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Victoria Pendleton lances her demons Middle-class dementia cases halt the growth of longer life Kat Lay Health Correspondent

Increases in life expectancy are “grinding to a halt” as dementia deaths take their toll on the middle classes, an expert review has found. Life expectancy for men and women has risen steadily for a century but the rate of increase appears to have stalled in the past few years. The findings are

deeply concerning and warrant urgent investigation, according to Sir Michael Marmot, the professor of epidemiology behind the study. Between 2002 and 2010, life expectancy at birth increased by a year every five years for women, and every threeand-a-half years for men, a continuation of a long-term trend. Between 2010 and 2015, however, the rate slowed to a

May urged to sack her ‘donkey’ ministers

one-year increase every ten years for women, and six years for men. Sir Michael, director of University College London’s Institute of Health Equity, said: “It is pretty close to having ground to a halt.” A boy born in England in 2015 could expect to live 79.4 years and a girl 83 years. In 1980, the figures were 71.1 and 77. Experts suggested that the slowing

rate of increase in recent years could be linked to dementia claiming the lives of middle-class people, who previously had been among the biggest beneficiaries of lengthening life spans. Dementia and Alzheimer’s are now the leading cause of death among the over 80s for women and over 85s for men. The figures were an update of the Marmot Indicators, a set of measures of

Theresa May is being urged by cabinet ministers to sack testosterone-fuelled “donkeys” and “indulgent safe-seat kids” behind a series of hostile leaks against the chancellor. She will tell warring colleagues that they are ushering Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader, into Downing Street as she seeks to reimpose discipline at a cabinet meeting today. Her intervention comes after three days of leaks and briefings, including claims that Philip Hammond told the cabinet last week that public sector workers were overpaid. It can be revealed that the chancellor is examining a compromise on public sector remuneration under which the lowest-paid workers could receive a bigger annual rise than higher-earning colleagues without increasing overall staff budgets. Treasury “remit letters” are due to be sent within weeks to boards that set three million public sector workers’ salaries. They are likely to instruct them to prioritise those paid the least next year, while keeping inside the 1 per cent cap on rises. The cap itself will be reviewed in this autumn’s budget. The effort to put a stop to Tory infighting came as: 6 School budgets received a £1.3 billion boost yesterday in another Treasurybrokered compromise, with some of the

extra cash diverted from planned new free schools and grammars. 6 David Davis, the Brexit secretary, was accused of snubbing Brussels by leaving formal talks hours after they began. 6 Dominic Cummings, a leading ally of Michael Gove, the environment secretary, said that Mr Davis was as “thick as mince, lazy as a toad and as vain as Narcissus”. Mr Hammond faces pressure over his perceived “soft” Brexit stance and insistence on austerity against the backdrop of speculation over how long Mrs May can remain in Downing Street. Those blamed for the attacks include allies of Mr Davis and Mr Gove as well as Boris Johnson, the foreign secretary. One cabinet minister told The Times that figures responsible for the leaks had not had to fight for their place in politics, blaming “too much testosterone” from the “proverbial donkeys” who are “able to behave like indulgent safe-seat kids, not worrying about the impact of their behaviour”. The source added: “They are creating the parliamentary party mood for a full reshuffle to remove them and then have a relaunch.” Another cabinet minister said that “stupid games, whether by Brexiteers or free-spending departmental ministers” should end, and it would be “good” if those responsible were sacked. In another sign that those responsible for Continued on page 2, col 3

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MPs demand answers over hidden costs of warplane Deborah Haynes Defence Editor Alexi Mostrous Head of Investigations

Squabbling cabinet must unite, PM will say Matt Chorley Red Box Editor Francis Elliott Political Editor

inequality in health and life expectancy. Sir Michael declined to speculate on the reasons for the slowdown but raised concerns about “miserly” NHS spending. Spending has increased at about 1.1 per cent a year since 2010, below the previous 3.8 per cent, he said. Adult social care spending fell 6.4 per cent between 2009-10 and 2015-16.

Pocket of resistance Prince George was in a stubborn mood as he arrived yesterday in Warsaw with his parents for a tour of Poland and Germany. Duchess’s hint, page 5

Defence officials will be called before MPs to explain why taxpayers face hundreds of millions of pounds in hidden costs for a new warplane beset by technical shortfalls. Julian Lewis, chairman-elect of the defence select committee, said last night that he would recommend a special hearing after an investigation by The Times disclosed that the F-35 Lightning II will be unable to function properly because of defence cuts. Two former military chiefs and three ex-defence ministers have also called for a full-scale inquiry into the cost and capabilities of the jet. Each of the aircraft delivered this year is likely to cost up to £50 million more than the price stated by its US manufacturer, Lockheed Martin, once extras are included, an investigation by this newspaper revealed yesterday. Britain has committed to buy a total of 138 F-35s over the lifetime of the programme. Mr Lewis said that the hearing would be added to an inquiry by his committee into the Ministry of Defence’s record on equipment procurement. “It would seem sensible in the light of the extensive concerns raised by the Times investigation that we should, before moving to publish that almost complete report, have a further hearing in which we will be able to see what answers the MoD has to the main concerns expressed in the story,” he said. In the latest setback, defence sources revealed that the aircraft carrier from which the F-35B jets are due to fly next year has run into difficulty during trials. It can also be revealed that the “stealth” aircraft, billed as the “most powerful and comprehensive” warplane in history, has the ability to store only about ten gigabytes of data, less than an average iPhone. This, like many of the other technology shortfalls, can be easily fixed with additional investment but the defence budget is overstretched. A former minister bemoaned last Continued on page 2, col 3

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News T O D AY ’ S E D I T I O N Father killed on night out

Aid cash billions Pre-eminent remain unspent Victorians

A young father on his way home from a jazz bar was fatally stabbed in southeast London after an altercation with two men who arrived at the scene on a moped. Page 5

Up to £8.7 billion of British aid is lying unused in the coffers of international development organisations, the National Audit Office has found. Page 6

The Victorians were brighter than today’s Britons because the “millennia-long” genetic trend towards higher cognitive ability has gone into reverse, researchers say. Page 15

COMMENT

‘The doctrine of identity-neutrality has been gathering pace for decades’ MELANIE PHILLIPS, PAGE 32

Venezuela votes Carillion gains against leader HS2 contracts

Root rebuked after heavy loss

Venezuela’s opposition vowed to rebel against President Maduro after millions of people voted in an unofficial referendum over his plans to redraw the constitution. Page 36

Carillion gave its shareholders some reassurance as it won two contracts on the HS2 rail line and boosted the number of City advisers helping it to cut costs. Page 43

Joe Root faced stinging criticism from some of his predecessors as Test captain after England suffered a 340-run defeat by South Africa at Trent Bridge. Page 84

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DINNER TONIGHT Salmon and cucumber salad This was one of my favourite quick, easy meals during the Wimbledon heatwave. It’s really an assembly job, relying on smart shopping and deft work with a sharp knife or mandoline. Soft, floppy lettuce, acidulated slivers of cucumber piled with chunks of poached salmon are the basics. But it is the little dollops of mayonnaise and chopped dill that make this simple salad sing. It’s the perfect no-fuss balmy evening supper with slices of buttered brown bread

but you may prefer the contrast of hot, minted new potatoes. Serves 2 Prep 20 min Ingredients: 12cm piece cucumber; 1 tbsp white wine vinegar; 1 butterhead or similarly floppy lettuce; 2 poached salmon fillets 6 sprigs dill; 2 tbsp mayonnaise. Run a potato peeler down the length of the cucumber to peel. Slice thinly, either using a mandoline or super-

thetimes sharp knife. Pour the vinegar into a shallow bowl and swipe the slices of cucumber through it to coat thoroughly. Leave until required. Separate the lettuce leaves, rinse and shake dry. Loosely assemble lettuce on large plates or a platter. Scatter cucumber over the top. Remove salmon skin and discard the soft, browny-black flesh. Break the salmon in chunks over the cucumber. Strip the dill from the stalks and chop. Scatter the dill over the salad and add small scoops of mayonnaise hither and yon. Serve immediately. Yum. Lindsey Bareham

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Election reforms urged after students say they voted twice Oliver Wright Policy Editor

Britain’s election watchdog last night raised “troubling” concerns that some younger voters may have cast more than one ballot at the general election. The Electoral Commission said that 38 MPs had highlighted instances where voters, including students, had claimed to have voted twice, which is a criminal offence. It said that individual electoral registers run by councils should be better joined up to help identify duplicate entries. The commission also suggested that in future, those registered to vote in two seats should have to choose in advance which one they would vote in. The warning came as the commission released figures showing that the number of people on the electoral roll had reached record levels. Nearly two million young people applied to vote after Theresa May announced in April that she was calling a snap election. About 500,000 more people were registered for the June 8 poll than at the

continued from page 1 F-35 investigation night the lack of transparency over Britain’s planned purchase of the jets. “We had absolutely no idea what the unit costs would be of the F-35,” Sir Nick Harvey, the Lib Dem armed forces minister from 2010-12, said. “We would all smile sweetly and sustain this idea that 138 would be the size of the order but the honest truth is nobody had the slightest idea how many we would end up with or how many we would be able to afford.” British officials have released almost no detailed information about the F-35 project, despite being the US’s only “tier-one” partner. In contrast, Pentagon officials, government auditors and legislators ensure that the project is scrutinised for the US taxpayer. The Australian senate held an inquiry last year that came out in support of the aircraft but warned of the need for “healthy scepticism”. Canada also reviewed the programme and decided to withdraw from it. Air Chief Marshal Sir Michael Graydon, a former head of the Royal Air Force; General Sir Richard Barrons, in charge of all technology for the military until last year; Sir Julian Brazier, a former Tory defence minister; and Sir Nick said that a proper inquiry was needed. A third former defence minister agreed, though asked to remain anonymous. Sir Michael, chief of the air staff from 1992-97, said: “A review may not be comfortable but if there is nothing to hide then there shouldn’t be a problem.” The Times understands that HMS

2015 general election, taking the electorate to 46.8 million, the largest so far. The watchdog called for urgent action to tackle the number of duplicate applications by people unaware that they were already registered. Although some people, such as students, are allowed to be registered in two areas, it is illegal to vote more than once in a general election. While the watchdog said that it had not found evidence of widespread abuse, it added that it had received more than 1,000 emails from members of the public, along with 38 letters from MPs, raising the issue. It also said that it was working with police on how to investigate allegations. “Although people may lawfully be registered to vote in more than one place in certain circumstances, it is troubling that some voters appear to have admitted voting more than once at the general election, which is an offence,” the commission’s report stated. An increase in the number of younger voters is believed to have fuelled

support for Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party. Overall, 2.9 million people tried to register to vote, with 96 per cent applying online and 69 per cent of those aged under 34. Electoral registration officers say that numbers of applications from people already on the electoral register were high, ranging from an estimated 30 per cent to 70 per cent across the country. Information is held locally, which means that duplicate applications are not automatically detected. Labour warned against making it harder for young people to register to vote. Cat Smith, shadow minister for voter engagement, said that voting twice was a serious offence. However, she warned against a kneejerk reaction. “A blanket ban on being registered at two addresses would exclude those who for reasons of work or study need to be registered in two places,” she said. “This cannot be an attempt to make it harder for young people and students to register to vote.”

Queen Elizabeth, the Royal Navy’s new aircraft carrier, which began her maiden voyage with great fanfare last month, has had to moor for longer than expected off Invergordon in Scotland after a problem was discovered with the £3 billion warship’s propeller shaft. The glitch is “not a show-stopper” and is what should be expected during a testphase, one source said. It is understood that the “engineering” problem was discovered last week after a piece of debris became caught in the shaft. The unplanned lull in activity meant that members of the 1,000strong crew were able to take time off

Free childcare policy hit by online glitch

Yesterday’s report in The Times on the F-35’s hidden costs and shortcomings

the ship to enjoy the Highland Games in Inverness. Asked about sea trials, the MoD said: “We fully anticipate this will identify areas for improvement that will be addressed at sea, during a number of routine port stops or as part of the planned engineering period . . . The UK F-35 programme is on time, on budget, offers the best capability for our armed forces who have praised the fighter’s ability and is already fully accountable to parliament. You don’t need a costly inquiry to prove this.” Letters, page 34

Greg Hurst Social Affairs Editor

Parents have been struggling to sign up for the government’s flagship childcare policies, leaving nurseries and early years providers unable to fill places two months before their launch. Problems with the online registration system have left some parents unable to open an account to pay a nursery, playgroup, childminder or pre-school. Some providers have also been unable to register, especially those that are charities which require a unique tax reference. The glitches threatened further disruption for the government’s offer of 30 hours a week of free childcare to all parents of three and fouryear-olds, provided they work a least 16 hours a week for at least the equivalent of the national minimum wage. Neil Leitch, chief executive of the Pre-school Learning Alliance, representing 14,000 providers, described the problems as unacceptable. A spokesman for HMRC said: “The majority of parents are applying without encountering issues. However, we are aware that some have experienced difficulties with the online childcare service. We’ve made significant improvements based on feedback, and we continue to make updates.”

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continued from page 1 Cabinet squabbling destabilising Mrs May had misjudged the mood of the party, a senior minister said: “The backbenchers hate plotting and the plotters.” While Mr Davis, Mr Johnson and Mr Gove have denied any part in the briefings, infighting among their supporters continued. Mr Cummings, the former Vote Leave chief, took aim at Mr Davis yesterday, accusing him of preparing a “sell-out” on Brexit and describing him as the “perfect stooge”. A cabinet minister was quoted as accusing Mr Hammond of trying to “f*** up” Brexit, and treating pro-Leave ministers like “pirates who have taken him prisoner”. The chancellor

How public workers lose out How much more workers in the public sector would earn if pay rises had kept pace with the CPI measure of inflation since 2010. Crown prosecutor £4,400 Paramedic £3,888 NHS specialist dietician £3,858 Prison officer £3,819 Firefighter £2,888 Nuclear maintenance engineer £2,591 Teacher £2,414 Lifeguard £2,200 NHS ancillary staff £897 Source: TUC

dismissed “noise generated by people who are not happy with the agenda that I have tried to advance”. Mrs May will attempt to use today’s cabinet meeting to reassert her authority. “Cabinet must be able to hold discussions of government policy in private and the prime minister will be reminding her colleagues of that,” her spokesman said. Ministers have yet to agree how to prioritise the least well-paid workers in next year’s settlements. One option could be to hand all staff a flat cash sum equivalent to 1 per cent of median salary. The lowest-paid nurses could receive about £554 more than under the present plans while the highest paid would lose £978. Politics, pages 12-14 Leading article, page 35

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Men to be spared advert sexism THE ADVERTISING ARCHIVES

Andrew Ellson

Downtrodden men, salvation is upon you. You may not even realise that you are being oppressed, but soon you will be offered the same chance to be offended as everybody else. Deliverance comes in the unlikely form of the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), which will announce a crackdown today on gender stereotyping. No longer will advertisers be allowed to mock men’s inability to work a washing machine or get the children to school on time. Nor will they be able to suggest that men are more likely to take out the rubbish or start wars. Such misconceived notions “reinforce and perpetuate traditional gender roles” and lead to “suboptimal outcomes for individuals and groups in terms of their professional attainment and personal development”, according to the advertising watchdog. The guidance means that men will no longer have to tolerate advertisements that feature them “trying and failing to undertake simple parental or household tasks”, for example. In future, if the watchdog receives complaints about such adverts, it will have the power to ban them from being broadcast, printed or posted online. Adverts which imply that boys should not play with fairies or dress up as princesses are also likely to fall under the watchdog’s beady eye. “An ad that suggests a specific activity is inappropriate for boys because it is stereotypically associated with girls” would be “problematic”, according to the ASA’s report, Depictions, Perceptions and Harm, which is published today. The new rules will, of course, apply equally to adverts that seek to stereotype women or girls. Anything which suggests that it is a woman’s sole responsibility to tidy up after her family will be deemed unacceptable, the watchdog says. Some advertisers may be pleased to learn, however, that the new rules will not automatically ban them from “depicting a woman cleaning or a man doing DIY”. Context and content will be the key considerations, the ASA says. Guy Parker, chief executive of the watchdog, explained: “Portrayals

A fight against stereotypes . . . or free speech Behind the story

he Advertising Standards Authority says that the UK is behind most developed countries in banning harmful stereotypes in advertising (Lizzy Burden writes). Of the 28 countries it examined, 24 restrict gender stereotypes through legislation or regulatory bodies. In most of Europe, gender stereotyping is policed and offending adverts banned although a notable exception is Sweden, which does not have any legislation dealing with gender discriminatory advertisements. Past proposals for legislation banning sexist advertising in the country have been rejected by the Swedish government on the ground that they conflict with freedom of expression, including freedom of the press. Last month, a suburb of Berlin proposed a ban on billboards portraying women as sexually available or “weak, hysterical or dumb”. In Australia, the Advertising Standards Board considers adverts where men or women are portrayed as generally inferior to the other sex and/or their role belittled or criticised in a derogatory manner as unacceptable. However, America does not have a strict regime regulating advertising. This is because of the great protection afforded to freedom of speech under its constitution.

Women have often been confined to domestic roles in ads whereas men are shown as incompetent

which reinforce outdated and stereotypical views on gender roles in society can play their part in driving unfair outcomes for people. “While advertising is only one of many factors that contribute to unequal gender outcomes, tougher advertising standards can play an important role in tackling inequalities and improving outcomes for individuals, the economy and society as a whole.” Ella Smillie, the author of the ASA’s report, added: “Our review shows that specific forms of gender stereotypes in

They really said that . . . Oven Pride 2011 A woman looks to the camera and says: “So easy even a man can do it” Somerfield 2009 A woman shopper looks at a cashier after her husband forgets to buy tonic and sighs: “What are they like?” Aptamil 2014 Baby milk powder advert featured girls who became ballerinas and boys who became engineers

ads can contribute to harm for adults and children. Such portrayals can limit how people see themselves, how others see them, and limit the life decisions they take. “Tougher standards in the areas we’ve identified will address harms and ensure that modern society is better represented.” The new rules follow a series of adverts that have sought to mock men and their Neanderthal tendencies. In 2014 an advert for Oven Pride claimed their product was so easy to use that “even a man can do it” and in 2011 an advert for KFC suggested that a

father was so remorselessly thick that he was incapable of understanding the merits of a huge bucket of fried chicken. The watchdog concedes that not all advertisers are thrilled with the new rules, which are likely to come into force next year. The report notes: “Those who were less supportive of change spoke of the philosophical ‘right to offend’ or their preference for less regulation and space for market forces to develop.” It did not clarify whether those dissenting voices were expressed only by men but, either way, it chose to ignore them.

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Chemical fears force Primark to recall flip-flops Primark has been forced to recall thousands of pairs of men’s flip-flops amid concerns that they contain dangerous levels of a cancer-causing chemical. The chain is withdrawing the blue, black and khaki product, which remained on sale for six months, after becoming aware that it “does not meet the Primark usual high standards for chemical compliance”. Customers will

be offered a full refund even if they do not have proof of purchase, the discount fashion store said, after finding “a restricted substance in the product in excess of the 1.0 mg/kg requirement”. The footwear was sold in stores between January 4 and June 2 as part of its Cedar Wood State range. The problem was discovered after an inquiry by a third party. The retailer confirmed that the chemical found was chrysene, which studies have suggested causes cancer,

but stressed that the levels of it in the footwear would pose a minimal health and safety risk. Primark has suspended all new orders from the factory that makes the flip-flops while the issue is investigated. “We take the safety of our customers, and the quality of our products very seriously,” the company said. It is the third product recall Primark has issued in less than six months. Earlier this year the chain had to recall pairs of novelty cat leggings aimed at

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children amid fears that they were unsafe. In February the clothing giant also had to pull a range of T-shirts after customers complained that they were racist. They showed a villain from the TV show The Walking Dead holding a baseball bat covered in blood and barbed wire, with the rhyme “Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe”. Customers said it was well known that the rhyme often ended with the phrase “catch a n***** by his toe”. TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER RICHARD POHLE

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Abuse payout fight Children who have been sexually exploited are being refused compensation by a government agency on the ground that they “consented” to their abuse, campaigners say. Charities including Barnardo’s and Victim Support are demanding a review of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority’s guidelines. Payouts can be awarded to victims of a “crime of violence”, which includes a sexual assault to which a person did not “in fact” consent.

Man on drugs charge A 20-year-old man appeared in court charged with supplying cannabis and MDMA after the death of a teenage girl. Jacob Khanlarian, of Newton Abbot, Devon, did not enter a plea at Plymouth magistrates’ court and was remanded in custody to appear at Exeter crown court on August 10. Leah Kerry, 15, was found unconscious on Saturday and later died in hospital.

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UK shamed over cancer survival rate

Gordon Brown is to give evidence in person on Thursday before the public inquiry into child abuse. He will explain why he made a public apology in 2010 to children who were sent to Australia, many of whom suffered abuse. Sir John Major, who decided in 1993 that it was an issue for the Australian government, will give evidence in writing. Participants have called for him to appear in person.

Kat Lay

Contractor’s £15m bill

British cancer patients have worse survival rates than their European counterparts for nine out of ten major cancers, according to a new report. The study found the UK had below average rates of five-year survival in diseases such as bowel, lung, breast, ovarian, prostate and kidney cancer, only beating the average in melanoma. According to the analysis, if the UK achieved the cancer survival rates of Germany, more than 35,000 more people would be alive five years after diagnosis. If the UK had the cancer death rates of France, more than 100,000 women’s deaths could be prevented over the next decade. The study was commissioned by the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry and based on analysis by Swedish researchers. It said the UK spends 20 per cent less per person on cancer than other EU economies. Dr Richard Torbett, executive director at the ABPI, said: “This should be a wake-up call for the UK to refocus the way we tackle cancer across the board.”

A contractor who was legally responsible for giant panes of glass falling out of the window frames of a gleaming new office block and down onto the street must pay compensation. Lend Lease Construction (Europe) Ltd was sued by the owners of 125 Old Broad Street in the City of London. At the High Court Mr Justice Stuart-Smith ordered the company to pay £14,753,195.

Sea horses The Life Guards have swapped their Household Cavalry barracks for Holkham beach in Norfolk, an annual exercise to get their mounts used to water

2,000 foreign GPs needed to tackle growing shortage Kat Lay Health Correspondent

The NHS is set to recruit 2,000 foreign GPs — four times the previous target — in a drive to combat a shortage of family doctors. Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England, said it would target other EU countries as well as Australia and New Zealand. Last year health service bosses set a target of recruiting 500 overseas GPs at an expected cost of £30 million. The new target comes after figures showed that the number of GPs was in decline, despite a government pledge of 5,000 more by 2020. In an interview with the Health Service Journal, Mr Stevens said: “Although there are some good signs of progress on increases in the GP training scheme, nevertheless there are real pressures around retirements. “And so the conclusion we’ve come to is that in order to increase the likelihood of being able to have 5,000 more doctors in general practice, we are going to need a significantly expanded industrial-scale international recruit-

ment programme. We intend to launch that in the autumn.” He added: “Rather than the current 500 or so GPs that are being targeted for international recruitment . . . it probably needs to be four times more than that, from international sources — [from the] rest of the EU and possibly New Zealand and Australia.” The total number of full time-equivalent GPs dropped from 34,914 in March 2016 to 34,372 in March this year, according to figures from NHS Digital. Doctors’ representatives raised concerns about the long-term viability of overseas recruitment, given uncertainty over the status of EU citizens in the UK after Brexit. The British Medical Association called the measure “a sticking plaster”. Dr Richard Vautrey, acting chairman of the BMA GP committee, said: “Overseas doctors have for decades provided a valuable contribution to the NHS, especially in general practice where they have a strong track record of providing first-class patient care. “However, this announcement is yet another clear admission of failure from

the government, which is effectively conceding it cannot meet its own target of recruiting 5,000 extra GPs without an emergency draft of doctors from abroad.” He called for a long-term solution to address workload pressures on GPs, which he said were putting students off choosing general practice as a career. Professor Helen Stokes-Lampard, chairwoman of the Royal College of GPs, said: “Workload in general practice is escalating — it has risen 16 per cent over the last seven years — yet investment in our service has declined and we are desperately short of GPs and nurses. “It is imperative that we do everything possible to address this, including recruiting more GPs, retaining existing ones, and making it easier for trained GPs to return to practice after a career break.” She welcomed the extension of overseas recruitment, and called for “the position of EU GPs already working in UK general practice to be safeguarded beyond doubt as part of Brexit negotiations”.

Police swoop on boy, 8 Police in Bournemouth scrambled their helicopter and sent a van full of armed officers after “a sighting of two males possibly in possession of firearms” only to find an eight-year-old boy playing cops and robbers. “When the police all turned up with their guns I thought it was really cool,” said Kasim Ashraf, who wants to be a policeman when he grows up.

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The prince and princess peer out from their private jet and on disembarking, Charlotte gave a royal wave. Their parents impressed at a soirée

Baby talk follows his royal shyness

hey already have an heir and a spare, in the shape of Prince George and Princess Charlotte. But perhaps it’s not enough (Valentine Low writes). On the first day of their Polish tour, the Duchess of Cambridge joked yesterday that she and Prince William should have another baby. Babies plural, to be precise. Her remark — which one will have to assume was a joke, until evidence appears to the contrary — came after the duchess was given a present designed for newborn babies at an event for start-up tech companies in Warsaw. Saying thank you for

the cuddly toy, which is designed to soothe tiny babies, she turned to the duke laughing and said: “We will just have to have more babies.” Among the other gifts was a T-shirt for the duchess with the slogan “i’mperfect”, part of the company’s campaign to encourage mothers not to feel the pressure to be flawless. Student Madga Mordaka, 21, who met the Duchess later in the day, said: “We were telling her that she is beautiful and perfect, but she said it’s not true — it’s just the make-up.” Yesterday was the first of a five-day tour of Poland and Germany on which the duke and duchess have taken George and Charlotte

with them. The tour is part of the royal family’s Brexit charm offensive, designed to bolster the UK’s relations with European countries. George, however, did not appear to have read the briefing paper. As their private chartered

jet arrived at Chopin airport, Warsaw, he initially refused his father’s entreaties to walk with him down the aircraft steps. After a few moments, Prince William managed to coax him down, while the duchess — who was

wearing an Alexander McQueen coat-dress — followed carrying Princess Charlotte. But even then George did not look like a boy who was fully committed to the task of improving Anglo-Polish relations. He fidgeted. He swung

his leg back and forth. He stuck his hand in his pocket. He even stuck his bottom lip out. Perhaps someone should have told him about the toys. Before they arrived President Duda of Poland had tweeted pictures of toys, including a bicycle, wooden plane and a rocking horse, that awaited the children at the Belvedere Palace, the former presidential residence where the Cambridges are staying. George, who turns four on Saturday, and Charlotte, two, are likely to be seen again only at the end of the tour. At an evening garden party to celebrate the Queen’s birthday, the duchess impressed Polish high society in a sleeveless white dress with black embroidery by Gosia Baczynska, the first Polish designer to show at Paris fashion week. Prince William made a short speech to the 600 guests at the event in the Orangery in Warsaw’s Lazienki Park and was cheered as he addressed them in faltering Polish to say “good evening, we hope you have a nice party”.

failing to stem Moped-riding robbers Checks knife crime, says Rudd stabbed man to death Richard Ford Home Correspondent

Fiona Hamilton Crime Editor

A young father on his way home from a jazz bar was stabbed to death after an altercation with two men who arrived at the scene on a moped. Friends of Danny Pearce, 31, who was attacked just after midnight on Saturday after leaving Oliver’s Jazz Bar in Greenwich, southeast London, said that he had refused to hand over his £5,000 Rolex watch and phone. Detectives are keeping an open mind about the motive, which will raise further concerns about the rapid rise of moped-enabled crime. In the capital there were 8,300 crimes carried out by moped riders in the past year, compared with 317 five years ago, a rise of 1,600 per cent. There were more than 5,500 mopedenabled crimes in the first four months of this year, according to the Metropolitan police. Officers have said that changes in pursuit policy, allowing them only to chase suspects in certain circumstances, are behind the rise. Mr Pearce was approached by two men wearing motorbike helmets. One fired a gun and the other jumped off the moped and lashed out at him with a kitchen knife. Mr Pearce died at the scene. No one has been arrested. An anonymous friend who came to lay flowers there said yesterday said: “He was with his girlfriend and was stabbed in the throat. They wanted his

Radcliffe helps mugging victim The actor Daniel Radcliffe came to the aid of a man who was slashed in the face by moped thieves in one of London’s most exclusive shopping areas (Fiona Hamilton writes). Radcliffe, star of the Harry Potter films, is believed to have witnessed the mugging in which the foreign tourist was targeted as he walked along King’s Road in Chelsea, west London. David Videcette, a former counterterrorism detective, said that the thieves had been trawling the area before slashing the victim and stealing his bag. He said that Radcliffe waited at the scene to give police his details and comfort the victim. “Fair play to him,” he added. Mr Videcette wrote on Twitter: “And I want to say a big thank you to Daniel Radcliffe who stopped to help the guy that had been robbed. Top bloke. Some stars wouldn’t have.” Radcliffe’s spokeswoman said that he was present but declined to comment further.

watch, I think it was an expensive watch, about £5,000, it must have been a Rolex or something and he had a good phone. They tried to take his stuff and there was a boy holding out a gun and because he didn’t give it to them the other guy jumped off the moped and stabbed him in the neck. “Danny was not the kind of guy to start trouble, he was on his phone trying to get a lift home, he was with his girlfriend and his friend’s girlfriend.” Dozens of flowers, a Chelsea scarf Danny Pearce refused to hand over a Rolex watch

and “daddy” balloons were attached to the railings along the pavement where Mr Pearce died. A child’s drawing was marked “to daddy, love gracie”. An eyewitness said: “I heard the screaming first . . . A girl was screaming, she was screaming for about four hours.” Separately, a 16-year-old rider on a stolen moped, who was hit by a police car during a chase, is fighting for his life in hospital. He was one of three teenagers thrown from the moped in Wimbledon, south London, in the early hours of Sunday morning.

People buying knives online will be forced to collect them in person under a government proposal to clamp down on sales to children and teenagers. Online age verification checks have failed to stop under-18s obtaining knives, the home secretary admitted. The Home Office proposal means that instead of having a knife delivered to their own address, buyers would have to arrange to pick them up from a store, which would be responsible for checking their age. How online sellers without physical stores would comply with the legislation will be considered as part of a consultation this autumn. Amber Rudd, the home secretary, said: “We are announcing new measures to combat knife crime and the devastating impact it has on families, individuals and communities. “We are going to be consulting on new legislation so that people can’t buy knives online without having their identity checked. We have evidence that young people have been able to buy knives without verifying their ID and I want to stop that.” She said it was a “perfectly reasonable” step to take, quoting figures that indicated almost three quarters of online retailers that should carry out age verification checks were not doing so. “The online retailers may say, ‘Well, we ask people whether they are over or under 18’, and that’s just not good enough,” Ms Rudd said. In one case a

buyer aged under 18 was able to have a knife delivered to their mother’s shed, the home secretary added. Demand for action rose last year after a court was told that the knife used to fatally stab Bailey Gwynne, an Aberdeen schoolboy, was bought online. Bailey’s killer, who was 16 at the time of the killing, cannot be named for legal reasons. He denied murder and was sentenced to nine years in prison on the lesser charge of culpable homicide. Other Home Office proposals include closing a loophole that leaves police powerless to seize banned weapons such as so-called zombie knives, knuckledusters and “throwing stars” — flat-bladed throwing weapons with three or more points — if they find them on private premises. The consultation will also ask whether the offence of possessing a knife in a public place or school premises should be extended to include further education colleges and universities. Figures released in April showed that knife crime in England and Wales had reached its highest level in six years. Knife-crime incidents rose 14 per cent between 2015 and 2016 from 28,427 to 32,448, figures revealed. Most police forces in England and Wales recorded an increase in knife crime, with the largest recorded by the Metropolitan Police, according to the Office for National Statistics. The next official crime figures will be published on Thursday. Rachel Sylvester, page 31

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Whitehall hits its target for aid but billions remain unused Dominic Kennedy Investigations Editor

Billions of pounds of British aid is lying unused by international development organisations, a public spending watchdog says. The amount of money pledged by Britain to overseas bodies but left uncashed has doubled to £8.7 billion in two years, the National Audit Office (NAO) has discovered. The auditors warn that the growing trend risks undermining the credibility of the government’s commitment to spend 0.7 per cent of national income on aid, a figure now exceeding £13 billion. Lord Lipsey, a Labour peer, said yesterday: “These tales, now with the authoritative backing of the NAO, discredit Britain’s aid spending and hand yet more live ammunition to the antiaid brigade.” Nearly a fifth of aid spending is done through “promissory notes”, a form of IOU that provides a legally binding commitment by Britain to pay an international organisation in the future. The practical advantage is that this enables bodies such as the World Bank to embark on long-term projects, confident that the finance will be available. Recipients include the Commonwealth Development Corporation, the African Development Fund and the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Critics fear that promissory notes make it easier for civil servants to reach their aid target for official development assistance (ODA) without actually finding enough schemes to support. “The continued growth in the balance of outstanding promissory notes could undermine the credibility of the ODA target,” the NAO states in its report, published today. In March 2014, uncashed promissory notes stood at £4.3 billion. By the end of last December, that figure had more than doubled. A spokeswoman for the Department for International Development (Dfid) said: “Promissory notes allow us to make the long-term funding commitments that are needed for life-saving

work such as HIV/Aids anti-retrovirals, without having to provide all the cash up front — they are the smart, sustainable, value-for-money approach.” David Cameron enshrined in British law a commitment to meet a United Nations target for overseas aid, the only major economy that has done so. Since Theresa May took over as prime minister she has honoured the pledge. The difficulties of reaching the target may be reflected in a trend for departments to spend much of the annual aid budget towards the year’s end. Lord Lipsey has introduced legislation that would spread the target over five years instead of one, to avoid a late panic by officials desperate to find projects to get the money out of the door. The Tories are now sharing the aid budget more widely in Whitehall, with a shrinking proportion going to Dfid. The NAO noted that officials were tending to spend the lion’s share of the aid budget near the deadline. At the Department for Energy and Climate Change, 98 per cent of the aid pot was left unspent until the final quarter of the year. The Department for Environment, the Department for Health and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport all spent more than half their budget in the final three months. The same problem arose at Dfid when Mr Cameron introduced the aid target but the department, led by Priti Patel, is now praised for spending more evenly through the year. The NAO said that there was a lack of responsibility and accountability for aid spending at the top because the government had made the Treasury responsible for handing out budgets to departments while Dfid had to ensure that the 0.7 per cent target was reached. Dfid said: “To provide value for money for UK taxpayers, while delivering for the world’s poorest people and tackling global challenges such as conflict and disease, it is essential that all government departments are as robust [as Dfid] in driving value for money.” dkennedy@thetimes.co.uk

Flying high Cesar Corrales, 20, becomes English National Ballet’s youngest principal from the start of the 2017-2018 season

Rail chaos to increase as strikes spread Graeme Paton Transport Correspondent

Strikes are to spread to the Greater Anglia rail network, causing chaos for hundreds of thousands of commuters. The Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) announced yesterday that it would ballot guards and drivers over strike action as part of an escalating row over the operation of doors on trains by guards. It said that it had failed to win assurances from Greater Anglia that guards

would be retained in full — including maintaining responsibility for closing train doors at stations — for the duration of its nine-year contract. The network carries 82 million passengers a year across London, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk. The RMT said last week that it might stage action on South West Trains, Britain’s busiest rail network. It is already engaged in a rolling wave of strikes on three other networks — Southern,

Northern and Merseyrail — over the role of guards. The Southern action has proved particularly disruptive, with staff walking out for the equivalent of more than a month in the past year. Britain’s rail network is involved in a modernisation programme, including the delivery of thousands of new trains to cope with rising passenger numbers. Almost all new trains are equipped with driver-control systems in which doors are operated from within the cab. HS2 route confirmed, pages 20-21

Under-budget fire service demands £6m Office fantasy football risks falling foul of gambling laws Sean O’Neill Chief Reporter

London’s fire authority, which wants £6 million from the government for specialist equipment after the Grenfell Tower disaster, underspent its budget by £9.9 million last year, The figure was published yesterday as councils were warned against increasing the fire risk to buildings by hastily removing tower block cladding. Despite concerns about a shortage of firefighters in the capital almost half the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority (LFEPA) underspending was due to a failure to recruit staff, leaving it with a wage bill surplus of £4.2 million in 2016-17. Documents for the authority’s resources committee said recruitment policies aimed at increasing the diversity of fire service personnel had caused

the number of applicants to fall. The papers also revealed that the authority, appointed by Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, had £37 million in reserves, more than double the £14 million it is required to hold. The scale of the underspending and financial reserves are embarrassing for Mr Khan who told Amber Rudd, the home secretary, last week that the Grenfell tragedy exposed London Fire Brigade’s need for “a new range of specialist equipment at an estimated cost of £6 million”. The brigade’s shopping list is thought to be headed by ladders taller than the 32m aerial platform available last month to firefighters called to the 70m block. At least 80 people died in the blaze which swept through the building in west London. Mr Khan’s letter to Ms Rudd warned that the fire service faced “financial pressures” that could create a

budget gap of £25.5 million by 2021-22. Budget reports for the LFEPA resources committee, however, paint a picture of a body struggling to spend the money it already has. Spending on firefighter salaries was £3.4 million below the expected level while the amount spent on trainee firefighters was down £786,000 on projections. A spokesman for Mr Khan said the government had “repeatedly cut the fire grant in London” and the LFEPA had identified funds to “offset the impact of any future cuts on services”. 6 Greater Manchester police has followed Scotland Yard in requesting extra funds. The request was prompted by a bomb attack on an Ariana Grande concert in May, which killed 22 people. Terrorist attacks in London and Manchester led to criticism of spending cuts in two of England’s biggest forces.

Andrew Ellson Consumer Affairs Correspondent

Organisers of fantasy football leagues have been warned not to ask others to join their competition on social media in case they breach gambling laws. The Gambling Commission has issued a statement saying that promoting fantasy football on Facebook or Twitter may require a licence. The regulator said: “Advertising, when it comes to gambling, includes doing anything that encourages someone to gamble or provides information about gambling facilities so that it will increase use. This also includes Twitter or Facebook posts, whether public, or private or within groups. Promoting a

fantasy football league in this way could mean it is being operated in the course of a business and need an operating licence.” Whether a fantasy football league needs a pool licence is determined by the number of paying entrants and even leagues that are not run for profit are subject to the rules. Ben Haden, programme director at the Gambling Commission, said: “We want to ensure that those organising these leagues — whether it’s between friends, work colleagues or otherwise — are aware of the legalities and do not breach gambling rules.” The commission added that the same rules apply to fantasy competitions for other sports such as rugby and racing.

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Hammond ‘paying price for treating ministers like dirt’ Francis Elliott Political Editor Lucy Fisher

For a man briefed against in the past four days as a sexist, a snob and a saboteur, Philip Hammond is said to be in remarkably good spirits. “You know Philip,” said a friend yesterday. “He doesn’t seem to care all that much. It might be better if he cared a bit more.” Even in ordinary times a chancellor can expect grumbling from ministerial colleagues. That Mr Hammond is at the centre of three raging rows — over the future of austerity and public sector pay, the nature of Britain’s exit from the EU, and the Tory leadership — ensures that the grumblings are particularly loud. The leaking of a series of verbatim but partial accounts of cabinet meetings designed only to humiliate the occupant of Number 11, however, is of a different order again. The explanation lies, in part, with a personal manner that struggles to win sympathy even in Downing Street. “The problem with Hammond is that he has treated all the ministers that have come to him like dirt,” an aide said yesterday. “This has been brewing for some time.” The chancellor’s allies acknowledge that he can be awkward, even clumsy, in his interactions. He was trying to make a point about how unions have blocked innovation in train drivers’ working practices but was caricatured as saying “even a woman” could drive a train, say

friends. Similarly, while he did say that some public sector workers were “overpaid”, it was, they say, part of a wider, very detailed, disquisition on the finer points of remuneration in public services. The latest charge levelled against him — that he is leading an establishment plot to “f***” Brexit — reflects his tendency to use the supposed sanctity of cabinet meetings to push against what is settled policy. “It’s not what Philip says in public that bothers us,” said a cabinet colleague. “In fact, on things like transition there’s not much distance between the positions. But he says things in private that would tear the Tory party apart.” Most Tory MPs, within days of a much-longed-for summer recess, don’t want to face up to the looming split. Some fretted yesterday that when the Commons rises for summer recess on Thursday, leadership speculation could increase rather than cool off, filling up the vacuum left by the absence of parliamentary business. One minister said: “People say once we get away it’ll all move on. But once we get away that’s when silly season starts proper.” Boris Johnson and Michael Gove, as former journalists and Brexiteers, top the list of suspects in Westminster’s unofficial leak inquiry. “A couple of juvenile scribblers who should have stayed away from politics,” was one Tory’s tart judgment. Both fervently deny any role in the attacks on Mr

Hammond. One Johnson ally steered the blame towards David Davis, the man who, it is said, has the most to gain from Theresa May’s potential departure. He too insists that he has had nothing to do with the briefing. Mrs May will try to summon all of what is left of her authority this morning to reprimand those responsible for the leaks. “She will say that, with a small majority, working as a team is more important than ever and that the job before them is more important than any political positioning,” an ally said last night. The prime minister is likely to point out that the bout of Tory in-fighting allowed Jeremy Corbyn to perform a sudden U-turn on his promise to forgive £100 billion in student debts without sustaining any real political damage. “She’ll remind the cabinet that they all have a responsibility to keep Corbyn well away from the levers of power.” Others want her to go much further. “She’s got to try and establish her authority. A lot hinges on cabinet and how she delivers this strong message [against leaks],” said one minister. “So the first stop is the lecture, but the second stop has got to be, if this carries on, something much more symbolic. Someone’s got to go. I’d go with [Andrea] Leadsom. She doesn’t have that much support — there would only be a group of 20, maximum, who’d be upset about it.” Leading article, page 35

Chief of staff at ease in Tory jungle Profile

avin Barwell has more reason than most to resent Theresa May’s bungled snap election (Francis Elliott writes). Had she run a better campaign he would, by now, be sitting at the cabinet table as communities secretary instead of Sajid Javid. Instead, the former MP, 45, lost his hometown, hyper-marginal seat of Croydon Central on June 8, a constituency that he had won in 2010 and kept against the odds with a majority of 165 through prodigious efforts five years later. While some of his former colleagues carp among the canapes at end-of-term receptions, Barwell is hard at work keeping the wolves from Mrs May’s door. She hasn’t made many popular decisions since her disastrous election campaign but appointing him as her chief of staff

was one. “Gavin is pretty much keeping the show on the road,” a cabinet minister acknowledged. He replaced Fiona Hill and Nick Timothy, Mrs May’s previous chiefs of staff who were blamed for the election fiasco and much else besides. It is said that the idea of appointing Mr Barwell was actually Mr Timothy’s parting gift to the prime minister. Their styles, nevertheless, are different. Cabinet ministers frozen out by the former chiefs approvingly report that their successor solicits their views and smooths rather than provokes disputes. Colleagues say that he is bright, unflappable, has good instincts and a sense of proportion. Clues to his resilience are Gavin Barwell: “pretty much keeping the Tory show on the road”

not hard to find: he became politically engaged while suffering from leukaemia in his early years. “I had cancer as a young child, and you had to sort of get helped across picket lines to get treatment,” he told the Conservative Home website in 2015. “I guess I’d have been seven or eight, and the doctor who treated me left because he got fed up with all the strikes and the whole sort of environment in the NHS. That was an issue I can remember talking to my parents about and trying to understand what was going on.” Having survived his leukaemia, Barwell read natural sciences at Cambridge where he was president of the union before losing his father to an aggressive form of dementia. “Watching

him being taken away from us, piece by piece, was the toughest thing I’ve ever been through,” he has written. Some people complain that he is more functional than visionary; too neat a fit with Mrs May’s own persona. “He’s not electric,” said a former colleague. A One Nation pro-European Tory, Barwell is viewed with suspicion by some on the Conservative right. His workrate — he is said to start at Downing Street at 5am most days — and the depth of his experience command respect. He has variously been a councillor, an MP, a whip, a minister, a member of the Conservative Research Department, part of the party’s press office, a special adviser, CCHQ’s chief operating officer and a director of campaigning. The thing about Gavin is that he really does know what it’s like in pretty much every corner of the Tory jungle,” a friend said.

Eyes on the prize A series of leaks from the weekly cabinet meeting has prompted speculation about the culprits, the beneficiaries and the characters who might have the appetite to succeed Theresa May (Lucy Fisher writes). david davis The Brexit secretary has a strong coterie of allies in the Commons, with claims surfacing at the weekend that he commands the support of 30 Conservative MPs. Reports have abounded that his friends are hatching a plot to call on Mrs May to quit, while other Tory MPs are said to be urging him to challenge her. One of his most loyal friends is Andrew Mitchell, the former international development secretary who ran Mr Davis’s thwarted leadership campaign in 2005. Mr Mitchell was said to have told MPs at a private Commons dinner this month that the prime minister had to go. In recent days Mr Davis’s friends were accused of spreading smears that Mrs May’s husband, Philip, was encouraging her to is quit. His allies view Boris Johnson as his main rival and are said to be targeting the support of Philip Hammond, the chancellor, for a leadership bid. Publicly Mr Davis, 68, has called any leadership contest at present “the height of self-indulgence”, but he has not ruled out wanting the job in future. boris johnson The bombastic foreign secretary boasts a high public profile and is viewed as another top contender. The former London mayor, 53, was accused of going on

manoeuvres immediately after the general election. After reports of his politicking at that crucial hour, a WhatsApp message from him to Tory MPs urging them to “get behind” the prime minister and “calm down” was leaked, leading to speculation that the leak originated

among his allies. Like Mr Hammond he has been the subject of hostile briefings, including rumours about his love life in recent days. Four separate factions are out to destroy him, one commentator said. Mr Johnson’s team yesterday cast a wider net than usual to provide details about his performance at the foreign affairs council in Brussels in an attempt to highlight his influence and seriousness. It came after colleagues privately criticised his attention to detail and grasp of his portfolio. Last week he and Mr

House of living dead Patrick Kidd Political Sketch

arliament stumbles towards recess like the cast of a film by the late George A Romero. Some call this a zombie government but that gives the cabinet more signs of life than it might deserve. Zombies always shuffle forwards, moaning and dropping body parts or manifesto pledges as they go, and are ruthlessly single-minded, if empty-minded. If any party’s MPs are like zombies, surely it is Labour’s. “Votes, votes” groan the reanimated corpses of the Labour backbenchers, who only two months ago seemed to be preparing for eternal rest, while Theresa May barricades herself into a

deserted farmhouse and tries to keep the opposition out, as well as some of her own colleagues. The feature film shown in the chamber yesterday was Teatime of the Living Dead, a three-hour emergency debate on the scheduling of parliamentary business (or rather the lack of it). Valerie Vaz, opening for the opposition, observed that MPs have discussed legislation on only four days since the election and that by September eight months will have passed between debates on a Labour “opposition day” motion. “Is the government scared of the opposition?” she asked. “It seems that the cabinet is too busy trying to push the prime minister out. The electorate needs to see us at work.” In reply, Andrea Leadsom, leader of the House, said that the government had lots of legislation up its sleeves,

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Boris Johnson — with the Bulgarian foreign minister, Ekaterina Zakharieva, this week — Andrea Leadsom, Michael Gove and Priti Patel

Davis displayed barely disguised animosity at The Spectator’s summer party. The charged meeting was redolent of a “pair of rutting stags locking antlers”, according to one report. philip hammond The chancellor, 61, has been the subject of a series of briefings in the past week, in which he has been cast as both a sexist and a saboteur of Brexit. At the helm of the Treasury, Mr Hammond wields considerable power but as a fiscal hawk he also faces growing clamour from the public sector and

some quarters of the Tory party to approve more spending. His emphasis on the economy in the Brexit process has set him against cabinet Eurosceptics. At the weekend he publicly accused proBrexit ministers of being behind the aggressive leaks against him. He was dealt a blow after having to U-turn on the centrepiece of his first budget this year when it clashed with the 2015 manifesto. andrea leadsom The Commons leader was accused of going on

manoeuvres when she turned up at the Grenfell Tower site in the aftermath t of the fatal fire to meet survivors, a move that highlighted Mrs May’s failure to do the same. The last person standing againstt Mrs May in the Tory party leadership contest last year, Mrs Leadsom, 54, is newer to frontline politics than some other runners and riders, moving to the front bench in 2014.

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michael gove The former justice secretary, 49, was returned to the cabinet as environment secretary last month. A canny operator, colleagues may not be ready to forget his brutal ending of Mr Johnson’s leadership bid last year, although rumours swirl that the foreign secretary himself could be more pragmatic about obtaining Mr Gove’s support in a future pact. other potential contenders Priti Patel, 45, is an ambitious frontbencher on the right wing of the party, who is regarded as a strong performer in the Commons. The international development secretary is said tto have been noticeably friendlier to colleagues since the election. Dominic Raab, 43, a Brexit champion from the 2010 intake, is touted as a fresher option to take the party mantle. He is viewed by his peers as cerebral and hard-working, but lacking an easy charm. Tom Tugendhat, 44, a former British Army officer, mounted a successful campaign to oust the incumbent Tory chairman of the foreign affairs select committee. Sajid Javid, 47, a former business secretary and now the communities secretary, is seen as a safe pair of hands, if a wooden performer.

still manages a fawning racket was summoned to answer urgent questions far more frequently than the last Labour government and that parliament had not become a place of tumbleweed. “Many important debates have already taken place,” she said. Four hours were dedicated on Thursday, for instance, to a venture in Europe with few clear objectives, little hope of success and great human cost. Not Brexit but the Battle of Passchendaele. It seemed less like government and more like an evening on BBC Four. Perhaps when we return in September we shall get a lecture on flower-arranging by Jacob Rees-Mogg and the Treasury team’s famous barber-shop routine. The afternoon began with the now traditional post-Wimbledon match report by Mr Speaker. John Bercow praised the British winners but his

main purpose was to gush about Roger Federer. “The oldest man to win a grand slam singles title since 1972 and the first man to win Wimbledon without dropping a set throughout the tournament since 1976,” Mr Bercow informed MPs. “A very great man indeed.” Well that padded out a few minutes, especially when Mr Bercow returned to his favourite theme two hours later to chide Alex Chalk (C, Cheltenham) for getting excited. “Go and watch some Federer matches,” he told him, “you’ll learn composure.” A bit after that he informed Mrs Leadsom that he had wept “tears of joy” on Centre Court. More padding came through a string of points-of-order about the government trying to duck out of giving a statement on the latest developments in the HS2 rail project.

Well it’s only £7 billion of public funding and the demolition of a few homes. Why would anyone want to debate that? MPs on all sides called this avoidance of parliament “outrageous” and demanded that Chris Grayling, the transport secretary, appear. He eventually agreed to make a statement at 10pm. Asked why he couldn’t get him there earlier, Mr Bercow said: “It is not within the powers of the Speaker to reverse time.” Was this a pitch by Mr Bercow to join Jodie Whittaker in the Tardis? I can see the yappy and big-headed Speaker as an updated version of Tom Baker’s famous sidekick. If we can have a woman as the Doctor, why not a Speaker as K9? Although if you gave Mr Bercow the power to travel through space and time he’d only fritter it on watching Federer.

Free schools lose out as Greening raids the budget Patrick Maguire

The government’s free schools policy faces swingeing cuts to pay for a £1.3 billion “softener” for all schools. Justine Greening, the education secretary, announced that the funding will come from “efficiencies and savings” across the Department for Education. Ms Greening said that the money — to offset the effects of a new funding formula for schools — proved that the government was “determined to listen” after the proposed new formula proved hugely unpopular during the general election campaign. She said that the boost will ensure that the basic amount of funding for every pupil will increase over the next two years while the new regime is introduced. The formula is designed to address regional disparities in per-pupil funding and was announced before Christmas. Although about half of schools are expected to get additional money, many face budget cuts of hundreds of thousands of pounds. Urban areas will be hit but some rural Tory heartlands also face severe real-terms cuts. Labour, the teaching unions and parents campaigned aggressively on the issue and a number of Conservative MPs said the plan did not go down well on the doorstep. As a result, the Tories pledged to increase school funding by £4 billion to protect schools during the formula’s introduction — but a backlash against plans to abolish free school meals for infants, which would have funded the pledge, meant the education secretary has been forced to seek alternative funding. The Times reported last week that Ms Greening was agitating for cuts to the budget for new free schools, the brainchild of her predecessor Michael Gove. She has insisted that she “remains committed” to the flagship programme but the cuts are another defeat for the Theresa May, who has also been forced to park her plans for new grammar schools. The budget for new free schools is to be cut by £280 million — equivalent to

Where cash will come from Free schools — £280 million Thirty of the 140 proposed new free schools will instead be funded by local authorities. Healthy pupils programme — £315 million Cash dedicated to new sports facilities will also take a hit. Other capital spending — £95 million Ms Greening did not specify which other central programmes would be cut. School improvement programmes — £200 million Ms Greening said that funding for programmes to drive up standards will be better used in the hands of head teachers.

30 fewer new schools — while £420 million will be cut from the department of education’s capital budget, including £315 million from the healthy pupils programme. Ms Greening, who said that the funding would ensure a “world-class education for every single child”, declined to specify which education programmes would be cut to make up the remaining shortfall when questioned in the Commons yesterday. She said the total schools budget would increase from £41 billion next year to £42.4 billion in 2018/19 and £43.5 billion in 2019/20. However, the extra funding falls well short of the promised £4 billion and Angela Rayner, the shadow education secretary, said that Ms Greening’s announcement proved the government was in “full retreat” from its pledges. Ms Rayner said: “Per pupil funding will still fall over the course of this parliament unless further action is taken urgently. Astoundingly this has all been funded without a penny of additional money from the Treasury. Perhaps the chancellor didn’t want to fund schools and thought that teachers and teaching assistants are simply more overpaid public servants.”

Cameron: Strap rivals to raft on a dangerous river Patrick Maguire, Hannah McGrath

David Cameron has entered the cabinet row by suggesting that there were several ministers he would like to “strap together” on a raft on a “very, very dangerous river”. He said the Conservatives were at risk of “slipping backwards” after last month’s election and offered a withering assessment of ministers’ abilities. The former prime minister was speaking to London’s Evening Standard, the newspaper edited by his close friend George Osborne. Asked whether any ministers would benefit from the Outward Bound-style activities offered by the National Citizen Service that he set up while in office, Mr Cameron said: “If it involved crossing a very, very dangerous river on a raft, I can think of a few I’d want to strap together.” Ministers appointed by Mr Cameron who have subsequently rejoined Theresa May’s cabinet include Michael Gove, the environment secretary, Liam Fox, the international trade secretary,

Michael Fallon, the defence secretary, Philip Hammond, the chancellor, and Jeremy Hunt, the health secretary. He warned Mrs May that she must present a more inspiring vision “of how you build not just a strong economy but a strong society and a better life”. Urging the prime minister to stick to the liberalising track he had pioneered during his time in office, Mr Cameron said: “The Conservative Party only succeeds if it is a party of the future. Modernisation isn’t an event. It is a process. “A political party should be asking itself all the time, ‘Am I properly in touch with and reflecting the society and the country?’ I want us to go on being the open, liberal, tolerant party that we became post-2005 because I think that was part of our success.” Mr Cameron said that he had deliberately steered clear of joining speculation over Mrs May’s leadership, but his remarks underlined the precariousness of her position. “When you leave office you sort of know you can’t run back on the pitch and give the ball a kick,” he said.

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Davis makes a sharp exit from talks in Brussels Oliver Wright, Sarah Collins

David Davis has been accused of failing to engage with the “substance” of Brexit negotiations after leaving Brussels within hours of the start of detailed talks on Britain’s departure. The Brexit secretary met his opposite number Michel Barnier briefly, declaring it was time to “get down to business” before catching the Eurostar to London. He is due to return on Thursday to review progress with the chief European negotiator. His seemingly hasty departure was compounded when the European Commission released pictures of Mr Davis and Mr Barnier sitting opposite each other with their respective teams. While commission negotiators each sat with a pile of briefing papers, the UK delegation had none. British diplomats said the documents were in Mr Davis’s bag at the time the photo was taken. A spokesman for Mr Davis said it had always been intended that he would not stay in Brussels for the duration of the talks, overseeing negotiations from London. His decision, though, is understood to have raised eyebrows at the commission. Mr Barnier works in the building where the talks are taking place and can debrief his teams easily. Mr Davis will have to debrief British officials remotely, although a source in his department insisted: “We are not in the carrier pigeon age.” The Brexit secretary also came under fire from Labour and the Liberal Democrats. Sir Keir Starmer, the shadow Brexit secretary, said it was a further sign that the British team was “not prepared” for the big political trade-off necessary to deliver Brexit successfully. “David Davis can hardly say this is the time to get down to business and then spend only a few minutes in Brussels before heading back to Whitehall,” he said. “We need a fresh approach and to see real progress. That means engaging with the substance of talks.” Tom Brake, the Lib Dem Brexit spokesman, added: “We have less than twenty months of Brexit talks left yet David Davis has skulked back to the UK after just half a day. He didn’t have any position papers because this government has no agreed Brexit position. This is a government with no papers, no plan and no time for the most important negotiations of a lifetime.” A spokesman for the Department for

Exiting the European Union said that “as with any other international negotiation, talks have moved to technical working-level discussions. David Davis and Michel Barnier will be updated throughout the talks, before returning to the negotiating table later this week”. In a short press conference to kick off the negotiations Mr Davis insisted that this week’s talks would get into the “substance of the matter”. “It’s four categories really. The issue of citizens’ rights, the issue of finance, separation issues and, of course, separately, Northern Ireland,” he said. “For us it’s incredibly important we now make good progress. That we negotiate through this and identify the differences, so that we can deal with them, and identify the similarities so that we can move forward. And now it’s time to get down to work and make this a successful negotiation.” Mr Barnier said this week’s talks would centre on comparing Britain and the EU’s “respective positions” to “make good progress”. “As you know, our negotiating groups will work on citizens’ rights, on the financial settlement and other separation issues,” he said. “David and I will be in contact throughout the week [and will] take stock together on Thursday.” Officials who were briefed on yesterday’s negotiations said that they were conducted in a positive mood, despite focusing on contentious issues. Negotiators will today take on more complex “separation issues”, such as nuclear energy, goods placed on the market on Brexit day and the jurisdiction of European Union courts. They will also come back to citizens’ rights and money and have a “political dialogue” on Northern Ireland. Simon Coveney, the Irish foreign and Brexit minister, who met Boris Johnson in Brussels, said solving the Irish border issue would not be straightforward, adding that the UK was not being realistic about what it wanted from a post-Brexit trading relationship. “We cannot and we will not accept a situation where we have a re-emergence of a hard border on the island of Ireland,” Mr Coveney said. Mr Johnson also met the Danish foreign minister Anders Samuelsen, with onlookers saying they joked about the tariff-free trade in “liquorice and Lego” post-Brexit.

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Who’s who as tribes size each other up 1 sabine weyand Michel Barnier’s deputy is a high-flying German official at the European Commission who studied at Cambridge and is known for her fierce intelligence, sense of humour and infectious laughter. Ms Weyand, 52, will lead the negotiations on the trickiest areas including what to do over the Northern Irish border.

2 michel barnier The lead Brussels negotiator is a former French foreign minister and Gaullist election campaign manager whose pragmatism was noted when he was the European commissioner responsible for the City of London from 2009 to 2014. Mr Barnier, 66, pushed hard for the job, putting noses out of joint by arriving in Brussels within a day of the British referendum result to offer his services to Jean-Claude Juncker. The European Commission president has been his friend and ally for more than 20 years.

3 stéphanie riso Ms Riso, 41, Mr Barnier’s principal adviser, is French and a commission expert on the EU budget who will be negotiating the

One tweeter mockingly compared David Davis to David Brent, imagining how negotiations might go given that the British team brought very few notes “Brexit bill” with Mark Bowman, the directorgeneral of international finance at HM Treasury.

4 oliver robbins Tipped as a future head of the civil service, Mr Robbins, 42, is lead official in David Davis’s department as well as the prime minister’s “sherpa” to the EU. He has been engaged in informal Brexit talks with the EU for months and his role will be instrumental in hammering out details of agreement in the areas to be discussed that will then be signed off by the political “principals”.

5 david davis Until last year Mr Davis, 68, thought that his frontline political career was over. He had stood for the Tory leadership in 2005 and lost to David Cameron. He then resigned from the Tory front bench in 2008 and triggered a by-election over what

he saw as the erosion of civil liberties by Labour. After he campaigned for Britain to leave the EU, his political resurrection came when Theresa May unexpectedly offered him the job of Brexit secretary in a new department set up to negotiate departure from the EU. He will lead the UK team.

6 sir tim barrow As Britain’s ambassador to the EU, Sir Tim, 53, is the UK’s eyes and ears on the ground in Brussels. His role will be to keep channels of communication open with the other 27 member states despite the public insistence that all negotiations must take place through the European Commission. A former UK ambassador to Russia, Sir Tim was parachuted into the role after Sir Ivan Rogers resigned over his lack of access to the prime minister.

Advisers out in force to untangle 44 years of laws Behind the story

ccording to David Davis they are the most complicated negotiations “of all time” (Oliver Wright and Sarah Collins write). So perhaps it was good sense that there wasn’t a single politician left in the room when EU and UK officials sat down to untangle 44 years of joint lawmaking. The UK has 98 officials in

Brussels this week involved in the Brexit negotiations in various capacities. The EU side is a little more modest at 52. The timetable for the talks is deliberately vague but is split into three negotiating strands. The first is on citizens’ rights and is being led from the UK by Glyn Williams, a Home Office official responsible for policy in the UK’s border, immigration and citizenship system. The second negotiating

group is all about money and the Brexit bill the UK is liable for. The talks are being led by Mr Barnier’s principal adviser, Stéphanie Riso, and Philippe Bertrand, a budget official. On the UK side is Mark Bowman, a senior Treasury official. Simon Case, formerly Theresa May’s principal private secretary, will also play a role in this group alongside other aspects of the negotiations. The final group will tackle “other

separation issues” such as nuclear energy and the jurisdiction of EU courts. Negotiators are also set to touch on how to extricate the UK from EU tariffs under World Trade Organisation rules. Insiders say not to expect too much progress on Thursday but enough to show momentum before October’s deadline for the “sufficient progress” to be made to start talking about Britain’s future relationship with the EU.

France and Germany have joined forces to exclude the UK from a €1 trillion financial market after Brexit. Lobbyists for Paris and Frankfurt have put aside rivalries in an effort to persuade the EU to make it unviable for financial institutions based in London to clear trades made in euros when Britain leaves the bloc. The move is understood to be part of a wide and aggressive push to diminish London as a financial centre and win business in the eurozone. At the weekend the former Liberal Democrat minister Jeremy Browne, who is now the City’s Brexit envoy, warned that France was using Brexit to sabotage the British economy. In a memo sent to ministers, Mr Browne claimed that the French government and banking chiefs were plotting to “actively disrupt and destroy” the UK’s financial sector. “They are crystal clear about their underlying objective: the weakening of Britain, the ongoing degradation of the City of London,” he said in the memo, which was leaked to The Mail on Sunday. “The clear messages emanating from Paris are not just the musings of a rogue senior official in the French government or central bank. France could not be clearer about their intentions. They see Britain and the City of London as adversaries, not partners.” The memo suggested that other EU countries were keen for good relations with the UK over Brexit but were powerless to stop the French moves. The co-ordination of lobbying efforts by Frankfurt and Paris will alarm ministers because the European Commission could effectively exclude the UK from one of its most lucrative markets. Attempts have been made in the past to exclude the UK from carrying out euro clearing but the move was ruled illegal by the European Court of Justice in 2015 because it discriminated against a member state. That ruling will be invalid after the UK leaves the bloc. Paris is seen as particularly keen to take business from London. That determination has increased with the election of Emmanuel Macron as president. Last week Paris hosted a forum aimed at wooing senior bankers. At the event, Stuart Gulliver, chief executive of HSBC, said that a recent package of reforms to loosen France’s employment rules was “very, very positive”. HSBC has said that it would move 1,000 jobs to Paris in the event of a hard Brexit with no access deal to EU markets. The Frankfurt-based European Central Bank has long wanted more direct control over euro-clearing inside the UK, which is regulated by the Bank of England. In a speech at the Mansion House last month, the governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, said: “Fragmentation is in no one’s economic interest. Nor is it necessary for financial stability. Indeed it can damage it.” Meanwhile, senior City figures are increasingly warning that if the Brexit terms for financial services are not determined soon, it will force institutions to start to move jobs. They are also calling for the government to fight for a two-year transition period after Brexit. Catherine McGuinness, policy chairwoman of the City of London Corporation, told Reuters: “Decisions are already being made. We need a clear pledge from both sides of a transition period so there is clarity for business.”

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Archimedes could string a number or two together and Homer was fairly handy with a hexameter, but on the whole their contemporaries were probably a little less intelligent than people today, according to a controversial study. Mankind has evolved to become slightly brighter over the past few millennia thanks to circumstances that have favoured the survival of the sharpest, researchers argue. We should not get too smug, though. The inherited part of mental ability — which accounts for roughly half of the difference between individuals — may well have weakened again since the Victorian era, the academics say. An international team led by Michael Woodley, of the Free University in Brussels, claims that the emergence of farming, cities and systems of government would have made it easier for smooth operators such as Odysseus to pass on their genes than for musclebound plodders such as Ajax. Even if the decks were very marginally stacked towards clever people having more children than stupid people, over many centuries this effect might add up to a shift in population-level genetics. To test their idea, Dr Woodley and his colleagues used a bank of genomes recovered from the remains of 99 people from central and eastern Europe. The oldest of these died in about 2,000BC, at the start of the Bronze Age, while the latest was from the seventh century AD. Comparing these against the DNA of 503 modern Europeans, the researchers found that the mutations linked to higher general cognitive ability (GCA), which enables people to solve problems across a range of different modes of thinking, had become more common as time went by. The results were confirmed in a separate analysis of the genes of 66 more ancient people who had lived across 3,200 years. Dr Woodley has previously argued that the genes driving intelligence may have become less common since the 19th century as advances in medicine and nutrition have allowed

Robert Stephenson Robert Stephenson, left, became known as the greatest engineer of the 19th century. Born in in 1803, he developed the steam locomotive Rocket. By 1850 he had been involved in the construction of a third of the country’s railways. Cha Charles Darwin Ag geologist by training, D Darwin identified the m most important m mechanism in m modern biology: n natural selection. Ab Above his first ten tentative sketch of the tree o of life are two words whose ccareful scepticism has been the guiding guid spirit of science ever since: “I think.” Ada Lovelace Byron’s only legitimate child worked with Charles Babbage, one of the fathers of computing, on plans for an “analytical engine” that could perform calculations. Lovelace, below, who died in 1852, is credited with writing the first algorithm and recognising that computers that could do more than simply crunch numbers.

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people with lower IQs to have more children who survived into adulthood. As a result, his team suggests that the “millennia-long microevolutionary trend favouring higher GCA” may have gone into reverse over the course of the 20th century. Their conclusions are likely to be hotly disputed. The extent to which humans are still subject to the same evolutionary pressures that Darwin saw in the animals of the Galapagos is moot. While some mutations, such as the lactase persistence gene, which allows us to drink milk and eat cheese in adulthood, have spread widely over the past 10,000 years, there are relatively few such clear-cut examples — especially in the field of intelligence, which is influenced in a small way by many hundreds of genes. Dr Woodley and another of the paper’s four authors have backgrounds in plant biology, while a third, Davide Piffer, has previously asserted that Africans are genetically disposed to have lower IQs than Europeans. The paper, which was released on bioRxiv, a website for early-stage research, has yet to be published in a peer-reviewed journal. Neil Pendleton, professor of medical gerontology at the University of Manchester, who has previously worked on the genetics of human intelligence but was not involved in this study, said that the findings were an “interesting observation”. “The methods are acceptable and the proposal has some evidence: that if the same common genetic variance we can detect for modern humans had the same effect in early figures, then it would seem there is an enrichment for these in the historical period transition,” he said. James Thompson, honorary senior lecturer in psychology at University College London, said that the study appeared to show a long-term upward movement in the biological basis for intelligence, although it was not yet clear how big the difference had been. “If we had been caught in our Victorian prime, our rise in ability since the pre-agricultural, hunter-gatherer ages would have been even more apparent,” he wrote in a blog post. “Selection is the key. When you must use your wits to survive, and restrain present urges for future gains, then the brighter multiply. When, in less taxing circumstances, there is no particular need for wit or restraint, then there is no premium for those characteristics.”

Ex-Doctor defends latest incarnation Sheeran cameo upsets Game of Thrones fans Jack Malvern

The actor Colin Baker has hit out at the “very sad” reaction from some Doctor Who fans to the casting of Jodie Whittaker as the new Doctor. Baker, 74, who had the role between 1984 and 1986, said that he was surprised by those who opposed it being played by a woman. “Cannot deny that I am amazed by the ‘never watch it again’ reaction by some viewers (I hesitate to call them ‘fans’). Very sad,” he tweeted. He also wrote: “To those making ‘parking the Tardis’ jokes — name me one male Doctor who was unfailingly good at that!” Whittaker, 35, will take over from Peter Capaldi to become the 13th incarnation of the Time Lord during a special episode on Christmas Day. Baker had called for a woman to play

the role in the 1990s, when he suggested Joanna Lumley as the ideal candidate. His wish briefly came true in a sketch for Comic Relief in 1999, which was written by Steven Moffat, who went on to become the programme’s creative Jodie Whittaker is the first woman to play the Doctor

head in 2009. This year’s Christmas special will be his last episode in charge. Tom Baker, who played the Doctor from 1974 to 1981, caused a national debate when he announced his retirement from the role with the words: “I certainly wish my successor luck

whoever he — or she — might be.” Moffat has laid the groundwork for the Doctor to regenerate as a woman. Characters have discussed the fact that another Time Lord, the Corsair, had been incarnated as a woman “a couple of times”. Moffat cast Michelle Gomez as Missy, a Time Lord who was previously known as the Master and played by men. He also cast the actress T’Nia Miller as the General, a Time Lord who was previously a man. Sylvester McCoy, who played the Doctor from 1987 to 1989, tweeted: “Congratulations Jodie Whittaker!!!! One small step for women, one giant leap for womenkind!” Alex Kingston, 54, who has played River Song, the Doctor’s wife, heard the news while on stage at a convention. She joked: “I’m always the damn cradle-snatcher.” Hugo Rifkind, page 33

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He had nine songs in the Top Ten, headlined Glastonbury and has now invaded Game of Thrones. There is just no escaping Ed Sheeran. The singer makes a cameo in the TV drama’s seventh series, which launched yesterday, but fans of the show were less than thrilled. Sheeran’s appearance comes in a scene with Arya Stark, played by Maisie Williams. She stumbles across a group of soldiers, one of whom is singing a song that features in the original book. The show’s creators revealed Ed Sheeran in the hit drama

in March that Sheeran would appear, adding that Williams was a fan. Some Sheeran devotees were delighted. The Twitter user @ByKalynn posted: “Ed Sheeran randomly appearing in Game of Thrones was the greatest moment of my young life.” Thrones viewers were less impressed. Zach Goins referenced a group of characters called white walkers who are almost impossible to kill, posting: “If Arya doesn’t burn Ed Sheeran he’ll come back as a white walker and be playing Westeros Glastonbury for thousands of years.” TV review, Times2

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Cancer patients charged £1,000 for holiday insurance Cancer patients are being denied holiday insurance or forced to pay £1,000 for a product that costs the general public £37 on average, a charity claims. Macmillan Cancer Support says that some policies reflect an outdated view of the illness as something that only affects a small number of people or is a “death sentence”. However, by 2020 one in every two people will get the disease at some point in their lives, trends suggest. Cancer patients are also twice as likely to survive at least ten years after diagnosis as they were at the start of the 1970s. A survey of more than 2,000 cancer patients found that 2 per cent have been denied insurance even though their cancer was diagnosed

more than a decade ago. Extrapolating the figures, the charity estimates that 8,500 British holidaymakers are affected. An estimated 7,500 Britons who have had cancer in the past have paid £1,000 or more for travel insurance. On average, people with cancer paid £133 for their policies — nearly four times the average cost of an annual travel policy for the general public. The charity called on the insurance industry to use more “accurate, relevant and tailored” data in its policies. A spokeswoman for the Association of British Insurers said cover was widely available for people with long-term medical conditions. It advised customers to use specialist providers if necessary.

Doctors find 27 contact lenses in woman’s eye

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Doctors carrying out a routine cataract operation on a 67-year-old woman at Solihull Hospital in the West Midlands discovered 27 contact lenses trapped in her right eye. Writing in the British Medical Journal, they said they had found “a bluish foreign body” which turned out to be a hard lump of 17 monthly disposable contact lenses “bound together by mucus”. Ten more were found as the operation continued. Rupal Morjaria, a specialist trainee in ophthalmology, said: “None of us have ever seen this before. We were really surprised that the patient didn’t notice it, because it would cause quite a lot of irritation. She thought the discomfort was just part of old age.”

Attackers use children’s drink bottles to spray acid Acid attackers are using children’s squeezable drink bottles to inflict “maximum injuries” on their victims (Richard Ford writes). Police in London have been told to check the drink bottles if they find them during searches of young people on the streets, according to The Sun. Yesterday at Stratford youth court a 16-year-old boy denied carrying out a series of acid attacks in less than 90 minutes in London last Thursday. He is accused of targeting six victims, all of whom were riding mopeds, and spraying them in the face with a noxious liquid. He is charged with 13 offences

in connection with the incident, all of which he denies. He also faces another charge of stealing a moped on June 25, which he also denies. The defendant, who cannot be named because of his age, spoke only to confirm his name and address and enter pleas. The boy, from Croydon, south London, was remanded in custody to appear at Wood Green crown court next month. Separately, a teenager was charged over an alleged acid attack in Mile End, east London, on July 4. Mustafa Ahmed, 19, will appear at Thames magistrates’ court today.

Tributes paid to ex-RAF man killed in plane crash

Bread on table for return of stolen prize cheddars

The wife of a trained pilot killed while travelling as a passenger in a light aircraft said he was “precious and outrageously talented”. Paul Gunnell died when the plane came down in a field near Marlborough, Wiltshire, on Thursday evening. Mr Gunnell flew in the RAF and with Cathay Pacific for 23 years. The pilot of the plane has not yet been identified. Kirsty Boazman, Mr Gunnell’s wife, said: “Our thoughts are with the family who have lost a loved one, who shared Paul’s sheer joy of being in the air.” An investigation is under way.

A £500 reward is being offered for the return of two award-winning blocks of cheddar cheese that were stolen from a country show. Made by Wyke Farms in Somerset, the two 20kg blocks were named as champion and reserve champion at the Yeovil show at the weekend but vanished from the tent soon after judging had finished. Rich Clothier, managing director of Wyke Farms, said he was saddened but unsurprised. “We believe it to be the best-quality cheese available. A 20kg block of it is extremely tempting.”

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Schoolgirl tormented by racist bullies, inquest told Simon de Bruxelles

A Polish-born teenager who was found hanged in toilets at her school had complained about being told to “go back to your own country” by other pupils, an inquest has heard. Dagmara Przybysz, 16, had repeatedly been called a “stupid Pole” by girls at her school, her mother claimed. The day before her death Dagmara became so upset that other pupils were laughing at her during a PE lesson that she punched a wall and needed medical treatment. She later claimed to have taken an overdose of pills, but her parents did not believe her and insisted she go to school. Dagmara’s father Jedrzej Przybysz told Cornwall coroner’s court that his daughter had refused to say why she was upset when she came home from

Dagmara told her mother she had been called a “stupid Pole” at school

school the day before her death. He said: “She did not want to tell me the reason for her upset. Later she said she had problems at school which I would not understand.” The hearing in Truro was told that Dagmara had been driven to hospital by her uncle Tomasz Dobek for treatment to her injured hand. Mr Dobek said that on the way to hospital they

saw two girls in Pool Academy uniforms. He said she asked him “Can you run them over?” but he had not taken the comment seriously. The following morning Dagmara phoned him at 6.20am at the fish factory where he and her parents worked nights. She was crying and saying she had taken an overdose. Her parents saw no evidence she had taken any pills and said they would discuss her problems when she came home from school. The next day Mr Przybysz was waiting for his daughter outside the school in Pool, Cornwall, when he received a call from his wife telling him that police were at their home in Redruth and Dagmara was dead. He said: “My wife and I kept wondering whether we should have kept Dagmara home that day but there was no physical sign that she had taken any tablets, otherwise we would have taken her to hospital.” The inquest heard that Dagmara had a place to study photography at Truro College and was looking forward to her Year 11 prom when she died on May 17, 2016. She had previously told her parents and her boyfriend that she had overheard classmates making “racist” comments and saying she should “go home to Poland”. Dagmara’s mother, Ewelina Przybysz, said her daughter had complained about fellow pupils being nasty to her. She said: “Dagmara often talked to me about her problems and she was hurt if someone said something unpleasant to her. “I don’t know whether these incidents were racist in nature, however I can say that on several occasions she overheard comments such as ‘stupid Pole’. “We think the biggest problem for Dagmara was not racism, but bullying.” Lewis Simpson, Dagmara’s boy-

University ‘gave Eugenie place because she is a royal’ Gabriella Swerling Northern Correspondent

Princess Eugenie was rejected from university because her grades were “not good enough” — but she was immediately offered a place once it emerged who she was, a senior lecturer has claimed. Her application to study a BA honours in English literature was said to have been turned down by an admissions officer at Newcastle University who had not realised that she was a member of the royal family. The university was allegedly “horrified” once it emerged that it had rejected Eugenie, who is eighth in line to the throne, without offering her a place on an alternative degree course. Martin Farr, a senior history lecturer at Newcastle, made the allegations at a convention for the anti-monarchist campaign group, Republic, in the city. The Duke and Duchess of York’s Princess Eugenie graduated from Newcastle in 2012 with a 2:1

Dagmara Przybysz died in May last year. She had been worried about her exams

friend, said other pupils had made comments to her such as “go back to your own country”. He said: “I think it got to her a little bit.” Susan Kent, a pastoral support worker at Pool Academy, said: “To the best of my knowledge, Dagmara never mentioned any problems with racism to me or any other person at school.” Other teachers described Dagmara

as being friendly, happy, very sporty and a “lovely girl”, but said she was worried about her exams and had concerns that she may have dyslexia. The inquest heard that CCTV showed Dagmara had entered the toilets at 12.14. She was found dead by students at 13.50. The inquest is expected to last three days.

daughter, 27, who gained two As and a B at A level, ended up studying a combined BA honours degree in English literature, history of art and politics and graduated in 2012 with a 2:1. Dr Farr said: “We had at Newcastle university one of the Queen’s granddaughters, Princess Eugenie. And a friend of mine who is Italian was the admissions officer for BA English literature and received one application for the undergraduate degree that was not good enough and so discarded it. Apparently the university was horrified she had been rejected before she was offered a place for another degree.” A university spokeswoman said: “If an applicant does not have the actual or predicted grades to meet the requirements for a particular programme, it is common practice for them to be considered for alternative programmes. Dr Farr was not involved in the admissions process that took place at that time and he would have no knowledge or insight into any of the decisions.”

Sarah Payne’s brothers filled with regret For sale: lighthouse island The two brothers of murdered schoolgirl Sarah Payne have described their guilt at not being able to save their sister on the day she vanished. Speaking publicly for the first time since the eight-year-old was abducted and murdered by the paedophile Roy Whiting, Luke and Lee Payne said that she ran ahead of them and their sister Charlotte on July 1, 2000. In an interview for a Channel 5 documentary, they recalled how she dipped through a gap leading from the field to a road in Kingston Gorse, West Sussex, and was not seen alive again. She was snatched by Whiting, who is serving life in prison for her murder, and who smiled and waved at Lee as he drove away before they could raise the alarm. Luke, who was then 12 years old, said the thought that he might have saved her “eats you up inside”. He said: “I don’t get a lot of sleep. I dread the night, because it’s just you and your thoughts.”

Lee and Luke Payne said they would never get over the loss of their sister

He added that his late father, Michael, bought a sawn-off shotgun and talked to both brothers about what he would do if Whiting was found not guilty. Luke added that when he sees Sarah’s friends, “I always wonder where she would be . . . what she would be doing.” Lee Payne, who was 13, remembered seeing Whiting’s van drive past the field and thought it did a U-turn to snatch Sarah. He saw Whiting at the wheel and said he looked like “a real dodgy person”, who smiled and waved seconds after the abduction. Lee was close be-

hind Sarah, but when he could not see her he thought she was hiding because “she’d left in a huff”. He added: “I did for a few years beat myself up . . . if I ran faster . . . I might have caught up with her”. He said: “There’s never going to be a day when you’re going to turn round and be like, ‘I’m over that now’. Because that’s just going to happen.” Charlotte, who was five, said she suffered anxiety attacks as she grew up and sometimes felt guilty. “Why was it her and not me?” she asked. Sara Payne, their mother, described seeing Whiting in court for the first time and realising he “wasn’t a monster”. “I realised, he’s just a sad, lonely person that goes after children because he couldn’t have a relationship with an adult. And it hit home then, I’d allowed him too much of my mind space, and at that moment, I thought, no more.” 6 Sarah Payne: A Mother’s Story is on Channel 5 tomorrow at 9pm.

with a history of darkness A Scottish island which became famous for a high-profile murder case more than 50 years ago has been put on the market for £325,000. Little Ross Island, off southwest Scotland, could be sold for about the same price as a two-bedroom flat in Edinburgh city centre. The 29-acre island, which is home to a 19th-century lighthouse, gained national attention in August 1960 when two visitors discovered the body of Hugh Clark, a lighthouse keeper. Robert Dickson, another lighthouse keeper, was sentenced to hang for the murder but his punishment was later commuted to life imprisonment. The tower was built in 1843 to close the gap between other lighthouses at the Mull of Galloway and Southerness and was automated after the murder.

The sale listing includes a six-bedroom cottage and courtyard, although the lighthouse tower is not included. It is owned and managed by the Commissioners for Northern Lighthouses who visit regularly to maintain it. The island is off-grid, with power coming from solar panels and a small wind turbine, and is accessible only via private boat or helicopter. David Corrie, an estate agent, said that the island offered “fantastic development potential”. When the lighthouse was manned its keepers and their families had run a small dairy and pig farm to support themselves, he pointed out. “Private islands rarely come up for sale at an affordable price. We expect a lot of interest from all over the UK as well as abroad,” he added.

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Northern warmth Blue skies at the Groyne lighthouse in South Shields; Mark Neilson, 11, takes the plunge at Gourock’s open-air pool, Inverclyde; and staff prepare for Tatton Park flower show. Forecast, page 65

Nordic diet of fish and apples could help to fight dementia Oliver Moody Science Correspondent

Eating a Nordic diet rich in poultry, fish and particular fruits may help people to stave off the mental decline that often precedes dementia, scientists have found. Those who are sparing with fruit juice, root vegetables, refined grains and butter, and generous with apples, pears, peaches, vegetable oil, tea and water tend to preserve their faculties for significantly longer into middle age than those who do the opposite. The research, which was presented yesterday at a conference on Alzheimer’s disease in London, also suggested that drinking moderate amounts of wine and eating pasta and rice as staple carbohydrates had a protective effect on the brain. Most previous studies into the relationship between food and the risk factors for dementia have concentrated

on the Mediterranean diet, which emphasises plenty of fruit, vegetables and pulses at the expense of refined sugars. Three papers released at the Alzheimer’s Association international conference this week have confirmed that heart-friendly variations on this plan, such as the Mind diet, which limits red meat and pastries and promotes nuts, berries, leafy greens and olive oil, are linked to markedly lower odds of dementia or cognitive impairment. Yet the Nordic study hints at something different. Researchers led by Behnaz Shakersain at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm found that people who stuck closely to an idealised Scandinavian diet were about 80 per cent less likely to experience a significant cognitive decline over six years than those who adhered to it least. “We found that some more specific foods within Swedish general eating habits may exert a significant effect on

cognition that had seldom been considered by previous studies,” Dr Shakersain said. Among 2,200 healthy Swedes over the age of 60, a range of food and drink patterns such as the Mind, Mediterranean and “Baltic sea” diet — fish, vegetables and particularly berries and other fruit — turned out to be fairly beneficial. “The shared characteristic of all these healthy eating patterns was the emphasis on higher intake of plantbased food,” Dr Shakersain said. “Yet we believe specific food items might be the main players in brain health.” The “Nordic prudent dietary pattern” includes an emphasis on tea and fruit such as apples, as well as a preference for other vegetable oils over olive oil. It also has a central place for cerealbased carbohydrates such as pasta. Keith Fargo, director of scientific programmes at the Alzheimer’s Association, said that collectively the studies

were strong evidence that people could do a great deal for the future health of their brain by eating more judiciously. “Although the idea that a healthy diet can help protect against cognitive decline as we age is not new, the size and length of these four studies demonstrate how powerful good dietary practices may be in maintaining brain health and function,” he said. “That said, we must understand that what we eat is just one part of the puzzle. Exercising regularly and engaging in lifelong learning is important to maximise the potential to reduce risk.” 6 Two genes have been identified that are linked to a person’s risk of developing Alzheimer’s. Researchers at Cardiff University said that the discovery reinforced a critical role played by cells in the brain called microglia, which are responsible for clearing up debris including damaged cells and proteins. Their work is published in Nature Genetics.

Crosswords offer a clue to keeping the brain young Oliver Moody

Those who would like to keep their minds ticking over in the second half of their lives might consider things that are a’changing ahead of an angry term (3,5,9)*. British scientists are planning to recruit crossword enthusiasts for a large trial to determine whether the pastime can shield memory, reasoning and mental processing speed against the attrition of time. Their study indicates that older

people who do the occasional word game have a cognitive age that is on average eight years younger than their peers who abstain. For those who do puzzles several times a day the difference is roughly 11 years. “It is evident that findings such as these warrant further research,” said Helen Brooker, director of research and development at Wesnes Cognition, which led the project. “The result identified direct relationships between the frequency of word puzzle use and the speed and accuracy of performance on a range

of aspects of cognitive function including emotion, reasoning and memory.” Dr Brooker and her colleagues have been tracking more than 17,500 people between the ages of 50 and 96 since 2015. Of these, 2,867 never do word puzzles; 5,641 do them occasionally; and 1,377 do more than one a day. The remainder fall somewhere in between. Across a battery of tests for mental skills such as sustained concentration, grammatical reasoning, learning and working memory, the more word games people played, the better they

scored. This relationship held even when other factors such as age and education were taken into account. The researchers did not break their results down by specific types of puzzle, such as cryptic crosswords. Nor can they yet say with certainty that it is the word games — rather than some underlying quality such as income or social interaction — that are responsible. The findings were presented yesterday at the Alzheimer’s Association international conference in London. *The Times crossword

One-armed driver killed girl, 3, and unborn boy A one-armed lorry driver has been jailed for killing a three-year-old girl and causing her mother to lose her unborn son after he crashed into their car at high speed, having not noticed a traffic jam on a dual carriageway. Thomas Hunter, 59, who uses a hook in place of the left arm he lost in an industrial accident, had been approved to drive by the DVLA. He has not revealed what caused him to become distracted and hit Colette Wiggin’s Vauxhall Mokka, leaving another seven vehicles “scattered like skittles”. On being arrested at the scene at the A34 Hinksey Hill junction near Oxford, a court was told that Hunter said: “You think I caused all of this? No way.” Mrs Wiggin, 31, sustained a broken neck and her daughter Isla suffered severe brain injuries. Her husband, Hayden, an RAF helicopter pilot stationed in the Falkland Islands, arrived back in the UK to find his unborn son Harry had died in the womb. The couple took the decision to turn off their daughter’s life support before their son was delivered stillborn. Oxford crown court was told that a report by a probation officer who interviewed Hunter revealed that he was “haunted” by the collision. Hunter, of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, admitted causing death by dangerous driving and serious injury by dangerous driving. He was jailed for six years for the first charge and three years and eight months for the second, to be served concurrently, and was banned from driving for five years and four months.

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Rare butterfly caterpillars stolen from nature reserve Ben Webster Environment Editor

Police are investigating a case of caterpillar rustling that has threatened the population of one of Britain’s rarest and most beautiful butterflies. Five milk parsley plants that had swallowtail butterfly caterpillars feeding on them were uprooted and stolen from a nature reserve at Hickling Broad in Norfolk. Norfolk Wildlife Trust, which owns the reserve, said that the plants had been removed from the site two weeks ago to acquire the caterpillars. The swallowtail is Britain’s largest native butterfly, with a wingspan of up to 9cm, and is only found in the wild in the fens of the Norfolk Broads. It is prized by some butterfly collectors and the trust said it was possible the plants had been stolen so that the swallowtails could be killed and added to collections. Milk parsley is a scarce and declining internationally protected plant found mainly in East Anglian marshland and is also the only plant on which the swallowtail will feed. Brendan Joyce, the trust’s chief exec-

utive, said: “This is an appalling wildlife crime to dig up these rare plants from an internationally important nature reserve and deliberately take rare swallowtail butterfly caterpillars. “Britain’s vulnerable wildlife faces enough challenges without people callously exploiting precious plants and animals for commercial or personal gain. It is very unlikely that the plants or the caterpillars will survive for any significant amount of time away from the reserve.” Prosecutions for the illegal removal of butterflies or caterpillars are rare but in April a collector was given a six-month suspended prison sentence and ordered to carry out 250 hours of unpaid work for capturing and killing large blues, Britain’s rarest butterfly. Phillip Cullen, 57, an amateur entomologist, was caught after being spotted acting suspiciously at two nature reserves in Somerset and Gloucestershire in 2015. Bristol magistrates were told that there was an illegal market for large blues, which sold for up to £300 per butterfly when mounted

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Time for a new lord . . . Time for another episode of I’m a Hereditary, Get Me Into There, the surreality show in which hand-me-down aristocrats compete to sit in the House of Lords after most of them were made redundant in 1999. The electorate for today’s by-election comprises just 31 crossbench peers. These include Lord Palmer, who once boasted that he was kicked out of school for being “incredibly stupid”; the Countess of Mar, a cheesemaker whose title dates from 1404; and Viscount Slim, son of the hero of Burma, who turns 90 on Thursday. Lord Vaux of Harrowden, whose great-uncle was the first Benedictine monk to sit in the Lords since 1559, is the favourite to win but Lord Mostyn hopes to lure them over by boasting in a brief manifesto that he runs “an estate that covers much of Wales”. The by-election occurs after the retirement of Lord Walpole, whose ancestor was prime minister from 1721-42 (now that, Mrs May, is a strong and stable leader). Walpole had not been an active peer of late. His penultimate speech came in 2012, in which he said that his forebears would have hated the Channel Tunnel as it made it easier for the French to invade.

gospel truth Vandals have attacked the gents’ loos by the Strangers bar in the Commons, where MPs go to plot. “Veritas vos liberabit” it says on a cubicle door — “truth will set you free”. A quote from St John’s Gospel and the CIA’s motto. Suspicion unfairly falls on Jacob Rees-Mogg but surely a scholar such as he would have written in the original Greek. Using a quill.

David Mellor described the cabinet as being full of mediocrities on Radio 4 yesterday (takes one to know one) and had a pop at Damian Green for being photographed at a rock festival “in not very well fitting leisure gear”. Green was wearing a Dukla Prague football shirt, below. Mellor, former “minister for fun”, has been touchy about football shirts ever since The Sun claimed he wore a Chelsea strip in bed with an actress.

repressed rebellion The Conservatives need their own version of Momentum, says Robert Halfon, a former deputy chairman. It would be a rather different beast. During the election many Tory events had a gathering of noisy Labour activists outside. I recall one event in Darlington where a chap in red trousers watched the shouting Momentumistas and sighed: “I’d like to shout ‘Corbyn out’ but it’s not really me.” A Tory Momentum would be more cheese and wine than jeers and whines. The children’s author Judith Kerr fled the Nazis to Britain with her parents when she was ten but she tells the Radio Times that 84 years later she still has to think twice before saying “we” about the British. Her mother, on the other hand, settled instantly. “She would say ‘we’ with a slight German accent,” Kerr recalled. “She once said ‘When ve won the First World War’ and everybody was taken aback.”

death and taxes The private archive of the late Denis Healey, including cabinet notes and correspondence, has been bought for the nation by Oxford’s Bodleian library. The 380-box archive was accepted in lieu of £75,670 inheritance tax. It will be an excellent resource, but how ironic that the chancellor who was happy to squeeze the rich “until the pips squeak” should posthumously cut a deal to reduce his tax bill. patrick kidd

Beauty of the Broads 6 The swallowtail is confined to the Norfolk Broads because the fens have rare milk parsley, which is a food source for the caterpillars. 6 If the caterpillar feels threatened, two horn-like bright orange scent glands emerge from the back of its head, producing a smell that has been likened to pineapple. 6 The butterflies begin to emerge in May and sometimes a second brood comes in August.

and made to look like Victorian specimens. Matthew Oates, the National Trust’s nature adviser and author of In Pursuit of Butterflies, said that a swallowtail might sell for about £100. “There is a market for butterflies almost on the dark web and there are collectors around the world who want British swallowtails,” he said. Some people wanted dead The swallowtail is Britain’s largest native butterfly with a wingspan of up to 9cm

specimens, which had been suffocated using chemicals, and others wanted them alive for breeding, he said. It is an offence under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 to uproot plants from the wild without the permission of the owner of the land on which the plant is growing. The removal of caterpillars is prohibited under the same legislation. It is an offence under the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2010 to uproot or sell rare plants that are classified as European protected species.

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Hundreds of homes flattened Graeme Paton Transport Correspondent Peter Yeung

Hundreds of homes, including an estate built six years ago, will be demolished to make way for Britain’s new high-speed railway amid mounting criticism over rising costs. It was confirmed yesterday that part of a housing estate near Sheffield would be levelled for the HS2 line from London to Leeds. The Department for Transport (DfT) said that the 250mph line would run through the £30 million Shimmer es-

tate where work started on two and three-storey townhouses in 2011. Ministers insisted that only 16 homes out of 216 would have to be bulldozed to make way for the line, although it is feared that all properties will be blighted by the high-speed trains and years of construction work, forcing many more families to move out. Fifty-one homes and businesses will be demolished in South Yorkshire alone, the government said. There are fears that the final number of homes knocked down along the line will top 400, with the largest impact in north

London. This came as the government admitted that the economic benefits of the line would be less than promised four years ago. There have also been claims that the overall bill will be almost double the current estimate of £55.7 billion. Yesterday, the DfT published details of the full route for the first time. Phase 1 will take trains from London Euston to Birmingham, with services running by 2026. A second section will open from Birmingham to Crewe in 2027. Chris Grayling, the transport secre-

tary, confirmed the full eastern and western legs of the Y-shaped network, which will be completed by 2033. In one direction, trains will call at a new East Midlands hub station between Nottingham and Derby before reaching Chesterfield, Sheffield and Leeds. The other leg reaches Manchester airport and Manchester Piccadilly, with a spur on to the existing west coast mainline at Wigan, where services will continue along existing tracks to Scotland. It was also announced that a new hub station may be built at Crewe and that HS2 services could serve nearby Stoke. Mr Grayling said the new line would bring “huge economic benefits across the country and help ensure this government delivers on its promise to spread wealth beyond London and the southeast”. He added: “We will now press ahead with building the line, while continuing to ensure affected communities get appropriate support and are treated with fairness, compassion and respect.” The transport secretary has faced criticism over the cost of the project. At the weekend, an analysis from Michael Byng, a rail expert, led to estimates that the total cost of the project could be up to £104 billion. Yesterday, a newly published economic case for the line showed that there would be £2.30 worth of benefits for every £1 spent. However, this is less than the estimate made in 2012, when it was suggested that the figure would be £2.50 of benefits for every £1 spent. Joe Rukin, spokesman for the Stop HS2 campaign, said: “The case for HS2 has been invented by the very cheerleaders who intend to rake in billions of taxpayers’ money which is desperately needed elsewhere.” Ministers originally suggested that HS2 would run to the Meadowhall shopping centre three miles outside Sheffield city centre. In November last year they switched to a route that avoids the area altogether while including a separate spur into the city. This option includes the demolition of part of the Shimmer estate in Mexborough. The DfT said that all affected householders would receive compensation to “secure a comparable local home”. Pete and Sue Douglas moved into their four-bedroom house on the estate nearly three years ago, spending £20,000 on renovations because they planned to retire there. Mr Douglas, 62, said: “We’ve been fobbed off, ignored. And they don’t respond, they tell lies, they ignore you. As we have got older, it’s made us ill — there’s no doubt about it.”

Branching out HS2 official cost Phase 1

Phase 2

£24.3bn

£24.4bn Total

£55.7bn Trains

£7bn £48bn Phase 1 estimate of quantity surveyor Michael Byng including an £8.24 billion bill for Euston and the 10km between Euston and Old Oak Common

A 13m-high viaduct, above, will cross a lake in the Colne Valley Park

High-speed rail comparisons HS2 Phase 1 London to Birmingham, opening 2026

£126m per km California San Francisco to Los Angeles, 2029

£40m Saudi Haramain Medina to Jeddah, 2018

£27m France TGV SEA Tours to Bordeaux, 2017

£26m Indian Railways Mumbai to Ahmedabad, 2023

£25m Crossrail Shenfield to Reading, 2019

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£125m

Amid rising costs, official figures seem way off track Analysis

he question is not so much what the final bill will be for HS2 — no one really knows — but how long the Department for Transport and its agency, HS2 Ltd, will keep clinging to their current estimates (Robert Lea writes). On its current calculations, including

contingency costs (which invariably kick in), the total is £55.7 billion, including £7 billion for the 250mph trains. Factoring in inflation over the past two years, that estimate is already nearer £58 billion. At issue are the detailed costings by the DfT, which to date have been opaque. With construction about to start, the

calculations are now being increasingly questioned. On official estimates Phase 1 will cost £125 million per kilometre, five times that of the latest French TGV route to Bordeaux. However, much of that line is through virgin countryside and includes none of the complications of tunnelling beneath London, going under

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New station Existing station

Existing mainline

Leeds

Manchester Shimmer Estate 16 newly built Piccadilly properties to be demolished

Liverpool Lime Street

Sheffield Manchester Midland AIrport Crewe relocation of rolling stock depot

PHASE 2 PHASE 1 Construction contracts East Midlands Hub

Contractors and agreed price 7 Delta Junction to Handsacre Balfour Beatty/Vinci £1.15bn

Birmingham Curzon Street

6 Long Itchington-Delta Junction-Birmingham Balfour Beatty/Vinci £1.32bn

Birmingham Bickenhill Interchange

5 Brackley to Long Itchington Carillion/Eiffage/Kier £616m

Phase 1 losers

4 Little Missenden to Brackley Carillion/Eiffage/Kier £724m

Chetwode The line will slice this village in two Wendover Noise barriers up to 6m high will be erected to protect the town Chilterns Trains will enter a 16km tunnel near the M25 and emerge near Great Missenden in the Chilterns

400

Estimated total number of homes to be demolished (150 in north London)

3 Colne Valley to Little Missenden Bouygues/Volker/McAlpine £965m

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2 Old Oak Common to Colne Valley Skanska/Costain/Strabag £1.1bn

Wendover Great Missenden Chiltern Hills

Colne Valley Park Old Oak Oak Commo on Common

1 Euston tunnels to Old Oak Common Skanska/Costain/Strabag £740m

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argued that the cost of the most complicated stretch of line, the six miles into Euston and the reconfiguration of the London terminal, is way beyond official estimates. Mr Byng, who was contracted by petitioners in the London borough of Camden to challenge HS2, says the cost to the taxpayer will be £8.2 billion — far more than the £2.3 billion he says the DfT unofficially told him. Factoring in cost overruns along the line, Mr Byng says he gets to a £48 billion bill for Phase 1. Others,

using his calculations, have put a total bill for the project at £104 billion. “That is not my figure but people are entitled to make their own extrapolation,” Mr Byng told The Times. “The department has simply not been able to give me a structured estimate. It has not challenged me on methodology or quantum.” The DfT said that, contrary to reports, Mr Byng had not been commissioned by it to produce a report on HS2. “We do not recognise his figures,” a spokesman said.

the winners balfour beatty The daddy of the UK heavy construction market has won, with its partner Vinci of France, what will be the two technically most challenging above-ground parcels of work. The £2.5 billion contracts will take the HS2 line from the heart of Warwickshire into Birmingham Airport and then, by creation of a delta junction, into the heart of the city at Curzon Street and separately on northwards. The technical work will include the HS2 line vaulting main roads as well as the rail line between Coventry and Birmingham. The win for Balfour Beatty will be a huge fillip for a company that three years ago was brought to its knees by a string of profit warnings when a host of its construction contracts went wrong. Its partner, Vinci, was involved in building the latest TGV line to Bordeaux. costain The main contractor on the Channel tunnel and on the original HS1 — the Channel Tunnel rail link — has won more than £1.8 billion of work on the tunnels running under suburban north-west London, through a new terminal and property development at Old Oak Common in Acton into the Euston terminus. It too had a

Artist impression of how the new London Euston will look

the Chilterns nor the viaducts and bridges needed to enter the West Midlands, butting up against existing rail lines and motorways. The latest incendiary interjection has come from a Midlands quantity surveyor called Michael Byng, a sometime Network Rail consultant, who last weekend estimated that the total bill would be far higher than predicted. Mr Byng, who is not currently a member of the industry professional body RICS after a disciplinary action taken against him seven years ago, has

For western Europe’s big construction contractors, HS2 promised to be a bonanza — but so far in the competition for glory, it is France 3 Spain 0 (Robert Lea writes). It was always meant to be an international affair. HS2 Ltd had insisted that every UK construction firm bidding for what we now know is £6.6 billion of tunnelling, viaduct building and track preparation had to form a consortium with a company that had international high-speed rail expertise. The competition put France’s three big high-speed rail contractors against a clutch of Spanish construction giants. Each of the French firms’ consortiums won — the Spanish contractors won nothing.

strong consortium, partnering with the Swedish giant Skanska with which it has worked on Crossrail. Skanska bought into the UK construction market at the turn of the century when it acquired Trafalgar House. The consortium also included Austrian tunnelling specialist Strabag.

carillion The deeply troubled construction company, whose shares collapsed by 70 per cent last week after a shock profit warning, has won £1.3 billion of projects taking the line out of the Chilterns through Oxfordshire up to Warwickshire. It has teamed with Eiffage, another of the great French TGV builders, and UK construction firm Kier, known for developing the UK’s Supreme Court building in Westminster. Although there are question marks over the future funding and ownership of Carillion, the DfT said it was confident that the consortium would deliver. Carillion shares yesterday jumped 20 per cent. sir robert mcalpine The family-owned construction firm that built Arsenal’s Emirates stadium has been tasked with tunnelling under the Chilterns in a consortium with Bouygues of France and the Anglo-Dutch firm Volker Fitzpatrick. The contract is worth nearly £1 billion. the losers Not one of the Spanish construction giants has landed a job in the construction of Phase 1 of HS2: Ferrovial, the part-owner of Heathrow airport had teamed up with UK urban regeneration firm Morgan Sindall; Dragados had joined forces with Galliford Try, a UK housebuilder, and Hochtief of Germany; Acciona, a Spanish highspeed rail specialist was partnering with domestic contractors Lagan and Sisk; and FCC had joined the privately owned Anglo-Irish contractor Laing O’Rourke, which had had great HS2 ambitions. Carillion contract, page 43

Ten-minute delays no longer ‘on time’ Graeme Paton

Rail bosses are preparing to scrap rules that allow trains to be classed as “on time” despite running almost ten minutes late. As part of major reforms of the network announced today, from April 2019 services will be expected to reach individual stations within a minute of their scheduled arrival time to avoid being officially classed as late. The new system will use GPS data to track the time that trains stop at every station rather than just the final destination, which is the current measure. The change is expected to be incorporated into contracts between the government and rail companies from 2019 onwards, raising the prospect of operators being hit with heavy fines if

trains regularly run more than a minute late. Penalties could also be given to Network Rail for failures to the rail infrastructure that prevent trains reaching stations on time. The reforms are a significant step for an industry that has been reluctant to move towards a system of “right-time” performance for fear of damaging confidence in the rail network. The Rail Delivery Group (RDG), which represents train operators and Network Rail, said that the change represented the “most transparent” measure of train times in Europe. It will initially be published alongside the existing system that classes intercity trains as “on time” if they reach their final destination within ten minutes. For shorter commuter

services, the limit has been set at five minutes. The changes are expected to lead to an initial sharp rise in the number of trains being classed as late. Over the past year, 88 per cent of trains arrived at their final destination within five or ten minutes of the timetable. However, the proportion dropped to 63.2 per cent using the “right-time” measure. This means that an average of 8,832 trains ran late every day. Anthony Smith, chief executive of Transport Focus, the passenger watchdog, said: “Passengers want a reliable, on-time train service. How that performance is measured and reported should, our research shows, closely mirror passengers’ real life experience, otherwise trust will not be built up.”

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Manchester mosque gutted by fire as anti-Muslim crimes soar Gabriella Swerling Northern Correspondent

A mosque in Manchester has been badly damaged by a fire that worshippers said was the third there in three years. Police have begun an investigation into the “suspicious” blaze at the Nasfat Islamic Centre, in the northeast of the city, at 11.40pm on Sunday. Monsurat Adebanjo-Aremu, the mosque secretary, said that in the past year somebody had thrown two pigs’

heads inside the building and urinated outside. Shamusideen Oladimeji, a spokesman for the mosque, added that it was the third fire at the building since 2014 and that the reason for them was “just hatred”. The fire, which police believe was started when someone forced open a window and placed an “unknown accelerant inside”, is being treated as a hate crime by Greater Manchester police. In the month after the Manchester Arena bomb in May there were 224

reports of anti-Muslim hate crimes in the city compared with 37 in the same period last year. Mr Oladimeji said that the main prayer hall and classrooms had been destroyed. “We just had the classrooms done not long ago,” he said. “Now everything is gone. I feel bad, we use them for the children. We can’t even gain entrance to the building at the moment because the forensics are still doing their investigating.” He added that the first attack on the

mosque was in 2014 after the murder of Lee Rigby by Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale and that the second happened last year. “I think it’s just hatred,” Mr Oladimeji said. He added: “I don’t know why this is happening to us . . . we have been good to the community.” Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service said that five engines attended the scene. Detective Chief Inspector Paul Walker of Greater Manchester police said: “We are investigating this as

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Top car hire firm accused of £30m customer rip-off Andrew Ellson Consumer Affairs Correspondent

One of Europe’s biggest car hire operators may have overcharged customers £30 million for damaging vehicles. Europcar admitted the scale of the problem after Trading Standards began an investigation last month into allegations of “fraudulent” costs. The French business is accused of breaching consumer law by inflating the cost of windscreens and other repairs by up to 300 per cent to boost profits. Europcar UK said in a statement: “On the basis of our own preliminary review, our view is that the implications of the investigation will be somewhere in the region of £30 million and we will communicate as appropriate as matters develop.” It added: “We are fully co-operating with the authorities.” Europcar, which has a market value of €1.85 billion (£1.63 billion) in France, is accused of making secret deals with garages in Britain that would invoice customers a higher amount for repairs than they charged the company. The brand operates in 140 countries worldwide but it is not clear whether its overseas offices operate the same practices as in Britain. The statement led to calls for a wider investigation into the car hire industry. James Daley, director of the campaign group Fairer Finance, said: “People have long suspected they are being ripped off for hire car repairs but it’s shocking to see the evidence. Car hire companies are in the business of

Dozens of hospital staff will have to pay parking fines totalling thousands of pounds after they lost a court case. They were issued with the tickets after the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff contracted out its parking to Indigo, a private contractor, last year. Although 3,000 workers including doctors, nurses and cleaners were issued with free permits there were only 1,500 spaces for staff parking. As a result many workers claimed that they had to use the public parking areas to avoid being late for work. A judge ruled that Indigo could collect £70,000 from 75 members of staff who had failed to

Vole’s eye view Julian Cox, a photographer, set up a camera trap to capture a barn owl as it came in for the kill in a field in Suffolk

loaning vehicles, not exploiting customers involved in a scrape. Europcar are unlikely to be the only ones doing this and the industry must change its ways.” Alex Neill, of Which?, added: “If Europcar is found to have inflated costs for repairs, people will be outraged. There should be an immediate investigation to ensure others aren’t doing this and customers who have been left out of pocket are compensated without delay.” The car hire industry is already under pressure over its practices. Last year The Times revealed that tens of thousands of British holidaymakers were being falsely accused of damaging hire cars in Europe every year with growing numbers in dispute with hire companies over charges applied for minor damage and scratches. Last year almost three million Britons hired a car overseas and complaints to the car hire ombudsman are at a record high. The Daily Telegraph reported yesterday that the Europcar case may be picked up by the Serious Fraud Office. If found guilty of a criminal offence, Europcar could face a fine of up to 10 per cent of its turnover. It could also face compensation claims from customers. A spokesman for the SFO said that it did not confirm or deny whether it was investigating cases. A spokesman for Leicester Trading Standards, which is conducting the investigation, said: “It would not be appropriate to comment further at this stage as it is an ongoing investigation.”

Judge orders hospital staff to pay huge parking fines Simon de Bruxelles

a hate crime which has damaged a place of worship used by members of the Nigerian community. “Hate crime is often under-reported for a number of reasons, but people should have the confidence in coming forward, as no one should be the subject of hate and intolerance. “We are grateful to have very strong relationships and co-operation with different groups and are working with partner agencies to support the community.”

buy parking tickets. She also ordered the workers to pay £29,000 costs. Sue Prior, of Taff Ely Parking Action Group, said that staff had been left “broken” by the ruling. “It’s horrendous. [Staff] are scared stiff, petrified, they feel sick,” she added. Felicity Richards, a staff nurse, said: “I have to allow 45 minutes to an hour to find somewhere to park my car every morning.” An Indigo spokesman said: “A number of people refused to pay for parking. They also declined to use the appeals process . . . With the full support of the health board we took the strongest possible action against this small group of persistent offenders. The court’s ruling has justified our decision.”

Campaigner fights for ‘dignified’ death Frances Gibb Legal Editor

A man who fears being “entombed” by a terminal illness has taken his fight to choose when and how to die to the High Court. He said that he wanted to have a “swift and dignified” death. Noel Conway, 67, a retired lecturer from Shrewsbury, was told that he had motor neurone disease in November 2014 and he now has less than a year to live. He was not well enough to be at the hearing in London yesterday but hopes to appear by video link tomorrow. When he has less than six months to live and has the mental capacity to make the decision, he wishes to bring about a “peaceful” death with professional medical help. The Suicide Act 1961 prohibits assisted suicide, which is punishable by up to

14 years’ imprisonment. In a statement to the court, Mr Conway said: “This disease is a relentless and merciless process of progressive deterioration. At some point my breathing will stop altogether or I will become so helpless that Noel Conway fears being “entombed” by his illness

I will be effectively entombed in my own body . . . I find the prospect of this state for me to live quite unacceptable and I wish to end my life when I feel it is the right moment to do so, in a way that is swift and dignified.” He wants a

declaration that the Suicide Act 1961 is incompatible with Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which relates to respect for private and family life, and Article 14, which protects from discrimination. Richard Gordon, QC, told the court that others in Mr Conway’s position might go to Switzerland to die and expose anyone who helped with the arrangements to a risk of prosecution. He did not see that as an option. “The choices facing the claimant are therefore stark and unpalatable: seek to bring about his own death now whilst he is physically able to do so but before he is ready to do so; or await death with no control over when and how it comes,” he said. David Lidington, the justice secretary opposes the case, which continues.

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Cacophony of war sinks star-studded blockbuster Film Kevin Maher Dunkirk HHIII Criminally under-represented in the annals of movie history, the wartime evacuation of Dunkirk has been crying out for a classic film interpretation to rank alongside genre leaders The Longest Day, A Bridge Too Far and Saving Private Ryan. Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk, alas, just isn’t it. What it is, essentially, is 106 clamorous minutes of big-screen bombast that’s so concerned with its own spectacle and scale (shot on huge IMAX and 65mm cameras, for big frames and big action) that it neglects to deliver the most crucial element — drama. And by “drama” I don’t mean actual physical momentum, or high-tension countdowns. The film has a tonne of those. It bounces manically between three nominal protagonists, all of whom are up against the clock (a loud tick-tocky soundtrack underscores the point). The newcomer Fionn Whitehead is the luckless every-soldier Tommy (yep, Tommy, we get it) whom we follow on to the beaches of Dunkirk in the summer of 1940, and who, from then on, is basically flung from one sinking boat to another (three in total) with all the wordless

Christopher Nolan’s film about the evacuation of Allied soldiers from France in 1940 is shot on a grand scale but lacks drama. The cast includes Mark Rylance, below

enthusiasm of an It’s a Knockout contestant. Then there’s the RAF automaton Farrier, played by Tom Hardy’s eyeballs (Hardy’s face is mostly hidden by a pilot’s mask, although he does get to deliver hackneyed fighter-pilot corkers such as, “I’m on that one, you take this one!”). Farrier is running out of fuel, but he’s got a job to do, damn it! Finally there’s old Mr Dawson (Mark Rylance), the closest thing the film has to an actual character. Dawson is a kindly pleasure-boater who has picked up a shell-shocked soldier (Cillian Murphy) on the way

t that appears to abdicate all dramatic rresponsibilities in favour of being ((what the Dunkirk marketing people a calling) an “immersive” are e experience. You’re there. You’re on t beach. Character and plot don’t the m matter because you’re there, in the t thick of things. It’s just like — you g guessed it — a video game. And that, u ultimately, is the colossal d disappointment at the heart of this m movie. They were clearly aiming for The L Longest Day but what they gave us w Call of Duty: Dunkirk Edition. was O general release from Friday On

to join the flotilla of civilian rescue boats (aka The Little Ships of Dunkirk). There are other players too, including Kenneth Branagh as a navy commander and the One Direction pop star Harry Styles (acquitting himself ably) as one of Tommy’s punchy peers. But mostly they get lost in the noise. And there is a lot of noise. The cacophonous score by Hans Zimmer can best be described as an express train full of cutlery crashing into an explosives factory. It provides an extra layer of sensory chaos to a film

in Smugglers wrap newborn puppies Increase children left in clingfilm for 30-hour journey home alone Dominic Kennedy Investigations Editor

Underage puppies are being brought into Britain without proper vaccinations and health treatment because of the demand for fashionable breeds. A vet in Lithuania was caught on camera offering to sedate a puppy so that it could be smuggled across the Channel without paperwork. Puppies, some with their umbilical cords still attached, were transported illegally on a 1,000-mile, 30-hour journey across the Continent to feed the black market trade. Undercover investigators from the Dogs Trust, which is demanding tougher safeguards for pets crossing the border after Brexit, found that puppies travelled in a van from Lithuania without any food for 30 hours. One litter was transported in a basket covered in clingfilm with only a small hole left for air. One of the puppies died. Border checks were so lax that a toy dog, used in Pugs are among the breeds in demand

Big profits from designer breeds on the black market 6 One of the main reasons for the black market trade is the fashion for French bulldogs, dachshunds, pugs and chow chows and the limited supply from reputable breeders in Britain. 6 82 per cent of the puppies intercepted at the border belong to

“designer breeds” such as these. 6 Dog owners in Britain pay the second highest prices for designer puppies. Only Swedes pay more. 6 In Britain a French bulldog puppy costs £1,570, a dachshund £1,000 and a pug £880.

place of a real animal, was smuggled across the Channel by investigators twice. Britain relaxed its rules on pet travel in 2012 to harmonise with the rest of Europe, allowing animals into the country at 15 weeks old when the previous minimum was 10 months. The reform led to a rise in puppy smuggling.

Prices in the Czech Republic and Romania are a third or half of that. 6 Research published yesterday by the RSPCA and Gumtree showed that the most sought-after breeds in online searches were French bulldogs, labradors, Jack Russells and pugs.

A vet in Lithuania said that many people were bringing dogs into Britain by hiding them. Another offered investigators a sedative and used a dog model to display how to inject it. A quarter of vets approached in Lithuania were willing to falsify dates of birth or give the rabies vaccine to investigators so that it could be administered when the puppies reached Britain. In Poland, Dogs Trust obtained five passports from four vets, each of them with dates of birth changed to make the puppies appear older than they were. Nine-week-old puppies were described as being 16 weeks old. “Shockingly, in addition to changing the dates on the passports, all the pass-

ports contained false information about the rabies vaccination. Dates for these injections were backdated by at least three weeks, meaning if any rabies vaccination was actually administered it would be invalid. There is a legal requirement to wait 21 days after the rabies vaccination has been given before travelling,” the charity said. An investigator travelled by Postbus from Lithuania to Britain. Dogs Trust found four puppies but none of their owners. “Four puppies [were] confined to pet carriers stacked among other packages in the back of the van with no air conditioning . . . The puppies were watered just twice,” the charity said. It added that this should “be a reality check for anyone looking to buy a puppy and a cue to walk away if they suspect a puppy may be an illegal import”. Paula Boyden, veterinary director for the trust, said: “These shocking cases show that urgent action is needed to stop the puppy-smuggling scandal.” The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said: “Leaving the EU gives us an opportunity to look at how we can strengthen our controls to crack down on animal traffickers.”

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A children’s charity has seen an increase in reports of parents leaving their child home alone during the school holidays, prompting warnings about their safety. The NSPCC said that it received almost 1,300 calls and emails last summer, an increase of about a third on the previous year, regarding children who had been left unattended by their parents during the summer holidays. The charity said that parents must think carefully about whether their children were old and mature enough to look after themselves and whether they would know what to do in an emergency. Parents can face neglect charges if a child is deemed to have been at risk of injury or suffering. Of the 1,294 calls and emails to the NSPCC’s 24-hour helpline between July and September last year, 83 per cent were considered serious enough to be passed on to police or social services. Peter Wanless, the charity’s chief executive, said: “Although the law doesn’t specify a minimum age, no child should be left on their own if there is any risk they will come to harm. Children mature at their own rate so it’s really important parents think carefully about what is right for their child.” An NSPCC guide says: “A child should never be left at home alone if they do not feel comfortable with this.”

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Teenage couple and friend killed when BMW crashed into tree David Brown

Three teenagers were killed when the BMW in which they were travelling left the road and hit a tree near their home on Sunday afternoon. Ryan Barber, 19, his girlfriend, TrudiMae Kennell, 18, and their friend Will Louch, all from Atherstone, Warwickshire, had been returning from a weekend walking in Snowdonia. They were killed instantly in the crash at Baxterley, three miles from home, at 4.40pm. A fourth man, Dan

Whale, 18, who was in the back, was flown to hospital with serious injuries. Tammi Garcia Sanchez, Mr Barber’s mother, wrote on Facebook: “It’s with a broken heart . . . That my baby boy Ryan Barber passed away yesterday afternoon in a car accident along with his beautiful girlfriend. I’m so sorry to the people who are reading this that I haven’t told . . . My heart is broken and I’m not sure how life will carry on without my baby boy.” Mr Barber had been training to be a scaffolder. Ms Kennell was a reception-

Will Louch, Trudi-Mae Kennell and Ryan Barber had been driving home from a walking holiday in Snowdonia

ist and a lifeguard at Atherstone Leisure Complex. She previously went to what is now Queen Elizabeth Academy in Atherstone. One of her friends wrote on Facebook: “You made me so happy in so many ways, and I could sit here and write a book on how everyone feels about you.” Another friend of the couple said: “Trudi and Ryan were inseparable. They were the most gorgeous, happy, loving couple. Their deaths have torn our lives apart.” Mr Louch’s aunt Susan

Louch, 52, said: “We found out [about his death] in the early hours. We are all still in a state of shock. All we know is that he was on his way back from Snowdonia. It’s awful.” Sergeant Carl Stafford, of Warwickshire police, said: “We are in the very early stages of the investigation and I would urge anyone who witnessed the collision to contact police.” A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokesman said: “Unfortunately, it became apparent that nothing could be done to save three of the patients.” TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER JACK HILL

Fire chief ‘fondled colleague in lewd game’ A fire chief played a lewd game with a female firefighter, scoring points by squeezing her breasts at work, a court heard yesterday. David “Dai” Lewis is also accused of “kegging” the woman — pulling her trousers down to her ankles when she was not expecting it. Mr Lewis, who is married, denies five charges of sexually touching without consent. He said that the games were just part of “garage humour” at the fire station in Wales. Swansea crown court heard that he was sacked as crew manager for his behaviour towards the younger officer, who was left “embarrassed” and in tears. The jury was told that on one occasion the woman, in her twenties, was sitting in the ladies’ lavatories when Mr Lewis burst in. Craig Jones, for the prosecution, said: “It began with inappropriate sexual comments. He would refer to the size of her breasts and offer to use his tools to help her if she required assistance. “He would make sexual gestures with his fingers and tongue.” The court heard that the abuse became physical and Mr Lewis grabbed the firefighter’s breasts when she was carrying a tray of teas and coffees for her colleagues. Mr Jones said: “She would tell him not to do it but he would laugh and call her a slag, saying she ‘loved it’. “He would make sure she went up the stairs first and then touch her bottom. “At the top of the stairs he would pull her trousers down. There was an occasion when she was sitting on the loo and he pushed the door open so that others could see her sitting there.” The court heard that “kegging” was a popular practice at the station. Mr Jones said: “Lewis claimed it was garage humour and that the woman was a willing participant, claiming she had done ‘kegging’ to him.” In a police interview, played to the jury, the woman said: “It started off by him referring to my figure and the size of my breasts.” She broke down in tears as she described how Mr Lewis would follow her up stairs at the fire station and pull down her jogging bottoms. “My personal space had been entered and I had no control over what he was going to do,” she said. The firefighter added that Mr Lewis’s conduct got “worse and worse” as time went by. “It was ongoing every day. I would tell him, ‘Don’t do that, stop’ but he would say, ‘Shut up you slag, you love it,’ ” she told police. The woman said that Mr Lewis would also blame her period if she was in a bad mood. The trial continues.

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Police memorial charity spends £640,000 on private consultants Billy Kenber Investigations Reporter

A charity that was given £1 million of taxpayers’ money to build a memorial to fallen police officers has paid more than £600,000 in management fees to a consultancy company. The UK Police Memorial Trust has raised £2.5 million of the £4 million it needs to build a permanent memorial at the National Memorial Arboretum near Lichfield, Staffordshire. The government has committed £1 million to the project from fines levied on banks for manipulating Libor and it has received the backing of the Duke of Cambridge. The trust, which is chaired by Sir Hugh Orde, former president of the Association of Chief Police Officers, aims to build a memorial featuring a brass screen with sections cut out in the shape of leaves that will be given to bereaved families, by early 2019. A digital memorial, grants for families of staff killed in the line of duty and an education programme are also planned. However, £640,000 has already been paid out in “trust and project manage-

ment fees”, according to the charity’s accounts. The sum has been spent since March 2014, putting the charity on course to spend more than £1 million on management fees by the time of the memorial’s expected completion. The money went to Morgen Thomas Limited, a company not named in the trust’s annual accounts and mentioned only once in small print on an illustration of the memorial’s design on the charity’s website. Morgen Thomas’s website says that it has a team which “directs and manages all day-to-day aspects of the charity”, covering everything from fundraising to government relations. The spending on management fees is distinct from more than £300,000 spent on the design and construction of the memorial and an associated smartphone app, according to documents filed at Companies House. Alex May, a blogger who writes about charities, said that the figures raised questions about whether funds were being used effectively. “Management is outsourced to a private company, yet both sets of charity accounts hide the

The £4 million tribute is to be built at the National Memorial Arboretum

firm and its role,” he said, adding that “management costs are excessive for a charity this size — and increasing” and called on the trust to “spend the money it raises more effectively”. The charity said that the £640,000 spent on management fees included the cost of “ongoing management of the design and build process”, with the majority going towards paying for “specialist management of the development of the memorial”. It said that it expected to spend

£400,000 on “essential support functions such as fundraising, governance, communication and engagement, marketing and PR” over the course of the project, with three-quarters of this already spent. In a statement, Morgen Thomas Ltd said that it was “honoured to be serving the UK Police Memorial”. The company said that its services were “delivered at cost, designed to be commensurate with management costs had the trust employed staff, and strictly reflect the time required to provide the very wide range of services for which we are contracted”. It said that the salaries of its staff which were being met by the charity were “not marked up to generate profit on the assignment as would be usual practice for any similar business”. The project has proved controversial with some police officers because there is already a police memorial in central London. The National Memorial Arboretum, which is located on the edge of the National Forest, already has monuments to the armed forces, voluntary organisations and civil groups.

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Roger Federer posed for selfies with Whitney Osuigwe and Catherine McNally, winners of the girls’ doubles, at Sunday night’s ball, which was also attended by Heather Watson, below left, and Russia’s Elena Vesnina

Partying Federer nets a hangover

oger Federer would have struggled to become a Wimbledon champion for the eighth time without obeying his nutritionist’s strict regimen, but for one night he let himself go (Jack Malvern writes). Federer, who at 35 is the oldest man to win the singles title in the open era, admitted that he had a rare hangover, which he blamed on mixing his drinks. “My head is ringing,” he said at a press conference yesterday. “I don’t know what I did last night. I drank too many different types of drinks I guess. But after the ball we went to a bar and there were about 30 or 40 friends there.” “I got to bed at 5 and I woke up and I didn’t feel good. But we had a good time.” His routine during tournaments and training is to get ten hours of sleep. He said that he did not dance with Garbiñe Muguruza, who won the ladies’ title, as tradition dictates. “When there’s no music whatsoever it’s hard to

and Rafa’s generation the next one hasn’t been strong enough to push all of us out really. So that’s helpful for us to be able to keep hanging around.” Leading article, page 35 Interview, page 79

get going,” he said. He declined to predict whether he would try to break his own records, either by winning Wimbledon again or by achieving a 20th grand slam. “I haven’t set a sight on a number of grand slams; I was very

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content at 17, that was a wonderful number. So was 18 and now 19 is great. I think now it’s about enjoying myself, staying healthy and playing for titles.” He suggested that the next generation of players would struggle to

break through unless they played a more aggressive game. “I wish we would see more players, more coaches, taking chances at the net because good things do happen. A slugfest from the baseline with Murray, Djokovic or

Rafa? Good luck if you are 50th in the world. The young guys could choose not to play that way, but you can be sucked into a mode where you don’t want to attack. Since mine

The end: Britain’s rudest bookseller shuts up shop

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Owners of the Canadian website Ashley Madison, which encouraged users to commit adultery, have agreed to pay $11.2 million (£8.57 million) to customers whose details were published after its database was hacked in 2015. The names and credit card details of 37 million users were leaked, including an estimated one million Britons. Among the victims was a 56-year-old pastor at a Baptist college in New Orleans who committed suicide after the attack, leaving a note for his wife in which he expressed his regret for “having his name on there”. A police captain in Texas also killed himself. Many received blackmail messages, warning that if they did not make a payment of around $1,000 in Bitcoin, their partners would be informed. Those suing have agreed a proposed settlement with Ruby Corp, the rebranded company which owns Ashley Madison. Ruby did not admit wrongdoing but said it reached the settlement to avoid the expense and uncertainty of continued litigation. After the attack, it was discovered that 70,000 female user profiles on the site were in fact controlled by “fembots”: computer programmes that engaged male users to encourage them to sign up for extra, paid services. The bad publicity, however, does not seem to have been bad for business. The site had 5 million users in 2015 — by September last year it had 49 million.

Gabriella Swerling Northern Correspondent

The man known as “Britain’s rudest bookseller” is closing up and few people in the little Yorkshire town where he is based will shed many tears. Stephen Bloom, 64, says that he sold his shop of his own volition, partly to escape whining customers. Nestled in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales lies Bloomindales where, for the past 15 years, Mr Bloom has plied his trade. However, residents, tourists and customers in the market town of Hawes said that they could find little charm when visiting his shop. A “rude and patronising little man”, “offensive” and a “discredit to your lovely town” were just some of the complaints left after encounters with him. His policy of charging 50p to enter his shop — a tactic designed to deter time-wasting browsers — also provoked rows with customers but he refused to back down. He called one customer a “pain in the arse”, a comment he regretted. His reputation attracted national attention this year, when dozens of complaints were made to the parish council. Mr Bloom said that he was the victim of a “vicious witch-hunt”. When contacted by The Times yesterday to ask why he was selling up, he said: “It’s a combination of things, it’s certainly not exclusively because of the pressure I have been under. I’m 64

Stephen Bloom charged 50p entry to his shop to discourage browsers

now, that’s retirement age. I’ve been doing it for 15 years. But it also has to be said, subconsciously or more overtly, the business has sort of got to me. The fact that people don’t like me or talk to me. “I hear people say, ‘That’s that shop that was on the news, he charges you 50p’, and a lot of unpleasantness, it polarises people. People are strongly for me, saying, ‘Good on yer mate’, and a lot of people are the opposite, saying I’m a horrible, rude man and all that. I don’t need it.” This month two customers have complained to the council about Mr Bloom. One wrote that a group of visitors were shocked by “what a very unpleasant rude man this is”, adding: “I

was so taken back and shocked that my family actually left Hawes altogether.” Another added: “I won’t be wasting any time or money returning to your town, frankly I hope your tricking and fleecing of tourists bankrupts your hall.” John Blackie, who represents Hawes on Richmondshire district council, has led the campaign to force Mr Bloom to either change his ways or leave the town. In an email to one of the most recent complainants he signified the town’s delight that he would be quitting. He wrote that despite complaints to the council slowing since January, the two new complaints this month show that “Mr Bloom is up to his old tricks again”. He added: “It could be, though, his renewed bout of rudeness and unpleasantness he showed towards you is that it is his last stand because . . . Mr Bloom has sold his business and is expected to be leaving the town for good in the next two weeks. “If so in the opinion of very many local people, the parish council and myself, it is not a moment too soon and we cannot wait to wave goodbye for ever to a trader [and] his appalling and utterly unacceptable attitude towards his customers.” Regarding his retirement plans, Mr Bloom said that “the world’s my lobster” and he was looking forward to sitting in the garden, holidaying with his family or possibly working in book fairs “if my notoriety does not preclude me”.

University Challenge’s banana slip The BBC has admitted making a blunder after Jeremy Paxman gave the wrong answer to a question about who made Sir Billy Connolly’s big banana boots during a special edition of University Challenge. A team of Kent University graduates was asked to name the Scottish artist who had designed the famous footwear which the comedian wore during his early days in stand-up. The broadcaster Paul Ross, who was part of the team and answered “Nicola Sturgeon”, was told by Paxman that the answer was John Byrne, the Tutti Frutti writer. The boots, which are now on display in Glasgow’s People’s Palace, were in fact designed and made by the Glaswegian pop artist Edmund Smith. The artist’s daughter sent in a formal complaint to BBC bosses pointing out the error and they began an investigation. The corporation’s executive complaints unit has now upheld her complaint after admitting that the maker of the boots was even mentioned in Connolly’s official biography, written by his wife, Pamela Stephenson. The programme containing the error was broadcast on December 27 last year as part of a special festive series of the long-running BBC quiz. Byrne, a playwright who also wrote The Slab Boys, is an old friend of Connolly, 74, and recently painted a portrait of him for a BBC scheme that projected three murals of the comedian on to the side of Glasgow buildings.

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‘Sick’ policeman’s day at races caught on TV

police officer who called in sick so that he could go to Ascot was caught out when senior officers saw him on

television celebrating in the royal enclosure, a disciplinary hearing was told (Simon de Bruxelles writes). PC Jonathan Adams, of Gloucestershire

Constabulary, is accused of “pulling a sickie” on three occasions to watch horses owned by a syndicate to which he belonged. A disciplinary panel was told that he

asked for a week’s leave in June last year to go to the races. His request was turned down but he went anyway, claiming that he had irritable bowel syndrome and

was unable to work. The panel was shown a ten-second clip from Channel 4 Racing which showed him jumping for joy after Quiet Reflection, one of 50

PC Jonathan Adams at his passing out ceremony, left, and on Channel 4 cheering Quiet Reflection’s win at Ascot last year

horses owned by the Ontoawinner syndicate, won the Commonwealth Cup last year. Officers looked into two previous occasions when he had called in sick and found that both times he had been at the races in Nottingham. PC Adams is accused of failing to demonstrate “honesty and integrity” and is facing dismissal for gross misconduct, which he denies. He claims that the races helped him to cope with depression. The hearing continues.

Too busy to listen to podcasts? Try playing them twice as fast Mark Bridge Technology Correspondent

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With their invitation to “close your eyes and take a deep breath”, relaxation podcasts offer a lifeline in a busy age. But if you’re too busy to squeeze in a 20-minute session, listen at double speed. That’s the strategy Jacob Reyes, a 35-year-old web developer, used when his doctor urged him to meditate. “It’s much easier for me to sit focused for 10 minutes than 20 minutes,” he told The Wall Street Journal. Now he has found inner peace, he said. He is not alone. Busy listeners are speeding up podcasts on every topic, claiming full comprehension at speeds of up to five times normal. Some don’t want to miss out on the array of “must-listen” shows such as This American Life or They Walk Among Us. Others believe in brain-optimisation theories and want to cram in more knowledge and self-improvement on their way to work. It is the 21st century’s answer to speed reading, made easier by digital devices that increase the

6 Serial and S-Town are true-crime podcasts spun off from This American Life, a weekly radio programme in the US that explores themes in a journalistic style. Listeners could avoid spoilers by zipping ahead and listening at double speed.

6 They Walk Among Us is produced in the UK and recorded in a bedroom. It looks at the motives behind some of the UK’s most chilling crimes. If you don’t remember the events you can binge on episodes at super speeds to find out whodunnit.

speed without increasing the pitch. Listeners are also putting audiobooks on double speed to cut the 50 or so hours it takes to get through tomes such as War and Peace. Audible, the biggest provider, says hundreds of thousands of listeners use high speeds. Most podcast and audiobook players offer playback at twice the speed, but Max Deutsch, from San Francisco, created the Rightspeed app, which can be set to ten times. Its selling point is a feature intend-

6 My Favourite Murder, Stranglers and Up and Vanished delve into notorious crimes. Each episode is between 30 and 40 minutes long, perfect for an average commute, but two can be squeezed in if listened to at double speed.

ed to train the brain to take in podcasts at higher speeds, by increasing the speed by a tenth every two minutes. Starting at double speed and finishing at five times, a onehour podcast takes 17 minutes. He cites a study in 2010 in which blind patients could comprehend 25 syllables per second, which is seven to eight times faster than audiobook speed and says that he finds accelerated recordings more engaging. Other fans of speedlistening say that professional

narrators speak at about 150-160 words per minute, compared with speeds of up to 200 words in ordinary conversation. We read at 200300 words per minute, on average. Fans of podcasts and audiobooks share speed-listening strategies on sites such as Reddit, where one wrote: “When people read something aloud for others, they tend to speak 20-30 per cent slower than in conversation. If I’m listening to something personal like a memoir, I want that conversational feeling, so I’ll bump up the speed slightly.” The Overcast app allows users to listen to podcasts at speeds of up to three times but also has Smart Speed which removes things such as intros, outros and extended pauses that can add ten minutes to an episode. It is used by about half of Overcast users and listeners claim to have freed up more than 100 hours which they can use to binge on other series. For speed-listeners, there may be side-effects. Some say that after listening to podcasts at two or three times normal speed, real-life speech sounds terribly slow. Prison podcast is a hit, page 42

Pupils must wear tags for uniform breaches Fariha Karim

A school has been criticised for a strict behaviour policy that forces pupils to wear tags if they do not have the correct uniform. Parents have criticised Merchants’ Academy in Bristol, where pupils were told to wear lanyards and a card saying: “I have 24 hours to sort out my uniform.” They claimed that children had been punished for wearing shoes that are too shiny or wearing the wrong coloured hairbands, with some

sent into “isolation rooms” for five lessons. Others claimed that children had been excluded for removing a blazer as part of a “behaviour for learning” policy, a 17-page document that outlines offences that will result in sanctions. Petula Peacock claimed that her son, Oliver, was excluded for “shushing” someone in class, tapping his pen on the table and refusing to go into isolation. Merchants’ Academy, run by the Merchants’ Academy Trust, denied

that children had been excluded “for simply looking at a clock, tapping a table or removing a blazer in the dining hall on a hot day”. The school did confirm that children were being made to wear the lanyards. It said that all pupils were given lanyards with cards identifying which house they belonged to, and that the incorrect uniform lanyard “was introduced in response to feedback from students who found it frustrating when multiple staff throughout the day questioned their obvious

breach of the uniform policy”. It added that its uniform policy banned patent shoes and stated that all laces, stitching and soles must be black. Nick Short, the principal, told the Bristol Post that there had been “slightly more” children in isolation since the rule change but he denied claims that as many as 100 students had been punished that way. The school said: “Since the policy was implemented, staff and students are reporting much higher levels of engagement in class.”

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May’s reforms made acid attacks more likely Changes to stop-and-search powers and guidance on police chasing mopeds have emboldened young, violent criminals PAUL ROGERS FOR THE TIMES

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few weeks ago, while reporting on the police gangs unit in Hackney, I watched a 14-year-old boy being arrested for attempted murder. He had been recognised from CCTV footage and was suspected of carrying out a stabbing. As he was bundled into a police van, his friends were filming him on their smartphones, so they could post the footage online, and he was smiling for the camera, pleased with the notoriety he would gain. This was shocking enough, but what I found even more chilling was that when the police searched the teenager, they found not a knife but a small plastic water bottle filled with what the officers called a “noxious substance”, possibly Domestos, ready to throw in somebody’s face. I thought of that moment on Thursday night when I heard the news of multiple acid attacks in east London — the first of them in Hackney, just around the corner from where I live. Yesterday a 16year-old boy was in court charged with 13 offences including grievous bodily harm, possession of an item to discharge a noxious substance and robbery relating to last week’s crime spree in which five men were assaulted in the space of 90 minutes. A sixth man also had a chemical squirted in his face by two men on a moped in a separate attack a day later in Dagenham. It is part of a barbaric trend. Corrosive chemicals — many of

which can be found under any kitchen sink — have become the weapon of choice for a growing number of criminals. According to the Home Office, there were more than 400 acid attacks in the six months to April. The number in London almost tripled from 166 in 2014 to 454 last year. Although the police say these assaults started as so-called “honour” crimes — used in Asian communities to permanently scar women who were believed to have been unfaithful to their husbands — now 80 per cent of the victims are male. In Hackney, the street gangs often carry bottles of bleach, ammonia or acid alongside their blades. There are some parts of my borough where delivery drivers will not work because they fear being scarred for life as well as robbed. Together with a shocking increase in knife crime — which rose by 14 per cent last year — the spate of acid attacks has created a growing sense of lawlessness on the streets of Britain. With the age of those

‘If we search fewer people then we will find fewer illicit items’ involved in violent crime falling, the police detect a new mood of recklessness. These kids have few boundaries, and little understanding of the consequence of their actions. Yet the repercussions are all too real for their victims and society. The government has promised new measures to clamp down on acid attacks, including possibly introducing tougher sentences and additional controls on the purchase of chemicals — although quite how the Home Office will license the sale of bleach and drain cleaner remains to be seen.

In fact, the violent crime wave can be blamed at least in part on changes introduced by Theresa May when she was home secretary. Reforms inspired by noble motives have simply created another problem in a classic example of the law of unintended consequences. There has been a dramatic reduction in the police use of stopand-search powers since changes were introduced by Mrs May in 2014. These new controls, brought forward to allay concerns that the powers were being used disproportionately against young black men, are one of the prime minister’s proudest achievements. They are often highlighted by her supporters as a symbol of her determination to stamp out the “burning injustices” in society. Tory strategists believe they have helped to restore their party’s reputation among ethnic minority voters. But the police, as well as victims’ families, are convinced that the fall in the use of stop and search (which is down by almost 75 per cent from its highest level seven years ago) is one explanation for the rise in knife crime and acid attacks. Simon Kempton, a member of the Police Federation National Board, says: “I believe there’s a correlation. If we are searching fewer people then we will find fewer illicit items, whether that is drugs, knives or bottles of alkaline and acid. Offenders have become emboldened because they know they are less likely to be caught.” Although Mrs May has insisted that there is no link, citing figures which showed that so-called blade or point stops — where the police suspect a knife is being carried — account for less than 1 per cent of the reduction in stop and searches in London, a recent statistical analysis by the Police Foundation think tank found that this was misleading

Hicks, an 18-year-old who lost control of his scooter during a police chase, puts a greater burden on officers to justify the pursuit of suspects on mopeds. Officers now feel reluctant to embark on anything that could be defined as dangerous for fear of being disciplined. This has encouraged a moped crime wave, with attackers seizing mobile phones or jewellery and deliberately

A change introduced for good reasons has had a bad outcome

There has been a huge reduction in the use of stop and search since 2014

because almost half of the arrests for carrying a blade in fact followed drugs searches rather than “blade or point stops”. “There are grounds for thinking that Theresa May was wrong to say that there could be no link between falling numbers of stops and searches for drugs and rising knife crime,” it concluded. Of course, stop-and-search powers must be used sensitively — and there should never be any racial discrimination — but body-worn cameras make it much easier to monitor police officers’ behaviour. A well-meaning reform may have unwittingly made the streets less safe. The same is almost certainly true of another change introduced when Mrs May was home secretary — to the rules governing police chasing motorcycles. Guidance published in 2014, following the death of Henry

exploiting the new rules by removing their helmets as they flee the scene. The more recklessly they drive, the more likely it is that the chase will have to be called off. Again a change introduced for good reasons has had a bad outcome. Meanwhile, as the age profile of violent offenders falls, there have been drastic cuts to youth services’ budgets. According to research by Unison, more than 600 youth centres have closed and 139,000 places been lost since 2012. This has reduced the chances of society’s “lost boys” being diverted away from a life of crime. The prime minister wants to be seen to be tough on crime but longer prison sentences and stricter controls on the sale of bathroom cleaners and carving knives are not the answer to acid attacks or stabbings. Mrs May should take a long hard look at her own record in the Home Office instead.

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Now we all have to live by radical feminist rules The desire to obliterate distinctions between the sexes has led to a damaging new consensus Melanie Phillips

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ransport for London has banned the phrase “ladies and gentlemen”. TfL’s head of customer strategy, Mark Evers, said they wanted “everyone to feel welcome on our transport network”. So in future staff will greet passengers with “Hello everyone”. Whoopee, eh! Thank goodness we’ve been stripped of our gender identity! Nasty, bigoted, unfriendly act, thinking of ourselves as either women or men! We’re all genderfluid now. You might say TfL is putting the trans into transit and about time too. Binary is so last century. No less a body than the Fawcett Society has told us this. Last year it reported that 44 per cent of British people now believe gender can be expressed as a range of identities, with almost half of young women holding this view. Would this be the same Fawcett Society that’s named after Millicent Fawcett, the great Edwardian campaigner for women’s suffrage? Who fought for that because she believed women would make a contribution to the public sphere wholly different from the role played by men? Clearly, by “Votes for Women” what she really meant was “Votes for Anyone”.

The doctrine of identity-neutrality has been gathering pace for decades. Back in the Nineties, the category “married” disappeared from official statistics in order not to be “judgmental” about different lifestyles. As result, we were no longer allowed to learn of the enormously higher rate of abuse of women and children by unmarried partners. Then the words “mother and father” started to be replaced by “parent” so that same-sex couples shouldn’t feel excluded. The distinction between Mrs and Miss was removed by lifestyle-mute Ms. Now the appellation Mx erases any sign that you are a woman at all. At least 80 state schools in Britain now allow boys to wear skirts, as well as girls to wear trousers. Unisex toilets are springing up in public buildings everywhere. The activist group Stonewall, which has done so

Theories originally thought to be bizarre are now compulsory much to promote human rights for absolutely everyone except straights, is now campaigning for a “gender X” option on passports. Bless. In fact, this use of “gender” confuses biological sex with masculine and feminine characteristics or behaviour. Among neuroscientists, mainstream opinion holds that there are pronounced biological differences between the sexes. A 2011 article in Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology stated: “Brain sex differences uniquely affect biochemical processes, may contribute

to the susceptibility to specific diseases and may influence specific behaviours”. Although some sex differences were due to “social systems and gender socialisation”, biological traits were likely to be a major contributor. A major contributor, that is, to men being men and women being women. Radical feminists, by contrast, say gender is merely a “social construct” which puts men in power and causes women to lose out. It surely isn’t gender itself but the politicised gender issue that’s the real social construct — created to dispense with the social role of men and destroy the traditional family which was demonised as the crucible of male power over women. In 1970, the pioneering feminist Kate Millett wrote in Sexual Politics that boys and girls were conditioned into roles within the family, “patriarchy’s chief institution”. In 1977 the psychologist Sandra Bem wrote that when androgyny had been absorbed by the culture, distinctions between masculinity and femininity would “blur into invisibility”. In 1991, the sociologist Judith Lorber advocated a “social order without gender”. There was absolutely nothing distinct about femininity, she claimed, not even menstruation, pregnancy or lactation since some women never got pregnant and some men lactated. Feminists were wrong to strive for equality between men and women but should have worked instead towards “eliminating them as significant social categories”. Such theories, originally thought to be beyond bizarre, became tolerated, were then adopted as mainstream and are now compulsory.

In the US, the American Psychiatric Association has progressively eliminated sexual identity disorders from the manual of psychiatric diagnoses. Paul McHugh, formerly psychiatrist-in-chief at Johns Hopkins hospital, continues to state that transgenderism is a mental disorder and that, purely for political and ideological reasons, sufferers are being denied the treatment they need. Studies show, he has said, that between 70 per cent and 80 per cent of children who express transgender feelings “spontaneously lose those feelings” over time. Even among those satisfied with gender-reassignment surgery, their subsequent “psychosocial adjustments” had not improved. Dr McHugh lost the argument. As a result California, New Jersey and Massachusetts have passed laws barring psychiatrists, “even with parental permission, from striving to restore natural gender feelings to a transgender minor”. In 2015 Kenneth Zucker, a Canadian psychologist, was sacked from his Toronto gender identity clinic because he tried to help children lose their belief that they were born into the wrong sex. An investigation found that his clinic, which he had run for 30 years, was “not in step with the latest thinking”. From time to time over the years I have been called “sir” on the phone (probably because my voice is quite deep); or even, by busy shop assistants registering only a tall figure with short hair, to my face. I have variously felt irritated, amused or insulted. Clearly, I never realised I was in the very vanguard of fashion. So gratifying to find everyone else is now catching up.

n the interiors world, July is the month when homeware brands hold press events to reveal their festive stock. I was initiated into this time-honoured tradition last week, which involved the surreal experience of walking from the blazing sunshine into rooms full of fake snow, Christmas trees and artificial reindeer. I’ve no idea how the Aussies do it. At one event I was distracted from inspecting kitchen gadgets by a member of the marketing team declaring “it’s time to pimp up your prosecco!” and I was swiftly introduced to “prosecco shimmer”, a substance that adds an iridescent rose gold sparkle to your drink. One thing led to another and before I knew it I had discovered other party essentials such as Yule Duel, a compendium of card games presented in a chocolate-log shaped box, and “racing turkey crackers” filled with

wind-up plastic poultry. Merry Christmas one and all.

laughs from the audience. The monarch oversaw the 1707 union, which she called her “greatest glory”. We forget in these uncensored times how staging a play that criticised governing regimes was once a risky business. One of Henry Fielding’s satires — which, like this production, was performed at the Haymarket in London — allegedly angered Sir Robert Walpole, Britain’s first prime minister, so much that he mounted the stage and began beating the actor delivering the derogatory lines. (Fortunately, I didn’t spot Nicola Sturgeon in the audience at Queen Anne.) Fielding’s plays resulted in the theatre being closed for seven years. Imagine an age of politics without the drama.

past. There’s one bench dedicated to Michael, “who found happiness here with Plato and Waldo”; another to Amelie, “our beautiful, feisty little lady”, with an elegiac bidding from her parents, “Explore now this dappled wonderland”. Not for the first time, I wonder if my morbid curiosity has something to do with beginning my Times career in the obituaries department.

Favourite things

n a restaurant the other night John Coltrane’s inimitable My Favourite Things was playing in the background. It reminded me of a mix CD that my uncle, a jazz lover, made for me in my teens that included the Coltrane classic. The first time I listened to it I was a stranger to the riffs and licks — jazz has a language unto itself — but soon my hands and feet were unconsciously tapping along. It’s fascinating how sounds make the mind reach for rhythms of the past. Never mind the sax: memory is the most powerful instrument of all.

Whitehall farce

ike our theatre critic, I felt that the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of Queen Anne was lacklustre, but I enjoyed the quips that chimed with modern politics. Most of them revolved around England’s relationship with Scotland and drew some knowing

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hat memories will we leave behind? I occasionally walk in Highgate Wood, a precious leafy enclave in north London, where I can be far from the madding crowd. Wandering beneath the trees on a balmy summer’s day, I became fixated by the inscriptions on the many memorial benches that I walked

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wo years on from the nuclear deal with Iran, internal battles continue to guide high-stakes decision-making in Tehran. British civilians, such as Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, have suffered the consequences. Nazanin was arrested at Khomeini airport in April 2016 after a routine family holiday with her daughter, then aged 22 months, to see her parents in Tehran. She was separated from her daughter, Gabriella, who has effectively lived apart from her parents ever since. As The Times has reported, Nazanin has been denied justice at every stage of her 15-month ordeal. The UN has described her detention as “unlawful” and “arbitrary” after a sham process of secretive charges, and a trial at which she was not allowed to speak. She has endured months of solitary confinement, unable to contact her family or her lawyer. Access to medical treatment has regularly been withheld, even after a neurological specialist recommended hospital admission. Our government believes it has limited means to act on her behalf. Nazanin is a dual national — a status that Iran does not recognise. The usual support of consular access and British embassy guidance has been blocked by the Iranians. In public, the UK has not criticised this, or escalated beyond polite requests. Nazanin is one of a number of British detainees in Iran whom the UK has not been able to visit, and part of a wave of dual nationals from a variety of countries taken by parts of the Iranian regime in the political infighting since the nuclear deal. There are also many other British dual nationals suffering similar fates elsewhere. It is an unacceptable injustice that British citizens who suffer human rights abuses at the hands of unruly regimes are left feeling abandoned as a result of discretionary diplomatic policy. The Foreign Office has been sincere in expressing concerns privately, but the approach is not strong enough. The inertia that seems to take hold in cases like Nazanin’s sends a signal that other concerns, such as trade, are more important than British citizens’ rights. That is why I will be raising these issues at a debate in Westminster Hall today. A recent ONS report shows that there are at least 600,000 dual nationals in Britain. Though many will never have to contemplate the hell experienced by Nazanin and other detainees, the lack of safeguards means that Britain effectively operates a two-tier system for citizenship when protecting citizens abroad. For British dual nationals, the policy, even the law, must be updated.

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s a millennial who writes about millennials, I try to keep abreast of the latest moneysaving apps, but an ingenious one had escaped my notice until it was mentioned by a friend. Too Good To Go aims to reduce the tonnes of food that are thrown away. It was founded in Denmark and started being introduced in the UK last year. For those in the dark, the app lets you order — for as little as £2 — leftover, but perfectly edible, meals from restaurants and cafés that would otherwise be destined for the bin. The scheme also allows you to donate £1 towards a meal for someone in need. Enterprising, eco-friendly and socially responsible — you can’t really improve on that.

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If you can’t find an enemy, just invent one It scarcely matters to social media witch-hunters whether stories about Philip Hammond or the new Dr Who are true Hugo Rifkind

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don’t know Philip Hammond, so I have to admit it is totally possible that he’s surprised a woman can drive a train. Like, perhaps he’d have been equally astonished if he’d seen a dog doing it. In which case, wow, but how terrifying his life must be. Because there are women everywhere, these days, aren’t there? Flying aeroplanes, cutting people open, putting them back together. Driving, indeed, and without even rails to guide them. Some of them even have guns. Yes! Guns! When he was defence secretary, for three whole years, he could easily have met one of them. And she could have mistaken it for a lipstick and shot him in the face. Or maybe — and I’m just throwing this out there — he isn’t that surprised. When the papers reported that he’d said in cabinet last week that driving a train was now so easy “even a woman could do it”, then maybe, just maybe, the true situation wasn’t quite as “oh, look, there’s the

Duke of Edinburgh” as many seem to have immediately assumed. Could he in fact have been saying something fairly innocuous, that merely came out wrong? Do we think that’s plausible? Might this man, with a female boss, and numerous female colleagues, and who isn’t actually a moron, perhaps not really think a woman would be inherently worse at driving a train at all? I also don’t really know any male Doctor Who fans. I’ve never been one, myself. As a child, ignorant of BBC prop budgets, I objected to sci-fi with so few laser guns. (Now I’m not a child, ironically enough, I’m always annoyed by the way it seems to have been written by one.) So, in my

On social media the new Doctor’s defenders have been trawling hard ignorance, I must admit that it is equally possible that there are, indeed, hordes of male Whovians out there who are jolly upset by the prospect of her from Broadchurch replacing him from The Thick of It as the next duo-cardiac, Dalekbothering phonebox pilot. “Political correctness gone mad!” they may genuinely be shrieking, somewhere. Or, “they’ll be letting

women be actual doctors next!” and so on. Only, they do seem hard to find. Or, at least, harder to find than all the other people who are giggling and mocking them for thinking this. With it being deemed somehow irrelevant — in much the same way that Hammond’s actual words seemed to have been deemed irrelevant — that they might not actually exist. Sure, there are some. On social media, the new Doctor’s defenders, keen to find something to defend her from, have been trawling hard. Most of what they have turned up seems to have come from Mail Online reader comments, which strikes me as cheating. We all know that an infinity of crazed, typing monkeys locked in a room will eventually produce the works of Shakespeare. As this may be literally how that website’s reader comments are produced, it’s hardly surprising they’ve found the odd bit of Whovian broflake rage down there, too. My favourite example unearthed so far comes from Brian from London, who wrote, fabulously, “nobody wants a Tardis full of bras”. Which, as well as being hilarious, is of course quite wrong. Everybody wants a Tardis full of bras. Some male Whovians possibly want one so badly that they could go blind. Also,

the interior of the Tardis is infinite, so you couldn’t fill it up with bras, anyway. Although if you did, I suppose you’d at least have one each for the monkeys. Fights like this are sometimes real. When the all-female Ghostbusters was announced in 2014, the angry male response was loud and vicious, and ultimately, after it incorporated racism too, led to Twitter issuing a lifetime ban to the far-right

There’s a desire for confirmation against a perceived enemy provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos. Even then, though, the initial bout of objection was ultimately dwarfed by objectors to that objection, to the extent that “pathetic sexists hating the new Ghostbusters” became a fun, feminist meme in its own right. The origins — the reality — becomes unimportant. It doesn’t even need to have happened. The rallying point is the response. In the social media age, we are tribal not just about our likes, but our dislikes, too. Perhaps the latter are even more important. There are reasons why fairly minor political candidates are now routinely virally shamed for sexism, racism or

homophobia, and it is not always to do with a desire to smear their parties, or to spread guilt by contamination. Often it is something far more needy; a plea for reassurance, or a desire for group confirmation against a perceived enemy. It is also why the Brexit right seeks the bogeymen of “saboteurs”, and why both extremes respond so shrilly to any utterance by Tony Blair, without ever seeming to care what that utterance is. Pointing at a witch and crying “witch” is a great way of showing you aren’t one. In the end, though, it is also counterproductive. In a world where Hammond is noisily slammed for saying a woman can’t drive a train, even if he didn’t, the space is opened up for somebody to say this for real. When Twitter thrums with disdain for theoretical critics of a female Timelord, a market — a real market, which can generate real money through clicks, and infect the web by the virality of disapproval — is generated for anybody prepared to take up that banner with gusto. If we hunger for witches, eventually we will get witches. In newspapers, on television, in politics. Sometimes, they do rather well. Whereupon we may wish that we had done things differently. Or that we could go back in time. In our Tardis. Which is full of bras.

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Breathing unaided Sir, It is misleading to describe withdrawal of mechanical ventilation from Charlie Gard as a procedure “to end Charlie’s life” (letter, July 17), thereby making it sound like an act of euthanasia. The ability to breathe spontaneously for oneself is fundamental to anything that could be called “natural” life. Ventilation is only required for a person who, through illness or injury, does not have this ability — put crudely, were it not for the machine they would be dead already. The life that is artificially sustained by the ventilator may be richly rewarding, the prolonging of an agony or anything in between. It is this immensely difficult decision in Charlie’s case that is being decided in the courts. But when or if it is decided to withdraw Charlie’s ventilation, it will not be the lack of a machine that causes his death, but the nervous system damage that deprives him of the capacity to breathe for himself that is essential to any self-sustaining living organism on earth. Euthanasia, on the other hand, is the giving of a lethal drug to someone who has not lost that self-sustaining ability and would otherwise continue to live. That is indeed a procedure to end life. dr nigel sykes frcp Beckenham, Bromley

Police training Sir, Nazir Afzal is correct about the abilities of the police service (“We need a police force that is fit for purpose”, July 17). Training that used to be comprehensive in knowledge, understanding, skills, attitudes and behaviour has been undermined since the review by Field-Smith in 2003. Police constables used to attend immersive training for more than 15 weeks and be tutored over two years at a district training centre and in theatre. This training, which I was involved in as a trainer and team leader, was exhaustive in all aspects of the law. Now supervisors are not trained in management and leadership, and the service has little or no diversity in the strategic ranks. We do not need 40 police forces based on county boundaries. Seven regional forces with devolved Basic Command Unit management supporting intelligence-led, neighbourhood policing would be more efficient and would be supported by national police for national threats. tod o’brien York

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Sir, Further to your report (“Britain spends billions on flawed fighter jets”, News, July 17), in the mid-1990s we were working on a collaborative programme, known as the Future Offensive Air System (FOAS), with the French. Despite the fact that this would have retained fighter design and development capability in the UK for more than half a century, it was ruled out as too expensive alongside the cheaper Joint Strike Fighter, now the F-35. While we are certainly key partners with the United States on the F-35, our involvement is far less than it might have been with a European project, similar to Tornado and Typhoon, both of which provided quality jobs on assembly lines in the UK. Instead, largely as a result of external factors outside our control, what started as a £50 million per aircraft acquisition has led to costs escalating, not to mention the irrecoverable loss of a much-envied component of the British aerospace industrial base. Is there a lesson to be learnt here? sir christopher coville (Air Marshal Rtd) Sir, The problems facing the new F-35 fighter mirror those facing the new Ajax armoured fighting vehicle — a

British beef Sir, Timothy Lang’s article (“Buying British can’t save beef from a sustainability crisis”, Thunderer, July 17) highlights concerns over land use for beef production and the need for us to grow more horticulture. But this is not just a land issue; it is also about water. Producing 1kg of beef takes about 15,000 litres of water. This comes mostly from rainfall on pastures and cereals. In contrast, horticulture requires irrigation to meet the high-quality standards that supermarkets demand. Increasing production will mean taking more water from our rivers and underground supplies, many of which are already in danger of over-abstraction. If we want more horticultural production then Michael Gove will need to make sure that water resources are an integral part of a future agricultural strategy. Increasing

on this day july 18, 1917

THE HOUSE AND FAMILY OF WINDSOR The step formally taken yesterday by the King in Council will give unqualified satisfaction throughout the British Dominions. He has abolished all German titles and dignities in the Royal Family and assumed the family name of Windsor. This is a more democratic step than is apparent on the surface. It means that the male descendants of the Sovereign will be commoners in the third generation, with a

lack of a cohesive communications network. The combination of lack of budget, delays in the introduction of networking technology and the lack of tri-service integrated communications means that the ability of our armed forces to communicate seamlessly across the battlefield is years away. One solution would be a privately financed solution for industry to build the network and rent it by the hour to the MoD in the manner of the Skynet 5 satellite system. julian nettlefold Editor, Battlespace Sir, The real scandal of the new aircraft carriers is the decision to have a ski ramp instead of a catapult. This restricts the choice of aircraft to the most expensive and second-best option of the F-35 series and to second-best options for airborne early warning and electronic countermeasure (ECM). It also denies the possibility of operating aircraft of any other ally except the US Marine Corps. If development of the F-35B continues to disappoint, might not the aircraft carrier, HMS The Prince of Wales be refitted with a catapult, and an existing aircraft, such as the F-18, be procured? colonel michael woodcock Cullompton, Devon storage is the most important way to improve our water security. melvyn kay Executive secretary, UK Irrigation Association Sir, Timothy Lang claims that beef production in the UK is “seriously distorting land use” by the intensive feeding of cereals and that we should grow “low carbon fruit and vegetables” on this land. However, beef animal diets are based almost exclusively on grass and conserved grass in the form of silage and hay. Grassland forms an essential part of crop rotations or it is permanent; it is unsuitable for alternative cropping, particularly fruit and vegetables. Less than 5 per cent of UK cereals are used to feed beef animals. UK beef production is sustainable; animals spend most of their time grazing pastures. It uses resources and land that are not transferable to other production and makes a contribution to environment, wildlife courtesy title as the sons of Dukes, and plain Mr Windsor in the fourth generation. The assumption of a family name is a necessary corollary of the recent abolition of princely titles for the younger generations in descent from the Sovereign, and no better choice could have been made than that of Windsor. It connects the old with the new. The fame of Windsor goes back to Saxon times, and the Castle has been closely associated with the successive Royal Houses of England. Plantagenets were born there; Tudors and Stuarts were buried there; Hanoverians died there; Queen Victoria, King Edward VII, and King George’s brother, who would have been King had he lived, are buried there. Windsor is a loadstar for the descendants of those who have gone forth from these islands and made the British Empire. Visitors who “come home” from the Dominions want to see Windsor, and make their pilgrimage there. Cynics may regard the change as a matter of no importance, but they are mistaken. It is not wisdom, but folly, to ignore the influence of

Sir, Before the RAF ordered 138 complex F-35 aircraft, including at least 48 of the B variant, at a cost of about $21 billion, the basic airframe price of the effective and worldproven F-15 fighter had dropped to a mere $12 million. Granted, the F-15 does not take off or land in a short space or vertically, as does the F-35, so it would have needed a catapult launch. However, the launch system for our new carriers was omitted to save money, thus committing them to the expensive F-35, but had it been included, a saving could still have been made, and other conventional aircraft could have also operated from the carriers. malcolm parkin Kinnesswood, Kinross Sir, Your report reminded me of an air show I attended last year. The F-35 was being demonstrated in the air. The American commentator told us that the aircraft was the most advanced in the world and could carry out manoeuvres that no other plane could do, which would be demonstrated. There was a pause. “There is a slight technical problem” he said. “ We will not be able to show you that right now.” anthony saunders Horsell, Surrey and habitat. These are all benefits that British consumers can encourage by continuing to buy British beef. richard harvey Oakham, Rutland

Funeral security Sir, Further to Lord Bew’s assessment that intimidation “had taken politics to tipping point” (“Social media giants tackled on MPs’ abuse”, News, July 17), I would like to place alongside that report the funeral this month at Chichester Cathedral of the Right Rev Geoffrey Rowell, the late Bishop of Gibraltar in Europe. At this 900-year-old place of worship, leaders of the established church and 2,000 others were greeted on arrival by five armed policemen. For many in the Christian community, we have already reached a “tipping point”. the ven arthur siddall (Former Archdeacon of Europe) sentiment in the populace. It binds the Empire together, and the war has demonstrated the strength of the bond by proofs which no man can gainsay or belittle. The King has known well how to gratify the patriotic sentiment of all the British peoples which centres in the Crown, in this as in other things. During the earlier part of Queen Victoria’s reign, after her marriage, the German element at Court was a standing cause of irritation among the mass of the people in this country. Later the feeling, once acute, abated, and during King Edward’s reign it died down. It was not a personal feeling against members of the Royal Family, who were, and are, popular, but due to an instinctive dislike of Teutonism; and who shall say now that it was not justified? By this act King George has expunged the memory of it, and has done wisely. sign up for a weekly email with extracts from the times history of the war ww1.thetimes.co.uk

Arctic skills Sir, You report that the government is to end the training of Royal Marines in Norway (News, July 14, and letter, July 15). As members of the House of Commons defence committee, we visited the training in February and were impressed. Cold-weather training is a vital British contribution to Nato and to deterrence. The retreat of the Arctic ice makes military confrontation in the High North, Arctic and North Atlantic a risk. There is increased Russian military activity in the north — they have two divisions near Murmansk undertaking training in Arctic warfare. The committee hopes to publish a report in the autumn, and we must not prejudge what it will say. However, cutting training would leave Britain less prepared, our allies confused and our military weakened. james gray, mp, chairman, defence sub-committee on the Arctic; madeleine moon, mp, committee member

Noises off Sir, The difficulty of finding quiet places is growing in a society that does not appreciate our need for tranquillity (“Turn off, tune out and treasure the silence”, Comment, July 17). Unwanted noise is an under-recognised health problem, for it can raise blood pressure and depress the immune system. Noise is annoying in libraries; it is intolerable in hospitals where patients may be powerless to escape television or piped music. That is why we continue to press for government action to make hospitals and similar places quiet zones. nigel rodgers National secretary, Pipedown

Seat of power Sir, The bus company that served the village in Somerset where I was brought up left no doubt as to who should be able to sit down for the ride into town (“Age trumps youth for a seat on bus”, News, July 17). A notice said: “The half fare paid in respect of children does not entitle them to a seat when adults are standing.” The London buses should follow suit, especially as children travel free. prue raper London SW18

Beethoven’s gift Sir, The links between Beethoven and London music were strong and, in what some might take as an allegory, the British commissioned and paid Beethoven for the Ninth Symphony and, with it, Ode to Joy (Proms 1 and 2 review, July 17). In 1824, in response to a commission for £50, the manuscript score was sent to London bearing on its front page, in Beethoven’s hand, the dedication “written for the Philharmonic Society in London”. Two years later, when the Society learnt that Beethoven was ill and in need of money, it sent him £100 “to be applied to his comforts and necessities”. The money reached him a few days before he died, but time enough for him to express his appreciation. Schindler, his amanuensis, reported that “the Society had comforted his last days, and . . . on the brink of the grave he thanked the Society and the whole English nation for the great gift.” thomas sharpe Hurstbourne Tarrant, Hants

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Leading articles Daily Universal Register UK: The Bank of England unveils the new £10 note featuring Jane Austen on the 200th anniversary of her death; trading update from Royal Mail.

Nature notes The blackbirds that have been filling the summer air with their languorous songs in the evenings have now more or less finished singing, and the fluting notes will not be heard again until the end of next January. A few blackbird pairs are still feeding their fledglings in the trees, and making their soft, clucking warning calls to them. Most of the other small songbirds have also stopped singing. An exception are wrens, which are still breeding. The male wrens continue to challenge intruders into their territory with their loud, rapid songs, and one can sometimes hear a song duel between them. Among the summer visitors blackcaps can be heard singing an occasional brief phrase, but it is no more than an echo of their earlier rich, melodious performances in the woods. Chiffchaffs can also be heard here and there in a treetop, but between the bursts of song they now make soft hiccuping sounds — no one knows why. derwent may

Birthdays today Sir Nick Faldo, pictured, golfer, winner of the Open (1987, 1990, 1992), 60; Anne-Birgitte Albrectsen, chief executive, Plan International, 50; Rachel Aron, UK ambassador to Belgium (2007-10), 66; Maya Arulpragasam, aka MIA, singer-songwriter, Paper Planes (2007), 42; Brian Auger, jazz and rock keyboardist, 78; Kristen Bell, actress and singer, Frozen (2013), 37; Edward Bond, playwright, Saved (1965), 83; James Brolin, actor, Marcus Welby, M.D. (1969-76), 77; Sir Richard Branson, founder and chairman, Virgin Group, 67; Priyanka Chopra, actress, 35; Sir Peter Crane, director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (1999-2006), 63; Jeremy Darroch, chief executive, Sky plc, 55; Vin Diesel, actor, the Fast and Furious film series, 50; GHG Doggart, cricketer, England (1950), president of MCC (1981-82), 92; Francis FitzGibbon, QC, chairman, Criminal Bar Association, 57; Steve Forbes, editor-in-chief, Forbes magazine, 70; David Hemery, 400m athlete, Olympic gold medallist (1968), 73; Jack Irons, rock drummer, Pearl Jam, 55; Andrew Lewer, Conservative MP for Northampton South, 46; Dennis Lillee, cricketer, Australia (1971-84), 68; Annie Mac, Radio 1 DJ, 39; Elizabeth McGovern, actress, Downton Abbey (2010-15), 56; James Norton, actor, Grantchester, 32; Alan Pardew, football manager, Crystal Palace (2015-16), 56; Martha Reeves, R&B singer, Martha and the Vandellas, Dancing in the Street (1964), 76; Paul Verhoeven, director and screenwriter, Robocop (1987), Total Recall (1990), 79; Jim Watt, boxer, world lightweight champion (1979), 69; Sir Steve Webb, Lib Dem MP (1997-2015), 52.

On this day In 1870 Pope Pius IX promulgated the dogma of papal infallibility; in 1925 Adolf Hitler published the first volume of Mein Kampf; in 1955 Disneyland opened in California.

The last word “Women never have young minds. They are born three thousand years old.” Shelagh Delaney, English dramatist, in A Taste of Honey (1959).

Careless Talk Ministers who are prepared to damage the chancellor with anonymous leaks risk harming the party and giving an opening to Jeremy Corbyn If the official Downing Street briefing is to be believed, Theresa May will tell her ministers today that unofficial briefing about what is said in cabinet must stop. She is right. Those manoeuvring to replace her have shown little sign since the election of paying much attention to her warnings, but they all stand to lose political ground if cabinet discipline unravels, and the country stands to lose a great deal more. Without freedom to air ministerial differences in private, such differences will never be resolved. Without agreed public positions on dominant issues at home, including public sector pay, and in Brussels, chief among them Britain’s goals in the Brexit process, this fragile minority government will fall apart. That would plunge the country back into political chaos from which it could all too easily emerge with a new government led by Jeremy Corbyn. The prime minister may be on borrowed time but that is no reason to surrender to neo-Marxism. Between the confusion of Labour’s Brexit strategy and the ideological purity of the Conservatives’ hardline Eurosceptics lies a pragmatic approach being pursued by the chancellor, Philip Hammond. He is neither charismatic nor intuitive but he has been strengthened by the election just as Mrs May

has been weakened. She sought a mandate for a Brexit that would cut immigration from Europe first and foremost, even at the cost of growth and trade. Mr Hammond stands for an approach that minimises damage to the economy. That entails a transition period during which Britain remains within the EU’s single market and customs union. That is why hardliners have been briefing so furiously against him. They should show more self-restraint. Instead of leaking against Mr Hammond they should start listening to him. David Davis, the Brexit secretary, went to Brussels yesterday resolving to “get down to work” at the resumption of talks with Michel Barnier, his opposite number from the European Commission. The two men appear to have established a reasonable rapport but Mr Barnier is acutely conscious of the passage of time. Mr Davis should be too. He knows that the pair must show progress on citizens’ rights, Britain’s financial settlement with Europe and the Northern Irish border before the EU’s other 27 members allow trade talks to start. So far there appears to have been little progress. In these circumstances the idea of Britain and Europe agreeing both divorce and trade terms by March 2019 seems far fetched. That is why

the question of how to agree transitional arrangements, and for how long, has taken on such fundamental importance. It would help if Mrs May were to take a firm view, but she appears too fearful of the hardliners to make her mind up. Mr Hammond rightly supports a transition period and is being hounded for it. Five senior anonymous sources briefed against the chancellor at the weekend, painting him as callous on public sector pay and even sexist on who can drive a train. The episode said more about the briefers than the briefed-against. Those who think that they stand to gain by weakening Mr Hammond include Michael Gove, Boris Johnson, Chris Grayling, Andrea Leadsom and Mr Davis. They or their “friends” are behaving as if the chancellor were a minor irritant lying in the path of the Brexit juggernaut. In reality the election has left him the most powerful figure in the cabinet as the man in charge of the economy. He is the only one to have stuck to an achievable position on Brexit since the referendum. The stakes are too high for this recklessness. The future of the country is at risk and it requires serious people with serious aims to secure the best deal for Britain. The cabinet has to unite in order to avoid a much more worrying alternative.

High-Price Rail HS2 is an important transport link, but it is costing far too much Any enthusiast for the High Speed Two (HS2) rail link from London to Birmingham will have been pleased by the announcement of three engineering consortiums to build the new line. It is an overdue sign that the government is committed to this controversial infrastructure project. The 119-mile line is not scheduled to open until 2026, with the spurs beyond Birmingham not carrying trains before 2033. The three companies will make a start on some of the most difficult and expensive projects, including tunnels under the Chilterns and the approaches to Birmingham and Euston. HS2 is important because Britain’s railways are reaching capacity. Both the east and west coast main lines are now so busy that any breakdown or delay can disrupt thousands of passengers for hours. The extra routes to the north would be needed even if built only for trains running at today’s top speeds. And given the protracted HS2 timetable, it is far from clear that the present network will be able to cope with the projected passenger growth or the extra freight that the government would like to shift off roads. One of the contracts, with Carillion, was

announced only days after the company suffered a sharp fall on the stock market when it issued a profits warning. Its share price recovered somewhat on the news, and it has called in bank advisers to help to repair its balance sheet. But the insistence by Chris Grayling, the transport secretary, that the company’s difficulties would not affect its ability to carry out the contracts is not reassuring. Even less reassuring is the continued speculation about the rising cost of HS2. From its inception, the line has been extraordinarily expensive, with a projected budget of £24.3 billion for phase one alone. Critics argue that in a time of austerity this is a waste of money needed to repair ageing parts of Britain’s infrastructure, including schools, hospitals, roads, water supplies and the rest of the rail network. They say that HS2 will benefit mainly rich business travellers and will suck even more jobs to the south. Their arguments are falling on fertile ground at a time of rising political pressures to lift the public sector pay cap and prepare for future economic shocks. Such arguments will only be strengthened by the latest budget estimates commissioned by

the Department for Transport. These foresee a doubling of the total, with HS2 eventually costing more than £400 million a mile, making it the most expensive railway in the world. The figure is absurd. It suggests that it will cost Britain seven times more a mile to build a high-speed line than France has spent on its latest TGV route, and eight times more than the equivalent in China. Admittedly, Britain is densely populated. Land and houses cost more than in China. Yet all infrastructure projects are plagued by endless consultations, interminable planning disputes, lobbying to protect plants and newts and an array of lawyers and consultants who eat up some 35 per cent of costs. The government needs to get a grip. Where it should spend more — on reinstating the proposed link between HS2 and the HS1 route to the continent — it has foolishly forfeited the future. Where it needs to enforce financial discipline, it has let a high-speed project race through common sense, fiscal controls and public support. Only an entirely new approach to control costs will win back that support and give taxpayers the railway they need.

Female Five Setters For equal prize money, women should play as much as men The Wimbledon tennis tournament is a magnificent spectacle: the strawberries, the Pimm’s, the grass, the atmosphere, the organisation and half a million happy spectators. What should be made more of a spectacle is the women’s matches. At present they play only three sets compared with the men’s five. It’s time for this to change. The women’s draw should be a celebration of fitness and finesse. The three-set format is an anachronism from the age of petticoats. In 2007 the scores were levelled with the introduction of equal prize money for men and women. This year that amounted to £2.2 million for each of the

singles champions. But they can hardly argue that they did equal work for equal pay. There is no good reason for the disparity other than archaism. At one stage it was thought that women’s tennis was less interesting than men’s and that the fans would not turn up for five-set matches. That is no longer true. In 2015 the women’s US Open tournament sold out quicker than the men’s. It’s not for lack of talent or application, either. Venus Williams would not have reached the last two as the oldest finalist at Wimbledon since 1994 without lashings of both. The trouble with a three-set match is that it can

be over in a flash. The second set on Saturday between Garbiñe Muguruza and Williams took less time than a typical commuter’s Tube journey. Muguruza won it in 26 minutes; the match lasted 77 minutes. Other too-brief encounters included Williams’s 63-minute win over Ana Konjuh and Simona Halep’s 88-minute battle with Victoria Azarenka, long by the standards of the women’s game but a warm-up for some of the men. The three-set format means that stamina barely features in the women’s game at a time when they are fitter than ever. Forget the fairer sex. Make tennis a fairer game.

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World Millions on streets in strike threat to Maduro Venezuela Lucinda Elliott Caracas

The Venezuelan opposition vowed yesterday to rise up against President Maduro after more than seven million people took part in an unofficial referendum against his plans to rewrite the constitution. “We’re going to be on the streets every day. The whole country is going to rise — it’s the start of zero hour,” Tomas Guanipa, an opposition MP, said. On Thursday the opposition plans to paralyse the country with a 24-hour general strike. The turnout on Sunday of 7.6 million came close to matching the 7.7 million opposition votes cast in the 2015 legislative elections that it won by a landslide. A total of 14 million people voted in those elections. The referendum, organised by the opposition alliance in barely 15 days and held in makeshift polling stations across the country amid a governmentordered media silence, came two weeks before Mr Maduro’s planned creation of a constituent assembly. Its purpose is to redraft the 1999 constitution, cementing the Socialist Party’s control, which some fear could turn Venezuela into a Cuban-style, one-party state. Galvanised by the millions of disgruntled Venezuelans who turned out to vote, including uniformed government security forces and state workers from traditionally pro-government areas, the opposition alliance is promising to stage more protests leading up to July 30. Plans include the general strike, nationwide street sit-ins, and a possible march on the presidential palace in Miraflores — echoing events 15 years ago in the run-up to a short-lived coup against Mr Maduro’s predecessor, Hugo Chávez. “The regime ought to know we are not going to let the destruction of Venezuela be realised,” said Freddy Guevara, the vice-president of the National Assembly, promising “a new age” in the fight against Mr Maduro. The constituent assembly will have powers to overrule the oppositionLilian Tintori, wife of the detained activist Leopoldo López, casts her vote

controlled parliament. About 98 per cent of voters in Sunday’s informal referendum came out against the plan and also voted to urge the military to defend the constitution and support free elections early next year. Popular support for Mr Maduro, 54, who narrowly defeated the opposition candidate in presidential elections in 2013, has collapsed to about 20 per cent amid a crippling economic crisis that has spurred near-daily demonstrations since March. Poverty rates have dropped to levels below those that fuelled Chávez’s so-called Bolivarian revolution in the late 1990s. The voting process on Sunday was largely undisturbed, unlike the recent anti-government demonstrations that have been beset by violent clashes between security forces and protesters, leaving nearly 100 dead. However, in a poor Caracas suburb armed gangs on motorbikes shot at hundreds of voters outside a church. Xiomara Soledad Scott, 61, a nurse, was killed and three people wounded. Mr Maduro dismissed the referendum as “meaningless”. Yesterday he praised the ruling party’s own electoral event on Sunday, a dress rehearsal for the constitutional poll that attracted a fraction of the numbers taking part in the unofficial referendum. Local media had been ordered by the government to limit coverage of the opposition’s event. Government-leaning newspapers made little mention of the huge referendum turnout, but several popular radio stations and television channels ignored the government’s threats, broadcasting live from polling stations. “The world and Miraflores should listen to the shouts of an entire country,” Julio Borges, who leads the opposition-controlled parliament, said. Henrique Capriles, a two-time presidential candidate, described the turnout as “historic” and “resounding”. A handful of leaders from Latin America travelled to Venezuela to serve as observers in the referendum, among them Vicente Fox, the former Mexican president. He was subsequently banned by authorities from ever returning to Venezuela. Alfonso Dastis, the Spanish foreign minister, said he would discuss the possibility of EU sanctions against Venezuela should Mr Maduro’s July 30 vote go ahead.

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Satellite images show the Grand al-Nuri mosque in Mosul’s Old City before and after it was destroyed by Islamic State last

Emiratis ‘planted fake news to Qatar Catherine Philp Diplomatic Correspondent Richard Spencer Middle East Correspondent

Qatar accused the United Arab Emirates of a “shameful act of cyberterrorism” after it emerged that US intelligence officials had evidence that the Emiratis orchestrated the planting of a fake story on Qatar’s state news agency that triggered the current diplomatic crisis. US officials told The Washington Post that they had intelligence confirming that senior members of the UAE discussed the hacking during a meeting on May 23, hours before it happened. In the early hours of May 24, incendiary quotes attributed to Qatar’s emir Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani appeared on social media and the government

news site. He was quoted as praising Hamas and Iran — ideological foes of members of the Gulf Co-operation Council. In response, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt immediately banned all Qatari media in a row that escalated within days into a diplomatic and economic boycott of the tiny peninsula nation. Qatar was swift to say that its site was hacked, but did not publicly point a finger, summoning British and US security officials to help in the investigation. Yesterday it claimed vindication, saying that the report of Emirati involvement “unequivocally proves that this hacking crime took place”. Saif bin Ahmed al-Thani, the director of the government communication office, accused the UAE of “a shameful act of cyberterrorism” and said its instigators would be brought to justice.

Anwar Gargash, the UAE foreign minister, strenuously denied the hacking and insisted there was no connection between the false reports and the diplomatic crisis that erupted days after. “The Washington Post story is not true. It is purely wrong,” he told the Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani: “victim of state news hack”

Chatham House forum in London yesterday. “You will see in the next few days the story will die.” He insisted that the crisis between the Gulf states had been years in the making, citing two agreements that Qatar had previously signed, in 2013 and 2014,

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Jihadis’ last stand destroyed 5,000 homes in Old City Iraq Richard Spencer

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month. The area has been levelled during a five-month battle against the jihadists, who used civilians as human shields

All that remains of Mosul’s Old City is a grey wasteland. Bombed from the air, shelled and booby-trapped on the ground, it has been levelled by a fivemonth war to root out Islamic State. The effect of that battle as the jihadists made their last stand is visible in before-and-after satellite photographs. The Old City was too closely packed for green space — something that made the street fighting to clear it all the more gruelling. Dust-coloured blotches blur over neighbourhoods and street corners. In bomb zones, homes blend into one another when viewed from the air. UN-Habitat, a United Nations settlements programme, used satellite imagery to calculate that 5,000 homes in the Old City were destroyed in the fighting. That is a third of all its houses, and the number excludes those with merely “moderate damage”. In the rest of Mosul, about 8,500 houses or other residential buildings were destroyed. The Old City covers one square mile, a fraction of the whole of Mosul. When Haider al-Abadi, the Iraqi prime minister, began the battle to recapture the city in October he said that it would be over by Christmas. In the end, the east side alone took until January. Iraqi officers and their American, British and other western advisers said that the other half would be more difficult: it was larger, more densely populated, more closely packed. The aerial bombardment to retake west Mosul, which includes the Old City, started in February. The intensity of the defence grew as the most fanatical elements of the Isis resistance retreated inside the Old City. According to a report published last week by Amnesty International, based on interviews with residents, Isis fighters in east Mosul knocked through walls to move from house to house, taking up sniper positions on rooftops.

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In the Old City, they tunnelled between basements, presenting a more difficult target. They also shot hundreds of civilians who tried to escape, forcing others to stay as human shields. Airwars, the monitoring group, said that the number of civilian deaths from allied action could rise to more than 5,900 in the west. The group’s upper estimate of deaths from allied action in the east was less than 1,300. Some Moslawis, as the residents are called in Arabic, are upset that so much focus has been on the destruction of the Old City rather than the rest of Mosul, which has recovered relatively quickly — in the east markets are already bustling and schools reopening. Rasha Al Aqeedi, a political analyst from Mosul, said that the landscape of the Old City was “very complicated”. She added that some of Amnesty’s criticisms raised legitimate questions — most notably those concerning an incident in which more than 100 civilians died when the building they were sheltering in was bombed, apparently to take out two Isis snipers on the roof. However, she added: “When the stories of IS shooting civilians trying to escape began surfacing, most realised there was no way around the carnage.”

video Times reporter Anthony Loyd searches the rubble of Mosul On tablet

trigger Qatar crisis’ Satirists make a mockery of Macron promising to sever ties with extremists, which it had failed to honour. Mr Gargash said the precise timing of the crisis could be tied to other factors, including the “very, very successful” Riyadh summit with Donald Trump to build Arab unity against Iran and extremism. That gathering, at which Arab leaders sought President Trump’s support against Qatar, took place on May 21. It was widely seen as having given a green light to Arab leaders that they would have Washington’s support to heap pressure on the Gulf state. The posting of fake quotes on the Qatari sites happened less than three days later. Qatar claims that a virus was installed on government systems a month earlier but only activated on May 24. It said the hack was discovered within an hour, the false material removed and corrections sent to news organisations. Media hostile to Qatar

reported the fake speech almost immediately after it appeared, after midnight, and continued to analyse its supposed contents long after it had been denied by Qatar. The US officials cited by The Washington Post said it was unclear if the UAE had carried out the hack or commissioned a third party to carry it out. But the revelation suggests that US agencies are not only monitoring the communications of government officials of a close ally, but that they are angry enough about what happened to let them know via a newspaper. That is a blow for the Saudi-led quartet’s effort to win Washington’s backing, having believed Mr Trump was firmly behind them. Rex Tillerson, the secretary of state, has appeared sympathetic to Qatar, home to the largest US air base in the Middle East and critical to the fight against Islamic State.

France Charles Bremner Paris

The monarchical manners of Emmanuel Macron are being increasingly mocked by comedians and commentators and on social media. The president’s projection of himself as a regal ruler aged 39 left satirists to depict him as a boy prince, a new Sun King, right, or Roman god. Broadcast imitators play him as a teenager discovering new toys under the watchful eye of his wife Brigitte, 64. When his party, La République En Marche, scored a landslide in parliamentary elections last month, Nicolas Canteloup, the impersonator, imitated his lisp and tenor voice saying, “Brigitte tells me I mustn’t leave my MPs lying around everywhere”. Anne Roumanoff, a comedian, calls Mr Macron “The Little Lu Prince” after the mascot of a brand of biscuits. After he convened

parliament to the palace of Versailles for a 90-minute speech, social media adopted a new nickname, “Le Roi Sommeil” — or the Sleep King, a pun on Le Roi Soleil (Sun King). Among pecderisive tweets on the specd: tacle, one tweeter said: “Monsieur Macron . . . king of France, can you work to put wifi in the provinces”. Mr Macron’s standard nickname is Jupiter, the commanding deity whose style he identified dur-ing the campaign as his ency. model for the presidency. as made “The great monarch has x thought us a gift of his complex thought. Long live Jupiter,” said a popular tweet. The Jupiter image is even deployed by the government. Bruno Le Maire, the finance minister, produced howls of

mockery at home when he told business leaders in New York: “Emmanuel Macron is Jupiter. I am Hermes, the messenger.” Many pointed out that he confu had confused his Greek and Roman gods. He should have said Mercury. L Laurent Joffrin, edito tor of the newspaper L Libération, wrote of M Mr Macron’s often a arcane speech: “Like Ju Jupiter, commanding on high and shrouded in clouds, the divine pre president expresses himse himself by the means of llapidary apidary oracles and marvellous app apparitions.” The lofty imag image may only draw smiles in the summer slowdown, but his revamp of the labour laws has provoked unions and opponents to call for a day of strikes in September.

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Pilgrims march for murdered Nicholas II

Ankara Turkey has extended

emergency rule for another three months almost a year after it was imposed in response to the failed military coup in July last year. President Erdogan’s AK party used its comfortable majority to approve the government request, the fourth time it has done so. It followed mass protests against the crackdown this month. Since emergency rule was imposed on July 20 last year, five days after the attempted coup, more than 50,000 people have been arrested and 150,000 sacked or suspended from their jobs. Critics say the crackdown has pushed the country on a path to greater authoritarianism. (Reuters)

ussia has marked the 99th year since the killing of its last tsar and his family with a large religious procession and a new statue (Howard Amos writes). Tens of thousands of Orthodox Christians walked through the night from the Siberian city of Yekaterinburg to the spot 13 miles away where Nicholas II was killed by a Bolshevik firing squad as monarchist forces approached the city during the Russian Civil War. Nicholas remains a divisive figure in Russia. Many blame his failings for the end of the Romanov dynasty and the creation of the Soviet Union. But he is revered as a martyr by conservatives and monarchists and was made a saint by the Orthodox Church in 2000. The procession began shortly after 2am — about the

EU limits sale of boats Brussels The European Union has

agreed to allow member states to restrict sales of inflatable boats and speedboat motors to Libya in an effort to stop migrants crossing the Mediterranean to Italy. It will also apply to boats and motors passing though the EU “where there are reasonable grounds to believe that they will be used by people smugglers”. Fishermen and others with a legitimate need for them will not be affected. (AP) same time that the tsar was shot — and people walked to an Orthodox monastery on the site of the merchant’s house where the killing took place. Priests, local Cossacks and nationalists were

among the participants, who also included Natalia Poklonskaya, a controversial MP who claimed this year that a bust of Nicholas had oozed myrrh on the 100th anniversary of him being overthrown

as tsar in the February 1917 revolution. In another service of commemoration, a church in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk unveiled a statue of Nicholas and his son Aleksei, who was 13 when he died

alongside his father, mother and sisters. Although Nicholas was a cousin of George V of England, he was declined asylum in the United Kingdom because David Lloyd George’s government feared the

Anti-Stalin historian is accused of paedophilia Russia Howard Amos Moscow

A historian renowned for discovering mass graves of Stalin’s terror victims has been put on trial in Russia accused of taking abusive images of a child. Friends and colleagues say the allegations are fabricated and designed to put a stop to his work. Yuri Dmitriev, 61, faces up to 15 years in prison if he is found guilty of taking the pictures of his adopted daughter. The case has highlighted a battle in Russia over Stalin’s legacy. On one side sits President Putin, who is seeking to stress the more glorious episodes of the country’s past, in particular Stalin’s victory over Nazi Germany in the Second World War. On the other sit independent historians, activists and rights groups. “The authorities are paying close attention to historians and history . . . which means honest historians are seen as real political opponents,” Nikolai Svanidze, a prominent historian, said at a press conference about Mr Dmitriev’s case. Details about the trial of Mr Dmitriev, who has been under arrest since December, are sparse because it is being heard in a closed court in the northern city of Petrozavodsk. Investigators have said that he took pornographic images of his daughter for a period of seven years. The state-owned television channel Rossiya-24 broadcast a documentary

about the case this year, showing three of the photographs in question with the young girl’s face, breasts and genitalia blurred. She was standing with her arms raised. Mr Dmitriev’s friends and lawyer dismiss the charges outright. He admits taking photographs of his daughter but says it was only to protect himself against false claims that he was mistreating her. She was frail after arriving from an orphanage, and when the historian was accused by teachers of failing to look after her properly he sought to docuYuri Dmitriev faces 15 years in prison if he is convicted

ment her physical condition with photographs, according to Yan Rachinsky, co-founder of Memorial, a Russian organisation where Mr Dmitriev worked on investigating the Soviet past. He said that the pictures were never distributed and that Mr Dmitriev stopped taking them several years ago when he was no longer afraid of allegations of mistreatment. “The accusations are completely preposterous,” he added. Supporters of Mr Dmitriev have organised protests outside the pre-trial

detention facility where he is being held and attracted more than 11,000 supporters on an online petition. “The whole situation is absurd and I just can’t process this rubbish,” Mr Dmitriev’s daughter by his first marriage, Yekaterina Klodts, said. “The trial looks like a circus.” For more than 25 years Mr Dmitriev has been working to preserve the memory of those caught up in Stalin’s terror. In 1997, he was in charge of a team that identified the long-sought site of Sandarmokh near Russia’s border with Finland where almost 10,000 people were executed in 1937 and 1938. “Dmitriev himself found those pits,” Mr Rachinsky said. With Mr Dmitriev’s participation, the site was turned into a remembrance complex with a stone memorial that reads: “Don’t kill one another.” Rising nationalism and historical revisionism under Mr Putin has turned the tide in assessments of Stalin, and the dictator’s crimes are increasingly underplayed while the Soviet victory over Nazism becomes his defining legacy. Statues to Stalin have gone up in cities across Russia and this year Mr Putin told the Hollywood director Oliver Stone that “excessive demonisation” of Stalin was “one means of attacking the Soviet Union and Russia”. A verdict in Mr Dmitriev’s trial is expected at the beginning of September.

move would cause protests. Russia is marking the centenary of the 1917 revolution but commemorations have been muted because the Kremlin prefers a historical narrative that stresses national triumphs.

Kick out gays to purify us, says Chechen leader Chechnya Howard Amos

Any homosexuals in the North Caucasus region of Russia should leave in order to “purify our blood”, Chechnya’s strongman leader has said. Ramzan Kadyrov said claims that Chechen security forces had been persecuting gay people were nonsense. “We don’t have those kinds of people here,” he told HBO, the American television network. “We don’t have any gays. If there are any, take them to Canada. Praise be to God. Take them far from us so we don’t have them at home. To purify our blood, if there are any here, take them.” Mr Kadyrov has ruled mainly Muslim Chechnya for more than a decade and is regularly accused of human rights abuses. More than 100 people were rounded up in Chechnya and at least three were killed, according to a report in Russia’s Novaya Gazeta newspaper earlier this year. This month it ran another article alleging that 27 people were summarily executed by Chechen security forces in January. President Putin has been challenged by foreign leaders over the issue but an official investigation has not found any evidence of a crime. Mr Kadyrov also warned the West that it could be annihilated in a Russian nuclear strike. “Even if our government was completely destroyed, our nuclear missiles would be automatically deployed,” he said. “We will put the whole world on its knees.”

Eight dead in mosque Maiduguri At least eight people were killed when a female suicide bomber, who was being chased by security workers, blew herself up in the middle of worshippers at a mosque in northeastern Nigeria. Another girl blew herself up in a ditch when she became trapped in barbed wire. Two other female would-be bombers were shot and killed at about the same time. The extremist group Boko Haram often targets the city. (AP)

Flight MH17 memorial Amsterdam Nearly 2,000 relatives

of those who died when Flight MH17 was shot down over Ukraine three years ago gathered for the dedication of a “living memorial” to the victims in Vijfhuizen park near Schiphol airport, from where the flight took off on July 17, 2014. The Dutch king and queen were also present to mark the planting of 298 trees, one for each victim, in the shape of a ribbon. (AFP)

Wildfire evacuations Podgorica More than 100 tourists

have been evacuated from part of the Montenegrin coast as wildfires approach homes and campsites. Strong winds and dry weather have fuelled fires on the Lustica peninsula and along the Adriatic coast, hampering efforts to put them out. Further north in Croatia several hundred acres of pine forests and shrubbery have been burnt, and some areas left without electricity or water. (AP)

Monkey gets a shock Johannesburg An inquisitive baboon in Zambia knocked out power for thousands of people for several hours when it interfered with machinery at a power station near Victoria Falls. Henry Kapata, a power utility spokesman, said the baboon survived an electric shock and had been handed to wildlife officials. In the midst of increased political tensions, social media users joked about possible sabotage by the animal.

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Swedes cool towards their hot-tub king Sweden David Charter Berlin

The king of Sweden has insisted that he will remain on the throne until his death despite polls showing that Swedes prefer his oldest daughter, Victoria. The reputation of Carl XVI Gustaf, 71, was tainted by a lurid biography which claimed that he had a year-long affair with a woman named Camilla and was present at sex parties in a shady Stockholm club. Victoria, who marked her 40th birthday on Friday with a parade in a horsedrawn carriage with her husband and two children, was chosen by almost half of Swedes as their favourite royal in a poll this year. Only two out of ten opted

for her father and four out of ten thought that he should abdicate. The king, who came to the throne in 1973 when he was 27, did not shirk questions about his future during a rare interview with Aftonbladet, a leading Swedish newspaper. Asked when he thought he would be ready to hand over power, he said that the question was “a matter for God”. The royal head of communications attempted to close down the line of questioning but the king persisted. “I will ask God when I die,” he added. The newspaper asked if that meant he would remain king for as long as was physically possible — an unprecedented question for a Swedish monarch. “Yes, I’ll try, I’ll try,” he replied. Carl XVI Gustaf’s standing in the

eyes of Swedes was dented although not destroyed by a series of claims in the unauthorised book The Reluctant Monarch, which was published in 2010. These included the king’s participation in hot-tub parties with naked women in an underground nightclub where rooms were organised for Crown Princess Victoria is preferred by the subjects of Carl XVI Gustaf

couples. The book also claimed that he had a secret affair in the 1990s with Camilla Henemark, a Swedish-Nigerian singer with the bands Army of Lovers and Happy Hoes. The royal family decided not to sue over the allegations and the king gave a brief press conference in a forest after an elk hunt. “I have spoken with my family and the queen and we choose to turn the page and move forward because, as I un-

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is Sardinian villa already boasts an artificial volcano and a James Bond-style underground landing dock. This summer Silvio Berlusconi’s luxury retreat will also feature queues of MPs eager to join his ranks as his political fortunes revive (Tom Kington writes). Fresh from a strong performance in local elections, and on course to become a kingmaker in national elections due by next May, the 80-year-old former prime minister will be courted by many who deserted him after he resigned in 2011 amid lurid sex scandals. “This summer we risk mass landings by all those who want to be a candidate or re-selected. We are ready for the emergency,” a Berlusconi confidante at Villa Certosa told the Milan newspaper Corriere della Sera. Angelino Alfano, the foreign minister, is a former Berlusconi protégé who has proved himself to be a wily

survivor by winning ministerial posts with three subsequent prime ministers. Many believe that members of the small party he runs, which has 25 senators, are itching to return to Mr Berlusconi’s ranks, including Enrico

Costa, a junior minister. As elections approach, Mr Berlusconi has contemplated allying himself with the ruling centre-left Democratic Party, or even the anti-migrant Northern League, both of which may seek him out in hopes of defeating the

anti-establishment Five Star Movement. That marks a remarkable reversal in the fortunes of Mr Berlusconi, who was ejected from the senate after a tax-fraud conviction, and spent a lonely summer last year with few visitors. He continues to run his Forza Italia party,

Silvio Berlusconi has played host to world leaders at Villa Certosa, among them Tony Blair

which he founded in 1993. Spotting the MPs who seek to re-enlist with Mr Berlusconi during visits to Villa Certosa will give a foretaste of defections to follow in parliament in the autumn. Those welcomed into the villa can enjoy the swimming pools and sea views where Mr Berlusconi has entertained the likes of Vladimir Putin, Tony and Cherie Blair (while wearing a bandana to cover a hair-replacement treatment), various young showgirls and a former Czech prime minister who was photographed at the villa while nude. An insider said that, in the past, MPs trying to see Mr Berlusconi would book holidays nearby and try to wangle a lunch invitation by claiming: “You know, I happen to be on holiday a few miles from you.” This year the summer season at Villa Certosa got under way early as Francesca Pascale, Mr Berlusconi’s girlfriend, celebrated her 32nd birthday with a five-tier cake decorated with scenes from her favourite Disney films and the message: “If you can dream it you can do it.”

derstand, these are things that happened a long time ago,” he said. The underworld gangster who was the main source of the claims, Mille Markovic, was shot dead in 2014 aged 52, in an apparent contract killing. Many Swedes were forgiving of their king for behaviour that took place while he was a young man adjusting to the rigours of monarchy. The book came out in the same year that Victoria married Daniel Westling, her personal trainer, after an eight-year courtship. The couple have two children, Estelle, five, and Oscar, one. They made headlines when they went on maternity and paternity leave when the children were born.

Romans put faith in new sestertius Italy Tom Kington Rome

As Rome struggles to revive its slumping economy, officials are planning to bring back the sestertius — the currency last seen when the city was at the centre of a booming imperial empire. The ancient coin is likely to lend its name to a thoroughly modern electronic currency that could help to prevent Rome’s small businesses and shops from going bust. “We want to save the city’s entrepreneurs and encourage start-ups at a time when the banks have stopped lending cash,” said Andrea Mazzillo, the financial assessor behind the scheme. The new currency will be used on an electronic trading platform where local businesses can trade services and products, building up credit as well as debt. Luca Fantacci, an economics professor at Bocconi University in Milan, said that virtual local currencies were springing up around the world. “The idea is that businesses in one area get together, and by using the currency they create additional demand for local products and money does not get dispersed away from the area,” he said. The Sardex is being used in a similar way by hundreds of businesses in Sardinia. “The system there is supervised, so getting credit isn’t automatic, but it’s easier than getting credit from a bank, and it is interest-free,” Mr Fantacci said. Alternative currencies have long been touted by Beppe Grillo, the comedian who founded the anti-establishment Five Star Movement in Italy. The mayor of Rome, Virginia Raggi, a Five Star party member, is backing the scheme in the capital, where the sluggish economy is matched by terrible public services.

Hoarded Nazi art to go on public display for the first time Germany David Charter Berlin

An apartment and house where the son of an art dealer hoarded hundreds of lost masterpieces from the Nazi era are to be sold off to help to fund the first public exhibition of the works. Cornelius Gurlitt bequeathed his collection and two properties in Germany and Austria to the Museum of Fine Arts in Bern when he died aged 81 in 2014. The museum said that 200 works,

including canvases by Otto Dix, Franz Marc and Otto Mueller, will go on display in November. A further 250 will be put on display at the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn at the same time. Mr Gurlitt’s father, Hildebrand, was one of four art dealers working on Adolf Hitler’s orders to trade so-called degenerate modern art to acquire more classical works for a planned Führer museum, which was never built. The art world was astounded by the discovery of 1,406 missing and for-

gotten artworks in Mr Gurlitt’s Munich apartment in 2012 after a routine tax investigation. The pieces included works by Picasso, Matisse and Chagall. A further 239 were kept at a property in Salzburg, Austria. The government in Berlin set up the German Lost Art Foundation in 2015 to lead the investigation into the true ownership of works of art acquired during the Nazi era. Hundreds of pieces in the Gurlitt collection are thought to have been

stolen or looted by the Nazis from Jewish owners or obtained at knockdown rates under duress. The Bonn exhibition will comprise all these pieces under the title Nazi Art Theft and its Consequences. They include a painting of Waterloo Bridge by Monet and a Danaide, a Greek mythological figure, in bronze by Rodin. The museum in Bern will only display those works of proven ownership, which have been released to leave Germany. This exhibition has already been

delayed twice — first for a year by a cousin of Mr Gurlitt’s who contested his last wishes in making the Bern gallery his sole heir, and then for another couple of weeks by customs officials. Only five works have been confirmed as stolen by the Nazis, four of which have been returned to heirs, including Sitting Woman, a Matisse portrait, which belonged to Paul Rosenberg, the Paris-based collector . A total of 152 works are subject to claims from possible heirs, officials said.

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Jihadist factions vie for control of Afghan Isis Afghanistan Hugh Tomlinson, Haroon Janjua

A power struggle has broken out within Islamic State’s offshoot in Afghanistan and Pakistan, with rival militants vying for the leadership as attacks increase on both sides of the border. Jihadists have confirmed that the group — Isis-Khorasan, or Isis-K — is riven by infighting, with Pakistani and Uzbek commanders laying claim to it. The military council chose Sheikh Aslam Farouqi, a former commander with the Pakistani Taliban, as the new leader, only to see him rejected by the powerful Uzbek faction. Central Asian militants, who provide much of the group’s fighting strength, want command taken out of Pakistani hands. Farouqi is accused of being under the control of Pakistani intelligence and the Uzbeks have nominated a candidate of their own. Speaking to The Times from Nangarhar province, the group’s stronghold in eastern Afghanistan, an Isis commander confirmed that Farouqi was the choice of the 40-man military council, but said that the infighting meant the ruling has not been confirmed. “There are multiple battles going on among the various militant groups, big and small, in Nangarhar and other eastern parts of Afghanistan,” he said. “Aslam Farouqi will head the IS Afghanistan, but it has not been formally announced. The central commanders are still negotiating on the final decision.” He said that proposals to appease the Uzbeks were being discussed but the appointment would not be overturned. “Isis will grow even stronger after the appointment of Farouqi,” he said. Command of Isis-K became vacant when its leader, Abdul Hasib, was killed by US special forces in a joint operation with Afghan troops in April. Tensions over who should replace him were exposed last month in a letter signed by a Moawiya Uzbekistani, the presumed nom de guerre of an unknown Uzbek

militant, who declared himself emir of the movement. In the letter, he denounced reports that Farouqi had been confirmed as the new commander. Uzbekistani claimed that his rival was a stooge of Pakistan’s spy agency, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), which is linked to several militant groups throughout the region, including the Afghan Taliban. “It’s the ISI of Pakistan behind this function and we don’t accept it, because we all fight for Allah and his religion,” Uzbekistani wrote. There was further confusion at the weekend after the Pentagon claimed to have killed the leader of Isis in Afghanistan, whom it identified as Abu Sayed. “On 11th of July we killed Abu Sayed, the Isis-K emir, in a strike in Kunar. This is the third emir of Isis-K that we have killed in operations with Afghan partners in the past year,” General John Nicholson said on Saturday. Militants in Afghanistan said that Abu Sayed was a low-ranking commander and noted that Isis-K barely had a presence in Kunar province. Despite this turmoil within the leadership, Isis has continued to launch attacks in Afghanistan and Pakistan. In May the group kidnapped a Chinese couple from the northern Pakistani city of Quetta. The hostages were murdered after a five-day battle between Pakistani special forces and jihadists in caves used by the militants. In Afghanistan last month Isis briefly seized control of Tora Bora, the mountain hideout of Osama bin Laden from where he slipped past coalition forces in 2001. Confusion within the Isis ranks appears not to have blunted the group’s operational strength or ambition. The leadership dispute underlines the huge diversity of national, ethnic and tribal loyalties within Isis-K. The Afghan franchise began life as a splinter group of Taliban extremists in 2014, with roots among the Pashtun tribes. Its ranks were swelled through 2015 by the arrival of thousands of fighters fleeing a military offensive in Pakistan.

Untouchable to become India’s next president India Hugh Tomlinson Delhi

Through the looking glass At the synchronised swimming world championships in Hungary, Team Belarus get into position under the pool’s mirror-like surface

A politician from India’s lowest and poorest caste is poised to be elected president, only the second person to become the titular head of state from the community once condemned as “Untouchables”. Ram Nath Kovind, 71, a former governor of Bihar, India’s poorest state, and the nominee of Narendra Modi, the prime minister, was the runaway favourite as voting began yesterday. His promotion is widely seen as a bid by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to broaden its appeal across caste lines before the 2019 general election. Almost 4,900 MPs and state legislators cast their votes with, for the first time, both leading candidates drawn from the lowest caste. Mr Kovind and Meira Kumar, who is backed by the opposition Congress party, are Dalits, once considered impure and shunned for thousands of years. “The presidential poll this time is historic. Probably for the first time no party has made any undignified or unwarranted comment on the rival candidate,” Mr Modi tweeted before the poll. “Every political party has kept in mind the dignity of this election.” The presidency of India is a largely ceremonial role, although nominally the head of state and the armed forces. The president cannot block legislation and executive powers are effectively carried out by the prime minister. He or she retains significant constitutional power, however, and prime minsters have usually sought to maintain cordial relations with the president’s office. Mr Modi, bidding to reboot a struggling economic and social agenda, also wants the presidency in his corner. The electoral battle of Dalit versus Dalit has been hailed as a step forward in some quarters but as deeply cynical in others. Despite the achievements of landmark figures, the 200 million lowestcaste Indians suffer routine discrimination and there have been caste riots in the north in recent weeks. Across India, discrimination on caste, class, religion and gender grounds is rampant.

Hardliners attack Rouhani by detaining envoy brother Iran Richard Spencer Middle East Correspondent

The brother of President Rouhani of Iran has been arrested and detained in Tehran after being unable to post bail of $15 million. The arrest comes two months after Mr Rouhani’s re-election and marks a resumption of his conflict with the country’s hardline conservatives in the judiciary and revolutionary guard. Hossein Fereydoun was summoned for questioning in an inquiry into his financial affairs. Last night, it was understood that he had been taken to hospital after a brief court appearance at which he appeared unwell. He had been investigated for corruption but he was also thought to have been interrogated by the counter-intelligence department of the revolutionary guard. Mr Fereydoun, a diplomat, is a close adviser to his brother . He was previous-

ly ambassador to Malaysia and a member of the Iranian delegation to the UN before becoming a link man between his brother and the negotiations on the Iranian nuclear programme with the West. The Iranian revolutionary guard opposed the deal signed two years ago for making too many concessions. Mr Fereydoun — his brother’s surname is an adopted, religious one — is a tempting target for the country’s hardliners, who are trying to stymie the president’s chances of succeeding Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as supreme leader. Mr Rouhani hits back at hardliners in subtle ways. At the weekend, he posted on social media a photograph of Maryam Mirzakhani, the US-based Iranian mathematician who became the first woman to win the Fields Medal and who died on Friday. The picture showed her unveiled, in comparison to those in hardline newspapers where her hair was photoshopped or covered.

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Obamacare vote delayed for McCain’s eye surgery United States Boer Deng Washington

Fall guy Rodeo riders must hold on to a bucking horse for at least eight seconds with only one hand. This competitor in Colorado Springs managed to beat the clock

Republican chiefs on Capitol Hill are to delay a key vote on their pivotal healthcare bill for a second time after John McCain went on leave to recover from surgery to remove a blood clot. Without Mr McCain, the Arizona senator and former Republican presidential candidate, the party has no hope of reaching the number of Senate votes it needs to pass a bill to end Obamacare, the health scheme that President Trump campaigned to repeal. The vote, rescheduled for this week after being scrapped last month when several senators defected, will be delayed until Mr McCain, 80, returns to Washington from his home in Arizona. Doctors have said that it could take a fortnight for him to recover after an operation that removed the 5cm clot from behind his left eye. Mr McCain had a craniotomy — a procedure in which the skull is opened — on Friday, his office said, and doctors were awaiting the result of tests on tissue removed from the clot. He has previously had melanoma, a skin cancer. Although he has been a critic of Mr Trump on foreign policy, Mr McCain’s support for the Republicans’

Chinese leadership contender is held over corruption claims China Jamie Fullerton Beijing

A provincial Communist party chief who had been tipped to succeed President Xi has been detained by a commission investigating corruption and removed from his post as a city leader. Sun Zhengcai, 53, a member of the party’s 25-strong Politburo, has been replaced by Chen Miner, a protégé of Mr Xi — leading to speculation that the newcomer is being groomed for the leadership. A party official in Chongqing, southwest China, said that Mr Sun, who has been detained by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), was part of an investigation at “conversation level”. It is unclear if the inquiry is formal. Mr Xi has presided over a widespread campaign against corruption that has led to high-level politicians being toppled. Critics accuse him of using corruption allegations as a means of removing political rivals. Zhou Yongkang, a former politburo standing committee member, and Bo Xilai, Mr Sun’s predecessor in Chongqing, have both been convicted of corruption. Wang Qishan, head of the CCDI and Mr Xi’s enforcer, said yesterday that his investigations showed “shortcomings in party building and insufficient efforts to strictly enforce party discipline”. Mr Sun had been tipped to get a seat on the politburo standing committee this autumn, when the party’s 19th congress takes place. The committee is the government’s most powerful decision-making body. It has seven

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he national congress of the Communist Party, the biggest event in China’s political cycle, will take place in October or November — and the backstage plotting is in full swing (Jamie Fullerton writes). The primary purpose is to select China’s next leader and the members of the country’s most powerful committees for the next five years. Unlike the campaigning that precedes democratic elections, power games in China take place behind closed doors. Rules on retirement age make it likely that of the seven-member Standing Committee only

Who is Chen Miner? Chen Miner, having previously served as Xi Jinping’s propaganda chief in eastern Zhejiang, his home province, is closely allied to Li Keqiang, the premier. Before that he worked as a county-level politician in the 1990s, and later as the editor of the government-run newspaper Zhejiang Daily. He has since risen on the coat-tails of Mr Xi, who took power in 2012. Mr Chen, right, was appointed deputy party secretary of the rural central province of Guizhou in the same

members, including Mr Xi. The Chongqing party boss traditionally gets a seat on the politburo, meaning that Mr Chen, 56, is now in line for a further promotion. “He is very hopeful of entering the politburo, and it’s even possible that he would replace Sun as a leading contender for the top job,” said Zhang Lifang, a Beijing-based political

year, before being promoted to governor soon after. He was given another promotion, to Guizhou party boss, in 2015. He replaced Sun Zhengcai as party boss of Chongqing, a highly influential role, after Mr Sun was detained on suspicion of corruption by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. Foreign diplomats say that Mr Chen speaks openly about his closeness to Mr Xi, and this seems to have put him in good stead before the autumn congress meeting.

commentator. Another ally of Mr Xi likely to get a Politburo seat is Cai Qi, who was named as the Beijing Communist Party chief in May. Mr Cai, 61, worked as a prefecture-level official in Zhejiang province, where Mr Xi was party boss from 2002 to 2007. Whether Mr Chen and Mr Qi are given Politburo places or not, the reshuffle will probably leave both it and

President Xi and Li Keqiang, premier of the state council, will stay on. The composition of the 25-strong Politburo will also be closely watched, as it serves as a holding pen for future leaders. Mr Xi’s consolidation of personal power, and the use of corruption investigations to sideline rivals, make it all but certain that delegates will anoint him as president for a second term, lasting until 2022. He has already started to move protégés into positions of power while derailing their rivals with his “anti-corruption” campaign. Mr Xi has also given himself the title of “core leader”, hinting at a shift back towards the charismatic personal style of Mao Zedong.

the standing committee dominated by men: there are only two women sitting on the former, and none on the latter. Liu Yandong, 71, one of the two female politburo members, is expected to retire this year. The other female sitting member is Sun Chunlan, 67. Mr Xi is all but certain to secure a second term at the congress.

Donald Trump and Mike Pence show off “Made in America” products at the White House yesterday

agenda is essential in the 100-seat Senate, where the party has a majority of two. Two Republican senators have said they cannot support the version of the Obamacare repeal bill that party bosses have proposed. With no Democratic support, that would leave the Republicans relying on the vice-president’s casting vote — without Mr McCain, however, the bill cannot get through. The latest setback to the Republicans’ agenda comes as members of Congress have been forced to defend a president beset by disapproval at home and abroad. With doubts over healthcare and questions over alleged links to Russia, Mr Trump has the lowest approval rating — 36 per cent — of any president at this point in his tenure for 70 years, according to a poll by ABC News and The Washington Post. Around the world, there is less confidence in his leadership than in that of Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, President Xi of China or President Putin of Russia. Only 12 per cent of Britons thought that Mr Trump would do the right thing on the international stage, according to a survey by the Pew Research Centre. Fear of a negative reception has prompted Mr Trump to delay a state visit to Britain. In a private conversation with Theresa May, he was said to have asked the prime minister to “fix it”. The Sun on Sunday reported that he told Mrs May: “When I know I’m going to get a better reception, I’ll come and not before.”

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Prisoner podcast gives the inside story of San Quentin United States Ben Hoyle Los Angeles

The latest episode of Ear Hustle, America’s most remarkable new podcast, begins with a murderer listing the animals he has cared for in a prison where pets are banned. “I’ve had black widows, tarantulas, a lot of grasshoppers, beetles, snakes, slugs, crickets, gophers, rabbits,” the softly spoken man tells his interviewer, a fellow inmate. “I had four swallows, a toad, a praying mantis, 21 snails, frogs, a red-breasted finch, pigeons, a hamster and two fish that had babies twice.” As a child his mother tried to drown him. He was then bounced through a succession of homes, hospitals and orphanages before becoming a Earlonne Woods and Antwan Williams are the co-hosts of Ear Hustle

homeless teenager who slept in the rafters of unsuspecting people’s houses, up with the cockroaches that gave him his nickname of Rauch. “My relationship with people is strained. I don’t trust ’em. From early on they have been a source of pain for me,” he says. Eventually he “got into a fight with someone and ended up killing him”. Ear Hustle topped the US podcast charts soon after its debut episode last month. It is co-produced by two inmates at San Quentin prison, Earlonne Woods and Antwan Williams, and an artist, Nigel Poor, who has been volunteering at the jail since 2011. Woods, 44, has been inside for almost

20 years for attempted robbery. Williams, 28, is ten years into a 15-year term for armed robbery. The prison, 20 miles north of San Francisco, was the site of a historic Johnny Cash concert. Professor Poor, 54, who teaches photography at California State University in Sacramento, said that she had been stunned by the popularity of the show, which takes its name from prison slang for eavesdropping. “It blows my mind every day,” she said. “It seems that people are hungry to hear a different narrative to what they see in crappy TV shows.” Several British prisons have been in touch with her, asking if they can broadcast it to their inmates. Professor Poor spends up to 12 hours a day, five or six days a week making the show. She has found San Quentin to be a place full of “laughter and heartfelt conversations” and endless ingenuity. “I feel very, very safe. If there was a zombie apocalypse I would want to be with incarcerated men.”

Silicon Valley cat killer gets 16 years Ben Hoyle

Soon after cats began to disappear from a neighbourhood in Silicon Valley it became clear that something sinister was afoot. At first there was only a rumour that a man had been spotted trying to lure two cats into a backpack. Then cats began turning up dead. Two were found in a rubbish bin and the corpse of another, Beardsley, was found several miles away wrapped in plastic inside a shoebox with rocks on the lid. Finally footage from a resident’s security camera in Cambrian Park showed a young man grabbing GoGo from her front porch. The tabby was never found but the footage helped neighbours and police in San Jose to identify the culprit: Robert Farmer, 26, the drug-addict son of a retired police captain. Last week he was jailed for 16 years for kidnapping, torturing and killing 21 cats during a month-long spree in the autumn of 2015. He was ordered to stay away from cats for ten years and from the Cambrian Park area after his release. Farmer was found asleep by police in his car on the morning of October 8, 2015, with a dead female cat curled up beside him. A post-mortem examination found signs of sexual abuse but the judge rejected attempts to have Farmer convicted of sexually abusing the animal, for which he would have had to register as a sex offender.

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Exploration spin-off leaves Centrica free to put the customer first Emily Gosden Energy Editor

The owner of British Gas is spinning off its oil and gas production business into a new joint venture with Bayerngas Norge, of Germany, with a view to a potential initial public offering within two to five years. The deal forms part of a strategic shift by Iain Conn, Centrica’s chief executive, to focus on its core customerfacing businesses and to reduce its

exposure to the exploration and production operations pursued by Sam Laidlaw, his predecessor. The new, yet-to-be-named company will boast the biggest production of any independent European explorer and producer, ahead of the likes of Aker BP, Maersk Oil, Chrysaor and Neptune, Mr Laidlaw’s new company. It will rank fourth among the European independents in terms of reserves, with gas accounting for about two

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thirds of the portfolio. Centrica has already agreed separate deals to offload its production assets in Trinidad and Canada and will transfer all its remaining European exploration and production business to the new joint venture. Centrica and Stadtwerke München (SWM), which owns most of Bayerngas Norge, said that their assets complemented each other, with Centrica bringing fields that were generating cash and a “relatively near-term pro-

duction profile”, while Bayerngas had younger fields and a range of development opportunities. Centrica’s European oil and gas assets comprise fields in British, Norwegian and Dutch parts of the North Sea and the Morecambe Bay fields in the Irish Sea. They also include its interest in Cuadrilla’s high-profile, but as yet fruitless, fracking efforts in Lancashire. Bayerngas Norge has fields in Norway, Denmark and Britain, where it is

Carillion gave its nervous shareholders some reassurance yesterday as it won two big contracts on the HS2 highspeed rail line and boosted the number of City advisers helping it to cut costs and improve cashflow. Shares in the construction and support services group, which lost 70 per cent of their value last week after a profit warning sparked fears of an emergency fundraising, rose by almost 20 per cent, or 10¾p, to 66¾p. Before the warning they had been changing hands for 192p. Carillion said yesterday that it had recruited EY, the accountancy firm, to help it to focus on “cost reduction and cash collection”. HSBC was brought in last week as a joint financial adviser and joint broker, working with Lazard, Morgan Stanley, Stifel and KPMG to shore up the company’s balance sheet and to improve confidence among shareholders. Keith Cochrane, Carillion’s interim chief executive, said: “EY will provide support across the business and bring an external perspective to our cost reduction and cash collection challenge. My priorities are to reduce the group’s net debt and create a balance sheet that will support Carillion going forward. “We need to simplify the business and demonstrate that value can again be created for shareholders by focusing the group on its core markets, including infrastructure and property services, in which it has good strengths and leading positions.” Carillion said last week that it would

Brady steps up to lead Green’s high street team Deirdre Hipwell Retail Editor

Karren Brady, the entrepreneur best known for her leading roles at West Ham United football club and on The Apprentice, has been appointed chairwoman of the company behind Sir Philip Green’s retail empire. She will become chairwoman of Taveta Investments with immediate effect, replacing Lord Grabiner. The prominent QC had led the board of Taveta, the ultimate parent company of Arcadia Group, which owns the Topshop brand, since 2002 but it had been rumoured for some time that he was stepping down. No reasons for Lord Grabiner’s decision have been given, but it comes not long after he was accused of being the “apogee of weak corporate governance” by MPs investigating the collapse of BHS last year. The failure of BHS came just over a year after Sir Philip had sold it for £1 to a consortium led by Dominic Chappell, a serial bankrupt. Baroness Brady, who has been on the board of Taveta since 2010, said that she was “delighted” with her new role, adding: “The Arcadia business employs over 24,000 staff, has an annual turnover in excess of £2 billion and has some of the most iconic names on the British high street. “It is a privilege to have been invited to chair the board and I look forward to working with my colleagues as we concentrate on driving the Arcadia brands forward on their global expansion.” Baroness Brady, 48, is one of Britain’s best known businesswomen. She became managing director of Birmingham City football club aged 23 after David Sullivan, then owner of Sport Newspapers, bought the club, which had gone into receivership. Four years later she became the youngest managing director of a listed company when the club floated with a value of £25 million. She has gone on to become the

be undertaking a review of its business and capital structure. It said that it would be taking an £845 million writedown, exiting some businesses and parting ways with Richard Howson, its chief executive. It also warned investors that revenues would be hit by delays in some public-private partnership ventures with local government and that its cashflows on several construction contracts had deteriorated. Mr Cochrane said that Carillion was moving forward quickly with the review, which comes amid speculation that the group might have to turn to shareholders to raise up to £500 million to secure its finances. In the second boost to shareholder confidence, Carillion said that it had won two contracts to build parts of HS2, the planned 190km-an-hour line linking London with Birmingham and the west coast main line. A consortium composed of Carillion, Eiffage and Kier won the contracts to build the North Portal Chiltern tunnels to Brackley in south Northamptonshire and the Brackley to Long Itchington Wood Green south tunnel travelling southwards. The contracts are worth £1.34 billion and will take four to five years to complete. Analysts estimate Carillion’s share at up to £450 million. Chris Grayling, transport secretary, said he hoped that Carillion could overcome its problems, adding: “My wish is that Carillion get through their current problems but we’ve made sure that it’s not an issue for these contracts.” Alistair Osborne, page 45

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already a partner to Centrica in the Cygnus gasfield. The deal provided “the opportunity to strengthen the entity through further consolidation and joint ventures, including the potential for an initial public offering in the medium term”, the companies said. Centrica said that it would make payments of about £340 million between 2017 and 2022 related to decommissioning costs, and

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Carillion gave its nervous shareholders some reassurance as it won two big contracts on the HS2 high-speed rail line and boosted the number of City advisers helping it to cut costs and improve cashflow. Shares in the construction and support services group, which lost 70 per cent of their value last week after a profit warning sparked fears of an emergency fundraising, rose by almost 20 per cent to 66¾p. Before the warning they had been changing hands for 192p. Page 43

Centrica, the owner of British Gas, is spinning off its oil and gas production business into a new joint venture with Bayerngas Norge, of Germany, with a view to a potential initial public offering within two to five years. Page 43

Baroness Brady, the entrepreneur best known for her leading roles at West Ham United football club and on The Apprentice, has been appointed chairwoman of the company behind Taveta Investments, the parent company of Sir Philip Green’s Arcadia Group retail empire. Page 43

Brexit will hurt the car and financial services industries and locations as diverse as London and the Isles of Scilly, according to analysis by the Office for National Statistics drawn up to show which parts of the country could be most affected. Page 46

The City watchdog has begun an investigation into the fastgrowing £600 billion investment platform industry amid concerns that investors may not be getting the best value for money and that big providers could be keeping out competition from cheaper rivals. Page 49

Electric car chargers could be switched off remotely or turned down by energy companies if owners refuse to use them at off-peak times. Page 49

Government help-to-work schemes are missing a trick by ignoring opportunities from the gig economy to find jobs for the unemployed, a report by Reform, an independent public services think tank, has claimed.

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Digital rivals are focus for new ITV boss Alexandra Frean

Dame Carolyn McCall’s appointment as chief executive of ITV ended weeks of speculation about the broadcaster’s future after Adam Crozier confirmed his decision to leave the post in May. Investors welcomed the move, indicating that many still believe that ITV’s calling card — its unrivalled ability to deliver a mass market audience to advertisers in Britain — is likely to remain intact under strong leadership, despite an advertising slowdown. Shares in the company, which have fallen by 14 per cent since the start of the year, closed the day 1.3 per cent higher at 177¼p. For ITV, Dame Carolyn, who is credited with turning around Easyjet during her seven-year tenure as chief executive, was the standout candidate, fulfilling the two key criteria set by Britain’s biggest commercial broadcaster: experience of leading of a large publicly quoted company (something that Sir Peter Bazalgette, its chairman, is lacking); and media industry knowhow. During a 21-year career at The Guardian, she rose to become chief executive of the Guardian Media Group in 2006, driving a series of transformations, including the move to the Berliner format, the sale of a stake in Auto Trader and the expansion of the paper’s digital presence. She is one of only seven female chief executives of a FTSE 100 company and takes up her new role in early January. At a time when digital platforms are sucking advertising cash away from free-to-air broadcasters and when on-demand, subscription-based

streaming services such as Netflix are cannibalising audiences, there is no doubting that Dame Carolyn, 55, has a tough job ahead of her. She faces the additional challenge that traditional advertising is in a cyclical low amid Brexit concerns and broader economic worries, not to mention the absence of any big international football tournaments this summer to draw in audiences. Another headache is that much of the investor interest in ITV’s shares this year has been as a bid target, with John Malone’s Liberty Global, owner of Virgin Media, holding a 10 per cent stake and ready to pounce should the share price fall. Russ Mould, investment director at AJ Bell, a broker, said that having worked hard to reduce its reliance on television advertising and to build up its studios business through the acquisition of independent production companies, ITV was likely to explore the possibility of its own paid-for subscription streaming service. However, he warned that it could still be vulnerable should another big recession hit advertising sales. Roddy Davidson, an analyst at Shore Capital, cautioned against placing too much emphasis on the advertising slump. ITV had “an unrivalled ability to deliver a mass-market commercial audience to advertisers via what is a trusted and well understood medium”, in contrast with many digital platforms, he said. It was also enjoying strong growth on its digital platform, ITV Hub. Ian Whittaker, of Liberum, said that the threat from streaming on-demand TV should not be overplayed. “Netflix cannot deliver Adam Crozier built up ITV’s production and digital divisions

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would hold a 69 per cent stake in the joint venture. Most of the remaining 31 per cent will be owned by SWM, a wide-ranging utility company owned by the city of Munich that established Bayerngas Norge in 2006 to safeguard gas supplies to Bavaria. The new joint venture is to be led by Chris Cox, an ex-BG Group oil industry veteran who joined Centrica as managing director of exploration and production in 2016. The companies said that they expected to make up to £150 million of “synergies” through cost savings and portfolio optimisation, comments that are likely to raise fears of possible job cuts. Mr Conn said: “We have been aiming to develop a more focused and stronger exploration and production business, which will contribute to the resilience of the group while limiting Centrica’s E&P participation. This joint venture

creates a larger, more sustainable and more capable European E&P business and brings together like-minded shareholders who have a shared strategic vision on the role of E&P.” The Centrica assets being moved into the joint venture contributed pre-tax profits of £223 million last year. John Musk, analyst at RBC Capital Markets, said that an IPO of the new venture would “continue Centrica’s journey towards a downstream customer-focused energy and services provider”. It also coincides with a period of increased political headwinds for British Gas, the country’s biggest and most profitable household gas and electricity supplier. The threat of a price cap has weighed on the company’s share price in recent months. Centrica is also looking to expand its “connected home” business offering to tie household appliances into the internet of things.

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mass market audiences. They are a small part of the TV space. At some point, [TV] advertising will come back.” Dame Carolyn’s annual salary of £900,000 with a pension allowance of 15 per cent of salary and an annual bonus plan up to a maximum of 180 per cent of salary, together with a longterm incentive plan up to 265 per cent of salary, will be broadly in line with Mr Crozier’s remuneration. She also will receive awards to compensate for incentives forfeited on leaving Easyjet, which are likely to be between £2 million and £5 million, depending on Easyjet’s performance.

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Studio strategy puts shirt on Poldark factor Alexandra Frean

A key task facing Dame Carolyn McCall at ITV will be maintaining the strategy initiated by Adam Crozier, her predecessor who built up ITV’s production business and digital revenues,

‘Come clean’ on Toyota Martin Waller

A row has broken out over Toyota’s decision in March to commit £240 million to upgrading its plant at Burnaston, Derbyshire, after politicians called for the publication of a letter apparently containing reassurances made to the carmaker by the business department. Nicky Morgan, in her first outing as chairwoman of the Treasury select committee, said that publication of the letter would provide clarity “as the assurances may cost the taxpayer money”. Rachel Reeves, her counterpart on the business committee, who is also new to the job, said: “It is vital that the government is not seen to be cutting sweetheart deals or granting special favours.” The existence of the letter, which was written to the Japanese manufacturer ahead of the decision to invest in the Burnaston plant, was revealed by Reuters. Neither Toyota nor the department were prepared to comment.

An attempt by Reuters to see the letter, using a freedom of information request, was refused, with officials saying that any information was “both highly commercially sensitive” and “would be likely to cause harm to the company’s commercial interests if disclosed”. The revelation mirrors a letter sent to Nissan last year when it decided to build two new models at its car plant in Sunderland. Greg Clark, the business secretary, who has tried to reassure foreign carmakers concerned about trade with Europe after the UK’s withdrawal from the EU, has said that he will release the Nissan letter when it is no longer commercially confidential. Toyota, which builds about 10 per cent of the 1.7 million cars made each year in the UK, announced the investment in March to fit new equipment, technology and systems at Burnaston after the government pledged to provide £21.3 million to support skills and training, research and development and innovation there. The department

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reducing its reliance on television advertising. Since 2010, revenues from the studio business, which invests more than £1 billion a year in new shows, have nearly trebled from £554 million to close to £1.4 billion, with about half of sales outside the UK. In 2016 ITV Studios produced just under 8,000 hours of content, a 90 per cent increase from 2010. Dramas made by ITV that have sold to more than 100 countries include Victoria and Poldark. Dame Carolyn is likely to continue this expansion through a combination of bolt-on acquisitions and organic growth. But she will not take her eye off

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traditional advertising, which still brings in more than half of ITV’s revenue. Mr Crozier was helped initially by a healthy advertising market, which lifted all boats. The new chief executive has no such luxury and must work hard to woo advertisers. In this, she will have scale on her side: ITV still commands 99 per cent of all UK commercial audiences over five million. She will also need to build ITV’s digital engagement with audiences. The mobile app for its popular Love Island dating reality show has now had 1.4 million downloads.

With the airline industry in perpertual revolution, not to say crisis, there was never going to be a good time for Dame Carolyn McCall to quit Easyjet. When she almost called for the exit shute last year after being courted by Marks & Spencer, commentators wondered whether this was not an attempt to avoid the oncoming bad news of diving profits due, in part, to the impact of the decision to exit the European Union. In the event she didn’t quit but did unveil a miserable set of 2016 numbers, hit by a cocktail of the impact of terrorist attacks, air traffic control strikes and the devaluation of the pound that meant travel for its British customers, its key market, immediately became 15 per cent more expensive. At the nadir of Easyjet’s share price plunge, it had more than halved in nine months. Yet, with the market getting used to post-Brexit-vote consumer caution and more crucially upstart competition beginning to exit the stage, Easyjet shares are up 50 per cent in the past six months. When Dame Carolyn arrived from Guardian Media Group seven years ago as plain Ms McCall, she was dismissed as a “media luvvie” by Michael O’Leary, of Ryanair. Yet her consumer-friendly touch won over sentiment and ultimately led Mr O’Leary to copy Easyjet’s passenger relations initiatives, just as 20 years earlier Mr O’Leary had copied the embrace of the internet by Stelios Haji-Ioannou, the Easyjet founder, as the future for air travel. Her Easyjet tenure has made her a rich woman, pocketing well in excess of £20 million in pay and bonuses. Arguably Britain’s most high-profile female chief executive, her two immediate Easyjet understudies are both women: Cath Lynn, the strategy director, and Chris Browne, chief operating officer. However, the tenor of comments by John Barton, the chairman, yesterday were that both appear to have been overlooked for the top job. Whether Easyjet goes for an airline professional or a customer relations specialist will tell much about where the board believes the carrier is headed.

promises Cambridge dons mantle of has confirmed that a letter was sent to Toyota ahead of the decision. A source quoted by Reuters said that Toyota had received “a similar set of warm words as Nissan” on electric vehicles, commitment to further training and to ensure the competitiveness of the British car industry. At the time the investment was announced, the head of Toyota in Europe said that tariff-free access from the UK to the Continent was vital to the future success of the plant. The industry has warned the government that a so-called hard Brexit and the ending of trade ties could have a damaging effect. Other carmakers have continued to invest in the UK since the referendum. They include Jaguar Land Rover, which is owned by Tata of India. Toyota builds the Auris hatchback and the Avensis family car at Burnaston. It established its first business in the UK in 1989 and has invested £2.5 billion in its two plants at Burnaston and Deeside in north Wales.

fastest-growing city economy Emily Gosden

Cambridge’s technology sector has helped it to overtake Milton Keynes as Britain’s fastest-growing city economy. Its skilled workforce contributed to growth of 2.9 per cent in the year to March, a study by the Centre for Economics and Business Research and the law firm Irwin Mitchell found. The report assesses economic growth and job creation in 45 British cities. Cambridge is likely to remain the fastest-growing city economy for the next decade, it forecast. The university city boasts more patent publications than any other and 80 per cent of its start-ups are still in business after three years. “Cambridge is home to a range of highly productive industries, including advanced engineering, design and pharmaceuticals, with Astrazeneca soon to complete its new £330 million

global research HQ. Cambridge’s tech and venture capital cluster, known as ‘Silicon Fen’, houses over 1,000 hightech companies including Microsoft, CSR and Jagex, and typifies the city’s flourishing business culture,” the report said. Although Milton Keynes lost its top ranking, with 2.8 per cent growth, it remained No 1 for job creation, with a 1.9 per cent increase year-on-year, ahead of York and Manchester. Milton Keynes had “dynamic and productive knowledge-based industries” and created 9,300 jobs in the banking, finance and insurance sector between 2013 and 2016, the study said. Jack Coy, an economist at the CEBR, said the study “highlights the productivity of concentrated industry hubs. These are typified by London’s fintech and digital start-ups, Cambridge’s hightech Silicon Fen firms and Sheffield’s advanced manufacturing cluster.”

Flying Dame faces tricky screen test business commentary Alistair Osborne

ame Carolyn McCall was always an obvious choice for the ITV job. The Easyjet boss is addicted to its travel shows: Benidorm, Ibiza Weekender, The Only Way is Essex. Not to mention Love Island, especially since the broadcaster ordered the locals to “be more frisky”. Still, none quite warranted a job switch. So here’s the clincher: Inside The Cockpit, an “upmarket” affair that’s coming soon. It’s about “rookie pilots” — at Easyjet. No wonder Dame Carolyn fancies bossing an outfit showing that sort of stuff — even if the programme’s due to be off air before she arrives on January 8. It could be based on her rookie exploits, too: how “some old media luvvie” from The Guardian, in the words of Ryanair chief Michael O’Leary, took the Easyjet controls in July 2010, even though she knew zip about airlines. It hasn’t worked out too badly, not least for her. She’s amassed almost £30 million in pay. Yet she’s also trebled the share price and done her bit for the passengers. When she arrived, Ryanair was running ads headed “Here’s Easyjet’s new head of punctuality” above a picture of Robert Mugabe — its response to the airline’s timekeeping being worse than Air Zimbabwe. By 2013, Mr O’Leary was admitting that Easyjet had “wiped the floor with us” over customer service. Dame Carolyn proved something else, too, which will come in handy in TV: her ability to handle prima donnas. Who could be worse than Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, whose family owns a third of Easyjet shares? He’s been close to tantrumfree on Dame Carolyn’s watch, even if she’s had to bribe him. She started paying dividends: a total £1.2 billion. Still, after “an amazing seven years”, as she put it, Dame Carolyn fancies a media comeback: she never objected to Mr O’Leary’s “luvvie” jibe, just the “old”. Her timing isn’t a no-brainer. Easyjet faces lots of turbulence over Brexit, not least if Britain fails to agree an open skies deal with the EU. And her successor may have to crank up the cost-cuts. But ITV’s heading for its worst year on the TV ad front since 2009, a market vulnerable to a Brexit-induced consumer downturn. She’s joining a takeover target, too: John Malone’s Liberty Global holds a 9.9 per cent stake, even if the business behind Virgin Media has been on the register since July 2014. Dame Carolyn’s media track record isn’t unblemished, either: she was boss of Guardian Media Group when it invested £80 million in the Berliner format that it may now axe. Yet she’ll probably be a decent commercial foil, as Jefferies analysts put it, to “creative” chairman Sir Peter Bazalgette: a man who had a better plan for replacing ex-chief Adam Crozier than first appeared. Dame Carolyn will get a similar wedge to him (a package he also turned into about £30 million in seven years). And there’s no need to change his content-focused strategy. The market took it all in its stride too: ITV shares rose 1.3 per cent to 177¼p but Easyjet’s 1.4 per cent to £14.31. Hardly Love Island friskiness.

Tunnel vision

ell, that’s one way to get the share price up: the old “North Portal Chiltern Tunnels to Brackley” wheeze. Why didn’t anyone think of that? It’s just given Carillion shares a 19 per cent leg-up to 67p. True, they did fall 70 per cent last week. But who cares about that when Carillion has just turned up as part of a consortium, alongside the contractors Eiffage and Kier helping to build HS2? They’ve won £1.4 billion of contracts on the world’s most expensive railway, also doing their stuff on the “Brackley to Long Itchington Wood Green Tunnel South Portal”. All part of £6.6 billion of HS2 contracts awarded by the transport secretary Chris Grayling. Yes, maybe appointing EY to improve Carillion’s focus on “cost reduction and cash collection” also boosted the shares. But the main juicer-upper was the government’s willingness to deal with a company only worth £288 million but holding average net debts of £900 million and a £600 million-plus pension deficit. Mr Grayling even added his personal “wish” that “Carillion get through their current problems”. So let’s hope there are no cost overruns to blow up the contracts. That’s always a possibility, given Michael Byng, a rail industry specialist, suggested at the weekend that HS2 could end up costing us £104 billion instead of the official budget of a mere £55 billion. Of course the money would be far better spent solving Britain’s housing crisis. But at least it’s helping out Carillion.

What red tape?

o, who strongly agrees with this? “EU regulations are a major burden to the growth of your organisation.” Answer: only 8 per cent of respondents to a survey from ICAEW, the accountancy outfit representing 147,000 bean-counters. True, it didn’t ask a lot of people — only 500 of its members — but its findings don’t exactly tally with the usual image of Brussels bureaucrats tying everyone up in endless red tape. Somewhat disagreeing with the statement were 38 per cent of respondents, while a further 33 per cent strongly disagreed. Yes, accountants do like a nice rule book. But that’s more than two thirds.

Carney’s army

ucky Liverpudlians. Mark Carney’s coming to town. Not only him, either, but the Bank of England’s deputy governors and chief economist. They’re playing the home of the Cavern on November 16, with their new tune: “Let’s talk about economics and how the financial world affects your life.” They plan to meet a “cross-section of the public”. Might be even crosser once they’ve had a bet on the guv’nor’s famous forward guidance. alistair.osborne@thetimes.co.uk

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living and working in the UK. European migrant workers are considered important to many sectors, particularly hotels, restaurants, construction and public services. The ONS said that local economies could face staff shortages if EU nationals were to leave en masse. Any changes to EU workers’ rights could have an impact on construction projects across Britain. South Ribble

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Brexit will hurt the car and financial services industries and locations as diverse as London and the Isles of Scilly, in particular, according to the Office for National Statistics. The ONS has drawn up an analysis showing which parts of the country could be most affected “because they are home to a concentration of industry or industries which have most at stake when the terms surrounding access to the single market, the free movement of labour, levels of funding and existing EU regulations are discussed”. London, West Somerset, Weymouth and Portland in Dorset, the Isles of Scilly and South Ribble, near Preston in Lancashire, have been identified by the ONS as locations that have an especially heavy reliance on European Union workers. The ONS said: “The EU is the UK’s biggest single trading partner. It accounted for 48 per cent of goods exports from the UK and 39 per cent of services in 2016. And some industries will have a particular focus on [Brexit] negotiations. ” Which industries currently benefit from EU trade links? All British businesses enjoy free trade with the EU at present, but a failure to reach a trade agreement could mean tariffs and quotas under World Trade Organisation rules. The car industry is particularly reliant on EU trade, both for export sales and imports of key components in the production process. The ONS said that the EU accounted for 42 per cent of UK car exports and 88 per cent of imports in 2016, and added: “If the UK and EU were to trade under WTO rules, cars would face a 10 per cent tariff. About one third of the jobs in the car industry are in the West Midlands.” Trade with EU countries is also crucial for Britain’s banks, insurers and other financial institutions. The UK exported about £24 billion of financial services in 2015, nearly half which went to the EU. Areas of the country where financial services companies are dominant employers include London, Surrey, East and West Sussex, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Bath and Bristol, Cheshire, West Yorkshire and eastern Scotland. Which industries rely most on migrant workers? One of the hottest Brexit negotiation topics is the future of EU nationals

6 Inflation across the 19 nations of the eurozone fell to 1.3 per cent in June, easing pressure on the European Central Bank to start withdrawing its mammoth stimulus package (Patrick Hosking writes). The drop in the consumer prices index from 1.4 per cent in May was in line with expectations. However, core inflation, which excludes raw food and energy, rose from 1 per cent to 1.2 per cent. The slowdown in the headline rate was partly due to a fall in energy prices, Eurostat, the official statistics office, said. Comments by Mario Draghi, the ECB president, who aims to keep inflation close to but below 2 per cent, raised expectations three weeks ago that the central bank might start to ease back on quantitative easing, but the latest data suggests he will not be in any great hurry.

Agriculture, both in terms of workers and regulations from Brussels, is one of the UK industries most affected by the EU

Weak government and interest rate fears send confidence plunging Private investor confidence in Britain fell sharply this month after the Conservatives’ election setback and expectations of an interest rate rise (Patrick Hosking writes). The Hargreaves Lansdown investor confidence index dropped from 86 in June to 69. Its long-term average since its creation in 1995 has been 99. The index, which is based on predictions by Hargreaves Lansdown clients about where the share market is heading,

was still up on a low point of 59 recorded for November last year after Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election. Laith Khalaf, a senior analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said that the election of a limp government and worries about Brexit negotiations were affecting sentiment. Clients were concerned, too, that share markets were being propped up artificially by quantitative easing and, in Britain, by the weakness of the pound. “Investor confidence is

scraping along pretty close to the bottom of the barrel right now, in stark contrast to the stock market, which is riding high,” he said. However, in spite of being bearish, private clients were not selling shares in significant numbers, he said. In other findings, investors are braced for interest rate rises, with 81 per cent expecting a rise in the base rate in the next 12 months, up from 54 per cent asked the same question last month. The pound fell back to

below $1.31 yesterday amid fresh nerves about the robustness of the government and the new round of Brexit talks. Last week it rose to its highest level against the dollar in ten months. Recently sterling has risen on the back of less doveish interest rate expectations. It could rise again today if official inflation numbers come in ahead of expectations. Analysts expect the annual rise in the consumer prices index to fall from 2.9 per cent to 2.8 per cent.

has the highest concentration of construction jobs, more than four times the national average. According to the ONS, overall there were more than 150,000 EU nationals working in construction across the UK in 2015. Public services could be affected as more than 300,000 EU nationals were working in education, health and social care in 2015. Which sectors are affected by EU funding and regulations? Scientific research is essential for driving innovation and productivity across the UK and benefits from EU funding and access to European researchers. The ONS said that the east of England and the southeast accounted for more than half of employment in the scientific research and development sector in 2015. However, agriculture and fishing arguably are most affected by EU regulation as they are governed by the common agricultural policy and common fisheries policy. Wales and Scotland have the highest concentration of jobs in agriculture, forestry and fishing and are most likely to be affected. Plugging the gap, page 55

Sonia ‘will step in and replace Libor’ Brady takes helm at Taveta Harry Wilson City Editor

Libor is on its way out as the interest rate used to value trillions of dollars of financial products and eventually will be replaced by a benchmark based on actual transactions, according to the governor of the Bank of England. Mark Carney told financiers that a shift towards a market rate backed by real money and not bankers’ judgments was “necessary and . . . would happen”. In minutes released by the Bank yesterday, Mr Carney made the case for the eventual abandonment of Libor as a reference rate and a transfer instead to Sonia, or the sterling overnight index average, which is fixed against lenders’ overnight cost of funding. Libor has

been subject to extensive reforms in the five years since the rate-rigging scandal first made headlines in the wake of Barclays’ admission that it had tried atto manipulate the rate. However, Mr Carney said that despite this work, a “judgment-based” benchmark would never be as good as one set against real money. “Although controls around Libor submissions had become much tighter since 2012, a situation in which a judgmentbased benchmark underpinned an estimated $350 trillion of contracts was not desirable,” Mr Carney said, according to the minutes of the July 6 meeting between the Bank and industry figures. Speaking at the same event, Chris Salmon, executive director for markets

at the Bank, said that Libor was “not the most appropriate” reference rate and that its continued widespread use reflected a “concentration of liquidity in Libor instruments, a situation that was self-reinforcing”. “Reducing the system’s dependence on Libor would be challenging,” said Mr Salmon, who has led the Bank’s Libor reform efforts. Mr Salmon is the uncle of Tom Hayes, the first banker jailed for rate manipulation. François Jourdain, a Barclays banker and chairman of the reference rates working group, said that the industry was working towards the replacement of Libor by Sonia and that big financial institutions had put together panels to discuss how this could be achieved.

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vice-chairwoman of West Ham and has served on the boards of Mothercare, Arcadia, Channel 4 and Sport England. She is a non-executive director of Syco, the company owned by Simon Cowell and Sony, and is an active member of the Lords. She once underwent brain surgery to prevent an aneurysm from rupturing and has written an autobiography, novels and motivational business books, including one titled Strong Woman. Despite her packed CV, some critics have claimed that she is not sufficiently independent to oversee Taveta as she has already been on the board for seven years, including the period when BHS was sold. Frank Field MP said: “I think

it is a pity that Sir Philip has not used Lord Grabiner stepping down, which is long overdue, to reconstitute a board that would increase public confidence rather than lessen it. She is stained by this whole saga and I assume the reason she has been appointed is because Sir Philip cannot get anyone else to serve on his board.” The Times could not ascertain if any formal process to find a new chairman was carried out or if any candidates other than Baroness Brady were considered. No pay details for her new position have been disclosed, but her predecessor received an annual salary of £125,000. In a statement Sir Philip said he was delighted that Baroness Brady was taking on the job.

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Britain could pay a heavy price for seeking more trade outside the EU

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Thirty-five years ago I was a trainee reporter on a specialist publication focused on trade with China. The world’s most populous nation was just beginning to open up. My job was to interview export managers after their trips to Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. While they all enthused about the fabulous potential of the People’s Republic, they usually returned to Britain without the merest sniff of a sale. After a couple of drinks, they might mention the incomprehensible, maddeningly slow bureaucracy. After a couple more drinks — the rampant corruption. I thought of those times when, in her Lancaster House speech in January, Theresa May laid out her vision of “a truly global Britain” after Brexit. Exporters, she said, had to wean themselves off their reliance on old European trading partners and forge new links in Asia, the Middle East and Latin America. The same thoughts came up the other day when the Financial Conduct Authority proposed new rules that would pave the way for Saudi Aramco, the world’s most valuable company by some estimates, to float in London. The FCA in essence wants to change the rules to allow the Saudi-owned company to be given the prestige of a premium listing without conforming to the normal rules that go with it. Mrs May, who personally intervened with the Saudis to push the merits of London, sees landing the biggest ever capital-raising by the world’s largest company as just the kind of coup to burnish Britain’s “truly global” credentials. There is no shortage of other state-controlled companies, from Kazakhstan to

Egypt, that could turn up in London if the rule change goes ahead. Shifting the focus to non-EU nations sounds marvellous in theory. They have vast populations. They are growing faster than the West. They have burgeoning middle classes eager to try our brands and services. And they have the material riches on which the world depends. The gigantic Aramco pumps one in every nine barrels of crude. The reasons, however, why 52 per cent of Britain’s exports are to the EU are just as persuasive. It’s close, with a common time zone. It’s rich. It conforms to the rule of law, so contracts are easy to enforce. It’s relatively uncorrupt (Italy excepted). Everyone speaks English (France excepted). It has common technical standards. It has a highly liquid, easily tradeable currency. And, crucially, the systems and supply chain infrastructure and standards are already in place and they work. It’s blindingly obvious why British business prefers to trade with Europe. Breaking into new markets with alien cultures is difficult. The “truly global” brigade make the mistake of harking back to the era when Britain’s buccaneering merchant adventurers ruled the world. They forget that in the glory days of, say, the British East India Company or the opium-trading Jardine Matheson, there was always a British gunboat in the background to ensure they got favourable terms. Those times aren’t returning. The power balance has shifted. Nowadays trading partners have to be wooed and can extract a heavy price for their business. Hence Riyadh’s demand that its jewel Aramco should be labelled “premium” by the London Stock Exchange rather than suffer the ignominy of being classified as merely “standard”. The FCA’s rule tweak is

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Theresa May pushed the merits of London to attract Saudi Aramco, but it will be necessary to tweak the City’s rules

seen as an elegant and pragmatic compromise by some. By others, however, it is a dangerous, shortsighted fudge. Lowering standards can win business in the short term, but eventually it backfires. New York has become the biggest securities centre partly because of the high standards and sharp teeth of its regulators, not in spite of them. It’s one of the reasons why companies listed there command higher valuations. It’s important not to get oversqueamish. There’s no danger of Aramco joining the FTSE 100 and so becoming an automatic component in everyone’s pension pot. There are some good reputational reasons why the company should behave itself and not abuse or mislead its minority shareholders. It’s hard to read how the Aramco row will play out. It’s interesting that so far only Standard Life and Royal London have put their heads above the parapet to attack the rule change. No doubt some institutions regard Saudi Arabia as too wealthy a prospective client to risk upsetting. If Britain really takes the catastrophic step of leaving the single market and the customs union, then we had better get used to more of this kind of thing. The price of doing more business with dictatorships, theocracies and banana republics is sometimes having to accommodate their wishes. The same also applies to more familiar non-EU trading partners, such as the United States and Japan, with whom Mrs May is keen to clinch bilateral trade deals. Those nations will demand concessions, too. If we want to sell haggis to the Americans, it’s a fair bet they will demand the right to sell us their banned chlorine-washed chickens and hormone-fed beef. Mrs May’s “truly global Britain” may end up being a country where rules are watered down and standards lowered, whether in consumer protection, environmental safeguards or investor protection. The hard Brexiteers are in danger of merely swapping one set of interfering foreigners, Brussels bureaucrats, for another.

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n two months’ time, the US Federal Reserve is expected to begin the next phase in the greatest economic experiment of modern times. America’s central bank has signalled that it may start unwinding quantitative easing in September with the piecemeal sale of the $3.5 trillion of bonds bought since QE’s 2008 launch. No one quite knows what happens next, but the gloomiest predict another financial maelstrom. One thing is certain. Borrowing costs will rise and the Fed doesn’t even need to press the button. Effective interest rates in Britain, Europe, the United States and across the world are going up and central banks won’t have to do anything. It was Martin Feldstein, Ronald Reagan’s chief economic adviser and now a Harvard professor, who made Global QE

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the observation. Between 2013 and 2016, the four big central banks — the Fed, the European Central Bank, the Bank of Japan and the Bank of England — bought more of their governments’ debt than those governments issued, he said. This year, the sums will roughly balance. In 2018, though, “new issues by the governments will significantly exceed purchases by central banks by an amount equal to about 2.5 per cent of the GDP of those countries”. This “enormous” shift will have “an important effect of increasing the real long-term interest rate”. The big event here is not the decision to unwind QE but simply to stop doing any more. The Fed ceased buying assets in late 2014, the Bank finished after Brexit and the ECB plans to quit in December. That leaves the Bank of Japan. Having purchased more than $10 trillion of government debt since the financial crisis, the biggest buyers are leaving the marketplace almost entirely. Without their main customer, governments will have to offer

investors a better price. That means higher interest rates and it’s already happening. Government bond yields, used to price everything from fixedrate mortgages to corporate loans to pension schemes, have jumped. Since June, the yield on ten-year UK gilts has risen from below 1 per cent to 1.275 per cent. The same is happening in US and German bonds. Against the backdrop of automatic global monetary tightening, a Fed decision to flood the market with more bonds would lift borrowing costs even higher. Last week Ian McCafferty, a Bank ratesetter, said that the UK should be having the conversation, too. At the moment, policy is to leave the £435 billion stock of QE (a third of gilts in issue) unchanged until official rates are about 2 per cent. There could be advantages to unwinding it earlier, Mr McCafferty suggested. Pension funds need higher bond yields to close the £180 billion hole in their schemes, which could release money for companies to invest. Bank profitability would improve by resuscitating the old model, crippled by QE, of making returns from borrowing short and lending long. It might afford better deals for savers. Distortions caused by QE to rescue the economy in the crisis, which are now arguably damaging it, could be undone. There is another issue. With rates at record lows, QE transfers profits to the Treasury and reduces the gilt issuance required to fund the budget deficit. As rates rise, though, the equation reverses and the Treasury has to issue more debt to fund QE’s losses. According to the Office for Budget Responsibility, if rates hit 4 per cent the Treasury will have to issue an extra £80 billion in total. Over the life of the scheme, the state will roughly break even, but the gains have been booked already and the costs will come just as rates rise, potentially amplifying the effect of tighter monetary policy. Even if the Bank decides to take a passive approach and let gilts mature, doing so would remove £62 billion of buying power over the next two years. However you look at it, short of a crisis, borrowing costs are on a one-way trajectory now. Philip Aldrick is Economics Editor of The Times

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Provident Financial lands in a fine mess Marion Dakers

Sending nearly a million “nuisance” text messages advertising high-interest debt has landed Provident Financial with an £80,000 fine. The penalty was imposed on Provident Personal Credit, part of the FTSE 100 sub-prime lender, for a “serious contravention” of data protection rules. Marketers working for Provident sent the texts, offering loans from the company’s Satsuma website with interest rates of up to 845 per cent, over a sixmonth period in 2015. The Information Commissioner’s Office received 285 complaints about the messages. The office accepted that Provident had not sent the texts directly but had passed on its advertising work to Money Gap Group and Sandhurst Associates, separate marketing companies. Although the number of test messages was put at close to one million, the total was likely to have been “significantly higher”, because Provident had used several marketing contractors that were not part of the investigation, the regulator added. “The law is clear. You can’t send marketing texts to people who have not signed up to receive them,” Steve Eckersley, the Information Commissioner’s Office’s head of enforcement, said. “Being bombarded with texts you didn’t ask for and don’t want is an intrusion into people’s privacy, an irritation

and in the worst cases can be upsetting. Companies have no excuse whatsoever for sending nuisance texts, whether they do it themselves or employ someone else to do it for them.” People who received the messages had been told that their information could be used by “selected partners”, but were not informed that Provident would use it to market loans. “PPC is sorry for the irritation this has caused to the individuals concerned,” a company spokesman said. “It has reviewed its marketing processes and put in place procedures designed to prevent such conduct happening again.” The Information Commissioner’s Office has issued a series of penalties for companies responsible for nuisance texts and calls in recent months, including a record £400,000 fine for Keurboom, which made almost 100 million automated phone calls about road traffic accident claims and PPI compensation. Keurboom has gone into liquidation. Provident told investors last month that its profits were likely to fall short of forecasts after cuts to its doorstep lending business cost more than expected. It has pinned its hopes for growth on internet credit cards and loans, which are cheaper to sell and easier to monitor for compliance with consumer lending rules. Satsuma, which was launched in 2013, had lent out £18.2 million to 55,000 customers by the end of 2016.

CITY PEOPLE The feuds, the faces and the farcical Dominic Walsh @walshdominic

that’ll be a pint of bubbly, just like the good old days Berry Bros & Rudd’s latest customer magazine features an article by Hubert de Billy, great-greatgrandson of Pol Roger, founder of the eponymous champagne house. He muses on whether Brexit might herald the return of the pint-sized bottle, banned in 1975 after Britain joined what was then the European Economic Community. It seems that the pint bottle was a particular favourite of Winston Churchill, who declared it to be “enough for two for lunch and one at dinner”. Mr de Billy confirmed: “It remains to be seen how the law will change in the UK, but we have started to discuss the possibility of sourcing pint bottles from our glass supplier.” make a crisis out of a drama ADT, the fire and security alarm group, has worked out that EastEnders is the most dangerous soap to live in, with more than ten times as many break-ins and fires as The Archers, the least dangerous soap. The Queen Vic alone has suffered an estimated £128,000 of damage caused by two fires and nine break-ins over the past decade.

Business big shot names scott nuttall and joe bae ages 45 and 44 positions co-presidents, kkr

t is one of the biggest jobs in private equity, or rather two of the biggest (Marion Dakers writes). So when Henry Kravis and George Roberts step down from KKR, the private equity giant they founded in 1976, they will be replaced by another pair of company veterans. The company yesterday anointed Joe Bae and Scott Nuttall in the new role of co-presidents and cochief operating officers, signalling their places as heirs to the top jobs. For now they will be in charge of day-to-day operations at the $138 billion business, with Mr Bae focused on international dealmaking and Mr Nuttall stewarding KKR’s dealings in financial markets. Both have spent almost all their careers at KKR, Mr Bae most recently acting as the firm’s managing partner in Asia.

going with the flow? New River REIT, the property investment firm, has snared Baroness Ford of Cunninghame as its senior independent nonexecutive director. Lady Ford, who is chairwoman of STV Group and on the board of Segro, has come a long way since her first job as a Saturday girl in a local bakery near her North Ayrshire home. sleeping with the enemy New research from Colliers International and Hotelschool The Hague shows that the number of nights in London booked through Airbnb last year more than doubled to 4.62 million as the number of properties listed jumped from 88,000 to 138,000. The big hotel operators may be noticing only a modest impact, but Colliers warned that “as the scale grows, the lack of regulation becomes a greater concern”. it’s all about who you know Sir Alan Parker, the financial PR supremo, has emailed a reminder of an invitation to raise a farewell glass to stalwarts Mike Harrision and Mike Smith “before they fly the Brunswick nest”. Helpfully, the email contains an extensive contacts list.

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Energy firm seeks power to switch off car chargers Emily Gosden Energy Editor

National Grid says electric car charging could add 18 gigawatts to peak demand by 2050, equal to six Hinkley Point C reactors

Watchdog will investigate £600bn investment boom Harry Wilson City Editor

The City watchdog has begun an investigation into the fast-growing £600 billion investment platform industry amid concerns that investors may not be getting the best value for money and that big providers could be keeping out competition from cheaper rivals. The Financial Conduct Authority said that it would examine the business models of Hargreaves Lansdown, Cofunds and others as it looked at whether they were delivering on their promise to use their market power to give customers a better deal on access to investment products. Banks, insurers, fund managers and independent providers with investment platforms will be part of the FCA’s market study, which aims to report back by next summer. From managing assets worth £108 billion less than ten years ago, investment platforms, whether through advised sales or via independent providers not tied to a particular fund or institution, managed £592 billion of clients’ money by the

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ith an operating profit margin of 66.8 per cent, it was only a matter of time before regulators decided to take a closer look at Britain’s

end of last year. Nearly 80 per cent of retail investments are made through platform providers. In particular, model portfolios, which allow consumers to construct a selection of investments determined by what level of risk they want to take, have become increasingly popular. Christopher Woolard, executive director of strategy and competition at the FCA, said that he wanted to ensure that consumers were being served properly. “Platforms have the potential to generate significant benefits for consumers and we want to ensure consumers are receiving these benefits in practice,” he said. Verona Smith, head of platform at Seven Investment Management, praised the FCA’s decision to go ahead with a deeper study of investment platforms. “It’s important to look under the bonnet and assess how effective the technology is and how that can be harnessed to help to achieve a positive customer experience,” she said. Hargreaves Lansdown, the largest independent fund platform, said that the FCA’s study was “very broad” and defended the way in which financial

investment platform industry (Harry Wilson writes). Together, providers that include Hargreaves Lansdown, Barclays Stockbrokers, TD Direct and Cofunds have cornered the retail investment market to the extent that they manage 68 per cent of the money that ordinary savers put into investment funds. Hargreaves, for example, has lifted assets under administration from more than £20 billion to

products were sold. Tom McPhail, head of policy at Hargreaves Lansdown, said: “This study recognises the vital service platforms now provide to millions of people, helping them to save and invest for their future. “The advice gap remains and platforms have an important role to play in delivering guidance and support to investors, many of whom need help if they are to invest with confidence. “Platforms can also bring pressure to bear on asset management costs, negotiating discounts for investors, promoting good funds and highlighting poor performers.” Tobin Ashby, from the insurance team at Pinsent Masons, the law firm, said: “It is unlikely that the FCA will expect to go through the process without some action at the end of it and so platform providers will need to be braced for some challenges.” Despite concerns about the potential for new rules, shares in leading platform providers were barely affected. Hargreaves Lansdown’s stock fell in early trading, before closing 10p up at £12.89.

more than £60 billion in only five years. Such growth has raised questions about whether economies of scale that have been be generated have been translated into real savings for customers, as well as concerns about the potential for a few large players to drive out competition. The FCA will look at the fees imposed to access the platforms, as well as individual products, by comparing the cost of funds from

the providers. The suspicion will be that some platforms are not passing on all the savings to customers that they could and that the cost to access a fund might vary markedly, depending on whether the client uses an intermediary or deals directly. After the recent FCA study of the asset management industry, the providers are likely to face calls for change next summer when the final report is published.

Electric car chargers could be switched off remotely or turned down by energy companies if owners refuse to use them at off-peak times. UK Power Networks, which delivers electricity to 18 million people in London, the southeast and the east of England, is calling for the right to remotely control vehicle charging as a “last resort” to prevent power cuts. Forecasts suggest that electric vehicles could increase peak demand far beyond the level that existing power stations can generate and cable networks can transmit. To tackle the problem the industry and government plan to encourage “smart charging”, whereby households agree to allow their vehicles to charge automatically at off-peak times when the system can cope. Suleman Alli, director of safety and strategy at UK Power Networks, said he hoped that pricing tariffs would persuade people to charge cars at offpeak times only, but that the company needed the powers to intervene if they did not. “One of our key roles

is to keep the lights on,” he said. “If we start to see uncoordinated or uncontrolled charging, that may jeopardise the network security and safety. We need to be able to step in and manage it.” Last week National Grid estimated that unmanaged electric car charging could add 18 gigawatts to peak demand by 2050, equivalent to the power output of six big new nuclear plants similar to Hinkley Point C. Smart charging could reduce this extra demand to six gigawatts, it said. “In the future we could face a position where everyone comes home and starts charging at the same time,” Mr Alli said. “We would need to invest in improving the network to be able to handle that additional load. The more money we spend, that effectively translates to higher bills.” He expects “time-of-use” tariffs that vary prices with demand to become the norm. “If people feel that they want to charge whenever they want, there’s a cost associated with that and the people that use the network in that way should pay their fair share of that cost,” he said.

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‘Embrace gig economy to help jobless’ Philip Aldrick Economics Editor

Government help-to-work schemes are missing a trick by ignoring opportunities from the gig economy to find jobs for the unemployed, a report suggests. Reform, an independent public services think tank, has claimed that “outdated employment services fail millions of vulnerable citizens”. As many as four million people — particularly those who are older, disabled or second earners — could benefit from a system that allowed more flexible employment, it said. Companies such as Uber and Deliveroo give people the chance to work when they want but have been criticised for blurring the line between self-employment and worker status. A report for the government by Matthew Taylor, chief executive of the Royal Society of Arts, made a series of recommendations last week to retain the advantages of flexible working but to offer rights such as sick leave and

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paid holiday to people who are, in effect, employees. Reform said that the government should take advantage of the full range of gig economy platforms. Although the focus has been on Uber and Deliveroo, sites such as Upwork and Taskrabbit are more formal intermediary services, while Supercarers and Hometouch match social-care customers with domiciliary carers. “The current debate around the gig economy is too negative,” Ben Dobson, a researcher at Reform, said. “Whilst there are teething problems for the government to address, it is equally important that they harness the opportunity it presents for people who can

only work flexibly. This is crucial for the wellbeing of millions of jobseekers.” The think tank said reforms that were planned in the Work Programme should be used to test the ideas. A large number of people were not looking for employment because the state’s welfare-to-work programmes did not accommodate their needs. Reform said that those who could benefit from more flexible support included 500,000 people age 50 to 64 who were economically inactive because they had caring responsibilities at home and 3.5 million disabled people who were out of work. “People with complex work barriers such as health conditions or caring responsibilities may have some work capacity, but find prevailing employment practices too inflexible,” the report said. Gig working is associated with the young, but a study by the University of Hertfordshire found that people aged 55 to 75 accounted for 16 per cent of the total and tended to be on higher salaries. Older people were less likely to find suitable jobs through the government’s employment services because the systems did not allow the short hours that they needed. “Around half of all 50 to 64-year-olds manage at least one long-term health condition and a quarter are disabled,” Reform said. “A fifth have informal caring responsibilities for a sick, disabled or elderly person. Of these, 18 per cent spend 20 or more hours per week care-giving. The barriers many older workers face could help to explain the high premium they place on flexible working conditions. Nearly half of currently employed respondents told the Department for Work and Pensions that more flexible hours would encourage them to work for longer before retiring.” Reform said: “This presents an excellent opportunity to be pre-emptive rather than reactive; to determine how employment services can support gig work; and to implement policy before the gig economy fully matures.”

Peltz demands seat on the board to shake up Procter Katherine Griffiths

A billionaire activist investor is seeking a seat on the board of Procter & Gamble in order to shake up the American company. Trian Fund Management, a multibillion-dollar asset management firm founded and headed by Nelson Peltz, sent a proxy statement to P&G shareholders yesterday, putting Mr Peltz, 75, up for nomination to the board at its next shareholder meeting. Having a “motivated” outsider on the board would drive through reforms, Trian said. The investment firm owns about 1.5 per cent of the consumer goods company. P&G’s proxy filing, disclosed yesterday, shows that Trian’s dialogue stretches back to February, when Mr Peltz called David Taylor, P&G’s chief executive, to set up a meeting. Since

then the two sides have failed to reach agreement on P&G’s direction and how to boost its share price. Trian has criticised P&G for years of weak growth and said that many of the company’s challenges related to its “structure and culture, which can be highly resistant to change”. P&G’s annual meeting is usually held in October, so there is still time to discuss ways of avoiding a vote on Mr Peltz, who if elected would become the 12th board member. P&G’s proxy filing said that the directors were not happy with the company’s performance but felt that it was unnecessary for Trian to join the board because P&G has sold unprofitable brands and focused on core items such as Tide, Pampers and Gillette. Those efforts have had little impact on P&G’s market value, which stood at $222.77 billion at Friday’s close.

Easyhotel plans to develop more than 500 of its tytytytytyt “super-budget” rooms in Iranian cities such as Tehran

Easyhotel sets sights on Iran and Sri Lanka

ir Stelios HajiIoannou’s budget Easyhotel chain is to enter Iran and Sri Lanka after signing development agreements covering both countries (Dominic Walsh writes). The company has teamed up with MHA Hatfield and 3SV, both controlled by Hossein Abedinzadeh, the veteran developer, to develop hotels on multiple sites. In Iran, where tourism has been growing strongly in recent years, it

is hoping to tap into government plans to attract 20 million visitors by 2025 by developing more than 500 of its “super-budget” rooms across the country. In Sri Lanka, its plans envisage at least 200 rooms, with half due to come on stream by 2022. Easyhotel said that Sri Lanka had “a wellestablished and growing tourism industry with over two million visitors in 2016”. In both countries, the new Easyhotels will be a

mixture of purpose-built hotels and conversions of d existing hotels and office buildings. aster The two new master development agreements have lifted the number of franchise rooms in the group’s pipeline to just over 1,900, while it is also developing 781 rooms in owned hotels in locations including Liverpool, Ipswich, Sheffield, Leeds and Barcelona. It has applied for planning permission for a hotel in Oxford. Easyhotel, in which the Easyjet founder has a 34.6 per cent stake, runs five owned hotels with a total of 590 rooms and

h a further f h 20 has franchised hotels with 1,750 rooms. Guy Parsons, chief executive, said: “Easyhotel has made good progress over the last year against its plans for the international expansion of the brand.” Shares of Easyhotel rose 3p to 105p yesterday and are up a third over the past 12 months. When the business floated three years ago, the shares were priced at 80p.

Owner of Excel ‘plans to build 1,000 apartments’

Shale’s revival primes the pump for optimistic Weir

The Emirati owner of the Excel London conference centre has formed a venture with Mount Anvil, a housebuilder, to build up to 1,000 apartments next to the venue (Tom Knowles writes). The state-owned Abu Dhabi National Exhibitions Company, which bought London’s largest exhibition centre for £318 million in 2008, is thinking of building apartment blocks on land near by, according to Bloomberg News. The venture has not yet applied for permission to build on the land, which is used as a car park. However, developers have been moving their focus to London’s outer districts, where land is cheaper and less affected by the housing slowdown. The area is also due to benefit from the arrival of Crossrail, while the Excel centre is conveniently located between Canary Wharf and London City airport.

Greig Cameron

The revival in the North American shale oil industry has delivered a timely boost to Weir Group. The Glasgow-based engineer and oil services specialist published an upbeat trading statement yesterday that forecast better-than-expected profits in its oil and gas division. The recovery in American shale production was reflected last week in figures from Baker Hughes, the industry consultancy, which showed that there were 952 active rigs in the United States, an increase of more than 500 from last year. Weir said that the growing US rig count and a reduction in capacity were key factors driving its performance. It also said that the growth in the pricing of Weir’s parts, which include pumps and valves, was “modest” but that its

operating margins had been in the low double digits for the first half of this year. If the American market held up for the remainder of the year, then margins would improve further. Before the latest update, analysts had been predicting that Weir could generate as much as £650 million of revenues and operating profit of about £66 million over the full year. Weir said that group profits would be weighted towards the second half of the year. It said that the upturn in oil and gas would be partially offset by £13 million of one-off charges relating to the delivery of legacy contracts at its Gabbioneta business, part of its flow control division, in Italy. Shares in the FTSE 250 company rose by almost 10 per cent in early trading before settling back to close at £19.78, up 154p, or 8.4 per cent. Tempus, page 56

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China picks up the pace of expansion KEVIN FRAYER/GETTY IMAGES

Jamie Fullerton Beijing

The annual pace of growth in the Chinese economy is set to quicken for the first time since 2010. Latest figures show that GDP grew by 6.9 per cent in the first half of the year, ahead of the government’s target figure of “around 6.5 per cent” and better than most analysts had predicted. The 6.9 per cent expansion for the second quarter of the year, announced by Beijing yesterday, matched growth in the first quarter. Last year China expanded by 6.7 per cent. Confidence in the robustness of the recovery was not universal, however. The National Bureau of Statistics said that the 6.9 per cent growth figure was reflective of a “more stable, co-ordinated and sustainable” economy, but outside economists said that since unexpected strength in the property market had been a big contributor to the figures, this could represent a bubble that could burst. Property investment in China rose by 8.5 per cent in the first half of the year, compared with 6.9 per cent in 2016, with new restrictions on mortgage lending and home purchases doing little to quell the rise. In addition to concern about the housing market, uncertainty about President Trump’s relationship with China also prompted caution in assessing the GDP figures. Mr Trump has given inconsistent messages about how he plans to handle trade with China. Indeed, the statistics bureau said: “There are still many unstable and uncertain factors abroad and long-term structural contradictions remain prominent at home.” In June retail sales were up 11 per cent on the previous year, beating a Reuters prediction of 10.6 per cent. Healthy industrial output contributed to the strong GDP data. Factory output rose by 7.6 per cent year-on-year, the fastest rise in three months. Fixed-asset investment grew by 8.6 per cent, beating most predictions. Andy Rothman, investments strategist at Matthews Asia, a broker, said: “The Chinese economy delivered many surprises in the first half of the year, disappointing the pundits who predicted a hard landing. Macroeconomic data is consistent with a healthy economy, driven by impressive wage growth and consumer spending and supported by strong earnings growth.” Stephen Schwartz, head of AsiaPacific sovereign ratings at Fitch, the ratings agency, noted that with the Communist Party’s congress due to take place in October, the government

Industrial activity grew by 7.6 per cent year-on-year, helping to lift the pace of the entire Chinese economy and offering a promising sign of future global growth

Don’t sell to Chinese without considering the price, warns think tank China’s spending spree on British companies should be subject to official tests about how the deals might affect the country’s economy and security, a think tank has argued (Marion Dakers writes). Amid concern surrounding Chinese investment in UK nuclear power and parts of the telecoms network, the government should “urgently consider” a new screening office to investigate future deals, the Henry Jackson Society said in a new report. The think tank, a critic of Chinese foreign policy, also

claimed that Britain’s welcoming stance towards China’s $44 billion investment in the country since 2005 had not been reciprocated. “The UK should, of course, welcome inward investment to feed the economy, but not at all costs,” John Hemmings, director of the Asia Studies Centre at the Henry Jackson Society, said. “We have to ensure that foreign state-owned enterprises are not compromising our most critical infrastructure or key future technologies.” British authorities can

GCHQ is involved in the monitoring of Huawei block deals on national security grounds but lack a central body that would regularly scrutinise takeovers by foreign states. Theresa May’s government has taken a more sceptical stance on Chinese investment in the past year,

briefly pausing China’s £6 billion investment in the planned nuclear power station at Hinkley Point C. The deal was subsequently approved. The Conservative manifesto included a pledge to further tighten foreign ownership of critical national infrastructure. Huawei, the Chinese telecommunications group, is subject to close scrutiny from an independent office, staffed by UK nationals and overseen by GCHQ, after politicians raised concerns that Beijing would use the company’s equipment contract with BT to interfere with British infrastructure.

is likely to have been pulling out the stops to ensure a stable economy. “This time a year ago things were a bit dicey, with concerns about a growth slowdown and pressure on capital outflows and the currency,” he said. “However, as we expected in the lead-up to the party congress, stability has reigned. Growth momentum has stayed pretty high and the authorities have really tamped down the pressures on the capital outflow.” Craig James, chief economist at Commonwealth Securities, said that the strong data was likely to stimulate growth in other economies. He added that the data was encouraging for global growth, since China was the world’s second largest economy. “Based on this data, there is no need for easing and no need really for tightening, either, because inflationary pressures are very much contained,” he said. “So I think the People’s Bank of China just continues to be watchful.”

Lonmin extracts cuts to beat forecasts City traders deny rigging Emily Gosden

Lonmin surprised the market with stronger third-quarter results than expected yesterday. The South African platinum specialist said that a “much improved mining performance” had helped it to cut its costs by 4.7 per cent compared with the previous quarter, although costs remained higher than they were in the same period last year. Mining volumes rose to 2.7 million tonnes in the quarter, up 3.8 per cent year-on-year, while platinum sales were up 10.8 per cent to just over 180,000 ounces. Lonmin’s net cash position also improved, to $86 million, up from $75 million at the end of the previous quarter. Analysts at BMO Capital Markets and RBC Capital Markets said that the

sales and production figures were better than they had forecast. Investors reacted warmly to the figures and Lonmin shares rose more than 14 per cent, closing 9½p up at 77p. Lonmin has struggled with high costs and operational problems, while also facing persistently low platinum prices. The company said in May that it was in danger of breaching its debt covenants after an impairment charge left its net worth closer to the minimum required by its lenders. Ben Magara, chief executive, said: “We had a pleasing operational performance and continue with our decisive work. We aim to be at least cashneutral even at current low platinum group metals prices and a strong rand. “I am pleased that, with the right team in place, our mining turnaround has been sustained. We continue to find

levers to pull in this lower prices for longer environment and to make the improvement of our performance a priority.” Analysts at Noah Capital Markets, a South African researcher, said: “Lonmin has cut costs and is still adding to its cash. Our view of Lonmin has improved somewhat. Lonmin is still vulnerable to adverse costs or revenue movements, but is moving in the right direction.” Dominic O’Kane, analyst at JP Morgan Cazenove, the house broker, warned that the company’s balance sheet remained at risk despite the “solid” third-quarter performance. With platinum prices below Lonmin’s costs, he forecast that there would be “cash burn and the balance sheet moving into stress in 2018 if current prices persist”.

foreign exchange prices Tom Knowles

Three former City of London currency traders have pleaded not guilty to charges in the United States that they conspired to rig prices in the $5.3 trillion-a-day foreign exchange market. Christopher Ashton, Barclays’ former head of global spot foreign exchange trading, Rohan Ramchandani, formerly Citigroup’s head of G10 spot currency trading, and Richard Usher, a former trader at JP Morgan Chase, entered their pleas during a brief hearing in New York. American prosecutors accuse the three of scheming with other traders to share sensitive client order information through phone calls and an online chat

room called “the Cartel”, in order to manipulate the price of US dollars and euros in the currency market and suppress competition. The three men, who are citizens and residents of the UK, opted not to fight extradition after being charged by the US Department of Justice’s antitrust division in January. The charge in the indictment carries a maximum penalty of ten years in prison and a $1 million fine, which may be increased to twice the gain derived from the alleged crime or twice the loss suffered by victims if either is greater than $1 million. The case followed worldwide investigations that resulted in about $10 billion in fines for several large banks and the dismissals of dozens of traders.

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For Abbey National see Santander For Allchurches see Ecclesiastical ALLIANZ GLOBAL INVESTORS Inv Serv: 020 7065 1400 Helpline: 0800 317 573 Gilt Yield A ‡@ Strategic Bond Fund ‡@ UK Corp Bond C ‡@ UK Eqty C ‡@ UK Eqty Inc A ‡@ UK Gwth A ‡@ UK Index A Inc ‡@ UK Mid Cap A ‡@

177.17 149.99 104.79 6317.26 290.83 5459.00 1423.81 4699.05

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-0.10 -0.17 -0.78 -14.91 +1.27 +9.17 -5.83 +40.30

1.38 0.87 3.87 3.28 4.25 … 3.01 0.34

ARTEMIS FUND MGRS LTD 0800 092 2051 Authorised Inv Funds Capital R Acc @ 1490.39 Euro Opps R Acc @ 103.74 Euro Opps R Inc @ 98.84 European Growth R Acc @344.75 Global Energy R Acc @ 27.66 Global Growth R Acc @ 248.01 Global Income R Acc @ 124.41 Global Income R Inc @ 95.84 Global Select R Acc @ 97.19 High Income R Inc @ 80.83 Income R Acc @ 412.13 Income R Inc @ 226.67 Monthly Dist R Inc @ 71.82 Strategic Assets R Acc @ 83.51 Strategic Bond R M Acc @ 93.86 Strategic Bond R M Inc @ 57.21 Strategic Bond R Q Acc @ 93.68 Strategic Bond R Q Inc @ 57.26 UK Growth R Acc @ 525.47 UK Smaller Cos R Acc @ 1503.56 UK Special Sits R Acc @ 578.03

1573.53 109.53 104.35 363.90 29.32 261.68 131.33 101.18 102.51 86.00 436.89 240.29 76.12 88.33 99.52 60.66 99.33 60.72 555.72 1608.98 613.25

+2.86 +0.15 +0.14 -1.04 +0.04 -0.69 -0.29 -0.22 -0.12 +0.08 +0.72 +0.39 -0.05 -0.23 +0.02 … +0.01 … -0.13 -2.09 +1.52

1.89 0.78 0.79 0.89 0.44 0.88 2.92 3.00 … 5.68 3.83 3.95 4.36 … 3.60 3.68 3.58 3.64 1.73 1.02 1.51

AXA FRAMLINGTON UNIT MGMT LTD Dling: 0845 602 1952 Priv Clients: 0845 777 5511 Equity Inc ‡@ 572.40 Gilt Acc @ 201.30 Gilt Inc @ 74.35 Health Acc ‡@ 1903.00 Jap Smlr Co Ac @ 62.56 Managed Inc ‡@ 143.80 Monthly Inc Inc ‡@ 256.40 UK Growth Inc ‡@ 206.90 UK Select Opps Inc ‡@ 1869.00 UK Sml Cos Inc ‡@ 262.00

… 211.80 78.24 … 66.09 … … … … …

-2.70 +0.10 -0.39 -2.00 -0.19 … +0.80 +1.00 +9.00 +0.20

4.43 … … … … 5.25 4.46 1.52 1.14 0.05

AXA FUND MANAGERS LTD Admin & Enq 0117 989 0808 AXA Trusts Gen Acc ‡@ Gen Inc ‡@

2101.00 1079.00

251.20 88.71 202.90 150.00 447.50

+6.00 -2.00

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-0.40 -0.07 -0.40 +0.10 -1.30

2.71 2.27 1.00 1.29 2.00

CIS UNIT MANAGERS LTD 08457 46 46 46 European Gwth @ Sus Leaders ‡@ UK Growth @ UK Income @

144.50 543.50 558.40 231.20

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327.60 79.39 37.15 103.93 3788.00 69.75

327.60 … … … … 72.18

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0.21 2.85 3.00 2.41 0.92 …

HALIFAX INVESTMENT FUND MGRS LTD 01296 386 386 Authorised Inv Funds Share Class `C Corporate Bond ‡@ Ethical ‡@ European ‡@ Far Eastern ‡ Fund of Inv Tst ‡@ Intl Gwth ‡ Japanese ‡ North Amer ‡ Smaller Cos ‡@ Special Sits ‡@ UK Equity Inc ‡@ UK FTSE 100 IT ‡@ UK FTSE All-S IT ‡@ UK Growth ‡@

35.24 78.26 87.22 99.96 107.90 83.60 58.45 83.39 102.50 48.01 83.61 58.20 66.26 76.75

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+0.02 -0.34 -0.93 +0.17 +0.10 -0.22 -0.10 -0.17 -0.20 +0.24 +0.38 +0.18 +0.22 +0.26

3.44 0.71 1.87 2.01 0.31 1.46 1.34 1.06 1.00 1.43 3.84 2.53 2.44 2.57

HSBC GLOBAL ASSET MGMT (UK) LTD Enq: 0845 745 6123 Dlg: 0845 745 6126 Mon-Fri 8-6 HSBC Index Tracker Investment Funds (OEIC) Amer Ind Acc ‡@ Amer Ind Inc ‡@ Euro Ind Acc ‡@ Euro Ind Inc ‡@ FTSE 100 Ind Acc ‡@ FTSE 100 Ind Inc ‡@ FTSE 250 Ind Acc ‡@ FTSE 250 Ind Inc ‡@ FTSE All-S Acc ‡@ FTSE All-S Inc ‡@ Jap Ind Acc ‡@ Jap Ind Inc ‡@ Pac Ind Acc ‡@ Pac Ind Inc ‡@

481.32 412.93 862.29 620.38 220.41 121.42 256.28 176.40 564.15 345.59 113.70 97.00 372.10 264.60

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1.49 1.51 2.36 2.42 3.39 3.48 2.44 2.51 3.27 3.37 1.53 1.55 2.49 2.56

HSBC Investment Funds (OEIC) - Retail Share Class Balanced Acc ‡@ 212.70 Balanced Inc ‡@ 142.40 Corp Bd Acc ‡@ 276.90 Corp Bd Inc ‡@ 123.80 Gilt & Fd Int Acc ‡@ 458.79 Gilt & Fd Int Inc ‡@ 72.55 Income Acc ‡@ 660.54 Income Inc ‡@ 335.27 Monthly Inc Acc ‡@ 299.84 Monthly Inc Inc ‡@ 151.47 UK Grth & Inc Ret B Acc ‡@136.62 UK Grth & Inc Ret B Inc ‡@73.64 UK Gth & Inc Acc ‡@ 136.62 UK Gth & Inc Inc ‡@ 73.64

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1.10 1.11 2.84 2.88 2.25 2.29 3.60 3.71 3.64 3.69 3.18 3.27 3.18 3.27

UK Sml Cos Gwth ‡@

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INVESTEC FUND MGRS Broker Support and Dealing: 020 7597 1900 OEIC Series i,ii,iii, & iv American A Acc ‡@ 340.12 Asia ex Japan A Acc ‡@ 601.52 Capital Accumulator A Acc ‡@231.21 Cautious Managed A Acc ‡@417.32 Cautious Managed A Inc ‡@275.33 Diversified Growth A Acc ‡@130.81 Diversified Growth A Inc ‡@143.10 Diversified Income A Acc ‡@301.84 Diversified Income A Inc ‡@80.63 Emerging Mkts Blended Debt A Acc ‡@118.48 Emerging Mkts Blended Debt A Acc Gross ‡@125.82 Emerging Mkts Blended Debt A Inc ‡@94.80 Emerging Mkts Equity A Acc ‡@142.72 Emrg Mkts Local Curr Debt A Acc ‡@185.22 Emrg Mkts Local Curr Debt A Inc ‡@102.28 Emrg Mkts Local Curr Debt Gross I Acc ‡@220.49 Enhanced Natural Resources A Acc ‡@111.63 Global Bond A Acc ‡@ 139.30 Global Bond A Inc ‡@ 109.33 Global Bond I Gross Inc ‡@1167.00 Global Dynamic A Acc ‡@ 147.98 Global Energy A Acc ‡@ 182.29 Global Equity A Acc ‡@ 149.22 Global Franchise A Acc ‡@195.60 Global Free Enterprise A Acc ‡@856.31 Global Gold A Acc ‡@ 122.20 Global Special Situations A Acc ‡@253.24 Global Special Situations A Inc ‡@199.96 Managed Growth A Acc ‡@227.79 Monthly High Income A Acc ‡@220.11 Monthly High Income A Inc ‡@70.72 Multi-Asset Protector A Acc ‡@171.14 Strategic Bond A Acc ‡@ 244.54 Strategic Bond A Inc ‡@ 119.47 Target Return A Acc ‡@ 106.69 Target Return A Inc ‡@ 94.35 UK Alpha A Acc ‡@ 2431.54 UK Blue Chip A Acc ‡@ 770.11 UK Smaller Companies A Acc ‡@4242.90 UK Smaller Companies A Inc ‡@3884.50 UK Special Situations A Acc ‡@1191.03 UK Special Situations A Inc ‡@464.39

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-0.13 -2.09 -0.16 -0.03 -0.02 +0.28 +0.31 +0.03 +0.01 -0.32 +0.20 -0.25 -0.24 +0.19 +0.10 -0.05 +0.26 +4.03 +3.00 +29.78 -0.69 -0.06 -0.57 -0.22 -1.49 +0.65 -0.92 -0.72 +0.52 +0.36 +0.11 +0.10 +0.19 +0.09 +0.07 +0.06 +7.28 +3.15 +13.76 +12.60 +0.49 +0.19

0.12 0.78 1.16 0.13 0.13 … … 3.77 5.00 4.53 … 6.32 0.39 5.11 6.98 5.42 0.61 0.83 0.82 1.26 0.28 1.37 0.45 1.70 0.25 … … … 0.28 5.15 6.57 0.16 1.94 3.31 0.54 0.53 1.06 … 1.03 1.04 1.64 …

For ISIS Asset Mgmt see F&C Fd Mgmt Ltd (OEICS)

Multi-Man Tst A Inc ‡@ Nat Resources ‡@ New Europe A ‡@ Portfolio ‡@ Stg Corp Bd A Acc ‡@ Stg Corp Bd A Inc ‡@ UK Act 350 A Acc ‡@ UK Dynamic Acc ‡@ UK Dynamic Inc ‡@ UK Equity A Acc ‡@ UK Equity A Inc ‡@ UK Eqy & Bd Inc Acc ‡@ UK Eqy & Bd Inc Inc ‡@ UK Higher Inc A Acc ‡@ UK Higher Inc A Inc ‡@ UK Sm Cos A Acc ‡@ UK Str Eq Inc A Acc ‡@ UK Str Eq Inc A Inc ‡@ US A Acc ‡@ US Sm Cos A Acc ‡@

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863.00 549.70 199.70 255.30 92.43 56.25 199.00 191.00 153.00 401.90 46.44 164.00 90.52 1036.00 563.00 428.60 180.90 110.60 959.70 552.50

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-0.10 +3.10 -0.60 -0.50 +0.07 +0.03 -2.20 +0.30 +0.20 +0.60 +0.07 +0.40 +0.22 +4.00 +2.30 +1.00 +0.50 +0.30 -2.10 -2.20

0.71 … 1.96 0.66 1.92 1.94 … 1.37 1.39 … … 3.29 3.36 4.34 4.49 0.67 3.33 3.41 … …

Absolute Return @ 55.23 Distribution and Growth @132.49 Emg Euro Opps @ 202.80 Euro Special Sits @ 423.24 European @ 2002.88 Financial Opps @ 571.99 Income Trust @ 557.16 Merlin Bal (Acc) @ 177.50 Merlin Gwth (Acc) @ 394.80 Merlin Inc (Acc) @ 292.18 Merlin Wwide (Inc) @ 282.85 UK Growth @ 334.86 UK Special Sits (Inc) @ 189.06

58.31 140.55 215.11 447.05 2110.04 603.55 588.50 187.45 416.04 309.25 297.71 354.80 200.26

-0.03 +0.56 -0.30 -0.38 -3.65 -4.36 +1.28 -0.33 -0.71 -0.39 -0.56 +0.54 +0.75

… 3.78 1.33 0.59 … 0.28 3.51 1.69 … 2.86 … … 1.12

LEGAL & GENERAL (UT MGRS) LTD Enquiries: 0870 050 0955 Dealing: 0870 050 0956 Equity Acc @ Equity Dist @ Euro Ind Acc @ Euro Ind Inc @

2616.00 893.80 394.20 289.20

146.70 … 566.90 234.70

-0.20 +1.00 +1.80 +0.70

0.33 1.24 1.32 4.33

Amer Gth Acc ‡@ Amer Gth Inc ‡@ Asian Gth Acc ‡@ Asian Gth Inc ‡@ Chinese Eq Acc ‡@ Chinese Eq Inc ‡@ Euro Gth Acc ‡@ Euro Gth Inc ‡@ UK Smlr Co Acc ‡@ UK Smlr Co Inc ‡@

152.50 152.40 147.49 132.14 514.02 437.52 846.56 736.50 161.80 136.70

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+1.10 +1.10 -0.52 -0.46 +2.62 +2.22 -4.14 -3.60 +1.50 -0.30

2639.00 902.00 394.20 289.20

-8.00 -2.70 -1.10 -0.80

… … 2.21 2.27

298.90 437.20 252.50 159.60 34.78 180.70 148.40 203.70

4.27 0.77 … … … … … …

Beacon Inv ‡

84.88

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+0.35

0.01

Dealing: 020 7426 6232 Winchester ‡

2703.56

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+26.29

1.20

British Euro Gth Gilt & Fd Int Income Jap Gth Managed Money Market North Amer

334.30 470.60 271.30 164.20 35.76 191.70 163.50 223.40

… -15.70 -0.90 -1.40 … … … -9.30

3.86 0.74 … … … 1.22 … …

84.80

89.53

-0.80

2.70

Amity European A ‡ Amity International A ‡ Amity Sterling Bond A ‡ Amity UK A Inc ‡ Higher Income A ‡ UK Equity Growth A ‡

276.60 266.90 107.10 232.50 136.00 269.80

-1.00 -0.50 +0.10 +0.30 +0.20 +0.90

1.39 1.21 4.83 1.38 4.20 …

F & C FUND MANAGEMENT LTD (OEICS) Enqs: 0870 601 6183 Dealing: 0870 601 6083 Share Class 1 - Retail Corporate Bd ‡@ 58.94 Emerging Mkts ‡@ 124.10 Euro Gwth & Inc 1 ‡@ 999.80 Extra Inc Bond ‡@ 49.39 FTSE All-Shr Track ‡@ 416.90 Global Gwth SC1 ‡@ 192.00 High Inc Trst @ 14.57 Max Inc Bond ‡@ 49.26 Multi Man Caut ‡@ 70.41 Multi Man Distr ‡@ 60.44 North Amer ‡@ 482.30 Pacific Gwth ‡@ 432.40 Strategic Bd ‡@ 197.80 UK Equity ‡@ 3233.00 UK Gwth & Inc Acc 1 ‡@ 658.50 UK Gwth & Inc Dist ‡@ 234.70 UK Smaller Cos ‡@ 889.20

… … … … … … 15.32 … … … … … … … … … …

+0.05 -0.50 +0.40 +0.05 +1.40 -0.70 +0.02 +0.05 … … -1.80 -1.20 -0.20 +11.00 … … +3.30

… … 0.87 3.24 3.10 … 4.31 3.75 … … … 0.54 0.69 1.07 … 3.34 0.26

FIDELITY INTERNATIONAL Private Clnts 0800 414161 Broker Dlgs 0800 414181 Amer Spec Sits ‡@ American ‡@ Euro Opps ‡@ European ‡@ Extra Income ‡@ Glob Spec Sits ‡@ Global Focus ‡@ International ‡@ Japan ‡@ Moneybldr Bal ‡@

1534.00 3650.00 503.70 2196.00 27.88 3647.00 1828.00 149.50 347.00 52.49

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-7.00 -16.00 -1.90 +1.00 … -11.00 +2.00 +0.20 -0.40 +0.10

0.01 … 0.26 1.19 3.20 0.06 … … … 3.77

54.36

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… … -1.70 -1.10 -1.80 -3.20 -3.70 -2.30

4.18 4.09 3.20 3.28 2.18 2.15 0.74 0.74

High Income High Income Acc UK 100 Comp Acc UK 100 Cos UK Select Pflo UK Selection Port Acc Worldwide Mgd Acc ‡ Wwide Mgd ‡

116.70 257.60 366.30 219.40 354.70 635.50 798.50 499.20

116.70 257.60 366.30 219.40 354.70 635.50 … …

MORGAN STANLEY INVESTMENT MGMT LTD Enquires: 0800 0961 962 The Morgan Stanley Funds (UK) Class A Shares Equity … … …

+4.24 +9.09 -0.02

1.25 1.12 1.66

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+2.29 -3.80 …

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+0.10 +0.10 +0.80 +0.50 +0.70 +1.30 +0.80

2.90 1.87 4.41 2.09 3.35 2.53 2.58

-5.06 -0.14 -2.02 +0.43 -7.66 -0.22 -6.83 +3.65 -7.28 +1.77

1.67 1.06 0.16 … 1.64 1.07 0.22 2.93 … 3.00

Fixed Income Stg Corp Bd A Acc ‡@ UK Ind Lnkd A Acc ‡@ UK Long Bd A Acc ‡@

SANTANDER UNIT TST MGRS 08457 413002 Bal Pfolio Inc ‡@ Bal Port Gwth Acc ‡@ Equity Inc Inc ‡@ N&P UK Gwth Inc ‡@ Stkmkt 100 Tkr ‡@ UK Growth Acc ‡@ UK Growth Inc ‡@

108.40 198.40 223.90 179.30 211.30 383.80 243.60

European Inc Far Eastern Inc Intl Growth Inc Japanese Inc Mutual European Mutual Far Eastern Mutual North Am Mutual UK Eq Nth American Inc UK Equity Inc

UK Trkr B Acc ‡@ UK Trkr B Inc ‡@

1473.06 518.89 581.61 41.85 2229.75 792.54 1936.10 1296.11 1227.65 628.97

1554.68 547.64 613.83 41.85 2353.29 836.46 2043.38 1367.93 1295.67 663.82

American Gth Inc @ Balanced Growth @ Balanced Growth Acc @ Corporate Bond ‡@ European Growth @ European Growth Acc @ Glob Gwth @ Higher Yield @ Higher Yield Acc @ Japan @ Managed @ Managed Trust @ Mngd Pfolio Inc @ Pacific Grth @ Smaller Comp @ Smaller Cos @

322.55 262.17 393.13 99.69 403.88 475.71 331.53 83.98 275.04 49.06 130.89 71.96 95.54 498.71 756.24 628.94

340.42 276.69 414.92 … 426.26 502.07 349.90 88.64 290.28 51.78 138.15 76.96 100.84 526.34 798.14 663.79

-3.34 -0.93 -1.40 -0.89 -3.57 -4.21 -3.09 -0.29 -0.92 -0.03 -0.06 +0.17 -0.11 -2.81 +1.64 +1.36

… … … … 2.18 2.24 … 4.43 4.32 0.94 … … … … … …

INSIGHT INVESTMENT FDS MANAGEMENT LTD Client Servs: 0800 124 314 Insight Investment Global Investment Funds Mthly Inc Bd Inc ‡@ Mthly Inc Bd N Inc ‡@

48.44 91.99

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+0.10 +0.19

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Insigt Investment Portfolio Fund Insight Investment Multi-Manager Funds (0800) Well Bldr Bal Acc ‡@ Well Bldr Gwth Acc ‡@

96.05 93.79

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-0.32 -0.36

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INVESCO FUND MGRS LTD Dling: 0800 085 8571 Inv Serv: 0800 085 8677 Brkr Serv: 0800 028 2121 INVESCO Funds UK Str Inc N/Trl ‡@

564.27

… 115.01 … … … … … … … … 23.52 … 3046.82 … … … … … 228.72 68.33 … … … … … 224.90 103.57 … …

… -0.08 +0.30 +0.10 -6.00 -0.10 -0.40 -10.00 -0.29 -0.07 +0.02 -0.08 +3.33 +1.00 -0.10 +0.10 … … +0.15 -0.33 +0.10 +0.10 +0.70 +1.90 +0.40 +0.07 +0.04 +0.70 -2.40

2.39 6.42 3.17 3.24 … 0.61 0.90 0.62 1.05 1.52 5.09 3.26 … … 0.07 0.39 2.00 2.04 2.28 2.30 4.51 … 1.11 1.71 … 3.12 3.18 1.63 …

… … … … … … … … … … … … …

-0.20 -0.20 -0.70 +0.20 -6.00 +0.20 +0.08 +0.20 +0.20 -7.00 -4.00 -0.40 -0.10

0.25 0.18 0.74 0.05 1.10 5.80 5.99 0.64 0.64 1.10 … … 0.70

JP MORGAN ASSET MGMT OEIC

…

+1.87

3.08

… … … … … … … … … …

+1.12 +0.09 +1.05 +1.23 +4.09 +0.02 +0.08 +0.09 +0.66 +2.95

1.95 … 3.13 3.50 3.12 0.10 4.57 1.85 1.99 0.37

INVESCO PERPETUAL Funds Childrens Acc ‡@ 459.95 Corp Bond Acc ‡@ 199.62 High Income Inc ‡@ 471.11 Income & Grth Inc ‡@ 438.63 Income Inc ‡@ 1839.05 Money Acc ‡@ 90.37 Monthly Inc Plus Inc ‡@ 111.92 UK Aggressive Inc ‡@ 196.26 UK Growth Acc ‡@ 650.04 UK Sml Cos Eqty Acc ‡@ 1141.47

All Stks Credit A Inc ‡@ 134.00 Asian Div Inc U Trst Inc @109.48 Cautious Man Fd A Acc ‡@263.70 Cautious Man Fd A Inc ‡@155.30 China Opp Fund A Acc ‡@1289.00 Emg Mkts Opps Fd A Acc ‡@202.20 Erpn Grth Fund A Acc ‡@ 237.90 Erpn Sel Opps Fd A Acc ‡@1679.00 Erpn Spc Sits A Acc GBP ‡@94.66 Erpn Spc Sits Fd I Acc EUR ‡@4.84 Fix Int Mnthly Inc Fd Inc @ 22.54 Global Equity Income A Inc ‡@61.27 Global Growth Fund Acc @2921.00 Global Tech A Acc ‡@ 1514.00 M-Man Abs Ret Fd A Acc ‡@140.90 M-Man Active Fd A Acc ‡@217.90 M-Man Inc Grth Fd A Acc ‡@173.80 M-Man Inc Grth A Inc ‡@ 154.60 Sterling Bond U Trst Acc @219.26 Sterling Bond U Trst Inc @ 65.51 Strategic Bond A Inc ‡@ 126.40 UK Abs Ret Fd A Acc ‡@ 156.60 UK Alpha Fund A Acc ‡@ 142.10 UK Index Fund A Acc ‡@ 606.90 UK Irsh Sm Co Fd A Acc ‡@629.40 UK Property A Acc @ 213.66 UK Property A Inc @ 98.40 UK Tracker Fund A Acc ‡@273.70 US Growth Fund A Acc ‡@947.30

Asia A Acc ‡@ 194.10 Emerging Mkts ‡@ 215.20 Eur Dyn (ex-UK) A Acc ‡@223.90 Euro Smllr Cos ‡@ 721.90 Europe A Acc ‡@ 1439.00 Gbl Hi Yld Bd A Acc ‡@ 109.90 Gbl Hi Yld Bd A Inc ‡@ 38.32 Gl ex-UK Bd A Acc ‡@ 259.60 Gl ex-UK Bd A Inc ‡@ 202.40 Glb Fins A Acc ‡@ 1015.00 Global A Acc ‡@ 1328.00 Japan A Acc ‡@ 394.20 Multi-Man Tst A Acc ‡@ 938.30

M & G SECURITIES Enq: 0800 390 390 Dealing Line: 0800 328 3196 Authorised Inv Funds Charifund Inc ‡

1602.05

…

+5.59

4.48

+0.72 +0.68

0.50 0.50

+2.81 +0.09 +0.07 -1.16 +0.27 +0.01 +26.87

4.40 1.08 4.86 … 3.51 1.67 2.08

+0.05 +0.38 -0.15 +1.68

3.60 4.24 1.31 1.49

-0.03

2.27

Sterling Class A Investment Funds 1 Euro Smlr Cos Acc ‡ Euro Smlr Cos Inc ‡

432.84 411.63

… …

Sterling Class A Investment Funds 2 Extra Income Inc ‡ 790.18 Gilt & Fxd Int Inc ‡ 97.85 Gl Hi Yd Bd Inc ‡ 51.74 Index Linked Bd Inc ‡ 134.21 Index Trckr Inc ‡ 75.53 Short Dated Corp Bd Inc ‡ 25.94 UK Select A Inc ‡ 2953.81

… … … … … … …

Sterling Class A Investment Funds 3 Corp Bd A Inc ‡ Dividend Inc ‡ Recovery A Inc ‡ Sml Cos Inc ‡

41.48 65.01 140.40 350.50

… … … …

Sterling Class A Investment Funds 4 Episode Allocation A Inc ‡146.59

…

… … …

-0.14 +0.17 +0.07

2.80 3.27 3.34

UK Oseas Earns ‡@

128.89

…

+0.42

2.06

111.60 149.80 80.63

… … …

-0.20 -0.10 +0.12

1.32 0.89 3.78

Stg Bd Ret Inc ‡@ Strat Bd Ret ‡@ UK Corp Bond ‡@ UK Corp Ret ‡@ UK Eqty Inc Ret ‡@ UK Gwth & Inc Ret ‡@ UK Hi Yld Bd 1 ‡@ UK Inst Acc ‡@ UK Mnthly Extra Inc ‡@ UK Mnthly Inc Ret ‡@ UK Retail ‡@ UK Sel Retail ‡@ UK Smaller Cos ‡@

… … … … … … … … … … … … …

+0.06 +0.07 -0.16 -0.16 +0.36 +0.30 +0.05 +0.41 +0.24 +0.17 +0.33 +0.45 +0.77

1.21 3.74 3.14 2.78 3.72 3.30 4.99 1.71 3.69 4.21 1.56 1.66 0.26

708.70 219.40

+1.60 +1.00

1.67 …

57.08 47.43 61.93 61.81 99.45 96.58 43.35 159.46 82.96 78.10 141.79 132.50 320.46

197.70 182.40 139.20 218.00 213.50

… … … … …

2414.00

…

313.50 187.50

… …

… … … … … … … … … … … …

338.80 186.80

… …

Corp Bond B Acc ‡@ 320.60 Corp Bond B Inc ‡@ 128.30 UK Gwth B Acc ‡@ 194.10 UK Sel Gwth B Acc ‡@ 2010.00

… … … …

… …

-0.40 … … -1.00 -0.70

0.51 1.13 1.14 0.45 0.47

-7.00

0.91

-1.60 -0.90

2.77 2.84

-0.40 -0.20 +1.00 +1.70 +0.85 -1.20 -0.40 -0.09 -0.20 -0.10 -0.70 -5.00

2.29 2.33 1.17 5.59 5.76 3.84 3.93 … 3.42 3.48 2.71 1.62

-1.60 -0.90

3.22 3.29

-0.50 -0.20 -0.80 -5.00

2.49 2.54 2.56 1.83

-0.60 -5.00

3.09 2.05

STANDARD LIFE INVESTMENTS 0845 279 3003 Investment Funds (OEIC) - Retail Shares AAA Inc CAT Acc ‡@ AAA Inc CAT Inc ‡@ AAA Income Acc ‡@ Amer Eq Gth Acc ‡@ Corp Bond Acc ‡@ Corp Bond Inc ‡@ Euro Eq Gth Acc ‡@ Glb Advtg CAT Acc ‡@ Glob Advtg Acc ‡@ Glob Eq Uncstrd Acc ‡@ Higher Inc Acc ‡@ Higher Inc Inc ‡@ Japan Eq Gth Acc ‡@ Managed Acc ‡@ Select Inc Acc ‡@ Select Inc Inc ‡@ UK Eq Gth Acc ‡@ UK Eq Hi Alpha ‡@ UK Eq Hi Inc Acc ‡@ UK Eq Hi Inc Inc ‡@ UK Ethical Acc ‡@ UK Opps Acc ‡@ UK Opps Inc ‡@ UK Smlr Cos Acc ‡@

95.83 57.86 102.10 143.80 162.20 63.35 199.50 126.10 166.80 132.20 130.20 49.11 94.11 267.40 87.84 54.26 326.00 203.00 243.50 85.71 185.70 223.50 205.70 622.00

… … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … …

-0.09 -0.05 -0.10 -1.00 -0.20 -0.09 -1.30 -0.60 -0.80 -0.80 … … -0.09 -2.00 -0.02 -0.02 -1.30 -0.40 -1.00 -0.36 -0.90 -1.10 -1.00 +0.80

1.47 1.37 1.88 … 3.14 2.87 1.53 1.24 1.20 0.01 3.97 3.77 0.05 1.72 1.55 1.34 2.41 2.61 4.17 4.31 1.57 0.30 0.30 0.56

SVS BROWN SHIPLEY FUNDS Enquiries: 0141 222 1151 Balanced A Acc ‡@ Balanced A Inc ‡@ Cautious A Acc ‡@ Cautious A Inc ‡@ Dynamic A Acc ‡@ Dynamic A Inc ‡@ Growth A Acc ‡@

117.69 112.82 111.49 105.17 259.25 247.19 275.86

… … … … … … …

-0.08 -0.07 -0.10 -0.09 -0.19 -0.18 -0.25

British European

673.30 210.70

* Yield expressed as CAR (Compound Annual Return); † Ex dividend; ‡Middle price; . . . No significant data. # Periodic charge deducted from capital; @ Exit charge

12 month High Low

OEIC C Class UK and Income Investment Funds UK Gth C Inc ‡@ 137.80 UK Sel Gwth C Acc ‡@ 2084.00

For Resolution see Ignis TU FUND MANAGERS LIMITED

British funds

UK and Income Investment Funds 2.79 2.84 1.17 0.56 0.28 0.17 5.40 1.01 2.14 2.72 … 3.04 3.11 0.89 0.60

223.18 229.01 98.12

SCOTTISH MUTUAL INV MNGRS LTD 0141 248 6100

OEIC B Class Tracker and Specialist Investment Funds

+0.20 +0.07 +0.40 +0.08 +0.25 +0.40 +0.20 -0.06 -0.30 +0.50 -0.10 +0.90 +0.50 +1.20 -0.40

Yld %

Retail Shares (Class 1) 2436.33 1350.60 1288.90

Corp Bond A Acc ‡@ 311.80 Corp Bond A Inc ‡@ 128.40 Envir Invtr A Acc ‡@ 287.40 Hi Inc Bond A Ac ‡@ 230.40 Hi Inc Bond A Inc ‡@ 90.49 Hi Res A Acc ‡@ 351.50 Hi Res A Inc ‡@ 136.30 Safety Plus A Acc ‡@ 40.10 Strat Inc A Acc ‡@ 200.00 Strat Inc A Inc ‡@ 101.90 UK Gwth A Acc ‡@ 181.50 UK Sel Gwth A Acc ‡@ 1933.00

138.50 72.69 227.60 65.70 37.29 105.30 125.30 56.85 151.70 179.20 252.90 281.00 162.70 434.70 293.90

+/-

THREADNEEDLE INVESTMENTS Client Serv: 0800 0683000 Intermediary Serv: 0800 0684000 Institutional Shares (Class 2) (163500,000 min)

Def Eqty & Bd Acc ‡@ Eqty & Bd Acc ‡@ Mgd Income ‡@

UK and Income Investment Funds

137.70 72.22 227.60 65.60 37.25 104.80 124.30 56.85 151.70 179.20 249.90 281.00 162.70 434.70 293.90

Buy

Managed Funds

Tracker and Specialist Investment Funds

Fixed Int Acc @ Fixed Int Dist @ Glob Gwth Acc @ Glob Health Acc @ Glob Tech Acc @ Gwth Tst Acc @ High Inc Acc @ Japan Ind Acc @ Pacific Ind Acc @ UK 100 Ind Acc @ UK Active Opps Acc @ UK Index Acc @ UK Index Dist @ US Ind Acc @ Worldwide Acc @

Income A Acc ‡@ Sterling Bond Acc ‡@ Sterling Bond Inc ‡@

Sell

MARKS & SPENCER UNIT TRUST LTD 0808 005 5555

Eur Sel Gth A Acc ‡@

JANUS HENDERSON INVESTORS Investors Serv: 0800 832 832 Dlng: 0845 946 4646

IGNIS ASSET MGMT Dlg: 0141 222 8282 … … … … … …

51.45

Unit Trusts Port Inc

EDENTREE INV MGMT LTD 0800 358 3010

Yld %

Overseas Growth Investment Funds

HSBC Personal Pension Unit Trust CLOSE FUND MANAGEMENT LTD 0870 606 6402

Growth Fd Acc @

Bal Port A Acc ‡@ Caut Port A Acc ‡@ Caut Port A Inc ‡@ Opps Port A Acc ‡@ Prog Port A Acc ‡@

… 0.12 0.53 … 0.59 … 0.86 0.84 1.68 1.85

-3.60 -14.50 -0.90 -1.30 -0.22 +2.10 … -8.10

+/-

MANEK INVESTMENT MGMT LTD 0844 800 9401

UK Trkr A Acc ‡@ UK Trkr A Inc ‡@ 316.90 463.40 267.70 169.20 36.87 191.60 157.30 216.00

Buy

SCOTTISH WIDOWS UNIT TRUST MGRS 0845 300 2244 Authorised Inv Funds (OEICs) OEIC A Class Managed Investment Funds

Pension Unit Trusts HSBC FSAVC Unit Trust British Euro Gth Gilt & Fd Int Income Jap Gth Managed Money Market North Amer

Sell

Eur (Ex UK) Eq A Acc ‡@1310.92 Glob Brands A Acc ‡@ 7863.11 UK Eq A Acc ‡@ 1184.53

JUPITER UT MGRS LTD 020 7581 3020

HSBC Specialist Investment Funds (OEIC) … …

UK/Global Investment Companies Euro Acc A ‡@ Extra Inc Inc B ‡@ Global Gwth Acc R ‡@ Japan Acc A ‡@ Pac Gwth Acc A ‡@

Moneybldr Glob Moneybldr Gwth ‡@ Moneybldr Inc ‡@ Moneybldr UK Ind ‡@ Special Sits ‡@ Wealthbuilder

Sell

1.78 1.80 2.37 2.40 1.12 1.13 1.38

Stock

Price Int Yld Grs rd (£) +/– % yld

Index-linked 104.91 110.25 375.17 129.66 375.56 120.33 124.07 142.23 130.82 381.91 162.05 155.79 279.61 150.12 179.47 175.22 185.39 171.11 177.31 209.86 209.26 206.26 279.39 218.70 225.36 263.05 264.78 281.36

101.67 107.28 367.58 123.39 357.29 114.74 116.91 132.77 121.24 354.19 147.76 141.12 252.03 133.62 159.99 152.77 158.20 143.76 147.15 175.98 172.70 167.69 228.06 176.93 177.34 206.61 200.82 209.70

Tr IL 1N% 2017 * 101.67 Tr IL 0V% 19 107.29 Tr IL 2K% 20 369.05 Tr IL 1Y% 2022 * 123.39 Tr IL 2K% 24 363.73 Tr IL 0V% 24 114.83 Tr IL 0V% 26 116.98 Tr IL 1N% 2027 * 132.88 Tr IL 0V% 29 121.66 Tr IL 4V% 30 360.34 Tr IL 1N% 2032 * 147.76 Tr IL 0O% 34 141.90 Tr IL 2% 35 259.90 Tr IL 0V% 36 134.83 Tr IL 1V% 2037 * 161.03 Tr IL 0X% 40 155.61 Tr IL 0X% 42 * 162.56 Tr IL 0V% 44 148.27 Tr IL 0V% 46 151.92 Tr IL 0O% 2047 * 179.64 Tr IL 0K% 50 * 176.97 Tr IL 0N% 52 171.51 Tr IL 1N% 2055 * 231.25 Tr IL 0V% 56 176.93 Tr IL 0V% 58 * 181.37 Tr IL 0W% 62 208.77 Tr IL 0V% 65 204.60 Tr IL 0V% 68 214.78

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

.01 … .04 .01 .14 .03 .07 .11 .08 .17 .08 .09 .07 .06 .05 .03 … .03 .03 … .02 .01 .07 .04 … .04 .04 .01

1.34 … 1.73 1.56 1.49 … … 1.03 … 1.79 0.85 … 0.94 … 0.73 … 0.38 … … 0.43 … … 0.59 … … … … …

–3.51 –2.86 –2.52 –2.22 –1.85 –1.94 –1.68 –1.65 –1.56 –1.54 –1.51 –1.46 –1.43 –1.43 –1.44 –1.44 –1.42 –1.37 –1.35 –1.36 –1.36 –1.36 –1.35 –1.35 –1.36 –1.38 –1.39 –1.42

+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +

.52 .55 .46 .56 .57 .56 .59 .53 .56 .67 .49 .73 .65 .67 .48 .71 .58 .76

3.20 3.07 … 3.14 2.98 … 2.96 … … 2.79 … 2.69 … 2.52 … … … …

1.75 1.80 1.89 1.85 1.89 1.90 1.91 1.94 1.94 1.92 1.90 1.86 1.83 1.78 1.78 1.75 1.74 1.73

+ + + + + + + + + + + +

.10 .14 .22 .27 .33 .33 .35 .38 .44 .52 .51 .44

… … … … 3.85 … … … 3.30 4.02 3.42 3.17

0.46 0.65 0.79 0.91 0.95 1.05 1.18 1.33 1.27 1.34 1.53 1.65

+ – + – + + + + + + + + + +

… .02 … .01 .04 .03 .05 .08 .06 .08 .10 .08 .16 .17

… 8.67 … 4.85 … 3.98 3.49 … 4.25 … … 6.19 3.45 …

0.20 0.12 0.31 0.27 0.30 0.28 0.27 0.38 0.29 0.36 0.44 0.41 0.53 0.65

Longs (Over 15 years) 157.11 155.77 102.15 171.02 162.00 164.67 174.65 147.10 154.73 177.28 104.48 185.51 177.28 200.39 106.95 201.27 153.82 195.73

137.35 134.98 93.81 146.72 138.30 139.78 147.41 122.44 128.21 146.88 86.80 152.24 143.66 161.97 94.40 160.01 117.32 150.45

Tr 4K% 34 Tr 4N% 36 Tr 1{ }% 37 Tr 4O% 38 Tr 4N% 39 Tr 4N% 40 Tr 4K% 42 Tr 3N% 44 Tr 3K% 45 Tr 4N% 46 Tr 1K% 47 Tr 4N% 49 Tr 3O% 52 Tr 4N% 55 Tr 1O% 57 Tr 4% 60 Tr 2K% 65 Tr 3K% 68

140.57 138.64 97.66 151.07 142.56 144.19 151.96 126.95 133.15 152.28 90.95 157.83 149.48 168.34 99.17 167.11 124.77 159.59

Mediums (5-15 years) 118.34 109.15 113.59 118.59 138.11 113.14 108.62 102.29 138.26 161.88 153.04 148.92

113.38 104.78 107.79 111.25 128.78 105.19 99.90 98.71 126.26 146.95 136.21 131.34

Tr 3O% 21 Tr 1O% 22 Tr 2N% 23 Tr 2O% 24 Tr 5% 25 Tr 2% 25 Tr 1K% 26 Tr 1N% 27 Tr 4N% 27 Tr 6% 28 Tr 4O% 30 Tr 4N% 32

113.48 105.53 108.71 112.67 129.77 107.43 102.70 99.27 128.91 149.11 138.81 134.23

Shorts (under 5 years) 100.98 109.58 102.27 108.02 104.95 111.67 111.57 107.50 117.02 115.15 106.04 138.06 121.31 101.29

100.11 100.91 100.94 103.02 102.85 106.87 107.38 104.72 111.65 110.48 103.38 129.19 115.73 97.79

Tr 1% 17 Tr 8O% 17 Tr 1N% 18 Tr 5% 18 Tr 1O% 19 Tr 4K% 19 Tr 3O% 19 Tr 2% 20 Tr 4O% 20 Tr 3O% 20 Tr 1K% 21 Tr 8% 21 Tr 4% 22 Tr 0K% 22

100.11 100.91 100.95 103.02 102.91 106.89 107.43 104.85 111.72 110.56 103.70 129.27 115.90 99.24

* maturities as having a 3-month indexation lag and which trade on a real clean price basis, excluding inflation adjustment charge.

This is a paid for information service. For further details on a particular fund, readers should contact their fund manager. Data as shown is for information purposes only. No offer is made by Morningstar or this publication

the times | Tuesday July 18 2017

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Working Life Business ROB WATKINS

Business bank ‘must plug EU funds gap’ James Hurley Enterprise Editor

The government must be prepared to strengthen the role of the state British Business Bank to ease small and medium-sized businesses through any post-Brexit downturn and save entrepreneurs from a funding “cliff edge”, employers’ groups have warned. The bank, which aims to increase the supply of finance to small companies, is preparing to navigate the loss of the European funding that underpins some of its most important programmes. In its annual report, being published today, the bank warns: “Although most of our programmes are unaffected, a number do include European funds and guarantees and may require evaluation and adjustment.” It said that it was preparing “strategic realignment” to reflect the “state of the market and shifts in political priorities”. One of the most pressing issues is the role played by the European Investment Fund, a European Union venture capital body that has signalled a willingness to cut activity in Britain even before the official exit from the EU. The fund has been a co-investor or guarantor to the bank, which provides wholesale finance to banks, venture capital firms and alternative finance providers to support investment in small companies. The British Chambers of Commerce and the Federation of Small Businesses are among the groups calling for the government to step in to replace any lost European funds. Mike Cherry, national chairman of the FSB,

said: “With Brexit talks under way, the BBB must be readied to replicate the support for small business finance markets provided by European funds to avoid a cliff-edge moment once negotiations conclude.” Adam Marshall, director-general of the BCC, said: “Having organisations like [the British Business Bank] available to supply finance regardless of finance conditions is hugely important.” In its latest accounts, for the year to March 31, the business bank said that it was achieving its aim of increasing the supply of capital to smaller businesses, with the total stock of finance provided through its programmes growing by 24 per cent to £9.2 billion. More than 59,000 small and medium-sized companies have received a loan or investment. It claimed that it was helping to spur competition in small business finance, with 94 per cent of its funding support “delivered through smaller, newer or alternative finance providers”. The British Business Bank was awarded £400 million last year to support laterstage venture capital and launched its first regionally focused fund, the £400 million Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund, which was supported by £50 million from the European Investment Bank. In April the bank took over the Kirsty Gurr received support for her mobile cocktails business

Reaching for the big prize

he EEF is on the hunt for talented photographers with access to a manufacturing facility, from design studios to factories, for its eighth annual manufacturing photography competition (James Hurley writes). There are three categories in the competition — professional, young and amateur, the latter category last year featuring this shortlisted photograph, Hemispheres, taken by Rob Watkins at Croft Filters in Warrington. There are £5,000 worth of prizes up for grabs. The competition closes on September 30 and more information is available at www.eef.org.uk/photo.

management of the Start Up Loans Company, which provides affordable unsecured debt to founders of new businesses, such as Kirsty Gurr, founder of the Alchemist Cocktails, a mobile cocktail and coffee shop. Credit availability and affordability for small companies is strong, but demand is weak. The bank noted that “there has been a clear trend of fewer small and medium-sized businesses using core debt products such as bank loans, overdrafts and credit cards” and it said that the growth of alternative forms of finance had slowed. Business

investment contracted by 1.5 per cent last year. Writing in the bank’s annual report, Lord Smith of Kelvin, its chairman, said: “Our small businesses face a period of change. What is now clear is that the scale of this change is unprecedented in the experience of most of our entrepreneurs.” Lord Smith, an experienced financier who is also chairman of Alliance Trust, said that the bank was capable of taking on a “broader remit should the opportunity arise”. A small business finance expert, who

asked not to be named, said that the bank would need more capital if it was to “move the needle”. “Taking asset finance as an example, of the 75 finance companies in the market, the six firms the BBB supports are [marginal],” he said. “What is the point of that? It’s not as if these firms are doing anything remotely different from the other 69 businesses. Furthermore, these are mainly non-prime companies with comparatively high rates, so is this of much benefit to [small companies]? To me, this is posturing. It makes minimal real difference to the market.”

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Tuesday July 18 2017 | the times

Business Markets news in brief

Martin Waller Tempus Buy, sell or hold: today’s best share tips

woodford patient capital Net asset value per share 103.4p

Dividend yield nil

Woodford Patient Capital Trust share price

104 P 100 96 92 88 84

2016 Q1

2017 Q2

atient Capital Trust is a quoted Woodford MY ADVICE Buy investment trust, floated in WHY Given the unproven April 2015 partly to provide nature of many of its funds for start-up and early stage companies of the sort that investments, this is at the might have difficulty raising cash riskier end of the spectrum, from traditional venture capital but the upside is considerable sources. There are 70 investments, in the middle of the target range of 60 to 80, while 57 per cent is in healthcare, including some chunky orphans, or Woodford Income Focus holdings in American pharma. Fund, which is unquoted and was Neil Woodford, the fund manager, launched in the spring in the third has always had a predilection for biggest cash-raising by a British that sector and the biggest fund. The latter is designed to holding is in Prothena, provide income for more which is quoted on Nasdaq cautious investors. 70 and works in the hot area The unproven nature of Number of invest- the investments taken on of using the immune ments in fund system to fight disease. by Patient Capital make it About 75 per cent of the the most risky of the three portfolio is in UK companies but mean the capital uplift if and 15 per cent in unquoted those investments work out can ones. This is a different vehicle to Mr be substantial. The trust raised Woodford’s other quoted fund, the £800 million at the April 2015 Equity Income Fund, which is launch and has taken on a limited probably more for widows and amount of debt. The performance

conviviality Revenue £1.56bn Pre-tax profit

£22.5m Dividend yield 4.1%

hen this column recommended buying shares in Conviviality in November, it was because of the benefits that would come from integrating its three recent acquisitions — Matthew Clark, which some may remember as a highly acquisitive quoted company in the 1990s, Bibendum, the wine business, and Peppermint, which provides bars at events such as festivals. The shares have come on by more

The four Barclays executives accused of conspiring to commit fraud in the bank’s 2008 Qatari fundraising will face trial starting on January 9, 2019, a London High Court judge said. John Varley, former chief executive of Barclays, Roger Jenkins, former head of the bank’s Middle East section, Tom Kalaris, former head of Barclays Wealth, and Richard Boath, a former senior investment banker at the lender, were told that they faced at least a four-month trial.

weir group

Long-term game

Source: Thomson Reuters

How’s the patient? Looking a lot better

Barclays trial date set

than a pound since, gaining another 14¾p to 332¾p yesterday after figures to the end of April showed the integration proceeding well and some encouraging rises in group sales since. Conviviality, which has three retail chains including Wine Rack as well as the distribution business, reckons to supply all sectors of the drinks market. The three acquisitions were in for the full financial year, barring a month less for Bibendum, which was bought in May, and revenues were ahead by 85 per cent to £1.56 billion. This masked an underlying rise of 5.8 per cent, well ahead of the industry average. The company has been ratcheting

Top ten holdings

% of portfolio

Prothena (healthcare)

11.7%

Purplebricks (financials)

8.9%

Fcst revenue £2.2bn Pre-tax

profit £245m Divi 2.3%

here is a noticeable change of tone from Weir Group’s oil and gas division, which represents Oxford Nanopore (healthcare) 7.4% about a third of the Glasgow Immunocore (healthcare) 6.3% engineering group, since the purchase of KOP Surface Products a Theravance Biopharma (health) 4.6% month ago. The company says that Mereo Biopharma (healthcare) 3.7% oil and gas margins are continuing to improve on the back of increased Proton Partners Int. (healthcare) 3.6% activity in the American shale Oxford Sciences Innovation (fin) 2.8% market. This is allowing it and other oil services companies to push up Atom Bank (financials) 2.4% prices for the first time since the oil Idex (technology) 2.3% price collapsed. By contrast, oil and gas made a £9 million loss last year, so the has been mixed. Last year follow me turnround is a marked one, was not terribly good, with on twitter helped by substantial job weak points including for updates cuts and consequent Circassia, which failed to @MartinWaller10 savings in North America. get through medical trials The market did not see for its cat allergy cure, and this coming and the shares Northwest Biotherapeutics, rose 158p to £19.82 after yesterday’s one of Mr Woodford’s biggest statement. The recovery in Weir’s failures. This year has been much share price was remarkable enough better. The latest reported net asset even before that, having been about value per share is up by more than £8 in early 2016. 10 per cent, well ahead of the FTSE Weir is having to take a £13 million All Share. Two investments, write-off on a couple of contracts in Purplebricks, the online estate agent, its flow control division, which and Halosource, which provides provides pumps for oil refineries and clean water technology, have the like, a highly competitive market. doubled in value. This will be more than balanced by Less successful was Allied Minds, that improvement in oil and gas. The the intellectual property specialist, shares sell on 20 times earnings, where a new chief executive decided to ditch funding to several businesses which looks a full valuation. and the share price more than halved. The discount to net asset value has narrowed from about MY ADVICE Avoid 10 per cent in early June to below WHY Much of the good news 2 per cent. This one is a straight punt seems to be in the price on Mr Woodford’s ability to find successful early stage businesses. up the cost benefits from putting the new businesses together with its original operation, and these now stand at £16.5 million in the 2018-19 financial year. Pre-tax profits, stripping out one-offs, rose by 111 per cent to £45.8 million, reflecting a 1.3 percentage point improvement in margins to 13.3 per cent. The shares sell on 14 times earnings. Investors might think about taking some of their profits.

MY ADVICE Take profits WHY Shares have come a long way since the autumn

BNP Paribas fined BNP Paribas has been fined $246 million by the Federal Reserve Board over “defencies” in its oversight of traders in its foreign exchange business. The Fed said that BNP had failed to detect and address its traders’ use of online chatrooms to discuss their foreign exchange market positions between 2007 and 2013. BNP was fined $350 million in May by New York’s state banking regulator over the same issue.

Fund’s Spanish deal The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan has acquired its second funeral provider, Mémora, a company based in Barcelona with 115 funeral parlours across Spain and Portugal. The terms of the purchase from 3i, the private equity group, were not disclosed, but the business is believed to have changed hands for about €500 million. The deal unlocks proceeds of £117 million from 3i’s nine-year investment in Mémora.

Murdoch Jr joins Tesla James Murdoch, chief executive of 21st Century Fox, has joined the board of Tesla after pressure from investors about the lack of independent directors on the carmaker’s board. He is joining the board as a director alongside Linda Johnson Rice, chairwoman of Johnson Publishing. Mr Murdoch’s father, Rupert, is executive co-chairman of 21st Century Fox as well as chairman of News Corp, owner of The Times.

And finally...

ICL Infrastructure has featured here regularly because it converts its investments in infrastructure into reliable income for its investors and regularly makes new shares available. A note from Canaccord approves of its latest purchase, a 35 per cent interest in the High Speed 1 rail line linking London St Pancras with the Channel Tunnel. The broker notes that the move fits with HICL’s policy of investments at the lower end of the risk spectrum because HS1 has a 20-year operating history.

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Markets Business DAVID GIESBRECHT/AP

Broker tells cautious story of Pearson’s latest sale Callum Jones Market report

nalysts delivered a lecture to Pearson on robbing Peter to pay Paul after it sold a $1 billion chunk in Penguin Random House. Shares in the educational publisher dropped 4p to 631½p after Berenberg described the valuation of the book company as “a touch below our expectations”. Noting that Bertelsmann, Penguin’s only other shareholder, was the buyer, the broker told clients: “Unlike Pearson’s prior disposals of the FT and The Economist, there was no upside value surprise, reflecting the fact that there was only one bidder, and one with a constrained balance sheet.” Cutting its target price from 629p to 490p and reiterating its “sell”

Wall Street report

Confident Netflix plays its hand

he return of the popular House of Cards series helped Netflix to smash market expectations for growth in the second quarter, reaching nearly 104 million total

subscribers (Tom Knowles writes). The United Statesbased television and film streaming service reported that it added 5.2 million subscribers during the quarter, up from 4.95 million in the previous period and beating Wall Street’s predicted 3.23 million. Viewers outside the US now account for more than half of its membership, having

added 4.14 million of the new subscribers. The company’s revenue rose by nearly 30 per cent to $2.97 billion. Netflix attributed the surge to its strong content, including The Crown and Orange is the New Black. It also gave premieres to 14 original series. Its shares rose nearly 9 per cent after the closing bell.

Results in brief Name

Pre-tax figure Profit (+) loss (-)

Convivality Hospitality FY

£22.5m (£9.1m)

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The day’s biggest movers Change

Company Carillion Hires EY and wins HS2 contracts Weir Group Surprises market with positive trading update Ashtead Lifted by Weir figures Micro Focus International Northern Trust reiterates “buy” rating Antofagasta Tracks copper prices higher Royal Mail Due to update on trading this morning Pearson Berenberg cuts target price from 605p to 490p Experian City jitters ahead of trading update Imperial Brands Jefferies lowers target price to £42 Talktalk Telecom Macquarie downgrades rating from “neutral” to “underperform”

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risk and plotted a realistic path back to operating margins above 5 per cent.” Issuing a double upgrade from “sell” to “buy” and lifting its target price from 212p to 330p, Investec told clients that “the basic

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Analysts think there remains scope for Mitie to be more efficient

rating, Berenberg said that was in talks to join Teva Pearson’s sale of a a 22 per Pharmaceutical, it has been cent stake in Penguin for reported since then that he follow us about $980 million implied is staying put. on twitter an enterprise value of News that China’s for updates $3.55 billion, shy of the @timesbusiness economy had grown faster $3.77 billion it had estimated. than expected between April “The cost of the disposal of and June combined with a what is a good cash-generating weaker dollar to boost copper business, although one that is prices to four-and-a-half-month growing slowly, is a reduction in highs. This lifted the miners, with earnings per share,” it said. Fresnillo gaining 31p to £15.12, Pearson was left behind as the Antofagasta rising 19½p to 878p and FTSE 100 started the week on the Glencore climbing 4¾p to 320¾p. front foot, advancing 25.74 points, or Takeover speculation sent Old 0.35 per cent, to 7,404.13. Mutual 3½p higher to 197½p. ITV picked up 2¼p to 177¼p after According to City chatter, the Angloannouncing that Dame Carolyn South African financial services McCall would take the helm, in company is in the sights of an January, succeeding Adam Crozier. American private equity group. Easyjet, which is searching for Dame Imperial Brands struggled after Carolyn’s successor, closed 20p higher Jefferies, which has a “buy” rating for at £14.31. the tobacco company, cut its target to Indications that Astrazeneca was £42. The shares slid 57p to £34.42½. keeping hold of its present boss lifted Experian and Royal Mail fell, too, it by 41½p to £50.40. Having fallen last by 24p to £15.61 and 2¼p to 398¾p, week amid claims that Pascal Soriot respectively, ahead of their updates

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nvestec added Mitie to its “buy” list on the basis that the outsourcer had “yet to appreciate the full extent of the potential turnaround” under its new management, and its shares rose 5½p to 279p. “While execution risks remain, we see considerable upside to profitability on even a conservative assessment of possible cost savings and operating efficiencies,” analysts said. “In a relatively short period, management has largely drawn a line under balance sheet

Treasury Bills (Dis) Buy: 1 mth 0.129; 3mth 0.150. Sell: 1 mth 0.090; 3 mth 0.105

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You could safely call it a flat day on Wall Street, with indices up or down a maximum of 0.04 per cent, the Nasdaq managing to make it into positive territory, the Dow Jones industrial average inching down a mere 8.02 points to 21,629.72.

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today. The FTSE 250 was on the rise, closing up 112.23 points, or 0.58 per cent, at 19,520.59. Carillion was in the driving seat, rallying 10¾p to 67p after announcing that it had hired EY to support its strategic review and that it had won two big contracts to work on the HS2 high-speed rail line. Shares in the construction and facilities management group slid from 192p to 57¼p over four days last week in the wake of a profit warning. Talktalk Telecom was under pressure, giving up 7¼p to 181p after Macquarie downgraded from “neutral” to “underperform”. As the Square Mile awaits Thursday’s full-year results, Sports Direct International rose 2p to 298p. Short-sellers have been turning up the heat on Mike Ashley’s sportswear retailer ahead of what is expected to be a poor set of numbers. Sports Direct’s percentage of shares on loan has been driven 6 per cent to 9 per cent over recent weeks.

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nature of many of Mitie’s issues should be well within the capability of the new, strengthened management team”. Phil Bentley, who became chief executive last year, turned around British Gas while managing director, it said. Analysts assume that the company will achieve £35 million of planned £45 million savings by 2020 and that £10 million has been secured in the current financial year. Those at the helm have made progress with strengthening the balance sheet, they said.

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the times | Tuesday July 18 2017

1GM

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Obituaries

Martin Landau Actor who played a sadistic thug in North by Northwest, made his name in Mission: Impossible and had an affair with Marilyn Monroe REX/SHUTTERSTOCK; REUTERS

His solemn features and gravelly tones made Martin Landau the original choice for Mr Spock in Star Trek. But with roles as an immaculately suited villain pursuing Cary Grant across Mount Rushmore in Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest (1959) and alongside Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in Cleopatra (1963) under his belt, Landau decided that pointy ears were not the way forward and the role went to Leonard Nimoy. Mission: Impossible, the TV series in which Landau appeared from 1966 to 1969, seemed like a far more reasonable alternative. His character’s great skill was impersonation and he could pass himself off as a Latin-American or east European dictator without anyone seeming to notice. He was billed as a guest star in the first episode, but his character, Rollin Hand, “man of a million faces”, proved popular and he became a regular on the show. With its urgent theme tune, an animated fuse burning across the opening credits and a fairly rigid format, Mission: Impossible acquired near-iconic status and Tom Cruise is the star of film versions. The series made Landau one of the biggest TV stars of the 1960s and he had hoped to translate that small-screen success into films, but it did not work out. Instead his career seemed to become something of a mission impossible in its own right, as he ricocheted from triumph to low-budget dud and back to Oscar-winning success. He wound up back on television in Space: 1999 (1975-77), a science fiction series from Gerry Anderson, the creator of Thunderbirds, yet by the 1980s had been reduced to supporting roles such as in the dire TV movie The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan’s Island (1981). Towards the end of that decade Landau’s career was rescued by Francis Ford Coppola, who cast him as Abe Karatz, a dubious entrepreneur in Tucker: The Man and his Dream (1988), and Woody Allen, who gave him the role of Judah Rosenthal, an adulterous husband who conspires to murder his ex-lover, in Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989). Both earned him Oscar nominations for best supporting actor and he finally won one, as well as virtually every critics’ award going, for his performance as the horror star Bela Lugosi in Tim Burton’s Ed Wood (1994). Landau, who starred with Johnny Depp, did a superb job in taking on the mannerisms and mindset of a star who was widely regarded as a talented actor, but never really emerged from the shadow of his greatest role, Dracula. Possibly it was a poignant reminder of Landau’s career. “For ten years I was playing mindless villains in stupid movies,” he said soon after receiving his Oscar. In a note of defiance he added: “But I was acting. I wasn’t driving a taxi or waiting on tables. It almost takes a miracle to resurrect your career — but you have to believe that miracles are possible.” Martin Landau, known in the industry as Marty, was born into a workingclass Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York, probably in 1928, although sources suggest dates between then and 1934. His father, Morris, was a machinist and his mother, Selma (née Buchanan), took him to movies and the

Martin Landau in Space: 1999, the TV series inspired by Star Trek — for which he had turned down the role of Mr Spock

theatre. A “sensitive kid”, he was good at sport and had “an imagination”. He started his working life at 17 as a cartoonist and illustrator with the New York Daily News. However, he nurtured an ambition to act and, to his parents’ dismay, began appearing in plays off-Broadway, although for the rest of his life would draw for pleasure. He met James Dean in the early 1950s at the “organised bedlam” of an open casting call. Val Holley recalls in

He crushed Cary Grant’s fingers on Mt Rushmore in North by Northwest James Dean: The Biography (1995): “The two friends began spending considerable time together, sitting in Central Park discussing Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift, listening to classical music, or riding in tandem on Dean’s motorcycle.” Later they began work on a 16mm film, but Dean was killed in a road accident in 1955. Landau followed in Dean’s footsteps by attending Lee Strasberg’s Actors Studio — he and Steve McQueen were the only two of 2,000 applicants selected in 1955. Strasberg taught “the method”, the technique in which an actor attempts to replicate a character’s feelings, rather than just imagining

them. He made his mark on stage in Uncle Vanya (1956) and Paddy Chayefsky’s Middle of the Night (1957) and appeared in TV westerns such as Rawhide (1959). For several months Landau dated Marilyn Monroe, whom he met at the Actors’ Studio, later describing her as “very needy . . . She was incredibly attractive, but very difficult.” Eventually he met Barbara Bain, who had also been at the Actors Studio. “It was hate at first sight,” Bain recalled. Landau, who at the time had shoulder-length hair and a full beard, retorted that she had “looked like an empty-headed model”. They met again at a party and in 1957 were married, although it came to a “natural end” and they were d divorced in 1993. He is survived m by two daughters, Susan, a film producer, and Juliet, an actress who played the vamp Drusilla in Buffy the Vampire Slayer on BBC Two. Later Landau was in a relationship with thee actress Gretchen Becker. Hitchcock had seen Landau in Middle of the Night and cast him as Leonard, James Mason’ss right-hand man, in North byy Northwest, which remains a w textbook example of how d Landau brought delicate and provocative shading to characterss

that might otherwise disappear. At the climax of the film Cary Grant is hanging from his fingertips on Mount Rushmore, clinging to Eva Marie Saint with his other hand, when Landau appears above them. Landau steps forward as if to help, but crushes Grant’s fingers beneath his foot and is shot in the back by a policeman. Landau had a reputation for being an intense method actor and had carefully worked out his opening scene, which he saw as an emotional arc or “clear progression”. He was playing the role as coldly sadistic and implicitly homosexual, but Hitchcock, who had little time for the egos or pretensions of actors, undermined him by changing the sequence of shots. Mason recalled: “Landau never had a chance for his clear progression.” In the

decade that followed, Landau seemed to be everywhere. He starred in two episodes of The Twilight Zone (1959 and 1964) and The Outer Limits (1963 and 1964). He had supporting roles as Rufio in Cleopatra (1963), Caiaphas in The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) and with McQueen in Nevada Smith (1966). When Bain, his co-star, was sacked from Mission: Impossible in 1969 Landau showed his loyalty to her by quitting. His role was taken by Nimoy, who needed a hit after the cancellation of Star Trek (1966-69). Landau appeared as a minister accused of killing a prostitute in They Call Me Mister Tibbs! (1970) and was support to Telly Savalas in A Town Called Bastard (1971). Yet the big starring roles eluded him and he found himself back on TV in Space: 1999, which was conceived as a British version of Star Trek. He played Commander John Koenig, leader of Moonbase Alpha, while Bain was the base doctor. It was reputedly the most expensive series made for British television at that time and Lew Grade, the head of the ITC production company, insisted on the American stars to beef up the series’s Stateside appeal. However, the show, which looked as if it had been conceived with marionettes in mind, failed to get a US network buyer and was cancelled after two seasons. Landau’s career stalled and he appeared in obscure horror and sci-fi films, such as The Return (1980) and The Being (1983), later admitting that he wished they could be turned into “guitar picks”. He recalled watching the 1984 Oscars while “having a beer in my underwear, saying, ‘I should be there.’ ” Instead he was coaching actors such as Jack Nicholson and Anjelica Huston, while agents had told him that he was finished. “It was frustrating,” he told The Times in 2012. “I knew what I was able to do, I was at the height of my powers, but no one was giving me the chance.” His renaissance began with Tucker, followed by Crimes and Misdemeanors. Suddenly he was a star again and he went on to play Geppetto in The Adventures of Pinocchio (1996). Although the film depicted the woodcutter belatedly discovering his family, Landau was adamant that it would not get soppy. “I didn’t want some jolly little sweet Bavarian guy,” he said. There was the film version of The X-Files (1998), Rounders (1998), The Majestic (2001) and the hip TV series Entourage (2006-08). Always friendly and with plenty to say, Landau would greet interviewers with an outstretched hand and the question: “What are you? A Mission: Impossible or a Space 1999?” Asked by The Times in 1995 if his career disproved the adage that there are no second acts to American lives, Landau replied with a smile and a baseball analogy: “They stopped threeact plays in the United States, but I haven’t; I’m on my third act. I always felt like a pinch-hitter waiting to be put up to bat. I really felt that if someone pitched that ball over the plate, I’d hit it out of the ballpark. I knew that and believed i totally.” it Martin Landau, actor, was born M on June 20, 1928. He died on July o 15, 1 2017, aged 89

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Irene Brown Bletchley Park decoder and author of a well-regarded memoir who married an SAS man lost behind enemy lines after D-Day IMAGEESS GETTY IMAG

When Irene Young went to work in Hut 6 at Bletchley Park in the summer of 1942 it was with a broken heart. She had recently ended her engagement to Leslie Cairns, an army officer she had met while they were students at the University of Edinburgh, the two having argued about him volunteering for service abroad. Life at Bletchley, in Buckinghamshire, was to prove a welcome distraction, even if Young did find the place “ugly”, and her “forced billet” was with a family an hour’s bus drive away in Wolverton. This journey proved especially exhausting when she was on the night shift. “We would tumble out of the bus into the blackout to grope our way home,” she recalled in nigma her 1990 memoir, Enigma Variations: a Memoirr of Love and War. This memoir,, written under her maiden name of Young, was unusual and insightful in that it told the story of Station X from the viewpoint of what k she called “the rank and file”. She was not one of the ns and star Oxbridge dons chess geniuses who cracked d b h Germany’s Enigma codes, but rather one of the support staff, or “Indians”, as they were known, who arrived that summer as part of a rapid expansion after Churchill’s order that Bletchley should be given “extreme priority” and have all the resources it needed. Numbers increased from 150 in 1939 to 5,000 by 1943. “The net had been cast wider to trawl the less elite from universities other than Oxford and Cambridge,” she recalled. She worked in Room 82 of Hut 6, “though in typical Bletchley fashion there weren’t 81 rooms preceding it”. As a linguist her duties included translation. She would spend many dull hours listing plots on graphs, as well as checking and classifying data. Bore-

dom was an occupational hazard, one joke being: “I spent a month in Bletch-s,, ley last Sunday.” The local residents, meanwhile, not having a clue about thee top-secret decoding work going on att Station X, would refer to her as one off the “do nothings” of Bletchley Park. She wrote about how they had theirr own vocabulary there — “blisting” wass n making a “B-list”, you “fossed” when plotting a graph, and so on. Staff weree always hungry and baths were in a strictly measured 4in of water. They took it for granted that the Germans did not know about Bletchley, “for we had no air-raid drill, nor did we have a single air-raid shelter, slit trench, sandbag blast wall, nor even so much as a steel helmet . helmet”. After a few months workin there she had working com to regard her decome cisi cision to break off he engagement to her C Cairns as her “u “ultimate folly”. W When he wrote to h out of the blue her sh was delighted. she Th met up again They and she learnt that he had fought at Alame Alamein and in Tunisia. He had then transferred from the Royal Artillery to the Parachute R i d finally, fi l to the newly Regiment and, formed SAS. Their relationship “back on”, he reserved a £30 engagement ring for a month until he could pay for it. He proposed again and this time she said yes. As one was at Bletchley, the other in the SAS, neither could talk about what each was doing. Theirs was to be a cruelly short marriage, lasting a few months. Shortly after D-Day Cairns and all his men went missing in action when their aircraft disappeared behind enemy lines. It was to be one of the SAS’s heaviest and most mysterious losses. The wreck of what is almost certainly his aircraft was found in 2015, far off course, just inland from Omaha Beach in Normandy. How it came to be there,

One of the th rooms in Hut H t 6 at Bletchley Park where Irene Brown, left, worked

and why the authorities did not know of it, remain unclear. Irene Young was born an only child in Edinburgh in 1919. Her father worked in the British Linen Bank, where he became head of the securities department; her mother came from a Morayshire family of doctors and lawyers. She was educated at the highly academic Esdaile School, where she

She was at Bletchley, he was in the SAS: they could not discuss work excelled in Latin and French. She also studied (privately) drama and elocution, and wondered about a career on the stage. Wisely she did not seek to pursue this dream. Instead she went to Edinburgh and did a degree in English language and literature. After the war, and still in the limbo of presumed widowhood, she abandoned the career in the civil service that beck-

oned. Passing up the chance to read for a B Litt at Oxford, she spent a year in London, living at Crosby Hall while taking a secretarial course with the debs at the Marlborough Gate college. She thought of becoming an embassy secretary and was offered a tempting opportunity to work in the Middle East. Instead she honoured an invitation from an aunt of her husband (now officially presumed killed in action) to spend some time in South Africa. In Durban she met and was courted with sensitivity, but equal determination, by Reginald Brown, a quiet but drily humorous chartered accountant. He had experienced an interesting war, serving with the Royal Durban Light Infantry in the Western Desert where he was wounded and captured at Tobruk. At the Italian armistice he had walked out of his prison camp near Perugia to spend nine months on the run, being sheltered by peasant families and assuming an Italian identity. In later years he and Irene would make several return visits, first to locate, and

s subsequently to thank, the courageous aand kindly Italians who had risked so m much to help evaders. Having married in 1948, they settled iin n South Africa, but it was changing fast u under its nationalist Afrikaner governm ment and Reginald was a man of liberal vviews. i Irene joined him in membership o off the Torch Commando, an antiggovernment o organisation. They soon fee it was not a country in which they felt ccould o continue to live and returned o Edinburgh, where Reginald became to a partner in an international aaccountancy c firm. Irene devoted herself to homem making, raising their son Iain, who was o become a principal curator of to m manuscripts in the National Library of S c Scotland. She took private pupils in L a Latin and English, worked for a p u publisher and for a departmental li ib library at the University of Edinb u burgh, where she enjoyed life on the fri fr fringes of the academic world. When Reginald died suddenly in 1982, immediately after retirement, Irene was devastated. She had published verse from her adolescent years, then as a student and subsequently. Now she found solace in writing a good deal more. Her style was rhythmic and structured. Early lushness gave way to a more controlled and simple expression. She edited her old school magazine and maintained her interest in languages, pursuing ancient Greek, Italian and German while keeping up her Latin and French. Silversmithing was among her other activities. Her very small (and, latterly, “bowbackit”) stature, her speed of nervous movement, her bright eyes: all made the nickname of “Mouse” appropriate. She was resilient in body and spirit. When grazed by a bus at nearly 91, she heard the policeman in attendance report that “a woman in her seventies” had been in an accident. She looked up from the road and said cheerfully: “In her nineties, actually.” Irene Brown, Bletchley Park worker, was born on February 16, 1919. She died on June 7, 2017, aged 98

Tommy Carberry Grand National winner as a jockey in 1975 when he beat Red Rum on L’Escargot, and as a trainer in 1999 with Bobbyjo In 1974 Brian Fletcher and Red Rum had beaten Tommy Carberry and L’Escargot in the Grand National, and the next year they were going for their third win in a row. Carberry had other ideas. “We hit the fence after Becher’s Brook the first time round and I nearly fell off,” Carberry said. “But it didn’t put him off, it woke him up. I knew we could beat Red Rum, who was only just in front of us, and at the third from home Brian Fletcher shouted at me, ‘We’re done. Go on, you can win.’ ” L’Escargot did win, by 15 lengths, to become the first horse since Golden Miller 40 years previously to win the Gold Cup and the National in the same season. There was not another Irish winner of the Grand National for nearly a quarter of a century. In 1999 Carberry, by then a trainer, saddled Bobbyjo to victory — ridden by his son, the equally gifted Paul. After a party at the Adelphi Hotel in Liverpool — “There were about 100 of us and it nearly ran into the day,” Tommy said — a huge shindig ensued back in Co Meath: cameramen standing on the roof of a bus shelter demanded that Tommy mount Bobbyjo, and he clambered out of a car sunroof clutching a bottle of champagne and obliged.

Carberry in the 1971 Grand National

As a jockey Carberry won three Cheltenham Gold Cups, on L’Escargot in 1970 and 1971 and Ten Up in 1975, but he was denied a record-equalling fourth in 1980 when the winner, Tied Cottage, was disqualified after a drugs test revealed a minute amount of the diuretic theobromine, thought to have come from a tainted batch of oats. While Carberry was dedicated to his craft, he was also dedicated to the craic. “Stories about Tommy are legion and they are all the same,” the owner John Mulhern observed in 1978. “At the party you’ll hear his high-pitched voice laughing and shouting. He’ll be the last to leave — and the best man to ride a finish the next day.” Mulhern was unstinting in his praise of Carberry’s horsemanship. “He’s as tough as a tank,” he said. “He’ll resurrect a horse if he has to. He’ll pick one off the floor, kick and drive and grit his teeth with fire in his belly. When Carberry’s got his blood up there isn’t a man born who can live with him. He’s a magic man. He has this uncanny communication with a horse allied to total fearlessness.” Cheltenham provided Carberry with his most enjoyable times. “We all go over for the gas and the craic at Cheltenham,” he said in 1978. “It’s a

week’s bonanza. I like a few jars, usually wine, but I try to slip off to bed quite early. The trouble is, so many people want to talk right through the night.” Thomas Carberry was born near Ratoath, Co Meath, in 1941, and had his first race in 1958. He soon became champion apprentice, and was twice overall champion Irish jockey and five times champion National Hunt jockey, while running a cattle farm near Dublin airport. He was also adept on the Flat. After a fall in 1982 he retired as a jockey and became a trainer, culminating in the father-son double act at Aintree. In 1970 he married Pamela, the daughter of L’Escargot’s trainer Dan Moore and sister to another trainer, Arthur. They had six children. If their eldest, Paul, emulated his father at work, he also emulated him at play — left him behind in the stalls, in fact. He once rode a horse into a bar, while in 2005 he narrowly avoided jail after setting fire to another jockey’s newspaper on an aircraft. Paul’s sister Nina also became a jockey. In 2011 she was the fourth Carberry, after Tommy, Paul and brother Philip, to win the Irish National, and in 2015 she and Paul emulated brother and sister Ruby and Katie Walsh when they rode in the Grand National.

Philip also rode alongside Paul in a Grand National, in 2007. “We had a video at home, 100 Years of the Grand National, and we’d watch it over and over,” Philip said, “and there was Dad in there and his heroic victory. He could talk you through the race and tell you just what was happening and what he was thinking at every stage of it.” Philip won the Irish Grand National in 2006 on the 20-1 shot Point Barrow, and had two big wins at the 2007 Cheltenham Festival. Now retired as a jockey, he is assistant to his wife, the trainer Louise Carberry. Thomas went on to work in a stables and became president of Ireland’s Amateur Jockeys Association. Only Mark, who became a carpenter, eschewed the family trade. Although Tommy Carberry had huge success as a jockey, his greatest achievement was probably saddling Bobbyjo in the 1999 National. Paul recalled the finish in his autobiography: “I was ten lengths clear coming to the line. The feeling was incredible. I stood up and punched the air. I had done it. We had done it. The Aintree Grand National. Just like Dad. Just for Dad.” Tommy Carberry, jockey and trainer, was born on September 15, 1941. He died after a long illness on July 12, 2017, aged 75

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Births, Marriages and Deaths Old Orangery, Lazienki Park. Sir David Manning, Mr Miguel Head, Mrs Rebecca Priestley and Mr Jason Knauf are in attendance.

Buckingham Palace 17th July, 2017 Colonel Christopher Sharwood-Smith (Deputy Lieutenant of Bedfordshire) was present at Luton Airport, London, this evening upon the Arrival of the GovernorGeneral of Canada and Mrs David Johnston and welcomed Their Excellencies on behalf of The Queen. Clarence House 17th July, 2017 Today is the Anniversary of the Birthday of The Duchess of Cornwall. Kensington Palace 17th July, 2017 The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge this morning departed from Royal Air Force Northolt for Poland and were received this afternoon at Warsaw Airport by His Excellency Mr Jonathan Knott (Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Republic of Poland), and subsequently undertook engagements in Warsaw. Their Royal Highnesses attended a Lunch given by The President of the Republic of Poland and Mrs Kornhauser-Duda at the Presidential Palace. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, with The President of the Republic of Poland and Mrs Kornhauser-Duda, afterwards visited the Warsaw Rising Museum. Their Royal Highnesses later attended a Reception for young entrepreneurs in Poland, the Hart, Warsaw Spire. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge this evening attended a Garden Party given by Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Republic of Poland and Mrs Knott at the

Buckingham Palace 17th July, 2017 The Duke of York this morning visited Bristol Robotics Laboratory and opened Future Space, University of the West of England, Filton Road, Stoke Gifford, Bristol, and was received by Her Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of Gloucestershire (Dame Janet Trotter). His Royal Highness, Founder, Pitch@Palace, afterwards attended Pitch@Palace on Tour for entrepreneurs and potential supporters at Future Space, University of the West of England. The Duke of York, Grand Master, Honourable Company of Air Pilots, this afternoon received Mr Paul Tacon (Clerk). Buckingham Palace 17th July, 2017 The Princess Royal, Master, the Worshipful Company of Saddlers, this evening attended the Installation Court and a Reception, Saddlers’ Hall, 40 Gutter Lane, London EC2. Kensington Palace 17th July, 2017 The Duke of Gloucester, Grand Prior, the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem, and Prince Michael of Kent, Grand Master of the Mark Master Masons, this afternoon attended the Presentation and Dedication of Ambulances at Armoury House, City Road, London EC1, to mark the Launch of the Partnership between the Priory of England and the Islands and the Grand Lodge of Mark Master Masons, and were received by Her Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of Greater London (Mr Kenneth Olisa).

Judicial appointments and retirements Retirements 6 Judge John Lester Hand, QC, retired as a circuit judge on June 17. 6 Judge Robert Mark Eades retired as a circuit judge on June 24. 6 Judge Jeffrey Allan Lewis retired as a circuit judge on June 24. 6 Judge Lindsey Margaret Astle retired on July 1. 6 District Judge Timothy Patrick McLoughlin retired from the district bench on July 1. 6 District Judge (magistrates’ courts) Robert Joseph Zara retired on July 1. 6 District Judge Philip Clifford Rogers retired from the district bench on July 1. 6 District Judge Paul Raymond Carr retired from the district bench on July 1. 6 Employment Judge David Peter Burton retired on July 1. 6 Tribunal Judge Veronica Teresa Barran retired as a deputy regional tribunal judge of the first-tier tribunal (property chamber) on July 1. 6 Judge Cosmo Gerald

Maitland Gordon retired as a senior circuit judge on July 1. 6 Judge Stuart William Baker retired as a circuit judge on July 6. 6 Employment Judge John Hunter retired on July 7. 6 Judge John Hargreaves Reddihough retired as a circuit judge on July 8. 6 District Judge Keith Anthony Price retired from the district bench on July 9. 6 Tribunal Judge Jonathan James Bennett Nicholson retired on July 11. 6 District Judge Stephen Thompson Alderson retired from the district bench on July 11. 6 District Judge Christopher Mansell Birkby retired from the district bench on July 11. Appointment 6 The senior president of tribunals, Sir Ernest Ryder, has appointed Gregory John Sinfield as president of the first-tier tribunal assigned to the tax chamber with effect from October 11.

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Weather Weather Eye Paul Simons

Today A mostly dry day with sunny spells, a few thunderstorms in the south later. Max 27C (81F), min 8C (46F) Around Britain

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nd occasional areas a sunshine and of cloud. Feeling warm. Light to moderate east or southeasterly winds. Maximum 25C (77F), minimum 13C (55F). Wales, IoM, Republic of Ireland: A dry day is expected with periods of sunshine, turning hazier from the south later. Light to moderate southeasterly winds. Maximum 25C (77F), minimum 13C (55F). Lake District, SW Scotland, N Ireland, NE Eng, Borders, Edinburgh and Dundee, Aberdeen, Moray Firth, NE

Scotland, N Isles: Staying settled with spells of sunshine and patchy cloud. Warm in the west. Light to moderate southeasterly winds. Maximum 23C (73F), minimum 8C (46F). Argyll, Glasgow, Cen Highland, NW Scotland: Essentially dry with spells of sunshine and patchy cloud. A few isolated afternoon showers are possible, particularly over the Highlands. Light to moderate southeasterly winds. Maximum 23C (73F), minimum 8C (46F).

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Synoptic situation High pressure will be centred over the North Sea bringing ﬁne and dry weather over much of the British Isles. A thundery low over the Bay of Biscay will drift northwards bringing the increasing threat of thunderstorms in the southwest. Scattered thunderstorms will drift erratically north into southern England overnight.

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oday marks the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen’s death. One of the ingenious qualities about Austen’s writing is the intricate way that she wove the weather through her plots. For example, in Sense and Sensibility when Marianne Dashwood ventures outside for a walk with her sister Margaret. “Suddenly the clouds united over their heads, and a driving rain set full in their face.” They run down a hill, but Marianne falls and sprains her ankle. She is rescued by Mr Willoughby, whom she rapidly falls in love with, but which ends in heartache for her. In Pride and Prejudice Jane Bennet gets an invitation from Caroline Bingley for dinner at Netherfield. Her mother, Mrs Bennet, uses the weather to send Jane on horseback rather than by carriage, “because it seems likely to rain; and then you must stay all night”, hoping it will stir a romance with Mr Bingley. The plan goes wrong when Jane gets drenched in the rain, becoming so ill that her sister Elizabeth comes to Netherfield to care for her. Elizabeth’s stay has unintended consequences because Mr Darcy, another guest, realises that “she attracted him more than he liked”. The real weather featured in Austen’s letters to her family. In December 1815 she was ecstatic about unseasonably mild weather: “I enjoy it all over me, from top to toe, from right to left, longitudinally, perpendicularly, diagonally,” she wrote to Cassandra, her sister. She grew exasperated by the wet summer of 1816 — “Oh! It rains again. It beats against the window,” she wrote to Edward, her nephew. Her interest in the weather might have been stirred by the meteorologist Luke Howard, whose study of the clouds was an inspiration for other writers and artists. There is a tantalising possibility they might have met. Howard is known to have passed through the village of Chawton in Hampshire where Jane lived, on the way to nearby Alton.

Tuesday July 18 2017 | the times

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Sport STEVEN PASTON/BPI/SHUTTERSTOCK

Ntando Mahlangu, of South Africa, takes a spectacular fall in a 100m T42 heat won by Whitehead, right. The Briton went on to finish third in last night’s final

Kamlish sets record in heats – then wins gold

ophie Kamlish succeeded last night where she failed in Rio de Janeiro by following up a world record run with a gold medal at the World Para Athletics Championships in London. Kamlish has mixed memories of the Paralympics last year, where she proved she was the world’s fastest sprinter in the T44 100m heats but returned home without a medal after messing up her final. At the London Stadium last night, she set a world record in the heats in 12.90sec, and things went to plan in the final as she claimed the gold medal in a slightly slower 12.92. “I was really worried about Rio,” she said. “Then I thought it was OK. My brain isn’t going to let me do that again. You can’t really ignore the parallels between it,

but I relaxed and focused on myself.” Hannah Cockroft won her second gold medal of the championships with the help of some team tactics. Kare Adenegan, her 16-yearold Great Britain colleague, led after 400 metres but moved over to let Cockroft through before cutting in front of Alexa Halko, of the United States. Halko got past Adenegan on the back straight but Cockroft was well clear and won in 2min 1.77sec, a championship record. Halko was second in 2:03.49, with Adenegan third in 2:05.76. “It wasn’t planned,” Cockroft said. “Kare got a real fast start, I got a slow start, but as soon as the speed dropped off I shouted, ‘If you want to pull out, I’m here.’ So she pulled out and I picked up the pace so it created a gap between me and Alexa. This is

racing, this is what it is.” Adenegan said that she had moved over in the hope of getting the benefit of slipstreaming

in the draught from Cockroft’s chair and the innovative move was praised by Halko. “I loved it because we

haven’t had that kind of strategy in a while and it surprised me,” the American said. “That’s what the 800 metres is

Froome’s bike among 3,000 Tour tests for hidden motors Tour de France Jeremy Whittle Le Puy-en-Velay

Chris Froome’s bike is among the many to have been repeatedly tested for a hidden motor during this year’s Tour de France as the sport steps up its fight against technological fraud. Immediately after Sunday’s stage to Le Puy-en-Velay, in which he closed a 50-second gap to his rivals on the steep penultimate climb, Froome’s bike was scanned by testers from the UCI, the sport’s governing body, who were waiting beyond the finish line. The team running their iPads over bike frames has become a familiar sight on the Tour, both in start villages and beyond the finish lines of most stages. The UCI was first alerted to the possibilities of motors in bikes in 2010 and has now increased the frequency and sophistication of testing and believes that its scanners are “100 per cent effective”. The threat of technological fraud became very real in early 2016 when the Belgian rider Femke Van den Driessche, competing in the women’s world cycling cross championships, was

caught racing with a concealed motor in the frame of her bike. She was banned for six years until October 2021. Since then the UCI has increased testing, scanning more than 18,500 bikes in 2016 and an estimated 22,000 by the end of this year. Mark Barfield, the UCI’s technical manager, said that his team had conducted 3,000 tests since the Tour left Düsseldorf on July 1. “We use a scanner and also thermal imaging,” Barfield said, “but that only really works if the motor is being used. But we are very confident in the scanner that we use in the tablet. That is our primary device and we don’t need to use anything else. We did 180 days of testing with the scanner last year but only five days of thermal imaging.” Barfield has even sent his detection staff into the peloton during this year’s Tour on motorcycles, checking for motors as they sit alongside riders racing in breakaway groups. “The basic principle is that we create a magnetic field,” he said, “and anything that disturbs that fixed magnetic field shows up on the software that we have.” Froome has faced allegations of mechanical doping in the past, particu-

larly in 2013 and 2015 when his violent accelerations in mountain stages became the subject of intense scrutiny. Among others to have accusations levelled against them are Fabian Cancellara, a multiple Classics winner and Olympic time-trial champion, and Alberto Contador, a winner of two Tours. Both denied using motors. Most motors would be activated by a button beneath the handlebar tape, as was the case with Van den Driessche, but Barfield acknowledged that it is also “theoretically possible” to connect a motor to a heart-rate monitor so that the motor takes over at the moment of greatest stress. “There is a method of activating the motor without a switch, by remotely connecting the heart-rate monitor to the motor by Bluetooth,” he said. Barfield admitted that his team has acted on tip-offs from other riders, when targeting those for scanning. Barfield said that the exposure of any top rider as a user of motors “would be a huge threat to the sport and I think a lot of people in the teams recognise that. This is cheating and the UCI take it very seriously. I would like to think we’ve scared the cheats off.”

Women’s European Championship: Group B: Germany 0 Sweden 0; Italy 1 Russia 2.

Cricket Only Test Sri Lanka v Zimbabwe Colombo (fourth day of five): Sri Lanka, with seven second-innings wickets in hand, need 218 runs to beat Zimbabwe Zimbabwe: First Innings 356 (C R Ervine 160; H M R K B Herath 5 for 116) Second Innings (overnight 252-6) S R Butt b Herath 127

about. Do what you have to do.” It was Cockroft’s ninth gold medal at a world championships and she

Angry Brailsford bans reporter Matt Dickinson Chief Sports Writer Le Puy-en-Velay

Chris Froome believes he is peaking just in time for his fourth victory at the Tour de France in five years. But, as he seeks to hold off three challengers, PR problems continue to pursue his team. Sir Dave Brailsford reportedly told one journalist from cyclingnews.com that he was not welcome at Team Sky’s limited media gathering yesterday, a row stemming from coverage of therapeutic use exemptions (TUEs) involving Sir Bradley Wiggins. According to the website, Brailsford told the reporter that he was not invited for writing “shit”. The Wiggins affair is still proving heavy baggage for the team, with another ramification appearing to be a growing reluctance among cyclists to seek the type of TUE used by the 2012 Tour champion for injections of a corticosteroid. Tim Wellens, a Belgian rider for Lotto-Soudal, abandoned the Tour on stage 15 after declining to seek medication that might have treated an illness or allergic reaction. Servaas Bingé, the team doctor, confirmed that a drug, normally on the banned list, had been offered to Wellens but the cyclist had opted not to take it through a TUE. “That was his choice,” Bingé said. “He wanted to be fair. This is a major mental

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is expected to make it ten on Thursday in the 400m. Olivia Breen won the T38 long jump and put memories of her 12thplace finish in Rio behind her, with a best jump of 4.81m to take gold. “I knew what I needed to do, and I’ve put all the hard work in so I was just telling myself to get the job done,” Breen said. Richard Whitehead confirmed he would continue his career until the next Paralympics in Tokyo in 2020 after finishing third in the T42 100m behind Scott Reardon, of Australia, and Daniel Wagner, of Denmark. Whitehead, 40, won 200m gold on Saturday. “You have to accept the ups and downs in life and I was beaten by two better guys today,” Whitehead said.

Stage 16 today Start 12.40pm Le Puy-en-Velay 615m

Estimated finish 4.10pm Romans-sur-Isère 164m

Côte de Boussoulet 1,204m

Col du Rouvey 1,250m

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flip with young athletes and it is a good thing.” While Wellens was being praised for his stance, the case raised the risk of riders endangering their health for fear of being accused of seeking medication under false pretences. The Tour resumes today with the first of two big Alpine stages before a time-trial in Marseilles. Three riders are within 29 seconds of Froome.

Fixtures M Waller c Tharanga b Perera 68 *A G Cremer c Karunaratne b Herath 48 D T Tiripano lbw b Perera 19 C B Mpofu not out 9 Extras (b 4, lb 14, w 7, nb 1) 26 Total (107.1 overs) 377 Fall of wickets: 1-14, 2-16, 3-17, 4-23, 5-59, 6-145, 7-289, 8-306, 9-361. Bowling: Lakmal 14-0-43-0; Herath 39.1-5-133-6; Perera 30-2-95-3; Kumara 20-3-72-1; Mendis 4-0-16-0. Sri Lanka: First Innings 346 (W U Tharanga 71; L D Chandimal 55; A G Cremer 5 for 125) Second Innings F D M Karunaratne b Williams 49

W U Tharanga c Moor b Cremer 27 B K G Mendis not out 60 *L D Chandimal c Masakadza b Cremer 15 A D Mathews not out 17 Extras (lb 2) 2 Total (3 wkts, 48 overs) 170 Fall of wickets: 1-58, 2-108, 3-133. Bowling: Butt 9-1-29-0; Williams 16-0-62-1; Cremer 19-0-67-2; Waller 4-0-10-0. Umpires: I J Gould and N J Llong.

Tennis WTA Ladies Championship: Gstaad, Switzerland First round: R Sramkova (Slovakia) bt

N Stojanovic (Serbia) 6-3, 6-4; M Sakkari (Gr) bt M Barthel (Ger) 4-6, 6-3, 6-3; L Chirico (US) bt T Smitkova (Cz) 7-6 (7-5), 6-4; C Witthöft (Ger) bt S Soler-Espinosa (Sp) 6-3, 7-6 (7-5); A Zaja (Ger) bt P Maria Tig (Rom) 6-2, 6-3; K Bertens (Neth) bt A Krunic (Serbia) 6-3, 6-1; A Kalinskaya (Russ) bt R Masarova (Switz) 7-5, 6-7 (9-11), 7-5.

Para-athletics World Para Athletics Championships London Stadium, Stratford: GB gold medals: Women: 100m T44: S Kamlish, 12.92sec. 800m T34: H Cockroft, 2min 1.77sec. Long jump T38: O Breen, 4.81m.

Cricket NatWest T20 Blast: South group: Canterbury: Kent Spitfires v Gloucestershire (7.0). Women’s World Cup: Semi-final: Bristol: England v South Africa (10.30).

Football Champions League: Second qualifying round, second leg: The New Saints (0) v HNK Rijeka (2) (7.0). Scottish Betfred Cup (7.45): Group A: Brechin City v Forfar Athletic; Stirling Albion v Inverness Caledonian Thistle. Group B: East

Fife v Dunfermline; Elgin v Heart of Midlothian. Group C: Raith Rovers v Dundee. Group D: Alloa Athletic v Arbroath; Montrose v Ross County. Group E: Kilmarnock v Clyde; Dumbarton v Ayr United. Group F: Greenock Morton v Queen’s Park; Edinburgh City v Berwick Rangers. Group G: Albion Rovers v Stenhousemuir; Queen of the South v East Kilbride. Group H: Airdrieonians v Stranraer; St Mirren v Livingston.

Para-athletics London Stadium, Stratford: World Para Athletics Championships.

the times | Tuesday July 18 2017

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Racing Sport Bath Thunderer 2.00 Cubswin 3.30 Mr Pocket 2.30 Coronation Cottage 4.00 Babyfact 3.00 Aquadabra (nap) 4.30 Imphal (nb) Going: firm Draw: no advantage At The Races

2.00

Handicap (£4,205: 1m 3f 137y) (5)

Lulu Stanford (5) 1 (4) 41260 MELABI 33 (D) R Ford 4-9-10 T Marquand 2 (5) 14524 PETE SO HIGH 6 (P) R Hannon 3-9-4 A Atzeni 3 (3) -4435 CUBSWIN 15 R Charlton 3-9-3 E Greatrex (3) 4 (2) 36421 PONDERING 17 (V) E Houghton 3-8-13 5 (1) 64321 PLATO'S KODE 13 (T,P,CD) S Durack 3-8-12 R Winston 2-1 Plato's Kode, 3-1 Pondering, 7-2 Cubswin, 5-1 Pete So High, 6-1 Melabi.

Thunderer’s choice: Cubswin drops 2lb despite shaping well on both of her handicap starts Danger: Plato’s Kode

2.30

Fillies’ Handicap (£3,235: 5f 160y) (7)

A Atzeni (7) 3-41 BELLA ALISSA 31 (P,C) R Cowell 3-9-7 S W Kelly (2) 0065- GRAND MYLA 301 (P) G L Moore 3-9-6 (4) 00-04 EVENING STARLIGHT 4 R Hodges 4-9-5 Finley Marsh (7) G Wood (3) (5) 3-353 ISLAND CLOUD 22 Mrs H Main 3-9-3 M Dwyer (1) 21200 LITTLE MISS DAISY 78 W Muir 3-9-2 (6) 0-533 CORONATION COTTAGE 20 M Saunders 3-9-1 C Bennett (3) 7 (3) 04000 SILVER SPRINGS 34 R Ingram 4-8-7 Rhiain Ingram (7) 15-8 Bella Alissa, 3-1 Coronation Cottage, Island Cloud, 10-1 Evening Starlight, Grand Myla, Little Miss Daisy, 20-1 Silver Springs. 1 2 3 4 5 6

Thunderer: Coronation Cottage took a step forward here in similar conditions last time Danger: Bella Alissa

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Handicap (2-Y-O: £4,205: 5f 10y) (10)

S Levey 1 (8) 0104 JUNE DOG 12 R Hannon 9-9 T Marquand 2 (1) 000 IVY LEAGUER 11 B Meehan 9-2 3 (5) 51450 DIAMOND PURSUIT 17 (B,D) J Hughes 9-1 D C Costello S W Kelly 4 (9) 23025 AUTUMN LODGE 6 J Moore 9-1 A Atzeni 5 (3) 33342 AQUADABRA 13 M Channon 8-13 6 (2) 501 DREAMBOAT ANNIE 25 (CD) M Usher 8-10 S Drowne D Probert 7 (7) 050 LAURA KNIGHT 20 G L Moore 8-9 S Hitchcott 8 (4) 050 COVE BEACH 19 (B) P Cole 8-8 O Murphy 9 (10) 0064 HASTENPLACE 6 (B) B Millman 8-6 Josephine Gordon 10 (6) 554 LLAMREI 20 J Hughes 8-3 4-1 Aquadabra, June Dog, 11-2 Autumn Lodge, 6-1 Dreamboat Annie, 7-1 others.

Thunderer: Aquadabra is highly consistent and appears well treated here Dangers: June Dog, Dreamboat Annie

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Handicap (3-Y-O: £9,704: 5f 160y) (7)

O Murphy 1 (4) 16-60 BARRINGTON 27 (T) C Hills 9-7 S Levey 2 (1) 55044 TOMILY 11 R Hannon 9-6 A Atzeni 3 (5) 32-12 YALAWIN 50 (BF) R Varian 9-1 C Bishop 4 (3) 50411 SUPER JULIUS 14 (P) E Houghton 8-11 P Dobbs 5 (7) -6322 OPEN WIDE 22 (H,B,BF) Mrs A Perrett 8-10 Josephine Gordon 6 (6) 16214 ARZAAK 36 (B,BF) C Dwyer 8-10 F M Berry 7 (2) -1022 MR POCKET 21 (T,CD,BF) P Cole 8-9 11-4 Yalawin, 4-1 Super Julius, 5-1 Open Wide, 6-1 Mr Pocket, Tomily, 7-1 others.

Thunderer: Mr Pocket had no luck in running but rallied to finish second last twice Dangers: Yalawin, Open Wide

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Thunderer: Babyfact has won four times here and travelled well at Newbury earlier this month Danger: Archimedes

Handicap (£4,205: 1m 5f 11y) (4)

1 (2) 01062 BECCA CAMPBELL 15 (P) E Houghton 4-10-0 E Greatrex (3) O Murphy 2 (4) /20-2 LONDONIA 6 (H,T) G McPherson 5-9-4 T Saunders (7) 3 (1) 00-21 IMPHAL 25 (P,CD) M Tregoning 3-8-11 R Tate 4 (3) 50643 TENBY TWO 13 M Channon 3-8-6 2-1 Imphal, 5-2 Londonia, 3-1 Becca Campbell, 7-2 Tenby Two.

Thunderer: Imphal is well bred, unexposed and won over course and distance last month Danger: Londonia

Beverley Thunderer 2.15 Ben My Chree 4.15 Major Crispies 2.45 Wensley 4.45 Big Time Dancer 3.15 Roaring Rory 5.15 Babamunchkin 3.45 Corpus Chorister 5.45 Lean On Pete Going: good to firm (good in places) Draw: low numbers best Racing UK

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Novice Auction Stakes (2-Y-O: £3,881: 5f) (9)

GEESALA BRAVE J J Quinn 9-2 J Hart 1 (2) MAGIC SHIP O Pears 9-2 A Mullen 2 (9) 0 CAMEO STAR 29 R Fahey 8-13 P Hanagan 3 (8) 26 TEMBER 20 T D Barron 8-13 P McDonald 4 (6) 30 MEDICI ORO 13 D Brown 8-11 K Shoemark 5 (7) IPCRESS FILE S Dixon 8-9 D Allan 6 (4) 3 JOHNI BOXIT 12 Miss G Kelleway 8-9 D Muscutt 7 (3) 6 FOXY LADY 13 K A Ryan 8-8 S A Gray 8 (5) 4 BEN MY CHREE 11 B Smart 8-6 C Beasley 9 (1) 11-4 Tember, 4-1 Ben My Chree, Cameo Star, 5-1 Geesala Brave, 9-1 others.

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Novice Auction Stakes (2-Y-O: £3,881: 5f) (9)

1 (4) 2 (8)

04 CURZON 27 D O'Meara 9-2 02 ROUNDHAY PARK 10 N Tinkler 9-2

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Handicap (£2,588: 5f) (15)

D Allan 1 (6) 06002 SARABI 11 (P,D) S Dixon 4-9-12 J Hart 2 (11) 23000 SPIRIT OF ZEBEDEE 12 J J Quinn 4-9-12 3 (1) 33353 ROARING RORY 21 (P,CD) O Pears 4-9-11 Seamus Cronin (7) D Tudhope 4 (9) 00000 BE BOLD 13 (B,D) R Bastiman 5-9-10 5 (15) 11022 MR STRUTTER 8 (H,CD) J J Quinn 3-9-8 Josh Quinn (7) 6 (7) -0056 HARBOUR LIGHTNING 29 (P) N Wilson 3-9-2 P P Mathers K Shoemark 7 (3) 22230 MAGGI MAY 14 D Brown 3-8-11 D Brock 8 (10) 50446 LITTLE CUPCAKE 14 (V) D Quinn 6-8-10 A Mullen 9 (4) 02004 TINSILL 14 (P,CD) N Tinkler 6-8-10 T Eaves 10 (5) -6005 GEORGE BAILEY 48 (CD) S France 5-8-10 11(12) 06060 WHISPERING WOLF 48 S France 4-8-10 J Vaughan (3) C Beasley 12 (8) 0056 SIX OF THE BEST 14 B Smart 5-8-10 C Hardie 13(14) 04500 LA HAULE LADY 14 P Midgley 3-8-8 S A Gray 14 (2) 63040 JOYSUNNY 4 J Coward 3-8-6 15(13) 00003 MISS PEPPER 19 (H) P Midgley 3-8-6 Sammy Jo Bell (3) 5-1 Maggi May, Roaring Rory, Sarabi, 7-1 Mr Strutter, 8-1 Harbour Lightning, 10-1 Six Of The Best, 12-1 George Bailey, 14-1 La Haule Lady, Tinsill, 16-1 others.

3.45

Handicap (£6,225: 2m 32y) (7)

(5) 633-0 HIGHLAND CASTLE 18J (T) L Egerton 9-10-2 N Farley P Hanagan (6) 40605 ANGEL GABRIAL 17 (D) R Fahey 8-10-0 K Shoemark (2) 4-164 GRUMETI 13 (P,D) A King 9-9-11 (4) 2-422 CORPUS CHORISTER 17 D Menuisier 4-9-11 Kevin Stott A Mullen (7) -6132 LA FRITILLAIRE 23 (D) J Given 5-8-9 (3) 000-4 WATERCLOCK 66J (V,CD) M D Hammond 8-8-9 P McDonald J Fanning 7 (1) 00330 THE BLUES MASTER 18 M Johnston 3-8-0 11-4 Corpus Chorister, 3-1 La Fritillaire, 4-1 Angel Gabrial, 6-1 others.

1 2 3 4 5 6

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Handicap (£3,781: 7f 96y) (13)

1 (12) 61011 TALENT SCOUT 10 (P,CD) Mrs K Tutty 11-10-0 Gemma Tutty (5) J Haynes 2 (8) 00-56 DOT GREEN 10 M Tompkins 4-9-12 3 (13) -0605 MYWAYISTHEONLYWAY 11 G Tuer 4-9-11 Phil Dennis (5) T Hamilton 4 (2) 22003 TADAAWOL 24 (P) R G Fell 4-9-11 K Shoemark 5 (1) 03352 AMOOD 18 (P) S West 6-9-9 D Tudhope 6 (6) 12033 MAJOR CRISPIES 13 D O'Meara 6-9-7 P Hanagan 7 (4) -6212 FULL OF PROMISE 15 R Fahey 4-9-7 J Fanning 8 (3) 23642 EL PRINCIPE 15 (H,T) L Eyre 4-9-6 J Hart 9 (9) 45035 GEORGE REME 11 (V) J J Quinn 3-9-4 J Garritty 10(11) 15410 TANAWAR 13 (B) Mrs R Carr 7-9-4 R Hornby 11(10) 4-165 KEEPUP KEVIN 25 Mrs P Sly 3-9-3 12 (7) 60-00 RELIGHT MY FIRE 13 (P,CD) T Easterby 7-9-0 Rachel Richardson (3) M Lane 13 (5) 501-0 TRAVELTALK 18 (P) B Ellison 3-8-12 9-2 Full Of Promise, 13-2 Amood, Talent Scout, 7-1 Keepup Kevin, Major Crispies, 9-1 El Principe, 10-1 George Reme, Tadaawol, 12-1 others.

4.45

Handicap (£4,205: 5f 10y) (5)

1 (2) 31503 BABYFACT 12 (C,D) M Saunders 6-9-11 Josephine Gordon 2 (3) 11602 GO AMBER GO 22 (CD) B Millman 5-9-7 Lulu Stanford (5) G Wood (3) 3 (5) 3-212 SECRET AGENT 20 (P,D) W Muir 3-9-6 L Keniry 4 (1) 44050 EMJAYEM 12 (P,CD) J Holt 7-9-3 O Murphy 5 (4) 30053 ARCHIMEDES 5 (T,P,CD) D Griffiths 4-9-2 2-1 Secret Agent, 5-2 Babyfact, 7-2 Archimedes, 4-1 Go Amber Go, 10-1 Emjayem.

4.30

5 WENSLEY 14 J Bethell 8-13 P McDonald 3 (2) CAVENDISH PLACE D Brown 8-9 K Shoemark 4 (3) 6 JAIMIE'S JOY 13 Tony Coyle 8-9 B McHugh 5 (9) 0 LEADEROFTHEPACK 10 B Smart 8-9 C Beasley 6 (1) 0 MENDALI 50 D Griffiths 8-9 D Allan 7 (5) DANDY'S BEANO K A Ryan 8-8 S A Gray 8 (7) AISLIN MOON L Eyre 8-4 J Fanning 9 (6) 15-8 Roundhay Park, 4-1 Wensley, 5-1 Dandy's Beano, 7-1 Cavendish Place, 9-1 Jaimie's Joy, Leaderofthepack, 14-1 others.

Handicap (£5,041: 1m 100y) (8)

1 (8) 41433 MON BEAU VISAGE 11 (P,C,D) D O'Meara 4-10-0 D Tudhope P Vaughan (7) 2 (5) -0525 PUMAFLOR 57 (D) D O'Meara 5-10-0 3 (6) 00340 WORLDS HIS OYSTER 20 (V,D) J J Quinn 4-10-0 J Hart T Clark (3) 4 (2) 520-1 LORD REASON 12 (D) J Butler 5-9-12 P McDonald 5 (1) 02526 MAKE ON MADAM 12 (CD) L Eyre 5-9-7 M Lane 6 (4) 011-6 BIG TIME DANCER 20 (CD) B Ellison 4-9-1 7 (3) 55431 VALLEY OF ROCKS 10 (D) M Johnston 3-8-10 J Fanning A Mullen 8 (7) 0-404 MONT ROYAL 28 O Pears 3-8-8 4-1 Big Time Dancer, Valley Of Rocks, 5-1 Mon Beau Visage, 6-1 Lord Reason, Make On Madam, Worlds His Oyster, 8-1 Pumaflor, 12-1 Mont Royal.

5.15

Handicap (3-Y-O: £2,588: 1m 1f 207y) (11)

L Steward 1 (1) 40-04 BABAMUNCHKIN 53 Michael Bell 9-7 T Hamilton 2 (2) 6-451 SHAMBRA 57 (D) R G Fell 9-7 L Edmunds (5) 3 (8) -0633 KILBAHA LADY 7 (T) N Tinkler 9-6 P Makin 4 (3) 6-006 MOONLIGHT SILVER 42 W Muir 9-5 D Tudhope 5 (10) 2-135 CLENYMISTRA 8 (D) D O'Meara 9-4 Kevin Stott 6 (5) 2-460 PETIT FILOUS 21 G Bravery 9-3 M Lane 7 (4) 40-50 SEEBRING 19 (P) B Ellison 9-0 8 (6) 62035 KNIGHTSBRIDGE LIAM 15 M W Easterby 8-11 H Shaw (7) 9 (7) 0-550 PITCH HIGH 36 Miss J Feilden 8-10 Shelley Birkett (3) A Mullen 10(11) 00-03 MR C 21 O Pears 8-5 D Fentiman 11 (9) -0425 BOLLIN TED 4 (BF) T Easterby 8-2 7-2 Shambra, 5-1 Clenymistra, 13-2 Mr C, Petit Filous, 7-1 Babamunchkin, Bollin Ted, 12-1 Kilbaha Lady, Moonlight Silver, 14-1 others.

5.45

Lady Riders’ Handicap (£2,588: 1m 1f 207y) (13)

1 (4) 00001 ROYAL RESERVE 7 D O'Meara 4-10-13 Shelley Birkett 2 (1) 10000 PIVOTMAN 31 (T,D) M W Easterby 9-10-9 Miss Joanna Mason Miss G Andrews 3 (13) -0033 SPINART 10 (P,BF) Mrs P Sly 4-10-8 4 (7) 4-230 ROYAL HOLIDAY 43 (P) Mrs M Fife 10-10-7Miss B Smith 5 (8) 0-651 DIAMONDS A DANCING 10 (H,D) D McCain 7-10-5 Miss A McCain (5) 6 (5) 30541 LEAN ON PETE 21 (CD) O Pears 8-10-2 Miss C Walton 7 (3) 30-60 AMERICAN HUSTLE 29 B Ellison 5-9-13 Miss L Wilson 8 (11) 03003 I'M SUPER TOO 11 (B,CD) Mrs K Tutty 10-9-13 Gemma Tutty 9 (10) 06050 CANDESTA 15 (C) Miss J Feilden 7-9-12 Sammy Jo Bell Rachel Richardson 10 (6) 2505- EURO MAC 266 N Bycroft 5-9-8 11(12) -6460 INSPECTOR NORSE 10 (P,D) T Easterby 6-9-8 Miss E Easterby 12 (9) -0000 GRACEFUL ACT 10 (P,D) R Barr 9-9-2 Miss S Brotherton 13 (2) 0030- BELLE PEINTURE 308 A Lockwood 6-9-2 Miss E Bullock (5) 2-1 Royal Reserve, 9-2 Spinart, 7-1 Diamonds A Dancing, Lean On Pete, 10-1 I'm Super Too, Inspector Norse, 14-1 American Hustle, 16-1 others.

I defied doctor’s advice, says Dettori Mark Souster Racing Writer

Frankie Dettori admitted yesterday that his broken shoulder should have kept him out of action for three months and that he was in agony when he rode in both the French and Irish Oaks. Dettori, who confirmed yesterday that he will be reunited with Big Orange for the Goodwood Cup on August 1, returned to the saddle sooner than he should have done to ride Enable to victory at the Curragh on Saturday and secure an Oaks double on the John Gosden-trained filly. He was hurt when thrown from a horse in the paddock at Yarmouth on June 13. Five days later he partnered Shutter Speed in the Prix de Diane — the French Oaks — at Chantilly to finish fourth. He knew he had suffered a serious injury but refused to have an x-ray in the hope that he could “kid

himself” that he would be fit for Royal Ascot the next week. When the extent of the injury was revealed, he pulled out of the royal meeting on the first morning. His surgeon told him he should rest and recover for three months. “I told him I cannot afford to,” Dettori said. “I told him instead you can have three weeks. In the end it’s been 35 days.” Dettori is still nursing himself back to full fitness. At present he can manage two or three rides in a day. Such were Dettori rode through the pain barrier to win the Irish Oaks

his exertions in Ireland that he is taking much of the next fortnight off to focus on physiotherapy, swimming and riding out to ensure that he is in prime condition for Glorious Goodwood, which begins a fortnight today. “I came back to ride Enable but probably came back too early,” Dettori continued. “But she was my inspiration for coming back. The rehab is so boring, but all the hard work was forgotten when she won.” Big Orange, who won a thrilling Gold Cup, was one of several big-race victories the 46-year-old missed at Ascot. He watched from afar as James Doyle produced a superb ride to thwart Order Of St George. However, hopes of a repeat duel were dashed yesterday when Aidan O’Brien said that his charge will miss Goodwood as part of a midsummer break. Tommy Carberry obituary, page 62

Thirsk Thunderer 6.10 Aclimatise 8.10 Totally Magic 6.40 Semana Santa 8.40 Italian Riviera 7.10 Blushing Red 9.10 Doria Road 7.40 Liquid Going: good (good to firm in places) Draw: 5-6f, high numbers best Racing UK

6.10

Apprentice Maiden Stakes (£3,235: 7f 218y) (11)

BUDARRI 179J W S Coltherd 4-9-13 C Lee (3) 1 (4) 5 DANNY MC D 41 I Jardine 4-9-13 J Gormley (7) 2 (2) 04 GOLDEN JEFFREY 6 I Jardine 4-9-13 Cal Rodriguez (3) 3 (5) ROWNAK 155J B Ellison 4-9-13 Megan Nicholls (3) 4 (11) 02 ACLIMATISE 8 M Johnston 3-9-5 R Oliver (3) 5 (8) G Buckell (3) 6 (10) 606- BAHKIT 348 S Haynes 3-9-5 CHOSEN WORLD J Camacho 3-9-5 A McNamara 7 (1) 53 INFAMOUS LAWMAN 17 B Ellison 3-9-5 B Robinson (5) 8 (6) STOLEN ANGEL A Brittain 3-9-5 Phil Dennis (3) 9 (3) 0 COMPASS ROSE 11 S Dixon 3-9-0 M Fernandes (7) 10 (9) G Malune (7) 11 (7) 25222 SPINNAKA 17 (BF) L Cumani 3-9-0 5-6 Spinnaka, 7-2 Aclimatise, 13-2 Infamous Lawman, 16-1 Chosen World, Golden Jeffrey, Rownak, 25-1 Bahkit, 33-1 others.

6.40

Selling Stakes (£2,588: 5f) (7)

P Mulrennan (4) 51135 NAG'S WAG 10 (D) C Dore 4-9-7 T Eaves (6) 06600 CHIP OR PELLET 21 (D) P Midgley 4-9-2 J Hart (1) 34232 HADLEY 4 (P,BF) Miss T Waggott 4-9-2 (7) 440-0 CHEVALIER DU LAC 15 C Dore 3-8-12 Katherine Glenister (7) 5 (2) 00-00 KING OF CASTILLA 19 (B,D) C Teague 3-8-12 A McNamara (3) Sam James 6 (3) 6d526 SEMANA SANTA 87 T D Barron 4-8-11 C Hardie 7 (5) -3000 EMERALD SECRET 11 (P) P Midgley 3-8-7 6-4 Semana Santa, 15-8 Nag's Wag, 5-1 Hadley, 12-1 others.

1 2 3 4

7.10

Handicap (£3,558: 1m 4f 8y) (11)

H Shaw (7) (7) 00246 ITLAAQ 18 (T,CD) M W Easterby 11-10-0 (1) 63/00 SHERIFF OF NAWTON 3 (D) R G Fell 6-9-12 T Hamilton S A Gray (5) 344-2 CHANT 27 (D) Mrs A Duffield 7-9-9 (4) 4-110 UP TEN DOWN TWO 33 (T,D) M W Easterby 8-9-8 R Timby (7) 5 (6) 40651 MYSTERIAL 7 (V,D) Declan Carroll 7-9-6 Ger O'Neill (7) P P Mathers 6 (8) 23-66 HAYWARD FIELD 40 N Wilson 4-9-2 P Mulrennan 7 (3) 21445 BLUSHING RED 32 (D) E Dunlop 3-9-1 D Allan 8 (11) 6-063 STECCANDO 43 S Haynes 4-9-0 A Mullen 9 (10) -0000 SIR RUNS A LOT 9 T D Barron 5-8-12 P McDonald 10 (9) 0-006 CORREGGIO 21 M D Hammond 7-8-11 P Aspell 11 (2) 25064 GOOD TIME AHEAD 26 P Kirby 3-8-4 9-4 Mysterial, 4-1 Blushing Red, 11-2 Chant, Itlaaq, 11-1 Steccando, 14-1 Correggio, Sir Runs A Lot, Up Ten Down Two, 16-1 others. 1 2 3 4

7.40

Maiden Stakes (£3,235: 5f) (9)

J Hart 1 (4) 020-2 JABBAROCKIE 45 E Alston 4-9-10 2 (5) 23406 OUR PLACE IN LOULE 34 N Wilson 4-9-10 P P Mathers 5- CANFORD BAY 368 A Brittain 3-9-6 A Mullen 3 (8) T Eaves 4 (7) 25-22 LIQUID 73 T D Barron 3-9-6 Josh Doyle (3) 5 (6) 324-3 RAPID RANGER 10 D O'Meara 3-9-6 6 ANGELOU 161 D O'Meara 3-9-1 D Tudhope 6 (2) FINTRY FLYER (H) J Goldie 3-9-1 Sean Mooney (7) 7 (9) 50 KODIAC PEARL 56 R Cowell 3-9-1 J Fanning 8 (3) 45 MELROSE GIRL 27 B Smart 3-9-1 C Beasley 9 (1) 11-8 Liquid, 11-4 Jabbarockie, 7-1 Angelou, 8-1 Rapid Ranger, 14-1 others.

8.10

Fillies’ Handicap (£3,558: 7f) (13)

J Hart 1 (13) 24341 THE STALKING MOON 6 (D) J J Quinn 3-9-12 D Allan 2 (7) 23353 CABAL 25 (B,CD,BF) G Harker 10-9-8 3 (1) 2-66 LOVELY ACCLAMATION 27 I Mohammed 3-9-7 P Mulrennan H Bentley 4 (4) 2-624 HALINKA 22 (P,BF) R Varian 3-9-7

5 (2) -0322 TOTALLY MAGIC 5 (D) R Whitaker 5-9-7 L Edmunds (5) P Cosgrave 6 (5) 2-253 CIRCULATE 166 (BF) T Clover 3-9-4 A Mullen 7 (9) 16240 MIA CARA 12 (D) P D Evans 3-9-4 T Hamilton 8 (6) 5F0-5 NELLIE DEEN 123 (P) R G Fell 4-9-1 Joe Doyle 9 (11) 63-22 ROSY RYAN 18 Miss T Jackson 7-9-1 10 (8) 45230 YORKSHIRE PUDDING 10 (B) T Easterby 3-9-1 Rachel Richardson (3) B McHugh 11(12) 0-005 BERTHA BURNETT 17 B Rothwell 6-8-9 C Hardie 12 (3) 000 MAID IN BRITTAIN 18 A Brittain 3-8-3 D Fentiman 13(10) 00040 MELANIEMILLIE 8 Mrs R Carr 3-8-2 7-2 The Stalking Moon, Totally Magic, 11-2 Halinka, 7-1 Cabal, 10-1 Mia Cara, Rosy Ryan, 12-1 Lovely Acclamation, 14-1 Circulate, Nellie Deen, 16-1 others.

8.40

Handicap (£3,235: 2m 13y) (10)

1 (8) 43541 VERCINGETORIX 12J (P) I Jardine 6-9-11 J Gormley (7) B Robinson (5) 2 (3) 0-045 CARTHAGE 17 (C) B Ellison 6-9-7 3 (7) 32225 STONEBOAT BILL 37 (C,BF) Declan Carroll 5-9-2 Phil Dennis (5) Kevin Stott 4 (1) 31403 CAVALIERI 38 (T,P,D) P Kirby 7-9-0 5 (10) 0001- ITALIAN RIVIERA 174J (H,D) K Slack 8-9-0 P Mulrennan 6 (4) 43543 JAN SMUTS 5 (T,P,D) W Storey 9-8-12 Sammy Jo Bell (3) Sam James 7 (2) 064-5 MCVICAR 137J (P,C) John Davies 8-8-9 J Fanning 8 (9) 05240 PERCY VERENCE 4 Miss T Waggott 4-8-6 9 (5) 16-04 BYRONEGETONEFREE 13J (D) W S Coltherd 6-8-4 P P Mathers C Hardie 10 (6) -5004 CELTIC POWER 19 (V) J Goldie 5-8-2 5-2 Vercingetorix, 4-1 Italian Riviera, 7-1 Carthage, 8-1 Cavalieri, Stoneboat Bill, 10-1 Mcvicar, 12-1 Jan Smuts, Percy Verence, 14-1 others.

9.10

Handicap (3-Y-O: £3,235: 7f 218y) (6)

024 RIGHT ABOUT NOW 22 (BF) I Mohammed 9-7 P Mulrennan A McNamara (3) 2 (1) 30320 THE EAGLE'S NEST 30 R Fahey 9-4 3 (6) 0-520 SPIRIT OF BELLE 33 (V) P D Evans 9-4 Katherine Glenister (7) D Tudhope 4 (4) 00-22 BREANSKI 27 (BF) D O'Meara 9-1 A Mullen 5 (2) 2260- DREAM ON DREAMER 298 A Brittain 8-12 Kevin Stott 6 (3) 40-36 DORIA ROAD 20 K A Ryan 8-10 2-1 Right About Now, 11-4 Breanski, The Eagle's Nest, 8-1 others.

A Tinkler 6 3315- BUCKLE STREET 20F (T,P) M Keighley 4-10-9 7 -4042 A BOY NAMED SUZI 20 (P) Mrs L Wadham 9-10-8 H Skelton 21-30 MIGHTY MISSILE 33 (T) B Barr 6-10-4 R Johnson 8 5-2 Rolling Maul, 100-30 Mr Shantu, 7-2 Slim Pickens, 7-1 Driftwood Haze, 8-1 Luccombe Down, 12-1 A Boy Named Suzi, Buckle Street, 14-1 Mighty Missile.

7.30

Selling Handicap Hurdle (£2,274: 2m 4f) (17)

1-625 PRINCE MAHLER 47 (P) R Woollacott 7-12-3 D Jacob 014F- HONOUR PROMISE 233 (P) B Llewellyn 5-11-12 T O'Brien 50-30 BALLYANDREW 14 N Twiston-Davies 6-11-12 S Twiston-Davies M Heard (5) 4 04P-0 NICE THOUGHTS 21 (B) D Pipe 5-11-12 H Teal (7) 5 PP-05 HOWABOUTNEVER 22 (P,D) R Teal 9-11-10 6 -P1U6 LADIES DANCING 11 (C) C Down 11-11-9 Miss P Fuller (5) B Frost (5) 7 1205- BACCALAUREATE 83 (P) J Frost 11-11-9 8 3-241 TASTE THE WINE 11 (P) B Llewellyn 11-11-4 Jordan Williams (7) 9 -0642 ON ALBERTS HEAD 11 (B,D,BF) R Woollacott 7-11-3 H Cobden M Bastyan (7) 10 5465- TAROUM 31F (T,B,D) J Flint 10-11-3 11 2-34P MARGUERITE ST JUST 37P (T) A Honeyball 7-11-0 D Noonan J E Moore 12 53/P- A TOUCH OF SASS 429 J Spearing 7-10-11 C Gethings (3) 13 0-P30 ATLANTIC KING 11 (V) N Hawke 4-10-11 B Poste (3) 14 5P4-5 PREMIER ROSE 8 K Price 8-10-9 15 /00P- PASS ON THE MANTLE 105 (D) Julian Smith 9-10-8 M D Grant R Johnson 16 15-05 AAMAN 47 B Llewellyn 11-10-8 Mr J Williamson (7) 17 -0050 ISTIMRAAR 9 (B,D) A Dunn 6-10-6 5-1 On Alberts Head, 13-2 Taste The Wine, 15-2 Taroum, 8-1 Aaman, Ballyandrew, 9-1 Prince Mahler, 10-1 Nice Thoughts, 14-1 others. 1 2 3

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Worcester Thunderer 6.00 Adrrastos 6.30 Knight Of Noir 7.00 Slim Pickens 7.30 Aaman Going: good

6.00

8.00 Taws 8.30 Ashoka 9.00 For Instance At The Races

Novices’ Handicap Chase (£3,899: 2m 110y) (6)

W Hutchinson 1 212-4 AVISPA 71 (D) A King 8-11-12 C Shoemark 2 P/63- EXITAS 202 (T,D) P Middleton 9-11-12 A Coleman 3 31-33 ADRRASTOS 53 (D) J Snowden 5-11-10 0F-26 MR KIT CAT 49 (H,C,D) E Williams 7-11-9 A Wedge 4 A P Heskin 5 2P2-3 SPOILT ROTTEN 42 (H) Mark Pitman 8-11-2 H Skelton 6 56P11 DEFINING YEAR 7 (T,D) D Skelton 9-10-4 5-4 Defining Year, 4-1 Adrrastos, 5-1 Avispa, 7-1 Mr Kit Cat, 9-1 others.

6.30

Novices’ Chase (£3,899: 2m 7f) (4)

14-12 BLACK CORTON 20 (T,BF) P Nicholls 6-11-5 B Frost (5) P3-11 KNIGHT OF NOIR 20 (T,C,D) N Mulholland 8-10-12 N Fehily 202-P VERYGOODVERYGOOD 70 (E,T) N Twiston-Davies 6-10-12 S Twiston-Davies T Scudamore 4 430-3 LEE SIDE LADY 33 N Mulholland 7-10-5 10-11 Knight Of Noir, 5-4 Black Corton, 12-1 Verygoodverygood, 25-1 Lee Side Lady. 1 2 3

7.00 1 2 3 4 5

Handicap Hurdle (£5,317: 2m 7f) (8)

652-4 ROLLING MAUL 20F (CD) P Bowen 9-11-12 S Bowen 415U- MR SHANTU 89 (T,CD) Jonjo O'Neill 8-11-10 A Coleman /1222 SLIM PICKENS 13 (C) Dr R Newland 9-11-10 C Hammond (7) 252-0 DRIFTWOOD HAZE 66 P Dando 9-11-8 Mr C Orr (7) 64-45 LUCCOMBE DOWN 46 (B,D,BF) F O'Brien 7-11-2 G Sheehan

8.00

Mares’ Maiden Hurdle (£3,379: 2m) (10)

A P Heskin 1 50-32 FIT THE BRIEF 22 (H,T) T George 7-10-12 D Noonan 2 1005- G FOR GINGER 224 (T,D) A Honeyball 7-10-12 J Best 3 P-UP0 JOY AT MIDNIGHT 13 R Woollacott 5-10-12 4 LADY LUNCHALOT 28 P Gundry 7-10-12 N Scholfield 4 Mr C Orr (7) 5 4U-P2 MOONTRIPPER 43 P Dando 8-10-12 A Lane 6 3-225 STETSONSNSTILETTOS 18 D McCain 5-10-12 D Jacob 7 2322- TAWS 13F (P,BF) B Millman 6-10-12 A P Cawley 8 3-153 DWYNANT 16 (H) D Loughnane 4-10-10 3-05 SAHALIN 26 J Flint 4-10-10 R Dunne 9 10 05-04 SCOTSBROOK NIGHT 23 (T) S Lycett 4-10-10 J Bargary (3) 8-11 Taws, 7-2 Fit The Brief, 8-1 G For Ginger, 9-1 Moontripper, 14-1 others.

8.30

Handicap Hurdle (£3,509: 2m) (12)

00-F1 UTILITY 8 (T,CD) Jonjo O'Neill 6-12-5 A Coleman 11-36 ASHOKA 32 (T,P,D) D Skelton 5-12-3 H Skelton 340-6 BARATINEUR 65 (D) R Hawker 6-12-3 R Hawker (7) 04515 PURPLE 'N GOLD 16 (T,P,C,D) D Pipe 8-11-12 M Heard (5) 4-222 JODIES JEM 14 (BF) M Banks 7-11-11 J Quinlan 22d3- COURTLANDS PRINCE 256 (T,CD,BF) N Mulholland 8-11-11 N Fehily D Jacob 7 040-3 CALVA D'HONORE 35 (D) B Pauling 6-11-7 1-352 BILLY MY BOY 21 (P,D,BF) C Down 8-11-4 Miss P Fuller (5) 8 M Bastyan (7) 9 02121 CILLIAN'S WELL 11 (T,P,D) J Flint 7-11-4 N De Boinville 10 5P-43 SOLSTALLA 8 (CD) D Weston 5-11-3 11 /P-60 DUKE OF SONNING 12F (B,D) Shaun Harris 5-11-2 J E Moore R Dunne 12 0/46- KING ALFONSO 397 (D,BF) D Burchell 8-11-2 7-2 Utility, 6-1 Cillian's Well, 13-2 Ashoka, 8-1 Billy My Boy, Calva D'Honore, Courtlands Prince, 9-1 Purple 'n Gold, Solstalla, 12-1 Jodies Jem, 20-1 others. 1 2 3 4 5 6

9.00

Novices’ Hurdle (£3,379: 2m 7f) (4)

1 21-31 FOR INSTANCE 45 (P,C,D) Jonjo O'Neill 7-11-5 A Coleman N Fehily 2 52-12 OLD HARRY ROCKS 21 (C,BF) H Fry 5-11-5 R Johnson 3 35-02 BLACK ANTHEM 20 B Barr 5-10-12 3-F WOODFIELD ROBIN 50P (T) K Price 6-10-5 B Poste (3) 4 6-5 Old Harry Rocks, 6-4 For Instance, 11-2 Black Anthem, 14-1 Woodfield Robin.

Blinkered first time: Bath 3.00 Hastenplace, Diamond Pursuit, Cove Beach. 3.30 Open Wide. Thirsk 8.10 Yorkshire Pudding. 9.10 Spirit Of Belle.

Yesterday’s racing results Ayr Going: good 2.00 (7f 50yd) 1, Poet’s Prince (J Fanning, 2-1); 2, Grimeford Lane (22-1); 3, French Flyer (5-4 fav). 8 ran. 2Nl, Ol. M Johnston. 2.30 (7f 50yd) 1, Be Kool (Ben Robinson, 5-4 fav); 2, Strong Steps (7-2); 3, Luis Vaz De Torres (4-1). 4 ran. NR: Lomu. 1Nl, nk. B Ellison. 3.00 (6f) 1, Sea Of Green (Sean Mooney, 9-2); 2, Duncan Of Scotland (10-3 fav); 3, Circuitous (16-1). 10 ran. NR: Metisian. 2l, ns. J Goldie. 3.30 (1m 2f) 1, Lucent Dream (P Hanagan, 7-4 fav); 2, Zealous (20-1); 3, Rubis (6-1). 8 ran. 1Kl, 4l. J C McConnell. 4.00 (1m) 1, Royal Shaheen (P McDonald, 9-4 fav); 2, Billy Bond (6-1); 3, Ingleby Angel (7-2). 7 ran. NR: Jumira Prince, Stardrifter, Thornton. 1Ol, Ol. A Whillans.

4.30 (1m) 1, Century Dream (G Lee, 6-5 fav); 2, Truth Or Dare (6-1); 3, Nicholas T (6-1). 8 ran. NR: Carnageo, Hibou, Instant Attraction, Just Hiss, Zabeel Prince, Zwayyan. Ol, hd. S Crisford. 5.00 (1m 5f 26yd) 1, Question Of Faith (Seamus Cronin, 8-1); 2, Donnachies Girl (10-3 fav); 3, Easy Wind (4-1). 12 ran. 1Ol, 1l. M Todhunter. Placepot: £6.70. Quadpot: £3.60.

Ffos Las Going: good 2.15 (7f 80yd) 1, Liva (J F Egan, 11-4); 2, Coal Stock (40-1); 3, We Are The World (4-6 fav). 7 ran. NR: Boreagh Lass. Hd, 1l. P D Evans. 2.45 (6f) 1, Paradwys (Oisin Murphy, 9-4); 2, Waqt (6-5 fav); 3, Mishari (11-2). 7 ran. 4Kl, 1Nl. A Watson.

3.15 (5f) 1, Major Valentine (Tom Marquand, 2-1 fav); 2, The Daley Express (10-1); 3, Zipedeedodah (6-1). 8 ran. NR: Secretfact. 1Nl, Kl. J O’Shea. 3.45 (1m 6f) 1, Nabhan (T J Murphy, 6-1); 2, Moojaned (6-1); 3, African Beat (7-4 fav). 8 ran. 2Nl, Ol. B Llewellyn. 4.15 (1m 3f 209yd) 1, Rowlestonerendezvu (George Downing, 7-1); 2, Perla Blanca (5-4 fav); 3, Masterfilly (11-1). 13 ran. NR: Ocean Gale. Kl, 11l. A Carroll. 4.45 (1m) 1, Captain Sedgwick (J Quinn, 7-1); 2, Mordoree (6-1); 3, Mowhoob (9-1). 13 ran. NR: Belgravian. 2l, Ol. J Spearing. 5.15 (7f 80yd) 1, The Special One (Tom Marquand, 11-2); 2, Spare Parts (9-2 Co fav); 3, Lady Gwhinnyvere (25-1). 12 ran. Sh hd, 1Kl. A Stronge. 5.45 (7f 80yd) 1, Misu Pete (Oisin Murphy, 9-2);

2, Tallulah’s Quest (6-1); 3, De Vegas Kid (4-1). 11 ran. Nk, 2l. M Usher. Placepot: £41.40. Quadpot: £6.70.

Windsor Going: good to firm (good in places) 5.50 (1m 2f) 1, Epsom Secret (Paddy Bradley, 7-1); 2, Rock On Dandy (9-1); 3, Secret Soul (9-4 fav). 13 ran. NR: Hong Kong Joe, Megalala. Kl, Ol. P Phelan. 6.20 (5f 21yd) 1, Golden Salute (David Probert, 4-1); 2, Global Rose (12-1); 3, Expecting (11-4 jt-fav). 11 ran. Ol, ns. A M Balding. 6.50 (6f 12yd) 1, Tip Two Win (David Probert, 20-1); 2, Zyzzyva (3-1); 3, Running Cloud (11-10 fav). 8 ran. 3Kl, 3Kl. R A Teal. 7.20 (5f 21yd) 1, Love On The Rocks (W Buick, 71); 2, Spring Loaded (5-1); 3, Majestic Hero (121). 7 ran. NR: Lightscameraction. 1l, 1Kl. C Hills.

7.50 (1m 31yd) 1, Sayem (P Cosgrave, 5-1); 2, High On Love (9-1); 3, Blushing Rose (5-2 jt-fav). 7 ran. NR: Funky Footsteps, Lady Perignon. 2Ol, 1l. Ed Walker. 8.20 (1m 2f) 1, Celebration Day (David Egan, 5-2); 2, Hollywood Road (13-8 fav); 3, Calvados Spirit (4-1). 6 ran. NR: Alcatraz, The Twisler. 2l, hd. S Crisford. Placepot: £191.90. Quadpot: £90.10.

Wolverhampton Going: standard 5.40 (6f 20yd) 1, Amazing Alice (L Morris, 5-6 fav); 2, Tranquil Soul (9-1); 3, Sancerre (25-1). 9 ran. 2N, 1Ol. Archie Watson. 6.10 (1m 5f 219yd) 1, Sheriff Garrett (D Allan, 7-1); 2, Padleyourowncanoe (11-1); 3, Arcadian Sea (15-2). 13 ran. 3N, 2Kl. T D Easterby.

6.40 (6f 20yd) 1, Desert Rain (Edward Greatrex, 3-1); 2, Samarmadi (11-8 fav); 3, Kyllukey (20-1). 8 ran. NR: King Of Spin, Lexi’s Hero. Sh hd, 1l. S bin Suroor. 7.10 (1m 4f 51yd) 1, Howardian Hills (L Morris, 33-1); 2, Frozon (15-2); 3, Yasir (13-2). 10 ran. NR: Cold Fusion, Saint Helena. 1l, 3N. V R A Dartnall. 7.40 (1m 1f 104yd) 1, Fools And Kings (L Morris, 10-1); 2, Golden Wolf (6-4 fav); 3, Josh The Plod (25-1). 8 ran. 1N, 1l. R Brisland. 8.10 (1m 142yd) 1, Cat Royale (Danny Brock, 8-1); 2, Life Of Luxury (10-1); 3, Anna Medici (5-1). 13 ran. 1N, nk. J Butler. 8.40 (7f 36yd) 1, Phalaborwa (Harry Bentley, 8-1); 2, Nostalgie (14-1); 3, The Amber Fort (5-2). 11 ran. 1N, 1Kl. E F Vaughan. Placepot: £79.50. Quadpot: £18.10.

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I don’t understand why Chelsea let Salah go – Klopp

Arsenal’s £44m striker Lacazette

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Paul Joyce Northern Football Correspondent

Jürgen Klopp claims that Chelsea were short-sighted in their treatment of Mohamed Salah and said that Liverpool disregarded the winger’s brief spell at Stamford Bridge when deciding to sign him. The Liverpool manager, who arrived in Hong Kong with his squad on Monday for the Premier League Asia Trophy, bracketed Salah alongside Kevin De Bruyne as a player who can thrive elsewhere having failed to make an impact with Chelsea. The Egypt attacker moved to Chelsea in January 2014 when José Mourinho, the manager at the time, beat Liverpool to his signature, but the player was loaned out 12 months later after making just 19 appearances in all competitions and scoring two goals. Klopp revealed that he had tried to sign the 25-year-old while in charge of Borussia Dortmund and questioned why Chelsea did not recognise the talents of a player who joined Liverpool for a club-record £36.9 million last month. “A lot of players have shown it is quite easy to struggle at Chelsea, De Bruyne is one,” Klopp said. “The only thing that we really ignored was what he did at Chelsea. Dortmund played against him when he was at Basle and we didn’t know him. It was, ‘What the f***.’ It was unbelievable. “The moment I said, ‘Let’s go for him,’ he was already at Chelsea. Then he struggled at Chelsea because it was too early. Then he went to Fiorentina and then Roma. The question is, ‘What did you not see in him?’ because he played all-inclusive football. “He was quick, he played a lot of games, he creates goals, chances, he scored by himself. He was involved in pretty much everything for Egypt at the

Liverpool’s match against Palace at the Mong Kok Stadium is under threat from the weather. In 2013, Manchester City played there, above, despite torrential rain

Africa Cup of Nations [where Egypt were runners-up]. He had the free kick [in the 1-0 group win against Ghana].” Salah scored from close range on his Liverpool debut in a 1-1 draw with Wigan Athletic last Friday having been deployed on the right side of a front three and should feature against Crystal Palace tomorrow when the Asia Trophy begins. Despite his longstanding interest in Salah, Klopp tried to sign Wolfsburg’s Julian Draxler before his move to Paris Saint-Germain in January, and had originally targeted Bayer Leverkusen’s Julian Brandt this summer. Yet he has an important role earmarked for the player. “He is a left-footed player and we don’t have too many of them in the team,” Klopp said. “It makes him really valuable for us. I’m happy for the moment, [although] he needs to learn a lot. We brought him [against Wigan] to show him [that]. Now we have to start working, the physical part and the technical part.”

Klopp has voiced concerns about the state of the pitch for the game with Palace, which kicks off at 1.30pm tomorrow. Hong Kong has been battered by torrential downpours since Liverpool’s arrival and the club were forced to abandon plans to train on the pitch at the Mong Kok Stadium due to a waterlogged surface. Instead they had a light indoor session. Liverpool are due to play after West Bromwich Albion take on Leicester City and further thunderstorms have been forecast. “Yeah [it’s a worry],” Klopp said. “What can I say? I’m a football manager, I’m interested in the game, I’m interested in the quality of the game and different things have influence on the quality. “Players do, of course, the pitch is very important, but if it’s bad we can’t change it. We’ll see how it is. “It’s an outside sport so you have to adapt to the weather and for all teams it’s the same. I hope it’s OK.”

Arsenal trio Alexandre Lacazette, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Mesut Ozil

Barkley misses tour games Paul Joyce

Ross Barkley has been ruled out of Everton’s latest pre-season preparations after failing to recover from a groin problem. Everton left for a six-day visit to the Netherlands and Belgium yesterday without the midfielder, who has entered the final year of his contract. Cuco Martina, the defender who signed on a free transfer from Southampton yesterday, was included. Barkley, who missed last week’s trip to Tanzania, has rejected the club’s offer of a new contract and seems unlikely to sign a deal when Ronald Koeman, the

Everton manager, is targeting more players for the same position, with Swansea City’s Gylfi Sigurdsson on his wanted list. Tottenham Hotspur have been repeatedly linked with Barkley, but Everton’s £50 million valuation has so far deterred buyers. Martina will rejoin Koeman, who took him to St Mary’s in 2015. The 27-year-old has signed a three-year contract and will provide cover across the defence. Everton face Twente tomorrow and Genk on Saturday. Jordan Pickford and Sandro Ramírez are included after playing in the European Under-21 Championship.

No pace but ex-pros have plenty of waist in Star Sixes Giles Smith Sport on television

he butterfly-strewn advertising campaign for Sky Sports’ new, single-interest channels romantically indicates dedicated slots for football, cricket, rugby, Formula One and golf. Not a peep, though, about six-a-side football played by retirees. And that’s despite the fact that the inaugural Star Sixes just finished after four days of deliriously unlikely action on the deluxe carpeting of the O2 arena in London, surely thrusting the genre firmly into any serious commercial operation’s shop window. OK, so we’re talking about players who have lost a yard of pace and, in

some cases, gained a yard of waist. In that respect, there was a lot of truth in Dominic Matteo’s description of the ultimately victorious France side as “solid behind the ball”. Yet the stars, the goals, the moves, the sense of the clock being wound back, albeit with enormous difficulty, and not always successfully . . . all of this made for hour upon hour of water-cooler viewing, and never more so than when Rivaldo was demonstrating that, for Brazilian footballers, the rabona is the last thing to go. Rivaldo was at the centre of a passage of play that featured not one, not two, but three trick-shots. OK, so none of them caused the ball to go where it was intended to go, but that only pushed the entertainment meters further into the red. Reflecting on Scotland’s defeat by hotly fancied Spain, Don Hutchison said: “We made the major mistake of sitting off them.” In fairness, there was quite a lot of sitting-off going on during this tournament, if by “sitting-

off” we can agree to mean “going easy to get your breath back”. At the same time, it’s a rare sport in which you see two goals in five seconds. Sky had only just started showing a replay of France’s opening strike in their semi-final against Spain when, in a moment of Alan Partridgestyle confusion, Daniel Mann in the commentary box shouted, “And a second!” But such is the gift to entertainment of the instant restart, with the goalkeeper bowling the ball out — and, in this case, rolling it straight to an unmarked France attacker. Spain looked pretty winded. “I think that double goal hits you,” mused Matteo. “When you concede two goals in five seconds . . .” His voice trailed away, precedents for this kind of thing being only too rare. It was excitingly clear, though, that we were watching a sport that is officially too fast for television, and certainly too fast for the

bloke in the sound-booth employed to crank out bursts of the Black Eyed Peas without which goals in these indoor competitions simply don’t count. “What would it mean to get through to the final?” a tireless Robert Pirès was asked by an equally tireless Laura Woods of Sky Sports. “Good question,” said Pirès, the meaning of all of this momentarily eluding him. Youri Djorkaeff attempted an ambitious analogy with red wine: “Better we are older, better we play.” Maybe. But in the aftermath of France’s trophy-clinching victory over a dogged, Stig Tofting-organised Denmark, the words of William Gallas rang loudest: “To be honest, we didn’t take it seriously.” By this point, Gallas’s Rivaldo showed that trick-shots are the last thing to go

voice was stripped to ribbons, as though he had been gargling hot gravel — the after-effects, he unguardedly admitted, of overcelebrating the previous night’s quarter-final victory over Italy. The spirit of park football was alive and well in that France squad, clearly, and it was amply rewarded. For England it was the same old story: an unconvincing emergence from the group stages followed by a nervous exit to Denmark in the quarter-finals. How many times can the so-called “golden generation” come up short? But what do you expect when so many English players go into these summer tournaments already drained? The likes of Steven Gerrard, Michael Owen, Phil Neville, Danny Murphy and Paul Merson were rarely off our screens in 2016-17. Until something can be done to lessen the burden of being a pundit during the league season, England will continue to be serial failures at legends six-a-side level.

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Newcastle close in on England U-21 winger Newcastle United are close to signing Jacob Murphy from Norwich City but Rafa Benítez has still challenged Mike Ashley to keep his word about transfer spending as the club prepare to return to the Premier League. Murphy, the England Under-21 winger, was given permission to leave Norwich’s pre-season tour to Germany yesterday and flew to Dublin, where Newcastle are training, after a fee of about £10 million plus £2 million in addons was agreed. His arrival follows the signings of Christian Atsu from Chelsea and Florian Lejeune from Eibar, but Benítez has already missed out on a number of his targets, including Willy Caballero and Tammy Abraham. At a meeting with Ashley, the Newcastle owner, Lee Charnley, the managing director, and Justin Barnes, a lawyer, after the club’s elevation from the Sky Bet Championship, Benítez was promised “every last penny that the club generates through promotion, player sales and other means”. That equated to a budget of about

£70 million but Benítez, who does not “just want to be there trying to avoid relegation”, has grown frustrated at the pace of delivery. Barnes, a long-time associate of Ashley, has been priming Newcastle for incoming investment or a sale, albeit without success. “I decided to stay because of the fans, the club, the possibilities for the future and to stay in England close to my family,” Benítez said before Murphy caught his flight. “I could go away and make some money. “The priority was to stay. Then the meeting was crucial to convince me to stay. Mike told me, ‘We have this money, it is available, it’s OK’, so fine, we were happy with that.” Benítez has been less content with what has followed but said: “I still have confidence that after my meeting with Mike everything will be fine. He said that he would give us every last penny so hopefully he will do it and I’m confident that he will do it.” 6 Middlesbrough have broken their transfer record to sign Britt Assombalonga, 24, the Nottingham Forest striker, for a fee believed to be about £14 million.

Spurs eye defender Foyth

Debuchy move collapses

Tottenham Hotspur are close to a deal for Juan Foyth, a 19-year-old centre back valued by Estudiantes at about £8.5 million. Juan Sebastián Verón, the Argentinian club’s president, had talks with Tottenham in London last week. Foyth played for Argentina at the Under-20 World Cup when he appeared in the 3-0 defeat by England. Estudiantes want Foyth to return on a six-month loan, in addition to a sell-on clause.

Mathieu Debuchy’s proposed move to Nice from Arsenal appeared to have collapsed last night when the French club decided to try to sign Christophe Jallet from Lyons instead. Arsenal are willing to allow him to leave on a free transfer with two years left on his deal. The right back, 31, had a spell on loan at Bordeaux two seasons ago and suffered a hamstring injury in his one appearance for Arsenal last season.

Robinson retires at 37

West Brom chase Gibson

Paul Robinson, the former England goalkeeper, has retired because of a persistent back injury. Robinson, 37, made 375 top-flight appearances for Leeds United, Tottenham Hotspur, Blackburn Rovers and latterly for Burnley, as well as playing for England on 41 occasions. Michu, 31, the Spanish forward who helped Swansea City to win the League Cup in 2013, has also been forced to retire because of injury.

West Bromwich Albion will turn their attentions to the Middlesbrough defender Ben Gibson after agreeing a loan deal for Ahmed Hegazy. The Egypt player was yesterday finalising his move from Al Ahly for a loan fee of £875,000 on a deal that includes a £3.5 million option for Albion to make the move permanent next summer. 6 Aston Villa are expected to confirm the signing of Ahmed Elmohamady from Hull City today for £1 million.

George Caulkin Northern Sports Correspondent, Dublin

dress the part at a fans’ party in Shanghai at the start of the club’s tour to China. They play Bayern Munich tomorrow

Perisic wants to force £44m move to United Paul Hirst Salt Lake City

Ivan Perisic is hoping to push through a £44 million move to Manchester United, who are growing increasingly confident of signing the Inter Milan winger in the next 48 hours. The Inter squad are due to fly to Nanjing, in China, this afternoon for the second leg of their pre-season tour but the 28-year-old is desperate to avoid boarding the flight and hopes to seal a move to United instead. Ed Woodward, United’s executive vice-chairman, has been in negotiations with Inter over a deal for the Croatia forward for much of the

summer. The Serie A side demanded £48.5 million for him but their stance softened over the weekend after the player insisted that he be allowed to move. Perisic annoyed Inter by sulking during their training camp in Nuremberg last week and left the squad in Germany because he claimed he needed to see his dentist in Croatia. United’s latest offer for Perisic is thought to be worth about £44 million. The club are willing to pay an initial £39.5 million with £4.5 million in addons. Woodward is due to fly to the United States today but may delay his departure if he needs more time to

complete the deal. Should it go through, Perisic would join United’s pre-season tour to America. José Mourinho, the United manager, has trimmed his squad by allowing Wayne Rooney to join Everton but the former England captain could still return to United in an ambassadorial role after his Everton contract expires in two years’ time. United inserted a clause into Rooney’s final contract at Old Trafford that stated the 31-year-old would be entitled to take on an ambassadorial role at the end of his playing career and it is understood that the offer is still on the table.

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Cool García can add to first major John Hopkins

His half-shaven face appears the same, so is his ability to frown one moment as he grapples with an English phrase, then flash a 100-watt smile the next. But there is no doubt that Sergio García is neither the golfer nor the person he was on the eve of the Masters, three months ago. The extent of the applause that rang around the world for García’s first victory in 74 attempts at a major championship has contributed to this change. He was, as he might put it, over the sun. The plaudits he received from his peers immediately after the play-off victory also made a difference and together they have rendered the Spaniard more smiley, more relaxed and seemingly more content within himself. Truly, at the age of 37, García is in his pomp and has worn his green jacket so often that one wonders whether he sleeps in it as well. Typical of the tributes to García was that from Justin Rose, his vanquished rival at Augusta. “I was happy for Sergio,” he said. “It was his time if you think of all the close calls he has gone through. He had been in my situation more than once.” García’s triumph in the year’s first major championship started a wave of sporting success by those from his country. Rafael Nadal won the French Open — again. Garbiñe Muguruza walloped Venus Williams at Wimbledon while Jon Rahm and Rafa Cabrera Bello captured the past two events on the PGA European Tour. “No doubt the weather helps,” García said, trying to explain his country’s recent run of sporting success. “In pretty much every part of Spain you can play throughout the year, which is not easy to do in many other countries. But it’s also the combination of the talent and the passion that we have. Mix all these three things together it

His top-ten finishes at major championships Masters.................................................................... 4 The Open..............................................................10 US Open...................................................................5 PGA Championship...........................................4

helps, even though we are not a big golf country. It is something to be proud of.” García might have mentioned that his own case had little to do with the weather, talent or passion but rather the influence of Angela Akins, an American to whom he recently became engaged and will marry on Saturday week. His fiancée stuck messages on the mirror of their bathroom during the Masters to boost her man’s confidence. “Don’t forget to be amazing” was one, and that Sunday, as dusk approached, García was just that. He was asked whether any similar messages had appeared so far this week. “Not yet,” he replied with a smile. “But it’s not up to me. She always has something up her sleeve.” Respect for García among his peers is commonplace. “He’s been one of the best ball strikers in the world for a very, very long time hasn’t he?” Tommy Fleetwood, the English golfer, said. “He’s got one of the most functional swings in the world. And he’s in a great place at the moment. He’s very happy,

Back in the swing of things

Rory McIlroy takes part in a practice round yesterday alongside Michael Bannon, his swing coach, who he will hope can help him to arrest an alarming slump in form this year. He has missed the cut in three of his past four tournaments leading into the Open

isn’t he? Put all those things together and Sergio García has contended in a lot of majors and big tournaments and he’ll contend in more to come. “I played him in the World Match

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Play [WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play] a few years ago and his short game was doing my head in because he was getting up and down from everywhere and he beat me on the last. What a great player he is. I have a lot of respect for him and for what he has done.” So with encomiums like these ringing in his ears, García has arrived at Royal Birkdale for his 21st Open and, despite poor recent form, is automatically accorded the status of being a favourite not just because of his play but also because of a remarkable run in the third major championship of the year. He has finished in the top ten of the Open ten times since 2000, including a second, sixth and fifth in the past three years. It might not match his feelings for Akins,

but García and the Open are a love match. “I’ve often said that consistency is one of my greatest attributes and loving the tournament itself I get so pumped up with the crowds and the kind of golf we have to play here helps,” García said. There is also the advantage of a creative mind that helps him think up and then execute imaginative shots of the sort that impressed Fleetwood. To play well in the Open at so many different venues in all sorts of weather for so many years means García has marked his card in many different ways. To win the Open after winning the Masters would be no surprise. After all, Mark O’Meara did just that, here at Royal Birkdale, in 1998.

First and second round tee-off times at Royal Birkdale Great Britain and Ireland in bold *denotes amateur First round 6.35am, second round 11.36am C Wood, M O’Meara (US), R Moore (US) 6.46am and 11.47am P Khongwatmai (Thai), *M McNealy (US), S Manley 6.57am and 11.58am S Cink (US), S Lyle, Jeunghun Wang (S Kor) 7.08am and 1.09pm T Jaidee (Thai), P Broadhurst, R Castro (US) 7.19am and 12.20pm T Lehman (US), An Byeong-hun (S Kor), D Fichardt (SA) 7.30am and 12.31pm B Horschel (US), S Kjeldsen (Den), D Willett 7.41am and 12.42pm S Stricker (US), M Fitzpatrick, E Grillo (Arg) 7.52am and 12.53pm J Dufner

(US), B Grace (SA), B DeChambeau (US) 8.03am 1.04pm R Knox, A Noren (Swe), I Poulter 8.14am and 1.15pm D Duval (US), P Marksaeng (Thai), K T Kim (S Kor) 8.25am and 1.26pm Song Young-han (S Kor), D Horsey, D Frittelli (SA) 8.36am and 1.37pm M Lorenzo-Vera (Fr), C Howell III (US), S Kapur (India) 8.47am and 1.48pm F Zanotti (Par), R Henley (US), P Uihlein (US) 9.03am and 2.04pm B Steele (US), A Levy (Fr), W Simpson (US) 9.14am and 2.15pm W Bryan (US), A Lahiri (India), *A Plant 9.25am and 2.26pm G Woodland (US), D Clarke, *H Ellis

9.36am and 2.37pm P Harrington, P Perez (US), T Pieters (Bel) 9.47am and 2.48pm H Stenson (Swe), Kim Si-woo (S Kor), J Spieth (US) 9.58am and 2.59pm L Oosthuizen (SA), J Rose, J Thomas (US) 10.09am and 3.10pm B Koepka (US), H Matsuyama (Japan), T Fleetwood 10.20am and 3.21pm B Snedeker (US), J B Holmes (US), S Lowry 10.31am and 3.32pm R Bland, S Norris (SA), *L Cianchetti (It) 10.42am and 3.43pm Chan Kim (US), Y Chang (S Kor), M Foster 10.53am and 3.54pm Kang Sung-hoon (S Kor), T Finau (US), M Pavon (Fr) 11.04am and 4.05pm A Bjork (Swe), J Dean, R Streb (US)

11.15am and 4.16pm R Dinwiddie, J Suri (US), A Hodkinson 11.36am and 6.35am A Hadwin (Can), A Johnston, T Hamilton (US) 11.47am and 6.46am J Daly (US), A Bland (Aus), *C Syme 11.58am and 6.57am W McGirt (US), T Tree, J Lovemark (US) 12.09pm and 7.08am A Connelly (Can), M Griffin (Aus), M Southgate 12.20pm and 7.19am C Smith (Aus), B Haas (US), C Shinkwin 12.31pm and 7.30am B Harman (US), M Hendry (NZ), M Laird 12.42pm and 7.41am R Fisher, E Els (SA), B Wiesberger (Austria) 12.53pm and 7.52am T Hatton, M Kaymer (Ger), A Baddeley (Aus) 1.04pm and 8.03am J Day

(Aus), Z Johnson (US), S García (Sp) 1.15pm and 8.14am A Sullivan, J Luiten (Neth), D Lipsky (US) 1.26pm and 8.25am R Fowler (US), A Scott (Aus), P Casey

2.48pm and 9.47am R McIlroy, D Johnson (US), C Schwartzel (SA) 2.59pm and 9.58am P Reed (US), J Rahm (Sp), L Westwood

1.37pm and 8.36am M Kuchar (US), R Ramsay, R Fox (NZ)

3.10pm and 10.09am F Molinari (It), P Mickelson (US), M Leishman (Aus)

1.48pm and 8.47am K Kisner (US), C Hoffman (US), D Drysdale

3.21pm and 10.20am S Hend (Aus), R Cabrera Bello (Sp), B Watson (US)

2.04pm and 9.03am H Tanihara (Japan), J Walker (US), T Olesen (Den)

3.32pm and 10.31am K Stanley (US), P Waring, K Na (US)

2.15pm and 9.14am J Vegas (Ven), B Stone (SA), S O’Hair (US) 2.26pm and 9.25am D Berger (US), P Larrazabal (Sp), Y Ikeda (Japan) 2.37pm and 9.36am K Chappell (US), P Lawrie, Y Miyazato (Japan)

3.43pm and 10.42am Kim Gi-whan (S Kor), X Schauffele (US), A Dodt (Aus) 3.54pm and 10.53am Haotong Li (China), K Bulle (US), H McCullen 4.05pm and 11.04am J Kruger (SA), N McCarthy, A Hall (Aus) 4.16pm and 11.15am R McCarthy (Aus), L Canter, S Muñoz (Col)

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Home-town hero who had Rick Broadbent

Nobody has fainted in the street yet but Tommy Fleetwood has been recognised at Altrincham market. It is a start and this long-haired, meditating bookworm, knows where he wants this to end. “I have always dreamt of winning majors but the ultimate goal in life is to be the best in the world,” he says. There is no trace of arrogance or whimsy in this pre-Open statement. The 26-year-old is up to 14th in the world after backing up his fourth place at the US Open with victory at the French. In a sport of unbridled self-flagellation, he is oozing rare contentment. He is getting married, to his manager Clare Craig, and is due to become a father in October. Fleetwood has already had a taste of parenthood through caring for Craig’s two children and muses: “Life is fantastic.” He should know because it has not always been. For a dose of perspective at Royal Birkdale, next to his parents’ home in his native Southport, Fleetwood does not have to go back far. Only last year he reached a trough of despair and a subsiding ranking of No 188. “I was panicking,” he admits. “I had the yips off the tee and I do not wish that on anyone. I was trying to make cuts because I was looking after a family for the first time and I was trying to bring in money, which is not a good recipe for success. I wondered whether I was going to keep my Tour card. At times like that you wonder if it is going to get better, or if this is just how it’s going to be.” He went back to Alan Thompson, his old coach, and stopped tinkering. Instead of trying to eradicate perceived weaknesses, he focused on building on his abilities, something anathema to golf’s legion of analysts. “Everybody is obsessed with getting better,” Fleetwood says. “There is always someone playing u amazingly and you wonder how they aree doing it. It means golff is probably the easiestt sport in the world wheree you can get caught on the wrong path and, before you know it, you’re too far down it and there’s no wayy back. “You think you can improve loads but you can’t. Only now do I have an appreciation of my own game.”

It is 25 years since Sir Nick Faldo became the last English winner of the Open. If Fleetwood follows suit it would be a shot in the arm globally for a sport lacking narratives and mavericks. This is the man whose reading matter ranges from Great Expectations to Mike Tyson’s autobiography; he wears tapered trousers; when he won his maiden Tour victory at the Johnnie Walker Championship in August 2013 he lauded the bravery of his dog, Maisy, who had cancer. “I don’t know if I do things differently,” he says. “I just do things that feel right. I suppose it would be unusual to be having a baby with my manager if it was Chubby [Chandler]. It’s not something you see every day but you have to have faith in your decisions. You have to be very secure in yourself on tour when people are looking at you all the time.

Seven first-time winners The past seven majors have all been won by players who had not won one previously 2015 Jason Day (Aus) US PGA Championship 2016 Danny Willett (Eng) The Masters Dustin Johnson (US) US Open Henrik Stenson (Swe) The Open Jimmy Walker (US) US PGA Championship 2017 Sergio García (Sp) Masters Brooks Koepka (US) US Open

Me and Clare have a brilliant relationship so it was never going to faze us. Being a manager and an agent is a tough job, but I trust her more than anyone in the world and that’s a massive thing to fall back on.” Fleetwood bucks sporting clichés and so, yes, during that final round of the US Open last month, he did indulge in t thoughts of winning. Ultim mately, Brooks Koepka, p paired with Fleetwood again on Thursday, putted too well, but he learnt more about himself in a few holes than Koepka beat Fleetwood to the US Open title last month for his first major title

from all his psychological books — “I hesitate to use the word self-help”. He says: “There is not a high percentage of golfers who ever have a chance of winning on a Sunday at a major. I didn’t know how I would feel when I woke up that morning. You will always have good and bad shots but it’s about what you feel inside. I just felt comfortable and, if it comes again, I know I can handle it. It’s one of those things. You can’t practise it. “There was a moment on the 16th green on the last day when I looked around for the first time all day and thought, ‘Hey, there’s a lot of people here.’ It was ten-deep. I realised then how into the game I was and how I’d not been thinking about anything else.” The son of a tarmac layer, Fleetwood has not followed a path of privilege to the edge of real fame. His dad still walks his dog on the course, but Fleetwood was not welcome at Birkdale in his youth. “The pro shop would shut at 7pm and I used to bunk on the 5th down the back of the houses,” he says. It was the sort of clandestine cameo that echoed a young Seve Ballesteros stealing on to the 6th fairway through a hole in the wall in Pedreña. “The 5th has fences and bushes now so that’s gone,” Fleetwood says. “You can’t even get on to watch the Open any more.” Tethered to his roots but undaunted by home-town attention, Fleetwood says that he is not scared of anything. His goal at the start of 2017 was to win a tournament, but he had done that by the end of January in Abu Dhabi. He duly backed it up with second place at the WGC-Mexico. The crisis was over and goalposts had moved. “It is easy to get outside yourself,” he says of heightened expectation, but a run of seven first-time major winners proves that the so-called big three have been supplanted by a free-for-all. “We definitely don’t have a Tiger Woods dominating everything but it’s harder and harder to do that,” Fleetwood says. “The strength in depth of the top 50 is stronger than it’s ever been. There have been a lot of first-time major winners but they are going to be multiple majors winners like Dustin Johnson. It’s changing, a new dawn and I would like to be part of it.” Back in 1998 Fleetwood went to his first Open at Birkdale, aged seven. Woods walked past him and, having failed to get many autographs, he spent much of the day faking signatures. All these years, back on the same course, it would be no surprise if he made another name for himself.

open diary by alasdair reid champions’ early start Winning the Open grants a player the admiration of his peers, a place in the record books and the esteem of the golfing public. What it doesn’t guarantee is a halfdecent start time. Ask Mark O’Meara, the 1998 winner at Birkdale, who will have to be up well before the larks to get ready for his 6.35am tee time on Thursday. And O’Meara is not the only former champion who has to set his alarm for stupid o’clock. The 6.57am grouping includes two players who have lifted the Claret Jug: Stewart Cink, the 2009 winner, and Sandy Lyle, who triumphed in

1985. Things aren’t much better for Tom Lehman, who won at Lytham in 1996 and goes off at 7.19am. tiger falls to 1,005 Tiger Woods, who held the world No 1 ranking for a record 683 weeks, is at 1,005 in the latest standings after two injury-hit years. 2012 still on scott’s mind By now, Adam Scott should have buried the memory of his Open collapse at Lytham in 2012, when he blew a four-shot lead over the final four holes to let Ernie Els win. But on his return to Lancashire, the Australian, who won the Masters the

next year, admitted that the meltdown still hurts. “It’s impossible not to think about it,” he said. “I don’t lose sleep over it any more, but to think about letting a chance like that go is heartbreaking. Winning the Masters soon after eased some of the pain, but it’s still not the Open. We always want what we don’t have — and I don’t have a Claret Jug.” pots, pans — and jug One man who does have a Claret Jug — well, a replica — is Padraig Harrington, the last player to win the Open at Birkdale (in 2008) and the last to retain the title,

having also won at Carnousite in 2007. He keeps his jug in the kitchen, with a replica of the US PGA Championship trophy he won in 2008. “Why wouldn’t you put the two biggest trophies you’ve won somewhere where you see them regularly?” Harrington asked. “Why would you hide them away? When I do get a kick out of the trophies is when someone comes to the house and hasn’t seen them, and it’s their reaction. Obviously they’re there all the time for me, but it’s somebody else’s reaction that really kind of sets it apart for me.”

Ready to break through: Fleetwood, left, and Rahm are two leading contenders,

If there is an eighth first-time major winner in a row, who will it be? John Hopkins Jon Rahm (Sp) He has abundant power, is silkily smooth around the greens and not unfamiliar with the quirks of links golf but the most important measurements for him this week are not the

7,000-plus yards of the course but the inches between his ears. Rick Broadbent Tommy Fleetwood (GB) In the best form of his life and back in his home town, he showed that he has the temperament for

majors with his fourth place at the US Open and is exuding utter contentment with his life and his golf. John Westerby Matt Kuchar (US) Bubbling under for a while now, the world

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yips now ready to join elite TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER BRADLEY ORMESHER; HANNAH MCKAY/REUTERS

In-form Rahm can emulate Seve’s starring role on Lancashire links World No 8 has the all-round game and temperament to break his major duck this week, writes Alasdair Reid

but the Englishman says there is a lot of strength in depth in the world’s top 50

Times writers have their say No 18 is a consistent performer who seems likely to win a major sooner or later. Finished tied for fourth in the Scottish Open at the weekend, the same position he occupied in the Masters in April, so this could be his week.

Paul Forsyth Hideki Matsuyama (Jpn) Expected to become Japan’s first major champion, the world No 2 tied for second at the US Open and, even this early in his career, has a good record at the Open. Tipped by Johnny Miller,

a former winner at Royal Birkdale. Alasdair Reid Rickie Fowler (US) The American loves the challenge of links golf, is No 10 in the world and showed some form at the Scottish Open last week.

It would be pushing it to say that Seve Ballesteros was a complete unknown when he came to Royal Birkdale in 1976. The Spaniard was 19 years old, had been a professional for two years, had won a few minor events and had even played in the previous year’s Open at Carnoustie. So the golfing world knew who he was when he got there. By the time he left, the rest of the world knew as well. Ballesteros lit up that scorching English summer. He led for three days and fell away only in his final round, dropping into a tie for second with Jack Nicklaus as Johnny Miller pulled away to take the Claret Jug. But it was the most glorious defeat, an exhibition of daring, brilliance and towering self-belief. Sport had acquired a new superstar. Is another Spaniard set to announce himself on the Lancashire links this week? Jon Rahm has not exactly been flying below the radar in a freshman year as a professional that has brought two tournament victories and a quick ascent to No 8 in the world rankings, but he is still one for golf’s insiders. Yet there is a growing feeling around Birkdale that he could emulate his late countryman over the next few days and take his name to another level. The past seven majors have been claimed by first-time major winners and there would be no surprise at all if Rahm became the man to make it eight from eight. The comparison with Ballesteros is obvious, perfectly valid, but flawed. Rahm has the same matador instincts, but he has been taught to rein them in. He wears his self-confidence lightly, not as a challenge to opponents. He reacted angrily when he was playing poorly at the US Open last month, but has been apologising profusely for his outbursts ever since. Where Ballesteros had only fire, Rahm has ice as well. Their paths might have been more similar had Rahm’s parents not received an email from Tim Mickelson, brother of Phil, five years ago. Mickelson was coach of the Arizona State University (ASU) golf team and was worried that his playing roster was looking weak. On the recommendation of a trusted contact in Spain, Mickelson was prepared to offer a scholarship to Rahm before he had even seen the 17-year-old hit a shot. Rahm arrived in America unable to hold a conversation in English. His game was not so fluent, and in tight positions he was too eager to try the miracle shot. But as he listened to hip-hop music to develop his language skills, he listened to Mickelson and his assistant coaches to add layers to his game. He learnt that the team was more important than the individual, that

Average age of world’s top ten Jon Rahm is the sixth golfer in his twenties to break into the world top ten, joining a growing youth movement. Below are the average ages of the world’s best players in week 27 over the past four decades:

2017 Average age 30

1 D Johnson (US)........................... Age 33 2 H Matsuyama (Japan)..................... 25 3 J Spieth (US).......................................... 23 4 R McIlroy (N Ire)................................. 28 5 S García (Sp)........................................... 37 6 J Day (Aus)............................................ 29 7 H Stenson (Swe)................................... 41 8 J Rahm (Sp)........................................... 22 9 A Noren (Swe)...................................... 35 10 R Fowler (US)..................................... 28

2007 Average age 34 1 T Woods (US).......................................... 31 2 J Furyk (US) ........................................... 37 3 P Mickelson (US) ................................ 37 4 A Scott (Aus)........................................ 26 5 E Els (SA)................................................... 37 6 V Singh (Fiji).......................................... 44 7 H Stenson (Swe)................................... 31 8 G Ogilvy (Aus)...................................... 30 9 L Donald (Eng).................................... 29 10 P Harrington (Ire)............................. 35

1997 Average age 37 1 T Woods (US).......................................... 21 2 G Norman (Aus)................................... 42 3 E Els (SA)................................................. 27 4 C Montgomerie (Scot)..................... 34 5 N Price (Zim)......................................... 40 6 T Lehmann (US).................................. 38 7 S Elkington (Aus)................................ 34 8 J Ozaki (Japan).................................... 50 9 M O’Meara (US)................................... 40 10 N Faldo (Eng)...................................... 39

1987 Average age 32 1 G Norman (Aus).................................... 32 2 S Ballesteros (Sp)................................ 30 3 B Langer (Ger)..................................... 29 4 T Nakajima (Japan)............................ 32 5 P Stewart (US)....................................... 30 6 S Lyle (Scot) .......................................... 29 7 C Strange (US)...................................... 32 8 L Wadkins (US)..................................... 37 9 I Aoki (Japan)....................................... 44 10 L Mize (US).......................................... 28

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playing the percentages was the route to success, that you did not have to be a hero every time. At one early tournament, Mickelson arranged for an assistant to walk all 18 holes with Rahm to instil a few

principles of course management. Rahm had forged a close bond with Alberto Sánchez, a college team-mate with whom he could speak Spanish, so to widen Rahm’s horizons, and help him with the academic side of life. Mickelson insisted that they must converse in English. As the months passed, Rahm, who had been homesick at first, became more comfortable in his new surroundings. And all the while the rough-edged game he had brought from Spain was becoming more refined. By the time he finished at ASU, Rahm’s record of 11 college tournament victories was second only to the 16 Phil Mickelson had secured. Along the way he had risen to No 1 in the world amateur rankings and had become the only player to win the Ben Hogan Award, given to America’s top college player, on two separate occasions. In polishing his game, Mickelson had been determined not to eliminate Rahm’s bravado while reducing his tendency towards recklessness. When Sánchez was asked about his friend’s game earlier this year, he said: “Jon’s whole game is built on self-belief. He couldn’t even explain how he does what he does. He would just say, ‘I believe I’m the best, and I believe in every decision 100 per cent. Every shot, every chip, I believe I will pull it off’. ” Rahm finished college last year. Not since Tiger Woods, just over 20 years earlier, had a player’s move into the professional ranks been so eagerly anticipated. Nor, indeed, had any player lived up to his promise as an amateur quite so quickly and decisively. In his first outing in the paid ranks, the Quicken Loans National at Bethesda, Maryland, Rahm led for the first two rounds. He would go on to finish third, a result that regained him the place in the 2016 Open at Royal Troon that he had earlier forfeited by turning professional. Rahm’s first win on the US Tour came in January, when he took the Farmers Insurance Open title at Torrey Pines, California. Two months later, he was runner-up to Dustin Johnson at the World Match Play event in Austin, Texas. He secured his second victory in Ireland two weeks ago, when he won the Irish Open by a margin of six shots. At 6ft 2in and 16st, Rahm has power to spare. And spare it he does, with a chopped-off backswing that reduces the risk of things going wrong. But there is finesse there, too, with artistry around the greens that recalls, well, it hardly needs saying. So is he ready to follow in those Ballesteros footsteps? “I don’t know,” said Rahm after his win in Ireland. “But I’m going to try to enjoy it as much as I’ve enjoyed this week. I’ve always said I want to be the best player I can be. That’s my goal in golf. Try to be the best Jon, the best golfer I can become, without knowing what the limit is.” There are few doubts in the minds of his peers, though. “He’s played almost as well as anyone for the last 12 months,” Adam Scott, the 2013 Masters champion, said. “His confidence must be sky high. He has no idea what poor golf is at this point in his life, which is fantastic. If I was Jon Rahm, I’d be coming in full of confidence.”

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‘The next generation is not strong enough. I wish they volleyed more’

Stuart Fraser Tennis Writer

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Roger Federer criticises the tactics of younger players after eighth title, Stuart Fraser writes Bleary-eyed and worse for wear, Roger Federer returned to the All England Club at 10am yesterday to commence his press duties, just five hours after he arrived back at his rented accommodation from a night on the tiles. “My head’s ringing,” Federer said. “I don’t know what I did last night. I drank too many types of drinks, I guess. After the ball, we went to a bar and there were almost 30 to 40 friends that were there, so we had a great time. I got to bed at 5am, then woke up and just didn’t feel good.” Despite the hangover, it did not take long for the eight-times Wimbledon men’s singles champion to get into his stride. Three weeks today, he will turn 36, yet he has won two of the three grand-slam titles this year while his great rival, Rafael Nadal, won the other in Paris at the age of 31. So, when it was put to Federer yesterday that the men’s tour is lacking young pretenders, he was candid in his response. “Every generation definitely is different,” Federer said. “Since my generation and Rafa’s generation, the next one hasn’t been strong enough to push all of us out really, so that has been helpful for us to stick around.” Federer gave the impression that he was distinctly unimpressed by the lack of variety in the styles of many of the younger players at Wimbledon this year. The grass courts may be slower than in years gone by, but some seem reluctant to venture towards the net at all, preferring to grind out long rallies from the baseline. “They can choose not to play that way, too, if the coach has taught them to play differently,” Federer said. “I know you can easily get sucked into that mode when you don’t want to attack, but if you can’t volley you aren’t going to go to the net. “I have played almost every player here that wouldn’t serve and volley. It’s frightening to see this at this level. I look at the stats and go into whichever round it is and see that the guy I’m going to face is playing 2 per cent of serve and volley throughout the championships. I’m going, ‘OK, I know

Hip may rule Murray out of US Open Andy Murray will make a decision about his playing schedule this week having visited a medical specialist in Switzerland during the weekend. The world No 1 has sought further advice on the sore right hip that hindered him during his run to the quarter-finals at Wimbledon. Murray, 30, has managed the problem for several years, but it has now become a significant concern after the pain worsened. He lost to Sam Querrey, of the United States, in the last eight last Wednesday. Murray will meet his team to discuss whether to compete at the US Open, which begins on August 28, or take a lengthy break. His next scheduled tournament is the Rogers Cup in Montreal in three weeks’ time, although that may come too soon even if he decides to play on the hard courts of North America. After flying back from Switzerland, Murray returned to the All England Club on Sunday evening in time to congratulate his brother, Jamie, on his mixed doubles success with Martina Hingis. He then stayed to chat with friends and family on the players’ lawn. The Scot will remain at the top of the world rankings until at least August 13, extending his reign to 40 weeks. It is inevitable, though, that he will lose the top spot at some point in the coming months, due to the high volume of ranking points that he has to defend.

Federer part of a dying breed Federer spoke to the press after only five hours’ sleep having partied following the Champions Ball, inset

Men at Wimbledon % serve and volley attempts 66%

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Women at Wimbledon % serve and volley attempts 14% 3% 1.8% 1997 2007 2017

Roger Federer played serve and volley on 16 per cent of points (82/529). He won 83 per cent of them (68/82)

Of the 128 players in the men’s singles draw, 25 of them did not play a single serve and volley point

he’s not going to serve and volley’, which is great. “Then we are talking about grass, it was playing fast this week [compared with the first week]. I wish that we would see more players taking chances up at the net because good things do happen there. You want to be there and have to spend some time up there to feel confident and good there.” It was then put to Federer that players were perhaps opting to follow the lead of Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic, who play many of their shots from the baseline. “They are very different,” Federer replied. “Andy has a lot of variety in his way but, yes, a slugfest with Andy and Novak from the baseline, or Rafa for that matter, good luck. If you are No 50 in the world, it is not so simple to take them out.” Federer does concede, though, that there are flaws in the ranking system, which do not help players to climb as quickly as before. He can recall once claiming bonus points for beating higher-ranked players, before that rule was phased out in the late 1990s. Federer even said that he is benefiting from the sizeable gap

between the ranking points at grandslam events and regular tournaments. After winning Wimbledon, he is now ranked No 3, despite having played only seven events in the past 12 months. “That’s why, by playing little and making so many points at grand-slam level, it puts me in a totally different situation where I can really start picking and choosing my moments when to attack,” Federer said. It is possible that Federer could, for the first time in five years, return to world No 1 as soon as August 21. It is more likely, though, for it to come after the US Open — which begins on August 28 — as he will probably opt to play just one Masters event next month in Cincinnati and skip Montreal. “It’s going to be a three, four-way race or maybe a two-way race with me and Rafa at some stage when Andy is going to drop his world No 1 ranking,” Federer told the BBC. “If all of a sudden Andy starts winning, we also have to win. But, at some stage, if he starts dropping points, we’ll just get there. I hope it’s me and not Rafa because it would mean a lot to me to get back to No 1.” Federer’s big night out, page 27

Hamilton signals he could retire despite ‘loving racing’ Formula One Rebecca Clancy Motor Racing Reporter

Lewis Hamilton has hinted that he could retire at the end of the season. Just hours after joining Jim Clark and Alain Prost on five victories in the British Grand Prix, the Mercedes driver’s thoughts turned to his future, and what that might look like. With 18 months left on his contract at Mercedes, a team who have brought him two world championships, he would not commit to staying. “I can’t really say what is going to happen six

months from now except to say that I am loving racing,” the 32-year-old said. “I love driving and you could say it’s unlikely [retirement] but you can’t say what frame of mind I will be in at Christmas. “Hopefully it will be really good. Even getting another championship, it won’t be a case to hang up my gloves. I will always want to get more.” It is not the first time this season that Hamilton has mentioned the possibility of leaving the sport, but his comments at Silverstone were the clearest signal yet that he is really

starting to think about it. He has free rein outside of race weekend to pursue his other passions, including music, fashion and travel. The long leash is thought to be Mercedes’ way of keeping Hamilton racing, while ensuring that he does not get bored. Valtteri Bottas, who joined the team at the start of the year, has had a stellar season, winning two races and being a big contributor to Mercedes’ 55-point lead in the constructors’ championship, but has yet to hear if his one-year contract will be extended. Toto Wolff, the Mercedes executive director, has

said that he has refrained from offering him an extension as he wants to put “all the pieces of the puzzle” in the right order, which is not just looking at next season’s driver line-up, but how it may look for years to come. Perhaps the Austrian is waiting to see what decision his most successful driver makes. Hamilton is certainly keen to point out that he is enjoying the driving, and, ominously for Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel, who is just one point ahead of him in the drivers’ championship, he feels he is at the top of his game. “In myself now I am at my best,” Hamilton

said. “The happiest I am, except when I am with my family, is when I have the car under me.” If he does retire, that is when Hamilton will look back at what he has achieved. He is the most successful British driver in Formula One history by quite a distance, with 57 wins. Nigel Mansell, next on the list, has 31. He has won three world championships and is just one pole position away from equalling Michael Schumacher’s record of 68. “Being thought of as a legend doesn’t resonate with me yet,” Hamilton said.

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Why ‘Natmeg’ inventor can take England to final ROBBIE STEPHENSON/JMP/SHUTTERSTOCK

Ebony Rainford-Brent was Natalie Sciver’s captain at Surrey when she started playing for the county aged 16. The former England cricketer now leads Surrey’s women’s cricket programme and is a regular contributor to Test Match Special. She tells Elizabeth Ammon what makes the England all-rounder such an exciting cricketer.

mental toughness Nat is very laid-back and relaxed — sometimes cricketers are too uptight. She is able to chill out and put things behind her. She learns quickly and doesn’t overanalyse, which really helps her. hand-eye co-ordination Her hand-eye co-ordination is quite superb and really natural. She has always been able to play a wide range of shots thanks to that great eye for the ball. innovation She has a shot that I’ve not seen anyone else in world cricket play where she gets deep into her crease and scoops the ball much finer than most scoops go — almost over her shoulder.

Obviously she also has the “Natmeg”, the shot that she plays nonchalantly late, moving her front leg out to the leg side and quite deliberately turning the face of the bat upon impact to send the ball between her legs, allowing her to get the ball powerfully fine on the leg side. She thinks on her feet and that’s really important, particularly given the developments in one-day cricket.

power She has real strength. Even at a young age she whacked it harder than most players. She always looked stronger. That is one of the things that makes her standout. She has broad, strong shoulders and it’s no surprise she clears the boundary as often as she does.

well. She is co-ordinated and agile. She has always been able to come down the track and play the ball back over the bowler’s head. We saw her hit a number of sixes straight down the ground in the group match against Pakistan. She moves well around the crease, coming forward and off the back foot.

dexterity Her wrists are flexible but it’s the strength of her wrists that means she is able to find different angles. That makes it difficult to set a field to her. running between wickets Her fitness has improved immeasurably in the past couple of years. She is much trimmer and more athletic so she is able to sprint through for quick runs. It is really noticeable how fit she is — now she can outrun anyone in terms of distance and pace. bowling Her medium pace is really accurate and she has change-ups — lots of them. She rolls her wrists and can deliver out of the back of the hand. She’s not rapid but her subtle changes of pace and accuracy mean that she picks up wickets and her variations are really useful.

footwork She’s a very good dancer — she moves

fielding She has a bullet arm and is quick across the ground. Allied to her batting and bowling she is the perfect threedimensional modern cricketer.

Sciver unveils the “Natmeg”, right, and celebrates one of her six wickets in the World Cup

Big hitters chasing place in sell-out game at Lord’s Elizabeth Ammon

England’s men may have been thrashed by South Africa yesterday but the women can gain swift revenge today by claiming a place in the World Cup final at Lord’s. With the Test match finishing a day early, attention will turn to England’s semi-final at Bristol today, where they play South Africa for the right to contest the trophy in front of a capacity crowd on Sunday. England have recovered from an opening defeat by India to win six matches in a row and topped the group ahead of Australia, the favourites. In the group stage, they beat their semi-final opponents by 68 runs after making 373 for five, which included a record second-wicket partnership of 275 between Tammy Beaumont (148) and Sarah Taylor (147) at Bristol, where they return today. Beaumont, who is the tournament’s leading runscorer with 372, says that victory in the group stage will count for nothing in the semi-final. “We did beat them in the group game, but it is going to be a clean slate with a lot more to play for and they will come out hard and try and make up for that defeat in the group stages,” she said. “We have put the loss to India behind us and we have gone from strength to strength as the tournament has progressed. There are still a few areas our coach will want us to work on but that is the good thing about us, we always want to learn and get better.” England are not the only side to have racked up the runs. There have been almost twice as many innings that have passed 250 as there were in the 2013 World Cup and more sixes (97) than any previous World Cup. England have made a significant contribution to those statistics, scoring more than 250 on four occasions, surpassing 350 on two of those. Beaumont, Nat Sciver and Heather Knight are all averaging more than 50 in the tournament. Alex Hartley, the left-arm spinner, is England’s leading wicket-taker with eight, while Knight is second in the squad with seven. “I think the best part of our squad is that someone different steps up every single game,” Beaumont said. “Heather Knight was excellent against West Indies with a really crucial knock and Alex Hartley with the ball.” In the group stage, South Africa won four of their seven matches, with one washed out, and boast the top two wicket-takers in the tournament — captain Dane van Niekerk, who has 15, and seamer Marizanne Kapp, who has 12. England are likely to field an unchanged side from the one who beat West Indies in their final group match.

Probable England XI for semi-final versus South Africa at Bristol today Lauren Winfield Age: 26 Born: York One-day internationals: 30 Right-hand bat Batting average: 24.25 Tammy Beaumont Age: 26 Born: Dover One-day internationals: 42 Right-hand bat Batting average: 39.66 Sarah Taylor (wk) Age: 28 Born: London

One-day internationals: 108 Right-hand bat, wicketkeeper Batting average: 40.43 Heather Knight (captain) Age: 26 Born: Plymouth One-day internationals: 73 Right-hand bat, off-spin bowler Batting average: 35.12 Bowling average: 22.09 Nat Sciver Age: 24 Born: Tokyo One-day internationals: 39

Right-hand bat, right-arm medium Batting average: 46.08 Bowling average: 22.93 Fran Wilson Age: 25 Born: Farnham, Surrey One-day internationals: 12 Right-hand bat Batting average: 21.25 Katherine Brunt Age: 32 Born: Barnsley One-day internationals: 101 Right-hand bat, right-arm

fast-medium Batting average: 13.00 Bowling average: 22.52 Jenny Gunn Age: 31 Born: Nottingham One-day internationals: 137 Right-hand bat, right-arm medium-fast Batting average: 19.49 Bowling average: 28.00 Laura Marsh Age: 30 Born: Pembury, Kent One-day internationals: 86

Right-hand bat, off-spin bowler Batting average: 14.29 Bowling average: 25.91

One-day internationals: 15 Right-hand bat, left-arm spinner Batting average: ---Bowling average: 19.20

Anya Shrubsole Age: 25 Born: Bath One-day internationals: 44 Right-hand bat, right-arm medium Batting average: 13.20 Bowling average: 27.47

Coach Mark Robinson Age: 50 Born: Hull Former county seamer who made over 200 appearances for Northamptonshire, Sussex and Yorkshire

Alex Hartley Age: 23 Born: Blackburn

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Left a huge gap between bat and pad. It was due to a combination of his being very upright, with his head nowhere near over the ball, and his desire to play the ball early and ahead of his front pad. Once the Durham batsman had completed the shot, it did not look too bad, but it was too late. The gate had been left open

He was a little unlucky in that the ball from Vernon Philander kept low, but he did not help himself by being so deep in his crease initially. When the ball hit him, his front foot was barely outside the popping crease. He was also caught in the no-man’s land that is so often his downfall with his feet close together and his bat prodding out hopefully in front. Because Philander is not that quick, you should think about standing outside the popping crease because he is always looking to attack the stumps and you can mess with his lengths by standing further forward

Who is bowled out most?

Steve James

This cannot go on. England simply cannot continue to carry two players in the top three of their batting order. Your top three sets the tone. It sets up the game. Sometimes it wins the game. At the moment England’s just rolls over. The notion of the captain Joe Root batting at No 4 because it gives him some rest before he bats is utterly risible. The poor chap probably just readies himself in full protective equipment as soon as the openers leave the dressing room. It is not quite as bad as one No 3 in the Glamorgan second XI, who used to wait by the gate to the outfield when the openers went out to bat, so miffed was he by the performances and attitude of one of them. But you get the gist. The first thing to say is that Alastair Cook is utterly blameless in all of this. In making 42 here yesterday he looked as though he was batting on a different pitch. He was certainly in a different class. And he does have rather a lot of credit in the bank. But even he succumbed surprisingly, bounced out by Chris Morris, whose pace so stunned him that the ball had hit his gloves before he was halfway through his stroke. And this is one of the finest players of the short ball of this and most other generations. It was a wonderful piece of bowling — as fine as the devastating awayswinging yorker with which he bowled Root — but it also raised questions as to whether even Cook is wearying of, and worrying about, the burden around him. Even he cannot bat for three men. To pose the question as to whether Keaton Jennings is a Test opener is not cruel. It is one that the selectors will be asking themselves most earnestly over the next week, and it will probably be one that crosses Jennings’s mind too. He knows that he will have to work hard to ensure that his game is in some sort of order if he is selected. Yes, he has a Test century behind him, in his very first innings in Mumbai, but even then he could have been dismissed for nought when he was dropped and it is a common view that opening the batting in India is one of

Statistics from first-class cricket since the start of the 2016 English season show that Keaton Jennings is bowled far more often than the other members of England’s top four — or two of the contenders to replace him at the top of the order Keaton Jennings

26.5% 18.6% 17.4% 6% 12.8% 13% Alastair Cook

Gary Ballance

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Haseeb Hameed

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the easier roads with which to begin the journey into Test cricket. But he has looked dreadful in this series. He is extremely stiff and upright in his stance and in his strokeplay. It means that his head is never over the ball and, when he does drive, it can be in the air — as it was for the two that he hit through cover off Vernon Philander here — and when he defends it is often not particularly solid. That was undoubtedly the case yesterday as he left a gaping gate open for Philander to snake a nip-backer through. An opening batsman can never be happy with granting such an easy passage to his stumps. Good batsmen do not get bowled often, so the old professionals always used to aver. Admittedly, you cannot

use your pads as much as you once could, but the point remains: protecting the timbers behind you must be the primary objective. Jennings gets bowled rather too often. I expressed some sympathy in these pages yesterday for Liam Dawson and I have similar feelings for Gary Ballance. He, too, has been overpromoted. His recall made sense because he had scored so many runs, but it had to be at No 5, not No 3. You cannot demote him in the order now, only drop him for good, sadly, although injury may rule him out of the third Test anyway. He seems to be making all the same mistakes that he made last time around. To trap him on the crease with feet stuck together is not a fiendishly difficult task. Philander had the benefit

of some low bounce in Nottingham but there was a certain inevitability to his dismissal of the left-handed No 3. This is not a healthy situation for Root, who so backed Ballance. It pays not to take emotion into selection meetings. England had no chance of winning or saving this match but they did have a chance to bat with some pride and skill. Cook apart, they did neither. Some of the shots played in the middle order were harebrained. The balance between obdurate defence and acceptable positivity is tricky in these circumstances, but Jonny Bairstow and Moeen Ali will certainly not want to watch any video reviews of their innings. Accusations that this team can play only one way looked valid in their cases.

This is Test cricket. You need to think, not just thump. What to do now, then? This England set-up likes to give a player one game too many rather than one too few, but it is surely time to revise that policy. The coaching staff must look into some players’ eyes and judge whether the fight is still worth fighting with them. It can sometimes do a player more harm to be exposed again when he is clearly not at ease with his game. Jennings and Ballance are very different cases. Jennings can come again, Ballance surely cannot. The Dawson experiment must end and maybe Jennings can drop down a place with Surrey’s Mark Stoneman coming in as opener, but changes must be made. As I said, this cannot go on.

trent bridge diary by john westerby elgar takes precautions There was the unusual sight of a helmet in the South Africa slip cordon during England’s slow progress to the lunch interval. Standing at third slip to the bowling of Vernon Philander’s medium-fast, Dean Elgar was fielding closer than normal in an attempt to cope with the lower bounce and wisely wore a helmet for protection. How long until helmets, or face masks, are a common sight in the slips?

officials enjoy reunion There was a healthy Nottinghamshire representation among the match officials. Paul Reiffel, the umpire and former Australia fast bowler, was the overseas player at Trent Bridge in 2000, while Alex Wharf, the fourth umpire, played the preceding two seasons here before moving to Glamorgan. Jeff Crowe, the match referee, also retains a fondness for the place, having featured in New Zealand’s victory here in 1986.

top order’s low point England’s top three scored the grand total of 79 runs in this Test from a combined six individual innings, swollen somewhatt by Alastair Cook’s 42 yesterday. This was the lowest aggregate for an England top

three since the Johannesburg Test in 2010 and the lowest at home ssince the Ashes Test at the Oval in 1997. empty skies Spidercam, which caused such a stir on its first Cook is part of a struggling top order

appearance at Lord’s, was conspicuous by its absence this week. Sky Sports only planned to use it in the first Test against South Africa, but it will be in operation again for the Women’s World Cup final at Lord’s on Sunday. how moores joined a union With the Test match on their home patch, Nottinghamshire’s batsmen were busy in the nets down the road at Lady Bay, with Peter Moores, the head coach,

in familiar mode: tracksuit on, dog-ball launcher in hand, making encouraging noises at the batsmen. In the latest issue of Nottinghamshire’s magazine Covered, Moores relates how, while playing at Sussex, he was indoctrinated into the ways of the wicketkeepers’ union by Bruce French, having edged a catch behind to his opposite number. After the game, French approached him: “Keepers’ union, mate,” French said. “If we nick it, we have to go.”

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Cricket, on the surface, is a perpetually puzzling game. How can two teams, seemingly so far apart a week ago, be so transformed? How can a team, so feeble and outplayed as South Africa were at Lord’s, become the compelling unit we watched in Nottingham? How can Joe Root’s experience of captaincy be so changed, from a blissful one to something altogether more nightmarish? What kind of alchemy is going on here? The answer is that over a five-day Test match, small mistakes can have huge consequences. Drop a batsman such as Root early on, as South Africa did at Lord’s, and the result can be the difference of two hundred runs and more, once Root’s innings and partnerships are accounted for. The winning margin — England’s was 211 runs — can be misleading, therefore, magnified many times over by errors long forgotten amid the sweet aroma of victory. The truth is that England were not quite so good at Lord’s as some made out, and South Africa were only really awful in the final innings, when those early mistakes had pushed the game from their reach. South Africa’s startling transformation here is about the only consolation England can take from an utterly abject performance on the fourth day when they were bowled out in fewer than 50 overs to lose by a massive 340 runs. Who knows what the next Test will bring? Other reasons? Some things have changed, others not. Faf du Plessis’s return has been hugely significant: he out-captained Root in this match — think of the canny field placements for Moeen Ali in both innings as a small example — and he scored vital, tough runs in the second innings. Remember that both captains got their wish at the toss, too: Root wanted to bowl; Du Plessis chose to bat and only one of those choices — Du Plessis’s — could be justified by subsequent events. The return of Chris Morris has been significant too. Without Du Plessis, South Africa opted for the extra batsman, Theunis de Bruyn, at Lord’s. Here they chose more boldly, playing the extra bowler. Morris produced the best two deliveries of the match on the fourth morning to dismiss England’s two outstanding batsmen, Alastair Cook, to a rip-snorting bouncer, and Root to a late-swinging yorker. To think, too, that South Africa will be strengthened next week by the return of Kagiso Rabada in place of Duanne Olivier, the weak link of South Africa’s attack in this match. What has not changed in the

Time England batted for on the fourth day

than this came in 1989 when England lost by an innings and 180 runs against Australia

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3 Consecutive Test innings at home in which England have failed to score more than 250 runs

England’s two innings combined lasted one ball less than South Africa’s first innings

2 Only two of England’s past 14 home Tests have gone to a fifth day

338 England’s combined twoinnings total is their worst in a home Test since the 2005 defeat against Australia at Lord’s

1989 In 17 Test defeats at Trent Bridge the only one heavier

Defeats in England’s past ten Tests, home and away

5 England would have had to bat for 180 overs to avoid defeat (or even win) this game. They have managed that just five times in the past 20 years. They won once and drew four of those matches. In all five, at least one of the top three batsmen scored centuries

intervening period is England’s team: it was an underwhelming selection at Lord’s, whatever the result suggested, and remains so. A top three of Cook, Keaton Jennings and Gary Ballance is asking for trouble, especially o against excellent bowlers to left-handers, as Morné Morkell and Vernon Philander are. Once again, Root walked to the crease trying to repair a damaged situation, after Philander’ss brilliant opening spell had accounted forr Jennings, bowled comh prehensively through the gate, and Ballance, leg-before to a grubber. Bairstow trudges off having holed out to Morris at mid-on soon after lunch

By the time the afternoon came, England were as abject in their surrender as South Africa had been at Lord’s. Some of the dismissals were ill-suited to the task at hand: Jonny Bairstow holed out to mid-on, too close to the ball so that he could not get sufficient elevation, although why he was trying to belt Keshav Maharaj over the top against the spin is a mystery; Ali swept straight to square-leg, where a man had been placed in anticipation moments before; Ben Stokes chipped a catch obligingly back to Philander, and then the tail surrendered, as though keen for an extra day off. But the damage had been done long before. England bowled poorly on the first day, failing to exploit helpful conditions as well as they might have; they batted poorly on the second and a first innings deficit of 130 was too many to recover from. South Africa’s batsmen knuckled down by comparison, not always pretty with the bat, but effective. There are always unsung performances, in this case from Heino Kuhn, who battled for two hours on the first morning, from Dean Elgar, whose charming interview on the third evening when he said that he did not give a stuff how he looked as long as he scored runs for his team, reflected his own guiding principles, and Hashim Amla in both innings. They put some of England’s easycome-easy-go batting to shame. And so to yesterday morning when defeat became inevitable after England lost four wickets to some of the best fast bowling you will see. Philander’s opening spell from the Pavilion End should be commissioned as a textbook offering for any seamer of medium pace on how to put top order left-handers under pressure. Every ball pitched in line with the stumps; the vast majority would have gone on to hit them, as one of them did when Jennings had his off stump flattened, playing forward but with bat and pad fatally parted for an instant. Ballance was caught legbefore on the popping crease, and cannot survive for further iinquisition at No 3, although pending the results of an x-ray tto his left index finger last n night, the selectors may be saved the trouble. On another day, Morkel may have run through England’s batting so well did he bowl, fuller of length than normal with the odd hostile bouncer. One such, later in t the day, knocked Stokes f on to his back. flat This was the S South Africa of o Cook, too, was old. h harried into defeat, al although the bowler was

Sorry sight: Root has his off stump removed by a Morris yorker

Morris this time, once Morkel’s opening spell of six overs was complete. Shaping to pull, Cook was beaten for pace and could only glove a catch in self preservation to Quinton de Kock — a rarity this as Cook is among the best players of the short ball in the game. After that it was only a question of how long England would last, which turned out to be not very. They have now lost six Tests in their last eight, and eight in their last 13. They are unpredictable, entertaining at times, abject at

others and very flawed. Whether this is what Tom Harrison, the chief executive of the ECB, was hoping for when he called for style over substance and entertainment over results upon appointing the new captain is uncertain. As for Root, he has experienced all the highs and lows of captaincy in double quick time. After Lord’s, England announced their team for the next Test before the first bottle of champagne had gone flat. There was no such repeat last evening.

How England rated

Alastair Cook Unusually ruffled by pace. England look worryingly reliant on him for top-order runs

Joe Root Leadership of review process poorly planned. Batted beautifully in first innings

Moeen Ali Continued success with the ball from Lord’s. Two infuriatingly flighty dismissals with the bat

Mark Wood Unconvincing return to Test cricket. Lack of fire contrasted sharply with Chris Morris

Keaton Jennings The manner of his secondinnings dismissal was troubling for a Test opener

Jonny Bairstow Wicketkeeping sharp but replays of dismissal yesterday should be on after watershed

Liam Dawson Never looked a good fit here. Bits and pieces all-rounders rarely last long in Test cricket

James Anderson Another productive outing at Trent Bridge. At his best when ball swung on second morning

Total 56

Gary Ballance Claims that his technical shortcomings have been rectified remain unproven

Ben Stokes Two failures with bat and solid with ball, but more needed from tone-setting all-rounder

Stuart Broad Took key wickets on the first day, but no victims in the second innings

South Africa H Kuhn 6, D Elgar 7, H Amla 8, Q de Kock 7, F du Plessis 7, T Bavuma 4, V Philander 9, C Morris 9, K Maharaj 8, M Morkel 6, D Olivier 5, Total 76

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Morris, who was recalled for the second Test, celebrates with team-mates after having England opener Cook caught behind off a vicious bouncer

South Africa: First Innings D Elgar c Dawson b Anderson..................... 6 H G Kuhn b Broad.............................................34 H M Amla c Wood b Broad.......................... 78 †Q de Kock c Cook b Broad........................68 *F du Plessis c Bairstow b Stokes.............19 T Bavuma c Bairstow b Stokes................. 20 V D Philander c Dawson b Anderson....54 C H Morris c and b Anderson.................... 36 K A Maharaj c Root b Anderson.................0 M Morkel c Bairstow b Anderson...............8 D Olivier not out..................................................0 Extras (lb 12)......................................................... 12 Total (96.2 overs)..................................... 335 Fall of wickets: 1-18, 2-66, 3-179, 4-194, 5-220, 6-235, 7-309, 8-317, 9-330. Bowling: Anderson 23.2-6-72-5; Broad 22-4-64-3; Wood 17-3-61-0; Stokes 18-3-77-2; Dawson 7-1-26-0; Ali 8-1-21-0; Jennings 1-0-2-0. England: First Innings A N Cook c De Kock b Philander.................3 K K Jennings c De Kock b Morkel............. 0 G S Ballance b Philander...............................27 *J E Root c De Kock b Morkel.....................78 †J M Bairstow b Maharaj..............................45 B A Stokes c De Kock b Maharaj................ 0 M M Ali c Du Plessis b Morris..................... 18 L A Dawson c Amla b Maharaj................... 13 S C J Broad lbw b Morris.................................0 M A Wood c Du Plessis b Morris.................6 J M Anderson not out...................................... 0 Extras (b 4, lb 10, w 1)...................................... 15 Total (51.5 overs)...................................... 205 Fall of wickets: 1-3, 2-3, 3-86, 4-143, 5-168, 6-177, 7-199, 8-199, 9-199. Bowling: Morkel 13-2-45-2; Philander 13-2-48-2; Morris 8.5-1-38-3; Olivier 7-0-39-0; Maharaj 10-1-21-3.

Our writers say who should start the Test at the Oval Mike Atherton 2 changes Alastair Cook, Keaton Jennings, Joe Root, Tom Westley, Jonny Bairstow (wkt), Ben Stokes, Moeen Ali, Stuart Broad, Adil Rashid, James Anderson and Mark Wood Steve James 2 changes Alastair Cook, Mark Stoneman, Keaton Jennings, Joe Root, Dawid Malan, Ben Stokes, Jonny Bairstow (wkt), Moeen Ali, Stuart Broad, Mark Wood and James Anderson John Westerby 2 changes Alastair Cook, Keaton Jennings, Joe Root, Jonny Bairstow (wkt), Gary Ballance, Ben Stokes, Moeen Ali, Adil Rashid, Stuart Broad, Toby Roland-Jones and James Anderson

continued from back Heat on Root after dire defeat that he had watched in “disbelief” as batsmen such as Jonny Bairstow and Moeen Ali fell to attacking strokes when they were battling to save the game. “The boys are fairly honest and they realise they’ve had a shocker,” Bayliss said. The coach also suggested that he believes Root should move up one position in the order to No 3, in place of the under-pressure Gary Ballance, a preference he has previously expressed, although Root prefers No 4. Asked whether Root should promote himself, Bayliss said: “You’ve heard me say what my thoughts are on that. The simple fact is, if they’re the three best batters we’ve got, so be it. They’re the guys we think are the best players at the moment for those positions.” Ballance’s place for the third Test, which starts at the Oval a week on Thursday, may have been put in jeopardy having been struck on the left index finger by a short ball from Morné Morkel and he is awaiting the results of an x-ray. Doubts also surround the identity of the best opening partner for

Alastair Cook after Keaton Jennings failed twice and was bowled through the gate by Vernon Philander yesterday as England fell to a seventh Test defeat in their past ten matches. Much of the criticism, though, centred on the inability of England’s batsmen to rein in their aggressive instincts. Vaughan, who shares an agent with Root and comes from the same Sheffield club, said on Test Match Special: “The England batting has been appalling. Maybe it’s a lack of respect about what the game is. They look like they are playing a T20 game. They have this approach of attack, attack, and there’s no thought or feeling of seeing off a bowler or wearing a team down.” Vaughan said on Twitter last night that he was talking about “England’s batting” and “not the team”. In a similar vein, Hussain said on Sky Sports: “There’s a role for someone to value their wicket and say ‘over my dead body’. I want people to value their wicket. If people bowl well, acknowledge it, don’t say, ‘We’re trying to play a positive brand of cricket’. A score of 133 all out is a rubbish brand. They are not showing a steely side.”

Root, meanwhile, acknowledged that he felt older after his first Test defeat as captain, but appealed for calm, having led England to a 211-run victory at Lord’s. “We need to learn the lessons quickly,” he said. “It’s important to stay calm. It was very disappointing the way we played, that wasn’t a fair representation of how good we are as a team. I feel older. It’s been a tough week.” Root’s judgment was found wanting at Trent Bridge with his erratic use of referrals to the third umpire. Three times in the field England wasted reviews and on a fourth occasion failed to ask for one when Hashim Amla had edged Stuart Broad behind. “I’ve always been terrible [at reviews] and it’s an area I want to get better at,” he said. Echoing the views of England’s batting coach, Mark Ramprakash, Root feels that players in Test cricket are struggling to bat for longer periods because of the increased focus on shorter forms of the game. “A lot of sides do [struggle] in world cricket, the amount of white ball we play and the crossover, but [batting for time] is part and parcel of Test cricket. We need to be better at that.”

South Africa: Second Innings H G Kuhn c Root b Anderson....................... 8 D Elgar c Anderson b Stokes.....................80 H M Amla lbw b Dawson.............................. 87 †Q de Kock c Bairstow b Anderson........... 1 *F du Plessis lbw b Stokes........................... 63 T Bavuma c Root b Ali.................................... 15 V D Philander c and b Ali............................. 42 C H Morris c Ballance b Ali........................... 13 K A Maharaj c Broad b Ali............................... 1 M Morkel not out............................................... 17 Extras (b 8, lb 8)................................................. 16 Total (9 wkts dec, 104 overs).............. 343 Fall of wickets: 1-18, 2-153, 3-154, 4-216, 5-253, 6-275, 7-304, 8-307, 9-343. Bowling: Anderson 20-4-45-2; Broad 19-4-60-0; Wood 18-5-68-0; Ali 16-2-78-4; Stokes 20-4-34-2; Dawson 11-1-42-1. England: Second Innings A N Cook c De Kock b Morris.................... 42 K K Jennings b Philander............................... 3 G S Ballance lbw b Philander........................4 *J E Root b Morris................................................8 †J M Bairstow c Morris b Maharaj........... 16 B A Stokes c and b Philander......................18 M M Ali c Kuhn b Maharaj............................27 L A Dawson not out........................................... 5 S C J Broad c Morkel b Maharaj.................. 5 M A Wood c Morris b Olivier........................ 0 J M Anderson c De Kock b Olivier............ 0 Extras (lb 5).............................................................5 Total (44.2 overs)...................................... 133 Fall of wickets: 1-4, 2-28, 3-55, 4-72, 5-84, 6-122, 7-126, 8-133, 9-133. Bowling: Morkel 13-4-30-0; Philander 10-3-24-3; Olivier 3.2-0-25-2; Morris 6-3-7-2; Maharaj 12-2-42-3. Umpires: S D Fry (Aus) and P R Reiffel (Aus). TV umpire: S Ravi (India). Match referee: J J Crowe (NZ). Series details: First Test: Lord’s: England won by 211 runs. Third Test: Kia Oval: July 27-31. Fourth Test: Emirates Old Trafford: August 4-8. Series is level at 1-1.

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The realities of life as England captain hit home for Joe Root yesterday after his side were subjected to stinging criticism from his predecessors and fresh doubts arose about his position in the batting order. After England had slumped meekly to 133 all out and lost to South Africa by 340 runs at Trent Bridge in his second Test as captain, Root was forced to defend his team against suggestions from Michael Vaughan that their aggressive style of play showed a “lack of respect” for Test cricket. “That’s very unfair, I can’t believe he’s actually said that,” Root said of the former England captain and a long-time friend and mentor. “We pride ourselves on winning series like this, but unfortunately we’ve played poorly this week.” Nasser Hussain, another former captain, accused England of lacking a “steely side” after they lost 20 wickets in 96.1 overs, allowing South Africa to draw level in the four-match series. Trevor Bayliss, the head coach, said

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