Reform UK MP Sarah Pochin bought a second home on Anglesey two days after raising concerns in Parliament about the impact of second homes on rural communities. Pochin, MP for Runcorn and Helsby, purchased the property after submitting a written question to the housing minister Matthew Pennycook.
Dario Amodei made \$18m (£13.5m) last year as CEO of Claude AI developer Anthropic, the company's IPO filing shows, putting him in the middle ranks of senior executives at major technology firms. Anthropic is preparing for an IPO as early as this autumn that could value it at more than \$2trn.
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报纸支持回收。2024 年英国报纸的再生纸含量为 37.2%。
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Strict conditions for Palestine march
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Police have said they cannot ban a pro-Palestine march planned for the third anniversary of Hamas's 7 October attacks but have repeated their plea to demonstrators not to go ahead with it.
A forensics student who was obsessed with US TV drama Dexter has pleaded guilty to the murder of a 24-year-old sex worker he lured to a plastic-lined “kill room” inside an Airbnb property. Benjamin William Day, who was 19 at the time of the killing, changed his plea to guilty on the second day of his trial at Wolverhampton Crown Court.
Spain's government has approved two housing laws, days after parliament rejected them prompting prime minister Pedro Sanchez to call a snap election. The measures include rent caps, a temporary ban on evictions and restrictions on corporate purchases. Sanchez says opinion polls show a broad support for the changes.
A group of students, the University of London Coalition, are expected to march in the capital today. The Metropolitan Police said it has imposed “robust” conditions on the protest.
These include requiring the group to form up at Lincoln's Inn Fields by 12.30pm, take a prescribed route to Russell Square, and complete the rally by 2pm, at which point participants must disperse.
Newspapers support recycling. The recycled paper content of UK newspapers in 2024 was 37.2%.
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世代词汇游戏
Z 世代比千禧一代和 X 世代更常使用合成词，但其中超过一半的人在不清楚含义的情况下使用过合成词。来自 Premier Inn 旗下 Hub 的研究发现，近四分之三（71%）的 Z 世代希望在“meekends”（自我周末）有更多属于自己的时间。英国最受欢迎的合成词包括：
1. Brunch = Breakfast + lunch
2. Staycation = Stay + vacation
3. Hangry = Hungry + angry
4. Chillax = Chill + relax
5. Mocktail = Mock + cocktail
6. Bromance = Bro (brother) + romance
7. Meekend = Me + weekend
8. Glamping = Glamorous + camping
9. Situationship = Situation + relationship
10. Mansplain = Man + Explain
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The generation word game
Gen Z use portmanteau words more than millennials and Gen X, but more than half have used one without knowing the meaning. Research from Hub by Premier Inn found nearly three-quarters (71%) of Gen Z wish they got more time to themselves on “meekends”. Britain's favourite portmanteau words were:
1. Brunch = Breakfast + lunch
2. Staycation = Stay + vacation
3. Hangry = Hungry + angry
4. Chillax = Chill + relax
5. Mocktail = Mock + cocktail
6. Bromance = Bro (brother) + romance
7. Meekend = Me + weekend
8. Glamping = Glamorous + camping
9. Situationship = Situation + relationship
10. Mansplain = Man + Explain
Why are we in for a bumper crop of mushrooms? See p.13
Twenty-five inflatable boats due to be used by cross-Channel people smugglers to move up to 1,700 migrants have been seized at East Midlands Airport, the National Crime Agency said. The craft were found last Friday in an air freight shipment going from Turkey to the Netherlands.
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“家庭事务”导致《蝙蝠侠》停产
华纳兄弟和 DC 影业已暂停《蝙蝠侠 第二部分》（The Batman Part II）的拍摄，因为导演需要暂停工作以处理个人问题。影业在声明中表示：“由于马特·里夫斯（Matt Reeves）专注于处理家庭事务，制作已暂时暂停。我们期待很快能继续这段旅程。”
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'Family matter' halts Batman production
Warner Bros and DC Studios have halted filming on The Batman Part II, as the director takes a pause to deal with a personal issue. "Production has been temporarily paused while Matt Reeves focuses on a family matter," the studio said in a statement. "We look forward to continuing the journey soon."
An Australian soldier has died and five others have been injured when a vehicle rolled over during a training exercise, the army said yesterday. The Australian Army identified the soldier as Corporal Brendan Hannam, a father of two who served on two tours in Afghanistan and trained Ukrainians with the British Armed Forces.
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健康 癌症转诊目标“无法达成”
一家慈善机构表示，基于目前的表现，人们等待癌症诊断和治疗的时间目标将延迟三年多才能达成。
英国癌症研究中心（Cancer Research UK）的分析表明，英格兰未能按计划实现政府在2月份发布的《国家癌症计划》中所设定的关键承诺。
Targets for how long people wait for cancer diagnosis and treatment will be missed by more than three years based on current performance, a charity has said.
Analysis by Cancer Research UK suggests England is not on track to meet a key commitment set down by the Government in the National Cancer Plan, published in February.
The plan said that by March 2029, 80 per cent of patients will get a diagnosis or all-clear within 28 days of an urgent referral for suspected cancer. Looking at the targets in detail, Cancer Research UK said current performance suggests it will not be met until April 2032.
ThePage3Profile ROSS KEMP, 'TRAITORS' STAR'S ROYAL RUMBLE
Making a drama out of a crisis...
The Celebrity Traitors star Ross Kemp is used to coming under fire in the line of duty, from his time behind the bar as EastEnders pub landlord to documenting the lives of gang members.
But a probing from the Prince of Wales yesterday when the two met in Somerset may not have been in his sights.
Residents have called for a ban on bike and scooter riders from wearing balaclavas and face coverings in Coventry.
Locals say the masks can be "sinister" and make it harder to identify those responsible for crimes, and have launched a petition as part of a Public Spaces Protection Order, which due to be updated in November.
If the measures are adopted, Coventry will join other cities such as Nottingham, which banned the face coverings earlier this year, after complaints about people feeling intimidated by those who wear them.
The actor and documentary film-maker joined Prince William to launch a project with the National Emergencies Trust.
And before the two had even come face-to-face, the royal laid down the gauntlet telling a group of youngsters in Ilminster: "Do you watch The Traitors?
"I'm going to get the answer to what happens and I am going to tell you all later.
Kemp, 62, is well known for his role as hardman Grant Mitchell in the BBC soap opera EastEnders.
He has also presented the Bafta award-winning documentary series Ross Kemp on Gangs and can currently be seen fending off 'murderous attempts' on him in The Celebrity Traitors.
But both he and Prince William were in Somerset yesterday, in their respective capacities as ambassador and patron of National Emergencies Trust, to launch the Ready Together project, providing communities across the UK with guidance to help them prepare for and respond to emergencies.
And in Kemp's case get a grilling over the latest round table discussions and banishments.
Faithful to the cause...
Ahead of the event, Kemp said he was attending because it's about "bringing people together" and making sure they "can pull together in the case of an emergency".
Little did he know, it might also entail a small personal emergency, where he was forced to choose between loyalty to The Celebrity Traitors or allegiance to the prince.
Fortunately, his role at the trust appears to have laid the groundwork for any possible defence.
As he said: "Being prepared for anything is better than being unprepared."
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好莱坞明星格伦·克洛斯（Glenn Close）将在蒂姆·赖斯爵士（Sir Tim Rice）和劳埃德-韦伯勋爵（Lord Lloyd-Webber）的音乐剧《耶稣基督超级巨星》的西区制作中饰演希律王。这位79岁的获奖女演员以《致命吸引力》最为出名，她将在1月份该剧在伦敦舞台的最后一次演出中亮相。
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Glenn Close to play Herod in West End
Hollywood star Glenn Close will appear in the West End production of Sir Tim Rice and Lord Lloyd-Webber's musical Jesus Christ Superstar as King Herod. The award-winning actress, 79, best known for Fatal Attraction, will appear for the show's final run on the London stage in January.
Primark has urgently recalled two Halloween gonk decorations because they may be contaminated with asbestos. The two doorstep decorations present a risk to health as the sand inside them may be contaminated with a small quantity of asbestos, the Office for Product Safety and Standards said.
ENTERTAINMENT Sheeran's artistic gift is perfect inspiration
An artist who was inspired to pick up a paintbrush after Ed Sheeran donated a painting to a charity auction she helped create is to hold her first exhibition at the age of 64. Gina Long, founder of the former children's charity GeeWizz in Suffolk, said something about the star's abstract painting "stayed with me".
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艺术 霍克尼作品将以挂毯形式展出
由已故的大卫·霍克尼（David Hockney）委任，将其1963年的绘画作品《戏中戏》（Play Within A Play）制作而成的挂毯已在伦敦的吉尔德霍尔艺术画廊（Guildhall Art Gallery）安装。这件挂毯由这位于6月去世、享年88岁的艺术家委任制作，将作为该画廊“超越拜约：当代挂毯”（Beyond Bayeux: Tapestry Now）展览的一部分展出。
政策编辑简·梅里克（Jane Merrick）的信箱 i@theipaper.com
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ART Hockney work to hang as a tapestry
A tapestry commissioned by the late David Hockney of his 1963 painting Play Within A Play has been installed at the Guildhall Art Gallery in London. The hanging, which was commissioned by the artist who died aged 88 in June, will appear as part of the gallery's Beyond Bayeux: Tapestry Now exhibition.
Letter from the Policy Editor Jane Merrick i@theipaper.com
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Badenoch's bid
In interviews with broadcasters yesterday, Kemi Badenoch acknowledged she needed to use "every moment I have" to grab the attention of voters.
For a Conservative leader two years into opposition after the party's worst-ever election defeat, it was always going to be hard to earn the right for their attention.
Yet, as rumours persist that Andy Burnham might be tempted to call a snap election. Badenoch needs to paint in primary colours in order to make an impact.
In Birmingham this week, she has announced eye-catching policies for a UK version of an Iron Dome missile shield, a national insurance cut for firms who employ 21- to 24-year-olds and, as expected in her conference speech today, cuts to inheritance tax.
All conference speeches by party leaders are critical because they set the narrative for their MPs and rank and file for the months to come.
A rousing, emotionally charged address – like Andy Burnham's in Liverpool last week – will sustain party troops for months, make it easier to win arguments and Commons votes, and convince the media and public that the leader has what it takes to win the next election.
It helps that Badenoch's own leadership is on an upward trajectory, and that her popularity outstrips her party's.
In a characteristically frank admission, she said yesterday that the Conservatives are "not out of the woods", and this is true – it would be odd to claim otherwise.
The striking policies and candid admissions will earn her credit with voters. But if we are months, rather than years, away from the next election, Badenoch may not have enough time to win back their confidence.
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Brand in court for pretrial hearing ahead of rape case
By Tristan Kirk and Clara Margotin
Russell Brand attended court yesterday for a hearing ahead of his rape and sexual assault trial.
The comedian, actor and podcaster has been accused by six women of sexual abuse allegations spanning 10 years from 1999 to 2009.
He denies all the charges: three counts of rape, three charges of sexual assault, and one allegation of indecent assault.
Yesterday, Brand arrived at Southwark Crown Court accompanied by his wife Laura, for the first of two days of pretrial hearings.
His trial begins on 12 October, with the case expected to last up to 10 weeks.
Russell Brand arrives at Southwark Crown Court yesterday, accompanied by his wife, Laura HANNAH MCKAY/REUTERS
Previous hearings have heard Brand, who denies all the allegations of non-consensual sexual activity, is accused of raping a woman in a hotel room at the Labour Party conference in Bournemouth, grabbing a TV worker's breasts and forcing her into a sex act in a toilet and kissing and groping a radio station worker.
Brand became one of Britain's best-known stand-up comedians in the 2000s.
In recent years, he has pivoted to podcasting and online influencing, and now lives in the US.
Ofcom investigates Meta over risks of Instagram Instants
By Áine Fox
Ofcom is investigating Instagram's disappearing content feature.
The UK's online safety regulator said it was looking into whether tech company Meta had adequately assessed the risks of Instagram In-stants before launching it in May.
The feature allows a user to take a photo and share it instantly with others. The content disappears after being viewed once, and expires after 24 hours.
Meta said it had carried out a risk analysis and briefed Ofcom about the new feature “on a number of occasions” before it was launched.
But the regulator said yesterday it had launched an investigation to establish “whether Meta failed to comply with its duties under the Online Safety Act by not carrying out a suitable and sufficient illegal content risk assessment and children’s risk assessment before the launch of instants”.
Illegal content can include child sexual exploitation and abuse material. Harmful content for children under the Act includes pornography, suicide and self-harm.
"Our online safety laws are clear - significant changes to platforms must be risk-assessed before they're launched," said George Lusty, Ofcom's director of enforcement.
"This is a vital step that tech firms must take to protect their users. You wouldn't launch a new car without testing it properly, and it's the same for online services.
“Safety by design must be built in, not bolted on, and today's investigation shows we'll take action where we have concerns that providers are failing to comply.”
A Meta spokesperson said: "Meta takes its regulatory obligations seriously," and listed inbuilt safeguards including teenage account protections, and blocking screenshots and reshares.
But he added: "We will of course cooperate with Ofcom during this investigation."
The Molly Rose Foundation said it was concerned that harmful and illegal content could be shared through the Instagram Instants feature. The foundation was set up in memory of 14-year-old Molly Russell, who killed herself in 2017 after viewing harmful content online.
Two police officers who used a Taser and synthetic pepper spray on a 92-year-old amputee have been sacked for gross misconduct.
Former PCs Stephen Smith and Rachel Comotto (both pictured, in 2024) used “excessive force” on Donald Burgess, the Independent Office for Police Conduct said.
Smith and Comotto arrived at a care home in St Leonards, East Sussex, on 21 June 2022, after responding to a report that a resident was threatening to stab care home staff with a knife.
Police bodyworn footage showed that the officers entered a room where Burgess, who was a wheelchair user, had been isolated.
Within 90 seconds of arriving, both officers used force on Burgess, who was holding a cutlery knife.
Smith discharged Pava spray in his face and struck the arm holding the knife with a baton. Then Comotto discharged her Taser.
A protester in Paris yesterday, amid widespread unrest; right, riot police stand their ground YVES HERMAN/REUTERS
By Tilman Blasshofer,
Cecile Mantovani and Lucien Libert
Police charged and fired tear gas at protesters outside French high schools yesterday as students, teachers and parents took to the streets on the biggest day of what Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu described as the most violent school protests in decades.
The protests, in which a teenager lost a hand on Monday, were the latest manifestation of public anger in a country where the far right and far left are surging ahead of a presidential election in the spring.
More than 250,000 people took the streets yesterday, according to officials, although trade unions claimed the true figure was more than twice that.
The government is under pressure to reduce public debt and has struggled with basic tasks such as passing a budget since President Emmanuel Macron's allies lost their majority in a 2024 parliamentary vote.
Lecornu told politicians at least 215 teenagers and 85 school staff had so far been injured in clashes. His office said more than 715 officers had also been hurt since protests began.
Students complain about basic maintenance in ageing school buildings such as water leaks, as well as absent teachers and the length of the 8am to 6pm school day.
The government has called some of the protesters' demands "legitimate" and Lecornu has ordered ministers to come up with urgent proposals. But he said that there can be “no room for tolerance of violence”, adding: “Burning down a high school does not improve the state of high school buildings”.
Omar Slaouti, a high-school teacher in Argenteuil, a north-western suburb of Paris, said: "If there were no trash cans on fire, the government would not have stepped back and become aware of the issues at stake."
In Strasbourg, Lyon, Rennes and Paris yesterday the demonstrations at times turned violent, with police firing tear gas and protesters lighting fires in the streets and hurling projectiles.
There were reports that a one-year-old baby was taken to hospital after being hit by a firework at a protest in Saint-Cyr-l'École, close to Versailles.
The High School Students Union said more than half of France's high schools were blockaded or would be closed for the day. Schools were scheduled to reopen today but regular classes will "be suspended" tomorrow and Friday for principals to host sessions with pupils.
A teenager's hand was blown off after it was claimed he picked up a police grenade in northern France on Monday.
The government said 6,100 people have been arrested and more than 1,800 people are being prosecuted for unspecified crimes, including 1,483 minors.
Six months before an election to replace Macron, his government and far-right leader Marine Le Pen's National Rally party have accused the hard-left France Unbowed (LFI) politicians and mayors of stoking the unrest.
LFI and its de facto leader, the presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon, deny the accusation.
Yesterday prosecutors in Metz demanded an inquiry into footage of policeman appearing to grope a female pupil he had detained.
Detectorist strikes second hoard of Bronze Age treasure
By Nick Forbes
A metal detectorist has said it is "quite extraordinary" to have discovered his second Bronze Age hoard just two years after his first find in the Scottish Borders.
Mariusz Stepien found his latest haul of 3,000-year-old treasure in 2022, at a spot just seven miles away from where he discovered the Peebles Hoard in 2020.
The hoard, dubbed the Blyth Hoard, has now joined the Peebles hoard at the National Museums Collection Centre in Edinburgh for conservation and analysis.
After first detecting an axe head, Stepien said he noticed other bronze objects in the ground.
The hoard contains some remarkable objects dating from the Late Bronze Age (circa 1150 to 800BC).
It features two bronze axe-heads, and clay moulds possibly used to manufacture some of the unique bronze fittings in the Peebles Hoard.
Excavation by archaeologists also revealed an ancient stone cairn.
"Finding something is one thing, but seeing the amount of work that goes into understanding, preserving and researching, it has been a really interesting part of the whole experience," Stepien said.
Detectorist Mariusz Stepien at an excavation near Peebles
India and Qatar are among seven bidders to host the 2036 Olympic Games, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has confirmed.
Interested parties have until the end of this month to lodge a formal bid and enter a dialogue process which will culminate in a final vote by IOC members in 2029.
India has long been seen a frontrunner, with Ahmedabad, the capital of Gujarat – the home state of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi – already announced as hosts of the 2030 Commonwealth Games.
Qatar launched unsuccessful bids to host both the 2016 and 2020 Games, losing out to Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo respectively.
Qatar intends to rely on infrastructure created for its 2022 hosting of the football World Cup.
Munich won the right to bid on behalf of Germany following a vote by the country's sports authority, the DOSB, late last month.
Other formal bidders include South Africa, South Korea, Hungary and Turkey.
After the bidding process closes, interested parties will make virtual presentations and undergo feasibility studies before the IOC executive board selects an initial shortlist.
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The Education Secretary, Lucy Powell, is locked in a stand-off with the Treasury after she announced that a wage rise for teachers would be fully funded without the green light from No 11.
It means schools face having to meet the pay award out of their existing budgets.
Powell, also Labour's deputy leader, announced the 3.5 per pay award would be fully funded in
September, staving off possible strike action over fears it would have to come out of the budgets of schools.
At the time the National Education Union general secretary Daniel Kebede said: "Finally, we have a government that accepts the reality that any teacher pay award must be fully funded."
In a letter to the union Powell had said the money had been found by re-evaluating local government pensions schemes.
She wrote: "Recent revaluations to the local government pension scheme will see a reduction in employer contribution rates and deliver significant savings on schools' pay bill for support staff.
"We can confirm this reduction in costs will not be clawed back and we are confident that schools will be able to cover the costs of the teacher pay award."
However, this money had already been built into schools' budgets, unions claim, raising doubts over the funding for the pay award.
The decision has left schools warning they still face funding pressures. School finance leaders argue that schools were already benefiting
The size of the pay award for teachers, which Powell said would be paid using extra money from the pension saving and had in-
corporated it into their budgets.
A senior Whitehall source said that the September announcement was linked to an attempt by the Department for Education (DfE) to head off industrial action.
The Treasury had not been involved in the initial discussions and had not agreed to the way the announcement was framed as fully funded, the source said.
The episode is understood to have further strained relations between the DfE and the Treasury.
A letter from NASUWT general secretary Matt Wrack to Powell last week said schools had been paying the new employer contribution rates since April and employers "have been aware of the new rates for some time and have already built this in to financial planning".
Wrack said: "Despite all the spin, there is no new money for schools and the underfunding crisis remains."
A Department for Education spokesperson said: "The pay award remains the same. What has changed is the affordability position following the recent valuation of the Local Government Pension Scheme, which has reduced schools' costs and strengthened schools' ability to meet the costs of the award.
"This represents a substantial improvement in schools' financial position for this year – helping them meet the costs of teacher pay."
After Powell's September letter, the DfE also removed a table from its Education Hub setting out how the 3.5 per cent award for teachers would be funded.
Lucy Powell had told the National Education Union the money had been found by re-evaluating local government pensions schemes IAN FORSYTH/GETTY
SEND reforms could face new delays after Burnham reshuffle
By Connie Dimsdale and Caroline Wheeler
The plan to overhaul special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) faces delays caused by the change in prime minister, The i Paper understands.
The Government's response to a major consultation on reforming the SEND system and new laws outlining the changes was expected in November, according to those familiar with the discussions.
But insiders fear Andy Burnham's arrival in No 10 and his subsequent appointment of a new education secretary could delay the timeline into the new year – raising concerns over whether the legislation would have sufficient time to get through Parliament and ready for implementation by September 2029.
A Government source said the process of Burnham replacing Bridget Phillipson with Lucy Powell in his Cabinet reshuffle meant there was “no world” in which officials would be able to stick to the current autumn timeframe.
Another source with knowledge of the SEND discussions said there was a “50/50 chance” the legislation could slip into next year, raising fears there may not be enough time to get it through Parliament before the next general election, which is due by 2029 at the latest.
The source said they were pushing for the reforms to be introduced this side of Christmas to ensure the changes, to improve support and make the system more sustainable for SEND children and their families, are not delayed.
The reforms are being introduced to curb the spiralling costs of educating children with special education needs.
Powell has promised to “tackle the SEND crisis” with early intervention and more investment, “reforming the system so it’s refocused on inclusion and improving outcomes for children”.
It is understood that the Department for Education (DfE) has put in a bid for the bill to be tabled before the end of the year.
However, it is down to the Parliamentary Business and Legislation (PBL) Committee – which manages the Government's legislative programme – to decide whether that will happen.
A Government source said the legislation is currently expected “in the next few months”, although no exact date has been set.
However, officials have insisted that even if the publication of the SEND reform plan was pushed back, it would not necessarily affect implementation, as the Parliamentary process could be expedited to ensure the measures are passed before the next election.
A Department for Education spokesman said: "We are on track to deliver our once-in-a-generation SEND reforms, and are completely committed to the implementation timelines set out in the Schools White Paper."
Protesters dressed as angels and devils demonstrate against the Jackdaw and Rosebank North Sea oil and gas development projects in Whitehall, London, yesterday DENISE BAKER/GETTY
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安迪·伯纳姆在担任曼彻斯特市长期间，与曼城主席哈尔多恩·穆巴拉克在2019年合影 MARTIN RICKETT / PA
PM urged to tell all about Manchester City dealings
Andy Burnham, when he was the mayor of Manchester, pictured with the Manchester City chairman, Khaldoon Al Mubarak, in 2019 MARTIN RICKETT/PA
By Sophie Wingate
Andy Burnham should publish "everything" related to his dealings with Manchester City, Kemi Badenoch has said, after the Prime Minister's comments in support of the football club's owners.
The Tory leader said “transparency is essential” as she accused Burnham of “not acting like the Prime Minister” because of his words of support for City’s owners despite the club’s being found guilty of 114 of 115 breaches of Premier League rules.
The Labour leader and former Greater Manchester mayor said last week he would be “really concerned” if Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan’s Abu Dhabi United Group Investment & Development Ltd sold the club in the wake of the finding by an independent commission, crediting the organisation with being “a huge partner in the building of modern Manchester”.
Burnham also appeared to draw parallels between City's guilty verdict and the handling of a disciplinary case against Everton, the side he supports.
He said he still held the view that the Toffees were “not fairly treated”, and told 5 News: “The Premier League proclaimed [Everton] guilty and I never accepted that and therefore it would be somewhat wrong of me to leap to judgement on another football club.”
After his remarks prompted criticism, a Downing Street spokesperson insisted the guilty verdict against City was “serious”.
Badenoch, in interviews during the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham, was asked whether Burnham should publish details of meetings he held as Greater Manchester mayor with anyone from Manchester City.
She told GB News: "He should. I'm surprised he hasn't done that already."
Pressed on what information he should release, the Tory leader said: "Everything... Otherwise what's being hidden?
"I think that the comments he made showed that he still thinks he is the mayor of Manchester. He is not
Manchester City have appealed against the Premier League's guilty verdict.
acting like the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom."
Badenoch also told the BBC: "I think transparency is essential. If he's got nothing to hide, then he should open the box.
"He has made a big deal about what he did for Manchester, and if it turns out that the story he's told is quite different, and actually it was Abu Dhabi that was doing these things, not him, then let's hear the truth.
“Andy Burnham is someone who says that he wants to be straight with people. I was very surprised at the way he waded in on this subject.”
"You would have heard me... when I became leader, saying that government should not be getting involved in football and tinkering with it.
"Let the fans and the clubs run themselves properly."
A major Labour donor has backed a report calling for a ban on private funding for UK political parties.
Environmental tycoon Dale Vince said UK democracy is “increasingly up for sale to the highest bidder” and should be made “squeaky clean”.
Vince has supported calls to replace the current system with public funding of political parties, as put forward in a report by the Autonomy Institute.
It claims this would cost £50m a year, which it says could be found by repurposing funding to the Royal Family.
Vince has donated several million pounds to Labour in recent years, including £50,000 to help defeat Green Party of England and Wales leader
Zack Polanski in the by-election for Sir Keir Starmer's former seat of Holborn and St Pancras.
The report, called “Politics is no longer for sale”, was commissioned by the tycoon's company, Ecotricity.
It says the UK has a “public trust problem” exacerbated by a system where political parties are “funded by wealthy private interests”.
Autonomy's previous research identified 373 firms that both donate to political parties and receive public contracts, with more than £1,294 flowing back to these companies for every £1 donated since 2000.
The report also cites Reform UK's
recent £72m in donations, mostly from two billionaires, as evidence of how concentrated political funding has become.
Vince said: "Ridiculous sums of money don't level the playing field, they distort it.
"British democracy is
increasingly up for sale to the highest bidder.
"I've been calling for a ban on all political donations for some time.
"For £50m a year, less than the cost of a packet of crisps per person, we could make our politics squeaky clean and genuinely representative."
Tory plan to reverse Brexit reset deal ‘will push up food prices’
Exclusive
By Arj Singh
DEPUTY POLITICAL EDITOR
The Conservative plan to reverse Labour's Brexit reset deal risks pushing up food prices and creating uncertainty for businesses, the industry has warned.
Shadow Cabinet members have committed to reversing any deals Andy Burnham agrees with the EU.
This includes a food and drink deal that will involve the UK aligning to Brussels law to reduce cross-border checks on trade and bring down supermarket prices.
The shadow Chancellor, Andrew Griffith, said the Tories would not accept following EU law without having a say over it.
Tory deputy leader Alex Burghart also vowed to reverse all aspects of Labour's "disastrous" Brexit reset.
Andy Burnham is poised to finalise the food and drink deal before the end of the year, amid speculation that the UK and EU could hold a summit to sign off on a series of Brexit reset deals as soon as 20 November.
But if the Tories win the next election, scheduled in 2029, this agreement could be overturned soon after being implemented, with trade barriers with the EU re-erected.
Industry chiefs warned that the Tories' commitment to overturning the proposed deal was damaging to business certainty and that changing the rules so soon after the UK aligns to EU law would push up food price inflation.
A deal aims to reduce cross-border checks on trade to cut prices
Senior Labour figures said it was an “anti-business” position that the Tories would be forced to U-turn on.
Karen Betts, chief executive of the Food and Drink Federation, said the EU was the UK's largest market in her sector but that trade has "suffered" since Brexit, with exports down a third compared with 2019.
She backed Labour's deal as a "sensible thing to do" to boost exports.
Betts added: "Every change to food rules, whether that's a new labelling requirement or additional reporting, costs businesses. At a time when food inflation is a real concern, what manufacturers need most is a consistent direction of travel."
Nick Thomas-Symonds, who was Labour's chief negotiator with the EU until July, said: "If the Tories want to argue in favour of paperwork at the border and higher costs at the tills, they are an anti-business party.
"They know perfectly well that many British businesses exporting to the EU follow their practices and rules in any case."
Badenoch refuses to commit on reinstating pension triple lock
By Caroline Wheeler
POLITICAL EDITOR
The Tory leader, Kemi Badenoch, has refused to commit to bringing back the pension triple lock if Labour scraps it before the next election.
Badenoch repeatedly declined to say whether a Conservative government would reinstate the guarantee, which raises the state pension each year by the highest of inflation, earnings growth or 2.5 per cent.
Andy Burnham's government is expected to press ahead with legislation to change the system in the next
Parliament to fund a new National Care Service – meaning Badenoch could enter Downing Street with the triple lock already gone.
Under Burnham's proposal, pensions would instead rise by at least inflation or 2.5 per cent while remaining liked to earnings over the longer term – saving around £15bn a year by the end of 2030 and rising to £50bn a year by 2050.
The Tories have retained a commitment to maintain the triple lock in the party's draft manifesto.
However, when pressed by the BBC's Chris Mason on whether she would reverse the change if Labour succeeded in passing legislation before the next election, Badenoch said: "What I'm not going to do is speak in hypotheticals."
Kemi Badenoch at the Tory party conference in Birmingham yesterday PA
When Mason insisted it was a matter of principle, she replied: "I believe in fiscal responsibility," adding that it would depend on what Burnham had done with the money.
She went on: "If you want the triple lock after the next election, you've got to vote Conservative... As circumstances change, we may have to adapt to things. I don't know what that situation will be, but if people want to keep the triple lock, vote Conservative. That's the policy."
Asked again whether she would commit to reinstating it if Labour abolished it, she said: "I'm not playing that game. I think it is dishonest to viewers because I don't know what the situation would be... I tell them what I can pay for, what I can't pay for. I don't promise we can pay for the triple lock now."
In the same interview, Badenoch said the Tories would call another general election rather than enter a coalition with Reform UK if they were the largest party in a hung parliament. “I have said that we would have another election if there was no overall majority,” she said.
Asked whether she would turn her back on power even with the keys to Downing Street within reach, she said she wanted Reform voters to return to the Conservatives, claiming Nigel Farage's party was "neck deep in scandal" and working with it "would just be one problem after another".
Tory leader to launch 'battle for the soul of this nation'
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By Caroline Wheeler
Kemi Badenoch will say that Britain faces its biggest political fight in more than half a century as she sets out economic growth as the “central organising principle” of the next Conservative government today.
The Tory leader, who is expected to announce plans to cut inheritance tax, will frame the coming general election as a “battle of ideas” between her party and a government she will say wants to “wind back the clock to failed ideas of the past”.
She will say: “Conference, there is a fight coming in British politics. A fight that we have not seen in this country for more than half a century. It will be a battle for the soul of this nation.”
Badenoch is expected to accuse her opponents of believing that “government knows best” and that people’s income, pensions and savings “are theirs to take”.
She will warn that their policies would mean higher taxes and bills, adding: “Just because these ideas are delivered on TikTok doesn’t make them any less dangerous than they have always been.”
The bulk of the speech will focus on the state of the public finances, which Badenoch will describe as “the fundamental problem” facing the country.
She will point to national debt of nearly £3trn, rising by more than £100bn a year, and claim that last year four in every five pounds borrowed by the government went on debt interest. "That's like taking out a second mortgage just to pay the interest on your first mortgage," she will say. "This is crazy."
Badenoch will restate her party's "Golden Economic Rule", first announced last year, under which 50 pence of every pound saved would go towards cutting the deficit.
She will add: "Restoring confidence in the public finances is the foundation of economic growth."
She added: "All of them are being investigated for one financial irregularly or another. I don't have time for that."
A Labour spokesperson dismissed the Conservatives' plans as "yet more fantasy economics".
Reform's Treasury spokesman Robert Jenrick said: "How can Kemi Badenoch not be willing to reverse Burnham's plot to cut the state pension? British pensioners have paid in their entire lives and deserve more than a betrayal stitched up in Westminster.
“Reform will make different choices so we can put British pensioners first. We will go into the next election with a rock-solid pledge to keep the triple lock.”
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Badenoch yesterday also announced plans to halve employer national insurance for workers aged 21 to 24 – cutting the rate from 15 per cent to 7.5 per cent – as the first part of a “rescue plan for young people”.
A note of harmony
A children's choir from St Mary's Ukrainian School in west London performs yesterday at the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham. The majority of children at
the school are refugees. They were applauded by Shadow Cabinet members (left to right) Tom Tugendhat, Helen Whately, James Cartlidge and Alex Burghart. IAN FORSYTH/GETTY
Missile defence plan would cover overseas territories, say Tories
By Will Meakin-Durrant
Conservative plans for a new missile defence system would come with "parallel" protections for overseas territories, amid Argentinian "sabre-rattling over the Falklands".
The shadow Defence Secretary, James Cartlidge, said a future Conservative government would roll out new radar and air defence systems on the Falkland Islands.
"We will take whatever steps necessary to stop anyone from even thinking about an invasion because the Falklands are British and they will always be British," he said in a speech at the Conservative Party's annual conference.
Cartlidge used his speech in Birmingham to set out plans for a “Britannia Shield” defence system for the UK, to bring down drones and missiles in the event of an attack.
Cartlidge said the system he proposed would be “capable of protecting our critical national infrastructure and military bases from long-range attack”.
The Argentine flag over a map of the Falklands on a Buenos Aires mural
He added: "At the moment, our most credible deterrent is our nuclear deterrent, but with Britannia Shield we want adversaries to understand that if they attack us, we would have the means to defend ourselves and, in turn, preserve our ability to retaliate."
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To applause, Cartlidge (inset) also said: "We must also stand by our overseas territories.
"With our base on Cyprus attacked and Argentina sabre-rattling over the Falklands, I make this promise - when we procure those air defence systems for
our nation, we will always in parallel, reinforce our sovereign bases and overseas territories.
"Just as Britannia Shield means new and improved radars for the UK, we would also boost this capability on the Falkland Islands.
"Just as our plan would mean stronger stockpiles of air defence systems at home, we would strengthen our air defences on the Falklands."
Argentina's President, Javier Milei, last month claimed the Falkland Islands were "under illegal foreign occupation" by the UK.
Speaking at the UN General Assembly in New York, Milei also threatened "to take matters into our own hands".
He said the islanders' self-determination "does not apply in this case, since the population was implanted by the occupying power on a territory whose sovereignty is in dispute".
The UK's UN delegation in response said: "The Falkland Islanders have as much right to determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development so any
cultural development as any other peoples."
The Defence Secretary, Wes Streeting, has previously written on X that his “commitment to the Falklands is absolute and unshakeable”.
He added: "The Falklands are British because Falkland Islanders choose to British."
be British."
Responding to Cartlidge, Streeting said: "The Conservatives put more effort into defending their abysmal record than they ever put into defending Britain."
RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus was hit by an Iranian drone earlier this year. The strike was launched after Israel and the US attacked Iran, and the UK Government granted US forces permission to carry out defensive action from UK bases.
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特拉斯的关联“可能会毁掉克莱弗利”
作者：Will Hazell
一名保守党市长提名竞争中的劣势候选人表示，前内政大臣詹姆斯·克莱弗利爵士（Sir James Cleverly）因与利兹·特拉斯（Liz Truss）的关联而背负了太多包袱，难以帮保守党赢回伦敦。
Former home secretary Sir James Cleverly has too much baggage to win back London for the Tories because of his association with Liz Truss, the underdog for the Tory mayoral nomination has said.
Festus Akinbusoye, 48, former Bedfordshire police and crime commissioner and now London councillor, said the Conservatives need a “fresh face” in the capital “without links to the past”.
The Tories are currently in the process of deciding who will be their candidate for the 2028 race. So far, the declared contenders are Cleverly, Akinbusoye and Alex Challoner, a former Tory adviser.
Akinbusoye suggested Cleverly was tarnished by his association with Truss. When put to him that Cleverly had occupied two great offices of state, he replied: "To which prime ministers?"
Cleverly was appointed foreign secretary by Truss but then retained in the post by Rishi Sunak when he took over after her "mini-Budget".
目前，英国的国防支出占 GDP 的 2.6%。到2030年实现北约目标将需要相当于将所得税提高 1 便士。
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PM may postpone defence spending review for a year
By Harry Goodwin
Andy Burnham is reportedly considering delaying the Government's defence spending review until autumn next year.
The review, which will set out a timetable for raising defence spending to 3 per cent of GDP, had been expected to happen in the spring.
But ministers are now considering delaying it so it takes place at the same time as next autumn's Budget, according to The Times.
This would reportedly let the Government justify tax rises or spending cuts to fund higher defence spending.
Burnham is said to be considering a delay in the hope that the economy will improve, limiting the need for unpopular fiscal measures.
"This is not a risk-free strategy," Ruth Curtice, head of the Resolution Foundation, told The Times.
“Markets know the Government needs to find the money for extra defence spending, and failing to explain where this will come from will increase uncertainty.”
It is thought hitting the Nato defence spending target of 3 per cent of GDP will cost an extra £10bn a year.
Sir Keir Starmer left his £4.7bn defence investment plan unfunded when he left Downing Street.
John Healey, the Chancellor, is expected to limit commitments on defence spending to funding the plan in his first Budget later this month.
Last week, the Defence Secretary, Wes Streeting, said he would not be “complacent” in talks with the Treasury on boosting defence spending.
Speaking at a Labour Party conference fringe event, Streeting (inset) said he had told his officials they could not "just send in John Healey's resignation letter" to secure more funding.
Healey resigned as Starmer's defence secretary in a row over military spending, accusing the Treasury of being "unwilling to commit the resources that the nation needs" to defend itself.
Now he faces pressure to increase defence spending against a back-ground of rising borrowing costs,
uggish economic growth and fallout from the Iran war.
Streeting said Healey did not need "persuading" of the case for more spending, and his job would be to "make it easy for him to say yes". "I keep saying to the
Ministry of Defence, I don't want complacency,"
Streeting told Politico. "We've got to demonstrate not only why we need more and what we'd do with it, but how we're spending the money we already have."
He added he would “drive hard on value for money, productivity, and making sure we deal with the procurement challenges that have plagued the MoD”.
Last month, the Ministry of Defence announced that 40,000 18- to 24-year-olds will be offered jobs and work experience with major defence firms such as BAE Systems, Lockheed Martin and Airbus by 2030.
At present, Britain spends 2.6 per cent of GDP on defence. Hitting the Nato target by 2030 will require the equivalent of a 1p rise in income tax.
Labour has surged ahead in the polls securing a five-point lead over Reform UK in the wake of Andy Burnham's first conference as party leader.
Burnham's speech appears to have resonated with parts of the electorate as a YouGov poll has put Labour at 27 per cent, up three points from last week and ahead of Reform which has dropped to 22 per cent.
During Burnham's at times very personal speech, he pledged to bring back greater public control of water, energy and housing, electoral reform and closer ties with Europe.
The share of people who intend to vote Labour at the next election, according to YouGov
The Prime Minister also indicated long-term plans to scrap the triple lock on the state pension to fund a new national care service.
He received standing ova-
tions during the speech and it appears to have translated to Labour's performance at the polls.
The survey also revealed 61 per cent of Labour's 2024 voters would vote for the party again if an election were held tomorrow,
up from 42 per cent in May this year.
The Conservative Party held on to third place with 20 per cent, while the Liberal Democrats have dropped to 11 per cent with the Green Party remaining at 11 per cent.
If the Government needs more money – and it's a separate debate as to whether it should improve its own efficiency so that it does not need it – there is only one place that it can go to. That's middle earners.
That may seem an uncomfortable judgement for many people but there are two overwhelming reasons behind it. One is the mathematics of where it gets its revenue at the moment. The other is that by European standards, British middle earners – that is, those whose income is around the median salary of £39,000 – pay relatively little tax right now. And if that seems even more surprising, that too is a question of numbers.
To see the first point, you have to look at the importance of income tax. It's the biggest tax of all, bringing in £239bn in the last financial year. That's 26.7 per cent of all revenue. Next comes national insurance, also a tax on income, which brings £205bn, another 16.7 per cent of revenue. Number three is VAT, which at £180bn, means the
Buying a
second home
is pure greed.
It's time we
taxed it
Andrew Fisher
T ax has two purposes. The first is to raise revenue – something the Government urgently needs as there is a deficit, and public services
face increased demand after years of underfunding.
big three account for more than half all revenue the Government gets.
After that the numbers fall off quite quickly. So to make a real difference to the Government's bottom line, the amount by which you would need to increase the other taxes that are often floated – council tax, business rates, capital gains tax – would be huge.
Let's say you think people should be discouraged from driving their cars. You whack up fuel duty, so that is £3 a litre at the pumps. You get a lot of very cross motorists, a big increase in industrial and distribution costs – meaning higher food prices in the supermarkets – and maybe another £15bn.
On the other hand, by putting 2p on the basic rate of income tax,
But the second purpose of taxation is deterrence. For years we raised taxation on cigarettes which, alongside public health campaigns, has decreased tobacco usage and saved on health spending. We tax petrol use for much the same purpose.
We need to change behaviour on housing too. To buy a second home when others cannot afford one is greedy. Invest your money in stocks and shares, antiques, fine art – anything you like, as long as it isn't an essential good. Too few people can buy a home and too many are paying too much for them.
Whether you pay rent or a mortgage, more and more of us are paying more and more simply to keep a roof over our heads. Private rent increases have been above inflation in recent years, and the benign 2-3 per cent mortgage rates of the 2010s and early 2020s have given way to 5 per cent. Despite a modest fall, house prices remain at historic highs relative to wages.
The housing crisis has been exacerbated by the failure of that gives the Government at least £15bn, probably more like £20bn.
Alternatively it can increase NI contributions – as Rachel Reeves did in her first budget. It seems to be bringing something close to the extra £25bn a year forecast. But while notionally the extra money was paid by employers rather than workers, in practice it has hit workers with lower employment,
Telling high earners to pay more might feel good, but the numbers don't bear it out
successive governments to build enough homes.
Now the young are shut out. Under-25s made up a quarter of first-time buyers in the 90s; now they account for just 6 per cent.
We need more homes to enter the market. Yet more and more people have bought property as investment opportunities rather than as homes.
Data from 2022-23 suggests that around 4.3 million households own more than one property. This has to be discouraged. To that end, the Government should increase taxes on the purchase of second
price increases and lower pay rises. It would probably have been better to have done it via income tax – less of a hit to employment, no increase in prices and less pressure to hold down wage increases – but of course politically she felt she couldn't do so.
But if you are going to increase income tax, why not do the top rates? But it doesn't work, because high earners change their habits. It's not simply a question of a few wealthy people leaving the country, though that is troubling enough.
Losing someone like Chris Rokos – the hedge-fund billionaire and, at £330m, the third largest payer of income tax in the UK, who is reportedly off to Greece – is bad news. You need 330,000 people paying an extra £1,000 a year to
homes – either through stamp duty or through a punitive surcharge on mortgage rates.
It wouldn't ban second home ownership, but it would mean that if you do want to own a second home, you are paying for the damage it does to others: it's the "polluter pays" principle.
There is a strong economic case to deter second home ownership and landlordism. The economist John Maynard Keynes called for the “euthanasia of the rentier” – that is, an end to those who seek rent, extract value for themselves and produce exactly nothing of value.
That's happening in today's housing market, especially in the private rented sector. Rentier landlords do not create jobs or growth; they simply extract value and accumulate wealth for themselves. Worse, they do it by taking away a growing share of people's post-tax incomes.
cover that. Since around 60 per cent of all residents pay income tax, you are talking about an extra £1,000 from every taxpayer in a city the size of Manchester.
Higher rents and mortgage rates are depleting disposable incomes which could be spent in the job-creating parts of the economy.
Actually the problem is much worse than a few people leaving. The proportion of income tax paid by the top 1 per cent of earners has been falling since 2021-22. They paid 30.7 per cent of revenue then. Last year it was down to 26.6 per cent. So it's not the fault of the present Government that those top one percenters are paying a smaller share. It is a lagged response to the gradual increases in taxation of the previous governments. Put up rates too high and you get less money in. That's the phenomenon highlighted by the American economist Arthur Laffer in 1974: the Laffer curve.
It looks as though the UK's top rate of income tax rate of 45 per cent is cutting revenue – it's on the wrong side of the Laffer curve. So it has to be the middle earners who must stump up, and the best way is by raising the basic rate, and by cutting the top rate. Those middle earners are undertaxed.
A study by the Resolution Foundation this month looked at the proportion of income paid by a single person on average earnings in the developed world. In the UK in 2024 it was 30 per cent. Only New Zealand, Switzerland, Korea, Israel and Australia were lower. The rate has gone up to 32 per cent now but that's still well below the average. In most of Europe it's in the 40-50 per cent range, and in Belgium it's over 50 per cent.
Reflexively shouting for high earners to pay their share might feel good, but the numbers don't bear it out as a strategy. If middle earners want the kinds of public services and public pensions our neighbours enjoy, they'd better be prepared to pay for them.
Paying more rent or a higher mortgage doesn't create jobs, but spending in local shops, pubs and restaurants does.
Another means of deterring second home ownership and boosting the economy would be to freeze rents for a couple of years and then cap rent increases at the rate of inflation. It'd also counter any temptation to pass on any additional tax costs to tenants.
It would help the public finances too. We currently spend £37.3bn a year on housing benefits and local councils are spending £3bn a year on emergency accommodation for the record number of homeless families in England.
Ultimately the country needs to be building council housing in far greater quantities, which would reduce the cost of housing benefit.
But as housebuilding is ramped up, freezing rents and taxing second homes would be the right move for a government determined to tackle the housing crisis, kick-start growth and improve the public finances.
UK intelligence review after spy chief is arrested
By Joe Duggan
SENIOR REPORTER
Britain's security services will be conducting a "huge review" over potential intelligence leaks after a former German spy chief was arrested on suspicion of espionage and treason, experts have said.
August Hanning, 80, who was head of Germany's Federal Intelligence Service (BND) from 1998 to 2005, is accused of illegally collecting thousands of classified documents and using them in analysis for a foreign spy service.
The information included "highly sensitive situation assessments, classified material from foreign partner agencies" as well as papers on Iran's nuclear programme and the Russian military, according to the Süddeutsche Zeitung.
August Hanning is alleged to have paid for information after he left
Anthony Glees, an expert on intelligence and UK-German relations, said the alleged breach is Europe's most serious since the British double agent Kim Philby was unmasked as a Soviet spy in 1963.
"It is totally jaw-dropping and the repercussions could hardly be more serious," he said. "It is as if MI6 chief Blaise Metreweli were arrested."
Matthew Dunn, a former MI6 intelligence officer, said that intelligence relating to state-sponsored terrorism, espionage or political destabilisation could be compromised.
As Europe's biggest intelligence service, the BND is a routine recipient of classified information from agencies including MI6 and the CIA.
Five years after his tenure as head of the BND ended, Hanning agreed with a former office manager to receive confidential intelligence information in exchange for payment, according to prosecutors.
Hanning's ex-chief of staff, Manfred D, is alleged to have supplied him with nearly 2,000 BND documents. Hanning allegedly used these to inform his private consultancy business.
Manfred D was chief of staff for
Police officers outside August Hanning's home in Nordwalde, Germany, yesterday CHRISTOPH REICHWEIN/DPA
Hanning's successors between 2012 and 2026 and is alleged to have provided him with information until at least mid-2022.
According to Deutsche Welle, Hanning also allegedly maintained close contact for years with an employee of a foreign intelligence service.
Officials have told the Financial Times that Russia was not part of their investigation. Glees said other states that could be implicated include “the usual suspects”, citing China, Iran and North Korea.
Since it was founded in 1956, the
BND had become almost an “external arm” of the CIA, he said.
"The CIA will be absolutely beside themselves, as will MI6," Glees said.
Dunn said information shared between intelligence agencies is "sanitised, precisely because of these possibilities that the end recipient could be a bit leaky. Life can be lost so the biggest jeopardy is at stake here."
ish intelligence with information about Islamic terrorism as well as Russia, he added.
If Hanning were working alongside a foreign intelligence service, any information the BND may have received about that country “may well have been tainted”, said Glees.
That, in turn, could mean any decisions the UK took about that particular country could also have been based on false information, he added.
"The opportunity for disinformation is massive," he said, with the potential damage caused "enormous".
Fairford 'plot' shows UK is not prepared to face threat
Robert Fox
With the rapid withdrawal of 12 B1-b bombers back to the US, the story of the security
threat to RAF Fairford gets deeper and murkier.
Donald Trump said the US had known of a “threat” that led to the removal of the bombers. US briefers told reporters that what they saw as an Iranian-backed plot had been followed for more than a fortnight, and that the threat of a drone attack by foreign agents or their proxies was serious.
Meanwhile, US military aircrew connected to the Fairfield base gave background briefings to The Wall Street Journal that US authorities feared that a plot against the base could involve sending in small hit squads to kill military personnel stationed there.
Both the Journal and The New York Times have given clear reports about the situation. The British press has been left behind. Official spokespersons at the UK Ministry of Defence have said this is largely an American matter and referred correspondents to the Pentagon.
The official line of the UK government is that all military air bases are safe. But in downplaying Fairford and its significance, the Burnham government is losing control of the narrative.
Many details have still not been made public about what happened at Fairford. Only yesterday, counterterrorism police said they had arrested a 22-year-old British man in London on suspicion of preparation of terrorist acts in connection to a suspected plot at Fairford.
There has also been no background information about the six previous arrests. The men are out on bail, and it is not clear what charges are pending, if any at all.
Experts have pointed at how Iranian and Russian agents had been hiring local criminals to prepare – and carry out – subversive operations.
One view is that the men near RAF Fairford were being used as a deception ploy, to distract the
Badenoch's Britannia Shield is fantasy – it would take too long to develop. It is a figment of politics
police and airfield security, while the main action would come from another direction.
The most daring recent drone attack that is ringing alarm bells is the mass attack mounted by Ukraine in June 2025. Operation Spiderweb involved 117 attack drones launched from lorries smuggled close to five different Russian airbases.
Around 40 aircraft were hit, including 10 strategic bombers that were destroyed. A hostile state could conceivably take Ukraine's playbook and use drones disguised in lorries against our own bases.
A US B-1 bomber at RAF Fairfield - the aircraft were kept in the open
One joint RAF-US Air Force base that lays bare the security crisis is RAF Mildenhall in Suffolk. The USAF keep air tankers and support aircraft for Special Operations Command here but as at Fairford they sit in the open with no hardened shelters.
If Trump is serious about the Iran-backed drone threat, they will have to be moved.
Whitehall sources have said that Andy Burnham is unlikely to increase defence spending at all this parliament, despite previous pledges and promises to Trump and Nato. Instead, the budget will stick at around 2.4 per cent of GDP, with a huge amount of that going to expenditure on nuclear programmes.
Kemi Badenoch's Britannia Shield is largely fantasy – it would take too long to develop and wouldn't be comprehensive. It is a figment of politics rather than a practical option. But with the UK dependent on maritime and air security, and with 95 per cent of our trade in goods conveyed by sea, we need to do better.
Britain – meaning every one of us – is incredibly vulnerable and our government appears to be doing nothing to protect us from these very real and growing threats. This is the message from Fairford. And it is getting louder by the day.
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皇家空军基地“阴谋”案第七人被捕
作者：Nick Lester, Christopher McKeon 和 Margaret Davis
By Nick Lester, Christopher McKeon and Margaret Davis
A seventh man has been arrested by police investigating a suspected terror plot near RAF Fairford.
The 22-year-old British national was held on suspicion of preparation of terrorist acts in Westminster, central London, said Counter Terrorism Policing.
Six suspects have already been arrested and released on bail after three suspicious vans were stopped near the Gloucestershire airbase on 27 September.
RAF Fairford had been used by US bomber aircraft, which were withdrawn over the weekend following the incident.
Reasons for their removal remain unclear, but the US President, Donald Trump, said the action was taken because “there were some threats”.
He said: "Rather than tempting the enemy, we'll capture the enemy and beat the enemy. But why should we keep them there? So we moved them around a little bit, not very far.
"We actually know the people who made the threat."
The risk to people in the UK from plague is very low, officials have said, as Russia continues to study the death of a woman linked to the disease.
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said it was seeking further information on the Russian case but reassured the public about possible spread.
Russian authorities say they have quarantined a hospital and are monitoring contacts of an employee from a plague research institute in Siberia who contracted pneumonia from an “unknown” cause.
They say they have found no evidence her illness was caused by any of the pathogens she worked with, but media reports suggest she may have died of pneumonic plague.
The woman, named in reports as Darya Shipilova (inset), 28, worked at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and the Far East in Irkutsk, south-eastern Siberia.
The anti-plague institute where Darya Shipilova worked, yesterday
Plague is a disease usually found in small mammals and their fleas.
It is no longer found in the UK, but occurs in several countries in Africa, Asia and the Americas.
The disease is usually transmitted to humans from infected animals or fleas but people can pass it on from coughing.
Usually, this requires direct and close contact with the person with pneumonic plague.
If plague is untreated, it can cause rapid death, but antibiotics can be effective if it is caught in time.
Chris Lewis, director of global health protection at the UKHSA, said: "We are aware of media reports that emergency containment measures have been introduced in Russia's Irkutsk region following the death of an employee at the Irkutsk anti-plague institute.
"The public health risk from plague to the wider UK population currently remains very low."
The US President, Donald Trump, has said the US is looking “very strongly” at the case.
Yesterday, Russia's health watchdog said no cases of plague had been detected among anyone who had contact with Shipilova.
Elena Sofina, deputy head of the Shelekhov district near Irkutsk,
where a hospital was placed under quarantine, said a "dangerous diagnosis" had not been made.
Local media said around 200 people had previously been quarantined.
Fake photos and videos shared on social media are amplifying unproven claims of a deadly plague following the death of a lab worker in Russia.
Deleted warnings, claims of children's hospitals on lockdown and people in hazmat suits have fuelled rumours Russia is attempting to cover up an outbreak of a fast-spreading disease in Siberia.
Frightening screenshots and videos are sweeping across X and Telegram, but a closer look reveals many of these posts are at best, unconfirmed or unclear, and at worst, fake. The problem is not helped by evasive statements from Russian officials – leaving gaps for social media sleuths to fill with misinformation.
Russia has a reputation for covering up bad news with a tightly controlled state media.
News sites run by opposition or exiled Russians such as People of Baikal are sometimes proving more reliable than official sources.
But sites like these can also be fallible. Some of the reports of hospitals being closed or quarantined do not appear to be true, with one children's hospital named by the local press as having shut later clarifying it is "operating normally without any changes".
The hospital warned people “to disregard fake news” and stated that “the only reliable source of information about our hospital’s activities is our official pages”.
Russia has honed its air force fighting in Ukraine
James Rodgers
Russia's aerial threat to the UK has soared to the top of the political agenda following the Conservative Party's
announcement at its conference of plans for a missile defence shield.
The proposed £10bn “Britannia Shield”, which has been compared to Israel’s Iron Dome defence system, is not before time.
While Russia has suffered massive casualties in more than four years of war on Ukraine, the Kremlin's air force is likely to have learnt from its combat experience – and poses a new and greater threat that Britain is not fully prepared for.
Experience of the UK under aerial bombardment lies at the limits of living memory, with few left alive today able to remember the Second World War.
But since Vladimir Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Russian warplanes have flown close to UK airspace a number of times. Royal Air Force fighters have been deployed to intercept and monitor them, so far without incident.
In wartime, however, it would be different. "If there were hostilities you wouldn't expect aircraft to come particularly close to the UK because they'd be launching their missiles at very, very long ranges," said Douglas Barrie, a senior fellow for military aerospace at the
International Institute for Strategic Studies in London.
Parts of Russia's aerial fleet - Su-35s and some Su-30SM2s - have been modified with that in mind: their medium-range missiles replaced with longer-range ones.
When the Cold War ended, fighting forces were scaled back on both sides. Russia did not have the money for a large military. Western Europe focused its resources elsewhere. However, in the Putin era, that process has gone into reverse.
The Russian air force may have been reduced in size, but it was never mothballed. As a journalist in Chechnya in 1995, I ran for my life from a Russian air strike aimed at separatist fighters. Civilians in rebel-held areas of Syria later came to know well the fear inspired by Russian warplanes.
Over the last few years its air force has, if anything, become a greater threat. "Russian fighter pilots have improved their effectiveness in air-to-air engagements during the [Ukraine] war," the Rusi paper warned.
And with the Russian budget for 2027 focused on providing even more fuel for the Kremlin's war machine, the air force will not want for resources.
At the same time, a future conflict in the skies between Nato and Russia wouldn't just be about planes.
Ukraine's ability to launch drones from increasing distances to strike targets far from the front lines has been a major factor in the way that conflict has evolved.
That war has lessons for the UK, although as Barrie points out, the drones that Russia is using in Ukraine don't have the range to reach the UK's shores. However, he said there may be other ways that Moscow looks "at launching similar
Kyiv's ability to launch drones from increasing distances has been a factor in the way the war has evolved
classes of weapons". This could include drones being launched from Russian merchant vessels in waters that put them in range of targets in countries like the UK.
One aspect of UK defences in particular needs to be improved, according to Barrie. "The real area of weakness is in terms of ground-based air defence, so surface-to-air missiles. We really don't have nearly enough of those," he said.
If it did come to war with Russia, the UK would be fighting alongside other Nato allies – but air defences are in short supply everywhere.
A Ministry of Defence spokesperson said the UK would always defend itself against any threat.
However, the threats over European skies are only growing, and our enemies have a lot more recent experience in how to conduct and defend that type of warfare.
James Rodgers is the author of 'The Return of Russia: from Yeltsin to Putin'
The crew of a merchant ship was missing yesterday after the vessel was sunk by a drone strike in the Black Sea off Bulgaria.
It was not immediately clear who carried out the attack, about 70 miles off the town of Byala in the waters of the Nato country's exclusive economic zone.
But the prime minister, Rumen Radev, who described the strike as a gross violation of international law, suggested the drones came from Russia or Ukraine, which have major ports on the Black Sea.
在伦敦泰特英国馆（Tate Britain）举办的“90年代：艺术与时尚”展览预览期间，一名参观者正在观看由因卡·肖尼巴雷（Yinka Shonibare）创作的《秋千（仿弗拉戈纳尔）》。该展览由前《Vogue》编辑爱德华·恩宁富尔（Edward Enninful）策划，将探讨那个时代如何改变了英国文化的面貌。JONATHAN BRADY / PA
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Rubio reassures Iceland of ambitions
The US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, yesterday sought to reassure Iceland that Donald Trump's administration has no designs on the island but shares its deep concerns about Arctic security.
Rubio met Iceland's minister for foreign affairs, Thorgerdur Katrín Gunnarsdóttir, at Reykjavik's Hofdi House (inset).
Both allies minimised their differences as Rubio made clear that the US would not do anything in Iceland without consent.
A visitor views 'The Swing (After Fragonard)' by Yinka Shonibare during a preview of 'The 90s: Art and Fashion' exhibition at Tate Britain, London. Curated by former 'Vogue' editor Edward Enninful, the exhibition will examine how this era changed the face of British culture. JONATHAN BRADY/PA
Warning on medical cannabis after surge in UK private prescriptions
By Jane Kirby
Almost two million unlicensed cannabis products have been issued on private prescription in the past year.
The data about soaring demand came as England's patient safety commissioner Professor Henrietta Hughes said there was a need for urgent action to protect those who buy medical cannabis online.
NHS Business Services Authority said that from June 2025 to May this year, there were 1,967,268 unlicensed cannabis items issued on private prescription, a big jump on the previous year's figures – 659,293 items were dispensed in 2024, up from 282,920 in 2023.
Three-quarters of the items in 2025-26 were for cannabis flower, while the rest were liquid vape cartridges, oils, drops and gummies. A 2018 change in the law made it legal to prescribe cannabis-based products for medicinal use in the UK.
While a small number of patients can obtain the drug on the NHS, most of the products dispensed are unlicensed and prescribed by private clinics.
Medical cannabis is marketed as being able to treat a range of conditions, from anxiety, depression and ADHD, through to chronic pain, migraines and Crohn's disease.
The drugs can only be prescribed by or under the direction of a doctor who is on the specialist register of the General Medical Council.
Hughes said there was a need to tighten up the rules around prescribing and look out for people who could be harmed.
who could be harmed.
She said: "The growth of medicinal cannabis prescribing has outpaced the systems needed to ensure patient safety.
"This is not about whether these medicines should be available to patients who may benefit from them.
"It is about making sure the safeguards around prescribing are strong enough to identify risks early and prevent avoidable harm."
A government spokesperson said: "As with any medicine, including unlicensed cannabis-based products prescribed for medicinal use, patients should follow the advice of their healthcare professional and the information provided with their medication."
Professor Mike Barnes, chairman of the Medical Cannabis Clinicians Society, said it had developed its good practice guide "to provide a clear framework for safe, responsible prescribing".
Hughes said the 2018 law change was "made with the intention that a small number of highly specialised doctors would be able to prescribe to a small cohort of patients", but prescription numbers have risen dramatically since then.
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他汀类药物可预防青光眼
他汀类药物可能保护人们免于患上一种可能导致失明的眼疾。
服用这种降低胆固醇药丸的青光眼患者似乎更不需要手术，且病情恶化的概率较低。
发表在《英国眼科杂志》（British Journal of Ophthalmology）上的一项研究发现，已经患有青光眼且正在服用他汀类药物的人，似乎更不需要使用额外的眼药水或手术等更强力的治疗手段。
Blue light on poultry can kill bugs that cause food poisoning
By Sally Guyoncourt
Shining a low-power blue light on raw chicken may cut cases of food poisoning in the UK and the need for emergency blue lights later.
Campylobacter is the main cause of bacterial food poisoning in the UK, according to the Food Standards Agency.
Hundreds of thousands of cases each year cost an estimated £700m annually in healthcare and lost productivity. It is usually transmitted by undercooked poultry or red meat and unpasteurised milk, leading to stomach cramps, bloody diarrhoea, fever and sometimes vomiting.
Most people recover within around a week, but it can lead to serious health conditions and in some cases be fatal.
Researchers at the University of Reading have discovered light treatment on raw chicken can work more effectively than treating it with chlorine to kill off specific strains of bacteria.
“What’s exciting about this light-based approach is that it doesn’t rely on chemicals or antibiotics at all, so it sidesteps the resistance problem entirely,” lead study author Aidan Taylor said.
In the study, published in Microbiology, researchers tested a technique called violet-blue photodynamic inactivation (VB-PDI) against 64 different strains of Campylobacter.
They found every strain was killed by the treatment, regardless of species or antibiotic resistance profile.
Shining a safe, visible violet-blue light onto bacteria causes molecules inside their cells to produce lethal levels of destructive compounds.
It requires no physical contact with the food and no added chemicals.
Researchers estimate it could reduce the proportion of highly contaminated carcasses reaching retail from around one in 10 to one in 50.
Statins may protect people from developing an eye condition that can lead to blindness.
Patients with glaucoma who take the cholesterol-busting pills appear less likely to need surgery and have a reduced chance of it getting worse.
A study, in the British Journal of Ophthalmology, found that people who already have glaucoma who are taking statins appear less likely to need stronger treatments such as extra eye drops or surgery.
The study author Dr Robert Weinreb said: "Statins may prevent or slow nerve cell death."
乳头在时尚界已经成为一项大生意一段时间了。最近的一次大都会艺术博物馆慈善舞会（Met Gala）简直是一场乳头盛宴。时尚记者们在专栏中思考乳头是否已经过时，结果高傲的设计师们让模特在 T 台上走秀，乳头看起来就像蛋糕上的蜡烛一样，让它们强势回归。
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Vape use rising in 25- to 34-year-olds
People in the 25 to 34 age group are the most likely to vape, overtaking those aged 16 to 24.
Data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on people aged 16 and over show 25 to 34 was the only age group to have a rise in e-cigarette use, increasing from 12.9 per cent in 2024 to 16.4 per cent in 2025.
The data show 16- to 24-year-olds were the most common users between 2021 and 2024.
David Mais, from the ONS, said: "E-cigarette use has followed an overall upward trend since 2020."
Record sightings for mushrooms across the UK this autumn have been predicted by the Royal Horticultural Society.
The organisation said inquiries by people who have spotted species in gardens and green spaces could exceed last year's record.
Following the drought in 2025, the team recorded a 43 per cent increase in fungi inquiries compared with the previous year.
This is because prolonged hot weather and drought, followed by a wet autumn, allow species to flourish.
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We are a couple of years out from Kim Kardashian launching her nipple bra on a
completely unprepared public.
If you missed this one, it's a padded, push-up bra with fake nipples on it. I had enormous fun reviewing it but ultimately decided it was just so damn uncomfortable, it simply wasn't worth the attention it garners. It's heavy, clunky and feels akin to having your tits crushed by a mattress.
Yes, your jugs look colossal, but they are also rock hard and liable to concuss any passing child who doesn't duck. So, imagine my excitement when I saw none other than Marks & Spencer is now selling stick-on nipples that "feature a realistic, raised profile that creates a subtle silhouette beneath clothing." Now you're talking! And whereas Kim's nipple bra will set you back a whopping £72, these retail for just £7 – that's £3.50 per nip. Bargain!
Nipples have been big business in the fashion world for a while now. The most recent Met Gala was an absolute nipple bonanza. Fashion journalists fill columns pondering whether the nip has had its day, only for them to come roaring back as highfalutin designers send models down the catwalk with their nipples looking like candles on a cake.
The rise of the nipple and why they are everywhere
Kate Lister and friends recreate the 'distracted boyfriend' meme in a hallway
I want to know if I, a mere mortal, am missing out. Visible nipples are all well and good in Paris fashion week, but how do they go over at a Zumba class?
Now before anyone starts asking "what on earth are those for?" I need to point out (before anyone else does) that a very strong market for fake nipples are women who are recovering from mastectomies and reconstructive surgeries. There is an actual medical need for prosthetics like this.
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Kate Lister tries the latest fashion aid for a perkier profile and enjoys the transformation and attention
However, they are also very popular with idiots like me who just want to see what life is like with insanely perky tits and reminisce about a time when my own nipples faced northward, instead of south-westerly. The nipples are not sold as medical prosthesis either. They are part of M&S's "Body" line, which stocks lingerie, shapewear and nipple covers.
I accidentally sent the first order I placed to an old address and was too embarrassed to go and ask for them back. If you are reading this and have my nipples, I am sorry about that. The second order swiftly arrived, and I was good to go.
The nipples are made from rubber and silicon and are quite large. They have to be big enough to cover your own nipples and prevent any chance of them peeking through as well, which would look decidedly less sexy and very much like you'd recently had a litter.
They are super easy to apply: you just peel the back and stick 'em on. I advise doing this in a mirror because you do want them to be
level. You haven't come all this way to end up with cockeyed tits.
You don't have to wear them under a bra – you can just stick them on and go about your free-boobing business. But I couldn't shake the image of one falling out while I was in the queue at the Post Office, so I stuck them under a bralette for added protection.
I decided to wear mine under a white vest top for maximum visibility, but you can clearly see them underneath jumpers and sweatshirts as well. Be prepared to be on show because, despite the claim, these nipples are not "subtle". You could hang your keys off them.
I felt transformed. My nipples had gone from supporting characters to executive producers. It was like my boobs had finally got their act together and they meant business.
There is an old expression, that you wouldn't worry quite so much about what people think of you if you knew how seldom they did. Well, that doesn't take fake nipples into account, because they really do get a lot of attention.
I imagine that if you are someone blessed with naturally pert nipples, you aren't thinking about them
Stick a couple of falsies down your top and you become hyper aware of how the world reacts
all the time. But stick a couple of falsies down your top and you become hyper aware of how the world reacts.
The furtive glances and the wandering eyes, through to the flat out staring. I don't know what it is about the presence of a visible nipple that entirely disrupts a perfectly normal outfit, but it does.
I suppose it's because the sight of a nipple poking through offers a tantalising glance at what the boob might look like. It creates the illusion of nudity even if it's underneath a jumper. And yet, you can't accuse someone of dressing for attention just because their nipples stick out. It's clever really. It's very sexy but doesn't look like you're trying. Hey! It's not your fault your nipples are sticking out.
I can't blame anyone for looking, because I too have tried desperately to avoid staring at a woman when her nipples are at full salute – and failed miserably. "Don't stare. Don't stare," you internally repeat to yourself, but somehow the more you will yourself not to, the harder it is to look away. Now I wonder if they were faking it too.
By the end of my experiment, it felt like I was playing a mean practical joke on the public. I'd stuffed fake nipples down my top and was wandering about, amusing myself watching the people I encountered desperately try to look me in the eye.
I'd ditched them by day three. They just took too much negotiating. Is this top too sheer? Is this one too tight? I have friends with naturally large breasts who simply scoffed, "welcome to my world" after I told them of my plight.
I don't know if you need me to tell you this, but fake nipples create a very sexy, boob focused look. It's ridiculous really, but there we are. I don't make the rules.
Would I wear them again? Absolutely I would! But as a wise man once said, "with great power comes great responsibility". You can't just be sashaying around Aldi, embarrassing the person stocking the shelves.
I intend to restrict mine to nights out, dates, and traffic stops from here on out.
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主持人因病离岗
一名 BBC Radio 4 的主持人昨日上午在广播中声音听起来不适后被要求离岗。
Radio 4 节目《Today》的资深主持人贾斯汀·韦伯（Justin Webb）于早上 6 点与安娜·福斯特（Anna Foster）共同开播。
A BBC Radio 4 presenter was taken off air yesterday morning after he sounded unwell while speaking on the radio.
Justin Webb, the long-standing presenter of Radio 4's Today, opened the programme alongside Anna Foster at 6am.
But Webb, whose voice sounded strained, apologised a few times as he coughed on air.
At 6.40am, Foster said: "Jonny Dymond is here, good morning."
Dymond then proceeded to present the programme with Foster.
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首位赢得重大扑克赛事的女性
一名扑克选手成为了首位在英国巡回赛重大赛事中获胜的女性。
蕾妮·谢（Renee Xie）昨日赢得了格罗斯维诺英国扑克巡回赛（Grosvenor UK Poker Tour）卢顿主赛事，击败了其他 396 名选手。
在全球扑克选手中，女性仅占 4%。
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Here's... 'The Shining' axe for £50,000
The axe used by Jack Nicholson as he delivered the famous line
"Here's Johnny!" in Stanley Kubrick's 1980 horror film The Shining is to go on sale.
The prop is wielded by his character, Jack Torrance, as he sets about attempting to kill his family, including his wife Wendy, played by Shelley Duvall (inset).
It is estimated to sell for £30,000 to £50,000.
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3 / 5 导演采取了道德举措，关于 Seven Up 的最后一个字母 (7.5)
6 元素被照亮，强烈的难闻气味即是电流 (7)
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1 在补充资料中早晨看到它？ (7)
2 翻转预警可能的后果 (5-2)
4 丈夫不安的渴望制造了问题 (5)
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First woman to win major poker event
A poker player has become the first woman to win a major event on a UK tour.
Renee Xie won the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Luton Main Event yesterday, beating 396 other players.
Women make up only 4 per cent of poker players world wide.
UK forces in Afghanistan may be guilty of offences
By Callum Parke
Material identified by the Ministry of Defence earlier this year suggested British service personnel may have committed “serious offences” in Afghanistan, the High Court has been told.
Information about the offences, which include murder, manslaughter and inflicting grievous bodily harm, was passed on by UK special forces (UKSF) to the Defence Serious Crime Command, with an investigation believed to have been paused pending the outcome of the Afghanistan Inquiry.
The inquiry, chaired by Lord Justice Haddon-Cave, is examining allegations of unlawful killings by UK special forces during operations in the country between 2010 and 2013, as well as claims of a cover-up.
It is also looking into allegations of a cover-up of illegal activity and inadequate investigation by the Royal Military Police.
A soldier who served in a senior military position in the country, known as Witness IIA126, is taking legal action against the inquiry for refusing to allow him and his lawyers to see restricted evidence.
An inquiry is examining claims of unlawful killings from 2010-13
In 2023, Lord Justice Haddon-Cave ruled that hearings which heard evidence from certain witnesses, known as “green” witnesses, could only be accessed by some individuals from the Ministry of Defence, but not by other witnesses,
While the hearing before Lord Justice Popplewell and Mrs Justice Farbey concluded yesterday, a judgment is expected in writing at a later date.
including IIA126, and their lawyers. It followed fears expressed by the witnesses about their identities becoming known by giving evidence to the inquiry.
But IIA126 is challenging the inquiry's decisions, claiming they are unlawful.
Kate Grange KC, for the soldier, told the court in London that they had prevented him and his lawyers from seeing evidence related to an allegation that a person was shot in the head while they may have been sleeping during a “deliberate detention operation”.
Grange claimed not allowing her client to see the evidence meant "basic standards of procedural fairness have not been met".
The inquiry is opposing the claim, with Jonathan Glasson KC stating the inquiry adopted a procedure “tailored to meet the ‘extremely high’ public interest in retaining the secrecy of the green material”.
Steven Gray KC, for the Ministry of Defence, said the department “is fully committed to supporting the rights of military witnesses before the inquiry”.
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Fifa 'allowed ineligible goalie to play'
By Jamie Gardner
Fifa has been accused of knowingly letting an ineligible player take part in the World Cup.
Lawyers for football's governing body reportedly became aware in March that DR Congo goalkeeper Lionel Mpasi was allegedly ineligible.
They advised a variety of sanctions, including disqualifying DR Congo from the intercontinental play-off against Jamaica later that month and banning Mpasi.
Instead, no action was taken, according to Le Monde and The New York Times. Mpasi went on to play for DR Congo at the finals in North America, including against England in the last 32.
The reports pile further pressure on the Fifa president, Gianni Infantino, following the Folarin Balogun case.
US striker Balogun's one-match ban for a red card was suspended by Fifa, allowing him to play in their last-16 match against Belgium, after Donald Trump asked Infantino to review the sanction.
Feline fine: owning a cat is linked to greater happiness
By Sally Guyoncourt
This could become the year of the cat as researchers have found a nation's happiness may be associated not only with socioeconomic factors but also possession of the pets.
They have discovered a correlation between countries with higher domestic cat density and happier humans. But there is a caveat to these feline findings.
The study, published in the journal PLOS One, could not determine which came first – the happiness or the cats.
Finland proved to be the happiest of nations, followed by Denmark and Iceland. Montenegro had the highest cat density with around 32 cats for every 100 people, then Luxembourg with 30 and Slovenia with 24.
And both national income and GDP per capita also had a strong correlation with happier countries.
Researchers from the University of Chicago in the US and the University of Turku in Finland found "cat density and some socioeconomic indicators were moderately-to-largely and positively associated with happiness".
Scientists could not establish what came first – the happiness or the cats GETTY
Study authors compared the happiness scores of 93 countries, from the World Population Review, alongside data on cat density, socioeconomic indicators and prevalence of Toxoplasma gondii (a parasite which causes Toxoplasmosis in humans and other mammals).
“What we found is that countries with more cats tended to report higher levels of happiness, while countries with higher exposure to Toxoplasma gondii tended to report lower levels of happiness,” said the study authors.
They added: "It is possible that the links between cat ownership, reduced loneliness and alleviated stress may explain the association between cat density and greater national happiness."
But ahead of any stampede to secure a pet moggy, they also pointed out the correlation between cat ownership and happiness “may reflect more favourable attitudes toward pets, higher disposable income and better living conditions”.
In other words, a more financially secure, happier nation may be better disposed to own a pet.
One surprising element of the research was the “moderate-to-large negative association between cat density and T. gondii seroprevalence, challenging the common assumption that a higher number of cats would imply more parasite exposure".
The authors suggested that this may be because in wealthier countries, cats are more likely to be kept indoors, fed processed food and receive routine medical care, significantly reducing the potential of T. gondii infection.
Cat numbers and happiness do not have a direct link but there was an association between higher populations and happier people.
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让你的钱在 9 个月里花得更有价值。
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Queen says Archer was 'irrepressible'
By Laura Elston and Laura Harding
The Queen has described Jeffrey Archer as “not without flaw” but an “irrepressible life force through all the many differing chapters of his life”.
Archer, a Conservative MP turned bestselling author, was imprisoned for perjury and perverting the course of justice in 2001. He died suddenly on Monday aged 86.
"Seldom does an author get to live a life as rich, varied and colourful as any of the characters in their books, or with as many surprising plot twists," Camilla (below, with Archer in 2018) said yesterday.
"[He] was an exception to the end... Wherever the next page turns to, I trust there will be champagne and shepherd's pie in abundance."
In surviving the past year with enhanced authority, Kemi Badenoch has a critical advantage. The party, too often fractious, ruthless and rebellious, is at her command. There is a widespread understanding the situation is existential. (William Hague)
Soon Zack Polanski, current leader of the Green Party, will find himself consigned to the history books. He will merit a footnote. And it will recall the following: that he was a coward, a charlatan, an egotist and a poseur, who led his party into political oblivion. (Dan Hodges)
It is plausible swing voters will choose a Conservative Party they are economically aligned with over a Labour Party they have more in common with on cultural grounds. The problem is, the party is polling at 20 per cent and its local electoral record is dire.
How does the US ordering the B-1 bombers to leave RAF Fairford reflect on Washington's confidence in the ability of the UK to keep the base secure? It is hard not to conclude that, despite efforts to play down the drama, this is an embarrassing episode for the UK. (Frank Gardner)
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A poll last week suggests Britain is on course for a hung parliament. But the scenes at the Greens' annual conference, where members adopted a motion declaring Zionism a form of racism, make a deal with Labour look impossible. (Kate Devlin)
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The Iranian regime might consider the US's withdrawal of its bombers from RAF Fairfield as a success. For the UK, the sense of emergency remains entirely absent. It has long been paying the price – and its humiliation is clear. (Damien McElroy)
For Brazil, there are no easy scenarios ahead. If President Lula is elected, he may face governance crises. If Flávio Bolsonaro is elected, he will have more tools to carry out his father's authoritarian project, and the support of the Trump administration. (Miriam Leitão)
The Brazilians who went to the polls on Sunday have delivered the far right its most decisive triumph since the end of the country's military dictatorship in 1985. A Bolsonaro presidency would give Washington another subordinate partner in Latin America (Elizabeth McKenna)
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Daily Express
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor continues to protest his innocence. If the judge rules in Andrew's favour, the case against the former prince risks becoming null and void. But the consequence of this is thrusting the scandal back into the spotlight, a fresh headache for the King and the Palace. (Emily Ferguson)
Whether the move is well advised, time will tell. But one thing is for sure: the saga involving Andrew and his arrest, a stain that will live long in the memory, will continue to haunt King Charles and the rest of the Royal Family. (Jennifer Newton)
Bold, irreverent, provocative: that's how the 90s are characterised by Tate Britain's energising new exhibition, which examines the popular culture of "Cool Britannia" as well as the era's visual art. It offers a subjective, alternative take on an intense, high-spirited decade. (Alastair Sooke)
This is not a real exhibition. It's a magazine spread. Its design has the superficiality of a glossy layout bigging up its glib theme, "the 90s". Setting fashion photography alongside conceptual art is a terrible idea. (Jonathan Jones)
“当每个人都只关注目的地时，我一直都是那种会停下来拍张照片的人，”他在 2016年 T 台首秀之际告诉《Vogue》杂志。“我觉得人们每天在世界上走过无数的美景。”
格伯的父母和妹妹在世。美联社 (AP)
出生于 2 July 1999
逝世于 20 September 2026
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The screenwriter of prison drama 'Time' on the justice system
Models can be thought of as vapid, all surface. But Presley Gerber made it a mission to educate others – even if those lessons were informed by deep inner turmoil.
Gerber – practically born into the business as the son of Cindy Crawford, while also being the older brother of model and actress Kaia Gerber – was exceptionally open about his mental health struggles and substance abuse, documenting his journey on Instagram. He even started a “Mental Health Mondays” series on the platform to raise awareness and share wellness tips.
"Whether I help one person or a hundred people get out of that place that I was in at one point in my life, that's all I need to do," he said.
"My parents for most of our lives were very, very private and didn't share anything," said Kaia, also
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referring to their father Rande Gerber – the businessman whose ventures include co-founding the tequila brand Casamigos with George Clooney – in an interview shortly before Presley's death aged 27 in a rehabilitation facility.
"And now we have this absolute teacher, my brother, who says, 'I'm gonna be very human for everyone.'"
Across multiple episodes, he related his own experiences with substances ranging from ketamine to kratom, as well as his time at rehab facilities.
Raised in Malibu, California, Gerber signed with the management agency IMG as a teenager and made his runway debut for Moschino at 16. In 2018, he appeared alongside his mother – whose famous beauty mark he inherited – in a Pepsi Super Bowl ad that paid homage to her 1992 commercial for the brand. That same year, he and his sister shot a campaign for Calvin Klein jeans.
Gerber later signed with DNA Models. His biography described him as an “avid surfer and skater”, and in an Instagram video posted in July 2025. Gerber described growing up as a dedicated athlete who spent hours in the water nearly every day – a routine that came to a halt when he started working.
With less physical activity, Gerber said, he was put on more medication and his quality of life suffered.
"A lot of the time people would ask, like, 'You were such a happy kid; what happened to you?'
"What happened was life happened and I wasn't able to worry about one thing, which was my next meal and then get back in the ocean. Like I had to start making money... I got a job."
In addition to his testimonial videos, Gerber's Instagram was a collection of modelling shoots and memories that stretched back to childhood. His life around cameras influenced his own interest in photography as an art form.
"I have always been the type of person to stop and take a picture when everybody is just focused on the destination," he told Vogue in 2016, on the occasion of his runway debut. "I feel like people walk by a countless amount of beauty in the world every day."
Badenoch's 'Kemistry' is delusional Her party is quietly losing touch with reality. And it's a gift to Burnham
This may be more suited to a confessional than a newspaper column but I have a fascination with Kemi Badenoch that is becoming
faintly absurd. As someone who has both a personal passion for and professional interest in British politics, I can't quite believe the amount of time I spend responding to her every utterance and intervention by wondering whether I have, in fact, gone mad.
Whether policies, polls or performances, the gulf between the reality I think I inhabit and the world according to Kemi seems almost inconceivably enormous and yet so complete is her belief in her own brilliance that I frequently find myself checking whether my own memory of events is accurate.
This, for example, is the politician who helpfully said of herself: "I never have gaffes... I never have to clarify because I think very carefully about what I say."
And yet she has subsequently insisted that “Northern Ireland did vote to leave [the European Union]” (it did not) and had to clarify that when she said that maternity pay was “excessive” she did not, in fact, mean that maternity pay was excessive.
Only today, the gaffe-free zone wrote an article for The Sun which described a new air defence system as being “modelled on Israel’s Iron Dome” – language that echoed a press release announcing the policy issued by her own party.
Before lunch, and shortly after she had explained to my LBC colleague Nick Ferrari that it was not her job to know anything about how the system would look or indeed function, she was denying that she had ever made any comparison with Israel's Iron Dome.
She blamed newspapers for the “confusion”, which reminded me that only last month she was condemning Reform UK’s decision to refuse accreditation to various journalists for their party conference, calling the decision “authoritarian” and insisting, “We believe in free speech. We believe in a free press.”
The respected Byline Times journalists Adam Bienkov and Josiah Mortimer, currently refused accreditation for the Tory conference in Birmingham without any explanation, may well be joining me in wondering whether it is them or her who have lost touch with observable reality.
And at that conference, approved journalists and other attendees were treated to a parody-proof pastiche of the Bayeux Tapestry lionising Badenoch and mocking her rivals. Perhaps the most ridiculed figure was her former leadership rival Robert Jenrick, now clinging to Nigel Farage's rapidly disintegrating coattails. But had he stayed in her party, he would presumably still be Badenoch's shadow justice secretary and she would still be defending him for, inter alia,
“An ego like hers makes the likelihood of any form of electoral pact with Farage extremely small
complaining about there being "no white faces" in Birmingham.
John Oxley explained in this newspaper yesterday that the central thrust of Badenochism – or “Kemistry” as she prefers to call it – is to do everything that was done under the last three or four Tory governments (it’s hard to keep count) but somehow with more vigour or noise or, perhaps, “Kommitment”.
More deregulation, more fossil fuels, more demonising of welfare claimants, more tax cuts for the comfortable, more promises to obliterate immigration etc etc.
It is as if she believes herself to be some sort of special sauce, capable of imbuing tired old burgers, recently rejected by the electorate, with new and irresistible flavour. She does, at least, understand burgers, explaining in 2024 that she “became working class” shortly after starting work at McDonald’s as a teenager.
And while her personal approval ratings are healthy-ish – not a massive surprise considering that much of the right-wing media seems to share her belief that she is a cross between Boudicca and Margaret Thatcher – the party she leads continues to languish at around or below the levels it secured when it handed Keir Starmer an enormous parliamentary majority.
I could go on but, once again, a quick review of the available facts has reassured me that I have not, in fact, gone mad and that it is Badenoch and her army of admirers who seem to occupy an alternative reality while talking dementedly of “Kemistry” or even “Keminaissance”.
I can see only one major reason for this. Various media owners, secretive sponsors of tax-averse “think-tanks” and climate change-denying plutocrats are having serious doubts about Nigel Farage’s electability and Badenoch remains their only other option.
The paucity of quality on her own front bench – more talent puddle than talent pool – makes replacement highly unlikely, so they have no choice but to big her up, trying to persuade themselves that she is not the politician she so patently is but rather the politician that they wish she was.
It helps that by far the biggest believer in this delusion is Badenoch herself.
And all this introduces a rather hefty silver lining for Andy Burnham. An ego like Badenoch's, and a following that increasingly borders on the Kultish (sorry), make the likelihood of any form of electoral pact with Farage and all her former colleagues now in his party vanishingly small.
And so it is that her belief in her own hype may yet encourage the Prime Minister to call the early election that every Tory in Birmingham is convinced he is considering.
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Kemi Badenoch alongside the Bayeux-inspired 'Birmingham Tapestry' mocking political rivals at the Conservative conference this week. IAN FORSYTH/GETTY
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An article earlier in the week asked whether people are yet ready to vote Tory (The i Paper, 5 October). The next day I learn that they are handing out childishly labelled bags of sweets (News Matrix, 6 October).
I think that answers your question. JUSTIN GREENHALGH WANTAGE, OXFORDSHIRE
Please could someone explain why French coastguards shadow dinghies making for England until they reach the Channel boundary line (The i Paper, 5 October) at which point presumably they become our problem.
I thought we had paid millions of pounds for the French to patrol and prevent these dinghies reaching England.
Can we ask for the money to be repaid? MARGARET PARSONS WINDSOR, BERKSHIRE
How refreshing to read Ian Birrell's balanced piece on rejoining the EU (My View, 5 October).
I voted Remain in 2016 and, if we could re-run the past, would do so again. The outcome of the referendum was highly regrettable and the political and economic damage done to the UK is undeniable.
However, from what I read and hear, the vast majority of supporters of rejoining seem to think the process would be as easy as turning on a tap, forgetting that it took four and a half years to fully detach from our former EU partners.
We can ill afford the time, resources and energies of government and our leaders to be
similarly diverted when there are other pressing issues to be tackled.
There is rarely any consideration of what our former EU partners would regard as potential benefits accruing to them to re-engage in this process.
It is highly unlikely that the UK would be able to negotiate the same beneficial financial deal that it had before, all the more so if France and Germany embrace far-right governments.
Forging closer ties and mitigating the damage caused is the best policy for now.
Kemi Badenoch wants to pay a huge amount of money on a protective "dome" missile defence system (The i Paper, 6 October). Obviously, any would-be attacker would think, "I'd better start soon while there is no 'dome' in place."
The only real deterrent is to tell the enemy, quietly but firmly: "Any drones reaching Britain would be an act of outright war."
A reader does not approve of selfies in art galleries WIKTOR SZYMANOWICZ/FUTURE
Like everybody else, I wouldn't want a Cold War situation, but that would be better than drones bombing our cities with no reprisal. DAVID SATCHEL HERTFORDSHIRE
The Conservative Party wants to deregulate building controls again to save money. The last time they did that, it gave us the tragedy of Grenfell Tower. Do they ever learn? GLEN GIBB SPOTT, EAST LOTHIAN
Are the Conservatives really so naïve as to think that even if they removed planning restrictions from house developers, the savings would be passed on to buyers rather than retained by the builders? JONATHAN HARRIS POUNDON, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
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安德鲁·蒙巴顿-温莎的傲慢简直没有底线。他希望通过挑战泰晤士河谷警察局实现什么目标？
看来他无法忍受自己不在聚光灯下。
杰基·麦金托什（JACKIE McINTOSH）
西萨塞克斯郡，兰辛
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Don't levy fines, seize shares
I note the recent fines being imposed on yet another water company and wonder whether they are being targeted effectively.
Perhaps company law needs to be reviewed and instead of fining a water company out of revenue, consideration is given to an equity penalty. In this form of fine a monopoly utility company might be forced to cede ownership of some of its shareholding for significant failures.
The threat should cause the company owners to ensure that it is managed in a more responsible manner. ALAN MITCHELL SETTRINGTON, NORTH YORKSHIRE
The List ("Thirst for knowledge on water use") on 5 October made me chuckle, albeit wryly.
In particular, equal third on the list of ways to save water was: "Fix leaky taps or plumbing."
It's such a shame the water companies cannot do the same!
An item from The Sunday Telegraph featured in the Opinion Matrix (5 October) claimed that proportional representation would "guarantee power to the left". Isn't that an admission that leftist values are in the majority and first past
the post has prevented this being reflected in government policy? ROSALIND WAIN BRADFORD ON AVON, WILTSHIRE
他们可以从《埃米特·蒂尔之死》（The Death of Emmett Till）、《答案在风中飘荡》（Blowin' in the Wind）和《时代在改变》（The Times They Are a-Changin）开始听起。
迪伦不需要向观众解释，他让歌词自己说话。莱斯·赖特（LES WRIGHT）
多塞特郡，韦勒姆（WAREHAM）
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Scorn for selfie narcissists
Perhaps Siobhán Norton (Culture, 6 October) should have included
in her disapproval of those who stand in front of paintings chatting, the people who stand with their backs to the paintings and take selfies. They are not only inconsiderate but narcissistic to boot!
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Religion is not the problem
In reply to Ian MacMillan, (Your View, 6 October), who thinks religious belief is irrational, I would say that to deny that there is nothing, beyond this amazing, beautiful and complex world is irrational.
And most of the trouble in the world is not caused by religions, which teach of compassion. Most of the trouble is caused by men, who have used religion to further their own selfish and greedy ends!
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Dylan provokes thought
Jill Birks (Your View 5 October) seems to think that Bob Dylan "felt unable to use his platform for good". Anyone who agrees with that view could try listening to the lyrics of his early songs.
They might start with "The Death of Emmett Till", "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are a-Changin".
Dylan didn't need to explain to the audience, he let the lyrics speak for themselves. LES WRIGHT
WAREHAM, DORSET
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目前没有关于《弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫》演出期间观众之间相互投诉的报道。因此，看来唯一被触犯的禁忌就是坐在第一排。安德森最好能回想起埃塞尔·默曼 (Ethel Merman) 在那首赞美表演行业的歌曲《没有什么比演艺事业更精彩》(There's No Business Like Showbusiness) 中的唱词：“没有什么比演艺人员更特别 / 即便心情低落，他们依然微笑。”
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The dangerous lie women are being told about work
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Sarah Carson
It is a great relief that I entered the job market before the term "personal brand" had entered common parlance, because God only knows who I'd have decided to be if I'd been let loose on the project at the age of 22.
Back then, I understood that one's "true" self was something to hide from potential employers, to curtail any doubts about how serious, responsible and committed a worker you might be.
I'd set my social media to private after submitting a job application, try my best (and usually fail) to keep the filter on during an interview, and keep as quiet and compliant as possible for the first six months once I got my foot in the door.
I imagine I wasn't terribly good at suppressing myself or my opinions most of the time, but I was terrified of coming across as unprofessional, and the way I saw it, having a personality at work was something you had to earn.
But the world, and especially the job market, has changed. If we want to stand out, compete, succeed and even survive, it seems it is no longer talent or ability that we must prove and sell, but an identity itself.
Women especially seem to be encouraged to develop a niche, something that makes us unique, a snappy, bullet-point summary to appealingly define what we're about and what we're good at, and we must promote it all relentlessly.
It isn't just social media influencers or business owners who feel this pressure. If a "personal brand" is, as Jeff Bezos once said, "what people say about you when you're not in the room", I shudder to think what must be mine.
Last week, the British entrepreneur Emma Grede, founding partner of Skims and CEO of jeans brand Good American, posted a video online saying: "We have got to address this personal brand conversation, because I believe that it's really holding women back.
'Figure out who you are and do it on purpose,' advised Dolly Parton
"Your personal brand is not something that you can sit down and manufacture," she continued. "It's the result of what you actually do... The women that we all admire... built something undeniable and then we all wanted to hear what they had to say.
"The work came first, the reputation followed, and that became the personal brand."
Surely, I thought, this is common sense. But Grede has faced backlash, especially among other female founders who believe that their personal branding and public image are exactly what have created opportunities for them and allowed them to forge careers.
They may be right about what the market rewards. But that doesn't make it a reasonable demand to place on everyone. Men just aren't expected in anywhere near the same way to sell their interests, their appearance, their personal lives, as a way of making themselves popular and likeable and well-rounded.
A personal brand might seem like the modern-day CV, but it is a waste of time that would be better spent on getting good at doing something, not being someone. If you sit down and try to manufacture an identity for yourself, what you'll end up with is not a personal brand, but a persona to perform. And what good is that to anyone?
I could decide this afternoon that I'm going to be all about 5am yoga trapeze, eating 30 plants a week and productivity optimisation. I could promote myself every day and try to build an audience and maybe I'd
“Men aren’t expected to sell their looks and personal lives to become popular
get noticed for this new, reinvented, aspirational self. Unfortunately, it wouldn't change my actual personal brand one bit.
In the end, the people who know and work with me in any capacity would still all come away with the same impression, because the true nature of a person is not something they can decide for themselves. Who I am is still decided by what I do, say, and the way I treat people.
One of Dolly Parton's more profound aphorisms was "figure out who you are and do it on purpose". I've always liked it, because rather than the usual "be yourself", "love yourself", "be unique" fluff, it understands that we don't always know exactly who we are yet, and it can take a while to get there. Once we have, life is still about what we do – not how loudly we declare it.
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The former Prince Andrew doesn't have much to his name any more, but the one thing he does have is a great big shovel. And he's using it to dig an even bigger hole than the one he's in already. By taking the Thames Valley constabulary to court this week, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is contravening rule one of crisis management, which, in his
NewScientist Live case, might be best expressed as: quit while you're behind.
Oh, Andrew. Have you not learned anything? From the same well of hubris that propelled him to sit down with Emily Maitlis in 2019 comes the decision to challenge the legal basis on which the rozzers searched his royal residences last February. The raid came when he was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public
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office over his links to the convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
The warrants to search both Royal Lodge – his former family home – and his cottage in Sandringham were obtained by Thames Valley Police on application to the Central Criminal Court.
Of course, Mountbatten-Windsor
Of course, Mountbatter should have the same protections as any other citizen, and if he believes that the legal basis on which the warrants were issued was suspect, he has every right to contest that in court. But where – in the world of realpolitik – does that get him?
A victory on what might prove to be a legal technicality does not do him any good in a much more significant, and less forgiving, arena: the court of public opinion. It would be like him presenting us with evidence that he couldn't sweat. It wouldn't really move the dial for him in terms of his reputation.
Then, there is the question of King Charles (inset). Buckingham Palace has reportedly made it clear that the legal action will not be paid for out of the King's private funds.
This is sensible. However, it may have another, less satisfactory, result. In saying he's not going personally to provide financial support, the King re-establishes in the public mind that he does, in fact, use his own private money to keep his brother afloat.
No one knows how much the King gives to Mountbatten-Windsor to keep him in video games and teddy bears, but the funding was part of the arrangement made when the former prince was defenestrated. This allowance does not come from
the sovereign grant but is drawn from the King's private money.
But the fact that the King is obliged to make that distinction undeniably puts him in an uncomfortable position, opening up the question of the
degree to which he is bankrolling a disgraced
member of his family, while drawing attention to the wider matter of public funding for the royals, and details of his own sizeable stipend.
Also, the more basic point: if Andrew himself is paying lawyers to prepare this case, where does that money actually come from?
It is, in fact, a lose-lose situation for all involved. If Andrew loses, it looks terrible. If he wins on a technicality, it doesn't really change anything in the bigger picture.
Either way, it leaves Charles with a problem in terms of public attention and scrutiny. The best thing he can do now is urgently to confiscate Andrew's shovel.
I don't know about you, but I certainly wouldn't want to get on the wrong side of Gillian Anderson. The actress, who shot to fame in The X-Files, has an aura of icy froideur in many of the roles she plays. It's a characteristic that spills over into real life too at times.
Anderson made headlines over the weekend for a frosty stage-door encounter with fans, telling a few of them that “you cannot sit in the front row – it’s so distracting. You can’t come 20 times and sit in the front row. It’s driving me mad.”
Anderson seems all manner of off. If an actor doesn't want fans turning up night after night, it's probably a good idea not to do theatre – and certainly not in so intimate a venue as Soho Place, where she opened to acclaim last week in Edward Albee's 1962 marital humdinger, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.
Above all else, my initial instinct on hearing the exchange was to marvel at how anyone could sit through this play twice in quick succession, let alone multiple times. I still feel drained from last week's opening night.
If Anderson truly is distracted by punters in the first row, what about those in the second? What's her cut-off point? Multiple actors have, after all, bemoaned poor audience behaviour in recent months, often citing inappropriate phone use or ill-timed munching of noisy food.
The mystery deepened – and then Anderson took to social media to offer a clarification of sorts. “The video doing the rounds is me talking with women I go back over 20 years with,” she wrote elliptically. This suggests long-standing, or possibly obsessive, fandom.
If it is this, then my sympathy swings a little in Anderson's direction. Then again, it is not the prerogative of performers to pre-select their audiences. It is their job to play their parts.
There are no reports of audience-on-audience complaints during Virginia Woolf. Thus it seems that the sole infraction committed was that of sitting in the front row. Anderson would do well to recall Ethel Merman's line in "There's No Business Like Showbusiness", that paean to the acting profession. "There's no people like show people/They smile when they are low."
So, chin up, Gillian: all your hard work is bound to pay off when awards season rolls around.
Benjamin Netanyahu is a divisive figure, in Israel and the US ANADOLU
Israel is marking the third anniversary of the 7 October attacks with a succession of memorial events across the country.
Three years on from the Hamas-led attack on Israel, in which more than 1,200 were people killed and 251 taken hostage, the nation is remembering those lost and the ongoing trauma for those who survived.
The onslaught led to a swift and widespread military response from Israel on Gaza, sparking a conflict which has left vast swathes of the territory destroyed and at least 77,000 Gazans dead.
On the third anniversary of the atrocity, a fragile ceasefire is in place although hopes for a long-term peace remain faint.
Many memorial events in Israel were scheduled to begin at 6.29am, the time the Hamas attack began.
At around 10am, convoys from across the country are expected to head to Ben Shemen Forest, where a memorial ceremony for those killed will be held later in the afternoon.
A minute's silence will be observed at midday, across the country, organised by the October Council which brings together survivors of captivity, bereaved families and survivors of the massacre.
At the same time, an exhibition will open at the Peres Centre for Peace and Innovation in Jaffa, displaying some of the personal belongings of people murdered on 7 October 2023.
Demonstrations are planned in a number of cities including Haifa and Afula throughout the day.
Then at 6.29pm, a service will take place at the Nova music festival site near Re'im. Around 370 people were killed at the open-air music festival during the attacks and at least 40 taken hostage.
Events will culminate at 9.15pm, when the national memorial ceremony begins at Yarkon Park in Tel Aviv.
Andy Burnham has assured Britain's Jewish community "we stand with you" against antisemitism. The Prime Minister described a rise in antisemitic behaviour in the UK since 2023 as "disturbing".
ready held in Israel on Monday, as the official national memorial day is determined by the Hebrew calendar.
Two state ceremonies took place at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, with rallies and memorial events across the country. Flags were lowered to half-mast at state institutions, police stations, prisons and Israel Defence Forces bases to honour the dead.
The Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and President Isaac Herzog joined bereaved families at 11am at Mount Herzl and the second national memorial ceremony was held at 2pm.
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t 1pm on 7 October 2023, hours after Palestinian armed groups launched their daybreak attack, the high command of the
Israel Defence Forces (IDF) issued a stark order: up to 20 Gazan civilians could be killed in a single strike on even the lowest-ranking member of Hamas. With AI to speed up the targeting, that order began a punishing bombing campaign in a war that has killed around 74,000 Palestinians.
As a result, Israel won a crushing victory over Hamas, but lost public support around the world, including in the United States. For a country that has long relied on US backing, that could be the lasting and most important legacy of the Hamas assault on 7 October, which left some 1,200 people dead.
The New York Times and +972 magazine in Tel Aviv found that the rules allowed for 100 civilians to die if a senior member of Hamas was the target. A sinister-sounding AI named Lavender churned out tens of thousands of targets; human operators spent about 20 seconds approving each one.
Israel's 'victory' in Gaza could turn into a defeat
Another system – allegedly called "Where's Daddy?" – tracked targets and alerted the army when they got home, so they could be bombed there, often alongside their families.
I have written about one such strike, which took place on 10 October 2023, three days after the new rules came into force. A six-storey building in Gaza City was hit and collapsed, killing at least 40 civilians.
One man, Mahmoud Ashour, said he had lost his daughter and her four young children. Amnesty International found that a Hamas member lived in the building but that he was not there at the time. The IDF did not comment, except to say that Hamas often puts military infrastructure in civilian areas.
That attack, and many others like it, show how much changed following the darkest day in Israel's history. In the aftermath, as Israel was reeling from the bloodshed and the 251 hostages taken, it turned to a savage response. Wounded to its core, enraged and vengeful, Israel became numb to international outcry over civilian casualties.
As the BBC's Jeremy Bowen wrote during an earlier Gaza war in 2008, Israeli military commanders assume two separate clocks start ticking the moment they go into action. The military clock tracks the time needed to achieve their objectives. The diplomatic clock measures the time before international pressure forces a ceasefire. For much of the past three years, Israel's political and military leaders have ignored the second clock.
A documentary, to be released in the UK later this month, talked to 24 of the Israeli soldiers who did the targeting. The film is called NAZA, the acronym of the Hebrew term "Nezek agavi" or "collateral damage". One interviewee said his personal body count numbered in the thousands. Another said the prevailing attitude was "there are no innocent people in Gaza".
The film also relays a claim that one strike was approved that could kill up to 500 people, in order to eliminate a single Hamas operative.
Israel's military has issued a statement accusing the film-makers of "manipulative editing", adding that they had failed to mention the steps the IDF always took to try to limit civilian harm.
Many proposed strikes were cancelled because of the risk to non-combatants, the IDF said. It also denied the allegation that a strike had been approved in which 500 civilians “or anything close to that number” could be killed.
Enraged and vengeful, Israel became numb to the outcry over civilian casualties
Miki Zohar, Israel's minister of culture, accused the film-makers of treason, while the Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, promised a new bill to strip citizenship from anyone who "smears" soldiers and "defames" the country.
But Netanyahu was surely right when he said that “portraying the officers and commanders of the Israeli army as war criminals causes us untold harm”.
The fact that Israel's Prime Minister feels the need to comment on a documentary underlines the importance of the battle of ideas for the future of the Jewish state – the loss of international goodwill threatens to turn a tactical victory in Gaza into a long-term defeat.
For Israel, public opinion is nowhere more important than in the US. America is the ultimate guarantor of Israel's survival. Last month, the Trump administration approved sending some 40,000 one-tonne bombs to Israel, in effect free of charge, as the US taxpayer is footing the bill.
It's far from clear whether this kind of transfer would continue under the next president, whether Democrat or Republican. But the draining away of support for Israel is clear, and most evident in the Democratic Party.
In July, 103 Democrats in the House of Representatives voted to cut off aid to Israel. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Democrat standard-bearer for the next generation, opposes all US military aid.
When it comes to Republicans, Donald Trump likes to say he's the most pro-Israel president ever – but his party is split. According to a Pew poll published in April, 57 per cent of Republicans under the age of 50 now view Israel unfavourably.
Israel used to be one of the few foreign-policy questions both parties agreed on. No more. Part of this is about Netanyahu, a divisive figure in both the US and in his own country. Israelis may come to regret the way he apparently bounced Trump into the war with Iran if this ultimately turns the Republican Party against Israel.
While Hamas is dramatically weakened after the last few years of fighting, the outline of the Israel-Palestine dispute is unchanged, despite everything that has happened since 7 October 2023.
The issue is as intractable as ever, but the US consensus that helped manage it for 50 years has gone. When Israel next goes to war, American support will be neither automatic nor unconditional.
'Ghost particle' researcher wins Nobel physics prize
By Niklas Pollard, Johan Ahlander and Simon Johnson
The Belgian-American Francis Halzen has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work creating an observatory to detect high-energy neutrinos - some of the universe's most elusive subatomic particles.
Halzen, 82, realised that pristine ice at the South Pole could be used to track such neutrinos.
High-energy neutrinos are known as "ghost particles" for the way they pass through the Earth and our bodies without a trace.
"The messengers bring informa-"
tion from the cosmos," Eva Olsson, of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, told a press conference.
"They open the door to distant galaxies and tell us about the processes of exploding stars."
Neutrinos are electrically neutral, undisturbed by magnetic fields, which means that the direction from which they arrive points back to their source, which is unconfirmed.
Halzen said it was too early to say exactly what his work could reveal about the universe.
"The real excitement is that I cannot answer that question yet," he said.
A deep-sea exploration team has discovered 57 new species – including one they compare to a SpongeBob SquarePants character.
The Schmidt Ocean Institute said one vivid orange sea star bore an “uncanny resemblance to the cartoon character Patrick Star”, even
seemingly displaying the outline of a behind like the character in the TV show (left).
The sea star was documented on the seafloor of the Mar del Plata Submarine Canyon, off the coast of Argentina.
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Crocodile species found in Great Sphinx stones
By Stephen Beech
A new species of crocodile has been identified in rocks used to build the Great Sphinx – and just like the iconic Egyptian landmark, it is missing the tip of its snout.
Scientists using new scanning technology found that a fossil they had always believed was one of two known types of gavial crocodiles turned out to be a third, previously unknown species.
Gavials are reptiles characterised by their long, thin snouts. There are just two living species, gavialis gangeticus and Tomistoma schlegelii, known as the "false gharial", which are found only in freshwater environments on the Indian subcontinent and in South East Asia.
The Herugavialis cairensis lost the tip of its nose – just like the Great Sphinx
However, fossil records show that gavials have lived on Earth for 100 million years with almost global distribution.
In the 1920s, several fossils, including a nearly complete skull, were recovered from the 45-million-year-old Mokattam Formation in Egypt – from where limestone was used to build the Giza pyramids and the Great Sphinx.
After the fossils were recovered, scientists seeing their superficial resemblance to the false gharial named them as belonging to the Tomistoma species.
But recent analytical advances in palaeontology, including the use of CT scanning to look inside the skull, allowed an international team of researchers to identify several differences between the false gharial and the fossils.
Scientists from the UK, Sweden, Germany and Egypt have named the new species Herugavialis caerensis.
They found the skull well-preserved, but one feature caught their attention: the tip of its snout is missing.
Study co-leader Professor Philip Mannion said: "Given this coincidence with the missing nose of the Great Sphinx, we decided to name the new crocodile after the Egyptian god Heru, who was possibly the inspiration for this iconic monument."
Lead author Dr Paul Burke, a researcher at the Swedish Museum of Natural History, added: "Throughout much of the last 50 million years, the Mediterranean region hosted a high diversity of crocodiles.
“However, this diversity fluctuated over time, seemingly corresponding to changes in global temperature.”
The shallow marine environments that covered much of the Egyptian region were also home to at least two other species of gavials as well as Herugavialis at the time, the research has shown.
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
No 4889 BY PHI
ACROSS
1 Veal and mashed potatoes for starters with uninspiring accompaniment (4)
3 Favouring half-hearted chatter? More than likely (8)
10 "Swine – S" indicating something you get in a bar? (4,11)
11 King keeping English a source of wealth? Check again (2-7)
12 Pin down nothing about American (4)
13 Anger following university doctor's offence (7)
15 Display poor quality stuff in antique shop as well (6)
17 Stop holding back passion in school (6)
19 Worker's success, getting earlier time for drink (4,3)
20 A European country's returned bird (4)
21 Much-loved US singer – is he dead? (9)
24 Actively loosen plums with glee for kid? (4,8,3)
25 Hazy Grey Lady mostly seen around front of Grange irregularly? (8)
26 Shock reduction in publicity activity? (4)
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1 Very active and open to things, but insubstantial (8)
2 Limitation of mysterious English code expert (5)
4 French to be taken in by sneak in religious centre? (7)
5 Reading newspaper reports but not up-to-date? (6,3,5)
6 Marsupial doing nasty things to obtain cod (9)
7 Ill without question, though free from pain (4)
8 Religious office in Abuja randomly interrupted by
leaders of atheists and scoffers? Looks like it to me (2,3,2,1,3,3)
9 Priest getting extra money for church activity? (6)
14 Thespian's wish in acting, getting on after lucky opportunity (5,1,3)
16 'Good area swamped by vehicle noise' – English view of Welsh region (8)
18 Hundred I'm investing in transaction, supplied in tens (7)
19 Run into hazard over working description of some French (6)
22 Everything puts off top slave (5)
23 Second mate overlooking one part of rigging (4)
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修理铺：谷仓之外 (The Repair Shop: Beyond The Barn) 晚上8点，BBC One
Stephen Mangan (left) presents a brand-new run of the competition, with 72 artists selected from 1,300 entries. There's a trio of new judges – art historian Katy Hessel, portrait painter Jonathan Yeo and Eva Langret, the director of Frieze London – while the first three sitters are all actors: Sheridan Smith, Vanessa Williams and Lennie James. Asked to bring in a significant object, James chooses a Tottenham Hotspur shirt, while Smith's numerous mementos include a Bafta trophy and her son's Mother's Day card. Smith, who has ADHD, also worries about being able to sit still for four hours: "It's a lot of time to be in my head."
David Burville and Mark Stuckey restore a model fairground made by the owners' grandfather, while Lucia Scalisi restores a portrait of a woman's great-great-grandfather, who was involved in an infamous Victorian banking fraud. Dominic Chinea meanwhile rescues a battle-scarred wheelchair used by an Army veteran in the Invictus Games.
Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer take the house search to Warwickshire, where Isla and Luke need more space for themselves and their
18-month-old child. Meanwhile, Jan and Jon, a couple who are mature in years but very young at heart, hope their budget of more than £800,000 can secure them a forever home.
"You tried to lie to me," Richard Armitage's titular pathologist says, addressing a corpse on his mortuary slab. "A body always tells me the truth." The cadaver belongs to a middle-aged man discovered on a building site with the skin torn off his face. Luckily, the enterprising Dr Ethan Winter has developed his own facial scanning software, a duly impressed DI Lauren Bell suggesting he patents the device. But he's not in the job to make money. Interview, p40
Kevin McCloud meets artists Jana and Rory, who live in a former driving test centre in the east of Edinburgh but have ambitions for something bigger and (importantly) much warmer to live in every winter. They want to replace the current building with a house that provides upside-down living and captures a view of the sea.
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BBC TWO
6.15 Homes Under The Hammer (R) (S)。 7.15 Escape To The Country (R) (S)。 8.00 Sign Zone: The Reluctant Vampire (R) (S)。 8.30 Sign Zone: The Best Of Weatherman Walking (S)。 9.00 BBC News (S)。 10.45 Politics Live (S)。 12.30 BBC News (S)。 1.00 Impossible (R) (S)。 1.45 Unbeatable (R) (S)。 2.30 The Boss (R) (S)。 3.15 Beechgrove Repotted (R) (S)。 3.30 The Great British Sewing Bee (R) (S)。 4.30 Vintage Antiques Roadshow (R) (S)。 5.05 Flog It! (R) (S)。
6.00 House Of Games (S)。
6.30 Strictly: It Takes Two (S)。
7.00 Celebrity Antiques Road Trip (R) (S)。
8.00 Saving Lives At Sea 一名女性打来 999 紧急电话，称其丈夫正被冲向大海 (S)。
9.00 Secrets And Spies: A Nuclear Game 回顾冷战的事件与起因 (R) (S)。
12.45 Sign Zone: The Split Up (R) (S)。 1.45 Sign Zone: Emergency 24 / 7 (R) (S)。 2.45 This Is BBC Two (S)。
6.00 Good Morning Britain (S)。 9.30 Lorraine (S)。 10.00 This Morning (S)。 12.30 Loose Women (S)。 1.30 ITV News; Weather (S) 1.55 ITV Regional News; Weather (S) 2.00 Dickinson's Real Deal (R) (S)。 3.00 Lingo (R) (S)。 3.59 Regional (S)。 4.00 Deal Or No Deal (R) (S)。 5.00 The Chase (R) (S)。
6.00 Regional News; (S)。
6.30 News; (S)。
7.30 Tipping Point: Best Ever Finals
斯图尔特·皮尔斯（Stuart Pearce）希望为他选择的慈善机构赢得 2 万英镑 (S)。
8.00 Emmerdale
查理蒂（Charity）对自己将回家感到震惊 (S)。
8.30 Coronation Street (S)。
9.00 Winter
侦探调查一具无面尸体，并揭露了一场毁灭性的背叛 (S)。
10.00 News; (S)。
10.30 Regional News; (S)。
10.45 Nine Perfect Strangers (R) (S)。
11.35 Gallagher PREM Unleashed (S)。
12.00 Shop On TV 3.00 Driving: How Old Is Too Old? Tonight (R) (S)。 3.25 Bradley & Barney Walsh: Breaking Dad (R) (S)。 3.50 Unwind With (S)。 5.05 Deal Or No Deal (R) (S)。
6.30 The King Of Queens (R) (S): 7.45 Everybody Loves Raymond (R) (S): 8.10 Everybody Loves Raymond (R) (S): 8.40 Everybody Loves Raymond (R) (S): 9.10 Frasier (R) (S): 9.40 Frasier (R) (S): 10.10 Frasier (R) (S): 10.40 Frasier (R) (S): 11.10 American Pickers (R) (S): 12.05 Channel 4 News Summary (S): 12.10 Renovation Nation (R) (S): 1.10 The Great House Giveaway (R) (S): 2.10 Countdown (S): 3.00 A Place In The Sun (R) (S): 4.00 Help! We Bought A Village (S): 5.00 Four In A Bed (S): 5.30 Come Dine With Me (R) (S)。
6.00 A New Life In The Sun: Where Are They Now? (R) (S)。
12.05 The Great British Bake Off (R) (S)。 1.30 Taskmaster (R) (S)。 2.25 电影：《Mikka Bannada Hakki》（Manohara K 2024）(S)。 3.50 Sunday Brunch (R) (S)。 4.00 Kirstie And Phil's Love It Or List It (R) (S)。
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Cause Of Death 9pm, 5
Viewers who prefer real-life forensic science to the fictional variety (see Winter, left) might want to catch the latest in this casebook of Dr Richard Shepherd and his team. They are examining 16-year-old
Daytime
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6.00 Milkshakel 9.15 Jeremy Vine (S) 11.30 Storm & Alexis (S)。 12.45 5 News At Lunchtime (S) 12.50 Matt Allwright (S) 2.20 电影：《A Baby At Any Cost》（Tamar Halpern 2022）惊悚片，由克里斯蒂·泰特（Christy Tate）主演 (S)。 4.00 Bargain-Loving Brits In The Sun (R) (S)。 5.00 5 News With Dan Walker (S)。
6.00 Cornwall: A Year By The Sea (R) (S)。
6.55 5 News Update (S)。
7.00 Will You Get Dementia? (R) (S)。
7.55 5 News Update (S)。
8.00 Murder Scene: The Incident Room (S)。
9.00 Cause Of Death
调查 16 岁少年丹尼·尼科尔斯（Danny Nicholls）的死因 (S)。
10.00 Jeremy Bamber: Proof Of Innocence - The Missing Phone Call (R) (S)。
11.35 Ambulance: Code Red (R) (S)。
12.35 Cops (R) (S)。
1.00 Cruise TV With LoveitBookit (R) (S)。 2.00 Cornwall: A Year By The Sea (R) (S)。 2.50 Bargain-Loving Brits In The Sun (R) (S)。
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BBC ONE
6.00 Breakfast (S) 9.30 Morning Live (S) 10.45 Crimewatch Live (S). 11.30 Homes Under The Hammer (R) (S). 12.15 Bargain Hunt (R) (S). 1.00 BBC News At One; Weather (S) 1.35 BBC Regional News; Weather (S). 1.45 BBC News At One; Weather (S). 2.00 Clean It, Fix It (R) (S). 2.30 Shift The Thrift (R) (S). 3.00 Escape To The Country (R) (S). 3.45 Garden Rescue (S). 4.30 Bridge Of Lies (S). 5.15 Pointless (S).
6pm
7pm
6.00 BBC News At Six; Weather (S).
6.30 BBC Regional News; Weather (S).
8pm
7.00 The One Show Presented by Alex Jones and Vernon Kay (S).
7.30 EastEnders (S).
9pm
8.00 The Repair Shop: Beyond The Barn (S).
10pm
11pm
Late
9.00 Who Do You Think You Are? Joe Lycett researches his family history (R) (S).
10.00 BBC News At Ten (S).
10.30 BBC Regional News (S).
10.40 FILM: Borderlands (Eli Roth 2024) (S).
12.10 The Celebrity Inner Circle (R) (S). 1.00 BBC News (S).
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BBC FOUR
Lucia Scalisi 在晚上 8 点 BBC One 播出的《修复店：谷仓之外》（The Repair Shop: Beyond The Barn）中着手修复一幅维多利亚时代的肖像画。
6.15 Homes Under The Hammer (R) (S). 7.15 Escape To The Country (R) (S). 8.00 Sign Zone: The Reluctant Vampire (R) (S). 8.30 Sign Zone: The Best Of Weatherman Walking (S). 9.00 BBC News (S). 10.45 Politics Live (S). 12.30 BBC News (S). 1.00 Impossible (R) (S). 1.45 Unbeatable (R) (S). 2.30 The Boss (R) (S). 3.15 Beechgrove Repotted (R) (S). 3.30 The Great British Sewing Bee (R) (S). 4.30 Vintage Antiques Roadshow (R) (S). 5.05 Flog It! (R) (S).
6.00 House Of Games (S).
6.30 Strictly: It Takes Two (S).
7.00 Celebrity Antiques Road Trip (R) (S).
8.00 Saving Lives At Sea A 999 call comes in from a woman whose husband is drifting out to sea (S).
9.00 Secrets And Spies: A Nuclear Game A look at the events and causes of the Cold War (R) (S).
12.45 Sign Zone: The Split Up (R) (S). 1.45 Sign Zone: Emergency 24/7 (R) (S). 2.45 This Is BBC Two (S).
6.00 Good Morning Britain (S). 9.30 Lorraine (S). 10.00 This Morning (S). 12.30 Loose Women (S). 1.30 ITV News; Weather (S) 1.55 ITV Regional News; Weather (S) 2.00 Dickinson's Real Deal (R) (S). 3.00 Lingo (R) (S). 3.59 ITV Regional Weather (S). 4.00 Deal Or No Deal (R) (S). 5.00 The Chase (R) (S).
6.00 ITV Regional News; Weather (S).
6.30 ITV News; Weather (S).
7.30 Tipping Point: Best Ever Finals
Stuart Pearce hopes to win £20,000 for his chosen charity (S).
8.00 Emmerdale
Charity is shocked to be going home (S).
8.30 Coronation Street (S).
9.00 Winter
The sleuth investigates a faceless body, and uncovers a devastating betrayal (S).
10.00 ITV News; Weather (S).
10.30 ITV Regional News; Weather (S).
10.45 Nine Perfect Strangers (R) (S).
11.35 Gallagher PREM Unleashed (S).
12.00 Shop On TV 3.00 Driving: How Old Is Too Old? Tonight (R) (S). 3.25 Bradley & Barney Walsh: Breaking Dad (R) (S). 3.50 Unwind With ITV (S). 5.05 Deal Or No Deal (R) (S).
6.30 The King Of Queens (R) (S): 7.45 Everybody Loves Raymond (R) (S): 8.10 Everybody Loves Raymond (R) (S): 8.40 Everybody Loves Raymond (R) (S): 9.10 Frasier (R) (S): 9.40 Frasier (R) (S): 10.10 Frasier (R) (S): 10.40 Frasier (R) (S): 11.10 American Pickers (R) (S): 12.05 Channel 4 News Summary (S): 12.10 Renovation Nation (R) (S): 1.10 The Great House Giveaway (R) (S): 2.10 Countdown (S): 3.00 A Place In The Sun (R) (S): 4.00 Help! We Bought A Village (S): 5.00 Four In A Bed (S): 5.30 Come Dine With Me (R) (S).
6.00 A New Life In The Sun: Where Are They Now? (R) (S).
7.00 Channel 4 News (S).
8.00 Location, Location, Location Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer search Warwickshire (S).
9.00 Grand Designs (S).
10.00 Martin
Compston:
Living Las Vegas
Last in the
series (S).
11.05 Gogglebox
Shows
including
Gladiators and
The Apprentice
are appraised
(R) (S).
12.05 The Great British Bake Off (R) (S). 1.30 Taskmaster (R) (S). 2.25 FILM: Mikka Bannada Hakki (Manohara K 2024) (S). 3.50 Sunday Brunch (R) (S). 4.00 Kirstie And Phil's Love It Or List It (R) (S).
6.00 Milkshakel 9.15 Jeremy Vine (S) 11.30 Storm & Alexis (S). 12.45 5 News At Lunchtime (S) 12.50 Matt Allwright (S) 2.20 FILM: A Baby At Any Cost (Tamar Halpern 2022) Thriller, starring Christy Tate (S). 4.00 Bargain-Loving Brits In The Sun (R) (S). 5.00 5 News With Dan Walker (S).
6.00 Cornwall: A Year By The Sea (R) (S).
6.55 5 News Update (S).
7.00 Will You Get Dementia? (R) (S).
7.55 5 News Update (S).
8.00 Murder Scene: The Incident Room (S).
9.00 Cause Of Death
Examining the death of 16-year-old Danny Nicholls (S).
10.00 Jeremy Bamber: Proof Of Innocence - The Missing Phone Call (R) (S).
11.35 Ambulance: Code Red (R) (S).
12.35 Cops (R) (S).
1.00 Cruise TV With LoveitBookit (R) (S). 2.00 Cornwall: A Year By The Sea (R) (S). 2.50 Bargain-Loving Brits In The Sun (R) (S).
Lucia Scalisi sets about restoring a Victorian portrait in 'The Repair Shop: Beyond The Barn' 8pm, BBC One
7.00 Secrets Of Bones (S).
7.30 Timothy Spall Back At Sea (S).
8.00 Echoes From Below: Exploring Britain's Caves (S).
8.50 Building Sights (S).
9.00 The Human Body: Secrets Of Your Life Revealed Last in the series (S).
10.00 Schmoedipus: Play For Today (S).
11.10 Wild Swimming With Alice Roberts (S).
12.10 Bullets, Boots And Bandages: How To Really Win At War (S). 1.10 Secrets Of Bones (S). 1.40 Timothy Spall Back At Sea (S). 2.10 The Octopus In My House (S). 3.10 Close
FILM
Ethan investigates a body without a face 9pm. ITV1
Dr Richard Shepherd looks into a grim find 9pm.5
7.00 FILM: Next Goal Wins (Taika Waititi 2023) Premiere. Comedy, starring Michael Fassbender (S).
9.00 FILM: Gran Turismo (Neill Blomkamp 2023) Fact-based drama, starring David Harbour (S).
11.40 FILM: Underwater (William Eubank 2020) Sci-fi thriller, starring Kristen Stewart (S).
1.30 FILM: Skin (Guy Nattiv 2018) Crime drama, starring Jamie Bell (S).
3.55 Close
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轨道追踪 (Making Tracks)
玩法指南
外围的数字表示在 A 点和 B 点之间，轨道经过每行和每列的方格数量。轨道要么直线穿过方格，要么在方格内成直角转弯。
6.00 Backyard Builds (S). 6.30 Dinner Date (S). 7.30 The Real Housewives Of Potomac (S). 8.20 The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills (S). 9.15 The Only Way Is Essex (S). 10.15 Dawson's Creek (S). 11.10 Charmed (S). 12.05 Deal Or No Deal (S). 1.05 Supermarket Sweep (S). 2.05 Ant & Dec's Limitless Win (S). 3.10 The Only Way Is Essex (S). 4.10 The Real Housewives Of Potomac (S). 5.00 The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills (S).
6.00 Celebrity Catchphrase With Charlie Hedges, Luke Kempner and Jeremy Vine (S).
7.00 Ant & Dec's Limitless Win
Joe and sister-in-law Jo take on the Limitless Ladder (S).
8.00 The 1% Club Quiz, hosted by Lee Mack (S).
9.00 Big Brother
A group of contestants live under 24-hour surveillance, hoping to win a cash prize (S).
How to play All of the 28 domino pieces from 0-0 through to 6-6 have been placed once into the grid. Can you work out where each of them is placed? | 5 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
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链式链接 (Chain Link)
在每行、每列以及由链条连接的每组方格中填入数字 1-6。
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Journey Finder
How to play Move between the numbers in order 1,2,3,4,1,2,3,4 and so on, starting with the grey 1 and ending with the grey 4. On each step you may move one square in any direction (including diagonally). You must form a continuous path that visits every square exactly once.
Numbers around the outside indicate how many squares in each row and column the track passes through between A and B. The track either passes straight through a square or turns at right angles in it. | 5 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | ---
每日问答 (Daily Quiz)
1. What was the name of the subgenre of indie and alternative rock that emerged in the UK in the late 1980s and was defined by its "wall of sound"?
2. Which traditional Jewish dish is made from a poached mixture of ground deboned fish, such as carp, whitefish, or pike?
3. A victory gained at such a cost to the victor that it feels like a loss has what name taken from an ancient king of Epirus?
4. An astronomical unit, about 9300 万 miles, represents the distance of the Earth from what?
B
答案请见第 51 页
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Binary
How to play Complete the grid so that each row and column contains five os and five 1s. The same number cannot appear in more than two consecutive squares in any row or column. In the finished puzzle, each row must have a different sequence of os and 1s to any other row, and likewise for each column.
How to play Each hexagon is divided into six triangles. The sum of these six triangles is always 25. Place a number from 1-9 in each empty triangle to complete the puzzle: you cannot repeat a number within a hexagon.
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游戏与谜题
谜题：每周六提供全英最佳格挡式填字游戏
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Daily Quiz
1. What was the name of the subgenre of indie and alternative rock that emerged in the UK in the late 1980s and was defined by its "wall of sound"?
2. Which traditional Jewish dish is made from a poached mixture of ground deboned fish, such as carp, whitefish, or pike?
3. A victory gained at such a cost to the victor that it feels like a loss has what name taken from an ancient king of Epirus?
4. An astronomical unit, about 93 million miles, represents the distance of the Earth from what?
How to play Moving from letter to adjacent letter, can you create a continuous path that visits every square once and spells out all the words listed to the right of the grid? Start on the shaded square. | E | N | T | E | A | S | E | L | E | S | N | A | R | C | T | H | G | U | Q | S | C | E | T | H | I | C | I | E | I | R | N | E | E | Y | C | S | L | P | T | E | G | R | F | A | N | J | A | A | N | A | I | E | D | N | F | E | M | B | H | C | N | E | H | A | L | I | G | N | A | F | I | L | E | G | Y | R | B | I | S | H | X | E | R | O | N | V | E | L | L | U | E | X | T | I | T | A | R | N | A | B | Antique
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玩法指南：在每行、每列以及粗线勾勒的拼图区域内，数字 1-9 必须各出现一次。
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Battleships
How to play Locate the position of each of the ships listed below in the grid. Numbers around the edge tell you the number of ship segments in each row and column of the puzzle. Ships are surrounded on all sides by water, including diagonally.
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Rainbow beetroot and sheep's cheese salad with honeyed pumpkin seeds
SERVES 2
500g rainbow beetroot
A handful of thyme
1 orange
2 tbsp balsamic vinegar
40g honey
400g tin of green lentils
50g watercress
1 tbsp pumpkin seeds
100g soft sheep's cheese
Preheat your oven to 160°C/fan 150°C/gas mark 3. Line a baking tray with baking paper. Scrub the beetroot clean and use a sharp knife to slice them into $\frac{1}{2}$ cm-thick rounds – no need to peel unless you prefer to.
Arrange the slices in a roasting tin. Pick the thyme leaves off their woody sprigs and sprinkle on top, with a pinch of salt and pepper. Drizzle over a tablespoon of oil and toss everything together until coated. Slide into the oven and roast for 30 minutes, until tender and starting to caramelise.
Meanwhile, make the dressing. Slice the peel and white pith off the orange. Cut the segments out of their papery membranes and set the segments aside for later. Squeeze the membranes over a small bowl to squeeze out any juice. If there is any flesh left on the orange skin, press that over the bowl to squeeze out the juice.
Pour the balsamic vinegar into the bowl with the orange juice and drizzle in one tablespoon of honey and one of olive oil. Season with a pinch of salt and pepper, then whisk together to make a smooth dressing.
Take the beetroot out of the oven. Scatter the pumpkin seeds over the top of the beetroot. Roast for eight to 10 minutes until the pumpkin seeds have started to puff up. Remove the tray from the oven and drizzle over the remaining honey. Roast for a further two minutes.
Drain and rinse the lentils and add them to a large salad bowl. When the beetroot are ready, remove them from the oven and add them to the bowl. Add the orange segments and watercress, then toss everything together to mix.
Divide the salad between two plates, then dot over the sheep's cheese and serve.
How to play Fill the white squares so that the total in each across or down run of cells matches the total at the start of that run. You must use the numbers from 1-9 only and cannot repeat a number in a run.
How to play Each row, column and 3 by 3 box must contain each number (1 to 9) only once. The sum of all numbers contained within grey lines must match the number printed in its top-left corner. No number can appear more than once in an area formed by grey lines.
Find the missing words by following the RHYME, LETTERS and MEANING links – eg, a word that rhymes with 'cheek', has one letter different from 'pear' and has the same meaning as mountain, would be 'peak'. Full rules at zygolex.com. Solution, page 51
Place the numbers from 1-5 exactly once in each row and column. The greater than and less than signs ( $>$ and $<$ ) indicate where one cell is greater/less than the adjacent cell indicated.
How to play Fill the empty squares with numbers that will make the across and down calculations produce the results shown in the grey squares. Each numeral from 1 to 9 must only appear once. The calculations should be performed from left to right and top to bottom, rather than in strict mathematical order.
How to play The numbers in the grid correspond to the letters of the alphabet. Solve the puzzle and fill in the letters in the key as you discover them. Three letters are provided to give you a start. The solution will be printed in tomorrow's paper, the solution to Tuesday's codeword is on page 51. | 15 | 21 | 18 |
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Convert the word at the top of the ladder into the word at the bottom of it, using only the five rungs in between. On each rung, you must put a valid four-letter word that is identical to the word above it, apart from a one-letter change. There may be more than one way of achieving this.
How to play Place the letters A, B and C only once in each row and column. Each row and column has two blank cells. The letters at the edge of a row/column indicate which of the letters is the first/last to appear in that row/column.
How to play How many words can you find using the letters in the wheel? Each must use the centre letter and at least three others. Letters may be used only once. You may not use foreign words, proper nouns or plurals though you may use verb forms ending in 's'. There is at least one nine-letter word to be found.
How you rate 18 good, 27 very good, 33 excellent, 40 genius
How to play A chess knight visits each square of the grid exactly once, starting at 1 and ending at 100 (these squares are shaded). Deduce the whole path of the knight – some of which is already given – and thus complete the grid. The knight moves either two squares horizontally followed by one square vertically, or two squares vertically followed by one square horizontally. | 11 | 9 | 73 | 78 | 59 | 40 | 75 | 86 | 61 | 82 | 89 | 6 | 64 | 15 | 56 | 71 | 80 | 55 | 66 | 85 | 52 | 92 | 38 | 51 | 47 | 96 | 100 | 28 | 4 | 17 | 98 | 69 | 43 | 46 | 1 | 32 | 18 | 22 | 45 | 24 | 35 | 31 | ---
How to play Divide the grid into square or rectangular blocks, each containing one digit only. Every block must contain the number of cells indicated by the digit inside it. | 8 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | ---
How to play Can you fit all the words into the grid to complete the puzzle? Some words may initially fit in more than one place, but there is only one way to fit all the words together to complete the grid.
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Word Square
How to play Simply answer the clues alongside the grid, writing the answers in the respective rows. The solution must read the same horizontally in each row as it does vertically in each column.
How to play Connect every island (represented by circles) into a single interconnected group. To do this draw bridges between islands. The number in each circle states how many bridges must be connected to that island. Bridges cannot cross each other, can only be drawn horizontally or vertically, and there can be a maximum of two bridges between any pair of islands.
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《苏格兰黄金海岸》（Scotland's Golden Coast）晚上9点，More4频道
最新的海岸快照包括梅岛（Isle of May），该岛位于苏格兰东海岸五英里外，在繁殖季节是数十万只海鸟的家园。与此同时，在安格斯（Angus），加里多尼亚铁路（Caledonian Railway）提供乘坐修复列车的怀旧乡村之旅；而在阿伯丁港口，一名桨板教练揭示了这座“花岗岩之城”的不同一面。
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Calcudoku
How to play Place the numbers 1-6 once in each row and column, obeying sums in bold-lined regions. The number in each region indicates the total for the region, and the symbol shows which type of operation should be applied to the numbers: addition, subtraction, division or multiplication. Numbers may repeat within bold-lined regions. With subtraction always take the lower numbers away from the highest number in a region, and with division divide the highest number by the lower numbers. | 7+ | 15× | 2÷ | 2÷ | 6+ | 5× | 4+ | 2÷ | 1- | 11+ | 2÷ | 4- | 13+ | 10× | 2- | 6+ | ---
电影推荐 劳伦斯·费兰（LAURENCE PHELAN）
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How to play Place each of the letters below once into the empty hexagons, crossing them off as you do so. Enter the letters in such a way that it is possible to find all the words listed alongside the grid by moving from hexagon to adjacent hexagon to spell out each word.
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Danny Nicholls's death, having been discovered lying dead on the living-room floor by his sister. There was no sign of a break-in, no obvious evidence of assault, and nothing to suggest self-harm. What could've stopped his heart without warning?
The latest coastal snapshots include the Isle of May, five miles off Scotland's east coast and home to hundreds of thousands of seabirds during the breeding season. In Angus, meanwhile, the Caledonian Railway offers a nostalgic journey through the countryside on restored trains, and at the mouth of Aberdeen harbour, a paddleboard instructor reveals a different side of the Granite City.
Waititi's amiable, low-stakes, Cool Runnings-style sporting-underdog comedy is about the 2011 World Cup qualifying campaign of the American Samoan football team: a ragtag bunch who had never scored in a competitive match at the time, and still hold the world record for the worst loss in international football (31-0 to Australia). Michael Fassbender (left) plays the Dutch-American coach tasked with whipping them into shape: an ultra-competitive depressive who is a fish out of water among these congenitally warm and laid-back Pacific Islanders. Naturally he learns as much from them in the course of the film as they do from him.
Cartoonish big-budget sci-fi video game adaptation with bounty hunter Cate Blanchett, mercenary Kevin Hart and a garrulous robot sidekick voiced by Jack Black teaming up to rescue a 13-year-old pyro wild child on the planet Pandora.
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Prime Video
改编自斯蒂芬·金关于一名拥有心灵感应能力的青少年的新电视剧集。
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Jamie Bell stars in this textured and gripping adaptation of the memoir of a founder member of a neo-Nazi organisation in the US mid-west, who later married, renounced his views and tried to leave his old life behind.
12.55 《皇家医院》(The Royal) (S)。2.00 《乔治与米尔德里德》(George And Mildred) (S)。
2.25 《与ITV一起放松》(Unwind With ITV) (S)。
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6.00 The (S)。
6.30 The 校长斯金纳 (Principal Skinner) 和克拉巴佩尔夫人 (Mrs Krabappel) 订婚 (S)。
8.00 《甲板之下：大洋洲》(Below Deck Down Under) 船上的积怨导致最后一次包船任务困难重重。本系列最后一集 (S)。
9.00 《拉姆齐：厨房噩梦美国版》(Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA) (S)。
10.00 《沙发评论》(Gogglebox)
皮尔斯·摩根 (Piers Morgan)
的《无审查》(Uncensored)
被评价 (S)。
11.00 《初次约会：成为我的情人》(First Dates: Be My Valentine) (S)。
12.00 《裸体吸引力》(Naked Attraction) (S)。
1.05 《沙发评论》(Gogglebox) (S)。2.10 《甲板之下：大洋洲》(Below Deck Down Under) (S)。3.00 《拉姆齐：24小时地狱往返》(Ramsay's 24 Hours To Hell And Back) (S)。
3.50 The (S)。4.15 《戈德堡一家》(The Goldbergs) (S)。4.40 《戈德堡一家》(The Goldbergs) (S)。
8.55 《四人一床》(Four In A Bed) (S) 9.30
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In A (S) 10.30
In A (S) 11.05
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《来我家吃饭》(Come Dine Me) (S)。
12.05 《来我家吃饭》( ) (S) 12.35 《来我家吃饭》( ) (S)。1.05 《来我家吃饭》( ) (S)。1.40 《来我家吃饭》( ) (S) 2.15 In A (S)。2.50 In A (S)。3.20 In A (S)。3.50 In A (S)。4.20 In A (S)。
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6.55 Station Eleven
克斯滕抵达塞文市营救巡回交响乐团 (R) (S)。
8.00 Fargo 莱斯特重返工作岗位引发了复杂的连锁反应 (R) (S)。
9.00 War 法律剧，多米尼克·韦斯特主演 (R) (S)。
10.05 The Terror 克罗齐尔船长下令放弃两艘船只 (R) (S)。
11.05 The Terror 神秘情况下的死亡导致了偏执心理 (R) (S)。
12.05 Station Eleven (R) (S)。1.15 Station Eleven (R) (S)。2.30 Gomorrah (R) (S)。3.35 The Guest Wing (R) (S)。4.30 Sort Of (R) (S)。5.00 The Guest Wing (R) (S)。
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Profile of Yuja Wang, one of the world's most gifted classical pianists.
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Sharon "Catastrophe" Horgan's scabrous new post-divorce comedy.
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7.55 The Dog House A 12-year-old terrier enjoys a makeover at the groomers (S).
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6.00 Superstore (S).
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Lottery fever hits the store (S).
7.00 The Simpsons (R) (S).
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8.00 Surviving Earth
A look at the Younger Dryas period and its aftermath (S).
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5.45 Station Eleven (R) (S).
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Kirsten arrives in Severn City to rescue the Travelling Symphony (R) (S).
8.00 Fargo Lester's return to work has complicated repercussions (R) (S).
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11.05 The Terror Deaths under mysterious circumstances lead to paranoia (R) (S).
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早上6点 《今日》(Today) 9.00 《多或少》(More Or Less) 9.30 《奥斯汀·泰斯在哪里？》(Where Is Austin Tice?) 10.00 《女性时间》(Woman's Hour) 11.00 《4号档案调查》(File On 4 Investigates) 11.40 《本周历史》(This Week In History) 11.45 《去还是不去》(To Go Or Not To Go) 中午12点 新闻 12.04 《你和我》(You And Yours) 12.57 天气 1.00 《一点钟的世界》(The World At One) 1.45 《转折点》(The Turning Point) 2.00 《拱手》(The Archers) 2.15 剧集：《名为家的地方》(A Place Called Home) 3.00 《钱箱》(Money Box) 3.30 《人造人》(The Artificial Human) 4.00 《当事情失控时》(When It Hits The Fan) 4.15 《媒体秀》(The Media Show) 5.00 下午节目 (PM) 5.57 天气 6.00 六点新闻 6.30 《格伦·摩尔的年鉴》(Glenn Moore's Almanac) 7.00 《拱手》(The Archers)：克拉里的担忧浮出水面。 7.15 《前排》(Front Row)：艺术节目。 8.00 《为了历史》(Here For The History)：帽子的普及之终结。 8.30 《顶级评论》(Top Comment)：探讨康奈尔大学兄弟会一起涉嫌强奸的案件。 9.00 《科学生活》(The Life Scientific)：吉姆·阿尔-哈利利与海洋学家罗伯特·巴拉德对话。 9.30 《心中所有》(All In The Mind)：旨在帮助抑郁症患者的前沿研究。本系列最后一集。 10.00 《今夜世界》(The World Tonight) 10.45 《睡前书》(Book At Bedtime)：《车站》(Stations)，作者路易丝·肯尼迪。 11.00 《基里的农场》(Kiri's Farm)：新系列。基里·普里查德-麦克林在安格尔西岛钻研耕作。 11.15 《大而小的问题》(Big Little Questions)：艾米·格莱德希尔和克里斯·坎特里尔回答孩子们的提问。 11.30 《伟大人生》(Great Lives)：莉亚·伊皮提名哲学家伊曼努尔·康德。 BBC 午夜12点 新闻与天气 12.30 《去还是不去》(To Go Or Not To Go) 12.48 航运预报 1.00 切换至 BBC 全球服务 5.00 新闻摘要 5.04 《多或少》(More Or Less) 5.32 天气 5.34 航运预报 5.43 今日祷告 5.45 今日农业
BBC Radio 4 Extra
早上6点 《亚当·达尔格利什：遮住她的脸》(Adam Dalgliesh: Cover Her Face) 6.30 《保罗·坦普尔与乔纳森之谜》(Paul Temple And The Jonathan Mystery) 7.00 《亨利之后》(After Henry) 7.30 《失踪的汉科克斯》(The Missing Hancocks) 8.00 《长久婚姻的对话》(Conversations From A Long Marriage) 8.30 《活着，活着哦！以及其他重要之事》(Alive, Alive Oh! And Other Things That Matter) 8.45 《特里斯特兰·桑迪》(Tristram Shandy) 9.00 杰西卡·福斯特克：强韧女孩俱乐部 (Jessica Fostekew: Sturdy Girl Club) 9.30 《骨骼故事》(Bone Stories) 9.45 每日礼拜 10.00 简·莫里斯：《书写一生》(Jan Morris: Writing A Life) 11.00 《亚当·达尔格利什：遮住她的脸》 11.30 《保罗·坦普尔与乔纳森之谜》 中午12点 《亨利之后》 12.30 《失踪的汉科克斯》 1.00 《长久婚姻的对话》 1.30 《活着，活着哦！以及其他重要之事》 1.45 《特里斯特兰·桑迪》 2.00 《写作素材》(The Write Stuff) 2.30 《蓝灯》(The Blue Lamp) 4.00 简·莫里斯：《书写一生》 5.00 《亚当·达尔格利什：遮住她的脸》 5.30 《保罗·坦普尔与乔纳森之谜》 6.00 《亨利之后》 6.30 《失踪的汉科克斯》 7.00 《长久婚姻的对话》
DJ Spoony 的好律动 (The Good Groove With DJ Spoony) 晚上10点，BBC Radio 2 的 DJ Spoony（上图）带来更多灵魂乐、迪斯科、R'n'B、英国车库音乐 (UK Garage)、雷鬼、嘻哈和泛克音乐，以及他的周中猜谜游戏《音乐是答案》(Music Is The Answer)。
6.58am Newsbeat 7.00 Radio 1 Breakfast With Greg James 10.30 Newsbeat 10.33 Charlie And Jerry 12noon Radio 1 Live Lounge 12.45 Newsbeat 1.00 Matt And Mollie 3.30 Newsbeat 3.33 Going Home With Vick, Katie And Jamie On Radio 1 5.45 Newsbeat 6.00 Radio 1's New Music Show With Jack Saunders 8.00 Radio 1's Future Pop With Mollie King 10.00 Radio 1's Power Down Playlist With Sian Eleri 11.00 Benji B 1am Danny Howard's Club Mix 2.00 Radio 1 Anthems 4.00 Radio 1 Early Breakfast With Mylo And Rosie
BBC Radio 1Xtra
6.32am 1Xtra Playlists
7.00 1Xtra Breakfast With Nadia Jae 10.00 DJ Day Day 12.45pm Newsbeat 1.00 Sian Anderson 4.00 Remi Burgz 5.45 Newsbeat 6.00 Remi Burgz 7.00 DJ Target 9.00 1Xtrais AfroSounds Show With DJ Edu 10.30 1Xtrais AfroSounds Show With DJ Edu 11.00 1Xtra's Throwback Party 12mdn't Throwback Thursday 1.00 1Xtra's Friday Night Party With Izzy Bossy 2.30 1Xtra's Friday Night Party With Izzy Bossy 4.00 1Xtra's Rave Show With Jeremiah Asiamah 4.30 Throwback Thursday 5.30 1Xtra's Throwback Party
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BBC 5 Live
早上6点 5 Live 早报 9.00 莉玛·艾哈迈德 (Rima Ahmed) 11.00 纳加·蒙切蒂 (Naga Munchetty) 下午2点 马特·乔利 (Matt Chorley) 4.00 5 Live 驾车时间 (5 Live Drive) 7.00 5 Live 体育 7.30 5 Live 体育 9.00 5 Live 体育：欧洲联赛播客 10.00 5 Live 体育：72+ 10.30 劳拉·麦基 (Laura McGhie) 凌晨1点 多顿·阿德巴约 (Dotun Adebayo) 5.00 醒来谈钱 (Wake Up To Money)
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BBC Radio 2
6.30am The Sara Cox Breakfast Show 9.30 Vernon Kay 12noon Jeremy Vine 2.00 Trevor Nelson 4.00 Drivetime 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 DJ Spoony 12mdn't OJ Borg 3.00 Dance Sounds Of The 90s With Vernon Kay 4.00 Owain Wyn Evans
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BBC 6 Music
早上7点 尼克·格里姆肖 (Nick Grimshaw) 10.00 劳伦·拉文 (Lauren Laverne) 下午1点 克里斯·霍金斯 (Chris Hawkins) 4.00 汤姆·罗宾逊 (Tom Robinson) 7.00 每日新音乐速递 (New Music Fix Daily) 9.00 莱利与科 (Riley & Coe) 11.00 声音之旅 (Journeys In Sound) 午夜12点 怪诞地带播放列表 (Freak Zone Playlist) 1.00 在我的生命中——纪念约翰·列侬 (In My Life – John Lennon Remembered) 2.00 在我的生命中——纪念约翰·列侬 3.00 6 Music 直播小时 4.00 6 Music 点唱机 5.00 艾米莉·皮尔比姆 (Emily Pilbeam)
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BBC Radio 3
6.30am Breakfast 9.30 Essential Classics 1pm Classical Live 3.00 Choral Evensong 4.00 Composer Of The Week: The Venetian School 5.00 In Tune 7.00 Classical Mixtape 7.30 Radio 3 In Concert 9.45 The Essay: Towards Evensong 10.00 Night Tracks 11.30 Round Midnight 12.30am Through The Night
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Classic FM
6.30am Dan Walker 主持的 Classic FM 早餐节目 9.00 Dan Walker 主持的 Classic FM 名人堂时间 10.00 Tim Lihoreau 1pm Hannah Scott-Joynt 4.00 Margherita Taylor 7.00 Zeb Soanes 主持的 BBC 轻松夜晚 10.00 宁静经典 1am Bill Overton 4.00 早间早餐
Absolute Radio
6am Dave Berry 10.00 Leona Graham 1pm Ben Burrell 4.00 Bush & Richie 主持的 BBC 下班时间 7.00 Danielle Perry 10.00 Jay Lawrence 1am Ben Sheppard
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BBC Radio 4
6am Today 9.00 More Or Less 9.30 Where Is Austin Tice? 10.00 Woman's Hour 11.00 File On 4 Investigates 11.40 This Week In History 11.45 To Go Or Not To Go 12noon News 12.04 You And Yours 12.57 Weather 1.00 The World At One 1.45 The Turning Point 2.00 The Archers 2.15 Drama: A Place Called Home 3.00 Money Box 3.30 The Artificial Human 4.00 When It Hits The Fan 4.15 The Media Show 5.00 PM 5.57 Weather 6.00 Six O'Clock News 6.30 Glenn Moore's Almanac 7.00 The Archers. Clarrie's concerns bubble to the surface. 7.15 Front Row. Arts programme. 8.00 Here
For The History. The demise of the ubiquity of the hat. 8.30 Top Comment. A look at an alleged case of gang rape at a Cornell frat house. 9.00 The Life Scientific. Jim Al-Khalili talks to oceanographer Robert Ballard. 9.30 All In The Mind. Cutting-edge research aiming to help people living with depression. Last in the series. 10.00 The World Tonight 10.45 Book At Bedtime: Stations. By Louise Kennedy. 11.00 Kiri's Farm. New series. Kiri Pritchard-McLean gets to grips with farming on Anglesey. 11.15 Big Little Questions. Amy Gledhill and Chris Cantrill answer questions from children. 11.30 Great Lives. Lea Ypi nominates philosopher Immanuel Kant. 12mdn't News And Weather 12.30 To Go Or Not To Go 12.48 Shipping Forecast 1.00 As BBC World Service 5.00 News Summary 5.04 More Or Less 5.32 Weather 5.34 Shipping Forecast 5.43 Prayer For The Day 5.45 Farming Today
BBC Radio 4 Extra
6am Adam Dalgliesh: Cover Her Face 6.30 Paul Temple And The Jonathan Mystery 7.00 After Henry 7.30 The Missing Hancocks 8.00 Conversations From A Long Marriage 8.30 Alive, Alive Oh! And Other Things That Matter 8.45 Tristram Shandy 9.00 Jessica Fostekew: Sturdy Girl Club 9.30 Bone Stories 9.45 Daily Service 10.00 Jan Morris: Writing A Life 11.00 Adam Dalgliesh: Cover Her Face 11.30 Paul Temple And The Jonathan Mystery 12noon After Henry 12.30 The Missing Hancocks 1.00 Conversations From A Long Marriage 1.30 Alive, Alive Oh! And Other Things That Matter 1.45 Tristram Shandy 2.00 The Write Stuff 2.30 The Blue Lamp 4.00 Jan Morris: Writing A Life 5.00 Adam Dalgliesh: Cover Her Face 5.30 Paul Temple And The Jonathan Mystery 6.00 After Henry 6.30 The Missing Hancocks 7.00 Conversations From A
The Good Groove With DJ Spoony 10pm, BBC Radio 2 DJ Spoony (above) brings more soul, disco, R'n'B, UK Garage, reggae, hip hop and funk, as well as his mid-week guessing game Music Is The Answer.
Long Marriage 7.30 Alive, Alive Oh! And Other Things That Matter 7.45 Tristram Shandy 8.00 The Write Stuff 8.30 The Blue Lamp 10.00 Comedy Club: Jessica Fostekew: Sturdy Girl Club 10.30 Comedy Club: Mitch Benn's Crimes Against Music 11.00 Comedy Club: Everyone Quite Likes Justin 11.30 Comedy Club: The Skewer 11.45 Comedy Club: The Goldfish Bowl 12mdn't Jan Morris: Writing A Life 1.00 Adam Dalgliesh: Cover Her Face 1.30 Paul Temple And The Jonathan Mystery 2.00 After Henry 2.30 The Missing Hancocks 3.00 Conversations From A Long Marriage 3.30 Alive, Alive Oh! And Other Things That Matter 3.45 Tristram Shandy 4.00 The Write Stuff 4.30 The Blue Lamp
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Heart
6.30am Jamie Theakston 和 Amanda Holden 主持的 Heart 早餐节目 10.00 Pandora Christie 1pm Matt Wilkinson 4.00 JK And Kelly Brook 7.00 Dev Griffin 主持的 Heart 惬意周末 10.00 Ben Atkinson 1am Guy Howard 4.00 Lindsey Russell 主持的 早间早餐
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BBC 5 Live
6am 5 Live Breakfast 9.00
Rima Ahmed 11.00 Naga
Munchetty 2pm Matt Chorley
4.00 5 Live Drive 7.00 5 Live
Sport 7.30 5 Live Sport 9.00 5
Live Sport: The Euro Leagues
Podcast 10.00 5 Live Sport:
72+ 10.30 Laura McGhie 1am
Dotun Adebayo 5.00 Wake Up
To Money
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TalkSPORT
6am Alan Brazil 主持的 TalkSPORT 早餐节目 10.00 Jim White 和 Simon Jordan 1pm Max Rushden & Charlie Baker 4.00 TalkSPORT 驾车时间 7.00 开球 10.00 体育酒吧 1am Paul Ross 主持的 加时赛 5.00 早间体育早餐
Panorama
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BBC 6 Music
7am Nick Grimshaw 10.00 Lauren Laverne 1pm Chris Hawkins 4.00 Tom Robinson 7.00 New Music Fix Daily 9.00 Riley & Coe 11.00 Journeys In Sound 12mdn't Freak Zone Playlist 1.00 In My Life – John Lennon Remembered 2.00 In My Life – John Lennon Remembered 3.00 6 Music Live Hour 4.00 6 Music's Jukebox 5.00 Emily Pilbeam
6.30am Classic FM Breakfast With Dan Walker 9.00 The Classic FM Hall Of Fame Hour With Dan Walker 10.00 Tim Lihoreau 1pm Hannah Scott-Joynt 4.00 Margherita Taylor 7.00 Relaxing Evenings With Zeb Soanes 10.00 Calm Classics 1am Bill Overton 4.00 Early Breakfast
6.30am Heart Breakfast With Jamie Theakston And Amanda Holden 10.00 Pandora Christie 1pm Matt Wilkinson 4.00 JK And Kelly Brook 7.00 Heart's Feel Good Weekend With Dev Griffin 10.00 Ben Atkinson 1am Guy Howard 4.00 Early Breakfast With Lindsey Russell
6am TalkSPORT Breakfast With Alan Brazil 10.00 Jim White And Simon Jordan 1pm Max Rushden & Charlie Baker 4.00 TalkSPORT Drive 7.00 Kick Off 10.00 The Sports Bar 1am Extra Time With Paul Ross 5.00 Early Sports Breakfast
A Spanish supreme court judge lifted the arrest warrant for Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont yesterday, clearing the way for him to return home for the first time in nearly a decade.
Puigdemont (inset), Catalonia's former regional president fled Spain for Belgium in 2017 after leading a failed attempt to break Catalonia away from Spain.
He has since avoided attempts by Spain to have him sent back to face a court.
Now he looks set to go back to Spain just when the country is preparing for a national election next month.
It is too early to know how his return will affect the campaign, but given his unpopularity in most of Spain, it is likely that opposition parties will try to use his return against the prime minister, Pedro Sánchez.
Puigdemont scored a legal victory when the supreme court judge Pablo Llarena lifted his arrest warrant moments after Spain's constitutional court announced it would apply a government amnesty for the Catalan separatists to one of Puigdemont's allies who had been found guilty of misusing public funds.
Llarena said he was lifting the arrest warrant for Puigdemont while awaiting the opportunity to study the constitutional court's decision.
From Waterloo in Belgium, Puigdemont has maintained a loyal following among committed Catalan separatists, even as the in-
ependence movement has weakened. His penchant for the audacious was on display in 2024 when Puigdemont appeared in Barcelona, gave a speech and slipped through the police's grip. He has also kept con-
trol of his Junts party from abroad.
Junts' "No" was decisive in Spain's progressive government losing two key votes in parliament this week when it tried to push through emergency housing measures.
Sánchez was only able to remain in power in 2023 when Puigdemont's Junts backed his formation of a new government in exchange for the amnesty.
This week Sánchez responded to Junts scuttling his housing measures by calling a snap election for 29 November, hoping discontent over housing will mobilise his voters. AP
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“最快埃博拉疫情”袭击第四个国家
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Separatists win Quebec election
By Rob Gillies
IN TORONTO
The separatist Parti Québécois has won Quebec's provincial election but fell short of enough seats to govern alone, returning to power with a promise to hold another referendum on independence from Canada.
The result returns Paul St-Pierre Plamondon's party to power for the first time in more than a decade but denies it the majority it sought, forcing the separatists to rely on opposition parties.
St-Pierre Plamondon has pledged to hold another referendum on independence, though he has said he would wait until the US President, Donald Trump, is no longer in office.
St-Pierre Plamondon framed independence as essential to preserving Quebec's French-speaking identity.
Quebec voters have twice rejected sovereignty, most recently in a 1995 referendum.
The Quebec result comes two weeks before Albertans vote on whether to hold a referendum on separation from Canada. AP
Ahead of a key parliamentary election later this month, Serbia's election commission has tied overseas voting hours to the local time in the country and approved a contested list of polling stations abroad.
\- a decision that critics say could make it tough for the Serbian diaspora to vote.
The change means voters in Chicago, home to a large Serbian community, would have to cast their ballots between 1am and 2pm, and Serbs in parts of Australia and New Zealand would have to vote overnight.
The 25 October election was called by Aleksandar Vucic (inset) before he stepped down as president last month in an attempt to return to power as prime minister.
The resignation came as he has faced sustained pressure from nearly two years of protests by a burgeoning student movement that has morphed into a political force that will challenge him in the election.
Past elections have been marred by irregularities and violence.
Serbia's election commission has tied voting hours abroad to the 7am
to 8pm voting window in Serbia and approved 93 polling stations overseas.
And while the number is 12 more than in 2023, nine of them are in neighbouring Bosnia, which has a large ethnic Serb minority in the Bos-
nian Serb-dominated entity of Republika Srpska.
Vucic is popular among Bosnian Serbs, and his political ally there, Milorad Dodik, has advocated for separating Republika Srpska from Bosnia.
The student protests' electoral arm, the Student List, will challenge the government of Vucic's party, in power for 14 years. AP
North Korea's foreign ministry has rejected blame from South Korea for a border landmine blast, and threatened its neighbour with "immediate and powerful counteraction" for any violation of territory.
The comments came a day after the South said a joint inquiry with the United Nations Command and scientific analysis showed two of its soldiers were seriously wounded by an anti-personnel mine planted by North Korea in the Demilitarized Zone.
In a statement, the ministry dismissed the South's investigation of the 21 September blast as a “pre-mediated farce” aimed at linking it to North Korea and justifying diplomatic and military measures against Pyongyang.
It called the findings a “grave provocation” and violation of North Korea’s sovereignty. REUTERS
Restoration work continues yesterday on the Mahastupa, the main and largest stupa of the Unesco World Heritage-listed Borobudur temple in Magelang, Central Java. The project aims to preserve the ancient Buddhist monument's structural integrity and protect its stone blocks from weathering and natural deterioration.
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By Evelyne Musambi
IN NAIROBI
Kenya has confirmed the country's first imported Ebola case from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
Health minister Aden Duale said a Kenyan citizen tested positive for the disease after showing symptoms of haemorrhagic disease when he arrived in the country on Saturday from the DRC via Uganda.
The man was treated at The Nairobi Hospital but died on Monday.
Kenya is the fourth country to record an Ebola case in the outbreak, which was declared in eastern DRC in May. Twenty cases have been confirmed in Uganda and one in France in what the World Health Organisation has warned is the disease's fastest ever spread.
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New York
Former White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt has found her next chapter: she is heading to Fox News.
Leavitt will become an on-air contributor from 1 November, the network has announced.
"Karoline's first-hand experience in the White House and on the presidential campaign trail gives her a distinct understanding of today's political landscape," said network CEO, Suzanne Scott.
Leavitt said she looked forward to bringing “my unique perspective as White House press secretary, along with the same energy and candour that defined my tenure, to Fox’s millions of viewers”.
Karoline Leavitt says she takes her 'unique perspective' to Fox News
Leavitt, 29, was the youngest ever White House press secretary. When she left the post in August, President Donald Trump described her as one of his “most trusted aides”.
At the time she said she wished to spend more time with her children – she has a two-year-old son and gave birth to a daughter in May.
Leavitt is the second of Trump's press secretaries to
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join Fox, following Kayleigh McEnany's move there in 2021. Dana Perino, former press secretary for George W Bush, is also a political commentator at the network.
Trump has hired several Fox News personalities to key jobs in his own administration, chief among them the Defence Secretary, Pete Hegseth.
But the President has an increasingly thorny relationship with the network, whose key commentators have long given him favourable coverage. As recently as Sunday he expressed frustration with Fox News for what he called its lack of coverage of his rallies.
Trump is also embroiled in a stand-off with news outlets whose coverage displeases him, capped by his recent efforts to ban CNN, MS NOW and Politico from White House grounds and exclude CNN from broadcast pool assignments.
Police in Ho Chi Minh City have arrested 12 men suspected of operating a citywide ring that stole and resold about 2,700 cats for meat, state media reported.
Authorities identified Luu Thanh Binh, 39, as the alleged leader of the network. He and 11 others were being investigated for theft.
Investigators said Binh bought stolen cats, kept them at a facility and resold them for meat.
He worked with suppliers who recruited others to ride motorcycles through residential neighbourhoods between 11pm and 4am, hunting and trapping four to 10 cats each night.
In Vietnam, cat meat is more commonly consumed in the north among older generations.
The practice has declined with growing pet ownership. AP
Police detained several opposition politicians in New Delhi, India, yesterday for trying to breach barricades during a protest march to demand the resignation of the election chief over a controversial revision of voter lists.
The march was the latest political challenge to the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, midway into his third term, months after similar protests forced the resignation of his education minister over exam paper leaks.
Parties opposing Modi's government along with members of the popular "cockroach" youth movement protested against the chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar.
The Indian Express newspaper reported that there were internal concerns about the neutrality of the commission, led by a Modi government appointee.
Rahul Gandhi was among those detained at the protest
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Politicians carried placards, waved the national flag, and shouted slogans against Kumar during the march.
"The election commission is a puppet in the hands of the government," the Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, said.
Television channels said the opposition leader Rahul Gandhi and his sister Priyanka were among those detained before being released. REUTERS
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25 die as plane crashes during air force mission
By Dyepkazah Shibayan
IN ABUJA
All 25 people on board a Nigerian Air Force plane were killed when it crashed during a routine mission, military officials have said.
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The ATR-42 aircraft was on its way to Lagos when it disappeared from radar and came down in the town of Igbokoda in Ondo state in the south of the country.
Nigeria's chief of the air staff, Sunday Aneke, described the accident, which claimed the lives of 20 passengers and five crew, as “a deeply painful moment for the Nigerian Air Force and the nation”.
President Bola Tinubu declared three days of mourning and directed flags to be flown at half-mast throughout the country.
The ATR-42 is often used by the Nigerian military for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance and for transporting personnel and supplies. AP
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超市牛排品鉴
从高端切块到实惠系列，Sophie Morris 对 11 款西冷牛排进行了测试。
这是一项艰巨的任务……但值得庆幸的是，我尝试的所有超市牛排都没有出现口感过硬的情况。我尝试了 11 款西冷牛排，价格从 £23.03 / kg 到 £60.87 / kg 不等。那些让我真正享受的牛排价格在 £30 / kg 左右，多花一点钱是值得的。
我请到了肉铺 Turner & George 的联合创始人 Richard Turner 来向我介绍这种切块。他是英国顶尖的肉类专家和厨师之一，曾参与经营英国一些最出色的牛排馆。
From high-end cuts to value ranges, Sophie Morris puts 11 sirloins to the test
Tough job this one... but thankfully, none of the supermarket steaks I tried were even approaching tough. I tried
11 sirloins ranging from £23.03/kg to £60.87/kg. Those I really enjoyed started around the £30/kg mark and are worth the extra pennies.
I asked Richard Turner, co-founder of the butcher Turner & George, to tell me about the cut. He's one of the UK's foremost meat experts and chefs and has been involved with some of the UK's best steak houses.
He recommends cooking sirloin medium to medium rare. "But due to its leanness it's one of the few cuts I'll countenance cooking on the rarer side," he says.
I most often buy rib-eye but am so impressed by the sirloins that I may be switching allegiance. Turner explains that sirloin is a better cut if you enjoy a rare steak, as I do, because it has less fat.
As beef prices have gone up – the Office for National Statistics puts the rise at 52 per cent between 2020 and 2025 – sirloin has turned out to be a good-value cut, though it is still an indulgence.
Many of the sirloins I try are dry-aged. "Dry-aging on the carcass tenderises meat and intensifies flavour by evaporation, to an extent," says Turner. He says it's best kept to five or six weeks, though: "After that, the funkier, slightly cheesy flavours start to appear."
I cooked all the steaks in a pan, medium rare, to packet instructions. I enjoyed them all, but some have lower marks because there was a range in quality. What really stood out are the high-performing steaks in the middle of the price range, such as those from Co-op, Tesco Finest and Lidl Deluxe.
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Aldi Specially Selected 100% 英国和牛西冷牛排 £8.49 / 230g 或 £37.40 / kg
M&S Collection British Aberdeen Angus Gold Salt Dry-Aged Sirloin £16.78/329g or £51/kg
Exceptionally tasty and tender, this 36-day aged sirloin really delivers, which you'd expect for the price. The cooking instructions direct a quick sear in a hot pan before moving to the oven, resulting in a delicious caramelised crust and melt-in-the-mouth pink insides.
Each steak is fully traceable to both the farm and animal it came from. This is the only steak I try that recommends oven-cooking, which is the preferred method of many chefs. 5/5
Waitrose No. 130-day Dry-Aged Sirloin Steak
£14/230g or £60.87/kg
A stunning product. The flavour hits from a moment before it's in my mouth, even: salty, umami, beefy and exquisitely tender. I eat more than is probably wise given the very many steaks I have to try. 5/5
Daylesford Organic Grass-Fed Dry-Aged British Sirloin Steak
£9.20/230g or £40/kg from Ocado
A great-looking steak and not as expensive as I'd expect from Lady Bamford's fancy farm Daylesford Organic. The flavour is wonderfully beefy, but not in a blokey, upfront way. Rather it's softly spoken and almost caramel-like. The texture is molten and delicious. 4.5/5
他的亲属对其福利提出了质疑。他的表弟、演员约瑟夫·费恩斯（Joseph Fiennes）在1月份写信给公共监护人办公室（Office of the Public Guardian，负责管理法定代理权的机构），表达了对拉努尔夫与朋友和家人失去联系的担忧。
拉努尔夫的家人和朋友指责米林顿-科茨使用假名将其在不同的护理院之间转移，并限制探视。
切希尔警方在周一发表的一份声明中表示，他们对这位 82 岁的老人没有“保护方面的担忧”
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Waitrose Duchy Organic British Beef Sirloin Steak
A beautifully flavoursome sirloin that tastes sweet and grassy with a caramelly seared crust. The Duchy Organic range has award-winning welfare standards and sales contribute to the King's Charitable Fund. 4.5/5
Co-op Irresistible British Aberdeen Angus Thick Cut Sirloin Steak £11.00/300g or £36.67/kg This one wins the beauty contest, coming out of the pan with a deep burnished outer and brilliant pink inside.
It is also incredibly tasty and tender, with a lovely shoulder of fat. Cooking instructions are helpful, too, with varying times given for rare, medium or well-done steaks. 4/5
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Aldi Specially Selected 100% British Beef Wagyu Sirloin Steak £8.49/230g or £37.40/kg
A great example of British Wagyu, this sirloin has a rich flavour and it's incredibly tender, too. It's the only Wagyu I try, and is noticeably fattier than the others. As with the Lidl steak, the packaging gives brilliant cooking advice. I think this is a really smart way of helping shoppers feel confident they'll do their purchase justice. 4/5
I'm a big fan of the packaging on this Lidl steak. The plastic cover comes off easily and the cardboard box has step by step illustrations and instructions, which are really valuable when you want to treat a decent piece of meat well.
The result is tender and flavourful; all in all a great product that I'd buy again, and one of the best value. 3.5/5
The flavour is wonderfully beefy, but not in a blokey, upfront way
Below: some of the steaks Sophie tried, including an 'exceptionally tasty and tender' M&S option
Tesco Finest 30-Day Aged Two Sirloin Steaks
£14.40/454g or £31.72/kg
214.40/45kg of £31.72/kg
Looks and tastes delicious with a strong umami crust and loads of beefy flavour. The texture is good, not quite melt-in-the-mouth but supple enough. I often buy one steak to slice up and share given the price, but at £14.40 for two large steaks, these are definitely worth splashing out on. 3.5/5
Sainsbury's British or Irish 21-Day Matured Thick Cut Sirloin Steak £6/225g or £26.67/kg
This is a great-value steak. While it doesn't look as appealing as most of the others when it comes out of the pan, it has a bit of colour and a nicely pink middle. It isn't as tender as I'd like and the fibres collapse into each other somewhat, but the flavour is impressive. 2.5/5
Morrison's Market Street British Sirloin Steak
£7.35/227g or £32.38/kg
The taste isn't there for me on this one, and while the meat isn't exactly tough, the fibres do cling together and turn powdery, which can be a sign of overcooking but that's not the case here. 2/5
Aldi Ashfields 21-day Matured British Sirloin Steak
£4.49/200g or £23.03/kg
As mentioned, I didn't hate any of the steaks that I tried and this is by far the cheapest of the lot. This one sears nicely but is lacking in flavour overall and has turned powdery inside. 2/5
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准备好毛巾、遮阳伞和野餐篮，然后出发前往我们选定的海滩。
特蕾西（Tracey）推荐了东北部的埃斯格劳（Es Grau），认为那里是家庭出游的好去处。这个海滨村庄坐落在沼泽和浅湾保护区的边缘，让我们想起了康沃尔。我们坐在 Cafe Bar Es Moll 户外，看着皮划艇运动员在水中滑行；当 L'avi Bernadet 塔帕斯酒吧（tapas bar）开窗飘出炸海鲜的香味时，我们的肚子也随之咕咕作响。
在西南海岸，我们没能到达卡拉马卡雷拉（Cala Macarella）。谷歌地图显示我们距离那片青绿色的海湾仅 15 分钟路程，但路边小屋里的两名男子将我们指向了另一个方向：“Prohibido el paso de vehiculos!”——夏季高峰月份禁止车辆通行。
我们很喜欢在波布莱诺林荫大道（Rambla del Poblenou）上悠闲地散步前往海滩，享受温暖的夜晚——这比充满游客的兰布拉大道（La Rambla）要惬意得多——期间会在 Bar Nuri 停下来品尝炸丸子（croquetas）和鸭肉西班牙大锅饭（duck paella），并在拥有百年历史且装饰华丽的欧洽塔（hor-chata）甜品店 El Tio Che 买几球浓郁的意式冰淇淋。
When her mother began showing signs of memory loss, Madeleine\*, 62, stepped in to help her with daily tasks, chores, and admin. She had watched her grandmother live with dementia, and knew the signs to watch out for:
After her mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in 2022, at 84 years old, Madeline lined up NHS and private carers for her, but her mother refused to let any of them into her home.
“She was so furious about having anyone in the house, and her loss of independence,” says Madeleine, who lives in West Sussex, and works as an admissions officer at a higher education college. “It was such a tough time.
"My siblings [a younger brother and younger sister] didn't really get involved in the day-to-day of it," she says. "They'd pop in to say hello, but they weren't facing the tough stuff head on."
After a year of this, Madeleine managed to convince her mum to attend a day centre – it went well, and allowed them to start talking about residential care.
"It was really tough for me to admit that this was the right path to take, but my siblings didn't want to discuss the idea.
"They both kept saying she didn't need to be in a home, and then my sister all of a sudden said that Mum should go and live with her."
Madeleine didn't feel her sister's proposition had been properly thought through, and worried she was being "naive" about the level of care someone with dementia actually needs.
The siblings both pushed harder against the care home, but Madeline had the final say. "I had lasting power of attorney [LPA] for my mum, which she'd granted me in her early fifties, and so there was nothing my siblings could do to stop me.
Lasting powers of attorney can help prevent rifts over loved ones, writes Kasia Delgado
"I didn't want to have to mention that aspect, I hoped we'd all agree without any legal trump cards, but in the end, that was the reality." Social services also agreed that a residential home would be the best course of action.
Within a few months, Madeline's mother had settled in to the home, and seemed less angry and frustrated. She was calmer, and the care seemed good.
"For a year or so, neither sibling spoke to me at all. Now my brother and I are on decent terms again, but my sister has almost nothing to do with me.
“She is still very angry with me, and with the fact that I called the shots in the end. I only did what I felt was best, but she won’t recognise that, and I’m not sure what I can do to change her mind.”
Disagreements between siblings over the care of an older relative are far more common than people might imagine, says Jane Connery, the director and founder of Care Campaign for the Vulnerable. "Caring for somebody you love can bring enormous pressure," she says, "and existing family dynamics can very quickly come to the surface when difficult decisions have to be made."
A key factor in such situations is who holds lasting power of attorney.
It was really tough for me to admit that this was the right path to take
An LPA is a legal document that lets you appoint someone to make decisions on your behalf if you lose mental capacity to do so, or you need help managing your affairs. There are LPAs for property and financial affairs, and LPAs for health and care decisions – the same person can be appointed for both, or you can have multiple attorneys to take care of different aspects of your life.
What happens to a parent or relative's money is a major flashpoint: complaints and concerns regarding alleged financial misconduct or misuse of an LPA reached a record 11,910 this year.
If these choices can be tough enough in nuclear families, then they can be all the more thorny in blended families. "This is particularly the case where there are second marriages, stepchildren, or different people holding lasting powers of attorney [LPA]", says Connery.
"I've encountered families where disagreements about who should make decisions have become almost as significant as the original care issue."
This appears to be the case for the family of Sir Ranulph Fiennes, the British explorer, who has not been seen in public for two years.
Fiennes, who has Parkinson's disease, is in the care of his second wife, Louise Millington-Cotes, who has power of attorney.
Questions have been raised about his welfare by his relatives. His cousin, the actor Joseph Fiennes, wrote in January to the Office of the Public Guardian (the agency which looks after LPAs), setting out concerns about Ranulph being cut off from his friends and family.
Millington-Cotes has been accused by Ranulph's family and friends of moving him between different care homes, under pseudonyms, and restricting visitation.
Cheshire Police issued a statement on Monday in which it said it did not have “safeguarding concerns” regarding the 82-year-old
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The nomination process
To nominate someone as your power of attorney, they must be over 18 and have the mental capacity to make their own decisions. They cannot be bankrupt or subject to a debt relief order, but they do not have to live in the UK or be a British citizen.
You can appoint more than one attorney, and should make clear in advance whether they will act together and separately, or only together.
You can apply for lasting power of attorney (LPA) using online or paper forms. The original forms (not copies) must be signed in ink by the attorneys, witnesses, and a certificate provider, who confirms you are acting by fully informed choice. The Office of the Public Guardian can help if you lack a computer or printer, or need help with the online forms. Before registering, you must send a form to notify relevant people.
Sir Ranulph Fiennes has not been seen in public for two years and his family say they are being kept at bay
Experts do advise that having an LPA in place is absolutely the best way to safeguard yourself, your health and your future. Without it, loved ones have no automatic legal right to access your bank accounts, pay your bills, or make medical and care decisions if you lose mental capacity.
If a family is in disagreement over the best care for an elderly, or vulnerable, relative, Connery recommends moving the conversation away from "what do I want?" and back to "what does Mum or Dad want, and what is in their best interests?".
Where the person still has capacity to make the particular decision, their wishes are central, even if relatives disagree with them.
"After many years supporting families," she says, "one thing I would encourage everyone to do is have these conversations while you still have the luxury of time."
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Using ferries and trains to journey home from Menorca was the perfect way to end a family trip. By Sophie Lam
I love airports. The thrill of possibility, the tantalising menu of all the places you could be within a few hours (even if, in reality, it's Belfast or Brussels).
Except when I'm coming home - then, I'd rather be almost anywhere else.
So this summer, I decided to change course. Using Interrail passes, I would avoid the deflating denouement of a family holiday by plotting a return journey that we'd all look forward to.
We'd flown into Menorca on ludicrously cheap easyJet flights during the strange summer of jet fuel uncertainty and hired a car to reach a farmhouse villa in the middle of the island.
Villa Torralba d'en Salort is tucked off a quiet country lane next to a prehistoric settlement of the same name. We came to discover that Menorca is quietly embroidered with dozens of these Bronze and late Iron-Age relics.
The villa dates to 1860, with a pool and views of nothing but drystone walls, fields, shrubs and a soaring date palm. Occasionally, a couple of peacocks and a sheep would wander curiously into the field below.
Otherwise, the only other soul we saw there was Vintage Holidays' rep Tracey Boocock, who came to check in with invaluable recommendations, gathered from three decades of living on the island.
Following her advice, we drove 10 minutes to the village of Sant Climent for the annual summer fiesta. The streets were festooned with bunting, and roads were covered with sand as jet black Menorquin horses were paraded in front of boarded-up shops. Hundreds congregated at makeshift bars and food stalls before the "jaleo" – when the horses rear up on hind legs in a kind of macho dance – in the main square. We left as darkness fell, but the party carried on into the night.
Our rural base was only around 15 minutes' drive in either direction from the north and south coasts. So, each day – after a slow start of yoga, reading, a swim and late breakfast – we'd pack the car with
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作者入住的是梅诺卡岛的 Villa Torralba d'en Salort，最多可容纳八名宾客，每周费用 £956 起，网址：vintagetravel.co.uk。
她还入住巴塞罗那的 The Hoxton Poblenou，双人间价格 €206 (£175) 起，网址：thehoxton.com。
在尼姆，她入住 Maison Albar L'Imperator，含早餐的双人间价格 €202 (£172) 起，网址：maison-albar-hotels.com。
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午餐后，巴塞罗那出现在视野中，这是我们回程行程中的下一站。
（从主图起顺时针方向）：梅诺卡岛的 La Cala de la Olla 海滩；索菲和她的女儿在尼姆车站；尼姆的罗马竞技场；圣克利门特节 GETTY
20 分钟内，我们就从车站走到了优雅的 Maison Albar L'Imperator 酒店。该酒店由经营东方快车等豪华列车的国际卧铺车公司（Compagnie des Wagons-Lits）于 1929 年创立，旨在为铁路旅客提供相匹配的豪华住宿。这座装饰艺术风格的贵妇酒店现在是一家家庭经营的当代豪华度假场所。
在泳池中畅游消暑后（据说尼姆是法国最热的城市），随着白天的酷热开始消退，我们出门探索。
在 Jardins de la Fontaine 花园，我们看着数百条鲤鱼在罗马时期的泉水渠中扭动，随后我们奋力走过陡峭的阶梯花园，攀登 Magne Tower 的台阶，那是尼姆罗马城墙的遗迹。
towels, parasols and a picnic, then set off for our chosen beach.
Tracey had recommended Es Grau in the north-east as a good spot for families. Set on the edge of a reserve of marshes and shallow bays, the seaside village reminded us of Cornwall. We watched kayakers glide through the water as we sat outside Cafe Bar Es Moll, and felt stomachs rumble as the scent of frying seafood wafted out from the open windows of L'avi Bernadet tapas bar.
On the south-west coast, we failed to reach Cala Macarella. Google Maps indicated we were only 15 minutes away from the aquamarine cove when two men in a roadside cabin sent us in a different direction: "Prohibido el paso de vehiculos!" – no cars allowed in the peak summer months.
We drove until the road ran out, and ended up beside Son Saura, a Caribbean-like sweep of creamy white sand trimmed by turquoise water, tussocky dunes and pine trees. We were not disappointed.
Slow afternoons on picturesque beaches trailed into balmy evenings under festoon lights in town squares and a million stars on the terrace of our villa. At the end of the week, there was a feeling of excitement as we waited in darkness on the unlit country lane for a taxi to arrive at 5am. An hour later, we were boarding a ferry to Barcelona.
From the top deck, we watched Mahon's 19th-century fortresses, islands and villa-clustered coves recede in the gentle glow of sunrise, about as magnificent an exit as you could hope to make from a holiday.
Eight hours passed surprisingly quickly – the children had their faces painted and splashed in the top deck pool as Bob Marley's greatest hits pumped out from the bar. After lunch, Barcelona came into view, the next stop on our homeward itinerary.
We were staying in El Poblenou, the "new village" in the east of the city. Once full of textile factories, it is reborn with vegan brunch cafés amid ornate Modernist apartment buildings. A modern addition is the Hoxton hotel, with a rooftop pool and taqueria. Our big, family room came with views of the Sagrada Familia's newly unveiled spires.
A bonus if you're Interrailing is that guests can choose their check-in and check-out times for free - ideal if you're arriving on an early train or overnight ferry.
We loved going for a hassle-free, warm evening saunter towards the beach along the Rambla del Poblenou – so much nicer than the touristy La Rambla – stopping for croquetas and duck paella in Bar Nuri, and scoops of creamy gelato from the ornate, century-old hor-chata parlour El Tio Che.
The next segment of our journey required a rush-hour start at Barcelona Sants station for the first train of the day to France. The bustle ebbed and flowed efficiently – we scanned our bags and tickets then boarded a high-speed Renfe Ave train bound for Lyon, which departed bang on time.
Settled in next to picture windows – we'd selected seats on the right to maximise the coastal views en route to Occitanie – my only regret was failing to pack a decent
葡萄园正在不断发展。在 Tagyon Birtok 酒庄，阿蒂拉·卡塔利（Attila Kartaly）在讨论他对未来的想法，与此同时，团队正在准备第二天在我们坐着的葡萄藤覆盖的白色格架下举行的一场婚礼。期间，卡塔利热情地跑出去拿另一种酒来尝试，而我则凝视着成行的葡萄藤，其间点缀着红瓦房，向着银色的湖岸延伸。
The writer was provided with Interrail Global Passes, which offer flexible, borderless train travel between up to 33 countries in Europe, as well as some ferries, interrail.com.
Avis offers car rental in Menorca from around £22 per day, avis.co.uk.
The writer paid €35 (£30) one way for a ferry from Mahon to Barcelona, gnv.it.
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The writer stayed at Villa Torralba d'en Salort in Menorca, which costs from £956 per week for up to eight guests, vintagetravel.co.uk.
She also stayed at The Hoxton Poblenou in Barcelona, which has double rooms from €206 (£175), thehoxton.com.
And in Nîmes, she stayed at Maison Albar L'Imperator, which has doubles from €202 (£172) B&B, maison-albar-hotels.com.
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After lunch, Barcelona came into view, the next stop on our homeward itinerary
Clockwise from main: Menorca's La Cala de la Olla beach; Sophie and her daughter at Nîmes station; the Roman Arena of Nîmes; Sant Climent festival GETTY
breakfast. The onboard café menu was much like trains at home - overpriced and unappetising.
The views made up for it as we sped through rural Catalonia and into France, towards the coast. Border police boarded in Perpignan, eyeballing us all (a mix of German Interrailers, French couples and Spanish commuters) as they marched through the carriages. Then we were off again.
For a glorious half hour or so, there were lagoons filled with flamingos on one side, the Mediterranean on the other, as unmistakably French towns and cities - Narbonne, Sète and Montpellier - flicked by between fields of heavy-headed sunflowers and ripe vines.
After less than four hours, we disembarked in Nîmes. We'd planned this stop out of curiosity to see what France's answer to Rome might offer. It is also small enough to navigate on foot.
Within 20 minutes we had walked from the station to the elegant Hotel Maison Albar L'Imperator. It was founded in 1929 by the Compagnie des Wagons-Lits, operator of luxury trains such as the Orient Express, to provide rail travellers suitably luxurious accommodation. The Art Deco grande dame is now a family-operated contemporary luxury retreat.
After a cooling dip in the pool (Nîmes is said to be the hottest city in France), we went out to explore as the heat of the day began to cool.
In the Jardins de la Fontaine, we watched hundreds of carp writhe in the spring-fed Roman canals before powering up the steep, terraced gardens to climb the steps of the Magne Tower, a remnant of Nîmes' Roman walls.
In the city centre, our children kept eyes peeled for brass and bronze crocodile markers in the pavements. The symbol of a crocodile chained to a palm tree dates to when Octavian (later Emperor Caesar Augustus) conquered Egypt.
The Roman Arena is one of the best-preserved in the world, and looked almost heavenly at dusk. The Corinthian style, 1st-century temple, Maison Carrée was another stupendous beauty, casually surrounded by drinkers sitting outside a neighbouring bar.
We loved being able to walk from one Roman treasure to another without battling any crowds or grappling with transport, and having learnt from our rookie error, we assembled a delicious picnic lunch at Les Halles market before our TGV to Paris.
On the fast InOui train – less than three hours – to Paris, we decided that Nîmes had been an unexpected highlight of our journey home. We're already plotting where we'll stop next time.
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An open-top tour around Europe's next great wine escape
Far from Budapest's crowds, a restored 1960s 'wine bus' is the ideal way to explore the lakeside vineyards of the Balaton region, Hungary's best-kept secret. By Matthew Dennis
Holidaymakers on the lake's shores, where private motor boats are banned. Below: Matthew Dennis with Virág Szabo on the restored bus
I'm sitting at the back of a partially open-top, restored 1960s bus. Burgundy faux-leather seats are held in place by shiny chrome frames; the luggage rack is made from braided cord. It feels like my old school bus. I close my eyes briefly, feeling the sun on my face and the wind blowing through my hair. Either side of me, rows of vines, freshly harvested, stretch off into the distance, the landscape marked occasionally by the volcanic Witness Mountains.
The hop-on, hop-off vineyard tour of Hungary's Lake Balaton region, aboard the 46° Balaton Wine Bus, is the inspired idea of entrepreneur Virág Szabo. With a personality to match the region's best sparkling wines, she guides the tour, explaining the route and each winery in a variety of languages.
The bus runs around a group of vineyards, stopping at each point every two hours, allowing customers to get off for their chosen tastings before returning to the lively town of Balatonfüred.
Szabo only started the business in May 2026, but it's clear her mind is fizzing with ideas. Lake Balaton has a predominance of independent restaurants, hotels and wineries and her mission is to help link them up and better promote the region.
"This is not my job, this is my love," she explains. It's an ambition shaped by necessity, for while Budapest draws millions of international visitors annually, Balaton has remained largely unknown beyond its Central European neighbours.
Private motorised boats are banned on Balaton, so the almost surreally quiet lake belongs to sailors, kayakers and paddleboarders, as well as swimmers. As the sun drops over the Witness Mountains, the golden syrup light warms the sails of
boats gliding across. An evening on the water here, glass of local in hand, is the perfect way to slip into holiday mode.
Within Hungary, Balaton is renowned for its wine production and, particularly in recent years, it has been keen to raise its profile. Grape varieties such as olaszrizling and kéknyelu sit comfortably alongside the more well-known szürkebarát (the Hungarian name for pinot grigio) and are well known in neighbouring countries.
The vineyards are developing. At Tagyon Birtok winery, Attila Kartaly discusses his ideas for the future as the team prepare for a wedding to be held the next day beneath the grape- and vine-hung white trellis where we're sitting. In between, Kartaly enthusiastically ducks out to get another wine to try, and I gaze across the rows of vines, punctuated by terracotta-roofed cottages, towards the silvery lake shore.
The 46° Balaton (so called because the start point is on the 46th parallel north) is not the only way of getting between Balaton's vineyards. As I travel around the lake, a well-maintained cycle path runs almost its entire 200km circumference. Balaton Bike 365 has five service hubs, stocked with regular and electric bikes, and over 1,000km of mapped routes are available.
Along one of these routes, the spa town of Hévíz is home to a geothermal lake. As I float in the 32°C water (minimum 22°C in winter), I feel my muscles soften.
Nearby, in the lake's north-westernmost corner, is the old town of Keszthely and the grand Festetics Palace with its baroque architecture and its two-tiered Helikon Library, which has 80,000 rare books and a secret door.
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康沃尔郡在苏格兰的宁静表亲
马尔岛遍布渔村、野生动物、海滩和绝佳的海鲜，唯独没有拥挤的人群。作者：Robin McKelvie
“马尔岛让我想起康沃尔郡，但我认为这里好得多，”来自托伯莫里湾之旅（Tobermory Bay Tours）的英国人沃恩·福克斯-阿诺德（Vaughan Foulkes-Arnold）说着，手臂指向托伯莫里巨大的天然圆形剧场。
Majestic Line 提供“马尔岛及其入海口与岛屿”六晚游轮之旅，每人起价 £2,645，包含餐饮和观光，从 Oban 出发。
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How to get there
Wizz Air flies from Gatwick to Budapest. Trains run regularly to both the north and south shores of Lake Balaton from Budapest train stations from about £8, taking around two hours.
Where to stay
Pálos Resort in Zalacsány has a range of rooms and safari-style tent lodges from £66. Casa Christa is an agriturismo near Pécsely and Vászoly offering stays in old wine-press houses from £100.
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住宿推荐
托伯莫里的 The Mishnish 是一家热闹的酒吧，双人间 B&B 价格 £130 起（共用浴室）或 £175 起（独立卫浴）。
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The writer was a guest of Holiday Extras, which offers overnight stays at Hilton London Gatwick Airport with six days' Maple Parking meet and greet from £250.
About two-thirds of the way to the 78km-long lake's eastern end lies the Tihany peninsula, where the scent hits you before the abbey does. The peninsula produces lavender, and the owner of the Lavender Manufactory is about to add another thread to Balaton's growing transport tapestry: a lavender road train linking the town's cobbled lanes, refinery, restaurants and lake views.
Back on the 46° Wine Bus, as Balatonfüred comes into view and Szabo marshals her passengers with characteristic effervescence, I find myself wondering why it's taken so long for the rest of the world to find this place. The Hungarians, Germans, Poles and Czechs, of course, already knew. Perhaps that's why they never felt the need to tell us.
全身心投入100%地对待这样一个令人深感不安的场景——以及被选为这样一个令人不安且强度极高的角色——是阿米蒂奇的典型风格。他在BBC 2004年改编的伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔作品《北与南》（North and South）的棉纺织机之间初露锋芒，随后在安东尼·明格拉执导的黄金时段重启版《罗宾汉》中饰演盖伊·吉斯本，在林间阴郁地徘徊，之后在彼得·杰克逊的《霍比特人》电影三部曲中饰演意志坚定的矮人王索林·橡木盾，从而获得了国际知名度。
Mull is packed with fishing villages, wildlife, beaches and superb seafood, just not crowds. By Robin McKelvie
“Mull reminds me of Cornwall, but I reckon it's much better,” says Englishman Vaughan Foulkes-Arnold of Tobermory Bay Tours as he casts his arm across Tobermory's vast natural amphitheatre.
I clearly agree. This is at least my 50th visit to Mull. I see it as the Hebridean all-rounder, crystallising visitors' dreams of Scotland. The island's craggy peaks soar improbably high. At 966 metres, Ben More is the highest on any of Scotland's 800 isles outside Skye.
There are brooding castles, including Duart, resurrected by Sir Fitzroy Maclean, the inspiration for James Bond. We're talking beaches, too, wildlife, a whisky distillery, seafood, and a life-affirming sense of community.
The island does indeed echo Cornwall. There's the wildly beautiful coastline, with white-sand beaches like Calgary Bay. Tobermory, with its pastel-hued houses, is as postcard-worthy as Padstow.
Mull doesn't have an Eden Project – but it doesn't need one. Not when the ancient Argyll temperate rainforest feels like a real Garden of Eden.
The hiking is as good as Cornwall, albeit often rougher. I once spent a week forging through the island's heart along the Stevenson Way, bringing the pages of Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure novel Kidnapped to life. This time, I stroll along the cliffs from Tobermory to the old lighthouse, spotting otters and porpoises.
Mull's wildlife easily trumps Cornwall's. My three days bring red deer, otters, seals and golden eagles, followed by dolphins, minke whales and sea eagles on a boat trip with Sea Life Mull.
I spot another sea eagle with Theo, a guide with Nature Scotland. "The UK's last [sea eagle] was killed here in 1918, so it's amazing to have over 20 pairs nesting now. When they were reintroduced from Norway in 1975, they liked Mull so much they stayed."
I could stay just for the food. Seafood is abundant. I dine at Café Fish. Croig oysters kick-off the feast, before local lobster and a bowl of plump mussels.
Never mind Rick Stein's Cornish restaurant empire, I'd rather tuck into oysters at the Fisherman's Pier Seafood shack, run by a young local couple on Tober-
mory's fishing harbour. There's
local beef and game too, and Isle
of Mull Cheddar.
And what of the Cornwall crowds? Yes, Tobermory's main street gets busy in summer, but Mull is otherwise much quieter.
Mull, after all, is over twice the size of the Isle of Wight, with less than 3 per cent of the population.
Mull may be an island, but it's
Travel essentials
How to get there
CalMac ferries sail from Oban, Morvern, Iona, Kennacraig and Ardnamurchan. The Oban-Craignure service takes about 50 minutes.
Majestic Line offers a Mull and her Inlets and Islands six-night cruise from £2,645pp including meals and excursions, departing from Oban.
The Mishnish in Tobermory is a lively pub, with B&B doubles from £130 (shared bathroom) or £175 (private en suite).
not alone. I spend one day back on the satellite isle of Iona, a place of pilgrimage since St Columba brought Christianity to Scotland in the 6th century.
Boat trips to Lunga and Staffa, meanwhile, bring puffins in summer – and at the latter, other-worldly basalt columns too.
Best of all, after any day trip, you get to sail back for at least another night on Mull.
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At the job interview, I was asked to show my legs even though my character was wearing a full-length toga
Lindsay Duncan
The actress recalls her audition for 'Further Up Pompeii!' in the 1970s, calling them 'sexist times'
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'I have a dark side and I like to explore extremes'
Richard Armitage on playing an oddball-genius pathologist in ITV's 'Winter', why he fears for younger actors and the joy of becoming a novelist. By Helen Brown
Richard Armitage would like to set the record straight about his infamous pillow humping scene in Netflix series Obsession. "I know some people were, like, 'Ewww, this is not sexy'."
He grins. "But that's a weird reaction because it wasn't meant to be sexy. It was about a guy whose obsession with a woman has taken him down the road to a point that's freaking tragic. He was behaving like a dog in a way that was utterly degrading..."
The problem, he suspects, was “the difference in tone” between the disturbing plot of the 2023 series and “the way it was marketed as an erotic thriller”.
He can laugh about it now, though. He reminds me that the show was based on Josephine Hart's 1995 novel Damage, in which he recalls "the guy actually has sex with a chaise longue. I remember thinking, 'Well that's going to be a challenge.' So we came up with some other ideas and the pillow scene was kind of improvised."
It's typical of Armitage to commit 100 per cent to such a deeply unsettling scene – and to be cast as such a disturbingly intense character. He found fame smouldering across the cotton looms of the BBC's 2004 adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South, before prowling moodily through woodland as Guy of Gisborne in Anthony Minghella's prime-time reboot of Robin Hood, and then achieved international stardom as steely-focused dwarf king Thorin Oakenshield in Peter Jackson's film trilogy of The Hobbit.
Most recently he's used that neck-hair-prickling stare to lend tense credibility to hokily plotted TV thrillers including Netflix's The Stranger and ITV's Red Eye. And we're talking today because he's at it again, playing the oddball-genius forensic pathologist in new ITV case-a-week crime drama Winter.
"The body will always tell me the truth," whispers Armitage's Dr Ethan Winter to the bodies of the murder victims he dissects beneath the grime-stained glass dome of the converted swimming pool he uses as a laboratory.
There's a slow-burn chemistry between rule-breaking Winter and sensible DI Bell (Annabel Scholey) as he showboats finding clues or slipping into the diving gear he just happens to keep in his car boot to search for AWOL body parts.
"It was fun to develop that frisson between the characters," says Armitage. "It brought humour because Ethan Winter is bordering on the obnoxious. He's sometimes misogynistic in the patronising way he mansplains things to DI Bell."
Such as, he says, when food snob Winter drops into Bell's family home and sneers at her family's takeaway pizza dinner. "Making dough is really easy," he scolds her in a way the 55-year-old actor says "deserved a slap in the face". He shakes his head. "But he knows he is doing it to wind her up."
Armitage says he enjoys playing complex roles. He was named after Richard III, having been born in Leicester on the same date – 22 August – that the Plantaganet king
太阳马戏团带着其在英国最成功的作品回归
《库里奥斯：好奇心橱窗》（Kurios: Cabinet of Curiosities）是太阳马戏团曾在皇家阿尔伯特音乐厅上演的最成功的作品。
I have a vivid imagination that takes me to some dark places
met his end at the nearby Battle of Bosworth in 1485. He is keen to being a non-Shakespearean version of the monarch's story to the screen, exploring whether he really did murder his two young nephews.
"I'm drawn to dark characters," he says. "I have quite a dark side in my head and a vivid imagination that takes me to some extreme places. And I am here to explore the extremes of the human condition: grief, terror, violence..."
He suspects the on-screen intensity that sends the adrenaline pumping through his thrillers might be the tension between his inclination to “really go for it” in scenes and his most-heard directorial note to "pull it back". "I've got a tendency to think, 'Put your back into it, Richard, grab that pillow!' And maybe what you're seeing is me holding it back while going further in my mind, behind my eyes."
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In real life, however, he's much softer, warmer, funnier – and certainly less cocksure than many of the characters he plays on television. I last met Armitage on the forest set of Robin Hood, just outside Budapest, in 2006. His co-star, Keith Allen, had put on quite a noisy show during a press round table and Armitage had slipped away afterwards for a quiet moment beneath the trees. We stood together and admired the light in silence.
"When I did The Hobbit, Stephen Colbert came to New Zealand and there was this massive party, with everybody drawn to him like moths to a flame. I was just leaning on the wall, miles from the epicentre, just watching." He shrugs. "That's sort of how I approach life."
At school, he says, he felt “like I was biding my time, flying under the radar”. He didn’t like ball sports, worried about not being clever enough and spent his evenings alone in his room, reading or playing his cello. “I loved the way learning an instrument is all drill, drill, drill until you reach a flow state.” He smiles ruefully at not getting as good as he’d hoped. “I saw Yo-Yo Ma at Carnegie Hall playing the Bach Cello Suites and it was everything you can dream of."
Armitage came out as bisexual to his parents at 19 but many fans of his straight, romantic roles were surprised when he revealed he lives with a male partner. Did he ever decide to hide his sexuality from the public? He shakes his head. "I was never fully asked the question," he says. "If people were not going to ask, then I wasn't going to volunteer the information because it wasn't something that was bothering me."
He points out that he comes from a generation of celebrities who believe in “the idea of a private life. It’s called that because you don’t have to share it. People in the public eye have the right to have a part of themselves that is not on offer.”
But he fears younger generations "will have no concept of what that means because everything is filmed and captured and everything is content, from your breakfast onward".
He compares them with his acting hero, Gary Oldman. "I don't know anything about his private life, if he's married or got kids. I don't know what his fashion choices are..." He laughs. "I find it really odd when you see actors at fashion shows. That's not the job! Why are you there? To get free clothes?"
He also avoids talking politics. "As an actor, my job is to entertain people. You hope everybody watches your show, no matter which side of the political landscape they sit. I don't want to alienate anyone."
He's aware Ed Sheeran has made it a challenge for artists to remain apolitical and shudders. "We did an exercise in drama school, about 'berserking'. That's when the energy rises and people charge as a mob to attack, and even as an exercise you feel it's really frightening."
Off screen, Armitage has built an impressive career as an audiobook narrator and novelist. The clever chicanery of his debut thriller, Geneva (about a Nobel prize-winning scientist with Alzheimer's), was praised for its strong heroine.
The second, The Cut, explores what happens in an English village when a feature film sets up production and raises the ghosts of a local child murder. "Writing puts me in that flow state I used to get playing the cello," he says. "I can get lost in it. That makes me so happy."
I realise our call has overrun and let Armitage get back to his peaceful flow. "Yes, best get on," he chuckles. "Those pillows won't dry hump themselves!"
'Winter' is on ITV1 on Wednesdays at 9pm
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《深夜之狗离奇事件》（The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time）巡演，至 2027 年 5 月 29 日。这部著名小说采用了全新的舞台呈现，由《舞动奇迹》（Strictly Come Dancing）2017 年冠军乔·麦克法登（Joe McFadden）和《东区东区》（EastEnders）常驻演员查理·布鲁克斯（Charlie Brooks）主演。巡演本周在米尔顿凯恩斯举行，并将于 5 月 29 日在达灵顿闭幕。curiousonstage.co.uk
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即刻预订
朱尔斯·霍兰节奏布鲁斯管弦乐团（Jools Holland's Rhythm and Blues Orchestra）
苏格兰国际讲故事节（The Scottish International Storytelling Festival）
多个场馆，10 月 21 日至 31 日
此次活动提供为期 10 天的关于神话、民俗和故事的呈现，主题为“鸟与兽”。
主程序在爱丁堡的苏格兰讲故事中心举行，但朗读活动将从设得兰到邓弗里斯，以及从阿盖尔到亚伯丁郡展开。
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Cirque du Soleil return with their biggest UK hit
Kurios: Cabinet of Curiosities was the most successful Cirque du Soleil production ever staged at the Royal Albert Hall.
More than 216,200 tickets were sold for its 2023 run, breaking records at the London venue.
As the smash-hit steampunk spectacle marks its 30th anniversary, the Canadian circus troupe is bringing the show back to the Royal Albert Hall from 13 January to 28 February next year.
Kurios tells the tale of an eccentric inventor who builds a retro-futuristic, parallel world of wonders, and features acrobats forming high-energy human pyramids, contortionists and aerial acts swinging through the auditorium.
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本周专辑... 摇滚套装
《Rubber Soul：特别版》
披头士乐队（The Beatles）
这套售价 £200 的套装包括披头士乐队备受推崇的 1965 年专辑的新半速母带立体声混音版、两张半速 LP 上的 26 首录音室录音、原始单声道专辑、原始美国 Capitol 专辑，以及一张 7 英寸的非专辑双 A 面单曲《We Can Work It Out》 / 《Day Tripper》。它还包括一本 88 页的精装书，包含约翰·列侬的序言、保罗·麦卡特尼的介绍、照片、深入的专辑背景和曲目注释。Beatles Records
The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time Touring, to 29 May 2027 The celebrated novel has a new staging starring Strictly Come Dancing's 2017 winner Joe McFadden and EastEnders regular Charlie Brooks. The tour is in Milton Keynes this week and closes in Darlington on 29 May. curiousonstage.co.uk
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频道跳跃
《蓝色谋杀旅馆》（Blue Murder Motel）
ITVX，现正播出
ITVX，现正播出
一对来自澳大利亚的侦探夫妇
Vinny 和 Cole（由 Michala Banas
和 Brett Tucker 饰演，见下图）辞去了
警察职务，在纽西兰海滨小镇
莫怀湾（Mōwai Bay）经营一家旅馆。他们的平静退休生活
并没有持续太久，因为这里发现了一具尸体，他们必须帮助一名当地的新手警察来破解此案。
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Jools Holland's Rhythm and Blues Orchestra
Touring, 29 October to 20 December
Holland's big band, backed by soul singer Andrew Roachford and pianist Joe Webb, will visit 31 venues this autumn/winter, including London's Royal Albert Hall, the O2 Apollo in Manchester and Glasgow's SEC Armadillo. The tour kicks off in Southend and ends in Cardiff. joolsholland.com/tourdates.htm
The Scottish International Storytelling Festival
Various venues, 21 to 31 Oct
This event offers 10 days of myths, folklore and stories with the theme "Bird and Beast".
The main programme is at the Scottish Storytelling Centre in Edinburgh, but readings will take place from Shetland to Dumfries and Argyll to Aberdeenshire.
该平台是宜家 2021 年推出的“回购计划”（Buy Back scheme）的延伸，该计划旨在让客户能将某些产品卖回给零售商以换取店内购物金。
宜家英国和爱尔兰地区可持续发展经理 Greg Lucas 表示：“宜家产品的设计初衷是供人们长期使用、维护和享受。二手交易市场以及我们的店内回购服务，为人们在需求变化时提供了一种传递物品的方式。”
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Albums of the week... Rock box sets
Rubber Soul: Special Edition
The Beatles
This £200 set includes a new half-speed mastered stereo mix of the Fab Four's revered 1965 album, 26 session
recordings on two half-speed LPs, the original mono album, the original Capitol US album, and a 7" of the non-album double A-side single "We Can Work It Out"/"Day Tripper". It also includes an 88-page hardback book with a John Lennon foreword, Paul McCartney intro, photos, in-depth album background and track notes. Beatles Records
John Mayall and The Bluesbreakers
Guitar Heroes: The Decca Years 1965–67
launched the careers of Eric Clapton, Fleetwood Mac's Peter Green and Mick Taylor of The Rolling Stones. Alongside four key Mayall albums, from the live charge of Klooks Kleek to the landmark Blues Breakers, the package includes a new extended essay and a visual family tree.
Fontana
This four-LP (£115) or four-CD (£100) set documents the birth of UK blues-rock with the recordings that
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NS&I 在最新债券发行中提供更高利率
作者：Vicky Shaw
NS&I 推出了新一期的英国储蓄债券（British Savings Bonds），并提高了利率。
这家由英国财政部支持的储蓄银行昨日宣布发行一年期、两年期、三年期和五年期固定期限的英国储蓄债券。
这些面向新客户及债券到期客户的利率包括：一年期选项为 4.99 per cent AER（年等效利率），高于之前的 4.82 per cent，而两年期版本提供 5.07 , 从 4.81 增加。
Paul 在几年前决定将位于法恩伯勒（Farnborough）的四居室住宅缩小规模。这对夫妇卖掉了房产，搬进了克劳利的一套两居室公寓，因为他们计划在国外退休。
这帮助他们每月减少了 20 的支出。
“那栋房子相当大，我们意识到如果不延长工作时间，我们就无法住在那里并还清抵押贷款。”
“由于生活成本如此之高”
你希望看到他们做得好并帮助他们，尤其是踏出购置房产的第一步
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Channel hopping
Blue Murder Motel
ITVX, streaming now
ITVX, streaming now
Married Aussie detectives
Vinny and Cole (Michala Banas
and Brett Tucker (below) quit the
police to run a motel in the New
Zealand seaside town of Mōwai
Bay. Their peaceful retirement
does not last long when a dead body is found and they have to help a rookie local cop to crack the case.
CONSUMER
“你爱你的孩子，想尽一切可能去帮助他们”
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Asos shares dive 10% after customers alerted to 'hack'
By Henry Saker-Clark
Thousands of Asos customers have been sent a phone alert saying the retailer has been hacked.
Customers received a mobile app notification yesterday, titled "Asos hacked", which directed them to a Telegram account.
The message read: "Dear ASOS DPO and IT, we have full compromised the Snowflake instance. Engage with us, or we will leak it," followed by the Telegram link.
Shares in the company tumbled by more than 10 per cent yesterday morning as a result. The company has been contacted for comment.
The alleged hack refers to cloud firm Snowflake, which stores data for many major companies.
It has been the reported subject of a number of data breaches in recent years, including one on Ticketmaster where customer details were stolen.
Asos, which also owns brands including Topshop and Miss Selfridge, has 17 million customers globally.
The firm is undergoing a turnaround programme in an effort to halt declining sales and return to profit.
A raft of UK retailers have been targeted by cyber attackers over the past two years, including Marks & Spencer and Harrods.
Marijus Briedis, chief technology
Asos, founded in 2000, stood for As Seen On Screen with the premise "Buy what you see on film and TV". The UK is the group's largest market, representing 49 per cent of all revenues.
officer at NordVPN, said it was an "unusually brazen" message.
"The attackers aren't simply claiming to have breached Asos - they're publicly telling the company to engage with them or they will leak what they say they have obtained.
“What customers should be particularly alert to now is what happens next. High-profile cyber incidents create ideal conditions for phishing attacks.”
Cyber expert Rob Demain, chief executive of e2e-assure, said it was unclear if the claimed Snowflake hack was real, "because we only have the attacker's word for it".
He said: "The concerning thing for customers is that they received the threat through a channel they already trusted.
"While unconfirmed, one possibility is that the compromise is confined to the customer engagement or marketing systems connected to Asos.
Hackers used the Asos app to send the firm's customers a ransom note
"If the attackers only accessed that layer, it could explain the app notifications, but doesn't prove any access to the wider retail infrastructure.
"The architecture of how Asos connects to customer data illustrates the wider risk – marketing systems connect valuable customer information with the ability to send messages under the retailer's name."
Quote of the day
Today is a historic day, not just for Skydance, but for our entire industry
David Ellison
The firm's CEO after the completion of the £83bn Paramount Skydance takeover of Warner Bros Discovery
Customers can now sell their Ikea furniture and homeware on the Swedish chain's second-hand sales platform IKEA/PA
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By Josie Clarke
Ikea has launched a second-hand marketplace for its own furniture and homeware as it takes on the likes of eBay and Vinted.
The Swedish retail chain said the platform would provide greater access to affordable Ikea products, with prices on average 60 per cent lower than new items.
Members of the firm's loyalty scheme, Ikea Family, will be able to list home furnishing products, with the exception of mattresses and appliances.
Sellers scan an eligible item to create a listing, with the platform automatically providing recommended pricing, professional product photography, measurements, product descriptions and assembly instructions.
The price recommendation for pre-owned items is a percentage of the original cost and adjusted based on the item's condition, although sellers can set their own amount.
Sellers can receive their proceeds in cash or as an Ikea gift card, which will come with a 15 per cent top-up.
The platform is an extension of Ikea's Buy Back scheme launched in 2021 to enable customers to sell certain products back to the retailer for store credit.
Greg Lucas, sustainability manager at Ikea UK and Ireland, said: "Ikea products are designed to be used, maintained and enjoyed over time, and the second-hand marketplace, as well as our in-store buyback service, gives people a way to pass on items as their needs change."
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NS&I has launched new issues of British Savings Bonds – with increased rates.
The Treasury-backed savings bank yesterday announced issues of one-, two-, three- and five-year fixed-term British Savings Bonds.
The rates, available to new customers and those whose bonds are maturing, include a one-year option of 4.99 per cent AER (annual equivalent rate), up from 4.82 per cent, while the two-year version offers 5.07 per cent, increasing from 4.81 per cent.
The rate on the three-year bond is 5.10 per cent, up from 4.83 per cent, and the five-year option offer increases to 5.17 per cent from 4.85 per cent.
NS&I said the rate changes to the British Savings Bonds, which are fixed-term issues of NS&I's Guaranteed Growth Bonds and Guaranteed Income Bonds, reflect changes in the wider savings market.
It added they will also help NS&I meet its net financing target, while continuing to balance the interests of savers, taxpayers and the broader financial services sector.
Rachel Springall, a finance expert at moneyfactscompare.co.uk, said: "NS&I has given its British Savings Bonds a welcome boost, with rates rising across the board and its two-, three- and five-year options now paying above 5 per cent.
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Now, the average contribution among adults receiving parental financial support stands at £11,241, according to the savings app Spring.
Four in 10 recipients say the cost of living crisis is driving the need for parental support.
Paul Biggerstaff, 61, is one such parent. He has spent £18,000 worth of his savings helping his two daughters Sophie, 31, and Katie, 28.
The IT solutions director, who lives in Crawley, West Sussex, believes it is important to support children financially, giving them the best start in life possible.
He has gifted them both around £4,000 towards legal fees to help them buy their first home and £10,000 to Sophie, who works in SEO, towards her wedding.
He plans to help out Katie with a similar amount for her wedding.
"I think helping my child financially has always been on my mind. You want to see them do well and help them, especially with the first step of the property ladder," he said.
"I've worked all my life and obviously it depends on your situation at the time but I wanted to do it. It shows your commitment as a father too."
Paul funded the gifts through a mix of his savings and inheritance. He also took a tax-free lump sum from his pension once he was 55.
"I paid into my pension from early on and I have a reasonable amount there, so it made sense to make the most of the tax-free lump sum," he added.
Paul decided to downsize from his four-bed home in Farnborough a couple of years ago. The couple sold the property and moved into a two-bed flat in Crawley, as they plan to retire abroad.
This helped reduce their monthly outgoings by 20 per cent per month.
"The house was quite big and we realised we couldn't live there and pay off the mortgage without working for longer.
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in the UK at the moment, it made sense to use the money to buy a home in Portugal."
Paul says he didn't think too much about the financial impact of giving gifts to his children.
"It meant a lot to me and I suppose a lot to them to help them," he said. "You love your children and you want to do everything you can for them."
Lou Valdini, 71, said he has already provided £105,000 in financial support to help his son buy a house and said he will dip further into his savings to help his daughter.
"The original idea was I would leave my Sipp [self-invested personal pension] pot sitting there and what would be left of it would go to my children," Lou said.
He is now aiming to avoid his estate being pushed over the inheritance tax threshold, so the original plan has changed.
Lou is also concerned that pension rules could change again.
He said: "My children always say they don't expect anything from me but the whole reason I bothered to save is to leave something to them and that's what I want to do."
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Around 7 per cent of non-retired adults aged 18 to 69 expect an inadequate standard of living in retirement.
The key is to start planning early. James Shattock, from Legal & General, said: "For many people, retirement can span decades.
“That’s why decisions about supporting family and loved ones should be part of a wider long-term financial plan to ensure retirement savings can support their changing needs throughout later life.”
There is also the risk that you might need the funds back in later life – with one in 10 retired people saying they might need the money back, according to a study by Investec. The average amount they might want back is nearly £7,000.
To avoid this, firstly, work out your own retirement budget first.
Work out what your pension and other income will cover, then keep a reserve for unexpected costs, including care needs. Only offer money you can comfortably spare.
If you do decide to help your children, then it's worth checking tax rules first.
Paul Biggerstaff has given thousands to his children and plans to give more
Susan Hope, retirement expert at Scottish Widows, said: "Tax and inheritance rules can be complex, so what seems like a simple gift today could have consequences later. Think about whether taking financial advice would help."
to consider when giving money to children. You can give away a total of £3,000 each tax year without it counting towards the value of your estate, and carry forward any unused allowance for one year.
Parents can also give a child up to £5,000 tax-free as a wedding or civil partnership gift, on top of the annual allowance.
There are inheritance tax rules
Giving more than these amounts does not mean an immediate tax bill. But gifts that are not covered by an exemption could count towards your estate if you die within seven years, potentially increasing the inheritance tax owed. Regular gifts from spare income can also be exempt, provided you can still afford your usual living costs.
Next, you should think about getting independent financial advice before doing anything that could affect you long term.
If you're over 55, you can get free advice from Pension Wise in regards to your retirement.
If you can't afford to give financial support there are alternatives you can consider.
Sarah Coles, head of personal finance, at AJ Bell, said: "If you are phasing into retirement, you may be able to support them with your time, which can be invaluable when it comes to things like childcare.
"If you live near them and they're struggling to raise the money for a property deposit while renting, they may be able to move back in with you for a while."
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在每一行、每一列、每一条对角线（突出显示为 X 形）以及每个 3x3 方格（有线框）中，数字 1 到 9 必须各出现一次。
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Will PM's first-time buyers plan boost my home's value?
I'm looking to sell my £400,000 detached house. Will Andy Burnham's new home scheme stimulate the housing market and push up the price of my home? Name and address supplied
Although we haven't heard the full details of the scheme yet, I'd say not directly, and not soon.
Your First Home is for first-time buyers of new-builds only. They put down just 2.5 per cent and the state lends them 20 per cent of the price.
The scheme is intended to help first-time buyers but also, more importantly, to throw a lifeline to struggling housebuilders who, with a market downturn, had begun
to mothball sites they feared may not sell.
It is not live yet and the devil will be in the detail. We will get the price caps, income limits and repayment terms in the Budget on 28 October. Then, lenders and builders need time to set it up. If you plan to sell this autumn, it won't affect you.
However, the indirect effect is interesting.
Building hundreds of thousands of homes – private and council – takes a small army. Every house needs groundworkers, bricklayers, roofers, joiners, plumbers, electricians, plasterers, decorators, kitchen fitters and more.
Then come the lorry drivers, merchants, surveyors, solicitors and removal firms. Multiply that by hundreds of thousands of homes and you have a lot of people with more work and more money to spend.
Some of those people will want to move up the ladder. A site manager or busy electrician with a full order book is exactly the sort of buyer who might want a £400,000 detached house. Growth spreads that way, slowly, and it will lift the wider market over time.
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We can look back at history, as we have been here before. Help To Buy ran for years, and many in the trade argued it lifted new-build prices more than anything else.
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A promise of future building work does not make someone offer more for your house this week
to older homes, but other factors such as cheap borrowing and a thriving buy-to-let market boosted prices more.
So, what should you do? If you need to sell, sell on today's market, not a hoped-for one. Get three agents round and ask each for evidence of what has sold nearby, not what is on the market. Get sale prices data on the length of time they took to go.
Price to attract buyers from the first week, because a house that sits unsold goes stale and often ends up cheaper. It's a cliché, but declutter, tidy up and fix any small items that might deter a buyer. Choose your agent wisely as it can make the difference between selling and staying put.
And remember, if you are buying another home, what you sell for doesn't matter – the gap between them is what matters.
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Jonathan Rolande is a professional property buyer and housing commentator. If you have a question for him or our other experts, email us: money@theipaper.com
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Global | City | Temp (in °C) | Cond | Abu Dhabi | 36 | S | Abuja | 29 | TH | Alicante | 25 | TH | Amsterdam | 20 | C | Athens | 26 | S | Bangkok | 25 | R | Barcelona | 23 | R | Beijing | 25 | S | Berlin | 19 | F | Brussels | 21 | S | Budapest | 23 | S | Chicago | 19 | S | Delhi | 34 | S | Dubai | 37 | S | Dublin | 12 | DR | Frankfurt | 20 | S | Geneva | 20 | S | Helsinki | 15 | S | Hong Kong | 26 | C | Istanbul | 21 | F | Johannesburg | 19 | F | Lisbon | 24 | F | Los Angeles | 33 | S | Madrid | 18 | TH | City | Temp (in °C) | Cond | Miami | 31 | F | Milan | 20 | F | Moscow | 11 | C | Mumbai | 33 | S | Munich | 20 | S | New York | 20 | S | Nice | 24 | F | Palma | 25 | F | Paris | 21 | F | Prague | 20 | S | Reykjavik | 6 | F | Rio | 27 | C | Rome | 24 | TH | Stockholm | 15 | S | Strasbourg | 21 | S | Sydney | 25 | S | Tenerife | 26 | F | Tokyo | 27 | S | Toronto | 15 | S | Vancouver | 13 | F | Vienna | 22 | S | Warsaw | 20 | S | Washington | 22 | S | Wellington | 15 | S | Key: C=Cloudy, DR=Drizzle, F=Fair, FG=Fog, H=Hail, M=Mist, R=Rain, S=Sunny, SH=Showers, SL=Sleet, SN=Snow, SS=Sandstorm, TH=Thunderstorm
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拉姆缺席西班牙公开赛
由于第四个孩子即将出生，乔恩·拉姆（Jon Rahm）已退出本周的西班牙公开赛（Open de Espana）。这位曾在2022年第三次夺冠并追平塞韦·巴列斯特罗斯（Seve Ballesteros）记录的西班牙选手表示：“我认为我没有时间飞回去并准时赶到。”
A low-pressure system will bring a mix of rain and sunny spells across the British Isles today. The south will see rain throughout the day, turning heavy in parts, while lighter showers affect much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. By afternoon, brighter conditions in the Republic of Ireland spread east, bringing drier spells and sunshine. Breezy conditions will prevail, especially in the Channel Islands. London, SE Eng, East Anglia, Channel Is: Today will be dull and damp with cloudy skies and persistent rain, especially in the morning. The afternoon remains wet with temperatures feeling
cool under heavy cloud. By early evening, the most western areas face stronger winds and heavier rain, while it will be milder in the most southern parts with showers easing. Max temp: 17C. Tonight, clear skies, gentle winds. Min temp: 8C. Cen S England, SW England, Midlands, S Wales, N Wales: Today will be dull and damp with cloudy skies and spells of rain. The morning will start with overcast skies and light rain, particularly in the most northern parts. By afternoon showers ease for most, with some sunny spells breaking through. By evening, rain returns, with temperatures remaining cool in most places. Max temp: 16C.
Tonight, rain spreads west, with gentle winds. Min temp: 8C.
SE Scotland, NE Eng, E Eng: | Air Pollution Index | Air pollution levelsLow (1) Very high (10)uk-air.defra.gov.uk | The day is set to start fair with sunny skies and mild temperatures. As we move into the afternoon, conditions remain pleasant in the most northern parts with more sunshine. The most eastern parts, however, will have mostly cloudy skies and a chance of light rain. Winds will stay light from the west. Max temp: 14C. Tonight, clear skies, gentle winds. Min temp: 7C.
NW Eng, SW Scotland, N Ireland, Republic of Ireland, IoM: The morning will be mainly cloudy with rain likely in the north-west. Into the afternoon, brighter spells are | Region | Today | Tomorrow | Highlands | 2 | 2 | North East Scotland | 2 | 2 | Central Scotland | 2 | 2 | Scottish Borders | 2 | 2 | Northern Ireland | 2 | 2 | North West & Mersey | 2 | 2 | North East | 1 | 2 | Yorkshire & Humber | 2 | 2 | North Wales | 2 | 2 | West Midlands | 2 | 2 | East Midlands | 2 | 2 | South Wales | 2 | 2 | South West | 2 | 2 | South East | 2 | 2 | Eastern | 2 | 2 | Greater London | 2 | 2 | expected in western parts, while the most northern areas remain wet. By evening, clear skies will develop in the south with mild temperatures, while the north has more scattered showers and brisk winds. Max temp: 14C. Tonight, cloudy, light drizzle. Min temp: 6C. NW Scotland, NE Scotland, W Isles, N Isles: The day will start fair and sunny with mild temperatures. The afternoon brings sunny spells mixed with some cloud cover. By evening, rain showers are likely in the most western areas. Winds are light to moderate from the west, with more persistent rain expected in northern coastal parts. Max temp: 13C. Tonight, cloudy. Min temp: 7C.
SYNOPTIC PRESSURE A deep low-pressure system centred over the Northern Isles is moving south-eastwards, generating rain across the UK. Meanwhile, a high-pressure ridge over the Republic of Ireland is pushing eastward, bringing brighter spells to Northern Ireland and the Western Isles. Breezy conditions linger around the Channel Islands.
THURSDAY Clear skies and sunshine in eastern regions, with rain in the north and west. Occasional showers in central areas, with breezy conditions throughout.
FRIDAY Persistent rain across the UK with breezy conditions, particularly in the north-west. Drier in northern England and Ireland, with sunny spells.
SATURDAY Rain showers in Scotland, with a mixture of sunny spells and cloud cover elsewhere. Breezy conditions throughout, with cooler temperatures.
SUNDAY Northern and eastern regions are mostly cloudy with sunny spells, while western areas face rain and showers. Cloudy skies in southern regions.
MONDAY Rain across much of the UK, particularly in parts of Scotland, Wales and southern England. Drier with sunny spells in the most central regions.
FORMULA ONE
George Russell is 84 points adrift of Kimi Antonelli with seven races left
George Russell's dwindling title hopes have been dealt a further blow as he is set to start this week's Singapore Grand Prix from the rear of the grid.
Russell's heartbreaking power-unit failure in the closing stages of Sunday's Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia left him a whopping 84 points adrift of teammate Kimi Antonelli with just seven rounds left to run.
The British driver conceded that hopes of a maiden title are now “exceptionally unlikely”.
And his slender chances of a turnaround have been dealt another setback. It is understood that the 28-year-old will need to take a new power unit this weekend.
That will take Russell over the limit on several components and the penalties are likely to leave him starting from the rear of the grid around the streets of Singapore.
Antonelli won the Italian Grand Prix last month having taken a similar penalty and Russell will need something similarly miraculous.
Furyk vows to 'do more than any team' to end 33 years of USA hurt
By Carl Markham
United States Ryder Cup captain Jim Furyk will ask his team to "do more than any American team has in the past" to end a dismal run on European soil next year.
Incredibly, the USA have not won the trophy away from home since 1993, with Furyk overseeing one of those defeats in Paris in 2018.
The 56-year-old said he would
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Rahm misses Spanish Open
Jon Rahm has withdrawn from this week's Open de Espana due to the
impending birth of his fourth child. The Spaniard, who equalled Seve Ballesteros by winning for a third time in 2022, said: "I don't think I would have time to fly back and be on time."
draw from that experience and others in team events – he has also been captain and vice-captain in the last two editions of the Presidents Cup – to make changes within their set-up.
"I'm going to ask this team to do more than any other United States team has in the past," said Furyk, who admitted his team selection for Le Golf National eight years ago left him without "horses for the course".
USA, captained by Tom Watson, last won away at The Belfry in 1993 GETTY
"I changed a few things immediately upon taking the captaincy. You're always coming up with new, creative ways to create that team atmosphere and that bond, but we've got a lot to work on.
Foursomes – two players playing one ball – is seen as a major handicap for the Americans.
"I've had some ideas and thoughts about how I thought Team USA could and should be run in the future."
Over their last four Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup matches they have won just eight of 34 points in the format, with just three from 16 against Europe.
"I know those numbers very well. I've lived them the last four," Furyk added. "It's not an anomaly. There's some issues. We understand that. Not something I'm very happy with. I plan on making some changes.
"As captains we need to do a better job – not only putting the folks into good pairings in good positions, but I don't think we are preparing for those matches in a proper way."
To improve preparation Furyk is keen for all contenders to be available for a fact-finding trip to Adare Manor in Ireland next summer ahead of the 100th anniversary event in September.
European captain Luke Donald is seeking to be the first captain to win three in a row but having made just one change to his team between the wins in Rome and at Bethpage, he expects a different approach on home soil.
"Decisions for this one will change," Donald said. "I have zero complacency about how strong the US are going to be."
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LIV receives \$300m commitment for next year's relaunch
By Carl Markham
LIV Golf has secured an initial funding commitment for a
potential \$300m (£227m) investment from BC Partners Credit to help relaunch in 2027.
The breakaway series filed for bankruptcy last month after Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund – which had spent \$5bn in four years – announced it was withdrawing support at the end of the season.
That cast the future of LIV into doubt but a deal with BC, subject to approval from the bankruptcy court, gives it the chance to
court, gives it the chance to reset next year.
BC signed a term sheet with LIV last month, requiring it to sign half of the players to whom it owes money, as part of its financing plan.
But there is no obliga-
tion for the current crop to rejoin. Last week Sergio Garcia (above) submitted court papers asking for his contract to be terminated.
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“ While there is still work ahead, today marks meaningful progress towards a global league
The bankruptcy papers showed LIV owed \$64m to its top 27 creditors, with \$45m owed to current and former players at the time of the filing, but did not include future obligations. Reports suggested Jon Rahm is owed up to \$150m for the remainder of his contract.
"Our goal is to facilitate LIV Golf's emergence from the restructuring process on sound financial footing and with renewed momentum heading into the 2027 season," said Ted Goldthorpe, head of BC. The first of several hearings related to the bankruptcy will be held this week.
"While there is still work ahead, today marks meaningful progress toward a player-owned, team-focused, truly global league that complements the wider game and creates new opportunities for players, fans, partners, and the next generation of golfers," LIV Golf chief executive Scott O'Neil said.
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Prince Of Petra (2.29, Nottingham) An intriguing newcomer for Roger Varian. Half-brother to Derby runner-up and French Group One winner Maltese Cross, and the Persian King colt begins life on the track over an extended mile. Pedigree suggests that will suit him.
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2.29 BRITISH EBF FUTURE STAYERS OATH NOVICE STAKES (GBB/GBBPLUS RACE) (CLASS 2) 2YO £30,000 added 1m | 1 | 7 | CALDO A Balding 9 7 | D Probert 3 | 2 | 54 | HOSHI A King 9 7 | C Bishop 2 | 3 | PRINCE OF PETRA R Varian 9 7 | R Dawson 5 | 4 | TOP SCHOLAR W Haggas 9 7 | T Marquand 1 | 5 | 3 | GAINFUL R Beckett 9 2 | Rossa Ryan 4 |
BETTING: 15-8 Top Scholar, 2-1 Gainful, 3-1 Prince Of Petra, 7-1 Caldo, 16-1 Hoshi. | 2.59 BRITISH STALLION STUDS EBF NURSERY (GBBPLUS RACE) (CLASS 4) 2YO £12,000 added 1m 2f | 1 | 65334 | CROWN RANGER M Botti 9 9 | S De Sousa 5 | 2 | 215 | KANZI C Johnston 9 9 | C Shepherd 4 | 3 | 7872 | AKARAKA M Bell 9 4 | H Crouch 3 | 4 | 5629 | FOSCARINI E J-Houghton 8 13 | C Bishop 2 | 5 | 55741 | NORTHERN VIOLA J & S Quinn 8 2 | JP Sullivan 1 |
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The Atlanta Falcons cruised
past the New Orleans Saints 45-24 after an impressive display on Monday night. The Falcons remained in front throughout, with 207 rushing yards as they improved to 2-2. Bijan Robinson (right) led the way with 145 yards and two touchdowns. The loss came as the Saints commemorated the 20th anniversary of their return to the Superdome after Hurricane Katrina.
CRICKET
Farbrace leaves
Sussex to revive
the Red Rose
Former England assistant coach Paul Farbrace is swapping Sussex for Lancashire after agreeing to become director
of cricket at Old Trafford.
Farbrace (above) stood down as Sussex head coach at the end of the season and was due to step into a part-time director of cricket post from next month. But he has accepted the chance to help revitalise Lancashire's fortunes after their worst ever season – finishing second bottom in Division Two of the County Championship.
The experienced 59-year-old said: "I am absolutely delighted to be joining Lancashire. I will always be grateful to Sussex for the honour of being head coach."
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每日测验
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Packer to sit out England tour to North America
Harlequins back-
rower Marlie
Packer will miss
England's tour of
North America
this month.
John Mitchell's
players are due to face Canada, who they beat to win the World Cup last year, in Toronto in 10 days' time, then in Ottawa a week after that. They then play the USA in New Jersey on 30 October.
But two-time World Cup winner Packer (above) is staying home because her partner and Red Roses teammate Rosie Galligan is due to give birth.
England, who lost their record-breaking 39-match winning streak with a draw against Canada last month, will be joined by Saracens prop Kelsey Clifford after her return from a hamstring injury.
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Grand Final hero Walmsley heads to Bradford
Wakefield Grand Final hero Lachlan Walmsley has joined Super League rivals Bradford on a two-year deal.
The Australian winger (above) made his final appearance for Trinity at Old Trafford on Saturday, where he played a key role in helping to secure their first league title since 1968.
Walmsley admitted after the game that he was unsure about his future, but Bradford acted swiftly to add him to their squad for 2027 and beyond.
He said: "That was my first Grand Final so to be able to win has made me hungry again and it will be just as good to go and do it with another club."
Former England seamer Kate Cross has found "closure" after retiring from professional cricket and is pondering a future in coaching – in the men's or women's game.
Cross bowed out on her own terms with Lancashire last month, a year on from the abrupt, and enforced, end of her international career.
"Everyone says, ‘when you know, you know’ and I thought that was a load of rubbish until it happened to me," Cross said. "Not many people get to control the end of their England career but was there was an element of control, having it be my own decision. There was probably a bit more closure for me."
Cross entered the sport as a 13-year-old in the amateur era, went on to become one of the country's first batch of professionally contracted female players in 2014 and walked away as one of only eight women to reach 100 one-day wickets for England.
She has also built a significant following for her media work, including the No Balls podcast with former teammate Alex Hartley.
"The messages I've got have been overwhelming, people have told me what they think my legacy has been and it's been lovely to read but it's a bit early to process that," she said. "I have been proud to go from amateur to pro, and trying to be a voice in that, trying to make it better. As I got older the standards I set for the women's game grew and exceeded all the expectations I'd set 10 years earlier and my journey went the same way."
Cross says transitioning to a tracksuit role did not always appeal but is open to the idea now. Hartley has worked as a spin coach in the Pakistan Super League and Sarah Taylor has been earning rave reviews as a fielding specialist with the England men's side.
"The narrative is changing for women, absolutely. If you're good enough to do a role, it doesn't matter if you're male or female. That's super-exciting," she said.
Alcaraz escapes from pain to win first title in months
By Eleanor Crooks
Carlos Alcaraz celebrates after rebounding from an injury-hit year AFP/GETTY
Defending champion Carlos Alcaraz defeated Jiri Lehecka in the final of the Japan Open to win his first individual title since February.
Playing just his third tournament since returning from four-and-a-half months out with a wrist injury, Alcaraz recovered from a shaky start to defeat Czech Lehecka 7-6, 6-4.
It is a second title in a row in the Japanese capital for Alcaraz, who showed patchy form at times but finished with a strong performance.
The Spaniard told Sky Sports: "I'm really happy to be able to lift a trophy again. Obviously it's extra special after my injury.
"It was a tough week that I didn't find my best tennis, my best level, but I did find the good solutions and I think that's what matters in the end.
"Today was the best match of the week, or at least more consistent."
"Obviously a lot of negative thoughts come to your mind," Alcaraz said, when asked if he ever feared not tasting trophy success again during his time out injured. "If you are going to come back healthy, if you are going to come back the same as I was before. If I will be able to hit the ball normally without pain at all. I tried to put those thoughts away all the time.
"If I feel something, [the come-back is] not going to be anything, so
I just have to go full for every shot, every ball, and I trust [my team], I trust myself, and it worked out."
Lehecka led 3-1 but Alcaraz hit back to level at 3-3 and showed his full repertoire of crowd-pleasing shots in the tie-break, winning five points in a row from 2-4.
He made his move in the seventh game of the second set with a break to lead 4-3 and looked delighted after clinching victory.
Sinner's season is over as his doctors decide world No 1 needs treatment for injured knee
By Eleanor Crooks
Jannik Sinner will not play again this season because of the knee injury that has sidelined him since Wimbledon.
The world No 1 recently announced he would not be able to return in China as planned and he has now called an early end to his campaign.
In a video, Sinner said: "Hello everyone, I would like to give you a little update. Me together with the doctors have decided that I need a course of treatment for my knee, which means that the 2026 season is officially over."
The Italian will not undergo surgery for what his team described as inflammation of his right knee. He will miss the ATP Finals in Turin next month and the Davis Cup finals in Bologna.
Sinner has been hugely
successful in the latter months of the season recently, winning the ATP Finals back-to-back and ending 2025 with a 15-match unbeaten run.
The 25-year-old (left) has been at the top of the
rankings since April but he is now certain to lose top spot, with Alexander Zverev less than 1,500 points adrift.
"The last couple of years, especially the ending in Turin, gave me so many beautiful
“This year is going to be different. I also need to think about my long-term career
feelings and emotions, which this year is going to be way different," added Sinner. "But at the moment I also need to think about my long-term career. I will do everything possible to get back 100 per cent."
Sinner suffered a stunning French Open second-round loss to Juan Manuel Cerundolo. He rebounded impressively, defeating Zverev in the final to claim a second successive Wimbledon title, but he has not been seen on a match court since.
Muchova delight after it takes nine match-points to beat Osaka
Karolina Muchova celebrates the win that puts her in the quarter-finals
Karolina Muchova won a tight tussle with Naomi Osaka to reach the quarter-finals of the China Open.
The Czech Wimbledon finalist saw eight match points come and go before she converted her ninth opportunity to claim a 7-5, 1-6, 7-6 victory.
"So many match points, I didn't know how many," said Muchova. "I was shaking. I'm happy that I made the last volley and it was really so close."
Wimbledon champion Linda Noskova fell 6-2, 6-2 to Ekaterina Alexandrova but fourth seed Mirra Andreeva defeated Daria Snigur by the same scoreline.
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Beijing crown for Djokovic
By Eleanor Crooks
Novak Djokovic capped a remarkable week with his first title for nearly a year at the China Open.
The 39-year-old profited from the retirement of final opponent Alex De Minaur after one game of the second set to win a seventh title in Beijing and maintain his record of never having lost at the tournament.
The 7-6, 0-1 victory means Djokovic has won at least one title in each of the last 21 years, while he now has 102 tour level trophies overall.
Both men reached the final without having to complete their matches on Monday - Djokovic thanks to the much-publicised disqualification of Daniil Medvedev, while De Minaur's opponent Hubert Hurkacz pulled the plug because of injury.
Djokovic edged a very tight first set on a tie-break before the two men each took a medical timeout, but it came as a big surprise when De Minaur abruptly shook hands after winning the opening game of the second set.
The Australian, who returned to court with strapping on his left thigh, said in his on-court interview: "I want to say sorry to all the amazing fans that came to watch this match. I didn't want to finish like this."
When Djokovic lost in the opening round of the US Open amid ongoing physical struggles, the sporting obituaries were being prepared, but the Serbian has shown once again that writing him off would be premature.
Djokovic, who also defeated top seed Alexander Zverev during his run, said: "I know that when I'm feeling well and striking the ball well I can still compete at the highest level. This week has been an evidence to that. I'm very proud."
39-year-old Novak Djokovic hoists the China Open trophy
Potter admits her 'surprise' at call for crunch World Cup play-offs
By Sunny Badwal
Chelsea midfielder Lexi Potter admits she was "surprised" to earn her first England call-up ahead of their forthcoming World Cup play-off fixtures with Greece.
England face Greece over two legs in the first of two play-off rounds for a place in next year's tournament in Brazil. They are in Crete on Friday, then at Leicester the following Tuesday.
Potter, 20 has enjoyed a bright
Lexi Potter (second from left) with Keira Walsh, Freya Godfrey and Lucia Kendall PA
“It would be a dream to play for England but now I want to do the best I can in training
start to the campaign after being given a run of starts under Blues boss Sonia Bompastor.
Potter has played a part in all four of Chelsea's victories this season in the Women's Super League and got herself on the scoresheet in a 2-0 win over Birmingham last month.
The youngster learned of her call-up while in her bedroom at her family home, before sharing her delight with her mother.
After completing her first day of training, she said: "I've been really lucky and grateful for the opportunities I've been given at Chelsea and when I got the call, I was really surprised.
"I like to stay focused every day and be the best version of myself and don't like to think too far ahead.
"I was at home, I still live at home so I was just in my room watching my phone a bit and then when I got the call I was really happy and went downstairs and told my mum and she was really proud of me."
Potter has been one of the most talked about players in the league this season but is not expecting to start in the games against Greece.
She added: "I wouldn't say I'm established. I'm lucky to play alongside world-class players. To get the opportunities at Chelsea is never easy.
"It would be a dream to play for England but for now I just want to do the best I can in training.
"I like to keep my feet on the ground and all my teammates make comments to me, but I don't like any of that. Keira [Walsh] calls me a baller."
Fellow youngster Erica Meg Parkinson earned her second call-up by Sarina Wiegman after she was brought into the camp during the April internationals, but she is still awaiting her first cap.
The 18-year-old from Singapore has a Japanese mother and English father but chose to play for England after being approached by them at a young age.
Parkinson, who was named after Eric Cantona by her Manchester United-supporting father, moved from Portuguese side Valadares Gaia to North Carolina Courage this summer where she has been a regular, picking up two assists.
She had the option of playing for a few countries but says the decision to play for England was an easy one.
Parkinson said: "I have always liked playing with the English players. They have a great environment and it is something I want to stay in."
Viktor Gyokeres will return to Arsenal in confident mood after setting a new Nations League record with four more goals for Sweden over the international break.
Gyokeres was on target – accompanied by his trademark “Batman mask” celebration (right) – to give Sweden a 1-0 win over Romania in Bucharest on Monday night, extending his scoring streak in the competition to seven straight games.
The 28-year-old, who signed for Arsenal from Sporting Lisbon in a £64m deal last summer, has been used sparingly so far this season by Gunners boss Mikel Arteta, making just two substitute appearances in the Premier League.
Gyokeres, though, showed few signs of a drop in confidence over the extended international window with goals in each of Sweden's fixtures, which started with a wins over Romania and Poland in Stockholm before a 1-1 draw away to Bosnia-Herzegovina as his national side went top of Group B4.
With Germany forward Kai Havertz picking up a hamstring issue early in the break and returning to Arsenal for further assessment, Gyokeres could be brought back in to lead the Gunners' attack when the champions' Premier
League action resumes against Leeds United on Saturday.
“That [the goals for Sweden] means we win three games and draw one. It is a good start to the Nations League this year and for me it feels very good,” Gyokeres said.
"They [Romania]
had the ball a bit too much and we made it difficult for ourselves at times, but we won the match and keep a clean sheet, so after the match it is a nice feeling."
Arsenal defender Riccardo Cala-fiori got his first goal for Italy in their 3-1 win over Turkey in Bologna.
Calafiori, who scored for the Gunners after only 24 seconds in the
Community Shield win over Manchester City, is hoping to continue to make plenty of contributions in the opposition box.
"Last year, I was unlucky and I was close to at least five or six goals. This year the season started quite well, but o b v i - “ I spoke to the coach – he told me that if I have this impulse to attack spaces, I have to do it
ously, beyond the numbers, I am interested in the contribution I give to the team," Calafiori said.
"I try to be well physically – in the end that is what matters, because when I am okay I can help in so many ways."
Versatile full-back Calafiori revealed Arteta has encouraged him to make the most of his attacking instincts.
"I spoke to the coach and he told me that if I have this impulse to go and attack the spaces I have to do it, because it comes naturally to me," he said.
"Obviously it has to be done with the head, with the ideas and in the right moments, but when they leave me free I can express myself much better."
Liverpool are waiting to discover the extent of Jérémy Jacquet's fitness issue after the centre-back was left out of France's Nations League win over Belgium.
The defender (below) had played the previous two matches, his first for the senior team, but was omitted from Zinedine Zidane's squad for Monday's 4-1 victory.
The French FA said the
21-year-old had sustained a "strain to his left hamstring", while Zidane said Jacquet was "slightly injured" after the game.
The Reds already have doubts over forwards Alexander Isak and Cody Gakpo, whose international exploits with Sweden and the Netherlands respectively were cut short.
Isak was sent home after just one match due to a minor thigh problem, with Gakpo more of a concern after injuring his ankle.
Their absence would leave Iraola short of options up front ahead of the high-profile visit of City, playing their first match since an independent commission found the club guilty of the vast majority of charges relating to financial breaches.
Manchester City should face a multiyear punishment for their financial misdemeanours, according to former Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher.
An independent commission found City guilty of breaking Premier League rules in a strongly-worded report released last week, which the club have appealed against.
City were found to have inflated revenue by more than £830m over a nine-season period between 2009-10 and 2017-18 and, if their appeal fails, Carragher believes the sanctions should reflect that.
Speaking on The Overlap Fan Debate, the 48-year-old said: "If the people talk about [a penalty of] 80 points or 100 points, but that's just over one season that gets you relegated and then you come back again.
"And players, a few of them would leave, but some of them would say, 'I could put up with that for a year'. But because this has gone on for so long, I do think the punishment should be over a number of years, three to five years, and then players would move on."
Rogers' creativity might be Tuchel's key to immortality
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It's the nicest dilemma to have. One that reminds us that this England team has so much more to give.
To most, Bukayo Saka is undroppable. A world-class wide forward with a decent goalscoring record for England should ordinarily be one of the first names on the team sheet. There just so happens to be a maverick-like alternative who offers Thomas Tuchel the thrill of the unknown more than the Arsenal firebrand ever could.
Now Morgan Rogers has his big move to Chelsea, we could be about to see his rise reach stratospheric levels. This is a player who revels in being a £100m player, inviting the pressure it brings.
Sitting down with him at England's temporary training base in Enfield this week, Rogers (right) insisted his goal is to be seen as one of the
best players, not just in the Premier League, but the world. This is Cristiano Ronaldo levels of youthful ambition.
To be able to create goals like his mouthwatering assist for Harry Kane's first goal in England's most comfortable 3-0 victory over Czech Republic takes a certain type of visionary, a nonconformist capable of reaching for the stars.
It was the perfect night for Rogers to try something so out of the ordinary. The Czechs were no match for England, who finished their Nations
League mini-marathon on a high, Kane grabbing the headlines once more on a night he matched Peter Shilton's all-time men's appearance record for England.
The finish of the night came via a former West Ham boot, as Vladimir Coufal rifled an astonishing own goal into the net to open the scoring early on, a finish Kane could only dream of.
Then came the slickest goal in recent English living memory. Elliot Anderson's first-time pass over the top landed right in Rogers' stride. To be then able to slide a volleyed centre into Kane's
path, at that speed, defied logic. Kane moved sixth in the all-time international goalscoring charts with his 91st England goal from a corner in the second half, as the hosts sauntered over the line to the most relaxing success.
Tuchel now has five weeks to ponder his next selections. Anthony Gordon has absolutely nailed down the left forward spot. He is as automatic a starter as Kane right now.
Having Saka and Rogers to fight for one spot is an embarrassment of riches for Tuchel. What the German has to consider is who has the best chance of helping England overcome that perennial conundrum that has haunted them for 60 years – how do they get over that final hurdle, when it really matters?
Well, the man who created England's goal on that biggest stage against Argentina.
Rogers does not possess Saka's experience or his goal return for England. What he provides, however, is a greater ability to pluck something out of nowhere. And it is in these moments where finals are decided.
There is also an argument to be made that another Arsenal figurehead, Declan Rice, could also be left out when Tuchel has all his tools available to him. Rice's energy and leadership make him a pivotal player, but in his absence, the ball has moved much quicker through midfield and made England look much slicker than usual.
Leaving two Premier League winners and Champions League finalists out, on paper, seems somewhat churlish. Yet, when you have enigmatic talent like Rogers waiting in the wings, sometimes that element of surprise could be the difference between Tuchel's legacy being that of another nearly-man and an English footballing hero.
Harry Kane rises highest to head in England's third goal GETTY
New boss Pocognoli haunted by ghosts of Scotland's past
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Matko 56, Sturm 71
By Jason Mellor
Under the watchful gaze of his three predecessors in Scottish football's early version of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, Sébastien Pocognoli further struggled to put his stamp on the national team's present to suggest a bright future under the new Belgian coach is still some way off for the Tartan Army.
Steve Clarke, Alex McLeish and Gordon Strachan were spirited to Hampden Park to help honour Andy Robertson on the Tottenham Hotspur defender's first home appearance since becoming only the second Scotland player to reach a century of caps since Sir Kenny Dalglish 40 years ago.
The trio of Scotland managers past looked on as the latest incarnation in the dugout was left with a single victory from his first first four competitive games after Scotland surrendered the lead in their faltering efforts to emerge from the wreckage of their North American no-show at this summer's World Cup finals.
Robertson who, injury permitting, will surpass the 102 games played for the national side by Dalglish when the Nations League group phase concludes next month, again stood out although it was far from a Scrooge-like defensive display as the hosts failed to keep a clean sheet on home soil for the ninth consecutive game.
A stunning sliding block from the 32-year-old full-back denied Swansea striker Zan Vipotnik what appeared to be a certain goal at the end of the first-half. The shot from the Championship's leading goalscorer last season from the edge of the penalty area looked destined for the bottom corner of Angus Gunn's net until Robertson appeared from nowhere to divert the ball to safety with that invaluable defensive tool – his left buttock.
The vital intervention maintained the advantage given the hosts by Ryan Christie just after the half-hour in the increasingly unlikely bid to clinch runners' up spot behind League A-bound Switzerland and with it a potentially friendlier route to a home European Championship finals in two years' time.
Ben Gannon Doak sent over a searching cross from the right for Jack Hendry to head against the post. Oli McBurnie, who has failed to score in his 20 caps, should have followed up to belatedly open his account, but had the consolation that
his miscontrol sent the ball to Christie to divert into the net with an improvised backheel two yards from goal.
The equaliser came from nowhere 11 minutes into the second-half. Luis Binks failed to get close enough to Aljosa Matko, who found the bottom corner from the edge of the area with a calm side-foot finish after running onto a perfectly-weighted Danijel Sturm pass.
Sturm should have made it two goals in as many minutes as he fired over when given time and space to pick his spot from 15 yards but the Slavia Prague forward didn't have to wait long to atone.
The winner arrived with 20 minutes left as Matko returned the favour, sprinting down the right to square for Sturm to fire into an unguarded net from six yards. Slovenia's first competitive away win for two years was the cue for Pocognoli's side to be jeered off amidst a distinct air of "Bah Humbug" at a rapidly emptying national stadium.
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Coach broke his word to me twice, claims Ronaldo in outburst
By Fernando Kallas
Cristiano Ronaldo has accused Portugal coach Jorge Jesus of twice breaking his word, saying a failed agreement to publicly explain his omission against Norway drove him out.
But the former Manchester United and Real Madrid superstar insisted he remained available after any punishment.
In a lengthy statement, the 41-year-old gave his account of the dispute that prompted his departure from Copenhagen before Portugal's Nations League match versus Denmark last week.
Ronaldo said Jesus had agreed a plan under which the forward would miss the Norway and Denmark games to manage his fitness. But on the day of the Norway game, the coach told him he would play for 30 minutes.
"Everyone knows the rest. I warmed up from half-time onwards, watched the minutes tick by and wasn't called on," Ronaldo said. "The manager had broken his word to me."
Portugal's captain and all-time leading scorer said a subsequent meeting with Jesus produced an agreement for the coach to clarify events at his next press conference. According to Ronaldo, a document was prepared saying he had never demanded playing time, had respected Jesus' decisions and that the coach asking him to warm up without bringing him on had been a mistake.
Ronaldo said the agreed notes did not require Jesus to apologise to him but said the coach's public remarks bore no resemblance to their private discussion.
"It was the second time he had broken his word to me," Ronaldo said. "I decided to leave the training camp without waiting for any further broken promises."
The statement provided Ronaldo's account but on Sunday, after Portugal's win over Norway, Jesus denied he had made any agreement with the player but left the door open for his return.
Ronaldo apologised for failing to greet fans after the Norway match and for leaving his teammates. "The consequences of my actions must be assessed and punished by the Portuguese Football Federation," he said.
Despite the rupture, Ronaldo said he was not limiting his international ambitions to a farewell appearance.
"If I'm physically fit... after serving whatever suspension is imposed on me, I'll be available, as I've always been until now, to compete and win for our national team," he added.
Cristiano Ronaldo made a lengthy statement explaining his exit
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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans RONALD REAGAN
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Birthdays
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Anniversaries
Friday 7 October 1949
The German Democratic Republic, or East Germany,
is formally established in the Soviet occupation zone. Its creation followed the establishment of West Germany earlier that year.
The division reflected growing tensions between the Soviet Union and Western powers.
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REFORM MP buys second home despite letter
Reform UK MP Sarah Pochin bought a second home on Anglesey two days after raising concerns in Parliament about the impact of second homes on rural communities. Pochin, MP for Runcorn and Helsby, purchased the property after submitting a written question to the housing minister Matthew Pennycook.
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TECHNOLOGY Anthropic boss paid \$18m last year
Dario Amodei made \$18m (£13.5m) last year as CEO of Claude AI developer Anthropic, the company's IPO filing shows, putting him in the middle ranks of senior executives at major technology firms. Anthropic is preparing for an IPO as early as this autumn that could value it at more than \$2trn.
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Eviction ban and rent caps approved
SPAIN
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'Dexter' fan admits killing sex worker
CRIME
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Strict conditions for Palestine march
POLICE
Police have said they cannot ban a pro-Palestine march planned for the third anniversary of Hamas's 7 October attacks but have repeated their plea to demonstrators not to go ahead with it.
A forensics student who was obsessed with US TV drama Dexter has pleaded guilty to the murder of a 24-year-old sex worker he lured to a plastic-lined “kill room” inside an Airbnb property. Benjamin William Day, who was 19 at the time of the killing, changed his plea to guilty on the second day of his trial at Wolverhampton Crown Court.
Spain's government has approved two housing laws, days after parliament rejected them prompting prime minister Pedro Sanchez to call a snap election. The measures include rent caps, a temporary ban on evictions and restrictions on corporate purchases. Sanchez says opinion polls show a broad support for the changes.
A group of students, the University of London Coalition, are expected to march in the capital today. The Metropolitan Police said it has imposed “robust” conditions on the protest.
These include requiring the group to form up at Lincoln's Inn Fields by 12.30pm, take a prescribed route to Russell Square, and complete the rally by 2pm, at which point participants must disperse.
Newspapers support recycling. The recycled paper content of UK newspapers in 2024 was 37.2%.
The List
The generation word game
Gen Z use portmanteau words more than millennials and Gen X, but more than half have used one without knowing the meaning. Research from Hub by Premier Inn found nearly three-quarters (71%) of Gen Z wish they got more time to themselves on “meekends”. Britain's favourite portmanteau words were:
1. Brunch = Breakfast + lunch
2. Staycation = Stay + vacation
3. Hangry = Hungry + angry
4. Chillax = Chill + relax
5. Mocktail = Mock + cocktail
6. Bromance = Bro (brother) + romance
7. Meekend = Me + weekend
8. Glamping = Glamorous + camping
9. Situationship = Situation + relationship
10. Mansplain = Man + Explain
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BORDERS Dinghies seized in airport raid
Twenty-five inflatable boats due to be used by cross-Channel people smugglers to move up to 1,700 migrants have been seized at East Midlands Airport, the National Crime Agency said. The craft were found last Friday in an air freight shipment going from Turkey to the Netherlands.
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'Family matter' halts Batman production
Warner Bros and DC Studios have halted filming on The Batman Part II, as the director takes a pause to deal with a personal issue. "Production has been temporarily paused while Matt Reeves focuses on a family matter," the studio said in a statement. "We look forward to continuing the journey soon."
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Soldier killed when vehicle rolled over
An Australian soldier has died and five others have been injured when a vehicle rolled over during a training exercise, the army said yesterday. The Australian Army identified the soldier as Corporal Brendan Hannam, a father of two who served on two tours in Afghanistan and trained Ukrainians with the British Armed Forces.
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HEALTH Cancer referrals target 'won't be met'
Targets for how long people wait for cancer diagnosis and treatment will be missed by more than three years based on current performance, a charity has said.
Analysis by Cancer Research UK suggests England is not on track to meet a key commitment set down by the Government in the National Cancer Plan, published in February.
The plan said that by March 2029, 80 per cent of patients will get a diagnosis or all-clear within 28 days of an urgent referral for suspected cancer. Looking at the targets in detail, Cancer Research UK said current performance suggests it will not be met until April 2032.
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ThePage3Profile ROSS KEMP, 'TRAITORS' STAR'S ROYAL RUMBLE
Making a drama out of a crisis...
The Celebrity Traitors star Ross Kemp is used to coming under fire in the line of duty, from his time behind the bar as EastEnders pub landlord to documenting the lives of gang members.
But a probing from the Prince of Wales yesterday when the two met in Somerset may not have been in his sights.
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SOCIETY More pressure to ban masked bikers
Residents have called for a ban on bike and scooter riders from wearing balaclavas and face coverings in Coventry.
Locals say the masks can be "sinister" and make it harder to identify those responsible for crimes, and have launched a petition as part of a Public Spaces Protection Order, which due to be updated in November.
If the measures are adopted, Coventry will join other cities such as Nottingham, which banned the face coverings earlier this year, after complaints about people feeling intimidated by those who wear them.
The actor and documentary film-maker joined Prince William to launch a project with the National Emergencies Trust.
And before the two had even come face-to-face, the royal laid down the gauntlet telling a group of youngsters in Ilminster: "Do you watch The Traitors?
"I'm going to get the answer to what happens and I am going to tell you all later.
"Spoiler alert today... he's here..."
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Fame won't save him...
Kemp, 62, is well known for his role as hardman Grant Mitchell in the BBC soap opera EastEnders.
He has also presented the Bafta award-winning documentary series Ross Kemp on Gangs and can currently be seen fending off 'murderous attempts' on him in The Celebrity Traitors.
But both he and Prince William were in Somerset yesterday, in their respective capacities as ambassador and patron of National Emergencies Trust, to launch the Ready Together project, providing communities across the UK with guidance to help them prepare for and respond to emergencies.
And in Kemp's case get a grilling over the latest round table discussions and banishments.
Faithful to the cause...
Ahead of the event, Kemp said he was attending because it's about "bringing people together" and making sure they "can pull together in the case of an emergency".
Little did he know, it might also entail a small personal emergency, where he was forced to choose between loyalty to The Celebrity Traitors or allegiance to the prince.
Fortunately, his role at the trust appears to have laid the groundwork for any possible defence.
As he said: "Being prepared for anything is better than being unprepared."
Sally Guyoncourt
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Glenn Close to play Herod in West End
Hollywood star Glenn Close will appear in the West End production of Sir Tim Rice and Lord Lloyd-Webber's musical Jesus Christ Superstar as King Herod. The award-winning actress, 79, best known for Fatal Attraction, will appear for the show's final run on the London stage in January.
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Halloween doorstep decorations recalled
Primark has urgently recalled two Halloween gonk decorations because they may be contaminated with asbestos. The two doorstep decorations present a risk to health as the sand inside them may be contaminated with a small quantity of asbestos, the Office for Product Safety and Standards said.
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ENTERTAINMENT Sheeran's artistic gift is perfect inspiration
An artist who was inspired to pick up a paintbrush after Ed Sheeran donated a painting to a charity auction she helped create is to hold her first exhibition at the age of 64. Gina Long, founder of the former children's charity GeeWizz in Suffolk, said something about the star's abstract painting "stayed with me".
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ART Hockney work to hang as a tapestry
A tapestry commissioned by the late David Hockney of his 1963 painting Play Within A Play has been installed at the Guildhall Art Gallery in London. The hanging, which was commissioned by the artist who died aged 88 in June, will appear as part of the gallery's Beyond Bayeux: Tapestry Now exhibition.
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Badenoch's bid
In interviews with broadcasters yesterday, Kemi Badenoch acknowledged she needed to use "every moment I have" to grab the attention of voters.
For a Conservative leader two years into opposition after the party's worst-ever election defeat, it was always going to be hard to earn the right for their attention.
Yet, as rumours persist that Andy Burnham might be tempted to call a snap election. Badenoch needs to paint in primary colours in order to make an impact.
In Birmingham this week, she has announced eye-catching policies for a UK version of an Iron Dome missile shield, a national insurance cut for firms who employ 21- to 24-year-olds and, as expected in her conference speech today, cuts to inheritance tax.
All conference speeches by party leaders are critical because they set the narrative for their MPs and rank and file for the months to come.
A rousing, emotionally charged address – like Andy Burnham's in Liverpool last week – will sustain party troops for months, make it easier to win arguments and Commons votes, and convince the media and public that the leader has what it takes to win the next election.
It helps that Badenoch's own leadership is on an upward trajectory, and that her popularity outstrips her party's.
In a characteristically frank admission, she said yesterday that the Conservatives are "not out of the woods", and this is true – it would be odd to claim otherwise.
The striking policies and candid admissions will earn her credit with voters. But if we are months, rather than years, away from the next election, Badenoch may not have enough time to win back their confidence.
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Brand in court for pretrial hearing ahead of rape case
By Tristan Kirk and Clara Margotin
Russell Brand attended court yesterday for a hearing ahead of his rape and sexual assault trial.
The comedian, actor and podcaster has been accused by six women of sexual abuse allegations spanning 10 years from 1999 to 2009.
He denies all the charges: three counts of rape, three charges of sexual assault, and one allegation of indecent assault.
Yesterday, Brand arrived at Southwark Crown Court accompanied by his wife Laura, for the first of two days of pretrial hearings.
His trial begins on 12 October, with the case expected to last up to 10 weeks.
Russell Brand arrives at Southwark Crown Court yesterday, accompanied by his wife, Laura HANNAH MCKAY/REUTERS
Previous hearings have heard Brand, who denies all the allegations of non-consensual sexual activity, is accused of raping a woman in a hotel room at the Labour Party conference in Bournemouth, grabbing a TV worker's breasts and forcing her into a sex act in a toilet and kissing and groping a radio station worker.
Brand became one of Britain's best-known stand-up comedians in the 2000s.
In recent years, he has pivoted to podcasting and online influencing, and now lives in the US.
Ofcom investigates Meta over risks of Instagram Instants
By Áine Fox
Ofcom is investigating Instagram's disappearing content feature.
The UK's online safety regulator said it was looking into whether tech company Meta had adequately assessed the risks of Instagram In-stants before launching it in May.
The feature allows a user to take a photo and share it instantly with others. The content disappears after being viewed once, and expires after 24 hours.
Meta said it had carried out a risk analysis and briefed Ofcom about the new feature “on a number of occasions” before it was launched.
But the regulator said yesterday it had launched an investigation to establish “whether Meta failed to comply with its duties under the Online Safety Act by not carrying out a suitable and sufficient illegal content risk assessment and children’s risk assessment before the launch of instants”.
Illegal content can include child sexual exploitation and abuse material. Harmful content for children under the Act includes pornography, suicide and self-harm.
"Our online safety laws are clear - significant changes to platforms must be risk-assessed before they're launched," said George Lusty, Ofcom's director of enforcement.
"This is a vital step that tech firms must take to protect their users. You wouldn't launch a new car without testing it properly, and it's the same for online services.
“Safety by design must be built in, not bolted on, and today's investigation shows we'll take action where we have concerns that providers are failing to comply.”
A Meta spokesperson said: "Meta takes its regulatory obligations seriously," and listed inbuilt safeguards including teenage account protections, and blocking screenshots and reshares.
But he added: "We will of course cooperate with Ofcom during this investigation."
The Molly Rose Foundation said it was concerned that harmful and illegal content could be shared through the Instagram Instants feature. The foundation was set up in memory of 14-year-old Molly Russell, who killed herself in 2017 after viewing harmful content online.
POLICE
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PCs sacked after using Taser on 92-year-old man
By Ellie Crabbe
Two police officers who used a Taser and synthetic pepper spray on a 92-year-old amputee have been sacked for gross misconduct.
Former PCs Stephen Smith and Rachel Comotto (both pictured, in 2024) used “excessive force” on Donald Burgess, the Independent Office for Police Conduct said.
Smith and Comotto arrived at a care home in St Leonards, East Sussex, on 21 June 2022, after responding to a report that a resident was threatening to stab care home staff with a knife.
Police bodyworn footage showed that the officers entered a room where Burgess, who was a wheelchair user, had been isolated.
Within 90 seconds of arriving, both officers used force on Burgess, who was holding a cutlery knife.
Smith discharged Pava spray in his face and struck the arm holding the knife with a baton. Then Comotto discharged her Taser.
FRANCE
Hundreds injured as protests sweep cities
A protester in Paris yesterday, amid widespread unrest; right, riot police stand their ground YVES HERMAN/REUTERS
By Tilman Blasshofer,
Cecile Mantovani and Lucien Libert
Police charged and fired tear gas at protesters outside French high schools yesterday as students, teachers and parents took to the streets on the biggest day of what Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu described as the most violent school protests in decades.
The protests, in which a teenager lost a hand on Monday, were the latest manifestation of public anger in a country where the far right and far left are surging ahead of a presidential election in the spring.
More than 250,000 people took the streets yesterday, according to officials, although trade unions claimed the true figure was more than twice that.
The government is under pressure to reduce public debt and has struggled with basic tasks such as passing a budget since President Emmanuel Macron's allies lost their majority in a 2024 parliamentary vote.
Lecornu told politicians at least 215 teenagers and 85 school staff had so far been injured in clashes. His office said more than 715 officers had also been hurt since protests began.
Students complain about basic maintenance in ageing school buildings such as water leaks, as well as absent teachers and the length of the 8am to 6pm school day.
The government has called some of the protesters' demands "legitimate" and Lecornu has ordered ministers to come up with urgent proposals. But he said that there can be “no room for tolerance of violence”, adding: “Burning down a high school does not improve the state of high school buildings”.
Omar Slaouti, a high-school teacher in Argenteuil, a north-western suburb of Paris, said: "If there were no trash cans on fire, the government would not have stepped back and become aware of the issues at stake."
In Strasbourg, Lyon, Rennes and Paris yesterday the demonstrations at times turned violent, with police firing tear gas and protesters lighting fires in the streets and hurling projectiles.
There were reports that a one-year-old baby was taken to hospital after being hit by a firework at a protest in Saint-Cyr-l'École, close to Versailles.
The High School Students Union said more than half of France's high schools were blockaded or would be closed for the day. Schools were scheduled to reopen today but regular classes will "be suspended" tomorrow and Friday for principals to host sessions with pupils.
A teenager's hand was blown off after it was claimed he picked up a police grenade in northern France on Monday.
The government said 6,100 people have been arrested and more than 1,800 people are being prosecuted for unspecified crimes, including 1,483 minors.
Six months before an election to replace Macron, his government and far-right leader Marine Le Pen's National Rally party have accused the hard-left France Unbowed (LFI) politicians and mayors of stoking the unrest.
LFI and its de facto leader, the presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon, deny the accusation.
Yesterday prosecutors in Metz demanded an inquiry into footage of policeman appearing to grope a female pupil he had detained.
PEOPLE
Detectorist strikes second hoard of Bronze Age treasure
By Nick Forbes
A metal detectorist has said it is "quite extraordinary" to have discovered his second Bronze Age hoard just two years after his first find in the Scottish Borders.
Mariusz Stepien found his latest haul of 3,000-year-old treasure in 2022, at a spot just seven miles away from where he discovered the Peebles Hoard in 2020.
The hoard, dubbed the Blyth Hoard, has now joined the Peebles hoard at the National Museums Collection Centre in Edinburgh for conservation and analysis.
After first detecting an axe head, Stepien said he noticed other bronze objects in the ground.
The hoard contains some remarkable objects dating from the Late Bronze Age (circa 1150 to 800BC).
It features two bronze axe-heads, and clay moulds possibly used to manufacture some of the unique bronze fittings in the Peebles Hoard.
Excavation by archaeologists also revealed an ancient stone cairn.
"Finding something is one thing, but seeing the amount of work that goes into understanding, preserving and researching, it has been a really interesting part of the whole experience," Stepien said.
Detectorist Mariusz Stepien at an excavation near Peebles
SPORTS
Olympic bidders named for 2036
By Mark Staniforth
India and Qatar are among seven bidders to host the 2036 Olympic Games, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has confirmed.
Interested parties have until the end of this month to lodge a formal bid and enter a dialogue process which will culminate in a final vote by IOC members in 2029.
India has long been seen a frontrunner, with Ahmedabad, the capital of Gujarat – the home state of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi – already announced as hosts of the 2030 Commonwealth Games.
Qatar launched unsuccessful bids to host both the 2016 and 2020 Games, losing out to Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo respectively.
Qatar intends to rely on infrastructure created for its 2022 hosting of the football World Cup.
Munich won the right to bid on behalf of Germany following a vote by the country's sports authority, the DOSB, late last month.
Other formal bidders include South Africa, South Korea, Hungary and Turkey.
After the bidding process closes, interested parties will make virtual presentations and undergo feasibility studies before the IOC executive board selects an initial shortlist.
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Powell in row over funding for teachers' pay increase
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The Education Secretary, Lucy Powell, is locked in a stand-off with the Treasury after she announced that a wage rise for teachers would be fully funded without the green light from No 11.
It means schools face having to meet the pay award out of their existing budgets.
Powell, also Labour's deputy leader, announced the 3.5 per pay award would be fully funded in
September, staving off possible strike action over fears it would have to come out of the budgets of schools.
At the time the National Education Union general secretary Daniel Kebede said: "Finally, we have a government that accepts the reality that any teacher pay award must be fully funded."
In a letter to the union Powell had said the money had been found by re-evaluating local government pensions schemes.
She wrote: "Recent revaluations to the local government pension scheme will see a reduction in employer contribution rates and deliver significant savings on schools' pay bill for support staff.
"We can confirm this reduction in costs will not be clawed back and we are confident that schools will be able to cover the costs of the teacher pay award."
However, this money had already been built into schools' budgets, unions claim, raising doubts over the funding for the pay award.
The decision has left schools warning they still face funding pressures. School finance leaders argue that schools were already benefiting
The size of the pay award for teachers, which Powell said would be paid using extra money from the pension saving and had in-
corporated it into their budgets.
A senior Whitehall source said that the September announcement was linked to an attempt by the Department for Education (DfE) to head off industrial action.
The Treasury had not been involved in the initial discussions and had not agreed to the way the announcement was framed as fully funded, the source said.
The episode is understood to have further strained relations between the DfE and the Treasury.
A letter from NASUWT general secretary Matt Wrack to Powell last week said schools had been paying the new employer contribution rates since April and employers "have been aware of the new rates for some time and have already built this in to financial planning".
Wrack said: "Despite all the spin, there is no new money for schools and the underfunding crisis remains."
A Department for Education spokesperson said: "The pay award remains the same. What has changed is the affordability position following the recent valuation of the Local Government Pension Scheme, which has reduced schools' costs and strengthened schools' ability to meet the costs of the award.
"This represents a substantial improvement in schools' financial position for this year – helping them meet the costs of teacher pay."
After Powell's September letter, the DfE also removed a table from its Education Hub setting out how the 3.5 per cent award for teachers would be funded.
Lucy Powell had told the National Education Union the money had been found by re-evaluating local government pensions schemes IAN FORSYTH/GETTY
EDUCATION
SEND reforms could face new delays after Burnham reshuffle
By Connie Dimsdale and Caroline Wheeler
The plan to overhaul special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) faces delays caused by the change in prime minister, The i Paper understands.
The Government's response to a major consultation on reforming the SEND system and new laws outlining the changes was expected in November, according to those familiar with the discussions.
But insiders fear Andy Burnham's arrival in No 10 and his subsequent appointment of a new education secretary could delay the timeline into the new year – raising concerns over whether the legislation would have sufficient time to get through Parliament and ready for implementation by September 2029.
A Government source said the process of Burnham replacing Bridget Phillipson with Lucy Powell in his Cabinet reshuffle meant there was “no world” in which officials would be able to stick to the current autumn timeframe.
Another source with knowledge of the SEND discussions said there was a “50/50 chance” the legislation could slip into next year, raising fears there may not be enough time to get it through Parliament before the next general election, which is due by 2029 at the latest.
The source said they were pushing for the reforms to be introduced this side of Christmas to ensure the changes, to improve support and make the system more sustainable for SEND children and their families, are not delayed.
The reforms are being introduced to curb the spiralling costs of educating children with special education needs.
Powell has promised to “tackle the SEND crisis” with early intervention and more investment, “reforming the system so it’s refocused on inclusion and improving outcomes for children”.
It is understood that the Department for Education (DfE) has put in a bid for the bill to be tabled before the end of the year.
However, it is down to the Parliamentary Business and Legislation (PBL) Committee – which manages the Government's legislative programme – to decide whether that will happen.
A Government source said the legislation is currently expected “in the next few months”, although no exact date has been set.
However, officials have insisted that even if the publication of the SEND reform plan was pushed back, it would not necessarily affect implementation, as the Parliamentary process could be expedited to ensure the measures are passed before the next election.
A Department for Education spokesman said: "We are on track to deliver our once-in-a-generation SEND reforms, and are completely committed to the implementation timelines set out in the Schools White Paper."
The good, the bad and the PM
Protesters dressed as angels and devils demonstrate against the Jackdaw and Rosebank North Sea oil and gas development projects in Whitehall, London, yesterday DENISE BAKER/GETTY
SPORT
PM urged to tell all about Manchester City dealings
Andy Burnham, when he was the mayor of Manchester, pictured with the Manchester City chairman, Khaldoon Al Mubarak, in 2019 MARTIN RICKETT/PA
By Sophie Wingate
Andy Burnham should publish "everything" related to his dealings with Manchester City, Kemi Badenoch has said, after the Prime Minister's comments in support of the football club's owners.
The Tory leader said “transparency is essential” as she accused Burnham of “not acting like the Prime Minister” because of his words of support for City’s owners despite the club’s being found guilty of 114 of 115 breaches of Premier League rules.
The Labour leader and former Greater Manchester mayor said last week he would be “really concerned” if Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan’s Abu Dhabi United Group Investment & Development Ltd sold the club in the wake of the finding by an independent commission, crediting the organisation with being “a huge partner in the building of modern Manchester”.
Burnham also appeared to draw parallels between City's guilty verdict and the handling of a disciplinary case against Everton, the side he supports.
He said he still held the view that the Toffees were “not fairly treated”, and told 5 News: “The Premier League proclaimed [Everton] guilty and I never accepted that and therefore it would be somewhat wrong of me to leap to judgement on another football club.”
After his remarks prompted criticism, a Downing Street spokesperson insisted the guilty verdict against City was “serious”.
Badenoch, in interviews during the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham, was asked whether Burnham should publish details of meetings he held as Greater Manchester mayor with anyone from Manchester City.
She told GB News: "He should. I'm surprised he hasn't done that already."
Pressed on what information he should release, the Tory leader said: "Everything... Otherwise what's being hidden?
"I think that the comments he made showed that he still thinks he is the mayor of Manchester. He is not
Manchester City have appealed against the Premier League's guilty verdict.
acting like the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom."
Badenoch also told the BBC: "I think transparency is essential. If he's got nothing to hide, then he should open the box.
"He has made a big deal about what he did for Manchester, and if it turns out that the story he's told is quite different, and actually it was Abu Dhabi that was doing these things, not him, then let's hear the truth.
“Andy Burnham is someone who says that he wants to be straight with people. I was very surprised at the way he waded in on this subject.”
"You would have heard me... when I became leader, saying that government should not be getting involved in football and tinkering with it.
"Let the fans and the clubs run themselves properly."
POLITICS
End private funding of UK parties, says donor
By George Thompson
A major Labour donor has backed a report calling for a ban on private funding for UK political parties.
Environmental tycoon Dale Vince said UK democracy is “increasingly up for sale to the highest bidder” and should be made “squeaky clean”.
Vince has supported calls to replace the current system with public funding of political parties, as put forward in a report by the Autonomy Institute.
It claims this would cost £50m a year, which it says could be found by repurposing funding to the Royal Family.
Vince has donated several million pounds to Labour in recent years, including £50,000 to help defeat Green Party of England and Wales leader
Zack Polanski in the by-election for Sir Keir Starmer's former seat of Holborn and St Pancras.
The report, called “Politics is no longer for sale”, was commissioned by the tycoon's company, Ecotricity.
It says the UK has a “public trust problem” exacerbated by a system where political parties are “funded by wealthy private interests”.
Autonomy's previous research identified 373 firms that both donate to political parties and receive public contracts, with more than £1,294 flowing back to these companies for every £1 donated since 2000.
The report also cites Reform UK's
recent £72m in donations, mostly from two billionaires, as evidence of how concentrated political funding has become.
Vince said: "Ridiculous sums of money don't level the playing field, they distort it.
"British democracy is
increasingly up for sale to the highest bidder.
"I've been calling for a ban on all political donations for some time.
"For £50m a year, less than the cost of a packet of crisps per person, we could make our politics squeaky clean and genuinely representative."
TRADE
Tory plan to reverse Brexit reset deal ‘will push up food prices’
Exclusive
By Arj Singh
DEPUTY POLITICAL EDITOR
The Conservative plan to reverse Labour's Brexit reset deal risks pushing up food prices and creating uncertainty for businesses, the industry has warned.
Shadow Cabinet members have committed to reversing any deals Andy Burnham agrees with the EU.
This includes a food and drink deal that will involve the UK aligning to Brussels law to reduce cross-border checks on trade and bring down supermarket prices.
The shadow Chancellor, Andrew Griffith, said the Tories would not accept following EU law without having a say over it.
Tory deputy leader Alex Burghart also vowed to reverse all aspects of Labour's "disastrous" Brexit reset.
Andy Burnham is poised to finalise the food and drink deal before the end of the year, amid speculation that the UK and EU could hold a summit to sign off on a series of Brexit reset deals as soon as 20 November.
But if the Tories win the next election, scheduled in 2029, this agreement could be overturned soon after being implemented, with trade barriers with the EU re-erected.
Industry chiefs warned that the Tories' commitment to overturning the proposed deal was damaging to business certainty and that changing the rules so soon after the UK aligns to EU law would push up food price inflation.
A deal aims to reduce cross-border checks on trade to cut prices
Senior Labour figures said it was an “anti-business” position that the Tories would be forced to U-turn on.
Karen Betts, chief executive of the Food and Drink Federation, said the EU was the UK's largest market in her sector but that trade has "suffered" since Brexit, with exports down a third compared with 2019.
She backed Labour's deal as a "sensible thing to do" to boost exports.
Betts added: "Every change to food rules, whether that's a new labelling requirement or additional reporting, costs businesses. At a time when food inflation is a real concern, what manufacturers need most is a consistent direction of travel."
Nick Thomas-Symonds, who was Labour's chief negotiator with the EU until July, said: "If the Tories want to argue in favour of paperwork at the border and higher costs at the tills, they are an anti-business party.
"They know perfectly well that many British businesses exporting to the EU follow their practices and rules in any case."
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CONSERVATIVES
Badenoch refuses to commit on reinstating pension triple lock
By Caroline Wheeler
POLITICAL EDITOR
The Tory leader, Kemi Badenoch, has refused to commit to bringing back the pension triple lock if Labour scraps it before the next election.
Badenoch repeatedly declined to say whether a Conservative government would reinstate the guarantee, which raises the state pension each year by the highest of inflation, earnings growth or 2.5 per cent.
Andy Burnham's government is expected to press ahead with legislation to change the system in the next
Parliament to fund a new National Care Service – meaning Badenoch could enter Downing Street with the triple lock already gone.
Under Burnham's proposal, pensions would instead rise by at least inflation or 2.5 per cent while remaining liked to earnings over the longer term – saving around £15bn a year by the end of 2030 and rising to £50bn a year by 2050.
The Tories have retained a commitment to maintain the triple lock in the party's draft manifesto.
However, when pressed by the BBC's Chris Mason on whether she would reverse the change if Labour succeeded in passing legislation before the next election, Badenoch said: "What I'm not going to do is speak in hypotheticals."
Kemi Badenoch at the Tory party conference in Birmingham yesterday PA
When Mason insisted it was a matter of principle, she replied: "I believe in fiscal responsibility," adding that it would depend on what Burnham had done with the money.
She went on: "If you want the triple lock after the next election, you've got to vote Conservative... As circumstances change, we may have to adapt to things. I don't know what that situation will be, but if people want to keep the triple lock, vote Conservative. That's the policy."
Asked again whether she would commit to reinstating it if Labour abolished it, she said: "I'm not playing that game. I think it is dishonest to viewers because I don't know what the situation would be... I tell them what I can pay for, what I can't pay for. I don't promise we can pay for the triple lock now."
In the same interview, Badenoch said the Tories would call another general election rather than enter a coalition with Reform UK if they were the largest party in a hung parliament. “I have said that we would have another election if there was no overall majority,” she said.
Asked whether she would turn her back on power even with the keys to Downing Street within reach, she said she wanted Reform voters to return to the Conservatives, claiming Nigel Farage's party was "neck deep in scandal" and working with it "would just be one problem after another".
Tory leader to launch 'battle for the soul of this nation'
POLITICS
By Caroline Wheeler
Kemi Badenoch will say that Britain faces its biggest political fight in more than half a century as she sets out economic growth as the “central organising principle” of the next Conservative government today.
The Tory leader, who is expected to announce plans to cut inheritance tax, will frame the coming general election as a “battle of ideas” between her party and a government she will say wants to “wind back the clock to failed ideas of the past”.
She will say: “Conference, there is a fight coming in British politics. A fight that we have not seen in this country for more than half a century. It will be a battle for the soul of this nation.”
Badenoch is expected to accuse her opponents of believing that “government knows best” and that people’s income, pensions and savings “are theirs to take”.
She will warn that their policies would mean higher taxes and bills, adding: “Just because these ideas are delivered on TikTok doesn’t make them any less dangerous than they have always been.”
The bulk of the speech will focus on the state of the public finances, which Badenoch will describe as “the fundamental problem” facing the country.
She will point to national debt of nearly £3trn, rising by more than £100bn a year, and claim that last year four in every five pounds borrowed by the government went on debt interest. "That's like taking out a second mortgage just to pay the interest on your first mortgage," she will say. "This is crazy."
Badenoch will restate her party's "Golden Economic Rule", first announced last year, under which 50 pence of every pound saved would go towards cutting the deficit.
She will add: "Restoring confidence in the public finances is the foundation of economic growth."
She added: "All of them are being investigated for one financial irregularly or another. I don't have time for that."
A Labour spokesperson dismissed the Conservatives' plans as "yet more fantasy economics".
Reform's Treasury spokesman Robert Jenrick said: "How can Kemi Badenoch not be willing to reverse Burnham's plot to cut the state pension? British pensioners have paid in their entire lives and deserve more than a betrayal stitched up in Westminster.
“Reform will make different choices so we can put British pensioners first. We will go into the next election with a rock-solid pledge to keep the triple lock.”
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Badenoch yesterday also announced plans to halve employer national insurance for workers aged 21 to 24 – cutting the rate from 15 per cent to 7.5 per cent – as the first part of a “rescue plan for young people”.
A note of harmony
A children's choir from St Mary's Ukrainian School in west London performs yesterday at the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham. The majority of children at
the school are refugees. They were applauded by Shadow Cabinet members (left to right) Tom Tugendhat, Helen Whately, James Cartlidge and Alex Burghart. IAN FORSYTH/GETTY
SECURITY
Missile defence plan would cover overseas territories, say Tories
By Will Meakin-Durrant
Conservative plans for a new missile defence system would come with "parallel" protections for overseas territories, amid Argentinian "sabre-rattling over the Falklands".
The shadow Defence Secretary, James Cartlidge, said a future Conservative government would roll out new radar and air defence systems on the Falkland Islands.
"We will take whatever steps necessary to stop anyone from even thinking about an invasion because the Falklands are British and they will always be British," he said in a speech at the Conservative Party's annual conference.
Cartlidge used his speech in Birmingham to set out plans for a “Britannia Shield” defence system for the UK, to bring down drones and missiles in the event of an attack.
Cartlidge said the system he proposed would be “capable of protecting our critical national infrastructure and military bases from long-range attack”.
The Argentine flag over a map of the Falklands on a Buenos Aires mural
He added: "At the moment, our most credible deterrent is our nuclear deterrent, but with Britannia Shield we want adversaries to understand that if they attack us, we would have the means to defend ourselves and, in turn, preserve our ability to retaliate."
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To applause, Cartlidge (inset) also said: "We must also stand by our overseas territories.
"With our base on Cyprus attacked and Argentina sabre-rattling over the Falklands, I make this promise - when we procure those air defence systems for
our nation, we will always in parallel, reinforce our sovereign bases and overseas territories.
"Just as Britannia Shield means new and improved radars for the UK, we would also boost this capability on the Falkland Islands.
"Just as our plan would mean stronger stockpiles of air defence systems at home, we would strengthen our air defences on the Falklands."
Argentina's President, Javier Milei, last month claimed the Falkland Islands were "under illegal foreign occupation" by the UK.
Speaking at the UN General Assembly in New York, Milei also threatened "to take matters into our own hands".
He said the islanders' self-determination "does not apply in this case, since the population was implanted by the occupying power on a territory whose sovereignty is in dispute".
The UK's UN delegation in response said: "The Falkland Islanders have as much right to determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development so any
cultural development as any other peoples."
The Defence Secretary, Wes Streeting, has previously written on X that his “commitment to the Falklands is absolute and unshakeable”.
He added: "The Falklands are British because Falkland Islanders choose to British."
be British."
Responding to Cartlidge, Streeting said: "The Conservatives put more effort into defending their abysmal record than they ever put into defending Britain."
RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus was hit by an Iranian drone earlier this year. The strike was launched after Israel and the US attacked Iran, and the UK Government granted US forces permission to carry out defensive action from UK bases.
POLITICS
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Truss links 'could scupper Cleverly'
By Will Hazell
Former home secretary Sir James Cleverly has too much baggage to win back London for the Tories because of his association with Liz Truss, the underdog for the Tory mayoral nomination has said.
Festus Akinbusoye, 48, former Bedfordshire police and crime commissioner and now London councillor, said the Conservatives need a “fresh face” in the capital “without links to the past”.
The Tories are currently in the process of deciding who will be their candidate for the 2028 race. So far, the declared contenders are Cleverly, Akinbusoye and Alex Challoner, a former Tory adviser.
Akinbusoye suggested Cleverly was tarnished by his association with Truss. When put to him that Cleverly had occupied two great offices of state, he replied: "To which prime ministers?"
Cleverly was appointed foreign secretary by Truss but then retained in the post by Rishi Sunak when he took over after her "mini-Budget".
ECONOMY
PM may postpone defence spending review for a year
By Harry Goodwin
Andy Burnham is reportedly considering delaying the Government's defence spending review until autumn next year.
The review, which will set out a timetable for raising defence spending to 3 per cent of GDP, had been expected to happen in the spring.
But ministers are now considering delaying it so it takes place at the same time as next autumn's Budget, according to The Times.
This would reportedly let the Government justify tax rises or spending cuts to fund higher defence spending.
Burnham is said to be considering a delay in the hope that the economy will improve, limiting the need for unpopular fiscal measures.
"This is not a risk-free strategy," Ruth Curtice, head of the Resolution Foundation, told The Times.
“Markets know the Government needs to find the money for extra defence spending, and failing to explain where this will come from will increase uncertainty.”
It is thought hitting the Nato defence spending target of 3 per cent of GDP will cost an extra £10bn a year.
Sir Keir Starmer left his £4.7bn defence investment plan unfunded when he left Downing Street.
John Healey, the Chancellor, is expected to limit commitments on defence spending to funding the plan in his first Budget later this month.
Last week, the Defence Secretary, Wes Streeting, said he would not be “complacent” in talks with the Treasury on boosting defence spending.
Speaking at a Labour Party conference fringe event, Streeting (inset) said he had told his officials they could not "just send in John Healey's resignation letter" to secure more funding.
Healey resigned as Starmer's defence secretary in a row over military spending, accusing the Treasury of being "unwilling to commit the resources that the nation needs" to defend itself.
Now he faces pressure to increase defence spending against a back-ground of rising borrowing costs,
uggish economic growth and fallout from the Iran war.
Streeting said Healey did not need "persuading" of the case for more spending, and his job would be to "make it easy for him to say yes". "I keep saying to the
Ministry of Defence, I don't want complacency,"
Streeting told Politico. "We've got to demonstrate not only why we need more and what we'd do with it, but how we're spending the money we already have."
He added he would “drive hard on value for money, productivity, and making sure we deal with the procurement challenges that have plagued the MoD”.
Last month, the Ministry of Defence announced that 40,000 18- to 24-year-olds will be offered jobs and work experience with major defence firms such as BAE Systems, Lockheed Martin and Airbus by 2030.
At present, Britain spends 2.6 per cent of GDP on defence. Hitting the Nato target by 2030 will require the equivalent of a 1p rise in income tax.
LABOUR
Poll surge after Burnham speech
By Sally Guyoncourt
Labour has surged ahead in the polls securing a five-point lead over Reform UK in the wake of Andy Burnham's first conference as party leader.
Burnham's speech appears to have resonated with parts of the electorate as a YouGov poll has put Labour at 27 per cent, up three points from last week and ahead of Reform which has dropped to 22 per cent.
During Burnham's at times very personal speech, he pledged to bring back greater public control of water, energy and housing, electoral reform and closer ties with Europe.
The share of people who intend to vote Labour at the next election, according to YouGov
The Prime Minister also indicated long-term plans to scrap the triple lock on the state pension to fund a new national care service.
He received standing ova-
tions during the speech and it appears to have translated to Labour's performance at the polls.
The survey also revealed 61 per cent of Labour's 2024 voters would vote for the party again if an election were held tomorrow,
up from 42 per cent in May this year.
The Conservative Party held on to third place with 20 per cent, while the Liberal Democrats have dropped to 11 per cent with the Green Party remaining at 11 per cent.
NEWS
PERSPECTIVES
Who should Burnham tax in his Budget?
If you earn
£39,000,
you're not
paying
enough
Hamish McRae
If the Government needs more money – and it's a separate debate as to whether it should improve its own efficiency so that it does not need it – there is only one place that it can go to. That's middle earners.
That may seem an uncomfortable judgement for many people but there are two overwhelming reasons behind it. One is the mathematics of where it gets its revenue at the moment. The other is that by European standards, British middle earners – that is, those whose income is around the median salary of £39,000 – pay relatively little tax right now. And if that seems even more surprising, that too is a question of numbers.
To see the first point, you have to look at the importance of income tax. It's the biggest tax of all, bringing in £239bn in the last financial year. That's 26.7 per cent of all revenue. Next comes national insurance, also a tax on income, which brings £205bn, another 16.7 per cent of revenue. Number three is VAT, which at £180bn, means the
Buying a
second home
is pure greed.
It's time we
taxed it
Andrew Fisher
T ax has two purposes. The first is to raise revenue – something the Government urgently needs as there is a deficit, and public services
face increased demand after years of underfunding.
big three account for more than half all revenue the Government gets.
After that the numbers fall off quite quickly. So to make a real difference to the Government's bottom line, the amount by which you would need to increase the other taxes that are often floated – council tax, business rates, capital gains tax – would be huge.
Let's say you think people should be discouraged from driving their cars. You whack up fuel duty, so that is £3 a litre at the pumps. You get a lot of very cross motorists, a big increase in industrial and distribution costs – meaning higher food prices in the supermarkets – and maybe another £15bn.
On the other hand, by putting 2p on the basic rate of income tax,
But the second purpose of taxation is deterrence. For years we raised taxation on cigarettes which, alongside public health campaigns, has decreased tobacco usage and saved on health spending. We tax petrol use for much the same purpose.
We need to change behaviour on housing too. To buy a second home when others cannot afford one is greedy. Invest your money in stocks and shares, antiques, fine art – anything you like, as long as it isn't an essential good. Too few people can buy a home and too many are paying too much for them.
Whether you pay rent or a mortgage, more and more of us are paying more and more simply to keep a roof over our heads. Private rent increases have been above inflation in recent years, and the benign 2-3 per cent mortgage rates of the 2010s and early 2020s have given way to 5 per cent. Despite a modest fall, house prices remain at historic highs relative to wages.
The housing crisis has been exacerbated by the failure of that gives the Government at least £15bn, probably more like £20bn.
Alternatively it can increase NI contributions – as Rachel Reeves did in her first budget. It seems to be bringing something close to the extra £25bn a year forecast. But while notionally the extra money was paid by employers rather than workers, in practice it has hit workers with lower employment,
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Telling high earners to pay more might feel good, but the numbers don't bear it out
successive governments to build enough homes.
Now the young are shut out. Under-25s made up a quarter of first-time buyers in the 90s; now they account for just 6 per cent.
We need more homes to enter the market. Yet more and more people have bought property as investment opportunities rather than as homes.
Data from 2022-23 suggests that around 4.3 million households own more than one property. This has to be discouraged. To that end, the Government should increase taxes on the purchase of second
price increases and lower pay rises. It would probably have been better to have done it via income tax – less of a hit to employment, no increase in prices and less pressure to hold down wage increases – but of course politically she felt she couldn't do so.
But if you are going to increase income tax, why not do the top rates? But it doesn't work, because high earners change their habits. It's not simply a question of a few wealthy people leaving the country, though that is troubling enough.
Losing someone like Chris Rokos – the hedge-fund billionaire and, at £330m, the third largest payer of income tax in the UK, who is reportedly off to Greece – is bad news. You need 330,000 people paying an extra £1,000 a year to
homes – either through stamp duty or through a punitive surcharge on mortgage rates.
It wouldn't ban second home ownership, but it would mean that if you do want to own a second home, you are paying for the damage it does to others: it's the "polluter pays" principle.
There is a strong economic case to deter second home ownership and landlordism. The economist John Maynard Keynes called for the “euthanasia of the rentier” – that is, an end to those who seek rent, extract value for themselves and produce exactly nothing of value.
That's happening in today's housing market, especially in the private rented sector. Rentier landlords do not create jobs or growth; they simply extract value and accumulate wealth for themselves. Worse, they do it by taking away a growing share of people's post-tax incomes.
cover that. Since around 60 per cent of all residents pay income tax, you are talking about an extra £1,000 from every taxpayer in a city the size of Manchester.
Higher rents and mortgage rates are depleting disposable incomes which could be spent in the job-creating parts of the economy.
Actually the problem is much worse than a few people leaving. The proportion of income tax paid by the top 1 per cent of earners has been falling since 2021-22. They paid 30.7 per cent of revenue then. Last year it was down to 26.6 per cent. So it's not the fault of the present Government that those top one percenters are paying a smaller share. It is a lagged response to the gradual increases in taxation of the previous governments. Put up rates too high and you get less money in. That's the phenomenon highlighted by the American economist Arthur Laffer in 1974: the Laffer curve.
It looks as though the UK's top rate of income tax rate of 45 per cent is cutting revenue – it's on the wrong side of the Laffer curve. So it has to be the middle earners who must stump up, and the best way is by raising the basic rate, and by cutting the top rate. Those middle earners are undertaxed.
A study by the Resolution Foundation this month looked at the proportion of income paid by a single person on average earnings in the developed world. In the UK in 2024 it was 30 per cent. Only New Zealand, Switzerland, Korea, Israel and Australia were lower. The rate has gone up to 32 per cent now but that's still well below the average. In most of Europe it's in the 40-50 per cent range, and in Belgium it's over 50 per cent.
Reflexively shouting for high earners to pay their share might feel good, but the numbers don't bear it out as a strategy. If middle earners want the kinds of public services and public pensions our neighbours enjoy, they'd better be prepared to pay for them.
Paying more rent or a higher mortgage doesn't create jobs, but spending in local shops, pubs and restaurants does.
Another means of deterring second home ownership and boosting the economy would be to freeze rents for a couple of years and then cap rent increases at the rate of inflation. It'd also counter any temptation to pass on any additional tax costs to tenants.
It would help the public finances too. We currently spend £37.3bn a year on housing benefits and local councils are spending £3bn a year on emergency accommodation for the record number of homeless families in England.
Ultimately the country needs to be building council housing in far greater quantities, which would reduce the cost of housing benefit.
But as housebuilding is ramped up, freezing rents and taxing second homes would be the right move for a government determined to tackle the housing crisis, kick-start growth and improve the public finances.
GERMANY
UK intelligence review after spy chief is arrested
By Joe Duggan
SENIOR REPORTER
Britain's security services will be conducting a "huge review" over potential intelligence leaks after a former German spy chief was arrested on suspicion of espionage and treason, experts have said.
August Hanning, 80, who was head of Germany's Federal Intelligence Service (BND) from 1998 to 2005, is accused of illegally collecting thousands of classified documents and using them in analysis for a foreign spy service.
The information included "highly sensitive situation assessments, classified material from foreign partner agencies" as well as papers on Iran's nuclear programme and the Russian military, according to the Süddeutsche Zeitung.
August Hanning is alleged to have paid for information after he left
Anthony Glees, an expert on intelligence and UK-German relations, said the alleged breach is Europe's most serious since the British double agent Kim Philby was unmasked as a Soviet spy in 1963.
"It is totally jaw-dropping and the repercussions could hardly be more serious," he said. "It is as if MI6 chief Blaise Metreweli were arrested."
Matthew Dunn, a former MI6 intelligence officer, said that intelligence relating to state-sponsored terrorism, espionage or political destabilisation could be compromised.
As Europe's biggest intelligence service, the BND is a routine recipient of classified information from agencies including MI6 and the CIA.
Five years after his tenure as head of the BND ended, Hanning agreed with a former office manager to receive confidential intelligence information in exchange for payment, according to prosecutors.
Hanning's ex-chief of staff, Manfred D, is alleged to have supplied him with nearly 2,000 BND documents. Hanning allegedly used these to inform his private consultancy business.
Manfred D was chief of staff for
Police officers outside August Hanning's home in Nordwalde, Germany, yesterday CHRISTOPH REICHWEIN/DPA
Hanning's successors between 2012 and 2026 and is alleged to have provided him with information until at least mid-2022.
According to Deutsche Welle, Hanning also allegedly maintained close contact for years with an employee of a foreign intelligence service.
Officials have told the Financial Times that Russia was not part of their investigation. Glees said other states that could be implicated include “the usual suspects”, citing China, Iran and North Korea.
Since it was founded in 1956, the
BND had become almost an “external arm” of the CIA, he said.
"The CIA will be absolutely beside themselves, as will MI6," Glees said.
The BND has often provided Brit-
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Dunn said information shared between intelligence agencies is "sanitised, precisely because of these possibilities that the end recipient could be a bit leaky. Life can be lost so the biggest jeopardy is at stake here."
ish intelligence with information about Islamic terrorism as well as Russia, he added.
If Hanning were working alongside a foreign intelligence service, any information the BND may have received about that country “may well have been tainted”, said Glees.
That, in turn, could mean any decisions the UK took about that particular country could also have been based on false information, he added.
"The opportunity for disinformation is massive," he said, with the potential damage caused "enormous".
Analysis
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Fairford 'plot' shows UK is not prepared to face threat
Robert Fox
With the rapid withdrawal of 12 B1-b bombers back to the US, the story of the security
threat to RAF Fairford gets deeper and murkier.
Donald Trump said the US had known of a “threat” that led to the removal of the bombers. US briefers told reporters that what they saw as an Iranian-backed plot had been followed for more than a fortnight, and that the threat of a drone attack by foreign agents or their proxies was serious.
Meanwhile, US military aircrew connected to the Fairfield base gave background briefings to The Wall Street Journal that US authorities feared that a plot against the base could involve sending in small hit squads to kill military personnel stationed there.
Both the Journal and The New York Times have given clear reports about the situation. The British press has been left behind. Official spokespersons at the UK Ministry of Defence have said this is largely an American matter and referred correspondents to the Pentagon.
The official line of the UK government is that all military air bases are safe. But in downplaying Fairford and its significance, the Burnham government is losing control of the narrative.
Many details have still not been made public about what happened at Fairford. Only yesterday, counterterrorism police said they had arrested a 22-year-old British man in London on suspicion of preparation of terrorist acts in connection to a suspected plot at Fairford.
There has also been no background information about the six previous arrests. The men are out on bail, and it is not clear what charges are pending, if any at all.
Experts have pointed at how Iranian and Russian agents had been hiring local criminals to prepare – and carry out – subversive operations.
One view is that the men near RAF Fairford were being used as a deception ploy, to distract the
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Badenoch's Britannia Shield is fantasy – it would take too long to develop. It is a figment of politics
police and airfield security, while the main action would come from another direction.
The most daring recent drone attack that is ringing alarm bells is the mass attack mounted by Ukraine in June 2025. Operation Spiderweb involved 117 attack drones launched from lorries smuggled close to five different Russian airbases.
Around 40 aircraft were hit, including 10 strategic bombers that were destroyed. A hostile state could conceivably take Ukraine's playbook and use drones disguised in lorries against our own bases.
A US B-1 bomber at RAF Fairfield - the aircraft were kept in the open
One joint RAF-US Air Force base that lays bare the security crisis is RAF Mildenhall in Suffolk. The USAF keep air tankers and support aircraft for Special Operations Command here but as at Fairford they sit in the open with no hardened shelters.
If Trump is serious about the Iran-backed drone threat, they will have to be moved.
Whitehall sources have said that Andy Burnham is unlikely to increase defence spending at all this parliament, despite previous pledges and promises to Trump and Nato. Instead, the budget will stick at around 2.4 per cent of GDP, with a huge amount of that going to expenditure on nuclear programmes.
Kemi Badenoch's Britannia Shield is largely fantasy – it would take too long to develop and wouldn't be comprehensive. It is a figment of politics rather than a practical option. But with the UK dependent on maritime and air security, and with 95 per cent of our trade in goods conveyed by sea, we need to do better.
Britain – meaning every one of us – is incredibly vulnerable and our government appears to be doing nothing to protect us from these very real and growing threats. This is the message from Fairford. And it is getting louder by the day.
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Seventh man is arrested over RAF base 'plot'
By Nick Lester, Christopher McKeon and Margaret Davis
A seventh man has been arrested by police investigating a suspected terror plot near RAF Fairford.
The 22-year-old British national was held on suspicion of preparation of terrorist acts in Westminster, central London, said Counter Terrorism Policing.
Six suspects have already been arrested and released on bail after three suspicious vans were stopped near the Gloucestershire airbase on 27 September.
RAF Fairford had been used by US bomber aircraft, which were withdrawn over the weekend following the incident.
Reasons for their removal remain unclear, but the US President, Donald Trump, said the action was taken because “there were some threats”.
He said: "Rather than tempting the enemy, we'll capture the enemy and beat the enemy. But why should we keep them there? So we moved them around a little bit, not very far.
"We actually know the people who made the threat."
RUSSIA
Plague risk in UK ‘very low’ after Russia death
By Jane Kirby
The risk to people in the UK from plague is very low, officials have said, as Russia continues to study the death of a woman linked to the disease.
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said it was seeking further information on the Russian case but reassured the public about possible spread.
Russian authorities say they have quarantined a hospital and are monitoring contacts of an employee from a plague research institute in Siberia who contracted pneumonia from an “unknown” cause.
They say they have found no evidence her illness was caused by any of the pathogens she worked with, but media reports suggest she may have died of pneumonic plague.
The woman, named in reports as Darya Shipilova (inset), 28, worked at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and the Far East in Irkutsk, south-eastern Siberia.
The anti-plague institute where Darya Shipilova worked, yesterday
Plague is a disease usually found in small mammals and their fleas.
It is no longer found in the UK, but occurs in several countries in Africa, Asia and the Americas.
The disease is usually transmitted to humans from infected animals or fleas but people can pass it on from coughing.
Usually, this requires direct and close contact with the person with pneumonic plague.
If plague is untreated, it can cause rapid death, but antibiotics can be effective if it is caught in time.
Chris Lewis, director of global health protection at the UKHSA, said: "We are aware of media reports that emergency containment measures have been introduced in Russia's Irkutsk region following the death of an employee at the Irkutsk anti-plague institute.
"The public health risk from plague to the wider UK population currently remains very low."
The US President, Donald Trump, has said the US is looking “very strongly” at the case.
Yesterday, Russia's health watchdog said no cases of plague had been detected among anyone who had contact with Shipilova.
Elena Sofina, deputy head of the Shelekhov district near Irkutsk,
where a hospital was placed under quarantine, said a "dangerous diagnosis" had not been made.
Local media said around 200 people had previously been quarantined.
Analysis
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Social media fills vacuum with misinformation
Fake photos and videos shared on social media are amplifying unproven claims of a deadly plague following the death of a lab worker in Russia.
Deleted warnings, claims of children's hospitals on lockdown and people in hazmat suits have fuelled rumours Russia is attempting to cover up an outbreak of a fast-spreading disease in Siberia.
Frightening screenshots and videos are sweeping across X and Telegram, but a closer look reveals many of these posts are at best, unconfirmed or unclear, and at worst, fake. The problem is not helped by evasive statements from Russian officials – leaving gaps for social media sleuths to fill with misinformation.
Russia has a reputation for covering up bad news with a tightly controlled state media.
News sites run by opposition or exiled Russians such as People of Baikal are sometimes proving more reliable than official sources.
But sites like these can also be fallible. Some of the reports of hospitals being closed or quarantined do not appear to be true, with one children's hospital named by the local press as having shut later clarifying it is "operating normally without any changes".
The hospital warned people “to disregard fake news” and stated that “the only reliable source of information about our hospital’s activities is our official pages”.
Sanya Burgess
Analysis
Russia has honed its air force fighting in Ukraine
James Rodgers
Russia's aerial threat to the UK has soared to the top of the political agenda following the Conservative Party's
announcement at its conference of plans for a missile defence shield.
The proposed £10bn “Britannia Shield”, which has been compared to Israel’s Iron Dome defence system, is not before time.
While Russia has suffered massive casualties in more than four years of war on Ukraine, the Kremlin's air force is likely to have learnt from its combat experience – and poses a new and greater threat that Britain is not fully prepared for.
Experience of the UK under aerial bombardment lies at the limits of living memory, with few left alive today able to remember the Second World War.
But since Vladimir Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Russian warplanes have flown close to UK airspace a number of times. Royal Air Force fighters have been deployed to intercept and monitor them, so far without incident.
In wartime, however, it would be different. "If there were hostilities you wouldn't expect aircraft to come particularly close to the UK because they'd be launching their missiles at very, very long ranges," said Douglas Barrie, a senior fellow for military aerospace at the
International Institute for Strategic Studies in London.
Parts of Russia's aerial fleet - Su-35s and some Su-30SM2s - have been modified with that in mind: their medium-range missiles replaced with longer-range ones.
When the Cold War ended, fighting forces were scaled back on both sides. Russia did not have the money for a large military. Western Europe focused its resources elsewhere. However, in the Putin era, that process has gone into reverse.
The Russian air force may have been reduced in size, but it was never mothballed. As a journalist in Chechnya in 1995, I ran for my life from a Russian air strike aimed at separatist fighters. Civilians in rebel-held areas of Syria later came to know well the fear inspired by Russian warplanes.
Over the last few years its air force has, if anything, become a greater threat. "Russian fighter pilots have improved their effectiveness in air-to-air engagements during the [Ukraine] war," the Rusi paper warned.
And with the Russian budget for 2027 focused on providing even more fuel for the Kremlin's war machine, the air force will not want for resources.
At the same time, a future conflict in the skies between Nato and Russia wouldn't just be about planes.
Ukraine's ability to launch drones from increasing distances to strike targets far from the front lines has been a major factor in the way that conflict has evolved.
That war has lessons for the UK, although as Barrie points out, the drones that Russia is using in Ukraine don't have the range to reach the UK's shores. However, he said there may be other ways that Moscow looks "at launching similar
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Kyiv's ability to launch drones from increasing distances has been a factor in the way the war has evolved
classes of weapons". This could include drones being launched from Russian merchant vessels in waters that put them in range of targets in countries like the UK.
One aspect of UK defences in particular needs to be improved, according to Barrie. "The real area of weakness is in terms of ground-based air defence, so surface-to-air missiles. We really don't have nearly enough of those," he said.
If it did come to war with Russia, the UK would be fighting alongside other Nato allies – but air defences are in short supply everywhere.
A Ministry of Defence spokesperson said the UK would always defend itself against any threat.
However, the threats over European skies are only growing, and our enemies have a lot more recent experience in how to conduct and defend that type of warfare.
James Rodgers is the author of 'The Return of Russia: from Yeltsin to Putin'
BULGARIA
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Drone strike sinks ship in Black Sea
The crew of a merchant ship was missing yesterday after the vessel was sunk by a drone strike in the Black Sea off Bulgaria.
It was not immediately clear who carried out the attack, about 70 miles off the town of Byala in the waters of the Nato country's exclusive economic zone.
But the prime minister, Rumen Radev, who described the strike as a gross violation of international law, suggested the drones came from Russia or Ukraine, which have major ports on the Black Sea.
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UNITED STATES
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Rubio reassures Iceland of ambitions
The US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, yesterday sought to reassure Iceland that Donald Trump's administration has no designs on the island but shares its deep concerns about Arctic security.
Rubio met Iceland's minister for foreign affairs, Thorgerdur Katrín Gunnarsdóttir, at Reykjavik's Hofdi House (inset).
Both allies minimised their differences as Rubio made clear that the US would not do anything in Iceland without consent.
Fashion and art in full swing
A visitor views 'The Swing (After Fragonard)' by Yinka Shonibare during a preview of 'The 90s: Art and Fashion' exhibition at Tate Britain, London. Curated by former 'Vogue' editor Edward Enninful, the exhibition will examine how this era changed the face of British culture. JONATHAN BRADY/PA
HEALTH
Warning on medical cannabis after surge in UK private prescriptions
By Jane Kirby
Almost two million unlicensed cannabis products have been issued on private prescription in the past year.
The data about soaring demand came as England's patient safety commissioner Professor Henrietta Hughes said there was a need for urgent action to protect those who buy medical cannabis online.
NHS Business Services Authority said that from June 2025 to May this year, there were 1,967,268 unlicensed cannabis items issued on private prescription, a big jump on the previous year's figures – 659,293 items were dispensed in 2024, up from 282,920 in 2023.
Three-quarters of the items in 2025-26 were for cannabis flower, while the rest were liquid vape cartridges, oils, drops and gummies. A 2018 change in the law made it legal to prescribe cannabis-based products for medicinal use in the UK.
While a small number of patients can obtain the drug on the NHS, most of the products dispensed are unlicensed and prescribed by private clinics.
Medical cannabis is marketed as being able to treat a range of conditions, from anxiety, depression and ADHD, through to chronic pain, migraines and Crohn's disease.
The drugs can only be prescribed by or under the direction of a doctor who is on the specialist register of the General Medical Council.
Hughes said there was a need to tighten up the rules around prescribing and look out for people who could be harmed.
who could be harmed.
She said: "The growth of medicinal cannabis prescribing has outpaced the systems needed to ensure patient safety.
"This is not about whether these medicines should be available to patients who may benefit from them.
"It is about making sure the safeguards around prescribing are strong enough to identify risks early and prevent avoidable harm."
A government spokesperson said: "As with any medicine, including unlicensed cannabis-based products prescribed for medicinal use, patients should follow the advice of their healthcare professional and the information provided with their medication."
Professor Mike Barnes, chairman of the Medical Cannabis Clinicians Society, said it had developed its good practice guide "to provide a clear framework for safe, responsible prescribing".
Hughes said the 2018 law change was "made with the intention that a small number of highly specialised doctors would be able to prescribe to a small cohort of patients", but prescription numbers have risen dramatically since then.
SCIENCE
Blue light on poultry can kill bugs that cause food poisoning
By Sally Guyoncourt
Shining a low-power blue light on raw chicken may cut cases of food poisoning in the UK and the need for emergency blue lights later.
Campylobacter is the main cause of bacterial food poisoning in the UK, according to the Food Standards Agency.
Hundreds of thousands of cases each year cost an estimated £700m annually in healthcare and lost productivity. It is usually transmitted by undercooked poultry or red meat and unpasteurised milk, leading to stomach cramps, bloody diarrhoea, fever and sometimes vomiting.
Most people recover within around a week, but it can lead to serious health conditions and in some cases be fatal.
Researchers at the University of Reading have discovered light treatment on raw chicken can work more effectively than treating it with chlorine to kill off specific strains of bacteria.
“What’s exciting about this light-based approach is that it doesn’t rely on chemicals or antibiotics at all, so it sidesteps the resistance problem entirely,” lead study author Aidan Taylor said.
In the study, published in Microbiology, researchers tested a technique called violet-blue photodynamic inactivation (VB-PDI) against 64 different strains of Campylobacter.
They found every strain was killed by the treatment, regardless of species or antibiotic resistance profile.
Shining a safe, visible violet-blue light onto bacteria causes molecules inside their cells to produce lethal levels of destructive compounds.
It requires no physical contact with the food and no added chemicals.
Researchers estimate it could reduce the proportion of highly contaminated carcasses reaching retail from around one in 10 to one in 50.
News in brief
SCIENCE
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Statins protect against glaucoma
Statins may protect people from developing an eye condition that can lead to blindness.
Patients with glaucoma who take the cholesterol-busting pills appear less likely to need surgery and have a reduced chance of it getting worse.
A study, in the British Journal of Ophthalmology, found that people who already have glaucoma who are taking statins appear less likely to need stronger treatments such as extra eye drops or surgery.
The study author Dr Robert Weinreb said: "Statins may prevent or slow nerve cell death."
SOCIETY
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Vape use rising in 25- to 34-year-olds
People in the 25 to 34 age group are the most likely to vape, overtaking those aged 16 to 24.
Data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on people aged 16 and over show 25 to 34 was the only age group to have a rise in e-cigarette use, increasing from 12.9 per cent in 2024 to 16.4 per cent in 2025.
The data show 16- to 24-year-olds were the most common users between 2021 and 2024.
David Mais, from the ONS, said: "E-cigarette use has followed an overall upward trend since 2020."
NATURE
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Bumper year for mushrooms likely
Record sightings for mushrooms across the UK this autumn have been predicted by the Royal Horticultural Society.
The organisation said inquiries by people who have spotted species in gardens and green spaces could exceed last year's record.
Following the drought in 2025, the team recorded a 43 per cent increase in fungi inquiries compared with the previous year.
This is because prolonged hot weather and drought, followed by a wet autumn, allow species to flourish.
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SOCIETY
We are a couple of years out from Kim Kardashian launching her nipple bra on a
completely unprepared public.
If you missed this one, it's a padded, push-up bra with fake nipples on it. I had enormous fun reviewing it but ultimately decided it was just so damn uncomfortable, it simply wasn't worth the attention it garners. It's heavy, clunky and feels akin to having your tits crushed by a mattress.
Yes, your jugs look colossal, but they are also rock hard and liable to concuss any passing child who doesn't duck. So, imagine my excitement when I saw none other than Marks & Spencer is now selling stick-on nipples that "feature a realistic, raised profile that creates a subtle silhouette beneath clothing." Now you're talking! And whereas Kim's nipple bra will set you back a whopping £72, these retail for just £7 – that's £3.50 per nip. Bargain!
Nipples have been big business in the fashion world for a while now. The most recent Met Gala was an absolute nipple bonanza. Fashion journalists fill columns pondering whether the nip has had its day, only for them to come roaring back as highfalutin designers send models down the catwalk with their nipples looking like candles on a cake.
The rise of the nipple and why they are everywhere
Kate Lister and friends recreate the 'distracted boyfriend' meme in a hallway
I want to know if I, a mere mortal, am missing out. Visible nipples are all well and good in Paris fashion week, but how do they go over at a Zumba class?
Now before anyone starts asking "what on earth are those for?" I need to point out (before anyone else does) that a very strong market for fake nipples are women who are recovering from mastectomies and reconstructive surgeries. There is an actual medical need for prosthetics like this.
Kate Lister tries the latest fashion aid for a perkier profile and enjoys the transformation and attention
However, they are also very popular with idiots like me who just want to see what life is like with insanely perky tits and reminisce about a time when my own nipples faced northward, instead of south-westerly. The nipples are not sold as medical prosthesis either. They are part of M&S's "Body" line, which stocks lingerie, shapewear and nipple covers.
I accidentally sent the first order I placed to an old address and was too embarrassed to go and ask for them back. If you are reading this and have my nipples, I am sorry about that. The second order swiftly arrived, and I was good to go.
The nipples are made from rubber and silicon and are quite large. They have to be big enough to cover your own nipples and prevent any chance of them peeking through as well, which would look decidedly less sexy and very much like you'd recently had a litter.
They are super easy to apply: you just peel the back and stick 'em on. I advise doing this in a mirror because you do want them to be
level. You haven't come all this way to end up with cockeyed tits.
You don't have to wear them under a bra – you can just stick them on and go about your free-boobing business. But I couldn't shake the image of one falling out while I was in the queue at the Post Office, so I stuck them under a bralette for added protection.
I decided to wear mine under a white vest top for maximum visibility, but you can clearly see them underneath jumpers and sweatshirts as well. Be prepared to be on show because, despite the claim, these nipples are not "subtle". You could hang your keys off them.
I felt transformed. My nipples had gone from supporting characters to executive producers. It was like my boobs had finally got their act together and they meant business.
There is an old expression, that you wouldn't worry quite so much about what people think of you if you knew how seldom they did. Well, that doesn't take fake nipples into account, because they really do get a lot of attention.
I imagine that if you are someone blessed with naturally pert nipples, you aren't thinking about them
Stick a couple of falsies down your top and you become hyper aware of how the world reacts
all the time. But stick a couple of falsies down your top and you become hyper aware of how the world reacts.
The furtive glances and the wandering eyes, through to the flat out staring. I don't know what it is about the presence of a visible nipple that entirely disrupts a perfectly normal outfit, but it does.
I suppose it's because the sight of a nipple poking through offers a tantalising glance at what the boob might look like. It creates the illusion of nudity even if it's underneath a jumper. And yet, you can't accuse someone of dressing for attention just because their nipples stick out. It's clever really. It's very sexy but doesn't look like you're trying. Hey! It's not your fault your nipples are sticking out.
I can't blame anyone for looking, because I too have tried desperately to avoid staring at a woman when her nipples are at full salute – and failed miserably. "Don't stare. Don't stare," you internally repeat to yourself, but somehow the more you will yourself not to, the harder it is to look away. Now I wonder if they were faking it too.
By the end of my experiment, it felt like I was playing a mean practical joke on the public. I'd stuffed fake nipples down my top and was wandering about, amusing myself watching the people I encountered desperately try to look me in the eye.
I'd ditched them by day three. They just took too much negotiating. Is this top too sheer? Is this one too tight? I have friends with naturally large breasts who simply scoffed, "welcome to my world" after I told them of my plight.
I don't know if you need me to tell you this, but fake nipples create a very sexy, boob focused look. It's ridiculous really, but there we are. I don't make the rules.
Would I wear them again? Absolutely I would! But as a wise man once said, "with great power comes great responsibility". You can't just be sashaying around Aldi, embarrassing the person stocking the shelves.
I intend to restrict mine to nights out, dates, and traffic stops from here on out.
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Presenter taken off air after falling ill
A BBC Radio 4 presenter was taken off air yesterday morning after he sounded unwell while speaking on the radio.
Justin Webb, the long-standing presenter of Radio 4's Today, opened the programme alongside Anna Foster at 6am.
But Webb, whose voice sounded strained, apologised a few times as he coughed on air.
At 6.40am, Foster said: "Jonny Dymond is here, good morning."
Dymond then proceeded to present the programme with Foster.
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Here's... 'The Shining' axe for £50,000
The axe used by Jack Nicholson as he delivered the famous line
"Here's Johnny!" in Stanley Kubrick's 1980 horror film The Shining is to go on sale.
The prop is wielded by his character, Jack Torrance, as he sets about attempting to kill his family, including his wife Wendy, played by Shelley Duvall (inset).
It is estimated to sell for £30,000 to £50,000.
PEOPLE
First woman to win major poker event
A poker player has become the first woman to win a major event on a UK tour.
Renee Xie won the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Luton Main Event yesterday, beating 396 other players.
Women make up only 4 per cent of poker players world wide.
The Five-Clue Cryptic Crossword No 4953
Solution, page 51
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3/5 Director made ethical moves about Seven Up finally (7.5)
6 Element illuminated strong unpleasant smell that's current (7)
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1 See it in the morning in supplement? (7)
2 Possible outcome of flipping advance warning (5-2)
4 Husband's restless desire creating problem (5)
COURTS
UK forces in Afghanistan may be guilty of offences
By Callum Parke
Material identified by the Ministry of Defence earlier this year suggested British service personnel may have committed “serious offences” in Afghanistan, the High Court has been told.
Information about the offences, which include murder, manslaughter and inflicting grievous bodily harm, was passed on by UK special forces (UKSF) to the Defence Serious Crime Command, with an investigation believed to have been paused pending the outcome of the Afghanistan Inquiry.
The inquiry, chaired by Lord Justice Haddon-Cave, is examining allegations of unlawful killings by UK special forces during operations in the country between 2010 and 2013, as well as claims of a cover-up.
It is also looking into allegations of a cover-up of illegal activity and inadequate investigation by the Royal Military Police.
A soldier who served in a senior military position in the country, known as Witness IIA126, is taking legal action against the inquiry for refusing to allow him and his lawyers to see restricted evidence.
An inquiry is examining claims of unlawful killings from 2010-13
In 2023, Lord Justice Haddon-Cave ruled that hearings which heard evidence from certain witnesses, known as “green” witnesses, could only be accessed by some individuals from the Ministry of Defence, but not by other witnesses,
While the hearing before Lord Justice Popplewell and Mrs Justice Farbey concluded yesterday, a judgment is expected in writing at a later date.
including IIA126, and their lawyers. It followed fears expressed by the witnesses about their identities becoming known by giving evidence to the inquiry.
But IIA126 is challenging the inquiry's decisions, claiming they are unlawful.
Kate Grange KC, for the soldier, told the court in London that they had prevented him and his lawyers from seeing evidence related to an allegation that a person was shot in the head while they may have been sleeping during a “deliberate detention operation”.
Grange claimed not allowing her client to see the evidence meant "basic standards of procedural fairness have not been met".
The inquiry is opposing the claim, with Jonathan Glasson KC stating the inquiry adopted a procedure “tailored to meet the ‘extremely high’ public interest in retaining the secrecy of the green material”.
Steven Gray KC, for the Ministry of Defence, said the department “is fully committed to supporting the rights of military witnesses before the inquiry”.
SPORT
Fifa 'allowed ineligible goalie to play'
By Jamie Gardner
Fifa has been accused of knowingly letting an ineligible player take part in the World Cup.
Lawyers for football's governing body reportedly became aware in March that DR Congo goalkeeper Lionel Mpasi was allegedly ineligible.
They advised a variety of sanctions, including disqualifying DR Congo from the intercontinental play-off against Jamaica later that month and banning Mpasi.
Instead, no action was taken, according to Le Monde and The New York Times. Mpasi went on to play for DR Congo at the finals in North America, including against England in the last 32.
The reports pile further pressure on the Fifa president, Gianni Infantino, following the Folarin Balogun case.
US striker Balogun's one-match ban for a red card was suspended by Fifa, allowing him to play in their last-16 match against Belgium, after Donald Trump asked Infantino to review the sanction.
ANIMALS
Feline fine: owning a cat is linked to greater happiness
By Sally Guyoncourt
This could become the year of the cat as researchers have found a nation's happiness may be associated not only with socioeconomic factors but also possession of the pets.
They have discovered a correlation between countries with higher domestic cat density and happier humans. But there is a caveat to these feline findings.
The study, published in the journal PLOS One, could not determine which came first – the happiness or the cats.
Finland proved to be the happiest of nations, followed by Denmark and Iceland. Montenegro had the highest cat density with around 32 cats for every 100 people, then Luxembourg with 30 and Slovenia with 24.
And both national income and GDP per capita also had a strong correlation with happier countries.
Researchers from the University of Chicago in the US and the University of Turku in Finland found "cat density and some socioeconomic indicators were moderately-to-largely and positively associated with happiness".
Scientists could not establish what came first – the happiness or the cats GETTY
Study authors compared the happiness scores of 93 countries, from the World Population Review, alongside data on cat density, socioeconomic indicators and prevalence of Toxoplasma gondii (a parasite which causes Toxoplasmosis in humans and other mammals).
“What we found is that countries with more cats tended to report higher levels of happiness, while countries with higher exposure to Toxoplasma gondii tended to report lower levels of happiness,” said the study authors.
They added: "It is possible that the links between cat ownership, reduced loneliness and alleviated stress may explain the association between cat density and greater national happiness."
But ahead of any stampede to secure a pet moggy, they also pointed out the correlation between cat ownership and happiness “may reflect more favourable attitudes toward pets, higher disposable income and better living conditions”.
In other words, a more financially secure, happier nation may be better disposed to own a pet.
One surprising element of the research was the “moderate-to-large negative association between cat density and T. gondii seroprevalence, challenging the common assumption that a higher number of cats would imply more parasite exposure".
The authors suggested that this may be because in wealthier countries, cats are more likely to be kept indoors, fed processed food and receive routine medical care, significantly reducing the potential of T. gondii infection.
Cat numbers and happiness do not have a direct link but there was an association between higher populations and happier people.
PEOPLE
Queen says Archer was 'irrepressible'
By Laura Elston and Laura Harding
The Queen has described Jeffrey Archer as “not without flaw” but an “irrepressible life force through all the many differing chapters of his life”.
Archer, a Conservative MP turned bestselling author, was imprisoned for perjury and perverting the course of justice in 2001. He died suddenly on Monday aged 86.
"Seldom does an author get to live a life as rich, varied and colourful as any of the characters in their books, or with as many surprising plot twists," Camilla (below, with Archer in 2018) said yesterday.
"[He] was an exception to the end... Wherever the next page turns to, I trust there will be champagne and shepherd's pie in abundance."
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Badenoch has a critical advantage
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He's leading his party into oblivion
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The Fairfield drama is embarrassing
There is no easy road in sight
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In surviving the past year with enhanced authority, Kemi Badenoch has a critical advantage. The party, too often fractious, ruthless and rebellious, is at her command. There is a widespread understanding the situation is existential. (William Hague)
Soon Zack Polanski, current leader of the Green Party, will find himself consigned to the history books. He will merit a footnote. And it will recall the following: that he was a coward, a charlatan, an egotist and a poseur, who led his party into political oblivion. (Dan Hodges)
This is a fresh headache for the King
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It is plausible swing voters will choose a Conservative Party they are economically aligned with over a Labour Party they have more in common with on cultural grounds. The problem is, the party is polling at 20 per cent and its local electoral record is dire.
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How does the US ordering the B-1 bombers to leave RAF Fairford reflect on Washington's confidence in the ability of the UK to keep the base secure? It is hard not to conclude that, despite efforts to play down the drama, this is an embarrassing episode for the UK. (Frank Gardner)
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A poll last week suggests Britain is on course for a hung parliament. But the scenes at the Greens' annual conference, where members adopted a motion declaring Zionism a form of racism, make a deal with Labour look impossible. (Kate Devlin)
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The Iranian regime might consider the US's withdrawal of its bombers from RAF Fairfield as a success. For the UK, the sense of emergency remains entirely absent. It has long been paying the price – and its humiliation is clear. (Damien McElroy)
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For Brazil, there are no easy scenarios ahead. If President Lula is elected, he may face governance crises. If Flávio Bolsonaro is elected, he will have more tools to carry out his father's authoritarian project, and the support of the Trump administration. (Miriam Leitão)
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The Brazilians who went to the polls on Sunday have delivered the far right its most decisive triumph since the end of the country's military dictatorship in 1985. A Bolsonaro presidency would give Washington another subordinate partner in Latin America (Elizabeth McKenna)
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Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor continues to protest his innocence. If the judge rules in Andrew's favour, the case against the former prince risks becoming null and void. But the consequence of this is thrusting the scandal back into the spotlight, a fresh headache for the King and the Palace. (Emily Ferguson)
Exhibition is glossy but superficial
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'THE 90S: ART AND FASHION'
Whether the move is well advised, time will tell. But one thing is for sure: the saga involving Andrew and his arrest, a stain that will live long in the memory, will continue to haunt King Charles and the rest of the Royal Family. (Jennifer Newton)
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Bold, irreverent, provocative: that's how the 90s are characterised by Tate Britain's energising new exhibition, which examines the popular culture of "Cool Britannia" as well as the era's visual art. It offers a subjective, alternative take on an intense, high-spirited decade. (Alastair Sooke)
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This is not a real exhibition. It's a magazine spread. Its design has the superficiality of a glossy layout bigging up its glib theme, "the 90s". Setting fashion photography alongside conceptual art is a terrible idea. (Jonathan Jones)
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The screenwriter of prison drama 'Time' on the justice system
Models can be thought of as vapid, all surface. But Presley Gerber made it a mission to educate others – even if those lessons were informed by deep inner turmoil.
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Gerber – practically born into the business as the son of Cindy Crawford, while also being the older brother of model and actress Kaia Gerber – was exceptionally open about his mental health struggles and substance abuse, documenting his journey on Instagram. He even started a “Mental Health Mondays” series on the platform to raise awareness and share wellness tips.
"Whether I help one person or a hundred people get out of that place that I was in at one point in my life, that's all I need to do," he said.
"My parents for most of our lives were very, very private and didn't share anything," said Kaia, also
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referring to their father Rande Gerber – the businessman whose ventures include co-founding the tequila brand Casamigos with George Clooney – in an interview shortly before Presley's death aged 27 in a rehabilitation facility.
"And now we have this absolute teacher, my brother, who says, 'I'm gonna be very human for everyone.'"
Across multiple episodes, he related his own experiences with substances ranging from ketamine to kratom, as well as his time at rehab facilities.
Raised in Malibu, California, Gerber signed with the management agency IMG as a teenager and made his runway debut for Moschino at 16. In 2018, he appeared alongside his mother – whose famous beauty mark he inherited – in a Pepsi Super Bowl ad that paid homage to her 1992 commercial for the brand. That same year, he and his sister shot a campaign for Calvin Klein jeans.
Gerber later signed with DNA Models. His biography described him as an “avid surfer and skater”, and in an Instagram video posted in July 2025. Gerber described growing up as a dedicated athlete who spent hours in the water nearly every day – a routine that came to a halt when he started working.
With less physical activity, Gerber said, he was put on more medication and his quality of life suffered.
"A lot of the time people would ask, like, 'You were such a happy kid; what happened to you?'
"What happened was life happened and I wasn't able to worry about one thing, which was my next meal and then get back in the ocean. Like I had to start making money... I got a job."
In addition to his testimonial videos, Gerber's Instagram was a collection of modelling shoots and memories that stretched back to childhood. His life around cameras influenced his own interest in photography as an art form.
"I have always been the type of person to stop and take a picture when everybody is just focused on the destination," he told Vogue in 2016, on the occasion of his runway debut. "I feel like people walk by a countless amount of beauty in the world every day."
Gerber is survived by his parents and sister. AP
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Badenoch's 'Kemistry' is delusional Her party is quietly losing touch with reality. And it's a gift to Burnham
This may be more suited to a confessional than a newspaper column but I have a fascination with Kemi Badenoch that is becoming
faintly absurd. As someone who has both a personal passion for and professional interest in British politics, I can't quite believe the amount of time I spend responding to her every utterance and intervention by wondering whether I have, in fact, gone mad.
Whether policies, polls or performances, the gulf between the reality I think I inhabit and the world according to Kemi seems almost inconceivably enormous and yet so complete is her belief in her own brilliance that I frequently find myself checking whether my own memory of events is accurate.
This, for example, is the politician who helpfully said of herself: "I never have gaffes... I never have to clarify because I think very carefully about what I say."
And yet she has subsequently insisted that “Northern Ireland did vote to leave [the European Union]” (it did not) and had to clarify that when she said that maternity pay was “excessive” she did not, in fact, mean that maternity pay was excessive.
Only today, the gaffe-free zone wrote an article for The Sun which described a new air defence system as being “modelled on Israel’s Iron Dome” – language that echoed a press release announcing the policy issued by her own party.
Before lunch, and shortly after she had explained to my LBC colleague Nick Ferrari that it was not her job to know anything about how the system would look or indeed function, she was denying that she had ever made any comparison with Israel's Iron Dome.
She blamed newspapers for the “confusion”, which reminded me that only last month she was condemning Reform UK’s decision to refuse accreditation to various journalists for their party conference, calling the decision “authoritarian” and insisting, “We believe in free speech. We believe in a free press.”
The respected Byline Times journalists Adam Bienkov and Josiah Mortimer, currently refused accreditation for the Tory conference in Birmingham without any explanation, may well be joining me in wondering whether it is them or her who have lost touch with observable reality.
And at that conference, approved journalists and other attendees were treated to a parody-proof pastiche of the Bayeux Tapestry lionising Badenoch and mocking her rivals. Perhaps the most ridiculed figure was her former leadership rival Robert Jenrick, now clinging to Nigel Farage's rapidly disintegrating coattails. But had he stayed in her party, he would presumably still be Badenoch's shadow justice secretary and she would still be defending him for, inter alia,
“An ego like hers makes the likelihood of any form of electoral pact with Farage extremely small
complaining about there being "no white faces" in Birmingham.
John Oxley explained in this newspaper yesterday that the central thrust of Badenochism – or “Kemistry” as she prefers to call it – is to do everything that was done under the last three or four Tory governments (it’s hard to keep count) but somehow with more vigour or noise or, perhaps, “Kommitment”.
More deregulation, more fossil fuels, more demonising of welfare claimants, more tax cuts for the comfortable, more promises to obliterate immigration etc etc.
It is as if she believes herself to be some sort of special sauce, capable of imbuing tired old burgers, recently rejected by the electorate, with new and irresistible flavour. She does, at least, understand burgers, explaining in 2024 that she “became working class” shortly after starting work at McDonald’s as a teenager.
And while her personal approval ratings are healthy-ish – not a massive surprise considering that much of the right-wing media seems to share her belief that she is a cross between Boudicca and Margaret Thatcher – the party she leads continues to languish at around or below the levels it secured when it handed Keir Starmer an enormous parliamentary majority.
I could go on but, once again, a quick review of the available facts has reassured me that I have not, in fact, gone mad and that it is Badenoch and her army of admirers who seem to occupy an alternative reality while talking dementedly of “Kemistry” or even “Keminaissance”.
I can see only one major reason for this. Various media owners, secretive sponsors of tax-averse “think-tanks” and climate change-denying plutocrats are having serious doubts about Nigel Farage’s electability and Badenoch remains their only other option.
The paucity of quality on her own front bench – more talent puddle than talent pool – makes replacement highly unlikely, so they have no choice but to big her up, trying to persuade themselves that she is not the politician she so patently is but rather the politician that they wish she was.
It helps that by far the biggest believer in this delusion is Badenoch herself.
And all this introduces a rather hefty silver lining for Andy Burnham. An ego like Badenoch's, and a following that increasingly borders on the Kultish (sorry), make the likelihood of any form of electoral pact with Farage and all her former colleagues now in his party vanishingly small.
And so it is that her belief in her own hype may yet encourage the Prime Minister to call the early election that every Tory in Birmingham is convinced he is considering.
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Kemi Badenoch alongside the Bayeux-inspired 'Birmingham Tapestry' mocking political rivals at the Conservative conference this week. IAN FORSYTH/GETTY
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I think that answers your question. JUSTIN GREENHALGH WANTAGE, OXFORDSHIRE
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Dinghy safety clarity needed
Please could someone explain why French coastguards shadow dinghies making for England until they reach the Channel boundary line (The i Paper, 5 October) at which point presumably they become our problem.
I thought we had paid millions of pounds for the French to patrol and prevent these dinghies reaching England.
Can we ask for the money to be repaid? MARGARET PARSONS WINDSOR, BERKSHIRE
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Why would EU want us back?
How refreshing to read Ian Birrell's balanced piece on rejoining the EU (My View, 5 October).
I voted Remain in 2016 and, if we could re-run the past, would do so again. The outcome of the referendum was highly regrettable and the political and economic damage done to the UK is undeniable.
However, from what I read and hear, the vast majority of supporters of rejoining seem to think the process would be as easy as turning on a tap, forgetting that it took four and a half years to fully detach from our former EU partners.
We can ill afford the time, resources and energies of government and our leaders to be
similarly diverted when there are other pressing issues to be tackled.
There is rarely any consideration of what our former EU partners would regard as potential benefits accruing to them to re-engage in this process.
It is highly unlikely that the UK would be able to negotiate the same beneficial financial deal that it had before, all the more so if France and Germany embrace far-right governments.
Forging closer ties and mitigating the damage caused is the best policy for now.
DEREKAITKEN
SOUTHPORT,
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Drones are an act of war
Kemi Badenoch wants to pay a huge amount of money on a protective "dome" missile defence system (The i Paper, 6 October). Obviously, any would-be attacker would think, "I'd better start soon while there is no 'dome' in place."
The only real deterrent is to tell the enemy, quietly but firmly: "Any drones reaching Britain would be an act of outright war."
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Like everybody else, I wouldn't want a Cold War situation, but that would be better than drones bombing our cities with no reprisal. DAVID SATCHEL HERTFORDSHIRE
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Developers hoard profits
The Conservative Party wants to deregulate building controls again to save money. The last time they did that, it gave us the tragedy of Grenfell Tower. Do they ever learn? GLEN GIBB SPOTT, EAST LOTHIAN
Are the Conservatives really so naïve as to think that even if they removed planning restrictions from house developers, the savings would be passed on to buyers rather than retained by the builders? JONATHAN HARRIS POUNDON, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
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Don't levy fines, seize shares
I note the recent fines being imposed on yet another water company and wonder whether they are being targeted effectively.
Perhaps company law needs to be reviewed and instead of fining a water company out of revenue, consideration is given to an equity penalty. In this form of fine a monopoly utility company might be forced to cede ownership of some of its shareholding for significant failures.
The threat should cause the company owners to ensure that it is managed in a more responsible manner. ALAN MITCHELL SETTRINGTON, NORTH YORKSHIRE
The List ("Thirst for knowledge on water use") on 5 October made me chuckle, albeit wryly.
In particular, equal third on the list of ways to save water was: "Fix leaky taps or plumbing."
It's such a shame the water companies cannot do the same!
ERIC PIZZEY
FRAMLINGTON,
SUFFOLK
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Voting system suppresses left
An item from The Sunday Telegraph featured in the Opinion Matrix (5 October) claimed that proportional representation would "guarantee power to the left". Isn't that an admission that leftist values are in the majority and first past
the post has prevented this being reflected in government policy? ROSALIND WAIN BRADFORD ON AVON, WILTSHIRE
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Arrogance of fighting police
The arrogance of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor knows no bounds. What does he hope to achieve by taking on Thames Valley Police?
It appears that he cannot bear to be out of the spotlight. JACKIE McINTOSH LANCING, WEST SUSSEX
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Scorn for selfie narcissists
Perhaps Siobhán Norton (Culture, 6 October) should have included
in her disapproval of those who stand in front of paintings chatting, the people who stand with their backs to the paintings and take selfies. They are not only inconsiderate but narcissistic to boot!
SHEILA LEE
LONDON
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Religion is not the problem
In reply to Ian MacMillan, (Your View, 6 October), who thinks religious belief is irrational, I would say that to deny that there is nothing, beyond this amazing, beautiful and complex world is irrational.
And most of the trouble in the world is not caused by religions, which teach of compassion. Most of the trouble is caused by men, who have used religion to further their own selfish and greedy ends!
PENNY JOSEPH
SHOREHAM-BY-SEA,
WEST SUSSEX
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Dylan provokes thought
Jill Birks (Your View 5 October) seems to think that Bob Dylan "felt unable to use his platform for good". Anyone who agrees with that view could try listening to the lyrics of his early songs.
They might start with "The Death of Emmett Till", "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are a-Changin".
Dylan didn't need to explain to the audience, he let the lyrics speak for themselves. LES WRIGHT
WAREHAM, DORSET
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It is a great relief that I entered the job market before the term "personal brand" had entered common parlance, because God only knows who I'd have decided to be if I'd been let loose on the project at the age of 22.
Back then, I understood that one's "true" self was something to hide from potential employers, to curtail any doubts about how serious, responsible and committed a worker you might be.
I'd set my social media to private after submitting a job application, try my best (and usually fail) to keep the filter on during an interview, and keep as quiet and compliant as possible for the first six months once I got my foot in the door.
I imagine I wasn't terribly good at suppressing myself or my opinions most of the time, but I was terrified of coming across as unprofessional, and the way I saw it, having a personality at work was something you had to earn.
But the world, and especially the job market, has changed. If we want to stand out, compete, succeed and even survive, it seems it is no longer talent or ability that we must prove and sell, but an identity itself.
Women especially seem to be encouraged to develop a niche, something that makes us unique, a snappy, bullet-point summary to appealingly define what we're about and what we're good at, and we must promote it all relentlessly.
It isn't just social media influencers or business owners who feel this pressure. If a "personal brand" is, as Jeff Bezos once said, "what people say about you when you're not in the room", I shudder to think what must be mine.
Last week, the British entrepreneur Emma Grede, founding partner of Skims and CEO of jeans brand Good American, posted a video online saying: "We have got to address this personal brand conversation, because I believe that it's really holding women back.
'Figure out who you are and do it on purpose,' advised Dolly Parton
"Your personal brand is not something that you can sit down and manufacture," she continued. "It's the result of what you actually do... The women that we all admire... built something undeniable and then we all wanted to hear what they had to say.
"The work came first, the reputation followed, and that became the personal brand."
Surely, I thought, this is common sense. But Grede has faced backlash, especially among other female founders who believe that their personal branding and public image are exactly what have created opportunities for them and allowed them to forge careers.
They may be right about what the market rewards. But that doesn't make it a reasonable demand to place on everyone. Men just aren't expected in anywhere near the same way to sell their interests, their appearance, their personal lives, as a way of making themselves popular and likeable and well-rounded.
A personal brand might seem like the modern-day CV, but it is a waste of time that would be better spent on getting good at doing something, not being someone. If you sit down and try to manufacture an identity for yourself, what you'll end up with is not a personal brand, but a persona to perform. And what good is that to anyone?
I could decide this afternoon that I'm going to be all about 5am yoga trapeze, eating 30 plants a week and productivity optimisation. I could promote myself every day and try to build an audience and maybe I'd
“Men aren’t expected to sell their looks and personal lives to become popular
get noticed for this new, reinvented, aspirational self. Unfortunately, it wouldn't change my actual personal brand one bit.
In the end, the people who know and work with me in any capacity would still all come away with the same impression, because the true nature of a person is not something they can decide for themselves. Who I am is still decided by what I do, say, and the way I treat people.
One of Dolly Parton's more profound aphorisms was "figure out who you are and do it on purpose". I've always liked it, because rather than the usual "be yourself", "love yourself", "be unique" fluff, it understands that we don't always know exactly who we are yet, and it can take a while to get there. Once we have, life is still about what we do – not how loudly we declare it.
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The former Prince Andrew doesn't have much to his name any more, but the one thing he does have is a great big shovel. And he's using it to dig an even bigger hole than the one he's in already. By taking the Thames Valley constabulary to court this week, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is contravening rule one of crisis management, which, in his
NewScientist Live case, might be best expressed as: quit while you're behind.
Oh, Andrew. Have you not learned anything? From the same well of hubris that propelled him to sit down with Emily Maitlis in 2019 comes the decision to challenge the legal basis on which the rozzers searched his royal residences last February. The raid came when he was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public
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office over his links to the convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
The warrants to search both Royal Lodge – his former family home – and his cottage in Sandringham were obtained by Thames Valley Police on application to the Central Criminal Court.
Of course, Mountbatten-Windsor
Of course, Mountbatter should have the same protections as any other citizen, and if he believes that the legal basis on which the warrants were issued was suspect, he has every right to contest that in court. But where – in the world of realpolitik – does that get him?
A victory on what might prove to be a legal technicality does not do him any good in a much more significant, and less forgiving, arena: the court of public opinion. It would be like him presenting us with evidence that he couldn't sweat. It wouldn't really move the dial for him in terms of his reputation.
Then, there is the question of King Charles (inset). Buckingham Palace has reportedly made it clear that the legal action will not be paid for out of the King's private funds.
This is sensible. However, it may have another, less satisfactory, result. In saying he's not going personally to provide financial support, the King re-establishes in the public mind that he does, in fact, use his own private money to keep his brother afloat.
No one knows how much the King gives to Mountbatten-Windsor to keep him in video games and teddy bears, but the funding was part of the arrangement made when the former prince was defenestrated. This allowance does not come from
the sovereign grant but is drawn from the King's private money.
But the fact that the King is obliged to make that distinction undeniably puts him in an uncomfortable position, opening up the question of the
degree to which he is bankrolling a disgraced
member of his family, while drawing attention to the wider matter of public funding for the royals, and details of his own sizeable stipend.
Also, the more basic point: if Andrew himself is paying lawyers to prepare this case, where does that money actually come from?
It is, in fact, a lose-lose situation for all involved. If Andrew loses, it looks terrible. If he wins on a technicality, it doesn't really change anything in the bigger picture.
Either way, it leaves Charles with a problem in terms of public attention and scrutiny. The best thing he can do now is urgently to confiscate Andrew's shovel.
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I don't know about you, but I certainly wouldn't want to get on the wrong side of Gillian Anderson. The actress, who shot to fame in The X-Files, has an aura of icy froideur in many of the roles she plays. It's a characteristic that spills over into real life too at times.
Anderson made headlines over the weekend for a frosty stage-door encounter with fans, telling a few of them that “you cannot sit in the front row – it’s so distracting. You can’t come 20 times and sit in the front row. It’s driving me mad.”
Anderson seems all manner of off. If an actor doesn't want fans turning up night after night, it's probably a good idea not to do theatre – and certainly not in so intimate a venue as Soho Place, where she opened to acclaim last week in Edward Albee's 1962 marital humdinger, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.
Above all else, my initial instinct on hearing the exchange was to marvel at how anyone could sit through this play twice in quick succession, let alone multiple times. I still feel drained from last week's opening night.
If Anderson truly is distracted by punters in the first row, what about those in the second? What's her cut-off point? Multiple actors have, after all, bemoaned poor audience behaviour in recent months, often citing inappropriate phone use or ill-timed munching of noisy food.
The mystery deepened – and then Anderson took to social media to offer a clarification of sorts. “The video doing the rounds is me talking with women I go back over 20 years with,” she wrote elliptically. This suggests long-standing, or possibly obsessive, fandom.
If it is this, then my sympathy swings a little in Anderson's direction. Then again, it is not the prerogative of performers to pre-select their audiences. It is their job to play their parts.
There are no reports of audience-on-audience complaints during Virginia Woolf. Thus it seems that the sole infraction committed was that of sitting in the front row. Anderson would do well to recall Ethel Merman's line in "There's No Business Like Showbusiness", that paean to the acting profession. "There's no people like show people/They smile when they are low."
So, chin up, Gillian: all your hard work is bound to pay off when awards season rolls around.
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Israel is marking the third anniversary of the 7 October attacks with a succession of memorial events across the country.
Three years on from the Hamas-led attack on Israel, in which more than 1,200 were people killed and 251 taken hostage, the nation is remembering those lost and the ongoing trauma for those who survived.
The onslaught led to a swift and widespread military response from Israel on Gaza, sparking a conflict which has left vast swathes of the territory destroyed and at least 77,000 Gazans dead.
On the third anniversary of the atrocity, a fragile ceasefire is in place although hopes for a long-term peace remain faint.
Many memorial events in Israel were scheduled to begin at 6.29am, the time the Hamas attack began.
At around 10am, convoys from across the country are expected to head to Ben Shemen Forest, where a memorial ceremony for those killed will be held later in the afternoon.
A minute's silence will be observed at midday, across the country, organised by the October Council which brings together survivors of captivity, bereaved families and survivors of the massacre.
At the same time, an exhibition will open at the Peres Centre for Peace and Innovation in Jaffa, displaying some of the personal belongings of people murdered on 7 October 2023.
Demonstrations are planned in a number of cities including Haifa and Afula throughout the day.
Then at 6.29pm, a service will take place at the Nova music festival site near Re'im. Around 370 people were killed at the open-air music festival during the attacks and at least 40 taken hostage.
Events will culminate at 9.15pm, when the national memorial ceremony begins at Yarkon Park in Tel Aviv.
Many nationwide events were al-
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Andy Burnham has assured Britain's Jewish community "we stand with you" against antisemitism. The Prime Minister described a rise in antisemitic behaviour in the UK since 2023 as "disturbing".
ready held in Israel on Monday, as the official national memorial day is determined by the Hebrew calendar.
Two state ceremonies took place at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, with rallies and memorial events across the country. Flags were lowered to half-mast at state institutions, police stations, prisons and Israel Defence Forces bases to honour the dead.
The Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and President Isaac Herzog joined bereaved families at 11am at Mount Herzl and the second national memorial ceremony was held at 2pm.
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t 1pm on 7 October 2023, hours after Palestinian armed groups launched their daybreak attack, the high command of the
Israel Defence Forces (IDF) issued a stark order: up to 20 Gazan civilians could be killed in a single strike on even the lowest-ranking member of Hamas. With AI to speed up the targeting, that order began a punishing bombing campaign in a war that has killed around 74,000 Palestinians.
As a result, Israel won a crushing victory over Hamas, but lost public support around the world, including in the United States. For a country that has long relied on US backing, that could be the lasting and most important legacy of the Hamas assault on 7 October, which left some 1,200 people dead.
The New York Times and +972 magazine in Tel Aviv found that the rules allowed for 100 civilians to die if a senior member of Hamas was the target. A sinister-sounding AI named Lavender churned out tens of thousands of targets; human operators spent about 20 seconds approving each one.
Israel's 'victory' in Gaza could turn into a defeat
Another system – allegedly called "Where's Daddy?" – tracked targets and alerted the army when they got home, so they could be bombed there, often alongside their families.
I have written about one such strike, which took place on 10 October 2023, three days after the new rules came into force. A six-storey building in Gaza City was hit and collapsed, killing at least 40 civilians.
One man, Mahmoud Ashour, said he had lost his daughter and her four young children. Amnesty International found that a Hamas member lived in the building but that he was not there at the time. The IDF did not comment, except to say that Hamas often puts military infrastructure in civilian areas.
That attack, and many others like it, show how much changed following the darkest day in Israel's history. In the aftermath, as Israel was reeling from the bloodshed and the 251 hostages taken, it turned to a savage response. Wounded to its core, enraged and vengeful, Israel became numb to international outcry over civilian casualties.
As the BBC's Jeremy Bowen wrote during an earlier Gaza war in 2008, Israeli military commanders assume two separate clocks start ticking the moment they go into action. The military clock tracks the time needed to achieve their objectives. The diplomatic clock measures the time before international pressure forces a ceasefire. For much of the past three years, Israel's political and military leaders have ignored the second clock.
A documentary, to be released in the UK later this month, talked to 24 of the Israeli soldiers who did the targeting. The film is called NAZA, the acronym of the Hebrew term "Nezek agavi" or "collateral damage". One interviewee said his personal body count numbered in the thousands. Another said the prevailing attitude was "there are no innocent people in Gaza".
The film also relays a claim that one strike was approved that could kill up to 500 people, in order to eliminate a single Hamas operative.
Israel's military has issued a statement accusing the film-makers of "manipulative editing", adding that they had failed to mention the steps the IDF always took to try to limit civilian harm.
Many proposed strikes were cancelled because of the risk to non-combatants, the IDF said. It also denied the allegation that a strike had been approved in which 500 civilians “or anything close to that number” could be killed.
Enraged and vengeful, Israel became numb to the outcry over civilian casualties
Miki Zohar, Israel's minister of culture, accused the film-makers of treason, while the Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, promised a new bill to strip citizenship from anyone who "smears" soldiers and "defames" the country.
But Netanyahu was surely right when he said that “portraying the officers and commanders of the Israeli army as war criminals causes us untold harm”.
The fact that Israel's Prime Minister feels the need to comment on a documentary underlines the importance of the battle of ideas for the future of the Jewish state – the loss of international goodwill threatens to turn a tactical victory in Gaza into a long-term defeat.
For Israel, public opinion is nowhere more important than in the US. America is the ultimate guarantor of Israel's survival. Last month, the Trump administration approved sending some 40,000 one-tonne bombs to Israel, in effect free of charge, as the US taxpayer is footing the bill.
It's far from clear whether this kind of transfer would continue under the next president, whether Democrat or Republican. But the draining away of support for Israel is clear, and most evident in the Democratic Party.
In July, 103 Democrats in the House of Representatives voted to cut off aid to Israel. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Democrat standard-bearer for the next generation, opposes all US military aid.
When it comes to Republicans, Donald Trump likes to say he's the most pro-Israel president ever – but his party is split. According to a Pew poll published in April, 57 per cent of Republicans under the age of 50 now view Israel unfavourably.
Israel used to be one of the few foreign-policy questions both parties agreed on. No more. Part of this is about Netanyahu, a divisive figure in both the US and in his own country. Israelis may come to regret the way he apparently bounced Trump into the war with Iran if this ultimately turns the Republican Party against Israel.
While Hamas is dramatically weakened after the last few years of fighting, the outline of the Israel-Palestine dispute is unchanged, despite everything that has happened since 7 October 2023.
The issue is as intractable as ever, but the US consensus that helped manage it for 50 years has gone. When Israel next goes to war, American support will be neither automatic nor unconditional.
Paul Wood is a former BBC foreign correspondent
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By Niklas Pollard, Johan Ahlander and Simon Johnson
The Belgian-American Francis Halzen has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work creating an observatory to detect high-energy neutrinos - some of the universe's most elusive subatomic particles.
Halzen, 82, realised that pristine ice at the South Pole could be used to track such neutrinos.
High-energy neutrinos are known as "ghost particles" for the way they pass through the Earth and our bodies without a trace.
"The messengers bring informa-"
tion from the cosmos," Eva Olsson, of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, told a press conference.
"They open the door to distant galaxies and tell us about the processes of exploding stars."
Neutrinos are electrically neutral, undisturbed by magnetic fields, which means that the direction from which they arrive points back to their source, which is unconfirmed.
Halzen said it was too early to say exactly what his work could reveal about the universe.
"The real excitement is that I cannot answer that question yet," he said.
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A deep-sea exploration team has discovered 57 new species – including one they compare to a SpongeBob SquarePants character.
The Schmidt Ocean Institute said one vivid orange sea star bore an “uncanny resemblance to the cartoon character Patrick Star”, even
seemingly displaying the outline of a behind like the character in the TV show (left).
The sea star was documented on the seafloor of the Mar del Plata Submarine Canyon, off the coast of Argentina.
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Crocodile species found in Great Sphinx stones
By Stephen Beech
A new species of crocodile has been identified in rocks used to build the Great Sphinx – and just like the iconic Egyptian landmark, it is missing the tip of its snout.
Scientists using new scanning technology found that a fossil they had always believed was one of two known types of gavial crocodiles turned out to be a third, previously unknown species.
Gavials are reptiles characterised by their long, thin snouts. There are just two living species, gavialis gangeticus and Tomistoma schlegelii, known as the "false gharial", which are found only in freshwater environments on the Indian subcontinent and in South East Asia.
The Herugavialis cairensis lost the tip of its nose – just like the Great Sphinx
However, fossil records show that gavials have lived on Earth for 100 million years with almost global distribution.
In the 1920s, several fossils, including a nearly complete skull, were recovered from the 45-million-year-old Mokattam Formation in Egypt – from where limestone was used to build the Giza pyramids and the Great Sphinx.
After the fossils were recovered, scientists seeing their superficial resemblance to the false gharial named them as belonging to the Tomistoma species.
But recent analytical advances in palaeontology, including the use of CT scanning to look inside the skull, allowed an international team of researchers to identify several differences between the false gharial and the fossils.
Scientists from the UK, Sweden, Germany and Egypt have named the new species Herugavialis caerensis.
They found the skull well-preserved, but one feature caught their attention: the tip of its snout is missing.
Study co-leader Professor Philip Mannion said: "Given this coincidence with the missing nose of the Great Sphinx, we decided to name the new crocodile after the Egyptian god Heru, who was possibly the inspiration for this iconic monument."
Lead author Dr Paul Burke, a researcher at the Swedish Museum of Natural History, added: "Throughout much of the last 50 million years, the Mediterranean region hosted a high diversity of crocodiles.
“However, this diversity fluctuated over time, seemingly corresponding to changes in global temperature.”
The shallow marine environments that covered much of the Egyptian region were also home to at least two other species of gavials as well as Herugavialis at the time, the research has shown.
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
No 4889 BY PHI
ACROSS
1 Veal and mashed potatoes for starters with uninspiring accompaniment (4)
3 Favouring half-hearted chatter? More than likely (8)
10 "Swine – S" indicating something you get in a bar? (4,11)
11 King keeping English a source of wealth? Check again (2-7)
12 Pin down nothing about American (4)
13 Anger following university doctor's offence (7)
15 Display poor quality stuff in antique shop as well (6)
17 Stop holding back passion in school (6)
19 Worker's success, getting earlier time for drink (4,3)
20 A European country's returned bird (4)
21 Much-loved US singer – is he dead? (9)
24 Actively loosen plums with glee for kid? (4,8,3)
25 Hazy Grey Lady mostly seen around front of Grange irregularly? (8)
26 Shock reduction in publicity activity? (4)
DOWN
1 Very active and open to things, but insubstantial (8)
2 Limitation of mysterious English code expert (5)
4 French to be taken in by sneak in religious centre? (7)
5 Reading newspaper reports but not up-to-date? (6,3,5)
6 Marsupial doing nasty things to obtain cod (9)
7 Ill without question, though free from pain (4)
8 Religious office in Abuja randomly interrupted by
leaders of atheists and scoffers? Looks like it to me (2,3,2,1,3,3)
9 Priest getting extra money for church activity? (6)
14 Thespian's wish in acting, getting on after lucky opportunity (5,1,3)
16 'Good area swamped by vehicle noise' – English view of Welsh region (8)
18 Hundred I'm investing in transaction, supplied in tens (7)
19 Run into hazard over working description of some French (6)
22 Everything puts off top slave (5)
23 Second mate overlooking one part of rigging (4)
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Television Wednesday 7 October
CRITIC'S CHOICE GERARD GILBERT
PICK OF THE DAY
Portrait Artist Of The Year 2026
8pm, Sky Arts
Stephen Mangan (left) presents a brand-new run of the competition, with 72 artists selected from 1,300 entries. There's a trio of new judges – art historian Katy Hessel, portrait painter Jonathan Yeo and Eva Langret, the director of Frieze London – while the first three sitters are all actors: Sheridan Smith, Vanessa Williams and Lennie James. Asked to bring in a significant object, James chooses a Tottenham Hotspur shirt, while Smith's numerous mementos include a Bafta trophy and her son's Mother's Day card. Smith, who has ADHD, also worries about being able to sit still for four hours: "It's a lot of time to be in my head."
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The Repair Shop: Beyond The Barn 8pm, BBC One
David Burville and Mark Stuckey restore a model fairground made by the owners' grandfather, while Lucia Scalisi restores a portrait of a woman's great-great-grandfather, who was involved in an infamous Victorian banking fraud. Dominic Chinea meanwhile rescues a battle-scarred wheelchair used by an Army veteran in the Invictus Games.
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Location, Location, Location 8pm, Channel 4
Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer take the house search to Warwickshire, where Isla and Luke need more space for themselves and their
18-month-old child. Meanwhile, Jan and Jon, a couple who are mature in years but very young at heart, hope their budget of more than £800,000 can secure them a forever home.
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Winter 9pm, ITV1
"You tried to lie to me," Richard Armitage's titular pathologist says, addressing a corpse on his mortuary slab. "A body always tells me the truth." The cadaver belongs to a middle-aged man discovered on a building site with the skin torn off his face. Luckily, the enterprising Dr Ethan Winter has developed his own facial scanning software, a duly impressed DI Lauren Bell suggesting he patents the device. But he's not in the job to make money. Interview, p40
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Grand Designs 9pm, Channel 4
Kevin McCloud meets artists Jana and Rory, who live in a former driving test centre in the east of Edinburgh but have ambitions for something bigger and (importantly) much warmer to live in every winter. They want to replace the current building with a house that provides upside-down living and captures a view of the sea.
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Cause Of Death 9pm, 5
Viewers who prefer real-life forensic science to the fictional variety (see Winter, left) might want to catch the latest in this casebook of Dr Richard Shepherd and his team. They are examining 16-year-old
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BBC ONE
6.00 Breakfast (S) 9.30 Morning Live (S) 10.45 Crimewatch Live (S). 11.30 Homes Under The Hammer (R) (S). 12.15 Bargain Hunt (R) (S). 1.00 BBC News At One; Weather (S) 1.35 BBC Regional News; Weather (S). 1.45 BBC News At One; Weather (S). 2.00 Clean It, Fix It (R) (S). 2.30 Shift The Thrift (R) (S). 3.00 Escape To The Country (R) (S). 3.45 Garden Rescue (S). 4.30 Bridge Of Lies (S). 5.15 Pointless (S).
6pm
7pm
6.00 BBC News At Six; Weather (S).
6.30 BBC Regional News; Weather (S).
8pm
7.00 The One Show Presented by Alex Jones and Vernon Kay (S).
7.30 EastEnders (S).
9pm
8.00 The Repair Shop: Beyond The Barn (S).
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11pm
Late
9.00 Who Do You Think You Are? Joe Lycett researches his family history (R) (S).
10.00 BBC News At Ten (S).
10.30 BBC Regional News (S).
10.40 FILM: Borderlands (Eli Roth 2024) (S).
12.10 The Celebrity Inner Circle (R) (S). 1.00 BBC News (S).
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BBC TWO
6.15 Homes Under The Hammer (R) (S). 7.15 Escape To The Country (R) (S). 8.00 Sign Zone: The Reluctant Vampire (R) (S). 8.30 Sign Zone: The Best Of Weatherman Walking (S). 9.00 BBC News (S). 10.45 Politics Live (S). 12.30 BBC News (S). 1.00 Impossible (R) (S). 1.45 Unbeatable (R) (S). 2.30 The Boss (R) (S). 3.15 Beechgrove Repotted (R) (S). 3.30 The Great British Sewing Bee (R) (S). 4.30 Vintage Antiques Roadshow (R) (S). 5.05 Flog It! (R) (S).
6.00 House Of Games (S).
6.30 Strictly: It Takes Two (S).
7.00 Celebrity Antiques Road Trip (R) (S).
8.00 Saving Lives At Sea A 999 call comes in from a woman whose husband is drifting out to sea (S).
9.00 Secrets And Spies: A Nuclear Game A look at the events and causes of the Cold War (R) (S).
12.45 Sign Zone: The Split Up (R) (S). 1.45 Sign Zone: Emergency 24/7 (R) (S). 2.45 This Is BBC Two (S).
6.00 Good Morning Britain (S). 9.30 Lorraine (S). 10.00 This Morning (S). 12.30 Loose Women (S). 1.30 ITV News; Weather (S) 1.55 ITV Regional News; Weather (S) 2.00 Dickinson's Real Deal (R) (S). 3.00 Lingo (R) (S). 3.59 ITV Regional Weather (S). 4.00 Deal Or No Deal (R) (S). 5.00 The Chase (R) (S).
6.00 ITV Regional News; Weather (S).
6.30 ITV News; Weather (S).
7.30 Tipping Point: Best Ever Finals
Stuart Pearce hopes to win £20,000 for his chosen charity (S).
8.00 Emmerdale
Charity is shocked to be going home (S).
8.30 Coronation Street (S).
9.00 Winter
The sleuth investigates a faceless body, and uncovers a devastating betrayal (S).
10.00 ITV News; Weather (S).
10.30 ITV Regional News; Weather (S).
10.45 Nine Perfect Strangers (R) (S).
11.35 Gallagher PREM Unleashed (S).
12.00 Shop On TV 3.00 Driving: How Old Is Too Old? Tonight (R) (S). 3.25 Bradley & Barney Walsh: Breaking Dad (R) (S). 3.50 Unwind With ITV (S). 5.05 Deal Or No Deal (R) (S).
6.30 The King Of Queens (R) (S): 7.45 Everybody Loves Raymond (R) (S): 8.10 Everybody Loves Raymond (R) (S): 8.40 Everybody Loves Raymond (R) (S): 9.10 Frasier (R) (S): 9.40 Frasier (R) (S): 10.10 Frasier (R) (S): 10.40 Frasier (R) (S): 11.10 American Pickers (R) (S): 12.05 Channel 4 News Summary (S): 12.10 Renovation Nation (R) (S): 1.10 The Great House Giveaway (R) (S): 2.10 Countdown (S): 3.00 A Place In The Sun (R) (S): 4.00 Help! We Bought A Village (S): 5.00 Four In A Bed (S): 5.30 Come Dine With Me (R) (S).
6.00 A New Life In The Sun: Where Are They Now? (R) (S).
7.00 Channel 4 News (S).
8.00 Location, Location, Location Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer search Warwickshire (S).
9.00 Grand Designs (S).
10.00 Martin
Compston:
Living Las Vegas
Last in the
series (S).
11.05 Gogglebox
Shows
including
Gladiators and
The Apprentice
are appraised
(R) (S).
12.05 The Great British Bake Off (R) (S). 1.30 Taskmaster (R) (S). 2.25 FILM: Mikka Bannada Hakki (Manohara K 2024) (S). 3.50 Sunday Brunch (R) (S). 4.00 Kirstie And Phil's Love It Or List It (R) (S).
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6.00 Milkshakel 9.15 Jeremy Vine (S) 11.30 Storm & Alexis (S). 12.45 5 News At Lunchtime (S) 12.50 Matt Allwright (S) 2.20 FILM: A Baby At Any Cost (Tamar Halpern 2022) Thriller, starring Christy Tate (S). 4.00 Bargain-Loving Brits In The Sun (R) (S). 5.00 5 News With Dan Walker (S).
6.00 Cornwall: A Year By The Sea (R) (S).
6.55 5 News Update (S).
7.00 Will You Get Dementia? (R) (S).
7.55 5 News Update (S).
8.00 Murder Scene: The Incident Room (S).
9.00 Cause Of Death
Examining the death of 16-year-old Danny Nicholls (S).
10.00 Jeremy Bamber: Proof Of Innocence - The Missing Phone Call (R) (S).
11.35 Ambulance: Code Red (R) (S).
12.35 Cops (R) (S).
1.00 Cruise TV With LoveitBookit (R) (S). 2.00 Cornwall: A Year By The Sea (R) (S). 2.50 Bargain-Loving Brits In The Sun (R) (S).
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BBC FOUR
Lucia Scalisi sets about restoring a Victorian portrait in 'The Repair Shop: Beyond The Barn' 8pm, BBC One
7.00 Secrets Of Bones (S).
7.30 Timothy Spall Back At Sea (S).
8.00 Echoes From Below: Exploring Britain's Caves (S).
8.50 Building Sights (S).
9.00 The Human Body: Secrets Of Your Life Revealed Last in the series (S).
10.00 Schmoedipus: Play For Today (S).
11.10 Wild Swimming With Alice Roberts (S).
12.10 Bullets, Boots And Bandages: How To Really Win At War (S). 1.10 Secrets Of Bones (S). 1.40 Timothy Spall Back At Sea (S). 2.10 The Octopus In My House (S). 3.10 Close
FILM
Ethan investigates a body without a face 9pm. ITV1
Dr Richard Shepherd looks into a grim find 9pm.5
7.00 FILM: Next Goal Wins (Taika Waititi 2023) Premiere. Comedy, starring Michael Fassbender (S).
9.00 FILM: Gran Turismo (Neill Blomkamp 2023) Fact-based drama, starring David Harbour (S).
11.40 FILM: Underwater (William Eubank 2020) Sci-fi thriller, starring Kristen Stewart (S).
1.30 FILM: Skin (Guy Nattiv 2018) Crime drama, starring Jamie Bell (S).
3.55 Close
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6.00 Backyard Builds (S). 6.30 Dinner Date (S). 7.30 The Real Housewives Of Potomac (S). 8.20 The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills (S). 9.15 The Only Way Is Essex (S). 10.15 Dawson's Creek (S). 11.10 Charmed (S). 12.05 Deal Or No Deal (S). 1.05 Supermarket Sweep (S). 2.05 Ant & Dec's Limitless Win (S). 3.10 The Only Way Is Essex (S). 4.10 The Real Housewives Of Potomac (S). 5.00 The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills (S).
6.00 Celebrity Catchphrase With Charlie Hedges, Luke Kempner and Jeremy Vine (S).
7.00 Ant & Dec's Limitless Win
Joe and sister-in-law Jo take on the Limitless Ladder (S).
8.00 The 1% Club Quiz, hosted by Lee Mack (S).
9.00 Big Brother
A group of contestants live under 24-hour surveillance, hoping to win a cash prize (S).
How to play All of the 28 domino pieces from 0-0 through to 6-6 have been placed once into the grid. Can you work out where each of them is placed? | 5 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
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Journey Finder
How to play Move between the numbers in order 1,2,3,4,1,2,3,4 and so on, starting with the grey 1 and ending with the grey 4. On each step you may move one square in any direction (including diagonally). You must form a continuous path that visits every square exactly once.
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Making Tracks
How to play
Numbers around the outside indicate how many squares in each row and column the track passes through between A and B. The track either passes straight through a square or turns at right angles in it. | 5 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | ---
Binary
How to play Complete the grid so that each row and column contains five os and five 1s. The same number cannot appear in more than two consecutive squares in any row or column. In the finished puzzle, each row must have a different sequence of os and 1s to any other row, and likewise for each column.
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Chain Link
How to play Place the numbers 1-6 in each row, column and along each series of squares linked by the chain.
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Number Hexagon
How to play Each hexagon is divided into six triangles. The sum of these six triangles is always 25. Place a number from 1-9 in each empty triangle to complete the puzzle: you cannot repeat a number within a hexagon.
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Daily Quiz
1. What was the name of the subgenre of indie and alternative rock that emerged in the UK in the late 1980s and was defined by its "wall of sound"?
2. Which traditional Jewish dish is made from a poached mixture of ground deboned fish, such as carp, whitefish, or pike?
3. A victory gained at such a cost to the victor that it feels like a loss has what name taken from an ancient king of Epirus?
4. An astronomical unit, about 93 million miles, represents the distance of the Earth from what?
B
Answers, page 51
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Pathfinder
How to play Moving from letter to adjacent letter, can you create a continuous path that visits every square once and spells out all the words listed to the right of the grid? Start on the shaded square. | E | N | T | E | A | S | E | L | E | S | N | A | R | C | T | H | G | U | Q | S | C | E | T | H | I | C | I | E | I | R | N | E | E | Y | C | S | L | P | T | E | G | R | F | A | N | J | A | A | N | A | I | E | D | N | F | E | M | B | H | C | N | E | H | A | L | I | G | N | A | F | I | L | E | G | Y | R | B | I | S | H | X | E | R | O | N | V | E | L | L | U | E | X | T | I | T | A | R | N | A | B | Antique
Briefly
Bullish
Ceaseless
Engine
Entrance
Ethics
Exertion
Fancy
Fang
Gander
Helix
Jamb
Plight
Reach
Taverna
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Battleships
How to play Locate the position of each of the ships listed below in the grid. Numbers around the edge tell you the number of ship segments in each row and column of the puzzle. Ships are surrounded on all sides by water, including diagonally.
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Rainbow beetroot and sheep's cheese salad with honeyed pumpkin seeds
SERVES 2
500g rainbow beetroot
A handful of thyme
1 orange
2 tbsp balsamic vinegar
40g honey
400g tin of green lentils
50g watercress
1 tbsp pumpkin seeds
100g soft sheep's cheese
Preheat your oven to 160°C/fan 150°C/gas mark 3. Line a baking tray with baking paper. Scrub the beetroot clean and use a sharp knife to slice them into $\frac{1}{2}$ cm-thick rounds – no need to peel unless you prefer to.
Arrange the slices in a roasting tin. Pick the thyme leaves off their woody sprigs and sprinkle on top, with a pinch of salt and pepper. Drizzle over a tablespoon of oil and toss everything together until coated. Slide into the oven and roast for 30 minutes, until tender and starting to caramelise.
Meanwhile, make the dressing. Slice the peel and white pith off the orange. Cut the segments out of their papery membranes and set the segments aside for later. Squeeze the membranes over a small bowl to squeeze out any juice. If there is any flesh left on the orange skin, press that over the bowl to squeeze out the juice.
Pour the balsamic vinegar into the bowl with the orange juice and drizzle in one tablespoon of honey and one of olive oil. Season with a pinch of salt and pepper, then whisk together to make a smooth dressing.
Take the beetroot out of the oven. Scatter the pumpkin seeds over the top of the beetroot. Roast for eight to 10 minutes until the pumpkin seeds have started to puff up. Remove the tray from the oven and drizzle over the remaining honey. Roast for a further two minutes.
Drain and rinse the lentils and add them to a large salad bowl. When the beetroot are ready, remove them from the oven and add them to the bowl. Add the orange segments and watercress, then toss everything together to mix.
Divide the salad between two plates, then dot over the sheep's cheese and serve.
Recipe from Abel & Cole, abelandcole.co.uk
Games&Puzzles
PUZZLES The country's best barred crossword every Saturday
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Kakuro
How to play Fill the white squares so that the total in each across or down run of cells matches the total at the start of that run. You must use the numbers from 1-9 only and cannot repeat a number in a run.
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Jigsawdoku
How to play Place the numbers 1-9 once in each row, column and bold-lined jigsaw region.
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Killer Sudoku
How to play Each row, column and 3 by 3 box must contain each number (1 to 9) only once. The sum of all numbers contained within grey lines must match the number printed in its top-left corner. No number can appear more than once in an area formed by grey lines.
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Zygolex® In The i Paper every day
Find the missing words by following the RHYME, LETTERS and MEANING links – eg, a word that rhymes with 'cheek', has one letter different from 'pear' and has the same meaning as mountain, would be 'peak'. Full rules at zygolex.com. Solution, page 51
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Futoshiki
How to play
Place the numbers from 1-5 exactly once in each row and column. The greater than and less than signs ( $>$ and $<$ ) indicate where one cell is greater/less than the adjacent cell indicated.
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Minesweeper
How to play Find all the mines in the grid. Numbers in certain squares indicate how many mines there are in the neighbouring squares, including diagonally touching squares. Mines cannot be placed in squares with numbers. | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | A A
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Number Square
How to play Fill the empty squares with numbers that will make the across and down calculations produce the results shown in the grey squares. Each numeral from 1 to 9 must only appear once. The calculations should be performed from left to right and top to bottom, rather than in strict mathematical order.
How to play The numbers in the grid correspond to the letters of the alphabet. Solve the puzzle and fill in the letters in the key as you discover them. Three letters are provided to give you a start. The solution will be printed in tomorrow's paper, the solution to Tuesday's codeword is on page 51. | 15 | 21 | 18 |
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Concise Crossword No 4953
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ACROSS
1 Male deer (4)
3 Stopping device (5)
8 Liquid (5)
9 Port (7)
10 Sausages (Informal) (7)
11 Perspiration (5)
12 No-nonsense (4-2-5)
17 Fire-raising (5)
19 Convent (7)
21 Source of difficulty (7)
22 Chocolate drink (5)
23 Lock of hair (5)
24 Amphibian (4)
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DOWN
1 As a result of this (6)
2 Accidentally meet (3,4)
3 Coffee-server (7)
4 Home (5)
5 Misprints (6)
6 Sort (4)
7 Features (11)
13 Confound (7)
14 Cane syrup (7)
15 Floor covering (6)
16 Despot (6)
18 Inclination (5)
20 Pleasant (4)
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Word Ladder
How to play
Convert the word at the top of the ladder into the word at the bottom of it, using only the five rungs in between. On each rung, you must put a valid four-letter word that is identical to the word above it, apart from a one-letter change. There may be more than one way of achieving this.
How to play Place the letters A, B and C only once in each row and column. Each row and column has two blank cells. The letters at the edge of a row/column indicate which of the letters is the first/last to appear in that row/column.
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Word Wheel
How to play How many words can you find using the letters in the wheel? Each must use the centre letter and at least three others. Letters may be used only once. You may not use foreign words, proper nouns or plurals though you may use verb forms ending in 's'. There is at least one nine-letter word to be found.
How you rate 18 good, 27 very good, 33 excellent, 40 genius
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Children's Corner Number Pyramid
How to play The value of each square in the number pyramid is the sum of the two squares directly under it.
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Knight's Tour
How to play A chess knight visits each square of the grid exactly once, starting at 1 and ending at 100 (these squares are shaded). Deduce the whole path of the knight – some of which is already given – and thus complete the grid. The knight moves either two squares horizontally followed by one square vertically, or two squares vertically followed by one square horizontally. | 11 | 9 | 73 | 78 | 59 | 40 | 75 | 86 | 61 | 82 | 89 | 6 | 64 | 15 | 56 | 71 | 80 | 55 | 66 | 85 | 52 | 92 | 38 | 51 | 47 | 96 | 100 | 28 | 4 | 17 | 98 | 69 | 43 | 46 | 1 | 32 | 18 | 22 | 45 | 24 | 35 | 31 | ---
Cells
How to play Divide the grid into square or rectangular blocks, each containing one digit only. Every block must contain the number of cells indicated by the digit inside it. | 8 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | ---
Word Fit
How to play Can you fit all the words into the grid to complete the puzzle? Some words may initially fit in more than one place, but there is only one way to fit all the words together to complete the grid.
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Word Square
How to play Simply answer the clues alongside the grid, writing the answers in the respective rows. The solution must read the same horizontally in each row as it does vertically in each column.
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Bridges
How to play Connect every island (represented by circles) into a single interconnected group. To do this draw bridges between islands. The number in each circle states how many bridges must be connected to that island. Bridges cannot cross each other, can only be drawn horizontally or vertically, and there can be a maximum of two bridges between any pair of islands.
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Calcudoku
How to play Place the numbers 1-6 once in each row and column, obeying sums in bold-lined regions. The number in each region indicates the total for the region, and the symbol shows which type of operation should be applied to the numbers: addition, subtraction, division or multiplication. Numbers may repeat within bold-lined regions. With subtraction always take the lower numbers away from the highest number in a region, and with division divide the highest number by the lower numbers. | 7+ | 15× | 2÷ | 2÷ | 6+ | 5× | 4+ | 2÷ | 1- | 11+ | 2÷ | 4- | 13+ | 10× | 2- | 6+ | ---
Hexalex
How to play Place each of the letters below once into the empty hexagons, crossing them off as you do so. Enter the letters in such a way that it is possible to find all the words listed alongside the grid by moving from hexagon to adjacent hexagon to spell out each word.
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Danny Nicholls's death, having been discovered lying dead on the living-room floor by his sister. There was no sign of a break-in, no obvious evidence of assault, and nothing to suggest self-harm. What could've stopped his heart without warning?
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Scotland's Golden Coast 9pm, More4
The latest coastal snapshots include the Isle of May, five miles off Scotland's east coast and home to hundreds of thousands of seabirds during the breeding season. In Angus, meanwhile, the Caledonian Railway offers a nostalgic journey through the countryside on restored trains, and at the mouth of Aberdeen harbour, a paddleboard instructor reveals a different side of the Granite City.
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FILM CHOICE LAURENCE PHELAN
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FILM OF THE DAY Next Goal Wins 7pm, Film4
(Taika Waititi, 2023)
Waititi's amiable, low-stakes, Cool Runnings-style sporting-underdog comedy is about the 2011 World Cup qualifying campaign of the American Samoan football team: a ragtag bunch who had never scored in a competitive match at the time, and still hold the world record for the worst loss in international football (31-0 to Australia). Michael Fassbender (left) plays the Dutch-American coach tasked with whipping them into shape: an ultra-competitive depressive who is a fish out of water among these congenitally warm and laid-back Pacific Islanders. Naturally he learns as much from them in the course of the film as they do from him.
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Borderlands 10.40pm, BBC One (Eli Roth, 2024)
Cartoonish big-budget sci-fi video game adaptation with bounty hunter Cate Blanchett, mercenary Kevin Hart and a garrulous robot sidekick voiced by Jack Black teaming up to rescue a 13-year-old pyro wild child on the planet Pandora.
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Skin
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1.30am, Film4 (Guy Nattiv, 2018)
Jamie Bell stars in this textured and gripping adaptation of the memoir of a founder member of a neo-Nazi organisation in the US mid-west, who later married, renounced his views and tried to leave his old life behind.
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Carrie
Prime Video
A new TV serial adaptation of Stephen King's tale of a telekinetic teen.
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Yuja
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Profile of Yuja Wang, one of the world's most gifted classical pianists.
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Youth HBO Max
Sharon "Catastrophe" Horgan's scabrous new post-divorce comedy.
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For The History. The demise of the ubiquity of the hat. 8.30 Top Comment. A look at an alleged case of gang rape at a Cornell frat house. 9.00 The Life Scientific. Jim Al-Khalili talks to oceanographer Robert Ballard. 9.30 All In The Mind. Cutting-edge research aiming to help people living with depression. Last in the series. 10.00 The World Tonight 10.45 Book At Bedtime: Stations. By Louise Kennedy. 11.00 Kiri's Farm. New series. Kiri Pritchard-McLean gets to grips with farming on Anglesey. 11.15 Big Little Questions. Amy Gledhill and Chris Cantrill answer questions from children. 11.30 Great Lives. Lea Ypi nominates philosopher Immanuel Kant. 12mdn't News And Weather 12.30 To Go Or Not To Go 12.48 Shipping Forecast 1.00 As BBC World Service 5.00 News Summary 5.04 More Or Less 5.32 Weather 5.34 Shipping Forecast 5.43 Prayer For The Day 5.45 Farming Today
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The Good Groove With DJ Spoony 10pm, BBC Radio 2 DJ Spoony (above) brings more soul, disco, R'n'B, UK Garage, reggae, hip hop and funk, as well as his mid-week guessing game Music Is The Answer.
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SPAIN
Exiled Catalan leader's arrest warrant lifted
By Joseph Wilson
IN BARCELONA
A Spanish supreme court judge lifted the arrest warrant for Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont yesterday, clearing the way for him to return home for the first time in nearly a decade.
Puigdemont (inset), Catalonia's former regional president fled Spain for Belgium in 2017 after leading a failed attempt to break Catalonia away from Spain.
He has since avoided attempts by Spain to have him sent back to face a court.
Now he looks set to go back to Spain just when the country is preparing for a national election next month.
It is too early to know how his return will affect the campaign, but given his unpopularity in most of Spain, it is likely that opposition parties will try to use his return against the prime minister, Pedro Sánchez.
Puigdemont scored a legal victory when the supreme court judge Pablo Llarena lifted his arrest warrant moments after Spain's constitutional court announced it would apply a government amnesty for the Catalan separatists to one of Puigdemont's allies who had been found guilty of misusing public funds.
Llarena said he was lifting the arrest warrant for Puigdemont while awaiting the opportunity to study the constitutional court's decision.
From Waterloo in Belgium, Puigdemont has maintained a loyal following among committed Catalan separatists, even as the in-
ependence movement has weakened. His penchant for the audacious was on display in 2024 when Puigdemont appeared in Barcelona, gave a speech and slipped through the police's grip. He has also kept con-
trol of his Junts party from abroad.
Junts' "No" was decisive in Spain's progressive government losing two key votes in parliament this week when it tried to push through emergency housing measures.
Sánchez was only able to remain in power in 2023 when Puigdemont's Junts backed his formation of a new government in exchange for the amnesty.
This week Sánchez responded to Junts scuttling his housing measures by calling a snap election for 29 November, hoping discontent over housing will mobilise his voters. AP
CANADA
Separatists win Quebec election
By Rob Gillies
IN TORONTO
The separatist Parti Québécois has won Quebec's provincial election but fell short of enough seats to govern alone, returning to power with a promise to hold another referendum on independence from Canada.
The result returns Paul St-Pierre Plamondon's party to power for the first time in more than a decade but denies it the majority it sought, forcing the separatists to rely on opposition parties.
St-Pierre Plamondon has pledged to hold another referendum on independence, though he has said he would wait until the US President, Donald Trump, is no longer in office.
St-Pierre Plamondon framed independence as essential to preserving Quebec's French-speaking identity.
Quebec voters have twice rejected sovereignty, most recently in a 1995 referendum.
The Quebec result comes two weeks before Albertans vote on whether to hold a referendum on separation from Canada. AP
SERBIA
KOREAN PENINSULA
Overseas voting terms made more restrictive
By Marko Drobnjakovic
IN BELGRADE
Ahead of a key parliamentary election later this month, Serbia's election commission has tied overseas voting hours to the local time in the country and approved a contested list of polling stations abroad.
\- a decision that critics say could make it tough for the Serbian diaspora to vote.
The change means voters in Chicago, home to a large Serbian community, would have to cast their ballots between 1am and 2pm, and Serbs in parts of Australia and New Zealand would have to vote overnight.
The 25 October election was called by Aleksandar Vucic (inset) before he stepped down as president last month in an attempt to return to power as prime minister.
The resignation came as he has faced sustained pressure from nearly two years of protests by a burgeoning student movement that has morphed into a political force that will challenge him in the election.
Past elections have been marred by irregularities and violence.
Serbia's election commission has tied voting hours abroad to the 7am
to 8pm voting window in Serbia and approved 93 polling stations overseas.
And while the number is 12 more than in 2023, nine of them are in neighbouring Bosnia, which has a large ethnic Serb minority in the Bos-
nian Serb-dominated entity of Republika Srpska.
Vucic is popular among Bosnian Serbs, and his political ally there, Milorad Dodik, has advocated for separating Republika Srpska from Bosnia.
The student protests' electoral arm, the Student List, will challenge the government of Vucic's party, in power for 14 years. AP
North threatens reprisals over land mine blast
By Kyu-seok Shim
IN SEOUL
North Korea's foreign ministry has rejected blame from South Korea for a border landmine blast, and threatened its neighbour with "immediate and powerful counteraction" for any violation of territory.
The comments came a day after the South said a joint inquiry with the United Nations Command and scientific analysis showed two of its soldiers were seriously wounded by an anti-personnel mine planted by North Korea in the Demilitarized Zone.
In a statement, the ministry dismissed the South's investigation of the 21 September blast as a “pre-mediated farce” aimed at linking it to North Korea and justifying diplomatic and military measures against Pyongyang.
It called the findings a “grave provocation” and violation of North Korea’s sovereignty. REUTERS
'Fastest Ebola outbreak' hits fourth country
KENYA
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A Buddha's eye view
Restoration work continues yesterday on the Mahastupa, the main and largest stupa of the Unesco World Heritage-listed Borobudur temple in Magelang, Central Java. The project aims to preserve the ancient Buddhist monument's structural integrity and protect its stone blocks from weathering and natural deterioration.
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By Evelyne Musambi
IN NAIROBI
Kenya has confirmed the country's first imported Ebola case from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
Health minister Aden Duale said a Kenyan citizen tested positive for the disease after showing symptoms of haemorrhagic disease when he arrived in the country on Saturday from the DRC via Uganda.
The man was treated at The Nairobi Hospital but died on Monday.
Kenya is the fourth country to record an Ebola case in the outbreak, which was declared in eastern DRC in May. Twenty cases have been confirmed in Uganda and one in France in what the World Health Organisation has warned is the disease's fastest ever spread.
Postcard From...
New York
Former White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt has found her next chapter: she is heading to Fox News.
Leavitt will become an on-air contributor from 1 November, the network has announced.
"Karoline's first-hand experience in the White House and on the presidential campaign trail gives her a distinct understanding of today's political landscape," said network CEO, Suzanne Scott.
Leavitt said she looked forward to bringing “my unique perspective as White House press secretary, along with the same energy and candour that defined my tenure, to Fox’s millions of viewers”.
Karoline Leavitt says she takes her 'unique perspective' to Fox News
Leavitt, 29, was the youngest ever White House press secretary. When she left the post in August, President Donald Trump described her as one of his “most trusted aides”.
At the time she said she wished to spend more time with her children – she has a two-year-old son and gave birth to a daughter in May.
Leavitt is the second of Trump's press secretaries to
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join Fox, following Kayleigh McEnany's move there in 2021. Dana Perino, former press secretary for George W Bush, is also a political commentator at the network.
Trump has hired several Fox News personalities to key jobs in his own administration, chief among them the Defence Secretary, Pete Hegseth.
But the President has an increasingly thorny relationship with the network, whose key commentators have long given him favourable coverage. As recently as Sunday he expressed frustration with Fox News for what he called its lack of coverage of his rallies.
Trump is also embroiled in a stand-off with news outlets whose coverage displeases him, capped by his recent efforts to ban CNN, MS NOW and Politico from White House grounds and exclude CNN from broadcast pool assignments.
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VIETNAM
Men held for stealing cats for meat
By Hau Dinh
IN HANOI
Police in Ho Chi Minh City have arrested 12 men suspected of operating a citywide ring that stole and resold about 2,700 cats for meat, state media reported.
Authorities identified Luu Thanh Binh, 39, as the alleged leader of the network. He and 11 others were being investigated for theft.
Investigators said Binh bought stolen cats, kept them at a facility and resold them for meat.
He worked with suppliers who recruited others to ride motorcycles through residential neighbourhoods between 11pm and 4am, hunting and trapping four to 10 cats each night.
In Vietnam, cat meat is more commonly consumed in the north among older generations.
The practice has declined with growing pet ownership. AP
INDIA
By Saurabh Sharma
Opposition politicians held over protest disorder
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Police detained several opposition politicians in New Delhi, India, yesterday for trying to breach barricades during a protest march to demand the resignation of the election chief over a controversial revision of voter lists.
The march was the latest political challenge to the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, midway into his third term, months after similar protests forced the resignation of his education minister over exam paper leaks.
Parties opposing Modi's government along with members of the popular "cockroach" youth movement protested against the chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar.
The Indian Express newspaper reported that there were internal concerns about the neutrality of the commission, led by a Modi government appointee.
Rahul Gandhi was among those detained at the protest
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Politicians carried placards, waved the national flag, and shouted slogans against Kumar during the march.
"The election commission is a puppet in the hands of the government," the Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, said.
Television channels said the opposition leader Rahul Gandhi and his sister Priyanka were among those detained before being released. REUTERS
NIGERIA
25 die as plane crashes during air force mission
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All 25 people on board a Nigerian Air Force plane were killed when it crashed during a routine mission, military officials have said.
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The ATR-42 aircraft was on its way to Lagos when it disappeared from radar and came down in the town of Igbokoda in Ondo state in the south of the country.
Nigeria's chief of the air staff, Sunday Aneke, described the accident, which claimed the lives of 20 passengers and five crew, as “a deeply painful moment for the Nigerian Air Force and the nation”.
President Bola Tinubu declared three days of mourning and directed flags to be flown at half-mast throughout the country.
The ATR-42 is often used by the Nigerian military for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance and for transporting personnel and supplies. AP
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Supermarket steaks to savour
From high-end cuts to value ranges, Sophie Morris puts 11 sirloins to the test
Tough job this one... but thankfully, none of the supermarket steaks I tried were even approaching tough. I tried
11 sirloins ranging from £23.03/kg to £60.87/kg. Those I really enjoyed started around the £30/kg mark and are worth the extra pennies.
I asked Richard Turner, co-founder of the butcher Turner & George, to tell me about the cut. He's one of the UK's foremost meat experts and chefs and has been involved with some of the UK's best steak houses.
He recommends cooking sirloin medium to medium rare. "But due to its leanness it's one of the few cuts I'll countenance cooking on the rarer side," he says.
I most often buy rib-eye but am so impressed by the sirloins that I may be switching allegiance. Turner explains that sirloin is a better cut if you enjoy a rare steak, as I do, because it has less fat.
As beef prices have gone up – the Office for National Statistics puts the rise at 52 per cent between 2020 and 2025 – sirloin has turned out to be a good-value cut, though it is still an indulgence.
Many of the sirloins I try are dry-aged. "Dry-aging on the carcass tenderises meat and intensifies flavour by evaporation, to an extent," says Turner. He says it's best kept to five or six weeks, though: "After that, the funkier, slightly cheesy flavours start to appear."
I cooked all the steaks in a pan, medium rare, to packet instructions. I enjoyed them all, but some have lower marks because there was a range in quality. What really stood out are the high-performing steaks in the middle of the price range, such as those from Co-op, Tesco Finest and Lidl Deluxe.
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M&S Collection British Aberdeen Angus Gold Salt Dry-Aged Sirloin £16.78/329g or £51/kg
Exceptionally tasty and tender, this 36-day aged sirloin really delivers, which you'd expect for the price. The cooking instructions direct a quick sear in a hot pan before moving to the oven, resulting in a delicious caramelised crust and melt-in-the-mouth pink insides.
Each steak is fully traceable to both the farm and animal it came from. This is the only steak I try that recommends oven-cooking, which is the preferred method of many chefs. 5/5
Waitrose No. 130-day Dry-Aged Sirloin Steak
£14/230g or £60.87/kg
A stunning product. The flavour hits from a moment before it's in my mouth, even: salty, umami, beefy and exquisitely tender. I eat more than is probably wise given the very many steaks I have to try. 5/5
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Daylesford Organic Grass-Fed Dry-Aged British Sirloin Steak
£9.20/230g or £40/kg from Ocado
A great-looking steak and not as expensive as I'd expect from Lady Bamford's fancy farm Daylesford Organic. The flavour is wonderfully beefy, but not in a blokey, upfront way. Rather it's softly spoken and almost caramel-like. The texture is molten and delicious. 4.5/5
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Waitrose Duchy Organic British Beef Sirloin Steak
A beautifully flavoursome sirloin that tastes sweet and grassy with a caramelly seared crust. The Duchy Organic range has award-winning welfare standards and sales contribute to the King's Charitable Fund. 4.5/5
Co-op Irresistible British Aberdeen Angus Thick Cut Sirloin Steak £11.00/300g or £36.67/kg This one wins the beauty contest, coming out of the pan with a deep burnished outer and brilliant pink inside.
It is also incredibly tasty and tender, with a lovely shoulder of fat. Cooking instructions are helpful, too, with varying times given for rare, medium or well-done steaks. 4/5
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Aldi Specially Selected 100% British Beef Wagyu Sirloin Steak £8.49/230g or £37.40/kg
A great example of British Wagyu, this sirloin has a rich flavour and it's incredibly tender, too. It's the only Wagyu I try, and is noticeably fattier than the others. As with the Lidl steak, the packaging gives brilliant cooking advice. I think this is a really smart way of helping shoppers feel confident they'll do their purchase justice. 4/5
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Lidl Deluxe Dry-Aged Aberdeen Angus Sirloin Steak
I'm a big fan of the packaging on this Lidl steak. The plastic cover comes off easily and the cardboard box has step by step illustrations and instructions, which are really valuable when you want to treat a decent piece of meat well.
The result is tender and flavourful; all in all a great product that I'd buy again, and one of the best value. 3.5/5
The flavour is wonderfully beefy, but not in a blokey, upfront way
Below: some of the steaks Sophie tried, including an 'exceptionally tasty and tender' M&S option
Tesco Finest 30-Day Aged Two Sirloin Steaks
£14.40/454g or £31.72/kg
214.40/45kg of £31.72/kg
Looks and tastes delicious with a strong umami crust and loads of beefy flavour. The texture is good, not quite melt-in-the-mouth but supple enough. I often buy one steak to slice up and share given the price, but at £14.40 for two large steaks, these are definitely worth splashing out on. 3.5/5
Sainsbury's British or Irish 21-Day Matured Thick Cut Sirloin Steak £6/225g or £26.67/kg
This is a great-value steak. While it doesn't look as appealing as most of the others when it comes out of the pan, it has a bit of colour and a nicely pink middle. It isn't as tender as I'd like and the fibres collapse into each other somewhat, but the flavour is impressive. 2.5/5
Morrison's Market Street British Sirloin Steak
£7.35/227g or £32.38/kg
The taste isn't there for me on this one, and while the meat isn't exactly tough, the fibres do cling together and turn powdery, which can be a sign of overcooking but that's not the case here. 2/5
Aldi Ashfields 21-day Matured British Sirloin Steak
£4.49/200g or £23.03/kg
As mentioned, I didn't hate any of the steaks that I tried and this is by far the cheapest of the lot. This one sears nicely but is lacking in flavour overall and has turned powdery inside. 2/5
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Ranulph Fiennes case shows importance of LPA
When her mother began showing signs of memory loss, Madeleine\*, 62, stepped in to help her with daily tasks, chores, and admin. She had watched her grandmother live with dementia, and knew the signs to watch out for:
After her mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in 2022, at 84 years old, Madeline lined up NHS and private carers for her, but her mother refused to let any of them into her home.
“She was so furious about having anyone in the house, and her loss of independence,” says Madeleine, who lives in West Sussex, and works as an admissions officer at a higher education college. “It was such a tough time.
"My siblings [a younger brother and younger sister] didn't really get involved in the day-to-day of it," she says. "They'd pop in to say hello, but they weren't facing the tough stuff head on."
After a year of this, Madeleine managed to convince her mum to attend a day centre – it went well, and allowed them to start talking about residential care.
"It was really tough for me to admit that this was the right path to take, but my siblings didn't want to discuss the idea.
"They both kept saying she didn't need to be in a home, and then my sister all of a sudden said that Mum should go and live with her."
Madeleine didn't feel her sister's proposition had been properly thought through, and worried she was being "naive" about the level of care someone with dementia actually needs.
The siblings both pushed harder against the care home, but Madeline had the final say. "I had lasting power of attorney [LPA] for my mum, which she'd granted me in her early fifties, and so there was nothing my siblings could do to stop me.
Lasting powers of attorney can help prevent rifts over loved ones, writes Kasia Delgado
"I didn't want to have to mention that aspect, I hoped we'd all agree without any legal trump cards, but in the end, that was the reality." Social services also agreed that a residential home would be the best course of action.
Within a few months, Madeline's mother had settled in to the home, and seemed less angry and frustrated. She was calmer, and the care seemed good.
"For a year or so, neither sibling spoke to me at all. Now my brother and I are on decent terms again, but my sister has almost nothing to do with me.
“She is still very angry with me, and with the fact that I called the shots in the end. I only did what I felt was best, but she won’t recognise that, and I’m not sure what I can do to change her mind.”
Disagreements between siblings over the care of an older relative are far more common than people might imagine, says Jane Connery, the director and founder of Care Campaign for the Vulnerable. "Caring for somebody you love can bring enormous pressure," she says, "and existing family dynamics can very quickly come to the surface when difficult decisions have to be made."
A key factor in such situations is who holds lasting power of attorney.
It was really tough for me to admit that this was the right path to take
An LPA is a legal document that lets you appoint someone to make decisions on your behalf if you lose mental capacity to do so, or you need help managing your affairs. There are LPAs for property and financial affairs, and LPAs for health and care decisions – the same person can be appointed for both, or you can have multiple attorneys to take care of different aspects of your life.
What happens to a parent or relative's money is a major flashpoint: complaints and concerns regarding alleged financial misconduct or misuse of an LPA reached a record 11,910 this year.
If these choices can be tough enough in nuclear families, then they can be all the more thorny in blended families. "This is particularly the case where there are second marriages, stepchildren, or different people holding lasting powers of attorney [LPA]", says Connery.
"I've encountered families where disagreements about who should make decisions have become almost as significant as the original care issue."
This appears to be the case for the family of Sir Ranulph Fiennes, the British explorer, who has not been seen in public for two years.
Fiennes, who has Parkinson's disease, is in the care of his second wife, Louise Millington-Cotes, who has power of attorney.
Questions have been raised about his welfare by his relatives. His cousin, the actor Joseph Fiennes, wrote in January to the Office of the Public Guardian (the agency which looks after LPAs), setting out concerns about Ranulph being cut off from his friends and family.
Millington-Cotes has been accused by Ranulph's family and friends of moving him between different care homes, under pseudonyms, and restricting visitation.
Cheshire Police issued a statement on Monday in which it said it did not have “safeguarding concerns” regarding the 82-year-old
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The nomination process
To nominate someone as your power of attorney, they must be over 18 and have the mental capacity to make their own decisions. They cannot be bankrupt or subject to a debt relief order, but they do not have to live in the UK or be a British citizen.
You can appoint more than one attorney, and should make clear in advance whether they will act together and separately, or only together.
You can apply for lasting power of attorney (LPA) using online or paper forms. The original forms (not copies) must be signed in ink by the attorneys, witnesses, and a certificate provider, who confirms you are acting by fully informed choice. The Office of the Public Guardian can help if you lack a computer or printer, or need help with the online forms. Before registering, you must send a form to notify relevant people.
Sir Ranulph Fiennes has not been seen in public for two years and his family say they are being kept at bay
Experts do advise that having an LPA in place is absolutely the best way to safeguard yourself, your health and your future. Without it, loved ones have no automatic legal right to access your bank accounts, pay your bills, or make medical and care decisions if you lose mental capacity.
If a family is in disagreement over the best care for an elderly, or vulnerable, relative, Connery recommends moving the conversation away from "what do I want?" and back to "what does Mum or Dad want, and what is in their best interests?".
Where the person still has capacity to make the particular decision, their wishes are central, even if relatives disagree with them.
"After many years supporting families," she says, "one thing I would encourage everyone to do is have these conversations while you still have the luxury of time."
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Using ferries and trains to journey home from Menorca was the perfect way to end a family trip. By Sophie Lam
I love airports. The thrill of possibility, the tantalising menu of all the places you could be within a few hours (even if, in reality, it's Belfast or Brussels).
Except when I'm coming home - then, I'd rather be almost anywhere else.
So this summer, I decided to change course. Using Interrail passes, I would avoid the deflating denouement of a family holiday by plotting a return journey that we'd all look forward to.
We'd flown into Menorca on ludicrously cheap easyJet flights during the strange summer of jet fuel uncertainty and hired a car to reach a farmhouse villa in the middle of the island.
Villa Torralba d'en Salort is tucked off a quiet country lane next to a prehistoric settlement of the same name. We came to discover that Menorca is quietly embroidered with dozens of these Bronze and late Iron-Age relics.
The villa dates to 1860, with a pool and views of nothing but drystone walls, fields, shrubs and a soaring date palm. Occasionally, a couple of peacocks and a sheep would wander curiously into the field below.
Otherwise, the only other soul we saw there was Vintage Holidays' rep Tracey Boocock, who came to check in with invaluable recommendations, gathered from three decades of living on the island.
Following her advice, we drove 10 minutes to the village of Sant Climent for the annual summer fiesta. The streets were festooned with bunting, and roads were covered with sand as jet black Menorquin horses were paraded in front of boarded-up shops. Hundreds congregated at makeshift bars and food stalls before the "jaleo" – when the horses rear up on hind legs in a kind of macho dance – in the main square. We left as darkness fell, but the party carried on into the night.
Our rural base was only around 15 minutes' drive in either direction from the north and south coasts. So, each day – after a slow start of yoga, reading, a swim and late breakfast – we'd pack the car with
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towels, parasols and a picnic, then set off for our chosen beach.
Tracey had recommended Es Grau in the north-east as a good spot for families. Set on the edge of a reserve of marshes and shallow bays, the seaside village reminded us of Cornwall. We watched kayakers glide through the water as we sat outside Cafe Bar Es Moll, and felt stomachs rumble as the scent of frying seafood wafted out from the open windows of L'avi Bernadet tapas bar.
On the south-west coast, we failed to reach Cala Macarella. Google Maps indicated we were only 15 minutes away from the aquamarine cove when two men in a roadside cabin sent us in a different direction: "Prohibido el paso de vehiculos!" – no cars allowed in the peak summer months.
We drove until the road ran out, and ended up beside Son Saura, a Caribbean-like sweep of creamy white sand trimmed by turquoise water, tussocky dunes and pine trees. We were not disappointed.
Slow afternoons on picturesque beaches trailed into balmy evenings under festoon lights in town squares and a million stars on the terrace of our villa. At the end of the week, there was a feeling of excitement as we waited in darkness on the unlit country lane for a taxi to arrive at 5am. An hour later, we were boarding a ferry to Barcelona.
From the top deck, we watched Mahon's 19th-century fortresses, islands and villa-clustered coves recede in the gentle glow of sunrise, about as magnificent an exit as you could hope to make from a holiday.
Eight hours passed surprisingly quickly – the children had their faces painted and splashed in the top deck pool as Bob Marley's greatest hits pumped out from the bar. After lunch, Barcelona came into view, the next stop on our homeward itinerary.
We were staying in El Poblenou, the "new village" in the east of the city. Once full of textile factories, it is reborn with vegan brunch cafés amid ornate Modernist apartment buildings. A modern addition is the Hoxton hotel, with a rooftop pool and taqueria. Our big, family room came with views of the Sagrada Familia's newly unveiled spires.
A bonus if you're Interrailing is that guests can choose their check-in and check-out times for free - ideal if you're arriving on an early train or overnight ferry.
We loved going for a hassle-free, warm evening saunter towards the beach along the Rambla del Poblenou – so much nicer than the touristy La Rambla – stopping for croquetas and duck paella in Bar Nuri, and scoops of creamy gelato from the ornate, century-old hor-chata parlour El Tio Che.
The next segment of our journey required a rush-hour start at Barcelona Sants station for the first train of the day to France. The bustle ebbed and flowed efficiently – we scanned our bags and tickets then boarded a high-speed Renfe Ave train bound for Lyon, which departed bang on time.
Settled in next to picture windows – we'd selected seats on the right to maximise the coastal views en route to Occitanie – my only regret was failing to pack a decent
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The writer was provided with Interrail Global Passes, which offer flexible, borderless train travel between up to 33 countries in Europe, as well as some ferries, interrail.com.
Avis offers car rental in Menorca from around £22 per day, avis.co.uk.
The writer paid €35 (£30) one way for a ferry from Mahon to Barcelona, gnv.it.
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Where to stay
The writer stayed at Villa Torralba d'en Salort in Menorca, which costs from £956 per week for up to eight guests, vintagetravel.co.uk.
She also stayed at The Hoxton Poblenou in Barcelona, which has double rooms from €206 (£175), thehoxton.com.
And in Nîmes, she stayed at Maison Albar L'Imperator, which has doubles from €202 (£172) B&B, maison-albar-hotels.com.
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After lunch, Barcelona came into view, the next stop on our homeward itinerary
Clockwise from main: Menorca's La Cala de la Olla beach; Sophie and her daughter at Nîmes station; the Roman Arena of Nîmes; Sant Climent festival GETTY
breakfast. The onboard café menu was much like trains at home - overpriced and unappetising.
The views made up for it as we sped through rural Catalonia and into France, towards the coast. Border police boarded in Perpignan, eyeballing us all (a mix of German Interrailers, French couples and Spanish commuters) as they marched through the carriages. Then we were off again.
For a glorious half hour or so, there were lagoons filled with flamingos on one side, the Mediterranean on the other, as unmistakably French towns and cities - Narbonne, Sète and Montpellier - flicked by between fields of heavy-headed sunflowers and ripe vines.
After less than four hours, we disembarked in Nîmes. We'd planned this stop out of curiosity to see what France's answer to Rome might offer. It is also small enough to navigate on foot.
Within 20 minutes we had walked from the station to the elegant Hotel Maison Albar L'Imperator. It was founded in 1929 by the Compagnie des Wagons-Lits, operator of luxury trains such as the Orient Express, to provide rail travellers suitably luxurious accommodation. The Art Deco grande dame is now a family-operated contemporary luxury retreat.
After a cooling dip in the pool (Nîmes is said to be the hottest city in France), we went out to explore as the heat of the day began to cool.
In the Jardins de la Fontaine, we watched hundreds of carp writhe in the spring-fed Roman canals before powering up the steep, terraced gardens to climb the steps of the Magne Tower, a remnant of Nîmes' Roman walls.
In the city centre, our children kept eyes peeled for brass and bronze crocodile markers in the pavements. The symbol of a crocodile chained to a palm tree dates to when Octavian (later Emperor Caesar Augustus) conquered Egypt.
The Roman Arena is one of the best-preserved in the world, and looked almost heavenly at dusk. The Corinthian style, 1st-century temple, Maison Carrée was another stupendous beauty, casually surrounded by drinkers sitting outside a neighbouring bar.
We loved being able to walk from one Roman treasure to another without battling any crowds or grappling with transport, and having learnt from our rookie error, we assembled a delicious picnic lunch at Les Halles market before our TGV to Paris.
On the fast InOui train – less than three hours – to Paris, we decided that Nîmes had been an unexpected highlight of our journey home. We're already plotting where we'll stop next time.
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An open-top tour around Europe's next great wine escape
Far from Budapest's crowds, a restored 1960s 'wine bus' is the ideal way to explore the lakeside vineyards of the Balaton region, Hungary's best-kept secret. By Matthew Dennis
Holidaymakers on the lake's shores, where private motor boats are banned. Below: Matthew Dennis with Virág Szabo on the restored bus
I'm sitting at the back of a partially open-top, restored 1960s bus. Burgundy faux-leather seats are held in place by shiny chrome frames; the luggage rack is made from braided cord. It feels like my old school bus. I close my eyes briefly, feeling the sun on my face and the wind blowing through my hair. Either side of me, rows of vines, freshly harvested, stretch off into the distance, the landscape marked occasionally by the volcanic Witness Mountains.
The hop-on, hop-off vineyard tour of Hungary's Lake Balaton region, aboard the 46° Balaton Wine Bus, is the inspired idea of entrepreneur Virág Szabo. With a personality to match the region's best sparkling wines, she guides the tour, explaining the route and each winery in a variety of languages.
The bus runs around a group of vineyards, stopping at each point every two hours, allowing customers to get off for their chosen tastings before returning to the lively town of Balatonfüred.
Szabo only started the business in May 2026, but it's clear her mind is fizzing with ideas. Lake Balaton has a predominance of independent restaurants, hotels and wineries and her mission is to help link them up and better promote the region.
"This is not my job, this is my love," she explains. It's an ambition shaped by necessity, for while Budapest draws millions of international visitors annually, Balaton has remained largely unknown beyond its Central European neighbours.
Private motorised boats are banned on Balaton, so the almost surreally quiet lake belongs to sailors, kayakers and paddleboarders, as well as swimmers. As the sun drops over the Witness Mountains, the golden syrup light warms the sails of
boats gliding across. An evening on the water here, glass of local in hand, is the perfect way to slip into holiday mode.
Within Hungary, Balaton is renowned for its wine production and, particularly in recent years, it has been keen to raise its profile. Grape varieties such as olaszrizling and kéknyelu sit comfortably alongside the more well-known szürkebarát (the Hungarian name for pinot grigio) and are well known in neighbouring countries.
The vineyards are developing. At Tagyon Birtok winery, Attila Kartaly discusses his ideas for the future as the team prepare for a wedding to be held the next day beneath the grape- and vine-hung white trellis where we're sitting. In between, Kartaly enthusiastically ducks out to get another wine to try, and I gaze across the rows of vines, punctuated by terracotta-roofed cottages, towards the silvery lake shore.
The 46° Balaton (so called because the start point is on the 46th parallel north) is not the only way of getting between Balaton's vineyards. As I travel around the lake, a well-maintained cycle path runs almost its entire 200km circumference. Balaton Bike 365 has five service hubs, stocked with regular and electric bikes, and over 1,000km of mapped routes are available.
Along one of these routes, the spa town of Hévíz is home to a geothermal lake. As I float in the 32°C water (minimum 22°C in winter), I feel my muscles soften.
Nearby, in the lake's north-westernmost corner, is the old town of Keszthely and the grand Festetics Palace with its baroque architecture and its two-tiered Helikon Library, which has 80,000 rare books and a secret door.
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How to get there
Wizz Air flies from Gatwick to Budapest. Trains run regularly to both the north and south shores of Lake Balaton from Budapest train stations from about £8, taking around two hours.
Where to stay
Pálos Resort in Zalacsány has a range of rooms and safari-style tent lodges from £66. Casa Christa is an agriturismo near Pécsely and Vászoly offering stays in old wine-press houses from £100.
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About two-thirds of the way to the 78km-long lake's eastern end lies the Tihany peninsula, where the scent hits you before the abbey does. The peninsula produces lavender, and the owner of the Lavender Manufactory is about to add another thread to Balaton's growing transport tapestry: a lavender road train linking the town's cobbled lanes, refinery, restaurants and lake views.
Back on the 46° Wine Bus, as Balatonfüred comes into view and Szabo marshals her passengers with characteristic effervescence, I find myself wondering why it's taken so long for the rest of the world to find this place. The Hungarians, Germans, Poles and Czechs, of course, already knew. Perhaps that's why they never felt the need to tell us.
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Full Board on Balmoral
Sailing from Portsmouth
Interior Cabin fr.
£699 PP
Oceanview Cabin fr.
£909 PP
NO SOLO SUPPLEMENT UNTIL 4 NOVEMBER 2026
Italian Riviera & Amalfi Coast
18 nights | 22 April 2028
Full Board on Borealis
Sailing from Liverpool
Interior Cabin fr.
£2,249 PP
Oceanview Cabin fr.
£2,789 PP
NO SOLO SUPPLEMENT UNTIL 4 NOVEMBER 2026
Nine Nations of Northern Europe
13 nights | 30 May 2028
Full Board on Bolette
Sailing from Newcastle
Interior Cabin fr.
£1,849 PP
Oceanview Cabin fr.
£2,239 PP
NO SOLO SUPPLEMENT UNTIL 4 NOVEMBER 2026
Mountains, Waterfalls and Fjords of Norway
7 nights | 23 June 2028
Full Board on Balmoral
Sailing from Rosyth
Interior Cabin fr.
£999 PP
Oceanview Cabin fr.
£1,209 PP
NO SOLO SUPPLEMENT UNTIL 4 NOVEMBER 2026
Cornwall's peaceful Scottish cousin
Mull is packed with fishing villages, wildlife, beaches and superb seafood, just not crowds. By Robin McKelvie
“Mull reminds me of Cornwall, but I reckon it's much better,” says Englishman Vaughan Foulkes-Arnold of Tobermory Bay Tours as he casts his arm across Tobermory's vast natural amphitheatre.
I clearly agree. This is at least my 50th visit to Mull. I see it as the Hebridean all-rounder, crystallising visitors' dreams of Scotland. The island's craggy peaks soar improbably high. At 966 metres, Ben More is the highest on any of Scotland's 800 isles outside Skye.
There are brooding castles, including Duart, resurrected by Sir Fitzroy Maclean, the inspiration for James Bond. We're talking beaches, too, wildlife, a whisky distillery, seafood, and a life-affirming sense of community.
The island does indeed echo Cornwall. There's the wildly beautiful coastline, with white-sand beaches like Calgary Bay. Tobermory, with its pastel-hued houses, is as postcard-worthy as Padstow.
Mull doesn't have an Eden Project – but it doesn't need one. Not when the ancient Argyll temperate rainforest feels like a real Garden of Eden.
The hiking is as good as Cornwall, albeit often rougher. I once spent a week forging through the island's heart along the Stevenson Way, bringing the pages of Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure novel Kidnapped to life. This time, I stroll along the cliffs from Tobermory to the old lighthouse, spotting otters and porpoises.
Mull's wildlife easily trumps Cornwall's. My three days bring red deer, otters, seals and golden eagles, followed by dolphins, minke whales and sea eagles on a boat trip with Sea Life Mull.
I spot another sea eagle with Theo, a guide with Nature Scotland. "The UK's last [sea eagle] was killed here in 1918, so it's amazing to have over 20 pairs nesting now. When they were reintroduced from Norway in 1975, they liked Mull so much they stayed."
I could stay just for the food. Seafood is abundant. I dine at Café Fish. Croig oysters kick-off the feast, before local lobster and a bowl of plump mussels.
Never mind Rick Stein's Cornish restaurant empire, I'd rather tuck into oysters at the Fisherman's Pier Seafood shack, run by a young local couple on Tober-
mory's fishing harbour. There's
local beef and game too, and Isle
of Mull Cheddar.
And what of the Cornwall crowds? Yes, Tobermory's main street gets busy in summer, but Mull is otherwise much quieter.
Mull, after all, is over twice the size of the Isle of Wight, with less than 3 per cent of the population.
Mull may be an island, but it's
Travel essentials
How to get there
CalMac ferries sail from Oban, Morvern, Iona, Kennacraig and Ardnamurchan. The Oban-Craignure service takes about 50 minutes.
Majestic Line offers a Mull and her Inlets and Islands six-night cruise from £2,645pp including meals and excursions, departing from Oban.
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Where to stay
The Mishnish in Tobermory is a lively pub, with B&B doubles from £130 (shared bathroom) or £175 (private en suite).
not alone. I spend one day back on the satellite isle of Iona, a place of pilgrimage since St Columba brought Christianity to Scotland in the 6th century.
Boat trips to Lunga and Staffa, meanwhile, bring puffins in summer – and at the latter, other-worldly basalt columns too.
Best of all, after any day trip, you get to sail back for at least another night on Mull.
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Quote of the day
At the job interview, I was asked to show my legs even though my character was wearing a full-length toga
Lindsay Duncan
The actress recalls her audition for 'Further Up Pompeii!' in the 1970s, calling them 'sexist times'
'I have a dark side and I like to explore extremes'
Richard Armitage on playing an oddball-genius pathologist in ITV's 'Winter', why he fears for younger actors and the joy of becoming a novelist. By Helen Brown
Richard Armitage would like to set the record straight about his infamous pillow humping scene in Netflix series Obsession. "I know some people were, like, 'Ewww, this is not sexy'."
He grins. "But that's a weird reaction because it wasn't meant to be sexy. It was about a guy whose obsession with a woman has taken him down the road to a point that's freaking tragic. He was behaving like a dog in a way that was utterly degrading..."
The problem, he suspects, was “the difference in tone” between the disturbing plot of the 2023 series and “the way it was marketed as an erotic thriller”.
He can laugh about it now, though. He reminds me that the show was based on Josephine Hart's 1995 novel Damage, in which he recalls "the guy actually has sex with a chaise longue. I remember thinking, 'Well that's going to be a challenge.' So we came up with some other ideas and the pillow scene was kind of improvised."
It's typical of Armitage to commit 100 per cent to such a deeply unsettling scene – and to be cast as such a disturbingly intense character. He found fame smouldering across the cotton looms of the BBC's 2004 adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South, before prowling moodily through woodland as Guy of Gisborne in Anthony Minghella's prime-time reboot of Robin Hood, and then achieved international stardom as steely-focused dwarf king Thorin Oakenshield in Peter Jackson's film trilogy of The Hobbit.
Most recently he's used that neck-hair-prickling stare to lend tense credibility to hokily plotted TV thrillers including Netflix's The Stranger and ITV's Red Eye. And we're talking today because he's at it again, playing the oddball-genius forensic pathologist in new ITV case-a-week crime drama Winter.
"The body will always tell me the truth," whispers Armitage's Dr Ethan Winter to the bodies of the murder victims he dissects beneath the grime-stained glass dome of the converted swimming pool he uses as a laboratory.
There's a slow-burn chemistry between rule-breaking Winter and sensible DI Bell (Annabel Scholey) as he showboats finding clues or slipping into the diving gear he just happens to keep in his car boot to search for AWOL body parts.
"It was fun to develop that frisson between the characters," says Armitage. "It brought humour because Ethan Winter is bordering on the obnoxious. He's sometimes misogynistic in the patronising way he mansplains things to DI Bell."
Such as, he says, when food snob Winter drops into Bell's family home and sneers at her family's takeaway pizza dinner. "Making dough is really easy," he scolds her in a way the 55-year-old actor says "deserved a slap in the face". He shakes his head. "But he knows he is doing it to wind her up."
Armitage says he enjoys playing complex roles. He was named after Richard III, having been born in Leicester on the same date – 22 August – that the Plantaganet king
I have a vivid imagination that takes me to some dark places
met his end at the nearby Battle of Bosworth in 1485. He is keen to being a non-Shakespearean version of the monarch's story to the screen, exploring whether he really did murder his two young nephews.
"I'm drawn to dark characters," he says. "I have quite a dark side in my head and a vivid imagination that takes me to some extreme places. And I am here to explore the extremes of the human condition: grief, terror, violence..."
He suspects the on-screen intensity that sends the adrenaline pumping through his thrillers might be the tension between his inclination to “really go for it” in scenes and his most-heard directorial note to "pull it back". "I've got a tendency to think, 'Put your back into it, Richard, grab that pillow!' And maybe what you're seeing is me holding it back while going further in my mind, behind my eyes."
Richard Armitage plays a cold forensic pathologist in 'Winter', alongside Annabel Scholey (below) RAY BURMISTON
In real life, however, he's much softer, warmer, funnier – and certainly less cocksure than many of the characters he plays on television. I last met Armitage on the forest set of Robin Hood, just outside Budapest, in 2006. His co-star, Keith Allen, had put on quite a noisy show during a press round table and Armitage had slipped away afterwards for a quiet moment beneath the trees. We stood together and admired the light in silence.
"When I did The Hobbit, Stephen Colbert came to New Zealand and there was this massive party, with everybody drawn to him like moths to a flame. I was just leaning on the wall, miles from the epicentre, just watching." He shrugs. "That's sort of how I approach life."
At school, he says, he felt “like I was biding my time, flying under the radar”. He didn’t like ball sports, worried about not being clever enough and spent his evenings alone in his room, reading or playing his cello. “I loved the way learning an instrument is all drill, drill, drill until you reach a flow state.” He smiles ruefully at not getting as good as he’d hoped. “I saw Yo-Yo Ma at Carnegie Hall playing the Bach Cello Suites and it was everything you can dream of."
Armitage came out as bisexual to his parents at 19 but many fans of his straight, romantic roles were surprised when he revealed he lives with a male partner. Did he ever decide to hide his sexuality from the public? He shakes his head. "I was never fully asked the question," he says. "If people were not going to ask, then I wasn't going to volunteer the information because it wasn't something that was bothering me."
He points out that he comes from a generation of celebrities who believe in “the idea of a private life. It’s called that because you don’t have to share it. People in the public eye have the right to have a part of themselves that is not on offer.”
But he fears younger generations "will have no concept of what that means because everything is filmed and captured and everything is content, from your breakfast onward".
He compares them with his acting hero, Gary Oldman. "I don't know anything about his private life, if he's married or got kids. I don't know what his fashion choices are..." He laughs. "I find it really odd when you see actors at fashion shows. That's not the job! Why are you there? To get free clothes?"
He also avoids talking politics. "As an actor, my job is to entertain people. You hope everybody watches your show, no matter which side of the political landscape they sit. I don't want to alienate anyone."
He's aware Ed Sheeran has made it a challenge for artists to remain apolitical and shudders. "We did an exercise in drama school, about 'berserking'. That's when the energy rises and people charge as a mob to attack, and even as an exercise you feel it's really frightening."
Off screen, Armitage has built an impressive career as an audiobook narrator and novelist. The clever chicanery of his debut thriller, Geneva (about a Nobel prize-winning scientist with Alzheimer's), was praised for its strong heroine.
The second, The Cut, explores what happens in an English village when a feature film sets up production and raises the ghosts of a local child murder. "Writing puts me in that flow state I used to get playing the cello," he says. "I can get lost in it. That makes me so happy."
I realise our call has overrun and let Armitage get back to his peaceful flow. "Yes, best get on," he chuckles. "Those pillows won't dry hump themselves!"
'Winter' is on ITV1 on Wednesdays at 9pm
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The arts at a glance
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Theatre
Cirque du Soleil return with their biggest UK hit
Kurios: Cabinet of Curiosities was the most successful Cirque du Soleil production ever staged at the Royal Albert Hall.
More than 216,200 tickets were sold for its 2023 run, breaking records at the London venue.
As the smash-hit steampunk spectacle marks its 30th anniversary, the Canadian circus troupe is bringing the show back to the Royal Albert Hall from 13 January to 28 February next year.
Kurios tells the tale of an eccentric inventor who builds a retro-futuristic, parallel world of wonders, and features acrobats forming high-energy human pyramids, contortionists and aerial acts swinging through the auditorium.
cirquedusoleil.com/kurios
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On stage
The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time Touring, to 29 May 2027 The celebrated novel has a new staging starring Strictly Come Dancing's 2017 winner Joe McFadden and EastEnders regular Charlie Brooks. The tour is in Milton Keynes this week and closes in Darlington on 29 May. curiousonstage.co.uk
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Book now
Jools Holland's Rhythm and Blues Orchestra
Touring, 29 October to 20 December
Holland's big band, backed by soul singer Andrew Roachford and pianist Joe Webb, will visit 31 venues this autumn/winter, including London's Royal Albert Hall, the O2 Apollo in Manchester and Glasgow's SEC Armadillo. The tour kicks off in Southend and ends in Cardiff. joolsholland.com/tourdates.htm
The Scottish International Storytelling Festival
Various venues, 21 to 31 Oct
This event offers 10 days of myths, folklore and stories with the theme "Bird and Beast".
The main programme is at the Scottish Storytelling Centre in Edinburgh, but readings will take place from Shetland to Dumfries and Argyll to Aberdeenshire.
sisf.org.uk
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Albums of the week... Rock box sets
Rubber Soul: Special Edition
The Beatles
This £200 set includes a new half-speed mastered stereo mix of the Fab Four's revered 1965 album, 26 session
recordings on two half-speed LPs, the original mono album, the original Capitol US album, and a 7" of the non-album double A-side single "We Can Work It Out"/"Day Tripper". It also includes an 88-page hardback book with a John Lennon foreword, Paul McCartney intro, photos, in-depth album background and track notes. Beatles Records
John Mayall and The Bluesbreakers
Guitar Heroes: The Decca Years 1965–67
launched the careers of Eric Clapton, Fleetwood Mac's Peter Green and Mick Taylor of The Rolling Stones. Alongside four key Mayall albums, from the live charge of Klooks Kleek to the landmark Blues Breakers, the package includes a new extended essay and a visual family tree.
Fontana
This four-LP (£115) or four-CD (£100) set documents the birth of UK blues-rock with the recordings that
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Channel hopping
Blue Murder Motel
ITVX, streaming now
ITVX, streaming now
Married Aussie detectives
Vinny and Cole (Michala Banas
and Brett Tucker (below) quit the
police to run a motel in the New
Zealand seaside town of Mōwai
Bay. Their peaceful retirement
does not last long when a dead body is found and they have to help a rookie local cop to crack the case.
CONSUMER
Asos shares dive 10% after customers alerted to 'hack'
By Henry Saker-Clark
Thousands of Asos customers have been sent a phone alert saying the retailer has been hacked.
Customers received a mobile app notification yesterday, titled "Asos hacked", which directed them to a Telegram account.
The message read: "Dear ASOS DPO and IT, we have full compromised the Snowflake instance. Engage with us, or we will leak it," followed by the Telegram link.
Shares in the company tumbled by more than 10 per cent yesterday morning as a result. The company has been contacted for comment.
The alleged hack refers to cloud firm Snowflake, which stores data for many major companies.
It has been the reported subject of a number of data breaches in recent years, including one on Ticketmaster where customer details were stolen.
Asos, which also owns brands including Topshop and Miss Selfridge, has 17 million customers globally.
The firm is undergoing a turnaround programme in an effort to halt declining sales and return to profit.
A raft of UK retailers have been targeted by cyber attackers over the past two years, including Marks & Spencer and Harrods.
Marijus Briedis, chief technology
Asos, founded in 2000, stood for As Seen On Screen with the premise "Buy what you see on film and TV". The UK is the group's largest market, representing 49 per cent of all revenues.
officer at NordVPN, said it was an "unusually brazen" message.
"The attackers aren't simply claiming to have breached Asos - they're publicly telling the company to engage with them or they will leak what they say they have obtained.
“What customers should be particularly alert to now is what happens next. High-profile cyber incidents create ideal conditions for phishing attacks.”
Cyber expert Rob Demain, chief executive of e2e-assure, said it was unclear if the claimed Snowflake hack was real, "because we only have the attacker's word for it".
He said: "The concerning thing for customers is that they received the threat through a channel they already trusted.
"While unconfirmed, one possibility is that the compromise is confined to the customer engagement or marketing systems connected to Asos.
Hackers used the Asos app to send the firm's customers a ransom note
"If the attackers only accessed that layer, it could explain the app notifications, but doesn't prove any access to the wider retail infrastructure.
"The architecture of how Asos connects to customer data illustrates the wider risk – marketing systems connect valuable customer information with the ability to send messages under the retailer's name."
Quote of the day
Today is a historic day, not just for Skydance, but for our entire industry
David Ellison
The firm's CEO after the completion of the £83bn Paramount Skydance takeover of Warner Bros Discovery
Customers can now sell their Ikea furniture and homeware on the Swedish chain's second-hand sales platform IKEA/PA
RETAIL
Ikea's marketplace takes on eBay and Vinted
By Josie Clarke
Ikea has launched a second-hand marketplace for its own furniture and homeware as it takes on the likes of eBay and Vinted.
The Swedish retail chain said the platform would provide greater access to affordable Ikea products, with prices on average 60 per cent lower than new items.
Members of the firm's loyalty scheme, Ikea Family, will be able to list home furnishing products, with the exception of mattresses and appliances.
Sellers scan an eligible item to create a listing, with the platform automatically providing recommended pricing, professional product photography, measurements, product descriptions and assembly instructions.
The price recommendation for pre-owned items is a percentage of the original cost and adjusted based on the item's condition, although sellers can set their own amount.
Sellers can receive their proceeds in cash or as an Ikea gift card, which will come with a 15 per cent top-up.
The platform is an extension of Ikea's Buy Back scheme launched in 2021 to enable customers to sell certain products back to the retailer for store credit.
Greg Lucas, sustainability manager at Ikea UK and Ireland, said: "Ikea products are designed to be used, maintained and enjoyed over time, and the second-hand marketplace, as well as our in-store buyback service, gives people a way to pass on items as their needs change."
SAVINGS
NS&I offers higher rates with latest bonds issue
By Vicky Shaw
NS&I has launched new issues of British Savings Bonds – with increased rates.
The Treasury-backed savings bank yesterday announced issues of one-, two-, three- and five-year fixed-term British Savings Bonds.
The rates, available to new customers and those whose bonds are maturing, include a one-year option of 4.99 per cent AER (annual equivalent rate), up from 4.82 per cent, while the two-year version offers 5.07 per cent, increasing from 4.81 per cent.
The rate on the three-year bond is 5.10 per cent, up from 4.83 per cent, and the five-year option offer increases to 5.17 per cent from 4.85 per cent.
NS&I said the rate changes to the British Savings Bonds, which are fixed-term issues of NS&I's Guaranteed Growth Bonds and Guaranteed Income Bonds, reflect changes in the wider savings market.
It added they will also help NS&I meet its net financing target, while continuing to balance the interests of savers, taxpayers and the broader financial services sector.
Rachel Springall, a finance expert at moneyfactscompare.co.uk, said: "NS&I has given its British Savings Bonds a welcome boost, with rates rising across the board and its two-, three- and five-year options now paying above 5 per cent.
“However, savers will find rates higher elsewhere, as all these bonds sit outside of the top rate tables.
“Competition in the market is good news for consumers, but attractive deals don’t always last long.”
SOCIETY
The Bank of Mum and Dad has been around for centuries – but in recent years, even more adult children are relying on
their parents for financial support.
Now, the average contribution among adults receiving parental financial support stands at £11,241, according to the savings app Spring.
Four in 10 recipients say the cost of living crisis is driving the need for parental support.
Paul Biggerstaff, 61, is one such parent. He has spent £18,000 worth of his savings helping his two daughters Sophie, 31, and Katie, 28.
The IT solutions director, who lives in Crawley, West Sussex, believes it is important to support children financially, giving them the best start in life possible.
He has gifted them both around £4,000 towards legal fees to help them buy their first home and £10,000 to Sophie, who works in SEO, towards her wedding.
He plans to help out Katie with a similar amount for her wedding.
"I think helping my child financially has always been on my mind. You want to see them do well and help them, especially with the first step of the property ladder," he said.
"I've worked all my life and obviously it depends on your situation at the time but I wanted to do it. It shows your commitment as a father too."
Paul funded the gifts through a mix of his savings and inheritance. He also took a tax-free lump sum from his pension once he was 55.
"I paid into my pension from early on and I have a reasonable amount there, so it made sense to make the most of the tax-free lump sum," he added.
Paul decided to downsize from his four-bed home in Farnborough a couple of years ago. The couple sold the property and moved into a two-bed flat in Crawley, as they plan to retire abroad.
This helped reduce their monthly outgoings by 20 per cent per month.
"The house was quite big and we realised we couldn't live there and pay off the mortgage without working for longer.
"With the cost of living so high
You want to see them do well and help them, especially with the first step of the property ladder
'You love your children and want to do everything you can'
Parents are taking cash from pensions to fund children's milestones. By Tara Evans
in the UK at the moment, it made sense to use the money to buy a home in Portugal."
Paul says he didn't think too much about the financial impact of giving gifts to his children.
"It meant a lot to me and I suppose a lot to them to help them," he said. "You love your children and you want to do everything you can for them."
Lou Valdini, 71, said he has already provided £105,000 in financial support to help his son buy a house and said he will dip further into his savings to help his daughter.
"The original idea was I would leave my Sipp [self-invested personal pension] pot sitting there and what would be left of it would go to my children," Lou said.
He is now aiming to avoid his estate being pushed over the inheritance tax threshold, so the original plan has changed.
Lou is also concerned that pension rules could change again.
He said: "My children always say they don't expect anything from me but the whole reason I bothered to save is to leave something to them and that's what I want to do."
How to help your children financially without having an effect on your finances If you're keen to help your children financially as you approach
£18,000
The amount Paul Biggerstaff spent helping his two daughters Sophie, 31, and Katie, 28
£105,000
The sum Lou Valdini has provided in financial support to help his son buy a house
The amount you can give away each tax year without it counting towards the value of your estate
£3,000 retirement, it's important to factor in your own situation.
Around 7 per cent of non-retired adults aged 18 to 69 expect an inadequate standard of living in retirement.
The key is to start planning early. James Shattock, from Legal & General, said: "For many people, retirement can span decades.
“That’s why decisions about supporting family and loved ones should be part of a wider long-term financial plan to ensure retirement savings can support their changing needs throughout later life.”
There is also the risk that you might need the funds back in later life – with one in 10 retired people saying they might need the money back, according to a study by Investec. The average amount they might want back is nearly £7,000.
To avoid this, firstly, work out your own retirement budget first.
Work out what your pension and other income will cover, then keep a reserve for unexpected costs, including care needs. Only offer money you can comfortably spare.
If you do decide to help your children, then it's worth checking tax rules first.
Paul Biggerstaff has given thousands to his children and plans to give more
Susan Hope, retirement expert at Scottish Widows, said: "Tax and inheritance rules can be complex, so what seems like a simple gift today could have consequences later. Think about whether taking financial advice would help."
to consider when giving money to children. You can give away a total of £3,000 each tax year without it counting towards the value of your estate, and carry forward any unused allowance for one year.
Parents can also give a child up to £5,000 tax-free as a wedding or civil partnership gift, on top of the annual allowance.
There are inheritance tax rules
Giving more than these amounts does not mean an immediate tax bill. But gifts that are not covered by an exemption could count towards your estate if you die within seven years, potentially increasing the inheritance tax owed. Regular gifts from spare income can also be exempt, provided you can still afford your usual living costs.
Next, you should think about getting independent financial advice before doing anything that could affect you long term.
If you're over 55, you can get free advice from Pension Wise in regards to your retirement.
If you can't afford to give financial support there are alternatives you can consider.
Sarah Coles, head of personal finance, at AJ Bell, said: "If you are phasing into retirement, you may be able to support them with your time, which can be invaluable when it comes to things like childcare.
"If you live near them and they're struggling to raise the money for a property deposit while renting, they may be able to move back in with you for a while."
Insurers detected £1.34bn worth of fraudulent claims in 2025, with an 85 per cent surge in the number of bogus travel claims, according to the Association of British Insurers. The overall value of bogus insurance claims detected marked a 14 per cent increase on £1.18bn in claims recorded the previous year. Despite a rise in value, the number of detected fraudulent claims fell slightly to 93,900 cases, down by 2.7 per cent compared with 2024.
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BIOTECH
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Supplement firm gets £2.5m boost
A biotech company has received a £2.5m funding boost from the Scottish National Investment Bank to support its new production facility in Grangemouth. MiAlgae, which makes fish-free omega-3 supplements using leftover by-products from the whisky production process, said the investment will help it scale up its commercial production and bring job opportunities.
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GERMANY
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Recovery stalls as factory orders fall
German factory orders fell faster than expected in August, official data showed yesterday, underscoring the fragility of a recovery in Europe's biggest economy. New orders, a key indicator of future business activity, were down 10.6 per cent from a month earlier due to a drop in large-scale domestic orders, according to the statistics agency Destatis.
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CONSTRUCTION
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Industry edges closer to recovery
The UK's construction sector declined at its slowest pace since January last month as it edged closer to recovery, according to figures. The closely followed S&P Global UK construction PMI showed a reading of 46.1 in September, improving from 44.3 in August. Any reading above the 50.0 threshold indicates activity in the industry is increasing. The figures indicated the strongest industry performance for eight months.
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TECHNOLOGY
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OpenAI admits fault over breach
OpenAI has admitted its actions were “not good enough” after one of its rogue agents breached Australian government websites in June, saying it had added more precautions to its training environments. The company’s chief strategy officer Jason Kwon faced a parliamentary hearing into AI yesterday in Sydney and said the breach “should not have happened”.
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EVENTS
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Informa to buy Clarion for £2.2bn
Corporate events organiser Informa has revealed plans to spin off its academic arm and raise £940m to help buy business-to-business specialist Clarion Events in a deal worth £2.24bn. Informa said the deal to buy Clarion from private equity firm Blackstone will add more than 100 event brands to its portfolio, from defence to electronics, energy and gaming.
Put the numbers 1 to 9 once in each row, column, diagonal (highlighted to form an X) and 3x3 box (ruled).
Solution: page 51
PROPERTY
Will PM's first-time buyers plan boost my home's value?
I'm looking to sell my £400,000 detached house. Will Andy Burnham's new home scheme stimulate the housing market and push up the price of my home? Name and address supplied
Although we haven't heard the full details of the scheme yet, I'd say not directly, and not soon.
Your First Home is for first-time buyers of new-builds only. They put down just 2.5 per cent and the state lends them 20 per cent of the price.
The scheme is intended to help first-time buyers but also, more importantly, to throw a lifeline to struggling housebuilders who, with a market downturn, had begun
to mothball sites they feared may not sell.
It is not live yet and the devil will be in the detail. We will get the price caps, income limits and repayment terms in the Budget on 28 October. Then, lenders and builders need time to set it up. If you plan to sell this autumn, it won't affect you.
However, the indirect effect is interesting.
Building hundreds of thousands of homes – private and council – takes a small army. Every house needs groundworkers, bricklayers, roofers, joiners, plumbers, electricians, plasterers, decorators, kitchen fitters and more.
Then come the lorry drivers, merchants, surveyors, solicitors and removal firms. Multiply that by hundreds of thousands of homes and you have a lot of people with more work and more money to spend.
Some of those people will want to move up the ladder. A site manager or busy electrician with a full order book is exactly the sort of buyer who might want a £400,000 detached house. Growth spreads that way, slowly, and it will lift the wider market over time.
But, we should be realistic. Right now the market is weak. Buyers are nervous about jobs, bills and mortgage rates, and many are
New-builds for first time buyers are the focus of a government scheme GETTY
waiting to see what the Budget brings. A promise of future building work does not make someone offer more for your house this week.
We can look back at history, as we have been here before. Help To Buy ran for years, and many in the trade argued it lifted new-build prices more than anything else.
There was a trickle-down effect
A promise of future building work does not make someone offer more for your house this week
to older homes, but other factors such as cheap borrowing and a thriving buy-to-let market boosted prices more.
So, what should you do? If you need to sell, sell on today's market, not a hoped-for one. Get three agents round and ask each for evidence of what has sold nearby, not what is on the market. Get sale prices data on the length of time they took to go.
Price to attract buyers from the first week, because a house that sits unsold goes stale and often ends up cheaper. It's a cliché, but declutter, tidy up and fix any small items that might deter a buyer. Choose your agent wisely as it can make the difference between selling and staying put.
And remember, if you are buying another home, what you sell for doesn't matter – the gap between them is what matters.
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Temp (zpm yesterday) | Rain (mm) | Sun (hrs) | Aberdeen | 14 | C | 0.1 | 5.7 | Aberporth | 17 | C | 0.3 | 2.1 | Aberystwyth | 18 | C | 0.5 | 1.6 | Aviemore | 13 | C | 0.5 | 5.5 | Belfast | 13 | C | 3.0 | 0.6 | Birmingham | 17 | C | 0.0 | 3.0 | Bournemouth | 17 | C | 0.0 | 6.9 | Bridlington | 14 | C | 0.4 | 3.8 | Bristol | 17 | C | 0.0 | 3.8 | Cardiff | 18 | C | 0.1 | 2.8 | Cromer | 18 | C | 0.0 | 5.8 | Durham | 13 | C | 1.4 | 1.9 | Eastbourne | 18 | C | 0.0 | 7.5 | Edinburgh | 14 | C | 0.4 | 3.5 | Eskdalemuir | 12 | C | 1.9 | 0.5 | Glasgow | 13 | C | 2.4 | 2.8 | Holyhead | 14 | SH | 2.5 | 2.6 | Hove | 17 | C | 0.0 | 6.5 | Hull | 19 | C | 0.1 | 4.1 | Huntingdon | 19 | C | 0.0 | 5.1 | Ipswich | 20 | C | 0.0 | 6.3 | Isle of Man | 11 | R | 1.3 | 0.7 | Isle of Wight | 18 | C | 0.0 | 6.7 | Kinlochewe | 12 | C | 4.9 | 4.2 | Kirkwall | 12 | C | 0.6 | 7.0 | Leeds | 17 | SH | 0.5 | 3.7 | Lerwick | 11 | C | 0.1 | 7.8 | Leuchars | 14 | C | 0.1 | 4.7 | Lincoln | 19 | C | 0.0 | 3.7 | Liverpool | 17 | SH | 1.7 | 2.1 | London | 18 | C | 0.0 | 5.8 | Manchester | 17 | C | 0.8 | 1.8 | Margate | 18 | C | 0.0 | 7.9 | Milford Haven | 17 | C | 0.2 | 2.4 | Morecambe | 14 | R | 0.9 | 0.7 | Newcastle | 14 | C | 1.5 | 1.6 | Norwich | 17 | C | 0.0 | 5.1 | Nottingham | 19 | C | 0.0 | 3.9 | Okehampton | 16 | C | 0.0 | 5.3 | Oxford | 19 | C | 0.0 | 3.6 | Plymouth | 17 | C | 0.0 | 7.3 | Portland | 17 | C | 0.1 | 6.8 | Portsmouth | 18 | C | 0.0 | 6.8 | Prestwick | 14 | C | 2.5 | 1.4 | Rhyl | 16 | C | 1.8 | 3.0 | Sheffield | 20 | C | 0.2 | 4.2 | Shrewsbury | 19 | C | 0.3 | 4.3 | Skegness | 18 | C | 0.0 | 4.6 | Southend | 19 | C | 0.0 | 7.6 | Stoke | 17 | C | 0.0 | 3.8 | Stornoway | 12 | SH | 1.0 | 6.3 | Swansea | 17 | C | 0.4 | 1.6 | Tiree | 13 | C | 4.5 | 4.9 |
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GENERAL SITUATION
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cool under heavy cloud. By early evening, the most western areas face stronger winds and heavier rain, while it will be milder in the most southern parts with showers easing. Max temp: 17C. Tonight, clear skies, gentle winds. Min temp: 8C. Cen S England, SW England, Midlands, S Wales, N Wales: Today will be dull and damp with cloudy skies and spells of rain. The morning will start with overcast skies and light rain, particularly in the most northern parts. By afternoon showers ease for most, with some sunny spells breaking through. By evening, rain returns, with temperatures remaining cool in most places. Max temp: 16C.
Tonight, rain spreads west, with gentle winds. Min temp: 8C.
SE Scotland, NE Eng, E Eng: | Air Pollution Index | Air pollution levelsLow (1) Very high (10)uk-air.defra.gov.uk | The day is set to start fair with sunny skies and mild temperatures. As we move into the afternoon, conditions remain pleasant in the most northern parts with more sunshine. The most eastern parts, however, will have mostly cloudy skies and a chance of light rain. Winds will stay light from the west. Max temp: 14C. Tonight, clear skies, gentle winds. Min temp: 7C.
NW Eng, SW Scotland, N Ireland, Republic of Ireland, IoM: The morning will be mainly cloudy with rain likely in the north-west. Into the afternoon, brighter spells are | Region | Today | Tomorrow | Highlands | 2 | 2 | North East Scotland | 2 | 2 | Central Scotland | 2 | 2 | Scottish Borders | 2 | 2 | Northern Ireland | 2 | 2 | North West & Mersey | 2 | 2 | North East | 1 | 2 | Yorkshire & Humber | 2 | 2 | North Wales | 2 | 2 | West Midlands | 2 | 2 | East Midlands | 2 | 2 | South Wales | 2 | 2 | South West | 2 | 2 | South East | 2 | 2 | Eastern | 2 | 2 | Greater London | 2 | 2 | expected in western parts, while the most northern areas remain wet. By evening, clear skies will develop in the south with mild temperatures, while the north has more scattered showers and brisk winds. Max temp: 14C. Tonight, cloudy, light drizzle. Min temp: 6C. NW Scotland, NE Scotland, W Isles, N Isles: The day will start fair and sunny with mild temperatures. The afternoon brings sunny spells mixed with some cloud cover. By evening, rain showers are likely in the most western areas. Winds are light to moderate from the west, with more persistent rain expected in northern coastal parts. Max temp: 13C. Tonight, cloudy. Min temp: 7C.
SYNOPTIC PRESSURE A deep low-pressure system centred over the Northern Isles is moving south-eastwards, generating rain across the UK. Meanwhile, a high-pressure ridge over the Republic of Ireland is pushing eastward, bringing brighter spells to Northern Ireland and the Western Isles. Breezy conditions linger around the Channel Islands.
THURSDAY Clear skies and sunshine in eastern regions, with rain in the north and west. Occasional showers in central areas, with breezy conditions throughout.
FRIDAY Persistent rain across the UK with breezy conditions, particularly in the north-west. Drier in northern England and Ireland, with sunny spells.
SATURDAY Rain showers in Scotland, with a mixture of sunny spells and cloud cover elsewhere. Breezy conditions throughout, with cooler temperatures.
SUNDAY Northern and eastern regions are mostly cloudy with sunny spells, while western areas face rain and showers. Cloudy skies in southern regions.
MONDAY Rain across much of the UK, particularly in parts of Scotland, Wales and southern England. Drier with sunny spells in the most central regions.
FORMULA ONE
George Russell is 84 points adrift of Kimi Antonelli with seven races left
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Russell set to start from back of grid
George Russell's dwindling title hopes have been dealt a further blow as he is set to start this week's Singapore Grand Prix from the rear of the grid.
Russell's heartbreaking power-unit failure in the closing stages of Sunday's Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia left him a whopping 84 points adrift of teammate Kimi Antonelli with just seven rounds left to run.
The British driver conceded that hopes of a maiden title are now “exceptionally unlikely”.
And his slender chances of a turnaround have been dealt another setback. It is understood that the 28-year-old will need to take a new power unit this weekend.
That will take Russell over the limit on several components and the penalties are likely to leave him starting from the rear of the grid around the streets of Singapore.
Antonelli won the Italian Grand Prix last month having taken a similar penalty and Russell will need something similarly miraculous.
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Furyk vows to 'do more than any team' to end 33 years of USA hurt
By Carl Markham
United States Ryder Cup captain Jim Furyk will ask his team to "do more than any American team has in the past" to end a dismal run on European soil next year.
Incredibly, the USA have not won the trophy away from home since 1993, with Furyk overseeing one of those defeats in Paris in 2018.
The 56-year-old said he would
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Jon Rahm has withdrawn from this week's Open de Espana due to the
impending birth of his fourth child. The Spaniard, who equalled Seve Ballesteros by winning for a third time in 2022, said: "I don't think I would have time to fly back and be on time."
draw from that experience and others in team events – he has also been captain and vice-captain in the last two editions of the Presidents Cup – to make changes within their set-up.
"I'm going to ask this team to do more than any other United States team has in the past," said Furyk, who admitted his team selection for Le Golf National eight years ago left him without "horses for the course".
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"I changed a few things immediately upon taking the captaincy. You're always coming up with new, creative ways to create that team atmosphere and that bond, but we've got a lot to work on.
Foursomes – two players playing one ball – is seen as a major handicap for the Americans.
"I've had some ideas and thoughts about how I thought Team USA could and should be run in the future."
Over their last four Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup matches they have won just eight of 34 points in the format, with just three from 16 against Europe.
"I know those numbers very well. I've lived them the last four," Furyk added. "It's not an anomaly. There's some issues. We understand that. Not something I'm very happy with. I plan on making some changes.
"As captains we need to do a better job – not only putting the folks into good pairings in good positions, but I don't think we are preparing for those matches in a proper way."
To improve preparation Furyk is keen for all contenders to be available for a fact-finding trip to Adare Manor in Ireland next summer ahead of the 100th anniversary event in September.
European captain Luke Donald is seeking to be the first captain to win three in a row but having made just one change to his team between the wins in Rome and at Bethpage, he expects a different approach on home soil.
"Decisions for this one will change," Donald said. "I have zero complacency about how strong the US are going to be."
LIV receives \$300m commitment for next year's relaunch
By Carl Markham
LIV Golf has secured an initial funding commitment for a
potential \$300m (£227m) investment from BC Partners Credit to help relaunch in 2027.
The breakaway series filed for bankruptcy last month after Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund – which had spent \$5bn in four years – announced it was withdrawing support at the end of the season.
That cast the future of LIV into doubt but a deal with BC, subject to approval from the bankruptcy court, gives it the chance to
court, gives it the chance to reset next year.
BC signed a term sheet with LIV last month, requiring it to sign half of the players to whom it owes money, as part of its financing plan.
But there is no obliga-
tion for the current crop to rejoin. Last week Sergio Garcia (above) submitted court papers asking for his contract to be terminated.
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“ While there is still work ahead, today marks meaningful progress towards a global league
The bankruptcy papers showed LIV owed \$64m to its top 27 creditors, with \$45m owed to current and former players at the time of the filing, but did not include future obligations. Reports suggested Jon Rahm is owed up to \$150m for the remainder of his contract.
"Our goal is to facilitate LIV Golf's emergence from the restructuring process on sound financial footing and with renewed momentum heading into the 2027 season," said Ted Goldthorpe, head of BC. The first of several hearings related to the bankruptcy will be held this week.
"While there is still work ahead, today marks meaningful progress toward a player-owned, team-focused, truly global league that complements the wider game and creates new opportunities for players, fans, partners, and the next generation of golfers," LIV Golf chief executive Scott O'Neil said.
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EUROPEAN U21 CHAMPIONSHIP QUALIFYINGGROUP FOUR | Rep of Ireland U21 (2) | 3 |
England U21 (1) | 1 |
GROUP TWO | Bulgaria U21 (0) | 0 |
Scotland U21 (1) | 2 |
GROUP SIX | N Ireland U21 (0) | 0 |
Greece U21 (1) | 1 |
GROUP NINE | Wales U21 (1) | 1 |
Austria U21 (3) | 7 | JERSEY MIKE'S TROPHY
NORTHERN GROUP A: Accrington Stanley 1 Salford City 1 (Accrington Stanley win 5-4 on penalties). Sheff Wed 2 Sunderland U21 0.
GROUP B: Blackpool 2 Crewe 2 (Blackpool win 4-2 on penalties).
GROUP C: Rotherham 0 Bradford 4.
GROUP D: Port Vale 2 Mansfield 0.
GROUP E: Shrewsbury 0 Stockport County 2.
GROUP F: Grimsby 0 Burton Albion 0 (Burton Albion win 4-2 on penalties).
GROUP G: Fleetwood Town 4 Barnsley 1.
GROUP H: Doncaster 1 Liverpool U21 0; Huddersfield 5 Rochdale 0.
SOUTHERN GROUP A: Exeter 2 Oxford Utd 2 (Exeter win 4-3 on penalties).
GROUP B: Stevenage 2 Leicester 1.
GROUP C: Wycombe 4 Bristol Rovers 1.
GROUP D: Peterborough 4 Ipswich U21 1.
GROUP E: Newport County 2 Plymouth 2 (Plymouth win 5-4 on penalties).
GROUP F: AFC Wimbledon 0 Barnet 0 (Barnet win 8-7 on penalties).
GROUP G: Cambridge Utd 2 Northampton 1.
GROUP H: Crawley Town 4 Bromley 0; Milton Keynes Dons 7 Brentford U21 1.
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Prince Of Petra (2.29, Nottingham) An intriguing newcomer for Roger Varian. Half-brother to Derby runner-up and French Group One winner Maltese Cross, and the Persian King colt begins life on the track over an extended mile. Pedigree suggests that will suit him.
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2.29 BRITISH EBF FUTURE STAYERS OATH NOVICE STAKES (GBB/GBBPLUS RACE) (CLASS 2) 2YO £30,000 added 1m | 1 | 7 | CALDO A Balding 9 7 | D Probert 3 | 2 | 54 | HOSHI A King 9 7 | C Bishop 2 | 3 | PRINCE OF PETRA R Varian 9 7 | R Dawson 5 | 4 | TOP SCHOLAR W Haggas 9 7 | T Marquand 1 | 5 | 3 | GAINFUL R Beckett 9 2 | Rossa Ryan 4 |
BETTING: 15-8 Top Scholar, 2-1 Gainful, 3-1 Prince Of Petra, 7-1 Caldo, 16-1 Hoshi. | 2.59 BRITISH STALLION STUDS EBF NURSERY (GBBPLUS RACE) (CLASS 4) 2YO £12,000 added 1m 2f | 1 | 65334 | CROWN RANGER M Botti 9 9 | S De Sousa 5 | 2 | 215 | KANZI C Johnston 9 9 | C Shepherd 4 | 3 | 7872 | AKARAKA M Bell 9 4 | H Crouch 3 | 4 | 5629 | FOSCARINI E J-Houghton 8 13 | C Bishop 2 | 5 | 55741 | NORTHERN VIOLA J & S Quinn 8 2 | JP Sullivan 1 |
BETTING: 5-2 Tamzan, 3-1 Quisana, 5-1 King Of Thunder, 13-2 Darkness,
7-1 Duke's Command, 10-1 Dark Whisper, 12-1 Treasure Time, 25-1
Dhahabi, 33-1 Carron.
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The Atlanta Falcons cruised
past the New Orleans Saints 45-24 after an impressive display on Monday night. The Falcons remained in front throughout, with 207 rushing yards as they improved to 2-2. Bijan Robinson (right) led the way with 145 yards and two touchdowns. The loss came as the Saints commemorated the 20th anniversary of their return to the Superdome after Hurricane Katrina.
CRICKET
Farbrace leaves
Sussex to revive
the Red Rose
Former England assistant coach Paul Farbrace is swapping Sussex for Lancashire after agreeing to become director
of cricket at Old Trafford.
Farbrace (above) stood down as Sussex head coach at the end of the season and was due to step into a part-time director of cricket post from next month. But he has accepted the chance to help revitalise Lancashire's fortunes after their worst ever season – finishing second bottom in Division Two of the County Championship.
The experienced 59-year-old said: "I am absolutely delighted to be joining Lancashire. I will always be grateful to Sussex for the honour of being head coach."
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RUGBY UNION
Packer to sit out England tour to North America
Harlequins back-
rower Marlie
Packer will miss
England's tour of
North America
this month.
John Mitchell's
players are due to face Canada, who they beat to win the World Cup last year, in Toronto in 10 days' time, then in Ottawa a week after that. They then play the USA in New Jersey on 30 October.
But two-time World Cup winner Packer (above) is staying home because her partner and Red Roses teammate Rosie Galligan is due to give birth.
England, who lost their record-breaking 39-match winning streak with a draw against Canada last month, will be joined by Saracens prop Kelsey Clifford after her return from a hamstring injury.
RUGBY LEAGUE
Grand Final hero Walmsley heads to Bradford
Wakefield Grand Final hero Lachlan Walmsley has joined Super League rivals Bradford on a two-year deal.
The Australian winger (above) made his final appearance for Trinity at Old Trafford on Saturday, where he played a key role in helping to secure their first league title since 1968.
Walmsley admitted after the game that he was unsure about his future, but Bradford acted swiftly to add him to their squad for 2027 and beyond.
He said: "That was my first Grand Final so to be able to win has made me hungry again and it will be just as good to go and do it with another club."
Kate Cross retired from playing while at Lancashire last month
Cross up for coaching in her future
By Rory Dollard
Former England seamer Kate Cross has found "closure" after retiring from professional cricket and is pondering a future in coaching – in the men's or women's game.
Cross bowed out on her own terms with Lancashire last month, a year on from the abrupt, and enforced, end of her international career.
"Everyone says, ‘when you know, you know’ and I thought that was a load of rubbish until it happened to me," Cross said. "Not many people get to control the end of their England career but was there was an element of control, having it be my own decision. There was probably a bit more closure for me."
Cross entered the sport as a 13-year-old in the amateur era, went on to become one of the country's first batch of professionally contracted female players in 2014 and walked away as one of only eight women to reach 100 one-day wickets for England.
She has also built a significant following for her media work, including the No Balls podcast with former teammate Alex Hartley.
"The messages I've got have been overwhelming, people have told me what they think my legacy has been and it's been lovely to read but it's a bit early to process that," she said. "I have been proud to go from amateur to pro, and trying to be a voice in that, trying to make it better. As I got older the standards I set for the women's game grew and exceeded all the expectations I'd set 10 years earlier and my journey went the same way."
Cross says transitioning to a tracksuit role did not always appeal but is open to the idea now. Hartley has worked as a spin coach in the Pakistan Super League and Sarah Taylor has been earning rave reviews as a fielding specialist with the England men's side.
"The narrative is changing for women, absolutely. If you're good enough to do a role, it doesn't matter if you're male or female. That's super-exciting," she said.
TENNIS
Alcaraz escapes from pain to win first title in months
By Eleanor Crooks
Carlos Alcaraz celebrates after rebounding from an injury-hit year AFP/GETTY
Defending champion Carlos Alcaraz defeated Jiri Lehecka in the final of the Japan Open to win his first individual title since February.
Playing just his third tournament since returning from four-and-a-half months out with a wrist injury, Alcaraz recovered from a shaky start to defeat Czech Lehecka 7-6, 6-4.
It is a second title in a row in the Japanese capital for Alcaraz, who showed patchy form at times but finished with a strong performance.
The Spaniard told Sky Sports: "I'm really happy to be able to lift a trophy again. Obviously it's extra special after my injury.
"It was a tough week that I didn't find my best tennis, my best level, but I did find the good solutions and I think that's what matters in the end.
"Today was the best match of the week, or at least more consistent."
"Obviously a lot of negative thoughts come to your mind," Alcaraz said, when asked if he ever feared not tasting trophy success again during his time out injured. "If you are going to come back healthy, if you are going to come back the same as I was before. If I will be able to hit the ball normally without pain at all. I tried to put those thoughts away all the time.
"If I feel something, [the come-back is] not going to be anything, so
I just have to go full for every shot, every ball, and I trust [my team], I trust myself, and it worked out."
Lehecka led 3-1 but Alcaraz hit back to level at 3-3 and showed his full repertoire of crowd-pleasing shots in the tie-break, winning five points in a row from 2-4.
He made his move in the seventh game of the second set with a break to lead 4-3 and looked delighted after clinching victory.
Sinner's season is over as his doctors decide world No 1 needs treatment for injured knee
By Eleanor Crooks
Jannik Sinner will not play again this season because of the knee injury that has sidelined him since Wimbledon.
The world No 1 recently announced he would not be able to return in China as planned and he has now called an early end to his campaign.
In a video, Sinner said: "Hello everyone, I would like to give you a little update. Me together with the doctors have decided that I need a course of treatment for my knee, which means that the 2026 season is officially over."
The Italian will not undergo surgery for what his team described as inflammation of his right knee. He will miss the ATP Finals in Turin next month and the Davis Cup finals in Bologna.
Sinner has been hugely
successful in the latter months of the season recently, winning the ATP Finals back-to-back and ending 2025 with a 15-match unbeaten run.
The 25-year-old (left) has been at the top of the
rankings since April but he is now certain to lose top spot, with Alexander Zverev less than 1,500 points adrift.
"The last couple of years, especially the ending in Turin, gave me so many beautiful
“This year is going to be different. I also need to think about my long-term career
feelings and emotions, which this year is going to be way different," added Sinner. "But at the moment I also need to think about my long-term career. I will do everything possible to get back 100 per cent."
Sinner suffered a stunning French Open second-round loss to Juan Manuel Cerundolo. He rebounded impressively, defeating Zverev in the final to claim a second successive Wimbledon title, but he has not been seen on a match court since.
Muchova delight after it takes nine match-points to beat Osaka
Karolina Muchova celebrates the win that puts her in the quarter-finals
Karolina Muchova won a tight tussle with Naomi Osaka to reach the quarter-finals of the China Open.
The Czech Wimbledon finalist saw eight match points come and go before she converted her ninth opportunity to claim a 7-5, 1-6, 7-6 victory.
"So many match points, I didn't know how many," said Muchova. "I was shaking. I'm happy that I made the last volley and it was really so close."
Wimbledon champion Linda Noskova fell 6-2, 6-2 to Ekaterina Alexandrova but fourth seed Mirra Andreeva defeated Daria Snigur by the same scoreline.
Beijing crown for Djokovic
By Eleanor Crooks
Novak Djokovic capped a remarkable week with his first title for nearly a year at the China Open.
The 39-year-old profited from the retirement of final opponent Alex De Minaur after one game of the second set to win a seventh title in Beijing and maintain his record of never having lost at the tournament.
The 7-6, 0-1 victory means Djokovic has won at least one title in each of the last 21 years, while he now has 102 tour level trophies overall.
Both men reached the final without having to complete their matches on Monday - Djokovic thanks to the much-publicised disqualification of Daniil Medvedev, while De Minaur's opponent Hubert Hurkacz pulled the plug because of injury.
Djokovic edged a very tight first set on a tie-break before the two men each took a medical timeout, but it came as a big surprise when De Minaur abruptly shook hands after winning the opening game of the second set.
The Australian, who returned to court with strapping on his left thigh, said in his on-court interview: "I want to say sorry to all the amazing fans that came to watch this match. I didn't want to finish like this."
When Djokovic lost in the opening round of the US Open amid ongoing physical struggles, the sporting obituaries were being prepared, but the Serbian has shown once again that writing him off would be premature.
Djokovic, who also defeated top seed Alexander Zverev during his run, said: "I know that when I'm feeling well and striking the ball well I can still compete at the highest level. This week has been an evidence to that. I'm very proud."
39-year-old Novak Djokovic hoists the China Open trophy
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FOOTBALL
Potter admits her 'surprise' at call for crunch World Cup play-offs
By Sunny Badwal
Chelsea midfielder Lexi Potter admits she was "surprised" to earn her first England call-up ahead of their forthcoming World Cup play-off fixtures with Greece.
England face Greece over two legs in the first of two play-off rounds for a place in next year's tournament in Brazil. They are in Crete on Friday, then at Leicester the following Tuesday.
Potter, 20 has enjoyed a bright
Lexi Potter (second from left) with Keira Walsh, Freya Godfrey and Lucia Kendall PA
“It would be a dream to play for England but now I want to do the best I can in training
start to the campaign after being given a run of starts under Blues boss Sonia Bompastor.
Potter has played a part in all four of Chelsea's victories this season in the Women's Super League and got herself on the scoresheet in a 2-0 win over Birmingham last month.
The youngster learned of her call-up while in her bedroom at her family home, before sharing her delight with her mother.
After completing her first day of training, she said: "I've been really lucky and grateful for the opportunities I've been given at Chelsea and when I got the call, I was really surprised.
"I like to stay focused every day and be the best version of myself and don't like to think too far ahead.
"I was at home, I still live at home so I was just in my room watching my phone a bit and then when I got the call I was really happy and went downstairs and told my mum and she was really proud of me."
Potter has been one of the most talked about players in the league this season but is not expecting to start in the games against Greece.
She added: "I wouldn't say I'm established. I'm lucky to play alongside world-class players. To get the opportunities at Chelsea is never easy.
"It would be a dream to play for England but for now I just want to do the best I can in training.
"I like to keep my feet on the ground and all my teammates make comments to me, but I don't like any of that. Keira [Walsh] calls me a baller."
Fellow youngster Erica Meg Parkinson earned her second call-up by Sarina Wiegman after she was brought into the camp during the April internationals, but she is still awaiting her first cap.
The 18-year-old from Singapore has a Japanese mother and English father but chose to play for England after being approached by them at a young age.
Parkinson, who was named after Eric Cantona by her Manchester United-supporting father, moved from Portuguese side Valadares Gaia to North Carolina Courage this summer where she has been a regular, picking up two assists.
She had the option of playing for a few countries but says the decision to play for England was an easy one.
Parkinson said: "I have always liked playing with the English players. They have a great environment and it is something I want to stay in."
ARSENAL
Gyokeres heads back to club a record-breaker
By Jim van Wijk
Viktor Gyokeres will return to Arsenal in confident mood after setting a new Nations League record with four more goals for Sweden over the international break.
Gyokeres was on target – accompanied by his trademark “Batman mask” celebration (right) – to give Sweden a 1-0 win over Romania in Bucharest on Monday night, extending his scoring streak in the competition to seven straight games.
The 28-year-old, who signed for Arsenal from Sporting Lisbon in a £64m deal last summer, has been used sparingly so far this season by Gunners boss Mikel Arteta, making just two substitute appearances in the Premier League.
Gyokeres, though, showed few signs of a drop in confidence over the extended international window with goals in each of Sweden's fixtures, which started with a wins over Romania and Poland in Stockholm before a 1-1 draw away to Bosnia-Herzegovina as his national side went top of Group B4.
With Germany forward Kai Havertz picking up a hamstring issue early in the break and returning to Arsenal for further assessment, Gyokeres could be brought back in to lead the Gunners' attack when the champions' Premier
League action resumes against Leeds United on Saturday.
“That [the goals for Sweden] means we win three games and draw one. It is a good start to the Nations League this year and for me it feels very good,” Gyokeres said.
"They [Romania]
had the ball a bit too much and we made it difficult for ourselves at times, but we won the match and keep a clean sheet, so after the match it is a nice feeling."
Arsenal defender Riccardo Cala-fiori got his first goal for Italy in their 3-1 win over Turkey in Bologna.
Calafiori, who scored for the Gunners after only 24 seconds in the
Community Shield win over Manchester City, is hoping to continue to make plenty of contributions in the opposition box.
"Last year, I was unlucky and I was close to at least five or six goals. This year the season started quite well, but o b v i - “ I spoke to the coach – he told me that if I have this impulse to attack spaces, I have to do it
ously, beyond the numbers, I am interested in the contribution I give to the team," Calafiori said.
"I try to be well physically – in the end that is what matters, because when I am okay I can help in so many ways."
Versatile full-back Calafiori revealed Arteta has encouraged him to make the most of his attacking instincts.
"I spoke to the coach and he told me that if I have this impulse to go and attack the spaces I have to do it, because it comes naturally to me," he said.
"Obviously it has to be done with the head, with the ideas and in the right moments, but when they leave me free I can express myself much better."
LIVERPOOL
Reds face wait to see extent of Jacquet issue
By Carl Markham
Liverpool are waiting to discover the extent of Jérémy Jacquet's fitness issue after the centre-back was left out of France's Nations League win over Belgium.
The defender (below) had played the previous two matches, his first for the senior team, but was omitted from Zinedine Zidane's squad for Monday's 4-1 victory.
The French FA said the
21-year-old had sustained a "strain to his left hamstring", while Zidane said Jacquet was "slightly injured" after the game.
The Reds already have doubts over forwards Alexander Isak and Cody Gakpo, whose international exploits with Sweden and the Netherlands respectively were cut short.
Isak was sent home after just one match due to a minor thigh problem, with Gakpo more of a concern after injuring his ankle.
Their absence would leave Iraola short of options up front ahead of the high-profile visit of City, playing their first match since an independent commission found the club guilty of the vast majority of charges relating to financial breaches.
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MANCHESTER CITY
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City should be punished for years - Carragher
Manchester City should face a multiyear punishment for their financial misdemeanours, according to former Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher.
An independent commission found City guilty of breaking Premier League rules in a strongly-worded report released last week, which the club have appealed against.
City were found to have inflated revenue by more than £830m over a nine-season period between 2009-10 and 2017-18 and, if their appeal fails, Carragher believes the sanctions should reflect that.
Speaking on The Overlap Fan Debate, the 48-year-old said: "If the people talk about [a penalty of] 80 points or 100 points, but that's just over one season that gets you relegated and then you come back again.
"And players, a few of them would leave, but some of them would say, 'I could put up with that for a year'. But because this has gone on for so long, I do think the punishment should be over a number of years, three to five years, and then players would move on."
Rogers' creativity might be Tuchel's key to immortality
ENGLAND
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CZECH REPUBLIC
AT WEMBLEY STADIUM
It's the nicest dilemma to have. One that reminds us that this England team has so much more to give.
To most, Bukayo Saka is undroppable. A world-class wide forward with a decent goalscoring record for England should ordinarily be one of the first names on the team sheet. There just so happens to be a maverick-like alternative who offers Thomas Tuchel the thrill of the unknown more than the Arsenal firebrand ever could.
Now Morgan Rogers has his big move to Chelsea, we could be about to see his rise reach stratospheric levels. This is a player who revels in being a £100m player, inviting the pressure it brings.
Sitting down with him at England's temporary training base in Enfield this week, Rogers (right) insisted his goal is to be seen as one of the
best players, not just in the Premier League, but the world. This is Cristiano Ronaldo levels of youthful ambition.
To be able to create goals like his mouthwatering assist for Harry Kane's first goal in England's most comfortable 3-0 victory over Czech Republic takes a certain type of visionary, a nonconformist capable of reaching for the stars.
It was the perfect night for Rogers to try something so out of the ordinary. The Czechs were no match for England, who finished their Nations
League mini-marathon on a high, Kane grabbing the headlines once more on a night he matched Peter Shilton's all-time men's appearance record for England.
The finish of the night came via a former West Ham boot, as Vladimir Coufal rifled an astonishing own goal into the net to open the scoring early on, a finish Kane could only dream of.
Then came the slickest goal in recent English living memory. Elliot Anderson's first-time pass over the top landed right in Rogers' stride. To be then able to slide a volleyed centre into Kane's
path, at that speed, defied logic. Kane moved sixth in the all-time international goalscoring charts with his 91st England goal from a corner in the second half, as the hosts sauntered over the line to the most relaxing success.
Tuchel now has five weeks to ponder his next selections. Anthony Gordon has absolutely nailed down the left forward spot. He is as automatic a starter as Kane right now.
Having Saka and Rogers to fight for one spot is an embarrassment of riches for Tuchel. What the German has to consider is who has the best chance of helping England overcome that perennial conundrum that has haunted them for 60 years – how do they get over that final hurdle, when it really matters?
Well, the man who created England's goal on that biggest stage against Argentina.
Rogers does not possess Saka's experience or his goal return for England. What he provides, however, is a greater ability to pluck something out of nowhere. And it is in these moments where finals are decided.
There is also an argument to be made that another Arsenal figurehead, Declan Rice, could also be left out when Tuchel has all his tools available to him. Rice's energy and leadership make him a pivotal player, but in his absence, the ball has moved much quicker through midfield and made England look much slicker than usual.
Leaving two Premier League winners and Champions League finalists out, on paper, seems somewhat churlish. Yet, when you have enigmatic talent like Rogers waiting in the wings, sometimes that element of surprise could be the difference between Tuchel's legacy being that of another nearly-man and an English footballing hero.
Harry Kane rises highest to head in England's third goal GETTY
New boss Pocognoli haunted by ghosts of Scotland's past
SCOTLAND
Christie 31
SLOVENIA
Matko 56, Sturm 71
By Jason Mellor
Under the watchful gaze of his three predecessors in Scottish football's early version of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, Sébastien Pocognoli further struggled to put his stamp on the national team's present to suggest a bright future under the new Belgian coach is still some way off for the Tartan Army.
Steve Clarke, Alex McLeish and Gordon Strachan were spirited to Hampden Park to help honour Andy Robertson on the Tottenham Hotspur defender's first home appearance since becoming only the second Scotland player to reach a century of caps since Sir Kenny Dalglish 40 years ago.
The trio of Scotland managers past looked on as the latest incarnation in the dugout was left with a single victory from his first first four competitive games after Scotland surrendered the lead in their faltering efforts to emerge from the wreckage of their North American no-show at this summer's World Cup finals.
Robertson who, injury permitting, will surpass the 102 games played for the national side by Dalglish when the Nations League group phase concludes next month, again stood out although it was far from a Scrooge-like defensive display as the hosts failed to keep a clean sheet on home soil for the ninth consecutive game.
A stunning sliding block from the 32-year-old full-back denied Swansea striker Zan Vipotnik what appeared to be a certain goal at the end of the first-half. The shot from the Championship's leading goalscorer last season from the edge of the penalty area looked destined for the bottom corner of Angus Gunn's net until Robertson appeared from nowhere to divert the ball to safety with that invaluable defensive tool – his left buttock.
The vital intervention maintained the advantage given the hosts by Ryan Christie just after the half-hour in the increasingly unlikely bid to clinch runners' up spot behind League A-bound Switzerland and with it a potentially friendlier route to a home European Championship finals in two years' time.
Ben Gannon Doak sent over a searching cross from the right for Jack Hendry to head against the post. Oli McBurnie, who has failed to score in his 20 caps, should have followed up to belatedly open his account, but had the consolation that
his miscontrol sent the ball to Christie to divert into the net with an improvised backheel two yards from goal.
The equaliser came from nowhere 11 minutes into the second-half. Luis Binks failed to get close enough to Aljosa Matko, who found the bottom corner from the edge of the area with a calm side-foot finish after running onto a perfectly-weighted Danijel Sturm pass.
Sturm should have made it two goals in as many minutes as he fired over when given time and space to pick his spot from 15 yards but the Slavia Prague forward didn't have to wait long to atone.
The winner arrived with 20 minutes left as Matko returned the favour, sprinting down the right to square for Sturm to fire into an unguarded net from six yards. Slovenia's first competitive away win for two years was the cue for Pocognoli's side to be jeered off amidst a distinct air of "Bah Humbug" at a rapidly emptying national stadium.
Scotland's Stephen Welsh loses out to Slovenia's Adam Cerin last night PA
Coach broke his word to me twice, claims Ronaldo in outburst
By Fernando Kallas
Cristiano Ronaldo has accused Portugal coach Jorge Jesus of twice breaking his word, saying a failed agreement to publicly explain his omission against Norway drove him out.
But the former Manchester United and Real Madrid superstar insisted he remained available after any punishment.
In a lengthy statement, the 41-year-old gave his account of the dispute that prompted his departure from Copenhagen before Portugal's Nations League match versus Denmark last week.
Ronaldo said Jesus had agreed a plan under which the forward would miss the Norway and Denmark games to manage his fitness. But on the day of the Norway game, the coach told him he would play for 30 minutes.
"Everyone knows the rest. I warmed up from half-time onwards, watched the minutes tick by and wasn't called on," Ronaldo said. "The manager had broken his word to me."
Portugal's captain and all-time leading scorer said a subsequent meeting with Jesus produced an agreement for the coach to clarify events at his next press conference. According to Ronaldo, a document was prepared saying he had never demanded playing time, had respected Jesus' decisions and that the coach asking him to warm up without bringing him on had been a mistake.
Ronaldo said the agreed notes did not require Jesus to apologise to him but said the coach's public remarks bore no resemblance to their private discussion.
"It was the second time he had broken his word to me," Ronaldo said. "I decided to leave the training camp without waiting for any further broken promises."
The statement provided Ronaldo's account but on Sunday, after Portugal's win over Norway, Jesus denied he had made any agreement with the player but left the door open for his return.
Ronaldo apologised for failing to greet fans after the Norway match and for leaving his teammates. "The consequences of my actions must be assessed and punished by the Portuguese Football Federation," he said.
Despite the rupture, Ronaldo said he was not limiting his international ambitions to a farewell appearance.
"If I'm physically fit... after serving whatever suspension is imposed on me, I'll be available, as I've always been until now, to compete and win for our national team," he added.
Cristiano Ronaldo made a lengthy statement explaining his exit
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REPUBLIC OF IRELAND
Uefa opens investigation into Israel player spit allegations
By Rachel Steinberg
Uefa has opened an investigation into the confrontation at half-time in Sunday's behind-closed-doors Nations League draw between the Republic of Ireland and Israel in Serbia.
During the altercation at the TSC Arena in Backa Topola, it is understood that the Republic's fitness coach, Damien Doyle, alleged he was spat at by an Israel player.
After the 1-1 draw Ireland boss Heimir Hallgrimsson said he felt the sides should not play each other, calling on Uefa to “step in and do something”.
The European governing body has now confirmed it will look at the incident, a spokesperson saying: "Following a review of the official reports which contained an allegation of an incident in or around the tunnel at half-time, a Uefa ethics and disciplinary inspector has been appointed to conduct the appropriate disciplinary investigation regarding potential misconducts from player(s) on the occasion of the Uefa Nations League 2027 league phase match between Republic of Ireland and Israel, played on 4 October 2026 in Backa Topola, Serbia."
The two teams also confronted each other after the match.
The Republic sit third in Group B3 after their first four Nations League fixtures.
In November they travel to meet leaders Austria in Linz then conclude the group stage against second-placed Kosovo in Dublin.
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