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Thursday, December 5, 2013

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TV chef took drugs to cope with break-up from ‘brutal’ Saatchi

nigella: i did use cocaine NIGELLA Lawson yesterday admitted taking cocaine and cannabis but furiously denied she was an addict.

The TV chef told a court she turned to drugs to help her cope with the bitter breakdown of her marriage to multi-millionaire Charles Saatchi – a ‘brutal man’ she accused of ‘intimate terrorism’.

She said she also used cocaine six times with first husband John Diamond, who died of cancer in 2001.

But she rejected as ‘completely false’ claims that she left stashes of cocaine hidden above her toilet seat, rolled-up bank notes and ‘credit cards with white powder lying around’ the house she shared with him.

Instead, she declared from the witness box: ‘I do not have a drugs problem – I have a life problem.’

Lawson, 53, was giving evidence at the trial of her personal assistants, sisters Elisabetta and Francesca Grillo, who deny defrauding the

Under pressure: Nigella Lawson leaves court where she admitted using cocaine and cannabis PICTURE: PA

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In an email, Mr Saatchi, 70, had claimed they would get away with their alleged crime because she was ‘off her head’ on drugs and did not notice the money going missing.

Lawson admitted accepting cocaine from a friend in July 2010 when she was ‘having a very, very difficult time’ and ‘felt subjected to intimate terrorism by Mr Saatchi’.

She accused Mr Saatchi of threatening to ‘destroy her’ with false drug allegations.

And she spoke for the first time about the moment the millionaire grabbed her by the throat while dining at a restaurant in central London last June. She claimed she had been discussing her desire for grandchildren when Mr Saatchi lashed out, saying: ‘I’m the only person who should be giving you pleasure.’

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Britney a hit in Sin City Flame throwers, jugglers and dancers welcome Spears to casino spot

by AnDREi HARMSwORTH BRITNEY SPEARS announced her arrival in Las Vegas yesterday with a live carnival straight from one of her music videos.

The 32-year-old singer was welcomed by flame throwers, contortionists, snake charmers and dancers ahead of her residency at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino.

A part of the Strip was closed as she arrived at the casino with a convoy of black Cadillacs.

Wearing a black cocktail dress with rhinestone top, Spears signed autographs for some of her ecstatic fans.

She told the crowd of about 1,000 people that Las Vegas was now ‘her town’ – before leaving after a few minutes to catch a plane home to Los Angeles.

Spears will perform 100 shows over the next two years in an intimate theatre with nightclub touches, including table and drinks service.

Casino bosses say her residency could be extended if it is a success.

Planet Hollywood president David Hoenemeyer said the star has ‘a remarkable following’.

He added: ‘It’s a really big deal to have a star of her calibre performing.’

Hello, goodbye: Britney Spears meets the crowd in Las Vegas – which included acrobats and snake charmers before heading off home to Los Angeles PictureS: reuterS/SPlaSh

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Garda chief ‘horrified’ at collusion by force’s mole Reaction: Justice Minister Alan Shatter and Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan at a press conference at Farmleigh House in Dublin after Judge Peter Smithwick published his findings Picture: PA

Anger after Adams lays blame with dead officers

Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams was by DERic HEnDERsOn left isolated last night after he claimed in the Dáil that two of the most senior said Mr Adams had been deeply insultRUC officers killed by the iRA had ing and offensive.

Mr Adams is already under pressure only themselves to blame.

Politicians on all sides in Dublin and from critics for constant denials of iRA Belfast reacted in disbelief after the re- membership and involvement in the publican leader said that Chief Supt 1972 murder of Belfast mother-of-ten Harry Breen and Supt Bob Buchanan Jean McConville. He has also been condemned over claims he covered up for drove themselves to their own death.

The eight-year Smithwick Tribunal his brother Liam, who was jailed last found an iRA mole in Dundalk Garda week for the abuse of his daughter.

Ulster Unionist leader Mike nesbitt station tipped off a hit squad that the said Mr Adams’ assessment of the iRA men were attending a meeting in the murders is grossly insensitive, while town on March 20, 1989.

Mr Adams claimed the RUC men SDLP spokesman Alban Maginness thought they were immune from attack said Mr Adams’ ‘vile’ comments showed callous disregard and had ‘a laissez-faire disrefor the families. gard for their own security’.

Meanwhile, Taoiseach Justice Minister Alan ShatEnda Kenny, on an official ter said Mr Adams’ comvisit to Japan, said he fully ments were nauseating. endorsed an apology on be‘There should be no doubt half of the Government as to where responsibility from Mr Shatter and lies. The responsibility lies Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore at the hands of individuals and would meet the families who carried the gun.’ to discuss the report if they Theresa Villiers, northern ireland Secretary of State, ‘Vile’ remarks: Adams felt that was appropriate.

Ex garda rejects findings A FORMER Garda has rejected the findings of the Smithwick tribunal that he was trusted by Provos and helped members get false passports Retired Garda sergeant Leo Colton was one of three named officers cleared by the Smithwick Tribunal of colluding with the IRA on the day Chief Supt Harry Breen and Supt Bob Buchanan were murdered.

But yesterday Mr Colton dismissed other findings against him by Judge Peter Smithwick.

Judge Smithwick found Mr Colton provided ‘relatively significant’ assistance to the Provisional IRA in 1995 and 1996 by getting former colleague Finbarr Hickey to sign false passport applications.

Mr Colton resigned in 1991, days before a disciplinary inquiry was due against him over the issuing of a trade vehicle plate.

He was on duty in Dundalk on March 20, 1989, the day the RUC officers were ambushed.

GARDA Commissioner Martin Callinan has said he is horrified a collusion inquiry has found that a terrorist mole within the force gave the iRA a tip-off that led to the murder of two RUC officers.

Chief Supt Harry Breen and Supt Bob Buchanan were gunned down on March 20 1989 near the border in south Armagh, shortly after a meeting with gardaí in Dundalk.

Commissioner Callinan said he accepted the conclusions arrived at

by Judge Smithwick and said it is disappointing that no one has been

prosecuted to date for the murders.

‘To think that any member of my force would engage with the iRA at any level is beyond comprehension.

And to betray both themselves and my organisation in such a fashion is beyond me,’ he said.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny also commented on criticisms of the current Garda force, within which the judge found ‘loyalty is prized above honesty’. Mr Kenny said: ‘it is true that in the past we have different reflections of culture in ireland… we are in a different space now’.

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ClaiRe tighe, founder of Dublin stage company TheatreworX Productions, is the writer, producer and choreographer of this year’s panto at The Helix, The Sleeping Beauty. Her first child is due any day now...

Your first baby is due next week. How are you coping under all the panto pressure?

I’m just about keeping upright. Every day the cast and crew see me waddling through the Helix and I can see them looking and thinking ‘she’s gonna pop tonight’ but so far he or she has been playing ball.

In terms of names, are we thinking Widow Twanky for a girl and Prince Charming for a boy? We have a few names in mind but thankfully nothing embarrassingly festive!

Your husband Aidan not only designed the set but is also starring in the show. How is he coping? He’s been so busy re-

Dance. Later I opened a stage school and academy while also performing myself. Six years ago I went to The Helix management and I said ‘wouldn’t it be great if you did a panto each year?’ and ‘by the way, I’d love to produce it for you’. I was very gung-ho, they took a risk and now it’s paying dividends.

Is it true the Tighe family home is something of a panto museum? In a way, yes! My mum

has been making costumes for years for pantos and for my stage school; what was a five-bedroom house has now been modified to a two-bed, with three rooms filled – wall to wall and floor to ceiling – with more than 1,000 crazy outfits.

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all. We were only going out for a couple of months when he actually auditioned for a show. I didn’t tell the director David Hayes I was seeing this guy and kept schtum; thankfully he loved Aidan’s audition and – thank God – hired him on the spot.

We got married this year and this is actually our sixth panto together.

The Tighe family has been steeped in all things panto related for several years now.

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I was a kid my mum was one of the founder members of the local musical society in Leixlip and we grew up with panto in the house. Mam was always involved with one show or another; it really all stemmed from there and became a huge part of our lives. First I started out with the Skerries Drama School, then the Metropolitan School of Ballet and the Morisini Whelan School of

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Drugs giant Pfizer to cut 150 jobs at Kildare plant

PHArMACEuTiCAl company Pfizer is planning to let 150 workers go at one of its plants in ireland.

The company said the redundancies at its site in Newbridge, Co Kildare, are a result of increased competition. in 2010, the drug manufacturer announced it was making 275 workers redundant at the same site. Most of these job losses came this year.

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its vice president Paul Duffy said the expiry of patents on key medicines and more generic competition meant the company has been forced to cut back on manufacturing. However he insisted that ireland remains a key strategic location for Pfizer.

The Newbridge plant, which em-

ploys about 670 people of Pfizer’s 3,200-plus irish workforce, makes three billion tablets and 55 million packs of medication every year. representatives of trade union Siptu will meet Pfizer management tomorrow. Organiser Frank Jones, who represents about 70 workers, said the cuts are deeply distressing to workers and their families and on the area.

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Dana Kucharova from Cork, who works as a train host on the Cork/Dublin service, was named Iarnród Éireann Customer Service Person of the Year for 2013 yesterday Picture: jason clarke PhotograPhy

5,000 fewer signed Bank of Ireland to on dole last month repay State €1.9bn THE number of people signing on last month fell to just over 390,000.

Official figures showed 5,000 fewer people claimed benefits in November when the unemployment rate fell to 12.5 per cent, its lowest since July 2009.

The Central Statistics Office said the number of long-term claimants on the dole for more than a year had also fallen to 179,758.

There were 25,700 fewer on benefits compared to November 2012, including an 11.1 per cent fall in under-25s.

The Small Firms Association’s Avine McNally welcomed the fall in under-25s but said more needs to be done as the figures are influenced by emigration.

BANK of Ireland raised €580million through a share sale as part of a milestone deal to repay €1.9billion to the State, handing the Government a timely funding boost.

The plan to redeem preference shares issued when the bank was rescued in 2009 will cut its reliance on the Government less than two weeks before Ireland becomes the first eurozone country to exit an EU/IMF bailout.

Finance Minister Michael Noonan said the deal would generate a profit for the taxpayer.

‘The Irish banking system is recovering,’ he added.

Meanwhile, salaries are being pushed up in niche areas in iT and financial services, according to a report by a recruitment agency.

Brightwater recruitment has found salary increases of up to ten per cent in the iT sector, with companies in some areas prepared to pay in excess of boom year rates in order to get the right candidate.

Man suffers head injury in siege A MAN in his 40s was taken to hospital last night with a head injury after an armed siege outside a house, during which shots were fired.

The man had been wandering around the area with a pistol, and gardaí were called. A standoff then developed, with the man sitting in a car with the gun in an estate at Farrenboley Park, Windy Arbour, Dundrum, during which the gardaí asked for a media blackout. The siege ended at about 5.20pm.

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Has Liv fallen for Orlando’s magic?

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rlando BlooM looked like a man ready to start living again when he sparked rumours he’s moved on to another a-list romance, just weeks after divorcing Miranda Kerr.

The 36-year-old British heartthrob stunned onlookers as he got up close and personal with stunning actress liv Tyler at an after-party for the premiere of Waiting For Godot on Broadway.

‘When they got behind closed doors, they were playfully tickling, gazing into each other’s eyes and holding hands,’ a source at the bash held last week at Bryant Park Grill told america’s Star magazine.

The insider also claims the Pirates of The Caribbean star and his ex are doing their best not to flaunt their new lovers in public following claims the aussie model has found a new man.

They added: ‘Miranda and orlando are trying not to cause a scene with other people out of respect for each other.’ orlando’s ‘love in’ with Tyler came after Kerr was forced to deny she has been cosying

by ANDREI HARMSWORTH up to aussie billionaire James Packer in recent weeks. Packer, 46, also ended his marriage to his second wife Erica Baxter just three months ago. only this week, Bloom stated that he and Kerr, were doing their best to keep things amicable for the sake of their two-year-old son Flynn.

‘We’re a family and we’ll always love each other and we’re going to be in each other’s lives,’ he said at The Hobbit: The desolation of Smaug premiere this week.

‘What Flynn reads and knows about when he’s a grown up is more important to me than anything.

‘We both love and cherish each other and then our boy so it’s great.’ neither Bloom nor Tyler’s people have commented on the claims but it is understood the stars have been friends since starring in The lord of The rings trilogy. a spokesman for Bloom, who split from Kerr after Close: Liv and three years of marOrlando cosy up riage, said last in London in 2001 night there was ‘no Picture: alan davidson truth’ to the latest gossip.

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Bey branches out: Beyoncé practises her best Jane moves by climbing into the trees in her swimsuit. The 32-year-old showed off her acrobatic skills while sunning herself on a beach holiday in Jamaica. Meanwhile she celebrated hubby Jay Z’s 44th birthday yesterday after performing to a star-studded audience at the Staples Centre in LA Pictures: eroteme

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Keira Knightley is still getting mileage out of her wedding dress after she was seen stepping out in it for a third time. The 28-year-old gave her pale pink Rodarte frock a twist for a charity gala in London, adding a sheer overlay with beading on the collar and cuffs.

When Harry met Cindy (over pizza) Cindy Crawford has gone up in the cool mum stakes after Harry Styles randomly swung by her Malibu mansion and gave the family tips on how to bake the perfect pizza.

The ex-model (pictured) revealed she was cooking with her son Presley, 14, and 11-year-old daughter Kaia when Harry stopped by to say hi.

‘My kids couldn’t slide the pizzas off the pan,’ Crawford, 47, told V

How many Mileys per hour does it go?: Miley Cyrus takes the bull by the horns as she hits the road on a black and white motorbike that looks oddly like a evil cow’s face.

The singer ditched her usual fleshflaunting outfits to play it safe in a white helmet and long-sleeved top on her Cam-Am Spyder.

The €18,000 three-wheeler was a 21st birthday gift from her father, Billy Ray, who took another of the vehicles for a spin in Toluca Lake, California. The 52-yearold Achy Breaky Heart star, who let his flowing locks blow in the breeze and displayed his tattoos in a vesttop, is thought to be recording with US rapper Wiz Khalifa, 26. Pictures: sPlash

Superman comes to aid of Batman They may be cape-flapping rivals on the big screen but Superman actor Henry Cavill (pictured) has waded in to defend Ben Affleck from a backlash by bat fans. Cavill, 30, said Affleck, 41, will do a ‘fantastic’ job after threats to boycott the Man Of Steel sequel, Batman Vs Superman, erupted following the Argo director’s casting as the caped crusader. ‘As a filmmaker he’s got his own style, he’s not copying anyone else. And he’s also sort of been tenacious in his career,’ Cavill told Total Film.

Slater walks (quickly) down the aisle again Christian Slater is giving marriage another go after tying the knot with lover Brittany Lopez.

The actor – who split from his first wife Ryan Haddon in 2007 – walked down the aisle once more at the courthouse in Coral Gables in Florida on Monday.

It was a spur of the moment decision after the pair initially went there just to get their marriage licence.

Slater previously revealed the couple was set to tie the knot in a small ceremony in their back garden in July – and had even hired a wedding planner.

He said: ‘It will be good, intimate and small, and family members. It will be nice.

‘We had a big engagement party on December 31 and it was nice, it was like new year’s and we had all the family come, 200 people, so it kind of already feels like we did the wedding, so we are just going to do a nice backyard situation.’

It is not yet known why Slater, who has 14-year-old Jaden Christopher and daughter, Eliana Sophia, 12, from his first marriage, ditched the garden wedding plans.

magazine. ‘Harry goes, “Did you put down enough flour so they wouldn’t stick?” My husband says, “How in the world do you know that?” and my little girl chimes in, “He used to work for a bakery, dad.

Everyone knows that”.’

Harry’s visit came to light when Presley posted a photo on Instagram.

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Reward for dog poop snoopers RESIDENTS who report dogowners who fail to clean up after their pets are to be given the proceeds from fines handed out by council wardens. Stafford Borough Council hopes the reward scheme will tap into anger among responsible dogowners at the inconsiderate actions of others. Under the initiative, residents who give details that lead to a prosecution or a fine will receive £75 (€90).

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When a Westie finds love with a rottweiler, this is the result...

So, wottie got here then?

20,000 rush for 400 Ikea posts IKEA’S website in Spain has crashed after more than 20,000 job-seekers applied for just 400 posts. Some of the country’s 6million unemployed tried online to work in a store due to be opened near Valencia next year. There was four times as much traffic in the first two days than for any Ikea recruitment process in Spain before, a spokesman said.

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These ‘wotties’ are the result of a liaison between Joey, a small but ambitious West Highland terrier, and Zara, a rottweiler twice his size.

Zara gave birth to a litter of 11 not long after Joey moved into her owner Teresa Patterson’s North Yorkshire home. Ms Patterson, 50, said: ‘Zara didn’t know what to do. I screamed when the puppies started popping out.

‘She delivered them and then Joey did everything else. Zara wasn’t interested but Joey would clean them up and not let anyone else near them.’

Four of the puppies did not survive but homes have been found for the remaining seven, who were born in July.

The Kennel Club said it was the first time it had come across a wottie.

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sick Mandela fights Train driver nodded on from ‘deathbed’ off before fatal crash

sOuTH AfRicA: Nelson Mandela is putting up a brave fight from his ‘deathbed’, his family said yesterday.

The 95-year-old is ‘not doing well’ and remains in a critical but stable condition while receiving medical care at home. But his daughter Makaziwe told a South African TV station the anti-apartheid leader ‘is still with us, strong, courageous’.

She added: ‘Every moment I get with him I’m amazed.’

AMERicA: A speeding train driver has admitted dozing off before the crash that killed four people in New York on Sunday. William Rockefeller, 46 – who had recently changed from working nights to day shifts – ‘basically nodded’ and by the time he caught himself it was too late, his union said. An investigation is ongoing after the commuter train derailed on a bend at 82mph in the Bronx.

swiTzERLAnD: The world’s first Starbucks train is on track between Geneva Airport and St Gallen. The train features – as you might expect – plenty of hot drinks Picture: HotsPot

ivory poachers face tougher penalties

BOTswAnA: A summit to protect African elephants has announced tough measures to cut down on ivory smuggling. Wildlife trafficking is to be classed as a serious crime and gangs risk having their assets seized under an agreement reached at the meeting in Gaborone. ‘We must address the issue of organised crime in ivory trafficking,’ said the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

farmville fraud reaps scammers €500,000

ROMAniA: A gang of Farmville fans who conned their way to €500,000 in subsidies for fake farms is suing the government after payments were stopped. Inspired by the online game, the eight men claimed to have 1,860 cows and received about €120 per animal over three years. The group say they weren’t told the farms had to be real when they applied and are taking their case to court.

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GERMAny: A robber tried to raid a petrol station armed with a bag of tomatoes he said were grenades. As staff laughed at Gerd Bruckner, he used a broom to force them to hand over cash. He was later arrested in Siegen.

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Rape, torture and murder scandal of n Korean jails

by HAyDEn sMiTH INMATES are forced to dig their own graves and women are raped before ‘disappearing’ from North Korea’s notorious political prison camps, a new report claims.

Conditions in two of the biggest camps – known as Kwanliso 15 and 16 – were said to be ‘dire’, with torture ‘rampant’, public executions common and prisoners dying of malnutrition or overwork, Amnesty International said.

The allegations were made in ‘harrowing’ new testimonies by former detainees and officials. An ex-security official – known as Mr Lee – at Kwanliso 16 described execution methods used during the 1980s and 1990s.

He told how detainees were forced to dig their own graves and then killed with hammer blows to their necks. Prison officers would also strangle inmates and then beat them to death with wooden sticks and women were ‘disappeared’ after being raped.

‘After a night of “servicing” the officials, the women had to die because the secret could not get out,’ he told the human rights group. ‘This happens at most of the political prison camps.’

Prisoners in the camp spend most of their time being forced to work in extremely dangerous conditions with inadequate food and very little sleep, it was claimed.

Kim Young-soon, a former prisoner in camp 15 between 1980 and 1989,described seeing two inmates who were caught attempting to escape being publicly executed.

‘The prisoners were tied to wooden stakes and shot three times in their head, chest and feet,’ she said. The report’s author, Amnesty International’s North Korea researcher Rajiv Narayan, called on the country’s authorities to acknowledge the existence of the camps and close them.

‘People are sent to the political prison camps without charge, let alone a trial, many of them simply for knowing someone who has fallen out of favour,’ he said.

Breath test: Portuguese researcher Susana Soares can train bees to detect a specific breath odour in just ten minutes.

That includes the biomarkers associated with certain cancers. When a patient blows into the apparatus the bees fly into the small chamber if the cancer smell is present. They aren’t harmed Picture: Ferrari

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A CALIFORNIA woman has pleaded not guilty to what is believed to be the first traffic offence alleging a motorist was using Google’s new computer-in-glasses invention.

The device, known as Google Glass, features a thumbnail-size transparent display above the right eye.

The technology will not be made widely available to the public until next year, but Cecilia Abadie was one of about 10,000 ‘explorers’ who received the glasses earlier this year as part of a try-out.

Her case highlights several issues, including distracted driving, wearable technology

by cOn DOHERTy that may become mainstream, and how laws lag behind technological developments.

Abadie was stopped in October on suspicion of driving at 80mph (129kph) in a 65mph zone on a San Diego freeway. The California Highway Patrol officer saw she was wearing Google Glass and added a citation usually given to people driving while a video or TV screen is on in the vehicle.

Abadie, a software developer, denied both charges in San Diego traffic court.

Her lawyer William Concidine said she will

Hackers accused of €700k bitcoin fraud TWO hackers have been arrested on suspicion of creating a fake €700,000 cache of the bitcoin internet currency in Germany.

Police said the two used the processing power of linked hacked computers to generate the bitcoins.

They are also investigating further suspected fraud, violations of copyright law and offences related to the distribution of pornography. The country’s Federal Criminal Police Office said the investigation began into three people suspected of spreading a virus over the net, creating a remotely controlled network of compromised computer systems.

Bitcoins are a digital currency, created and maintained entirely on the internet.

Uptalk stereotype is proven wrong SCIENTISTS have bust the stereotype of ‘uptalkers’ being insecure.

The way of speaking, synonymous with the movie Clueless, is marked by a rise in pitch at the ends of sentences, and associated with young women from California.

Uptalkers made statements, as well as ask questions, but the difference was so subtle non-uptalkers often missed it, the study, presented at the annual meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in San Francisco, found.

argue the glasses were not on when she was driving, but activated when she looked up at the policeman as he stood by her car.

The device is designed to respond to a head tilt by waking itself up.

Mr Concidine also said the vehicle code listed in the prosecution applies to video screens in vehicles and is not relevant to mobile technology such as Google Glass.

Police declined to comment, but at the time of Abadie’s citation, the highway patrol said anything which took a driver’s attention from the road was dangerous and should be discouraged.

Thinking of you: Pop star Katy Perry is appointed a Unicef goodwill ambassador in New York. The 29year-old said she was moved by ‘the incredible joy’ among children and the role highlighted there was more to life than possessions Picture: rex

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GAL Gadot has been cast as Wonder Woman in a superhero team-up film with Batman and Superman. Already starring in the currently untitled film are Ben Affleck as Batman and Henry Cavill as Superman.

Wonder Woman’s inclusion brings the film closer to a full gathering of DC Comics’ Justice League. Israeli-born Gadot (pictured) is an actress and former model who competed in the 2004 Miss Universe pageant.

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A POST-mortem shows Fast & Furious star Paul Walker was killed in a car crash by the combined effects of the impact and subsequent fire.

Walker, a passenger in the car driven by his friend Roger Rodas, died last Saturday when the 2005 Porsche Carrera GT smashed into a lamp post and tree then exploded in flames.

Investigators believe speed was a factor in Rodas losing control of the car.

Game for Christmas Tinner? Oldies still goodies

FORGET Christmas dinner – gamers who plan on spending the entire festive period on their new consoles can enjoy a Christmas Tinner. The meal boasts nine layers – from a fry-up for breakfast through to turkey and veg and even mince pies for dessert – all in a tin by makers Game.

CLASSIC cartoons Tom And Jerry and Scooby Doo are among the top children’s TV shows – for parents. It seems we never truly grow up as many adults admit they often switch on children’s TV ‘for the nostalgia’. Other favourites were Peppa Pig and Postman Pat, a poll by Viral Spiral found.

UNEAR UNEARTHED from the ‘pit of bones’, it sheds new light on our evolution.

The w world’s oldest human DNA has been rrecovered from the thigh bone of an early human, or hominin, who walk the Earth 400,000 years ago. walked Scientists were able to reconstruct it from 2g of powder taken from remains that were dug up in the in an underground cave known as ‘the pit of bones’ in Sierra de Atapuer northern Spain.

Atapuerca, The mitochondrial genome (mtDNA) shows the hominin shared a link with the mysterious Asian group the Denisovans who date back 700,000 years.

It has pushed understanding of human evolution 200,000 years further back from the late to middle pleistocene period, researchers say.

Evolutionary anthropologist Dr Matthias Meyer from Germany’s Max Planck Institute said: ‘The fact the mtDNA shares a common ancestor with Denisovan rather than Neanderthal mtDNAs is unexpected since its skeletal remains carry Neanderthal derived features.’

It is thought the hominin was likely related to both Neanderthals and Denisovans or another group brought the DNA into the pit, which has yielded a total of 28 skeletons from the period.

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Being a big noise in F1 can be a drag FOR many people, the draw of Formula 1 is baffling.

Lots of cars, some clearly faster than others, going round and round a track, with precious little excitement in a race that’s bound to be won by a cocky 26-year-old German.

But don’t bother trying to pick an argument with a die-hard fan, the chances are they won’t be able to hear you. Acoustical engineer Craig Dolder at the University of Texas tested noise levels at last year’s Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal.

Using a sound level meter, Mr Dolder stood within 25m of the track among fellow fans at three different places. Of the locations he tested, the loudest by far was at the end of a hairpin turn just before a straight.

Mr Dolder calculated that without ear protection, a spectator would get 234 per cent of the daily allowed noise dosage based on US Occupational Safety and Health Administration standards. Using the much stricter standards of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, noise at this location leapt to 8,585 per cent.

Where spectators stand probably does not matter as long as they are wearing good hearing protection, he said. He said: ‘You will still feel those loud noises in your body. But it’s not worth the risk of exposing yourself to that noise unprotected.’

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’Tis the season to be upgrading, whether you like it or not, writes a well-endowed, but modest about it, ken rogan

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istory has some fine rhetorical questions: Et tu, Brute? Why don’t we invade Russia? Who let the dogs out? But we don’t enjoy being asked rhetorical questions, do we?

Especially not by our phones: ‘Upgrade now?’

It’s not a question, it’s notice: ‘Hello and welcome to cheerfully enforced change!’ Sure, you can bury your head in the sand for a few weeks, like I did, but eventually you’ll have to– ‘Upgrade now?’

And ’tis the season to upgrade.

Fill your stocking with ‘new and improved’, or suffer the shame of replacing something when it breaks, which is what people used to do before Hoovers had operating systems. Now, alas, the ghosts in your machines have more birthdays than dogs.

‘Upgrade n–’.. DON’T TELL ME WHAT TO DO! And don’t puncture the illusion of my control.

This is the ‘individual’ you’re talking to here, the great, blazing ‘i’ atop the dark tower of Appleearth, in the land of More-More

where shadowy retailers lie.

And your pet device, whatever it is (laptop, tablet, half-breed, phone, touch, pod, it’s all the same beast), cleaves to be one with its master – it wants to update. It fights to connect, irks you with push notifications, and incessant requests to geo-locate or to occupy every corner of your various accounts and vomit back what it finds in a slew of comically inhuman verbs: ‘Roger has endorsed you!’

Oh really? Did Roger know I listed ‘big willy-ness’ as a skill on LinkedIn just to trip him up? The fool. But in fairness, Roger didn’t do it on purpose – unlike Mark Zuckerberg, who is the Michael O’Leary of updating.

You don’t even get the pretend question, he just switcheroos your interface and gives all your pictures to some mega-dump of stock photography. And so what if the platform is buggy, crap and inane?

Who else is going to fly you to Gdansk?

They even update films now, which is quaintly described as ‘rebooting’ – previously something you only ever had to do with

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computers that had 5¼” floppy 1960s concentration camp of disks. What isn’t quaint is that the dance? average PC still takes five or more And it’s not only movies that minutes of flickering and farting to update – you do too. It takes seven boot up in the first place, and, when years to complete and you get 11 the pixel dust finally settles, they or 12 updates before, em, you’re still need you to press the up for ‘contract renewal’.

‘Start’ button. ‘Oh! Well Makes you wonder seeing as I’m here what social media and all…’ for old people will Anyway, the like. I’m Mark Zuckerberg is look latest movie up thinking an the Michael O’Leary for rebooting is anonymous Patrick Swayze’s forum to pay fo updating. He just Roadhouse, tribute to the switcheroos your which is deceased called awesome, if ‘Obitchuary’. interface rednecks, Until then let us raunchiness and consider the martial arts are your thing unavoidable reality that (or you could just stare at a is the latest iPhone ‘upgrade’. picture of Chuck Norris).

Now when you get a missed call The original Roadhouse was a you still get a corresponding text, spin-off of Dirty Dancing that but can you scroll up that text and asked the question: what if hit call to ring someone back? No, ‘Johnny’ had lost ‘Baby’ to that you can’t. You have to hit ‘contact’

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in the top right corner. Does that start the call? No. But it does display the missedcall number, and some small hardto-touch icons, one of which is a phone. Does hitting the number start a call? No. You have to press the tiny phone.

Does that start the call? No. You get three more options, and one of them is ‘voice call’. That starts the call.

I’m not even going to insult the word ‘upgrade’ by tying it to this catastrophe of Orwellian minibureaucracies.

Between ourselves, I think the hobbits have chucked the ring containing the last shard of Steve Jobs’s soul into Mount Doom. But hey, you can get a cheaper, more colourful iPhone – or even an iPhone 5 whose connection lead is incompatible with all of its predecessors.

Upgrade now? @kenrogan

Shoppers warned of online scams

by HayDen SMiTH CYBER criminals are targeting Christmas shoppers with scams designed to cash in on record online shopping, security experts have warned.

One phishing con sees fraudsters circulate thousands of emails disguised as Amazon order notifications.

The fake messages contain malware which takes an inventory of all running processes on the infected machine and steals all auto-complete passwords from Mozilla Firefox.

Fred Touchette, of web security company AppRiver, said: ‘Fake invoice scams are yearround but they are so much more effective during that time of year almost everyone is expecting packages from their online purchases. Be on the lookout for these attempts to take advantage of the season.

They are out in full force.’

He said the scam also sought to take advantage of an Amazon promotion offering a 30day free trial of its prime service, which allows customers to receive free next-day delivery.

Ahead of Cyber Monday, officials from the US and ten other countries seized 706 domain names set up to dupe consumers into buying fake goods.

STory TiMe: Robyn Maher and Ellie Spain were at the announcement that ESB has been confirmed as the sponsor of Ireland’s first business to schools reading initiative, A Time To Read PicTure: jason clarke

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Smartphone alert app to help track down abducted children Remembering the missing: Students from Davis College in Mallow launch pigeons to mark Missing Persons Day yesterday Picture: PA

GARDAÍ have launched an app that tells users when a child has been abducted.

Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan said the Child Rescue Ireland Alert phone app would provide the public with vital information to help track down a missing child.

‘Over 50 per cent of the public in Ireland owns a smartphone and as a result the potential for quickly reaching vast numbers of the population with critical information is enormous,’ Mr Callinan said.

A picture of the missing child, their nationality, date of birth, hair colour, height, weight and any other important details will be sent to phones – and anyone with information on the child’s whereabouts will be encouraged to contact gardaí.

Parents who have the app installed will also be able to pre-load their own child’s details into their phone so that, should the child disappear, they have a picture and their vital statistics saved to give to officers.

by LynDSEy TELfORD According to Justice Minister Alan Shatter, who co-launched the app yesterday on Ireland’s first ever Missing Persons Day, it would be a ‘crucial component’ in the area of child protection and child welfare.

A CRI alert was triggered last week when three youngsters went missing with their mother from Co. Roscommon. The children were found around five hours after the alert was triggered.

The CRI alert system was launched in 2012 and has been triggered twice since then. Gardaí have to ensure strict criteria are met before the alert is raised, which includes that the child is under 18 and there is a reasonable belief the child has been abducted.

These criteria will be applied to the app.

Around 165 reports of missing people are made to gardaí every week and around 8,000 incidents are recorded a year.

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Kalie Gill, from Leitrim, was fatally struck by an out-ofcontrol car at a church carnival in October. Her sister Lindsey, 12, who was badly injured in the crash in Yonkers, is being treated in a rehabilitation centre – leaving her distraught family with soaring medical bills.

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PERIOD crime drama Ripper Street, which was filmed on location in Dublin, has been axed by the BBC after it failed to pull in a big enough audience.

The occasionally grisly Victorian-era show will end when the second series winds up in just under a fortnight on BBC1.

Actor Jerome Flynn (pictured) said the cast and team were told this week and were ‘in a state of a shock’. But he said there was still hope that BBC drama chiefs would change their minds.

The programme – set in late 19th-century east London – launched just under a year ago and also stars Matthew Macfadyen.

Flynn said: ‘It was up against I’m A Celebrity...

Get Me Out Of Here! and that’s been cited as one of the reasons in terms of viewing figures.’

A BBC spokeswoman said: ‘We are very proud of Ripper Street. However, the second series didn’t bring the audience we hoped and in order to make room for creative renewal and new ideas it won’t be returning.’

Ripper Street creating more than 250 jobs investing €8million in Dublin during its 19-week Season One filming period in 2012. Irish actress Charlene McKenna played the part of prostitute Rose Erskine. while Love/Hate’s Charlie Murphy also appeared in Season Two.

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a campaign to remove predatory eagles from its habitat and a new breeding programme.

RUCIALLy, the Australian scientists call for intervention when it becomes clear a monitored species is in decline. They say it’s not good enough to simply sit back, watch and record while animals disappear. ‘This is not meant as a criticism of ecological or conservation monitoring, since these are critical for understanding the ecology of a species, determining its threat status HERE are more than of a pre-planned intervention pro- and evaluating conservation opExperts in Australia say endangered species are being 70,000 species of animals gramme.’ tions,’ the report said. monitored but not protected, and want conservation projects and plants on our planet.

The study cited 34 cases around ‘However, our analysis indicates to do less counting and more saving. ROSS McGUINNESS Unfortunately, three out of the world in which a species became that many existing conservation looks at why some animals are dying out... every ten are under threat. extinct locally or globally while un- monitoring programmes are not as The release last month of the upder observation. effective as they could be at collectdated Red List, compiled by the In- blame at the humans who monitor threat. ‘Since the start of the 21st This included the Christmas Is- ing information and prompting relcentury alone,at least ten species of land pipistrelle bat and the western evant actions.’ ternational Union for Conservation the creatures under threat.

Prof David Lindenmayer, Dr Max- vertebrates are known to have gone black rhino of Africa, which was in Nature, indicated more than The World Wide Fund for Nature 21,000 species are at risk of being ine Piggott and Dr Brendan Wintle, extinct, although this is likely to be declared extinct two years ago. has more than 3,000 conservation wiped out. One animal on the brink from the Centre of Excellence for a substantial underestimate,’ the reAnother animal which CEED said projects in 100 countries. Its direcis the okapi, a giraffe-like mammal Environmental Decisions at the searchers said. was monitored while dying out is tor of programmes in Britain, Glyn ‘We have drawn attention whose numbers are dwindling in its Australian Research Council, claim the California Channel Is- Davies, warned box-ticking exernative Democratic Republic of many wildlife programmes are to some cases where a land fox, whose num- cises were ‘pointless’.

Congo because of years of conflict merely ‘monitoring species to the species was monitored bers fell to about He said the Australian report had point of extinction’ without step- passively until it sufin the region where it lives.

1,500, 20 years good intentions. ‘It has identified a Animals are dying out and man is ping in to save them. They argue a fered local, regional ago. The fox is critical risk and people should be often to blame for their demise, but new plan is needed if we are to save or global extinction actually one of challenged to say what change they some are now pointing the finger of some of the 21,000 species under due to the absence the few animals can bring about,’ he added. ‘But you species have been assessed for to bounce back, must just acknowledge that many of the latest Red List of according to the groups don’t have a lot of rethreatened animals and plants the latest Red List sources to bring it about.’ species are The WWF is one of those which is – its83 numbers threatened in Britain – have tripled after placed to change things – Davies species are threatened said it restores animal numbers by are fish with extinction stopping poachers, supporting local government and law enforcement The white-winged and working with communities. He flufftail (a bird in said numbers of the Amur leopard Ethiopia, South Africa species are under and the Javan rhino are particularly and Zimbabwe) is threat in Ecuador of threatened on the brink of extinction precarious. species are critically – there are are only endangered He added: ‘We need to be able to show that what we’re doing is bringing about change. Doworldwide are left of breeding age in America nors – including govclassed as ‘vulnerable’ ernment sources and big foundations – want There has been a are endangered measurement of what we’ve done and what in Malaysia decline in impact we’ve had.’ global Mr Davies said that, biodiversity in conservation, it was since 1970 The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has more than rare one group did everything.

The California Channel in Indonesia Island fox has bounced ‘The government in back – its numbers have conservation projects Nepal has shown a grown to 5,500 from ongoing at any one time fantastic increase in ti1,500 in the 1990s ger numbers since 2009. in Mexico ‘It was the Nepal 1,500 The okapi (a giraffe-like mammal government in charge in the Democratic Republic of rhinos were killed by of tigers as a whole, Congo) is under threat because poachers last year of years of armed conflict in the but we worked alongforests where it lives species of animals and side them and supportSources: International Union for Conservation of plants have died out Nature, World Wide Fund for Nature ed them.’

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lympic diver Tom Daley has announced he is in a relationship with a man (metro Herlad, Tuesday).

While it comes as no surprise to many people, i would just like to know why such a big deal has been made of it? in this day and age, is being gay really such a big thing that it ends up as a lead story on a newspaper page? it’s great to see he has received such positive support from fans and celebrities, but surely he shouldn’t have felt the need to disclose his private life to all and sundry.

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Go on my dream holiday – Australia, New Zealand, China and Japan.

Gareth O’Connor Our disgrace of a government could learn something from them.

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■ When i picked up your edition on monday, i was taken aback by the headline ‘Fast And The Furious star killed in fireball’. i felt that particular headline sensationalised a tragic death. While it mightn’t have directly affected anyone, i think us irish should uphold a traditional value of ours, ie respecting the recently departed.

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■ Since when did it become acceptable to rest your newspaper on a fellow commuter’s knee? As for those who lean over others to open the window on the Dart when it’s already freezing, grrrrr.

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‘I love Paris in the springtime...’ well having visited the city of love this week to preview Penneys’ spring/summer 2014 collection, I was certainly made to feel like the sun was shining and there were leaves on the trees on a chilly December day.

In line with increasing demand for its fashion forward collections, Penneys (Primark outside of Ireland) is set to open five new stores in France from December onwards, and to celebrate that, its impending collection was showcased against the backdrop of its newest territory.

It’s always hard to imagine the warmer seasons when we have not even hit the depths of winter, but within a room filled with pastels like soft lemon and seafoam, I instantly felt warmer.

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Decades feature heavily; paying a visit to the 1990s will be essential as varsity jackets, American style football jerseys, dungarees and sweatshirts are reinvented for another season.

Going back in time to the 1940s, sugarcoated candy colours will be a big hit for Penneys, as it develops a vintage theme through fuller shaped skirts and a large selection of fitted dresses.

Trends are easy to spot, with a ‘bib’ front pinafore making several appearances in different guises; in white and in candy-striper colours which can be styled on their own, or with a collared shirt underneath as an extra layer.

Shirt and blouse styles have structure; a more box shape to be precise, consistent in sheer shirt dresses to short sleeved blouses, making it easy to mix and match the story-lines across the collection (and a very clever buying decision if you ask me).

What makes this collection make my fashionfilled heart flutter is its ability to cater for all Penneys customers.

Geo print shirt €15, in stores March

Geo print shorts €13, in stores

“Get there tout suite and start your holiday wardrobe early”

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mAy be a little past the Dream Punk story with its fizzy drink logos and cartoon motifs, but i see myself being drawn to the designerinspired Sandstorm theme where classic tailoring meets contemporary fashion in statement jackets and brocade mini skirts, which will work perfectly with closet staples like plain tee-shirts and black tapered trousers. No one is left out.

Accessories have been well thought out and are the perfect complement to every aspect of the collection. Brilliant platform sandals add that much-loved colour pop we associate with spring/ summer, balanced with sporty high tops, classic brogues and canvas slip on sneakers, catering for all our footwear needs next year. high summer will introduce indian influences in footwear and accessories with beautifully embellished strap sandals and clutch bags which will work stylishly with the jumpsuits and maxi dresses throughout the collection.

When this collection starts to hit the shop floors from early 2014, i suggest you get there tout suite and start your holiday wardrobe a little early; it’s never too soon for sunshine.

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hriSTmAS is a time to sparkle.

The festive season is hot on our party heels, and time is running out to choose our outfit for Christmas Day. Like a smart suit for a job interview or a big white gown in your wedding day, Christmas has a dress code. At no other time of year do we have tinsel and fairy lights to compete with, so the festive season is our chance to dress a little OTT. i have worn full-length festive red for the past two Christmases. in 2011 it was a 1970s vintage maxi accessorised with antique jewellery.

Last year i wore a deep red maxi dress from Coast. however, wrestling with the turkey and frying sprouts wearing a long frock was a health and safety disaster waiting to happen. So this year i’m opting for sparkles; sequins, metallics,

beading, lace and rich jacquard. Not to mention diamonds, (real or otherwise Santa, if you’re reading).

One thing Dublin boutiques do best is beautiful evening wear.

For a start, Powerscourt Townhouse is an Aladdin’s Cave of party dresses. The detail on this gold lace and sequin-trim dress (pictured below right, €240) by Caroline Kilkenny at the Design Centre is as intricate as snowflakes. Bow and Pearl in ranelagh is no exception. i love this Ayse sequinned skirt (pictured below, €90). i always choose dresses for Christmas Day, but this would be a great alternative teamed with a silk top and heels.

Not forgetting the high Street. miss Selfridge does embellishment year-round, and has incorporated the winter pastel trend for Christmas 2013. in this silver and pale blue jacquard dress (pictured left, €55) i’ll feel like a sugar plum ice skater come Christmas Day. Let the festive magic inspire you and get your wardrobe sparkling. whisty.wordpress.com

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t’s right after the international tour for her latest film, Rush, that I catch up with actress Olivia Wilde. since joining Revlon as a beauty ambassador in 2011, her make-up looks have been followed as closely as her starring roles and she’s more than happy to divulge the tricks she’s learned over the years.

It’s all about learning about your face, she tells me.

‘I would never do a bold lip and a bold eye,’ she says.

‘It can be done well but I know I have exaggerated features, like a big jaw, so it just doesn’t work for me. It’s not a bad thing. It’s just a family trait and, as I’ve got older, I’ve learned how to work it.’

Instead, she advocates highlighting one feature.

‘Either go bold on the lips, eyes or with something you’re wearing. I think you should always take a risk with one piece. It’s important to have fun with it so either do a bright lipstick or bold eyeliner or some sort of exciting eye look that looks different.’ she also advocates a less-is-more approach for hair. ‘too many curls look a bit corny,’ she says. ‘It’s something I call the LA curl. It’s where people put their hair in a curling iron and don’t brush it out. It’s important to keep movement in your hair.’

While loose hair is her style of choice, Wilde doesn’t underestimate the power of an up-do. ‘they can really show off an eye look you’re sporting. But make sure it’s the right kind of up-do. You can’t do the whole Audrey Hepburn hair for a party because it’s too much.’

You’d be forgiven for thinking she’s a seasoned pro.

As self-deprecating as she is, Wilde is no beauty novice. since following in the footsteps of Halle Berry and Emma stone at Revlon, she’s been sharpening up her beauty skills.

In her clutch bag, she carries an arsenal of products.

‘I always pack an eyebrow pencil along with a concealer like Revlon’s Age Defying concealer and I also carry something for the lips. Revlon’s Ultimate suede lipsticks are great because they’re really moisturising but they stay.

What you don’t want is a wet lipstick that, by the end of the night, is all over your face.’

Her party make-up collection is simple. It consists of Revlon’s Colorstay Foundation – ‘it stays where you put it’ – and eyeliner – ‘if I don’t have time, I would always go for eyeliner before even thinking about eye shadow.’ the finishing touches should always be on the skin, she says. ‘If you’ve got great skin and eyebrows, and liner and mascara on your eyes, you’re pretty much good to go.’

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television filM of the day letteRS to JulIet, FIlm4, 7pm If you’re in the mood tonight for an easyto-swallow piece of sunny cheese, why not take a trip to sun-drenched Verona with Sophie (amanda Seyfried, pictured).

Supposedly on a ‘pre-honeymoon’, the budding writer soon realises her workaholic groom-to-be (Gael García Bernal) just isn’t that into her. When she stumbles across a 50-year-old letter, she tracks down the love-lorn author (Vanessa Redgrave), who sets out to find her long-lost love with her handily eligible but haughty grandson (Christopher egan) in tow. Gary Winick’s romcom, while predictable fare, it is still charming enough to spend a cosy night in with.

GettinG Rich in the Recession: the Man Who Buys anythinG Channel 4, 9pm Every cloud has a silver lining and for wheelerdealer Steve Elwis, the economic downturn has turned into one big business opportunity. Buying up stock from firms that have gone bust and turning a profit from high-street stores that have closed down, Elwis (pictured) has a warehouse that’s a stuffed-to-the-rafters Aladdin’s cave of miscellaneous tat, with everything from bikinis to boat engines offering the promise of profit. Still, as vultures go, Elwis is an engaging opportunist – and this documentary offers a telling snapshot of an economy on the brink, with few of those muchtouted green shoots of recovery on view.

iRish pictoRial Weekly RtÉ1, 10.15pm the third episode in the welcome second series of the sketch show from the creative team responsible for aprés match, Ross o’CarrollKelly and the Savage eye, including Barry murphy, Gary Cooke, eleanor tiernan and paul howard. We’ll be treated to appearances by the likes of angela merkel, enda Kenny and anne Doyle along with some new characters, including Ryanair supremo michael o’leary (Cooke, pictured) and Bono.

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Daniel Radcliffe and Jon Hamm for Strictly?

Tonight’s visit to the Russian surgery where it always snows features the unlikely star duo showing off some fancy footwork in a waltz. It’s just one diverting moment in a witty yet bleak delight that also features the Harry Potter star sporting a clown’s costume, breaking into song and caught on the hop by a dark emotional twist.

And rarely has the line ‘we were looking for wood’ dripped quite so heavily with double entendre. A comic treat.

If two heads are better than one, then surely a whole crowd of them must be the best way of working out a problem? Returning to examine a second set of personal puzzles, this reality show sets a gaggle of gawping strangers on the tail of an individual facing one of the greatest decisions of their lives to see if the collective insight can come up with an enlightening solution. First up tonight, can the audience help 42-year-old disabled single woman Jane Mason reach a decision about adopting a child on her own?

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lizabeth Gilbert is about to take flight; she is in an airport, awaiting a plane to Atlanta. Somehow, it feels appropriate to interview her in transit. After all, this is the woman who gained renown with memoir Eat, Pray, Love about a journey she took through Italy, India and Indonesia to recover from a painful divorce. ‘I have been blessed with a gipsy bone,’ laughs Gilbert.

‘I’ve been travelling my whole life.’

The memoir spent four years on the New York Times best-seller list and sold more than 10million copies. Gilbert was further catapulted into the limelight when Julia Roberts played her in the 2010 film adaptation. The same year, she published Committed, A Love Story, exploring her ambivalence about marriage despite her happier relationship with second husband José Nunes, also known as ‘That Brazilian Guy from Eat, Pray, Love’

Fiction creates ‘wonder and delight’ you don’t find anywhere else, Eat, Pray, Love author Elizabeth Gilbert tells Anita Sethi

(played by Javier Bardem, pictured below with Roberts).

Her engrossing new fictional book signals a different kind of departure.

The Signature Of All Things is an intricate, beautifully written historical novel, set in the 19th century. A female botanist, Alma Whittaker, is its heroine.

‘The novel began because I moved to the countryside, started gardening and was surprised by how quickly I fell in love with it,’ says Gilbert.

Alma also takes a journey of discovery. ‘I wanted to write about a woman who never left a small area,’ says Gilbert. ‘But ultimately I had to put Alma on a boat. Not only am I incapable of resisting my own urge to travel, I’m incapable of resisting creating characters who do.’

A sense of organic growth permeates the novel and Gilbert speaks fascinatingly about creativity. ‘I think of creativity as a really interesting collaboration between human effort and some other mystery,’ she says.

‘Ninety-nine per cent of what I put into that book is labour: organising index cards, finding out facts. But, after taking all that information and inventing emotional lives, there’s nothing

New departure: Elizabeth Gilbert you could do to convince me that Alma is not a real person – that’s the mystery.’

After two memoirs, why return to fiction after 12 years? ‘I’d forgotten how and why you would make something up,’ says Gilbert. ‘I discovered you do it because it allows you to access a level of wonder and delight that you don’t get anywhere else.’

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he novel is a paean to the 19th-century women of science who strove for achievement against the odds. ‘I think of everything I write as coming from a feminist standpoint,’ she says. ‘My initial

thought was to write about a woman of towering intellect unable to have her contribution recognised because she was a woman. Botany was the only science in which women were welcomed in the 19th century.’

The author, who was raised on a family holding in Connecticut and now lives in Frenchtown, New Jersey, is, as her heroine, wedded to her work.

‘I wanted to tell the story of a woman who loves her work,’ she says. Gilbert believes there aren’t enough characters like these.

‘I’ve been stubborn and devotional about writing for a long time,’ she says. ‘I pursue success and am not

afraid of ambition. I still love the work. I’ve loved it the whole time in a way that doesn’t have to do with its result. That’s been the greatest good fortune: to have something I love unconditionally – my writing.’

For Gilbert, it’s about enjoying the journey, not the destination. ‘I give everything I have to it and then what happens with it out in the world isn’t my business; it becomes superficial chatter in my brain that doesn’t affect anything in my heart.

It’s important to find something you love so much that you care about the process more than the result.’

The Signature Of All Things (Bloomsbury) is out now

sHELfspAcE aLso out The Valley Of Amazement by Amy Tan Fourth Estate HHHII It says a lot for amy tan’s considerable powers as a storyteller that her new novel – her first since 2005 – retains its reader’s interest over almost 600 pages and innumerable plot twists that verge on the unlikely. the Joy Luck Club author has again mined her own family history, apparently inspired by the discovery that her own grandmother may have been a courtesan, to tell the involving story of Violet Minturn, brought up in the highclass shanghai brothel run by her white american mother Lulu. the first great shock in Violet’s young life is the discovery that, far from being a white american girl, she is half-Chinese. the second comes, after her mother is tricked into abandoning Violet to return to america,

when she is sold to another brothel as a virgin courtesan. although the plotting is overwrought at times, the Valley of amazement deals in the themes that tan excels at: cross-cultural Chinese-american identity; the revelations of the hidden lives of women and the inter-generational relationships between mothers and daughters – three generations are represented here, with Violet’s daughter completing the trilogy.

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Distinguished poet and writer Iain sinclair embarks upon a challenging, maddening, fascinating journey on the trail of the american Beat poets in this dense psychogeographic work – part-poetry, part-travelogue,

part-trawl through his own memories of fleetingly meeting many of the scene’s key players while a young man. the book is probably better approached by somebody with either an encyclopaedic knowledge of the Beats – so you’re intimately familiar with the names sinclair drops with little introduction – or no knowledge of them at all – so you can stop worrying who exactly it is that sinclair is banging on about and just enjoy his freewheeling, poetic language and subtly warped sense of humour. If, like me, you’re modestly familiar with the Beats, then american smoke will probably have more than its fair share of frustrations: in line with his title, perhaps, sinclair proffers thickets of tangential, whimsical details but little of real substance. But his language is rich and engrossing, and if it’s not always clear why he admires these poets, for the reader it’s mostly just enough that he’s excited.

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Vins look set for win in Leinster club final by pAuL kEANE

HugH gill has backed red hot club colleague Mossy Quinn to shoot St Vincent’s to AiB leinster club football glory.

Former Dublin star Quinn will link up with Diarmuid Connolly in a potentially devastating Vins forward line for Sunday’s provincial decider.

But while Connolly is the current Dubs star, he’s just back from a two-game suspension and Quinn is the player bang on form.

The placed ball specialist shot a stunning 1-8 in the semi-final defeat of Summerhill and will fancy his chances of leading Portlaoise’s demolition in Tullamore.

‘Mossy Quinn is probably playing the best football of his life at the moment,’ said former Dubs defender gill. ‘it’s huge to have Mossy around in this sort of form. He’s such a leader and an inspiration to the lads. But Portlaoise are no mugs. We played them in 2007 when we won leinster. They had a man sent off and we won by a good few points. But any team that then goes on and wins seven county championships in a row is not to be messed with.

‘They’ve a good few county players there too,’ he added. gill is still just 25 and another good performance at O’Connor Park could earn him his own ticket back into the Dublin scene. He was there under former boss Pat gilroy for a couple of seasons after Vins won the All-ireland club title in 2008, but injuries hampered him.

CR7 makes exhibition of himself ReAl Madrid superstar Cristiano Ronaldo is to open a museum dedicated to his favourite subject, himself.

The former Manchester United star (pictured) will cut the ribbon when the doors are opened to the public later this month. The museum is in Funchal on the Portuguese island of Madeira where the great man was born 28 years ago.

Footballs, photographs and trophies from his glittering career, which began at local side Andorinha in the early 1990s, will be among the items on show. A spokesman said: ‘Cristiano wants to give something back to Madeira and came up with the idea with his mother.’

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‘i’ve had a few breaks, a few hamstring tears, i broke my hand, had surgery on my leg, a few different shots,’ said gill. ‘i was training with Dublin and unfortunately had a bad injury in 2009 or 2010. After that, they kept coming. i’ve never had a couple of months in the last few years where i’ve just been injury free.

‘The injuries didn’t help when i was with

Vins man: Hugh Gill of St Vincent’s has been plagued by injuries in recent years Dublin. i was going from training session to training session and it’s very hard to enjoy football and matches and be trying to play at a high level when you’re stuck on the physio table every day,’ he said.

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Seismic shift: Seahawks fans in fine voice as they beat New Orleans Pic: AP

RoWDy American Football fans are well known for their raucous celebrations but followers of the Seattle Seahawks took things to another level on Monday night – officially recording a minor earthquake. Supporters inside the CenturyLink Field jumped up and down so forcefully during the 34-7 defeat of the New orleans Saints that local authorities measured five separate seismic events during the game. The biggest came in the first quarter, when the home team ran in a touchdown, registering as a

magnitude one and two earthquake. The Seahawks fans were not content with just making the ground shake either, breaking the record for noise at an outdoor sports

137.6 Decibels, the

record-breaking level reached by the crowd – a jet engine is 140 decibels stadium during the encounter.

The crowd’s din just surpassed the Guinness World Record of 137.5 decibels set by Kansas City Chiefs fans in october.

been banned for five years for seven breaches of racing rules including administering anabolic steroids to horses in his care. Butler was accused of ‘an appalling dereliction of his duty as a licensed trainer’ by the British Horseracing Authority. Butler, who is based in Newmarket, admitted to giving four horses a substance – Rexogin – that contained the anabolic steroid stanozolol. It is designed for use by bodybuilders and involves using a method that should be carried out by only qualified veterinary surgeons. The BHA said this ‘amounted to conduct that was seriously prejudicial to the integrity, proper conduct and good reputation of horse racing in Britain’.

Price could still be right for Chisora BOXiNg Liverpool heavyweight David Price insists he has not turned his back on a domestic showdown against Dereck Chisora despite announcing his decision to relinquish his British and Commonwealth titles. Chisora’s promoter Frank Warren won the purse bids to stage the contest last month and Price says he would not rule out meeting the European champion at some point in 2014. ‘The time is right for me to move in a different direction,’ Price said. ‘As for the fight with Dereck, this really interests me and I’d hope it has the potential to be made.’

Ding’s superb run ended by Walden sNOOkER DING

JUNHUI saw his hopes of an amazing fourth successive ranking title disappear when Ricky Walden beat him 6-4 at the UK Championship in york yesterday.

The Chinese player looked set to take the match into a decider, but missed a simple pink and Walden did not need a second invitation to seal his place in the last eight. ‘I couldn’t believe it,’ Walden told the BBC. ‘I thought we were definitely in for a decider and luckily for me I got my chance. ‘It was a tough game. He’s flying at the moment, scoring so heavy and he’s the man to beat. So when you do get your chance and you feel like you’ve blown it, there’s nothing worse. I didn’t play my best but I stuck in there.’ Defending champion Mark Selby beat Graeme Dott 6-2 and

26 METRO HERALD Thursday, December 5, 2013 Saint be praised: George North wants to take his Northampton side to the Heineken Cup final in Wales

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NORTH DiREcTiON TO MiLLENNiUM STADiUM GEoRGE NoRTH is targeting two wins over Leinster to keep his Northampton Saints side on course for a return trip to Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium for the Heineken Cup final next May. North knows every inch of the Millennium Stadium turf and would love nothing more than to crown his season with a trip to the home of Welsh rugby where Northampton were defeated by Leinster in the 2011 Heineken Cup final.

The 21-year-old burst on to the international stage as a teenager in 2010 with two tries on his test debut

Warren keen to be leader of Lions pack for Kiwi tour

formula one

Schedule cut after a tough Korea choice THE 2014 F1 calendar has been slashed by three grands prix due to problems with the venues in New Jersey, Mexico and South Korea.

The announcement by the World Motor Sport Council will come as a relief to the 11 teams with Red Bull having described the prospect of 22 grand prix, listed in the provisional calendar in September, as ‘beyond the limit’.

There will now be 219 races in 2014, one less than this year.

Despite a 15-year contract being signed in June, the Grand Prix of America – along the banks of the Hudson River – has been shelved for a second successive year.

Mexico was due to end a 22-year exile from the sport but the redevelopment of the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez will take longer than expected. South Korea has faced financial difficulties since the race was first staged in 2010.

WARREN GATLAND would relish the chance to lead the British & Irish Lions for the second time on the tour to his native New Zealand in 2017.

The Wales coach steered the Lions to a 2-1 triumph over Australia this year – their first series win since 1997 – and admits he would love another crack at the job against the All Blacks in four years’ time.

‘It was an incredible experience. To be involved, I was humbled and privileged,’ the 50-year-old said.

‘For me to go to New Zealand would be a great opportunity in 2017, but there is a huge amount of water to

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against South Africa. He played in 15 international matches, including a World Cup finals tournament, before he managed to make his European debut for the Scarlets.

He has managed to cram an awful lot into his short career to date with a fourth place finish in the World Cup in 2011, a Grand Slam in 2012, a second 6 Nations title in 2013, as well a series triumph in Australia with the Lions.

But his attentions now switch to the Heineken Cup and trying to find a way to haul the Saints back into the reckoning for a quarter-final slot.

Back-to-back wins over three-time champions Leinster – a club Northampton have never beaten in Europe – would be just the ticket.

‘It would be really nice to come home to Cardiff for the Heineken Cup final in May, but we have two very difficult games against Leinster to overcome before we can start thinking about that,’ said North.

‘Leinster have proven themselves on the European stage time after time. They have a very physical pack and some superb backs, so we are expecting two high-paced and very tough games.

These are the games everyone looks forward to.’

by RicHARD HOOKHAM Rugby Union Correspondent would relish.’ Gatland was speaking at Tuesday’s Gillette UK Coaching Awards, where he was named UK Coach Of The Year and High-Performance Coach Of The Year.

Gatland faced criticism in the summer after he dropped Lions talisman Brian O’Driscoll for the third and deciding Test.

The decision to drop the veteran Ireland centre was ultimately vindicated, however, as the Lions thrashed the Wallabies 41-16 in Sydney.

18 straight defeats for Wales to southern hemisphere opposition after Gatland’s side succumbed to a ninth straight loss to Australia in Cardiff on Saturday

Fond memories: Gatland won the Test series against Australia

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pass under the bridge before that.

‘For me, the focus over the next couple of years is doing well for Wales.

‘And if Wales do well in the Six Nations and the World Cup, then you put yourself in the frame to hopefully be asked again.

‘You never know, and if I was asked to do it again and particularly in my own country, it would be something I

But Gatland admits he was shocked by the heated reaction from fans and media back in the British Isles to the decision.

‘I wasn’t [prepared],’ he added.’

‘I think that people out in Australia weren’t aware of the almost hysteria that created but that’s sport and you’ve got to stand by your beliefs, put your hand on your heart and sometimes make some tough decisions.’

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Nolan wins support after his hammering from fans

by JOHN PAYNE WEST Ham midfielder Mark Noble has leapt to the defence of under-fire captain Kevin Nolan.

Nolan, who scored ten goals last season, has not found the net since the opening day this term and the former Newcastle man has been substituted to the sound of ironic cheers from Hammers fans in their last three matches.

The 31-year-old lasted 58 minutes of Tuesday night’s 1-0 defeat at Crystal Palace, which dragged Sam Allardyce’s side back into the Premier League relegation battle.

But Noble says his midfield partner, who signed a five-year deal in 2011, remains a key figure at Upton Park.

‘Kev has been unbelievable for us,’ said Noble. ‘He’s big enough and strong enough to handle that sort of stuff, so I am sure he will be fine.

‘He is the gaffer’s man and looks

Boo boy: Nolan was jeered by West Ham supporters after being substituted at Crystal Palace picture: action images

‘Kev is big and strong enough to handle it’ after the dressing room and all of the problems in there. I do not think the gaffer has taken him off because of the way he was playing – he just wanted to change things.’

West Ham have won one in seven and could drop into the bottom three if they lose at Liverpool, where they haven’t won since 1963, on Saturday.

They will be without midfielder Ravel Morrison, who serves a one-match ban, even though referee Lee Mason gave Morrison a yellow card rather than a red for shoving Palace’s Joel Ward in the face after the final whistle at Selhurst Park.

It was Morrison’s fifth booking of the season, which triggered a ban, but Noble insisted: ‘He has not been any trouble all season. He lost the game and is frustrated – we all are.’

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Ex-Blade Warnock in Owls frame SHEffiELD Wednesday chairman Milan Mandaric has confirmed Neil Warnock is on a five-man shortlist to replace Dave Jones as the club’s manager. Warnock, 65, was derided by Owls fans during an eight-year spell as Sheffield United manager, but Mandaric insisted whoever he chose to succeed Jones, sacked on Sunday, would be in the club’s best interests. Jones’ assistant Stuart Gray took

charge of the side for Tuesday night’s 2-1 win over Leicester and has not been ruled out altogether

by Mandaric, but is not on the shortlist. ‘Not at this time,’ Mandaric said. ‘Of course, there is no ruling out and there is some possibility if Stuart can take us on a run.’ Asked if Warnock was among the candidates to take over, Mandaric added: ‘Yes he is, but it does not mean that he will be our manager.’

Shock link: Warnock

Clubs take the rap for stormy end CHARLTON have accepted a Football Association charge for failing to control their players in a bust-up towards the end of their 1-0 home defeat to Ipswich on Saturday.

The visitors have also said they will not be appealing.

coleman: i knew Bale was the real deal WALES manager Chris Coleman is not surprised Gareth Bale is turning around his slow start to life as the world’s most expensive player at Real Madrid.

The £86million signing from Tottenham scored a hat-trick in the weekend win over Real Valladolid and Coleman, who warned it could take until the New Year for Bale to produce his best form, said: ‘That’s football. Last month after El Clasico, he was under pressure, but a month later he is playing well and everyone realises what a good player he is. His talent was never in doubt.’

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iRisH DuO cOnTinuE in HOT puRsuiT Of wORLD cup quALificATiOn The IrIsh Track Cycling Team continue their campaign to qualify points for the World Championships in March this weekend, when the two-person team will compete in the second round of the 2014 World Cup season in Aguascalientes, Mexico.

Caroline ryan (pictured) will be competing in the Points race and the Individual Pursuit, while eoin Mullen will compete in the sprint and the Keirin. ryan is currently ranked second in the World in the Women’s Individual Pursuit, and a strong performance this weekend could see her move back into the number one spot, as Australia’s rebecca Wisiak leads by just ten points. Mullen, who is based in the World Cycling Centre in Aigle, is Ireland’s premier sprinter, and will be looking to emulate the 200m national record of 9.965 seconds, that he set last January on this Velodrome.

The main aim for riders this weekend is to secure points towards qualifying for the World Championships. The World Cup runs from December 5 to 7.

no fear for Leinster after Aviva’s All Blacks agony

by DAnny HOgAn

SHANE Jennings doesn’t believe Leinster’s Ireland internationals will have any hang-ups about returning to the Aviva Stadium for the second leg of their back-to-back Heineken Cup clashes with Northampton Saints next month.

The balance of power in Pool 1 is set to swing one way or the other when the two clubs meet in a repeat of the memorable 2011 Heineken Cup final on December 7 and 14.

Franklin’s Gardens will host the first game in Round 3 on Saturday with the return match a week later at the same Aviva Stadium where Ireland agonisingly lost out on a moment of rugby history with their last-play defeat to New Zealand.

But despite the bitter disappointment of that 24-22 result, Jennings believes the pain of defeat will be a

motivating factor rather than anything else for not only his teammates who played in the game – Rob and Dave Kearney, Brian O’Driscoll, Gordon D’Arcy, Luke Fitzgerald, Ian Madigan, Cian Healy, Mike Ross, Jack McGrath, Devin Toner, Mike McCarthy, Jamie Heaslip, Sean O’Brien and Kevin McLaughlin – but also every Irish fan who watched the game.

‘There is no doubt everyone feels it was an opportunity missed against the All Blacks, but that will just keep the players hungry for success. There was a lot of pride restored into the Aviva Stadium and the Irish jersey in that game,’ said Jennings.

‘We want to continue in that same vein when we get to play there against Northampton Saints in Round 4 of the Heineken Cup and there won’t be any mental scars on

display when the Leinster internationals return.

‘These back-to-back fixtures will tell us a lot about our strength-indepth and will, once again, define our season. There is definitely another Heineken Cup final in this Leinster side.

‘Qualifying

from our pool is the first stage of the process and we are all aware of just how tough the two games with Northampton are going to be. But if you can reach the quarter-finals, then you are just two wins away from the final – anything can happen.

‘We know we face a massive task this month. We aren’t the best team in the tourna-

Jennings: Says Leinster will be out to prove a point at the Aviva

ment, but we are there or thereabouts.’

Leinster currently sit on top of Pool 1 with a three-point cushion over the Saints following successive victories against the Ospreys and French champions Castres Olympique. But Jennings and his colleagues know only too well how quickly things can change in December.

Last season, ASM Clermont Auvergne did the double over the then reigning champions and brought to an end their remarkable run of 17 Heineken Cup games without defeat. Clermont’s two successes set them on their way to a first Heineken Cup final while Leinster had to be content with qualification for the Amlin Challenge Cup for the first time.

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