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The trouble with jogging is that, by the time you realise you’re not in shape for it, it’s too far to walk back

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Anniversaries

Tuesday 15 June 1300 The poet Dante Alighieri becomes one of six priors of Florence, active in governing the city. Dante’s political activities, which included the banishment of several rivals, lead to his own exile from his native city after 1302.

Care homes for the elderly are under a competition watchdog investigation following concerns they could be breaking the law by charging families for extended periods after a resident had died.

Some practices might break consumer law. PAGE 12

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Wireless charging boosts electric cars

Arena remains shut until September

Broccoli named UK’s Thames Water fined favourite vegetable £8.5m over leaks

A major advance in wirelesscharging technology could pave the way to a new era of limitlessrange electric cars. Scientists have demonstrated in principle a practical method of transmitting electricity wirelessly to a moving object. The research was published in the journal Nature.

The Manchester Arena will remain closed until September following the terror attack on 22 May in which 22 people were killed. The venue has been closed since suicide bomber Salman Abedi, 22, detonated a device as concert-goers began leaving a show by the US singer Ariana Grande.

Broccoli has been named Britain’s favourite vegetable in a survey from Diabetes UK. It has come full circle from the days it was regarded by many as healthy but horrible and a prime example of a food detested by children. Recently, Broccoli has been deemed a “superfood”, winning it a legion of fans. PAGE 13

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Thames Water has been fined £8.55m for missing water leakage targets when it was revealed that 47 million litres of water a day leaked in a series of burst water pipes in London last year. This comes just months after it was given a £20m fine for allowing raw sewage into the River Thames. PAGE 15

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ENTERTAINMENT

Death of Countess Mountbatten

Balls and Gove to be Hero returns to reconciled on screen Borough Market

Senate approves Russia sanctions

Countess Mountbatten of Burma has died, aged 93. The Countess was the Duke of Edinburgh’s first cousin.

She died at her home in Mersham, Kent. The Countess’s father, Earl Mountbatten, her 14-year-old son, Nicholas, and mother-in-law, the Dowager Lady Brabourne, were murdered by an IRA bomb in 1979.

Ed Balls and Michael Gove will take an awkward ride in a “lift of reconciliation” in a comedy sketch for The Last Leg. The former Labour MP and the Environment Secretary are just two of the people from showbusiness and politics taking part in the special episode of the show, inspired by the MP Jo Cox.

The US Senate has voted to approve sanctions against Russia to punish Moscow for meddling in the 2016 presidential election and aggression in other parts of the world. The chamber passed the sanctions legislation 97-2. President Trump has rejected the implication Russian hacking tipped the election his way.

Birthdays Ice Cube (below), rapper, 48; Courteney Cox, actress, 53; Gary Lightbody, singer, 41; Alan Brazil, football pundit, 58; Danielle Lineker, actress, 38

Watchdog looks into fees for homes

One of the heroes of the London Bridge attack said he refused to let the terrorists win as he returned to Borough Market for a drink on the day he was discharged from Royal London Hospital. Just 11 days after he charged the three attackers, Geoff Ho posted a picture of himself enjoying a fruit juice. PAGE 33

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The List The best superhero movies With ‘Wonder Woman’ dominating the box office and securing some of the best critical reception any superhero movie has received, many people are already considering where Patty Jenkins’ film ranks on the list of all-time superhero releases. Here’s Forbes’ top 10: 1. Batman Begins (below) 2. Superman: The movie 3. Wonder Woman 4. Iron Man 5. Doctor Strange 6. Captain America: The First Avenger 7. The Mask of Zorro 8. Spider-Man 9. Deadpool 10. Ant-Man

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A government survey shows Britain's "deep social mobility problem" is getting worse for young people. Alan Milburn, chairman of the Social Mobility Commission, found that more than half young Britons "feel like they are on the wrong side of a profound unfairness" in society.

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Three-quarters thought that poorer people have less opportunity to go to a top university

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JAY WILDE, VEGETARIAN BEEF FARMER

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Scandal of a wholly avoidable tragedy

A vegetarian beef farmer?

Yes, it doesn’t really make sense, does it? That’s why Jay Wilde, a vegetarian for 25 years who farms in Ashbourne, Derbyshire, donated his herd of 63 cattle to an animal sanctuary to protect them from the slaughterhouse. The 59-year-old grew up on the dairy farm which has been in his family since 1956. When he inherited it in 2011, he changed production from dairy to organic beef as he believes dairy farming is particularly hard on the animals when calves and cows are separated.

He said: “Cows have good memories and a range of emotions. They form relationships. I’ve even seen them cry.”

Was the switch from dairy farming to organic meat production enough?

No, over the past six years Mr Wilde found that taking the cows to be slaughtered was increasingly upsetting for him. He said he always wanted to give up animal production because he didn’t believe it was “right to eat them”. He also hosts festivals on his farm, and said some attendees expressed discomfort about celebrating on his farm, where cows were sent to slaughter. It cemented his decision to stop animal farming entirely. He said: “It was very difficult to do your best to look after them and then send them to the slaughterhouse for what must be a terrifying death.”

How did he find them a new home?

A friend put him touch with the Vegan Society, which advised sending his cattle – 30 of which were pregnant – to a sanctuary and suggested other types of farming that aligned with his vegetarian values. “When I agreed to begin farming crops instead of animals I had no idea what to do with the cows,” he said. “We were expecting to have to give them away in twos and threes. However, Hillside Animal Sanctuary came forward and said it could take all of them.”

Have farmers given entire herds away before?

Yes, the founder of the animal

sanctuary in Frettenham, Norfolk, where the cows now reside, said that a couple who “could not bear to continue dairy farming” kept their cows as pets with the help of the sanctuary. However, not everyone shares the same outlook on Mr Wilde’s decision to donate the cows to the sanctuary. The vegetarian farmer told the BBC that his brotherin-law told him he was “absolutely insane” to give away cattle, which could fetch up to £40,000 at market.

He will now be running a vegan organic market farm, supplying garden produce, but will still keep a few cows to provide fertiliser.

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Tracey K Smith to be poet laureate

Trapeze artist tries Niagara adventure

Conman posed as prince ‘for years’

Crumbs! Croissant costs are on rise

The Library of Congress has announced the Pulitzer Prize-winner Tracy K Smith’s appointment as US poet laureate, whose mission is to raise interest in poetry and serve as “an official lightning rod” for the poetic “impulse”. Previous laureates include Juan Felipe Herrera.

A trapeze artist plans to hold on by her teeth and her toes while on a hula hoop-type device suspended from a helicopter as it flies 300ft above Niagara Falls today. Erendira Wallenda’s stunt is on the fifth anniversary of her husband, Nik Wallenda’s, 1,800ft-high tightrope walk across the falls.

An Italian man who was posing as a Montenegrin prince was tracked down by Italian police yesterday after using his “position” to gain luxury holidays and meet famous people. Having been charged for false declaration of identity, it became clear that the man had been posing as a prince for years.

As the price of butter rises so does the price of the croissant.

The French delicacy, which is made up of around 25 per cent butter, is increasing in price due to the demand for milk and dairy products in Asia. Over the past 13 months, the wholesale price of butter has increased dramatically.

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‘Pizzagate’ man says he was ‘reckless’

Pope keeping tabs on his cardinals

Wreck of 1898 warship found

A man who walked into a District of Columbia restaurant with an assault rifle to investigate false internet rumours about child sex slaves, dubbed “pizzagate”, said he was “foolish and reckless”. Prosecutors are calling for him to be sentenced to four years in prison. Edgar Madison Welch pleaded guilty.

Pope Francis has asked the head of the College of Cardinals to remind them that they must inform him when they leave town. It isn’t known if a particular cardinal’s travels irked the Pope, but some of his conservative critics have delivered speeches or lectures abroad that have questioned his pastoral line.

The wreck of an American Coast Guard steam-engine ship that sank off the coast of southern California in 1917 has been found.

The ship, USCGS McCulloch, which previously belonged to the US military, sailed the Pacific and played a key role in the SpanishAmerican War of 1898.

A tower block engulfed in flames is something you only expect to see in a disaster movie. It should not happen in real life. And not in 21st-century Britain. The blaze in London yesterday reminded us again of the incredible bravery of the emergency services – firefighters in breathing equipment negotiating narrow, smoke-filled corridors and stairs, high up, searching flats still ablaze – and the spirit of generosity of ordinary people. Once again, we saw an instinctive rally to the aid of those in distress and beset by incalculable tragedy.

There will now be hand-wringing among the political class, anodyne words, and no doubt an inquiry.

It is too early to speculate on exactly what might have happened to cause the fire at Grenfell Tower, but it is not too soon to say that there are serious questions to be answered by multiple authorities over a wholly avoidable tragedy.

Much has been made of residents being given the “wrong” advice to stay in their homes. This advice should be sound. Tower blocks are designed to contain fires within flats, each of which is a fire-proof block, giving the fire brigade time to arrive and tackle the blaze from inside, using hydrants on each floor.

The external cladding of a building should also be fire-proof.

There has been a spate of fires in the capital recently. In 2013, a blaze at the 17-storey Kestrel House in Islington led residents to complain about unclear “stay or flee” advice. In 2016, fire ripped through five floors of Shepherd’s Court in Shepherd’s Bush. This year, Southwark Council was fined £750,000 for safety deficiencies after a fire at 14-storey Lakanal House in Camberwell in which six people died in 2009.

Coroners’ recommendations into this tragedy – including that tower blocks should be fitted with sprinklers – have sat on the desks of government ministers for four years. The former housing minister, Gavin Barwell, who lost his seat last week but was quickly appointed as Theresa May’s chief of staff, refused to say when the review of regulations would take place.

His predecessor, Brandon Lewis, said it was not the Government’s responsibility to enforce the fitting of sprinklers. The residents of Grenfell Tower warned starkly last year “that only a catastrophic event will expose the ineptitude and incompetence of our landlord”.

In addition to this, there are questions about Boris Johnson’s hugely controversial cuts to the London Fire Brigade in 2013 and the decades of scrimping on housing budgets by successive governments, which forced councils to neglect maintenance or outsource renovation to the cheapest bidder with the tightest budget.

But one thing is certain, a luxury tower block, owned and rented by millionaires, would never go up like a candle.

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COVER STORY

Trapped, desperate parents threw

With at least 12 dead after one of the worst fires in recent history, questions will be raised about how fire spread so quickly in a recently refurbished block

By Cahal Milmo CHIEF REPORTER

Twelve people were last night known to have died in the fire which ripped through a London tower block, trapping residents in burning homes as desperate parents threw their children from windows and others jumped to their deaths.

The Government said urgent safety checks would be carried out on hundreds of high-rise apartment blocks around the country which have undergone similar refurbishment to Grenfell Tower after the 24-storey building was engulfed by one of the worst blazes in British history. Theresa May said there will be a “proper investigation” adding: “If there are any lessons to be learnt they will be, and action will be taken.”

Witnesses described horrific scenes in the early hours of yesterday as a fire, thought to have been caused by a faulty fridge-freezer shortly before 1am, spread rapidly from a single flat to the entire building, which had recently undergone a £8.6m refurbishment that included new external cladding. The tower had 120 flats and was home to 400 to 600 people.

Scotland Yard said it expected the death toll to rise amid suggestions that very few on the uppermost three floors of the tower in north Kensington, west London, had managed to escape. A further 78 people received hospital treatment, of whom 18 were critically ill.

Announcing that firefighters had reached the top floor of the building, Commander Stuart Cundy, of the Metropolitan Police, said:

Tenants’ fears The former chairman of the tenancy organisation connected to Grenfell Tower has described recent refurbishment work as a “disaster waiting to happen”.

Reg Kerr-Bell said he stood down from the Kensington and Chelsea Tenancy Management Organisation several years ago over his concerns about the way it was run.

Just two days before the fatal blaze, he had spoken to a former colleague about their fears.

Mr Kerr-Bell said: “This is a scandal. This is one of the biggest scandals in the country – and it could have been avoided. We felt that there was a disaster waiting to happen and we were going to have a meeting with the MP so that we could put these concerns to them.

“It is not going to finish with this – this is just the start.”

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“Sadly, I don’t anticipate there will be further survivors.”

As fires continued to burn in the building into yesterday evening, survivors of the disaster told of residents who had shone lights to alert emergency services to their presence as flames dozens of metres high leapt up the building.

Tiago Etienne, 17, was among those to witness the desperation of people trapped inside trying to give their children a chance of surviving. He said: “I saw about three children between the ages of four and eight being thrown. I could hear the screaming. It was terrible.”

More than 200 firefighters attempted to tackle the blaze, repeatedly entering the building in breathing equipment to try to guide residents to safety.

But questions were raised about the speed with which the fire spread so rapidly in a block where homes were supposed to comply with a standard that should contain a blaze for up to 60 minutes. Witnesses described how the fire spread up the exterior of the building, apparently following the pattern of the recentlycompleted cladding.

One resident, Muna Ali, 45, said: “The flames, I have never seen anything like it, it just reminded me of 9/11. It had completely spread within half an hour.”

Built in 1974, Grenfell Tower is one of up to 4,000 older high-rise residential buildings in Britain, many of which have recently undergone refurbishment work.

TRAUMA

‘There was no alarm system and no sprinklers, it is a disgrace’ In North Kensington, residents tell Rob Hastings and Serina Sandhu of their shock – and anger We found him sitting on the pavement, slumped against the railings of St Clement Church, staring into space. All around him was a whirl of police and fire crews, people carrying boxes and bags of supplies, locals talking to friends and strangers alike as they tried to comprehend what had happened.

But this poor man was still and silent, like he had been knocked over by a passing bike and was suffering from concussion.

We crouched down to ask if he was OK. He looked up, revealing watery and bloodshot eyes. Yes, he said, he was all right. Clearly

he was anything but. He knew about the refuge centres that had been opened down the road. But although his mother had made it out of Grenfell Tower alive, nobody had heard from his father. And all that made sense to him, on a bright sunny day 12 hours after the fire had broken out, was to sit down.

While the walking wounded had been taken to hospital, many of those with mental lacerations like this man were still wandering the streets of North Kensington.

Members of the fire service were surely among this traumatised group. Many looked exhausted,

their faces sooty from repeatedly entering the building. Looking out from the windows of the fire engines lined up along Walmer Road, others bore the vacant expressions of heroes who had been through hell but only wished they could have done more. One firefighter, who had arrived at the scene at 1am, said every single crew member who entered the building only came out after rescuing someone.

How they could have gone in was a wonder.

The sight of the blackened building – a local landmark – engulfed in clouds of smoke was “the most shocking image I’ve seen since 9/11,” said Richard Loncraine, a 70-year-old film director who lives in nearby Treadgold Street.

The outpouring of community support was inspiring as people queued up outside churches and community centres to deliver water, clothes, blankets, nappies, sandwiches and children’s toys.

Danny Vance (inset), one of the pastors at Notting Hill Community Church, was taking donations of food, bedding, clothing, toiletries for families who had been affected. “It’s a big building so anyone who wants to stay can come for the night,” he said. “There are floods of donations coming in.”

Amidst the pride at the community spirit, however, was anger at how quickly the fire spread and the lack of protection inside the tower, which was built as a council block and still included social housing. “The disparity in this

city between the rich and poor is disgusting,” Vance told i.

“This would not have happened in those two £5m flats around the corner,” he added.

Mesrob Kassemdjian, who has lived in the tower for six years on the 17th floor and escaped with his girlfriend and his aunt while hearing people screaming “help us, help us” from inside their flats, said: “The building had no integrated alarm system, the fire cladding was flammable and there were no sprinklers. One apartment caught fire and the whole building was on fire. It should be called a disgrace.”

One local woman, who did not want to be named, said: “A person I know was instructed to stay inside.

She did not obey that - she got a towel, she wet it, and she just ran.

The people who disobeyed are the ones who survived.”

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Man saved after 12 terrifying hours of pleading for help

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More than 200 firefighters tried to tackle the blaze, repeatedly entering the building to guide residents to safety PA; REUTERS; GETTY

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‘The fire kept going and the SOS lights went out’

By Adam Lusher and Samuel Osborne

“They kept screaming,” said Olga Nassar, 76, still in tears at midday, staring at the blackened tower from her home about 200 metres away.

“Sometimes you couldn’t hear what they were saying. Other times, it was ‘Help! Help!’ The screams seemed to move with the fire.”

Those closer still to the base of the tower could make out only too well what the trapped residents were saying. “There was a woman screaming ‘my baby, my baby, I need to get out, I need to save my baby’,” said Zara, a local resident. “But we were just looking up. We couldn’t do anything.

There was nothing we could do.”

“Frantic screams filled the air,” said Samira Lamrani, 38. “People

Amid the chaos and devastation of the fire there were remarkable stories of those who “miraculously” survived.

A frantic woman dropped a baby from the ninth or 10th floor of Grenfell Tower as it was engulfed in flames, according to a witness.

Samira Lamrani said she saw a woman try to save a baby by dropping it from a window “on the ninth or 10th floor” to waiting members of the public below.

“A woman was gesturing that she was about to throw her baby and if somebody could catch her baby,” she said.

Ms Lamrani later said she had seen the woman wrap the baby in a blanket before throwing it from the window.

She said: “A member of the public, a guy ran forward and just miraculously grabbed the baby at the right moment.”

People were trapped as the 24-storey building caught fire, screaming and banging to attract help and signalling to members of the public below.

An elderly man, believed to be partially sighted, was rescued by firefighters (inset) after a terrifying 12 hours trapped in his home by the blaze.

The pensioner is understood to have been a resident in Grenfell Tower for 30 years.

He was seen waving a jumper and crying out for help from his 11th-floor flat on footage shown on ITV’s Good Morning Britain.

Presenters Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid said they felt “helpless” as they watched his frightened plea on the show.

Another resident, called Zara, said she saw a woman throw her son, who was about five years old, from a fifth- or sixth-floor window to escape.

She said: “I think he’s OK. There was another woman screaming, ‘my baby, my baby, I need to get out, I need to save my baby’.

“But we were just looking up, we couldn’t do anything. There was nothing we could do.”

Ms Lamrani also said her daughter’s friend had seen an adult trying to escape using a homemade parachute.

She added: “Members of the public were reassuring them, telling them we’ve done what we can and that we’ve phoned 999, but the look on their face was death.

“Mainly [it was] the kids, because obviously their high-pitched voices – that will remain with me.

I could hear them screaming for their lives.”

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were starting to appear at the windows, banging and screaming.

“The more I looked up, floor upon floor, endless numbers of people.

Mainly the kids, because obviously their voices… their high-pitched voices – that will remain with me for a long time. I could hear them screaming for their lives.

“We were reassuring them, telling them we’ve done what we can and that we’ve phoned 999, but the look on their face was death.”

Some residents waved blankets from their windows to alert the firefighters to their presence. Others tried using torches or mobile phones to flash SOS – sometimes to no avail.

One man was signalling SOS from the top floor, said Hadil Alamily.

“He was screaming ‘help, help, help!’, but no one helped,” she told The Guardian. “He was literally on fire and he jumped.”

Two others kept flashing SOS from one of the top floors, repeatedly trying to signal to the firefighters.

“They couldn’t get to them,” said Victoria Goldsmith, who had watched helplessly from below. “The fire kept going, and the lights went out.” THE INDEPENDENT

Neighbours rushed to the aid of high-rise residents

By Loulla-May Eleftheriou-Smith and Katie Grant

Muslims observing Ramadan rushed to the aid of Grenfell Tower residents, witnesses have said.

The fire was reported at 1.15am yesterday when many people would have been asleep. Fasting Muslims would have woken up for their predawn meal shortly after the blaze broke out.

Suhoor occurs before the first prayer, Fajr, which would have been around 2.40am, according to the London Central Mosque Trust.

Nadia Yousuf, 29, told BuzzFeed that Muslim residents were among the first to be alerted to the fire.

“They saw it just after they woke up to eat,” Ms Yousuf said.

One local, Jodie Martin, described how he arrived at the scene,

“grabbed an axe” from a fire engine and managed to make his way into the building. Mr Martin, who lives on a neighbouring block, told the BBC he “helped a couple of people [get] out” from the second floor before the smoke became too overpowering.

Simone Williams, a nurse who lives nearby, told the BBC: “I’ve seen some things, but today I can’t even describe it. There were mothers that came out and had lost their children, firefighters that came out injured. The police were amazing; there were people saying they didn’t care and weren’t doing enough, but that’s not true.”

Glenda Joseph, who lives close to the tower, added: “My daughter is a nurse so we were treating people coming out the building. My daughter is now in hospital because she inhaled some smoke whilst helping.”

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Families seek answers as they wait for news of missing loved ones

By Paul Gallagher

Families of those missing following the Grenfell Tower disaster pleaded for information on their loved ones as dozens of people remained unaccounted for last night.

Jessica Urbano, 13, was on the 20th floor of the tower block when she was separated from her family, who have put out numerous posts on social media to find her.

The schoolgirl’s aunt, Ana Ospina, a make-up artist, said: “She last spoke to her mum when she borrowed a phone and told her she was on the stairs with other people.

“We then have had unconfirmed reports/sightings of her outside of the flats and also being put into an ambulance, but we have checked hospitals and no news. She hasn’t been found yet.”

Friends are searching for a mother and daughter who said “please pray for me” as the fire blazed through the block of flats in west London.

Khadija Saye, 24, an artist who is showing her work in the Venice Biennale, was in her flat on the 20th Jessica Urbano (top), Khadija Saye floor, with her mother, Mary Mendy, (above) and Mariem Elgwahry are who is thought to be in her fifties. among dozens who remain missing Her friend, Nicola Green, said: “We are desperately trying to communicate with all the hospitals.

We’re told some people have been rescued up to the 19th and 20th floor.

She was on the 20th floor. Nobody has any information at this point.”

Ms Green said that Ms Saye was last heard from at 3am when she was direct messaging from her flat, as her phone was not working. “She was on Facebook saying she was unable to get out of the flat, that the smoke was so thick,” Ms Green said.

Friends and family of Mariem

Elgwahry, who also went missing and was thought to have lived on the 19th floor, said she last spoke to her mother at 2.30am and has not been heard from since.

Francis Dean, 47, said his sister, Zainab, told him on the phone she had been instructed to remain in her 14th-floor flat with her two-year-old son, Jeremiah, by firefighters.

Mr Dean said that at one stage a firefighter borrowed his phone and spoke to Zainab. “He told her to keep calm and that they were coming to get her. He kept saying that to her again and again,” he told The Daily Telegraph. “But then he handed me the phone and said to me ‘Tell her you love her’. I knew then to fear the worst. The phone went dead and I couldn’t talk to her.”

Hamid Ali Jafari said that his 82year-old father, Ali Yawar Jafari, had not been seen since the early hours of the morning as the family was trying to escape the blaze.

As emergency services said the death toll was expected to rise, a 14-year-old boy told the BBC that some of his classmates were missing.

Saber Neda who lived in a top-floor flat, is feared dead after he told his wife, Shakila, 45, and son Farhad, 24, to flee while he stayed behind because he was injured. The 57-year-old was last heard from at 2.20am when he made a frantic phone call to a relative to say that the building was burning and that there was “no help”.

A woman, named locally as Nura Jamal, was trapped and rang a friend to tell her she feared she was about to die. She called her friend at 2am and said: “Forgive me, the fire is here, I’m dying.” Her daughter is understood to have escaped from the fire but her two sons were still missing.

RESCUERS

Firefighters ran through hail of flaming debris to ‘war zone’

By Adam Barnett

Firefighters reached Grenfell Tower just six minutes after being called, charging into the burning building to tackle the blaze and save lives.

More than 250 firefighters took part in the operation yesterday, with some sustaining injuries as the public hailed their bravery.

When the first brigade appliance arrived the fire was already in full force, with orange-yellow flames roaring out of the building’s walls and windows and debris falling to the pavement.

One firefighter named Terry compared the scene to a “war zone”.

He told LBC radio: “We had to run under police riot shields because of the amount of flaming debris, just to get into the building.

“There was one small staircase that everyone was going up. It was just like the images of 9/11.

“We were going up the staircase and people were coming down in smoke. I don’t know how they were breathing.”

David Sibert, a fire safety expert with the Fire Brigades’ Union, said: “To put a fire out we have a rising mains, a pipe with an inlet at the bottom of the building and outlets on every floor. Firefighters plug a hose from the fire engine into the inlet and

go up the firefighters’ lift to the floor below [the flames] and then plug the hose into the outlet, go up to the floor where the fire is with their breathing apparatus and put the fire out.” He added: “What’s happened in this fire today is like nothing that anyone in this country has seen ever.”

Each firefighter who walked into the building is said to have left having rescued someone.

Dany Cotton, London’s Fire Commissioner, revealed “a number of firefighters” suffered minor injuries in the blaze. “This is an unprecedented incident,” she added. “In my 29 years of being a firefighter, I have never ever seen anything of this scale.”

SAFETY

Residents criticise official guidance to stay put in case of a fire

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Residents caught up in the inferno criticised the safety advice they were given for a major fire.

Official safety notices inside the block informed residents that unless a fire was in or directly

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affected their flat, they should remain in their homes. And guidance issued to tenants in a newsletter said: “Our longstanding ‘stay put policy’ stays in force unless you are told otherwise.

“This means that (unless there is a fire in your flat or in the hallway outside your flat) you should stay inside your flat.”

The London Mayor, Sadiq Khan, waded into the argument yesterday, telling BBC Radio 4: “Thankfully residents didn’t stay in their flats and fled to safety.”

He later said: “There will be a great many questions over coming days as to the cause of this tragedy and I want to reassure Londoners that we will get all the answers.”

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Community rallies round to help feed and house victims

By Sally Guyoncourt

As the blaze raged through Grenfell Tower and destroyed the homes of hundreds of people, the local community rallied round to help victims who lost everything.

Residents, businesses, churches and community groups touched by the plight of those caught up in the fire offered food, shelter and donations. A sports complex near the building became the hub of the relief effort. The Westway Sports and Fitness Centre turned into a refuge for residents evacuated and left homeless.

Alex Russell, from the Westway Trust, who was helping to coordinate the effort said: “The response has been incredible.

People are bringing in everything.”

The local Salvation Army office gave refuge for those concerned about friends and family. And the Muslim Council of Great Britain created a donation point at the Muslim Cultural Heritage Centre in Ladbroke Grove.

Local football clubs Queens Park Rangers and Fulham were among the businesses keen to support the relief effort. A spokesman for QPR said it was “in dialogue” with Kensington and Chelsea council about how it could help and had suggested the club’s Loftus Road stadium “as a relief centre for the emergency services and those affected, and also as a drop-off centre for clothes and provisions”.

Fulham said that donations could be taken to the club’s Craven Cottage stadium or their training ground at Motspur Park in New Malden, Surrey.

Chef Jamie Oliver offered help from his restaurant in the nearby

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Michael Paramasivan escaped from his seventh-floor flat with his girlfriend Hannah West, 23, and her five-year-old daughter Thea. He said: “If we’d listened to [officials] and stayed in the flat we would have perished.”

Mr Paramasivan, 37, (right), said: “There were explosions everywhere you looked. Lots of bangs, and blue gas coming out everywhere you looked. About 12 floors up I saw three children waving from a window and then

A shoulder to cry on St Clement Church in Treadgold Street, Notting Dale, opened its doors at 3.30am to residents.

The Reverend Mark O’Donoghue, the area dean of Kensington, said it had been dealing with up to 200 people, adding: “Out of the chaos we have been offering them food, a hot drink and a shoulder to cry on.

“They are obviously distraught.

Some of them do not know where their friends, family and neighbours are.”

“One of the saddest things has been seeing people who have come from one [refuge] centre to another centre, trying to find their loved ones.”

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Westfield Shopping Centre to victims. He wrote on social media: “To any of the hundreds of families affected by this terrible fire at Grenfell Tower today, you are all welcome to come hang out in my restaurant and be fed and watered by my Jamie’s Italian team.

“Food and drink free of charge so just go and speak to my manager Juan and we will sort you out and give you some love. This is for victims of the fire, our thoughts, love and prayers are with you all.

Big love, Jamie xxxx.”

The high-street clothing retailer Monsoon opened its offices and offered refreshments to those affected and the company donated £100,000 to the Kensington and Chelsea Foundation’s appeal.

Telecoms companies EE and TalkTalk offered phone and social media services at their local stores to help people get in contact with friends and family.

there was just an explosion and they disappeared.”

Tiago Etienne, 17, said she heard people screaming and pleading for help as the tower was engulfed in flames. She added: “I saw children being thrown out of the building from as high as about the 15th floor. They were young – aged probably between four and eight. I saw three thrown out.

“I think they were being

thrown out for the firefighters or police to catch, but I couldn’t see from where I was who was at the bottom and what they were catching them in.”

Judith Blakeman, a local councillor who lives opposite the tower, said she heard about the blaze at 5am. She added: “Neighbours had been watching it all night. They said the cladding went up like a nightdress by a fire – it just went ‘whoosh’.”

Residents who escaped said there no fire alarms had sounded and that the official advice they gad been given in the event of a fire was to stay inside.

Flowers were placed beside the police cordon last night.

Attached to a bouquet was a card with the message: “Love and prayers to the families and victims. Justice has to be done.

People before money. RIP.”

A-level pupil helped relief effort

By Jack Hardy

An A-level student due to sit an exam worked through the night helping residents of Grenfell Tower – and returned to offer further assistance after completing his test.

Rory Walsh, 18, woke in the early hours when flames tore through the block of flats overlooking his house.

Despite having an English language and literature exam to sit yesterday, he joined the relief effort.

Working at the Maxilla social club, he helped to co-ordinate the mass of donations arriving and assisted now-homeless families in finding shelter. Then, at 8am, he made the journey to Richmond College in west London for his exam.

“I was here from two until eight,” he said. “And then my exam was at

Twickenham so I had to journey over there – I got there a little late – and sit it.”

Courtney Connell, a taxi driver, used his cab to help transport people around and deliver food and supplies. He told BBC Radio 5 Live: “They always say that the cab drivers are the fourth emergency service, so we are doing our bit, some of us.”

Local people opened up their homes and took to social media to offer refuge to those affected.

One woman, named Giselle, wrote on Twitter: “Just called [Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea] @RBKC and left my details. They are looking for emergency housing. I have offered my place. Do the same if you can #Grenfell”

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INVESTIGATION

Building’s cladding falls under suspicion after speed of inferno horrifies witnesses

By Cahal Milmo and Serina Sandhu

Amid the incomprehension and shock felt by survivors and witnesses of the Grenfell Tower fire, many also recounted a common and disturbing observation – the velocity with which the inferno spread through the 24-storey building.

“I think the speed of the fire was the most shocking thing, how quick it literally went from zero to 100,” said witness Samiri Lamrani.

Fire investigators and police could not explain why the blaze was not contained within the flat where it started for at least an hour, as would have been expected. Instead, the flames leapfrogged along the exterior of the building.

Many witnesses pointed to the aluminium and resin cladding fitted to the exterior of the tower during an £8.6m refurbishment last year as a key factor in the fire’s rapid spread.

“By the time that we got downstairs, the fire had gone all the way up and it was just about reaching our windows on the 17th floor,” said one of the residents, who gave his name only as Methrob. “The cladding went up like a matchstick.”

The answers to what went wrong at Grenfell Tower, one of a legacy of ugly 1970s high rises across Britain which local authorities have sought to refurbish, will probably lie in a tangle of unintended consequences.

The search for answers included claims that residents’ concerns were ignored for years by Downing Street, where Theresa May’s new chief of staff, Gavin Barwell, had – when he was housing minister – promised a review of fire regulations last year which has yet to be published.

But yesterday it seemed that a major focus of the investigation will be the fashionable grey-and-white rainscreen cladding which was attached to the building in 2015.

Known as “aluminium composite material”, or ACM, the sheeting consists of two thin layers of aluminium enclosing a resin core.

It is attached to buildings to cover an insulation layer fitted to original external walls, with the aim of reducing energy consumption. Most design specifications allow for a gap or cavity of 25mm to 50mm between

Firms behind retrofit The contract for the refurbishment of Grenfell Tower was won by the construction company Rydon, of Forest Row, East Sussex, which in turn awarded the £2.6m contract for the cladding and other upgrades including new windows to a specialist company, Harley Curtain Wall Ltd, of nearby Crowborough.

The company went into liquidation into 2015 but was sold to its original owner and a new company – Harley Facades Ltd – continues to operate.

Design specifications for Grenfell Tower, submitted by the contractors, specified the use of materials with the highest ratings for preventing the spread of flames and being “incombustible”.

In a statement, Rydon said: “Rydon completed a refurbishment of the building in the summer of 2016 which met all required building control, fire regulation and health and safety standards.”

Ray Bailey, the managing director of Harley Facades Ltd, said: “We will fully support and co-operate with the investigations. At this time, we are not aware of any link between the fire and the exterior cladding to the tower.”

If you get a fire at the bottom, the hot air just rises so you get a chimney effect the panelling and the insulation to allow rain to drain away. Experts said that in the event of a fire, this cavity can act as a chimney, both trapping burning material and encouraging flames to spread. Arnold Tarling, a fire expert with the chartered surveyor Hindwoods, said: “It produces a wind tunnel and also traps any burning material between the cladding and the building.”

Cladding was cited as the cause of the spread of several fires in highrise buildings in the Middle East.

Referring to Grenfell Tower, Angus Law, of the BRE Centre for Fire Safety Engineering at Edinburgh University, said: “Early media reports suggest that this

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event has similarities with other fires that have occurred recently around the world. The UK’s regulatory framework for tall residential buildings is intended to prevent the spread of fire between floors and between apartments. If spread of fire does occur, as has happened at Grenfell Tower, the consequences are often catastrophic.”

A resident on the Lancaster West estate, of which Grenfell Tower is part, told i that he had noticed a significant cavity in the cladding when the building was being modernised. Richard Loncraine, 70, said: “It looked to me like the cladding was held, from watching it being constructed, a distance away from the inner wall and that would produce a perfect vortex for air. If you get fire at the bottom, the hot air rises so you just get a chimney effect.”

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MANAGEMENT

Tower residents ‘raised alarm about fire risks years ago’

By Dominic Harris

Residents of Grenfell Tower were repeatedly reassured about fire safety by the management organisation, a local councillor said.

Grenfell Tower was built in 1974 and contains 120 flats. Councillor Judith Blakeman said it was home to between 400 and 600 people.

She said residents had expressed concerns about fire safety in the

block “over several years” and had constantly been reassured by the Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Management Organisation (KCTMO).

Grenfell Tower was refurbished at a cost of £8.6m and work – which included cladding the exterior of the building – finished in May last year.

Ms Blakeman said residents had concerns about fire-safety issues during the improvements and that

she raised them with both the board and fire-safety officer of the KCTMO – on which she sits as a member. She said they were given assurances, both by KCTMO and by local fire officers who were brought in to carry out an inspection.

Instructions were put up on every floor of the building, telling people to remain in their homes in the event of a fire, that they would be safe there and would be rescued within

the hour. Ms Blakeman said: “The residents have expressed concern over several years about the fire safety at the block and they have constantly been reassured, [being told] ‘no, it’s OK, your flat is secure for an hour unless you’re close to the fire. Stay in your flat and you will be rescued within the hour by the fire brigade’. The fire brigade have undertaken a recent inspection and said it’s OK.”

that a long-awaited review of fire regulations, recommended after a previous fatal fire in a block of flats in London, would be carried out. Six people died in the blaze at Lakanal House in Camberwell in 2009. The tragedy bore several similarities to Grenfell Tower: the structure failed to contain the blaze to a single flat for a significant time.

Judge Frances Kirkham, who presided over the inquest into the deaths at Lakanal House, wrote to ministers recommending that the Government should consider the retrofitting of sprinkler systems into high-rise blocks.

A former chief fire officer said yesterday that he believed a reluctance in Whitehall to add to existing regulations – by insisting that for every new rule created three were removed – had delayed the ministerial review.

Ronnie King, who is also honorary secretary of a parliamentary group of fire safety, said: “My own thinking is that there was the red-tape challenge and they don’t really want to put regulation on business.”

The scale of the disaster and its appalling human price means that comprehensive answers to such issues will now be sought.

But Mr King said it was time to end what he described as “stabledoor legislation”. He added: “There are 4,000 older tower blocks in the UK that don’t have sprinklers.

There are people who would argue that it’s too costly and there are other measures that could have been done. But it’s a fact that people don’t die in sprinkler buildings.”

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12.54am: Fire breaks out at Grenfell Tower in Latimer Road, west London.

1.15am: Firefighters are called to the scene and 40 fire engines with arrive within six minutes.

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1.29am: The London Ambulance Service is called and 20 crews arrive on the scene.

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3am: Metropolitan Police say people are being treated at the scene for smoke inhalation. Reports of the destruction begin to flood social media and news outlets.

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4am: NHS England says 74 people have been taken to six London hospitals, with 20 of them in critical condition.

6am: Kensington and Chelsea Council leader Nick Paget-Brown describes the blaze as a "very, very severe fire". He tells Sky News: "Clearly it's an absolutely devastating fire. Several hundred would have been in there. It's a question of establishing how many people were in there at the time of the fire."

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6.30am: London Fire Brigade says around 30 flats near the scene have been evacuated and a cordon is in place.

7.40am: A casualty information line is set up by emergency services for people worried about friends and family 8am: London Fire Commissioner Dany Cotton confirms people have died, saying there were a "number of fatalities".

9.50am: London Mayor Sadiq Khan says he is "truly devastated to see the horrific scenes of the major fire" at Grenfell Tower, praising firefighers and emergency services.

Fire reported to have started on fourth residential floor and spread quickly

11am: The Met confirms that six people have died, with the number expected to rise. Commander Stuart Cundy said: “I can confirm six fatalities at this time, but this figure is likely to rise during what will be a complex recovery operation over a number of days. Many others are receiving medical care.”

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Two senior Conservatives were under pressure last night to explain why they did not act on demands to improve fire safety standards in tower blocks.

Experts claimed that the Government’s determination to cut red tape could have prevented ministers from introducing new safety measures such as sprinklers.

The Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, also suggested that the squeeze on council spending could have contributed to the deadly blaze at Grenfell Tower.

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said: “There will be a great many questions over the coming days as to the cause of this tragedy and I want to reassure Londoners that we will get all the answers.”

Gavin Barwell (right) promised a review of building regulations covering fire safety when he was housing minister, but it is yet to be published.

A coroners’ report into a fire in 2009 in Lakanal House in Camberwell, south London, in which six residents died, called for building regulations to be tightened and developers of tower blocks to be encouraged to fit sprinklers.

Mr Barwell, who has just been appointed Theresa May’s chief of staff after losing his seat in the election, pledged in October that regulations would be reviewed following the fire.

Another former housing minister, Brandon Lewis, who is now the immigration minister, also told MPs two years ago: “We believe it is the responsibility of the fire industry, rather than the Government, to market fire sprinkler systems effectively and to encourage their wider installation.”

Mr Corbyn said the immediate

priority had to be saving and protecting life following the tragedy, but said ministers who had received reports calling for higher standards should be questioned on the lack of action. He added: “If you deny local authorities the funding they need, then there is a price that’s paid.”

The former chief fire officer Ronnie King, of the all-party parliamentary group on fire safety and rescue, said the regulations “badly need updating” and “three successive ministers have not done it”. Asked why he thought the review had not been produced, he said: “My own thinking is there was the red tape challenge and they don’t really want to put regulation on to businesses, adding a burden.”

Mike Penning, an ex-firefighter and former Tory minister, conceded that experts had been “calling, I think probably rightly, for sprinklers to be installed for many, many years under many different governments”. “What we have got to check is that the existing regulations have been adhered to,” he said.

A government spokesman said that, following the Lakanal House fire, a coroner had recommended that building regulations guidance relating to fire safety should be simplified, and this work was ongoing.

He added that Government had followed the coroner’s advice to write to councils encouraging them to consider retrofitting sprinklers.

Mr Barwell lost his ministerial job after being beaten by Labour in his Croydon Central constituency at the election. But after Mrs May sacked her two chiefs of staff, Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill in the fallout of a botched campaign, Mr Barwell was hired as their replacement.

He was housing minister for 12 months before the election, but even before he came to office a review into the fire safety regulations had been outstanding for years.

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CUTBACKS

Fire station closures and response times in capital

By Richard Vaughan

Boris Johnson’s decision to order a series of cuts to the London Fire Brigade (LFB) was under intense scrutiny in the immediate aftermath of the Grenfell Tower blaze.

During his term as the Mayor of London, Mr Johnson closed 10 fire stations in the capital despite serious concerns about the effect of response times. The LFB’s official target is for the first engine to reach the scene of a blaze within six minutes, and the second engine within eight minutes.

But according to research carried out by Lancaster University, about half of all response times to fires near stations that were closed increased.

The London branch of the Fire Brigades’ Union said that while there was no official response time when dealing with a blaze in a tower block, it could in fact take longer than the six-minute window. “There are obviously added complications when there is a fire in a high rise, particularly as the firefighters have to use more equipment, and if they have to get up to, say, the 15th floor,” a spokesman said.

The Metropolitan Fire Brigade – a precursor to the LFB – was formed in 1866 when, due to the cost, insurance firms abdicated responsibility for fire protection in the capital.

Boris Johnson axed 500 firefighters’ jobs in an effort to save £29m

Mr Johnson closed 10 stations and axed 500 firefighter posts in an effort to make savings of £29m, despite his own fire authority voting against the move.

The decision was severely criticised after a fire at a block in Camden, north London, forced an elderly man to jump to his death as he waited for rescue. Official records showed that the “first responder”

engine took 13 minutes and 30 seconds to arrive – more than twice the target response time.

Two similar incidents in Islington, also in north London, and Lewisham in the south of the capital, led to criticism after people died when fire crews missed their response targets.

At the time, the LFB said the closures would not affect response times, but the Lancaster study confirmed that times had increased.

Last year, Dr Benjamin Taylor, a statistician at Lancaster University, said: “In some areas before the closures, the average response time for the first fire engine was well under five minutes, whereas, following the closures, the London Fire Brigade is only able to respond to about 50 per cent of calls in these areas within its six-minute target.”

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New tower blocks not up to scratch, warns fire expert

By David Connett

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PARLIAMENT

May said to be ‘deeply saddened’ as MPs praise ‘magnificent’ 999 crews

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Theresa May was said last night to be “deeply saddened by the tragic loss of life” at Grenfell Tower.

A No 10 spokesman said: “The Prime Minister is being kept constantly updated on the situation.”

The police and fire minister, Nick Hurd, will chair a meeting of the Civil Contingencies Secretariat to co-ordinate the response to the disaster, and the Government is ready to assist “as necessary”, the spokesman added.

The House of Commons Speaker,

John Bercow, offered condolences on behalf of MPs to the victims of the “unimaginableandhorrificdisaster”.

He added that MPs had offered their “warmest and most effusive thanks” to the “magnificent” emergency services who responded to the blaze. He said it was not possible for Parliament to officially discuss the tragedy in the chamber because it has yet to officially convene following the general election.

A meeting with a minister is expected to take place in the Palace of Westminster to enable questions from MPs, Mr Bercow added. He

said: “I’m sure on behalf of each and every one of you in this chamber to offer our condolences to the families and friends of the victims of this unimaginable and horrific disaster.

“I want also, I’m sure with your concurrence, to offer the warmest and most effusive thanks to our magnificent emergency services for coping the best they can in this horrendous situation.”

The German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, offered her country’s “deep sympathy” to the families of victims, saying: “The efforts of rescue services were heroic.”

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Emergency housing given to 44 affected families

Khan calls for building checks

By David Hughes

Emergency accommodation was provided to 44 families affected by the Grenfell Tower fire.

Families with young children, elderly residents and the vulnerable were given “immediate priority”, according to a spokesman for the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Council.

The authority said it was helping anyone who needed emergency accommodation and had offered “financial assistance to cover their

immediate needs”. Housing officers were expecting to work through last night to provide support for those affected by the blaze. People unable to return to their homes were being offered emergency accommodation at the Westway Sports Centre in north Kensington.

Council leader Nick Paget-Brown said: “This is a terrible day for Kensington and Chelsea. At present all our focus has to be on supporting the rescue and relief operation. But the cause of the fire will need to be fully investigated.”

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The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said the operation at the tower block had changed from rescue to “recovery phase”.

After visiting the remains of the building, he said he had raised with ministers “the issue of checks on other tower blocks which have been going through similar refurbishment programmes” .

He added that the death toll of 12 was expected to rise.

The potential fire threat posed by tower blocks is widely underestimated, even by professionals, a fire engineer warned last night.

“We are throwing up tall buildings in ever-increasing numbers and some of them are not being built very well,” said Russ Timpson. “There are 400 being built in London alone in the next three years and it is something that we have to get right.”

Mr Timpson’s concerns led him to form the Tall Building Safety Network, an international body of experts which shares best practice and tries to prevent fires like that at Grenfell Tower from happening at all.

The tragedy is certain to dominate the network’s conference in London later this month.

Evaluating the fire risks of tall buildings is slowly improving as the world wakes up to what is an global threat, Mr Timpson said.

Records show that contractors at Grenfell Tower installed ACM “over-cladding”. ACM stands for aluminium composite material and is the same combustible material blamed for fuelling nearly a dozen high-rise fires globally, including in Melbourne, Australia, Roubaix in France and several tower blocks in the Middle East.

After the Lacrosse building fire in Melbourne, a survey found that nearly 50 per cent of the city’s tower blocks were clad in similar materials and did not comply with local building

regulations. The cause of the Grenfell Tower blaze is unclear and cladding will be only one of a number of factors that investigators will examine.

Most buildings rely on a combination of measures to prevent fires from starting and spreading – including the use of fire-retardant building materials to slow or compartmentalise flames, early detection using fire and smoke alarms, and the use of suppression systems such as sprinklers.

Evacuation plans rely on one of two systems – “remain in place” or phased evacuation. Most London residential blocks, especially local authority ones like Grenfell Tower, use the former, with residents advised to stay in their flats until emergency crews can reach them. Some tower blocks overseas have collective “refuges” where residents or workers can take shelter together.

Critics say exclusive reliance on either system is dangerous and that the behaviour and psychology of people in fires is too little understood.

Panic occurs and plans fall apart, and critics argue that, post 9/11, there is a reluctance to stay and wait for help.

Architects and builders have clear responsibilities to improve standards but fire engineers warn that fire and life safety budgets are often the first to be cut or sliced.

Once constructed, management of the building poses problems.

Property maintenance is described as the “orphan” of the business – unloved and starved of resources.

LONDON

Spate of high-rise blazes should have been a warning

By Adam Barnett

Grenfell Tower is the latest in a spate of tower block fires across the UK. Two months ago, 200 people ran to escape a fire at Trellick Tower in the same London borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Fifty-eight firefighters tackled the blaze on the 27th floor of the 31-storey block in April. None of the residents was injured.

In February this year, Southwark Council was ordered to pay £570,000 after three adults and three children died in a fire at Lakanal House in Camberwell, south London, in 2009.

The council was penalised for fire safety failings, including the lack of a fire-risk assessment, breaches of fire-resistant structures and the lack of smoke seals on fire doors.

At the time, the London Fire Brigade reminded all large housing providers of their legal responsibility to keep residents safe. Hundreds of people were evacuated from Kestrel House in Islington in May 2013 after a fire on the seventh floor.

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Three adults and three children died in a blaze at Lakanal House in Camberwell, south London, in 2009

firefighters tackled a blaze at a block of flats at Stockbridge Village, Liverpool. The blaze was caused by botched construction work and builders flouting regulations.

The Merseyside Fire Authority wrote to the Government to warn that this could be a national problem.

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Homes ‘charging families even after relatives die’

By Josie Clarke

The competition watchdog is investigating concerns that some care homes for the elderly could be breaking consumer law by charging families large upfront fees and for extended periods after a resident has died.

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said it had opened an investigation halfway through its market study into the sector, launched in December, following concerns over people potentially being faced with shock bills and “hidden” charges. It said its initial findings highlighted wider concerns about the sector and, while many care homes offered a good service, “there are concerns that some might not be treating residents fairly and that certain practices and contract terms might break consumer law”.

As well as its investigation into large upfront fees and fees charged after death, the CMA said it was concerned about other consumer protection issues such as a lack of in-

formation about prices on care home websites and contracts giving homes wide-ranging discretion to ask residents to leave at short notice.

Early findings suggested that many people found it difficult to get the information they needed, were confused by the social care system and funding options, and did not know how to find and choose between homes.

Redress systems often did not work well, and residents could find it “very challenging” to make complaints, the CMA said.

The CMA’s acting chief executive, Andrea Coscelli, said: “Some of the most vulnerable people in our society use care homes, often moving to them under extremely difficult circumstances. It’s therefore essential they are able to make informed choices, understand how services will be paid for, and be confident they will be fairly treated and able to complain effectively if they have any concerns.

“We also have particular concerns that some care homes might

be breaking consumer law and have opened a consumer protection case to investigate further.”

The Citizens Advice chief executive Gillian Guy said: “Older people and their families are suffering unnecessary distress and financial pressure due to gaps in consumer protection in the care home market.

“It’s good that the CMA has identified the need for improvements in how complaints are handled in the care home market and that people need better information and support when making decisions. The CMA is right to look at consumer protections and should seek to strengthen these where existing rules are not providing the right cover, including the notice period for fee increases and protections for people’s deposits.”

Simon Bottery, director of policy at the charity Independent Age, said: “Whilst clearly there are many homes that offer a good service, in some parts of the country as many as two in three homes are underperforming.”

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Flipper lets love go to his head

Broccoli is reinvented as the UK’s favourite vegetable

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Attracting the attention of the opposite sex has never been easy – and that’s certainly the case if you’re a dolphin.

Scientists have discovered male dolphins use unusual tactics to try to gain the attention of females but they don’t seem to work.

Male dolphins off the coast of northern Australia have been spotted wearing sea sponges on their heads like hats or balancing in a “banana pose” with their tail and nose lifted out of the water.

Dr Simon Allen, a marine biologist from the University of Western Australia, says sea sponges are difficult to prise from the sea floor and the banana pose is difficult to perfect – so therefore the dolphins are displaying a type of machismo to attract females.

However, the research team admits that these moves don’t seem to impress the female dolphins at all. “Every time we’ve seen it so far, the females appear to essentially ignore the males,” Dr Allen told ABC news.

Broccoli has undergone a dramatic image transformation to be crowned Britain’s favourite vegetable in a survey by Diabetes UK. Once it suffered from seriously bad PR and was regarded by many as healthy but horrible. In cartoons and comedy sketches it was often portrayed as the prime example of a food detested by children.

But in recent years media attention on the nutritional qualities of broccoli and its reinvention as a “superfood” have won the vegetable a

legion of fans. In the online survey of 2,000 consumers across the UK who were asked to name their favourite vegetable, 12 per cent voted for broccoli.

The vegetable had the biggest share of the vote, beating sweetcorn and tomato which both attracted the support of 10 per cent.

Kale emerged as Britain’s least popular vegetable, receiving only 18 votes – less than 1 per cent of the total.

The same poll found that strawberries were the most favoured

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fruit, chosen by 14 per cent of participants, closely followed by banana, pineapple and mango.

Regionally there were some surprises. Brussel sprouts turned out to be the most popular vegetable in the North West, while people in the North East were passionate for pineapple. Eastern England was the only region to champion the humble pea, while Londoners appeared to be mad for mangoes.

NATURE

Female elk become ‘nearly invulnerable’ to hunters

By Katie Grant

Female elk become “nearly invulnerable” to human hunters as they age, a study has found.

Researchers in Canada observed 49 female elk over a period of up to four years and discovered that as they aged the creatures developed

effective strategies for avoiding hunters.

“Once female elk reach the age of about 10 years, they are nearly invulnerable to human hunters,” according to the study, conducted by researchers as the University of Alberta in Canada.

Specifically, older female elk re-

duced their movement rates, thereby reducing their detectability and, as a result, the likelihood of encountering human hunters. When they are near roads, they are also likely to favour safer grounds, such as rugged terrain and forest The study is published in the journal PLOS ONE.

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Health Secretary ‘right to deny free abortions to Irish’

By Cathy Gordon

A mother and daughter who want women from Northern Ireland to receive free abortions on the NHS in England have vowed to fight on after a defeat at the UK’s highest court.

Following the Supreme Court’s decision yesterday to reject their case against the Health Secretary by a majority of just three to two, they announced plans to go to the European Court of Human Rights.

The justices said they were “sharply divided” over what the outcome of the case should be, with the court’s deputy president Lady Hale being one of the two who ruled in favour of the mother and daughter.

The 20-year-old woman at the centre of the appeal was 15 in October 2012 when she and her mother travelled from Northern Ireland to Manchester and were told she had to pay hundreds of pounds for a private termination because she was excluded from free abortion services.

The daughter, who can only be referred to as A, and her mother B, previously suffered defeat at the High Court in London in 2014 and at the Court of Appeal the following year.

After the latest round of their battle, they said in a statement: “We are really encouraged that two of the judges found in our favour and all of the judges were sympathetic to A’s situation. We have instructed our legal team to file an application with the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, to protect the human rights of the many other women who make the lonely journey to England every week because they are denied access to basic healthcare services in their own country.”

In Northern Ireland a termination is lawful when its continuation would threaten the woman’s life, or when it would affect her physical or mental health. Each year, at least 1,000 women travel to England for a termination at a private clinic, often paying as much as £2,000.

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Shearer sues financial adviser for £9m damages

By Brian Farmer

The former England footballer Alan Shearer has launched a £9m damages claim which is “driven by greed and ego”, according to a financial adviser.

The 46-year- old former Southampton, Blackburn and

Newcastle striker says he was given “negligent” financial advice. He has sued a financial adviser, Kevin Neal, and pension specialist Suffolk Life.

A judge began overseeing a trial at the High Court in London yesterday.

Mr Justice Leggatt is due to hear evidence from Mr Shearer today.

Mr Shearer says Mr Neal was

“careless” and “dishonest” and he says Suffolk Life breached fiduciary and regulatory duties.

But Mr Neal and Suffolk Life, which is based in Ipswich, dispute his allegations. Mr Neal told Mr Justice Leggatt yesterday that Mr Shearer’s claims were “driven by pure greed and ego”.

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Amazon and Netflix to beat cinema box office

By Marion Dakers

Online streaming will become the heart of the entertainment industry by 2021, as Netflix and other on-demand platforms take in more money than cinemas and DVDs in Britain, research suggests.

Internet video will be generating £1.4bn in annual revenues in four years’ time, overtaking the forecasted £1.3bn takings at the box office, said the accountant PwC. Netflix and Amazon Prime have used vast back catalogues to help subsidise their investments in original shows, making their platforms even more of a draw for subscribers, said Phil Stokes, PwC’s UK head of

entertainment and media. Several high-profile productions are now funded by online services, while television channels queue up for the secondary broadcast rights.

“Four of the top 10 programmes watched via subscription video on demand in 2015 were original productions, showing that, for consumers, fresh, high-quality content is king,” added Mr Stokes.

Sales of DVD and Blu-Ray disks are the biggest victim of the internet’s success, shrinking by 15 per cent a year and showing signs of “terminal decline”, said PwC. The shift has been driven by the boom in smartphone use, with 89 million devices expected to be in

From stream to flood Blockbusters tear up rule book Online blockbusters have turned the old model for media hits on its head.

Platforms including Netflix and Amazon Prime are fiercely protective of viewing figures, yet their original programmes are hot property for

traditional media. The recent reboot of The Handmaid’s Tale was originally created for Hulu, the streaming service owned by Disney and Time Warner, but has just reached British screens after Channel 4 won the rebroadcasting rights.

Amazon said last year that The Grand Tour, (inset) hosted by the stars of BBC’s Top Gear, had overtaken The Man in the High Castle as its mostwatched show.

Black Mirror has also found new life online after starting on Channel 4, and has become a major draw on Netflix with its latest, longer series.

use throughout Britain in the next four years. Advertisers are racing to make use of this audience, and spending on mobile internet advertising is set to hit the £10bn-a-year mark by 2021.

The adoption of connected phones also means that mobile broadband will generate more money than fixed-line internet access for the first time within a few years.

Smartphones are also set to play a role in the explosion of virtual reality games, driving the nascent industry’s revenues up 76 per cent, according to the research.

Overall spending on video games is expected to overtake revenues from books by 2021.

HEALTH

The Italian-born German actress appeared in the cult film ‘Performance’

Scientists develop blood test to detect prostate cancer

By John von Radowitz

A simple blood test has been developed that detects aggressive and potentially lethal prostate cancer by identifying rare free-ranging tumour cells. The cells can flag up patients who have a 10-fold increased risk of dying from their disease, allowing targeted treatments to be delivered as quickly as possible.

Each year more than 40,000 men in the UK are diagnosed with prostate cancer. Often the disease is localised, slow-growing and relatively easy to treat.

In other cases, the cancer is much more aggressive and likely to spread, or “metastasise”, to other parts of the body, such as the bones and liver. Spotting these dangerous cancers early before they produce secondary tumours that show up on scans is not easy.

The new test, described in the jour-

nal Clinical Cancer Research, is said to provide a highly accurate way to single out patients with life-threatening prostate cancer.

It identifies two specific types of circulating tumour cell linked to metastasis and poor patient survival. These are tumour fragments that have broken away from the primary cancer and are travelling freely through the bloodstream.

In addition the test picks up megakaryocytes, large bone marrow cells that generate platelets and appear to aid prostate cancer survival.

Lead scientist Dr Yong-Jie Lu, from Queen Mary, University of London, said: “This work opens up a wide range of exciting opportunities to benefit cancer patients.

“We have already started to test more patient samples and will soon move on to wider clinical trials.”

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Stones muse Pallenberg dies at 73

The model and actress Anita Pallenberg, best known as the former partner of the Rolling Stones guitarists Keith Richards and Brian Jones, has died at the age of 73. Pallenberg was described as a “muse” to the band and was the mother of three of

HEALTH

Thames Water fined £8.5m Smoking ban ‘reduces attacks’ for missing leak targets

By Holly Williams

Thames Water has been fined £8.55m for missing water leakage targets just months after it was handed a £20m penalty for letting raw sewage flow into the Thames.

The utility company said it missed its target for cutting leaks by 47 million litres a day after a series of high-profile burst water pipes in the capital last year.

The regulator Ofwat said the fine was the maximum allowed and “cannot be passed on to customers”.

Richards’ children. She sang backing vocals on “Sympathy for the Devil” and appeared in the 1970 film Performance. She leaves a son Marlon, 46, and daughter Angela, 44, from her relationship with Richards. Their son Tara died in infancy in 1976.

Cathryn Ross, the Ofwat chief executive, said: “The failure by Thames Water to meet the leakage commitments it has made to its customers is unacceptable.”

Pre-tax profits at Britain’s biggest water firm slumped by 86 per cent to £71.1m for the year to 31 March from £511.2m the year before as it was hit by higher costs and losses on the value of its own debt. Its boss, Steve Robertson, said: “We fully accept our responsibility for our legacy issues.”

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By Katie Grant

The number of physical assaults on patients and staff at a group of psychiatric unites fell by more than a third following the introduction of a smoking ban.

An analysis by King’s College London, Slam and the universities of Nottingham and York reached the conclusion after smoking was prohibited at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust’s four mental health hospitals.

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Sinn Féin warns May not to ‘undermine’ Stormont deal

By Nigel Morris

Sinn Féin will warn Theresa May today that her planned deal with the Democratic Unionist Party could jeopardise the Northern Ireland peace process.

The DUP is understood to be close to agreeing to its 10 MPs supporting Mrs May’s minority Government on a “confidence and supply basis”. The announcement of the deal was postponed yesterday because of the Grenfell Tower fire disaster in London.

Mrs May is to meet all Northern Ireland’s main parties as Stormont politicians continue to voice fears that any deal with the DUP will undermine the peace process.

She will meet Sinn Féin’s president, Gerry Adams, and its Stormont leader, Michelle O’Neill, in Downing Street. Sinn Fein, the SDLP and AlThe 1998 Good Friday Agreement requires the British and Irish governments to demonstrate “rigorous impartiality” with all NI parties.

liance have all made it clear that Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire must not chair the ongoing process to restore power sharing at Stormont due to their perception he has a conflict of interest.

Seven MPs were elected for Sinn Féin last week, although the party has always refused to take up its seats in the Commons.

It has opposed the proposed Conservative-DUP liaison on the grounds that it would undermine the Government’s ability to act as an “honest broker” in disputes between North-

ern Ireland’s parties over powersharing at Stormont.

Ms O’Neill said: “I will be making it very clear that any deal between the Tories and the DUP cannot be allowed to undermine the Good Friday and subsequent agreements.”

She said London and Dublin must “recommit to the word, spirit and implementation of the Good Friday Agreement” if power sharing at Stormont is to be re-established.

Mrs May will also meet the Ulster Unionist Party, the SDLP and the Alliance Party.

Timetable Ascot may delay Queen’s Speech Both the Tories and the DUP have said they believe a deal is in sight.

Although talks broke up on Tuesday night without agreement,Theresa May described the discussions as “productive”.

The DUP leader, Arlene Foster, said she hoped to shake hands “sooner rather than later”.

Ministers have said the delays could lead to the Queen’s Speech, which is pencilled in for Monday,

being put back further. With the Queen due to spend the rest of next week at Royal Ascot, there have been suggestions that the official opening of Parliament could be pushed back to 26 or 27 June.

Next Monday has also been pencilled in for the launch of Brexit talks between the Government and the other 27 EU nations. But that start date could also slide to later in the week.

The winner by a head A sculpture of a horse’s head by British artist Nic Fiddian-Green is installed at Ascot racecourse in Berkshire, in preparation for this year’s Royal Week.

The 25ft (7.6m) bronze head is

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LIBERAL DEMOCRATS

Blackford is SNP’s new Westminster leader

By Catriona Webster

Ian Blackford MP has been named as the SNP’s new Westminster leader. The member for Ross, Skye and Lochaber will succeed Angus Robertson, who lost his Moray seat in the snap general election.

Mr Blackford faced competition from rivals Joanna Cherry and Drew Hendry for the role after

another contender, Tommy Sheppard, withdrew from the race.

He will be supported by Kirsty Blackman, MP for Aberdeen North, who was also elected as the new deputy group leader at a meeting of the SNP Westminster group.

Mr Blackford said: “As Scotland’s leading party at Westminster, and the third party across the UK, the SNP has a huge opportu-

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nity in this parliament to stand up for Scotland’s interests. The hung parliament means that SNP MPs will have more influence than ever before and, with crucial Brexit negotiations on the horizon, it has never been more important to make Scotland’s voice heard.”

SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon added: “Ian has played a key role as part of the effective opposition to the Tory government.”

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Lib Dem leader Farron resigns over crisis of faith

By Karl McDonald

Tim Farron has resigned as leader of the Liberal Democrats after just two years, despite making gains in last week’s general election.

He said the struggle to balance his Christian faith with his duties as a political leader was a factor in his decision to step down.

The move came hours after Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman Brian Paddick resigned from the front bench over “concerns about the leader’s views on various issues” during the election campaign.

Mr Farron faced questions about his views on gay marriage, gay sex and abortion during the campaign, drawing criticism for his evasive answers.

Lord Paddick, who is gay, did not specifically mention these views as he resigned, but his comments were widely interpreted as referring to Mr Farron’s struggle to say unequivocally that he believes gay sex is not sinful.

Mr Farron gave a statement in which he said he was “torn between living as a faithful Christian and serving as a political leader”.

“A better, wiser person than me may have been able to deal with this more successfully, to have remained faithful to Christ while leading a po-

litical party in the current environment,” he said.

“To be a political leader and to live as a committed Christian, to hold faithfully to the Bible’s teaching, has felt impossible for me.”

He defended his personal liberal values, describing himself as “passionate about defending the rights and liberties of people who believe different things to me”.

But he claimed he had himself become a “subject of suspicion” because of his beliefs, which he said was a sign that we do not live in a truly “tolerant, liberal” society.

Mr Farron said he plans to step down at the end of the current parliamentary session on 27 July.

He succeeded Nick Clegg in 2015 after the party suffered an election disaster. Under Mr Farron, the party made a modest recovery, increasing its number of seats from 9 to 12.

Former business minister Jo Swinson – who regained her East Dunbartonshire seat from the SNP in the election – was quickly installed by bookmakers William Hill as favourite to succeed Mr Farron.

CONSERVATIVES

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Theresa May’s former chief of staff Nick Timothy has lashed out at the strategist Sir Lynton Crosby over the Conservatives’ failure to win a majority.

Mr Timothy (inset) blamed the Australian election guru for pushing the Prime Minister to follow the wrong strategy.

Mr Timothy and Mrs May’s other aide Fiona Hill lost their jobs in the wake of the botched election. Since the result, reports of a split between the two aides and Sir Lynton have emerged, with the political strategist

understood to have blamed the manifesto Mr Timothy helped pen for the stuttering campaign.

Mr Timothy wrote in his article for The Spectator that the campaign should have been run on different lines, but that “campaign consultants” prevented it. He wrote: “Before it began, we envisaged a return to traditional campaigning methods, with daily press conferences to scrutinise Labour and promote our policies. On the advice of the campaign consultants, we eschewed our instincts. We were wrong to do so.” THE INDEPENDENT

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‘Labour’s campaign was the most significant in modern polling’ Leading pollster John Curtice delivers his verdict to Nigel Morris

Labour backing among under-25s leapt from 41 to 59 per cent during this election PA

“Usually if the public has decided that a politician is useless, lousy, out of touch that is it. Once the public has made up its mind they can’t recover. Jeremy Corbyn defied the rules of politics by getting people to change their opinions of him in six short weeks.”

He said polling showed that Labour’s policy platform, which included boosting spending on public services and nationalising railways, had proved “relatively popular” particularly in contrast to the Tories’ “rather austere” manifesto.

By a margin of two to one, the Conservatives were regarded as being dishonest rather than honest

during the campaign. However, public opinion was evenly split over the honesty of Labour’s promises, he said. A majority of people thought the Tory campaign had been negative while Labour’s had been positive.

“Anybody who had taken away the lessons of the Scottish independence referendum and the EU referendum, which was that negative campaigns don’t necessarily work, should have been wary about that in 10 Downing Street.”

He said polling uncovered “staggering differences” between the age groups in their voting preferences. Among the under-25s,

LABOUR

Corbyn challenger has Shadow Cabinet job

By David Hughes

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abour achieved the biggest turnaround in modern political history during the general election campaign, one of the country’s most respected pollsters has said.

In a detailed analysis of the post-election landscape, John Curtice said that a “staggering” generation gap had opened, with age now more important than class in determining a person’s political allegiance.

He said the Conservatives were ahead by 16 points – which would have translated into a 100-seat majority for Theresa May – before the election, which widened to 20 per cent immediately after she went to the country.

“The Labour Party started the campaign in the worst position that either of how two main parties have ever started in an election campaign,” he said.

However, the polls showed Labour’s vote share beginning to “creep up” early in the campaign, while the launch of the party’s manifesto proved a “key pivotal moment” in boosting its support.

The increase continued “in spades” all the way through to 8 June.

Curtice, professor of politics at the University of Strathclyde and senior research fellow at NatCen Social Research, said: “This is the largest impact an election campaign has had in the UK in modern election polling.

“Usually election campaigns do not make any difference – in 2015 it did not make any difference at all. Here there was dramatic movement during a campaign which changed things.”

Mr Corbyn achieved a similar feat in clawing back most of the huge lead enjoyed by Mrs May in personal approval ratings, he said.

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Tory support fell from 26 to 22 per cent during the campaign and Labour backing leapt from 41 to 59 per cent. The Tories were backed by 59 per cent of over-65s, compared with 23 per cent who supported Labour.

Delivering a presentation at NatCen headquarters, Prof Curtice said: “Age is now the principal demographic division between Conservative and Labour.”

He said that Tory support went down during the campaign among middle-class professionals, but climbed most strongly among working-class voters, adding: “The social base of the Conservative vote was changed by this election.”

Jeremy Corbyn’s former leadership rival Owen Smith has returned to the Shadow Cabinet.

The Labour leader brought back the man who tried to oust him in 2016 as he began putting together a “strengthened Shadow Cabinet” following the election.

The Pontypridd MP (inset) will serve under Mr Corbyn as shadow Northern Ireland Secretary.

Lesley Laird also makes it to the top team as shadow Scottish Secretary, just days after being elected as MP for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath.

Dawn Butler will be shadow minister for diverse communities, while Ian Lavery becomes party chairman.

Mr Corbyn said: “I am delighted to announce four appointments to fill Shadow Cabinet vacancies.

“I look forward to working with the strengthened Shadow Cabinet as we prepare a government-inwaiting to carry out our manifesto for the many not the few.

“Our party is now on a permanent campaign footing in anticipation of the failure of Theresa May’s attempt to establish a stable administration with the support of the DUP. “I am therefore appointing Ian Lavery, co-national campaign co-ordinator, to the additional role of Labour Party chair to strengthen our campaigning and party organisation.”

Andrew Gwynne, credited with playing a major role in the election campaign in which Mr Corbyn’s Labour gained 30 seats, has been appointed shadow Communities and Local Government Secretary.

He retains the co -national campaign co-ordinator role alongside Mr Lavery.

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ECONOMY

Abbott: I felt I was in a vortex after Tory attacks on gaffes

Employment rises but pay falls behind

By David Hughes

Diane Abbott has revealed that she has type 2 diabetes that was “out of control” during the general election campaign, as she hit out at the “terrible” targeting of her by the Tories.

The MP, who was replaced as shadow Home Secretary due to ill health after struggling in broadcast interviews during the campaign, said she was now “ready to get back to work”.

In a Guardian interview, the Labour veteran criticised the way she was singled out by the Conservatives for attack during the election.

“It felt terrible – you felt you were in a kind of vortex – as I became aware of what was happening, the Facebook ads, the Tories name-dropping me for no reason,” she said.

Ms Abbott, a close ally of Jeremy Corbyn, came under fire following an interview with LBC in which she forgot figures for Labour’s police funding plans and an appearance on Sky News when she struggled to discuss details of a security report.

Explaining the deterioration in her health, the 63-year-old Hackney North and Stoke Newington MP said: “During the election campaign,

the joint lowest on record. But the Office for National Statistics (ONS) also Employment has reached a reported a fall in average earnrecord high but pay continings, which grew by 2.1 per ues to fall behind inflation, cent in the year to April, figures show. down by 0.2 per cent on Almost 32 million the previous month. people are in work – The fall was greater 372,000 more than a when measured over million people year ago and the higha three-month period, are now in work, est total since records confirming that wages 372,000 more than began in 1971. are falling behind the 2.9 a year ago Unemployment fell by per cent inflation rate.

50,000 in the quarter to Matt Hughes, senior statApril to 1.53 million, the lowest istician at the ONS, said: “Many for more than a decade. labour market indicators remain The number of people classed as strong, with the employment rate at economically inactive fell by 30,000 a joint record high and the inactivity to 8.8 million, a rate of 21.5 per cent, rate at a joint record low.

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Labour veteran Diane Abbott has revealed she has type 2 diabetes

everything went crazy - and the diabetes was out of control, the blood sugar was out of control.”

The MP revealed she had been diagnosed with the condition two years ago.

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Historically the public are wary about giving the Conservatives a big majority because they fear we will revert to the stereotype of not being on the side of the ordinary working people. Like Labour, we had a moral message.

Then it all got lost.

Now may be our last chance to rediscover the moral compass that points to real victory. (Rob Halfon)

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My biggest regret, is that we did not campaign in accordance with the insight that took Theresa to Downing Street. The referendum result was a vote for change.

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Instead of bringing the deficit under control and reducing the national debt, the Government is going to go on an even bigger spending spree. You can pretend the deficit doesn’t matter but facts have an awkward habit of hitting you smack in the face.

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Are we to believe that after nearly seven years of Conservative control at the Treasury, voters were content enough to return the Tories with a big majority, only for them to turn against the concept of austerity in the final weeks leading up to polling day?

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The peace has not been an easy one, but the spirit of the agreement has held like iron.

The effective border virtually disappeared.

And now, thanks to the ongoing upheaval in British politics, all of that progress has been put at serious risk.

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Why do technology companies get away with being so very, very horrible? Uber claims to deliver 40 million rides every month. Nothing it ever does is likely to dent that figure. Except, perhaps, getting more expensive.

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But maybe, the fact it is a given that we are expected to condemn such a matter as despicable is the real news.

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Local authority budgets have been cut, fire brigade budgets have been cut and social housing budgets have been cut. Fire safety and proper upkeep of housing, costs money. Without sufficient revenue, it becomes impossible to ensure corners aren’t cut. (Dawn Foster)

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Fires happen for a multiplicity of reasons, from cigarettes to faulty appliances, but precisely the point of the safety regulations is that they are meant to deal with fires no matter what their origin. The great question remains: How could this have happened? (Editorial)

Brian Cox’s brilliant performance isn’t a Churchill impersonation – though the famous brandy-thickened baritone and lugubrious bearing are both impeccably reproduced – but a smart interrogation of the statesman’s image, and how the man behind it may or may not have measured up.

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Peace in Northern Ireland is far more valuable than any deal between the Tories and Democratic Unionists to keep Theresa May in Downing Street.

Now is not the time for Theresa May to abandon her role as an honest broker by jumping into bed with Democratic Unionists.

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ED VICTOR LITERARY AGENT Ed Victor, who has died at the age of 77, was Britain’s only literary super-agent, a charismatic figure who excelled at creating, nurturing and maintaining the precious relationships between book publishers and his extensive list of celebrity authors. The writer and broadcaster Gyles Brandreth described him as “huge fun” to work with and spoke admiringly of how he “looked after his clients as a tigress guards her cubs”.

Victor was born in the Bronx, New York City in 1939 to Russian-Jewish immigrants who ran a photographic shop. He was educated at Dartmouth College and then moved to the UK, attending Cambridge on a Marshall scholarship in 1961. He began his career in publishing at Weidenfeld & Nicholson and Jonathan Cape in London.

After returning to London from New

York, where he had worked for Alfred A Knopf publishers, he spent a period as an agent at John Farquharson. Breaking out on his own, he established the literary agency, Ed Victor Ltd, in 1976.

His first major success that year was in brokering the film rights for Stephen Sheppard’s novel The Four Hundred for $1.5m (£1.17m), before the book was published. This was a time when British publishers were wary of agents.

A year later he moved to larger offices and within a few years he was representing clients including Douglas Adams, Irving Wallace and Iris Murdoch. By 1993 he had more than a hundred authors on his list and relocated to Bedford Square in central London, where the company remains today.

In 2001 Victor penned the first work of his own. The book had the unlikely title The Obvious Diet – Your

Personal Way to Lose Weight Fast Without Changing Your Lifestyle, yet he demonstrated its efficacy by losing nearly three stone during the writing process. In 2011 his agency launched Bedford Square Books, a publishing arm creating eBooks from its clients’ backlist of out-of-print works. He also established a speakers’ bureau, offering opportunities for authors to provide after-dinner talks for corporate and other clients.

Beyond the world of publishing, Victor was a founding director of the Groucho Club, a trustee of both the Arts Foundation and the Hay Festival and vice chairman of the Almeida Theatre.

He was made CBE in the 2016 new year honours for services to literature.

Victor was an inveterate party-goer, enjoying the social circuit as much for pleasure as for business. Last November he celebrated 40 years as an

agent with a lavish party attended by many of his client list including David Cameron, who had signed an £800,000 deal for his Downing Street memoirs.

His colleagues described Victor as a “one-off...the toughest yet most professional of agents”, while the historian Simon Schama said in tribute that it would be “difficult to imagine publishing without him”.

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Perversely, political uncertainty makes a Brexit deal more likely

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he politics have become more uncertain. The economics have, curiously, become more certain.

There have been so many miscalculations on the path to Brexit, mostly in the UK but also on the Continent, that to suggest that the inconclusive election result has brought more clarity to the outcome might see almost perverse.

But here goes.

The negotiations have yet to begin, but it is clear that Brexit will happen. Both major parties supported it at the election and the two main parties favouring a reversal of the referendum result, the SNP and the Lib Dems, lost ground. But two other things are also clear.

One is that the option of walking away without a deal will be strongly and vigorously opposed by the business establishment and the power of business to shape policy will be much greater than before. The other is that the UK government will adopt some form of collegiate approach to the

negotiations, with greater input from Scotland and Northern Ireland, as well as from finance.

There is something else, something that should have been evident before the election but now is screamingly so. It is that there has to be some sort of interim deal, because there simply isn’t time to do a conclusive one.

I think the best way to look at this is to see what is happening now as part of a 20- or 30-year process of gradual disengagement from Europe, which was happening anyway and now needs to continue in the least disruptive way.

Was it happening anyway? Well, yes. If you look at the pattern of British exports, the share taken by Europe has been falling steadily since the early 2000s. In 2002 the EU took 55 per cent of our exports; now it is about 44 per cent, and on present trends it will fall to 40 per cent by 2020.

The share may be falling but it is still massively important.

Nevertheless, it reflects a reality that our trade links with Europe are weakening, not because of any political intent but simply because

of economics. Other markets are growing faster.

That is the background against which a deal can be struck – I think will be struck. The interim deal will change as little as possible.

There is an off-the-shelf solution in the European Economic Area, the Norway relationship. We leave the EU, as required by the referendum, but follow most of its rules and pitch into its coffers.

It is not ideal, as Norway

Events of the past week have shifted the ground towards finding an acceptable short-term solution

acknowledges, and there is one big sticking point: freedom of movement of people. But you could envisage a modified version of that, with some restriction of movement for jobs, being saleable to both sides.

If it isn’t, there is the Swiss model, for Switzerland is a member of the European Free Trade Association but not of the EEA. But that is cumbersome, because there would have to be lots of bilateral agreements, and in any case does not solve the freedom of movement issue.

The UK position is that neither of these off-the-shelf solutions is appropriate and it is easy to see why. Quite aside from the immigration issue, signing up to these would mean that we could not sign up to free trade deals with the rest of the world – and that is where the growth is. But the events of the past week have shifted the ground towards finding an acceptable short-term solution, even if it is a sub-optimal one for both sides.

Now think longer-term. Assume we are members of a slightly modified EEA. We use the next

few years to refocus our trading links towards the rest of the world. It is happening anyway; it just happens a bit faster. Then, because EEA membership was always a transitional arrangement, we renegotiate it to enable us to have free trade deals with the US, which is already our largest export market, though smaller than the EU as a whole.

That might make us unpopular with Europe, but frankly we are not very popular anyway.

Of course, what really matters here is not so much what we want but what Europe wants. Common sense suggests that an interim deal would make sense for Europe as well as the UK. A little less arrogance on our part – and given the mess of the past week I don’t think we have much cause to be arrogant – would lead to a more acceptable deal for all. Then the longer-term future of the relationship will be determined by economics and not by politics. I am biased, of course, but to me that makes much more sense.

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Nick Clegg as columnist fori? Whatever next? This is the man who railed against Conservative policies in 2009 only to join David Cameron in a coalition government in 2010. The man who made the issue of student financing one of the flagship policies of the Liberal Democrats only to later abandon this pledge.

In September 2012, Clegg formally announced that he was “regrettably” withdrawing proposals to reform the Lords...

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TONY LARDI GOSPORT The inspired acquisition of Nick Clegg as an i columnist brings an authentic voice

to the issues arising from Brexit and is to be welcomed.

His astute analysis of the current political scene illustrates the confused nature of today’s politics, where many exercise tactical and protest voting and are not fully behind any particular party. This is illustrated by much of the younger generation appearing to be antiBrexit but being happy to vote Labour because they are more concerned about social justice than a hard Brexit supported by the party.

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on the 1922 Committee (13 June) and an enlightening report on Sinn Féin MPs (14 June).

The day-to-day machinations of the Westminster village are fascinating and such reports help us to understand and appreciate the hard work our elected politicians put in on our behalf.

Thank you for keeping us in the picture.

RODNEY E JONES ALTRINCHAM, CHESHIRE

Defending a free society Geoff Chapman (Your View 14 June) says that he’s sick of hearing about LGBT rights when there is discussion of the Conservatives arrangement with the DUP. But these matters are of vital interest to those of us who see our civil liberties being eroded both by and as a response to religious fundamentalism. I don’t want a government of religious extremists dictating what my conscience can approve.

We must explore what our politicians believe and vote accordingly or risk having a British version of Erdogan take over and destroy many years of slow progress towards a free society.

MARTIN COLEMAN BRISTOL

As Arlene Foster has reminded us that there are no devolved matters while Stormont is suspended, might this be an opportunity for the Government to extend the right to same-sex marriage that it introduced on the mainland to the LGBT community of Northern Ireland?

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PR has the electorate’s vote

Adam Barnett called AV “a complicated form of PR”, suggesting voters rejected proportional representation in the 2011 referendum (14 June).

However, under AV the result isn’t proportional to the vote cast, so voters are yet to have a say on PR. An ICM poll during the election campaign showed PR has overwhelming backing, with two-thirds of voters backing it, including most Labour voters.

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Tower block tragedy Fifty years ago I lived in a slum on Lancaster Road. Grenfell Tower may have had hot water and central heating but it seems there was no more concern for the safety and wellbeing of the residents than in

the house I shared back in 1967 and which was demolished to make way for the tower blocks.

ANGIE GREENWOOD KENDAL, CUMBRIA Human beings should not be housed in tower blocks in the 21st century. They were a 1960s and 1970s social experiment that failed, ostracising the poor from society and destroying any sense of community.

The dreadful incident at Grenfell Tower needs to be a wake-up call.

It’s time to pull these mistakes in concrete down and build proper communities again.

PAUL SHEEHAN BINLEY, COVENTRY

The biggest time waster After reading the article on lost working hours and days (14 June) I wondered why there wasn’t a mention of hours lost to phone checking time. I would imagine it may be greater than that allotted to cigarette breaks.

LIZZIE ROBERTSON NORWICH

What next for spending?

Whilst agreeing about the great loss and damage done by seven years of austerity, capital spending and investment needs to be done

with care. An example of how not to do it can be demonstrated by the way that during austerity the Government channelled billions of pounds of public money to be spent on HS2, Hinkley Point and Trident.

Investment should be for the benefit of the whole nation.

C SLIGHT CWMBRAN

Diane Abbott’s health The letter from Frank Williams (Your View, 7 June) describing Diane Abbott as “intellectually challenged and quite frankly incoherent” should have been given a little more consideration.

Her behaviour had been quite out of character.

As a medic, I was of the opinion that she had some sort of health problem, and we learn that this is indeed the case.

Perhaps reserve judgement on a person’s public performance until a little more information is known? It does not help with the stigma attached to illnesses that can either present with, or cause, ongoing problems with cognitive function.

I have dealt with various patients who have been arrested or mistakenly sent home from hospital in these circumstances.

EILEEN BERRIDGE NETHERCOTE, RUGBY

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Lyrically-challenged Bieber dodges ‘Despacito’ Why doesn’t Justin Bieber know the lyrics to his own song? The Canadian superstar, 23, has repeatedly angered fans by refusing to perform his hit “Despacito” which is currently No1 in the charts.

Most recently he was pelted with rubbish at a Swedish festival when he claimed he couldn’t sing the song, which is a Spanish track.

He said: “I can’t do that [song] specifically. I don’t know the words, I can’t do it.” Unhappy with his response, one fan lobbed a water bottle on stage which only narrowly missed his head.

This is not the first time Bieber has tried this, although it’s an improvement on previous gigs where he’s just ad-libbed with random Spanish words that he hoped would fill the gaps.

While he sang the song live at a New York gig last month he replaced “Despacito” with “Dorito”, and any other word he could find to rhyme, before improvising with “jabba jabba jabba”. He has also decided to sing about a burrito: “Jabba jabba jabba jabba jabba burrito! I ate a burrito! I just want a burrito!”

If Geri Halliwell could pull off her Spanish verse in “Mi Chico Latino” surely anyone can do it?

Fleetwood Mac’s final farewell Fleetwood Mac are to reform for a worldwide farewell tour next year, Christine McVie has confirmed. She told Alex Jones on the BBC’s One Show, “We’re going to start rehearsing in March, next year. The tour is around June.

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The party also celebrated the first Dulwich Pavilion which was designed by emerging South London architects.

The singer offered up an intimate set inspired by some of her favourite artists and their work to guests including Laura Bailey, Sir Terence Conran, Nicole Farhi and Sienna Guillory.

There are few beauty methods which would send me running for the hills faster than leech therapy.

But Victoria’s Secret model Miranda Kerr loves it so much she keeps her own leeches in her koi pond at home. “It’s adventurous,” Kerr said during an appearance at Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop Festival in Los Angeles. “Health is wealth. They’ve been doing leech therapy for thousands of years.” Rather than as a medieval cure, leeches are used in Kerr’s case to create the same effect as a facelift.

It involves placing leeches on your face, letting them suck out some blood and then smearing it all over the skin.

You can only use the leeches once, and Kerr couldn’t bear the thought of them being killed, so... “I kept the leeches, they’re in my koi pond,”she told Paltrow at the event.

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went to an AA meeting yesterday. Hello, my name is Simon, I’m a really bad driver, and I’m here because I was caught doing 35mph in a 30mph zone just outside Wakefield. As a consequence, the West Yorkshire Casualty Reduction Partnership (who have a way with words) offered me the opportunity to take “an interactive, classroom-based, driver

education package” rather than take the points on my licence. And so it was that I ended up in a featureless office block in north London, being taught under the auspices of the AA (Automobile Association) about how to be a better driver.

The National Speed Awareness Course is, for sure, an educative process. And humbling, too. There is so much about the rules of the

highway that we – or at least I – just don’t know, or have forgotten, and by the end of the four-hour course I was ready to re-assess my attitude behind the wheel. Essentially, this was a practical demonstration of the value of restorative justice, of which more later.

The most resonant thing I learnt was how small increases in travelling speed can result in massive differences at the point of a collision.

For instance, a car going at 70mph on a motorway might stop in time to avoid crashing into a stationary car. If that same car was travelling at 100mph when the brakes were applied, it would still be going at 71mph when it hit the other vehicle. In the current sombre climate, the potential for more loss of life was not lost on any of the two dozen attendees (or “delegates”, as we were called).

All right, doing 35mph in a built-up area is not the most heinous of offences, but I left the course realising that minor increments above the speed limit can ruin lives, and that I deserved punishment. Not that this was crime and punishment in its traditional sense, of course. It’s much more significant than that.

It’s a way of making me understand the effect, or possible effect, that my wrongdoing could have.

This is one of the fundamentals of restorative, as opposed to punitive, justice. In this system, offenders are forced to confront their crimes – and their victims – to take responsibility for their actions and to try to redeem themselves in the eyes of the wider community. It was a method of justice that was employed originally by the indigenous tribes of New Zealand and North America, and has been used to great effect as part of the healing process in South Africa and Northern Ireland.

There are many sensible people – the Archbishop of York among them – who believe that the restorative system could have much wider applications in British justice, and could ease the shocking state of our prisons. Retribution should not, in any case, be at the heart of any mature, liberal society.

I came away from my speed awareness course believing that, with the right will from central government, a similar approach to other relatively minor offences must be better for society than criminalising large numbers of people. A petty-crime awareness course, to name one example, might just be the first step towards making our justice system fairer, more modern and, most important, more effective.

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the rent and most of the bills were paid, we were lucky to have a tenner between the four of us for food. I can only describe that kind of poverty as like living in a zombie apocalypse.

There isn’t a tin of prunes or mushy peas that you won’t eat.

Hunger doesn’t pull you together, either – it makes you turn on each other. I remember my then agent calling me to say there was an acting audition for a small part in a TV sitcom, and if I got the part I’d get paid £1,000. It was a huge risk, as the coach fare was £19, money we simply didn’t have – or could have only if we all decided not to eat for week.

I went to the audition, walking all the way from Victoria to Acton only to be told: “We don’t think you’re quite right, but thanks so much for coming in”. I can remember the fear of telling my family the news, like the grandparents in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory praying that Charlie had found the golden ticket.

When you’re poor, you aren’t just making sacrifices, you’re making huge decisions every single day. Do you have crippling toothache? Is it painful enough to pay £20.60 for an NHS examination? Tesco’s own tampons are £1; do you think you can use the Tesco value pads that are only 26p?

What will our government do to solve this problem? It comes down to low pay and to ever-increasing housing costs. I know from my experience that there is never enough money, not a great deal of support and zero resources. We need to find a solution before these percentages get any higher.

Daisy Cooper

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whopping 60 per cent of people living in poverty work. That’s an increase of 25 per cent in the past decade of working people who still don’t earn enough to live on. Seven years ago, I was one of them.

In 2010 my parents, hit by the recession and made redundant, lost our family home in Gloucestershire and moved into a small, two-bedroom, rented house. My brother and I found ourselves jobless and directionless after finishing drama school and university and were forced to move back home. We shared a tiny box room and worked as night cleaners, to help pay the bills.

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It ain’t me babe: Did Dylan steal Nobel lecture?

By Adam Sherwin ARTS AND MEDIA CORRESPONDENT

With the deadline fast approaching to deliver his Nobel Prize in Literature lecture, Bob Dylan did what a harassed student would do. The singer plagiarised portions of his winner’s speech from SparkNotes, an online study aid, it has been claimed.

Dylan, 75, delivered his lecture to the Stockholm academy last week, just in time to claim the £720,000 prize money which accompanies the award under the Nobel rules.

But his speech, in which Dylan discussed the influence of Herman Melville’s MobyDick, Homer’s Odyssey and Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front, contained at least 20 sentences that closely resembling entries on literary guide SparkNotes, according to an analysis.

A post from Andrea Pitzer on Slate identified key phrases, quoted

by Dylan, which appear on the web guide but are not in Melville’s novel.

In the essay Dylan recalls a “Quaker pacifist priest” who says:

“Some men who receive injuries are led to God, others are led to bitterness”. The line does not appear in Moby-Dick but SparkNotes’s character list describes the preacher using the phrase “someone whose trials have led him toward God rather than bitterness”. Dylan says: “The ship’s crew is made up of men of different races.” SparkNotes records: “A crew made up of men from many different countries and races.”

The Nobel Prize Committee has yet to respond to the plagiarism claims. It is not the first occasion that Dylan’s magpie tendencies have been exposed.

His lyrics have frequently borrowed from a range of sources. Asked why his 2001 album Love and Theft relied upon Junichi Saga’s book Confessions of a Yakuza and Henry Timrod’s US civil war poetry, Dylan said: “I’m working within my art form... It has to do with melody and rhythm, and then after that, anything goes. You make everything yours. We all do it.”

Dylan’s exhibited paintings have been criticised for their similarities to well-known photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson.

A painting of a deserted pier in

Sounds familiar...

Dylan says of Captain Ahab: “He calls Moby the emperor, sees him as the embodiment of evil.” The phrase “embodiment of evil” does not appear in the novel but SparkNotes says of Ahab, “he sees the whale as the embodiment of evil”.

Other examples include Dylan’s summation: “Another ship’s captain – Captain Boomer – he lost an arm to Moby. But he tolerates that, and he’s happy to have survived. He can’t accept Ahab’s lust for vengeance.”

SparkNotes writes: “…a whaling ship whose skipper, Captain Boomer, has lost an arm in an encounter with Moby Dick... Boomer, happy simply to have survived his encounter, cannot understand Ahab’s lust for vengeance.”

Virginia appeared to be a reproduction of a photograph of Blackpool, posted on social media.

It was also suggested that Dylan, the first songwriter to win the prize, but who was reluctant to publicly accept it, may have been “trolling” the committee with his “late homework” approach to the lecture.

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A would-be suicide walks out of the sea a young man again, determined to remake his life and avenge himself.

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Israeli David Grossman wins Man Booker prize

By Adam Sherwin ARTS AND MEDIA CORRESPONDENT

The Israeli writer David Grossman has won the 2017 Man Booker International Prize for A Horse Walks Into a Bar, a satire on his divided home nation told through the eyes of a failed stand-up comedian.

Grossman, 63, shares the £50,000 prize, celebrating the finest global fiction, with his translator, Jessica Cohen.

A Horse Walks Into a Bar unfolds over the course of

David Grossman was recognised for ‘A Horse Walks Into a Bar’

one final show by a stand-up comedian, Dovaleh Gee, who veers from charming to repellent.

Gee exposes a “fateful and gruesome choice he had to make between the two people who were dearest to him” in a novel which addresses themes of treachery, guilt and redress.

Nick Barley, chair of the 2017 judging panel, said: “David Grossman has attempted an ambitious highwire act of a novel, and he’s pulled it off spectacularly. A

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‘Trump’ is children’s word of the year

By Adam Sherwin ARTS AND MEDIA CORRESPONDENT

What a Trumpdiddlydumper!

“Trump” has been crowned the “children’s word of the year” after young people used the President’s name as the starting point for satirical stories with fantastical and mean-hearted creatures.

References to Donald Trump, as well as elections, dominated the 131,798 stories penned by children and submitted to Radio 2’s 500 Words competi-

tion, run with The Chris Evans Breakfast Show.

Experts at Oxford University Press, who analysed the entries, said Mr Trump was the most frequently mentioned public figure. Thousands of children created “inventive, funny and politically astute short stories” around his personality.

Mr Trump was mentioned 2,296 times in a wide variety of contexts, from the US elections to tales of space, aliens and superheroes. New words we re i m p rov i s e d a ro u n d

Trump. There were more than 100 instances of words such as Trumplestilskin, Trumpyness, Trumpido, Trumpeon and Trumpwinningtastic.

One girl wrote in her story: “OH NO! I have spoken too soon… the train’s track has broken because a mean Trumpdiddlydumper blew a bit out of the track.”

The six winning stories will be announced on Evans’s show tomorrow, in the presence of an honorary judge, the Duchess of Cornwall.

“James,” she asked, fixing her demanding eyes on him, if you could live your life all over again, what would you do differently?

“Everything!” he burst out. “Everything.”

The couples around the table, all middle-aged of worse, laughed appreciatively. They knew the feeling....

Horse Walks into a Bar shines a spotlight on the effects of grief, without any hint of sentimentality.”

Barley added: “We were bowled over by Grossman’s willingness to take emotional as well as stylistic risks: every sentence counts, every word matters in this supreme example of the writer’s craft.”

The Jerusalem-born Grossman, a best-selling fiction and children’s author, has previously won the French Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

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Drivers have been warned that alcoholic ice lollies could put them over the limit this summer.

Traffic officers in the North Eeast issued the advice as gin and tonic, Prosecco and peach Bellini lollies have become more popular as temperatures warm up.

Officers said the lollies have an alcohol content of around 4.5 per cent – the same as a strong lager.

They said people could be lulled into a false sense of security because the alcohol was in frozen form. Acting Inspector Harry Simpson, of the Cleveland and Durham Operations Unit, said: “These lollies are becoming really popular and it’s easy to forget that they contain alcohol and aren’t just flavouring.

“On a hot summer’s day it is easy to lose count of how many you have, and then get behind the wheel of a car.

“If you wouldn’t consider drinking a gin and tonic or cocktail when driving, then you shouldn’t consider having one of these lollies.”

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Trump sued over global businesses

Gun-supporting Republican is shot Investigators at the scene of the shooting in Alexandria. Steve Scalise (inset) was one of five wounded GETTY

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A Republican congressman has been wounded by a rifle-wielding gunman at a congressional baseball practice just outside of Washington.

Steve Scalise, 51, the House of Representatives majority whip, who has campaigned for the further relaxation of US firearms restrictions, was shot and wounded along with several others, including a congressional staff member and policeman, in the city of Alexandria in Virginia.

Police officers who were part of Mr Scalise’s security detail returned fire and wounded the gunman, who was taken into custody.

In total five people, including the attacker, were taken to hospital. Two were said to be in critical condition.

Mr Scalise was in a critical condition at George Washington University Hospital after being treated for life-threatening injuries, according to one congressional aide.

President Donald Trump said he was “deeply saddened by

this tragedy” and was monitoring any developments.

The shooting is sure to re-open the debate over America’s lax gun control.

Mr Scalise is a strong supporter

of gun rights and has co-sponsored legislation to loosen gun restrictions in Washington, DC and expand recognition of concealed carry permits.

No details have been released on a possible motive for the attack. AP

In 2002 it emerged that Mr Scalise had addressed a white supremacist group founded by Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. He later apologised.

By Shehab Khan

Almost 200 Democratic members of the US Congress are suing Donald Trump, claiming he violated a clause of the US Constitution.

The 196 politicians have alleged that by retaining interests in a global business empire, the US President has violated constitutional restrictions on taking gifts and benefits from foreign leaders.

Leading the legal effort was the Michigan congressman John Conyers. “Trump has conflicts of interest in at least 25 countries, and it appears he’s using his presidency to maximise his profits,” he said.

The 37-page congressional complaint contends that America’s founders were concerned that foreign powers could interfere with the country’s affairs.

Earlier this week it emerged that the chief prosecutors of Maryland and the District of Columbia are taking similar legal action.

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UNITED STATES

Uber boss quits over sexist remark at misogyny forum

By Heather Somerville IN SAN FRANCISCO

Uber director David Bonderman has dramatically resigned from the firm’s board after making a sexist remark at a staff meeting on misogyny.

Mr Bonderman’s ill-timed gaffe came during an staff meeting on Tuesday to discuss of how the rideservices company plans to transform itself following an inquiry into sexual harassment at the company.

It followed hot on the heels of the departure of Uber’s chief executive Travis Kalanick, as the criticism of the firm’s corporate culture continues to grow.

During Tuesday’s meeting, an Uber board member, Arianna Huffington, spoke to employees about the importance of adding more women to the board of directors.

“There’s a lot of data that shows when there’s one woman on the board, it’s much more likely that there will be a second woman on the board,” Ms Huffington said.

In response, Mr Bonderman said: “Actually, what it shows is that it’s much more likely to be more talking.”

The comment was disclosed through a recording of the meeting that was published by Yahoo.

Mr Bonderman (inset) said he did not want his comments to create distraction for Uber, which is working to rid its culture of sexual discrimination.

The latest blow to the firm’s reputation came just hours after Mr Kalanick, the chief executive, announced he would be taking a leave of absence. His departure was to be accompanied by a wideranging overhaul of the company’s working practices.

Uber has contended with a series of scandals since a former engineer published a blog post accusing the company of widespread gender discrimination and saying it did nothing in response to her complaints that a manager sexually harassed her.

A report on the company by the former Attorney General Eric Holder drew a picture of a firm with dysfunc-

tional, male-dominated management without even the most basic procedures to prevent sexual harassment, bullying and other bad behaviour.

The 13-page document from Mr Holder’s firm Covington & Burling LLP, released on Tuesday, described a firm that permitted misconduct and had few policies to protect employees. REUTERS

Uber In numbers n Uber operates in 80 countries across all continents. n It operates in 616 cities worldwide. n Uber has more than 12,000 employees. n CEO Travis Kalanick, who has just taken an indefinite leave of absence, has a net worth of $6.3bn (£5bn), according to Forbes. n Uber has 81 investors from different groupings, including Microsoft, Goldman Sachs and Jay-Z (according to CrunchBase). n Uber’s 2016 net revenue was $6.5bn.

Its estimated company value is $68bn. n The average Uber driver in London earns £15 an hour (2016).

The Black Sea turns turquoise This image from the Nasa Earth Observatory shows beautiful turquoise swirls in the Black Sea caused by a phytoplankton bloom. Phytoplankton are floating organisms that make

their own food from sunlight and dissolved nutrients. In general, phytoplankton support marine life. However, large blooms can end up suffocating it by taking oxygen from the water. GETTY

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Teenagers rescued from catacombs

By Oliver Chapman

Two teenagers were rescued yesterday morning after spending three days lost, wandering the maze of burial tunnels beneath the streets of Paris.

The boys, who were suffering from hypothermia, were found by search teams and rescue dogs, after being lost in the catacombs of Paris since Saturday night.

The search for the boys, aged 16 and 17, began yesterday but lasted just four hours, with the Paris fire service saying of the rescue: “It was thanks to the dogs that we found them.”

It is not yet clear how the alarm was raised or why the teenagers were down there.

At around 150 miles long and located 70 metres below the French capital, the 18th-century

catacombs are an extensive maze of pitch-black narrow tunnels, containing the remains of an estimated six million people.

Other than a 1.25-mile stretch which forms part of a museum, it is illegal to enter the catacombs, However, entering the tunnels carries only a €60 (£52) fine from police and urban explorers known as cataphiles have been known to sneak into the tunnels.

The Syrian Democratic Forces began attacking Isis in Raqqa last week REUTERS

US-led coalition air strikes ‘are killing civilians’

By Oliver Chapman

UN war crimes investigators say that coalition air strikes supporting an assault by US-backed forces on the Isis stronghold of Raqqa in Syria are causing a “staggering loss of civilian life”.

The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a group of Kurdish and Arab militias supported by a US-led coalition, began the assault on Raqqa a week ago. The SDF, supported by heavy coalition air strikes, have taken territory to the west, east and north of the city.

“The intensification of air strikes, which have paved the ground for an SDF advance in Raqqa, has resulted not only in staggering loss of civilian life, but has also led to 160,000 civilians fleeing their homes and becoming internally displaced,” Paulo Pinheiro, chairman of the UN Commission of Inquiry, said.

Mr Pinheiro said that if the coalition’s offensive is successful, it could liberate Raqqa’s civilian population, including Yazidi women and girls.

But he added that the military action should not be undertaken “at the expense of civilians who unwillingly find themselves living in areas where Isis

is present”. He provided no figure for civilian casualties in Raqqa, where rival forces are racing to capture ground from Isis. The Syrian army is also advancing on the desert area west of the city.

Meanwhile, Human Rights Watch has said that the US-led coalition fighting Isis in Syria and Iraq is endangering civilians by using artillerydelivered white phosphorous, after reports that such weapons were used in Raqqa.

The US military says it uses white phosphorous in a lawful way.

But Steve Goose, arms director at Human Rights Watch, said: “No matter how white phosphorus is used, it poses a high risk of horrific and long-lasting harm in crowded cities like Raqqa and Mosul and any other areas with concentrations of civilians.” It has indiscriminate effects, from starting fires to causing excruciating burns for bystanders.

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GUATEMALA

Powerful earthquake kills one

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At least one person has died after a very powerful but deep earthquake struck the border between Mexico and Guatemala, sending shockwaves that could be felt by around 12 million people across neighbouring countries.

The US Geological Survey measured the earthquake at magnitude 6.9 and there were reports of landslides, power cuts, damage to homes and injuries across Guatemala and Mexico.

One man was killed when a Catho-

lic church collapsed in San Sebastian, in Guatemala’s Retalhuleu province.

Among the more than a dozen people injured were a young girl in San Marcos, Guatemala, who was hurt by a sheet of metal roofing sliding off a building.

The earthquake struck 10 miles north-west of San Marcos at around 1.30am at a depth of 70 miles.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre said that the relatively deep epicentre, hitting just inland of the Pacific coast, meant there was no risk of a tsunami. THE INDEPENDENT

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Qatar’s troops withdrawn

Opposition MPs suspended

Qatar has withdrawn its troops from the border between Djibouti and Eritrea, where the Gulf state has been acting as mediator in a border dispute, the Qatari foreign ministry said yesterday.

It did not give reason for the withdrawal but Qatar faces a major diplomatic crisis with some of its Gulf Arab neighbours, who accuse it of backing Islamists and Iran.

Qatar strongly denies this.

“Qatar has been an impartial diplomatic mediator,” the ministry said. REUTERS

Zambia’s parliament has suspended 48 opposition MPs for boycotting a speech by the President.

Parliament’s Speaker barred the United Party for National Development politicians from taking their seats for 30 days, a move that banned them from the building and stopped their pay. Their party, which was defeated in August elections that it said were rigged, called the suspensions unconstitutional.

MPs boycotted President Edgar Lungu’s address at the official opening of the assembly in March, saying they did not recognise him as leader. REUTERS

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Cholera epidemic ‘could escalate out of control’

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A cholera epidemic in Yemen is spiralling out of control, with around one child falling sick every minute, an aid agency warned yesterday.

Thousands of people could die in the coming months with up to 300,000 cases predicted, Save the Children said. Two years of civil war, near-famine conditions and a lack of access to clean water have exacerbated the spread of cholera – which can kill within hours.

The country’s health system is reeling, with hospitals overwhelmed and running out of medicines and intravenous fluids. The UN

One child is falling ill every minute, aid workers are warning AFP/GETTY

children’s agency Unicef said more than 920 people had died from the disease since late April and more than 124,000 cases had been

recorded – almost half of them children. Grant Pritchard, Save the Children’s representative in Yemen, called for an increase in emergency funding. “It’s time for the world to take action before thousands of Yemeni boys and girls perish from an entirely preventable disease,” he said. “Disease, starvation and war are causing a perfect storm of disaster for Yemen’s people.”

Yemen’s civil war, pitting the Iran-allied Houthi group against a Western-backed Arab coalition led

by Saudi Arabia, has left 19 million people needing humanitarian aid with many on the verge of famine.

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The art of travelling by bus A boy looks through the window of a decorated bus in Karachi, Pakistan AKHTAR SOOMRO/REUTERS

AUSTRALIA

State pays £55m over abuse of asylum-seekers

By Rod McGuirk IN CANBERRA

Australia has reached a settlement of around A$90m (£55m) with 1,900 asylumseekers who sued over their treatment at an immigration camp in Papua New Guinea.

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Eight hundred people looked on yesterday as Aries Liu, a 32-year-old man who used to be a woman, married his blushing bride on a cruise ship in waters near China’s business capital of Shanghai.

The two are among nine gay and transgender couples planning to get hitched on the cruise heading to Japan in a week-long series of Gay Pride events in China, where same-sex marriage is illegal and homosexuality frowned upon.

The Chinese ceremony is important to Mr Liu because his parents only accepted his sexuality last year, although

Australia refuses to resettle asylum-seekers who arrive by boat and pays Papua New Guinea and the island of Nauru to keep hundreds of them. The asylumseekers are mainly from the Middle East, Africa and Asia.

A trial by 1,905 asylumseekers currently or formerly kept at a camp at Manus Island in Papua New Guinea was due to begin yesterday in the Victoria state Supreme Court. They were seeking damages for alleged physical and psychological injuries they say they suffered on Manus Island. AP

he has been out of the closet for almost two decades.

“It’s amazing to have my parents there as witnesses,” said Mr Liu, who travelled to the ceremony from the southern province of Guangzhou. “Over all these years, I have been paving the way to acceptance bit by bit.”

The event, held soon after Taiwan legalised same-sex marriage last month, underlines the limits of tolerance for gay rights in China, even though it is growing.

It is not illegal to be gay in China, although homosexuality was regarded a mental disorder until 2001.

“Now it’s completely different,” Mr Liu said.

“Many cities have lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community activities.” REUTERS Engen Tham

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Rescuers struggle to reach villages hit by landslides Rescuers are struggling to reach villages hit by massive landslides that have killed at least 140 people while also burying roads and cutting power in south-eastern Bangladesh.

Villagers joined firefighters and soldiers in cutting fallen trees and

clearing mud and debris unleashed by the landslides in five hilly districts on Tuesday. But rescuers have been unable to get heavy machinery to the remote areas to help dig through the debris, military spokesman Rezaul Karim said.

So far, the worst-hit areas have been in the remote Rangamati

district, where mostly tribal villagers live in small communities near a lake surrounded by hills. Officials reported 103 dead and at least 5,000 homes destroyed or damaged there.

Another 28 were killed in the coastal Chittagong district, six died in Bandarban, two in Cox’s Bazar and one in Khagrachhari. REUTERS

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Suicide bomber kills rival rebels

Khmer Rouge Diplomatic crisis trial nears close with Israel ends

A suicide bomber targeted a checkpoint run by rival insurgents in Helmand province yesterday, killing nine of them.

Mohammad Saleem Rohdi, chief of the Gareshk district, said six militants from a breakaway Taliban faction were wounded in the attack yesterday. Supporters of Mullah Rasoul, a Taliban commander in Helmand, contest the leadership of Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada. AP

Prosecutors in the trial of two surviving leaders of the 1975-79 Khmer Rouge regime have begun summing up their case, declaring that the defendants clearly knew of the suffering and deaths of their countrymen.

Khieu Samphan, 85, the regime’s former head of state, and Nuon Chea, 90, right-hand man to the group’s late chief, Pol Pot, are being tried in Phnom Penh on charges including genocide, rape and murder. A verdict is expected later in the year. AP

By Julhas Alam

Israel and New Zealand have resolved a diplomatic crisis over a UN resolution condemning Israeli settlements, although exactly how far New Zealand went to appease Israel remains unclear.

The New Zealand Prime Minister, Bill English, yesterday refused to release a letter he sent this week to Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after they had earlier spoken on the phone. AP

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hat did Theresa May’s decision to call a snap general election have in common with the aftermath of the Sri Lankan tsunami and the invasion of Iraq?

If you’ve read the work of one bestselling political author, Naomi Klein, you’ll probably know the answer: they’re all examples of the “shock doctrine” at work.

When sudden, unexpected events cause widespread anxiety, they provide distractions for power grabs and create the perfect conditions for extreme policies to be rushed through while people are still coming to terms with what has happened.

Ideally, if you’re a populist ideologue, your Machiavellian actions will themselves cause even more disorientation for you to exploit.

These tactics can be scarily effective, as Klein documented in her 2007 book The Shock Doctrine.

The Canadian journalist – one of the most influential left-wing writers in the world ever since her debut, No Logo, became a key text for the anti-globalisation zeitgeist nearly two decades ago – pointed to many disturbing examples.

They included Sri Lanka’s government choosing profit over justice by selling beach front land to hotel developers once the huts of local fishermen had been washed away, and George W Bush using the fear of another 9/11 to oust Saddam Hussein.

When May tried to take advantage of the continuing political chaos unleashed by the Brexit vote by making her poll announcement in April, it came just in time for inclusion in Klein’s new book, No is Not Enough.

Two months ago, it looked like a Conservative landslide would serve as another instance of the doctrine’s efficacy, “before the public has a chance to rebel against new austerity measures that are the antithesis of how Brexit was originally sold to voters”. Instead, the general election result last week has provided the perfect illustration of Klein’s concern in her latest work: how to fight back. After all, her new volume is subtitled Defeating the New Shock Politics.

The book is primarily a rallying cry for people to unite against the policies of Donald Trump at all levels, explaining how this can work. But with Corbynistas and Labour moderates alike now seeing their chance to avert a hard Brexit while chipping away at May’s tarnished authority, the book could also provide inspiration in the UK. Some have said her work oversimplifies complex topics, but others laud it as some of the finest non-fiction around.

Speaking to i from her home in Toronto, where she followed the election results via texts from British friends and listening to BBC Radio 4 online, Klein admits she is not an expert in the minutiae of British politics – but she has been following events keenly.

“Theresa May tried to exploit fear and shock in several ways in the campaign,” says the

47-year-old. “The decision to call an unnecessary election, an election she said she would not call, was trying to take advantage of people’s post-Brexit fears. She positioned herself very explicitly as the ‘strong and stable’ leader in this moment of uncertainty – which is really classic shock doctrine tactics.”

So why did it backfire? In part, Klein believes, it was because May (inset) pushed things too far. “She compounded it by responding in further oppor-tunistic ways that emphasised fear,” she says – particularly when the Prime Minister suggested ripping up human rights laws and imposing more surveillance on communications, in the wake of the Manchester and London terror attacks.

May’s faults were only one side of the coin, of course. With renewed socialist vigour under Jeremy Corbyn, Labour’s manifesto was a

“game changer”, she says.

Before the election results began coming in, Klein tweeted: “Mr Corbyn, congratulations on a superb and deeply humane campaign. Congrats whatever happens.” Yet she says it was the absence of Corbyn in the party’s viral #WeDemand camwpaign advert by the director Ken Loach that really impressed her.

“It was about workers speaking in their own voice. Corbyn wasn’t even in those ads.” After Tony Blair introduced “the same kind of empty PR tactics to politics that you would use to sell a dishwashing liquid,” Klein says this was “an amazing repudiation of marketing-based, brand-based politics – because Corbyn is so ‘the anti-brand,’ right?”

Until election night, opponents in his own party would have countered that it was often better to leave out Corbyn because he was a liability. Some would hasten

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to add that, for all this celebration, Corbyn’s party still lost – coming 56 seats behind the Tories, who secured their highest share of the vote since 1983 despite fighting one of the worst campaigns in history.

Klein admits she is not claiming that liberals “have figured everything out and run perfect campaigns,” but she insists Labour supporters have been right to celebrate. “People deserve their moment of happiness because Theresa May set the terms for this election,” she says. “People are also celebrating the failure of smear tactics, frankly, and the triumph of an ideas-based campaign… There is such a crisis of legitimacy in this democracy and a fatigue with this kind of dirty tricks, particularly among young people.”

“We hear so much about how superficial millenials are. These are the ones who’ve grown up entirely immersed in branding culture, being told to be their own brand and constantly curating their own lives – but they’re the ones who are finding hope in the authenticity of these figures.”

By “these figures” she is placing Corbyn alongside Bernie Sanders – the similarly mature, old-school leftie who may have lost out on the Democrats’ US presidential

candidature to Hillary Clinton yet inspired a swathe of young voters with his campaign. But he too lost. Who can be the new hope for the American left – and therefore the rest of the world – to take on Trump’s vicious brand of neo-conservatism and win?

Klein pauses – a rare moment in our discussion. Is that a worrying sign? Are the Democrats that short of leaders? She insists: “The pause is not for lack of ideas – it’s not really usual for me to endorse political candidates.” Eventually she suggests the Ohio senator Nina Turner, Washington congresswoman Pramila Jayapal, and Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren could soon be carrying the baton.

However, she believes the resistance must be fought at grassroots level for the next few years rather than at the top, using pragmatic tactics to stifle Trump policies at every level of government.

More crucially – and this is the crux of her No is Not Enough argument – a progressive platform of policies that ordinary people really believe can change their lives must be developed so they can fight with positivity, rather than relying on negative attacks that play into Trump’s hands.

The effort going into exposing

his Russia links and business activities with the hope of starting impeachment proceedings concerns Klein, who believes it distracts from winning back the electorate. “There is a sizeable chunk of Trump’s base who voted Obama in 2008 and 2012 but voted for Trump because they liked what he said about trade and jobs. Those people are not going to be swayed by the Russia coverage and all those exposés.”

Looking at the political strife engulfing the UK and the US, I suggest Klein must feel glad to be Canadian thanks to her country’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, a liberal heir to Obama’s sensitive, media-friendly persona.

“He is very much an Obama-like political figure, he’s incredibly good at political messaging,” she agrees.

“But the worry is there’s really not enough policy, not enough substance behind it – and when that happens, it can put a country in danger of a backlash.

“I’m sorry to tarnish this idea – this ‘Meanwhile in Canada everything is perfect’ idea – but it really isn’t. That said,” she adds with a laugh, “I’m very glad to be living in Canada.”

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ondon is open. Borough Market is open,” Donald Hyslop, the market’s chair of trustees, declared as a crowd formed around Borough Market.

The market reopened yesterday morning after an 11-day hiatus and though the community has been scarred by the terror attack that killed eight people on 3 June, the message at the reopening was one of resilience and hope.

Sadiq Khan and rapper turned poet Suley Muhidin spoke about keeping the spirit of the market alive and then the market bell, which signals the start of the trading day, rang out, announcing that the market was once again open to the world.

Amir Eden, the chair of Bankside residents board and Michael Rawson, the sub-dean of Southwark Cathedral were chatting by one of the stalls.

They both wore badges saying #LoveBorough. They are friends who have known each other for years and they have organised a cross-denominational event at Southwark Cathedral for people of all and no religions to breakfast together this week.

“People have been killed and injured,” said Rawson, “This is our neighbourhood and it has felt as though it has been desecrated, but we are back now and although we bear the scars we will also get back to this being a wonderful, vibrant place where people have fun and enjoy themselves.” Eden joined in. “It is a tragic event that’s happened, but today, hearing the bell ring, I felt really proud.”

Kevin Murphy, 40, works for Borough Wines. He was drinking at the Wheatsheaf pub when the attacks occurred.

“There was a rush of people towards the back of the bar. I got down under a table,” he said. “We could hear shouts from the front of the bar that someone had been hit and luckily not fatally... The overall feeling was not one of panic or

terror but an overwhelming feeling of sadness.” Yesterday, Mr Murphy was serving wine and chatting with customers. “Obviously this will scar people’s lives for ever, but there’s been a market here for a thousand years. It’s been through plague and terrible times but we will get through this.”

Market traders have lost a small fortune by having a forced closure and many are keen to make up for lost time. There is a relief fund which currently stands at £83,000 to help those who have perishable goods and who have been unable to work since the attacks.

This is our neighbourhood and it has felt as though it has been desecrated, but we are back now Worker Eddie Shashima ladled salad and meat into buns for the hungry lines of punters. “People are very happy, they are back to work so they are very good – and there is very good hope behind that. It is very good to see everyone’s faces.”

Liam, from Liverpool, runs the Borough Market merchandise stall in partnership with The Golden Company, which gives opportunities to young people to engage with enterprise and nature by making honey and other products. He filled my hands with #LoveBorough badges and gave me part of his loaf of bread from local stall Bread Ahead, saying “Today I break bread with you!”

Taybah Begum, 18, is also part of The Golden Company, and has worked here for the past year.

“This is our market. I don’t want anyone to be afraid of coming here. We had the speech this morning welcoming everyone back to the market and that is how it should be.”

To support Borough Market’s traders visit the market or donate to justgiving.com/bmrelieffund

Traders and visitors pause for a minute’s silence in Borough Market yesterday PA

Television Thursday 15 June CRITIC’S CHOICE

GERARD GILBERT

PICK OF THE DAY

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9pm, Channel 4 Brexit is the great divisive national issue of our times. It is little wonder, then, that the immense heat generated by the subject should awaken Wife Swap from a slumber that has lasted since 2009. The format is simple enough, as two extremely contrasting households exchange matriarchs for a week, in this case, Ukip campaigner Pauline from Canvey Island swaps places with Green Party councillor Kat in rural Nottinghamshire. Kat (left) is struck by the lack of diversity on Canvey, while Pauline has never considered the fears of European immigrants. But don’t expect any minds to be changed; that’s not really the point.

8.30pm, BBC2 Britain’s got talent, but rather more than being able to do back-flips or train dogs to dance. However, as with the Simon Cowell jamboree, the public gets to vote after this live show from the Science Museum in London where celebrities (obviously experts wouldn’t do) champion British inventions and their influence on the modern world. Antibiotics, concrete, the fridge, the jet engine, the mobile, the steam engine and television all have claims, but you decide.

Wife Swap: Brexit Special

Britain’s Greatest Invention

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The Real Full Monty

8.30pm, ITV Ever wanted to see Alexander Armstrong or Wayne Sleep in the

altogether? It’s all in a good cause, of course, as, 25 years after the release of The Full Monty, a group of celebrities comes together to recreate the famous striptease from the movie and raise awareness of men’s health issues. Armstrong and Ashley Banjo do the recruiting for a performance in front of 2,000 people at the London Palladium (not to mention the millions at home). But with little time to rehearse and the show fast approaching, will they dare to bare all for a good cause? Of course they will. ===

Night Manager. It’s a high-end world of luxury villas, private planes and Victoria Beckham dress-alikes, set against a Monaco backdrop. Julia Stiles plays the wife of an art dealer who dies aboard the yacht of a Russian arms trader, and, needless to say, she comes to realise how little she knows about her late husband. In fact, the biggest surprise here, given the clunky dialogue and pervading humourlessness, is that this thriller was co-authored by no less than Neil Jordan and John Banville. ===

Riviera

9pm, Sky Atlantic You can tell a lot about a new show by its opening credits, and while the title might suggest a sub-Dynasty Euro-soap, these credits shout The

Battling The Bailiffs

10pm, Channel 4 Like a new superhero for breadline Britain, boxing trainer Chrisy Morris is an anti-eviction campaigner who travels the country to physically

BBC2

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CHANNEL 5

6.00 Breakfast (S). 9.15 Crimewatch Roadshow (S). 10.00 Homes Under The Hammer (S). 11.00 The Secret Life Of The Hospital Bed (S). 11.45 The Housing Enforcers (R) (S). 12.15 Bargain Hunt (R) (S). 1.00 BBC News At One; Weather (S). 1.30 BBC Regional News; Weather (S). 1.45 Doctors (S). 2.15 Impossible (S). 3.00 Escape To The Country (R) (S).

3.45 Yes Chef (S). 4.30 Street Auction (R) (S). 5.15 Pointless (R) (S).

6.00 Emergency Rescue Down Under (R) (S). 6.30 Bargain Hunt (R) (S). 7.15 Yes Chef (R) (S). 8.00 Sign Zone: Bake Off: Creme De La Creme (R) (S). 9.00 Victoria Derbyshire (S).

11.00 BBC Newsroom Live (S). 1.00 Two Tribes (R) (S).

1.30 Family Finders (R) (S). 2.15 Red Rock (R) (S).

3.00 Red Rock (R) (S). 3.45 Nature’s Weirdest Events (R) (S). 4.15 Operation Iceberg (R) (S). 5.15 Antiques Road Trip (R) (S).

6.00 Good Morning Britain (S). 8.30 Lorraine (S). 9.25 The Jeremy Kyle Show (R) (S). 10.30 This Morning (S). 12.30 Loose Women (S). 1.30 ITV News; Weather (S). 1.55 ITV Regional News; Weather (S). 2.00 Judge Rinder’s Crime Stories (S). 3.00 Masterpiece With Alan Titchmarsh (R) (S). 3.59 ITV Regional Weather (S). 4.00 Tipping Point (R) (S). 5.00 The Chase (S).

6.00 Countdown (R) (S).

6.45 Will & Grace (R) (S). 7.10 Will & Grace (R) (S). 7.35 Everybody Loves Raymond (R) (S).

8.00 Everybody Loves Raymond (R) (S). 8.35 Frasier (R) (S). 9.05 Frasier (R) (S). 9.35 Frasier (R) (S).

10.05 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA (R) (S).

11.00 A Place In The Sun: Winter Sun (R) (S). 12.00 Channel 4 News Summary (S). 12.05 Couples Come Dine With Me (R) (S). 1.05 Posh Pawnbrokers (R) (S).

2.10 Countdown (S). 3.00 Fifteen To One (S). 4.00 A Place In The Sun: Winter Sun (R) (S). 5.00 Four In A Bed (S). 5.30 Come Dine With Me (R) (S).

6.00 Milkshake! 9.15 The Wright Stuff 11.15 House Doctor (R) (S). 12.10 5 News Lunchtime (S).

12.15 Big Brother (R) (S).

1.15 Home And Away (S).

1.45 Neighbours (S). 2.15 NCIS: Los Angeles (R) (S). 3.15 FILM: Expecting Amish (Richard Gabai 2014) Drama, starring AJ Michalka (S). 5.00 5 News At 5 (S). 5.30 Neighbours (R) (S).

6.00 BBC News At Six; Weather (S).

6.30 BBC Regional News; Weather (S).

6.00 Eggheads Quiz show (R) (S).

6.30 Springwatch Unsprung Poet Pam Ayres gives a tour of her garden (S).

6.00 ITV Regional News; Weather (S).

6.30 ITV News; Weather (S).

6.00 The Simpsons Bart sees into the future (R) (S).

6.30 Hollyoaks Ryan tries to talk to a drunken Mercedes (S).

6.00 Home And Away Justin’s daughter Ava turns up out of the blue (R) (S).

6.30 5 News Tonight (S).

7.00 Great British Menu The Central chefs present their desserts (S).

7.30 Springwatch 2017 (S).

7.00 Emmerdale Rhona receives a shock (S).

7.30 The Jewel Raiders: Tonight (S).

7.00 Channel 4 News (S).

7pm

7.00 The One Show (S).

7.30 EastEnders A new family arrive in Albert Square (S).

7.00 Traffic Cops An insight into the working life of officers patrolling Yorkshire’s roads (R) (S).

8pm

8.00 Kat And Alfie: Redwater Alfie becomes increasingly aware of his own mortality (S).

8.30 Britain’s Greatest Invention A chance for viewers to vote on the nation’s best invention.

8.00 Emmerdale Rhona makes a big decision (S).

8.30 The Real Full Monty (S).

8.00 The Supervet Professor Fitzpatrick treats a shihtzu cross for its deformed front legs (S).

8.00 On Benefits: Living Hand To Mouth People struggling to live on state welfare in Wales (S).

9.00 Wife Swap: Brexit Special Women from both sides of the Brexit debate swap homes (S).

9.00 Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords A couple seek help (S).

9.00 Japan: Earth’s Enchanted Islands The wildlife of the east Asian country (R) (S).

10.00Battling The Bailiffs (S).

10.55 One Born Every Minute (R) (S).

10.00Big Brother Daily round-up of highlights (S).

10.00Battle For The Himalayas: The Fight To Film Everest (R) (S).

11.05 Big Brother’s Bit On The Side Fans’ thoughts on the latest developments (S).

11.00 A Sky At Night Special (R) (S).

11.30 Planet Oil: The Treasure That Conquered The World (R) (S).

11.15 FILM: The Man With The Iron Fists (RZA 2012) Martial arts adventure, starring RZA (S).

11.20 Family Guy Peter undergoes plastic surgery (R) (S).

11.50 Family Guy (R) (S).

12.00 SuperCasino 3.10 Wentworth Prison (R) (S). 4.00 The Railways That Built Britain With Chris Tarrant (R) (S). 4.45 House Doctor (R) (S). 5.10 Divine Designs (R) (S). 5.35 Wildlife SOS (R) (S).

12.30 Agnetha: Abba And After (R) (S). 1.30 Abba At The BBC (R) (S). 2.30 Japan: Earth’s Enchanted Islands (R) (S). 3.30 Close

1.05 FILM: Drug War (Johnnie To 2012) Gangster thriller, starring Louis Koo (S). 3.20 Close

12.20 American Dad! (R) (S).

12.45 American Dad! (R) (S).

1.20 Mom (R) (S). 1.40 Mom (R) (S). 2.05 Jonas Blue: The Hot Desk (R) (S). 2.15 Teleshopping 5.45 ITV2 Nightscreen

Daytime

BBC1

6pm

9pm

10pm

11pm

Late

9.00 DIY SOS: The Big Build The team provides a dedicated dialysis room for a kidney patient (S).

10.00BBC News At Ten (S).

10.30 BBC Regional News; Weather (S).

10.45 Question Time (S).

10.00Mock The Week With James Acaster, Ed Gamble, Nish Kumar and Zoe Lyons (S).

10.30 Newsnight (S).

10.00ITV News At Ten; Weather (S).

10.30 ITV Regional News (S).

10.40 The Late Debate (S).

11.45 This Week The past seven days in politics (S).

11.15 Cricket: ICC Champions Trophy Highlights Action from Bangladesh vs India (S).

11.10 Fearless Thriller, starring Helen McCrory (R) (S).

12.35 BBC News (S).

12.05 Horizon: Cyber Attack – The Day The NHS Stopped (R) (S). 1.05 Sign Zone: Dara And Ed’s Road To Mandalay (R) (S). 2.05 Sign Zone: The Truth About Stress (R) (S). 3.05 This Is BBC Two (S).

12.10 Jackpot247 3.00 The Jewel Raiders: Tonight (R) (S). 3.25 ITV Nightscreen 5.05 The Jeremy Kyle Show (R) (S).

12.00 Derren Brown: Pushed To The Edge (R) (S).

1.20 Arrivals (R) (S). 2.15 Loaded (R) (S). 3.00 Location, Location, Location (R) (S).

3.55 Selling Houses With Amanda Lamb (S). 4.50 Kirstie’s Vintage Gems (R) (S).

BBC4

FILM4

Will Wayne Sleep dare to bare all on stage?

8.30pm, ITV

Billionaire’s wife Julia Stiles uncovers a host of secrets following a tragedy in ‘Riviera’ 9pm, Sky Atlantic

ChrisyMorrisdiscusses ‘Battling The Bailiffs’ 10pm, Channel 4

7.00 100 Days+ (S).

7.30 BBC Cardiff Singer Of The World 2017 Five more singers compete for the title (S).

6.50 FILM: Night At The Museum (Shawn Levy 2006) Fantasy comedy, starring Ben Stiller (S).

ITV2 6.00 The Vamps: The Hot Desk (R) (S). 6.10 You’ve Been Framed! Gold (R) (S). 6.35 Vanderpump Rules (R). 7.20 The Ellen DeGeneres Show (R) (S).

8.00 Emmerdale (R) (S).

8.30 Coronation Street (R) (S). 9.00 Scorpion (R) (S). 9.55 Below Deck (R) (S).

10.25 Below Deck (R) (S).

11.25 Vanderpump Rules (R). 12.20 Emmerdale (R) (S). 12.55 Coronation Street (R) (S). 1.30 You’ve Been Framed! Gold (R) (S).

2.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show (S). 2.50 The Jeremy Kyle Show (R) (S). 3.55 The Jeremy Kyle Show (R) (S).

5.00 Judge Rinder (R) (S).

6.00 You’ve Been Framed! Gold Humorous footage (R) (S).

6.30 You’ve Been Framed! Gold (R) (S).

7.00 You’ve Been Framed! Gold: The Next Generation (R) (S).

8.00 Two And A Half Men Walden shares his true feelings with Zoey (R) (S).

8.30 Two And A Half Men (R) (S).

9.00 FILM: RoboCop (Jose Padilha 2014) Sci-fi thriller remake, starring Joel Kinnaman (S).

9.00 Love Island Relationshipbased reality show (S).

10.00CelebAbility New series (S).

10.50 Family Guy Part two of two (R) (S).

NEWS 2-33

stop burly men turfing people out of their homes. “You come here all Bodie and Doyle and now you’re leaving all Laurel and Hardy,” he scoffs at the backs of one pair of retreating bailiffs. Colin Stone’s documentary follows Morris and his friends over nine months.

FILM CHOICE

LAURENCE PHELAN

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First Dates USA

10pm, E4 Fans of the original British version of this addictive reality show may be interested to see how it translates into an American setting – or rather with less self-conscious American subjects. Filmed in a Chicago eatery and with Drew Barrymore narrating, the US version of British host Fred Serieix is restaurateur Sandro Coppola (no relation).

VOICES 20-24

TV 34-35

IQ 36-43

i THURSDAY 15 JUNE 2017

BUSINESS SPORT 44-47 52-60

FILM OF THE DAY

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3pm, TCM (Robert Hamer, 1949) Ealing Studios’ only period drama is also the most delicious, deft and Hitchcockian black comedy yet made about the English class system and serial murder. It’s about a distant and suburban relative of the Edwardian, aristocratic D’Ascoynes, who plots to dispose of all eight of the heirs ahead of him in line to a dukedom, in ever more ingenious ways. Alec Guinness famously plays each of the unfortunate and variously unpleasant D’Ascoynes, but Dennis Price (pictured, with Guinness) is equally sly and impressive in the lead role: a cool killer one can warm to, with a devilish line in understatement and cool irony.

4.50pm, Movies4Men (William Fairchild, 1958) Laurence Harvey stars in this fictionalised account of the underwater exploits of Commander Lionel Crabb, who headed counter strikes against the Italian frogmen planning to sabotage Royal Navy ships in Gibraltar. It is a brisk, serious Second World War drama – though some light relief is provided by petty officer Sid James.

Kind Hearts And Coronets

ITV3

E4

MORE4

SKY 1

SKY ATLANTIC

6.00 Man About The House (R). 6.25 Heartbeat (R) (S).

7.30 Where The Heart Is (R) (S). 8.30 Wild At Heart (R) (S). 9.35 Judge Judy (R) (S). 10.00 Judge Judy (R) (S). 10.30 Judge Judy (R) (S). 11.00 Road To Avonlea (R) (S). 12.00 Love Your Garden (R) (S). 1.05 Heartbeat (R) (S). 2.05 The Royal (R) (S). 3.10 Wild At Heart (R) (S). 4.15 Man About The House (R). 4.50 Rising Damp (R) (S). 5.20 George And Mildred (R) (S).

5.55 Heartbeat (R) (S).

6.00 Hollyoaks (R) (S). 6.30 Coach Trip (R) (S). 7.00 Made In Chelsea (R) (S).

8.00 Rules Of Engagement (R) (S). 9.00 Melissa & Joey (R) (S). 9.30 Melissa & Joey (R) (S). 10.00 Baby Daddy (R) (S). 11.00 How I Met Your Mother (R) (S). 11.30 How I Met Your Mother (R) (S). 12.00 New Girl (R) (S).

1.00 Brooklyn Nine-Nine (R) (S). 1.30 Brooklyn Nine-Nine (R) (S). 2.00 The Big Bang Theory (R) (S).

2.30 The Big Bang Theory (R) (S). 3.00 How I Met Your Mother (R) (S). 3.30 How I Met Your Mother (R) (S).

4.00 New Girl (R) (S). 4.30 New Girl (R) (S). 5.00 2 Broke Girls (R) (S). 5.30 2 Broke Girls (R) (S).

8.55 A Place In The Sun: Home Or Away (R) (S).

10.00 The Supervet (R) (S). 11.00 Four In A Bed (R) (S). 11.30 Four In A Bed (R) (S). 12.05 Four In A Bed (R) (S). 12.35 Four In A Bed (R) (S). 1.05 Four In A Bed (R) (S). 1.40 A Place In The Sun: Home Or Away (R) (S).

2.40 A Place In The Sun: Home Or Away (R) (S). 3.50 Time Team (R) (S). 4.50 Time Team (R) (S). 5.55 The Supervet (R) (S).

6.00 Road Wars (R) (S).

7.00 Hawaii Five-0 (R) (S).

8.00 Monkey Life (R) (S).

8.30 Monkey Life (R) (S).

9.00 It’s Me Or The Dog (R).

10.00 Nothing To Declare (R) (S). 10.30 Nothing To Declare (R) (S). 11.00 Sanctuary (R) (S). 12.00 NCIS: Los Angeles (R) (S).

1.00 Hawaii Five-0 (R) (S).

2.00 Hawaii Five-0 (R) (S).

3.00 NCIS: Los Angeles (R) (S). 4.00 Stargate Atlantis (R) (S). 5.00 Modern Family (R) (S). 5.30 Modern Family (R) (S).

6.00 The British (R) (S).

7.00 The British (R) (S).

8.00 Fish Town (R) (S). 9.00 Fish Town (R) (S). 10.00 The West Wing (R) (S). 11.00 The West Wing (R) (S).

12.00 Without A Trace (R) (S). 1.00 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (R) (S). 2.00 Blue Bloods (R) (S). 3.00 Richard E Grant’s Hotel Secrets (R) (S). 4.00 The West Wing (R) (S). 5.00 The West Wing (R) (S).

6.00 The Big Bang Theory Howard returns from space (R) (S).

6.30 The Big Bang Theory (R) (S).

6.55 Car SOS A Porsche 911 suffering from almost terminal rust (R) (S).

7.00 Murder, She Wrote Jessica looks into the disappearance of an old friend (R) (S).

7.00 Hollyoaks Darren finds out that Ryan has set Kyle up (S).

7.30 Black-ish (S).

7.55 Grand Designs Kevin McCloud revisits the Sampsons in France (R) (S).

8.00 Endeavour The murder of a museum specialist leads Morse to a school with a dark history (R).

8.00 The Big Bang Theory (R) (S).

8.30 Kevin Can Wait Kevin takes a job as a barman (S).

The Silent Enemy

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Miller’s Crossing

10pm, Sky Cinema Select (Joel and Ethan Coen, 1990) The Coen brothers’ tribute to the gangster films of the Thirties and the noir films of the Forties is a typically stylised concoction, but also a

Radio BBC Radio 1

6.33am The Radio 1 Breakfast Show With Scott Mills 10.00 Clara Amfo 12.45pm Newsbeat 1.00 The Matt Edmondson Show 4.00 Greg James 5.45 Newsbeat 6.00 Greg James 7.00 Annie Mac 9.00 Radio 1’s Artist Takeover With 10.02 BBC Radio 1’s Residency – Logan Sama 12mdn’t BBC Radio 1’s Residency – Jessy Lanza 1.00 Toddla T 4.00 Adele Roberts

BBC Radio 1Xtra

7am A.Dot 10.00 Ace 12.45pm Newsbeat 1.00 Yasmin Evans 4.00 Charlie Sloth 5.45 Newsbeat 6.00 Charlie Sloth 7.00 MistaJam 10.00 Seani B 1am Toddla T 4.00 Toddla T

BBC Radio 2

6.00 Futurama (R) (S).

6.30 The Simpsons Krusty the Clown is arrested (R) (S).

6.00 Without A Trace A medical intern goes missing (R) (S).

7.00 The Simpsons (R) (S).

7.30 The Simpsons George Bush Sr moves in across the street (R) (S).

7.00 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation A man dies from overeating (R) (S).

8.00 Carpool Karaoke Special With Katy Perry and Jennifer Lopez (R).

8.00 Blue Bloods Danny and Baez are determined to get justice for a woman held hostage (R) (S).

9.00 Brooklyn NineNine (S).

9.30 New Girl (S).

9.00 The Secret Life Of The Zoo Two of Chester’s Grevy’s zebras, are about to give birth (R) (S).

9.00 Micky Flanagan Thinking Aloud The comedian explores all notions of patriotism (R) (S).

9.00 Riviera Thrilling drama set in the French Riviera (R) (S).

10.00Law & Order: UK Ronnie and Sam race against time to find a hostage (R) (S).

10.00First Dates USA New series.

American version of the restaurant dating show (S).

10.00999: What’s Your Emergency? (R) (S).

10.00A League Of Their Own: US Road Trip 2.0 (R) (S).

10.00Last Week Tonight With John Oliver (R) (S).

10.35 Silicon Valley (R) (S).

11.00 Wire In The Blood The team struggles to build up a criminal profile (R) (S).

11.00 The Big Bang Theory Penny appears in a musical (R) (S).

11.30 The Big Bang Theory (R) (S).

11.05 24 Hours In A&E A 19-yearold is flown in with a possible penile fracture (R) (S).

11.00 Jamestown News that Henry is alive spreads through the settlement (R) (S).

11.10 Riviera Thrilling drama set in the French Riviera (R) (S).

12.50 The Knock (R) (S).

2.10 ITV3 Nightscreen 2.30 Teleshopping

12.00 Gogglebox (R) (S).

1.05 Rude Tube (R) (S). 2.05 First Dates USA (R) (S). 2.50 First Dates (R) (S). 3.45 Kevin Can Wait (R) (S). 4.05 Brooklyn Nine-Nine (R) (S).

4.30 New Girl (R) (S). 4.50 Black-ish (R) (S).

12.10 Ramsay’s Hotel Hell (R) (S). 1.10 999: What’s Your Emergency? (R) (S).

2.15 24 Hours In A&E (R) (S). 3.15 8 Out Of 10 Cats Uncut (R) (S). 3.55 Close

12.00 Hawaii Five-0 (R) (S).

1.00 NCIS: Los Angeles (R) (S). 2.00 Hawaii Five-0 (R) (S). 3.00 Zoo (R) (S). 4.00 Monkey Life (R) (S). 5.00 The Dog Whisperer (R) (S).

5.30 The Dog Whisperer (R) (S).

12.10 Game Of Thrones (R) (S). 1.20 Nurse Jackie (R).

2.00 The Putin Interviews (S). 3.10 Nurse Jackie (R).

3.45 Nurse Jackie (R). 4.20 The West Wing (R) (S). 5.10 The West Wing (R) (S).

6.30am Chris Evans 9.30 Ken Bruce 12noon Jeremy Vine 1.30 Songs My Son Loved 2.00 Steve Wright In The Afternoon 5.00 Simon Mayo 7.00 Bob Harris Country 8.00 Jo Whiley 10.00 The Radio 2 Arts Show With Jonathan Ross 12mdn’t The Craig Charles House Party 2.00 Radio 2’s Tracks Of My Year’s Playlist 3.00 Radio 2 Playlist: Have A Great Weekend 4.00 Radio 2 Playlists: Feelgood Friday 5.00 Vanessa Feltz

BBC Radio 3

6.30am Breakfast. Special edition for BBC Music Day. 8.30 Music Day Monologues.

The Boxer’s Epiphany. 9.00 Essential Classics. Composer Imogen Heap chooses her favourite classical pieces.

12noon Composer Of The Week: Bizet. 1.00 News 1.02 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert.

2.30 Afternoon On 3. 4.30 In Tune. A special edition for BBC Music Day live from Hatfield House. 6.30 Composer Of The Week: Bizet. The composer’s plans to settle down after years of womanising. 7.30 Radio 3 In Concert. BBC NOW and Thomas Sondergard perform Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring.

10.00 Free Thinking. The death of Pocahontas and a Churchill biopic. 10.45 The Essay: A Short History Of Indian Art. 11.00 Late Junction. Including music from David Lynch’s Eraserhead.

12.30am Through The Night.

weighty consideration of morality and friendship. Gabriel Byrne, Albert Finney and John Turturro don the trench coats and Fedoras in this violent, complex and very well-worded Prohibition-era tale. ===

The Man With The Iron Fists

11.15pm, Film4 (RZA, 2012) The directorial debut of Wu Tang Clan’s RZA, to no one’s surprise, is a straight-up, non-parodic kung-fu movie, set in 19th-century China, with the requisite bad dialogue, mad haircuts, flashing blades and fountains of blood. Russell Crowe has lots of fun with his role as a lecherous, opium-smoking English soldier, but everyone else takes it very seriously.

the stories behind everyday facts. 7.00 The Archers. Tom puts himself forward. 7.15 Front Row. Arts programme.

7.45 The Pick Up. By Sarah Cartwright. 8.00 The Briefing Room. Why the election has been hailed a success for Jeremy Corbyn. 8.30 The Bottom Line. An overview of the business world. 9.00 BBC Inside Science. Presented

by Adam Rutherford. 9.30 In Our Time. The rural protest movement in America’s Gilded Age. 10.00 The World Tonight.

With James Coomarasamy.

10.45 Book At Bedtime: The Ministry Of Utmost Happiness.

By Arundhati Roy. 11.00 Thanks A Lot, Milton Jones!

Milton discovers the local lido is due to close. 11.30 With Great Pleasure. Mel Giedroyc presents her favourite pieces of writing. 12mdn’t News And Weather 12.30 Book Of The Week: The Secret Life 12.48 Shipping Forecast 1.00 As BBC World Service 5.20 Shipping Forecast 5.30 News Briefing 5.43 Prayer For The Day 5.45 Farming Today 5.58 Tweet Of The Day

BBC Radio 4 LW

9.45am Daily Service 10.15 Test Match Special 12.01pm Shipping Forecast 12.04 Test Match Special 5.54 Shipping Forecast 5.57 Test Match Special

BBC Radio 4 Extra

6am The Radio Detectives 6.30 Children Of The Enemy 7.00 Richard Barton: General Practitioner! 7.30 Ed Reardon’s Week 8.00 Marriage Lines 8.30 Play It Cool 9.00 All The Way From Memphis 9.30 Nineteen Ninety-Eight 10.00 Hard Times 11.00 A Bunch Of Fives 11.15 Haunted By More Cake 12noon Marriage Lines 12.30 Play It Cool 1.00 The Radio Detectives 1.30 Children Of The Enemy 2.00 Burning Bright 2.15 On The Map 2.30 The Forsytes Concludes 2.45 Damn His Blood 3.00 Hard Times 4.00 All The Way From Memphis 4.30 Nineteen Ninety-Eight

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BBC Radio 4

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2.15pm, BBC Radio 4 Drama about comedy actress Hylda Baker (Alison Steadman, above), following her ups and downs after being cast in the 1968 sitcom Nearest And Dearest.

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A seriously chewy subject Should prisoners have worse food than hospital patients? And what can the TV drama ‘Orange Is The New Black’ teach us about institutional eating?

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n the Netflix series Orange Is The New Black, food has often emerged as a theme: there are menus for religious diets, there is food to control behaviour – and there has even been the baking of phallic goods (a penis cookie).

The series brings to a general audience the problem of food provision in an institutional setting (in this case, prison), a topic the average viewer is likely only to have experienced at school or during a hospital stay.

Comparing diet in different institutions may not seem important at first glance. Prisons, schools and hospitals are fundamentally different spaces, catering to populations of different sizes, ages and needs. But comparisons between hospital and prison food, specifically, have been regularly made by tabloid newspapers since at least 1945.

The Sun, for example, questioned why “jailed criminals are fed better than sick hospital patients” in 2013.

Despite never receiving rigorous study, this comparison reveals a deep-set assumption that some people in the care of the State deserve a healthier diet than others.

Looking back, we can see how assumptions about prison and hospital diet have changed over time. A typical daily diet in a 19th-century English prison included a small portion of bread, meat, a pint of gruel and – less frequently – a portion of cheese, potatoes or soup. Given this, prison regulations in the 19th century allowed prisoners to complain to the prison administration about the diet provided.

But repeated complaints of a

frivolous or groundless nature could result in punishment, which would most likely have resulted in a decrease in diet. This is a punishment also passed out in Orange Is The New Black by the prison guards, but also informally by the inmates who run the prison canteen.

Despite periodic reforms to prison food during the century, culminating in a standard national prison diet in 1878, complaints about what ended up on prisoners’ plates persisted.

Prisoners’ narratives reveal that the low quality and insufficiency of the food, as well as the prisoners’ inability to make decisions about their

A recipe for fish custard was found in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh archive daily routine, was a source of great frustration and anxiety.

Looking at historical hospital dishes may likewise raise the eyebrows of contemporary food critics.

The Lothian Health Archive has found that in the 1920s, the “spleen diet” was offered to patients; the recipe for the dish was “pulp scraped from the fibrous part of the spleen, tossed in oatmeal and fried”. And a recipe for “fish custard” was discovered in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh archive.

These dishes may not appeal to contemporary tastes – and certainly diet in NHS hospitals, as in prisons, has long been a subject of complaint.

In 1954, the Manchester Guardian published a letter from a schoolboy writing that hospital food was “orable” (horrible).

In 1972, inspectors from the Egon Ronay food monitoring group visited 31 hospitals and found that many meals were of a “scandalously low standard”. At the same time, the inspectors also found delicious and nutritious food available elsewhere.

Food varied not only across regions, but also according to the type of patient; many had different nutritional requirements.

More controversially, in the 1970s some hospitals also provided different food in canteens for different types of staff.

Junior staff believed that some dining rooms even had table service and tried to sneak in to those reserved for consultants or sisters. In other hospitals, particularly smaller ones, all staff would dine together.

This kind of variation continues today at the local level in hospitals and in prisons. The Stoke Mandeville Hospital uses data from patient surveys and holds staff tastings to update their patient menus monthly.

By contrast, the Campaign for Better Hospital Food publishes photos sent by patients who are less impressed by their meals. The group’s Flickr page shows examples of “mystery meat” and plates entirely filled by beige food, as well as examples of excellence.

The quality of hospital and prison food has varied across place and time for many reasons. The NHS and prison system are vast and complex.

They serve large populations – which

Prison food is a recurring theme in the Netflix series ‘Orange Is The New Black’

have increased over time. There were 15.5 million admissions to NHS inpatient care in 2013-4.

The UK prison population is about 85,000. Hospitals and prisons have different management structures and governing bodies – and populations with a variety of dietary requirements. So one key challenge for policymakers and reformers is deciding whether institutional diet should be managed, provided and controlled at a local or at a national level. Then there is the question of “how”.

Hospitals and prison caterings also

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Canayoga posemake youhappy?

ByAgnieszka GolecdeZavala and Dorottya Lantos

Yoga is the practice of non-competitive, physical exercise involving held poses (in Sanskrit, asana) combined with regulated breathing (pranayama) and meditation techniques.

The past few decades have seen a great increase in the practice of yoga in the West.

More than 31 million adults in the US have practised yoga at some point in their lives.

Multiple studies point to the positive effects of yoga on mental and physical health, as well as on

personal development.

Our study was unusual compared to others examining the effects of yoga practice, in that it examined only the asana aspect of yoga in order to investigate its effect on self-esteem.

Predominantly, research into yoga has focused on the benefits of meditation and breathing. To the best of our knowledge, only two previous studies have focused solely on studying the psychological effects of yoga poses.

We compared the effect of the tadasana,

urdhva hastasana and garudasana (yoga poses) to two “highpower” and two “lowpower” power poses.

We found that after performing two yoga poses our participants felt more energetic, empowered, and in control than those participants who performed power poses. Feeling energetic directly affected their confidence and feeling of satisfaction with themselves regardless of their initial levels

of self-esteem. We think such effects had less to do with the meaning of dominance associated with the poses, and more with the feedback that the body alignment in yoga poses provides to the parasympathetic nervous system – the

part responsible for regulating the body’s unconscious actions.

The high power poses were seen as more dominant and confident than yoga poses, but were less effective in increasing participants’ self-esteem.

The dispersed effects of yoga practice can all be linked to a common mechanism: the functioning of the vagus nerve which connects the brain (and therefore the mind) to the body. From the brain stem, the vagus

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have to adhere to strict budgets. The average NHS hospital food budget is £10.75 per inpatient per day.

The average prison food budget is as low as £2.02.

Lessons from history can help caterers in large institutions face up to these challenges. History suggests that individual and local campaigns have made a difference to the quality of the food that is provided in prisons and hospitals, despite multiple constraints.

From 1931, the Home Office required all prisons to give to inmates of all classes a portion of plum pud-

nerve connects facial muscles, heart, lungs, digestive tract, kidneys and reproductive organs.

It plays a key role in operating the parasympathetic nervous system which includes the feed-andbreed and rest-anddigest processes, and also regulates heart rate, and promotes calm and soothing states.

It also regulates our caring behaviour, hence why a well-functioning vagus nerve leads us to feel calm, relaxed and safe in relation to others.

This is also reciprocal: feeling calm, relaxed and

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enable these small-scale pilot schemes to expand.

Cultural and attitudinal change is also important. At present, by funding food improvement or self-catering schemes in prisons, legislators may face criticism from factions of the media which already bemoan the money spent on prisoners’ food.

Changing institutional diet is challenging – but the rewards can be great. Improving institutional diet could have positive implications for population health. Improved hospital and prison food will not only improve the diets of patients and prisoners, but also

ding on Christmas Day. This was the result of numerous offers in preceding years from reform organisations and concerned individuals who wanted to provide inmates with special food at this time.

The key questions are about how to ensure that local examples of excellence can be adopted across these large systems. The Campaign for Better Hospital Food argues that only stricter legal standards and enforcement can lead to improvement. But another method to drive improvement may be to provide further funding to

sociable also stimulates the vagus nerve. This means it’s possible to start off a positive upward spiral of wellbeing either by affecting the states of the body or the states of the mind.

Research suggests that the proper functioning of the vagus nerve (assessed as the “cardiac vagal tone” indicating the degree of the vagus nerve’s influence on the heart) promotes emotion regulation, social competence and prosocial behaviour, and dampens aggression, hostility, depression and anxiety. This

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supports our theory that yoga practice – meditation, breathing, and performing yoga postures – tones the vagal nerve.

Our findings suggest that even a short practice of yoga poses may positively affect the vagal tone, making us feel more satisfied and happy.

Agnieszka Golec de Zavala is a senior lecturer in psychology and Dorottya Lantos is a doctoral candidate in psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London

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that of the people who work in these institutions. This is not insignificant: the NHS is the fifthlargest workforce in the world.

Furthermore, well-fed patients and prisoners, particularly those who stay in these sites for a significant amount of time, may also institute healthier practices of eating and cooking when they return to the community.

Bringing change to large institutions is difficult, but has huge potential impacts. Something to muse on, perhaps, as we bingewatch Orange Is The New Black and see how prison food continues to be shaped by – and drive – so-

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cial relations, inmate health and the everyday power dynamics at Litchfield Penitentiary.

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Drop in and chill out

A new walk-in meditation studio offers overworked businesspeople the chance to relax and de-stress. Siobhán Norton samples it

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t was one of those mornings.

Crushed on to a bus, then a delayed train, battling with the thousands of other commuters making their way into the capital.

I finally managed to slide into a seat on the Tube, only to engage in a passiveaggressive war of knees with the besuited manspreader next to me.

Finally, sweaty and stressed, I made it to my next destination. I slid into another seat, next to another man-insuit, who was, thankfully, keeping his knees to himself. The lights changed and I closed my eyes…

No, I didn’t wake up in Zone 5.

Instead, I was in a meditation studio, along with some other City types sitting quietly around me. There was nothing in the way of patchouli or beaded curtains here, though – the furnishings were sleek and everyone was still in their business attire, although they had all removed their shoes. Chairs were “blinkered” so your neighbour couldn’t distract you from the mood lighting and ambient music.

Inhere is the brainchild of Adiba Osmani, who worked at a senior level in large corporations for several years before deciding to launch her own venture. She discovered meditation on retreat in Thailand and was keen to implement its scientific benefits in modern society. So she opened a drop-in meditation centre in the financial heart of London.

“I wanted a much broader audience,” she says. “I didn’t want the same associations people generally have with meditation, whether it’s from the East, candles and the rest of it. This opens it up to a different market where people that wouldn’t normally do it can do it.”

City life inevitably means standing nose to nose with fellow commuters,

Peace and quiet (above and top) inside the teacher-free drop-in meditation studio Inhere, the brainchild of Adiba Osmani (below)

dodging tourists on crowded pavements, and scrambling to claim a square foot of grass where you can eat your lunch-hour sandwich.

Inhere has minimised the human interaction – the meditation sessions feature audio guidance and soundscapes but “no teachers to make small talk with”, the website reassures us.

For socially awkward types such as me, this is a relief.

In 2015, MNDFL landed in New York, branding itself as the “SoulCycle” of meditation. The boutique drop-in studio, all Scandified exposed brick and natural light, was hailed

by Vogue as “the only

quiet room in New York City”.

Guests can use the online booking engine to reserve a cushion, for 30 or 45-minute sessions of Vedic, Kundalini or Theravada meditation, as well as specialist classes such as Sleep to help you unwind and Emotions to help you through a difficult time.

But how much would you pay for even five minutes of sanctuary?

Well, at Inhere, the going rate is £2, or £20 for a half hour.

Apparently even just a few minutes make a big difference – a recent Canadian study found that just 10 minutes can help quell anxiety and “turn off” your internal dialogue.

Previous studies have

shown that it can alleviate stress and even improve brain function within just four days of practising.

Osmani says that businesspeople often come to meditation not just to relax but to enhance their cognitive ability. “It starts from a productivity slant – people talk about being able to focus and concentrate more. They latch on to that at the beginning, because they don’t particularly want to admit that they’re really stressed. But more and more people are just being more connected to how they can have more influence over their own life.”

And perhaps City workers need meditation even more than the rest of us. A study published earlier this year suggested that more than half of City workers are more stressed at home than they are in the office, as the culture of bringing work home becomes the norm.

More men appear to be warming to the idea of meditation. Digital consultant Dan Keegan is a newcomer.

“Before, working in the City, you’d get laughed at if you talked about doing something like this. So I think the attitude has really changed. I can see particularly people in sales roles liking it – they just want a little bit of peace and quiet, to switch off for a bit.”

Erin Lumley works in marketing and says the drop-in nature of the studio appealed to her. “It feels like a cold shower for the mind,” she says.

“I feel really refreshed and ready to focus on my work after it. I like that it caters for everyone, even if you’ve only got five minutes, or 30 minutes.

This is almost like the equivalent of signing up for a gym membership, but for your mind.”

For more information visit inherestudio.com

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’d always fancied a go at stand-up. That was until I saw a young comedian absolutely destroyed on stage at a comedy night in Greenwich, east London. A heckler tore this poor young fellow to pieces until the comic uttered a few expletives and ran off stage in tears. From that moment on my comedic ambitions were as mobile as a bag of lard.

“You might think that if you can tell a funny story in the pub and everyone laughs, you could be a stand-up,” the comedian/actor John Thomson says during a break in filming the next series of Cold Feet. “But, believe me, there is a lot more to it than that.”

Thomson has recently created and executive-produced Dying Laughing, a documentary featuring interviews from many of the globe’s most famous comedians, such as Billy Connolly, Jamie Foxx, Jo Brand, Eddie Izzard and Chris Rock.

Directed by Lloyd Stanton and Paul Toogood. It examines exactly what it takes to become a stand-up, looking at the breathtaking highs and excruciatingly painful lows alongside “the boring life bits in between”.

“When you sit around with other comedians, the anecdotes about their bad experiences on the road and onstage are often better than their set,” Thomson says.

“I did a student gig and it wasn’t going at all well. Then this big student walked onstage, snatched my beer out of my hand, stood in front of me and downed it in one.

The crowd started shouting: ‘You are

A lot of comedians make light of a bad life and find a way of overcoming it shit, you are shit, you are shit!’ I died on my arse, didn’t get to finish my act, was booed off and, as it finished late, I had to sleep on the student common room floor while people were stepping over me going: ‘It’s you! You were shit last night.’

“But you have to die onstage to get good. The more pain you experience on that stage the better you will get.”

Certainly, it seems that every comedian has suffered. New Yorker Dave Attell admits on one occasion to shutting down, forgetting his whole act, babbling like a lunatic and wetting himself, while the Washington-born comedian Royale Watkins breaks down in tears even at the mention of a past bombing.

Frank Skinner recalls: “A really old lady walked up to the front of the stage once and said: ‘Why don’t you go away?’”

One wonders why they do it.

But as much as they talk about their horrendous and humiliating experiences, they also emphasise the adrenaline highs that only an audience’s laughter can afford.

“You never know how it’s going to go and I guess that’s part of the exhilaration,” Thomson says. “It’s like gambling. The first question I ask is: ‘Are they comedy savvy?’ Playing in an established comedy night in a comedy club is one thing but playing in the function room that no one uses above the Dog and Duck in Barnsley is another kettle of fish. You have people coming up saying: ‘Ee lass shall we give this comedy a go?’

‘You have to die on stage to get good’ ‘Dying Laughing’ is a new documentary about the highs and mainly the lows of being a stand-up comedian. No pain, no gain, its producer, John Thomson, tells Chris Sullivan “When it works it’s magic. If you have the audience in the palm of your hand you can relax a bit, play around and go off piste.

“I played in Stockton-on-Tees recently and it was electric. It’s an incredible high. If they were all like that I’d be out there tonight but in the three years I was doing it again, out of 40 gigs I had four that were really very special.”

“I would say though that you have be slightly unhinged to do it or, as Keenen Ivory Wayans says in the film, ‘slightly damaged’.

“A lot of comedians have had a tough time of it. They make light of a bad life and find a way of overcoming it. I think you’re more likely to find someone who is funny in Glasgow or is in prison than you would in Henley.”

Victoria Wood says in the film: “I think you’d be very rare to find a good comedian who doesn’t feel disenfranchised from something. We are the odd people and that is how we fit in by showing our oddness.”

And yet, no matter how oddball

and barking they might appear, stand-ups certainly fill a big hole in society. They are the philosophers of today boldly going where few others have the gumption to go.

“Stand-up is a soapbox from where you can comment on and satirise the world,” says Thomson.

“And the best comedy reveals something truthful about the human condition or society that you might not have thought about. They have this weird surreal take on things. And that’s what I like.

“Stand-ups look at the world in a different way. The other week Justin Moorhouse asked me if I’d ever played darts blindfolded. So I said of course not. ‘You don’t know what you’re missing,’ he replied. Now what type of mind created that?”

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In their own words JERRY SEINFELD “Comedy is purely a result of your ability to withstand self-torture. That is where you get great comedy.

Your ability to suffer and say ‘that damn thing still doesn’t work, I’m going to write it again’ and if you’re willing to do that 85 times over the course of many, many years great jokes get written.”

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All aboard for a journey to a place called disappointment » The Passengers That Took On The Train Line BBC2, 9pm » Eat Well For Less? BBC1, 8pm

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SARAH SILVERMAN “We want to please the audience and that is why we do stand-up, because of some f**ked-up need inside of you to have the approval of strangers.”

STEVE COOGAN “I did the Tunnel club in London and they threw chairs at me… I use comedy to mitigate pain. People from dysfunctional backgrounds make better comics. I don’t know many well-adjusted spiritual people who are funny.”

BILLY CONNOLLY “I think it’s rather wonderful that at one end of society is this crowd of nutters who will talk about having sex with your mother, dying, assaulting clouds, venereal disease, cancer and politics.”

John Thomson says stand-ups are ‘the philosophers of today’

JO BRAND “I don’t look like a gorgeous model type, so you get used to walking along the road and getting abuse from people out of cars and vans.

But the thing about comedy is that [the audience is] in front of you and you can fight back.

I find having a go at them really most enjoyable.”

t was David versus Goliath – but it was never going to end well.

The fight was too big and the challenge too unprecedented.

The outcome, in the end, was completely predictable. Still, I enjoyed – if only for an hour – the idea that a band of beleaguered yet determined commuters could successfully bid for, buy and run the Southeastern rail network.

Inspired by journalist Jacques Peretti, six commuters, all with different jobs and skill sets, teamed up to take on a train line.

Their message was simple: we, your fellow passengers, will put passengers’ needs first.

First, they needed to convince fellow commuters to climb aboard.

When you think about it, busy trains packed full of workers isn’t a bad place to recruit. One cramped carriage could house hundreds of different skills. The team needed to find, among others, health and safety experts, lawyers, human resources directors and secretaries. (They also, very wisely, sought the expertise of people who knew about trains.)

There were, rather ironically, delays, but the commuters were not deterred when the Department for Transport seemingly moved the goalposts, asking the not-forprofit group to prove they had £50m in assurity before their application could be considered.

The team simply took action, visiting an event hosted by a social investment bank in an attempt to convince investors looking for projects with social benefits to pledge the required amount. In this, they succeeded.

Alas, it wasn’t enough. The plucky group emerged from the meeting to discuss their bid – an appointment that wasn’t filmed – looking like dejected schoolchildren given a dressingdown by a stern headmistress.

They had been told that, despite all their hard work, they hadn’t provided enough evidence and detail to prove they could successfully run the franchise.

There was, inevitably, anger. The Government claim to have tested the process to ensure “normal people” can bid for the franchise, putting people like our intrepid commuters on a level playing field with big businesses such as Govia.

The level of detail required for such applications, it seems, makes that almost impossible. One disgruntled member of the team said the department expected each question on the application form to be filled out by a separate team, including lawyers – a lengthy, costly process which would be completely unattainable for anyone other than big, multimillion-pound businesses.

How accessible is that?

The programme did provide food for thought, though. In theory, it would be possible for the people to take on a train line. When broken down into stages, the whole thing didn’t, actually, seem that far-fetched. And what a marvellous idea. In practice, though, young David looks unlikely to beat mighty Goliath any time soon.

I firmly believe that the weekly supermarket food shop is a useful test for any couple. Will your beloved shop by aisle, stick firmly to a pre-agreed list, or act like a child in a sweetshop? For poor Tina in last night’s episode of Eat Well For Less?, it was the latter.

Husband, soulmate and Gregg Wallace-lookalike Ryan was a food shopping addict, snapping up two-for-one deals all over the place. I suspect that Wallace – who swooped in with a man who wasn’t John Torode – didn’t just save the couple a helluva lot of money. He probably saved their marriage, too.

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CHRIS ROCK “Anyone who thinks for a living is going to be sad.

Ignorance is bliss. So what’s the opposite? You can’t be ignorant if you’re a comedian.

You have to be aware and you can know too much, but are we manic-depressives? Nah! But we’re definitely not as happy as the average idiot.”

PETE GIFFORD

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Ben Lloyd-Hughes as sperm donor Dennis and Claire Lams as war widow Sam ROBERT DAY

THEATRE

Kiss Me

TRAFALGAR STUDIOS, LONDON

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Though he is now defined by his uproarious, crowd-pleasing farce, One Man, Two Guvnors, Richard Bean has written a vast number of plays in a wide range of forms.

But Kiss Me nonetheless feels like a departure – an intimate

POP

Kraftwerk

GLASGOW ROYAL CONCERT HALL

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This was a mesmerising but playful show, with each immaculate track from the enigmatic German quartet’s back catalogue accompanied by their signature stylised visuals in eye-popping 3D. When a giant computer loomed out of the screen, the audience “ooh”ed, then climbed aboard their spaceship to cruise over planet Earth, our cosmic odyssey soundtracked by “Spacelab”.

Glasgow was plotted on a satellite map – the Kraftwerk equivalent of roaring “good evening, Glasgow”. They are famously a band of few words but they can say more about the state of Europa with a few choice lyrical juxtapositions, such as the subtext of state surveillance in “Computerworld” or “Trans Europe Express” and its tonic for the Brexit blues.

During the encore they owned that techno culture they created but not before the ritual unveiling of their creepy mannequin alter egos for “The Robots”.

UK tour to 23 June (kraftwerk.com) FIONA SHEPHERD

two-hander strikingly different in tone and topic from his mega-hit.

It is set in 1929 in the bedroom of a London flat where Stephanie (Claire Lams), a 32-year-old war widow, lodges. She’s desperate to get pregnant, but the war and the Spanish flu have scythed down a

generation of men of a suitable age.

So Stephanie, who has plenty of pluck, signs up for an unorthodox method of solving the problem Enter the personable but rather uptight Dennis (Ben LloydHughes). Under the auspices of a clinic run by the unseen Dr

Trollope, it turns out that Dennis has fathered 202 children – and counting. It’s a situation full of potential for both absurdity and poignancy in Anna Ledwich’s meticulous, beautifully acted production. Lams is enchanting as Stephanie, spouting wisecracks out of nerves as Dennis, with a stiff awkwardness, specifies “the parameters” that they pretty soon overstep.

The actress winningly exudes the witty, hard-won modernity of this character, who smokes and drives a lorry for a living but has to acknowledge the stigma she will face as a single mother.

What kind of man goes round performing as a sort of interactive sperm donor to hundreds of women? The answer that would occur to many people is a pervert.

Dennis maintains that, having been denied the chance to fight (because of his father’s business in the West Indies), he has a duty to compensate and make war against death by volunteering to impregnate war widows and women whose husbands returned home impotent.

Lloyd-Hughes gives a lovely, subtle portrayal of Dennis. If the character remains valuably a bit of a mystery, the flashes of haunted survivor’s guilt look unfeigned and desolating.

In the later stages of this 70-minute piece, where there are relaxed conversations about, say, the clitoris, the talk and the jokes felt, to my ear, too free and modern-sounding. The play would be even better if it sometimes exercised a virtue not often deployed in the Bean canon: restraint.

To 8 July (0844 871 7632; atgtickets.com) PAUL TAYLOR THE INDEPENDENT

JAZZ/ OPERA

Charlie Parker’s Yardbird

Opening this week

VISUAL ARTS Beyond Caravaggio

SCOTTISH NATIONAL GALLERY, EDINBURGH

The first exhibition of works by Caravaggio and his followers ever to be staged in Scotland.

(0131 624 6200) opens Sat

POP Guns n’ Roses

LONDON STADIUM, E9

The unlikeliest reunion since for ever, as Axl Rose, Slash and Duff McKagan revisit the essentials. (seetickets.com) opens Fri

DANCE Scottish Dance Theatre

THE PLACE, LONDON WC2

Botis Seva’s new TuTuMucky uses “post hip hop theatre” in a work about finding peace in chaos.

(020 7121 1100) opens Fri

VISUAL ARTS The Studio and the Sea TATE, ST IVES

The gallery marks its reopening after a big refit with two shows running concurrently: in the oceanfacing areas, Jessica Warboys uses film, performance and specially commissioned sea paintings to investigate myth, symbolism and the landscape, while That Continuous Thing explores 100 years of studio pottery with more than 80 works by 50 artists. (01736 796226) to 3 Sept

Skin

FERENS ART GALLERY, HULL

An exploration of the nude and how the depiction of skin continues to fascinate today, with Spencer Tunick’s photographs from the gallery’s Sea of Hull 2016 commission revealed for the first time, alongside Ron Mueck’s sculptures of the human form, including Wild Man (2005) and Spooning Couple (2005), Lucian Freud’s Two Men (1987-1988) and Naked Girl with Egg (1980-1981), by Stanley Spencer and John Coplans.

(01482 300 300) to 13 Aug

HACKNEY EMPIRE, LONDON

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The shadow cast by Charlie Parker, who died 67 years ago, grows ever longer. Young saxophonists still strive to reproduce his classic solos with fidelity to every small inflexion; the bebop he created with Dizzy Gillespie lurks powerfully behind the jazz played today.

His art was mercurial, mysterious, and amazing; his life was a short chronicle of self-destruction, with the heroin a necessary concomitant to the creativity.

The show imported by English National Opera and the Hackney Empire from Opera Philadelphia and the Apollo Theatre Harlem, is a rumination more on the life than the art. Consisting of a series of flashbacks from the day Bird died, with him encountering his mother, sundry girlfriends, Dizzy, and a drug-dealer, this is neither a jazz opera nor a musical.

But its composer Daniel Schnyder’s insistence that it’s a “through-composed classical opera” does less than justice to its prevailing jazz colouring:

First Chance

Life-enhancing warmth: Lawrence Brownlee plays the lead – but not the sax– in ‘Yardbird’ RICHARD HUBERT SMITH

musically we are sometimes in the world of Bernstein and Sondheim, and we are emphatically in New York.

The supporting cast is firstrate. And although Lawrence Brownlee – the Rossini tenor who was the work’s inspiration – doesn’t play his sax, his charismatic vocalism holds

everything together with magnificent authority.

Lasting 90 minutes without an interval, this bold experiment may be syrupy and moralising, but it is also dramatically vivid and exudes a life-enhancing warmth.

To 17 June (020 8985 2424; hackneyempire.co.uk) MICHAEL CHURCH

FILM Norman: the Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer 15, JOSEPH CEDAR, 118 MINS

Writer-director Joseph Cedar’s latest feature is subtle, surprising and does a fine job of combining pathos, gentle character-based comedy and political satire. In a performance that rekindles memories of Peter Sellers in Being There, Richard Gere stars as Norman Oppenheimer, a small-time “fixer” who introduces politicians and business people to one another and tries to insert himself into their lives. Nationwide release

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TALKS & POETRY Jamie Bartlett

BOOKENDS, CARLISLE

The director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at the think-tank Demos discusses his new book, Radicals: Outsiders Changing the World. (01228 529067) tonight 7.30pm

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THE CULTURAL HIGHLIGHTS YOU HAVE TO SEE

Borders Book Festival HARMONY GARDEN, MELROSE

Natalie Haynes, Richard Holloway, Anne Reid, James Fergusson and Malachy Tallack all appear in Thursday’s opening events, while later in the festival are Melvyn Bragg, Misha Glenny, Christopher Brookmyre, Joan Ruddock, Ben Macintyre, Joanna Trollope, Val McDermid, John Cleese, Cathy Rentzenbrink and Ann Cleeves.

(0844 357 1060) to Sun

COMEDY Stewart Lee

VARIOUS VENUES

Stewart Lee’s latest is another slice of superior, sardonic social commentary. It was supposed to be about the fall of man in the digital age, and although that does still get some air time in Content Provider, Brexit and Trump bear the brunt of his ire – although in his navelgazing way, he reserves some of that for himself, too. Buxton Opera House (01298 72190) tonight; Cast, Doncaster (01302 303959) Fri

Sweet Baboo

Paul Foot, with his wonderfully woven absurdist tales, leads the line at the 100 Club, but there’s fabulous back-up from Tez Ilyas, ace storyteller Kieran Hodgson and Fin Taylor, whose cracking material on white privilege boosted his profile last year. (the100club.co.uk) tonight

Noting that “the universe is beige and grey,” Welsh charmer Stephen Black decided to craft a vibrant alternative for his three-year-old son. The result is Wild Imagination, a sweet, wry and winningly eccentric pick-you-up from a gently inquisitive psych-pop explorer who always takes the scenic route.

Lexington, London N1 (wegottickets. com) tonight; Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff (seetickets.com) Fri

POP Pond

VARIOUS VENUES

The Perth space cadets (and friends of Tame Impala) return with the bright outlook of The Weather, offering synth-pop flourishes and disco-pop grooves to counterbalance their existential reflections and pointedly off-world explorations. Between its AOR dazzle and epic nuclear-fear laments, Pond-life is looking healthy. Concorde 2, Brighton (seetickets.com) tonight; Forum, London NW5 (ticketweb.co.uk) Fri

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CLASSICAL Altstaedt & Lonquich WIGMORE HALL, LONDON W1

The characterful Franco-German alliance of Nicolas Altstaedt and Alexander Lonquich launches a cycle of Beethoven’s complete sonatas for cello and piano with Op 5, Op 69 and Op 102. (020 7935 2141) tonight 7.30pm

FOLK & ROOTS

100 Club Presents 100 CLUB, LONDON W1

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VARIOUS VENUES

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Alasdair Roberts, Emily Portman, Rachel Newton and Lucy Farrell – the Best Group winners of the BBC Folk Awards – tour their latest album, Wild Hog. A fourth album is in the works. Square Chapel, Halifax (01422 349422) tonight; Citadel, St Helens (01744 735436) Fri

THEATRE

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard

Jane Eyre

More Australians on a mission to take your brain to another dimension, King Gizzard are attacking said mission with a fervour, lining up five albums for 2017 release. The latest, Murder of the Universe, is a feast of Sabbathsized riffs and high-concept (man’s downfall, the planet’s demise) thinking: all 21 tracks of it. (gigsandtours.com) tonight

The driving emotional energy, courage and depth in Charlotte Brontë’s first novel get their due in this tremendous and unforgettable stage version by Sally Cookson. It’s played out with a mixture of music, athleticism, flowing ensemble work and sheer passion that takes the breath away, as we follow Nadia Clifford’s indomitable Jane through her journey. (atgtickets.com) to Sat

FORUM, LONDON NW5

RICHMOND THEATRE

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ROYAL SHAKESPEARE THEATRE, STRATFORD-UPON-AVON

Iqbal Khan offers a fluid and confident reading that takes its time to establish, crucially, the luxury and opulence of Cleopatra’s court that has lured Antony (Antony Byrne) from his Roman duty.

Byrne makes him a no-nonsense warrior and pleasure-seeker, beguiled by Josette Simon’s magnificent, mercurial Cleopatra.

Add to this the constant, gripping quality of a political thriller and the RSC has a palpable hit.

(01789 403493) to 7 Sept

JAZZ Billy Cobham with the Guy Barker Big Band

RONNIE SCOTT’S, LONDON W1

The drummer returns to Soho for a six-night residency with the masterful composer, arranger and trumpeter Guy Barker and his Big Band. (020 7439 0747) to Sat

WORLD MUSIC Vieux Farka Touré VARIOUS VENUES

The Malian guitarist, singer and activist returns to the UK with a new album, Samba, recorded live before a studio audience in Woodstock. Howard Assembly Room, Leeds (0113 243 9999) tonight; Jazz Café, London NW1 (020 7485 6834) Fri

If you only see one thing today

ANDY ROSS

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DANCE

Coppélia

BIRMINGHAM HIPPODROME

Birmingham Royal Ballet dance one of ballet’s perkiest classics, a tale of quarrelling village lovers and dancing mechanical dolls. (0844 338 5000) to Sat

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business@inews.co.uk ECONOMY

US Federal Reserve raises short-term interest rate

By Marion Dakers

America’s central bank has signalled that it will start to wind up its crisisera support for the US economy this year as jobs and growth continue to recover.

The Federal Reserve, which stewards the world’s biggest economy, last night nudged its shortterm interest rate higher to 1.25 per cent – the third increase in six months as the US emerges further from the 2008 financial crisis.

The Fed also said it would start to reverse its asset-purchasing scheme this year “provided that the economy evolves broadly as anticipated”.

The programme was set up during the recession to pump cash into the economy and has ballooned to $4.5trn (£3.5trn).

Janet Yellen, the chairman of

the Fed, said that the American jobs market “has continued to strengthen and economic activity has been rising moderately so far this year”. Output rose by 1.2 per cent in the first three months of the year, suggesting that the economic recovery is gaining traction.

Moves to close down crisis policies were therefore widely expected, with trading behaviour before the announcement pointing to a 95 per cent chance of a rate rise, according to the market operator CME Group.

Ms Yellen had dropped several The US unemployment rate is 4.3 per cent, the lowest in 16 years, as the world’s biggest economy continues to recover from the 2008 crash.

hints that the Fed would start to reverse its ultra-supportive economic policies, amid concerns that they could stoke inflation, yet she has plotted a cautious path back to normality.

Rates started to rise in late 2015 but the Fed has kept them far below the 5 per cent level seen shortly before the financial crisis began.

The tone coming from the world’s biggest economy could also influence the Bank of England, which is due to make its monthly rates announcement today.

The UK has not raised rates since July 2007 and is not expected to make a change following the shock election result. The rate has been at 0.25 per cent since the middle of last year.

The Fed’s move followed weakerthan-expected data on US retail sales, which fell by 0.3 per cent in May

Janet Yellen pointed to a recovering economy in justifying the rate rise

in the steepest decline in over a year.

Economists at UBS said the sluggish reading was unlikely to alter the Fed’s course in June but could affect the chances of a another interest rate rise in September.

Other signs suggest the US economy is gathering momentum.

Factories have reported growth for nine months in a row, while Wall Street stock markets have reached record highs.

RETAIL

Zara owner’s profits cut a fine figure with 18% lift

By Holly Williams

Quote of the day The 30 Second Briefing We sort of see it as the mother of all artificial intelligence projects Tim Cook

Apple’s boss talks up the tech giant’s work on driverless cars

GEMFIELDS TAKEOVER Are Fabergé eggs back in demand?

Yes. The Russian imperial trinkets have been desirable for centuries, but now the owner of the luxury goods brand is at the centre of a brewing bidding war between China and South Africa. Gemfields, a precious stones company which is listed in London, has just received

a £224m takeover bid from the Chinese conglomerate Fosun.

How did Fabergé end up listed on the London stock market?

The House of Fabergé was ransacked during the Bolshevik revolution in 1918. While the famous eggs scattered around the world, the rights to use the name were sold by descendants of founder Gustav Fabergé in 1951. Since then, the business has changed hands several times, at one point becoming part of the soaps-to-soups giant Unilever.

Gemfields bought Fabergé for £90m from a private equity firm in in 2012.

What does Fabergé do now?

Mostly the name is used to sell

jewellery, although the company revived its jewel-encrusted Easter eggs in 2015.

What does Fosun want with Fabergé?

It has been splashing out all over Europe, benefiting from the favourable exchange rates to spread its wings. It already owns Wolverhampton Wanderers FC and the buggy company Silver Cross.

Will the Chinese firm succeed?

Perhaps. Gemfields has told its shareholders to take no action about this latest proposal or a bid made last month by its biggest shareholder Pallinghurst, which offered a shares deal worth £112m.

Inditex reported an 18 per cent surge in first-quarter profits and another double-digit rise in sales as it continued its worldwide expansion in shops and online.

The world’s biggest clothing retailer said net sales rose by 14 per cent to €5.6bn (£4.9bn) in the quarter to 1 May, or 12.5 per cent with currency changes stripped out. This helped the Zara owner to notch up a net profit of €654m for the quarter, compared with €554m a year earlier.

Inditex said all of its brands increased their international presence as it continued to secure its global dominance of retail fashion.

The Spanish company opened 30 shops during the quarter and now has 7,385 outlets in 93 countries, bru sh in g o f f t he di f f i c ul t ies currently being endured by other high-street stalwarts.

The group, which also owns fashion brands including Pull & Bear and Massimo Dutti, added sales had remained stable so far in the second quarter. The firm said it had created nearly 10,700 new jobs in the past year and paid out €42m to 84,000 workers in April as part of its profitsharing bonus plan.

Zara launched online in Thailand, Singapore and Vietnam in the quarter, with an Indian website due to launch by the end of January.

Brokers were upbeat about Inditex’s prospects. Liberum maintained its “positive view” and Richard Chamberlain, of RBC, said: “Inditex continues to set the bar [high] for global multi-channel growth.”

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RETAIL

WH Smith sales stationary despite high street slump

By Holly Williams

WH Smith has confirmed that its under-pressure high street shops are being helped by its growing airport and railway station network.

The stationer and newsagent saw total sales in its travel arm jump by 8 per cent in the 15 weeks to 10 June, including a 2 per cent fillip as a result of the weak pound on revenues at overseas stores.

Same-store sales fell 4 per cent across its high street estate, leaving the travel shops to pick up the slack, resulting in flat like-for-like sales in the quarter.

WH Smith said rising passenger numbers have helped push travel sales higher, while it has also been benefiting from expansion efforts.

It is on target to open 15 UK travel outlets this year, with more planned internationally, including six in Rome due to open next month.

The group continues to focus on profits and cost cutting at its high street business and said the sales fall was expected. It has previously said it will invest £48m in improving its shops this year.

WH Smith, which is celebrating its 225th anniversary this year, said it remained “confident” in the full-year result, despite “some uncertainty with regard to the broader economic environment”.

WH Smith is celebrating its 225th anniversary

Analysts at Peel Hunt said the update was upbeat thanks to an “extremely strong” performance at the travel division.

They noted the chance WH Smith might eventually spin off its travel arm. “A demerger is a distinct possibility here as the strength of the travel business becomes ever clearer,” they said.

M e a nwh i l e, t h e g ro u p h a s earmarked another £3m of savings for the second half, bringing the fullyear total to £10m.

It is also bringing Post Offices into its stores, with another 58 of these relocated since last April, taking the total so far to 165.

FTSE 250 shares in the firm rose nearly 3 per cent in early trading.

WH Smith now has 800 branches in travel sites such as railways and airports – eclipsing its presence on the high street, where it has 613 shops

Former TalkTalk boss earned £1.1m in final year TalkTalk revealed that its former boss Dido Harding earned £1.1m in annual pay and bonuses, just weeks after the telecoms company issued a profits warning.

It annual report showed that Ms Harding, who left in April, was given

Outlook JIM ARMITAGE

Thames Water fails to go with the flow

P

ee, poo and paper. That’s Thames Water’s new boss Steve Robertson’s motto.

What’s he on about? The stuff that we flush down our loos. Those three Ps are the only things that should be going down the U-bend. No nappies, no wet wipes,

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ENERGY

Shell is handed £112m tax rebate despite making billions

By Ben Chapman

TELECOMS

By Holly Williams

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a 9 per cent salary rise to £600,000, although her total pay, including bonuses, fell from £2.8m in the year before. TalkTalk directors agreed to take a 30 per cent bonus cut after “reflecting on the wider business performance for the year”.

Details of her bumper final year’s pay come after TalkTalk shares

were rocked last month in the wake of lower-than-expected profits and a warning over the next year’s results.

The group slashed investor dividend payouts and flagged that full-year earnings this year would come in up to 11 per cent lower, as it embarks on an investment drive to attract more customers.

no J-cloths, which clog up the ageing pipes below our city.

If you’ve never seen the “fatbergs” that lurk underneath big cities, brace your stomach and take a look online at what careless customers create with their profligate flushing.

Customers suffering from the run of floods last year may be more worried by another set of Ps: profits, performance and priorities.

For, despite receiving a £20m fine for polluting the Thames with raw sewage, and despite yesterday’s £8.6m fine for missing its leakage targets for the first time in a decade, Thames Water is still paying the foreign pension and sovereign wealth funds who own it a dividend of £100m.

It can do so because it turned a profit of £605m.

Folks using the river in those polluted areas, and Islington residents hit by the Great Flood of Upper Street, could be forgiven for

asking if Thames should use those profits and dividends to upgrade its creaking old infrastructure.

But chief executive Robertson, who launched the now-controversial Openreach broadband business for BT back in the day, can only work with the system that he has inherited.

And that is a system where we have contracted out our utilities to private

Chief executive Steve Rob bertson can only work with the system that he has inherited investors. If he doesn’t pay dividends to his long-term shareholders (some of whom were just replaced by Canadian and Kuwaiti investors), they’ll quit, and there’s a danger that nobody will replace them.

Few investors around the world are large and patient enough to throw their weight behind privately owned

Shell was handed a £112m tax rebate last year, despite the oil giant making billions of pounds in profits.

Most of the payment from HMRC is a contribution towards Shell’s costs for decommissioning its North Sea oil and gas fields. It follows a similar payment of £85m in 2016.

The figures highlight how the North Sea has transformed from being a cash cow for the government over four decades, to being a drain on the nation’s finances, as the remaining oil has become unprofitable to extract.

Energy research group Wood Mackenzie estimates that oil companies will spend £53bn from 2017 winding down North Sea fields but UK taxpayers will p ay t h e m b a c k £24bn in tax relief.

In a January report, Wood Mackenzie said one fifth of the likely cost is will hit over the coming five years, meaning £5bn will be paid to firms by the end of 2021.

This is not the first time Shell has come under scrutiny for its tax practices. The company paid no UK corporation tax in 2014, despite making a global profit of £19.87bn.

Shell said yesterday that it paid governments a total of £3.5bn in income taxes and £1.8bn in fees related to extraction last year.

Jessica Uhl, Shell’s chief financial officer, said: “Shell believes that transparency is an essential tool in building trust in tax systems.

“Society expects clarity on the revenues that extractive industries pay to governments and at the same time expects governments to be open about the revenues they receive and how they use these funds.”

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water companies. After all, Thames points out, it didn’t pay a dividend the year before, and, if you value it like its stock-market peers, the yield on this year’s divi is only about 2.5 per cent.

Set against Pennon’s yield of around 4 per cent, or United Utilities’ 3.9 per cent, or even Severn Trent’s 3.25 per cent, that doesn’t actually look too profligate.

Tougher regulation and even bigger fines would also drive private investors away, so the only alternative to private investment is nationalisation.

Thames’s investors have spent more than £1bn a year on our creaking pipes and drains in the past 12 years. That has clearly not been enough to make the system anywhere near perfect.

But ask yourself, would a nationalised Thames Water have spent more in austerity Britain?

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From the business pages Fuji Xerox bosses sacked over losses Asahi Shimbun (Japan)

Six top executives at Fuji Xerox have been forced out of their jobs after sales figures were padded and then covered up overseas, leading to a loss of 37.5bn yen (£267m).Fujifilm announced the personnel changes at a news conference, along with the results of an investigation into what occurred at its subsidiaries in New Zealand and Australia over a six-year period.

IMF urges Beijing to speed up reforms South China Morning Post

The International Monetary Fund has urged Beijing to resume progress towards a flexible exchange rate, in a subtle criticism of China’s recent interventions in support of the yuan currency.

The IMF also said China should speed up reforms to ward off financial risks, after two weeks of discussions with Chinese officials.

Super-cable arrives in the Bay of Biscay El Pais

A transatlantic super-cable named Marea, which will carry data with an initial capacity of 160 terabits per second, has arrived in the Spanish town of Sopelana, in the Bay of Biscay.

The ultra-fast connection, created thanks to a joint project from Facebook and Microsoft, will be managed by Spanish telecoms giant Telefónica through its affiliate Telxius.

Telstra set to shed 1,400 jobs Sydney Morning Herald

The telecoms giant Telstra will axe about 1,400 jobs across Australia as part of a huge costcutting drive that could wipe out nearly 5 per cent of its entire workforce. Employees across all divisions – including in the group’s vast field workforce of line technicians, maintenance and installation workers – are all feared to be in danger of losing their jobs. Telstra has more than 32,000 full-time employees across Australia.

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Bellway beats its growth target

The steel group Severfield’s work on London landmarks including the new roof for Court No 1 at Wimbledon helped the firm increase its revenues for the year to March by 10 per cent to £262m. The group undertook 110 projects in the year, including the new stadium for Tottenham Hotspur (left) and a tower in the City of London.

Housebuilder Bellway expects to complete 10 per cent more homes in the year to July, beating its growth target. It said sales demand was “strong” over recent months, with a 13 per cent rise in reservations despite signs of sluggishness in the market. Bellway expects to complete properties worth £900m during the year.

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Premiums pain for car drivers

Old Quindell firm hit with lawsuit

Motorists should brace for price rises as injury claims push the car insurance market into a £3.5bn loss for the year, according to forecasts. The accountancy firm EY said insurers were feeling the pain of recent reforms to payouts to whiplash victims. Premiums are forecast to rise by 9 per cent in 2017 to an average of £503.

The insurance services firm formerly known as Quindell is facing a £637m claim linked to the ill-fated sale of its legal business to the law firm Slater & Gordon in 2015. Watchstone, which was renamed after the deal, said allegations that it acted fraudulently during the sale were “groundless and without merit”.

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California dream for Purplebricks

The low-cost fitness chain The Gym Group expects its fullyear profit to be in line with expectations after reaching 500,000 members in a year.

The firm said it had grown its customer base by almost 20 per cent and added six new branches, taking its total estate to 95 sites across the UK.

Purplebricks is dreaming of California, revealing yesterday it has chosen Hollywood homes for its US debut. The Aim-listed estate agency, which marries an online platform with local property experts to charge a fraction of traditional agents’ fees, said it aimed to make the move later this year.

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Biffa buffeted by market listing

Charles Stanley back in the black

The cost of the waste management firm Biffa’s listing on the stock market led to a loss of £11m for the year to March, despite steady revenue and margin growth. Biffa said it was trading well and hoped to make the most of its new ventures turning waste into energy.

Charles Stanley vowed to close the productivity gap on wellheeled stockbroking rivals after swinging into the black for the first time in three years with a profit of £8.8m. The group plans to push fund managers and salespeople to be more efficient and to slash non-staff costs.

the markets Sterling’s ascent against the dollar yesterday weighed on listed multinationals on the FTSE 100, which tend to benefit when foreign currencies are stronger. London’s

blue-chip index fell by 0.35 per cent, or 26.04 points, to 7,474.4. US data showed lacklustre retail sales, and investors were also awaiting an interest rate decision.

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Commodity stocks followed crude prices lower to hold the bottom spots on the FTSE 100. Anglo American fell 28.5p to 1,059p, while Glencore dropped 7.65p to 286.65p, and Rio Tinto slumped 75p to 3,142.5p.

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The company has revamped its best-selling Bayswater bag

Mulberry sales benefit from the fall of sterling

By Ravender Sembhy

The luxury handbag maker Mulberry has reported rising full-year profits, helped by an increase in tourists taking advantage of the weak pound.

The company said pre-tax profits in the year to the end of March rose 21 per cent to £7.5m, while revenue was up 8 per cent to £168.1m “In the UK, like-for-like sales were up 2 per cent and continue to benefit from an increase in tourist spending in London, although domestic demand has been softer,” the group said. Last year the firm launched the first collection under the recently hired creative director Johnny Coca, with nine new bags – including a revamp of its best-selling Bayswater design.

The zipped Bayswater bag has become an immediate best-seller since its launch in October, Mulberry

daily money MARION DAKERS A building society is launching “Brexit bonds” that will pay out a bonus for savers who correctly predict what will happen to the pound as we leave the EU. Family Building Society will offer two bonds – one for optimists who think the pound will buy more euros

by March 2019 when the UK is due to exit, and one for pessimists who expect sterling to fall. The challenge

said. Mulberry’s chief executive, Thierry Andretta, said the new range has “generated strong creative momentum”. He added: “During the year we have made good progress.

Our sales and profits are growing, enhancing our strong cash position. “ We h a v e a d v a n c e d o u r international growth strategy with a new partnership in Asia.”

The group has bounced back over the past two years after seeing its profits hammered as it attempted to move upmarket and compete with the likes of Gucci and Dior.

The group, which has more than 60 stores globally, announced in 2016 a deal to grow in Asia with its majority shareholder Challice, a company run by the Singaporean billionaire Christina Ong and her family.

To this end, Mulberry opened new stores in Shanghai and Hong Kong earlier this year.

is based on a rate of €1.1535, which is where the pound was trading when Article 50 was triggered in March.

Successful savers will get two per cent extra in interest at the end of the fixed term in May 2019, on top of a standard one per cent annual rate.

If the exchange rate is exactly the same by the end of the scheme, nobody will get a bonus. Customers must invest a minimum of £10,000.

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Four in ten British workers splurge half of their disposable cash for the month within 24 hours of payday, and most of the money will be gone within a week, according to a poll.

The average Brit in the survey by pensions firm Portafina had £560 left after bills from their monthly pay, with a typical worker spending 80 per cent in the week after payday.

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Why not make pickled radish to go with this dish? It’s called kimchi in Korean cuisine. Finely slice a small red onion, a handful of radishes and a small cucumber. Mix equal parts water, sugar and white wine vinegar with a pinch of salt and a teaspoon of mustard seeds.

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Results Service BASEBALL MAJOR LEAGUE: Boston 4 Philadelphia 3 (12 Innings); Chicago White Sox 6 Baltimore 1; Cleveland 5 LA Dodgers 7; Detroit 6 Arizona 7; Houston 2 Texas 4; LA Angels 3 New York Yankees 2 (11 Innings); Miami 8 Oakland 1; Minnesota 20 Seattle 7; New York Mets 3 Chicago Cubs 14; Pittsburgh 5 Colorado 2; San Diego 6 Cincinnati 2; San Francisco 1 Kansas City 8; St Louis 5 Milwaukee 8; Toronto 1 Tampa Bay 8; Washington 10 Atlanta 5.

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WTA AEGON NOTTINGHAM OPEN, NOTTINGHAM: Second round: A Barty (Aus) bt J Fett (Croa) 6-2 6-1; K Ahn (US) bt M Linette (Pol) 6-3 6-1; T Pironkova (Bul) bt K Nara (Japan) 6-3 6-2; D Vekic (Croa) bt J Boserup (US) 6-3 6-4.

CRICKET TOUR MATCH Sussex v South Africa A, Arundel: Sussex 325-7 (90.0 overs; D M W Rawlins 96, J W Jenner 68).

ATHLETICS IAAF DIAMOND LEAGUE (Oslo, Norway).

CYCLING TOUR DE SUISSE, SWITZERLAND, BEX - CEVIO - 222KM, Stage 5: 1 P Sagan (Slovak) Bora-Hansgrohe at 5hrs 15mins 50secs; 10 O Doull (GB) Team Sky; 32 Tao Geoghegan Hart (GB) Team Sky both at same time.

Overall: 1 D Caruso (It) BMC Racing Team at 17hrs 24mins 24secs; 10 T Geoghegan Hart (GB) Team Sky at 1min 38secs.

TENNIS ATP & WTA TOPSHELF OPEN, ‘SHERTOGENBOSCH, NETHERLANDS: Men’s Second round: (8) A BEDENE (GB) bt E Escobedo (US) 6-3 6-4; (4) G MULLER (Lux) bt A Seppi (It) 7-6 (7-5) 6-4; J Benneteau (Fr) bt (7) N MAHUT (Fr) 3-6 6-2 6-2; (2) A ZVEREV (Ger) bt A Mannarino (Fr) 6-2 6-3.

Women’s First round: A Lottner (Ger) bt (1) D CIBULKOVA (Slovak) 7-5 2-6 6-4. Second round: N Vikhlyantseva (Rus) bt A Petkovic (Ger) 6-3 5-7 6-2; A Kontaveit (Est) bt K Flipkens (Bel) 3-6 6-1 6-2; C Witthoeft (Ger) bt C Giorgi (It) 7-6 (7-5) 6-3; (7) L TSURENKO (Ukr) bt P Krejsova (Cz Rep) 6-2 6-3.

ATP MERCEDES CUP, STUTTGART, GERMANY: Men’s Singles Second round: T Haas (Ger) bt (1) R FEDERER (Swit) 2-6 7-6 (10-8) 6-4; (6) M

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CRICKET ICC CHAMPIONS TROPHY SEMI FINAL: Bangladesh v India (Edgbaston, 10.30am).

FIRST ONE DAY INTERNATIONAL: Scotland v Zimbabwe (Edinburgh, 10.45am).

TOUR MATCH—SECOND DAY OF FOUR: Sussex v South Africa A (Arundel, 11.00am).

CYCLING UCI WORLD TOUR:TOUR DE SUISSE (Locarno to La Punt, 166.7km).

GOLF U.S. OPEN (Erin Hills, Erin, Wisconsin).

LPGA TOUR MEIJER LPGA CLASSIC FOR SIMPLY GIVE (Blythefield Country Club, Grand Rapids, Michigan).

RUGBY LEAGUE LADBROKES CHALLENGE CUP (8.0) Quarter-Finals: Salford v Wakefield.

SPEEDWAY SBG PREMIERSHIP: Swindon v Rye House.

TENNIS ATP & WTA RICOH OPEN (‘s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands).

ATP MERCEDESCUP (Stuttgart, Germany).

WTA AEGON NOTTINGHAM OPEN (Nottingham).

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Erin Hills tee-off times TEE-OFF TIMES IN THE FIRST ROUND OF THE US OPEN, ERIN HILLS, ERIN, WISCONSIN (US unless stated, all times local): Starting at hole 1: 06.45 J Niebrugge; T Gooch; K Dougherty; 06.56 A Romero (Arg); B Garnett; D Love IV; 07.07 J Poston; A Rai (GB); Y Miyazato (Japan); 07.18 D Lingmerth (Swe); H Li (Chin); P Dunne (Rep Ire); 07.29 C Reavie; G Sauers; S Hagestad (a); 07.40 B Snedeker; T Hatton (GB); A Noren (Swe); 07.51 T Pieters (Bel); B Koepka; R Cabrera-Bello (Sp); 08.02 G Woodland; J.B. Holmes; J Kokrak; 08.13 S Gregory (a) (GB); M Laird (GB); R Knox (GB); 08.24 K Kisner; B Grace (SA); B Horschel; 08.35 E Els (SA); L Glover; W Simpson; 08.46 T Alexander; C Crawford (a); M Greyserman; 08.57 G Osborn; L Walker (a); M Campbell; 12.30 B Kohles; C Conners (Can); J Maguire (a); 12.41 G Bourdy (Fr); C Kim; E Pepperell (GB); 12.52 S O’Hair; Y Ikeda (Japan); J Vegas (Ven); 13.03 G Coetzee (SA); A Johnston (GB); B Stuard; 13.14 P Perez; M Leishman (Aus); S Woo Kim (S Kor); 13.25 R Henley; H English; S Scheffler; 13.36 A Scott (Aus); S Garcia (Sp); B Watson; 13.47 H Stenson (Swe); L Oosthuizen (SA); C Schwartzel (SA); 13.58 J Walker; P Casey (GB); J Thomas; 14.09 J Rose (GB); R McIlroy (Nirl); J Day (Aus); 14.20 S Cink; P Mickelson; S Stricker; 14.31 J Randolph; R Brehm; J Oda; 14.42 D Barron; R Robledo; M Andersen (a); Starting at hole 10: 06.45 Meen-whee Kim (S Kor); D Chopra (Swe); T Potter; Jr; 06.56 M Wallace (GB); S Imahira (Japan); R Palmer; 07.07 J Dufner; C Hoffman; H Tanihara (Japan); 07.18 T Aiken (SA); J Wang (S Kor); B Dredge (GB); 07.29 M Putnam; J Lovemark; S Harvey; 07.40 T Fleetwood (GB); B Harman; B Cauley; 07.51 H Matsuyama (Japan); J Rahm (Sp); R Fowler; 08.02 R Fisher (GB); L Westwood (GB); G McDowell (Nirl); 08.13 Z Johnson; D Willett (GB); A Cabrera (Arg); 08.24 F Molinari (It); P Reed; M Kuchar; 08.35 J Spieth; M Kaymer (Ger); D Johnson; 08.46 J Stalter (Fr); S Jaeger; J Niemann (a) (Chile); 08.57 S Theegala; D Miernicki; T Light; 12.30 O Bekker (SA); W Ormsby (Aus); K Thompson; 12.41 B Stone (SA); C Wood (GB); T Merritt; 12.52 D Summerhays; S Kodaira (Japan); A Levy (Fr); 13.03 W McGirt; K Na; K Bradley; 13.14 W Bryan; B Steele; B Dalke (a); 13.25 B De Chambeau; R Ramsay (GB); N Flanagan (Aus); 13.36 R Castro; D Berger; B Haas; 13.47 E Grillo (Arg); A Hadwin (Can); Cheng-Tsung Pan (Chin); 13.58 J Furyk; S Lowry (Rep Ire); S Piercy; 14.09 P Uihlein; M Fitzpatrick (GB); Byeong-Hun An (S Kor); 14.20 K Chappell; M McNealy (a); B Wiesberger (Aut); 14.31 C Champ (a); T Mullinax; X Schauffele; 14.42 A Pope; A Smalley (a); S Ryder.

Salford use trucks in latest push to boost attendance

By Andy Hampson

Salford are hoping to give their latest marketing push a shot in the arm by claiming a place in the Challenge Cup semi-finals this week.

This season’s surprising success of the Red Devils, with Ian Watson’s side sitting second in Super League after 18 rounds, is yet to be reflected at the AJ Bell Stadium gate.

Despite a number of initiatives,

Rory McIlroy (left) takes part in a practice round at Erin Hills yesterday

with confidence after his Masters win in April, and Henrik Stenson, another majestic ball striker with an iron in his hands.

Few in the field will have any experience of the course since Erin Hills is only 11 years old and is hosting its first major event outside the 2011 US Amateur.

TENNIS

Federer’s comeback on grass halted at first hurdle by Haas

By Sports Staff

Roger Federer was beaten on his return from a two-month break, losing 2-6, 7-6, 6-4 by German veteran Tommy Haas in the second round of the Stuttgart Open yesterday.

The 39-year-old Haas, who is playing his last season before retirement, saved nine of the 12 break points he faced and converted two of his three chances to deal the Swiss great just his second defeat of the season.

Federer (right), 35, skipped the clay-court season to recuperate from a busy start to the year which began with his capture of his 18th Grand Slam at the Australian Open, but the defeat on his opening grass-court tournament of the season is a blow just two weeks before Wimbledon.

Aljaz Bedene, the British No 4, is through to the quarter-finals of the Ricoh Open in ’s-Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands, after a straight-sets

win over Ernesto Escobedo. Bedene has made a promising start to his grass-court campaign and defeated young American Escobedo 6-3, 6-4.

Bedene, ranked 59 in the world, took three of his eight break points and did not face a single break point himself, winning 27 of the 28 points in which he landed his first serve.

In the last eight he will face either fourth seed Gilles Muller or Italy’s Andreas Seppi.

David Goffin has pulled out of Wimbledon with the ankle injury he suffered at the French Open.

The world No 13 had to retire during his thirdround match against Horacio Zeballos at Roland Garros after badly twisting his right ankle when he tripped over the covers at the back of the court.

The Belgian said on Twitter: “I am very sad to announce that I won’t play at the Wimbledon Championships this year. I won’t have enough time to be ready for the tournament. I want to be 100 per cent.”

final against Wakefield and trucks with electronic billboards advertising the h o m e f i x t u re have been driving the streets.

For the team’s part, all they can do is continue to play their part on the pitch.

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just 2,678 attended last weekend’s clash against one of the competition’s bigger clubs, Hull.

There have been rumours – downplayed by the club – that owner Dr Marwan Koukash (right) may rebrand the team as a Manchester entity in a bid to attract a bigger audience. Such a move, however, would be controversial with a core of supporters. For now, the task is to sell today’s quarter-

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‘Warburton will be ready in time for the first Test’

By Jack de Menezes IN ROTORUA

Sam Warburton is winning his race to fit for the first Test against the All Blacks after coming through the defeat by the Highlanders this week, with the British and Irish Lions ready to unleash their Test side on the Maori All Blacks in Rotorua in a bid to get their tour back on track.

The rate of attrition has increased significantly with Stuart Hogg being sent home after breaking his eye socket and damaging his cheekbone in an injury that could have left him blind if he had played on. Courtney Lawes also suffered a head injury in a collision with Highlanders wing Waisake Naholo, while there have been concerns over Ross Moriarty, Jonathan Davies and Warburton.

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Sam Warburton played for 68 minutes in the defeat by Highlanders

minutes at the Forsyth Barr Stadium on Tuesday night, and assistant coach Neil Jenkins confirmed that the Welshman looks on course to be ready in time for the first Test against the All Blacks on 24 June.

“Certainly better from Warby [Warburton], and it was nice for him to get a run-out last night,” Jenkins said yesterday. “There were quite a few turnovers and he carried quite a few balls.

“For Sam it’s just about keeping getting game time if he can. I don’t know what the outcome will be on the weekend, but it was a big improvement from him, and the more game time he plays the better he’s going to be.

“Sam’s a top-end player, a quality, world-class seven, but again it’s the same as anything, you need to be playing to keep getting yourself back up to the levels that you need to. Warby would be the first to be admitting that, there’s no doubting that, but he had a much, much better game last night and he’ll keep improving, there’s no doubt.”

Jenkins went on to confirm that this weekend’s side that is selected to take on the Maori All Blacks – the team that beat the Lions 12 years ago – will feature the majority of the Test side that start against the All Blacks next weekend, barring one or two changes.

Steve Hansen is also likely to name a strong All Blacks squad in order to take full advantage of their one and only warm-up match against Samoa on Saturday. THE INDEPENDENT

Retallick and Kaino lift All Blacks ahead of Lions clash

By Jack de Menezes

The All Blacks have been handed a double boost ahead of their series against the British and Irish Lions after naming both Brodie Retallick and Jerome Kaino in the squad that will take on Samoa tomorrow with the pair returning from injury.

The 26-year-old Retallick has been absent for the Chiefs after being sidelined with a concussion, but will start alongside Sam Whitelock in the second row after

All Blacks team New Zealand team to face Samoa B Smith; I Dagg, A Lienert-Brown, S B Williams, J Savea; B Barrett, A Smith; J Moody, C Taylor, O Franks; B Retallick, S Whitelock; J Kaino, Sam Cane, A Savea.

Replacements N Harris, W Crockett, C Faumuina, S Barrett, C Fifita, TJ Peranara, L Sopoaga, J Barrett,

coming through his return-to-play protocols, while 34-year-old flanker Kaino has not played since the last week of April due to a knee injury.

Both will start in a full-strength side named by All Blacks head coach Steve Hansen, with the captain Kieran Read the only noticeable absentee as the No 8 continues to recover from the broken thumb, meaning that Hurricanes back-row Ardie Savea is given the chance to impress at the base of the scrum.

Dane Coles is sidelined, with the hooker still suffering from concussion, while there is no Aaron Cruden and Ryan Crotty, the fly-half and centre ruled out with knee and ribs injuries respectively.

In Read’s absence, full-back Ben Smith captains the All Blacks for their only warm-up match against the Pacific Islanders, while Sonny Bill Williams makes his first appearance for the All Blacks since the 2015 Rugby World Cup final. THE INDEPENDENT

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Luka Modric arrives at court in Osijek, Croatia, to testify in a corruption trial

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or a man who is one of Croatia’s most successful exports, it is curious that Luka Modric has never been universally revered in his homeland, and things have just got worse in a court of law.

Indeed, while many have long resented his connection with controversial executive Zdravko Mamic, the most powerful man in Croatian football, this week that indifference turned to indignation with an instant fall from grace and one captured on camera, no less.

As prosecutor Tonci Petkovic presented him with an earlier statement of his own, Modric first asked for it to be repeated.

While it was being read again, he first released a nervous sigh and started to shake his head; then he wiggled a bit in his chair, put his hands on the table and stuttered: “that… that I’ve never said… that it… that… that it was drawn up

afterwards. I told you then I couldn’t himself rather than for Dinamo. The remember when it had been done.” investigation showed he did keep it And at that moment it was clear and the defence is not even trying to nothing in Croatia was ever going to deny that, but they claim there was be the same for Luka Modric. nothing unlawful about it.

Football fans insulted him in the Early in the player’s career, streets. Murals were defaced in Modric received financial backing Croatian cities – one, on the front from Mamic – who was not a Dinamo of the Hotel Iz in Zadar, executive at the time – where the Modric family and signed an agreement F o otball used to live as war refugees obliging him to share his fans now in the 1990s, ominously future income with his insult Modric benefactor. warned “Luka, you will remember this one day”.

That was one of many in the streets.

The former Tottenham Murals have agreements that Mamic midfielder is one of the signed with been defaced. reportedly key witnesses in the trial promising youngsters, ‘Luka, you will although he never was a of Mamic, a former chief remember this licensed agent. Some, such executive at Dinamo day’, one said as ex-Arsenal forward Zagreb, where Modric played before joining Spurs Eduardo da Silva, have in 2008. Among other been obliged to share their charges including embezzlement income with Mamic as long as they and tax fraud, Mamic is on trial are playing, but in Modric’s case it for illegally keeping a big chunk came down to one big payoff. of the transfer fee from Spurs for When Dinamo sold him to

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Tottenham for a reported €21m, half of that money went to Modric directly. Later, Modric testified, he would go to a bank accompanied by Mamic’s son or brother, withdraw the funds from his personal account and hand the cash to either of the two men. He did it for each instalment until he had given Mamic €8m of the €10.5m received.

Everything up to this point has been established and confirmed by all parties in the court case.

The disputed part, however, is the contract between Dinamo and Modric (right). Very conveniently for Mamic, who became the club’s chief executive and negotiated the sale to Spurs himself, it contained an annex specifying the fee was to be shared on a 50-50 basis between the club and the player. What the prosecution is trying to demonstrate is that the annex was only signed and backdated after the player had already been sold.

In his questioning last year, Modric admitted that was the case.

Now, however, he claims he never said that; upon being confronted with details of his initial statement, he explained he got confused.

“When speaking about that, I was talking about a personal contract between Mamic and me, which regulated the split of the transfer fee,” he said. Modric also failed to remember other details, even including the year of his debut for the national team.

His changed testimony enraged football fans in Croatia, because Mamic is alleged by many to be the No 1 villain in the domestic game, someone who controls both Dinamo and the federation with his web of influence, even now that he has officially departed from executive positions in both institutions.

The trial was supposed to continue after Modric’s testimony but Mamic made a big scene in the courtroom on yesterday, firing his lawyers and saying he’ll defend himself. The judge ordered a recess until further notice.

The case continues.

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n 1989, Rupert Murdoch launched Sky Television. In a country with no culture of paying for TV, it floundered and haemorrhaged cash.

Murdoch needed “a battering ram” to entice subscribers and found it in live sport. He agreed a deal worth £191m to show five seasons of live matches in the Premier League, which was formed largely for these purposes, from 1992, hoping that it would reinvigorate Sky. Murdoch’s bet worked. That was not just good news for Sky, which used live football to woo ever-more subscribers; it was also brilliant for the Premier League. The first package for live domestic football rights, from 1992-97, was worth £38.2m a year.

In the current rights cycle, the Premier League receives £1.7bn a year for the same offering, of which four-fifths comes from Sky. The story of Sky is essentially the story of the Premier League; the story of the Premier League is in many ways the story of Sky. Now, though, both will be concerned. Last season – the first of a new rights deal in which the broadcaster is paying 83 per cent ViewingfiguresforPremierLeaguegamesonSkyhavefallen by14percent GETTY more per year – viewing figures for matches on Sky fell 14 per cent. The the director of Mediatique, a full-paying subscribers – the total viewing hours for Premier media consultancy firm. Fighting company zealously guards the League football also fell by 6 per piracy is “like a whack-a-mole figures – even if it is enjoying growth cent, even with Sky showing 10 game”, he adds, that can never be from Now TV, its lite offering. more games than before. There is a completely won; for young people, Given how twinned the fates whiff of trouble in paradise. it normalises the idea that the price of Sky and the Premier League There are mitigating factors. The of watching sport should be zero. have been – the £1.4bn Sky spends title race was dour. The relegation every year on rights amounts to of Aston Villa and, especially, over a fifth of its content budget Over time, TV sports Newcastle in 2015-16 deprived the throughout Europe – any decline in rights will get cheaper Premier League of two sides with Sky subscriber numbers bodes ill are because those prices large support bases. The Olympic for the Premier League. The next probably unsustainable Games on free-to-air TV in August batch of TV rights, for 2019-22, will directly clashed with eight matches be sold next year. live on Sky and, the company Perhaps most worrying is the shift The Premier League might also believes, may have rendered viewers in the way fans consume live sport have to confront another problem less keen to watch live football for in an age of diminishing attention when it sells its next batch of TV several months thereafter. spans. Increasingly viewers absorb rights: a Brexit-induced economic Yet, really, the decline in viewing sport through real-time clips – goals downturn. This would depress figures for Sky (BT Sport also or wickets on Twitter, or shared via what customers are able to pay suffered a less dramatic decline for text message – rather than watch the for subscription TV, and therefore Premier League matches) speaks entire match. what the live rights are worth. of wider issues.

Sky is adapting. It launched It all means the value of sports The cost of full-price online TV services, through rights could finally fall – if not during subscriptions is laptops and online, as the next rights cycle then soon off-putting for many far back as 2006. For after. “Over time it’ll get cheaper during an era of a Premier League because those prices are probably prolonged wage matches last year, unsustainable,” Horsman says. squeeze. Similarly, in viewing for Sky Yet the Premier League is Money spent by the US the number Go, on laptops, well-placed to adapt to a modest Sky every year on of subscribers to smartphones or fall in domestic TV rights, Premier League ESPN has fallen tablets, rose 31 per especially with ample room to football rights – a fifth of its content from 100 million to 88 cent. Yet, Horsman grow overseas. Other sports who budget million since 2011. says, those watching have been sustained by the sports Some are ditching on such devices tend rights boom look altogether more traditional TV altogether in to watch for less long than precarious. “The long tail will get favour of Netflix, which now has those watching on TV. A shift from cheaper,” Horsham predicts.

6.5 million UK subscribers. Illegal watching on TV to other devices, Viewers’ changing tastes mean live-streaming remains prevalent then, could undermine the revenue that UK sports might soon be – perhaps in the region of 10 per Sky generates from its advertising, exposed to a new problem, not seen cent of total viewing figures for live worth about £500m a year. since Murdoch’s venture began: sport, believes Mathew Horsman, Horsman believes Sky is losing how to adapt to receiving less cash.

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France defeat Bilic looks to spend big highlighted our on Giroud and Hart shortcomings, admits Southgate WEST HAM UNITED

West Ham are preparing a double swoop for Arsenal striker Olivier Giroud and the England goalkeeper Joe Hart.

Arsenal are willing to allow Giroud to leave providing they first sign a replacement and West Ham have declared their interest in the 30-year-old.

An informal offer from Arsenal of £87m for Monaco’s 18-year-old sensation, Kylian Mbappé, has been rejected, with Real Madrid apparently ready to bid about £120m.

Arsenal’s preferred alternative option would be Alexandre Lacazette, with Lyon, his club, wanting about £60m for the 26-year-old.

The West Ham manager, Slaven Bilic, has prioritised signing attacking players this summer, after his

two main strikers, Andy Carroll and Diafra Sakho, were injured for much of last season.

Bilic is keen to add pace to his line-up and although Giroud (below) does not fit that bill he is good in the air and has the strength to hold the ball and bring others into play.

Arsenal would be looking for about £20m for Giroud, who only started 11 League matches last season.

Hart, meanwhile, was on loan at Torino last season and has not got a future at City after the £34.9m signing of the Brazilian goalkeeper, Ederson from Benfica.

West Ham are reluctant to pay the £18m asking price but want the 30-year-old on loan. Hart is said to be keen although he may have to take a cut on his £120,000 a week salary.

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Mourinho signs defender in first summer move

Maguire joins Shakespeare’s new chapter

Manchester United have made Victor Lindelof their first signing of the summer after the Sweden defender signed a four-year deal yesterday.

United paid Benfica ¤35m (£30.75m) for Lindelof, although the Portuguese club said the fee could increase by a further ¤10m due to add-ons.

United manager Jose Mourinho said: “Victor is a very talented young player, who has a great future ahead of him at United.”

Lindelof arrived in Manchester fresh from international duty with Sweden in Tuesday night’s 1-1 draw with Norway.

Leicester City look set to sign Harry Maguire as they begin a new era under Craig Shakespeare.

The highly rated central defender, 24, was always likely to leave Hull City after their relegation to the Championship, with a raft of top-flight clubs interested. But Leicester moved first with a £17m bid, which has since been accepted.

The Sheffield-born defender came through at hometown club Sheffield United, joining Hull on a £2.5m deal in the summer of 2014.

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Seagulls keen on Lapadula

Koeman hopes to sign Lemina

Premier League newcomers Brighton and Hove Albion have been tracking the Milan striker Gianluca Lapadula, according to reports in Italy. Brighton are keen to add to their strikeforce before their season begins at home to Manchester City and Lapadula (right), who only joined Milan at the start of last season, would be available for around £18m.

Everton sporting director, Steve Walsh, is in Italy for transfer talks, with Juventus midfielder, Mario Lemina, one of the club’s targets.

Walsh, who directed Leicester’s recruitment for their title-winning team, has been charged with improving Ronald Koeman’s squad for the upcoming season as the Merseysiders prepare to sell Romelu Lukaku and Ross Barkley.

Talks will also take place with Milan over Gerard Deulofeu, who impressed on loan season.

“It’s a big challenge then, isn’t it? I played the last time we won here 20 Gareth Southgate warned his Eng- years ago [a 1-0 win during the 1997 land players that there “is no magic Tournoi de France], and actually we wand” for their problems after the got battered for a lot of that game and 3-2 defeat to 10-man France, claiming scored a goal on the counter,” he said. his side’s failure to control the game “That’s the reality of where we are as offered a reminder of “where we are a country in terms of our teams. as a country”.

“We’ve got some young players England were competitive but coming through that have really good conclusively second-best at potential and can be exciting, the Stade de France, with but there is not shortcut to Ousmane Dembélé scorthat. There is no magic ing the decisive goal for wand to that.” the hosts 12 minutes He added: “We’re from time. A creditrecognising where Wins for England able draw looked well we’re short, we’re under Southgate within the visitors’ recognising where in three meetings grasp at one point. we can exploit teams, against sides ranked France defender we’ve had some joy in the world’s top 10 Raphaël Varane was doing that, but our game controversially dismissed without the ball has got to at the start of the second improve.” half after bringing Dele The defeat means SouthAlli down in the area gate has failed to win any and, when Harry Kane of his three friendlies converted the resultagainst nations in the ing penalty to level top 10 of Fifa’s world England’s wins from the score, England rankings, in games eight games under looked primed to end organised with the inSouthgate.

They a testing evening with tention of discovering, have drawn three a positive result. in his the manager’s and lost two Instead, they continwords, “where we are ued to struggle with the against the very best”. athleticism and pace of their A 2-2 draw with Spain at depleted opponents. Dembélé Wembley in November, in which and Kylian Mbappé were particularly his side squandered a 2-0 lead in troublesome and an English defence the final minutes, was followed by run ragged eventually succumbed March’s 1-0 defeat in Germany. to the latter’s accomplished 78thAll in all, as his ‘honeymoon period’ minute finish. in the job comes to an end, SouthWhen it was noted that this gate has won just three of his eight failure to capitalise on an opponent’s games in charge. He is not concerned weakness invoked a sense of déjà vu, though, and pointed not only to the Southgate suggested that his players quality of England’s opponents but have more to learn before they can also the progress he feels has been dominate meetings with internation- made within the squad. al football’s best.

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or to two lesser teams, that would be a big difference, but I know we are improving as a group.

“We know the players are receptive to what they’re taking on board and I know that’s not going to happen in

West Ham face three games on road at start of Premier League season

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West Ham face the possibility of having to play their first three matches of the season away from home.

The club have confirmed their second fixture, scheduled to be at home to Southampton, will have to be rearranged due to the World Athletics Championships being held at the London Stadium.

The event takes place between 5 and 13 August, so the stadium will not be back in “football mode” in time for the Saints game on 19 August.

The fixture could be reversed,

Our opening fixtures in August will be played away because of the World Athletics Championships meaning the Hammers would face three games on the road.

The club said: “Our opening fixtures in August will be played away from home as London Stadium welcomes the 2017 IAAF World Athletics Championships for a oncein-a-generation occasion.

“Supporters are therefore ad-

vised that our second fixture of the campaign, against Southampton, will be rescheduled, with further details to follow.”

West Ham’s first match, on Saturday 12 August, is away to Manchester United and the third, on Saturday 26, is a trip to Newcastle.

Their first home fixture will therefore be the visit of newly-promoted Huddersfield on Saturday 9 September.

It has also been announced the Hammers will play Manchester City in a pre-season friendly in Iceland on 4 August.

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Authors of bullying report reject ‘whitewash’ claim

By Jack Pitt-Brooke

British Cycling was accused of an “abrogation of duty” by the longawaited independent report into the climate and culture of its world class cycling programme in failing to follow up on “hard-hitting” criticisms made in an internal report in 2012.

The independent report published yesterday was not as critical as a draft version that was leaked earlier this year.

Panel chair, Annamarie Phelps, insisted yesterday that the final version was not a “whitewash”, although she did admit it had been diluted after the panel spoke to the individuals, such as Shane Sutton, the former technical director who came in for the harshest criticisms.

There are clear criticisms in the report of the world class programme (WCP), and how staff, led by Sutton, treated and spoke to athletes, especially between 2014 and 2016. The report states that there was a “sense of fear” among some WCP staff and athletes, that Sutton used “discriminatory language” and that some female riders said that they found the atmosphere “uncomfortable”.

Phelps said that there were “fundamental behavioural issues” at the heart of the WCP and that there was

Annamarie Phelps said the report had not been watered down

“much fear and mistrust among staff based on perception of favouritism and privilege”.

However, the wording of the criticisms in the report are watered down from how they were in the leaked draft version. Rather than describing a “culture of fear” in the WCP, the report merely says that staff members referred to one.

Phelps admitted that these changes had been made after the process of “Maxwellisation”, the period when individuals criticised in the report were approached for their own reactions to the draft findings.

“I accept that some of the emotive

language has been removed. What the panel did when we went back was to look at the evidence that we’d been given in the context of the Maxwellisation process,” Phelps said.

The removal of the word “bullying” from the final draft raised eyebrows but Phelps said it was a fair record of the evidence. “The people we interviewed hardly ever used the word ‘bullying’,” she said. “We [the panel] thought it was better to speak about those specific behaviours than to use broad-brush terminology.”

The removal of Jess Varnish from the WCP, which led to the inquiry, was not criticised in the same terms, as an “act of retribution”, in the final report as it was in a draft.

The strongest criticism did not concern coach behaviour between 2012 and 2016 but the failure of British Cycling to act on the King Report of 2012. That report, also published yesterday, made serious criticisms that were largely ignored. The 2017 report states that British Cycling turned a blind eye to the King Report, leading to a worsening of the problems over the next four years.

“There have been questions about whether this is a crisis. It would be crisis if we weren’t taking action,” said Liz Nicholl, chief executive of UK Sport. tHe INDePeNDeNt

Analysis

Q&A British Cycling comes out bruised, but with its wheels still on the space of two or three months, so I’ve got to keep that at the forefront of my mind.

“I want the players to feel disappointed tonight because they have to recognise moments when you do

have the opportunity to get a really good result,” he added. “The way we were causing France problems with the ball, and the fact that they’re down to 10 at 2-2, that’s when you’ve got to ruthless.” tHe INDePeNDeNt

The match, to be played at the Laugardalsvollur Arena in Reykjavik, could mean summer signing Pablo Zabaleta faces the club he left at the end of last season.

Tottenham, who will play at Wembley this season while White Hart Lane is being redeveloped, may also have to rearrange their home fixture against Burnley on 26 August, the day of rugby league’s Challenge Cup final. The club said they are “currently in discussions with Burnley on this matter”. i 15Thursday June 2017

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West Ham’s Pablo Zabaleta could face his old club, Manchester City, in a friendly in Iceland on 4 August

In March 2016, Katy Marchant and Jess Varnish (top right) failed to qualify for the Rio Olympics in the women’s team sprint after a two-year qualification period.

Both riders said inconsistent selection was to blame. A month later, Varnish’s funding was not renewed, with Sutton saying her performance was declining and she was not worth any more public investment. Days later, Varnish accused Sutton of using sexist language and said senior staff ruled the team via a “culture of fear”. Several other former riders came out in support of her,

with the Paralympic champion Darren Kenny making further claims of discrimination. Sutton (bottom), who denies all of this, was suspended and resigned.

British Cycling started an internal investigation into the Varnish complaint and set up the Phelps panel with UK Sport.

What did the Phelps panel find?

British Cycling’s board has exerted almost no control over the team’s senior staff for the past decade or so. While this has worked in terms of medals, there have been lots of signs of rifts within the camp, and evidence that the emotional cost has been too high for some riders and staff. Those warnings, however, were ignored, and sometimes covered up, and UK Sport failed to ask any questions of the Manchester-based operation beyond, “will you hit the medal target?” The panel believes Sutton

should never have been given the top job and Varnish’s exit was appallingly handled.

What about the bullying and discrimination?

Ah, this is perhaps the most significant point about the final report: it has a lot less to say about the alleged “culture of fear” than the February draft that was leaked to the Daily Mail in March. Most of what is missing is more critical of Sutton, his predecessor Sir Dave Brailsford and British Cycling in general than the final verdict.

What have British Cycling, Sutton, Varnish and the other key players said?

Word is expected from the Varnish camp soon and she will be livid.

She wants answers for how that decision was reached, who made it and why. Those remain unanswered. Sutton has said he has “moved on”, but will be quietly pleased that the worst allegations against him – bullying, discriminating against Paralympic athletes and so on – have been dismissed and a more balanced picture of his strengths as a coach has emerged. The governing body has already implemented all of Phelps’s recommendations. It has wobbled badly, but the wheels are still on.

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CHAMPIONS TROPHY SEMI-FINAL

Pakistan master pitch and hosts to reach final ENGLAND Root 46, Bairstow 43; Hasan 3-35 PAKISTAN Azhar 76, Fakhar 57 Pakistan win by 8 wickets

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Champions Trophy semi-final: England v Pakistan (Swalec Stadium): Pakistan beat England by 8 wickets Pakistan won toss ENGLAND Runs 6s 4s BlsMin 4 57 62 J M Bairstow c Hafeez b Hasan Ali 43 0 13 0 2 13 25 A D Hales c Azam b Raees 2 56 80 J E Root c Ahmed b Shadab Khan 46 0 4 53 59 *E J G Morgan c Ahmed b Hasan Ali 33 0 34 0 0 64 89 B A Stokes c Hafeez b Hasan Ali 0 7 14 †J C Buttler c Ahmed b Junaid Khan 4 0 11 0 2 14 16 M M Ali c Zaman b Junaid Khan 7 0 0 13 19 A U Rashid run out 9 0 1 14 24 L E Plunkett c Azhar Ali b Raees 3 0 0 5 12 M A Wood run out 2 0 0 5 6 J T Ball not out Extras (lb1 w3 nb2) 6 Total(49.5 overs) 211 Fall: 1-34, 2-80, 3-128, 4-141, 5-148, 6-162, 7-181, 8-201, 9-206.

Bowling: Junaid Khan 8.5-0-42-2, Rumman Raees 9-044-2, Imad Wasim 5-0-16-0, Shadab Khan 9-0-40-1, Hasan Ali 10-0-35-3, Mohammad Hafeez 8-0-33-0.

PAKISTAN Runs 6s 4s BlsMin Azhar Ali b Ball 76 1 5 100 129 Fakhar Zaman st Buttler b Rashid 57 1 7 58 88 Babar Azam not out 38 1 2 45 65 Mohammad Hafeez not out 31 2 3 21 23 Extras (lb1 w11 nb1) 13 Total(for 2, 37.1 overs) 215 Fall: 1-118, 2-173.

Didnotbat: Shoaib Malik,*†Sarfraz Ahmed,Imad Wasim, Rumman Raees, Shadab Khan, Hasan Ali, Junaid Khan.

Bowling: M A Wood 8-1-37-0, J T Ball 8-0-37-1, B A Stokes 3.1-0-38-0, L E Plunkett 6-0-33-0, A U Rashid 10-0-54-1, M M Ali 2-0-15-0.

Umpires: M Erasmus and R J Tucker.

England always knew one bad performance could spell the end of their Champions Trophy dream.

They just did not expect it to come against Pakistan or for it to cost them a place in the final.

Having won all three group games on their way to reaching the last four, Eoin Morgan’s team saved their worst till last as Pakistan belied their status as the lowestranked team in the tournament to pull off a shock victory.

Having fully exploited a sluggish used pitch to restrict this powerpacked England batting line-up to 211, Pakistan, the world’s No 8 ODI team, chased down their target with eight wickets and 77 balls to spare. enhanced by the last-minute back Their reward is a place in Sun- spasm that ruled Pakistan pace day’s final against India or Bang- spearhead Mohammad Amir out of ladesh, who contest the second this match. semi-final at Edgbaston today. If, Any English complaints about as expected, India prevail expect this pitch, then, should be counfireworks and a tinderbox terbalanced by the fact they atmosphere at The Oval. were still playing at home Pakistan started and against opponents this tournament who were without with a woeful disarguably their best play against India bowler. England had Matches Pakistan at Edgbaston. But reached a promishave now won in they are peaking ing 52 for 1 after 10 England since the at the right time overs. Bairstow may 1992 World Cup having now seen have justified his sefinal off South Africa, Sri lection by posting 43 Lanka and England in before he was caught at successive matches. deep square off the excelIt’s not quite back to lent Hasan Ali, England the drawing board for were now 80 for 2 in the England. But this 17th over. defeat has brought Joe Root and Morhome the brutal gan put on 48 for The number of reality of knockout the third wicket but boundaries hit by cricket to a group that partnership England – the lowest whose form over the was ended in the since the 2015 two years since the 28th over when Root, World Cup last World Cup had on 46, edged behind seen them enter this an attempted cut to legtournament as favourites. spinner Shadab Khan.

So, England’s wait for a first England were now 128 for 3. major 50-over title goes on. But this And they were 148 for 5 by the end match should act as a useful les- of the 35th over when Pakistan son – and motivating factor – when wicketkeeper and captain Sarfraz they host the next World Cup in two Ahmed took two more catches – years’ time.

Morgan and Jos Buttler.

This was the first time the two Moeen Ali, hooking Junaid to teams had met in a knockout deep square, and Rashid, run out by match at a major tournament since a brilliant direct hit, both departed Pakistan’s memorable victory in the to leave the hosts on 181 for 7 in the 1992 World Cup final.

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n the final throes of this defeat, Eoin Morgan recalled Ben Stokes to the attack. Errantly, Morgan (right) stationed six fielders on the legside for his first delivery. That meant it was a no-ball. The free hit was promptly pounded for a straight six.

And so England exited the tournament reunited with a familiar foe in ICC events: farce. At least it was unbecoming of the progress in England’s one-day international cricket since the last World Cup, or their stirring performances in their first three group matches.

Since the 2015 World Cup England have recalibrated their entire ODI approach. They have slain

their ingrained conservatism, and place at a ballroom dance. Attempts embraced intoxicating liberation to generate their own pace only in its stead. The results have resulted in heaves to fielders. been remarkable: England have Their boundary options cut-off, comfortably the highest run rate of England struggled to locate gaps any ODI team since the last World and manoeuvre the field; it took Cup, and came into this Ben Stokes until his 32nd game after clearing 300 ball to hit a scoring shot O n a tacky 11 times in their previous that wasn’t a single. A surface 13 innings batting first. promising position – 128 for lacking in pace 2 in the 28th over – rapidly Yet their biggest ODI since that World Cup descended into ignominy. and bounce, debacle did not demand England England have learned to more pyrotechnics. play modern ODI cricket but resembled Instead, it called for here, as in their shambolic pragmatism, adaptability ravers at a collapse to 20 for 6 against ballroom and cussedness: all South Africa a fortnight ago, dance more in keeping with was proof that they have England’s dreary ODI not yet learned when to rein cricket before 2015 than themselves in. Champions do the qualities that have underpinned not just need the abundant, thrilling their metamorphosis since. skill of England’s batsmen; they also On a tacky, used surface, lacking require shrewdness and savvy too. in their desire pace and bounce, And so England’s run without England resembled ravers out of winning a global ODI event extends

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offered more home advantage by the International Cricket Council, Morgan replied: “I think it depends on what the ICC want to get out of the tournament. If they want it to be completely neutral ground and bring all the teams into the tournament have no home advantage, I would keep it the same way.”

The next major world tournament is the 2019 World Cup, also hosted in England.

Morgan believes his side, who had won all three of their group matches heading into this semifinal, will have learnt valuable lessons from this campaign as they look to again win their first major 50-over title in two years’ time.

He said: “We’ve stayed true to what we believe in and what’s worked for us the past couple of years, and I think that’s the continued formula for the future.

“I think we will have to evolve over the next two years in the lead-in to the World Cup, but we’re moving in the right direction.” THE

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Haye’s threats cost him £25,000 fine David Haye has been fined £25,000 by the British Boxing Board of Control for his conduct in the build-up to his defeat by Tony Bellew. The heavyweight made severe threats against Bellew’s life prior to their 4 March fight at London’s O2 Arena. He also called Bellew’s supporters “f**king retards” after accusing them of racism. Haye, 36, lost the fight and is currently recovering from an Achilles injury.

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UCI’s Verbruggen dies aged 75

Wrong Brownlee gets Leeds plaudits

Hein Verbruggen, the former president of the International Cycling Union who oversaw the worldwide spread of a sport often tainted by doping, has died. He was 75. The Dutchman ran the governing body from 1991 to 2005 and was often accused of being too close to Lance Armstrong, who was stripped of seven Tour de France titles after his doping came to light.

The International Triathlon Union has mixed up the Brownlee brothers by sending a letter of congratulations to Jonny following Alistair’s win in Leeds at the weekend. The younger of the Brownlee brothers shared the letter on social media, simply writing “#awkward”. Elder brother Alistair led the brothers home in a one-two finish, a repeat of the inaugural staging of the race a year earlier.

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Mortaza hopes success is just around corner

By David Clough

to 19 tournaments. Seven countries – all the Test nations except Zimbabwe and Bangladesh, who might yet triumph this time – have won at least one.

Pakistan’s sole triumph was in the 1992 World Cup, the year of Imran Khan’s cornered tigers, who, with the aid of a little timely rain, overcame a tumultuous start to win.

Twenty-five years on, the parallels are becoming increasingly inescapable.

Certainly, anyone who had seen Pakistan’s ragtag display against India ten days earlier would have found their dynamism in the field, and their purpose and steeliness with bat and ball alike, unrecognisable.

There they were hapless; here they played like lifted by a transcendental force.

Pakistan have been dreadful in ODI cricket for years, sliding to eighth in the world, their batting defined by the same caution that marked England before the World Cup. The irony, though, is

that Cardiff’s pitch was far better suited to their old strategy than England’s new one.

Since arriving in England, they have had to withstand not merely that thrashing by India, but one player being sent home for being unfit, two others being sent home for injury mid-tournament, and their best bowler, Mohammad Amir, missing this game too.

Their response has been both classically Pakistani and long overdue: for all the cliches about their unpredictability, Pakistan had not reached the final of the previous 10 ODI global events. All this was forgotten in a bowling performance of vim and verve, and a batting display of unfussy efficiency, the sort that has seldom been the Pakistan way.

As the team took a lap of honour in front of their ebullient supporters, chants of “Pakistan!

Zindabad” roared out. The marketeers had reason to roar too: should India overcome Bangladesh in the other semi-final, Sunday’s game with India might just be the most-watched in cricket history.

Mashrafe Mortaza believes Bangladesh have moved on from past heartache against India as they prepare for one of the most important matches in their history.

The Tigers are one win from the Champions Trophy final but standing in their way at Edgbaston today will be old foes India, who defeated them in a controversial World Cup quarterfinal two years ago.

Indiawerealsotheopponentswhen, with two runs required from three balls, Bangladesh conspired to lose three wickets as they were eliminated from last year’s World Twenty20.

Mashrafe was captain for both defeats but was keen to play down their significance ahead of their first semifinal in a global competition.

He said: “People count only winning, that’s for sure, but I think if you look at both matches, I think we played at our best. Yes, India played also at their best, that’s why they won.

But still, I believe we have a lot more to do in that level.

“We are playing overseas, and we are having success. That’s more important for us, that our cricket is going to improve.”

India captain Virat Kohli, meanwhile, remains wary of Bangladesh’s threat. He said: “There are no guarantees in this sport. As we’ve seen, a lot of teams have surprised the opposition and we’re certainly not taking anything for granted. We’re not going to go according to past results and what we’ve done in the past.”

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Eoin Morgan lamented the lack of home advantage afforded to his England team in Cardiff after they crashed out of the Champions Trophy following a shock semi-final defeat by Pakistan.

The visitors may be the lowestranked team in the tournament but they took advantage of a sluggish pitch to seal an thumping eightwicket victory against the tournament hosts and favourites.

England, unable to adapt to a surface that did not favour their ultraaggressive batting approach, were bowled out for 211. Not even a player with the skill of Ben Stokes (right)

was able to make much of conditions at the crease.

The chase was never in doubt as Pakistan, who played on the same pitch two days previously in their final group match against Sri Lanka, reached their target with 77 balls to spare.

Morgan stopped short of criticising the surface. But England’s captain did say: “I don’t think there was any home advantage. We knew we were going to play on a used wicket at some stage in this tournament, and certainly we found out the other day that today was

going to be on a used wicket. And having watched Pakistan’s game against Sri Lanka, we actually didn’t think it was that bad.

“But certainly today it was.

Coming from our match against Australia at Edgbaston [on Saturday], it was obviously a big jump in pace and bounce and too much of an ask for us to adjust to really.

I felt like we were trying to take a positive option against them, but obviously, given the conditions, it didn’t allow us to do that.”

Morgan did not absolve his team of blame, adding: “We left ourselves short adapting

to conditions. It’s a big frustration because I think we’ve played some great cricket in this tournament so far, and we weren’t anywhere close to it today.

“I think, going into this game knowing that we were going to play on a used wicket potentially brought Pakistan’s game closer to their home.

So it was a big challenge and one that was too far for us. Fair credit to Pakistan. They played brilliantly.”

Asked why Pakistan did not struggle during their run chase, Morgan said: “I think the explanation is they played two days ago on it.”

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