Daily Mail - 26.08.2026
全球报刊态势与全景学术研判总览 — 2026-08-26
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英国及英联邦 (United Kingdom & Commonwealth) - 《Daily Mail - 26.08.2026.pdf》Source chunk 1：DAMAGE REVERSAL SPF 40 日霜 Targets visible signs of skin 50 ml 1.69 Fl.Oz 优惠券 仅限店内使用。条款适用 2026年8月26日，星期三 £1.30 £1（订阅用户） 哈里15年计划：他与梅根的新生活真实模样 艾莉森·博肖夫独家报道 第8-9页... - 《Daily Mail - 26.08.2026.pdf》Source chunk 2：会晤：梅洛尼女士与巴登诺赫女士 凯米·巴登诺赫在与意大利总理乔治娅·梅洛尼会面时被告知要“保持自我、坚守立场”。 保守党领袖巴登诺赫与梅洛尼女士于周一在罗马进行了一小时的咖啡会谈，讨论英国和意大利面临的挑战。 据悉，梅洛尼在罗马万神庙附近的Antica Caffetteria会面时曾对巴登诺赫女士建议：“你必须做... - 《Daily Mail - 26.08.2026.pdf》Source chunk 3：被形容为“反社会人格者”。你会觉得他离开并不会造成什么损失。 因此，梅根将独自在美国努力赚钱并维持他们的媒体梦想（他们仍与Netflix保有“首映”项目合作），而哈里则返回英国，可能住在离他成长的海格罗夫庄园不远的地方，继续在梅根离开期间所承担的英国本土赞助和慈善工作。 他似乎很可能会新增一些慈善项目，涉及退伍军...
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本矩阵自动系统汇编当日全球报刊最具穿透力的 【思想与文化深思切入点】 与 【生活世界痛感切入点】，为学者提供一站式理论对话与现象学经验索引：
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📍 英国及英联邦 (United Kingdom & Commonwealth)
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- Source chunk 2：会晤：梅洛尼女士与巴登诺赫女士 凯米·巴登诺赫在与意大利总理乔治娅·梅洛尼会面时被告知要“保持自我、坚守立场”。 保守党领袖巴登诺赫与梅洛尼女士于周一在罗马进行了一小时的咖啡会谈，讨论英国和意大利面临的挑战。 据悉，梅洛尼在罗马万神庙附近的Antica Caffetteria会面时曾对巴登诺赫女士建议：“你必须做...
- Source chunk 3：被形容为“反社会人格者”。你会觉得他离开并不会造成什么损失。 因此，梅根将独自在美国努力赚钱并维持他们的媒体梦想（他们仍与Netflix保有“首映”项目合作），而哈里则返回英国，可能住在离他成长的海格罗夫庄园不远的地方，继续在梅根离开期间所承担的英国本土赞助和慈善工作。 他似乎很可能会新增一些慈善项目，涉及退伍军...
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哈里15年计划：他与梅根的新生活真实模样 艾莉森·博肖夫独家报道 第8-9页
伯纳姆获警告：俄方可能对英发动“袭击”
我们永远爱她……多莉·帕顿享年80岁 详见第2-3页
安迪·伯纳姆获警告，英国因支持乌克兰可能面临俄罗斯报复。
安全专家已告知首相，需为弗拉基米尔·普京的“直接回应”做好准备。克里姆林宫计划针对英国发动袭击，消息人士称，原因是其对基辅立场的误判。普京此前获悉新任英国首相“比[基尔·]斯塔默爵士更温和”。但近几周，伯纳姆首相强化英乌军事联盟的举措（包括向乌克兰提供导弹蓝图和战场AI技术）令俄总统的期望落空。
据信，普京在国内也面临压力
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多莉·帕顿 1946-2026
《每日邮报》，2026年8月26日，星期三 多莉，“铁蝴蝶”，出身赤贫，却凭借惊人的成功跻身亿万富豪行列——若非她将大量财富捐赠慈善事业
汤姆·伦纳德发自纽约
多莉·帕顿从未让任何人忘记她出身贫寒。她那不识字的佃农父亲，在为她接生时，只能用一袋玉米面支付给在大烟山单间小屋里为其接生的医生。
极其刻苦的努力、不可遏制的才华、讨人喜欢的个性以及敏锐的商业头脑，将这些极其卑微的根源转化为一个庞大的商业帝国。人们说，如果她没有将如此多的财富捐给慈善事业，这位标志性的创作歌手兼企业家本可以成为一名亿万富翁。
粉丝们喜欢认为，这位无可比拟且极受欢迎的“乡村音乐女王”概括了美国最好的一切——一位勤奋、敬畏上帝的明星，她没有忘记自己的根源或那些不幸的人，也没有让名声冲昏她那顶高耸的发髻。
然而，即便多莉那不可抑制的金牌品牌也有其极限。在80岁时，她于昨日在田纳西州纳什维尔逝世。
她的侄子布莱恩·西弗（Bryan Seaver）在社交媒体上宣布了这一死讯。虽然没有提供死因，但在她以所谓的“健康挑战”为由推迟并随后取消拉斯维加斯的驻场演出后，人们对其健康状况已担忧了近一年。
去年10月，在妹妹弗里达（Freida）呼吁人们为这位明星祈祷，引发网络猜测后，她曾试图通过一段社交媒体视频平息传闻，在视频中她宣布：“我还没死呢。”当时她坐在录制广告的录音室里，补充道：“在你看来我像生病了吗？我在这儿工作得很努力。”
她没有详细说明她的健康挑战，但表示这些挑战是“可治疗的”，这意味着她需要留在田纳西州的家中以及纳什维尔的范德堡大学医学中心，她在那里接受治疗。
今年5月，帕顿表示，在她的免疫系统和消化系统“完全紊乱”后，治疗效果良好。
然而，朋友们告诉《每日邮报》，她“没有正确饮食，没有做那些她通常为了维持健康而做的事情”，并补充说，他们认为一年多前她长期伴侣卡尔·迪恩（Carl Dean）的去世是原因所在。
任何试图将多莉贬低为拥有大头发和更大胸前尺寸的“金发笨蛋”的人，很可能会被她敏捷的机智所化解，而她经常拿自己开玩笑。她曾有一句著名的俏皮话：“要让自己看起来这么廉价，得花很多钱。”此外她还说过：“我并不反感那些关于金发笨蛋的笑话，因为我知道我不笨……而且我也知道我不是金发。”
帕顿在她的歌曲《乡下女孩的魅力》（Backwoods Barbie）中称自己是“乡村女孩心目中的魅力化身”，她并不介意承认自己曾参加过一次多莉模仿秀变装皇后比赛，结果因为造型“过于夸张”而落败。“他们只是觉得我是一个矮小的同性恋小伙子，”她笑着说。
在60年的职业生涯中，多莉销售了超过1亿张唱片，创作了如《乔琳》（Jolene）和《我将永远爱你》（I Will Always Love You）等全球热门金曲，其他明星争相翻唱。
然而，她的歌曲——超过3,000首——仅仅是庞大的多莉品牌的一部分。她大量撰写书籍（包括四部自传），制作并出演电影（《9到5》、《钢铁木兰》和《德克萨斯州最好的小妓院》），并且
“我知道我并不笨……也不傻”
她将自己的形象进行商业变现，其程度令其他精明的商业明星只能望其项背。
帕顿不仅自己写书，还通过资助一项识字项目——多莉·帕顿想象力图书馆（Dolly Parton's Imagination Library）——鼓励更多人阅读，该项目向英语世界的学龄前儿童每月免费寄送图书。
她在田纳西州东部——自己成长的地方——投资巨大，甚至拥有自己的热门主题公园多莉伍德度假村（Dollywood Parks & Resorts）、水上乐园多莉伍德喷溅之国（Dollywood's Splash Country），以及一系列“马术晚宴剧场”连锁品牌多莉·帕顿风暴（Dolly Parton's Stampede，包含四道菜的晚餐后上演音乐、喜剧与马术表演），并在纳什维尔开设了一家多莉酒店。
帕顿因兼具纤巧女性气质与精明商业头脑而获得“铁蝶”绰号，她常开玩笑说自己看起来像女人，但思考起来像男人。她积累的财富估计在3亿至5亿加元之间。尽管她表面上开朗坦诚，但她的私生活却鲜少透露。
尽管她多次否认自己是女同性恋或双性恋，但长期以来一直有传闻称她与鲜少露面的丈夫卡尔·迪恩（Carl Dean）的59年婚姻是场骗局，而她真正的挚爱是童年好友兼长期助手朱迪·奥格尔（Judy Ogle）——后者于2022年去世。帕顿曾坦承，在巡演期间，她与朱迪多年同床共枕。然而，将她推向更富有、更著名地位的那首歌，并非献给迪恩先生或奥格尔女士。
《我永远爱你》（I Will Always Love You）是她1973年录制的作品，近20年后由惠特尼·休斯顿（Whitney Houston）翻唱并成为国际巨 hit。这首歌最初是她为告别导师兼商业伙伴、乡村音乐歌手波特·瓦格纳（Porter Wagoner）而作。正如她坦承的那样，在遇到瓦格纳之前，她在职业上一无是处。作为家中12个孩子中的老四，帕顿将自己的商业才能归功于父亲。
她从小就开始表演，10岁就在当地电台登台，13岁录制了首支单曲《Puppy Love》。
在学校时，同学们嫉妒她在当地电视上露面，竟将她锁进橱柜，令她自此对黑暗产生终生恐惧。
18岁时，她离开乡下家园，前往乡村音乐之都纳什维尔（父亲为保护她还给了她一把枪），开启了一段为期10年、专注于成名的征程。1967年，21岁的她已在乡村音乐排行榜上拥有一连串作品——最初她是作为词曲作者而非表演者取得成功——随后受邀成为瓦格纳每周电视节目及巡回演出的二重唱搭档。
瓦格纳说服唱片公司签下她，但作为二人组合虽获成功，两人却都因无法各自独立取得成功而倍感挫败。对她而言，在瓦格纳的电视节目中扮演花瓶角色更是雪上加霜。
身高仅1.52米的帕顿坦承，她的名气更多源于其他“重要资产”，并将这些优势充分利用，在《波特·瓦格纳秀》（The Porter Wagoner Show）上大秀风情。她最终在1994年向《Vogue》杂志坦白了自己的三围：“40-20-36。我过去从不告诉别人我的尺寸，但随着年龄增长，我越来越以此为傲。”
灿烂的偶像：左为多莉（即将被人们如此铭记的她）、中为与丈夫卡尔合影、右为在热门电影《九霄惊魂》（9 To 5）中的她
她和沃格纳争相穿上最夸张的服装或发型——他偏爱镶钻西装和蓬巴杜发型，而帕顿坦承她的造型是模仿了“镇上荡妇”。
不过，与搭档不同的是，沃格纳不必在每场演出中间打断节目去推销卫生巾。
1973年底，她决定独自闯荡。帕顿后来说：“我们经常争吵。我们非常相像。我们都很固执。我们都相信自己最清楚什么对自己最好。唉，他也认为自己最清楚什么对自己最好——包括我。”
她确信沃格纳永远不会接受她离开的理由——她心怀梦想（不久之后便实现了），想要跨界进入流行乐坛，并进军好莱坞当演员——于是决定用一首歌递上辞呈。
帕顿曾说，她在同一天写下《我永远爱你》的同时，也写下了另一首大热歌曲《乔琳》。《乔琳》的灵感则来自一位当地的红发女子。
“我是40-20-36。越老我越为之自豪”
（银行出纳员曾深深迷恋她的丈夫，帕顿说）。
“第二天早上我把它带了进去。我说，‘坐下，波特。我写了一首歌，想让你听听，’”帕顿说，“于是我就唱了。他哭了。他说，‘这是我听过最美的歌。你可以去录，只要我能负责制作这张唱片。’他做到了，其余的就是历史了。”
然而，沃格纳曾给帕顿买过昂贵的珠宝和一辆蓝色凯迪拉克，却因她在1979年违约而起诉她300万美元——当时他们已经三年没说话了。不过，帕顿从未完全抛弃他，曾帮他摆平税务问题，并斥资数十万美元买下他歌曲的版权。
后来她又免费将版权还给了他。
2007年，沃格纳因肺癌去世时，帕顿去病榻前看他，在他离世前两小时为他唱了《I Will Always Love You》。
沃格纳曾与巴特·雷诺兹、西尔维斯特·史泰龙（她在《最佳小妓院》和《闪亮的马靴》中的搭档）以及乡村歌手比利·雷·赛勒斯（小碧莉·赛勒斯的父亲）等一众名人传出过绯闻。
然而——与她坚决否认的女同性恋传闻不同——她从未正面确认或否认过这些猜测，反而还饶有兴致地助长了流言：“‘我被指和每一个我见过或合作过的男人有染，’”她在2012年说，“‘也许有，也许没有。我从不说有。’”
帕顿与肯尼·罗杰斯——她最难忘的演唱搭档，二人于1981年合作推出热门单曲《Islands In The Stream》——也曾传出过绯闻。他们最初对猜测半信半疑，但她后来予以否认，坚称在2017年她“不是‘他的菜’”，并补充道：“我们几乎像兄妹一样。那简直像乱伦。”
1966年，她在乔治亚州林戈尔德与卡尔·迪恩结婚，两人是在她抵达小镇的当天，在Wishy Washy洗衣店外相遇后相恋的。
帕顿回忆道，她刚从洗衣店出来，恰逢卡尔——比她大三岁——开着皮卡经过。他告诉她，她那身暴露的衣服会晒伤，便跟着她回店里搭讪，而她正在叠衣服。
迪恩拥有一家当地的沥青公司，在她去年出版的回忆录《舞台之星：我的演艺生涯》中鲜有提及。实际上，他在她的公开生活中露面如此之少，以至于许多人怀疑他
“纯粹的爱”：与助手朱迪·奥格尔
帕顿解释说，迪恩痛恨成为聚光灯的焦点，还补充道，作为一名硬摇滚乐迷，他甚至不太喜欢她的音乐。
在1994年的自传中，她写道迪恩会忠诚地在家等她从华丽的旅程中归来：“他似乎知道我会回来，他知道风流韵事和人际关系只是我在与人交往中的一部分。”去年在宣布他的离世时，她写道：“卡尔和我一起度过了许多美好的岁月。言语无法表达我们60多年来共享的爱。”
她与朱迪·奥格尔的亲密关系始于七岁时，并在奥格尔——一位美发师——成为她形影不离的私人助理后继续发展。帕顿在1994年的回忆录中透露，奥格尔甚至参与她深夜的歌曲创作：“朱迪来为我工作，担任我的助理、侍从、美发师、化妆师——她需要扮演的一切角色。”
“我真不知道如果没有朱迪，我的人生会变成什么样子，”她写道，“这是我所知道的最纯粹的爱，也是我所经历过的最牢固的纽带。”在描述她们巡演时共眠的习惯时，这位明星简洁地说：“为什么要隔着房间大喊大叫呢？”
帕顿坚称：“如果我是同性恋，我早就飞出衣柜了”，但她也不得不否认与一名男助手马克·基拉科夫长达六年的绯闻。据称，她在1989年首次遇到基拉科夫，当时他还是她的舞台设备管理员之一。1996年，有报道称他在她拒绝在丈夫卡尔和他之间做选择后“走出了她的生活”。
与众多长盛不衰的明星一样，对多莉而言，事业永远是第一位的。
“我总是说自己是匹看起来像‘表演马’的‘役马’，”她在2025年如是说。
她的不朽人气在2014年得到了淋漓尽致的展现：她在格拉斯顿伯里面对一群足以成为她孙辈的18万名观众进行演出。
当被问及她为何如此长盛不衰时，她答道：“我认为原因之一是因为我爱人们，而且我认为他们感受到了这一点。我想人们知道我为达到今天的地位付出了艰苦努力，而且大体上我保持了理智……”
摘要：多云，有雨，
英国今日：早晨有阵雨，下午转为多云，气温温暖。随后将出现雷阵雨，之后大部分时间为多云天气。风力轻微。最高气温 26℃。
今日天气
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伯明翰会成为英格兰第一个 20 英里时速城市吗？
订阅优惠，尽享超值省钱
作者：Will Hallowell
伯明翰希望通过降低数百条道路的限速，成为英格兰第一个 20 英里时速（20mph）城市。
伯明翰曾因其庞大的汽车产量和先驱性的道路设计而被誉为英国的“汽车之城”，如今该市议会正推动将所有 A 类公路以下的路线限速降低。
这个由自由民主党、绿党和独立人士领导的当局希望停止汽车对街道的“主导”，转而鼓励居民步行和骑行。
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但批评者表示，市议会“决心让”人们在城市中出行变得更加困难——
月出：7.30pm，月落：3.42am 伦敦日出：6.03am，日落：8.00pm 曼彻斯特日出：6.07am，日落：8.12pm 伦敦桥高潮位：1.50pm 利物浦高潮位：11.19pm
“这将增加主动出行”
多年来，市议会希望将20英里 / 小时限速作为“所有当地道路的标准限速”。
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计划“‘反汽车主义’”。当局已规划伯明翰交通系统将在2031年前“‘转型’以‘应对未来十年的挑战’。”
伯明翰所有住宅街道及当地中心将实施20英里 / 小时限速，而主要干道及配送道路仍保留30英里 / 小时限速。”
《伯明翰交通计划》指出“‘步行、骑行及主动出行将成为大多数人在当地社区短途出行的首选’。”未来五年内
该计划称：“‘结束住宅社区、学校周边及当地中心街道上汽车主导地位将增加主动出行、改善空气质量并重新连接社区。’根据提案，这意味着“‘将20英里 / 小时作为默认
作为转型的一部分，私家车进入市中心的通行权将受到限制，优先发展行人街道、自行车道及公共交通网络。
尽管英国交通部在6月明确表示，20英里 / 小时限速‘仅应在有适当证据支持的情况下实施’。
改革英国党议员、伯明翰市议会反对派领袖Jex Parkin表示：“‘这是议会又一项反汽车政策，似乎决意让伯明翰的出行变得更加困难。
‘人们已经面对足够的拥堵、限制和混乱，现在又要强加一项全面措施。’
上月英国皇家汽车俱乐部（RAC）数据显示，20英里 / 小时限速区内超速被抓的司机人数在两年内增长了两倍。2023年，全国共有37,219名司机因违反20英里 / 小时限速被抓获——而去年这一数字上升至125,133。
月与日
伯明翰市议会发言人表示：“在住宅区和当地中心实施20英里 / 小时限速后，我们能够将‘人’而非‘汽车’放在首位。”
该发言人补充道：“全球关于更低限速的证据非常明确：它能减少碰撞、挽救生命并降低伤害——因此我们的信息很简单：慢即安全。”
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“坚守立场！”梅洛尼告诫凯米
会晤：梅洛尼女士与巴登诺赫女士
凯米·巴登诺赫在与意大利总理乔治娅·梅洛尼会面时被告知要“保持自我、坚守立场”。
保守党领袖巴登诺赫与梅洛尼女士于周一在罗马进行了一小时的咖啡会谈，讨论英国和意大利面临的挑战。
据悉，梅洛尼在罗马万神庙附近的Antica Caffetteria会面时曾对巴登诺赫女士建议：“你必须做自己。”
梅洛尼女士与巴登诺赫女士均面临来自右翼的挑战。巴登诺赫女士一贯拒绝与奈杰尔·法拉奇及改革英国党（Reform UK）达成协议。
据报道，梅洛尼与巴登诺赫利用会面讨论了阻止富裕人士离开意大利和英国的必要性，因为他们是“创造就业并推动经济增长”的人。
巴登诺赫女士昨日在X平台发文称梅洛尼：“她是一个直言不讳、务实无虚的女性，清楚自己的信念并坚守立场。”
她补充道：“她已重建意大利的信心，并展示了严肃的中右翼政府能够实现的成就。‘我希望了解她是如何做到的，因为工党执政后，英国也将需要这种决心，而保守党届时将予以兑现。’”
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囚禁跟踪狂：十余年针对比莉·派珀，令其在家中感到恐惧
一名“痴迷”的跟踪狂因长达十余年针对比莉·派珀的跟踪行为，并在昨日因违反限制令被判入狱。
49岁的菲利普·杰罗姆因在X平台上发布11条关于“神秘博士”女星的帖子，被判入狱，其“妄想”式企图是与这位三个孩子的母亲建立关系。此前，该跟踪狂曾给43岁的派珀女士写过一封18页的信件，疯狂轰炸其社交媒体消息，甚至在20年前与其见面后通过信箱投递贺卡。
杰罗姆发布的帖子中包含AI生成的图像，以及一
“给她写了一封18页的信”
标题为：“她不穿胸罩看起来真美。”
法庭获悉，他对派珀女士怀有“性兴趣”，并曾因违反限制令被判入狱。此前，他在Comicon大会上出现，当天曾两次与派珀女士合影——第二次还换了衣服。
法庭听证，第二次见面时，派珀女士认出杰罗姆，后者被保安驱离。
杰罗姆，来自汉普郡温彻斯特
作者：克莱尔·达菲
此前曾被警告，若违反跟踪预防令，可能面临5年监禁。
但检察官阿妮莎·阿尔鲁巴耶表示，去年12月他仍试图通过社交媒体再次联系她。巴辛斯托克治安法庭获悉，杰罗姆在一个月内在X平台上发布了11条帖子，并标记了派珀女士的账户。他还将她的三张照片保存至设备相册。
阿尔鲁巴耶女士称，他为其中一条帖子配文：“我想我知道哪张照片可能让我爱上[派珀女士]——GQ大奖那张，让我想在《成长的烦恼》签售会上见她。她不穿胸罩看起来真美。”
《成长的烦恼》是派珀女士2006年自传的标题。
女演员未出席最新听证会。法庭听证，她的私人助理管理X账户并试图屏蔽派珀女士免受评论影响。
在之前的法庭听证中，她表示：“我不觉得在家里安全。我不相信他会出现伤害我，但我也无法确定。”
卡罗琳·博纳维亚在减轻处罚时表示，最新帖子并非“恶意性质”，多为重复内容。
博纳维亚补充道：“有些帖子基本上是她的脸部经AI处理，看起来像卡通画。”她还表示，杰罗姆患有自闭症，曾寻求帮助应对“痴迷”式关系，并曾就违规行为认罪。但地区法官基尔斯蒂·奥尔曼告诉杰罗姆，他发帖的“动机”是试图联系派珀女士，“希望她能与你发展关系。这很荒谬”。
昨日菲利普·杰罗姆发送的信息
法庭获悉，他还因2013年单独的骚扰罪被定罪。
杰罗姆首次因派珀女士出庭是在2018年，当时因通过她家门缝投递卡片被判限制令。
同年12月，他违反限制令，联系了她的母亲和姐妹。
2019年2月，他承认因违反限制令骚扰派珀女士，并因寄出那封18页信件被判入狱12个月。
小狗如何通过眨眼与主人建立联结
那些可爱的“小狗眼”可能传达的信息比你想象的更多——科学家称宠物狗会通过眨眼与信任的人建立联结。
意大利帕尔马大学研究人员发现，狗会用眼睛发出“微妙的亲和信号”给它们信任的人。
在测试35只狗时，研究人员发现，当狗看到人类眨眼时，它们的眨眼速度会加快——相比于看到他人凝视镜头的画面
作者：威廉·亨特
——但仅限于人类是它们的主人时。当主人是女性时，这种效果最强。
首席作者基亚拉·卡诺里博士表示：“这表明狗与人类的沟通可能比我们认知的更微妙，对社交关系更敏感。”
但她也警告称，这并不表明狗“故意通过眨眼传达信息”。
“他正在眨眼传递信息。我想这和午餐有关”
Prue呼吁全面禁止校园午餐盒
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"蛋糕与糕点女王"呼吁全面禁止校园午餐盒，因其常充斥糖分过高、不健康的食物。
《英国烘焙大赛》评委Dame Prue Leith赞扬政府将于下月实施的"学校餐食革命"，但她认为还应进一步推行，为每名儿童提供免费强制午餐。
此项改革意味着英格兰地区享受全民信用津贴家庭的学生将有资格享受免费餐食，并确保更多水果和蔬菜供应。
但Dame Prue表示："我将采取更强硬的措施……我们应禁止午餐盒，因为你无法监管父母放入的食物。
‘如果你是一位母亲，孩子想要在午餐盒里放一块巧克力棒或其他任何东西，这很难管控，因为这几乎是讨孩子欢心、用食物‘购买’爱意的简单方式。’
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斯塔默、泽连斯基与欧盟领导人今日将与特朗普会面——他会听进去只言片语吗？ SIR KEIR斯塔默，PV@eukis
SIR KEIR斯塔默将与欧盟及北约领导人一道，在今日白宫关键会议中支持弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基。他们将展现团结阵线，希望以此缓和特朗普对这位乌克兰领导人的态度，
后者今年2月曾在椭圆形办公室羞辱过泽连斯基。
欧洲各国部长担忧泽连斯基正步入普京设下的陷阱。
乌克兰领导人昨晚表示，"志愿者联盟"（承诺支持基辅的英国等国）昨日举行了为期两小时的视频会议，称其具有"建设性"。他透露各方在"和平协议应包含哪些内容"上达成"共同立场"，并坚称协议不包括通过武力改变国家边界。
欧盟领导人的强硬态度在法国总统Emmanuel Macron事后表态中可见一斑："如果我们今日不强硬，明日将付出惨痛代价。"
此前鲍里斯·约翰逊曾呼吁斯塔默带领全球行动，以抗议针对乌克兰的
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英国日益深度参与冲突，令俄方倍感挑战。
首相收到震惊警报之际，美国中央情报局（CIA）局长昨日紧急访问莫斯科。
据报道，间谍首脑约翰·拉特克利夫向克里姆林宫发出警告，要求其勿升级乌克兰冲突——无论是动用核武器还是针对基辅西方盟友发动袭击。
这条"切勿轻举妄动"的建议基于美方情报：俄方在战场上再次受挫后，已准备好立即且大规模采取行动。
英国安全高层昨夜已做好准备，应对克里姆林宫对英发动袭击——无论是针对伯纳姆本人，还是袭击英国防务设施。
一位资深消息人士对《每日邮报》表示：“我们不断挑衅这头熊，它迟早会咬人。基于英国对乌克兰的高调支持，针对英国防务和安全基础设施的袭击已不可避免。
‘英法两国已成为俄方关注焦点，伯纳姆访问基辅及其坚定立场必然已被克里姆林宫察觉。
‘莫斯科原本对其比星mer在乌克兰问题上更温和抱有期待，但事实并非如此。俄罗斯
将寻求通过行动而非言语发出声明。可能是无人机袭击，或纵火袭击。俄罗斯在英国境内潜伏的特工组织可随时发动其中任何一种袭击。’
该消息人士补充道：‘俄罗斯正在每天测试我们的安全基础设施……更大规模的袭击只是时间问题。俄罗斯只需将行动控制在北约不会做出军事回应的阈值之下。’
其他消息人士称，俄方突然召回驻伦敦大使一事被视为‘大事将至’的信号。
参与武器生产的英国主要防务制造商正在加强实体安全，并采取措施防范网络攻击。
一位克里姆林宫顾问大胆放话，称为乌克兰生产无人机的工厂可能遭到‘不明来源’的袭击。
前俄罗斯副外长
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安迪·伯纳姆已选择对弗拉基米尔·普京强硬起来。而普京已在筹划报复行动。
一位高级安全消息人士向我透露：“过去两周我们收集到的情报显示，俄罗斯正在准备某些行动。他们正在计划针对英国利益的某种行动。他们将会考验伯纳姆。”
周一，首相抵达乌克兰——并带来了礼物。在沃洛德米尔·泽连斯基的请求下，伯纳姆同意交出英国“暴风影”远程导弹的技术蓝图。
“乌克兰一直是欧洲的守护者：它不是我们安全的负担，而是保卫欧洲的前线。”伯纳姆宣称，“乌克兰人民不仅应得到我们持续的支持，还应得到我们的感激与尊重。”
但当他说出这些话时，安迪·伯纳姆知道这条前线可能会更靠近家门。周日，俄罗斯宣布召回其驻英国大使，且未任命继任者。
在英国安全机构内部，这被视为俄罗斯即将采取干预行动的明确信号。一位消息人士透露：“我们认为他（大使）已被召回，这样当他们行动时，我们将无法驱逐他。”
据我了解，尽管目前尚无针对可能即将发生的俄罗斯袭击的确切情报，但首相已获悉多种可能的情景。
风险登记册的首要风险是某种针对国家基础设施的网络攻击，可能针对医疗服务或交通系统。一位安全消息人士表示：“这将与俄罗斯的行事风格一致。”
第二个担忧领域是某种直接破坏或袭击英国军事供应链的行动。
安全机构曾向我表示： “他们正在计划某种行动……他们将考验伯纳姆”
昨天，克里姆林宫顾问、前副外长安德烈·费多罗夫警告称，英国工厂可能遭到“未知来源”的袭击。
伯纳姆还被警告，存在某种俄罗斯与英国军事力量发生冲突的可能性。今年5月，国防部报告称，俄罗斯战机“反复且危险地”拦截了一架英国波音RC-135“铆钉接合”侦察机。
上个月，一艘俄罗斯护卫舰在普利茅斯海岸外进行“实弹演习”。今年5月，有报道称，一架载有时任国防大臣约翰·希利的英国皇家空军战机导航系统遭俄罗斯干扰。正如一位国防消息人士所解释的：“我们担心他们会制造某种‘事件’。这可能是蓄意而为。或者，克里姆林宫对我们采取更加公开的强硬姿态，可能导致下级指挥链中有人自行挑起事端。”
令安全机构尤为担忧的还有俄罗斯直接针对首相本人的挑衅可能性。
基尔·斯塔默的房子和汽车曾遭到纵火袭击。据信这些袭击由与俄罗斯国家相关的犯罪分子发动。尽管最终有两名肇事者被定罪，但评估认为莫斯科对结果感到满意。
正如一位情报消息人士向我解释的：“问题在于，斯塔默在袭击后公开表示他和家人被事件震惊。因此在俄罗斯情报部门眼中，这是一次成功的行动。这反过来又让他们有望再次尝试类似行动。”
俄罗斯攻击英国的部分动机，是为了直接挑战伯纳姆的决心。伯纳姆首相在外交事务上被视为一张白纸——而莫斯科有动机考验他。
但俄罗斯方面还有一种更广泛的认知，这种认知可追溯至鲍里斯·约翰逊时期，即英国是阻碍普京在该地区实现军事目标的主要障碍。‘克里姆林宫认为我们正在阻挡胜利，’一位外交部消息人士对我说。‘每次他们与美国人会面时都会告诉对方：“问题就出在英国身上。这里不会有任何解决方案。”
前俄罗斯副外长安德烈·费多罗夫表示，在伯纳姆周一访问基辅后，‘英国遭受半军事行动’的可能性‘无法百分之百排除’。
此行是首相自入主唐宁街10号以来的首次出访，英国在此期间重申了对乌克兰‘坚定不移’的支持。作为回应，乌方向英方移交了官员口中的‘金矿’级战场数据，以帮助加强英国的安全。
费多罗夫表示，‘迟早，俄罗斯可能不仅会作出口头回应，还可能对英国采取某种可见的行动’。
当被问及这可能具体指什么时，他表示：‘可能是所谓的技术性回应，比如来自未知来源的黑客攻击。也可能采取不同的政治措施，且我无法百分之百排除存在某种半军事行动的可能性。’
在进一步追问‘半军事行动’的定义时，他对BBC《夜间新闻》表示：‘例如，英国的某些企业或工厂可能会发生某些情况，这些工厂正在为乌克兰生产无人机。’当被问及这是否意味着英国的工厂会遭到军事袭击时，这位克里姆林宫顾问表示：‘这些工厂可能遭到袭击，但袭击者不是俄罗斯，而是来自……未知来源。’
英国的能源基础设施近期已暴露出易受俄罗斯、伊朗或中国在线攻击的脆弱性。上个月，一座水电站在遭伊朗黑客攻击后关停了四天。俄罗斯近几个月来变得更加肆无忌惮，其战机在黑海上空频频靠近英国军机。
今年4月，一架俄罗斯苏-35战斗机曾在距离英国皇家空军“铆钉”联合侦察机仅20英尺的距离飞行。英国国防部谴责此举为‘危险且不可接受’。
6月，英国部队首次登上俄罗斯影子船队的一艘油轮。英国皇家海军陆战队突击队在英吉利海峡登上“斯米尔托斯”号油轮，此举对俄罗斯的战争资金造成重大打击。
俄罗斯正准备在乌克兰动员30万兵力，自2022年入侵以来，俄方在乌方已遭受150万伤亡。
囤积物资
英国人将被敦促囤积罐头食品和瓶装水，以应对紧急情况。
政府的一项新公共信息宣传活动将敦促家庭为极端天气、网络攻击或敌对国家行动等事件导致的严重中断做好准备。
全国韧性宣
威胁英国利益
警告：俄罗斯总统普京
“如果你不让英国人就范，我们将不得不采取行动。”
普京现在考虑对英国采取某种形式的直接行动，还有最后一个原因：他日益绝望。乌克兰“纵深打击”行动已将战争升级为直接威胁俄罗斯独裁者的政治危机。
“如果你住在莫斯科，你再也无法无视这场战争了，”另一位情报人士称，“当你早上走出家门去上班时，你会看到最近一次乌克兰袭击后冒出的巨大黑烟柱。你买不到汽油。战争现在就发生在普京家门口。而他的态度是：
‘那些发动袭击的人需要在自家门口得到报应。’”
自从他入主唐宁街以来，首相一直专注于国内问题。但周一，他决定与乌克兰人民站在一起，这代表着英国首次在世界舞台上展现出团结。现在我们必须预期这种团结表达会招致回应。几年前，另一位工党领袖——埃德·米利班德——在被问及“您是否足够强硬，敢于直面弗拉基米尔·普京？”时，曾被嘲笑地回应：“该死，是的！”
而安迪·伯纳姆暗示他做好了准备。普京现在即将对他进行考验。
威胁英国利益
如果选择行动，普京可能下令发动造成混乱并导致严重人员伤亡
俄罗斯对英国的威胁于周一晚间在BBC《夜间新闻》节目中由克里姆林宫内部人士安德烈·费多罗夫公开发出，其中包含一个极其不祥的措辞。
这不仅是他对英国向乌克兰提供“风暴影”导弹蓝图并分享情报的谴责，他将此称为对这场长达四年战争的“直接军事卷入”。
也不是他——这番话必定已获得俄罗斯独裁者弗拉基米尔·普京批准——坚称英国将为支持基辅付出“更高代价”。
真正的威胁在于费多罗夫的承诺：一旦俄罗斯进行报复，袭击将来自“未知来源”。
这赤裸裸地承认莫斯科已在对英国发动代理人战争——这一局势只会进一步升级。俄罗斯并非直接动用武装力量交战，而是采用多种间接手段，显然意图加强这些行动。
这些手段不仅为其提供了一定程度的否认空间，还令我国安全部门更难以防范袭击。俄罗斯正在多个层面对我们展开行动，公众必须提高警惕，形势前所未有地紧迫。
有组织犯罪
俄罗斯现在已成为西方受害者的犯罪天堂。一项默契的协议正在实施：那些针对英国公司发动黑客攻击、勒索诈骗、网络“钓鱼”行动及其他网络犯罪的团伙将被允许肆意妄为而不受干涉。
若西方情报机构试图打击这些犯罪活动，俄罗斯国家将竭力阻挠我们的努力。莫斯科会矢口否认与这些团伙有任何关联。
这种情况的证据就隐藏在黑客的恶意软件中。这些程序被设定为忽略使用西里尔字母的计算机，这意味着它们不会传播到俄罗斯网络中。这成为避免意外瘫痪该国银行系统等关键基础设施的有效保障。
去年对玛莎百货的勒索软件攻击、对合作社支付系统的扰乱，以及哈洛德百货和捷豹路虎的临时关闭，只是针对我们发动的网络犯罪战争的一部分。
人口贩运
评论 作者：马克·盖洛蒂
俄罗斯帮派为贩运集团洗钱，消除其犯罪痕迹。而且他们收费极具竞争力，令贩运集团的商业模式更加有利可图。
俄罗斯曾尝试通过将数千名非法移民从挪威和芬兰边境引入欧洲。但斯堪的纳维亚当局已证明能有效遏制此类行为，于是俄罗斯转而采用更简单的方法——为贩运集团洗钱。
这令非法移民路线更加通畅，给西方政府带来压力。
社会分裂
冷战期间，苏联破坏欧洲社会的行动是出于意识形态驱动。但普京治下的俄罗斯则冷酷无情、毫无信念，其唯一目标就是大规模制造混乱，手段则是各种政治观点——从极端民族主义到气候变化恐慌主义。
俄罗斯在海湾国家的金融专家，尤其是阿联酋的金融专家，会通过错综复杂的黑暗银行交易网络转移资金，
所谓"水军农场"雇佣数千人在英国社交媒体上大肆传播仇恨与虚假信息，意在煽动公众更愤怒、更不满、更分裂。
人工智能加速了这一策略，使破坏者能针对极其特定的人群进行精准投放。如今不再需要在X或Instagram上泛滥成灾地发布模因和假新闻，期待少数用户上针。现在，每一条谎言都能根据收集到的个人信息——包括位置、社会阶层、收入、爱好、家庭生活及几乎所有其他个人数据——针对少数特定个体进行投放。
罐装食品与饮用水
银行、能源公司和铁路网络也可能成为袭击目标。针对武器制造商的暴力行为尚未被排除。暗杀也是一种可能性。
作者：马丁·贝克福德 政策编辑
然而，以上种种都代表着一次重大升级。英国已证明其坚定决心，誓要抵御国家恐怖主义，而克里姆林宫对英国安全部门也颇为敬重。普京也很清楚，任何大规模袭击都将招致强烈回应。
哈里与梅根重返英国的真实生活将会怎样
哈里与梅根离开英国已有77个月之久——在这漫长且充满变故的岁月里，他的祖母女王陛下驾崩，他的父亲国王陛下被诊断出患有癌症，他们的女儿莉莉也出生了。
他们的回归进展神速。全家正在蒙特西托打点行装，且预计即将抵达英国。“H本周末就到，”一位友人昨日表示。
哈里将成为主要在家陪伴孩子的家长，计划在此居住12至15年
梅根将"来来去去"以在加州实现事业梦想
他们在科茨沃尔兹的住宅预算为800 万英镑00万，但圣诞节仍将在蒙特西托过节
这确实是个大新闻。消息仅在上周三晚间才曝光，据悉查尔斯国王似乎仅在三天前的周日才得知这一计划。
自那以来，全世界都在关注这一举动。他们将住在哪里？会在巴尔莫勒尔过圣诞节吗？孩子们会上哪所学校？他们真的要住在科茨沃尔兹，靠近杰里米·克拉克森吗？梅根是否被盖伊·里奇的热门剧集《绅士们》中的表演机会吸引而飞越大西洋？
现在，这些问题的答案正逐渐清晰——其中一些答案令人震惊。这些答案为我们揭示了苏塞克斯一家的行动方向，令全世界感到意外。
我在7月就撰文称哈里正考虑返回英国，并希望能"解开"梅根退出王室事件。我的报道曾引发诸多怀疑——但现在它已成真，且比任何人预想的都要快。
我获悉，此次搬迁的唯一动机是哈里强烈渴望为孩子们提供一流教育，对他来说这意味着必须让孩子们就读英国学校。
朋友们表示，他和梅根"多年来"一直在讨论这个想法，但直到去年才变得非常认真，甚至开始索要学校简章并与校长们交谈。
这位朋友补充说，国王早在"周末前很久"就已得知要送孩子们入读英国学校。
"梅根早就知道哈里的想法，多年来一直与他讨论如何抚养孩子。这并非突然决定。"一位朋友表示。
他们正在考虑在科茨沃尔兹附近定居，苏塞克斯一家正在寻找一栋预算约800 万英镑00万的乡村别墅。
哈里的计划是至少在未来12到15年内留在这里。
一位朋友说："在他看来，接下来的12到15年是最低限度。他视自己为全职父亲，每个周六都会去看阿奇打橄榄球。这就是他的计划。"
独家报道
阿奇将于9月入读一所顶级私立预备学校的三年级，妹妹莉莉贝特将进入同一学校的幼儿园或低年级部。
"他和梅根是最好的父母，也是最尽责的父母。他们会告诉孩子们，‘餐桌上不准看平板’。”
哈里的朋友说："国王早就清楚哈里的想法，在7月的访问中他知道他们正在四处看学校。"
现在的计划是，他确实会成为主要在家陪伴孩子的家长，而梅根则会往返于加州蒙特西托的家中。
“婚姻并未陷入困境——远非如此”
威廉也已知情约六个月。绝无任何人会“猝不及防”。
“并非渴望王室地位或王室活动，这不是重点。他明确表示不想那样。这关乎哈里希望为他们争取最好的，希望他们在英国长大，接受英国的公学教育。这就是此次搬迁的目的。”
上月在前橄榄球运动员、《叛徒》节目明星乔·马勒的播客中，哈里确实——部分开玩笑地——将自己描述为一名
她的“Her As Ever”企业总部位于加利福尼亚，主营加州生活方式产品——玫瑰红葡萄酒、花瓣撒料和果酱。他们的制作公司Archewell在洛杉矶设有办事处，当地员工正在开发多部电影和电视剧。
阿奇将作为走读生入学——即学生在校时间比普通学制更长，但仍回家
前演员梅根以其对两项事业的干劲与雄心著称，而哈里在脱离王室生活后常显得茫然无措。据报道，他曾构想一档播客节目，主题是品尝不同国家的热巧克力。
艾莉森·博肖夫
2023年，《彭博社》称他向Spotify推介过一个播客概念，主题围绕童年创伤展开，他希望采访弗拉基米尔·普京、唐纳德·特朗普及Meta首席执行官马克·扎克伯格等有争议的公众人物，探讨早期经历如何塑造了他们。
高级编辑
英国公学正是他们所期望的，国王也理解哈里认为阿奇年龄尚幼，不宜寄宿，因此此举意味着全家将回迁英国。
他的学校将确实位于
“全家人都很期待来这里”
被形容为“反社会人格者”。你会觉得他离开并不会造成什么损失。
因此，梅根将独自在美国努力赚钱并维持他们的媒体梦想（他们仍与Netflix保有“首映”项目合作），而哈里则返回英国，可能住在离他成长的海格罗夫庄园不远的地方，继续在梅根离开期间所承担的英国本土赞助和慈善工作。
他似乎很可能会新增一些慈善项目，涉及退伍军人和心理健康领域。
梅根将“来来去去”，显然她已经在规划哪些周需要待在美国，哪些周会在加利福尼亚。
计划是圣诞节在蒙特西托度过——这样就不会让皇室成员在桑德灵厄姆聚会时感到尴尬——而在学校假期期间，他们会作为一个家庭在加利福尼亚度过，因为梅根的母亲多丽亚就住在那里。
哈里和梅根还有一些“加州朋友”，即阿根廷马球运动员Nacho Figueras及其妻子Delfina，以及化妆品大亨Victoria Jackson。
他们还会作为一个家庭在葡萄牙度假，几年前他们在那里购买了一处度假屋，靠近哈里的表亲尤金妮公主的住所。
“梅根需要在美国花费相当多的时间，”一位朋友说。“她不能只是远程参与，她需要亲自到场。”
这或许能解释过去一周苏塞克斯公爵夫妇的通讯团队发布的那些令人困惑的简报。一开始，他们向《人物》杂志简报称，他们将在美国“长期”停留，这样孩子们就能在这里上学。
然后《星期日泰晤士报》被告知：“这将是一段较长的时间。可能是六个月，可能是一年，也可能更长。我认为他们自己也不知道。他们可能突然说，‘我们为什么不尝试在加拿大待一段时间？为什么不尝试澳大利亚？’”
但这毫无意义——在搬迁带着幼儿去新学校的背景下。显然，团队中有人急于渲染苏塞克斯夫妇作为“国际”夫妇的形象，而不是将他们困在英国并长期定居的想法。
现实似乎是，搬迁是长期的，但会涉及哈里和孩子们在英国上学期间，以及在假期期间去美国，而梅根则会在美国待更长时间。
当然，这对2018年结婚的夫妇来说，分居的前景并不是苏塞克斯团队想要宣扬的叙事。实际上，这种想法已经引发了关于他们婚姻状况的猜测。
名人记者兼八卦专栏作家Rob Shuter在周五报道称，他们的婚姻正面临严重危机——搬回英国是他们“拯救婚姻的最后尝试”。
‘我们知道哈里想要回家。他明确表示自己有多想念英格兰，甚至在去年11月的《国殇日》文章中（一篇对军人及“让我们引以为傲的英国传统”的深情致敬）写下了“现在我可能住在美国”这样发人深省的话。除了大卫·兰登——他的保镖——之外，他在加州几乎没有老朋友。
‘他感到痛苦也就不足为奇了。他对回国感到兴奋，也就不足为奇了。’
一位夫妇的朋友告诉我，认为这些计划暗示婚姻出现裂痕是错误的。他说：“他们的婚姻并未陷入困境，远非如此，而且这个计划是双方共同商定的。他们都认为这对孩子最好，也都希望这样做。
‘等他们在这里时，你会看到他们有多开心。让孩子们在英国上学，同时梅根仍可在加州继续经营她的事业，这完全可行。’
哈里本人此前曾表示，娶梅根是他一生中最正确的决定之一，并驳斥了关于婚姻状况的谣言，对那些散布此类传闻的‘喷子’表示怜悯。短期内，他们将暂住在朋友或家人的住处，同时寻找新房。哈里显然得到了已故母亲家族——斯宾塞家族的支持。
他乐于拥抱‘斯宾塞一面’，并认为这在他看来对那些他在英国结下的敌人来说不那么 alarming，因为这些人仍记得针对他自己家庭和国家的种族主义指控，以及他对自己和梅根受到的待遇理应得到道歉的强硬主张。
‘他觉得这传递出的信息是：他并不构成威胁，’这位朋友说。‘他不想威胁任何人。他希望继续与家人和解。这可能需要时间，但今年夏天他与国王和卡米拉共度的时光让他倍受鼓舞，全家人对搬到这里生活都感到非常兴奋。’
至于他的安全问题以及谁来承担
“这不是关于梅根重返演艺圈”
这些问题仍有待解答。这甚至可能为哈里省下一笔钱，因为他确实抱怨仅在加州生活每年就要花费他200万美元（147万英镑）的安保费用。
不过，这位友人提醒道：“在英国建立新家庭肯定要花一大笔钱。如果你身无分文，根本做不到。”
至于梅根和她在《绅士帮》（The Gentlemen）中的角色——据称当时正在讨论但随后被撤回——这位友人表示：“如果这事成真会不错，但那并非搬迁的动机。‘搬迁不是为了让梅根重返演艺圈，如果仅为此而搬迁根本说不通。你不会为了一个尚未签约、仅持续几周的演艺工作而举家搬迁。’这是为了让孩子们在英国学校安顿下来，并在这里用哈里的母文化抚养他们。”
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患有精神疾病的苏丹寻 asylum者用碎瓶刺伤利兹女子30次
性侵成性的移民杀人未遂仅因受害者“撕心裂肺的尖叫”被制止
疯狂袭击：易卜拉欣·阿尔巴希尔被判25年监禁
撰文：格伦·基欧（Glen Keogh）与马克·利斯特（Mark Lister）
一名患有精神疾病的寻 asylum者潜伏伏击独行女子，用碎瓶刺伤其面部与颈部30次。
现年34岁的易卜拉欣·阿尔巴希尔（Ibrahim Albashir）于2024年3月在受害者与友人用餐后步行回家途中，对这名现年32岁的女子发动疯狂袭击。
昨日，当他被判25年监禁时，利兹皇家法庭（Leeds Crown Court）听取了英吉利海峡两岸多方失职导致阿尔巴希尔当晚出现在英国街头的情况。
法庭听闻，他于25岁时离开苏丹，经由利比亚辗转至意大利，再到法国。
在法国逗留一年间，他开始吸食大麻并饮酒，后被送入法国精神病院接受6个月治疗，并被诊断为紧张性精神分裂症。
在出院并服用抗精神病药物后，阿尔巴希尔前往巴黎，随后停止服药
“我不接受你的失忆”
阿尔巴希尔的庇护申请后来在法国被驳回。
在蛇头的帮助下，阿尔巴希尔辗转来到加来，随后进入英国，最初在伯明翰的一家收容所落脚。
在那里，当一名女员工拒绝他的性要求时，他对其实施了性侵犯，法庭获悉。
他还曾在卢顿、考文垂、伯明翰和坎布里亚郡的巴罗因弗内斯居住。
2024年3月，阿尔巴希尔因无票从曼彻斯特开往约克的火车被扔下后，流落到利兹。
3月15日，他在该市伍德豪斯区因被发现裤子脱到脚踝四处奔跑，遭到警方盘查。
法庭获悉，警官观察到他“处于恍惚状态”，并“可能受到毒品影响”。
未发现任何物质，也未采取进一步行动。
两天后，即3月17日晚约9点，阿尔巴希尔在海丁利的原橡树酒吧外将目标锁定为一名独行女子。在公众听到她“撕心裂肺的尖叫”后，及时出手将阿尔巴希尔击晕，攻击才被制止。
昨日，在阿尔巴希尔于庭审首日承认3月犯罪后，法官罗宾·梅尔斯判处其刑罚，并指出这场疯狂刺杀中存在“性动机”。
法官称，女子伤势虽较轻，但“心理创伤严重且持久”。
受害人在个人陈述中表示，胸口的伤疤清晰可见，每每路过事发地点，“都让我充满恐惧”。“每次有人问起伤疤，我都得重新经历生命中最糟糕的一天。”她说。
“我现在生活在焦虑、担忧和恐惧中，生怕类似的事情再次发生。‘
‘我的身体伤痕可能会愈合，但心理创伤将伴我一生。’”
警方和医护人员形容阿尔巴希尔在袭击后“神志不清”，显然醉酒或吸毒，或两者兼有，检察官布赖恩·拉塞尔称。
为其治疗精神分裂症的法医精神科医生露西·培根博士表示，他的病情令其性欲放纵。她向法庭透露，今年1月，他在兰开夏郡吉尔德洛奇安全精神病院试图隔离接触女护士，并当众暴露生殖器，要求对方为其实施性行为。
在吉尔德洛奇期间，医生对其进行了评估，但他未能就利兹犯罪案提供任何动机，声称自己不记得当时的情况。
但医生发现他在回答毒品使用或记忆问题时“闪烁其词……前后矛盾”，且“避重就轻”。
面对通过阿拉伯语翻译在视频连线中出庭的阿尔巴希尔，法官梅尔斯说：“我不接受你对犯罪时失忆的自我报告。
“你选择了一名独行女子。
“我生活在焦虑与恐惧中”
袭击。从监控录像来看，你显然是蓄意守候。
“我认为常识性结论是，袭击中存在性因素。在我看来，这并非随机所为。”
法官补充道，阿尔巴希尔的精神健康状况“不是你犯罪的唯一原因”。
他被判处25年监禁，并附加无限期医疗令。据解释，这意味着他将被无限期关押在一所安全的精神病院，若日后康复，则转入监狱服完剩余刑期。
■ 近四分之三的英国人（73%）表示会投票支持禁止来自强奸、儿童虐待和家庭暴力“普遍存在”、女性地位不平等国家的男性寻求庇护者，一项民意调查显示。
三分之二（66%）受访者认为此类移民加剧了性犯罪案件数量的激增。
由妇女政策中心委托惠斯通洞察公司对2,093名英国成年人进行的民调显示，65岁以上人群更倾向于支持禁令。
超过八成（85%）受访者表示“可能”或“一定”会投票支持该禁令。
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警方调查50起非法家族投票指控
作者：马丁·贝克福德 政策编辑
《每日邮报》曝光非法家族投票问题后，警方誓言将调查地方选举中的非法投票证据。
西米德兰兹郡警方表示，将与选举委员会监督机构及英格兰最大的市政厅——伯明翰市议会合作，审查投票站工作人员关于大规模试图影响选民的举报。
此前《每日邮报》披露，在伯明翰50个不同的投票站目睹了试图破坏秘密投票的行为。当地政府汇编了主持官员的报告，显示他们反复告知选民：携带他人进入投票间或指示其选择特定候选人均属违法。
有报道称，一名男子“持续试图”通过“伊斯兰手势、眨眼、手势”等方式“影响选民”，而另一人则被指控试图“通过手势影响投票”。
选民在被告知不得在投票间内相互交谈时，“变得具有攻击性”。
警方发言人表示：“我们将评估新发现的信息，并与伯明翰市议会及选举委员会共同开展审查工作。”
提出2023年法律、将试图在投票间影响选民行为定为刑事犯罪的保守党贵族海沃德勋爵表示，其他当局也应展开调查。他补充道：“我们需要确保投票保密。”
选举委员会则表示：“如有需要，我们将提供支持。”
洛克比遇难者家属因审判延期悲痛不已
洛克比遇难者家属昨日在得知炸弹制造嫌疑人的审判被推迟后“感到震惊”。
华盛顿特区原定于今日开始陪审团选定程序，对被控制造摧毁该航班炸弹的阿布·阿吉拉·马斯乌德提起诉讼，马斯乌德否认指控。
泛美航空103号班机于1988年12月21日从伦敦飞往纽约途中在苏格兰小村洛克比上空爆炸，造成270人死亡。唯一被定罪的利比亚同伙阿卜杜勒-巴塞特·阿尔-梅格拉希。
一名法官在新证据出现后推迟了审判。
失去哥哥的卡拉·韦普兹表示：“人们正准备出席审判。当我得知消息时，感到震惊。”
汽车追逐案致英雄警察殉职 “引爆”由对头帮派撞击受害者父亲住宅
作者：凯文·唐纳德、罗里·廷格尔
这起汽车追逐案共造成七人死亡——其中包括两名警察——其起因是帮派间的世仇恩怨。
昨天，又有五人因米德尔斯brough周六凌晨发生的这起车祸被逮捕。
A66公路上的这起碰撞事故导致一辆被盗的大众帕萨特车内五名乘员全部丧生，其中包括17岁的科尔·沃西。
《每日邮报》现已披露，最初的追逐始于对头帮派在周六凌晨3点用一辆沃尔沃XC60撞击沃西父亲家中——距离致命车祸仅40分钟前。
据悉，沃尔沃车先后两次撞击该住宅，并故意倒车冲入前窗，造成严重损坏。
几分钟后，一辆载有沃西之子及其四名年轻友人的大众帕萨特在米德尔斯brough街头追逐那辆沃尔沃。
帕萨特车随后被警方巡逻车发现，最终酿成惨烈车祸，殉职警察包括38岁的汤姆·克洛夫警官和37岁的马修·布莱兹警官。
被盗帕萨特车内五名乘员——沃西、18岁的马凯·萨丁顿、23岁的雅各布·马图西亚克、17岁的西奥·雷以及23岁的迈克尔·卡希尔——也在事故中丧生。当时他们正沿着快速路逆行。
此前有报道将涉案年轻人描述为“飙车族”，但现已证实他们是为暴力报复而非寻求刺激。《每日邮报》了解到，沃尔沃与帕萨特车内人员均属于有组织犯罪网络下的对立帮派成员。
克利夫兰警方昨天证实，最新一批逮捕名单包括一名16岁男孩以及四名年龄分别为18岁、21岁、23岁和55岁的男子，使被拘留总人数增至17人。16岁男孩、18岁男子及21岁男子因涉嫌参与有组织犯罪集团被拘留。
那名23岁男子被控犯有谋杀威胁罪，55岁男子则被控协助犯罪。警方表示，周一被逮捕的12人中已有两人出庭受审。
来自雷德卡的19岁男子凯·比蒂在蒂赛德治安法庭被控持有枪支意图危害生命。同样来自雷德卡的26岁男子卡梅伦·乔治被还押候审，将于下月在蒂赛德皇冠法庭出庭受审，被控毒品犯罪及持有犯罪财产。
“巨响惊醒所有人”
一名邻居说：“巨响惊醒了所有人，接着又传来了一声巨响。
‘发生的一切太快了，等我丈夫向窗外看时，那辆车已经消失，但房子受到了严重损坏。’
沃西家的一位邻居表示，科尔的父亲已在该地址居住约十年，过着‘正常的生活’。他在Companies House被列为一家名为Worthylift有限公司的董事。一位消息人士告诉《每日邮报》：“在袭击他父亲的房子后，科尔·沃西和他的朋友们驾驶着大众帕萨特寻找肇事者。
‘最近几个月，米德尔斯brough接连发生多起房屋被撞事件，这都是对立犯罪团伙间争斗的一部分。他们内部斗殴也就罢了，但当两名警察这样的无辜生命丧生时，情况就完全不同了。’
克利夫兰警察局证实，大众帕萨特和沃尔沃车型均在8月22日凌晨成为警方调查对象。
帕萨特在蒂斯维尔的莱姆路被监控录像拍下，时速在80至100英里之间，并有三辆警车追捕。
凌晨3.39分，帕萨特在A66公路上逆行，此时追捕的警车停止了追逐。十秒后，它迎头撞上了载有克洛夫和布莱兹两名警察的武装响应车辆。
六分钟追捕以另一场恐怖撞车收场……又一名少年死亡
作者：伊丽莎白·黑格
一名男子死亡，一名70多岁的女性在两车相撞后身受重伤，此次追捕发生在警方对一辆黑色奥迪A3的追逐之后。
周一晚间，警方在沃里克郡斯特拉特福德-upon-艾冯附近的伯明翰路附近发现这辆黑色奥迪A3，并在六分钟内对其展开追捕，最终该车与一辆白色福特车相撞。
据称，奥迪车未遵从警方停车指令即撞向第二辆车。
多辆其他车辆在追捕过程中受损。
19岁的奥迪男性司机当场死亡，而福特车的女性司机则因“危及生命”的伤势被直升机送往医院。
福特车上的一名女性乘客也身受重伤。她和第四名仅受轻伤的人也被送往医院。
奥迪车是在下午5.25分左右被沃里克郡警方在伯明翰路首次发现的。当警方试图拦截该车时，该车逃往A439公路前往斯特拉特福德。约5.44分时，该车与福特车相撞。
斯特拉特福德-upon-艾冯的自由民主党议员马努埃拉·佩泰盖拉表示，此次事件是“极其悲惨的消息”，并补充道：“我向所有受影响家庭致以慰问。我们现在必须让调查顺利进行。”警务督察史蒂夫·弗拉维尔表示：“我们向在此次撞车中涉及的所有人的家属致以慰问。我们已向独立警察行为监察局进行了强制性报告。”
西米德兰兹郡救护服务处发言人表示：“我们到达现场时，第一辆车的司机已处于危急状态。他接受了现场高级生命支持和创伤护理。
“尽管我们竭尽全力，但显然已无法挽救他的生命。其次，第二辆车的司机经评估后身受危及生命的伤势。她在接受创伤护理后，被空中救护直升机送往考文垂大学医院沃里克郡分院。
“第二辆车上的女性乘客身受可能严重但不危及生命的伤势。她被陆路救护车送往沃里克郡医院。
“第四名伤者仅受轻伤，已被送往医院进一步评估。”
独立警察行为监察局发言人表示：“调查人员出席了警方事件后程序，开始收集信息。我们于晚9.38分宣布展开独立调查。
“我们了解到，一辆黑色奥迪A3的司机未遵从警方停车指令，随后被追捕约六分钟。”
当我读到A66撞车惨剧的可怕细节时，我不得不承认：我不为那些恶棍的死亡感到悲伤……
这是两个截然不同的英国的故事。一方面，是两位守法、勤奋、备受爱戴且无私奉献的社区成员，他们构成了社会的中坚力量。另一方面，则是一群放荡不羁、傲慢无礼、鲁莽的恶棍，他们不仅危害自身，还对他人造成威胁，在所到之处制造恐怖与混乱。
两名现役警官——38岁的汤姆·克洛夫警员（PC Tom Clough）和37岁的马特·布莱兹警员（PC Matt Blades）——在巡逻车与一辆被盗的大众帕萨特（该车逆行于A66公路）相撞后不幸殉职，这将这两个截然不同的世界鲜明地对比出来。
尽管年纪轻轻，但这辆被盗车辆上的五名乘员——17岁的科尔·沃西（Cole Worthy）、同样17岁的西奥·雷（Theo Rae）、18岁的马凯·萨丁顿（Makai Saddington）、23岁的雅库布·马图西亚克（Jakub Matusiak）和23岁的迈克尔·卡希尔（Michael Cahill）——在车祸中丧生，他们此前都有多项犯罪前科。
这些前科包括无照驾驶、无保险驾驶、边开车边使用手机、入店行窃、袭警、持有大麻、公共场所携带刀具以及偷车等。
相比之下，他们的受害者却过着模范的一生。克洛夫警员的朋友和家人形容他是一位"超级英雄"，成年后的全部人生都奉献给了公共服务事业。他先是在军队服役，曾参与伊拉克和阿富汗战事，之后加入警队并在多个专业岗位上表现出色。
布莱兹警员在加入警队前是达灵顿一名深受爱戴的英语教师，在克利夫兰警局的精英武装响应部队任职。他还在两个儿子所在的足球俱乐部担任志愿教练。
Seventeen people have so far been arrested in connection with the fatal crash, including a 16-year-old boy, a 55-year-old on suspicion of assisting an offender and a 23-year-old accused of making threats to kill. There are now also suspicions that the whole thing was gang-related, with the stolen car chasing a rival gang as part of a violent feud between criminal networks in Teesside.
...我只希望他们没有也毁掉两位勇敢警察的生命
但我并不在乎，无论如何我都要说出来。当我读到这个故事的骇人细节时，我不得不承认脑海中闪过的那个震惊想法：我并不为那些暴徒的死亡感到悲伤。我只希望，在毁掉他们自己生命的同时，他们没有也毁掉两位警官的生命：两位善良、勇敢的男人，他们的名字几乎不配与那些暴徒被相提并论。
至于那些戴着巴拉克拉法帽、大多胆小到不敢露面的可憎暴徒群体，他们在周一为那五人举办的"守夜活动"（更像是一场骚乱）上燃放烟花爆竹，骑着摩托车和四轮摩托在米德尔斯brough附近的田野里——靠近事故现场——横冲直撞，他们同样罪不可赦。
多么令人作呕的伪善团结表演。但这些人公然将臭名昭著的罪犯和潜在的黑帮成员视为偶像，这恰恰揭示了问题的核心。
你会认为他们会想低调行事，毕竟警方调查正在全力进行。
但他们并不害怕。他们知道自己实际上无需惧怕警察，或者任何其他权威机构。他们知道自己的行为不会产生任何真正的后果。因为事实确实如此。
原因有很多。警察部队多年来因无能和政治正确而被束缚手脚，其中优秀的个体在巨大压力下逆境工作。
一个政治阶层更关心多样性而非法治，太过乐于随从自由精英的步调，这些人根本不懂一线执法的真正含义。司法系统在应对这类系统性犯罪时毫无杀伤力——而且即使侥幸定罪，也根本没地方关押这些蠢货。
还有一种文化——通过社交媒体推波助澜，并通过电视、电影和流行音乐代代相传——鼓励、奖赏并吹捧道德沦丧和随意暴力。
难怪这些孩子认为自己高于法律？
2019年8月那个致命之夜，当28岁的安德鲁·哈珀警员（新婚不久的年轻警官）接到一起涉及偷窃四轮摩托车的入室盗窃报案时，他的死亡就是一个典型案例。当他试图抓捕嫌疑人——亨利·朗、艾伯特·鲍尔斯和杰茜·科尔——时，他的脚被他们的逃逸车辆的拖绳缠住。他们将他拖行至乡村道路后，他因伤势严重而死亡。
哈珀警员原本几天内就要与妻子莉茜启程度蜜月。像他一贯的作风，他刚下班就接到999紧急电话并留下来帮忙。这让他付出了生命代价，也让他的遗孀失去了与他共度的未来。
在审判中，鲍尔斯和科尔被拍到对着镜头冷笑，显然毫无悔意。2020年，两人被判误杀罪（许多人认为应以谋杀罪起诉），目前计划于明年1月提前获释，意味着他们将服刑六年半。
没错：六年半。就为了将一个人拖死在车后。
“这些孩子自以为法律不适用于他们”
有人问起，入室行窃的最高刑期为七年。
尽管一份要求将他们终身监禁的请愿书已获得超过一百万签名，但政府方面并未明确表示有任何具体计划阻止他们出狱。与许多因监狱人满为患而获益的暴力罪犯一样，他们可能很快就能重获自由，而哈珀警官的家人却要在无期的痛苦与悲伤中度过余生，且永无假释之望。
哈珀警官案件与A66遇难事件有诸多相似之处。它不仅尖锐地暴露出这些小伙子对受害者及其家人的毫无悔意或同情，也折射出他们所在社区令人不齿的态度。
三名被定罪者的亲友蓄意阻挠警方调查，搭建起调查人员所描述的“沉默之墙”。
换句话说，这些凶手非但未被排斥，反而受到亲友庇护，其残暴罪行几乎被视为一种荣誉徽章。当他们仅被判误杀罪名时，他们在法庭上拥抱庆祝，而哈珀警官痛不欲生的遗孀却在旁边泣不成声。
这不是大多数人期望或应得的英国。然而，正是通过软弱与“觉醒”文化的结合，我们沦为了如今的英国。除非警方、法庭、司法体系与政府下定决心对极端犯罪施以极刑，否则一切都将依旧。
善良的人们（包括男性和女性）将继续失去生命；公众将面临风险——而大批道德败坏之徒将持续膨胀，其滋生土壤正是惰性、无能与一种让英雄的凶手逍遥法外的文化。
教师“诱奸男生”后，伴侣称其只能快速性交
作者：卡梅伦·查特斯
被控诱奸昔日学生的教师的伴侣在庭审中作证称，她患有一种疾病，意味着只能进行“快速”性交。
萨莉-安妮·鲍恩（65岁）被指控在上世纪80年代末任化学教师期间，对两名14或15岁的男生实施猥亵。据称，她曾与其中一人在五个月内发生20至30次性关系，并穿着暴露的短裙和紧身上衣引诱男生。
鲍恩否认指控——其伴侣达伦·李·斯科奇布鲁克昨日出庭作证称，她患有一种先天性疾病，导致插入式性交对她而言困难且疼痛。
他告诉哈罗刑事法庭，尽管在长达36年的伴侣关系中他与鲍恩有过性行为，但必须小心避免伤害她。
斯科奇布鲁克先生称，他与鲍恩的第一次性行为与以往截然不同。
“那完全不同。她当时并未意识到自己患有这种疾病。显然，它一直存在着，”他说道，“那更像是一个过程而非爱情。
“那更像是一场过程，而非性爱”
过程。我在想，‘这是怎么回事？’她让我快点。然后我就快点结束了。我从来都不是个优秀的情人。我一直都很快。”
比第一位原告年长三岁的斯科奇布鲁克先生说，他于1990年在伦敦南部卡特福德的一家酒吧遇到了他20岁和28岁的鲍恩。
他说，他们的第一次约会是在泰晤士河上的一艘船上吃晚餐——但当他们回到家时，她不想和他发生性关系。
斯科奇布鲁克先生说：“这让我有点沮丧。我在晚餐上花了£200。”
他说，性爱“对她来说显然”不像他想要的那样愉快，鲍恩经常“勉强”应付。
支持者：达伦·李·斯科奇布鲁克和萨莉-安·鲍恩昨天抵达法庭
但当被问及他是否享受性爱时，他回答道：“她让我听伦纳德·科恩的歌。这比那更愉快。”
在由控方律师马德琳·沃尔夫的交叉询问中，斯科奇布鲁克先生承认鲍恩“在他们的关系中自愿发生性关系”，并且在2002年生下了他们的女儿。在斯科奇布鲁克先生完成证词后，鲍恩的代表律师马克·金西宣读了两位妇科医生的医疗报告中达成一致的事实。
他们得出结论，与第一位学生的所谓性行为“可行”。金西先生补充道：“专家们一致认为，完全的阴道性交虽然会疼痛，但有可能实现。”
鲍恩的病症被称为“纵隔阴道隔”，即阴道内有一块额外的组织。该病症于1990年被诊断出，并于2017年通过手术切除。
鲍恩曾在伦敦北部芬奇利的基督学院工作，她否认以性感的方式着装，并于周一告诉陪审团她当时25岁左右，不会“打扮得像玛格丽特·撒切尔”。沃尔夫女士昨天说：“你可以对着装做出判断。我不会评论对错，但它确实吸引了注意力，而她什么也没做。”鲍恩居住在赫特福德郡的赫默尔亨普斯特德，否认七项猥亵袭击罪名。
她此前已被宣告无罪的第八项指控与此无关。审判仍在继续。
热浪过后，警惕暴雨和雷电
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气象预报员表示，英格兰和威尔士大片地区本周将出现“强烈”雷暴和大雨。
英国气象局称，今早预计有一股强降雨和雷暴带向北移动，温暖潮湿的天气将增加强降雨、雷暴和持续降雨的可能性。
气象服务部门表示，午后雷暴可能强度较大，在一小时内降雨量可达20-30毫米，部分地区甚至可能达到50毫米。
这可能导致“小范围洪水和中断”的风险，以及建筑物因洪水、雷击或冰雹受损。
在暴雨和雷暴向北移动并减弱之前，大冰雹和频繁的闪电也有可能出现
“确保物品固定”
傍晚时分，当地居民已被告知“在强风到来前，应确保可移动物品或临时结构固定牢靠”。
此外，一项针对雷暴的黄色预警已从明天上午6点至晚上10点在英格兰大片地区生效，包括英格兰中部、东英吉利、西北部、约克郡、西南部以及威尔士的大部分地区。
预计明天3小时内降雨量将“较为广泛地达到20-30毫米”，部分地区12小时内降雨量可能高达50毫米。少数地区，特别是朝东的山丘地带，3小时内降雨量可能超过50毫米，12小时内超过75毫米。
天气预报员表示，不稳定天气可能持续至周五及周末，其间可能出现更多阵雨或持续降雨，偶有干燥时段。
此前英格兰近四分之三地区及威尔士全境刚经历连续高温，共计5次热浪，导致干旱状况。
婴儿不宜食用果泥软管
一项研究称，婴儿不应食用果泥软管，因其含糖量高且营养不足。
该产品“相当于水果冰沙”，研究人员建议不应供1岁以下婴儿食用。
英国国民保健署（NHS）建议：12个月以下新生儿“不需要果汁或冰沙”。
研究显示，仅有不到9%的果泥软管符合理想的健康标准。
格拉斯哥大学研究团队对6家超市销售的湿式婴儿辅食（CBF）进行了检测。他们将298款产品的糖分、蛋白质和能量水平与母乳进行了对比。
大多数（60%）产品采用吸嘴软管包装（“sPouches”），其中70%针对6个月以下婴儿推广——尽管卫生官员建议婴儿应在满6个月后才开始辅食。研究发现，与母乳相比，软管装婴儿食品蛋白质含量更低、糖分更高且能量更少。
总体而言，仅14款（占8.5%）完全符合并达到理想健康标准。研究作者在《儿科疾病档案》期刊中写道：“许多湿式CBF软管装产品的质地和成分与甜味饮料无异，几乎没有符合辅食理想特征的产品。”
研究合著者Vicky Sibson博士补充道：“父母被误导，认为这些产品对婴儿健康且适宜。”
凯特·莫斯为纪梵希献唱？
尽管其健康品牌Cosmos可能已停业，但凯特·莫斯在纪梵希最新广告中仍力求唱出正确音调——尽管实际上并非她本人演唱。
该品牌新广告为一部长达4分半钟的影片，Moss, 52,在镜头前对嘴演唱克里斯·伊萨克1990年电影《我心狂野》中热门曲目《Wicked Game》的性感版本。
广告中，出生于克罗伊登的模特身着一袭无背 sequin 连衣裙——正是她在纪梵希
《性感演绎〈Wicked Game〉》
米兰时装秀将于2月举行。但在T台上她那标志性的丁字裤清晰可见，而在视频中却被隐藏，因为莫斯大多是从正面拍摄。
尽管灯光昏暗，但她显然仍穿着T台秀上的同款妆容，头发也是同一蓬乱风格。
这部名为《And We Shall Dance Again》的影片描绘了一群"陌生美人"随着莫斯的歌声缓缓起舞，每个人都穿着T台上已见过的造型。
其中一张熟悉的面孔是23岁的鲍比·布雷泽尔，他正是电视主持人杰夫和贾德·古迪的儿子
在视频中，他被特写镜头短暂捕捉到，穿着他在米兰时装秀上走秀的同款黑色高领衫。
尽管在视频中莫斯是假唱，但她曾多次公开演唱，最著名的是与Primal Scream主唱博比·贾尔斯比的二重唱。她还为前男友皮特·多赫蒂的歌曲献声。
"你的嗓音真低沉，"一位Instagram用户如此调侃莫斯演绎的男中音。
"这段视频的氛围像是2000年左右纽约市中心的‘匿名戒酒会’（NA）会议，"另一位网友写道。至于古驰新的"Primavera"系列能否扭转销量下滑，现在还言之过早。
同样无法预测莫斯的丁字裤售价，因为该品牌网站尚未上架。
类似礼服售价动辄四位数，这条裙子的价格显然不会便宜。
因JK转行争议，主演退出《哈利·波特》系列
作者：多米尼克·海因斯
就在两周前，尼古拉斯·霍尔特刚被宣布将在即将上映的《哈利·波特》改编剧中饰演自恋的吉德罗·洛哈特。
但由于JK·罗琳与该系列的关联引发跨性别活动人士的强烈反对，这位《皮囊》明星已退出该剧。
36岁的他周一透露因"档期冲突"已离开剧组，并迅速由《权力的游戏》演员基特·哈灵顿接替。
霍尔特同时也是最新《超人》系列电影中饰演莱克斯·卢瑟的演员，因加盟HBO剧集而受到活动人士广泛批评。这是因为罗琳女士作为执行制片人，其在跨性别议题上的立场引发部分人不满。
一个名为Hoult-Daily的粉丝账号在X平台发文抵制该演员，并称："尼古拉斯·霍尔特，做得更好；你的众多粉丝深受伤害。"另一位粉丝则将他加入该剧的决定形容为"令人失望"且"反LGBT"。
吉德罗·洛哈特教授出现在《哈利·波特》系列第二本书中，并在2002年电影中由肯尼斯·布莱纳爵士饰演。
周一，剧组负责人表示："在霍格沃茨第二年开学前，因档期调整有一个小变动：基特·哈灵顿将接替饰演吉德罗·洛哈特。"
39岁的哈灵顿去年曾为罗琳所著图书的有声改编版配音，饰演笨拙的洛哈特教授。他还将于今年完成HBO金融剧《行业》最后一季的拍摄。
罗琳女士在跨性别议题上的立场，长期以来一直是接受《哈利·波特》角色的演员面临的争议问题。
即将饰演阿不思·邓布利多的约翰·利思戈将其观点形容为"讽刺"。而饰演海格的尼克·弗罗斯特则表示自己的观点"在任何方面都与她不一致"。
面对外界担忧演员可能因不同意其立场而失去角色，罗琳回应称："我并不认为应因他人持有与我不同的合法受保护信念而剥夺他们的工作或生计。"
短暂亮相：尼古拉斯·霍尔特（左）与接替者基特·哈灵顿（右）
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开始认真对待国防，伯纳姆
保护英国免受敌对势力侵害是安迪·伯纳姆最基本的职责。
虽然他完全有理由通过分享武器相关机密信息来表达我们对乌克兰毫无保留的支持，但首相还必须做好准备，应对俄罗斯可能带来的影响深远的后果。
克里姆林宫传出的言论明显带有威胁性。这表明俄罗斯政府认为英国政府的行动几乎等同于派遣英国军队与乌克兰部队并肩作战。
据一位向《每日邮报》的丹·霍奇斯透露的高级安全消息人士称，过去至少两周来一直有「传言」称俄罗斯正在「计划对英国利益采取某种行动」。
这是伯纳姆执政生涯中首次在国防问题上发出的严重警告。政府即将发起一项新运动，提醒民众囤积饮用水和罐头食品，这也体现了来自海外威胁的严重性。
但目前尚未看到首相有任何意图采取最显而易见的举措——加强我们已被削弱的军事能力。自他入主唐宁街10号以来，他和国防大臣韦斯·斯特里廷均拒绝承诺在2030年将国防开支提高至GDP的3%。
伯纳姆先生反而表示，他将在2035年这一完全不同的北约目标截止日期前实现目标——当然，到那时他可能早已离开唐宁街，另谋高就了。
诚然，仍有一丝希望：今年早些时候因国防预算分配争议辞职的财政大臣约翰·希利在10月发布预算案时可能会挺身而出。但过去六周来军费开支方面的沉默无声实在难以让人信心大增。
自从接管唐宁街10号以来，伯纳姆先生几乎将精力全部集中在国内事务上。当然，没有什么国内问题比保卫王国更重要。
我们只能希望，在普京政权报复性地袭击英国基础设施之前，首相能意识到这一点。
令人担忧的建议
从根本上说，社会主义的教条基于对辛勤工作并取得成功的人们的财产和资产无休止的贪欲。
因此，左倾智库——英国智库「公共政策研究所」（IPPR）呼吁政府对老一辈人群征收财富税，这并不算什么特别出格的举动。
当然，令人深感不安的是，正当所谓的「豪宅税」即将落实到那些唯一「罪过」就是努力工作、存钱并购买体面住房的人们身上时，这项呼吁却接踵而至。
但更令人担忧的是，这恰恰是伯纳姆先生可能认为「非常棒」的主意。
移民疯狂
英国的移民危机新闻日复一日地变得越来越不让人意外。
当然，一项民调显示四分之三的英国人反对接纳来自强奸和家庭暴力盛行国家的男性移民，这几乎不会引起任何人的惊讶。
在过去20年里的任何时候，无论是在商业街还是酒吧进行的随机调查都会得出类似结果。在过去20年里，无论何时在商业街或酒吧进行随机调查，结果都会与此相似。遗憾的是，历届政府都未曾倾听。
我的《夜线》生涯尚未开始便已终结。但我关心节目的未来，因为它提出了一个至关重要的问题：BBC的存在意义是什么？
广播大厦里充斥着关于BBC第二频道《夜线》即将被砍掉的传言。
在其全盛时期，该节目被广泛视为BBC电视时事节目的旗舰，每日深度解析新闻头条背后的真相。
然而随着观众流失和预算紧缩，它已难以保持这一殊荣。
如今它基本沦为一档深夜新闻脱口秀，播报当天的新闻动态。
几乎所有让《夜线》独树一帜的元素——深度报道与调查、专业新闻素养、独家新闻、议程设定式采访、对国际事务的充分报道——都已消失殆尽。
但正是这些特质令《夜线》与众不同，同时也耗资巨大。尽管BBC目前年收入高达£50 亿（包括许可费和商业收入），但其管理层却决定不再投入资金维持这一节目。
告别
这对一家总是标榜其公共服务理念的广播机构而言，或许是个奇怪的决定。倘若BBC不再愿意为高质量时事新闻投资，那么它究竟存在的意义何在？
或许其潜在的消亡已被泄露，意在激发一场“拯救《新闻之夜》”的运动。
但当然，它早已今非昔比。其专业记者团队——如备受尊敬的独立专家马克·厄本（国防）和迈克尔·克里克（政治）——早已解散。
再无深度调查报道，国际新闻覆盖也被砍掉。如今它只是一档廉价的演播室节目，但即便如此，对当下的BBC而言，似乎仍显得过于昂贵。
在资源持续削减的情况下，主持人维多利亚·德比郡（Victoria Derbyshire）仍勉力维持节目运作。收视率已从低谷时的不足300,000回升至在好日子里约500,000。
节目讨论虽生动有趣，却缺乏昔日《新闻之夜》的洞察力与分析深度。她在安迪·伯纳姆赴加冕途中对其进行的采访，是为数不多真正让他难以招架的节目之一。
当然，曾几何时，这正是《新闻之夜》的常态。
它不仅由广播界的泰斗主持——约翰·图萨、彼得·斯诺、唐纳德·麦考密克——更以尖锐的采访对我们的政治领导人著称，尤其是由杰里米·帕克斯曼（Jeremy Paxman）主导的采访，他曾是当代最重要的电视访谈者。
那是一个政治家们甘愿在直播中接受问责的时代。我们的民主因之更加强大。
当然，有些人为此付出了代价，最典型的便是时任保守党内政大臣迈克尔·霍华德。1997年，帕克斯曼向他连续提问12次——而他12次都未能作答。观众看得触目惊心。但如今，这段往事已成为英国广播界的传奇佳话。
从某种意义上说，《新闻之夜》正是因其成功而沦为牺牲品。政治家们宁可避而不见，也不愿冒险在节目中出丑。帕克斯曼开始无名人可访。我在自己的BBC节目中也经历过同样的情况。我放弃主持BBC1的《周日政治》节目，因为部长们避我如蛇蝎。
这种逃避严肃采访的风气在2019年12月的英国大选期间达到顶峰，当时首相鲍里斯·约翰逊（Boris Johnson）是唯一一位拒绝接受我BBC1黄金时段采访的党魁。
不存在任何广播机构能强迫政治家接受盘问。但民主社会中的政治家也无法阻止广播机构进行无畏、独立且具分析性的新闻报道。这正是昔日《新闻之夜》的长处所在。
作为深度参与数字化时代的人，我深知24小时新闻和社交媒体如何侵蚀昔日备受推崇的线性电视节目。我们都需要适应变化。
但在信息（且日益泛滥的虚假信息）充斥的世界中，人们必然仍需对新闻进行公正、睿智且权威的分析——倘若公共服务广播机构如BBC未能以适当规模和充足资金提供此类服务，那么它存在的意义又是什么？
BBC正处于奇异的时代，似乎越来越受制于自身的“自毁冲动”。它似乎决意坚持一种（许可费或其新的强制性变体）资金模式，即无论人们是否愿意，都必须为自己不观看的内容付费。
在流媒体和多频道电视的时代，年轻一代只愿为实际观看的内容付费，这种模式行不通。
BBC的第二个错误在于：它必须越来越多地制作受欢迎的节目，而不考虑其公共服务价值。
BBC最新的宣传视频《BBC为我做过什么？》由喜剧演员罗梅什·兰加纳斯（Romesh Ranganathan）主演，并在世界杯决赛期间播出，其中重点推介了《东区人》、《舞动奇迹》、《叛徒》和《神秘博士》等节目。
无关紧要的内容
然而，新闻仅仅被一笔带过，严肃广播无人问津，纪录片几乎形同虚设，就连刚刚启动2026年节目单的BBC逍遥音乐会也未获提及（尽管BBC理直气壮地将其称为“地球上最伟大的音乐盛事”）。
然而，以上种种——以及更多内容——正是我们理应视为公共服务广播的核心。倘若在这个无限选择的时代，我们仍需为其设立特殊资金机制（这本身就是个大大的“如果”），那么理应将公共资金优先投入此类广播。然而，BBC却在新闻与时事节目上吝啬克扣，却将更多金钱与资源投入到无关紧要的内容中。
还有一点。即使你认可公共服务广播在广播体系中的重要性，你也不能通过强制征税的方式从我们身上榨取资金，却仅以单一——且不可避免地带有左翼倾向——的立场呈现新闻。我们所有人都在为此买单。因此，BBC无权将资金用于兜售特定意识形态。
在这一点上，BBC可谓惨败。仅看其对已故贾森·阿代崛起的溢美报道，最终酿成如此悲剧，就足以说明问题。就连昔日的《夜间新闻》也无法掩饰其左倾本能。我对此深有体会。
优先事项
20多年前，一位BBC高管曾认为，让我加入《夜间新闻》主持团队是个好主意。这并不受左翼制作人的欢迎。即便如此，我还是获得了两次试播节目的主持机会。我带着跳跳虎般的热情与和蔼，结果却被当作哈马斯指挥官闯入派对一般对待。
然而，我的嘉宾时段表现出色（就连《卫报》也称收视率创下一段时间新高）。一切看起来都很顺利。但当我在最后一场试播节目中转身告别时，出于某种原因，自动提示器却回到了节目的开头。
“我是《夜间新闻》的主持人——”我照着稿子念道，随即尴尬地僵住。技术故障？蓄意破坏？谁知道呢？但那群年轻的左翼制作团队却幸灾乐祸。我的《夜间新闻》生涯尚未开始便已终结。
不管怎样，《夜间新闻》终究挺了过来。或许不久之后它也挺不住了。但关于其未来的讨论来得正是时候——因为这远不只是《夜间新闻》的存亡问题。
在数字时代，我们真的需要所谓的公共服务广播吗？若需要，应如何为其提供资金？这些资金又该优先投入何处？
在上述问题得到解答之前，岌岌可危的不仅是《夜间新闻》的未来，更是BBC的未来。
他88岁时开始举重，如今即将见到偶像阿诺！
米克·沃奇（Mick Wadge）在伯恩利的Barbell School健身房身着背心和短裤，正准备完成75公斤硬拉。应我的要求，他向我展示他最满意的身体部位。
「我最引以为豪的是我的三头肌，哦是的！」他说道，「二头肌也还不错——我想也还算可以。但我的三头肌！我投入了那么多时间！」说罢，他屈臂展示，肌肉在皮肤下如小砖块般弹动。「但奇怪的是，每个来的人都拍我上半身的照片——好像从来没人注意到我的腿，但我的腿也很棒，看看这大腿！非常有力！」他自豪地说。
他说得没错。从他那件小蓝短裤下露出的双腿并不算长——他身高 barely 5ft 3in——但腿部光滑、长满雀斑，肌肉坚实如钢。尤其是在硬拉时，他的膝盖如闪亮的活塞般上下起伏，轻松举起75公斤。
这对任何人来说都很了不起，但米克今年88岁。是的，88岁。
更难得的是，他七年前才开始举重训练，此前不久，他深爱的妻子玛格丽特在结婚60周年纪念日后不久离世。
「那段日子非常痛苦，突然间没有她，我什么事都没了。」他说道。
最初，他试着通过见朋友喝咖啡、吃蛋糕，或是看望住在附近的女儿麦克辛打发时间。他还常喂自家房前草地上的绵羊。
「我会给它们喂蛋糕、饼干，什么它们爱吃的就喂什么。」他说道，「它们似乎不太喜欢农场的饲料，所以我一打开后门，它们就会跑过来。」
直到有一天，他抓起一根扫帚柄，用两个装满水的牛奶罐当重物，在绵羊惊奇的注视下，在花园里开始锻炼。
「我那时肚子很大，什么都吃，几乎不怎么动，体重达到了18 stone，但总得做点什么！」他说道。
三年前，他开始跟随35岁的Barbell创始人罗斯·斯塔基（Ross Starkie）训练，自此便开启了传奇。
因为如果你关注新闻或社交媒体，或许已经听说过米克了。
一个月前，罗斯开始在TikTok上发布他们的举重视频，展示米克在训练中举起的巨大重量。米克一夜爆红，视频播放量近百万。
这不仅因为他惊人的力量——他的硬拉个人最佳成绩是110公斤，几乎是他60公斤体重的两倍，更因为他那温暖的兰开夏口音侃侃而谈。「一开始我想剪辑视频，只保留训练内容，但很快我就放弃了，让它自然流露。」罗斯说。
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Protein和Gymshark开始给米克寄产品盒——蛋白粉、肌酸和健身装备。电视台和电台也纠缠着他，要他去伦敦上节目——“哦不，非常感谢，我在这里很开心。”米克坚定地说。
但上周，伟大的阿诺德·施瓦辛格联系了他，并传来消息：“喜欢你正在做的事！继续努力！”
最初罗斯——负责社交媒体的人——还以为这是个恶作剧。“但事实并非如此，”他说，“阿尼有650 万关注者，却只关注19个人，其中就有米克！”
如果罗斯感到惊讶，那米克简直震惊得要命。
“我一直把他视为我最喜欢的举重运动员，还看过他所有的电影无数遍，”他说，“所以当我女儿说‘阿尼联系你了！’时，我差点当场晕倒！”
但这还没完，因为罗斯回复后，79岁的阿尼表示他“很乐意介绍”米克“认识美国的两位教练”，对方可能成为“很好的资源”。
他们不确定这是否是去美国的邀请，但如果是的话，他们会去。“当然！我只去过法国和西班牙，可能还有意大利，”米克说，“但哦，我们确实度过了一些美好的假期，让我告诉你——”
米克是那种你愿意整天聊天的人。从他几十年作为半职业鼓手在俱乐部每周演出四晚，到为劳斯莱斯担任设计师（因公司搬迁至德比而不得不离职，他无法接受离开心爱的伯恩利），再到他作为柔道棕带选手的岁月——“我那大肚子就能把他们都挡在外面”。还有他21岁时在阿克林顿丽兹舞厅舞会上遇到玛格丽特，并邀她跳舞的情景——“因为她是那里最漂亮的女孩”。
的确，他可能整天都在说着她有多好，理财和投资方面有多强——“我早就把钱挥霍光了”——总是帮助他人。还有她在漫长的类风湿性关节炎和骨质疏松症斗争中表现出的勇气。但最终我们还是回到了举重话题，以及他如何在用装着牛奶的容器和手推车轮子增加压重后，最终升级到真正的杠铃和5公斤重量——仍然在花园里，旁边就是羊群。
三年前，在他85岁生日那天，他女儿（“她绝对是最好的”）送了他四节课，罗斯——他孙子杰克的好友——担任教练。
“我从未做过类似的事，但我需要保持忙碌，”米克说。
“从那以后我就甩不掉他了！”35岁的罗斯笑着说，“我们成了最好的朋友。”
或许是因为罗斯——一个高大魁梧的男人——和米克一样健谈，而且不把他当作88岁的老人，甚至70岁的老人来对待。
“很多人把老人当老人对待——给他们那些小塑料哑铃和橡皮筋，第一件事就是让他们坐在椅子上！”“我那大肚子就能把他们都挡在外面。”他说，“他们太怕伤到他们了。我只是把他当正常人对待，很快他就长出了这些肌肉，重量也越举越高。”
老当益壮：米克与简展示肌肉（左图为阿尼）
除了110公斤硬拉，他还能卧推60公斤、深蹲60公斤，并使用25公斤的哑铃。
“我从未见过有人像米克那样增肌，”罗斯说，“我从他身上学到了很多。”
“他逼着我练！”米克喊道，“每次我说‘哦不，我不知道能不能行’，他就说‘当然能，继续干’。然后我就能行。太棒了。”
罗斯说他们考虑过参加比赛，或让米克挑战吉尼斯世界纪录。“但米克这个年龄段没人竞争，所以即使赢了也是空胜。”
现在，他们正在追求一个新的个人最佳成绩，因为米克向他77岁的朋友约翰推荐了杠铃学校，约翰进来后硬拉了120公斤。
「我们都叫他强壮的约翰，但我们不能那样叫，所以现在我们得追平这个成绩，」米克笑着说。
除了每周二与罗斯的训练课（「如果可以的话，我每天都会见他」），米克还在周一、周三和周五去当地休闲中心健身房，自己练习。
「我在那里就是普通的一员，不是88岁的米克，」他说道。「我喜欢先热身，做40个俯卧撑、40个仰卧起坐和40个三头肌下压，然后再开始举重。」
天哪。
当然，除了力量训练，还有营养问题。「和玛格丽特在一起时总是吃培根和鸡蛋——她会坐在扶手椅上告诉我该做什么。但现在没人坐在扶手椅上了，所以总是同样的该死的东西——加蜂蜜的燕麦粥。」
他还每天喝蛋白质奶昔，服用肌酸粉（一种有助于肌肉和认知发展的补充剂），晚餐吃一大份沙拉，并且在一周中与朋友们无数次的咖啡聚会上仍然会吃不少蛋糕。
显然，这起了作用。因为他现在非常开心。「我认为你永远无法走出失去的阴影，但它再也不会压垮我了，」他说道。
米克和罗斯之间的纽带非同寻常。除了所有的训练，他们每月还会与强壮的约翰一起喝咖啡（还有更多蛋糕）。「我们的总年龄大约是350岁，但聊天很棒。」
女爵玛吉·史密斯将1600万英镑遗产留给演员儿子
《每日邮报》可以披露，女爵玛吉·史密斯在享年89岁辞世后，留下了1600万英镑的遗产。
这位银幕传奇曾主演《唐顿庄园》和《哈利·波特》系列电影，于2024年9月辞世，几乎将她所有遗产留给了两位演员儿子克里斯·拉金和托比·斯蒂芬斯，其中包括位于苏塞克斯乡村南唐斯地区的宽敞农舍。
这栋五居室住宅，她在此抚养两个儿子并居住了40年，坐落于僻静之处，内设谷仓、马厩和葡萄园。
女爵玛吉育有五个孙辈，在切尔西和威斯敏斯特医院因长期疾病医治无效辞世。
拉金和斯蒂芬斯是她与首任丈夫演员罗伯特·斯蒂芬斯所生。
克里斯·拉金现年59岁，以其最喜欢的诗人菲利普·拉金的姓氏为自己命名，并表示不愿“依赖家族姓氏”。
他曾主演《加勒比海盗》等大片。
斯蒂芬斯现年57岁，在2002年电影《007之择日而亡》中饰演邦德反派古斯塔夫·格雷夫斯而闻名。
达梅·玛吉的财富积累于长达72年的舞台与银幕生涯，共出演63部电影、78部舞台剧和88部电视剧。
她曾六次获得奥斯卡提名，并凭借1969年《情迷米兰达》和1978年《加州套房》两度折桂。
近年来，她在ITV剧集《唐顿庄园》中饰演不苟言笑的维奥莱特·克劳利——格兰瑟姆伯爵夫人，深受年轻观众喜爱，还在《哈利·波特》系列中饰演麦格教授。
她也曾在经典莎士比亚舞台剧、好莱坞大片中担纲主演，与英国演艺界巨匠如迈克尔·凯恩爵士、伊恩·麦克莱恩爵士、吉姆·布劳德本特和达梅·朱迪·丹奇等合作。
1934年12月28日，她出生于埃塞克斯郡伊尔福德，早年便获得业界认可，1959年因犯罪片《无处可去》获英国电影学院奖最佳新人提名。
其后，她还因1965年《青春卡西迪》、1978年《尼罗河上的惨案》、1978年《加州套房》、1981年《四重奏》、1993年《秘密花园》、1999年《与墨索里尼共饮茶》、2001年《戈斯福德庄园》和2015年《女士与流浪汉》等影片获英国电影学院奖提名。
她还曾凭借《情迷米兰达》、《一场私人功能》和《朱迪丝·希尔恩的孤独激情》三度斩获最佳女演员殊荣。
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罗斯告诉我，几年前伯恩利足球俱乐部在收购股东股份时，米克将分得的收益——"成千上万！"——全都花在俱乐部商店里购买周边产品，然后送给当地学校和伯恩利球迷。
米克告诉我罗斯是个多么好的人——"虽然他肚子有点大，但我不会告诉他。"
还说要不是罗斯，他可能早就不在人世了。"他救了我。"
两人似乎对名利毫无兴趣。罗斯因为早已与职业足球运动员和运动员签约而忙得不可开交——"不过米克是我最著名的客户！"
而米克则说名利并不真实。"有时候——虽然不常见——会有路人因为在TikTok上看过我而拦住我。但这没什么大不了的，我也更喜欢这样。"他说道，"你可能觉得自己认识很多人，但他们只是熟人，不是能与你聊上半天的朋友。"
不过，当我们在健身器材间移动时，我能理解为何他会引起如此多关注。他像个年轻一半的人一样轻松跃上划船机，敏捷地爬上卧推架，还能开玩笑似的举起20公斤的哑铃，这让人无法不注目。
图例：在《唐顿庄园》中
慈父形象：与儿子托比在一起
家庭合影：与儿子克里斯在一起
毫不奇怪，这些视频引起了不小反响。呃，有女性表达过兴趣吗？
"没有。很遗憾，没有！"他说道。
于是，最后一个问题——他会觉得自己老了吗，或者接近这个年龄了？
他思考了一会儿才回答。
"有时候会。早上起床时，还有当我不太用脑时——你得用脑子！"他说道，"而且我常常试着回忆一个名字，却怎么也想不起来，这很让人沮丧。"
"但有些人连自己住哪儿都记不得，所以我已经很幸运了。我总是说自己是这个星球上最幸运的人。"
话音刚落，他又开始活动筋骨，并说："我们要不要再做些举重练习？"
于是我们继续。米克举着75公斤的重量，脸上滴汗未出，而我则举着区区6公斤的重量，每一克都能感受到重量。多么了不起的男人！
别看了 梅根... 玛雅·贾马 加入《绅士们》
犯罪喜剧：玛雅·贾马在盖伊·里奇的新片中饰演黑帮女
撰文：多莉·巴斯比 娱乐记者
现实电视明星玛雅·贾马出演《绅众》的消息，在蒙特西托可能不会引起一致好评。
苏塞克斯公爵和公爵夫人返回英国的原因之一据说是梅根获得了盖伊·里奇Netflix系列剧第三季的出演机会，但据报道，该角色已在周末被撤回。
不过，32岁的贾马女士对自己的好运感到兴奋。在第二季预告片中，这位《爱岛》主持人摒弃了华丽的礼服，以黑帮情妇的造型示人。她身穿猎装，饰演艾莎，剧中主角埃迪·霍尼曼（由西奥·詹姆斯饰演）的犯罪团伙成员的妻子。另一幕中，她戴着长围巾出现。
贾马表示，《绅士们》让她感到这是进入演艺圈的"安全切入点"。
她长期怀有演戏梦想，去年试镜该剧，并在不到两周后就获得了角色。
这位电视明星随后与戏剧教练合作为角色做准备，她告诉《综艺》杂志："我绝不想做什么事却做得一团糟。"
准妈妈们接受在车内分娩培训，产科病房关闭后
作者：克里斯蒂娜·韦米斯
由于产科病房突然关闭，孕妇们正在接受如何在车内分娩的培训。
北德文郡区医院（位于巴恩斯特珀尔）因人员短缺取消了产科病房——迫使准妈妈们需驱车近两小时前往埃克塞特市。
因此，夫妇们正在学习如何在高速公路上行驶或停靠在应急车道上接生婴儿。
该医院于8月11日暂停产科服务，理由是员工短缺存在安全隐患。
已联系约300名怀孕至少34周的孕妇及高风险患者，要求其做好其他安排。当怀疑出现并发症时，用于检查母婴健康状况的分诊预约也已停止。
但尚未更新“临时”暂停服务将于何时解除。
在此期间，分娩将在皇家德文和埃克塞特医院进行——对部分人来说需驱车两小时。夫妇们正在接受“应急计划”培训，内容包括若在抵达医院前分娩该如何处理。
在德文郡产前家庭中心开展培训的凯瑟琳·姆霍姆武表示，孕妇们正担心交通拥堵等问题。她补充道：“我们需要务实——这可能是一个极高风险的情况。”
培训建议包括准备易取的毯子和充电手机。姆霍姆武女士还教授了适合旅途的分娩体位。
这些建议由该团体分享，据悉该团体独立于英国国民医疗服务体系（NHS）。
此前，由阿莫斯女男爵对NHS产科服务进行的调查报告描述了一系列失职事件。超过15,000人签署了一份由当地自由民主党议员伊恩·鲁姆发起的请愿书，要求改善北德文郡的产科护理。他对《卫报》表示：“婴儿将在应急车道上出生。可能会有死亡发生。”
一位NHS发言人表示，“女性护理始终是我们的绝对优先事项”。
出版商埃迪·贝尔（享年77岁）曾说服玛格丽特·撒切尔撰写其1993年回忆录《唐宁街岁月》。在首发派对上，他向撒切尔夫人赠送了一把刀，让她切开蛋糕——蛋糕上用糖霜装饰着她的头像。但她始终无法下手切掉自己的头像，于是将刀递还给了埃迪。
安迪·伯纳姆在乌克兰演奏了史密斯乐队的《拉什霍姆流氓》吉他riff，这可能会冒犯该乐队，因为他们曾告诉戴维·卡梅伦，不允许他喜欢他们的音乐，因为卡梅伦在《荒岛唱片》节目中选了他们的一首歌。现在是否会威胁首相——就像他们曾对那些过早宣称“史密斯乐队解散”的人那样——要用“湿拖鞋狠狠抽打”？
在英联邦运动会开幕前，那些年迈的“时间领主”是否曾为国王和王后挤进电话亭大小的《神秘博士》塔迪斯感到担忧？神秘博士品牌经理詹姆斯·佩奇坚称他们“并未在盒内被困太久。塔迪斯的后挡板已被拆除，为国王和王后提供了更顺畅的入口”。
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左翼人士敦促工党向老一代征税以充实公共资金
《每日邮报》副商业编辑 约翰-保罗·福特·罗哈斯
左翼智库公共政策研究所（IPPR）呼吁改革现行税制，因其“严重倾向于对工作和年轻纳税人征税”。
随着财政大臣约翰·希利为10月首份预算案做准备——且首相安迪·伯纳姆拒绝排除征收财富税的可能性——其结论可能会受到工党的密切关注。
但此举可能令许多为购房和晚年生活积蓄而努力工作的人感到不安。
该报告建议用年度税率为0.65%的比例财产税取代市政税和印花税。报告承认，此举将“有人欢喜有人愁”，部分富裕地区的业主可能面临重大冲击。
报告还支持部分工党成员的提议，即将资本利得税税率提高至与所得税相同水平。国防大臣韦斯·斯特里廷此前曾将此举形容为“切实可行的财富税”。
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另一项提议是将国民保险延伸至领取国家养老金年龄以上的雇员。此
“我们需要一项新的财政契约”
该报告将解决其所描述的老年劳动者与年轻毕业生之间“显著”差异问题。
那些超过退休年龄但仍在赚取250 亿英镑、£5或£24的人，面临20%、40%和60%的税率。
一名偿还学生贷款并缴纳雇员国民保险的年轻毕业生则需承担37、51和71的税率，该报告称。
牛津大学教授本·安塞尔（Ben Ansell）作为报告作者表示：
“老龄化将成为公共财政面临的最大压力来源。
“然而，我们的税收制度日益将责任转移至年轻劳动者，同时保护了许多人——这些人在数十年房产和资产财富增长中受益最多。
“改革在政治上困难，但回避改革已令英国的税收制度变得更加复杂。
“我们需要一项新的财政契约：既能筹集国家所需收入，又能将更多负担从劳动转向财富与房产，并诚实告知公众谁在缴税、为何缴税。”
该报告发布之际，外界对希利先生可能在预算案中提高税收的猜测日益增长。咨询公司资本经济（Capital Economics）预测，税收可能会增加高达250亿英镑。
财政大臣还需额外筹措50亿英镑用于国防，同时支付伯纳姆先生已宣布的一系列生活成本措施，以及社会护理改革和一项大规模的市政住房建设计划。
本周，当被问及是否将提高税收时，首相表示他“不会对公共财政现状抱有不切实际的想法”，并称英国正处于“挑战重重的境地”。
经济学家认为，政府的预算“回旋余地”已从春季声明时的240亿英镑大幅缩减，伊朗战争导致的借贷成本上升进一步加剧了对财政部的压力。决议基金会智库估计，这一数字已降至80亿英镑。
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年轻求职者正被AI拒之门外
副商业编辑报道
正在努力寻找工作的年轻人正被AI机器人拒之门外，“全国性危机”正在形成。
在打击求职者信心的同时，许多人甚至在申请材料被人工审阅前就已被筛选淘汰。
兰卡斯特大学智库“工作基金会”的调查结果，为年轻人就业前景的严峻现状提供了新证据。
调查还显示，过去12个月中，36%的企业削减了面向16至24岁年轻人的初级岗位数量。
而73%的企业认为年轻人失业率上升是一场“全国性危机”。
AI在其中似乎难辞其咎：43%的企业表示已投资相关技术，从而减少了初级岗位；另有44%的企业正在使用AI筛选求职者，在拥有250名以上员工的大型企业中，这一比例更升至60%。
兰卡斯特大学管理学院的迪维亚·乔蒂（Divya Jyoti）表示，这凸显了求职者面临的“令人担忧的压力”。
她补充道：“年轻人描述称，他们反复申请工作却几乎没有收到任何回音。有人甚至怀疑自己的申请是否曾被人类看到过。这会打击信心，让本已严峻的就业市场显得更加无法逾越。”
■ 乐购（Sainsbury's）将从10月起提供10,000个“工作体验与技能机会”，作为政府支持的计划的一部分。
美女冠军用红色细高跟鞋击打女子面部 起因系狩猎舞会出租车纠纷
受害人：桑德斯女士
撰文：理查德·马斯登
一名选美冠军在参加完"英国小姐"总决赛仅一周后，就因出租车纠纷袭击他人，最终逃脱牢狱之灾。
泰勒·吉德利（24岁）在2024年红毯典礼上被封为"兰开夏小姐"后，参加了该赛事。当时她的母亲曾骄傲地表示，自己鼓励女孩们"无论出身如何，都要更加自信"。
但法庭听证时，吉德利在等出租车时突然爆发暴力行为——起因系2024年10月24日狩猎舞会后的一场纠纷。周一在普雷斯顿皇冠法庭，她承认非法伤人罪，被判处9个月缓刑并处以120小时社区服务。
受害者阿什利·桑德斯在声明中称："我脸上现在有道疤。我总是很在意自己的外表，出门时会感到焦虑。我不喜欢身边有醉酒的人，这让我怀疑他们是否都是这样。"
法庭听证显示，吉德利（从事马匹相关工作）在普雷斯顿附近比尔斯伯勒的霍尔库姆·哈里尔斯狩猎舞会后，在出租车排队处袭击了38岁的桑德斯女士。一名目击者称吉德利因桑德斯试图找"皮特"共乘出租车而对其大喊大叫。
检察官米娅·莫纳汉表示，该乡村会场的出租车严重短缺，桑德斯曾询问多名男子能否共乘，其中包括吉德利认识的一个人。
吉德利用右脚的鞋子击打桑德斯的面部，导致其跌倒，并在其倒地后继续击打。
桑德斯事后告诉朋友自己头痛并呕吐。第二天醒来时发现脸颊有一道锯齿状伤口，随即就医。
吉德利通过社交媒体被锁定并逮捕。最初以调查为由获释，后于2024年12月15日再次被捕，因其家中发现了那双红色细高跟鞋。
整个庭审过程中，吉德利在被告席上一直抽泣。辩护律师乔·阿尔曼称，此次事件"完全不符合"她的平时为人。
宣判时，记录员本·劳伦斯表示："看起来你是因桑德斯女士询问你认识的男性能否共乘出租车而动怒。无论原因何在，此举都毫无正当性……我确信酒精也对你的行为产生了影响。"
1 / 4英国人无法说出痴呆症主要风险因素
四分之一的英国40岁以上人群无法说出任何一种可能增加痴呆症风险的习惯或健康状况。
英国老年痴呆症协会（Alzheimer's Society）运营的这项民意调查显示，缺乏认知正在剥夺数百万人采取预防措施保护大脑健康的机会。
英国目前约有982,000名痴呆症患者。能够增加痴呆症风险的生活习惯包括高血压、肥胖、吸烟、缺乏运动、过量饮酒，以及听力损失、抑郁症和2型糖尿病。
但对1,393名受访英国民众的调查发现，26%的人无法说出上述任何一种风险因素，仅有五分之一（21%）的人意识到45%的痴呆症病例可能与可预防或可治疗的因素相关。
该慈善机构首席执行官米歇尔·戴森（Michelle Dyson）表示：“数百万人正在错失今日采取简单措施保护明天大脑健康的机会，从检查听力到控制血压。”
改革党计划向父母提供税收减免
改革党（Reform）拟推出一项计划，为投资子女初创企业的父母提供税收减免，以挽救英国挣扎中的小企业。
该党今日将宣布扩大"种子企业投资计划"（Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme），允许家庭成员投资亲属的初创企业，若该党上台，投资者可享受所得税退税和资本利得税减免。
据《每日邮报》政治记者索菲·丘奇（Sophie Church）报道，家庭成员最多可投资$20用于子女企业，并获得50%的所得税退税。若投资者持有企业股份满三年，还可免缴资本利得税。改革党今日还将承诺废除GDPR——欧盟一项强制企业遵循严格数据使用规则的法律——并引入类似新西兰的宽松监管措施。
改革党财务发言人罗伯特·詹里克（Robert Jenrick）表示，在其政策下，英国将成为"全球最适合创业和发展小企业的地方"。
他补充道："政府长期以来只关注大型企业，却让小企业自生自灭。这种情况将不再发生。英国的600万家小企业是我们商业街和经济的支柱，我们将全力支持它们。"
“安大略湖？我要改名‘美国湖’！”特朗普怒斥加拿大
随着与加拿大的贸易战升级，唐纳德·特朗普威胁将安大略湖改名为‘美国湖’。
这位美国总统表示，他之所以做出这一决定，是因为不再指望"与安大略省做太多生意"。
该湖泊位于美加两国边境，介于美国纽约州与加拿大人口最多的省份安大略省之间。
据菲利普·尼耶托（Phillip Nieto）报道
该湖泊不由任何一方完全控制，而是根据1909年《边界水域条约》共同管理。
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边界湖泊：多伦多坐落于安大略湖畔。插图：特朗普与加拿大央行行长马克·卡尼
特朗普可命令美国政府机构改称其为"美国湖"，但加拿大无义务认可这一名称。
在贸易谈判破裂后，华盛顿周末爆发争议，并对价值200亿加元（147亿英镑）的加拿大商品征收50%关税。加拿大随即计划对美国钢铁和电子产品实施对等关税，特朗普则威胁对加拿大汽车和汽车零部件再增收50%关税。
他在其Truth Social平台写道："美国正在认真
“软弱无能的首相”
加拿大总理马克·卡尼（Mark Carney）声称，美国在关税谈判中对法语保护措施发出“威胁”，并考虑将安大略湖更名为“美国湖”，理由是“我们不再指望与安大略省做太多生意”。
但特朗普总统在威胁更名仅数分钟后便回应道：“我绝不会干涉加拿大人讲法语！这一谎言是由一位软弱无能的首相编造的，目的是试图从魁北克民众那里重新获得早已失去的政治支持。”
卡尼计划在特朗普对一系列美国商品征收50%关税生效前几小时退出与特朗普的谈判，并将推出针对美国商品的报复性关税，同时为加拿大工人和企业提供一揽子救助措施。这些措施预计将包括失业救济金和对受特朗普关税冲击的企业提供贷款。
两国领导人互相攻讦，卡尼表示：“当你受到攻击时，就是战争状态，而我们已遭受攻击。我们将予以回击。”据美国方面统计，2025年两国商品和服务贸易额约为8,690亿加元。
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租豪车炫富！“超级网红”安德鲁·泰特被控性侵案
网红安德鲁·泰特为在粉丝面前“炫富”，租用超级跑车，其律师已承认此事。
他和弟弟特里斯坦因“商业模式依赖网络关注度”，在法庭文件中被描述为远比实际财富更为富有。
为这位自诩“厌女男”的当事人辩护的律师补充道：“越夸张离谱的帖子，越可能产生浏览量和点赞，进而带来收入。简而言之，他们是在演戏。”
此前，英国警方因涉嫌性犯罪指控向美国寻求两兄弟的引渡，安德鲁39岁，特里斯坦38岁，两人均否认指控。他们上月在迈阿密被美国法警逮捕。
两兄弟的法律代表表示：“泰特兄弟从事‘教导’男性如何赚钱的生意。为了利益，他们有意将自己塑造成超级富豪形象。例如，特里斯坦视频中的阿斯顿·马丁和布加迪均为租用。”
7月18日两兄弟被逮捕后，英国皇家检察署对安德鲁提起38项指控，其中包括7项强奸罪，对特里斯坦提起2项强奸罪，此外还有21项其他既有指控。两人此前曾“明确无误”地否认不当行为。
摆拍：安德鲁·泰特与一辆价值25 万英镑的阿斯顿·马丁
NHS将推出抑汗神cream！止汗效果达90%
一种几乎能完全抑制出汗的cream即将在英国国民医疫服务体系（NHS）上市。
名为Axhidrox的cream涂抹于腋下，可阻断令汗腺分泌的信号，从而将出汗量减少90%。
据悉，英国约有280万人受过度出汗困扰。这是英国首个针对这一问题的专门治疗方案。
该产品已获批，将于未来几个月内在NHS上架，也可通过网上药房以£130购买。
仅限英格兰地区
地方议员“创建虚假文化遗产协会诈骗数千英镑补助金”
指控对象：独立议员杰森·扎德罗兹尼
一名议员为诈骗地方当局数千英镑，在法庭上被指设立虚假文化遗产协会。
撰文：克莱尔·达夫林
独立议员杰森·扎德罗兹尼（46岁）在任职前，自任“阿什菲尔德文化遗产协会”主席，并以“公益”为由申请多项补助金。
他随后提取现金——其中部分资金据称被用于购买一处价值超过7 万英镑的房产。
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据称，该房产随后以16.8 万英镑售出，扎德罗兹尼则“获赠”超过6.8 万英镑。
这位阿什菲尔德区议会领导人还被指利用其在郡议会的席位诈骗当局资金。
检方称，他创建的该协会“从未开展任何活动”，且因“急需一大笔钱”而使用虚假地址申请补助。
他还创建了一家经典电影俱乐部，在该俱乐部获得1,200 英镑补助金后，“将其资金据为己有”。
“将资金据为己有”
据称，扎德罗兹尼对名下四处房产的收入亦未缴税。
詹姆斯·瓦利昨天在公诉中表示，扎德罗兹尼于2018年为“阿什菲尔德文化遗产协会”开设了一张“诈骗”银行账户，并申请了数千英镑的补助金。随后，“小额”资金被提取并存入其个人账户。
扎德罗兹尼否认12项欺诈罪和4项逃税罪。案件仍在审理中。
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来自《每日邮报》档案 2026年8月26日
警方在调查迈克尔·杰克逊案时，已对童星麦考利·卡尔金进行问询。这位12岁的《小鬼当家》主演是该歌手最亲密的朋友之一。卡尔金每部电影片酬为300万英镑，此前曾拒绝就34岁的杰克逊被指控的事件发表评论。
2026年8月26日
自行车手布拉德利·威金斯昨日成为近一个世纪来首位在同一届奥运会上斩获三枚奖牌的英国男选手。他与队友罗布·海尔斯在麦迪逊赛中摘得铜牌。威金斯，24岁，此前已在个人追逐赛中夺金，在团队追逐赛中摘银。
生日快乐
艾莉森·斯蒂德曼，80岁。这位来自利物浦的女演员在《加文与斯泰西》中饰演帕姆，在《阿比盖尔的派对》中饰演贝弗利。她表示自己尽量避免看所有评论，但一条差评“就像有人说，‘你真的很丑。你的口气难闻。没人想当你的朋友。’”
马库斯·杜·索托伊，61岁。这位数学家兼电视节目主持人是牛津大学公众理解科学教授。他表示自己的学科“拥有美感、审美、激情、戏剧性与情感”。
今日出生
佩姬·古根海姆（1898—1979）。这位美国社交名媛兼艺术收藏家是纽约古根海姆博物馆创始人的侄女。她以伦敦和威尼斯（运河旁）的画廊树立了自己的名声，曾说：“我的座右铭是‘每天买一幅画’，我做到了。”
唐·拉方泰恩（1940—2008）。这位美国演员为数千部电影预告片配音，从《2001太空漫游》到《第一滴血》。他被昵称为“雷霆嗓音”，其男中音被形容为“仿佛有人在深井底部说话”。
8月26日历史
2014年：杰伊报告显示，在1997年至2013年间，至少有1,400名未成年少女（最小仅11岁）在罗瑟勒姆遭到虐待。
2024年：瑞典前英格兰队主教练斯文-戈兰·埃里克松逝世，享年76岁。
词汇达人：猜猜定义
Cancerine（创于19世纪中叶） A) 与龙虾相关的 B) 用马蹄蟹磨碎制成的肥料 C) 言语贬低他人
答案见下方
词语解析
吞饵上钩（swallow hook, line and sinker）：完全相信某个故事的每一个细节；源自钓鱼术语，指鱼将钓钩、鱼线和铅坠一并吞下，“swallow”在此为“相信”之意。
今日金句
“一个将特权置于原则之上的民族，终将失去两者。” ——德怀特·D·艾森豪威尔（1890—1969），美国第34任总统
今日笑话
问：把桃子暂停吃叫做什么？ 答：补给站（pit stop）。
猜词答案：B
整理：埃坦·斯莫曼、亚当·雅各布·德·布瓦诺
TikTok 红人保罗·贝塞尔：74岁的网红之路
保罗·贝塞尔的早年生活充满了"园丁、女仆、宾利和私人飞机"。
因此，当他21岁时拥有伦敦切尔西的一套公寓和纽约的一间公寓，并"几乎每周往返于伦敦和纽约"似乎也就理所当然了。
然而，他的资助人——他的父亲、自由党议员彼得·贝塞尔（后来成为"世纪审判"的主要证人，其好友杰里米·索普被指控谋杀未遂）突然消失，留下一张匆忙写就的字条和巨额债务。
如今，我可以透露保罗寻找父亲真相的追求已让他濒临重振家族财富，其方式甚至超出了那位非凡的彼得的想象。
自彼得于1985年去世后，他被描述为一位国际成功的商人、无耻的诈骗犯、纵欲无度者、基督教和平主义者、"好战的右翼鹰派"，并被指控曾为军情六处、中央情报局或联邦调查局效力，甚至是斯大林秘密警察的首脑。
保罗并未成为这些角色中的任何一个，但在74岁时，他却成为了TikTok上的红人，过去几周发布的视频获得了超过三百万次观看，吸引了约200,000粉丝，并吸引了希望利用其成功的企业的合作邀请。
这一切都源于今年《寻找爸爸》一书的出版，该书讲述了彼得不同的生活，"同时进行，且大多秘而不宣"。
然而，尽管《寻找爸爸》引人入胜且常常感人至深，但它对保罗TikTok地位的影响却纯属意外。
"我去了美国，从纽约开车到迈阿密，"他告诉我。"每天我都会发回短视频，我女儿黛西会将它们制作成TikTok视频——基本上是为了推广这本书。"
回到英国后，保罗和26岁的黛西思考如何继续制作视频。"我们有了一个想法——因为我曾是音乐出版商——让她演奏我不熟悉的歌曲，我必须决定是否签约或拒绝它们。"
首个"签约还是拒绝"视频随即上线——显然引起了强烈反响。"它简直疯了，"保罗说。他在职业生涯中曾与比利·奥申达成全球协议，并参与获得了比利·乔尔《Just the Way You Are》的英国版权。
这几乎成为了贝塞尔家族故事最丰富的一章。
保罗在每个视频中都与黛西同框，补充道："我们现在有经纪团队在为我们提供建议。"
"谁能相信呢？"■
维多利亚·赫维的特殊美国关系
英国与美国的“特殊关系”可能已今非昔比，但维多利亚·赫维女爵士正竭力弥补这一缺憾。
在伦敦Thirsty WorkBar Smith & Wollensky's餐厅，已故第六代布里斯托侯爵的长女向我讲述了她最近在佛罗里达遇到唐纳德·特朗普的经历：“他开始和我聊天。他为我签了帽子，还递给我他的笔。笔上刻着‘白宫’字样——还有他的签名。”
干杯，慢速船长！
杰里米·克拉克森的霍克斯通拉格啤酒是英国增长最快的啤酒品牌之一。
但《Top Gear》元老詹姆斯·梅——人称“慢速船长”——可能正用自己的酿酒计划迎头赶上。
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从豪宅税恐慌到印花税混乱再到抵押贷款利率过山车——房产市场陷入严重困境，因此...
作者：马克·帕尔默
凯特·威廉姆斯已忍无可忍——而这与今夏无休止的热浪无关。
今年初，她的丈夫因重度痴呆离世，留下她独自一人住在北安普敦郡 / 林肯郡交界处、靠近斯坦福德镇的一栋五居室独立式住宅。
“几个月后，我意识到最好的选择是将房子推向市场，在某种程度上重新开始。”现年67岁的威廉姆斯夫人说。她最近刚从军队裁缝师的岗位退休。
她育有两个孩子，一个在澳大利亚，另一个在马恩岛，迫切希望缩小居住规模，这一举动将为她提供足够的资金去旅行并与五个孙辇共度时光。
碰巧的是，她和已故丈夫在丈夫去世前几个月就已安排对房子进行估值，多家房产中介均认为在正常市场环境下，房子价值在£114 万至£120 万之间。
但，2026年迄今为止显然没有任何“正常”可言，且几乎没有理由相信在余下的这个经济停滞、唐宁街政局频繁变动的糟糕一年里，情况会有所好转。
因此，威廉姆斯夫人这栋近3,000平方英尺、配备双车库和大面积园林景观的房子，今年5月初通过国际房产中介By Design以£100 万的价格挂牌。
“根本没人问津。”她说，“我等了约13周，最终决定降价，但此举令我痛心，因为这是一栋位于村庄内、附近有学校、商店和教堂的可爱家庭住宅。”
降价£1后仍无济于事。实际上，仅有一组看房记录。于是，本周在与By Design商议后，价格再次下调至£6,499。
“这意味着有人将得到一笔划算的交易，”威廉姆斯夫人说，“但我不知道是否会成交。”
令她怒不可遏的不是没人想买她的房子，而是房价暴跌的根本原因。她认为，这要归咎于“过去两年政府的无能”。
上周有报道称，英国税务海关总署（HMRC）的“豪宅税警察”将能够进入民宅评估房产价值。
前财政大臣雷切尔·里夫斯构想的这项税收将从2028年4月起实施，对居住在特定房产的业主每年额外征收£3,000至£6,700的附加税。
图片：迪特·斯皮尔斯 / Inhaus Creative / Getty
如何应对无法出售的房产困境？
价值£200 万-plus的房产。有人猜测伯纳姆可能会降低征税门槛。
"人们正在陷入恐惧，"凯特说。"没人知道安迪·伯纳姆到底想做什么。
‘所有关于豪宅税和重罚高收入者的讨论正在侵蚀信心，而这种不确定性正开始引发重大问题。需要采取彻底的措施，比如降低印花税。’
这种可能性微乎其微。上个月，首相在下一份预算案（定于10月28日公布）中排除了对房产税进行全面改革的可能性，但从长远来看，伯纳姆先生已明确表示希望改变房产和土地的征税方式。
此前，这位前曼彻斯特市长曾呼吁废除印花税，转而选择土地价值税——即仅基于土地本身价值的年度征税。
目前，印花税是英格兰和北爱尔兰购买价值超过£2的房产或土地时需缴纳的税费（首次购房者为£1.5）。
智库税务研究所（Institute for Fiscal Studies）将印花税描述为"最具经济破坏性的税种之一"。而去年，基米·巴德诺赫曾表示未来保守党政府将废除主要住宅的印花税。
此外，豪宅税的起征门槛可能从£200 万降至£150 万的不受欢迎暗示，将进一步令买家望而却步。
首相的回旋余地并不大。他已承诺遵守工党2024年竞选宣言，不提高所得税、增值税和国民保险，但必须从其他地方筹集资金，特别是用于社会护理投资和增加国防支出。
所有这些不确定性对威廉姆斯女士和其他成千上万希望出售房产但不愿亏本的业主毫无帮助。
与此同时，买家却因担心明年此时可能面临的税务影响而对购房望而却步。
难怪RBC Capital Markets董事总经理安东尼·科德林表示，英国房地产市场已陷入"暂停动画"状态。
而作为英国最大抵押贷款机构，劳埃德银行本周表示房价已"停滞不前"，购房者面临"不确定的经济背景"。这可算是轻描淡写了。
"对于许多潜在买家而言，可负担性仍是一个挑战，而在中东近期局势动荡后，抵押贷款利率在夏季早些时候有所缓解后再次小幅上升，"劳埃德银行抵押贷款主管阿曼达·布赖登表示。
因此，抵押贷款批准数量仍远低于十年平均水平，英国央行数据显示，当前批准量比一年前低10%。
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随着利率下行但仍处高位、搬迁费用上涨，更多人选择原地不动。因此，房地产市场陷入停滞。
由英国专业住房贷款机构Evolution Money对2,000名房主进行的一项民意调查显示，61%的受访者表示，未来五年他们更倾向于升级现有房产而非搬家。
马里乌斯·贝德斯奇（Marius Bedeschi）是一位退休小提琴家，曾任皇家威尔士音乐学院阿尔弗雷多·坎波利讲座教授，但他并不在此列。他居住在诺福克郡斯托克费里村的一栋17世纪三居室古典别墅中，该房屋经他精心修复。而今他却想出售。
他于2025年10月委托诺福克代理行（Norfolk Agents）以46 万英镑的价格挂牌出售，但在五个月内仅有三次看房。
今年3月，他转至规模更大的诺福克地产代理商索沃比（Sowerbys），并将价格降至45 万英镑。此举未奏效——于是6月价格再度下调至42 万英镑。上周，贝德斯奇先生收到一笔40 万英镑的出价，但他拒绝了。双方现已就41 万英镑的价格达成协议，有待房产调查完成。他祈祷交易能成。
他说：“显然，整个国家正在衰退，人们都在观望——谁能责怪他们呢？
‘整个过程让我倍感压力，也很沮丧，因为市场上确实存在潜在的购买需求，但需要被释放出来。’
来自Zoopla的消息令贝德斯奇先生倍感沮丧：该机构本周报告称，他所拥有的这类别墅在疫情期间因人们涌向乡村寻求田园生活而价格飙升，但过去三年间需求已下降逾三分之一。
房产危机——无论一些代理商如何辩解，这确实是一场危机，并产生了广泛的连锁影响——对那些愿冒险购买首套房的买家而言，或许存在潜在机遇，只要他们能承担伯纳姆及其财政大臣在白厅酝酿的政策。
位于伦敦东南部的Dexters在新十字分行有多套一居室公寓待售，要价为35 万英镑，部分业主甚至愿意接受远低于此的报价。
“眼下对首次购房者而言是个大好机会，”Dexters新十字分行的协商员奥利弗·卡尔怀特（Oliver Carrwhite）表示，“这些公寓一年前的要价大约高出2.5 万英镑。”
即便如此，Zoopla数据显示，约80%的公寓在六个月内无法售出，因为买家对一居室和两居室公寓——尤其是新建高层建筑中的户型——望而却步。
工艺粗劣、对外墙贴面的担忧、高昂的物业费以及印花税的经济负担，都是导致这一现象的部分原因。
根据土地登记处数据，在谢菲尔德、伯明翰、莱斯特和纽卡斯尔等城市中心，公寓业主平均亏损近4 万英镑出售。
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Stacey Lofthouse已尝试出售位于兰开斯特的两居室公寓长达八年，她和丈夫目前居住于此。
他们于2009年以295英镑购入此房产，但现计划以约885英镑的价格出售。
起初，问题在于高风险的外墙贴面，导致交易在五个不同场合中断。外墙贴面问题虽已解决，但房产仍难以出手。
潜在买家的一个主要顾虑是地租和服务费。
早在2009年，Lofthouse夫妇每年需支付295英镑地租，现已增至590英镑，并于明年1月再次上涨至每年885英镑。他们的服务费每年接近1英镑。
“我们被困在这里——我们尝试了所有办法，”现任兰开斯特大学研究生研究协调员的Lofthouse夫人表示，“哪怕能以1英镑出售，只为还清抵押贷款并脱身，我也愿意，但根本做不到。这感觉像是坐牢。”
显然，出售房产困难重重，购房同样令人头疼。
“支付能力仍是置业的最大障碍之一，”Rightmove房产专家Colleen Babcock表示。
“尽管目前看来房产税改革暂时被搁置，但若10月预算案中能出台提升支付能力的措施，将极受欢迎。”
因此，至少需要实施印花税假期来刺激市场，正如前财政大臣Rishi Sunak在2020年7月为应对疫情推出的政策。
据考文垂建房互助协会数据，英格兰购买平均价格房产的印花税现为885英镑，若将免税起征点提高至295英镑，Sunak几乎立即推动了销售热潮——尽管也推高了部分房价。
财政大臣必须考虑为所有购房者而非仅首次购房者实施印花税减免假期，Sam Conveyancing首席执行官安德鲁·博斯特（Andrew Boast）表示。我们在疫情期间恰好见证了这一方案如何能够立即注入市场动能。
博斯特先生表示，当2020年7月8日至2021年3月31日期间首次引入0%税率时，交易量激增，仅3月就达成134,029笔销售。
“当这项全额50 万英镑减免延长至2021年6月30日时，成交量在该月飙升至169,769笔，较2019年6月的72,998笔销售量翻了一番，”他说道。
“但当标准税率门槛于2021年10月1日恢复后，交易量立即降至58,463笔。数据
如何成功出售房产
■ 定价合理：合理的要价能引发热议，而多名买家的竞争可能引发抢购战。
■ 调研当地市场：了解买家还在看哪些房产以及它们的售价。诚实地问问自己：你的房产与它们相比如何？
■ 装饰房屋：用中性色彩重新粉刷，将杂物和私人物品收纳起来，营造更大空间的错觉。
■ 更换代理：不要签订长期合同，以便在代理不够努力时及时更换。
■ 支付奖金：有些卖家会向代理支付现金“小费”，以激励他们推销房产。
■ 保持冷静：如果房产定价合理且地理位置优越，合适的买家迟早会出现。
这清楚地证明，取消或减少印花税可让买家将更多资金用于支付押金。
政府似乎已忘记，房地产市场是这个国家基础经济的支柱。购房代理Recoco Property Search的奈杰尔·毕晓普表示：“但政府所做的唯一一件事，就是在买家中制造了绝对的不确定性。”
1995年，戈登·布朗谈及帮助“辛勤工作的家庭”。15年后，埃德·米利班德提出“被挤压的中产阶层”也需要帮助。2016年，特雷莎·梅则提出“‘勉强维持’阶层”的概念。
尽管在房地产方面政府掌握着推动这一经济基石的关键，但这三个群体至今仍在挣扎。
然而，尽管高层人事发生变动，但人们对使用这些政策工具仍然感到沮丧，尽管这种情况在意料之中。
记者：伊丽莎白·安德森
盖伊·梅休（Guy Mayhew）正在特内里费与丈夫及姻亲度假时，接到一通电话，得知他赢得了£1的月度储蓄抽奖奖金。
这对盖伊来说是个巨大的成果——他是来自肯特的一名33岁地方政府顾问——因为他仅在不到一年前才开立了该账户。
「我一直对理财颇有兴趣，总会四处比较不同的储蓄账户，」他说道。
「这笔钱对我来说是笔可观的回报。我真的很喜欢基于抽奖的储蓄账户，因为我是高税率纳税人，而奖金免税，但这类账户正变得越来越难找。」
基于抽奖的储蓄账户是一种让储户参与每月现金奖抽奖的方式，颇受欢迎。
迄今为止，最受英国民众欢迎的抽奖非国家储蓄与投资（NS&I）发行的彩券莫属，近2300 万英国人持有该产品。每张彩券售价£1，储户可投资金额介于£25和£25,之间。
优胜彩券持有人每月可获发免税现金奖，最低为£25，其中两人曾赢得£100 万。从9月的抽奖起，优胜彩券利率将提升至4.35%，为现代史上第三高利率。
此外，若要取款，必须提前35天通知，且不允许部分提取。必须提取整张彩券，因此无法提取低于£25的金额。
挑选最佳高额奖金储蓄债券替代方案
建屋互助会的存款受金融服务赔偿计划保障，最高可达£100。
但储蓄债券的主要缺点在于它们不支付利息，因此如果你不
盖伊过去在哈利法克斯银行有一个参与抽奖的账户，但当他接到该账户即将关闭的通知后，便开始寻找替代方案，并发现了家庭建屋互助会提供的“意外之财债券”账户，他于去年4月开设了该账户。
有多少运气赢取奖金的话，钱可能会贬值。对于那些希望赚取存款利息或已超出£100限额的人来说，储蓄债券也有替代选择，但这类产品并不常见。哈利法克斯银行去年在推出14年后取消了其储蓄者抽奖活动，该活动曾每月提供£100、£100或£1。
因为该账户支付利息，所以
获奖者盖伊：幸运储户用部分奖金为家人买单
“意外之财债券”账户让持有人每月参与免费抽奖，有机会赢得£100至£700的奖金。与储蓄债券不同，该账户支付年利率2.75%的利息——但与储蓄债券相同的是，奖金免税。
每张债券成本£1，且无购买上限，持有人有1 / 100的中奖几率，奖金从£100到£700不等。
自2025年1月起，“意外之财债券”已在2,819次抽奖中支付了£700的奖金，家庭建屋互助会表示。
“意外之财储蓄账户并非适合所有人。其2.75%的利率并非市场最高。利息仅在每年7月31日一次性支付，而非按月支付，因此不适合需要月度利息收入的人。虽然现金奖金免税，但利息需纳税。
盖伊最初持有4张债券，价值£4，并逐步增持至£12（12张债券）。
老实说，我从未奢望赢得头奖，”他说道。
他接到客服电话祝贺时，还以为是工作来电，于是接了起来
他于2025年10月的抽奖中赢得£1，并在2月份在特内里费酒店大堂等待前往机场的接机时，接到家庭建屋互助会客服代表的电话，得知自己赢得了£1头奖。
他补充道：“接完电话后，我升级了一瓶气泡酒。”
2004年，一位伦敦的储蓄债券持有人仅用£17（1959年购买）就赢得了100万英镑头奖。
明年盖伊计划再次前往特内里费。他最近还为14位大家庭成员支付了前往泽西岛的费用，包括机票和酒店，总成本约£31。他说道：“我一直在存钱，16岁时在当地郡议会做兼职，每周工作两天，并在大学期间继续这份工作。
‘我在等飞机时查看银行账户，发现钱已到账，那一刻才真正意识到。’
‘这让我在毕业时处于一个非常有利的位置，并在2011年与丈夫买下了第一套房子，至今仍住在那里。我总是尽可能最大化存款，最终目标是早日退休。
并计划用奖金购买新车，以及计划去澳大利亚看望哥哥
‘我持有储蓄债券，但“意外之财债券”吸引了我
会员抽奖活动
会员抽奖面向年满18岁且拥有至少£100存款或抵押贷款未偿余额£100的用户。斯基普顿建筑协会表示，会员的连续会员时长越长，每次抽奖可获得的参与资格（1至5次）就越多。
肯特信托公司（一家专业贷款与储蓄服务提供商）每月举办抽奖，只要账户保持最低余额£100，每月就有一位客户赢得£100。
劳埃德银行最近也推出了月度抽奖活动，每月随机选出50名客户，每人赢得£100。
参与条件为：客户需将工资发放至劳埃德银行、哈利法克斯银行或苏格兰银行的活期账户，且每月工资收入不得低于£100。每月需在应用程序或在线激活参与资格。
英国女性养老金不公平问题（Waspi）主席安吉拉·马登对首相安迪·伯纳姆将履行向1950年代出生的350 万名女性支付补偿金的长期承诺表示谨慎乐观。
这些女性因养老金领取年龄提前通知不足而遭受经济损失，且几乎没有时间弥补财务缺口。
在接受《每日邮报》独家专访时，72岁的马登表示，伯纳姆正处于“倾听模式”，并相信“如果他能做到，就会去做”。尽管首相在6月似乎收回了对Waspi女性的支持，仅建议补偿可能仅以“优惠出行”形式提供——而这正是多数1950年代出生女性已因年龄享有的福利。
马登坚称：“当他说出[优惠出行]时，他实际是在说会为我们做些什么，只是尚未确定具体‘什么’。现在我们需要与政府坐下来，共同讨论可行方案。”
她补充道：“首相若能与我们合作，将有黄金机会证明他是‘人民的代表’。他可能无法完全满足我们的诉求，但绝不能让Waspi女性一无所获。”
本月初，马登与Waspi运动的另一位倡导者珍妮特·富斯特在一个月内第二次致信伯纳姆，敦促其拿出“政治决心”解决该问题。
她们表示，补偿应“公平合理”，并考虑国家财政状况。伯纳姆尚未回应。
Waspi运动的终极目标是争取议会与卫生服务调查专员在2024年早期建议的最高£100 亿加元-plus补偿金（每人100 亿英镑）。
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六年调查显示，英国养老金及补偿事务调查局对上世纪90年代末至本世纪初英国政府在沟通女性国民养老金领取年龄调整政策的有效性展开调查。
此次调整最初由1995年《养老金法案》推动，该法案为女性国民养老金领取年龄设定了
五年前，调查局裁定政府存在“管理不当”，因其未能及时充分告知众多女性其国民养老金领取年龄将提高。
因此，许多人直到为时已晚才意识到这些变化将对其产生何种影响，无法采取任何措施缓解养老金领取延迟带来的影响。对于依赖养老金作为退休收入主要来源的人群——尤其是单身女性——经济影响是毁灭性的。
随后的2011年《养老金法案》将女性65岁领取资格年龄提前至2018年。六年前，男性和女性的国民养老金领取年龄均提高至66岁。
据政府称，与男性15.6 万英镑相比
2024年，调查局在其报告后续跟进中建议应支付的赔偿金：从35亿英镑（1,000 英镑 / 人）至超过100亿英镑不等
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在近十年的艰苦抗争后，Waspi组织感受到了胜利的曙光，尽管他们最初曾呼吁每人获得1 万英镑的个人赔偿。但他们却惨遭基尔·斯塔默领导的工党政府的背叛。
虽然工党在野时曾支持Waspi长期以来的赔偿要求，但该党在2024年大选宣言中未提及此事。这是一个不祥的遗漏。
2024年底，政府拒绝了申诉专员的建议，时任工作和养老金大臣的莉兹·肯德尔将赔偿描述为“不代表公平或合理地使用纳税人资金”。
她还表示，大多数女性早已了解国家养老金年龄变化，因此不会因延迟发送相关信件而受到伤害。她在下议院为这一决定辩护时，遭到“可耻”的喊声。
不到一年后，政府在新证据出现后同意重新考虑不予赔偿的决定。但今年初，政府表示将坚持立场。
说麦登对工党的背叛感到愤怒是轻描淡写了。“我对工党在我们呼吁赔偿时全力支持我们感到震惊，”她说，“而当我们最需要他们时却让我们失望。”
她补充道：“议会申诉专员的职责是保护公民免受政府不当行为侵害。其为期六年的调查以公正的眼光审视所有证据，并提出了以赔偿形式解决问题的方案，我认为其建议不应被忽视。我也不认为安迪会认为这些建议应被忽视。”
进入政府后却未采取任何行动。
诚然，伯纳姆及其顾问团队传递出的大部分基调是积极的。
今年6月初，在成为首相之前，他表示“长期支持”Waspi运动。他还讽刺斯塔默称：“我感到不安，因为政治家们曾高举那样的旗帜，结果却——”
因此我坚持支持我所支持的运动。我支持希尔斯堡家属（1989年在谢菲尔德星期三主场发生的灾难中失去亲人并要求正义，伯纳姆曾协助推动此事）。我也会支持Waspi女性，因为她们应获得赔偿以弥补不公。
麦登表示，为Waspi女性伸张正义不会让政府花费100 亿英镑，她声称斯塔默领导下的工党用这一数字“吓唬”民众，让他们认为赔偿将成为纳税人的巨大负担。
“首先，这是一次性支付，”她说，“一旦支付完成，国家的负担将永远消失。
其次，赔偿可在两到三个纳税年度内分摊，以帮助政府财政。
最后，女性无需申请即可获得赔偿。有女性告诉我们，她们通过某种渠道了解了国家养老金年龄变化——因此不会申请任何赔偿。前首相特蕾莎·梅也在Waspi女性群体中。她不太可能提出赔偿申请。她了解这些变化。”
她补充道：“我们将与安迪探讨所有这些问题，并提出一个对纳税人——我也是其中之一——和Waspi社区都公平的解决方案。”
麦登与丈夫约瑟夫住在德比郡切斯特菲尔德附近，她本人也是这场运动的一分子。2008年，她在54岁时不得不停止担任计算机专家的工作，以照顾生病的母亲玛丽。
但如果她早知道四年后
350 万名女性因养老金领取年龄变动而看到了希望……
...那么，伯纳姆何时才能兑现对Waspi女性的承诺，批准高达£100 亿英镑的补偿？
后来，她被告知，原本预计2014年领取的国家养老金要推迟到2019年才能发放。
「在某种程度上我算幸运，因为我丈夫有稳定的工作，所以他能够供养我直到我满65岁。但他本不该为此承担责任。
「长期以来，女性在工作和国家养老金方面都遭遇不公。诚然，情况已有所改善，但错误必须得到纠正。」
尽管马登认为10月份的预算案不会涉及Waspi女性的补偿问题，但她仍希望政府能在明年做出补偿承诺。
图片：大卫·巴雷特 / 阿拉米 / 安德鲁·米利根 / PA通讯社
抗议：Waspi女性强势出击，为正义与补偿而战
「正义与我们同在，」她说。「约80%的公众支持我们的补偿诉求，我们拥有约10万名Waspi成员，另有15万女性在社交媒体上关注我们。正义必须得到伸张，而且越快越好——要知道，每13分钟就有一名Waspi女性离世。
「自我们发起运动11年以来，已有约45万人离世。在正义实现之前，还会有多少人死去？」
在采访这位温和善良的安杰拉·马登时，很难不对国家背叛20世纪50年代出生女性的养老金承诺感到愤怒。
正如她对我说的那样，正义必须得到伸张。现在，这取决于首相。他会兑现补偿承诺，还是会像斯塔默那样言而无信？
超过No10唐宁街向我们表示，首相是否会兑现对Waspi女性的补偿承诺。
对方仅表示已承认「管理不当」，并向受影响女性「致歉」。
此外，英国工作与养老金部已从调查中吸取教训，并发布了行动计划，旨在「有效、及时且现代化地沟通国家养老金政策」。
■ 您认为Waspi女性应获得补偿吗？请联系jeff.prestridge@dailymail.co.uk。
储户需趁早填满现金ISA账户——现在就能找到最优惠利率
英国财政部表示，对ISA规则的微调将很快落地，这些调整将限制65岁以下储户的免税存款额度。
从明年4月起，现金ISA（目前最受欢迎的账户类型）的年度免税额度将从2 万英镑大幅缩减至1.2 万英镑。但股票与股份ISA的总额度仍维持在2 万英镑。这意味着储户需将剩余8,000 英镑存入股票与股份ISA，否则将无法使用这部分额度。
对偏好现金存款的储户而言，这无疑是个坏消息。
财政部称，新规的具体实施细则将于「秋季」公布，但业内人士预计最早可能在下个月出台。这比新任财政大臣约翰·希利（John Healey）于10月28日公布首份预算案还要提前。这些变动源于前任财政大臣在2025年秋季预算案中推出的税收政策。
英国建屋互助协会（Building Societies Association）上周告知我，新任财政大臣面临两难抉择：要么推进这项复杂的政策变动，要么彻底废除。但我怀疑他不会取消这些变动，因为它们能带来可观的税收收入。
无论如何，我强烈建议各位在现金ISA额度被削减前，尽可能充分利用今年的免税额度。
对65岁以下储户而言，更糟糕的消息是：今后将无法将股票与股份ISA中的资金转入现金ISA，这使得临近退休时的财务规划变得更为复杂。此举意在阻止储户将高达8,000 英镑的资金转入股票ISA后再转入现金版本。
此外，消费者金融研究组织Fairer Finance的调研显示，ISA平台在股票ISA中持有的现金将几乎无法获得利息，甚至可能低于2%。而在现金ISA中，储户可获得高达4%以上的免税利率。
切勿认为可将现金存放在股票ISA中享受免税利息——政府将对所获利息征收22%的税费，无论利息金额大小。
对于65岁及以上的储户，现金ISA的免税额度仍维持在2 万英镑。该更高额度将从您满65岁当年的税务年度起实施。例如，若您将在2027年9月迎来65岁生日，则从2027年4月起，您的现金ISA免税额度即为2 万英镑。
如需寻找顶级的灵活易取ISA，当前最优惠利率为交易平台Trading 212.提供的4.6%。该账户无取款次数限制，但首年有1个百分点的奖励利率——建议在一年后将资金转入更优惠的账户。
灵活ISA允许您在同一纳税年度内取出资金并重新存入，且不影响整体ISA额度。若非灵活型账户，则重新存入资金将计入年度额度。
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在分行账户中，考文垂建屋互助会（Coventry BS）的4 Access ISA一年期利率为4.25%，且具备灵活性，但每年取款次数限制为4次。
如需一款无奖励、无取款限制的简易账户，嘉信理财（Hargreaves Lansdown）提供的利率更高，达4.52%，但不具灵活性。Spring通过其应用程序提供4.01%的利率，是无奖励且无取款限制的灵活ISA中的最优惠利率。固定利率ISA方面，Vida提供的一年期固定利率为4.7%，两年期为4.77%，五年期为4.85%。
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我们经营一个家庭农场，六年来一直使用英国燃气的账户，每月支付约£200的电费。上个月，该公司发来一张金额为19,700 英镑的账单，并通过直接借记从我们的账户扣除了这笔钱。原来是英国燃气在5月份派去的抄表员读错了表。钱刚被扣走，我就联系了公司，对方也承认了错误。然而一个月过去了，我们仍未拿回这笔钱。这给我们造成了严重的经济压力，并带来了巨大的精神压力。
M.G.，威尔士波伊斯中部地区。
这给你和父亲共同经营的养羊、养猪和耕作农场带来了额外压力，而威尔士的干旱已经让农场苦不堪言。由于草地枯萎，你不得不为羊购买饲料。
尽管英国燃气在你焦急的电话后承认了错误，但它在退款速度上似乎远不如收款时那么迅速。公司一直告诉你，由于涉及金额较大，需要先获得财务部门的批准才能退款。
我感到困惑的是，它凭什么能一次性从你的账户扣走比平时多出100倍的金额。
根据被称为“直接借记保障”的规定，银行客户应在任何金额变动前10天收到通知。该保障还承诺，如果扣款金额出错，客户将立即获得退款。
我询问英国燃气如何犯下如此大的错误，并敦促其将现金退回你的账户。公司确认了最初的读表错误，但表示“直接借记保障”的退款条款并未生效，因为当时的账单被视为与读表结果相符。
公司表示，它在14天前就发出了直接借记将要扣款的通知。我猜想作为忙碌的农场主，你可能没有注意到这则通知。
拖延仍在继续，英国燃气要求你提供显示真实读数的电表照片，才肯退款。尽管这让人恼火，但你还是提供了照片，公司随即纠正了读数，重新开具账单，并在我联系后的几天内处理了18,654 英镑的退款（扣除实际消费的费用后的金额）。
发言人表示：“我们已向M.G.确认此事，并为未能及时纠正致歉。我们已要求他提供因我方错误产生的任何银行费用详情，我们将进行审核，并会提供善意的补偿。”
为什么英国燃气公司没有退还它因我们农场能源账单多收的19,700 英镑？
您估计成本为£600，但必须等到9月份的业务季度结束后才能确定。您表示：“我们非常感激你们所做的一切。在联系你们几小时内，我们取得的进展超过了过去一个月给英国燃气公司打电话所取得的成果。”您的经历为所有直接借记用户敲响了警钟，提醒他们核实组织计划扣取金额的准确性。
7月，我带11岁的儿子去伦敦东部观看了两场Metallica演唱会。这是我约25年来首次在首都开车。进城时，谷歌地图提醒我有收费站。我们周五通过Blackwall隧道，并在第二天按规定缴费。当我第二场演唱会周日再次缴费时，我决定采取双保险措施，以确保不冒险遭受其他罚款。但TfL应用程序界面混乱，每次查看都显示拥堵费“应付”。这导致我支付了两次每次£21的日拥堵费。后来我才发现根本不该缴费，因为我们并未进入相关区域，但伦敦交通局拒绝退款。
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伦敦道路的规则对当地人来说都令人困惑，更不用说几十年没在首都开过车的人了。需要注意的主要收费项目包括通过各隧道的费用、进入市中心拥堵区的费用以及高排放车辆的收费。
出于对因错误可能遭受巨额罚款的担忧，您一进入伦敦就试图确保所有方面都覆盖到。
您本想设置自动支付，让TfL自动扣除相应费用。但由于此功能仅适用于未来行程且无法计入已完成的出行，您尝试查询已欠费用。
在TfL应用程序中点击“查询需缴费用”并输入车辆信息后，它
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系统明确表示，拥堵费“已到期”，布莱克沃尔隧道费“已到期”。超低排放区（Ulez）费用未到期，因为您的汽车符合所需的排放标准。
您对拥堵费感到意外，因为您认为自己没有驶入适用该费用的中心区域。但您注意到在使用布莱克沃尔隧道时看到一个红色“C”标志在白色圆圈中，并认为这意味着费用已到期。您认为明智的做法是支付费用，于是两次支付了£21（提前支付为£18）。
应用程序给出的建议是通用的而非针对性的，当您意识到错误后申请退款。但伦敦交通局（TfL）拒绝退款，理由是其不为已过期的费用退款。您认为这不公平，因为您已竭尽全力确保合规。
我认为您的情况有理有据，因为我认为您在应用程序上看到的建议费用到期的页面可能存在误解。在与伦敦交通局沟通后，我发现了一些令我更加认同您的情况的信息。您在布莱克沃尔隧道附近看到的“C”标志指的是隧道“费用”，而非“拥堵”费。
这两种标志的设计相同——难怪您认为除了隧道通行费外，还需缴纳拥堵费。通过在线搜索，我发现其他人也落入了同样的陷阱。
我很高兴地通知您，伦敦交通局已同意作为善意姿态退还您的£42。
■ 请写信给Sally Hamilton，地址：伦敦W8 5HY，肯辛顿花园街9号《每日邮报》Money Mail栏目，或发送邮件至sally@dailymail.co.uk——请附上电话号码、地址，并附上一份致相关机构的授权函，允许其与Sally Hamilton沟通。请勿寄送原始文件，我们无法对其负责。本报对所给出的答案不承担任何法律责任。
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我计划在8月底固定利率到期时，偿还我在汇丰银行抵押贷款中剩余的12.5 万英镑。
4月份，我开始将资金从各种储蓄账户转入我在汇丰银行的现金Isa账户，以便为还款做好准备。我从邮局Isa账户转入超过£15，但15周后这笔钱仍未到账。C.W.，南威尔士。
汇丰银行致歉并表示您的资金现已转入。该行还向您支付了£500的赔偿金、£167的追溯利息，并为您送上了一份礼品篮。
另一名eBay卖家一直在使用我拍摄的一张产品照片。我已举报，但eBay拒绝下架该商品。该平台还永久封禁了我持有8年的账户，导致我无法出售任何商品，并且正扣留我5,000 英镑的销售资金。我将部分利润捐给儿童和动物慈善机构。
J.B.，中威尔士。
eBay表示已恢复您的账户并对使用您照片的卖家展开调查。
我和妻子今年2月从伦敦希思罗机场乘斯里兰卡航空公司舱位返回斯里兰卡，但尚未收到Avios积分。
作为英国航空公司的忠诚度俱乐部会员，我们乘坐其合作航空公司航班时可累积积分，这些积分可用于兑换奖励航班或升舱。我们提交了丢失积分的申请，但未收到任何回复。我致电英国航空公司客服热线，但工作人员让我们回到我们已填写的申请表。
英国航空公司致歉并表示您的积分已添加至您的账户。
新房满是卖家的垃圾……能否要求他们支付清理费用？
我们买了一栋新房。搬进去时，卖家留下了一台装满衣服的破洗衣机、一台坏掉的冰箱冷柜、脏碗碟和不需要的家具。我们不得不支付清理费用。能否向卖家追回这笔钱？
姓名和地址已提供。
可能可以——而且你的立场可能相当有力。
购买房产时，卖家通常需要在交割时提供空房交付。
这意味着你应能入住并享受房产，无需面对卖家的个人物品、家具或垃圾，除非你事先同意某些特定物品可保留。
从你的描述来看，你并未同意接收这些物品。一台装有卖家衣物的破洗衣机、一台坏掉的冰箱冷柜、脏碗碟和不需要的家具，这些都不是你在交割后理应处理的东西。
若卖家有合同义务提供空房交付，留下这些物品可能构成违约。若你因此需支付合理费用清理并处置，可就此次违约造成的损失向卖家追偿。
有一个重要前提：查看合同及你在购房过程中签署的TA10装修与附属物清单，确认这些物品是否原本就约定留在房内。
我建议你致信卖家，说明房产未按约定状态交付，附上照片和清理发票，并要求其报销合理的清理费用。
切勿夸大索赔，如因不便要求赔偿。 你最有力的索赔依据是实际发生的合理清理费用。
我的女儿住在一个停车位极难找的街道。她的邻居最近把房前的人行道路缘降低了，尽管她无法在前花园停车，因为那里有堵墙。邻居说，由于路缘已降低——为方便进入露天停车位——别人都不能在她房前停车。
当我女儿因缺乏车位而停在那里时，有人朝她的车扔了一个鸡蛋。邻居关于路缘的说法对吗？
S.N.，北安普敦
邻居的说法是错误的。 降低的路缘并不赋予道路所有权，也不会创造私人停车位。
房前的公路仍属公共用地，除非有特定限制（如黄线、居民停车位等），否则一般任何人都可停车。降低路缘并不意味着将那段沥青路面据为己有，邻居无权擅自宣布其归属。
更何况，她甚至无法用前花园停车，因为墙仍然挡着，这更凸显了问题。
不过，这里有一个需要注意的真实细节：区别在于停车位置。 在房前道路上停车没问题，但直接横停在降低的路缘上则另当别论。
根据《2004年交通管理法》，横停在降低的人行道上属于民事违章停车行为，市议会可处以罚单。
此外，需注意：有些市议会即使居民无可用车道，甚至未提出投诉，也会执行此规定。 建议你女儿查询当地市议会的具体立场，因各地区政策不同。
更令我担忧的是扔鸡蛋的行为。若造成任何损害，向车辆投掷物品可能构成刑事损坏罪；若反复针对，可能涉及骚扰。
我的建议： 避免任何冲突。拍摄降低的路缘、围墙及任何标志或路面标线的照片，并记录每次事件的日期。
如果再次发生此类情况，特别是当她的车辆受损或她感到受到威胁时，她应向警方报案。
■ 请致函迪安·邓纳姆（Dean Dunham），《金钱邮报》栏目，伦敦德里街9号，伦敦，W8 5HY，或发送邮件至 d.dunham@dailymail.co.uk。对于所给出的答复，《每日邮报》不承担任何法律责任。
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艺术调查《真假命运：命运何去何从？》 20:00，BBC1
本季最后一集将重新调查约翰·列侬的小型三角钢琴和罗尼·伍德的腿式钢琴，这些乐器曾在2024年的一期节目中亮相。现任乐器持有者、歌手切斯尼·霍克斯表示：“我从心底知道这是约翰·列侬弹奏过的钢琴。”但有足够的新证据能证明他的说法吗？对于姐妹Niki和Kerry而言，她们很难证明已故父亲的故事——滚石乐队吉他手伍德曾将吉他赠予父亲。菲利普·莫尔德和菲奥娜·布鲁斯能为霍克斯（与布鲁斯合影）和姐妹们带来好消息吗？
BBC1
今日荧屏精选
《长城内外》与丹·斯诺 21:00，第5频道
这是世界上最具标志性的地标之一，但我们对长城的了解又有多少？电视上最热情的历史学家丹·斯诺（如图）正打点行装，东行开启这部充满事实的新纪录片，试图将古老神话与冷冰冰的真相分开。他远离标准的旅游陷阱和明信片式的完美景观，穿越广袋国土，揭露这项终极建筑工程的惊人现实。史诗般的旅程从长城陡然跃入大海的地方开始，随后沿途经过守卫北京的崎岖山峰。但真正的戏剧发生在偏远的西部。面对极端恶劣的条件，斯诺继续向戈壁沙漠最遥远的前线挺进。在这趟艰苦的旅程中，他揭示了这座建筑的真实年代和令人瞠目的规模。你将惊叹于数百年前工程师们使用的巧妙材料，也会震惊于听到那些被迫在这条恐怖前线修建和生活的无名者们的悲惨故事——这一切都发生在2,000多年前。
ITV1
| BBC 1 | BBC 2 | ITV 1 | CHANNEL 4 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6:00 | 6:30 | 6:00 | 6:30 |
| 《早餐时光》 | 《逃离乡村》（重播） | 《早安英国》 | 《国王的队伍》（配音/重播） |
| 9:30 | 7:15 | 10:00 | 7:45 |
| 《早安直播：实用贴士与精彩回顾》尼克·斯塔普尔顿（Nick Stapleton）对抗投资诈骗犯。 | 《白送钱》（重播） | 《今晨》（This Morning）明星访谈、实用建议与竞赛，并包含当地天气预报。 | 《人人都爱雷蒙德》（配音/重播）三连播。 |
| 10:30 | 8:00 | 9:10 | |
| 《花园营救》（重播）查理·迪莫克（Charlie Dimmock）与李·伯基尔（Lee Burkhill）改造曼彻斯特一处花园。 | 《伟大的欧洲铁路之旅》（配音/手语/重播） | 《欢乐一家亲》（配音/重播）四集连播。 | |
| 8:30 | 1:30 | ||
| 《伟大的欧洲铁路之旅》（配音/手语/重播） | 新闻；天气预报 | ||
| 11:15 | 9:00 | 1:55 | 12:05 |
| 《锤子拍卖行》（配音/重播） | 《BBC新闻》 | 地区新闻 | 《第四频道新闻摘要》 |
| 12:15 | 1:00 | 2:00 | 12:10 |
| 《讨价还价》（Bargain Hunt，配音/重播） | 《理查德·奥斯曼的游戏之家》（重播）杰西·卡夫（Jessie Cave）、艾莎·哈扎里卡（Ayesha Hazarika）与 AJ·普里查德（AJ Pritchard）参与。 | 《迪金森的真实交易》（Dickinson's Real Deal，配音/重播）在布莱克本，艾丽丝·多比（Alys Dobbie）遇到一位穿越时空的粉丝；马特·泰勒（Matt Taylor）希望一笔大交易不会付之一炬；卡伦·达尔梅尼（Karen Dalmeny）的情况变得棘手。 | 《找到它，修好它，卖掉它》（Find It, Fix It, Flog It，配音/重播）亨利与西蒙前往莱斯特郡。 |
| 1:00 | 1:30 | ||
| 《BBC一点新闻》；天气预报 | 《边缘》（The Edge，重播）益智游戏节目。 | ||
| 1:35 | 2:15 | ||
| BBC地区新闻；天气预报 | 《你知道你的位置吗？》（Do You Know Your Place?，重播） | ||
| 1:45 | 2:45 | 3:00 | 1:10 |
| 《BBC一点新闻》；天气预报 | 《动物乐园夏季》（Animal Park Summer，配音/重播）凯特·汉弗莱（Kate Humble）发现一只白尾海雕造访公园。 | 《一锤定音》（Deal or No Deal，配音/重播）斯蒂芬·穆尔赫恩（Stephen Mulhern）主持，理查德需按正确顺序开启22个红盒，与臭名昭著的“银行家”对决以赢取现金大奖；地区天气预报。 | 《梦想房屋大放送》（The Great House Giveaway，重播）两位准房产开发商改造伯明翰的一处房屋。 |
| 2:00 | 3:30 | 2:10 | |
| 《白送钱》（Money for Nothing，萨里地区）莎拉·摩尔（Sarah Moore）发现旧草地滚木球游戏用具、槌球套装、棕色家具及灯罩。 | 《塞伦盖蒂III》（Serengeti III，配音/重播）大火过后，动物们艰难求生。 | 《数字猜猜看》（Countdown）里奇·安德森（Richie Anderson）主持。 | |
| 2:45 | 4:30 | 5:00 | 3:00 |
| 《逃离乡村》（Escape to the Country，重播）索纳莉·沙阿（Sonali Shah）帮助一对在德文郡购买首处房产的夫妇。 | 《古董行家》（Vintage Antiques Roadshow，重播）在克雷辛寺谷仓。 | 《追捕》（The Chase，重播）来自布雷因特里的萨拉、原籍基德明斯特的阿拉什、诺丁汉的苏珊娜与伯顿上特伦特的詹姆斯与“追捕者”对决。 | 《阳光下的家》（A Place in the Sun，重播）杰斯敏·哈曼（Jasmine Harman）帮助菲奥娜与安迪在西班牙莫哈卡尔找到适合全家老小（包括子女、孙辈与父母）的度假屋。 |
| 3:30 | |||
| 《修补店》（The Repair Shop） |
| 时间 | 节目 | 价格 | 频道 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5:10 | Flog It! (R) 来自肯特郡 | £5.10 | |
| 4:30 | The Answer Run (R) 益智问答节目，由杰森·曼福德主持 | ||
| 6:00 | 理查德·奥斯曼的游戏之家 (R) 吉米·法穆雷瓦、哈丽雅特·肯斯利、科林·默里和萨拉·帕斯科参与竞技 | £6.00 | |
| The Great B&B Challenge (R) 保罗和贾斯汀的花园派对以失败告终 | £4.00 | ||
| 5:15 | Pointless (R) 益智问答节目，由亚历山大·阿姆斯特朗主持 | ||
| 6:30 | 壮丽的欧洲铁路之旅 (R) 迈克尔·波蒂略抵达雷恩 | ||
| Chateau DIY (AD,R) 乔恩和卡门与威胁他们塔楼的巨大藤蔓展开搏斗 | £5.00 | ||
| 6:00 | BBC六点新闻；天气预报 | ||
| 6:00 | 地区新闻 | £6.00 | 美国淘金客 (R) 一件奥克托伯啤酒节珍品上写满了弗兰克·弗里茨的名字 |
| 6:30 | BBC地区新闻；天气预报 | ||
| 6:30 | 新闻；天气预报 | ||
| 7:00 | The One Show 由J.B.吉尔和克拉拉·安福主持 | ||
| 7:00 | 名人珍宝之旅 (R) 莱斯利·阿什和菲尔·丹尼尔斯（ cult 电影《四重奏》主演）在粉红色凯迪拉克上穿梭于林肯郡道路，在菲尔·塞雷尔和塞尔哈特·艾哈迈特的指导下选购商品 | 7:30 | 名人Lingo (R) 阿迪尔·雷主持，网球教练朱迪·默里和体育主播马克·波盖奇对阵《晨间直播》主持人海伦·斯凯尔顿和拉夫·怀尔丁，为各自的慈善机构赢取善款 |
| 7:00 | 第四频道新闻 | ||
| 7:30 | 东区疑云 (AD) 艾尔菲为凯特举办惊喜派对 | ||
| 8:00 | 至臻真品：真相大白 (AD) 菲奥娜·布鲁斯和菲利普·莫尔德调查一架可能属于约翰·列侬的钢琴的真伪。系列赛最后一集 | 8:00 | 工厂密探 (AD,R) 帕迪·麦古尼斯走进沃伯顿面包工厂（博尔顿），30多年前他曾在那里做过周六工读 |
| 8:30 | 加冕街 (AD) 贝瑟尼发现基特的衬衫上有血迹 | ||
| 9:00 | 名人厨艺大师 (AD) 第二轮预赛继续。电视及广播节目主持人佐伊·鲍尔要求明星们制作终极甜品 | 9:00 | “9·11”：总统的战争室 (AD,R) 纪录片揭秘乔治·W·布什总统及其团队如何应对2001年9月11日袭击 |
| 10:00 | BBC十点新闻；地区新闻（接续） |
by Weather)< / td> 10.30< / >< rowspan="2">《夜间新闻》（接天气预报）< / ><>10.00< / ><>新闻（接天气预报）< / ><>10.00< / ><>《永无止境的谋杀案》（广告） 新系列。重新审视1991年考文垂一名18岁母亲妮可拉·佩恩失踪案，至今未破。< / >< / tr> <>10.30< / ><>10.30< / ><>地方新闻< / ><>< / >< / ><><>10.40< / ><>《今日赛事》：欧冠资格赛第二回合精彩战况。< / ><>< / ><>10.45< / ><>《幽灵杀手》（2015年）《12》◆（广告） 詹姆斯·邦德追查隐藏于犯罪网络幕后主谋，该网络与其过往有关。惊悚片，主演丹尼尔·克雷格与克里斯托夫·瓦尔兹。< / ><>< / >< / ><><>11.25< / >< rowspan="2">《浅滩》（2016年）《15》◆ 一名冲浪者误入大白鲨捕猎区，为生死搏斗回到岸边。惊悚片，主演布雷克·莱弗利。< / ><>11.05< / ><>《夫妻疗法》谢和克林顿被布置作业学习妥协。< / ><>< / ><>11.05< / ><>《永无止境的谋杀案》（广告） 警方展开调查，询问两名当地男子，发现妮可拉案件与当地其他重大案件间可能存在关联。< / >< / ><><>2< / ><>11.30< / ><>《夫妻疗法》西耶娜探讨霸凌如何导致她压抑不适感。< / ><>< / >< / ><><>12.45< / ><>一周天气预报 12.50 BBC新闻< / ><>12.00< / ><>《与迈克尔·希恩同葬》（R） 1.00《名人大厨师》（广告、英国手语、字幕） 2.00《英国脱欧：一场英国内战》（广告、英国手语、字幕） 3.00《BBC2节目预告》< / ><>1.10< / ><>电视购物 3.00《爱与死亡》（广告、字幕） 4.00《深入兰加姆：英国首家豪华酒店》（广告、字幕） 4.20《ITV放松时光》 5.35《汤姆·克尔里奇的意大利烹饪》（广告、字幕）< / ><>12.05< / ><>《间谍邻居：安娜·查普曼的故事》（广告、字幕） 1.00《间谍邻居：安娜·查普曼的故事》（广告、字幕） 1.55《名人通缉令》（广告、字幕） 2.00《名人通缉令》（广告、字幕） 3.50《夫妻共进晚餐》（字幕） 4.45《杰米：健康饮食》（广告、字幕）< / >< / >
真实犯罪 《谋杀侦探》 晚9点，第四频道
2019年，29岁的记者莱拉·麦基（如图）在北爱尔兰德里市报道骚乱时被枪杀身亡。她因报道“困扰”遗留问题而成名，她的遇害影响深远，尤其是一个自称“新 IRA”的组织声称对此负责。这部三集系列片记录了由资深调查官贾森·墨菲领导的长达七年的调查。这是首次允许摄像机跟随侦探拍摄北爱尔兰一起恐怖袭击谋杀案的调查过程，并揭露了墨菲及其警方和情报同事所面临的袭击威胁。我们还听到了莱拉家人的声音，包括她的姐姐妮古拉，她们至今仍在悲伤地等待莱拉的正义。
第五频道
6.00 奶昔时间！ 《小猪佩奇》（AD,R） 6.05 《小猪佩奇》（AD,R） 6.10 《特威迪与弗拉夫》（R） 6.15 《奥多》（R） 6.20 《托马斯小火车》（R） 6.35 《消防员山姆》（R） 6.45 《小猪佩奇》（,R） 6.50 《皮普与波西》（R） 6.55 《 paw patrol》（R） 7.10 《动起来！奶昔搅拌机！》（R） 7.20 《鲁伯与伙伴们》（R） 7.35 《小猪佩奇》（,R） 7.40 《小猪佩奇》（,R） 7.45 《蒂姆雷克斯在太空》（,R） 8.00 《斯坦与奶奶》（R） 8.15 《 paw patrol》（R） 8.40 《帕丁顿历险记》（R） 8.50 《本和霍莉的小王国》（R） 9.00 《小猪佩奇》（,R） 9.05 《真正的小狗小队》（R）
2.20 《抵押贷款谋杀案：枫叶街的秘密》（2024年）（U）惊悚片，主演弗朗西丝·利。
4.00 《城堡》（R）一件艺术品被盗。
4.55 《自然之爱》（R）摄像机跟拍伯明翰一位屋顶养蜂人。
5.00 5点新闻，主持人丹·沃克 6.00 《露营车之旅：默顿与韦伯斯特》（R）保罗·默顿与苏琪·韦伯斯特探索新森林。 6.55 5点新闻快讯
7.00 自行车赛：2026年环西班牙自行车赛 丽贝卡·查尔顿主持报道第五赛段的精彩画面，这是一段173.公里的丘陵路线，从法尔塞特到罗奎泰斯。 7.55 5点新闻快讯
8.00 《传唤执达吏：该还钱了》（）新系列。纪录片跟拍高等法院执行代理人工作。代理人试图追回一名房产经纪人欠前客户的债务。
9.00 《中国万里长城》达恩·斯诺探索中国标志性地标——这个改变中国历史进程的世界最大建筑工程。
10.30 《A&E：车祸现场急救》（R）杰丝重伤，她的姐姐杰米-莉因车祸翻车而颈椎骨折。
11.30 《救护车：红色警戒》（R）一名52岁男子因摩托车摔倒而颈部和肩膀疼痛，一名40岁癫痫女患者因呼吸频率过低而晕倒。
12.30 《警察》（R） 12.55 第五频道娱乐新闻 1.00 《邮轮电视：LoveitBookit》（R） 2.00 《全科医生：幕后》（R） 2.50 《城堡》（R） 3.40 《老友记》（,R） 4.10 《老友记》（,R） 4.35 《尼克·诺尔斯的惊人铁路历险》（BSL,R） 5.25 第五频道娱乐新闻 5.35 《 paw patrol》（BSL,R）
▲ 可能引起冒犯
我们的水手如何凭借平凡的葡萄干击败无敌舰队
历史节目有两种类型。一种是"觉醒式"历史，以当下的价值观审判过去，谴责先辈未能像我们一样生活和思考。
罗伯·林德和露丝·古德曼在其当前系列中也曾接近这种自恋风格，该系列以富人（嘘！嘘！）对阵穷人（唉！抽泣！）的形式呈现。
但在《都铎王朝》（第5频道）的最终集中，他们挽回了名誉。该集调查了1588年处于西班牙无敌舰队威胁下的英格兰。这是第二种历史，充满了让我们得以从新视角审视昔日耳熟能详故事的细节。
例如，我一直以为周五吃鱼的传统某种程度上源于宗教。事实并非如此：这更多与经济和王国防务有关。
一个岛国需要水手。都铎王朝的财政无力维持皇家海军，因此在和平时期，水手们必须以捕鱼为生。为确保对其捕获物的强劲需求，周五吃鱼成为强制性规定。
任何被发现吃羊肉而非鲭鱼的人都可能被投入枷锁示众。现如今，约20%的英国人从不食用多脂鱼类，而罗伯品尝鳗鱼时的反感也告诉我们他正是其中之一。
我们也没有常备军
我们也没有常备军——但全国男性随时可被征召。所有7至60岁的男性和男孩均需拥有弓和至少两支箭，并熟练掌握其使用方法。
我们不难得出结论：即使没有正式的武装部队，都铎时代的英格兰也比今日防务更为坚固。
最妙的发现是，我们的民族生存要归功于葡萄干，或者说是成百上千桶葡萄干——多汁的晒干葡萄干
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《都铎王朝》与罗布·林德、露丝·古德曼 ★★★★☆
都铎王朝时期的英国人会在各种菜肴中加入糖分——从肉馅饼到油腻的蛋糕。
葡萄干为抵御西班牙人的海军提供了资金。你甚至可以说它们成了这个国家的存在理由。也许"好女王贝丝"本该被加冕为我们的苏丹。
罗布解释说，葡萄干的垄断权由一位名叫托马斯·科德尔的伦敦商人掌握，他与妻子和至少七个孩子住在圣保罗大教堂后面的切普赛德。为了进口商品，科德尔拥有多艘船只。他就是一位都铎王朝的航运大亨。
当无敌舰队在普利茅斯霍伊现身时，女王陛下直接征用了科德尔的舰队组建了一支临时海军……这支舰队由16,000名男子驾驶，其中大部分是征召兵，另有16人。
尽管经历了激烈战斗和长途追击，但仅约100名英国水手阵亡——然而在返航途中，约7,000人因疾病死亡。下次吃葡萄干面包时，不妨想一想这些。
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Sky Atlantic
Sky 108 Virgin 111
10.15 《龙之家族》 12.40 《街头凶杀案：人生实录》 2.30 《亿万》 4.40 《白莲花度假村》 6.45 《龙之家族》 9.00 《恐怖：白银魔鬼》 11.05 《车站十一》
FM 92.4-94.6兆赫：BBC广播4台
5:00 新闻摘要 5:04 《BBC科学内幕》 5:32 天气预报 5:34 航运预报 5:43 《每日祈祷》 5:45 《今日农事》 6:00 《今日》 9:00 《侧行》 9:30 《打破循环》 10:00 《女性时光》 11:00 《验尸官的问题》 11:40 《历史一周》 11:45 《本周图书》： 《世界之美》 作者：帕特里克·布林利
12:00 新闻 12:04 《您与您》 12:57 天气预报 13:00 《世界在一小时内》 13:45 《人类智慧》 14:00 《阿卡斯》 14:15 广播剧：《破碎的色彩》 15:00 《敲响铜环》 15:30 《精选实验室：实验室培植生命》
合成生物学是一门快速发展的新兴科学领域。主持人卡罗琳·斯蒂尔探索其非凡潜力，包括让作物更能抵御疾病和气候变化压力、制造更廉价的医疗药物，以及设计可追踪并对抗疾病的可编程细胞。但这种重新设计现有自然系统或构建新系统的生物与工程结合，真的能实现其目标吗？在随意篡改自然的同时，又会引发哪些伦理忧虑？
4:00 《自然砰砰》 4:15 《媒体秀》 17:00 《下午六点新闻》 18:30 《最佳医疗》 （节目内容：探索海藻内衣、泡泡和桑拿） 19:00 《阿卡斯》 （罗伯特今天情绪激动） 19:15 《前排》 （艺术节目）
8:00 《道德迷宫》 （由迈克尔·比尔克主持的伦理问题辩论） 9:00 《隐形之手》 （大卫·丁布尔比讲述美国前国防部长保罗·沃尔福威茨的故事——这位几乎将美国推入伊拉克战争的人）
Sky喜剧频道
Sky 113 Virgin 112
11:50 《威尔与格蕾丝》 12:20 《直立行走》 13:40 《第五大道》 15:00 《威尔与格蕾丝》 16:00 《两周后死亡》 17:00 《社区》 18:00 《威尔与格蕾丝》 19:00 《办公室》（美剧） 20:00 《动物管制》 21:00 《上周今晚秀》约翰·奥利弗 21:45 克里斯·弗莱明：现场版《在宫殿》 23:15 《两周后死亡》
Sky纪录片频道
Sky 114 Virgin 121
12:00 史蒂夫·范·赞特：门徒 14:50 《新一代网球天王》 16:00 《导演们》 17:00 《发现：约翰·特拉沃尔塔》 18:00 《疯狂的黑猩猩》 19:00 《爱已征服：上帝母亲教的信徒》 20:00 《科斯塔康科迪亚号：灾难实录》（关于游轮沉没的不同版本） 22:00 《彩虹勇士号》（关于该船沉没的纪录片）
Sky历史频道
Sky 123 Virgin 131
12:00 《超越斯金沃克牧场》 13:00 《斯金沃克牧场的诅咒》 14:00 《囤积狂》 18:00 《美国寻宝》 19:00 《锻造之火》 20:00 《奇异英国：UFO特辑》 21:00 《斯金沃克牧场的诅咒》 22:00 《美国机场安检》
Sky One
Sky 106 Virgin 109
12:00 《非洲猎人》 13:00 《夏威夷五-0》 15:00 《S.W.A.T特警》 17:00 《辛普森一家》 18:00 《罗梅什与罗伯对战芭蕾》 19:00 《辛普森一家》 20:00 《地球生存》 21:00 电影：《敢死队》（2010年上映，15级） 23:00 《格林姆》
Sky科幻频道
Sky 145 Virgin 140
11:00 《星际迷航：企业号》 12:00 《星际迷航：航海家号》 13:00 《星际之门：亚特兰蒂斯》 14:00 《仓库13》 15:00 《远古入侵》 16:00 《星际之门：SG-1》 17:00 《星际迷航：航海家号》 18:00 《星际迷航：企业号》 19:00 《星际之门：亚特兰蒂斯》 20:00 《星际之门：SG-1》 21:00 《异星外星人》 22:00 《格林姆》 23:00 《行尸走肉》
Sky Witness
Sky 107 Virgin 110
12:00 《联邦调查局》 14:00 《菜鸟警察》 15:00 《法律与秩序：犯罪意图》 16:00 《无可申报》 20:00 《行车记录仪实录》 21:00 《火焰乡村》 22:00 《国际刑警组织：FBI》 23:00 《菜鸟警察》
TLC
Freeview 12 Sky 133 Virgin 113 12:00 《生活大爆炸》 14:00 《中间派》 15:30 《少年谢尔顿》 17:00 《生活大爆炸》 21:00 《极限人类》 22:00 《ER：实时捕捉》 23:00 《粉刺大师：爆裂》
6:55 《心跳》PC 史蒂夫·克兰震惊地发现彼得·派克的仓库已化为灰烬
《谋杀她乡》
濒危艺术：当一个新雕塑公园的启动因谋杀案蒙上阴影时，侦探们不得不发挥创意，调查一个万事皆有深意的案件
《刘易斯》之伤口（第一部分）：退休侦探重返岗位，协助现任督察哈瑟韦及新搭档DS马多克斯（安吉拉·格里芬）调查一起谋杀案
11:50 《疑案追凶》之《乐土》（至2:00）
明星垂钓大赛
在沃里克郡Tunnel Barn Farm渔场举办的年度慈善活动中，32位体育明星同场竞技，包括卢克·利特勒、大卫·西曼和托尼·贝洛
《河中猛兽》
佛罗里达水域的致命袭击往事 《铁血悍将》（1992，18）：两名在军事实验中复活的士兵认出彼此为旧日仇敌，并展开血仇——科幻惊悚片，主演尚-克劳德·范·达姆与多尔夫·伦德格伦。附《每日要闻》
MORE4
11:35 法甲精华（至12:05）
《汽车SOS》
6:50 富兹·汤森德与蒂姆·肖秘密修复一辆日本越野车
7:55 《宏伟设计》 凯文·麦克劳德遇到一对夫妇，计划在一座200年历史的老磨坊墙内嵌入全新住宅，打造混合结构
《爱丽丝的火车帝国之旅》
爱丽丝·罗伯茨在帕尔马的一家博物馆内，对神庙供品进行考察
《24小时急诊室》
一名78岁老人因呼吸困难紧急送医，而一名75岁老人在跌下楼梯后接受治疗
11:05 《24小时急诊室》 医生对一名77岁男子进行检查，该男子在倒地后被紧急送往圣乔治医院（至12:10）
天空综合频道
《星际迷航：下一代》皮卡德试图拯救一个濒临灭绝的基因改造社会
《夏威夷五-0》
团队调查一场高中橄榄球赛上帮派火并事件，丹尼则与前妻产生矛盾
《FBI：通缉令》
当一名以对少年犯量刑严苛闻名的法官遇害后，团队在其漫长案件清单中寻找凶手
《菜鸟警察》团队调查一起火车抢劫案，哈珀警官在做出改变一生的决定后亲自出手
《格林》三枚硬币被发现藏于一名死囚胃中，并对持有者产生令人不安的影响（至12:00）
《爱丽丝的火车帝国之旅》
《探索之旅》
《古董之旅》 古董专家詹姆斯·布拉克斯顿与查尔斯·汉森从格拉斯哥南下，途经艾尔郡与拉纳克郡
《约克郡拍卖行》
一名寡妇从意大利归来，带回一批苏联宣传品
《约克郡拍卖行》
安格斯·阿什沃思转行指挥拍卖，为一名铁路迷的庞大模型收藏竞价，并为一套高档餐具开出大价
《修复小屋》
杰伊·布莱兹与团队修复两只共享爱情故事的泰迪熊、一盏风中残烛的维多利亚式路灯，以及一辆蒸汽动力玩具车
他们如何做到？ 古希腊人如何发明羊皮纸
他们如何做到？ 前线士兵的披萨制作方法（至12:00）
U&DAVE
《莫蒂默与怀特豪斯：垂钓去》
保罗与鲍勃来到塞文河
7:40 《你敢说谎吗？》主持：萨拉·考克斯、杰森·曼福德、哈里·希勒
8:20 《你敢说谎吗？》主持：沃里克·戴维斯、休·丹尼斯、凯瑟琳·瑞安、约翰·辛普森
《QI XL》
主持：桑迪·托克斯维格 携手阿兰·戴维斯、罗茜·琼斯、乔希·威迪科姆及苏珊·卡尔曼，推出加长版喜剧问答节目
你该知道的更多新闻 阿莫尔·拉詹主持
延长版讽刺问答节目，搭档为演员兼喜剧演员迈尔斯·贾普和前议员安德里亚·詹金斯
Taskmaster 马克·沃特森与尼什·库马尔一起敬酒，萨莉·菲利普斯在上面撒了苦艾酒（至12:00）
7:20 《夏日最后的温柔》克莱格成为中间人
《切尔西侦探》
第一部分。当一具尸体在菜园中被发现时，马克斯与莱拉奋力确认死者身份
《切尔西侦探》
第二部分。随着对尸体的调查升温，马克斯与莱拉追踪一条线索
10:05 《新招数》团队重启17年前的谋杀案
11:25 《路德》
侦探被迫面对过去的恶魔，警察与科尼利厄斯同时涌向他的住所（至12:40）
《全科医生：幕后》德文·格雷医生怀疑其患者可能患有心房颤动，这可能导致中风
《紧急情况24 / 7：每一秒都很重要》
米歇尔怀孕18周，因潜在疾病被紧急送往重症监护室
《圣安地列斯》（2015.12）
加州地震后，一名直升机飞行员冒险穿越全州营救女儿。灾难片，主演巨石强森。包含娱乐新闻
11:20 《特种部队：最惊险任务》
最惊险任务 英国特种部队一支精英小队被派往冈比亚营救缺席总统的妻子（至12:20）
5USA
《海军犯罪调查处》一名六岁男孩声称其父亲被绑架，探员发现失踪男子是一名中校，正在撰写一份报告
《海军犯罪调查处》托尼与兹瓦假扮两名已故刺客，在酒店会面以确认目标身份
《浪子回头》
马尔科姆获得梦寐以求的面试机会，当纽约警察局锁定他和马丁最喜欢的心理学家之一时
《浪子回头》马尔科姆意识到父亲的杀戮行为可能并未令所有人感到意外，他协助调查一名社交媒体网红的谋杀案
《法律与秩序：特殊受害者队》
斯通要求本森调查一起他感到内疚的过去性侵案（至12:00）
9:30 迈克尔·辛 塑造角色
迈克尔探索斯坦尼斯拉夫斯基体系与斯特拉斯伯格方法，在以撒·巴特勒、安妮-玛丽·达夫与迈克尔·戈德法布的协助下
10:00 《今晚世界》 10:45 《就寝读物：锡杜先生的邮局》作者：阿曼·布拉尔
纽约大都会歌剧院
大都会管弦乐团在BBC PROMS 2026首次亮相，献上理查德·施特劳斯的华丽曲目。今晚BBC PROMS 2026（19:00，广播3），先上演《玫瑰骑士》组曲，再上演其丑闻缠身的歌剧《莎乐美》终场，由南非女高音埃尔扎·范登海弗演唱（如图）。下半场是其恢宏且充满生命力的《英雄的一生》。
11:00 诺拉·梅多斯的健康周 11:15 《跟着兔子走》 11:30 《一切都是虚假，无人在乎》 12:00 整点新闻与天气 12:30 《本周之书：世间所有美好》作者：帕特里克·布林利 12:48 航运预报 13:00 BBC环球服务
BBC广播二台 FM：88-90.2兆赫
6:30 《广播二台早餐秀》 9:30 马克·古迪尔 12:00 蒂娜·达赫利 14:00 DJ Spoony 16:00 贾森·曼福德 19:00 乔·怀利的《闪亮快乐播放列表》 19:30 乔·怀利 21:00 马克·拉德克利夫的《民间音乐秀》 22:00 梅尔文·奥杜姆的《好节奏》 24:00 OJ博格
FM 90.2-92.4兆赫：BBC广播三台
6:30 早餐节目 9:30 《经典必听》 13:00 古典现场直播 15:00 《晚祷合唱》 16:00 《本周作曲家：莎莉·比米什》 17:00 《正午时分》 19:00 BBC 2026逍遥音乐会精选 21:30 《经典混音带》 22:00 《午夜音轨》 23:30 《午夜回合》 00:30 《通宵之夜》
中波693 / 90.9 万赫：BBC广播五台直播
5:00 《早安财经》 6:00 《五台早餐》 9:00 丽玛·艾哈迈德 11:00 埃玛·瓦尔迪 14:00 尼克·瓦特 16:00 《五台5驾驶时段》 19:00 《五台5体育》 20:00 英格兰足球联赛杯 普雷斯顿北端 vs 埃弗顿（开球20:00） 迪普代尔球场第二轮比赛解说 22:30 劳拉·麦吉 1:00 多顿·阿德巴约
天空主打节目
体育
12:00 转会闲话 13:00 《午间直播》 14:00 体育新闻台 体育新闻及现场分析 16:00 美网公开赛直播 大满贯资格赛第三日赛况 19:00 英格兰足球联赛杯直播 普雷斯顿北端 vs 埃弗顿（开球20:00） 迪普代尔球场第二轮比赛直播 22:45 网球直播 WTA / ATP巡回赛赛况，包括ATP温斯顿-塞勒姆公开赛、WTA蒙特雷公开赛及美网资格赛
天空英超联赛
天空402频道 维珍502频道
12:00 转会闲话 13:00 英超回顾 14:00 《岁月》 16:00 回顾 17:00 《展示》 19:00 《转会秀》 20:00 《故事》 20:30 《网络爆料》 21:00 回顾 22:30 《网络爆料》 23:00 《岁月》
天空板球
天空405频道 维珍505频道
12:00 测试板球 13:00 吉米·安德森告别战 14:15 吉米·安德森经典魔咒 15:00 女子ICC世界二十国赛 15:30 尼泊尔登山 16:00 测试赛 19:00 《影院时刻：英格兰vs印度》 21:00 尼泊尔登山 21:30 女子ICC世界二十国赛 22:00 国际二十国赛
12:00 《我的偶像：蕾切尔·亚尼基》 12:15 达特黄金赛 12:20 达特 16:00 美网公开赛直播 大满贯资格赛第三日赛况 23:00 美网公开赛
天空410频道 维珍521频道
TNT体育1台
13:30 西班牙人自行车赛直播 17:00 MLB 18:00 TNT体育6.00重温 18:30 意甲-全面冲击 19:00 《突破》 19:15 《剖析》 20:00 欧洲冠军联赛直播
电影
天空混合频道
欧洲冠军联赛 里昂 vs 费内巴切（开球20:00） 22:00 探索高尔夫 22:30 测试赛 23:30 加勒比职业板球联赛 特立尼达骑士 vs 圣卢西亚国王
天空416频道 维珍511频道
TNT体育2台
天空411频道 维珍522频道
12:00 国际山地自行车世锦赛回顾 12:30 斯诺克武汉公开赛直播 15:30 加勒比职业板球联赛精华 16:00 17:30 4.00 . 5.30重温 17:45 《车群》 18:00 欧洲冠军联赛 20:00 欧洲冠军联赛直播 维京 vs 萨格勒布迪纳摩（开球20:00） 22:00 西班牙人自行车赛 23:00 斯诺克武汉公开赛
TNT体育3台
Freeview 19 Sky 111频道 维珍127频道
天空413频道 维珍523频道
天空109频道 维珍114频道
12:00 WRC杂志 12:30 西班牙人自行车赛 13:30 西班牙人自行车赛直播 17:00 劳力士帆船GP锦标赛 18:00 LIV高尔夫 19:00 MLB本周精彩 19:30 MLB精华 20:30 MLB直播 亚利桑那响尾蛇 vs 芝加哥小熊（开赛20:40） 23:30 MLB本周精彩
U&阿里比
11:20 《育空黄金》 12:20 《顶级挡》 14:20 《莫蒂默与怀特豪斯：垂钓去》 15:00 《盖伊车库》 16:00 《毛发厨师的英国最佳》 17:00 里克·斯坦的印度
12:00 《尸证真相》 13:00 《乐园归来》 14:00 《墨尔多疑案》 16:00 《心灵捕手》 17:00 《哈德森与雷克斯》 18:00 《尸证真相》 19:00 《私家侦探》 安吉的大学室友求助 20:00 《书虫》 22:30 《乐园归来》 23:35 《私家侦探》
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GREAT! ACTION
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“我们不停地换眼镜，直到试了这副！”
撰文：莎拉·K（58岁）
一开始我并没太在意。看手机？戴眼镜。抬头看电视？摘眼镜。出门？再换太阳镜。这成了我的日常。但当我停下来仔细想想……我意识到自己一天要换十几副眼镜。“这只是上了年纪的正常现象罢了，”我对自己说。但事实证明，这并非无法改变。
这一小步带来的巨大改变
有位朋友提到她开始使用可随光线调节的多焦眼镜。我半信半疑。这听起来像是那种号称无所不能……却总差点意思的东西。但我还是试了一下，没过多久，我注意到一个惊喜的变化：我不再总想着我的眼镜了。从频繁更换……到只需一副，突然间，我能够：
√ 清晰地看手机
√ 抬头就能看清整个房间
√ 外出时无需再找太阳镜 这一切只需一副眼镜即可完成。无需更换，无需在包里翻找，没有挫败感。只需一副眼镜，便能在一天中随心所欲地使用。
它们的工作原理
这并非普通的老花镜。它们采用渐进（多焦）镜片，具体如下：
- 下半部分帮助阅读和近距离任务 - 上半部分帮助看清远距离物体 而巧妙之处在于，它们还是感光变色镜片，这意味着：
- 室内保持透明
自动在阳光下变暗
因此，你无需再为多副眼镜而烦恼，只需一副即可适应各种场景。
广阔视野，适合远距离观看
电脑使用更舒适，蓝光已被消除
帮助你更清晰地阅读报纸和书籍
其检测项目包括：
- 光学精度——确保视力清晰可靠 - 光线表现——室内清晰，户外变暗 - 防紫外线——适合日常户外使用 它们在测试中满足所有要求，这让我对它们不是噱头充满信心。
室内到户外——轻松切换
我最喜欢的功能之一？走到户外无需换眼镜。它们会在强光下逐渐变暗——程度恰到好处，足以减轻眩光。感觉非常自然。
● 采用变色、防紫外线的光致变色镜片
选择合适的度数
它们涵盖全系列度数：
+1.00、+1.50、+2.00、+2.50、+3.00、+3.50 及 +4.00 我选择了+2.00的度数——但根据个人需求，每个人都能找到适合的度数。只需使用测试面板确定所需度数即可。
为何人们在谈论它们
几周后，我意识到：这不是关于“功能”，而是消除日常小烦恼。不再需要：
- 携带多副眼镜 • 不断摘戴眼镜 - 走到户外时眯眼
不仅聪明——更经过专业测试
全天视力保持简单、一致。
最让我放心的是，这些镜片已通过国际公认的光学标准测试。
最终感想
如果你厌倦了一天内频繁换眼镜，这可能是一个能悄悄改善生活的小改变。
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视力测试图表 摘下眼镜，将报纸举至手臂距离进行测试。建议由验光师专业检查。每个人的视力不同，此为参考指南——按适合自己的度数订购。
如何选择眼镜度数
阅读此文无需眼镜 / 需要度数 ------------------ / ---------- 选择此度数 / +1.0 选择此度数 / +1.5 选择此度数 / +2.0 选择此度数 / +2.5 选择此度数 / +3.0 选择此度数 / +3.5 选择此度数 / +4.0
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这活儿可能比我想的要大！
看到查尔斯和卡米拉从英联邦运动会的塔迪斯中现身，让我想起了几年前我在《神秘博士》剧组当群演的经历。
他们告诉我到场当天用不上我，但如果我把塔迪斯内部刷上漆，他们会付我 £300。
我对这工钱感到震惊——直到我意识到他们还想让我把内部也刷了！
克莱夫·格拉德斯通 英格兰泰恩-威尔郡卡勒科茨
手语
荒野与锈迹 可持续性 · 健康
今日诗歌
晨曦合唱
在太阳 记得我们之前， 黑鸟就已开始 一天
单一的音符，颤抖的线 将黑暗拉走
接着知更鸟点燃琥珀色音调， 山雀点燃空气， 一阵明亮、泡沫般的歌声 太快捕捉或诱捕。
画眉鸟步入，稳重优雅， 树叶间的钟声， 金翅雀缝合 金色的缝隙 在 苏醒的屋檐下。
荒野与锈迹正在超越实体空间
我们正从实体店转型为数字精品店，以专业植物工艺品制造商与批发商的新季度形象，拥抱全新的荒野与锈迹季。
净收益：这总算换换口味，不再是那些“商店即将关闭”的告示——简直能直接搬进电视剧《妈咪》里。在牛津郡亨利镇被雷丁、伯克斯的 M·斯普林格发现。
突然间，世界变得广阔无垠，
黑夜不再逼近
因为清晨并非诞生于光， 而是鸟鸣，清晰而纯粹。
大卫·怀特曼 英格兰兰开夏郡海伍德
字谜
以下是帕姆·艾尔斯《哦，我真希望我好好爱护过我的牙齿》的字谜。
托尼·克拉夫特 英格兰肯特郡七橡树
假如我早知道要好好照顾双脚（一位超模的职业生涯有多残酷）
假如我早知道要好好照顾双脚，
趁它们还漂亮、还整洁； 多年来把脚趾挤进 细高跟鞋里， 结果让它们伤痕累累、不堪重负。
那时那刻，那感觉真刺激， 当我踏上T台（收入顶呱呱！） 随着我摆姿势、做造型，穿着 那些时髦、高端的衣服， 可怜的小脚Y却在受罪！
每当想起那份痛， 不合脚的鞋子， 我拼命不让自己一瘸一拐， 或——最糟的——东倒西歪， 就怕被人当众看见。
我曾植入假体来诱惑男性， 用最新的高科技浴室体重秤， 饿着细腰只为看起来完美， 可双脚？我只给它们涂指甲油。
也许，若我早把那份虚荣心 （想看起来如此性感）分点给双脚， 我就能及早制止 后来给它们带来的所有 麻烦。
尽管我现年三十九岁，身材依旧苗条， 从头到小腿都没问题， 但脚踝和脚趾之间的区域 简直丑陋得要命。
假如我早知道要好好照顾双脚， 它们现在满是扭曲的肌腱和肉块， 所有的鸡眼和老茧 让它们变了形， 天哪，我真该好好照顾双脚。
今晚，一边喝着 天价葡萄酒， 我发现了一件了不起的事！ 当我在佩克汉姆的家中 与“辣妹”贝克汉姆合影时…… 我发现她的双脚比我的还糟！
童言无忌
我三岁的孙子正在洗澡，他爸爸为了催他快点，就拔掉了塞子。我那愤怒的孙子大喊：“停止放水！”没用。
苏·理查森，沃里克
图说天下
唯一幸存者：我买这袋泡沫香蕉和虾时，包装上根本没提到女士鞋垫！ 汤姆·曼宁，柴郡，威德尼斯
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街头见闻
我曾因无辜之人沦为无家可归者。
真正的恐怖并非饥饿、不适，甚至天气。而是看不到尽头的隧道。每一天都像永恒般重复。
幸运的是我逃脱了这精神枷锁，但我将这段经历铭记于心。
现在，这位首相——多年前作为地方议员曾帮我处理过案件工作，尽管我是保守党人——即将着手解决无家可归问题。
自我流浪的日子以来，情况已发生变化，许多人沦落至此的原因也不同了。
很简单。就是毒品。不把毒品赶出曼彻斯特乃至更远的地方，就不会有解决方案。给瘾君子一张床，没过几天就会被同伴占据并毁掉。
唯一的解决之道就是铲除毒贩。但我们需要法律的决心与全力执行。
伊恩·达克沃思，罗奇代尔，兰开夏
戴面罩的骑手
我曾联系过我的议员西安·贝里，因为两次与快速行驶的送货电动自行车骑手险些相撞。这两名戴面罩的骑手速度极快，险些撞到我。他们均未停车。
贝里女士的回应发人深省。她解释称，这些送货骑手必须快速行驶，因为他们的“生计依赖配送量”。显然，行人只能被迫充当移动减速带。
至于为何全副面罩和巴拉克拉法帽，甚至在气温接近30摄氏度时也如此，贝里女士认为他们可能只是“在保护自己免受灰尘和汽车尾气侵害”。
所以下次当你在电动自行车上看到一名戴面罩的骑手朝你疾驰而来时，请放心，你并非受到惊吓，而只是见证了一群勤劳的创业者在保护自己免受灰尘侵害。
D·艾伦，布赖顿，东苏塞克斯
让我思考
自2010年木偶表演艺术家雷·艾伦（及其木偶查尔斯勋爵）去世后，便空缺了一位由油滑操纵者操控的、享有特权的贵族木偶。有何建议吗？
基思·韦尔斯，希思菲尔德，东苏塞克斯
管束他们
今天上午在我们的大街上，我见到了几十年未见的场景——一位年轻父亲用绳子牵着他蹒跚学步的儿子。
小男孩玩得不亦乐乎。
父母深知孩子对他们的珍贵，不会让他跑到视线之外。仅需一秒钟，那个年龄段的小孩就是小捣蛋。他们不会听父母的话，却能跑得像尤塞恩·博尔特一样快。
我惊讶地发现，蹒跚学步儿童牵引绳在网上售价不到£10。家长们，请务必购买。
瓦尔·奥马利，梅登黑德，伯克郡
适度提议
鉴于众多前首相耗费国家大量安保资金（见《每日邮报》），我建议他们年满80岁时应一律实施安乐死。
这或许能阻止不合适的人申请此职位，至少能起到一定作用。
杰克·斯托伊尔斯，布拉德福德，西约克郡
失落的表达
孩提时，父母常因我的过错而斥责我，用语中常带有历史或文学典故。
他们说我的卧室“脏乱如粪堆”，说我看起来“如《赫斯珀鲁斯号遇难记》中的幸存者”，让我安静坐好，别再“旋转如旋风”，让我从某物上下来，因为“你又不是《金刚》中的古那·丁”，还说我的房间“如疯人院般混乱”。
奇怪的是，我居然知道每句责骂的出处。
我想知道今天的孩子们会记住什么表达。
K·鲁尼，伦敦N5
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亨利与雷切尔
我们能否停止假装与哈里是朋友，并尊重地以其出生名“亨利”称呼他？
同时，我们也能否停止以其第二名和舞台名“梅根”称呼其妻子，同样尊重地以其本名“雷切尔”相称。
保罗·惠勒，伦敦SE20
绊倒的体验
为何电视节目制作人认为我们都喜欢观看名人游览各地的节目？
最近我们看到了《西蒙·里夫的缅甸》、《罗南·基廷的大西洋荒野》、《本·福格尔的中国》、《简·麦克唐纳在纳什维尔》、《苏珊·卡尔曼的伟大一日游》、《丹·斯诺的埃及》等等，不胜枚举。
在我看来，他们不过是在享受美妙假期并拿钱，而我们却要观看他们尝试制陶、骑骆驼等无聊镜头。
卡罗尔·埃克斯利，埃格姆，萨里
无协议
在美加贸易谈判彻底破裂后，我不禁感慨特朗普其实并不擅长做交易。
罗宾·弗伦奇，布伦特伍德，埃塞克斯
老朋友
我真心希望布莱奥尼·戈登（每日邮报）能闭上嘴，少说些关于梅根和哈里的事。谁都会以为她是他们的隔壁邻居似的。
B·麦克德维特，伯肯黑德，威拉尔
表达支持
作为一个已有160年历史、设有65个蔬菜类别的展会的秘书，我赞同梅德温·威廉姆斯（读者来信）的观点，即需要采取更多行动支持乡村展会，并鼓励种植和展示蔬菜。
我们当地有很多自留地，但很难吸引人们参赛。为了改变这种情况，几年前我决定买一袋种子土豆送给孩子们。获胜者是种出单个种子土豆并在花盆中收获最重作物的孩子。
它令孩子们在老式秤上称重并在大帐篷里展示作物时露出笑脸，他们会赢得一枚绶带和现金奖励，这真令人欣慰。今年获胜者是一名五岁儿童，其作物重达$4 \frac{1}{2}$磅。遗憾的是，如今很多年轻家庭认为乡村展会已经过时，避之不及。
琳达·霍奇茨，波蒂斯黑德，萨默塞特
哈里与梅根下一步？H&M之后又会怎样？
苏塞克斯公爵夫妇在短短六年内在美国谋生并疏远了仅有的几位朋友后，即将返回英国。他们的下一步是什么？又一本“倾诉一切”的书，讲述他们受到的多么恶劣的对待？王室应当提高警惕。
米克·克罗斯比，卢顿，贝德福德郡
听闻梅根可能无法得到她期望的表演角色，我深感遗憾。由于她需要稳定收入支付学费，我猜她或许可以在《加冕街》中扮演一个角色——在罗伊的卷饼店担任主撒花厨师。
帕特里克·利内汉，海尔，康沃尔
我期待梅根在“罗斯酒吧”端啤酒。
罗宾·伊斯顿，达勒姆
苏塞克斯公爵夫妇会出现在《逃离乡村》节目中吗？
威尔·哈蒙德，谢菲尔德
传闻萨塞克斯公爵夫人将在《埃默代尔》中扮演一个角色，在农舍里制作果酱，这是真的吗？
K·哈蒙德，谢菲尔德
我们会在《东区人》中看到梅根吗？
迈克·贝利，伦敦N2
我想知道梅根会在多长时间内告诉我们如何在圣诞节最佳地填塞火鸡。
埃迪·鲍尔斯兰德，戈达尔明，萨里
除了要面对公众的冷淡接待，可怜的梅根还要面对英国的冬天。我怀疑她会多少次匆匆赶回阳光明媚的地方度假。
吉恩·麦克纳马拉，格林黑斯，肯特
我们中的许多人都不希望他们回来，让王室变得更像一部日间肥皂剧。对王室的尊重正在消失。
我不想让他们及其随行人员回到我的国家，试图破坏它。去好莱坞或洞穴里生活吧，让我们安宁。
琳达·肯德尔，雷利，埃塞克斯
我是否是唯一一个认为哈里回国是希望国王能帮他支付巨额法律账单的人？
D·H·托德，里彭，北约克郡
哈里王子有权享受王室保护，这并非他的过错，且费用如何也无关紧要。他有权与妻子和家人在这里生活，并获得应得的保护。
拉尔夫·J·克罗斯，赫里福德
如果他们在这里也无法如愿，又能去哪里呢？
约翰·吉尔伯特，里普汉姆，诺福克
无谓的建议
如果有人非法入境他国，并且对性侵该国公民的行为毫无悔意，那么他们也不会把一份劝诫传单放在眼里。
蕾切尔·西姆斯（北安普顿郡凯特林）
这种指控最终都会以“种族灭绝”这一陈词滥调收场。这种陈腐、反复出现的谎言已被多次证伪。以色列正在与伊斯兰圣战分子进行一场生死存亡的战争，同时也是一个骄傲的民主国家——中东唯一一个无论宗教、性别或性取向，所有公民都被平等对待的国家。
罗西娜·费尔施泰因（兰开夏郡普雷斯蒂奇）
布里加登之旅
因此，苏格兰民族党领导人花费超过9.8 万英镑观看苏格兰队参加世界杯。谢天谢地，这种活动每28年才举办一次，纳税人还算幸运。
格雷格·伯德
姜黄色披头士
阿曼达·普拉特尔（每日邮报）评论称，在萨姆·门德斯的披头士传记片中，约翰·列侬被描绘成“长着一头奇怪的橙色胡须和头发”。实际上，这很准确。约翰的头发总是带着一种赤褐色。
菲奥娜·诺里斯（伦敦德里科尔雷恩）
礼貌访问
如果梅根在开始新生活之前能去看望一下她的父亲，那会很不错。
R·克劳（埃塞克斯霍恩彻奇）
花卉惨败
我能否成为唯一讨厌向日葵的人？
我觉得它们华而不实、过于硕大，甚至让人望而生畏。
简·皮尔逊对内塔尼亚胡的抨击（读者来信）在她的指控——
本周读者来信
相反的观点
露丝·哈里斯（萨里郡弗里姆利）
强势市长危及民主
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我怀着极大的担忧阅读了首相推动赋予市长更大权力的报道。这并未出现在工党的竞选宣言中，却可能为腐败和任人唯亲打开方便之门。规划委员会是由具备不同专业程度的人员组成的团队，他们共同协作以达成一致意见。他们可能不会总是做出正确的决定，但他们在法律框架内运作，其决策也受到监督。如果市长可以随意推翻这些决策，那么他或她就是在滥用权力。我们已经看到伦敦市长权力的争议性——在Ulez计划扩张中，尽管遭到公众的强烈反对，但权力仍被滥用。将类似权力推广至全国，势必引发问责制的问题。有多少市长会无视当地民意？
爱德华·麦卡利斯特（埃塞克斯威瑟姆）
因此，市长将被赋予权力在某些规划决策上推翻地方议会。住房大臣马修·彭尼库克表示，这些权力是“市长为有效交付新住宅和再生项目所需工具包的核心部分”。在现行规划体系下，市镇和教区议会只能对规划决策提出建议。真正的权力掌握在区议会手中，而在新的单一制体系下，这些区议会将不复存在。目前，地方政府的规划成本低廉，因为所有市镇和教区议员均为无偿志愿者。超过90%的申请在他们的建议下得以推进，这些议员运用当地知识并反映民意。在我看来，市长仅凭个人意见就拥有推翻整个体系的绝对权力，这无疑是对权力的严重滥用。
唐·麦克贝思（西萨塞克斯哈索克斯）
直截了当
■ 哪种动物脖子更长，两只长颈鹿还是哈里与梅根？
保罗·曼德，哈雷菲尔德，米德塞克斯
■ 本周《周日礼拜》在BBC广播四台播出，主题是浪子回头。巧合吗？
玛格丽特·坎农，斯瓦弗姆，诺福克
■ 哈里与梅根对我的关注程度，丝毫不亚于我对他们的关注。
弗朗西丝·拉夫蒂夫人，阿瑟顿，兰开夏
■ 真想知道梅根会在哪部童话剧中登台亮相。
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马克·科恩，塞尔，柴郡
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■ 拜托，《每日邮报》，苏塞克斯公爵夫妇是不是又有什么动作了？别藏着掖着了。
■ H&M会不会出现在《叛徒》的下一季？
克里斯·佩特，伍斯特
■ 八月底就快结束了。夏天都去哪儿了？
皮特·弗劳尔，保罗顿，萨默塞特
■ 有什么东西不是中国制造的吗？
布赖恩·查普曼，埃德尔斯伯勒，白金汉郡
■ 梅根，你会怎么处置你的鸡呢？
史蒂夫·斯科特，安斯代尔，默西塞德
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问题 黄道十二宫的标志最早由谁、在何时创造？又经历了多长时间演变成我们今天所认知的星座？
黄道十二宫并非由某个单一人物或文明发明，而是在数千年的时间里逐渐演化而成。不同文化通过观察夜空，逐步建立起越来越复杂的系统，以追踪太阳、月亮及行星的运行轨迹。
其最早起源可追溯至今伊拉克境内的古代美索不达米亚地区，巴比伦天文学家在泥板上仔细记录天文事件，并开始识别天体穿越的星座。
这些早期的天空观察者发现，太阳、月亮及可见行星均沿着一条狭窄的天空带运行，如今被称为黄道。经过数百年的观测，他们绘制出沿该路径分布的星座，并将其用于历法与天文用途。
通往现代黄道十二宫的关键一步，是公元前约1000年编纂的美索不达米亚星表《MUL.APIN》，其中列出了与月亮路径相关的多个星座。
至公元前5世纪左右，巴比伦学者将这些观测结果转化为更系统的模型。他们将黄道划分为12个等分的30度区域，构建出一个360度的黄道体系，这与西方占星术仍沿用的框架极为相似。每个区域均与一个星座关联，形成了我们熟悉的12星座序列。这一成就非凡，使天文学家能够更精确地计算与记录天体位置。
黄道十二宫的演化并未就此停止。亚历山大大帝征服后，巴比伦的天文知识传播至地中海世界。希腊学者采纳了巴比伦黄道体系，并将其
问与答
问：格拉斯哥与其他城市相比有大量红砂岩建筑。这些红砂岩来自何处？ ——约翰·麦克唐纳
问：为什么便鞋、无后帮的鞋子被称为“mules”（骡子）？ ——布赖恩·戴维斯
熟悉的面孔：一幅19世纪占星术雕刻
它被融入成为希腊化占星术，并加入了新的哲学和占星学理念。埃及传统也对这一过程产生了影响，亚历山大（古代世界的伟大学习中心之一）尤为突出。
A. 多赫蒂，北约克郡里士满
问：为什么有人打喷嚏时我们会说“上帝保佑你”？续：近期的来信似乎表明，大多数国家在听到有人打喷嚏时都有回应的习俗。
“上帝保佑你”的说法在英语国家很常见，而在许多其他国家，通常的回应是祝福打喷嚏的人身体健康、长寿。例如，德语中的“Gesundheit”和意大利语中的“Salute”均意为“祝健康”，甚至古罗马人过去常说“Jupiter preserve you!”（愿朱庇特保佑你！）。
在包括波兰语和泰米尔语在内的多种语言中，你可能不仅祝愿健康，还祝愿长命百岁。几乎所有传统的打喷嚏回应都基于宗教祝福或对健康长寿的祝愿，但在捷克语、克罗地亚语和斯洛文尼亚语中，打喷嚏被认为能验证刚刚提到的某事的准确性，你可能会听到“It’s true!”（确实如此！）。
在亚洲部分地区，包括日本、韩国和中国部分地区，打喷嚏可能常被视为不礼貌的行为，因此不会给予任何回应。
——伊恩·麦克唐纳
问：当局没收犯罪所得现金后，这些钱款的去向如何？
当个人或公司犯罪时，根据法律，他们无法保留犯罪所得。这包括他们可能用犯罪所得购买的实物资产，如房屋和汽车。
政府表示，在可能的情况下，犯罪所得将用于赔偿犯罪受害者。犯罪所得法是国家追讨犯罪所得的立法依据。
当被没收的资金未返还给受害者时，资金将由国家保留，并被重新投入打击犯罪。根据犯罪所得激励计划，犯罪所得在将犯罪分子绳之以法的机构之间分享。这包括执法机构及地方当局。
这些机构将资金用于犯罪预防项目、社区项目，并维持其资产追回工作，以便能够根据犯罪所得法获取更多资金。
——达维娜·詹金斯
问：英国仍有不少水塔。这些高大建筑是否仍在用于最初的供水目的？
特里姆利圣玛丽水塔矗立在萨福克郡费利克斯托附近的A14公路旁，自1934年以来一直是地标建筑。遗憾的是，它可能不久后将不复存在，因为其结构已开始瓦解。
该水塔高210英尺，据称是英国最高的露天结构塔之一。它原本可容纳150,000加仑水，但多年来一直空置，最近被用于安装电信天线。
然而，由于一对游隼（受保护物种）在塔上筑巢，拆除计划变得复杂。
基思·兰森，萨福克郡费利克斯托
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今日食谱：帕玛森奶酪白豆脆皮鸡腿
简单美味晚餐 份量：2人份
食材
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将鸡腿去骨，铺上一张烘焙纸，用擀面杖拍平。两面充分调味。
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在中高火上，用½汤匙油煎鸡腿，皮面朝下，煎8-10分钟至金黄色。翻面再煎6-8分钟，至酥脆且完全熟透。
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同时，切碎迷迭香，摘下百里香叶。将半份帕玛森奶酪磨碎，剩余部分削成薄片；备用。
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将鸡腿静置。调低火力，去除锅中大部分油脂，磨入大蒜并搅拌30秒。加入白芸豆（连同汤汁）、高汤和香草，小火炖煮5分钟至浓稠。磨入柠檬皮，挤入半份柠檬汁，然后加入磨碎的帕玛森奶酪和卡仕达酱，调味。
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将芝麻菜与剩余的油、帕玛森薄片和少许柠椒汁拌匀。将鸡腿铺在白豆上，如使用可加入青酱和黑胡椒，芝麻菜另配。
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温斯顿·丘吉尔的前战时总部成为意外适合儿童的住宿地
保持冷静，享受家庭乐趣！
奢华：Raffles London的大楼梯。左侧：儿童游戏帐篷
撰文：索菲·海因斯
豪华酒店与幼童并不总是相配。我曾多次带着哇哇大哭的幼儿从铺着白色桌布的餐厅仓皇逃离，深知这一点。
当预订在Raffles London at The OWO——位于白厅老战时办公楼内——度过一个夏季周末时，你可能会以为那里只有成人氛围。
然而，带着我两岁和六岁的孩子走进去后，我发现这里有大量家庭入住，氛围出人意料地友好。
Head butler Romas escorts us to our third-floor room. It has multiple dressing rooms, marble bathrooms and exquisite furnishings but
staff have also made it child friendly. My youngsters rush to a play-tent decorated with helium balloons and filled with age-curated books and toys.
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bathroom additions include a potty and sink-step
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I sneak back later without sprogs to enjoy the hydrotherapy pool and sauna – and I also ditch them during the historical tour.
On the Grand Staircase, where PM Winston Churchill addressed staff, I realise everything here is epic. The Murano chandelier contains more than 3,000 glass pieces and 400 people spent three years cleaning cigar smoke off 50 acres of ceilings. Hiring the Whitehall Wing, sleeping 12, costs 6.5 万英镑 a night.
The ‘Secrets and Spies’ afternoon tea pays homage to military intelligence history, in cake form. I’m embarrassed by how much more perceptive my six-year-old is than me regarding the pastries. 'Look, that one's a briefcase, Mummy.' I had not noticed.
Meanwhile, my toddler stands in raptures two feet from the drawing room pianist, who is not put off in the slightest.
The absolute highlight is my daughter's 'Mini Butler' experience, included in our stay. Her current dream is to become a waitress, so wearing her own butler jacket while helping mix and serve cocktails was pure joy.
The Poppy Suite, rebuilt from Second World War bomb damage, has a suspended glass poppy installation. Watching my kids stand in quiet awe beneath the sculpture is a great ending note.
虽然他人或许在此创造了历史，但新一代只想在这里度过一晚。
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Vistry股价昨日大涨，该公司获得政府3.5亿英镑注资用于建造数千套新的经济适用房。
这家伦敦上市的房地产开发商是首批获得工党新社会与经济适用房计划资金的企业之一，所获资金将用于建造3,028套住房。
股价上涨16.3%，或43.8便士，至312.4便士，为新任首席执行官亚当·丹尼尔斯（Adam Daniels）带来急需的提振。他于4月就任后承诺将扭转公司业务。
Vistry被选为33个合作伙伴之一，在政府390亿英镑计划下，未来十年将建造30万套住房。
撰文：艾米丽·霍金斯
该公司一直面临需求下滑的困境，过去12个月股价已下跌51%。
Vistry业务涵盖私人住宅与经济适用房，后者通过与住房协会合作开发。
该公司上月表示，受住房协会合作伙伴交易减少影响，这些合作伙伴一直在等待政府资金明确，因此最新进展消除了部分不确定性。
此次更新正值房地产行业因中东战争导致借贷成本上升而面临需求疲软之际。该行业还面临成本上升的压力。
Vistry因其庞大债务负担（截至6月底债务高达4.7亿英镑）而敲响警钟。这导致公司放慢建设速度，并以大幅折扣出售住房。
上月，集团预期今年上半年将亏损3,000万英镑，其财务总监蒂姆·劳勒（Tim Lawlor）也宣布将辞职。
丹尼尔斯表示，他将“将2026年视为转型之年，重塑业务以实现显著且可持续的财务杠杆降低与健康盈利能力”。他正在审查公司战略，下月将公布复兴计划。
经纪公司AJ Bell投资总监拉斯·穆尔德（Russ Mould）表示，政府资金是“急需的信心投票”，但“考虑到Vistry近期的资产负债表问题，可能会引发质疑”。
他补充道：“Vistry目前处境艰难，需要在下半年实现大幅改善以达到全年利润目标。这往往是利润警告的前兆，而鉴于公司在经历艰难时期后信誉受损，此举对其而言可谓雪上加霜。”
投资者因美国债券干预行动受惊
作者：安格哈拉德·卡里克
比特币昨日突破$80,000，黄金亦创下三个月新高，美元走软的忧虑在市场中持续发酵。
全球最大加密货币在早盘交易中一度上涨2.9%，突破$81,000关口。
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然而，加密货币随后回落至$80,000以下，目前仍远低于去年10月的$126,000估值。
比特币近期的涨势受到美国政府上周数十亿美元的干预行动推动，该行动意在遏制债券市场的抛售潮。
美国财政部长斯科特·贝森特（Scott Bessent）采取行动，增加对长期政府债券的购买——他表示此举意在“为市场带来平衡”。
但批评人士称，此举未能解决美国公共财政状况的根本忧虑，上周公布的数据显示美国债务已飙升至40万亿美元以上。
就连贝森特的导师、亿万富翁投资者斯坦利·德鲁肯米勒（Stanley Druckenmiller）也表示该债券购买是一个错误。
德鲁肯米勒周一在《华尔街日报》撰文称：“Governments defending prices against fundamentals always lose.”
美元因所谓“贬值交易”而走软。这推动投资者转向比特币和黄金等其他资产。昨日，黄金价格一度飙升至逾$4,696，创5月来新高，随后回落。黄金本月迄今已上涨逾14%，有望创下自1999年以来最大月度涨幅。
财富俱乐部首席投资策略师苏珊娜·斯特里特（Susannah Streeter）表示：“所谓的‘贬值交易’正在积聚势头，投资者寻求那些难以通过货币政策贬值的资产。”与此同时，交易员对贝森特前一日宣布的对伊朗发动“经济攻势”——即威胁对与伊朗贸易的国家和公司实施制裁——置若罔闻。布伦特原油期货跌至每桶$90以下。
嘉盛银行英国投资策略师尼尔·威尔逊（Neil Wilson）表示：“‘经济D日’在滩头阵地上搁浅——对伊朗并未采取新措施，仅是威胁他国切断与伊经济往来。”
富时100指数几乎未变，上涨0.3%，即31.84点，至10,886.16点。
斯特里特补充道：“伦敦市场在一系列地缘政治紧张局势、顽固的通胀忧虑以及利率路径不确定性的组合下，仍表现出惊人的韧性。”
乐高销售额在世界杯系列产品的推动下激增。
这家丹麦玩具积木巨头表示，2026年上半年销售额增长21%，达到£4.8亿，得益于足球赛事相关玩具的需求激增。
明星产品包括售价高达£159.99的哈里·凯恩和利昂内尔·梅西等球员人偶，以及售价约£150的奖杯复制品。
这些产品助推利润增长32%，达到£1亿，其他热门玩具还包括与一级方程式和热门电影《KPop恶魔猎人》相关的系列。
乐高首席执行官尼尔斯·克里斯滕森（Niels Christiansen）将世界杯称为“对我们而言的突破”。
他还表示，在上半年推出330个新系列后，公司正在向成人和儿童销售更多产品。
乐高正在逐步淘汰塑料，转而使用更多可再生材料制作积木。
克里斯滕森表示，这一转变帮助公司在油价因伊朗战争飙升后，成功应对塑料成本上涨的压力。
他说：“我们确实受到油价上涨的影响，但由于我们采购了大量与石油关联度较低的非化石燃料材料，因此实际上我们的处境相对较好。”
回忆之旅的惊悚时刻
今年夏天的漫长酷暑让人们纷纷怀念起1976年——那一年，举国试图忘却经济困境，并跟着埃尔顿·约翰和基姬·迪合唱《别让我的心碎》。
但令我担忧的，是更近、更不带玫瑰色的2007年夏天记忆。
尤其是对冲基金"情景意识"（Situational Awareness）的惨败，让人想起当年7月两家贝尔斯登对冲基金的崩溃——那最终成为2008年全球金融危机的前兆。
这两家对冲基金大举借贷，押注于抵押贷款支持证券。它们的倒闭导致贝尔斯登母行的消亡，后者最终被摩根大通的杰米·戴蒙收购。
而这次，传奇对冲基金经理肯·格里芬的城堡投资（Citadel）挺身而出，救助了同样在AI热潮中高杠杆押注的"情景意识"。
华尔街监管机构——美国证券交易委员会（SEC）刚刚向为这些赌注提供资金的华尔街银行发出传票。这些相似之处不应被过度延伸，当然我们也希望这不是厄运的预兆。
但为何华尔街的精英们会纵容一家由24岁前AI研究员创立的对冲基金进行史诗级豪赌？
这里还有另一个不祥的念头。2008年，各国央行和政府间开展了高度国际合作，美国扮演了关键角色。
现任白宫主人似乎无法建立建设性关系，反而推波助澜制造混乱而非平静。他肆意疏远甚至最友好的盟友——加拿大，以关税攻势相逼。他对北京的最新制裁威胁及其针对伊朗贸易伙伴的举动，进一步加剧了局势紧张。
投资者正涌入比特币和黄金等资产，开展所谓"贬值交易"，这表明对美元失去信心并担忧通胀。美国政府债务持续上升、财政政策不可持续的担忧正在发酵，人们还担心美联储的独立性正受到威胁。
这正是为何对美国财政部长斯科特·贝森特试图通过大量购买长期债券来维持低利率的努力，人们会如此深表怀疑的原因。
贝森特能否战胜债券市场？很可能不能。早在1992年，现任美国财长就曾为乔治·索罗斯工作——正是这位"黑色星期三"击垮英格兰银行的男人。他对此自然心知肚明。
明星与惊叹号
苏格兰皇家银行（NatWest）重返美国市场的举动虽属温和，但被怀疑是否在策划一场"弗雷德·古德温式"的狂妄野心，这无疑让人恼火。
不过，考虑到其过往记录，观察家们的怀疑也并非毫无道理。
苏格兰皇家银行的前身RBS，在20世纪90年代至21世纪初通过其新英格兰分支Citizens收购了一系列美国银行。
正是这位将RBS推向破产边缘的首席执行官古德温，通过RBS收购苏格兰皇家银行时接管了在次贷危机中遭受重创的格林威治资本。最终导致RBS垮台的，正是收购荷兰银行ABN Amro的交易。是的，这些都已是很久以前的事了。现任首席执行官保罗·思韦茨与"碎纸机弗雷德"几乎毫无相似之处。但如此可怕的历史，投资者有权保持警惕。
NEET危机
毫不意外的是，在过去12个月中，有三分之一的雇主削减了针对16至24岁年轻人的初级岗位。
劳工元老艾伦·米尔本（Alan Milburn）将于下月发布关于失学、失业或未接受培训的年轻人（NEET）的最终报告。除非他能解决雇主在雇佣年轻人时面临的成本和风险激增问题，否则这份报告不太可能产生太大影响。
根据企业家兼NEET倡导者克里斯托弗·尼珀（Christopher Nieper）的计算，雇佣一名21岁年轻人的成本在三年内上涨了27%，十年内上涨了86%。新的员工权利意味着雇佣年轻人成为一场昂贵的赌博，许多雇主感到难以承受。
财政大臣约翰·希利（John Healey）应在预算案中削减雇主的国民保险缴款，正如英国工业联合会（CBI）等机构所建议的那样。他还应推出技能税收激励措施，鼓励企业雇佣学徒。
至于这些NEET群体本身，他们面临着绝望，因为他们的求职申请被AI拒之门外。
M&S EXPANDS EUROPEAN REACH WITH ZALANDO DEAL
玛莎百货（Marks & Spencer）已加强与在线零售商Zalando的合作，以帮助其在欧洲履行客户订单。
该零售商表示，正与这家德国公司合作，为欧洲大陆22个市场的所有在线客户供货。
NatWest扩大美国业务获批
此次合作使其物流成本削减近一半，并在波兰市场启用新系统后首周客户需求增长22%。
在成功扭亏为盈后，这家高街零售商已从去年网络攻击导致近两个月线上购物瘫痪的打击中恢复。
目前，该公司希望吸引更多海外顾客，包括其最大在线市场——法国、德国、荷兰和西班牙。
M&S国际业务董事总经理马克·莱明（Mark Lemming）表示：“我们明确希望扩大国际业务。”
在雷切尔·里夫斯（Rachel Reeves）任英国财政大臣期间放宽银行海外业务监管后，NatWest正在加强其在美国的业务。
英国贷款机构已获美国联邦储备委员会批准在康涅狄格州设立“代表处”。
美联储表示，该办事处将“作为银行与现有及潜在美国客户的联络点”。
接近NatWest的消息人士淡化了该举措标志着该行在金融危机后撤离美国后的重大进军的说法。
该银行在康涅狄格州已设有经纪交易商，通过其子公司NatWest Markets支持跨境借贷业务。
获批设立代表处意味着该行可在美增聘少量客户关系和信贷员工，以支持现有及潜在客户。据悉，该办事处将帮助深化与使用该银行金融市场和借贷产品的企业及机构客户的关系。
此举并不允许NatWest接受存款、发放贷款或从事其他银行业务。
英国在金融危机后引入银行“围栏”规则，将银行零售业务与投资业务分离，以保护客户。
里夫斯的改革取消了对围栏银行在欧洲经济区以外建立实体业务的限制。
NatWest拒绝就此事置评，该消息由《金融时报》率先报道。在其前身苏格兰皇家银行时期，该贷款机构于2015年完成退出美国子公司Citizens的业务。
但金融危机给该银行留下了美国业务的不良遗产。该行被迫支付数十亿英镑，就其在2008年全球金融危机前夕打包销售抵押贷款证券一事与美国司法部达成和解。
Shore Capital银行业分析师加里·格林伍德（Gary Greenwood）表示：“尽管规模有限，但此次扩张计划标志着NatWest自全球金融危机以来所奉行战略的早期逆转，该集团在危机期间大幅撤出国际市场，专注于国内业务。
‘目前尚无迹象表明此举标志着资本分配优先事项或集团整体风险偏好的实质性变化。
‘然而，这确实表明管理层有意在英国以外寻求增长机会。’”
Aggreko赴美上市打击伦敦金融城
Aggreko披露计划在美股上市，这对伦敦金融城而言是又一打击。
五年前，这家英国发电机租赁企业被两家私募股权集团从伦敦证券交易所私有化。
总部位于格拉斯哥的Aggreko提供发电机、供暖及制冷设备租赁服务，计划在纽约市场上市，据报估值约110亿英镑。这一估值几乎是2021年该公司被TDR Capital和I Squared以约23亿英镑私有化时的五倍。
此举成为伦敦作为全球上市地位受挫的最新例证。今年以来，伦敦市场已遭遇一系列冷遇、收购及高调撤离事件。
历史悠久的德文郡矿山将重新开放
一座位于德文郡的160年历史矿山将在政府投入7100 万英镑m资金后重新开放，以助力英国的重整军备计划。
普利茅斯附近的赫默登矿山拥有世界上最大的钨矿储备之一，钨是一种极其致密的金属，用于制造子弹、导弹和穿甲坦克炮弹。
该矿山在两次世界大战期间曾生产金属，后于1944年关闭。它曾在2015年短暂重启，但因资金耗尽于三年后再次关闭。
钨业西部公司表示，与国家财富基金达成的融资协议将使国家以3600 万英镑m的价格持有该公司7%的股份，同时获得3500 万英镑m的贷款。
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52周最高 / 最低价
综合金融
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医疗设备与服务< / td>< / tr> <><>Convatec......228 $^{14}$< / ><>+ $^{14}$< / ><>256 $^{18}$< / ><>194< / >< / > <><>Oxford Biomedica......515< / ><>+6< / ><>913< / ><>478 $^{12}$< / >< / > <><>Smith & Neph......1068< / ><>-14< / ><>1435< / ><>1068< / >< / > <><>Spire Health......237< / ><>+2 $^{12}$< / ><>249< / ><>142 $^{14}$< / >< / > < / table>
工业运输
<><>Barratt Redrow......320 $^{14}$< / ><>+5 $^{1 / 2}$< / ><>409 $^{8}$< / ><>241 $^{1 / 4}$< / >< / > <><>Bellway......2178< / ><>+34< / ><>2868< / ><>1715< / >< / > <><>Berkeley Grp......3610< / ><>+44< / ><>4434< / ><>3104< / >< / > <><>Crest Nicholson......66 $^{1 / 2}$< / ><>+1 $^{1 / 4}$< / ><>175 $^{1 / 4}$< / ><>61 $^{1 / 4}$< / >< / > <><>Persimmon......1184< / ><>+23 $^{1 / 2}$< / ><>1543 $^{1 / 2}$< / ><>998 $^{1 / 8}$< / >< / > <><>Taylor Wimpey......84 $^{1 / 8}$< / ><>+1 $^{1 / 8}$< / ><>116 $^{1 / 2}$< / ><>74 $^{1 / 8}$< / >< / > <><>Vistry Group......312 $^{1 / 8}$< / ><>+43 $^{1 / 4}$< / ><>736 $^{1 / 4}$< / ><>224 $^{1 / 8}$< / >< / > < / table>
工业
<><>Clarkson< / ><>4992< / ><>-58< / ><>5155< / ><>3395< / >< / > <><>Zigup< / ><>465< / ><>$-^{2}$< / ><>478< / ><>$301^{1 / 2}$< / >< / >
<><>Bodycote......905< / ><>< / ><>923< / ><>601< / >< / > <><>Globaldata......82 $^{8}$< / ><>-1 $^{4}$< / ><>151 $^{1 / 2}$< / ><>63 $^{8}$< / >< / > <><>Goodwin......17840< / ><>-180< / ><>27600< / ><>9400< / >< / > <><>Hill & Smith......2915< / ><>+30< / ><>3095< / ><>2020< / >< / > <><>IMI......3102xd< / ><>+30< / ><>3148< / ><>2226< / >< / > <><>Melrose Ind......< / >< colspan="2">510xxd+48 $^{4}$< / ><>681 $^{1 / 4}$< / ><>448 $^{4}$< / >< / > <><>RHI Magnesita......2805< / ><>+5< / ><>3345< / ><>1980< / >< / > <><>Rotork......485xd< / ><>- $^{8}$< / ><>488< / ><>288 $^{8}$< / >< / > <><>Smiths Gp......2617< / ><>+7< / ><>2746< / ><>2118< / >< / > <><>Spirax Group......7160< / ><>+125< / ><>7960< / ><>6300< / >< / > <><>Vesuvius......390< / ><>+7 $^{4}$< / ><>503< / ><>357 $^{4}$< / >< / > <><>Weir......2910< / ><>+32< / ><>3546< / ><>2274< / >< / >
休闲用品
<><>Games Workshop......18540< / ><>+30< / ><>21940< / ><>14200< / >< / > <><>ME Group......$125^{34}$< / ><>+1< / ><>201< / ><>$100^{14}$< / >< / > <><>Watches of Switz......685< / ><>+6< / ><>$801^{12}$< / ><>$318^{34}$< / >< / >
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<><>Aberdeen Group< / ><>246 $\frac{1}{4}$ xd< / ><>$+\frac{1}{8}$< / ><>261< / ><>182< / >< / > <><>Aviva< / ><>730 ${1}{8}$< / ><>$+2{1}{8}$< / ><>737< / ><>591 ${1}{8}$< / >< / > <><>Legal & General< / ><>289 ${1}{4}$ xd< / ><>$+1{1}{8}$< / ><>316 ${1}{8}$< / ><>233 ${1}{8}$< / >< / > <><>Prudential< / ><>1035< / ><>-7 ${1}{2}$< / ><>1220< / ><>916< / >< / > <><>St James Place< / ><>1183xd< / ><>-13 ${1}{2}$< / ><>1553< / ><>1053 ${1}{2}$< / >< / > <><>Standard Life< / ><>937< / ><>+8 ${1}{2}$< / ><>941 ${1}{2}$< / ><>619< / >< / > <>< colspan="5">媒体< / >< / > <><>4imprint< / ><>4502xd< / ><>< / ><>5000< / ><>3055< / >< / > <><>Autotrader Group< / ><>549 ${1}{4}$< / ><>+6 ${1}{4}$< / ><>817 ${1}{8}$< / ><>427 ${1}{4}$< / >< / >
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阿斯利康< / td><>12476xd+366< / ><>15542< / ><>10956< / >< / tr><><>Genus< / ><>2298 +10< / ><>3170< / ><>1966< / >< / ><><>葛兰素史克< / ><>19052xd +15< / ><>2268< / ><>1442 $\frac{1}{2}$ < / >< / ><><>哈利昆制药< / ><>369xd -14< / ><>410 $\frac{1}{8}$ < / ><>320 ${1}{8}$ < / >< / ><><>希刻玛制药< / ><>1640xd +7< / ><>1851< / ><>1191< / >< / ><><>牛津纳米孔科技< / ><>183 +16 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>195 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>104 ${1}{2}$ < / >< / ><><>利洁时集团< / ><>5150xd -30< / ><>6681 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>4443< / >< / table>
<><>Big Yellow集团......902< / ><>-1< / ><>1180< / ><>812< / >< / ><><>英国地产......432 $^{14}$ < / ><>+3 $^{8}$ < / ><>448 $^{4}$ < / ><>321 $^{14}$ < / >< / ><><>德文特伦敦......2060< / ><>-18< / ><>2146< / ><>1509< / >< / ><><>格雷格......175 $^{12}$ < / ><>-2 $^{2}$ < / ><>199< / ><>150 $^{8}$ < / >< / table>
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<><>当日跌幅榜< / ><>收盘价< / ><>日涨跌< / >< / ><><>Dr. Martens< / ><>78.8便士< / ><>-2.72%< / >< / ><><>渣打银行< / ><>2140便士< / ><>-2.51%< / >< / ><><>帝亚吉欧< / ><>1735.5便士< / ><>-2.00%< / >< / ><><>WPP< / ><>392.2便士< / ><>-1.93%< / >< / ><><>凯因斯< / ><>1230便士< / ><>-1.91%< / >< / table>
采矿业
<><>< / >< colspan="2">52周< / ><>最高< / ><>最低< / >< / ><><>布卢姆斯伯里......656< / ><>+4< / ><>672< / ><>4382< / >< / ><><>Informa......898 $\times$ xd< / ><>-1 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>993 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>7394< / >< / ><><>ITV......72 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>+2< / ><>854< / ><>67 ${1}{8}$ < / >< / ><><>Mony集团......208 $\times$ xd< / ><>+24< / ><>213< / ><>1442< / >< / ><><>培生......1214 $\times$ xd< / ><>-10 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>1326< / ><>891 ${1}{8}$ < / >< / ><><>RELX......2618xd< / ><>-34< / ><>3565< / ><>2013< / >< / ><><>Rightmove集团......514 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>+104< / ><>762 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>404< / >< / ><><>WPP......392 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>-7 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>411 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>224 ${1}{8}$ < / >< / table>
<><>英国石油< / ><>528 $^{\text{3}}$ xd< / ><>-5 $^{1}$ 8< / ><>606 $^{4}$ < / ><>410 $^{2}$ < / >< / ><><>Energean< / ><>765< / ><>-5 $^{2}$ < / ><>1026< / ><>683 $^{2}$ < / >< / ><><>哈伯能源< / ><>252 $^{\text{3}}$ xd< / ><>-2 $^{4}$ < / ><>318 $^{4}$ < / ><>185 $^{8}$ < / >< / ><><>亨廷< / ><>394< / ><>+2< / ><>531< / ><>311< / >< / ><><>Ithaca能源< / ><>270< / ><>-1< / ><>285 $^{8}$ < / ><>153 $^{4}$ < / >< / ><><>壳牌< / ><>3386 $^{2}$ xd< / ><>-10 $^{2}$ < / ><>3583< / ><>2562< / >< / table>
<><>Admiral集团......4072< / ><>+72< / ><>4072< / ><>2644< / >< / ><><>Beazley......1298< / ><>+2< / ><>1317< / ><>769< / >< / ><><>Hiscox......1827xd< / ><>-5< / ><>1899< / ><>1273< / >< / ><><>兰开夏控股......610 $_{2}$ xd< / ><>+2< / ><>694< / ><>565< / >< / table>
采矿业< / td>< / tr><><>英美资源集团< / ><>4203xd< / ><>+85< / ><>4225< / ><>2201< / >< / ><><>安托法加斯塔< / ><>4009< / ><>+37< / ><>4455< / ><>2131< / >< / ><><>Endeavour Mining< / ><>4793< / ><>+20< / ><>5290< / ><>2492< / >< / ><><>弗雷斯尼略< / ><>3176xd< / ><>-24< / ><>4448< / ><>1753< / >< / ><><>嘉能可< / ><>602 $^{8}$ < / ><>+9< / ><>615< / ><>284 $^{4}$ < / >< / ><><>霍奇森矿业< / ><>625 $^{2}$ < / ><>-4 $^{2}$ < / ><>808 $^{2}$ < / ><>272 $^{8}$ < / >< / ><><>泛非资源< / ><>138 $^{8}$ < / ><>+1 $^{4}$ < / ><>183 $^{8}$ < / ><>61 $^{4}$ < / >< / ><><>力拓集团< / ><>7730xd< / ><>+64< / ><>8308< / ><>4570< / >< / table>
<><>< / >< colspan="2">52周< / ><>最高价< / ><>最低价< / >< / ><><>大波特兰地产< / ><>349 $\frac{1}{4}$ < / ><>+1< / ><>374< / ><>274 $\frac{1}{2}$ < / >< / ><><>汉默森< / ><>379 ${8}{8}$ < / ><>+4 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>385 ${8}{8}$ < / ><>267 ${1}{4}$ < / >< / ><><>哈沃斯< / ><>178< / ><>-2< / ><>181< / ><>120< / >< / ><><>Land Securities< / ><>694 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>+7< / ><>722< / ><>529< / >< / ><><>伦敦计量地产< / ><>194 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>+2 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>215< / ><>177 ${1}{2}$ < / >< / ><><>Primary Hlth Prop.< / ><>97< / ><>+8 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>108 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>87 ${1}{2}$ < / >< / ><><>Safestore控股< / ><>608< / ><>+3 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>837< / ><>582< / >< / ><><>仲量联行< / ><>1070< / ><>+10< / ><>1108< / ><>808< / >< / ><><>SEGRO< / ><>968xd< / ><>+7< / ><>997 ${8}{8}$ < / ><>604 ${8}{8}$ < / >< / ><><>Shaftesbury< / ><>152 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>+2 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>154 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>126 ${1}{4}$ < / >< / ><><>Sirius地产< / ><>97 ${8}{8}$ < / ><>+2< / ><>111 ${8}{8}$ < / ><>91< / >< / ><><>超市股份公司< / ><>85 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>-4 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>88 ${8}{8}$ < / ><>76 ${1}{4}$ < / >< / ><><>Target Healthcare< / ><>113 ${1}{4}$ xd< / ><>+1< / ><>116< / ><>92 ${1}{4}$ < / >< / ><><>TR地产IT< / ><>309< / ><>+2 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>361 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>295< / >< / ><><>Tritax大型仓储< / ><>160 ${1}{4}$ xd< / ><>+2 ${8}{8}$ < / ><>173 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>133 ${1}{4}$ < / >< / ><><>Unite集团< / ><>528 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>+1< / ><>727 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>448 ${1}{4}$ < / >< / ><><>Workspace集团< / ><>363 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>+2 ${8}{8}$ < / ><>430< / ><>319 ${8}{8}$ < / >< / table>
油气生产商
<><>阿尔法金融< / ><>167 $^{8}$ < / ><>+1 $^{8}$ < / ><>248 $^{2}$ < / ><>142 $^{9}$ < / >< / ><><>Auction Tech< / ><>442 $^{8}$ < / ><>-4< / ><>483 $^{4}$ < / ><>263< / >< / ><><>波罗的海分类广告< / ><>207 $^{4}$ < / ><>+3 $^{4}$ < / ><>335< / ><>170 $^{4}$ < / >< / ><><>Bytes Technology< / ><>413 $^{4}$ < / ><>-2 $^{8}$ < / ><>427 $^{4}$ < / ><>253 $^{8}$ < / >< / ><><>计算机中心< / ><>5190< / ><>+90< / ><>5192 $^{2}$ < / ><>2242< / >< / ><><>Deliveroo< / ><>179 $^{4}$ < / ><>< / ><>179 $^{4}$ < / ><>178 $^{2}$ < / >< / ><><>凯因斯集团< / ><>1230< / ><>-24< / ><>1294< / ><>694 $^{2}$ < / >< / ><><>NCC集团< / ><>142 $^{8}$ < / ><>+8< / ><>157 $^{4}$ < / ><>113 $^{4}$ < / >< / ><><>Playtech< / ><>404 $^{8}$ < / ><>-7 $^{8}$ < / ><>427 $^{6}$ < / ><>232< / >< / ><><>Softcat< / ><>2082< / ><>+28< / ><>2082< / ><>1091< / >< / ><><>Sage集团< / ><>1104 $^{2}$ < / ><>< / ><>1175< / ><>783 $^{8}$ < / >< / ><><>Trustpilot< / ><>288 $^{4}$ < / ><>+2 $^{4}$ < / ><>2984< / ><>1294< / >< / table>
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<>< colspan="5">旅游与休闲< / >< / > <><>康帕斯集团< / ><>30 $^{14}$< / ><>-1 / 2< / ><>2637< / ><>27 $^{18}$< / >< / > <><>多米诺比萨< / ><>206 $^{6}$ xd< / ><>+1< / ><>220< / ><>167 $^{14}$< / >< / > <><>易捷航空< / ><>676< / ><>+2 / 4< / ><>683 $^{4}$< / ><>339 $^{4}$< / >< / > <><>FirstGroup< / ><>178 $^{4}$< / ><>-1 / 4< / ><>226 $^{8}$< / ><>158< / >< / > <><>好莱坞碗< / ><>279< / ><>< / ><>307 $^{2}$< / ><>234 $^{2}$< / >< / > <><>洲际酒店集团< / ><>163xd< / ><>+1 / 4< / ><>10585< / ><>128 $^{8}$< / >< / > <><>国际航空货运< / ><>441 $^{8}$< / ><>+9 $^{4}$< / ><>488< / ><>342 $^{4}$< / >< / > <><>米切尔斯-巴特勒斯< / ><>285< / ><>< / ><>301< / ><>228< / >< / > <><>PPHE酒店集团< / ><>1640< / ><>+62< / ><>2060< / ><>1286< / >< / > <><>Trainline< / ><>196 $^{4}$< / ><>+3 $^{8}$< / ><>300< / ><>185 $^{2}$< / >< / > <><>惠特科斯彭（JD）< / ><>854 $^{2}$< / ><>+9< / ><>854 $^{2}$< / ><>555 $^{2}$< / >< / > <><>惠特布雷德< / ><>2475< / ><>+12< / ><>3274< / ><>2234< / >< / > <><>维斯航空控股< / ><>1085< / ><>+26< / ><>1447< / ><>849 $^{2}$< / >< / > < / table>
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5.55英镑 爱尔兰奖励赛：购买爱尔兰处女马奖金赛（4岁雌马组）1.2 万英镑追加（6,281 英镑） 6弗隆（11匹）
4.00英镑 网上投注网站Atheraces.com分级赛（6匹）
罗宾·古德费洛< / td>< rowspan="2" colspan="2">吉姆克拉格< / ><>401 (10)< / ><>0马位< / ><>最佳至今 9 R休斯 9-2......大卫·埃根< / >< / tr> <><>402 (4)< / ><>< / ><>比德斯塔 G博格希 9-2......B劳尼< / >< / > <><>4.10< / ><>雷格尔·泰格< / ><>4.10< / ><>雷格尔·泰格< / ><>403 (11)< / ><>< / ><>闪亮 H帕尔默 9-2......M吉亚尼< / >< / > <><>4.45< / ><>一眨眼< / ><>4.45< / ><>亚布林< / ><>404 (2)< / ><>< / ><>小环 O伯罗斯 9-2......C罗德里格斯< / >< / > <><>5.20< / ><>萨图恩之星< / ><>5.20< / ><>达吉尔< / ><>405 (7)< / ><>< / ><>依我之见（H）A珀雷特 9-2......R霍恩比< / >< / > <><>5.55< / ><>比德斯塔< / ><>5.55< / ><>索默斯群岛< / ><>406 (1)< / ><>< / ><>致赫敏 E沃克 9-2......T马夸德< / >< / > <><>6.30< / ><>阿卡德米亚< / ><>6.30< / ><>阿卡德米亚< / ><>407 (3)< / ><>55< / ><>皇家信息 55 E沃克 9-2......K舒马克< / >< / > <><>7.00< / ><>大胆呐喊< / ><>7.00< / ><>大胆呐喊< / ><>408 (9)< / ><>2< / ><>索默斯群岛 40 A鲍尔丁 9-2......O墨菲< / >< / > <><>7.30< / ><>实证< / ><>7.30< / ><>实证< / ><>409 (8)< / ><>4< / ><>爆炸之星 79 R斯宾塞 9-2......S奥斯本< / >< / > <><>< / ><>< / ><>410 (5)< / ><>< / ><>美国现状 奥利·桑斯特 9-2......H克劳奇< / >< / > <><>< / ><>< / ><>411 (6)< / ><>< / ><>UPUNITA B汉格 9-2......S M J exp< / >< / > < / table>
<><>101< / ><>(8)< / ><>440< / ><>麦基·梅尔基奥 25 R汉农 9-9< / ><>S M莱维< / >< / > <><>102< / ><>(10)< / ><>6484< / ><>普赖默尔 27 A鲍尔丁 9-7.< / ><>O墨菲< / >< / > <><>103< / ><>(1)< / ><>383< / ><>至尊高地 24 R贝克特 9-7.< / ><>H克劳奇< / >< / > <><>104< / ><>(6)< / ><>422< / ><>雷格尔·泰格 37 R帕尔默 9-7.< / >< / > <><>105< / ><>(13)< / ><>652< / ><>米诺 12 M博蒂 9-7.< / ><>M吉亚尼< / >< / > <><>106< / ><>(4)< / ><>383< / ><>莫巴迪尔 23 E沃克 9-6.< / ><>K舒马克< / >< / > <><>107< / ><>(11)< / ><>6510< / ><>埃尔兰博 16℃希尔斯 9-4.< / ><>C罗德里格斯< / >< / > <><>108< / ><>(15)< / ><>562< / ><>福斯卡里尼 20 E J霍顿 9-3.< / ><>C毕晓普< / >< / > <><>109< / ><>(3)< / ><>01< / ><>星辰海湾男孩 23 M特雷戈宁 9-3.< / ><>R霍恩比< / >< / > <><>110< / ><>(9)< / ><>955< / ><>百合白鹿哈特 21 D艾沃里 9-3.< / ><>J F埃根< / >< / > <><>111< / ><>(2)< / ><>851< / ><>金色绿洲 49 罗伯特·爱德华兹 9-2.< / ><>R P多尼< / >< / > <><>112< / ><>(5)< / ><>563252< / ><>环球成功 17 J S穆尔 9-1.< / ><>泰勒·费舍尔< / >< / > <><>113< / ><>(12)< / ><>515< / ><>异议者 23 M特雷戈宁 9-1.< / ><>阿什利·刘易斯（3）< / >< / > <><>114< / ><>(7)< / ><>5323< / ><>拉什希尔 16 J S穆尔 8-9.< / ><>大卫·埃根< / >< / > <><>115< / ><>(14)< / ><>8057< / ><>ITS A GINGER THING 21 R休斯 8-7.< / ><>S奥斯本< / >< / > <>< colspan="5">预计赔率：10-3 莫巴迪尔，5 雷格尔·泰格，13-2 普赖默尔，8 环球成功、金色绿洲、米诺，12 星辰海湾男孩、至尊高地，14 福斯卡里尼、异议者< / >< / > < / table>
4.45 BRICKLAYERS ARMS NEWBURY EBF MAIDEN STAKES (DIV 1) (4) (2-Y-0) 1.2 万英镑 added (6,480 英镑) 6f 110yds (10)
201< / td><>(7)< / ><>< / ><>CHEVERE Owen Burrows 9-7< / ><>C Rodriguez< / >< / tr><><>202< / ><>(2)< / ><>5< / ><>CRUSHERMAN 131 B Meehan 9-7< / ><>David Egan< / >< / ><><>203< / ><>(4)< / ><>< / ><>FLICK OF AN EYE S & E Crisford 9-7< / ><>J Mitchell< / >< / ><><>204< / ><>(8)< / ><>< / ><>KICKING BEAR E Walker 9-7< / ><>K Shoemark< / >< / ><><>205< / ><>(9)< / ><>< / ><>MOOFEED A Watson 9-7< / ><>W Cox< / >< / ><><>206< / ><>(3)< / ><>7< / ><>PERFECT STRIKE 32 W Haggas 9-7< / ><>T Marquand< / >< / ><><>207< / ><>(6)< / ><>< / ><>SOLAR SWING G Boughey 9-7< / ><>B Loughnane< / >< / ><><>208< / ><>(10)< / ><>< / ><>SOL DORADO M Tregoning 9-7< / ><>R Hornby< / >< / ><><>209< / ><>(1)< / ><>< / ><>YABREEN J Channon 9-7< / ><>O Murphy< / >< / ><><>210< / ><>(5)< / ><>L9< / ><>VELMA DINKLEY 56 Faye Bramley 9-2< / ><>O Carmichael (7)< / >< / table>
Probable SP: 9-4 Solar Swing, 7-2 Crusherman, 13-2 Flick Of An Eye, Moofeed, 10 Yabreen, Kicking Bear. FAVOURITES: - - - 0 2025: Into The Sky 2 9 7 (Kieran Shoemark) 80-1 J Boyle drawn (8) 13 ran.
5 20 BRICKLAYERS ARMS NEWBURY EBF MAIDEN STAKES (DIV 2)
<><>301< / ><>(9)< / ><>BATTLEWORTHY A Balding 9-7< / ><>O Murphy< / >< / ><><>302< / ><>(8)< / ><>DARJEEL R Hannon 9-7< / ><>S M Levey< / >< / ><><>303< / ><>(7)< / ><>EPISTLE H Main 9-7< / ><>J Mitchell< / >< / ><><>304< / ><>(4)< / ><>KINGDOM OF KUSH R Varian 9-7< / ><>R P Downey< / >< / ><><>305< / ><>(6)< / ><>MARTABAN E J-Houghton 9-7< / ><>C Bishop< / >< / ><><>306< / ><>(5)< / ><>SATURN STAR R Beckett 9-7< / ><>H Crouch< / >< / ><><>307< / ><>(1)< / ><>SCYTHE B Meehan 9-7< / ><>S Osborne< / >< / ><><>308< / ><>(2)< / ><>TOM THUMB Billy Aprahamian 9-7< / ><>Taylor Fisher< / >< / ><><>309< / ><>(3)< / ><>UNCLE ZELLO 7 J Channon 9-7< / ><>G Bass< / >< / table>
Drop in Class: 4.10 Magi Melchior is down 3 grades on last run (Class 2 to Class 5); Primal (3); Mino (2); 4.45 Perfect Strike (2). Longest travellers: Regal Tiger (4.10), Bling (5.55), Home Hero (6.30), Fans Favourite (7.30) 155 miles.
WOLVERHAMPTON SSR
2.00 DOWNLOAD THE AT THE RACES APP APPRENTICE HANDICAP (6) 56 600 added (53 454) 56 31vdc (7)
<><>1< / ><>(4)< / ><>2L8324< / ><>SUB THIRTEEN 22 (P) (D) J Scott 5-9-9< / ><>O Tubb (3)< / >< / ><><>2< / ><>(1)< / ><>L6-721< / ><>BRIDGET'S BABY 69 (D) A Carroll 3-9-8< / ><>Molly Gunn (5)< / >< / ><><>3< / ><>(6)< / ><>L205L4< / ><>DUSK DAMSEL 9 (B) J S Moore 3-9-7< / ><>Millie Wonnacott (3)< / >< / ><><>4< / ><>(7)< / ><>52-3LL3< / ><>RAJETERIAT 9 (V) C Gordon 4-9-5< / ><>Liam Wright< / >< / ><><>5< / ><>(3)< / ><>57L52L< / ><>FANCY DANCER 11 (P) (CD) Hayley Burton 4-9-4< / ><>A Redman (7)< / >< / ><><>6< / ><>(5)< / ><>531466< / ><>SIXCOR 2 (P) (C&DD7) Miss L Perratt 8-9-2< / ><>T Kiyel-Marshall< / >< / ><><>7< / ><>(2)< / ><>435055< / ><>NAD ALSHIBA SNOW 4 (T) M Murphy 4-9-0< / ><>R Kavanagh< / >< / table>
2025：菊苣 2 9 2（基兰·舒马克）11-1 伊·沃克被抽中（10）11名赛跑者。6.30 格雷斯兰兹让赛（平地障碍赛）（4）1.4 万英镑被添加（7,328 英镑）1英里（13）
2.30 天空体育赛马频道 天空415 EBF限制性新手赛（5）（2岁-0岁）8,000 英镑被添加（4,187 英镑）6弗隆20码（12）
1 / (2) / 0 / 希勒姆·宾厄姆 30 M 贝尔 9-7....J 皮特 --- / ----- / --- / ---------------------------------------- 2 / (10) / 642 / 他已准备好骚动 11 J 查农 9-4....E 格雷特雷克斯 3 / (9) / 79 / 发射台 11 N 利特莫登 9-4....R 卡瓦纳（3） 4 / (12) / 马尔哈巴·亚·泰伊布 R 休斯 9-4....非参赛者 5 / (5) / 8 / 高级座位 11 J S 穆尔 9-4....米莉·沃纳考特（5） 6 / (4) / 雷迪 E J-霍顿 9-4....R 克拉特巴克 7 / (7) / 64L / 维图拉·鲍尔 71 G 布吉 9-4....梅根·史密斯（7） 8 / (11) / 4 / 可爱的黑天使 23 G 布吉 9-2....P 科斯格雷夫 9 / (6) / 43222 / 我的玛丽亚 19（P）A 沃特森 9-2....G 曼根 10 / (1) / 96 / 蒙哥马利先生 5（H）奥利·桑斯特 9-1....S 唐诺霍 11 / (8) / 尼尔·萨提斯·苏普里姆 M 洛根 9-1....霍普·里根（7） 12 / (3) / 太阳使命 G 尼科尔斯 9-1....K O尼尔 | 可能最终赔率：15-8 可爱的黑天使、9-4 我的玛丽亚、3 他已准备好骚动、12 雷迪、20 维图拉·鲍尔 |
3.50 被添加（4,187 英镑）1英里5弗隆219码（7）
501 / (8) / 241135 / 最佳比率 11（D2）（G）R 汉农 4-10-4....S C 克罗宁（5） ----- / -------- / ------------------------------------------------------------ 502 / (3) / 622 / 云之森 21（BF）S bin 苏罗尔 4-10-0....H 克劳奇 503 / (13) / U-33112 / 卓越精神 19（D）（G）D & C 库伯勒 6-10-0....易卜拉欣·纳德尔 504 / (6) / 2L14-L5 / 公主拉斯卡尔 75（G）奥利弗·科尔 4-9-13....凯亚·弗雷泽 505 / (1) / 417322 / 扎特斯古德 12（PT）（D）G 布吉 4-9-13....B 洛根 506 / (7) / 31-45 / 马尔伯勒广场 70（D）A 温特尔 4-9-11...塔林·兰利（5） 507 / (12) / 210- / 河流之卡德 326（D）（S）B 米汉 3-9-11....T 马夸德 508 / (5) / 4710 / 电子梦 27（D）J 范肖 3-9-10....O 墨菲 509 / (4) / L-30L44 / 沃尔森的法律 12（CD）（G）E J-霍顿 5-9-10....C 毕晓普 510 / (2) / 21-4335 / 丰富 27（D）T 沃德 3-9-5....S M 莱维 511 / (11) / 389151 / 家园英雄 18（V）（D2）（G）H 帕尔默 3-9-5....L 卡顿（3） 512 / (10) / 744-511 / 阿卡德米亚 40（C&D）（G）E 沃克 3-9-3....K 舒马克 513 / (9) / L6L-27L / 部落节奏 44（P）D 科克利 5-9-3....R 霍恩比
7.00（3-Y-0）1.4 万英镑被添加（7,328 英镑）7弗隆（6）
1 / (4) / 172-L97 / 皇家协议 4（D2）P 查普尔-海厄姆 4-9-11....奥利维亚·海因斯（7） --- / ----- / --------- / ------------------------------------------------------------- 2 / (7) / 21-L2 / 黑暗中的钻石 22（T）（C&D）M 洛根 3-9-9 D 普罗伯特 3 / (5) / 32-5974 / 夜间任务 40 M 阿普尔比 3-9-7....A 罗林森 4 / (2) / 21-6L78 / 坎彭纳特斯 48（C）J 波特曼 3-9-7....O 塔布（5） 5 / (1) / L0110-0 / 贝拉吉奥人 117（B）（D6）A 布里顿 8-9-6....C 哈迪 6 / (8) / 566250 / 根西天使 13（C）P 埃文斯 3-9-5....D 基南 7 / (9) / 18-9644 / 卡拉希 12（PT）S C 威廉姆斯 4-9-2....P 科斯格雷夫 8 / (6) / 3L1362- / 阿尔希马利 254（H）A 卡罗尔 5-9-1....约瑟夫
9 / (3) / 84-256 / MIRACLEOFTHEANDES 14 W Greatrex 3-9-0....E Greatrex
3.00 免费竞猜网站AtTheRaces.com“限制”让赛（5）8,000 英镑加入（£4.187）6弗隆20伏特加（9）
跑道信息：L-H 塔佩塔跑道。场地状态：标准。起跑闸门：
Currahee, 10 Campenaerts, Guernsey Angel, 14 Royal Accord。
内侧。抽签优势：无。最佳骑师：David Probert。最佳练马师：A Carroll。首次佩戴头饰：2.00 Rajeteriat，3.00 Diamond-in-the-dark，4.00 D Day Major Winter，Fighting Poet，Hammal。降级参赛：2.00 Fancy Dancer上次比赛降2级（从4班降至6班）；2.30 Hiram Bingham（3）。自肺部手术后首次参赛：今日无。
2025年：Herculeus 3 9 7（L Edmunds）11-2 W Muir & C Grassick 驾驭（2）9匹参赛。
601 / (3) / 8-22LL4 / BRISK SYMPHONY 15 (P) (C) (G) J Portman 9-9 / R Hornby ----- / --------- / ----------------------------------------------- / ---------- 602 / (6) / 23-15 / ARTANIS 168 (DBF) Ollie Sangster 9-8 / B Loughnane 603 / (4) / 1306L3 / COOL MOLLY 32 (D2BF) Ollie Sangster 9-7 / T Marquand 604 / (1) / 215122 / LION OF MALI 25 (D4BF) (G) J Fanshawe 9-3 / David Egan 605 / (5) / 441 / BOLD SHOUT 14 (G) C Cox 8-13 / H Crouch 606 / (2) / 2-24192 / SHOW ME GOLD 19 (D) T Dascombe 8-12 / O Murphy
预计赔率：2 Bold Shout，11-4 Lion of Mali，9-2 Artanis，6 Show Me Gold，8 Cool Molly，10 Brisk Symphony。获胜热门：- - - - - 0 1 0 0 0（W 9-5）。2025年：Morte Point 3 9 6（L Edmunds）14-1 W Muir & C Grassick 驾驭（9）10匹参赛。
7 20 Sheldrake Training Limited“训练学徒”
1 / (9) / 73-8311 / EMPIRICAL 30 (B) (D) (G) E Walker 9-9 / K Shoemark --- / ----- / --------- / -------------------------------------- / ------------ 2 / (1) / 32-7251 / EDWIN HUBBLE 20 (B) (D) (G) B Meehan 9-9 / O Murphy 3 / (6) / 51 / LIVEMORE 40 (G) T Kent 9-9 / C Rodriguez 4 / (5) / L1-4030 / MAGNATURA 26 (V) T Ward 9-6 / S M Levey 5 / (2) / 1-53434 / MAGICAL MERLOT 13 (G) E Dunlop 9-4 / David Egan 6 / (3) / 36-L546 / ISLAND BEAR 48 (B) Dr R Newland 9-4 / B Loughnane 7 / (8) / 6-06 / EAGLES ATTIRE 114 Oliver Cole 9-3 / H Crouch 8 / (7) / L33512 / GUESTSTIMATE 15 (D) (G) W Haggas 9-2 / T Marquand 9 / (4) / 7-31153 / FANS FAVOURITE 26 (P) (D) (S) H Palmer 8-11 / M Ghiani
获胜热门：- - 2 1 2 0（W̄ 9-5）。
2025年：King Al 3 8 12（Rossa Ryan）9-1 A King 驾驭（4）9匹参赛。
跑道信息：彩池&主要赛事。L-H跑道。场地状态：好至坚实。起跑闸门：1英里2弗隆内侧；其余在中间。抽签优势：高。最佳骑师：Tom Marquand。最佳练马师：R Hannon。首次佩戴头饰：5.55 Inmyopinion，6.30 Tribal Rhythm，7.00 Brisk Symphony。自肺部手术后首次参赛：今日无。
ROBIN GOODFELLOW
GIMCRACK
2.00 / Rajeteriat / 2.00 / Bridget's Baby ------ / ------------ / ------ / ---------------- 2.30 / My Maria / 2.30 / Lovely Dark Angel 3.00 / Diamondinthedark (nb) / 3.00 / Diamondinthedark 3.30 / The Craftymaster / 3.30 / Letmebetheboss 4.00 / Fighting Poet / 4.00 / Spaceage Love Song 4.35 / Desiderata / 4.35 / On Key
2 20 ATTHERACES.COM / MARKETMOVERS 让赛（5） 8,000 英镑
1 (3) 032-485 KINGDOM OF STARS 8 凯丽·李 5-10-0.... R 哈夫林 2 (4) 651211 THE CRAFTYMASTER 12 (T) (C&DC3D) A 卡罗尔 6-9-12 M 甘恩 (5) 3 (1) 425104 LETMEBETHEBOSS 252 (D2) A 卡罗尔 5-9-10.... K 福克斯 4 (5) L-85243 FAIR DINKUM 36 (T) (D2) J 斯科特 6-9-9.... K 奥尼尔 5 (7) 48-2476 ONE COOL DREAMER 34 (P) R 斯蒂芬斯 5-9-9.... P 科斯格雷夫 6 (2) 135152 V POWER 18 (T) (C&D3) T 福克纳 6-9-7.... 佐伊·刘易斯 (7) 7 (6) 7-42321 BOILERMAKER 28 (P) (D) 哈里·查尔顿 3-9-4.... D 普罗伯特 预计独赢赔率：2 Boilermaker，3 The Craftymaster，5 Letmebetheboss，6 Boilermaker
4.00 ATTHERACES.COM 让赛分级投注（6） 6,600 英镑 追加（3,454 英镑） 1英里4弗隆51码（11）
1 / (9) LL-986 BEAT THE ODDS 61 A 布里顿 4-9-9....C 哈迪 --- / -------------------------------------------------- 2 / (4) 287-LL5 D DAY MAJOR WINTER 22 (P) 詹姆斯·欧文 4-9-9...D 普罗伯特 3 / (6) L6L923 FIGHTING POET 8 (V) (D) R 菲利普斯 8-9-9....J 皮特 4 / (8) 700L96 HAMMAL 43 (T) M 扬 5-9-9....K 奥尼尔 5 / (1) 866146 LAWMANS BLIS 74℃ / DCDC3D2 杰西卡·梅西 8-9-9 利亚姆·赖特 (3) 6 / (11) 2477-L8 RAVENSWELL 83 (P) T 福克纳 5-9-9....R 哈夫林 7 / (10) 336-902 SOMEONE'S WISH 8 (P) (C) P 莫里斯 6-9-9....R 卡瓦纳 (3) 8 / (2) 7522L4 SPACEAGE LOVE SONG 21 (P) (C&D) M 贝尔 4-9-9...J 布拉德南 (7) 9 / (7) 8L6L86 N'ION 22 (P) I 威廉姆斯 3-9-0....E 格雷特雷克斯 10 / (3) L-09230 RAISE THE STAKES 18 埃万·惠兰斯 3-9-0....G 法利 11 / (5) 207643 SMOKER BELLAMY 34 (P) R 纽兰德博士 3-9-0....杰克·道蒂
4.35 ATTHERACES.COM 让赛重播（6） 6,600 英镑 追加（3,454 英镑） 1英里142码（12）
1 / (4) 32L584 / SHAMACID 11 (T) S 伍兹 4-9-12....D 普罗伯特 --- / ----------- / ------------------------------------------ 2 / (10) 231323 / ON KEY 10 (P) (C) S 狄克逊 4-9-11....K 奥尼尔 3 / (8) 6-L9894 / CY TWOMBLY 27 (TV) J 麦基 4-9-10....杰克·道蒂 4 / (2) 226131 / DESIDERATA 130 (C&D) T 福克纳 6-9-8....R 哈夫林 5 / (11) 032315 / MANTON ROAD 6 (P) (C&D) R 菲利普斯 4-9-7....K 福克斯 6 / (9) 324527 / BOOK OF LIFE 32 (P) (C&D) P 莫里斯 6-9-6....D J 墨菲 (7) 7 / (6) 52-9LL6 / ROGUE OFFICER 26 (H) A 布里顿 4-9-4....C 哈迪 8 / (7) 5L3836 / GRAND VISTA 20 (P) W 缪尔 & C 格拉斯克 3-9-0....R 卡瓦纳 (3) 9 / (5) 6L47LL / CLAYTONS KOLATONIC 14 D F 戴维斯 3-9-0....B Ffrench-Davis (5) 10 / (1) OL-LL63 / ROKUNI 49 (TV) C 沃利斯 4-8-12....C 豪沃斯 (3) 11 / (12) 6-38445 / ANORAH UNLEASHED 54 A 卡罗尔 3-8-11....约瑟芬·戈登 12 / (3) LLL-73 / THOMAS TALLIS 20 J 麦基 3-8-5....芬利·巴塞特 (7) | | | 预计独赢赔率：3 Desiderata，4 On Key，11-2 Thomas Tallis，6 Manton Road，10 Grand Vista，Book Of Life，12 Cy Twombly，14 Anorah Unleashed，Shamacid |
最远旅马：梅费尔（A）（5.10）法国；锡克索（2.00）275英里
林菲尔德
2.30 — 丹尼克（阿什利·刘易斯） 10-3（并列第二热门）1；哈瓦那之触 10-3（并列第二热门）2；大布拉斯凯特 9-2 3。9匹参赛（G & J 穆尔）。1½，½。 彩池：4.34；1.40，1.50，1.80。 独赢：16.70。同注分彩：49.83。连赢：63.30。 场间彩池：15.00。
3.00 — 拉祖里特（F·马什）2-5F 1；泰铢 8-1 2；卢卡夫人 40-1 3。6匹参赛（R·休斯）。6 $^{1 / 2}$ ，3 $^{3 / 4}$ 。 彩池：1.40；1.10，3.90。独赢：4.70。连赢：35.70。场间彩池：4.56。NR: Ambience
3.30 — 让我们拥抱雨果（T·基利-马歇尔）13-8 并列热门 1；苹果天使 14-1 2；香蕉 4-1 3。9匹参赛（O·皮尔斯）。1½，颈。 彩池：2.63；1.10，2.80，1.40。独赢：33.90。连赢：93.20。场间彩池：99.82。NR: Pvt A Mean
4.00 — 音乐战士（B·洛纳）9-4 并列热门 1；强音 11-4 2；战争之鸟 9-4 并列热门 3。8匹参赛（奥利·桑斯特）。2马位，2½马位。 彩池：3.25；1.10，1.40，1.30。独赢：9.30。同注分彩：15.10。连赢：21.80。场间彩池：8.99。NRs: Chapman's Peak, Viking Glory
4.30 — 漂浮市场（伊索贝尔·查默斯）9-1 1；恶魔旅 15-8（第二热门）2；萨克斯回避 40-1 3。7匹参赛（A
5.02 — 时光闪耀（哈里·维戈斯）9-4F 1；雷神女神 7-2（第二热门）2；矿物性 33-1 3。7匹参赛（J·基恩）。2½马位，颈。 彩池：3.25；1.40，2.10。独赢：11.20。同注分彩：194.84。连赢：156.60。场间彩池：10.31。NR: Hove Ranger
组合过关 £4.20。彩票过关 £2.70。马斯尔堡
2.15 — 旅店与外界（J·哈特） 7-1 1；鸽子皮特 33-1 2；考尔蓝 80-1 3。10匹参赛（T·伊斯特比）。 1¼，1¾。 彩池：8.60；1.80，7.60，10.10。独赢：272.10。连赢：3791.80。场间彩池：204 19
2.45 — 需要你（B·加里蒂） 5-2 并列热门 1；劳拉琳 5-2 并列热门 2；奥丹 13-2 3。7匹参赛（M & D 伊斯特比）。2½马位，4½马位。 彩池：3.38；1.90，1.80。独赢：6.70。同注分彩：28.69。连赢：36.80。场间彩池：7.77。NR: Mardy Bum
3.15 — 达拉马拉（A·马伦） 10-1 1；霍维奇 22-1 2；安伯·哈穆尔 6-5F 3。8匹参赛（B·哈斯拉姆）。$^{1} / _{2}$ ，1马位。 彩池：11.00；2.50，5.00，1.10。 独赢：217.10。同注分彩：456.35。连赢：842.50。
比赛结果
3.45 — 加勒斯·诺曼（阿米·沃）14-1 1；快弗雷德 11-1 2；特洛伊之日 8-1 3。9匹参赛（J·戈尔迪）。3 $^{1 / 4}$ ，4 $^{1 / 4}$ 。 彩池：14.70；4.00，2.50，2.30。独赢：117.70。同注分彩：577.41。连赢：950.20。场间彩池：97.34。NRs: Florida Dreams, Ned Brov
4.15 — 诺瓦克（A·马伦）7-2（第二热门）1；发光勇士 22-1 2；文斯·勒普林斯 15-2 3。10匹参赛（I·贾丁）。nk，1 $^{3 / 4}$ 。 彩池：4.80；1.80，4.40，2.50。独赢：84.70。同注分彩：572.57。连赢：520.90。场间彩池：80.36。NR: Joshuas Dream
4.45 — 阿尔贝贡（J·迪克森）6-1 1；比尔瓦 10-3（第二热门）2；祖福洛 14-1 3。6匹参赛（T·伊斯特比）。nk，3 / 4马位。 彩池：7.00；2.80，1.80。独赢：24.30。同注分彩：152.20。场间彩池：26.20。
2,236 英镑.08 结转。
组合过关 1,245 英镑.50。彩票过关 £53.50
斯特拉特福德
5.10 — 勇气与荣耀（S·谢泼德）4-1 1；偷瞄一眼 8-1 2；让我看看小马 9-4（第二热门）3。8匹参赛（C·博尔特比-布鲁克斯）。< / td>< / tr>< / table>
独赢：27.10。连赢：76.50。场间彩池：34.83。 5.40 — 德尔加尼第二（H·斯凯尔顿）15-2；康纳上尉 33-1 2；布里奥尼韦尔斯 6-1（并列第二热门）3。8匹参赛（D·斯凯尔顿）。8 $^{1 / 2}$ ，4 $^{1 / 4}$ 。 彩池：10.00；1.80，5.90，1.40。独赢：264.30。同注分彩：1584.06。连赢：1259.20。场间彩池：177.07。 6.15 — 幸运公爵（F·基利）5-1 1；在这个世界 25-1 2 4匹参赛（M·基利）。26马位。 彩池：6.50；独赢：41.30。连赢：37.50。场间彩池：46.16。 6.45 — 我的梦（H·里德）11-8F 1；梦之喷气机 12-1 2；不可阻挡 5-1 3。8匹参赛（尼克·斯科菲尔德）。4 $^{1 / 4}$ ，1 $^{1 / 4}$ 。 彩池：2.38；1.20，2.90，1.40。 独赢：20.50。同注分彩：67.27。连赢：80.30。场间彩池：18.66
7.15 — 你来决定（B·R·琼斯） evens F 1；佩斯卡托里乌斯 12-1 2；当心，这是饼干 8-1 3。8匹参赛（B·保林）。9½，肩差。 彩池：2.00；1.10，2.20，2.00。独赢：15.00。同注分彩：68.82。连赢：80.80。场间彩池：14.53。
7.45 — 格里亚斯电力（费恩·奥布赖恩）9-4F 1；罗卡纳玫瑰 11-4（第二热门）2；塔拉代尔 7-2 3。8匹参赛（F·奥布赖恩）。6马位，½马位。 彩池：3.25；1.30，1.20，1.30。独赢：9.20。连赢：28.40。场间彩池：9.00。NR: Company Charge
组合过关 £117.30。彩票过关 £15.60。
卡特里克场外赛马
2.15 限制性新马锦标赛（4岁） (2-Y-0) 1 万英镑 增加 5,400 英镑 5弗隆 (9)
/ 马号 / 位置 / 马匹 / 骑师 / 负重
1 / (7) / L9 / NEVERBEATDESWALKER 42 M Walford 9-4 / J Garritty / 9-4 2 / (8) / 244 / SHANIKO 19 (H) Craig Lidster / D Tudhope / 9-2 3 / (1) / MUGHEER K R Burke / C Lee / 9-1 4 / (3) / L / NORTH COATES 10 M & D Easterby / B Garritty / 9-1 5 / (6) / L / REDROSECASTANA 18℃ Kellett / M Winn / 9-1 6 / (4) / 225 / ROMIDIJO 17 Charlie Clover / S James / 8-13 7 / (2) / 9 / SCOTTYS ROCKET 37 B Ellison / A Mullen / 8-13 8 / (5) / GHAZALIA H Kobeissi / S D Bowen / 8-10 9 / (9) / 3L / PURRISTA 19 G Tuttly / C Beasley / 8-10
预计SP：Mugheer 6-5，Shaniko 9-4，Romidijo 4，Ghazalia 10，Purrista 20
2:45 新马锦标赛（4岁） 1 万英镑 增加 5,400 英镑
1 (5) L5L AURORA'S DOUBLESIX 13 (H) B Rothwell 4-9-7 F McMeneman
/ 马号 / 位置 / 马匹 / 骑师 / 负重
2 / (3) / 7 / KHANIMAMBO 18 D & N Barron / D Nolan / 3-9-7 3 / (6) / SKEWSBY M & D Easterby / B Garrity / 3-9-7 4 / (2) / 70 / DREAMADERA 123 T Easterby / D Fentiman / 3-9-2 5 / (4) / 325 / LADY GORMIRE 27 M Dods / C Beasley / 3-9-2 6 / (8) / 544 / MOONLIGHT MELODY 46 D McCain / D Allan / 3-9-2 7 / (7) / 732 / ROYALE UNION 23 K R Burke / C Lee / 3-9-2 8 / (1) / 555 / SOONA STAR 8 S Spencer / D Swift / 2-9-2
8 (1) 555 SOCA STAR 8 S Spencer 3-9-2 D Swift 预计SP：Royale Union 11-8，Lady Gormire 3，Moonlight Melody 7-2，Soca Star 5，Skewsby 16
3.15 平磅赛（6岁） 7,000 英镑 增加 3,664 英镑 5弗隆 212vds (6)
4 / (2) / 769 / OVERBUDGET 19 M Appleby / A Mullen / 3-9-8 5 / (1) / 218 / POWERNAP 48 (T) (C) (S) J Bedi / D Costello / 3-9-4 6 / (6) / 533 / BATTENBURG BELLE 22 (C&D) (G) R Menzies / 3-8-12
Powernap，Overbudget
赛道信息：L-H赛道。状态：良好 栅栏：内侧。抽签优势：低位。最佳骑师：Jason Hart。最佳训练师：T Easterby。 首次佩戴头罩：3.45 Fairydale，Lilykoy；4.52 Runninman，Twilight Dawn。术后首次参赛：今日无。
凯普敦赛马实况转播
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6.20 EBF 新手锦标赛（3岁） (2-Y-0) 1.3 万英镑 增加 7,020 英镑 1英里 (8)
1 / (7) / 22 / AL WATHBA 17 (BF) C Appleby / W Buick / 9-7 2 / (2) / BURNINGRINGOFFIRE (H) R Hughes / F Marsh / 9-7 3 / (3) / CITES R Beckett / Rossa Ryan / 9-7 4 / (5) / GILDER ROY James Owen / C Fallon / 9-7 5 / (6) / 46 / PEAK TRAM 34 Sir M Prescott / D E Hogan / 9-7 6 / (8) / PURE CONCEPT R Hannon / S Foley / 9-7 7 / (4) / 2 / SOMMOOD 19 S & E Crisford / H Davies / 9-7 8 / (1) / WYKEHURST PARK A Balding / C Hutchinson / 9-7
预计SP：Al Wathba 6-4，Sommood 4，Pure Concept 9-2，Cites 6，Wykehurst Park 10，Burningringoffire 12
6.51 新手赛（4岁）1 万英镑 增加 5,400 英镑 7弗隆（8）
/ 鞍 / 赛程 / 马名 / 马主 / 骑师
1 / (2) / L0 / BIG SNOOPY 103 (H) E Walker 3-9-7 / G Downing 2 / (3) / LL / COILLTEDUDEISBACK 35 Adam Kirby 3-9-7 / W Carson 3 / (6) / 72-3 / KAINDY 21 R Varian 3-9-7 / R Dawson 4 / (4) / 7 / MR G FORCE 10 D Ivory 3-9-7 / T Greatrex 5 / (8) / 6 / PALLISER 7 A Watson 3-9-7 / P-L Jamin 6 / (5) / 49- / PEDROS DREAM 243 A Carroll 3-9-7 / M Slater (7) 7 / (7) / 2- / SEA BRAVE 251 R Hughes 3-9-7 / F Marsh 8 / (1) / TALKING BEAR R Phillips 3-9-7 / C Hutchinson
预计SP：8-15 Kaindy，2 Sea Brave。
7.21 6,281 英镑 7弗隆（10）
/ 鞍 / 赛程 / 马名 / 马主 / 骑师
1 / (8) / 805 / PARIS BABE 26 (P) (D) A Watson 4-10-0 / P-L Jamin 2 / (6) / 863 / MUSICAL ANGEL 41 (D) S Dow 4-9-8 / H Davies 3 / (3) / 7L5 / BRIDGET'S VIEW 14 (HPT) (C&D) S C Williams 4-9-8 4 / (10) / 32-L / STAR MIRAGE 29 H Al Jehani (UAE) 3-9-5 / C Fallon 5 / (7) / 215 / SHUSHU 63 (D) R Varian 3-9-2 / R Dawson 6 / (4) / 521 / MERRY (Gibex) 7 (C&D) James Horton 3-9-2 / D Muscutt 7 / (1) / 293 / RIBENSKA 69 (P) (D) C Fellowes 4-9-1 / C Shepherd 8 / (5) / 334 / AFRAJ 35 (D) J & T Gosden 3-9-0 / W Buick 9 / (2) / 733 / GHISA 26 (H) (D) C Fellowes 3-8-13 / P Bradley 10 / (9) / 2L0 / SAHANA 22 (D) D M Simcock 4-8-11 / D E Hogan
7 51 雌马让磅赛（4岁）1.2 万英镑 增加
1 / (7) / 832 / GLORYOUS 13 J Osborne 4-10-2 / W Carson 2 / (2) / 1-3L / APHRODITE SPIRIT 40 R Teal 4-9-12 / J Leavy 3 / (6) / 552 / LADYKIRK 14 J Chapple-Hyam 3-9-9 / W Buick 4 / (4) / 155 / BINT KILFRUSH 109 J Tate 3-9-7 / R Dawson 5 / (1) / 177 / BIG BEAR HUG 15 (CD) J Boyle 7-9-7 / P Bradley 6 / (8) / 121 / BINTKNIGHT 25 Harry Charlton 3-9-6 / L Edmunds 7 / (3) / 134 / AFFECTION 27 (D) D Pipe 3-9-4 / Harry Vigors (5) 8 / (5) / 242 / SEACOLE 29 (H) R Beckett 3-9-4 / Rossa Ryan
首次佩戴头饰：6.20 Burningringoffire，6.51 Big Snoopy，7.21 Bridget's View，Ribenska，8.21 Caviar Cowboy，8.51 Evening Fades，Hot Silk，Relentless Hero。降级：8.21 Society Kiss 上次赛后降2级（从2班降至4班）；8.51 Far Far Out（2）。首次出风手术后复出：6.51 Big Snoopy。
预计SP：2 Bintknight，3 Ladykirk，9-2 Seacole，8 Aphrodite Spirit，Glorious，10 Bint Kilfrush，20 Affection。
爱尔兰冠军骑师迪伦·布朗·麦克莫纳格在比赛中坠马后被送往医院
麦克莫纳格在贝尔斯敦赛马场骑乘的赛马Mosel摔倒后被送往医院。二人在爱尔兰种马场EBF中间拍卖新手赛中正发起冲击时发生坠马。现年23岁的布朗·麦克莫纳格本年度表现出色，在埃普瑟姆和卡拉夫的奥克斯双赛中分别骑乘Thundering On和Johanna Walsh夺冠。下一场比赛"普劳曼酒吧与烤肉店"让磅赛因赛道工作人员在有疑问区域铺沙而推迟30分钟开始。
吉姆克拉格赛
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北方人 - 2.15 Mugheer（即时热门）；2.45 ROYALE UNION（推荐马）。
4.15 让磅赛（4） 1 万英镑 追加（5,234 英镑） 5弗隆（10）
1 (6) 602 FIDELIUS 18（D6） N Tinkler 5-9-13 ...... A Jary (3) 2 (8) 431 MARCHING MAC 75（T）（D6）（S） P McEntee 5-9-13.....
3 (2) 347 CANON'S HOUSE 5（D3）（S） M & D Easterby 5-9-13....
4 (3) 168 NOVAMAY 15（S） M Dods 4-9-12....Rhys Elliott (5) 5 (7) 213 SECRET MISTRAL 32（D6）（S） A Carroll 6-9-10.....
6 (5) 11L ANGEL NUMBERS 14（D3BF）（G） R Carr 3-9-10 ....
7 (4) 6L0 CALL MARGOT 7（D） G Tutty 3-9-6.... C Beasley 8 (10) L20 VINCE L'AMOUR 11（BT）（C&DD3）（S） T Easterby 5-9-0
5.40 192码（8）
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预计最终赔率：11-4 Marching Mac，3 Our Absent Friends，5 Fidelius，8 Secret Mistral，Canon's House。
4.52 分级奖金赛（6） 7,000 英镑 追加（3,664 英镑） 7弗隆 6围栏（14）
T Coyle & K Wood 7-9-9 J Dickson (5) (1) I CAN BOOGY 32（D）（G） N Tinkler 4-9-9.....A Jary (3) (11) MISTER SKY BLUE 14（G） G Tutty 4-9-9. C Whiteley (5) (7) LLL MORAL VICTORY 34 L Mullaney 5-9-9.....B McHugh (14) RAIN CAP 22（V）（C&DC3D2）（GS） J Riches 9-9-9.....
9 (5) 478 BELLING THE CAT 32 T Coyle & K Wood 3-9-4D Nolan 10 (13) 5-99 DEE'S HONEY 12 Michael Keady 3-9-4....J Hart 11 (4) 435 LANARRA 18 R M Smith 3-9-4....JP Sullivan 12 (8) 406 RUNNINMAN 7（PT） D Whillans 3-9-4....A Brookes 13 (3) L07 RYEFIELD 14 L Mullaney 3-9-4....T Eaves 14 (12) 330 TWILIGHT DAWN 32（B） S Whitaker 3-9-4....R Elliott (5)
最远距离马匹：Ghazalia（2.15）、Romidijo（2.15）、Lilykoy（3.45）、Niffler（3.45）、Marching Mac（4.15）、Dee's Honey（4.52） 205英里。降级：4.15 Call Margot 相比上次比赛降低2级（从2级降至4级）；4.52 Moral Victory（2级）。
罗宾·古德费洛
吉姆克拉格赛
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9.21 UNIBET 3 每日加强让磅赛（4）
1 (7) 051 AIGEAS 55（C&DD） Oliver Cole 9-9....H Davies 2 (2) 129 WEZZEER 74（D） R Varian 9-9....R Dawson 3 (10) 25L CAVIAR COWBOY 34（H） J Fanshawe 9-7....D Muscutt 4 (8) 0-32 SOCIETY KISS 79 J Mackie 9-7....P J McDonald 5 (3) L41 ARRY UP 34（C&D2D） B Millman 9-6....L Edmunds 6 (6) 748 AUGUSTUS GLOOP 19（D） J Fanshawe 9-4....G Wood 7 (12) 152 MANLY FIREBALL 27（D） R Hughes 9-3 非出赛马 8 (1) 210 BINTARYANA 29（D2） W Knight 9-3....C Fallon 9 (4) 717 KING OF CHAOS 26（D2） D Cunha 9-2....P Dobbs 10 (9) 405 KOLKATA KNIGHT 12（T）（D） T Dascombe 9-2..P-L Jamin 11 (5) OLO SLAY QUEEN 44（D2） R Hannon 9-1....J Leavy 12 (11) 1-31 FROM THE HIP 79（C&DD2） M Usher 9-0....T Heard
预计最终赔率：9-4 Aigeas，4 Arry Up，7 From The Hip。
8.51 障碍赛 (5) (3岁-0) 8,000 英镑 加磅 (4,187 英镑) 1英里3弗隆219码 (12)
1 (6) L31 TRAVELING MAN 6 (D) C Fellowes 9-9.... 2 (8) 1LL RELENTLESS HERO 18 (H) A Balding 9-8.... 3 (3) 363 COSMO BROWN 20 W Muir & C Grassick 9-8.... 4 (11) 571 MADJID 39 Harry Charlton 9-7.... 5 (9) 432 HOT SILK 16 (P) J Fanshawe 9-6.... 6 (12) 27L SEMPER FEMINA 35 R Hannon 9-5.... 7 (10) 618 AMRUM 63 Ollie Sangster 9-3.... 8 (4) 58L FAR FAR OUT 58 A Carroll 9-1.... 9 (7) 442 EVENING FADES 27 (T) W Haggas 9-1.... 10 (1) 3-33 LORD MAYOR 197 A Balding 9-1.... 11 (2) 1-L9 TINSEL 30 H Morrison 9-1.... 12 (5) 665 COSPICUA 18 (C&D) J Tate 8-7....
跑道信息：右转-霍尔波利跑道。赛道状态：
标准偏慢。起跑栏：内侧。抽签优势：低位。最佳骑手：Daniel Muscutt。最佳训练师：A Balding。最远旅程马匹：Star Mirage（7.21）阿联酋；Arry Up（8.21）157英里。
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比利·波士顿爵士是一位体格高大的男人，言谈温和谦逊、自谦低调，他为橄榄球联盟运动留下了一份珍贵遗产，这份遗产远超他所创造的纪录、所攻入的达阵以及为威根俱乐部数百万球迷带来的娱乐。
波士顿爵士昨日辞世，享年92岁。他是一位打破藩篱的先驱，理应与现代职业棒球首位黑人球员杰基·罗宾逊、以及在网球界扫除无数偏见的亚瑟·阿什等英雄并肩被铭记。
波士顿于1954年成为首位在英国狮子队巡回赛中代表英国出战的非白人球员。在澳大利亚和新西兰的18场比赛中，他攻入36次达阵，并参加了31场国际比赛。数字显示，他在威根俱乐部的488场比赛中攻入478次达阵，并参加了6场挑战杯决赛，但他在运动界和体育世界中的地位、他的举止风范以及他对伟大成就的淡然态度，让他成为更多人的英雄。
伯纳姆昨日写道：“听闻老友比利·波士顿爵士辞世，我心碎不已。‘比利是史上最伟大的橄榄球联盟球员之一，同时也是最善良、最平易近人的人物。他总是乐于为他人付出时间，并为养育他的家乡威根回馈良多。他是一位在各方面都称得上巨人的男人。’”
在橄榄球联盟存在的前130年里，体育界从未将骑士爵位授予任何一位球员，这种遗漏仿佛象征着社会对这项运动的漠视。同期，英式橄榄球（联盟）获得了20个骑士爵位，帆船运动12个，赛车8个，赛马8个，剪羊毛运动1个。
橄榄球联盟一度似乎沦为弃儿。但两年前，比利·波士顿改变了这一切。他已拥有三尊雕像——在他的出生地加的夫、在温布利（他曾在此参加挑战杯决赛）以及在居住72年的威根。随后，骑士爵位为这份荣耀画上了句号。
2025年6月，在白金汉宫举行的授爵仪式前夜，我在伦敦皮卡迪利的一家酒店见到了他。陪同他出席的有威根俱乐部老板迈克·丹森和俱乐部传奇人物、现任首席执行官克里斯·拉德林斯基。波士顿时年90岁，身体略显虚弱，但举止依然如昔日君王般威严。
威根队将在明晚对阵赫尔KR的超级联赛比赛前向波士顿致敬。在伦敦的那一天，丹森和拉德林斯基都为他感到自豪。他们深知他作为英雄的意义，深知他对这项运动及其粉丝的影响，深知他是一位跨界明星。“我们从未拥有过这样的突破时刻。”拉德林斯基说。
“我们推崇谦逊，塑造这些谦逊的男人，但我们实际上需要他们成为超级明星。联盟运动在我们的城镇和许多北方球队中有一个特点——每个人都生活在城镇里，接触度极高。因此，这既是我们最大的优势，也是最大的弱点。”
丹森指出，仅有极少数骑士爵位授予北方人。如果你出身北方且工人阶层，这一比例会进一步缩小。波士顿同样打破了这一藩篱。
他的离世距离夫人琼女士的葬礼仅四天，两人共同生活了70年。波士顿早年曾效力于英式橄榄球联盟（联盟式橄榄球），后于1953年在19岁时转会威根，在整个1950年代和60年代熠熠生辉。
‘比利·波士顿已融入俱乐部的血脉。’维冈主教练马特·皮尔如是说。‘每天我们踏进球场，都会被提醒：我们肩负着代表前辈、延续维冈勇士今日荣光的责任。比利正是这段历史的巅峰所在。’
‘有幸亲眼目睹他比赛的人告诉我，他简直就是最伟大的球员。他的成就、他的为人、他树立的标准，将永远激励每一位穿上这身战袍的人。比利·波士顿爵士永远是维冈勇士最伟大的儿子之一，永远不会被遗忘。’
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奥利·沃特金斯（Ollie Watkins）缺席阿斯顿维拉队在布莱顿的比赛，这可能是一个始于18个月前的故事的最终章节。
这位英格兰前锋周一与队友们进行了交谈，解释了自己的立场，目前预计将以约5000万英镑的价格完成其与沙特希拉尔队的不欢而散的转会。
在沃特金斯因伤缺阵维拉队以4比0惨败于阿梅克斯球场（尽管他是维拉唯一健康的前锋）后，球员与俱乐部之间、球员与球迷之间的裂痕已难以弥合。但尽管这场纠纷或许能以不同方式处理，它绝非无缘无故突然爆发。
《每日邮报》体育部回顾了我们如何走到这一步，以及沃特金斯离开后的生活可能会是什么样子。
阿森纳的出价
上周某个时候，沃特金斯与维拉主帅乌奈·埃梅里进行了讨论。埃梅里在谈话后认为这位30岁的前锋想要加盟希拉尔，并准备不遗余力促成交易。
沃特金斯上周未参加训练，因为他正等待维拉接受报价。沙特职业联赛俱乐部并未提出符合要求的报价，一旦他意识到自己将不会参与备战工作，埃梅里便未将其列入布莱顿比赛的大名单。在伤员塔米·亚伯拉罕和布赖恩·马焦缺阵的情况下，维拉队无前锋可用，最终惨败，而埃梅里在媒体面前也未为沃特金斯辩护。沃特金斯随即遭到球迷在网上抨击。
要理解这一切，我们必须回溯维拉与沃特金斯职业生涯的关键转折点——2024年节礼日。在之前的三场联赛中，埃梅里选择了混乱但出色的约翰·杜兰（Jhon Duran）而非沃特金斯，而这位哥伦比亚前锋在这三场比赛中均有进球。
在即将客战纽卡斯尔的比赛前，看起来杜兰已成为埃梅里的首选前锋。
维拉与沃特金斯分道扬镳或是双方最佳选择
前锋。维拉知道阿森纳正在寻觅一名前锋，并对沃特金斯——一位自幼便是枪手球迷的球员——颇感兴趣。
之后，杜兰在纽卡斯尔被直接红牌罚下，而在完成停赛后，埃梅里认为其状态和态度不足以重返球队。阿尔希拉尔开出了7000 万英镑m收购杜兰，维拉决定趁早放弃这位难以管理的球员以减少损失。
维拉不愿在同一转会窗口出售两名前锋，而
沃特金斯也未能实现加盟阿森纳的梦想，后者的报价始终未能达到维拉6500 万英镑m的估值。这名前锋感到失望，但埃梅里表示：“现在我们需要他，正如他需要阿斯顿维拉一样。”
今夏，埃梅里已失去蒂勒曼斯、摩根·罗杰斯、卢卡斯·迪涅和埃兹里·康萨等球员，他希望留住几名老将与他共同开启新era。
通常，西班牙人不会阻挠球员离队，但这次的情况似乎更为复杂。
对比立场 沃特金斯是Two Touch经纪公司的顶级客户，该公司由前阿森纳青训球员保罗·维纳扎运营。沃特金斯转投阿尔希拉尔很可能成为Two Touch史上最大的交易之一，而维拉对维纳扎的处理方式感到不满。若时光倒流，维纳扎或许也会采取不同的做法。《每日邮报》体育部已多次联系这位46岁的经纪人，但自周日以来，他至今未获回应。
沃特金斯在维拉的周薪据信略高于10 万英镑，而据悉阿尔希拉尔开出的薪资则高出许多。沃特金斯还看到康萨（28）加盟阿森纳，转会费大致相当于维拉向阿尔希拉尔索要的金额。沃特金斯将在12月年满31岁，倘若他认为维拉的要价对一位这个年龄段的球员过高，你或许能理解。不出所料，维拉的看法截然不同。
在埃梅里的调教下，沃特金斯已成长为欧洲最优秀的前锋之一。主帅始终信任他，并在赛季末阶段的13场比赛中攻入12球，成功入选英格兰世界杯大名单，这便是最好的回报。
在两名前锋因伤缺阵的情况下，埃梅里在对阵布莱顿的比赛中急需沃特金斯。难怪他在赛前采访前心情焦躁。当天空体育的约翰尼·菲利普斯询问沃特金斯缺阵一事时，埃梅里厉声答道：“闭嘴！”在他看来，越少说话，往往越愤怒。
在阿梅克斯球场，他比平时更多地与第四官员争执，对对手的替补席颇为不满，并在全场比赛结束后未与布莱顿主帅法比安·胡泽勒握手即径直走向隧道。埃梅里与胡泽勒并非至交，但这一反应仍耐人寻味。
下一步该如何走？
一年前，马丁内斯似乎已踢完他在维拉的最后一场比赛。由于渴望转投曼联或马竞，他在对阵水晶宫的主场失利中被弃用。
不过，这位门将仍在努力寻求离队，尽管上赛季他专注于比赛并帮助球队赢得欧联杯。然而，自周日以来，沃特金斯的情况变得棘手。无论未来如何，他都需做大量工作重新赢得维拉球迷的心。现实是，上赛季已有迹象表明沃特金斯的状态有所下滑。一纸新合同或许并非对双方都有利。
若维拉引进尼古拉斯·杰克逊，他们将拥有一名前锋，既具潜力又能进球。埃梅里对他青睐有加，因为他在维拉雷亚尔时曾执教过他。维拉还向勒沃库森询价，寻求20岁前锋克里斯蒂安·科法内。然而，勒沃库森目前不愿出售。
无论如何，维拉需在本周一主场对阵阿森纳前敲定沃特金斯的未来。
曼联球星布鲁诺当选年度最佳球员
布鲁诺·费尔南德斯（Bruno Fernandes）被评为PFA球员先生，他打破了英超单赛季助攻纪录。这位曼联队长在联赛最后一天助攻帕特里克·多尔古（Patrick Dorgu）头球攻门时，超越了由蒂埃里·亨利和凯文·德布劳内共同保持的20次助攻纪录。费尔南德斯已先后斩获英超赛季最佳球员、英足联年度最佳球员等殊荣，昨晚在曼彻斯特歌剧院完成帽子戏法。这位葡萄牙中场是唯一入选PFA英超年度最佳阵容的曼联球员。大卫·拉亚、加布里埃尔、威廉·萨利巴、于连·蒂姆伯和德克兰·赖斯组成了强大的阿森纳阵容，而尼科·奥赖利、雷恩·切尔基、安托万·塞梅尼奥和埃尔林·哈兰德则代表曼城出战。布伦特福德的伊戈尔·蒂亚戈（Igor Thiago）则完成了首发阵容的最后一席。奥赖利还赢得了男子最佳年轻球员奖，而米德尔斯堡队的海登·哈克尼（Hayden Hackney）则荣膺英冠年度最佳球员。曼城的巴尼·肖（Bunny Shaw）则被评为女子球员先生。
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环西班牙自行车赛——第四赛段（安道尔城-安道尔城，104.8公里）： 1. T·波加卡尔（斯洛文尼亚，UAE Team Emirates-XRG）2小时40分35秒 2. J·维达尔（比利时，Lotto-Intermarche）+2分39秒 3. F·加尔（奥地利，Decathlon CMA CGM Team） 4. O·昂利（英国，Netcompany INEOS Cycling ） 5. S·库斯（美国， Visma / Lease a Bike） 6. E·马斯（西班牙，Movistar ） 7. P·罗格利奇（斯洛文尼亚，Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe） 8. R·卡拉帕斯（厄瓜多尔，EF Education-EasyPost）+2分57秒 9. M·斯凯尔莫斯（丹麦，Lidl-Trek）+3分17秒 10. G·穆尔伯格（奥地利）同步到达
总成绩： 1. T·波加卡尔（斯洛文尼亚，UAE Emirates-XRG）7小时38分59秒 2. P·罗格利奇（斯洛文尼亚，Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe）+3分21秒 3. E·马斯（西班牙，Movistar ）+3分32秒 4. S·库斯（美国， Visma / Lease a Bike）+3分44秒 5. O·昂利（英国，Netcompany INEOS Cycling ）+3分45秒 6. R·卡拉帕斯（厄瓜多尔，EF Education-EasyPost）+3分50秒 7. F·加尔（奥地利，Decathlon CMA CGM ）+3分57秒 8. M·斯凯尔莫斯（丹麦，Lidl-Trek）+4分06秒 9. J·维达尔（比利时，Lotto-Intermarche）同步到达 10. J·维因（澳大利亚，UAE Emirates-XRG）+4分11秒
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伊恩·赫伯特撰稿
一项关于埃弗顿的统计数据正在流传：自世纪之交以来，该俱乐部在英格兰足坛92支球队中，既未赢得过任何奖杯或冠军，也未获得过升级资格。这一数据加剧了悲观情绪，而上周五晚间球迷的聚会则让人倍感温暖。
聚会地点位于丹比城堡酒馆，这是利物浦市中心埃弗顿球迷的传奇聚会场所，庆祝前埃弗顿队长迈克·莱昂斯的生平与职业生涯，其故事已被收录在一本精彩的新书《蓝色流血的人》中。
当莱昂斯昔日的队友们讲述起他们所熟知并深爱的那位不知疲倦、慷慨大方且才华横溢的队友时，现场却隐藏着深深的悲伤——因为当事人如今正在挣扎，无法出席这一盛会。
他的女儿弗朗西丝卡住在利物浦附近，每天都会给远在澳大利亚珀斯养老院的父亲打电话，那里是他与痴呆症共同生活的地方。她提醒父亲，自己在球迷中是多么受人爱戴。现年74岁的莱昂斯了解这本书的存在，《蓝色流血的人》是作者兼记者西蒙·哈特撰写的一本精心调研且文笔优美的传记。然而，他的大脑已严重衰退。家人和朋友帮助哈特拼凑出了他的人生故事。
他一定会对如今渴望奖杯的球迷感同身受，尤其是联赛杯，今晚将带领球队前往普雷斯顿——大卫·莫耶斯执教的前东家。
莱昂斯（上图）于1971年4月首次代表埃弗顿出场时，球队正是英格兰的卫冕冠军。然而，他在埃弗顿的11年间未能斩获任何荣誉。同期利物浦赢得了15个冠军。到1982年，莱昂斯已转投谢菲联，错过了埃弗顿开启辉煌时代的几年——他们在那个时期赢得了两次联赛冠军、一次足总杯和一次欧洲优胜者杯。
倘若莱昂斯能出席周五的活动，话题必然会转向联赛杯——以及他在1977年埃弗顿与阿斯顿维拉马拉松般的决赛中扮演的角色，最终维拉在老特拉福德的第二次重赛中获胜。这是莱昂斯效力埃弗顿期间最接近奖杯的时刻。
埃弗顿球迷至今仍记得他在斯特雷福德看台前进球后的激动庆祝场景。“迈克尔在那里比任何
米克·里昂斯传奇
他进了球，他的 哥哥乔在书中告诉
哈特，在家人面前，里昂斯总是被叫做“迈克尔”。
命运弄人，他随后被要求以多面手中锋身份冲刺——这一战术至今仍被埃弗顿球迷称为“Doing a Mike Lyons”——后卫线出现空档，维拉队抓住机会在补时阶段攻入制胜球，最终以3-2获胜。在回家的车上，里昂斯独自落泪。
首场重赛在希尔斯堡球场上演，凭借鲍勃·拉奇福德的绝杀，最终1-1握手言和——这成为里昂斯职业生涯最钟爱的夜晚之一。他后来形容那晚埃弗顿球迷发出的呐喊“永远值得我珍藏。它体现了我对这家俱乐部的全部感情”。
这本传记的标题，以及一张里昂斯在1980年足总杯半决赛不敌西汉姆联后脸部受伤的照片，都体现了他的贡献。
“为了埃弗顿，他可以赴汤蹈火。”他的主教练戈登·李如是说，并宣称他想要“十一个迈克·里昂斯”。
这本书的美妙之处还在于它对细节的捕捉，展现了里昂斯无限的热情与纯真的幽默，以及他作为职业球员的专注与敬业。他曾驾驶一辆印有自己名字的俱乐部配发的拉达车。
他拒绝去利物浦那些球员光顾的高档发廊，反而选择了队友罗杰·肯扬的妻子杰姬——一位理发师。肯扬太太与里昂斯的妻子特里西娅在厨房里聊得太投入，以至于永久液在埃弗顿队长的头发里停留过久。这简直是一场灾难。
那个周五，利物浦的一家酒馆里鸦雀无声
观察简报……普雷斯顿北区终结者 vs 埃弗顿
开球时间：晚8点，迪普代尔球场 电视转播：Sky Sports直播 主裁判：托尼·哈灵顿
那天晚上，弗朗西丝卡·莱昂斯在约100名与会者面前发言。迈克·莱昂斯反复用头顶球所带来的后果，与众多老将面临的情况如出一辙，而弗朗西丝卡一直是足坛亟需为他们提供更多帮助的有力倡导者。
这也是这本书副标题为《迈克·莱昂斯的辉煌与悲剧》的原因。
1977年决赛时的维拉队长是克里斯·尼科尔，他在职业生涯中因反复头球导致痴呆症，于2024年离世。但周五晚间的活动却是围绕一位男人积极向上的品质展开——弗朗西丝卡坚称，他不会选择任何其他生活方式。「他总是那么乐观开朗、风趣幽默，」她说。「他可能会对所有关注一笑置之，因为他一向谦逊。」
同样深爱埃弗顿的莫耶斯也理解莱昂斯的贡献。他曾在澳大利亚的季前巡回赛期间，与助理教练比利·麦金莱一同探望过莱昂斯。
联赛杯至今仍是埃弗顿从未赢得过的赛事。莱昂斯至今仍在珀斯观看球队比赛，倘若他们明年3月最终捧起这座奖杯，距离那场传奇的三回合马拉松大战已过去整整50年。
——《蓝色流血者：迈克·莱昂斯的辉煌与悲剧》，作者：西蒙·哈特。蒙特弗农出版社，定价20英镑。
詹姆斯·夏普 于城市地面球场
诺丁汉森林 vs 利兹联
詹姆斯 50' 贾斯廷 75'
利安·德拉普的到来对诺丁汉森林而言刻不容缓。在奥利弗·格拉斯纳执教城市地面球场的两场比赛中，森林遭遇两连败，且零进球。格拉斯纳先后派上三名前锋，球队仍无法攻破对手球门。
于是，在短短四天内，丹尼尔·法尔克的球队第二次来到此地，并充分利用了一支仍在寻找新身份的球队。上周六在英超联赛中先拔头筹，如今又在联赛杯第三轮中占得先机。
丹尼尔·詹姆斯整晚都在西桥福德享有充分自由，理所当然地为利兹攻入一球，随后内科·威廉姆斯将球踢入自家球门，进球最终被记在贾斯廷·詹姆斯名下，这也概括了他自己糟糕的一晚。
森林再次表现得死气沉沉，迫切需要新鲜血液。值得庆幸的是，在开球前数小时传来消息：俱乐部已就创纪录的4500万英镑转会费（可能增至5000万英镑）与切尔西达成协议，签下该队前锋。对于上赛季仅在英超联赛中攻入1球的球员而言，这笔转会费可谓天价。
德拉普绝非首个被切尔西榨干后抛弃的潜力新星，但若格拉斯纳能释放出他在伊普斯维奇时期的那种传统中锋特质，他或许正是森林所需。格拉斯纳偏好一名身体强悍的核心，正如他在水晶宫时的让-菲利普·马泰塔，以此凝聚全队并带动队友参与进攻。
森林在伍德的带领下表现更佳，但他于12月将年满35岁，且因膝伤缺席了上赛季大部分比赛。当晚他为森林创造了最佳机会，却未能把握住。在尼科·埃尔韦迪完成精彩的踩单车过人后，乔·罗登在最后关头的飞身解围
混战：贾斯廷将球挤过门线，令格拉斯纳再尝败绩（插图） GETTY IMAGES
格拉斯纳的“土拨鼠日”再现，利兹联再次不敌森林
詹姆斯·特拉福德力保球门不失。伍德在下半场也有一次不错的机会，但未能从8码外射穿特拉福德。
特拉福德自以4000万英镑从曼城转会后，已连续两场比赛保持清白之身。
森林仍在适应三后卫体系，詹姆斯多次利用威廉姆斯身后的空当从右路突破。第50分钟，威廉姆斯前插助攻，但阿诺·卡利穆恩多失误，令森林防线暴露。朗斯塔夫回馈此前助攻，将球传给詹姆斯，后者在威廉姆斯回防前有空间起脚，射穿马茨·塞尔斯。
一波四人换人为森林注入新活力，替补出场的穆里略送出一记漂亮的传中球给尼古拉斯·多明格斯，但——这已成为惯例——最终的传中质量仍不够理想。
利兹联的第二粒进球来自埃桑·安帕杜的长传，在禁区内引发彻底混乱。进球被判为乌龙球，但最终皮球经贾斯廷和卢卡斯·恩梅查触碰后越过门线。
至少比四天前那场更好。两队都不配在这场比赛中获胜。利兹联理应赢得胜利。全场球迷的嘘声已说明一切。
诺丁汉森林（3-4-2-1）：塞尔斯 6；迪奥曼德 5.5（穆里略 60，6）、孔尼亚 6、米伦科维奇 6.5；艾纳 6（内茨 61，5.5）、施拉格 6、多明格斯 6.5、威廉姆斯 5（哈钦森 79）；热苏斯 6（恩多耶 60，5.5）、卡利穆恩多 6.5（哈德森-奥多伊 60，6）；伍德 6.5。 黄牌：施拉格、孔尼亚、穆里略、多明格斯。主教练：奥利弗·格拉斯纳 5。
利兹联（3-4-2-1）：特拉福德 7.5；罗登 6.5、埃尔韦迪 7、穆哈雷莫维奇 7.5；詹姆斯 8.5（博格尔 71，6）、安帕杜 7.5、田中孝司 6.5（施塔赫 68，6.5）、贾斯廷 8；朗斯塔夫 7（威尔逊 67，7）、奥卡福 6.5（阿龙森 67，6.5）；恩梅查 7（卡尔弗特-刘易斯 83）。 进球：詹姆斯 50'、贾斯廷 75'。 黄牌：田中孝司、朗斯塔夫、安帕杜。 主教练：丹尼尔·法尔克 6。 主裁判：安德鲁·基钦 7。上座人数：24 542
进球才是重点——“萨维霍”的比赛目标
作者：马特·巴洛
罗伯托·德泽比盛赞萨维霍是世界上最出色的单挑盘带高手之一——但同时告诫这位托特纳姆新援必须在进球方面有所提升。
热刺将为这位22岁的巴西国脚支付高达8500万英镑的转会费，他希望被称作萨维霍。他以巴西和皇家马德里前边锋萨维奥的名字命名。德泽比在执教布莱顿时曾试图从法国俱乐部特鲁瓦签下这位边锋，而热刺追逐他已有一年多时间。
“我们需要能够赢得单挑、创造机会、制造得分机会的球员，”德泽比说，“在单挑方面，他是最优秀的之一。他能踢右路或左路。这是一笔重大签约。”
今晚在卡拉巴奥杯第二轮对阵查尔顿的比赛中，萨维霍有资格出场。他在为曼城效力的两年间仅在联赛中打进2球。
“要成为全面的球员，他必须得分，”德泽比说，“如果你分析世界上最好的边锋，他们中许多人每个赛季能进10到15个球。他具备这样的素质。要成为全面的球员，他必须专注于助攻、单挑盘带，同时也要进球。”
对于萨维霍转会的延迟，德泽比补充道：“我不耐烦。我们在5月埃弗顿比赛后的三天或一周内就开始谈判，但由于种种原因，他直到8月最后一周才到来。”
热刺将为曼城的奥马尔·马尔穆什支付高达5000万英镑，初期为租借加必签，明年需支付；同时他们正在推进从利物浦签下科迪·加克波的交易。
截止日期？ 曼城的恩佐计划
■ 曼城正在准备对切尔西中场恩佐·费尔南德斯的转会行动，这可能成为今夏英超最大的转会。本月早些时候，曼城被给予了以1.2亿英镑签下费尔南德斯的最后期限，但他们选择让期限过去，因为他们知道成本会更高。不过他们仍与其经纪人哈维尔·帕斯托雷保持联系。切尔西希望得到替代者，目前名单上有伯恩茅斯的亚历克斯·斯科特和水晶宫的亚当·沃顿。
转会观察 作者：西蒙·琼斯
■ 阿森纳与沙特希拉尔俱乐部就5700万英镑的边锋加布里埃尔·马丁内利转会费接近达成协议。这笔交易的费用将包括附加条款。这位25岁的巴西球员正在商谈个人条款。
■ 热刺已询问诺丁汉森林后卫内科·威廉姆斯，但他有望留在城市足球场。森林正在就1360万英镑转会费与科林蒂安斯中场安德烈进行谈判。这位20岁的球员仅在一年前才完成联赛首秀，但已迅速确立自己为巴西最优秀的年轻中场天才之一。森林边锋迪兰·巴夸将租借加盟里尔。
■ 伊普斯维奇镇正在敲定以2350万英镑签下勒沃库森中场埃克托·帕拉西奥斯的交易。这位27岁的球员已同意签约四年。伊普斯维奇希望为中场阿尼斯·梅赫梅蒂要价900万英镑，后者已收到雷克斯汉姆、伯明翰和德比的报价。
■ 曼联前锋奇多·奥比·马丁成为费耶诺德的租借目标。曼联确认以7000 万英镑m签下布莱顿中场卡洛斯·巴莱巴。与此同时，布莱顿以1000 万英镑m签下了年轻人队左后卫若昂·阿贾姆。
■ 布伦特福德正与西汉姆联就左后卫埃尔·哈吉·马利克·迪乌夫进行续谈。这位塞内加尔国脚去年夏天从斯拉维亚布拉格以1900 万英镑m加盟，但上赛季表现平平。奥林匹亚科斯已报价租借“锤子帮”防守中场埃德森·阿尔瓦雷斯。该墨西哥球员也受到皇家社会和阿贾克斯的关注。
■ 那不勒斯正与切尔西就马克·吉乌进行续谈，而蓝军后卫马马杜·萨尔将租借加盟皇家社会。切尔西已向亚特兰大询价防守新秀霍内斯特·阿哈诺尔，该球员年仅18岁。
■ 维拉新星汤姆米·奥赖利将租借加盟唐卡斯特一个赛季。
■ 维冈将以自由转会加盟方式签下水晶宫门将乔·惠特沃思，并附带转会分成条款。
■ 普雷斯顿前锋米卢廷·奥斯马季奇已加盟热那亚。
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英格兰在海丁利公园对阵巴基斯坦的首场测试赛胜利，是对过去10场仅获2胜的一次可喜突破。但随着明天将在洛兹举行的第二场测试赛临近，仍有五大紧迫问题待解。每日邮报体育栏目为您梳理。
能否挺过最新闹剧？
近期先例并不乐观。本·斯托克斯与古斯·阿特金森在6月于切尔西的雷克斯酒廊消费后，英格兰队在随后的新西兰三场主场系列赛中从1-0领先惨遭逆转，首次在主场系列赛中折戟。
前天——即他们自2024年夏天以来首次有望赢得测试赛系列赛的前两天——乔·鲁特用时24分钟的新闻发布会几乎全程回应了布赖登·卡斯在周六晚于德比被捕的事件。
队长代表英格兰板球委员会表达了强烈不满，但英格兰队在避免再次崩盘方面仍有两大有利因素。
首先，最新的闹剧不会令他们失去任何首选球员。
在对阵新西兰的奥瓦尔第二场测试赛中，他们竟然排出了一支五名球员仅获两次出场机会的阵容。
其次，巴基斯坦队实力弱于新西兰队，在最近10个客场测试赛中输掉9场。该国媒体对“这是50年来最弱巴基斯坦客场军团”的说法颇为不满，但迄今尚无人给出替代性答案。
盖伊是否已锁定位置？
埃米利奥·盖伊在顶替扎克·克劳利担任开局者后，首秀表现抢眼：在洛兹对阵新西兰的首场低分测试赛中砍下57分（全场最高），随后在奥瓦尔的首局又斩获53分。
但在对阵巴基斯坦的海丁利测试赛中，他虽有33分（31球）的不错表现，却因在穆罘默德·阿里的直球面前勉强勾边二号位接杀，暴露了对付外角球的技术缺陷。
盖伊的七次出局中，有六次是被接杀。尽管其中一次为近侧绞杀，但一种模式正在显现。他值得在两场50分的基础上继续证明自己，但其家乡球队达勒姆郡的队友本·麦金尼正虎视眈眈。
考克斯能否令选拔者头疼？
考克斯最初是作为顶替因膝伤缺阵的雅各布·贝瑟尔的三号位候选，但在上周对阵巴基斯坦的比赛中砍下73分，凭借那股自信劲儿赢得了印度超级板球联赛皇家挑战者班加洛尔队的合同。他事后自责错失首个测试赛百人，这番话令英格兰队上下倍感欣慰。
英格兰似乎不太可能在今冬对南非的测试赛系列赛中放弃贝瑟尔，但考克斯仍有机会竞争目前由丹·劳伦斯把守的六号位，甚至守门员手套的位置。
正是在后者的位置上，他本应在去年年末对新西兰的测试赛中完成个人首秀。
“我们并未展现出真正的自己”
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紧随其后的是他的“解除逮捕”，地点在莫利·马龙爱尔兰酒馆外。鲁特敦促球队利用最近的事件将一系列负面头条抛诸脑后——从哈里·布鲁克在惠灵顿与保镖发生冲突，到本·达基特在努萨的不幸遭遇，再到本·斯托克斯和格斯·阿特金森在切尔西雷克斯酒店的深夜饮酒。
“显然，我们并未展现出真正的自己，我认为我们有机会打造一种非常强大、令我们引以为豪且由球员驱动的文化。”鲁特说，“当然，这不会一蹴而就。
“在很多方面，我们将不得不重新赢回信任。这是我们必须持之以恒、身体力行的事情。我已向球员们明确提出对他们的期望，以及我们希望如何表现自己。随着时间的推移，我们必须向外界展示我在更衣室里每天看到的——那些性格特点，以及他们对为英格兰效力的热忱，而不是让零星事件定义我们作为一个团队的形象。我并非要求大家成为圣人。每个人偶尔都会犯错。
“但是，我们需要理解当前的处境以及英格兰球员的期望。‘我们已经进行了非常深入的讨论，我认为现在已有了清晰的认识。
‘我能理解为何外界目前对我们有特定看法。我们有责任和机会去改变这种局面。’当被问及英格兰球员是否需要更加谨慎，避免被公众成员挑衅时，主教练鲁特答道：‘我认为，如果我们不将自己置于某些情境中，就无需为此担忧。’
问题：盖伊在网络训练中，以及（上图）阿彻和阿特金森（PA通讯社）
2024年，仅在系列赛开始前不久就折断了拇指。这一选项仍在考虑范围内。
那么，史密斯是否正承受压力？
杰米·史密斯是一众未能从“灰烬碗”系列赛中恢复声誉的球员之一。今夏他有过亮眼表现，在主场对阵新西兰的洛兹板球场砍下关键的39分，在特伦特桥的第二局中以60分领跑——尽管那时比赛和系列赛已然输掉。
负面新闻：鲁特昨日发声（上图：卡斯在德比的冲突，PA通讯社）
但在利兹的海丁利球场对阵巴基斯坦的比赛中，他错失了施加影响力的机会，轻率地将一个拉球打飞至中间防守位置，自去年夏天在洛兹对阵印度砍下51分后，他已在364分钟内仅得20分。
史密斯最近告诉《每日邮报》体育版，他发现观看自己的击球平均分下滑——这已是他第二次测试后首次跌破40分。
他的接球表现依然稳健，但他需要证明自己已克服技术缺陷，尤其是对付短球和反弹球。
英格兰是否已更接近寻找一名旋转球手的解决方案？
并不尽然。绍伊卜·巴希尔已入选阵容，但——恕我直言——缺乏一名真正的全能手意味着英格兰无法为他腾出位置。
英格兰对雷汉·艾哈迈德的腿旋球仍显得不够热心，尽管他的击球能力本可加强下中顺序。但他们也会辩称，解决这一问题并无迫切性。
旋转球在南非的比赛中不太可能扮演核心角色，也不太可能在明年夏天的“灰烬碗”系列赛中成为焦点。
这将在两场孟加拉国测试赛中成为问题，但那些比赛在英格兰的优先事项清单中排名较低。
伦敦圣殿板球场如何应对球场问题：草皮专家、传送带式草皮与“灰水”被用于总部
撰文：劳伦斯·布斯
板球记者
当英格兰与巴基斯兰之间的第二场测试赛明天上午在伦敦圣殿板球场开打时，所有人都会屏住呼吸。
早在6月初，英格兰对阵新西兰的测试赛在伦敦圣殿板球场开打，马特·亨利的一次投球在本·达克特的中柱外侧低位停留，并在通往汤姆·布伦德尔的守门员途中弹跳两次。
在英格兰赢得一场低分对决（四局中有三局得分未超过150分）后，伦敦板球俱乐部（MCC）为球场表面道歉。两天后，国际板球理事会（ICC）将其定性为“不合格”，并对伦敦圣殿板球场处以前所未有的扣分处罚。
板球圣地遭到当局训斥？这宛如教区牧师在门厅里被人听到口出秽语一般令人震惊。“那两天着实难熬，”MCC板球与运营总监罗布·林奇表示，“这让人很受伤，但我们立即坦然认错。”
林奇称伦敦圣殿板球场的球场是“世界体育中最受审视的22码区域”。但他承认新西兰赛事的球场表面不合格，或许代表了整个英格兰板球运动的现状——球场管理人员正在苦苦应对一个充斥热浪的夏季，以及一份早已超出合理范围的赛程表。
也有例外。Headingley因上周第一场测试赛的球场表现而广受赞誉，而Oval球场在布伦登·麦卡勒姆执教期间也经常提供英格兰渴望的速度与弹跳。
但更典型的反应来自去年夏天英格兰在Edgbaston输给印度后的情况。本·斯托克斯选择先投球，期待早期为其快速投球手提供帮助，但印度队却轰下587分。他抱怨道：“结果这更像是一块次大陆风格的球场。”
因此，问题不仅仅是主场优势——英格兰传统上以阴沉的天空、绿色球场、缝线球与横扫球著称——正面临丧失这一优势的风险，更在于超负荷运转的球场管理人员能否打造出同时令球员、评论员、观众和管理层满意的球场表面。
英格兰板球的球场危机由三大主要问题引发。
第一是工作量激增，随着“百球赛”（The Hundred）的推出及女子板球运动的发展，球场负担雪上加霜。伦敦圣殿板球场的20个球场中，仅有7个可用于电视转播赛事，5个可用于重大比赛。迟早有一天，某些环节会不堪重荷。
第二是各郡板球的集中化。曾经缓解伦敦圣殿板球场压力的外场球场如今作用日渐式微，各俱乐部为削减成本，将重心转向主场。
第三则是干旱，这对球场管理人员而言是一场噩梦，他们不确定如何在传统的浇水与碾压球场技术间取得平衡。
观察简报……英格兰对阵巴基斯坦
开始：明天上午11点，洛兹。 电视：Sky Sports Main Event和Cricket直播。
在新西兰对英格兰的测试赛前，洛兹的准备工作经历了两个极端——热浪过后是暴雨。常规计算完全失效。
值得注意的是，7月对印度的那场一日国际赛前天气相对平静。洛兹的首席场地管理员卡尔·麦克德莫特打造出一块优质球场，100轮内747分失10个三柱门。
与此同时，特伦特桥在新西兰系列赛的第三场测试赛开赛时干燥到草皮下方出现裂缝。比赛前两天，麦卡勒姆祈祷英格兰赢得抛硬币。他们没有赢，最终输掉了系列赛。
洛兹赛事中最发人深省的或许是，这并不令人意外，反而进一步坚定了林奇的信念——必须采取行动。一项七点计划随之制定，MCC正在积极应对这一问题。他们引入了草皮管理专家，其中包括布莱尔·克里斯滕森，后者负责管理奥克兰的伊甸园体育场，同时也是新泽西世界杯决赛的球场管理者。
他们正在培育可移动球场，希望在2029年用于一场国际比赛，目前已在沃姆斯利——距离圣约翰伍德沿M40公路一小时车程——每年承办约35天的板球比赛。他们还在加强数据使用，关注湿度等因素，并将开始对部分中心球场进行细致的重新铺设，首个动工的是新西兰球道，这将令其至少两年无法使用。
“再也没有比卡尔和我更痛心的人了，”林奇说，“我们感受到了压力。如果没有，那我们就不配干这份工作。”
英格兰板球总会（ECB）竞赛与重大赛事总监尼尔·斯诺博尔承认，这一问题可能引发各郡给出“18种不同的答案”。
但他表示，ECB计划在明年夏天的每场板球大战前为主场球场提供7至9天的明确准备时间，并鼓励俱乐部更多利用外围球场。
至于英国日益炎热的夏季，水资源管理已被列为重中之重，钻井、地下储水以及“灰水”（非饮用水）均在讨论范围内。
尽管MCC用意良好，但在本周的测试赛结束前，他们仍无法放松警惕，因为那22码长的球道问题仍将受到严格审视。
橄榄球传奇巨星比利·波士顿致敬
别惹我！
鲁特对卡尔斯“愚蠢”的夜店逮捕行为大为光火
劳伦斯·布思撰稿于伦敦圣殿山
乔·鲁特表示，他对布赖登·卡斯在周六晚间在德比被警方逮捕一事感到“非常恼火”，并对英格兰板球运动员“在场外不断犯愚蠢错误”感到沮丧。
卡斯因在庆祝达勒姆击败德比郡的比赛后，在夜总会外醉酒滋事而被警方戴上手铐，此后他已向鲁特道歉，并——据队长透露——“理解自己的行为”。
但鲁特无法掩饰对不得不再次处理与酒精相关事件的恼怒，距离在伦敦圣殿山开始对阵巴基斯坦的关键第二场测试赛仅剩两天。
“我如果直言不讳，我真的非常恼火，”他说道。“我真的很失望，在上周在海丁利的表现之后，我们现在却在讨论与之完全无关的事情。
“我已经和布赖登谈过，当我第一次得知此事时，我首先关心的是他这个人。我认为我这样说并不过分——他非常沮丧、非常抱歉，并理解自己的行为。我相信当他有机会时，他会亲自说出这些话。
“问题不在于这起孤立事件本身，而在于我们不断在场外犯愚蠢错误，这正在削弱我们在场上的表现。”
卡斯是英格兰首两场测试赛16人大名单的一员，将因本次被捕事件接受板球监管机构的调查，无法参加在伦敦圣殿山的比赛。
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德拉普仅效力一个赛季后即将离队。他在28场英超比赛中仅攻入1球，各项赛事共47场攻入3球。
杰克逊转会维拉的交易可能为奥利·沃特金斯腾出空间，这名前锋目前被沙特阿拉伯的阿尔希拉尔所追求。他于周日维拉0:4负于布莱顿的比赛中因伤缺阵。消息人士称，维拉已向切尔西提出方案，以满足其6500 万英镑m的估值。杰克逊渴望与昔日维拉里尔主帅乌奈·埃梅里重聚。两名球员均错过了周一3:2战胜富勒姆的比赛，目前正在与哈维·阿隆索的主力阵容分开训练。
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这些如画岛屿上永远不会让你感到无聊 第4页
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阿拉斯加的文化、社区与三文鱼糖果内幕 第6页
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逃往多塞特海岸
像你记忆中的海滨假期……但更有趣
天堂岛屿
为何去海外总是那么特别
这里总有一种关于岛屿的特别之处能让假期感觉与众不同。但我们是否为这种特权支付了过高的价格？
TravelSupermarket已统计了在伊维萨、梅诺卡、马略卡、斯基亚索斯和西西里岛等岛屿与大陆类似度假的费用对比。
结果几乎总是大陆更便宜。今年夏天伊维萨岛与科斯塔布兰卡的家庭一周差价超过£600。梅诺卡岛和马略卡岛与科斯塔布拉瓦和科斯塔多拉达的差价最高达£700。希腊的斯基亚索斯岛与哈尔基季基半岛的最新价格差为£700。
唯有西西里岛比大陆度假村更便宜，其性价比远超北部的阿马尔菲海岸。西西里岛遍布珍宝，从埃特纳火山的葡萄园到巴勒莫的特亚特罗·马西莫剧院，再到陶尔米纳的《白 lotus》酒店。
但当然，我们愿意为岛屿度假支付更多费用——因为它就是与众不同。
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更远的岛屿也值得花钱前往，从毛里求斯、马尔代夫到加勒比地区。但该如何选择呢？看到面对面的
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旅行建议正在回归，维珍大西洋假期在巴特西发电站开设了一家旗舰度假商店（发电站本身也是本地游的必看景点）。维珍的实体
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如今，高街旅行专家乐于根据我们的需求量身定制。而四天的岛屿之旅或许就是完美的秋季休闲。
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马尔代夫群岛正在大举投资，吸引家庭、好友及寻求刺激的游客，与蜜月夫妇及幸福情侣比肩而至。
选择合适的度假村，您现在可期待在阳光下开展日益扩展的运动及高能量活动。除了浮潜、水肺潜水及烛光水疗，您还能挥拍帕德尔球场、骑行电动单车道或攀岩。成人可前往高尔夫球场或练习场，孩童则可尝试椰子保龄球或充气水上乐园。
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马尔代夫假期的兴奋从早开始——机场转机安排乘坐快艇或水上飞机，两者均能带来碧蓝海水与罗宾逊漂流式岛屿的绝美风光。乘船转机的近期游客称，启程数分钟后便看到海豚。
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Siyam World是马尔代夫首个漂浮水上乐园的所在地，同时有导游带领的浮潜探险活动可揭示附近珊瑚礁的最佳景点。另一个意想不到的亮点是全尺寸足球场。如果无法凑齐22人进行一场完整比赛？工作人员可安排家庭友好型五人制足球比赛。
儿童俱乐部提供从叶子艺术到披萨制作的一切活动，而“Not for Kidz”俱乐部则专为年长青少年提供娱乐，包括海滩派对、现场DJ以及日落后的火焰表演。不妨前往色彩缤纷的Kandima度假村，那里设有艺术工作室、空中瑜伽课程和摄影工作室。该岛还设有密室逃脱、电动卡丁车赛道和24小时健身中心。
我们的马尔代夫专家还推荐了豪华的Anantara Kihavah度假村。近期游客喜欢其“宇宙鸡尾酒”和从水上观测台指导的观星活动。在水下6米处的玻璃墙餐厅用餐，则是另一大亮点。
高尔夫爱好者会喜欢Kuredu度假村。虽仅设六个球洞，但无需整日打球。此外还有练习场、推杆果岭和专业商店。Kuredu还提供夜间浮潜、沉船潜水以及家庭友好的海龟寻觅活动。
Lux South Ari Atoll度假村毗邻印度洋的“鲨鱼水道”——一个全年都能观赏鲸鲨的热点，还可在海洋生物学家的陪同下近距离观察。
也不要忽视较小的岛屿。如果希望避开人群，可考虑精品Makunudu度假村。这里有30间海滨小屋、优质的风帆冲浪条件、当地人可带游客钓鱼，还有度假村传统riyaa dhoni船上的文化风帆之旅。
但该选择哪个度 holiday村呢？我们向度假专家征询了针对家庭和活跃旅行者的最佳推荐。在此过程中，他们筛选了逾百家度假村，每家都各具特色且大多位于私人岛屿上。
Tui等旅行社提供的性价比之选是Reethi Faru度假村。水上运动中心提供所需的全套装备，可在房屋礁石及周边潜水或浮潜。这里也是风帆冲浪、皮划艇或立式桨板运动的理想场所——此外还有水上喷气背包、飞行滑板或水下滑板骑行。
回到私人岛屿上，还有瑜伽课程、网球和篮球场、配有风景的健身房以及水疗中心。
适合所有人： Reethi Faru拥有出色的水上运动（上图）；Siyam World马尔代夫拥有6公里长的沙滨海岸线（右图）
从英国直飞马尔代夫首都马累的航班约需10.5小时，可选择英国航空和维珍大西洋航空；或通过阿提哈德航空、卡塔尔航空、土耳其航空等航空公司中转。这里全年都是旅游目的地，旅行套餐通常包含乘船或水上飞机前往各个岛屿的交通。大多数度假村采用全包价格，更便于控制假期预算。
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- 您专注阿拉斯加已有十年。其魅力何在？这是一个令人惊叹、充满魅力的目的地，也是一片充满明显对比的土地。在HX探险邮轮上，您能看到雨林与苔原、冰川与火山，以及与传统阿留申人圆顶房屋相邻的俄罗斯东正教教堂。
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徒步崎岖地貌，探索色彩缤纷的首都（世界最小首都之一），在洁白雪山下的温泉中沐浴，或在数千年前因纽特人发明皮划艇之地的峡湾中划桨。
HX与当地社区保持紧密联系。在某些社区，您可能会被邀请到家中参加强劲咖啡的“咖啡密克”社交聚会，了解传统服饰，聆听当地音乐。
选择10至21天的行程，探索格陵兰西部海岸的荒野边缘，或在东部错综复杂的峡湾中穿行。若想体验完整的北极冒险，可将行程与冰岛或斯瓦尔巴特群岛的停靠点相结合。
您的探险船宛如第二个家，氛围亲密随意。您将与其他乘客结为朋友，在科学中心受到启发——那里的客座科学家和专业向导会帮助您分析海洋样本、举办研讨会，让北极生机勃勃地呈现在您面前。
用心探索是每次航程的核心。HX的尖端混合动力船引领行业可持续发展，减少重质燃油和一次性塑料的使用，以保护您所访问的脆弱生态系统。
家在荒野：友好的村庄在这些壮丽景观中安家（上）；它们丰富的烹饪传统为您的餐盘增色（右）
美食之旅
冒险的脚步延续到您的餐盘。您的全包式行程意味着全天供应美味佳肴和饮品。格陵兰航线还有一个独特的美食项目，展现当地社区丰富的传统与烹饪文化。您将在北极风味中徜徉，由轮换的当地客座厨师主理菜单，并由著名格陵兰籍厨师Inunnguaq Hegelund监制。
今年是HX首次驶入荒野130周年，您仍能在这片原始荒野中体验真正的冒险。在这里，您能见证大自然磅礴的壮丽景象，同时感受那些在这些壮丽景观中安家的小型社区所散发的温暖。
此前的乘客分享了他们与HX航程如何改变了自己。“我觉得自己像一位真正的探险家。”来自汉普郡的安妮如是说。而来自布里斯托的理查德则表示：“格陵兰让你意识到自己是多么渺小。”
静心探索
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拨打 020 3131 5011，访问 travelhx.com 或联系您的旅行代理。
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犹如童年记忆中的海滨假期... 却更加有趣
几乎所有家庭所需的一切应有尽有，从杂货店到酒吧、餐厅，甚至正宗的炸鱼薯条外卖。活动丰富多样。年幼的客人可以在游乐场、泳池中的迷你喷气式快艇和水中喷气背包之间切换，而射箭和塞格威体验则为陆地探险增添乐趣。想要放松时，可围坐在棋盘游戏旁，或捧着电影或书籍蜷缩休息。
抵达时，鲍利兹湾的到来便已在行李未拆之际唤起记忆。在鲍利兹湾（Bowleaze Cove），韦茅斯湾（Weymouth Bay）的壮阔海景、空气中的咸味以及岸边承诺的炸鱼薯条，无不让人回想起童年假期。
然而，这份怀旧却带着几分精致的色彩：这是一个家庭乐趣与当代住宿、贴心设施及温和奢华完美融合的度假胜地，且距离多塞特郡最吸引人的海滨小镇之一近在咫尺。
度假村坐落在侏罗纪海岸的一片美丽海滨上，可直接通往海滩。韦茅斯海滨步道近在咫尺，那里有金色的细沙、平静的浅水域以及英国传统海滨的经典特色。乔治亚式露台、熙熙攘攘的海滨大道和色彩鲜艳的朱比利钟楼为小镇增添了历史底蕴与活力；传统游乐设施、冰激凌、码头前的海鲜美食以及远眺码头的景致，让这座小镇既充满生机又历久弥新。
这种便利正是鲍利兹湾的魅力所在。客人可随心所欲地前往韦茅斯，漫步至繁忙的渔港，探索诺斯堡（Nothe Fort）或沿着海湾步道漫步，任由阳光洒在海面上。同样，度假村本身也足够完善，无需为离开而规划行程。家庭可安心留下，以更悠闲的节奏度过每一天，却仍能感受到充分领略海滨风情。
今日推荐
主理人：本·钱普金在厨房工作
傍晚时分前往韦茅斯，享受一顿真正的美食。餐厅位于码头区一栋二级保护建筑——昔日鱼市场内。这家小巧的餐厅俯瞰港口，大部分海鲜在此上岸后被加工成精美菜肴。
主厨兼店主本·钱普金以自有日间捕鱼船为核心设计菜单，这些船只采用可持续捕捞方式，如手钓、定置网和笼具。
最终呈现的是轻松随意却不失精致的用餐体验：品鉴菜单配搭葡萄酒，特别而不拘谨。菜品中可期待精致海鲜、巧妙的质地与调味对比，以及对每种食材的细腻运用。
预订请访问 catchatheoldfishmarket.com / reservations 或致电 01305 590555。 （仅接受12岁以上儿童入内）
海滩之行
寻求更刺激体验的游客可选择皮划艇或桨板出海，或前往附近的波特兰岛进行攀岩与海岸徒步。有组织的活动及晚间娱乐让家庭成员能共度时光，且各年龄段无需参与完全相同的项目。这为假期营造出真正的放松氛围。
更别提那些过时的度假营地形象早已一去不复返。住宿选择从实用的经典度假屋到顶级的马厩区豪华小屋，后者配备按摩浴缸且允许携带宠物。标志性住宿空间整洁宽敞、设计精致，将自助式度假的自由与时尚静养地的舒适完美结合。经过一整天的活动后，这里提供宁静的栖息之所。
鲍利兹湾的魅力不在于单一亮点，而在于各要素的完美融合：海滩、舒适、活动、美食、景观，以及公园外的韦茅斯。对于渴望海滨休闲、活动丰富且无需过多规划的人来说，这个多塞特郡的度假胜地证明了英式度假不仅生机勃勃，而且比以往更加精彩。
资讯
了解鲍利兹湾度假村与水疗中心的更多信息并预订，请访问 watersideholidaygroup.co.uk
这是一个海滨度假的绝佳去处，活动丰富，证明英式度假不仅生机勃勃，而且比以往更加精彩
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使用条款，第48页
数独 将所有数字1至9填入网格，使每行、每列及每个3×3方格内均包含全部数字。答案明日揭晓
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奖品数独
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揭晓三个阴影方格即有机会赢得£250。 参与方式：拨打0901 292 5009并留下今日三位数答案（从左至右）及您的详细信息。或发送短信“SUDOKU”至65700，注明答案及姓名。短信与通话费用为£1，另收标准网络费用。每周一00.01至周五23.59期间收到的所有正确答案中随机选出一名获胜者。答案每天00.01更新。英国居民年满18岁（北爱尔兰除外）。详见条款与细则。
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横向
- 像粗糙织物般贴身穿着会不舒服的布料（8）
- _ Marant，1967年出生的法国时装设计师（6）
- 甲壳虫乐队1960年至1962年常在此德国城市演出（7）
- 太平洋地区的一个地理区域，其最高峰为印度尼西亚的查亚峰（7）
- 希腊神话中居住于湖泊与河流的仙女（5）
- 其女子预备队绰号为“Blondie”的大学（9）
- 一种变稠并轻微发酵、略带酸味的奶制品（5,7）
- 为小型乐队创作的轻松曲目（12）
- 意为“在前往目的地途中”的短语（2,7）
- _ Sterling，由约翰·斯拉特里在《广告狂人》中饰演的角色（5）
- 将墨西哥原产水果制成的菜肴涂抹在烤面包上（7）
- _ Flow，恩雅于1988年发行的歌曲（7）
- 在2003年首次赢得郡级锦标赛冠军的板球队（6）
- Love-in_，三色堇或野生蝴蝶花的俗称（8）
纵向
- 吉萨大_，位于尼罗河西岸的石灰岩雕像（6）
- 现代希腊方言（6）
- 《泰晤士报》的历史绰号（9）
- 英联邦国家中高级外交官办公的建筑（4,10）
- _ tackle，橄榄球中的犯规动作，球员被抬起后头朝下摔下（5）
- _ Cumberbatch，在《霍比特人》系列电影中饰演史矛革与索伦的演员（8）
- 形容由酵母发酵的面包（8）
- 英国高尔夫球手，赢得2025年联邦快递杯（5,9）
- 主演里奇·热维斯饰演托尼·约翰逊的电视情景喜剧系列（5,4）
- Rear_，海军中校军衔（8）
- 热烈且持久的掌声回应（8）
- 忽视或拒绝注意（6）
- Elkie_，英国歌手，代表作包括1986年的《No More The Fool》（6）
- 一种以叶片厚实、边缘带刺著称的多肉植物（5）
猜词轮
你有十分钟时间，用轮盘中的字母拼出尽可能多的单词。每个单词必须包含中心字母，并至少使用其他三个字母。字母只能使用一次。不可使用复数、外来词或专有名词。以“s”结尾的动词允许使用。今日九字母词提示：不稳定的电荷。
评级：10个词，一般；15个，良好；20个，优秀；25个或以上，优异。答案明日揭晓
扫描二维码，立即报名参加《晨间邮报》每日问答，测试你的综合知识！
在以下方格中写下你的答案
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方框1：Jessie Ware于2026年发行的专辑名称？ Superbloom（M） Megaglow（D） Bigblossom（C）
方框2：英国废除人头税的公告是在哪一年发布的？ 1989（G） 1991（E） 1993（N）
方框3：2026年，英国打破了1957年创造并在1976年追平的高温记录。该记录是在哪个月被打破的？ 4月（A） 5月（D） 6月（Y）
方框4：在电视剧《摩登原始人》中，弗雷德脾气暴躁的老板是谁？ Slate先生（S） Stone先生（W） Rock先生（I）
方框5：坦帕是美国哪个州的主要城市？ 科罗拉多州（G） 亚利桑那州（V） 佛罗里达州（U）
方框6：以下哪个是可作为蔬菜食用的块茎名称？ Jericho aubergine（N） Jerusalem artichoke（C） Johannesburg asparagus（F）
方框7：Harry Brook是英国哪项运动的职业选手？ 体操（O） 英式橄榄球（W） 板球（L）
方框8：以下哪部早期迪士尼电影改编自Helen Aberson-Mayer与Harold Pearl的故事？ 《木偶奇遇记》（T） 《幻想曲》（Q） 《小飞象》（I）
方框9：Keiko Fujimori于7月成为哪个国家的总统？ 秘鲁（R） 印度尼西亚（A） 缅甸（H）
方框10：以下哪个是由怀特岛乐队组建的乐队名称？ Level 21（P） Level 42（Y） Level 84（E）
昨日答案：HARRY JUDD（1H, 2Y, 3D, 4R, 5U, 6J, 7A, 8R, 9D）
图片：PA
答案明日揭晓
铺轨
铺设轨道，使火车能从A村开往B村。数字表示每行每列的轨道段数量。只能使用直轨和弯轨。轨道不能交叉自身。
答案明日揭晓
2. / 3. / 2. / 3. / 5. / 7.
B
蜂巢谜题
所有答案均按数字顺时针读取。第1题的答案从给定字母开始。
- 目标
- 蝙蝠
- 逗弄
- 关注
- 合金
- 依附者
- 懦弱的
- 油性水果
- 加盐
- 新郎
- 放松的
- 摇晃
MASTERQUIZ
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驴骡是由哪两种动物杂交而成的？
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罗伯特·孟席斯（Robert Menzies）迄今为止是哪个国家任期最长的首相？
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在爵士乐或蓝调钢琴演奏中，哪种风格的左手建立起推动性的重复节奏，而右手则提供多样化的切分音？
MINDBENDER
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在一个20场比赛的足球联赛中，胜利得4分，平局得2分，失败扣1分。如果一支球队在比赛中保持不败（60%的比赛未输），最终获得26分，那么该球队踢了多少场平局？
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deed（契约）、opinion（意见）和straw（稻草）有什么共同点？
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在伦敦于4月组装的这条长度超过440米的世界最长提拉米苏中，全球大约使用了多少根手指饼干（精确到一万根）？
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以巧克力闻名的商人兄弟二人在19世纪90年代创建了伯恩维尔花园村，他们是谁？
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什么颜色是辰砂颜料？
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什么颜色是朱红色颜料？
KILLER SUDOKU
SOLUTION: PULLOUT BACK PAGE
- 哪个板球术语可能出现在红色文件夹中？
- 下列哪个是异类：褐菇（cremini）、婴儿（bambino）、羊肚菌（morel）、鸡油菌（chanterelle）？
- 破译密码，找出三种猛禽：NGCQ、KGMRK、HAFFGXJ。
在网格中填入数字，使每一行、每一列以及每个3×3方格包含1到9的所有数字。由虚线连接的每组单元格数字之和必须等于左上角的数字。每组单元格内不能重复数字。
SOLUTION: PULLOUT BACK PAGE
KAKURO
SOLUTION TOMORROW
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在网格的空白方格中填入1到9的数字，每行空白方格中不能重复任何数字。每行数字之和必须等于阴影方格顶部或开头的总数。阴影方格下半部分的数字表示向下的总和；上半部分则表示横向的总和。
SOLUTION TOMORROW
PITCHERWITS™
1a. 询问能源来源（4,5）
13a. 能看见它被放置的位置吗？（7）
1d. 岩石爆破因缺少硼元素而严重失败（8）
5d. 将阿司匹林碾碎后推向极端以记录（10）
ACROSS 1 图片线索 5 在绿地上？等级（3） 6 呼吸这样的音乐？（3） 7 图片线索 10 请求，类似于启动（3） 11 我压扁了非法的小动作（7）
7a. 选择最好的母亲（7）
18a. 以H. C. 安德森命名的大狗？（5,4）
4d. 倾向于屈服，却滥用四十亿腐败（10）
9d. 激励兽医省略一种治疗（8）
SOLUTION TOMORROW
12 在粗砂岩中发现的东西（3） 13 图片线索 16 在国库中的州（1,1,1） 17 无所不包的数字！（3） 18 图片线索
1 史诗 2 创新的 3 延长 4 桌子 5 顽强的人 6 相等的 7 爱尔兰的昵称
PIT your wits against Pitcherwits – 这个刺激的谜题中，部分答案以图片形式呈现！视觉线索的答案将填入网格的阴影格中。
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DOWN 1 图片线索 2 带有货币的神经症？（4） 3 反对巨大雕刻（4） 4 图片线索 5 图片线索
8 被称为撬开的奖项（5） 9 图片线索 14 拖着裙子四处走！（4） 15 为红色集会疯狂转向（4）
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION — ACROSS: 1 微米. 5 奇迹. 8 伊顿. 9 草案. 10 轴向的. 12 列日. 14 烤面包上. 15 最初. DOWN: 1 电影摄影机. 2 彗星. 3 埃琳娜. 4 短期. 6 卷发. 7 变音符号. 11 界外球. 13 额外。
MAILWORD
ACROSS
1 冰冻的 5 写出的 10 运气好 11 更驯化的 12 仪式 13 圆形剧场 14 进餐 15 彼得·_，喜剧演员 17 边缘 18 出版前的审查 20 家用车 22 呼吸孔 24 学术奖项 26 邪恶的_，Willo The Wisp中的反派 29 短柄小斧
30 讽刺的 32 原子 33 大勺 35 犯罪 37 爱德华·_，作曲家 38 波希米亚舞蹈 39 炖菜 40 通知
DOWN
8 前苏联领导人 9 有轨电车 10 自由的 16 菊科植物 19 山丘 21 到期 23 废水管 24 山谷 25 高度赞扬 27 壁龛 28 《安娜·卡列尼娜》，小说 31 高音吠叫 34 法令 36 微型鹿
SOLUTION TOMORROW
HIDATO
将网格填写完整，使所有数字从1到58连续排列——水平、垂直或对角线方向均可。提示：不必从1或58开始。从中间数字开始可能更容易。
KENKEN
每一行和列应包含1到6且不重复。围栏中的数字必须通过给定的数学符号组合得出该围栏开头显示的目标数字（顺序不限）。单格围栏可直接填入给定的数字。
世界最小、最难纵横字谜
纹身 朝九晚五
将给定单词的乱序字母填入网格，形成六个五字母单词（横向与纵向）。
答案明日揭晓
横向
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一种粗糙的亚麻织物（4）
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灵活的要价（缩写）（3）
纵向
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菱叶（4）
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日本药丸盒（4）
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北美国家（缩写）（3）
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身份问题（3）
答案明日揭晓
数字纵横
可能有多个解
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4分22秒
你的用时：□ 分 □ 秒
将每个方格填入1至9的数字。横向方格数字之和等于右侧总计。纵向方格数字之和等于底部总计。穿过中心的对角线方格数字之和等于右上角和右下角总计。
答案 明日揭晓
密码字谜
我们的密码字谜网格中，每个数字代表字母表中的一个不同字母。今天数字 23 代表 P，因此每当出现数字 23 时，请填入 P。我们已为你提供控制网格中的两个字母作为起始提示。将它们填入主网格的相应方格中，然后利用你对单词的了解，推断出缺失方格中应填入的字母。解答将于 次日 揭晓。
完成密码字谜，揭示阴影方格中的单词。
参与方式：拨打 0901 293 6232 并留下你的答案及个人信息，或发送短信至 65700，输入单词 CODE，然后填写你的答案及姓名。来电和短信费用为 £1，另加标准网络费用。每周从周一 00.01 至周六 23.59 收到的所有正确每日答复中，随机选出一名周度获胜者。答案每天 00.01 更新。英国居民年满 18 周岁（北爱尔兰除外）可参与。详见条款与细则。
1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 2 / 7 / 8 / 6 / 1 / 14 --- / ---- 9 / 10 / 11 / 12 / 2 / 8 / 2 / 15 6 / 10 / 11 / 13 / 14 / 8 / 11 / 8 / 14 / 2 / 15 / 16 / 3 / 16 17 / 3 / 18 / 10 / 19 / 15 / 4 / 17 8 / 20 / 8 / 11 / 12 / 5 / 18 / 5 / 13 / 17 / 8 / 5 / 18 12 / 10 / 21 / 16 / 12 / 6 / 19 18 / 22 / 9 / 5 / 11 / 8 / 10 / 12 / 8 / 23 / 24 / 7 / 20 21 / 8 / 13 / 2 / 8 / 21 19 / 9 / 13 / 11 / 8 / 14 / 10 / 11 / 6 / 8 / 6 / 9 / 22 3 / 9 / 10 / 24 / 3 / 2 / 10 2 / 19 / 13 / 5 / 25 / 2 / 11 / 8 / 23 / 10 / 12 / 24 / 11 / 24 15 / 6 / 10 / 3 / 12 / 8 / 12 / 25 18 / 4 / 2 / 10 / 15 / 21 / 8 / 13 / 26 / 5 / 6 / 13 / 26
需要提示？ 发送短信 CODEWORD 至 65700 即可收到今日谜题的四条提示，或拨打 0901 293 6200。短信和来电费用为 £1，另加标准网络费用。今日提示仅在 00.01 至 23.30 提供。
拼字游戏品牌 G₂ R₁ A₁ M₃ S₁
■右侧棋盘展示了典型拼字游戏的四行字母。请用每一行字母组成一个2至7个字母的单词，并将其写入提供的空白方格中。然后计算每一行的得分。别忘了使用双倍 / 三倍字母和单词得分——每组成一个7字母单词额外加50分。空白瓷砖可代替任何字母但不计分。解答见明天报纸。
SCRABBLE®和SCRABBLE®瓷砖为注册商标。游戏版权在美国由孩之宝公司所有，在加拿大由孩之宝加拿大公司所有，在其他地区由J.W. Spear & Sons有限公司（美泰公司子公司）所有。
标准得分 115-125 作者：贾德
四行字母架 总用时限制：20分钟
昨日解答：ABSURD 9 DUELLED 77 HIATUS 13 RICKETY 98 贾德总分：197
R / E / H / C / T / E / L / F / Y
B / Y / T / Y / Q / I / A / E A / V / A / B / C / L / M / Z / N I / O / Y / S / O / N / G / N / R L / Q / N / D / S / B / A / Z / A E / Z / U / G / E / I / B / L / C Y / B / L / D / Z / N / B / C A / P / L / D / E / U / A / W / J L / X / U / Q / A / G / P / Z G / J / E / D / Y / B / C / H / J H / G / U / O / G / S / U / H / N
© 1997, United Feature Syndicate, Inc.
单词搜索
以下列出的单词均可在棋盘中找到——正向、反向、上下、斜向均可——但有一个例外。参与赢奖机会，找出缺失的单词。
今日主题：英国电视节目《舞动奇迹》冠军
BAILEY CARNEY CLANCY DOOLEY FLETCHER
GOUGH JUDD LEACH ODUBA YASSIN
参与方式：拨打0901 293 6234留下答案及个人信息，或发送短信至65700，短信内容为"WORD"加答案及姓名。短信和电话费用为£1，另收标准网络费用。周一00:01至周五23:59期间收到的所有正确答案中随机选出一名获胜者。答案每天00:01更新。英国居民年满18岁（北爱尔兰除外）。详见条款与条件。解答明日公布。
数独X
将数字1至6填入每一行、每一列、每条对角线（以X形突出显示）以及每个水平3×2方格中各一次。解答明日公布。
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快速问答
- 学校科目“D&T”代表什么？
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小熊帕丁顿最喜欢的三明治馅料是什么？
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老忠实间歇泉位于美国哪个国家公园？
答案： 拉页解答
附加词汇 BOXER（拳击手） CAGE（笼子） FOND（喜欢的） HELM（头盔） JUTS（突出物） MOLE（痣） PAW（爪子） QUIVER（颤抖） WAVY（波浪形的） WICK（灯芯）
[…原文在此自然截断，以下内容缺失，严禁推测或续写…] ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
将列出的单词按水平、垂直或对角线方向在相邻单元格间移动拼写。将字母表中剩余字母（Z除外）全部填入网格，使所有列出单词均可拼出。
答案： 明天
桥牌大师课堂 / 隐语纵横字谜
北
[…原文在此自然截断，以下内容缺失，严禁推测或续写…]
双方做庄，西家坐庄3NT，南家开叫1NT。你赢得♥3首攻并领出小方块，南家用♦10拿下，北家垫一张红桃。♠Q被你的♠A拿下，另一张方块被南家的♦Q拿下。你拿下♠J回攻并连打方块。
在四张牌的残局中，你应保留两张红桃和两张梅花。南家可能剩下♣K-J和♥K-x，此时你可打两轮梅花，将南家困毙，逼他做出♥Q。若南家保留♣K-J-x和♥K，你在领出梅花时即可察觉，此时可赢进后领出一张红桃给南家的♥K，最终收取一墩梅花。
HEATHER DHONDY
获奖机会： 解出纵横字谜，揭晓阴影格中纵向单词。参与方式：拨打0901 293 6233并留下今日答案及个人信息，或发送短信至65700，短信内容为CRYPTIC、答案及姓名。通话或短信费用为每次1英镑，另收标准网络费用。或邮寄至每日邮报谜题17,952，地址：Colchester, Essex CO2 8GF。请附上姓名和地址。每周从周一00:01至周五23:59收到的所有正确每日答题中选出一名获胜者。邮寄参与者需在次日之前邮戳为准。通话和短信需在23:59前收到；答案于00:01更新。英国居民年满18岁（北爱尔兰除外）。详见条款与细则。
昨日谜题答案
纵向
1 赞扬两名雄心勃勃的男性（8） 5 在上升的设施中减少精力（4,2） 9 隐藏萨默塞特镇错误的名称（8） 10 取消机会用小时学习者（6） 12 国王出现前要去的地方（4） 13 看到时髦客人穿着异常整洁（6,4） 15 提案中作家达到言语直率的高点（5,8） 19 播送引入顶级图书制作者？（8,5） 23 批评副手不公正的人（10） 25 换言之，仪式舞蹈很难（4） 28 希腊字符回忆起穆斯林神职人员的房间（6） 29 审查后最终放行显示无增长迹象？（8） 30 赞助者，比方说，在学校被给予价格（6） 31 河边花园供所有人观赏具有高贵品质（8）
横向
1 服从查理、奥斯卡和迈克从事工作（6） 2 德国教父消费的水果（5） 3 城市房子里的响亮声音（4） 4 工作时曾经欺凌医生（7） 6 文章调查革命时期的女性（5） 7 在一份出版物中选择特别报道？（9） 8 围绕当前团队的随从用于飞机导航（8） 11 交易从刺激新购买开始（4） 14 最终渴望苍白（4） 15 迪基跛行穿过两行带小鞋（9） 16 未衰退的长篇故事（3） 17 一种带箭形叶子的奇特植物（4） 18 我写的关于疫情暴发起源的文章（8） 20 教堂部分提及无赖（4） 21 大使与职员整理好捣乱的观众（7） 22 我们听说亚洲半岛的职业（6） 24 避免德国和西班牙支持的女性（5） 26 领导人离开后显示恶意的女性（5） 27 男性的正常规则（不及一半）（4）
需要提示？发送短信 TIP 至 65700 即可收到今日纵横字谜的四个答案，或拨打 0901 293 6236。短信和电话费用为每次 £1 加标准网络费用。今日谜题提示仅在 00.01 至 23.30 提供。
30秒挑战
从左侧给定的数字开始，按指令横向完成。30秒内，初学者需完成自己的挑战；中级玩家需完成自己的挑战及初学者的；高级玩家需完成自己的挑战、中级玩家的及初学者的。
数独
9< / td><>1< / ><>3< / ><>7< / ><>4< / ><>5< / ><>2< / ><>8< / ><>6< / >< / tr><><>8< / ><>5< / ><>2< / ><>6< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>4< / ><>7< / ><>9< / >< / ><><>4< / ><>7< / ><>6< / ><>9< / ><>8< / ><>2< / ><>5< / ><>3< / ><>1< / >< / ><><>5< / ><>8< / ><>9< / ><>1< / ><>7< / ><>6< / ><>3< / ><>2< / ><>4< / >< / ><><>2< / ><>6< / ><>1< / ><>3< / ><>5< / ><>4< / ><>8< / ><>9< / ><>7< / >< / ><><>7< / ><>3< / ><>4< / ><>8< / ><>2< / ><>9< / ><>1< / ><>6< / ><>5< / >< / ><><>3< / ><>4< / ><>5< / ><>2< / ><>6< / ><>7< / ><>9< / ><>1< / ><>8< / >< / ><><>6< / ><>9< / ><>8< / ><>5< / ><>1< / ><>3< / ><>7< / ><>4< / ><>2< / >< / ><><>1< / ><>2< / ><>7< / ><>4< / ><>9< / ><>8< / ><>6< / ><>5< / ><>3< / >< / table>
<><>8< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>6< / ><>4< / ><>5< / ><>3< / ><>9< / ><>7< / >< / ><><>9< / ><>4< / ><>3< / ><>7< / ><>8< / ><>1< / ><>5< / ><>6< / ><>2< / >< / ><><>6< / ><>5< / ><>7< / ><>9< / ><>2< / ><>3< / ><>8< / ><>1< / ><>4< / >< / ><><>2< / ><>3< / ><>5< / ><>4< / ><>7< / ><>9< / ><>1< / ><>8< / ><>6< / >< / ><><>4< / ><>8< / ><>9< / ><>1< / ><>3< / ><>6< / ><>7< / ><>2< / ><>5< / >< / ><><>7< / ><>6< / ><>1< / ><>8< / ><>5< / ><>2< / ><>4< / ><>3< / ><>9< / >< / ><><>1< / ><>7< / ><>8< / ><>2< / ><>9< / ><>4< / ><>6< / ><>5< / ><>3< / >< / ><><>5< / ><>9< / ><>6< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>7< / ><>2< / ><>4< / ><>8< / >< / ><><>3< / ><>2< / ><>4< / ><>5< / ><>6< / ><>8< / ><>9< / ><>7< / ><>1< / >< / table>
奖金数独
解答如下
<><>初学者< / ><>100< / ><>-12< / ><>÷11< / ><>×3< / ><>+6< / ><>×5< / ><>+2< / ><>÷8< / ><>×5< / ><>-19< / ><>< / >< / ><><>中级< / ><>8< / ><>自乘< / ><>×25%< / ><>$2< / ><>+2< / ><>13 / 18< / ><>-19< / ><>5 / 14< / ><>+28< / ><>16 / 72< / ><>< / >< / ><><>高级< / ><>13< / ><>×15< / ><>+3< / ><>5 / 11< / ><>×2又1 / 3< / ><>减10%< / ><>+3< / ><>加25%< / ><>2又1 / 2%< / ><>×49< / ><>< / >< / table>
数字迷宫
字谜缺失：VENDACE
九点五点
纵横填字
4< / td><>3< / ><>2< / ><>7< / ><>9< / ><>8< / ><>6< / ><>1< / ><>5< / >< / tr><><>8< / ><>6< / ><>5< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>4< / ><>3< / ><>9< / ><>7< / >< / ><><>9< / ><>7< / ><>1< / ><>5< / ><>6< / ><>3< / ><>8< / ><>2< / ><>4< / >< / ><><>2< / ><>5< / ><>9< / ><>6< / ><>4< / ><>7< / ><>1< / ><>8< / ><>3< / >< / ><><>7< / ><>1< / ><>3< / ><>8< / ><>2< / ><>5< / ><>9< / ><>4< / ><>6< / >< / ><><>6< / ><>8< / ><>4< / ><>9< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>7< / ><>5< / ><>2< / >< / ><><>1< / ><>2< / ><>6< / ><>3< / ><>5< / ><>9< / ><>4< / ><>7< / ><>8< / >< / ><><>5< / ><>4< / ><>7< / ><>1< / ><>8< / ><>6< / ><>2< / ><>3< / ><>9< / >< / ><><>3< / ><>9< / ><>8< / ><>4< / ><>7< / ><>2< / ><>5< / ><>6< / ><>1< / >< / table>
<><>< / ><>Q< / ><>S< / ><>I< / ><>< / ><>16< / >< / ><><>D< / ><>U< / ><>E< / ><>T< / ><>S< / ><>3< / ><>9< / ><>4< / ><>9< / ><>25< / >< / ><><>S< / ><>I< / ><>D< / ><>E< / ><>D< / ><>2< / ><>8< / ><>1< / ><>5< / ><>16< / >< / ><><>D< / ><>R< / ><>U< / ><>M< / ><>S< / ><>4< / ><>5< / ><>3< / ><>7< / ><>19< / >< / ><><>< / ><>K< / ><>M< / ><>S< / ><>< / ><>1< / ><>6< / ><>5< / ><>8< / ><>20< / >< / ><><>< / ><>< / ><>10< / ><>28< / ><>13< / ><>29< / ><>22< / >< / table>
单词轮盘：airy, alary, aridly, aryl, daily, dairy, diary, dray, drily, fairly, fairy, fairyland, flay, fray, idly, inlay, lady, lanyard, lardy, nary, nyala, rainy, randy, riyal, yard, yarn.
数字谜
<><>< / ><>< / >< / ><><>< / ><>< / ><>9< / ><>5< / ><>< / ><>8< / ><>4< / ><>< / >< / ><><>< / ><>3< / ><>5< / ><>4< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>< / ><>5< / ><>2< / ><>7< / >< / ><><>< / ><>7< / ><>6< / ><>< / ><>9< / ><>5< / ><>< / ><>1< / ><>3< / >< / ><><>< / ><>< / ><>7< / ><>6< / ><>< / ><>3< / ><>8< / ><>< / >< / ><><>< / ><>6< / ><>7< / ><>< / ><>7< / ><>8< / ><>5< / ><>< / >< / ><><>< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>< / ><>9< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>7< / ><>< / >< / ><><>< / ><>< / ><>3< / ><>8< / ><>< / ><>3< / ><>4< / ><>< / ><>1< / ><>5< / >< / ><><>< / ><>< / ><>3< / ><>7< / ><>4< / ><>< / ><>3< / ><>8< / >< / ><><>< / ><>< / ><>5< / ><>1< / ><>9< / ><>8< / ><>3< / ><>< / >< / ><><>< / ><>7< / ><>9< / ><>< / >< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>7< / ><>9< / ><>< / >< / ><><>< / ><>4< / ><>8< / ><>< / >< / ><>< / ><>4< / ><>5< / ><>< / >< / table>
趣味谜题
A B
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DOLLY PARTON 1946-2026 Daily Mail, Wednesday, August 26, 2026 Dolly, the 'Iron Butterfly' born in grinding poverty, but whose stratospheric success would have made her a billionaire - if she hadn't given so much away to charity
From Tom Leonard IN NEW YORK
DOLLY Parton never let anyone forget that she was born poor. So 'dirt poor' that her illiterate sharecropper daddy could only pay the doctor who delivered her in their one-room cabin in the Great Smoky Mountains with a sack of cornmeal.
Ferocious hard work, an irrepressible talent, an endearing persona and a sharp business brain transformed those deeply humble roots into a vast business empire that, it was said, would have made the iconic singer-songwriter and entrepreneur a billionaire if she hadn't given so much away to good causes.
The incomparable and wildly popular Queen Of Country, fans liked to think, summed up all that was best about America – a hard-working, God-fearing star who didn't forget her roots or the less fortunate, and didn't let celebrity go to her bouffant-haired head.
And yet even Dolly's insuppressible gold-plated brand has its limits and, aged 80, she died yesterday in Nashville, Tennessee.
The death was announced on social media by her nephew, Bryan Seaver. No cause was provided but there had been concerns about her health for almost a year after she postponed and later cancelled a performing residency in Las Vegas on the grounds of what she called ‘health challenges’.
Last October, she'd tried to quieten online speculation – fuelled by younger sister Freida's call for people to pray for the star – by announceing in a social media video: 'I ain't dead yet.' Sitting in a studio where she was recording a commercial, she added: 'Do I look sick to you? I'm working hard here.'
She did not elaborate on her health challenges, which she said were ‘treatable’ but meant staying close to her home in Tennessee and Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, where she was receiving treatment.
In May this year, Parton said she had responded well to treatment after her immune and digestive systems ‘got all out of whack’.
However, friends told the Daily Mail she was ‘not eating right, not doing the things she usually would do for her continued health’, adding that they believed the death of her longtime husband Carl Dean a year earlier was responsible.
Anyone tempted to dismiss Dolly as a dumb blonde with big hair and an even bigger frontage would likely find themselves disarmed by her ready wit, which she often aimed at herself. 'It costs a lot of money to look this cheap,' she famously quipped. And also: 'I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.'
Parton – who called herself ‘a country girl’s idea of glam’ in her song Backwoods Barbie – didn’t mind admitting that she once entered a Dolly lookalike drag queen contest and lost because she ‘over-exaggerated’ her look. ‘They just thought I was some little short gay guy,’ she laughed.
Over a 60-year career, Dolly sold more than 100 million records, writing such global hits as Jolene and I Will Always Love You that other stars clamoured to cover.
Yet her songs – more than 3,000 – were only a part of the huge Dolly brand. She churned out books (including four autobiographies), produced and acted in films (9 To 5, Steel Magnolias and The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas) and
'I know I'm not dumb... or blonde'
TV shows, and monetised her image to an extent that other business-minded stars could only dream of.
Parton not only wrote books but encouraged many others to read by funding a literacy programme by funding a literacy programme - Dolly Parton's Imagination Library - delivering free monthly books to pre-school children across the English-speaking world.
Investing heavily in eastern Tennessee where she was raised, she even had her own popular theme park Dollywood Parks & Resorts, the waterpark Dollywood's Splash Country, a chain of ‘equestrian dinner theatres’ called Dolly Parton's Stampede (a four-course meal followed by a show featuring music, comedy and horse riding) and a Dolly hotel in Nashville.
Parton, who earned the nickname The Iron Butterfly for her combination of dainty femininity and hard-edged business brains, would joke that she looked like a woman but thought like a man. She amassed a fortune estimated at anywhere between \$300 million and \$500 million. The one aspect that she gave little away about, despite her apparent breezy candour, was her private life.
Despite her repeated denials that she was lesbian or bisexual, it was long rumoured that her 59-year marriage to rarely-seen husband Carl Dean was a sham and that the real love of her life was her childhood friend and longtime assistant Judy Ogle – who died in 2022 – with whom she admitted spending years sharing a bed when she was touring. However, it was neither Mr Dean nor Ms Ogle to whom Parton dedicated the song that made her far richer and more famous than any other.
I Will Always Love You, which she recorded in 1973 and which nearly two decades later became a huge international hit for Whitney Houston, was written as a farewell to her mentor and business partner, country music singer Porter Wagoner. As she freely acknowledged, professionally she was nothing before she met Wagoner. The fourth of 12 children, Parton credited her father with her business acumen and her mother – who had Welsh roots – for her singing ability.
Dazzling icon: Dolly, left, as she will be remembered, centre with husband Carl, and right in the hit film 9 To 5
She had started performing as a child, appearing on local radio by the age of ten and recording her first single, Puppy Love, at 13.
At school, fellow pupils were so jealous when she appeared on local TV that they locked her in a cupboard, leaving her with a lifelong fear of the dark.
At 18, she left her hillbilly home for the country music capital of Nashville (her father gave her a gun to protect herself) on a single-minded, ten-year journey to stardom. In 1967, at 21, she'd already had a string of songs in the country charts – she was initially successful as a songwriter rather than a performer – when she was invited to appear as Wagoner's duet partner on his weekly TV show and his roadshow.
Wagoner convinced his record label to sign her but, while they were successful as a duo, both grew frustrated that neither could achieve success on their own. In her case, it hardly helped that she fulfilled an eye candy role on his TV series.
Just 5ft, Parton was the first to admit that she was famous for her other vital statistics, assets which she put to good advantage as she pouted on The Porter Wagoner Show. (She finally came clean about her measurements in 1994, telling Vogue: 'I'm 40-20-36. I used to never tell anybody my measurements but the older I get the more proud I am.')
She and Wagoner competed for who could wear the most outrageous outfit or hairdo – he preferred rhinestone suits and pompadour hairstyle while Parton
freely admitted she'd modelled her look on the 'town tramp'.
Unlike his partner, however, Wagoner didn't have to break off in the middle of each show and advertise sanitary towels.
In late 1973 she decided she needed to go it alone. 'We fought a lot,' Parton said later. 'We were very much alike. We were both stubborn. We both believed that we knew what was best for us. Well, he believed he knew what was best for me, too.'
Convinced he would never accept her reasons for leaving – she harboured dreams, soon fulfilled, of crossing over musically into pop and of breaking into Hollywood as an actress – she decided to hand in her notice with a song.
Parton has said she wrote I Will Always Love You the same day and night that she penned her other big hit, Jolene. (The latter was inspired by a local redheaded
'I'm 40-20-36. The older I get the prouder I am'
bank teller who, Parton said, had a huge crush on her husband).
‘I took it in the next morning. I said, “Sit down, Porter. I’ve written this song and I want you to hear it,” said Parton. ‘So I did sing it. And he was crying. He said, “That’s the prettiest song I ever heard. And you can go, providing I get to produce that record.” He did and the rest is history.’
However, Wagoner, who had given Parton expensive jewellery and a blue Cadillac, sued her for \$3 million for breach of contract in
1979, by which time they hadn't spoken for three years. Parton never entirely deserted him, though, bailing him out of tax problems and buying the publishing rights to his songs for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
She later gave them back to him for nothing.
When he died in 2007 from lung cancer, Parton went to see him on his deathbed, singing I Will Always Love You to him two hours before he passed away.
Wagoner was, along with Burt Reynolds, Sylvester Stallone (her co-stars in the films Best Little Whorehouse and Rhinestone respectively) and fellow country singer Billy Ray Cyrus, father of Miley, one of a clutch of celebrities with whom Parton was romantically linked.
However – unlike the lesbian rumours which she firmly denied - she mischievously encouraged the speculation by never confirming nor denying it. 'I've been accused of being involved with every man I'm ever seen with or worked with,' she said in 2012. 'Maybe I have, maybe I ain't. I never tell if I have.'
Parton and Kenny Rogers, her most memorable singing partner with whom she released the 1981 hit Islands In The Stream, were also romantically linked. They initially played along with the speculation but she later denied it, insisting in 2017 that she wasn't 'his type' adding: 'We were almost like brother and sister. It would almost be like incest.'
She married Carl Dean in Ringgold, Georgia, in 1966, two years after meeting outside the Wishy Washy launderette on the day she arrived in town.
Parton recounted how she emerged from the launderette just as Carl, three years older, drove by in his pick-up truck. He told her she was going to get sunburnt in her skimpy outfit and followed her back in to chat her up as she folded her clothes.
Dean, who owned a local asphalt business, is rarely mentioned in her memoir - Star Of The Show: My Life On Stage - which was published last year. In fact, he featured so little in her public life that many wondered whether he actually
'Pure love': With assistant Judy Ogle
existed. Parton explained that he hated being in the spotlight, adding that, as a hard rock fan, he didn't even much like her music.
In her 1994 autobiography she said Dean would wait loyally at home for her to return from her glamorous travels: 'He seems to know that I'll be back and that love affairs and relationships are just part of my dealings with people.' Announcing his death last year, she wrote: 'Carl and I spent many wonderful years together. Words can't do justice to the love we shared for over 60 years.'
Her close relationship with Judy Ogle began at the age of seven and continued when Ogle, a hairdresser, became her ever-present personal assistant. 'Judy came to work with me as my assistant, my valet, hairdresser, make-up artist, everything she needed to be,' said Parton in a 1994 memoir in which she revealed that Ogle even worked with her on late-night songwriting sessions.
‘I don’t know what I would have done in my life without Judy,’ she wrote. ‘That’s as pure a love as I have ever known and that’s a stronger bond than I have ever known.’ Describing their habit of sharing a bed when Parton was on tour, the star said simply: ‘Why scream across the room when you don’t have to.’
Parton, who insisted that ‘if I was gay, I would have come out of the closet just a-flying’, was also forced to deny rumours that she had a six-year affair with a male assistant, Mark Kiracofe, who she reportedly first met in 1989 when he was one of her stage equipment handlers. In 1996, it was claimed he had ‘walked out of her life’ after she refused to choose between him and husband Carl.
As with so many enduring stars, for Dolly, career came first.
‘I always just say that I’m a workhorse that looks like a show horse,’ she said in 2025.
Her abiding popularity was rambunctiously displayed in 2014 when she performed to a 180,000-strong crowd at Glastonbury of people young enough to be her grandchildren.
Asked to explain her abiding popularity, she said: 'I think one of the things is because I love people and I think they feel that. I think people know I've worked hard to get where I'm at and that I've stayed sane... for the most part.'
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BIRMINGHAM hopes to become England's first 20mph city by lowering the speed on hundreds of its roads.
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The Liberal Democrat, Green and independent-led authority wants to stop cars ‘dominating’ the streets and is instead encouraging residents to walk and cycle.
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But critics have said the council is ‘determined to make it harder’ for people to get around the city – with Reform UK labelling the
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plans ‘anti-motorist’. The authority has mapped out how Birmingham’s transport system will be ‘transformed’ by 2031 to ‘meet the challenges of the next decade’.
speed limit for all residential streets and local centres in Birmingham, while retaining a 30mph speed limit on strategic and distributor roads'.
The Birmingham Transport Plan notes how ‘walking, cycling and active travel will become the first choice for most people making short journeys in their local neighbourhoods’. In the next five
The plan states: ‘Ending dominance of cars on streets in residential neighbourhoods, around schools and in local centres will increase active travel, improve air quality and reconnect communities.’ According to the proposals, this means ‘introducing 20mph as the default
As part of the transformation, private cars will have limited access to the city centre, with priority given to a network of pedestrian streets, cycling routes and public transport.
The plans come despite the Department for Transport making it clear in June that 20mph restrictions ‘should only be used where they are appropriate and supported by evidence’.
Jex Parkin, Reform councillor and leader of Birmingham City Council's opposition, said: 'This is another anti-motorist policy from a council that seems determined to make getting around Birmingham harder.
'People already have enough congestion, restrictions and disruption to deal with without another blanket measure being imposed on them.'
RAC data last month revealed that the number of drivers caught speeding in 20mph zones had tripled in two years. In 2023, 37,219 drivers had broken 20mph speed limits across the country – but last year this figure rose to 125,133.
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A spokesman for Birmingham City Council said: 'By introducing 20mph limits in residential neighbourhoods and local centres, we are able to put people – rather than cars – first.'
The spokesman added: 'Evidence from around the world on slower speed limits is very clear: it reduces collisions, saves lives and reduces injuries – so our message is simple: slower is safer.'
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'Stand your ground!' Meloni tells Kemi
Meeting: Ms Meloni and Mrs Badenoch
KEMI Badenoch was told to 'be your own woman and stand your ground' as she met with Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni.
The Tory leader and Ms Meloni enjoyed an hour-long coffee in Rome on Monday as they discussed the challenges facing Britain and Italy.
Ms Meloni is said to have advised Mrs Badenoch, 'You've got to be yourself' as they met in Antica Caffetteria, near the Pantheon.
Both Ms Meloni and Mrs Badenoch are facing a challenge from the Right. Mrs Badenoch has consistently ruled
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out striking a deal with Nigel Farage and Reform UK.
According to reports, Ms Meloni and Mrs Badenoch used their meeting to discuss the need to stop wealthy individuals from leaving Italy and the UK because they are the ones who ‘create jobs and grow the economy’.
Posting on X yesterday, Mrs Badenoch wrote of Ms Meloni: 'She is a straight-talking, no-nonsense woman who knows what she believes
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Jailed, stalker who's targeted Billie Piper for more than a decade and made her feel scared at home
AN ‘OBSESSIVE’ stalker who has targeted Billie Piper for more than a decade was jailed yesterday after breaching a restraining order.
Philip Jerome, 49, has been sentenced for posting about the Doctor Who star on X 11 times in a ‘delusional’ attempt to begin a relationship with the mother of three.
It follows the stalker writing Ms Piper, 43, an 18-page letter, bombarding her with social media messages and even posting cards through her letterbox after meeting her 20 years ago.
Jerome's series of posts included AI-generated images, as well as one
'Wrote her an 18-page letter'
which was captioned: 'She looks great without a bra on.'
The court heard he had a ‘sexual interest’ in Ms Piper and had already been jailed once for breaching a restraining order. This came after he turned up at a Comicon convention, where he posed for a fan photograph twice on the same day with Ms Piper – wearing different clothing for the second occasion.
The court heard that during the second visit, Ms Piper recognised Jerome and he was ejected by security.
Jerome, from Winchester in Hampshire,
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was previously warned he could be jailed for five years if he breached his stalking prevention order.
But prosecutor Anisa Alrubaie said he attempted to communicate with her again in December last year via social media. Jerome made 11 posts on X over the course of a month in which he tagged Ms Piper's account, Basingstoke Magistrates' Court heard. He also saved three photos of her to his device's gallery.
Ms Alrubaie said he captioned one post: 'I think I know which image probably made me fall for [Ms Piper], the GQ Awards, and made me want to meet her at the Growing Pains Book signing. She looks great without a bra on.'
Growing Pains is the title of Ms Piper's 2006 autobiography.
The actress did not attend the latest hearing. The court heard her personal assistant ran the X account and tried to shield Ms Piper from the comments.
At a previous court hearing, she said: 'I do not feel safe being at home. I do not believe he would show up and hurt me, however I don't know that for sure.'
Caroline Bonavia, in mitigation, said the latest posts were not of an ‘unpleasant nature’ and were mostly repeats.
Ms Bonavia added: ‘Some were essentially of her face with AI, so it looked like a cartoon.’ She also said Jerome had autism, had sought help for ‘obsessive’ relationships and previously pleaded guilty to the breaches. But district judge Kirsty Allman told Jerome the 'motivation' of his posts was to contact Ms Piper 'in the hope she will engage in a relationship with you. This is delusional'.
Messages: Philip Jerome yesterday
The court was told he had a separate harassment conviction from 2013.
Jerome first appeared in court in connection with Ms Piper in 2018, when he was handed a restraining order after posting cards through her door.
He breached this in December that year by contacting her mother and sister.
In February 2019, he admitted harassment by breaching the restraining order after he sent Ms Piper the 18-page letter.
This time, he was jailed for 12 months after admitting four breaches.
Puppy love! How dogs build bond with owners by blinking
THOSE adorable puppy eyes may be communicating more than you realise, with scientists saying pet pooches use blinking to build bonds.
Researchers at the University of Parma in Italy found dogs use their eyes for ‘subtle affiliative signals’ with people they trust.
In tests using 35 dogs, they began blinking faster when they saw a human do so, compared with footage of someone staring
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- but only if the person was their owner. The effect was strongest when the owner was a woman.
Lead author Dr Chiara Canori said: 'It suggests dog-human communication may be more subtle and responsive to social relationships than we recognise.'
But she cautioned it does not show that a dog is ‘deliberately saying something’ by blinking.
'He's blinking a message. I think it's something to do with lunch'
Prue calls for total ban on school lunchboxes
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THE queen of cakes and pastries has called for school lunchboxes to be banned because they are too often full of sugary, unhealthy foods.
Great British Bake Off judge Dame Prue Leith has praised the Government's ‘revolution’ in school meals due next month but wants to go further, with free compulsory dinners for every child.
The changes mean pupils in England from families on universal credit will be eligible for free meals, and will ensure more fruit and vegetables are on offer.
But Dame Prue said: 'I'm being much more draconian... we should ban lunchboxes because you can't police what parents put in.
‘It’s very hard if you’re a mum and a child wants to have that chocolate bar and whatever in their lunchbox, because it’s an easy way of pleasing a child, an easy way of almost buying love.’
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SIR KEIR Starmer will join EU and Nato leaders to bolster Volodymyr Zelensky in his crunch White House meeting with Donald Trump today. They will present a united front in the hope of moderating Mr Trump's treatment of the Ukrainian leader,
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challenge Britain's increasing involvement in the conflict.
The shock alert for the PM came as the head of the US's Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) made an emergency visit to Moscow yesterday.
It was reported that spy chief John Ratcliffe issued a warning to the Kremlin not to escalate the conflict in Ukraine, either by using a nuclear weapon or targeting Kyiv's Western allies.
The ‘just don’t do it’ advice was based on US intelligence that Russia is primed to act immediately and dramatically after its campaign on the battlefield stalled again.
UK security chiefs were last night primed for a Kremlin attack on Britain – either towards Mr Burnham or by targeting defence sites.
A senior source told the Daily Mail: “The question being asked is, “How long do we keep poking the bear before it bites?” An attack on the UK’s defence and security infrastructure is inevitable, based on our high-profile support for Ukraine.
‘Ourselves and the French are front and centre, and Burnham’s visit to Kyiv and his forthright stance will have been noticed at the Kremlin.
‘There had been some optimism in Moscow that he would be softer than Starmer on Ukraine. That was not the case. Russia
will want to make a statement, through actions rather than words. That could be a drone attack, or an arson attack. There are Russian sleeper cells in this country that could do either.'
The source added: ‘Russia is testing our security infrastructure on a daily basis... Something bigger is only a matter of time. Russia just needs to keep it low enough to avoid a military response by Nato.’
Other sources said that Russia's sudden withdrawal of its ambassador to London was being taken as a sign that ‘something big is coming’.
Major UK defence manufacturers participating in weapons production are stepping up their physical security and adopting measures to prevent cyber attacks.
A Kremlin adviser brazenly suggested factories producing drones for Ukraine could be targeted by ‘unknown sources’.
Former Russian deputy foreign minister
COMMENTARY by Dan Hodges
ANDY Burnham has chosen to stand up to Vladimir Putin. And Putin is already plotting his revenge.
'The chatter we've been picking up over the past two weeks indicates the Russians are preparing for something,' a senior security source revealed to me. 'They're planning some sort of action against UK interests. They're going to test Burnham.'
On Monday, the Prime Minister arrived in Ukraine – and he came bearing gifts. After appeals from Volodymyr Zelensky, Burnham agreed to hand over the technical blueprints for Britain's long-range Storm Shadow missiles.
‘Ukraine has been Europe’s protector: not a drain on our security but the frontline in keeping Europe safe,’ Burnham declared. ‘The Ukrainian people deserve not just our continued support, but our gratitude and respect.’
But as he spoke those words Andy Burnham knew that frontline is likely to move closer to home. On Sunday, it was announced Russia had withdrawn its British ambassador, without appointing a replacement.
Within the British security establishment this is viewed as a clear indication of an impending Russian intervention. 'We think he's been pulled so that when they act we don't have the ability to expel him,' one source revealed.
My understanding is that while there is as yet no specific intelligence on the precise nature of the possible impending Russian attack, the Prime Minister has been briefed on a number of likely scenarios.
At the top of the risk register is some form of cyber-attack against the nation's infrastructure, possibly aimed at the health service or transport system. 'That would be in keeping with the Russians' MO,' one security source said.
A second area of concern is some form of
Security services have told me: 'They're planning some sort of action... they are going to test Burnham'
direct sabotage or attack on Britain's military supply chain. Yesterday Andrei Fedorov, a Kremlin adviser and former deputy foreign minister, warned British factories could be targeted by ‘unknown sources’.
Burnham has also been warned there is potential for some sort of clash involving Russian and British military forces. In May, the Ministry of Defence reported that Russian jets had ‘repeatedly and dangerously’ intercepted a British Boeing RC135 ‘Rivet Joint’ surveillance aircraft.
Last month, a Russian frigate conducted a 'live-fire exercise' off the coast of Plymouth. And in May it emerged an RAF jet carrying then-Defence Secretary John Healey had its navigation system jammed by Russia. As one defence source explained: 'The fear is they will engineer some form of "incident". It could be done deliberately. Or the fact the Kremlin is adopting a much more openly aggressive posture towards us could lead to someone down the chain of command precipitating something on their own.'
What is also particularly concerning the security services is the possibility of a direct provocation from the Russians towards the PM himself.
Last year, a house and car previously owned by Keir Starmer were subject to firebomb attacks. It's believed these were initiated by criminals connected to the Russian state. And although two of the perpetrators were ultimately convicted, the assessment is Moscow was pleased with the results.
As an intelligence source explained to me: 'The problem was that after those attacks Keir Starmer came out and said how shaken he and his family had been by the incident. So in the eyes of Russian intelligence that was a successful operation. And that in turn holds out the prospect they will try something similar again.'
Part of the Russian rationale for an attack on the UK would be to directly challenge Burnham's resolve. The Prime Minister is regarded as a blank page when it comes to foreign affairs – and there is an incentive for Moscow to test him.
BUT there is also a broader perception within Russia, dating back to Boris Johnson, that Britain is a major obstacle to Putin realising his military aims in the region. 'The Kremlin thinks we're standing in the way of victory,' one foreign office source told me. 'Every time they meet with the Americans they're telling them: "It's the British who are the problem here. There won't be any solu-
Former Russian deputy foreign n Andrei Fedorov said he could not '100 per cent exclude' the prospect of 'semi-military' action against Britain following Mr Burnham's visit to Kyiv on Monday.
During the trip, which was the Prime Minister's first overseas since entering No10, the UK reiterated its ‘unwavering’ support for Ukraine, which in turn handed over what officials have called a ‘goldmine’ of battlefield data to help bolster British security.
Mr Fedorov said that ‘sooner or later, there might be not only verbal but maybe some visible reaction from Russia towards the UK’.
Asked to elaborate on what this might look like, he said: 'It might be so-called technical reaction, maybe some hackers attack from [an] unknown source. There might be different political steps and I cannot exclude 100 per cent that there might be some semi-military [action].'
Pressed to define ‘semi-military’ he told the BBC’s Newsnight: ‘For example, something might happen with enterprises, with the factories which are producing drones for Ukraine.’ Asked whether this meant factories in Britain being attacked militarily, the Kremlin adviser said: 'They could be attacked, not by Russia, but by... from unknown sources.'
The vulnerability of Britain's energy infrastructure to online attack by either Russia, Iran or China has been exposed recently.
A hydroelectric plant was shut down for four days last month after being targeted by Iranian hackers. Russia has become more brazen in recent months, with its jets flying close to British military aircraft over the Black Sea.
In April, a Russian SU-35 fighter flew within 20ft of a RAF Rivet Joint intelligence-gathering plane. The Ministry of Defence condemned the act as ‘dangerous and unacceptable’.
In June, UK forces boarded a Russian shadow fleet vessel for the first time. Royal Marine commandos landed on the Smyrtos oil tanker in the English Channel, in a major blow to Russia's war chest.
Russia is preparing to mobilise 300,000 troops to fight in Ukraine, where it has sustained 1.5million casualties since invading in 2022.
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tion unless you pull the British into line."
And there is a final reason Putin is now contemplating some form of direct action against the UK. His mounting desperation. Ukrainian ‘deep-strike’ operations within Russia have turned the war into a political crisis that directly threatens the Russian dictator.
'If you live in Moscow, you can't ignore the war any more,' another intelligence source claimed. 'When you walk out of your house to go to work in the morning you see a giant plume of black smoke from the latest Ukrainian attack. You can't buy petrol. The war's now on Putin's doorstep. And his attitude is:
"The people who are doing this need to get some payback on their own doorstep."
Since he entered Downing Street the PM has focused on domestic issues. But on Monday, his decision to stand with the Ukrainian people represented a welcome foray on to the world stage. Now we must expect a response to this expression of solidarity. A few years ago another Labour leader – Ed Miliband – was mocked for responding, ‘Hell, yeah!’ when he was asked: ‘Are you tough enough to stand up to Vladimir Putin?’
Andy Burnham has suggested that he is. Putin is now about to put that to the test.
nterests If he chooses, Putin could order attacks that would cause chaos ...and serious loss of life
RUSSIA'S threat against Britain, issued openly by Kremlin insider Andrei Fedorov on the BBC's Newsnight on Monday, contained a starkly ominous phrase.
Not his denunciation of the UK for supplying Storm Shadow missile blueprints to Ukraine and sharing intelligence, which he called ‘direct military involvement’ in the four-year-long war.
And not his insistence, which must have been approved by Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, that Britain will pay a ‘higher price’ for backing Kyiv.
The real threat came in Fedorov's promise that, if and when Russia retaliates, the attacks will come 'from unknown sources'.
This was a blatant acknowledgement that Moscow is already engaged in a proxy war against Britain – one now only set to escalate. Instead of waging battle directly with its armed forces, Russia is employing numerous indirect methods that it clearly intends to intensify.
These not only give it an element of deniability, but also make it much harder for our security services to guard against attacks. Russia is operating against us on multiple levels, and the need for the public to be on guard has never been more urgent.
Organised crime
Russia is now a safe haven for criminals – providing their victims are in the West. A tacit agreement is in place: the gangs running hacker attacks against British companies, blackmail scams, online ‘phishing’ operations and other types of cyber crime will be free to act without interference.
And if Western agencies attempt to crack down, the Russian state will do all it can to block our efforts. Moscow will deny all knowledge of the gangs.
Proof of this is built into the hackers' malware. These programs are set up to ignore computers running Cyrillic languages, which means they don't spread into Russian networks. It's an effective safeguard to avoid accidentally disabling the country's banking systems, for example.
Last year's ransomware attack on Marks and Spencer, the disruption to Co-Op payment systems and the temporary shutdown of Harrods and Jaguar Land Rover, were just part of the criminal cyberwar unleashed against us.
People trafficking
COMMENTARY By Mark Galeotti
wipe the gangs' money clean of criminal taints. And they do this for highly competitive rates, making the traffickers' business models even more lucrative.
Russia has experimented with encouraging the influx of illegal migrants into Europe, by channeling thousands of people across its borders with Norway and Finland. But the Scandinavian authorities have proved effective at combating this, and so Russia has turned to a simpler method – by laundering money for trafficking gangs.
This supercharges illegal migration routes, placing massive pressure on Western governments.
Social division
During the Cold War, the USSR's efforts to undermine European society were driven by dogma. But Putin's Russia is ruthlessly cynical, with no ideological goals. Its only aim is mass disruption, and its tools are every kind of political viewpoint, from extreme nationalism to climate change alarmism.
Russian financial experts in the Gulf states, particularly the United Arab Emirates, will funnel money through their complex web of dark banking transactions, to
So-called ‘troll farms’ employ thousands of people to flood UK social media with bile and disinformation, all intended to make the public more angry, more discontented and more divided.
AI has accelerated this tactic, by enabling the disruptors to target highly specific demographics. It's no longer necessary to swamp X or Instagram with memes and fake news in the hope that a few social media users will swallow the bait. Now each lie can be aimed at a small number of individuals, according to data harvested on their location, social class, income, hobbies, family life and practically every other scrap of personal information.
now hires small-time crooks to carry out its dirty work, as needed. The arson attacks on properties and a car connected to Sir Keir Starmer, for instance, were delegated to a couple of Ukrainian petty criminals.
Enemy agents
Instead of infiltrating the UK with ‘sleepers’ and moles, Moscow
Disposable agents are cheaper to employ, require little training, and are valueless to UK security services when captured. Typically, they will be paid no more than a few thousand pounds for a job.
Major outages
If he chooses, Putin can order attacks that would cause chaos and, probably, serious loss of life. Potential enemy action includes using trawlers to cut the internet cables connecting our island to the global web, or bombarding NHS computer systems with viruses that could shut down hospitals, wipe health records and paralyse medical supply chains.
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Banks, energy companies and rail networks are other likely targets. As Fedorov hinted, acts of violence against arms manufacturers have not been ruled out. Assassinations are a possibility.
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All these, though, represent a massive escalation. Britain has proved itself dogged in its determination to defend against state terrorism, and the Kremlin has a healthy respect for our security services. Putin will also be well aware that any large-scale attack will draw a strong response.
paign will suggest steps people can take to keep themselves and their families safe if power or water supplies are hit.
Before braving such a confrontation, Russia will test Nato's resolve by attacking a weaker nation, such as one of the Baltic states. Putin is looking for signs of weakness. We cannot afford to show him any.
A Government official told the Financial Times: 'There will be practical advice on things you ■ MARK GALEOTTI is Honorary Professor at the University College London School of Slavonic and East European Studies.
can do. It will be common sense not scare-mongering.'
The biggest home defence exercise in decades is to take place next year.
Ministers are also stepping up work on national security by updating the so-called ‘war book’ that set outs how departments respond to major threats.
RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL PRINCE
What Harry and Meghan's new life in Britain will REALLY look like
PRINCE Harry and Meghan's exile from the UK has lasted for 77 months – a long and eventful period during which his grandmother the Queen died, his father the King was diagnosed with cancer and their daughter Lili was born.
Their return, though, is moving at a cracking pace. The family is packing up in Montecito and they are due to arrive in the UK imminently. 'H arrives this weekend,' said a friend yesterday.
- He’ll be the key at-home parent and sees himself here for 12-15 years - She’ll ‘come and go’ to keep her business dreams alive in California - £8m budget for their Cotswolds home, but Christmas in Montecito
That's rapid indeed. News only broke last Wednesday night, with King Charles apparently informed only three days before that, on Sunday, that a return was planned.
Since that point, the world has been agog over the move. Where will they live? Will they be at Balmoral for Christmas? What school will the children attend? Are they really settling near to Jeremy Clarkson in the Cotswolds – and has Meghan been tempted over the pond by the offer of an acting role in Guy Ritchie's hit series The Gentlemen?
The answers to many of those questions are now becoming clear – and some of them are startling. They offer a compelling insight into the Sussex direction of travel, which has taken the world by surprise.
I wrote in July that Harry was contemplating a return to the UK and that there were hopes they could ‘unpick’ Megxit. There was much scepticism about my report – but it has now come to pass, more quickly than anyone thought.
I'm told that the only real motivation for the relocation is Prince Harry's fervent desire to give their children, Archie, seven, and Lilibet, five, a gold-star education, and for him that means it simply has to be in a UK school.
He and Meghan, say friends, have been kicking this idea around ‘for years’ but became very serious about it last year, to the point of obtaining prospectuses and speaking to head teachers.
The friend adds that the King was told ‘long before the weekend’ that sending the children to
'Meghan has been aware of Harry's views and discussing with him how they will bring the children up for years. It is not sudden,' says a friend.
close to, the Cotswolds, and the Sussexes are looking for a country house nearby with a budget of around £8million.
The intention according to Harry is to be here for at least the next decade.
A friend says: 'The way he sees it is that he will be here for the next 12 to 15 years, minimum. He sees himself as a full-time father and he will be here for them spending every Saturday watching Archie play rugby. That is the agenda.
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to sleep – in Year Three at a leading private prep school in September and his sister Lilibet will join the pre-prep, or infants', school of the same establishment.
"He and Meghan are the best and most committed parents. They are the people who tell their kids, "No tablets [screens] at the dining table".
Harry's friend says: 'The King has been well aware of what Harry wanted for some time and on their visit in July he knows that they were looking around schools.
time dad'. The plan now is that he will indeed be the key at-home parent, while Meghan travels back and forth to their home in Montecito, California.
'The marriage is not in bad shape -far from it'
William has also been aware for about six months. There is no question of anyone being “blindsided”.
‘There is no hankering after a royal status or royal engagements, it is not about that. He specifically doesn’t want to do that. This is about Harry wanting what is best for them and he wants them to be raised British, in Britain, and go to a public school. That is what the move is about.’
When he appeared on former rugby player and Traitors star Joe Marler's podcast last month, Harry did indeed describe himself – partly joking – as a 'full-
Her As Ever business is based in California, and sells the Californian lifestyle – rosé wine, flower sprinkles and jams. Their production company, Archewell, has offices in Los Angeles and staff there who are developing a number of film and TV dramas.
Archie will start as a day boarder – a pupil who stays longer than the normal school day but goes home
Former actress Meghan is noted for her drive and ambition for both ventures, while Harry has often appeared at sea in his post-royal life. It has been reported that one of his ideas for a podcast involved tasting hot chocolate in different countries.
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school in the UK was what they hoped to do, and the King also understood that Harry felt that Archie was far too young to start boarding, so it would mean a family return to the UK.
His school will indeed be in, or
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'Whole family are excited to come here'
described as ‘sociopaths’. You get the sense that him stepping away will not be a loss.
So Meghan will be left to try to earn money and keep their media dreams alive in America (they still have a ‘first-look’ deal for their projects with Netflix) while Harry returns to Britain, living probably not far from Highgrove where he was raised, and continues with the British-based patronages and charity work which he has undertaken throughout the Megxit period.
It seems likely that he will add in some new charities, in the areas of veterans and mental health.
Meghan will ‘come and go’ and is apparently already plotting out which weeks she will need to be here, and when she will be in California.
The plan is for Christmas to be in Montecito – so no awkwardness for the Royal Family gathering at Sandringham – and for lots of time during the school holidays to be spent as a family in California where Meghan's mother Doria lives.
Harry and Meghan also have a number of ‘Cali friends’, notably the Argentine polo player
Nacho Figueras and his wife Delfina, plus the make-up mogul Victoria Jackson.
There will also be breaks as a family at the holiday house they bought in Portugal a couple of years ago close to Harry's cousin Princess Eugenie's home.
‘Meghan will need to spend quite a bit of time in the US,’ says a friend. ‘She can’t just dial in, she will need to be there.’
Perhaps this explains the
confusing briefings by the Sussex communications teams over the past week. At first, it was briefed to People magazine that they were going to spend an ‘extended period’ in the UK so that the children could go to school here.
Then The Sunday Times was told: 'It'll be an extended period of time. It could be six months, it could be a year, it could be more. I don't think even they know yet. They might suddenly go, "Why don't we try Canada for a while? Why don't we try Australia?"'
But that made no sense – not in the context of relocating with young children to put them in a new school. Clearly, someone on the team was keen to play up the idea of the Sussexes as an ‘international’ couple, rather than paint them into a corner by suggesting they were moving lock, stock and barrel to the UK and staying here.
The reality seems to be that the move is long-term, but that it will involve school terms in the UK and holidays in the US for Harry and the children, and more time than that in the US for Meghan.
Naturally, the prospect of geographical separation between the couple, who were married in 2018, is not a narrative which Team Sussex want to promote. Indeed, the idea of it has set a hare running about the state of their marriage.
Celebrity journalist and gossip columnist Rob Shuter reported on Friday that their marriage is in serious trouble – and moving back to the UK is their ‘last attempt to save it’.
Taking cover: Meghan and Harry in London in March 2020 and, above, with children Archie and Lilibet in California
He wrote: 'I'm told Meghan did not want to return and remains deeply uncomfortable with the idea. Harry, however, is miserable in California and increasingly unhappy with the life they have built in Montecito. That unhappiness is now putting enormous strain on their marriage.
‘They are not in a good place. Harry is deeply unhappy, and Meghan knows she cannot keep asking him to live a life that is making him miserable.’
My source agrees. ‘Meghan is not doing this because she wants to,’ they say. ‘She is doing it because she believes she has to. She does not want to lose Harry, and she knows something has to change.’
Journalist Tom Sykes at the Daily Beast has been telling a similar story. He said in his Substack: 'The Times' source describes them as an "international couple". I suspect it may turn out to be more of an international person, and that the international person is Meghan.
‘We know Harry wants to come home. He has made it very clear how much he misses England, right down to that telling “currently I may live in the United States” in his Remembrance Day essay [a heartfelt tribute to the military and ‘the things that make us British’ published in November last year]. He has no old friends in California to speak of apart from David Langdown, who is his head of security.
‘It is no surprise he is miserable. It is no surprise he is excited about coming home.’
A friend of the couple tells me it's wrong to think these plans point to strains in the union, however. He says: 'The marriage is not in bad shape, far from it, and this plan has been agreed by them both. They both feel it's the best thing for the children and they both want to do this.
‘You will see how happy they look when they are here. It’s very possible to have the kids at school in the UK and Meghan still working on her business in California.’
Harry for his part has previously described marrying Meghan as one of the best decisions of his life and has dismissed rumours about the state of their marriage, expressing pity for the ‘trolls’ who spread such stories. In the short term they will stay with friends or family in the area where they are house-hunting. Harry is apparently being supported by his late mother's family, the Spencers.
He's happy to embrace the 'Spencer side' and feels this comes across as less alarming to those enemies he has made in the UK, who well remember the accusations of racism towards his own family and the nation, and his sour insistence that he was owed an apology for the way he and Meghan had been treated.
‘He feels that it sends the message that he’s not a threat,’ says the friend. ‘He doesn’t want to threaten anyone. He hopes to carry on reconciling with his family. It may take time, but he was very buoyed up by the time he spent with the King and Camilla over the summer, and the whole family are really excited about coming to live here.’
As for his security and who pays
'It's not about Meghan's return to acting'
for it – those questions are still to be answered. It might even end up saving Harry money as he does complain that simply living in California costs him \$2million (£1.47million) a year in security.
However, the friend cautions: 'Setting up a new household in the UK will definitely take lots of money. You couldn't do it if you were on your uppers.'
As to Meghan and her role in The Gentlemen – which was apparently being discussed but was then withdrawn – the friend says: 'It would be nice if it happened but that's not the motivation for the move.
'The move is not about Meghan returning to acting, and makes no sense if that's what it was. You wouldn't relocate a family for an acting job which wasn't yet contractual and was only going to last for a few weeks in any case. This is about settling the kids in a British school, and raising them here in Harry's native culture.'
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Mentally ill Sudanese asylum seeker slashed Leeds woman 30 times with a broken bottle
Sex-crazed migrant's murder bid was only stopped when victim's 'blood-curdling screams' were heard
Frenzied attack: Ibrahim Albashir was jailed for 25 years
By Glen Keogh and Mark Lister
A MENTALLY ill asylum seeker lay in wait for a lone woman before slashing her face and neck 30 times with a broken bottle.
Ibrahim Albashir, 34, launched the frenzied attack on his victim, now 32, as she walked home from a meal with friends in March 2024.
Yesterday, as he was jailed for 25 years, Leeds Crown Court heard of failures on both sides of the Channel that led Albashir to be on the streets of Britain that night.
After leaving Sudan aged 25, he travelled via Libya to Italy and then France, the court heard.
During a year in France, he started smoking cannabis and drinking alcohol and was later detained in a French mental health unit for six months where he was diagnosed with catatonic schizophrenia.
When he was discharged with anti-psychotic medication, Albashir made his way to Paris and stopped taking the
'I do not accept your amnesia'
medication. His asylum claim was later rejected in France.
With the help of people-smugglers, Albashir made his way to Calais and then to Britain, initially to a hostel in Birmingham.
There, he sexually assaulted a member of staff when she refused his offer of sex, the court heard.
He also lived in Luton, Coventry, Birmingham and Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria.
Albashir found himself in Leeds in March 2024 after he was thrown off a train from Manchester to York for not having a ticket.
On March 15 he was subject to a stop and search by police in the Woodhouse area of the city after he was seen running around with his trousers around his ankles.
The officer observed him to be ‘in a trance-like state’ and ‘possibly under the influence drugs’, the court heard.
No substances were found and no further action was taken.
Two days later, at about 9pm on March 17, Albashir targeted his lone female victim outside
The Original Oak pub in Headingley. The attack was only stopped when members of the public heard her ‘blood-curdling screams’ and punched Albashir temporarily unconscious.
Judge Robin Mairs, sentencing Albashir yesterday after he admitted attempted murder in March on the first day of his trial, said there was a ‘sexual element’ to the frenzied stabbing.
Miraculously, the woman's wounds were relatively minor, but the ‘mental scars are serious and lasting’, the judge said.
In a personal statement, the victim said the scar on her chest is visible and the thought of walking past the site ‘fills me with dread’. ‘Every time someone asks about the scar I have to relive the worst day of my life,’ she said.
‘I live my life feeling anxious, worried and scared about something like this happening again.
‘The physical injuries may be minor, my mental injuries will stay with me for ever.’
Police and medical staff described Albashir as being ‘out of it’ following the attack and apparently intoxicated with drink or drugs or both, prosecutor Brian Russell said.
Consultant forensic psychiatrist Dr Lucy Bacon, who has been treating Albashir for his schizophrenia, said his condition leaves him sexually dis-inhibited. She told the court he has tried to isolate himself with female nursing staff at Guild Lodge secure mental unit in Lancashire.
Dr Bacon said in January this year, he exposed his penis to a female member of staff and asked her to perform a sex act on him.
During his time in Guild Lodge he has been assessed by doctors and has failed to give any motive for the Leeds attempted murder, claiming he does not recall it.
But the doctor has found him ‘cagey... inconsistent’ and ‘evasive’ when questioned about his drug taking or memory.
Addressing Albashir, who appeared from a secure mental health unit via video link with the help of an Arabic interpreter, Judge Mairs said: 'I do not accept your self-reporting of amnesia at the time of the offence.
‘You chose a lone female to
'I live life anxious and scared'
attack. It would appear from CCTV footage you laid in wait.
‘I feel the common-sense conclusion is that there was a sexual element to the attack. This was not, in my view, random.’
Judge Mairs added that Albashir's mental health condition was ‘not the sole cause of your offending’.
He was sentenced to 25 years in prison with an indefinite hospital order. It was explained that this means he will be detained indefinitely in a secure mental hospital and, if he ever recovers, transferred to prison to serve the remainder of his sentence.
■ NEARLY three in four Britons (73 per cent) would vote to ban male asylum seekers from countries where rape, child abuse and domestic violence are ‘widespread’, and where women are not treated equally, a poll has found.
Two-thirds (66 per cent) said they believe such immigration has fuelled a surge in the number of reported sexual offences.
The poll of 2,093 UK adults by Whitestone Insight for the Women's Policy Centre found over-65s were more likely to support a ban.
More than eight in ten (85 per cent) said they would ‘probably’ or ‘definitely’ vote for one.
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Police probe 50 claims of unlawful family voting
By Martin Beckford Policy Editor
POLICE have vowed to look into evidence of illegal family voting at local elections after it was exposed by the Daily Mail.
West Midlands Police said it would work with the Electoral Commission watchdog and Birmingham City Council - England's biggest town hall - to review claims by polling station staff about widespread attempts to influence voters.
It took action after the Daily Mail revealed attempts to breach the secret ballot had been witnessed at 50 different polling stations in Birmingham. The local authority compiled reports from presiding officers showing they repeatedly had to tell voters it is against the law to enter a booth with someone else or tell them which candidate to pick.
One man was said to be ‘trying continuously’ to ‘influence
'They became aggressive'
voters', while another was accused of trying to 'influence voting' through 'Islamic gestures, blinking eyes, hand signals'.
Voters also ‘became aggressive’ when told not to talk to each other in polling booths.
A spokesman for the force said: 'We will be assessing new information that has come to light and will work with Birmingham City Council and the Electoral Commission as part of the review process.'
Conservative peer Lord Hayward, who introduced the 2023 law making it a criminal offence to attempt to influence voting in polling booths, said other authorities should also investigate. He added: 'We need to ensure that voting is in secret.'
The Electoral Commission said: ‘We will be providing support if requested.’
Lockerbie families' pain at trial delay
RELATIVES of Lockerbie victims were left ‘floored’ yesterday after the trial of the alleged bomb-maker was postponed.
Jury selection was due to begin today in Washington DC for the trial of Abu Agila Masud, who is charged with making the explosive that destroyed the plane - charges he denies.
Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over the Scottish village on December 21, 1988, en route to New York from London, killing 270 people. Only fellow Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi has been convicted of the attack.
A judge postponed the trial after new evidence emerged.
Kara Weipz, who lost her brother, said: 'People were getting ready to go to the trial. I was floored when I found out.'
Car chase that killed hero PCs 'sparked by rival gang who rammed the house of one victim's dad'
By Kevin Donald and Rory Tingle
THE car chase that left seven people dead – including two police-men – was sparked by a gang feud.
Five more people were arrested yesterday over the Middlesbrough smash in the early hours of Saturday.
The collision on the A66 killed all five occupants of a stolen VW Passat, including 17-year-old Cole Worthy.
Now the Daily Mail can reveal the initial chase was sparked after a rival gang rammed a Volvo XC60 into the home of Worthy's father at 3am on Saturday – just 40 minutes before the fatal smash.
It is understood the house was hit twice by the Volvo, which deliberately reversed into the front window, causing extensive damage.
Within minutes, a VW Passat containing Mr Worthy's son and four young friends was racing around the streets of Middlesbrough in pursuit of the Volvo.
The Passat was later spotted by a police patrol, resulting in the horrific crash that killed PC Tom Clough, 38, and PC Matthew Blades, 37.
The five occupants of the stolen car – Worthy, Makai Saddington, 18, Jakub Matusiak, 23, Theo Rae, 17, and Michael Cahill, 23 – were also killed in the collision, which happened when they were driving the wrong way down a dual carriageway.
Reports of the incident have until now described the youths involved as 'joyriders', but it now appears they were out for violent revenge rather than thrill-seeking. The Mail understands that the occupants of the Volvo and the Passat belonged to rival gangs operating as part of an organised criminal network across Teesside.
Died: PC Tom Clough
There is no suggestion that Cole's father, Gye Worthy, 39, was involved in any criminal activity. The attack on his home, however, appears to be the flashpoint that led to the disaster.
Cleveland Police yesterday confirmed the latest arrests included a 16-year-old boy as well as four men aged 18, 21, 23 and 55 - taking the total number detained up to 17. The 16-year-old boy and the 18-year-old and 21-year-old men were detained on suspicion of participating in an organised crime group.
Smashed up: Gye Worthy's house in Acklam, Middlesbrough
Died: PC Matthew Blades
The 23-year-old was accused of making threats to kill and the 55-year-old of assisting an offender. Police said two of the 12 people arrested on Monday have now appeared in court.
Kai Beattie, 19, of Redcar, appeared before Teesside
Magistrates' Court charged with possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life. Cameron George, 26, also of Redcar, was remanded in custody to appear at Teesside Crown Court next month charged with drugs offences and possession of criminal property, it said.
The chain of events that led to the deaths of the two officers, as well as the five occupants of the car, began in the Acklam area of Middlesbrough where Gye Worthy
'Huge bang woke everyone up'
lives. A neighbour said: 'The huge bang woke everyone up and it was then followed by a second.
‘Whatever happened was quick because, by the time my husband looked out of the window, the car was gone, but there was very bad damage to the house.’
One neighbour of the Worthys said Cole's father had lived at the address for about ten years and led ‘a normal life’. He is listed at Companies House as the director of a company called Worthylift Ltd. A source told the Mail: 'After the attack on his father's house, Cole Worthy and his mates were out in the VW Passat looking for whoever had done this.
‘There have been a series of houses rammed in Middlesbrough in the last few months and it’s all part of a feud between rival criminal factions. When they fight among themselves it is one thing, but when innocent lives like those of two police officers are lost, that’s completely another.’
Cleveland Police confirmed both the Volvo and VW Passat formed part of their enquiries in the early hours of August 22.
The Passat was caught on CCTV racing at between 80mph and 100mph down Lime Road in Teesville, pursued by three police vehicles.
At 3.39am, it turned the wrong way on to the A66, at which point the pursuing police vehicles stopped. Ten seconds later, it smashed head-on into the armed response vehicle carrying PCs Clough and Blades.
'Six-minute' pursuit ends in another horror collision... and another dead teenager
By Elizabeth Haigh
A MAN died and a woman in her 70s suffered critical injuries when two cars collided after a police chase.
Officers followed a black Audi A3 near Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, on Monday evening for six minutes before it crashed into a white Ford.
The Audi allegedly failed to stop for police before it hit the second car.
Several other vehicles were said to be damaged during the pursuit.
The 19-year-old male Audi driver died at the scene while the female driver of the Ford had to be airlifted to hospital with ‘life-threatening’ injuries.
A woman passenger in the Ford also sustained serious injuries. She and a fourth person, who received minor injuries, were also taken to hospital.
The Audi was first spotted by Warwickshire
Police on Birmingham Road shortly before 5.25pm. When officers attempted to stop the vehicle, it fled towards Stratford on the A439. It collided with the Ford at around 5.44pm.
Manuela Perteghella, Liberal Democrat MP for Stratford-upon-Avon, said the incident was ‘incredibly tragic news’ and added: ‘My thoughts are with the families of all those impacted. We must now let the investigation take its course.’ Superintendent Steve Flavell said: 'Our thoughts are with the families of everyone involved in this collision. We made a mandatory referral to the Independent Office for Police Conduct.'
A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokesman said: 'Upon our arrival, the driver of the first car was in a critical condition. He received advanced life support and advanced trauma care at the scene.
‘Despite their best efforts, it became clear that nothing more could be done to save him. Secondly, the driver of the second car was assessed and had sustained life-threatening injuries. She received advanced trauma care before being conveyed to University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire by air ambulance.
‘The second woman, a passenger in the second car, had sustained potentially serious injuries which were not believed to be life threatening. She was conveyed to Warwickshire Hospital by land.
'A fourth patient had sustained injuries not believed to be serious and was conveyed to hospital for further assessment.'
A spokesman for the IOPC said: 'Investigators attended the police post-incident procedure to begin gathering information. We declared an independent investigation at 9.38pm.
‘We understand that the driver of a black Audi A3 failed to stop for police and was then pursued for around six minutes.’
When I read the horrific details of the A66 crash tragedy I have to admit I thought: I'm not sad those thugs are dead...
I T'S a tale of two Britains. On the one hand, two law-abiding, hard-working, much-loved and selfless members of their community, of the kind that make up the backbone of our society. On the other, a bunch of feral, arrogant, reckless thugs, a menace to themselves and others who spread terror and chaos and destroy everything in their path.
The death of two serving police officers, PC Tom Clough, 38, and PC Matt Blades, 37, after their patrol car collided with a stolen VW Passat driving the wrong way on the A66 places these two very different worlds into stark contrast.
Despite their tender ages, the five occupants of the stolen car – 17-year-old Cole Worthy, Theo Rae, also 17, Makai Saddington, 18, Jakub Matusiak, 23, and Michael Cahill, 23 – who also died in the crash, had a string of previous convictions between them.
They ranged from driving without a licence or insurance and driving while using a mobile phone to shoplifting, assaulting a police officer, possession of cannabis, possession of a knife in a public place and vehicle theft.
By contrast, their victims had led exemplary lives. PC Clough, described by his friends and family as a ‘superhero’ with a cheeky wit, spent his entire adult life in public service, starting with a stint in the Army, serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, before joining the police and excelling in a variety of specialist roles.
PC Blades was a much-loved English teacher in Darlington before joining the police, where he was part of Cleveland Police's elite armed response unit. He
'It places two very different worlds into stark contrast'
also volunteered as a football coach at the club where his two young sons played.
Obnoxious: Masked youths set off flares at ‘vigil’ for the Middlesbrough joyriders
Seventeen people have so far been arrested in connection with the fatal crash, including a 16-year-old boy, a 55-year-old on suspicion of assisting an offender and a 23-year-old accused of making threats to kill. There are now also suspicions that the whole thing was gang-related, with the stolen car chasing a rival gang as part of a violent feud between criminal networks in Teesside.
I'll probably get into trouble for saying this, but I don't care, I'm going to say it
...I only wish they hadn't also destroyed the lives of two brave police officers
this, but I don't care, I'm going to anyway. When I read the horrific details of this story, I have to admit the shocking thought that crossed my mind: I'm not sad those thugs are dead. I only wish that in destroying their own lives they hadn't also destroyed those of two officers: two kind, brave men whose names scarcely deserve to be spoken in the same sentence.
As to the obnoxious throngs of balaclava-clad youths, many too cowardly to show their faces, who set off flares and fireworks at a 'vigil' (it was more like a riot) for the five on Monday, roaring around on motorbikes and quad bikes in a field in Middlesbrough close to the scene of the crash, they're just as bad.
What a revolting display of misplaced solidarity. But the very fact that these people feel they can so brazenly idolise known criminals and potential gang members goes to the heart of the problem.
You would have thought they would want to keep their heads down, what with a police investigation in full swing.
But they're not scared. They know they have nothing really to fear from the police or, for that matter, any other authority. They know that their actions won't have any real consequences. Because they don't.
There are many reasons for this. A police force hamstrung by decades of incompetence and political correctness, in which a few exemplary individuals such as PCs Clough and Blades strive to do their jobs under huge pressure and against the odds.
A political class more worried about diversity than law and order, and far too willing to dance to the tune of the liberal intelligentsia, who have no concept of what front-line policing actually entails. A justice system that has no real teeth when it comes to dealing with systemic criminality of this kind – and nowhere to put the knuckleheads anyway, if they do by some miracle manage to secure a conviction.
And a culture – fuelled by social media and embedded generation after generation via TV, film and popular music – that encourages, rewards and lionises moral degradation and casual violence.
Is it any wonder these kids think they are above the law?
The killing of 28-year-old PC Andrew Harper, the newlywed young officer who responded to a report of a burglary involving a stolen quad bike one fatal night in August 2019, is a case in point. As he tried to apprehend the suspects – Henry Long, Albert Bowers and Jessie Cole – his foot became entangled in their getaway vehicle's tow-rope. He died from catastrophic injuries after they dragged him down a country road.
PC Harper was just days away from heading off on honeymoon with his wife Lissie. Characteristically, he had just come off duty when the 999 call came through and stayed behind to help. It cost him his life, and his widow their future together.
At their trial, Bowers and Cole were pictured smirking for the cameras, clearly unrepentant. Convicted of manslaughter (not murder, as many felt was warranted) in 2020, the pair are now slated for early release in January of next year, meaning that they will have served six and a half years.
That's right: six and a half years. For dragging a man to his death behind their car. That's less than
'These kids think they're above the law'
the maximum sentence for shoplifting (seven years, since you ask).
Despite a petition demanding they remain in jail for their full terms having over one million signatories, there is no clear indication from the Government of any concrete plans to stop them. Like many other violent criminals who stand to benefit from the drive to ease prison overcrowding, they could soon be living life to the full again while PC Harper's family endure a life sentence of pain and sadness with no chance of parole.
PC Harper's case had other parallels with the A66 deaths. It brought into sharp relief not only the lads' complete lack of contrition or empathy with the victim or his family, but also their own community's disgraceful attitude.
Friends and family of the three convicted were deliberately obstructive to the police investigation, erecting what investigators described as a 'wall of silence'.
In other words, far from being ostracised, PC Harper's killers were protected by their kith and kin and their barbaric crime treated as though it were almost a badge of honour. When the lesser verdict of manslaughter was handed down, they celebrated in court, hugging each other while PC Harper's heartbroken widow sobbed in the courtroom.
This is not the Britain most people want or deserve. And yet it is the Britain we have become, through a combination of weakness and wokeness. Unless the police, the courts, the justice system and the Government show that they are deadly serious about handing down extreme punishment for extreme crimes, nothing will change.
Good men (and women) will continue to lose their lives; the public will be left at risk – and the massed ranks of the morally reprehensible will continue to swell, fuelled by inertia, incompetence and a culture that rewards heroes by letting their killers off the hook.
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Teacher ‘who seduced boys’ can only have quick sex, partner tells trial
By Cameron Charters
THE partner of a teacher accused of sexually seducing her former pupils told her trial she has a medical condition that means she can only have ‘quick’ sex.
Sally-Anne Bowen, 65, is accused of indecently assaulting two teenage boys, aged 14 or 15, in the late 1980s when she taught chemistry.
She is said to have had sex with one of them 20 to 30 times over five months and to have dressed suggestively in short skirts and tight tops to lure in the boys.
Bowen denies the claim – and her partner Darren Lee Scotchbrook yesterday gave evidence that she has a congenital condition which means penetrative sex is difficult and painful for her.
He told Harrow Crown Court that although he has had sex with Bowen throughout their 36-year relationship, he has to be careful not to hurt her.
Mr Scotchbrook said the first time he had sex with Bowen it was unlike anything he had experienced before.
‘It was completely different. She had a condition she was not aware of. It was obviously there,’ he said. ‘It was more of a process than lovemaking. It was a careful
'It was more process than lovemaking'
process. I was wondering, “What’s going on?” She asked me to be quick. Then I was quick. I was never a great lover. I have always been quick.’
Mr Scotchbrook, who was three years the senior of the first complainant, said he met Bowen in 1990 when he was roughly 20 and she was 28 at a pub in Catford, south London.
On their first date they went for dinner on a boat on the Thames – but when they went back home she did not want to have sex with him, he said.
Mr Scotchbrook said: 'I was a bit upset about it. I spent £200 on dinner.'
He said sex was ‘clearly’ not as enjoyable as he would like it to be for Bowen, who was often ‘reluctant’.
Support: Darren Lee Scotchbrook and Sally-Anne Bowen arrive at court yesterday
But asked if he enjoyed the sex he answered: 'She made me listen to Leonard Cohen. It was more enjoyable than that.'
During cross-examination by Madeleine Wolfe, prosecuting, Mr Scotchbrook agreed that Bowen had ‘willingly engaged’ in sex during their relationship and had also given birth to their daughter in 2002. After Mr Scotchbrook finished his evidence, Mark Kimsey, representing Bowen, read agreed facts from the medical reports of two gynaecologists.
They concluded the alleged sexual activity with the first pupil was ‘feasible’. Mr Kimsey added: ‘The experts agreed full penile vaginal penetration would be painful but possible to achieve.’
Bowen's condition is called a 'longitudinal vaginal septum' – an extra piece of tissue in the vagina. It was diagnosed in 1990 and surgically removed in 2017.
Bowen, who worked at Christ's College in Finchley, north London, denies dressing in a sexualised manner and told the jury on Monday she had been in her mid-20s and wasn't going to 'dress like Margaret Thatcher'. Ms Wolfe yesterday said: 'You make your mind up about the clothing. I will not comment whether it's right or wrong, but what it did do was attract attention and what she did not do was anything about it.' Bowen, of Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, denies seven counts of indecent assault.
She was earlier cleared on an eighth. The trial continues.
After the heatwaves, brace for rain and thunder
Daily Mail Reporter
SWATHES of England and Wales can expect ‘intense’ thunderstorms and heavy rain this week, forecasters say.
The Met Office said a band of heavy showers and thunderstorms is expected to move northwards this morning, with warm and humid conditions to bring an increasing chance of heavy showers, thunderstorms and longer spells of rain.
The weather service said afternoon thunderstorms could be intense, bringing 20-30mm of rain in under an hour and up to 50mm in some areas.
This could lead to a ‘small risk of flooding and disruption’ and possible damage to buildings from floodwater, lightning strikes or hail.
Large hail and frequent lightning are also possible before showers and thunderstorms drift northwards and ease by
'Ensure objects are well secured'
the evening. People have been advised to ‘ensure moveable objects or temporary structures are well secured’ before gusty winds arrive.
A further yellow warning for thunderstorms has been issued from 6am to 10pm tomorrow across large parts of England including the Midlands, East Anglia, the North West, Yorkshire, the South West, as well as much of Wales.
Up to 20-30mm of rain in three hours is ‘expected fairly widely’ tomorrow with up to 50mm in a 12-hour period expected in places. There is a small chance some areas, especially east-facing hills, could see more than 50mm of rain in three hours and over 75mm within 12 hours.
Forecasters said the unsettled conditions may continue into Friday and the weekend, with further showers or longer spells of rain possible at times, alongside some drier periods.
It follows a spell of hot weather, with five heatwaves contributing to drought conditions across nearly three-quarters of England and all of Wales.
Food pouches ‘should be off the table for newborns’
BABIES should not be given food pouches because they are high in sugar and not healthy enough, a study claims.
The products are ‘equivalent to fruit smoothies’ and should be off the table for those aged under one, researchers have suggested.
This is in line with NHS advice, which says newborns under 12 months ‘do not need fruit juice or smoothies’.
And the study also found that only just
Daily Mail Reporter
under 9 per cent of these pouches met the desired health criteria.
Wet commercial baby food (CBF) available at six supermarkets was examined by a team at Glasgow University.
They compared the sugar, protein and energy levels to breast milk in 298 products.
The majority (60 per cent) were sold in spouted pouches or 'sPouches'. Of these, 70 per cent were 'targeted' at children aged under six months – despite health officials recommending babies are weaned only after half a year has passed. Compared with breast milk, pouches were more likely to have lower levels of protein, more sugar and less energy, they found.
In all, only 14 (8.5 per cent) were defined as being completely suitable and met all the desired health criteria. 'Many wet CBF delivered in sPouches have the texture and composition of sweet drinks, while very few meet the desired characteristics for complementary foods,' the authors wrote in the journal Archives of Disease in Childhood.
Study co-author Dr Vicky Sibson added: 'Parents are being misled in to believing that these are healthy and appropriate choices for their babies.'
Miming Moss, the Gucci thong dress songstress!
By Laura Craik Fashion Critic
HER wellness brand, Cosmos, may have folded, but her latest ad for Gucci sees Kate Moss determined to strike the right note – even if it's not actually her who's doing the singing.
The label's new campaign, which takes the form of a four-and-a-half-minute film, sees Moss, 52, taking to the mic to lip-sync her way through a sultry rendition of Wicked Game, which became a hit for Chris Isaak after it was featured in the 1990 David Lynch film Wild at Heart.
The ad sees the Croydon-born model wearing the same backless sequinned dress that she wore to close the Gucci
'Sultry rendition of Wicked Game'
show in Milan in February. But where its distinctive thong was clearly visible on the catwalk, it's hidden in the video, since Moss is largely pictured from the front.
Despite the dim and moody lighting, it's clear she's also wearing the same make-up she wore in the show, with her hair in the same tousled style.
The film, And We Shall Dance Again, depicts a group of ‘beautiful strangers’ slowly dancing together as Moss sings, each wearing a look already seen on the catwalk.
One familiar face is Bobby Brazier, 23, the son of TV presenter Jeff and Jade
Goody, who is seen briefly in a close-up wearing the same black polo neck he modelled in the Milan show.
Although she is miming in the video, Moss has sung in public several times, most notably in a duet with Primal Scream frontman Bobby Gillespie. She also provided vocals on her ex-boyfriend Pete Doherty's songs. The
Back to backless: Kate in the ad and, inset, in same look on catwalk
model's latest performance has divided opinion online.
'What a deep voice you have,' one Instagram user joked of Isaak's baritone coming from Moss.
'This video has the vibe of a NA [Narcotics Anonymous] meeting in downtown New York, circa 2000,' wrote another. As for whether Gucci's new 'Primavera' collection will reverse shrinking sales, it's too early to say.
It's also too early to say how much Moss's thong dress will cost, since it's still not available on the brand's website.
With similar gowns selling for four figures, it certainly won't be going for a song.
Disappearing act as star quits Potter series amid JK trans row
By Dominique Hines
IT'S only a fortnight since it was announced Nicholas Hoult would play self-obsessed Gilderoy Lockhart in the upcoming Harry Potter adaptation.
But, amid backlash from trans activists caused by JK Rowling's ties to the series, the Skins star has quit the show.
The 36-year-old revealed on Monday he had left the
Monday he had left the cast due to ‘scheduling conflicts’, with him being swiftly replaced by Game Of Thrones actor Kit Harington.
Hoult, who also plays Lex Luthor in the latest Superman films, was widely criticised by activists for joining the HBO series. This was due to Ms Rowling being an executive producer, with her stance on the transgender debate causing issue with some.
A fan account named Hoult-Daily said on X it was boy-
cotting the actor, adding: 'Nicholas Hoult do better; so many of your fans are hurt.' Another fan described his decision to join the production as 'disappointing' and 'anti-LGBT'.
Professor Gil- deroy Lock- hart appears
in the Harry Potter series' second book and was played by Sir Kenneth Branagh, left, in the 2002 film.
On Monday, show bosses said: 'Before we begin year two at Hogwarts, there has been a slight change due to scheduling: Kit Harington will now be stepping into the role of Gilderoy Lockhart.'
Harington, 39, last year voiced the clumsy professor in the audio-adaptation of the books, which were written by Ms Rowling. He will also finish filming for HBO's final series of financial drama Industry this year.
Ms Rowling's stance on the transgender debate has been an ongoing issue for actors who have accepted Potter roles.
John Lithgow, who will play Albus Dumbledore, described her views as ‘ironic’. And Nick Frost, who plays Hagrid, said his opinions ‘don’t align in any way, shape or form’ with hers.
Amid concerns actors may lose their roles for disagreeing with her, Ms Rowling has said: 'I don't believe in taking away people's jobs or livelihoods because they hold legally protected beliefs that differ from mine.'
Short spell: Nicholas Hoult and his replacement, right, Kit Harington
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Start taking defence seriously, Burnham
KEEPING Britain safe from hostile powers is Andy Burnham's most basic responsibility.
While he was absolutely right to show our unstinting support for Ukraine by sharing classified information on weaponry, the Prime Minister must also be prepared to deal with potentially far-reaching consequences from Russia.
The language emanating from the Kremlin is distinctly menacing. It suggests the Government's actions are seen in Moscow as almost tantamount to sending British troops to fight alongside Ukrainian forces.
According to a senior security source who spoke to the Mail's Dan Hodges, there has been ‘chatter’ for at least two weeks that the Russians are ‘planning some sort of action against UK interests’.
This is the first big wake-up call on defence of the Burnham premiership. The fact that the nation will be reminded to stock up on water supplies and tinned food in a new campaign is an acknowledgement of the seriousness of the threat from overseas.
But there is no sign the PM has any intention of doing the obvious thing and bolstering our depleted military capabilities. Since his arrival in No10, both he and Defence Secretary Wes Streeting have refused to commit to the 2030 target of increasing defence spending to 3 per cent of GDP.
Mr Burnham has instead indicated that he will meet an entirely different Nato goal with a deadline of 2035 – by which time, of course, he could have long since vacated Downing Street for pastures new.
Granted, there is the remaining hope that Chancellor John Healey – who resigned earlier this year in a dispute over the defence portfolio spending – will step up to the plate when he delivers his Budget in October. But the deafening silence on military spending in the past six weeks hardly inspires confidence.
Since receiving the keys to No10, Mr Burnham has concentrated almost exclusively on affairs closer to home. There is no greater domestic issue, of course, than the defence of the realm.
We can only hope it doesn't take a vengeful Putin regime targeting British infrastructure before the PM realises that.
Worrying suggestion
AT its core, the dogma of socialism is based on an insatiable appetite for the property and assets of people who have worked hard and done well for themselves in life.
So there is little out of the ordinary about a report from the Institute for Public Policy Research – a Left-leaning think-tank – urging the Government to carry out a wealth tax raid on older generations.
Of course, it is deeply concerning that this call is coming as the so-called mansion tax is set to be inflicted on people whose only crime has been to work hard, save up and buy a nice family home.
But it is even more worrying that this is exactly the type of thing that Mr Burnham will think is a very good idea indeed.
Migrant madness
THE news on Britain's immigration crisis gets less surprising by the day.
Certainly, few eyebrows are likely to be raised at a poll showing three in four Britons opposed to allowing in male migrants from countries where rape and domestic violence are commonplace.
At any time over the past 20 years, a random survey conducted on high streets or in pubs would have produced similar results. What an awful pity that successive governments weren't listening.
My Newsnight career was over before it began. But I care about the show's future because it raises a vital question: What is the BBC for?
BROADCASTING House is awash with rumours that BBC2's Newsnight is for the chop.
In its heyday it was widely regarded as the flagship of BBC TV current affairs, a daily, in-depth look behind the news headlines.
It's struggled to retain that accolade as audiences declined and budget squeezes starved it of resources.
These days it's basically a late night talk show covering the news of the day.
Almost everything that made Newsnight special – filmed reports and investigations, journalistic expertise, scoops, agenda-setting interviews, decent coverage of foreign affairs – has gone.
But then everything that made Newsnight special was also expensive – and despite current annual revenues of £5billion (licence fee, plus commercial income) the BBC, in its wisdom, has decided that's not what it wants to spend its money on any more.
Demise
Which might be thought of as a strange decision for a broadcaster always touting its public service credentials. For if the BBC is no longer prepared to invest in high-quality current affairs journalism, it does raise a rather fundamental question: what exactly, then, is the BBC for?
Perhaps its potential demise has been leaked to fire up a Save Newsnight campaign.
But, of course, it's already a shadow of its former self. Its bespoke team of expert journalists – respected independent-minded specialists such as Mark Urban (defence) and Michael Crick (politics) – has long been disbanded.
There are no more filmed investigations and foreign coverage has been canned. It's now a cheap-as-chips studio-based production. But still too costly, it would seem, for today's BBC.
Given the relentless run-down of its resources, lead presenter Victoria Derbyshire has done a decent job keeping the show on the road. It's ratings have recovered from lows of under 300,000 to around 500,000 on a good night.
The discussions can be lively and entertaining, even if they lack the insight and analytical rigour of the old Newsnight. Her interview with Andy Burnham en route to his coronation was one of the few that really held his feet to the fire.
Of course, there was a time when that was par for the course on Newsnight.
It wasn't just fronted by the big beasts of broadcasting – John Tusa, Peter Snow, Donald MacCormick – but carried cutting-edge interviews of our political masters conducted, above all, by Jeremy Paxman, the prime broadcasting interlocutor of the day.
This was a time when politicians agreed to be held accountable in live interviews. Our democracy was all the stronger for it.
Some, of course, came to regret it, most notably then Tory Home Secretary Michael Howard when, in 1997, Paxman asked him the same question 12 times – and 12 times he failed to answer. Excruciating to watch. But now in British broadcasting's metaphorical hall of fame.
In a sense, Newsnight was a victim of its own success. Politicians decided to give it a miss rather than risk going down in flames. Paxman started to run out of big names to interview. I experienced the same on my own BBC shows. I gave up presenting BBC1's Sunday Politics because ministers were avoiding me like the plague.
This penchant for swerving the tough interview reached its peak in the December 2019 general election, when then Prime Minister Boris Johnson, alone among party leaders, refused to sit down with me for a BBC1 prime-time interview.
by Andrew Neil
But long before that, both Paxman and myself were regularly reduced to interviewing ministers for paper clips.
No broadcaster can compel politicians to submit to interrogation. But no politician in a democracy can stop broadcasters from fearless, independent, analytical journalism. This is what the old Newsnight excelled at.
I understand, as someone fully involved in the digital age, how 24-hour news and social media can undermine once-admired TV strands from the age of linear television. We all need to adapt.
But in a world awash with news and (increasingly) fake news, there must surely still be a market for impartial, intelligent, authoritative analysis of the news – and if a public service broadcaster like the BBC is not in the business of providing it, at scale and properly funded, then what exactly is its purpose?
These are strange times at the BBC, which is increasingly struck with a death-wish of its own making. It seems determined to stick with a funding model (the licence fee, or new compulsory variant thereof) in which you have to pay for stuff you don't watch, whether you want to or not.
In the age of streaming and multi-channel TV, with a younger generation only prepared to pay for what they actually watch, this won't fly.
It leads the BBC to a second mistake: that it must increasingly provide programmes that are popular, regardless of their public service value.
It was significant that the BBC's latest propaganda video, 'What has the BBC ever done for me?', fronted by comedian Romesh Ranganathan and broadcast during the World Cup Final, highlighted shows such as East-Enders, Strictly Come Dancing, The Traitors and Dr Who, all of which could be made by commercial broadcasters.
Fripperies
Yet news was given only a passing reference, serious radio none, documentaries might as well not exist and even the BBC Proms, whose 2026 programme had just started, didn't merit a mention (even though the BBC rightly describes it as the greatest musical festival on Earth).
Yet all of that and more is what we properly regard as public service broadcasting and, if we are to have a special funding mechanism for it (a big ‘if’ in this age of limitless choice), then surely it is that kind of broadcasting that should have first dibs on public funds. Instead, the BBC penny-pinches on news and current affairs while pumping more money and resources into fripperies.
A further point. Even if you get the importance of news and current affairs in the public service broadcasting firmament, you cannot take money from us by compulsory levy and then present that news from only one, inevitably Leftist standpoint. We're all ponying up the money. So you have no right to use it to peddle a particular ideology.
On this the BBC fails lamentably. Just look at its sycophantic coverage of the rise of the late Jason Arday, which ended in such tragedy. Even the old Newsnight couldn't hide its Left-leaning instincts. I saw that at first-hand.
Priorities
Over 20 years ago, a BBC panjandrum thought it a good idea if I joined Newsnight's team of presenters. This was not popular with the Left-wing producers. Even so, I was given a couple of trial shows to front. I bounded in with Tigger-like enthusiasm and bonhomie, to be greeted like a Hamas commander looking in on a bar mitzvah.
Yet my guest spots went well (even The Guardian wrote that the ratings had been the best for some time). Things were looking good. But as I turned to say goodbye on the final trial show, for some reason the autocue had reverted to the opening of the show.
'Hello and welcome to Newsnight,' I read off the script, before freezing in embarrassment. A technical glitch? Sabotage? Who knows? But the young, Leftie production team was delighted. My Newsnight career was over before it began.
Somehow, Newsnight survived without me. Perhaps not for much longer. Yet questions about its future come at a good time – for this is about so much more than Newsnight.
Do we really need so-called public service broadcasting in the digital age? If so, how should it be funded? And on what priorities should these funds be spent?
Until these questions are addressed, it's not just the future of Newsnight at stake. It's the future of the BBC.
He's the online star who took up weightlifting at 81 and is now set to meet his biggest fan, Arnie!
MICK Wadge is squaring up for a 75kg deadlift in the Barbell School gym in Burnley in a singlet and
shorts and – at my request – talking me through his favourite bits of his body.
‘I’m most proud of my triceps, oh yes!’ he says. ‘And my biceps are all right – not bad at all I suppose. But my triceps! I’ve put so much time into them!’
And with that, he flexes his arms and the muscles bounce about like little bricks under the skin. 'But the odd thing is that everyone who comes always takes photos of my upper body – they never seem to notice my legs, and I've got some great legs, look at that thigh! Very strong!' he says proudly.
And he's quite right. Sticking out from his little blue shorts, his legs are not the longest – he's barely 5ft 3in – but they are smooth, freckly and as solid as steel. Particularly when he starts dead-lifting – his knees bobbing like shiny pistons as he clears 75kg with barely any effort.
Which would be impressive on anyone, but Mick, a former Rolls-Royce designer, beer and damp-proof salesman, is 88. Yes, 88 years old.
And on top of that, he only started weight training seven years ago, when his beloved wife Margaret died shortly after their 60th wedding anniversary.
‘It was very traumatic and suddenly, without her, I didn’t have anything to do,’ he says.
At first he tried to fill the time meeting people for coffee and cake, and seeing his lovely daughter, Maxine, who lives nearby. And he spent a lot of time feeding the sheep grazing by his house.
‘I’d give them bits of cake and biscuit, anything that took their fancy,’ he says. ‘They didn’t seem too keen on farm food, so they’d all come running down when I opened the back door.’
THEN, one day he grabbed a broom handle and two milk containers filled with water and, as the sheep looked on in wonder, started working out in the garden.
'I had a massive belly. I just ate everything and didn't really move and was 18 stone, but I had to be doing something!' he says.
Then, three years ago, he started training with Ross Starkie, the 35-year-old founder of Barbell, and the rest, as they say, is history.
Because if you follow the news or look at social media, you've probably heard of Mick already.
A month ago, Ross started posting their weightlifting videos on TikTok. Of the massive loads Mick was lifting in their training sessions. And suddenly Mick found himself an unlikely internet sensation with the videos getting nearly a million views.
Partly because of his extraordinary strength – his personal best deadlift is 110kg, nearly twice his bodyweight of 60kg. But I suspect just as much for all his lovely chat in his soft Lancashire burr. 'At first I tried to edit the videos and keep it just to training chat, but I soon gave up on that and let it run,' says Ross.
Fitness companies like My
by Jane Fryer
Protein and Gymshark started sending Mick boxes of products – protein powder, creatine and gym kits. And TV and radio stations badgered him to travel to London to appear on their shows – ‘Oh no thank you very much, I’m very happy here,’ says Mick firmly.
But then last week the great Arnold Schwarzenegger got in touch with the message, 'Love what you are doing! Keep pumping!'
At first, Ross, who handles the social media, assumed it was a hoax. 'But it wasn't,' he says. 'Arnie has 6.5 million followers and follows just 19 people and one of them is Mick!'
If Ross was surprised, the shock nearly did it for Mick.
‘He was always my favourite weightlifter and I’ve watched all his films loads of times,’ he says. ‘So when my daughter said, “Arnie’s contacted you!” I nearly passed out on the floor!’
But it didn't end there, because after Ross replied, Arnie, 79, said he would ‘love to introduce’ Mick ‘to two of my coaches in the US’ who could be ‘a great resource’.
They're not sure whether that's an invite to America, but if it is, they'll go. 'Of course! I've only ever been to France and Spain and maybe Italy,' says Mick. 'But oh we did have some lovely holidays, let me tell you about them...'
Mick is the sort of person you want to chat to all day. About everything from his decades as a semi-professional drummer playing at clubs four nights a week, to his job as a designer for Rolls-Royce which ended because he couldn't face leaving his beloved Burnley when the company relocated to Derby.
Not forgetting his years as a judo brown belt – ‘I’d keep them all away from me with my big belly’. And how he met Margaret when he was just 21 at a dance at the Ritz Ballroom in Accrington and asked her to dance ‘because she was the best looking girl there’.
Indeed, he could probably go on all day about how kind she was, and how good at finance and investing – ‘I’d have blown the bloody lot’ – and always helping others. And how brave she was in her long, hard battle with rheumatoid arthritis and osteoporosis. But eventually we get back to the weightlifting and how, after a year or two of lifting the broom handle with milk containers and adding wheelbarrow wheels for extra ballast, Mick eventually graduated to a proper barbell and 5kg weights – still in the garden with the sheep.
Then, three years ago, on his 85th birthday, his daughter ('she's the absolute best') treated him to four sessions with Ross, who was a great pal of his grandson Jack.
‘I’d never done anything like it, but I needed to keep busy,’ says Mick.
'And I've not been able to get rid of him since!' laughs Ross, 35. 'We've become best friends.'
Perhaps because Ross, a great bear of a man, is almost as chatty as Mick and doesn't treat him like an 88-year-old. Or even a 70-year-old.
'A lot of people treat old people like old people – giving them those little plastic weights and rubber bands and the first thing they do is sit them down in a chair!' he says. 'They're too afraid of hurting them. I just treated him like normal and soon he was putting all this muscle on and the weights started going up and up.'
Golden oldie: Mick flexes with Jane, and (left) Arnie
As well as the 110kg deadlift, he's bench pressing 60kg, squatting 60kg and using 25kg dumbbells.
‘I’ve never known anyone put on muscle like Mick,’ says Ross. ‘I’ve learned so much from him.’
‘He makes me do it!’ cries Mick. ‘Every time I say, “Oh no, I don’t know if I say, 'On no, I don't know if I can do that', he says. "Of course you can, just get on with it". And I can. It's fantastic.
Ross says they thought about going in for competitions, or trying Mick for the Guinness Book of Records. 'But there wasn't any point as there was nobody in Mick's category, so it would have been an empty victory.'
RIGHT now, they're chasing a new personal best after Mick recommended Barbell School to his 77-year-old pal John, who came in and deadlifted 120kg.
‘We call him Strong John, but we can’t have that, so now we’ve got to equal it,’ laughs Mick.
As well as his session with Ross every Tuesday – ‘I’d see him every day if I could’ – Mick goes to the gym at the local leisure centre on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays when he does his own thing.
‘I’m just one of the lads there, not 88-year-old Mick,’ he says. ‘I like to warm up with 40 push-ups, 40 sit-ups and 40 triceps dips, before I start on the weights.’
Blimey.
Of course, as well as all the strength training, there's nutrition. 'With Margaret it was always bacon and egg – she'd sit in the armchair telling me what to do. But now there's no one sat in the armchair so it's always the same bloody thing – porridge with a swirl of honey.'
He also has a daily protein shake, takes creatine powder – a supplement that helps muscles and cognitive development – has a big salad in the evening and still eats quite a bit of cake at endless coffee mornings with pals throughout the week.
It is clearly doing the trick. Because he is as happy as he can be. 'I don't think you ever get over the loss, but it doesn't grind me down any more,' he says.
The bond between Mick and Ross is extraordinary. As well as all the training, once a month they go for coffee (and more cake) with Strong John. 'Our collective age is about 350, but the chat is good,'
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Dame Maggie Smith left £16m to her actor sons
DAME Maggie Smith left a £16million fortune following her death aged 89, the Daily Mail can reveal.
The screen legend, who starred in Downton Abbey and the Harry Potter films, died in September 2024 and left almost all of her
By Nick Fagge
estate to her two actor sons Chris Larkin and Toby Stephens – including her sprawling farmhouse home in the Sussex countryside on the South Downs.
The five-bedroom home, where she raised her sons and lived for
40 years, lies in a secluded spot and includes barns, a stable and a vineyard.
Dame Maggie, who also had five grandchildren, died at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital after a prolonged illness.
Larkin and Stephens were her sons from her first marriage to actor Robert Stephens.
Chris Larkin, 59, uses his mid-
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He has starred in blockbuster movies, such as Master and Commander, and Valkyrie.
Stephens, 57, famously played Bond villain Gustav Graves in the 2002 movie Die Another Day.
Dame Maggie's fortune was accrued during a glittering 72-year stage and screen career that spanned 63 films, 78 stage roles and 88 television appearances.
She was nominated six times for an Academy Award, winning twice for The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie in 1969 and California Suite in 1978.
In more recent years, she became a favourite playing the no-nonsense Lady Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess of Grantham, in ITV drama Downton Abbey. She
'Sprawling farmhouse'
won over younger fans playing Professor Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter franchise.
She also had major roles in classic Shakespeare stage plays, Hollywood blockbusters and starred alongside British acting greats including Sir Michael Caine, Sir Ian McKellen, Jim Broadbent and Dame Judi Dench.
Born in Ilford, Essex, on December 28, 1934, her acting won recognition early in her career, and she received a Bafta nod for promising newcomer in 1959 for the crime film Nowhere To Go.
This was followed by Bafta nominations for Young Cassidy in 1965, Death On The Nile in 1978, California Suite in 1978, Quartet in 1981, The Secret Garden in 1993, Tea With Mussolini in 1999, Gosford Park in 2001, and The Lady In The Van in 2015.
She also won best actress gongs for The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie, A Private Function and The Lonely Passion Of Judith Hearne.
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says Ross, who tells me that when Burnley football club was buying out its shareholders a few years back, Mick spent his returns – ‘thousands!’ – in the club shop on merchandise which he then gave away in local schools and on the street to Burnley fans.
Mick tells me how Ross is such a good man – ‘though he’s a bit overweight around the belly, mind, but I don’t tell him.’
And how he probably wouldn't still be here without him. 'He's saved me.'
Neither seem remotely interested in fame or fortune. Ross, because he's already booked solid with professional football players and athletes – ‘though Mick is my most famous client!’
And Mick because he says it isn't real. 'Sometimes – not often, mind – I get stopped in the street by someone who's been watching me on TikTok. But it's not a big deal and I prefer it that way,' he says. 'You can think you're making a lot of pals, but they're acquaintances, not the friends you spend half the day talking with.'
Maybe, but as we move between exercise stations, I can see why there's been so much fuss. It's impossible not to stare – at the way he springs on and off the rower like a man half his age, clambers into the chest press and japes about with 20kg dumbbells.
Legend: In Downton Abbey
Doting mother: With son Toby
Family affair: With son Chris
Not surprisingly, the videos garnered quite a response. And, er, any women expressing interest?
'No. Unfortunately, no!' he says.
And so finally, the million-dollar question, does he ever feel his age, or remotely near it?
He thinks before he answers.
‘Sometimes. First thing in the morning and when I don’t engage my brain properly – you have to engage the brain!’ he says. ‘And often I try and remember a name and just can’t catch it, which is very frustrating,’ he says.
‘But then some people forget where they live so I’m very lucky. I always say I’m the luckiest man on the planet.’
And with that, he starts limbering up again and says, 'Shouldn't we do some more lifting?'
So we get back to it. Mick pumping away with his 75kgs with not a bead of sweat, and me clutching a paltry 6kg weight and feeling every gram. What a man!
Look away Meghan... Maya Jama joins the Gentlemen
Gangster girl: Maya Jama in Guy Ritchie's crime comedy
By Dolly Busby Showbusiness Correspondent
NEWS that reality TV star Maya Jama has a role in The Gentlemen may not be met with unalloyed delight in Montecito.
One reason cited for the return of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex to Britain was that Meghan had been offered a part in series three of Guy Ritchie's Netflix series. But it was reported at the weekend that it had been withdrawn.
Ms Jama, 32, is thrilled with her good fortune, though. In the trailer for series two, the Love Island host has ditched her glamorous gowns to dress as a gangster's moll. She wore a tweed shooting outfit to portray Aisha, the wife of a criminal associate of the show's lead character, Eddie Horniman, played by Theo James. Another scene shows her in a long scarf.
Ms Jama said The Gentlemen felt like a ‘safe entrance point’ into acting.
Having harboured a dream to act, she auditioned for the series last year – and got the part less than two weeks later.
The TV star then worked with a drama coach to be ready for the role, telling Variety magazine: 'I never want to do something and be s*** at it.'
Mums-to-be get classes on giving birth in cars as maternity unit shuts
By Kristina Wemyss
PREGNANT women are being offered classes on how to give birth in cars after the sudden closure of a maternity ward.
North Devon District Hospital in Barnstaple has axed its birthing wing due to staff shortages – forcing expectant mothers to travel for nearly two hours to Exeter.
As a result, couples are now being taught how to deliver their babies while driving along the motorway or parked on the hard shoulder.
The hospital suspended its birthing services on August 11, citing safety concerns over a lack of staff.
Some 300 women who are at least 34 weeks pregnant and
high-risk patients have been contacted to make alternative plans. Triage appointments – to check on the wellbeing of mothers and babies when complications are suspected – have also been stopped.
But there has been no update on when the ‘temporary’ suspension will be lifted.
In the meantime, births are taking place at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital – a two-hour drive away for some. Couples are being offered
'Babies will be born in laybys'
tailored classes with ‘contingency planning’ on what to do if labour takes place before reaching a hospital.
Catherine Mchomvu, who runs the sessions at Devon Antenatal Family Centre, said women are worrying about issues such as heavy traffic. She added: 'We need to be realistic – it could be a really high-risk situation.'
Tips include having easily accessible blankets and charged phones. Ms Mchomvu has also taught birthing positions for travelling.
The advice is being shared by the group, which is understood to be independent of the NHS.
It comes after a report into NHS maternity services by Baroness Amos which described a series of failures.
More than 15,000 have signed a petition started by local Liberal Democrat MP Ian Roome, calling for better maternity care in North Devon. He told The Guardian: 'Babies are going to be born in laybys. There may be deaths.'
An NHS spokesman said the ‘care of women remains our absolute priority’.
Ephraim Hardcastle
AS the full implications of Harry's return to the UK sink in, how will William
react if he finds himself standing beside his estranged brother at the Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday? Harry's placing of a wreath at Arlington National Cemetery on the day news broke of his return to Britain was a reminder that he fought for his country and may insist on being allowed take part in the Cenotaph ceremony. He's certainly not going to miss the event, and if denied a place at the Cenotaph he could perhaps join the massed march-past of old soldiers after the royals have gone. Deep waters.
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HOW will Meghan's name appear in any film credits now? She told off her pal Mindy Kaling for calling her Meghan Markle, saying: 'I'm a Sussex now... this is our family name.' Except that the royal surname is Mountbatten-Windsor, as recorded on her children's birth certificates. But disgraced Andrew's commoner status means he has snaffled that surname. She could chose Meghan Sussex or even Meghan Mountbatten-Markle. Fellow soap star Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark, who did 15 years in the US drama The Bold And The Beautiful, became Theodora Greece. How about Meghan of Montecito?
ATONEMENT star Saoirse Ronan is keen to star in the next James Bond movie – as the villain. 'I want to go dark,' Saoirse, pictured, says in Empire magazine. 'I'm dead serious. I think it would be really interesting having a young female
villain – especially for girls and women – to see someone who can just take all that pent-up anger and direct it somewhere.' But could gentle Saoirse be scary enough to pop popcorn?
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JEFFREY Archer's publisher Eddie Bell, who has died at 77, famously persuaded Margaret Thatcher to write her 1993 memoir, The Downing Street Years. At the launch party he presented her with a knife to cut a cake bearing her likeness in icing. But she couldn't bring herself to slice into the image of her own head, so she handed the knife back to Eddie.
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ANDY Burnham's guitar riff in Ukraine of Rusholme Ruffians by The Smiths is likely to offend the band, who told David Cameron he wasn't allowed to like them after he chose one of their songs on Desert Island Discs. Will Mancunian lead singer Morrissey, who has mocked Burnham's non-Manchester roots, now threaten the PM – as he did to those who prematurely claimed the end of The Smiths – that he should be ‘severely spanked with a wet plimsoll’?
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DID the superannuated Time Lords worry for the comfort of the King and Queen when they were apparently squashed into the telephone box-sized Tardis of Doctor Who before opening the Commonwealth Games? Doctor Who brand manager James Page insists they ‘were not stuck inside the box for any length of time. The back panel of the Tardis had been removed, allowing for a rather more straightforward royal entrance’.
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Tax older generation more to boost the public purse, Left-wingers urge Labour
OLDER people should be targeted in a wealth tax raid to prop up public finances, says a think-tank. The Left-wing Institute for
By John-Paul Ford Rojas Deputy Business Editor
Public Policy Research (IPPR) has called for a reform of a system that is ‘heavily tilted towards taxing work and younger earners'.
Its conclusions are likely to be looked at closely by Labour as Chancellor John Healey prepares for his first Budget in
October amid mounting spending pressures – and after Prime Minister Andy Burnham refused to rule out a wealth tax.
But it could alarm many who have worked hard to afford homes and build nest eggs for later-life.
The report calls for council tax and stamp duty to be replaced with a proportional property tax set at an annual rate of 0.65 per cent. It admits there would be 'winners and losers' with homeowners in some wealthy areas potentially facing a big hit.
It also backs the idea, supported by some in Labour, of increasing the rate of capital gains tax to the same as income tax. Defence Secretary Wes Streeting previously described such a move as a ‘wealth tax that works’.
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Another proposal is to extend national insurance to employees above the state pension age. That
'We need a new fiscal contract'
would address what the report describes as a ‘striking’ disparity between older workers and younger graduates.
Those over the retirement age and still earning £45,000, £70,000 or £105,000 face tax rates of 20 per cent, 40 per cent and 60 per cent.
A younger graduate repaying a student loan and paying employee national insurance would face rates of 37 per cent, 51 per cent and 71 per cent, the report said.
The IPPR says change is needed as the population ages – with the proportion over 65 set to climb from 18 per cent in 2024 to 27 per cent in 2075. That will create huge spending pressures from rising health and social care costs that will dwarf others, such as higher defence spending and the Net Zero transition, it argues.
Oxford University professor Ben Ansell, the report author, said:
Taxes: Chancellor John Healey ‘Ageing is going to become by far the biggest source of pressure on the public finances.
‘Yet our tax system has increasingly shifted responsibility towards younger workers while protecting many of those who have benefited most from decades of rising property and asset wealth.
‘Reform is politically difficult but avoiding it has given Britain an ever more complicated tax system.
‘We need a new fiscal contract: one that raises the revenue the country will need, shifts more of the burden from work towards wealth and property, and is honest with the public about who pays and why.’
The report comes amid growing speculation that Mr Healey could put up taxes in the Budget. Capital Economics, a consultancy, has predicted they may go up by as much as £25billion.
The Chancellor will need to find £5billion more for defence as well as paying for a series of cost-of-living announcements Mr Burnham has made as well as an overhaul of social care and a major programme of council house building.
The PM said this week, when asked whether he would have to put up taxes, that he ‘won’t be unrealistic’ about the state of public finances and that Britain is in a ‘challenging position’.
Economists believe the Government's Budget ‘headroom’ has been reduced sharply from £24 billion at the time of the Spring Statement with rising borrowing costs caused by the Iran war adding to pressure on the Treasury.
The Resolution Foundation think-tank estimates it has fallen to £8billion.
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Young job hunters are being rejected by AI
By Deputy Business Editor
YOUNG adults struggling to find work are being rejected by AI bots as a ‘national crisis’ builds.
In a blow to the confidence of job-seekers, many are being screened out even before their applications are seen by a human.
The findings from the Work Foundation, a think-tank based at Lancaster University, represent new evidence of the tough employment outlook for young adults.
It also revealed 36 per cent of firms have reduced in the past 12 months the number of entry-level jobs open to 16 to 24-year-olds.
And 73 per cent believe the rise in worklessness among young people is a ‘national crisis’.
AI appears to be in-part responsible with 43 per cent saying they have invested in technology that has reduced entry-level roles. AI is also being used to screen job applicants by 44 per cent of firms, rising to 60 per cent for larger companies with 250 or more staff.
Divya Jyoti, of Lancaster University Management School, said it highlighted ‘a worrying pressure’ on those looking for work.
She added: ‘Young people described applying repeatedly for jobs and hearing little or nothing back. Some were left wondering whether their application had been seen by a person at all. That can damage confidence and make an unforgiving jobs market feel impossible to navigate.’
■ Sainsbury's is to offer 10,000 'work experience and skills opportunities' from October as part of a Government-backed programme.
Beauty queen hit woman in the face with a red stiletto after row over hunt ball taxi
Victim: Ms Saunders
By Richard Marsden
A BEAUTY queen has dodged jail after she attacked a woman with a red stiletto less than a week after appearing in the Miss Great Britain final.
Taylor Gidley, 24, took part in the event after being crowned Miss Lancashire at a red-carpet ceremony in 2024.
At the time, her proud mother said she had encouraged girls ‘to be more confident, no matter who they are or what background they are from’.
But in a display of less-edifying behaviour, a court heard how Gidley erupted into violence while waiting for a taxi after a ball on October 24, 2024. She received a nine-month suspended prison term and 120 hours of community service at Preston Crown Court on Monday, after admitting unlawful wounding.
In a statement, her victim Ashley Saunders said: 'I now have a scar on my face. I am always self-conscious. I feel anxious when I go out...
‘I don’t like to be around drunk people, it makes me question whether that is what they are all like.'
The court heard Gidley, who works with horses, set upon Ms Saunders, 38, in a taxi queue following the Holcombe Harriers Hunt Ball in Bilsborrow, near Preston. A witness described Gidley screaming at her for approaching ‘Pete’ about a cab.
Prosecutor Mia Monahan said there was a shortage of taxis outside the rural venue and Ms Saunders had asked various people if they could share, including a man known to Gidley.
Gidley used her right shoe to hit her in the face, causing her to fall. She continued to hit her while she was on the ground.
Ms Saunders later told a friend she had a pain in her head and had been sick. The next day she woke to find a jagged cut to her cheek and went to hospital.
Gidley was identified using social media and arrested. She was released under investigation but re-arrested on December 15,
Miss Lancashire: Gidley
2024, when her red stilettos were found at her home.
Gidley sobbed in the dock throughout the hearing. Joe Allman, defending, said the incident had been ‘entirely out character’ for the business studies graduate.
Sentencing her, Recorder Ben Lawrence said: 'It seems you were angered by Ms Saunders asking a male you knew whether they could share a taxi. Whatever the cause it was wholly unjustified... and I have no doubt influenced by your consumption of alcohol.'
Boy thrown into crocodile pit home after 7 operations
By Aidan Radnedge and Shannon McGuigan
A THREE-YEAR-OLD who was hurled 15ft into a crocodile enclosure has returned home.
The injured boy now has to use his feet to play after leaving hospital ‘a few weeks ago’ following seven operations.
His parents said he was 'happy to be home, playing with his toys, sleeping in his own bed and being a big brother'. The boy was taken to hospital in a critical condition after a 30-year-old man hauled him over a fence and threw him into the crocodile enclosure at Johnsons of Old Hurst zoo, near Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, on June 18.
The Norfolk man was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and later bailed as police said he was ‘assessed as not being fit for interview’. The suspect reportedly has learning difficulties and had been on a trip to the zoo with carers.
In an update on a GoFundMe page that has raised £114,000 for the boy's recovery and rehabilitation, his family said 'all of his immediate surgeries are over with for now'.
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Women at greater risk of early Alzheimer's if their menopause starts in 40s
WOMEN who go through the menopause early are more likely to develop Alzheimer's at a younger age.
Those who experience the
By Zoe Hardy
hormonal change in their early 40s experience symptoms of the memory-robbing disease almost two years before other patients, research suggests.
And entering the menopause around age 45 is linked with 15 per cent more dementia-related brain damage compared to those who do so five years later. The researchers, from the University of California San Francisco, explain that the sex hormone oestrogen – which dramatically declines during the menopause – protects against cognitive decline.
Writing in JAMA Neurology, experts suggest the age a woman begins the menopause could serve as an ‘early marker’ of Alzheimer’s.
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Researchers analysed data from over 2,600 US women with an average age of 78. About two-thirds experienced a natural, age-related drop in hormones, while the remainder had a surgical menopause. The women disclosed
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the age they became menopausal and took regular memory and thinking tests. Researchers conducted brain scans on hundreds of the participants to track changes.
Earlier menopause was associated with poorer cognitive outcomes, earlier Alzheimer's onset and more rapid brain shrinkage in later life. Researchers estimated that women who went through the menopause ten years earlier than the average age of 49 had about 1.8 fewer years without an Alzheimer's diagnosis than those whose menopause occurred a decade later.
Michelle Dyson, chief executive of the Alzheimer's Society, said women account for two-thirds of the 982,000 people with dementia in the UK. 'There are steps that women – and men – can take today to reduce their risk of dementia and these include regular exercise, not smoking and reducing alcohol consumption,' she said.
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1 in 4 can't name key dementia risk factors
A QUARTER of Britons over the age of 40 cannot name one habit or health condition that can increase the risk of developing dementia.
The lack of awareness is depriving millions the chance to take preventive action to protect their brain health, warned the Alzheimer's Society, which ran the poll.
Around 982,000 people have dementia in the UK. The lifestyle habits that increase the risk of developing dementia include high blood pressure, obesity, smoking, lack of exercise and drinking too much alcohol, along with hearing loss, depression and type 2 diabetes.
But the poll of 1,393 Britons found 26 per cent could not name one of these risk factors, while just one in five (21 per cent) were aware that 45 per cent of dementia cases may be linked to factors that can be prevented or treated.
Michelle Dyson, chief executive of the charity, said: 'Millions are missing the chance to take simple steps today that could help protect their brain health tomorrow, from getting their hearing checked to managing their blood pressure.'
Reform's plan to give tax breaks to parents
PARENTS who invest in their child's fledgling business will be given tax breaks in Reform's scheme to rescue the UK's struggling small businesses.
In plans to ‘unchain British enterprise’ the party will today announce that family members will be able to invest in a relative’s start-up in return for income and capital gains tax relief if it is elected.
By Sophie Church Political Reporter
By expanding the Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme, family members could invest up to £250,000 in their offspring's business and receive an income tax rebate of 50 per cent.
They would also get a capital gains tax exemption if they retained their shares in the business for three years. Reform will also vow today to scrap GDPR – an EU law forcing firms to follow strict rules on using people's data – and bring in less onerous regulations modelled on those in New Zealand.
Reform treasury spokesman Robert Jenrick said Britain would be ‘the best place in the world to start and grow a small business’ under his party.
He added: ‘Governments have focused on big corporations while leaving small businesses to fall by the wayside. No more. The six million small businesses in the UK are the backbone of our high streets and our economy and we will back them to the hilt.’
Lake Ontario? I'll change it to Lake America, raging Trump warns Canada
DONALD Trump has threatened to change the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America as the trade war with Canada escalates.
The US President said he would make the move because he didn't expect to be ‘doing much business with Ontario any longer’.
The lake lies on the border of the two countries, between the US state of New York and Canada's most populous province, Ontario.
By Phillip Nieto
It is not under the full control of either nation and is instead jointly managed under the 1909 Boundary Waters Treaty.
Border: Toronto sits on the shore of Lake Ontario. Inset, Mr Trump and Canada's Mark Carney
Mr Trump could order US government agencies to call it Lake America, but Canada would not be required to recognise the name.
A row exploded over the weekend after trade talks collapsed and Washington slapped 50 per cent tariffs on \$20billion (£14.7billion) worth of Canadian goods. Canada hit back with plans for matching tariffs on American steel and electronics, as Mr Trump threatened additional 50 per cent levies on Canadian vehicles and auto parts. He wrote on his Truth Social platform: 'The US is giving serious
'A weak and ineffective PM'
consideration to changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America in that we don't expect to be doing much business with
Ontario any longer.' Canadian prime minister Mark Carney claimed the US made 'threats' targeting French-language protections during tariff negotiations.
But minutes after his threat to rename the lake, Mr Trump said: 'I would never interfere with Canadians speaking French! This lie was made up by a weak and ineffective PM in an attempt to gain political support, which he has totally lost, from the people of Quebec.'
Mr Carney is set to unveil retaliatory tariffs on a range of US goods alongside a rescue package for
Canadian workers and businesses. The measures are expected to include unemployment benefits and loans for companies battered by Mr Trump's tariffs.
Mr Carney withdrew from negotiations with Mr Trump just hours before the President's 50 per cent levies were due to take effect.
The leaders have traded shots, with Mr Carney saying: 'You're at war when you're attacked, and we got attacked. We're going to hit back.' In 2025, the nations traded an estimated \$869 billion in goods and services, according to the US.
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Tates rented supercars to appear ‘uber-wealthy’
INFLUENCER Andrew Tate rented supercars to appear ‘uber-wealthy’ in order to impress his army of fans, his lawyers have admitted.
He and his brother Tristan have portrayed themselves as far wealthier than they are because their ‘business model depends on online attention’, court documents say.
Lawyers for the self-proclaimed misogynist added: 'The more hyperbolic and outlandish the post, the more likely it will generate views and likes, which in turn generates income. In short, they are playing a role.'
It comes after British police sought the brothers' extradition from the US over alleged sexual offences, which
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they both deny. They were arrested by US marshals in Miami last month.
The brothers' legal representatives said: 'The Tates are engaged in businesses "teaching" men how to earn money. It is in their interest to portray themselves as uber-wealthy. For example, the Aston Martin and Bugattis in Tristan's videos were rented.'
After the brothers' arrests on July 18, the Crown Prosecution Service brought 38 charges, including seven counts of rape against Andrew, 39, and two against Tristan, 38. These are in addition to 21 existing, varied charges.
The pair have previously ‘unequivocally’ denied wrongdoing.
Posing: Andrew Tate with a £250,000 Aston Martin
Pits stop! NHS cream that cuts sweating
A CREAM that stops sweating almost completely will soon be available on the NHS.
Axhidrox, which is applied to the armpits and blocks signals that tell glands to perspire, can cut sweating by 90 per cent.
Excessive sweating is thought to affect 2.8million Britons. This is the first UK treatment designed especially for the problem.
Now approved, it will be available on the NHS in the coming months and can be bought via online pharmacies for £130.
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Councillor ‘created fake heritage society to scam thousands from grants’
Allegations: Council leader Jason Zadrozny
A COUNCILLOR set up a fake heritage society to scam thousands from a local authority, a court has heard.
By Claire Duffin
Jason Zadrozny, 46, an independent councillor in Nottinghamshire, named himself chairman of the Ashfield Heritage Society before applying for grants for ‘good causes’.
He would withdraw this money in cash – some of which was used to buy a house for more than £70,000 with
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friends, it is alleged. When it sold for £168,000, Zadrozny was then ‘gifted’ over £68,000.
The Ashfield District Council leader is accused of using his separate county council seat to defraud the authority.
Prosecutors said he set up the society ‘which never did anything’ and was given a fake address because he needed ‘quite a bit of money, in a hurry’.
He also created a classic cinema club, from which he 'helped himself to the contents' after it received a £1,200 grant. Zadrozny even
'Helped himself to the contents'
failed to pay tax on the income from four properties he owned, it is claimed.
James Varley, prosecuting, yesterday said Zadrozny opened a 'scam' bank account for Ashfield Heritage Society in 2018. He applied for grants amounting to thousands of pounds. 'Modest' sums would then be withdrawn and deposited in his personal account.
Zadrozny denies 12 counts of fraud and four counts of fraudulent evasion of income tax. The trial continues.
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POLICE working on the Michael Jackson case have interviewed child actor Macaulay Culkin. The 12-year-old Home Alone star has been one of the singer's closest friends. Culkin, who earns £3million a film, has previously refused to comment on the allegations against 34-year-old Jackson. AUGUST 26, 2004
CYCLIST Bradley Wiggins yesterday became the first British man to win a hat-trick of medals at the same Olympics for almost a century. He and teammate Rob Hayles took bronze in the Madison. Wiggins, 24, had already won gold in the individual pursuit and silver in the team pursuit.
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ALISON STEADMAN, 80. The actress from Liverpool played Pam in Gavin & Stacey and Beverly in Abigail's Party. She said she tries to avoid all reviews but a bad one is ‘like someone saying, “You’re really ugly. And your breath smells. And nobody wants to be your friend”.
MARCUS DU SAUTOY, 61. The mathematician and broadcaster is Oxford professor for the public understanding of science. He says his subject has ‘beauty and aesthetics and excitement and drama and emotion’.
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PEGGY GUGGEN-HEIM (1898-1979). The US socialite and art collector was the niece of the founder of New York's Guggenheim museum. She made her own name with a
London gallery and one in Venice next to the Grand Canal. She once said: 'My motto was "buy a picture a day" and I lived up to it.'
DON LAFONTAINE (1940-2008). The US actor lent his voice to thousands of film trailers, from 2001: A Space Odyssey to Rambo. He was nicknamed ‘Thunder Throat’ and had a baritone likened to ‘the sound of someone speaking from the bottom of a well’.
ON AUGUST 26...
IN 2014, the Jay Report found at least 1,400 underage girls, as young as 11, had been abused between 1997 and 2013 in Rotherham.
IN 2024, Swedish former England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson died, aged 76.
WORD WIZARDRY GUESS THE DEFINITION
Cancerine (coined mid-1800s) A) Relating to the lobster. B) Fertiliser made from ground-up horseshoe crabs. C) Belittle someone verbally.
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PHRASE EXPLAINED
Swallow hook, line and sinker: To believe every detail of a story; it comes from angling in reference to the fish that swallows the angler's hook, line and sinker; 'swallow' is a colloquialism for 'believe'.
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TikTok star at 74 - son of Thorpe trial MP goes viral
H IS early life was filled with ‘gardeners, maids, Bentleys and jets’.
So it seemed entirely natural that by the time he was 21, Paul Bessell should have a flat in Chelsea and an apartment in Manhattan, and 'flit between London and New York almost weekly'.
Then his benefactor – his father, the Liberal MP Peter Bessell, later a star witness in the 'Trial of the Century' when his best friend Jeremy Thorpe was charged with attempted murder – vanished, leaving a hasty note and huge debts.
Now, I can disclose Paul's quest to unearth the truth about his father has put him on the brink of reviving the family fortune in a manner beyond the imagination even of the extraordinary Peter.
Since his death in 1985, Peter has been described as an internationally successful businessman, a shameless fraudster, a serial womaniser, a Christian pacifist, ‘a pro-war, Right-wing hawk’, and accused of having been an agent for MI6 or the CIA or the FBI – and even head of Stalin’s secret police.
Paul hasn't been any of those things, but at 74 he has become a TikTok sensation, racking up more than three million views for videos posted in the past few weeks, amassing around 200,000 followers and attracting offers from corporations that want to harness his success.
All of it results from the publication this year of Finding Dad, his account of Peter's different lives, all ‘running at the same time, and all largely secret’.
Yet, compelling and often very moving though Finding Dad is, its influence on Paul's TikTok status was accidental.
‘I went to America and drove from New York down to Miami,’ he tells me. Each day I’d send back short videos and my daughter Daisy would make TikTok videos from them – basically to help the book.’
ACK in the UK, Paul and Daisy, 26, wondered how to continue the videos. 'We'd had an idea – because I'd been a music publisher – about her playing me songs I didn't know and I had to decide whether I'd sign or decline them.'
The first ‘Sign or Decline’ duly went up – and clearly struck a chord. ‘It just went crazy,’ says Paul, who, in his career secured a global deal with Billy Ocean and had a hand in bagging the UK rights to Billy Joel’s Just The Way You Are.
It almost seems the richest chapter yet in the Bessell story.
Paul, who appears with Daisy in each video, adds: 'We've now got management advising us.
'Who would have believed it?' ■ ANGELA Rippon's guests do a double take when she fills their wine glasses. At a red-carpet event in Mayfair, the BBC veteran, 81, tells me: 'There's a Rippon
Exterminate! Meta drops a Who clanger
AS Matt Smith's companions in Doctor Who, Amy Pond and Rory Williams vanished after being attacked by aliens called the Weeping Angels.
In a spooky example of life imitating art, the actors who played them, Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill, vanished from Instagram last week after it deleted the page for their podcast, The Pondcast.
Vineyard in New Zealand and they produce some of the best organic wine. I want to go. When I serve it, people say, "Ange, have you put your labels on that?"
Thanks to a misunderstanding at Meta, which owns Instagram, admins took the page down just days after the actors announced it.
‘We just got suspended for impersonating ourselves,’ explains Darvill, who shared a notification from Instagram explaining that their account had been suspended. It has now been reinstated.
In The Pondcast, Jumanji star Gillan, 38, and Darvill, 44, look back at their time starring with Smith, the 11th Doctor.
Lady V's special US relationship
BRITAIN'S ‘special relationship’ with the US might not be what it was, but Lady Victoria Hervey is doing her best to counter that.
At the Thirsty WorkBar Smith & Wollensky's restaurant in London, the elder daughter of the late 6th Marquess of Bristol tells me of a recent encounter with Donald Trump at the US President's golf club in Florida: 'He started chatting to me. He signed my hat and then handed me his pen. It has "White House" on it – and his signature.'
Cheers, Captain Slow!
JEREMY Clarkson's Hawkstone Lager is one of Britain's fastest growing beer brands.
But fellow Top Gear veteran James May, aka 'Captain Slow', may be closing in with a brew of his own.
'I thought, "Well, I drink a lot of beer. What about [making] a beer?" May declares online from his Wiltshire pub, The Royal Oak in Swallowcliffe, adding:
“People could walk up to a bar and say, “Can I have two pints of James, please?””
May, 63, who already has his own gin, sets out his vision for 'James', explaining: 'I am a fan of what I call industrial beers. I'm not a fan of fancy craft stuff. Not too strong, not too hoppy, flavoursome, a session beer that fuels intellectualism – or, as it's sometimes known, b*****t.'
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Ladyva sings the blues over scam
SHE'S been dubbed 'The Queen of Boogie Woogie', often duets with Jools Holland and has performed with the likes of Bonnie Tyler and Jerry Lee Lewis.
But Ladyva - the stage name of Swiss blues pianist Vanessa Gnaegi - said she was horrified when scammers cashed in on her acclaim by using AI deepfakes to defraud fans over FaceTime. 'Fake social media profiles have been contacting fans directly,' Ladyva tells me.
In a warning to her fellow musicians and their online fans, Ladyva explains: 'A fan was manipulated by scammers pretending to be me and lost around 6,000 Swiss francs [£5,500].
‘He believed he was communicating with the real Ladyva.’
■ RAY Winstone now spends much of his time growing olives at his farmhouse in Sicily.
The proud Cockney, 69, says it has much in common with London, adding: 'There's a sort of earthiness - I kind of felt at home. Kids just run about, it's like London or the East End was 40 years ago.
The star of The Gentlemen tells the Dish podcast: 'Maybe, as I've got older, you yearn for that community nostalgia.
'When you first live there, you'll be driving through town and everyone's staring at you, and you go, "What the f*** are you looking at?"'
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From mansion tax fears to stamp duty chaos and the mortgage rates rollercoaster, the property market's in dire straits, so...
By Mark Palmer
KATE Williams has reached boiling point - and it has nothing to do with the summer's relentless heatwaves.
Her husband died at the start of the year after suffering from severe dementia, leaving her alone in their five-bedroom detached home on the Northamptonshire/Lincolnshire border, near the town of Stamford.
‘After a few months, I realised that the best thing was to put the house on the market and start again in some ways,’ says Mrs Williams, 67, who recently retired as a military tailor.
She has two children, one living in Australia, the other on the Isle of Man, and is keen to downsize, a move that would give her the wherewithal to travel and spend time with her five grandchildren.
As it happens, she and her late husband had arranged for a valuation of the house a few months before he died, with various estate agents agreeing that it was worth between £1.15million to £1.2million in a normal marketplace.
But, of course, there's been nothing normal about 2026 so far and there is little reason to think it will become so during what's left of this grim year of economic stagnation and musical chairs in Downing Street.
So, Mrs Williams' house, with its floor area of nearly 3,000 sqft, double garages and substantial landscaped garden, was put on the market with By Design, an international estate agents, for £1million in early May.
‘There was no interest,’ she says. ‘I held out for about 13 weeks and then decided to drop the price to £950,000, but I did so with a heavy heart because it’s a lovely family home in a village with a school, shop and church.’
DROPPING the price by £50,000 also made no difference. In fact, it resulted in just one viewing. And so, this week, feeling slightly desperate and following discussions with By Design, the price was reduced further, to £900,000.
‘What this means is that someone out there will be getting a bargain,’ says Mrs Williams. ‘But I’ve no idea if it’s going to happen.’
What's making her blood boil is not that no one wants to buy her house, but the underlying reasons for the price collapse. It is, she believes, down to the ‘incompetence of the Government’ over the past two years.
Last week, it was reported that ‘mansion tax police’ from HM Revenue & Customs will be able to enter people’s homes to assess how much they are worth.
The tax concocted by former Chancellor Rachel Reeves will be enforced from April 2028 and charge an extra levy of between £2,500 and £7,500 a year to those in homes
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worth £2million-plus. It has been speculated that Burnham could lower the threshold.
'A sense of fear is gripping people,' says Kate. 'No one knows what Andy Burnham really wants to do.
‘All this talk of a mansion tax and clobbering high earners is eating away at confidence and the uncertainty is beginning to cause major issues. It needs something radical like reducing stamp duty.’
There is little chance of that. Last month, the Prime Minister ruled out an overhaul of property taxes in the next Budget, which is due on October 28, but – long-term – Mr Burnham has made clear he wants to change how property and land is taxed.
In the past, the former Manchester mayor has called for the scrapping of stamp duty, instead opting for a land value tax – an annual levy based solely on the value of the land itself.
CURRENTLY, stamp duty is the tax paid by homebuyers on properties or land worth more than £125,000 – or £300,000 in the case of first-time buyers – in England and Northern Ireland.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies, a think tank, has described stamp duty as ‘one of the most economically damaging taxes’. While Kemi Badenoch last year said that a future Conservative government would abolish the tax on main homes.
Then there are the unwelcome hints that the threshold of Burnham's much-loved mansion tax might be lowered from £2million to £1.5million, which will further put off buyers.
The PM does not have much room for manoeuvre. He has promised to stick to Labour's 2024 manifesto pledges not to raise income tax, VAT and National Insurance, but has to find money from somewhere to pay, in particular, for investment in social care and an increase in defence spending.
All this uncertainty is of no help to Mrs Williams and the thousands of other people who want to sell their home, but not at any price.
Meanwhile, buyers are put off by the idea of purchasing a property without knowing what the tax implications might be this time next year.
No wonder Anthony Codling, a managing director at RBC Capital Markets, says the UK housing market has fallen into ‘suspended animation’.
And Lloyds, Britain's biggest mortgage lender, this week said that house prices have ‘flatlined’, with buyers facing an ‘uncertain economic backdrop’. Something of an understatement.
‘Affordability remains a challenge for many would-be buyers and, following recent events in the Middle East, mortgage rates have edged higher again after easing earlier in the summer,’ says Amanda Bryden, director of mortgages at Lloyds.
As a result, mortgage approvals remain significantly below their ten-year average, with Bank of England data showing they are running at 10 per cent lower than a year ago.
To make matters worse, there's growing evidence that, with prices
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falling, mortgage interest rates still high and moving fees increasing, more people are staying put. Hence the moribund marketplace.
A poll of 2,000 homeowners conducted by Evolution Money, a specialist UK secured home loan lender, found that 61 per cent say they would rather upgrade their current property than move in the next five years.
Marius Bedeschi, a retired professional violinist and former Alfredo Campoli chair at the Royal Welsh College of Music, is not one of them. He lives in a 17th-century, three-bedroom period cottage in the Norfolk village of Stoke Ferry, which he has restored in meticulous detail. And wants to sell.
He put the house on the market in October 2025 for £460,000 with a firm called Norfolk Agents – and in five months only had three viewings.
In March, he switched to Sowerbys, a bigger Norfolk estate agent, and dropped the price to £450,000. That didn't work – and so in June the price was decreased further to £420,000. Last week, Mr Bedeschi received an offer of £400,000, which he rejected. They have now agreed on £410,000, subject to survey. His fingers are crossed.
He says: 'It's quite obvious the country is in general decline and so people are holding off – and who can blame them?
‘I have found the whole thing stressful but also frustrating because there’s a pent-up wish to buy out there but it needs to be released.’
There is discouraging news for Mr Bedeschi from Zoopla, which this week reports that demand for cottages of the kind he owns – which soared in price during the pandemic when people flocked to the countryside for a more bucolic lifestyle – has fallen by more than a third over the past three years.
The property crisis – and, whatever some agents may tell you, it is a crisis, with massive knock-on effects – does have a potential upside for those first-time buyers who are prepared to take a risk on whatever
Burnham and his Chancellor are cooking up in Whitehall.
Dexters in southeast London has several one-bedroom flats for sale with asking prices of £350,000 and some owners are open to offers well below that.
‘There is a big opportunity at the moment for first-time buyers,’ says Oliver Carrwhite, a negotiator in Dexters’ New Cross branch. ‘These flats were on the market for around £25,000 more a year ago.’
Even so, some 80 per cent of flats do not sell within six months, according to Zoopla, as buyers turn their backs on one and two-bedroom apartments – especially those in new, high-rise buildings.
Shoddy workmanship, fears about cladding, exorbitant service charges and the financial burden of stamp duty are just some of the reasons for this.
In the city centres of Sheffield, Birmingham, Leicester and Newcastle, flat owners are selling at a loss of almost £40,000 on average, according to Land Registry data.
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Stacey Lofthouse has been trying to sell the two-bedroom flat in Lancaster, where she and her husband live, for eight years.
They bought it in 2009 for £150,000 but are looking to sell for around £125,000.
At first, the issue was the high-risk cladding, which led to a sale collapsing on five different occasions. The cladding has been sorted out but still it won't shift.
A big disincentive for potential buyers is the ground rent and service charges.
Back in 2009, the Lofthouses were paying £295 a year in ground rent and now they are charged £590, with another rise in January to £885 a year. Their service charge amounts to nearly £2,200 a year.
‘We’re just stuck here – we have tried everything,’ says Mrs Lofthouse, who works as a post-graduate research co-ordinator at Lancaster University. ‘I would sell it for a £1 if I could just pay my mortgage and get out but I can’t. It’s like being in prison.’
Selling is clearly problematic but buying can be a headache, too.
‘Affordability remains one of the biggest hurdles to getting on to the property ladder,’ says Colleen Babcock, Rightmove’s property expert.
‘While it appears that changes to property taxes have been ruled out for now, any measures in October’s Budget that can improve affordability would be very welcome’.
Hence, the clarion call for, at the very least, a stamp duty holiday to stimulate the market, just like the one introduced in July 2020 by the then Chancellor Rishi Sunak during the dark days of Covid.
STAMP duty for buying the average priced home in England now stands at £4,572, according to Coventry Building Society
By raising the tax-free threshold to £500,000, Sunak almost immediately created a huge sales boom - although it also pushed some house prices up.
'The Chancellor must consider a Stamp Duty Land Tax holiday for all buyers, not just first-timers,' says Andrew Boast, CEO of Sam Conveyancing. 'We saw exactly how this can instantly inject momentum during the pandemic.'
Mr Boast says that when the initial 0 per cent rate on the first £500,000 was introduced between July 8, 2020, and March 31, 2021, transactions across England and Wales surged, resulting in 134,029 sales in March alone.
‘When this full £500,000 allowance was extended to June 30, 2021, completions skyrocketed to an astonishing 169,769 in that final month, more than double the 72,998 sales recorded in pre-pandemic June 2019,’ he says.
‘But the moment standard thresholds returned on October 1, 2021, volumes immediately crashed to just 58,463. The data
HOW YOU CAN CLINCH SALE
■ PRICE CORRECTLY: A realistic asking price generates a buzz, and having more than one interested buyer can lead to a bidding war.
■ RESEARCH LOCAL MARKET: Find out what other properties your buyers will be seeing and how much they are selling for. Ask yourself honestly: how does yours compare?
■ STAGE YOUR HOME: Repaint it in neutral colours and put clutter and personal items in storage to give the illusion of more space.
■ CHANGE YOUR AGENT: Don't be tied into a long contract so you can switch if they aren't working hard enough.
■ PAY A BONUS: Some sellers offer a cash ‘tip’ to incentivise agents to sell their home.
■ DON'T PANIC: If your home is sensibly priced and in a good location, the right buyer will eventually come along.
clearly proves that removing or reducing stamp duty allows buyers to allocate more capital towards their deposit.'
Mr Boast adds: 'A universal stamp duty holiday shifts the policy focus away from just first-time buyers and actively supports second-steppers.
‘By incentivising existing homeowners to upsize, you free up affordable housing stock at the bottom of the ladder while generating vital transactional volume further up the chain.’
You don't need to be an economics expert to work out that a thriving property market is good for growth, not least because of all the associated spending on purchases such as furniture and other household items.
But Burnham's main focus since he seized power from Sir Keir Starmer has been his plan to oversee 'the largest council house building programme since the post-war period' – without giving any details about how this might be achieved. Meanwhile, the wider
Meanwhile, the wider property market is left to fend for itself.
'The Government seems to have forgotten that the property market underpins the essential economy of this country,' says Nigel Bishop of buying agent Recoco Property Search.
‘But the only thing it has achieved is absolute uncertainty amongst buyers.’
In 1995, Gordon Brown talked about helping ‘hard-working families’. Fifteen years later, Ed Miliband came up with the ‘squeezed middle’, who also needed help. And in 2016, Theresa May introduced the idea of ‘the just about managing’.
All three groups are still struggling despite the fact that, when it comes to property, the Government has the keys to unlock this fundamental pillar of growth.
But despite the changes at the top, there remains a depressing, albeit predictable, reluctance to use them.
I won £50,000 in a little known savings prize draw
By Elizabeth Anderson
GUY Mayhew was on holiday in Tenerife with his husband and in-laws when a call came in to tell him he'd won £50,000 in a monthly savings prize draw.
It was a huge result for Guy – a 33-year-old local government consultant from Kent – as he'd only signed up to the account less than a year before.
‘I’ve always taken quite a keen interest in managing my money and I’m always looking around and comparing different savings accounts,’ he says.
‘It’s been a fantastic return for me. I really like prize-based savings accounts, as I’m a higher rate taxpayer and winnings are tax-free but they’re becoming harder and harder to find.’
Prize-based savings accounts, where savers are entered into a prize draw for the chance to win cash prizes each month, are a popular way to hold cash.
The nation's favourite prize draw by far is Premium Bonds, offered by National Savings & Investments (NS&I), held by almost 23million Britons. Each bond costs £1 to buy and savers can invest between £25 and £50,000.
Tax-free cash prizes are paid out to Premium Bond holders each month starting from £25, with two people winning £1million. From the draw in September, the rate on Premium Bonds rises to 4.35pc – the third highest rate it has offered in modern times.
You also have to give 35 days' notice if you want to take money out and partial withdrawals are not allowed. You have to withdraw a whole bond, so you cannot withdraw less than £10,000.
Take your pick of the best Premium Bonds alternatives offering the biggest jackpots
Money with the building society is covered by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme to the tune of £120,000.
UT the main downside to Premium Bonds is that they don't pay interest, so there is a risk that money is losing value if you don't
Guy used to have an account with Halifax for the prize draw, but when he was notified about its upcoming closure, he started looking around for an alternative and came across the Windfall Bond account offered by Family Building Society, and he opened an account in April last year.
have much luck when it comes to winning. There are Premium Bond alternatives for those looking to earn interest on their savings or who are beyond the £50,000 limit. However, they are not very common. Halifax dropped its Savers Prize Draw last year after 14 years, which gave away monthly prizes of £100, £1,000 or £100,000.
because the account pays interest and actually the odds of winning were higher but, I must
Prize Guy: Lucky saver treated family with some of his winnings
The Windfall Bond account enters holders into a monthly free prize draw with a chance to win between £100 and £50,000. Unlike Premium Bonds, the account pays interest – of 2.75pc a year – but like Premium Bonds, the winnings are tax-free.
Each bond costs £10,000, with no upper limit on how many bonds can be bought, and bondholders have a one-in-100 chance of winning a prize ranging from £100 to £50,000.
Since January 2025, the Windfall Bond has paid out £2,379,700 across 2,819 prizes, says the Fam-
The Windfall Bond savings account would not be suitable for everyone. Its 2.75pc is not the highest interest rate on the market. Interest is paid only once a year on July 31, rather than monthly, so would not suit those who need monthly interest payments. While the cash prizes are tax-free, the interest is taxable.
ily Building Society. Guy initially held four bonds, worth £40,000, and has gradually increased his holding to £120,000 (12 bonds).
admit, I never expected to win the jackpot,' he says.
called on the phone to congratulate him. Guy had been expecting a work call so picked up
He won £1,000 in the October 2025 prize draw and found out he'd won the £50,000 jackpot in February while sitting in the lobby of his hotel in Tenerife having a final drink before being picked up for the airport.
That's when a customer services representative from the Family Building Society
IN 2004, a Premium Bonds holder from London won the £1million jackpot with just £17 – bought in 1959.
was upgraded to a bottle of fizz once I came off the phone,' he adds.
next year. Guy also recently paid for 14 extended members of family to go to Jersey, covering plane seats and hotel costs, at a total cost of about £7,000. He says: 'I've always saved, getting my first job at my local county council at the age of 16 for two days a week, which I carried on doing while at college and university.
‘I checked my bank account while waiting for the plane and saw the money had already been paid in, which is when it really sank in.’
‘It put me in a really good position when I graduated and I bought my first home with my husband shortly after in 2011, and we’re still in it. I’m always thinking about maximising my savings as much as I can with the eventual aim to retire early.
nings on a new car and plans to visit his brother in Australia
‘I have Premium Bonds but the Windfall Bond appealed to me
He is considering spending some of his win-
A total of £100,000 is given away to savers each month, with one customer winning £10,000.
Skipton Building Society is launching a prize draw from October 1, with eight monthly prizes – 1 x £25,000, 2 x £10,000 and 5 x £1,000.
The Members Draw is open to over-18s with at least £100 in savings or a mortgage with £100 outstanding. Skipton says members will receive between one and five entries into each draw based on the length of their continuous membership.
Kent Reliance, a specialist lending and savings provider, offers a monthly prize draw where one customer wins £1,000 each month, as long as they hold a minimum balance of £100.
Lloyds Bank has also recently launched a monthly prize draw where 50 customers are chosen at random every month to each win £2,026.
To qualify, customers must have their salary paid into a Lloyds, Halifax or Bank of Scotland current account and it must be a minimum of £1,000 a month. The offer must be activated in the app or online each month to enter.
B RITAIN'S Waspi chairwoman Angela Madden is quietly confident that Prime Minister Andy Burnham will honour a long-standing pledge to pay compensation to 3.5million women born in the 1950s who were given inadequate notice of increases to their state pension age.
Many were hit hard in the pocket as a result – and left with little time to plug the hole in their finances.
Speaking exclusively to the Daily Mail, 72-year-old Madden believes Burnham is in ‘listening mode’ and that ‘if he can do something, he will'. She is adamant this is the case despite the PM seemingly rowing back on his support for Waspi (Women Against State Pension Inequality) women in June by suggesting that compensation could merely take the form of 'concessionary travel' – something most women born in the 1950s already enjoy by virtue of their age.
‘When he said that [concessionary travel], what he was really saying is that he would do something for us, but he didn’t know what that “something” would be,’ insists Madden. ‘What we now need to do is sit around a table with Government and talk about what the options are.’
She adds: 'The Prime Minister has a golden opportunity to prove he is a man of the people if he works with us. He might not be able to deliver 100 per cent of what we want, but us Waspis can't be left with nothing.'
Earlier this month, Madden and fellow Waspi campaigner Janet Fulster wrote a second note in as many months to Burnham urging him to have the ‘political will’ to resolve the issue.
They said that ‘fair and proportionate’ redress should be paid, taking into account the state of the nation’s finances. He has yet to respond.
The holy grail that Waspi wants is the maximum £10billion-plus compensation (£2,950 per person) that the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman recommended in early 2024. This came after
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Daily Mail a six-year probe by the ombudsman into how effectively (or ineffectively) the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) communicated state pension age increases to women in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
The increases were triggered initially by the 1995 Pensions Act which paved the way for the state pension age for women to
Five years ago, the ombudsman found the DWP guilty of ‘maladministration’ for failing to give many of these women adequate and timely information about the fact that their state pension age would increase.
As a result, many didn't understand how the changes would impact them until it was too late to do anything to mitigate the delay in receipt of their state pension. For those dependent upon it for a majority of their retirement income – single women especially – the financial impact was devastating.
The subsequent 2011 Pensions Act then brought forward the qualifying age of 65 for women to 2018. Six years ago, the state pension age for both men and women increased to 66.
compared with £156,000 for men, says the DWP
In 2024, the ombudsman followed up its report by recommending the compensation that should be paid: Ranging from £3.5billion (£1,000 per individual) to in excess of £10billion.
By Jeff Prestridge
Waspi sensed a victory after nearly ten years of hard campaigning on the issue, although they had initially called for individual compensation of £10,000. But they were horribly betrayed by Keir Starmer's Labour Government.
Although Labour in opposition had backed Waspi's long-standing call for compensation, the party failed to give it a mention in its 2024 Election manifesto. It was an ominous omission.
In late 2024, it rejected the ombudsman's recommendations, with the then Works and Pensions Secretary of State Liz Kendall describing the compensation as not representing a 'fair or proportionate use of taxpayers' money'.
She also said that most women already knew about the state pension age changes so were not harmed by DWP delays in sending out letters to them about the matter. Her defence of the decision in the House of Commons was met with shouts of 'shame'.
Just under a year later, the Government agreed to reconsider its decision not to compensate after new evidence came to light. But early this year, it said it would be standing firm.
To say Madden is angry over Labour's betrayal is an understatement. 'I am appalled that Labour stood four-square behind
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us in our call for compensation,' she says, 'and then let us down when we needed them most.'
She adds: ‘The parliamentary ombudsman defends citizens against government wrongdoing. Its six-year investigation, which looked at all the evidence with a fair eye, came up with a solution in the form of compensation and I don’t believe its recommendations should be ignored. And I don’t believe Andy thinks they should be ignored either.’
into government and didn't do anything.
Certainly, most of the mood music coming from Burnham and his phalanx of advisers is positive.
In early June, ahead of becoming Prime Minister, he said that he had 'long supported' the Waspi campaign. In a jab at Starmer, he said: 'I feel uncomfortable when politicians were all holding up that sort of banner and then it got
So I stick by the campaigns that I support. I stuck by the Hillsborough families [those who lost loved ones in the 1989 disaster at the home of Sheffield Wednesday and demanded justice, which Burnham helped effect]. I'll stick
by the Waspi women because they deserve some recompense for the unfairness.'
Madden says justice for Waspi will not cost the Government £10billion, claiming that Labour under Starmer used the figure to ‘scare’ people into thinking it would be a big burden for taxpayers to pay.
‘Look, first of all, it’s a one-off payment,’ she says. ‘Once the payment is made, the burden on the State has gone for ever.
‘Secondly, the compensation could be spread over two or three tax years to help the Government’s finances.
‘And finally, women should have to apply for it. There are women out there who tell us they knew about the change to their state pension age through one circumstance or another – and so won’t claim any compensation.
‘Former Prime Minister Theresa May is in the pool of Waspi women. It’s very unlikely that she would put a claim in. She knew about the changes.’
She adds: ‘We will explore all these issues with Andy and come up with a solution that is fair both to the taxpayer – and I’m among them – and the Waspi community.’
Madden, who lives near Chesterfield, Derbyshire, with husband Joseph, has skin in the campaign. She had to stop working as a computer specialist in 2008 at age 54 to look after her ill mother Mary.
But she wouldn't have done so if she had realised that four years
Glimmer of hope for 3.5MILLION women hit by change in the state pension age...
...so WHEN will Burnham deliver on his promise to Waspi women and green light up to £10BN?
later, she would be told that her state pension would not be paid in 2014 as expected – but in 2019.
‘I was lucky in some respects because my husband had a good job, so he was able to support me until I turned 65. But he shouldn't have had to do this.
‘For far too long, women had a poor pension deal, both at work and from the State. Yes, things have got better, but wrongs must be righted.’
Although Madden believes October's Budget will include nothing on Waspi compensation, she is hopeful that a Government commitment to compensation will come in the next year.
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Protest: Waspi women out in force to campaign for justice and compensation
'The force is with us,' she says. 'Some 80 per cent of the public back our campaign for compensation, we have some 100,000 Waspi members, and 150,000 women follow us on social media. Justice must prevail and sooner rather than later, given that a Waspi woman dies every 13 minutes.
‘Some 450,000 have passed since we launched our campaign 11 years ago. How many more will die before justice is done?’
It's hard to walk away from interviewing the gentle and kindly Angela Madden without feeling angry over the State's pension betrayal of women born in the 1950s.
As she said to me, justice must prevail. It's now in the hands of the Prime Minister. Will he stick to his promise to deliver compensation or will he be as two-faced as Starmer was?
More than three million women await his decision with bated breath. Money Mail asked
No10 Downing Street for a comment on whether the Prime Minister would follow through on its promise to compensate Waspi women.
It merely said it had accepted ‘maladministration’ and given an ‘apology to the women affected’.
It added that the DWP had learned lessons from the ombudsman's investigation and had published an action plan in the pursuit of ‘effective, timely and modern communications on the state pension’.
■ Do you think Waspi women deserve compensation? Contact jeff.prestridge@dailymail.co.uk.
Savers need to fill cash Isas while they can — here's where to find the very best rates now
U NWELCOME tweaks to Isa rules which restrict the amount you can save tax-free are racing towards us.
From April, the annual allowance on cash Isas, by far the most popular type of account, will be severely limited from £20,000 to £12,000 for anyone under the age of 65.
The total Isa limit across stocks and shares accounts, however, stays at £20,000. This means you need to funnel the remaining £8,000 into a stocks and shares Isa or forego that part of your allowance.
That's bad news for savers who enjoy the comfort of cash.
The final details of exactly how these new rules will work will be published ‘in the autumn’ the Treasury says, but industry insiders tell me they expect them as early as next month. That is well before the new Chancellor John Healey’s first
Budget on October 28. The changes are a hangover of the tax-grab of previous Chancellor Rachel Reeves in the Autumn Budget 2025.
Industry body the Building Societies Association told me last week that the new Chancellor faces the choice of pressing ahead with the proposed, complex changes, or has the opportunity to scrap them altogether. Sadly, I doubt he'll do away with them as they are a good revenue raiser.
Regardless, I urge you to make use of as much as you can of this year's cash Isa allowance before it can be cut.
In more bad news for the under-65s, you will no longer be able to transfer Isa money from a stocks and shares Isa into a cash Isa, making financial planning as you
approach retirement more complex. It's there to stop you putting up to £8,000 into a shares Isa then transferring it to a cash version.
your age – on cash held in a stocks and shares Isa.
In a further blow, research by consumer group Fairer Finance shows Isa platforms will be able to pay little or no interest on cash in their shares Isas. Many pay less than 2 pc, while in a cash Isa you can earn upwards of 4 pc and it is all tax-free.
And don't think you can leave it in cash in a stocks and shares Isa and earn tax-free interest. The Government will take 22 pc of any interest you earn – whatever
For the over-65s, the cash Isa allowance remains at £20,000. This higher allowance comes into effect from the start of the tax year in which you turn 65. If your 65th birthday falls, for example, in September 2027, you will have the £20,000 cash Isa limit from April 2027.
If you want a top easy-access flexible Isa, the best rate currently is 4.6 pc from appbased provider Trading 212. There is no limit to the number of withdrawals you can make but there is a bonus of 1 percentage points for the first year – so make a diary note to transfer to a better rate in a year's time.
With a flexible Isa you can take money out and replace it in the same tax year without affecting your overall Isa allowance. If it's not flexible, it means that when you replace the money, it counts towards your annual allowance.
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Sally Sorts It
Dear Sally
WE RUN a family farm and have had a British Gas account for six years, paying about £200 a month for electricity. Last month the company sent a bill for £19,700 and took the money from our account via direct debit. It turned out a meter reader sent by British Gas in May had read it incorrectly. As soon as the money left our account, I made contact and the company admitted its mistake. One month on and we still haven't got our money back. It has put us under severe financial pressure and caused huge stress.
M.G., Powys, Mid Wales. WHAT a shock to have such a huge sum harvested from your account. Not many people could withstand that kind of financial bolt out of the blue. You had to act quickly to replenish the funds, which involved plundering your own retirement savings so that other bills could be paid and bank overdraft charges minimised.
This heaped extra pressure on the running of the sheep, pig and arable farm which you operate with your father and which was already suffering from the drought in Wales. You are having to use feed for your sheep as the grass has dried out.
Even though British Gas admitted its mistake following your frantic calls, it seemed incapable of acting as fast in returning your money as it did collecting it. It kept telling you it needed approval from its finance department before refunding you, because of the large sum involved.
I was perplexed that it was able to loot your account in the first place by 100 times more than your usual bill.
Under something called the direct debit guarantee, bank customers should get ten days' notice of any change to the amount taken. The guarantee also promises that customers will be refunded immediately if the sum taken turns out to be wrong.
I asked British Gas how it came to make such a blunder and urged it to get the cash back into your account. It confirmed the original error with the reading, but said the refund element of the direct debit guarantee didn't take effect because the bill at the time was deemed an accurate reflection of the reading.
It said it sent notice of the direct debit going out 14 days beforehand. I imagine as busy farmers, this was not spotted.
Delays continued, with British Gas requesting a photo of the meter showing the true readings before it would return your money. Exasperating as this was, you provided it, and the company corrected the reading, rebilled your account and processed a refund of £18,654 (the sum taken minus charges for actual consumption) within days of my contact.
A spokesman says: 'We've confirmed this to M.G., and have apologised for not putting it right sooner. We have asked him to provide details of any bank charges incurred due to our error which we will review, and we'll be providing a gesture of goodwill.'
Why hasn't British Gas paid back the £19,700 it mistakenly took for our farm's energy bill?
You estimate your costs at £600 but must wait until the end of your business quarter in September to be sure. You said: 'We really appreciate what you have done. Within a couple of hours of contacting you, we achieved more than we did with a month of calls to British Gas.' Your experience serves as a cautionary tale for all direct debit users to check the accuracy of the sum an organisation plans to take.
IN JULY, I took my 11-year-old son to two Metallica concerts in east London. This was the first time I have driven in the capital in about 25 years. On our way in, Google Maps alerted me there were tolls. We went through the Blackwall Tunnel on Friday, and I paid the following day, as is permitted. When I went to pay the tunnel charge again for the Sunday of the second concert, I decided to take a belt-and-braces approach to ensure that I did not risk any other penalty charges. But the TfL app was confusing and each time I checked, it stated the congestion charge 'is due' for my car. This led to me paying two daily congestion charges of £21 each. I later found out I shouldn't have paid it at all, as we didn't go into the relevant zone, but Transport for London won't refund me.
G.P., York.
THE rules of London's roads can be bewildering for locals, never mind someone who hasn't driven in the capital for decades. The key charges to watch out for include fees for driving through various tunnels, entering the central congestion zone and charges for high-emission vehicles.
Fearful of facing hefty penalties for getting it wrong, you tried to ensure all bases were covered once you were in London.
You wanted to set up auto-pay, where TfL takes the appropriate charges automatically. But as this is only suitable for future travel and doesn't take into account journeys made, you attempted to check what you already owed.
On clicking on ‘Check what I need to pay’ on the TfL app and entering your car’s details, it
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clearly said that the congestion charge ‘is due’ and the Blackwall Tunnel charge ‘is due’. The Ultra Low Emission Zone (Ulez) charge was not due as your car meets the required emissions standards.
You were surprised by the congestion charge as you didn't think you'd driven through the central zone where it applies. But you had noticed a red 'C' in a white circle when using the Blackwall Tunnel and thought this must have meant the charge was due. You thought it wise to pay up and paid £21 twice (it is £18 if you pay in advance).
The advice the app gave you was generic rather than tailored, and when you realised your mistake you requested a refund. It was denied, as TfL says it does not reimburse drivers for charges applied for days that have already passed. You felt this unfair as you tried everything in your power to be compliant.
I felt you had a good case because I agree the page you looked at on the app that suggested a charge was due could be misinterpreted. On speaking to TfL, I discovered something I felt made your case even stronger. The 'C' sign you had seen near the Blackwall Tunnel referred to the tunnel 'charge', not the 'congestion' charge.
Both these signs are of the same design – so no wonder you thought you had to pay the congestion charge in addition to the tunnel toll. From an online search, I found that others have fallen into the same trap.
I am pleased to say TfL agreed to reimburse your £42 as a goodwill gesture.
■ WRITE to Sally Hamilton at Sally Sorts It, Money Mail, 9 Derry Street, London, W8 5HY or email sally@dailymail.co.uk — include phone number, address and a note addressed to the offending organisation giving them permission to talk to Sally Hamilton. Please do not send original documents as we cannot take responsibility for them. No legal responsibility can be accepted by the Daily Mail for answers given.
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I PLAN to pay the £125,000 remaining on my HSBC mortgage at the end of August when my fixed rate ends.
In April, I began transferring money from various savings accounts into my cash Isa, also with HSBC, so I would be ready to pay the funds. I transferred more than £16,000 from a Post Office Isa, but the sum isn't in my account after 15 weeks. C.W., South Wales.
HSBC apologises and says your money has now been transferred. It has also paid you £500 in compensation, £167 in backdated interest and sent you a hamper.
ANOTHER seller on eBay has been using a photograph I took of a product. I have reported it, but eBay refuses to remove the listing. It has also put a permanent ban on my account, which I've held for eight years, so I can't sell anything, and it is holding £5,000 of my money from sales I have made. I give part of the profits I make to children and animal charities.
J.B., Mid Wales. EBAY says it has reinstated your account and opened an investigation into the seller using your photograph.
MY wife and I flew business class on return flights from Heathrow to Sri Lanka with Sri Lankan Airlines in February, but we've not received our Avios points.
As British Airways loyalty club members, we collect points when we fly with its partner airlines, which can be spent on reward flights or seat upgrades. We submitted a claim for the missing points but received no reply. I've called the BA helpline, but staff pointed us back to the claims form we have already completed. M.B., Hampshire.
BRITISH Airways apologises and says your points have been added to your account.
New house was full of sellers' rubbish... can we charge them for cost of clearing it out?
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WE bought a new house. When we moved in, the sellers had left a broken washing machine full of clothes, a broken fridge-freezer, dirty dishes and unwanted furniture. We had to pay to have it cleared. Can we claim the money back from the seller?
Name and address supplied. POTENTIALLY, yes – and your position could be quite strong.
When you buy a property, the seller will generally be required to give you vacant possession on completion.
That means you should be able to move into the property and enjoy it without being confronted by the seller's belongings, furniture or rubbish, unless you agreed that particular items could remain.
From what you describe, you did not agree to take these items. A broken washing machine containing the seller's clothes, a broken fridge-freezer, dirty dishes and unwanted furniture are not things you should ordinarily be expected to deal with after completion.
If the seller was contractually obliged to give vacant possession, leaving these items could amount to a breach of contract. If you then had to pay a reasonable amount to have them removed and disposed of, you can seek to recover that cost from the seller as a loss resulting from the breach.
There is one important caveat: check the contract and the TA10 Fittings and Contents Form you signed during the buying process to make sure none of the items were agreed to be left at the property.
I would write to the seller, explain that the property was not handed over in the agreed condition, provide photographs and the clearance invoice, and ask them to reimburse the reasonable cost of removal.
Do not overstate your claim by demanding compensation for the inconvenience. Your strongest claim is for the actual, reasonable cost you incurred in clearing up.
MY daughter lives on a street where finding a parking space is difficult. Her neighbour recently had the kerb outside her house dropped, even though she can't park in her front garden because it has a wall. The neighbour says because the
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kerb is now dropped – lowered to enable access to off-road parking – no one else is allowed to park outside her house.
When my daughter did park there due to a lack of spaces, an egg was thrown at her car. Is the neighbour right about the kerb?
S.N., Northampton.
THE neighbour is wrong. A dropped kerb confers no ownership of the road, and creates no private parking space.
The highway outside a house remains public and, unless there are specific restrictions in place, such as yellow lines, a residents' bay or similar, anyone may generally park there. Having a kerb lowered does not reserve that stretch of Tarmac for the homeowner and the neighbour cannot simply declare it hers.
The fact that she can't even use her front garden for parking, because a wall still blocks it, rather underlines the point.
There is, however, one genuine note of caution and this is where the distinction matters. Parking on the road near the property is fine, but parking directly across the dropped section is another matter.
Under the Traffic Management Act 2004, parking across a dropped footway is a civil parking contravention that councils can enforce with a penalty notice.
Be aware, too, that some councils will enforce this even where the resident has no usable driveway and, occasionally, even if the resident hasn't complained. So your daughter would be wise to check her council's stance as it varies from area to area.
What troubles me far more is the egg. Throwing an object at a vehicle could amount to criminal damage if any harm is caused, with repeated targeting potentially crossing into harassment.
My advice: avoid all confrontation. Photograph the dropped kerb, the wall and any signs or road markings, and keep a dated record of every incident.
If it happens again, especially if her car is damaged or she feels threatened, she should report it to the police.
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THE final episode in the current run of art investigations reopens the files on John Lennon's baby grand piano and Ronnie Wood's lap steel guitar, featured in an
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IT IS one of the world's most iconic landmarks, but what do we really know about the Great Wall of China? Television's most enthusiastic historian, Dan Snow (pictured), is packing his bags and heading East for this fact-filled new documentary in which he tries to separate ancient myth from cold, hard truth. Away from the standard tourist traps and postcard-perfect views, Snow travels across the vast country to expose the staggering realities of the world's ultimate building project. His epic trek starts where the wall dramatically plunges into the ocean, before
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| 11.25 | The Shallows (2016) (15) ◆ A surfer strays into the hunting territory of a great white shark and faces a life or death struggle to get back to shore. Thriller, starring Blake Lively. | 11.05 | Couples Therapy Shay and Clinton are set homework to learn to compromise. | 11.05 | The Never Ending Murder (AD) The police begin their investigation, question two local men, and discover possible links between Nicola's case and other serious cases in the area. | ||
| FILM | 11.30 | Couples Therapy Sienna explores how bullying led her to bury uncomfortable feelings. | |||||
| 12.45 | Weather for the Week Ahead 12.50 BBC News | 12.00 | Buried with Michael Sheen (R) 1.00 Celebrity MasterChef (AD,BSL,R) 2.00 Brexit: A Very British Civil War (AD,BSL,R) 3.00 This Is BBC2 | 1.10 | Shop on TV 3.00 Love & Death (AD,BSL,R) 4.00 Inside the Langham: Britain's First Grand Hotel (AD,BSL,R) 4.20 Unwind with ITV 5.35 Tom Kerridge Cooks Italy (AD,BSL,R) | 12.05 | Spy Next Door: The Anna Chapman Story (AD,BSL,R) 1.00 Spy Next Door: The Anna Chapman Story (AD,BSL,R) 1.55 Celebrity Hunted (AD,BSL,R) 2.50 Celebrity Hunted (AD,BSL,R) 3.50 Couples Come Dine with Me (BSL,R) 4.45 Jamie: Eat Yourself Healthy (AD,BSL,R) |
TRUE CRIME The Murder Detective, 9pm, Ch4
IN 2019, 29-year-old journalist Lyra Mckee (pictured) was shot dead while reporting on a riot in the Northern Irish city of
Derry. She made her name reporting on the legacy of the Troubles and her murder hit hard, not least because an organisation calling itself the New IRA claimed responsibility. This three-part series charts the seven-year investigation led by Senior Investigating Officer Jason Murphy. It's the first time cameras have been allowed to follow detectives working on a terror-related murder in Northern Ireland, and lays bare the threat of attack that Murphy and his police and intelligence colleagues worked under. We also hear from Lyra's family, including her sister Nichola, who are still, sadly, awaiting justice for Lyra.
CHANNEL 5
6.00 Milkshake! Peppa Pig (AD,R) 6.05 Peppa Pig (AD,R) 6.10 Tweedy & Fluff (R) 6.15 Odo (R) 6.20 Thomas & Friends (R) 6.35 Fireman Sam (R) 6.45 Peppa Pig (AD,R) 6.50 Pip and Posy (R) 6.55 Paw Patrol (R) 7.10 Move It Milkshakers! (R) 7.20 Rubble & Crew (R) 7.35 Peppa Pig (AD,R) 7.40 Peppa Pig (AD,R) 7.45 Tim Rex in Space (AD,R) 8.00 Stan & Gran (R) 8.15 Paw Patrol (R) 8.40 The Adventures of Paddington (R) 8.50 Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom (R) 9.00 Peppa Pig (AD,R) 9.05 The Real Pup Squad (R)
2.20 Murder for Mortgage: Secrets on Maple Street (2024) (U) Thriller, starring Frances Leigh.
4.00 Castle (R) A work of art is stolen.
4.55 Love Nature (R) Cameras follow a rooftop beekeeper in Birmingham.
5.00 5 News with Dan Walker 6.00 Motorhoming with Merton & Webster (R) Paul Merton and Suki Webster explore the New Forest. 6.55 5 News Update
7.00 Cycling: Vuelta a Espana 2026 Rebecca Charlton presents action from stage five of the Grand Tour race, a hilly 173.4km route from Falset to Roquetes. 7.55 5 News Update
8.00 Call the Bailiffs: Time to Pay Up (AD) New series. Documentary following the work of High Court enforcement agents. Agents attempt to recover a debt owed by an estate agent to a former client.
9.00 The Great Wall of China with PICK Dan Snow Dan Snow heads to China to find out more about the country's iconic landmark — the world's biggest building project that changed the course of Chinese history.
10.30 A&E: Crash Scene Emergency (R) Jess is critically injured and her older sister Jaimie-Leigh suffers a broken neck when their car collides with another vehicle and flips.
11.30 Ambulance: Code Red (R) A 52-year-old man complains of neck and shoulder pains after being thrown off his motorbike and a 40-year-old epileptic woman has collapsed with a low breathing rate.
12.30 Cops (R) 12.55 Entertainment News on 5 1.00 Cruise TV with LoveitBookit (R) 2.00 GPs: Behind Closed Doors (R) 2.50 Castle (R) 3.40 Friends (AD,R) 4.10 Friends (AD,R) 4.35 Amazing Railway Adventures with Nick Knowles (BSL,R) 5.25 Entertainment News on 5 5.35 Paw Patrol (BSL,R)
▲ Particularly liable to offend
How our sailors beat the Armada ... fuelled by the humble currant
HISTORY on the box comes in two varieties. There's the woke type that
judges the past according to current fashions, condemning our forebears for failing to live and think like us.
Rob Rinder and Ruth Goodman have strayed close to this self-indulgent style in their current series, which follows a format of pitting rich (boo! hiss!) against poor (sigh! sob!).
But they redeemed themselves in The Tudors (Ch5), the final episode of the run, which investigated the England of 1588, in peril from the Spanish Armada. This was history of the second sort, crammed with the kind of detail that gives us a new perspective on stories we thought we knew from school.
I'd always assumed, for example, that the tradition of eating fish on a Friday was somehow rooted in religion. Not so: apparently it's more to do with economics and defence of the realm.
An island nation needs sailors. The Tudor exchequer couldn't afford to maintain a Royal Navy, so in times of peace its seafarers
BEACH ARTISTS OF THE NIGHT: The sandcastle makers in Race Against The Tide (BBC2) were using every kind of tool — a horse brush, a green fluffy duster, paintbrushes, plasterers' trowels, spoons, biros, even a blackfly sprayer for roses. I didn't see a bucket and spade though.
had to earn their living as fishermen. To ensure a strong demand for their catches, eating fish on Fridays became mandatory.
Anyone caught tucking in to mutton instead of mackerel could be thrown in the stocks. These days, about 20 per cent of British people never eat oily fish, and Rob's revulsion as he tasted a bite of eel told us he's one of them.
We also had no standing army
We also had no standing army — but the entire male population was ready for call-up. Every man and boy aged seven to 60 was required to own a bow and at least two arrows, and to be proficient in their use.
It's hard to escape the conclusion that, even without official Armed Forces, the England of Tudor times was more vigorously defended than it is today.
Best of all was the discovery that our nation owes its survival to the currant, or rather to hundreds of barrels of them — juicy, sun-dried currants that
N. IRELAND TV VARIATIONS
BBC1: 10.40pm The Big Deal with Steph McGovern. The pairs are tested on their ability to sell to the public. 11.40 MOTD: UEFA Champions League. Action from the play-off round second-leg ties. 12.25am FILM: The Shallows (2016) (15). A surfer strays into the hunting territory of a great white shark and faces a life or death struggle to get back to shore. Thriller, with Blake Lively. 1.45 BBC News.
WELSH TV VARIATIONS
S4C: 6.00am Cyw. 11.00 Camau Bach. 12noon Newyddion S4C a'r Tywydd. 12.05 Cartrefi Cymru. 12.30 Heno. 1.00 Lowri Morgan: Her 333. 1.30 Garddio a Mwy. 2.00 Newyddion S4C a'r Tywydd. 2.05 Prynhall Da. 3.00 Newyddion S4C a'r Tywydd. 3.05 Siwrna Scandi Chris. 4.00 Awr Fawr. 5.00 Stwnsh. 6.00 Dan Do. 6.30 Adeiladu'r Freuddwyd: Camp Out West. 6.59 Newyddion S4C. 7.00 Heno. 7.30 Newyddion S4C a'r Tywydd. 8.00 Poboly Cwm. 8.25 Cartrefi Cymru. 8.55 Newyddion S4C a'r Tywydd. 9.00 Priodas Pum Mil. 10.00 Y Deis. 10.30 Ty Fft.
CHRISTOPHER STEVENS LAST NIGHT'S TV
The Tudors With Rob Rinder And Ruth Goodman ★★★★☆
Elizabethans used to sweeten every kind of dish from meat pies to lardy cakes.
Currants paid for the navy that fought off the Spaniards. You might say they became the nation's raisin d'etre. Perhaps Good Queen Bess should have
been recrowned as our Sultana. The monopoly in currants, Rob explained, was held by a London merchant named Thomas Cordell, who lived in Cheapside, round the back of St Paul's, with his wife and at least seven children. To import his goods, Cord ell owned numerous ships. He was a Tudor shipping magnate.
And when the Armada billowed into sight off Plymouth Hoe, the monarch simply commandeered Cordell's fleet for a makeshift navy... with 16,000 men, mostly conscripts, to sail them.
Despite heavy fighting and a long pursuit, only about 100 English sailors were killed — but on the voyage home, about 7,000 died of disease. Think of that next time you eat a currant bun.
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| TIME | BBC 4 | E4 |
| 9 (Scot 24) | 13 | |
| 7.00pm | Villages by the SeaBen Robinson discovers the impressive lime kilns in Solva, Wales | Hollyoaks Cindy poses as a taxi driver in an attempt to get answers |
| 7.30pm | Canal Boat DiariesRobbie Cumming breaks down in Nottingham | The Simpsons Homer asks Patty for help |
| 8.00pm | Rome: A History of the Eternal City Simon Sebag Montefiore charts the rocky course of Rome’s rise to become the capital of Western Christendom | Ladies of London: The New Reign Misse organises a day of wine tasting and – she hopes – bonding. But the experience leaves a bitter taste in heiress Kimi Murdoch’s mouth |
| 8.30pm | ||
| 9.00pm | Mary Beard's Ultimate Rome: Empire Without LimitMary Beard examines how and when the Roman Empire fell.Last in series | Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA New series. Gordon Ramsay tackles disastrous kitchens across America’s Midwest, starting in Indiana at Freddy’s Steak House |
| 9.30pm | ||
| 10.00pm | I, Claudius Caligula announces he is leaving to fight the Germans | Gogglebox The critics’ opinions on programmes including My Mum, Your Dad, Welcome to Wrexham and Marcus Wareing’s Tales from a Kitchen Garden. From 2023 |
| 10.30pm | 10.55 I, Claudius The Praetorian Guard hold Claudius under protective custody | |
| 11.00pm | First Dates Those taking part include 23-year-old Rory, who meets 24-year-old Ella, along with 54-year-old Caroline, who has been on 50 dates in the past two years (To 12.05) | |
| 11.30pm | 11.50 The Australian Wars (To 12.50) |
PICK OF DIGITAL & ON DEMAND TV
BOOKISH, 8PM, 9.15PM, U&ALIBI
AS COSY as an afternoon spent curled up with a novel, Bookish is a whodunnit set in 1946, in a London reeling from the Blitz. Mark Gatiss (pictured) is the show's creator and star. He plays Gabriel Book, a bookshop owner with a photographic memory and a nose for solving crimes. As you somehow instantly know when you first see him on screen, there's even more going on with Book. While he's married to his childhood best friend, Trottie (Polly Walker), Book is gay, at a time when that was illegal in the UK. That's quite a
ROMANTIC FILM The Last Sunrise, Amazon Prime Video
thing to live with, and it gives the character an extra dimension; but even that isn't all that Book has going on... Series one was a hit, so the ante has been upped for the new, second series, which follows Book to Germany for the ambitious last of its three two-part mysteries. The guest stars across the run are top-notch and include Jason Watkins as a medium, Miranda Richardson as a clever but viciously unpleasant duchess, Simon Callow as the mysterious 'E', and Rupert Graves as a suave devil with trouble in mind.
THE novelist Anna Todd wrote the After books, which became a popular series of teen romance movies on Amazon. She also wrote standalone love story The Last Sunrise, and this is the sun-drenched screen treatment of that. It looks like a story about a summer fling in Majorca and it is, but there are layers here – firstly because our American heroine, Ry (Maia Reficco, of Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin), has a chronic illness, and secondly because the boy she chooses while on holiday with her overprotective lawyer mum (Eva Longoria) turns out to hold a surprising position on the island. So, can the star-crossed romance of cosseted Ry and adventurous Julian (Fernando Lindez, pictured with Reficco) overcome not only the weight of this secret but also her health issues, and help her to thrive outside the family cocoon?
CRIME DRAMA
The Chelsea Detective, 8pm, U&Drama
A SENSITIVE two-part case for DI Max Arnold (Adrian Scarborough) begins when an ex-soldier's body is found on an allotment, and the detective digs up a link to the US ambassador (Alex Kingston).
DUTCH DETECTIVE Van Der Valk, 8.05pm, Talking Pictures TV
THE reboot may have finished on ITV1 last week, but here's a chance to see the first episode of the original. Barry Foster stars as the Dutch detective, who receives an intriguing phone call.
Wheel of Fortune
Wheel of Fortune Graham Norton hosts the game show as Hannah, Samuel and Sophie compete to solve word puzzles
The 1% Club Rollover
The 1% club November Lee Mack hosts a special edition of the quiz in which the prize pot that is not won on one show is carried over to the next day
Family Guy Chris is expelled from school
Family Guy Lois runs for mayor
Family Guy Peter searches for his biological father
Family Guy Stewie becomes convinced he has skin cancer
11.05 Family Guy Quagmire loses his job
11.35 American Dad! Stan bullies Steve (To 12.05)
ENTERTAINMENT & FACTUAL
5ACTION
Freeview 33 Sky 150
11.15am Gunsmoke. 12.20pm FILM: The Hired Hand. (1971) (15) 2.10 FILM: Branded. (1950) (PG) 4.00 Highway Thru Hell. 5.00 Motorway Cops: Catching Britain's Speeders. 6.00 Police Interceptors. 8.00 Motorway Cops: Catching Britain's Speeders. 9.00 Police Interceptors. 10.00 Police: Night Shift 999. 11.00 The X-Files.
BBC THREE
Freeview 23 Sky 115 Virgin 107 7.00pm The Catch Up. 7.05 Deadly 60. 7.30 FILM: Paddington. (2014) (PG) 9.00 Top Gear. 10.00 Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont-Spelling Bee Australia. 11.35 The Young Offenders.
COMEDY CENTRAL
Sky 112 Virgin 132
12noon Sabrina the Teenage Witch. 1.00 Friends. 9.00 Michael McIntyre's Big Show. 10.00 8 Out of 10 Cats Uncut. 11.40 Whose Line Is It Anyway? USA.
DISCOVERY
Sky 125 Virgin 177
11.00am Building Off the Grid. 1.00pm Dr Jeff: Rocky Mountain Vet. 3.00 How It's Made. 5.00 Alaska: Homestead Rescue. 7.00 Wheeler Dealers. 10.00 Mighty Truckers. 11.00 Expedition X.
E4 (DAYTIME)
Freeview 13 Sky 135 Virgin 106 11.00am Below Deck: Mediterranean. 12noon The Simpsons. 2.00 Brooklyn Nine- Nine. 3.00 Modern Family. 5.00 The Simpsons.
5STAR (DAYTIME)
Freeview 32 Sky 128 Virgin 126 12noon Traffic Cops. 2.00 Police Interceptors. 5.00 Car Pound Cops. 6.00 Home and Away.
5 SELECT
Freeview 46 Sky 153 Virgin 138 12noon Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild. 1.00 Murder, She Wrote. 3.00 Columbo. 4.30 Around the World by Train with Tony Robinson. 5.00 Summer in the Scilly Isles. 6.00 Abandoned Engineering. 7.00 Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild. 9.00 Angela Rippon's River Cruises.
10.00 Keeping Faith. Prisoner: Cell Block H.
11.05
5 USA (DAYTIME)
Freeview 21 Sky 141 Virgin 120 12noon Law & Order. 6.00 NCIS.
FOOD NETWORK UK
Freeview 43 Sky 144 Virgin 166 11.00am The Great British Bake Off. 12.30pm Mary Berry's Simple Comforts. 1.00 James Martin's Spanish Adventure. 3.00 Hairy Bikers: Route 66. 4.00 Jamie's 5 Ingredient Mediterranean Meals. 5.00 The Pioneer Woman. 6.00 James Martin's Spanish Adventure. 7.00 The Great British Bake Off. 8.30 Mary Berry's Simple Comforts. 9.00 Sophie Grigson: Slice of Italy. 10.00 Jamie Cooks Italy. 11.00 Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives.
GREAT! TV
Freeview 34 Sky 157 Virgin 170 12noon Little House on the Prairie. 1.00 The Waltons. 4.00 Little House on the Prairie. 6.00 The Irish RM. 7.00 M*A*S*H. 9.00 FILM: As Good as It Gets. (1997) (15) Romantic comedy drama, starring Jack Nicholson. 11.50 M*A*S*H.
ITV2 (DAYTIME)
10.15am Dawson's Creek. 11.10 Charmed. 12.10pm Deal or No Deal. 1.10 Celebrity Supermarket Sweep. 2.10 Wheel of Fortune. 3.10 The Only Way Is Essex. 4.10 The Real Housewives of Potomac. 5.00 The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. 6.00 Celebrity Catchphrase.
ITV3 (DAYTIME)
Freeview 10 Sky 119 Virgin 117 11.30am Heartbeat. 1.35pm Midsomer Murders. 3.35 Classic Emmerdale. 4.40 Classic Coronation Street. 5.50 Heartbeat.
ITV4 (DAYTIME)
Freeview 26 Sky 120 Virgin 118 10.15am The Professionals. 11.25 Robin of Sherwood. 12.25pm Magnum, PI. 2.35 The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. 3.45 Boon. 4.50 The Professionals. 5.55 Minder.
MORE4 (DAYTIME)
Freeview 18 Sky 136 Virgin 147 12.40pm Come Dine with Me. 3.20 Four in a Bed. 5.50 Car S.O.S.
NAT'L GEOGRAPHIC
Sky 129 Virgin 183
11.00am Car S.O.S. 12noon Ultimate Airport Dubai. 1.00 Air Crash Investigation. 2.00 Hitler's Last Stand. 4.00 Lost Treasures of Egypt. 5.00 Destruction Decoded. 6.00 Nazi Megastructures: Battle Ready. 7.00 Air Crash Investigation. 8.00 Lost Treasures of Ancient Greece. 9.00 The Lost Tomb of Alexander the Great. 10.00 Mysteries of Ancient Medicine. 11.00 Air Crash Investigation.
PBS AMERICA
Freeview 84 Sky 173 Virgin 187 12noon Bronze Age Apocalypse. 1.00 Weathered: Earth's Extremes. 1.50 The World After Stonehenge. 2.55 The Normans. 4.15 Bronze Age Apocalypse. 6.20 The World After Stonehenge. 7.30 The Normans. 8.45 Bronze Age Apocalypse. 10.50 Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland.
REALLY
Freeview 44 Sky 142 Virgin 165 12noon The Yorkshire Auction House. 2.00 The Repair Shop. 3.00 Salvage Hunters. 5.00 Long Lost Family. 6.00 The Repair Shop: NHS Special. 7.00 The Yorkshire Auction House. 8.00 Antiques Road Trip. 9.00 Long Lost Family: False Identities Special. 10.00 Who Do You Think You Are? 11.00 Help! My House Is Haunted.
SKY ARTS
12noon The Art of Film with Ian Nathan. 1.00 Tales of the Unexpected. 2.00 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. 3.00 The Nineties. 4.00 Discovering: Donald Sutherland. 5.00 Portrait Artist of the Year: 2023. 6.00 Tales of the Unexpected. 7.00 Alfred Hitchcock Presents. 8.00 Discovering: Gene Wilder. 9.00 Battle of the Irish Dancers. 10.00 The Eighties. 11.00 Accelerate or Die!
SKY ATLANTIC
Sky 108 Virgin 111
10.15am House of the Dragon. 12.40pm Homicide: Life on the Street. 2.30 Billions. 4.40 The White Lotus. 6.45 House of the Dragon. 9.00 The Terror: Devil in Silver. 11.05 Station Eleven.
RADIO 4 FM: 92.4-94.6MHZ
5.00am News Summary. 5.04 BBC Inside Science. 5.32 Weather. 5.34 Shipping Forecast. 5.43 Prayer for the Day. 5.45 Farming Today. 6.00 Today. 9.00 Sideways. 9.30 Breakin' the Cycle. 10.00 Woman's Hour. 11.00 The Coroners Question. 11.40 This Week in History. 11.45 Book of the Week: All the Beauty in the World. By Patrick Bringley. 12noon News. 12.04 You and Yours. 12.57 Weather. 1.00 The World at One. 1.45 Human Intelligence. 2.00 The Archers. 2.15 Drama: Broken Colours. 3.00 Ringing the Bullring. 3.30 PICK Lab-Grown Life.
SKY COMEDY
Sky 113 Virgin 112
11.50am Will & Grace. 12.20pm Upright. 1.40 Avenue 5. 3.00 Will & Grace. 4.00 Two Weeks to Live. 5.00 Community. 6.00 Will & Grace. 7.00 The Office (US). 8.00 Animal Control. 9.00 Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. 9.45 Chris Fleming: Live at the Palace. 11.15 Two Weeks to Live.
SKY DOCUMENTARIES
Sky 114 Virgin 121
12noon Stevie Van Zandt: Disciple. 2.50 Young Guns: The New Tennis Titans. 4.00 The Directors. 5.00 Discovering: John Travolta. 6.00 Chimp Crazy. 7.00 Love Has Won: The Cult of Mother God. 8.00 Costa Concordia: Chronicle of a Disaster. Different accounts of the sinking of the cruise ship. 10.00 Rainbow Warrior. The sinking of the ship.
PICK OF TODAY'S RADIO
LAB-GROWN LIFE, 3.30PM, RADIO 4
SYNTHETIC biology is a new field of science which is growing rapidly. Presenter Caroline Steel explores its extraordinary potential, including making crops more resistant to disease and the pressures of climate change; creating cheaper medical drugs; and designing
4.00 NatureBang. 4.15 The Media Show. 5.00 PM; Weather. 6.00 Six O'Clock News. 6.30 Best Medicine. A look at seaweed underwear, bubbles and saunas. 7.00 The Archers. It's an emotional day for Robert. 7.15 Front Row. Arts programme.
programmable cells that can track down and fight off disease. But can this blend of biology and engineering which redesigns existing natural systems or builds new ones actually deliver on its aims? And what about the ethical concerns that come with fiddling with nature?
8.00 The Moral Maze.
Debate on ethical issues, chaired by Michael Buerk. 9.00 Invisible Hands. David Dimbleby tells the story of former US defence secretary Paul Wolfowitz, the man who more than anyone else drove American to war in Iraq.
SKY HISTORY
Sky 123 Virgin 131
12noon Beyond Skinwalker Ranch. 1.00 Curse of Skinwalker Ranch. 2.00 Storage Hunters. 6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 Forged in Fire. 8.00 Weird Britain: UFO Special. 9.00 Curse of Skinwalker Ranch. 10.00 Airport Security: USA.
SKY ONE
Sky 106 Virgin 109
12noon Africa's Hunters. 1.00 Hawaii Five-0. 3.00 S.W.A.T. 5.00 The Simpsons. 6.00 Rob & Romesh vs Ballet. 7.00 The Simpsons. 8.00 Surviving Earth. 9.00 FILM: The Expendables. (2010) (15) 11.00 Grimm.
SKY SCI-FI
Sky 145 Virgin 140
11.00am Star Trek: Enterprise. 12noon Star Trek: Voyager. 1.00
Stargate Atlantis. 2.00 Warehouse 13. 3.00 Primeval. 4.00 Stargate SG-1. 5.00 Star Trek: Voyager. 6.00 Star Trek: Enterprise. 7.00 Stargate Atlantis. 8.00 Stargate SG-1. 9.00 Resident Alien. 10.00 Grimm. 11.00 The Walking Dead.
SKY WITNESS
Sky 107 Virgin 110
12noon FBI. 2.00 The Rookie. 3.00 Law & Order: Criminal Intent. 4.00 Nothing to Declare. 8.00 Caught on Dashcam. 9.00 Fire Country. 10.00 FBI: International. 11.00 The Rookie.
TLC
Freeview 12 Sky 133 Virgin 113 12noon The Big Bang Theory. 2.00 The Middle. 3.30 Young Sheldon. 5.00 The Big Bang Theory. 9.00 Most Extreme Humans. 10.00 ER: Caught on Camera. 11.00 Dr Pimple Popper: Breaking Out.
6.55 Heartbeat PC Steve Crane is shocked to discover Peter Pyke's warehouse has gone up in smoke
Midsomer Murders
A Dying Art: When the launch of a new sculpture park is marred by murder, the detectives have to get creative as they investigate a case where everything has a deeper meaning
Lewis Entry Wounds — Part One: The detective comes out of retirement to help the now Inspector Hathaway and new partner DS Maddox (Angela Griffin) look into a murder
11.50 Inspector Morse Promised Land (To 2.00)
Target Sports Stars Fishing
Championship Action from the annual charity event at Tunnel Barn Farm Fisheries in Warwick, featuring 32 stars from the world of sport, including Luke Littler, David Seaman and Tony Bellew
River Monsters Tales of fatal attacks in Florida's waterways
Universal Soldier (1992,18) Two dead soldiers reanimated in a military experiment recognise each other as old enemies and pursue their vendettas. Sci-fi thriller, with Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren. Includes FYI Daily
MORE4
11.35 Ligue 1 Highlights (To 12.05)
6.50 Car S.O.S Fuzz Townshend and Tim Shaw secretly restore a Japanese off-roader
7.55 Grand Designs Kevin McCloud meets a couple planning to create a hybrid structure by slotting in an entirely new home within the walls of a 200-year-old former mill in Cumbria
The Roman Empire by Train with Alice
Roberts Alice surveys a museum of offerings to the gods in Parma
24 Hours in A&E
A 78-year-old man is rushed in with breathing difficulties, while a 75-year-old is treated after falling down a flight of stairs
11.05 24 Hours in A&E Doctors carry out tests on a 77-year-old man, who was rushed to St George's after collapsing (To 12.10)
SKY MIX
Star Trek: The Next Generation Picard tries to save a genetically engineered society from disaster
Hawaii Five-0 The
team investigates when a simmering gang war spills over at a high-school football game, and Danny has issues with his ex-wife
FBI: Most Wanted
When a judge known for serving harsh sentences to juveniles is murdered, the team looks into his lengthy list of cases in the hunt for his killer
The Rookie The team investigates a train robbery, and Officer Harper takes matters into her own hands as she makes a life-changing decision
Grimm Three coins are found in a dead thief's stomach, and prove to have an unsettling effect on whoever possesses them (To 12.00)
QUEST
Antiques Road Trip Antiques experts James Braxton and Charles Hanson travel south from Glasgow to Ayrshire and Lanarkshire
The Yorkshire
Auction House A widow returns from Italy, bringing with her Soviet propaganda
The Yorkshire
Auction House Angus Ashworth turns conductor to auction off a railway fanatic's huge model collection and serves up big bids for a posh dinner set
The Repair Shop Jay
Blades and the team restore two teddy bears that share a love story, a Victorian lamppost on its last legs, and a toy car powered by steam
How Do They Do It? How ancient Greeks invented parchment
How Do They Do It? How pizza is made for soldiers on the frontline (To 12.00)
U&DAVE
Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing Paul and Bob visit the River Severn
7.40 Would I Lie to You? With Sara Cox, Jason Manford and Harry Shearer
8.20 Would I Lie to
8.20 Would I Lie to You? With Warwick Davis, Hugh Dennis, Katherine Ryan and John Simpson
QI XL Host Sandi
QI XL Host Sandi Toksvig is joined by panellists Alan Davies, Rosie Jones, Josh Widdicombe and Susan Calman for an extended version of the comedy quiz
Have I Got a Bit More News for You Amol Rajan hosts an
extended episode of the satirical quiz, with actor and comedian Miles Jupp and former MP Andrea Jenkyns
Taskmaster Mark Watson and Nish Kumar make toast together and Sally Phillips spreads absinthe on it (To 12.00)
7.20 Last of the Summer Wine Clegg becomes a go-between
The Chelsea
Detective Part one of two. When a body is found in an allotment, Max and Layla race to identify the victim
The Chelsea
Detective Part two of two. As the investigation into the bodies heats up, Max and Layla pursue a lead
10.05 New Tricks The team reopens a murder case from 17 years previously
11.25 Luther The
detective is forced to confront a demon from his past, as both the police and
Cornelius converge on his home (To 12.40)
GPs: Behind Closed Doors Dr Devin Gray suspects his patient could have the condition Atrial fibrillation, which could lead to a stroke
Casualty 24/7: Every Second Counts
Second Counts Michelle, 18-weeks pregnant, is rushed to resus with concerns over potential conditions
San Andreas
(2015,12) Following an earthquake in California, a helicopter pilot makes a dangerous journey across the state to rescue his daughter. Disaster movie, starring Dwayne Johnson. Includes Entertainment News
11.20 Special Forces: Most Daring Missions
Most Daring Missions The mission of a select group of British Special Forces who were sent to Gambia to rescue the absent president's wife (To 12.20)
5USA
NCIS A six-year-old boy claims his father has been kidnapped, and the agents learn the missing man is a lieutenant commander who has been working on a report
NCIS Tony and Ziva assume the identities of two dead assassins, and keep a rendezvous at a hotel in a bid to identify their target
Prodigal Son Malcolm gets his dream
gets his dream interview opportunity when the NYPD zeroes in on one of his and Martin's favourite psychologists
Prodigal Son Malcolm realises his father's killing spree may not have been a surprise to everyone, and he assists the investigation into the murder of social media influencer
Law & Order: Special
Victims Unit Stone asks Benson to investigate a sexual assault from his past that he feels guilt about (To 12.00)
9.30 Michael Sheen
Gets into Character. Michael explores Stanislavski's system into Strasberg's method with help from Isaac Butler, Anne-Marie Duff and Michael Goldfarb.
10.00 The World Tonight. 10.45 Book at Bedtime: Mr Sidhu's Post Office. By Amman Brar.
THE New York
Metropolitan Opera's Met Orchestra make their Proms debut with a sumptuous programme of music by Richard Strauss. For
tonight's BBC PROMS 2026 (7PM, RADIO 3), a suite from Der Rosenkavalier is followed by the final scene from his scandalous opera Salome, sung by South African soprano Elza van den Heever (pictured). The second half features his monumental and life-affirming Ein Heldenleben (A Hero's Tale).
11.00 Nora Meadows' Week of Wellness. 11.15 Follow the Rabbit. 11.30 Everything Is Fake and Nobody Cares. 12midnight News and Weather. 12.30 Book of the Week: All the Beauty in the World. By Patrick Bringley. 12.48 Shipping Forecast. 1.00 BBC World Service.
RADIO 2 FM: 88-90.2MHZ
6.30am The Radio 2 Breakfast Show. 9.30 Mark Goodier. 12noon Tina Daheley. 2.00pm DJ Spoony. 4.00 Jason Manford. 7.00 Jo Whiley's Shiny Happy Playlist. 7.30 Jo Whiley. 9.00 The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe. 10.00 The Good Groove with Melvin Odoom. 12midnight OJ Borg.
RADIO 3 FM: 90.2-92.4MHZ
6.30am Breakfast. 9.30 Essential Classics. 1.00pm Classical Live. 3.00 Choral Evensong. 4.00 Composer of the Week: Sally Beamish. 5.00 In Tune. 7.00 PICK BBC Proms 2026. 9.30 Classical Mixtape. 10.00 Night Tracks. 11.30 Round Midnight. 12.30am Through the Night.
RADIO 5 LIVE MW:693/909KHZ
5.00am Wake Up to Money. 6.00 5 Live Breakfast. 9.00 Rima Ahmed. 11.00 Emma Vardy. 2.00pm Nick Watt. 4.00 5 Live Drive. 7.00 5 Live Sport. 8.00 EFL Cup Football. Preston North End v Everton (Kick-off 8pm). Commentary on the second-round match at Deepdale. 10.30 Laura McGhie. 1.00am Dotun Adebayo.
SKY MAIN EVENT
SPORT
12noon Transfer Talk. 1.00 Lunchtime Live. 2.00 Sports Desk. Sports news with live analysis. 4.00 Live U.S. Open Tennis. Coverage of day three of the qualifying event for the Grand Slam. 7.00 Live EFL Cup. Preston North End v Everton (Kick-off 8pm). Coverage of the second-round match from Deepdale. 10.45 Live Tennis. Coverage from the WTA and/or ATP Tours, including the ATP Winston-Salem Open, WTA Monterrey Open, and the qualifying tournament for the U.S. Open.
SKY PREMIER LEAGUE
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12noon Transfer Talk. 1.00 Premier League Review. 2.00 Premier League Years. 4.00 Premier League Review. 5.00 The Premier League Show. 7.00 The Transfer Show. 8.00 Premier League Stories. 8.30 Netbusters. 9.00 Premier League Review. 10.00 Premier League Stories. 10.30 Netbusters. 11.00 Premier League Years.
SKY CRICKET
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12noon Test Cricket. 1.00 Jimmy Anderson's Final Farewell. 2.15 Jimmy Anderson's Greatest Spells. 3.00 Women's ICC World T20 Cricket. 3.30 Nepal Climbing Cricket's Mountain. 4.00 Test Cricket. 7.00 The Film Room: England v India. 9.00 Nepal Climbing Cricket's Mountain. 9.30 Women's ICC World T20 Cricket. 10.00 International T20 Cricket.
12noon My Icon: Rachel Yankey. 12.15 Darts Gold. 12.20 Premier League Darts. 4.00 Live U.S. Open Tennis. Coverage of day three of the qualifying event for the Grand Slam. 11.00 U.S. Open Tennis.
Sky 410 Virgin 521
TNT SPORTS 1
1.30pm Live: La Vuelta Men. 5.00 MLB = .6.00 TNT Sports Reload. 6.30 Serie A - Full Impact. 7.00 Groundbreaking. 7.15 The Breakdown. 8.00 Live UEFA
MOVIES
SKY MIX
Champions League. Lyon v Fenerbahce (Kick-off 8pm). 10.00 Discovery Golf. 10.30 Test Cricket. 11.30 Live: CPL. Trinbago Knight Riders v Saint Lucia Kings.
Sky 416 Virgin 511
TNT SPORTS 2
Sky 411 Virgin 522
12noon UCI Mountain Bike World Series Review. 12.30 Live: Snooker Wuhan Open. 3.30 CPL Highlights. 4.00 Premier League. 5.30 Premier League Reload. 5.45 The Gruppetto. 6.00 UEFA Champions League. 8.00 Live UEFA Champions League. Viking v Dinamo Zagreb (Kick-off 8pm). 10.00 La Vuelta Men. 11.00 Snooker Wuhan Open.
TNT SPORTS 3
Freeview 19 Sky 111 Virgin 127
Sky 413 Virgin 523
Sky 109 Virgin 114
12noon The WRC Magazine. 12.30 La Vuelta Men. 1.30 Live: La Vuelta Men. 5.00 Rolex SailGP Championship. 6.00 LIV Golf. 7.00 MLB Plays of the Week. 7.30 MLB Highlights. 8.30 Live MLB. Arizona Diamondbacks v Chicago Cubs (Start-time 8.40pm). 11.30 MLB Plays of the Week.
U&ALIBI
11.20am Yukon Gold. 12.20pm Top Gear. 2.20 Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing. 3.00 Guy's Garage. 4.00 Hairy Bikers' Best of British. 5.00 Rick Stein's India.
12noon Body of Proof. 1.00 Return to Paradise. 2.00 Murdoch Mysteries. 4.00 The Mentalist. 5.00 Hudson & Rex. 6.00 Body of Proof. 7.00 Private Eyes. Angie's college roommate calls for help. 8.00 Bookish. 10.30 Return to Paradise. 11.35 Private Eyes.
U&DAVE (DAYTIME)
FILM4
U&DRAMA (DAYTIME)
11.00 Mrs Brown's Boys. 11.45 Fawlty Towers.
4.10 Kingdom. 5.15 As Time Goes By. 6.00 Last of the Summer Wine.
Freeview 20 Sky 143 Virgin 116 11.40am The Bill. 12.40pm Classic EastEnders. 2.00 Classic Neighbours. 3.05 Whitstable Pearl.
Freeview 57 Sky 166 Virgin 176 12noon Fake or Fortune? 1.00 1066: A Year to Conquer England. 3.00 Great War Stories. 4.00 Fake or Fortune? 5.00 Bangers & Cash: Restoring Classics.
Freeview 25 Sky 132 Virgin 125 12noon DIY SOS: The Big Build. 1.00 Tipping Point. 4.00 Property Brothers: Forever Homes. 5.00 DIY SOS: Homes for Veterans. 6.00 DIY SOS: The Big Build. 7.00 MasterChef Australia. 8.10 Pete Wicks: For Dogs' Sake. 9.10 Signora Volpe. 11.10 Missing Persons Investigation.
U&GOLD
U&EDEN
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11.40am Ever Decreasing Circles. 12.20pm Porridge. 1.00 Keeping Up Appearances. 1.40 Dad's Army. 2.20 The Green Green Grass. 3.00 Are You Being Served? 3.40 Ever Decreasing Circles. 4.20 Dad's Army. 5.00 Last of the Summer Wine. 6.20 Keeping Up Appearances. 7.00 Porridge. 7.40 Dad's Army. 8.20 Are You Being Served? 9.00 Fawlty Towers. 9.45 The Office. 10.25 Not Going Out.
U&W
Freeview 27 Sky 155 Virgin 129 11.00am The World at War. 12noon Antiques Roadshow. 2.00 Bangers & Cash. 4.00 Secret Nazi Bases. 5.00 The World at War. 6.00 Antiques Roadshow. 7.00 The Blue Planet. 8.00 Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime. 9.00 Explore. 10.00 Bangers & Cash.
U&YESTERDAY
11.45 Garage Sale Mysteries: All That Glitters. (2014) (PG)
Freeview 14 Sky 313 Virgin 428 11.00am Patrick. (2018) (PG) 12.50pm American Gangster Special. 1.00 Ride Lonesome. (1959) (12) 2.30 Send Me No Flowers. (1964) (U) 4.35 Harvey. (1950) (U) 6.45 Entrapment. (1999) (12) 9.00 The G. (2023) (15) 11.10 Memento. (2000) (15) 1.25am The Day Shall Come. (2019) (15)
GREAT! ACTION
Freeview 42 Sky 318 Virgin 426 11.00am Tomorrow We Live. (1943) (U) 1.00pm The Unit. 2.00 Burn Notice. 4.00 The Trust. (2016) (15) 6.00 The Unit. 7.00 Burn Notice. 9.00 Flight of Fury. (2007) (15) 11.00 The Avengers.
GREAT! MYSTERY
Freeview 50 Sky 320 Virgin 425 12noon Unforgettable. 1.00 In Plain Sight. 2.00 Castle. 3.00 Diagnosis Murder. 5.00 Murder, She Wrote. 7.00 Castle. 8.00 Unforgettable. 9.00 In Plain Sight. 10.45 Castle.
GREAT! ROMANCE
Freeview 52 Sky 322 Virgin 424
12noon Christmas with a Prince: Becoming Royal. (2019) (PG) 2.00 Love You Like Christmas. (2016) (PG) 3.55 Christmas Next Door. (2017) (PG) 5.50 Once Upon a Holiday. (2015) (PG) 7.45 Christmas in Paris. (2019) (PG) 9.45 A Christmas Exchange. (2020) (PG) Romantic drama, starring Rebecca Dalton and Karl E. Landler. 11.40 12 Pups of Christmas. (2019) (12)
SKY DRAMA
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11.50am Eleanor the Great. (2025) (12) 1.35pm Stand By Me. (1986) (15) 3.15 The Shawshank Redemption. (1994) (15) 5.40 Hamnet. (2025) (12) With Paul Mescal. 8.00 Moneyball. (2011) (12) The manager of a baseball team unable to afford star players comes up with a new approach to forming a winning side. Fact-based drama, with Brad
Pitt. 10.20 Valentine's Day. (2010) (12) With Ashton Kutcher.
SKY PREMIERE
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11.50am Five Nights At Freddy's 2. (2025) (15) 1.45pm Hamnet. (2025) (12) 4.00 Song Sung Blue. (2025) (12) 6.15 Seven Snipers. (2026) (15) 8.00 Normal. (2026) (15) A law enforcer uncovers dark mysteries. Action comedy, starring Bob Odenkirk. 9.45 Five Nights At Freddy's 2. (2025) (15) 11.35 Heretic. (2024) (15)
TALKING PICTURES TV
Freeview 82 Sky 324 Virgin 445 11.25am Blind Corner. (1964) (PG) 1.00pm The Buccaneers. 1.30 Doctor in Trouble. (1970) (PG) 3.15 Look at Life. 3.30 Dial 999. 4.00 That's My Boy. 4.35 The Happiest Days of Your Life. (1950) (U) 6.15 The Last Day of Trolley Bus 666 Edgware. 6.30 Give Us a Clue. 7.00 Out of Town. 7.30 Scotland Yard. 8.05 Van der Valk. 9.05 The Deadly Affair. (1967) (15) 11.15 Hands of a Stranger. (1962) (PG)
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ARIES Mar 21 - Apr 20 WHEN building a bridge, engineers must take time to calculate its load-bearing capacities, rather than agree on the first number that comes to mind. With Saturn in your sign, you can take a disagreement over a project to its proper conclusion today, rather than smoothing it over for efficiency's sake. Let whoever you're building with push back as hard as they need to. The version you land on together will hold weight the first draft never could have. Take control of your destiny with the guidance of the stars. Start your journey – call 0905 789 0301*
TAURUS Apr 21 - May 21 POTTERS must wrestle against their clay's resistance to create a beautiful bowl. You're usually patient but you prefer to smooth things over quickly rather than deal with uncomfortable friction. Today, however, that friction is doing something useful. Let the loved one who is shaping a matter with you apply real pressure to the issue rather than gentle suggestions. What comes off the wheel today will hold its form far better for having been properly pushed while it was still workable. Take control of your destiny with the guidance of the stars. Start your journey – call 0905 789 0302*
CO-WRITERS discussing a plot point can end up with something neither of them would have found alone – but only if they stop agreeing to keep the room comfortable. You’ve been softening your true opinion lately to keep a collaboration moving smoothly. Today’s harmony between Venus and Libra rewards you for holding your position instead. A carefully considered final draft beats a rushed one that nobody believes. Take control of your destiny with the guidance of the stars. Start your journey – call 0905 789 0303*
CANCER June 23 - July 23 A QUILT made from patches that don't quite match, because everyone in the family insisted on contributing their own fabric, can still end up being a treasured family heirloom. In the same way, something you're building with people close to you doesn't need everyone's taste to align for it to bloom. Each contributor adding their favourite piece instead of the safe one they think will blend in
JEMIMA CAINER
TWO people rarely build a better idea by agreeing with each other. With the Moon in Aquarius opposite Jupiter in Leo, today's aspects favour the debate that sharpens something rather than the kind that wears everyone down. Saturn's cooperation with Aries lends
ensures the finished item will be warmer for the clash, not despite it. Take control of your destiny with the guidance of the stars. Start your journey – call 0905 789 0304*
LEO July 24 - Aug 23 A DISH may reach perfection when the sous chef creates their own seasoning instead of agreeing with whatever the head chef suggested. As a Leo you lead a room naturally and warmly, which can lead people to stop offering their real opinions in your presence. Ask those who look to you for guidance directly for their pushback today. What gets served afterwards will taste like more than one person's instincts, and will be all the better for it. Take control of your destiny with the guidance of the stars. Start your journey – call 0905 789 0305*
VIRGO Aug 24 - Sep 23 THERE is nothing more frustrating than a spreadsheet only balancing when a colleague spots the one formula error you'd checked three separate times without seeing it. You're used to being the one who catches what everyone else missed, so it can feel strange when it happens the other way around. Thank the person properly instead of quietly fixing it yourself and moving on. Being right most of the time doesn't mean you're right about everything. Take control of your destiny with the guidance of the stars. Start your journey – call 0905 789 0306*
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enough structure to hold the disagreement steady, and Venus in flow with Libra keeps enough goodwill in the room to stop it turning personal. An idea being pulled apart isn't necessary failing; it is robust enough to be worth arguing about properly.
LIBRA Sep 24 - Oct 23
CONFLICT between business partners may dissolve once they admit they read the same numbers differently. You're skilled at making disagreement invisible – which is useful until it starts costing the partnership clarity. Saturn in your opposite sign of Aries urges you to say where you genuinely differ today, even if that feels uncomfortable. The partnership that can take disagreement is sturdier than the one that's only ever in harmony. Take control of your destiny with the guidance of the stars. Start your journey – call 0905 789 0307*
SCORPIO Oct 24 - Nov 22
SCOP10 oct 24-Nov 22 SOMETIMES a criminal case only comes together once an investigator notices that two witnesses' accounts don't match. You're good at sitting with two things being true at once without rushing to resolve them. Trust that instinct today rather than picking whichever version is easier to believe. Let the person you're working this out with sit with the discomfort a little longer too. The answer is hiding where the stories disagree. Take control of your destiny with the guidance of the stars. Start your journey – call 0905 789 0308*
SAGITTARIUS Nov 23 - Dec 21 THE best academic insights can emerge when a student flatly disagrees with the professor's interpretation of the text instead of nodding along to get
through the session faster. Your fiery nature means you'd rather chase the interesting disagreement than keep the room comfortable. Today is no different. Say the contrary thing out loud to the person leading the conversation. The discussion that follows will go to a place none of the polite versions could have reached. Take control of your destiny with the guidance of the stars. Start your journey – call 0905 789 0309*
CAPRICORN Dec 22 - Jan 20 A BUSINESS plan that survives real challenge from investors tends to be
- Challenge if own investor's tends to be more resilient than the polished first draft everyone was so proud of. You've built something that hasn't been properly stress tested yet, mostly because the testing felt like it might slow things down. Ask someone qualified to poke real holes in it today instead of just admiring the structure as it stands. Anything that endures a proper trial is worth more than that which has only been praised. Take control of your destiny with the guidance of the stars. Start your journey – call 0905 789 0310*
AQUARIUS Jan 21 - Feb 19
THE Moon in your sign means you care more about the outcome being right than about the room feeling comfortable while it gets there, and today that priority is correct. Say the unpopular version of the plan out loud to the group instead of only sharing it with the one or two people you know already agree. You may be surprised by what a catalyst this turns out to be. Real progress sometimes requires voices to be raised – and you are brave. Take control of your destiny with the guidance of the stars. Start your journey – call 0905 789 0311*
PISCES Feb 20 - Mar 20 DID you watch The Beatles documentary? Their studio time was often filled with disagreements about how a song should go. That led to the extraordinary music that ended up on the record. Easy, agreeable rehearsals rarely reach the same heights. Normally you'd rather suppress your own creative opinion to keep the room feeling good. Today, try to stay in the friction instead of smoothing things over early. You'll find that what comes out the other side will have lasting emotional impact. Take control of your destiny with the guidance of the stars. Start your journey – call 0905 789 0312*
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I didn't think much of it at first. Reading a message? Glasses on. Looking up to watch TV? Glasses off. Stepping outside? Swap again for sunglasses. It was just part of my routine. But when I stopped
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SEEING Charles and Camilla emerging from the Tardis at the Commonwealth
Games reminded me of when I worked as a TV extra on Doctor Who a few years ago.
They told me when I arrived that I wouldn't be needed that day, but that if I painted the Tardis they would pay me £300.
I was astounded at this rate of pay – until I realised that they wanted the inside painted too!
Clive Gladstone, Cullercoats, Tyne and Wear
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WILD & RUST SUSTAINABILITY · WELLBEING
Today's poem
THE DAWN CHORUS
Before the sun remembers us, The blackbird starts the day
A single note, a trembling thread That pulls the dark away.
Then robins spark their amber tones,
And wrens ignite the air, A scatter of bright, bubbling song
Too quick to catch or snare.
The thrush steps in with steady grace, A bell among the leaves, While finches stitch a golden seam Across the waking eaves.
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NET BENEFIT: It makes a change from all those ‘shop closing down’ signs – it could have come straight out of TV’s Motherland. Spotted in Henley-on-Thames, Oxon, by M. Springer of Reading, Berks.
And suddenly the world is wide,
The night no longer near
For morning isn't born of light,
But birdsong, clear and sheer.
David Whiteman, Heywood, Lancs
Anagram
The following is an anagram of Oh I Wish I'd Looked After Me Teeth, by Pam Ayres.
Tony Crafter, Sevenoaks, Kent
OH I WISH I'D LOOKED AFTER MY FEET (A Supermodel's Career Is Harsh)
Oh, I wish I'd looked after my feet,
While they were still pretty and neat;
Years of squeezing my toes Into thin stilettos
Has left them all shredded and beat.
At the time it was oh so darn thrillin',
When I strode down the catwalk (top billin'!)
As I postured and posed, In those chic,
high-end clothes, All the time the poor tootsies were killin’!
When I think of the pain I'd go through,
ill-fitting shoes, As I tried not to hobble, Or, worst of all, wobble, In case I was in public view.
I had implants to coerce the males,
Had the latest high-tech bathroom scales,
As I starved my thin tummy So I could look scrummy, But the feet? I just painted the nails.
Perhaps, had I shared the conceit,
(Of looking so hot) with my feet
I'd have nipped in the bud all
The ensuing trouble I had with the
trotters beneath.
Though I'm now thirty-nine and still thin,
I am fine from the head to the shin,
But the region below, Between ankle and toe Is decidedly ugly as sin.
I wish I'd looked after my feet,
They're a mash of odd sinews and meat,
All the bunions and corns
Have made them deformed,
Boy, I shoulda considered my feet.
Tonight, drinking overpriced wine, I made one remarkable find! As I posed with ‘Posh’ Beckham
At my pad in Peckham... I saw her feet were much worse than mine!
Out Of The Mouths Of Babes
MY THREE-YEAR-OLD grandson was enjoying a bath when his dad, in an attempt to hurry things up, pulled out the plug. My indignant grandson shouted loudly: 'Alexa, stop the water!' It didn't work
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On the street
I ONCE found myself homeless due to no fault of my own.
The real horror was not hunger, discomfort or even the weather. It was that there was no light at the end of the tunnel. Each day repeated itself, seemingly for eternity.
Luckily I escaped this mental treadmill but I kept the experience in my head and heart.
Now the Prime Minister, who actually helped me with some casework as a local councillor years ago, even though I was a Tory, is going to grasp the nettle of homelessness.
Things have changed since my days of sleeping rough, and so has the reason many people end up that way.
It is quite simple. It's drugs. There will be no solution until drugs are taken off the streets of Manchester and beyond. A roof over the head of an addict will end up being occupied by fellow addicts and will be wrecked within days.
To take out the drug dealers is the only solution. But we need the will and full force of the law to achieve it.
IAN DUCKWORTH, Rochdale, Lancs
Masked riders
I CONTACTED my MP, Sian Berry, after two frightening near-misses with fast-moving delivery riders on e-bikes. Both masked riders were travelling at speed and came dangerously close to me. Neither stopped.
Ms Berry's response was enlightening. She explained that the speeding e-delivery riders need to travel quickly because their ‘livelihood depends on volume’. Apparently, pedestrians must simply accept being used as mobile speed bumps.
As for wearing full-face masks and balaclavas, even in temperatures approaching 30C, Ms Berry suggested they may simply be ‘protecting themselves from dust and car fumes’.
So next time a masked rider hurtles towards you on an e-bike, take comfort in knowing you are not being terrorised but merely witnessing hard-working entrepreneurs protecting themselves from dust.
Mr D. ALLEN, Brighton, E. Sussex
Let me think
SINCE the death of ventriloquist Ray Alan (and his doll Lord Charles) in 2010, there has been a vacancy for an entitled aristo dummy worked by a slick manipulator. Any suggestions?
KEITH WELLS, Heathfield, E. Sussex
Rein them in
THIS morning in our High Street, I came across something I haven't witnessed for decades – a young dad who had his toddler son on reins.
The little boy was having a whale of a time.
His parents knew how precious he is to them and weren't going to let him dash off out of sight. It only takes a second and toddlers at that age are rascals. They won't listen to parents and can run like Usain Bolt.
I was surprised to find that toddler reins are available online for less than £10. Parents, please buy them.
VAL O'MALLEY, Maidenhead, Berks
Modest proposal
WITH so many living former prime ministers costing the nation a fortune in security (Daily Mail), I suggest they should all be euthanised when they reach the age of 80.
That might deter unsuitable ones from applying for the job, at least.
JACK STOYLES, Bradford, W. Yorks
Lost expressions
AS A CHILD, I was often berated by my parents for misdemeanours in terms that employed a historical or literary reference.
I was told my bedroom looked ‘like a midden’, that I looked ‘like the
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wreck of the Hesperus', that I should sit quietly and stop being a 'whirling dervish'. I should get down off something because 'you're not Gunga Din' and my room was like 'Bedlam'.
Amazingly, I knew the origin of each admonishment.
I wonder what expressions today's kids will remember.
K. ROONEY, London N5
Henry and Rachel
CAN we please stop pretending we are mates with Harry and call him respectfully by his birth name, which is Henry.
At the same time, can we also stop calling his wife by her second and stage name of Meghan, equally respectfully calling her Rachel.
PAUL WHEELER, London SE20
Tripped out
WHY do TV programme creators think we all love to watch celebrities touring places?
Lately we've had Burma With Simon Reeve, Ronan Keating's Wild Atlantic, China With Ben Fogle, Jane McDonald In Nashville, Susan Calman's Grand Day Out, Egypt With Dan Snow, and I could go on.
It seems to me they are simply getting paid to have a wonderful holiday, while we are subjected to dull footage of them trying their hand at pottery, riding a camel and so forth.
CAROL ECKERSLEY, Egham, Surrey
No deal
AFTER the total breakdown of trade talks between the US and Canada, it strikes me that Trump isn't so good at making deals after all.
ROBIN FRENCH, Brentwood, Essex
Old pals
I DO wish Bryony Gordon (Daily Mail) would shut up about Meghan and Harry. Anyone would think she was their next-door neighbour.
B. McDEVITT, Birkenhead, Wirral
Show support
AS THE secretary of a show that has been going for 160 years and has 65 vegetable classes, I agree with Medwyn Williams (Letters) that more needs to be done to support village shows and encourage the growing and showing of vegetables.
We have a lot of allotments locally but struggle to get people to enter their produce. To counter this, I decided a few years ago to buy a bag of seed potatoes to give away to children. The winner is the child who has the heaviest crop from growing a single seed potato in a pot.
It is lovely to see the children's faces when their crop is weighed on old-fashioned scales and displayed in a marquee, earning them a rosette and a cash prize. This year the winner was a five-year-old whose crop weighed $4 \frac{1}{2}$ lb. Unfortunately, a lot of young families nowadays feel that a
Corrie? EastEnders? What next for H&M?
Smiling in the rain: The Sussexes
SO THE Sussexes are coming back to England after six short years of earning a living in the US, alienating the few friends they had in the process. What's their next move, another book 'telling all' about how badly they were treated? The Royal Family should watch their backs.
MICK CROSSEY, Luton, Beds
I WAS saddened to hear that Meghan may not get the acting role she hoped for. As she will need a regular income to cover school fees, I thought a part in Coronation Street, playing head flower-sprinkles chef at Roy's Rolls, might be something she could handle.
PATRICK LINEHAN, Hayle, Cornwall I'M LOOKING forward to Meghan serving pints in The Rovers Return.
WILL the Sussexes be appearing on Escape To The Country?
ROBIN EASTON, Durham
IS IT true that the Duchess of Sussex has a role in Emmerdale, making jam at the farmhouse?
K. HAMMOND, Sheffield
WILL we see Meghan in EastEnders? MIKE BAILEY, London N2
I WONDER how long it will be before Meghan is telling us the best way to stuff a turkey at Christmas.
EDDIE POWLESLAND, Godalming, Surrey
BESIDES facing a frosty reception from the public, poor Meghan has a British winter to look forward to. I wonder how many times she'll dash back on visits to sunnier climes.
JEAN McNAMARA, Greenhithe, Kent
MANY of us don't want them here, making the monarchy even more of a daily soap opera. Respect for the Royal Family is vanishing anyway.
I DON'T want them and their entourage back in my country, trying to harm it. Go and live in Tinseltown, or a cave, and leave us in peace.
LINDA KENDALL, Rayleigh, Essex
AM I the only one who thinks Harry's coming back in the hope that the King will help pay his large legal bill? D. H. TODD, Ripon, N. Yorks
THAT Prince Harry is entitled to royal protection is no fault of his, and the cost is of no concern. He is entitled to live here with his wife and family and to have the protection they deserve. RALPH J. CROSS, Hereford
WHEN it doesn't work out for them here either, where will they go? JOHN GILBERT, Reepham, Norfolk
village show is old-fashioned and stay away.
LINDA HODGETTS, Portishead, Somerset
Pointless advice
IF SOMEONE enters a country illegally and sees nothing wrong with sexually assaulting citizens of that country, they are not going to take any notice of a leaflet telling them not to do so.
RACHEL SIMMS, Kettering, Northants tions crescendo with the usual one of ‘genocide’.
This tired, oft-repeated lie has been disproved many times over. Israel is fighting an existential war against Islamic Jihadists and is a proud democracy, the only nation in the Middle East where all citizens, of any religion, gender or sexual orientation, are treated as equals.
ROSINA FELSTEIN, Prestwich, Lancs
Brigadoon junket
SO THE leader of the SNP spent over £98,000 on a jolly to watch Scotland in the World Cup. Thank God for the taxpayer this event happens only once every 28 years. GREG BIRD,
Ginger Beatle
New Ash Green, Kent
AMANDA PLATELL (Daily Mail) comments that John
Lennon is portrayed in Sam Mendes's Beatles biopic as having ‘a weird orange beard and hair’. Actually, that's accurate. John's hair always had an auburn tinge.
FIONA NORRIS, Coleraine, Co Londonderry
Courtesy call
IT WOULD be nice if Meghan visited her dad before she starts her new role in life. R. CROWE, Hornchurch, Essex
Floral flops
CAN I be the only person who hates sunflowers?
I find them gaudy, oversized and even intimidating.
JEAN PEASON'S diatribe against Netanyahu (Letters) falls apart when her accusa-
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I READ with a good deal of apprehension about the Prime Minister's push to make mayors increasingly powerful. This was not in Labour's manifesto and risks leaving the door open to corruption and cronyism. Planning committees are groups of people with varying degrees of expertise who work together to reach an agreed position. They may not always get it right but they operate within a legal framework and their decisions are subject to scrutiny. If a city mayor can override those decisions at will, he or she is exercising undue influence. We have already seen how controversial mayoral powers can be in London with the expansion of the ULEZ scheme, despite significant public
opposition. Extending similar powers across the country raises questions about accountability. How many mayors will choose to disregard local concerns? EDWARD McALLISTER, Witham, Essex
SO MAYORS will be given powers to overrule local councils on some planning decisions. Housing minister Matthew Pennycook said these powers were an ‘essential part of the toolkit that mayors need to effectively deliver new homes and regeneration’. Under the current planning system, town and parish councils can only recommend action on planning decisions. The real
power lies with district councils, which will cease to exist under the new unitary system. At the moment, planning in local government is cheap, as all town and parish councillors are unpaid volunteers. But more than 90 per cent of applications go forward with their recommendations, from councillors who use local knowledge and reflect the will of local people. That a mayor should have total power to overrule the system, based solely on their personal opinion, is in my view a serious abuse of power.
DON McBETH, Hassocks, W. Sussex
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■ WHICH have the longest necks, two giraffes or Harry and Meghan?
PAUL MANDER, Harefield, Middx ■ THIS week's Sunday Worship on Radio 4 had the theme of the Prodigal Son. Coincidence?
MARGARET CANNON, Swaffham, Norfolk ■ HARRY and Meghan are as interested in me as I am in them.
Mrs FRANCES RAFTERY, Atherton, Lancs ■ I WONDER which panto Meghan will be appearing in.
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QUESTION When and by whom were the signs of the zodiac first created? And how long did it take for them to evolve into the signs we recognise today?
THE zodiac was not invented by a single person or civilisation. Instead it evolved gradually over thousands of years as different cultures observed the night sky and developed increasingly sophisticated systems for tracking the movements of the Sun, Moon and the planets.
Its earliest origins can be traced to ancient Mesopotamia, in what is now Iraq, where Babylonian astronomers carefully recorded celestial events on clay tablets and began identifying the constellations through which the heavenly bodies appeared to be travelling.
These early sky watchers recognised that the Sun, Moon and visible planets all moved along a narrow band of the sky known today as the ecliptic. Over centuries of observation, they mapped the constellations along this route and used them for both calendrical and astronomical purposes.
One of the key stepping stones towards the modern zodiac was the Mesopotamian star catalogue known as MUL.APIN, compiled around 1000 BC, which listed many of the constellations associated with the Moon's path.
By around the 5th century BC, Babylonian scholars had transformed these observations into a more systematic model. They divided the ecliptic into 12 equal sections of 30 degrees, creating a 360-degree zodiac that closely resembles the framework still used in Western astrology. Each section was associated with a constellation, producing the familiar sequence of 12 zodiac signs. This was a remarkable feat, allowing astronomers to calculate and record the positions of celestial bodies far more accurately.
The zodiac did not stop evolving there. Following the conquests of Alexander the Great, Babylonian astronomical knowledge spread throughout the Mediterranean world. Greek scholars adopted the Babylonian zodiac and incorporated
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Familiar figures: An astrological engraving from the 19th century
it into what became Hellenistic astrology, adding new philosophical and astrological ideas. Egyptian traditions also influenced this process, particularly in Alexandria, one of the great centres of learning of the ancient world.
A. Docherty, Richmond, N. Yorks
QUESTION Why do we say 'Bless you' when someone sneezes? FURTHER to recent correspondence, it does seem that in most countries it's customary to respond when hearing someone sneeze.
The response of ‘Bless you’ is common in English-speaking countries, while in many other countries the usual response is to wish the person sneezing good health and a long life. Examples include ‘Gesundheit’ in German and ‘Salute’ in Italian, with both words meaning ‘Health’. Even the Romans used to say ‘Jupiter preserve you!’.
In languages including Polish and Tamil you might be wished not just good health but a hundred-year life. Nearly all traditional responses to a sneeze are based on a religious blessing or a wish for a healthy life and longevity, but in Czech, Croatian and Slovenian, where a sneeze is believed to confirm the accuracy of something just mentioned, you may hear ‘It’s true!’ instead.
In parts of Asia, including Japan, Korea and some of China, sneezing may often be considered rude and so no response will be given.
Ian MacDonald, Billericay, Essex to all of the proceeds-of-crime cash that is seized by the authorities?
WHEN an individual or company commits a crime, under the law they cannot retain the proceeds of that crime. This includes physical assets that they may have bought with the proceeds of the crime, such as homes and cars.
The Government states that, where possible, the proceeds are used to compensate the criminal's victims. The Proceeds of Crime Act is the legislation under which the state can pursue the proceeds of crime.
Where confiscated funds are not returned to the victims, they are retained by the state and are then reinvested into tackling crime. Under the Asset Recovery Incentivisation Scheme, the proceeds from crimes are shared between bodies bringing criminals to justice. That includes law-enforcement agencies as well as local authorities.
These agencies use the funds on crime-reduction projects, community projects and also to maintain their asset-recovery work, so they can secure more funds under the Proceeds of Crime Act.
Davina Jenkins, Lancashire
QUESTION There are still quite a few water towers around the UK. Are any of these tall structures still used for their original
purpose of supplying water? THE Trimley St Mary water tower has been a landmark standing by the A14 into Felixstowe in Suffolk since 1934. Sadly, this might not be the case for much longer as it is beginning to disintegrate.
The tower is 210 feet tall and is said to be one of the tallest open construction towers in the country. It was built to hold 150,000 gallons but has been empty for many years and was more recently used for telecom aerials.
Plans to demolish it have, however, been complicated by the presence of a pair of peregrine falcons – which are a protected species – nesting on the tower.
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TODAY'S RECIPE: Crispy chicken thighs with parmesan beans
Easy tasty dinner. Serves 2 Ingredients
2 large or 4 small chicken thighs 1 tbsp olive oil 1 rosemary sprig 2 thyme sprigs 15g parmesan 2 garlic cloves 400g can cannellini beans 100ml chicken stock 1 lemon 2 tbsp creme fraiche 2 handfuls of rocket 2 tbsp pesto (optional)
Method
1 Bone the chicken thighs, then put a sheet of baking parchment over them and bash flat with a rolling pin. Season well on both sides.
2 Heat $\frac{1}{2}$ tbsp oil in a frying pan over a medium-high heat and fry the chicken, skin-side down, for 8-10 mins until golden. Flip and fry for 6-8 mins more until crisp and cooked through.
3 Meanwhile, chop the rosemary and pick the thyme leaves. Finely grate half the parmesan and shave the rest; set aside.
4 Rest the chicken. Lower the heat, remove most of the fat from the pan, then grate in the garlic and stir for 30 seconds. Add the beans (with their liquid), the stock and herbs, and simmer for 5 mins until thickened. Grate in the lemon zest, squeeze in half the juice, then add the grated parmesan and creme fraiche, and season.
5 Toss the rocket with the rest of the oil, the shaved parmesan and a squeeze of lemon. Serve the chicken over the beans, topped with pesto (if using) and black pepper, with the rocket on the side.
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Splendour: The Grand Staircase at Raffles London. Left: Children's play-tent
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UXURY hotels and young children don't always mix. I have fled enough white-tableclothed dining rooms with a wailing toddler to know that.
When booking a summer weekend at Raffles London at The OWO – housed in Whitehall's Old War Office building – you might assume adults-only vibes.
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Vistry shares soar after £350m Labour lifeline
VISTRY shares surged yesterday after it received £350m in funding from the Government to build thousands of new affordable homes.
The London-listed housebuilder is among the first to have been allocated cash under Labour's new social and affordable homes programme, and will be able to build 3,028 homes with the money.
Shares rose 16.3pc, or 43.8p, to 312.4p, in a much-needed boost for boss Adam Daniels, who, after being appointed in April, pledged to turn around the business.
Vistry has been chosen as one of 33 partners to build 300,000 homes over ten years under the Government's £39bn scheme.
By Emily Hawkins
The company has been struggling amid a slump in demand, and its shares have fallen 51pc over the past 12 months.
Vistry combines private housing with affordable properties that are built in partnerships with housing associations.
The builder said last month that it had been impacted by fewer deals with housing association partners, which had been waiting for clarity over government funding, meaning the latest update removes some uncertainty for the group.
The update comes as the housebuilding industry has grappled with weaker demand as the cost of borrowing has increased amid the war in the Middle East. The industry is also grappling with rising costs.
Vistry has set alarm bells ringing because of its huge debt pile, which stood at £470m at the end of June. This has led the firm to slow the rate of building and to sell homes at big discounts.
Last month, the group said it was expecting a £30m loss in the first half of the year and its finance boss Tim Lawlor announced he would step down.
Daniels has said he is ‘treating 2026 as a transition year to reposition the business to operate with significantly and sustainably lower financial leverage and healthy profitability'. He is conducting a review of the company's strategy and will set out his revival plan next month.
Russ Mould, investment director at broker AJ Bell, said that the Government funding was a ‘much-needed vote of confidence’ but ‘may raise eyebrows given Vistry’s recent balance sheet issues’.
He added: 'Vistry is in the unenviable position of requiring a big second-half improvement to hit its full-year profit targets. This is often a recipe for a profit warning, something the business can ill-afford given its credibility is in tatters after a particularly bruising period.'
Dollar fears bolster gold and bitcoin
Investors spooked by US bond intervention
By Angharad Carrick
BITCOIN surged past \$80,000 and gold hit a three-month high yesterday, as concerns over a weakening dollar rippled through markets.
The world's biggest cryptocurrency climbed as much as 2.9pc to more than \$81,000 in early trading.
It was the first time since May that bitcoin had passed \$81,000, and it was the latest stage in an extraordinary rally that had seen it surge from less than \$64,000 just a week earlier.
However, cryptocurrency later slipped back below \$80,000, and is still well below its \$126,000 valuation last October.
Bitcoin's recent rally has been fuelled by the US government's multibillion-dollar intervention last week, intended to staunch a rout in the bond market.
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent moved to increase purchases of longer-dated government bonds – he said he was attempting to ‘bring equilibrium’ to the market.
But critics say it fails to address fundamental worries about the state of America's public finances, illustrated by figures last week showing US debt soaring above \$40 trillion.
Even Bessent's mentor, billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller, has suggested the bond buying is a mistake.
Writing in the Wall Street Journal on Monday, Drucken-miller said: ‘Governments defending prices against fundamentals always lose.’
The US dollar has weakened as a result of what is described as the ‘debasement’ trade.
That has driven investors to other assets including bitcoin and gold. Yesterday, the gold price spiked to just over \$4,696, the highest since May, before retreating. Gold is up by more than 14pc so far in August, putting it on course for its biggest monthly gain since 1999.
Susannah Streeter, chief investment strategist at Wealth Club, said: “The so-called “debasement trade” is gathering momentum, with investors seeking assets that are harder to devalue through monetary policy.' Meanwhile, traders shrugged off Bessent's plan, announced a day earlier, to launch an 'economic onslaught' on Iran by threatening sanctions against countries and companies that trade with it. Oil benchmark Brent crude dipped below \$90 a barrel.
Neil Wilson, UK investor strategist at Saxo Bank, said: 'Economic D-Day floundered on the beaches somewhat – no new measures on Iran, just threats to other countries to sever economic ties.'
The FTSE 100 was little changed, up 0.3pc, or 31.84 points, at 10,886.16.
Streeter added: 'The London market is proving remarkably resilient given the cocktail of geopolitical tensions, stubborn inflation concerns and uncertainty over the path of interest rates.'
LEGO sales have surged after a boost from World Cup sets, which reeled in new customers.
The Danish toy bricks giant said sales rose 21pc to £4.8bn in the first six months of 2026, helped by booming demand for toys related to the football tournament.
Star products included figures of players such as Harry Kane and Lionel Messi, which cost up to £159.99, as well as a replica of the trophy for around £150.
These helped profits rise by 32pc to £1bn, while other popular toys included ranges linked to Formula One and the blockbuster film KPop Demon Hunters.
Lego chief executive Niels
Christiansen called the World Cup 'a breakthrough for us'.
He also said the company was selling more products to both adults and children, after releasing 330 new sets in the first half.
Lego is moving away from using plastic towards more renewable materials to make its bricks.
Christiansen said this shift had helped it to weather an increase in the cost of plastics after oil prices had jumped due to the Iran war.
He said: 'We are impacted by higher oil prices, but because we purchase so much non-fossil-fuel-based material that is less correlated to oil, we've actually been able to manage relatively well.'
Scary trip down memory lane
THE long, hot summer this year has brought a wave of nostalgia for 1976, when the nation tried to forget its economic woes and sang along to Elton John and Kiki Dee's hit Don't Go Breaking My Heart.
It is more recent, less rose-tinted memories of the summer of 2007 that are worrying me.
In particular, the debacle at hedge fund Situational Awareness seems an ominous reminder of the collapse of two Bear Stearns hedge funds in July that year, which turned out to be a harbinger of the Great Financial Crisis of 2008.
The two hedge funds borrowed heavily in order to bet on mortgage-backed derivatives. Their collapse led to the demise of the Bear Stearns parent bank, which was bought in a rescue deal by Jamie Dimon, boss of JPMorgan.
This time, legendary hedge fund manager Ken Griffin's Citadel has ridden to the rescue of Situational Awareness, which was making highly-leveraged bets on AI, the current craze.
Wall Street regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission has just subpoenaed some of the Wall Street banks funding those bets. The parallels should not be
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stretched too far and certainly we have to hope this is not an augury of doom.
But why were Wall Street's finest enabling epic gambles by a hedge fund founded by a 24-year-old ex-AI researcher?
Here's another ominous thought. In 2008, there was a high degree of international cooperation between central banks and governments, with the US playing a pivotal role.
The current occupant of the White House seems incapable of constructive relationships and is a promoter of chaos, not calm. He wantonly alienates even the friendliest of allies, Canada, with his tariff onslaughts. He has provoked Beijing with his latest threats of sanctions on Iran and its trading partners.
Investors are heading into assets such as bitcoin and gold in a so-called ‘debasement trade’, signifying loss of confidence in the dollar and a fear of inflation. Worries are bubbling up over rising US government debt, unsustainable fiscal policy and there are concerns the Federal Reserve's independence is under threat.
Which is why there is such deep scepticism about US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's efforts to keep interest rates low by buying up long-term bonds.
Can Bessent beat the bond markets? Very probably not. Back in 1992, the current US Treasury chief was working for George Soros, the man who broke the Bank of England on Black Wednesday, so he already knows that perfectly well.
Stars and yikes
NATWEST'S move back into the US is a modest one, so it is no doubt irksome to be suspected of plotting a Fred Goodwin-style folie de grandeur.
Observers can hardly be blamed for it, though, considering the track record.
RBS, the predecessor of today's Nat-West, bought a string of US banks through its New England offshoot Citizens in the 1990s and early 2000s.
Goodwin, the chief executive who drove RBS to the brink of ruin, acquired Greenwich Capital, one of the big casualties of the US sub-prime meltdown, through RBS's takeover of NatWest. It was the deal for Netherlands bank ABN Amro that was the catalyst for RBS's downfall. Yes, this was all quite a long time ago now. Paul Thwaite, the current chief executive, bears very little resemblance to Fred the Shred. But with a horrible history like that, investors have a right to be wary.
NEET crisis
UNSURPRISING that a third of employers have cut back on entry-level jobs for those aged 16-24 in the past 12 months.
Labour elder statesman Alan Milburn is due to publish his final report on young people not in education, employment or training (NEETs) next month. Unless he addresses the ballooning costs and risks to employers of hiring a young person, it is unlikely to have much effect.
The cost of employing a 21-year-old is up 27pc in three years and 86pc in a decade, according to calculations by entrepreneur and NEETs campaigner Christopher Nieper. New worker rights mean taking on a youngster is an expensive gamble many employers feel it is hard to afford.
Chancellor John Healey should cut employers' National Insurance contributions in the Budget, as the CBI and others have said. He should also introduce a skills tax incentive to encourage firms to hire apprentices.
As for the NEETs themselves, they face despair by a thousand bots as their applications are thrown out by AI.
M&S EXPANDS EUROPEAN REACH WITH ZALANDO DEAL
MARKS & Spencer has stepped up its partnership with online retailer Zalando to help it fulfil customer orders in Europe.
The retailer said it was working with the German company to supply all its online customers across 22 markets on the continent.
NatWest secures approval to beef up US operations
The partnership means it has cut its logistics costs by up to half and seen customer demand in Poland increase by 22pc in the first week of using the new system.
After a successful turn-around, the High Street retailer has recovered after fashion sales were hit last year by a cyber attack that disabled online shopping for almost two months.
Now, it is hoping to woo even more shoppers abroad, including in its largest online markets, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Spain.
Mark Lemming, managing director of international at M&S, said: 'We have a clear ambition to grow our international business.'
NATWEST is beefing up its presence in the US after rules on banks' overseas operations were loosened under reforms by Rachel Reeves when she was Chancellor.
The British lender won approval from the US Federal Reserve to set up a ‘representative office’ in Connecticut.
The Fed said that the office would ‘act as a liaison with current and prospective US customers of the bank’.
Sources close to NatWest played down suggestions that it marked a significant push into the US after its retreat following the financial crisis.
The bank already has a broker-dealer based in Connecticut to support cross-border lending activity through its subsidiary NatWest Markets.
Permission to establish a representative office means it can proceed with growing its team in the US with a small number of relationship and credit employees to support
By John-Paul Ford Rojas
existing and prospective customers. It is understood the office will help to deepen relationships with corporate and institutional customers who use the bank's financial markets and lending products.
The move does not enable NatWest to accept deposits, lend money or engage in any other banking activities.
Changes to the UK's ring-fencing rules were brought in after the financial crisis to separate banks' retail and investment banking activities and protect customers.
Reforms by Reeves removed restrictions on ring-fenced banks on building a physical presence outside the European Economic Area.
NatWest declined to comment on the development, first reported by the Financial Times. Under its previous guise as Royal Bank of Scotland, the lender completed its exit from American subsidiary Citizens in 2015.
But the crisis left a toxic US legacy for the bank. It was forced to pay billions to settle a US Department of Justice probe into its packaging and sale of mortgage-backed securities in the run-up to the 2008 global meltdown.
Gary Greenwood, banking analyst at Shore Capital, said: 'While modest in scope, the proposed expansion represents an early reversal of the strategy pursued by NatWest since the global financial crisis, during which the group largely withdrew from international markets to focus on its domestic franchise.
‘At this stage, there is nothing to suggest the move signals a material change in capital allocation priorities or the group’s overall risk appetite.
‘However, it does indicate a willingness by management to pursue growth opportunities outside the UK.’
Aggreko US float blow to City
AGGREKO has unveiled plans for a US stock market float, in yet another blow to the City.
Five years ago, the British power generator rental business was snatched off the London Stock Exchange by two private equity groups.
Glasgow-based Aggreko, which rents out generators as well as heating and cooling equipment, plans to list on the New York market, reportedly at a valuation of around £11bn. That is nearly five times the price paid for the firm in 2021 when it was taken private by buyout firms TDR Capital and I Squared for £2.3bn.
The move represents the latest setback for the City's status as a global listing venue. The London market has already been hit by a series of snubs, takeovers and high-profile defections so far this year.
Historic Devon mine to reopen
A 160-YEAR-old mine in Devon is set to reopen after a £71m government cash injection to help boost Britain's rearmament efforts.
The Hemerdon mine near Plymouth contains some of the world's largest reserves of tungsten, an extremely dense metal used to make bullets, missiles and armour-piercing tank shells.
The mine produced metal during the world wars before closing in 1944. It was briefly reopened in 2015, but was shut down again three years later after running out of funds.
Owner Tungsten West said the funding deal with the National Wealth Fund will see the state take a 7pc stake in the firm for £36m alongside a loan of £35m.
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| Aerospace & Defence | ||||
| Aston Martin | $34^{1⁄4}$ | +1 | 86 | $33^{1⁄4}$ |
| BAE Systems | 2098 | +1 | 2331 | $1609^{1⁄2}$ |
| Chemring Gp | 554xd | -4 | 638 | 460 |
| QinetiQ | 526 | -4 | $571^{1⁄2}$ | 406 |
| Rolls-Royce | $1530xd + 29^{1⁄4}$ | $1570^{1⁄2}$ | 1029 | |
| Senior | 294 | - $^{1⁄2}$ | 311 | $164^{1⁄2}$ |
| Banks | ||||
| Banco Santander | 1074 | -10 | 1100 | 690 |
| Barclays | 4964xd | +8 | 5308 | 3574 |
| HSBC Hldgs | 1517xd | -12 | 15978 | 9462 |
| Lion Finance | 13330 | +100 | 13510 | 7020 |
| Lloyds Banking | 1112xd | -8 | 1178 | 782 |
| Metro Bank | 1694 | -8 | 1804 | 100 |
| NatWest Group | 6904xd | +18 | 7224 | 5054 |
| Stan Chartered | 2140xd | -55 | 2248 | 1360 |
| TBC Bank | 4966xd | +90 | 5180 | 3640 |
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| Vistry | 312.4p | +16.31% |
| Melrose | 510.2p | +10.43% |
| Oxford Nanopore | 183p | +9.78% |
| Ocado | 246.8p | +5.65% |
| Hays | 76.2p | +5.10% |
| Beverages | ||||
| Barr (AG) | 604 | -5 | 710 | 594 |
| Coca-Cola HBC | 4602 | -14 | 5170 | 3306 |
| Diageo | $1735^{1/2}$ - $35^{1/2}$ | 2063 | $1362^{1/2}$ | |
| Chemicals | ||||
| Croda Intnal | 3457 | -11 | 3468 | 2439 |
| Elementis | $178^{18}$ xd | + $^{18}$ | $187^{14}$ | $142^{18}$ |
| Johnson Matt | 2238xd | -30 | $3199^{18}$ | 2238 |
| Victrex | 829 | +9 | 835 | 539 |
| Construction & Materials | ||||
| Balfour Beatty | 885 $\frac{1}{2}$ | +3 $\frac{1}{2}$ | 926 $\frac{1}{2}$ | 587 |
| Breedon | 357 | -2 $\frac{1}{4}$ | 370 | 273 |
| Genuit Group | 291 $\frac{1}{8}$ | +7 $\frac{1}{4}$ | 389 $\frac{1}{2}$ | 243 $\frac{1}{4}$ |
| Grafton Gp | 1037 $\frac{1}{4}$ | +11 $\frac{1}{8}$ | 1048 | 808 $\frac{1}{8}$ |
| Ibstock | 864xd | +2 | 142 | 84 $\frac{1}{8}$ |
| Keller Group | 2972xd | +114 | 3444 | 1282 |
| Kier Group | 260 | +5 $\frac{1}{8}$ | 261 $\frac{1}{4}$ | 180 $\frac{1}{4}$ |
| Volution | 671 | +12 | 712 | 562 |
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| Biopharma Credit....728 | -4 | 744 | 668 | |
| BlackRock Smlr....276xd | +12 | 3542 | 668 | |
| BlkRckWildMining....1040 | +8 | 1046 | 563 | |
| BR Greater Eur....608 | +3 | 624 | 516 | |
| Brunner....1566xd | +2 | 1572 | 1354 | |
| Caledonia Inv....391 | +42 | 400 | 312 | |
| City of London IT....592xd | +1 | 597 | 488 | |
| Edin Inv Trust....864 | +3 | 864 | 760 | |
| Edin Wwide....2632 | +4 | 2902 | 1898 | |
| Euro Sml Co....2362xd | +1 | 2462 | 197 | |
| F&C Inv Trust....3418 | +18 | 3514 | 824 | |
| Fidelity China....262 | +1 | 3322 | 245 | |
| Fidelity Emg....1490 | +18 | 1562 | 854 | |
| Fidelity Eur....439 | +2 | 444 | 372 | |
| Fidelity Spec Val....4752 | +1 | 4752 | 372 | |
| Finsbury G&I Tst....836 | +1 | 902 | 713 | |
| Foresight Env....914 | +18 | 914 | 618 | |
| GCP Infra Inv....814xd | -4 | 834 | 70 | |
| Global Smaller....1924xd | 1974 | 1638 | ||
| Greencoat UK....1104xd | +8 | 1158 | 924 | |
| Harbourvest....3345 | +5 | 3500 | 2755 | |
| Henderson Sml Co....980 | +6 | 997 | 774 | |
| Herald Inv Trust....2970 | +50 | 3260 | 2305 | |
| HG Capital Trust....425 | +5 | 509 | 323 | |
| HICL Infr....140 | +4 | 1474 | 109 | |
| ICG Enterprise....1466xd | -20 | 1600 | 1310 | |
| Invesco Asia....4942 | +82 | 516 | 372 | |
| JPM American....1210xd | +4 | 1254 | 1056 | |
| JPM Emerging Markets....1664 | +34 | 1804 | 1194 | |
| JPM Euro Disc....635 | +5 | 663 | 557 | |
| JPM Japan IT....810 | +10 | 861 | 661 | |
| Jupiter Fund....1718xd | +7 | 1954 | 1158 | |
| Law Debenture....1252 | +4 | 1276 | 982 | |
| M&G....348 | -4 | 3648 | 2488 | |
| Mercantile IT....287 | +2 | 288 | 237 | |
| Merchants Trust....686 | +2 | 686 | 537 | |
| Molten Ventures....689 | +2 | 697 | 3494 | |
| Monks Inv Tst....1612xd | +14 | 1656 | 1374 | |
| Morgan Sindall....4420 | +38 | 5530 | 4050 | |
| Murray Inc Tst....1002xd | -2 | 1024 | 873 | |
| Murray Intl Tst....374 | +3 | 374 | 293 | |
| Neuberger Private Eqty 1494xd | +14 | 1632 | 1302 | |
| Next Energy Solar....489xd | 68 | 44 | ||
| Ninety One....2114 | -3 | 2598 | 1852 | |
| Oakley Capital Inv....522 | 576 | 169 | ||
| Pacific Horizon....1104 | +10 | 1252 | 673 | |
| Pantheon Infra....1128 | +4 | 1198 | 101 | |
| Pantheon Intl....3942 | +7 | 4072 | 3272 | |
| Partners Group....628 | +9 | 942 | 593 | |
| Patria Private....598 | +4 | 642 | 548 | |
| Pershing Square....3900xd | +16 | 5090 | 3642 | |
| Personal Assets Tr....555xd | +3 | 557 | 513 | |
| Polar Cap Gl....252 | +1 | 254 | 203 | |
| Polar Cap Tech....638 | +142 | 7332 | 390 | |
| Pollen Street....873 | -5 | 964 | 702 | |
| Renewables Infra....769xd | 788 | 632 | ||
| RIT Cap Partners....2575 | +5 | 2630 | 1942 | |
| Schroder Asia....832 | +11 | 888 | 608 | |
| Schroder Oriental....4542 | +5 | 463 | 3032 | |
| Scot American Inv....562xd | +4 | 570 | 487 | |
| Scottish Mortgage....14772 | +19 | 1545 | 10282 | |
| Electricity | ||||
| Drax Gp | 757 | +17 $^{1/2}$ | 918 | 626 $^{1/2}$ |
| SSE | 2409xd | +38 | 2757 $^{1/2}$ | 1612 |
| Electronic & Electrical Equipment | |||
| Halma......3576 | +22 | 4878 | 3218 |
| Morgan Advanced......235 | +1 | 255 | $187^{a}$ 8 |
| Oxford Instruments......2806 | +46 | 3302 | 1766 |
| Renishaw......5060 | +25 | 5455 | 3120 |
| 52-week | High | Low | ||
| Sequoia Econ Infra......85 $^{1/4}$ | +8 | 87 $^{1/2}$ | 75 $^{1/4}$ | |
| Syncona......112 | +8 | 112 | 86 $^{1/8}$ | |
| Templeton Em......319 | +4 $^{1/2}$ | 350 | 199 $^{1/8}$ | |
| Twentyfour......108 | 114 $^{1/4}$ | 104 $^{1/8}$ | ||
| Vietnam Enter......714 | -8 | 848 | 684 | |
| VinaCapital Vietna......438 | -1 $^{1/2}$ | 499 | 414 $^{1/2}$ | |
| Wwide Healthcare......396 | +5 | 399 | 324 | |
| Equity Investment Instruments | ||||
| 3i Infrastructure.... | 396 | +1 | 396 $\frac{4}{4}$ | 326 |
| Aberforth Smlr Cos.... | 1772xd | +8 | 1775 | 1418 |
| AJ Bell.... | 616 $\frac{2}{2}$ | 643 | 414 $\frac{8}{8}$ | |
| Alliance Witan.... | 1374 | +4 | 1390 | 1188 |
| Allianz Tech.... | 688 | +3 | 758 | 449 |
| Ashoka India.... | 256 $\frac{2}{2}$ | +3 $\frac{2}{2}$ | 285 $\frac{2}{2}$ | 217 |
| AVI Global Trust.... | 264 | +2 | 272 $\frac{2}{2}$ | 239 $\frac{2}{2}$ |
| Baillie Giff Japan.... | 1064 | +8 | 1080 | 834 |
| Baillie Giff US.... | 332 $\frac{2}{2}$ | +2 | 366 $\frac{2}{2}$ | 262 |
| Bankers InvTst.... | 1494xd | +4 | 154 $\frac{8}{8}$ | 122 $\frac{4}{4}$ |
| BH Macro.... | 424 $\frac{2}{2}$ | -1 $\frac{2}{2}$ | 462 $\frac{2}{2}$ | 389 |
Food Producers
Housebuilders
| Food Producers | ||||
| Assoc Brit Foods.... | 2064 | -5 | 2315 | 18 |
| Cranswick.... | 5410xd | -20 | 5690 | 4840 |
| Greencore.... | 267 $^{4}$ | - $^{3}$ 8 | 306 $^{2}$ | 192 |
| Hilton Food Gp.... | 619 | - $^{2}$ | 839 | 456 |
| Premier Foods.... | 200 $^{3}$ | -1 $^{4}$ | 209 $^{4}$ | 167 |
| Princes Group.... | 319 | -1 | 479 | 298 $^{2}$ |
| Tate & Lyle.... | 554 | + $^{2}$ | 569 | 329 $^{8}$ |
| Unilever.... | 4761 $^{2}$ xd | -21 | 5472 | 4078 |
52-week High Low
General Financial
| 3i Group | 2904 | -30 | 4459 | 2082 |
| Ashmore Gp | 226 $\frac{1}{8}$ | - $\frac{1}{4}$ | 266 $\frac{1}{4}$ | 153 $\frac{1}{2}$ |
| Bridgepoint Group | 316 $\frac{1}{8}$ | -4 | 345 | 222 $\frac{1}{8}$ |
| Capital Gearing | 529 | +3 | 530 | 52 $\frac{1}{4}$ |
| CMC Markets | 720 | +11 | 749 | 206 |
| Coats Group | 80 $\frac{1}{8}$ | + $\frac{1}{4}$ | 95 $\frac{1}{8}$ | 74 $\frac{1}{8}$ |
| Cordiant Digital | 125 | +1 $\frac{1}{2}$ | 125 | 68 $\frac{1}{2}$ |
| Foresight Group | 493 $\frac{1}{2}$ | -2 $\frac{1}{2}$ | 503 | 345 |
| Hansa Investment | 332 | -4 | 344 | 332 |
| ICG | 2018 | -8 | 2332 | 1011 |
| IG Gp | 1356xd | +2 | 1938 | 1025 |
| Integrafin | 395 $\frac{1}{2}$ | -4 | 399 $\frac{1}{2}$ | 298 $\frac{1}{2}$ |
| Intl Public Prtnshps | 1408xd | +8 | 144 $\frac{1}{8}$ | 117 $\frac{1}{4}$ |
| Investec | 635xxd | 679 $\frac{1}{2}$ | 518 | |
| IP Group | 72 | +4 | 72 $\frac{1}{8}$ | 48 $\frac{1}{8}$ |
| London Stock Ex | 8798xd | -42 | 9992 | 7170 |
| Man Group | 304xxd | 316 | 154 $\frac{1}{4}$ | |
| Nth Atlantic Smir | 425 | -5 | 433 | 330 |
| OSB Group | 5142xd | -2 | 643 $\frac{1}{2}$ | 484 $\frac{1}{4}$ |
| Paragon | 814 | -1 | 917 | 711 $\frac{1}{2}$ |
| Plus500 | 3690xd | -8 | 5070 | 2942 |
| Quilter | 193 $\frac{1}{2}$ | -8 | 208 $\frac{1}{4}$ | 154 $\frac{1}{8}$ |
| Rathbone Grp | 1702 | -6 | 2265 | 1582 |
| Ruffer Investment | 298 | 313 $\frac{1}{2}$ | 283 $\frac{1}{2}$ | |
| Schroders | 583 $\frac{1}{2}$ | 589 $\frac{1}{2}$ | 361 $\frac{1}{4}$ | |
| SDCL Efficiency | 36 $\frac{1}{8}$ | +8 | 63 | 32 |
| Seraphim Space | 187 | +8 | 273 $\frac{1}{2}$ | 66 $\frac{1}{4}$ |
| Temple Bar | 422xxd | 429 | 335 | |
| TP ICAP | 332 $\frac{1}{4}$ | +8 | 355 | 240 $\frac{1}{2}$ |
| XPS Pensions | 316 | -3 | 362 | 283 |
| Health Care Equipment & Services | |||
| Convatec......228 $^{14}$ xd | + $^{14}$ | 256 $^{18}$ | 194 |
| Oxford Biomedica......515 | +6 | 913 | 478 $^{12}$ |
| Smith & Neph......1068 | -14 | 1435 | 1068 |
| Spire Health......237 | +2 $^{12}$ | 249 | 142 $^{14}$ |
Industrial Transportation
| Barratt Redrow.... | 320 $^{14}$ | +5 $^{1/2}$ | 409 $^{8}$ | 241 $^{1/4}$ |
| Bellway.... | 2178 | +34 | 2868 | 1715 |
| Berkeley Grp.... | 3610 | +44 | 4434 | 3104 |
| Crest Nicholson.... | 66 $^{1/2}$ | +1 $^{1/4}$ | 175 $^{1/4}$ | 61 $^{1/4}$ |
| Persimmon.... | 1184 | +23 $^{1/2}$ | 1543 $^{1/2}$ | 998 $^{1/8}$ |
| Taylor Wimpey.... | 84 $^{1/8}$ | +1 $^{1/8}$ | 116 $^{1/2}$ | 74 $^{1/8}$ |
| Vistry Group.... | 312 $^{1/8}$ | +43 $^{1/4}$ | 736 $^{1/4}$ | 224 $^{1/8}$ |
Industrials
| Clarkson | 4992 | -58 | 5155 | 3395 |
| Zigup | 465 | $-^{2}$ | 478 | $301^{1/2}$ |
| Bodycote...... | 905 | 923 | 601 | |
| Globaldata...... | 82 $^{8}$ | -1 $^{4}$ | 151 $^{1/2}$ | 63 $^{8}$ |
| Goodwin...... | 17840 | -180 | 27600 | 9400 |
| Hill & Smith...... | 2915 | +30 | 3095 | 2020 |
| IMI...... | 3102xd | +30 | 3148 | 2226 |
| Melrose Ind...... | 510xxd+48 $^{4}$ | 681 $^{1/4}$ | 448 $^{4}$ | |
| RHI Magnesita...... | 2805 | +5 | 3345 | 1980 |
| Rotork...... | 485xd | - $^{8}$ | 488 | 288 $^{8}$ |
| Smiths Gp...... | 2617 | +7 | 2746 | 2118 |
| Spirax Group...... | 7160 | +125 | 7960 | 6300 |
| Vesuvius...... | 390 | +7 $^{4}$ | 503 | 357 $^{4}$ |
| Weir...... | 2910 | +32 | 3546 | 2274 |
Leisure Goods
| Games Workshop......18540 | +30 | 21940 | 14200 |
| ME Group...... $125^{34}$ | +1 | 201 | $100^{14}$ |
| Watches of Switz......685 | +6 | $801^{12}$ | $318^{34}$ |
Life Insurance
| Aberdeen Group | 246 $\frac{1}{4}$ xd | $+\frac{1}{8}$ | 261 | 182 |
| Aviva | 730 $\frac{1}{8}$ | $+2\frac{1}{8}$ | 737 | 591 $\frac{1}{8}$ |
| Legal & General | 289 $\frac{1}{4}$ xd | $+1\frac{1}{8}$ | 316 $\frac{1}{8}$ | 233 $\frac{1}{8}$ |
| Prudential | 1035 | -7 $\frac{1}{2}$ | 1220 | 916 |
| St James Place | 1183xd | -13 $\frac{1}{2}$ | 1553 | 1053 $\frac{1}{2}$ |
| Standard Life | 937 | +8 $\frac{1}{2}$ | 941 $\frac{1}{2}$ | 619 |
| Media | ||||
| 4imprint | 4502xd | 5000 | 3055 | |
| Autotrader Group | 549 $\frac{1}{4}$ | +6 $\frac{1}{4}$ | 817 $\frac{1}{8}$ | 427 $\frac{1}{4}$ |
Real Estate
Mail Shop | Garden
Nandina 'Fire Power'
| AstraZeneca | 12476xd+366 | 15542 | 10956 |
| Genus | 2298 +10 | 3170 | 1966 |
| GSK | 19052xd +15 | 2268 | 1442 $\frac{1}{2}$ |
| Haleon | 369xd -14 | 410 $\frac{1}{8}$ | 320 $\frac{1}{8}$ |
| Hikma Pharma | 1640xd +7 | 1851 | 1191 |
| Oxford Nanopore | 183 +16 $\frac{1}{4}$ | 195 $\frac{1}{4}$ | 104 $\frac{1}{2}$ |
| Reckitt Benckiser | 5150xd -30 | 6681 $\frac{1}{4}$ | 4443 |
| Big Yellow Gp......902 | -1 | 1180 | 812 |
| British Land......432 $^{14}$ | +3 $^{8}$ | 448 $^{4}$ | 321 $^{14}$ |
| Derwent London......2060 | -18 | 2146 | 1509 |
| Grainger......175 $^{12}$ | -2 $^{2}$ | 199 | 150 $^{8}$ |
Nandina (Sacred Bamboo) 'Fire Power' is hardy, tough as old boots yet immensely pretty too – and the most colourful variety ever!
| TOP FALLERS | CLOSING PRICE | DAILY CHANGE |
| Dr. Martens | 78.8p | -2.72% |
| Standard Chartered | 2140p | -2.51% |
| Diageo | 1735.5p | -2.00% |
| WPP | 392.2p | -1.93% |
| Kainos | 1230p | -1.91% |
Mining
| 52-week | High | Low | ||
| Bloomsbury.... | 656 | +4 | 672 | 4382 |
| Informa.... | 898 $\times$ xd | -1 $\frac{1}{8}$ | 993 $\frac{1}{8}$ | 7394 |
| ITV.... | 72 $\frac{1}{4}$ | +2 | 854 | 67 $\frac{1}{8}$ |
| Mony Group.... | 208 $\times$ xd | +24 | 213 | 1442 |
| Pearson.... | 1214 $\times$ xd | -10 $\frac{1}{2}$ | 1326 | 891 $\frac{1}{8}$ |
| RELX.... | 2618xd | -34 | 3565 | 2013 |
| Rightmove Group.... | 514 $\frac{1}{8}$ | +104 | 762 $\frac{1}{8}$ | 404 |
| WPP.... | 392 $\frac{1}{4}$ | -7 $\frac{1}{4}$ | 411 $\frac{1}{8}$ | 224 $\frac{1}{8}$ |
| BP | 528 $^{\text{3}}$ xd | -5 $^{1}$ 8 | 606 $^{4}$ | 410 $^{2}$ |
| Energean | 765 | -5 $^{2}$ | 1026 | 683 $^{2}$ |
| Harbour Energy | 252 $^{\text{3}}$ xd | -2 $^{4}$ | 318 $^{4}$ | 185 $^{8}$ |
| Hunting | 394 | +2 | 531 | 311 |
| Ithaca Energy | 270 | -1 | 285 $^{8}$ | 153 $^{4}$ |
| Shell | 3386 $^{2}$ xd | -10 $^{2}$ | 3583 | 2562 |
| Admiral Gp......4072 | +72 | 4072 | 2644 |
| Beazley......1298 | +2 | 1317 | 769 |
| Hiscox......1827xd | -5 | 1899 | 1273 |
| Lancashire Hldgs......610 $_{2}$ xd | +2 | 694 | 565 |
| Mining | ||||
| Anglo American | 4203xd | +85 | 4225 | 2201 |
| Antofagasta | 4009 | +37 | 4455 | 2131 |
| Endeavour Mining | 4793 | +20 | 5290 | 2492 |
| Fresnillo | 3176xd | -24 | 4448 | 1753 |
| Glencore | 602 $^{8}$ | +9 | 615 | 284 $^{4}$ |
| Hochschild Mining | 625 $^{2}$ | -4 $^{2}$ | 808 $^{2}$ | 272 $^{8}$ |
| Pan African Resourses | 138 $^{8}$ | +1 $^{4}$ | 183 $^{8}$ | 61 $^{4}$ |
| Rio Tinto | 7730xd | +64 | 8308 | 4570 |
| 52-week | High | Low | ||
| Grt Portland Est. | 349 $\frac{1}{4}$ | +1 | 374 | 274 $\frac{1}{2}$ |
| Hammerson | 379 $\frac{8}{8}$ | +4 $\frac{1}{4}$ | 385 $\frac{8}{8}$ | 267 $\frac{1}{4}$ |
| Harworth | 178 | -2 | 181 | 120 |
| Land Securities | 694 $\frac{1}{2}$ | +7 | 722 | 529 |
| LondonMetric Prop. | 194 $\frac{1}{2}$ | +2 $\frac{1}{2}$ | 215 | 177 $\frac{1}{2}$ |
| Primary Hlth Prop. | 97 | +8 $\frac{1}{8}$ | 108 $\frac{1}{4}$ | 87 $\frac{1}{2}$ |
| Safestore Hldgs | 608 | +3 $\frac{1}{2}$ | 837 | 582 |
| Savills | 1070 | +10 | 1108 | 808 |
| SEGRO | 968xd | +7 | 997 $\frac{8}{8}$ | 604 $\frac{8}{8}$ |
| Shaftesbury | 152 $\frac{1}{4}$ | +2 $\frac{1}{4}$ | 154 $\frac{1}{2}$ | 126 $\frac{1}{4}$ |
| Sirius Real Estate | 97 $\frac{8}{8}$ | +2 | 111 $\frac{8}{8}$ | 91 |
| Supermarket Inc. | 85 $\frac{1}{4}$ | -4 $\frac{1}{4}$ | 88 $\frac{8}{8}$ | 76 $\frac{1}{4}$ |
| Target Healthcare | 113 $\frac{1}{4}$ xd | +1 | 116 | 92 $\frac{1}{4}$ |
| TR Property IT | 309 | +2 $\frac{1}{2}$ | 361 $\frac{1}{2}$ | 295 |
| Tritax Big Box | 160 $\frac{1}{4}$ xd | +2 $\frac{8}{8}$ | 173 $\frac{1}{4}$ | 133 $\frac{1}{4}$ |
| Unite Group | 528 $\frac{1}{2}$ | +1 | 727 $\frac{1}{2}$ | 448 $\frac{1}{4}$ |
| Workspace Gp | 363 $\frac{1}{4}$ | +2 $\frac{8}{8}$ | 430 | 319 $\frac{8}{8}$ |
Oil & Gas Producers
| Alfa Financial | 167 $^{8}$ | +1 $^{8}$ | 248 $^{2}$ | 142 $^{9}$ |
| Auction Tech | 442 $^{8}$ | -4 | 483 $^{4}$ | 263 |
| Baltic Classifieds | 207 $^{4}$ | +3 $^{4}$ | 335 | 170 $^{4}$ |
| Bytes Technology | 413 $^{4}$ | -2 $^{8}$ | 427 $^{4}$ | 253 $^{8}$ |
| Computacenter | 5190 | +90 | 5192 $^{2}$ | 2242 |
| Deliveroo | 179 $^{4}$ | 179 $^{4}$ | 178 $^{2}$ | |
| Kainos Gp | 1230 | -24 | 1294 | 694 $^{2}$ |
| NCC Grp | 142 $^{8}$ | +8 | 157 $^{4}$ | 113 $^{4}$ |
| Playtech | 404 $^{8}$ | -7 $^{8}$ | 427 $^{6}$ | 232 |
| Softcat | 2082 | +28 | 2082 | 1091 |
| The Sage Group | 1104 $^{2}$ | 1175 | 783 $^{8}$ | |
| Trustpilot | 288 $^{4}$ | +2 $^{4}$ | 2984 | 1294 |
Nonlife Insurance
| Retailers | ||||
| AO World | 93 $\frac{1}{4}$ | -8 | 113 $\frac{1}{4}$ | 83 $\frac{1}{8}$ |
| ASOS | 420 | +15 $\frac{1}{2}$ | 420 | 206 $\frac{1}{2}$ |
| B&M | 246 $\frac{1}{4}$ | +3 $\frac{1}{4}$ | 264 $\frac{1}{8}$ | 155 $\frac{1}{4}$ |
| Burberry Gp | 1080 | +2 | 1360 | 1004 $\frac{1}{2}$ |
| Currys | 147 $\frac{1}{4}$ | +4 | 168 $\frac{1}{4}$ | 106 $\frac{1}{8}$ |
| Dr. Martens | 78 $\frac{1}{4}$ | -2 $\frac{1}{4}$ | 99 $\frac{1}{8}$ | 60 $\frac{1}{4}$ |
| Dunelm Gp | 889 | +1 | 1241 | 715 |
| Frasers Group | 827 $\frac{1}{2}$ | +7 $\frac{1}{2}$ | 827 $\frac{1}{2}$ | 618 $\frac{1}{2}$ |
| Greggs | 1882 | +6 | 2032 | 1418 |
| Howden Joinery | 800 $\frac{1}{2}$ | 970 | 723 $\frac{1}{2}$ | |
| Inchcape | 820 $\frac{1}{2}$ xd | -2 $\frac{1}{2}$ | 890 | 640 $\frac{1}{2}$ |
| JD Sports Fashion | 85 $\frac{1}{4}$ | -4 $\frac{1}{4}$ | 104 $\frac{1}{2}$ | 65 $\frac{1}{4}$ |
| Kingfisher | 322 $\frac{1}{2}$ | +4 $\frac{1}{4}$ | 370 $\frac{1}{2}$ | 243 $\frac{1}{4}$ |
| Marks & Spencer | 391 $\frac{1}{8}$ | +6 $\frac{1}{8}$ | 410 $\frac{1}{8}$ | 308 $\frac{1}{8}$ |
| Moonpig | 285 $\frac{1}{4}$ | +1 $\frac{1}{4}$ | 286 $\frac{1}{8}$ | 192 $\frac{1}{8}$ |
| Next | 15635 | +360 | 15715 | 11575 |
| Ocado Gp | 246 $\frac{1}{4}$ | +13 $\frac{1}{4}$ | 343 $\frac{1}{8}$ | 159 $\frac{1}{4}$ |
| Pets at Home Gp | 216 $\frac{1}{8}$ | +1 $\frac{1}{8}$ | 230 $\frac{1}{4}$ | 170 $\frac{1}{8}$ |
| Sainsbury(J) | 335 $\frac{1}{8}$ | -2 | 359 $\frac{1}{8}$ | 295 |
| SSP Group | 201 $\frac{1}{8}$ | +8 | 214 $\frac{1}{8}$ | 138 $\frac{1}{8}$ |
| Tesco | 464 $\frac{1}{4}$ | +3 $\frac{1}{2}$ | 501 $\frac{1}{4}$ | 413 $\frac{1}{4}$ |
| WH Smith | 415 | +4 | 710 | 383 $\frac{1}{4}$ |
| Wickes Group | 195 $\frac{1}{4}$ | +8 | 255 | 170 $\frac{1}{4}$ |
Retailers
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| 52-week | High | Low | ||
| Essentra | $109^{4}$ | $+1\frac{1}{4}$ | 114 | 798 |
| Experian | 3009 | +46 | 3982 | 2375 |
| Hays | 764 | $+3\frac{1}{4}$ | 764 | 298 |
| Intertek Gp | 5850 | +5 | 5855 | 3582 |
| Intl Workplace Gp | $180^{4}$ | $-2$ | 2498 | 1684 |
| Johnson Service Gp | $145^{8}$ | $+8$ | 1708 | 1258 |
| Michael Page | 223 | +2 | 2484 | 1038 |
| Mitie Group | $208^{8}$ xd | 210 | 1368 | |
| Rentokil Initial | $347^{4}$ xd | -1 | 5064 | 3418 |
| RS Group | $743^{2}$ | $+12\frac{1}{2}$ | 7462 | 5412 |
| Serco | 260 | $-1\frac{1}{4}$ | 3244 | 2168 |
| Shree | 298 | $+2\frac{1}{2}$ | 298 | 1378 |
| Travis Perkins | $652^{2}$ | -2 | 714 | 5072 |
| W.A.G | $100^{2}$ | 106 | 948 | |
| Support Services | ||||
| Babcock Intl | 1092 $^{2}$ xd +11 | 1502 | 921 | |
| Bunzl | 2794 | -4 | 2870 | 1989 |
| DCC Energy | 6360 | -5 | 6452 $^{2}$ | 4350 |
| Diploma | 7230 | +30 | 7700 | 5015 |
| Technology Hardware & Equipment | |||
| discoverIE Gp......781 | +23 | 833 | 514 |
| GB GROUP......154 $^{1/4}$ | $-^{6}$ | 259 | 154 $^{1/4}$ |
| Raspberry Pi......587 $^{1/2}$ | -6 | 1051 | 257 $^{1/4}$ |
| Spirent Comms......198 $^{3/4}$ | 198 $^{3/4}$ | 194 $^{1/4}$ | |
Spectacularly vivid year-round foliage displays! With its clumps of bamboo-like canes holding lush foliage that is present all year round, changing colour from yellow green through bonfire orange, to deep purple red in autumn, in a glorious show of winter colour!
Oil Equipment & Services
Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology
| Wood Gp(J) | 2938 | 2938 | 1814 |
• Totally winter hardy and easy to grow
What's more, you'll get pretty, white summer blossom and lovely red berries in winter too! Perfect for a pot on a patio or balcony, it also makes a perfect addition to any shrub border, giving much-needed structure and colour even when many plants have long faded.
Utilities
| Telecoms | ||||
| Airtel Africa | 334 $^{8}$ | -1 $^{8}$ | 420 $^{4}$ | 215 $^{4}$ |
| BT Gp | 206 $^{3}$ xd | +1 $^{8}$ | 239 $^{2}$ | 2 |
| Gamma Comms | 1120 | +25 | 1120 | 701 |
| Helios Towers | 204 $^{4}$ xd | +2 $^{4}$ | 245 $^{8}$ | 127 $^{4}$ |
| Telecom Plus | 860xd | -3 | 1892 | 710 |
| Vodafone Gp | 118 $^{4}$ | +2 $^{8}$ | 123 $^{4}$ | 84 $^{8}$ |
- Supplied as an established plant in a 2-litre pot. Eventual height 50cm
| Centrica | $155^{2}$ xd | $+14$ | $218^{4}$ | $151^{2}$ |
| Metlen | $49^{8}$ | $+12$ | $50^{8}$ | $31^{4}$ |
| National Grid | $1185^{2}$ | +16 | 1400 | $1010^{2}$ |
| Pennon | $473$ xd | $+10^{8}$ | 600 | 446 |
| Severn Trent | 3152 | +30 | 3280 | 327 |
| United Utilities | 1436 | +11 | 1457 | $914^{4}$ |
Software & Computer Services
| Travel & Leisure | ||||
| Compass Gp | 30 $^{14}$ | -1/2 | 2637 | 27 $^{18}$ |
| Dominos Pizza | 206 $^{6}$ xd | +1 | 220 | 167 $^{14}$ |
| easyJet | 676 | +2/4 | 683 $^{4}$ | 339 $^{4}$ |
| Entain | 540xd | -1 | 905 $^{4}$ | 521 |
| FirstGroup | 178 $^{4}$ | -1/4 | 226 $^{8}$ | 158 |
| Hollywood Bowl | 279 | 307 $^{2}$ | 234 $^{2}$ | |
| Intercontl Htls | 163xd | +1/4 | 10585 | 128 $^{8}$ |
| Intl Cons Airl | 441 $^{8}$ | +9 $^{4}$ | 488 | 342 $^{4}$ |
| Mitchells & Butlers | 285 | 301 | 228 | |
| PPHE Hotel Gp | 1640 | +62 | 2060 | 1286 |
| Trainline | 196 $^{4}$ | +3 $^{8}$ | 300 | 185 $^{2}$ |
| Wetherspoon (JD) | 854 $^{2}$ | +9 | 854 $^{2}$ | 555 $^{2}$ |
| Whitbread | 2475 | +12 | 3274 | 2234 |
| Wizz Air Hldgs | 1085 | +26 | 1447 | 849 $^{2}$ |
*Ex-Dividend Source: The Press Association
Tobacco
| Br Am Tob | 4133 | -61 | 4962 | 3733 |
| Imperial Brands | 2520xd | -15 | 3341 | 2502 |
- Colour changes from lush green, to yellow, orange and then deep-red!
- Beautiful summer blossom AND winter berries too!
- Perfect for a large pot or garden border
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| 103 | (1) | 383 | SOVEREIGNS HIGH 24 R Beckett 9-7. | H Crouch |
| 104 | (6) | 422 | REGAL TIGER 37 (BF) H Palmer 9-7. | B Loughnane |
| 105 | (13) | 652 | MINO 12 M Botti 9-7. | M Ghiani |
| 106 | (4) | LL71 | MOBADIR 23 (G) E Walker 9-6. | K Shoemark |
| 107 | (11) | 6510LL | EL LAMBO 16 (G) C Hills 9-4. | C Rodriguez |
| 108 | (15) | 562 | FOSCARINI 20 E J-Houghton 9-3. | C Bishop |
| 109 | (3) | 01 | STAR BAYSIDE BOY 23 (G) M Tregoning 9-3. | R Hornby |
| 110 | (9) | 955 | LILYWHITE HART 21 D Ivory 9-3. | J F Egan |
| 111 | (2) | 851 | GOLDEN OASIS 49 (D) (G) Robert Edwards 9-2. | R P Downey |
| 112 | (5) | 563252 | GLOBAL SUCCESS 17 (P) (BF) J S Moore 9-1. | Taylor Fisher |
| 113 | (12) | 515 | DISSENTER 23 (G) M Tregoning 9-1. | Ashley Lewis (3) |
| 114 | (7) | 5323L | LUSHILL 16 J S Moore 8-9. | David Egan |
| 115 | (14) | 8057 | ITS A GINGER THING 21 R Hughes 8-7. | S Osborne |
| Probable SP: 10-3 Mobadir, 5 Regal Tiger, 13-2 Primal, 8 Global Success, Golden Oasis, Mino, 12 Star Bayside Boy, Sovereigns High, 14 Foscarini, Dissenter. | ||||
4.45 BRICKLAYERS ARMS NEWBURY EBF MAIDEN STAKES (DIV 1) (4) (2-Y-0) £12,000 added (£6,480) 6f 110yds (10)
| 201 | (7) | CHEVERE Owen Burrows 9-7.... | C Rodriguez | |
| 202 | (2) | 5 | CRUSHERMAN 131 B Meehan 9-7.... | David Egan |
| 203 | (4) | FLICK OF AN EYE S & E Crisford 9-7.... | J Mitchell | |
| 204 | (8) | KICKING BEAR E Walker 9-7.... | K Shoemark | |
| 205 | (9) | MOOFEED A Watson 9-7.... | W Cox | |
| 206 | (3) | 7 | PERFECT STRIKE 32 W Haggas 9-7.... | T Marquand |
| 207 | (6) | SOLAR SWING G Boughey 9-7.... | B Loughnane | |
| 208 | (10) | SOL DORADO M Tregoning 9-7.... | R Hornby | |
| 209 | (1) | YABREEN J Channon 9-7.... | O Murphy | |
| 210 | (5) | L9 | VELMA DINKLEY 56 Faye Bramley 9-2.... | O Carmichael (7) |
Probable SP: 9-4 Solar Swing, 7-2 Crusherman, 13-2 Flick Of An Eye, Moofeed, 10 Yabreen, Kicking Bear. FAVOURITES: - - - - - - - - - 0 2025: Into The Sky 2 9 7 (Kieran Shoemark) 80-1 J Boyle drawn (8) 13 ran.
5 20 BRICKLAYERS ARMS NEWBURY EBF MAIDEN STAKES (DIV 2)
| 301 | (9) | BATTLEWORTHY A Balding 9-7 | O Murphy |
| 302 | (8) | DARJEEL R Hannon 9-7 | S M Levey |
| 303 | (7) | EPISTLE H Main 9-7 | J Mitchell |
| 304 | (4) | KINGDOM OF KUSH R Varian 9-7 | R P Downey |
| 305 | (6) | MARTABAN E J-Houghton 9-7 | C Bishop |
| 306 | (5) | SATURN STAR R Beckett 9-7 | H Crouch |
| 307 | (1) | SCYTHE B Meehan 9-7 | S Osborne |
| 308 | (2) | TOM THUMB Billy Aprahamian 9-7 | Taylor Fisher |
| 309 | (3) | 0 UNCLE ZELLO 7 J Channon 9-7 | G Bass |
Drop in Class: 4.10 Magi Melchior is down 3 grades on last run (Class 2 to Class 5); Primal (3); Mino (2); 4.45 Perfect Strike (2). Longest travellers: Regal Tiger (4.10), Bling (5.55), Home Hero (6.30), Fans Favourite (7.30) 155 miles.
WOLVERHAMPTON SSR
2.00 DOWNLOAD THE AT THE RACES APP APPRENTICE HANDICAP (6) 56 600 added (53 454) 56 31vdc (7)
| 1 | (4) | 2L8324 | SUB THIRTEEN 22 (P) (D) J Scott 5-9-9...... | O Tubb (3) |
| 2 | (1) | L6-721 | BRIDGET'S BABY 69 (D) A Carroll 3-9-8...... | Molly Gunn (5) |
| 3 | (6) | L205L4 | DUSK DAMSEL 9 (B) J S Moore 3-9-7...... | Millie Wonnacott (3) |
| 4 | (7) | 52-3LL3 | RAJETERIAT 9 (V) C Gordon 4-9-5...... | Liam Wright |
| 5 | (3) | 57L52L | FANCY DANCER 11 (P) (CD) Hayley Burton 4-9-4...... | A Redman (7) |
| 6 | (5) | 531466 | SIXCOR 2 (P) (C&DD7) Miss L Perratt 8-9-2...... | T Kiyel-Marshall |
| 7 | (2) | 435055 | NAD ALSHIBA SNOW 4 (T) M Murphy 4-9-0...... | R Kavanagh |
2025: Chicory 2 9 2 (Kieran Shoemark) 11-1 E Walker drawn (10) 11 ran. 6.30 GRACELANDS HANDICAP (STR) (4) £14,000 added (£7,328) 1m (13)
2.30 SKY SPORTS RACING SKY 415 EBF RESTRICTED NOVICE STAKES (5) (2-Y-0) £8,000 added (£4,187) 6f 20vds (12)
| 1 | (2) | 0 | HIRAM BINGHAM 30 M Bell 9-7....J Peate |
| 2 | (10) | 642 | HE'S READYTORUMBLE 11 J Channon 9-4....E Greatrex |
| 3 | (9) | 79 | LAUNCHPAD 11 N Littmoden 9-4....R Kavanagh (3) |
| 4 | (12) | MARHABA YA TAYIB R Hughes 9-4....NON RUNNER | |
| 5 | (5) | 8 | PREMIUM SEAT 11 J S Moore 9-4....Millie Wonnacott (5) |
| 6 | (4) | REDDY E J-Houghton 9-4....R Clutterbuck | |
| 7 | (7) | 64L | VENTURA POWER 71 G Boughey 9-4....Megan Smith (7) |
| 8 | (11) | 4 | LOVELY DARK ANGEL 23 G Boughey 9-2....P Cosgrave |
| 9 | (6) | 43222 | MY MARIA 19 (P) (BF) A Watson 9-2....G Mangan |
| 10 | (1) | 96 | MR MONTGOMERY 5 (H) Ollie Sangster 9-1....S Donohoe |
| 11 | (8) | NIL SATIS SUPREME M Loughnane 9-1....Hope Regan (7) | |
| 12 | (3) | SOLAR MISSION G Nicholls 9-1....K O'Neill | |
| Probable SP: 15-8 Lovely Dark Angel, 9-4 My Maria, 3 He's Readytorumble, 12 Reddy, 20 Ventura Power. | |||
3.50 added (£4,187) 1m 5f 219yds (7)
| 501 | (8) | 241135 | BEST RATE 11 (D2) (G) R Hannon 4-10-4....S C Cronin (5) |
| 502 | (3) | 622 | CLOUD FOREST 21 (BF) S bin Suroor 4-10-0....H Crouch |
| 503 | (13) | U-33112 | DISTINCT SPIRIT 19 (D) (G) D & C Kubler 6-10-0....Ebrahim Nader |
| 504 | (6) | 2L14-L5 | PRINCESS RASCAL 75 (G) Oliver Cole 4-9-13....Kaiya Fraser |
| 505 | (1) | 417322 | ZATSGOOD 12 (PT) (D) G Boughey 4-9-13....B Loughnane |
| 506 | (7) | 31-45 | MARLBOROUGH PLACE 70 (D) A Wintle 4-9-11...Taryn Langley (5) |
| 507 | (12) | 210- | RIVER CARD 326 (D) (S) B Meehan 3-9-11....T Marquand |
| 508 | (5) | 4710 | ELECTRIC DREAMS 27 (D) J Fanshawe 3-9-10....O Murphy |
| 509 | (4) | L-30L44 | WALSON'S LAW 12 (CD) (G) E J-Houghton 5-9-10....C Bishop |
| 510 | (2) | 21-4335 | ABUNDANT 27 (D) T Ward 3-9-5....S M Levey |
| 511 | (11) | 389151 | HOME HERO 18 (V) (D2) (G) H Palmer 3-9-5....L Catton (3) |
| 512 | (10) | 744-511 | ACCADEMIA 40 (C&D) (G) E Walker 3-9-3....K Shoemark |
| 513 | (9) | L6L-27L | TRIBAL RHYTHM 44 (P) D Coakley 5-9-3....R Hornby |
7.00 (3-Y-0) £14,000 added (£7,328) 7f (6)
| 1 | (4) | 172-L97 | ROYAL ACCORD 4 (D2) P Chapple-Hyam 4-9-11....Olivia Haines (7) |
| 2 | (7) | 21-L2 | DIAMONDINTHEDARK 22 (T) (C&D) M Loughnane 3-9-9 D Probert |
| 3 | (5) | 32-5974 | NIGHT MISSION 40 M Appleby 3-9-7....A Rawlinson |
| 4 | (2) | 21-6L78 | CAMPENAERTS 48 (C) J Portman 3-9-7....O Tubb (5) |
| 5 | (1) | L0110-0 | BELLAGIO MAN 117 (B) (D6) A Brittain 8-9-6....C Hardie |
| 6 | (8) | 566250 | GUERNSEY ANGEL 13 (C) P Evans 3-9-5....D Keenan |
| 7 | (9) | 18-9644 | CURRAHEE 12 (PT) S C Williams 4-9-2....P Cosgrave |
| 8 | (6) | 3L1362- | ALSHIMALI 254 (H) A Carroll 5-9-1....Josephine Gordon |
| 9 | (3) | 84-256 | MIRACLEOFTHEANDES 14 W Greatrex 3-9-0....E Greatrex |
3.00 FREE TIPS ON ATTHERACES.COM 'CONFINED' HANDICAP (5) £8,000 added (£4.187) 6f 20vds (9)
TRACK FACTS: L-H Tapeta course. GOING: Standard. STALLS:
Currahee, 10 Campenaerts, Guernsey Angel, 14 Royal Accord.
Inside. DRAW ADVANTAGE: None. Top jockey: David Probert. Top trainer: A Carroll. Headgear first time: 2.00 Rajeteriat, 3.00 Diamond-inthedark, 4.00 D Day Major Winter, Fighting Poet, Hammal. Drop in Class: 2.00 Fancy Dancer is down 2 grades on last run (Class 4 to Class 6); 2.30 Hiram Bingham (3). First run since wind surgery: None today.
2025: Herculeus 3 9 7 (L Edmunds) 11-2 W Muir & C Grassick drn (2) 9 ran.
| 601 | (3) | 8-22LL4 | BRISK SYMPHONY 15 (P) (C) (G) J Portman 9-9 | R Hornby |
| 602 | (6) | 23-15 | ARTANIS 168 (DBF) Ollie Sangster 9-8 | B Loughnane |
| 603 | (4) | 1306L3 | COOL MOLLY 32 (D2BF) Ollie Sangster 9-7 | T Marquand |
| 604 | (1) | 215122 | LION OF MALI 25 (D4BF) (G) J Fanshawe 9-3 | David Egan |
| 605 | (5) | 441 | BOLD SHOUT 14 (G) C Cox 8-13 | H Crouch |
| 606 | (2) | 2-24192 | SHOW ME GOLD 19 (D) T Dascombe 8-12 | O Murphy |
Probable SP: 2 Bold Shout, 11-4 Lion of Mali, 9-2 Artanis, 6 Show Me Gold, 8 Cool Molly, 10 Brisk Symphony. FAVOURITES: - - - - - 0 1 0 0 0 (W 9-5). 2025: Morte Point 3 9 6 (L Edmunds) 14-1 W Muir & C Grassick drn (9) 10 ran.
7 20 SHELDRAKE TRAINING LIMITED 'TRAIN AN APPRENTICE'
| 1 | (9) | 73-8311 | EMPIRICAL 30 (B) (D) (G) E Walker 9-9.... | K Shoemark |
| 2 | (1) | 32-7251 | EDWIN HUBBLE 20 (B) (D) (G) B Meehan 9-9.... | O Murphy |
| 3 | (6) | 51 | LIVEMORE 40 (G) T Kent 9-9.... | C Rodriguez |
| 4 | (5) | L1-4030 | MAGNATURA 26 (V) T Ward 9-6.... | S M Levey |
| 5 | (2) | 1-53434 | MAGICAL MERLOT 13 (G) E Dunlop 9-4.... | David Egan |
| 6 | (3) | 36-L546 | ISLAND BEAR 48 (B) Dr R Newland 9-4.... | B Loughnane |
| 7 | (8) | 6-06 | EAGLES ATTIRE 114 Oliver Cole 9-3.... | H Crouch |
| 8 | (7) | L33512 | GUESTSTIMATE 15 (D) (G) W Haggas 9-2.... | T Marquand |
| 9 | (4) | 7-31153 | FANS FAVOURITE 26 (P) (D) (S) H Palmer 8-11.... | M Ghiani |
FAVOURITES: -
- 2 1 2 0 (W̄ 9-5).
2025: King Al 3 8 12 (Rossa Ryan) 9-1 A King drawn (4) 9 ran.
TRACK FACTS: JACKPOT & PRINCIPAL MEETING. L-H course. GOING: Good to firm. STALLS: 1m2f inside; remainder centre. DRAW ADVANTAGE: High. Top jockey: Tom Marquand. Top trainer: R Hannon. Headgear first time: 5.55 Inmyopinion, 6.30 Tribal Rhythm, 7.00 Brisk Symphony. First run since wind surgery: None today.
ROBIN GOODFELLOW
GIMCRACK
| 2.00 | Rajeteriat | 2.00 | Bridget's Baby |
| 2.30 | My Maria | 2.30 | Lovely Dark Angel |
| 3.00 | Diamondinthedark (nb) | 3.00 | Diamondinthedark |
| 3.30 | The Craftymaster | 3.30 | Letmebetheboss |
| 4.00 | Fighting Poet | 4.00 | Spaceage Love Song |
| 4.35 | Desiderata | 4.35 | On Key |
2 20 ATTHERACES.COM/MARKETMOVERS HANDICAP (5) £8,000
1 (3) 032-485 KINGDOM OF STARS 8 Kerry Lee 5-10-0.... R Havlin 2 (4) 651211 THE CRAFTYMASTER 12 (T) (C&DC3D) A Carroll 6-9-12 M Gunn (5) 3 (1) 425104. LETMEBETHEBOSS 252 (D2) A Carroll 5-9-10.... K Fox 4 (5) L-85243 FAIR DINKUM 36 (T) (D2) J Scott 6-9-9.... K O'Neill 5 (7) 48-2476 ONE COOL DREAMER 34 (P) R Stephens 5-9-9.... P Cosgrave 6 (2) 135152 V POWER 18 (T) (C&D3) T Faulkner 6-9-7.... Zoe Lewis (7) 7 (6) 7-42321 BOILERMAKER 28 (P) (D) Harry Charlton 3-9-4.... D Probert Probable SP: 2 Boilermaker, 3 The Craftymaster, 5 Letmebetheboss, 6 V
4.00 FREE BETS ON ATHERACES.COM CLASSIFIED STAKES (6) £6,600 added (£3,454) 1m 4f 51yds (11)
| 1 | (9) LL-986 BEAT THE ODDS 61 A Brittain 4-9-9....C Hardie |
| 2 | (4) 287-LL5 D DAY MAJOR WINTER 22 (P) James Owen 4-9-9...D Probert |
| 3 | (6) L6L923 FIGHTING POET 8 (V) (D) R Phillips 8-9-9....J Peate |
| 4 | (8) 700L96 HAMMAL 43 (T) M Young 5-9-9....K O'Neill |
| 5 | (1) 866146 LAWMANS BLIS 74 C/DCDC3D2 Jessica Macey 8-9-9 Liam Wright (3) |
| 6 | (11) 2477-L8 RAVENSWELL 83 (P) T Faulkner 5-9-9....R Havlin |
| 7 | (10) 336-902 SOMEONE'S WISH 8 (P) (C) P Morris 6-9-9....R Kavanagh (3) |
| 8 | (2) 7522L4 SPACEAGE LOVE SONG 21 (P) (C&D) M Bell 4-9-9...J Bradnam (7) |
| 9 | (7) 8L6L86 N'ION 22 (P) I Williams 3-9-0....E Greatrex |
| 10 | (3) L-09230 RAISE THE STAKES 18 Ewan Whillans 3-9-0....G Fairley |
| 11 | (5) 207643 SMOKER BELLAMY 34 (P) Dr R Newland 3-9-0....Jack Doughty |
4.35 FREE RACE REPLAYS ON ATTHERACES.COM HANDICAP (6) £6,600 added (£3,454) 1m 142yds (12)
| 1 | (4) 32L584 | SHAMACID 11 (T) S Woods 4-9-12....D Probert |
| 2 | (10) 231323 | ON KEY 10 (P) (C) S Dixon 4-9-11....K O'Neill |
| 3 | (8) 6-L9894 | CY TWOMBLY 27 (TV) J Mackie 4-9-10....Jack Doughty |
| 4 | (2) 226131 | DESIDERATA 130 (C&D) T Faulkner 6-9-8....R Havlin |
| 5 | (11) 032315 | MANTON ROAD 6 (P) (C&D) R Phillips 4-9-7....K Fox |
| 6 | (9) 324527 | BOOK OF LIFE 32 (P) (C&D) P Morris 6-9-6....D J Murphy (7) |
| 7 | (6) 52-9LL6 | ROGUE OFFICER 26 (H) A Brittain 4-9-4....C Hardie |
| 8 | (7) 5L3836 | GRAND VISTA 20 (P) W Muir & C Grassick 3-9-0....R Kavanagh (3) |
| 9 | (5) 6L47LL | CLAYTONS KOLATONIC 14 D F Davis 3-9-0....B Ffrench-Davis (5) |
| 10 | (1) OL-LL63 | ROKUNI 49 (TV) C Wallis 4-8-12....C Howarth (3) |
| 11 | (12) 6-38445 | ANORAH UNLEASHED 54 A Carroll 3-8-11....Josephine Gordon |
| 12 | (3) LLL-73 | THOMAS TALLIS 20 J Mackie 3-8-5....Finlay Bassett (7) |
| Probable SP: 3 Desiderata, 4 On Key, 11-2 Thomas Tallis, 6 Manton Road, 10 Grand Vista, Book Of Life, 12 Cy Twombly, 14 Anorah Unleashed, Shamacid. | ||
Longest travellers: Mayfair (A) (5.10) France; Sixcor (2.00) 275 miles.
LINGFIELD
2.30 — DANNICK (Ashley Lewis) 10-3 (Jt 2nd Fav) 1; Havana Touch 10-3 (Jt 2nd Fav) 2; Great Blasket 9-2 3. 9 ran. (G & J Moore). 1½, ½. Tote: 4.34; 1.40, 1.50, 1.80. Ex: 16.70. Tc: 49.83. Tf: 63.30. CSF: 15.00.
3.00 — LAZURITE (F Marsh) 2-5F 1; Thai Baht 8-1 2; Lady Of Lucca 40-1 3.6 ran. (R Hughes). 6 $^{1/2}$ , 3 $^{3/4}$ . Tote: 1.40; 1.10, 3.90. Ex: 4.70. Tf: 35.70. CSF: 4.56. NR: Ambience.
3.30 — LET'S GO HUGO (T Kiely-Marshall) 13-8 Jt Fav 1; Apple's Angel 14-1 2; Banana 4-1 3.9 ran. (O Pears). 1½, nk. Tote: 2.63; 1.10, 2.80, 1.40. Ex: 33.90. Tf: 93.20. CSF: 99.82. NR: Pvt A Mean
4.00 — MUSICAL SOLDIER (B Loughnane) 9-4 Jt Fav 1; Strong Voice 11-4 2; Bird Of War 9-4 Jt Fav 3.8 ran. (Ollie Sangster). 2l, 2½. Tote: 3.25; 1.10, 1.40, 1.30. Ex: 9.30. Tc: 15.10. Tf: 21.80. CSF: 8.99. NRs: Chapman's Peak, Viking Glory.
4.30 — FLOATING MARKET (Isobelle Chalmers) 9-1 1; Devil's Brigade 15-8 (2nd Fav) 2; Sax Avoidance 40-1 3. 7 ran. (A
5.02 — TIME TO SPARKLE (Harry Vigors) 9-4F 1; Thunder Goddess 7-2 (2nd Fav) 2; Minerality 33-1 3.7 ran. (J Keane). 2½, nk. Tote: 3.25; 1.40, 2.10. Ex: 11.20. Tc: 194.84. Tf: 156.60. CSF: 10.31. NR: Hove Ranger.
Placepot £4.20. Q'pot £2.70. MUSSEL BURGH
2.15 — INNS AND OUT (J Hart) 7-1 1; Pigeon Pete 33-1 2; Coul Blue 80-1 3. 10 ran. (T Easterby). 1¼, 1¾. Tote: 8.60; 1.80, 7.60, 10.10. Ex: 272.10. Tf: 3791.80. CSF: 204 19
2.45 — NEEDIN' U (B Garritty) 5-2 Jt Fav 1; Lauralynn 5-2JtFav 2; Aodhan 13-2 3. 7 ran. (M & D Easterby). 2½, 4½. Tote: 3.38; 1.90, 1.80. Ex: 6.70. Tc: 28.69. Tf: 36.80. CSF: 7.77. NR: Mardy Bum.
3.15 — DALAMARA (A Mullen) 10-1 1; Horwich 22-1 2; Amber Hamur 6-5F 3.8 ran. (B Haslam). $^{1}/_{2}$ , 1l. Tote: 11.00; 2.50, 5.00, 1.10. Ex: 217.10. Tc: 456.35. Tf: 842.50.
RACING RESULTS
3.45 — GALLUS NORMAN (Amie Waugh) 14-1 1; Fast Fred 11-1 2; Trojan Sun 8-1 3.9 ran. (J Goldie). 3 $^{1/4}$ , 4 $^{1/4}$ . Tote: 14.70; 4.00, 2.50, 2.30. Ex: 117.70. Tc: 577.41. Tf: 950.20. CSF: 97.34. NRs: Florida Dreams, Ned Brov.
4.15 — NOVAK (A Mullen) 7-2 (2nd Fav) 1; Luminous Warrior 22-1 2; Vince Le Prince 15-2 3. 10 ran. (I Jardine). nk, 1 $^{3/4}$ . Tote: 4.80; 1.80, 4.40, 2.50. Ex: 84.70. Tc: 572.57. Tf: 520.90. CSF: 80.36. NR: Joshuas Dream.
4.45 — ALBEGONE (J Dickson) 6-1 1; Beerwah 10-3 (2nd Fav) 2; Zuffolo 14-1 3. 6 ran. (T Easterby). nk, 3/4. Tote: 7.00; 2.80, 1.60. Ex: 24.30. Tf: 152.20. CSF: 26.20.
£2,236.08 carried over.
Placepot £1,245.50. Q'pot £53.50
STRATFORD
| 5.10 — GUTS AND GLORY (S Sheppard) 4-1 1; Steal A Glance 8-1 2; Letmeseethecolts 9-4 (2nd Fav) 3. 8 ran. (C Boultbee-Brooks). |
Ex: 27.10. Tf: 76.50. CSF: 34.83. 5.40 — DELGANY SECOND NOW (H Skelton) 15-2; Captain Connor 33-1 2; Brionywells 6-1 (Jt 2nd Fav) 3.8 ran. (D Skelton). 8 $^{1/2}$ , 4 $^{1/4}$ . Tote: 10.00; 1.80, 5.90, 1.40. Ex: 264.30. Tc: 1584.06. Tf: 1259.20. CSF: 177.07. 6.15 — DUKE OF LUCKLEY (F Keighley) 5-1 1; In This World 25-1 2 4 ran. (M Keighley). 26I. Tote: 6.50; Ex: 41.30. Tf: 37.50. CSF: 46.16. 6.45 — MI SUENO (H Reed) 11-8F 1; Dream Jet 12-1 2; Juggernaut 5-1 3.8 ran. (Nick Scholfield). 4 $^{1/4}$ , 1 $^{1/4}$ . Tote: 2.38; 1.20, 2.90, 1.60. Ex: 20.50. Tc: 67.27. Tf: 80.30. CSF: 18.66
7.15 — YOUDECIDE (B R Jones) evens F 1; Pescatorius 12-1 2; Watchoutitscookie 8-1 3. 8 ran. (B Pauling). 9½, shd. Tote: 2.00; 1.10, 2.20, 2.00. Ex: 15.00. Tc: 68.82. Tf: 80.80. CSF: 14.53.
7.45 — GOLIATH POWER (Fern O'Brien) 9-4F 1; Roccana Rose 11-4 (2nd Fav) 2; Talladale 7-2 3.8 ran. (F O'Brien). 6l, ½. Tote: 3.25; 1.30, 1.20, 1.30. Ex: 9.20. Tf: 28.40. CSF: 9.00. NR: Company Charge.
Placepot £117.30. Q'pot £15.60.
CATTERICK RTV
2.15 RESTRICTED MAIDEN STAKES (4) (2-Y-0) £10,000 added (£5,400) 5f (9)
| 1 | (7) | L9 | NEVERBEATDESWALKER 42 M Walford 9-4 J Garritty |
| 2 | (8) | 244 | SHANIKO 19 (H) Craig Lidster 9-2......D Tudhope |
| 3 | (1) | MUGHEER K R Burke 9-1......C Lee | |
| 4 | (3) | L | NORTH COATES 10 M & D Easterby 9-1......B Garritty |
| 5 | (6) | L | REDROSECASTANA 18 C Kellett 9-1......M Winn |
| 6 | (4) | 225 | ROMIDIJO 17 Charlie Clover 8-13......S James |
| 7 | (2) | 9 | SCOTTYS ROCKET 37 B Ellison 8-13......A Mullen |
| 8 | (5) | GHAZALIA H Kobeissi 8-10......S D Bowen | |
| 9 | (9) | 3L | PURRISTA 19 G Tuttly 8-10......C Beasley |
Probable SP: 6-5 Mugheer, 9-4 Shaniko, 4 Romidijo, 10 Ghazalia, 20 Purrista
2 45 MAIDEN STAKES (4) £10,000 added (£5,400)
1 (5) L5L AURORA'S DOUBLESIX 13 (H) B Rothwell 4-9-7 ...... F McMeneman
| 2 | (3) | 7 | KHANIMAMBO 18 D & N Barron 3-9-7 | D Nolan |
| 3 | (6) | SKEWSBY M & D Easterby 3-9-7 | B Garrity | |
| 4 | (2) | 70 | DREAMADERA 123 T Easterby 3-9-2 | D Fentiman |
| 5 | (4) | 325 | LADY GORMIRE 27 M Dods 3-9-2 | C Beasley |
| 6 | (8) | 544 | MOONLIGHT MELODY 46 D McCain 3-9-2 | D Allan |
| 7 | (7) | 732 | ROYALE UNION 23 K R Burke 3-9-2 | C Lee |
| 8 | (1) | 555 | SOONA STAR 8 S Spencer 2-9-2 | D Swift |
8 (1) 555 SOCA STAR 8 S Spencer 3-9-2....D Swift Probable SP: 11-8 Royale Union, 3 Lady Gormire, 7-2 Moonlight Melody, 5 Soca Star, 16 Skewsby.
3.15 HANDICAP (6) £7,000 added (£3,664) 5f 212vds (6)
| 4 | (2) | 769 | OVERBUDGET 19 M Appleby 3-9-8......A Mullen |
| 5 | (1) | 218 | POWERNAP 48 (T) (C) (S) J Bedi 3-9-4......D Costello |
| 6 | (6) | 533 | BATTENBURG BELLE 22 (C&D) (G) R Menzies 3-8-12 |
Powernap, 6 Overbudget, Barmyblade, 12 Miss Willows.
TRACK FACTS: L-H course. GOING: Good. STALLS: Inside. DRAW ADVANTAGE: Low. Top jockey: Jason Hart. Top trainer: T Easterby. Head- gear first time: 3.45 Fairydale, Lilykoy, 4.52 Runnin- man, Twilight Dawn. First run since wind surgery: None today.
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6.20 EBF NOVICE STAKES (3) (2-Y-0) £13,000 added (£7,020) 1m (8)
| 1 | (7) | 22 | AL WATHBA 17 (BF) C Appleby 9-7......W Buick |
| 2 | (2) | BURNINGRINGOFFIRE (H) R Hughes 9-7......F Marsh | |
| 3 | (3) | CITES R Beckett 9-7......Rossa Ryan | |
| 4 | (5) | GILDER ROY James Owen 9-7......C Fallon | |
| 5 | (6) | 46 | PEAK TRAM 34 Sir M Prescott 9-7......D E Hogan |
| 6 | (8) | PURE CONCEPT R Hannon 9-7......S Foley | |
| 7 | (4) | 2 | SOMMOOD 19 S & E Crisford 9-7......H Davies |
| 8 | (1) | WYKEHURST PARK A Balding 9-7......C Hutchinson |
Probable SP: 6-4 Al Wathba, 4 Sommood, 9-2 Pure Concept, 6 Cites, 10 Wykehurst Park, 12 Burningringoffire.
6.51 NOVICE STAKES (4) £10,000 added (£5,400) 7f (8)
| 1 | (2) | L0 | BIG SNOOPY 103 (H) E Walker 3-9-7 | G Downing |
| 2 | (3) | LL | COILLTEDUDEISBACK 35 Adam Kirby 3-9-7 | W Carson |
| 3 | (6) | 72-3 | KAINDY 21 R Varian 3-9-7 | R Dawson |
| 4 | (4) | 7 | MR G FORCE 10 D Ivory 3-9-7 | T Greatrex |
| 5 | (8) | 6 | PALLISER 7 A Watson 3-9-7 | P-L Jamin |
| 6 | (5) | 49- | PEDROS DREAM 243 A Carroll 3-9-7 | M Slater (7) |
| 7 | (7) | 2- | SEA BRAVE 251 R Hughes 3-9-7 | F Marsh |
| 8 | (1) | TALKING BEAR R Phillips 3-9-7 | C Hutchinson |
Probable SP: 8-15 Kaindy, 2 Sea Brave.
7.21 (£6,281) 7f (10)
| 1 | (8) | 805 | PARIS BABE 26 (P) (D) A Watson 4-10-0 ...... P-L Jamin |
| 2 | (6) | 863 | MUSICAL ANGEL 41 (D) S Dow 4-9-8...... H Davies |
| 3 | (3) | 7L5 | BRIDGET'S VIEW 14 (HPT) (C&D) S C Williams 4-9-8 |
| 4 | (10) | 32-L | STAR MIRAGE 29 | H Al Jehani (UAE) | 3-9-5.... | C Fallon |
| 5 | (7) | 215 | SHUSHU 63 (D) | R Varian 3-9-2.... | R Dawson | |
| 6 | (4) | 521 | MERRY (Gibex) | 7 (C&D) | James Horton 3-9-2 | D Muscutt |
| 7 | (1) | 293 | RIBENSKA 69 (P) | (D) | C Fellowes 4-9-1.... | C Shepherd |
| 8 | (5) | 334 | AFRAJ 35 (D) | J & T Gosden 3-9-0.... | W Buick | |
| 9 | (2) | 733 | GHISA 26 (H) | (D) | C Fellowes 3-8-13.... | P Bradley |
| 10 | (9) | 2L0 | SAHANA 22 (D) | D M Simcock 4-8-11.... | D E Hogan |
7 51 FILLIES' HANDICAP (4) £12,000 added
| 1 | (7) | 832 | GLORYOUS 13 J Osborne 4-10-2 | W Carson |
| 2 | (2) | 1-3L | APHRODITE SPIRIT 40 R Teal 4-9-12 | J Leavy |
| 3 | (6) | 552 | LADYKIRK 14 J Chapple-Hyam 3-9-9 | W Buick |
| 4 | (4) | 155 | BINT KILFRUSH 109 J Tate 3-9-7 | R Dawson |
| 5 | (1) | 177 | BIG BEAR HUG 15 (CD) J Boyle 7-9-7 | P Bradley |
| 6 | (8) | 121 | BINTKNIGHT 25 Harry Charlton 3-9-6 | L Edmunds |
| 7 | (3) | 134 | AFFECTION 27 (D) D Pipe 3-9-4 | Harry Vigors (5) |
| 8 | (5) | 242 | SEACOLE 29 (H) R Beckett 3-9-4 | Rossa Ryan |
Headgear first time: 6.20 Burningringoffire, 6.51 Big Snoopy, 7.21 Bridget's View, Ribenska, 8.21 Caviar Cowboy, 8.51 Evening Fades, Hot Silk, Relentless Hero. Drop in Class: 8.21 Society Kiss is down 2 grades on last run (Class 2 to Class 4); 8.51 Far Far Out (2). First run since wind surgery: 6.51 Big Snoopy.
Probable SP: 2 Bintknight, 3 Ladykirk, 9-2 Seacole, 8 Aphrodite Spirit, Glorious, 10 Bint Kilfrush, 20 Affection.
IRISH champion jockey Dylan Browne McMonagle was taken
Browne McMonagle was taken to hospital after being sent crashing when his mount Mosel fell at Bellestown. The pair were mounting a challenge in the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Median Auction Maiden when the fall occurred. Browne McMonagle, 23, has enjoyed a stunning year, with an Oaks double at Epsom and the Curragh aboard Thundering On and Johanna Walsh respectively. The next race, the Ploughman Bar & Grill Handicap, started 30 minutes late after ground staff sanded areas of concern on the track.
GIMCRACK
| ROBIN GOODFELLOW | GIMCRACK | |
| 2.15 | Mugheer | 2.15 Shaniko |
| 2.45 | Royale Union | 2.45 Royale Union |
| 3.15 | Battenburg Belle | 3.15 Run This Way |
| 3.45 | Niffler | 3.45 Animato |
| 4.15 | Fidelius | 4.15 Our Absent Friends |
| 4.52 | Without Delay | 4.52 I Can Boogy |
NORTHERNER - 2.15 Mugheer (nb); 2.45 ROYALE UNION (nap).
4.15 HANDICAP (4) £10,000 added (£5,234) 5f (10)
1 (6) 602 FIDELIUS 18 (D6) N Tinkler 5-9-13 ...... A Jary (3) 2 (8) 431 MARCHING MAC 75 (T) (D6) (S) P McEntee 5-9-13.....
3 (2) 347 CANON'S HOUSE 5 (D3) (S) M & D Easterby 5-9-13....
4 (3) 168 NOVAMAY 15 (S) M Dods 4-9-12....Rhys Elliott (5) 5 (7) 213 SECRET MISTRAL 32 (D6) (S) A Carroll 6-9-10.....
6 (5) 11L ANGEL NUMBERS 14 (D3BF) (G) R Carr 3-9-10 ....
7 (4) 6L0 CALL MARGOT 7 (D) G Tutty 3-9-6.... C Beasley 8 (10) L20 VINCE L'AMOUR 11 (BT) (C&DD3) (S) T Easterby 5-9-0
5.40192yds (8)
| 10 (1) | 282 | CANARIA QUEEN 9 (P) (D8) (GS) T Easterby 6-8-11.... |
Probable SP: 11-4 Marching Mac, 3 Our Absent Friends, 5 Fidelius, 8 Secret Mistral, Canon's House.
4.52 CLASSIFIED STAKES (6) £7,000 added (£3,664) 7f 6vds (14)
T Coyle & K Wood 7-9-9 J Dickson (5) (1) I CAN BOOGY 32 (D) (G) N Tinkler 4-9-9.....A Jary (3) (11) MISTER SKY BLUE 14 (G) G Tutty 4-9-9. C Whiteley (5) (7) LLL MORAL VICTORY 34 L Mullaney 5-9-9.....B McHugh (14) RAIN CAP 22 (V) (C&DC3D2) (GS) J Riches 9-9-9.....
9 (5) 478 BELLING THE CAT 32 T Coyle & K Wood 3-9-4D Nolan
10 (13) 5-99 DEE'S HONEY 12 Michael Keady 3-9-4....J Hart
11 (4) 435 LANARRA 18 R M Smith 3-9-4....JP Sullivan
12 (8) 406 RUNNINMAN 7 (PT) D Whillans 3-9-4....A Brookes
13 (3) L07 RYEFIELD 14 L Mullaney 3-9-4....T Eaves
14 (12) 330 TWILIGHT DAWN 32 (B) S Whitaker 3-9-4....R Elliott (5)
Longest travellers: Ghazalia (2.15), Romidijo (2.15), Lilykoy (3.45), Niffler (3.45), Marching Mac (4.15), Dee's Honey (4.52) 205 miles. Drop in Class: 4.15 Call Margot is down 2 grades on last run (Class 2 to Class 4); 4.52 Moral Victory (2).
ROBIN GOODFELLOW
GIMCRACK
| 6.20 Al Wathba | 6.20 Al Wathba |
| 6.51 Sea Brave | 6.51 Kaindy |
| 7.21 Afraj | 7.21 Star Mirage |
| 7.51 Seacole | 7.51 Ladykirk |
| 8.21 Arry Up | 8.21 Aigeas |
| 8.51 Hot Silk | 8.51 Madjid |
9.21 UNIBET 3 UNIBOOSTS A DAY HANDICAP (4)
1 (7) 051 AIGEAS 55 (C&DD) Oliver Cole 9-9....H Davies 2 (2) 129 WEZZEER 74 (D) R Varian 9-9....R Dawson 3 (10) 25L CAVIAR COWBOY 34 (H) J Fanshawe 9-7....D Muscutt 4 (8) 0-32 SOCIETY KISS 79 J Mackie 9-7....P J McDonald 5 (3) L41 ARRY UP 34 (C&D2D) B Millman 9-6....L Edmunds 6 (6) 748 AUGUSTUS GLOOP 19 (D) J Fanshawe 9-4....G Wood 7 (12) 152 MANLY FIREBALL 27 (D) R Hughes 9-3 NON RUNNER 8 (1) 210 BINTARYANA 29 (D2) W Knight 9-3....C Fallon 9 (4) 717 KING OF CHAOS 26 (D2) D Cunha 9-2....P Dobbs 10 (9) 405 KOLKATA KNIGHT 12 (T) (D) T Dascombe 9-2..P-L Jamin 11 (5) OLO SLAY QUEEN 44 (D2) R Hannon 9-1....J Leavy 12 (11) 1-31 FROM THE HIP 79 (C&DD2) M Usher 9-0....T Heard Probable SP: 9-4 Aigeas, 4 Arry Up, 7 From The Hip,
8.51 HANDICAP (5) (3-Y-0) £8,000 added (£4,187) 1m 3f 219vds (12)
1 (6) L31 TRAVELING MAN 6 (D) C Fellowes 9-9.... P Bradley 2 (8) 1LL RELENTLESS HERO 18 (H) A Balding 9-8.... J Watson 3 (3) 363 COSMO BROWN 20 W Muir & C Grassick 9-8.... C Shepherd 4 (11) 571 MADJID 39 Harry Charlton 9-7.... L Edmunds 5 (9) 432 HOT SILK 16 (P) J Fanshawe 9-6.... Harry Vigors (5) 6 (12) 27L SEMPER FEMINA 35 R Hannon 9-5.... P Dobbs 7 (10) 618 AMRUM 63 Ollie Sangster 9-3.... W Buick 8 (4) 58L FAR FAR OUT 58 A Carroll 9-1.... W Carson 9 (7) 442 EVENING FADES 27 (T) W Haggas 9-1.... C Fallon 10 (1) 3-33 LORD MAYOR 197 A Balding 9-1.... P J McDonald 11 (2) 1-L9 TINSEL 30 H Morrison 9-1.... C Hutchinson 12 (5) 665 COSPICUA 18 (C&D) J Tate 8-7.... R Dawson
Probable SP: 3 Traveling Man, 4 Madjid, 5 Hot Silk, 8 Evening Fades, 10 Lord Mayor, Amrum, 12 Relentless Hero.
TRACK FACTS: R-H Polytrack course. GOING:
Standard to slow. STALLS: Inside. DRAW ADVANTAGE: Low. Top jockey: Daniel Muscutt. Top trainer: A Balding. Longest travellers: Star Mirage (7.21) United Arab Emirates; Arry Up (8.21) 157 miles.
CAPTAIN HEATH TRIO
ON KEY (nap) (Wolverhampton, 4.35) SOLAR SWING (nb) (Newbury, 4.45) BINTKNIGHT (Kempton, 7.51)
WORK WHISPER EVENING FADES (Kempton, 8.51)
WEIGHTING GAME ZEPHLYN (Catterick, 3.45) Down 9lb from last winning mark BURNT FINGERS MARLBOROUGH PLACE (Newbury, 6.30)
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Sir Billy Boston: A humble superstar and a giant of a man
S IR BILLY BOSTON was a giant of a man, who spoke with gentleness, humility and self-deprecation and who bequeathed a gift to the sport of rugby league that will last far beyond the records he set, the tries he scored and the entertainment he provided to millions as a player for Wigan.
Sir Billy, who died yesterday aged 92, was a breaker of barriers, a man who deserves to be remembered in the same company as heroes like Jackie Robinson, major league baseball's first black player in the modern era, and Arthur Ashe, who swept away so many prejudices in the game of tennis.
Boston became the first non-white player to represent Great Britain on a Lions tour in 1954. He scored 36 tries in 18 games in Australia and New Zealand and played in 31 Tests. The numbers say he scored 478 tries in 488 matches for Wigan and played in six Challenge Cup finals for the team, but his standing in the game and in the world of sport, the way he carried himself, the way he wore his greatness lightly, made him a hero to many more.
'Heartbroken to hear my friend Sir Billy Boston has died,' prime minister Andy Burnham wrote yesterday. 'Billy was one of the greatest rugby league players of all-time, but also one of the kindest and most down-to-earth people you could ever wish to meet. He always had time for people and gave so much back to his adopted home, Wigan. A giant of a man in every way.'
For the first 130 years of rugby league's existence, the establishment did not judge a single one of its players worthy of a knighthood and the omission felt like a sign of society's disregard for the sport. In the same period, union was awarded 20 knighthoods, yachting 12, motor racing eight, horse racing eight and sheep shearing one.
It had begun to feel as if rugby league was a pariah. But two years ago, Billy Boston changed all that. He already had three statues in his honour — in Cardiff, where he was born, at Wembley, where he played in those Challenge Cup finals, and in Wigan, where he lived for 72 years — and then there came the final symbolism of the knighthood.
I met him in a hotel on Piccadilly, in London, on the eve of the ceremony at Buckingham Palace in June 2025. He was accompanied by Wigan Warriors owner Mike Danson and club legend Kris Radlinski, now Wigan's chief executive. Boston was 90 and a little frail, but he still carried himself like a king of old.
Wigan will pay tribute to Boston ahead of their Super League match against Hull KR tomorrow night and that day in London, Danson and Radlinski both radiated pride in him. They knew what a hero he was. They knew what he meant to fans of the sport and beyond. They knew he was a crossover star. 'We've just never had that breakthrough moment before,' Radlinski said.
Trailblazer: Boston after receiving his knighthood in 2025
‘We promote humility and create these humble guys, but we actually need them to be superstars. One thing about league in our town and many northern teams is everybody lives in the town and access is unbelievable. So it’s your biggest strength, but also your biggest weakness.’
Danson pointed out that only a small percentage of knighthoods are given to people from the north. If you are northern and working class, that percentage shrinks more. Boston smashed that barrier, too.
His death came only four days after the funeral of his wife, Lady Joan, to whom he had been married for 70 years. Boston grew up playing union before switching codes to sign for Wigan in 1953 aged 19, gracing the sport through the 1950s and 60s.
'Billy Boston is woven into the fabric of this club,' said Wigan head coach Matt Peel. 'Every day we walk through the doors, we are reminded that we have a responsibility to represent all those who have gone before us and made Wigan Warriors what it is today. Billy stands at the very top of that history.
‘Those fortunate enough to have seen him play tell me he was simply the greatest. His achievements, the man he was and the standards he set will continue to inspire everyone who pulls on this shirt. Sir Billy Boston will always be one of Wigan Warriors’ greatest sons and will never be forgotten.’
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| CHAMPIONS LEAGUE PLAY-OFF, SECOND LEG | ||
| BODO/GLIMT (2) 3(Agg: 6-1) | NEC | (0) 0 |
| LASK (1) L | CELTIC | (1) L |
| Usor 32 | McGregor 21 | |
| Ljubicic 48 | ||
| Adeniran 58 | ||
| Flecker 90(Agg: 4-4; Extra Time being Played) | ||
| SABAH BAKU (1) 5(AET – score after 90 mins 3-2. Agg: 6-4) | HAPOEL BEER SHEVA | (1) 2 |
| CARABAO CUP 2ND ROIUND | ||
| BARNSLEY (3) 3 | CREWE | (1) 2 |
| BIRMINGHAM (1) 1 | BRENTFORD | (3) 6 |
| Gray 28 | Wilson 6 | |
| Hickey 35 | ||
| Collins 40, 77 | ||
| Damsgaard 70 | ||
| Thiago 73 | ||
| BLACKBURN (0) 1 | SHEFF UTD | (1) 2 |
| BLACKPOOL (1) 1 | LINCOLN CITY | (1) 4 |
| CAMBRIDGE U (0) 0 | MILLWALL | (1) 1 |
| CARDIFF (0) 1 | NORWICH | (1) 2 |
| DONCASTER (0) 1 | MIDDLESBRO | (1) 3 |
| FLEETWOOD (3) 4 | SHREWSBURY | (0) 0 |
By TOM COLLOMOSSE
OLLIE WATKINS' absence from the Aston Villa team at Brighton may have been the final chapter in a story that started more than 18 months ago.
The England forward spoke to his team-mates on Monday to explain his side of the story and is now expected to complete his acrimonious move to Al Hilal for around £50million.
Once Watkins had sat out the 4-0 defeat at the Amex, despite being Villa's only fit striker, it created a rift between the player and the club, not to mention the fans, which was going to take work to heal. But while this row might have been handled differently by both sides, it has not come from a clear blue sky.
Daily Mail Sport looks at how we got here and what life after Watkins might look like.
THE ARSENAL BID
AT some point last week, Watkins had a discussion with Villa manager Unai Emery, who left those talks believing the 30-year-old wanted to move to Al Hilal and was prepared to go to significant lengths to ensure the deal went through.
The striker did not train last week as he waited for Villa to accept a bid. The Saudi Pro League club did not make the required offer and once he understood Watkins would not be involved in the preparation work, Emery did not consider him for the Brighton match. Without the injured Tammy Abraham and Brian Madjo, strikerless Villa were hammered and Emery did nothing in his media appearances to protect Watkins, who was then targeted by fans online.
To understand it all, we must rewind to a sliding doors moment for Villa and Watkins — Boxing Day, 2024. In the previous three league games, Emery had picked the chaotic but brilliant Jhon Duran ahead of Watkins and the Colombian scored in all three.
Heading into that match at Newcastle, it looked as though Duran had become Emery's No1
Why a split for Villa and Watkins could be best for both parties
striker. Villa knew Arsenal were chasing a forward and had an interest in Watkins, a boyhood Gunners fan.
Then Duran was given a straight red card at Newcastle and when he completed his ban, Emery did not feel his form or attitude merited a return to the team. Al Nassr offered £70m for Duran and Villa decided to cut their losses on a player who was proving difficult to manage.
Villa were unwilling to sell both forwards in the same window and
Watkins was denied his dream move to Arsenal, whose offers never hit Villa's £65m valuation. The forward was disappointed but Emery said: 'Now we need him, like he needed Aston Villa.'
Emery has lost Youri Tielemans, Morgan Rogers, Lucas Digne and Ezri Konsa this summer and wanted a few senior men to stick with him to build the new era.
Usually, the Spaniard does not stand in a player's way if he wants to depart, but this one felt more personal.
CONTRASTING POSITIONS WATKINS is the top client at Two Touch, the agency run by former Arsenal youngster Paolo Vernazza. Watkins' move to Al Hilal would likely be one of Two Touch's biggest deals and Villa are unhappy with how Vernazza has handled it. Were Vernazza to have his time again, he might do things differently too. Daily Mail Sport has tried to contact the 46-year-old since Sunday, but he has yet to respond.
Watkins is thought to earn a little more than £100,000-a-week at Villa, yet the salary proposed by Al Hilal is understood to be substantially more. Watkins has also seen Konsa, 28, join Arsenal for roughly the same sum Villa want from Al Hilal. Watkins turns 31 in December and if he believed Villa's asking price was too high for a player his age, you could understand it. Not surprisingly, Villa saw it differently.
Under Emery, Watkins has developed into one of the best strikers in Europe. The manager has continuously backed him and was rewarded when he hit 12 goals in 13 games at the end of the season to force his way into England's World Cup squad.
With two forwards injured, Emery needed Watkins at Brighton. No wonder he was ticking before the pre-match interviews. 'Silence!' hissed Emery when asked by Sky Sports' Johnny Phillips about Watkins' absence. With Emery, the less he says, often the angrier he is.
He looked a man on the edge at the Amex, where he argued with the fourth official far more than usual, grew irritable with the opposing bench and stalked down the tunnel at full-time without shaking Albion boss Fabian Hurzeler's hand. Emery and Hurzeler are not best mates, but the reaction was still telling.
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?
A YEAR ago, it looked as though Emi Martinez had played his final game for Villa. Desperate to move to Manchester United or Atletico Madrid, he was left out for a home defeat by Crystal Palace.
The goalkeeper is still trying to get out, though he knuckled down last season and helped the club win the Europa League. With Watkins, though, that has looked tricky since Sunday. Whatever the future holds, he has a huge job winning over Villa fans again. The reality is that there were signs last season that Watkins was in decline. A new deal may not have been the best thing for either party.
If Nicolas Jackson comes in, Villa have a striker with potential who can score goals. Emery likes him, having had him at Villarreal. Villa have also made an enquiry to Bayer Leverkusen for 20-year-old striker Christian Kofane. However, at this stage Leverkusen do not wish to sell.
Either way, Villa need Watkins' future sorted before they meet Arsenal at Villa Park on Monday.
United's Bruno voted Player of the Year by his fellow stars
BRUNO FERNANDES has been named PFA Players' Player of the Year after breaking the Premier League record for the most assists in one season. The Manchester United captain passed the mark of 20, jointly held by Thierry Henry and Kevin De Bruyne, when he set up Patrick Dorgu's header against Brighton on the final day. Fernandes has already won the Premier League Player of the Season and the Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year accolades, and completed the hat-trick at Manchester's Opera House last night. The Portugal midfielder was the only United player to make the PFA Premier League team of the year. David Raya, Gabriel, William Saliba, Jurrien Timber and Declan Rice made up a heavy Arsenal contingent, while Nico O'Reilly, Rayan Cherki, Antoine Semenyo and Erling Haaland represented Manchester City. Brentford's Igor Thiago completed the XI. O'Reilly also won Men's Young Player of the Year and Hayden Hackney was Championship Player of the Year after shining for Middlesbrough. City's Bunny Shaw was named Women's Players' Player of the Year.
TARA ANSON-WALSH
SPORT IN BRIEF
| IPSWICH....(0) 3Walle 62Nunez 71, 90 | LEICESTER....(0) 1Aluko 67 |
| NOTTM FOREST....(0) 0 | LEEDS....(0) 2James 50Justin 75 |
| PLYMOUTH....(1) 2Irow 21Amaechi 54 | COVENTRY....(2) 4Awoniyi 3Rudoni 5Mason-Clark 67Overgaard 78 (pen) |
| SHEFF WED....(0) 0 | WOLVES....(2) 2 |
| SOUTHAMPTON....(1) 1STEVENAGE....(0) 0 | WEST HAM....(1) 4READING....(2) 3 |
| STOKE....(1) 1Bozenik 39(Hull win 5-4 on penalties) | HULL....(1) 1Dowell 45 |
| WALSALL....(0) 0(Leyton Orient win 6-5 on penalties) | LEYTON ORIENT....(0) 0 |
| WATFORD....(0) 1 | PETERBORO....(2) 5 |
CYCLING
VUELTA A ESPANA — Stage 4 (Andorra La Vella - Andorra La Vella, 104.8km): 1 T Pogacar (Slo) UAE Team Emirates-XRG 2h 40m 35s, 2 J Widar (Bel) Lotto-Intermarche +2m 39s, 3 F Gall (Aut) Decathlon CMA CGM Team, 4 O Onley (GB) Netcompany INEOS Cycling Team, 5 S Kuss (US) Team Visma | Lease a Bike, 6 E Mas (Sp) Movistar Team, 7 P Roglic (Slo)
Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe at same time, 8 R Carapaz (Ecu) + 2:57, 9 M Skjelmose (Den) Lidl-Trek +3:17, 10 G Muhlberger (Aut) at same time. Overall: 1 T Pogacar (Slo) UAE Team Emirates-XRG 7h 38m 59s, 2 P Roglic (Slo) Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe +3m 21s, 3 E Mas (Sp) Movistar Team +3:32, 4 S Kuss (US) Team Visma | Lease a Bike +3:44, 5 O Onley (GB) Netcompany INEOS Cycling Team +3:45, 6 R Carapaz (Ecu) EF Education-EasyPost +3:50, 7 F Gall (Aut) Decathlon CMA CGM Team +3:57, 8 M Skjelmose (Den) Lidl-Trek +4:06, 9 J Widar (Bel) Lotto-Intermarche at same time, 10 J Vine (Aus) UAE Team Emirates-XRG +4:11.
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Everton should go all out to win cup for the man who bled blue
by Ian Herbert
A STATISTIC flying around about Everton being the only club in the 92 to have neither won a trophy, a title, nor been promoted since the turn of the century has contributed to a pessimism which made a gathering of the club's faithful on Friday evening very welcome.
The occasion, at the Denbigh Castle pub, a legendary meeting place for Evertonians in central Liverpool, celebrated the former Toffees captain Mike Lyons, whose life and career have been charted in a fine new book.
The aching sadness underlying an occasion in which Lyons' former colleagues related stories of the indefatigable, generous and hugely talented team-mate they knew and loved, is that the man in question is struggling now and could not be there.
His daughter Francesca, who lives near Liverpool and calls him every day at the care home in Perth, Australia, where he is living with dementia, reminds him how cherished he is among fans. Lyons, 74, knew that the
Knows about the book, The Man Who Bled Blue, a meticulously researched and beautifully written biography by the author and journalist Simon Hart. But his brain has frayed terribly. His family and friends have helped Hart piece together the life story.
He would certainly empathise with today's fans who yearn for silverware and not least the League Cup, which sends the team to Preston, David Moyes' old club, tonight.
Everton were reigning English champions when Lyons (above) made his debut in April 1971. Yet his 11 years as an Everton player did not yield him a single honour. Liverpool won 15 in that time. By 1982 Lyons was on his way to Sheffield Wednesday, missing by a couple of years the start of a glorious era when Everton won two league titles, the FA Cup and the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup.
Had Lyons been at Friday's event, talk would inevitably have turned to the League Cup — and his role in Everton's marathon final against Aston Villa in 1977, won by Villa in a second replay at Old Trafford. It was the closest Lyons ever came to silverware with the Toffees.
Evertonians still remember the intensity of his celebration when he equalised in front of the Stretford End. 'Michael was more animated there than at any
Lyon heart: Ex-Everton captain Lyons was always fully committed REX
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other goal he scored,' his brother, Joe, tells
Hart in the book (to his family, Lyons has always been 'Michael').
Fatefully, he was then asked to push up as a utility centre forward as Everton chased a winner — it’s a strategy still known as ‘Doing a Mike Lyons’ among Evertonians — and a hole materialised at the back which Villa exploited to score a late winner in a 3-2 victory. In the seclusion of the car on the way home, Lyons wept.
The first replay, a thrilling 1-1 draw at Hillsborough rescued by a late Bob Latchford goal, would remain one of Lyons' favourite nights of his career. He later described the noise made by Evertonians that night as 'something I'll always treasure. It embodied everything I've always felt for this club'.
The biography's title, alongside an image of Lyons with a gashed face after Everton's 1980 FA Cup semi-final defeat by West Ham, captures his contribution.
‘He would have died for Everton,’ said his manager Gordon Lee, who declared he wanted ‘Eleven Mike Lyonses.’
The book's beauty also resides in its small details, capturing the boundless enthusiasm and comic innocence which accompanied Lyons' huge professionalism and work ethic. He drove a club issue Lada with his name emblazoned down the side.
He eschewed the posh Liverpool hair salon which the players attended in favour of team-mate Roger Kenyon's wife Jackie, a hairdresser. Mrs Kenyon and Lyons' wife Tricia were in such deep conversation in the Lyons' kitchen that the perm solution was left in the Everton captain's hair for too long. It was an absolute catastrophe.
You could have heard a pin drop in that Liverpool pub on Friday
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night when Francesca Lyons spoke in front of the 100 or so attendees. The consequences of her father's repeated heading of the ball are the same faced by so many old pros, full on, and Francesca has been an impressive advocate for football's need to do more for them.
There is a reason why the book's subtitle is ‘The Triumphs and Tragedy of Mike Lyons’.
The Villa captain in the 1977 final was Chris Nicholl, who lived with the form of dementia caused by repeated heading during his career before he passed away in 2024. But Friday evening was about the life-affirming qualities of a man who, Francesca insisted, would not have had his life any other way. 'He has always been so upbeat and fun,' she said. 'He would have probably laughed off all the attention because he's always been so humble.'
Moyes, who also loves the bones of Everton, understands Lyons' contribution. He visited him with assistant Billy McKinlay during a pre-season tour of Australia some time back.
The League Cup remains a competition Everton have never won. Lyons, who still watches the club's games from Perth, would smile to see them finally lift the trophy next March, 50 years on from that legendary three-game marathon against Villa.
- 'The Man Who Bled Blue, The Triumphs and Tragedy of Mike Lyons', by Simon Hart. Mount Vernon Publishing, £20.
JAMES SHARPE at the City Ground
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James 50 Justin 75
LIAM DELAP cannot arrive quickly enough for Nottingham Forest. Two games into Oliver Glasner's reign at the City Ground, two defeats against Leeds United and zero goals scored. Glasner started three strikers and they still couldn't find the net.
And so, for the second time in four days, Daniel Farke's team came to town and took full advantage of a side still trying to find their new identity. First for three points in the Premier League on Saturday, now for a place in the Carabao Cup third round.
Daniel James was afforded the freedom of West Bridgford all evening and fittingly gave Leeds the lead before Neco Williams bundled the ball into his own net, with the goal eventually credited to James Justin, to encapsulate his own torrid evening.
Forest once again looked stale and in desperate need of new blood. Thankfully, news emerged a few hours before kick-off that the club had agreed a club record fee of £45million, potentially rising to £50m, for the Chelsea striker. It is a remarkable whack for a player who scored just one Premier League goal last season.
Delap is by no means the first budding talent to be chewed up and spat out by Chelsea, but if Glasner can unleash the old-fashioned centre forward that thrived at Ipswich, he will be just what they need. Glasner likes a physical focal point, as he had at Palace in Jean-Philippe Mateta, to hold it all together and bring team-mates around him into play.
Forest still look better with Wood leading the line, but he is 35 in December and missed a huge chunk of last season with a knee injury. He had the best chances of the night for Forest, but couldn't take any of them. A sensational last-ditch tackle from Joe Rodon denied him after a neat nutmeg of Nico Elvedi left the striker with
Scramble: Justin forces the ball over the line to inflict another defeat on Glasner (inset) GETTY IMAGES
It's Groundhog Day for Glasner as Leeds fell Forest for second time
just James Trafford to beat. Wood had another fine chance in the second half, too, but couldn't beat Trafford from eight yards.
Trafford is starting to enjoy his football again, with two games since his £40m move from Manchester City and two clean sheets.
Forest are still getting used to playing in a back three and James repeatedly exploited the space behind Williams down the Leeds right. After 50 minutes, Williams bombed forward as Forest looked to attack, only for Arnaud Kalimuendo to give the ball away and leave Forest exposed. Longstaff returned the earlier favour and slipped in James, who had space to fire past Matz Sels before Williams could get back.
A quartet of changes on the hour gave Forest a bit of a boost and substitute Murillo played a beautiful cutting pass through to Nicolas Dominguez but, as is becoming a theme, the final product was not good enough.
Leeds' second, from Ethan Ampadu's long throw that caused complete chaos in the penalty area, summed it all up. It was given as an own goal but crossed the line via touches from Justin and Lukas Nmecha.
At least it was a better spectacle than four days ago. Neither side deserved to win that one. Leeds warranted every bit of their victory this time. The boos at full-time told you that.
NOTTM FOREST (3-4-2-1): Sels 6; Diomande 5.5 (Murillo 60min, 6), Cunha 6, Milenkovic 6.5; Aina 6 (Netz 61, 5.5), Schlager 6, Dominguez 6.5, Williams 5 (Hutchinson 79); Jesus 6 (Ndoye 60, 5.5), Kalimuendo 6.5 (Hudson-Odoi 60, 6); Wood 6.5. Booked: Schlager, Cunha, Murillo, Dominguez. Manager: Oliver Glasner 5. LEEDS (3-4-2-1): Trafford 7.5; Rodon 6.5, Elvedi 7, Muharemovic 7.5; JAMES 8.5 (Bogle 71, 6), Ampadu 7.5, Tanaka 6.5 (Stach 68, 6.5), Justin 8; Longstaff 7 (Wilson 67, 7), Okafor 6.5 (Aaronson 67, 6.5); Nmecha 7 (Calvert-Lewin 83). Scorers: James 50, Justin 75. Booked: Tanaka, Longstaff, Ampadu. Manager: Daniel Farke 6. Referee: Andrew Kitchen 7. Att: 24 542
GOALS THE NAME OF THE GAME FOR 'SAVIO'
By MATT BARLOW
ROBERTO DE ZERBI hailed Savinho as among the world's best one-on-one dribblers — but told Tottenham's new signing he must add goals to his game.
Spurs will pay Manchester City up to £85million for the Brazil international, 22, who wants to be known as Savio. He was named after Savio, the former Brazil and Real Madrid winger, but became known as Savinho, which means ‘Little Savio’. De Zerbi tried to sign the winger from French club Troyes when he managed Brighton, while Spurs have been chasing him for more than a year. ‘We need players capable to win one-on-ones, to create something, create chances to score,’ said De Zerbi. ‘In terms of the one-on-one he’s one of the best. He can play right or left side. He’s a big signing.’ Savio, who is eligible to play in the Carabao Cup second round visit of Charlton tonight, scored just two league goals in two years for City.
'To be complete he has to score,' De Zerbi. 'If you analyse the best wingers in the world, many of them score 10-15 goals per season. He has the qualities. Maybe he has to change habits because he has to be focused on the assists, the one-vs-one dribbling and also to score.' As for the delay in signing Savio, De Zerbi added: 'I'm not patient. We started the negotiations three days or a week after the Everton game [in May] and for many reasons he arrived in the last week of August.' Spurs are close to signing City's Omar Marmoush, initially on loan with an obligation to buy next year for £50m, while they are working on a deal for Cody Gakpo from Liverpool.
WHAT DEADLINE? CITY PLOTTING THEIR ENZO MOVE
■ MANCHESTER CITY are preparing their move for CHELSEA midfielder Enzo Fernandez in what could be the biggest Premier League transfer of the summer. City were given a deadline to offer £120m for Fernandez earlier this month which they allowed to pass knowing the cost would be higher. But they have maintained contact with his agent Javier Pastore. Chelsea would want a replacement, with BOURNEMOUTH'S Alex
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Scott and CRYSTAL PALACE'S Adam Wharton on their list. City are selling Nico Gonzalez to NEWCASTLE UNITED after settling on a £48m fee, with a further £4m in add-ons. The 25-year-old travelled up for his medical last night. City right back Issa Kabore is joining WREXHAM for £2m, while Omar Marmoush will complete his transfer to TOTTENHAM. ■ ARSENAL and Al Hilal are close to an agreement on a £57m deal for winger Gabriel
Martinelli. The fee for the Brazilian will include add-ons. The 25-year-old is discussing personal terms.
■ TOTTENHAM have asked about NOTTINGHAM FOREST full back Neco Williams, but he is expected to stay at the City Ground. Forest are in talks over a £13.6m move for Corinthians midfielder Andre. The 20-year-old only made his league debut a year ago, but has quickly established himself as one of the best young midfield talents in Brazi. Forest winger Dilane Bakwa is joining Lille on loan.
■ IPSWICH TOWN are finalising a £23.5m deal for Bayer Leverkusen midfielder Exequiel Palacios. The 27-year-old has agreed a four-year contract. Ipswich want £9m for midfielder Anis Mehmeti, who has offers from WREXHAM, BIRMINGHAM and DERBY.
■ MANCHESTER UNITED forward Chido Obi Martin has emerged as a loan target for Feyenoord. United have confirmed the £70m arrival of BRIGHTON midfielder Carlos Baleba. The Seagulls, meanwhile, have completed the £10m signing of left back Jaouen Hadjam of Young Boys. ■ BRENTFORD are continuing discussions with WEST HAM for left wing back El Hadji Malick Diouf. The Senegal international joined last summer from Slavia Prague for £19m, but had an indifferent season. Olympiacos have made an offer to take Hammers defensive midfielder Edson Alvarez on loan. The Mexican also has interest from Real Sociedad and Ajax. ■ Napoli are continuing talks with CHELSEA for Marc Guiu, while Blues defender Mamadou Sarr is joining Real Sociedad on loan. Chelsea have asked about Atalanta defensive prospect Honest Ahanor, 18.
■ ASTON VILLA starlet Tommi O'Reilly is joining DONCASTER on a season-long loan.
■ WIGAN are set to sign CRYSTAL PALACE goalkeeper Joe Whitworth on a free with a sell-on percentage.
■ PRESTON striker Milutin Osmajic has signed for Genoa.
ROOT'S RADAR CLUTTERED BY BOOZE BOTHER, SPIN VOID AND GAY DOUBTS
ENGLAND'S first Test victory over Pakistan at Headingley was a welcome win after only two in the previous 10 games. But they still have questions to answer going into tomorrow's second Test at Lord's. Daily Mail Sport looks at five of the most urgent issues.
CAN THEY RIDE OUT THE LATEST FIASCO?
RECENT precedent is not encouraging. After Ben Stokes and Gus Atkinson visited the Rex Rooms in Chelsea following the first Test win over New Zealand at Lord's in June, England disintegrated, losing a three-match home series from 1–0 up for the first time ever.
Yesterday, two days before they attempt to win their first Test series since summer 2024, Joe Root spent almost the entirety of his 24-minute press conference addressing Brydon Carse's arrest in Derby on Saturday night.
The captain spoke for the whole of the ECB when he said he was ‘hacked off’, but two factors are in England’s favour as they seek to avoid another meltdown.
First, the latest shenanigans will not deprive them of any first-choice players.
In the second Test against New Zealand at the Oval, by contrast, they fielded a side in
By LAWRENCE BOOTH
Cricket Correspondent
which five players boasted a total of two caps.
Second, Pakistan are weaker than New Zealand, losing nine of their last 10 Tests on their travels. Sections of their media have taken offence at the suggestion that this is the weakest Pakistan team to visit here for 50 years, but no-one has yet come up with an alternative answer.
HAS GAY NAILED DOWN HIS SPOT YET?
EMILIO GAY had an impressive debut after replacing Zak Crawley as opener, making 57 — the highest innings of the match — in the low-scoring first Test against New Zealand at Lord's, then adding 53 in the first innings at the Oval.
Three failures were followed by a good looking 33 off 31 balls against Pakistan at Headingley, but the 26-year-old's dismissal — squared up by Mohammad Ali before edging to second slip — hinted at a technical weakness outside off stump.
Six of his seven dismissals have been catches in the cordon. While one was a leg-side strangle, a pattern is emerging. Gay deserves the chance to build on those two fifties, but his Durham colleague Ben McKinney lies in wait.
CAN COX MAKE IT TRICKY FOR SELECTORS?
INITIALLY chosen as a stand-in No3 while Jacob Bethell recovers from a knee injury, Cox hit 73 last week against Pakistan, batting with the swagger that earned him an IPL contract with Royal Challengers Bengaluru. He later chastised himself for spurning a maiden Test hundred — music to England's ears.
It seems inconceivable that England will not return to Bethell for the Test series in South Africa this winter, but Cox could yet stake a claim for the No6 spot currently occupied by Dan Lawrence, or even for the wicket-keeper's gloves.
It was behind the stumps that he would have made his Test debut in New Zealand in late
'We're not portraying ourselves how we want to'
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swiftly followed by his 'de-arrest', outside Molly Malone's Irish Tavern. And Root urged his team to use the latest incident to put a raft of adverse headlines behind them — from Harry Brook's set-to with a bouncer in Wellington, to Ben Duckett's misadventure in Noosa, via Ben Stokes and Gus Atkinson's late-night drink in Chelsea's Rex Rooms.
'Clearly we are not portraying ourselves how we want to and I think we have an opportunity to build a culture that is very strong, that we can be proud of, that is player-driven,' said Root. 'Of course, that isn't going to happen overnight.
'In many ways, we are going to have to earn a lot of trust back. It's something we are going to have to live and breathe, consistently. I've made it very clear to the players what is expected of them, how we want to conduct ourselves, and over time we've got to show people what I see on a day-to-day basis in the dressing room — the characters we have, and how much they care about playing for England, and not having isolated incidents be how we are seen as a group of players. I'm not trying to
sit here and ask people to be saints. Everyone's going to make mistakes at the odd time.
‘But it’s understanding where we currently sit and what’s expected of England players. ‘We’ve had a very robust discussion and I think there’s real clarity there.
'I can understand why we are viewed in a certain way at the moment. We have a responsibility and opportunity to change that.' Asked whether England's players had to be more careful about being goaded by members of the public, Test captain Root replied: 'I just think if we don't put ourselves in certain situations, it's not something we will have to worry about.'
Questions: Gay in the nets and (above) Archer and Atkinson PA
2024, only to break a thumb shortly before the series began. The option is on the table.
SO, IS SMITH UNDER PRESSURE THEN?
JAMIE SMITH is among a group of players whose reputation is yet to recover from the Ashes. The wicketkeeper has had his moments this summer, making a crucial 39 against New Zealand at Lord's and top-scoring with 60 in the second innings at Trent Bridge — though by then the game and the series were gone.
Bad headlines: Root speaks yesterday and (above) Carse's altercation in Derby PA
But he missed a chance to impose himself on the Pakistan bowling at Headingley, tamely miscuing a pull to mid-on, and has now made 364 runs at 20 since scoring 51 against India at Lord's last summer.
Smith recently told Daily Mail Sport he has found it painful watching his batting average slump — it has just fallen below 40 for the first time since his second Test.
His glovework remains fine, but he needs to prove he has ironed out his technical flaws, especially against the short ball and the nipbacker.
ARE ENGLAND ANY CLOSER TO A SPIN SOLUTION?
NOT really. Shoaib Bashir is in the squad, but — with apologies to Lawrence — the lack of a genuine all-rounder means England cannot squeeze him in.
England still seem lukewarm about the leg-spin of Rehan Ahmed, even though his batting would strengthen the lower order, but they will also argue there is no great urgency to resolve the issue.
Spin is unlikely to play a central role in South Africa, nor in next summer's Ashes.
It will be an issue in the two-Test series in Bangladesh in between, but those games are low on England's list of priorities.
How Lord's are trying to tackle the pitch problem Turf gurus, relaying strips and 'grey water' being used at HQ
By LAWRENCE BOOTH
Pressure: all eyes are on the Lord's pitch this week GETTY IMAGES
Cricket Correspondent
THERE will be an intake of breath when the second Test between England and Pakistan gets under way at Lord's tomorrow morning.
Back in early June, the Test there against New Zealand began with a delivery from Matt Henry that kept low outside Ben Duckett's off stump and bounced twice on the way to wicketkeeper Tom Blundell.
After England won a low scoring shootout in which three of the four innings failed to reach 150, MCC apologised for the surface. Two days later, the ICC labelled it ‘unsatisfactory’ and slapped Lord’s with an unprecedented demerit point.
The home of cricket scolded by the authorities? It was as if the parish vicar had been overheard using profanities in the vestibule. 'It was a hard couple of days,' says Rob Lynch, MCC director of cricket and operations. 'It hurt, but we put our hands up straightaway.'
Lynch calls the Lord's pitch 'the most scrutinised 22 yards in world sport'. But his acceptance that the surface for the New Zealand game was not up to scratch might have been on behalf of the entire English game, with groundstaff struggling to combat a summer of heatwaves and a fixture list that has grown beyond reason.
There are exceptions. Headingley received widespread praise for the pitch it produced for last week's first Test, while the Oval regularly provides the pace and bounce England craved under Brendon McCullum.
But a more typical response came last summer after England lost to India at Edgbaston. Ben Stokes chose to bowl first in the expectation of early assistance for his seamers, but instead watched India rack up 587. He complained: 'It ended up being more of a subcontinent pitch.'
At stake, then, is not simply the question of home advantage, which England — traditionally the home of grey skies, green pitches, seam and swing — are in danger of ceding, but the ability of overworked groundstaff to come up with surfaces that simultaneously please players, pundits, spectators and executives.
Three major problems have fed English cricket's pitch crisis.
The first is sheer volume, with the advent of the Hundred and the growth of the women's game adding to the workload. Of the 20 pitches on the Lord's square, only seven can be used for televised games and only five for major matches. Sooner or later, something has to give.
The second is county cricket's centralisation. The outgrounds which once eased the pressure on county HQs play less of a role than they once did, as clubs look to cut costs by focusing on their main venue.
Then there is the drought, which has been a nightmare for groundstaff, unsure how best to balance the traditional skills of watering and rolling pitches.
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Preparation at Lord's for the New Zealand Test faced two extremes in the build-up — a heatwave followed by torrential rain. The usual calculations went out of the window.
It was notable that July's one-day international against India was preceded by calmer weather. Karl McDermott, the Lord's head groundsman, produced a belter on which 747 runs were scored in 100 overs for the loss of 10 wickets.
Trent Bridge, meanwhile, which staged the third Test of the New Zealand series, started so dry that cracks were visible beneath the early coating of grass. Two days before the game, McCullum was praying England won the toss. They did not, and went on to lose the series.
Perhaps the most sobering aspect of the Lord's drama was that it was no great surprise and merely fortified Lynch's belief that something had to be done. A seven-point plan was drawn up and MCC are now at the forefront of tackling the problem. They have brought in turf management experts, including Blair Christiansen, who is in charge of Auckland's Eden Park but was also FIFA's pitch manager for the World Cup final in New Jersey.
They are cultivating drop-in pitches, hoping to use one for an international match in 2029, and now use Wormsley — an hour's drive from St John's Wood up the M40 — to host around 35 days of cricket a year. They are also making enhanced use of data to look at factors such as moisture levels and will begin a painstaking relaying process of some of the central pitches, starting by digging up the New Zealand strip, which takes it out of action for at least two years.
‘No two people were hurting more than Karl and me,’ says Lynch. ‘We feel the pressure. If we didn’t, we’d be in the wrong job.’
Neil Snowball, ECB managing director of competitions and major events, admits the problem risks generating ‘18 different answers’ from counties.
But he says the ECB are planning to give host grounds between seven and nine clear days before each Ashes Test next summer to aid preparation and are encouraging clubs to make more use of outgrounds.
As for the UK's ever hotter summers, water management is high on the agenda, with bore holes, underground storage and ‘grey water’ (non-drinking water) all part of the discussion.
For all MCC's good intentions, they will not breathe easily until this week's Test goes by without too much scrutiny of those troublesome 22 yards.
Sir Billy Boston, rugby's humble superstar
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HACKED OFF!
Root fumes at 'stupid' Carse over arrest at nightclub
By LAWRENCE BOOTH at Lord's
JOE ROOT has said he is ‘hacked off’ by Brydon Carse’s arrest in Derby on Saturday night and frustrated that England’s cricketers ‘keep making stupid mistakes away from the game’.
Carse, who was handcuffed by police for being drunk and disorderly outside a nightclub after celebrating Durham's win over Derbyshire in the County Championship, has since apologised to Root and — according to the captain — ‘understands his actions’.
But Root could not hide his irritation about having to address another alcohol-related incident, only two days before the start of the crucial second Test against Pakistan at Lord's.
‘If I’m being brutally honest, I’m really hacked off,’ he said. ‘I’m really disappointed that, after last week’s performance at Headingley, we’re sat here talking about something that is not related to it at all.
'I've spoken to Brydon and when I first found out my first concern was him as a person. I don't think I'm speaking out of turn in saying he's very upset, very apologetic and understands his actions. I'm sure when he gets his chance he will say that himself.'
'It's not the isolated incident itself, it's the fact we continuously keep making stupid mistakes away from the game and it's detracting from what we're doing on the field.'
Carse, who was part of England's 16-man squad for the first two Tests, will miss the game at Lord's while the Cricket Regulator investigates the events that led to his arrest,
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CHELSEA are closing in on a staggering £115million double sale, having agreed a £50m deal for Liam Delap to join Nottingham Forest and talks progressing over Nicolas Jackson's move to Aston Villa for £65m.
Delap is in line to leave after only one season. He scored one Premier League goal in 28 games and three in 47 in all competitions.
Jackson's transfer to Villa could unlock a deal for Ollie Watkins, the striker who is wanted by Al Hilal in Saudi Arabia. He missed Villa's 4-0 loss at Brighton on Sunday. Sources say Villa have put a proposal to Chelsea over meeting their £65m valuation. Jackson is keen on reuniting with his old Villarreal boss Unai Emery. Both players missed the 3-2 win at Fulham on Monday and have been training separately to Xabi Alonso's main group.
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TravelSupermarket has added up the cost of family holidays on islands like Ibiza, Menorca, Majorca, Skiathos and Sicily versus similar breaks on the mainland.
It turns out it's almost always cheaper on the mainland. This summer's island premium for Ibiza compared to the Costa Blanca was over £1,300 a week for a family of four. For Menorca and Majorca versus the Costa Brava and Costa Dorada it topped £600. For a Greek island like Skiathos versus Halkidiki the latest price gap is £700.
Sicily is the only island that's cheaper than resorts on the mainland, working out far better value than the Amalfi coast to the north. And Sicily is full of treasures, from Mount Etna's vineyards to the Teatro Massimo in Palermo and the White Lotus hotel in Taormina.
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The second lesson is that any holiday is better than none. That's why travel agents say four-day breaks are now almost as popular as full weeks. Until recently operators would charge more for non-standard' getaways.
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Day 6 Philipsburg, St. Maarten Day 8 Road Town, Tortola
Day 9 - St. John's, Antigua (overnight) Day 10 With over 365 beaches, there is a slice of
Day 10 With over 365 beaches, there is white sand heaven for every day of the year on this idyllic Caribbean Island. St. John's is a vibrant hub for shopping as well as being within easy range of some of the best beaches – at Fort James, Deep Bay, Galley Bay and Hawksbill
Day 12 Castries, St. Lucia
Day 13 St. George's, Grenada
Day 15 Bridgetown, Barbados Disembark and transfer to the airport for your overnight flight to London
Day 16 Arrive in London
Days not mentioned are spent relaxing at sea. Itinerary is based on 4 $^{th}$ December 2026 departure and ports of call may vary on other dates
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30 Bars & Restaurants
8 Entertainment Venues
4 Swimming Pools
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A world of culinary delights
On Arvia, your every craving is catered to. From family favourites to world-class cuisines inspired by your voyage, with so many restaurants included in the price, you'll be spoilt for choice. There are also chic speciality restaurants for those who want that wow-factor dining experience.
Dazzling entertainment day and night
Experience world-class entertainment on Arvia. From big-name acts to dazzling acrobats, there's a show, performance or activity to suit everyone. Laugh, sing and dance under the retractable SkyDome, catch captivating performances in the Grand Atrium or enjoy live music and have a drink in the 710 club.
Your serene sanctuary at sea
Unwind and recharge in Arvia's serene spaces. Treat yourself to a luxurious pampering session at the Oasis Spa $^{x}$ , or find peace under the open sky at The Retreat.
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PARADISE PLUS: Anantara Kihavah Maldives Villas sits on a private island
Here's why you'll never get bored on these picture-perfect islands
T'S ALL change in the Maldives as the islands spend big money to attract families, friends and thrill-seekers alongside the
honeymooners and happy couples.
Choose the right resort and you can now expect an ever-expanding range of sports and high adrenaline activities in the sun. Alongside snorkelling, scuba and candle-lit spa sessions you can now hit the padel court, e-bike trail or climbing wall. Adults can head to the golf course or driving range while kids try coconut bowling and an inflatable water park.
AMAZING VIEWS
The excitement begins early on Maldives holidays, as transfers from the airport are arranged on speedboats or sea planes. Both give amazing views of rich-blue waters and strings of Robinson Crusoe-style islands. Recent guests on boat transfers say they saw dolphins within minutes of setting off.
MILES OF SAND
A bigger option for families is Siyam World where guests can spread out across some 6km of sandy coastline or swim in any of four pools.
Siyam World is the place for the first floating water park in the Maldives, while guided snorkel safaris reveal the best of nearby reefs. Another unexpected feature is the full-sized football pitch. Can't rustle up 22 people for a full game? Staff can arrange family-friendly futsal matches with just a handful of people on the pitch.
Kids clubs offer everything from leaf art to pizza making while the Not for Kidz club aims entertainment at older teens, with beach parties, live DJs and fire shows after dark. Check out the colourful Kandima resort with its art studio, aerial yoga sessions and photography studio. The island is home to escape rooms, an electric go-kart track and 24-hour fitness centre.
Another resort liked by our Maldives experts is luxurious Anantara Kihavah. Recent guests liked the cosmic cocktails and guided star-gazing from the over-water observatory. Underwater dining in a glass-walled room set 6m below the waves is another wow.
Golfers will love the Kuredu resort. With just six holes you won't be playing all day. But there is also a driving range, putting green and pro shop. Kureda also offers guided night snorkelling, shipwreck dives and family-friendly turtle searches.
Lux South Ari Atoll resort is close to the Indian Ocean's ‘shark channel’ – a top spot for year-round sightings of whale sharks, which you can see accompanied by a marine biologist.
And don't overlook smaller islands. The boutique Makunudu resort is one to consider if you want to avoid crowds. There are 30 beachfront bungalows, great windsurfing, locals ready to take guests fishing, and heritage sails on the resort's traditional riyaa dhoni boat.
But which resort to choose? We asked holiday experts for their recommendations on the best places for families and active travellers. In the process they sifted through well over a hundred resorts, each with their own character and most set on their own private island.
A good-value option on offer with Tui and others is the Reethi Faru resort. The water-sports centre offers all the gear you need to snorkel or dive round the house reef and beyond. It's also the place for windsurfing, canoeing or paddleboarding – as well as jetpacking, flyboarding or underwater scooter riding.
Back on the private island there are yoga classes, tennis and basketball courts, a gym-with-a-view and spa.
SOMETHING FOR ALL: Reethi Faru has great water sports (above); Siyam World Maldives has 6km of sandy coastline (right)
There's a growing range of sports and adrenaline activities to enjoy in the sun
THE INFO
Direct flights from the UK to the Maldives capital of Male take around 10.5 hours with airlines including British Airways and Virgin Atlantic; or break the journey with Etihad, Qatar, Turkish Airlines and others. It's an all-year destination and package deals include transfers to individual islands, by boat or seaplane. Most resorts are all-inclusive, making it easier to stick to a holiday budget.
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■ Alaska is popular for mainstream cruises. So why choose an expedition cruise?
Mainstream cruises skim the surface: expeditions with HX go deeper, with authenticity, education and responsible travel. We bypass the usual tourist ports to visit small Alaskan communities few see. On an expedition you don't just look at a glacier; you discuss retreat rates with a guide specialising in glaciology. In our Science Centres, guests can help collect data, identifying plankton or logging whale sightings. You contribute to scientific studies while you travel.
- You have specialised in Alaska for a decade. What's the appeal? It is a stunning, fascinating destination and a land of obvious contrasts. On an HX expedition you can see rainforests and tundra, glaciers and volcanoes, Russian Orthodox churches next to traditional Alutiiq ciqlluaq homes.
Sam Imes, Alaska Expedition Product Planner at HX Expeditions, on culture, community engagement and salmon candy
GETTING CLOSER: expeditions take you deeper, into the heart of the real Alaska
■ Do guests get close to the local communities?
Absolutely. Community partnerships are central to us and we constantly seek new ones. HX has recently become the first expedition line and commercial cruise line to call on the Alutiiq community of Old Harbor. It's an example of our ability to reach places few experience. Our guests can learn from Alaska's most authentic source: the cultural bearers themselves.
- Other joys of local engagement? There's the accumulation of traditional knowledge woven through daily life, learning to take only what is needed and use all that is taken. Guests might watch sea otter hides turned into clothing and tools, whale bones transformed into implements, and porcupine quills worked into jewellery.
■ Top Alaska memory?
I love the landscapes and wildlife but my passion is the culture. On a recent scouting trip to Southeast Alaska, I drank coffee with the mayor, visited a students' greenhouse and learnt the medicinal uses of devil's club at a school. We ate salmon candy in a cafe and toured a cannery being restored as a community centre. I can't wait for our guests to experience this too.
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ABTA Travel with confidence ABTA No.Y6328
O HEAD north to the Arctic waters and wild landscapes of Greenland is the ultimate adventure. Here, untamed nature takes centre stage, with
icy peaks, winding fjords and colossal glaciers. Polar bears roam and humpback whales breach frigid waters.
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But while nature may reign supreme, close-knit communities will invite you to discover more about Inuit culture and experience their traditions.
For 130 years, award-winning HX Expeditions has taken curious travellers to the world's most remote locations. Today, its purpose-built premium expedition ships let you sail in the wake of the world's greatest explorers, combining adventure with informal luxury, incredible gastronomy and memorable local encounters.
And if you book your all-inclusive expedition cruise by August 31, you can unlock a 20 per cent discount or a free suite upgrade.
LED BY NATURE
Exploring with HX means letting nature lead the way. Your voyage follows planned routes, but nature takes the lead, with your journey adapting to wildlife sightings or perhaps the majestic view of a glacier calving.
Nimble Zodiacs can set off at a moment's notice. They launch from the main ship and take you to the water's edge, to land on unspoilt shores.
Hike rugged landscapes and explore the colourful capital (one of the world's smallest), soak in hot springs beneath pristine snowy mountains and paddle a kayak through fjords where the original qajaq was invented thousands of years ago.
HX has strong connections with local communities. In some, you may be invited into homes for a strong coffee in a kaffemik social gathering, learn about traditional dress and
Set sail to discover the icy wilderness and warm welcome of Greenland... on the ultimate expedition cruise
listen to local music. Choose from itineraries of between 10 and 21 days, exploring the wild western fringes of the Greenland coast or wend your way through the intricate fjords of the east. For a complete Arctic adventure, combine your trip with stops in Iceland or Svalbard.
Your expedition ship is a home from home, with an intimate, informal atmosphere. You'll make friends with other passengers and be inspired at the Science Centre, where guest scientists and expert guides help you analyse marine samples, host workshops and bring the Arctic to life.
Mindful exploration is at the heart of every voyage. HX's state-of-the-art hybrid ships lead the industry in sustainability, cutting heavy fuel oils and single-use plastics to protect the fragile ecosystems you visit.
HOME IN THE WILD: friendly villages call these epic landscapes home (top); their rich culinary heritage arrives on your plate (right)
CULINARY VOYAGE
The adventure continues on your plate. Your all-inclusive journey means delicious food and drinks available all day long. And there's a unique culinary programme for Greenland voyages, showcasing the rich heritage and cuisine of the indigenous communities. You'll taste your way through the flavours of the Arctic, with rotating local guest chefs and a menu overseen by renowned Greenlandic chef Inunnguaq Hegelund.
This year is the 130th anniversary of HX's first voyage into the wild, and you can still experience a genuine
adventure in a pristine wilderness. This is a place where the magnificent scale of nature is on display, alongside the warmth of the small communities that call these epic landscapes home.
Previous guests have shared how their voyages with HX have changed them. 'I felt like a true explorer,' said Anne, from Hampshire. While Richard from Bristol said: 'Greenland makes you realise how small you are.'
Mindful exploration
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Just like the childhood seaside holidays you remember... but even more fun
OME seaside arrivals stir the memory before the suitcase is unpacked. At Bowleaze Cove, the sweep of Weymouth
Bay, the tang of salt in the air and the promise of fish and chips by the water recall childhood holidays.
Yet this is nostalgia with a polished edge: a retreat where family fun meets contemporary accommodation, thoughtful facilities and gentle luxury, all within easy reach of one of Dorset's most appealing seaside towns.
Set on a beautiful stretch of the Jurassic Coast, with direct beach access, the park makes excellent use of its location. Weymouth's seafront is close enough for an easy outing: a golden sweep of pale sand, calm shallow waters and classic British
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seaside character along the bay. Its Georgian terraces, bustling Esplanade and brightly painted Jubilee Clock add heritage and theatre; traditional amusements, ice creams, harbour-front seafood and views towards the pier make the town both lively and timeless.
That closeness is part of Bowleaze Cove's appeal. Guests can dip into Weymouth whenever the mood strikes, wandering towards the working harbour, exploring Nothe Fort or following the promenade as the bay catches the light. Equally, the park is complete enough that no day has to be planned around leaving it. Families can stay put, let things unfold at an easier pace and still feel they have
made the most of the coast. The result is freedom without pressure: scenic, convenient and self-contained.
Almost everything a family might need is on hand, from grocery shop to bars, restaurants and a proper fish-and-chip takeaway. Activities are plentiful. Younger guests can move between play parks or mini jet skis and Aqua Jets in the pool, while archery and Segway sessions bring adventure on dry land.
to unwind, settle around a board game or curl up with a film or book.
The brand-new Arena is the resort's social heart, whatever the weather. Booth seating, screens for live sport and sliding doors opening towards the outdoor pool create a flexible hub for meals, drinks and entertainment.
Darts, shuffleboard and pool encourage good-natured competition, making it useful for an afternoon diversion, or as a gathering place once the beach towels have been put away. Various dining options are available but the standout is Drift Bar & Grill, where a broader menu comes with panoramic views across Weymouth Bay towards Portland.
For quieter hours, the spa changes the tempo. A hydrotherapy pool, rain shower and treatment rooms provide an indulgent pause between busier family moments. Energetic days can be balanced with grown-up calm.
MAKE NEW MEMORIES: comfortable contemporary accommodation at Bowleaze Cove (top); family fun awaits as you head down to the shore (above)
THE CATCH OF THE DAY
MASTER: Ben Champkin at work in his kitchen
Venture into Weymouth for the evening and enjoy a real treat. Catch is in a Grade II-listed former fish market on the quay. This intimate restaurant looks over the harbour, where much of its seafood is landed before being transformed into beautifully judged dishes.
Chef-patron Ben Champkin builds the menu around owner-operated day boats, which use sustainable fishing methods such as rod and line, static nets and pots.
The result is laid-back, unpretentious but quietly exceptional: a tasting menu with paired wines that feels special without being stiff. Expect delicate seafood, clever contrasts of texture and seasoning, and plates that subtly make the most of every ingredient.
To book, visit catchatheold fishmarket.com/reservations or call 01305 590555. (Only children over 12 are allowed)
OFF TO THE BEACH
Those after a bigger thrill can head out by kayak or paddleboard, or venture to nearby Portland for climbing and coasteering. With organised activities and evening entertainment, families can spend time together without every age group doing exactly the same thing. It creates the space for a holiday to feel genuinely relaxing.
And forget any lingering image of the old-fashioned holiday park. Choices range from practical Classic holiday homes to premium stays and Luxury Lodges at The Stables, with hot tubs and dog-friendly options. Signature accommodation is clean, spacious and smartly finished, combining the freedom of self-catering with the comfort of a stylish retreat. After a full day, it offers a calm place
What makes Bowleaze Cove so appealing is not one feature, but the way everything works together: beach, comfort, activity, food, views and the option of Weymouth just beyond the park. For anyone craving a coastal break with plenty to do and little need to heavily plan, this Dorset escape proves that the Great British holiday is not only alive and well, but looking better than ever.
THE INFO
For more information about Bowleaze Cove Holiday Park & Spa and to book visit watersideholiday group.co.uk
A coastal break with loads to do, it proves the Great British holiday is alive, well, and looking better than ever
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ACROSS 1 Like rough fabric that is uncomfortable to wear next to the skin (8) 5 _ Marant, French fashion designer born in 1967 (6) 10 German city in which the Beatles regularly performed from 1960 to 1962 (7) 11 Geographical region in the Pacific Ocean whose highest peak is Puncak Jaya in Indonesia (7) 12 A nymph in Greek mythology who lives in lakes and rivers (5) 13 University whose reserve women's rowing team is known as Blondie (9) 14 A thickened and slightly fermented dairy product with a slightly sour taste (5,7) 18 A lighthearted composition for a small group of musicians (12) 21 Phrase meaning 'on the way to a destination' (2,7) 23 _ Sterling, character played by John Slattery in Mad Men (5) 24 Smashed _, a dish of a fruit native to Mexico prepared on toast (7) 25 _ Flow, song by Enya released in 1988 (7) 26 Cricket team who won their first County Championship in 2003 (6) 27 Love-in_, common name for the Viola tricolor or wild pansy (8)
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NAME GAME HIDDEN in the grid is the name of a singer. Answer the questions, then rearrange the letters corresponding to your answers to fill in the name. SOLUTION TOMORROW
BOX 1: What is the title of Jessie Ware's (pictured) 2026 album? Superbloom (M) Megaglow (D) Bigblossom (C)
BOX 2: In what year was the abolition of the poll tax announced in Great Britain? 1989 (G) 1991 (E) 1993 (N)
BOX 3: In which month of 2026 was a UK heat record that was set in 1957, and equalled in 1976, broken? April (A) May (D) June (Y)
BOX 4: In TV's The Flintstones, who was Fred's hot-tempered boss? Mr Slate (S) Mr Stone (W) Mr Rock (I)
BOX 5: Tampa is a major city in which U.S. state? Colorado (G) Arizona (V) Florida (U)
BOX 6: Which of the following is the name of a tuber that is eaten as a vegetable? Jericho aubergine (N) Jerusalem artichoke (C) Johannesburg asparagus (F)
BOX 7: Harry Brook is a British professional in which sport? Gymnastics (O) Rugby Union (W) Cricket (L)
BOX 8: Which early Disney film is based on a story by Helen Aberson-Mayer and Harold Pearl? Pinocchio (T) Fantasia (Q) Dumbo (I)
BOX 9: Keiko Fujimori became the president of which country in July? Peru (R) Indonesia (A)
Indonesia (A) Myanmar (H)
BOX 10: Which of these is the name of a band formed on the Isle of Wight? Level 21 (P) Level 42 (Y) Level 84 (E)
Yesterday's solution: HARRY JUDD (1H, 2Y, 3D, 4R, 5U, 6J, 7A, 8R, 9D)
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MAKING TRACKS
LAY tracks to enable the train to travel from village A to village B. The numbers indicate how many sections of rail go in each row and column. There are only straight rails and curved rails. The track cannot cross itself.
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In a football league of 20 matches, four points are scored for a win, two points for a draw, and a point is subtracted for a defeat. If a team finishes the competition with 26 points, having remained unbeaten in 60 per cent of its games, how many matches did the team draw?
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To the nearest ten thousand, how many ladyfinger biscuits were used in the world's longest tiramisu, assembled in London in April at over 440 metres long?
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12 The thing's found in gritstone (3)
13 Picture Clue
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8 Award that's said to lever open (5)
9 Picture Clue
14 What a skirt to haul round! (4)
15 Blundering mad turn for red assembly (4)
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION — ACROSS: 1 Micrometers. 5 Miracle. 8 Eaton. 9 Draft. 10 Axial. 12 Liege. 14 On toast. 15 At first hand. DOWN: 1 Movie camera. 2 Comet. 3 Elena. 4 Short period. 6 Ringlet. 7 Cedilla. 11 In-off. 13 Extra.
MAILWORD
ACROSS
1 Frozen 5 Written out 10 Stroke of luck 11 More domesticated 12 Ceremonies 13 Amphitheatre 14 Dine 15 Peter _, comedian 17 Edge 18 Check for publication 20 Family cars 22 Breathing hole 24 Academic award 26 Evil _, Willo The Wisp villain 29 Hatchet
30 Sardonic
32 Atom
33 Big spoon
35 Crime
37 Edward __, composer
38 Bohemian dance
39 Slow-cooked dishes
40 Notices
DOWN
8 Former Soviet leader 9 Streetcars 10 At liberty 16 Composite plant 19 Hill 21 Expire 23 Waste pipes 24 Valleys 25 Praise highly 27 Recesses 28 Karenina, novel 31 High-pitched barks 34 Decree 36 Diminutive deer
SOLUTION TOMORROW
HIDATO
COMPLETE the grid so that all the numbers, 1 to 58, connect consecutively — horizontally, vertically or diagonally. Hint: you don't have to begin with 1 or 58. Working on the mid-numbers might give you a better start.
SOLUTION TOMORROW
KENKEN
EACH row and column should contain 1 to 6 without repeats. Numbers in cages must combine to produce the target number shown at start of that cage using, in any order, the mathematical sign given. Single-box cages can be filled with the number given.
SOLUTION TOMORROW
WORLD'S SMALLEST, HARDEST CROSSWORD
TATTOOING NINE TO FIVE
FIT the scrambled letters of the given word into the grid to form six five-letter words across and down.
SOLUTION TOMORROW
ACROSS
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A coarse linen fabric (4)
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Flexible asking price (abbr) (3)
DOWN
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Betel leaf (4)
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Japanese pill box (4)
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N Am country (abbr) (3)
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Question of identity (3)
SOLUTION TOMORROW
CROSS NUMBER
THERE MAY BE MORE THAN ONE SOLUTION
| 7 | 30 | |||
| 9 | 28 | |||
| 3 | 11 | |||
| 2 | 10 | |||
| 18 | 18 | 20 | 23 | 17 |
4 mins 22 secs
Your working time: □ mins □ secs
FILL each square with a number, 1 to 9. Horizontal squares add up to totals on right. Vertical squares add up to totals on bottom. Diagonal squares through centre add up to totals in top and bottom right.
SOLUTION TOMORROW
CODEWORD
EACH number in our Codeword grid represents a different letter of the alphabet. Today 23 represents P, so fill in P every time the figure 23 appears. You have two letters in the control grid to start you off. Enter them in the appropriate squares in the main grid, then use your knowledge of words to work out which letters should go in the missing squares. SOLUTION TOMORROW
COMPLETE Codeword to reveal the word in the shaded boxes.
HOW TO ENTER: Call 0901 293 6232 and leave your answer and your details or text 65700 with the word CODE, your answer and then your name. Texts and calls cost £1 plus standard network charges. One weekly winner chosen from all correct daily entries received between 00.01 Monday and 23.59 Saturday. Answers change daily at 00.01. UK residents aged 18+, excl NI. See Terms & Conditions.
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 14 | ||
| 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 15 | |||||||
| 6 | 10 | 11 | 13 | 14 | 8 | 11 | 8 | 14 | 2 | 15 | 16 | 3 | 16 | |
| 17 | 3 | 18 | 18 | 10 | 19 | 15 | 4 | 17 | ||||||
| 8 | 20 | 8 | 11 | 12 | 5 | 18 | 5 | 13 | 17 | 8 | 5 | 18 | ||
| 12 | 10 | 21 | 16 | 12 | 6 | 19 | ||||||||
| 18 | 22 | 9 | 5 | 11 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 12 | 8 | 23 | 24 | 7 | 20 | |
| 21 | 8 | 13 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 21 | ||||||||
| 19 | 9 | 13 | 11 | 8 | 14 | 10 | 11 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 9 | 22 | ||
| 3 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 24 | 3 | 2 | 10 | |||||||
| 2 | 19 | 13 | 5 | 25 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 23 | 10 | 12 | 24 | 11 | 24 | |
| 15 | 6 | 10 | 3 | 12 | 8 | 12 | 25 | |||||||
| 18 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 15 | 21 | 8 | 13 | 26 | 5 | 6 | 13 | 26 | ||
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SCRABBLE® BRAND G₂ R₁ A₁ M₃ S₁
■The board on the right shows four rows of letters from a typical Scrabble game. Use each row to form a word of 2-7 letters and write it in the blank squares provided. Then add up the score for each row. Don't forget to use the double and triple word and letter scores — and add a 50-point bonus for every 7-letter word. Blank tiles can be used for any letter but have no score. See tomorrow's paper for the solution. SCRABBLE® and SCRABBLE® Tiles are registered trademarks. All rights in the game are owned in the USA by Hasbro Inc, in Canada by Hasbro Canada Inc, and elsewhere by J.W. Spear & Sons Ltd, a subsidiary of Mattel, Inc.
PAR SCORE 115-125 by JUDD
FOUR RACK TOTAL TIME LIMIT: 20 MIN
Yesterday's solution: ABSURD 9 DUELLED 77 HIATUS 13 RICKETY 98 JUDD'S TOTAL: 197
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© 1997, United Feature Syndicate, Inc.
WORD SEARCH
THE listed words can all be found in the grid — running forwards, backwards, up, down and diagonally — EXCEPT ONE. For a chance to win, discover which word is missing. Today's theme: Strictly Come Dancing winners
BAILEY CARNEY CLANCY DOOLEY FLETCHER
GOUGH JUDD LEACH ODUBA YASSIN
HOW TO ENTER: Call 0901 293 6234 and leave your answer and details or text 65700 with the word WORD, your answer and your name. Texts and calls cost £1 plus standard network charges. One winner chosen from all correct daily entries received between 00.01 Monday and 23.59 Friday. Answers change daily at 00.01. UK residents aged 18+, excl NI. See Terms & Conditions. SOLUTION TOMORROW
SUDOKU X
PUT the numbers 1-6 once in each row, each column, each diagonal (highlighted to form an X) and each horizontal 3x2 box (ruled). SOLUTION TOMORROW
| 4 | 5 | ||||
| 5 | |||||
| 6 | |||||
| 2 | 1 |
QUICK QUIZ
- What does the school subject D&T stand for?
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Which English town is situated on the estuary of the River Orwell?
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Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh made a cameo appearance in which soap opera last month?
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What is Paddington Bear's favourite sandwich filling?
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The geyser Old Faithful is located in which U.S. national park?
SOLUTION: PULLOUT BACK PAGE
BONUS BOXER CAGE FOND HELM JUTS MOLE PAW QUIVER WAVY WICK
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
INSERT letters to form listed words, moving between adjacent cells horizontally, vertically or diagonally in any direction. Insert all remaining letters of the alphabet (except Z) in the grid so all listed words are spelt out.
SOLUTION TOMORROW
BRIDGE MASTERCLASS | CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
North
PLAYING teams, you are in 3NT from the West seat after South has opened 1NT. You won the ♥3 lead and led a low diamond, taken by South's ♦10, with North discarding a heart. The ♠Q was taken by your ♠A, and another diamond ducked to South's ♦Q. You took the ♠J return and ran the diamonds.
IN the four-card ending you should keep two hearts and two clubs in hand. South will probably come down to ♣K-J and ♥K-x, and you can now play two rounds of clubs, endplaying South to make the ♥Q. If, instead, South keeps ♣K-J-x and ♥K, you will see this when you lead a club, and you can now win and lead a heart to South's ♥K, collecting a club trick at the end.
HEATHER DHONDY
FOR your chance to win, solve the crossword to reveal the word reading down the shaded boxes. HOW TO ENTER: Call 0901 293 6233 and leave today's answer and your details, or TEXT 65700 with the word CRYPTIC, your answer and your name. Texts/calls cost £1 plus standard network charges. Or enter by post by sending the completed crossword to Daily Mail Prize Crossword 17,952, PO Box 28, Colchester, Essex CO2 8GF. Please include your name and address. One weekly winner chosen from all correct daily entries received between 00.01 Monday and 23.59 Friday. Postal entries must be date-stamped no later than the following day to qualify. Calls and texts must be received by 23.59; answers change at 00.01. UK residents aged 18+, excl NI. See Terms & Conditions.
SOLUTIONS TO YESTERDAY'S PUZZLES
ACROSS
DOWN
1 Praises two males in firm with ambitions (8) 5 Reduce effort in facility on the rise (4,2) 9 Hide name that's wrong for town in Somerset (8) 10 Call off opportunity to take out hour with learner (6) 12 Place to go before king makes appearance (4) 13 See posh guest in unusually smart wear (6,4) 15 Writer in proposals reaching a high point for bluntness in speech (5,8) 19 Broadcast ushering in top producer of books? (8,5) 23 One criticising deputy for injustice (10) 25 Ceremonial dance is hard in other words (4) 28 Greek character recalled room for Muslim cleric (6) 29 Final let when reviewed gets to show no sign of increase? (8) 30 Patron, say, in school is given a price (6) 31 Cultivated garden for all to see by river has noble quality (8)
1 Obey Charlie, Oscar and Mike over work (6) 2 Fruit consumed by German godparent (5) 3 Resounding sound in city house (4) 4 Bully medic once at work (7) 6 Informed women with article probing revolutionary period (5) 7 Select special report in one publication? (9) 8 Attendant around current group for navigation of an aircraft (8) 11 Bargain starts to spur new impulsive purchases (4) 14 Desire pale carpet, ultimately (4) 15 Dicky limps over two lines with small shoes (9) 16 Long story not showing a decline (3) 17 A peculiar plant with arrow-shaped leaves (4) 18 Piece I'd composed about origin of major outbreak (8) 20 Mention of rogue in part of church (4) 21 Ambassador with clerk sorted out disruptive audience member (7) 22 Occupation in Asian peninsula, we're told (6) 24 Avoid woman supported by Germany and Spain (5) 26 Woman showing ill-will after leader goes (5) 27 Normal rule (not half) for male (4)
NEED A CLUE? Text TIP to 65700 to receive FOUR answers to today's crossword, or call 0901 293 6236. Texts and calls cost £1 plus standard network charges. Today's clues available between 00.01 today and 23.30 only.
30-SECOND CHALLENGE
START on left with number given and follow instructions as you go across. In 30 seconds, beginners have to complete their own challenge; intermediates have to complete their own challenge and the beginner's; advanced players have to complete their own challenge and the intermediate's.
SUDOKU
| 9 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 6 |
| 8 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 9 |
| 4 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 1 |
| 5 | 8 | 9 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 4 |
| 2 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 9 | 7 |
| 7 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 6 | 5 |
| 3 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 1 | 8 |
| 6 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 2 |
| 1 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 3 |
| 8 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 7 |
| 9 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 2 |
| 6 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 4 |
| 2 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 1 | 8 | 6 |
| 4 | 8 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 5 |
| 7 | 6 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 9 |
| 1 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 3 |
| 5 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 8 |
| 3 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 1 |
PRIZE SUDOKU
www.30secondchallenges.com
SOLUTION BELOW
| Beginner | 100 | -12 | $\div 11$ | $\times 3$ | +6 | $\times 5$ | +2 | $\div 8$ | $\times 5$ | -19 | |
| Intermediate | 8 | TIMES ITSELF | $\times 25$ | 10% OF IT | +2 | $^{13}/_{18}$ OF IT | -19 | $^{5}/_{14}$ OF IT | +28 | $^{16}/_{72}$ OF IT | |
| Advanced | 13 | $\times 15$ | +3 | $^{5}/_{11}$ OF IT | $\times 2^{1}/_{3}$ | LESS 10% | +3 | PLUS 25% | $2^{1}/_{2}\%$ OF IT | $\times 49$ |
HIDATO
WORD SEARCH Missing: VENDACE
YOUR ANSWERS
NINE TO FIVE
CROSS NUMBER
| 4 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 5 |
| 8 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 7 |
| 9 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 4 |
| 2 | 5 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 8 | 3 |
| 7 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 6 |
| 6 | 8 | 4 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 2 |
| 1 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 7 | 8 |
| 5 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 9 |
| 3 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 1 |
| Q | S | I | 16 | ||||||
| D | U | E | T | S | 3 | 9 | 4 | 9 | 25 |
| S | I | D | E | D | 2 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 16 |
| D | R | U | M | S | 4 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 19 |
| K | M | S | 1 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 20 | ||
| 10 | 28 | 13 | 29 | 22 |
WORD WHEEL: airy, alary, aridly, aryl, daily, dairy, diary, dray, drily, fairly, fairy, fairyland, flay, fray, idly, inlay, lady, lanyard, lardy, nary, nyala, rainy, randy, riyal, yard, yarn.
KAKURO
| 9 | 5 | 8 | 4 | ||||||
| 3 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 7 | ||
| 7 | 6 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | ||||
| 7 | 6 | 3 | 8 | ||||||
| 6 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 5 | |||||
| 3 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 7 | ||||
| 3 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 5 | ||||
| 3 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 8 | |||||
| 5 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 3 | |||||
| 7 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 9 | ||||
| 4 | 8 | 4 | 5 |
MAKING TRACKS
A B
KENKEN
| 5- | 2 | 5+ | 1 | 4 | 90× | 6 | 3 |
| 5+ | 30× | 5- | |||||
| 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 6 | |
| $3 \div 2$ | 1- | 4 | 5 | 15+ | $3 \div 3$ | 3 | 1 |
| 6 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 11+ | 2 | |
| 5- | 1 | 6 | 3 | $2 \div 2$ | 4 | 5 | |
| 3 | 11+ | 5 | 6 | 1 | $2 \div 2$ | 4 |
SUDOKU X
KILLER SUDOKU
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD ACROSS: 8 Tenement. 9 Mouton. 10 Pina colada. 11 Brim. 12 Errani. 14 Turmeric. 15 Lily pad. 17 Cherish. 20 Airspace. 22 Magnet. 24 Chin. 25 Chessboard. 27 Demand. 28 Rich Girl.
| 6 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 9 | 4 |
| 9 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 8 |
| 2 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 9 | 1 | 7 | 5 |
| 5 | 6 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 7 |
| 8 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 9 | 1 | 6 |
| 1 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 2 |
| 7 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 9 |
| 3 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 1 |
| 4 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 3 |
| 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 6 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 5 |
| 4 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 |
| 3 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 2 |
| 2 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 3 |
| 1 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 4 |
GOGEN
J V M R C B U A P T Q W Y S X O L I E H F K D N G
DOWN: 1 Metier. 2 Feta.
DOWN: 1 Metier. 2 Feta. 3 Veronica. 4 Atlanta. 5 Impair. 6 Humblebrag. 7 Politics. 13 Abyssinian. 16 Irish Sea. 18 Homesick. 19 Pereira. 21 Arcade. 23 Errors. 26 Olga.
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD No. 17,949
WORLD'S SMALLEST, HARDEST CROSSWORD — ACROSS: 1 Phut. 5 Eyra. 6 Clam. 7 Kelp. DOWN: 1 Peck. 2 Hyle. 3 Ural. 4 Tamp.
ACROSS: 1 Moorage, 5 Palace. 9 Network. 10 Amnesia. 11 Off. 12 At every turn. 13 Shrug. 14 Treachery. 16 By-product. 17 Views. 19 Pervasively. 22 Inn. 23 Emirate. 24 Eleanor. 26 Animus. 27 Portray. DOWN: 1 Mentors. 2 Out of proportion. 3 Ado. 4 Elkie. 5 Placement. 6 Lanky. 7 Costume designer. 8 Dainty. 12 Aggro. 14 Thurifers. 15 Covey. 16 Bopped. 18 Synergy. 20 Alarm. 21 Eye up. 25 Err.
MAILWORD
ACROSS: 1 Agar. 5 Africa. 11 Pace. 12 Nooses. 13 Etna. 14 Years. 15 Shelf. 17 Sate. 18 Minsters. 21 Pas. 24 Fop. 25 Les. 26 On the run. 29 Mire. 30 Ridge. 34 Amanda. 37 Ford. 38 Dancer. 39 Tree. 40 Eldest. 41 Yawn. DOWN: 1 Apes. 2 Gath. 3 Acne. 4 Realm. 5 Any. 6 Foe. 7 Roast. 8 Israel. 9 Centre. 10 Assess. 16 Fife. 19 Nor. 20 Spur. 21 Pomade. 22 Animal. 23 Strand. 27 Hence. 28 Nifty. 31 Dora. 32 Grew. 33 Eden. 35 Des. 36 Art.*
SOLUTIONS TO TODAY'S PUZZLES
QUICK QUIZ:
1 Design and technology. 2 Ipswich. 3 The Archers. 4 Marmalade. 5 Yellowstone. MINDBENDER:
KUROSU
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1 Target. 2 Racket. 3 Teased. 4 Esteem. 5 Metals. 6 Lackey. 7 Yellow. 8 Olives. 9 Season. 10 Ostler. 11 Rested. 12 Teeter.
30-SECOND CHALLENGE: Beginner: 76. Intermediate: 14. Advanced: 294.
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制度与权力批判深度研判：Daily Mail (2026-08-26)
▌ 本日全报思想与文化深思雷达 (Intellectual & Cultural Significance Radar)
在系统通盘梳理本期报纸所涉及的所有国际政治、经济、社会与文化报道后，以下 3 个具体事件在制度结构、权力技术与法理合法性层面最值得学者进一步深思：
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【英俄地缘博弈中的“半军事行动”威胁】
[F14_28, F15_30, F16_31, F16_32]（版面：第14-16版/安全评论）- 事件简述：美方情报警告俄罗斯在战场受挫后，准备采取包括无人机、纵火与网络攻击在内的大规模行动针对英国利益
[F14_28, F15_30]。前俄罗斯副外长安德烈·费多罗夫指出，在伯纳姆访问基辅后，英国遭受“半军事行动”的可能性无法排除[F16_32 🔍]。 - 制度批判切入点：分析“灰色地带”冲突如何挑战传统战争法理，探讨主权权力如何通过定义“安全威胁”来合法化非对称的防御逻辑，以及情报话语在塑造国家安全制度中的核心作用。
- 事件简述：美方情报警告俄罗斯在战场受挫后，准备采取包括无人机、纵火与网络攻击在内的大规模行动针对英国利益
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【伯明翰市议会的“20英里限速”治理实验】
[F9_17, F10_20, F11_22]（版面：第9-11版/地方治理）- 事件简述：伯明翰市议会希望将20英里/小时限速作为所有当地道路的标准，旨在将“人”而非“汽车”放在首位
[F10_20, F11_22]。 - 制度批判切入点：分析城市空间治理中的微观权力运作，探讨行政权力如何通过重新定义空间速度来实施对公民行为的规范，以及“以人为本”的话语如何转化为具体的行政强制力。
- 事件简述：伯明翰市议会希望将20英里/小时限速作为所有当地道路的标准，旨在将“人”而非“汽车”放在首位
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【多莉·帕顿的商业帝国与阶级流动性】
[F2_4, F3_6]（版面：主报深度版面）- 事件简述：多莉·帕顿将“卑微的根源”转化为庞大的商业帝国，包括主题公园、水上乐园及酒店连锁
[F2_4, F3_6]。 - 制度批判切入点：探讨个体才华与商业头脑在资本主义制度下的变现路径，分析文化资本如何转化为经济资本，以及这种“美国梦”式的成功叙事如何掩盖结构性的阶级壁垒。
- 事件简述：多莉·帕顿将“卑微的根源”转化为庞大的商业帝国，包括主题公园、水上乐园及酒店连锁
▌ 精选核心专题深度思想论证 (In-Depth Dialectical Monograph)
专题一：混合战争时代的“半军事行动”与主权权力的边界重构
在当代地缘政治的权力图谱中，英国与俄罗斯的博弈已演变为一种基于“半军事行动”（semi-military actions）的制度性对抗 [F16_32 🔍]。根据情报显示，俄方计划通过无人机、纵火与网络攻击等手段考验英国政府的韧性 [F14_28, F15_30]。这种权力运作模式标志着一种典型的“例外状态”的常态化：攻击行为被设计在全面战争与和平的灰色地带，旨在通过非对称的破坏达成政治目的，而无需触发正式的战争法理程序。
从权力机制分析，这种威胁不仅是军事性的，更是话语性的。克里姆林宫将英国定义为“阻碍普京在该地区实现军事目标的主要障碍” [F16_31 🔍]，通过这种叙事框架，俄方将其针对英国利益的攻击合法化为一种“清除障碍”的必要手段。与此同时，英国政府通过引用“美方情报” [F14_28 🔍] 来构建内部的危机共识，这种技术专家式的话语将复杂的政治博弈简化为风险量化问题，从而为加强国家防御提供制度合法性。
援引卡尔·施密特（Carl Schmitt）关于“主权者即决定例外状态之人”的理论，我们可以发现，当下的地缘博弈实际上是两个主权实体在争夺“定义危机”的权力。俄罗斯通过制造“半军事”的不确定性，试图强迫英国进入一种防御性的心理状态；而英国政府则在情报预警与实际应对之间构建新的安全制度。在这种条件下，主权权力的边界不再仅由地理疆域决定，而由信息流的控制权与对“威胁”的定义权决定。
专题二：空间治理的生物政治：从“汽车优先”到“人本主义”的权力转移
伯明翰市议会推行的“20英里限速”计划 [F9_17 🔍]，表面上是一场关于交通安全与环保的公共政策改良，但从批判理论视角看，这实际上是一次深刻的城市空间权力重组。市议会通过将“人”而非“汽车”放在首位 [F11_22 🔍] 的道德话语，试图将一种行政强制力包装成一种人文关怀。然而，这种治理逻辑的核心在于对公民移动速度的微观控制。
这种权力运作体现了福柯（Michel Foucault）所描述的“生物政治”（Biopolitics）——权力不再仅通过禁令来运作，而是通过对生命活动（行驶速度、出行方式）的优化与规范来实施管理。通过将限速标准设定为20英里/小时，行政权力实际上在重新定义城市空间的“正常”状态。在这种制度设计中，汽车被从空间的中心位置边缘化，而“主动出行” [F10_19 🔍] 被赋予了制度性的正向价值。
然而，这种治理模式隐藏着深层的结构性排斥。当城市空间被重新划分为不同的速度区间时，那些依赖汽车进行生产活动的群体在制度上被置于不利地位。这种“人本主义”的话语掩盖了权力在空间分配上的不平等。此外，这种治理实验依赖于高度的监控技术，这意味着公民在获得“安全”的同时，必须接受更密集的数字化监视。
从韦伯（Max Weber）的官僚制视角看，这种治理方式是典型的“理性化”过程：将复杂的社会互动（驾驶行为）简化为可量化的速度指标。这种制度化的速度控制，实际上是将城市空间转化为一个可管理的实验室。它揭示了当代治理的一个核心趋势：权力不再通过宏大的法律宣言运作，而是通过对日常生活的微小细节进行技术性微调，从而实现对人口的深层规范。
▌ 面向学者的制度研究开放性追问 (Open Research Horizons)
- 【关于混合战争中的法理真空】：在“半军事行动”成为大国博弈常态的背景下，传统的国际法（基于主权国家与正式战争状态）如何应对非对称、去中心化的网络与物理攻击？是否需要构建一套全新的、针对“灰色地带”冲突的全球治理制度？
- 【关于空间治理的合法性边界】：当行政权力以“人本主义”为名实施微观速度控制时，如何界定公共利益与个人移动自由之间的界限？这种治理模式是否会演变为一种新型的、基于算法和速度的社会分层？
理性与情感辩证深度研判：Daily Mail (2026-08-26)
▌ 本日全报生活世界痛感与情感政治深思雷达 (Lifeworld & Affective Significance Radar)
在系统通盘梳理本期报纸所涉及的所有报道后，以下 3 个具体事件在个体生命体验、情感撕裂与制度逻辑层面最值得学者进一步深思：
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【多莉·帕顿的商业人格与私密情感】
[F2_4, F3_6, F4_7, F6_11, F6_12]（生活领域：文化与身份/生命叙事）- 事件简述：乡村音乐传奇多莉·帕顿通过刻苦努力与商业头脑构建了庞大的商业帝国
[F2_4 🔍]，包括主题公园、酒店等多元投资[F3_6 🔍]。报道揭示了其公众形象（模仿“镇上荡妇”的夸张造型[F4_7 🔍]）与私密情感（与不喜聚光灯且不喜其音乐的丈夫迪恩的关系[F6_12 🔍]，以及与助手朱迪·奥格尔的“纯粹之爱”[F6_11 🔍]）之间的并存状态。 - 情感政治切入点：探讨“公众人格（Persona）”的商业理性构建与“私人情感（Affect）”的真实生存之间的张力。一个被量化为“品牌”的生命，如何在极端的商业成功中安置其不具商业价值的情感依赖。
- 事件简述：乡村音乐传奇多莉·帕顿通过刻苦努力与商业头脑构建了庞大的商业帝国
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【伯明翰限速政策中的“人”与“车”之争】
[F9_17, F10_20, F11_22]（生活领域：城市治理/空间政治）- 事件简述：伯明翰市议会计划将20英里/小时限速作为当地道路标准
[F10_20 🔍]，旨在将“人”而非“汽车”放在首位[F11_22 🔍]。 - 情感政治切入点：分析技术官僚的“主动出行”理性
[F10_19 🔍]如何试图重塑城市空间的社会情感。这种从“速度”到“生活”的强制性转向，揭示了治理逻辑如何试图通过物理限速来诱导一种特定的社区情感连接。
- 事件简述：伯明翰市议会计划将20英里/小时限速作为当地道路标准
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【俄英地缘冲突中的“阻碍者”认知】
[F14_28, F15_30, F16_31, F16_32]（生活领域：国家安全/认知战争）- 事件简述：情报显示俄罗斯准备针对英国利益采取行动
[F15_30 🔍]，克里姆林宫认为英国是阻碍其实现军事目标的主要障碍[F16_31 🔍]，且不排除英国遭受“半军事行动”的可能性[F16_32 🔍]。 - 情感政治切入点：研究地缘政治中的“敌意认知”如何被制度化。当一个国家被定义为“阻碍胜利”的唯一障碍时，这种认知如何将复杂的政治博弈简化为一种极端的、排他性的情感对抗。
- 事件简述：情报显示俄罗斯准备针对英国利益采取行动
▌ 精选核心专题理性与情感辩证论证 (The Dialectic of Logos and Pathos Monograph)
专题一：【品牌人格与私密情感的撕裂：多莉·帕顿生命叙事中的认同辩证法】
多莉·帕顿的生命轨迹提供了一个极佳的样本，用以分析系统理性（Logos）如何将一个活生生的人转化为一个可量化的商业符号。在公众视野中，帕顿被构建为一个完美的“金牌品牌”：她坦承自己的造型是模仿“镇上荡妇” [F4_7 🔍]，并凭借敏锐的商业头脑将卑微的根源转化为庞大的商业帝国 [F2_4 🔍]。这种构建遵循的是资本逻辑的理性模型——通过视觉符号的极端化来获取最大化的市场辨识度。在这种逻辑下，她的身体、声音甚至性格都被转化为一种“资产”，支撑起从多莉伍德度假村到多莉酒店的商业版图 [F3_6 🔍]。
然而，在现象学的深描（Phenomenological Pathos）中，我们看到了一个完全不同的生命世界。帕顿在私密空间中维持着极其低调且纯粹的情感纽带：她的丈夫迪恩痛恨成为聚光灯的焦点，甚至作为硬摇滚乐迷并不喜欢她的音乐 [F6_12 🔍]。这种私密情感是对商业理性最彻底的背离——在商业逻辑中，伴侣通常被期待为品牌的助力，而迪恩的“隐形”与“不认同”恰恰是帕顿在极度异化的公众生活中保留最后一块“真实自我”的避风港。
这种辩证摩擦体现为：帕顿必须通过在公众面前扮演一个高度符号化的商业人格，才能在私下里守护那份不具商业价值的纯粹情感（如与助手朱迪·奥格尔的“纯粹之爱” [F6_11 🔍]）。她的成功在于她意识到这种撕裂，并将其转化为一种生存策略。
通过社会心理韧性诊断，我们可以发现，帕顿的生命力源于她能够在这种极端的“冷色调商业逻辑”与“热色调私人情感”之间建立一种动态平衡。这种平衡证明了：即便在被资本逻辑彻底量化的时代，个体依然需要通过建立一个与公众人格完全隔离的“情感禁区”，来维持心理结构的完整性。
专题二：【治理理性与生活世界的碰撞：伯明翰限速政策的现象学分析】
在现代城市治理的逻辑中，伯明翰市议会的限速计划遵循一套系统理性模型（Systemic Logos）。管理层通过将限速设定为20英里/小时 [F10_20 🔍]，试图实现一个量化目标：增加“主动出行” [F10_19 🔍]。在技术官僚看来，这是一个简单的因果链条：降低车速 $\rightarrow$ 提高安全性 $\rightarrow$ 鼓励步行/骑行 $\rightarrow$ 提升城市生活质量。在这种模型中，城市空间被简化为流量与速度的函数。
然而，这种理性在生活世界的真实体验（Phenomenological Pathos）面前会产生剧烈的摩擦。市议会宣称这将使他们能够将“人”而非“汽车”放在首位 [F11_22 🔍]。但这里存在一个深刻的悖论：当治理者试图通过行政命令（限速）来强制推行一种“以人为本”的情感体验时，这种“人为的关怀”本身就带有某种制度的冷漠。
这里存在着深刻的辩证摩擦（Dialectical Friction）：制度理性试图通过剥夺驾驶者的“速度权”来赋予行人“安全感”。但这种安全感是自上而下被赋予的，而非自下而上生长出来的。当“人”被作为治理目标被“放在首位”时，个体在空间中的流动性被重新定义为一种受控的、被规划的行为。
从话语温度差来看，市议会使用的是“标准限速”、“主动出行”等冷色调的行政语言 [F10_19, F10_20]，而其目标却是创造一个温暖的、以人为中心的社区环境。这种撕裂揭示了当代城市治理的典型困境：试图用最刚性的制度工具（限速标志）去达成最柔软的社会目标（社区连接）。
▌ 面向学者的伦理与社会心理开放性追问 (Open Research Horizons)
- 【关于身份异化的研究】：在高度商业化的名人工业中，个体如何通过构建一个“虚假的公众人格”来反向保护其“真实的私密情感”？这种人格分裂在长期生命周期中是对心理韧性的侵蚀还是增强？
- 【关于空间治理的研究】：当城市治理试图通过物理限制（如限速）来强制诱导某种社会情感（如社区感）时，这种“强制性关怀”是否会引发公民对身体流动权的认知反弹？
- 【关于认知战争的研究】：在国际政治中，当一个国家被对方定义为“阻碍胜利”的唯一障碍
[F16_31 🔍]时，这种极端的认知简化如何影响外交决策的理性空间，并将其推向“半军事行动”的边缘[F16_32 🔍]？