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Children exposed to huge rise in gambling adverts Industry’s £1.4bn spending spree provokes call for curbs Andrew Ellson Consumer Affairs Correspondent

Children are being bombarded with a record number of gambling adverts as betting websites embark on an unprecedented spending spree to attract customers. Figures show that the industry has spent £1.4 billion on advertising since 2012, with online casinos doubling their marketing budgets over the past five years. Britain’s biggest charity to help addicts is so concerned about the increasing volume of advertising

that it is urging ministers to introduce stricter rules. Writing today in The Times, Kate Lampard, the chairwoman of GambleAware, says: “With the average age at which children start to watch post-watershed TV unsupervised being 11¾, restrictions based on a 9pm watershed may offer little protection. “We need to balance the array of [commercial gambling] advertising with information about the risks of gambling, and where to get help if it becomes a problem.” Bookmakers are allowed at present to advertise on television after 9pm

and before that during live sporting events, such as matches in the Premier League, meaning that young football fans have grown accustomed to seeing celebrities encouraging them to bet. Almost half of Premier League clubs are also now sponsored by betting companies. In total the gambling industry spent £312 million on advertising last year, a 63 per cent increase on 2012, according to the figures from the market research company Nielsen. The amount spent on television advertising jumped by 43 per cent to £150 million but the biggest increase

has been in online and other advertising. These have risen by 87 per cent to £160 million as companies such as Google and Twitter reap a huge dividend from the growth in the number of internet bookmakers. Last year an investigation by The Times found that children who followed popular football accounts on Twitter frequently had special offers posted to their timelines to suggest that they could make easy money from gambling. The Nielsen figures show that the advertising spend by online casinos Continued on page 2, col 3

The imam suspected of masterminding the Barcelona terrorist attacks often travelled to Belgium and was in the country in the three months before the Brussels bombings last year. Police are investigating whether Abdelbaki Es Satty, who is thought to have radicalised the younger members of the cell that attacked Las Ramblas and Cambrils, was involved in the Islamic State assaults on Brussels airport and a Metro station that killed 32 people on March 22, 2016. The discovery raises the possibility of a connection between the Spanish terrorist cell and the jihadists who carried out the Brussels attacks, and who were also behind the November 2015 atrocities in Paris. It emerged that the Audi A3 used in the Cambrils attack was caught speeding in Paris a week ago. Intelligence services are examining whether the Spanish attacks, in which 14 people died on Thursday, were ordered and directed by Isis. Es Satty, 40, who was also linked to Islamist recruiters and the cell behind the 2004 Madrid bombings, is believed to have died with two other terrorists while he prepared explosives in a bomb factory in Alcanar, 125 miles from Barcelona, before the attacks. He is thought to have indoctrinated younger terrorists while preaching in their home town of Ripoll, near the French border. Local people told The Times that the group had made a series of “suspicious” trips to France before the attacks; other trips to Switzerland are also being examined. Police said yesterday that Younes Abouyaaqoub, a 22-year-old Moroccan and the only member of the network still at large, may have fled over the border into France. He is suspected of mowing down pedestrians in Las Ramblas, killing 13 and injuring 120. Five other terrorists were shot dead hours later as they drove a van into pedestrians at Cambrils, killing a Spanish woman. It was confirmed yesterday that Julian Cadman, seven, who had British-Australian nationality, died at Las Ramblas. Terror in Spain, pages 6-9 Letters, page 28

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Britain could retain access to the single market without answering to the EU’s court under plans that have been put forward by one of Europe’s leading judges. Page 4

The “funding challenge” that Britain’s armed forces faces is close to £30 billion and troops may need to be cut to balance the books, a defence expert has said. Page 12

The cost of work absenteeism caused by arthritis will reach £3.43 billion a year by 2030, a study says. The condition affects more than ten million people in Britain. Page 19

Gary Cohn, the White House chief economic adviser, has been urged by friends to quit in protest at Donald Trump’s response to the racial clashes in Virginia. Page 30

The technology investor IVP is poised to buy a stake in Transferwise in a deal likely to value the British-based currency exchange at more than £1 billion. Page 37

The Newcastle Falcons fly half Toby Flood will look to relaunch his international career with Germany if the door to an England comeback is closed. Page 64

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DINNER TONIGHT Thai-style sweetcorn chowder Apart from lobbing them on the barbecue, this is one of the simplest and best recipes I know for corn on the cob. It’s very simple to make and could be turned into more of a meal by adding torn chicken from Sunday’s roast. Prawns or chunks of white fish added right at the end would be other good additions but it’s pretty satisfying as it is. Serves 6 Prep 25 min Cook 35 min Ingredients: 1 onion; 1 small lemon; 4 large corn on the cob;

2 garlic cloves; 2 red bird’s eye chillies; 1 red pepper; 20g bunch coriander; 2 tbsp vegetable oil; 3 chicken stock cubes. Halve and finely chop the onion. Cook, stirring occasionally, for 5 min in 2 tbsp vegetable oil in a large pan. Remove the zest from the lemon in paper-thin scraps. Trim and finely chop the chillies. Peel the garlic and slice into super-thin rounds.

A new NHS scheme to help whistleblowers back into employment has been criticised as a “PR vehicle” before its launch. The nationwide pilot scheme, with a £100,000 budget, will offer career coaching, financial advice and mediation to staff who have suffered as a result of raising concerns. Sir Malcolm Grant, chairman of NHS England, said: “It is simply inexcusable that talented, experienced staff should be lost to the NHS as the result of raising the legitimate concerns that help the health service improve.” In a review into whistleblowing in the health service published in 2015, commissioned by Jeremy Hunt, Sir Robert Francis, QC, said: “Some individuals who have raised concerns experience severe difficulties when seeking re-employment in the health service.” He said the NHS had “a moral obligation” to support whistleblowers who lost their jobs. However, in the two years since, whistleblowers have repeatedly claimed that new jobs in the NHS have not been forthcoming. The pilot for pri-

Quarter the pepper, discard stalk, seeds etc and cut into small chunks. Stir everything into the onion. Trim the corn, stand on the flat end and slice down the cobs to remove the kernels. Stir into the onion. Using water from the kettle, dissolve the stock cubes in 1½ litres of boiling water. Add to the pan, return to the boil, reduce the heat, partially cover the pan and cook for 15 min until everything is tender. Taste and adjust the seasoning with salt and lemon juice. Chop the coriander and stir in just before serving. Lindsey Bareham

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Alexander, a psychiatrist who raised concerns about patient deaths at a trust in Cambridgeshire, said: “It would be a step in the right direction if it had been handled properly, but it hasn’t. I have little confidence that this amounts to much more than a public relations exercise by the Department of Health and its organs.” NHS England said that the campaign group Patients First had helped design the pilot, which will be evaluated by Liverpool John Moores University. Kim Holt, a paediatrician who raised concerns about a clinic where Baby P was treated and later founded Patients First, said: “It is a scandal that there is a large number of NHS staff unable to return to their workplace, caused by victimisation after challenging their seniors about patient care. I wholly support a scheme that attempts to redress the balance. “These people should be offered alternative posts and support to get their careers back on track, if that is what they want. There is a huge amount of work to do to value those who are pushing for openness and are focused on patient care above other demands.”

Private hospitals to get £52m tax break Andrew Ellson

Private hospitals will get a £52 million tax break on their business rates through their charitable status over the next five years while the bill for NHS hospitals rises, research has revealed. More than one in four private hospitals are estimated to be registered as charities and can therefore receive rate relief, according to analysis by CVS, the business rates specialist. It calculated that this tax perk would save private hospitals in England and Wales £51.9 million in the next five years. Changes to the business rates system that came into effect in April mean that the bill for NHS hospitals in England and Wales will increase by 21 per cent to £1.83 billion over the same period. Nuffield Health, Britain’s third largest charity by income, will pay only £3.2 million in business rates on its private hospitals in the next five years,

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mary care staff, which will run until March, is being led by Working Transitions, a private company. Those taking part will be given an occupational health assessment and assigned a coach who will support them. Julie Bailey founded the group Cure the NHS to expose the Mid Staffordshire scandal, where frail elderly patients were left without food or water after bosses became obsessed with cutting costs. She said: “Most whistleblowers need more than guidance and advice on how to return to work, which is what the proposed NHS England whistleblowing scheme offers them. “Ideally they need a real employment scheme that is adequately funded, one that acknowledges that harm has been caused to a person that was doing the right thing. The scheme needs to be one that ensures that a person is given a comparable position to one that they had to leave. Furthermore, they may need support to return to work and a guarantee they are safe to return. “Very often whistleblowers are seen as troublemakers within the NHS. Organisations need incentives to bring them into their organisations. Sadly the scheme addresses none of this.” Minh

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has increased by 97 per cent since 2012. Experts say that children and young people are particularly susceptible to gambling adverts and research by the Gambling Commission shows that problem gambling is twice as prevalent among people aged between 16 and 24 than the population as a whole. Ms Lampard says: “As a society, we should be concerned about the rising risk of harm from wider access and more regular participation in gambling on future generations, resulting in a possible public health crisis in gambling addiction.” The National Problem Gambling Clinic has already noted a significant increase in the number of young people seeking help for addiction. Henrietta Bowden-Jones, who founded the clinic, wants significant restrictions to be imposed on gambling adverts. She said: “We know that exposure to gambling among young people has gone up through contact with adverts. There is a risk that this exposure can encourage young people

saving £12.7 million because of its charitable status, according to CVS. The Hospital of St John & St Elizabeth in London, which hosts the Karidis cosmetic surgery clinic, will pay only £1.2 million of its £5.9 million rates bill during the next five years because it is a charity. Mark Rigby, the chief executive of CVS, said: “It is iniquitous that NHS hospitals pay normal business rates but 26.9 per cent of private hospitals, using charitable status, receive an 80 per cent discount.” He welcomed the government’s plans to review the business rates system, but added “this must include all reliefs and the current inequalities that exist within the system”. Under the Freedom of Information Act CVS asked councils to provide details of tax relief given to the 626 private hospitals registered in England and Wales. It received information for 457 private hospitals, revealing that 123

hold charitable status and are therefore given mandatory business rates relief. The trust behind the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, one of the NHS hospitals hit with the steepest rise in business rates, has joined others in challenging the government to demand relief on a par with private hospitals. The University Hospitals Birmingham Trust is also appealing against rates bills for the Queen Elizabeth going back to 2010 and plans to appeal against the rise of more than £2 million for 2017. It said: “The trust believes there is an anomaly in how NHS trusts are treated for business rates. “NHS trusts receive no additional funding to offset business rates costs. We are therefore, alongside other NHS trusts, part of a long-running challenge to seek a similar level of charitable relief on business rates similar to non-profit organisations.”

to gamble and that regular exposure can normalise that behaviour.” A government review into the maximum stakes on fixed-odds betting terminals was expanded last year to include gambling advertising. “The gambling industry’s luck has run out,” one senior minister said at the time. However, there is now a row between the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the Treasury over this review. Philip Hammond, the chancellor, is understood to be trying to block publication amid concerns about the impact on tax revenues, but Tracey Crouch, the minister responsible for gambling, is pushing to proceed. In a letter seen by The Times Ms Crouch says that she still hopes to publish the review in October after the “cross-government process required prior to publication”. Ronnie Cowan, an SNP MP who has campaigned for tougher rules for bookmakers, said: “The unwelcome intervention by the chancellor, who was only thinking about Treasury coffers, will hopefully now dissipate.”

Tiny swing for Tory majority

Kate Lampard, Thunderer, page 26

Oliver Wright Policy Editor

Theresa May could have won a Commons majority if 0.0016 per cent of the public had voted differently at the election, a report has claimed. The Electoral Reform Society said that voters had switched party allegiances at unprecedented rates and that 22 million votes had no impact on the end result. The election was a “hold your nose” vote with an estimated 6.5 million people having made tactical decisions, it added. The report found huge fluctuations in results. A 43.9 per cent increase in votes for the SNP in Glasgow North East two years ago switched to a 9.2 per cent rise for Labour in June. This year the Tories won 34 per cent of votes in the northeast but returned 9 per cent of seats. The society called for the first-pastthe-post voting system to be replaced with proportional representation.

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Diary reveals intimate bond between Queen and her servant David Sanderson Arts Correspondent

Queen Victoria knew a thing or two about sex, given that she had nine children, and it might have seemed quite natural to her to dispense tips on sexual positions to the childless servant who taught her Urdu. However, in offering her wisdom she risked sending a royal household already riled by the closeness of the pair into rebellion. The relationship between Victoria and Abdul Karim, whom the household suspected of ill-intent, forms the basis of a film starring Judi Dench which is released next month. Dame Judi reprises her role as Victoria after appearing in Mrs Brown, and is ready to ratchet up the sexual tension. “She was a goer,” she said of Victoria. “And I am full of admiration.” Shrabani Basu, who wrote the book on which the film is based, said that a diary kept by Karim had survived the destruction of his belongings after Victoria’s death in 1901. She also used the queen’s Hindustani journals, written in the Urdu that Karim taught her and which Ms Basu said had barely been translated. Karim and Victoria are thought to have exchanged numerous letters and

Ms Basu was given rare access to the Royal Archives where she discovered some that had survived. It shows the queen describing Karim as a “true friend” and littering them with kisses. In one letter dated 1894 Victoria tells Karim that his wife should “be careful at the particular time every month not to tire herself or go on rough roads”. Ms Basu writes: “The intimate details that the Queen wrote about showed how close she had come to Karim and how freelyy she ith discussed everything with ve him. Monitoring their love life and giving them suggestions on pregnancy and childbirth gave her a sense of matriarchy and fulfilment.” Family and apparatchiks resented Karim’s influence on the queen, questioned his d national allegiances and had suspicions about at least one night the two shared in the glens. “Queen Victoria liked tall men by her side,” Ms Basu said. “He fits the profile of John Brown [the Scottish ghillie who was by her side after her

Judi Dench plays Victoria opposite Ali Fazal. The queen liked tall men, such as John Brown, below, and Abdul Karim, with whom she was photographed in 1893

husband death and was the husband’s basis of Dame Judi’s 1997 film I don’t think it was film]. sex sexual in any sense alth though there is an intim macy. “She discusses why A Abdul, who is married, is not having any childre She’s very frank, ren. ta talking about positions wi him.” with M Basu said that this Ms close closeness concerned the palace The queen’s son, who palace. became Edward E became VII, was paranoid about Ka Karim. In the hours after Victoria’s death he and his wife launched a “search and destroy” mission in India to recover all the

correspondence between his mother and her munshi, or teacher. Princess Beatrice, Victoria’s youngest daughter, rewrote her mother’s diaries before they were published, leading to suspicions that references to Karim had been excised. The precise nature of the relationship between the two is likely to become much discussed in the run-up to the release of the film, Victoria and Abdul, directed by Stephen Frears, whose films include My Beautiful Laundrette, Dangerous Liaisons and The Queen, next month The film also stars Ali Fazal as Karim, Eddie Izzard as the Prince of Wales, Michael Gambon as Lord Salisbury and Olivia Williams as Lady Churchill.

A Booker prize-winning novelist has warned that children will be illiterate within a generation, because of the devastating impact of Twitter. Howard Jacobson said that the combination of social media and smartphones had changed the nature of communication so completely that even he — a man who once liked nothing better than to curl up with “300 densely packed pages” of a late Henry James novel — now craved interruption. Within 20 years, “we will have children who can’t read, who don’t want to read”, he said. “I can’t read any more as much as I used to. My concentration has been shot by this bloody screen. I can’t do it now — I want space, I want white pages, light behind the page.” At the same time, he said, the ironyfree world of Twitter played into the hands of Donald Trump, who used it to bypass the news channels favoured by “the metropolitan elite”. Jacobson said Mr Trump’s claim in Nevada last year that he “loves the poorly educated” was wicked, because its real meaning was “I want you to stay uneducated”. The comments follow evidence on both sides of the Atlantic pointing to an alarming decline in literacy. In Scotland, a survey in May revealed a steep fall in writing standards among 13-yearolds over the past five years, with fewer than half performing well. The research showed that secondary pupils were almost twice as likely to read regularly on electronic devices than books. The percentage of American adults who read literature was last year at its lowest level since records began in 1982. Only 43 per cent had read at least one book in the previous year, according to the US Endowment for the Arts. The number of children reading for pleasure had also fallen, by almost 10 per cent, between 2011 and 2015. Mr Trump inadvertently highlighted declining standards over the weekend, tweeting that in America protest “is needed in order to heel” the nation. Jacobson, the author of a collection entitled Whatever It Is, I Don’t Like It, said Twitter amounted to a world “almost exclusively of statement”. “There are many good statements in the world, but much of the best part of thought and conversation isn’t statement, it’s exploration, inquiry, irony. It’s feeling something out. You can’t feel anything out any more — [people] think you are saying what you mean.” Abuse to be a hate crime, page 12

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Leading European judge promotes plan for UK access to single market Q&A Bruno Waterfield Brussels Oliver Wright Policy Editor

Britain could retain access to the single market without answering to the EU’s court under plans put forward by one of Europe’s leading judges. The compromise over one of the most intractable disputes of the Brexit process is being brokered by Carl Baudenbacher, president of the court of the European Free Trade Association. His proposals would allow Theresa May to retain her red line of withdrawing from the European Court of Justice (ECJ) while accepting European demands for independent judicial oversight of any future “deep and special partnership”. The UK would maintain close links to the EU’s programmes and markets. Britain would agree to accept the jurisdiction of the Efta court, which oversees the EU’s relationship with Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein and their access to the European single market. The court decides on matters of EU law, but its judgments are not automatically binding on domestic legislation. Professor Baudenbacher has already had a meeting with David Davis, the Brexit secretary, and is due to return to Britain next month. His scheme is expected to feature in a government position paper on judicial oversight after Brexit that will be published this week. The Swiss judge told The Times that there was a compelling case for Britain to “dock” with the Efta court and allow

nominate one candidate for the position. They are appointed by common accord.

What is the Efta court? The Court of Justice of the European Free Trade Association was established in 1992 to provide legal oversight of the agreement between the EU and the three non-EU states — Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway — that comprise Efta. They participate in the single market and accept relevant European laws but can strike their own trade deals and are not part of the EU’s common agricultural and fisheries policies. The Efta court has three judges and each Efta state has the right to

What are the differences between the Efta court and the European Court of Justice? The Efta court has legal jurisdiction for Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway; the ECJ has legal jurisdiction over all EU member states. ECJ rulings on the interpretation of EU law are binding on EU member states, but Efta court opinions are advisory only. Would the UK have to join Efta to come under the court’s jurisdiction? Not necessarily. Carl Baudenbacher,

it to oversee its future relationship with Brussels. “If the UK sought a bespoke agreement with the EU, it would in my view need to accept a court. It is unlikely that the EU would agree to any such arrangement without a judicial mechanism,” he said. Efta predates the EU and the Euro-

president of the Efta court, suggests that it could provide legal oversight of any “deep and special” partnership between the EU and Britain. What would be the advantages from the British perspective? It would allow the government to fulfil its pledge to “end the jurisdiction of the ECJ in Britain” and “take back control of our laws”. Will it happen? It is possible but even such an off-the-shelf solution would be hard to implement. Even with strong political will, getting such an arrangement off the ground would keep lawyers busy for years.

pean Economic Community and was founded by Austria, Denmark, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom in 1960. Professor Baudenbacher’s idea is that Britain could sign a trade deal, or even sectorby-sector bilateral agreements, outside the European Economic Area but

“make use of the good offices” of Efta’s tried and tested judicial institutions to ensure EU support for such a deal. “If the UK did not wish to remain part of the EEA, but rather sought to be connected with the EU only in certain sectors such as through what Theresa May has called a ‘deep and special partnership’, that agreement could possibly be ‘docked’ to the Efta court,” he said. Professor Baudenbacher has also discussed his plans with the first ministers of Scotland and Wales and senior MPs. His ideas have been welcomed by some senior Tories. Dominic Grieve, the former attorney-general, said that the plan “might be the solution” to Britain’s dilemma. However, the Brexit supporter Jacob Rees-Mogg said: “The big difficulty is that the Efta court takes its lead from the ECJ and while its rulings are technically advisory in practice they take direct effect in the countries concerned. That would be unacceptable.” Professor Baudenbacher insisted that the Efta court was not subordinate to the Court of Justice. 6 Brexit will empower Britain to lead efforts to widen access to markets, the country’s new chief trade negotiator, Crawford Falconer, has said. He calls in The Daily Telegraph for the G20 to remove trade barriers, warning of the “destructive political consequences of closed markets”, as he joins the Department for International Trade this week to work alongside Liam Fox. Matt Ridley, page 25 Leading article, page 29

May woos backbench Tories with canapés at Chequers Oliver Wright

Theresa May has launched a prosecco and canapés charm offensive using her grace-and-favour country retreat to woo disgruntled Conservative MPs. As many as 100 MPs and their partners are understood to have attended gatherings at Chequers in recent days hosted by Mrs May and her husband,

Philip. The cost of the entertaining, which is thought to have run to several thousand pounds, will be covered by Conservative Party funds. Chequers is overseen by a charitable trust and only official state entertaining can be paid for by the government. Among those understood to have been on the guest list is Graham Brady, chairman of the 1922 Committee of

backbench Tories. He is a critical link between Mrs May and her backbenchers. If 40 Tory MPs write to him calling for a leadership contest, one is automatically triggered. Prominent Brexiteers such as the former party leader Iain Duncan Smith and Bernard Jenkin, chairman of the public administration committee, were also invited. One MP told The Mail on Sunday that

Mrs May had gone “out of her way to be charming”, with MPs being given official tours of the house. Another said: “I worked my heart out for [David] Cameron but he never deigned to invite me, let alone my wife, to Chequers.” Jon Trickett, Labour’s shadow Commons leader, said that it amounted to an “abuse” of the prime minister’s right to use the house.

A multinational task force led by the Royal Navy seized 1.75 tonnes of drugs worth nearly £400 million over a five-month period. Sailors on board HMS Monmouth found drugs including 265kg of heroin and 455kg of hashish worth £65 million. The task force polices some 3 million square miles in the Gulf and Indian ocean. French, American and Australian warships also took part in the operation to counter drug trafficking, which funds terrorism, the Ministry of Defence said.

Briton dies in Bulgaria A British man has died while on holiday at a beach resort in Bulgaria. Cameron Russell, 20, was at Sunny Beach on the Black Sea. The British embassy said it was providing support to his family, from Dalry in Ayrshire. He worked for Clearwater, a plant hire and industrial services firm, which said that it had “lost one of our young digger drivers after a tragic accident”.

Chicago murder charge A senior treasury assistant at Somerville College in Oxford and an American professor have been charged in Chicago with murdering a 26-year-old hair stylist who was found with more than 40 stab wounds. Andrew Warren, 56, and Wyndham Lathem, 42, are accused of killing Trenton Cornell-Duranleau in the academic’s apartment in Chicago.

Hunt for acid attacker Police in east London are hunting for a man in his mid twenties who sprayed acid in the face of a 32-year-old man after asking him for money. The attacker and another man with him ran off after the assault at Stratford Tube station. The victim was helped by staff but will be scarred for life. The incident happened in May but police have just released an e-fit of a man they are seeking.

Eleanor Rigby’s receipt A receipt and deeds for the grave of Eleanor Rigby, whose name on a headstone in a Liverpool cemetery is said by some to have inspired the Beatles’ song, are expected to fetch £5,000 when they are sold at auction in Warrington next month. Rigby, 44, was buried in 1939 in St Peter’s churchyard in Woolton where, in 1957, Paul McCartney and John Lennon first met.

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Far-right marchers clash with protesters

here were violent clashes at a National Front rally in Lincolnshire when the far-right group was confronted by anti-fascist protesters. About 60 people marched at the rally in Grantham. One carried a sign reading “White Pride” while another held a banner reading:

“We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.” The National Front members were met by a counter-demonstration organised by Unite Against Fascism and called No to the Nazi National Front in Grantham. The protesters gathered outside a pub at

Beware cancer cure diets that do more harm, warns widow Kat Lay Health Correspondent

A widow has warned against diets that claim to cure cancer after her husband suffered a stroke-like illness while following a plan in a book bought from the online retailer Amazon. Huw Phillips, a father of two, fell seriously ill on a family ski trip when his body’s sodium levels plummeted as he confined himself to beetroot and radish juice to beat bowel cancer. He was hospitalised for months and needed extensive therapy, his widow Sinora, 46, said. He died from a recurrence of the cancer in 2013 aged 41. Experts said patients should be wary of claims that a diet could cure cancer, saying they were promoting false hope with no evidence to back them up. Mrs Phillips, of Paddington, northwest London, said her husband had been reassured by testimonials online. “It was not the cure,” she said. “If people are thinking, ‘Should I try it or not’ — I want them to know there could be harm in it.” A search for “cancer cure” on Amazon brings up thousands of books such as The Cancer Cure That Worked and How to Cure Cancer Naturally. Many are also available from other bookshops. Mr Phillips, an investment banker, chose The Breuss Cancer Cure: Advice for the Prevention and Natural Treatment of Cancer, Leukemia and Other Seemingly Incurable Diseases. He had bowel cancer diagnosed in September 2008 and received surgery,

radiotherapy and chemotherapy. By 2010 he appeared to be recovering. “He said, ‘What can I do to make myself healthier?’, ” Mrs Phillips said. “He found this diet on the internet . . . you only eat beetroot and radish juice, and that is all for 40 days. He was very, very determined. If he was going to do something, he was going to do it. “He lost weight — that is what it is supposed to do. You are supposed to starve yourself and the cancer cells. A lot of people on the internet say, ‘I tried it and it cured me’. ” Blood tests showing a dangerous drop in sodium levels 31 days in were missed and the family left for the trip to Wyoming. “On the first day of skiing he started hallucinating and very quickly his motor functions deteriorated. By the evening he was in hospital. It was very scary,” said Mrs Phillips. “The symptoms were very stroke-like. He was unconscious for maybe a week. At the worst point his breathing started being constricted.” He was flown to a London hospital where tests revealed he had central pontine myelinolysis, which occurs when the myelin sheath covering nerve cells in the brain stem becomes severely damaged. In late 2011 the cancer returned and he died on June 25, 2013. Jean Slocombe, a senior Cancer Research UK nurse, urged cancer patients to avoid such books because there was “no good evidence” the diets worked. “Some of the dietary changes suggested by books like this could be very harmful to a person’s health,” she said. Amazon declined to comment.

Vets issue e-cigarette alert after rise in pet poisonings Georgie Keate

Pet owners are being warned to keep their animals away from e-cigarettes after a steep rise in poisonings by the devices. Reports of pets falling ill after crunching into e-cigarettes and refills have increased from 17 in 2013 to 113 last year, according to the Veterinary Poisons Information Service (VPIS). Jerky treats, made from dried meats, are also causing concern among vets who are seeing an increase in pets contracting fanconi syndrome, a rare disorder resulting in kidney damage. There were 22 cases reported last year and VPIS is investigating whether jerky

made in China is to blame. In its annual statistics VPIS found that painkillers, chocolate and lilies were the biggest cause of pets becoming unwell. They also noted a rise in poisoning from vitamin D supplements. Other unusual items best kept on the top shelf included contraceptive pills, raisins and artificial sweeteners. In total, the VPIS received 10,956 reports of poisoning in 2016, up slightly on 10,893 cases the year before. Gudrun Ravetz, president of the British Veterinary Association, warned that liquid nicotine found in e-cigarettes and refills could contain sufficient quantities of nicotine to kill a small animal.

Police intervened after violent clashes broke out between anti-fascist protesters and National Front members in Grantham, Lincolnshire

lunc lunchtime while Na National Front m members were inside, a chanted slogans. and Police had a heavy p presence in the town a were forced to and in intervene when cla clashes broke out bet between members of both groups. Th National Front The a had announced the rally on its Facebook page but n reveal the exact did not location. A spokesman for Lincolnshire police said that they were aware of the march.

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Armed soldiers to mingle with Jack Malvern, Kaya Burgess

Armed soldiers in plain clothes are expected to be on patrol and vehicle blocks deployed on the bank holiday weekend amid fears of another terror attack. Although there is no specific threat, security forces are preparing for a weekend with dozens of large-scale public events including the Notting Hill Carnival and the Leeds and Reading music festivals. The threat level issued by MI5 remains “severe” in the aftermath of attacks at London Bridge, Finsbury Park, Manchester Arena and Westminster Bridge this year. The threat of international terror was reinforced by the attack in Barcelona on Thursday. Armed troops will mingle with the public at sites considered most at risk,

Armed police at V festival at Weston Park, Staffordshire, at the weekend

according to the Mail on Sunday. “They will be casually dressed with their weapons hidden beneath their clothes,” said a security source. “They won’t be in traditional military vehicles, either. Recently a company of Special Forces Support Group troops completed a live firing exercise using civilian armoured vehicles and they will be called upon. . . the other troops who have been called up for the bank holiday weekend include personnel from the Special Reconnaissance Regiment.” A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police declined to comment on reports that there would be vehicle barriers for the first time at the Notting Hill Carni-

val in west London, which usually attracts about one million people. “You factor what’s happening in your patch and elsewhere into your policing policy. There may be something that comes out a bit nearer the time. It will have a policing plan in place as we do every year,” the spokesman said. Vehicle barriers have been deployed for the first time in Edinburgh for the duration of the Fringe festival, which runs until next Monday. The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society said: “This year, a range of additional security measures have been installed in various locations across Edinburgh. Our priority and the priority of all the agencies and organisations involved in the Fringe is the safety and security of audiences, participants and staff.” Organisers of the festival, which sold 2.5 million tickets last year, said that they had consulted with Police Scotland and counterterrorism security advisers trained by the National Counter Terrorism Security Office “to ensure our security measures and event plan are current and robust”. Armed police patrols have been increased in Edinburgh, as have patrols with sniffer dogs. Some venues have begun carrying out bag checks for the first time. The Greenbelt Festival of arts and music, at Boughton House in Northamptonshire, which opens on Friday, said: “We constantly review plans to keep festivalgoers safe, in line with many other events and venues in this country and following guidance from the National Counter Terrorism Security Office.” A spokeswoman for the Medieval Festival in East Sussex, which runs over the bank holiday weekend, said that the event director “will have put measures in place” to take into account a terrorist threat. Other festivals include Creamfields, a dance music event in Cheshire and Insomnia, Britain’s largest gaming festival, which will take place in Birmingham. There will also be Carfest South in Hampshire, Edinburgh Mela, a multicultural festival and Manchester Pride. Heightened security measures have already been implemented at other large-scale public events this summer, including the Wimbledon tennis tournament where concrete barriers were used and there were increases in armed patrols and plain clothes officers.

Italy is installing concrete barriers to stop terrorist trucks attacking its most popular landmarks after the Barcelona attack and renewed jihadist threats. Barriers appeared at the weekend in a number of streets in central Milan to add to blocks already set up to stop terrorists driving vans into the city’s frequently crowded Vittorio Emanuele shopping gallery. Busy tourist streets in Palermo are also due to get new barriers and Italian media reported that concrete blocks, or at least large concrete flower pots, will guard the entrance to Via Del Corso, Rome’s main shopping street and Via dei Fori Imperiali, the wide avenue laid by Benito Mussolini through the Roman Forum. Security was tightened yesterday at the Angelus prayer held by the Pope at St Peter’s Square in addition to the barriers set up to stop cars approaching pil-

he family of the seven-year-old British boy who was killed in the Barcelona terrorist attack said they had been blessed to have him in their lives (Fiona Hamilton and Graham Keeley write). Julian Cadman, who was born in Kent but lived in Australia, became separated from his mother, Jumarie, on Las Ramblas. Mrs Cadman was seriously injured and was still in a coma in hospital last night. The family said in a statement: “Julian was a much loved and adored member of our family. As he was enjoying the sights of Barcelona with his mother, Julian was sadly taken from us. He was so

energetic, funny and cheeky, always bringing a smile to our faces. We are so blessed to have had him in our lives and will remember his smiles and hold his memory dear to our hearts.” Andrew Cadman, his father, heard news of the attack on the radio and flew to Barcelona from Sydney, arriving in the early hours of Saturday. Harry Athwal, 44, a holidaymaker, said he had held a child, believed to be Julian, lying on Las Ramblas after the attack. Mr Athwal, from Birmingham, told the Daily Mirror that he could not leave the boy, though police told him to run in case the terrorists came back. “I put my hand on his back and I

As tributes grew at the scene of Thursday’s killings, King

thought he had gone. I was stroking his hair and in floods of tears but I stayed with him. I sat there because I was not going to leave this child in the middle of the road. “To me, he looked like my own son. He was my

son’s age, seven or eight. I just ran my hands through his hair; it was about comforting him.” People from 34 countries were wounded in the attacks on Las Ramblas and in Cambrils, including Italy, Portugal,

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Nervous Italy puts barriers at landmarks after threats Tom Kington

Tourist comforted dying British boy, 7

grims along Via della Conciliazione. The measures come after a string of attacks in Europe by terrorists mowing down pedestrians in vans or lorries. Last week’s attack in Barcelona killed 13. “I am amazed that a van could have driven undisturbed down La Ramblas in Barcelona,” Marco Minniti, the Italian interior minister, said. “It is strange there weren’t extra security measures in a site so crowded with tourists and residents.” Italy has yet to suffer a major attack by Islamic extremists but has long been named in Isis-linked publications as a pending target, notably the Vatican and the Colosseum, a threat renewed at the weekend via the Telegram messaging service. Security is also reportedly being tightened at the basilica of San Petronio in Bologna, which has a fresco by Giovanni da Modena depicting scenes from Dante’s Divine Comedy of Mohammed being tortured by devils.

Story book teaches primary pupils Kat Lay Health Correspondent

Children in primary schools are to be taught how to treat the victims of a terrorist attack, with a book about a cat set loose in a school for mice. Moggy’s Coming is the creation of the team of doctors behind the Citizenaid app, which advises users what to do and how best to help if there is an active gunman or knife attacker or a suspected or exploded bomb. Its messages are based on the national police message of “run, hide, tell”. The charity adds a fourth message, “treat”. About 500 teachers in Birmingham have been trained to use materials for schoolchildren produced by the group, including the new book. It tells the tale of a school of mice preparing in case of a cat attack, with teachers telling pupils to run, or if that is not possible hide, tell the police and treat injured classmates. It then shows them putting their preparation into practice when a cat turns up. It includes words that can be sung to the tune of the nursery rhyme London’s

In the picture book, the school for mice has a practice in which a teacher dresses up in a cat costume, before a real-life attack takes place. Some of the words are set to the tune of London’s Burning to help children learn the drill

Burning: “Moggy’s coming, Moggy’s coming, we’re in danger, we’re in danger, run, hide and tell! Treat the hurt mice, treat the hurt mice!” It also features a poem, which includes the lines: “When it’s safe then treat the hurt / with a scarf or sock or shirt / you can pack a wound and press

/ to stop the bleeding for success!” Separate materials for slightly older children show a lion escaping from the circus and getting into a school where it scratches some pupils in the playground. Teachers are encouraged to discuss with their classes how it makes them feel, as well as the practical meas-

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Felipe VI and Queen Letizia attended a solemn Mass alongside politicians and the public

Belgium, Spain, Argentina, Canada and the United States. The victim of the second assault in Cambrils, which brought the death toll to 14, was a 61-year-old Spanish woman. Yesterday King Felipe

and Queen Letizia attended a solemn Mass at the Sagrada Familia basilica in Barcelona, thought to have been another possible target for the terrorist cell along with the Port Olimpic tourist area. Wearing

black, the king and queen were joined by 1,800 worshippers seated below the church’s white treelike columns that rise 200ft and split into branches. Millions watched a live broadcast of the Mass on state

how to cope with attack ures they might take in such a situation. Brigadier Tim Hodgetts, medical director of the Defence Medical Services, who developed the materials, said: “We are passionate about making sure what we learnt the hard way in the military does get into the civilian community, to wider benefit . . . If there are indiscriminate attacks in public places, children are part of the public and they will be swept up.” Brigadier Hodgetts said: “In secondary school we have teacher-led discussions about a shooter in a school. It is very clear these are very unusual, very unlikely situations and it is about being prepared, not scared.” Young children will discuss in general terms how they might treat wounds, and the importance of asking a grown-up is stressed. Secondary school children might be given advanced first aid training, for example on how to pack a large wound to stop bleeding, or on using a tourniquet. Brigadier Hodgetts said the skills taught might also be useful in something like a road traffic accident where

there were likely to be multiple casualties. “I think there are a lot of safety messages around schools, like stranger danger and fire drills. There are other threats that children have to be aware of and respond to,” he said. “If we look at the allegories, they are not talking about terrorism, they are talking about if you are in a situation where somebody is trying to hurt you. “It is up to the teacher to discuss it appropriately. They will know what children can cope with.” Chief Superintendent Jo Chilton, head of the National Ballistics Intelligence Service, said: “The Citizenaid message is a critical one and has the full support of the National Firearms Independent Advisory Group. I am acutely aware of the difference that ordinary people can make in the aftermath of an attack. “It is reassuring to know that the young people of Birmingham are going to be empowered to do the right thing in these unlikely but possible scenarios as well as providing transferable skills for day-to-day life.”

Isis channelled money through firm in Cardiff television as Spain mourned the victims of the country’s worst terror attack for more than a decade. Mariano Rajoy, the prime minister, with Carles Puigdemont, the Catalan regional leader, and Antonio Costa, the Portuguese prime minister, were among the politicians who were joined by tourists and local residents at the service at the church, which was designed by Antoni Gaudí and started in 1882 but is not expected to be finished until 2025. Many wept as they paid their respects to the victims of the attacks. The Archbishop of Barcelona, Cardinal Joan Josep Omella, read a message of condolence from the Pope, who called the attacks a cruel terrorist act and a grave offence to God. Spanish police said that the attackers had planned to load three lorries with bombs and attack targets across the city. However, an explosion at the group’s bomb factory in Alcanar, about 125 miles south of Barcelona, left the group without its deadly cargo, so they used a van to drive into crowds instead.

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Islamic State used a Cardiff company to finance terror plots in the West and send money to its operatives. Military-grade surveillance equipment, which the FBI believed could be used for aerial targeting, was also sent to Madrid, The Sunday Times reported. Siful Sujan, a high-ranking Isis official who was killed in a US drone strike in December 2015, used his network of technology companies based in Wales to help support the terrorist cause, US court documents show. One of the firms in Cardiff sent $7,700 (£6,000) to Mohamed Elshinawy, 32, an Isis supporter in Maryland. He pleaded guilty to terrorism charges last week. Elshinawy told the FBI that he never planned to carry out an attack even though he was told to use the funds for terrorism in the US. The court documents revealed that Elshinawy received a total of $8,700 from Isis supporters in different regions. They included five payments believed to have been authorised by Sujan. The FBI said that the password for one email account linked to the companies was “killobama77”. Sujan, 31, originally from Bangladesh, is believed to have travelled to join Isis in 2014. He was one of Islamic State’s key hackers and technology experts, having replaced Junaid Hussain, another Briton and valuable Isis hacker who was killed in an earlier strike. The Sunday Times cited US court documents, based on the evidence of an FBI agent, which claimed that the cash sent to America was meant for “causing destruction or conducting a terrorist

attack in the United States”. Elshinawy used the funds to buy a laptop, a mobile phone and virtual private computer network to communicate with Sujan, the court was told. The documents alleged that one of Sujan’s companies was also used to buy other equipment from Britain and America. They said that it was intended to help fighters in Syria. A Paypal account linked to Sujan was used to purchase “10 rocket flight computer kits . . . [to] assist in launching small rockets” although the delivery failed to reach the city of Sanliurfa in Turkey and the payment was refunded in October 2015. Sujan set up a string of companies which offered online and printed services. Some of the business was legitimate and there is no suggestion that others at the companies are involved in wrongdoing. A number of young people from Cardiff have travelled to fight with Isis. They include the brothers Nasser and Aseel Muthana and Reyaad Khan, who travelled to the terror group in 2014. Nasser and Khan later appeared in an Isis recruitment video. Khan was reported to have been killed in August 2015 when he was the target of a drone strike planned by Britain’s National Security Council. The council meets once a week and is normally attended by the prime minister. On this occasion David Cameron and Jeremy Wright, QC, the attorney general, were known to be in attendance. Aseel Muthana’s name was added to a list of Isis’s most dangerous recruiters. Both brothers were placed on a United Nations list of dangerous fanatics whose assets have been frozen and who are on international no-fly lists.

Extra criminal I’m no hero, says man hurt checks before helping Finland stab victim vehicle hire David Charter

Callum Adams

British drivers wanting to rent vehicles face tougher checks as the government looks to tighten rules following the Barcelona attack. The Home Office and Department for Transport have begun discussions with the vehicle rental industry about bringing in extra checks. More personal details could be required by rental companies and the information that is already collected, such as names, addresses and financial details, could be checked against criminal watch lists, sources told The Sunday Telegraph. The attack in Spain follows a pattern of rampages where vehicles are used to mow down pedestrians in busy areas, as happened on London Bridge and at the Finsbury Park mosque in June and in the 2016 Bastille Day attack in Nice.

A British paramedic who was stabbed as he tended to a dying woman during a terrorist attack in Finland has spoken of his sadness that he could not save her life and insisted he was not a hero. Hassan Zubier, 45, born in Dartford, Kent, tried to save the woman who was stabbed during the attack in the city of Turku on Friday. She died in his arms and was one of two women killed. An 18-year-old Moroccan asylum seeker who came to the country last year was arrested after police shot him in the legs. Four more Moroccans were detained on Saturday. Juha Sipilä, the prime minister of Finland, said yesterday that the country had experienced a Hassan Zubier could lose his arm after being stabbed

terrorist attack for the first time. Four Finns, an Italian and a Swede were among the eight people injured. Mr Zubier, who now lives in Sweden and was on holiday in the Finnish port city, said: “I am not a hero. I did what I was trained for. I did my best and more.” He said that as soon as he heard “a heartbreaking scream” he realised it was a terrorist attack. He first defended his girlfriend and then saw a woman lying on the ground bleeding. While trying to help the woman he was slashed and doctors have told him he could lose his arm. Mr Zubier attended a minute’s silence yesterday at the scene of the attack. Asked for his thoughts, he told the Finnish website Iltalehti: “Sadness that I could not save her life, for all of those who were injured, the other girl that died.”

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My sons were all good boys, insists father of suspects Graham Keeley Barcelona Fiona Hamilton Ripoll

Brahim Aallaa stood in the doorway of his family home, shaking his head in disbelief. Mr Aallaa, 50, whose son Said was one of the terrorists who carried out two attacks in Spain last week, told The Times: “After Ramadan, all the boys went a bit mad. The town’s imam might have influenced them. I just feel in shock.” Mr Aallaa, originally from Morocco, spoke stilted Spanish as he described his struggle to comprehend how his 19year-old son, a waiter in Ripoll, the Pyrenean town near the French border, was one of five terrorists shot dead after a car ploughed into pedestrians in the seaside resort of Cambrils. His other son, Youssef Aallaa, was missing and wanted by police but he may have died in an explosion at the terrorist cell’s bomb factory 200 miles away. Mr Aallaa said: “We are a very close family. I saw my son a lot, I thought I knew my son. He doesn’t go to mosque that often. “They were all good boys, including my sons, but something has happened to them. All the [deceased] boys have gone to a better place. It has been a great sadness for us.” Similar sentiments were echoed across the village, whose inhabitants were stunned by the knowledge that a cell of young Moroccan locals had plotted the atrocities at Las Ramblas and Cambrils. Common consensus was that the boys had been groomed and indoctrinated by Abdelbaki Es Satty, 40, imam at the town’s main mosque, which was raided by police last night. Es Satty, who has been linked to al-Qaeda fanatics and the bombers who attacked Madrid in 2004, was believed to have died while experimenting with explosives in Alcanar, a town nearly 125 miles from Barcelona. Two others died there but have not been identified. Mohamed Houli

Chemlal, the possible bomb maker, was arrested in the town. Maria Alba Martinez, whose family employed Said at their cafe in Ripoll, said that some Moroccans’ behaviour had changed since the arrival of Es Satty two years ago. She said: “All of a sudden, girls started wearing the hijab. They never had before. Since this imam, you notice that some of the families have become more hardline.” Ms Martinez knew all the young members of the terrorist cell. Said was a good worker, she said, and always lifted heavy goods for the female staff. “The families don’t understand what has happened here. They go out at night, they go to the football, they go partying,” she said. “They have been involved in singing the traditional Catalan folk music at the annual festival. There is no segregation. “We don’t understand how there could be the process of going to radical Islam. What people explain is that something was changing in the behaviour of these guys.” Younes Abouyaaqoub, 22, who was suspected of driving a van down Las Ramblas on Thursday, killing 13 people and injuring scores more, is from Ripoll. The terrorists in Cambrils — Moussa Oukabir, 17, Houssaine Abouyaaqoub, the brother of Younes, Mohamed Hychami, 24, and his brother Omar, 21 — were also from the town, as were Sahal El Karib and Mohamed Aallaa, who were arrested. Oukabir travelled to Morocco to “say goodbye” to his family before the atrocity and spent about ten days in his parents’ homeland, La Razón, the Spanish daily paper said. The Aallaa brothers grew up in nearby Ribes de Freser, although their father was speaking from a flat in Ripoll linked with the family. Three of the four men detained by police, including Oukabir’s older brother Driss, 28, were also from the town. Ms Martinez said that the dead

terrorists had made a series of trips to France in recent months, which appeared suspicious in hindsight given the scale of Islamist activity there. Said announced a few weeks ago that he was giving up his job to go on holiday to Corsica. The murderous activities of the cell have raised concerns of a backlash against Muslims in the town. There are about 500 Moroccan-born residents, many of whom work in local factories, restaurants or bars. Weeping members of the terrorists’ families gathered outside the town hall on Saturday night to condemn the attacks, some carrying signs which read “not in my name”. The mother of Younes Abouyaaqoub pleaded with her son to give himself up. He was being hunted across Europe last night. Ghanno Gaanimi sobbed as she said: “I want him to give himself up. I didn’t want them to kill anyone, Islam doesn’t say this. I didn’t know anything about this business, none of us did. “He and the others didn’t drink or create problems. He never went to Alcanar, just to Barcelona for some weekends like normal young men. I don’t know how they could have lived in the same house as me and this could have happened.” Halima Hychami, whose two sons died at Cambrils, blamed Es Satty. Speaking about Mohamed, she said: “I feel sorry for my son, but more sorry for the others who died because of what he did. My son went to the mosque now and again but was not religious. He had a job and did nothing wrong. It all changed when the imam came.” Wafa Marsi, a Muslim community worker in Ripoll, said: “The imam was the wolf in lamb’s clothing here.” The town of 10,000 people was previously best known for Santa Maria de Ripoll, its Romanesque monastery. The attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils were the worst terrorist attacks in Spain since the Madrid bombings killed 192 people.

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Imam shared flat with al-Qaeda recruiter Officer who Fiona Hamilton, Graham Keeley

An imam suspected of masterminding the Barcelona atrocity had links to the terrorist cell behind the 2004 Madrid bombings and to other al-Qaeda fanatics including a suicide bomber in Iraq. Abdelbaki Es Satty, 40, who is thought to have indoctrinated the men who attacked Las Ramblas and Cambrils last Thursday, shared a flat several years ago with Mohammed Mrabet Fahsi, an al-Qaeda recruiter. He also had links with other terror suspects. Questions were raised about whether he should have been monitored after reports that he was in Belgium between January and March last year, before Islamic State fanatics attacked Brussels airport and Maalbeek metro station, killing 32 people, on March 22. Between 2003 and 2005 he lived with Fahsi in Vilanova i la Geltru, a coastal town about 50km (30 miles) southwest of Barcelona. Fahsi was accused of recruiting fighters for jihadist causes in

Iraq and Syria, according to the news website OK Diario. He was arrested in 2006 and jailed for funding terrorism. Belgacem Bellil, an Algerian who blew himself up in Iraq in 2003, killing 14 Italians and nine Iraqis, lived at the same flat. Two other al-Qaeda suspects also stayed there. The Vilanova group was in contact with another cell in Santa Coloma de Gramenet, north of Barcelona, which helped the Madrid bombers to escape, local media reported. Es Satty spent at least two years in prison from 2012 for smuggling cannabis between north Africa and Spain, El Periodico newspaper reported. He became friends with Rachid Aglif, who was jailed for 18 years for the Madrid atrocity in which 192 people died. Es Satty moved to Ripoll in 2015, where his flat was raided at the weekend. He is believed to have died with at least two other men while preparing explosives in Alcanar, nearly 200 miles away. Police confirmed yesterday that a

far bigger attack, involving 120 gas canisters, was planned but failed because of the accidental explosion. The flat in Ripoll was being searched yesterday for DNA and fingerprints to verify that Es Satty had been killed in Alcanar. Police said they had identified two bodies, but did not give details. His flatmate told La Vanguardia newspaper that Es Satty told him on Tuesday he was going to Morocco for three months. Ali Yassine, president of the mosque where Es Satty preached, said he had not seen him since June. La Razon newspaper reported that at least one member of the cell had spoken to Isis organisers and was given details on making the explosive that was being prepared in Alcanar. The cell is believed to have used the Alcanar house for more than six months but Josep Lluís Trapero, head of police in Catalonia, said officers had not received calls about activity that would have alerted them and insisted that his force had a clear conscience.

shot four dead was an elite soldier Graham Keeley, Fiona Hamilton

A police officer who shot dead four terrorists as they attacked tourists and residents with axes and knives in a Spanish seafront resort is a former soldier from an elite infantry unit. The officer, who has not been named for his own protection, served with the Legion, a special unit of the Spanish army. Now an officer with the Mossos d’Esquadra, the Catalan regional police, he was working overtime when five terrorists launched an attack in Cambrils on Friday. The jihadists, who were wearing fake explosive belts, ploughed a car into

pedestrians, killing one woman. They jumped out to attack people after crashing into a police checkpoint. The officer shot dead four of the jihadists. Another, who escaped, stabbed a woman in the neck before he was shot by other officers. El Mundo newspaper described the officer, who is married with children, as “very quiet, not the Rambo prototype of an elite officer”. When Carles Puigdemont, the Catalan regional president, personally thanked him during a meeting, officers burst into spontaneous applause. The officer, who had 11 years’ experience in the force, normally works on patrol, giving advice to shops and talks at schools on safety and security. He is receiving psychological treatment after the incident. A police source said: “He may be experienced but for any human being to kill four people is a difficult thing to deal with.” The Spanish Legion was formed in 1920 and was modelled on the French Foreign Legion, although most of its members were locals. It has 5,000 soldiers in a brigade of two regiments stationed across Spain.

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FUGITIVE Younes Abouyaaqoub, 22 Believed to be the driver of the van that was used to kill 13 in Barcelona

Ripoll

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Barcelona Cambrils Mediterranean Sea Alcanar

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Driss Oukabir, 28

Sahal El Karib, 34

Mohamed Aalla

Said his brother had stolen his identity papers to rent van

Manager of an internet cafe in Ripoll

Owner of the Audi A3 used in Cambrils attack

Possible bomb-maker. Injured in explosion

Mohamed Houli Chemlal

Houssaine Abouyaaqoub

Said Aalla, 19

Youssef Aalla

Shot dead in Cambrils

May have been killed in the explosion in Alcanar

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Moussa Oukabir, 17 Accused of stealing brother’s documents to rent van used in Barcelona attack. Shot dead in Cambrils

Key Brothers

Body parts in bomb house give clues to jihad cell

Shot dead in Cambrils

Mohamed Hychami, 24 Omar Hychami Shot dead in Cambrils

Shot dead in Cambrils

Abdelbaki es Satty Former Ripoll Imam. Possible ringleader. Killed in Alcanar

Relatives of some of the terror suspects gathered at the main square in Ripoll to show support for each other; colleagues gave a round of applause to the Catalan police officer, circled, who shot dead four terrorists in Cambrils. He has not been named for his own protection; more than 120 gas cylinders were found at a house in Alcanar thought to have been a bomb factory

The mangled remains of ears and other body parts found in a bomb factory used by the Barcelona terrorists are being examined in the hope that they will provide the police with a complete picture of the size and key figures of the jihadist cell. Investigators are undertaking the painstaking process of going through the rubble of a house in Alcanar, about 125 miles south of Barcelona, where the terrorists were making explosive devices using 120 butane gas cylinders. The house was blown up by accident on Wednesday while the gang were in the final stages of concocting deadly bombs to carry out a huge attack in Barcelona. The terrorists intended to strike at popular Barcelona tourists sites such as La Sagrada Familia, Las Ramblas and Port Olimpic, using triacetone triperoxide — or TATP, an explosive known as the Mother of Satan and which was used in the attacks in Manchester, Paris and Brussels — and the gas cylinders. Initially the police did not think that the explosion was linked to terrorism, and believed that it might have been an accident at an illegal drugs factory. However, after the Barcelona attack the significance of scores of gas bottles stored in the house became clear. Without their weapon of choice, five members of the terrorist cell, who had been squatting in the house, used an Audi A3 to drive into tourists and locals in the nearby resort of Cambrils in the early hours of Friday. They were shot dead by police. Yesterday Josep Lluís Trapero, a major in the Mossos d’Esquadra, the Catalan regional police, said that the remains of three people had been found in the ruins of the house, which had been repossessed from its previous owner, but that it was not yet possible to confirm their identities. If police can confirm that one of those who was killed in the blast was Abdelbaki Es Satty, 40, an imam who knew most of the young members of the cell, it may indicate that he was the mastermind behind the organisation.

The house in Alcanar was destroyed the day before the Barcelona attack

Mr Trapero said that there were at least a hundred gas bottles at the house in Alcanar but there may be more. “The search has been very slow. There is explosive material in the house and it is still live. We have found all the components to make the explosives,” he said. “In the past months this group had planned more than one attack in the centre of Barcelona and wanted to do much more damage than they did.” Police have also been analysing fingerprints from three vans used by the gang to pinpoint the whereabouts of the attackers and which roles they played. Younes Abouyaaqoub, 22, the only member of the cell still at large, is thought to have been the driver of the white Renault van that ploughed into crowds on Las Ramblas killing 14 people and injuring more than a hundred. Investigators are also examining the remains of a Spanish man, Pau Peréz, 34, whose body was found on Thursday in a Ford Focus in Sant Just Desvern, an affluent suburb of Barcelona. He is thought to have been killed before the Barcelona attack and his body dumped in the car. Terrorists may have used the Ford Focus to escape in the confusion after the atrocity.

Focus on France in search for fugitive Killers had planned to use Spanish police have conceded that the only fugitive still at large after the Barcelona attack may have slipped over the border into France (Graham Keeley and Fiona Hamilton write). Younes Abouyaaqoub, 22, a Moroccan, is suspected of mowing down pedestrians on Barcelona’s Las Ramblas promenade, killing 13 and injuring 130. Police set up road blocks on all major routes through Catalonia and towards the border with France in an effort to track him down. Josep Lluis Trapero, head of the Catalan regional police, said that he may have crossed the border into France. “We don’t have any specific information on this but it cannot be ruled out,” he told a press conference. He said that police were working with their counterparts in France. CCTV images have emerged of Abouyaaqoub withdrawing money in the days before the atrocity on Thursday. His credit card was used to rent all three vans that the 12-man terrorist cell

Younes Abouyaaqoub is suspected of running over crowds on Las Ramblas

were planning to pack with explosives to attack tourist sites across Barcelona such as the Sagrada Familia basilica and Las Ramblas. The white Fiat used in the Las Ramblas attack and two other vans were discovered in Vic, about 44 miles north of Barcelona and in Ripoll, where most of the terrorist cell lived. Police discovered

a motorbike belonging to Abouyaaqoub in the town. Spanish police believe that Abouyaaqoub may have escaped in the confusion after the Barcelona attack by taking the metro to Sant Just Desvern, a wealthy suburb of Barcelona. Once there he may have used a stolen getaway car. A Ford Focus attempted to drive through a police checkpoint on Thursday night, hitting two officers. When police officers fired on the car the driver dumped it and escaped on foot. Police found the body of Pau Peréz, 34, a Spaniard, in the back seat. His body showed no signs of bullet wounds. Forensic tests showed that it had suffered rigor mortis by the time it was discovered, suggesting he had been killed before the Barcelona attack and his body left in the car. It was reported in Spanish news outlets that he had been stabbed to death. Police are investigating if Mr Peréz’s death was linked to the terrorist attack.

Mother of Satan explosive Callum Adams

The Barcelona terrorists who attacked pedestrians with a van last week had intended to kill hundreds more with an improvised homemade explosive known as the Mother of Satan. Investigators searching through the rubble of the explosion in Alcanar, 120 miles south of Barcelona, on Saturday found traces of triacetone triperoxide, or TATP. The blast at the bomb factory, where more than 120 butane gas cylinders were also found, is thought to have forced the 12-strong terrorist cell to launch a low-tech van attack in Las Ramblas in Barcelona the following day, last Thursday, killing 13 people and injuring more than 130. While difficult to control because it is so unstable, TATP has two clear advantages for would-be terrorists: it is easy to

make and difficult for authorities to detect. The chemical can be created using over-the-counter items available at pharmacies and does not contain nitrogen, a vital component of other homemade explosives, which security scanners are able to identify. It was taken on board an American Airlines flight in 2001 by Richard Reid, the British shoe bomber, but he was prevented from detonating the device. TATP was used in the bomb attacks in London on July 7, 2005, when four suicide bombers killed 52 people and injured more than 700 when they targeted the underground and a double-decker bus. It was also used by Salman Abedi at the Ariana Grande concert in Manchester in May, the attacks on Brussels in March last year and in the Paris bombings in November 2015.

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In tune with the times: why pop music is slowing down Kaya Burgess

Have you noticed your taste in music slowing down lately? Are you choosing slow-burning ballads over throbbing dance music? Never fear, it may not be a sign of ageing. The average tempo of the most popular songs has fallen by more than 20 per cent in the past five years, driven by the dominance of hip-hop, with its more languid tempo, and by a taste for more mellow music in turbulent times. Yakov Vorobyev, who developed the Mixed in Key app for DJs, has used it to compare the tempos of the 25 most-streamed tracks on Spotify in 2012 with the top 25 so far this year. He found that the most popular songs this year had an average tempo of 90.5 beats per minute (bpm), compared with 113.5 bpm in 2012. The analysis also showed that the percentage of songs with tempos above 120bpm had fallen from 56 per cent to 12.5 per cent. The popularity

of balladeers such as Adele and Ed Sheeran is likely to have fuelled the slowdown, and even mainstream dance artists such as Kygo are producing slow tracks. Chris Hawkins, the BBC Radio 6 Music DJ, said: “If you think about the most popular acts, they’re known for their ballads and more low tempo burning anthems as opposed to frenetic dance music being at the fore. Hip-hop is enjoying massive popularity at the moment and most hip-hop tunes are fairly medium tempo and with that comes the popularity of R&B. Music like Rag ’n’ Bone Man has a laid-back, chilled sound. The other element is the national mood, with all the bleak news and the frenetic lives that we lead and the dark times we live in. I think music is a form of escapism so you’re likely to want something more contemplative and reflective.” Hawkins hosts the early morning show on 6 Music, which he said helped young people to discover lower-tempo music by artists such as Massive Attack and Jeff Buckley, which they were too young to have heard the first time around, while baby boomers are increasingly using services such as Spotify. “They are less into drum and bass and more into the Eagles,” he said. A number of artists

Taking it easy From Spotify Top 25 in 2012 Call Me Maybe, by Carly Rae Jepsen 120 bpm Drive By, Train 123 bpm Titanium (feat Sia), David Guetta 126 bpm Good Feeling, Flo Rida 129 bpm We Found Love, Rihanna and Calvin Harris 130 bpm Sexy and I Know It, LMFAO 130 bpm Euphoria, Loreen 135 bpm From current Spotify weekly Top 25 Strip That Down, Liam Payne 106 bpm Feels (feat Pharrell Williams and Katy Perry), Calvin Harris 102 bpm Attention, Charlie Puth 100 bpm Shape of You, Ed Sheeran 97 bpm Grateful, DJ Khaled 94 bpm Despacito (Remix feat Justin Bieber), Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee 90 bpm Evolve, Imagine Dragons 85 bpm

The popularity of artists such as Adele, Rihanna, left, and Drake has fuelled the rise of slower songs, with listeners turning to ballads that reflect the world today

who find that their singles are now too slow to be played on the dancefloor have taken to releasing uptempo remixes to appeal to those who still want a throbbing beat, he added. Bonnie McKee, who has co-written

eight No 1 hits in the US, including for Katy Perry, told Rolling Stone magazine: “People were burnt out on uptempo, super-poppy stuff.” She added that artists now preferred a “this is kind of sexy” and “this is kind of slow” vibe to

their music. She said: “When you think about the financial crisis of 2008, there was a lot more uptempo stuff. In a crisis like that, people want to forget their problems. “In a crisis like we’re in right now, where people’s rights are being taken away and people are being shot in the street, that’s a different kind of crisis , a moral and social one. People don’t really feel right about jumping up and down and bopping right this second.” She cited the American artists Drake and the Weeknd as examples of slower pop, while Hawkins listed the British artists Ghostpoet and Loyle Carner. Hawkins said: “They are two of the absolute coolest, most cutting-edge acts around and they are pretty much medium tempo and low key, and they’re acts I’m playing every morning on my show.” He added that streaming services also made it easier for listeners to create playlists of similar music. Sean Ross, a radio historian, said that the slowdown of pop echoed that seen in the post-disco wave, which inspired a succession of rock power ballads in the early 1980s. Today’s wave is being driven by dance DJs producing slower tracks, he said.

Westminster Abbey could Broadchurch ‘linked my art with rape’ host service for Sir Bruce Jack Malvern

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Sir Bruce Forsyth’s family are said to be considering a public memorial service at Westminster Abbey. Similar services were held at the abbey for his close friends Ronnie Corbett and Terry Wogan although Sir Bruce had been too ill to attend. The Sun on Sunday reported that the family of Sir Bruce, who died on Friday aged 89, liked the “idea of the great and the good” celebrating his life along with “ordinary fans”. Jimmy Tarbuck, one of Sir Bruce’s closest friends for more than five decades, said yesterday that he last saw the entertainer at his home in Surrey a month ago. Tarbuck said that with a fellow comedian, Kenny Lynch, they had “the most wonderful afternoon of men’s talk . . . which is to say we sat there chatting nonsense”. He said that for

90 minutes there had been “roaring laughter” in Sir Bruce’s bedroom overlooking Wentworth golf course. Tarbuck wrote in The Mail on Sunday that Sir Bruce had been “working to get better, to improve himself”. “Bruce told us how he was still doing his famous exercises, trying to keep himself young, trying to build his legs up so he could walk normally again,” he wrote. “There was no doubt that he was fighting until the very end. He was one determined man — determined to be happy until the end.” According to a statement released on Friday, Sir Bruce’s wife, Wilnelia, and his six children from three marriages were at his bedside when he died peacefully. Sir Bruce’s entertainment career began when he was 14 and encompassed in later decades The Generation Game and Strictly Come Dancing. Letters, page 28

An artist whose work appeared in the background of an episode of the crime drama Broadchurch is seeking £10,000 compensation because she claims that her work is now associated with rape. Angela Hewitt believes that her reputation has been damaged because her painting of a cockerel was used in the house of Ed Burnett, a rape suspect played by Lenny Henry in the third series. The painting appeared for five seconds in a scene with Burnett, whose house was searched by police. The character was exonerated two episodes later. Ms Hewitt, 64, instructed a lawyer to seek damages for copyright infringement and breach of moral rights. She claimed that Kudos, the production company behind the ITV drama, called her attempt opportunistic and told her that the scene was protected under section 31 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act (1988), which states: “Copy-

Angela Hewitt, with a similar painting, claims her reputation is now damaged

right in a work is not infringed by its incidental inclusion in an artistic work, sound recording, film or broadcast.” Ms Hewitt, who sold the painting for £125, said that she was “disgusted and appalled” to see the painting shown in such a context. “I jumped out of my seat,” she told The Mail on Sunday. “I was very angry

that the programme-makers hadn’t got in touch with me. If they had told me the context of the programme, I would have said ‘Absolutely not’.” Her lawyer wrote: “The cockerel is clearly depicted as connotative of the character whose home it is in, this being someone who is a stalker and a suspected rapist. This is undoubtedly a derogatory treatment of the work and is therefore a breach of our client’s moral rights in the work.” Ms Hewitt said that she was upset by Kudos’s alleged response that she was being an opportunist. “This could damage my reputation because it means my work is associated with a show about rape,” she said. She claimed that the company offered her £1,500 on the condition that she signed a confidentiality agreement, but she had rejected it. “I’m not asking for millions of pounds. I’m only asking for a small amount,” she said. The company could not be reached for comment.

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Hurricane will leave us feeling the heat

hurricane called Gert petering out over the Atlantic is set to flick a warm spell our way this week. The south and East Anglia could reach a humid 27C on Tuesday — which would be the warmest day since mid-July — but bright sunshine is unlikely to cut through the cloud. Further north the rain will linger. Craig Snell, a Met Office forecaster, said: “If you are living in East Anglia and southern England it is fairly dry with the warmest temperatures. “Elsewhere you are probably going to see some rain at some point, especially the further north you go. “It will cool down towards the end of the week.” August has been cooler and wetter than average; 25C is the top temperature for the month so far.

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It was perfect weather for punting yesterday on the River Stour in Westgate Gardens, Canterbury, where warm — but humid — conditions are set to continue into next week

Troops facing cuts to plug £30bn hole in defence budget, says expert Deborah Haynes Defence Editor

The “funding challenge” in the armed forces is approaching £30 billion and troops may need to be cut to balance the books, says an industry consultant. Tensions created by the gap between the cost of new warships, fighter jets, submarines and armoured vehicles, and the money in the budget, are “acute and must be addressed”, Roland Sonnenberg, a senior partner at PwC, said. He described the next few years as “perhaps one of the most challenging periods in a generation” but hinted at reluctance within the MoD to acknowledge the scale of the problem. The comments in a blog posted on PwC’s website are the first time a senior figure from the defence industry has issued such a frank public warning. In March The Times reported that the gap in the budget was £10 billion over ten years on top of an officially stated requirement to make almost

£10 billion in “efficiency savings”. In June Stephen Lovegrove, permanent secretary at the MoD, said that the actual figure was £20 billion by 2026. This makes the hole in the budget at least £30 billion, although insiders believe it could be closer to £40 billion. “While the MoD’s own estimates put the magnitude of the funding challenge at £20 billion, PwC and other industry observers believe the reality is more likely closer to £30 billion over the next ten years,” Mr Sonnenberg wrote. Experts say that the shortfall has been caused in part by over-optimistic estimates for the cost of acquiring and supporting programmes such as the navy’s new aircraft carrier task group. A drop in the value of the pound is another factor, driving up the cost of kit bought overseas. Further pressure will be created if the government decides to scrap a 1 per cent pay freeze for public sector workers. The MoD is working on a Cabinet

Office review of capability, which is expected to result in new cuts or delays to programmes to save money. Mr Sonnenberg said that the funding problem could be turned into an opportunity. He said that the MoD must recognise the scale of the challenge, including by re-examining the cost of equipment which could identify new savings. He touched on the number of hat it personnel and said that cost more to employy a serviceperson than a civil servant and yet the civilian workforce is facing a 30 per cent reduction. “The scope for reducing service personnel in back-office functions and for harmonising HMS Queen Elizabeth is the navy’s new carrier

civilian functions across the armed forces remains a significant area of savings potential and the 30 per cent challenge makes little sense in this context,” he wrote. “The opportunity to look at numbers of service personnel may be a highly emotive and political point in itself but is worth considering.” The defence industry has a role to play. Defence, Equipment and Support, the branch of the MoD that wi kit, has worked deals with hard tto drive savings out c of contracts with suppli pliers, such as BAE Sy Systems. Mr Sonn nenberg said more c could be achieved. The MoD said th the figures were that “e “entirely speculativ and that it had tive” mad “good progress made towar towards our target of £7 billion of savings by 2021”.

Social media abuse to be treated as a hate crime Callum Adams

Hate crimes that occur online are to be prosecuted with the same robustness as offline offences, according to new guidelines issued by the Crown Prosecution Service. The increasing number of cases of abuse originating on social media has led the CPS to revise its guidance, which now covers different kinds of hate crime such as racist, religious and disability-related offences. The guide-

lines were suggested last year and have now been brought into effect after a consultation. The revised documents, which also cover homophobic, biphobic and transphobic hate crimes, say that the CPS will prosecute such crimes online “with the same robust and proactive approach used with offline offending”. They add that children may not appreciate the seriousness of their communications online, which should be taken into account. Prosecutors should also

pay attention to sites that host abuse and their policies on fighting it, while being ready to identify “originators” as well as “amplifiers or disseminators”. “Hate crime can be perpetrated online or offline, or there can be a pattern of behaviour that includes both,” the documents state. “The internet and social media in particular have provided new platforms for offending behaviour.” Hate crime in the UK has come under much more public scrutiny in the

past year, with a spike in such incidents after the EU referendum in June last year and after the terrorist attacks in Manchester and at London Bridge. “Hate crime has a corrosive effect on our society and that is why it is a priority area for the CPS,” said Alison Saunders, the director of public prosecutions. In 2015-16 the CPS completed a record 15,442 hate crime prosecutions. It emphasised that it considers each case on its merits, whether online or offline.

Pilots’ strike threatens holiday chaos Kaya Burgess

Holidaymakers could face chaos after hundreds of pilots with Thomas Cook Airlines voted to strike over pay. The airline operates a fleet of up to 40 planes during peak summer months and flights between Europe and North America, north Africa and the Caribbean could be affected by industrial action. More than 400 of Thomas Cook Airlines’ 560 pilots are members of the British Airline Pilots’ Association (Balpa), and 80 per cent voted to strike in a ballot on Friday. Balpa’s executive committee is to meet today to discuss final approval of the industrial action. It is not yet known when any strike would take place but sources say that it could begin next month. Thomas Cook Airlines and Balpa are holding talks to resolve the dispute before any disruption is caused for holidaymakers. It is understood that pilots had been offered a 1.5 per cent pay increase on top of their annual automatic pay increase of 1.8 per cent but asked for a 10.7 per cent increase, which is an average pay rise of about £10,000. The pilots are also believed to have asked the airline to fly them in business class when transporting them between airports to connect with flights. A Balpa spokeswoman declined to comment. A Thomas Cook Airlines spokesman said: “It is in everyone’s interest to reach a settlement, which is why we have put forward what we believe to be a very fair offer in what is a competitive market. We are working hard with Balpa’s representatives to find a way forward.”

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Charles popularity plunges over Diana

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PMQs was a Brucie bonus Most politicians could use some of Sir Bruce Forsyth’s razzmatazz, but perhaps they were accidentally responsible for it. Brucie’s persona was sometimes corny and often cheesy, with even an element of slapstick thrown in, but where did he keep finding inspiration for this style? He once told Radio Times there was one TV broadcast that he taped every week, declaring: “Prime minister’s questions . . . at times it’s pure variety, pure vaudeville.”

boris takes it easy Boris Johnson has returned to Gocek in Turkey (a source tells me it’s where he got those garish Bermuda shorts he goes running in). The man who organised the holiday told the Turkish press it was a pleasure to host the Johnsons. Under the headline “English minister descended from the Ottomans on a secret holiday in Turkey”, Ahmet Guler told the Hurriyet newspaper: “There were absolutely no difficult demands and they communicated all their requests in a very polite manner.” The EU’s Brexit negotiators must be green with envy.

Playing I’m Your Puppet by James & Bobby Purify on Radio 2 brought back “unpleasant memories” for Tony Blackburn. The DJ said a BBC colleague leant over during an interview in the 80s and bit his hand, with the teethmarks turning septic. He recalled an embarrassing visit to his doctor, who said: “How did you do that? That looks nasty.” Blackburn had to admit: “I was bitten by Basil Brush.”

gardener’s revenge Our tale of Alan Clark’s relationship with his driver reminded a reader of his frosty relations with his gardener. The Tory MP sent him to an auction near his Kent castle to bid on some vintage signs, with a strict price limit. After chatting to the gardener about his boss, our reader agreed to bid on the signs too, right up to Clark’s maximum, five times more than he hoped. Clark was “fuming”, our reader recalls, adding: “The gardener was as delighted as the seller.”

diana’s fashion tip Forget government meddling in the BBC, even the royal family has tried. The royal correspondent Jennie Bond was scrubbing her floor when the phone rang. She answered to hear a “posh lady”, she told Readers’ Digest. “It’s Kensington Palace here,” the voice said, with a message from Princess Diana. “She wants you to know you look very good in red and thinks you should continue wearing red on television. Bye.” don’t mention the mancs When Labour’s Gisela Stuart went for selection in Birmingham Edgbaston she worried her Bavarian roots would be an issue. Local rivalries matter more. She told the book Standing Down 2017: “They said, ‘Never mind being born in Germany, it’s the ten years you spent in Manchester we won’t talk about’.” your face or mine? There was no love lost between Alan Johnson and the man he replaced in Hull West, Stuart Randall, who resigned before the 1997 election and became Baron Randall of St Budeaux. It was at such late notice, the office had no posters of Johnson, who said: “They had posters for my predecessor, who stepped down to spend more time with his peerage.” kaya burgess

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The approaching 20th anniversary of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales appears to be having a detrimental effect on her former husband’s popularity, a poll reveals. The YouGov poll found that 27 per cent of the public think that the Prince of Wales has had a negative impact on the monarchy, compared with 15 per cent of people who thought so in 2013. The percentage of people who harles believe that Prince Charles he has been positive for the royals is 36 per cent, com-pared with 60 per cent four years ago. Penny Junor, who has written biographies of the prince and princess and the Duchess of Cornwall, believes that his fallingg use popularity may be because ry on of the coming anniversary August 31. She nevertheless expressed surprise at the findings: “We’ve moved on 20 years. Charles’s reputation, I thought, was completely rehabilitated. He’s become a much happier, more relaxed and more confident Prince of Wales and I thought much more popular as a result.” The poll also revealed that only 14 per cent think that the duchess should become Queen. The title of Princess

Consort was preferred by 39 per cent of people polled, while 30 per cent thought that she should have no title. A similar survey by Norstat conducted on behalf of the Sunday Express found that 67 per cent of people did not want the duchess to take the title of Queen. Ms Junor said: “He [Prince Charles] gets a hard time because his marriage failed. He’s never been forgiven for that — because Diana blamed him and he never ever said a word.” S The Sunday Times reported yeste yesterday that the Queen has no intention of standing aside for her son, in insisting that it is “duty fi first, nation first, I’m g going to be there”. T Three senior sources to the newspaper that told th there was no thought of invo invoking the Regency w Act, which would allow the world’s llongest-reigning living monarch to cede the throne to Prince Charles. Today’s poll echoes a similar study by ICM last week commissioned by The Sun. It showed that 51 per cent wanted the Duke of Cambridge to be the next monarch; 22 per cent said it should be Prince Charles. The YouGov poll was conducted before Channel 4 broadcast a documentary of recordings of the princess speaking about her marriage.

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Girls are fools to waste so much time on beauty, says Zadie Smith David Sanderson Arts Correspondent

Zadie Smith has spoken of her frustration at her seven-year-old daughter and other girls spending so much time looking in the mirror. The author of White Teeth, On Beauty and Swing Time said that young girls were fools for wasting time when boys were quickly “out the door” to achieve things. Smith, 41, said that she had imposed a 15-minute time limit on her daughter, Kit. “I explained it to her in these terms: you are wasting time, your brother is not going to waste any time doing this,” she said. “Every day of his life he will put a shirt on, he’s out the door and he

doesn’t give a shit if you waste an hour and a half doing your make-up.” The rise of contouring — cosmetics industry jargon for “enhancing the structure of the face” — has been accompanied by a rise in marketing of make-up to pre-teenage girls and concern over the sexualisation of children. Primark was criticised last month for marketing padded bras to pre-teenagers and one of the most talked-about plays at the Edinburgh Fringe is Monica Dolan’s The B*easts, about a mother taking her eight-year-old daughter for breast enhancement. Smith, who lives in London and America, said that witnessing her daughter in front of the mirror had

prompted her maternal advice. “I saw that she had just started spending a lot of time looking in mirrors,” she told the Edinburgh International Book Festival. “It was infuriating me. I decided to spontaneously decide on a principle: that if it takes longer than 15 minutes don’t do it. “From what I can understand from this contouring business, that’s like an hour and a half and that is too long. It was better than giving her a big lecture on female beauty, she understood it as a practical term and she sees me and how I get dressed and how long it takes.” Smith has spoken before of the “sinister” preoccupation in some quarters with the looks of female authors. She

told Desert Island Discs in 2013 that there appeared to be an assumption that if a woman was beautiful then she had no need to be intelligent. She was brought up in northwest London by her black Jamaican-born mother, Yvonne Bailey, and white English father, Harvey Smith. She said that Ms Bailey “came from nowhere, had nothing” but had been determined to be somebody. “I recognise in her this Zadie Smith banned her daughter from spending hours putting on make-up

furious will,” she said. “My brother and I used to joke that her favourite thing in the world was to be the only black woman at Ascot. It was important to her that people could see that black people could be there, in all these spaces.” She added: “I think often of my children and how they will look back and think ‘What was going on?’ They will look at the dates of [my] books and think, ‘Wait, I was three, what were you doing?’ I feel retrospective guilt about that sometimes.” Swing Time has been longlisted for the Man Booker prize. DANNY LAWSON/PA

The Romans are coming Members of Ermine Street Guard, a re-enactment group, visited Chesters Fort in Hexham, Northumberland, at the weekend to mark the 1900th anniversary of Hadrian becoming emperor

Graduates cheat in tests to get a job James Hurley

The value of the aptitude tests used by large recruiters has been questioned after research indicated that 20 per cent of graduates had cheated or considered doing so. The most common ruse was getting a brighter friend to take the test, according to Wikijob, which conducted the study. James Rice, head of digital marketing at the recruitment website, said: “As competition for places on graduate schemes with the most highly regarded employers continues to intensify and fears over the impact of Brexit grow, graduates appear willing to take greater risks to advance to the later stages.” Sixty per cent of graduates said that the tests, which are used by big employers to filter large numbers of applications, were not a good way to find the best candidates. Only 17 per cent of respondents in the survey of 300 graduates thought that they were an efficient hiring method. Aptitude tests can involve numerical, verbal and logical reasoning questions as well as those designed to gauge a candidate’s personality.

your own ‘Olderpreneurs’ insist Get tea, interns tell retirement is for wimps their bosses James Hurley Enterprise Editor

Britons appear to have little appetite for taking things easy as they grow older. The number of businesses run by people aged over 55 has increased by more than 63 per cent over the past decade, according to research. The fastest growing age group of business owners between 2006 and last year was those aged over 65, who recorded a 140 per cent increase in entrepreneurship and self-employment. The number of ventures run by those aged between 25 and 34 grew by a more modest 23 per cent, Barclays found. It is thought that more older people are becoming their own boss because their pension is not enough. Today’s older generations are also healthier than their parents were at the same age and often wish to put their skills and experience to profitable use, while choosing their own hours. London and the southeast were home to the fastest growing number of business owners aged over 55 in the

past decade, followed by the northeast, Wales and the northwest. The healthcare industry showed the steepest increase in business owners aged over 55, followed by education. The study was based on data from 1.1 million business owners whose small and medium companies banked with Barclays. The findings are supported by official sources. The Office for National Statistics said that self-employment in most age groups grew between 2001 and 2015, but the largest changes were found among those aged over 70. It said that there was “little evidence of . . . dissatisfaction with their self-employed status” among those older people who worked for themselves. In 2011 Lesley Benson set up Ski Bespoke to organise luxury trips after the company she was working for was taken over and changed direction. Ms Benson, 60, said: “If you have a passion for something, whether you are 25 or 55, that’s what’s important. In my field of work being more mature in dealing with the luxury market is a huge advan-

tage, as you have had the opportunity to experience it yourself.” Barbara Burton launched Behind Bras after leaving prison in her midfifties with few job prospects. She now employs fellow women ex-offenders at her London-based lingerie company. In attempt to tap into the surge in start-ups by older people, Barclays has hired Liz Earle, the cosmetics and jewellery entrepreneur, to advise on the needs of mature business owners. Ms Earle, 54, sold her beauty products business to Walgreens Boots Alliance for £140 million in 2015. She said: “I’m not surprised to see so many budding entrepreneurs of my generation but it’s great to see them taking the plunge in later life, rather than feeling it’s too late.” Barclays has its own older entrepreneurs. Bob Diamond, 66, its former chief executive, set up Atlas Mara in 2013 to invest in banking operations in Africa. Last year his successor, Antony Jenkins, 56, founded 10X Future Technologies aimed at the banking industry. Leading article, page 29

Nicola Woolcock Education Correspondent

Making cups of tea and doing the photocopying have been rites of passage for generations of interns. Now it appears they have had enough. In a survey many complained about the quality of work they are asked to do during summer internships, which are often completed by undergraduates as a way of getting ahead. Most felt that periods of work experience were more useful to the company than to the individual. Only 53 per cent said their skills were taken into consideration and appropriately matched to the role and a fifth felt the internship had no effect — or even a negative effect — on their professional opportunities. Seamus Nevin, of the Institute of Directors, said “many employers consider work experience to be an advantage when hiring graduates or school leavers”. The survey, carried out by Censuswide on behalf of Lloyds Bank’s social mobility programme, questioned 250 people about their internship experiences in the past five years.

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Grenfell council boss offers advice on cuts Jack Malvern

The council leader who resigned because of criticism of his leadership after the Grenfell Tower disaster has attracted further opprobrium by advertising his new consultancy, which offers expertise in cutting costs. Nick Paget-Brown resigned as leader of Kensington and Chelsea on June 30, 16 days after the tower block fire that claimed at least 80 lives. His offer to provide advice on “financial planning in an age of austerity” has infuriated residents and the local MP, Nick Paget-Brown has put his CV on a Linkedin account

who noted that cost-cutting is suspected to have been a factor in the rapid spread of the fire. The council’s tenancy management organisation for the tower chose to use a type of cladding that contained flammable material because it was cheaper than an alternative. The decision saved £293,000 on a £9.2 million refurbishment. Mr Paget-Brown uploaded his curriculum vitae to the professional networking website Linkedin, advertising his availability to conduct “policy analysis, seminars, briefings and

drafting assistance for organisations working with local authorities”. His list of experience omits his time as Conservative leader of the council. There is a three-year gap between his time as deputy leader until 2013 and his establishment of NPB Consulting. However, he does describe his appointment as leader in another section. Emma Dent Coad, the Labour MP for Kensington, told The Mail on Sunday: “Paget-Brown’s attempt to whitewash his career by becoming a cost-cutting consultant is the final insult.” Moyra Samuels, a local teacher and co-founder of the Justice 4 Grenfell campaign, said: “I think it is a complete and utter disgrace [to advertise his services] and just shows his arrogance . . . To effectively say, ‘I’m moving on swiftly to my next project’ shows complete disdain for this community.” Mr Paget-Brown said at the time of his resignation that he shared responsibility for the “perceived failings” of the council. 6 More people will die from fires started by faulty white goods if the government does not implement safety recommendations issued more than a year ago, the London Fire Brigade has warned. In an open letter to the prime minister that was co-signed by several safety bodies, the fire brigade said faulty tumble dryers were causing three fires a day and warned that some fridges and freezers were being produced with flammable plastic backing.

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Old boys’ club puts women off politics Greg Hurst Social Affairs Editor

That rings a bell Legoland Windsor is silencing its own Big Ben while it repairs its three-metre model of the Elizabeth Tower, which is made up of 11,000 bricks

An old boys’ network in local political parties is deterring women from standing as councillors, a report has said. Only one in three local councillors and one in seven council leaders are women. The gender imbalance has worsened after recent experiments to give more power to elected mayors, with no women holding these posts and only 4 per cent of women in political cabinets working with them. A study by the IPPR, a think tank, said that the tone in which politics was often conducted put women off and meant they were less likely to get involved. Only 34 per cent of women join a political party. This figure has been relatively static despite a big rise in the number of women MPs. As a result fewer women develop the connections needed to become a local councillor, the report said. There are no figures for the number of women who apply for selection as candidates but a third of those who stand are women. A similar proportion of elected local councillors are female, but only 17 per cent of council leaders. 6 MPs will gather today to listen to Big Ben’s final bongs before it falls silent for four years while maintenance is being carried out. Parliament said this week that it would review the plans after the prime minister joined opposition to the move but the bongs will still be halted this afternoon so that work can begin.

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BBC’s new ‘SpyPlayer’ in privacy fear Andrew Ellson

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They were the flying mathematicians solving equations in the sky, but their breakthroughs cost them dearly. Research has cast new light on the brilliant young men who risked their lives testing early aircraft during the First World War. They were known as the Chudleigh Lot, eight whip-smart mathematicians, scientists and engineers named after the house in which they lived while working for the Royal Aircraft Factory in Farnborough, Hampshire. Their mission was to solve the biggest aerodynamic problems of their day so that British forces could reconnoitre enemy lines in steadier, safer planes. When the army pilots could not provide the data they needed they got into the planes and conducted their own experiments. By the end of the war four had died, but not before having made significant contributions to the understanding of powered flight. Tony Royle, who started researching the men’s story while recovering from a heart attack that put his own 20-year career as a pilot for Virgin Atlantic on pause, said: “They showed incredible bravery; some might call it insanity.” Some of the group, and their contemporaries at Farnborough, went on to great achievements. Sir George Thomson won the Nobel prize for physics; Frederick Lindemann, known as “The Prof”, was Churchill’s chief scientific adviser and later Viscount Cherwell; and Sir Geoffrey Taylor worked on the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb. It was, however, the sacrifices of the four “unsung heroes” that most surprised Mr Royle. These were the men who came up with a theory on how to manoeuvre out of a potentially deadly tailspin and then jumped into the cockpit to put it to the test. “They engaged in aerial versions of Russian roulette and paid the ultimate price,” Mr Royle, 57, said. The first, Edward Busk, was a Cambridge graduate from Sussex recruited in 1912 to improve the stability of aircraft. Regaining control of a plane that had been knocked off its flight path had been proving tricky. Experts had been grappling with the problem on the ground but it needed Busk, as both mathematician and pilot, to develop instruments that could measure the various rates at which the aircraft rolled

George Thomson, Frederick Lindemann, David Pinsent and Hugh Renwick, circled from left, with colleagues at Farnborough. Below, Pinsent, front, an observer who died in a crash in May 1918, with his colleague William Farren

lt to unravel the mysand use the results teries of stability. It was his breakthrough that led to the production of the first inherently stable aircraft in 1913. The following year a spark from the engine ignited a pool of fuel that had leaked into his cockpit. He died in the fireball, aged 28. Terrified of losing more men, the

a authorities tried to ban their t talent from the air. top Keith Lucas, however, was d determined to fly. The physio ologist became a captain in t Royal Flying Corps and the s showed a flair for improving in instrument design. Mr Royle s said: “The compass needles w were snagging as the aircraft w turning. It was causing was m major problems; in cloud, for e example. You could look at t needle, not realising it the h snagged, and come out had o the cloud upside down.” of Lucas developed a p pendulum that solved the probl H was killed on October 5, problem. He 1916, aged 37, in a collision with another aircraft over Salisbury Plain. David Pinsent, from Edgbaston, and Hugh Renwick, from Stirling, contributed not as pilots, but as observers who took measurements from the freezing open cockpits. Pinsent was a mathematician and close friend of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. He died

aged 26 in May 1918 while testing the structural integrity of a trial plane. His body was never found. Renwick, another Cambridge graduate, perished three months later when his aircraft suffered a similar structural failure at 2,000ft. Mr Royle said: “There’s a tendency now to think that planes just appeared and started flying. These guys studied how the hell they stayed up in the sky.” Tony Pilmer, librarian at the National Aerospace Library, said the men were part of a deep pool of talent at the Royal Aircraft Factory. He said: “The work of about one thousand experimental staff enabled the UK to make great strides in aerodynamics, stability, armaments, photography and radio, turning aero designers, scientists and experimenters into professional aeronautical engineers.” Mr Royle is researching the men’s achievements for a PhD. “I feel nothing but respect for their sacrifices,” he said, adding that the motto of the RAF applied to them perfectly: “Per ardua ad astra — through adversity to the stars.”

Anger at secrecy over sale of pig-virus sausages Kat Lay Health Correspondent

A decision by public health bosses not to name the supermarket whose ownbrand sausages have been linked to infections of a potentially lethal virus attracted anger yesterday. The meat from “Supermarket X” was found in a study to be a common factor in infections of hepatitis E. Public Health England (PHE) insisted that it would have taken action if there was any immediate threat. Hepatitis E, found in pigs mainly in the Netherlands and Germany, can cause liver cirrhosis and also neurologi-

cal symptoms such as numbness or pins and needles. Between 150,000 and 200,000 people in Britain are believed to be infected each year. While most recover without even showing symptoms, it can cause severe complications for those with compromised immune systems such as organ transplant patients. A study on 60 infected people in 2014 by scientists from PHE, the results of which were published only last month, found a common factor in infected patients was consumption of ownbrand sausages from “Supermarket X”. The Sunday Times reported sources as

saying the store in question was Tesco. “The implicated products are pork sausages, which require cooking prior to consumption, and ready-to-eat prepacked sliced ham,” the researchers said. “Only Supermarket X, especially own brand, was significantly associated with HEV G3-2 [the hepatitis strain].” Twitter users called for confirmation of the supermarket. John Ashton wrote that “the public has a right to know”. Craig Oldbold said it was “outrageous” that the supermarket had not been named. Doug Jackson wrote: “Surely PHE should name ‘supermarket X’?

Not to ‘name and shame’ but so consumers can make an informed choice.” Public Health England said: “The association with the supermarket does not infer any blame.” A Tesco spokeswoman said: “We work very closely with the Food Standards Agency and Public Health England to make sure customers can be confident in the safety and quality of the food they buy. This research was carried out six years ago on a small number of people and although it provided no direct link between specific products and hepatitis E, we always take care to review research findings.”

The BBC is working on a new version of iPlayer that would allow viewers to talk to their televisions. The prototype, which is being developed with Microsoft, uses voice-recognition technology in a similar way to Amazon’s Alexa and Apple’s Siri, their “digital assistants”. Cyrus Saihan, BBC head of digital partnerships, said that the prototype might eventually be capable of using artificial intelligence to present what it considered to be the best mix of programming for the viewer. “There could be interesting scenarios in a typical family setting,” he said. “Just by listening to the voices in the room, your TV could automatically detect when there are multiple people, and serve up a personalised mix of content relevant to all of you. When your children leave the room to go to bed, BBC iPlayer might hear that they are no longer there and then suggest a different selection of content.” Mr Saihan added that viewers could have conversations with their TV. He said: “Whether watching a football match or a quiz show, most of us have at some point shouted at our TV, perhaps half expecting it to hear us and respond — in future we might find it does!” The technology is likely to raise concerns that it would be capable of “spying” on conversations in the home. Fears have been expressed that Alexa and Siri are vulnerable to hackers. The prototype is still under development and no release date has been set.

Police look into care home claims Greg Hurst Social Affairs Editor

Police are investigating up to 12 deaths of residents at care homes run by a private company after allegations were raised about a lack of care. West Sussex council has suspended the placement of elderly people or adults with learning difficulties at eight of the 20 homes run by Sussex Health Care and offered residents the chance to move. On Friday police met families whose relatives’ experiences are the subject of its inquiry and told them that the investigation was at an early stage. Sussex police said that concerns had been raised about alleged lack of care and safeguarding for 43 residents, 12 of whom had died. It added that no criminal offences had been established. The local authority has identified two of the residential homes involved, the Laurels and Orchard Lodge, both in Horsham, about which it said it had “significant safeguarding concerns”. Until last month the local politician in charge of social care policy, Peter Catchpole, was a paid adviser to Sussex Health Care. He has since stepped down as deputy leader of West Sussex county council, which said that he had not been involved in decisions or briefings relating to the company. Sussex Health Care did not respond to a request to comment but has previously said that it had put measures in place to ensure residents’ safety and appointed an independent expert to review its procedures at all levels.

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Arthritis to cost £3.4bn a year in time off work Kat Lay Health Correspondent

Work absenteeism caused by arthritis will cost the economy £3.43 billion a year by 2030, according to researchers. The two most common forms of the condition, osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis, currently cost the UK economy £2.58 billion a year through 25 million lost working days. The study found that the NHS and wider healthcare system would spend £10.2 billion treating the conditions this year and a total of £118.6 billion in the next decade. The figures were published by Arthritis Research UK, which is launching a campaign to raise the profile of the condition. Arthritis is an umbrella term describing painful conditions affecting the bones, muscles and joints of the body. More than ten million people in the UK have arthritis, about one person in six. Researchers predict that the level will rise to one in five by 2050. Liam O’Toole, the charity’s chief executive, said: “There is a mismatch between the enormous impact arthritis has on individuals, their families and society and the attention, priority and resources society currently gives to it. As a result, people with arthritis do not get the help or support that they need. We are all losing out. “Whether it’s an employer who loses out on the skills of an employee, a child who misses out on playing with their parents or grandparents, the strain on the NHS’s resources, or someone with arthritis who is trying to get through every day in pain, the impact of arthritis is being felt across the whole of society. “One of the root causes of this is the condition’s invisibility. Change will only

come if we can win acknowledgment that there is a problem in which we all have a stake.” While the figures cannot be directly compared with those for other diseases, research suggests that an estimated £8.4 billion a year is lost through time off work caused by diabetes, with the cost of treatment £14 billion. The arthritis figures are based on analysis carried out by York Health Economics Consortium at the University of York. They calculated that 20.2 million days of work would be lost due to osteoarthritis this year and 4.95 million from rheumatoid arthritis. They said that the figures would be 20.8 million and 5.1 million in 2030, rising to 21.8 million and 5.3 million by 2050. Scientists said last week that osteoarthritis was a preventable disease, rather than an inevitable consequence of wear and ageing. A study of skeletons found that rates had surged in the past 70 years, suggesting that lifestyle changes might be playing a role. The charity also released a survey that found more than three quarters of people with arthritis said that it compromised their family and social lives. More than a quarter said that it affected physical intimacy with their partners. The disease was hidden because people did not necessarily look seriously affected, despite it being the leading cause of pain and disability in the UK, the charity added. Anne Kearl, 55, who has osteoarthritis, said: “When friends and colleagues can’t physically see anything wrong with you, they assume you’re OK and often I let people think that rather than be honest about my arthritis.”

Athletes’ gut bacteria could help you get the fitness bug Kat Lay

What is the secret of Usain Bolt’s success? Some would point to his genes, and he would no doubt say that hard work paid off — but according to scientists, the bacteria in his stomach may also have enhanced his performance. Researchers have examined species commonly found in the guts of exceptional athletes and say that even amateurs could gain an edge by consuming them in probiotic supplements. “When we started thinking about this I was asked whether we could predict the next Michael Jordan,” Jonathan Scheiman, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard medical school, said. “A better question is: Can you extract Jordan’s biology and give it to others to help make the next Michael Jordan?” The community of bacteria in the gut, the microbiome, is a flourishing area of research. Variations have been linked to diabetes, allergies, obesity, depression and multiple sclerosis. “We are more bacteria than we are human,” Dr The basketball star Michael Jordan may have winning gut bugs

Scheiman said. “Bugs in our gut affect our energy metabolism, making it easier to break down carbohydrates, protein and fibre. They are also involved in inflammation and neurological function. So perhaps the microbiome could be relevant for endurance, recovery and maybe even mental toughness.” Researchers collected faecal samples from 20 athletes training for the 2015 Boston marathon every day for the fortnight before to the race. They found a rise in the population of one bacterium, which breaks down lactic acid, after the marathon and are experimenting with feeding it to mice to measure its effects on lactic acid levels and fatigue. In separate experiments, they also identified bacteria in ultramarathon runners that help to break down carbohydrates and fibre. They presented their work to the American Chemical Society yesterday and plan to start a company marketing probiotic supplements. “We’re mining the biology of the most fit and healthy people in the world and extracting that information to help others,” Dr Scheiman said.

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Taste of luxury A rare Six Pillars range of Macallan whisky, aged for between 50 and 65 years at its Speyside distillery and stored in decanters made by the French crystal house Lalique, was sold for £377,000 at a Bonhams auction in Hong Kong

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Historians stumped as museum suffers online glitch The British Museum has apologised after its online catalogue was unavailable for ten days. Anyone searching for information about its collection received an error message during the glitch, which is thought to have been caused by introduction of changes to the database. It meant that details about the vast range of artefacts from ancient writing tablets to Picasso prints were inaccessible. The museum posted a message saying: “The museum’s collection online service is currently unavailable. We are very sorry for the inconvenience and recognise the importance of this for donors, academics and students. This is being investigated as a matter of urgency.” The service appeared to have been

4,000 diseased trees to be felled around Welsh castle

restored yesterday although the museum admitted a further error message was published in error. A spokeswoman for the museum near Russell Square in London said that the problem began on August 8. The website is managed by an external provider. She said that the online collection was used by thousands annually to research 3.5 million records, a million of which have images. Scholars reported that the system has had problems in the past but only intermittently. A former employee said: “It is a major annoyance for researchers. The British Museum is a pioneer for digitising collections. Most museums have highlights of their collection, not the whole lot.”

The Welsh environmental authorities have ordered 4,000 trees infected with larch disease in the forest around a castle near Cardiff to be felled. There are currently no plans for a replanting programme, meaning that the aspect of Castell Coch — with its fairytale turrets rising above Fforest Fawr in Tongwynlais, left — could be altered dramatically. Part of a sculpture trail in the forest will also be removed. Anna McMorrin, the Cardiff North MP, is leading a petition demanding that the trees be replaced and has so far collected 400 signatures. Natural Resources Wales said that the work would encourage native species such as beech and oak to regenerate.

Snapchat video driver is jailed for 100mph crash

Seaside towns shut up shop amid crime spree

A driver who caused a fatal crash when he tried to reach 100mph for a film on the video messaging app Snapchat was jailed for four years. Ricafort Gamboa, 25, a Philippine citizen, was racing along country roads while three friends in the car filmed him on their phones. The car crashed into a cottage off the A487 near Aberystwyth. Ernest Pideli, 18, one of the passengers died four days later in hospital. Gamboa, of Bolton, a pizzeria manager, admitted causing death and serious injury by dangerous driving at Swansea crown court. He also received a five-year driving ban.

Two of north Norfolk’s most popular seaside towns went into “lockdown” at the weekend after complaints of disorder and lawlessness. Pubs and other businesses in Cromer and Sheringham closed on Saturday evening and Norfolk police said that there had been instances of theft, shoplifting, “low-level disorder” and groups refusing to leave bars, but suggested that the scale of trouble was only slightly higher than normal for the peak holiday season. On social media residents linked the disorder to a group of travellers in 23 caravans who had made camp in a car park.

Derailed train could mean more chaos at Paddington Commuters who use Paddington rail station in west London could experience delays this morning after a train derailed as it was leaving the station yesterday. The rear carriage of Great Western Railway’s 11.57 service to Penzance partially came off the track. The train was travelling at low speed and no injuries were reported. Platforms 1 and 2 were shut while Network Rail investigated the fault. A spokesman from Great Western Railways said that it hoped to have services running “as near normal” as possible but that the damage could not be assessed until the train had been removed from the track.

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It’s lift-off for DIY levitation thanks to £60 breakthrough Oliver Moody Science Correspondent

Long before Sir Andre Geim won the Nobel prize in physics for his work on graphene he gave us the hovering frog. Suspended in mid-air by a magnetic field, the amphibian became one of the most famous and disconcerting experiments of the past two decades. It won Sir Andre the Ig Nobel prize, which celebrates unusual research, making him the only scientist with both accolades. Scientists at Bristol University have now published a simple set of instructions that anyone can use to build a levitation machine of their own for less than £60. The device, which is strung together from parking sensors and a handful of circuit boards, uses soundwaves to raise anything from glass beads to beetles. Although it involves a slightly less powerful and sophisticated technology than Sir Andre’s frog magnet, its inventors hope that it will become a mainstay of school

How it works 1 Ultrasonic

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science demonstrations. It can also be used to germinate seeds or even to foster human embryos in nearly weightless conditions such as those found in space. Doctors could also float drops of their patients’ blood with the kit, doing away with the hassle of preparing slides for examination. “We tried to minimise the difficulty of assembling the levitator,

operating it and sourcing the components,” Asier Marzo, the mechanical engineer in charge of the project, said. “All the components are available on the internet. We think the price is affordable not only for most research labs but also for schools and science clubs.” The parts for the device, which is described in the Review of Scientific Instruments, include a box of tiny transducers, a microcontroller called an Arduino Nano, and a 3Dprinted frame, which can be commissioned online. The acoustic device is not quite up to levitating frogs, but it is highly resilient to air currents and changes in temperature. Dr Marzo and his colleagues found that they could keep drops of liquid hovering for at least two hours. Its wavelength is only 8.6mm (0.27 inches), meaning the largest objects it can handle are about 4mm in diameter. “The maximum supported density is 2.2g per cubic centimetre, allowing researchers to levitate water, insects or glass,”

Dr Marzo said. “Magnetic levitation can generate stronger forces and does not have constraints in size. “However, the levitated materials need to be magnetic, ferromagnetic or diamagnetic. In acoustic levitation, liquids and small living things can easily be levitated.” One classroom experiment that would be suited to the machine is teaching pupils how viscosity, the stickiness of liquids, works. If you levitate drops of honey, water and a smelly alcoholic compound called isopropyl, you will see that while the honey keeps its shape the less viscous water will become squashed and the isopropyl will be squeezed into a disk-like form. The gadget could also be shrouded in dry ice to make its waves visible. Dr Marzo said it would also be a boon for professional scientists as a cheap and simple way of replicating the weightlessness experienced in orbit. “These experiments will study the viability of cultivating plants or human reproduction in microgravity,” he said.

National Trust to vote on trail-hunting ban Andrew Ellson Consumer Affairs Correspondent

Hunts could be banned from National Trust land in an unprecedented vote that has angered rural members, who accuse the charity of pandering to urban visitors. Fifty members of the trust, including Sir Ranulph Fiennes, the explorer, have endorsed a motion to stop trail hunting after video footage emerged of hunts killing stags on its estates. Trail hunting is where hounds and riders follow a scent that was

laid earlier. Campaigners argue that the practice is used as a way of getting round the hunting ban. The motion will be debated at the charity’s annual meeting in October and would revoke all licences to hunt on trust land. Last year it issued 79 such licences. Sir Ranulph told The Observer: “Hunting is despicable, cruel and has no justification in modern Britain. If the National Trust wants to truly preserve and protect our environment, it needs to stop condoning hunting, in any guise.” The Countryside Alliance de-

nied that trail hunting was being used to circumvent the law on trust land or anywhere else. “Many National Trust members regularly follow hounds and it is disappointing that they are effectively being accused of breaking the law while trail hunting,” Polly Portwin, of the Countryside Alliance, said. “To ban legal hunting activities on the grounds of protecting flora and fauna would suggest that dog walking and exercising horses across National Trust land should also be banned.” The row follows a controversy in

which the trust backed down from a ruling that banned volunteers from meeting the public if they refused to wear rainbow badges celebrating gay history. Dame Helen Ghosh, the outgoing head of the trust, told the BBC yesterday: “I think it is sometimes the case that we appeal too much to one audience and not enough to another. Sometimes some of our more traditional visitors have felt they are not being catered for in a way that they once felt they were and I think that is where we need to, and have been, improving.”

House prices in parts of central England are rising by more than double the national average and by far more than the sluggish London market, according to new figures. Northamptonshire, Derbyshire and Norfolk were identified by the property website Rightmove as the “hottest markets”, with asking prices in these counties experiencing annual increases of 9.1 per cent, 7.9 per cent and 7.4 per cent respectively. This compares with a 3.1 per cent annual increase in England and Wales as a whole. Growth is also strong in Leicestershire, Worcestershire, Nottinghamshire and the West Midlands. In London prices were up by 1.6 per cent annually, about half the average. In August the average price in England and Wales fell by 0.9 per cent month-on-month but that is in line with summer trends. Despite that dip, high demand and limited supply were still “driving momentum”, especially in central England, Miles Shipside of Rightmove said.

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Best hope for free trade is to have principles Britain should argue against the rules-based system of the EU and China and champion the ways of the Anglosphere Matt Ridley

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hy does the European Union raise a tariff on coffee? It has no coffee industry to protect so the sole effect is to make coffee more expensive for all Europeans. Even where there is an industry to protect, protectionism hurts far more people than it helps. Last October the EU surreptitiously quintupled the tariff on imported oranges to 16 per cent to protect Spanish citrus producers against competition from South Africa and punish the rest of us. It imposes a tax of 4.7 per cent on imported umbrellas, 15 per cent on unicycles and 16.9 per cent on sports footwear. I find that many Twitter trolls do not even realise that the European “single market” is actually a fortress protected by high external tariff walls. Yet external tariffs are pure self-harm; they are blockades against your own ports, as the economist Ryan Bourne has pointed out. We impose sanctions on pariah regimes, restricting their imports, not to help their economies but to hurt them. The entire point of producing things is to consume things (the pattern of pay shows that we work to live rather than vice versa), so punishing consumers is perverse. As Adam Smith put it, describing the European Union in advance, “in the mercantile system the interest of the consumer is almost constantly sacrificed to that of the producer”.

Therefore, after Brexit, Britain should try unilateral free trade no matter what everybody else does — and even if the United States turns more protectionist. So argues a group of 16 distinguished economists, Economists for Free Trade, the first part of whose manifesto From Project Fear to Project Prosperity is published today. They calculate that unilateral free trade would benefit the British economy to the tune of £135 billion a year. One of them, Kevin Dowd of Durham University, has also written a powerful new pamphlet for the Institute of Economic Affairs entitled A trade policy for a Brexited Britain. He argues that unlike in every other kind of negotiation, unilateral disarmament works with trade. Dismantling barriers to imports — removing sanctions against your own people — reduces the costs of the goods for consumers, reduces the costs of inputs for most producers, lowers inflation, creates employment and boosts growth.

We then need to think through how to dare the world to follow us So the best negotiating strategy is liberalise first, talk second: dare others to follow suit. As Sir Robert Peel told the House of Commons in the Corn Laws debate in 1846, the government would cease “haggling with foreign countries about reciprocal concessions, instead of taking the independent course, which we believe to be conducive to our own interests”. Like socialism, pure free trade has probably never been tried, but unlike socialism, the closer countries get to free trade the more they thrive. Consider three examples of

unilateral economic disarmament: Britain after 1846-1860, Hong Kong and Singapore today. In all three cases, economic growth was far faster than the global average. Even China unilaterally reduced its tariffs significantly (albeit not to zero) some years ago — to great effect. Free trade is the very opposite of elitism. Its benefits accrue disproportionately to the poor; its costs to the crony-capitalist rich. However, if this is to be another Corn Laws moment — a major economy taking the plunge for unilateral free trade — then we need to think through how best to dare the world to follow us. For we will run into the problem of how to deal with other blocs’ non-tariff barriers. The big issue today is not tariffs but standards, or regulatory rules behind the border. How do you ensure that an import is not toxic or unsafe or made with slave labour? And how do you stop such concerns becoming an excuse for barriers against imports? Tariffs are now mostly low, except in agriculture, but non-tariff barriers, especially in services, are high. As an economy dominated by services, Britain has a strong interest in trying to lead the world into services liberalisation. Here is where the big battle is to be fought in future between two competing approaches, says Shanker Singham of the influential Legatum Institute Special Trade Commission. One, espoused mainly in the EU, is the prescriptive, rules-based system that specifies exactly how a product or service must be produced if it is to be allowed in. In the tradition of Roman civil law, this approach essentially prescribes the method as well as the outcome. China, too, increasingly works in this way, though its regulatory regime —

single market. But outside, mutual recognition of outcomes is gaining ground: for example, between Australia and New Zealand, there is an agreement that “your agency judged this medicine or foodstuff safe, and that’s good enough for us”. Even the EU has accepted this approach of mutual recognition with other countries, although sparingly. This has to be the way to go. To paraphrase Deng Xiaoping, it does not matter what colour the cat is, so long as it catches mice. The World Trade Organisation

It doesn’t matter what colour the cat is, so long as it catches mice The EU has no coffee industry but its tariff means we consumers pay more

“global standards with a Chinese character” — is something of a regulatory black box. Such policy is essentially agnostic about consumer welfare: it is driven by producer interests and revenue maximisation for government. Our challenge is to shift the world trading system towards a better, common-law approach, which is principles-based, outcome-focused, consumer-friendly. Because of our history and the nature of our economy, Britain can be an effective champion of this challenge. The issue boils down to defining the word “equivalent” as something other than “identical”. For the EU, the dominant approach has been harmonisation rather than mutual recognition: things must be done the same way everywhere within the

does provide a mechanism for this kind of equivalent mutual recognition. In the “technical barriers to trade” (TBT) and “sanitary and phytosanitary measures” (SPS) agreements, countries should mutually recognise their systems if the overall objective (safety etc) is the same, but the technical way of getting there differs. So the EU could arguably be breaching WTO rules if it argues that equivalence requires identical regulation. Free trade works. I live in Northumberland, and it no more makes sense to deny Northumbrians access to products and services from abroad than to deny them cars from Sunderland, whisky from Scotland or lamb from Cumbria. As Adam Smith said, you should never “attempt to make at home what it will cost [you] more to make than to buy . . . What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.”

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The alt-left is an invention of rightwingers Saying that protesters are as bad as white supremacists is sanitising a deadly racist ideology Rachel Shabi

ou can see how it might happen. One day you’re railing against the mean words directed at you by people to the left of you, the next day you find you’ve facilitated Nazi-enabling false equivalences from the US president. This, after all, is the potted trajectory of the term “alt-left” — a label invented by the “alt-right” (itself a sanitising term) and then taken up by so-called moderates on both sides of the Atlantic. Fast forward to last week, when President Trump suggested that those protesting against the gun-carrying Nazisaluters and white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia, were the alt-left and just as bad — a situation for which we must at least in part credit those who helped bring this bogus term into the mainstream in the first place. Alt-left, at first deployed by US right-wing commentators, was used by some US Democrats to decry leftwing Bernie Sanders supporters and crossed over into pronouncements against backers of Jeremy Corbyn. It is worth noting here that the USbased Anti-Defamation League has categorically dismissed the term, recently telling The New York Times: “It did not arise organically, and refers to no actual group or movement or network. It is just a

made-up epithet, similar to certain people calling any news they don’t like ‘fake news’.” But this did not stop British commentators and columnists who embraced the term. Alongside usage of this made-up epithet there have been suggestions that Corbyn is in many ways worse than Marine Le Pen, or that it is hard to tell the difference between Corbyn and Trump, or that communists and anarchists fighting the Nazis are as bad as the Nazis. After the deadly rally in Charlottesville and Trump’s false equivalence between actual Nazis and those who fight Nazis, media analysis is now focused on this nongroup the alt-left — wondering if it is a thing, what manner of thing it is and whether we should take it seriously. This feeds a similarly redundant discussion: shouldn’t we

Dislike of the socialism represented by Corbyn has clouded judgment ask why neo-Nazis feel shut down by left-wing “identity politics”? If white supremacists brandishing guns and antisemitic slogans say their right to free speech is being threatened by the alt-left, well don’t they deserve a hearing? All of which serves to reinforce how resoundingly pranked some of our commentators have been by the racist far right. Because such confusion over politics is precisely the intended goal. We are supposed to be muddled by terminology, paralysed by the non-

existent possibility that perhaps the violently racist far right isn’t singularly condemnable. This blurring, this hesitation, is all it takes to sanitise their deadly ideology. And so the drive to attack the populist left has had the entirely predictable, and forewarned, consequence of helping to rehabilitate the far right. It is not clear why, to some, Sanders and Corbyn seem as bad as Trump. If you were feeling charitable, you might say that it is simply a mistaken elision of the symptoms and cures proposed by two distinct — and oppositional — political camps. For it is true that the far right and the populist left both point to economic hardships suffered by the many and imposed upon society by an increasingly remote and unaccountable political elite. But from there, the analysis diverges completely. For the far right, economic suffering is somehow the fault of migrants, race and gender equality and multiculturalism. For the left, the buck stops with neoliberalism and its unfettered free market. For the far right, the solution is to attack migrants and diversity and promote ethno-nationalism while sticking to the same ravaging neoliberal economics. For the populist left, the solution is wealth redistribution and support for the welfare state, which benefit everyone, while championing diversity, equal rights and immigration. These political differences are so basic, so diametrically opposed, that they cannot be beyond the grasp of political pundits now conflating the two. Perhaps a more likely

explanation is that dislike of the populist left or socialism represented by Corbyn and Sanders has clouded judgment. This dislike, a seemingly knee-jerk associative reaction for some at the mere sight of Corbyn, also accounts for the widespread failure among commentators to read political changes in the UK, and the reluctance to engage with the possibility that the left platform suggested by Corbyn’s Labour party might prove popular — as it turns out in the recent snap election, among 40 per cent of voters. But whatever the causes of this erroneous alt-right/left conflation the result isn’t just a cheapening of debate, a muddling of the political spectrum and a disservice to a public with an appetite for left-wing politics. An additional danger manifests itself in the prioritising of battles to be fought: why would you pick this precise moment, when armed Nazis are menacing US synagogues, to launch into a tirade about the left (the people actually confronting the Nazis) being just as bad? Whose interests is it serving when emboldened white nationalists are rallying in force and you think this is a good time to parade your false equivalence theory over an invented alt-left? The urgency of facing off an empowered far right necessitates a better calibre of analysis. If you want to criticise or critique the left, go ahead; but please try to find a rational argument, one that does not end up diluting the vital struggle to keep swastikas off the streets.

t was fascinating to talk to my father yesterday about the Indian partition. He was born in Hyderabad, his father a police commissioner, and had an incredibly happy childhood. The family, of the Shia branch of Islam, were relatively wealthy, with a large house, and he had close friends at school. “Abbas was a superb cricketer,” Dad said, “I’ll never forget him.” Then, one day, his father told him and his four sisters that they would be moving to a new country. They had to leave the property — Indian law forbade them from selling it — to find a new life. “We took a boat from Bombay to Karachi,” Dad said. “I was only nine, but I remember being excited to be sailing. I didn’t realise that our standard of living was about to plummet.” Neither Dad nor his family experienced the bloodshed that marked that convulsive period. His

grandfather was forcibly moved by armed soldiers from his home in the east Punjab, but nobody was injured or killed. Dad would later move to the UK to study law, and convert to Christianity, another watershed in a remarkable life. Reflecting upon partition today, he confessed that he continued to feel deep regret over how it was handled. “There were huge mistakes, particularly over Kashmir,” he said. “We are still living with the consequences today, with nuclear weapons held by both countries. That is one thing I have learnt as I have got older. History casts a long shadow over the present.”

am not sure there is a finer combination. But there is one aspect of the British fish and chips tradition that I just don’t get: eating while walking. You see it all the time in Richmond, people munching out of the paper as they stroll around the green or along by the river. They seem to prefer this to sitting at the restaurant or on the many benches dotted around. I am genuinely mystified. Doesn’t it play havoc with one’s digestion?

a terribly long time. But Magee points out that every generation has had people who lived to a hundred years or more. This means that the whole of civilisation has occurred within the successive lifetimes of just 60 nameable people. “That is the number of friends I squeeze into my living room when I have a drinks party,” Magee notes. Put like that, human history suddenly seems far more intimate.

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e have two excellent fish and chip shops within a couple of hundred yards of where we live. One has those lovely old-fashioned booths, with wood panelling. About once a fortnight, I treat myself to the dish my grandparents always chose: fish, chips and mushy peas, with a slice of bread and a cup of tea. I

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recently read Ultimate Questions by Bryan Magee, the philosopher and broadcaster who became famous in the 1970s for his wonderful radio and TV programmes where he interviewed leading th thinkers of the day. It was published as he approached his 86th birthday, and showcases his depth and clarity on such topics as meaning, morality and aesthetics. It starts, however, with a rather evocative point about history. Human civilisation has existed for about six thousand years, which seems

ne thing that always strikes me when chatting to my dad’s side of the family is the huge respect afforded to older people in Pakistani culture. Having an elderly parent move into one’s home for extra care is considered not a burden but a privilege, and older people are regularly sought out for advice and guidance. It seems to me that we in the UK are somewhat less respectful of those who have lived long lives, and tend to undervalue the contribution they can make. This is a shame because it undermines the strength of families, and deprives us of a deep pool of wisdom. It is always worth remembering that we will all be old and frail soon enough.

t seems gambling is everywhere in Britain today. In 2016, according to the data company Nielsen, £312 million was spent on advertising gambling, and even this understates what was spent promoting it online. In the next 12 months, it is likely that more than half of the revenue generated by gambling businesses operating in Britain will be online. Social and video gaming offer an easy transition into gambling and increasingly the difference between the two is not clear. In the past few years, concern has been expressed about gaming machines in bookmakers, and reasonably so. However, all gambling products carry risks and we must demand that all those profiting from commercial gambling do everything possible to protect players, especially young people, from being harmed. As a society, we should be concerned about the rising risk of harm from wider access and more regular participation in gambling on future generations, resulting in a possible public health crisis in gambling addiction. Lottery products are legally available to 16 and 17 year olds, with 40 per cent in the form of instant games. According to research, 11 per cent of lottery product retailers failed to prevent children who could be under 16 purchasing gambling products. We need to balance the array of advertising with information about the risks, and where to get help if it becomes a problem. With the average age at which children start to watch post-watershed TV unsupervised being 11¾, restrictions based on a 9pm watershed may offer little protection. Broadcasters are already working with GambleAware to address public concerns. But Google and Facebook, newspapers, professional sports clubs and sporting venues should join the effort. Above all, we need better leadership from the gambling industry. There are initiatives under way, but there is more to be done. GambleAware already requires £10 million annually to meet the short-term needs of the National Responsible Gambling Strategy, and we expect this will need to increase. Under voluntary arrangements, the industry donated £8 million last year, 20 per cent shy of what is needed. We have bold ambitions to increase early intervention and treatment but such ambitions come with a sizeable price tag. For many, gambling is an enjoyable leisure activity, and the industry creates jobs and pays taxes to fund public services. But for three quarters of a million people there is a real risk of harm. We all have a responsibility to take action to prevent any future crisis in addiction.

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Science and arts shouldn’t be seen as rivals Fears that we will become a nation of techno-nerds at the expense of humanities show that we are still stuck in 1959 Libby Purves

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ard not to snort with momentary laughter, reading of the dismay of senior cultural figures and head teachers at a sudden upward surge in STEM subjects taken at A level. Science, technology, engineering and maths are up at the expense of the humanities, notably literature and history. My brief levity is simply because for years we have been told that we are short of scientists, medics and technologists and must plunder the world for them; that we are falling behind, with maths teachers an endangered species. It is ironic, to say the least, that a middling-noticeable realignment of this imbalance should cause pained howls and predictions of a “nation of techno-nerds”. Especially when the A-level figures show nearly the same number of historians as chemists, sociology neck and neck with physics, and psychology beating it by five to three. Maths A level has indeed made a

superb surge, surpassing everything else, but frankly it is hard to regret it in this Brexitacious era when some of us embarrassingly need to check every time how much a billion is. And when thousands get suckered into ludicrously reckless car deals, and students are clobbered by 6 per cent interest in the hope that they don’t notice. Frankly, a bit of extra mathematical nous in the population is welcome. And the more chance of creating engineers. But when Sir David Cannadine of the British Academy expresses concern at the change, it does open up a wider, longer question: the one identified by CP Snow in his 1959 lecture “The Two Cultures”. He

It is hard to regret a more numerate people in this Brexitacious era observed that highly cultured people lightly scorned the “illiteracy of scientists”, while themselves being unable to define mass or acceleration: “which is the equivalent of saying ‘can you read?’ ”. He lamented that “the great edifice of modern physics goes up, and the majority of the cleverest people in the western world have about as much insight into it as their neolithic

ancestors”. Now, after the A-level story, Cannadine reverses the attack from the humanities side by complaining that no problem in our world can be solved through a scientific lens alone, because history and literature produce skills of persuasion, negotiation and the unravelling of complexities. So we’re back where Snow was nearly 60 years ago, as he condemned British education for having — unlike Germany and America — traditionally overrewarded the humanities at the expense of science and engineering, thus depriving its elites of preparation for a modern world. The truth of this is inarguable. Look at the disastrous history of government IT projects (not least in the NHS) and the bungled handling of data: commissioners dazzled by digital mysteries have been putty in the hands of computer salesmen. As many disastrous policies have been founded on managerial innumeracy or misunderstanding as those that collapsed for lack of historical understanding. Among individuals, mad extrapolations from scientific papers lead us to pig-ignorant decisions on everything from diesel to diets, face cream to forecasting. Look at the absurdities of medicalfalse-hope journalism, at the success of online scams, at the trustfulness

that lets monster companies suck up our personal data. It is possible for an impressive figure, cultured and quotable and sporting multiple degrees (often law or PPE) to be in fact ignorant about the physical universe. It is also possible for a scientist to say, as Wolpert once did, that “art has contributed zero to science”. The two cultures are still uncomfortable together, and insults like “techno-

A properly educated person needs both Electra and electrons nerd” are no better than Wolpert’s sneer. Attempts are made to marry the cultures, sometimes rather well in theatre (though the culturati stroll out almost bragging that the science was beyond them). Occasionally conceptual artists fool about, pleased with the whirly appearance of DNA. But at a visceral level there is alienation. In this week when GCSE results roll ominously towards nervous kids, it is a shame that so many will be coaxed, or tempted, to stick with one side and study more towards grades than towards understanding. Early specialisation leads to a lack of what Melvyn Bragg once described to me

as basic “grids”. He explained that his brain has a good literary and historical grid, so whenever he learns a new thing in such areas it has somewhere to fit in. So it sticks. A new scientific fact, though, may not stick because there’s no slot. I can identify with that problem. A properly educated person need not know everything, but needs both grids: fission and feelings, Electra and electrons, emperors and enzymes. A sixth form should be a time when alongside exam subjects you are helped to read elsewhere. Mathematicians and physicists should be taught the history of their discipline’s development and which religious and cultural influences fed into “natural philosophy”. They should read novels, including sci-fi, that predicted discoveries. Historians should properly understand what new thing Newton, Brunel, Curie and Babbage uncovered. Literature students should be taught how medicine, engineering and industrialisation weighed upon the dilemmas and emotions of characters. The best teachers do this. It does, of course, lead them astray from the grind of teaching-to-thetest and demonstrating which buzzphrases will please bored, tired, often non-specialist examiners. But that is for another day. . .

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The terrorist threat and ways to thwart it

Late apology Sir, Sir Michael Fallon has finally apologised to some of the families of our soldiers killed in Snatch Land Rovers while serving in Iraq (News, Aug 18). The question must be asked why the defence secretary, who has been in the post since July 2014, has not done so a lot sooner. Also, why didn’t one of his predecessors — Philip Hammond, Dr Liam Fox, Bob Ainsworth, John Hutton or Des Browne — do it? After all, they were also aware of this unsatisfactory and questionable situation. Instead, they have all been content to let the families go through a lengthy, and no doubt stressful, legal battle. Even then, in spite of the Supreme Court ruling in 2013, the MoD continued to contest the case. It took the Chilcot report in 2016 to lead to the recent apology. This long overdue apology is yet another example of the disgraceful way in which the MoD treats our service personnel, families and veterans. In doing so it fails to uphold the principles of the Armed Forces Covenant. Successive defence secretaries should be ashamed of themselves. mark iles Former Warrant Officer Class 2 Newark, Notts

Importance of rail Sir, In the many accounts of Operation Dynamo at Dunkirk, there has been no mention of the tremendous contribution by the railways in distributing the rescued troops around the country away from the Channel ports. Rolling stock, engines and crews had to be found and got to where they were needed. Crews who weren’t familiar with Southern Railway and lines had to be provided with “pilots” so they would know which signals applied to them and other essential information. Supplies of coal and water had to be found for the engines, as well as food for the crews and troops. Once the trains were loaded up, space had to be created on already busy lines to enable them to run to wherever it had been decided the troops should be taken. The contribution of the “small ships”— among them several which were owned by the railways — and the Royal Navy and Air Force was vital to the success of the operation, but without the railways there would have been an almighty build-up of men and equipment in that corner of England. christopher sayers Newcastle

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Sir, Spain is not alone in grief and mourning. This is yet another vile and abhorrent crime against humanity that contradicts the universal values of peace, tolerance, openness, moderation, diversity, inclusiveness, social justice, solidarity and egalitarianism that we all share. Spain will remain a model of coexistence reminiscent of the Moorish era when Andalucia personified harmony between the faithful of different confessions. It is not enough to utter words of renunciation after every terrorist attack. Islamic State is not in retreat. Its following is swelling, not dwindling. We are failing again and again in addressing this scourge. As we expect more attacks in Europe; we must be vigilant and change our approach in the age of lone-wolf terrorism. dr munjed farid al qutob London NW2 Sir, Tommy Shields doesn’t seem to have any knowledge of the area of Las Ramblas (letter, Aug 19). Las Ramblas is a very wide — about 30m (98ft) — pedestrian walkway with bars, restaurants, newspaper stands and florists along the sides, as well as being a favourite spot for performing

Technical training Sir, Philip Collins (“Let’s keep A levels but scrap outdated GCSEs”, Aug 18), makes a good point regarding our examination system. For many young people who did not take A levels, the publication of the results was of no importance. The alternatives on offer to many — tick-box apprenticeships and lowpaid, insecure, unskilled employment — fail in too many cases to provide good transferable skills or to enable those concerned to achieve their potential. Many companies do offer good apprenticeships with day-release to college, but largely at their own initiative. Meanwhile, others are being paid to provide little more than a childminding service or cheap labour for those who would otherwise inflate unemployment levels. Until we provide good-quality vocational training which equips young people with transferable and up-to-date skills, we will not only continue to let millions of young

on this day august 21, 1917

A TANK VICTORY The ground taken yesterday, which was north and north-east of St Julien, included a number of strong points, among them being the Mont du Hibou and Triangle Farm, both particularly formidable obstacles to our advance. At both places the foundations and cellars of old farms had been converted by the lavish use of ferro-concrete into really strong fortresses. The concrete is sometimes 8ft and upwards thick,

street artists. It leads from the large square of the Plaça Catalunya about two kilometres down to the harbour and Columbus Monument. Either side of the pedestrian walkway are narrow vehicle routes for cars, buses, taxis and trade vehicles serving the shops — one route going towards the harbour and the other towards Plaça Catalunya. The vehicle that caused the massacre illegally accessed the pedestrian walkway from the main road that surrounds the main square by mounting the pavement and driving at speed down it. brian hughes Newton, Swansea Sir, Matthew Parris is right (“It’s wrong to say we can’t stop this terror tactic”, Aug 19) and target hardening has long been utilised in the UK. Those bollards in shopping centres, high streets and large public open spaces are not just for decoration, and can stop 7.5 tonnes of lorry at full pelt. However, only by engagement at community level by the police and others will real protection be afforded to the citizens of the UK. The government must act to halt the decline in neighbourhood policing and reinvest to the level where it has people down, we will also continue to fail to realise our economic potential. george howarth, mp House of Commons Sir, Lord Sainsbury’s review of post-16 technical education is a step in the right direction for providing a simple system of technical routes with clear employment goals for those more suited to this approach. However, for those choosing an academic pathway, a key issue is the narrow A-level subject choice available, closing off future career opportunities. A lack of adequate careers guidance in schools exacerbates this, with young people making uninformed decisions. Engineering in particular suffers from a STEM/non-STEM divide at this age. We need a broader suite of qualifications that enable young people to keep their options open for longer — a blend of STEM, arts and humanities to age 18 would benefit all young people regardless of their future studies. dr rhys morgan Royal Academy of Engineering and in the best form is strengthened with layers of iron rods of hairpin shape embedded in the material. When a supply of rods of the proper shape was not available the Germans made use of all sorts of strange makeshifts, like the frames of iron bedsteads, stoves, fenders and similar articles of furniture gathered among the local ruins, all welded in the solid mass of one huge thickness of concrete. Though the results are formidable defensive works, they are also traps for their garrisons when our men come along. Yesterday’s operation was a trial of strength between our movable landships and the stationary concrete forts, and the latter were hopelessly outmatched. Before the Germans knew anything was happening each fort had one or two Tanks sitting on its doorstep. In several cases the mere sight of the monsters looking in at the windows was enough, and the garrisons surrendered out of hand. Some tried to get out by the back doors and run for it, and our machine-gunners had their chance. The presence of

been truly effective — before the world becomes full of bollards. steve white Chairman, Police Federation of England and Wales Sir, I was saddened to see the ugly metal security barriers at Edinburgh Castle illustrating Matthew Parris’ article. Here, the central market is protected by a ring of concrete blocks, but these are concealed inside wooden crates with living plants and flowers on top. This is a much more elegant solution to the problem, being a welcome addition to the streetscape. david shamash Vice-chairman, Covent Garden Area Trust Sir, It cannot be impossible to devise a system whereby anyone renting a truck to a third party is required to get copies of documents presented and to take a photo of the renter alongside the vehicle, including a shot of the numberplate. These should be forwarded to the police for them to carry out a check. The documents could be false, but it would shift the balance a bit in the law’s favour. jeremy westwood Lewes, E Sussex

The rise of AI Sir, I disagree with my esteemed colleague Charles Ross (letter, Aug 18). To be done well, the jobs he lists require peculiarly human subjective skills yet to be demonstrated by artificial intelligence: empathy, sympathy, context (eg noticing subtle verbal/non-verbal cues), not to mention anger management, etc. It is the boring repetitive or mechanical tasks such as manufacturing and warehousing, or where skills can be accurately reproduced in controlled conditions, eg some medical procedures or diagnostics, some transport, even ploughing or my own field of software development that are already being augmented or even supplanted by “intelligent” machines. michael winiberg Secretary, Real Time Club Letters to The Times must be exclusive and may be edited. Please include a full address and daytime telephone number.

another Tank behind was always enough to prompt surrender. One Tank got into trouble 200 yards before reaching its objective, so it made itself into a stationary fort and opened fire with all its guns when the Germans came pouring out. Our infantry coming close behind dealt with them, and then the crew of the Tank got out and, taking their machine-guns with them, went on to new conquests, just as Marines from a real ship might do, or dismounted cavalry. So great was the terror spread among the enemy by this novel invasion that our men saw the Germans running far off in the distance from positions which it was not part of our programme to attack. In several of the forts the Tank crews found the Germans just about to begin breakfast, and our men sat down and ate the meals gratefully. sign up for a weekly email with extracts from the times history of the war ww1.thetimes.co.uk

Electric dreams Sir, I can only assume that Ed Conway (“My electric car perks are shockingly generous”, Aug 18) does not have to rely on roadside electric charge meters to recharge his car. Within Westminster there are now at least four separate providers, all of which require you to sign up and receive a card or use an app. None of the cards or apps is interchangeable so it is blind luck whether you find a vacant meter which will accept your card or app. When you do, the payment is per minute and the mileage gained for my hybrid electric car costs about one third more than the equivalent cost in petrol. It seems private enterprise is determined to make as much money as possible and no thought is given to the green advantages of electric motoring. peter gribble London W9 Sir, Regarding Stephen Smith’s comment about self-driving cars (letter, Aug 19), it’s all very well the cars driving themselves to the refuelling point at night while their owners sleep, but how will they plug themselves in to charge? jeff tiley Bristol

Kept in the dark Sir, I was employed at the Cambridge Theatre in 1964 during the run of Little Me starring Sir Bruce Forsyth. My job was on electrics — in the evenings I worked the lighting board and during the day I did a lamp round, changing any dud light bulbs. One evening, just as the curtain was about to go up, Sir Bruce’s dresser came to tell me that the bulb in the star dressing room toilet had gone. There was no time for me to change it and they were obviously not happy to wait until the interval. I apologised, but rather flustered said, “Oh, for goodness sake, surely he knows where it is by now?” The dresser returned a few minutes later. “Yes dear, Bruce says he knows where it is but he doesn’t know in which direction to point it.” jennifer hall Torquay, Devon

Special cases Sir, We have a special category of kitchen gadgets in our family (letters, Aug 16, 18 & 19). These are called Yvonne machines in memory of my aunt. An Yvonne machine is defined as one that carries out a task in two minutes that would otherwise take 10 by hand and 20 minutes to clean afterwards. stephen gergely Balsall Common, W Midlands Sir, My mother had a wonderful kitchen multi-tool, self-starting and voice-activated, which also provided chocolates, flowers and breakfast in bed on occasion. Much loved, he lasted for 70 years and was irreplaceable. bramble coppins Barry, Vale of Glamorgan

Go retro Sir, The “typewriter’s promise of a simpler life” (News, Aug 19) holds true in our house. I have an old Imperial portable decorating my study wall. When my granddaughter asked how it worked I showed her. “Wow,” she said, “it has an integral printer.” alan powell Dronfield, Derbyshire

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Leading articles Daily Universal Register UK: The chimes of Big Ben are stopped at 12pm for four years; the winner of the James Tait prize for drama is announced; Everton play Manchester City in the Premier League.

Nature notes Many summer visitors are now making their way south through woods and coppices on a journey, eventually, to the Mediterranean and Africa. Among them are the two small leaf-warblers, the willow warbler and the chiffchaff. They are closely related species, and very similar to each other. Both are olive-green above and yellowish-white beneath, but the willow warbler has reddish legs while the chiffchaff’s legs are blackish. Fortunately they have different songs, and some of them are still singing in an occasionally desultory way. The willow warbler has a sweet trickle of song; the chiffchaff repeats its chinking “chiff, chaff” notes, often higher in the treetops. Another migrant that sometimes drops in unexpectedly and lands on top of a tree is the tree pipit, a robust, streaky brown bird. A much rarer southbound wanderer is the white stork. One of them was found standing on a roof at the weekend at Preston St Mary, a village near Lavenham in Suffolk. derwent may

Birthdays today Julie Etchingham, pictured, presenter, ITV News, 48; Prof Derek Aviss, cellist, executive director, Trinity Laban (2010-12), 69; Dame Janet Baker, opera singer, 84; Usain Bolt, sprinter, holder of the 100m and 200m world records, 31 ; Sergey Brin, co-founder (1998) of Google, 44; Lt-Gen Sir David Andrew Capewell, chief of joint operations (2011-14), 58; Dina Carroll, soul singer, So Close (1993), 49; Kim Cattrall, actress, Sex and the City (1998-2004, 2008, 2010), 61; Perry Christie, prime minister of the Bahamas (2002-07, 2012-2017), 74; Jackie DeShannon, singer-songwriter, What the World Needs Now Is Love (1965), 73; Laura Haddock, actress, the Guardians of the Galaxy film series (2014, 2017), 32; Amber Hill, sport shooter, gold medallist, European Games (2015), 20; Anne Hobbs, tennis player, former British No 1, 58; Sir James Holman, the longest-serving High Court judge (appointed 1995), 70; Liam Howlett, musician, the Prodigy, Climbatize (1997), 46; Glenn Hughes, rock bassist and singer, 65; Gerald Jones, Labour MP for Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney, shadow defence minister, 47; King Mohammed VI of Morocco, 54; Baroness (Lindsay) Northover, Liberal Democrat politician, 63; Kenny Rogers, singer, The Gambler (1978), 79; Kenneth Taylor, former cricketer, England (1959-64), and footballer, 82; Craig Tracey, Conservative MP for North Warwickshire, 43; Peter Weir, film director, Dead Poets Society (1989), 73; Gary Wolstenholme, golfer, amateur champion (1991, 2003), 57.

On this day In 1959 Hawaii became the 50th US state; in 1983 Benigno Aquino, the Philippines’ opposition leader, was shot dead; in 1986 more than 1,700 people were killed by a cloud of gas that escaped from Lake Nyos in Cameroon; in 2013 hundreds of people died in chemical attacks in Ghouta, Syria.

The last word “Think like a wise man but express yourself like the common people.” WB Yeats, Irish poet, in a letter to Dorothy Wellesley (1935).

Control and Compromise Isolation is not a price worth paying for absolute control over Britain’s laws. A Swiss judge offers a solution to the thorniest Brexit challenge of all For a man whose job is technically to rule on European trade disputes, Judge Carl Baudenbacher is not shy about plunging into international geopolitics. As it turns out this is a good thing. Theresa May and David Davis should welcome his input on Brexit, which could help them to deliver a sensible compromise on judicial sovereignty instead of an acrimonious and costly divorce. Judge Baudenbacher, president of the court of the European Free Trade Association (Efta), proposes in The Times today that Britain should use his court rather than a new body or the European Court of Justice (ECJ) to resolve cross-border trade disputes after Brexit. The idea has several obvious selling points of which three are particularly compelling. First, no future trade deal with the EU will be achievable without a mutually agreed forum for dispute resolution. The ECJ exists for this purpose but ending its authority in Britain is a non-negotiable demand of many Conservative MPs. Second, membership of the Efta court could satisfy this demand because unlike the ECJ, its rulings do not trump those of national courts. Third, the Efta court already exists, established in Luxembourg in 1960 with Britain as a founder member and British common law a significant

influence in its judgments. There would be no need to build a new court from scratch with the daunting task of simultaneously satisfying British Eurosceptics and the EU’s remaining 27 states. After last year’s referendum Judge Baudenbacher was among those quick to promote full Efta membership outside the EU — the so-called Norway model — as Britain’s most practical way of retaining access to the European single market. Today’s proposal is calculated to appeal more directly to Eurosceptics by offering use of the Efta court without Britain necessarily remaining a full Efta member. It is thought to have considerable European backing, including from the president of the ECJ. Subject to the approval of the EU27 it could help to secure access to the single market on a sector-by-sector basis. That would be messy compared with full Efta membership and full access, but better than no access at all. Brexit negotiations resume next week. Before then the UK government is expected to publish its own ideas on dispute resolution based on a clean break from the ECJ with the repeal of the European Communities Act 1972. In the meantime Mr Davis, the Brexit secretary, is urging his counterparts in Brussels to soften their insistence on delaying trade talks until progress has been made

on payments, EU citizens’ rights, and the Northern Irish border. He is more likely to win concessions on that front by being open to the sort of legal solution that Judge Baudenbacher is suggesting than by insisting on a complete escape from European jurisdiction. Taking back control of Britain’s laws was a powerful rallying cry for the Leave campaign but Mr Davis well knows the difference between campaign rhetoric and negotiating in the national interest. Absolute legal sovereignty is neither possible nor desirable in the interconnected world in which Britain wants to be a trading powerhouse. With few exceptions, courts arbitrating in international disputes must themselves be international. Furthermore, British companies often have to resolve legal disputes in international courts because they involve the British government. Switzerland has secured access to the single market via 120 bilateral agreements but is at loggerheads with Brussels over the judicial supervision of these agreements because it is not a member of the Efta court. Judge Baudenbacher appears to be an enterprising and practical figure, and an anglophile to boot. He makes little secret of his preference for common law over the Napoleonic variety and will visit Westminster next month. He deserves a hearing.

Keep Cohn and Carry On President Trump cannot afford to lose his chief economic adviser For the first seven months of the Trump administration rumours of infighting and indiscipline in the White House have generally turned out to be true. Cliques of staff whose boss values loyalty above all else have leaked constantly against him and each other. The president has made a habit of distracting attention from his policy priorities with personal vitriol via social media. Last week he failed spectacularly to respond as the nation hoped to white supremacist violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, that left one person dead and many injured. There is at least a chance that the chaos may now start to subside. As congressional representatives prepare to return to Washington after their summer break the West Wing’s key players, for the first time under this president, have the makings of a team rather than a dysfunctional family. John Kelly, the new chief of staff, has begun to enforce strict rules limiting access to Mr Trump except through him. Steve Bannon, the former chief strategist, has gone at Mr Kelly’s urging. His running battles with Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, the president’s son-in-law and daughter,

are for the time being in abeyance. Gary Cohn, crucially, is still in post. Mr Trump’s chief economic adviser represents the administration’s best hope of accomplishing reforms that could have a broadly beneficial effect on the US economy. He has also shown that he can restrain the president when it matters. Mr Cohn is a former second-in-command at Goldman Sachs. He has close ties to New York Democrats and is Jewish. Unsurprisingly there was speculation last week that he might resign, as business leaders whom he knows well quit the presidents’ two business advisory councils en masse over the Charlottesville affair. Mr Cohn’s own aides said that he was “disgusted” and “deeply upset”. In response the White House issued an unusual statement insisting that he was going nowhere. Fearing this was in fact an expression of hope, the markets swooned. Pressure on Mr Cohn to resign has only increased over the weekend, but the White House and the nation need him. Mr Trump’s approval ratings are at a record low in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, all of which helped him to win the presidency, but he is

still more likely than not to serve at least one full term. That prospect dismays liberal America but it does not have to wreck the American economy. On the contrary, if, at the umpteenth time of asking, Mr Trump can find the self-control to focus on the tax reform and infrastructure investment that he promised voters he could still preside over an uptick in growth and in well-paid employment. This is a big “if” in that so much depends on such a volatile personality, but Mr Cohn’s role should not be underestimated. He has been instrumental in steering Mr Trump away from scrapping the North American Free Trade Agreement and by some analyses is largely responsible for the three-month stock market rally that faltered last week. Most significantly, he remains committed to the first comprehensive reform of America’s 74,000-page tax code in 30 years. That reform is vital, not least to lure back to the US the $2.5 trillion in corporate cash kept abroad because of punitive US corporate tax rates. Mr Trump’s presidency is flailing. It does not have to fail but its chances of doing so will rise sharply if Mr Cohn goes. He must be kept on board.

Never Too Late Britain’s fastest growing group of entrepreneurs is heading away from retirement Overheads are negligible. Global reach is instant, without leaving your armchair. Eyesight is a plus but not essential. The extraordinary ease of getting started in web-based business is encouraging over-65s and over-70s to set up as their own bosses in record numbers. Many are selling products they have come to know or covet in the decades after which people used to retire. For Lesley Benson, who is 60, this means luxury ski holidays. For Barbara Burton, a little older and perhaps more worldly after a stint in prison, it means hand-sewn silk lingerie. Many others are thought to be doctors and

other health professionals stepping nimbly and lucratively into private practice rather than hanging up their stethoscopes or physiotherapeutic elastic bands. Overall, people aged above 65 recorded a 140 per cent jump in entrepreneurship and selfemployment between 2006 and 2016, according to an analysis by Barclays of more than a million of its own customers. Between them, Britain’s olderpreneurs are demolishing two flimsy assumptions. The first is that thrusters have to be young. They clearly don’t. The second is that artificial intelligence is destroying white-collar jobs so fast that there is little

point in trying to create them. It clearly isn’t, yet. So far, so bracing. In any story about living more fulfilling lives for longer there are caveats and this is no exception. Some would-be retirees keep working because their pensions are inadequate; others, to keep the Bank of Mum and Dad capitalised for offspring who can’t afford a place to live. There is also a flipside to the ease of setting up an online business. It’s easy to fail, too. The key, online as on the high street, is to buy cheap and sell dear. For those struggling to find the right product, a suggestion: outsourced parenting. Or does that already have a name?

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President Trump was last night battling to prevent another key adviser from leaving the White House in what would represent a stinging blow to the administration’s credibility on Wall Street. Gary Cohn, a former executive at Goldman Sachs who is the White House chief economic adviser, is said to have been deeply dismayed by the president’s response to neo-Nazi and white nationalist rallies in Virginia. Friends have urged him to step aside and Mr Cohn, who is Jewish, was said to be considering his position after a week in which a series of business leaders stepped down from White House business advisory councils. He was said to have reached “a real inflection point”, according to Vanity Fair, which cited sources close to Mr Cohn, but claimed he had clung on in the hope of being appointed head of the Federal Reserve. Confidence on Wall Street that Mr Trump, surrounded by New York financiers, would implement a probusiness agenda with significant tax reforms has foundered in recent months. On Saturday the billionaire investor Carl Icahn, who was serving as a special adviser on regulatory reform, announced that he had stepped aside hours before the publication of a report suggesting that his investments stood to gain from advice he had offered. The New Yorker reported that Mr Icahn’s push to lighten regulations on oil refineries may have benefited a business in which he held a stake. In a letter to the president that Mr Icahn published on Saturday, he denied any conflict of interest and said he was stepping down because “I did not want partisan bickering about my role to in any way cloud your administration”. Leading Republicans warned yesterday that Mr Trump needed to bring stability to a chaotic White House if he was to have any hope of achieving key

Gary Cohn was dismayed by the president’s response to white nationalist rallies

policy goals. John Kasich, the governor of Ohio and his rival for the Republican nomination last year, told CNN: “You can’t keep putting new people in the lineup and think you’re going to win a world championship.” The most prominent of the recent departures was Steve Bannon, Mr Trump’s controversial chief strategist, who left the White House on Friday promising to wage war against those who stood in the way of the nationalist and populist agenda that Mr Trump had espoused on the campaign trail. Mr Bannon is said to have clashed repeatedly with the president’s daughter Ivanka and her husband, Jared Kushner, who sought to advance more moderate policies. During one standoff, he is said to have accused Mr Kushner of being a Democrat. Some have suggested that the couple, who both serve as advisers, had succeeded in ousting Mr Bannon, though the White House has said that he agreed to leave in order to give the

retired general John Kelly, Mr Trump’s new chief of staff, a “clean slate”. Mr Bannon swiftly resumed his old job at the head of the right-wing website Breitbart, promising to wage a louder battle against his foes from the outside than he ever could within. Targets were said to be leading Republicans on Capitol Hill, including the House Speaker, Paul Ryan, and the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, as well as members of the administration such as HR McMaster, the national security adviser. Breitbart’s Washington editor, Matthew Boyle, cast Mr Bannon’s return as akin to that of Captain Jack Sparrow to his old ship in Pirates of the Caribbean films. “We’ve been a pirate ship without a captain for a year,” he said. Mr Trump suggested that his old campaign manager might now have more influence, saying on Twitter that he could be “even better than ever before” in the media, adding: “Fake News needs the competition!” In

another post, he said he had spent part of the weekend at Camp David “with our very talented generals and military leaders”, and had made “many decisions . . . including on Afghanistan”. James Mattis, his defence secretary, said that he had made a decision on US strategy in Afghanistan after a “sufficiently rigorous” review process, without offering any details. “I am very comfortable that the strategic process was sufficiently rigorous and did not go in with a pre-set position,” he said. “The president has made a decision. As he said, he wants to be the one to announce it to the American people.” This was later confirmed by the White House, who said that Mr Trump would announce his decision on US strategy in Afghanistan this evening. The president will “provide an update on the path forward for America’s engagement in Afghanistan and south Asia” in an address to be delivered from the military base at Fort Myer, southwest of the capital, the White House said in a statement. Officials have indicated that the president’s aides support adding between 3,000 and 5,000 troops and allowing them to join Afghan forces closer to combat. Afghan forces have suffered reversals in recent months in which Taliban militants have gained territory. According to US estimates, government forces control less than 60 per cent of Afghanistan, with almost half the country either contested or under the control of the insurgents. Mr Mattis said that Mr Trump would announce his new policy in the coming days. “The decision to send troops is just one component of a strategy that is also expected to outline ways to pressure Pakistan to shut down the sanctuaries that the Taliban and other extremist groups have maintained on its territory,” he said. “It is a south Asia strategy; it is not just an Afghanistan strategy.”

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You’re not welcome: Boston closes ranks on far right Berlin warns Will Pavia

Tens of thousands of protesters flooded the streets of Boston over the weekend in response to a rally led by few dozen far-right activists who claimed to be standing up for free speech. The organiser of the far-right rally said that the event and its speakers were defending the First Amendment and freedom of expression. It came a week after white nationalists, neo-Nazis and members of the Ku Klux Klan gathered in Charlottesville, Virginia, triggering violent clashes and a suspected terrorist attack in which a car was driven into a crowd of counterprotesters, killing Heather Heyer, 32, and injuring more than 19 people. President Trump’s response to the violence, in which he condemned violence on “many sides”, attracted widespread outrage and was welcomed by white nationalist and neo-Nazi groups,

who planned follow-up protests. In the liberal city of Boston the prospect prompted a vast counterprotest. Police estimates put the crowd at 40,000, who convened on a park in the city where the far-right rally was to take place. Some shops said that they would refuse to serve white supremacists and one restaurant put up a sign reading: “Hope you Nazis packed a lunch.” As the counterprotesters convened on Boston Common they were met by about 500 police officers seeking to keep them apart from a few dozen farright activists who were contained in a pen for their own safety. Weapons were banned and rubbish trucks and concrete barricades were in place to prevent attacks using vehicles. Police said that some of the protesters had thrown rocks and bottles at them and sent a tweet asking them to stop. They said that 33 people had been arrested. “There was a little bit of a

confrontation,” William Evans, the city’s police commissioner, said. “Ninety-nine point nine per cent of the people who were here were here for the right reasons.” John Medlar, the activist behind the “free speech” rally, who had sought to distance the event from the neo-Nazi gatherings in Virginia, claimed that the city’s mayor, Marty Walsh, had “whipped thousands of decent wellmeaning fellow Bostonians into a frenzy by spreading lies about us”. The planned speakers for the event were drowned out by the shouts of the counterprotesters and the rally finished early. “Had to be evacuated by armoured car after frenzied mob cut off our exit,” Mr Medlar wrote on Facebook. “Boston police got us out safely.” Mr Walsh, the mayor, said he wanted to “thank all the people that came out to share that message of love, not hate. To

fight back on racism. To fight back on antisemitism. To fight back on the white supremacists that were coming to our city — the Nazis coming to our city.” Other counterprotest events were held in Dallas and Atlanta. Mr Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, applauded them on Twitter, saying “it was beautiful to see thousands of people across the USA come together today to peacefully denounce bigotry, racism & antisemitism”. In an apparent change of tone Mr Trump also tweeted to thank those “speaking out against bigotry and hate”. He added: “Our great country has been divided for decades. Sometimes you need protest in order to heal, & we will heal, & be stronger than ever before!”

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The arrest in Spain of a GermanTurkish writer critical of President Erdogan has been condemned by senior German politicians. Dogan Akhanli, 60, was released on bail yesterday after being seized on holiday in Granada on Saturday under an Interpol red notice, similar to an arrest warrant, issued by Turkey. He is the second prominent critic of Mr Erdogan’s government to be detained in Spain this month after the arrest of Hamza Yalcin, 59, a SwedishTurkish former editor of a socialist magazine. The arrests have caused diplomatic relations between Ankara and Berlin to collapse, with President Erdogan urging German Turks not to vote for the ruling parties or the Greens in next month’s election in Germany and

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Mugabe’s wife given immunity over claim she assaulted model South Africa Aislinn Laing Johannesburg

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Erdogan over arrest of critics in Spain branding them “enemies of Turkey”. Mr Akhanli fled Turkey for Cologne in 1992 after being held and tortured as a political prisoner from 1985 to 1987. He became a German citizen in 2001. Volker Beck, a Green MP who first highlighted the case, said the arrest showed that Mr Erdogan was seeking to “extend his power beyond his country’s borders, to intimidate critics and to pursue them around the world”. Germany urged Spain not to extradite Mr Akhanli as Sigmar Gabriel, the German foreign minister, discussed the case with Alfonso Dastis, his Spanish counterpart, on Saturday. Turkey is holding several German citizens in custody, including Deniz Yucel, 43, a reporter for Die Welt, who has Turkish and German citizenship and faces trial on terrorism charges. Mr Gabriel, 57, warned last month of measures to hit tourism and investment in Turkey and an overhaul

of relations, accusing Mr Erdogan of trying to muzzle “every critical voice” with mass arrests in his response to the failed coup last year. On Saturday, Mr Erdogan told Mr Gabriel to “know your limits” after the German foreign minister criticised the Turkish leader for interfering in Germany’s elections. “Who are you to talk to the president of Turkey? How old are you?” Mr Erdogan said at a rally. Ilias Uyar, Mr Akhanli’s lawyer, said that his client was “being released from detention on condition he stays in Madrid” and that Turkey would have to formally request his extradition. Mr Akhanli has written extensively about the killing of Armenians under the Ottoman Turkish empire. At least half a million Armenians were killed between 1915 and 1917 in what western historians describe as genocide. The German parliament passed a motion last year agreeing to call it genocide.

Turkey objects to the term, saying that 300,000 to 500,000 Armenians and as many Turks died in civil strife when Armenians sided with invading Russian troops. Mr Akhanli was arrested in 2010 on arrival at Istanbul airport for alleged involvement in an armed robbery in 1989. He was released four months later and later declared innocent, before an appeals court ordered new proceedings against him. German Green MPs took up his cause, saying that he was a victim of political persecution. Mr Yalcin, who has lived in Sweden since 1984, was arrested at Barcelona airport on August 3, accused of plotting terrorism by Turkey. He remains in custody at a prison in the city. Interpol was founded in 1923 and has 190 member countries. States are not supposed to use its international arrest warrants to pursue political charges.

Grace Mugabe, wife of the president of Zimbabwe, has escaped prosecution over allegations that she beat a young model with an extension cord. The South African government allowed her to go home to avoid a diplomatic row. Mrs Mugabe, 52, flew back to Harare with her husband yesterday morning after Pretoria gave her diplomatic immunity from prosecution. Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, South Africa’s foreign minister, said that she had agonised over the need to protect the rights of Mrs Mugabe’s alleged victim against maintaining “good intergovernmental relations”. She decided to prioritise the latter “in the interests of the Republic [of South Africa]”. Lawyers for Gabriella Engels, 20, who said that Mrs Mugabe beat her with an electric cable with a plug that cut her face, said that they would seek to overturn the immunity in the high court, and pursue a private prosecution. The South African Democratic Alliance (DA) opposition party called for a parliamentary inquiry into the affair, which it said had further damaged the country’s international standing after its failure to arrest President Bashir of Sudan, who is wanted for war crimes, when he visited Johannesburg in 2015. “It is simply inexplicable how this has happened again,” John Steenhuisen, the DA’s chief whip, said. The Zimbabwean opposition party Movement for Democratic Change said that South Africa had missed an opportunity to save its neighbour from Mrs Mugabe, who has ambitions to succeed her husband. “It is very unfortunate that South Africa decided to grant her diplomatic immunity,” Obert Gutu, its spokesman, said. Mrs Mugabe had claimed through friends that she was also injured in the fight in a hotel in Johannesburg a week ago. She was searching for her sons, whom she has previously said have been captured by “evil spirits” that make them drink alcohol and womanise, and is alleged to have assaulted Ms Engels after finding her and two other women in a hotel room booked by the two men. The source told the Saturday Star newspaper in Johannesburg that Mrs Mugabe also hit Robert Mugabe Jr, 24, and Chatunga, 20. An unnamed worker at the Capital 20 West hotel said that a waitress who was delivering food was knocked over by Robert Jr as he fled his mother. South Africa’s Sunday Times reported that a settlement had been reached: “There was a meeting between Grace Mugabe’s people and the hotel’s human resources people,” the employee said. The deliberations over whether to let Mrs Mugabe leave South Africa are believed to have caused a row between the police minister, who said that his officers Grace Mugabe aims to succeed her husband, Robert

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here was never any doubt that Grace Mugabe would be allowed to escape prosecution (Aislinn Laing writes). Robert Mugabe may preside over economic disaster, in stark contrast to South Africa, the continent’s economic powerhouse, but the 93-year-old ruler of Zimbabwe still holds the cards after almost four decades in power. President Zuma of South Africa had had a bruising month already as two dozen of his own MPs backed a motion of no confidence in his leadership after a series of corruption scandals. He needs friends more than ever and, unable to win back support he has lost at home through repeated violation of the constitution, the last thing he needs is Mr Mugabe backing rival factions of his party. In a few months the ANC will choose a leader to take it into elections in 2019, who will then — assuming that the ANC stays in power — become president. Mr Zuma is backing Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, his ex-wife, and it is thought that she could shield him from prosecution. With ANC forces gathering against him and the fortunes of Cyril Ramaphosa, Ms DlaminiZuma’s rival, rising, Mr Zuma may have felt it best not to make an enemy of Mr Mugabe as well.

were poised to arrest her, and Ms Nkoana-Mashabane, who wanted to keep Harare happy. The diplomatic rift was blamed for the grounding on Friday of both countries’ national airlines. An Air Zimbabwe plane is said to have been refused permission to leave Johannesburg because it did not have the correct paperwork, prompting Harare to ground South African Airways’ planes. Willie Spies, a lawyer for Miss Engels, said he hoped to make it difficult for Mrs Mugabe to return to South Africa, where she regularly shops at designer stores and is thought to own properties worth 45 million rands (£2.7 million). “We won’t necessarily get her into custody,” he said, “ but this will be a civil sanctions campaign at the very least. She can shop in Harare mall instead.”

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Activist jail terms lead to Hong Kong protests Hong Kong Thousands of people

joined marches to the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal after the jailing of pro-democracy activists. Joshua Wong, 20, Nathan Law, 24, and Alex Chow, 27, of the Umbrella Movement, were given sentences of up to eight months after mass sit-ins in 2014 against electoral reforms. Yesterday people held banners calling for civil disobedience and the release of political prisoners. The justice secretary, Rimsky Yuen, overturned initial noncustodial sentences but denied the jail terms were political. Hong Kong has its own legal system but China has control over the former British colony. (Reuters)

Rouhani cabinet gets parliament’s backing Tehran The Iranian parliament

Floral dance The Carnaval de Colores dance group from Spain joined the celebrations at the Debrecen Flower Festival in Hungary on the country’s foundation day

Theologians doubt Pope is Catholic Vatican Philip Willan Rome

Anxious theologians and conservative cardinals have attacked the Pope by arguing that his reforms are heretical. Controversy over his attempts to modernise church teaching on marriage, the Eucharist and papal authority itself have created a strange alliance that stretches from academics to cardinals who do not believe that there has been a proper pontiff since Pius XII more than half a century ago. At a conference in Kentucky, Cardinal Raymond Burke, the American conservative who has spearheaded opposition to the Pope’s reforms, said that Catholics needed to distinguish between the teaching of Francis the man and Francis the pope. Cardinal Burke recalled that one of the “secrets” or predictions to emerge from the apparitions of Our Lady of Fátima to three Portuguese peasant children 100 years ago concerned “widespread apostasy in the church and the failure of the church’s shepherds to correct it”. The cardinal, who in 2014 was pushed aside from the presidency of the Vatican’s most important tribunal to the largely ceremonial role of patron of the Order of Malta, said that there were “many troubling manifestations of

confusion, division and error in the church”. In an apparent criticism of Pope Francis’s leadership, the cardinal told a conference on church teaching in Louisville: “In a diabolical way, the confusion and error which has led human culture in the way of death and destruction has also entered into the church, so that she draws near to the culture without seeming to know her own identity and mission, without seeming to have the clarity and the courage to announce the gospel.” It was therefore necessary for Catholics to distinguish between the Pope’s off-the-cuff remarks and the authority of the church to establish its own teachings, he said. “It is simply wrong and harmful to the church to receive every declaration of the Holy Father as an expression of papal teaching.” An analysis of the Pope’s 2016 exhortation on the family, Amoris Laetitia (the Joy of Love), signed by 45 Catholic theologians, found much that was obCardinal Burke: “Confusion, division, error”

jectionable. The authors of the criticism said that the document did not provide sufficient evidence to suggest that the Pope had fallen personally into heresy, but they identified 11 statements in the text as constituting heresy. “When it comes to the document itself, there is no doubt that it constitutes a grave danger to Catholic faith and morals,” they concluded. The extremist fringes of the church hold that at least the last four pontiffs were impostors. The website www. traditioninaction.org claims that a third fragment of the secrets of Fátima related to the risk that the true faith would not be preserved in Rome. The site quotes the late Cardinal Mario Luigi Ciappi as saying: “In the third secret it is foretold, among other things, that the great apostasy in the church will begin at the top.” The website also publishes a text attributed to Sister Lucy of Fátima, one of the three child seers, which refers to a fake Holy Father with a “devilish gaze”. To assist readers in their anal lysis, it publish-

es 12 photographic close-ups of the Pope’s eyes. Such papal critics make uncomfortable bedfellows for Riccardo Cascioli, a conservative Catholic journalist who organised a conference of secular theologians last April, calling on the Pope to clarify the more contentious elements of Amoris Laetitia. “There is a risk of personalising things around the figure of the Pope and not dealing with the real issues,” he said. Mr Cascioli, who edits two Catholic publications, said he was worried that the Pope’s changes were leading towards a Protestant-style church, with lax discipline and decentralised power. “The Catholic Church has never been like that,” he said. “Simple Catholics are disoriented because they see that what they were taught no longer applies. It’s a dramatic moment, with at least two churches confronting one another across a worrying rift.” He said that the problem was not so much with Pope Francis as with the Vatican chain of command that was implementing radical policies that had emerged in the 1970s but had previously been kept in check by the hierarchy. The crucial battle was over the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist, Mr Cascioli added. “If Christ is not present, then everything collapses. That’s why the situation is so grave.”

Earth moves for clean energy town Germany David Charter Berlin

More than 270 buildings have developed cracks after an attempt by a small town in the Black Forest to tap into geothermal energy far below ground. Drilling released groundwater under a central square in Staufen in Breisgau, in the southwestern corner of Germany. The town at first sank a few millimetres and then began to rise. A long crack opened up in the new town hall, the building which the authorities had wanted to be heated by the underground energy when drilling began in 2007. Michael Benitz, mayor of the town of 8,100 inhabitants, said

that pumps would have to be used for “years or decades” to limit damage being caused by the leaking groundwater. “We have been in crisis mode for ten years,” Mr Benitz said. “It is a slow-motion catastrophe. In combination with groundwater this layer of earth turns into cement, expanding the layers and forcing the earth upwards. In some places Staufen has risen 62 centimetres and moved more than 45 centimetres sideways. This is causing some buildings to pull apart and crack.” Two houses have already had to be demolished and the town fears more may follow. “Fractures have become our daily companions” said Csaba-Peter Gaspar, an executive consultant

whose apartment in the town’s historic centre suffered damage. A mediation body established to deal with the financial consequences has received more than 400 claims. The town authorities have reached an out-of-court settlement with the drilling firm for €1.2 million (£1.1 million). The German Geothermal Association, based in Berlin, insisted that if carried out properly after a full risk analysis, geothermal energy remained a safe and environmentally friendly option. In Staufen pumps are running around the clock to dredge groundwater and reduce the build-up of cement. The rise in ground level has been slowed to an average 1.8mm per month.

has approved almost all of President Rouhani’s nominees for his cabinet two weeks after he faced criticism because they were all men. Only one of his choices, the candidate for energy minister, did not gather enough votes. Mr Rouhani swiftly appointed two women vice-presidents the day after he was criticised for the all-male list. (Reuters)

Mass cull of chickens after spread of bird flu Manila Soldiers have been sent to

cull 600,000 chickens north of the Philippine capital after the spread of a bird flu outbreak to a second region. They were called in after the disease was found in quails in Nueva Ecija province. A total of 30,000 chickens were destroyed in Pampanga on Thursday close to the first cases. There have been no instances of it spreading to humans. (Reuters)

Husband divorced for not building lavatory Jaipur An Indian woman in her 20s has been granted permission to divorce her husband because he would not build a lavatory in their home in Rajasthan. Indian law allows divorce only in limited circumstances such as domestic violence or cruelty. The judge said that women having to wait until dark to defecate outside “is not only physical cruelty but also outrages women’s modesty”. (AP)

115 migrants rescued from lorry in Mexico Veracruz Mexican police have

rescued 115 migrants, including 41 children, who had been travelling “in deplorable conditions” in the back of a lorry. Some of the refugees, who were from Honduras and Guatemala, were suffering from dehydration. The lorry was stopped in Playa Munecos in Veracruz on a popular route taken by migrants heading to the US. (AP)

Saudi Arabia waits for pilgrim flights approval Dubai Saudi Arabia’s state carrier said that it had been unable to send aircraft to transport Qatari pilgrims to Mecca because it had not been given permission to land at Doha. The countries have been locked in a political dispute that severed transport ties to Doha in June, but Saudi Arabia said last week that it would facilitate the travel of Qataris for the annual haj pilgrimage. (Reuters)

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United States A team led by the co-founder of Microsoft has found the USS Indianapolis, which was sunk by a Japanese submarine on July 30, 1945, in one of the worst disasters in American naval history. Torpedoed on the return leg of a voyage to deliver components for the atomic bomb to the Pacific island of Tinian, about 800 of the 1,196 people on board survived the sinking. When a US Navy pilot spotted them in the water four days later, only 317 were alive. Survivors recounted how sharks had surrounded them, attacking the living and the dead — a story told by the shark hunter Quint in the 1975 film Jaws. The whereabouts of the war grave had eluded search teams, but over the weekend Paul Allen released the first photographs of the ship in 72 years, taken three and a half miles below the surface. A grainy blue shot of the figure 35, the ship’s hull classification, offered proof of the find and consolation to the 22 veterans still alive. “I have wished for years that they would find it,” Arthur Leenerman, 93, from Illinois, said in a statement published by the US Naval Institute. “The ‘lost at sea’ families will feel pretty sad but I think finding the ship will also give them some closure.” Previous search parties could not find the ship partly because she sank so quickly and no distress signal was received. The first torpedo struck the starboard bow and ignited a 3,500-gallon tank of aviation fuel that exploded in a pillar of fire. The second hit near midship, igniting fuel tanks and the powder magazines and setting off explosions that broke the ship in half. “Whoom! Up in the air I went,” Loel Dean Cox, a survivor of the disaster, told the BBC World Service in 2013. Ordered to abandon ship as she rolled on to her side, the seaman, then aged 19, jumped, striking the hull and landing in the water. The ship sank in 12 minutes. The men banded together, trying to keep order. As dawn broke, the sharks arrived. “I saw one the first morning after daylight,” he said. “They were big. Some of them, I swear, 15 feet long. They were continually there, mostly feeding off the dead bodies.” But steadily they began to attack the

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survivors. “In that clear water you could see the sharks circling,” he said. “They would come up and bump you. I was bumped a few times. Then every now and then, like lightning, one would come straight up and take a sailor and take him straight down. One came up and took the sailor next to me.” Many more seamen died from thirst or salt poisoning after drinking sea water. It was not until the morning of the fourth day that they were spotted. A seaplane pilot, seeing men being attacked by sharks, disobeyed orders and landed to begin picking them up. The last were pulled from the water by another US warship, the USS Doyle, which arrived a little after midnight. Searches for the wreck were guided by rough estimates of her location. Mr Allen’s team aboard his research vessel Petrel have credited research by a historian at the US Naval History and Heritage Command for leading them to a stretch of ocean floor further west. Richard Hulver identified a landing craft that had sighted USS Indianapolis on the night she was torpedoed. This triggered a search in an area of about 600 square miles, deploying a submarine that can dive to 6,000 metres. Mr Allen, ranked by Forbes as the 46th richest man in the world, said that the search for the rest of the wreckage would continue. He added: “I hope everyone connected to this historic ship will feel some measure of closure at this discovery so long in coming.”

video The USS Indianapolis on July 12, 1945, with the circled areas marking recent alterations. Eighteen days later she was torpedoed. Only 317 of her 1,196 crew survived, above. The search team’s finds from the wreck include a box of spare parts

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Rival parliaments at war in Caracas Heroin smugglers defeated by Venezuela Mariana Zuniga

Venezuela’s political crisis deepened after the opposition-controlled congress defied what it called a usurpation of its power by the constituent assembly, a body elected last month at the behest of President Maduro. The assembly voted overwhelmingly in favour of assuming the powers of the parliament. Mr Maduro said the assembly would end political unrest, but others maintain it is a slide towards dictatorship. The Venezuelan parliament said that citizens and the international community would not recognise the assembly’s new powers. Luis Almagro, head of the Organisation of American States, called the move an “illegitimate dissolution” of the elected parliament. Mercosur, a regional economic bloc, also condemned the move. It suspended Venezuela indefinitely this month, urging Mr Maduro to release prisoners and begin a political transition. The heads of parliament and the as-

sembly have been trading insults on social media. Julio Borges, the head of parliament, accused the assembly of a “coup” while Delcy Rodríguez, a close ally of Mr Maduro and head of the assembly, denounced his “lies”. The president’s opponents blame his administration for food shortages and soaring inflation in the oil-rich country. Mr Maduro’s wife and son are among the 545 members of the new assembly, which the president presented as a way of promoting “reconciliation and peace” after waves of violent protests in the country. More than 120 people have died in demonstrations since April. Freddy Guevara, vice-president of the Venezuelan congress, said: “Here there is no coexistence, there is only a military occupation.” He added: “To say that we coexist with the constituent assembly is as offensive as to tell the Venezuelans living on the border that they coexist with the Farc, with organised crime and with paramilitarism.” Mr Guevara was responding to Ms Rodríguez, who had insisted the congress had not been dissolved but would have to recognise that it would be

restricted by a degree of “coexistence”. When opposition MPs were summoned to subordinate themselves before the assembly on Friday they refused, saying it would betray the 14 million voters who elected them in 2015. A bloc of 13 countries from the hemisphere, known as the Lima Group, condemned the assembly’s decision to “usurp the powers” of the congress. Venezuela’s foreign ministry issued a statement on Saturday rejecting international meddling, especially on the part of the United States, which Mr Maduro accused of fomenting “military aggression and intervention”. While the assembly was adopting its resolution, Luisa Ortega, the country’s former chief prosecutor, and her husband, German Ferrer, fled to Colombia. Tarek William Saab, the new attorney-general, had opened an investigation into Mr Ferrer, who is accused of being part of an “extortion network” that allegedly occurred in Ms Ortega’s time in office. Mr Ferrer denied the accusations and believes they are politically motivated. On Thursday the supreme court ordered his capture.

retriever’s spot of gardening Will Pavia

A golden retriever has helped police to disrupt a drug smuggling ring after sniffing out a buried parcel containing $85,000 of heroin. Kenyon dug out the package in the back garden of his owner’s new home in Portland, Oregon. Sheriff Tim Svenson said that police had presumed it to be a time capsule left by a previous resident and proceeded to film themselves opening the parcel. Instead of personal mementoes, they found what was later identified to be 15 ounces of black tar heroin. The dog’s owners did not wish to be named but they did alKenyon has been honoured by the local sheriff’s office for finding an $85,000 stash

low Kenyon to be publicly honoured for his service in the drugs war in northern Oregon. In 2015 the sheriff’s office was among 20 agencies that took part in raids targeting what the US Justice Department described as a “vast drug trafficking organisation” smuggling huge quantities of methamphetamine. Last summer the office’s drugs team and state police raided a $9 million illicit marijuana farm being run by a Mexican crime gang. Mr Svenson presented the dog with a citation ribbon and named him an “honorary narcotics K-9 for life”. In a statement on the sheriff office’s Facebook page, Mr Svenson said: “Opioid addiction and overdose deaths are on the rise and with the help of Kenyon this large quantity of heroin is removed from our community”.

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The widow of China’s most famous dissident has made her first appearance since his death last month, appealing in a video for “time to mourn”. Liu Xia’s husband, Liu Xiaobo, died in a prison hospital. It had been feared that the Chinese authorities had taken Ms Liu, a renowned poet and artist, away from her home in Beijing to Yunnan, a province in the southwest of the country, to prevent her from speaking to the media. Her whereabouts have been unclear since his funeral and human rights groups have raised concerns for her welfare. The video clip shows Ms Liu, 56, sitting on a couch and smoking a cigarette in an unknown location. It was posted on YouTube late on Friday and some supporters have suggested that she may have made it under duress. “Please give me time to mourn and time for my heart to be restored,” Ms Liu said in the short video. “When Xiaobo was alive, the doctors did their best and Xiaobo regarded life and death as being very ordinary, so I

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have also to try hard to adjust myself.” She added: “In the future, when I’m better in various ways, I will be with you all again.” Her husband died on July 13, aged 61, after the Chinese authorities rejected his requests to travel abroad to receive treatment for late-stage liver cancer. Mr Liu had been serving an 11-year jail term for “subversion” after he helped to write a charter calling for political reform and human rights in China. After Mr Liu was awarded the Nobel peace prize in absentia in 2010, his wife was placed under house arrest. She was last seen on July 15 in an officially released photo of her and others placing Mr Liu’s ashes into the ocean near Dalian in northeast China. Human Rights Watch said recently that Ms Liu’s friends and relatives in Beijing had not been able to reach her directly. Plainclothes police officers have also been seen guarding her apartment in Beijing. About 70,000 people have signed an Amnesty International open letter urging President Xi to lift all arbitrary restrictions on Ms Liu and allow her to travel freely.

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Labour scents a shock win after young hopeful surges in polls New Zealand Bernard Lagan Sydney

Three weeks after becoming leader of New Zealand’s Labour opposition, a 37year-old former DJ who has never held public office is within striking distance of becoming prime minister. Jacinda Ardern became party leader after dismal polling forced the resignation of her mild-mannered predecessor, Andrew Little, a former trade union lawyer, on August 1, seven weeks before next month’s general election. Ms Ardern, who served as a junior adviser in the Cabinet Office in London during the Blair years, has quickly pulled the Labour Party from despair to the point at which she is polling seven points behind Bill English, New Zealand’s conservative prime minister. Since Ms Ardern’s elevation to the leadership, Labour’s support among New Zealanders has soared to its highest level in a decade, while the governing centre-right

Since Jacinda Ardern, below right, took over this month, the Labour Party’s support is at a ten-year high

National Party’s support has fallen to its lowest in four years. The latest polls show that the Labour Party has the support of 37 per cent of voters while the government has 44 per cent. Most commentators expect Labour’s support to rise further before the election, opening up the possibility that it could form a government with the support of a smaller party. Ms Ardern, a communications graduate brought up in a small New Zealand country town, immediately cast aside her predecessor’s election strategy and replaced the slogan “A Fresh Approach” with her own creation, “Let’s Do This”. Yesterday she appeared before thousands of enthusiastic Labour Party supporters in Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city, alongside the former long-serving Labour prime minister Helen Clark, who after leaving office in 2008 went on to run the UN’s development programme. Ms Clark’s appearance yesterday

was her first at a New Zealand political event in nine years and one that invited comparisons between her political career — she was prime minister for nine years — and that of Ms Ardern. Both took over the Labour Party from men at a time of electoral despair and immediately lifted the party’s support. Speaking yesterday, Ms Clark said she believed that Ms Ardern, an MP since 2008, could become prime minister next month because democracies across the world were beginning to favour younger leaders who did not have the experience of senior office. “We have seen Emmanuel Macron come out of nowhere at 39 to be the president of France, we have seen Justin Trudeau cruise to the top and be so successful, so these are very different times,” she said. Mr English, who has been in parliament for 27 years, became prime minister in December after the sudden resignation of the popular John Key. Mr English, a former Treasury officer, served as deputy prime minister under Mr Key and both were credited with managing New Zealand’s economic resurgence. Unemployment has fallen to less than 5 per cent and the country is enjoying robust economic growth, forecast to exceed 3 per cent by early next year.

Tensions rise as Seoul prepares for war games South Korea Daniel Hurst Tokyo

More than 17,000 American military personnel will join 50,000 South Koreans today in joint drills that North Korea warns will “pour gasoline on the fire” of tension in the region. The annual Ulchi Freedom Guardian exercise could evolve into actual fighting, North Korean state media claimed yesterday. The two allies are to begin 11 days of drills. South Korea’s new military chief declared that the security conditions

on the peninsula were “more serious than at any other time” as a result of Pyongyang’s rapidly developing nuclear weapons programme. “If the enemy provokes, [our military] will retaliate resolutely and strongly to make it regret bitterly,” General Jeong Kyeong-doo said yesterday as he was sworn in as chairman of South Korea’s joint chiefs of staff in Seoul. The number of South Korean personnel participating in the exercise is unchanged from last year, according to the defence ministry in Seoul, although the expected US figure of 17,500 is down

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from 25,000 in 2016. A small number of troops from seven other nations, including the UK, are also taking part. South Korea and the US will carry out a largely computer-simulated coordination exercise to “enhance readiness”. The North routinely denounces the drills as rehearsals for invasion. Rodong Sinmun, the official newspaper of North Korea’s ruling party, said in an editorial that the move was “the most explicit expression of hostility against us”. It added: “The exercises will be like pouring gasoline on fire and worsen the state of the peninsula.”

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Civilian death toll in Mosul to pass 10,000 Iraq Richard Spencer Middle East Correspondent

The bombing and shelling of Mosul by Britain, the US and other allies may have killed more than 8,000 civilians, according to the first full count of the carnage inflicted on the city during the expulsion of Islamic State. With bodies still being pulled from the wreckage, particularly in the old city, estimates of the toll vary widely. However, Airwars, a London-based monitoring organisation that liaises with local activists, human rights groups, the Ministry of Defence and the Pentagon, has completed its first assessment of casualties from beginning to end of the nine-month campaign. The figures, shown to The Times, reveal that aerial bombardment by USled coalition aircraft and artillery fired by western forces on the ground were accused of responsibility in 8,600 civilian deaths. The US claims the western coalition has killed just 624 for the whole campaign in both Syria and Iraq. With Iraq’s armed forces also pour-

Casualties intensified in Mosul’s old city as Isis fighters were surrounded but determined to fight to the death

ing in artillery rounds, often using inaccurate equipment such as Grad rockets, and some Iraqi air force bombing, not all of those deaths can be proved to have been caused by the western allies

but Chris Woods, director of Airwars, said the group’s interim figure was likely to be a “significant underestimate”. Along with those killed by Iraqi forces and Isis militants, who shot residents who tried to escape the fighting, the number of civilian dead is probably over 10,000 and has been estimated by Iraqi officials at 15,000 to 20,000. Hoshyar Zebari, the former Iraqi foreign minister, released a figure of 40,000 from an intelligence report, but did not explain how it was calculated. Mr Woods warned Mosul risked becoming a “terrible precedent” for urban warfare if its rate of attrition became politically and morally acceptable. Patrick Hamilton, deputy director of the International Committee of the Red Cross for the Middle East, echoed his remarks. “It’s a terrible feature of today’s wars that you have densely populated civilian areas and if you take the battle into them, you have heavy humanitarian consequences,” he said. There was a huge difference in the level of destruction and civilian casualties in the fight for east Mosul, from October last year to January, and west

Mosul, including the old city. That can partly be explained by geography — the streets in east Mosul are wider and the houses more widely spaced — and by the nature of Isis’s defence. From east Mosul, its fighters could retreat into west Mosul, but by the time they reached the old city they were surrounded but determined to fight to the death. There are concerns that Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election led to a loosening of the rules of engagement for western forces. This has been denied by Operation Inherent Resolve, the anti-Isis coalition, but it has confirmed that responsibility for interpreting them was passed down to officers on the ground. The battle for east Mosul also coincided with that for Aleppo in Syria, with western commanders and politicians under pressure to show they were taking more care than was evident in the much criticised actions of the Assad regime and its Russian backers. By the time the battle entered west Mosul, political pressure to end resistance as soon as possible had intensified. “There may have been a degree to

which commanders were thinking this was a battle that was going to be messy anyway,” Mr Hamilton said. Airwars assesses all claims of civilian casualties as a result of the US-led coalition’s bombing in Iraq and Syria. It assigns grades of “confirmed” — if a claim is not contested by the coalition — down through “fair” and “weak” to “discounted”. Its figure of 1,017 to 1,494 includes those “confirmed” and assessed “fair”, where deaths were reported by two or more credible sources and the coalition agreed it had been bombing in the area. In the past couple of weeks of the campaign it is thought that only coalition aircraft and artillery were being used because of the dangers of civilian deaths from lower-tech Iraqi equipment. But by that stage, thousands of civilians were being held by Isis in the same houses in which they were holed up, making civilian and military targets impossible to distinguish. “There was absolutely no space left for these people,” Mr Hamilton said. “The battlefield was in the middle of their living rooms.”

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US coalition intensifies raids on Raqqa Syria Richard Spencer

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About 40 civilians have been killed in 48 hours in the Syrian city of Raqqa as US-backed troops intensified their attack on Islamic State militants. Nine women and 11 children were among the victims, mostly from bombing by the US-led coalition on Friday and Saturday, according to the UKbased Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group. A mother and daughter also died when they triggered a landmine while trying to flee. Footage from the town showed the shattered concrete shells of housing. “Bad smell spreads, as a result of many bodies in the streets and under the rubble,” said Tim Ramadan, the pseudonym of a local journalist who posts online reports from inside the city. The attack on Raqqa was launched in June and has liberated more than half of the city from Isis. It became bogged down in July with the local ground forces, made up of Kurdish-led militias unfamiliar with urban warfare, facing stiff resistance. Because of the relative stalemate on the ground, there has been increasing reliance on western bombing raids.

Iraqi leadership calls for one last push to drive out Isis Richard Spencer Beirut

The prime minister of Iraq ordered the start of what is expected to be one of the last big pitched battles against Islamic State in the country yesterday, ordering troops to move on the city of Tal Afar. The town is small compared with Mosul, which was freed from Isis control last month after nine months of fighting, but it is politically complex. Shia militias will join the exhausted remnants of Iraq’s special counterterror forces in the attack, even though most of the civilians in Tal Afar are believed to be Sunni. The plan of campaign so far has been

to try to use national rather than sectbased forces against Isis in Sunnimajority areas. However, the main army units involved in the battle for Mosul suffered a high attrition rate and are short of manpower. Tal Afar has also been a long-term support base for jihadist groups in Iraq, raising fears of revenge killings against civilians. “The city will be liberated and will join all the liberated cities,” Haider alAbadi, the prime minister said in an early morning TV broadcast. In keeping with previous similar announcements, he wore a black military-style uniform as he spoke though

Iraq’s weary troops have been ordered to advance on Isis-held Tal Afar

he is from a civilian background. Tal Afar was home to 200,000 people but the Shia half of its population fled before Isis arrived in June 2014. It is estimated that there are 35,000 civilians there at risk from Isis and bombardment by Iraqi and western coalition air forces and artillery. Tens of thousands more have fled in recent weeks, according to the United Nations, arriving at aid stations after struggling across the desert to try to find safety. “Families are trekking for ten to twenty hours in extreme heat to reach mustering points. They are arriving exhausted and dehydrated,” Lise Gran-

de, the UN humanitarian co-ordinator in Iraq, said. “Conditions are very tough in the city. Food and water are running out, and people lack the basic necessities to survive.” After Tal Afar, the town of Hawija, another long-term hotbed of jihadist resistance, and al-Qaim close to the Syrian border, will be the only sizeable towns remaining in Isis hands in Iraq. Tal Afar has been a stronghold for extremists since the US-led invasion in 2003 that toppled Saddam Hussein. Many senior leaders of Isis and its predecessor, al-Qaida in Iraq, were from Tal Afar, which is about 60km west of Mosul.

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FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT The young Russians who attend summer camp to learn English love Britpop and football but are mystified by Brexit

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e don’t talk to our friends. We don’t go out. Social media is killing social life,” Alicia declared. “No, it’s not true,” Dima retorted. “We can learn what’s happening outside Russia. We can make new friends.” Shy at first, but

gradually, one by one, the other students joined in. The English got a bit ragged — “he don’t”, “I must to go” — but at least they were talking, arguing, using the language we had spent so long practising in class. The sun was setting behind the pines. It was time to vote — and Dima’s side won the debate. Russian youth, Samsungs and iPhones in their hands, are not going to turn their backs on the freedoms social media has brought. This is the fifth year that Belgorod university has run an intensive foreign language summer camp. The setting is idyllic: little chalets dotted beneath the pines, classes morning and early afternoon, followed by games, treasure hunts, song contests, dance

Students want to travel and embrace the outside world, and see English as key

competitions, discos and a final burst of amateur dramatics, organised by last year’s students who come back as volunteers. No smoking, no drinking and no Russian; everything, at least the formal programme, has to be in English. In the past two years there have also been small groups taking German or Spanish. We are only a mile from the Ukrainian border. Things here are peaceful — the separatists are further east — but last week local mushroom-pickers out early one

morning scurried back quickly when they stumbled across a Ukrainian border post. A changeless, lazy, Tolstoyan tranquillity suffuses the short, hot Russian summer. The nearby river is clear, gentle and perfect for swimming. It’s hard to think of today’s tensions with Washington, the sanctions or Syria; harder still to imagine the bitter battles that raged over this landscape 75 years ago or the turmoil a century ago as the Bolsheviks plotted their seizure of power in distant St Petersburg. We

don’t talk politics in the summer camp. The four native speakers, Val, Ian, James and me, are here to immerse the first-year architects, dentists, lawyers and IT specialists in the language they know they will need when they graduate. “You can’t get anywhere without English,” Igor said. (The pedant in me is happy not to hear “You can’t to get anywhere . . .”) But you pick up the mood: patriotic, ambitious, curious about the world and eager to travel. Everyone has followed Alexei Navalny’s web postings but takes both Putin and today’s prosperity for granted. All the youngsters follow American music, fads and trends, but wonder why the US seems so hostile to them. Everyone loves Sherlock Holmes, Britpop and football. But what on earth is Brexit about? It took me a whole lecture to explain. Each shift, 60 students at a time, gets two weeks here. The food is plain, the dormitories are cramped and the men are far outnumbered by the women. But the excitement is boundless. They live, breathe and flirt in English. The summer camp camaraderie lasts all year. And as I leave, I still have Blur and Depeche Mode ringing in my ears from last night’s song contest. Only in Russia.

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23 killed in express train derailment India Will Crisp

An investigation has begun after at least 23 people were killed and more than 200 injured when a train crashed on its way to the Hindu holy city of Haridwar in northern India. Rescue teams using cutting torches and cranes worked through the night to dismantle 14 carriages derailed when the Kalinga Utkal Express hit a section of track undergoing repair about 80 miles north of Delhi. Narendra Modi, the Indian prime minister, said his thoughts were with the relatives of those who died and that everything possible was being done to provide assistance. The government has promised compensation of 350,000 rupees (£4,250) for each bereaved family. Saturday’s incident was the fourth major rail accident in India this year.

The train crashed on its way to the holy city of Haridwar, north of New Delhi

Volga being poisoned by pollution Russia Marc Bennetts Moscow

Pollution in parts of the Volga, the longest river in Europe, has reached a critical level. Raw sewage has been pumped into it and it is further contaminated by thousands of wrecks that lie on its bed, the Kremlin has said. A government report said that billions of cubic yards of waste, including oil byproducts, pesticides and heavy metals, were being dumped in the river every year by factories and cities along its banks. The situation has been made worse by an estimated 3,000 oil tankers, cargo and passenger ships that have sunk in the 2,295-mile long river and been abandoned by the authorities. The Volga is vital for Russian agriculture and the government has pledged to spend 257 billion roubles

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90 per cent of the fish species in the Volga have suffered mutations as a result of pollution. Less than 5 per cent of the river’s water is believed to be safe to drink. The Volga basin, an area about the size of Switzerland, is home to 60 million people — more than a third of Russia’s population. It winds from the north of the country through its agricultural heartland before discharging into the Caspian Sea. An integral part of Russian national identity, it has featured in numerous novels, films and other works of art. Large-scale pollution of the river began in the Soviet era when awareness of ecological issues was almost non-existent. In 1933 Stalin ordered an 80-mile long canal to be built to connect Moscow to the Volga. The canal was built by gulag inmates, thousands of whom died in the process.

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Snap backer set to invest millions in UK unicorn One of the world’s leading technology investors is poised to buy a stake in Transferwise in a deal expected to value the British online currency exchange business at more than £1 billion just seven years after it was created. IVP, a venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley which has backed Snapchat, Twitter and Netflix, is understood to be in advanced talks to invest tens of millions of pounds in Transferwise. The deal is expected to value it at more than £1 billion should it go through, reaffirming Transferwise’s “unicorn” status, the label bestowed on unlisted start-ups with a dollar price tag running into ten figures. Transferwise has received about £90 million in funding and its backers include Andreessen Horowitz, a venture capital firm that invested in Facebook, and Sir Richard Branson. Transferwise is understood to be in talks with other investors who are interested in joining the proposed round. Any deal would be a significant vote of confidence in London’s emerging group of financial technology — fintech — start-ups. In April Taavet Hinrikus, co-founder of Transferwise, expressed fears about the impact Brexit would have on technology businesses. IVP focuses on later-stage venture capital and growth equity deals and an investment could be a precursor to an eventual flotation of Transferwise. More than a third of the companies that IVP has invested in have subsequently been listed, an eventuality that might mean a bumper payday is in store for early investors such as Sir Richard, as well as Transferwise’s Estonian founders, Mr Hinrikus, a former Skype director, and Kristo Käärmann. Transferwise’s customers use the site to transfer more than £1 billion every month. The company claims that it saves consumers and small businesses more than £1.5 million a day in foreign exchange fees. It is said to be consider-

ing expansion into other financial services. In the year to March 31, 2016, the company made a pre-tax loss of £17.4 million. It has said it is profitable in this calendar year and expects to have annual revenues of £100 million. Another British unicorn, Funding Circle, the peer-to-peer lender, made a pre-tax loss of £39.5 million in 2015. It has attracted about £300 million in investment since it started in 2010. Transferwise has its global headquarters in London but is planning a European base on the continent. In April during a government event designed to promote investment in post-Brexit Britain, Mr Hinrikus caused a stir by saying: “If I was setting up Transferwise today I probably would not choose London.” It is understood that Transferwise will retain its base in the capital after the latest investment round. Transferwise was set up in 2010 to offer significantly cheaper money transfers than those provided by banks and other traditional players. Mr Hinrikus and Mr Käärmann had grown frustrated with the high costs involved in transferring money abroad while they were working in London. They established a way to transfer money into each other’s accounts to bypass bank fees. The company now uses its own network of international accounts to avoid the fees associated with the traditional banks’ international payments system. Customers sending money abroad pay into Transferwise’s local bank account and the company uses cash in an overseas account to pay the recipient in the local currency. The idea is to avoid money crossing borders. Where funds are not available in the destination currency Transferwise relies on third-party funds to fulfil payments. An announcement on the proposed deal, should it go through, could still be some weeks away. Mr Hinrikus, Transferwise’s chairman, declined to comment. IVP did not respond to a request for a comment.

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elvaux, the luxury Belgian leather handbag retailer, has agreed a new lease on the former Pinet store on New Bond Street, pushing the image of the exclusive Mayfair shopping street even further upmarket (Deirdre Hipwell writes). Delvaux will pay a rent of

£1.5 million a year, rising to £1.6 million. During the past five years Bond Street has undergone significant change and tenant “churn” as rising rents and changing consumer demand have resulted in an intensification of “super-luxury” retailers. Mere upmarket brands such as Coach, Follie Follie, Lalique, Nicole Farhi and Joseph have retreated to less expensive locations. Anthony Selwyn, head of central London retail at Savills, said that Bond Street was fast becoming the

preserve of “superluxury” brands” only: “Bond Street has witnessed terrific change over the last five years. Headlines have often simply referred to rental growth yet the more subtle and sustainable change has been the intensification of core luxury brand activity.” Savills expects that there will be 12 new store openings on Bond Street this year, which would be in line with the previous peak in 2012. This will include openings for Alaia, Tasaki, Panerai and Pomellato and leading brands from within LVMH Group.

Companies worldwide are handing cash to shareholders in unprecedented amounts, paying out dividends at the rate of $5 billion a day in the second quarter of this year. Dividend growth has sprung back to 7.2 per cent, the fastest since late 2015, emphatically ending the hiatus of last year when payouts were dampened by US political uncertainty and Chinese growth worries. Companies raised payouts in almost every region of the world, according to the Janus Henderson global dividend index, with the US, Japan, Switzerland, the Netherlands and South Korea all posting record payouts in dollar terms. The exception was the UK, where dividends in US dollar terms fell by 3.5 per cent because of the slide in sterling triggered by the Brexit vote. In sterling terms, UK large companies produced a 6.1 per cent dividend increase, however. While the rise in second-quarter global dividends to a record $447.5 billion was good news for income investors, pension funds and others, it is certain to reignite concern that the world’s companies are not reinvesting enough of their profits in future projects. “Without a doubt, payout ratios have been rising,” Alex Crooke, head of global equity income at Janus Henderson, said. “That is a worry.” Payout ratios measure the proportion of after-tax profits paid out in dividends and buybacks and therefore not available for reinvestment. In the UK they have risen from a long-term average of 50 per cent to 80-90 per cent. Mr Crooke argued that the rise in dividends was good news because asset managers were well placed to reallocate cash from mature companies to more exciting growth businesses. Janus Henderson lifted its forecast for total dividends this year to a record $1.208 trillion, up by 5.5 per cent on an underlying basis. That is the equivalent to the GDP of a medium-sized developed economy such as Spain. Amid growing worries that world share prices are looking undervalued, the rise in dividends can help to underpin prices so long as payouts are seen as sustainable. The overall yield on world shares is 2.2 per cent, while shares in Europe yield 3.3 per cent and emerging market stocks more. Mr Crooke has said that he sees no prospect of a recession or financial crisis to derail share prices. “One can never say there won’t be a mini-crisis of confidence, but the danger of a reset of 20-30 per cent? I can’t see the triggers for that.”

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Business The week ahead today Co-operative Bank shareholders attend a general meeting to vote on the proposed restructuring and recapitalisation of the company. If approved, the restructuring is expected to be implemented on September 1. Interims Headlam Group; Hostelworld

tomorrow The state of Britain’s housing market will be brought into focus when Persimmon, the housebuilder, reveals its half-year results. While the group and the sector have posted bullish figures since the Brexit vote, the market will be checking the latest figures for any signs of a slowdown. Interims John Wood Group; Cairn Energy; Antofagasta; Persimmon; Empresaria Group Finals BHP Billiton Economics 9.30am UK public sector net borrowing

wednesday Samsung hosts a Galaxy Unpacked event in New York, at which it is expected to unveil a new device. At last year’s event it launched the Note7 smartphone, but had to recall the product within weeks and halt production and sales after the phones started exploding, a problem blamed on faulty batteries. Interims WPP Group; Vedanta Resources; Carillion; Hansteen Holdings; Candover Investments; Costain Group; Anglo Pacific Group AGM/EGM Independent News & Media

thursday The Office for National Statistics publishes the second estimate for UK economic growth in the second quarter of the year after last month’s preliminary estimate showed that GDP increased by 0.3 per cent in the second quarter compared with the first. Final figures are due next month. Interims Macfarlane; Playtech; Hunting; PV Crystalox Solar; Premier Oil; Polymetal International; Sportech; Camellia; Phoenix Group Holdings; John Laing Group AGM/EGM: City of London Group; Servision; Nextenergy Solar Fund Economics: 9:30am UK GDP (Q2, 2nd rel); UK: index of services (Jun)

friday Today is the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport’s deadline for Ofcom to provide advice regarding the proposed merger between 21st Century Fox and Sky. The department said on August 8 that a number of representations made in relation to the referral decision by Karen Bradley, the secretary of state, raised new evidence and/or comment on the Ofcom assessment and so had asked Ofcom to advise on points arising from these representations. Interims Henry Boot; Computacenter AGM/EGM Stagecoach

Apple and Facebook earmark billions for big-budget streaming James Dean US Business Editor

It is almost two decades since The Sopranos came to the small screen. Since then we have been treated to the likes of Six Feet Under, The Wire, Mad Men, Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones. Viewers have been spoiled. But far from petering out, the golden age of television is being given new impetus by America’s big technology companies. We have already witnessed the rapid rise of the video-streaming services Netflix and Amazon Prime Video, which are winning Oscars and Emmys at the expense of big Hollywood studios. Now the competition is heating up further with Apple and Facebook entering the fray. Billions upon billions of dollars are being earmarked to create big-budget shows that are addictive enough to keep paying subscribers pinned to their sofas. Last week it emerged that Apple had set aside a production budget of about $1 billion this year, with which it could buy as many as ten premium television shows. “The next battleground in tech is quite clearly in video,” Paolo Pescatore, an analyst at CCS Insight, said. “People want to be end gaged and they feel compelled to watch new and exciting h content. They have already shown a willing-

ness to pay subscription fees and to watch free content with advertisements. “Netflix has paved the way and has a ton of data on their consumers. Apple certainly has the ecosystem for video streaming but they really are late to the market, so they need to do something quickly and do it better.” Facebook’s production budget is not known but the company is thought to be spending as much as $3 million an episode for high-end shows, which compares with an estimated cost of about $10 million for the most expensive episodes of Game of Thrones. This month Facebook began testing Watch, a new section of its social network that showcases its exclusive video content. Netflix expects to spend $7 billion on production next year, up from the $6 billion it forecasts this year. Amazon Prime Video will spend about $4.5 billion on its catalogue this year, having spent about the same as Apple in its first full year of operation in 2013. The video streaming upstarts are bringing in premium talent from the old world of television to create premium shows for the new one. Shonda Rhimes, who helped to make the smash hit Grey’s Anatomy for ABC, was lured to Netflix last week. In June, Apple brought in Zack Van Amburg and Jamie Erlicht, presidents of Sony Pictures Televi-

Two of the executives behind Breaking Bad have been lured to Apple. Game of

sion who helped to create Breaking Bad, Sneaky Pete and The Shield for the network. Nonetheless, the video streaming companies face increasing competition from traditional players. Some have launched their own streaming services, such as the BBC with iPlayer and HBO with Go. Now, as the competition heats up further, there are more on the way.

This month Walt Disney said that it would launch at least two new streaming services — one aimed at children and one at sports fans — while pulling its film catalogue from Netflix. On July 26 Sky said that it was launching a streaming video service in Spain to compete with Netflix and other rivals. 21st Century Fox owns a 39 per cent stake in Sky and is attempting to take

Why ‘overboarders’ rock Investors are rebelling over directors who take on an excess of non-executive roles, Peter Cunliffe reports

few years ago, “going plural” became the fashionable career choice for executives of a certain age. What could be more agreeable after the daily grind of a full-time job than taking three, four or five non-executive posts at £60,000 apiece and flitting from boardroom to boardroom to dispense wisdom? Investors, however, have become increasingly concerned that some directors are spreading themselves too thinly — a phenomenon known as “overboarding”. Last week the Investment Association reported a fivefold increase in votes against the re-election of individual directors at FTSE 350 companies. Mounting concern about directors holding multiple roles and not devoting enough time to each company was one of the main reasons for revolts this year.

One of the principles of the corporate governance code recommends: “All directors should be able to allocate sufficient time to the company to discharge their responsibilities effectively.” It is a guideline that many institutional investors and the proxy voting organisations that advise them are taking increasingly seriously, and using to challenge directors when they come up for re-election. Many investors and proxy firms set their own limits for how many boards an individual should sit on, typically between three and six, depending on the size and complexity of the company and the duties involved in the role. In this year’s most high-profile case, Paul Walsh, the former Diageo boss, stepped down from HSBC after the advisory firms Glass Lewis and Institutional Investor Services raised concerns about his “multiple external appointments”. Martin Mortell, director of research for UK and Europe at Glass Lewis, said: “It’s always been something we’ve raised as an issue, but it feels like investors have been taking it more seriously over the last 12 months or so. It feels like this year was the year investors chose to make a stand on that particular issue.” In general, most FTSE 350 directors

Too many irons in the fire Behind the story

anks have been in the front line of overboarding concerns because investors demand that complex financial organisations command their directors’ full attention (Peter Cunliffe writes). Paul Walsh quit the board of HSBC in April after Glass Lewis and ISS, the asdvisers, recommended that investors oppose his re-election because of his other commitments as chairman of Compass,

the FTSE 100 catering company, and Aimlisted Avanti Communications and other posts. Glass Lewis said the issue was about whether he would have had the capacity to make a full contribution in the event of another financial crisis. Sir Ian Cheshire, chairman of Barclays UK, in April pledged to reduce his outside commitments after ISS said his position was “not without concern” because of “significant external time commitments”. He is also chairman of Debenhams, but is due to step down as a director of Whitbread this autumn. Another individual in the firing line was Ireena Vittal at Compass, who agreed

to review her portfolio and reduce her directorships after 36.6 per cent of shareholders voted against her reelection. The company said her contribution had not been affected by her other commitments. Segro, the property group, said that it had reviewed the commitments of its non-executives and specifically Gerald Corbett, the chairman. It decided that even with his chairmanships at Britvic, the drinks company, and Numis, the stockbroker, he would have sufficient time to commit to the company. He has since stepped down from Numis and will leave Britvic next month.

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Bigger is not always better for funds business commentary Harry Wilson

Another stop on the road to digital dominance

Thrones, left, has a budget of up to $10 million an episode

full control of the company. Rupert Murdoch, co-executive chairman of 21st Century Fox alongside his son Lachlan, is chairman of News Corp, the owner of The Times. The glut of new services will leave viewers with rather a lot to choose from — and rather a lot of money to spend if they want to watch every sports match and every blockbuster series. Tim

The rumblings about Apple’s video streaming service began about two years ago, when it emerged that it was talking to big Hollywood production houses about creating bespoke content and speaking to broadcast networks including ABC, Fox, CBS and NBC about using their shows (James Dean writes). In July last year, Apple bought the rights to Carpool Karaoke, above, the skit show devised by James Corden, the British comedian, in its largest known foray into video streaming to date. A video streaming service, which would likely be attached to the Apple Music music streaming service (as Carpool Karaoke is), would add another arrow to the quiver of Apple’s services division and make up for iTunes’s falling share of the film sales and rental market.

Westcott, an analyst at IHS Markit, said: “The question now arises: if every media company has their own streaming service, rather than aggregating channels into a discounted pay TV bundle, have we really just gone from one kind of selling to another? “The media companies all say that they’re taking their destiny into their own hands by going direct to the

The iPhone generates about two thirds of Apple’s revenue and will continue to make big bucks for years to come. However, the company is slowly diversifying away from its blockbuster smartphone and from hardware products generally. Apple’s services division brings together its big software products such as iCloud, iTunes, Apple Pay, the App Store and Apple Music. Revenue from the division was $7.3 billion in the three months to the end of June. Sales from the division rose by 22 per cent from the same period last year. If Apple’s video streaming service proves to be successful, it has billions of dollars to draw from to pump up production: the company had cash reserves of $261.5 billion at the end of June, more than any other public company in the world.

consumer. The flaw in their strategy is that the consumer doesn’t necessarily buy content from one studio alone. “So I don’t think we’re going to see video streaming replacing pay TV — most people will have both. But the streaming services will be crucial for reaching people who don’t have a paid subscription. Generally this is the younger generation.”

the company boat were good at managing their commitments, but overboarding was a potential risk issue and one that was closely tied to remuneration, he added. It has become more of a priority as other concerns about FTSE 350 governance have been addressed and it has put the focus on why so many companies draw on the same group of names to fill posts. “Instead of bringing in someone who sits on five or six boards, they need to look beyond that pool,” Mr Mortell said. There is a risk that in the rush to identify overboarders, investors will deter talented non-executives and deprive companies of the benefits of outside experience. It could become a box-ticking exercise, though many investors and advisers distinguish between those with “plain vanilla” directorships at small companies and investment trusts and those with time-consuming jobs chairing large companies or heading audit committees. From left, Paul Walsh, Ireena Vittal and Sir Ian Cheshire

Sarah Wilson, chief executive of Manifest, the advisory firm, said that overboarding was not a significant problem across the FTSE 350, but added: “There is a small number of companies where this is an issue, which gives us cause for concern, particularly where you have an individual who is combining several chairman roles which are particularly heavy jobs.” Ms Wilson said that investors, companies and headhunters needed to examine the causes of overboarding and why there was a shortage of talent. “Is there a shortage of

chairman or non-executives generally and, if so, where are we going to find them? Where are the directors of the future coming from?” she asked. Analysis by Manifest shows that a relatively high proportion of female non-executives hold multiple jobs, which could be an unintended consequence of the pressure to increase gender diversity in the boardroom. Where there is a shortage of “board-ready” female directors, those with suitable experience and skills are in high demand, so much so that in Scandinavia, women with multiple directorships have become known as “golden skirts”. Ms Wilson said: “It is a symptom of boards not having thought about succession. It is a pipeline problem.” Stephen Martin, director general of the Institute of Directors, said experience of diverse boardroom environments could make a director more effective, but added: “Organisations need to ensure their board members do not spread themselves too thinly, and have sufficient time available to effectively fulfil their duties. Being a director is an increasingly demanding job, and at times of crisis, the time commitment may be substantial.”

eing one of the UK’s biggest hedge funds is not easy. As they say in show business, it’s not the getting to the top that’s hard, it’s the staying there. Standard Life’s Global Absolute Return Strategies fund (Gars) is a monster by any measure, with total assets of about £44 billion. Since the financial crash the fund has offered a highly attractive type of investment. With steady returns difficult to come by, its mandate to make 5 per cent a year above the returns offered by cash has proved a draw. Successful marketing of the fund helped Standard Life’s investment unit more than double its assets between 2011 and 2016. No good thing comes without downside, however, and those who have managed these types of portfolios say that attempting to invest such large amounts of money is incredibly difficult. When the fund launched in 2005 it had £200 million, making it highly nimble. As recently as 2011 it had less than £10 billion. The more than quadrupling in size since then has stretched its ability to find good places for investment. The fund has several directional strategies in place that effectively amount to carry trades, borrowing in one currency to buy another, such as buying Indian rupees to sell Swiss francs and Korean won. It also employs relative value trades that amount to betting on a divergence in the relative price of different assets. These are all common strategies for a hedge fund, but most operate on a far smaller scale so that when things go wrong they can make a quick exit. At Gars’s scale getting out is harder. To understand what this type of thing looks like when it goes wrong, look up JP Morgan’s so-called London Whale trading scandal, which at its heart was a flawed attempt to deal with a huge influx of post-crisis liquidity in a low-yield market. As JP Morgan learnt to its cost, once you reach such size, wherever you invest you can end up becoming the market in whatever position you get into. In the first six weeks of last year fears over a cooling in the Chinese economy hit Gars’s investments hard. The Brexit vote left it nursing further losses. Standard Life argued that these were caused by markets becoming disjointed from their fundamentals and trading on momentum, but that is not unusual. Industry rumours, denied by Standard Life, suggest that it has recognised the problem and is considering a restructuring of its portfolio. Whatever it is doing, it had better move quickly. About £10 billion has been withdrawn in the past year and sustained poor performance will only feed this cycle. As things are, Standard Life Aberdeen could be heading towards the first headache of its married life.

Grave problem

hree years ago there was a row over the outside interests of one of the Bank of England’s new financial policy committee

wonks. The Bank had assured MPs that Richard Sharp was not involved in live investments, but was forced to clarify its statement as it emerged that a fund founded by the former Goldman Sachs banker had in fact been scouting for investments. All was resolved and Mr Sharp continued to serve on the committee, but the more interesting aspect of the episode was what his fund had been looking to invest in: cemeteries. Mr Sharp had identified Jewish and Muslim burial sites as a lucrative niche asset class given the shortage of available land. However, where Mr Sharp saw an opportunity others see a wider problem: that of soaring funeral costs. Last week Phil Loney, boss of Royal London, pointed to escalating funeral care prices as one of the biggest problems in the savings market, with funeral costs having outpaced even house prices. A report in July by Fairer Finance found that the average funeral costs almost £3,900, a rise of 104 per cent over the past 13 years. And that is before you include “send-off” costs that can add a further £2,000. Dying is an expensive business in 2017 and it is not about to get cheaper. This has led to a rise in the sale of funding plans. In 2002 fewer than 50,000 financing packages were sold, according to the Funeral Planning Authority. By 2016 this had risen to more than 200,000. This is obviously a positive step, but there are concerns that some have been sold duff plans. Mr Loney warned that many prudent savers might not be aware that their packages were worthless if they stopped making payments, even if they had been paying in for years. The Scottish government has drawn up measures to help people avoid needing to have a pauper’s funeral. The Treasury select committee was also looking at the issue in the previous parliament. With Brexit, it must be hoped that Westminster MPs will still have time to follow Holyrood’s lead.

A significant exit

n Friday, Ratesetter withdrew from the P2PFA, the trade body for the peer-to-peer lending industry. As one of three dominant British P2P platforms, Ratesetter choosing to withdraw is like Barclays quitting the banking industry association. Although both sides were keen to stress that this was a voluntary action, those who have followed the company’s recent travails will recognise it for the significant event that it is. Ratesetter’s ill-fated foray into wholesale lending, that is lending its customers’ money en masse to a few big lending businesses, has cost the company millions of pounds. It has since ceased wholesale lending. The exit of Ratesetter shows the determination of P2P lenders to prove to the authorities that they can sort out their problems themselves. Whether it will be enough to forestall a regulatory crackdown is another matter. harry.wilson@thetimes.co.uk

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Gold-plated phones call up cash for pension hole

£500,000 pension hole at Vertu, phone maker to the super-rich, is to be filled after liquidators raised about £1.5 million from an auction of the company’s assets (James Hurley writes). Adam Harris, of Griffins, an insolvency practice, said that most of the pension gap, and most of the £460,000 owed to the 178 staff in unpaid wages, is likely to be repaid from the proceeds of the auction. The company made smartphones adorned with titanium, alligator skin and diamonds. Its phones sometimes sold for six figures. At the auction, handled by GJ Wisdom,

gold-encrusted phones were sold along with manufacturing and office equipment. The company had consolidated losses of £128.5 million and claimed debts of £64 million when it failed at the end of June. Unsecured creditors are owed more than £30 million. Since March staff pension contributions had been taken from salaries but not paid to pension providers, the liquidator said. Mr Harris and Kevin Goldfarb were appointed as liquidators of the business last month after the collapse of talks over a “pre-pack” sale of the business for €2.2 million back to Hakan Uzan, its previous owner. Mr Harris said that the liquidators would focus on the conduct of directors and would look into the movement of “significant sums” from Vertu’s manufacturing division to other group entities before it failed.

Bosses at biggest companies don’t know how to tackle cyberattacks James Hurley

Two out of three bosses at the UK’s biggest companies have not been trained in how to deal with a cyberattack, the government has warned, despite growing awareness at board level of the havoc that can be wreaked on organisations by hackers. A study by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and accountancy firms found that many large organisations were unprepared for the kind of attack that caused significant disruption to global companies including WPP, FedEx and Reckitt Benckiser in June and July. Despite growing fears over cyberattacks on businesses and public bodies, 68 per cent of FTSE 350 companies have not received any training to deal with such incidents. Only 2 per cent said that they had received “comprehensive training”, while 10 per cent of large businesses did

not have a plan in place to respond to a cyber incident, the government survey revealed. This was in spite of a greater awareness of the problem. More than half of respondents said that they considered cyberattacks to be one of the biggest risks they faced, up from 29 per cent in 2014. The issue is also becoming more likely to be a subject of board debate. Matt Hancock, the government’s digital minister, said: “Recent cyberattacks have shown the devastating effects of not getting our approach to cybersecurity right. These new reports show we have a long way to go until all our organisations are adopting best practice.” In June, the cyberattack known as Petya, which involved the spread of a virus through a Ukrainian tax software product, affected organisations in more than 60 countries. Maersk, the shipping company, was unable to dock and unload containers

at some of its ports, while customers of TNT, the delivery company owned by FedEx, faced weeks worth of backlogs as their IT systems suffered. The company’s UK depot staff were forced to resort to pen and paper to process deliveries weeks after the attack. A hack on Talktalk by a 17-year-old

68%

Number of FTSE 350 companies that have not had cybersecurity training

boy in 2015, which led to the information of personal information of more than 150,000 customers being compromised, cost the company tens of millions of pounds and resulted in a record £400,000 fine for the internet service provider. The government’s annual cybersecu-

rity report is designed to provide insight into how the UK’s biggest 350 companies are dealing with the issue. It is supported by large accountancy firms including Deloitte, EY, KPMG and PWC. Paul Taylor, UK head of cybersecurity at KPMG, said: “While cybersecurity has cemented itself on to the board’s agenda, they often lack the training to deal with incidents. This is hugely important as knowing how to deal confidently with an incident in the heat of the moment can save time and money. “The aftermath of a cyberattack, without the appropriate training in managing the issue, can result in reputational damage, litigation and [can] blunt competitive edge.” The government set out a five-year national cybersecurity strategy in November last year, and has said that there will be £1.9 billion of investment to help businesses to protect themselves.

Legal battle over mobile airwaves ‘is threat to economy’ Callum Jones

O2 has told BT and Three that a dispute about the airwaves could damage the economy and harm consumers. Today EE, the mobile operator owned by BT, is expected to threaten regulators with a legal challenge over plans to impose a limit on the amount of spectrum that companies can win. It is attempting to jump ahead of Three, the network owned by CK Hutchison, which is considering a judicial review after it complained that a proposed cap was not high enough. Yesterday Mark Evans, chief executive of O2, accused its two rivals of having given “no thought” to the damage that could be caused by a long legal battle. Last month Ofcom said that it

O2 says court action will delay the spectrum sale and harm customers

would introduce a limit so that a mobile operator could control at most 37 per cent of the usable mobile spectrum. Three, which had campaigned for a cap as low as 30 per cent, described the plans as “a kick in the teeth for all consumers”. BT says it is concerned that changing the rules for spectrum auctions will prevent it from taking a big role in 5G network upgrade plans. “We’re supportive of Ofcom’s goal to release airwaves quickly, and we don’t want this challenge to slow down that process, but Three’s latest action has forced our hand,” Marc Allera, chief executive of EE, told The Sunday Telegraph. “We’ve been consistently opposed to the cap that Three is trying to make even more restrictive.” Calling for

auctions to go ahead, even if spectrum is loaned rather than sold, Mr Evans said that Ofcom “can and must act” because the UK “desperately needs” more mobile airwaves. “Legal action will inevitably cause delay to the auction and gives no thought to the impact and harm this will have to UK customers, UK plc and economic growth,” Mr Evans said. “Should litigation go ahead, it must be expedited. In addition . . . on the basis that all operators have accepted the rules for 2.3GHz, Ofcom should go ahead with auctioning this immediately either on a permanent or temporary basis. This would allow spectrum to be used whilst a potentially protracted legal process in relation to the 3.4GHz spectrum is contested.”

Metro could make £35m as Mail group ponders sale Callum Jones Markets Reporter

The owner of the Daily Mail is considering whether to sell Metro, the country’s biggest freesheet. Daily Mail and General Trust declined to comment on Metro’s future this weekend after reports that the company had hired consultants to consider its future. The weekday tabloid could be sold for between £25 million and £35 million, according to The Sunday Times. DMGT is said to have commissioned Cardean Bell, a boutique advisory group, set up by Peter Bell, a former investment banker at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, to examine the options for Metro. In December Paul Zwillenberg, chief executive of DMGT, refused to rule out selling its newspapers. “There are no sacred cows,” he told analysts. “We are, have been and continue to be an active portfolio manager. If someone values our business significantly greater than we value it ourselves, we will listen.” Metro was launched in March 1999 and aimed at commuters. According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, it has an average readership of 1.47 million. DMGT also owns Risk Management Solutions, a catastrophe modelling group, and a collection of events. In addition, the company has a 49 per cent stake in Euromoney Institutional Investor, the listed online information and events group, and a 30 per cent interest in ZPG, the digital property company behind Zoopla. Mr Zwillenberg, formally of the Boston Consulting Group, became chief executive of the company in June last year and soon announced a strategic review. Lord Rothermere, 49, has been chairman since 1998. Shares in DMGT have fallen by more than a fifth this year after the company twice lowered its projections. In May the company reported an 11 per cent fall in half-year operating profits.

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Trump’s misguided trade policy does not bode well for Britain

If a public project isn’t working, we shouldn’t be afraid to pull the plug

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The headline in last Tuesday’s edition of this newspaper read “Garden bridge killed off at cost of £50m”. The point was rammed home in the first paragraph, which said that the “scheme had finally been scrapped, at a cost of nearly £50 million to taxpayers”. The intended meaning is clear from the construction of the sentences — it was the decision to scrap the bridge that had cost £50 million. This is a classic error, and an example of one of the most enduring biases in human thought and decision making. Once you have started down a path, once you have started spending money, then the temptation is to keep going. To stop now is to ensure that all the money and effort expended will prove to have been a waste. As every first year economics student knows, that is the wrong way of looking at it. “Sunk costs” should be irrelevant in making a decision. As every normal human being knows, one shouldn’t throw good money after bad. The fact that £50 million has already been spent should matter not a jot for the decision as to whether to proceed. That depends on the future costs and benefits. If even after spending £50 million, the future additional costs cannot justify the benefits then the project should be stopped. The fact that I have just spent £1,000 repairing my car ought not to influence my decision over whether or not to spend the next £1,000. That decision should be taken independently. That’s the rational response. Only it can be difficult to be rational. To stop spending money on a public project, to give up on the car after you have just spent a lot of money on it, is to admit that you made a mistake — that the last £50 million or £1,000 was wasted. None of us finds it easy to admit that we were wrong. The temptation, often overwhelming, is to plough on. I have not the slightest idea or view as to whether it would have made sense to carry on with the Garden Bridge. I am nevertheless tempted to cheer the bravery of the decision almost irrespective of whether it was the right one. For it is all too easy to be swept along by the tide and to fear the consequences of having wasted money so obviously.

We see this on a much bigger scale with grand infrastructure projects. It costs huge amounts of money, billions, just to do the preliminary work on projects such as Crossrail and HS2. In principle this is supposed to be about feasibility, proof of concept, testing out how much it will cost and what the benefits will be. In practice once hundreds of millions have been spent you can be pretty sure that the momentum will carry the project to completion. I experienced this at first hand when working at the Treasury in the mid-2000s. The idea of Crossrail had been around for years. A formal decision wasn’t taken and wasn’t taken again, but more and more money was committed to preparatory work. It was obvious what was going to happen. It was probably the right decision and it looks like it will be delivered in an orderly fashion. It seems inevitable that the same process will bring us HS2. With the high-speed rail route costing several times more even than Crossrail, I’m less sure that approving it will be the right decision. The opportunity cost in not meeting other transport infrastructure needs will be huge. There is, however, one form of public project that is more likely to be scrapped, even after the expenditure of tens, hundreds or even thousands

Nearly £50 million of public money was spent on The Garden Bridge project

of millions of pounds. If you enjoy a good horror story I can wholeheartedly recommend the appallingly wonderful The Blunders of Our Governments by Anthony King and Ivor Crewe. In chapter eight they describe the financial catastrophe that was the Millennium Dome, a perfect example of a project that could never be abandoned and into which huge amounts of good money followed a king’s ransom in bad money. But it’s to chapter 13 that you must turn to get your hair really standing on end. This is the chapter about IT projects. Over the 1990s and 2000s project after project was taken forward, had billions spent on it, and was abandoned only at the very last minute when the fact that it couldn’t deliver became inescapable. The granddaddy of them all was the proposed IT system for the NHS on which about £20 billion — yes billion — was wasted before it was effectively abandoned in 2011. The Garden Bridge doesn’t compare in scale but it is instructive that both projects were abandoned only when a new administration, not implicated in earlier decisions, took over responsibility. The description of the NHS project by one official appearing in front of the public accounts committee, as being like a juggernaut travelling up the M1, is instructive. Once a big project is under way its momentum can carry it through almost any amount of evidence that it is not working. The scale of waste is terrifying and often hidden. The serial inability of governments to define, manage and deliver big projects can only be sobering in the context of the attempt to deliver Brexit — the biggest project of them all. Of course it would be better for all if project selection and management were better in the first place. But the appropriate response to making a mistake can be to stop. We should question the original decision and the bad money wasted. But decisions which prevent good money following bad are too rare, not too common.

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Paul Johnson is director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies. Follow him on @PJTheEconomist

f there was one theme in the president’s election campaign, it was economic security. He stressed the need to cut America’s trade deficit, using quotas on imports in politically sensitive sectors. In the words of his trade representative: “The president is very determined in this matter. This administration will act decisively.” This wasn’t President Trump. It was President Clinton in his first term. The economic superpower in the Pacific that he was targeting for its huge trade surplus was not China but Japan. Fortunately, Clinton changed course. His legacy on open trade is creditable. If only the Trump administration were as persuadable. Despite the departure of Steve Bannon, Mr Trump’s chief strategist, the administration still

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appears bent on what Bannon called “economic war” with China. Mr Trump campaigned on a pledge of big tariffs on imports from China and Mexico and has attacked Germany for running a wide trade surplus. Mr Trump’s trade adviser, Peter Navarro, put forward the administration’s thinking in a speech delivered to the National Association for Business Economics in March. Navarro’s case is that countries that run a trade surplus with America are pursuing a strategy of “conquest by purchase”. This is his picturesque way of saying they earn dollars from exports to the US and then use them to buy American assets. This is the “war” of which Bannon spoke. It’s an understatement to say that Navarro’s case is far outside the mainstream. Here is how most economists would interpret America’s external deficit. The same reasoning applies to Britain: we too run a wide account deficit, amounting to £16.9 billion (or

3.4 per cent of GDP) in the first quarter. These imbalances are not evidence that America or Britain is “uncompetitive”, or that surplus countries are operating unfair trade practices. When a country runs a current account deficit, this means that its domestic investment exceeds domestic savings. Conversely, a country with a wide current account surplus, such as Germany or China, has domestic savings in excess of investment. The excess of dollars or pounds that a surplus country earns in selling its goods and services overseas is used to buy assets. These foreign purchases of American or British assets aren’t a “conquest”: they enable the US and Britain to finance more investment than they could from domestic savings. A country with a current account deficit will, by definition, run a financial account surplus. In a world of capital mobility between countries, there’s no reason why a current account deficit should be unsustainable. It depends on the appetite of foreign investors to hold dollar or sterling-denominated assets. If the Trump administration goes ahead with its tariffs, this won’t affect the US deficit except at the margin. In prompting retaliation, US protectionism would simply ensure that global trade volumes would decrease and living standards suffer. No one yet knows what Britain’s place in the international trading order will be after 2019. Sterling has fallen by 7.5 per cent against the euro since May and is still substantially lower against the dollar than before the Brexit vote — with little apparent effect so far in boosting net exports. If foreign investors do reduce their appetite for holding UK assets, this would put further downward pressure on sterling. Though wage growth has started to accelerate (up 2.1 per cent in the three months to June), it still lags inflation. Hence consumers’ living standards are being squeezed. If you throw into the mix a misguided trade policy by the world’s richest nation, the future doesn’t look bright — not for the world economy, and particularly not for Britain. Oliver Kamm is a Times leader writer and columnist. Twitter: @OliverKamm

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Monday August 21 2017 | the times

Business MICHAEL STEELE/GETTY

Wealth managers’ merger set to give staff huge payday Callum Jones

Hundreds of staff at Smith & Williamson could be in line for a share of £355 million as it continues merger talks with Rathbone Brothers. Over the weekend the companies confirmed that they were in “exclusive discussions” about a £2 billion tie-up. The all-share deal on the table is said to value Smith & Williamson, which is mostly owned by its staff, at more than £500 million. Rathbones, the 275-year-old investment group which sponsors the women’s lacrosse world cup, expects to finalise the merger within weeks, according to sources. The FTSE 250 company has a market value of £1.42 billion and more than £36 billion of assets under management. Smith & Williamson has approximately £19 billion. A combination of the two businesses, which collectively have almost 3,000 staff, is likely to provoke concerns about job losses. AGF, the Canadian investor with a 29 per cent interest in Smith & Williamson, raised questions about its future earlier this year when it started to consider selling its stake. The other 71 per cent is owned by staff, past and present. If the deal goes ahead S & W’s executive shareholders are likely to be paid

for their shares in new Rathbones shares. They would probably be prevented from selling at least some of them under normal “lock-in” arrangements designed to keep key staff loyal. Negotiations between the two companies are understood to have been taking place for several months and were reported by Sky News at the weekend. Rathbones said: “Whilst these discussions have been under way for some time and the boards of both Rathbones and Smith & Williamson are confident that the combination would bring meaningful benefits for the stakeholders of both businesses, discussions are ongoing and there can be no certainty any transaction will be agreed. “However,if agreed, any such transaction will be subject to the approval of shareholders.” In a separate statement Smith & Williamson reiterated that an agreement was not inevitable and, if reached by executives, would be placed before investors. With 1,700 staff in the UK, Ireland and Jersey, Smith & Williamson is led by David Cobb and Kevin Stopps, cochief executives. Andrew Sykes has served as non-executive chairman since 2013, having joined the board in 2004. Rathbones, which has 1,100 em-

Fat cats are getting less of the cream Callum Jones

Rathbones, which manages £36 billion, sponsors the women’s lacrosse world cup

ployees in 16 offices in the UK and Jersey, has been led by Philip Howell since he became chief executive in March 2014. Mark Nicholls became chairman in May 2011. The company dates from 1742 when the family started a timber merchant’s before branching out into shipping and financial management. William Rathbone IV is credited as having played a key role in the abolition of slavery, of which he was an opponent in the 18th

century. While Smith & Williamson is not as old as Rathbones, it still has an extensive history. It was set up in Glasgow in 1881 and is also the UK’s eighth largest accountancy firm. It bolstered its tax advice credentials in 2011 when it acquired Begbies Traynor. Evercore is advising Smith & Williamson as the talks continue. Royal Bank of Canada and JP Morgan are advising Rathbones.

The biggest listed companies have started to crack down on a formula responsible for increases in executive pay. Typical maximum allowable bonuses in the biggest 30 listed companies have fallen from 600 per cent of base pay per year four years ago to 450 per cent today, according to Deloitte. Across all companies in the FTSE 100, the restraint was less pronounced. Typical or median maximum allowable bonuses have shrunk from 385 per cent of base pay to 375 per cent. Overall, median chief executive pay across the companies in the FTSE 100 this year was down almost 20 per cent. The median overall pay for a FTSE 100 boss fell by almost a fifth, from £4.3 million to £3.5 million. Salaries continue to edge higher, however, with the midpoint basic pay increase remaining at about 2 per cent. “We are beginning to see signs that overall pay may be falling, particularly in the largest companies,” Stephen Cahill, vice chairman at Deloitte, said. This year bosses received an average of 71 per cent of the maximum available bonus, down from 77 per cent last year. “This is the first cycle where the legislation introduced in 2013 and primarily voted on during the 2014 annual general meetings will have taken effect,” Mr Cahill said. It seems to show that the legislation is working.”

the times | Monday August 21 2017

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Crumbling palaces of Udaipur hit the boom times - with James Bond’s help

Jurassic tie-up takes games designer to a new frontier

Melissa van der Klugt

Alexandra Frean

How do you turn a profit on 13 centuries of crumbling palaces dreamt up over 74 generations with pleasure gardens and elephant stables? The maharajah of Udaipur and his father called in two Hollywood producers and shot a James Bond film. As India marks 70 years of independence this month, the city of Udaipur in Rajasthan — which along with 550 other princely kingdoms acceded into the new republic in August 1947 — is celebrating its own transformation: into a modern business. The present maharajah-turned-chief executive, Arvind Singh Mewar, 73, recalls the three weeks in 1982 when Roger Moore, a dozen models and 200 cast members, crew and stuntmen and women came to live in the city’s famous floating Lake Palace to film Octopussy. Actresses rowed daily in a barge to a nearby island altered to resemble an Arabian Nights harem. “My father had cocktails in the evenings for the cast,” he says. Moore remains the family’s favourite 007. In one scene Moore, disguised as a crocodile, swims up to the floating palace, the hideaway of Octopussy (played by Maud Adams) and her beautiful cult members, whom he suspects to be involved with jewel smuggling. The maharajah’s Monsoon Palace served as the lair of the Afghan villain, Kamal Khan. The film’s producers spent nearly a quarter of their budget of more than $25 million in India. Shopkeepers were paid to close their shops and become extras on set. “It was the event that put us on the map as a brand,” Singh says. “People still talk about it.” As a boy, Singh played hide and seek in the palaces when they were still family homes. However, India’s independence took away royal sources of income and private purses were not enough to sustain such vast complexes. By the early 1960s Udaipur’s chandeliers and silkbedecked build-

Britain’s only listed computer games company has teamed up with Universal Studios to create a game based on the Jurassic Park films in a deal that is expected to double its revenue by 2019. Last month Frontier Developments secured £17.7 million from a Chinese internet group to help it expand abroad. David Braben, founder and chief executive of Frontier, said that the game would attract a younger audience than its existing games, Elite: Dangerous and Planet Coaster. “It will be our first self-published title to debut on PC, PlayStation and Xbox simultaneously,” he said. Mr Braben, who became one of the key figures in the computer gaming industry when he created Elite, a space trading game, in 1984, added that the new game would be Frontier’s first release to benefit from marketing of a major theatrical release. It will launch next summer to coincide with the release of the next film in the franchise, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. The previous film in the series, Jurassic World, released in 2015, took more than $1.67 billion at the box office. Frontier’s Jurassic World Evolution game puts players in charge of managing the Jurassic Park tourist destination, where they have to face such challenges as escaped dinosaurs. Along the way they will be able to consult characters from the film series for advice. Formed in 1994, Frontier initially developed games for other publishers, such as Microsoft, a model that allowed it to keep only a relatively low percentage of revenue from sales. It listed on AIM in 2013 and has moved to a much more lucrative self-publishing model. It has also benefited from an industry shift to publishing games online instead of on disk, which removes the risk and cost of holding physical stock and maximises revenue by enabling players to buy additional features, giving games a longer shelf life. Shares in Frontier have risen by 475 per cent, to 731p, since the company’s listing four years ago. Analysts at Liberum, who have put a target price of 850p on the shares, said that as a pioneer of the digital distribution model, Frontier had significantly improved its growth outlook and margins. They expect revenues to double from an estimated £30 million in 2018 to £61 million in 2019.

Shiv Niwas Palace is part of Arvind Singh Mewar’s hotel group, which staged Octopussy, with Roger Moore and Maud Adams

ings were in disarray and Singh and his father opened the Lake Palace as a hotel. But there was no tourist infrastructure or airport, and it stood empty for years. In 1970 he leased it to Tata’s Taj hotels. “Infrastructure started automatically as a fall out,” he says. Bond brought the publicity. “We had to do something drastic and think out of the box. A lot of maharajahs went the wrong way and sold off to survive, not for their future.” Singh worked in hotels in Manchester and America, where he washed dishes and took bookings. “I

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learnt all the systems from front office to how to answer a telephone.” He later leased out land to the Oberoi chain to build a five-star hotel. “I didn’t have deep enough pockets to change things on my own. That’s why I invited Taj and Oberoi. They made Udaipur a destination.” There are now five luxury hotels. Since then the city has become a stalwart Bollywood location. Other Hollywood films have included The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. He has also opened a museum in the City Palace that employs 2,000 people and set up his own hotel group, HRH

Group of Hotels, to manage a dozen properties. Tourist numbers topped one million earlier this year, putting Udaipur in the same league as the Houses of Parliament in London. But the business of being a modern maharajah is not an easy one. Two large inheritance tax bills have been met and a decades-long lawsuit over family assets is pending with his elder brother. He faces challenges daily: ancient buildings with hundreds of rooms that need constant care; pollution in the lake; and the government’s new goods and services tax that has added to tourists’ costs. Visitor numbers to India are already lower than those for Turkey. Singh says that he knows when business has been good just by looking out over the bazaar. “My hotel room gets me $500 a day, but the tourist staying in it also spends another $500 elsewhere in the city,” he says. If he can see the lights of houses twinkling he knows everyone has been able to afford electricity.

Desert sun too hot for solar panels Summertime blues knock Emily Gosden Energy Editor

Famed for its sunshine and high temperatures, Qatar might seem the ideal place to install solar panels, but as it looks to branch out into renewable energy, it has found that it is too hot for the panels to work properly. Summer temperatures that can reach 50C, combined with the build-up of dust, can reduce the efficiency of a photovoltaic panel by more than half. Qatar is ploughing tens of millions of dollars into research to develop desert panels that can withstand the harsh environment. The Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI) has about 40 researchers working on the issue in Doha, where it is testing panels from 27 international manufacturers. Marwan Khraisheh, acting executive

director, said that the efficiency of some panels could decline by as much as 30 per cent because of the heat, as temperatures in the panels reached 75C. “Certain materials do not function as they are supposed to when the temperature increases, so the transport of electrons from one layer to another becomes less efficient,” he said. Most panels contained silicon layers but the team found that compounds with less pure silicon could be more resilient. Dr Khraisheh said that dust could reduce efficiency by a further 30 per cent, especially in humid conditions. “The problem is when you have a dusty day and the dust accumulates then it will stick,” he said. “Unfortunately in our world water is very scarce here. It doesn’t rain, so it doesn’t wash itself.” QEERI is testing 16 types of coating and glass to develop “self-cleaning”

panels. “We don’t yet have the magic solution but we have some positive signs,” he said. Qatar has abundant supplies of natural gas, which almost exclusively provides its power. Dr Khraisheh said that Qatar wanted to build solar panels as part of its 2030 vision to diversify its energy supplies and make them more environmentally sustainable. The cost of solar panels has fallen so much in recent years that they have beecome attractive, even with the limitations of their operation in the desert. Qatar Electricity and Water Company, the state utility, has formed a joint venture with Qatar Petroleum to build 1,000 megawatts of solar capacity. The country is forming a consortium with other nations to work on desert solar panels and hopes to develop technology to export to arid areas, such as Australia, Africa and parts of America.

£2,800 off property prices Patrick Hosking Financial Editor

The holiday season has cast its usual shadow over the housing market, sending asking prices down slightly. The average price of property fell by 0.9 per cent — or £2,758 — this month compared to last, according to Rightmove. Asking prices are 3.1 per cent higher than a year ago, it said, adding that more general economic uncertainty was affecting sentiment. Miles Shipside, housing market analyst, said: “A combination of traditional summertime price blues and the chill of uncertainty in the air has cooled price growth in some parts.” House prices in the heart of England are rising fastest: in Northamptonshire

they are up by 9.1 per cent. Derbyshire, Norfolk and Nottinghamshire rose by 7.9 per cent, 7.4 per cent and 7.1 per cent respectively. Northamptonshire has been in demand because it is relatively affordable and is also in commuting distance of London. Adam Wellesley, director of Horts estate agent in Northampton, said: “The annual growth running at three times the national average in Northamptonshire is likely to be down to the close vicinity for commuters to get to London Euston, as you can now get there within 48 minutes.” The average time it takes to sell a home rose from 60 days in June to 61 days last month.

the times | Monday August 21 2017

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Working Life Business GOING FOR GROWTH The economic landscape in rural communities is changing as mainstream banking facilities are withdrawn, James Hurley writes

Businesses turn to Post Office as banks flee JAMES DADZITIS FOR THE TIMES

t is said that Ashburton, a small town on the edge of Dartmoor, was once well known for a champagne-style drink called Ashburton Pop. Legend has it that the fizzy stuff stopped flowing in 1785 when the recipe was lost. These days traders could be forgiven for wondering if they’ll be able to afford a pint of ale never mind the bubbly. A downturn in trade hit when the last bank in the community, Lloyds, closed its doors in 2016. Nick Legg, who runs The Fish Deli, says: “We were all very worried, and extremely angry that the bank had no scruples about leaving the town with no nearby banking facilities and even worse, no Cashpoint.” Partly thanks to the efforts of Stuart Rogers, the postmaster, some cheer among independent retailers can still be detected in the town. He is at the heart of a campaign to keep Ashburton and its traders in business even as bank branches appear to be going the way of Ashburton Pop. Rather than descend into bitterness at Lloyds’s decision, Mr Rogers, 49, has organised a marketing drive to remind visitors that independent retail isn’t yet a thing of the past. As well as working to capitalise on events such as a food festival to draw people into the town, Mr Rogers is determined to highlight the potential of post offices. “Banks are closing quite regularly in this part of the world. We can’t stop that,” he says. “What we can do is show what the post offices can do to get us through the autumn and the Christmas trading period.” Between April 2015 and 2016 more than 600 UK bank branches closed, often leaving small businesses suffering from declining footfall and a shortage of withdrawal and deposit facilities. Last week Barclays announced 54 branch closures. In March Royal Bank of Scotland said that it planned to close 180 branches and in April Lloyds outlined its desire to shut 100. This year HSBC is closing 117. The Post Office believes that it can ease the pain for small companies and boost business for postmasters such as Mr Rogers. In January it agreed arrangements with the banking industry that standardised the services that personal and business customers received in its 11,600 branches. The Post Office’s banking framework agreement means that it can offer cash withdrawals, deposits, balance inquiries and give change to customers of almost all banks. Martin Kearsley, director of banking services at the Post Office, said: “If you ask anyone what they want in their village it will be a pub, a duck pond, a church and a post office. We really are part of the DNA of the country but we need footfall. With the demise of the things you once went to the Post Office for like [road tax] and TV licences we need to find other relevant services that will keep us at the heart of communities.” Not everyone is convinced that the Post Office is ready to step into the breach. In 2015 the Access to Banking Protocol established procedures which set out the steps that banks would take when closing a branch to ensure that customers in rural and deprived areas did not lose out, including working with communities to establish alternative provision. A review of how a banking protocol was progressing, produced last year by Russel Griggs, a small business

Nick Legg, who runs The Fish Deli in Ashburton, Devon, was very angry when the last bank closed leaving the town without banking facilities or even a cash machine

Dry cleaner has been through the wringer since NatWest left town Debbie Hurst runs Market Place Dry Cleaners in Sturminster Newton with her husband Peter (Rosie Stratton writes). The Dorset town was hit by the closure of its NatWest branch last year. The town is due to lose its final remaining bank, Lloyds, at the end of next month. The shop has lost business as a result, she says. “Trade was definitely more regular before the banks started to close. We had a greater income and on a more regular basis.

Nowadays, people are visiting the town less frequently because a lot of business has moved to larger towns which still have high-street banks there. The lack of available places to withdraw cash means footfall has declined.” Ms Hurst has switched her bank account to make online banking easier, and makes cash deposits through the town’s Post Office but it’s not an ideal solution, she says. “You can be standing there for ages while

Gillian Mann runs a wine shop for which good banking services are vital

packages are getting sent off and people are doing their passports. You’re standing in a queue that’s very open and exposed and we’ve all got deposits of cash in our hands so on a long term basis I don’t think it’s the safest option. “I think it is wrong for the banks to keep assuming that the Post Office can continue taking on [the additional] demands and if it continues, the banks should give more professional support to it,” Ms Hurst, 52, says.

banking expert, uncovered concern about the extent to which Post Office branches could meet their needs. “Small businesses were especially critical,” he said, particularly about the time it took for the Post Office to count and accept deposits. The Federation of Small Businesses says that the Post Office is a poor substitute for banks and its services are “simply not up to scratch”. It says that cash and cheque clearing is often processed more slowly than in a bank and that basic services such as inter-account transfers are not offered. Mike Cherry, its national chairman, says: “We need to see substantial improvement and standardisation of the Post Office’s offering if it’s to be considered a viable replacement for bank branches.” The organisation says that the loss of “in-person bank branch support” and advice before major banking

Russel Griggs, a small business finance expert who has reviewed bank closures, has suggested that the banking industry arranges a cash collection service to help to ease the burden. Ms Hurst adds: “From a town point of view, we need to keep that Post Office going because if we lose that service, there will be a serious decline in the town. I also think that the Post Office is possibly helping us to hang on to the customers that we have got.”

decisions also comes as a blow to many smaller companies. Mr Kearsley says that some of the FSB’s criticisms are unfair. “We are in the process of rapid change and we are up to scratch to handle the kind of transactions that small businesses need day-to-day,” he said. Ian Renwick and Gillian Mann run Jaded Palates Stores, a wine retailer that has stores in Ashburton and nearby Chagford, which has no bank or Post Office. Mr Renwick says that a well run Post Office banking service is preferable to the alternative. “Having access to banking facilities and change-making is so important to the smooth running of our operation,” he says. “The contrast with Chagford is stark. It is simply not viable for us to use it — there may as well be nothing at all, from a business point of view”. Yet Professor Griggs’s review concluded that only 11 per cent of

customers whose bank branch closed then carried out more transactions with the Post Office. “I do not think either the banks or indeed the Post Office itself has done a good enough job in making people aware of what they can do in terms of banking at the Post Office,” he wrote. Mr Kearsley appears to agree: “There isn’t enough awareness that the Post Office can offer an extremely good daily service for small businesses,” he says. Mr Legg says: “If it was not for Stuart’s hard work in pushing the post office into offering day-to-day business banking and a fully functioning cash machine, I believe the town would be facing an economic slow down.” The FSB says that others still need convincing. “A very amateurish process,” is how one member described the service at the Post Office when the local bank closed. It says that there have been “several instances” of villages and towns running out of money in peak periods of economic activity” as ATMs and Post Offices ran out of cash. Mr Rogers says that he has had to extend opening hours, from 6am to 11pm in one case, to provide cash when the ATMs ran out. . The fear is that not every postmaster will be so diligent. Mr Rogers wants the FSB to join a meeting his team is organising with his MP, the Conservative Mel Stride, to discuss how they can do more to help communities left without a bank. Mr Kearsley agrees: “Are there new services that we could offer small companies over the counter? I’m sure there are. We would welcome working with the FSB to understand exactly what the requirements might be so small companies and communities can thrive.”

Monday August 21 2017 | the times

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354O +

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Aus New Z

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4K 2.4

3K 3.1 22.5

7.17

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2K 1.0 23.1

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Clear Leisurev

2,308.96

Close Bros

1522

414.87

CMC Markets‡

144

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9,161.90 2,025.38 392.65 1,211.65 2,518.53 39.07 5.44 314.73 1,015.33 283.98 34.40 277.80 13.19 44.21 434.04 82.84 116.37 269.38 307.23 49.26 180.79 107.10 590.35 324.22 641.19 3.90 24.14 822.11 310.57 1,533.03 31.25 42.87 187.92 1,450.09 189.56 72.68 1,425.35 319.75 627.46 140.20 441.41 387.52 319.55 1,189.78 768.09 3,303.68 245.73 123.73 126.69 134.62 255.75 259.70 1,236.43 919.67 166.85 638.77 1,170.92 994.67 924.50 18.81 … 16.65 229.32 223.20 1,004.66 293.24 245.94 597.62 755.66 633.03 2,905.88 208.12 39.81 509.96 432.54 204.94 174.78 9.25 66.16 5.28 68.78 127.71

Company

3I Group 940K 3i Infrastructure 197W Abrdn Div I&G 119 Aberforth Smlr‡ 1291 Alliance 718K 20Y Arc Cap Hldgsv Athelney Trust 252 Baillie Gifford SN 735K Bankers‡ 823 BH Global 1332 BH Global 1032K BH Macro 1984 BH Macro 1696O BH Macro 1562O Biotech Growth 779K BLK Com Inc 70X BlckREmEur 325X BlckFroInv 152 BLK Grt Euro 319 BlackRck Inc & Gwth‡ 199K BLK Latin Am 455 BlckRck N Amer Inc‡ 156N BLK Smlr 1226 BlckRck Throgmorton‡ 442 BLK Wld Min‡ 361O Blue Plan G&I Uts# 27K Blue Plan Int Fn 47 Br Empire Sec 703 Brunner‡ 722 Caledonia Inv 2790 Candover 142K Charter European 194 City Merch Hi Yld‡ 198 City of Lon IT‡ 423V Crystal Amber Fdv‡ 193 Dunedin Entp 356N Edinburgh IT 730 Edin Wwide 649 Electra Pte Eq 1635 EP Global Opp 300K European Asset‡ 1310 European Investment 922K F&C Cap&Inc 321 F&C Comm Prop‡ 149V F&C Glbl Smaller 1309 Foreign & Col 609 F&C Priv Eq Ord 332K F&C UK HIT A 104 F&C UK HIT B 106 F&C UK HIT UNIT 416K F&C UK Real Estate 105 Fidlty Asian Val 381 Fidelity China Sp 223K Fidlty Euro Val 220K Fidlty Jap Val 123V Fidlty Spec Val 241N Fins Gwth & Inc 748 GCP Infrastructure‡ 125W Gen Emer Mkts 683 Gldn Prosp Prc Mtl 33V Greencoat UK … Gresham Housev 317K Hansa Tst 940 Hansa Tst A 917K Hbrvest Glbl Pt Eq 1255 Hend Euro Foc 1376 Hend High Inc 191 Hend Smlr 791 Herald 1055 HgCapital Trust 1692 HICL Infra 162W Highbridge Multi 210O Highbridge Multi 102N ICG Ent Tr 735 Impax Env Mkts 240N Invesco Asia Tr 287N Invesco Inc&Gr 294 IPST Bal 131Y IPST Gbl Eq 200N IPST Managed 101N IPST UK Eq 180K IP Enhanced Inc 80V

+ + + + +

+ + + + + + + + + + + + + – + + + – + + + – + – – + + – – – – + – – + – + –

– – + + + – + + + +

+ – – – + – + – + – + + – + – + –

K 1 O 1 4 … … 35K 10 15 8K 2K … 17Y K W 1 O 1 K 4 1O 3 2K 1O 2 2 3 3K 31 W 3V 1K W K 2N 3K 2 … 2K 10 9O 1O V 5K 9 4 … … 2 1O 4 7K 3 O 2N 10 V 8K … … 2K 9K 10K 14 3 K K 12 … 2X 1O V N N 3N 4 … 1N … 1N …

4.5

8.5

…

48.87

Speymill Macauv

71K

…

344Y +

2.6

8.23

Stewart & Wight

525

8.5

27.90

Styles & Wood Grpv 321

…

4.0

9.3

51.46

PCF Groupv

24N

…

… 13.4

22,337.18

CRH

2.0 20.9

3.7 11.8

…

… 22.1

13.52

Plutus PowerGenv

1Y +

12.05

Polo Resourcesv

2,744.99

Provident

9K 2.8 16.8

0.77

Proxamav

3W 2.2

46,829.30

Prudential

77.51

Qatar Inv Fund

… -3.2

25.52

Quadrise Fuels Intlv

…

124.10

Randall & Quilterv

2V 5.3 10.3

44.02

Rasmala PLCv

140

…

1,406.76

Rathbone Brs

2770

2.69

Red Leopardv

478.77

Reddev

5.2

2,136.72

X 3.9 30.4

–

22K 3.4 19.3

2,386.91

Jupiter Fund Mgmt‡ 521K +

1,390.12

Just Group

149

1,406.00

Lancashire Hdgs‡

701K +

45.20

Leaf Clean Energyv

38N

…

9.85

Leeds Groupv

…

15,888.88

Legal & Gen‡

266O –

3.62

Legendary Invsv

4.4

K 1.6 11.3 8.1

… -8.3

1.8

5.2

9.6 19.4

…

0.6 12.8

7.00

CSF Grpv

5.9

…

1,018.46

Daejan

6250

–

1.4

… -1.1

3,128.43

Derwent London

2807

1.5 53.3

…

4W +

… -0.8 6.2

292

–

6X 3.7

8.3

2N 2.6 29.1

34.34

MS Intlv

205

–

U+I

3.1

…

26.55

Northbrdg Indv

1,513.80

Unite Group

674K +

10K 2.3

7.1

606.46

Oxford Inst

1058

372.80

Urban&Civic plc

257N +

5Y 1.1

8.3

27,267.46

Philips El nv

2897Y +

6.0

1,437.80

Workspace Grp

881

…

1.9 16.4

3.21

PhotonStar LEDv

17.83

Wynnstay Propsv

565

…

2.4

1.20

PipeHawkv

20.66

Pressure Techv

36.46

PV Crystalox Solar

3,247.10

Renishaw

117.22

Renold

16,579.66

Rolls-Royce

1.17

Ross Gp

1,964.80

Rotork

225O –

23.10

Scien Dig Imagingv

… -5.0

333.11

Gleeson (MJ)

615K –

34K 2.3 14.2

1,840.03

Grafton Gp Uts

776K +

12K 1.6 19.6

…

9.5

… -7.8

1,060.31

Grainger

254N –

1N 1.7 13.6

12K 6.1 18.6

1,958.75

Gr Portland

599K +

6K 1.6

2670Y

…

2489O

…

… -0.7

6,667.32

RSA Ins

652

W 11

…

4,489.62

Hammerson

566

…

937.14

Hansteen Hldgs

125Y +

… -5.2

297.38

Harworth Gp

8.87

Heath (Samuel)v‡

2.4 58.2

92K – 350

…

S&U Schroder REIT‡ Schroders‡ Schroders N/V‡ Secure Trust Bk Sharev Shawbrook Gp Sigma Capv St James Place Stand Chart Strd Life Aber Starvestv STM Groupv Sun Life Can Tau Capitalv TBC Bank Group Tiger Res Finv TISO Blackstar Gpv TP ICAP Trading Emissnsv UltimateSportsv Virgin Money Plc‡ Volverev WH Irelandv Walker Crips Grp Wells Fargo Westpac Zoltav Resourcev Zurich Fincl

1988 61K 3380 2436 1832 27 339 77K 1189 751W 431K 2K 50K 2993V 4O 1560 X 53K 469 2K 12O 272Y 715 137K 44K 4039X 1982V 14K 23582X

+ + + – – + + –

– +

+ – + – + –

+ – +

5K … 11 30 34K … 1N 2 23 2V … … 1K 8X … … … 2 5W V … 10X 15 9 … … 11 1K 194

4.0 3.0 2.5 3.5 3.9 2.7 … … 2.4 … 4.3 … 2.7 3.3 … … … 0.3 3.5 300.0 … 1.8 … … 4.1 3.0 8.2 … 6.0

11.7 13.9 19.3 13.9 18.0 54.0 13.2 19.5 55.8 … 23.2 17.8 13.0 12.0 -6.0 8.7 -6.3 -4.4 29.6 3.4 -5.5 8.3 21.9 … 44.5 12.6 14.6 16.3 13.6

9.1

0.3 26.4

3.5

8.9

Construction & property 272.28 60.70 82.29 4.17

Abbeyv Alumasc Aseana Props Ashley Hsev

1270 + 168 41W 7 +

20 0.9 7.0 … 3.8 10.9 … … 5.7 W … 5.2

405.41

Helical Bar

343

48.83

Highcroft Invs

945

13,761.00

HK Land

584Y +

955.26

Ibstock‡

235

26.70

Industrial Multi Pro

317K

…

3,329.33

Intu Properties

245X –

1K 5.5 21.9

939.43

James Halsteadv

452K +

7K 2.6 26.7

1,128.77

John Laing Group

307K +

607.00

Keller‡

843K +

1,391.25

KennWlsn Eur RE‡

1103

5,271.52

Kingspan Group

2944K + 338V 0.7 24.3

7,923.34

Land Sec

1002

15.78

Lon & Assoc‡

1,169.04

LondonMetric

270.09

Low & Bonar

2O 2.4 10.3 …

– –

18K 82

4.1 16.9

1K 2.6

–

5.0

8Y 2.8 10.6 …

5V 1.6

…

2.42

Agriterrav

14.16

Aireav

315.51

Anglo-Eastern

796

77.99

Animalcarev

367K +

24,858.57

AB Foods

742.07

Barr (AG)

7,654.13

Burberry Grp

851.52

C&C Grp

274V –

132.52

Carr's Grp

145

99.37

Character Grpv

470

99.30

Churchill Chinav

905

27K 2.1

9,305.19

Coca Cola HBC

2554

–

51.61

Colefaxv

4.14

Conchav

1,486.88

Cranswick‡

807.64

Dairy Crest Group

395.25

Devro

64,182.27

Diageo‡

18.12

Distil PLCv

9.35

Equat Palm Oilv

147.33

Finsbury Foodv

113

–

528.94

Games Workshop

1646

4,515.60

Glanbia

1525N –

67X 0.7 21.9

1,557.60

Greencore‡

220Y +

1X 2.4 31.2

483.90

Headlam

570K +

0.86

Hidong Estate

548.21

Hilton Food

28.34

Hornbyv

30,386.34

Imperial Brands‡ 3169K –

1K 4.9 29.8

Inch Kenneth Kajang

…

2.1 26.9

505 N 2946

2V 4.3

…

1N 2.6 13.9

0.5

…

272

68O –

135 +

1549 515

–

2.1

1.3 31.7

…

0.9 21.8

48.68

Stadium Groupv

127K –

…

… -1.1

15.13

Surface Trsfmsv

16O

…

… -7.3

8.67

Tex Hldgs

136K

…

6.2 10.2

370

1.0 30.6

428.00

Thorpe FWv

2.06

Torotrak

27.99

TP Groupv

…

7.63

Transense Techv

…

… -5.4

7.86

Tricornv

2.4 18.1

1,306.74

Ultra Electrncs

2.7 26.9

N 3.7

…

75K 2.3 23.6 N

…

3.7 15.5

…

… 28.9

17K 2.0 22.3 1

… -2.6 1.8

…

1,484.90

Vesuvius‡

547K +

444.76

Vitec

994

58.66

Volex

3,799.74

Weir

501.84

XP Power

2608

90.25

Zytronicv

2 2V 9

2.5 87.0

–

2.6 23.4

562K –

639.57

Mulberry Groupv

1066

–

355

673.20

Nicholsv‡

1821

–

29K 1.6 26.5

1.11

Aortech Intv

6O 4.0 12.4

58.93

Aqua Bountyv

662K

616Y

…

56,287.77

AstraZeneca‡

…

51.49

…

2.7

2,561.32

… -3.1

287.39

Circassia Phm

7K 3.2 15.9

527.58

Consort Med

12.71

Pittardsv

101.48

Portmeirionv

91K + 942K –

…

7K 2.5 18.6

663.41

AdvancedMedicalv

313K

…

7.12

Akers Biov

…

173.78

Allergy Therapv

29N +

250.90

Allnce Pharmav

81.16

Anpariov

0.2 42.4 … -2.6 …

…

1N 2.1 13.8 2K 1.4 28.2 8

… -4.2

…

… -8.1 4.7 18.9

4447

Bioquell

229

10K

… 42.4

BTG

664

22K

… 77.2

86K –

1072

… -1.8 1.8 23.4

5,587.07

Convatec Group

PureCircle

386N –

19.90

Creighton‡

PZ Cussons‡

344K –

2N 2.3 24.6

1,722.82

Dechra Pharma

132.23

REA

327K +

… -8.4

9.27

Deltex Medicalv

…

… -3.4

657K –

0.9 40.6

8.75

Provexisv

…

… K

…

… 93.5

286N + 33N + 1849

19.24

Real Gd Fdv

27N –

… -3.1

427.29

Eco Animal Hlthv

3.7 70.0

418.50

Stock Spirits

209N +

9K 3.2 15.2

116.07

EKF Diagnosticsv

0.8 -6.6

6.16

Tandemv

125

2K 3.0

7.9

28.52

e-Therapeuticsv

10X –

3,138.95

Tate & Lyle

675K –

4.1 12.4

57.92

Futura Medicalv

64.56

Tax Systemsv

8.27

Ternv

247.81

Treatt

1.64

Ukrproduct Gpv

78,151.13

Unilever (NV)

4557X +

66N 2.5 25.5

4453K +

79K 2.6 24.9

3O 3.2 16.7 3K 3.6 14.5

McCarthy&S

164X +

2.7 12.6

57,010.04

Unilever‡

McKay Secs

240

…

3.6 12.8

565.37

Victoriav

380.40

MedicX Fund‡

–

2O 6.7 12.1

0.69

Walcom Groupv

66.00

Michelmershv

–

4K 1.2 18.5

12.61

Worthington Gp#

587.96

Morgan Sindall

1315

–

3.43

Mountfield Gpv

461.06

Mountview

309.12

Mucklow (A&J)

488W +

O 4.4 15.4

813.06

NewRiver REIT

347K +

7K 5.6 22.5

43.65

North Midland Cons‡ 430

109.95

Pac All China Landv

178K

98.09

Palace Capitalv

390

59.01

Panther Securitiesv

332K

…

12K 2.1 20.1

2.2 16.1

…

… 10.3

62K 2.5 12.7

12K 1.0 13.9 …

2.5 49.4

Health

… 15.5

Oxford Pharmav

6K 3.0 23.6

2.9 16.6

…

–

178K –

…

2.5 22.3

McBride

0.4

…

… -4.8

1741

325.24

7055N + 127Y 0.7 26.4

… -0.1 …

… -7.6

…

– 106

…

23N + 1850

…

K 2.1 27.1

…

27O +

V …

… 55.7

4K 2.2 13.4

6X –

LightwaveRFv

Paternosterv

7K 2.3 18.9

10.76

18.08

2.7 14.3

–

… -0.1

1.42

… -2.0

5610

…

Origin Entsv

…

Spirax-Sarco

…

779.61

… 13.3 3.3 15.6

4,125.60

228X +

167N –

N 22

1.3 31.5

Kin Groupv#

Norcros

… 22.8 2.4 29.4

3N 2.4 13.5

271K –

Kerry Gp

102.46

K 2

3X +

6O 2.2 25.9

14X – 1501V –

… 24.7

–

236O –

2425

1.3 23.8

–

Solid Statev

–

Somero Enterv

3.8 24.4

33K –

43.54

–

Spectris

741

Slingsby (HC)v Smiths

52 901

152.70

1.35 6,125.87

… 24.3 1.0 43.1

2,890.97

3.1 11.2

–

SKF B

+ 125

0.1

572K – 2549K +

Six Hundredv

6,300.81

22O + 4461

0.97

225.14

1746

15.26

… -2.7 … -7.1

12,425.52

884.97

3.2 17.4

… -2.3

Jimmy Choo

2521

Severfield‡

… 10K

J Lewis Hfordv

410

Pathfinder Minsv

… -2.6

– 103K 3.2 19.0

Senior

205.94

…

32W 2.4 26.1

3X –

865.84

Marshalls

Persimmon

…

K 745K +

1,140.81

… -3.9 1.2

142K –

1.87

817.45

1.44

2.1 20.7

Britvic

7,780.42

1.1 22.5

Brit Amer Tob‡ 4752

161

3.9 22.5

670.86

4.3 22.4

…

–

635K –

3140

BlenheimNtrlv

LXB retail Propsv

17K 1.7 26.8

1,965.54

Macau Prop Op

0.2 11.2

88,598.68

49.87

11825

3.85

123.06

–

8.9

8 21

…

1,476.96

29X +

… -0.4 N 4.3

Y 0.3

…

8.5

3.3

…

V 34N +

102K +

2K 1.3

5.9

…

168X +

5.4

Consumer goods

48.39

238.14 318.89 7,638.80 1,376.48 338.47 38.79 849.20 68.75 6,284.93 24,728.61 8,543.35 1.32 30.00 18,368.45 2.38 821.85 0.97 142.19 2,598.88 6.25 2.88 1,214.25 29.14 38.25 18.53 200,527.73 67,283.67 20.58 35,688.85

–

4.0 14.1

1K 4.2

Price Wkly Forecast (p) +/- Yld% P/E

– + + – +

…

Morgan Advanced

233.95

2.0 32.9

Lon Capital Grpv

1.8

833.57

3.3 23.9

…

9.01

– + + + + – + + –

X 5.4 13.4

…

140.2 -1.4

2.1 23.5

257K +

+ +

152K +

143K +

3.0

…

Ryl Bk Scot

+ – + + +

Molinsv

Tritax Big Box REIT

1350

Rolinco N/V

+ – – + – – – + + – + – + + + + + + + – + + + + + – + – + – +

30.76

1,587.77

– X

–

Galliford Try

Robeco N/V

– + + – + + – + – + + +

2X 3.0 13.2

230N +

1483

2.7 14.5

1,118.98

30,580.85

-4.6 12.2 -4.4 -10.9 -14.7 -14.5 -6.9 -1.1 -3.4 -1.3 -11.6 -10.2 -6.5 -9.0 -0.1 -1.7 -0.7 … -2.2 … … … -10.7 -14.7 -12.5 -10.8 -15.6 -20.1 -4.3 -3.8 2.0 -7.4 -59.9 -8.2 -5.6 -5.3 -12.0 -11.2 -0.1 -27.4 -8.9 -3.8 1.1 0.4 -10.9 -6.4 3.9 -4.2 0.1 -5.9 1.0 2.4 0.3 … … 8.5 6.7 -14.8 -2.1 -11.4 -2.3 -7.0 -9.9 -15.9 5.4 -7.6 1.4 -5.4 -3.7 -10.8 -2.8 1.9 … … -9.8 … … -11.2 -8.3 -0.6 -12.9 -0.8 …

496Y +

Melrose

187

1,359.65

1.5 5.0 1.3 3.7 1.2 0.6 3.6 0.3 1.4 3.7 1.0 2.2 2.9 1.2 4.5 3.7 3.8 7.6 4.3 … … … … … 0.9 2.0 3.0 1.9 … 0.7 2.0 … … 3.0 2.8 3.2 3.1 2.0 1.7 6.2 2.3 5.1 1.0 0.1 1.0 4.0 0.7 3.8 1.0 3.4 1.3 4.0 … 6.0 … 5.8 … … 1.3 1.1 3.6 1.3 3.1 2.2 3.0 2.7 0.7 3.5 3.1 1.1 2.8 3.1 4.1 4.7 3.0 … … … … 1.8 1.4 0.2 0.9

Meggitt

4,470.58

… -2.6

4N K K 2K 2 3K 3N … 7N O 18K 1O 1N 10N K K 4 1N K O … … 12 3O N 7 6V 16 3K 5K 4K 19 W 13 6 2K K O O N 20 O 6 19 4K K 21 V 1O V 120 1 27 … 1 2V 5 11 3O … 3 2 … 5N 2 5 2 1 3 22K 3 K … … 4K … … … V 10 3K 1K 4

3,854.69

297N –

– + – + + + –

12N 3.7 55.0

Trinity Capv

9.5

… 1865

…

… 12.1

… -3.6

Travis Perkins

60K

…

Town Centre

3.3 24.1

1.50

Fletcher Kingv Foxtons Group

… 35.1

3,723.44

First Propv

253.10

…

158.02

5.57

63Y –

K 1.9 10.0

63.80

53K –

1.3 -5.1

128K +

347K –

LMS Capital

…

36 1160

LPAv

Tyman‡

Lloyds Bkg Gp‡

1.9 23.2

–

15.81

618.90

Livermore Invsv

3.1 -5.5

1342

2.2

… -1.0

51.60

…

45,861.79

1.2 32.0

44K –

156K –

2.7 13.8

Titon

EQTECv#

157K +

17.11

3.01

… -5.0

…

2.7 22.5

Judges Scientificv

… -0.2

…

Inspirit Energyv

…

142

7.4

…

114.06

…

IMI‡

…

1.03

… -5.7

Image Scanv

3,154.93

…

7N 0.8

3.8 10.7

…

Holders Techv

10.00

O 315X

…

44K

N 4.2

1.50

… 10.8

341K +

…

3K 0.8 10.7

Eastrn Euro Prpv

28K 2.1 24.1

41K

7.1

V …

392N –

6.92

…

… 57.7

24Y 1.2 17.5

192O +

7.2 13.1

75W –

2.7 14.1

Telford Homesv

– 124

1811

1K 2.6 -8.8

802K – 2734V –

Taylor Wimpey

1852

… -0.3

7.4

… 30.6 1.6 12.7

295.41

15Y –

V 28.0 -4.9

3.1

1.6 32.2

6,308.31

Dragon-Ukra Propv

…

… -8.9 1.4 22.7

3987K + 117K

Dolphin Capitalv

682K –

Taliesin Propv

17.36

1.6 16.9

N 1.3 -3.1 9

44K +

203.36

61.06

80.85

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177

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1,054.36

SIG

49.62

…

–

Company

…

1,047.50

1170

Mkt cap (million)

…

4 11

531K +

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Price Wkly Forecast (p) +/- Yld% P/E

…

–

987K +

Investment companies Mkt cap (million)

Hayward Tylerv

522

Shaftesbury

353Y

235.28

… -2.2

24.65

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2,755.19

Crest Nicholson

1,762.75

…

7W 1.7 15.1

5,211.64

Craven Housev

…

7.2

1098

…

0.8 13.8

1,357.34

…

11W 3.7 16.6

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1542K –

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1O 6.1

–

8.84

…

2.22

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4,163.43

–

1625

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17N 6.0 13.2

111.06

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4.8 10.3

0.65

–

46K 0.6 43.2

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20.58

…

15N +

400

1375K +

354.25

…

8.6

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…

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19N 2.8

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336.67

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415N +

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900

759.66

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5,421.88

13.73

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Paysafe Group

2.62

6X 0.5 94.3

…

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768

388K –

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273K –

…

2,824.74

Phoenix Gp Hldgs

City of Lon Gpv#

662.52

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4.7 41.5

613.49

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2,318.67

7.9

6.6

3,017.17

1.61

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…

6.3

191.28

581.73

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5.75

132

9.3

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27.22

1,248.89

611

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15.55

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886K +

330

234

260.96

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1002

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578

395

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8.39

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1,247.81

Steppe Cementv

Investment Co‡

Charles Taylor

Redefine Intl

2,172.57

1,348.03

30.66

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Charles Stanley

706.40

4.9 13.5

4K 5.7 25.9

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15.75

160.06

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156

3,853.13

200.17

22.59

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6.6

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371.17

55.86

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108.12

145.59

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4.7 14.4

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137

…

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2.9 15.4

…

3.2 10.2

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1.14

949.26

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8W 4.3 20.1

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88N –

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495.66

2,486.99

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…

203X +

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City Lon Inv Gp

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272N +

3685

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91.07

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107.67

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14K 3.0 10.8 27

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307.16

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1,357.90

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2,525.24

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N 13.5

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135.89

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697.08

1.9 14.1

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1,196.16

765.58

2X 4.1 10.8

55V –

5,039.67

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17W 0.3

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200.27

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299.99

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2,728.42

12.43

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39.07

3.35

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667

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3,892.67

1.5 35.2

485

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14.27

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6,142.64

845

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…

V 3.1

32.05

2,447.77

2113

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13.07

2N –

… -1.9

3X 1.5 14.9

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Balfour Beatty

4.06

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291.30

1,886.44

… -0.4

…

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…

2N +

Price Wkly (p) +/- Yld% P/E

162K

…

33,329.42

3.6 22.5

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6.1

736V –

3.72

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HSBC‡

353X +

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1X 3.5 11.1

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147,609.08

Brewin Dolphin

Pires Investmentsv

11.14

Ortac Resv

Braveheart Invv

0.76

64W +

2.36

502K +

1,002.07

Assura Grp

Company

2.67

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5.14

Asian Grth Propv

1,066.82

Mkt cap (million)

… -7.9

73,276.26

BP Marsh&Ptnrsv

274.77

Price Wkly (p) +/- Yld% P/E

1.8 11.2

Hiscox‡

65.39

1899O +

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…

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3,734.59

9.7

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1.49

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…

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1.8 32.3

3K 4.1 34.5

…

–

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9.4

16.8 -2.2

…

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2V 3476

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…

–

60K

3.6 12.4

68.36

…

1340

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…

Metro Bank

…

6024K + 821

1.1 46.5

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12.0 12.9

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2,794.48

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164O +

51,017.22

20.92

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1K 2.0 33.7

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19.24

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21,115.23

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1.5

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2.1

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Manx Finv

324K

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8.42

282O –

101.71

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43K +

5.1

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109.87

Arbuthnot Bkgv

3.5

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891

Arden Partnersv

Man‡ Marechale Capv

Gresh Hse Stratv

212.91

Lond Stk Ex Gp 3944

2,729.91 0.79

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14.01

13,677.17

5.5

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32.56

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…

46.42

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4.67 6.07

Price Wkly (p) +/- Yld% P/E

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10647K – 115Y 0.9 36.1 1430

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41.57

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…

–

6Y –

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8.67

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0.72

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313.65

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1.1 23.6

5.3 37.8

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…

5.2

…

1011

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1.43

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…

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2,691.70

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1119

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3770

2,289.71

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91.92

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63.78

ImmuPharmav

2,963.98

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9.08

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4,759.84

NMC Health

2330

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9K + 720K – 5Y –

…

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168,883.37

Novartis

… -0.7

22.56

Omega Diagsv

0.9 15.9

269.62

Oxford Biomedica

8X –

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BAE SYS

583K +

1K 3.6 17.5

11.28

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147K

…

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16.88

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1,760.44

Bodycote

919K +

15K 1.7 22.6

10.31

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10.11

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842K

…

15.55

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1.0 14.2

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110

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…

18,578.55

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4.3 12.8

Mediclinic Int

0.64

…

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23.20

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312K

5,310.12

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1800

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73,276.05

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the times | Monday August 21 2017

1GM

Equity prices Business Mkt cap (million)

Company

51,012.65 19.84 34,171.90 100.09 147.35 11,969.56 1,334.00 120.72 56.08 7.42 114.21 153.89 118.17 1,995.31 2.55 748.64 89.49 129.53

Reckitt Benck‡ Sareum Hldgsv Shire Silence Therapv Sinclair Pharmav Smith & Neph Spire Hcare Summit Corpv Swallowfieldv Synairgenv Tissue Regenixv Tiziana Lifev Tristelv UDG Healthcare ValiRxv Vectura Grp Vernalisv Verona Pharmav

Price Wkly (p) +/- Yld% P/E 7257 O 3764K 143 29N 1368 332K 195 332K 8V 15 160 276K 803K 1O 110V 17 123K

– – + + + + – + + + + – – + +

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2.1 … 0.6 … … 1.7 1.1 … 0.9 … … … 1.2 1.2 … … … …

24.3 … 75.2 … -5.8 18.1 25.0 -5.7 17.8 -2.6 … … 36.8 33.6 -0.2 … -4.7 -9.0

Industrials

Mkt cap (million)

Company

79.86

Centaur Media

2,088.98

Daily Mail

619K –

6.23

DCD Mediav

245

…

Accsys Tech BASF Bayer DM50 Biome Techv ByotrolvV Camb Gbl Timberv Cloudcall Groupv Coats Grp Croda Cronin Gpv Cropper (James)v Elementis Evans (M.P.)v Hardidev Inspiration Healthv Intl Ferro Metals# Jardine Math Jardine Strat Johnson Math Mondi Plant Impactv Plastics Capitalv Robinsonv Scapav‡ Smith (DS) Swire Pacific Symph Environv Syngenta Synthomer Takeda Pharm TyraTech Incv Velocysv Victrex Wynnstay Groupv Zotefoams

81 7439V 9861 222K 4N 8O 112K 74 3808 1Y 1782K 278N 744 1K 59K Y 5071 3309N 2781 2068 29 116 130 453 497K 780K 11N 35821W 473W 4208V Y 36 2053 512K 327K

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… 18.2 20.4 … … … -5.6 18.3 25.9 … 35.6 22.8 41.2 … 58.3 -0.5 6.8 6.4 13.8 18.2 … 77.3 17.8 40.8 22.6 11.6 … 41.3 14.6 69.3 -1.1 -4.0 21.0 55.1 25.0

Investment companies 2,610.20

Pershing Square

1087

–

…

Leisure 898.94 368.90 33.41 2.36 11,288.25 45.58 121.03 1,878.25 1,321.03 665.12 328.60 29.81 79.35 2,039.53 2,267.04 8.48 6.98 1.98 7,455.21 544.91 2,284.17 1,946.74 682.33 4,677.80 1,450.62 18.24 1,008.97 6,047.41 16.11 380.89 1.73 399.24 911.86 693.67 16.93 25.53 1.77 181.90 2,525.78 24.82 1,907.53 7,778.26 4.23 1,164.50 6,956.15 2,060.41 409.31 199.26

888 Hldgs 250 Accesso Techv 1642K Best of the Bestv 330 … Boxhill Techv Carnival 5290 Cathay Intl 12N Celticv 129K Cineworld 693K Domino's Pizza‡ 268K EI Group 138 Fullr Sm A 1017 Gaming Realmsv 10Y Goals Socr Cntrv 105K Greene King‡ 658 GVC Holdings 754 Heavitreev 425 Heavitree Av 212K Hermes Pacificv 85 Intercont Htls 3924 Jackpotjoy 738 Ladbrokes Coral 119N Mandarin Orntl 154O Marston's 113V Merlin Ents‡ 460K Millen & Cop‡ 446X Minoan Gpv 8X Mitch & Butlers 239X PP Betfair 7180 Peel Hotelsv 115 PPHE Hotel Gp 902K Prospexv W Punch Taverns 179Y Rank Grp 233W Restaurant Gp 345 Richoux Grpv 17 Rotalav 60K Specialist Inv Propsv 13N Sportech 98 SSP Group 531K Tastyv 41K Thomas Cook 124V TUI 1325 Webis Holdingsv 1 Wetherspoon JD 1053 Whitbread 3793 William Hill 240V Young & Co - Av 1380K Young & Co - N/Vv 1040

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21.9 63.3 24.3 … 18.2 -4.8 22.3 22.8 20.8 14.6 17.3 -4.2 25.7 13.4 … 15.0 7.5 … 22.6 -3.5 -6.8 43.6 8.2 22.2 16.2 -7.2 14.2 … 37.1 10.8 0.4 -2.2 14.8 … -2.3 11.0 … 15.8 33.4 … … 19.8 -7.3 23.5 16.4 12.7 22.4 16.9

Media 12.58 2.22 27.15 7.96 1,464.81 131.64 15.46 3.74 129.04

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6Y 24K 60K 63K 365X 174O 73K 4O 124K

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55N +

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174.43

Exillon Energy

108

Faroe Petrolv

1,618.13

Ferrexpo‡

…

Dods Gpv

12W

…

… 26.9

Ebiquityv

117K

…

0.3 22.6

8.26

Edenville Energyv

…

… -1.5

1,015.69

Entertainmnt One‡

1,183.64

Euromoney In Inv

–

W 0.5 46.0 47

2.1 48.8

117.16

Future

320W +

16Y

574.83

GlobalDatav

562K

…

430.85

Gocompare.com

103

228.33

IG Design Grpv‡

3.64

Immedia Grpv

139.95

Ind News&Med

5,743.32

Informa‡

–

… -5.7 0.8

… 27.1

364K

…

0.9 24.3

…

ITE Group

156K –

6,710.36

ITV

166X –

30.85

Jaywingv

4,313.58

Just Eat

35K 635

…

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420.73

M&C Saatchiv

309K –

2.05

MBL Groupv

11Y –

1.24

Mediazestv

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13K 2.8 …

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…

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430

6.83

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152.70

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386V +

27O +

562K – 285

0.8 22.5

6K 2.7 44.7

24.96

Totallyv#

…

273.80

Trinity Mirror

98O –

1O 5.5

… -5.6 4.3

1,531.25

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348Y +

20.23

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5.48

Lansdowne O&Gv

231.60

Lonmin

59.55

…

–

Electrocompnts

631

Essentra

522K –

Pan African Resv

–

98.88

Pantheon Resv

36.97

Parkmead Grpv

37W –

22.63

Patagonia Goldv

Petra Diamonds Petrel Resourcesv

32.29

Petro Matadv

1,444.19

Petrofac

3.5

268.84

Interserve

24X 12.7

…

7,801.62

Intertek

… -2.8

2,745.84

IWG

…

497.48

Johnson Srvcev Kier Gp

417K –

…

70.61

Plexus Holdingsv

… -6.6

4,002.20

Polymetal Intl

…

9.4

223.32

Porvair‡ Premier Oil

12.55

Petroneft Resv

Petropavlovsk

6N –

… N

7.8

2.4

…

19.32

Proton Power Sysv

52.30

Providence Resv

8O +

40.74

Beowulf Miningv

…

59.05

Rambler Met&Minv

4.87

Bezant Resv

7,044.93

Randgold Res

28,533.12

BHP Billiton

25.83

Range Resourcesv#

…

10O +

7495 N

… -1.0 … -1.7

…

… -1.8

1.0 31.0

…

… -0.6

6.14

BMR Groupv

…

… -4.3

3.45

Red Rock Resv

…

9.56

Border & Sthn Petv

…

… -3.3

3.75

Regency Minesv

…

… -0.5

Cadence Minv

18.20

Cadogan Petrol

1,002.00

Cairn Energy

269.22

Caledonia Miningv

116.88

Caspian Sunrisev

1,751.20

… 11.8

16,495.73

7O 7.2 49.3

47,249.43

…

80,359.42

Ryl Dtch Sh B‡

2145K –

510

…

4.1

9.5

…

… -0.1

64.20

Chaarat Goldv

18N +

…

33.57

Chariot Oil & Gasv

12K +

… -5.1

70.26

China Nonferrous Gold Ltdv18W +

…

2.65

Clontarf Energyv

…

… …

70.04

Coal of Africav

12.27

Columbus Energyv

2N –

27.51

Condor Gldv

1.53

Connemara Miningv

110.48

DRDGOLD

1.50

ECR Mineralsv

52 2

N 1 …

… -8.1

2.03

Stellar Dmndv

283K –

… -5.5

70.80

Monitisev

–

43.69

MXC Caplv

…

… -1.6

42.58

SigmaRocv

41K

…

… -0.2

188W

1,852.70

TalkTalk

927.95

Telecom Plus

58,319.72

Vodafone Gp

4.23

Zamanov

3.8

9.4

…

1K 4.5

7.6

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198N – 237

–

4.2 12.5

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… -0.1

176K – 85 199

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…

4.1 11.3

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Technology 13.16

Access Intellv

11.64

Adept4v

5V –

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1699O +

1,014.79

Stagecoach

AVEVA Grp

140.42

Bangov

76.60

BATM Adv Coms

15K + 271O +

43O 2.7 20.6 3

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…

6N 3.9

…

3X – 66

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Nakama Gpv

…

8.3

37K 6.7 28.4

13.63

Norishv

45K

…

2.8 30.3

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… -2.0 2.3

…

25.51

Sutton Harbourv

…

315.56

Wincanton

1,638.11

Wizz Air Hldgs

7N +

… -0.4

… …

5.50

BOS Global Ltdv Bradyv

27.67

BSD Crown#

25V

…

… -1.8

3.42

CloudBuyv

…

… -0.8

76.03

CML Micro

452K –

1.5 19.8

1,086.40

Computacenter

885K +

2.5 16.9

51.63

Concurrent Techv

31.16

Corerov

349.15

Cranewarev

13.72

Crimson Tidev

30.35

CyanConn Hldgsv

61.10

D4t4 Solutionsv‡

–

9Y 1295

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3 V

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1.3 37.7

…

… 37.8

…

… -2.4

… 15.3

76.13

NWF Grpv

156K

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1,600.61

PageGroup

490

13.57

PCI-PALv

–

…

28.69

eg solutionsv

9.52

Petardsv

26N +

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34.18

Elecosoftv

44N –

1.91

PHSCv

N 11.5 -2.4

8.45

Elec Data Prc

66K

11.01

Porta Commsv

… -1.6

45.61

eServGlobalv

11.23

PowerHouse Egyv

… -4.9

990.24

FDM Group

921

2.1 33.4

12.31

Prime Peoplev

820.68

Fidessa Gp

2123

–

2.0 21.3

1.60

Progilityv

27.16

Filtronicv

100.73

Record

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43N +

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5Y +

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… -0.2

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55K +

129.37

Earthportv

26K + 126K +

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13V +

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42.15

Frontier Smartv

104

268.36

Renew Hldgsv

428O +

563.47

GB Groupv‡

370K –

2K 0.5 46.3

Tertiary Mineralsv

…

… -4.4

179

… 45.6

… -2.1

…

3.54

Thor Miningv

0.6 80.6 … -3.7

13K

…

5,429.32

Rentokil Itl‡

295K +

10W 1.1

120.42

GreshamTech

4V +

… -4.2

529.91

Restorev

470

–

0.7 47.9

2.66

Imaginatikv

84K +

13K

… 10.9

375.60

Ricardo

706K –

2.5 15.1

384.44

Imagination Tc

135N –

…

… -1.9

370.26

Robert Walters

497

1.7 16.3

16.13

IndigoVisionv

212

5K 1.3 -7.0

–

7Y 3.3 15.7 2K 4.7 10.5 40V

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…

… 56.3 3.3

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52.96

Jersey Electricity

83.27

KSK Power Vent

10.49

Modern Waterv

32,931.10

Natl Grid

960N +

149.39

OPG Powerv

42K +

455

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47K 11

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…

… -0.2 2.9 11.4

…

… -0.8

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Utd Utilities

… -6.9

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318

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6,119.95

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8.4

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5N 4.9 18.3 O

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6.5

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3.6 15.9

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9.0

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1O –

201K +

Drax Group

1,389.44

1437

7N –

7.9

Centrica

1,293.79

2221

RedT Energyv

Tethyan Resourcesv

11,073.54

SSE‡

47.41

Thalassa Hldgsv

2.9

Utilities

Severn Trent

… -5.3

6.94

5.6 10.9

14,490.75

…

4O 1.8 26.0

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22K 1.8 19.5

5,242.84

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2850

…

Sunrise Resourcesv

… -1.0

4.1 20.6

…

Forbidden Techv

…

First Derivtsv

–

8.5

2.2 23.5

2K 0.8 10.0

800K –

11.05

1K 3.2 20.8 19

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26K

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695.57

2775

281

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… -4.7

…

… -0.9

7X 3.8 24.5

255

6.32

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3,333.68

7.5 36.9

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177

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362K –

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161

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…

57.52

987.23

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550.65

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9.0

…

… 16.7

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7.7

Berkeley Resv

…

2.2 31.8

…

413N –

… -7.0

114.53

213K –

1085

Artiliumv

–

1290

Ryanair

1,209.15

… -0.8

easyJet

–

Ocean Wilson

24.64

5,123.98

518

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Dartv

20,650.63

… -4.5 3.4 16.3

4.0 30.5

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383.69

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768.09

303 2797

1,855.05

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…

Clarkson

517X +

155

Braemar Ship

844.69

611K +

178

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91.43

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Irish Cont Uts

Amino Techsv‡

303

Intl Cons Air

Allied Minds

1890

130N +

BBA Aviation

Go-Ahead

125.58

… -1.6

Air Partner

3,126.24

974.93

363.08

68.01

12,828.26

2K 2.8 14.1

Newmark Secv

…

Transport

731.44

62K 3.4 54.5

Nature Grpv

…

–

K 8.1 32.3

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… -9.3

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2.06

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219

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2.97

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1153

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18.28

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4150

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19.00

9.5

3,710.45

–

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…

Sterling Energyv Stratex Intlv

…

Europa Oil&Gasv

7O +

Mothercare

32.73 5.96

…

Eurasia Miningv

17.71

–

Spitfire Oilv

…

7.33

259

1.52

3W –

Mobile Tornadov

Moss Bros

171.29

… 11.5 …

K 5.7 21.7

1.6 14.6

…

27X – 5

Mobile Streamsv

21.03

92.74

730K –

1457

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116N –

KCOM

3.09

243K –

Fisher (James)

Serabi Goldv

SOCO Intl

480.44

Morrison (W)

731.15

865

29.69

396.50

2K 6.1 17.0 1K

5,689.70

21K

Shearwater Grpv

Inmarsat

5.9 44.0

116Y +

…

Sirius Minerals

3,331.36

FastJetv

5.4 63.3

10K

20.74

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0.4

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FirstGroup

85K +

1,171.40

317

72.21

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Northern Bearv‡

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312O –

1,412.05

1185

Norm Broadbentv

25N –

EVR Holdingsv

Majestic Winev Marks Spencer

15.34

Serica Energyv

75.34

222.78

7K 2.0 34.8

Uvenco UKv

4.37

Shanta Goldv

4.29

…

66.58

1O 4.9 18.1

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245K –

1.6 23.0

…

21.13

292K –

Dixons Carphone

4O 1.7 20.8

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317K +

BT Group‡

2,831.32

…

AdEPT Telecomv

29,134.65

300N +

20K 6.8 28.0

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75.25

5,152.02

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9.1

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…

1.98

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1.7

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110K +

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…

… -4.6

Empyrean Energyv EnQuest

293

Lookers

8.34

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31.83

Kingfisher

438.21

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5.5

Telecoms

1.2 28.5

+ 171

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2.37

353.62

6,443.91

3N 2.4 14.4

Total Producev

4926N –

… -3.5 11.9 33.4

6K 0.4 18.6

639.85

San Leon Energyv#

Sound Energyv

K 2.5 19.6

–

11O 4.3 -5.9

184K –

Schlumberger

Solo Oilv

…

343

Tesco

156.38

315.47

…

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JD Sports

Topps Tiles

68,206.26

392.34

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25K –

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424

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3,338.19

166.96

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3,499.17

14,455.41

3.2 16.4

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2,668.68

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19K +

5.4 10.9

7.2

2114K –

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700

MobilityOnev

312X –

–

Ryl Dtch Sh A‡

Central Rand Goldv#

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5K 5.3

487K +

Rockhopper Explnv

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622.64

17X +

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2.0 23.6

430

3.85

2.3 22.0

2.6 22.4

V 14.2 18.4

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16K

1.4 30.5

Mears Group Mi-Pay Gpv

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…

Menzies (John) MITIE Gp

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415O –

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+ +

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…

442.83 6.45

122K

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12.95

24 1176

766

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Water Intelv

323.89

Game Digital Greggs

–

Morticev

Rose Petroleumv

17N 6.5 12.5

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14.70

41.01 1,189.59

26.78

2474

Murgitroydv

94,659.73

35.78

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…

1586

36.45

89.10

234

Malvern Intlv

288.27

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3541V – 230V

43.86

3.95

Cent Asia Metalsv

2.53

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Sothebys

4.5 18.8

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261.05

Maintel Hldgsv

K 1W

1,865.12

59K 3.4 16.6

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122.45

82K – 60

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3429K +

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89.30

TRAKm8 Hldgsv Triad Grp‡

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152

42K +

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UK Oil & Gasv

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French Conn

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40.91

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249.79

2,022.75

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1.31

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415

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3.9 14.7

5,191.69

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100

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395

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31.89

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115.92

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2225

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629

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6.31

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4X 1.9

1,092.83

Lon Securityv

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Dunelm

142.20

–

1,290.40

Lok'n Storev

228.89

1,268.59

123

1.8 30.2

272.82

2.5

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Telit Commsv

3.5 10.6

115.65

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6.2

7K 4.9

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157.18

1.8 20.0 K

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14,446.50

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714K +

492K +

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Cabot Energy

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Stanley Gbbnsv

Latham (J)v‡

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Debenhams

468.54

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5.69 20.14

Sports Direct Intl

169.89

Dairy Farm Intl

506.48

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15.43

…

Bellzonev

–

8,141.61

2,221.64

…

Baron Oilv

28O –

0.2 80.9

142

11K 1.3 21.0

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Avocet

440

1303

7K 2.6 17.0

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20.64

BowLevenv

CVS Groupv

6.4

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5.51

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832.79

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93.39

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1,154.67

270.74

Richland Resv

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210.45

3.39

2,450.18

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86,590.01

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58K –

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1O 0.6

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2.2

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InterQuestv

Asa Resourcev#

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2,217.00

Impellam Grpv

32.57

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17.68

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Crawshaw Groupv

Pets at Home

315.90

Phoenix Globalv

Bougainville

23.74

942.00

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351.21

83.92

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7.0

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…

8.0 10.6

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1.7 35.9

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14N +

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121.98

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133.17

146

4.3 20.9

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Homeserve

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1,126.47

Gordon Dadds Grv

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0.8

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2,220.01

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7.4

1.8 13.2

232.79

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7K 9.5 …

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34K –

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1.7 28.9

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1.8

1.9 26.4

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0.9

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18.48

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Ariana Resv

140K +

2.5 23.9

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Antofagasta

Asiamet Rsrcsv

…

–

Arian Silverv

Atalaya Minev

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3.2 13.2

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8.0

11.57

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91.90

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1.70

38.35

26K 0.2 96.3

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N 6.2

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28N

1.3 51.4

…

K 3.5 16.5

SRT Marinev

… -1.6

90.03

Havelock Eurov

2.3 13.0

Seeing Machinesv

Cambria Autov

41.79

4.15

44.69

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3.8 13.8

9,301.64

163.94

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58.50

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8.7

456.54

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1.4 30.2

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28.30 384.68

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3.1 16.2

Grafeniav

20K 2.0 30.6

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111.29

170

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Sophos Gp

4,628.41

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7,501.30

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Softcat

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140.51

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36O +

601.04

1,786.28

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RedstoneConnectv RhythmOnev

2,200.22

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25.88 181.99

802.48

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195N +

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124K

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35.68

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2K 0.7 30.3

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6,102.85

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3,481.48

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Premaithav Proactis Hldgsv

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2.1 22.0

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18.82

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B&M European

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3,708.00

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14,156.37

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50.67

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355K +

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5.19 1.03

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Auto Trader

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49K

3,458.11

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312.86

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Ovoca Goldv

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42.74

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4,888.99

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35K +

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450K +

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3.20

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2.7 42.2

1.6 12.1

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16N 0.4 50.4

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101 1630

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78.62

Playtech

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81.43 8.87

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11N –

54.55

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217K

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423K +

529.90

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18.79

3,098.87

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29.29

3.2 17.2

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273.95

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Obituaries

Jerry Lewis Obsessive comedian whose slapstick antics in films such as The Nutty Professor made him one of America’s best-loved entertainers PARAMOUNT/KOBAL/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK

Jerry Lewis was candid about his gifts as a comedian. “I get paid for what most kids get punished for,” he said of his on-screen persona. His stock-in-trade was a geeky and brattish overgrown man-child whose only defences against an uncomprehending and unsympathetic world were pathos and to resort to mayhem. It was a style rooted in the pratfall traditions of Stan Laurel and Charlie Chaplin, both of whom were friends as well as role models, and it made him one of the richest men in Hollywood. During the 1950s, his double act with Dean Martin, which started in nightclubs and moved into theatre, radio television and films, took the pair to the top of the list of America’s biggest boxoffice earners. Between 1949 and 1956 they made 16 films together and by the time their partnership came to an end — amid some acrimony — it was said that only Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley rivalled their fame among American entertainers. Lewis’s celebrity was such that DC Comics — home of Superman, Batman and The Flash — even gave him his own comic book series, The Adventures of Jerry Lewis. After his break with Martin, he

Dean Martin told him, ‘You’re nothing to me but a f***ing dollar sign’ signed a $10 million contract with Paramount Studios — at the time said to be the biggest in Hollywood history — and became a comic auteur, directing, producing and starring in films such as The Nutty Professor and The Bellboy, which have become bona fide classics. Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino and Steven Spielberg all confessed to being influenced by his work. “He doesn’t censor himself as a performer, a film-maker or a public figure, which is difficult to accept for many people,” Scorsese said. “I think Americans are still coming to terms with his astonishing artistry. It’s as if they had to invent a new place for it, a new category.” Yet like so many comedians cast in the mode of Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci, Lewis was an enigma who possessed a troubled dark side in stark contrast to the zany screen antics that led the French to dub him “Le Roi du Crazy”. He once put a revolver in his mouth with the intention of ending it all, but thought better of it. “If you add up everything that makes the totality of the comic, there’s a lot of shit there and you can’t ignore it,” he said. Pain and laughter marched hand in hand and he was sometimes called the “Dark Prince” of American comedy. Peter Bogdanovich, the actor and director who knew Lewis for more than 50 years, described “a secret desire to resort to some form of infantilism in order to survive the hard knocks of life”. It came as no surprise to learn that his favourite novel was The Catcher in the Rye and that he strongly identified with the book’s angst-ridden adolescent protagonist, Holden Caulfield. He planned to direct a film version but its author, JD Salinger, refused to sell him the rights. He once visited a psychiatrist only for

Jerry Lewis as the Nutty Professor in 1963. Below, with Dean Martin. Their ten-year partnership ended in acrimony in 1956

the doctor to tell him that it would be a mistake for him to undergo analysis. “If we peel away the emotional and psychological difficulties your pain may leave, but it’s also quite possible that you won’t have a reason to be funny any more,”” the shrink told him. He attempted to marry his dark and comic sides by making a movie titled The Day the Clown Cried, about a circus clown in Auschwitz forced byy dthe Nazis to lead childamren into the gas chamw who bers. The select few d version saw an unfinished reported the film to be baffling baffling, bizarre and unsettling. Because of the adverse reaction it was never released. When he succumbed to depression his cure was to seek a tonic by flying to France, a country that he loved and where the feeling was reciprocated. When he was awarded the Légion d’honneur in 2006, the citation called

him the “French people’s favourite clown”. He earned an unenviable reputation as a vain, narcissistic and ill-tempered ego egomaniac. It was a judgme with which he judgment was not prepared to argu “I’m a multiargue. fac faceted, talented, w wealthy, internati tionally famous g genius,” he said w with his tongue b barely in his cheek. “P “People don’t like tha But my answer that. to all my critics is simp I like me.” simple: w also prone to He was homopho and misogynhomophobic statement although it was istic statements, sometimes hard to te tell whether he was joking or not. “I don’t like any female comedians. Seeing a woman in comedy sets me back. I think of her as a producing machine that brings babies into the world,” he said in 1998. He lost his virginity at the age of 12 to a stripper named Trudine who lured the boy into her dressing room. “I

remember it took only a minute,” he said. “She was a piece of work. She danced with a snake.” It was later said that he slept with all his leading ladies and he admitted that when he was directing a film, he would often get to the set early for “a little hump”, to get the day started right. Among those he bedded was Marilyn

He lost his virginity aged 12 to a stripper who performed with a snake Monroe. He claimed to have been “crippled for a month” after the experience, which may explain why he turned down an invitation to appear with her in Some Like It Hot. The part went to Jack Lemmon, who earned an Oscar nomination and sent Lewis boxes of chocolates every year to thank him. He married his first wife, Patti, a singer with Jimmy Dorsey’s band, when he was 19. Despite his innumerable infidelities — “I banged anyone I could meet,” he confessed — they remained married for 36 years until divorcing in

1980. They had five sons: Gary, the lead singer with the 1960s pop group Gary Lewis & the Playboys; Scott, who works in the film industry; Christopher, who acted as his father’s archivist; Anthony, a film-maker and cinematographer; and Joseph, who died in 2009. They also adopted a sixth son, Ronnie. He married for a second time in 1983 to SanDee Pitnick, a dancer in Las Vegas who was 25 years his junior. They had one daughter, Danielle, whom they adopted in 1992, when Lewis was 66. Suzan Lewis claims to be his daughter from his relationship with the model Lynn Dixon. In 2014 she wrote a memoir called Jerry Lewis, My Father — Is Always in My Mirror. By his own admission Lewis craved applause and the need never left him. Late in life when asked how he would like to be remembered, he replied that he had no interest in what people would think after he had gone: “I want to hear all the good stuff while I’m here.” His behaviour frequently exhibited symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder. He refused to wear a pair of socks more than once and changed them several times per day. He gave away his suits rather than have them cleaned and refused to carry “dirty money”, insisting on only immaculate dollar bills. He kept them in his pocket in a wad of hundreds and fifties, folded once, wrapped in a rubber band and arranged by his bookkeeper, consecutively, by serial number. For many years he was addicted to painkillers, which he took to counter the knocks that came with doing all his own stunts. In 1965, while performing in Las Vegas, he threw himself off a piano, landed on the base of his spine and spent four months in hospital. It led to him becoming a walking medicine cabinet and by the 1970s he was taking fistfuls of Percodan, quaaludes and Nembutal every day. He described most of the decade as a “complete blackout” and after averaging two pictures a year throughout the 1950s and 1960s, he released only one film in the 1970s. He attributed many of his struggles to a difficult childhood. Born Joseph Levitch in Newark, New Jersey, in 1926, his father, Daniel, and mother, Rae, were Jewish vaudeville entertainers who used the stage name Lewis. From the age of five their only son was joining them on stage singing Brother Can You Spare a Dime? For much of his childhood he was passed from one relative to another and his early memories of his parents were “an occasional phone call or penny postcard”. They missed his bar mitzvah. He felt, he wrote in a memoir, like “a dummy, a misfit, the sorriest kid alive”. Bogdanovich had no hesitation in suggesting that his desire for applause and attention as a comic was driven by neglect as a child. By the age of 15 he had dropped out of school and developed his own comedy routine in burlesque houses where comics took the stage between strippers, performing for “guys in the front with the newspapers in their laps and the trench coats”. He was exempted from military service because of a heart murmur and in Continued on page 50

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1946 he joined forces in a nightclub act with Martin, who was almost a decade older. Three years later they were signed to Paramount and made their film debut in My Friend Irma. There followed a string of formulaic films that lacked subtlety and were savaged by the critics but which were huge box-office draws. Their double act reached Britain in 1953 when they broke house records at the London Palladium. Yet such success could still not buy the affection of his father. When Jerry bought him a custom-made Cadillac and had it delivered with a huge bow tied around it, the only response was said to be: “How come it’s not a convertible?” Lewis and Martin dissolved their partnership in 1956 on the tenth anniversary of their first performance. By then they were both multimillionaires but were barely on speaking terms. Lewis’s version of their falling out was that Martin was sick of hearing everyone talk about his sidekick’s wacky brilliance. He reported that when he tried to talk about the depth of their friendship, Martin told him: “To me, you’re nothing but a f***ing dollar sign.” It was 20 years before they spoke again, although when Martin died in 1995 Lewis described himself as “completely shattered and grief-stricken”. The dollar signs continued to flash without Martin and his solo pictures such as The Ladies Man, The Bell Boy,

Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese cited him as a big influence The Nutty Professor, The Patsy and The Family Jewels were superior to anything they had done together. After a long gap he returned to the screen in the 1980s and enjoyed a notable artistic rehabilitation when Scorsese cast him in The King of Comedy as a chat show host who is stalked and kidnapped by Robert De Niro’s obsessive fan. As late as 1995 he was breaking records when he was said to have become the highest-paid performer in Broadway history for his role as the Devil in Damn Yankees. For more than 40 years he presented an annual “telethon” on American TV in aid of children with muscular dystrophy. Yet even in his charitable work, controversy was never far away as children in wheelchairs and their parents staged a picket line, questioning the destination of the money and objecting to his use of the word “cripple”. In later years he endured prostate cancer, two heart attacks, viral meningitis, diabetes and pulmonary fibrosis. Yet he remained incorrigible and insisted that he was going to live to 101 in order to win a bet with George Burns. “Whatever your last year is, I’m going a year after you,” he had told his fellow comedian. Burns, who would die aged 100 in 1996, told him, “If that’s what your dream is, sonny, go for it.” Jerry Lewis, actor and comedian, was born on March 16, 1926. He died on August 20, 2017, aged 91

Lewis with his wife SanDee Pitnick

Sir Colin Meads Shy sheep farmer who was the bane of British rugby as the All Blacks’ enforcer and ‘player of the century’ ALAN GIBSON/NEW ZEALAND HERALD/AP

One of the first games of the All Blacks’ 1970 tour of South Africa was against Eastern Transvaal. With the Test series looming, the head of South African rugby, Danie Craven, had publicly expressed the hope that the provincial sides would “soften up” the New Zealanders. Eastern Transvaal were happy to oblige, and the match was a bloodbath. Six minutes in, Colin “Pinetree” Meads, having been kicked in the arm, emerged from a ruck with it dangling by his side. He could not feel his fingers, he told a team-mate, Earle Kirton. “Ah, shit, Pinetree, you haven’t broken it, have you?” Kirton replied. The team doctor looked at it and thought it might be a trapped nerve. That was good enough for Meads, who ran back on — and played for 74 minutes with what turned out to be a clean break. “I knew it was more than that, but I wasn’t leaving the bloody game for a pinched nerve,” he recalled. At the end, his shirt had to be cut off him. “At least we won the bloody game,” he said. Meads had a month out, treating himself with horse liniment, but returned for the rest of the tour to play with a thin arm guard. During the 1960s and 1970s, rugby union followers in Europe were brought up on the notion that New Zealanders trained by running up and down mountains with a sheep tucked under each arm. The myth coincided with the playing career of Meads, the shy farmer who became for many the greatest rugby player of his or any other generation. Indeed, a photograph of Meads carrying two animals to the sheep dip was widely circulated, though he insisted that he never ran up hills with them. For 14 years he was the All Blacks’ “enforcer”, the hardest of men in the hardest of teams. In 1963, when they were playing Ireland in Dublin, another rugby legend, Willie John McBride, floored Meads in retaliation for some rough stuff at a lineout. One of his team-mates was furious, McBride recalled: “He said to me, ‘Do you realise who you’ve hit? Meads! We’re dead now!’ Five minutes later I got one back from him. That was the end of it.” In his biography Meads — a secondrow forward for most of his career, though at just over 6ft 3in and 16st he would now be considered small for the position — summed up his attitude to the game in which he made 55 appearances for his country: “I’m no bloody angel. If I can gain the advantage by a bit of gamesmanship, I’ll be the first to do it for what it means to the team. You play this game on a manly basis and you expect the opposition to try for the same sort of advantage.” No player of the modern era would make such a statement, hedged round by all-seeing cameras. However, Meads was an Old Testament player: an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. He was sent off at Murrayfield in 1967 when he fly-hacked a loose ball into the body of the Scotland fly-half, David Chisholm. Meads had already been warned three times for stamping and the referee had seen enough to warrant rugby’s ultimate punishment. It would be 50 years before another All Black was sent off in an international game. He had, though, been execrated in Britain for punching David Watkins during the 1966 Lions tour, and for breaking the jaw of Jeff Young, the Wales hooker, in 1969. Many Australians could not forgive him for terminating the international career of Ken Catchpole, who suffered an agonising groin injury when Meads tried to drag him by one leg from a ruck during the 1968 international in Sydney. However, Meads was a magnificent rugby footballer, a rampaging giant of a

Sir Colin Meads and his wife, Verna, by a statue of himself in Te Kuiti in June. Below, on the charge for the All Blacks in 1967

player. His character was summed up by a former team-mate, Sir John Graham: “Colin Meads is a humble man, a man of action rather than a talker about his actions, yet he is always the unofficial adviser, guide, assistant and leader of any All Black party outside the official leaders of the side. Meads does not seek this position, the rest of the team simply place him in it.” Colin Earl Meads was born on a hillside sheep farm in the village of Cambridge near Te Kuiti — which announces itself as the “sheepshearing capital of the world” — in Waikato. He was the second of three children; their

‘He carried the ball in his great hands as if it were an orange pip’ father was called Vere, their mother Ida (née Gray). He left school just before his 15th birthday, eager to earn his keep on the farm — work that developed his teak-hard physique. As the great rugby commentator Bill McLaren put it: “I look at Colin Meads and see a great big sheep farmer who carried the ball in his hands as though it was an orange pip.” He played for his local club, Waitete, then for his province, King Country, aged 19. In 1957 he was chosen for the All Blacks tour to Australia. That year he married Verna, a local girl, and they would spend their life on their farm in Te Kuiti, until selling up when they were in their seventies. They had five children: Karen, Kelvin, Rhonda, Glynn and Shelley, who all survive him along with Verna. Many of his child-

ren played sport for New Z Zealand; l nd iin na nod to his father, Glynn, who played for and managed the King Country rugby team, became known as “Pinecone”. Meads became part of the All Blacks who would have won a grand slam on tour in Britain in 1963-64 but for a 0-0 draw against Scotland, who thrashed the 1966 Lions 4-0, and played so memorably in Europe in 1967. When his international career ended against the Lions in 1971, he possessed more caps than any other player in the world. At the end of that tour, his kitbag was found a new role carrying tools for docking lambs’ tails. He developed a close friendship with Wilson Whineray, arguably New Zealand’s greatest captain. On one flight to the US, Meads was filling in a landing

ca that asked whether the bearer had card ev indulged in subversive behaviour ever an he sought clarification. “It means and g getting into trouble, just tick the no box,” W Whineray said. “But I belong to the King C Country rugby team and we get into a h of a lot of trouble,” Meads replied. hell He became a selector and coach for N North Island and, in 1986, was made a national selector before he agreed to coach the New Zealand Cavaliers in South Africa. At this stage South Africa was regarded as a sporting pariah and Meads subsequently acknowledged that “generous donations” had been made to the playing party as an inducement to play a four-match series. He was recalled as a member of the New Zealand RFU council in 1992-6 and was manager of the All Blacks in 1994-95, when they reached the Rugby World Cup final in South Africa, only to lose to the Springboks after several players went down with food poisoning. Meads was appointed MBE in 1971. In 1999 he was named New Zealand’s “player of the century” and a decade later he accepted a knighthood. When a statue of him was unveiled in Te Kuiti in June, rugby greats Gareth Edwards, Barry John, JPR Williams, John Dawes and McBride, former fierce foes all, called Mead to congratulate him. During the 2011 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand, a sign was put up on the road into Te Kuiti: “Welcome to MEADSVILLE. Please leave soccer balls in the bin provided.” Sir Colin Meads, rugby player and farmer, was born on June 3, 1936. He died of pancreatic cancer on August 20, 2017, aged 81

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Analysing whether contractual terms conflict with each other Supreme Court Published August 21, 2017

MT Højgaard A/S v E.ON Climate & Renewables UK Robin Rigg East Ltd and Another Before Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury, Lord Mance, Lord Clarke of Stone-cum-Ebony, Lord Sumption and Lord Hodge [2017] UKSC 59 Judgment August 3, 2017

Where a contract contained terms which required an item to be produced in accordance with a prescribed design and prescribed criteria, and literal conformity with the prescribed design would inevitably result in the product falling short of the prescribed criteria, it did not follow that the two terms were mutually inconsistent. In many contracts, the contractor would have to improve on any aspects of the prescribed design that would otherwise lead to the product falling short of the prescribed criteria; in others, the requirements of the prescribed criteria would only apply to aspects of the design that were not prescribed. The Supreme Court so held in allowing the appeal of the defendants, E.ON Climate & Renewables UK Robin Rigg East Ltd and E.ON Climate & Renewables UK Robin Rigg West Ltd (E.ON), against the decision of the Court of Appeal (Lord Justice Jackson, Lord Justice Patten and Lord Justice Underhill) ([2015] EWCA Civ 407) overturning the decision of Mr Justice Edwards-Stuart ([2014] EWHC 1088 (TCC)) that the claimant, MT Højgaard A/S (MTH), was in breach of its contract to design and install the foundation structures of two offshore wind farms for the defendants. Mr John Marrin, QC, and Mr Paul Buckingham for E.ON; Mr David Streatfeild-James, QC, and Mr Mark Chennells for MTH. Lord Neuberger, with whom the other members of the court agreed, said that the proceedings arose from the fact that the foundation structures of two offshore wind farms at Robin Rigg in the Solway Firth, designed and installed by MTH for E.ON, failed shortly after completion of the project. The issue was whether MTH were liable for that failure. In May 2006, E.ON sent tender documents to various parties including MTH, who in due course became the successful bidders. The tender documents included E.ON’s “Technical Requirements”, setting out E.ON’s minimum requirements. Paragraph 3.2.2.2(i) required the design to be in accordance with

a document known as J101, an international standard for the design of offshore wind turbines. Paragraph 3.2.2.2(ii) stated that the design should ensure a lifetime of 20 years. MTH duly proceeded with the design and construction of the two wind farms, completing the works in February 2009. However, later in 2009, it was discovered that a value given in the equation for the design and construction of grouted connections in J101 was wrong by a factor of about ten. In April 2010 the grouted connections in the foundations at Robin Rigg started to fail. The question was whether, in the light of paragraph 3.2.2.2(ii), which referred to ensuring a life for the foundations of 20 years, MTH was in breach of contract, despite the fact that it used due care and professional skill, adhered to good industry practice, and complied with J101. MTH contended that it was clear that the contract stipulated that the works had to be constructed in accordance with the requirements of J101 (and with appropriate care), and it was unconvincing to suggest that paragraph 3.2.2.2(ii) rendered it liable for faulty construction, given that the works were constructed fully in accordance with J101 (and with appropriate care). It appeared to his Lordship that, if one considered the natural meaning of paragraph 3.2.2.2(ii), it involved MTH warranting either that the foundations would have a lifetime of 20 years or agreeing that the design of the foundations would be such as to give them a lifetime of 20 years. As MTH realistically accepted, the provisions of the Technical Requirements were effectively incorporated into the contract. In those circumstances, there were only two arguments open to MTH as to why the paragraph should not be given its natural effect: that such an interpretation resulted in an obligation that was inconsistent with MTH’s obligation to construct the works in accordance with J101; and that paragraph 3.2.2.2(ii) was simply too slender a thread on which to hang such an important and potentially onerous obligation. In his Lordship’s judgment, where a contract contained terms that required an item (i) which was to be produced in accordance with a prescribed design, and (ii) which, when provided, would comply with prescribed criteria, and literal conformity with the prescribed

design would inevitably result in the product falling short of one or more of the prescribed criteria, it by no means followed that the two terms were mutually inconsistent. That might be the right analysis in some cases. However, in many contracts, the proper analysis might well be that the contractor had to improve on any aspects of the prescribed design that would otherwise lead to the product falling short of the prescribed criteria, and in other contracts, the correct view could be that the requirements of the prescribed criteria only applied to aspects of the design that were not prescribed. While each case had to turn on its own facts, the courts were generally inclined to give full effect to the requirement that the item as produced complied with the prescribed criteria on the basis that, even if the customer or employer had specified or approved the design, it was the contractor who could be expected to take the risk if he agreed to work to a design which would render the item incapable of meeting the criteria to which he had agreed. Paragraph 3 stressed that its requirements were minimum requirements and provided that it was MTH’s responsibility to identify any areas where the works needed to be designed to any additional or more rigorous requirements. In those circumstances, where two provisions of paragraph 3 imposed different or inconsistent standards or requirements, the correct analysis was that the more rigorous or demanding of the two standards or requirements had to prevail, as the less rigorous could properly be treated as a minimum requirement. Further, paragraph 3 made it clear that, although it might have complied with the design requirement, MTH would be liable for the failure to comply with the required criteria, as it was MTH’s duty to identify the need to improve on the design accordingly. His Lordship rejected MTH’s submission that paragraph 3.2.2.2(ii) was too weak a basis on which to rest a contention that it had a liability to warrant that the foundations would survive for 20 years or would be designed so as to achieve 20 years of lifetime. Paragraph 3.2.2.2(ii) was clear in its terms and such an interpretation could not be said to be improbable or unbusinesslike. Solicitors: Gowling WLG (UK) LLP, Birmingham; Fenwick Elliott LLP.

The Duke of Kent, Patron, this evening attended a Reception to celebrate the One Hundred and Twenty Fifth Anniversary of the Inauguration of Royal West Norfolk Golf Club as a Royal Club.

Crathie Parish Church this morning. The Reverend Dr Robert Barlow preached the Sermon. Wing Commander Samuel Fletcher RAF was received by The Queen when Her Majesty invested him with the Insignia of a Member of the Royal Victorian Order.

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Weather Today Rain spreading from Ireland into northwest Britain, drier and warm in the southwest. Max 25C (77F), min 9C (48F) Weather Eye Paul Simons Around Britain

Five days ahead

Key: b=bright, c=cloud, d=drizzle, pc=partly cloudy du=dull, f=fair, fg=fog, h=hail, m=mist, r=rain, sh=showers, sl=sleet, sn=snow, s=sun, t=thunder *=previous day **=data not available

Warmer across the south through Wednesday, but staying unsettled in the northwest

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General situation: Heavy rain i spreading from Ireland into southwestern Scotland, turning warm in the south. London, SE Eng, Channel Is, E Anglia, Midlands, N Wales, NW Eng, Cen N Eng: Cloudy with patchy rain at ﬁrst, some heavy, but becoming drier and brighter later later. Light southeasterly winds, becoming variable. Maximum 22C (72F), minimum 14C (57F). S Wales, Republic of Ireland: Rain at ﬁrst, lingering across western Ireland, heavy at times. Elsewhere,

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bright Moderate becoming drier and brighter. southwesterly winds. Maximum 21C (70F), minimum 12C (54F). Cen S Eng, SW Eng: Mainly dry with sunny spells and feeling very warm later. Light westerly winds. Maximum 25C (77F), minimum 13C (55F). E Eng Eng, NE Eng Eng, Edinburgh & Dundee, Dundee Borders: Dry and bright at ﬁrst, but cloud thickening with patchy rain spreading in during the afternoon. Light southeasterly winds. Maximum 20C (68F), minimum 12C (54F).

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Lake District, IoM, N Ireland, Glasgow, Argyll, SW Scotland: Cloudy with spells of rain, heavy at times with some localised ﬂooding possible. Light southeasterly winds. Maximum 19C (66F), minimum 13C (55F). Cen Highland, Moray Firth, N Isles, Aberdeen, N Scotland: Mainly dry with Aberdeen sunny spells in the north, but cloudier further south with a few spots of light rain possible. Light southeasterly winds, variable in places. Maximum 18C (64F), minimum 9C (48F).

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26 S Madeira 31 F Madrid 29 S Majorca 28 S Málaga 32 F Malta 11 S Melbourne Mexico City 21 B 34 S Miami 26 F Milan 29 B Mombasa 25 S Montreal 30 F Moscow 25 SH Mumbai 18 B Munich 23 C Nairobi 28 B Naples New Orleans 34 B 29 B New York 27 S Nice 32 S Nicosia 16 S Oslo 19 B Paris 16 S Perth 18 S Prague 13 F Reykjavik 18 S Riga Rio de Janeiro 23 B 42 S Riyadh 29 F Rome San Francisco 19 S 11 B Santiago 17 R São Paulo 24 R Seoul 28 B Seychelles 31 S Singapore St Petersburg 19 S 18 B Stockholm 14 S Sydney 31 F Tel Aviv 30 F Tenerife 27 S Tokyo 20 S Vancouver 25 F Venice 22 S Vienna 16 S Warsaw Washington 29 B 20 S Zurich

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Flood alerts and warnings

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The world Alicante Amsterdam Athens Auckland Bahrain Bangkok Barbados Barcelona Beijing Beirut Belgrade Berlin Bermuda Bordeaux Brussels Bucharest Budapest Buenos Aires Cairo Calcutta Canberra Cape Town Chicago Copenhagen Corfu Delhi Dubai Dublin Faro Florence Frankfurt Geneva Gibraltar Harare Helsinki Hong Kong Honolulu Istanbul Jerusalem Johannesburg Kuala Lumpur Lanzarote Las Palmas Lima Lisbon Los Angeles Luxor

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Ht 4.3 13.1 3.4 12.1 5.3 6.7 4.0 5.0 3.4 4.1 5.6 7.5 5.6 9.4 7.1 2.6 6.9 9.4 6.7 6.9 3.8 5.4 4.7 6.4 0.7 9.3 5.4 1.9

14:02 19:58 23:52 19:51 18:27 --:---:-17:56 13:11 --:-23:06 19:05 15:10 --:-14:29 22:23 18:59 --:-23:57 17:50 18:33 17:23 23:59 --:-13:36 19:04 16:22 19:24

Ht 4.3 13.6 3.7 12.5 5.6 --5.3 3.3 -5.8 7.6 5.7 -7.0 2.6 7.2 -6.8 7.2 4.1 5.7 4.8 -4.5 9.6 5.5 2.2

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Synoptic situation The day will begin with a weak ridge of high pressure across most of Britain. However, a broad area of low pressure that includes the remnants of Hurricane Gert will approach Ireland. A warm front with tropical air will move in from the southwest, but also bring with it a large area of rain. Rain may turn heavy across Ireland and western Britain later.

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Warmest: Kew Gardens, 21.0C Coldest: Cairngorm, 3.5C Wettest: Elphin, Sutherland, 22.2mm Sunniest: Odiham, Hampshire, 10.8hrs*

Sun and moon For Greenwich Sun rises: 05.55 Sun sets: 20.10 Moon rises: 05.18 Moon sets: 20.07 First quarter: Aug 29

21:04-05:20 21:12-05:43 20:50-05:32 20:53-05:40 20:52-05:43 21:09-05:32 20:57-05:34 20:41-05:27 20:54-05:31 20:56-05:24 20:38-05:19 20:59-05:52 20:51-05:28

rees in cities are far better at improving the urban climate than previously thought. Just a single tree in a street can help to dampen down wind speeds and keep pedestrians comfortable as they walk past, according to a new study. On the other hand, losing a single tree not only allows faster wind speeds but can also increase wind pressure on nearby buildings and drive up heating costs. Researchers at the University of British Columbia used an incredibly detailed computer model of a neighbourhood in Vancouver, mapping every tree, plant and building using a laser scanning technique. Computer simulations were then used to find out what would happen if all the trees were removed, or bare of leaves in winter, or in full leaf. “We found that removing all trees can increase wind speed by a factor of two, which would make a noticeable difference to someone walking down the street. For example, a 15 km/h (9mph) wind speed is pleasant, whereas walking in 30 km/h wind is more challenging,” Marco Giometto, the paper’s lead author, said. Trees also help to shelter buildings against the impact of wind pressure. When there is a large pressure gradient between the inside and outside of buildings, more air from the outside will penetrate through small gaps and openings, meaning more energy must be used to heat or cool the building. “Wind pressure is responsible for as much as a third of a building’s energy consumption. We found that removing all the trees around buildings drove up the building’s energy consumption by as much as 10 per cent in winter and 15 per cent in summer,” Dr Giometto said. “Even bare branches play a role,” said Marc Parlange, one of the researchers. “Deciduous trees, which shed their leaves every year, reduce pressure loading on buildings throughout the year — it’s not only evergreens that are important.” The study was published in the journal Advances in Water Resources.

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Muguruza demolishes Halep’s No 1 spot dream

Surrey defend charges for Blast quarter-final Cricket Elizabeth Ammon

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Surrey have defended themselves against criticism over their decision to charge members for tickets for their NatWest T20 Blast quarter-final against the Birmingham Bears. Some members were angered that the club will be charging them £15 for a ticket for Friday’s match when the literature that they received with their membership stated that they had access to all Surrey’s home matches, not just the group stages of the Blast. Surrey’s website was altered on Friday night to make it clear that members get unticketed access to group matches only, although the information sent to members at the beginning of the season says otherwise. A statement by Richard Gould, the chief executive, said: “We have 10,000 members but only 2,500 seats available in members’ areas for T20 matches. If this game sells out, we need to make sure we deliver it safely. We also have an obligation to pay the Birmingham Bears 25 per cent of gate revenue for this game. For these reasons it was considered appropriate

Tennis Elgan Alderman

Simona Halep again failed to become the world No 1 after Garbiñe Muguruza stormed to a 6-1, 6-0 win at the Western & Southern Open in Cincinnati. This is the third time in three months that Halep has been one win away from reaching the top spot, only to lose. In the French Open final, she threw away a set and three-game lead over Jelena Ostapenko, while at Wimbledon she had match point over Johanna Konta before losing in three sets. Halep would have become the fourth woman to hold the top spot in 2017 after Serena Williams, Angelique Kerber and Karolina Pliskova, who will now extend her reign as world No 1 into a sixth week. Despite progressing to the final without losing a set, the 25-year-old from Romania was totally outclassed by Muguruza, this year’s Wimbledon champion, who needed less than an hour to win her second title of the season, the first time she has won multiple events in a single year. Muguruza had won both of their previous hard-court encounters, with Halep’s solitary win over the Spaniard coming on clay in Stuttgart two years ago. With heavy strapping on her left leg — as she had during her Wimbledon success last month — Muguruza broke Halep’s serve in the second game of the match and sped into a 3-0 lead in the first set. At 4-1 down, Halep summoned Darren Cahill, her coach, for some inspiration. “Show me that you believe you can win this,” Cahill said. The pep talk did not work and the challenge proved too great. Halep registered two double faults as her serve was broken for a second time, before Muguruza easily held her own serve to win the first set 6-1 in only 23 minutes. The Romanian’s forehand continued to let her down — she hit 11 unforced errors on it — and Muguruza took a 2-0 lead early in the second set before sealing another break of serve. Halep fought hard to force her way back into the match, but Muguruza saved multiple break points to take a 4-0 lead after a 13-minute game. Having expended all that effort, the Spaniard broke Halep with ease for a

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to charge a modest fee for members’ tickets for this knockout-stage match. Surrey members have a discounted ticket price, an exclusive period in which to buy their tickets, and reserved members’ areas. “The annual membership application brochure states that only the seven group games are free for members but we regret any confusion caused from other sources which have not been appropriately updated.” Ian Bell, below, has stood down as Warwickshire captain with immediate effect. Bell, who took over the captaincy at the start of last season, is averaging just 24.64 with the bat and has given up the captaincy to try to revive his form, with Warwickshire battling to avoid relegation. Bell, 35, was dropped from Birmingham Bears’ NatWest T20 Blast side for their final group match, which they won to secure a quarter-final spot. Bell will be replaced as captain by his former England team-mate Jonathan Trott for their remaining five championship matches. All-rounder Grant Elliott will captain the T20 side.

Hull KR keep up the pace Rugby league Christopher Irvine

Muguruza proudly holds the Rookwood Cup after beating Halep 6-1, 6-0 in the final of the Cincinnati Open yesterday and denying her opponent a No1 ranking

third time in the set before serving out for the title. Elsewhere, there was defeat for Britain’s Jamie Murray in the men’s doubles final. Murray and his partner Bruno Soares, of Brazil, lost 7-6 (8-6), 6-4 to the French pairing of Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut in 94 minutes. The straight-sets defeat was Murray and Soares’ first final since they

won the Aegon Championships at the Queen’s Club in June. In the men’s final, Bulgaria’s world No 11 Grigor Dimitrov captured the seventh ATP title of his career and third of the year, defeating Australia’s Nick Kyrgios 6-3, 7-5. Dimitrov did not drop a set in taking the top prize of $954,225 (about £740,000) and the biggest title of his career.

Hull Kingston Rovers made it three wins from three in the Qualifiers, beating a gallant London Broncos 35-30 and staking a further claim to one of the three automatic Betfred Super League promotion places. Rovers maintained only the second 100 per cent record behind Warrington Wolves going in to the break for Saturday’s Challenge Cup final between Hull and Wigan Warriors. Two further wins in four games could be sufficient to restore top-flight status following their relegation in last year’s “Million Pound Game” play-off. A brace by Ryan Shaw and further touchdowns by Danny Addy, Kieren Moss and Rob Mulhern proved sufficient, with seven goals by Jamie Ellis and a Chris Atkin dropped goal.

Having lost their first middle eights game to Warrington, Widnes Vikings made it successive wins against Championship opponents in running 11 tries, including hat-tricks by Rhys Hanbury and Chris Bridge, past Featherstone Rovers, who yielded 58-10. Stefan Marsh scored two of five second-half tries, before Joe Mellor crossed late on, to leave Featherstone second from bottom above Halifax, who pushed Warrington hard before losing 22-8. “We wanted to be more ruthless than we had been against Halifax last week, and when we had opportunities we took them,” Denis Betts, the Widnes head coach, said. Catalans Dragons succumbed in Perpignan for a second consecutive week and are at serious risk of having to scrap for their Super League lives in the fourth versus fifth play-off after losing 30-6 to Leigh Centurions.

Results Athletics Diamond League meet Alexander Stadium, Birmingham: Men: 100m: 1, C Ujah (GB) 10.08sec; 2, J Dasaolu (GB) 10.11; 3, Z Hughes (GB) 10.13. 200m: 1, R Guliyev (Tur) 20.17; 2, A Webb (US) 20.26; 3, A Brown (Can) 20.30. 400m: 1, D Cowan (GB) 45.34; 2, V Norwood (US) 45.52; 3, R Yousif (GB) 45.58. 800m: 1, N Amos (Bots) 1min 44.50sec; 2, A Kszczot (Pol) 1:45.28; 3, M Lewandowski (Pol) 1:45.33. One mile: 1, J Wightman (GB) 3:54.92; 2, C O’Hare (GB) 3:55.01; 3, B Blankenship (US) 3:55.89. 3,000m: 1, M Farah (GB) 7:38.64; 2, A Mechaal (Sp) 7:40.34; 3, D Kiplangat (Kenya) 7:40.63. 110m hurdles: 1, A Merritt (US) 13.29; 2, S Shubenkov (Russ) 13.31; 3, D Allen (US) 13.40. High jump: 1, M Barshim (Qat) 2.40m; 2, M Ghazal (Syr) 2.31; 3, T Gale (GB) 2.24. Long jump: 1, J Lawson (US) 8.19m; 2, R Samaai (SA) 8.03; 3, M Hartfield (US) 8.02. Shot: 1, T Walsh (NZ) 21.83m; 2, R Crouser (US) 21.55; 3, T Stanek (Cz) 21.16. Women: 100m: 1, E Thompson (Jam) 10.93; 2, M Ta Lou (Ivory Coast) 10.97; 3, J Levy (Jam) 11.08. 400m: 1, S Eid Naser (Bahrain) 50.59; 2, A Felix (US) 50.63; 3, C Okolo (US) 50.66. 800m: 1, H Alemu (Eth) 1:59.60; 2, L Sharp (GB) 1:59.97; 3, C Lipsey (US) 2:00.97. 1,500m: 1, D Seyaum (Eth) 4:01.36; 2, W Chebet (Kenya) 4:02.24; 3, R Arafi (Mor) 4:02.95. 3,000m: 1, S Hassan (Neth) 8:28.90; 2, K Klosterhalfen (Ger)

8:29.89; 3, M Kipkemboi (Kenya) 8:30.11. 400m hurdles: 1, Z Hejnova (Cz) 54.18; 2, D Muhammad (US) 54.20; 3, J Russell (Jam) 54.67. Pole vault: 1, E Stefanidi (Gr) 4.75; 2, H Bradshaw (GB) 4.61; 3, M Meijer (Swe) 4.61. Triple jump: 1, C Ibargueen (Col) 14.51; 2, K Williams (Jam) 14.44; 3, O Rypakova (Kaz) 14.29. Discus: 1, S Perkovic (Cro) 67.51; 2, D Caballero (Cub) 65.24; 3, Y Perez (Cub) 65.11.

Cricket First one-day international Sri Lanka v India Dambulla (India won toss): India beat Sri Lanka by nine wickets Sri Lanka (balls) †N Dickwella lbw b Jadhav 64 (74) M D Gunathilaka c Rahul b Chahal 35 (44) B K G Mendis b Patel 36 (37) *W U Tharanga c Dhawan b Jadhav 13 (23) A D Mathews not out 36 (50) C K Kapugedera run out 1 (2) P W H De Silva c Jadhav b Patel 2 (5) N L T C Perera b Bumrah 0 (5) P A D L R Sandakan lbw b Patel 5 (8) S L Malinga st Dhoni b Chahal 8 (6) M V T Fernando b Bumrah 0 (6) Extras (lb 6, w 10) 16 Total (43.2 overs) 216 Fall of wickets: 1-74, 2-139, 3-150, 4-166, 5-169, 6-176, 7-178, 8-187, 9-209.

Bowling: Kumar 6-0-33-0; Pandya 6-0-35-0; Bumrah 6.2-0-22-2; Chahal 10-0-60-2; Jadhav 5-0-26-2; Patel 10-0-34-3. India (balls) R G Sharma run out 4 (13) S Dhawan not out 132 (90) *V Kohli not out 82 (70) Extras (w 2) 2 Total (1 wkt, 28.5 overs) 220 K L Rahul, †M S Dhoni, K M Jadhav, H H Pandya, A R Patel, B Kumar, Y S Chahal and J J Bumrah did not bat. Fall of wicket: 1-23. Bowling: Malinga 8-0-52-0; Fernando 6-0-43-0; Mathews 2-0-9-0; Perera 2-0-18-0; Sandakan 6-0-63-0; De Silva 4.5-0-35-0. Umpires: R Palliyaguruge (Sri Lanka) and J Wilson (West Indies). 6 India lead five-match series 1-0

Golf Saltire Energy Paul Lawrie Match Play Bad Griesbach, Germany: Final: A Otaegui (Sp) bt M Siem (Ger) 2 and 1. Third/fourth place playoff: J Carlsson (Swe) bt A Cañizares (Sp) 3 and 2. European Tour Fiji International Natadola Bay GC: Leading final scores (Great Britain and Ireland unless stated): 274: J Norris (Aus) 69, 68, 70, 67. 278: D McKenzie (Aus) 68, 71, 72, 67; J Janewattananond (Thai) 74, 72, 68,

64; J Marchesani (US) 71, 70, 67, 70. 279: A Bland (Aus) 68, 71, 75, 65; D Pearce (NZ) 66, 71, 73, 69; W Ormsby (Aus) 69, 71, 66, 73; P Wilson (Aus) 68, 71, 70, 70. 280: G Paddison (NZ) 73, 69, 71, 67; J Felton (Aus) 71, 71, 72, 66; S Vincent (Zim) 73, 68, 68, 71. US PGA Tour Wyndham Championship Greensboro, North Carolina: Leading final scores (United States unless stated): 258: H Stenson (Swe) 62, 66, 66, 64. 259: O Schniederjans 66, 63, 66, 64. 262: W Simpson 63, 64, 68, 67. 263: R Armour 66, 61, 72, 64; R Sabbatini (SA) 65, 68, 66, 64; K Na 67, 63, 65, 68. 265: M Flores 64, 70, 68, 63; C Smith (Aus) 63, 69, 70, 63; S Lowry (Ire) 67, 64, 67.

26:19.923; 3, S Byrne (Ducati) 26:20.196. Second race: 1, J Ellison (Yamaha) 26:12.941; 2, L Jackson (BMW) 26:13.637; 3, P Hickman (BMW) 26:15.178. Leading championship positions: 1, Byrne 219pts; 2, Haslam 209; 3, Hickman 177.

Motorcycling

Rugby league

World Superbike Championship, ninth round Klettwitz, Brandenburg, Germany: Leading final positions: First race: 1, C Davies (GB, Ducati) 34min 8.073sec; 2, J Rea (GB, Kawasaki) 34:09.907; 3, T Sykes (GB, Kawasaki) 34:11.323. Second race: 1, Davies 34:05.220; 2, Rea 34:07.510; 3, M Melandri (It, Ducati) 34:09.608. Leading championship positions: 1, Rea 381pts; 2, Sykes 311; 3, Davies 276. British Superbike Championship, eighth round Cadwell Park, Louth, Lincolnshire: Leading final positions (all British): First race: 1, L Haslam (Kawasaki) 26min 19.792sec; 2, J Dixon (Kawasaki)

Betfred Super League Qualifiers Super 8s: Hull KR 35 London Broncos 30; Widnes 58 Featherstone 10. Saturday: Catalans Dragons 6 Leigh 30; Warrington 22 Halifax 8. P W D L F A Pts Warrington 3 3 0 0 102 46 6 Hull KR 3 3 0 0 81 68 6 Widnes 3 2 0 1 108 50 4 Leigh 3 2 0 1 84 38 4 Catalans D 3 1 0 2 50 100 2 London Broncos 3 0 1 2 80 87 1 Featherstone 3 0 1 2 54 128 1 Halifax 3 0 0 3 42 84 0

Motor rallying WRC Rally of Germany Bostalsee, Saarbrücken: Leading final positions: 1, O Tanak (Est, Ford Fiesta) 2hr 57min 31.7sec; 2, A Mikkelsen (Nor, Citroen C3) at 16.4sec behind; 3, S Ogier (Fr, Ford Fiesta) 30.4. British: 6, E Evans (Ford Fiesta) 2:03.4. Leading championship positions: 1, Ogier 177pts; 2, T Neuville (Bel, Hyundai) 160; 3, Tanak 144. British: 6, Evans 87.

Kingstone Press Championship: Shield: Super 8s: Batley Bulldogs 22 Oldham 22; Sheffield Eagles 28 Dewsbury Rams 35; Swinton Lions 16 Bradford Bulls 30. Saturday: Toulouse 50 Rochdale Hornets 12. League One: Super 8s: Barrow Raiders 26 York City Knights 19; Whitehaven 36 Keighley Cougars 4; Workington Town 22 Doncaster 21. Saturday: Toronto Wolfpack 50 Newcastle Thunder 0. Shield: Coventry Bears 14 London Skolars 50; Hemel Stags 18 North Wales Crusaders 38; Oxford 22 South Wales Ironmen 22. Saturday: Hunslet 32 Gloucestershire All Golds 18.

Rugby union The Rugby Championship: Australia 34 New Zealand 54; South Africa 37 Argentina 15.

Snooker China Open Championship Guangzhou: Quarter-finals: S Murphy (Eng) bt Zhou Yuelong (China) 5-2; A Carter (Eng) bt F O’Brien (Ire) 5-2; L Brecel (Bel) bt R O’Sullivan (Eng) 5-4; Li Hang (China) bt M Williams (Wales) 5-3.

Tennis Western & Southern Open Cincinnati: Finals: Men: G Dimitrov (Bul) bt N Kyrgios (Aus) 6-3, 7-5. Women: G Muguruza (Sp) bt S Halep (Rom) 6-1, 6-0.

the times | Monday August 21 2017

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Sport

Jockey investigated over ‘hitting’ horse Blythe’s spirit Racing Paddy von Behr

A former Gold Cup-winning jockey is under investigation by the Irish Turf Club for appearing to strike a horse on the head. Davy Russell was sitting on board Kings Dolly in preparation for a handicap hurdle at Tramore on Friday night when the mare stopped abruptly in

Windsor Rob Wright 5.20 Snazzy Jazzy 6.50 Major Pusey 5.50 Outback Blue 7.20 Awesome Allan 6.20 Snow Squaw (nap) 7.50 Ennjaaz Thunderer: 6.20 Carducci. 6.50 Ice Age (nap). Going: good At The Races Draw: 5-6f, low numbers best

5.20

Novice Stakes (2-Y-O: £4,593: 6f 12y) (12)

1 SNAZZY JAZZY 80 (D) Clive Cox 9-8 A Kirby 1 (6) 0 BLACKHEATH 37 E Walker 9-2 James Doyle 2 (3) COUNT OTTO Mrs A Perrett 9-2 P Dobbs 3 (7) 2 QIANLONG 13 (BF) R Varian 9-2 A Atzeni 4 (4) SOCIETY POWER W Haggas 9-2 P Cosgrave 5 (10) 60 SWISSAL 32 D Dennis 9-2 L Morris 6 (9) 56 GRAFFITISTA 33 G Scott 8-11 H Bentley 7 (2) HEIDI R Hannon 8-11 S Levey 8 (8) 5 HOLLIE'S DREAM 91 P D Evans 8-11 S Donohoe 9 (11) KATH'S LUSTRE B De Haan 8-11 E Greatrex (3) 10 (1) 6 PASTAMAKESUFASTER 48 P D Evans 8-11 R Tart 11(12) 0 ROZANNE 16 J Noseda 8-11 Doubtful 12 (5) 7-4 Qianlong, 3-1 Snazzy Jazzy, 9-2 Society Power, 10-1 Blackheath, Heidi, 14-1 Count Otto, 20-1 Graffitista, 25-1 Hollie's Dream, 33-1 others.

Rob Wright’s choice: Snazzy Jazzy won well at Goodwood and can defy a penalty Dangers: Qianlong, Rozanne

5.50

Handicap (£4,690: 1m 2f) (10)

1 (2) 10605 CAPTAIN PEACOCK 26 (V,C) W Knight 4-9-10 A Atzeni 2 (5) -0053 CARNIVAL KING 14 (B) A Murphy 5-9-9 David Egan (5) T Marquand 3 (10) 24333 LEXINGTON LAW 18 (V) A King 4-9-9 4 (8) 05051 MICHAEL'S MOUNT 30 (B,C,D) E Dunlop 4-9-7 L Morris S Levey 5 (3) 41200 BOYCIE 32 (D) R Hannon 4-9-7 S Donohoe 6 (1) 123-6 MIA TESORO 13 (H,D) C Fellowes 4-9-7 A Kirby 7 (9) 126 ESKENDASH 91 (BF) Mrs P Sly 4-9-6 8 (7) 44233 OUTBACK BLUE 10 (T,V,C) P D Evans 4-9-1 James Doyle 9 (4) 03026 GLORIOUS POET 28 J Spearing 4-9-0 M Fernandes (7) J Egan 10 (6) 36000 ESSENAITCH 20 (C) P D Evans 4-8-9 5-1 Carnival King, Michael's Mount, 11-2 Lexington Law, 6-1 Boycie, 13-2 Eskendash, 7-1 Mia Tesoro, 8-1 Captain Peacock, Outback Blue, 14-1 others.

Wright choice: Outback Blue was close third at Newmarket and this race looks weaker Dangers: Boycie, Carnival King

6.20

Fillies Handicap (£4,690: 1m 31y) (9)

front of a show hurdle, designed for the runners to size up their obstacles in the coming race. The 38-year-old — twice champion jockey in Ireland and the Cheltenham Gold Cup winner in 2014 with Lord Windermere — appeared to respond by striking the mare with his fist. The stewards did not notice the incident but footage from At The Races began to circulate on social media on Saturday.

Choc Thornton, the former jockey, described it as a “moment of madness from a true pro and a class act”. Denis Egan, the Turf Club chief executive, saw the footage for the first time on Saturday evening. “It will be fully investigated and appropriate action will be taken, if required,” he said. “We will examine whatever footage is available and decide then whether or not any rules have been broken.”

L Morris 5 (6) 0-210 PEACE DREAMER 17 R Cowell 3-9-4 6 (9) 62344 SANDFRANKSKIPSGO 11 (CD) P Crate 8-9-4 D Sweeney J Egan 7 (5) 20005 AWESOME ALLAN 27 (CD) P D Evans 3-9-4 8 (7) 40-36 SHACKLED N DRAWN 40 (D) P Hedger 5-9-4 T Marquand 9 (4) 53150 ARCHIMEDES 17 (T,P,D) D Griffiths 4-8-11 E Greatrex (3) David Egan (5) 10 (3) -3230 LIBERATUM 12 Mrs R Carr 3-8-9 7-2 Maazel, 9-2 Beck And Call, 5-1 Lydia's Place, 13-2 others.

6.30

Wright choice: Awesome Allan drops in trip after failing to stay at Ffos Las Dangers: Liberatum, Beck And Call

1-220 CUP FINAL 30 (T,D) B Haslam 8-11-12 R McLernon 2F/12 LOVELY JOB 30 (D,BF) F O'Brien 7-11-9 P Brennan -122P CHARLIE WINGNUT 28 (D,BF) Mrs S Smith 10-10-11 S W Quinlan B Hughes 4 -2224 BRIAN BORANHA 30 P Niven 6-10-10 5 2-304 CLONDAW BANKER 28 (P) F Murtagh 8-10-6 L Murtagh (7) 7-4 Lovely Job, 5-2 Cup Final, 11-4 Charlie Wingnut, 6-1 others.

7.50

7.00

Maiden Stakes (£2,911: 1m 2f) (11)

0/ ARRUCIAN 706 Ms N Hugo 4-9-7 A Fresu 1 (7) 00 BREEZE UP 23 E De Giles 3-9-5 C Shepherd (3) 2 (8) ENNJAAZ S bin Suroor 3-9-5 P Cosgrave 3 (5) 3 FEARSOME 213 R Beckett 3-9-5 P Dobbs 4 (9) 60 HAJAAM 166 C Fellowes 3-9-5 S Donohoe 5 (6) 65 MY NAME IS JEFF 32 Miss J Feilden 3-9-5 A Jones (3) 6 (11) D O'Neill 7 (1) 44246 TURNPIKE TRIP 24 H Candy 3-9-5 0 WHAT A WELCOME 23 E Wheeler 3-9-5 J Haynes 8 (3) 24 LEWINSKY 35 H Palmer 3-9-0 James Doyle 9 (10) 00 SAMPAQUITA 69 G L Moore 3-9-0 H Crouch (3) 10 (4) 11 (2) 0-5 SHELTERED WATERS 145 E Houghton 3-9-0 C Bishop 13-8 Ennjaaz, 5-2 Turnpike Trip, 11-4 Lewinsky, 6-1 Fearsome, 20-1 others.

Wright choice: Ennjaaz, a half-brother to the useful Here Now, appeals Dangers: Lewinsky, Turnpike Trip

Rob Wright 5.00 What Happens Now 7.00 Banff 5.30 Taxmeifyoucan 7.30 Miss Conway 6.00 Patricktom Boru 8.00 Buy Mistake 6.30 Lovely Job Going: good to firm At The Races

5.00

Novices' Hurdle (£3,165: 2m 7f 63y) (9)

1 P-311 WHAT HAPPENS NOW 19 (D) D McCain 8-12-0 L Murtagh (7) J England 2 4-300 ASK SHANROE 15 M Campion 5-11-0 J Corbett (7) 3 56-21 EBONY ROSE 20 (H,T) S Corbett 5-11-0 A Nicol 4 0-034 LUSO BENNY 17 P Holmes 5-11-0 5 34-50 WIG WAM WIGGLE 20 M D Hammond 5-11-0 F O'Toole (5) 6 4404P BEYONDTHEFLAME 50 (V) J Haynes 7-10-7 T Dowson (5) C Bewley (3) 7 6540 GINNY BRIG 20 Miss L Harrison 6-10-7 B Hughes 8 00-00 SMILING JESSICA 31 R Menzies 7-10-7 0-0 WANDAOVER 15 (P) N Mechie 5-10-7 S Coltherd (5) 9 9-4 Ebony Rose, 5-2 What Happens Now, 4-1 Beyondtheflame, Luso Benny, 18-1 Ginny Brig, Smiling Jessica, Wig Wam Wiggle, 22-1 others.

112 COSTA PERCY 15 (CD) J Candlish 11-12 S W Quinlan 1 1 TAXMEIFYOUCAN 16F (D) K Dalgleish 11-5 F O'Toole (5) 2 P BAB EL MANDEB 36 Miss L Russell 10-12 D R Fox 3 3UP PARKWARDEN 15 C Grant 10-12 C Bewley (3) 4 SOMETHING BREWING 23F I Jardine 10-12 H Brooke 5 2 SATIS HOUSE 59 (T) S Corbett 10-5 J Corbett (7) 6 6-4 Costa Percy, 5-2 Taxmeifyoucan, 7-2 Something Brewing, 9-1 others.

Wright choice: Snow Squaw, too keen in cheekpieces last time, can return to form Dangers: Fastnet Spin, Carducci

6.00

Handicap (£46,688: 6f 12y) (16)

R Winston (1) 12601 STAKE ACCLAIM 9 (CD) D Ivory 5-9-10 David Egan (5) (6) -0213 UPSTAGING 16 (P,CD) P Cole 5-9-9 62065 DOUGAN 23 (D) P D Evans 5-9-1 R Tart (10) A Kirby (4) -3402 SPRING LOADED 35 (CD) P D'Arcy 5-9-1 A Atzeni (14) /3515 ATLETICO 20 (C,D,BF) R Varian 5-9-1 E Greatrex (3) (11) 23401 ICE AGE 14 (CD) E Houghton 4-9-0 S Levey (7) 50445 TOMILY 34 (D) R Hannon 3-8-13 (13) 22510 LIGHTNING CHARLIE 16 (D) Mrs A Perrett 5-8-13 S Drowne H Bentley 9 (3) 04020 GULLIVER 9 (T) H Palmer 3-8-9 10(12) -0214 PARNASSIAN 44 (CD,BF) Mrs A Perrett 3-8-9 K Shoemark J Egan 11 (8) 46-05 SECONDO 28 (D) J Tuite 7-8-8 12 (5) 43260 PETTOCHSIDE 16 (D) J Bridger 8-8-7 Josephine Gordon M Dwyer 13(15) 32215 OPEN WIDE 6 (H,B,CD) Mrs A Perrett 3-8-7 J Fahy 14 (2) 41050 GORING 16 (CD) E Houghton 5-8-7 15 (9) 20322 MAJOR PUSEY 10 (CD,BF) J Gallagher 5-8-6 D Sweeney L Morris 16(16) 04206 ENGLISHMAN 31 (CD) J M Bradley 7-8-5 4-1 Upstaging, 5-1 Atletico, 10-1 Ice Age, Spring Loaded, Stake Acclaim, 12-1 Tomily, 14-1 Dougan, Englishman, Lightning Charlie, Pettochside, Secondo, 16-1 Gulliver, Major Pusey, Parnassian, 20-1 Goring, Open Wide. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Wright choice: Major Pusey was second to the progressive Jordan Sport last time Dangers: Ice Age, Spring Loaded

7.20 1 2 3 4

Handicap (£4,690: 5f 21y) (10)

R Hornby (8) 15033 LYDIA'S PLACE 5 (D) Richard Guest 4-9-9 R Winston (2) 62541 CAPPANANTY CON 21 D Ivory 3-9-8 Georgia Cox (5) (10) -3216 BECK AND CALL 25 H Candy 3-9-6 A Atzeni (1) 0-426 MAAZEL 11 (B,D) R Varian 3-9-5

5.30

1 2 3

Handicap Hurdle (£2,849: 2m 4f 28y) (8)

R Johnson 1 600-2 BANFF 14F (P) O Murphy 4-11-12 D Bourke (5) 2 666O2 FLYING JACK 57 M Barnes 7-11-9 J Corbett (7) 3 -205P REIVERS LODGE 15 (H,T) S Corbett 5-11-9 A Lane 4 22564 STETSONSNSTILETTOS 24 D McCain 5-11-2 C Nichol 5 P-045 APACHEE PRINCE 19 (T) A Whillans 8-10-13 H Brooke 6 P6-00 NOTNOWSAM 28 (P) M D Hammond 6-10-7 Ross Chapman (7) 7 4PP/0 DIZOARD 23F I Jardine 7-10-6 8 56-50 EXIT TO FREEDOM 59 (H,D) J Wainwright 11-10-2 Miss C Walton (3) 3-1 Banff, 5-1 Flying Jack, 11-2 Apachee Prince, 7-1 others.

7.30

Handicap Chase (£3,165: 1m 7f 133y) (12)

01223 DICA 30 (C,D,BF) P Collins 11-12-4 Ross Chapman (7) 36-0U GLEANN NA NDOCHAIS 20 A Whillans 11-12-4 B Campbell (7) D Bourke (5) 3 44-55 TOLEDO GOLD 46 (T,CD) M Barnes 11-12-3 4 -3211 MISS CONWAY 43 (CD) M Walford 6-11-12 J Hamilton (3) 5 0-500 THE SHEPHERD KING 12 (T,P,D) R K Watson (Ire) 13-11-9 B Hughes N Moscrop (5) 6 /4P-4 SHINE AWAY 36 Mrs S Smith 7-11-6 7 -6334 AGENTLEMAN 21 (T,P,BF) E Williams 7-11-0 M Bastyan (7) D Irving (3) 8 0-541 MISS MACKIE 30 R Mike Smith 6-10-10 T Dowson (5) 9 5-645 MY IDEA 20 (T,P) M Barnes 11-10-9 C Bewley (3) 10 -36U0 MR WITMORE 25 (B) K Johnson 7-10-7 11 0P425 RHYTHM OF SOUND 30 (B) M D Hammond 7-10-4 A P Cawley 12 -4146 MORNING TIME 36 (T,P,CD) Miss L Russell 11-10-4 D R Fox 7-2 Miss Conway, 4-1 Agentleman, 6-1 Dica, Miss Mackie, 10-1 others. 1 2

Hexham

1 (6) -1145 LA CELEBS VILLE 30 (P,D) T Dascombe 4-9-11 P Pilley (5) S Donohoe 2 (5) 00-02 HIGH ON LOVE 35 (C) C Fellowes 3-9-6 S Levey 3 (8) 21642 CARDUCCI 19 (D) R Hannon 3-9-6 A Atzeni 4 (3) 301 UAE QUEEN 33 R Varian 3-9-5 61-42 MEDICEAN BALLET 25 H Candy 3-9-4 D O'Neill 5 (2) James Doyle 6 (7) 61612 KYLLACHYS TALE 25 (D) R Teal 3-9-2 David Egan (5) 7 (1) 41024 SNOW SQUAW 28 D Elsworth 3-9-1 J Egan 8 (9) 32522 FASTNET SPIN 6 (T,V,C,BF) P D Evans 3-9-0 R Hornby 9 (4) 00321 ACCOMPLICE 12 (D) M Blanshard 3-8-9 15-8 UAE Queen, 6-1 Accomplice, 7-1 High On Love, Medicean Ballet, 8-1 Carducci, Kyllachys Tale, 10-1 Snow Squaw, 12-1 others.

6.50

Novices' Handicap Chase (£6,330: 3m 41y) (5)

Juvenile Hurdle (3-Y-O: £3,165: 2m 48y) (6)

Handicap Hurdle (£3,482: 2m 7f 63y) (9)

3-111 ONLYFOOLSOWNHORSES 46 (T,D) M D Hammond 6-12-0 F O'Toole (5) 2 11223 PATRICKTOM BORU 29 (D) E Williams 10-11-12 M Bastyan (7) S W Quinlan 3 0-344 PERSEID 43 (D) Mrs S Smith 7-11-9 J England 4 P4P10 NICKI'S NIPPER 28 (P) S England 9-11-5 33 SOLWAY PALM 19 Miss L Harrison 7-11-5 C Bewley (3) 5 6 -0410 NATIVE OPTIMIST 28 (CD) S Walton 10-11-3 Miss C Walton (3) R Johnson 7 32-4P MO ROUGE 57 (P,D) J Stephen 9-10-13 A Nicol 8 3-020 FINAL FLING 19 (P) Mrs R Dobbin 6-10-6 9 30-P0 COURT BALOO 17 (V,D) A Whillans 6-10-0 G Cockburn (3) 2-1 Onlyfoolsownhorses, 4-1 Patricktom Boru, 7-1 Final Fling, Mo Rouge, 10-1 Native Optimist, Nicki's Nipper, Perseid, 14-1 others. 1

Course specialists Hexham: Trainers M Walford, 9 from 45 runners, 20.0%; Miss L Russell, 38 from 214, 17.8%. Jockey R Johnson, 6 from 13 rides, 46.2%. Lingfield: Trainers L Cumani, 17 from 53, 32.1%; W Haggas, 59 from 190, 31.1%. Jockeys R L Moore, 63 from 223, 28.3%; James Doyle, 43 from 204, 21.1%. Thirsk: Trainers R Beckett, 4 from 10, 40.0%; S bin Suroor, 5 from 13, 38.5%. Jockeys M Lane, 5 from 15, 33.3%; P P Mathers, 11 from 47, 23.4%. Windsor: Trainers S bin Suroor, 18 from 44, 40.9%; P D’Arcy, 3 from 9, 33.3%. Jockeys A Atzeni, 35 from 129, 27.1%; J Haynes, 6 from 23, 26.1%.

8.00

NH Flat Race (£1,884: 2m 48y) (10)

KLARE CASTLE Mrs S Smith 5-11-0 S Coltherd (5) 1 LISKEARD Andrew Crook 5-11-0 J Bargary (3) 2 32- MICK'S WISH 449P J Stephen 5-11-0 C Gethings (3) 3 BUY MISTAKE G Harker 4-10-13 L Murtagh (7) 4 0 FAROCCO 19 M Barnes 4-10-13 D Irving (3) 5 0 BEYONDPERFECTION 65 J Haynes 6-10-7 T Dowson (5) 6 PF-P BIDDY BLACK 92P S West 5-10-7 F O'Toole (5) 7 0- BRANDY BURN 264 P Niven 6-10-7 Ross Chapman (7) 8 2-3 ROSE TREE 109 (T,BF) S Corbett 4-10-6 J Corbett (7) 9 SODOI (T) S Corbett 4-10-6 Mr D Hurst (7) 10 10-11 Rose Tree, 8-1 Farocco, Sodoi, 11-1 Liskeard, 12-1 others.

Lingfield Park Rob Wright 2.00 Solent Meads 4.00 Sunchisetagioo 2.30 Love Conquers (nb) 4.30 Sing Out Loud 3.00 Ablaze 5.05 Arctic Flower 3.30 Sunstorm Going: good to firm (good in places) Draw: no advantage At The Races

2.00

Handicap (£2,264: 1m 2f) (13)

T Queally (2) -0416 TAKE A TURN 17 (D) D Lanigan 3-9-8 (6) 30043 ROCK N ROLL GLOBAL 40 (B) R Hughes 3-9-8 J P Spencer J Fanning (10) 05305 GREY DIAMOND 12 (B) M Johnston 3-9-7 L Morris (4) 40-60 MISTRESS VIZ 111 D M Loughnane 3-9-5 K Fox (9) 06350 CASADO 12 John Best 3-9-5 H Bentley (12) -6503 BEATISA 4 E Walker 3-9-5 G Downing (1) 06044 SOLENT MEADS 14 (B) D Kubler 3-9-4 R Hornby (3) 62050 PERMANENT 11 (B) D Kubler 3-9-3 (11) 30103 VENETIAN PROPOSAL 16 (P,C) Miss Z Davison 3-9-2 K O'Neill D Probert 10 (5) 60626 CALIFORNIA CLIFFS 19 Rae Guest 3-9-1 11 (7) 0640 BOOK OF DUST 25 (B) G Bravery 3-9-1 Josephine Gordon Sophie Ralston (7) 12 (8) 0006- DESIDERO 315 (P) P Phelan 3-8-8 A Fresu 13(13) 0552 ROCKSETTE 9 P Hide 3-8-8 5-1 Beatisa, Take A Turn, 6-1 Rock N Roll Global, Rocksette, Venetian Proposal, 9-1 California Cliffs, 10-1 Solent Meads, 12-1 Permanent, 14-1 others.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

2.30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Handicap (£2,911: 1m 3f 133y) (8)

R L Moore (1) 43123 LIGHT OF AIR 46 (D,BF) G L Moore 4-9-13 (6) 350 TINKER TAILOR 16 (T) D Quinn 4-9-11 David Egan (5) D Probert (7) 2-604 ARCHIMENTO 26 (T) P Hide 4-9-9 T Marquand (4) 52325 PREROGATIVE 37 (P) R Hannon 3-9-5 S De Sousa (3) 24313 PETE SO HIGH 3 (P,D,BF) R Hannon 3-9-4 James Doyle (5) 20031 RAJ BALARAAJ 14 (P) G Baker 3-9-2 H Bentley (8) 022 LOVE CONQUERS 39 R Beckett 3-9-1

Yesterday’s racing results Southwell Going: good 2.00 (1m 7f 153yd ch) 1, Azzuri (Harry Skelton, 5-6 fav); 2, Stealing Mix (17-2); 3, Cliffside Park (13-8). 6 ran. 11l, 2l. D Skelton. 2.35 (2m 4f 62yd ch) 1, Skilled (R Johnson, 15-8 fav); 2, Highbury High (8-1); 3, David John (3-1). 7 ran. NR: Exitas. Hd, 17l. O Murphy. 3.10 (2m 4f 62yd ch) 1, Art Of Payroll (N D Fehily, 7-4 fav); 2, Hammersly Lake (7-1); 3, Vikekhal (18-1). 10 ran. Kl, 13l. H Fry. 3.40 (2m 7f 209yd hdle) 1, Jacks Last Hope (P J Brennan, 6-1); 2, Kalifourchon

(7-1); 3, Braavos (9-4 fav). 6 ran. 3Ol, 3Ol. C Grant. 4.15 (2m 7f 209yd hdle) 1, Premier Rose (Harry Skelton, 11-8 fav); 2, Table Bluff (14-1); 3, Varene De Vauzelle (9-2). 11 ran. 11l, 1Kl. D Skelton. 4.50 (1m 7f 153yd hdle) 1, Runasimi River (T Scudamore, 7-2); 2, Bise D’estruval (4-1); 3, Viognier (25-1). 8 ran. 7l, 7l. N Mulholland. 5.25 (1m 7f 153yd hdle) 1, Cosmic Tigress (T J O’Brien, 6-1); 2, Full (2-1); 3, Tempuran (6-4 fav). 6 ran. NR: Astrum, Bahrikate. 2l, nk. J J Quinn. Placepot: £88.30. Quadpot: £40.70.

Pontefract Going: good (good to firm in places) 2.15 (5f 3yd) 1, Viscount Loftus (S De Sousa, 6-4 fav); 2, Showmethedough (16-1); 3, Ginbar (2-1). 7 ran. 1Kl, 1Kl. M Johnston. 2.50 (1m 4f 5yd) 1, Croquembouche (Callum Shepherd, 25-1); 2, Melting Dew (11-4); 3, Airton (14-1). 7 ran. ns, hd. E De Giles. 3.25 (2m 1f 27yd) 1, Wordiness (S De Sousa, 7-2); 2, Almost Gemini (5-1); 3, Mcvicar (7-1). 9 ran. NR: Tectonic. Nk, 1Kl. P D Evans. 4.00 (6f) 1, Queen Kindly (T Eaves, 7-4 fav); 2, Eartha Kitt (9-1); 3=, Classical

Times (12-1). 3=, Raven’s Lady (5-1). 14 ran. NR: Flower Of May. Hd, Kl. R Fahey. 4.35 (1m 6yd) 1, Isabella (J Fanning, 85-40 fav); 2, Eagle Creek (9-4); 3, Portledge (12-1). 6 ran. 1Kl, Ol. D O’Meara. 5.10 (1m 6yd) 1, Glassy Waters (Josephine Gordon, Evens fav); 2, Caravela (6-1); 3, Morning Chimes (9-1). 10 ran. 1Kl, 1l. S bin Suroor. 5.40 (6f) 1, Sandra’s Secret (J Gordon, 7-2 fav); 2, The Amber Fort (9-2); 3, Major Crispies (8-1). 10 ran. 1Nl, nk. J L Eyre. 6.10 (6f) 1, Short Work (D Tudhope, 5-1); 2, Penny Pot Lane (4-1); 3, Equiano Springs (12-1). 7 ran. NR: Lexington Sky, Market Choice. Kl, 3l. D O’Meara. Placepot: £85.50. Quadpot: £7.50.

gets him third Cycling Adam Blythe finished third in a windy second stage of the Vuelta a España as fellow Briton Chris Froome improved his overall standing. Blythe crossed the line of the 203.4km route from Nimes to Gruissan just behind Quick-Step Floors duo Yves 8 (2) 4421- FEARLESS LAD 345 (C) John Best 7-8-12 2-1 Love Conquers, 4-1 Pete So High, 6-1 Light Of Air, 7-1 others.

3.00

K Fox

Handicap (£2,911: 2m 68y) (10)

J P Spencer 1 (6) 0/5-6 LINGUINE 33 (B) S Durack 7-10-3 T Queally 2 (9) -2125 KING CALYPSO 12 (D) D Coakley 6-10-0 3 (5) 42044 BAMAKO DU CHATELET 33 (C) I Williams 6-10-0 James Doyle S De Sousa 4 (2) 63226 FITZWILLY 17 (CD,BF) M Channon 7-9-11 5 (10) 40-10 AVENUE DES CHAMPS 22 (P) Jane Chapple-Hyam 5-9-11 Paddy Bradley (5) L Morris 6 (8) 00-31 PIEDITA 28 (D) Sir M Prescott 3-9-5 J Haynes 7 (4) 30253 TOPALOVA 27 M Tompkins 4-8-9 M Dwyer 8 (1) 05500 RING EYE 12 (V,D) John O'Shea 9-8-9 D Probert 9 (3) 50403 MONTYCRISTO 10 (B) P Hide 4-8-9 E Greatrex (3) 10 (7) -0012 ABLAZE 23 (C,BF) Mrs L Mongan 3-8-4 6-4 Piedita, 4-1 Fitzwilly, 8-1 Ablaze, Bamako Du Chatelet, 9-1 Avenue Des Champs, 10-1 King Calypso, Topalova, 16-1 Montycristo, 25-1 others.

3.30

Novice Stakes (2-Y-O: £2,911: 7f) (13)

05 ADULATE 21 (B) H Palmer 9-2 Josephine Gordon 1 (5) 2 AMBIENT 16 R Varian 9-2 S De Sousa 2 (9) COMPASS POINT Mrs L Mongan 9-2 J Fahy 3 (3) 0 ELSAAKB 31 J Gosden 9-2 D O'Neill 4 (1) 35 HE'S OUR STAR 17 Ali Stronge 9-2 T Marquand 5 (7) 4 POETS DREAM 52 M Moubarak 9-2 T Queally 6 (4) 2 RADIO SOURCE 33 Sir M Stoute 9-2 R L Moore 7 (8) STAUNCH J Noseda 9-2 J P Spencer 8 (12) 0 SUNSTORM 45 D Brown 9-2 R Winston 9 (6) 00 SURREY BLAZE 3 J Tuite 9-2 E Greatrex (3) 10(11) 0 USHER 21 R Charlton 9-2 K Shoemark 11(10) 0 FILLY MIGNON 53 B Powell 8-11 M Dwyer 12(13) VALERIE'S MEMORY P Hide 8-11 D Probert 13 (2) 5-4 Radio Source, 7-2 Staunch, 5-1 Ambient, 8-1 Elsaakb, 9-1 He's Our Star, 16-1 Adulate, Usher, 20-1 Poets Dream, 40-1 others.

4.00

Fillies’ Handicap (£12,450: 7f 135y) (5)

1 (3) 21240 REBEL SURGE 24 (P,C) Richard Spencer 4-9-13 J P Spencer 2 (1) 1-234 SUNCHISETAGIOO 10 (H,D) M Botti 3-9-7 David Egan (5) S De Sousa 3 (5) 06426 BINT DANDY 3 (B) C Dwyer 6-9-6 R L Moore 4 (2) -3111 HARBA 25 (D) W Haggas 3-9-0 J Fanning 5 (4) 43211 PEACH MELBA 13 M Johnston 3-8-13 Evens Harba, 5-2 Peach Melba, 6-1 Rebel Surge, 7-1 others.

Lampaert and Matteo Trentin, with Team Sky’s Froome eight seconds off the pace in 16th. Froome, who hopes to become only the third man to win the Vuelta and Tour de France in the same year, climbs to ninth overall, 21 seconds behind stage winner and leader Lampaert. Blythe (Aqua Blue Sport) is a further 18 seconds back in 30th place. A crash involving around a dozen riders then put an end to the challenge of Javier Moreno (Bahrain-Merida) and Anass Ait El Abdia (UAE Team Emirates). 3.15

Handicap (£5,822: 7f 218y) (12)

J Sullivan 1 (6) -2414 DESTROYER 31 (D) T Tate 4-10-1 2 (11) 14333 MON BEAU VISAGE 34 (P,D,BF) D O'Meara 4-10-0 D Tudhope 3 (9) 34043 WORLDS HIS OYSTER 14 (D,BF) J J Quinn 4-10-0 J Hart 4 (1) 52530 SOVEREIGN BOUNTY 16 (CD) Jedd O'Keeffe 5-9-13 G Lee T Eaves 5 (12) 00054 BRIYOUNI 9 (P,C) K A Ryan 4-9-13 6 (5) 3-40 DIFFERENT JOURNEY 91 M W Easterby 4-9-7 C Hardie R Kingscote 7 (7) 11045 SIDEWINDER 52 (D) T Dascombe 3-9-7 D Allan 8 (8) -5005 OFF ART 20 (P,C,D) T Easterby 7-9-4 J Garritty 9 (2) 0-241 WHITKIRK 63 Jedd O'Keeffe 4-9-3 10 (4) 53506 CELTIC ARTISAN 20 (T,B,D) R Menzies 6-8-13 P McDonald T Hamilton 11 (3) 24150 VAULTED 16 R Fahey 3-8-10 Kevin Stott 12(10) 00200 SHEARIAN 20 (B,D) Declan Carroll 7-8-9 4-1 Whitkirk, 5-1 Mon Beau Visage, 11-2 Worlds His Oyster, 6-1 others.

3.45

Handicap (£6,469: 5f) (19)

C Hardie 1 (15) 14003 ELYSIAN FLYER 16 (CD) P Midgley 5-9-9 T Eaves 2 (18) 40302 BOGART 16 (T,P) K A Ryan 8-9-9 G Lee 3 (9) 00644 OLIVIA FALLOW 26 (CD) P Midgley 5-9-7 D Tudhope 4 (11) 0-020 ALSVINDER 17 (D) D O'Meara 4-9-6 5 (14) 50005 MEMORIES GALORE 9 (P,D) R G Fell 5-9-6 T Hamilton B A Curtis 6 (19) 4-1 AFRICAN FRIEND 51 (D) H Candy 4-9-5 N Farley 7 (8) 13546 INVINCIBLE RIDGE 42 (D) E Alston 9-9-4 J Garritty 8 (5) -3500 GRANDAD'S WORLD 70 (D) R Fahey 5-9-4 9 (13) -3625 FRUIT SALAD 39 (P,D) J Bethell 4-9-3 Cal Rodriguez (5) S A Gray 10 (7) 14202 BRONZE BEAU 11 (T,P,D) K Stubbs 10-9-3 D Allan 11 (4) 650-5 L C SALOON 139 (CD) D Griffiths 4-9-3 B Robinson (5) 12 (6) 00455 PEA SHOOTER 5 (T,D) B Ellison 8-9-0 B McHugh 13 (1) 00536 B FIFTY TWO 14 (T,P,D) Mrs M Fife 8-9-0 14(16) 46432 LANDING NIGHT 26 (T,P,D) R Menzies 5-9-0 P McDonald 15 (2) /31-0 MYSTERIOUS GLANCE 35 (D) S Hollinshead 4-8-12 R Ffrench J Sullivan 16(17) 02263 FLASH CITY 12 (D) Mrs R Carr 9-8-10 Kevin Stott 17(10) 02503 INTERLINK 3 M Appleby 4-8-9 18(12) 00222 POINT OF WOODS 17 (P,CD,BF) Miss T Jackson 4-8-6 Joe Doyle P P Mathers 19 (3) 5-514 ETERNALIST 46 (H,CD) J Goldie 4-8-3 5-2 African Friend, 10-1 B Fifty Two, Bogart, 12-1 Interlink, Landing Night, 14-1 Alsvinder, Elysian Flyer, Eternalist, Flash City, 16-1 others.

4.15

Maiden Stakes (£5,822: 7f) (13)

0 WILSON 23 L Cumani 9-2 Doubtful 1 (7) 6 DASHING DUSTY 13 J Osborne 9-1 D C Costello 2 (4) HARBOUR STORM Mrs L Mongan 9-0 J Fahy 3 (5) 0 SING OUT LOUD 16 G L Moore 9-0 R L Moore 4 (1) 62201 HELLO GIRL 7 D Ivory 8-13 R Winston 5 (3) 44 FORTUNATE VISION 20 D Brown 8-10 K Shoemark 6 (2) LAYTOWN J Osborne 8-10 J Fanning 7 (8) 0 HAVANA HEART 47 I Mohammed 8-9 S De Sousa 8 (6) 2-1 Hello Girl, 3-1 Dashing Dusty, 9-2 Sing Out Loud, 11-2 others.

P Mulrennan 1 (8) 43632 ARNARSON 39 (T) E Dunlop 3-9-5 63 CHOSEN WORLD 9 J Camacho 3-9-5 Joe Doyle 2 (3) 33 GLENN COCO 18 S C Williams 3-9-5 P McDonald 3 (7) MAJOR MINUS T Easterby 3-9-5 Rachel Richardson (3) 4 (6) 5 NAAEEBB 68 (P,BF) S bin Suroor 3-9-5 Kevin Stott 5 (11) 00 PRECIOUS ROCK 19 (H) Jedd O'Keeffe 3-9-5 J Garritty 6 (4) SACRED WAY K A Ryan 3-9-5 T Eaves 7 (10) 6 BOOGEY WONDERLAND 49 S Dixon 3-9-0 D Allan 8 (5) 62 CHARLIE'S DREAMER 8 M Appleby 3-9-0 Jane Elliott (5) 9 (13) D Tudhope 10 (9) -3062 DANCE TEACHER 31 (BF) R Beckett 3-9-0 P P Mathers 11(12) 605-0 KIRKBY'S PHANTOM 19 C Teague 3-9-0 50 MY ANGEL 19 O Pears 3-9-0 A Mullen 12 (2) J Sullivan 13 (1) -0000 ZARKAVON 9 (H) J Wainwright 3-9-0 2-1 Dance Teacher, 100-30 Naaeebb, 5-1 Arnarson, 13-2 Sacred Way, 15-2 Charlie's Dreamer, 8-1 Glenn Coco, 9-1 Chosen World, 33-1 others.

5.05

Apprentice Handicap

4.45

(£2,911: 7f 135y) (7)

Cal Rodriguez (5) 1 (8) 66031 SEPAL 7 I Jardine 4-10-6 2 (5) 02256 LUV U WHATEVER 14 (T,D) Mrs M Fife 7-10-4 B McHugh J Sullivan 3 (1) 02000 ARITHMETIC 12 Mrs R Carr 4-10-0 P McDonald 4 (9) 00622 CORREGGIO 22 M D Hammond 7-10-0 B A Curtis 5 (4) 06304 STECCANDO 10 S Haynes 4-9-11 D Tudhope 6 (2) 35231 CLENYMISTRA 6 (CD) D O'Meara 3-9-11 P Mulrennan 7 (7) 45002 IN FOCUS 17 (H) Mrs D Sayer 6-9-6 C Hardie 8 (3) 0403 DECIMA 20 (T) M W Easterby 3-9-4 9 (6) 60300 IVORS INVOLVEMENT 4 Miss T Jackson 5-8-11 T Eaves 15-8 Sepal, 9-2 Clenymistra, In Focus, 5-1 Decima, 11-2 Correggio, 16-1 others.

4.30

Novice Auction Stakes (2-Y-O: £2,264: 6f) (8)

1 (2) 1130- GERMAN WHIP 233 (BF) G L Moore 4-9-13 Jason Watson (5) C Noble 2 (3) 03660 MARBOOH 2 (T) D Quinn 4-9-12 66340 RAVENHOE 11 (D) M Johnston 4-9-10 Finley Marsh 3 (7) D Keenan (5) 4 (5) 45-20 WORLD RECORD 40 Mick Quinn 7-9-0 5 (6) 34111 ARCTIC FLOWER 16 (CD) J Bridger 4-8-12 Joshua Bryan 6 (4) 15433 CYFLYMDER 23 (CD) D Griffiths 11-8-7 Nicola Currie (3) G Malune (3) 7 (1) 60430 COOPERESS 12 (V) John O'Shea 4-8-7 7-4 Arctic Flower, 7-2 World Record, 9-2 Ravenhoe, 6-1 Cyflymder, 10-1 others.

Thirsk Rob Wright 2.15 No I’m Easy 4.15 Glenn Coco 2.45 Lady In Question 4.45 Decima 3.15 Sidewinder 5.15 Calliope 3.45 Bogart 5.45 Rose Eclair Going: good (good to soft in places) Draw: 5-6f, high numbers best Racing UK

2.15

Novice Stakes (2-Y-O: £4,528: 6f) (13)

1 THAT'S A SURPRISE 44 Tony Coyle 9-8 B McHugh 1 (2) 00 ALBARINO 91 K A Ryan 9-2 T Eaves 2 (13) AL MUSTASHAR S bin Suroor 9-2 M Lane 3 (10) EEH BAH GUM D O'Meara 9-2 D Tudhope 4 (1) 0 HARROGATE 11 J Bethell 9-2 P McDonald 5 (7) 05 MARCONI 12 John Davies 9-2 P Makin 6 (11) 2 NO I'M EASY 24 T Dascombe 9-2 R Kingscote 7 (6) 5 SAISONS D'OR 31 Jedd O'Keeffe 9-2 G Lee 8 (3) SENTIMENTAL GENT K A Ryan 9-2 Kevin Stott 9 (4) SOLDIER'S MINUTE K Dalgleish 9-2 R Scott (5) 10 (9) 00 ALIENTO 47 O Pears 8-11 A Mullen 11(12) 6 CHAMPARISI 7 G Tuer 8-11 J Garritty 12 (8) CHEF UNITED R G Fell 8-11 T Hamilton 13 (5) 2-1 No I'm Easy, 9-4 Al Mustashar, 3-1 That's A Surprise, 9-1 Eeh Bah Gum, 14-1 Sentimental Gent, 16-1 Saisons D'Or, 25-1 others.

2.45

Handicap (3-Y-O: £3,881: 7f) (12)

Cal Rodriguez (5) 1 (12) 50430 PROUD ARCHI 24 M Dods 9-9 2 (8) 1-032 PERFECT SYMPHONY 31 (P) K A Ryan 9-7 Kevin Stott T Eaves 3 (5) 21004 OUD METHA BRIDGE 24 E Dunlop 9-5 G Lee 4 (9) 0-03 GHASEEDAH 45 (H) S Crisford 9-3 5 (10) 43452 LADY IN QUESTION 9 (C) R Fahey 9-2 A McNamara (3) 6 (4) 04-25 SCREAMING GEMINI 10 (P,BF) R Varian 9-1 J Mitchell R Kingscote 7 (6) 6634- HEAVEN'S ROCK 248 T Dascombe 9-1 R Scott (5) 8 (2) 30031 INGLORIOUS 9 (P,D) K Dalgleish 8-13 P Mulrennan 9 (7) 16306 GRINTY 14 (D) M Dods 8-13 J Sullivan 10(11) 44213 CUPID'S ARROW 13 Mrs R Carr 8-10 D Allan 11 (3) 20114 CLEAR AS A BELL 7 (D) T Easterby 8-10 12 (1) -5643 QUEENS ROYALE 9 (BF) M Appleby 8-2 Jane Elliott (5) 9-2 Ghaseedah, 11-2 Inglorious, Perfect Symphony, 13-2 Lady In Question, 7-1 Screaming Gemini, 15-2 Clear As A Bell, 8-1 Queens Royale, 9-1 others.

5.15

Handicap (£3,235: 1m 4f 8y) (9)

1 (8) 51310 PERCYS PRINCESS 26 (D) M Appleby 6-10-2 Jane Elliott (5) Cal Rodriguez (5) 2 (3) 12606 MELABI 15 (CD) R Ford 4-10-0 J Gormley (7) 3 (2) 3-003 CALLIOPE 9 (H,CD) K Slack 4-9-11 J Hart 4 (5) -3030 DREAM FREE 11 (P) M Walford 4-9-9 5 (1) 04364 SURROUND SOUND 17 (T,P,D) T Easterby 7-9-8 Rachel Richardson (3) G Lee 6 (6) 04106 INFINITI 41 (D) B Leavy 4-9-6 P McDonald 7 (7) 5-660 PENNERLEY 33 M D Hammond 4-9-1 Kevin Stott 8 (4) 06453 GOOD TIME AHEAD 11 P Kirby 3-9-0 D Fentiman 9 (9) 60046 SILVER GLEAM 17 C Fairhurst 3-8-2 3-1 Calliope, 5-1 Good Time Ahead, Surround Sound, 6-1 Infiniti, Percys Princess, 7-1 Melabi, 10-1 Dream Free, 20-1 Pennerley, Silver Gleam.

5.45

Handicap (£2,496: 6f) (15)

1 (14) 36203 ROSE ECLAIR 6 (P,BF) T Easterby 4-10-7 Miss E Easterby (3) 2 (10) -0006 BOP IT 83 (T,D) M W Easterby 8-10-7 Miss Joanna Mason Miss E Sayer 3 (12) 34510 SEARANGER 19 (D) R Menzies 4-10-4 4 (7) 40460 KNIGHT OF THE AIR 45 (T) J Tuite 5-10-2 Mrs C Pownall (7) 5 (3) -0000 SIR DOMINO 13 (D) P Holmes 5-10-2 Miss A McCain (3) Miss S Brotherton 6 (5) 00364 MITCHUM 6 (P,CD) R Barr 8-10-2 7 (8) 56414 GAELIC WIZARD 6 (B,CD) Mrs K Tutty 9-10-2 Miss J Cooley (5) Miss H Lees (7) 8 (2) 50000 HITCHCOCK 29 (P) K A Ryan 3-10-1 9 (4) 03605 MAJOR MUSCARI 11 (P,C,D) Shaun Harris 9-9-10 Mrs C Bartley 10 (9) 00203 INSOLENCEOFOFFICE 14 (P,D) R Ford 9-9-9 Miss Ella McCain (5) Miss P Fuller 11(15) 30006 THREE C'S 14 (T,P) D Dennis 3-9-7 12(13) 03030 WHIPPHOUND 6 (B,D) Mrs R Carr 9-9-7 Miss E Bullock (5) Miss R Hill (5) 13 (1) 35305 SS VEGA 9 (B) J Goldie 4-9-7 Miss L Wilson (3) 14 (6) 00040 A J COOK 14 R Barr 7-9-7 15(11) 30000 VERY FIRST BLADE 3 (P,D) M Mullineaux 8-9-7 Miss M Mullineaux 7-2 Rose Eclair, 4-1 Gaelic Wizard, 8-1 Mitchum, Searanger, 10-1 Insolenceofoffice, Ss Vega, Whipphound, 16-1 others.

Blinkered first time: Hexham 7.30 Rhythm Of Sound. Lingfield 2.00 Permanent, Grey Diamond. 3.30 Adulate. Thirsk 3.15 Shearian. Windsor 5.50 Lexington Law, 7.20 Maazel.

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Sport

Europe outclassed and outplayed United States beat Europe 16½-11½

Cathy Harris

CHARLIE NEIBERGALL/AP

Annika Sorenstam’s team wilt under pressure from the imperious Americans, reports Cathy Harris It would be easy to launch into a scathing appraisal of Europe’s disappointing display at the 15th edition of the Solheim Cup but the plain truth is that they were simply outclassed and outplayed. Inspired by an army of partisan fans in Des Moines, Iowa, the Americans were in imperious form, delivering match after match for their captain, Juli Inkster. Strong favourites coming into the event, the Americans raised their game when it mattered most, with the Europeans — and the rookies Florentyna Parker, Madelene Sagstrom and Emily Pedersen in particular — wilting under the early pressure. Christie Kerr, the veteran 39-yearold playing in her ninth Solheim, rewrote the record books, surpassing her captain as the all-time leading points scorer for the US. As the hosts struck blow after blow in Saturday’s four-balls the Europeans responded with 34 birdies and one eagle and still lost 3-1. It was that tough. In mitigation, Europe missed the formidable presence of the pugnacious Norwegian Suzann Pettersen, who withdrew with a back injury, and Charley Hull was a shadow of herself, struggling with a wrist injury that saw her miss Saturday’s matches. Catriona Matthew, the 47-year-old Scot who swapped her vice-captaincy role with Pettersen, showed remarkable resilience, combining with Karine Icher to pick up two points in the foursomes. Eager to lead Europe at Gleneagles in 2019, Matthew remains a valued player with captain Annika Sorenstam quipping: “She’s not tired. She’s like a bottle of wine and just gets better and better.” The most obvious failing in Europe is their lack of strength in depth. Georgia Hall and Parker qualified through the LET (Ladies European Tour) points list having barely played five tournaments while the captain’s picks, Sagstrom and Pedersen are rookies on the LPGA Tour.

How they finished

USA turn on style as gutsy fightback fails

United States names first

Yesterday Singles: L Thompson halved with A Nordqvist (Swe); P Creamer bt G Hall (GB) 1 hole; M Wie lost to C Masson (Ger) 4 and 2; S Lewis lost to C Matthew (GB) 1 hole; B Lincicome lost to C Ciganda (Sp) 4 and 3; A Yin halved with K Icher (Fr); L Salas bt J Ewart Shadoff (GB) 1 hole; G Piller bt F Parker (GB) 4 and 2; A Ernst lost to M Sagstrom (Swe) 3 and 2; D Kang bt E K Pedersen (Den) 3 and 2; C Kerr bt M Reid (GB) 2 and 1; B Lang lost to C Hull (GB) 1 hole.

Saturday

3½

Sweden’s Anna Nordqvist was the only unbeaten European, losing just half a point in her four matches Stars in stripes: Lexi Thompson, left, and Lizette Salas embrace after a highly convincing victory for the US hosts is wrapped up in Des Moines yesterday

Taking into account the overall superiority of the Americans’ world rankings, they also benefit from the intense competition on the LPGA Tour, which is enjoying unprecedented growth under Commissioner Mike Whan. Taking over in 2010, Whan has rejuvenated the floundering LPGA, rebuilding it to a present schedule of 34 events worth $67 million (about £52m) in prize money. There is also the thriving second-tier Symetra Tour and of course, the healthy competition provided by the glut of Asians on the LPGA, including the increasingly dominant South Koreans. The travails of the LET have been well documented, with members fearing an imminent collapse following the recent departure of the chief executive

and the cancellation of seven events this season. However, there are encouraging developments with the news that Whan and Keith Pelley, the chief executive of the European Tour, are in talks over a plan to rescue the LET. Whan said: “Keith and I have spoken and feel we could be more help together than separately.” Watching Europe’s painful struggles in Des Moines makes intervention even more urgent and Whan believes he has a certain sense of responsibility to help the Europeans. “Our stated aim at the LPGA is to help women pursue their golfing dreams and not just American women,” he said, confirming that any arrangement would need to satisfy all parties and adding that the LPGA had been involved in meaningful dialogue with the LET since the Scottish Women’s Open last month.

Foursome: Thompson and Kerr bt Ewart Shadoff and Masson 5 and 3; Creamer and Ernst bt Pedersen and Reid 4 and 3; Lewis and Piller lost to Hall and Nordqvist 2 and 1; Kang and Wie lost to Matthew and Icher 2 and 1. Fourball: Lang and Lincicome bt Reid and Cignada 2 holes; Salas and Yin lost to Nordqvist and Ewart Shadoff 4 and 2; Creamer and Ernst bt Icher and Sagstrom 2 and 1; Kerr and Thompson bt Matthew and Hall 4 and 2.

Friday Foursome: Thompson and Kerr halved with Reid and Hull; Salas and Kang bt Ciganda and Masson 1 hole; Creamer and Ernst lost to Hall and Nordqvist 3 and 1; Piller and Lewis lost to Icher and Matthew 1 hole. Fourball: Wie and Kang bt Sagstrom and Ewart Shadoff 3 and 1; Yin and Salas bt Ciganda and Pedersen 6 and 5; Lincicome and Lang bt Parker and Masson 3 and 2; Lewis and Piller bt Hull and Hall 2 and 1.

All parties are mindful of increasing the quality and the base of players in Europe with Whan saying: “Our tour only works if we have super-strong regional tours — some players like to stay at home and hone their skills before coming to the LPGA.” Gleneagles, which will become the only European venue to have staged both the Ryder Cup and Solheim Cup, has a tough act to follow after the enormous success in Des Moines. A record 120,000 tickets were sold before the event with thousands more spectators turning up in warm sunshine every day to provide a carnival atmosphere. Played on the beautiful Pete Dye-designed course it was impossible to criticise the superb facilities, spectatorfriendly viewing and enthusiastic volunteers.

In the face of a gutsy European fightback it took a little longer than they would have liked but Team USA rose to the occasion magnificently winning the Solheim Cup by 16½-11½, with Angel Yin, the 18-year-old rookie, earning the crucial half-point required to retain the Cup at Des Moines Golf and Country Club. Needing four points for overall victory to ensure back-to-back wins, the USA led going in to the singles for the first time since 1998 but were forced to dig deep after Europe put up stubborn resistance. There have been miracles before but no Solheim Cup team, or Ryder Cup team, has ever fought back from a five-point deficit in singles. Annika Sorenstam, the European captain, said how proud she was of her team’s battling effort to avoid a record defeat. “It’s not easy coming from so far behind and they fought courageously but we couldn’t pull off the miracle we needed. We should be proud of the way both teams showcased the game.” The USA captain Juli Inkster admitted that she was relieved to have had such a lead. “It’s always hard to close out the win,” said Inkster who also paid tribute to 39-year-old Cristie Kerr, the team’s standout player. “There isn’t a captain in Europe or America who wouldn’t want her on their team. You can’t teach heart, or guts, or willing the ball in to the hole.” Anna Nordqvist, Europe’s most impressive player with 3½ points from her four matches, featured in a compelling contest against the world No 2 Lexi Thompson racing to four up before Thompson produced an extraordinary back nine. Eight-under from the 10th, Thompson grabbed a one-hole advantage before the ice-cool Swede birdied the last to halve the match. The 21-year-old English rookie Georgia Hall, the only player from both sides to play in all five matches, took the veteran Paula Creamer to the final hole before missing a five-foot putt for par and losing. She won two points on an impressive debut. There were wins too for Catriona Matthew, who clawed her way back from three down, while Carlota Ciganda, Caroline Masson and Madelene Sagstrom all restored some pride, earning their first points.

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England star who hated full-time rugby Fly half Katy Mclean tells Sarah Mockford how she almost quit the game – and how she has bounced back For most of us, the chance to relax and switch off is warmly welcomed. For Katy Mclean, it was the opposite. On becoming a professional rugby player in October 2014, having been chosen as one of 20 players to be part of the England sevens set-up after leading her country in a triumphant World Cup campaign, she struggled to adapt to having set times to rest. The fly half had spent the previous few years juggling her rugby commitments with those as a primary school teacher and was simply not accustomed to having free time, and she actually considered dropping out of the programme. “I absolutely hated it,” Mclean said of those first few months as a professional. “I wasn’t prepared for it. I relocated to Guildford, with my family and friends in Newcastle, and it took a long time to adjust. “I spoke to Mids [head coach Simon Middleton] in the January and he asked if I was enjoying it. I said, ‘No, I’m not sure about it.’ He told me to give it a bit longer and said, ‘If it’s not for you, it’s not for you.’ That conversation stands out. He appreciated I was really struggling. I’d never been someone who had nothing to do; I was always training or working or had a game. We’d finish training at 3pm and I wasn’t used to just sitting in the house and having all that free time. “After January the tournaments came thick and fast, and that made life easier. I also thought that I’d been given this opportunity and could not waste it; I was one of 20 and wasn’t going to get an offer like this again.” Mclean’s decision to stick it out has paid dividends as she was part of the Team GB sevens squad at last year’s Olympics and is now preparing for her third World Cup semi-final, against France in Belfast tomorrow. Yet the switch back to XVs from sevens has not been smooth either. She describes her performances in last year’s autumn series as “dire” and with so much competition for the fly-half role — Megan Jones, Amber Reed and Emily Scott are in the mix — she wondered if she would even make the squad for England’s world title defence. “Sevens is so quick and there’s so much more space that when I came back to XVs I thought, ‘Where do I fit in? How can I get involved?’ ” she said. “As a ten you’re expected to control it but everything felt rushed. I had a good conversation with Scott [Bemand] and Mids, and they asked me where I saw myself. I wanted to be first choice. So I worked hard, and got my head down in club rugby. I asked

Squad to take on France in World Cup semi-final Sarah Hunter

Age 31 Caps 95 Position No 8 Captain who is the best in the world at controlling ball at back of scrum

Rachael Burford

Zoe Aldcroft

Age 20 Caps 6 Position Lock Made debut in 2016, one of next generation of England second rows

Age 20 Caps 12 Position Tighthead prop Youngest in squad, an ex back row

Age 31 Caps 69 Position Centre Defensive rock in midfield and great distributor of the ball

Poppy Cleall

Amy Cokayne

Age 21 Caps 30 Position Hooker Played in New Zealand during her childhood after moving there at nine

Tamara Taylor

Lydia Thompson

Heather Kerr

Justine Lucas

Alex Matthews

Age 24 Caps 34 Position Back row Sister Francesca has played for England. Player of the match against United States

about attacking and manipulating defences, so I had a clear view of what I was trying to achieve.” That purpose has been evident at this World Cup. From the cross-field kick that set up Kay Wilson for a try in England’s opening match against Spain, to the passes that brought runners into the action against Italy, to the territorial kicking that kept the United States pinned in their own 22

Age 26 Caps 41 Position Fly half/ centre Talented cricketer and hockey player, big boot and pinpoint pass

Emily Scarratt

Megan Jones

Age 33 Caps 68 Position Scrum half New Zealandborn, has played at fly half. She is a smart box-kicker

Amber Reed

Leanne Riley

Age 27 Caps 62 Position Hooker Late arrival with injury, scored first Six Nations hattrick by front row

La Toya Mason

Marlie Packer

Natasha Hunt

Age 28 Caps 38 Position Scrum half Part of Team GB in Rio. Started 2014 World Cup final v Canada

Age 25 Caps 10 Position Loosehead prop Former hockey goalkeeper took up rugby aged 21. Can play hooker

Age 29 Caps 34 Position Back row Involved in 24 consecutive Tests for England before United States fixture

Hunter leads by example and generally controls the back of the scrum from No 8

Vicky Fleetwood

Age 20 Caps 6 Position Fly half/ centre Born and raised in Wales, scored first try of this World Cup against Spain

Age 26 Caps 48 Position Lock/ back row Standout performer in Six Nations

Mclean has h had d to adapt to the relative lack of space in XVs after playing in the sevens team at the Rio Olympics last year

Vickii Cornborough

Age 27 Caps 28 Position Loosehead prop Degree in psychology, strong runner

Izzy Noel-Smith

Age 27 Caps 48 Position Back row All-action, highenergy open side, in attack and defence. Also a qualified plumber

Rochelle Clark

Age 36 Caps 126 Position Loosehead prop Most-capped England player ever (men’s and women’s game)

Age 25 Caps 14 Position Lock Late call-up following Emily Scott’s injury, can also cover tight-head prop

Sarah Bern

Harriet MillarMills

Age 24 Caps 12 Position Scrum half Youngest of England’s three nines, brings tempo to attack

Abbie Scott A

Age 27 Caps 24 Position Tighthead prop Started playing at university and made debut in 2013

A 24 Age C Caps 18 P Position Lock Injured for 15 months before June Tests. Used as carrier through the middle

Katy Mclean

Danielle Waterman

Age 31 Caps 88 Position Fly half England’s 2014 World Cupwinning captain. Rounded passing and kicking game

for large periods of their final pool encounter, Mclean may have played her best rugby at this tournament. The 31-year-old believes that playing sevens has improved her skills and she feels as though she has more time to make the right decisions. “As individuals at a World Cup you want to show all the work you’ve put in and at the moment that’s coming together for me. I’m touching wood right now.”

Age 32 Caps 72 Position Full back Longest server in squad has footwork to rival Jason Robinson

Age 35 Caps 106 Position Lock England Women’s second mostcapped player is playing in her fourth World Cup

Kay Wilson

Age 25 Caps 46 Position Wing Lethal finisher who scored seven tries v Scotland in Six Nations and four v Spain

Mclean does not want to tempt fate ahead of England’s semi-final against a France side who have looked sharp in beating Japan, Australia and Ireland. The action has moved from Dublin to Belfast for the knockout stages, with the two semi-finals taking place at Ulster’s Kingspan Stadium, and Mclean recognises the size of the challenge. “They’re a really smart side. They’ve got very good forwards,

Age 27 Caps 71 Position Centre Captained Team GB at the 2016 Olympics. Strong, powerful runner and goalkicker

Age 25 Caps 36 Position Wing Injured at last World Cup. Can be a dangerous runner

Amy Wilson Hardy

Age 25 Caps 8 Position Wing Member of Team GB sevens team at Rio 2016, fast and mazy runner

lots of skills and a good kicking game. We’ve had some great battles in the past, especially in the Six Nations, and if we’re to beat France we have to be 100 per cent in that semi-final.” A place in Saturday’s final — most likely against New Zealand, who play the United States in the earlier semifinal tomorrow — awaits the winners. 6 Sarah Mockford is deputy editor of Rugby World magazine

Britain rein in rivals to end eight-year wait for gold Equestrianism Kate Green Strzegom, Poland

Great Britain’s eventers finally overhauled the dominant Germans to win the FEI European Championships and bring home the first team gold for eight years. “We’ve got it back and it feels fantastic,” said a jubilant Kristina Cook, for

whom this was an eighth European call-up. “We’ve got amazing horses and riders and we’ve worked hard for it. This is what I live for.” Nicola Wilson, the world No 4, who won her first individual medal, bronze, on Bulana, plus Cook on Billy the Red, in fourth place, and team rookie Ros Canter (Allstar B, fifth) produced fine performances in every phase, going

clear in the final showjumping to maintain the ten-penalty advantage they established in Saturday’s cross-country. “I am pinching myself,” said Wilson, who, with Cook, was a member of the last British team to win European gold, in 2009. “Bulana is such a feisty mare who gets better every time.” Gemma Tattersall, riding as an individual for Britain, was in fifth place

after the cross-country, but was left disconsolate after Quicklook V hit two showjumping fences. Ingrid Klimke, on Horseware Hale Bob, and triple European champion Michael Jung (fischerRocana) rode flawlessly to keep the team in the silvermedal position as well as sealing the individual gold and silver medals. It was a first title for the popular Klimke.

However, the team result is a shot in the arm for the sport in Britain, which won eight consecutive European titles from 1995 to 2009, the world championships in 2010 and Olympic silver at London 2012, but has struggled to match German might of late. Richard Waygood, the performance manager, said: “We had a fantastic team culture from the start.”

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‘I want to honour my family tree . . . I am proud to be German’ Toby Flood tells Alex Lowe of his desire to help an emerging rugby nation that is close to his heart

hen Toby Flood, still tanned from three years living in Toulouse, sat down for coffee by the River Tyne in the centre of Newcastle he had just finished digesting the fallout from Donald Trump’s infamous press conference in which the president of the United States equated the “alt-right” with anti-Nazi protestors. The events that unfolded in the United States last week held particular fascination for Flood, not only because he takes a keen interest in politics but because of his own family history, which he has been re-examining as he explores the prospect of qualifying to play international rugby for Germany. Flood’s grandfather, Albert Lieven, was an actor of some note in Berlin until a rap on the door of his residence one night in 1936 served as a signal that it was time for his family to flee Nazi Germany. The Gestapo were on to him. The Nuremberg Race Laws, which had been passed the previous year and had come into force after the 1936 Olympics, provided a legal framework for persecution of Jews, who were made to carry different identification forms, among other restrictions. Lieven’s wife, Tatiana Silbermann, was a Russian Jew from St Petersburg and they had a son, Andrew. Lieven formulated a plan. He would crash his car, burn it and claim that his papers had been destroyed in the accident. Lieven would pass his original documents on to his wife’s family members and apply for new ones.

The ruse worked a couple of times before Lieven, partly because he was a well-known figure, was rumbled and he spent a night in prison. Shortly afterwards, possibly even the next day, Lieven and his son left everything behind bar a single suitcase and made their way to London, where Tatiana had already sought refuge. Lieven continued to act in London and he lived an eventful life, marrying four more times and starring on stage and in films such as The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp and the Guns of Navarone, often playing Nazi characters. Flood knew this much of the story from his mother, Anna — Andrew’s half sister — but a new twist emerged this year with the declassification of MI5 documents, which revealed that Lieven had been under surveillance amid fears that he was operating within a Communist “cell” at the BBC. Tatiana was the main focus of MI5’s interest, with one document describing her as a “dangerous woman . . . gripped by the Communist mania”. She later became friends with Klaus Fuchs, a notorious German traitor who passed Britain’s atomic secrets to Russia while working in the UK. British intelligence had Lieven down as “bitterly anti-Nazi” but they were concerned that he was being led towards Communism by his wife and her associates. Flood was reading these documents for the first time as he sipped his coffee. He chuckled at a memo from April 1941, which determined that Lieven was “too weak a character to remain uninfluenced”. By 1944 Lieven was described as being a member of the inner circle of the Communist Party. Flood believes Albert and Tatiana applied for Russian visas at one stage and Flood during his first stint at Newcastle ten years ago

planned to move there. “It is really interesting,” Flood said. “Communism was such a dirty word and anyone with Communist sympathies was under watch at that time. “But I can see why he might have gone in that direction after leaving Germany. He had just come from a far-right regime, seen what it did and how it operated, particularly with the threat that existed against his family, so I can see why he might have been tempted to go the other way.” The Lievens divorced in the mid-1940s and the MI5 spotlight faded on Albert, who died in 1971, never to meet his grandson — Tobias Gerald Albert Lieven Flood — who would grow up to play 60 times for England. Flood has always felt a connection with Germany — his mother has compiled a detailed family tree — but never more so than when the result of the Brexit referendum vote reached him in Toulouse on the morning of June 24 last year. “Post-Brexit I was like, ‘I still want to be European’,” he said, “and living in France at the time I was like ‘What is going on here?’ So I applied to have a German passport. My grandfather left Germany under duress in 1936 and I am not sure whether I am too far removed to get a passport. I emailed the consulate three days after Brexit but they had had so many applicants they said they would get back to me.” Flood describes himself as having no real political persuasions, although he is clearly no fan of Brexit or Trump. “I have always read about politics,” he said. “We met a woman in Toulouse who had been part of the British ambassador’s staff in Washington DC. We had her over for supper on the night Trump got in. “She stayed until about three in the morning and she was really interesting to talk to.”

In February, Flood read an article in The Times on the rise of rugby in Germany and an idea began to form. Could he play for Germany? How would he go about it? Would they want him? Until rugby became an Olympic sport, Flood would have been captured for ever by England and unable to represent another nation. However, if he can secure a German passport then there is an avenue he can explore, the same opportunity that Steffon Armitage once considered using to qualify for France. Flood would need to participate for Germany in Olympic qualification sevens tournaments, most likely in the summer of 2019, to be eligible for their Test team. Germany are still in the mix to qualify for the next World Cup, although it would be remarkable this early in their development if

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A short history of German rugby World ranking

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6 Germany upset Uruguay 24-21 in November, thanks to a last-minute penalty. They completed a successful three-Test autumn series by twice beating Brazil, 16-6 and 36-14.

Registered players

11,189 6 Germany, represented by FC 1880 Frankfurt, won a silver medal at the 1900 Olympics. They played one match, losing 27-17 to France. 6 Germany defeated France 3-0 in 1938 and the ball from that game is in the German rugby museum in

Contemplative Flood has been taking a keen interest in his family history

they were to reach the tournament in Japan. Nevertheless, Germany are a rugby nation on the rise. They have a thriving academy structure, which is being bankrolled by Dr Hans-Peter Wild, the billionaire owner of Capri-Sun, who recently bought Stade Français. They have defeated Uruguay and Romania in the past year and World Rugby is ploughing money into German rugby, well aware of the commercial and corporate opportunities that would open up to the sport if rugby hit the mainstream. Assuming England do not come calling, Flood would be keen to get involved and would relish representing the Lieven side of his family. There are hurdles to overcome, although the paperwork is not Flood’s biggest concern. “Sevens is not my forte. I could kick off and then walk off,” he joked. “Or come on with three

seconds to go like a lot of my England caps. I would love to have a conversation about it with him [Dr Wild] or anyone in Germany to see what my prospects are. “If there was any way of trying to help a fledgling rugby country, it would interest me. At the same time, I have always been proud of being German. It would be nice to go back and connect it all together. “My mum is the last remaining true Lieven and she went back to Germany about ten years ago to put together the family tree so if there was a chance to connect into that it would be great.” Flood reconnected with his rugby past this summer by arranging a release from the final two years of his Toulouse contract to rejoin Newcastle Falcons, his first club. As a Europhile, Flood loved the lifestyle in the south of France

but he was frustrated by the rugby culture and the laissez-faire attitude to training and preparation. There had been other nibbles from the Aviva Premiership during his stint in the Top 14 but Newcastle emerged as the most attractive option, not for nostalgic reasons but because of the club’s direction of travel under Dean Richards and the chance to get stuck into a project. “I was having a phenomenal time with the lifestyle and the people, but the rugby was frustrating. For a bit of context, we would do our review of the opposition defence on a Friday when there was no time to implement anything. We probably did five or six backs reviews in my whole time in France and so there was no collective buy-in and it didn’t really work. “They spend X amount of money on players

6 In the 2017 Rugby Europe Championship they defeated Romania 41-38 and Belgium 34-29. 6 England internationals Paul Ackford, Phil Christophers, Lee Dickson, Matt Kvesic and Paul Hill were born in Germany.

but it is the backroom stuff they haven’t got right in France. There is a perception that S&C [strength and conditioning] is irrelevant, physiotherapy is irrelevant. “At Newcastle we are doing a daily wellness form so everything gets flagged. My hamstring was two centimetres down the other day and I had two conditioners coming over to have a conversation. “There was a bit of discord in the Toulouse camp last season and there was an end-of-anera scenario [with Guy Novès moving on to take charge of France]. We didn’t have a great season, which accentuated things.” Flood weighed up his options. Two more years of “having a great time, going skiing, going to the beach, sitting on the terrace drinking coffee but being a bit uninterested in the rugby” — or the chance to get stuck into something? He was not ready to coast. “I felt it was important to enjoy these next few years of rugby,” he said. “Of course, Newcastle was the club where I grew up and I have fond memories — but if they were in the Championship or not doing anything then it wouldn’t have crossed my mind. “The club had a good season last year, finishing eighth, which brings pressure and excitement. We have a good coaching staff and hungry young players. We know if we play well there are tries in us. Coming back here to Newcastle was nothing to do with nostalgia.” It is clearly nothing to do with maintaining that tan either. If Newcastle is about his rugby future, then playing for Germany would give Flood a chance to honour his family history and the escapades of his grandfather. Germany are understood to be excited by the prospect.

‘Pinetree’ Meads, All Black of the 20th century, dies aged 81 Alex Lowe Deputy Rugby Correspondent

Sir Colin Earl Meads MBE

Sir Colin Meads, the former New Zealand captain who was named the greatest All Black of the 20th century, has died after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 81. It is a measure of his standing in New Zealand that the announcement of his death was made yesterday in a statement by Bill English, the country’s prime minister. “He was not only a great All Black but also a genuinely good New Zealand bloke,” English said. “He represented what it means to be a New Zealander. He was no-nonsense, reliable, hardworking, warm and very generous with his time.” Meads, nicknamed “Pinetree”, played 133 times for the All Blacks between 1955 and 1971, appearing in 55 Tests, the last of which was against the British & Irish Lions in 1971. A sheep farmer from King Country, Meads was a rampaging lock forward and a notoriously tough competitor. In 1970 he played 76 minutes of a game

Born 3 June 1936 in Cambridge, NZ Height 1.92m Weight 102kg Position Lock Test record Played 55, won 41, lost 10, drawn 4 Red card In 1967, he became the second player ever to be sent off in a Test match for aiming a kick at Scotland fly-half David Chisholm in a 14-3 win at Murrayfield Accolades New Zealand’s Player of the Century; Inductee into the International Rugby Hall of Fame

against Eastern Transvaal in South Africa with a broken arm. “His achievements in the black jersey are part of the All Blacks legacy and his loss will be felt over the world,” Steve Hansen, the New Zealand coach, said. “He is a legend. It is always sad when one of the big Kauri trees fall.”

New Zealand opened their Rugby Championship title defence with a 5434 victory over Australia in Sydney, but their reputation off the field continued to take a hammering over the weekend. Hansen was forced to defend the culture of the team after Jerome Kaino returned home before the match to deal with revelations of an extra-marital affair, published by the Sydney Daily Telegraph. It was also reported that the All Blacks team manager told police that he suspected that Michael Cheika, the Australia coach, was responsible for planting a listening device in the team hotel last year. New Zealand have always denied pointing the finger at the Wallabies.

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Tough competitor: Meads, described by the New Zealand prime minister as “a genuinely good bloke”, runs at Australia’s defence during the 1968 Bledisloe Cup

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Mo Farah, the six-times world champion and four-times Olympic gold medallist, crossed the finish line at the Müller Grand Prix in Birmingham yesterday, produced his customary “mobot” and took off his British vest for what he admits is likely to be the last time. Farah’s final track appearance on home soil ended with an expected victory in the 3,000m at the Alexander Stadium. The stage may not have been as grand as the recent World Championships in London, but the sentiment remained the same as about 10,000 spectators bade farewell to the 34-year-old. Those in attendance can now count themselves fortunate to have been the last to see Farah in that familiar vest, which he handed to his team-mate Andrew Butchart moments after the race. Neil Black, the British Athletics performance director, had suggested last week that Farah could run the marathon in future Olympic Games and World Championships. The man himself is not so sure. “This is it for me,” Farah said. “That was my message for Andy, ‘This is me done, take over from me and just inspire them, see what hard work is about and what it takes to be a champion.’ He has got a great attitude and we need to inspire the next generation.” Asked to clarify if he had completely ruled out an appearance at the Tokyo Olympics, Farah replied: “To be honest, to have achieved what I have achieved has been incredible. If I come out and I’m the best at the marathon, I might compete. It depends. But as an athlete, the next couple of years, it’s going to take me at least two or three marathons to get it right, to learn from it. It’s not easy. It could be my last time.” The smile was beaming on the face of Butchart, the 25-year-old who finished eighth in the 5,000m final in London, as he held Farah’s vest. It may have been one of those clichéd baton-passing moments that come along so often in sport but it was, of course, still well received. “He [Farah] just said, ‘It’s up to you now, do your best, it’s your time to shine,’ ” Butchart said. “It is such a great gesture for him to give it to me. I’ll definitely look after it and cherish it.” Farah delivered the result many of those in attendance had hoped for by finishing first with a time of 7min 38.64sec. In truth, it was never really in doubt, considering that he held a 41-0 record against his opponents, in a race that was not particularly significant as a non-Diamond League event. Earlier in the afternoon, Farah had entered the stadium by standing in the back of a Bentley car and waving to spectators, for which he received a standing ovation. They were on their feet again later as Farah moved ahead

Jumping for joy: Farah marks victory in the 3,000m in Birmingham

of Butchart — who finished fourth — with one lap to go. Farah geed up the crowd as he entered the last 50 metres, but they needed little encouragement, roaring him across the finish line as if it were the final of a major championships. Despite the rain, Farah embarked on a victory lap with a Union Jack flag in his hands. “All I ever wanted to do as an athlete was run for Great Britain,” Farah said. “I remember when I did the minimarathon as a kid, I got interviewed and asked what I wanted to do. I said, ‘I want to run for Great Britain.’ “Now it’s finally done, I won’t be competing for Great Britain, in terms of major championships, I won’t be taking part, it feels a bit sad. Obviously I think I will feel it more when I watch it on TV and see the guys, athletes I train with and people I have been in the circle with, I think it might detach me a little bit.” Alberto Salazar — who is being investigated by the US Anti-Doping

Agency — came up in conversation during his post-race media duties, but Farah preferred to swerve a query on why there is now a form of separation with his coach and mentor. “I answered most of the questions last week,” Farah said. “I’m done. Today is about competing here, doing well and enjoying myself, being myself and normal.” Farah also insisted that he was still working with Barry Fudge, a member of his team who was understood to have been told to take a step back in the lead-up to the World Championships. “Barry is still my mate, still hangs out, is still my right-hand man,” he said. All that remains on the track now for Farah is the 5,000m final at the Diamond League meeting in Zurich on Thursday evening. After the Great North Run next month, he plans to take a rest before focusing on fulfilling his marathon ambitions. “I’m just going to enjoy myself,” Farah said.

Mo passes baton to team-mate Butchart

Gemili distraught as false start wrecks hopes of ‘redemption’ Stuart Fraser

Adam Gemili was left devastated after being disqualified for a false start in an all-British men’s 100 m at the Müller Grand Prix in Birmingham. Gemili, the 23-year-old who won gold as part of the home quartet in the men’s 4x100m relay at this month’s World Championships in London, had seen the race as an opportunity to prove himself after being controversially overlooked by Great Britain selectors for a place in the individual 200m. However, he was visibly upset after being shown the red card for what appeared to be an extremely narrow

false start and watched on from the side of the track as his team-mate CJ Ujah won in 10.08 seconds from James Dasaolu in second. “I didn’t feell like I false-started,”” Gemili said. “That is thee first time in my career that it has happened to me. “I know I am in great shape and I haven’t had an individuall race since the World Championships to prove it. This was a greatt Gemili looks devastated after false-starting for the first time

chance. The crowd is here and the track is amazing. “I just feel like I have let so many p people down. It’s absolutely gutting. I k know it’s only the Grand P Prix, it’s not the World C Championships, but it feels tthe same for me. “This was, for me, a redemption race and to show everyone that I’m in good shape and I am running fast.” One of the loudest cheers of t day from the crowd at the the Diamond League meeting

came when Mutaz Essa Barshim, of Qatar, produced a stadium-record 2.40m in the high jump, before the 26-year-old ran off with the bar in his hands as he celebrated his stunning effort. “I’m serious, I’m taking that bar home,” Barshim said. Elaine Thompson, the Olympic champion from Jamaica, atoned for her disappointing performance in London by winning the women’s 100m in 10.93sec. Great Britain’s Dina AsherSmith recorded a season’s-best time of 11.13 in her heat, before finishing fifth in the final in 11.21. Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake and Danny Talbot placed fifth and sixth,

respectively, in the men’s 200m, as Turkey’s Ramil Guliyev backed up his shock World Championships triumph with victory in 20.17sec. Holly Bradshaw finished second in the women’s pole vault, clearing 4.61m before failing three attempts at 4.68m as she struggled in the gusty wind. Katerina Stefanidi, of Greece, the world and Olympic champion, claimed victory with 4.75m. Jake Wightman won the traditional Emsley Carr Mile, pipping his compatriot Chris O’Hare with a time of 3min 54.92. Previous winners of the race include Hicham El Guerrouj, Haile Gebrselassie and Sebastian Coe.

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Quick fixes can’t help West Indies when self-interest dominates game Fazeer Mohammed says decline caused by internal strife has been exacerbated by those hijacking the sport Much like the hype over today’s solar eclipse in the United States and the manufactured anxiety over England’s first pink-ball Test, all the agonising at the state of West Indies cricket in the aftermath of the Edgbaston annihilation is woefully short-sighted. To cut a long story short, even shorter than the typical 140-character attention span: this is nothing new. Whether or not this explanation generates enough likes to go viral is irrelevant because the problems entrenched in the Caribbean game pre-date the era of social media and bite-sized ssues. solutions to complex issues. Maybe no one has the time to appreciate thee bigger picture, hence the clamour for quick fixes such as bringing back the star players or creating a second tier for Test cricket to accommodate the ailing West Indies. hat Well, the reality is that West Indies’ plummet from the summit they occupied until 1995 preceded thee T20 phenomenon by a decade, while all this twodivision talk is essentially an attempt to get around an ever-increasing imbalance in the international game, where the English and Australian administrations, having colluded with India to hijack the sport in their own self-interests, are reaping the consequences of their handiwork. But that has only exacerbated the decline. It didn’t cause it. West Indies cricket, especially at Test level, is where it is because of chronic mismanagement. What used to be known as the West Indies Cricket Board of Control, before the “Control” was dropped (apparently literally) more than 20 years ago, is now Cricket West Indies (CWI). What hasn’t changed though, for all of the revolutionising impact of T20 franchise cricket and numerous lucrative opportunities available to players beyond the confines of the “West Indies” label, is the stubbornly arcane Victorian-era

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style of top-down management. Even the supposed “amnesty”, which makes the likes of Chris Gayle, Dwayne Bravo, Kieron Pollard and Sunil Narine available for selection for the limitedover matches that follow the Tests, met resistance from within. Jimmy Adams, the former West Indies captain and the new director of cricket, was reportedly scolded for suggesting publicly last March that compromise was necessary to accommodate the allure of competing T20 franchises, against which CWI cannot compete financially. As for those who see the return of these big-name players translating into an eventual turnaround in fortunes at Test level, just consider that over the past 20 years West Indies have won just three of 97 matches away from home against opponents other than Bangladesh and Zimbabwe. When that everlengthening list of humiliating defeats g fields started in on foreign Pakistan with two losses by an inn innings and the other by te ten wickets in three ma matches, the names of Brian Lara, S Shivnarine Chandeerpaul, Carl Hoopeer, Phil Simmons, C Curtly Ambrose, C Courtney Walsh and Ian Bishop were all on tthe team sheet. Suc Such is the poisonous level of mistrust between players an and administrators that it is difficult to t see how the new chief executive, the Englishman Johnny Grave, can survive in such an environment, especially if he is making a sincere effort to drag the organisation kicking and screaming towards a more enlightened era of management. It is therefore a welcome distraction to cricket followers in the region that they can enjoy the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) while their representative team suffers in England. Yet even to have the CPL — a privately operated event — running concurrently with a West Indies series (the same occurred last year when India were there for a Test series) betrays the victory of egotism over plain common sense. West Indian fans are not alone in staying away from Test cricket, but their disillusionment over such protracted on-field decline and off-field controversy is especially acute and increasingly widespread. Still, West Indies cricket matters to the vast majority

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of them, as the intensity of accusations and suggestions about which island should go it alone in the aftermath of the 19-wicket capitulation on Saturday in Birmingham attest. If they are not watching or listening it’s because they can’t take the humiliations any more and, worse, feel powerless to do anything. Even an attempted political intervention by the regional body, Caricom, over the past

two years has been hit for six by CWI. As for a solution via the ICC, well, their track record as a glorified umbrella where the powerful and privileged hold sway offers little comfort. Contrary to one of the many external misconceptions, cricket remains a key element of the social and sporting fabric of the English-speaking Caribbean. West Indies as a Test cricket entity, however, is in serious trouble and has

been for a long time. As architects of their own demise, their rehabilitation can only come from within and through others familiar with the complex realities of the West Indies and West Indies cricket, not fly-by-night experts pronouncing on something that obscures their narrow field of vision once every four or five years. 6 Fazeer Mohammed is a Trinidadian broadcaster and writer

Mark Stoneman Struck two lovely boundaries and then got out to a peach of a delivery, so hard to tell very much.

Joe Root Again demonstrated why he is one of the world’s best batsmen and is clearly growing into the captaincy.

Jonny Bairstow His ‘keeping is much improved this summer but not much of a chance to make an impact in this Test.

Stuart Broad After a frustrating series against South Africa, there was a determined look and that usually spells wickets.

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Alastair Cook A batting masterclass. Sublime, calm and composed. A reminder of just how good the former captain is.

Dawid Malan Came out to bat at the trickiest part of the day under lights and was confident and assured for his 65.

Moeen Ali Three wickets not a bad return in conditions more favourable to the seamers. Good control with the ball.

James Anderson We are witnessing one of the all-time greats with his ability to be accurate and dangerous.

Tom Westley Missed an opportunity on a flat pitch against friendly bowling but did appear confident at the crease.

Ben Stokes Just the ten runs and one wicket. Not his match, but Stokes is a man who wants a contest and this wasn’t one.

Toby Roland-Jones Again made good use of conditions and displayed his skill to pick up match figures of 4 for 49.

West Indies Kraigg Brathwaite 5, Kieran Powell 3, Kyle Hope 4, Shai Hope 2, Roston Chase 6, Jermaine Blackwood 7, Shane Dowrich 4, Jason Holder 4, Kemar Roach 5, Alzarri Joseph 4, Miguel Cummins 4

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Lucky man, Joe Root. In the early days of his captaincy, he is able to call on if not the greatest, then one of the greatest new-ball pairings England have ever had. Add to the mix the worst batting line-up in West Indies’ history, a cooler than usual August and an inaugural day-night Test and you get 19 wickets tumbling in three sessions and two extra days off. Broad and Anderson. Not sure why it should be that way round — B to A, rather than A to B — but it sounds right for some reason, and has better rhythm when so written. Broad and Anderson it always will be, dominating written histories of the period as Botham and Willis did before them, and Trueman and Statham before that. 730 wickets in their 95 Tests together — and counting. Like others down the years — Lillee and Thomson, Wasim and Waqar and many others — they will always be bracketed together. Anderson has always been thought of as more senior — he is a little older, after all — and more skilful, but Broad is hot on his heels now, having gone past Botham’s tally of wickets on Saturday evening, as Anderson himself did two years ago, to stand second in the list of English Test wicket-takers. They are close friends but different characters and bowlers. Anderson — laconic, a man of few words off the field, but many on it — is a craftsman, who has expanded and perfected his repertoire of outswingers, inswingers and “wobble seam” deliveries. Broad — more clubbable, but fiercely competitive — has the happier knack of tuning in to the moment, and creating or exploiting atmosphere and mood, to deliver the kind of destructive spells from nowhere that are sometimes beyond his partner. Anderson’s skills are harder to master, but Broad has been given inherent advantages that make up the shortfall. He is taller, has longer legs and arms, the leverage from which gives him more pace and bounce, and when the pitches offer some seam

Full scoreboard from the first Test at Edgbaston England: First Innings A N Cook lbw b Chase 243 M D Stoneman b Roach 8 T Westley lbw b Cummins 8 *J E Root b Roach 136 D J Malan c Blackwood b Chase 65 B A Stokes c Blackwood b Chase 10 †J M Bairstow b Holder 18 M M Ali c Brathwaite b Chase 0 T S Roland-Jones not out 6 Extras (lb 10, w 3, nb 7) 20 Total (8 wkts dec, 135.5 overs) 514 S C J Broad and J M Anderson did not bat. Fall of wickets: 1-14, 2-39, 3-287, 4-449, 5-466, 6-505, 7-506, 8-514. Bowling: Roach 28-8-86-2; Joseph 22-3-109-0; Cummins 24-3-87-1; Holder 29.3-4-103-1; Chase 26.2-2-113-4; Brathwaite 6-0-6-0. West Indies: First Innings K C Brathwaite c Bairstow b Anderson 0 K O A Powell run out 20 K A Hope c Stokes b Anderson 25 S D Hope b Roland-Jones 15 R L Chase b Anderson 0 J Blackwood not out 79 †S O Dowrich lbw b Roland-Jones 4 *J O Holder c Bairstow b Ali 11 K A J Roach b Broad 5 A S Joseph lbw b Broad 6 M L Cummins run out 0 Extras (lb 1, w 2) 3 Total (47 overs) 168

movement, as they have all summer long, these advantages can make him harder to face. They both have a strike rate of taking a wicket every 56 balls in Tests, with a similar economy rate (Anderson 2.95, Broad 2.99) and similar average (Anderson 27.71 runs per wicket, Broad 28.47). Different bowlers, different skills, but similar outcomes. Despite the helpful bowling conditions that have predominated, and despite two batting line-ups from South Africa and West Indies that, by Test standards, are weak, Broad hasn’t quite been at his best this summer. A legacy of bowling on slow pitches of the subcontinent, with the requirement to roll the fingers down the side of the ball to create “cut”, and of bowling at too many left-handers at the top of the order, means that he has been struggling to keep his wrist behind the ball. Anderson, meanwhile, has been near his best.

Fall of wickets: 1-0, 2-45, 3-47, 4-47, 5-89, 6-101, 7-129, 8-134, 9-162. Bowling: Anderson 15-6-34-3; Broad 16-3-47-2; Roland-Jones 6-0-31-2; Stokes 7-0-40-0; Ali 3-1-15-1. Second Innings K C Brathwaite lbw b Ali 40 K O A Powell c Cook b Anderson 10 K A Hope lbw b Roland-Jones 12 S D Hope c Root b Stokes 4 R L Chase lbw b Broad 24 J Blackwood st Bairstow b Ali 12 †S O Dowrich b Broad 5 *J O Holder c Cook b Broad 0 K A J Roach b Anderson 12 A S Joseph c Stokes b Roland-Jones 8 M L Cummins not out 0 Extras (b 9, lb 1) 10 Total (45.4 overs) 137 Fall of wickets: 1-15, 2-41, 3-60, 4-76, 5-102, 6-104, 7-104, 8-115, 9-137. Bowling: Anderson 7-2-12-2; Broad 10-4-34-3; Roland-Jones 6.4-3-18-2; Stokes 9-4-9-1; Ali 13-2-54-2. Umpires: M Erasmus (South Africa) and S Ravi (India). TV Umpire: C Gaffaney (New Zealand). Player of the match: Cook. 6 England lead three-match series 1-0 Second Investec Test match: starts Friday (at Headingley). Third Test: starts September 7 (at Lord’s).

The consequence of Broad’s technical issues has been a slight loss of pace, and an inability to take the ball away from the right-hander. He has been battling this for a while, although the responsive pitches have meant that the movement into the right-hander, attacking the stumps, has been no bad thing. Batsmen everywhere would be aware of the term “making ugly runs”, which means essentially grinding out a score when feeling out of form. For most of this summer, Broad has been taking wickets in similar vein. Not quite at his best, searching for rhythm and form but chipping away — a wicket here, a wicket there — staying in the game in the knowledge that the tide will turn eventually. In the past two Tests, he has bowled two spells — one at Old Trafford in the second innings, and then his final spell

on Saturday when he went past Botham — that suggest his best form is not far away. You can often tell with Broad when a magic spell is in the offing. There is something in the run-up that gives the game away. He picks his knees up a little higher, seems to float over the ground, runs in with more energy and sparkle and then hits a horrible (for a batsman) in-between length, attacking the stumps all the time. He is at you from the start, nipping it this way and that, no easy sighters outside off stump, slips waiting expectantly. It would have surprised no one if he had gone past Botham with a hat-trick, to add to the couple he already has in Test cricket. It is instructive to watch them both in the field. Now that Anderson is rarely called to the slip cordon, they are often at mid-on or mid-off when the other is bowling, and sometimes in both positions when someone else is in the attack. They are always talking to each other, chatting about the ball, the pitch, the conditions. Is it a day for swing? Or should we concentrate on hitting the seam? What about changing the shiny side over? Don’t forget this batsman is vulnerable to the short ball. Talking, evaluating, strategising, all the while. Remember that Broad’s first captain, Michael Vaughan, said that he was the most intelligent fast bowler he had worked with — a comment that reflects on both Broad and the breed. But he does think deeply about his own game and is constantly tinkering with the angle of his run-up and position on the crease — as well as the batsman 22 yards away. Knowledge and ideas are passed back and forth between them. It is a great time for a young England bowler to be playing with so much knowledge out there to be shared. Equally, as well as this profitable sharing for mutual benefit, it would be remarkable if there were no competitiveness between the two. Mates, yes; team-mates, yes, but rivals too, both wanting to be seen as the premier fast bowler in the side, both wanting to end up with the better overall record, both wanting choice of ends (Anderson, as the senior partner, has first dibs). This internal competition is a healthy thing, and, used wisely by a captain, can continue to motivate a team and players long into the twilight years. Lucky man that Root.

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‘Jury still out’ despite day-night success PHILIP BROWN/GETTY

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The first day-night Test match in England was a commercial success but the “jury is out” on whether there will be another one in this country, according to Neil Snowball, the Warwickshire chief executive. “From a commercial point of view it was a real success. We think ticket sales were up 25 per cent from where they might have been if it were a day Test, we exceeded all of our retail and hospitality targets and our merchandise sales were up 30 per cent on last year,” Snowball told The Times. “It was an experiment to see if day-night cricket works in England and overall the jury is still out. I still have an open mind. We are probably the only country that is bucking the trend in

Edgbaston sold 75,000 tickets over three days for England’s first day-night Test

terms of being able to sell Test cricket so you could argue, do we need day-night Tests? As an experiment, it was absolutely worth doing it so that England had an opportunity to play a day-night

Test before going to the Ashes. That is a point some people have missed, the primary driver for this initially was for cricketing reasons. “The debate will go on as to whether

we really need day-night cricket but we did everything that was asked of us in terms of promoting it as a match and a spectacle. The build-up and interest was phenomenal and it was very good for Birmingham, too. The economic impact research estimated that the Test was worth £15 million to the city.” Edgbaston have been allocated a Test against India in 2018 and an Ashes Test in 2019, and Snowball said that they would revert to traditional timings. “I am sure day-night cricket will continue in other parts of the world so England are going to get used to playing it but we’ll go back to normal timings for at least the next two years because we have matches against India which needs to be daytime for broadcasting purposes and then the Ashes will sell out with normal timings,” he added.

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It was another of those Stuart Broad moments to which we have become so accustomed. Broad is what is known as a “streak bowler”. In other words he can go for relatively long periods when the wickets will not come and the radar seems rather awry. Then suddenly, a switch can flick and he will produce a spell of bowling that ignites a crowd like few others and that will linger long in the memory. Saturday night at Edgbaston in West Indies’ second innings was one such moment. First he was on a hat-trick and then, joyously, he took the wicket of wicketkeeper Shane Dowrich to surpass the great Sir Ian Botham and, with 384 wickets, move into second place behind James Anderson on England’s all-time list. Remarkably, Broad reckons he knows when these spells are coming. “It’s a good question because I sort of can,” he said when asked about it on Saturday night. “It’s strange. I do feel light in my run-up. I think the most important thing is that I make the batsmen play pretty much every ball. “It was probably the best 40 minutes of bowling I’ve had this summer. I felt really good. It was quite a good time to bowl, the lights had started to take a little bit of an effect. I felt the pitch had got a little slower so I wanted to get tight to the stumps and try to hit the stumps as much as I could. “It was great to get a little clump of wickets. I had a slightly frustrating start to the day. Cooky [Alastair Cook] actually came up to me and said, ‘Calm down, just breathe, you know cricket, you know things happen pretty quickly for you when it turns.’ ” And so they did, as he eventually went past Botham, who was in the Sky Sports commentary box at the time. “It’s really special because he is someone who has been a big influence on me,” Broad said. “Obviously, playing with my dad, and watching some of his performances against Australia, he is a huge legend of English cricket but someone who has given a lot back to this team, actually. In the past couple of years he has spent more and more time in the changing room and the guys really listen to him. He is someone who

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Anderson and Broad’s record as a partnership in Australia

obviously has an influence on us, the way he performed against Australia. He is passionate about English cricket and you can tell he wants us to do well. I think the players thrive off that.” Broad’s father, Chris, who played alongside Botham in 13 of his 25 Tests, was at Edgbaston — wrapped up in his coat to counter the late evening chill before his son’s achievements naturally warmed him up — and had ensured that Stuart had had an early introduction to the magic of Botham. “My dad made me watch that ‘On Top Down Under’ video about the 1986-87 Ashes relentlessly,” Broad said. “I was only about three months old then. I watched that video throughout the early 90s.” Botham was magnanimous about his wickets tally being passed and promised Broad that they will celebrate later this week, which may give the England management slight cause for concern, because nights out with Botham can take a while from which to recover. “I saw him and I could tell he was genuinely proud and delighted that I’d managed to go past him and that’s testament to him,” said Broad. “And he said that we’ll share a nice bottle of wine later in the week. If he’s buying, that’s quite exciting!” The second Test starts on Friday at Headingley and Broad laughed off suggestions he could put his feet up to keep him fresh for the winter. “I will be politely suggesting that I will have sufficient rest in September and October to be available for the next two Tests against West Indies!” he said. “I’m 31 and l feel like I have quite a bit of cricket left in me. I’m loving the energy around this team, being part of it. It feels like someone is stepping up each day, which is really exciting. It is not a team that is reliant on two or three people to perform. Someone every day seems to make a mark on a Test match so that is a sign of a really strong team.” Can he make the 2019 home Ashes series? “Oh God, yes, I hope so,” he said. “I’ll be just turned 33. Jimmy [Anderson] is 35 now — he’s getting shorter and shorter. I’m not someone who looks too far ahead because I think it slows you down as a performer. This winter [the Ashes series in Australia] is a hugely exciting one because I think it’s going to be a belter with two teams that look really similar. But obviously I have a hunger to go further than that.”

The West Indies opening batsman and part-time off spinner Kraigg Brathwaite has been reported for a suspect bowling action. Brathwaite bowled only six overs during England’s only innings but was reported to the ICC by David Boon, the match referee. He will now be required to undergo testing of his action within 14 days although is allowed to bowl during that time so will not be prevented from bowling, if required, during the Headingley Test. Testing can be done in any ICC-approved centre, meaning that Brathwaite’s action could be scrutinised at Cardiff or Loughborough Universities

in between Test matches. The results are then assessed by an ICC-appointed panel of experts before a final decision is made on whether he will be suspended from bowling. An illegal bowling action is defined in the ICC regulations as one “where a bowler’s elbow extension exceeds 15 degrees, measured from the point at which the bowling arm reaches the horizontal until the point at which the ball is released”. Brathwaite has bowled 192 overs and taken 12 wickets in his 38 Test matches, and is used sparingly by West Indies, although his six overs at Edgbaston went for only six runs.

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Tottenham 1 Chelsea 2 Antonio Conte warned Tottenham Hotspur that every team will raise their game against them at Wembley after his Chelsea side inflicted a 2-1 defeat yesterday. Marcos Alonso struck in either half to make it a gloomy start for Tottenham at their temporary home and extend their poor record to one win in ten games in all competitions at the national stadium. The Chelsea wing back curled in a free kick in the first half and restored their lead when he struck a shot that squirmed under the body of Hugo Lloris two minutes from time. Tottenham had levelled six minutes earlier through a Michy Batshuayi own goal in front of nearly 74,000 supporters, including 3,000 Chelsea fans. Conte said that the atmosphere galvanised his players. “I think to see this atmosphere is great also for the opponents,” he said. “To feel this atmosphere is amazing, also for the opponent. Honestly. It was amazing.” Conte reshaped his starting side because of injuries and suspensions and said that his players gave him the best response to their opening-day defeat at home to Burnley. He paid tribute to the impact of Alonso and David Luiz, who was pushed into midfield from defence. “I saw today the fighters,” Conte said. “I must be pleased. I want to thank my players, they showed me great desire, great spirit, great will, great heart, great will to fight. David was amazing. “This is a perfect response of the champions. We won the league last season, winning 30 games, and that is not easy. We lost in the final of the FA Cup. The club is trying its best in the transfer market to improve our squad.” Mauricio Pochettino denied that Wembley was having a psychological influence on his players. “I said before and say it again, it is not about Wembley, it is our performance.”

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ell, that Chelsea “crisis” didn’t last long. That shrill questioning of Antonio Conte’s calibre as a coach will have to fall silent. That insinuation of dressingroom unrest will have to be filed under “unproven” as Chelsea’s players performed with unity, resilience and complete commitment to Conte’s game plan. “That’s why we’re champions,” the 3,000 Chelsea fans chorused as their team’s grit, and Marcos Alonso’s late second goal, brought victory, against all the odds, against all the statistics. Chelsea were depleted, and disparaged after their openingweekend defeat by Burnley. Spurs enjoyed 68 per cent possession here, 591 passes to Chelsea’s 282, and six efforts on target to Alonso’s two successful strikes. They could have won but for Chelsea’s bloodymindedness and, clearly, their belief in Conte. He asked them to give everything and they did. He asked David Luiz and Willian to play out of position and they rose to the challenge. Luiz, in particular, was immense in central midfield, busily patrolling the area where Dele Alli and Christian Eriksen can wreak damage, winning the ball, launching attacks and being involved in both of Chelsea’s goals. Willian has played better but he tirelessly linked midfield to the lone front-runner Álvaro Morata, tracked back and embarked on a couple of surging runs, even hitting the post. Conte asked Andreas Christensen, a 21year-old Dane, to step into the heart of his three-man defence, and stand up to Harry Kane, the centre forward hungry for his 100th Spurs goal. Christensen’s assured display, including nine clearances, four blocks and two aerial duels won, confirmed the long-standing support of Michael Emenalo, Chelsea’s technical director. Those two seasons on loan at Borussia Mönchengladbach,

Conte, favouring a suit instead of a tracksuit at his players’ request, celebrates their winner

and countless Skype sessions with Chelsea coaches, have helped Christensen mature into a centre back of genuine promise. Conte asked Tiémoué Bakayoko, his £40 million signing from Monaco, to start in central midfield, ignoring any lingering issues after knee surgery. A mix of the rusty and the robust, the Frenchman partnered N’Golo Kanté and signalled that the controversial sale of Nemanja Matic to Manchester United may not be as season-shredding as some fear. His hair bleached, Bakayoko’s contribution was always going to be eye-catching and he soon engaged in a real skirmish with Mousa Dembélé. Kanté was back to his best, not simply in disrupting Spurs’ moves but in driving forward, at one point shaking off Kane with nonchalant ease. So much of the focus was inevitably on Conte, and he responded so well to the pressure. Missing the suspended Cesc Fàbregas and Gary Cahill, and with Eden Hazard still recovering from injury and Diego Costa absent without leave, Conte’s

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alchemy was tested. His team responded strongly to the 3-5-1-1 system, being as sharp in the tackle as Conte looked in his smart suit, the coach shedding the tracksuit at the players’ behest. Spurs were hardly poor but they lacked width, need to deepen their squad, and Mauricio Pochettino needs to find a Plan B. They must also confront and overcome the Wembley “curse”, as this was an eighth defeat under the vaulting arch. Spurs fans made a huge noise at times, and don’t need a drummer next to a microphone to get them going. Just as the “crisis” claims about Chelsea were patently premature, any suggestion of problems at Spurs are

Wanyama makes Spurs’ first mistake by controlling the ball rather than playing a first-time pass out wide. David Luiz reads the delayed pass and intercepts

Chelsea quickly move the ball forward and, having just given the ball away, Wanyama, circled, fails to track the run of Alonso as he races on to a Pedro pass

of his left to send the ball flying, similarly precipitous. They just made curling goalwards. some errors, notably Alli and Toby Tottenham’s wall leapt but not all to Alderweireld for Alonso’s first and the same height. Dembélé was on the Victor Wanyama and Hugo Lloris for left of the barricade but it was the his second. But they ran into a men next to him, Alli and Kane, who Chelsea side blessed with plenty of jumped highest, trying to resolve and quality. Morata intercept Alonso’s strike. should have scored after Alderweireld did not rise four minutes, following as quickly as those to César Azpilicueta’s his left or Wanyama to cross, but headed wide. his right, and the ball Spurs briefly settled Times David Luiz recovered flew over the and Kane and possession, more than any Belgian’s head, Dembélé were Tottenham player. The curling away from denied by Thibaut Chelsea midfielder Lloris and in. Courtois before won five out of five Spurs responded, Chelsea punished that tackles and four finishing the half first pair of mistakes. free kicks strongly as a real derby Alli tripped Luiz 25 yards duel broke out. The tackles out. It was slightly right of started going in, Luiz on Alli, centre, and Willian stood over Antonio Rüdiger on Kane, Eric Dier the free kick, a clear threat having so nastily on Luiz that it probably scored with a dead ball against Spurs deserved red, not yellow. Kane almost in the FA Cup semi-final. But Alonso equalised with five minutes of an took control, running in, planting his increasingly frenetic half remaining, right foot firmly, and using the instep

running on to Alli’s pass, cutting inside Christensen, but his shot hit the post. Ben Davies was foraging forward promisingly, bringing a save from Courtois. An edge remained, and Jan Vertonghen’s challenge on Victor Moses merited more than a caution. For all of Spurs’ possession, collection of corners, and signs of Kane’s menace, Chelsea occasionally hit on the counter. Willian raced clear of Wanyama, passing left to Morata, whose shot deflected wide off Vertonghen. Willian threatened again, breaking through and striking a post, before being replaced by Pedro while Batshuayi came on for Morata. Much to Chelsea’s frustration, they conceded a goal with eight minutes remaining. When Bakayoko fouled Alli on the right, Eriksen drove in a free kick. Batshuayi’s satnav was all over the place, and he headed into his net. It was the least that Spurs deserved for their relentlessly positive

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Lloris commits the home team’s third mistake, being beaten at his near post by Alonso’s shot from the left hand side of the penalty area

intent, and their fans rose to acclaim their team, urging them to find the winner. Yet it was Chelsea who raided next. Kanté broke from his own half, making light of Kane’s rugby challenge, and feeding Batshuayi. Dembélé challenged the Chelsea substitute, and the visitors screamed for a penalty but Anthony Taylor waved play on. Conte was incensed but his mood soon improved. Lloris’ throw was ill-judged, as Wanyama had Luiz in close attendance, and the Brazilian pressured the tiring Kenyan into losing possession. Alonso turned the ball on to Pedro, and darted forward, taking the return. His low shot should have been routine for a goalkeeper of Lloris’s quality, but he let it skid under him. Conte was off and running, celebrating wildly, leaping into the arms of Angelo Alessio, the assistant first team coach, as the “crisis” disappeared without trace.

VERTONGHE N GETS LUCKY Jan Vertonghen said that he was fortunate not to have been sent off for a late and high challenge on Victor Moses. Instead the Tottenham centre back received a yellow card from Anthony Taylor. “It could have been a red card,” Vertonghen said. “But I’ve been pushed in the back, that’s why it looks harder than I’ve meant it.” Eric Dier, inset, was also lucky to be given just a booking having shown his studs in a tackle with Moses and David Luiz.

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HUGO LLORIS Not much he could do about Alonso’s free kick, but seemed to let the Spaniard’s second goal underneath his body

ERIC DIER Lucky to get away with a yellow for late challenge on Luiz. Doesn’t always look entirely comfortable in the centre back role

TOBY ALDERWEIRELD Generally solid but a couple of poor moments. Let Morata in behind him and mistimed his jump for Alonso’s free kick

JAN VERTONGHEN Embarrassed Moses and put in a superb cross but arguably could have seen red for a challenge on the same player

KIERAN TRIPPIER One great first-time cross, but overall did not offer the same attacking threat as Kyle Walker in the wing back role

VICTOR WANYAMA Compared to masterclass in this fixture last season, this was a rusty display. Caught in possession on a couple of occasions

MOUSA DEMBÉLÉ The most dynamic midfielder on show. Great turn and shot, and threaded a couple of dangerous passes

BEN DAVIES Got into good positions and tested Courtois with one excellent long-range effort but crossing not always on point

DELE ALLI Lashed over a decent chance but good work before Kane hit the post. Silly foul on Luiz, which led to the first goal

CHRISTIAN ERIKSEN Two excellent set-piece deliveries, including one that led to Batshuayi’s own goal. Can drop too deep, though

HARRY KANE Indefatigable. Gave Rüdiger a torrid day and got plenty of shots off, including one that beat Courtois and hit the post

Total rating

THIBAUT COURTOIS Made good saves from Kane’s close-range angled effort and Davies’ well-struck long shot. Helpless for own goal

CÉSAR AZPILICUETA Made a stupid challenge on Alli, which led to Kane hitting the post, but cross for Morata, who could have scored, was superb

ANDREAS CHRISTENSEN One bad early error let Alli sneak in behind. Looked vulnerable at times but some telling headers and blocks

ANTONIO RÜDIGER Looked uncomfortable on the left side of a back three. Consistently too tight and spun by Kane on a couple of occasions

VICTOR MOSES Might have paid a heavier price for nutmeg by Vertonghen but he produced a couple of good crosses

TIÉMOUÉ BAKAYOKO Tough baptism. Spurs never gave him a yard or time to pick a pass. One excellent rangy run hinted at his capabilities

DAVID LUIZ Impressive. Transferred his ability to step out and intercept passes seamlessly to this midfield role

N’GOLO KANTÉ Playing in slightly wider position, he misplaced a couple of passes, but his ability to break up play was impressive as ever

MARCOS ALONSO Rapidly becoming the most fearsome set-piece taker in the league, and second goal was reward for his tireless running

WILLIAN Difficult role as the link man between midfield and Morata. Struggled early but better as the game became stretched

ÁLVARO MORATA Tracked back diligently but guilty of a glaring miss when Azpilicueta’s brilliant cross found him unmarked six yards out

67 Total rating

SUBSTITUTIONS Son Heung-min (for Dier 68min, 6) Moussa Sissoko (for Davies 80) Vincent Janssen (for Trippier 90+1) Not used M Vorm, K Wimmer, H Winks, K Walker-Peters.

SUBSTITUTIONS Pedro (for Willian 78) Michy Batshuayi (for Morata 79) Horrible misjudgment for own goal Not used W Caballero, Kenedy, C Musonda, F Tomori, K Scott.

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Insecurity, tension and a worse record than the Patriots JAMES GHEERBRANT here’s no place like home. After going all 19 home games unbeaten last season — 17 wins and two draws — at their spiritual heartland and fortress, White Hart Lane, Tottenham slipped to defeat in their first “home” game of this season at their adopted residence. Every attempt had been made to give Wembley something of the flavour of the club’s home ground — a large drum was stationed by a loudspeaker in an effort to create atmosphere, Tottenham flags were given to the home fans to wave, and the club’s famous cockerel was ubiquitous. At the end though, for the first time in many months, Tottenham fans did not leave crowing. There is no avoiding that roll call of Wembley results — now five defeats, one draw and one win in Mauricio Pochettino’s tenure — and with every loss the shadow it casts gets a little longer. This was Tottenham’s third loss to Chelsea at Wembley in that period, to go along with defeats by Monaco and Bayer Leverkusen and a draw against Ghent. It is not an entirely comfortable statistic that the New England Patriots, the NFL team beloved of Tottenham striker Harry Kane, have won more games at Wembley than Spurs since 2009. Pochettino said afterwards that the ground was not the reason his side had lost but is it unfair to pick out a Wembley pattern? Is it a coincidence? If there is one obvious common theme to this unhappy run of results,

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it is that Tottenham’s opponents have risen to the occasion. Here it was the same as a threadbare Chelsea side, coming off a demoralising defeat by Burnley and with the green Andreas Christensen in defence and the notquite-fit Tiémoué Bakayoko in midfield, defied murmurings of crisis. Where opposition teams seemed to shrink at White Hart Lane, at Wembley they walk tall. Tottenham’s cross-town rivals, West Ham United, struggled in their move from a beloved, atmospheric old stadium to a bigger venue last season, and something that Slaven Bilic said in a moment of unguarded honesty still sticks in the mind. “You have to adjust to a new stadium,” he said. “It’s a new experience. You have 10 per cent of insecurity. You need to play there a few times, you need a few victories, a few late goals.” But here again the late goal went the way of Tottenham’s opponents, and you have to go back to 2008 for their last Wembley victory before the win over CSKA Moscow last season. For Pochettino and his young team, that insecurity might be nudging north of the tenth percentile. The accumulated magic of the years at the Lane, the tiny intangibles that swept Tottenham to victory in close matches, the symbiotic connection between players and fans — these are things that are not as easy to transplant as the club livery. What about the theory that Tottenham are less suited to playing on Wembley’s bigger pitch than they were on the narrower dimensions of White Hart Lane? At that Pochettino lost his patience somewhat, dismissing the concerns and saying

Lloris holding Spurs back from glory I’m not convinced that Hugo Lloris is a Premier Leaguewinning goalkeeper — and that’s not just based on yesterday’s mistake. The France No 1 doesn’t command the penalty area like Thibaut Courtois of Chelsea. He’s a very good shot-stopper but he’s not very good with his feet and I don’t think he is anywhere near the level of David De Gea of Manchester United. He’s not bad at dealing with crosses but, again, he’s nothing compared to Courtois. Lloris is close to Liverpool’s Simon Mignolet in terms of

ability. I think he is about the fifth-best goalkeeper in the Premier League. If Tottenham had a better goalkeeper, I think they may have won the league already. If you look at most Premier League winners their goalkeeper has been extraordinary, and I just think Lloris is good, nothing more. And I don’t see an improving goalkeeper there; I don’t feel the Frenchman has improved since he moved to Tottenham five years ago. My top five PL goalkeepers 1. T Courtois (Chelsea) 2. D De Gea (United) 3. J Butland (Stoke) 4. S Mignolet (Liverpool) 5. H Lloris (Spurs)

that Spurs played better and actually, he had a point. Despite the result, this was generally a performance to show that Tottenham are well capable of playing expansive football on a larger surface. Whereas they were lethargic against Monaco and Bayer Leverkusen last season, here the trademark Pochettino press was transposed much more successfully to a bigger pitch. The biggest issue for Tottenham was turning possession into chances: they had 68 per cent possession and 18 shots, but Chelsea were largely successful in denying them clear-cut opportunities. One thing is for sure: Tottenham will break their Wembley hoodoo. They have 18 league games remaining, plus a number of domestic cup and Champions League fixtures. Beneath the surface, though, there are other issues that need addressing. Depth is one: for two seasons Tottenham’s starting XI has been perhaps the strongest in the league, but quality reinforcements off the bench have been a weakness. Width is a concern too: Kieran Trippier and Ben Davies did not prove here entirely capable of replicating the attacking threat of the departed Kyle Walker and the unsettled Danny Rose in the wing back roles. Tottenham’s attacking midfielders — Dele Alli, Christian Eriksen, Son Heung-min — are all more comfortable central or cutting inside. At Wembley, that problem could be felt even more. This was not a disastrous day for Tottenham, but it was a missed opportunity to get a monkey off their backs. For now, talk of a Wembley jinx will endure. Burnley will hope the curse doesn’t wear off next Sunday.

Alonso’s expertly positioned free kick was too high for the Tottenham wall before curling into the top right corner

Robertson a bargain buy Andrew Robertson gives Liverpool a new dynamic at left back and, for about £8 million, could prove to be one of the bargains of the summer. The Scotland international reminds me of Tottenham’s Kieran Trippier — an attacking full back who is brilliant at crossing. Last season, James Milner did a great job there but would slow moves down by cutting back on to his favoured right foot, whereas Robertson’s first thought is to whip crosses into the box. He is a more rounded player than Alberto Moreno, who looks third-choice now and I would not be surprised if the Spaniard left.

Leicester exciting again In their win against Brighton & Hove Albion, Leicester looked like the team that won the Premier League. They pressed Chris Hughton’s side all over the pitch with an intensity lacking under Claudio Ranieri last season. Harry Maguire looks a definite upgrade on Wes Morgan and Robert Huth — his physicality is useful at both ends of the pitch. Wilfred Ndidi has established his place in the team and plays in a similar manner to N’Golo Kanté. I’ve no doubt that top-four clubs will be interested in the 20-year-old before long.

Tactics did no favours for Swansea I can’t remember Paul Clement playing three at the back for Swansea before and it allowed Manchester United to express themselves even more than they would have against a back four. Their threeman defence wasn’t helped by the full backs pushing high up the pitch, creating space for United’s electric forwards to run into. With Romelu Lukaku, Paul Pogba, Marcus Rashford and Henrikh Mkhitaryan, as well as Anthony Martial off the bench, United had pace in abundance and tore through Swansea’s defence late on.

My team of the week 4-4-2 Hennessey Crystal Palace

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The past four goals conceded by Spurs outside the box have all been scored by Chelsea

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Please stop blaming Wembley, begs Pochettino GARY JACOB Mauricio Pochettino became irritated the third time that he was asked to provide reasons for Tottenham Hotspur’s dismal record at Wembley. “Please,” the manager said. “We need to stop. Today it was clear and if you love and watch football and want to watch the game again you will see that Wembley was not the problem.” Tottenham suffered stage fright in their opening two Champions League games at the national stadium last autumn and though they won the third group game they went on to be knocked out of the Europa League and the FA Cup at the ground. Pochettino was asked whether it was a curse or if the size of the pitch was a factor. Wembley has a larger playing surface than White Hart Lane, which they departed having won 14 consecutive home league games, equalling their club record. “I think the ‘Wembley effect’ is not the reason we lost the game,” he said. “The team

Tottenham’s past ten games at Wembley

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WWWWWW WWWWWW WWWWW played really well. It’s not fair to blame Wembley. For me, Wembley is one of the best places in the world. One of the best places to play football. “It doesn’t affect me but I understand that we need to talk, everyone needs to talk. As for the size of the pitch, we played better and created chances to score. We have to accept they were more clinical than us. The opportunities we created, we didn’t score. What can I do? It is a perception

from the media. I said before and will say it again, it is not about Wembley, it is our performance. Playing that way, we can win lots of games.” Harry Kane struck a post in the first half and Tottenham seemed to have earned a draw when Michy Batshuayi headed Christian Eriksen’s free kick into his own net with eight minutes left. But Hugo Lloris made a blunder and allowed Marcos Alonso’s shot to go under his body. Lloris has made similar mistakes in big games, including two against Manchester City last season. Pochettino accepted that his goalkeeper, g but also his attacking players, should havee done better. “Sure, but thatt is football,” he said. “It iss about the team’s performance. We were unlucky today. No curse: Pochettino insisted that Chelsea were more clinical

“We dominated and we were better but if you are not clinical, you can lose. We are one step [further] ahead than last season. We were much better in every aspect of the game than Chelsea, they were just clinical. I am not frustrated or upset — I am happy with the performance.” The defeat was Pochettino’s first at home in 14 London derbies. He is expected to sign as many as four players before the transfer window closes on August 31 and could offload Kevin Wimmer, Moussa Sissoko and Vincent Janssen, who were all subs stitutes yesterday. Antonio Conte said once again that his Chelsea squad need recruits. “We know very well that a lot of teams improved, if y you compare with last season,” Conte said. “But also, don’t forget that this team was very strong last season.”

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0.40 (0) 3.05 (4) 1 (0) 2.33 (2) 1.28 (0) 0.91 (1) 2.05 (2) 0.17 (0) 2.55 (1) 0.71 (0) 2.08 (3) 1.96 (2) 0.69 (1) 1.44 (0) 0.26 (1) 0.75 (0) 0.7 (1) 0.74 (2)

Top five passers J Milner (Liverpool) ................... 100 A Robertson (Liverpool) ............ 92 M Özil (Arsenal)................................ 91 O Romeu (Southampton).......... 90 G Xhaka (Arsenal)........................... 87

Top five tacklers J Manquillo (Newcastle)................ 6 N’Golo Kanté (Chelsea) ................. 6 M Dembélé (Tottenham)............... 5 T Carroll (Swansea).......................... 5 D Luiz (Chelsea).................................. 5

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Perfect start rewards giddy Huddersfield for 16,556-day wait GEORGE CAULKIN Northern Sports Correspondent

Huddersfield Town Mooy 50

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hey will recall the thrill and the occasion, the giddiness, the noise, the framing of history. The cacophony generated by the plastic clappers left on every seat will echo in the ears, a deafening last post to those 16,556 days since Huddersfield Town last hosted a game at this level. For now, supporters can glance at the league table and feel the queasiness of vertigo, that sense of possibility. Two games into the Premier League and they have gathered six points. A club who secured promotion with an £11 million wage budget remain glued to wonder, squarely behind the manager and his players, backed by an ownership which craves something simple: more. After 45 years, they revelled in their moment, David Wagner and his team circling the pitch after the final whistle, saluting fans. “Unbelievable,” Wagner said, but Huddersfield have made a habit of it. Theirs is a funny sort of fantasy, a story of defying logic, hewn from effort and drenched in sweat, where each player must embrace exhaustion, the high press. “We weren’t the best team in the Championship, but we were one of the fittest,” Wagner said. “And we will be one of the fittest in the Premier League. We need this for our intense football.” Huddersfield last won a top flight home game in 1971, when Derby County, who would go on to be champions, were beaten 2-1 at Leeds Road. Frank Worthington scored that day and the slick-haired maverick was present to witness Aaron Mooy’s sumptuous 50th-minute goal. “He doesn’t say or smile a lot, but for sure he’s very happy,” Wagner said of the Australian, who signed from Manchester City for £10 million in June having spent last season on loan. “He’s a great technical footballer, but he has an amazing working attitude. That’s why I love him.” After their 3-0 victory away to Crystal Palace, Huddersfield are joint

top. “I don’t have to pinch myself, but I didn’t expect it,” Wagner said. “It’s football and everybody knows that in football everything is possible after what we saw last season at our club. I only wanted us to be brave in every single game and I think we’ve done it so far. I’m over the moon. Two games, two clean sheets. We’ve had to invest everything to get these points on the board.” For Newcastle United, elevation is yet to bring such uplift, yet to provide such a blissful moment as Mooy’s. While Rafa Benítez is revered among their followers, edginess has clung to them this summer, fuelled by the manager’s feeling that his squad is undercooked and that resources have been restricted too tightly. Supporters left the John Smith’s Stadium craving sustenance, liquid or otherwise. Some will notice the contrast between Dean Hoyle, Huddersfield’s chairman, and their own Mike Ashley. Both have led their respective clubs for a decade, but where one has stirred dreams, the other cannot shake off discontent. There is work to be done at Newcastle, in terms of improving a squad which has no stellar talent and placating Benítez, their best hope for success. Benítez knows how to set up his team with the aim of containment, but there was too much sloppiness. Newcastle were rarely a headlong force in the Sky Bet Championship, preferring to chip away, seize their opportunity and grind games out, but suffocation was partnered with error in West Yorkshire, conceding possession too readily and failing to provide a focal point up front. They gradually settled as the first half matured, but quality was rationed to the point of starvation, and they

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always looked vulnerable to anything approaching incision. In attack, Dwight Gayle was isolated and offkey, running into the wrong areas and offering little. When the striker was substituted in the 52nd minute, he trotted to Huddersfield’s dugout before realising his mistake. It was fitting. By that stage, Newcastle were behind and if Benítez was unhappy with the physicality of Huddersfield’s approach, the high early challenge by Elias Kachunga which caught Chancel Mbemba on the shoulder, he

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could not complain about the deficit. The goal was glorious, Mooy stepping in from the left, exchanging passes with Kachunga before unleashing a curling shot beyond Rob Elliot. It was an oasis in the desert and Huddersfield supporters drank it in. In the main stand, Hoyle rose to his feet with his arms aloft, the local boy living a dream which has already strained credibility. “We invested this summer with a view of staying in the Premier League, not just to say hello,” Hoyle wrote in his programme notes. “It’s quite scary to see our club DANNY LAWSON/PA

Ending the long wait: Huddersfield’s players made a point of celebrating their first home win in the top flight since 1971

Pass/shot Run with ball Run without ball

spending fees of £11 million on players.” As Benítez has pointed out repeatedly, Newcastle have not done enough of the same. The manager, who lost Florian Lejeune and Paul Dummett to injury last week, did not have a defender on the substitutes’ bench, but they are lacking, too, in quality and finesse. Their best chance fell to Matt Ritchie, a right-foot shot from distance which Jonas Lossl tipped away for a corner. Newcastle were harried by opponents who pushed up the pitch. Joselu, the recent £5 million signing from Stoke City, snatched at a shot which was prodded wide by Lossl, while Ayoze Pérez cleared the crossbar, but they were ineffectual, missing muscle and ideas. They lost the opening two games of last season, too. That turned out fine, but they need to get cracking. RATINGS Huddersfield Town (4-2-3-1): J Lossl 6 — T Smith 7, M Zanka 7, C Schindler 7, C Löwe 8 — P Billing 7, A Mooy 8 — T Ince 7 (sub: M Hefele 90min), R Van La Parra 6 (sub: C Quaner 69, 6), E Kachunga 7 (sub: K Palmer 72) — S Mounié 7. Substitutes not used J Coleman, S Malone, J Lolley, D Williams. Booked Palmer, Billing, Mounié. Newcastle United (4-2-3-1) R Elliot 6 — J Manquillo 4, J Lascelles 5, C Mbemba 6, C Clark 5 — M Merino 5, I Hayden 4 (sub: M Diamé 76) — C Atsu 5, A Pérez 5 (sub: J Murphy 80), M Ritchie 6 — D Gayle 4 (sub: Joselu 52, 5). Substitutes not used K Darlow, R Aarons, H Saivet. Booked Ritchie, Hayden, Joselu, Lascelles.

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Excluding the inaugural season, Huddersfield are the first team to win their first two Premier League games

We’ve got our spirit back thanks to new coach, says Austin ALYSON RUDD

Southampton Gabbiadini 11, Tadic 38 (pen), Austin 90+3 (pen)

West Ham United Hernández 45, 74

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fter a match filled with the kind of challenges to test any team’s resolve, Charlie Austin, whose penalty in added time sealed victory for the home side, revealed that the Southampton dressing room had lacked camaraderie towards the end of Claude Puel’s tenure. “At the back end of last year, team spirit just dwindled a little bit because we weren’t getting the right results,” the striker said. Life simply was not much fun at Southampton and the team became synonymous with tedium and a lack of goals. Just as dogs tend to resemble their owners, the team had been as effervescent on the pitch as Puel was off it. They were flat. Against West Ham United on Saturday they were adventurous and then, when caution threatened to ruin the afternoon, Mauricio Pellegrino, Puel’s replacement, chucked on two strikers and told them, according to Austin, “to go and get the winner”. Manolo Gabbiadini had given the home side the lead and their first goal in more than nine hours’ play at St Mary’s, and Dusan Tadic had scored from the spot five minutes after Marko Arnautovic had been sent off for a blatant use of his elbow. Rather than go for the jugular, Southampton were steady but West Ham, in a splurge of passion, drew level with two poacher’s goals from Javier Hernández. “I was delighted for him [Gabbiadini] when he scored and he was delighted for me when I scored at the end, and that just shows the team spirit we have got this season, which is important,” Austin said. “I don’t think we had it much last year but we are going in the right direction now.” “We need to try to play with a higher tempo,” Oriol Romeu, the midfielder, said. “We tend to play too slow and then there’s no space between

A Mooy celebrates his winner against Newcastle, a sweetly struck effort from just outside the box

Beaten Benítez ‘doesn’t know’ about new signings IAN WHITTELL Rafa Benítez surveyed the wreckage of another worrying 90 minutes in Newcastle United’s early-season campaign and admitted that his team need to learn the harsh realities of life in the Premier League quickly. The alternative, as last week’s home defeat by Tottenham Hotspur was followed by this reverse away to a buoyant Huddersfield Town, does not bear thinking about as Benítez’s team made it two games without a goal or any obvious reason for optimism. “It’s a learning process so we have to learn quickly,” Benítez said in a testy and brief post-match press conference. “Maybe it’s too soon for us. It’s going to take longer, for sure. I could say yes, we deserved a point, but my experience in the Premier League is you have to take your chances because if you make mistakes, you pay for that.” Benítez’s summer-long complaints about the lack of investment, and his increasingly strained relationship with Mike Ashley, the owner, have provided one of the soundtracks to the transfer window. It was a subject that Benítez did not want to re-examine yesterday. When asked whether the

performance had demonstrated the urgent need for new signings, the Spaniard simply shot back with the words “I don’t know”, although the 90 minutes that preceded his press conference had spoken plenty of his dire need to strengthen his squad. “I don’t read the newspapers, you’ll have to wait,” Benítez said when asked to comment on speculation about potential recruits, including a loan move for Kenedy, Chelsea’s Brazilian wing back. “Obviously we’re working behind the scenes, trying to do things. I don’t know.” The need for serviceable bodies was illustrated by the absence through injury of Paul Dummett, DeAndre Yedlin and Florian Lejeune, three defenders. “Sometimes it’s not easy to manage when you have three injuries in defence,” Benítez said. “It’s even more difficult. Anyway, its the Premier League, you have to learn.” One of the main sticking points for Benítez, as he looks to add those reinforcements, is thee pressure to shed unwanted bodies from his squad and, more importantly, Ashley’s

wage bill. Tim Krul, Jack Colback, Siem de Jong, Massadio Haïdara, Henri Saivet — the list of players Benítez would like to hasten out of the door before the end of the month is considerable but the manager said that none will be leaving “at the moment”. “We started the game controlling it a little bit, when they were pressing, we had more control,” he said. “But it doesn’t matter — you have control, are well organised, but if you want to get results in the Premier League you have to score goals and not concede . . . in any division, but especially in the top division. “We will improve and we will create more chances and we will score more goals, for sure.” A continuation of Newcastle’s miserable start to the campaign could lead Benítez to re-assess his “no panic” analysis. What a contrast to three months ago when they won the Championship and returned to the Premier League on a wave of supporters’ delight. Still, as Benítez himself observed without a trace of a smile: “That was a long time ago.” Benítez saw his side draw a second consecutive blank

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the lines to break the opponents. That’s what we’re trying to do now and trying to regain the ball high up. “We try and push as soon as we lose the ball and win the ball back high up the pitch and then try and close the opponents in their own half. Here in this league the counter attacking can be very dangerous, but we’re getting there. Today was a good game, despite conceding two goals.” Slavin Bilic might prefer to dampen the excitement at West Ham but without a heady dose of camaraderie the team would have been unable to draw level. The West Ham manager said that Arnautovic would repay the team for his error over the course of the season and that in Hernández he has a player he has long coveted. “He knows that I like him because we wanted to get him when he left Manchester United for Leverkusen,” the Croat said. Bilic bemoaned being bottom of the league, thanks to goal difference. He is trying to sign William Carvalho from Sporting Lisbon, with the Portuguese club holding out for a fee of £36 million. Bilic confirmed that the defensive midfielder is the last piece in his jigsaw for this transfer window. “You can’t have eight players in every position,” he said, although keeping 11 on the pitch would have helped against Southampton. Arnautovic subsequently apologised on Instagram for his poor judgment. RAT I N GS Southampton (4-2-3-1): F Forster 5 — Cedric 6, M Yoshida 6, J Stephens 6, R Bertrand 5 — O Romeu 6, M Lemina 5 (sub: J Ward-Prowse 65min, 6) — D Tadic 7, S Davis 7 (sub: S Long 80), N Redmond 6 — M Gabbiadini 7 (sub: C Austin 80). Substitutes not used A McCarthy, S Boufal, J Bednarek, S McQueen. Booked Tadic. West Ham United (4-2-3-1): J Hart 5 — P Zabaleta 5, A Ogbonna 5, J Fonte 4, A Cresswell 5 — M Noble 5, D Rice 5 (sub: P Obiang 76) — M Antonio 7 (sub: D Sakho 78), A Ayew 5 (sub: E Fernandez 78), M Arnautovic 3 — J Hernández 7. Substitutes not used Adrián, S Byram, A Masuaku. Booked Zabaleta. Sent off Arnautovic.

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Life without star Sánchez looks bleak for Wenger PAUL HIRST

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f Saturday night was a glimpse at what a post-Alexis Sánchez world would look like at Arsenal, their fans should be worried. Arsène Wenger’s side travelled to the Bet365 Stadium and dominated. They controlled 77 per cent of possession — a ratio unmatched since the days of the Invincibles — and registered 18 shots, but did not find the net once. Well, they did, but Alexandre Lacazette’s 71st-minute effort was ruled out for offside. Despite Wenger’s arguments to the contrary, replays seemed to back the linesman by the width of a boot and Arsenal fell to defeat for the first time this season thanks to Jesé’s goal on his debut for Stoke City, who enjoyed their sixth home win over the north London club since they returned to the Premier League in 2008. Wenger, who felt that his side should have been awarded a penalty when Mame Biram Diouf felled Hector Bellerín, complained about the disallowed goal. “It is an easy decision. Even his foot was not offside,” the Arsenal manager said. Three months ago, Arsenal defeated Stoke with ease. Four of the six shots that they had on target went in and Sánchez was on the scoresheet.

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WASTEFUL SHOOTING HURTS ARSENAL HURTS ARSENAL Arsenal have struggled to find the back of the net without Alexis Sánchez, their top scorer last season, and have the tenth best conversion rate in the Premier League in 2017-18. Team shot conversion rate (%) Leicester City ...................................... 35.71 Manchester United ........................ 29.63 Huddersfield Town ........................ 26.67 Watford ................................................. 22.73 Manchester City .............................. 22.22 Chelsea ................................................. 22.22 Everton ................................................. 14.29 Tottenham Hotspur ....................... 13.04 Liverpool ................................................. 12.9 Arsenal ..................................................... 12.9 Burnley ..................................................... 12.5 Southampton .................................... 10.34 West Ham United .............................. 9.52 West Bromwich Albion ................... 9.52 Stoke City ............................................... 6.25 Brighton and Hove Albion .................. 0 Newcastle United ..................................... 0 Crystal Palace ............................................ 0 Bournemouth ............................................. 0 Swansea City .............................................. 0

On Saturday, Arsenal were without the Chile forward, who is recovering from an abdominal injury, and they looked blunt. Had Ryan Shawcross scored from a free header in the first half, the result could have been even more embarrassing for Arsenal. Lacazette barely featured in the game and Danny Welbeck was guilty

Jesé’s goal for Stoke was all too much for two fans who took a tumble during their celebrations, however the pair continued to revel in the moment

of missing a series of chances, first when he shot straight at Jack Butland from Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain’s lofted pass, then when he missed his header and the ball flew wide of his shoulder. Aaron Ramsey and Bellerín also missed chances. Jesé was far more clinical. Less than two minutes after the restart, the former Real Madrid forward exchanged passes with Saido Berahino before shooting across Petr Cech into the far corner. With his first touch after coming off the bench, Olivier Giroud flicked Mesut Özil’s pass into Welbeck’s path but, under pressure from Kurt Zouma and Diouf, the striker scuffed his shot. Soon after, Giroud turned the ball through for Lacazette’s disallowed goal. Arsenal have created 38 chances over their two games — more than any other team in the league — but they cannot afford to continue missing opportunities as they did on Saturday and will struggle if Sánchez leaves for Manchester City, whether that be this month or next summer.

“Let’s not go overboard. We lost one game,” Wenger said. But despite returning to training last week, there is no guarantee that Sánchez will be fit or back to his best for Sunday’s game against Liverpool, which comes four days before the transfer deadline. “We’ll see how he goes through the week,” Wenger said. “He was out with a muscular strain. He’s not played now for six weeks and it’s difficult to be at your best in the first game straight away.” Wenger could sell Kieran Gibbs to Galatasaray, though the Turkish club are willing to pay only £4 million for a player Arsenal value at £10 million. RATINGS Stoke City (3-4-2-1): J Butland 8 — K Zouma 8, R Shawcross 6, G Cameron 6 — M B Diouf 7, D Fletcher 7, J Allen 7, E Pieters 6 (sub: R Martins Indi 88min) — X Shaqiri 6 (sub: S Berahino 24, 7), Jesé 8 (sub: R Sobhi 70, 6) — M Choupo-Moting 7. Substitutes not used L Grant, G Johnson, P Crouch, Bojan. Arsenal (3-4-2-1): P Cech 6— S Mustafi 6, N Monreal 6, S Kolasinac 5 (sub: O Giroud 66, 6) — A Oxlade-Chamberlain 7, A Ramsey 6, G Xhaka 5 (sub: A Iwobi 78), H Bellerín 7 — M Özil 5, D Welbeck 5 — A Lacazette 6 (sub: T Walcott 78). Substitutes not used D Ospina, P Mertesacker, F Coquelin, M Elneny.

Hughes: We can’t afford to buy Jesé PAUL HIRST Mark Hughes admits that Stoke City are likely to be priced out of a permanent deal for Jesé, the Paris Saint-Germain loanee who scored the winner on his debut on Saturday. Jesé was once rated so highly by Real Madrid that they inserted a €200 million (about £182 million) release clause into his contract. “There is not an option to buy, no,” Hughes said when asked about the terms of Jesé’s loan deal. “He is a very expensive player. We couldn’t believe our luck when this opportunity presented itself.” Jesé dedicated his goal to his third child Nyan by sucking his thumb in front of the jubilant Stoke supporters. Aurah Ruíz, Jesé’s model girlfriend, gave birth in June, one month premature. “His newborn baby was ill and needed an operation,” Hughes said.

‘I know Mahrez wants to leave – but he has shown us respect’ NICK LUCY

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raig Shakespeare believes that Riyad Mahrez is going about securing his dream move in the right way, even though the Leicester City manager still hopes to keep him at the club.

Shakespeare praised Mahrez’s “professionalism” after the player helped Leicester to secure their first Premier League victory of the season over Brighton & Hove Albion only days after Roma, last season’s Serie A runners-up, had a £32 million bid for the winger rejected. In contrast to the controversy surrounding the exit strategies of other prominent targets in the transfer window, the Algeria winger has knuckled down in training and produced one of his best Leicester performances for some time in the victory over Brighton, setting up both goals and producing magical moments almost at will. Mahrez declared his intention to leave

Leicester in a public statement at the end of May, but Shakespeare said: “Since day one when he made that statement, he’s been very professional, come in to training, worked hard and, you know, we need that to continue. “It’s a credit to him and his personality. Of course, when there’s all the speculation, it’s hard for players to get their heads round it. I’ve spoken to him individually and said, ‘While you’re here you need to be professional and respectful of your team-mates and Leicester City Football Club’. Credit to him, he’s done that.” Roma’s bid fell well short of Leicester’s valuation, but after creating goals for Shinji Okazaki,

after just 52 seconds, and Harry Maguire, there is every likelihood that other clubs will try to lure him away from the King Power Stadium before next week’s transfer deadline. The introduction to Premier League life has been a particularly tough one for Brighton after two defeats in which they have rarely looked like scoring a goal. Chris Hughton recognises the enormity of their task and the need for them to strengthen the squad. “We wanted to bring in players anyway, so this result doesn’t change my desire and we have until the end of the month,” the Brighton manager said. “I know how tough it is in the Premier League and the experience

we get from results like this have to make us better. If anything, I look at my experiences before and it is tougher now. But there are a big group of teams outside the top six and realistically our best chances of points are going to be against those teams.” RAT I N GS Leicester City (4-4-2): K Schmeichel 6 — D Simpson 6, W Morgan 7, H Maguire 6, C Fuchs 6 — R Mahrez 8, M James 7, W Ndidi 6, M Albrighton 7 — S Okazaki 7 (sub: I Slimani 76min) — J Vardy 6 (sub: D Gray 90+3). Substitutes not used B Chilwell, D Gray, A King, B Hamer, D Amartey, L Ulloa. Booked Morgan. Brighton & Hove Albion (4-4-1-1): M Ryan 5 — Bruno 6, L Dunk 7, S Duffy 6, M Suttner 5 — S March 6, D Propper 5, D Stephens 6, J Murphy 7 — P Gross 6 (sub: A Knockaert 62, 6) — G Murray 6 (sub: T Hemed 66, 5). Substitutes not used G Bong, U Hünemeier, J Skalak, N Maenpaa, L Rosenior.

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t may not be until the transfer window closes on August 31, but, at some point, it will dawn on Philippe Coutinho precisely what has slipped through his fingers. A move to Barcelona almost certainly, the affection of those unforgiving sections of the Liverpool crowd who see loyalty as everything even and, if matters continue as they are, his status as talisman. While Coutinho sits idle, resting his back injury and stewing on Anfield’s intransigence, Sadio Mané continues to shine. It is Mané who is emerging as key to Jürgen Klopp’s approach, the manager’s most potent, and most reliable, weapon and the player most likely to make the difference as he did against Crystal Palace on Saturday. The statistics suggest that Barcelona have been bidding for the wrong player. The goal that broke the tedium, and lanced the tension, owed much to fortune but Mané was there to dispatch the chance created by Dominic Solanke’s hounding of an opponent and he has scored 15 goals in 29 Premier League games since his arrival from Southampton at the start of last season — one every 161 minutes. In that time, Coutinho has scored 13 in 31 matches at an average of one every 172 minutes. Liverpool have scored 57 goals when Mané starts, one every 39 minutes, compared with 48 goals when Coutinho begins, one every 45 minutes. “The biggest thing the team did last year was getting fourth without Sadio for pretty much half a year,” said Klopp, of a player whose darting runs behind defenders, ability to attack space, coolness in front of goal and unstinting work ethic make him integral. “I wasn’t sure how long it was exactly but it was long. He’s made a big step, but as you can imagine I’m

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Liverpool have been lacking a consistent, quality left back since Jamie Carragher played out of position there in 2000-01 and they won the FA Cup, League Cup and Uefa Cup. Since 2000 the following have played there but Robertson made a fine impression on his debut Djimi Traore* 1999-2006 Christian Ziege 2000-01 Grégory Vignal 2000-05 John Arne Riise 2001-08 Stephen Warnock 2002-07 Fabio Aurelio 2006-12 Emiliano Insua 2007-11 Alvaro Arbeloa* 2007-09 Andrea Dossena 2008-10 Glen Johnson* 2009-15 Jon Flanagan 2010Paul Konchesky 2010-11 José Enrique 2011-2014 Aly Cissokho 2013-14 (loan) Alberto Moreno 2014James Milner 2015Andy Robertson 2017*right back but sometimes left back

Robertson shone bright in what has been a problem position to fill

not too happy about singing a big song about a player this early in the season. But he is important.” Mané missed about three months of Liverpool’s season due to Africa Cup of Nations commitments and a knee injury, it just felt longer. This is not to say that Coutinho is no longer needed. Klopp would probably have deployed the Brazilian in midfield to conjure the creativity that was so obviously absent. That

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Palace should have been leading at the time of Mané ’s 73rd-minute goal — Christian Benteke wasted Ruben Loftus-Cheek’s surging run and cut-back by carelessly clearing the crossbar from seven yards — emphasised Liverpool’s struggles. Barcelona had responded to Liverpool rejecting their third bid of £82 million plus £36 million in additional fees on Friday by bizarrely saying that, unless there was a change

KLO PP REF US E S TO JO IN CELEB CELEB RATIO NS A delighted Sadio Mané sprinted over to celebrate with Jürgen Klopp after scoring Liverpool’s goal but his manager was more concerned with his team keeping their focus. Mané leapt into Klopp, perhaps hoping for a hug of congratulation, but the German gave him the cold shoulder.

of heart by last night, the offer would be withdrawn. Yet the saga will continue, not least because Klopp appears to have written off using Coutinho until after the window, which means he will miss the Champions League play-off, second leg, with Hoffenheim on Wednesday and the match against Arsenal on Sunday. Reintegrating the player will not be straightforward, either, because Klopp does not appear the sort to pander to a sullen star and will instead look at Solanke’s bright cameo, in one instance, and think a different solution can be found there. Should Liverpool edge beyond Hoffenheim and return to Europe’s elite, everyone can breathe easier. “The challenge was to be 100 per cent for Watford [the first game of the season] and we can’t think about the Hoffenheim game. But we can’t forget about it. That’s the challenge. That’s the situation. So far, so good,” said Klopp, who made five changes with the visit of the Germans in mind. Frank de Boer still hopes to

improve his Palace side by signing Mamadou Sakho from Liverpool. The Palace manager said that Sakho was “much, much too expensive for us,” although it is understood that Liverpool would now accept a structured deal worth £30 million. West Bromwich Albion have registered an interest, but know Sakho prefers Palace and would also be interested in West Ham United rather than a switch to the Midlands. “Everybody knows he had a major impact last season and when he was available for us I think that was a quality injection,” De Boer said. RAT I N GS Liverpool (4-3-3): S Mignolet 7 — J Gomez 7, J Matip 6, R Klavan 6, A Robertson 7 — G Wijnaldum 5 (sub: D Solanke 71min), J Henderson 6, J Milner 6 — S Mané 7, D Sturridge 5 (sub: M Salah 61, 6), R Firmino 6 (sub: D Lovren 90). Substitutes not used L Karius, E Can, D Origi, J Flanagan. Booked Henderson. Crystal Palace (3-4-2-1): W Hennessey 7 — T Fosu-Mensah 6, S Dann 6, J Tomkins 6 — J Ward 6, R Loftus-Cheek 6, L Milivojevic 5 (sub: S Kaikai 77), P van Aanholt 6 (sub: J Schlupp 84) — A Townsend 6, J Puncheon 6 — C Benteke 5. Substitutes not used J Speroni, Y Cabaye, J McArthur, J Lokilo, M Kelly. Booked Van Aanholt, Benteke.

‘Brick wall’ Hegazi eases West Brom’s worries over Evans MIKE WHALLEY

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f the early impact of Ahmed Hegazi is anything to go by, West Bromwich Albion can feel a little more secure about their defensive future even if Jonny Evans leaves

for Manchester City. The Egypt centre back has made quite a start in English football since his arrival on loan from Al Ahly in his homeland. Having scored the winner on his Premier League debut against Bournemouth, he was key to a second successive clean sheet as West Brom pinched victory away to Burnley. A first-half aerial collision with Sam Vokes left Hegazi with a cut near his eye but he recovered to help frustrate a Burnley side who had beaten Chelsea in their opening game. “He’s a brick wall,” said Matt Phillips, the West Brom winger. “He’s a big lad and he gets his head on things.” Tony Pulis, the head coach,

described Hegazi’s display as “fantastic”. So far, at least, West Brom are managing to cope without Evans. The West Brom captain was absent for the second week running, with City continuing to test the club’s willingness to hold on to the 29-yearold former Manchester United centre half. Pulis cited a hamstring injury as the reason for Evans not travelling with the team, but there is an increasing sense that the Northern Ireland defender may have played his last game for the club. Chris Brunt, Evans’s club and international team-mate, wants a quick resolution. “Hopefully it will will all die down,” Brunt said. “He’s a

great player, and naturally, teams want great players. But what happens next is between Jonny and the club.” Winning the first two matches of a Premier League campaign does not necessarily count for much, but West Brom have every reason to be satisfied with two 1-0 wins secured with two solid performances. Hal Robson-Kanu was the centre of attention at Turf Moor, producing a remarkable 20-minute cameo after coming on as a substitute. First, he ran on to Phillips’s knock-down and broke the challenge of Stephen Ward before beating Tom Heaton, Burnley’s goalkeeper, at his near post with the game’s only shot on target. Then, the

28-year-old Wales forward was sent off for an elbow on Matt Lowton. Yet even against ten men, Burnley could not manage to test Ben Foster in the West Brom goal. The signing of Chris Wood from Leeds United may be just the lift their attack needs. RAT I N GS

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LU K A KU J OINS AN IL LU ST R IOU S L IST Romelu Lukaku became part of a select group of Manchester United players, pictured, to score in each of their first three competitive games for the club. The only player to score in their opening four games is

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n a league where patience is the most precious of commodities, it was compelling to witness Marcus Rashford and Tammy Abraham meet. There are plenty of similarities: two 19-year-old English forwards with abundant potential that requires time and space to flourish are prematurely being placed on a pedestal. Yet the expectations on them both this season are quite different. Never mind that the Swansea City forward, on loan for the season from Chelsea, is 29 days older than his Manchester United counterpart. There is a

perception that Rashford must produce at the top level now, whereas Abraham needs to prove he can cut it in the Premier League — a challenge that could become even greater with Swansea aiming to sign three attacking players before the end of the transfer window. More intense scrutiny on Rashford is natural because he has made almost 50 Premier League appearances for one of the world’s biggest teams, not to mention more than a dozen games in Europe and nine senior international caps. In contrast, Saturday was Abraham’s second top-flight start. But ultimately the only thing proven in a face-off between perhaps the two most promising young attackers in the league was that, for all their undisputed talent, both remain on a steep learning curve. Rashford, for instance, too often gives the impression that he is trying too hard. He becomes so desperate to leave a lasting impact that his performance suffers. It was obvious after a couple of minutes on Saturday,

affected by the boos from home supporters every time he received possession, that he must learn to react better to heated situations. The jeers, surprisingly venomous from a fanbase not renowned for fury, were in relation to Swansea’s head coach, Paul Clement, insinuating that Rashford “deceived the referee” to win a penalty in the 1-1 draw at Old Trafford late last season. The catcalls did not relent in the 75 minutes that he was on the pitch but it was evident that, out of determination to silence them and despite being the most threatening player throughout the first half, he was gradually losing control with each decision that went against him. Numerous unsuccessful protestations to Jon Moss, the referee, when he felt he had been fouled only served to turn up the noise. “He has to learn how to enjoy it,” José Mourinho said of his forward’s need to embrace negative reactions. “If he was a bad player, nobody would try to provoke him. They see the speed, they see the danger. It

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other big clubs but the fact we have Marco [Silva] here as head coach has helped. The coach can speak to him in Portuguese and that was very helpful. Our scout in South America always had him on his list and kept telling us how much he improved.” The club then made a convincing case that the player should be awarded a work permit despite not being a full international.

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b more clinical be probably can affect him but, honestly, if he came on in the last 15 minutes when the space was there, he would do the same as the other guys.” That Anthony Martial, another prodigious talent whose age (21) can be forgotten in an era when an instant return on investment is demanded, replaced Rashford and then scored United’s fourth — at the end of a four-minute burst in which Romelu Lukaku and Paul Pogba scored, adding to Eric Bailly’s opener before half-time — merely highlighted the teenager’s profligacy. Above all, Rashford needs to find a clinical edge. Here he had four attempts on goal, more than any other player, with all three that were on target sailing straight into the arms of Lukasz Fabianski. The second of those pointed to a lack of experience. Gifted possession with a clear path to goal, instead of picking a corner or opting for power he tried to lob the ‘keeper, resulting in a tame clip and straightforward save. While it spawned a litany of harsh comparisons with unsuccessful

United strikers of old on the always measured internet, back in the real world Rashford’s reaction suggested that he was immediately aware of his mistake. He will learn his lesson. Martial, who experienced similar issues last season, appears to have acquired more composure. Mourinho praised his “right attitude”, adding that he was “growing in confidence”, helped by a French connection of sorts with Pogba and Lukaku. Abraham, meanwhile, would probably be satisfied to have just one clear-cut opportunity. Swansea have recorded a single attempt on target in their opening two games — a speculative overhead kick from Martin Olsson that was easily saved by David De Gea. Abraham displayed promise by running tirelessly and getting into good positions. However, with Swansea quite often pinned back, he could have worked harder to hold up possession. Clement, who shut down a question regarding a move for Jack Wilshere but is still chasing Wilfried Bony, the former Swansea striker who is surplus

ged 20 and with a language barrier to overcome having arrived from South America earlier this month, Richarlison could have been expected to have taken his time settling into life at Watford. The contribution of the Brazilian forward in his first two Premier League games — including the opening goal away to Bournemouth on Saturday — however, suggests that the £11.2 million deal that took the forward from Fluminense to Watford could be a shrewd piece of business.

to requirements at Manchester City, would not say that Abraham was left isolated on account of his team-mates being forced deep, but did give some insight into what he expects from the striker in the coming weeks. “Jordan [Ayew] was around him and both needed to be better when the ball came to them at securing it,” he said. That’s an area where Bony excels. Clement, though, is optimistic when it comes to Abraham “He’s not here on work experience. He’s here to deliver. He’s going to accelerate his ability and I’m sure it’s only a matter of time before he starts scoring goals.” Let’s hope he gets enough chances. R AT IN GS Swansea City (3-4-2-1) L Fabianski 5 — K Bartley 5 (sub: L Narsingh 67min, 5), F Fernández 5, A Mawson 6 — K Naughton 6, L Fer 6, R Mesa 5 (sub: W Routledge 67, 5), M Olsson 5 — T Carroll 5, J Ayew 5 — T Abraham 6 (sub: O McBurnie 83). Substitutes not used K Nordfeldt, M van der Hoorn, Á Rangel, J Fulton. Booked Fer. Manchester United (4-2-3-1) D De Gea 6 — A Valencia 7, E Bailly 6, P Jones 8, D Blind 6 — N Matic 7, P Pogba 8 — J Mata 7 (sub: M Fellaini 75), H Mkhitaryan 7 (sub: A Herrera 85), M Rashford 5 (sub: A Martial 75) — R Lukaku 7. Substitutes not used S Romero, V Lindelof, C Smalling, J Lingard. Booked Pogba.

How did Watford sign him? Richarlison was linked with a number of top clubs this summer including Chelsea. “It’s not been easy as there were two very big clubs around him,” Filippo Giraldi, the Watford technical director said. “He had two very concrete, very strong offers from Richarlison was linked with Chelsea but instead chose Watford

How has he settled in? He started English lessons last week and his first interview for the club’s Youtube channel was conducted by Heurelho Gomes, the goalkeeper who translated for his new team-mate. On the pitch he has had no problems. It was Richarlison’s shot that led to Miguel Britos’s dramatic added time equaliser in the draw with Liverpool on the opening day. Here gave Adam Smith a torrid time, and got his name on the scoresheet when he met Andre Gray’s 73rd-minute cross and finished at the second attempt. Any on-field communication problems? Not according to Nathaniel Chalobah. “You can see he’s a very talented lad — he’s only been with us a couple of weeks, and the language barrier is difficult, but he speaks fluent football and everyone in the team can understand him in that regard,” said the midfielder. Gray, who arrived at the club at the same time as Richarlison in a club record £18.5 million transfer from Burnley, agrees. “We seemed to be on the same wavelength and hopefully we will keep playing well together and scoring goals,” Gray said. Silva should be happy then? Chalobah, Gray and Richarlison combined for the opening goal and between them, continually troubled Bournemouth. “When you sign players it means you need them, but I’m happy with the way everybody works,” Silva said. R ATIN G S Bournemouth (4-4-2) A Begovic 7 — A Smith 5, S Cook 5, N Aké 8, C Daniels 5 — R Fraser 6 (sub: L Mousset 78min), A Surman 6, H Arter 6, J Ibe 5 (sub: M Pugh 60, 6) — J King 5, B Afobe 6 (sub: J Defoe 60, 6). Substitutes not used A Boruc, D Gosling, B Smith, T Mings. Booked Cook. Watford (4-2-3-1) H Gomes 7 — K Femenía 6, S Prödl 8, M Britos 7, J Holebas 7 — C Doucouré 7, N Chalobah 8 (sub: B Watson 90) — N Amrabat 6 (sub: C Kabasele 82), T Cleverley 7, Richarlison 9 (sub: É Capoue 79) — A Gray 8. Substitutes not used C Pantilimon, T Deeney, W Hughes, S Okaka. Booked Britos, Chalobah, Gray.

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NO CL IQUE S AL LOWED IN G UARDIOLA’S INNER CIRCLE Pep Guardiola has taken his desire to avoid cliques in the Manchester City dressing room to a new level with a state of the art circular changing facility for the players. The design, that resembles something from the Starship Enterprise, replicates a similar interior at City’s training ground. Other improvements include hydrotherapy baths and air under the seats to cool players’ legs.

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Nasri set for move to Turkey but City may still pay wages PAUL HIRST, PAUL JOYCE Samir Nasri, the Manchester City midfielder, is closing in on a move to Antalyaspor, who paid for a private jet to fly the 30-year-old midfielder to Turkey yesterday. The club, who are based in Antalya, 300 miles south of Istanbul on the southern coast of the country, are willing to offer Nasri a two-year contract worth about £70,000 per week. Ali Safak Ozturk, the Antalyaspor president, will hold further negotiations with the former Arsenal player today in the hope that he can convince him to join the club. It is unclear at this stage whether Antalyaspor will have to pay a fee for Nasri or whether City will subsidise his wages over the course of the deal. He is thought to earn about £160,000 per week at City. City have been desperate to offload Nasri this summer despite a series of impressive displays from the Frenchman on their pre-season tour of America. They had demanded £20 million for the player, who spent last season on loan at Seville, but have accepted that they will have to lower their valuation if they are to sell him during this transfer window. Antalyaspor are understood to have reservations about a potential doping charge that is hanging over Nasri and will insist on a break clause if the Frenchman is banned. Nasri has denied wrongdoing. The Spanish anti-doping agency (AEPSAD) launched an investigation last season after Nasri allegedly received an “Immunity IV Drip” at the Drip Doctors clinic in Los Angeles. World Anti-Doping Agency rules state that there is a 50 millilitre limit for active athletes unless there is a medical reason, and AEPSAD is investigating whether Nasri exceeded that limit. Pep Guardiola, the City head coach, will be reunited with his former Barcelona team-mate, Ronald Koeman, tonight at the Etihad Stadium. Koeman, the Everton manager, has praised his side’s defensive solidity but suggested they may require a “miracle” if they are to extend their impressive run of clean sheets. Everton have yet to concede a goal in four competitive matches this season and, while three of those have come in the

Europa League qualifying rounds, it is the first time they have started a campaign with as many shut-outs. New goalkeeper Jordan Pickford and centre back Michael Keane have impressed, bringing authority and calm to suggest the money invested this summer has been well spent, but the Everton manager knows City will provide a different test. “If we get a clean sheet this Monday I don’t know if it will be a miracle,” said Koeman. “Maybe it will, but we do know we are strong defensively. The key to getting a good result is what we do when we have the ball, and that’s what our preparation will be about. “I am a good friend of Pep and I know the way he likes to play. It’s really a pleasure to see his teams playing football, with a high defence and a lot of offensive players in the team. But the Premier League is strong and physical, plus if you play with a high defence there is always space behind. When we played City at home we punished them for that, but with the business they did in the summer City are stronger.” Gylfi Sigurdsson, Everton’s clubrecord signing from Swansea, is available but is not ready to play 90 minutes.

HOW THEY LINE UP (3-5-2) Ederson

Kompany

Stones

Otamendi

Walker De Bruyne Fernandinho

Agüero

Silva

Sané

Jesus Rooney

Calvert-Lewin Klaassen Gueye Baines

Davies

Schneiderlin

Williams

Keane

Pickford

Martina

(4-2-3-1)

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PREMIER LEAGUE HEADS SOUTH

Chelsea’s opening two league games have produced a home defeat against the team who waited longest to win away last term (Burnley) and an away victory against last season’s best home team (Tottenham Hotspur yesterday). To underline their upside-down character, Antonio Conte’s team became the first in the Premier League era to have a forward score an own goal (Michy Batshuayi) and a defender/ defenders score twice in the same match. Marcos Alonso hit both goals and is now the first full back (or wing back) to have scored two top-flight doubles (excluding penalties) since 1992. It was the second game in a row in which a Chelsea defender scored with a leftfoot shot in the 88th minute (David Luiz did so against Burnley).

This is the southern-most top flight in history. For the first time half the clubs are, geographically, level with or below Watford (ten out of 20) Newcastle Burnley

Man City

Huddersfield Man Utd Stoke Liverpool Leicester

Everton

West Brom Watford Swansea

Wembley crowd

Bournemouth

The Wembley attendance of 73,587 yesterday was 41,739 up on Tottenham’s most recent home league game (31,848 at White Hart Lane). That is the highest such rise in the top division since March 1969, when Chelsea attracted 17,639 for Coventry City’s visit before 60,436 turned out for the next game against Manchester United. The record jump is also held by Chelsea: they had crowds of 17,337 to face Liverpool in March 1953 and then 72,614 when playing Arsenal.

Southampton

Yesterday was only the second time since 1898 that two grounds (Huddersfield Town’s John Smith’s Stadium and Wembley) staged their first top-division fixture on the same day. September 3, 1898: Nottingham Forest’s City Ground and Newcastle United’s St James’ Park; August 19, 2006: Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium and Reading’s Madejski Stadium. Information was from the English National Football Archive.

Flying start For the second season in a row a newly promoted H team from Yorkshire (the historic definition of the county) who share a stadium with a rugby league team have won their opening two games (Huddersfield have followed Hull City). In Huddersfield’s previous top-flight season they faced a captain and defender named Tommy Smith (when playing against Liverpool in February 1972), and yesterday they had a captain and defender

Arsenal Chelsea Crystal Palace Tottenham West Ham

United: Emanuel Pogatetz, who called himself “Mad Dog” and was banned for 24 weeks as a Spartak Moscow player (later reduced to eight) after breaking an opponent’s leg; and now Marko Arnautovic, who kicked a bag near the touchline on Saturday after being sent off for a flailing arm and was once dubbed “arrogant” by his captain at Werder Bremen.

Fast Fox

Breaking new ground

ON THE BOX

Brighton

Batshuayi, the Chelsea substitute, cannot conceal his anguish after putting through his own net

named Tommy Smith. Huddersfield yesterday became the first Town to host a Premier League match for 16 seasons, since Ipswich Town faced Manchester United in April 2002.

Firing blanks Swansea City, Crystal Palace, Bournemouth, Brighton & Hove Albion and Newcastle United have all failed to score this season, the first time five teams have fired blanks in their opening two top-flight games since 1969-70.

Red rotation Liverpool have started with six different full backs in their past three league games: Nathaniel Clyne and James Milner; Trent Alexander-Arnold and Alberto Moreno; Joe Gomez and Andrew Robertson. Phil Neal and

Today: 7.15pm Levante v Villarreal, Spanish league, Sky Sports Football. 7.30pm Arminia Bielefeld v Bochum, German second division, BT Sport 3. 8pm Manchester City v Everton, Premier League, Sky Sports PL. 9pm Malaga v Eibar, Spanish league, Sky Sports red button (Sky Sports Football from 9.15pm). Tomorrow: 4.30pm Astana v Celtic, Champions League play-off, BT Sport 2. 7.45pm Champions League play-offs: Nice v Napoli, BT Sport 2; Seville v Istanbul Basaksehir, BT Sport 3; Rijeka v Olympiacos, Maribor v Hapoel Be’er Sheva, BT Sport red button. Sheffield United v Leicester City, Carabao Cup, Sky Sports Football. Wednesday: 7.45pm Champions League play-offs: Liverpool v Hoffenheim, BT Sport 2; Steaua Bucharest v Sporting Lisbon, BT Sport 3; Copenhagen v Qarabag, BT Sport ESPN; CSKA Moscow v Young Boys, Slavia Prague v APOEL, BT Sport red button. Cheltenham Town v West Ham

United, Carabao Cup, Sky Sports Football. Thursday: 8pm Hadjuk Split v Everton, Europa League play-off, ITV4. Friday 7.15pm Real Sociedad v Villarreal, Spanish league, Sky Sports Mix. 7.30pm Cologne v Hamburg, German league, BT Sport ESPN. 7.45pm Bristol City v Aston Villa, Sky Bet Championship, Sky Sports Football. Paris Saint-Germain v Saint-Étienne, French league, BT Sport 3. Real Betis v Celta Vigo, Spanish league, Sky Sports red button. Midnight: New York Red Bulls v New York City, American league, Sky Sports Football. Saturday: 12.30pm Bournemouth v Manchester City, Premier League, Sky Sports PL. Halifax Town v Guiseley, Vanarama National League, BT Sport 1. 5.15pm Alaves v Barcelona, Spanish league, Sky Sports Mix. 5.15pm (kick off 5pm): Genoa v Juventus, Italian league, BT Sport red button. 5.30pm Manchester United v Leicester City, Premier League, BT Sport 1. Nottingham Forest v Leeds United,

Alan Kennedy were Liverpool’s full-back pairing in 139 out of 140 league games from January 1982. On Saturday Robertson became the first Scot to start a Premier League game for one of the “big six” since December 2014 (Darren Fletcher, of Manchester United, was the previous).

Since 1979 — when comprehensive records of goal times started being kept — Leicester City’s Shinji Okazaki is the only player to have scored in the first five minutes of a team’s first two games of a season in any division.

Goal glut

Declaring at four

Chelsea scored four goals 11 times under José Mourinho before finally managing five goals; Manchester United have hit four goals eight times under Mourinho and have yet to manage five. Red Devils are first (Manchester United) and last (Crawley Town) in the league.

Mad men Two Austrians have played for West Ham

Championship, Sky Sports Football. Borussia Dortmund v Hertha Berlin, German league, BT Sport 3. 7.15pm Girona v Malaga, Spanish league, Sky Sports red button (Sky Sports Football from 7.40pm). Levante v Deportivo La Coruna, Spanish league, Sky Sports red button. 7.45pm Roma v Inter Milan, Italian league, BT Sport 3. 9.15pm Las Palmas v Atletico Madrid, Spanish league, Sky Sports Football. 12.30am (Sun morning): Orlando City v Vancouver Whitecaps, American league, Sky Sports Football. Sunday: 11.30am Feyenoord v Willem II, Dutch league, Sky Sports red button. 12.30pm Dundee v Hibernian, Scottish Premier League, Sky Sports Football. 1.30pm West Bromwich Albion v Stoke City, Premier League, Sky Sports PL. VVV Venlo v Ajax, Dutch league, Sky Sports red button. 2.30pm Leipzig v Freiburg, German league, BT Sport red button. 3pm Ross County v Rangers, Scottish Premiership, BT Sport 1. 3.45pm

(lost 8-2, won 3-2, lost 4-3) Yeovil Town have seen the most goals in the opening three league games of a season since

Crystal Palace in 1960-61 (won 9-2, 3-2 and 5-1). Answer to Name the Season in Saturday’s paper: 2010-11

TV PICK OF THE WEEK

CHELTENHAM V WEST HAM Wednesday, 7.45pm, Carabao Cup. Sky Sports Football

A disappointing start to the season will become a minicrisis for West Ham if their League Two opponents knock them out here.

PSV Eindhoven v Roda JC, Dutch league, Sky Sports Mix. 4pm Liverpool v Arsenal, Premier League, Sky Sports PL. Angers v Lille, French league, BT Sport ESPN. 5pm Torino v Sassuolo, Italian league, BT Sport 3. Hannover v Schalke, German league, BT Sport red button. 5.15pm Eibar v Athletic Bilbao, Spanish league, Sky Sports Football. Espanyol v Leganes, Spanish league, Sky Sports red button. 7.15pm Getafe v Seville, Spanish league, Sky Sports Football. 7.45pm AC Milan v Cagliari, Italian league, BT Sport 1. Napoli v Atalanta, Italian league, BT Sport 3. 8pm Monaco v Marseilles, French league, BT Sport 2. Palmeiras v Sao Paulo, Brazilian league, BT Sport red button. 9.15pm Real Madrid v Valencia, Spanish league, Sky Sports Football. 9.30pm Montreal Impact v Toronto, American league, Sky Sports Football. Midnight: Los Angeles Galaxy v San Jose Earthquakes, American league, Sky Sports Football. 2.30am Seattle Sounders v Portland Timbers, AFL, Sky Sports Football.

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Transfer scramble and Messi’s delayed deal are Barcelona’s own fault GABRIELE MARCOTTI EUROPEAN FOOTBALL CORRESPONDENT

senior football executive in this country used to say that all you can do is prepare as best you can for the season and then it is down to the players and the manager and the randomness of injuries and woodwork and catastrophic individual errors to make you look either a genius or

a fool. There is no arguing with that. But a bit like Kahlil Gibran’s archer, a steady bow — that is, a well-prepared club — will be better equipped to send their arrow flying high and true. And in that sense, Barcelona have had a summer to forget. Some of it is down to circumstances entirely beyond their control, such as Luis Suárez’s knee injury, which will keep him out until the latter half of September. And some of it is entirely of their own making, such as the confusion over Lionel Messi’s contract. In early July, Josep Maria Bartomeu, the Barcelona president, went on a Catalan radio station and announced that the Argentinian had signed an extension through to 2021. Last week, Jordi Mestre, a Barcelona

vice-president, admitted that while “everything has been agreed” Messi has not actually put pen to paper, because they have not found a date for the signing. Which means that in 133 days’ time — as of January 1, 2018 — he will be six months away from free agency, and if he doesn’t extend his deal he will be free to sign with any club for next season. Now, nobody really believes that Messi will leave the Nou Camp on a free next summer. Barcelona are adamant that it is just a formality. (Of course, they said the same about Neymar’s departure . . .) But in terms of optics, it is not good. When you are under the kind of pressure that Bartomeu is facing, misrepresenting the truth to calm the fans is never a good idea. Especially if it then comes back to bite you. The Neymar transfer fits somewhere between a self-inflicted wound and a circumstance beyond your control. It is true that there was nothing Barcelona could do to stop him moving to Paris Saint-Germain once his £199 million buyout clause was met. It’s equally true however that, over at Real Madrid, they make sure the buyout clauses are so massive that exercising them is a nonstarter. Toni Kroos, Luka Modric and even Dani Ceballos, their new signing who just turned 21, have clauses of about £450 million. Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale clock in at more than £910 million. Given that Barcelona extended Neymar’s contract less than a year ago, you can’t help but wonder

Barcelona players yesterday observed a minute’s silence for the victims of Thursday’s terror attacks

why they didn’t attempt to do the same with him. At the same time, even as the Neymar story gathered steam, rather than trying to mitigate the damage and work out a deal, Barcelona spent much of July like a child with his hands clamped over his ears saying: “I can’t hear you, na-na-na-na-naaa!” Barcelona could have tried to work out a mutually beneficial deal with PSG, perhaps getting players in part-exchange. This would have helped the Parisians from an accounting/ financial fair play perspective and ensured that Barcelona were not held to ransom in trying to sign Neymar’s replacement. Instead, since everyone knows they are desperate and have to spend the Neymar money, it may well cost them more than a quarter of a billion pounds to land Ousmane Dembélé and Philippe Coutinho. Their transfer dealings thus far have been underwhelming and that does not help matters. They spent £11 million to bring back Gerard Deulofeu, the former Everton forward, £27.5 million on Nélson Semedo, the Benfica

full back, and £36 million on Paulinho, the former Tottenham midfielder who was most recently plying his trade in China. On top of all this, they have a coach who is getting his first crack at a mega-club. Ernesto Valverde is a respected veteran, but the biggest sides he has looked after thus far are Olympiacos, Athletic Bilbao and Valencia. He seems grateful to simply be at the Nou Camp and if he has made his voice heard with the powers-that-be, he has done so away from the public eye. Barcelona’s season began with a 5-1 aggregate defeat by Real Madrid in the Spanish Super Cup and chilling words from defender Gerard Piqué, who said: “I’ve been here nine seasons and it’s the first time I feel inferior to Real Madrid.” Which brings us back to Messi. You can’t help but wonder if the unsigned contract — rather than simply a function of a busy day planner — has a deeper meaning. Perhaps it is a way to exercise his clout. Not to gain a more lucrative deal, but simply to ensure that they have proper leadership at the very top of the club.

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THE JOURNEYMAN

GREGOR ROBERTSON VISITS ASTON VILLA

Emergence of teenage star gives Villa hope as Terry toils and Bruce battles on erhaps Steve Bruce is right. Maybe the talk of “crisis” was “nonsense”. “We’ve been beaten twice and all of a sudden the roof caves in,” he said after their 4-2 win against Norwich City. The victory was their first in the Sky Bet Championship this season in four attempts and lifted them off the foot of the table. Villa’s manager had the outstanding performance of two 19-year-olds and a Conor Hourihane hat-trick to thank for easing the pressure on Saturday. Bruce has been around long enough, however, to know that without a continued upward trajectory, the respite at Villa Park will only be fleeting. It is true, of course, that the malaise at this giant of the Midlands has been long and deep rooted. Indeed, after their floundering start, last week the Birmingham Mail asked if Villa may even be cursed. They have a highly engaged owner in Tony Xia, the Chinese businessman who since the club’s relegation from the Premier League in 2015-16 has invested more than £75 million in the squad. And in Bruce, ten months into his tenure, they have a manager with four promotions on his CV. Yet a 13th-placed finish last season and a ponderous start this term led to boos on Tuesday among an away support who, after a 3-0 defeat by Cardiff City the

‘This club shouldn’t be in the Championship, but ultimately we are. People expect us to get promoted’ CONOR HOURIHANE

previous weekend, watched Villa lose meekly 2-1 away to Reading. “That’s the way it is these days,” said Hourihane, who acknowledged the expectations on the players’ shoulders. “You’re playing at a fantastic football club, with a big history, and when people sign here they know that. This club shouldn’t be in the Championship, but ultimately we are. People expect us to get promoted and that’s what we’re aiming for. We’ve had a poor start, no doubt about it. Hopefully this win will kickstart our season.” Hourihane, the former Barnsley midfielder, is one of a long list of those signed by the club, regarded as being among the finest talent in the Championship, who have endured a burdensome start to life at Villa Park. Henri Lansbury, who also joined for £3 million in January, has failed to reach the levels he displayed at Nottingham Forest; Ross McCormack, a £12 million signing from Fulham last summer, appears to have no future at the club amid fitness worries after joining as one of the most prolific strikers in the division. Scott Hogan scored freely for Brentford before joining for £9 million in January, but has managed only one league goal in an injury-plagued time at the club. Albert Adomah, signed from Middlesbrough, Bournemouth’s Tommy Elphick — the list of underwhelming signings could and does go on. Only Jonathan Kodjia, who cost £12 million from Bristol City and scored 19 goals last

SCOUTING REPORT KEINAN DAVIS STRIKER

Age 19 Previous clubs Stevenage, Biggleswade Town

season, and Mile Jedinak, from Crystal Palace, could be regarded as having consistently stepped up to the plate. “What they’ve found very, very quickly is the expectation that comes upon you, and you have to find that little bit of confidence,” Bruce said of Hourihane and Lansbury, but the same could be said of others. “We know they’re good players, and we have to bring them out [of] their shells, to perform on the big stage here.” Which brings us to John Terry, a man with whom Bruce and Villa’s fate this season will be inexorably entwined. Along with the signings of the experienced Glenn Whelan, from Stoke City, and Ahmed Elmohamady, from Hull, Terry was brought in this summer to lead those who have wilted in front of the gargantuan Holte End. On Tuesday Bruce suggested that fans had “got carried away with the euphoria” of Terry’s arrival. A few weeks earlier, though, Bruce was positively gushing in his new captain’s praise, hailing the “humility”, no less, of a player deemed to be the signing of the summer. If the expectation weighing upon Villa was already heavy, the acquisition of Terry was never going to lighten the load. These are early days, of course, but a rather chastening start to life in the Midlands for Terry has begun with eight conceded goals in four games. It would be wrong to suggest that he has been culpable, but his arrival has yet to have the desired effect. Amid the sight of Terry marshalling and cajoling his team-mates, and bending the ear of referee Jeremy Simpson, on Saturday he carried that familiar authority, but brought little calm to Villa’s porous defence. In the second half, Jacob Murphy, the Norwich winger, ghosted between Alan Hutton and James Chester to halve

Terry, above, signed this summer to further raise hopes at Villa but Bruce, below, saw his team fail to win their first three matches, before they beat Norwich

Villa’s 2-0 lead. Terry could certainly have done better for Norwich’s second, after Hourihane had made it 3-1. With 11 minutes to play the Villa captain was caught under the flight of a Murphy cross and Nélson Oliveira found time and space to finish from close range. Stretched nerves were calmed, though, when Hourihane again found space on the edge of the box to drive home his third five minutes from time. In the first half the outstanding young striker, Keinan Davis, had set up Hourihane’s opener. Davis also had a hand in the build-up to the goal of the day, which his fellow 19 yearold, André Green, finished with an exquisite curled effort into the top corner. “These diamonds are still out there and it looks as though we’ve unearthed one,” Bruce said of Davis. “There’s a big myth out there that I have millions and millions to spend, and that’s the farthest thing from the truth. The club has spent millions over the last four or five years or so, and we’re a bit hamstrung by [that] at the minute. “Two weeks ago at Hull [a 1-1 draw] we were close to blowing them away. Very, very close if we had [taken] our chances. There was a time against Cardiff in the second half [that] wasn’t acceptable; I thought we did OK at Reading. So all this nonsense of crisis just shows the turmoil there has been here. “How can there be a crisis after a week? OK a couple of results go against you, but we’ve got to be b bigger than that for sure. It’s a t tough, tough, division and we h haven’t got the divine right to just b blow teams away.” Bruce knows as well as anyone, though, that he must return Villa to the Premier League.

Report Davis was a revelation on his first start for Aston Villa. He was called upon due to the injuries suffered by Jonathan Kodjia, Gabriel Agbonlahor and Scott Hogan, who was fit enough only for a place on the bench. The left-footed striker bullied and harassed the central defensive pairing of Christoph Zimmermann and Marcel Franke all afternoon — “two big German centre halves; it was a welcome to the Championship from him,” Steve Bruce, the Villa manager, said. The young man from Stevenage, who joined Villa’s academy from Biggleswade Town in 2016, displayed great strength in his hold-up play, along with the intelligence to bring team-mates in to play in the opposition half. Rangy and powerful but not blisteringly quick, Davis worked tirelessly to make angles, run channels and, in closing down the Norwich defence, regularly robbing them of possession. On one such occasion, inside the opening two minutes and when clear through on goal, his shot was saved well by Angus Gunn, and after Davis rattled the crossbar later in the half Gunn again denied him from a header. For a player who had accumulated only 59 minutes of Championship football in six substitute appearances before Saturday, it will have been a day to remember. “He’s one of our own,” rang out from the Holte End in the first half and he was afforded a standing ovation when replaced by Christopher Samba with three minutes to play.

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UNDER THE SKIN OF THE GAME

Match day with the people who give club a soul GEORGE CAULKIN

Northern Sports Correspondent

t noon on Saturday, Adrian “Spuggy” Partridge is trimming the grass at the Stadium of Light. Nine weeks ago, the turf was removed and reseeded, but it is luminous now, green and lush. The head groundsman at Sunderland is forever creating a verdant masterpiece and then watching its destruction. “A sliding tackle goes in, the pitch shatters and you wince,” he says. Spuggy’s father worked at “The Nack”, what the old miners called Seaham Colliery. “He used to take me to the reserve games at Roker Park,” Partridge says. “You get the bug. I worked on golf courses when I left school. It could have been the pit, but I wanted to be outside. When I got the phone call asking if I’d come to Sunderland, I thought it was a wind-up. That was 1997.” It was the year Sunderland left their old home at Roker. Twenty years on, the club have relocated from the Premier League to the Sky Bet Championship, relegation encouraged by upheaval in the dugout and dressing room, delayed by those increasingly weary “miracles”. They are starting again now, financially hamstrung, tighter, altered, thinking about what and who they are. They are playing Leeds United, another leviathan, in the late kick-off and Spuggy will be here until 9pm, patching divots. “It’s about getting this club running as a football business again,” he says. “It’s an emotional place. The club is my life and I don’t like getting beat. You do all that work and you want the lads to go out there and respect what you do. Fight for it.” Drive down Keir Hardie Way from the A19 and the road opens up, the River Wear twisting away from the ground, perched on the site of Monkwearmouth Colliery. There is a pit wheel in the car park, a giant miners’ lamp. It is a club built on its history, on abandoned shafts and seams, even if some of that history has blurred. John O’Shea has made this journey, or a version of it, hundreds of times. He drove in earlier, a knot in his stomach. “You rush around the house doing family stuff and then you’re in the car; switch off, get focused,” he says. “You see the stadium early, above the river bank. There’s adrenaline, nerves.” Prompted by Martin Bain, the chief executive, that routine has been tweaked. Players park at the stadium, bus to the training ground, lunch, listen to Simon Grayson’s team talk, a video of the opposition, arrive back at the ground as a group, making an impact. It is a small way of finding freshness. The coach pulls in front of reception at 4pm, 90 minutes before kick-off . There has been too much churn since O’Shea, 36, joined from Manchester United in 2011. “As a Sunderland player, it’s that old adage: lace your boots, stand up,” the club captain says. He will always be associated with Old Trafford, but Sunderland itches beneath his skin and he extended his contract this summer. “I’m proud to be here,” he says. “You never lose sight of the club’s stature.” Sometimes the vision has wobbled.

Sunderland have decent facilities but a decade in the Premier League was constructed on quicksand foundations and when Bain was appointed 13 months ago, he inherited a bloated wage bill, little quality. Within weeks, Sam Allardyce left for England, David Moyes promised the long term but results did not come, the club was for sale. Then demotion and another summer of trauma. “Change,” Bain says. “It’s all I’ve done since I’ve arrived. We’ve had three managers and, unfortunately, nearly 70 people have left.” He has filled the same role elsewhere and knows about pressure and yearning, but this is different. “I used to make the joke last season that if we got a win I’d go home and open the curtains,” he says. “I do feel a weight of expectation. I realise I’m a focal point. When I drive into that car park, or if I’m in the city centre, you feel people looking at you, thinking, ‘Come on, help us be what we should be’. I’ve felt it more in this job than any other I’ve had. More than Rangers, because Rangers won.” Bain got here at 1.45pm. He will have a chat with Grayson and then host Leeds United’s directors in the boardroom, but schmoozing is not his thing. There are two aims for Sunderland this season. “Promotion, obviously,” he says, “but the other is to put a smile on people’s faces. That’s been lost.” Grayson has helped. He is not a Moyes or an Allardyce or a Dick Advocaat, a big name drafted in to dig Sunderland from their latest hole. “The criteria for a new manager wasn’t affordability but getting somebody who was going to roll their sleeves up and say ‘I’m having some of this,’ ” Bain says. “Simon wanted it.” Momentum will be crucial, Bain says. Dynamism, too; theirs was a region of ships and coal, but Sunderland is also home to the Nissan plant. They are bidding to be the UK’s City of Culture in 2021. “The club felt stagnant,” Bain says. “We have to anchor our wonderful heritage, but we also have to evolve.” How do Sunderland make themselves relevant to the social media generation? Lyndsey Twist has checked in on Foursquare, the social media app. Half an hour before kickoff, she walks through turnstile 15/16, patting the wall. Kevin, her father’s name, is etched on a commemorative brick. “I give him a little tap and hope he’ll bring us some luck,” she says. “I stopped doing it last year. I said, ‘You’re not helping us, dad.’ ” This season, she is giving Kevin another chance. Kevin took Lyndsey to her first Sunderland match at the age of seven. She has been a season ticket holder since 2003-04. “I’ve only missed one game at home since then,” she says, “and that was to go and see the Spice Girls. My dad was a massive Sunderland fan and I started going as a way to spend more time with him. He’s to blame.” Kevin died of a heart attack in November 2013. Two years earlier, Julie, her mother, suffered a subarachnoid haemorrhage and passed away. “Mam would take me to reserve and youth games at Hetton-le-Hole,” Lyndsey, 27, says. It feels trite to say that Sunderland is a fixed point for her, but there is truth to it. “I can’t imagine life without them,” she says. “We haven’t had much to shout about and not being able to share it with my dad means it’s not the same, but there’s the social side, the day

Partridge’s match day started five and a half hours before kick-off and finished well after full-time when the final divots and marks were fixed

Baker, the tunnel steward, has seen good times and bad, not to mention breaking up a fight between Bennett and Speedie at Roker Park

out.” And there are still those rare, blissful, beautiful moments. “When they’re doing well, when they score a goal, you can’t explain that feeling, what it means,” Lyndsey says. George Baker has a go at describing what Sunderland means, but his voice thickens. He is a solid man, upright, who started out at Austin & Pickersgill shipyard, then J L Thompson & Sons, William Doxford & Sons — all of them gone. His eyes moisten. “I was a supporter from very young,” he says. “My dad used to take me.” He sucks breath into his body. “I just class them as my club.” Baker is 85. He has worked for Sunderland since 1959, when Alan Brown was manager and all this time later is tunnel steward, keeping an eye on who is there and why. As the game approaches, he stands beside the home dugout. “There’s no two games alike,” he says. “We played Chelsea at Roker and Gary Bennett and David Speedie scuffled and were sent off. They started again in the tunnel. Gary told me that if I hadn’t bundled Speedie into the dressing room, he would have killed him.” Baker looks unconquerable. “I can’t carry on

for ever,” he says, yet tradition lingers; Alex, his grandson, is a catering assistant at the ground. “I’ve had some great times, 1973 has got to be the best,” he says. “I’d like the good times back.” Jimmy Montgomery is in the Montgomery Suite, named in his honour. The hero of Sunderland’s FA Cup victory over Leeds in 1973 is buzzing between the tables. “I never get tired of talking about that game,” he says. “A lot of people in this room won’t have been born then, but it’s handed down. You’re part of their lives.” About 220 people are in the suite, but around the stadium 7,000 meals will be served. There are eight kitchens and 30 chefs and one of them, Patrick Lesca, is prepping the team’s food. “We need to replenish them straight afterwards,” he says. Lesca is from southwest France. He began working at Sunderland part-time in 1998. For 15 years, he was head chef at the ground, but now feeds the players. “They’re professional people and we treat them like that, but we love them all, too,” he says. “They’re family.” For 20 minutes, Sunderland are on the front foot. Lewis Grabban hits the crossbar. At pitch level, Gemma Johnson has her back to the

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catering, steward, hospitality, media, ticketing, facilities and operation staff who work at the Stadium of Light on match days

7,000

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4,000

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Sunderland managers in the past ten years

31,237 attendance against Leeds United

home league games won by Sunderland in 2017

CHAMPIONSHIP ROUNDUP IAN WHITTELL

McCarthy revels in old guard taking over the top Performance of the week Cardiff City Ipswich Town also made it four wins from four but Cardiff’s 2-1 victory away to Wolverhampton Wanderers really caught the eye, as did Nathaniel Mendez-Laing whose winning goal was his fourth of the season in the league and fifth in all. Player of the week Conor Hourihane

LEAGUE ONE ROUNDUP

Walsall fan accidentally ends up on Isle of Wight

Aston Villa Hourihane’s hat-trick from midfield in the 4-2 home win over Norwich City could not have come at a better time for the Villa manager Steve Bruce. Goal of the week Stuart Dallas Leeds United A magnificent header from Samu Sáiz’s equally impressive cross sealed a 2-0 victory away to Sunderland.

game, as she always does. A steward, she is scanning the crowd. “You’re here but you’re separate,” Johnson, 32, says. “You’re looking at facial expressions and you can tell from people’s reactions what’s happening, when they’re stressed, when they’re happy. Even though we don’t watch the game, we live through every emotion.” A 2-0 victory for Leeds means that Sunderland have not won a league game at the Stadium of Light since December 17, but it is their first defeat of the season. Grayson walks into the press room. Leeds were his team, as a fan, a player and a manager and these days are draining. “You feel like you’ve played,” he says. “You go through all these emotions.” He remains upbeat. “I want to win matches, of course I do, but sometimes you’ve got to look at the bigger picture,” Grayson says. “It’s about finding stability. Finding heart and soul as well.” Nobody is claiming that Sunderland are back but, in another sense, deeper and more lasting, they have never been away. This club, this stadium, this life.

LEAGUE TWO ROUNDUP

Rally shows Rovers have appetite for League fare Performance (team) of the week Forest Green Rovers A first League win from the world’s self-styled only vegan football club and they had to come from 3-1 down at home to beat Yeovil Town 4-3. Player of the Week Jamie Stephens Barnet

MendezLaing continued his fine start for Cardiff

Villain(s) of the day Leon Clarke Sheffield United and

Player of the Week Devante Cole Fleetwood Town A goal last week earned him his first start of the season — two more in the 2-0 win over AFC Wimbledon drew inevitable comparisons Fleetwood’s Cole shows goals run in the family

with his dad, Andrew, the former England forward. Goal of the week Josh Morris Scunthorpe United Scorer of 20 goals last season — although none after February — the winger cut in from the right and his left-foot shot from the edge of the area secured a 1-0 home victory over Oxford United. Rising star Sean Longstaff Blackpool The 19-year-old Newcastle United midfielder continued his impressive start with a thumping 30yard strike as Gary Bowyer’s side drew 3-3 away to Doncaster Rovers. Villain(s) of the day

The former Liverpool trainee goalkeeper was a stubborn line of resistance in his team’s 1-0 defeat away to Crewe Alexandra. Goal of the week Donal McDermott Swindon Town The Irish midfielder’s first goal for the club — a neat sidestep and left-footed curling shot from the edge of the box — beat Morecambe 1-0 and lifted Swindon to the top of the table. Rising star Danny Newton Stevenage The 26-year-old striker, just setting off on his league

Stat of the day 363 Days since Middlesbrough last won away from the Riverside Stadium (2-1 against Sunderland, August 21, 2016) following their 2-1 defeat by Nottingham Forest. Quote of the day Ipswich Town manager Mick McCarthy sticks up for himself and fellow experienced manager Neil Warnock in typical blunt fashion after his side and Cardiff maintained their 100 per cent starts to the new season. Ipswich beat Brentford 2-0 at home and McCarthy said: “Two old farts who know f*** all about the game hey? I’ll have to get my iPad out now.”

Rising star Josh Earl Preston North End The 18-year-old left back looked anything but a rookie in his senior professional debut, impressing at both ends in the 1-0 win over Reading.

Performance of the week Blackburn Rovers A miserable start to the season for the relegated former Premier League champions ended as they handed Bradford City a first regularseason league home defeat in 17 months with a 1-0 win.

Lesca used to cook for fans but now prepares post-match meals for the players while Twist, below, has an emotional bond with the club

Angus MacDonald Barnsley Sent off for a petulant offthe-ball incident in a feisty Yorkshire derby won 1-0 by United.

career, continued his impressive step-up from non-League with his third goal in three games in the 3-1 win over Grimsby Town. Kewell has much to ponder at Crawley

Doncaster Rovers’ defence Three times Darren Ferguson’s side took the lead against Blackpool . . . and three times they surrendered it. Stat of the day 9 Years since Shrewsbury Town, who beat Rochdale 3-2, have won their opening three league games. Last season, it took until November 12 to record that many. Quote of the day “11 miles from Pompey my arse!” bemoans Walsall supporter Davey Drew (@Daveysaddler) on Twitter having booked a hotel on the Isle of Wight for his team’s visit to Portsmouth. The match ended in a 1-1 draw.

Villain of the day Liam O’Brien Coventry City On a day of goalkeeping howlers in the basement division, O’Brien gifted Newport County the only goal and ended the division’s only 100 per cent record as City conceded their first goal of the league season. Stat of the day 22 The number of goals produced by Yeovil’s three league games. Quote of the day “Its getting better every day in training and it will happen.” Rookie head coach Harry Kewell is still waiting for his first point in charge of Crawley Town after a 1-0 home defeat by Cambridge United.

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EVERY GOAL. EVERY TABLE. EVERY STAT YOU NEED PR EM IER L EAGUE HOME

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AWAY

F A W D

N E X T THRE E

F A GD Pts

1 Man United..................2

1 0 0

4 0

1 0 0

4 0

2 Huddersfield...............2

1 0 0

1 0

1 0 0

3 0

3 West Brom...................2

1 0 0

1 0

1 0 0

1 0

4 Watford........................2 0

1 0 0

2 0

1 0

5 Liverpool.....................2

1 0 0

6 Southampton.............2

7 Man City.......................1 0 0 0 0 0

8 Leicester......................2

9 Tottenham...................2 0 0

1 0

1 0 0

1 0

2 0 0 0 0 0

2 0

1 0

1 0 0

2 0 0 0

1 0 0

Z 10Everton.........................1

1 0 0

1 0 0 0 0 0 0

Z 11 Arsenal.........................2

1 0 0

3 0 0

1 0

Y 12 Chelsea........................2

0 0

1 0 0

1 0

Z 13 Burnley........................ 2

0 0

1 0

1 0 0

2 0

1 0

1 0 0 0 -4

Y 14 Stoke.............................2

1 0 0

1 0 0 0

Z 15 Swansea.......................2

0 0

1 0

4 0

Z 16 Bournemouth.............2

0 0

1 0

2 0 0

1 0

1 -3 0

Y 17 Newcastle....................2

0 0

1 0

2 0 0

1 0

1 -3 0

Z 18 Brighton.......................2

0 0

1 0

2 0 0

1 0

2 -4 0

W 19 Crystal Palace.............2

0 0

1 0

3 0 0

1 0

1 -4 0

W 20West Ham....................2

0 0 0 0 0 0 0

7 -5 0

VAN AR AMA N ATION A L AFC Fylde

(1) 2

Dag & Red

Jones 14, Grand 85 1,590

Ferrier 45+1 Ling 90+4

Boreham Wood (2) 2

Aldershot

Andrade 27 Jeffers 40

Alexander 51 809

Bromley

(1) 2

Hartlepool

Rees 36, Wanadio 58

1,709

Chester

Sutton Utd

(1) 2

VA NA RA M A NO RT H (1) 2 (0) 1 (0) 0 (2) 3

Mahon 45, Dawson 63 1,670

John 5,Wright 44 Cadogan 90

Dover Athletic (0) 1

Barrow

Bird 72 927

White 53

Eastleigh

(0) 2

Williamson 64 McAllister 79

Gateshead

Tranmere

(0) 1 (0) 0

1,906

(2) 3

Macclesfield (0) 0

Kerr 5, Burrow 45 Preston 72

633

Guiseley

Torquay Utd (2) 2

(1) 3

Alfreton Town(0) 0

VA N A RA M A S OU TH

Southport

(0) 1

479

Schumacher 57

Blyth Spartans (0) 0

North Ferriby (0) 1 Francis 62

Boston United(1) 2

Chorley

Hemmings 37 Tshimanga 47

934

Brackley

(1) 2

(0) 0

Spennymoor (0) 0

Ndlovu 40, Lowe 90 400 Sent off: J Curtis (Spennymoor) 90

Bradford PA (1) 3

FC Utd of Manchester (0) 0

Boyes 17 Brooksby 55, 65

546

Darlington

(0) 0

Bognor Regis (0) 1

AFC Telford

(0) 1

Dinanga 47

Gainsborough (2) 4

Harrogate

Worsfold 13 Wells 45, King 70 Clarke 73

Emmett (og) 33 Knowles 49 Leesley 54, 60 Kennedy 83

Chippenham (2) 2

East Thurrock (0) 2

Pratt 9 Richards 35

Smith 46, 53 492

Concord Rgrs (1) 1

Whitehawk

(0) 0

Leamington

Stockport

(1) 5

Oxford City

(0) 1

(1) 3

Dartford

Gloucester City (0) 1

H Hempstead (0) 0

Hanks 85

295

Maidenhead U(1) 1

Ebbsfleet Utd (0) 1

Thompson-Brown 37 (pen) Canavan 82

Oswell 16, 86, 90 844

Pritchard 26 1,628

Coulson 50

Salford City

Kidderminster (0) 0

Prior 35 633

Maidstone U (2) 2

Wrexham

Redshaw 47, 51, 80

1,320

Poole Town

Tamworth

Curzon Ashton (0) 1

388

(1) 1

Solihull Moors(0) 0 684

Woking

Halifax Town (1) 1 Morgan 28

(0) 0

Leyton Orient (0) 2

2,885

Bonne 50, 86 P W D L F A Sutton United.......5 4 0 1 8 4 Bromley.................5 3 2 0 10 2 Aldershot..............5 3 1 1 13 5 Boreham Wood.....5 3 1 1 13 8 Dover Athletic ...... 5 3 1 1 6 4 Gateshead.............5 3 0 2 8 3 Dag & Red ............. 5 2 3 0 11 9 Leyton Orient........5 3 0 2 8 9 Maidenhead Utd ... 5 2 2 1 9 6 Eastleigh...............5 2 2 1 6 4 Ebbsfleet Utd........5 1 4 0 11 9 Barrow .................. 5 1 3 1 8 6 Wrexham .............. 5 2 0 3 4 5 Woking..................5 2 0 3 5 10 Tranmere .............. 5 1 2 2 3 4 Halifax...................5 1 2 2 2 4 Maidstone Utd......5 1 2 2 4 7 Macclesfield..........5 1 2 2 3 6 Guiseley ................ 5 1 2 2 5 11 AFC Fylde..............5 0 4 1 9 12 Chester..................4 0 3 1 4 5 Hartlepool.............5 0 2 3 3 7 Solihull Moors.......4 0 1 3 5 11 Torquay.................5 0 1 4 6 13

GD Pts 4 12 8 11 8 10 5 10 2 10 5 9 2 9 -1 9 3 8 2 8 2 7 2 6 -1 6 -5 6 -1 5 -2 5 -3 5 -3 5 -6 5 -3 4 -1 3 -4 2 -6 1 -7 1

(2) 4

Morley 17, 25 Cummins 90 Knights 79, Reid 80 606 Sent off: S Howson (Curzon Ashton) 82

York City

(2) 4

Rankine 1, 70 (pen) Heslop 23, 52 2,430

Nuneaton

L 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 2 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 4 4 4

F 13 17 11 8 11 10 7 10 9 7 8 6 4 5 3 5 3 11 5 4 1 7

(1) 1

GD Pts 11 15 10 13 7 13 5 12 7 10 5 10 3 9 2 9 2 7 -1 7 -1 6 -1 6 -2 6 -3 6 -3 6 -5 6 -5 4 -4 3 -4 3 -6 3 -11 3 -6 1

Wealdstone

Bath City

(0) 2

Morgan 47 Lemonheigh-Evans 56

(0) 0

St Albans City(1) 1

(0) 0

Eastbourne B (0) 1

(0) 0

Chelmsford City (0) 2

Murrell-Williamson 40

412

(0) 3

A 2 7 4 3 4 5 4 8 7 8 9 7 6 8 6 10 8 15 9 10 12 13

Havant & W

Truro City

Chambers 68 (pen), 83 Nicholson 89

P W D Brackley ............... 5 5 0 Harrogate .............5 4 1 Southport..............5 4 1 Salford City...........5 4 0 York.......................5 3 1 Darlington.............5 3 1 Spennymoor .........4 3 0 Tamworth ............. 5 3 0 Stockport County..5 2 1 Curzon Ashton......5 2 1 Blyth Spartans......5 2 0 Boston United.......4 2 0 Kidderminster.......5 2 0 Alfreton Town ...... 5 2 0 AFC Telford...........5 2 0 Bradford PA..........5 2 0 Chorley..................5 1 1 Gainsborough........5 1 0 Leamington...........5 1 0 Nuneaton..............5 1 0 North Ferriby........5 1 0 FC Utd of Manchester 5 0 1

(4) 7

Sho Silva 9 Paterson 52 Della Verde 15 812 Pavey 24, Noble 30 Mfula 50, 61, 69 Sent off: F Grant (Oxford City) 40

McGinty 39, Keating 40 791

Wynter 15 Reid 10 Richards 33 2,192 Sent off: E Smith 68, M Carrington 71 (both Wrexham)

Hampton & R (0) 1

Roberts 45 Wassmer 90 Crook 53 (pen) Sent off: J Cook (Hampton & Richmond) 65

Lawlor 13, Hurst 86 Keating (og) 90

(0) 3

Weston-s-Mare (1) 1

Beck 57 Grubb 11 668 Sent off: A Baldwin (Weston-super-Mare) 29

Braintree Town (1) 2

Worrell 90

908

Dickson 57 Barnard 67 (pen)

Welling United (3) 3

Hungerford

Coyle 4, Goldberg 15 Bradbrook 19 P St Albans City.......5 Chelmsford City....5 East Thurrock ...... 5 Braintree...............5 Dartford ................ 5 Bognor Regis ........5 Hemel Hempstead 5 Havant & W 5 Truro City..............5 Poole Town...........5 Concord Rangers...5 Bath City...............5 Oxford City............5 Chippenham .........5 Welling Utd...........5 Eastbourne Boro...5 Hampton & R ........ 5 Wealdstone...........5 Hungerford ...........5 Weston-s-Mare .... 5 Gloucester City.....5 Whitehawk ........... 5

Soares 29, Hopper 90 472 D L F A GD Pts 0 0 11 4 7 15 0 1 7 3 4 12 2 0 14 10 4 11 1 1 12 10 2 10 3 0 11 3 8 9 3 0 15 10 5 9 0 2 6 2 4 9 2 1 5 4 1 8 1 2 9 7 2 7 1 2 7 7 0 7 1 2 5 6 -1 7 0 3 9 12 -3 6 0 3 8 11 -3 6 2 2 7 7 0 5 2 2 8 9 -1 5 2 2 6 7 -1 5 2 2 4 5 -1 5 1 3 5 8 -3 4 1 3 4 7 -3 4 1 3 5 9 -4 4 1 3 4 9 -5 4 0 5 4 16 -12 0

W 5 4 3 3 2 2 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0

Bournemouth (0) 0 10,501

Burnley 19,619

(0) 2

Watford Richarlison 73 Capoue 86

(0) 0

(0) 1 West Brom Robson-Kanu 71

Sent off: H Robson-Kanu (West Brom) 83 Huddersfield Mooy 50

(0) 1

Newcastle 24,128

45 43 38 37 36 30

PASSING ACCUR ACY

(1) 2

Brighton 31,902

Liverpool Mané 73

(0) 1

Crystal Palace (0) 0 53,138

Southampton (2) 3 Gabbiadini 11 Tadic 38 (pen) Austin 90+3 (pen)

West Ham (1) 2 Hernández 44, 73 31,424 Sent off: M Arnautovic 33

(0) 0

Stoke Jese 47

(0) 1

Arsenal 29,459

Swansea 20,862

(0) 0

Manchester Utd (1) 4 Bailly 45, Lukaku 80 Pogba 82, Martial 84 Chelsea Alonso 24, 88

Arsenal Southampton Manchester Utd Liverpool Tottenham Burnley

(0) 0

(1) 2

Man City Tottenham Arsenal Man United Southampton Bournemouth Liverpool Chelsea Everton

(1) 2

Premier division: Ashton United 2 Grantham Town 1; Coalville Town 0 Warrington Town 3; Halesowen Town 1 Farsley Celtic 2; Lancaster City 1 Mickleover Sports 1; Marine 0 Barwell 1; Matlock Town 1 Altrincham 0; Nantwich Town 2 Workington 0; Rushall Olympic 1 Stalybridge Celtic 0; Shaw Lane Association 3 Hednesford Town 1; Stafford Rangers 1 Buxton 4; Whitby Town 1 Stourbridge 3; Witton Albion 1 Sutton Coldfield Town 0. P W D Warrington Town.3 2 1 Farsley Celtic........3 2 1 Stourbridge...........3 2 1 Matlock Town.......3 2 1 Witton Albion.......3 2 1 Grantham..............3 2 0 Stafford Rangers..3 2 0 Barwell..................3 2 0 Lancaster City.......3 1 2 Ashton Utd ........... 3 1 2 Mickleover Sports 3 1 2 Nantwich Town 3 1 1 Buxton...................3 1 0 Whitby..................3 1 0 Shaw Lane ............ 3 1 0 Sutton Coldfield ...3 1 0 Halesowen............3 1 0 Workington...........3 1 0 Stalybridge ........... 3 1 0 Rushall Olympic....3 1 0 Marine...................3 1 0 Hednesford ........... 3 0 1 Altrincham............3 0 1 Coalville Town ...... 3 0 0

L 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3

F A GD Pts 7 2 5 7 6 3 3 7 5 2 3 7 5 3 2 7 3 1 2 7 8 2 6 6 8 5 3 6 2 1 1 6 5 4 1 5 4 3 1 5 4 3 1 5 3 2 1 4 5 4 1 3 5 5 0 3 5 6 -1 3 4 6 -2 3 3 5 -2 3 3 5 -2 3 2 5 -3 3 1 4 -3 3 2 6 -4 3 4 7 -3 1 1 5 -4 1 1 7 -6 0

Evo-Stik League Southern Premier division: Bishop’s Stortford 2 Weymouth 3; Chesham United 1 Tiverton Town 1; Dorchester Town 0 Kings Lynn Town 2; Dunstable Town 0 Merthyr Town 6; Farnborough 1 Redditch United 3; Frome Town 2 Biggleswade Town 3; Gosport Borough 2 Royston Town 3; Hereford 0 Slough Town 1; Hitchin Town 0 Banbury United 3; Kettering Town 3 Basingstoke Town 0; St Ives Town 1 Kings Langley 1; Stratford Town 1 St Neots Town 1. P W D Banbury.................3 3 0 Kings Lynn Town..3 3 0 Kettering...............3 3 0 Redditch................3 2 0 Slough...................3 2 0 Weymouth............3 2 0

L F A GD Pts 0 11 2 9 9 0 7 2 5 9 0 6 1 5 9 1 8 2 6 6 1 7 3 4 6 1 7 4 3 6

37 32 30 28 28 26

P OSSE SSION ( % )

Passes (%) 768 89.97 1,293 87.24 1,365 86.37 1,094 85.83 1,087 84.54 1,050 82.38 1,189 80.32 804 79.98 497 78.27

R Lukaku (Manchester Utd) J Vardy (Leicester) S Mounié (Huddersfield) P Pogba (Manchester Utd) S Vokes (Burnley) Five others on two goals

3 2 2 2 2

TOP ASSISTS

Royston Town.......3 Biggleswade .........3 Merthyr Town.......3 Kings Langley ....... 3 Stratford Town.....3 Chesham ............... 3 Hereford ...............3 St Ives Town.........3 Tiverton ................ 3 Frome Town..........3 Farnborough..........3 Dorchester............3 St Neots Town......3 Hitchin...................3 Bishop’s Stortford 3 3 Basingstoke Gosport Borough...3 Dunstable..............3

Man City Arsenal Tottenham Bournemouth Liverpool Southampton Everton Manchester Utd Burnley Huddersfield

78.17 73.73 70.40 63.89 63.86 62.81 61.64 57.29 51.67 48.43

TOP SAVE S

TOP SCOR E R S

W Hennessey (Crystal Palace)16 A Begovic (Bournemouth) 10 J Lossl (Huddersfield) 9 J Butland (Stoke City) 9 T Courtois (Chelsea) 8 K Schmeichel (Leicester) 8

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H Mkhitaryan (Man Utd) G Xhaka (Arsenal) C Eriksen (Tottenham) R Mahrez (Leicester) Twentyfive players on one

Today Manchester City v Everton (8.0)

Evo-Stik League Northern

Chelsea Huddersfield Manchester Utd Watford Southampton West Brom

(0) 0

Leicester Okazaki 1 Maguire 54

Tottenham (0) 1 Batshuayi (og) 82 73,587

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1,532

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Leicester (h) Stoke (a) Everton (h) Southampton (h) West Ham (a) Leicester (h) Stoke (h) Brighton (a) West Ham (h) Brighton (h) Southampton (a) Man City (h) Arsenal (h) Man City (a) Burnley (h) Huddersfield (a) Watford (h) y Crystal Palace (a) Everton (h) Bournemouth (a) p Liverpool (h) Man Utd (a) Chelsea (h) Huddersfield (a) Burnley (h) Everton (a) Swansea (h) Man City (a) Chelsea (a) Tottenham (h) Liverpool (a) Bournemouth (h) Chelsea (a) Everton (h) Leicester (a) Arsenal (h) Tottenham (a) Crystal Palace (h) p Liverpool (a) West Brom (a) Man Utd (h) Newcastle (a) Crystal Palace (a) Newcastle (h) Tottenham (a) Man City (h) Arsenal (a) g Brighton (h) West Ham (h) Swansea (a) Stoke (h) Watford (a) West Brom (h) Bournemouth (a) Swansea (h) Burnley (a) p Southampton (h) Newcastle (a) Huddersfield (h) West Brom (a)

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Bostik League Premier division: Burgess Hill Town 1 Folkestone Invicta 1; Dulwich Hamlet 1 Billericay Town 3; Enfield Town 4 Metropolitan Police 4; Hendon 1 Harlow Town 0; Leatherhead 0 Harrow Borough 2; Lowestoft Town 1 Worthing 0; Margate 2 Leiston 2; Merstham 2 Tooting & Mitcham United 2; Needham Market 0 Wingate & Finchley 1; Staines Town 5 Kingstonian 0; Thurrock 2 Dorking Wanderers 1; Tonbridge Angels 0 Brightlingsea Regent 0. P W D Harrow Borough ... 3 3 0 Staines Town........3 2 1 Tonbridge Angels..3 2 1 Leiston..................3 2 1 Hendon..................3 2 0 Billericay...............3 2 0 Leatherhead..........3 2 0 Folkestone Invicta 3 1 2 Margate 3 1 2 Merstham ............. 3 1 1 Needham Market..3 1 1 Met Police.............3 1 1 Dulwich.................3 1 1 Kingstonian...........3 1 1 Dorking Wands.....3 1 0 Burgess Hill Town 3 0 3 Thurrock 3 1 0 Lowestoft Town ... 3 1 0 Wingate & Finchley 3 1 0 3 0 2 Enfield Town Tooting & Mitcham 3 0 2 3 0 1 Brightlingsea Harlow...................3 0 0 Worthing...............3 0 0

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Airtricity League of Ireland Premier division: Derry City 0 Dundalk 4. Played Friday: Cork City 0 Sligo Rovers 1; Bray Wanderers 2 Drogheda United 1; Galway United 1 Shamrock Rovers 2; St Patrick’s Athletic 4 Finn Harps 0. Saturday: Limerick 1 Bohemian 0. Today: Finn Harps v Cork City (8.0). P W D L F A Cork City ............. 25 22 1 2 60 13 Dundalk...............26 17 2 7 55 19 Derry City............26 12 7 7 42 28 Shamrock Rovers 26 13 2 11 37 34 27 11 5 11 45 46 Bray Bohemians..........26 10 3 13 24 34 Limerick .............. 26 8 7 11 32 41 St Patricks..........26 7 9 10 33 38 Sligo....................27 5 13 9 25 40 Finn Harps...........25 8 3 14 28 49 Galway Utd.........26 5 10 11 30 37 Drogheda Utd......26 4 6 16 17 51

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First division: Played Friday: Shelbourne 0 Cobh Ramblers 1; Waterford 1 UCD 0; Wexford 2 Cabinteely 0. Saturday: Longford Town 7 Athlone Town 1.

WO MEN ’S SU P ER L EAG U E 6 Women’s Super League results and table will appear here every week once the 2017-18 season starts on September 24. Opening fixtures: League One Kick-off 2.0 unless stated Arsenal v Birmingham (Boreham Wood FC); Chelsea v Bristol City (Kingsmeadow Stadium); Everton v Liverpool (Select Security Stadium, 4.0); Reading v Sunderland (Wycombe FC); Yeovil v Manchester City (Yeovil Town FC). League Two: Aston Villa v Brighton; Durham v Tottenham (12.0); London Bees v Doncaster; Millwall v Watford; Oxford Utd v Sheffield FC. Spring Series final standings Chelsea Manchester City Arsenal Liverpool Sunderland Reading Birmingham Bristol City Yeovil

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Y 2 Ipswich.........................4 Z 3 Wolves..........................4 Y 4 Nottingham Forest......4 Y 5 Leeds............................4 Y 6 QPR...............................4 Y 7 Preston.........................4 Y 8 Derby............................4 Z 9 Middlesbrough.............4 Y10 Sheffield United...........4 Z11 Bristol City...................4 Z12 Sunderland...................4 Y13 Sheffield Wed..............4 Z14 Hull............................... 4 Z15 Birmingham.................4 Y16 Aston Villa....................4 Z17 Norwich........................4 Z18 Reading.........................4 Z19 Fulham..........................4 Z20 Barnsley.......................4 Y21 Burton Albion...............4 Z22 Bolton...........................4 Z23 Millwall.........................4 Z24 Brentford......................4

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Hourihane 22 68, 85 Green 42 29,157

Bolton

Murphy 60 Oliveira 79

Preston (1) 1 Reading (0) 0 Hugill 22

QPR

(0) 1 Derby

Madine 90+2 15,175

McKay 16 Gibson 83 Murphy 79 (pen) 26,265

(2) 2

Nugent 8, 21

11,174

(0) 2 Hull

Smith 74 Sylla 90+1

(1) 1

Bowen 35 12,609

Sheff Utd (1) 1 Barnsley (0) 0

18,230

Sharp 17 25,482 Sent off: L Clarke (Sheffield Utd) 42, A MacDonald (Barnsley) 42

Fulham (0) 0 Sheff W (0) 1

Sunderland (0) 0 Leeds

Bristol C (0) 0 Millwall (0) 0

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Fletcher 64

31,237

Sáiz 21 Dallas 76

Ipswich (1) 2 Brentford(0) 0

Wolves (0) 1 Cardiff

Waghorn 35 Garner 51

Bonatini 67 27,068

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Ralls 54 Mendez-Laing 77

4 B Reid (Bristol City) 4 M Waghorn (Ipswich) 4 C Hourihane (Aston Villa) 4 N MendezLaing (Cardiff)

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TO P SAVE S 21 S Bywater (Burton) 21 J Smith (Nottm Forest) 20 B Bialkowski (Ipswich) 20 F Fielding (Bristol City)

T E A M O F T H E W E E K Fielding (Bristol City) O’Connell (Sheff Utd) Cooper (Leeds) Knudsen (Ipswich) Hunt (Sheff Wed) Mendez-Laing (Cardiff) Sáiz (Leeds) Hourihane (Aston Villa) McKay (Nottm Forest) Sharp (Sheff Utd) Hugill (Preston)

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Hibernian

Kilmarnock

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Hamilton

(0) 3

Longridge 69 Bingham 52 (pen), 88

(0) 0

10,069

Motherwell

Dundee Deacon 53

Stokes 90+4 16,633

Celtic

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Forrest 40 McGregor 88

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P W D Dundee United......3 3 0 Dunfermline .........3 2 1 Queen of South.....3 2 0 St Mirren...............3 2 0 Morton..................3 1 2 Dumbarton............3 0 2 Livingston.............3 0 2 Brechin City .......... 3 0 1 Falkirk...................3 0 1 Inverness CT.........3 0 1

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Ross County (0) 0

Albion Rovers (1) 1

Airdrieonians (2) 2

Tait 53 3,911 Moult 74 (pen) Sent off: K van der Weg (Ross County) 74

Vitoria 10 863

Tierney 3, 17

Alloa Athletic (0) 1

Queen’s Park (0) 0

Rangers

Martin 85

(0) 0

Hearts

(0) 0

49,677

Arbroath

St. Johnstone (1) 1

Partick Thistle (0) 0

O’Halloran 33

3,470

P W D Celtic......................3 3 0 St Johnstone.........3 3 0 Aberdeen...............3 3 0 Hamilton ...............3 2 0 Hibernian...............3 2 0 Rangers ................. 3 1 1 Hearts....................3 1 1 Motherwell............3 1 0 Ross County..........3 1 0 Kilmarnock ............ 3 0 0 Partick Thistle.......3 0 0 Dundee .................. 3 0 0

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Ladbrokes Scottish Championship Dundee United(0) 1

Brechin City

McDonald 80

6,060

Dunfermline (2) 3

Falkirk

McManus 5 Cardle 11, 90+2

Taiwo 83 5,751

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Inverness CT (1) 1

Morton

Warren 19 2,202

Thomson 51

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W 2 Peterborough...............3

Y 3 Fleetwood Town..........3 Y 4 Shrewsbury..................3 Z 5 Oxford United...............3 Y 6 Charlton........................3 Z 7 Bradford City................3 Z 8 Doncaster.....................3 Y 9 Scunthorpe...................3 Z10 Plymouth......................3 Z11 Blackpool......................3 Z12 Walsall......................... 3 Z13 Portsmouth..................3 Y14 Southend......................3 Z15 Rotherham...................3 Y16 MK Dons.......................3 Y17 Blackburn.....................3 Y18 Bristol Rovers..............3 Z19 Bury..............................3 Z20 Gillingham....................3 Z21 Rochdale.......................3 Z22 AFC Wimbledon...........3 Z23 Northampton...............3 Z24 Oldham.........................3

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3 -3

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Bradford (0) 0 Blackburn(0) 1 21,403

Bury

Samuel 47 Lockyer 55 Bodin 73, 85

Richards 79 11,289

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Peterboro (0) 2 Rotherham(0) 1 Marriott 47, 75 6,344

Charlton (1) 4 Northampton (0) 1 Magennis 2 Holmes 61 Forster-Caskey 90+4, 90+7

Oldham (0) 0 Wigan 5,446

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Beckford 90 Ajose 90+3 3,402

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Moore 55

Portsmouth(0) 1 Walsall (0) 1 Pitman 74 (pen) Leahy 47 17,198

Scunthorpe (0) 1 Oxford U (0) 0 Morris 83

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Doncaster (2) 3 Blackpool (1) 3

Shrewsbury (2) 3 Rochdale (1) 2

Allsop 37 (og) Marquis 45+1 May 75 7,558

Whalley 30 (pen) Davies 17 (pen) Morris 33 63 (pen) Payne 74 5,001

Longstaff 38 Turton 65 Cooke 76

Fleetwood (1) 2 Wimbledon (0) 0 Cole 19, 57

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Southend (1) 1 Plymouth (0) 1 Bradley (og) 6 7,861

Edwards 61

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Queen of South (1) 1

Dumbarton

Fordyce 44

1,348

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Doris 16 Denholm 58 808

O’Brien (og) 3 Flanagan 26 Duggan 39

Raith Rovers (1) 3

Forfar Athletic (1) 1

Vaughan 31 Millar 18 Buchanan 85, Spence 88 1,589 Sent off: J Bain (Forfar Athletic) 39

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TOP SAVE S 16 L McCormick (Plymouth) 15 T Holy (Gillingham) 14 J Murphy (Bury) 12 M Gilks (Scunthorpe) 12 M Gillespie (Walsall)

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Carlisle (2) 3 Cheltenham (0) 0 4,497

Chesterfield (2) 2 Port Vale (0) 0 5,058 Cole 53

Crawley (0) 0 Cambridge U (0) 1 2,059

Crewe

Ibehre 63

(0) 1 Barnet

Porter 75

Exeter

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(1) 1 Lincoln City (0) 0

Reid 42

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Athletic Bilbao 0 Getafe 0; Barcelona 2 Real Betis 0; Celta Vigo 2 Real Sociedad 3; Deportivo La Coruña 0 Real Madrid 3; Girona 2 Atletico Madrid 2; Seville 1 Espanyol 1. Today: Levante v Villarreal (7.15); Malaga v Eibar (9.0).

Atalanta 0 Roma 1; Bologna 1 Torino 1; Crotone 0 AC Milan 3; Inter Milan 3 Fiorentina 0; Juventus 3 Cagliari 0; Lazio 0 SPAL 0; Sampdoria 2 Benevento 1; Sassuolo 0 Genoa 0; Udinese 1 Chievo 2; Verona 1 Napoli 3.

P W D Real Madrid...........1 1 0 Barcelona..............1 1 0 Real Sociedad ....... 1 1 0 Leganes.................1 1 0 Valencia ................ 1 1 0 Girona....................1 0 1 Atletico Madrid.....1 0 1 Espanyol................1 0 1 Seville ................... 1 0 1 Athletic Bilbao......1 0 1 Getafe...................1 0 1 Eibar......................0 0 0 Levante.................0 0 0 Malaga .................. 0 0 0 Villarreal...............0 0 0 Celta Vigo ............. 1 0 0 Alaves...................1 0 0 Las Palmas............1 0 0 Real Betis..............1 0 0 D La Coruna...........1 0 0

P W D AC Milan ............... 1 1 0 Inter Milan............1 1 0 Juventus ............... 1 1 0 Napoli....................1 1 0 Chievo ................... 1 1 0 Sampdoria.............1 1 0 Roma.....................1 1 0 Bologna.................1 0 1 Torino....................1 0 1 Genoa....................1 0 1 Lazio......................1 0 1 Sassuolo................1 0 1 SPAL......................1 0 1 Benevento.............1 0 0 Udinese.................1 0 0 Atalanta................1 0 0 Verona...................1 0 0 Cagliari..................1 0 0 Crotone ................. 1 0 0 Fiorentina ............. 1 0 0

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Lille 0 Caen 2; Lyons 3 Bordeaux 3; Marseilles 1 Angers 1; Montpellier 1 Strasbourg 1; Nice 2 Guingamp 0; Paris Saint-Germain 6 Toulouse 2; Rennes 2 Dijon 2; Saint-Etienne 3 Amiens 0; Troyes 0 Nantes 1. P W D L F A GD Pts PSG........................3 3 0 0 11 2 9 9 Monaco..................3 3 0 0 8 3 5 9 Saint-Etienne........3 3 0 0 5 0 5 9 Lyons.....................3 2 1 0 9 4 5 7 Marseilles.............3 2 1 0 5 1 4 7 Bordeaux...............3 1 2 0 7 5 2 5 Angers...................3 1 2 0 5 3 2 5 Troyes ................... 3 1 1 1 3 3 0 4 Montpellier...........3 1 1 1 2 2 0 4 Strasbourg............3 1 1 1 4 5 -1 4 Nice.......................3 1 0 2 3 3 0 3 Caen ...................... 3 1 0 2 2 2 0 3 Lille........................3 1 0 2 3 5 -2 3 Guingamp..............3 1 0 2 3 6 -3 3 Nantes...................3 1 0 2 1 4 -3 3 Toulouse ............... 3 1 0 2 5 9 -4 3 Rennes..................3 0 2 1 4 5 -1 2 Dijon......................3 0 1 2 3 9 -6 1 Metz......................3 0 0 3 1 6 -5 0 Amiens..................3 0 0 3 0 7 -7 0

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Neymar had a great start in front of Paris Saint-Germain’s home fans, scoring twice as his new team romped to a 6-2 win against Toulouse. The Brazilian also set up two of his side’s goals as they moved to the top of Ligue 1 on goal difference.

P W D B Dortmund .......... 1 1 0 Bayern München...1 1 0 Hertha Berlin........1 1 0 Schalke..................1 1 0 Hoffenheim...........1 1 0 Hanover.................1 1 0 Hamburg ............... 1 1 0 B M’gladbach........1 1 0 Freiburg.................1 0 1 E Frankfurt............1 0 1 Werder Bremen....1 0 0 Augsburg...............1 0 0 Mainz .................... 1 0 0 Cologne ................. 1 0 0 B Leverkusen........1 0 0 Stuttgart...............1 0 0 RB Leipzig.............1 0 0 Wolfsburg.............1 0 0

Luton

(3) 3

Olomola 9 Khan 14 (pen) Zoko 35 2,615

(1) 3 Colchester(0) 0

Lee 45+3 Collins 52 Potts 83

7,865

Morecambe (0) 0 Swindon (1) 1 1,655

McDermott 13

Newton 37 Collins 81 Smith 45 2,793 Kennedy 65 Sent off: Jones (Grimsby) 58

Wycombe(0) 2 Notts Co (2) 4 Freeman 49 Jacobson 68 3,785

Duffy 14 El-Abd (og) 15 Forte 84 Alessandra 89

L E A D ING SC O R E R S 4 J Collins (Luton) 4 K Jackson (Accrington) 3 J Jones (Coventry) 4 others have 3 goals

TOP ASSISTS 3 A Shinnie (Luton) 2 N Arnold (Lincoln) 2 G Cooper (Crewe) 2 J Jacobson (Wycombe) 2 L Nolan (Accrington) 2 L Wilson (Port Vale)

TO P SAV E S 19 B Garratt (Crewe) 17 J McKeown (Grimsby) 16 B Roche (Morecambe) 15 C Pym (Exeter)

T E A M O F T H E W E E K Stephens (Barnet) O’Brien (Newport) Brown (Exeter) Hughes (Accrington) Jones (Notts Co) McDermott (Swindon) Lee (Luton) Berry (Cambridge) Sinnott (Chesterfield) Newton (Stevenage) Collins (Luton)

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Stevenage (2) 3 Grimsby (0) 1

Coventry (0) 0 Newport Co (0) 1 8,745

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Dennis 38 Sinnott 43

Accrington (1) 2 Mansfield (1) 1

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Kick-off 7.45 unless stated TODAY Premier League: Man City v Everton (8.0). TOMORROW Champions League play-off, second leg: Astana (0) v Celtic (5) (4.30). Carabao Cup: First round: Grimsby v Derby. Second round: Crystal Palace v Ipswich (7.30); Carlisle v Sunderland; Accrington v West Brom; Leeds v Newport County; Middlesbrough v Scunthorpe; Doncaster v Hull; Sheff Utd v Leicester; Aston Villa v Wigan; QPR v Brentford; Watford v Bristol City; Norwich v Charlton; Brighton v Barnet; Cardiff v Burton; Fulham v Bristol Rovers; MK Dons v Swansea; Birmingham v Bournemouth; Bolton v Sheff Wed (8.0); Reading v Millwall (8.0). WEDNESDAY Champions League play-offs, second leg: Liverpool (1) v Hoffenheim (1). Carabao Cup: Second round: Newcastle v Nottm Forest; Huddersfield v Rotherham; Blackburn v Burnley; Cheltenham v West Ham; Southampton v Wolves; Stoke v Rochdale (8.0). THURSDAY Europa League play-offs, second leg: Hajduk Split (0) v Everton (2) (8.0). FRIDAY Sky Bet Championship: Bristol City v Aston Villa. League Two: Notts County v Accrington. SATURDAY Kick-off 3.0 unless stated Premier League: Bournemouth v Man City (12.30); Crystal Palace v Swansea; Huddersfield v Southampton; Man Utd v Leicester (5.30); Newcastle v West Ham; Watford v Brighton. Sky Bet Championship: Barnsley v Sunderland;

Birmingham v Reading; Brentford v Wolves; Burton v Sheff Wed; Cardiff v QPR; Hull v Bolton; Ipswich v Fulham; Middlesbrough v Preston; Millwall v Norwich; Nottm Forest v Leeds (5.30); Sheff Utd v Derby. League One: AFC Wimbledon v Doncaster; Blackburn v MK Dons; Blackpool v Oldham; Bristol Rovers v Fleetwood; Gillingham v Southend; Northampton v Peterborough; Oxford Utd v Shrewsbury; Plymouth v Scunthorpe; Rochdale v Bury; Rotherham v Charlton; Walsall v Bradford City; Wigan v Portsmouth. League Two: Barnet v Stevenage; Cambridge Utd v Morecambe; Cheltenham v Exeter; Colchester v Forest Green; Grimsby v Wycombe; Lincoln v Carlisle; Mansfield v Luton; Newport Co v Chesterfield; Port Vale v Crewe; Swindon v Crawley; Yeovil v Coventry. Ladbrokes Scottish Premiership: Celtic v St Johnstone; Kilmarnock v Hamilton; Motherwell v Hearts; Partick v Aberdeen. Ladbrokes Scottish Championship: Brechin v Inverness CT; Dumbarton v Dunfermline; Falkirk v Queen of South; Morton v Livingston; St Mirren v Dundee Utd. League One: Airdrieonians v Alloa; Ayr v Arbroath; East Fife v Raith; Forfar v Albion; Queen’s Park v Stranraer. League Two: Annan v Montrose; Clyde v Stenhousemuir; Cowdenbeath v Berwick; Edinburgh City v Elgin; Peterhead v Stirling Albion. SUNDAY Premier League: Chelsea v Everton (1.30); Liverpool v Arsenal (4.0); Tottenham v Burnley (4.0); West Brom v Stoke (1.30). Ladbrokes Scottish Premiership: Dundee v Hibernian (12.30); Ross County v Rangers.

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the times | Monday August 21 2017

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Sigurdsson is the player Barkley can be if he stays and tries harder oss Barkley is a player with enough poise and flair for us to care about his future. The 23-year-old has sometimes shimmered for Everton but also sometimes skulked in the shadows. Those who manage him have become exasperated and at times last season just to look at Ronald Koeman was to know that the Everton manager was perplexed by the gulf in Barkley’s innate talent and apparent lack of application. Koeman has at last secured a player who is widely assumed to be a replacement for Barkley. The £45 million signing of Gylfi Sigurdsson from Swansea City is the cue for interested clubs to consider a bid for an England international who they know to be keen to leave his home-town team due to protracted and messy contract negotiations that have fizzled to nothing. There is seemingly no turning back for a player who joined Everton aged 11 even though rival clubs have hardly been breathless in their pursuit of him. There would be some symmetry if it is Tottenham Hotspur who sign him as they would put the £4.5 million sell-on fee they have earned from Sigurdsson’s sale towards the purchase of Barkley and, so far, appear the club most keen to take him. Barkley wants a fresh start, Koeman has run out of patience, Everton have a direct replacement and a buyer can be found. End of the story — except that Barkley should not leave Goodison. The best thing that could happen to him would be for him to stay put, train alongside Sigurdsson and maybe see a future version of himself. Sigurdsson is the player Barkley could yet grow to become. Sigurdsson is certainly the player Barkley should want to emulate. Both have an eye for the clever pass and can produce accurate deliveries but while it is possible to build a team around the 27-year-old it is impossible to even consider it of Barkley. There is a consistency to Sigurdsson that is even more breathtaking than his ingenious free kicks. The midfielder who covered most ground last season was not, as you might expect, the scuttling and energetic double title-winner N’Golo Kanté but the man from Reykjavik.

SE V EN M ONT H S OUT AF TER CE LEBRATION BACKF IRES Hamburg lost their winger Nicolai Müller for seven months on Saturday after he ruptured his anterior cruciate ligament while celebrating a goal (Craig Chisnall writes). Müller scored the only goal of the game in the win over Augsburg in Germany and ran off to perform a

“helicopter” celebration. Unfortunately the 29-year-old landed awkwardly after his spin in the air before falling into the corner flag as team-mates joined him. Müller quickly realised the pain of his selfinflicted injury and now faces a lengthy rehabilitation.

No manager ever minded that Barkley would sashay into space or unleash a 30-yard strike at goal but they did mind that he would forget where he had to be next, that his role was not just to create but to harry and close down, offer an outlet and keep possession. Of all the touchline rants issued by Roy Hodgson as England manager none was as apoplectic as that directed towards a wayward Barkley in the friendly against Scotland three years ago. Afterwards Barkley said he was bound to sometimes lose the ball because he is a risk-taker. Perhaps he was told when a child that he should not let the boring stuff bother him because he can still light up a game. Sigurdsson can light up a game too but he never thinks it gives him a licence to be lazy. Koeman has bought the player who saved Swansea City from relegation and relegation scraps are not resolved through creativity. No player has scored more free kicks in the Premier League than Sigurdsson since his debut in the division in January 2012 but that fact is, week in, week out, an irrelevance for how he conducts himself on the pitch. He never stops running and never stops thinking. He created more chances from set pieces than any other player in the Premier League last season and if they went unconverted then he did not allow that to annoy him. Iceland did not glitter at last year’s European Championship finals because of Sigurdsson’s elegance but because he adapted to the more robust system his small nation needed to survive. In many ways his countrymen blossomed because they knew if they won a free kick, they had the player best able at the tournament to make the most of it and that when he was not delivering from a set piece he would be breaking up play, setting counterattacks in motion and offering an outlet to any team-mate in trouble. Any nation worried about how to integrate their superstars alongside lesser lights could look to Portugal of course but the supreme example is to be found with Iceland. After all, Cristiano Ronaldo missed most of his country’s surprise victory over the hosts in the final. Sigurdsson left Swansea once before, joining Tottenham in July 2012 where, under André

Role model: Barkley, right, could learn a lot from Sigurdsson, left, who Everton regard as a necessary component to their ambitions of becoming a top-four team after his protracted arrival

Villas-Boas, he was used, carelessly, as a winger and then sold just as Mauricio Pochettino arrived. “I’m not the kind of player who’s playing down the wing and running past players,” Sigurdsson said of his time at White Hart Lane and Pochettino subsequently sighed deeply and wondered at what might have been had the pair been able to work together. The man who brought Sigurdsson to England panicked when his protégé returned to Wales from north London. The late Eamonn Dolan, the former academy manager at Reading, said he thought, briefly, he was making a mistake, that it would look like the player could not make it at a big club. Instead, the move cemented Sigurdsson’s reputation as a low maintenance, highly productive player. Dolan suggested that Sigurdsson was too humble, “too easy to push around, to play in the wrong position” so it will be fascinating to find out what Koeman asks of him. Will Wayne Rooney snatch the ball at free kicks or, more sensibly, allow his new team-mate to deliver the ball on to his head? It is easy to be

humble but effective at a smaller club but with Everton on a mission to become a top-four team, there is a danger that Sigurdsson could become relatively peripheral. Koeman, with his experience of playing in a Barcelona team brimming with star names, ought to have no problem with a melting pot of talent and ego. He has been patient but insistent that he needed Sigurdsson so it is to be hoped he knows he ought to quietly build his team around him. If Barkley moves in January after recovering from his hamstring injury then the delay will have been a blessing. It will give him time to work out why his manager was so keen to seal the deal for the former Swansea player and less keen to placate a player he already owned. Not everyone can see the beautiful pass but any player can decide to relentlessly run at those moments when he is not being imperious. Barkley possesses attributes others can only dream of. Sigurdsson could teach him how to harness them to the greater good. 6 Matthew Syed is away