... 25 Pinewood Grp........... 44712.....................535.....41412 Pittards..................... 12712.....................150......... 98 Progility.........................314..................... 1114........... 3 Prospex Oil&Gas............234......................... 5......... 134 Publishing Tech.......... 140.....................240.......120 Quadrise Fuels Int.......1012......... +14........ 4234.......1014 Reach4Ent.......................2........................614......... 012 Real Estate Invs...........6112....................... 67......... 49 Redde....................... 14334.......+112........147.......5334 Regenersis................ 16334......... +34........345.......157 Renew....................... 33812.....................348.......237 Renew Energy................114......................... 4......... 034 Rose Petroleum.............014......................... 4......... 014 RTC Grp........................6812..................... 7812......... 33
2014/15 High Low
7Digital........................1412....................... 41......... 13 Safeland........................57....................... 60.......4034 Sanderson Gp............7212*....................... 75.......5814 Sarossa..........................134......................... 2......... 112 Scancell.......................2614......... +14........ 4514.......2212 SciSys............................63..................... 9634.......3812 SeaEnergy...................1014..................... 3912......... 914 Servoca........................2512....................... 26......... 11 Servpower Tech...............5......................... 8......... 312 Share...........................3034..................... 4134......... 29 Shore Capital............ 41212................... 43112.......400 Sinclair IS Phm............4234....................... 48.......2314 Solo Oil..........................012........................114......... 014 Somero Ents............... 145.....................158.......105 Sopheon......................5012....................... 85......... 35 Spark Ventures........... 850.....................869.......800 Starvest...........................3........................612........... 2 Stellar Res.....................014........................112......... 014 Stratmin Global.............312..................... 1112......... 314 Statpro........................7612....................... 88......... 70 Summit Therap......... 15812.....................188.......106 Sunrise Res....................014........................034......... 014 Superglass.....................312..................... 2912......... 212 Sutton Harbour...........3212....................... 41......... 28 Synectics.................. 20712.....................387.......105 Tanfield........................1912..........-14........ 2512......... 13 Tangent Comms.............212........................914......... 214 Telford Homes.......... 43234.......+414........495.......267 Tertiary Minerals.............3......................... 7......... 214 TP Group..........................4........................712........... 3 Trading Emissns..............4........................912........... 3 Transense Tech..............114......................... 7......... 034 Trap Oil..........................014........................812......... 014 Tricor.............................034........................112......... 012 Tristel....................... 10012.....................108......... 65 Tungsten Corp.............6514..........-12...... 40934.......5212 Turbo Power..................014........................034......... 014 Union Jack Oil................014........................012......... 014 Universe Group..............812........................914......... 412 Vela Tech.......................014........................012......... 014 Velocys........................8814........-112........249.......7634 Vernalis.......................7612......... +12........ 7634.......3234 Victoria Oil & Gas..........53........-212.......... 89......... 38 Vislink..........................5312..................... 6112......... 34 Walker Greenbk.......... 237................... 24434.......151 Westminster................2112....................... 59.......1834 Westmnt Enrgy................8..................... 2114........... 5 Westside Inv..................014........................014......... 014 WH Ireland................ 12812.....................130......... 79 Xcite Energy................3134....................... 69.......2434 Young&CoBrw...........1208....... -24....132014.......935
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Adriatic Oil....................012........................012......... 012 FT8................................034........................034......... 012 Gledhow.........................034........................114......... 034 Shep Neame.............1120...................1245...103712
RECENT ISSUES
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Adgorithms................. 146................... 15134.......115 Anglo Afric Agric...........034.......................................... Apax Glbl Alpha........ 12334................... 12712.......120 Applegreen............... 33634.......+234........340.......297 Cairn Homes..................78......... +34........ 8012......... 76 CIC Gold Group..............214..........-12...........534......... 214 Drum Inc Plus............. 140.....................153.......135 Fishing Republic..........1812..................... 1934......... 15 Gateley Holdings...........98.........+1........115......... 93 Gear4music.............. 14012.....................145.......137 Hunters Property........8612....................... 92......... 65 K&C REIT........................934..................... 1012......... 914 Kainos Group............ 20614........-214...... 21112.......165 Menhaden Cap.......... 10214................... 10312.....10114 MySQUAR........................8....................... 10........... 7 Orchard Funding........ 100.....................103......... 96 Phoenix Spree............ 141........-212........152.......139 Puma VCT 11.................95.......................................... Puretech Health....... 15112.......+212...... 18414.......143 Sophos Group........... 26312......... +12........270.....23334
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RSA rises as City tips Zurich’s bid to succeed Jamie Nimmo market round-up Analysts at Barclays today fuelled speculation the board of RSA might be pressured into accepting a bid from Zurich Insurance if the price is right. The FTSE 100 insurer is thought to be holding out for 600p a share, which Barclays’ Andrew Broadfield reckons would be hard to turn down. The analyst said a lack of other options for RSA means it is “one of the more value creating transactions” it could make. He said: “We believe, in theory, a Zurich/RSA tie-up could create significant value. However, how the deal is funded and at what price are the key issues.” The fact some of the exZurich management are dotted around RSA could encourage Zurich to push through deal, Broadfield added. RSA, up 0.5p to 505.5p, was among the
few blue-chip risers on a day when the FTSE 100 fell 28.29 points to 6707.93. Traders betting the Greek bailout deal would propel UK stocks higher were left cursing China, whose devaluation of the Renminbi – and more fears about its slowing economy – dragged global stock markets lower. Investors warmed to shares in British Gas owner Centrica, up 1.1p to 273.4p, after Berenberg argued the City is overly worried about the competition watchdog’s review. Woodford Patient Capital Trust, run by star fund manager Neil Woodford, dropped 3.2p to 116p as it revealed it is to issue more shares to satisfy investor demand, which chairman Susan Searle said “surpassed our expectations” since April’s IPO. She added that the investment trust’s inclusion in the FTSE 250 index played a major part in the strong performance – its share price is trading at an 11.4%
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A profit warning-free full-year trading update sent Game Digital shares up 7.44p to 267.44p. The video game retailer said robust digital sales offset lower sales of the Xbox One and PlayStation 4. Gloo Networks made a solid start to
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UN makes dog’s dinner of naming restaurant A peculiar mention in the UN monitoring group’s corruption report into Soma Oil & Gas’s activities in Somalia. It describes how the firm’s directors, including chairman Michael Howard, met with Somali bureaucrats and the oil minister at a Maroush restaurant in London. Nothing strange in that, you may say, but the report describes Maroush as “principal Soma shareholder Basil Shiblaq’s London restaurant”. Not so! Maroush director Walid Abouzakki exclaims over his tabbouleh. “Basil comes in here a lot when he is in the country but this is a family-owned company. He is nothing
Surf’s up: Entertainment One films like Love and Mercy point the way for Gloo
life on AIM as it shares rose 2p on debut to 122p. The shell company, run by former Hearst Magazines digital boss Rebecca Miskin, is sizing up assets in the media sector worth up to £1 billion. Marwyn Value Investors, which owns 34.9% of Gloo, is hoping to replicate the success it has seen in Entertainment One, the TV and film rights company behind Peppa Pig. Shares in Velocys, backed by Chelsea FC ’s b i l l i o n a i re ow n e r Ro m a n Abramovich, dipped 0.63p to 89p as the gas-to-liquids firm announced that its chief executive Roy Lipski has left the company. Velocys, whose shares tanked earlier this month when it suspended Lipski amid allegations of serious misconduct, today said he was not the subject of a disciplinary hearing and that it found no evidence of misconduct.
to do with it. Big mistake!” Indeed, Tory donor Shiblaq is nowhere listed as a director or shareholder of Maroush, whose biggest owner appears to be an offshore entity called Rafiq Investments and Trading. Try again, UN. ■ The Bank of England may not be budging rates yet, but Uganda’s central bank certainly isn’t holding back — hiking rates to 16% yesterday to curb inflation. Spy wonders whether the Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee will be discussing Uganda at their next meeting.
Note to George Osborne: before you think about privatising Companies House, get it to invest in decent IT. Its entire computer system was down for much of Friday, leaving thousands of customers unable to access any of its databases of companies, shareholders and directors. So much for the new era of modern transparency. ■ Apparently over two thirds of City workers are ignoring health issues under whip-cracking pressure. London Bridge hospital, with three City out-patients centres, has made the claim. Consultant psychiatrist Dr Paul Mallett says a “macho culture” is to blame. Mallett is based at 31 Old Broad Street, just round the corner from corporate giants like RBS and Allen & Overy. Could be handy?
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Cloak-and-blagger stuff with Desmond
Hanger ploy: Richard Desmond, seen with wife Joy, described his early ‘enterprises’
Spy was interested by the fate of Wimbledon security guard Hyacinth Reid, who scammed tennis fans by imposing a £5 cloakroom charge, when the real fee was £1. It’s reminiscent of the tale of porn and media baron Richard Desmond’s own wheeling and dealing, laid out in his recent autobiography. He explains that one of his first “enterprises” was pocketing extra cash from cloakroom items in a club he worked in as a 13-year-old. Unlike Reid, who now has a criminal record for her scam, Desmond’s “two coats on one hanger” ploy is held as an example of the businessman’s acumen.
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6.00 The Simpsons (R,S,HD). 20/21. Marge and Lisa discuss examples of strong women. 6.30 Hollyoaks (S,HD). Robbie cares for a worse-for-wear Holly.
7.00 Live from London. The essential guide to going out in the capital, broadcasting live from London’s hotspots to find out where to go and what to do, whether you are into films, music, food or arts.
7.00 The One Show (S,HD). Live chat and topical reports. 7.30 EastEnders (S,HD). Ian learns a shocking truth, while Buster gives Vincent a warning about the Mitchells. Followed by BBC News; Regional News.
7.00 The Hairy Bikers’ Asian Adventure (S,HD). 6/6. Dave Myers and Si King head to South Korea. Last in the series. 7.30 Great British Menu (S,HD). 7/45. Jude Kereama, Josh Eggleton and Dominic Chapman fight it out for the fish course.
7.00 Emmerdale (S,HD). Bob is arrested. 7.30 The Dales (R,S,HD). 6/12. Racehorse trainer Simon West begins to break in a new arrival.
7.00 News (S,HD).
8.00 Made in Chelsea. Louise struggles with the idea of Spencer moving in with the boys, and Millie decides to tell Francis how she feels as he becomes closer to Ashley.
8.00 Holby City (S,HD). 44/52. Elliot’s day is thrown into chaos by the arrival of an old friend with a special purpose, while Serena decides that Morven needs to spread her wings.
8.00 The House That £100K Built (S,HD). 5/6. Kieran Long and Piers Taylor follow the progress of first-time builders Heidi and husband Steven as they construct their dream house.
8.00 Love Your Garden (S,HD). 8/8. Alan Titchmarsh and the team are in Dorset creating a garden for a young family, using designs which reflect terminally ill dad Andrew’s love of the outdoors. Last in the series.
8.00 The Three Day Nanny (S,HD). 3/6. Professional nanny Kathryn Mewes goes to Northampton to help the McLaughlin family — single mum Carly and her two children, who fight, spit and scream to get her attention.
9.00 Absolute Power. The spin doctors represent a history presenter. 9.30 Absolute Power. Prentiss and McCabe take part in a charity football tournament.
9.00 New Tricks (S,HD). 2/10. Part two of two. Gerry fights to clear his name before his enemies catch up with him, while Sasha and Steve enlist Fiona to help examine the evidence.
9.00 Are Our Kids Tough Enough? Chinese School (S). 2/3. As the project continues, the kids rebel against the harsh regime of long days and strict discipline, while the Chinese teachers struggle to deliver their lessons.
9.00 Abducted (S,HD). Documentary following three parents on emotional and dramatic journeys as they try to get their abducted children back from foreign countries. Narrated by Paul McGann. Postponed from August 4.
9.00 Christian Louboutin: the World’s Most Luxurious Shoes (S,HD). Cameras spend a year in the life of Christian Louboutin, one of the world’s most famous shoe designers, whose stilettos alone can cost up to £6,000 a pair.
10.00 Absolute Power. A Tory MP lands in trouble. 10.30 The Notorious Kray Twins. East End gangster Reggie Kray speaks from his deathbed in his final interview, discussing a long life of violent crime and imprisonment with twin Ronnie.
10.00 BBC News (S,HD). 10.25 BBC London News; Weather (S). Followed by National Lottery Update. 10.35 Nature’s Boldest Thieves (R,S,HD). Why urban-dwelling seagulls, foxes, badgers and squirrels have become so successful at stealing people’s food.
10.00 Scrappers — Back in the Yard (S,HD). 1/6. New series. The documentary charting life at a Bolton scrapyard returns. 10.30 Newsnight (S,HD).
10.00 ITV News at Ten (S); Weather. 10.30 ITV News London (S); Weather. 10.40 UEFA Super Cup Highlights (S,HD). Barcelona v Sevilla. Highlights of the curtain-raiser between the Champions League and Europa League winners.
10.00 How to Get a Council House (R,S,HD). 1/3. Documentary looking at how Tower Hamlets and Manchester councils are dealing with a lack of properties and a large number of people in need of homes at affordable rents.
11.25 The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (S,HD) (1992). A disturbed widow gets a job as a nanny for the woman she blames for her husband’s suicide, and plots to destroy her life. Thriller, with Rebecca De Mornay and Annabella Sciorra.
11.00 Weather (S,HD). 11.05 Back in Time for Dinner (R,S,HD). 4/6. The Robshaws get to grips with the home life and food of the Eighties as they learn about the culinary treats and trends of the decade, including the arrival of nouvelle cuisine.
11.40 Benidorm (R,S). 5/6. Gavin begins to suspect Troy is cheating on him and the Oracle’s tall tales land him in trouble with the police. Martin’s mother Diana (Una Stubbs) arrives to cheer him up. Postponed from August 4.
11.00 Brits Behind Bars: Cocaine Smugglers (R,S,HD). Documentary following Inspector Rodrigo Cano of an elite Peruvian antidrug unit as he battles tirelessly against a seemingly never-ending supply of narcotics and smugglers.
1.10 Weather for the Week Ahead (S,HD). 1.15 BBC News (S,HD).
12.05 Sign Zone: Don’t Tell the Bride (R,S,HD). Darren plans a movie premiere-inspired wedding for his bride-to-be Jacquie. 1.05 Sign Zone: Great Ormond Street (R,S). Cameras follow the treatment of a seven year old with a brain tumour. Last in the series. 2.05 This Is BBC Two (S,HD). Preview of upcoming programmes.
12.30 Jackpot247. Interactive gaming. 3.00 Don’t Blow the Inheritance (R,S,HD). Quiz show, hosted by Tim Vine. 3.50 ITV Nightscreen (HD). Text-based information service. 5.05 The Jeremy Kyle Show (R,S,HD). Guests air their differences.
12.05 Poker (S,HD). 1.00 KOTV Boxing Weekly (S). 1.25 Gillette World Sport (S). 1.55 Tri Liverpool (R,S,HD). 2.50 British GT (R,S,HD). 3.15 Armoy Road Races (R,S,HD). 4.10 FIM Superbike World Championship (R,S). 4.40 Double Your House for Half the Money (R,S,HD). 5.35 Draw It! (R,S,HD).
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1.10 PhoneShop. 1.45 PhoneShop. 2.20 Absolute Power. 3.00 Cage Fighter. 3.30 Cage Fighter. 4.00 Cookery School. 5.00 London Live Review. 5.30 London Live Review.
Edited by Toby Earle London Live TV reporter @tobyontv
Pick of the day Spin wizards show true colours Absolute Power Tonight, London Live, 9pm
All good heroes have a method which summons them, and to call on the dark PR artists at Prentiss McCabe you have to be cruising up a stagnant creek and then throw your paddle into the ordure as sacrifice. The slick spinners then emerge from the rank gloop, demanding oodles of cash and your self-respect. It would be better if they had an office. In this scabrous comedy Stephen Fry is a total rotter, his character, Charles Prentiss, possessing a clairvoyant instinct of how best to
strip as much loot from his clients. His partner Martin McCabe ( John Bird) is a bit nicer but only in the way having a bull gore you in the gut with one horn instead of two is nicer. First to appreciate the near delight in their work is historian Nigel Harting, whose claim that he has evidence to prove Anne of Cleves was a man is found to be less credible than Donald Trump’s foreign policy. Nigel, in short, is having a Flanders mare. PR gurus: Prentiss (Stephen Fry) and McCabe (John Bird) face the press
London Live Ealing Studios: Train of Events Tomorrow, London Live, 3.45pm
Chipping your teeth for Cape Fear, losing weight for The Machinist, or growing a Mohican to be more convincing in Last of the Mohicans are all fine examples of method acting but in this portmanteau train crash drama Jack Warner took it a step further. It was one which affected his health permanently, as his insistence on learning how to drive a train properly led to him falling into a turntable pit and injuring his back, his diligence to his craft rewarding him with a limp. This begins with a bang, a speeding train colliding with a stranded truck, throwing us into the recent past of four separate passengers.
The Headline Interview: Clive Bannister, CEO Phoenix Holdings and Museum of London chairman Tomorrow, London Live, noon
Later this year Clive Bannister will mark his second year as chairman of the Museum of London, a post he accepted by saying: “The museum is a remarkable institution of which every Londoner should be proud. It is a unique prism through which we can access the past — to better understand the future of this great global city.” When he’s not leading guided tours of the museum, he’s the CEO of Phoenix Holdings, a post he has held since 2011 after 17 years at HSBC, where he rose to group MD of insurance and asset management.
London Live is on Freeview 8, Sky 117, Virgin 159 and YouView 8. You can follow us on Twitter: @londonlive and like us on Facebook: LondonLive
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6.00 The Big Bang Theory (R,S,HD). Howard tries to avoid being sent into space. 6.30 The Big Bang Theory (R,S,HD). Howard awaits the shuttle launch.
6.00 Futurama (R,S,HD). Leela enters politics. 6.30 The Simpsons (R,S). A Pulp Fiction-style trip through Springfield.
7.00 Police Interceptors (R,S,HD). 7/10. Sgt Jon Moon and his police dog Kanto are confronted by a thief wielding a knife, while a fight in a club ends with one man in handcuffs and another in hospital. Followed by 5 News Update.
7.00 Top Gear (R,S,HD). Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May demonstrate their love of small cars with a trip to Ukraine. James Blunt returns for another drive in the Reasonably Priced Car.
7.00 World News Today (S,HD); Weather. 7.30 Great British Railway Journeys (R,S,HD). Michael Portillo travels from Ipswich to Chelmsford.
7.00 Hollyoaks (S,HD). Trevor, Grace, Frankie and Jack anxiously wait for the custody hearing to begin. 7.30 Melissa and Joey (S,HD). Mel and Joe decide they are ready to try for a baby right away.
7.00 The Simpsons (R,S). Grampa and Mr Burns vie for an art collection. 7.30 The Simpsons (R,S). Apu is threatened with deportation.
8.00 The Dog Rescuers with Alan Davies (S,HD). 13/15. The team is sent to a remote farm in Stapleford Abbotts, Essex, where more than 70 dogs and puppies are found in terrible conditions. Followed by 5 News Update.
8.00 Don’t Tell the Bride (R,S). DJ Louis plans an Ibiza-themed day for bride-to-be Zindzi, but a reluctance to shake off his city-boy roots are at odds with his future wife’s dreams of a country wedding.
8.00 Great British Railway Journeys (R,S,HD). Michael Portillo travels through Essex and Kent. 8.30 Hive Minds (S,HD). Mendelians play the Goats for a chance to stay in the competition.
8.00 Inkheart (S,HD) (2008). A man able to bring characters in books to life accidentally lets a fictional villain into the real world. Fantasy adventure, starring Brendan Fraser, Andy Serkis and Helen Mirren.
8.00 Modern Family (R,S,HD). Claire receives a job offer from a big hotel chain. 8.30 Modern Family (R,S,HD). Everyone gathers at Jay and Gloria’s to celebrate Alex’s graduation.
9.00 The Great British Benefits Hotel (S,HD). Documentary revealing how hotels are increasingly being used to help ease the housing crisis, with a wide variety of guests filling their spare beds. Part of the Britain on Benefits Season.
9.00 Find a Home for My Brother (S,HD). Amal Fashanu explores what kind of care provision is on offer for young people with learning disabilities in this country and Ghana.
9.00 The First Georgians: the German Kings Who Made Britain (R,S,HD). Dr Lucy Worsley investigates how George II had to adapt to a growing change in society, and how he became an easy target to be mocked in satire.
10.00 The Boy with Giant Hands (S,HD). Documentary following a lad and his family as he seeks a life-changing operation to treat the rare medical condition which has made his hands grow to huge proportions.
10.00 EastEnders (R,S,HD). Ian learns a shocking truth, while Buster gives Vincent a warning about the Mitchells. 10.30 The Totally Senseless Game Show (S,HD). Tongue-in cheek game show. 10.55 Family Guy (R,S,HD). 11.20 Family Guy (R,S,HD). Brian’s estranged TV star son Dylan turns up in Quahog. 11.40 American Dad! (R,S,HD). Stan joins Roger and Steve’s fictional detective agency.
10.00 War Book (S) (2014). Premiere. Nine civil servants take part in a role-playing game to practise their response to a nuclear explosion. Drama, starring Nathan Stewart-Jarrett.
10.00 Tattoo Fixers (S,HD). The artists help Victoria, who is in need of a cover-up before she can return to college and train as a teacher, while Sketch works with pensioner Abigail on her bucket list wish.
10.50 NCIS: Los Angeles (R,S,HD). Deeks and Kensi go undercover at a rehab centre to investigate the murder of a naval IT officer — but their personal lives threaten to take over when he admits his feelings for her.
11.30 Precision: the Measure of All Things (R,S,HD). Professor Marcus du Sautoy travels to an underground vault on the outskirts of Paris to examine Le Grand K — the physical standard for a unit of mass representing exactly 1kg.
11.05 The Big Bang Theory (R,S,HD). Sheldon and Penny fall out over a game of paintball. 11.35 The Big Bang Theory (R,S,HD). The pals try to start a conversation with a sci-fi star.
11.50 NCIS: Los Angeles (R,S,HD). Emotions run high for Deeks and Kensi during a tense operation triggered by the murder of a Pentagon consultant and a stolen thumb drive.
12.05 Family Guy (R,S). Meg becomes Mayor West’s intern. 12.25 Find a Home for My Brother (R,S,HD). Amal Fashanu explores care provision for young people with learning disabilities. 1.25 The Totally Senseless Game Show (R,S,HD). 1.50 Epilepsy and Me (R,S,HD). 2.50 Great Movie Mistakes V: Revenge of the Fifth (R,S). 3.00 Find a Home for My Brother (R,S).
12.30 Byzantium: a Tale of Three Cities (R,S,HD). The transformation of Istanbul in the 20th century. Last in the series. 1.30 Hive Minds (R,S,HD). Mendelians play the Goats for a chance to stay in the competition. 2.00 The First Georgians: the German Kings Who Made Britain (R,S,HD). How George II had to adapt to a change in society. 3.00 The Race for the World’s First Atomic Bomb: a Thousand Days of Fear (R,S,HD).
12.05 Gogglebox (R,S,HD). Viewers’ comments on The Cube and MasterChef. 12.55 Rude Tube (R,S,HD). Painful moments recorded on the internet. 2.00 Nashville (R,S,HD). 2.50 Melissa and Joey (R,S,HD). 3.15 Rules of Engagement (R,S,HD). 3.40 Rules of Engagement (R,S,HD). 4.05 90210 (R,S,HD). 4.45 Charmed (R,S).
12.50 Hawaii Five-0 (R,S,HD). A talk-show host follows Five-0 around for a few days. 1.50 NCIS: Los Angeles (R,S,HD). A train company is accused of using its fleet to deliver bombs. 2.40 Hawaii Five-0 (R,S,HD). McGarrett and Catherine embark on a secret mission in North Korea. 3.30 Hawaii Five-0 (R,S,HD). 4.20 NCIS: Los Angeles (R,S,HD). 5.10 RSPCA Animal Rescue (R,S). 5.35 RSPCA Animal Rescue (R,S).
11.00 On Benefits and Proud (R,S,HD). People living off the state who are not currently seeking employment, including a mother-of-11 who receives benefits equivalent to three times the typical UK family income.
12.00 Undercover Benefits Cheat (R,S,HD). Exposing people who falsely claim benefits. 12.55 SuperCasino. Live interactive gaming. 3.10 Gypsies on Benefits and Proud (R,S,HD). Documentary following a group of Roma moving to London. 4.00 Wildlife SOS (R,S). Newly hatched ducklings are rescued from a drain. 4.25 Great Artists (R,S). Profile of Tiziano Vecellio, known as Titian. 4.45 House Doctor (R,S). A property in Spennymoor, Co Durham.
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6.00 Home and Away (R,S,HD). Kyle tells Phoebe he wants to get back together with her. 6.30 5 News Tonight (S,HD).
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9.00 Final Destination 3 (2006). Teenagers who narrowly escaped death in a rollercoaster disaster begin to meet mysteriously gruesome fates. Horror sequel, starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Ryan Merriman.
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Enjoy a vibrant night out for two in the West End with a two-course meal at Indian restaurant Mint Leaf plus tickets for smash-hit musical Bend it Like Beckham. The East meets West story took the big screen by storm in 2002 with the story of Jess, an Indian girl whose dream is to score for England. Millions have already enjoyed this hilarious and moving mix of comedy and Bhangra melodies on stage — now is your turn to experience it. Answers and clues change each day at 23:59. Usual promotion rules apply — see standard.co.uk/rules.* Phone & Text Services Helpline: 0800 839 173.
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double crossword ACROSS 1 From the monarch, a sign of willingness (5) 6 The gunners wildly mob this character (5) 9 Attack in numbers, about three (7) 10 Performed, using one’s current name (5) 11 Food for days? (5) 12 The little man’s hospital (5) 13 Shape of the punster’s departed parrot? (7) 15 Sidestreet boy (3) 17 Work flat out at the laundry (4) 18 Agitatedly stir up a pedant (6) 19 Being eminent, would she ask charity for some of the humble? (5) 20 Quick at figures, always? (6) 22 It may come down and go up (4) 24 Caught and held (3) 25 Villains a priest reformed (7) 26 One capable of many a sin (5) 27 Firm evidence in print (5) 28 Having applied, was included (3,2) 29 Rub away until eradicated! (4,3) 30 Coppers made to go round till exhausted (5) 31 More than a nob? (5)
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EASY DOWN 2 Agent of a loud Thespian (6) 3 Evenly distributed, nominally (6) 4 The right I had to be free (3) 5 Cry of a little old lady possessing nothing (5) 6 On which to speak, or possibly play guitar (7) 7 Cry that goes up when there’s not enough salad? (4) 8 Couples holding things up (6) 12 Presumably he packs a punch (5) 13 Arrest a public leader in church (5) 14 Cried like a miserable fellow (5) 15 Piece of turf, of course (5) 16 They remain one way to wreck a bus (5) 18 Student embraced by Iris? (5) 19 Fine bet made to a sportsman’s advantage (7) 21 Punish Paul for being shifty about a car (6) 22 Former African U-boats, possibly (6) 23 One serving a meal around the dining centre (6) 25 Longed to be a good little boy (5) 26 Blue part of the Emerald Isle (4) 28 That earlier quip about polly being gone? (3)
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ACROSS 1 Decree (5) 6 Fissures (5) 9 Ling (7) 10 Cold dish (5) 11 Panatella (5) 12 Defeats (5) 13 Tutor (7) 15 Piece (3) 17 Gaelic (4) 18 Anew (6) 19 Foolish (5) 20 Wide street (6) 22 Toil (4) 24 Observed (3) 25 Shackles (7) 26 Reject (5) 27 Flinch (5) 28 Empty (5) 29 Obtain (7) 30 Push (5) 31 Valuable thing (5)
DOWN 2 Horizontal compartment (6) 3 Opportunity (6) 4 --- Hughes, former Poet Laureate (3) 5 Aquatic mammal (5) 6 Correct (7) 7 Plant (4) 8 In other words (4,2) 12 Contradict (5) 13 U.S, state (5) 14 Awry (5) 15 Beautiful girl (5) 16 Ruffians (5) 18 Foreign (5) 19 Dubious (7) 21 Disappear (6) 22 Shawls (6) 23 Colour (6) 25 Deceit (5) 26 Glance over (4) 28 Underwear item (3)
CRYPTIC ACROSS: 3, Scoff 8, Wo-man 10, LI-med. 11, War 12, Argon 13, Ea-table 15, Resow 18, Pu-t 19, T-I-rade 21, Mere man 22, Root 23, S-L-id 24, Re-ality 26, Shored 29, Bar 31, Serif 32, Bone dry 34, F-U-L-ly 35, Too (two) 36, Buffs 37, Actor 38, S-Eve-N. DOWN: 1, Rowan 2, Para-pet 4, C-ore 5, Flo-rin 6, Finer 7, Herod 9, Mat 12, Altered 14, Bur 16, S-ally 17, Wendy 19, Tall-boy 20, Cr-ass 21, Mo-t-or 23, Stretch 24, Refuse 25, (Russ-)Ian 27, Het up 28, Riffs 30, Crook 32, Blue 33, Dot. EASY ACROSS: 3, Maids 8, Mitre 10, Reels 11, Due 12, Rapid 13, Monster 15, Valid 18, Sag 19, Tenure 21, Rebukes 22, Ever 23, Pits 24, Baghdad 26, Eraser 29, Eel 31, Riles 32, Freedom 34, Rises 35, Tor 36, Cloud 37, Utter 38, Merry. DOWN: 1, Widow 2, Dresser 4, Ajar 5, Drives 6, Sedan 7, Flair 9, Tun 12, Regular 14, Tab 16, Lurid 17, Dense 19, Tethers 20, Lever 21, Regal 23, Palette 24, Beside 25, Dee 27, Rifle 28, Serum 30, Gores 32, Fear 33, Dot. BACK PAGE ACROSS: 4, Satan 7, Relish 9, Raw 10, Per 12, Gaudy 13, Club 15, Refer 17, Repose 19, Duct 20, Scene 22, Ill 24, Dangled 27, Ran 28, Seedy 31, Acid 33, Missed 35, Event 37, Pull 38, Quote 39, Gun 41, End 42, Delete 43, Beard. DOWN: 1, Fracas 2, Allure 3, Asp 4, Sage 5, Award 6, Abducted 8, Hero 11, Resigning 14, Bend 16, Fell 18, Pear 21, Conclude 23, Less 25, Name 26, Deep 29, Educed 30, Yelled 32, Deter 34, Stud 36, Vend 40, New.
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| Letters
Met must tackle fears that it is racist
Safety is the real Tube strike issue
The Standard’s poll showing 30 per cent of Londoners think the police are “untrustworthy” should be a wake-up call for the Mayor, especially given his promise to raise public confidence in the police by 20 per cent. Given the complete decimation of neighbourhood policing and so many Londoners expressing their concern that the police do not have a visible presence on their streets, the survey results come as no real surprise. Equally, the fact that so many black Londoners still believe the police are institutionally racist shows why far more needs to be done to make the Met a police force that reflects, and has the confidence of, the communities it represents. While progress is being made there is still a long way to go to overcome the problems of the not-so-distant past. Reaching out and strengthening the Met’s relationship with all our communities must continue to be a priority for the next Mayor. Joanne McCartney AM (Lab)
REGARDING Boris Johnson’s plea [“Boris urges Tube workers to take pay offer”, August 7]. I am a moderate member of the Aslef union and do not consider our negotiating committee to be “militant trade union leadership”. To suggest that they are in some way to blame for the continuing dispute is wrong. The pay offer is not the issue but the proposed train driver rosters are (they are dreadful, I’ve seen some). They will easily lead to extreme jet-lag-style fatigue — that’s not acceptable when you are going to be in charge of a train carrying a thousand-plus passengers. If London Underground’s negotiating team can properly address the issues of rosters, fatigue and work/life balance, a resolution to this dispute should become much easier. Martin Fountain, Aslef member and train driver
Labour leadership selection is flawed ONE would have thought, after the entryism in the Eighties and the sensible reforms of the Blairites, that the Labour Party would now have a constitution which meant only bona fide members could take part in elections. Not a bit of it. It is now abundantly clear that anyone can buy a vote in the party leadership election for the modest sum of £3. Harriet Harman would have been wise to have delayed the election until the method of voting was sorted out. Whoever becomes leader will be tarred, as was Ed Miliband, with questions about their legitimacy. Andrew McLuskey
Give us alternatives now to Heathrow ALAN Haughton of Stop City Airport raises the existence of a large safety crash zone rightly deemed to be necessary around City Airport. A much bigger one is certainly needed around Heathrow, which serves far larger aircraft in greater numbers which will increase with an extra runway. It is time to reconsider the alternatives to Heathrow that do not threaten the whole of west London. Alisteir McLaurin
Why are there always problems on the District line? Friday was an absolute shambles, with the trains from Earl’s Court all having their destinations changed and people repeatedly being advised to get on the wrong one. Vanessa
We must make it a priority to charge a fair price for British milk to stop farmers going out of business. I would pay more for milk to help in this crisis. Our farmers are the best in the world. Let’s help them. S Browning
I thought the idea of open-backed buses such as the old Routemasters
Defiant stand: protesters from the RMT and Aslef unions make their point outside Brixton Tube station
IF I worked on the Underground I would be striking until the weekend working schedules are radically altered. A message to TfL: what part of “it’s not about the money” don’t you understand? Lindsay Headman
Kids Company was a scapegoat HAVING worked as a psychotherapist in the past at Kids Company, I am astounded at the decision to entirely close the charity based on, at this point, just allegations and rumours. While the organisation was somewhat chaotic, this is typical of working with an extremely chaotic client group. However, every child I worked with and the majority of the rest I came into contact with were not abusing the system and had suffered appalling abuse. They had ended up at Kids Company as they had no where else to go. Social services, in many boroughs at breaking point and which have had to raise the threshold to be danger of death before they will investigate or take action, will not be able to carry on or have the same impact as the work of Kids Company. This is a witch hunt, one which allows the Government to abstain from donating the amount of money it has been doing in the past to keep the charity afloat. Obviously the ones who will be hit
was that people could board and leave at will, provided the bus is stationary and it is safe to do so. I was on one recently when my way to the rear door was blocked by an attendant who pointed out that the bus was moving, as if I couldn’t see that for myself, and that we were between stops. I of course had no intention of getting off when the bus was moving, I simply wanted to get into a position to do so as soon as possible when it stopped. I thought the idea was to enable people to get on and off between stops if it was safe. The on-board announcements telling people to take care when entering or leaving imply that it is all right to do so between
Social services, in many boroughs at breaking point, will not be able to have the same impact as the work of Kids Company Helena Burton
hardest by this closure are the thousands of young people who rely on Kids Company’s support. For them it has literally been a lifeline — I implore the Government and private backers to re-open the services in any capacity they feel workable and as soon as possible. Helena Burton I WOULD normally be described as “conservative” both by nature and by political values yet I too am deeply saddened by the end of Kids Company. I wonder whether if the same metrics were applied to local authorities and state provision for vulnerable children in need of support, they would fare any better? Furthermore, while I often decry the situation whereby some children might be described as virtually lawless and out of control, I would be hard-pressed to blame them for the sad predicament they find themselves in. Surely any entity that offers a glimmer of hope should be fuelled and not doused with petty
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stops. There seems little point in having such buses if passengers are going to be obstructed by some bossyboots preventing them from doing what they were designed and intended for. Buses used to have notices saying anyone entering or leaving while the bus is moving did so at their own risk. That, I think, should cover the matter.
home was cancelled. Both times the excuse given was that someone had not turned up for work. The simple fact is they do not have enough staff to run the trains. I choose to pay the extra (double) price to travel first class so that I can be productive for my company and work on the train. I cannot do that when I have to stand all the way because the carriage is full.
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I saw chaos on platform 17 at Euston station going north on Friday. London Midland is running a skeleton staff and cancelling trains all the time. My train into London from Tamworth was cancelled and the next day my train
Network Rail has been fined £2 million for the London Bridge chaos. There’s no point in (ultimately) fining the taxpayer. The money needs to come from bonuses. @paul_astel
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CITY OF LONDON Notice is hereby given that the Common Council of the City of London as traffic authority for the undermentioned streets will make an Order on 19 August 2015 under Section 14(1) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 as amended by the Road Traffic (Temporary Restrictions) Act 1991. The effect of these Orders will be to prohibit vehicles (or pedestrians where stated) from entering the said roads. Lombard Street (Birchin La to Clements La) & Nicholas Lane (Lombard St to Nicholas Pass) —— Aerial Platform 7pm each Friday to 6pm each Sunday from 21 August to 13 September 2015. Alternative route for Lombard St via Nicholas La, King William St, Gracechurch St & Lombard St; for Nicholas La via Abchurch La & King William St. Nicholas La between Nicholas Pass & King William St will be made temporary two-way for access. The roads will not be closed at the same time. For further information please refer to www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/streetworks. Enquiries to Traffic Management Services on 020 7332 1893. Philip Everett (Director) Dept of the Built Environment.
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t was Sir Bradley Wiggins who helped Mike Brown understand the magnitude of a home World Cup — and the sacrifices necessary to succeed in it. It is more than two years since the Tour de France and Olympic champion addressed the England squad, but Brown remembers his words clearly. In his speech, Wiggins painted a vivid picture of how powerful home support can be. He told Stuart Lancaster’s men of his exhaustion after the beautiful agony of Tour victory on the ChampsElysees and then how the London crowd dragged him to victory in the Olympic time trial less than a fortnight later. But England would have to earn that same support; it would not come unconditionally. After the horrors of the 2011 World Cup in New Zealand, they had to prove they were worth investing in. Now, as England approach what Brown calls “no excuses time”, they will discover whether it has been enough. Lancaster’s preparation has been meticulous — and he has demanded the same of his players. Brown has complied, postponing his wedding by 12 months to ensure there would be no distractions during World Cup year. And as the tournament begins to spark into life with the warm-up game against France on Saturday, Brown has a simple message: believe in us. “Sir Bradley told us about the power of a nation,” says Brown. “He talked about how amazing it was to experience and now we are hoping for the same. “You have to feed off that home crowd, as they will be the ones who give you an extra push. He came into the Olympics off the back of winning the Tour de France, so he must have been pretty tired, but that push paid dividends for him. “And for us, we know this will happen only once. Are we ready for it? Definitely, certainly in terms of how much we have grown under Stuart. “It will be incredibly tough to win the tournament, but we have put in the hard work to ensure we can achieve what we want to. “We play with our hearts on our sleeve — and for the jersey. The public have seen that and they have really bought into what we are doing.”
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Yet head ruled heart for Brown when he told his fiancee, Eliza Woodcock — the daughter of former Nottingham Forest, Arsenal, Cologne and England footballer Tony — that their wedding would have to wait. “We got engaged a year ago and we had a conversation about it at the time,” explains Brown. “I said, ‘look, it wouldn’t be best to do it in 2015 because of what is going on and what I want to achieve’. “To put myself in the best position, it wasn’t a great idea to be worrying and trying to organise a wedding. Also, you can’t enjoy it when you’re focused on
your goal of getting into a World Cup squad and then trying to win it. We have put it back to next year now. It is all about getting yourself in the best position possible and making sacrifices like that. “Thankfully, Eliza understands and it’s great having people around you that support you so well. “You need that support network to help you through the tough times and the low moments — and I certainly had them during the concussion period.” That is hardly surprising. Following Brown’s last competitive game, against
Fan power: Mike Brown and captain Chris Robshaw hope to give the England supporters plenty to cheer about
France in the final round of the Six Nations in March, he suffered a recurrence of the headaches first caused by a sickening collision in the game against Italy more than a month before. Brown missed the end of Harlequins’ season and endured a four-month layoff from contact training as doubts continued over his fitness. Those concerns have receded now and the full-back prefers to focus on the silver lining, pointing out that the injury gave his body an extended pre-tournament rest. He also speaks openly about how his honesty in admitting to symptoms is the latest step in demonstrating the machismo of the dressing room is being replaced by an understanding of the risks associated with concussion. “It is great that concussion is now being treated as seriously as it should be,” he says. “Before, it was brushed under the carpet and you were told to get on with it as people can’t see the injury or feel what the other person is feeling. “But now everyone knows the risks and it has been brought into the public eye at every level of rugby, which can only be good for our sport. “For me, it is great coming into camp with no niggles I might otherwise have had after a long season. But no one wants to sit doing nothing, which I had to do. “I’m definitely no better at housework, though. Eliza tried to get me to do more jobs round the house but I never quite got it how she wanted, so she sorted it out in the end. But I’m past it now and can’t wait to get on the field.” Brown, though, will have to wait a little longer as Lancaster has picked an experimental lineup for Saturday’s match. But when he does get back on the pitch, the words of Wiggins will be ringing in his ears. ■ adidas has launched the electric pack, which includes a boot for the four different on-field positions. To explore the range, visit: adidasrugby.com. Mike Brown wears the Predator Incurza (left).
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| Sport All in it together: Steve Finn, centre, believes England’s great camaraderie was a key factor in their Ashes series victory
Finn says England have put the fun back in their game Tom Collomosse Cricket Correspondent
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TEVE FINN believes England’s Ashes success is due to the relaxed dressing-room atmosphere that has allowed their young cricketers to thrive. Finn made a spectacular return to Test cricket in the win over Australia at Edgbaston, taking eight wickets in the game to collect the man-of-the-match award and helping England take a 2-1 lead in the Investec Series. Victory in the next Test at Trent Bridge ensured that England regained the urn and sparked jubilation in the dressing room, where batsman Joe Root was interviewed on television
while impersonating former England captain Bob Willis. Finn said: “It’s a good fun place to be. You can’t lark around like that when you’re losing, but even though there is pressure there, the senior players take the edge off it and create an environment where it’s [about no more than] a game of cricket. “The environment means the young guys can just come in and play the way they do in county cricket — and those players have done fantastically well. “Joe Root is the No1-ranked batsman in the world now and has already scored eight hundreds in only 31 Tests. Ben Stokes has everything and he has shown that he can win matches with both the bat and the ball. We have some
exciting cricketers and they are being nurtured well. “[New coach] Trevor Bayliss has been fantastic. He is very chilled-out, more of an observer than an in-your-face, preaching sort of coach. If he has something pertinent to say, he will say it. That’s a good way for a coach to be. “It’s exciting. Australia have some of the world’s best players and we’ve managed to beat them... but it’s important we don’t get carried away.” Finn is one of a core of players whom England hope will provide the foundations for future success. He told the BBC: “Winning the Ashes is fantastic, but it does feel like it’s just the start. These players could play for England for a long time yet.”
Fit-again McIlroy is ready to walk the walk in US PGA Rory McIlroy has declared himself 100 per cent fit after playing another practice round as he prepares for the US PGA Championship at Whistling Straits, starting on Thursday. The Northern Irish world No1 injured ligaments in his left ankle playing football with friends and had to pull out of last month’s Open Championship at St Andrews. Thursday’s opening round will be his first competitive 18 holes since the US Open in June. “To play golf, the ankle is 100 per cent,” said the 26-year-old (right) after his first official practice round on the Wisconsin course. “To go back on a soccer pitch, it wouldn’t be quite ready. But to do what I need to do this week, it’s 100 per cent.” McIlroy flew in from Portugal at the weekend and has now played two practice rounds, playing with one ball to keep
score and try to regain a competitive feel. He played — and walked — 72 holes during his time in Portugal and said: “It actually feels better when I go at it as hard as I want, because my left foot sort of spins out of the way whenever I hit the driver anyway. “If my left foot was to stay completely flat, then it would probably create a few problems. Because mine spins out of the way, it takes a lot of pressure off it.” McIlroy said he was putting even while in a medical boot to keep his ankle steady. He began this year with a runner-up finish in Abu Dhabi after a seven-week break, although he conceded it was far different at a major championship. “It’s okay playing Abu Dhabi as your first week back, but playing in a major is a bit different,” he said. “You really hope the sharpness is there when you come back.”
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winner Golden Horn (below) and Gleneagles, who was brilliant in the English and Irish 2,000 Guineas and St James’s Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot. So good, in fact, that trainer Aidan O’Brien has called the colt the best miler he has had — some compliment, considering the champions that the Irishman has trained. They are joined by Solow, the leading older miler in Europe, who is unbeaten in his last eight races and recently won the Qatar Sussex Stakes at Glorious Goodwood, and the new sprint sensation Muhaarar, who picked up his third Group One of the season at Deauville in France last weekend. Expected to return is crowd favourite Cirrus des Aigles, who has run at British Champions Day for the past four years, winning
the 2011 QIPCO Champion Stakes — the £1.3m highlight at the meeting — and subsequently finishing second twice, including to the mighty Frankel in 2012. And for the first time ever, the day looks set to welcome a rare challenger from Singapore in sprint star Emperor Max. The afternoon will also see the champion Flat jockey crowned. That title looks to be heading Silvestre de Sousa’s way, with the Brazilian more than 20 winners clear of his nearest rival, William Buick, in the Stobart Flat Jockeys’ Championship. De Sousa, 34, enjoyed a blistering run of form in July, notching up 33 winners for the month and in doing so clinched the Jockey of the Month award. ■ For tickets to QIPCO British Champions Day at Ascot racecourse on October 17, go to: britishchampionsseries.com
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Wenger in need of a quick solution Arsenal’s play lacked urgency in their season opener and James Olley looks at how the manager can shake things up for Sunday’s clash at Crystal Palace
Hard time: Theo Walcott, holding off Aaron Cresswell, made little impact when coming on as a substitute against West Ham
Who plays at full-back?
Losing Hector Bellerin in the build-up to Sunday’s match contributed to that lack of width. Mathieu Debuchy was unable to get forward from full-back consistently enough to stretch the Hammers defence and Arsenal missed Bellerin’s blistering pace. Nacho Monreal is currently above Kieran Gibbs in the pecking order, but the latter also offers a greater attacking threat and will be pushing for a chance to impress.
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RSENAL are hardly in crisis after just one game, but Arsene Wenger has a variety of issues to address if they a re t o k i c k- s t a r t t h e i r Premier League title challenge against Crystal Palace this weekend. Sunday’s insipid defeat to West Ham occurred on a weekend when speculation intensified over the possibility of Karim Benzema moving to Emirates Stadium, but Wenger gave a typical post-match answer in response to the possibility of adding to his squad. “If an exceptional solution turns up, we’ll do it,” he said. “But after a defeat like that, it’s important not always to think we t ake a solution from outside.” Benzema would certainly represent an “exceptional solution”, but Real Madrid remain reluctant to sell and the Gunners are yet to indicate they would meet the minimum £45million valuation that could tempt the Spanish giants into doing business. Consequently, Arsenal travel to Selhurst Park on Sunday with Wenger relying on finding those internal solutions he mentioned to improve against a Palace side appearing to pick up where they left off under Alan Pardew last season, following a 3-1 win at Norwich. There needs to be a greater intensity to Arsenal’s play, a higher work-rate and quicker tempo to their passing. As Wenger looks to select a team capable of delivering that, here are his key selection issues.
Who plays in central midfield?
Alexis Sanchez rightly took the plaudits for a fine debut season, but Arsenal’s form in the second half of the campaign coincided with Santi Cazorla excelling
t rying to cram in too many players with a preference for playing through the middle. This contributed to a lack of width, which made it easier for West Ham to stifle Arsenal. Palace, with their pace and power on the counter-attack, could easily adopt a similar approach.
Who starts out wide?
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain made a mistake for West Ham’s second goal and it serves as a reminder that while he excites going forward, he needs to improve the defensive side of his game. That said, he was Arsenal’s most potent attacking threat and, with Mesut Ozil restored to the No10 position, the England international is favourite to start on the right against Palace. Wenger initially ruled out Sanchez against West Ham, but threw him on in desperation with 23 minutes remaining. Given a full week’s training, the Chilean could well feature from the outset this weekend.
Arsenal Who starts up front? seemingly Theo Walcott started up front in A tried to cram rsenal’s final two matches last season scoring four goals in total against in too many —West Brom and then Aston Villa at players with Wembley — and against Chelsea in the Shield, but found himself a preference Community demoted to the bench in favour of Olivier Giroud against West Ham. for playing Giroud was largely ineffective, while through the Walcott also made little impact when he came on after 58 minutes in a wide middle in central midfield alongside Francis Coquelin. Wenger had closely monitored Morgan Schneiderlin before Coquelin’s emergence and decided against competing with Manchester United, who paid Southampton £25million for the Frenchman’s services last month.
Coquelin was upstaged against West Ham by 16-year-old Reece Oxford — a centre-back playing out of position in his first ever Premier League match — but Wenger’s fierce loyalty to his players means there will be no impulse purchase of a more established defensive midfielder. The 24-year-old will
surely start against Palace, but who lines up alongside him is less certain. Wenger opted for Aaron Ramsey against Chelsea in the Community Shield and against West Ham, with Cazorla reverting to a wide left position. But the balance of the team was disrupted, with Arsenal seemingly
position. Each forward requires a different kind of service, but neither has proved sufficiently clinical in front of goal to silence the doubters demanding a Benzema-style signing before the transfer window closes on September 2. Should Arsenal fail to beat Palace, those doubts will grow ever louder. @JamesOlley
City’s show of strength might have Jose preparing to park the bus
Roar-some: David Silva celebrates with Vincent Kompany
If Sunday doesn’t spark a bit of atmosphere at the Etihad Stadium, nothing will. On the evidence Manchester City furnished last night, Chelsea’s visit could prove the earliest title decider in Premier League history. What was it someone asked about Lionel Messi — could he do it on a wet Tuesday night at Stoke? Something like that. Well, David Silva can. And Vincent Kompany looks ready for a resurgence. And Yaya Toure wants to remind us there’s no more lavishly endowed footballer, even now he’s had twice as many birthdays as Reece Oxford.
Patrick Barclay Yaya will have to get over a strain — the Ivorian was replaced towards the end of a 3-0 victory at West Brom in which he followed up the scruffiest windfall of a goal with an absolute peach — and address the familiar question about his defensive workrate when Chelsea call. But he and City look hungry again after what captain Kompany concedes was a so-so season by their
standards last term. In the first half, especially, Manuel Pellegrini’s men reiterated that they include some of the best in the League in Yaya, Silva, Kompany and Joe Hart. And that was with Sergio Aguero on the bench, alongside Pablo Zabaleta, arguably the best right-back of the Premier era (with due respect to Gary Neville) but unable to keep out Bacary Sagna. This is the standard to which Raheem Sterling must aspire. Poor Branislav Ivanovic — after the Chelsea right-back’s torture at the hands of Jefferson Montero last weekend, must he
really face the young Englishman, while Cesar Azpilicueta deals with the equally speedy Jesus Navas? No wonder Chelsea are so keen to conclude a deal for Augsburg full-back Baba Rahman but the transfer market is making even more ominous noises on City’s behalf, for they are close to landing Kevin de Bruyne, whose value has risen by £30million in the 18 months since Chelsea let him join Wolfsburg. Perhaps Jose Mourinho will just go to the garage and bring out the bus. @paddybarclay
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| Sport Battle stations: Radamel Falcao tries to win the ball back from Swansea’s Andre Ayew during the 2-2 draw at Stamford Bridge
Chelsea’s style of play will get the best out of me, maintains Falcao Simon Johnson Football Correspondent
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ADAMEL Falcao admits he will need more time to adapt to his new Chelsea team-mates before rediscovering his best form at Stamford Bridge. Chelsea signed Falcao on loan from Monaco to replace Didier Drogba this summer, despite the Colombia international scoring just four times while at Manchester United last season. The 29-year-old has struggled since suffering a serious knee injury in a French Cup match in January last year, but Blues manager Jose Mourinho believes he can spark a revival. Falcao is also convinced that he can succeed with the champions, especially as they have a more settled lineup than the one he experienced during his brief spell at Old Trafford. He has yet to score in four appearances for the club, three of which
were pre-season games, but the former Porto and Atletico Madrid star said: “I think this group of players have largely been together for a while now and they know the style in which they play best. “I am convinced the way in which these players deliver the ball into the area is going to enable me to do my job, which is to score goals along with the other strikers at this club. “The opposition area is the danger zone for forwards like me and the way this team gets the ball into the area suddenly and at the right time is really good for me. “I was aware of how the team played from watching them last season and observing their approach. Obviously, once you are part of a team you get the chance to understand different things. “I think it will take a little bit longer for me to fully understand everything
because you need to play in a team to get to know everyone and all the processes of the team. “Through pre-season I have started to know those things and with more games and more minutes, I will learn even more and we will get to know each other better.” Falcao also feels that working under Mourinho (left) will ensure that his career gets back on track after his disappointment at Old Trafford. “I’ve always wanted to work with Mourinho,” he said. “What strikes me is that he seems to be able to get a lot out of each player and the most possible out of everyone he works with, which is why I am excited. “My personal goal is the same as the goal of the group and that is to win trophies both here and in Europe.” @sjstandardsport
It’ll be pitch perfect for Palace
Write stuff: Alan Pardew’s squad will train on the new pitch at Selhurst Park
Crystal Palace will train on the new Selhurst Park pitch on Friday ahead of their first home game of the season against Arsenal, writes Giuseppe Muro. Palace had their surface relaid in the summer and Alan Pardew has ordered a practice session on the turf so his players are prepared for the game. The match on Sunday is the start of a tough run that will see Palace face Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester City and Tottenham in their next five fixtures. The pitch was heavily criticised last season and Wilfried Zaha believes the
new surface will help Palace at home. “I am glad we managed to sort it out,” he said. “Last season you could be running on it and just hurt your ankle, so I am looking forward to it. “We have got some difficult games coming up, but the gaffer has told us to have a winning mentality and that we can play if we believe in ourselves.” Palace won 3-1 at Norwich on the opening day and Joel Ward is eyeing an upset against Arsene Wenger’s side, who were surprisingly beaten by West Ham in their opening game of the season. “We know they are going to
be a force, but if we are on our game then we have got every chance,” said the defender. “We know we have got a tough start to the season, but we will do everything we can to come out of these games with some points. “We are growing in confidence. We gave Arsenal two good games last year and were unfortunate not to get something the two times we played them.” New signing Bakary Sako played an hour for Palace Under-21s last night as he steps up his fitness following his arrival on a free transfer from Wolves. @giuseppemuro
Morison gets a good vibe back at Millwall Steve Morison wants to help bring the good times back to Millwall after returning for a third spell at The Den, writes Giuseppe Muro. Morison (right) rejoined the club from Leeds last week and scored on his debut as the Lions started in League One with a 2-1 victory at Shrewsbury on Saturday. The 31-year-old, who spent two seasons with Millwall between 2009 and 2011 and returned on loan in 2013, is desperate to get the club back into the Championship. Millwall and Morison appear to be a perfect fit and his signing is a huge boost for manager Neil Harris as he looks to build a “Millwall team of old”. Morison is in line to play against Barnet in the Capital One Cup tonight and he said: “I know what this place is all about. I know what is expected and all I’m worried about is getting this club where they need to be in the Championship. “I’ve had some great times here but I was disappointed with my performances when I came back on loan and feel like I have a point to prove. There were some fitness issues but there is a
different vibe around the place now. “Everyone is here for the right reasons and everyone has got a willingness to work hard. When you have got that you are halfway there. You can tell you are walking into a happy place, which is great.” Morison, who signed a one‑year deal, played alongside Harris during his first spell at the club and believes his game is well suited to Millwall. “I work hard and run around, which is what the fans ask as a minimum,” he said. “That is appreciated at Millwall, but it can go unnoticed at other clubs, where it is about how many times you score from 30 yards, how many Cruyff turns or how many stepovers you can do. And I am not very good at any of that stuff! The gaffer knows what I can do.”
Perch won’t be caught James Perch insists QPR will not underestimate Yeovil tonight as they look to get their season up and running, writes Giuseppe Muro. The club travel to the League Two side in the first round of the Capital One Cup. Rangers were beaten at Charlton on the opening day of the Championship season and the defender said: “The best way to get
over a disappointment is to play another game and get a win. We are not taking anyone lightly and we have to expect a tough game. “A good cup run can help you in the League. I did it with Wigan when we got to the semi-finals of the FA Cup. “It just builds momentum and breeds confidence if you win games.”
Daggers’ horror run Dagenham and Redbridge have never won a match in the League Cup and will be looking to end that unwanted record against Charlton, writes Giuseppe Muro. The Daggers, who have lost eight times in the first round, were beaten on penalties by Brentford last season after a 6-6 draw. They lost 3-0 at Portsmouth in League Two on Saturday
and Wayne Burnett is expecting a response at The Valley tonight. “We have to try to break this hoodoo of not progressing to the next round,” said the manager. “Hopefully we can bounce back.” Nick Pope will continue in goal for Charlton, with Stephen Henderson sidelined because of a shoulder injury.
Tonight’s football (7.45 unless stated) Capital One Cup, first round: Accrington v Hull, Blackburn v Shrewsbury, Bolton v Burton (8), Brentford v Oxford Utd, Bristol Rovers v Birmingham, Cardiff v Wimbledon, Carlisle v Chesterfield, Charlton v Dag & Red, Colchester v Reading, Fleetwood v Hartlepool, Huddersfield v Notts County, Ipswich v Stevenage, Luton v Bristol City, Millwall v Barnet, MK Dons v Leyton Orient, Morecambe v Sheff Utd, Northampton v Blackpool, Nottm Forest v Walsall, Peterborough v Crawley, Plymouth v Gillingham, Port Vale v Burnley, Rochdale v Coventry, Rotherham v Cambridge Utd, Scunthorpe v Barnsley, Sheff Wed v Mansfield, Southend v Brighton, Swindon v Exeter, Wigan v Bury, Wolves v Newport, Wycombe v Fulham, Yeovil v QPR, York v Bradford.
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West Ham get tough on barton contract ❚ Controversial star must accept pay-as-you-play deal Ken Dyer JOEY Barton will have to accept a pay-as-you-play deal if his move to West Ham is to go through. The former QPR midfielder was due to undergo a medical today, as a West Ham club source insi sted that negotiations were still ongoing. It is understood the chances of Barton signing were still only around “30 per cent” and that the 32-year-old would have to accept a deal heavily weighted to appearance money to prove his “desire”. Barton is a free agent after he was released by QPR at the end of last season following their relegation to the Championship. He wants to stay in the Premier L e ague and had been training with Watford but he was on £70,000 a week at QPR, which was considerably more than the promoted club could offer. Barton would be a useful addition to Slaven Bilic’s squad but his possible arrival has already prompted much discussion on social media. The club are aware of antipathy towards the controversial midfielder among some of their supporters and will take that into consideration before making any decision. Back in 2013, chairman David Gold
was asked on Twitter for his verdict on Barton following a public row with former Liverpool player Dietmar Hamann. Gold said at the time that the midfielder “has a problem and should seek help” while he also jokingly claimed he would give former manager Sam Allardyce “some time off ” if he tried to sign Barton. However, the Manchester City academy product’s playing ability is not in dispute and it is felt he could be a valuable squad member if a two-year contract can be agreed. West Ham also remain committed to signing a striker before the transfer window closes on September 2 with Manchester United’s Javier Hernandez still top of their list. The Hammers have already had one offer for the 27-year-old Mexico i nternational rejected but have returned with a second bid of close to £12million. They face competition from Tottenham who are also keen to add a front man to their squad before the window closes to provide support for Harry Kane. Meanwhile, West Ham’s proposed loan deal to take another Mexican, Raul Jimenez, from Atletico Madrid has fallen through with the forward now poised to join Benfica.
Wood: France game is like a final for England players Chris Jones Rugby Correspondent
Listen up: Tom Wood has spelt out the importance of the game to his squad
Tom Wood has told England’s players their World Cup dream could be over if they fail to perform in Saturday’s opening warm-up game against France. Stuart Lancaster yesterday named a much-changed side for the Twickenham clash, with Northampton’s Wood leading England in the absence of the rested Chris Robshaw. However, the England head coach is set to revert to a more familiar line-up for the following week’s match against the same opponents in Paris, meaning this will be the
last chance for some of the players to impress before he names his final 31-man squad by August 31. Saturday’s XV includes three new caps — Sam Burgess, who must prove he has completed the transition from league to union, flanker Calum Clark and centre Henry Slade. Wood has urged everyone in the match-day squad to seize the opportunity handed them, saying: “For some people it is effectively a final and if you don’t play well you will be going home. “It is up to those new guys to knock the door down. For Sam, in particular, it’s not a question of his pedigree, temperament or
composure, it is about seeing if his instincts are up to scratch at Test level in union. That is something he will, hopefully, answer positively on Saturday. He has been great in training, now it is just proving a point on the field. “Hopefully, the fitness work we have been doing will be evident. We will try to keep our powder dry in terms of strike moves and fancy plays. It will be about getting into the intensity of Test match rugby.” Wood made it clear that the six weeks of training — including a fortnight at altitude in Denver — has pushed the players to the limit. He said: “This is the best pre-season I’ve ever done and it’s been about
taking you to your breaking point and allowing you to rebuild. It was absolute torture but you enjoy it.” As World Cup hosts, England want to make Twickenham a fortress, but Wood is adamant that a slip-up on Saturday would not damage their tournament ambitions. “It won’t make or break our tournament if we lose one game at home,” he said. “A good performance endorses all that we’ve been doing for the last six weeks. A game against France at Twickenham is a big deal on its own merit and we’ll give it everything.”
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Arms race: Ramires battles with Arsenal’s Francis Coquelin during the Community Shield at Wembley
juventus back in for ramires JUVENTUS have reignited their interest in Chelsea midfielder Ramires and are hoping to sign him this month, writes Simon Johnson. The Italian champions have made an enquiry for the 28year-old as they look to strengthen their squad after losing Andrea Pirlo and Arturo Vidal. Sami Khedira joined on a free transfer from Real Madrid but has been ruled out for two months with a thigh injury, while Kwadwo Asamoah is also sidelined. The Champions League finalists have been keen on Ramires for some time and hope Chelsea will be prepared to negotiate. He started just 11 League games last season and was an unused substitute in their opening match against Swansea. Ramires has just two
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QPR will offer Charlie Austin a new deal if no one meets their £15million asking price in this transfer window, writes Simon Johnson. The striker has attracted the interest of a number of clubs, including Tottenham and West Ham, but the only bid has come from Leicester, who offered £12m. QPR director of football Les Ferdinand has denied reports Rangers will accept £13m if it is paid up front and admits speculation surrounding the 26-year-old is having a negative impact. Austin (right), who scored 18 Premier League goals last term, has just one year left on his contract and QPR naturally want to extend that if he stays. Ferdinand told Standard Sport: “We are now into the season and want to settle our side
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FRANCO BALDINI is keen to take a break from football as he prepares to leave Tottenham at the end of the month, writes Tom Collomosse. The technical director is poised to depart White Hart Lane when the transfer window closes and although there is interest in Italy, it is thought Baldini is likely to take a break from the game. The 54-year-old has had a limited role at Spurs since Paul Mitchell arrived from Southampton as head of recruitment and analysis last November. Baldini, who worked with Fabio Capello during his fellow Italian’s four years in charge of England, moved to Tottenham in 2013. He
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was held responsible by some at the club for the misguided transfer policy that summer, which saw seven players arrive for a combined total of more than £100million after Gareth Bale joined Real Madrid for a world-record £86m. Three of those seven players — Paulinho, Etienne Capoue and Vlad Chiriches — left the club this summer and Spurs are actively trying to move on a fourth, Roberto Soldado. Meanwhile, Tottenham are attempting to tie up a £10m deal for Lyon attacker Clinton N’Jie this week. The Cameroon international would become the club’s fourth signing of the summer.
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down as quickly as possible. It’s not good for the club, it’s not good for Charlie — it’s not good for anyone. “The fans are waiting for the [transfer] window to close and are hoping Charlie is still here. These things always seem to drag on, but from the club perspective you want it resolved as quickly as possible. “All he can do is be professional, which he was against Charlton on Saturday. He’s got into this position where clubs are interested in him because he’s been professional and scored goals. He can’t allow himself to slip now. “The price is still £15m and the only firm bid that has come in is still from Leicester. Everyone feels that bids are going to come in for him, it’s just a matter of when. But if a club doesn’t pay the fee, then we will offer him a new contract to get him to stay.”
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years left on his contract and Juve are willing to sign him permanently or on loan. Jose Mourinho is a huge admirer of his versatility, however, and will be reluctant to let him go. It is believed Chelsea opened talks with the former Benfica star, who joined for £19.8million in 2010, over a new deal this summer which would take his salary to £80,000 a week. Meanwhile, Baba Rahman has arrived at Chelsea to undergo a medical before completing a £17.7m transfer from Augsburg. A series of add-ons could take the deal above £20m. The Ghanaian will sign a five-year deal worth £76,000 a week. Chelsea remain confident they will also sign Everton defender John Stones, even though a third offer of £30m is likely to be rejected.
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