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萨塞克斯新动态

哈里与梅根在入学仅两天后将孩子从新学校撤出

阿奇王子与莉莉贝特公主因安全顾虑被撤出预备学校

哈里王子与梅根在孩子进入英国新学校仅两天后，便将其撤出。

萨塞克斯公爵夫妇出于安全原因，将七岁的阿奇王子和五岁的莉莉贝特公主从其就读的预备学校撤出。

作者：萨姆·格林希尔 (Sam Greenhill) 首席记者

孩子们自上月起才开始在英国生活，并于上周开始上学。

萨塞克斯夫妇的一位发言人 请参阅第 5 页

安全顾虑：萨塞克斯夫妇于上月迁回英国

天气 访问 dailymail.co.uk / weather 获取英国及全球 5 天预报

摘要：阵雨与阳光

英国今日：早间阵雨为主，上午中旬起缓解，期间有阳光。下午大部分时间多云，偶尔有阳光。傍晚天气转凉，天空基本晴朗。最高气温 21℃。

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月相与日出日落

月出：12.03pm，月落：8.16pm 伦敦日出：6.35am，日落：7.15pm 曼彻斯特日出：6.42am，日落：7.24pm 伦敦桥高潮位：5.18pm 利物浦高潮位：2.22pm

极端天气（截至周日晚上11点的24小时内） 最高温：弗里滕登，24℃。 最低温：布雷马 No 2, 2℃。 最高降水量：利巴努斯，31.60mm。 最强日照：勒威克，7.6hrs。

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凯米：保守党确实希望废除令人厌恶的“死亡税”

她表示，取消遗产税将有助于“普通家庭积累代际财富”

在有明确计划之前不发表任何公告。”

作者：马丁·贝克福德 (Martin Beckford) 政策编辑

誓言：凯米·巴德诺克希望废除“死亡税”

凯米·巴德诺克昨晚表示，她希望废除令人厌恶的“死亡税”。

这位保守党党魁确认，她正在研究如何取消遗产税，以减轻中产阶级家庭承受的沉重负担。

在关于亿万富翁向政党捐款的争论中，巴德诺克女士表示，她希望帮助“普通家庭积累代际财富”。人们日益预期，她将在下个月于伯明翰举行的保守党会议演讲中宣布该政策。

新任影子财政大臣安德鲁·格里菲斯表示，如果他可以取消任何一项税收，遗产税将是他的首选。这将继巴德诺克女士承诺若成为首相将废除印花税之后——该政策在去年的党代会上引起了轰动，并有助于振兴该党及其领导地位。

巴德诺克女士昨夜透露，她已要求其团队寻找“财政负责的方式”来解决遗产税带来的“负担”，同时抨击了改革英国党（Reform UK）及其亿万富翁加密货币支持者。

她说：“受遗产税影响的人大多是由于房价上涨而持有房产的中产阶级家庭、勤勉的储蓄者以及小企业主。而超级富豪则能负担得起信托和复杂的税务规划，或者移居海外。”

巴德诺克女士针对改革英国党的罗伯特·詹里克的一项主张进行了反击，后者称优先废除遗产税在“道德上是错误的”

亚历克斯·布鲁默 第14页

在优先考虑取消低收入者缴纳所得税之前，先取消遗产税，这标志着右翼两党之间存在重大政策分歧。

在《星期日邮报》首次披露该动向后，这是首次官方确认该方案正在被考虑。她在社交媒体上写道：“改革英国党（Reform UK）称取消遗产税是‘在道德上错误的’。我认为，惩罚那些做正确事情的人——用一生努力工作、储蓄、建立企业或购置房产以传给下一代的人——才是道德上的错误。”

她承认保守党支持者“有时包括富人”，但表示她的政党站在数百万已经“尽到义务”且希望自己的积累能造福子女或社区的人这一边。

“我们站在他们这一边，”她说，并补充道：“但我们不会”

巴登诺女士还抨击了改革英国党的捐赠者，包括克里斯托弗·哈博恩。他是两名加密货币大亨之一，其创纪录的£7200 万捐款正处于一场日益激烈的政治资金争议中心。

她声称，这些人“不需要担心普通的遗产税规划，因为他们将资金存在加密货币中或转移到国外”。

昨晚，她此前在保守党党魁竞选中的对手詹里克先生反击道：“我们都能同意遗产税是一项糟糕的税收。但问题是，考虑到公共财政的糟糕状况，当你必须选择首先削减什么时，你会选择什么？”

“你选择帮助最富有的5 per cent的人，而我们则希望将免税个人额度提高到1.5 万英镑，以使97 per cent的劳动者受益。”

尽管安迪·伯纳姆已经排除了提前举行全国大选的可能性，但威斯敏斯特的许多人认为他会这样做，以让自己摆脱基尔·斯塔默在税收方面的宣言承诺和红线。

众所周知，他倾向于另一种形式的“死亡税”，即大多数家庭在去世时可能需要缴纳10 per cent的征税，以资助他的社会护理计划。

布兰克特愤怒 - 第10页

不要担心人工智能，我们有特朗普！

作者：乔恩·迈克尔·拉施 (Jon Michael Raasch)

唐纳德·特朗普声称，人工智能已经拥有了唯一需要的“护栏”：他本人。

这位美国总统昨天在 Truth Social 上发布道：“人工智能唯一需要的控制或‘护栏’，是一位强有力且聪明（高智商！）的总统，而美国恰恰拥有这样一位总统，而且绰绰有余！”

他的这些言论发表之际，关于该技术风险的警告正日益增加。就在本周末，人工智能公司 Anthropic 的首席执行官达里奥·阿莫代伊 (Dario Amodei) 警告称，其开发速度必须放缓。

昨天，特朗普先生抨击了阿莫代伊先生，声称他是在“假装成一个小天使”。

总统暗示，对该技术的恐惧是一场为了让中国获益而精心策划的“病态阴谋”，并补充道：“谁赢得了人工智能，谁就赢了。我们领先于中国及其他所有国家，并将继续领先。阴谋论者、叛国者、背叛者和泄密者，小心了！”

随着包括 OpenAI 的萨姆·奥特曼 (Sam Altman) 和谷歌 DeepMind 的戴米斯·哈萨比斯爵士 (Sir Demis Hassabis) 在内的多位人工智能领袖支持阿莫代伊先生，科技股昨日大跌。在纽约，由于隔夜亚洲市场出现大规模抛售，以科技股为主的纳斯达克指数在早盘交易中下跌超过 1%。

昨晚，Anthropic 联合创始人杰克·克拉克 (Jack Clark) 同样警告称，如果该技术变得过于危险，人工智能公司可能需要引入一个“紧急停止开关”。

共和党领导人迈克·约翰逊 (Mike Johnson) 昨天表示，白宫即将与人工智能供应商会面。他补充说，美国国会未来可能会发挥监管作用，但不想采取“非理性”的行动。

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赤裸的野心：悉尼·斯威尼在博彩公司备受争议的广告中全裸出镜

金牌女孩艾米痛批悉尼...

英国短跑名将艾米·亨特 (Amy Hunt) 指责悉尼·斯威尼 (Sydney Sweeney) 将体育女性性化，此前该女演员在一家博彩公司的广告中全裸出镜。

榜样：艾米·亨特在布达佩斯比赛后发表抨击言论

29 岁的斯威尼女士在 Novig 的一段宣传视频中利用体育器材遮掩私处，这引起了全球女性体育界的谴责。

作者：卢克·鲍尔 (Luke Power) 和 乔安娜·克劳利 (Joanna Crawley)

亨特女士在今年夏天成为首位在单届欧洲锦标赛中赢得四枚金牌的运动员。在首届世界田径终极锦标赛的赛后采访中，她抨击了这位女演员。

周日在布达佩斯的 200 米比赛中获得第四名后，这位 24 岁的剑桥大学毕业生表示：“悉尼·斯威尼，这才是体育女性的样子。21.4 [秒，梅丽莎·杰斐逊-伍登的获胜时间]，肌肉，艰苦的努力，汗水，鲜血，泪水。这是一个美丽的夜晚。”这位短跑运动员——

她此前曾称自己“性感且具有攻击性”——表示，成为一名女性运动员的现实与广告所暗示的截然不同。

她补充道：“也有一些低谷时刻。甚至在参加这次锦标赛时，我的经期昨天才开始，所以这确实不太理想。”

此外，26 岁的澳大利亚游泳运动员、四次奥运金牌得主阿里安娜·蒂特姆斯 (Ariarne Titmus)（见插图）表示：“我们怎么能生活在一个将女性身体货币化并将女性体育性化依然盛行的世界里？”

此次批评是在 Novig 创始人雅各布·福廷斯基 (Jacob Fortinsky) 透露，持有该公司股权的斯威尼女士曾推动在广告活动中全裸出镜之后发起的。而在此一年前，她曾因在 American Eagle 服装广告中宣传其“极佳牛仔裤”而引发种族主义争议。

依然疯狂！Oasis 宣布将在 Knebworth 演出四场

作者：Codie Bullen 高级娱乐记者

富可敌国：利亚姆和诺埃尔·加拉格尔

在 Oasis 将 Knebworth 变成 Britpop era 标志性盛况的 30 年后，他们即将重返赫特福德郡。

加拉格尔兄弟将于明年回到他们最辉煌的成就之地，在一次包含 38 场演出的世界巡演中，确认在 Knebworth 举行四场演出。

1996 年的两天时间里，250,000 名粉丝涌向 Knebworth House，见证了该乐队职业生涯的巅峰时刻。

现在，利亚姆和诺埃尔兄弟正给新一代人机会亲眼见证这一切。

在 2025 年回归巡演取得巨大的财务成功后，“Oasis Live '27”将把乐队带到苏格兰、英格兰、德国、西班牙、荷兰、法国、意大利、美国和爱尔兰。

此次巡演将于 5 月 21 日在格拉斯哥启动，其中包括在曼彻斯特城的伊蒂哈德球场举行的 11 场演出。乐队在网上写道：“开始庆祝吧。”此外，Oasis 在嘲讽针对该乐队的批评时补充道：“经过一段时间的反思，‘近代英国历史上最具破坏力的流行文化力量’已宣布其功能完好，将再次回归以振奋人们的精神……这将是一场值得一看的盛景。”

此前一名消息人士表示，此次巡演“已经筹备了一段时间”，并补充道：“与上次不同，现在人们不再恐慌利亚姆和诺埃尔是否能和睦相处。现在的情况只是他们都期待登上舞台。”

自 2009 年分裂以来，Oasis 尚未共同演出，当时诺埃尔在与弟弟发生后台争吵后离场。当他们宣布回归时，由于数百万人试图抢票，最初在英国和爱尔兰计划的 14 场演出被多次延长。

粉丝们抱怨在在线队列中等待数小时后，才发现最初售价为 £148.50 的部分门票在动态定价机制下被卖到了 £355.20。但 2027 年的标准票价将固定，范围在 £71.50 至 £266.60 之间。

收费站英国：工党升级“对驾驶者的战争”，企业将获得权力让驾驶者在道路新路段付费

收费之痛：根据拟议的《公路（融资）法案》，高速公路上的收费站可能会在英国成为常见景象

独家报道 作者：David Churchill

在工党最新的“对驾驶者的战争”下，全国各地可能会出现新的收费公路。

汗三倍增加伦敦 20 英里限速区数量

部长们计划将广泛的权力授予那些为道路建设和维护项目出资的私营公司。

根据上周“悄悄”提交的拟议法律，这些公司实际上将成为新的公路管理机构，并可以随意通过沉重的收费和罚款来打击驾驶者。这引发了人们对达特福德跨海大桥（Dartford Crossing）式收费公路、隧道和桥梁在全国交通瓶颈处涌现的担忧，在这些地方，驾驶者通常除了付费外别无选择。

这将适用于公司升级的现有道路以及新建方案，这意味着驾驶者在目前免费行驶的高速公路上将面临收费。

虽然支持者认为这可以解锁投资，以建设或升级公共财政无法负担的道路，但批评者表示，这威胁到在全国范围内制造一个像“西部荒野”一样碎片化的收费体系。

这发生在一场关于“反汽车”的暴风雨之中

“他们把司机当成了摇钱树”

自劳工党执政以来，一系列措施相继出台，包括20英里 / 小时（20mph）限速区的增加，这引发了超速罚单的激增。

伦敦的劳工党市长将其管辖道路中实施20mph限速的里程数增加了三倍多。

在2021年，由劳工党议员汗勋爵（Lord Khan）领导的伦敦交通局（TfL）管辖的道路中，20mph限速区仅有50英里。但根据《每日邮报》获取的数据，到今年3月，这一数字已跃升至166英里。

这意味着，在汗勋爵管辖的整个大伦敦地区（一个面积为600平方英里、与周边郡县接壤的区域）中，近一半的道路被设为20mph限速区。他在该地区管辖着360英里的公路。

作者：大卫·丘吉尔（David Churchill）

批评人士表示，这是劳工党对“驾驶者发动战争”的最新证明，并揭露了大伦敦地区20mph限速区的天文数字般增长。而大伦敦地区已成为此类限速区的蓝图，使其成为英格兰大片住宅区道路的默认最高限速。

伦敦道路上的死亡和重伤人数。如果将市政厅管辖的道路计算在内，大伦敦地区超过一半的公路现在设有20mph限速。

此次推广是汗勋爵“愿景零”（Vision Zero）计划的一部分，该计划旨在消除所有

但由于被测速摄像头捕捉的司机人数不断增加，这些措施变得极具争议。其中包括犯罪小说作家琳达·拉·普兰特（Lynda La Plante），她在8月承认在金斯顿-upon-泰晤士（Kingston-upon-Thames）六个月内五次违反20mph限速规定。

保守党交通发言人格雷格·史密斯（Greg Smith）表示：“在已经让伦敦市中心的驾驶体验因无尽的自行车道、20mph限速区和无上限的道路工程而变得极其糟糕之后，伦敦20mph限速区的进一步扩张，是劳工党对驾驶者战争中下一个不幸且可预见的章节。”

“很明显，劳工党在试图逃避责任，因为他们一直在打击那些被他们单纯视为摇钱树的司机。”

影子交通大臣霍尔登（Holden）表示：“很明显，劳工党计划在安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）[下个月]的首次预算案中，在住宿费以及现在这项措施上，策划一场隐形税收盛宴。劳工党正试图悄悄推出道路使用收费计划——除了他们提高燃油税和按英里付费的计划之外——完全没有考虑过对收费上限进行限制，同时可能会制造一个充满惩罚性新收费的‘西部荒野’。”

改革英国党（Reform UK）副党魁理查德·泰斯（Richard Tice）补充道：“劳工党正在对驾驶者发动战争，而劳动阶层家庭正在为此付出代价。”

AA会长埃德蒙·金（Edmund King）表示：“司机已经通过£340 亿加元的燃油税和车辆消费税（路税）为道路付费，因此额外的收费将是‘过分的收费’。”自劳工党赢得2024年大选以来，该党还宣布对电动汽车和混合动力汽车征收按英里付费的税款，并计划在新年进行一次燃油税突袭，这将在伊朗战争导致油价飙升之后，进一步推高加油站价格。

最新措施在周四提交的《公路（融资）法案》中披露，该法案在提交时没有附带书面议会声明，交通部网站上也未发布公告。

“我是你的妻子，乔治。我不会付钱让你在我自己家里停车”

7月，《邮报》揭露了在考虑中的提案下，伦敦以外地区的停车罚单可能会增加一倍多——从£70的上限增加到£160。许多议会也提高了停车费以增加财政收入，有些甚至在考虑对工作场所停车位征税。

该法案将建立一套新机制，根据该机制，在建设或升级道路后获得许可的私营公司将被允许引入新的收费项目以回收成本。在给国会议员的一封标题为“官方敏感（Official-Sensitive）”但被《每日邮报》看到的信函中，交通大臣海蒂·亚历山大（Heidi Alexander）表示：“这种模式是英格兰资助重大基础设施的一种成熟方式，并已成功应用于能源和航空等其他领域。”

此次改革将适用于 A 类公路和高速公路，并由铁路和道路办公室（ORR）监管机构进行监督，以确保收费不会过高。根据亚历山大女士的信函，计划连接肯特郡和埃塞克斯郡（靠近达特福德）的 14.5 英里长的下泰晤士跨河工程（Lower Thames Crossing）被列为首批适用该新机制的项目之一。

交通部表示：“根据该立法引入的任何收费都将设有上限并接受独立监管。”

伯纳姆之父——在不知情儿子成为首相的情况下——因阿尔茨海默病去世

作者：格雷格·赫弗 (Greg Heffer)

安迪·伯纳姆 (ANDY Burnham) 患有阿尔茨海默病的父亲已经去世。

首相取消了昨天和今天的会议，包括他原定在英国工会大会 (TUC conference) 上发表的演讲。

在就任首相前不久，伯纳姆先生谈到了他的“悲伤”，因为 85 岁的罗伊 (Roy) 将无法意识到他的儿子已经担任了最高职务。

“这是一种悲伤，因为他本会感到[自豪]，”伯纳姆先生在 7 月时表示。“在我看来，这也是他的成就。是整个家庭的成就，尽管他对此并不知情。”

伯纳姆先生经常表示，他父亲的病情是他致力于改革社会护理的主要驱动因素之一。

在他就任首相后不久，他誓言要帮助“我的父亲以及

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数百万像他一样的人”。他承诺在社会护理改革上“采取果断措施”，在他接替基尔·斯塔默爵士 (Sir Keir Starmer) 担任工党领袖后表示：“我对这个系统有个人经历。

‘我的父亲患有阿尔茨海默病，你可以看到工作人员必须忍受什么。这不是他们的错。系统崩溃了。你不能让社会护理维持现状。’”

罗伊曾是一名电话工程师，先后在邮政局 (Post Office) 和英国电信 (BT) 工作。

罗伊留下了妻子艾琳 (Eileen) 以及首相的兄弟尼克 (Nick) 和约翰 (John)。

保守党领袖凯米·巴德诺克 (Kemi Badenoch) 表示了哀悼，并补充道：“失去父亲是一次极其痛苦的经历。”

阿尔茨海默病协会 (Alzheimer's Society) 的米歇尔·戴森 (Michelle Dyson) 赞扬首相是“改善痴呆症患者生活的倡导者”。

外援支出将翻倍

新任国际发展部长昨天表示，工党将把对外援助的支出增加一倍多。

克斯蒂·麦克尼尔 (Kirsty McNeill) 宣布自己是“援助的坚定信奉者”，并重新承诺履行竞选宣言，将国民收入的 0.7% 用于海外援助。

英国预计在 2027 年对外援助支出 £92 亿加元，而实现 0.7% 的目标每年将增加 £110 亿加元 的成本——这使国防开支增加的 £40 亿加元 显得微不足道。

每日邮报，2026年9月15日，星期二 新的萨塞克斯惊闻 第 5 页 “他们真的很想让这件事行得通……但接送孩子上学的路程在操作上无法确保安全”

安全问题：哈里王子对警察保护的要求正在接受审查

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表示：“在与该家庭的安全团队讨论后，决定让孩子们转学。”

“父母们对所有教师和工作人员向他们家庭展现的关爱、照顾和努力依然心存极大的感激。”

发言人告诉《Hello》杂志：“这一决定绝不应被解读为对学校或孩子们在那里获得的卓越照顾的负面评价。”

据了解，萨塞克斯公爵夫妇的安全团队担心，接送孩子上学路程的距离和严重的交通拥堵导致难以确保安全。

一位朋友补充道：“这真的很遗憾，因为他们绝对热爱这所学校，以及那里的孩子和家长。他们真的很想让这件事行得通，但基于安全团队无法在操作上确保接送路程安全的客观事实，他们不得不做出一个艰难的决定。”

该杂志称，阿奇和莉莉贝特在周一参加了一次试读课后，现在将就读于该地区的另一所学校。据称，有人看到哈里王子在帮莉莉贝特适应接待班（reception class），且这对夫妇已被加入家长的 WhatsApp 群组。

这一戏剧性的进展出现之际，有消息透露，由于哈里王子已回到英国，他要求由纳税人出资提供警察保护的请求目前正在被“审查”。

据称，公爵与公爵夫人已被告知，上周的一次会议决定审查他们两人面临的威胁——这是这对夫妇退出王室工作成员以来，梅根的安全问题首次被审查。作为评估的一部分，这对夫妇将被要求提供其日常生活详情、接送孩子上学的细节、经常访问的地址以及路线。

多年来，这位王子一直因内政部决定

“他们绝对热爱这所学校”

撤销了他的自动安保权利。哈里主张他出生即为王子，在英国期间需要警方保护。但他与内政部进行的一系列法律斗争均以失败告终，内政部认定，在他 2020 年退出一线王室成员身份并移居加利福尼亚后，他已丧失了能够随意调用由纳税人资助的保护措施的权利。

就在去年，在皇家法院再次败诉——对手是他父亲领导的政府——之后，这位王子在一次情绪化的 BBC 采访中宣称，他无法想象何时才能安全地将家人带回他的出生地。但据了解，既然他现在突然改变主意，带着梅根、阿奇和莉莉贝特回到英国居住，他获得警方保护的权限正在被重新审查。

ITV 新闻报道称，负责决定高知名度王室成员和政治人物安保方案的内政部委员会（即 Ravec）已致信哈里，告知他将进行一次“全面审查”。

上周，哈里阵营中的一些人指责白金汉宫试图通过查尔斯国王的一封“重磅”信函来破坏 Ravec 的会议。该信函明确表示，尽管萨塞克斯夫妇回到了英国，但他们仍然是“私人公民”，而非在职王室成员。

消息人士称，哈里和梅根对这封信感到措手不及，他们更希望被视为“公众人物”。他们认为，这封信发送的时机可能是试图影响 Ravec 委员会关于是否恢复哈里由纳税人资助的安保措施的决定。当时，《每日邮报》报道称此类指控是不正确的，宫廷发出该信函是为了在萨塞克斯夫妇繁忙的行程开始前提供明确说明。

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这项被称为风险管理委员会（RMB）的 Ravec 审查将针对哈里和梅根共同进行。

哈里曾在 7 月完成过一次 RMB 审查，但那是评估人员在得知他计划将家人迁回英国之前进行的。

ITV 新闻报道称，英国警方目前给予萨塞克斯夫妇的唯一保护是一名联络官的电话号码。

公爵被告知如果需要警方帮助可以拨打该号码，但他认为这本质上等于零保护，因为如果他或他的家人陷入困境或遭到攻击，警员需要很长时间才能到达。

哈里主张他是英国君主的儿子，王位继承顺序第五位，且是一名曾在阿富汗完成两次服役任务的陆军退伍军人。

他因在 2023 年的回忆录《Spare》中吹嘘自己在与塔利班作战期间杀死了多少人而受到一些英国军官的批评。

有人认为，这极大地增加了他对保护的需求。

苏格兰场不讨论王室的安保安排，但据了解，保护措施是根据具体情况安排的，并处于不断的审查之中。在哈里近期参加的一些英国活动中，他显然获得了警方安保。内政部已被联系以寻求评论。

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自 2010, 以来，工党已从其工会出资人那里获得了超过 £1.5 亿的资金，包括…… 工会如何救助工党

雷纳的抨击

在抨击改革英国党（Reform UK）捐赠者的同时，陷入伪善争议，因为她辩护工会的数百万资金

作者：杰森·格罗夫斯和索菲·丘奇

安吉拉·雷纳在批评向改革英国党（Reform UK）提供巨额捐款的行为，但却为工党从其工会出资人那里获得的数百万资金辩护后，被指责为“过度换气的伪善”。

在一次非同寻常的干预中，社区大臣昨天誓言要针对向奈杰尔·法拉奇政党捐款的“法西斯寡头”来“捍卫我们的民主”。

加密货币亿万富翁本·德洛和克里斯托弗·哈本在周末宣布将分别向改革英国党捐赠 £3600 万后，震惊了政治建制派——这是英国政党历史上单笔最大规模的捐赠。

唐宁街现已确认，政府准备追溯性地修改捐赠法律，这可能会

“恐惧我们的进步”

强制改革英国党（Reform UK）退还这笔资金。部长们还表示，他们可能会对未来所有的捐款设定上限。

在布赖顿举行的工会大会（TUC conference）演讲中，雷纳女士表示，给改革英国党的这两笔巨额捐款与各大工会每年交给劳工党的数百万英镑“截然不同”。自2010年以来，工会已向该党捐款约£1.5 亿。

改革英国党指责劳工党虚伪，并暗示如果劳工党试图封杀其自身的捐赠者，该党未来可能会采取行动禁止工会捐款。

其财政部发言人罗伯特·詹里克指责雷纳女士发表了“疯狂的咆哮”，并表示改革英国党准备“一路打到最高法院”，甚至

作者：昆廷·莱茨（QUENTIN LETTS）

安吉拉·雷纳那像JCB挖掘机铲斗一样的下颌，让她看起来像一台蹒跚前行的推土机。操作员需要小心。在启动发动机后，如果脚踩踏板太重，可能会造成意外损坏。

天哪！她是不是刚把几个支持改革英国党的亿万富翁称为“法西斯寡头”？为了政府的诽谤律师着想，我们必须希望那些改革英国党的小伙子们不要感到被冒犯。

劳工党的战略家们——那些疯子——一致同意，雷纳夫人应该在粗犷的布赖顿出席工会大会。自民党也将于几天后前往布赖顿举行会议。这座城市的娱乐场所将从这些“同志”身上获益。

如果诽谤法庭像足球赛一样，VAR（视频助理裁判）可能会审查“大安吉”的言论

在英格利什生蚝吧（English's oyster bar）经历了几天的辉煌（多佛比目鱼£58）之后，埃德·戴维那些衣衫褴褛的大众将带着打包好的面包卷和一壶淡茶出现。

工会大会热爱“大安吉”，而她也同样热爱他们。他们都毫无廉耻且权力欲望强烈。工会向劳工党支付了数百万英镑；而她为了回报这份感情，促使基尔·斯塔默爵士同意了《就业权利法案》。从那时起，基尔爵士被蒸发了，一位立场更偏左的首相现在在位。

在因房产税争议辞去副首相职务后，一段时间的离职状态极大地改善了她的形象。

雷纳夫人下午时分登台，引发了拥抱、亲吻和掌声。她笑容灿烂。如今的雷纳夫人显得干练。

她与一位略显沉闷的主席同坐在主桌上，后者的口头禅是“谢谢大家”。当会议的综合议案以99%的绝大多数通过时，他将每项动议揉成一团，扔在腿下。工会大会的动议很少有实际意义，演讲也极其糟糕。没关系。

工会大会的真正意义在于，利用报销额度在海边享受几天夏末的阳光，喝得酩酊大醉，并提醒劳工党议员谁才是老大。

雷纳夫人灿烂地微笑，向坐在昏暗大厅内“团结共创”（Unity Works）横幅下的数百名追随者飞吻。这里是她的主场，不仅因为她新的海滨住宅就住在几个街区之外，而且她出身于工会，也将继续向工会缴纳会费。

她自信地走向讲台，得意地甩了甩头发，然后开始演讲，给安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）恰到好处的赞美，称其“带来了希望”。她真正想表达的可能是“带来了可爱的我”。

伯纳姆先生复活了在基尔爵士时期看似已经终结的内阁生涯。我们竟然如此快地忘记了那位“鼻音骑士”。在辩论期间，我听到的唯一一次提到那个可怜家伙的地方，是关于他对公务员制度（Civil Service）态度的贬低。

“只有劳工党才是劳动者的政党，”雷纳夫人断言。失业统计数据未被提及。真正的

向欧洲人权法院提起诉讼，以对抗任何引入追溯性立法的举措。

改革英国党副党魁理查德·泰斯表示：“你们现在面对的是一群正在毁掉这个国家的社会主义者的过度呼吸式虚伪，他们试图追溯性地改变规则，这不是公平的方式，也不是英国的方式。”

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“而且我认为大多数人会说，‘这是否仅仅意味着劳工党对改革英国党（Reform UK）的进展感到恐惧，因此试图创造一个不公平的竞争环境？’”

根据正在议会审议的立法，居住在海外的人员每年捐款上限将为10 万英镑。在一次极不寻常的行动中，唐宁街10号确

德洛先生和哈本先生是英国公民，但其职业生涯的大部分时间都在海外度过。

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认该法律将追溯至3月25日，当时政府的一项审查首次提出了设立上限的想法。

回归的捐赠者必须等待一个日历年，然后才能超过新的上限。

改革英国党（Reform UK）党魁奈杰尔·法拉奇表示，任何追溯性修改法律的企图都会

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“让我们看起来像一个古老的共产主义国家”。

在上议院开启一场关于政治捐款的辩论时，政府部长泰勒男爵夫人表示：“我们必须将政治重新交还给公众控制。我们共同担忧政治中大额资金的增加及其主导公共权力的能力。”

工会领导层多年来一直反对设立上限，担心他们对劳工党的影响力会被削弱。但预计英国工会大会（TUC）今天将支持设立上限的呼吁。然而，工会负责人将辩称，由于他们的捐款是由工人支付的小额征收金资助的，因此应予以豁免。

雷纳女士在大会上表示，工会的资金“与几个试图买断我们民主制度的离岸亿万富翁截然不同”。她补充道：“让我明确一点：我们将捍卫我们的民主和社会，使其免受任何外国独裁者或法西斯寡头目的，她演讲的目的是攻击改革英国党（Reform UK）以及两名商人提供的£7200 万意外之财。雷纳夫人将他们称为‘奈杰尔·法拉奇的金主’。她在工会运动中的‘金主’们反应不大。TUC从来都不是一个容易应付的场合。

她驳斥了认为改革英国党（Reform UK）的£7200 万与工会交给劳工党的赃款相当的论点。

她说：“我们将捍卫我们的民主和社会，使其免受任何试图分裂我们国家并买断我们政治的外国独裁者或法西斯寡头的侵害。”

我不是诽谤律师，但如果诽谤法庭像足球赛一样，那么这段话可能会被VAR（视频助理裁判）仔细审查。

关于TUC唯一值得报道的另一件事就是如今它变得多么中产阶级化。

煽动者包括许多放射技师和物理治疗师、由官僚组成的第一分会协会、一名来自演员工会（Equity）的艺术爱好者、一名来自核监管机构的书呆子，以及一名口才相当好的足科医生，他坚决主张（put his foot down——没人比他更擅长这个双关语）足病医生是工人阶级。一场激烈的演讲。

试图分裂我们国家并买断我们政治。”

劳工党消息人士称，雷纳女士的言论并非针对任何特定个人。

法拉奇先生表示，哈本先生和德洛先生都不会被提供上议院席位，也不会改变政党的政策。他将此与劳工党进行了对比，后者政府迅速采取行动满足工会对工人权利的要求。

他说：“如果有人在出钱进行政治操纵，那就是工会。我想警告工会和劳工党，如果你试图禁止我们的捐赠者，我们在政府中肯定会禁止你们的。但我不想走那条路。”

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寡头们在家里：安吉拉·雷纳昨日在工会大会（TUC）上的演讲 / 法拉奇坚称亿万富翁捐赠者是英国选民

作者：杰森·格罗夫斯（Jason Groves）和克里斯·波拉德（Chris Pollard）

奈杰尔·法拉奇（NIGEL Farage）昨晚坚称，他政党的两名亿万富翁捐赠者是“英国的选民”，根据现行法律，他们有权向政党捐赠任何金额的资金。

自周末以来，关于本·德洛（Ben Delo）和克里斯托弗·哈博恩（Christopher Harborne）的质疑一直围绕在人们心中，此前两人确认将分别向改革英国党（Reform UK）捐赠创纪录的 £3600 万。

这两位加密货币亿万富翁都在海外生活多年，如果是在海外，他们将被纳入劳工党针对外国捐赠者的打击范围。

改革英国党的副党魁理查德·泰斯（Richard Tice）昨日拒绝透露这两名男子何时迁回英国。

但党魁法拉奇先生表示，他们的捐赠“100% 符合今天的法律”。

他表示，这笔巨款来自“两名非常成功的英国企业家”，并补充道：“至关重要的是，他们是两名在英国拥有投票权的英国企业家，根据立法，他们完全有权进行这些捐赠。”

劳工党计划修改法律，将居住在海外的英国公民每年的捐赠上限设定为 10 万英镑。

唐宁街确认，这将追溯至今年 25 March。在此日期之后，任何捐赠者都必须证明其在英国居住至少 12 个月。

强力辩护：奈杰尔·法拉奇

在今年4月的一次采访中，曾在香港生活多年的德洛先生表示，他将“尽早搬回英国，以便能为改革英国党的预算做出更多贡献”。

然而，《每日邮报》看到的官方记录显示，德洛先生自 2022, 起就在牛津郡的一处房产登记了投票权，这可能使他能够逃避劳工党计划的打击。

记录还显示，曾在泰国生活多年的哈博恩先生自 2020. 起断断续续在汉普郡登记投票。去年，他在一个拥有房产的选区以“其他选民”名义登记，这可能包括居住在海外的海外选民。

据报道，哈博恩先生在今年6月更改了其选民登记。然而，他在 2021 或 2024 似乎完全没有在英国登记。

保守党前台议员奥尼尔男爵夫人（Baroness O'Neill）告诉议员们，“我们目前的理解是，这些捐赠将被纳入海外贡献者上限的限制范围”。

但法拉奇先生为这些捐赠辩护，并补充说，劳工党任何试图阻止捐赠的行为都将“被我们用尽全力予以反击”。

这位改革英国党领导人表示，竞争对手们对于这些捐赠规模可能在下次选举中“平衡竞争环境”的想法感到“惊慌失措”。

他表示，改革英国党在 2024 年大选中的支出仅为 £550 万，而劳工党支出为 £3000 万，保守党为 £2300 万。

唐宁街确认，内阁办公室部长露易丝·海格（Louise Haigh）现已致信选举委员会，要求审查支出限制。海格女士表示，选举中 £3400 万 的支出限制“过高，应当降低”。

RMT负责人担心右翼联合

每日邮报 右翼必须团结 改革英国党（Reform UK）

作者：索菲·丘奇（Sophie Church） 政治记者

一名工会负责人昨日警告称，右翼在下次大选中团结起来将构成一个“真正的危险”。

全国铁路、海运和运输工人工会（National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers）总书记埃迪·登普西（Eddie Dempsey）暗示，右翼政党之间的协议比任何回归 1930 年代的法西斯主义都更令人恐惧。

他表示：“我们面对的不是 [奥斯瓦尔德] 莫斯利（Oswald Mosley）和黑衫军。我们面对的是改革英国党与西欧最古老的执政党——保守党之间的联盟。”

“这才是真正的危险：一个将这些人带入议会的政治联盟。”

在布赖顿举行的工会年度集会上，登普西先生补充道：“在这一现象的边缘，一个迅速增长的街头运动正在兴起，在某些情况下，他们在手段上似乎甚至与旧的准军事组织建立了联系。”

“因此，这是一个完全不同的局面，需要一种不同的处理方式。”

“应对国民阵线（National Front）与应对一个社会右翼、经济撒切尔主义的极右翼政治联盟——即保守党（西欧最古老的执政党）与奈杰尔·法拉奇（Nigel Farage）之间的联盟前景——是有区别的。”

此前一直有重复的呼吁要求右翼团结起来，以防止左翼夺权。

前保守党内阁大臣雅各布·里斯-莫格爵士（Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg）表示：“威胁国家的是社会主义和高税收。”

根据“团结英国右翼”（Unite the Right UK）网站的数据，通过策略性投票，右翼可能会产生 484 名国会议员。More in Common 昨晚的一项民调发现，三分之一的英国人愿意进行策略性投票。

另有 400 人乘坐小船抵达英国

作者：萨姆·劳利（Sam Lawley）

昨日发现载有移民的小船抵达英国。

具体的抵达人数尚未确认，但有迹象表明，边境部队（Border Force）的船只在多佛将多达 400 人送上岸。

照片显示，下午一艘船抵达大陆时，官员们正引导移民下船。

内政部上周的数据确认，今年以来小船抵达人数下降 44% 部分是由于天气恶劣。在 1 月至 8 月底期间，英吉利海峡条件有利于非法橡皮艇穿越的天数（被官员称为“红色天数”）为 110 天。

这一数字比去年同期的 123 天下降了 11%。

在陆地上：昨日移民乘坐边境部队船只抵达多佛

改革英国党的私人警卫在“被移民变成禁区”的城镇巡逻

街头现身：昨日布雷恩特里的警卫

作者：莱蒂斯·布罗莫夫斯基（Lettice Bromovsky）和艾萨克·克劳森（Isaac Crowson）

私人安保警卫昨日在埃塞克斯郡进行了首次巡逻，以监视男性移民。

在担心移民导致女性不敢单独出门的恐惧中，由改革英国党领导的郡议会正花费超过 14 万英镑 聘请承包商，在科尔切斯特、布雷恩特里和切姆斯福德监视寻求庇护者。

在开始首次轮班后的几分钟内，两名工作人员接到路人的电话，称看到四名戴面具的青年（他们认为是移民）进入了切姆斯福德的 Poundland 商店。警卫进入店内，要求该群体离开，并监视其离开。

改革英国党坚称，这项名为“先锋行动”（Operation Vanguard）的巡逻是对相关担忧的“直接回应

“这是为了让人们感到更安全”

……居民（尤其是女性和女孩）对城镇中心男性移民聚集所产生的担忧”。

与此同时，人们对内政部计划将前皇家空军（RAF）基地 MDP Wethersfield 移民营地的人数从 800 人增加到 1,245 人，并将运营期限延长至 2027 年之后的担忧日益增加。

埃塞克斯郡居民埃琳娜·索科洛娃（Elena Sokolova，38 岁）表示：“问题在于他们没有融入社会。我本身也是一名移民，但我融入了英国的生活方式。”

“那些男人会对女性发表评论。他们说女性应该穿得更多，遮盖起来。他们还在镇上拍摄女孩。这真的很令人担忧。”

店员索菲·埃德蒙兹（Sophie Edmonds，33 岁）表示，她与男性移民之间发生过“严重问题”，现在她尽量避免独自在科尔切斯特（Colchester）行走。“我和我的朋友们曾遭遇过评论和异样的目光，”她补充道，“他们成群结队地盯着看。这真的让人感到恐惧。在移民搬进营地之前，我在科尔切斯特从未有过糟糕的经历。你不应该在自己的城镇感到不安全。这里感觉像是一个禁区。”

切姆斯福德（Chelmsford）的当地人表示，对引入私人安保人员感到“欣慰”和“欣喜若狂”。

约翰·豪斯（John Howes，66 岁）表示，他的妻子和女儿现在太害怕进入市区。他补充道：“我认为这是一个非常好的主意。人们感到恐惧。”

“我认识一个女性，她被一名移民在镇上跟踪。自从移民搬进那个前皇家空军基地以来，切姆斯福德的氛围完全改变了。”安保人员由 My Local Bobby 公司提供，该公司由前大都会警察局警员大卫·麦凯尔维（David McKelvey）共同创立。他表示：“这是为了让人们更安全，并让人们感到更安全。巡逻提供了心理安慰。”

埃塞克斯郡议会领导人彼得·哈里斯（Peter Harris）表示，议会尤其担心女性和女孩。他补充说，内政部目前运行着一支由 17 辆小型巴士组成的车队，每天将寻求庇护者从 Wethersfield 送往城镇和城市。

MDP Wethersfield 由 Clearsprings Ready Homes 代表内政部运营，于 2023. 年开始接收寻求庇护者。它为 18 至 65 岁的单身男性提供住宿，直到他们的庇护申请处理完毕。

内政部表示，Wethersfield 的目的是提供管理化的住宿，并帮助结束使用昂贵的庇护酒店。

内政部补充称，提供前往当地社区的交通是为了让他们能够使用场内无法提供的服务。

内政部还表示，公共安全是首要任务，Wethersfield 场地设有 24 小时安保、闭路电视（CCTV），并与埃塞克斯警方及当地政府保持持续沟通。

支付 20,000 离境

近 9,000 名巴西移民收到了最高 3,000 英镑 的“黄金离别金”以离开英国。

在过去两年中，根据协助遣返计划，纳税人为来自这个南美国家的 8,901 人支付了费用。总共有 20,365 名移民接受了这一激励措施。

但在小船移民最多的五个国家中，仅有 7 名厄立特里亚人、11 名苏丹人、14 名阿富汗人、3 名索马里人和 77 名伊朗人接受了这一针对庇护申请失败者和签证逾期逗留者的邀请。

2024 年 7 月至 3 月的费用为 £3500 万，但消息人士告诉《太阳报》，目前该金额已超过 £4000 万。

影子内政大臣克里斯·菲利普（Chris Philp）表示，工党是在“支付非法移民离开，而不是阻止他们抵达”。

内政部坚称，该计划比支付强制遣返费用具有“更高的性价比”。

改革英国党与保守党支持退出欧洲人权公约，皮丁顿举行投票

作者：弗雷德·凯利 (Fred Kelly)

保守党和改革英国党昨日声称，英国必须退出《欧洲人权公约》（ECHR），以遏制非法移民的涌入。

在前往牛津郡皮丁顿村（Piddington village）访问期间，保守党影子内政大臣克里斯·菲利普（Chris Philp）和改革英国党（Reform UK）平等事务发言人苏埃拉·布拉弗曼（Suella Braverman）加强了要求废除该条约的呼吁。此次访问是在当地举行一场关于离开英国的非官方抗议“全民公投”之前进行的。

在工党无视他们反对将1,200多名男性寻求庇护者安置在村郊军营的恳求后，该村的350名居民组织了今天的投票。

当地人担心，如果计划实施，男性人数将以四比一的比例超过当地人，而男性与女性的比例将达到十比一。

上周，一组由133名当地女性组成的团体向每位女性国会议员写了一封公开信，声明：“我们的安全、保障和自由将受到威胁。”

昨日，皮丁顿的女士们告诉《每日邮报》，在联系的226名议员中，仅有四人给予了回应。

布拉弗曼女士表示，皮丁顿问题的严重程度令人震惊。她表示：“这将

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剧烈地改变这个村庄的特质。对于这个村庄来说，这些计划是错误的，而且你们知道这只会带来伤害和破坏。

‘我赞赏这些女性为了发出自己的声音而做出的努力。她们的发言非常有力量，这也是我来到这里的原因。我支持她们。’”

菲利普先生还与居民进行了交流，陪同他的是保守党女性与平等事务发言人乔伊·莫里西（Joy Morrissey），莫里西表示党魁凯米·巴德诺克（Kemi Badenoch）要求她代为出席。

菲利普先生表示：“皮丁顿的母亲和祖母们显然非常担心她们女儿和孙女的安全，因为我们知道年轻的男性非法移民更有可能犯下性犯罪和强奸罪。

‘来到这里凸显了赶走这个工党政府并退出《欧洲人权公约》是多么重要，这将使我们能够在非法移民抵达时就将其驱逐，而不是将他们强加给像皮丁顿这样的地方。’”

预计今天的投票结果将倾向于“独立”，人们希望这次纯粹具有象征意义的投票能引起威斯敏斯特（Westminster）的关注。

工党正将寻求庇护者安置在全国各地的军营中，旨在结束使用酒店并削减庇护开支。

皮丁顿的投票结果预计将于明天早上7点左右公布。

大奖赛冠军面临£140 万水牛账单！

作者：索菲亚·斯坦福 (Sophia Stanford)

一名成为英国最大有机水牛养殖主的一级方程式赛车世界冠军，在关于其牛群的法庭诉讼失败后，面临£140 万的税单。

南非车手乔迪·谢克特（Jody Scheckter），76, 在1996年与妻子克莱尔（Clare）移居英国后，收购了汉普郡欧弗顿（Overton）的拉弗斯托克公园（Laverstoke Park）。

他将其£5500 万的财富投入到这个占地3,000英亩的生物动力农场中，以“生产最纯净、最高质量的有机食品”。

他曾一度拥有英国最大的水牛群。

他还建立了一家屠宰场和堆肥厂，以及一家农场商店、乳制品厂和冰淇淋生产厂。

但这家水牛企业曾向Ocado供应肉类，并专门从事

“对项目失败感到悲哀”

水牛马苏里拉奶酪业务于2023年12月关闭，原因是“成本大幅增加、牛奶产量下降，以及为了确保未来竞争力而需要额外的资本投资”。

1979年F1世界冠军舍克特（Scheckter）此前还一直在就一份金额为1,457 英镑,634,的追溯税单进行抗争。此前法院裁定，他经营该业务的农业合伙企业在2008年至2010年期间，错误地将所产生的亏损与他其他业务的利润进行了抵消。

亏损：乔迪·舍克特（Jody Scheckter）与他的一头水牛在汉普郡的拉弗斯托克公园（Laverstocke Park）

获胜：舍克特在1974年英国大奖赛

Laverstoke Farm Produce有限责任合伙企业（LLP）所产生的七位数亏损曾被用于抵消其其他收入应缴纳的税款——这被称为“横向亏损救济”（sideways loss relief）——直到2019年，英国税务海关总署（HMRC）裁定此举无效并要求其补缴税款。只有在农场成立五年内成为盈利企业的情况下，农民和小农户才能使用这种抵消机制。

在本案中，该农场合伙企业几乎每年都登记亏损，因此不符合条件。包括堆肥厂在内的其他业务仍在强力运行。

在第一级审判庭（First Tier Tribunal）的税务分庭驳回其上诉时，托尼·比尔（Tony Beare）法官对舍克特的水牛激情项目失败表示“悲哀”，并对他不得不就这一失败投资开出巨额税单表示“遗憾”。

舍克特在1972年至1980,年期间参加F1比赛，赢得了十场大奖赛。他仍然是唯一一位赢得比赛或成为世界冠军的非洲车手。

1984年，他创办了一家名为Firearms Training Systems的武器模拟业务，到1990年代初，该公司的收入超过了£1 亿。该公司为军队、执法部门和安全机构制造枪械训练模拟器。

随后，他将该公司获得的大部分财富投入到了拉弗斯托克公园。

法官裁定，相关三年的亏损不能与其他收入抵消，因为该有限责任合伙企业在之前五年多时间里一直没有盈利，这违反了旨在防止“业余农民”逃避其他收入税款的规定。

啜泣丈夫被指20年间给妻子下药并强奸，承认60项指控

一名丈夫昨日承认在妻子不知情的情况下对其下药并强奸长达20多年，并对60项指控认罪。

这名60多岁的男子在对强奸、侵入性袭击、性侵犯和企图强奸认罪时啜泣。

他还承认在2004年11月至2025年10月期间，为了“使妻子处于麻醉或失去意识状态”以便与其进行性活动而为其施用某种物质。

这名男子身穿深灰色西装、蓝色衬衫并打着深蓝色领带，承认了另一项分享私密照片或视频片段的指控。他还对

作者：理查德·马斯登（Richard Marsden）

另外八项严重性侵犯指控认罪。

在他用18分钟时间进行认罪时，其妻子与两名亲属一同出席了曼彻斯特明舒尔街刑事法院（Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court）。她专注地看着丈夫发言。一度，她用双手捂住头部，似乎在擦拭眼睛。

涉及该丈夫的犯罪行为发生在大曼彻斯特郡斯托克波特（Stockport）的家中。另有13名男子被指控对这名处于昏迷状态的女性实施犯罪。

他们的年龄在29岁至74.岁之间。其中12人否认了一系列指控，包括强奸、共谋强奸、侵入性袭击、性侵犯以及共谋意图施用物质。一人对包括共谋强奸在内的指控认罪。

来自斯托克波特的43,岁乔纳森·柯克（Jonathan Kirk）和74岁格雷厄姆·布劳汉姆（Graham Brougham）。

“另外13名被告”

来自切希尔郡，否认强奸、共谋强奸以及共谋实施侵入性袭击。

来自斯托克波特的罗伯特·斯图尔特（Robert Stewart），70岁，否认且。

来自斯托克波特的穆罕默德·萨比尔（Mohammed Sabir），29岁，面临包括在内的五项指控。他否认所有指控。

来自曼彻斯特的艾伦·基兰（Alan Keelan），42岁，否认企图且。

来自斯托克波特的乔丹·华莱士（Jordan Wallace），31岁，否认、企图且。

来自斯托克波特的菲利普·怀尔德（Philip Wild），58岁，对企图、、侵入性袭击、共谋实施侵入性袭击以及性侵犯表示不认罪。

来自斯托克波特的肖恩·皮尔斯（Sean Peers），38岁，否认侵入性袭击。

前汤顿足球俱乐部首席执行官、来自萨默塞特郡汤顿的卡尔·林赛（Karl Lindsay），56岁，否认以及实施侵入性性侵犯。来自肯特郡惠特斯塔布尔的丹尼尔·雷纳（Daniel Rayner），42岁，面临与林赛相同的指控并表示不认罪。

来自大曼彻斯特郡海伍德的理查德·汤森（Richard Townsend），37岁，否认共谋实施侵入性袭击以及侵入性袭击。

来自德比郡伊尔克斯顿的大卫·格雷夫斯（David Graves），59岁，否认、共谋实施侵入性袭击以及共谋实施性侵犯。

邓迪大学的技术员基思·福瑟林厄姆（Keith Fotheringham），59岁，已承认、共谋实施侵入性袭击、蓄意投药以及侵入性袭击。

除华莱士、柯克、布鲁厄姆、基兰和皮尔斯被准予保释外，所有被告均被羁押。

审判计划于10月开始，预计将持续至少两个月。

劳工党元老布兰克特痛批：劳工党的农场税是个错误

劳工党资深人士布兰克特勋爵（Lord Blunkett）承认，其政党的家庭农场税是一个“错误”。

在一次乡村联盟（Countryside Alliance）活动中，这位前内政大臣支持由安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）监督一次“乡村重启”，以弥补其政党执政前两年造成的损害。

在时任财政大臣瑞秋·里夫斯（Rachel Reeves）宣布计划对价值超过£100 万的资产征收20 per cent的遗产税，并取消自20世纪80年代以来实施的豁免后，农民们感到愤怒。

作者：Claire Ellicott 白厅编辑

但在农村社区抗议后，部长们将起征点提高到了£250 万，因此大多数农场无需缴税。活动人士表示，这将仍然影响到普通的经营性家庭农场。

布兰克特勋爵将这一令人厌恶的计划归咎于“财政部的经济正统主义”。

“我认为家庭税，即对家庭农场的强加，是一个错误——这是一个由我所属政党代表的财政部所犯的错误，”他说，并补充道这“触动了敏感神经”。

他随后告诉BBC：“自1945年以来，我们从未赢得过这么多农村席位——大约有135名劳工党议员来自农村或半农村地区

“是时候进行农村重启了”

——而且他们的声音需要被更清晰地听到。

“如果你一生都住在城市，灵魂中根植着财政部的经济正统观念，你就无法理解家庭农场之所以成为‘家庭’农场，是因为它们是从一代传给另一代的。”

这位贵族还呼吁废除 2024 年竞选宣言中提出的禁止追踪狩猎（trail hunting）的规定。

他是在与前首相大卫·卡梅伦共同发言时发表上述看法的，后者批评劳工党在“攻击狩猎活动”。

“如果狩猎活动受到攻击，受损的不仅仅是狩猎本身。还有酒吧、餐厅、人们下榻的场所，以及在狩猎活动中工作的人员，”卡梅伦勋爵补充道。

与此同时，英国全国农民联合会（NFU）前主席米内特·巴特斯（Minette Batters）表示，现在是“进行农村重启的时候了”。

乡村联盟（Countryside Alliance）首席执行官蒂姆·邦纳（Tim Bonner）列举了其组织反对的 27 项政府政策。

其中包括将遗产税扩大到农场、禁止追踪狩猎的计划、博彩规则的变更以及更严格的狩猎监管规定。

首相发言人表示，伯纳姆先生希望与农民和农村社区“重建信任”。

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随着人们意识到今年灾难性的收成正使农民陷入绝望，而且从他的观点来看，关键是这将使资金紧张的选民面临更高的食品价格，安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）在社交媒体上发起了一场农村魅力攻势。

“我知道为了赢得农业社区的信任，我还有工作要做，”他在一篇帖子中写道。“作为农民，你们为我们的餐桌提供食物，担任英国伟大乡村的管家，并构成了许多农村社区的支柱。”

“作为一名市长，我知道被威斯敏斯特的政治家们忽视是什么感觉。作为首相，我不会犯同样的错误……决定将不再由白厅强加，而是由那些了解自己社区的人来做出。”

如果他不迅速采取行动，这些话可能会在未来让他感到不安。因为目前农村民众对这个政府的信任度可能处于最低点。

一项代表乡村联盟开展的最新调查发现，仅有 15% 的农村地区居民认为该党关心在那里生活和工作的人们。

这是一个巨大的问题，尤其是劳工党拥有大量半农村地区的后座议员，除非情况有所改变，否则在三年后的下次选举后，他们注定将进入失业领取队列。

劳工党大佬布伦克特勋爵（Lord Blunkett）昨天警告称，该党需要放弃由瑞秋·里夫斯（Rachel Reeves）引入的家庭农场税，该税种引发了广泛的抗议。他表示，计划中禁止追踪狩猎（即猎犬追踪由处理人员布置的气味）的规定也应该被

放弃。他还敦促劳工党对乡村建立更深层的理解。

愤怒：2025 年，农民因劳工党的税收计划封锁了威斯敏斯特的街道

有了一位纯素主义部长和一位动物权利狂热副部长，农民们还有什么机会？

如果伯纳姆遵循这一建议，如果他真心打算将权力下放到乡村，那么他在农村社区就值得我们的支持。但种种迹象表明，他的话是空洞的。无论如何，我认识的没有一个农民会欢迎他的权力下放议程，因为到目前为止，该议程似乎仅限于在地方区域增加另一层政府，以肥那个由投机政客和自命不凡的官僚组成的客户国家。

事实上，如果我们这些“乡巴佬”真的能被“威斯敏斯特的政客们忽视”就好了。因为干涉他们并不了解的农村事务的本能，已经深深植入了白厅的“绿色团块”（Green Blob）之中，而这个团块正扼制着环境、食品与农村事务部（Defra）。

自从这位“北方之王”就任以来，一项由“白厅强加”而非由“了解自己社区的人员制定”的决定，就是工党拟议通过对放飞猎鸟实施许可制度，从而打击狩猎运动。

乡村联盟（Countryside Alliance）表示，“狩猎运动从未面临如此严重的威胁”。但伯纳姆领导的工党并没有倾听“了解自己社区的人”，相反，它在倾听那些自称环保主义者的人，例如电视主持人克里斯·帕克汉姆（Chris Packham），他一直在发起禁止猎鸟狩猎的活动。

工党拒绝理解的是，狩猎和打猎将农村社区凝聚在一起，涉及各行各业的人，其中大多数是“劳动人民”，他们与工党在偏执的身份政治中所塑造的懒惰“权贵”刻板印象截然不同。

工党在农村问题上缺乏共情能力的另一个例子是对今年山火的反应。“绿色团块”认为自己最懂——一如既往地——实际上禁止了在荒原和石南原上对过剩植被进行受控焚烧，这几乎肯定是因为该做法与高地的养羊业和猎红臀雷鸟活动相关，而这两项活动正是绿色狂热分子希望禁止的。

他们更希望看到荒原被“再野化”，并说服自己，只要堵住几个排水沟并引入几只海狸，就能使土地重新湿润到永远不会起火的程度。所有具有高地耕作经验的人都警告说，这将是灾难的药方。

今年夏天，当超过 57,000 英亩的土地化为烟雾，排放近 140 万 吨碳时，这些后果终于爆发了。房屋被毁，许多稀有物种失去了至关重要的栖息地。

我们本以为会看到一些悔意和部分转向，甚至是一次道歉。相反，我们得到的是傲慢、无知和固执。环境、食品与农村事务部部长安吉拉·伊格尔女爵士（Dame Angela Eagle）在《卫报》上发表了一篇文章，明确排除了恢复受控焚烧的可能性，并坚持推行再野化议程。

伊格尔本身就是问题的一部分。安迪·伯纳姆在内阁改组中任命她为环境、食品与农村事务部部长，是刻意地不去“赢得农民社区的信任”，而是为了讨好阅读《卫报》的左翼人士。对于伯纳姆声称支持的畜牧业农民来说，安吉拉·伊格尔是纯素主义者，这只能令人担忧。与此同时，伊格尔在环境、食品与农村事务部的副部长是动物权利狂热者海曼男爵夫人（Baroness Hayman），她正在推动大部分反狩猎议程。

工党并非天然的乡村之党，但情况不必如此。战后最优秀的农业部长之一被认为是艾特利政府中的汤姆·威廉姆斯（Tom Williams）。奈·贝文（Nye Bevan）和吉姆·卡拉汉（Jim Callaghan）都曾是农民。

伯纳姆有足够多了解农村经济的议员可以从中选择，例如广受尊敬的前农业部长丹尼尔·泽希纳（Daniel Zeichner），以及新人马库斯·坎贝尔-萨沃斯（Markus Campbell-Savours，他投票反对家庭农场税）和亨利·塔夫内尔（Henry Tufnell），后者是乡村土地与商业协会前主席之子。相反，他的选人似乎表明他打算继续进行文化战争。

安迪·伯纳姆需要农业社区：既然进口已不再可靠，他需要我们的技能和冒险精神来避免粮食危机进一步恶化。他需要我们的企业家精神来创建就业所需的农村企业，并建设急需的住房。他需要我们对乡村的深刻认知，以遏制生物多样性危机并阻止山火。

因此，正如大卫·布伦克特正确指出的那样，如果他通过进一步禁止狩猎来攻击我们的文化，或者通过保留家庭农场税来剥夺我们的未来，从而使我们产生疏离感，那将是非常愚蠢的。而且，他应该在环境、食品与农村事务部（Defra）组建一支真正了解在乡村生活和工作的团队。首相先生，我们需要的不止是温暖的措辞。

■ 杰米·布莱克特是一位农民，也是《红布诱牛》（Red Rag To A Bull）和《奶与蜜之地》（Land Of Milk And Honey）的作者。

被殴打致死：金加·莱格于 2009 年被杀

在巴黎酒店谋杀继承人情妇的男子因袭击83岁父亲再次入狱

惯犯：伊恩·格里芬（Ian Griffin），57. 右图：2014年抵达法国法院

作者：理查德·马斯登（Richard Marsden）、安迪·罗素（Andy Russell）和彼得·艾伦（Peter Allen）

一名曾在法国酒店将未婚妻殴打致死随后潜逃的英国商人再次入狱——原因是他对自己的年迈父亲发起了一场“侮辱性”的袭击。

伊恩·格里芬（Ian Griffin），57, 在因2009年5月谋杀36, 岁的金加·莱格（Kinga Legg）而被判处14年监禁且仅服刑22个月后，回到了英国。

莱格女士是一位波兰超市继承人，在巴黎五星级布里斯托酒店（Hotel Le Bristol）遭受的这场“疯狂”袭击中，她身上出现了100多处伤痕。随后，她的裸体被丢在他们每晚1,000 英镑英镑的酒店房间浴缸里。

格里芬在切希尔郡经营晒黑店和电子产品店，他当时驾驶保时捷逃回英国。经过五天的搜捕，他被发现住在麦克尔斯菲尔德（Macclesfield）附近森林的一个帐篷里，随后被引渡回法国。

2014, 12月，他被判处20年监禁，后经上诉减刑至14. 但当时拄着拐杖的格里芬在2016年因医疗原因获释。

格里芬回到沃灵顿（Warrington）附近父母家的一栋夏季小屋居住，并于去年5月在那里袭击了他的父亲伯纳德（Bernard）。

当时，83, 岁的格里芬长辈在格里芬从酒吧回家时正与另一个儿子亚德里安（Adrian）通话。电话中听到他的父亲说：“噢天哪，他回来了，情况看起来不妙。”

亚德里安担心父母的安全并报警，警方抵达现场时发现格里芬长辈面部受重伤。

利物浦刑事法院播放了执法记录仪的画面，画面中面部血迹斑斑、坐在沙发上的格里芬父亲告诉警员：“我太高兴见到你们了，他差点杀了我。

‘他太可怕了。喝酒之后他就变成了另一个人。我觉得自己像刚打完一架一样。’ ”

法庭获悉，在持续30分钟到一小时的袭击过程中，格里芬长辈被拳击、被拖到地板上并被踩踏。袭击直到他的儿子强迫他签署一份文件，将遗产的50%交给格里芬的母亲珍妮特（Janet）后才停止。

检察官安德鲁·斯科特（Andrew Scott）表示，由格里芬夫人用手机拍摄的进一步袭击画面，“凸显了对他年迈父亲的侮辱性对待”。

画面中听到格里芬对着父亲大声辱骂，并指责他购买

“彻底崩溃”

MG汽车，“而[格里芬夫人]却在为每周£100而奔波”。还听到他告诉父亲：“我要打烂你妈的脸。”

法庭获悉，在袭击发生的前一天，警方也接到报警，称格里芬威胁要“焚烧并炸毁”父母邻居的家。

在袭击父亲后，格里芬告诉警方，事发时他在房子的其他地方。

然而，在法庭上为自己辩护时，他称这次袭击发生在他试图保护父母免受企图敲诈他们的男子侵害的六到八周期间。

他告诉利物浦刑事法院：“我对发生的事情深感抱歉，当然，他是我的父亲。我当时彻底崩溃了。”

被传唤出庭为其辩护的母亲表示，他是一个“非常好的儿子”。

在受害者个人陈述中，格里芬长辈表示他不想再与儿子有任何接触，并担心他出狱后会发生什么。

法官大卫·斯温诺顿（David Swinnerton）以造成严重身体伤害和威胁破坏财产为由，判处格里芬总计四年监禁，并附加一年的延长许可期。

法官裁定格里芬具有极高的重新犯罪风险，并告诉他：“你反复拳打脚踢你的父亲，让他遍体鳞伤、血迹斑斑。你的父亲是一个极其脆弱的受害者。”

阅读这个——你将活得更久！

每日邮报记者

《每日邮报》的读者已经可以自豪地认为自己消息灵通——但研究表明，阅读本报对您的健康也有好处。

事实上，一个人对文字的热爱——无论阅读什么内容——甚至能帮助他们延长寿命。

一项综述研究发现，为了娱乐而阅读可以提升心理健康和学业成绩，增强共情能力，并降低患痴呆症的风险。

剑桥大学的研究人员与卡米拉创立的慈善机构“女王阅读室”（The Queen's Reading Room）合作，将其作为“国家阅读年”活动的一部分。来自剑桥大学精神病学系的芭芭拉·萨哈基安（Barbara Sahakian）教授和克里斯蒂尔·兰利（Christelle Langley）博士在《心理医学》（Psychological Medicine）杂志上发表了一篇研究综述。

一项针对 10,000 多名年轻人的研究发现，从小就开始为了娱乐而阅读的孩子，在注意力时长、记忆力和执行功能（如解决问题能力）方面表现更好。

另一项针对近 5,500 名 55 岁及以上成年人的调查发现，那些从事阅读等消遣活动的人，在为期五年的随访中，出现认知障碍的可能性显著降低。

总体而言，该综述（包括一些基于神经成像的研究）发现，在任何年龄段阅读都能改善大脑和心理健康，提高认知表现并降低精神衰退的风险。

报告称：“成年人的调查数据表明，阅读与压力减轻、共情能力增强、幸福感提升以及孤独感降低相关。”

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苏格兰、威尔士和北爱尔兰民族主义者誓言解体英国

峰会：领导人约翰·斯温尼、伦·阿普·约尔沃斯、玛丽·卢·麦克唐纳和米歇尔·奥尼尔昨日在卡迪夫举行会议

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苏格兰和威尔士民族主义者昨日与 Sinn Fein 签署了一项协议，承诺在解体英国的计划中相互支持。

苏格兰民族党（SNP）和威尔士党（Plaid Cymru）的领导人在卡迪夫举行“分离主义峰会”之前，宣布与爱尔兰共和派领导人达成一项“谅解备忘录”。

苏格兰首席部长约翰·斯温尼、威尔士首席部长伦·阿普·约尔沃斯、北爱尔兰首席部长米歇尔·奥尼尔以及 Sinn Fein 领导人玛丽·卢·麦克唐纳承诺，将在欧盟内部就共同目标开展合作，包括“支持每个国家决定自身未来的权利”。

斯温尼先生表示，这次会议代表了“英国宪政进程中的关键时刻”，并声称安迪·伯纳姆将成为英国最后一位首相。

他要求在五年内举行一次新的全民公投，并表示三个权力下放国家的人民在“能够决定自身未来”方面应“没有任何障碍”。

伯纳姆先生的一位发言人表示，首相“坚信联邦”，并“致力于在所有四个国家实现变革”。

此次会议引发了亲联邦政治家的愤怒，此前唐纳德·特朗普因支持统一的爱尔兰而引发了轩然大波。

保守党苏格兰发言人哈丽埃特·克罗斯表示：“这次分离主义峰会是对面对真实问题的公然转移注意力，这些问题是

“威斯敏斯特的时间即将结束”

以及教育和经济。约翰·斯威尼（John Swinney）心满意足地与 Sinn Fein 的领导人肩并肩而坐，这表明为了实现他毕生的独立梦想，他准备走多远。对于许多记得“动乱时期”（the Troubles）的苏格兰人来说，这一景象将令他们愤怒。”

北爱尔兰副首席部长、DUP 政治人物艾玛·利特尔-彭格利（Emma Little-Pengelly）指责同时担任 Sinn Fein 副主席的奥尼尔女士（Ms O'Neill）试图将“首席部长的角色武器化”。

她在社交媒体上写道：“让我绝对明确一点。米歇尔·奥尼尔（Michelle O'Neill）并非以首席部长的身份前往这次‘峰会’，她没有任何权力在任何此类‘峰会’上自称代表首席部长这一角色。

‘她没有就出行、出席或签署任何文件向我寻求任何协议或许可。’”

与此同时，特朗普先生坚持他关于爱尔兰统一的言论，在他访问那里的第二天表示，这是“有史以来最自然的事情之一”。

奥尼尔女士表示，他的言论表明独立辩论“依然非常活跃”。她说：“我认为这告诉了我们人们认为什么才是我们人民的最大奖赏，而最大的奖赏就是统一。这意味着分治的结束，以及在一个新爱尔兰中的新开始。”

骚动：特朗普总统在访问期间支持爱尔兰统一

该团体是以政党领导人的身份而非各自政府官员的身份会面的，他们还阐述了在经济、能源和国际事务方面建立伙伴关系的雄心。

协议称：“政治格局正在发生变化。

‘有史以来第一次，这些岛屿上的人们在苏格兰、威尔士和北爱尔兰拥有致力于脱离英国独立的首席部长。

‘没有比这更明确的迹象能表明威斯敏斯特的时间即将结束。我们相信有更好的方式：各国作为平等主体共同工作，分享想法和专业知识，并建立在相互尊重和共同利益基础上的关系。

‘我们相信宪法变革即将到来。因此，我们致力于加强各党派之间的合作，并确定能够通过共同工作产生实际影响的具体领域。’”

该协议计划“拒绝白厅（Whitehall）破碎的经济模式”，并声明“我们国家的未来属于欧盟”。

麦克唐纳女士（Ms McDonald）称其为“历史性的”，并补充道：“这是一个我们集体主张决定自己未来的不可剥夺权利的时刻。”

ap Iorwerth 先生表示，威尔士人民将在“被说服”时，为未来的任何独立公投设定时间表。

他说：“从民调来看……人们越来越绝对地被说服了。”

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快艇杀手因在披萨烤焦的争吵中用热夹子袭击伴侣而被判刑

第一名受害者：夏洛特·布朗（Charlotte Brown）

作者：萨姆·格林希尔（Sam Greenhill）和 Inderdeep Bains

快艇杀手杰克·谢泼德（Jack Shepherd）昨日因用烧烤夹袭击其新女友而被判处 20 个月监禁。

这名前逃犯分别对该受惊女性拳打脚踢，称其为“老太婆”，并在她试图逃离时折断了她的车钥匙。

伦敦艾尔沃斯刑事法院（Isleworth Crown Court）的一名法官宣布他对社会——尤其是对女性——构成危险。

谢泼德曾在 2015 年因醉酒驾驶缺陷快艇在泰晤士河上翻船导致约会对象夏洛特·布朗死亡而被判刑，随后他在刑期过半时获释，但之后跳保候审并在格鲁吉亚潜逃。

这位自封的“卡萨诺瓦”于 2024 年获释，现年 39 岁。他在“假释期间”通过羽毛球与一名处于

“你对任何女朋友都构成风险”

50多岁，两人住在西伦敦萨瑟尔（Southall）的一栋合租房内。

法庭获悉，谢泼德向她讲述了关于自己过去的“个人版本”，最终是警方告诉了她关于他历史的震惊真相。除了杀死布朗女士外，他还因用玻璃瓶残忍袭击一名酒吧服务员而被监禁。

法庭获悉，2025年2月，当女友威胁要向他的缓刑监督员反映他的情况时，谢泼德突然暴怒。他“将她按在地上并连续拳击”，导致她的手臂和腿部出现瘀伤。

随后在2025年6月，在酒精的影响下，谢泼德正在用烧烤炉烹饪，此时女友告诉他披萨烤焦了，检察官凯瑟琳·劳埃德（Katherine Lloyd）告诉法庭。“被告拿着一把尖锐的烧烤夹，他转身将夹子刺入受害者的左乳，造成了出血伤口。”她留下了一道永久性疤痕。

同月，当她试图逃离另一次争吵时，谢泼德伸手穿过她的车窗，将点火开关里的钥匙折断，将她困在车内。

在2015年与24岁的布朗女士首次约会时导致其死亡并逃往东欧后，谢泼德成为了臭名昭著的“快艇杀手”。

2018年，他逃避了在中央刑事法院（Old Bailey）的过失杀人审判，随后在格鲁吉亚的藏身处利用法律援助对定罪提出上诉，引发了公众愤怒。2019年1月，他被《每日邮报》揭露行踪，被押回伦敦，并被判处十年监禁——其中六年是因为快艇过失杀人，四年是因为在德文郡用玻璃瓶袭击酒吧服务员。

由于他当时处于假释状态，谢泼德在最近一次被捕后，于2025年9月被重新关押进监狱。

昨天，谢泼德通过视频连线从肯特郡的B类监狱HMP Swale-side出庭，他再次试图减轻处罚，称自己“深切后悔自己的行为”。

但马丁·埃德蒙兹（Martin Edmunds）KC法官告诉他：“我对这种悔意表达不抱任何信心或价值。你的模式就是犯罪、道歉，然后找借口……来推卸责任。”他补充道：“你构成了显著的

被捕：2019年杰克·谢泼德在格鲁吉亚出庭

风险……尤其是对任何新女友。”他补充说，如果他不能控制饮酒，这种情况将进一步“恶化”，而他迄今为止的记录证明他无法控制。

该女性（《邮报》未透露其姓名）描述了她的痛苦以及“安全感的丧失”。

谢泼德因殴打被判九个月监禁，因烧烤夹伤人被判20个月，因折断车钥匙被判三个月，各项刑期合并执行。

由于他无论如何都要在监狱中待到2029年1月，以服完杀死布朗女士和袭击酒吧服务员的剩余刑期，这意味着他无需额外服刑。法官还将其假释期延长了四年，直到2032年5月。

哈代故乡成为最新获得皇家自然保护区地位的地区

每日邮报记者

多塞特郡一片充满了稀有兰花和蝴蝶、曾给作家托马斯·哈代（Thomas Hardy）带来灵感的景观，已被命名为英格兰最新的国家自然保护区。

位于多塞特丘陵（Dorset Downs）莱斯康布（Lyscombe）的833英亩以上栖息地——相当于468个足球场——已被政府机构英国自然英格兰局（Natural England）划定为保护和自然修复的重点区域。

该景观位于多切斯特（Dorchester）以北，是古老林地和白垩草地植物的家园，包括至少六种不同的兰花（如金字塔兰和蜂兰），以及稀有的白垩丘蓝蝶。

莱斯康布成为根据一项旨在纪念查尔斯国王终身支持计划而宣布为保护区的第16个地点。

“造福人类与野生动物”

自然环境，计划到 2028 年新增 25 个保护区。

英格兰自然局（Natural England）主席托尼·朱尼珀（Tony Juniper）表示：“国王国家自然保护区系列将自然恢复提升到了一个新的水平，展示了当人们和组织为了共同目标而团结起来时所能取得的成就，这不仅造福于野生动物，也造福于人类。”

“利斯科姆（Lyscombe）国家自然保护区的设立，是对这片独特的白垩丘陵和林地马赛克景观的认可，它将惊人的野生动物丰富栖息地连接在一起，同时也为我们所有人以及后代创造了与自然接触的新机会。”

利斯科姆的景观曾给哈代的小说带来灵感，包括《德伯家的苔丝》和《远离喧嚣的城市》。

英格兰自然局表示，该地具有成为多塞特丘陵（Dorset Downs）自然恢复重要区域的潜力。

海登在“服用掺有芬太尼的药丸”后去世

与其死亡调查相关的官员表示，海登·帕内蒂尔（HAYDEN Panettiere）在服用了一颗掺有芬太尼的药丸后去世。

据美国新闻网站 TMZ 报道，这位前童星据称从她在洛杉矶认识的一名“长期毒贩”那里购买了多种黑市处方药。

帕内蒂尔女士上个月去世时年仅 36 岁，据称她服用的是掺有芬太尼的羟考酮。这种强效阿片类药物的药效比海洛因强 50 到 100 倍，仅需几粒即可导致致命过量。

这位《英雄》（Heroes）剧集的明星及其分分合合的房地产经纪人男友布莱恩·希克森（Brian Hickerson）在她去世前一天从洛杉矶飞往他家乡的南卡罗来纳州。据信，希克森先生在发现帕内蒂尔女士失去反应后，为其使用了纳坎（Narcan），这是一种能迅速抵消阿片类药物过量影响的鼻喷剂。

据报道，警方目前正试图追踪这颗致命药丸的来源，以找到涉嫌将其出售给她的那个人。

目前尚未有人因帕内蒂尔女士的死亡而被逮捕。官方毒理学报告也尚未公布。

据报道，希克森先生上周会见了美国缉毒局（DEA）的调查人员，后者仍在继续调查其女友的死因。两人于 2018, 开始约会，随后分手，并在 2022 年复合。

帕内蒂尔女士的第一个演艺角色是在 11 个月大时拍摄的一则广告，后来她参演了《惊声尖叫》（Scream）系列电影和电视剧《纳什维尔》（Nashville）。她与前未婚夫弗拉基米尔·克利奇科（Wladimir Klitschko）有一个 11 岁的女儿卡雅（Kaya）。

她还曾与成瘾作斗争，在 2020 年患上黄疸后在康复中心度过了八个月。在她今年早些时候出版的回忆录《这就是我：一次清算》（This Is Me: A Reckoning）中，她写道，曾有一位医生告诉她，如果她不停止饮酒，将在“五年内死亡”。

挣扎：帕内蒂尔女士

不公正正是工党的拿手戏

工党对来自工会的资金有着毫不掩饰的依赖。

显而易见，该党确保其出资人能够通过有利于其成员的立法变更获得回报，而这些成员同时也拿到了高于通胀率的公共部门加薪。确实非常惬意。

相比之下，没有证据表明加密货币亿万富翁本·德洛（Ben Delo）和克里斯托弗·哈本（Christopher Harborne）通过向改革英国党（Reform UK）捐赠的两笔共计£3600 万的礼金来寻求此类利益。

最重要的是，他们的捐赠似乎源于对国家发展方向的极大沮丧；事实上，哈本先生已明确表示，他个人不期望获得任何回报。

一想到其他团体或个人能够向政党捐赠前所未有的巨额资金，工党就陷入了恐慌。

难怪该党被指责为“过度反应的伪君子”。

在关于捐款上限的讨论再次兴起之际，联合工会（Unite）的总书记已经建议工会应当被豁免。

工党坚持认为法律变更应具有追溯力——尽管在这个国家实施此类追溯性改革十分罕见——并且正在设计捐赠者的居住时间限制，这看起来像是专门为了扼杀这两位亿万富翁的慷慨捐赠而量身定制的。

当工党谈论政治中的“不公平影响”时，它不愿承认自己的手掌是如何被工会如此大方地抹油的。

双重标准不可取——但似乎只要涉及到工党自己的金库，情况就不同了。

保护英国

分裂英国对于其所有四个组成部分来说都将是一场彻头彻尾的灾难。

来自苏格兰、威尔士和北爱尔兰的民族主义政治家已经签署了一项协议以追求这一目标——但他们的动机完全出于私利。

这很容易产生反作用。苏格兰民族党（SNP）和威尔士党（Plaid Cymru）可能会发现，与 Sinn Fein 如此紧密地结盟并不像他们想象的那样能“显摆”。

安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）通过不断谈论权力下放，以及他那极易被反驳的信念（即认为将权力移交给地方是确保改善的主要途径之一），为这种分裂主义提供了支持。

作为一个进入国家政治领域的地方政治家——既没有授权，且日益显得力不从心——这始终是他会提出的论点。他对此以外的事知之甚少。

现在的危险在于，他并不具备将这个“瓶中精灵”彻底关回去的政治技巧。

如果他成为触发英国终结的首相，他将永远无法被原谅。

城镇与乡村

工党的另一个重大盲点是对英国乡村的无知。

关于家庭农场遗产税的骚乱造成了巨大的破坏——在拖延了两年之后，至今仍未最终解决。

首相谈到了缓解“地区不平等”。但他的重点是振兴北方城镇和城市，而对乡村社区却几乎没什么可说的。

那么，前工党内政大臣布兰基特勋爵（Lord Blunkett）和前首相卡梅伦勋爵（Lord Cameron）联手呼吁政府在乡村事务上采取新方向是正确的。

忽视生活在乡村的1000 万英国人并不是实现国家统一的良方。恰恰相反。

来吧凯米，抛弃这项可怕的税收——开启一个企业的新时代！

作者：亚历克斯·布鲁默 (Alex Brummer)

三年前，当我得知自己患有血液癌时，我的第一个念头是，如果死神敲门，我该如何为我的家人提供最好的保障。

笼罩在这一切之上的，是遗产税（IHT）这个巨魔——这是所有税收中最可怕的一种，它在英国人一生辛勤工作和谨慎理财之后对其进行惩罚。

想到要将我一生积蓄的 40% 上交给英国税务海关总署（HMRC），用来奖赏那些依赖国家福利生活的不负责任的公民，这足以让我血液凝固。

在我本应专注于康复的时期，我为期六个月的密集化疗被遗产规划这一出乎意料的行政负担所占据。

庆幸的是，癌症现在已经退却。但面对遗产税的现实让我感到极其厌恶。

这就是为什么在听到保守党领袖凯米·巴德诺克（Kemi Badenoch）正考虑废除英国最被痛恨的这项税收，并考虑在下个月的保守党会议上宣布此事时，我感到无比欣慰。

这是一个极其勇敢的举动——一个“核选项”。但人们可以想象，这样的宣布将给全英国数百万家庭带来怎样的狂喜。

2007, 年，当时影子财政大臣乔治·奥斯本（George Osborne）提议将遗产税的起征点提高到 £100 万 时，欢呼声几乎掀翻了保守党会议大厅的屋顶。

被憎恨的税种

戈登·布朗在6月接替托尼·布莱尔出任首相后，当时在民调中正处于“蜜月期”，但该公告令他如此措手不及，以至于成为了他决定不举行提前大选、从而无法为其政策赢得个人授权的因素之一。

遗产税之所以被憎恨是有原因的。它是一种双重征税——因为从大体上看，它是对已经缴纳过税的收入所形成的储蓄再次征税。这就是为什么它显得如此不公平。

它也是一种针对家庭抱负的税收，不仅打击你的子女，还打击你的孙辈。

无论你如何努力奋斗和储蓄，以实现这些家庭抱负——目前，战后婴儿潮一代及随后的几代人计划向X世代（1965年至1980年之间出生的人）和千禧一代移交高达£7 trillion的资产——左翼政治家却将此类储蓄视为一笔金库，旨在将其抽走以供日益臃肿且僵化的国家部门使用。

仿佛这还不够痛苦，前财政大臣瑞秋·里夫斯为那些通过养老金缴费为退休储蓄的公民留下了一枚定时炸弹。

从明年春天起，在一项令人愤慨的没收行为中，

工党坚持认为，未使用的养老金账户将被计入遗产价值以征收遗产税。

此举将在配偶和后代生命中最脆弱的时刻惩罚他们，并给储蓄文化带来了致命且令人困惑的打击。

相反，想象一下，如果所有被遗产税吞噬的资金被允许代代相传，投资于新住房，以及英国充满活力的科技、AI、创意和制药产业。

这可能会开启一个更高增长和生活水平的新时代，鼓励人们消费，并复兴那些被政治家们通过越来越多设计拙劣的税收而协助摧毁的商业街。

当乔治·奥斯本在2006-07, 年采取干预措施时，遗产税为财政部筹集了相对适中的34 亿英镑 billion。预计今年将带来约90 亿英镑 billion。

这些资金将从新的投资和繁荣中被转移，投入到4000 亿英镑 billion且在不断扩大的社会保障和福利黑洞中。

巴德诺赫誓言，她所有的预算变更都将经过充分的成本核算，并承诺通过削减臃肿的福利预算来为增加国防预算提供资金。

从成本角度看，废除遗产税最初可能显得令人生畏，但如果能通过缩减公共部门的规模来找到资源——自工党于2024, 年7月上台以来，该部门的雇员人数及其薪资大幅飙升——一个全新的创业时代就可能被释放出来。

只需看看北方的

城市编辑

北欧邻国。左翼经常将瑞典的社会市场（及其慷慨的医疗和福利体系）美化为我们应该追求的典范。然而，这种分析已经完全过时了。

瑞典历届政府已向自由市场模式倾斜，且该国议会于2004年一致投票决定废除遗产税。

这是释放瑞典新创业时代因素之一。这包括数量不断增加的科技初创公司，以及像数字音乐制作商Spotify和“先买后付”领军者Klarna（增长最快的金融科技公司之一）等世界领先的企业。

这个工党无法理解，储蓄应当被鼓励，恰恰是因为它们可以被用来促进他们渴望的经济增长。

令人厌恶之物

作为一个多年来一直苦于偿还家庭住宅巨额抵押贷款，并承担三个孩子及其教育费用的人，直到晚年我才能够从税后收入中攒下钱。

我的遗产包括伦敦郊区一片绿树成荫的住宅以及部分投资于英国股票的储蓄，而这些资产几乎肯定会被征收 40% 的税款，这令我感到震惊。

而更令人愤怒的是，那些主张提高财富税的劳工党政客，恰恰是最有可能采取完全合法的避税措施的人——正如我们从安吉拉·雷纳（Angela Rayner）房产交易的披露中所了解到的那样。

正如前保守党财政大臣、本身也是一名创业者的杰里米·亨特（Jeremy Hunt）在 2024 年大选前对我所说，遗产税是“一件令人厌恶之物”，且在时机成熟时，他将寻求将其废除。

正如我个人所体会到的，英国遗产税（IHT）规则的复杂程度超出了大多数凡人的认知范围，而且几乎肯定也超出了负责执行这些规则的英国税务海关总署（HMRC）检查员大军的部分人员的认知。

解放

作为主要立法文件的 1984, 年《遗产税法》本身就长达 250-pages。在过去的几十年里，几乎每一次预算案都会修改或扩大规则，以全力限制避税行为。

里夫斯（Reeves）试图将土地纳入考量、让富有的业主支付更多税款的努力，最终导致家庭农场受到惩罚并引发全国性的抗议，且损害了我们的粮食安全。

如今，每份预算案细则中的此类变更意味着，作为顾问之“圣经”的遗产税手册包含了数千页的行政解释和实践建议。遗产申报表长达 19-pages，而填写该文件需要相关人员研读 100-pages 的随附注释。

如果巴德诺克（Badenoch）决定全力以赴废除——甚至只是放宽——遗产税，那么由此带来的政治助力可能会将保守党从其一直遭受的选举遗忘状态中拯救出来。

因为这可以显著释放用于个人和商业投资的资本——并将英国从一个阴郁绝望的时代中 catapult（弹射）出来。

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让工党的反以色列暴徒看看这部剧

我最近偶然发现的最离奇的故事，是烟囱清扫工之间关于一个网站域名的争端。

曼彻斯特？我们这里谈论的不是《黑道家族》里的废物处理业，而更像是曼彻斯特版的“格拉斯哥冰淇淋战争”。

这场争端发生在一名经营着一家名为 Mr Soot 公司的男子（在伯纳姆地区经营）与一名以 Sparkling Flues 为名的女性之间——这个名字听起来像 Only Fans 上那个叫 Bonnie Blue 的鸟。

也许是我太保守了，但烟囱清扫工什么时候开始拥有网站了？迪克·范·戴克当年不需要 chimchiminey.co.uk 也能过得很好。也许 Sooty 和 Sweep 也可以加入其中。

谁能想到在

还记得去年关于《青春期》（Adolescence）的喧嚣吗？这部 Netflix 剧集讲述了一个受“男性圈”（manosphere）影响的 13 岁白人男学生因谋杀一名女同学而被捕的故事。

它可能很精彩，但它是一部虚构作品。但这并没有阻止苏尔凯尔（还记得他吗？）在唐宁街 10 号与该剧制片人和各类慈善机构召开紧急会议，以探讨如何防止年轻男孩在网上“被卷入仇恨和厌女的漩涡”。

在斯塔默的鼓励下，Netflix 同意免除订阅费，以便全国的中学可以将该剧放映给学生观看。

《青春期》被赞誉为自——噢，我不知道——《凯西回家》（Cathy Come Home）以来最伟大的戏剧化作品。后者是左翼导演肯·洛奇在 1966 年拍摄的“里程碑”式电影，讲述了一个陷入困境的无家可归的工人阶级家庭。

围绕《青春期》的歇斯底里在凯米·巴德诺赫因没看这部剧而在 BBC 上被妖魔化时达到了顶峰。

她怎么敢不看？

因为这部剧强化了那些愚蠢的觉醒议程——白人至上主义、厌女症等等（见上文）。我这么说并不是为了诋毁共同创作者斯蒂芬·格雷厄姆，我对这位演员非常敬重。但这是一部剧，而不是纪录片。

然而，包括首相在内的政治人物将其视为事实并据此采取行动。

而且，是的，剧集往往能比纪录片取得更多成效——出色的《贝茨先生诉邮局》证明了这一点。

既然如此，为什么另一部 Netflix 剧集不仅在学校，而且在威斯敏斯特宫以及随处可见的大屏幕上，不能成为必看剧目？

我刚刚花了一个周末刷完了《法乌达》（Fauda）第五季，这是一部关于以色列反恐部队的令人屏息的剧集。

《法乌达》是我们过去所称的“电视”节目中最好的作品，仅次于

HBO 的石油工业剧《土地之王》（Landman）和亚马逊的《克拉克森的农场》（Clarkson's Farm）。尽管由以色列人制作，但它相当公正，展示了分歧的两方。

但在 10 月 7, 日哈马斯的大屠杀之后，我原以为第四季将是最后一季。他们怎么能将自大屠杀以来最严重的犹太人集体谋杀事件戏剧化？

答案是：以极其露骨、恐怖且真实的方式。如果说有什么的话，那就是那一天真正的恐怖——冷血的伊斯兰极端分子谋杀、强奸并斩首犹太男人、女人和儿童——只能在想象中体会。

《法乌达》带你进入那个噩梦，揭露哈马斯暴力的平庸与残暴。我不会详细描述，因为那令人心碎。你可以自行观看，但我看了，这样你就不必看了。

（参与《法乌达》制作的许多人曾在以色列安全部队服役。其中一人马坦·梅尔在加沙对抗哈马斯的战争中牺牲了。）

可以说，当剧集演到 10 月 7 日的大屠杀时，观众被建议跳过接下来的两集，因为它们可能会过于痛苦。我心惊胆战地看了这两集，愤怒感与日俱增——不仅是对哈马斯那些野蛮人本身，而且是对他们在西方、尤其是英国那些脑死亡的“有用白痴”们。

让我感到极度恶心的是，哈马斯现在将其视为新偶像的人——我们的外交大臣埃德·米利班德，在 9 / 11 纪念活动期间，一脸严肃地站在白金汉宫前。

这个人刚刚通过对以色列实施制裁，为那些暴行实施者提供了慰藉。

大家再见。

在那些惯常的极左辩护者试图钻牛角尖，声称是基地组织而非哈马斯将飞机撞向双子塔和五角大楼之前，让我提醒你们，在 9 / 11 那天，他们在加沙和约旦河西岸的街道上欢舞。

很多年前，我在工会大会（TUC）的一次晚宴上，有人试图解释各种

□ 根据昨天的《每日邮报》，电影迷们一直在投票选出银幕上最伟大的三角恋。毫无疑问，这个荣誉应该属于凯特·奥马拉的三角形（Triangle），无需竞争。

极左派系之间的区别，包括国际社会主义者、国际马克思主义者、工人革命党、雷吉·比尔奇的毛主义集体等等。我的老友兼曾经的导师，已故的特里·达菲——一位在第二次世界大战中与真正的纳粹和法西斯作战的爱国前伞兵，后来成为了工程工会领导人——曾说：“没关系，他们全都是共产主义者。”

特里的这句话至今仍能引起共鸣。不要去区分基地组织、阿尔-乔尔森、哈马斯、真主党、胡塞武装或任何其他以“H”开头的激进分子。

他们全都是仇视以色列、仇视犹太人，而且——没错——也仇视我们的恐怖分子。

那么，我们是否可以期待唐宁街举行一次峰会，讨论《法乌达》（Fauda）以及由英国境内被纵容的伊斯兰主义者和诱拐 / 强奸团伙所激起的“仇恨与厌女的漩涡”？

我对此不抱希望。我想把“爱德先生”（Mister Ed）绑在莱斯特广场奥德昂电影院的一把椅子上，同时在枪口威胁下聚集所有戴着“从河流到大海”库非耶围巾的小丑观众，强迫他们观看《法乌达》第五季的第七和第八集，好让他们见证他们所支持的那些种族灭绝狂人的真正野蛮。

对于这些人有一个词可以形容。是什么来着？哦，对了。

青少年。

作为曾为您带来“两辆捷豹”等文章的专栏作家，我一直在为伯纳姆（Burnham）琢磨绰号。

“安迪·卡普”（Andy Capp）并不太合适，尽管他有那种荒谬的“北方之王”做派（而且因为哈特尔普尔的那些猴子吊死者——安迪·卡普的精神故乡——表示反对）。

“安迪·潘迪”（Andy Pandy）似乎更合适，因为他的脊梁骨看起来像个木偶。考虑到他那些狭隘的执念，我还想过叫他“首席市长”（Prime Mayor）。 但我必须向我的老伙计、同行 J. Clarkson 先生低头，他定下了“伯纳姆议员”（Councillor Burnham）。太绝了。就叫伯纳姆议员吧。

大约 40 年前，我在伦敦《标准晚报》（Evening Standard）——当时它还是一份报纸时——写的首批专栏之一，就是对一个正经奶酪三明治的哀悼。金融城的“雅皮化”意味着你可以买到布里奶酪配布里欧修面包，或者卡门贝尔奶酪配恰巴塔面包，但如果你想要酥脆白面包配切达奶酪，你必须去河南岸作为谈判的基础。现在我读到，在马莎（Marks & Sparks）的草莓奶油三明治取得成功后，赛恩斯伯里（Sainsbury's）正推出苹果酥版本。曾经的“比赛恩斯伯里还像兔子”的三明治怎么了？为什么有人想吃苹果酥三明治？而且更关键的是，现在哪里能买到像样的苹果酥？大概在河南岸吧。太棒了（Lovely Jubbly）！

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“你们即将开始这场伟大的远征，这是我们数月以来孜孜以求的目标。全世界的目光都聚焦在你们身上。各地热爱自由之人的希望与祈祷与你们同行。”

德怀特·艾森豪威尔将军在 D-Day 登陆行动开始时，June 6, 1944 所说

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在那些阴郁的星期天下午，我和一群热爱电影的朋友经常前往当地的电影院。

这个周末是我们自去年四月以来的首次出游，我们观看了《压力》（Pressure）。我听说这部电影是关于“天气、战争和 D-Day 登陆”的。那么，这显然不是一部浪漫喜剧！

在看完电影仅几小时后写下这段文字，我正努力寻找词汇来表达它所激起的情感深度。

简而言之，D-Day 登陆需要一套非常特定的天气条件，而在一场剧烈的大西洋风暴系统中，一个极其狭小的窗口期，使得第二次世界大战中最重大的事件之一——历史上规模最大的旨在将欧洲从纳粹手中解放出来的海上入侵行动——得以在 6.30am on June 6, 1944 展开。有人说，风暴在那个时刻消散是上帝的旨意。而电影向我们展示了，人类的干预同样必不可少。

这时，坚毅的苏格兰人、首席气象官詹姆斯·斯塔格上尉（Captain James Stagg）登场了，安德鲁·斯科特（Andrew Scott，如图）的演绎如此精湛，我确信他职业生涯中再难超越这次表演。

他说服了德怀特·艾森豪威尔将军（由布兰登·弗雷泽饰演——同样出色）将入侵行动推迟一天。

电影结束时，电影院里没有一个人移动或发出声音，直到演职员表滚动结束，即便如此，我们依然静静地坐着。已经很久没有一部电影能让我微笑、流泪并让我的心跳漏掉几拍了，其叙事如此紧张。

这部史诗之作让我 感动落泪……

我第一次真正意识到，我们曾多么接近于输掉这场战争，以及如果我们输了，我们将生活在一个多么截然不同的世界里。

如果《压力》不能横扫奥斯卡奖，那么评委们就是傻瓜。甚至连配乐都值得获得奖项。

距离阵亡将士纪念日（Remembrance Sunday）仅剩几周，我敦促大家去看这部电影——不要等到它在小屏幕上播出。观看这部电影并鼓励他人观看是我们的职责。 让我们永不忘记。

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梅根，科茨沃尔德女王？那顶王冠早被人戴走了！

在北科茨沃尔德地区经历了数周的猜测、爆发式的 WhatsApp 讨论以及激烈的八卦和推测之后，私人公民梅根·萨塞克斯周日在 Instagram 上发布了一些她家人在英国乡村新生活的温馨照片。

阿奇和莉莉贝特在泥坑里嬉戏，与哈里一起在湖上的小船上钓鱼，在鹿园骑行，以及在熊熊燃烧的炉火旁烘烤小脚丫。没有什么能比这更令人愉悦了。

互联网侦探们很快就破解了地点！梅根做任何事都不会是偶然，我在想她是否渴望打破自己近几个月一直生活其中的那个泡沫。

坦白说，对于一名热爱面对镜头且有业务需要推广的资深演员来说，如此低调地生活一定令人感到窒息。

传闻一直称，她决心推出一个非常英伦版本的 As Ever 生活方式品牌——涵盖家居、家庭、美食、娱乐和时尚，并全部包裹在一种健康理念之中。

从理论上看，这可能是一个精明的举动。我们知道美国游客热爱科茨沃尔德——而萨塞克斯夫妇（目前暂住在其他地方的朋友家中）预计将在此定居。而且这个地区在 Instagram 上绝对是一个热门话题。

一位知情人士告诉我：“梅根可能不是一名在职王室成员，但她会将成为科茨沃尔德女王作为自己的工作。”

真的吗？好吧，我有话要告诉梅根。首先，我们这里已经有一位真正的女王了。

卡米拉经常居住在查尔斯位于该地区心爱的乡村住宅——海格罗夫（Highgrove）。

而且我们还有另一位女王：一个在近 25 年前就开始建立自己的奢侈生活帝国的人，她在 2002. 年开设了第一家店。卡罗尔·班福德（Carole Bamford）是 Daylesford Organic 的创始人和创办者。

Daylesford 取得了巨大的成功，尽管价格不菲。品质从来都不便宜。我为这笔开销辩护

无论你的政治立场如何，在安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）今天经历父亲罗伊（Roy）去世后，人们只能对他表示同情。他的父亲患有阿尔茨海默症，享年 86 岁。

遗憾的是，对他而言，公职的需求不会停下来足够长的时间让他悲痛。首相没有享受带薪丧假（compassionate leave）的奢侈，如果他能获得 48 小时的宽限期就算幸运了。这份工作是 24 / 7 全天候的，而那些敢于挺身而出的人在签约时就心知肚明。

愿老伯纳姆先生安息。如果他知道儿子进入了 No 10，他一定会感到无比自豪。

安吉拉·雷纳（ANGELA Rayner）周日在广播节目中对两名英国加密货币亿万富翁向改革党捐赠的 £7200 万 巨款发表了评论。

别急，安吉……

工党的前副党魁曾多次向我们强调，她的政党在审查自身捐款方面有多么出色。

人们忘记彼得·曼德尔森（Peter Mandelson）的速度竟如此之快，他与杰弗里·爱泼斯坦（Jeffrey Epstein）关系极好，而基尔·斯塔默（Keir Starmer）任命他担任我们驻华盛顿大使所引发的尴尬溃败更是令人难忘。在那件事上，并没有进行多少审查，对吧，安吉？

我在附近商店购物时，从不超量购买，并且深知无论我买什么，其味道都物有所值，或者在购买衣服时，是因为它能穿很多年。

重点在于有机，

我曾担心漫长而炎热的夏天会毁掉今年的黑莓采摘。虽然收成不佳，但我没考虑到我五岁孙女在场的情况。

如果你想证明这个国家没有什么比自由民主党议员（或议会）更没用的了，那就去和皮丁顿（Piddington）的善良人们聊聊，他们今天将投票决定是否“离开英国”。这个牛津郡的村庄——人口 350 人——正试图阻止一个前国防部（MoD）场地被用于安置多达 1,250 名男性寻求庇护者。

在她装满购物篮时，她转过身说：“这是最棒的部分，不是吗？”她是正确的——在这个感觉再不过分秋意的早晨。

这就是巴姆福德夫人（Lady Bamford）执着的激情所在。甚至她那些精美蜡烛的烛芯都是有机的！

至于果酱——这是萨塞克斯公爵夫人闻名的一项——Daylesford 的果酱采用在巴姆福德庄园种植的有机水果，我想在味道上是无可匹敌的。我怀疑梅根的品牌在这里没有市场。

Daylesford 在全球范围内建立了一批忠实且热情的客户群。因此，如果梅根的意图是打造一个英国版的 As Ever，那么她将面临巨大的挑战。

没关系，我想哈里总能找份工作……

皮丁顿的女性们担心自己的安全。一些刻薄的人在社交媒体上说，这是他们投票给自由民主党应得的报应——这个政党支持高水平的移民和开放边境。我想补充的是，皮丁顿的困境恰恰向你展示了在下次选举中绝对不应该支持谁。

专家退出莱特比辩护团队，痛批其出庭律师

作者：Liz Hull

昨日，两名因“科学可信度”担忧而退出露西·莱特比（Lucy Letby）辩护团队的专家声称，她的出庭律师正在损害她获得自由的机会。

英国化学工程师海伦·香农（Helen Shannon）和常驻新西兰的生物工程教授杰夫·蔡斯（Geoff Chase）曾是一个国际专家小组的成员，该小组去年支持了莱特比是司法误判受害者的主张。

他们曾提交一份100页的报告，对她因涉嫌用胰岛素毒害两名婴儿而导致的企图谋杀罪名提出质疑。但两人现在表示，由于担心其证据中某些领域的“科学可信度”以及存在“无法解决的问题”，他们已撤回对辩护团队的支持。

他们还指责领导莱特比争取自由之战的出庭律师马克·麦克唐纳（Mark McDonald）将“莱特比女士的长期利益置于严重的、不必要的且不可接受的风险之中”。

现年36, 岁的莱特比一直坚称自己无辜，并对她在切斯特伯爵夫人医院谋杀七名婴儿及企图谋杀另外七名婴儿的定罪提出挑战。

在曼彻斯特刑事法院的两场审判被定罪后，她目前正在服刑15个终身监禁刑期。

负责调查潜在司法误判的监管机构——刑事案件审查委员会（CCRC），正在审议由加拿大新生儿科医生舒·李（Shoo Lee）博士领导的专家小组去年代表她提交的一份证据卷宗。

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“与证据不符”

相关人员要么死于自然原因，要么死于护理不当。

香农女士和蔡斯教授告诉《卫报》，尽管他们坚持认为，在审判中被称为婴儿 F 和 L 的两名婴儿被投毒的“可能性极低”，但他们无法支持莱特比辩护团队在胰岛素案件中使用的其他证据。

他们表示，目前提出的其他论点“与现有证据、科学以及既定的生理学知识不符”。

在给刑事案件审查委员会（CCRC）的一封信中，专家们表示：“虽然辩护方提出多种论点完全合法，但目前提出的某些其他论点，我们认为在科学上不可信，且在我们看来存在根本性的、无法解决的问题。”李博士声称，他组建的专家组没有偏见，旨在对莱特比最初被指控谋杀或企图谋杀的 17 名婴儿的医疗记录进行“客观审查”。

但 9 月份，他们的独立性受到质疑，因为有证据显示他曾写信给这些医生，称：“我们可能是她（莱特比）最后的希望。”

一名资深新生儿科医生告诉《每日邮报》，他出于多种原因拒绝加入该专家组，其中包括李博士在电子邮件中使用了具有引导性的语言。

4 月份，麦克唐纳先生因涉嫌专业失职被举报至律师标准委员会。据了解，这名杀手护士受害者的家属已向该法律监管机构提交了正式投诉。

针对香农女士和蔡斯教授的退出，麦克唐纳先生表示，莱特比清白的论据并不“取决于任何一个专家”。

刑事案件审查委员会（CCRC）已对莱特比的定罪进行了 18 个月的审查，目前拒绝发表评论。关于这些谋杀案的公开调查结果将于今日公布。

克拉克森“效应”带动癌症筛查人数上升

作者：Eve Simmons

杰里米·克拉克森（Jeremy Clarkson）和戴维·卡梅伦（David Cameron）被认为引发了前列腺癌筛查人数的剧增。

在两人公开自己的诊断结果后，访问英国前列腺癌协会（Prostate Cancer UK）在线风险检测工具的人数增长了11倍。该协会表示，在前首相卡梅伦勋爵（Lord Cameron，59, 岁）于2025年公开其诊断结果之前，每天使用该工具的人数为2,000人，而在随后的那一周里，这一数字飙升至22,000人以上。

在前《Top Gear》明星克拉克森先生（Mr Clarkson，66, 岁）宣布其诊断结果后，也出现了类似的增长，访问人数从每天8,425人增加到51,000人。

该慈善机构表示，这种增长挽救了生命，但克拉克森先生坚持认为：“还有很多工作要做。我会一直强调：检查你的风险。这只需要几分钟，但能救你的命。”

克拉克森先生和卡梅伦勋爵是要求扩大筛查范围的幸存者之一——这也是本报正在发起的活动。在给卫生大臣伊薇特·库珀（Yvette Cooper）的信中，他们敦促她“致力于一项有针对性的国家筛查计划”，并补充道：“现在就采取行动，而不是在男性继续死亡的同时等待进一步的数据。”

每日邮报活动 停止不必要的 前列腺 死亡

克拉克森先生在6月份其节目《克拉克森的农场》（Clarkson's Farm）的剧集中宣布他被诊断出患有前列腺癌。他随后告诉《星期日泰晤士报》，他现在处于缓解期，而卡梅伦勋爵也透露他现在已康复。

来自英国前列腺癌协会的艾米·赖兰斯（Amy Rylance）表示：“我们听到很多男性说，像克拉克森先生或卡梅伦勋爵这样的名人诊断结果激励了他们去检查自己的风险，在某些情况下挽救了他们的生命。”

对于普鲁和艾莉森来说，走秀易如反掌

作者：Connie Rusk 和 Stephanie Takyi

作为前餐厅经营者和《英国烘焙大赛》（Great British Bake Off）的评委，她知道如何在厨房里吸引注意力。

但普鲁·莱斯女爵（Dame Prue Leith，86, 岁）在周末走上 T 台时真正地出尽了风头。在伦敦时装周期间，她穿着由可持续品牌 Vin + Omi 设计的白色花卉薄纱裙（见右图），戴着粉色假发和大号眼镜。

在东伦敦的霍克斯顿（Hoxton），前《烘焙大赛》共同出镜嘉宾艾莉森·哈蒙德（Alison Hammond）与她一同亮相，展示该品牌的 Anarchy 系列。《早晨》（This Morning）节目主持人哈蒙德女士（Ms Hammond，51, 岁）身着一件露肩

两子之母在没有患癌的情况下忍受了11年的化疗

作者：Lettice Bromovsky

一名被告知患有晚期脑肿瘤的女性经历了11年的化疗——结果却发现她根本没有患癌。

贝基·琼斯（Becky Jones）当时21岁，正处于热恋之中，并梦想着在警察部门开启职业生涯，这时医生告诉她患有侵袭性脑肿瘤，仅剩几个月的生命。

她没有构建想象中的未来，而是在接下来的11年里接受化疗——忍受着严重的恶心、疲劳和其他副作用，并时刻恐惧停止治疗会导致死亡。

如今，这位34岁的两子之母得知，她其实从未患过肿瘤。

代表她聘请的独立专家得出结论，她患的是瘤样脱髓鞘病（tumefactive demyelination），这是一种影响大脑的炎症性疾病，可以用类固醇治疗。

折磨：贝基·琼斯，34岁

她的案例是涉及科文垂和华威大学医院NHS信托基金（University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust）的一起更大规模丑闻的一部分，相关患者由已退休的神经肿瘤学顾问伊恩·布朗（Ian Brown）教授治疗。

超过40名患者及其家属正就长期或不必要的癌症治疗指控采取法律行动。英国皇家内科医师学会对20个案例的审查发现，在临床决策、患者知情同意和NHS监管方面存在严重失效。

其中15个案例被判定为不合格，多次出现在缺乏明确证据基础或缺乏解释必要性的充分记录的情况下，化疗被持续进行数年的情况。

在某些案例中，患者接受了超过100个周期的替莫唑胺（temozolomide）治疗，这是一种通常用于治疗高级别脑肿瘤的化疗药物。

审查还提出担忧，认为患者未被妥善告知长期持续治疗的风险，且旨在质疑异常处方的系统已经失效。

2012年，琼斯女士是科文垂市体育场的闭路电视监控操作员，最近结识了在那里担任管理员的伴侣皮特（Pete）。但严重的偏头痛促使她进行了医学检查，扫描显示其大脑有一个病灶。

她接受了活检，随后被当作患有四级胶质母细胞瘤（一种最具侵袭性的脑癌）进行治疗。

但她的律师表示，诊断是在活检结果返回之前就做出的。

该信托基金表示，受影响的患者已由高级临床医生重新评估，并制定了适当的护理计划。

它还委托对允许员工提出疑虑的流程进行独立审查。

Ephraim Hardcastle

哈里王子在看到乔治王子上周在伊顿公学（Eton）入学第一天抢占头条后，是否希望阿奇能追随父亲的学术脚步？如今，只有20%的伊顿校友将孩子送至该校，而1960年代这一比例为60%。学费上涨是原因之一，另一个原因是父亲不再拥有在孩子出生时自动注册的权利。所有潜在学生现在必须证明自己具有高学术能力，接受面试并通过推理测试。拥有君主作为祖父已不再能带来特权——至少在官方层面是这样。而在新制度下，年轻时并非顶尖学霸的哈里，是否无法达到录取标准？

在唐纳德·特朗普最近访问期间宣布他“很想看到”一个统一的爱尔兰后，安德鲁·尼尔（Andrew Neil）反思道：“曾经，一名美国总统倡导[这一点]将具有爆炸性——主导新闻周期……但那是特朗普。他一直在胡言乱语。没人太在意……他根本不知道自己在说什么。一周后他就会说相反的话。”

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《坏姐妹》（Bad Sisters）主演、已离婚的莎伦·霍根（Sharon Horgan，如图）在 56 岁时直言不讳地谈到单身生活：“如果你在 50 多岁中期还没有找到那个可以一起变老的人……当你快要成为一名养老金领取者时，你该如何以一个具有性吸引力的人的身份重新进入社交圈？到了某个年龄，还会剩下谁？难道只剩下怪胎、异类、那些习惯性单身的单身汉和老男人吗？”伙计们，快来排队吧！

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戴安娜·里格（Diana Rigg）的女儿蕾切尔·斯特林（Rachael Stirling）曾在与丹尼尔·克雷格（Daniel Craig）共演的一场 007 电影试镜中，因胸部被认为太小而落选。不久之后，她的父亲阿奇·斯特林（Archie Stirling）在机场行李转盘处遇到了克雷格。“当时只剩下两个行李车了，”蕾切尔在一次播客中讲述道，“而丹尼尔把两个都拿走了。我父亲说：‘我想，在你和我女儿在床上翻滚之后，你应该给我留一辆行李车！’”蕾切尔没有透露 007 的反应。也许他认为阿奇疯了（off his trolley）。

卢西安·弗洛伊德（Lucian Freud）笔下丰腴的缪斯苏·蒂利（Sue Tilley）讲述了她为这位已故画家担任裸体模特时的艰辛。“（弗洛伊德）……让我趴在地上，让自己舒服一点，那里有很多枕头……但那些枕头简直脏极了，”苏告诉 Radio 4 。“但我对卫生要求不高，所以并不在意。”这幅名为《熟睡的福利监督员》（Benefits Supervisor Sleeping）的画作以 £1720 万 的价格售出。而 69 岁的苏一分钱也没拿到。

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在芭芭拉·卡特兰（Barbara Cartland）的新传记中，并未提及王室作家蒂姆·希尔德（Tim Heald）在 20 世纪 90 年代试图获得芭芭拉许可为其撰写传记的短暂尝试。她曾允许蒂姆查阅她的文件，但随后将其召见。“她对我发现了她的第一任丈夫萨奇·麦考科代尔（Sachie McCorquodale）是个毫无魅力且经常殴打她的酒鬼感到愤怒，”蒂姆回忆道。“她不想让任何人知道这件事。所以她解雇了我。”

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作者：亚历山德拉·舒尔曼 (Alexandra Shulman)

在整个婚礼历史上，恐怕没有人能像 1994 年我第一次结婚那天那样，看起来如此不吸引人。

不久前我对我的姐姐发表这个评论时，她甚至没有提出任何异议。没有说什么“别傻了，你当时看起来很甜”，或者更糟糕的——“那才像你”。

只有一种心照不宣的沉默。

这其实有个理由。我当时的长期男友在周一向我求婚，并说他已经预订了即将到来的周四在登记处办理手续。我愿意嫁给他吗？

现在看来，这似乎是一项不可能完成的任务，因为显然结婚公告必须提前 28 天发布，但我能说的就是，他和我都记得事情就是这样发生的。

这是一种不寻常的方式，但我们的恋爱过程也不寻常，而且当时我们分居两地。那是决定成败的关键时刻，在思考了一夜之后，我决定接受，并在第二天给他打电话，在恐惧与欣喜交织中告知他我的决定。

当时根本没有时间去筹备任何东西，尤其是没有什么漂亮的衣服可以穿。

根据我的经验，你试图为某个场合寻找衣服时，这个场合越重要，你就越不可能找到合适的。这就是为什么当你看到心仪之物时，值得立即买下来，然后等待合适的时机到来。因为这种情况总会发生。

尽管如此，我的衣橱里没有任何适合结婚的衣服，于是我和我的朋友兼同事弗朗西丝一起跑到了位于我办公室附近、南莫尔顿街上的伦敦顶级精品店 Browns。那里没有我真正喜欢的衣服，但考虑到时间紧迫，我选了一件当时很流行的 Ghost 品牌的长袖白色连衣裙，以及一条由多层丝绸和薄纱组成的、绣花精美的 Dries van Noten 披肩。

也许是因为在结婚前，我曾不止一次地因为与他分手而感到痛苦，并且对自己的未来感到恐惧，所以在那段时间里，我的状态并不在最佳水平。

那天的照片显示，我的发型糟糕透顶——原本想剪成那种时髦的凌乱碎发，结果只是单纯的乱；脸色苍白，而那套衣服对我毫无益处，将我包裹在毫无形状的布料之中。幸运的是，我的姐姐和姐夫是唯一的见证人——既见证了这场婚姻，也见证了我的样子。

我人生中的遗憾之一，就是在那一天看起来那样。虽然不是什么极其严重的大事，但足以提醒我，如果一件衣服感觉不对，那么在必要时，最好坚持穿那些让你感觉良好的衣服。那件连衣裙感觉一直不对，太邋遢且太随意了。而那条披肩让我看起来像个印度新娘的姑婆。

不过，没有任何一件婚纱能像皇室新娘的婚纱那样承载如此巨大的意义。在 2010 年威廉王子与凯瑟琳·米德尔顿宣布订婚几周后，她的团队成员联系了我，询问我是否可以过来聊聊，讨论一下她可以考虑的潜在婚纱设计师。

自然地，我感到很荣幸，但同时也极其忐忑。正如我所指出的，婚纱并不是我的强项。而这件礼服必须凝聚一个国家的梦想与期待。从婚礼宣布的那一刻起，关于谁能获得这份令人向往的委任，外界便开始议论纷纷。

这绝非一项简单的任务。凯瑟琳需要与一位能够尊重皇室婚纱传统的设计师合作，因为这类婚纱承载着与此类历史事件相关的所有象征意义和文化遗产。每一个细节在未来的几十年里都会被审视和分析。

这件礼服还需要出自一位英国设计师之手，且该设计师必须具备胜任如此地位之工作所需的卓越技巧和想象力，同时能够完全秘密地完成整个过程。安全是一个重大顾虑。在婚礼当天之前，确保他们的身份不被泄露至关重要。

他们还需要有信心在应对王室不可避免的繁文缛节和规章制度的同时，能与准新娘建立起共情。毕竟，新娘必须在设计师面对她各种程度的脱衣状态，以及在过程中可能感到不安的不同阶段时，依然能感到自在。我的直觉告诉我，一名女性将是最佳选择。

当我们见面时，凯瑟琳很想知道我的想法。我们蹲在克拉伦斯宫其中一间接待室的地板上，看着从《Vogue》杂志上撕下来的页面，上面列出了她可能考虑的英国设计师——Erdem、Vivienne Westwood、Catherine Walker、Bruce Oldfield、Alexander McQueen，以及像 Phillipa Lepley 这样资深的婚纱设计师。从凯瑟琳对这些人的反应来看，根本无法读出她的想法。

在那个阶段，她的日常衣橱里并没有很多设计师品牌服装，与许多英国中产阶级年轻女性的穿着相似，经常穿着 Reiss 和 Jigsaw 等品牌。她并不熟悉定制服装的流程，也不熟悉与知名设计师合作的方式。

这与已故女王伊丽莎白在 1947 年的婚纱情况不同。那件婚纱是由英国高级定制设计师诺曼·哈特内尔（Norman Hartnell）设计的，当时的公主与他已经建立了密切的关系，因为他负责了她大部分的服装。在那个年代，还没有 Reiss 或 Jigsaw 这样的品牌。王室成员的衣服全部是为他们量身定制的。哈特内尔设计的礼服上绣有水晶和种子珍珠，描绘了白色的约克玫瑰和麦穗，象征着在近期战争破坏后的重生。裙摆周围装饰着橙花花环，这在王室礼服中经常被用来展示生育力、纯洁和美德。

贾斯汀·皮卡迪（Justine Picardie）在她的书《塑造王冠》（Fashioning The Crown）中引用了哈特内尔的回忆录，书中讲述了礼服所用材料的精确来源是如何受到审查的。“那些提供丝绸以制作缎面，并由我打算用来制作礼服的蚕是什么国籍？”他写道。当他计划使用苏格兰 Winterthur 公司的缎面时，有人告诉他，某些圈子正试图以爱国主义为由阻止此事——因为涉及的蚕可能是意大利的，而意大利人在战争中并非我们的朋友，或者更糟糕的是，可能是日本的。

这是一个时代变迁的标志：当宣布那些蚕没有问题——它们是中国蚕——时，哈特内尔得到了继续执行的许可。而如今，我们可能比对日本蚕更警惕中国蚕。

那天下午我离开之前，凯瑟琳问我认为谁最合适。直到那一刻，我还没有一个坚定的首选，但我考虑了眼前的选项，并建议 Alexander McQueen——现在由萨拉·伯顿（Sarah Burton）设计，她在麦昆去世后接任了创意总监一职——会是一个不错的选择。

萨拉身上有一种安静的气质，我认为这很适合准新娘，但她同时拥有坚定的见解和卓越的专业知识。被人们熟知的李·麦昆（Lee McQueen）长期在作品中使用象征主义，而精湛的工艺是该品牌的基调。凯瑟琳只是点了点头，并感谢我的所有帮助。

直到婚礼当天我坐在威斯敏斯特教堂里，收到助手萨莎（Sacha）发来的一条短信，告知礼服确实是 McQueen 的作品，我才知道萨拉赢得了这份享有盛誉的工作。

在教堂里，我们谁也看不到外面发生了什么，因此错过了实时揭晓的伟大时刻。我相信我不是唯一一个给出建议的人，但我很高兴最终的礼服不仅完美契合这场历史性的典礼，而且新公主与萨拉建立了一段将持续多年的关系。

这就让我想到了我自己的第二次、相对近期的婚礼。

这一次，我有稍微多一点的时间来挑选衣服。大卫和我在一起已经超过 20 年了，我们讨论结婚这件事已经很久了，或者更频繁地讨论不结婚。总会有另一个理由让我们无法做出决定。

但在我母亲去世后，有些事情发生了变化。我无法再将那种对时光流逝的强烈认知地压在心底。我们不能永远这样犹豫不决。明天可能不会到来。我们需要决定是尝试一次，还是彻底放弃。这一次，我们提前六周在肯辛顿和切尔西登记处（和我第一次结婚的同一个地点）预约了时段。我们对这个消息保持相对私密，并计划举行一个极小规模的仪式，但随着我之前婚礼的照片在记忆中像轮播图一样闪过，我知道这一次在服装方面我必须做得更好。

但是，对于一个 50 岁、60 岁或更年长的人来说，第二次婚礼合适的着装应该是怎样的？在

作为担任了 25 年的《Vogue》编辑，亚历山德拉·舒尔曼（ALEXANDRA SHULMAN）是时尚界的巨擘。现在，在一本坦率得令人心折的回忆录中，她揭露了……

我是如何帮凯特挑选婚纱的——尽管在我自己的大日子里，我的样子简直糟糕透顶

总的来说，这种情况显然并不适合穿那种大白婚纱。问题不在于年龄，而在于你有多想把自己呈现为一个传统的、纯洁的新娘。

婚礼是对两个人之间关系的深情认可，虽然显然没有关于在这种场合如何着装的规定，但我希望我的衣服能反映出我对这段婚姻的感受。事实上，当时我有点不确定那是什么感觉。

在这么大的年纪结婚是否在挑战命运？我们此前和谐的关系能否在新的纽带中幸存？婚姻会让我们感到更安全、更幸福吗？还是我们两人会在共同的生活中感受到一种新的束缚？我会感到一种圆满吗？我毫无头绪。

我也完全不知道我想穿什么，只知道我不想穿什么。我很明确地要避开那种松垮、像沼泽一样臃肿的裙子，大卫特别讨厌那种风格，而我却相当喜欢——那些被他称为“德米斯·鲁索风格”的衣服被列入了我的禁区名单。

我想买一件以后还能再次穿着的衣服，而且理想情况下不要

新婚之喜：凯特·米德尔顿在2011年穿着亚历山大·麦昆（Alexander McQueen）。上方为亚历山德拉与大卫·詹金斯在四月结为夫妻。

仅限于非常正式的场合。婚礼将在四月下旬举行，那时天气变幻莫测，这为选择合适的着装增添了典型的英国式不确定性。我不想在登记处门口冻僵，但也不想穿一件厚大衣。因为某种原因，那样似乎不够喜庆。

我知道，全白色并不适合我，而且会让我觉得自己有点傻。海军蓝——通常是我的首选——则显得有点不够庆祝。也许粉色或绿色可行。

对于一个长期经营着一本充满各种着装建议的杂志的人来说，令人惊讶的是，我竟然陷入了犹豫不决的瘫痪状态。我甚至不知道从哪里开始。想到要在网上订购没完没了的商品，然后还得整理成箱的衣服寄回，每一件衣服都代表着另一次失败，这种想法太阴郁，简直无法想象。我知道我必须去一家真实的实体店，在那儿直接试穿。

最终，就在婚礼前一周，我去了利伯蒂（Liberty's）百货公司，这家店的一个巨大优势在于其规模适中，方便逛起来。

我在各层楼间徘徊，随手拿起一些衣服试穿，心里知道它们不太可能是我需要的。很快，试衣间的地板上就堆满了我想尝试的各种中长裙和长裙。无袖花卉裙更适合夏季花园派对；滑溜的斜裁款式不适合我；异域风情印花的直筒裙一直拖到地面，同样不合适。

在毫不留情的灯光下审视自己，我开始重新考虑整件事。甚至，在转瞬之间，重新考虑这段婚姻本身。也许最好的办法是坚持我的指令：“穿一件你确定感到舒适的衣服。”毕竟，我在《Vogue》工作多年，衣橱里有无数件裙子。

即便如此，这在我看来像是认输。这段婚姻理应得到更好的对待。搜寻必须继续。我忧郁地向出口走去，告诉那位热心的销售助手，遗憾的是没有一件合适的，然后……我发现了一件完美的作品，它像在海上迷路时看到的陆地一样，及时地拯救了我。

在摆满了单色上衣和裤子的 Jil Sander 衣架上，挂着一条淡粉色缎面铅笔裙，上面点缀着小小的深红色罂粟花。我一眼就看出它很适合我，正是我想要的。事实也的确如此。

店员因为能达成一笔销售而感到兴奋，同时也沉浸在帮人寻找婚礼礼服的情绪中，匆匆跑开去寻找一件合适的上衣。她回来时拿着一件 Dries van Noten 的细针织亮番茄红开襟羊毛衫，而且——锦上添花的是——还拿着一件出自同一设计师之手的疯狂红色羽毛包。

那条铅笔裙勾勒出我纤细的腰身，长度恰好在膝盖下方。羊毛衫的剪裁很修身，而那个包正是让整套服装焕发出欢快气息的点睛之笔。一点也不沉闷。

我知道我会一次又一次地穿上那条裙子，每次它都会让我想起那天，但它也将承载新的记忆。我非常享受以一个“红衣女郎”而非“羞涩新娘”的身份开启我的新婚生活。

当你心有所属时，你自然会明白。而我明白了。

■ 改编自 Alexandra Shulman 的《黑咖啡与红口红》（Black Coffee And Red Lipstick，售价 £20，Mitchell Beazley 出版），10月1日发行。© Alexandra Shulman 2026。如需订购副本，价格为 £18（优惠有效期至 30 / 09 / 26；英国境内订单满 £25 免邮），请访问 mailshop.co.uk / books 或致电 020 3176 2937。

在明天的《每日邮报》中：是什么导致了我严重的恐慌发作

华莱士：英国是时候击落普京的无人机了

前国防大臣昨晚表示，英国应当在乌克兰上空将弗拉基米尔·普京的致命无人机击落。

本·华莱士（Ben Wallace）支持相关呼吁，要求英国军队拦截飞向北约领土的俄罗斯弹头，以防止

作者：马克·尼科尔（Mark Nicol）和安迪·杰林（Andy Jehring）

克里姆林宫对乌克兰邻国的袭击。

几个月来，波兰一直带头呼吁其盟友采取行动，但却被这个防御联盟中的伙伴们所忽视。但昨晚，在波兰边境附近发生了一次险些击中鲍里斯·约翰逊及其他前领导人的袭击后，华莱士先生敦促唐宁街迎接挑战。

俄罗斯日益将无人机、巡航导弹和弹道导弹的目标指向乌克兰的邻国，包括波兰、罗马尼亚和摩尔多瓦。

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ASA 确保英国广告遵守规则。

Simples.

但如果北约改变政策，普京可能会对英国及其他国家首次加入乌克兰上空的冲突做出愤怒反应。

在 2022 年俄罗斯入侵后领导国际支持乌克兰行动的华莱士先生告诉《每日邮报》：“这是逻辑上的下一步。没有什么能阻止一个国家在乌克兰上空击落飞来的导弹或无人机。”

“这符合国际法，且不能被视为升级行为，因为无人机是在乌克兰上空，而非俄罗斯上空。”

此前，约翰逊先生、英国国家安全顾问乔纳森·鲍威尔（Jonathan Powell）以及欧洲官员们险些被一枚俄罗斯无人机击中，该无人机击中了乌克兰-波兰边境的一列火车。他们当时已在

“符合国际法”

经常被访问战区的政治人物使用的亚霍丁-多罗胡斯克（Yahodyn-Dorohusk）过境点下车。不久之后，附近另一列火车被击中。

德国帕德博恩大学的乌克兰专家奥尔加·马特维耶娃（Olga Matveieva）博士表示，对于北约来说，忽视俄罗斯的“不断挑衅”已“不再是一个选项”。

在地面上，乌克兰人对西方未能加强力量以应对俄罗斯威胁感到日益厌倦。

北约目前的政策是等待俄罗斯弹头进入其领空后再进行拦截。

《邮报》获悉，一些成员国坚持应维持该政策，因为在冲突区域本身拦截敌方目标将被视为升级行为。

美国领先的智库战争研究所（Institute for the Study of War）表示，由于克里姆林宫日益激进地将波兰和罗马尼亚等北约国家作为目标，该战术已不再可行。该研究所还呼吁北约成员国为乌克兰提供更多的防空能力，以及打击俄罗斯无人机和导弹发射器的能力。

惊险时刻：鲍里斯·约翰逊

普京对英国近期支持乌克兰的努力（例如提供远程导弹以打击俄罗斯境内目标）反应敌对。

上个月，在俄担任英国大使长达七年的安德烈·凯林（Andrey Kelin）被撤回，且未任命继任者。■ 国防部昨日确认，第二名英国士兵在乌克兰执行任务期间被杀。

官员表示，周六的死亡事件起因于一次“道路交通事故”，但未提供进一步细节。

去年 12 月，28, 岁的伞兵下士乔治·胡利（George Hooley）在“远离前线测试一项新防御能力”时被杀。

沙特关键管道遭轰炸后油价再次跳涨

作者：伊莫金·加芬克尔 (Imogen Garfinkel)

由于担心沙特阿拉伯若不修复被轰炸的管道，出口库存可能在几天内耗尽，油价大幅飙升。

卫星图像揭示了周四从伊拉克发射的无人机袭击后，这条长 745 英里的东西向管道的受损程度，其中一个泵站看起来被严重烧焦。

昨日油价上涨超过 3%，达到每桶 $108。这条管道帮助沙特阿拉伯——全球最大的原油出口国——通过将每天约 400 万 桶原油改道运往红海的延布港，从而绕过了霍尔木兹海峡。

行业人士表示，如果管道继续关闭，延布港现有的库存仅能支撑大约五到七天的出口，这将给原油价格带来更大压力。

在伊朗战争引发霍尔木兹海峡关闭后，全球能源市场已经承受着严重压力，全球五分之一的石油和天然气通常经由该海峡流动。

也门亲伊朗的胡塞武装袭击了沙特阿拉伯的目标，并占领了曼德海峡中具有战略意义的红海佩里姆岛，扩大了其对这条狭窄水道的控制。

伊拉克在承认针对该关键管道的无人机袭击源自其一个与伊朗接壤的省份后，表示已撤职一名军事指挥官并启动调查。

沙特石油流量的进一步下降将加剧全球供应危机，而此次危机已经将全球燃料价格推至历史高点，并引发了全球范围内的通货膨胀。

国王就无敌勇士运动会缓和哈里与乌干达的关系

作者：丽贝卡·英格利什 (Rebecca English) 王室编辑

在国王的心腹致电该国军方首脑以缓和关系后，乌干达将参加明年由哈里王子举办的无敌勇士运动会。

私人秘书克莱夫·奥尔德顿爵士 (Sir Clive Alderton) 致电穆胡齐·凯内鲁加巴将军 (General Muhoozi Kainerugaba)，表示查尔斯国王对他能“敏感地考虑”陛下对 2027 年将在伯明翰举行的体育赛事的看法感到“触动”。

这位头衔冗长的“国防军总司令兼总统特别行动高级顾问”上周在 X 上宣布，由于在萨塞克斯公爵夫妇返回英国后持续出现的“哈里 / 梅根胡闹之事”，他将使该国退出这项针对军事人员的类残奥会赛事。

这引发了萨塞克斯公爵夫妇发言人的激烈回应，后者声称，由侍从长上周代表国王发送的一封重磅信函——强调了这对夫妇的“私人公民”身份——“直接或间接地”导致了乌干达人的退出。

“在一次谨慎的通话后问题已得到解决”

萨塞克斯公爵夫妇还令人震惊地指责王室对军方人员和退伍军人产生了负面影响。

查尔斯国王是武装部队的统帅，并立即明确表示他“支持”所有有利于军队的倡议。

这位作为“国家大家庭”之首的君主将于11月出席在安提瓜举行的英联邦政府首脑会议。与此同时，据称哈里王子非常希望他的父亲能出席明年的赛事，届时无敌运动会（Invictus Games）将自2014年以来首次回到英国——当时国王和威廉王子都出席了首届活动。

这将是乌干达首次参加该赛事。但上周，凯内鲁加巴将军（General Kainerugaba）发帖称：“为了不被误认为反对我们深感敬畏的英国国王查尔斯三世陛下，乌干达特此退出无敌运动会。我们不会参加任何未经陛下批准的活动。”

尖锐的回应：哈里和梅根在上一届运动会上

然而，在昨天的社交媒体上，乌干达国防公共信息代理主任克里斯·马格齐（Chris Magezi）上校表示，在克莱夫爵士进行了一次谨慎的电话沟通后，此事已得到解决。他表示：“国防军总司令（CDF）兼总统特别行动高级顾问穆胡齐·凯内鲁加巴将军已批准乌干达人民国防军（UPDF）参加明年在伯明翰举行的无敌运动会。”

“这一决定是在凯内鲁加巴将军与英国国王陛下及王后陛下的首席私人秘书、尊敬的克莱夫·奥尔德顿爵士（Sir Clive Alderton KCVO）进行电话交谈后做出的。”

“在讨论中，奥尔德顿爵士透露，查尔斯三世国王对凯内鲁加巴将军在对待由萨塞克斯公爵哈里王子组织的即将到来的无敌运动会时，能如此敏感地考虑国王的意见而深受感动。奥尔德顿爵士表示，查尔斯三世国王对于乌干达参加无敌运动会没有异议。”马格齐上校补充说，凯内鲁加巴将军已“承诺乌干达人民国防军将恢复参加准备工作”。

图片来源：凯内鲁加巴将军

据信，白金汉宫率先采取了行动，一名消息人士称他们对乌干达人的“礼貌与理解”表示“非常感激”。相比之下，萨塞克斯阵营则声称侍从长（Lord Chamberlain）的信件只造成了“混乱”，但这一说法被强烈否认。

上周，消息人士明确表示，国王鼓励所有支持受伤服役人员的组织。

斯特金称为了乔治应该废除君主制

作者：萨姆·劳利（Sam Lawley）

尼古拉·斯特金（Nicola Sturgeon）表示，英国应该废除君主制，以将13岁的乔治王子从他未来的国王职责中解救出来。

这位前苏格兰首席部长坚持认为，废除这一制度将减轻他一个“无法选择”的“负担”。

在第四频道（Channel 4）的纪录片《王室：是时候离开了？》（The Royals: Time To Go?）中，斯特金女士告诉同样主张共和制的约翰·汉弗莱斯（John Humphrys），她对王室成员持有“极大的同情”。

她补充道：“事实上，我想说，废除君主制的论据之一是为了王室成员的利益，例如乔治王子。”

“那个孩子对此并不知情。他的面前有着某种

“他没有选择。这真的公平吗？”

他无法选择。这真的公平吗？

“因此，我实际上认为，废除君主制的一个理由就是为了让未来的王室成员能够从这种负担中解脱出来。”

在一次配合该节目发布而委托进行的民意调查中，超过四分之一的人表示支持废除君主制。

在 18 至 24 岁的人群中，这一比例上升至 38%。

斯特根女士的这些言论发表之际，据昨日报道，在其分居的丈夫彼得·默雷尔被判定挪用公款后，她因涉嫌处理赃物而被举报至警方。

支持独立博客作者斯图尔特·坎贝尔透露，他已致信苏格兰警方，指控她犯有“reset”罪——这是苏格兰法律中的一项罪名，指某人持有被盗财产。

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全球最肮脏的城市能否真正洗心革面？

当一艘载有 5,000 名水手的美国航空母舰在海上航行 286 天后，停靠在一个以性旅游闻名全球的城市时，社交媒体上的笑话、嘲讽和戏谑在所难免。

这是现代海军最长的一次部署，因此美国电视团队纷纷涌向芭堤雅，预料到那些刚从中东战争地带归来、心烦意乱的船员们，在遇到这个充满活力的泰国度假胜地中密集的霓虹灯舞厅、按摩院和海滩妓女时，会引发怎样的混乱。

毕竟，这里半个世纪前还是一个简单的渔村，后来随着数万名参加越南战争的美国士兵在此休养，它被改造成为一个臭名昭著的卖淫中心。

泰国芭堤雅有 190,000 名正式居民——以及约 60,000 名性工作者，使其成为西方性旅游者的磁石。伊恩·比雷尔采访了市长，后者的梦想是将这里重新打造为一个家庭度假胜地……

来自伊恩·比雷尔（Ian Birrell）

如今，芭堤雅拥有12万名登记在册的泰国居民和多达7万名外国侨民，据称这里至少有6万名性工作者。

在海上航行近十个月后，“亚伯拉罕·林肯”号航空母舰上的条件已经恶化。甚至其舰长丹·基勒（Dan Keeler）也承认，他的船“看起来就像停车场里的一辆脏车”。

然而，除了一次醉酒斗殴和几次谨慎的约会外，他的船员（其中包括数百名女性）大部分时间都在陆地上用餐、购物和享受海滩，这既促进了该市的经济，也助力了该市目前致力于转变形象的努力。

“芭堤雅以夜生活和性服务而闻名，”市长波拉梅特·‘比尔’·恩甘皮切特（Poramet ‘Beer’ Ngampichet）说道，“但我们试图改变这种名声——在这里你可以获得一切。现在我们可以说，这座城市也是一个家庭旅游目的地。”

他热情地谈到了芭堤雅的海滩、会议中心和体育设施。然而，当我抵达这里离开出租车时，首先看到的一幕正是其残酷形象的缩影：一名极其肥胖的英国退休老人正牵着两名泰国年轻女性的手。当我告诉市长时，他承认：“这同样让我感到不舒服。”

在美国水兵登岸之前，该市进行了一次表面上的清理，对少数性工作者进行了象征性的逮捕。但现在，随着两名西方“farang”（外国人）因谋杀罪面临起诉，人们的目光再次回到了这座“罪恶之城”肮脏的一面。

首先是西蒙·卡曼（Simon Carman）的案件，这名45岁的澳大利亚人被指控在一次据称是关于金钱的争吵中，勒死了一名未成年妓女。在受害者死亡前不久，监控摄像头拍到他在其公寓楼内牵着她的手等待电梯。

警方认为，卡曼是在6月份在芭堤雅海滩结识了通查诺克·顿霍姆拉（Tunchanok Donhomla）的，后者是一名17岁少女，一周前刚从贫困农村地区来到这座城市。

她的裸体被发现于一个被丢弃在铁路沿线长草丛中的行李箱内。

几天后，一名21岁的英国女性因在市郊的一栋豪华租赁别墅中刺死其34岁男友而被捕——据报道，该男子来自斯托克-昂-特伦特（Stoke-on-Trent），经营着一个大麻农场。她声称他是自杀。

作为一名记者，我访问过100多个国家，见证过许多肮脏的场景和阴暗的地方，但芭堤雅的“派对”景象是无与伦比的。

“当你看到一些女孩的年龄以及她们被呈现的方式时，这简直是对人性的一种控诉，”克里斯（Chris）说道，他是一名正与朋友一起进行高尔夫之旅的澳大利亚退休人员，“我喜欢这里的人、[在泰国芭堤雅]食物和高尔夫——但我不喜欢所有对女性的虐待。”

男人单独或成小群走在最臭名昭著的街道上，那里到处是像Slutz、Bliss或Little Hole这样的酒吧，挤满了在其中工作的女性，她们穿着校服、护士服或最简陋的G弦裤，恳求顾客光顾。

有些女性抓着男人的手臂或抚摸他们，即使对方肥胖、年老或醉到几乎无法行走，她们仍称其为“帅哥”和“性感”。这是一个由嘈杂音乐、闪烁灯光和奔波女性组成的令人眩晕的模糊世界——所有人都在拼命诱惑客户。

这里有寻求交易的“ladyboys”（泰国语中对跨性别女性的称呼）、霓虹灯闪烁的“男孩镇”（Boyz Town）区域、宣传露骨“乒乓球”表演的招牌，以及向印度人或俄罗斯人承诺提供“性感女孩”的广告。

女性坐在铁笼里，等待男人向目标投球，这样她们就会跌入下方的水箱中。

在周围的街道上，有数十家按摩店。穿着“水疗中心”制服的女性坐在外面，其中许多人处于中年或更年长。她们聊天、进食或无精打采地看着手机，大声打招呼试图诱惑路过的男人。

“当然，无论别人怎么说，这里就是世界性都之都，”58岁的保罗说道。他是一名来自萨塞克斯的快递员，我在最臭名昭著的6巷（Soi 6）的一家酒吧门口遇到了他。“如果你想找个女孩做爱，在这里到处都能找到。你只需要看着一个女孩就能得手。”他从21岁起就开始访问这座城市。“芭堤雅就是这样。泰国还有更漂亮的地方，但很多人还是来这里。我第一次来的时候，这里只有现在的一半大，所以这一定意味着它很受欢迎。世界上没有其他地方像这里一样。”

这座距离首都曼谷两小时车程的城市每年吸引2200 万名游客——但有些人对其活动并不那么坦率。一名五十多岁的英国男子正与一名年轻的泰国女性坐在一起，他告诉我这是他第九次来芭堤雅，但对这里的名声一无所知。“我没看到过那种情况，”他笑着说。

随后，我遇到了一名来自伯明翰的卡车司机。他穿着一件英格兰足球队的球衣，当天刚刚抵达。他承认自己喝醉了，拒绝透露姓名，并告诉我这是他第18次来到这座城市，“但我绝对没去过6巷，上帝作证”。

我看着他踉踉跄跄地走向与那条街道的交汇处。然后他转过身来——看到我在观察他——便直接走回来，经过我身边时喃喃自语说他迷路了，正准备回酒店休息。

在酒吧工作的女性每说服一名男子买一杯饮料，通常只能赚到略高于£1的钱——而是否愿意与他们一起去发生性关系由她们决定。

如果她们不能诱导足够的顾客买饮料，就可能会被解雇。

在泰国，卖淫据称是非法的——这导致了关于……的指控

“泰国经济依赖旅游业，而这部分收入很大程度上来自性工作，但他们否认这一点。这很奇怪且讽刺，”曼谷法政大学政治学教授、该团体负责人查利达蓬·宋萨蓬（Chalidaporn Songsamphon）说道。芭堤雅那位和蔼的警察局长凸显了这种冲突。

“性是人类生活的一部分，”阿内克·斯拉通尤（Anek Srathongyoo）上校说。“不能有未成年人的性行为。不能有暴力或强奸。但如果关系是自愿的，我们不能禁止他们。”

“男女相爱是自然的。这不是卖淫。他们可能在酒吧喝酒时觉得对方有趣，然后自愿一起去酒店。”

去年，这个迷人的热带国家——“微笑之国”——吸引了3300 万名游客。

宋萨蓬教授表示，一些估计认为，在去年该关键部门赚取的340 亿英镑 billion中，寻求性服务的外国人贡献了超过一半。“很多来自欧洲和美国的人来到这里，以满足他们在国内无法获得的情欲，”她说。“如果他们在更富裕的经济体国内寻求同样的性服务，价格会非常昂贵，所以他们来这里寻求更便宜的服务。”

图片：JONAS GRATZER / LIGHTROCKET via GETTY IMAGES / ARCADY / SHUTTERSTOCK 霓虹闪烁，阴暗底色：上方图中，西方人在芭堤雅走过年轻的酒吧女孩，霓虹灯招牌照亮了这座城市。

她认为，虽然这可以被合理地视为剥削，但大多数性工作者来自非常贫困的地方——通常是泰国北部的农村地区——几乎没有其他机会赚到足够的钱来养活家人和村庄。

或者用一名来自伍斯特郡雷迪奇（Redditch）的71岁男子的简洁话语来说，他经常访问芭堤雅，当时正与他的同伴和两名泰国女性坐在酒吧里：“我知道这全关乎花钱——但我有钱，而她们没有。”一名46岁的酒吧“女孩”说，直到去年她还在农场工作，砍柴和搬运木头一天仅赚£2。现在，仅仅靠饮料她一个月就能赚£200，“因为我很友好且擅长调情”。

“我不在乎顾客是否肥胖或丑陋，”这位身材娇小的两个青少年的母亲说道，“只要他们对我友善且有礼貌，我就愿意陪他们。大多数人都很好，但如果我发现有人没礼貌，我就走开。”

Mac 是一位英国酒吧老板兼 YouTuber，他表示女性每月可以通过饮品和小费赚到 50,000 泰铢，此外如果她们在做一些我不知道的兼职，每天还能获得 400 泰铢（£9）最低工资的五倍——而且这些女孩并不交税。

一名之前的工厂工人告诉我，她刚开始工作时非常天真，当被要求给一名男子按摩时，她以为“他们是指像我给我奶奶那样按摩”。她惊讶地发现，一次小时的性服务就能获得她之前月薪的一半。

30 岁的 Ticha 正坐在海滩边等待客户。她是一名稻农，在芭堤雅兼职从事色情业以增加收入。“只有在没有农活的时候我才会来这里，”她说，“我不怎么喜欢与陌生人发生性关系。”

和许多其他人一样，她希望有个外国人能爱上她。“我真的很希望能找到一个善良的西方男人，能照顾我并爱我，”她沮丧地说道。

常客告诉我，他们有朋友娶了在芭堤雅认识的女性。有些人搬到了泰国——我在 6 巷（Soi 6）遇到的一位来自诺丁汉的男子现在住在妻子北部的农村村庄里。另一些人则将新娘带回英国。

年长的西方男人与年轻得多的泰国女性在芭堤雅是常见景象。有些人在那里退休，另一些人则是来度假。当然，并非所有这些女性都是性工作者。

在 Maximum Performance 这家专门从事睾酮替代疗法的诊所里，一名工作人员表示他们有“数千”名客户——大多数是患有精力不足或性欲低下的年长外国人，他们选择那种不会导致睾丸萎缩的治疗方案。

“很多客户就住在本地。另一些人每年来两周，在假期开始时打一针，”她说，“这可能是为了锻炼，也可能是为了女孩。”

在芭堤雅，还存在着恋童虐待的肮脏阴暗面——最近的一起谋杀案就证明了这一点。泰国的法定性同意年龄是 18 岁——然而在我发现站在海滩边的性工作者中，有一名紧张的 16 岁跨性别女性（ladyboy）。

她已经出卖自己三个月了，她解释说，在新冠疫情期间，其家庭兴旺的运输业务破产后欠下了巨额债务，随后一名叔叔因贩毒入狱，导致产生了高昂的法律费用。“我觉得很心灰意冷，”她说，并补充道她的客户大多是西方人、俄罗斯人或来自中东的人。

“我的家庭曾经很富有，但现在让我在这里当性工作者。如果我攒够了钱，我就换一份正经工作。”这个害羞的青少年因为未成年而无法在酒吧找到工作，所以不得不冒险在街头工作。“是的，有时我会害怕——但并不太严重，因为我出生时是男性。我可以战斗，可以保护自己。”

L ISA Hamilton 是芭堤雅夜生活商业协会（Pattaya Nightlife Business Association）的负责人，她在距离主街几英里郊区 Carman 居住地附近经营着一家酒吧和宾馆。她表示，许多“肮脏的老男人”来到这座城市是为了与年轻得多的女性发生性关系。“我认为他们的心理有问题，”她说，“有些人在家乡是没钱的无名小卒，到了这里就觉得自己很有钱。”

然而，Hamilton——她是泰国人，曾与一名比她大 20 岁的苏格兰男人结婚 22 年，直到对方死于癌症——表示大多数游客都是有礼貌的，有些人感到孤独，许多人除了寻求合意的性关系外，还寻求陪伴。

一群英国侨民在她的酒吧里，主要是前军人，他们每周在那里集会为慈善事业筹款。一名养老金领取者说，在泰国生活如此便宜，他从不在家做饭。另一名拥有一个十岁儿子的男子告诉我，芭堤雅是一个抚养孩子的“绝佳”之地。

戴夫·李（Dave Lee），59岁，一名曾在中东结识泰国妻子的前英国皇家空军（RAF）技术员，承认他在32年前搬到这里时感到很“震惊”。他说：“在芭堤雅，你可以得到你想要的一切。如果你想去找，那里应有尽有。但如果你像我一样已婚且幸福，你就不会去。我在一家家庭经营的酒吧喝酒，那里没有肮脏的事，什么都没有。就像任何普通的酒吧一样。”

“很多来到这里的人都经历过艰辛。他们失去了妻子或者感到孤独，只是想要陪伴。坦白说，有时这会让你感到尴尬——老男人配年轻女孩。这让人反胃。但你并不了解他们的生活。”

他的英国朋友梅兰·摩尔（Meran Moore），60岁，一名在芭堤雅生活了五年的前秘书，说道：“我们刚有一个来自英国的朋友过来，所以带他们去看了‘罪恶之城’。你可以看到那些讨厌它的人——他们的脸上写满了焦虑——这让我心碎。”

显然，尽管芭堤雅市长及其团队做出了最大努力，这座城市在摆脱其低俗名声并将其转型为他们梦想中的家庭度假胜地方面，仍有很长的路要走。

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作者：James Tapsfield

克里斯·沃马尔德（Chris Wormald）在任职仅 14 个月后被解雇，这是唐宁街“重启”计划的一部分，而此时基尔爵士在彼得·曼德尔森（Peter Mandelson）丑闻的余波中陷入困境。

昨日，内阁办公室的账目披露，这位 57 岁的官员在离职时获得了332,897 英镑的“合同补偿金”以及“额外遣散费”

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创纪录金额：克里斯爵士

526,598 英镑。资深文官通常离职时获得约 26 万英镑。一名高级公务员告诉《金融时报》：“他谈判得很好。”

在内阁办公室最高官员凯特·利特尔（Cat Little）表示她需要就该金额获得“部长指令”后，这笔款项必须由基尔爵士亲自签署批准。

在 2 月份解雇之后给基尔爵士的一封信中，她写道：“拟议的奖励金额高于克里斯爵士根据合同有权获得的金额。然而，我被告知，鉴于这是一个在极短通知时间内达成协议的、高知名度且独特的职位离职，这一水平的结算是必要的。”

'He negotiated well'

保守党党魁凯米·巴德诺克（Kemi Badenoch）指责基尔爵士为了“保住自己的皮”，将克里斯爵士“推出去顶罪”。

在 2024 年 12 月任命克里斯爵士担任这份年薪 22 万英镑 的工作时，基尔爵士对他赞赏有加，称其为“卓越的”。内阁办公室表示：“我们不对人力资源事务发表评论。”

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2026年9月15日 历史上的今天

摘自《每日邮报》档案 1988年9月15日

由于担心爱尔兰共和军（IRA）再次发动袭击，包括撒切尔夫人在内的王室成员和高级政府部长的安保级别已提升。皇家北爱尔兰警察局（RUC）的高级官员担心，对方将针对英国特种空勤团（SAS）在直布罗陀发动的伏击战发起报复性恐怖活动，该伏击战导致恐怖分子肖恩·萨维奇（Sean Savage）、梅雷德·法雷尔（Mairead Farrell）和丹尼尔·麦肯（Daniel McCann）丧生。

2026年9月15日

那些排队数日以期第一时间目睹女王灵柩的王室超级粉丝，在终于获得机会告别时激动地落泪。在威斯敏斯特大厅向公众开放供女王停灵后，悲痛的哀悼者们于昨日表达了敬意。有些人脱帽致敬，而有些人则行屈膝礼。

生日快乐 索菲·达尔（SOPHIE DAHL），49岁。 这位小说家和前模特是罗尔德·达尔（Roald Dahl）的孙女，后者在《BFG》中以她的名字为主角命名。2019年，她写了第一本儿童书《巴多贝达夫人》（Madame Badobedah）。她 2000 年为圣罗兰（Yves Saint Laurent）拍摄的裸体美容广告占据了当年所有针对广告牌投诉的三分之一。汤米·李·琼斯（TOMMY LEE JONES），80岁。这位德克萨斯州演员主演了《黑衣人》，并凭借《逃犯》获得奥斯卡奖。他曾说：“我觉得自己是世界上最幸运的孩子，因为上帝让我出生在德克萨斯州。我为那些不得不出生在俄克拉荷马州或英国的可怜孩子感到难过。”

今日出生人物 威廉·霍华德·塔夫脱（WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT，1857-1930）。这位美国第 27 任总统被认为将高尔夫球引入了白宫，但据说他在体重达到 21 石（21st）时打球很吃力。他后来成为了美国首席大法官，是唯一一位曾担任过这两个职务的人。费·雷（FAY WRAY，1907-2004）。这位出生于加拿大的女演员在 1933 年的《金刚》中饰演安·达罗（Ann Darrow），凭借“尖叫”进入电影史。六十年后她说：“我现在比刚开始时更喜欢它了，当时我觉得这不像莎士比亚的作品。”

9月15日...

2020年，作为《亚伯拉罕协议》的一部分，巴林与以色列关系正常化。

2024年，杰克逊五人组（Jackson 5）的蒂托·杰克逊（Tito Jackson）去世，享年 70 岁。

Rubiginous（创造于 17 世纪末） A) 总是在提问。 B) 铁锈色的。 C) 脸上长满雀斑的。

答案见下方

短语解析

Groves of Academe：学术界；指古雅典附近一个哲学家授课的树林（Academia）。

今日名言

我会是一个出色的独裁者。非常古怪且相当疯狂。——大卫·鲍伊（David Bowie），英国创作歌手（1947-2016）

今日笑话

为什么我用鱼手指（fishfinger）包装盒做无人机？因为它们能给你“鸟瞰”（Bird's Eye view，注：Bird's Eye 为鱼手指品牌名）视角。

猜定义答案：B

由 ETAN SMALLMAN 和 ADAM JACOT DE BOINOD 编译

Eden Confidential

Dec 为其 225 万英镑 派对豪宅加高屋顶

身高 5 英尺 6 英寸的德克兰·多内利（Declan Donnelly）在室内很少需要担心撞头。

但我听说这位 ITV 明星计划在他位于西伦敦价值 £700 万 的豪宅隔壁建造的一处奢华派对区域加高屋顶。

在《我是名人，让我出去！》（I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here!）的主持人以 £225 万 买下邻近建筑三年后，他现在获得了增加该物业派对室“女儿墙高度”的许可。

该空间已配备定制吧台、复古镜子、华丽壁炉和定制座椅。

在多内利保证将提供“高质量且符合保护区要求的建筑细节”后，豪恩斯洛（Hounslow）议会的规划人员批准了他将屋顶女儿墙加高 8 英寸的计划。

议会补充称，该“提案规模有限，且未改变已批准的扩建范围、用途或整体形式”，且不会“损害”附近保护区的“外观特征”。

在线发布的文档显示：“（规划）变更包括将女儿墙高度适度增加约 200 毫米。”

出生于纽卡斯尔的多内利现年 50, 是主持组合 Ant and Dec 的成员之一，估计财富为 £6200 万。

他与妻子阿里·阿斯托尔（Ali Astall, 47,）以及子女艾斯拉（Isla，8 岁）和杰克（Jack，4 岁）住在一起。2021 年复活节期间，在他家人熟睡时，窃贼试图袭击该物业，但在未能突破大门后空手而归。

多内利在《我是名人》中的搭档安特·麦克帕特林（Ant McPartlin）今年早些时候从温布尔登搬到了萨里郡。安特最近开玩笑说他被赶出了伦敦，他在一次播客中告诉多内利（左）：“是的，我不得不搬出伦敦，因为人们在我的房子外面停自行车。”

也许多内利的派对屋会诱使他回来。

Sarah 将加入 Holly 的网络阵地

霍莉·威洛比（HOLLY Willoughby）率先尝试，瓦妮莎·费尔茨（Vanessa Feltz）紧随其后，现在莎拉·比尼（Sarah Beeny）也准备将她的才华转移到网络上。

这位《房产阶梯》（Property Ladder）的明星（左）告诉我：“我即将启动自己的 YouTube 频道。我想聊很多不同的事情，但主要是关于家居。”

现年 54, 的比尼在 art'otel London Hoxton 观看她的四个儿子参加 Vin + Omi Anarchy 时装秀走秀时补充道：“最大的问题是赞助以及获得制作资金。我不想在家里一个人完成所有拍摄。”

编辑：克洛伊·托马斯（Chloe Thomas）

喜讯：乔治娜·卡斯尔（Georgina Castle）与丈夫西蒙·利平（Simon Lipkin），右上图为她与新生女儿伯迪（Birdie）

■ MCFLY 成员汤姆·弗莱彻（Tom Fletcher）在制片人聘请他为西区剧目《帕丁顿》（Paddington）创作音乐和歌词时，表达了其“难以言表的兴奋”。今年 4 月，这部音乐剧一举斩获七项奥利弗奖。然而，这位歌手坚持认为他的音乐才华并不值得大书特书。“我是一个糟糕的音乐家，我不应该做这份工作，”现年 41, 的汤姆在伦敦苏豪区（Soho）的 Underbelly Boulevard 剧院谦虚地自夸道。

乔治娜分享首张宝宝照片

在婚礼钟声响起一年多之后，演员乔治娜·卡斯尔（Georgina Castle, 33,）和她的西区演员丈夫西蒙·利平（Simon Lipkin, 40,）正在庆祝他们的第一个孩子的到来。

前网球名将兼 BBC 温布尔登评论员安德鲁·卡斯尔（Andrew Castle, 62,）的女儿在周末宣布了女儿伯迪·怀尔德·利平（Birdie Wilde Lipkin）的出生，并在 Instagram 上分享了这一喜讯，配文道：“从未感受过这样的爱。”

乔治娜和西蒙在 2022 年共同出演西区剧目《精灵音乐剧》（Elf the Musical）时相识。

希亚尔警告：警惕肉毒杆菌和减肥针

米拉·希亚尔（Meera Syal）女爵呼吁年轻女性远离肉毒杆菌（Botox）和奥赛匹克（Ozempic），并警告称美容手术对于女演员来说可能是“毁灭性的”。

这位 65 岁的《天哪，太棒了》（Goodness Gracious Me）明星赞扬莱斯利·曼维尔（Lesley Manville）、朱丽叶·史蒂文森（Juliet Stevenson）和哈丽艾特·沃尔特（Harriet Walter）“没有对自己的脸做任何手术”。

她补充道：“看到一张反映了所有生活经历的年长面孔是件很美的事。”

“让我们让那些在 30 多岁就急于尝试肉毒杆菌和奥赛匹克的年轻女性将其视为常态吧。没有人需要那样做。”

米拉表示：“对我来说，女演员破坏面部肌肉的灵活性似乎就是毁灭，因为面部就是用来表达的。”

哈里王子的戴安娜纪录片遇对手

哈里王子拍摄关于其母亲电影的计划可能已经面临激烈的竞争。

据称，这位公爵希望在回国的第一年内拍摄一部关于戴安娜王妃的电影。然而，哈里王子的项目将落后于一部名为《戴安娜》（Diana）的独家纪录片系列，该系列刚刚在流媒体应用 Snips 上线。这部扣人心弦的微剧部分场景采用了已故戴安娜王妃的录音，记录了已故公主（右图）在对抗“体制”（The Firm）过程中寻找力量的关键时刻和步骤。

一名制作内部人士告诉我：“它将萨塞克斯夫妇如今与体制的战争，以及他们目前与王室把关人的斗争，进行了直接且令人心碎的类比。”

图片：BNPS / DAMIEN McFADDEN

特别报道 作者：WILL STODDART

在今年的8月热浪期间，艾斯林·麦卡锡（Aisling McCarthy）没有任何理由不让她的八岁女儿基娃（Keeva）在当地海滩游泳。他们一家居住在多塞特郡的埃文海滩（Avon Beach），那里的海水获得了环境局（Environment Agency）最高级别的“优秀”水质评级。

因此，当基娃被海浪击中并在吞下“相当多水”后呛咳着上岸时，艾斯林对此没有多想。她告诉《健康指南》（Good Health）：“我们吃了冰淇淋——然后回家了。”

但两天后，基娃变得非常倦怠，表现得反常，早晨必须被叫醒才能起床。

全家人（包括父亲亚当和双胞胎姐妹科妮莉亚）正准备前往德文郡进行露营旅行，但基娃拒绝吃早餐，并且在几乎整个旅途中都在睡觉。第二天，她的体温超过 39℃，并出现了持续性腹泻。

“这不是我以前在孩子们身上见过的典型胃肠感冒，”艾斯林说。

“我到处抱着她，因为她太倦怠了。通常情况下，我可以用 Calpol 药剂控制体温，但体温下降后又会再次发烧。”

第二天，“我注意到她的粪便中有血，我惊慌失措，”艾斯林回忆道——随后全家人匆忙赶往急诊室（A&E），基娃在那里入院。她脱水严重，被安排输液，并被诊断为病毒感染。幸运的是，她的情况开始好转，并于两天后出院。

但随后的检测结果显示，她患有空肠弯曲菌病（campylobacteriosis），这是一种可通过受污染的食物或水感染的细菌性感染。艾斯林表示，基娃花了大约两周时间才恢复食欲，一个月后，她仍未恢复全部体力。当她就水质问题联系当地议会时，对方的回应是询问该家庭是否参加过任何美食节——“而我们没有”。

艾斯林觉得这令人沮丧，因为基娃很少吃肉，而空肠弯曲菌通常与食用未煮熟的鸡肉有关；而且她的双胞胎姐妹并没有生病。“我想不出她单独吃了什么食物会导致这种情况，”她说。

她怀疑基娃的病情与游泳有关。基娃的案例暴露了英国洗浴水系统中一个令人担忧的漏洞。尽管埃文海滩被官方评为“优秀”，但常规检查并不检测空肠弯曲菌。

在英格兰，环境局根据两种细菌的水平对洗浴水（如海滩和湖泊）进行分级：一种是大肠杆菌（E.coli），可导致严重腹泻，严重时可导致肾衰竭；另一种是肠球菌（intestinal enterococci），可导致尿路和皮肤感染。

事实上，专家警告称，用于授予这些令人安心的分级的测试范围过于狭窄。

这些测试可以追溯到 2003 年世界卫生组织（WHO）的指南，该指南将肠球菌确定为粪便污染的预警信号，因此对游泳者构成患病风险。

欧盟在 2006 年引入的更严格的洗浴水法规中加入了大肠杆菌，英格兰目前仍遵循该法规。

但专家表示，被排除在外的是污水和动物粪便中发现的大量其他潜在危险细菌、病毒和寄生虫。除了空肠弯曲菌，这还包括沙门氏菌、诺如病毒，以及贾第鞭毛虫（giardia）、隐孢子虫（cryptosporidium）和腺病毒——这些病原体共同会导致呕吐、腹泻和剧烈的胃痉挛，以及眼睛、耳朵和呼吸道的感染。

由于免疫系统较弱，儿童和老年人尤其容易受到影响。

现在，专门向《良好健康》（Good Health）披露的数据表明，在今年5月至8月期间报告在河流、湖泊和海洋游泳后生病的1,279名游泳者中，超过一半（57%）曾前往被官方评级为“良好”或“优秀”的洗浴水域。

根据“冲浪者反对污水”（Surfers Against Sewage）慈善机构的数据，仅在8月份，该月报告的388起患病病例中，就有超过68%发生在访问水质良好或优秀区域之后。

该慈善机构表示，问题正在恶化。今年以来，该机构已收到1,645起因洗浴水域导致生病的报告——这一数字已经超过了2025年全年的1,553起（去年，这些病例中近四分之三涉及被评级为良好或优秀的水域）。

这些疾病包括胃肠炎以及皮肤、耳朵和眼睛感染，其中部分患者需要住院治疗。

在目前的检测项目未涵盖的病原体中包括弧菌（vibrio），一种

气候变暖带来“明显的健康风险”

这种细菌通常发现于温暖的亚热带海域（如墨西哥湾），可引起严重的伤口感染，并可能导致致命的败血症。根据美国疾病控制与预防中心的数据，感染者中约有五分之一会死亡。但专家表示，由于气候变化导致英国沿海水域温度升高，这种细菌正变得越来越常见。

根据《环境微生物学报告》（Environmental Microbiology Reports）2020年的一项研究，科学家在2018年炎热的夏天，在英格兰西南部的一个沿海河口发现了三倍数量的弧菌。该河口的水温达到了32.1℃，而次年夏天的平均水温为18.7℃。

研究人员警告称，在热浪期间，低盐度的河口可能会成为弧菌的理想滋生地，类似于同样具有低盐水平且已出现感染病例的波罗的海。

事实上，在2018年那个炎热的夏天，包括德国和瑞典在内的六个北欧国家共记录了492例弧菌感染病例，是通常数量的三倍多。（虽然2026年的数据仍在收集中，但截至7月，德国已报告17例病例，其中包括两例在访问波罗的海后死亡的病例。）

收集这些数据的英国研究人员警告称，随着气候变暖，英国河口中潜在危险的弧菌将构成“明显的人类健康风险”。

英国气象局在7月报告称，英国周围的部分海域比正常情况高出四到五度，引发了人们对这种细菌再次增加的担忧——然而目前没有人对其进行检测。

现在，包括一名参与制定最新世界卫生组织（WHO）水质指南的专家在内的多位专家，正呼吁更新英国和欧洲的水质检测标准，以反映此类新兴风险。

“尽管官方的洗浴水质有所改善，但与非用水者相比，用水者患病的概率仍与大约30年前相当，而当时的洗浴水规定远没有现在这么严格，”高级环境流行病学家安妮·伦纳德（Anne Leonard）表示。

“极佳”海滩遭受数小时污水冲击

洗浴水被评为“良好”或“极佳”并不意味着水质像你想象的那么干净。

当我们将“冲浪者反对污水”（Surfers Against Sewage）的排放数据（见主报道）与环境局最新的分类进行对比时发现，在7月和八月未经处理的污水排放时长最长的10个英国洗浴水域中，有8个被官方评为“良好”或“极佳”。

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基娃在被评为“极佳”的水域游泳后被紧急送往医院。官方检测是否在检查错误的细菌？

领先专家目前也这样认为，其中包括一名参与起草现行国际水质指南的顶尖科学家

埃克塞特大学的一位微生物学家，其在 2020 年发表的研究已经证明了这一点。当时，每 100 毫升水中含有高达 2,000 个粪便细菌的海滩仍可被视为安全游泳。

如今，要获得“优秀”评级，大肠杆菌水平必须仅为每 100 毫升 250 个，肠球菌为每 100 毫升 100 个。而“良好”评级则分别允许 500 和 200,。

对于河流和湖泊等内陆洗浴水域，限值是上述标准两倍：获得“优秀”评级需为每 100 毫升 500 个大肠杆菌和 200 个肠球菌；而“良好”评级则分别为 1,000 和 400,。

安妮·伦纳德（Anne Leonard）表示，更严格的标准未能导致感染减少的一个可能原因是，官方检测并未针对导致游泳者生病的病毒和细菌进行筛查。

她表示，大肠杆菌和肠球菌是近期粪便污染的有用预警信号，但“可能并不总是与重要的人类病原体（尤其是病毒）良好相关”，例如诺如病毒和轮状病毒（同样会导致腹泻和呕吐），这些病毒“可能会在废水处理过程中及环境中持续存在”。

世界卫生组织（WHO）和环境局表示，对每个水样检测每一种可能的致病菌速度太慢且成本太高。

因此，肠球菌被用作粪便污染进入水中的预警信号——从而意味着其他细菌和病毒也可能随之进入的广泛风险。

但科学家们现在对这一假设提出了质疑。

去年发表在《水与健康杂志》（Journal of Water and Health）上的一篇综述研究了九项关于游泳相关疾病的研究（其中八项在海水中，一项在淡水中，主要在美国），结论认为，依赖大肠杆菌和

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检测结果无法揭示水中的病毒

仅凭肠球菌“可能不足以保护健康”。

八项研究发现，游泳者比非游泳者更容易出现腹泻和呕吐，或耳部、眼睛、皮肤及呼吸系统问题——来自澳大利亚格里菲斯大学的研究人员发现，即使常规的大肠杆菌和肠球菌检测表明水质安全，游泳者仍会生病。

加州大学的水质专家桑尼·江（Sunny Jiang）教授指出：

“大肠杆菌和肠球菌的水平可能会低估或高估人类肠道病毒 [感染肠道并通过粪便排出的病毒，如诺如病毒] 的存在。”

换句话说，较高的细菌读数并不反映水中的病毒浓度。

更令人担忧的是，较低的读数给游泳者带来了虚假的安全感。

这些其他病原体导致疾病的证据包括：2024年有184人在卡迪夫的一个湖泊洗浴后报告出现恶心和腹泻——随后接受检测的人员中，大多数被发现感染了诺如病毒，这是一种可以通过被粪便污染的水传播的高度传染性呕吐病原体。

2025年，英国卫生安全局（UKHSA）在英格兰记录了115例钩端螺旋体病病例，这是一种通过被感染动物尿液污染的水而感染的潜在严重细菌感染。来自德比的68岁退休航空工程师斯蒂芬·阿尔科克（Stephen Alcock）在去年10月从一个钓鱼湖中清理掉一根掉落的树枝时，水溅到了他的脸上，导致他险些丧命。六天后，他出现了恶心、精疲力竭和腿部酸痛的症状。他的全科医生最初怀疑是胃肠炎。

到第十天，斯蒂芬已经无法行走，皮肤和眼睛因黄疸而变黄。在紧急入院后的几小时内，他的肝脏和肾脏开始衰竭。他被转移到重症监护室（ICU），在那里他需要呼吸支持和透析。他的家人被告知他可能会死亡。

检测确认其患有钩端螺旋体病和败血症。斯蒂芬在医院住了五周，体重减轻了14公斤（2英石3磅），并且必须重新学习行走。他的肾脏尚未完全恢复，且必须每六个月接受一次监测。“我很不幸感染了钩端螺旋体病，但非常幸运能活下来，”他告诉《健康指南》（Good Health）。

江教授认为，常规检测还应检查大肠噬菌体，这是一种不感染人类但攻击细菌的病毒——因为与常规检测中的一项相比，它可以更可靠地作为水被粪便污染的预警。

上个月发表的一项研究发现，在匈牙利的四条河流和湖泊（符合欧盟标准）中，大肠噬菌体水平与大肠杆菌一起，比肠球菌水平（英格兰洗浴水检测中使用的两种细菌之一）能更可靠地预测游泳者的腹泻或呕吐率——而后者未能预测疾病的增加。

东英吉利大学的研究人员报告称，大肠杆菌每增加十倍，胃肠道疾病的风险增加约73%，而高水平的大肠噬菌体则使风险增加45%。

领导此次分析的医学教授、国家卫生与护理研究胃肠道感染健康保护研究单位主任保罗·亨特（Paul Hunter）解释说，肠球菌是对胃病较不可靠的预警，因为大肠杆菌和大肠噬菌体能够生存更长时间。

甚至参与制定水质检测方案的一位顶尖专家现在也在质疑这些方案。

葡萄牙里卡多·若热博士国家卫生研究所（National Health Institute Doutor Ricardo Jorge）的环境健康科学家若昂·布兰道（Joao Brandao）博士曾协助制定世界卫生组织（WHO）在2021年发布的最新娱乐用水指南——该指南保留了肠球菌作为粪便污染的主要预警信号，但他表示，现在不检测更多的细菌和病毒是一个重大缺陷。

他告诉《良好健康》（Good Health），由于此后出现了新的证据和更快速的检测方法，他不再完全支持“最新的世卫组织指南”以及“仅检测粪便污染”的做法。“弧菌和其他病原体并未被列入必须检测的法规之中，这完全是错误的。”

他补充说，未来的检测还应寻找“新兴的感染性病原体（例如耳念珠菌）、抗生素耐药基因、微生物毒素，以及不一定与粪便污染相关的威胁（例如金黄色葡萄球菌）。”

耳念珠菌可引起危险的血流和器官感染，且可能对抗真菌药物产生耐药性。微生物毒素

最终进入 ICU 治疗败血症，且“能活下来很幸运”

藻类产生的毒素会导致皮疹、呕吐、呼吸问题，在严重情况下会导致肝脏或神经系统损伤。金黄色葡萄球菌则会导致皮肤和伤口感染。

水质检测的另一个问题是，环境署（Environment Agency）等官方机构并非每天都进行检测——例如，在整个游泳季（5月15日至9月30日）期间，根据地点的不同，整个季节仅采集 5 到 20 个样本。

布赖顿大学的环境微生物学家詹姆斯·埃博顿（James Ebdon）教授表示，情况在几小时内就可能发生变化。强降雨会将田间的肥料冲入河流，使排水系统过载并引发污水溢流。因此，在一个晴朗干燥的早晨采集的样本，可能无法反映出几天后大雨之后游泳者所接触到的水质情况。

事实上，在 2024 年，环境保护办公室警告称，在固定地点进行检测可能会遗漏同一游泳场所其他地方的污染，因为污水、农场径流和其他污染物会被河流、风和潮汐带走。

令人担忧的是，基娃（Keeva）游泳的埃文海滩（Avon Beach）距离克赖斯特彻奇港（Christchurch Harbour）口仅几百米。环境活动人士将该港口称为“伯恩茅斯的马桶”，因为大量未经处理的污水被排放到斯图尔河（River Stour）并被带入港口。

8月19日，就在基娃生病后几周，克赖斯特彻奇港与海洋协会在斯图尔河中记录到每 100 毫升含有 370,000 个大肠杆菌。

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帮助睡眠的“大脑电击”贴片可能还能缓解焦虑

一种在夜间贴在脸上的皮肤贴片可以增加深层睡眠的时间——这对于保护大脑免受压力、抑郁甚至痴呆的影响至关重要。

这款名为 NEUSLeeP 的高科技贴片被编程为将低强度声波穿过颅骨，发射到

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视丘下核，这是大脑中负责深层睡眠或 REM（快速眼动）睡眠的部分。

据认为，声波能刺激该区域细胞的活动，帮助大脑更长时间地保持在 REM 睡眠状态。同时，内置在面部贴片中的传感器会测量与睡眠相关的电信号——包括大脑活动、眼球运动和肌肉反应——以监测治疗对 休息的影响。

在 睡眠期间，手臂和腿部的肌肉会暂时瘫痪——以防止我们将梦境付诸行动——并且在“做梦”阶段，心率、血压、呼吸和大脑活动会自然升高。

但 睡眠对于维持视丘下核也至关重要。科学家选择超声波是因为声波比磁脉冲等其他形式的能量能更深地穿透人体。

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研究表明，深度睡眠不足与抑郁风险增加有关，因为大脑缺乏处理情感记忆的能力。

2017 年的一项美国研究发现，缺乏 REM（快速眼动）睡眠还会增加患痴呆症的风险。

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这款由德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校科学家开发的新型面部贴片由一种柔软的凝胶状材料制成，覆盖面部的一侧。

贴片中间有一个微型发生器，旨在与大脑深处的丘脑下核保持水平。

研究人员在 28 名健康志愿者在睡眠实验室度过数晚期间对该面部贴片进行了测试。最近发表在《自然·通讯》（Nature Communications）上的结果显示，使用该贴片使整晚的 睡眠总量增加了近 5%。它还将志愿者进入 睡眠周期所需的时间缩短了 24%——即缩短了 43 分钟。

研究人员现在计划开展更大规模的试验，以观察通过增加患者的 睡眠，该贴片是否能改善抑郁、焦虑甚至创伤后应激障碍的症状。

当电能驱动的贴片开启时，声波会无害地穿过脸颊进入大脑，并在那里“激发”神经元（神经细胞）在

纽卡斯尔泰恩 NHS 基金会信托基金的神经内科顾问 Kirstie Anderson 博士表示，皮肤贴片研究很“有趣”，但她强调 睡眠与心理健康之间的关系远非简单直接。

她告诉《健康指南》（Good Health）：“关于抑郁症的一个关键理论是，人们实际上过早地进入了 睡眠——许多抗抑郁药物甚至会减少或延迟 。”

“因此，很难说增加 对你 [在心理健康方面] 是好是坏，尽管人们确实报告说更多的 能带来更好的睡眠质量。”

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读数如此之高，以至于一项青少年帆船周活动被取消。那个月，三岁的艾薇·福斯特（Ivy Foster）在克赖斯特彻奇港（Christchurch Harbour）与家人一起玩桨板后，因大肠杆菌感染而病重。该感染对多种抗生素具有耐药性，她因呕吐和腹泻两次入院治疗。

她的母亲金伯利（Kimberley）当时表示，她病得如此严重，“我以为她快死了”。

环境局（Environment Agency）的一位发言人表示：“在洗浴水季节，464个指定地点受益于环境局的水质监测，使公众在选择进入水域时，能够就何时以及何地进入水域做出知情决定。”

“我们敦促公众遵循英国卫生安全局（UKHSA）的安全建议，并始终查看我们的 Swimfo 网站以获取最新信息。”

基娃（Keeva）的家人表示，她的疾病夺走了他们对水域的所有乐趣。“我们甚至不再玩桨板了，”艾斯林（Aisling）说，“我们搬到这里是为了海滩及其自然美景，而这一切在我们面前被毁了。”

伯恩茅斯、克赖斯特彻奇和普尔议会（Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council）的一位发言人表示，他们“很高兴基娃已从疾病中康复”。“我们无法对个案发表评论，但追溯感染原因非常困难。我们尚未收到英国卫生安全局关于其他感染的通知。”

近十年来，维多利亚·欣德尔（Victoria Hindle）一直试图说服医生，她的腹痛、情绪低落、经量过多和体重问题是相互关联的。

事实上，正是因为一种常见的女性健康问题最近被重新命名，维多利亚最终才得到了正确的诊断。

一个专家团队在今年早些时候宣布，多囊卵巢综合征（PCOS）——一种影响英国多达400万女性的疾病——现在将被称为多内分泌代谢卵巢综合征（PMOS）。

这一简单的改变对于数千人来说可能具有重大意义，因为它承认该病症并非仅仅是卵巢特有的疾病，而是复杂的，且可能影响大脑、卵巢和代谢系统。

它通常会导致包括睾酮在内的高水平激素，从而引起痤疮、体毛过多、脱发、体重增加以及月经不调或闭经等症状。

卡迪夫大学内分泌学教授亚历德·里斯（Aled Rees）表示，经过14年的审议，此次更名部分是为了将重点从囊肿和卵巢上转移开：“许多女性实际上并没有囊肿，而且这种情况比名称所暗示的要复杂得多。”

现年43岁且被诊断为 PMOS 的维多利亚终于得到了她所需的治疗，但她对多年来没有医生认真对待她感到沮丧。

“我被告知我的腹痛和消化问题是肠易激综合征，”住在曼彻斯特并在一家大学担任行政职务的维多利亚说，“我询问专家我的症状是否相关，但被告知无关——我觉得自己快疯了。”

PCOS 这个名称最初出现是因为组织和器官中由膜包围的任何充满液体的空腔传统上都被标记为囊肿。

但伦敦大学学院医院 NHS 基金会信托基金（University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust）生殖医学副专员维克拉姆·塔劳利卡（Vikram Talaulikar）博士表示，在这种情况下，它们根本不是囊肿。

“事实上，它们是卵泡——被液体包围的不成熟卵子。患有此病症的女性在月经周期的任何时间点通常至少有20个卵泡，因为这些卵泡无法进一步发育。”

使情况更加复杂的是，并非所有患有此病症的女性都拥有这些 ■ 患有此病症的女性都拥有这些卵泡——尽管如果她们至少具有以下两种症状：月经不调、体毛过多或痤疮，仍可被诊断为该病。

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米歇尔·阿克帕塔（Michelle Akpata）在一年内体重从约12英石增加到23英石（身高5英尺6英寸）后，于2021年被诊断出患有多囊卵巢综合征（PCOS）。“我感到非常沮丧，并担心这会导致长期的健康问题，”来自伦敦北部的30岁电台主持人米歇尔说道。

“体重的增加还意味着我在运动时会出现关节疼痛，并且很容易气喘吁吁。”

PCOS可能会伴随体重增加——或难以减轻体重——因为它会影响胰岛素这一激素，而胰岛素负责引导身体使用我们摄入食物中的葡萄糖，并在脂肪储存中发挥作用。

米歇尔还出现了体毛过多、腹痛和疲劳的症状。“我不理解我的诊断结果，因为我的卵巢上并没有囊肿。”

她被开了止痛药，并被建议进行激光除毛

健康生活 在经历了多年的体重困扰和情绪低落后，维多利亚终于得到了正确的诊断……这要归功于专家们简单地为一种常见病症重新命名

作者：CARA LEE

脱毛手术是私下进行的——而且她仅被建议减少碳水化合物的摄入，多吃水果和蔬菜。

与此同时，塔劳利卡（Talaulikar）医生补充道，那些确实患有“囊肿”的女性被错误地告知需要通过手术将其切除，或者这些囊肿会导致她们不孕。

“我们现在知道，这种病症是由大脑向卵巢发送的异常信号引起的，而不是始于卵巢——因此旧的名称不能反映目前的认知，”萨里郡 Spire St Anthony 医院的产科顾问巴塞尔·瓦塔尔（Bassel Wattar）教授解释道。

目前认为，大脑以不规律的方式触发黄体生成素（LH）和促卵泡生成素（FSH）的分泌——这些生殖激素控制着女性卵子的成熟时间，以及雌激素等性激素的水平。

随着更多 LH 的分泌，卵泡的生长停滞，排卵被延迟或停止。这些卵泡随后留在卵巢中，在超声波扫描中显示为“囊肿”。

维多利亚在十年前开始怀疑自己患有 PCOS（多囊卵巢综合征），当时她的下腹部出现了持续的钝痛。

她注意到症状在月经前一周左右会加剧，然后在月经结束后好转。但超声波扫描没有显示囊肿迹象，她被告知没有患 PCOS。

图片：DAMIEN McFADDEN

相反，医生反复建议她减轻体重以改善症状。但这没有效果，她解释道：“尽管我一直非常活跃，且饮食与他人无异，但我从小就超重。”

“我尝试少吃多动，但从未奏效，所以我接受了体型较大这一事实，并尽量不让它影响我的心情。”

她补充道：“我也被问及月经情况，我的月经一直很痛苦且量大，但没有人建议这可能是由 PCOS 引起的。”

2016年，她被转诊给一名妇科医生，该医生似乎只对治疗大量出血和经痛感兴趣——并在她月经前情绪低落时为她提供了抗抑郁药。

2018年，维多利亚植入了宫内节育环——她的月经完全停止，腹痛逐渐减轻。

五年后，她被诊断为严重的未控制 2 型糖尿病，到去年 6 月，身高 5 英尺 6 英寸的她体重达到了 17 英石。

她被开具了用于治疗糖尿病的 Mounjaro（替泽帕肽）注射剂。这证明改变了她的生活：除了血糖水平恢复正常（她不再需要糖尿病药物二甲双胍）之外，她还减轻了 7 英石。

此外，她的月经恢复了，现在量少且无痛，而她的心理健康状况则“比以往任何时候都好”。

但直到今年早些时候，她问题的根源才被揭开——维多利亚读到了关于 PCOS 更名的报道，并询问了她的新全科医生。随后，她被诊断为 PMOS。

她坚信，如果能早点诊断，她的体重本可以得到更好的控制，而且可能不会发展成 2 型糖尿病——而后者反过来增加了她患心血管疾病的风险并缩短了预期寿命。

这还将使她免受多年来的痛苦，因为她曾认为自己在减肥方面失败了。

“在更名之前，人们未能意识到这些女性身上发生了什么，”瓦塔尔教授说，“以及她们的整个代谢和激素健康系统是如何受到该综合征影响的——她们通常只是被简单地告知服用避孕药然后离开。”

现在人们了解到，事实上，大多数 PMOS 患者都存在一定程度的胰岛素抵抗——这意味着帮助细胞吸收葡萄糖以保持血糖水平稳定的激素，其效果不如预期。这导致卵巢产生激素。

Talaulikar 博士解释说，胰岛素抵抗会增加患 2 型糖尿病的风险，最早可追溯到 30 多岁。而且它会增加体重增加的可能性，因为身体会将卡路里以脂肪的形式储存而不是将其燃烧——从而增加高血压、高胆固醇、心脏病和脂肪肝的风险。

“所有的代谢并发症——

困境：维多利亚·欣德尔患有 PMOS

——都源于胰岛素效能降低。这就是为什么全科医生（GP）需要定期检查 PMOS 女性的血糖水平、胆固醇、血压和体重，并据此进行治疗，而不仅仅是关注月经和生育能力，”Talaulikar 博士说道。

“在名称更改之前，没有人讨论代谢方面的问题——女性可能没有意识到自己存在胰岛素抵抗，从而未能得到治疗。”

生活方式和饮食的改变，例如减少糖分摄入和服用二甲双胍（可提高身体对胰岛素的敏感性），可以帮助缓解 PMOS 症状。

就米歇尔的情况而言，直到她被推荐进行减重手术（她于去年 10 月进行了该手术）后，她的健康状况才有所改善。

手术后，她现在还在服用 Mounjaro，体重约为 14 石。她说：“我可以穿我想穿的衣服，我也自信多了。希望名称的更改能让全科医生更好地理解这种疾病。”

但 PMOS 慈善机构 Verity 的医学顾问、英国更名进程负责人 Rees 教授警告说，在教育医生和提高公众意识方面仍需做更多工作，否则“护理水平不会有显著提高”。

Talaulikar 博士补充道：“更名就像点火，但人们在临床习惯上的改变需要很长时间。

‘如果女性认为自己可能患有 PMOS，她们需要预约医疗专业人员，并提醒他们注意名称的更改。’”

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第 36 页 健康指南 看到闪光？这可能是“静默”偏头痛

问：大约两年前，我的双眼出现了无痛的闪烁感，持续了 15 分钟。从那时起，这种情况发生了三次。我的大脑 CT 扫描结果正常，医生告诉我这可能是偏头痛，尽管我平时并不患有偏头痛。我很担心，因为我不明白我的大脑里发生了什么。

莎拉-简·基钦（Sarah-Jane Kitching），怀特岛，桑当。

答：你描述的症状是典型的偏头痛先兆（migraine aura）——一种暂时性的闪烁、闪光或星光点点的干扰，它从视野中心开始并向外扩散。

由于你没有感到疼痛，我认为这可能是不伴有头痛的偏头痛先兆，有时被称为无头痛偏头痛（acephalgic migraine）——或者静默偏头痛。

在发作期间没有可以开具的药物，因为在任何药片被吸收之前，这种情况就已经消失了，因此最好的解决方法是找一个安静的地方休息，直到症状过去。

不过，有一些药物可以降低静默偏头痛的风险。其中包括 β-受体阻滞剂普萘洛尔（propranolol），

咨询全科医生 马丁·斯库尔（DR MARTIN SCURR）医生

它可以降低导致偏头痛的大脑“兴奋性”；此外还有托吡酯（topiramate，一种抗惊厥药）或阿米替林（amitriptyline，一种抗抑郁药），这些药物可以安抚与偏头痛发作相关的过度活跃的神经。

在你的情况下，除非发作变得更加频繁（每周一次或更多），否则我不建议使用预防性药物，因为与任何药物一样，始终存在副作用的风险。

为了确认是否为静默偏头痛，下次发作时，请尝试遮住一只眼睛，然后换另一只。如果两种情况下闪烁感依然可见，这将支持偏头痛先兆的理论，因为这表明干扰发生在脑内。

如果遮住一只眼睛后闪烁感消失，我建议你需要进行眼睛和血管检查（后者用于检查血流情况）。

可能的偏头痛诱因包括压力、睡眠不足、漏餐和脱水——或者这些因素的综合作用。

问：我咳嗽已经三年多了，但扫描显示我的肺部很干净。医生尝试了各种治疗方法，但都没有效果。我只能忍受它吗？杰夫·卡尔顿（Jeff Carlton），北约克郡，惠特比。

答：你的胸部 X 光和 CT 扫描结果正常，这一点令人宽慰，因为这排除了包括肺结核和肺癌在内的严重疾病。

在你更长的一封信中，你提到当你被开具抗组胺药阿泽拉斯汀（azelastine）时，症状有所缓解，因为这有助于缓解导致咳嗽的鼻塞。你还提到使用常规哮喘吸入器（Fostair）后有所减轻。

然而，看来你的咳嗽唯一一次完全消失是在被开具抗生素的时候——这让你的胸部清爽了六个月，然后咳嗽又回来了。

这指向了一种潜在的细菌性肺部感染——其中一个相关因素是你为了治疗血管炎（免疫系统攻击血管，导致血管狭窄并限制血流）而每天服用的类固醇药物泼尼松（prednisone）。泼尼松会抑制免疫系统，可能会降低其对抗肺部感染的能力。

此外，你也有可能患有一定程度的支气管扩张（肺部因重复感染而受损），而这在最初的扫描中被遗漏了。

可能需要进一步的检查——通过高分辨率 CT 扫描，以及采集三份痰液样本进行培养，以确认这一点。

这些样本应该能鉴定出涉及的具体细菌，并检查是否存在真菌感染，因为像 Fostair 这样的类固醇吸入器是此类感染的风险因素。

另一种可能性是你患有影响呼吸道或肺部的血管炎。这同样会导致咳嗽。

你的肺部情况较为复杂，如果你在呼吸科医生的护理下，我建议你向其反映——或者请你的全科医生为你推荐一名呼吸科医生。

■ 请将信件寄至：Dr Scurr at Good Health, Daily Mail, 9 Derry Street, London, W8 5HY，或发送电子邮件至 drmartin@dailymail.co.uk。Scurr医生无法进行私人通信。如有任何健康顾虑，请务必咨询您的全科医生（GP）。

在我看来…… 扫描并不总能 检测出骨质脆弱

多达 50% 的 50 岁以上女性将遭受骨质疏松性骨折——有些是跌倒后导致，有些则是自发发生的（例如脊椎椎体塌陷）。显然，尽早为女性做出诊断至关重要，这样她们才能预先接受正确的治疗。

服用钙片和维生素 D 补充剂以及名为双膦酸盐的药物可以防止进一步的骨量流失，且此类措施已被证明能将椎体骨折率降低 40% 以上。

诊断的标准工具是 DEXA 骨密度扫描——然而大多数医生未能意识到，一名女性在扫描中可能显示骨密度正常，但在受到极小创伤后仍可能发生骨折。

这是因为骨骼强度不仅取决于骨量的多少，还取决于骨骼的质量——这受多种因素影响，例如骨骼蜂窝结构中孔洞的大小。

目前还没有衡量这一指标的标准方法，因此预防是关键：定期锻炼（包括跳绳或跳舞等冲击性活动），并食用富含钙质的饮食，如乳制品和沙丁鱼等带骨鱼类。

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健康头条背后 作者：罗布·加洛韦（ROB GALLOWAY）教授

我在急诊科工作的时间足够长，足以让我明白，活得更久和活得健康是两回事。

以我最近的两位患者为例。一位在度过了极其健康的生活且仅经历了极短的末期疾病后，在 96 岁时去世。另一位在 73 岁时去世，他们从 60 多岁起就患有糖尿病和痴呆症。

他们之间 23 岁的年龄差距只讲述了故事的一部分。另一个区别在于寿命（我们活多久）和健康寿命（我们保持健康状态多久）之间。

我的两名患者教会我如何优雅地老去——以及为什么 Wegovy 可能对我们所有人都有帮助

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当然，我们如何衰老取决于我们的生活方式、社会经济状况、继承的基因以及纯粹的运气。但虽然我们无法改变已有的基因，但越来越多的证据表明，我们的生活方式可以影响这些基因的表现方式。

这就是为什么两周前发表在《自然》（Nature）杂志上的一项研究如此令人兴奋。尽管其研究结果非常显著，但它并未引起广泛关注。

研究发现，减肥注射药 Wegovy 中的活性药物司美格鲁肽（semaglutide）显著延长了年老雌性小鼠的寿命。

它还改善了它们的记忆力和身体机能，并且——至关重要地——改变了与衰老相关的基因活性：降低了一些损害细胞的进程，并增强了其他有助于保持细胞健康的进程。

加州大学伯克利分校的研究人员在小鼠 20 个月大时开始对其进行治疗，对于这些通常寿命在两年到两年半左右的动物来说，这已经处于高龄。

在实验中，40 只小鼠在余生中每天接受司美格鲁肽注射，而 39 只小鼠则接受盐水注射。结果显示，司美格鲁肽平均将典型寿命延长了 92 天。

对于一只小鼠来说，这是一段相当可观的额外时间——延长了约 12%——尽管治疗是在它们已经年老时才开始的。

虽然剂量大致相当于每周注射 Wegovy 的人类剂量，但小鼠和人类代谢药物的方式不同，因此我们不知道相同的剂量是否会对人类产生同样的效果。

但还有一个更重要的观点。长寿医学不仅仅是为了让我们活得更久，如果这意味着额外的岁月是在虚弱和疾病中度过的。

然而，当研究人员在对另一组年老小鼠进行三个月的司美格鲁肽治疗后进行测试时，它们在记忆力、协调性和耐力测试中表现更好。

例如，在一项记忆力测试中，它们找到逃生孔的时间不到安慰剂组的一半，并且在精疲力竭之前能奔跑的时间几乎是后者的三倍。

但真正引起我注意的，是司美格鲁肽对小鼠肝细胞基因的影响——它使与炎症相关的基因活性降低，而其他涉及修复 DNA 和清除受损蛋白质的基因则变得更加活跃。这一点至关重要，因为长期的炎症和细胞内部损伤的积累是我们身体随年龄增长而衰老的两个原因。

该药物还提高了 NAD（烟酰胺腺嘌呤二核苷酸）的水平。这种化合物帮助我们的细胞产生能量并修复损伤，但其水平会随着年龄的增长而下降。

此外，它还增强了 sirtuin 基因的活性。这些基因有时被称为“抗衰老基因”，它们帮助我们的细胞利用 NAD 来应对压力并修复损伤。

将所有这些因素结合起来，司美格鲁肽似乎降低了损害细胞的进程，并增强了有助于维持细胞的进程。这或许可以解释为什么接受治疗的小鼠不仅寿命更长，而且保持得更健康。

还有一个关键问题：这种效果是否仅仅是因为服用司美格鲁肽的小鼠进食减少且体重减轻了？

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事实上，在同一组研究人员进行的另一项独立实验中，将司美格鲁肽与一项热量减少 24% 的饮食方案进行对比，结果显示两种方法都使小鼠减轻了相似数量的体重和脂肪。

然而，司美格鲁肽在记忆力和血糖控制等指标上产生了更好的结果。这表明该药物的作用可能不仅仅是导致体重减轻。

针对人类的研究也指向了类似的结果。

2023, 年发表在《新英格兰医学杂志》上的一项里程碑式试验，对 17,600 名患有心血管疾病的超重或肥胖人群进行了研究，结果发现，在接下来的三到四年里，每周使用司美格鲁肽的人群发生心脏病发作、中风或死于心血管疾病的风险降低了 20%。

随后的一项分析发现，这种益处在很大程度上不能简单地用体重减轻来解释。这可能是因为司美格鲁肽降低了炎症、血压、血糖和血脂。但事实是，研究人员仍然不清楚它保护心脏的具体原因。

另一项重大试验发现，司美格鲁肽减缓了 2 型糖尿病和肾脏疾病患者的肾脏损伤，并降低了死亡率。

因此，我们拥有有力的人类证据表明，除了减轻体重外，这种药物可能有助于我们在年长时保持更健康的身体。

它甚至可能延缓衰老。另一项于 5 月发表在《自然-通讯》杂志上的研究，涉及患有 HIV 且腹部脂肪过多的患者，研究了 DNA 甲基化——即 DNA 上的化学标记，它可以指示身体衰老的速度。

你猜怎么着——司美格鲁肽减缓了这一过程（即使 HIV 得到良好控制，患者仍可能存在持续性炎症以及身体衰老加快的迹象，这就是研究这些患者的原因）。

那么，司美格鲁肽有一天是否可以用作延长我们的健康寿命和寿命？

睡眠应用或可帮助预测下一次流感爆发

越来越多的人开始使用追踪器来监测睡眠时长和质量。一些应用程序利用手机麦克风来检测打鼾等噪音。但它们是否也能帮助预测下一次流感或新冠疫情的爆发？

在的一项新研究中，英国卫生安全局分析了由手机应用在夜间检测到的咳嗽情况，将 2023 年 1 月至 2026 年 1 月期间的每周咳嗽水平，与 NHS 111 呼叫量、流感和新冠阳性检测结果以及住院人数进行了对比。

结果相当令人着迷：当应用记录的咳嗽量增加时，针对呼吸道疾病的 NHS 111 呼叫量也随之增加——这发生在流感和新冠阳性检测结果上升约一周之前。

该研究尚未经过独立专家的正式评审，因此我们必须谨慎对待这些结果。但这仍然是一个有趣的进展。

等到大多数人病到需要寻求帮助时，感染可能已经广泛传播。

睡眠应用可以提供更早的预警，为公共卫生团队争取宝贵的额外时间，以发现不断上升的流感、新冠——或者可能是某种新型呼吸道感染。

有可能。但这并不是第一个引发此类希望的治疗方法。

常见的糖尿病药物二甲双胍（Metformin）是最著名的例子之一，一些动物研究表明它能小幅增加寿命，尽管这在人类身上尚未得到证实。

然后是 NMN（烟酰胺单核苷酸），这是一种人体自然产生且在某些食物中少量存在的物质。

2024 年的早期研究发现，它能延缓小鼠的衰弱，并使某些肌肉基因的行为更像年轻动物。雌性小鼠的寿命还延长了 8.5%（尽管雄性小鼠没有）。

那么这一切对我们意味着什么？嗯，如果你身体健康且体重正常，我认为你不应该为了希望延长寿命而立即开始服用 Wegovy——我们还没有任何人类临床试验证明它可以延长寿命或让我们保持更长时间的健康，而且这些药物可能会有副作用。

但我们现在拥有关于司美格鲁肽（semaglutide）对衰老益处的动物数据，以及在人类身上具有更广泛健康益处的强有力证据。而且这是一种我们已经在治疗肥胖症中安全使用的药物。因此，感觉我们可能正处于某种非常特别的事物的开端。

如果司美格鲁肽能帮助更多人像我那位 96 岁的病人一样，享受家庭和他们热爱的事物，并在临终前一直保持健康，那么它作为抗衰老药物的潜力需要进行严肃研究。

而且没错，即使是健康、苗条的人最终也可能会服用它。 @drrobgalloway

健康指南 服用锂补充剂能否保护大脑免受痴呆症侵害？

我们对其在电池中的用途更为熟悉，但锂——也存在于饮用水、卷心菜、全谷物和马铃薯中——能否帮助预防痴呆症？

这是近期几项研究的观点，这些研究旨在探讨这种轻金属——数十年来一直以高剂量用于治疗抑郁症和双相情感障碍——在剂量低得多的情况下，是否能在脑健康中发挥作用。

锂天然存在于矿物和岩石中，在被雨水溶解后进入土壤、河流和湖泊。

因此，它天然地少量存在于某些食物和水中。

它不被认为是必需营养素，也没有官方推荐的每日摄入量（尽管一些研究人员建议 70 公斤的成年人每日临时摄入量为 1 毫克）。然而，碳酸锂形式的药物长期以来一直被用于治疗难治性抑郁症和躁狂双相发作。

正如伦敦切尔西和威斯敏斯特医院的顾问精神科医生托马斯·麦克拉伦（Thomas MacLaren）博士所解释的：“锂可以

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在躁狂发作期间，锂能降低参与其中的能量增强化学物质——多巴胺的水平，同时增强 GABA 受体的活性 [通过抑制信号传递来使神经系统平静]。

但其保护大脑的特性也正逐渐显现。NHS 顾问神经精神科医生、伦敦帝国学院神经精神科临床副教授伊万·科伊切夫（Ivan Koychev）博士解释道：“锂似乎在维持大脑细胞之间建立连接的有效性方面发挥了作用。”

这一点至关重要，因为虽然我们出生时拥有固定数量的大脑细胞，但我们的大脑在整个生命周期中会持续形成新的连接——即突触——这一过程是学习新信息以及构建一个对阿尔茨海默病等疾病损害更具韧性的大脑的关键。

锂还能抑制一种名为 GSK-3 的酶，该酶将天然存在的

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（这反过来可能会导致口渴、便秘、恶心和肌肉无力）。较高浓度可能会影响心脏功能和心律。

哈佛大学的研究使用了乳酸锂：与碳酸锂相比，它似乎较少地被困在淀粉样蛋白斑块中，这可能解释了为什么动物的阿尔茨海默病症状得到了改善。关于它在人体中的表现知之甚少，但一个

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科伊切夫博士补充道，该酶将天然存在的 tau 蛋白转化为与阿尔茨海默病相关的有毒畸形团块——或称“缠结”。

科学家们目前尚不完全清楚阿尔茨海默病产生的原因——但一种理论认为，在某些人身上，GSK-3 活动的增加是一个驱动因素。

人们还认为，随着年龄的增长，大脑清除毒素的能力会减弱，这可能会导致 GSK-3 活动增强。

这会导致异常蛋白团块——即 beta-淀粉样蛋白斑块——的积聚，这是该疾病的一个特征，被认为会干扰大脑存储和检索记忆的能力，以及管理语言和决策等复杂活动的能力。

最近的几项研究引发了人们对锂的新兴趣。其中最引人注目的是由哈佛医学院领导、去年发表在《自然》（Nature）杂志上的一项研究，该研究确定了大脑中锂水平较低与认知障碍之间的联系——并表明这种元素可能有助于预防阿尔茨海默病。

这项为期十年的研究发现，与健康人相比，患有轻度认知障碍（痴呆症的潜在前兆）的人在尸检大脑组织中的锂水平较低。

有趣的是，研究发现锂在阿尔茨海默病患者的淀粉样蛋白斑块内部高度集中——这表明斑块可能会“捕捉”或“吸走”锂，导致可用作保护健康脑组织的锂减少。

研究还发现，恢复锂水平似乎能够保护或改善被培育出类阿尔茨海默病脑部变化的实验鼠的记忆力。

伦敦的一家诊所。但一项涉及向患有轻度认知障碍的老年人提供低剂量锂的小规模美国试验，并未复制哈佛大学小鼠实验中观察到的显著改善。

专家们一致认为，需要对锂进行更多研究。

科切夫（Koychev）博士表示，其中一个困难是难以获得大规模试验的资金——“因为锂不是专利药物，任何由此研发出的药物成本都将极低。”另一个问题是，痴呆症在首次出现症状前 10 到 20 年就开始发展——“而到那时，大脑已经受损”。

此外，关于使用哪种形式的锂最合适的问题也存在争议。例如，1mg 碳酸锂（精神科药物中所使用的类型）含有约 0.19mg 锂，而补剂中使用的乳清酸锂则含有约 0.04mg。

科切夫博士表示，双相情感障碍采用高剂量治疗——碳酸锂的剂量在 400mg 到 1.2g 之间。

“我们知道这是有效的，但它有记录在案的副作用，包括长期的恶心和震颤。”

它会使肾脏对浓缩尿液的激素反应降低，从而导致排尿量增加，引起口渴、脱水，并可能降低部分患者的肾功能。

此外，它可能会阻碍甲状腺激素的释放——导致甲状腺功能减退——并提高钙水平。美国约翰·霍普金斯大学一项涉及 40 人的临床试验目前正在评估低剂量乳清酸锂在早期阿尔茨海默病成年患者中的安全性和耐受性。

参与者将在九周内每天服用乳清酸锂（含 1mg 锂）或安慰剂。

科切夫博士是一项英国试点研究的主要研究员，该研究旨在监测向阿尔茨海默病高风险人群提供低剂量碳酸锂的效果——这些高风险人群是通过一种名为 pTau 217 的生物标志物水平升高来识别的，该标志物与淀粉样蛋白的积聚有关。（如果患者出现症状，该标志物也已被用于确认诊断。）

该试验的目标是招募 100 人——其中一半人服用低剂量碳酸锂，其余人服用伪药。

与此同时，鉴于锂有补剂形式，我们是否都应该每天服用一片（通常含有 4-5mg）作为预防措施？

麦克拉伦（MacLaren）博士建议，有家族史的人可以考虑尝试，即使只服用几周，看看记忆能力是否有所改善。但他强调，必须先咨询全科医生（GP）。他还表示，包含少量乳清酸锂的复合维生素是他未来会“为自己认真考虑”的选择。

但科切夫博士认为，现在推荐锂补剂还为时过早。“建议应遵循科学，而我们还没有达到那个阶段，”他说。“对于任何患有肾脏或甲状腺问题的人来说，情况尤其如此——他在服用锂之前应先与医疗服务提供者讨论，”他警告道。

你知道吗？

与此同时，在整个生命周期中摄入较低水平锂的小鼠，其阿尔茨海默症样的大脑变化加速发展；而锂水平正常的小鼠则能更好地抵御相关症状。

同时在私立机构 Re:Cognition Health 工作的麦克拉伦博士（Dr MacLaren）表示，多项研究还发现，饮用水中略微升高的锂水平（由地区差异引起）与较低的痴呆率之间存在联系。

悉尼大学的研究人员表示，心脏在心脏病发作后可能会自我修复。据《循环研究》（Circulation Research）杂志报道，他们发现心肌细胞可以在心脏病发作后开始分裂并产生新细胞。此前人们认为心肌无法再生。人们希望这能为心力衰竭带来新药。

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0 在得知自己患有 4 期胰腺癌且已转移至肝脏时，罗克珊·伊萨尔（Roxane Isal）首先想到的是她的孩子们，当时他们分别只有九岁和六岁。

“我原以为自己只能活几个月——我无法忍受想到我会错过那些人生里程碑，或者在他们成长过程中我无法在身边支持他们，”43 岁的罗克珊说道。

她的焦虑并非毫无根据：胰腺癌是最令人恐惧的癌症之一，半数患者在确诊后三个月内便会去世。根据慈善机构英国胰腺癌协会（Pancreatic Cancer UK）的数据，英国每年约有 10,500 人被诊断出患此病，其中七成病例在确诊时已处于晚期，患者只能接受姑息治疗。

而且病例数正在上升，自 20 世纪 90 年代以来增加了五分之一——主要集中在像罗克珊这样 55, 岁以下的女性身上。在全球范围内，科学家们正竭力寻找原因，但已知的风险因素包括年龄、吸烟、超重以及胰腺癌家族史。

然而，在确诊两年后，罗克珊依然活着——并且已摆脱癌症。

“我还在这里——这简直是个奇迹，”罗克珊说道。她与丈夫史蒂夫（Steve，52, 岁，从事电子商务）以及孩子们玛雅（Maya，11, 岁）和埃利斯（Ellis，8 岁）住在伦敦西部。“我的女儿刚刚进入中学——这是我原以为永远无法见证的里程碑。”

这得益于针对胰腺癌开展的密集新研究，以及罗克珊携带 BRCA 基因突变这一事实。该突变与乳腺癌和卵巢癌相关，但也会增加患胰腺癌的风险。

矛盾的是，研究发现同样的突变会使肿瘤对某些类型的化疗更敏感，并能增强一种名为 PARP 抑制剂的抗癌药物的效果——这些药物通过利用最初增加癌症风险的同一缺陷 DNA 修复过程，导致癌细胞死亡，从而阻止疾病进展。

两种疗法的结合摧毁了罗克珊体内的癌症，并帮助防止了复发。

新药助力罗克珊克服胰腺癌的绝望境地

“BRCA基因携带者对铂类化疗（最广泛使用的化疗类型之一）的治疗反应更为有效，”癌症研究所研究员、曾为罗克珊治疗的NHS顾问医学肿瘤学家诺琳·斯塔林（Naureen Starling）教授解释道。

2019年发表在《新英格兰医学杂志》上的研究发现，部分与BRCA基因相关的4期胰腺癌患者对PARP抑制剂奥拉帕利（olaparib）同样有反应。

研究人员发现，在化疗后服用奥拉帕利，可将癌症复发前的时间大致延长一倍，从3.8个月增加到7.4个月。

至关重要的是，3. 的4期患者在三年后仍然存活。

虽然这并非NHS的列名治疗方案，但医生可以通过向制药公司提交特殊的“同情使用”申请，为NHS患者获取这种双重疗法。

“部分BRCA基因携带者的治疗效果异常出色，”斯塔林教授表示，他们能生存“很多年”而不仅仅是几个月。

但英国胰腺癌协会（Pancreatic Cancer UK）首席执行官戴安娜·朱普（Diana Jupp）表示，仍有很长的路要走：“数十年来研究投入不足，以及能够参与临床试验的患者人数低得惊人，这阻碍了我们的进步。”

在5月，该慈善机构对1,117名胰腺癌患者进行的一项调查发现，仅有12%的人有机会参加临床试验。

不幸的是，由于胰腺癌通常被诊断得太晚，许多患者病情恶化速度极快，以至于因病重而无法符合参试资格。

原因之一是早期胰腺癌几乎没有症状。

胰腺负责产生消化酶和激素，位于胃后方。

其症状——包括消化不良（肿瘤干扰消化酶的产生，导致食物无法被正确分解）、背痛、疲劳和体重减轻——非常模糊，以至于癌症在被检测到时通常已处于晚期。根据英国胰腺癌协会的数据，超过90%的胰腺癌患者在确诊前的两年内曾多次就诊于全科医生（GP）。

罗克珊的情况正是如此。她从2021, 年起在进食后开始感到乏力，但由于她全职担任数字营销顾问且要照顾孩子，她将其归结为正常的疲劳。

但她对某些食物（包括面包、辣椒和酒精）持续产生“奇怪的反应”，让她感到“发热且颤抖”。由于酶功能障碍，患者可能会出现消化不良和食物不耐受。

在认为自己是食物不耐受的情况下，直到2023. 年底她才第一次去看全科医生。但血液检查结果正常。

三个月后，罗克珊出现了“强到让我无法支撑身体”的背痛，她回忆道，但她将其归咎于长时间使用电脑。事实上，肿瘤正压迫她背部中间的神经末梢。

到2024, 年1月，除了背痛，她几乎不进食且时刻感到精疲力竭。4月的一次转折点是，她在吃了一口可颂面包后因眩晕险些晕倒。

罗克珊前往急诊室（A&E），血液检查显示她的肝功能不佳；随后的MRI检查在她的胰腺上发现了一个3.5厘米的癌症病灶。疾病还转移到了她的肝脏。“我崩溃大哭，”她说，“在给丈夫打电话后，我陷入了该如何向孩子们告知这一消息的焦虑之中。”

在得知自己缺陷的BRCA基因为她提供了并非所有患者都拥有的治疗选择时，她感到“惊讶但欣慰”。

罗克珊在2024年5月至10月期间接受了十次化疗：“那太可怕了，”她回忆道，“我在床、沙发和医院之间艰难地往返。我体重减轻了8公斤，从62公斤降到了54公斤 [她身高5英尺9英寸]。”

同年9月，她还接受了消融治疗，利用热量摧毁肝脏上的三个癌灶，随后在12月接受了放射治疗。

自2025年1月以来，她一直在服用奥拉帕利（olaparib）和一种每日一次的口服化疗药——扫描结果显示她目前仍未复发。罗克珊生活在不确定性之中，但她知道自己是“幸运儿”之一。罗克珊·伊萨尔（Roxane Isal）目前处于癌症缓解状态，与丈夫史蒂夫、儿子埃利斯和女儿玛雅生活在一起。

但人们确实有理由希望，胰腺癌患者的情况可能会有所改变。

最近一项突破性试验发现，一种名为 daraxonrasib 的新型口服药物延长了晚期胰腺癌患者的生存时间。该药物能阻断驱动大多数胰腺癌发展的 KRAS 蛋白。

在发表于《新英格兰医学杂志》的一项试验中，与标准化学疗法相比，该药物将晚期胰腺癌患者的生存时间几乎翻了一番——从7个月延长至13个月，且副作用在可控范围内。

肯特大学癌症治疗学教授米歇尔·加雷特（Michelle Garrett）解释道：“大约 90% 的胰腺癌患者存在 KRAS 基因突变。这意味着 KRAS 蛋白始终处于‘开启’状态，因此胰腺癌细胞生长和分裂的信号一直处于开启状态。”

“Daraxonrasib 为那些癌症已经扩散的患者带来了希望，并且有可能在疾病的早期阶段使用。”

这项发现于5月在享有盛誉的美国临床肿瘤学会（American Society of Clinical Oncology）年会上公布，引起了强烈的情感共鸣。斯塔林教授表示：“这是一个令人激动人心（spine-tingling）的时刻，因为这项研究证明了此前无法用药物治疗的靶点现在可以被药物治疗了。”

该药目前尚未在英国国家医疗服务体系（NHS）中提供，但刚刚获得了美国监管机构食品药品监督管理局（FDA）的批准。

目前，旨在更早发现该疾病的新型诊断测试研究也在进行中。伦敦帝国理工学院的一个团队正在研发一种呼吸测试，用于识别癌症释放并随呼吸排出的化合物，这些化合物在疾病早期阶段就会出现。人们希望这能成为全科医生（GP）检测的基础。

多吃……

燕麦——因为它们可以降低“坏”胆固醇。发表在《营养学》（Nutrients）杂志上的一项新研究发现，与摄入相同热量但全谷物较少的对照组相比，每天食用四份（每份40克）燕麦且持续六周的人，其低密度脂蛋白（LDL）胆固醇的下降幅度更为显著。燕麦富含 $\beta$-

葡聚糖，这是一种有助于减少血液中胆固醇吸收的纤维。

埃塞克斯大学的科学家们还在研究该疾病的血液生物标志物。

但仍需采取更多行动：英国胰腺癌协会（Pancreatic Cancer UK）呼吁政府增加临床试验的数量并扩大其可及性，同时增加研究资金。

“如果科学家们能获得资金，谁知道在转角处还隐藏着什么样的发现？”罗克珊（Roxane）说道。 ■pancreaticcancer.org.uk

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今日电视精选

《英国缝纫大赛》(The Great British Sewing Bee)，晚上8点，BBC1

在今晚的全女性决赛中，谁将加冕为“缝纫女王”？（剧透预警：历史爱好者安娜、外向的艾玛和工程师贝丝——如图中与主持人索菲·威廉合影——将缝制本届赛事的最后几件服装）。在“图案挑战”中，领结和腰封在等待着她们，评委埃斯梅·杨和帕特里克·格兰特将寻找整洁的褶皱和精准的明线。在最后的“改造挑战”中，她们将挖掘桌布的潜力，将其变为一套时尚的海滩俱乐部装扮。进入高潮部分的“量身定制”环节时，已经出现了一位明显的领先者，而当她们开始为最好的朋友制作服装时，压力倍增。主题是“蜕变”，最终的成品必须足以登上著名的时尚筹款盛会——Met Gala。谁能满足所有缝纫要求并捧起奖杯？

70 UP，晚上9点，ITV1

一个电视机构的时代已经走到了尽头。历经六十年的记录，这是我们与那些在迈克尔·阿普特（Michael Apted）开创性的《7 Up》系列中于1964年首次见面的七岁孩子们的最后一次回顾。

最初的14, 人中，尼克和琳遗憾地离世（阿普特也于2021, 年去世，由奥斯卡获奖电影制作人阿西夫·卡帕迪亚接任导演），但剩下的12 名幸存者（包括彼得、赛门、保罗、托尼、尼尔、约翰、安德鲁、布鲁斯、杰基、苏西和苏，如图从左上角起所示）都出现在这个分为两部分的最终章中。他们来自各种背景，社会阶级是主要讨论点，看到他们的梦想如何改变以及生活将他们带向何方，令人感触颇深。这也是英国在他们周围如何发生变化的缩影——从这个角度来看，只有 4 名女性参与其中，这种不平衡感比在 1964. 年看来要明显得多。下周二完结。

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君主制辩论 《王室：是时候离开了？》(The Royals: Time To Go?)，晚上9点，Ch4

在作为记者的漫长职业生涯中，约翰·汉弗莱斯从未害怕提出难题，今晚他将探讨我们这个时代最具挑战性的问题之一。他并不掩饰自己一生以来对王室持怀疑态度的事实，但如果你想了解为什么废除君主制的支持率在上升，尤其是在 18 至 24 岁的人群中，请锁定节目，听汉弗莱斯与王室支持者和批评者进行对话。

电影选择 《边境杀手》(Sicario)，10. 40pm，BBC1

紧张的犯罪惊悚片，讲述了一个联合机构特遣队及其在打击墨西哥贩毒集团时采取的零散手段。艾米莉·布朗特（如图）、乔什·布洛林和本尼西奥·德尔·托罗主演。续集将于明天播出。

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6.00 Milkshake! 小猪佩奇 (AD,R) 6.10 Tweedy & Fluff (R) 6.15 Odo (R) 6.20 托马斯和他的朋友们 (R) 6.35 消防员山姆 (R) 6.45 小猪佩奇 (AD,R) 6.50 Pip and Posy (R) 6.55 帕丁顿熊的冒险 (R) 7.10 汪汪队立大功 (R) 7.20 拉布鲁和他的工程队 (R) 7.30 小猪佩奇 (,R) 7.45 太空中的蒂姆·雷克斯 (,R) 8.00 Stan & Gran 8.15 汪汪队立大功 (R) 8.25 Milo (R) 8.40 小猪佩奇 (,R) 8.55 本和霍莉的小王国 (R) 9.05 Milkshake! Story Den

9.15 杰里米·Vine 11.30 Storm & Alexis 12.45 5 News at Lunchtime 12.50 Matt Allwright 2.20 Lies and Ex-Wives: Secrets 电影 《枫叶街》(Maple Street) (2024) (PG) ● 惊悚片，由艾莉·利伯特和马修·麦考尔主演。 4.00 《Castle》(R) 最伟大侦探协会请求 Castle 协助解决一起谋杀案。 4.55 Love Nature (R) 记录西汉姆海滩上海玻璃的历史。 5.00 5 News with Dan Walker 6.00 尼克·诺尔斯的惊险铁路之旅 (R) 探索布拉格、布拉迪斯拉发和布达佩斯。 6.55 5 News Update

7.00< / td><>《Police Interceptors》(R) 警员追捕一辆遮挡号牌的车辆，该车在A46公路上逆向疾驰；同时丹和朱尔斯拦截了一名被取消驾驶资格的司机。< / >< / tr> <>7.55< / ><>5 News Update< / >< / tr>< / table>

8.00 Motorway Cops: Catching Britain's Speeders 警员露西·庞德和尼克·詹姆斯在巡逻中追击一辆拒绝停车的雷诺梅甘，警员埃德·克拉克则在搜寻一辆与毒品供应有关的车辆。

9.00 《永远的家》 一起事件让卡罗尔颤抖且恐惧，尤其是随着罗伯特的行为变得越来越反复无常且具有威胁性。由艾米·纳塔尔和道格拉斯·亨肖主演。

10.00 《被我的女儿杀死：天堂里的谋杀》(R) 一个家庭前往巴厘岛享受奢华假期的真实故事，但当谢拉·冯·维塞-马克成为谋杀阴谋的受害者时，假期变成了噩梦。

11.15 Buried Secrets: The Body in the Carpet (R) 讲述侦破15岁少女凯伦·普莱斯案件的侦查过程，她的骸骨在1989年被建筑工人发现，被包裹在一块地毯边角料中。

12.15 Motorway: Hell on the Highway (R) 1.10 Cruise TV with LoveitBookit (R) 2.10 尼克·诺尔斯的惊险铁路之旅 (R) 3.05 《Castle》(R) 3.55 与苏珊·卡尔曼一起巡航 (, BSL, R) 4.45 巧克力奇妙世界 (BSL, R) 5.10 巧克力奇妙世界 (BSL, R)

▲ 特别容易引起反感

格雷厄姆·诺顿暗黑新惊悚片中的秘密、风暴与情节剧

格雷厄姆·诺顿走哥特风？这听起来不太可能。这位脱口秀主持人，其过去十年的小说已被证明是畅销书，他更偏好古怪奇趣而非恐怖。

但每一桩犯罪谜案，无论多么温馨，都潜藏着一丝阴暗。不存在所谓的“甜美”谋杀。

克拉拉·萨拉曼改编自诺顿2022年热门作品《永远的家》，故事在凌晨的一场雷雨中拉开序幕。自爱德华·布尔沃-利顿用“那是一个黑暗而风暴肆虐的夜晚”开启故事以来，这一直是200年来惊悚小说家的最爱。

一道剧烈的闪电照亮了卧室，退休教师卡罗尔（艾米·纳塔尔 饰）正挣扎着入睡。依然温暖的床垫上，她身边的空间空荡荡的，令人心惊。卡罗尔紧握手机，在微弱的光芒引导下摸索着走下楼。她惊恐地打了个寒颤，看到阴暗地下室的门开着……那扇门一直被她的伴侣罗伯特锁着。

“别下来！”他惊慌的声音在……中回荡

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本周之槽：在《巴约挂毯的秘密：博物馆内部》（BBC2）中，旁白迈克尔·帕林爵士讲述了在第二次世界大战期间，一名纳粹高官将雪茄灰掉落在织物上，烧出了一个洞。这大概就是生活丰富多彩的一部分吧，等等。

漆黑的楼梯。“谁也不准下来！这里到处是毒药！”

仅就第一场戏而言，人们就很难抵御沉溺于情节剧的冲动，而这部六集惊悚剧甚至根本没打算克制。由显得邋遢且苍老的道格拉斯·亨肖饰演的罗伯特正陷入痴呆症，而他那两个自我中心的成年子女凯登（Kaden）和萨莉（Sallie）则迫不及待地想把他送进养老院。

但罗伯特不想离开。那个地下室里有对他而言非常重要的东西。当卡罗尔四处探查时，她发现了道格拉斯妻子的照片，而这位妻子在 20 年前失踪了。她还拔掉了一个隐藏在假墙后面的卧式冷冻柜的电源。没过多久，一种令人作呕的气味开始弥漫在房子里……

这是一个情节密集的开局，而孩子们的动机使情况变得更加复杂——凯登需要钱来支付代孕母亲的费用，以获得他那同性伴侣渴望的婴儿；而渴望成为网红的萨尔（Sal）似乎在

北爱尔兰电视节目变动

BBC2：10.00pm 《账户中的科林》（Colin from Accounts）。10.30 《斯特兰福纪事》（The Chronicles of Strangford）。退休摆渡人约翰向孙子展示旧的家庭电影片段。 UTV：11.15pm 《斯托蒙特视角》（View from Stormont）。

威尔士电视节目变动

BBC2：1.45pm 《首席部长问答》（First Minister's Questions）。2.45 《边缘》（The Edge）。3.30 《无敌》（Unbeatable）。4.00 《英国铁路之旅》（Great British Railway Journeys）。4.30 《伊娃·朗格利亚：寻找墨西哥》（Eva Longoria: Searching for Mexico）。探索新莱昂州的饮食与文化。ITV：11.15pm 《尖端》（Sharp End）。讨论威尔士政治。S4℃：6.00am 《Cyw》。12noon 《S4℃新闻与天气》。12.05 《科琳·拉姆齐：生活与食物》（Colleen Ramsey: Bywyd a Bwyd）。12.30 《Heno》。1.00 《Bwrdd i Dri》。1.30 《Ffermio》。2.00 《S4℃新闻与天气》。2.05 《Prynhawn Da》。3.00 《S4℃新闻与天气》。3.05 《Athrawon》。4.00 《Awr Fawr》。5.00 《Stwnsh》。6.00 《Y Sin》。6.30 《Codi Hwyl》。6.59 《S4℃新闻》。7.00 《Heno》。7.30 《S4℃新闻与天气》。8.00 《Pobol y Cwm》。8.25 《Rownd a Rownd》。8.55 《S4℃新闻与天气》。9.00 《Am Le i Fyw》。10.00 《Clwb Rygbi》。10.30 《Y Cosmos》。

克里斯托弗·史蒂文斯：昨晚电视评述

《永远的家》（Forever Home，第五频道） ★★★★☆

企图通过敲诈其已婚情夫，迫使他离开妻子。

与他之前的电视剧《持有》（Holding）一样，格雷厄姆·诺顿那过度活跃的想象力需要有所克制。在第一集中就向我们抛出所有的支线情节，显得太多且太快。

但他拥有一种创造立体人物的天赋，这些角色带有深刻的自私缺陷，但仍留有足够的余地让我们产生某种同情。卡罗尔依赖性强且被嫉妒心吞噬，但她真心爱着罗伯特，尽管他内心潜伏着

诺顿有时被指责将故事设定在一个充满“sure-and-begorrah”怀旧色彩的虚幻爱尔兰世外桃源中。为了摆脱这一点，第五频道将这个故事移植到了诺森伯兰郡的边境地区。

但他的一些轻快幽默在迁移后依然存在。丹尼斯·韦尔奇饰演卡罗尔的母亲，这种女人会问“卧室方面的一切是否都还好”。你到处都能发现这样的母亲。

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数字电视与点播精选

Fitbit 杀手，亚马逊 Prime 视频

2021, 5 月，卡罗琳·克劳奇和她的丈夫巴比斯·阿纳格诺斯托普洛斯（如图）在他们位于雅典的家中遭遇了一场恐怖袭击。卡罗琳在距离 20 岁生日仅剩几个月时被杀害，而巴比斯则与他们年幼的女儿一起被发现被绑在同一个房间里，口被堵住。家里的狗也被杀死了。这起震惊人心的犯罪消息迅速传遍全球，尤其是因为卡罗琳是英国人——她出生在利物浦，年幼时移居希腊。除了卡罗琳年轻生命被截断的悲剧之外

情感之旅 Gemma Collins: Everything. All At Once, 晚上9点, Sky One

“GC”（如图）从未在镜头前感到害羞，但在这一部全新的、共八集的亲密人物侧写中，这位个性鲜明的《TOWIE》明星让我们看到了她最脆弱的时刻，我们将随她一起回顾她生命中极其波折的一年。应对试管婴儿（IVF）的压力、筹备婚礼以及在重组家庭中寻找平衡，这些都将她与未婚夫 Rami 的关系考验到了极限，而这还发生在

短促地失去了母亲的 11 个月大婴儿，人们对 Babis 也表达了大量的同情。但有些事情显得不真实——正如你可能从标题中能告诉的那样，正是一个数字活动追踪器引导警方找到了凶手。《每日邮报》记者 Nick Fagge 报道了此案，并且是这部两集特辑的主要贡献者，该特辑追踪了从绝望的警方电话到凶手被定罪的时间线。它在场景构建方面做得非常好，采访了警方、律师、家属的朋友以及 Caroline 悲痛欲绝的父亲。

她必须面对母亲去世后的心碎。前三集将于今晚连续播出。

乡村真人秀 Vinnie Jones In The Country, 晚上9点, Quest

这位由足球运动员转型的演员——他在《绅士们》（Netflix）中饰演的猎场管理员 Geoffrey 一角充分利用了他的乡村绅士形象——现已回到他在西萨塞克斯郡 2,000 英亩的农场，开启全新的第三季。在建筑工 Wobbly 和私人助理 Emma 的陪伴下，他正着手进行迄今为止最宏大的项目——但当他收到一些毁灭性的家庭消息时，庄园住宅的翻修计划变得 Uncertain。

真实犯罪

《凝视我的双眼》(Look Into My Eyes)，ITVX

在佛罗里达州的一个小镇上，乔治·肯尼（George Kenney）曾是一位受欢迎的高中校长——但他一直在给学生们进行催眠。据称，他的目的是帮助他们提高成绩或赢得足球比赛，但在三名学生在接受催眠后的几个月内相继死亡后，肯尼逃离了该镇。这部 4 集系列剧深入挖掘了这一离奇案件，并采访了肯尼本人。

时间< / td><>BBC 4< / ><>E4< / ><> < / tr><><>7.00pm< / ><>9 (苏格兰 24) 弗雷德·迪本的英国建筑 (Fred Dibnah's Building of Britain) 英国的运河< / ><>13 《荷利欧克斯》(Hollyoaks) 辛迪的一番话让迪迪产生了怀疑< / >< rowspan="2"> 《幸运轮盘》(Wheel of Fortune) 萨普纳、本和德博拉竞争解决文字谜题，以获得旋转轮盘并赢取巨额现金奖金的机会< / >< / ><><>7.30pm< / ><>保罗·罗斯的湖区 (The Lakes with Paul Rose) 探险家访问温德米尔湖< / ><>《布鲁克林九九》(Brooklyn Nine-Nine) 佩拉尔塔试图与一名嫌疑人达成交易以抓获一名偷车贼< / >< / ><><>8.00pm< / ><>《天生贵族》(To the Manor Born) 奥德丽学习管家艺术< / >< rowspan="2">《甲板之下：澳洲篇》(Below Deck Down Under) 一名客人让船员们忙得团团转，而盐湖城的家庭主妇们则引发了混乱< / >< rowspan="2">《1%俱乐部》(The 1% Club) 由李·麦克主持的问答游戏节目，所有问题都关于逻辑和常识< / >< / ><><>8.30pm< / ><>《维持体面》(Keeping Up Appearances) 海辛斯搬进了她的静养处< / >< / ><><>9.00pm< / >< rowspan="2">《博林家族：一个丑闻累累的家族》(The Boleyns: A Scandalous Family) 记录博林家族兴衰的纪录片，从该家族独特的视角讲述了一个关于爱、性与背叛的故事< / >< rowspan="2">《沙发评论员》(Gogglebox) 业余评论员们分享他们对《切尔西制造》(Made in Chelsea)、《龙穴》(Dragons' Den)、《职责所在》(Line of Duty)、《路易·塞鲁：拍摄乔·异域》(Louis Theroux: Shooting Joe Exotic) 和《格雷厄姆·诺顿秀》(The Graham Norton Show) 的看法< / >< rowspan="2">《老大哥》(Big Brother) 参赛者在 24 小时监控下生活，试图避免被逐出老大哥屋< / >< / ><><>9.30pm< / >< / ><><>10.00pm< / >< rowspan="2">《宇宙的起点与终点》(The Beginning and End of the Universe) 吉姆·阿尔-哈利利教授揭开科学创世故事的宇宙之谜< / >< rowspan="2">《初次约会》(First Dates) 在经历了一场危及生命的疾病后，29 岁的乔治娜重返约会市场，并与 36 岁的保安塞布配对< / >< rowspan="2">《老大哥：群聊》(Big Brother: The Group Chat) 凯特·劳勒和 GK Barry 主持对被逐参赛者、名人粉丝和特邀嘉宾的独家采访< / >< / ><><>10.30pm< / >< / ><><>11.00pm< / ><>日本修复大师 (Japan's Master of Restoration) 一件陶瓷马的修复< / >< rowspan="2">11.05 《裸体吸引力》(Naked Attraction) 安娜·理查森与 70 岁的桑德拉以及梦想成为自己情色小说女主角的托妮-安在一起 (至 12.10)< / ><>11.05 《格里芬一家》(Family Guy) 两部分之一。彼得重新讲述《帝国反击战》< / >< / ><><>11.30pm< / ><>11.50 《夜空》(The Sky at Night) 正在改变现代天文学的工程技术 (至 12.20)< / ><>11.35 《格里芬一家》(Family Guy) 两部分之二。彼得重新讲述《帝国反击战》 (至 12.05)< / >< / table>

娱乐与纪实

5ACTION

Freeview 33 Sky 150

11.20am 《四海大快意》(Gunsmoke)。12.25pm 电影：《德州青年枪手》(Young Guns of Texas)。(1962) (U) 2.05 电影：《孤独的人》(A Man Alone)。(1955) (U) 4.00 《交通警察》(Traffic Cops)。5.00 《高速公路警察：抓捕英国超速者》(Motorway Cops: Catching Britain's Speeders)。6.00 《警察拦截者》(Police Interceptors)。9.00 《高速公路警察：抓捕英国超速者》(Motorway Cops: Catching Britain's Speeders)。10.00 《逃票者：与法律对抗》(Fare Dodgers: At War with the Law)。11.00 《X档案》(The X-Files)。

BBC THREE

Freeview 23 Sky 115 Virgin 107 7.00pm 《快讯》(The Catch Up)。7.05 《致命 60》(Deadly 60)。8.00 《顶级档》(Top Gear)。9.00 《家族中的恶魔：鲁比·弗兰克的陨落》(The Devil in the Family: The Fall of Ruby Franke)。11.35 《抓捕跟踪狂》(To Catch a Stalker)。

COMEDY CENTRAL

Sky 112 Virgin 132

12.55pm 《恶作剧之王》(Impractical Jokers)。1.20 《老友记》(Friends)。9.00 电影：《僵尸肖恩》(Shaun of the Dead)。(2004) (15) 11.00 伊恩·斯特林地狱点评网络 (Iain Stirling's Roast the Internet)。

DISCOVERY

Sky 125 Virgin 177

11.00am Building Off the Grid。 1.00pm The Zoo: San Diego。 3.00 Baggage Battles。 5.00 Alaska: Homestead Rescue。 7.00 Wheeler Dealers。 9.00 Deadliest Catch。 10.00 In the Eye of the Storm。

E4 (日间)

Freeview 13 Sky 135 Virgin 106 11.00am Below Deck Down Under。 12noon The Simpsons。 2.00 The Goldbergs。 3.00 Modern Family。 5.00 The Simpsons。

5STAR (日间)

Freeview 32 Sky 128 Virgin 126 12noon Traffic Cops。 2.00 Police Interceptors。 5.00 Rogue Claimers。 6.00 Home and Away。

5 SELECT

Freeview 46 Sky 153 Virgin 138

12noon Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild。 1.00 Murder, She Wrote。 3.00 Columbo。 5.00 Sussex: Jewel of the South Coast。 6.00 Inside the Tower of London。 7.00 Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild。 9.00 Alexander Armstrong Across America。 10.00 Battlefront: WWII Road to Victory。 11.00 Prisoner: Cell Block H。

5 USA (日间)

Freeview 21 Sky 141 Virgin 120 12noon Law & Order。 6.00 NCIS。

FOOD NETWORK UK

Freeview 43 Sky 144 Virgin 168 11.00am The Great British Bake Off。 12.30pm Mary Berry – Cook & Share。 1.00 James Martin's French Adventure。 3.00 The Hairy Bikers' Comfort Food。 4.00 Jamie's 15 Minute Meals。 5.00 The Pioneer Woman。 6.00 James Martin's French Adventure。 7.00 The Great British Bake Off。 8.30 Mary Berry – Cook & Share。 9.00 Jamie: Fast and Simple。 10.00 Chopped Castaways。 11.00 Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives: Triple D Nation。

GREAT! TV

Freeview 34 Sky 157 Virgin 170 12noon Little House on the Prairie。 1.00 The Waltons。 4.00 Little House on the Prairie。 6.00 The Irish RM。 7.00 M*A*S*H。 9.00 Brush Strokes。 11.00 Robin's Nest。

ITV2 (日间)

Freeview 6 Sky 118 Virgin 115 10.15am Dawson's Creek。 11.10 Charmed。 12.10pm Deal or No Deal。 1.10 Supermarket Sweep。 2.10 Wheel of Fortune。 3.10 The Only Way Is Essex。 4.10 The Real Housewives of Potomac。 5.00 The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills。 6.00 Celebrity Catchphrase。

ITV3 (日间)

Freeview 10 Sky 119 Virgin 117 9.10am Inspector Morse。 11.30 Heartbeat。 1.35pm The Royal。 2.40 Wild at Heart。 3.40 Classic Emmerdale。 4.40 Classic Coronation Street。 5.50 Heartbeat。

ITV4 (日间)

Freeview 26 Sky 120 Virgin 118 10.25am The Sweeney。 11.30 The Professionals。 12.35pm The Champions。 1.40 American Pickers。 3.45 The Sweeney。 4.50 The Professionals。 5.55 River Monsters。 6.25 World Rally Championship Highlights. Action from Chile。

MORE4 (日间)

Freeview 18 Sky 136 Virgin 147 11.35am Come Dine with Me。 2.15pm Four in a Bed。 4.50 Car S.O.S. 6.50 Grand Designs。

NAT'L GEOGRAPHIC

Sky 129 Virgin 183

11.00am Car S.O.S. 12noon Toronto Airport Uncovered。 1.00 Air Crash Investigation。 2.00 Hitler's Last Stand。 3.00 Hidden Beneath the Cities。 4.00 How the Tudors Lost Their Heads。 5.00 Ice Road Rescue。 6.00 Nazi Megastructures: Battle Ready。 7.00 Air Crash Investigation。 8.00 Nazi Megastructures。 9.00 Hitler's Last Stand。 10.00 Planes that Changed History。 11.00 Air Crash Investigation。

PBS AMERICA

Freeview 84 Sky 173 Virgin 187 11.50am Ancient Greece: The Dark Chronicles。 1.00pm Grand Tours of the Scottish Islands。 1.40 The Bush Years: Family, Duty, Power。 2.35 Turkiye's Astonishing Antiquities。 3.40 Maps of Power。 4.50 Ancient Greece: The Dark Chronicles。 5.55 Grand Tours of the Scottish Islands。 6.35 The Bush Years: Family, Duty, Power。 7.25 Turkiye's Astonishing Antiquities。 8.35 Maps of Power。 9.45 Ancient Greece: The Dark Chronicles。 10.55 Turkiye's Astonishing Antiquities。

REALLY

12noon The Yorkshire Auction House。 2.00 The Repair Shop。 3.00 Salvage Hunters: The Restorers。 5.00 Long Lost Family。 6.00 The Repair Shop。 7.00 Celebrity Yorkshire Auction House。 8.00 Antiques Road Trip。 9.00 Who Do You Think You Are? 11.00 Help! My House Is Haunted。

SKY ARTS

Freeview 36 Sky 122 Virgin 123

12noon 经典专辑。1.00 意外故事。2.00 希区柯克小时。3.00 与吉姆和南希·莫尔一起画鸟。4.00 探索：克里斯托弗·普卢默。5.00 年度肖像画家 2024. 6.00 意外故事。7.00 希区柯克呈现。8.00 加博：你去了哪里？好莱坞偶像格蕾塔·加博的肖像。9.55 仙境：从詹姆斯·巴里到J.R.R.托尔金。10.55 电影。11.55 亚历克·吉尼斯：一流演员。

SKY ATLANTIC

Sky 108 Virgin 111

10.10am 继承之战。12.55pm 谋杀：街头生活。2.35 亿万。4.40 继承之战。6.55 镀金时代。9.00 逼近的巨塔。11.00 潜艇。

RADIO 4 FM: 92.4-94.6MHZ

5.00am 新闻摘要。 5.04 议会昨日动态。 5.32 天气。 5.34 航运预报。 5.43 今日祷告。 5.45 今日农业。 6.00 今日。

9.00 科学生活。 吉姆·阿尔-哈利利与 表观遗传学家 伊迪丝·赫德对话。

11.00 添加到播放列表。 萨克斯演奏家艾玛·拉维奇和钢琴家阿尔沙·卡维亚尼参与。 11.45 本周之书：《红杉》。本·马金泰尔著。

12noon 新闻。

12.04 您与您的呼叫。 12.57 天气。

1.00 一点钟的世界。 1.45 希特勒日记丑闻。安德鲁·亨特·默里参与。

2.00 弓箭手。

SKY COMEDY

Sky 113 Virgin 112

11.50am 威尔与格蕾丝。12.20pm 绝活。1.40 基于真实故事。2.20 挺直。3.00 威尔与格蕾丝。4.00 办公室搬迁者。5.00 社区。6.00 威尔与格蕾丝。7.00 办公室 (美国版)。8.00 动物控制。9.00 周六夜现场 (英国版)。10.15 杰克·迪：小世界。11.50 绝活。

SKY DOCUMENTARIES

Sky 114 Virgin 121

12noon 电影：《最孤独的鲸鱼：寻找 52》(2021) (PG) 2.00 两个埃斯科巴。4.00 导演们。5.00 来自太空的灾难。6.00 电影：《阿波罗 11》(2019) (U) 7.50 我的偶像：里昂·普赖斯。8.00 电影：《喷火战斗机》(2018) (PG) 讲述英国单座战斗机超级马林喷火战斗机的故事。10.00 电影：《鲍比》(2016) (PG)

今日电台精选

历史的秘密英雄，3PM，RADIO 4

20世纪30年代的利利普特音乐表演团由来自罗马尼亚的奥维茨家族的七名成员组成。他们患有侏儒症且是犹太人，因此当他们被送往奥斯威辛集中营时，他们的命运似乎已成定局。然而，他们幸存

2.15 剧集：《接送孩子》。喜剧剧集，由萨姆·斯旺主演。 3.00 精选 历史的秘密英雄。 3.30 2026.年BBC国家短篇小说奖。露西·考德威尔的《小土地》。 4.00 精选 艺术品：作为缪斯的生活。 4.30 文档怎么说？ 5.00 下午；天气。

SKY HISTORY

Sky 123 Virgin 131

11.05am 仓储大战。12noon 典当之星。1.00 与多尔夫·伦格伦一起探索历史上的最伟大机器。2.00 历史上的最伟大谜团。3.00 杂乱无章。6.00 美国捡物员。7.00 火之锻造冠军赛。8.00 典当之星。9.00 与多尔夫·伦格伦一起探索历史上的最伟大机器。10.00 历史上的最伟大谜团。11.00 证据就在那里。

SKY ONE

Sky 106 Virgin 109

12noon 深度潜水澳大利亚。1.00 夏威夷五勇士。3.00 特警。5.00 辛普森一家。6.00 超级商店。7.00 辛普森一家。8.00 染匠的房车公园。9.00 杰玛·柯林斯：一切。同时发生。11.10 别管那些嗡嗡叫的家伙。

在他们被约瑟夫·门格勒从毒气室救出后，后者随后对他们进行了实验。海伦娜·邦汉姆·卡特讲述了他们非凡且令人心碎的故事，演员沃里克·戴维斯和历史学家沃伦·罗森布鲁姆也参与其中。

6.00 六点新闻。 6.30 保罗·辛哈的完美酒吧问答。保罗在坎特伯雷向观众提出关于大主教的问题。本系列最后一集。 7.00 弓箭手。托尼试图参与其中。 7.15 前排。艺术新闻。 8.00 4号档案调查。新系列。重大关注议题。

SKY SCI-FI

Sky 145 Virgin 140

12noon 《星际迷航：航海家号》。1.00 《星门：亚特兰蒂斯》。2.00 《原始未来》。3.00 《幻想岛》。4.00 《星门：SG-1》。1. 5.00 《星际迷航：航海家号》。6.00 《星际迷航：企业号》。7.00 《星门：亚特兰蒂斯》。8.00 《星门：SG-1》。1. 9.00 《外星居民》。10.00 《Evil》。11.00 《行尸走肉》。

SKY WITNESS

Sky 107 Virgin 110

12noon 《FBI》。2.00 《菜鸟警探》。3.00 《血族》。4.00 《没什么好申报的》。8.00 《行车记录仪捕捉》。9.00 《菜鸟警探》。10.00 《血族》。11.00 《菜鸟警探》。

TLC

Freeview 12 Sky 133 Virgin 113

12noon 《生活大爆炸》。2.00 《中间一家》。3.30 《少年谢尔顿》。5.00 《生活大爆炸》。9.00

6.55 《心跳》

默顿在刑事调查局（CID）的帮助下调查一起可疑死亡事件，而弗农雇佣了一名新的女机械师

《薇拉》侦探

调查在沿海城镇造船厂发现的一具未确认身份的青少年男孩尸体，并发现这个安静的社区隐藏着严重的毒品问题

6.25 世界拉力锦标赛集锦 智利拉力赛的精彩瞬间

EFL杯直播 利物浦 对阵 托特纳姆热刺（晚上8点开球）。安菲尔德球场第三轮决胜局的所有精彩内容。两队上一次在该项赛事中交手是在两个赛季前，当时红军在主场以 4-0 获胜，逆转了半决赛首回合的劣势，最终以总比分 4-1 胜出

MORE4

6.50 《宏伟设计》 一座位于亨伯河口附近的家庭住宅

7.55 《宏伟设计》 凯文·麦克劳德跟随一对夫妇，他们拆除了一座古老的泰晤士河船屋，并在原址上建造了一座前卫的住宅——而这里是一个由传统房屋主导的社区

Popmaster TV: Grand

SKY MIX

《星际迷航：下一代》两部分中的第一部分。一项奇异的考古发现表明，数据（Data）不知为何在 19 世纪的旧金山去世了

《夏威夷五勇士》

侦探们试图保护一起高调谋杀案中的唯一证人

《法律与秩序：刑事意图》

决赛 肯·布鲁斯主持这场音乐问答赛的决赛，参赛者将尝试争夺冠军头衔。本系列最后一集

《古董公路旅行》 凯瑟琳·索森和詹姆斯·布拉克顿开始了他们五部分远征之旅的第二阶段，前往伍斯特郡

一名外科医生报告其妻子失踪，戈伦怀疑此案并非表面看上去那么简单

安特·安斯特德：天生机械师 安特买了一辆没有方向盘的 1968 年款阿尔法·罗密欧 Giulia

11.05 24 Hours in A&E 一名接受癌症治疗的患者喉咙出现肿胀（持续至 12.05）

摄像机跟随一名 47 岁男子，他在骑摩托车时被撞，手臂和腿部受伤，被空运至圣乔治医院

《斯科特与贝莉》 安迪惩罚了珍妮特（持续至 12.25）

《唐顿庄园》 考拉的一项发现使继承问题陷入混乱，玛丽让马修在等待回复，整个家政团队被一项公告震惊

《文尼·琼斯在乡村》新系列。当文尼收到一些令人沮丧的家庭消息时，沃布利和艾玛处于待命状态

U&DAVE

24 Hours in A&E

《格林》一名牧师在教堂被抢后请求尼克的帮助，结果发现会众全部是 Wesens（持续至 12.00）

《刑事意图》 侦探们对一名银行家死亡事件的调查引导他们找到了相关联系人和家庭成员

《法律与秩序：》

摔角：碰撞 激烈的动作对决，参赛明星包括 FTR、Thunder Rosa、Jon Moxley 和 Jay White（持续至 12.25）

10.25 全精英

史蒂夫·弗莱彻和基尔斯滕·拉姆齐修复了一盏装饰艺术风格的灯，而马修·尼克尔完全翻新了一扇珍贵的彩色玻璃窗

修理铺 (The Repair Shop)

《他们是怎么做到的？》(How Do They Do It?)：可以防止作弊的扑克牌

《莫蒂默与怀特豪斯：去钓鱼》(Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing)：来自诺福克

《你？精华部分》(You? The Best Bits) 罗布·布赖登主持精彩片段，嘉宾包括乔·布兰德、斯泰西·杜利、戴安娜·摩根和鲍勃·莫蒂默

7.40 《你会对我撒谎吗？》(Would I Lie to You?)：未公开片段 第12季的额外素材

《他们是怎么做到的？》(How Do They Do It?)：在瑞士奶酪中打孔（至 12.00）

8.20 《你会对我撒谎吗？》(Would I Lie to You?)：精华部分

我拿到了一部分 (Have I Got a Bit)

《更多为你准备的新闻》(More News for You) 乔·布兰德主持这场讽刺问答节目的加长版，嘉宾有音乐家兼活动家菲尔加尔·沙基和喜剧演员佐伊·莱昂斯

《QI XL》嘉宾菲尔·朱皮图斯、霍莉·沃尔什和尼什·库马尔加入艾伦·戴维斯和主持人桑迪·托克斯维格的行列，在加长集节目中探讨“胡说八道”这一主题

7.20 最后的一位 (Last of the)

任务大师 (Taskmaster) 格雷格

戴维斯为爱丽丝·莱文、阿西姆·乔德里、莉莎·塔布克、罗素·霍华德和蒂姆·Vine 设定了极其令人困惑的任务（至 12.05）

《夏日之酒》(Summer Wine) 康波 无意中听到诺拉·巴蒂 讨论埃罗尔·弗林的装扮 曾对她产生的影响，于是他 决定让自己成为 她梦中的男人

《你好，你好！》(Allo 'Allo!) 雷内安排出售“堕落的圣母”

8.40 ' '! 法妮和勒克莱尔的婚礼与一项计划在同一时间发生

9.20 ' '!

9.20 '' : 冯·克林克霍芬将军被宣布为精神失常

9.55 《新线索》(New Tricks) 一位老友请求盖里调查其孙子的谋杀案，萨莎被迫与前夫合作。丹尼斯·沃特曼和塔姆津·奥斯威特主演

11.15 《铜警》(Copper) 发现了更多年轻男性的尸体（至 12.15）

全科医生：闭门之后 (GPs: Behind Closed Doors)

蒂姆医生迅速应对迈克尔喉咙中快速增长的肿块，而法比亚则处理棘手的肠道细菌

急诊 24 / 7 (Casualty 24 / 7)：

5USA

《分秒必争》(Every Second Counts) 医院启用了一套新的患者和搬运工追踪系统，一名手腕严重骨折的女性入院

街头警察：抓捕混混 (Street Cops: Catching the Yobs) 乔什追捕

混混 乔什追捕一名电动自行车骑手，该骑手在逃避法律追捕时似乎向灌木丛中扔了东西

999：危急状态 (999: Critical Condition)

医护人员迅速行动，为一名两周内第二次心脏病发作的男子清除血栓

《皮肤急诊》(Skin A&E) 阿迪尔医生治疗一名患有五个脂肪瘤的患者，一名男子脸上的红疹难以诊断（至 12.00）

《NCIS》托尼的掩护被揭穿，对“青蛙”的搜捕升级，随后他的车在爆炸中被毁，使团队其他成员确信他已死亡

《NCIS》达基在对一名被殴打致死的女性进行尸检时有了发现，促使特工们寻找一名失踪的婴儿

《法律与秩序：特殊受害者单元》(Law & Order: Special Victims Unit) 当一名青少年失踪时，团队必须查明发生了什么

《法律与秩序：特殊受害者单元》(Law & Order: Special Victims Unit) 当一个成人直播网站上的角色扮演环节在一名用户决定与偶像见面后演变为暴力事件时，SVU展开调查

11.55 《法律与秩序：特殊受害者单元》(Law & Order: Special Victims Unit)

凯特越界了 （至 12.55）

8.40 《在接触中》(In Touch)。面向盲人的新闻。 9.00 《跨越大陆》(Crossing Continents)。土耳其法院如何被用来减少异见。 9.30 《诈骗秘密》(Scam Secrets)。莎莉·瓦尔探讨手机设备诈骗。 10.00 《今夜世界》(The World Tonight)。 10.45 《睡前书》(Book at Bedtime)：展览。作者亚历克斯·海德。

1000-lb Sisters. 10.00 1000-lb Roomies. 11.00 《嘲讽本周》(Mock the Week)。

U&ALIBI

Sky 109 Virgin 114

12noon 《证据之身》(Body of Proof)。1.00 《天堂岛谋杀案》(Death in Paradise)。2.00 《默多克谜案》(Murdoch Mysteries)。4.00 《精神分析师》(The Mentalist)。6.00 《证据之身》(Body of Proof)。7.00 《私家侦探》(Private Eyes)。8.00 《天堂岛谋杀案》(Death in Paradise)。10.20 《布朗神父》(Father Brown)。11.20 《私家侦探》(Private Eyes)。

U&DAVE (日间)

Freeview 19 Sky II Virgin 127 11.40am Top Gear. 1.40pm Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Hogmanay Fishing. 3.00 How Britain Worked. 4.00 Hairy Bikers' Best of British. 5.00 Rick Stein's Long Weekends.

U&DRAMA (日间)

Freeview 20 Sky 143 Virgin 116 1.00pm Classic EastEnders. 2.20 Classic Neighbours. 3.20 Sister

■ 缪斯（MUSE）或许能激发

艺术家的伟大，但他们本身也可以是真正的艺术家。在 ARTWORKS: LIFE AS

A MUSE (4PM, RADIO 4) 中，

作者 Ruth Millington 会见了大卫·霍克尼的缪斯、出现在其许多作品中的 Celia Birtwell（如图），以及化名为 Sylvette David 的 Lydia Corbett，后者是巴勃罗·毕加索的缪斯。Celia 是一位备受推崇的纺织和时尚设计师，而 Lydia 同时也是一名画家和陶瓷艺术家。

11.00 Half-Life. Joe

11.30 Dunthorne 前往土耳其，他的曾祖父曾在那里制造防毒面具。 11.30 Today in Parliament. 12midnight News; Weather. 12.30 Book of the Week: Redwood. By Ben Macintyre. Read by Jamie Parker. 12.48 Shipping Forecast. 1.00 BBC World Service.

Boniface Mysteries. 4.20 Kingdom. 5.20 As Time Goes By. 6.00 Last of the Summer Wine.

U&EDEN

Freeview 57 Sky 166 Virgin 176 12noon Inside the Ambulance. 5.00 Battle Honours. 6.00 Berlin Wall: The Night the Iron Curtain Closed. 7.00 Churchill's Bid to Abolish Britain. 8.00 Churchill's Toyshop. 9.00 Could Hitler Have Been Stopped? The Politics of Appeasement. 10.00 Battle Honours. 11.00 Berlin Wall: The Night the Iron Curtain Closed.

U&GOLD

Sky 110 Virgin 124

12.40pm Open All Hours. 1.20 The Vicar of Dibley. 2.00 Dad's Army. 2.40 The Green Green Grass. 3.20 Are You Being Served? 4.00 Ever Decreasing Circles. 4.40 Dad's Army. 5.20 Last of the Summer

RADIO 2 FM: 88-90.2MHZ

6.30am The Sara Cox Breakfast Show. 9.30 Vernon Kay. 12noon Jeremy Vine. 2.00pm Clara Amfo. 4.00 Gary Davies. 7.00 Jo Whiley's Shiny Happy Playlist. 7.30 Jo Whiley. 9.00 The Jazz Show with Jamie Cullum. 10.00 The Good Groove with DJ Spoony. 12midnight OJ Borg.

RADIO 3 FM: 90.2-92.4MHZ

6.30am Breakfast. 9.30 Essential Classics. 1.00pm Classical Live. 4.00 Composer of the Week: Schubert – The Final Years. 5.00 In Tune. 7.00 Radio 3 in Concert. Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's The Song of Hiawatha. 9.45 The Essay: In Voice. 10.00 Night Tracks. 11.30 'Round Midnight. 12.30am Through the Night.

RADIO 5 LIVE MW: 693 / 909KHZ

5.00am Wake Up to Money. 6.00 5 Live Breakfast. 9.00 Nicky Campbell. 11.00 Kylie Pentelow. 2.00pm Matt Chorley. 4.00 5 Live Drive. 7.00 5 Live Sport. 8.00 EFL Cup Football. Liverpool v Tottenham Hotspur (Kick-off 8pm). 10.30 Qasa Alom. 1.00am Dotun Adebayo.

Wine. 6.40 The Vicar of Dibley. 7.20 Dad's Army. 8.00 The Vicar of Dibley. 9.20 The Royle Family. 10.00 Not Going Out. 10.40 The Fast Show. 11.20 The Vicar of Dibley.

U&W

Freeview 25 Sky 132 Virgin 125 1.00pm Tipping Point. 4.00 Property Brothers: Forever Homes. 5.00 DIY SOS: The Big Build. 7.00 MasterChef Australia. 8.20 Nigella: At My Table. 9.00 Paul C. Brunson: Red Flag. 11.00 Deadly Waters with Captain Lee.

U&YESTERDAY

Freeview 27 Sky 155 Virgin 129 12noon Antiques Roadshow. 2.00 Bangers & Cash. 4.00 Rise of the Nazis: The Manhunt. 5.00 The World at War. 6.00 Antiques Roadshow. 7.00 Planet Earth II. 8.00 Bangers & Cash: Restoring Classics. 9.00 Bangers & Cash.

SPORT

SKY MAIN EVENT

Sky 401 Virgin 501

12noon Lunchtime Live. 2.00 Sports Desk. 5.00 The Premier League Show. 6.00 Live International T20 Cricket. England v Sri Lanka. Coverage of the first T20 in the series, from Southampton. 7.00 Live EFL Cup. Liverpool v Tottenham Hotspur (Kick-off 8pm). Coverage of the third-round match from Anfield. 10.45 Paper Talk. 11.00 Sky Sports News.

SKY PREMIER LEAGUE

Sky 402 Virgin 502

12noon Premier League Highlights. 5.00 Premier League Show. 6.00 Match Officials Mic'd Up. 6.30 Netbusters. 7.00 Soccer Special. 10.30 Premier League Review. 11.30 The Big Interview.

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SKY CRICKET

Sky 405 Virgin 505

12noon 测试板球。3.00 尼泊尔攀登板球之山。2.00 电影室：英格兰对阵印度。3.30 国际 T20 板球。6.00 国际 T20 板球直播。英格兰对阵斯里兰卡。 10.30 Best of ICC WT20。11.00 尼泊尔攀登板球之山。

MOVIES

FILM4

Freeview 14 Sky 313 Virgin 428

11.00am 安齐奥 (Anzio)。(1968) (PG) 1.20pm 黑箭 (The Black Arrow)。(1948) (U) 2.55 亚利桑那突击队 (Arizona Raiders)。(1965) (U) 4.45 目的地戈壁 (Destination Gobi)。(1953) (U) 6.35 复制人 (Gemini Man)。(2019) (12) 8.50 《万物理论》访谈特辑。9.00 最伟大的金曲 (The Greatest Hits)。(2024) (12) 10.55 极速快递 (Premium Rush)。(2012) (12) 12.40am 你从未真正在这里 (You Were Never Really Here)。(2017) (15) 2.25 窃贼 (Thief)。(1971) (15) 主演：理查德·克伦纳。

GREAT! ACTION

Freeview 42 Sky 318 Virgin 426 1.00pm 特种部队 (The Unit)。2.00 烧毁通知 (Burn Notice)。 4.00 死亡时间 (Time of Death)。(2013) (12) 6.00 特种部队 (The Unit)。7.00 烧毁通知 (Burn Notice)。9.00 死亡赛车 2000 (Death Race 2000)。(1975) (18) 10.50 复仇者 (The Avengers)。11.50 男爵 (The Baron)。

GREAT! CHRISTMAS

Freeview 52 Sky 322 Virgin 424 10.15am 我心中的圣诞节 (Christmas in My Heart)。 (2021) (PG) 12.05pm 圣诞节永远如此 ( Ever After)。(2020) () 2.00 圣诞浪漫风味 ( Romance Al Dente)。 (2020) () 4.00 姜饼浪漫曲 (A Gingerbread Romance)。(2018) () 6.00 圣诞连接 ( Connection)。(2017) () 7.55 圣诞钟声响起 ( Bells Are Ringing)。(2018) () 剧情片，主演：艾米莉·乌勒鲁普。9.50 圣诞之歌 (A Song for )。(2017) () 11.40 荆棘屋的圣诞节 (A Bramble House )。(2017) ()

GREAT! MYSTERY

Freeview 50 Sky 320 Virgin 425 12noon 难忘 (Unforgettable)。1.00 显而易见 (In Plain Sight)。2.00 城堡 (Castle)。3.00 诊断谋杀 (Diagnosis Murder)。5.00 谋杀她写了 (Murder, She Wrote)。7.00 城堡 (Castle)。8.00 难忘 (Unforgettable)。9.00 显而易见 (In Plain Sight)。10.00 马莎葡萄园谜案：夜航船 (Martha's Vineyard Mysteries: Ships in the Night)。(2021) () 11.55 马莎葡萄园谜案：天堂之毒 (Martha's Vineyard Mysteries: Poisoned In Paradise)。(2021) ()

SKY DRAMA

Sky 310 Virgin 410

10.40am 卢克是个酷家伙 (Cool Hand Luke)。(1967) (15) 12.50pm 太阳帝国 (Empire of the Sun)。(1987) () 3.25 秋日传奇 (Legends of the Fall)。(1994) (15) 5.45 亲爱的 (Terms of Endearment)。(1983) (15) 8.00 波希米亚狂想曲 (Bohemian Rhapsody)。(2018) (12) 10.15 肖申克的救赎 (The Shawshank Redemption)。(1994) (15) 主演：蒂姆·罗宾斯。

SKY PREMIERE

Sky 301 Virgin 401

11.50am 超女 (Supergirl)。(2026) (12) 1.50pm 征服者的崛起 (Rise of the Conqueror)。 (2026) (15) 4.00 兔子陷阱 (Rabbit Trap)。(2025) (15) 5.45 声音的历史 (The History of Sound)。 (2025) (15) 8.00 超女 (Supergirl)。(2026) (12) 奇幻片，主演：米莉·阿尔科克。 10.00 饥饿 (Hungry)。(2026) (15) 11.45 弗雷迪的五夜惊魂 2 (Five Nights At Freddy's 2)。(2025) (15)

SKY MIX

Sky 416 Virgin 511

12.30pm 飞镖金奖。12.45 飞镖传奇。1.00 NFL 精选。2.00 英超飞镖。5.35 飞镖五大时刻。5.45 NFL 简报。6.00 超级联赛。8.45 我的偶像：海瑟·费舍尔。9.00 障碍赛马。10.00 网球。11.00 NFL 精选。

TNT SPORTS 1

Sky 410 Virgin 521

11.30am 男子自行车职业系列赛。 12.30pm 自行车直播 – 男子。2026年阿布鲁佐之旅第一赛段，从 Cupello 到 Casalincontrada 的 156km 路线。 2.30 The Gruppetto。 2.45 环西赛男子组。 3.45 深度解析 (The Breakdown)。 4.00 英超回顾。 5.00 裁判麦克风。 5.30 英超访谈。 6.00 Netbusters。 6.30 英超故事。 7.00 英超。 8.30 欧冠杂志。 9.00 WRC 回顾。 10.00 英超 Reload。10.15 MotoGP 回顾。10.30 裁判麦克风。11.00 MLB 精选。12midnight MLB 先行。12.30 直播。芝加哥小熊对阵亚特兰大勇士（开始时间 12.40am）。

TNT SPORTS 2

Sky 411 Virgin 522

10.00am 欧洲 T20 英超直播。阿姆斯特丹火焰队对阵都柏林守护者队。1.45pm 欧洲 T20 英超直播。爱丁堡城堡摇滚队对阵鹿特丹码头工队。5.30 MotoGP。9.00 精选。10.00 IFSC 攀岩世界杯精选。11.00 英超 Netbusters。

TNT SPORTS 3

Sky 413 Virgin 523

11.30am AFL。1.00pm 精选。2.00 越野摩托车。5.00 NWSL。7.00 IFSC 攀岩世界杯精选。8.00 钓鱼：在岸边。9.00 英国公开马球锦标赛。9.30 UFC 深度解析。10.00 男子自行车职业系列赛。11.00 The Gruppetto。11.15 MotoGP 回顾。11.30 足球的泥泞之根 – 第一部分。

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TALKING PICTURES TV

Freeview 82 Sky 324 Virgin 445 11.05am Break in the Circle. (1955) (U) 12.55pm Cinebox Memories. 1.00 The Adventures of William Tell. 1.30 Seance on a Wet Afternoon. (1964) (PG) 3.45 What's on TPTV with Noel. 4.00 That's My Boy. 4.35 The Calendar. (1948) (U) 6.10 Look at Life. 6.25 Whiplash. 6.55 The Man from UNCLE. 7.55 Buccaneer. 9.00 The Hound of the Baskervilles. (2002) (15) 11.00 Fortean TV. 11.35 The Proposition. (2005) (18)

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1976 年 8 月的最后一天，我的妻子、儿子和我开始了从诺福克郡的赫姆斯比 (Hemsby) 回到兰开夏郡伯恩利 (Burnley) 的 250 英里回家之旅。此前 45 天没有下雨，且经历了七周的高温。在回程途中，我们在一家村庄酒吧停下来接我的父母，他们当时住在亲戚家。我们走到村里的商店买了一些特制培根。当我们回到车里时，我们已经被淋透了，因为天开始下大雨。

大卫叔叔在我们的 Singer Gazelle 汽车后备箱里扔了一袋一百英镑重量（hundredweight）的土豆。五个人带着行李和一袋

夏日之终

手语

白昼渐短， 茶后便拉上窗帘。 有人感叹夏日已逝， 而我却盼它早日离篇。 天气如此炎热，雨水寥寥， 慵懒之情悄然潜入心间。 我们习惯了昏暗的房间， 以及冰镇的啤酒与金酒……

今日诗作

土豆，我们沿着乡村小路出发，寻找主干道 A47。地面无法迅速吸收水分，因此路边水沟被填满，而且

花园也荒废了， 草色枯黄，杂草丛生。 如今雨至，生机渐起—— 我得去耙地，播下种子。 灌木与植物（那些幸存下来的） 已褐黄萎缩，过了全盛时节， 但既然秋天已在途中， 我将试着处理剩下的所有。

：曼彻斯特市中心一家商店门上的这张告示，为那些不理解单纯“open”（营业）一词的人提供了一个方便的解释。 F. Harvey，布里斯托。路面上积水。雨刷和除雾器几乎无法应对。我们被一辆奥斯汀 1100 挡在后面，司机不愿开快于 20 英里 / 小时。由于路况原因，我们无法将其超越。

九月带来更多晴日， 但凉爽的夜晚意味着更好的睡眠， 如今阵雨浸润大地， 在酷暑之后，我爱这所有以“ber”结尾的月份。 树篱间果实累累， 鸟儿们在筑巢聚集， 冷沙拉已从菜单中消失， 取而代之的是烤肉、炖菜以及其他美食。

在开了好几英里令人沮丧的路程后，他向左打灯。我们要直行——好消息。他驶入了一个服务站，后方有一个正在营业的修理厂。我们经过时都看向他。里面有两个看起来很可怜的年轻人——他们的车没有挡风玻璃，所以全身都被淋透了。修理厂的招牌写着“候车期间安装挡风玻璃”。直到今天我们提起这件事仍会发笑。

预报不久将迎来湿润的冬季—— 我们需要更多雨水来滋润大地， 但在冬天到来之前， 还有万圣节和篝火之夜。 我们被告知未来的夏天 每年都会变得更加炎热。 希望“掌权者”们已有计划， 但我担心这短期内不太可能。

林赛·哈特格罗夫斯（Lindsay Hartgroves），康沃尔郡，兰斯顿

A. 斯蒂尔（A. Steel），兰开夏郡，伯恩利

一行哲理

■ 在政治中，空谈是廉价的——因为供应量总是大于需求量。

瓦莱丽·阿什顿夫人（Mrs Valerie Ashton），伦敦 N14

■ 笑是最好的良药，除非你闪了腰。

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时代之韵

（向已故的邦妮·泰勒致以最高敬意） 从前我曾制作水果挞， 但现在它们只剩破碎之态。 我无能为力： 挞皮彻底崩塌。 史蒂夫·金（Steve King）， 切希尔郡，沃灵顿

字母易位词

托马斯·图赫尔 (Thomas Tuchel) = 损失那么多？ (Lose that much?)

迈克·梅斯特顿-吉本斯（Mike Mesterton-Gibbons），约克

想象一下！

喔，太挤了：这些鸽子在热浪期间进行集体洗澡以保持凉爽。理查德·罗伯茨（Richard Roberts），萨福克郡，洛斯托夫特

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避重就轻

家长们所谓的对校服要求男女生都穿长裤的愤怒，简直是荒谬的过度反应（《每日邮报》）。对于那个据称因为拒绝遵守新的正确校服规定而被禁止上课的女孩，我几乎没有同情心——那是典型的被宠坏的孩子行为。

在我还是个女孩的时候，我一直更喜欢穿长裤，但学校让我穿什么，我就穿什么。在 20 世纪 90 年代和 21 世纪初，许多女学生绝对讨厌强制穿校裙。坦白说，出于各种原因，我们当时并不怎么喜欢校服。

根据具体情况，校服既可以是保护性的，也可以是有害的，这取决于学生如何挑战校服规则以融入集体，以及该学生是否属于社会弱势群体。

传统的女生校服不仅为午休时间的积极活动制造了显而易见的障碍（你试过在刮风天穿着及膝裙参加足球赛吗？），而且还阻碍了许多当地女孩骑车上下学。建议在传统服装下面穿短裤来解决这些问题很容易，但如果男女学生可以直接穿同样的衣服，那该多方便！

学校确实该改变其性别歧视的校服政策了。如果警察部队和国民医疗服务体系（NHS）的女员工不再被要求穿裙子或连衣裙，为什么不能允许女学生在学校穿更实用的衣服？她们在回家的一瞬间完全可以换上任何更女性化的衣服。

艾米莉·麦克雷（EMILIE McRAE），威尔特郡特罗布里奇

读到这篇文章我感到很有趣！它让我想起 20 世纪 60 年代学校学期最后一天的校长那句令人难忘的话——那天总是不用穿校服的半天活动日：“朱迪斯在学期最后一天不应该穿长裤。”我被送回家去换衣服。不用说，我回家了但没换衣服，并且拒绝回去，这让我母亲非常不安。

朱迪斯·麦克贝斯（JUDITH MACBETH），伯克郡雷丁

并不甜蜜的交易

美国正进一步陷入腐败的深渊，特朗普承诺，如果共和党在期中选举中继续控制国会，将向每位美国成年人支付 $5,000。毫无疑问，国会将保持沉默，不发一言，不采取任何行动。所谓的最高法院将判定总统可以随心所欲地做任何事情。

这是向一个由亿万富翁组成、为亿万富翁服务的政府迈出的又一步。这让美国回到了“香蕉共和国”的水平。当然，英国在 1729 年就禁止了贿选。

罗杰·福恩斯（ROGER FOWNES），伍斯特郡布罗姆斯格罗夫

如果安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）在打什么主意，那么即使给我 5,000 英镑，我也绝不会投票给工党。

S. 赫利（S. HURLEY），德文郡埃克塞特

时机不当

为什么所有的政党会议不能在延长的暑假期间举行，而不是占用 9 月份的宝贵时间？在那个月份，我们的国会议员才刚结束数周的假期回来。

尤其是在我们目前国内和更广泛的国际环境下如此动荡的时期，议会不应该在会议上浪费时间。

海伦·彭尼（HELEN PENNEY），格洛斯特郡朗博罗

医疗浪费

关于医疗保健中的浪费（见读者来信），我最近在一家 NHS 医院接受了一次全身麻醉下的简短手术。由于

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您在近几个月是否失去了想要纪念的亲人或朋友？我们周五的读者来信页专栏旨在讲述那些过着不平凡生活的普通人的故事。请将一篇 450 字的悼词及一张最喜爱的照片发送至：lives@dailymail.co.uk，或写信至：Extraordinary Lives, Daily Mail, 9 Derry Street, London W8 5HY，并请附上您的电话号码。

由于时间太短，我拒绝了他们要求我穿的抗血栓压力袜。令我惊讶且厌恶的是，这些袜子被扔进了垃圾桶，因为“它们已经拆封了”。而我根本没有靠近过它们。

谢丽尔·费利克斯（CHERYL FELIX），林肯郡，马顿

萨莉的见解

关于慈善机构首席执行官（CEO）的高薪问题，救世军的高级领导者仅领取一份极少的生活津贴以覆盖基本日常开支（大约 1.5 万英镑 到 2 万英镑），并由组织管理或拥有提供免租金的简陋住所。

这比其他慈善机构 CEO 拿到的六位数薪水要少得多！

苏珊·阿特金斯（SUSAN ATKINS），汉普郡，奥尔顿

大理石胸像

“Marbles”（原意大理石，此处指神志）最近出现在了“读者问答”页面中。一年前我在住院。因为我已经超过 80 岁，且渴望避免进入老年病房，所以我一直告诉护士和医生我“还很清醒”（had all my marbles）。几天后，我发现没有一名医护人员听懂，因为英语不是他们的母语。

“Having all one's marbles”是一个非常实用的表达，目前没有明显合适的替代词，因此我认为应该推广这个词。

比尔·安德鲁斯（BILL ANDREWS），汉普郡，法恩伯勒

生活成本

今天我坐在椅子上读书时，思考了每天“无所事事”需要花费多少成本。汽车、房屋、财产以及年度旅行保险等首先浮现在脑海。接着是每日固定的能源费用和市政税。随后是电视执照费、Sky TV 订阅费、网络和电话费，以及报纸和杂志的订阅费。

慈善捐款也包含在内，但我很高兴能够进行这些捐赠。是的，其中一些是可选的，但令人惊讶的是，有相当一部分费用仅仅因为我的存在而产生。

R. 申顿（R. SHENTON），约克

回归黑色

是的，市场对黑色巴拉克拉法帽（见读者来信）确实有需求。在过去的几年里，我织了许多这样的帽子。它们将被送到南非，那里的反盗猎巡逻员非常赏识它们！

杰奎琳·哈鲁普（JACQUELINE HARRUP），埃塞克斯郡，绍森德海边

婴儿之幸

关于被接送到投票站投票的那封信，在 70 年代初，我是一个带着双胞胎婴儿、基本被困在家的年轻母亲。

这时有人敲门，一位佩戴花结的女士询问我是否计划投票。我告诉她我无法前往投票站，于是她不仅提出开车接我

我们在航班延误混乱中的煎熬

混乱：希思罗机场的乘客

上周二是我宁愿忘记的一天。我和丈夫都已 80 多岁，他身体有残疾，我们原本非常期待前往里斯本探亲。我们预订了辅助旅行服务，一切进展顺利，直到我们在辅助旅行休息区查看航班显示屏时，发现里斯本没有在名单上。

我们的航班最终出现了，但仅仅是显示已取消，并且我们被告知去领取行李。等待辅助服务的时间长达两小时。于是，我推着轮椅上的丈夫一路前往行李领取处，包括乘坐电梯，逆着一群带着行李反向而行的人群前行。行李大厅简直是一片混乱

——数百人都在扫描信息板，查看他们的行李在哪个传送带上。那些航班已抵达的乘客正奋力挤向传送带。

工作人员不堪重负，并承认他们不知道计划是什么，也不知道问题出在哪里。没有人知道该在哪个传送带上寻找行李。最终，一名安保人员对着一张纸质名单大声喊出地名和传送带编号，但在嘈杂的环境中，很少有人能听到

他的声音。行李在传送带之间的空隙中堆积如山。越来越多的行李从滑道落下，而人们却没有领取。所有的座位都被占满了，人们坐在地板上。我不得不把丈夫停在原地，在人群中穿行，检查传送带上是否有我们的行李。没有一件来自被取消的里斯本航班。

六小时后，当大多数旅客都离开时，传送带停了下来。我询问了每一位工作人员，但没有人知道我们的行李在哪里。除了自动售货机，没有食物或饮料，我们感到非常绝望。完全没有任何帮助。没有人来询问我们是否还好。感觉就像没有人关心一样。最终，一名在下班前的行李搬运工表现得非常关心，他说他会去一个公众无法进入的地方查看一堆堆积的行李。二十分钟后，他带回了我们的两个小行李箱，它们被发现在一堆其他行李的底部。我们对此感到非常宽慰，并对他采取的主动行动深表感激，他比他所有的上司加起来更有常识。

海泽尔·霍斯内尔（HAZEL HORSNELL）， 西萨塞克斯郡，沃辛

像运行 Bacs 和证券交易所那样关键的计算机系统都有备份版本，一旦新版本失效或软件更新导致问题，就可以切换过去。为什么空中交通管制机构 NATS 没有？

丹尼斯·尼斯贝特（DENNIS NISBET），

本尼斯·姆塞尔（BENNIS MSELL）， 泰恩-威尔郡，威克汉姆

NATS 首席执行官的年薪真的是 £140 万吗？约翰·科恩（JOHN COAN），柴郡，威德内斯

在那里，但她自愿让她的同事来帮忙照看孩子！

恐怕我当时投票给了反对党，但我一直记得她的善良。我想象不出今天能把我的孩子交给一个陌生人。

海泽尔·加德纳（HAZEL GARDNER），埃塞克斯郡，埃平

旋转之中

继之前关于年轻人不了解黑胶唱片和唱片机的信件之后，我有一个关于旧式电话的类似故事。

先拨号。他的回答是？“我不能——这里没有按钮。”

帕梅拉·达克（PAMELA DARKE）， 柴郡，赛尔穆尔

法语课

诺曼人是法国人吗（读者来信）？嗯，他们说的是法语而非诺斯语，而且在入侵后的 300 年里，每一位英国国王都说法语。

战斗之谈

迈克尔·林切豪恩（MICHAEL LYNCHEHAUN）， 威勒尔，沃拉西

你们拍摄的一群处于战斗年龄、戴着军事巴拉克拉法帽并在《每日邮报》办公室外排队列阵的男子，让我想起了即将迎来 90 周年纪念的电缆街之战。

《每日邮报》应当抵制所有恐吓新闻自由的企图。

姓名和地址已提供

值得自豪的邮寄

在批评英国皇家邮政（Royal Mail）的背景下：一位匿名读者给我发了一封信，感谢我在关于“san fairy ann”这个短语的信件中让他们想起了自己的母亲。该读者提供的唯一地址是：“Les Beckett, Llangattock, Powys”。这封信已于今天安全送达。

LES BECKETT, Llangattock, Powys

几年前，在一部《比利谎言》（Billy Liar，背景设定在拨盘电话时代）的业余演出中，一名年轻的演员被要求使用那个时期的设备“打电话”。

本周之信

在第一次排练时，他直接拿起听筒就开始说话。导演打断了他，并告诉他需要

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RNLI 船员应该接载移民吗？

RNLI（英国皇家救生艇协会）不应参与协助乘坐船只的非法移民。他们挽救了许多真正处于危险之中的人的生命。非法移民是内政部以及政府的责任，而不是由公众捐款资助的慈善机构的责任。

J. STEPHENS, Alton, Hants 在一部关于救生艇救援的 BBC 纪录片中，记者问一名船员：“你为什么在做这项工作时冒自己的生命危险？”救生员回答道：“大海是不分彼此的。”这是一项由像我这样生活在海边的普通人出资的志愿工作。这些志愿者

工作出色，应该受到感谢，而不是被那些完全不了解大海及其威力的人贬低。

JOAN MOORE, South Molton, Devon

虽然我不赞同将救生艇当作出租车服务来将非法移民运送到这个国家，但我认为示威者不应该将目标对准这些无偿工作的船员。

COLIN COPCUTT, Towersey, Oxon 我完全支持 接载“小船”乘客——只要他们被送回出发地。

姓名和地址已提供 将非法移民带到岸上难道不是在违法吗？他们肯定是在协助和教唆犯罪行为吧？

TERENCE PAVEY, Potters Bar, Herts 移民救援资金是如何筹集的？ 根据英国海事及海岸警卫队（HM Coastguard）的指示运行，因此实际上是根据政府指示运行。是由政府支付，还是由 的捐款资助？TED FLINTOFF, West Hallam, Derbys

是一个伟大的组织，但不应参与“营救”乘坐大船或小船来到这里的非法移民。这就是边境部队（Border Force）存在的原因。

KEITH RAWKINS, Sittingbourne, Kent

直击要点

■ 既然我们已经看到了第四频道对改革英国党（Reform UK）财务状况调查的结果，那么我们什么时候能看到对其余所有政党财务状况的调查？

马克·桑德斯（MARK SAUNDERS），怀特岛，莱克 ■ 我看到“黑衫军”回来了，尽管他们胆小到不敢露面。

J. 理查兹（J. RICHARDS），伯明翰 ■ 那些戴着巴拉克拉法帽（面罩）的抗议者的含义是，他们是代表“所有人”的“无名之辈”。

吉姆·克劳（JIM CLOUGH），兰开夏郡，博尔顿 ■ 为什么都在讨论安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）的睫毛？他显眼的是眉毛。

诺曼·摩尔（NORMAN MOORE），泰恩河畔纽卡斯尔 ■ 每当我 在报纸上看到安迪·伯纳姆，他总是在跑步。我以为我们付钱给他是为了让他治理国家，而不是跑马拉松！ 托尼·米（TONY MEE），莱斯特郡，梅尔顿·莫布雷

■ 可悲的是，现在唐宁街10号唯一看起来知道自己在做什么的是拉里猫！ 凯·韦克菲尔德-科尔（KAY WAKEFIELD-COLE），伯克郡，阿斯科特

■ 当多莉·帕顿（Dolly Parton）被问及是否会竞选参议员时，她回答道：“不，那里已经有足够多的‘大胸’（boobs，此处双关，亦指笨蛋）了。”

格雷厄姆·桑顿（GRAHAME THORNTON），多塞特郡，舍本

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读者问答

问题：足球运动员在庆祝进球时造成的最严重的伤势有哪些？

标准的滑膝庆祝动作经常导致受伤，其中最著名的一次是奥莱·冈纳尔·索尔海姆（Ole Gunnar Solskjaer），他在1999年进球后的滑行过程中伤到了内侧膝韧带。但由于那是欧冠决赛对阵拜仁慕尼黑时在第93分钟打入的绝杀球，他原谅了自己，并表示：“我因此错过了几场挪威国家队的比赛，但这次庆祝是值得的。”

其他庆祝方式则代价更高。当被称为“El Loco”（疯子）的阿根廷前锋马丁·帕莱莫（Martin Palermo）在比利亚雷亚尔的一场关键杯赛加时赛中进球后，他跳上场边围墙与观众一同庆祝。然而，围墙坍塌，压住了他的腿，导致胫骨和腓骨全部骨折。更糟糕的是，他因此错过了2002年世界杯。

阿森纳后卫史蒂夫·莫罗在1993年联赛杯决赛击败谢菲尔德星期三并打入个人首球后，经历了从狂喜到极痛的转变。在赛后的球场巡游中，队长托尼·亚当斯（Tony Adams）将他扛在肩上，结果却将他摔在草地上，导致其手臂严重骨折，这次受伤使他无法参加该赛季的足总杯决赛。

比震动骨骼的滑膝庆祝更灾难性的，是执行不当的特技翻滚。波茨茅斯前锋特雷索·洛马纳·卢阿卢（Tresor Lomana LuaLua）就是一个典型例子，他在对阵阿森纳扳平比分后完成了一个屈体三周翻腾，结果扭伤了脚踝，缺席了该赛季剩余的所有比赛。

场外的庆祝方式在某种程度上甚至更令人印象深刻，其中最甚的是英格兰替补球员乔丹·亨德森在今年夏天世界杯期间，于墨西哥城阿兹特卡体育场的一次经历：他在广告牌上滑倒，导致左前臂和手腕骨折，不得不被担架抬离现场。

更尴尬的是，许多教练在关键进球后过于激动，最终进了治疗室。前利物浦主帅尤尔根·克洛普（Jurgen Klopp）在2023年安菲尔德球场对阵托特纳姆热刺的绝杀胜利庆祝中拉伤了腿筋。

一个真正应该有所警觉的人

问题

问：贝壳是如何形成的？为什么它们有这么多不同的形状和颜色？ 帕特·雷诺兹（Pat Reynolds），沃里克郡，莱明顿温泉

问：男士西装外套下穿着的马甲（waistcoat）的用途和起源是什么？ 苏·韦伯（Sue Webb），肯特郡，梅德韦

是英格兰队首席理疗师加里·刘因（Gary Lewin），他在2014年世界杯对阵意大利的比赛中，在庆祝丹尼尔·斯图里奇（Daniel Sturridge）扳平比分时受伤。他在从座位上跳起时，不小心踩到了一个乱放的水瓶，导致脚踝脱臼，必须穿着护具被担架抬走。

不过，最严重的进球后伤势发生在瑞士超级联赛的一场比赛中。2004年，塞尔维特足球俱乐部（Servette FC）的保罗·迪奥戈（Paulo Diogo）在4-1击败沙夫豪森足球俱乐部（FC Schaffhausen）的比赛中，为最后时刻的一个进球贡献了助攻并进行庆祝。这名中场球员跳上金属周界围栏与球迷庆祝，但在跳回球场时，他的结婚戒指勾在了围栏上。被卡住的戒指撕掉了他的手指顶端，尽管一名工作人员将其找回，但外科医生无法将其缝合，只能进行截肢。更雪上加霜的是，他还因为这次血腥的庆祝而被出示黄牌警告。

史蒂夫·米切尔（Števe Mitchell），赫特福德

问题：除了我们熟知的10号和11号，唐宁街是否是一条有其他居民居住的贯通道路？

唐宁街并非贯通道路，而是位于伦敦威斯敏斯特区白厅附近的一条短小的死胡同，那里已不再有私人居民居住。

除了10号（楼上为首相官邸，楼下为办公室）和11号（财政大臣官邸）之外，还有12号，传统上该地址与首席党鞭相关联。

从历史上看，这条街道两旁曾排列着私人城镇住宅，但随着时间的推移，这些住宅全部被政府征用。其中部分建筑（1号至8号）在19世纪被拆除，以便为更大的政府办公楼和新闻室腾出空间，其中包括内阁办公室的部分区域以及现在的外交部综合体。

自1982年起，唐宁街已被安全门封闭，实质上成为了一个安全的政府禁区，与公众隔绝，并由武装警察持续把守。

构成这条街道长度的220码在理论上——至少根据1980年《公共公路法》——仍属于公共通行权道路。但在实践中，进入权限仅限于持有官方证件或新闻通行证的人员。

坚持主张作为英国公众成员的权利并不能让你进入这条街道，但作为“开放日节”（Open House Festival）的一部分，每年会进行一次公开抽签，在每年9月提供一次高度安全且正式的导览游。

卡罗琳·贾尔斯，彼得伯勒

问题：为什么英国皇家空军（RAF）的委任军官佩戴与皇家海军相同的军衔标志，而其他军衔则佩戴陆军的军衔标志？简短的回答是，英国皇家空军成立于1918年，由两个截然不同的组织合并而成：隶属于陆军的皇家飞行队（RFC）和隶属于海军的皇家海军航空服务队（RNAS）。因此，皇家空军继承了两军的传统，其军衔体系成为了一个折中方案。

A. 多赫蒂，北约克郡里士蒙

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Jigsaw首席执行官敦促伯纳姆：停止打击“中间英格兰”

恳求：大卫·罗斯与前伴侣谢莉·罗斯

作者：Jane Denton

由于税收上涨影响消费，Jigsaw的所有者敦促首相“停止打击‘中间英格兰’（Middle England）”。

于2018年收购这家高端时尚零售商的大卫·罗斯（David Ross）呼吁安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）给企业及其员工一个“公平的待遇”，并补充道：“给我们一个机会，安迪。”

他表示：“目前的制度对零售商和我们的客户非常不利。我们将看看安迪·伯纳姆在振兴商业街方面是否是真心的。”

这位Carphone Warehouse的联合创始人还表示，政府应该“停止打击‘中间英格兰’”。

他补充说：“我们的客户在工作，缴纳税款，并眼睁睁地看着冻结的起征点和更高的账单吞噬了她的加薪。”

“很多时候，她也是收银台后面的人。挤压她，就是同时挤压商店、就业机会和税收。请不要动工作家庭的到手工资。”

企业受到了更高税收和成本飙升的打击，而工人们的消费能力则因个人所得税起征点被冻结而遭到削弱。

许多公司担心下个月的预算案中最糟糕的情况尚未到来，预计税收上涨将用于资助福利和国防等领域的额外支出。

罗斯呼吁伯纳姆改革商业税（business rates）。他表示，雇主国民保险缴款的起征点应提高至6,000 英镑，且对工人权利的修改应针对剥削性的做法或合同，而非灵活就业岗位。

罗斯说：“不要让新的就业规则扼杀了‘周六兼职’，我们中的数百万人正是通过这种方式学习到勤奋工作的价值。”

Jigsaw声称其“转型正在见效”，截至7月的六个月内销售额增长了18%。在百货公司和其他零售商处销售Jigsaw产品的特许经营销售额增长了47%，而在线销售额增长了21%。总经理蒂基·戈德利（Tikki Godley）表示：“本季度的表现进一步证明了我们的转型正在见效。”

AI增速放缓警报导致科技股下跌

行业巨头因安全担忧与特朗普产生分歧

作者：Hugo Duncan

昨日，在全球AI负责人呼吁在担忧其对人类构成威胁的情况下放缓开发进程后，全球科技股大幅下跌。

对于投资者而言，本周开局不妙，以科技股为主的纳斯达克指数在早盘交易中下跌超过1%，随后收复部分失地；而追踪芯片制造商群体的费城半导体指数则暴跌高达6%。

下跌的股票包括：Arm Holdings下跌10%，英伟达（Nvidia）下跌3%，超微半导体（Advanced Micro Devices）下跌4%，美光科技（Micron Technology）下跌5%。

借贷成本飙升

华尔街的暴跌发生在美国领先 AI 公司的负责人——Anthropic 首席执行官达里奥·阿莫代（Dario Amodei）、OpenAI 的萨姆·奥特曼（Sam Altman）以及 SpaceX 和特斯拉掌门人埃隆·马斯克（Elon Musk）——在对该技术可能造成的危害担忧日益增加之际，呼吁放缓技术开发步伐之后。

开发了 Claude 工具的阿莫代警告称，

英国借贷成本触及 28 年高点，因为投资者押注在明年年底前将有五次加息，以遏制猖獗的通货膨胀。

30 年期英国国债收益率（衡量政府借贷成本的关键指标）跳升至 5.95% 以上，达到了 1998 年以来未见的水准。

美国十年期国债收益率升至 5. 以上，这是自 2023. 以来首次。相应的英国国债收益率处于 19 年高点，高于 5.4%。

除非公司投入更多时间研究系统安全协议，否则一群 AI 智能体可能会在六个月到一年内接管互联网。

他认为，放缓速度将“大大降低出现严重错误的情况”。奥特曼和马斯克表示赞同，同时前者还表示，出于安全考虑，他将不会推进今年将 ChatGPT 所有者 OpenAI 在股市上市的计划。

这些言论已在隔夜的亚洲市场引发剧烈抛售，韩国综合股价指数（Kospi）下跌 3.3%，芯片制造商 SK 海力士（SK Hynix）和三星电子（Samsung Electronics）分别下跌 6.4% 和 4.1%。在东京，科技投资巨头软银（SoftBank）暴跌 10.7%，将日经指数拖低 0.8%。利率上升的前景以及油价飙升至每桶 $109 以上也打击了市场情绪。AJ Bell 投资总监拉斯·莫尔德（Russ Mould）表示：“石油和 的担忧给投资者带来了双重头痛，债券收益率再次上升，股市失去动力。”

昨日油价也飙升至每桶 $110 附近，随着能源账单上涨，这加剧了今年冬季出现新一轮通胀冲击的担忧。

投资者押注到 2027, 年底英国将加息五次，这将使银行基准利率从 3.75% 升至 5%。

富时 100 指数（FTSE100）表现较好，上涨 0.4%，即 47.13 点，至 10,697.57, 点，因为石油巨头 BP 和壳牌（Shell）上涨，且从 相关股票撤出的投资者转向了英国市场更传统的投资标的。

软件和数据股票——此前因担心成为 革命中的大输家而承压——出现反弹。Sage 上涨 5.3%，RELX 上涨 5.2%，伦敦证券交易所集团（London Stock Exchange Group）上涨 2.9%。

对 的担忧使行业首脑与唐纳德·特朗普（Donald Trump）产生了直接分歧，后者将该技术视为关键的经济引擎，并希望美国能在领先于中国的情况下成为全球领导者。

总统声称，美国内部存在一个针对 的“病态阴谋”，且“唯一对此感到高兴的是中国”。

他表示：“谁赢得了 ，谁就赢了。我们领先于中国及其他所有国家，并将继续领先。阴谋论者、叛国者、背叛者和泄密者，小心了。”

Interactive Brokers 首席市场分析师史蒂夫·索斯尼克（Steve Sosnick）表示：“如果这确实导致某种程度的放缓以及对 支出的重新思考，那么这将对经济和股市的一些重要部门产生影响，因为从本质上讲，我们一直是在基于 支出而处于过热运行状态。”

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声名狼藉的奥迪失去终身禁令上诉

克里斯平·奥迪（CRISPIN Odey）试图推翻其在金融城终身禁业禁令的努力失败，此前一个审理庭驳回了他对金融监管机构执行行动的挑战。

去年3月，英国金融行为监管局（FCA）因其“缺乏诚信”而禁止这位对冲基金经理从事该行业，并对其处以超过 180 万英镑 的罚款。

FCA 采取行动是因为奥迪在处理其公司——奥迪资产管理公司（Odey Asset Management）内部有关性行为不端指控的纪律程序时存在问题。

在今年早些时候的一次听证会后，上级审理庭于周四驳回了他的上诉。FCA 表示，一份 2021 年的报告指出，在 2003 年至 2020 年期间，67 岁（如图）的奥迪对女性员工存在数十项不当行为指控。

FCA 还表示，他随后被指控在 2021 年性骚扰一名接待员，违反了最终书面警告的条款。

钢铁业的绿色代价

钢铁对英国至关重要，而倾向于国家控制的安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）政府可能觉得除了支撑 Speciality Steel UK 之外别无选择——该公司曾是桑吉夫·古普塔（Sanjeev Gupta）失败的金属帝国的组成部分。

这家总部位于南约克郡的公司为航空航天、国防和能源部门生产钢铁，对英国供应链至关重要。

工党对英国钢铁制造的承诺值得赞赏，但政府资金被用于支撑该行业是对国库的巨大消耗。

国家财富基金承诺向英国钢铁制造注入 25亿英镑。这是否代表了纳税人的资金物有所值，仍有疑问。

政府对绿色的痴迷导致波特塔尔博特（Port Talbot）的钢铁制造陷入停滞，而斯坎索普（Scunthorpe）的英国钢铁公司（British Steel）则落入公有之手。

令人担忧的是，已经部署了“绿色”高炉的 Speciality Steel 目前处于停滞状态，且未能找到私营部门买家。

全球环境导致中国向市场倾销廉价钢铁。唐纳德·特朗普在美国本土钢铁工业周围筑起了关税壁垒。人们曾希望英国的一些大型基础设施项目，如 HS2 以及位于萨默塞特郡欣克利（Hinkley）和萨福克郡赛兹韦尔 C（Sizewell C）的新核电站，能为特种钢提供健康的国内市场。

金融编辑

然而，人们真正质疑的是，关闭生产原生钢的传统焦炉钢厂并将其替换为更环保的电弧炉是否真的是答案。

英国钢铁制造的崩溃可以追溯到 2007 年，当时上市的英荷钢铁制造商 Corus 以 62亿英镑 的价格被出售给塔塔钢铁（Tata Steel）。尽管塔塔是一个优秀的投资者，但它不再热爱钢铁制造及其对英国工业的掌控。碳税加剧了痛苦，而自去年 8 月以来，纳税人辛苦赚来的钱正以每月 350 万英镑 的速度从 Speciality Steel 流出。潜在买家纷纷退出，挪威初创公司 Blastr 是最新一个宣布放弃的公司。

商业大臣乔纳森·雷诺兹（Jonathan Reynolds）表示，将该公司纳入政府羽翼之下将“保持选择空间”，而伯纳姆总理的政党将与工人、行业和投资者接触，以确定公司厂址的未来。现实情况是，如果没有企业家的领导，生产的未来看起来注定失败。

尽管钢铁对国家安全至关重要，但人们不禁在想，国家财富基金是否应该更多地关注科技、制药和创意产业——这些是英国具有竞争优势的领域。

汇率风险

欧盟的一个重大缺陷是，在金融服务领域，国家利益战胜了布鲁塞尔的整体利益。

欧盟拥有约 17 家规模较大的银行，但没有一家能够在全球舞台上与摩根大通（JPMorgan）、美国银行（Bank of America）或英国的汇丰银行（HSBC）相媲美。

欧洲最大的两个股票交易所——德意志交易所（Deutsche Boerse）与泛欧交易所（Euronext）之间的合并是有意义的。这将对股票交易一直承压的伦敦证券交易所构成挑战。作为泛欧交易所的一部分，阿姆斯特丹已展现出吸引如环球音乐（Universal Music）等大型首次公开募股（IPO）的能力。而德意志交易所则通过欧洲期货交易所（Eurex）垄断了部分衍生品交易。

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但人们怀疑欧洲的竞争监管机构是否会批准此类交易。巴黎可能会认为欧洲交易中心向法兰克福转移是不受欢迎的。此外，目前尚不清楚欧盟和德国是否有意愿接纳高规模的衍生品、外汇及其他风险交易，而正是这些交易让伦敦金融城（Square Mile）在脱欧后依然保持领先地位。

谨慎行事

作为国际货币基金组织（IMF）的金融稳定负责人，托比亚斯·阿德里安（Tobias Adrian）一直对全球市场的风险发出警告。摩根大通在的一份简报中采纳了他的预见，警告私人信贷、主权债务收益率以及对 AI 科技集中度价值的“误判”所带来的风险。这些观点与摩根大通董事长杰米·戴蒙（Jamie Dimon）的看法一致。

希利“必须放弃对家族企业的掠夺”

商业领袖们敦促约翰·希利（John Healey）撤销其前任对家族企业实施的毁灭性遗产税掠夺。

在财政大臣发布首份预算案之前，代表超过 200,000 家公司的组织在致其的一封信中，将对企业征收死亡税（death duties）的决定称为“迄今为止对私营和家族企业最具破坏性的措施”。

他们警告称，前任财政大臣瑞秋·里夫斯（Rachel Reeves）对该行业的打击正在“损害投资、就业以及英国一些最重要公司的长期未来”——使它们在面对外国收购时变得脆弱。

里夫斯在 2024 年预算案中宣布修改商业财产减免和农业财产减免政策，导致家族企业和农场面临潜在的—。

作者：雨果·邓肯 (Hugo Duncan)

从2026年4月起，资产价值超过100 万英镑m的部分将面临20%的遗产税账单，这具有潜在的毁灭性。

家庭企业约占全国企业的90%，雇佣了总劳动力的57%。

这次税收打击引发了激烈的抵制，农民们驾驶拖拉机穿过伦敦市中心进行抗议，活动人士则警告称，超过200,000个工作岗位面临风险。

在去年圣诞节前夕，里夫斯（Reeves）采取了退让措施，将起征点从100 万英镑m提高到250 万英镑，夫妻则为500 万英镑。然而，这仍使农民和企业面临遗产税账单，而希利（Healey）目前正面临完全撤销此次税收打击的压力。

组织此次致希利信函的英国家庭企业协会（Family Business UK）首席执行官尼尔·戴维（Neil Davy）表示：“财政大臣在他的首次预算案中面临选择：是坚持其前任的改革，让英国家庭企业在投资、雇佣和将企业传给下一代方面变得更加困难；还是给他们信心，让他们继续建设经济。”

“家庭企业是全国各地社区的雇主、投资者和支柱。”

“当你将在继承时对企业本身征税，你就有可能迫使业主去做政府声称想要避免的事情——出售资产、削减投资和岗位，或者将企业的未来交给他人掌控。”

签署人还包括英国酒店业协会（UK Hospitality）、乡村土地与商业协会（Country Land and Business Association）以及英国建设协会（Build UK），他们表示里夫斯的变更“为家庭所有权制造了显著的税收处罚”。

HUGO BOSS 董事长 辞职 因 ASHLEY 加强 控制

随着迈克·阿什利（Mike Ashley）加强对该时尚集团的掌控，Hugo Boss的董事长已辞职。

这家德国公司表示，在与企业家阿什利的Frasers Group进行讨论后，斯特凡·斯图姆（Stephan Sturm）在任职一年后“决定卸任”。

近几个月来，Frasers为了寻求全面接管该公司，已将其在Hugo Boss的持股比例提高至接近50%。

这家富时100指数（FTSE100）零售巨头计划在斯图姆离职后，向Hugo Boss董事会指派第二名代表。

斯图姆于去年5月当选董事长，在阿什利试图任命其女婿、Frasers负责人迈克尔·默里（Michael Murray）为Hugo Boss首席执行官期间，他承受了数月的压力。斯图姆将担任董事长直至10月15日，或直到找到继任者为止。

Frasers股价上涨0.8pc，即6.5p，至799p，使今年的涨幅达到17.9pc。

福特表示，面对中国竞争对手需要公平的竞争环境

福特欧洲区负责人呼吁，在应对廉价中国汽车涌入英国市场的战斗中，需要一个“公平的竞争环境”。

吉姆·鲍姆比克（Jim Baumbick）建议政策制定者可以采取更多措施，以认可传统制造商在英国

（来自马德里的 John-Paul Ford Rojas 报道）

以及欧洲的价值，因为这些制造商在面对中国竞争对手的威胁时，雇佣了数千名员工。

他表示，如果没有这种环境，这家在欧洲设有基地的美国汽车巨头将不得不“采取必要措施”以保持盈利。

福特在英国拥有超过 5,000 名员工，且在英经营超过一个世纪，是正受到比亚迪（BYD）等中国品牌推进而承压的成熟汽车制造商之一。此前已有投诉称，由于巨额的国家补贴以及中国制造商能以极低成本生产汽车，这种竞争是不公平的。

鲍姆比克在马德里大奖赛接受《每日邮报》采访时表示（福特已作为红牛车队的一部分回归一级方程式赛车）：“我认为竞争能促成卓越。但这需要一个公平的竞争环境。”

“我认为整个欧洲以及英国的监管机构需要创造一个公平的竞争环境。”

房地产

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<>< colspan="5">电力< / >< / ><><>Drax Gp< / ><>791 $^{12}$ < / ><>-21< / ><>918< / ><>675< / >< / ><><>SSE< / ><>2312xd< / ><>-50< / ><>2757 $^{12}$ < / ><>1660< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="5">电子与电气设备< / >< / ><><>Halma< / ><>3432< / ><>-202< / ><>4878< / ><>3272< / >< / ><><>Morgan Advanced< / ><> $238{1}{2}$ < / ><>-5< / ><>255< / ><> $187^{\text{®}}$ < / >< / ><><>Oxford Instruments< / ><>2610< / ><>-150< / ><>3302< / ><>1782< / >< / ><><>Renishaw< / ><>4900< / ><>-230< / ><>5455< / ><>3150< / >< / table>

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<><>Next Energy Solar....50xd< / ><>< / ><>64 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>44< / >< / ><><>Ninety One....207 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>-3< / ><>259 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>192 ${1}{4}$ < / >< / ><><>Oakley Capital Inv....528< / ><>+6< / ><>576< / ><>442< / >< / ><><>Pacific Horizon....1082< / ><>-38< / ><>1252< / ><>718< / >< / ><><>Pantheon Infra....117 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>-4< / ><>119 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>101< / >< / ><><>Pantheon Intl....386< / ><>-1< / ><>407 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>333 ${1}{2}$ < / >< / ><><>Partners Group....620< / ><>+4< / ><>942< / ><>593< / >< / ><><>Patria Private....600< / ><>< / ><>642< / ><>548< / >< / ><><>Pershing Square....3772xd< / ><>-18< / ><>5090< / ><>3642< / >< / ><><>Personal Assets ....545xd< / ><>+2< / ><>557< / ><>517< / >< / ><><>Polar Cap

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<><>涨幅最高< / ><>收盘价< / ><>当日涨跌< / >< / ><><>The Sage Group< / ><>1008.50< / ><>+5.27%< / >< / ><><>WPP< / ><>386.20< / ><>+5.20%< / >< / ><><>RELX< / ><>2603.00< / ><>+5.17%< / >< / ><><>GSK< / ><>1854.50< / ><>+4.74%< / >< / ><><>Trainline< / ><>202.40< / ><>+4.65%< / >< / table>

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< / >< / ><><>Wwide Healthcare......< / ><>376< / ><>+5< / ><>399< / ><>324< / >< / table>

食品生产商

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<><>< / >< colspan="2">52周< / ><>最高< / ><>最低< / >< / ><><>Temple Bar< / ><>414xd< / ><> $+1{1}{2}$ < / ><>429< / ><>346 ${1}{2}$ < / >< / ><><>TP ICAP< / ><>328 $^{14}$ < / ><> $+3{3}{4}$ < / ><>355< / ><>240 ${1}{2}$ < / >< / ><><>XPS Pensions< / ><>301< / ><> $-{1}{2}$ < / ><>362< / ><>283< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="4">医疗保健设备与服务< / >< / ><><>Convatec......2178xd< / ><>+13< / ><>2568< / ><>194< / >< / ><><>Oxford Biomedica......440< / ><>-32< / ><>913< / ><>424< / >< / ><><>Smith & Neph......10482< / ><>+40< / ><>14172< / ><>10082< / >< / ><><>Spire Health......246< / ><>< / ><>249< / ><>1424< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="5">房屋建筑商< / >< / ><><>Barratt Redrow< / ><>276 $^{4}$ < / ><>-9 $^{4}$ < / ><>409 $^{8}$ < / ><>241 $^{4}$ < / >< / ><><>Bellway< / ><>1951< / ><>-30< / ><>2868< / ><>1715< / >< / ><><>Berkeley Grp< / ><>3222< / ><>-62< / ><>4434< / ><>3104< / >< / ><><>Crest Nicholson< / ><>55 $^{8}$ < / ><>-1 $^{4}$ < / ><>175 $^{4}$ < / ><>55 $^{4}$ < / >< / ><><>Persimmon< / ><>1084 $^{2}$ < / ><>-22 $^{2}$ < / ><>1543 $^{2}$ < / ><>998 $^{8}$ < / >< / ><><>Taylor Wimpey< / ><>76 $^{4}$ < / ><>-1 $^{2}$ < / ><>116 $^{2}$ < / ><>74 $^{8}$ < / >< / ><><>Vistry Group< / ><>263 $^{4}$ < / ><>-5< / ><>736 $^{4}$ < / ><>224 $^{8}$ < / >< / table>

<>< colspan="5">工业运输< / >< / ><><>Clarkson< / ><>4992< / ><>+50< / ><>5155< / ><>3430< / >< / ><><>Zigup< / ><>418 $^{1 / 2}$ < / ><>-1< / ><>478< / ><>304 $^{1 / 2}$ < / >< / table>

工业类< / td>< / >< / tr><><>Bodycote< / ><>939< / ><>-1< / ><>956< / ><>601< / >< / ><><>Globaldata< / ><>58 $\frac{4}{3}$ < / ><>-13 $\frac{8}{3}$ < / ><>150< / ><>57 ${8}{3}$ < / >< / ><><>Goodwin< / ><>14620< / ><>-480< / ><>27600< / ><>10250< / >< / ><><>Hill & Smith< / ><>2815< / ><>-25< / ><>3095< / ><>2020< / >< / ><><>IMI< / ><>2966xd< / ><>-70< / ><>3148< / ><>2238< / >< / ><><>Melrose Ind< / ><>467xd< / ><>-9< / ><>681 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>448 ${4}{4}$ < / >< / ><><>RHI Magnesita< / ><>2765xd< / ><>-110< / ><>3345< / ><>1980< / >< / ><><>Rotork< / ><>484xd< / ><>< / ><>491 ${2}{3}$ < / ><>288 ${3}{3}$ < / >< / ><><>Smiths Gp< / ><>2506< / ><>-41< / ><>2746< / ><>2118< / >< / ><><>Spirax Group< / ><>6720< / ><>-135< / ><>7960< / ><>6300< / >< / ><><>Vesuvius< / ><>363xd< / ><>-6< / ><>503< / ><>357 ${4}{4}$ < / >< / ><><>Weir< / ><>2600< / ><>-122< / ><>3546< / ><>2274< / >< / table>

休闲用品

<><>Games Workshop......17600xd< / ><>-50< / ><>21940< / ><>14200< / >< / ><><>ME Group......120< / ><> $-2^{38}$ < / ><> $194^{38}$ < / ><> $100^{14}$ < / >< / ><><>Watches of Switz......627 $^{12}$ < / ><> $-20^{12}$ < / ><> $801^{12}$ < / ><> $347^{38}$ < / >< / table>

<>< colspan="5">人寿保险< / >< / ><><>Aberdeen Group< / ><>2464xd< / ><> $-1{1}{8}$ < / ><>261< / ><>183 ${1}{8}$ < / >< / ><><>Aviva< / ><>709xd< / ><> $+1{1}{4}$ < / ><>737< / ><>591 ${1}{8}$ < / >< / ><><>Legal & General< / ><>290xd< / ><> $+2{1}{8}$ < / ><>316 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>234< / >< / ><><>Prudential< / ><>9764xd< / ><>-2< / ><>1220< / ><>916< / >< / ><><>St James Place< / ><>11242xd< / ><> $-2{1}{2}$ < / ><>1553< / ><>1053 ${1}{2}$ < / >< / ><><>Standard Life< / ><>920 ${1}{2}$ < / ><> $+4{1}{2}$ < / ><>953< / ><>623< / >< / table>

<><>跌幅最大< / ><>收盘价< / ><>当日涨跌< / >< / ><><>Globaldata< / ><>58.20< / ><>-18.72%< / >< / ><><>Ceres Power< / ><>368.60< / ><>-9.92%< / >< / ><><>Halma< / ><>3432.00< / ><>-5.56%< / >< / ><><>Oxford Instruments< / ><>2610.00< / ><>-5.43%< / >< / ><><>Antofagasta< / ><>3586.00< / ><>-5.38%< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="5">媒体< / >< / ><><>4imprint< / ><>4280xd< / ><>-72< / ><>5000< / ><>3055< / >< / ><><>Autotrader Group< / ><>501xd< / ><>+118< / ><>816< / ><>4274< / >< / ><><>Bloomsbury< / ><>624< / ><>+3< / ><>672< / ><>4382< / >< / ><><>Informa< / ><>903xd< / ><>+14< / ><>9938< / ><>7394< / >< / ><><>ITV< / ><>704< / ><>-8< / ><>854< / ><>678< / >< / ><><>Mony Group< / ><>1968< / ><>+48< / ><>213< / ><>1442< / >< / ><><>Pearson< / ><>1191xd< / ><>+31< / ><>1326< / ><>8918< / >< / ><><>RELX< / ><>2603< / ><>+128< / ><>3557< / ><>2013< / >< / ><><>Rightmove Group< / ><>4938< / ><>+168< / ><>7264< / ><>404< / >< / ><><>WPP< / ><>3864< / ><>+198< / ><>4118< / ><>2248< / >< / table>

< / td>< colspan="2">52周< / ><>最高< / ><>最低< / >< / tr><><>British Land< / ><>390< / ><>-9< / ><>448 $\frac{1}{4}$ < / ><>333 $\frac{1}{8}$ < / >< / ><><>Derwent London< / ><>1796xd< / ><>-40< / ><>2146< / ><>1509< / >< / ><><>Grainger< / ><>164 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>-1 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>199< / ><>150 ${1}{8}$ < / >< / ><><>Grt Portland Est< / ><>300 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>-4< / ><>374< / ><>274 ${1}{2}$ < / >< / ><><>Hammerson< / ><>338 ${1}{4}$ xd< / ><>-5 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>385 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>283< / >< / ><><>Harworth< / ><>176< / ><>-8< / ><>181< / ><>120< / >< / ><><>Land Securities< / ><>617 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>-13< / ><>722< / ><>532< / >< / ><><>LondonMetric Prop< / ><>176 ${1}{4}$ xd< / ><>-1 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>215< / ><>176< / >< / ><><>Primary Hlth Prop< / ><>91 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>+8< / ><>108 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>87 ${1}{2}$ < / >< / ><><>Safestore Hldgs< / ><>533< / ><>-7 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>837< / ><>533< / >< / ><><>Savills< / ><>1008xd< / ><>-12< / ><>1108< / ><>808< / >< / ><><>SEGRO< / ><>930 ${1}{4}$ xd< / ><>-2 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>997 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>633 ${1}{8}$ < / >< / ><><>Shaftesbury< / ><>136 ${1}{4}$ xd< / ><>-1 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>154 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>126 ${1}{4}$ < / >< / ><><>Sirius Real Estate< / ><>91 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>-1 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>111 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>91< / >< / ><><>Supermarket Inc< / ><>81 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>+2< / ><>88 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>76 ${1}{4}$ < / >< / ><><>Target Healthcare< / ><>110< / ><>< / ><>116< / ><>92 ${1}{4}$ < / >< / ><><> Property IT< / ><>287< / ><>-3< / ><>361 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>286 ${1}{2}$ < / >< / ><><>Tritax Big Box< / ><>144 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>-1 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>173 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>141< / >< / ><><>Unite Group< / ><>473 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>+1 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>727 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>448 ${1}{4}$ < / >< / ><><>Workspace Gp< / ><>350< / ><>-10< / ><>430< / ><>319 ${1}{8}$ < / >< / table>

零售商

<><>< / >< colspan="2">52周< / ><>最高< / ><>最低< / >< / ><><>Bunzl< / ><>2582< / ><>+16< / ><>2870< / ><>1989< / >< / ><><>DCC Energy< / ><>6335< / ><>+5< / ><>6390< / ><>4350< / >< / ><><>Diploma< / ><>7065< / ><>-50< / ><>7700< / ><>5015< / >< / ><><>Essentra< / ><>1048< / ><>-3< / ><>114< / ><>798< / >< / ><><>Experian< / ><>2858< / ><>+76< / ><>3858< / ><>2375< / >< / ><><>Hays< / ><>672< / ><>+4< / ><>768< / ><>298< / >< / ><><>Intertek Gp< / ><>5855< / ><>+5< / ><>5860< / ><>3582< / >< / ><><>Intl Workplace Gp< / ><>180xd< / ><>-14< / ><>2498< / ><>1684< / >< / ><><>Johnson Service Gp< / ><>1342< / ><>+12< / ><>1708< / ><>1258< / >< / ><><>Michael Page< / ><>216xd< / ><>+44< / ><>2484< / ><>1038< / >< / ><><>Mitie Group< / ><>209< / ><>< / ><>2104< / ><>1368< / >< / ><><>Rentokil Initial< / ><>3304xd< / ><>+3< / ><>5064< / ><>3274< / >< / ><><>RS Group< / ><>7272< / ><>-8< / ><>758< / ><>5412< / >< / ><><>Serco< / ><>2524xd< / ><>+48< / ><>3244< / ><>218< / >< / ><><>Sthree< / ><>298< / ><>+10< / ><>3032< / ><>1378< / >< / ><><>Travis Perkins< / ><>5772< / ><>-10< / ><>714< / ><>5072< / >< / ><><>W.A.G< / ><>1002< / ><>< / ><>106< / ><>1002< / >< / table>

采矿业< / td>< / tr><><>英美资源 (Anglo American)....3890xd< / ><>-100< / ><>4306< / ><>2518< / >< / ><><>安托法加斯塔 (Antofagasta)....3586xd< / ><>-204< / ><>4455< / ><>2271< / >< / ><><>奋进矿业 (Endeavour Mining)....4492xd< / ><>-101< / ><>5290< / ><>2692< / >< / ><><>弗雷斯尼略 (Fresnillo)....2912xd< / ><>-102< / ><>4448< / ><>2080< / >< / ><><>嘉能可 (Glencore)....591xd< / ><>-14 $^{2}$ < / ><>629< / ><>306 $^{4}$ < / >< / ><><>霍希尔德矿业 (Hochschild Mining)....587xd< / ><>-25< / ><>808 $^{2}$ < / ><>300 $^{4}$ < / >< / ><><>泛非资源 (Pan African Resources)...116 $^{4}$ < / ><>-6 $^{8}$ < / ><>183 $^{8}$ < / ><>81< / >< / ><><>力拓 (Rio Tinto)....7207xd< / ><>-167< / ><>8308< / ><>4572< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="4">技术硬件与设备< / >< / ><><>discoverIE Gp......758< / ><>-32< / ><>833< / ><>514< / >< / ><><>GB GROUP...... $154^{3 / 4}$ < / ><> $+2^{2 / 4}$ < / ><>259< / ><> $149^{3 / 4}$ < / >< / ><><>树莓派 (Raspberry Pi)......524< / ><>-29< / ><>1051< / ><> $257^{1 / 4}$ < / >< / ><><>Spirent Comms...... $198^{3 / 4}$ < / ><>< / ><> $198^{3 / 4}$ < / ><> $195^{1 / 4}$ < / >< / table>

<>< colspan="5">非寿险保险< / >< / ><><>Admiral Gp< / ><>3836xd< / ><>+50< / ><>4128< / ><>2644< / >< / ><><>Beazley< / ><>1304 $^{2}$ < / ><>+ $^{2}$ < / ><>1305< / ><>769< / >< / ><><>Hiscox< / ><>1882xd< / ><>+9< / ><>1899< / ><>1302< / >< / ><><>Lancashire Hldgs< / ><>633< / ><>+12 $^{2}$ < / ><>694< / ><>565< / >< / table>

<><>AO World< / ><>90 $\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>+4< / ><>113 $\frac{1}{4}$ < / ><>83 ${1}{8}$ < / >< / ><><>ASOS< / ><>412 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>< / ><>435< / ><>206 ${1}{2}$ < / >< / ><><>B&M< / ><>231< / ><>+6 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>264 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>155 ${1}{4}$ < / >< / ><><>博柏利集团 (Burberry Gp)< / ><>997 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>-20 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>1360< / ><>997 ${1}{8}$ < / >< / ><><>Currys< / ><>146 ${1}{xxd}$ < / ><>-1 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>168 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>117 ${1}{4}$ < / >< / ><><>马丁博士 (Dr. Martens)< / ><>64 ${1}{xxd}$ < / ><>-8< / ><>99 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>60 ${1}{4}$ < / >< / ><><>Dunelm Gp< / ><>770< / ><>+20< / ><>1170< / ><>715< / >< / ><><>弗雷泽集团 (Fraser Group)< / ><>799< / ><>+6 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>835< / ><>618 ${1}{2}$ < / >< / ><><>Greggs< / ><>1742xd< / ><>+11< / ><>2032< / ><>1418< / >< / ><><>Howden Joinery< / ><>736 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>-7< / ><>970< / ><>723 ${1}{2}$ < / >< / ><><>Inchcape< / ><>803xd< / ><>-8< / ><>890< / ><>640 ${1}{2}$ < / >< / ><><>JD Sports Fashion< / ><>76 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>-1 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>104 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>65 ${1}{4}$ < / >< / ><><>金英才 (Kingfisher)< / ><>287 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>-8< / ><>370 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>246< / >< / ><><>玛莎百货 (Marks & Spencer)< / ><>370 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>-8 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>410 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>308 ${1}{8}$ < / >< / ><><>Moonpig< / ><>261< / ><>+3 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>293< / ><>197< / >< / ><><>Next< / ><>14655< / ><>-30< / ><>15715< / ><>11575< / >< / ><><>Ocado Gp< / ><>206 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>+3< / >< / table>

$\frac{1}{8}$ < / td> 288 $\frac{1}{4}$ < / ><>159 ${1}{4}$ < / >< / tr> <>Pets at Home Gp< / ><>209 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>+1 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>228 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>170 ${1}{8}$ < / >< / ><><>Sainsbury(J)< / ><>340 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>+7 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>359 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>295 ${1}{4}$ < / >< / ><><>SSP Group< / ><>182 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>-2 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>214 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>138 ${1}{8}$ < / >< / ><><>Tesco< / ><>480 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>+15 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>501 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>413 ${1}{4}$ < / >< / ><><>WH Smith< / ><>363 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>-10 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>710< / ><>363 ${1}{4}$ < / >< / ><><>Wickes Group< / ><>176 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>-4 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>255< / ><>170 ${1}{4}$ < / >< / table>

<>< colspan="5">电信< / >< / ><><>Airtel Africa< / ><>344 $^{1 / 4}$ < / ><> $-^{1 / 4}$ < / ><>420 $^{1 / 4}$ < / ><>221 $^{1 / 4}$ < / >< / ><><>BT Gp< / ><>204 $^{1 / 4}$ < / ><>+3 $^{1 / 4}$ < / ><>239 $^{1 / 2}$ < / ><>174 $^{1 / 8}$ < / >< / ><><>Gamma Comms< / ><>1124< / ><>-16< / ><>1182< / ><>701< / >< / ><><>Helios Towers< / ><>196 $^{2}$ xd< / ><>-2 $^{1 / 4}$ < / ><>245 $^{1 / 8}$ < / ><>138 $^{1 / 8}$ < / >< / ><><>Telecom Plus< / ><>806< / ><>+11< / ><>1880< / ><>710< / >< / ><><>Vodafone Gp< / ><>130 $^{1 / 8}$ < / ><>+1 $^{1 / 8}$ < / ><>130 $^{1 / 8}$ < / ><>84 $^{1 / 8}$ < / >< / table>

<><>Br Am Tob< / ><>4250< / ><>+150< / ><>4962< / ><>3733< / >< / ><><>Imperial Brands< / ><>2553xd< / ><>+63< / ><>3341< / ><>2443< / >< / table>

石油与天然气生产商

<><>BP< / ><>571 $^{4}$ xd< / ><>+6 $^{8}$ < / ><>606 $^{4}$ < / ><>410 $^{2}$ < / >< / ><><>Energean< / ><>791< / ><>< / ><>1026< / ><>683 $^{2}$ < / >< / ><><>Harbour Energy< / ><>280xd< / ><>+7 $^{8}$ < / ><>318 $^{4}$ < / ><>185 $^{8}$ < / >< / ><><>Hunting< / ><>388 $^{2}$ < / ><>-11 $^{2}$ < / ><>531< / ><>311< / >< / ><><>Ithaca Energy< / ><>282 $^{8}$ xd< / ><>-2 $^{4}$ < / ><>286< / ><>153 $^{4}$ < / >< / ><><>Shell< / ><>3582xd< / ><>+31< / ><>3583 $^{2}$ < / ><>2562< / >< / table>

石油设备与服务

<><>Wood Gp(J)< / ><>29 ${3}{8}$ < / ><>< / ><>29 ${3}{8}$ < / ><>18 ${1}{2}$ < / >< / ><>< colspan="5">制药与生物技术< / >< / ><><>AstraZeneca< / ><>12154< / ><>+446< / ><>15542< / ><>10956< / >< / ><><>Genus< / ><>2134< / ><>-28< / ><>3170< / ><>1966< / >< / ><><>GSK< / >< colspan="2">1854 ${1}{2}$ xd +84< / ><>2268< / ><>1463< / >< / ><><>Haleon< / >< colspan="2">342 ${1}{2}$ xd +8 ${3}{8}$ < / ><>410 ${3}{8}$ < / ><>320 ${3}{8}$ < / >< / ><><>Hikma Pharma< / >< colspan="2">1544xd +13< / ><>1851< / ><>1191< / >< / ><><>Oxford Nanopore< / ><>154< / ><>-2 ${3}{8}$ < / ><>183< / ><>104 ${1}{2}$ < / >< / ><><>Reckitt Benckiser< / >< colspan="2">5120xd +120< / ><>6681 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>4443< / >< / ><>< colspan="5">房地产< / >< / table>

软件与计算机服务< / td>< / tr><><>Alfa Financial< / ><>157 $^{4}$ < / ><>+1 $^{8}$ < / ><>245 $^{2}$ < / ><>142 $^{8}$ < / >< / ><><>Auction Tech< / ><>445< / ><>+9< / ><>483 $^{4}$ < / ><>263< / >< / ><><>Baltic Classifieds< / ><>2exd< / ><>-< / ><>332< / ><>2 $^{8}$ < / >< / ><><>Bytes Technology< / ><>396< / ><>+4 $^{8}$ < / ><>438 $^{8}$ < / ><>253 $^{8}$ < / >< / ><><>Computacenter< / ><>5215< / ><>-5< / ><>5670< / ><>2388< / >< / ><><>Deliveroo< / ><>179 $^{4}$ < / ><>< / ><>179 $^{4}$ < / >< / ><><>Kainos Gp< / ><>1194< / ><>+8< / ><>1294< / ><>698 $^{2}$ < / >< / ><><>NCC Grp< / ><>131xd< / ><>+4 $^{4}$ < / ><>157 $^{4}$ < / ><>113 $^{4}$ < / >< / ><><>Playtech< / ><>415 $^{4}$ < / ><>+11 $^{4}$ < / ><>427 $^{8}$ < / ><>232< / >< / ><><>Softcat< / ><>1859< / ><>+2< / ><>2112< / ><>1091< / >< / ><><>The Sage Group< / ><>1008 $^{2}$ < / ><>+50 $^{2}$ < / ><>1175< / ><>783 $^{8}$ < / >< / ><><>Trustpilot< / ><>261 $^{4}$ < / ><>+10 $^{8}$ < / ><>298 $^{4}$ < / ><>129 $^{4}$ < / >< / table>

<>< colspan="5">旅游与休闲< / >< / ><><>Compass Gp< / ><>31 $^{1 / 8}$ < / ><>+1 $^{2}$ < / ><>2637< / ><>27 $^{1 / 8}$ < / >< / ><><>Dominos Pizza< / ><>2084xd< / ><>+1 $^{1 / 8}$ < / ><>220< / ><>167 $^{1 / 4}$ < / >< / ><><>easyJet< / ><>666 $^{4}$ < / ><>-8 $^{-8}$ < / ><>680< / ><>339 $^{4}$ < / >< / ><><>Entain< / ><>5014xd< / ><>-8 $^{-8}$ < / ><>905 $^{4}$ < / ><>500 $^{4}$ < / >< / ><><>FirstGroup< / ><>171< / ><>+1 $^{1 / 4}$ < / ><>225 $^{8}$ < / ><>158< / >< / ><><>Hollywood Bowl< / ><>247< / ><>+1 $^{2}$ < / ><>307 $^{2}$ < / ><>234 $^{2}$ < / >< / ><><>Intercontinental Hts< / ><>154xd< / ><>+1 $^{2}$ < / ><>10585< / ><>128 $^{1 / 8}$ < / >< / ><><>Intl Cons Airl< / ><>409 $^{4}$ < / ><>-10< / ><>488< / ><>342 $^{4}$ < / >< / ><><>Mitchells & Butlers< / ><>269 $^{2}$ < / ><>+2< / ><>301< / ><>228< / >< / ><><>PPHE Hotel Gp< / ><>1526< / ><>-4< / ><>2060< / ><>1302< / >< / ><><>Trainline< / ><>202 $^{8}$ < / ><>+9< / ><>292 $^{4}$ < / ><>185 $^{1 / 2}$ < / >< / ><><>Wetherspoon (JD)< / ><>782< / ><>-1 $^{2}$ < / ><>854 $^{2}$ < / ><>555 $^{1 / 2}$ < / >< / ><><>Whitbread< / ><>2327< / ><>-20< / ><>3274< / ><>2234< / >< / ><><>Wizz Air Hldgs< / ><>978< / ><>-38< / ><>1447< / ><>849 $^{2}$ < / >< / table>

支持服务 Big Yellow Gp....811 $^{1 / 2}$ -10 1180 807 $^{1 / 2}$ Babcock Intl....961xd -4 $^{3 / 8}$ 1502 921 除息日 数据来源：新闻协会 (The Press Association)

<>< colspan="5">公用事业< / >< / ><><>Centrica< / ><> $147^{4}$ xd< / ><> $-3\frac{1}{4}$ < / ><> $218^{1 / 4}$ < / ><> $145^{1 / 8}$ < / >< / ><><>Metlen< / ><>47< / ><> $-6 / 8$ < / ><> $50^{7 / 8}$ < / ><> $31^{1 / 4}$ < / >< / ><><>National Grid< / ><>1105< / ><> $-25\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>1400< / ><> $1031\frac{1}{2}$ < / >< / ><><>Pennon< / ><> $444^{1 / 4}$ < / ><> $-5\frac{1}{4}$ < / ><>600< / ><> $444^{1 / 4}$ < / >< / ><><>Severn Trent< / ><>2916< / ><>-14< / ><>3280< / ><>2503< / >< / ><><>United Utilities< / ><>1320< / ><>-4< / ><>1457< / ><> $914^{1 / 4}$ < / >< / table>

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丰花月季“Abracadabra”以其迷人且色彩浓郁的花朵，为花园带来了一种近乎魔幻的特质。每朵花都是深邃天鹅绒色调的独特融合，营造出一种似乎随每一朵花绽放而变化的戏剧性景观。

这款美丽的月季非常适合为花境、花床或容器增添个性，无论生长在何处都能成为焦点。裸根月季根系建立更快，成本更低，生长更强健，且能提供卓越的长期花园表现。

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- “Abracadabra”月季的影响力 —— 条纹花朵瞬间营造出“惊艳感”和适合社交媒体分享的视觉吸引力。

- 独特的色彩图案 —— 每朵花都各不相同，每次都能成为园艺讨论的话题。

- 高礼品价值 —— 一款兼具稀有性、个性和强大礼品潜力的收藏级月季。

- 花园展品 —— 大胆的丰花月季将花境转化为吸引目光的视觉中心。

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101 (8)< / td><>1< / ><>MUGHEER 20 (D) (G) K R Burke 9-7......C Lee< / >< / tr><><>102 (5)< / ><>5< / ><>PAPHOS 22 D Carroll 9-6......Z Wheatley< / >< / ><><>103 (6)< / ><>0< / ><>RUM POINT 10 D Carroll 9-6......O McSweeney< / >< / ><><>104 (2)< / ><>260< / ><>BLAKE'S MONARCH 87 (T) I Furtado 9-3......J Hart< / >< / ><><>105 (1)< / ><>5< / ><>CYBERSPACE 12 B Smart 9-3......P Mulrennan< / >< / ><><>106 (4)< / ><>7< / ><>REGAL ADVENTURE 158 N Tinkler 9-3......R Scott< / >< / ><><>107 (7)< / ><>< / ><>MUVE ON T Easterby 9-0......D Allan< / >< / ><><>108 (3)< / ><>00< / ><>MALULEE 10 M Dods 8-9......M Winn< / >< / table>

预计起步价 (SP)：11-10 Blake's Monarch, 6-4 Mugheer, 8 Paphos, 10 Cyberspace。热门马匹：-2 0 0 3 1 3 3 3 1

2025：Schrodinger's Cat 2 9 7 (Callum Rodriguez) 5-4 热门马 Harry Charlton 抽签 (7) 8 匹参赛。

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201 (2) 631183 LADY DUBLIN 14 (P) (D2) (G) O Pears 9-9.... H Russell 202 (4) 313464 FERN CLYDE 3 (HT) (D) T Easterby 9-5.... D Allan 203 (3) 19000 NIEWIADOMA 26 (B) A Watson 9-5.... P-L Jamin 204 (8) 65431L ROMAN CRYSTAL 14 (D) M & D Easterby 9-5.... B Garritty 205 (1) 972223 BIGALO 24 (BF3) Roger Fell 9-4.... K Stott 206 (5) 2343 MAXIMUS MERIDIUS 17 D Loughnane 9-4.... R Scott 207 (7) 5236 ROCK STEADY BEAT 41 (BF) K R Burke 9-4.... C Lee 208 (6) DIGRESSER N Tinkler 8-13.... A Jary (3)

预计 SP：3 Rock Steady Beat, 4 Niewiadoma, 5 Lady Dublin, Maximus Meridius, 6 Bigalo, 8 Fern Clyde, 10 Roman Crystal.

2025: Mossvale Diva 2 9 5 (Ben Robinson) 11-10 Fav B Ellison 抽签 (5) 10 匹参赛。

252—MARSKE 制造与工程 直线一英里赛

301 (1) 452440 HARSWELL RUBY 32 (D2) (G) Roger Fell 4-10-0....K Stott 302 (9) 6L7307 BOWOOD 13 (D5) (G) I Furtado 6-10-0.....Elle-May Croot (5) 303 (7) 6L4414 COSMOS RAJ 14 (P) (CD9) (GS) D O'Meara 8-9-10.....D Tudhope 304 (8) 271L HENRY HALFLIGHT 163 L Bailey 3-9-9.....B Garritty 305 (11) 152716 EPHRON 27 (C&DD) (G) G Tutty 3-9-9.....C Beasley 306 (10) 240256 SHADOW RUN 17 S Dixon 3-9-8.....C Howarth (3) 307 (2) 445 BLUE BOY JUNIOR 30 D & N Barron 3-9-8.....D Nolan 308 (12) 595552 LAW OF DESIGN 15 (V) (S) I Williams 4-9-8.....P Mulrennan 309 (4) 512946 MOUNT KING 17 (BT) (D5) (G) T Easterby 6-9-7.....D Allan 310 (6) 112L66 LEGACY ROCK 15 (PT) (D2) (G) Dr R Newland 3-9-6.....C Lee 311 (5) 611127 PISANELLO 6 (V) (C&DCD5) (GS) D O'Meara 9-9-5.....M Winn 312 (13) 584344 JUST TYPICAL 15 (PT) (C&DD4BF3) I Williams 5-9-4.....J Hart 313 (3) L5427L VIVIANA 13℃ Johnston 3-9-1.....J Mitchell

预计 SP：4 Law Of Design, 11-2 Just Typical, 7 Mount King, 8 Pisanello, Cosmos Raj, Blue Boy Junior, Legacy Rock, 12 Harswell Ruby, Ephron. 热门马：- - - - - - - 0 (W 9-7). 年龄：- - - - - - - 4 2025: Just Typical 4 9 7 (Luke Morris) 18-1 J Williams 抽签 (12) 11 匹参赛

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401 (14) 523641 PAPA COCKTAIL 12 (D7) (G) M Herrington 7-10-2.... J Mitchell 402 (11) L5513L SIXTYGEESBABY 2 (TV) (D3) (G) D O'Meara 4-10-2.... M Winn 403 (13) 116828 SIR GARFIELD 25 (B) (D4BF2) (GS) J & S Quinn 5-10-0.... J Hart 404 (9) 1-24173 MAGIC BOY 31 (CDBF2) (G) N Tinkler 4-9-12.... A Jary (3) 405 (7) 6150LL REIGNING PROFIT 14 (GS) R Carr 7-9-11.... JP Sullivan 406 (6) 1-L2142 RETURN OF THE GODS 32 (DBF2) (G) E Bethell 3-9-11.... Oisin Orr 407 (4) 11-4822 STRAIGHT AHEAD 34 Craig Lidster 3-9-10.... T Eaves 408 (12) 000460 GRANT WOOD 11 (D5) (G) P Midgley 7-9-9.... D Nolan 409 (2) 21L412 COME ON OVER 12 (V) (C&DD) (G) D O'Meara 3-9-7.... D Tudhope 410 (8) 546073 ANAISA 10 (T) (D) T Easterby 3-9-7.... D Allan 411 (10) 1111L YORKSHIRE GLORY 147 (D9BF) B Haslam 5-9-7.... A Mullen 412 (15) 637074 ZARVALI 19 (P) Roger Fell 3-9-6.... K Stott 413 (1) 511L77 HOVER ON THE WIND 24 (D2) (G) P Midgley 6-9-5.... B McHugh 414 (5) 330224 SPIRIT OF APPLAUSE 14 (B) (D2) (G) T Easterby 6-9-3S B Kirrane 415 (3) 751075 SUGAR BABY 24 (C&DCD2) (G) P Niven 8-9-3.... P Mulrennan 预计 SP：11-2 Magic Boy, 13-2 Come On Over, 7 Straight Ahead.

Sixtygeesbaby, 8 Return Of The Gods, Anaisa, 10 Papa Cocktail. 热门马：1 0 1 1 0 1 1 2 1 0 (W 9-5). 年龄：5 4 4 7 3 4 4 3 3 6 2025: May Blossom 6 9 5 (David Allan) 11-1 J Camacho 抽签 (13) 14 匹参赛。

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良好-部分区域良好至坚硬。起跑闸：直线中心；环形内侧。抽签优势：1英里2弗隆低位。顶尖骑师：Jason Hart。顶尖练马师：T Easterby。去年该场比赛入围者：2.53 Just Typical (第1名)；3.23 Papa Cocktail (第3名)；3.53 Obito (第2名)。最远行程马匹：Niewiadoma (2.23) 252 英里。首次佩戴装备：1.53 Blake's Monarch, 2.53 Legacy Rock, 4.54 Hurt You Never, Midnight Lir, Muker, Under The Radar.

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2.17—SSP 标志与图形让磅赛 (5) (3-Y-0) 8,400 英镑 增加 (4,397 英镑) 7f 3码 (11)

1 (10) 533153 TOASTMASTER 52 (D) (G) M Herrington 9-9.... K Shoemark 2 (1) 58761L WETSAND 45 (V) (D2) (G) James Owen 9-9.... L Morris 3 (11) 2125-48 MAGIC BOX 103 (D2) (S) W Haggas 9-7.... T Marquand 4 (4) 1-3LL MILLION GOLD 15 M Appleby 9-7.... R Havlin 5 (9) 62-9L16 SPLASH 25 (C&D) (G) D Ivory 9-7.... David Egan 6 (3) 102-465 PISCEAN STAR 12 (D) E Dunlop 9-6.... S Osborne 7 (5) 2-214 ARCHER'S GRACE 115 (D) J Fanshawe 9-6.... D Muscutt 8 (2) 736323 GALBA 38 K Frost 9-6.... Rossa Ryan 9 (6) 52L166 PERCY'S STAR 28 (B) C Dwyer 9-6.... S De Sousa 10 (7) 3-L5514 BERLINETTA 31 (G) J Channon 9-1.... B Loughnane 11 (8) 491L6 NAME THE DAY 28 (T) (D) G E J-Houghton 9-1.... 不参赛

预计起步赔率 (Probable SP): 3 Archer's Grace, 4 Toastmaster, 9-2 Wetsand, 8 Berlinetta, 10 Piscean Star, Magic Box, 12 Galba, 14 Splash, Percy's Star, 1600 万 Gold. 热门马匹 (FAVOURITES): - - - - - - -

1< / td><>(1)< / ><>6< / ><>AMBIENCE 122 (T) K P De Foy 9-2....< / ><>David Egan< / >< / tr><><>2< / ><>(9)< / ><>77< / ><>APPASSIONATA 14 Sir M Prescott 9-2....< / ><>L Morris< / >< / ><><>3< / ><>(10)< / ><>L< / ><>BLUE CORN 54 A Balding 9-2....< / ><>C Hutchinson< / >< / ><><>4< / ><>(11)< / ><>< / ><>BUYBACK James Horton 9-2....< / ><>Rossa Ryan< / >< / ><><>5< / ><>(6)< / ><>< / ><>CHASING DAYLIGHT D M Simcock 9-2....< / ><>C Rodriguez< / >< / ><><>6< / ><>(5)< / ><>< / ><>IZABEL J Fanshawe 9-2....< / ><>D Muscutt< / >< / ><><>7< / ><>(8)< / ><>< / ><>SEA LA ROMA W Haggas 9-2....< / ><>T Marquand< / >< / ><><>8< / ><>(7)< / ><>< / ><>SPEAKING TREE E Walker 9-2....< / ><>K Shoemark< / >< / ><><>9< / ><>(4)< / ><>3< / ><>WATCH PARTY 38 (BF) R Varian 9-2....< / ><>R Dawson< / >< / ><><>10< / ><>(3)< / ><>9< / ><>WINTOUR 106℃ Cox 9-2....< / ><>H Crouch< / >< / ><><>11< / ><>(2)< / ><>< / ><>YOU'RE SENSATIONAL J & T Gosden 9-2....< / ><>R Havlin< / >< / table>

预计起步赔率 (Probable SP): 11-4 Sea La Roma, 7-2 Watch Party, 4 You're Sensational, 6 Speaking Tree, 10 Ambience, 14 Chasing Daylight, Izabel, 16 Buyback. 热门马匹 & 2025: 无对应赛事。

3.17—英国 EBF 新手锦标赛 (2) (2-Y-0) 4 万英镑 增加 (21,600 英镑) 6f 3码 (7)

<><>1< / ><>(4)< / ><>< / ><>BAD DREAMS R Spencer 9-7....S Osborne< / >< / ><><>2< / ><>(2)< / ><>< / ><>CATURRA ROCK E Dunlop 9-7....H Crouch< / >< / ><><>3< / ><>(3)< / ><>52< / ><>CHANNEL ISLANDS 19 P Evans 9-7....Rossa Ryan< / >< / ><><>4< / ><>(5)< / ><>3< / ><>FLICK OF AN EYE 20 S & E Crisford 9-7....S De Sousa< / >< / ><><>5< / ><>(1)< / ><>32< / ><>I AM ROYAL 13 R Hughes 9-7....B Loughnane< / >< / ><><>6< / ><>(7)< / ><>< / ><>IF YOU LIKE (T) W Haggas 9-7....T Marquand< / >< / ><><>7< / ><>(6)< / ><>L< / ><>SCENIC BLUE 17 D Cunha 9-7....不参赛< / >< / ><>< colspan="4">预计起步赔率 (Probable SP): 13-8 Flick Of An Eye, 31 Am Royal, 4 Channel Islands, 6 If You< / >< / table>

预计起步赔率 (Probable SP): 13-8 Flick Of Air Eye, STAm Royal, 4 Channel Islands, 6 in 10 Like, 8 Bad Dreams, 20 Caturra Rock. 热门马匹 (FAVOURITES): -1 2 1 0 2 2 3 1 1 2025: 第 2 组 9 11 (James Doyle) 2-7 热门 W Haggas 抽签 (3) 8 匹参赛。

3.47 - 'GRC 30' 雅茅斯育苗场周年纪念赛 (5) (2-Y-0) 8,400 英镑 已添加 (4,397 英镑) 7f 3vds (11)

1< / td><>(5)< / ><>946< / ><>ASGAR 13℃ Cox 9-9< / ><>H Crouch< / >< / tr><><>2< / ><>(10)< / ><>0100< / ><>AGITATOR 47 (B) (G) Oliver Cole 9-8< / ><>T Marquand< / >< / ><><>3< / ><>(6)< / ><>4240< / ><>ROCKET BOOTS 47 James Owen 9-7< / ><>L Morris< / >< / ><><>4< / ><>(2)< / ><>422< / ><>REGAL TIGER 57 (BF) H Palmer 9-7< / ><>未参赛< / >< / ><><>5< / ><>(11)< / ><>41< / ><>JAVELOT 28 (D) M Botti 9-6< / ><>S De Sousa< / >< / ><><>6< / ><>(1)< / ><>5924< / ><>KING OF MONTENEGRO 64 B Meehan 9-4< / ><>David Egan< / >< / ><><>7< / ><>(7)< / ><>017< / ><>INDIAN LAND 75 R Beckett 9-3< / ><>Rossa Ryan< / >< / ><><>8< / ><>(8)< / ><>02647< / ><>GREEN TITAN 12 G Boughey 9-2< / ><>B Loughnane< / >< / ><><>9< / ><>(3)< / ><>67LL< / ><>KIGALI 40 Ollie Sangster 9-1< / ><>James Doyle< / >< / ><><>10< / ><>(4)< / ><>9556< / ><>LILYWHITE HART 20 D Ivory 9-1< / ><>J F Egan< / >< / ><><>11< / ><>(9)< / ><>44< / ><>MANDOLIN RAIN 26 D Cunha 9-0< / ><>S Osborne< / >< / table>

预计起步价 (SP)：9-4 Javelot, 11-2 Asgar, 10 Indian Land, 12 King of Montenegro, Kigali, Green Titan, 14 Mandolin Rain, 16 Rocket Boots. 热门马匹：- - - 2 1 1 1 2 2 1 (W 9-5).

2025: Up The Agenda 2 9 5 (Tom Marquand) 3-1 热门 Jack Morland 抽签 (1) 8 匹参赛。

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<><>1.53< / ><>Blake's Monarch< / ><>1.53< / ><>Mugheer< / >< / ><><>2.23< / ><>Rock Steady Beat< / ><>2.23< / ><>Bigalo< / >< / ><><>2.53< / ><>Harswell Ruby< / ><>2.53< / ><>Cosmos Raj< / >< / ><><>3.23< / ><>Come On Over< / ><>3.23< / ><>Return Of The Gods (nb)< / >< / ><><>3.53< / ><>Obito< / ><>3.53< / ><>SUPPLICATE (nap)< / >< / ><><>4.23< / ><>All Good< / ><>4.23< / ><>All Good< / >< / ><><>4.54< / ><>Golden Havana< / ><>4.54< / ><>Houndhill< / >< / table>

NORTHERNER – 4.23 STARTLING (nap); 4.54 Cheerleader (nb).

3.53—MARKET CROSS JEWELLERS 让磅赛 (4) 1 万英镑 已添加 (5,234 英镑) 1m 2f 1yds (7)

501 (2) 825513 OBITO 16 (H) (D2) (S) D O'Meara 4-10-3....D Tudhope 502 (3) 51-111 SUPPLICATE 33 (D3) (G) R Varian 3-9-12....J Mitchell 503 (7) 823412 POL ROGER 12 (P) (D3) (GS) M Dods 6-9-8....C Beasley 504 (5) 534341 MAGICAL MERLOT 20 (D) (G) E Dunlop 3-9-3....J Hart 505 (6) 643 LEAGUE OF JUSTICE 10 G Tutty 3-9-0....J Dickson (5) 506 (4) 2244L7 PANELLI 16 (T) M Sowersby 4-8-11....A Mullen 507 (1) 23-5938 ENAMORUS 48 (P) H Palmer 3-8-8....J Nicholls (3)

预计起步价 (SP)：6-4 Supplicate, 7-2 Obito, 4 Pol Roger, 5 Magical Merlot, 10

热门马匹：- - - - - 0 1 1 0 (W 9-12). 年龄：- - - - - 4 3 3 4 2025: Deber's Dream 4 0 6 (William Ryle) 13 3. J Candlich 抽签 (6) 7 匹参赛

2025: Debora's Dream 4 9 6 (William Pyle) 13-2 J Candlish 抽签 (6) 7 匹参赛。

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ITF 雌马让赛 (5) 7,000 英镑 增加 (3,664 英镑) 5f (7)

601 (5) 87-1 ALL GOOD 43 J Camacho 3-9-10....T Kiely-Marshall (5) 602 (2) 528225 CANARIA QUEEN 15 (P) (D8) (GS) T Easterby 6-9-8....D Fentiman 603 (1) 315130 SEA HER EXCEL 10 (D2) (G) I Furtado 3-9-7....Elle-May Croot (5) 604 (3) 161405 DRAGON SPIN 24 (D2) Steph Hollinshead 3-9-7....C Lee 605 (4) 224221 STARTLING 12 (B) (D5) J Wainwright 4-9-7....J Hart 606 (7) 654276 MARAJITO 15 (C&DD) (G) T Easterby 4-9-6....D Allan 607 (6) 423148 DORALEE 3 (C&D2) (G) D & N Barron 5-8-9....R Scott

1 (4) 25-011L KING OF THE JUNGLE 25 (D5) (GS) M & D Easterby 6-9-11.....

2 (2) 332225 GOLDEN HAVANA 46 (V) (DBF) M Dods 3-9-11.....C Beasley 3 (1) 623468 BETWEENSTESTICKS 15 (P) (D10) (GS) R Carr 6-9-10.JP Sullivan 4 (6) 10L814 HOUNDHILL 38 (V) (D2) N Tinkler 3-9-10.....R Scott 5 (14) 2-07752 SPEEDING BULLET 12 (S) P Midgley 5-9-9.....D Nolan 6 (8) 64008L MUKER 12 (T) (C&D2D6) (GS) N Tinkler 8-9-9...Molly Keegan-Price (7) 7 (10) 4-64608 ICE COLD ALEX 16 (P) (D) O Pears 3-9-9.....H Russell 8 (11) 36L373 DC COGENT 12 (DBF) B Smart 4-9-8.....P Mulrennan 9 (9) 669335 UNDER THE RADAR 34 (P) (D) T Easterby 3-9-6.....D Allan 10 (7) 5592L6 HURT YOU NEVER 12 (P) (CD7) (G) Adrian Nicholls 7-9-5. J Nicholls (3) 11 (3) 726512 ALBEGONE 6 (P) (D10) (S) T Easterby 8-9-5.....J Dickson (5) 12 (13) 344489 MIDNIGHT LIR 6 (PT) (D2) (GS) M Dods 5-9-4.....M Winn 13 (12) 208313 ZUFFOLO 21 (B) (C&D2D5) (G) M Dods 6-9-3.....S B Kirrane 14 (5) 2L-9433 CHEERLEADER 29 (C&DD) (GS) Miss T Jackson 4-9-1.....A Mullen

热门选择：- - - - - - 0 1 0 (W 9-11)。年龄：- - - - - - 4 4 3 2025：Money Pockets 3 9 10 (Oisin Orr) 7-1 Martin Dunne 抽签 (10) 13 匹参赛。

级别下调：1.53 Rum Point 比上次参赛下调 2 个级别（2 级降至 4 级）；Blake's Monarch (5)；Malulee (2)；2.23 Niewiadoma (2)；2.53 Law Of Design (3)。风管手术后首次参赛：1.53 Blake's Monarch。

热点 (HOTSPOTS)

内部消息：鹰日 (WORK WHISPER EAGLE DAY)

HEATH 上尉三人组 ZIGHY (首选) (雅茅斯，4.47) WATCH PARTY (次选) (雅茅斯，2.47) MAGIC BOY (雷德卡，3.23)

MUKER (雷德卡，4.54) 比上次获胜时的评分低 21 磅。

BURNT FINGERS LIL BROTHER (雅茅斯，5.18)

ROBIN GOODFELLOW

GIMCRACK

2.17< / td><>Archer's Grace< / ><>2.17< / ><>Magic Box< / >< / tr><><>2.47< / ><>Watch Party< / ><>2.47< / ><>Watch Party< / >< / ><><>3.17< / ><>I Am Royal< / ><>3.17< / ><>Flick Of An Eye< / >< / ><><>3.47< / ><>Asgar< / ><>3.47< / ><>Asgar< / >< / ><><>4.17< / ><>Due To Henry< / ><>4.17< / ><>Hamlet's Night< / >< / ><><>4.47< / ><>Gold Digger< / ><>4.47< / ><>Zighy< / >< / ><><>5.18< / ><>Creative Queen< / ><>5.18< / ><>Lil Brother< / >< / table>

纽马基特 - 3.47 JAVELOT (首选)；5.18 Diomed Duke (次选)。

4.17—THURLOW NUNN STANDEN GROUNDCARE HANDICAP (4) 10,800 英镑 added (5,653 英镑) 1m 2f 23yds (8)

1 (1) L14-L50 PRINCESS RASCAL 20 (P) (D2) (G) Oliver Cole 4-9-9.....R Dawson 2 (4) L-6345 PERCIVAL 22 (D) (S) D Cunha 4-9-9.....James Doyle 3 (5) L764-13 HAMLET'S NIGHT J129 (P) (BF) James Owen 5-9-9.....L Morris 4 (7) 993430 MYTHICAL GUEST 11 (C&D) (G) G Margarson 6-9-7..C Shepherd 5 (2) 5-2618L KOKANEE 24 (D2) (S) E Dunlop 4-9-7.....S Osborne 6 (8) 00-2535 DUE TO HENRY 16 (P) (D2) (S) E J-Houghton 5-9-5.....T Marquand 7 (3) 703471 ECHALAR 31 (H) (D) (G) I Williams 4-9-5.....B Loughnane 8 (6) LL77-57 ARTHUR'S REALM 15 (V) (D) (S) Gihan Arnolda 8-9-3.....D Keenan 预计单价 (SP): 7-4 Hamlet's Night, 5-2 Echalar, 8 Mythical Guest, Due To

1 (8) 42-28L0 BELLA LYRA 26 (P) (D) R Hughes 3-9-12......David Egan 2 (9) 16-1960 GOLD DIGGER 49 (PT) (Cⅅ) (G) R Spencer 3-9-11....S Osborne 3 (2) 51-L120 CHERRY BAKER 88 (D2) James Owen 3-9-10......L Morris 4 (4) 2211L MISS NIGHTCAP 30 (D) (G) E Smyth-Osbourne 3-9-10 James Doyle 5 (1) 3777L2 LADY ROXBY 10 (G) M Herrington 4-9-4......Rossa Ryan 6 (7) 17-1095 PASSING THOUGHT 10 (B) (D) (GS) E Walker 3-9-4......K Shoemark 7 (6) L23L21 SPACE BEAR 17 (Cⅅ) (GS) M Appleby 3-9-3......T Marquand 8 (10) 601373 POWDERING 10 (D3) (GS) M Herrington 6-9-3......H Crouch 9 (5) 143234 ZIGHTY 10 (P) (D2) G Boughey 3-9-2......B Loughnane 10 (3) 31-7665 TAROT 10 (H) (D) R Varian 3-9-0......R Dawson

预计单价 (SP): 4 Miss Nightcap, 5 Space Bear, 11-2 Gold Digger, 6 Lady Roxby, Cherry Baker, 8 Powdering, 10 Zighy, 14 Tarot, Bella Lyra, 16 Passing Thought

5.18-WINNING EXPERIENCE WITH MOULTON RACING HANDICAP (4) 10,800 英镑 added (5,653 英镑) 5f 42vds (7)

1 (5) 552131 DIOMED DUKE 12 (T) (D3) (G) S C Williams 4-9-12 Olivia Haines (7) 2 (2) 2-11020 SEA COOKIE 24 (V) (G) Tom Clover 3-9-12 ..... David Egan 3 (4) 1495-74 LIL BROTHER 17 (T) (D2) (G) Michael Keady 3-9-8 ..... S Osborne 4 (3) 3L6482 TWILIGHT FUN 63 (P) (CD3) (G) C Banham 6-9-6 ..... J Haynes 5 (6) 177326 CREATIVE QUEEN 11 (B) (C) (S) W Haggas 3-9-4 ..... James Doyle 6 (7) 253262 FIORELLA PRINCESS 26 (P) (DBF) (S) R Cowell 4-9-2

7 (1) 5-1 COURAGEOUS SIOUX 73 (D) (G) C Cox 3-9-2......未参赛 (NON RUNNER) 预计单价 (SP): 7-4 Diomed Duke, 3 Fiorella Princess, 9-2 Twilight Fun, 11-2

Creative Queen, 11 Sea Cookie, 12 Lil Brother. 热门马: -3 3 1 3 0 3 0 2 3 (W 9-5). 年龄: -3 3 4 5 4 7 3 4 3 2025: Gold Star Hero 3 9 7 (Hector Crouch) 9-2 M Bell 抽签 (1) 7 ran.

赛道实况：主要赛事，L-H 赛道。场地状况：

柔软 (Soft)。起跑闸：直线中心；1英里2弗隆内圈。抽签优势：高。顶尖骑师：Billy Loughnane。顶尖练马师：W Haggas。去年该场赛事名次：4.47 Lady Roxby (第2名)。首次佩戴装备：2.17 Percy's Star, 3.17 If You Like, 3.47 Agitator, 4.17 Princess Rascal, 4.47 Bella Lyra, Passing Thought, 5.18 Lil Brother, Sea Cookie。最远行程：海峡群岛 (3.17) 251英里。级别下降：3.47 Agitator 比上次参赛下降3个级别 (2级至5级)；Rocket Boots (3)；Mandolin Rain (2)；4.17 Mythical Guest (2)。风管手术后首次参赛：2.47 Ambience。

UTTOXETER SSR

2.00-条件骑师障碍赛 (4) 7,700 英镑 added (4,066 英镑) 2m 7f 70yds (8)

3 277 PIKE ROAD 51 (P) (C&DD) (S) M Keighley 7-11-12..F Keighley 4 1FP CRYSTAL GLANCE 53 (P) (C2) O Greenall & J Guerriero

5 143 HARRY 11 (B) (S) D Pipe 9-11-7....Rian Corcoran (3) 6 533 TORRENT 26 (P) (C) (S) N Hawke 5-11-7....Murray Dodd 7 981 BETTY'S TIARA 27 (BT) (C&DD) B Pauling 8-11-4

8 2P0 CINNODIN 27 (B) (C&D) J Snowden 6-11-2. Isabelle Ryder (3) 预计单价 (SP): 11-4 Betty's Tiara, 10-3 Harry, 6 Torrent.

2.30-少女障碍赛 (4) 1 万英镑 附加金 (£5.446) 2英里3弗隆 207码 (10)

1 2P / 4- BACK IT UP 309 James Owen 8-11-5 ..... J J Burke 2 568 IFYOU HAVEAPLAN 31 L Allan 5-11-5 ..... J Quinlan 3 23-4 JENTOBELLO 31 (P) I Jardine 6-11-5 ..... B Hughes 4 261# MARTYMILL 37 (P) A McCann (IRE) 5-11-5. James Smith (5) 5 3P-3 TRIGGER THE LIGHT 98 (H) S Bradstock 6-11-5

6 0-52 NIGHTFLYER 19 (P) J & A O'Neill 4-11-2 .... Jonjo O'Neill Jr 7 96# ON THE FLY 21 J & S Best 4-11-2 .... R McLernon

8 SIR VINNIE KENT Christian Williams 4-11-2....J Tudor 9 26F-TIME IN A BOTTLE 311 (HT) D Skelton 6-10-12 ... H Skelton 10 0-LL WHINNY HOUSTON 11 Sheila Lewis 5-10-12. Sean Houlihan 预计单价 (SP): 9-4 Martymill, 5-2 Time In A Bottle.

3.00-让磅追逐赛 (4) 8,900 英镑 附加金

1 246 BLEU D'ENFER 15 (PT) D McCain 8-12-2 Harry Brown (10) 2 L4-F JET OF DREAMS 115 (PT) (D4) (G) W Greatrex 8-11-9...J Bowen 3 21-5 SUPREME GEORGE 115 (D4) (S) D McCain 6-11-8...T Gillard 4 336 DREAM DIAMOND 23 (H) James Owen 6-11-7.... J J Burke 5 122 ICE JET 24 (BF) D Skelton 4-11-1..... H Skelton 预计单价 (SP): 5-4 Ice Jet, 5-2 Dream Diamond.

3 30-让磅障碍赛 (4) 7,700 英镑 附加金

1 P-85 MAGHLAAK 53 (TV) (S) M Walford 7-12-1.... J Hamilton 2 253 NORMAN FLETCHER 23 (V) (S) N & W Twiston-Davies 7-12-0 S Twiston-Davies

3 336 ROCKSTOWN GIRL 77 (T) (D) (S) A McCann (IRE) 8-11-12 James Smith (5)

4 21 / 8 VIRTUAL ROCK 17 (T) (C) D Donovan 7-11-1.... J B Powell 5 LP1 TOMMY CULLEN 51 (P) (C&D) M Crawley 8-11-11 J Quinlan 6 4FL- GLANCE OF GLORY 170 (P) (D2) M Keighley 6-11-9. S Bowen 7 P4P ALL INN HAND 23 (BT) M Bowen 6-11-9.... J Bowen 8 B25 OCTOBER HILL 31 (PT) (D) (S) D Pipe 6-11-6 Rian Corcoran (5) 9 221 PHANTOM GOLD 61 (D) T Ellis 8-11-6.... J Andrews 10 0-39 THISCOULDBETHEONE 23 (PT) Henry Oliver 5-11-6. D Noonan 11 8L4 FADED FANTASY 11 (D2) Christian Williams 7-11-3.... J Tudor 12 311 ROYAL RHYTHM 9 (B) (D) (S) J & A O'Neill 10-11-0

预计单价 (SP): 11-4 Phantom Gold, 5 Royal Rhythm.

赛道详情：L-H 赛道。场地状况：良好-部分区域良好至坚硬。顶尖骑师：Sean Bowen。顶尖练马师：O Murphy。去年该场比赛名次：4.30 Diesel Line (第1名)；Northern Rose (第2名)。首次佩戴装备：2.00 Imperial Data, 4.30 Bowling Shane, 5.05 Gaelic Rambler。长途运输马匹：Martymill (2.30) & Rockstown Girl (3.30) 来自爱尔兰；All Inn Hand (3.30), Axel Bleue (4.00), A Definite Getaway (4.00), Hudson (5.05) 运输距离 235 英里。

伍尔弗汉普顿 SSR

4.28-让磅赛 (6) 6,200 英镑 附加金 (3,245 英镑) 6弗隆 20码 (13)

1 (12) 942 TRUST SERGEI 7 (C&DCD) G Hanmer 4-9-7 ....J Peate 2 (7) 233 CANDY WARHOL 23 (PT) (C&DC2) S Dixon 7-9-7. K O'Neil 3 (6) 624 DUE DATE 28 (V) (C&D2D7) C Wallis 6-9-7 ... R Hornby 4 (5) 5L7 HIDDEN VERSE 76 (B) (D) Dr R Newland 4-9-6. G Mangan 5 (9) 266 PAPA DON'T PREACH 13 (B) (C2) K Frost 7-9-6

6 (3) 06-7 NEAPOLITAN 7 (TV) (D) A Brittain 5-9-6.....C Hardie 7 (8) 6L0 MY DAD TOM 33 (P) R Hannon 3-9-5 .....S C Cronin (5) 8 (13) 764 KING CHERRY 19 (T) S C Williams 3-9-5 .....S M Levey 9 (1) LL7 LIEUTENANT SIR 26 (B) (D) A Watson 3-9-5

10 (4) 033 APEX STAR 26 W Knight 3-9-5....M Ghiani 11 (2) 5L0 OASIS COVER 7 (P) M Hammond 3-9-4....A Brookes 12 (11) 457 MISTER MOET 14 (P) (D2) S Dixon 3-9-4....T Heard 13 (10) 804 EM JAY KAY 22 (P) (C&DCD4) P McEntee 7-9-4

预计单价 (SP): 9-4 Candy Warhol, 9-2 Trust Sergei.

4.59—限制性新手赛 (第1组) (5) (2-Y-0) 8,000 英镑 (4,320 英镑) 6f 20yds (12)

1 (8) 1 THAMES WATERMAN 158 (C) R Hughes 9-11 .F Marsh 2 (9) 5 DARJEEL 20 R Hannon 9-4....S M Levey 3 (5) 0 LOWCOUNTRY 25 T Ward 9-4....A Voikhansky 4 (7) 00 WITHOUT FAIL 28 M Bell 9-4....R Hornby 5 (6) 5 CHRISTMAS IS COMIN 25 Mrs S Leech 9-1..Josephine Gordon 6 (4) COSMOCRAT S Dixon 9-1....K O'Neill 7 (10) L7 REDROSECASTANA 20℃ Kellett 9-1....G Mangan 8 (1) 7 TARANIS 15 E J-Houghton 9-1....C Bishop 9 (11) AMORANCE James Horton 8-13....未参赛 10 (12) KITTY REY (H) Ollie Sangster 8-13....S D Bowen 11 (2) 4 GHAZALIA 20 H Kobeissi 8-10....C Fallon 12 (3) 5 PICNIC PRINCESS 16 R & P Fahey 8-10....C Hardie 预计单胜赔率 (SP): 7-4 Thames Waterman, 4 Darjeel

5.30—限制性新手赛 (第2组) (5) (2-Y-0) 8,000 英镑 增加 (4,320 英镑) 6f 20yds (11) 1 (11) 1 TREDEGAR SQUARE 36 J Fanshawe 9-8.....O Murphy 2 (10) CHAPEL DOWN Adam Kirby 9-4.....C Bishop 3 (1) 5 FIND YOUR FIRE 36 S C Williams 9-4.....M Ghiani 4 (3) MARHABA YA TAYIB R Hughes 9-4.....C Fallon 5 (9) 85 PREMIUM SEAT 20 J S Moore 9-4.....W Cox 6 (5) L ROMEO GUEST 125 J Channon 9-4.....G Bass 7 (4) 4 FALAH GLORY 8 D Cunha 9-1.....Jason Watson 8 (2) L SEADREAMIN 24 R & P Fahey 9-1.....C Hardie 9 (8) 9 SOL DORADO 20 M Tregoning 9-1.....R Hornby 10 (6) BIRKETT BANK C Cox 8-13.....J Leavy 11 (7) LL BLACK TREASURE 8 (H) Ollie Sangster 8-13.S D Bowen 预计单胜赔率 (SP): 平手 (Evens) Tredegar Square, 5 Birkett Bank.

6 00-新手赛 (4) 1 万英镑 增加

1 (11) L4 BEAUTIFUL RUMOUR 12 S Dixon 4-9-7.....K O'Neill 2 (3) 9L BLAZING GADEN 14 D J Jeffreys 5-9-7.....D Costello 3 (10) LL COILLTEDUDEISBACK 55 Adam Kirby 3-9-5. C Bishop 4 (12) U54 ENNOBLE 13 (T) A Brittain 3-9-5.....C Hardie 5 (2) FLAG OF NATIONS W Muir & C Grassick 3-9-5..L Edmunds 6 (9) 4 IRON DOME 30℃ Cox 3-9-5.....C Fallon 7 (7) 52- NOT THAT GUY 326 (T) H Palmer 3-9-5.....O Murphy 8 (4) 45 ODDJOB 30 E Walker 3-9-5.....G Downing 9 (8) SIR CHOPS Steph Hollinshead 3-9-5.....L Catton (3) 10 (5) RED MELODY L Williamson 4-9-2...B Ffrench-Davis (5) 11 (1) L42 DUSK DAMSEL 14 J S Moore 3-9-0Millie Wonnacott (5) 12 (6) INKBERROW S & E Crisford 3-9-0.....H Davies 预计单胜赔率 (SP): 9-4 Inkberrow, 3 Not That Guy, 11-2 Ennoble.

6 30-销售让磅赛 (5) (3-Y-0) 7,600 英镑

1 (4) 407 SIOUXPERSONIC 22 J Camacho 9-9....R Sexton 2 (7) 21L ROGUE EXILE 28 (P) (D) James Owen 9-8....H Davies 3 (1) 086 CHALE CHALO 12 (V) (D) T Dascombe 9-8...O Murphy 4 (2) 212 PIAZZA 16 (D) Ollie Sangster 9-7....J Callan 5 (3) 85L HERE I BOW 15 (PT) (D) Oli Rix 9-7....J Peate 6 (5) 3-28 JUSTICE COURT 29 (T) (BF) J Osborne 9-6...W Carver 7 (6) 54L STATION BAR 14 (B) E J-Houghton 8-13....C Bishop 预计单胜赔率 (SP): 9-4 Justice Court, 5-2 Piazza, 5 Rogue Exile.

赛道详情：L-H Tapeta 赛道。场地状况：

起跑闸：7f 在外部；其余在内部。顶尖骑师：Kieran O'Neill。顶尖练马师：M Loughnane。去年该场比赛入围者：7.30 Stipulation (第1名)。

ROBIN GOODFELLOW

GIMCRACK

2.00 Betty's Tiara< / td><>2.00 Torrent< / >< / tr><><>2.30 Time In A Bottle< / ><>2.30 Nightflyer< / >< / ><><>3.00 Dream Diamond< / ><>3.00 Ice Jet< / >< / ><><>3.30 Norman Fletcher< / ><>3.30 Norman Fletcher< / >< / ><><>4.00 Axel Bleue< / ><>4.00 Mt Fugi Park< / >< / ><><>4.30 Mi Sueno< / ><>4.30 Northern Rose< / >< / ><><>5.05 Mr Rafiki< / ><>5.05 Hudson< / >< / table>

4.00-让磅障碍赛 (3) 11,700 英镑 增加 (6,179 英镑) 3m 10yds (7)

124 GRAND CLERMONT 15 (T) (C&DD) (S) D Pipe 10-12-2 Rian Corcoran (5)

1-P1 MT FUGI PARK 55 (B) (D2) J & A O'Neill 8-11-13..B Macey (5) L1F BAGHEERA GINGE 26 (V) (G) N & W Twiston-Davies 8-11-11 S Twiston-Davies

46L LIGHT N STRIKE 79 (G) E Lavelle 10-11-9 ...... B R Jones 1 / L4- A DEFINITE GETAWAY 175 (P) (D2) M Bowen 8-10-11 S Bowen

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4 30-让磅障碍赛 (5) 6,150 英镑 增加 (2,248 英镑) 1英里 76169码 (16)

2F7 ZUCAYAN 21 (T) (D3) F O'Brien 9-12-0.....N Slatter (3) 44-4 LATIN 90 (H) O Murphy 5-11-13.....S Bowen 526 JET PATROL 10 (T) (D2) (G) James Owen 9-11-11 J J Burke 67P-TIME INTERVAL 149 (T) (D2) D Skelton 8-11-10...H Skelton 9-57 ANNUAL INVITATION 23 Christian Williams 5-11-9...J Tudor 83-F PROMETHEAN 123 (T) S England 5-11-8.....J Quinlan 35-F LADY DAPPLE ROSE 114 B Pauling 5-11-8.

9 FL0 DIESEL LINE 26 (T) (C&D) C & A Pogson 8-11-4..C J Todd 10 880 FINJIMK 45 Nick Scholfield 4-11-3 .... K Woods 11 216 MI SUENO 17 (P) (D2BF) (GS) Nick Scholfield 7-11-0..H Reed 12 8P5 UNCLE REMUS 18 Miss H Knight 5-10-12 ....B J Powell 13 173 NORTHERN ROSE 11 (PT) (C&D) G Hanmer 6-10-10

14 354 BOWLING SHANE 64 (PT) C Boultbee-Brooks 4-10-8 R McLemon

15 PL8 DELTA LEGEND 90 (T) S-J Davies 6-10-5....J Best 16 L-FP BATTLE STRIDE 10 (HT) R Armson 4-10-2...NON RUNNER 预计单价 (SP): 5 Mi Sueno, 11-2, Jet Patrol, 6 Latin

5 05—让磅障碍赛 (4) 8,900 英镑 增加

5-3L GAELIC RAMBLER 23 (BT) J & A O'Neill 6-12-0

317 MIX OF CLOVER 23 (P) (D) A Ralph 12-11-12 T Broughton (3)

1UL LADY KARA 19 (T) Dr R Newland 5-11-11....L Scott (3) 442 MR RAFIKI 61 (T) J & A O'Neill 5-11-10....R McLemon 45P- SLEEPING SATELLITE 145 (T) F O'Brien 8-11-8....J Hogan 61-P CAMARRATE 129 (T) D McCain 6-11-8....T Gillard L43 HUDSON 23 (P) M Bowen 5-11-4....J Bowen 11.2 MARTIN'S DENUO 9 (HT) (D) (G) D Pine 4-11-1

65U A DUBLIN JOB 10 (V) (D2) S-J Davies 9-10-10......J Best 预计单价 (SP): 5-2 Martin's Denuo, 5 Gaelic Rambler.

级别下降: 2.00 Imperial Data 较上次参赛下降 2 个级别（2 级降至 4 级）；Pike Road (2)。风管手术后首次参赛: 2.00 Crystal Glance, 3.00 Jet Of Dreams, 3.30 Glance Of Glory, 4.30 Time Interval, Delta Legend.

ROBIN GOODFELLOW

GIMCRACK

4.28 Due Date< / td><>4.28 Candy Warhol< / >< / tr><><>4.59 Christmas Is Comin< / ><>4.59 Darjeel< / >< / ><><>5.30 Birkett Bank< / ><>5.30 Tredegar Square< / >< / ><><>6.00 Not That Guy< / ><>6.00 Not That Guy< / >< / ><><>6.30 Rogue Exile< / ><>6.30 Piazza< / >< / ><><>7.00 Manton Road< / ><>7.00 Manton Road< / >< / ><><>7.30 EAGLE DAY (nap)< / ><>7.30 Stipulation< / >< / ><><>8.00 Little Jaybee (nb)< / ><>8.00 Henery Hawk< / >< / ><><>8.30 Clipsham Noble< / ><>8.30 Le Rouge Chinois< / >< / table>

7.00-让磅赛 (6) 9,000 英镑 增加 (4,711 英镑) 1英里 142vds (13)

1 (13) L34 R P MCMURPHY 14 (P) (C&D2) M Appleby 4-9-12...O Murphy 2 (8) 961 AMARACHI (5ibex) 3 (P) J Parr 4-9-12....H Burns (3) 3 (12) 40L CY TWOMBLY 7 (V) J Mackie 4-9-10....L Edmunds 4 (10) 450 MR FUSTIC 15 (PT) (C&D2) Andi Brown 8-9-10. M Ghiani 5 (9) 154 MANTON ROAD 20 (C&C2BF) R Phillips 4-9-8...K Fox 6 (6) L24 PRETTY SPIRITED 18 L Mullaney 4-9-8....A Voikhansky 7 (4) 636 CLOCH NUA 134 (C&D) T Culhane & S Barclay 7-9-8..S Donohoe 8 (1) L62 ROGUE OFFICER 20 (H) A Brittain 4-9-7....C Hardie 9 (7) 539 MALAKAI KITE 13 R Harris 3-9-6....C Bishop 10 (2) 710 CREATE 30 (P) S Dixon 6-9-5....K O'Neill 11 (11) 740 EXQUISITE SKYE 17 (P) Michael Keady 3-9-5...J Peate 12 (3) 283 CAPTIVE BEAUTY 16 R Burdon 3-9-4....E Agan (7) 13 (5) L6L ESPLANADE 18℃ Hills 3-9-4....R Hornby 预计单价 (SP): 3 Amarachi, 9-2 R P McMRPHY

7 30-让磅赛 (6) 6,200 英镑 增加 (3,245 英镑) 1英里

1 (1) 456 EAGLE DAY 13 (B) (C&D5) P Evans 6-10-0 .....F Marsh 2 (4) 914 BALOO'S BLUES 54 (PT) C Hills 4-10-0..Jason Watson 3 (5) L44 THE DARK BARON 47 (C&DC) Kathy Turner 4-9-13

4 (2) 477 SPECIAL GHAIYYATH 12 P Charalambous & J Clutterbuck 4-9-13 Liam Wright (3) 5 (11) L47 NORFLONDONFOREVER 14 Faye Bramley 5-9-12. S M Levey 6 (12) 762 STIPULATION 37 (P) (C&D) M Loughnane 5-9-11 J Callan 7 (9) 643 BALLYBUNION 15 M Bell 3-9-10.....O Murphy 8 (8) 5L4 SAHM NAIF 8 (P) James Horton 3-9-7.....G Wood 9 (3) 189 AMRUM 20 (D) Ollie Sangster 3-9-7.....C Bishop 10 (7) 295 SNAFAY 31 (C&D) D Loughnane 3-9-6.....L Edmunds 11 (10) 576 MAGIC RUNNER 14 (C&D) R Carr 4-9-3.....W Pyle 12 (6) 0-92 HAVE YOU A MINUTE 30 (C&D) T Tate 6-9-2

预计单胜赔率 (SP)：9-2 Ballybunion, 6 The Dark Baron.

1 (7) 53L VICTOR CEE 47 (V) P McEntee 3-9-9....Grace McEntee 2 (4) 464 KOFFEE AND KALE 22 (V) (D) M Bell 3-9-9..O Murphy 3 (1) 406 BASHOLO 141 (C&D6D2) T Culhane & S Barclay 7-9-8

4 (10) 03L LOVE ALIVE 41 (C&D) J Butler 3-9-8.... MP Sheehy 5 (9) 372 HENERY HAWK 14 (C&D3D4) Miss L Perratt 7-9-8

6 (2) 322 LITTLE JAYBEE 5 (C&D) P Evans 3-9-7.....E Greatrex 7 (3) 037 SHEIK YERBOUTI 34 G Harris 5-9-6.....J Leavy 8 (6) 133 DRAGON GOD 22 (T) (D) Jack Morland 4-9-6...G Wood 9 (5) 334 HARRY MOLE 19 (BF) Steph Hollinshead 4-9-5.D Costello 10 (8) 243 BANANA 21 (PT) (D2) S Dixon 7-8-12.....K O'Neill

8.30-让磅赛 (6) 6,200 英镑 增加 (3,245 英镑) 1英里 5弗隆 219码 (9)

1 (1) 223 LE ROUGE CHINOIS 15 (P) D Appleby 6-9-9 O Murphy 2 (9) 14 / 5-SUMATRAN TIGER J122 (D2) R Phillips 9-9-4...J Peate 3 (2) 143 CLIPSHAM NOBLE 14 (P) Charlie Clover 4-9-4. Liam Wright (3) 4 (7) 661 DINAH MYTE 7 J Gallagher 4-9-2...W Pyle 5 (6) L54 D DAY MAJOR WINTER 20 James Owen 4-9-0℃ Fallon 6 (3) 986 / PINK WALLS J21 (H) M Mullineaux 6-9-0...G Wood 7 (5) 742 ECHO VALLEY 89 T Symonds 3-8-11...T Heard 8 (8) 5L6 THIS RIB 20 (T) D Loughnane 3-8-10...Laura Pearson 9 (4) 644 SAXOPHONIC 25 D M Simcock 3-8-10...J Dace (5)

抽签优势：无。首次佩戴装备：4.28 Oasis Cover, 4.59 Kitty Rey, 5.30 Black Treasure, 6.00 Ennoble, 6.30 Chale Chalo, Here I Bow, Rogue Exile, 7.30 Eagle Day。最远行程：Henery Hawk (8.00) 275 英里。级别下调：4.28 Candy Warhol 比上次参赛下调 4 个级别（2 级降至 6 级）；4.59 Taranis (2)；7.00 Esplanade (2)。今日无风管手术后首次参赛马匹。

热身中：Donald PA

当唐纳德击球时，记得低头！英格兰新晋强力击球手终于迎来闪耀机会

作者 劳伦斯·布斯 (LAWRENCE BOOTH) 板球特派记者

距离安纽林·唐纳德（Aneurin Donald）在通常平静的威尔士海滨小镇科尔温湾（Colwyn Bay）惊吓当地驾驶员，已经过去了十多年。而他将在今天对阵斯里兰卡的第一场T20比赛中完成英格兰队首秀。

这是否夸张？仅仅是一点点。因为在2016年7月，年仅19岁的他在格拉摩根队（Glamorgan）对阵德比郡队（Derbyshire）的一场锦标赛局中，仅用136个球就砍下234分，其中击出了15次六分球，更不用说26次四分球。

在经历了被《威斯登》（Wisden）描述为“不稳定的开局”后，他的五次击球击中了停在会员区内的汽车，另一次击中了一辆经过的巴士。

当被问及是否打算通过击球出界来达成100分、150分和200分的里程碑时，他承认：“是的，我当时确实这么想。”

他的双百分在当时是第一级板球历史上并列最快的记录。唯一的谜团是，曾在2015年率领英格兰19岁以下代表队以3-2击败澳大利亚的唐纳德，为何直到29岁才开始参加成年国家队的国际比赛。

部分原因是纯粹的运气不佳。他出生于斯旺西，在2018赛季末离开家乡的格拉摩根队加入汉普郡队（Hampshire），希望能增加入选英格兰队的机会。

在南安普顿对阵华威郡队（Warwickshire）时，他用144个球击出173分的炽热表现，短暂地让人回想起科尔温湾的场景。但那个冬天，他在踢五人制足球时撕裂了前交叉韧带，导致他缺席了受疫情影响而缩短的2020赛季。

2021年3月，在尝试“在没有功能性前交叉韧带”的情况下复出时，他再次遭遇伤势复发，不得不再次缺席整个夏季，他将当时的自己描述为“心碎”。

随后他接受了手术，但等到唐纳德在2022年5月重返一线队的竞技比赛时，他已经远离赛场960天，错过了22岁到25岁的黄金年华。

那个赛季他在红球板球赛中的平均得分仅为28分，而在2023年，他完全未能进入汉普郡队的锦标赛名单，仅限于参加大都会银行一日杯（Metro Bank One-Day Cup），而该赛事在当时几乎已变成了二线队的比赛。但他的惊险时刻

系列赛日程

英格兰 对 斯里兰卡

今天.....T20，南安普顿 9月17.....T20，卡迪夫 9月19.....T20，老特拉福德 9月22.....ODI，切斯特-勒-斯特里特 9月24.....ODI，海丁利 9月27.....ODI，椭圆球场

退休的念头让他产生了一种新的决心。

本周他加入英格兰队时，出于显而易见的原因，他选择不参加球队的足球赛。而且正如他最近告诉 Cricinfo 的那样，他决定“全力以赴。我要在光辉中谢幕。如果我要离开，就要在我的强项上加倍努力”。

随后他又进行了一次变动，这次是转会到德比郡，在那里他的

T20击球水平提升到了一个新的高度。在今年的 Blast 赛事中，他以 40 的平均分拿到了 489 分，击球率达到了惊人的 230。他击出的六分球数量为 37 个，在整个赛事中排名第一。

与此同时，在 Hundred 赛事中，他代表特伦特火箭队（Trent Rockets）出战，击球率为 217，在所有得分超过 35 分的选手中速度最快。他在决赛中用 19 个球击得 38 分，对手是包括加斯·阿特金森（Gus Atkinson）、乔什·汤格（Josh Tongue）和利亚姆·道森（Liam Dawson）在内的曼彻斯特超级巨星队（Manchester Super Giants）进攻线。尽管这不足以挽回败局，但给英格兰白球教练布伦登·麦卡伦（Brendon McCullum）留下了深刻印象。

两年前，当麦卡伦还是测试赛教练时，唐纳德曾表示：“自从我开始参加冠军赛板球赛以来，我就觉得 Bazball 的节奏对我来说很自然。这就是我的比赛档位。”

现在，由于菲尔·索尔特（Phil Salt）和雅各布·贝塞尔（Jacob Bethell）受伤，在乔斯·巴特勒（Jos Buttler）身边空出了一个开局位置。唐纳德——他希望将与英格兰新任白球击球导师凯文·皮特森（Kevin Pietersen）的交流转化为实际成效——将获得机会向麦卡伦展示英格兰队一直缺失的东西。

“他已经在我们的关注名单上很久了，”麦卡伦在今晚于 Utilita Bowl 举行的首场 T20 赛前表示。

“他拥有惊人的天赋，我期待看到他在大舞台上的表现。” 电视转播：英格兰 对 斯里兰卡，下午 6.30，Sky Sports Cricket 直播。

麦卡勒姆称皮特森在收到工作邀请时感到震惊

布伦登·麦卡勒姆（Brendon McCullum）承认，当他首次邀请凯文·皮特森（Kevin Pietersen）加入英格兰白球赛体系担任击球导师时，皮特森感到很“震惊”。

皮特森于周日加入球队，准备参加今天对阵斯里兰卡的第一场 T20 比赛——这是 13 天内六场有限overs比赛中的第一场。麦卡勒姆鼓励他去“挑战”更衣室文化中的任何方面。皮特森此次被任命是在他批评英格兰在印度白球赛巡演期间的训练计划不到两年后。当时他表示，在最后两场 ODI 之前取消网球训练让他“完全目瞪口呆”。他随后将这种情况描述为“绝对可耻”。当麦卡勒姆首次联系皮特森时，这些评论被提及。麦卡勒姆说：“那是我们谈论的第一件事之一。他说：‘天哪，不久前我还在批评你。’我说：‘我不介意那个。其中一些是合理的，有些则需要解释，但我对此没有问题。’”

“当你创造一个能够进行挑战的环境时，这是健康的。这就是我想让他做的一件事。”与此同时，麦卡勒姆敦促布赖登·卡斯（Brydon Carse）在上个月在一家夜总会外被捕后要“整顿好自己的生活”——并提醒其他球员，如果他们因为错误的原因登上头条，可能会付出代价。

他说：“我希望大家非常清楚，不仅是对这个小组，而且是对那些渴望为我们效力的人，我们期望的是什么。周围有很多天才，如果你不准备这样做，其他人将获得这些机会。我已经和卡斯谈了很多次，传达的是同样的信息。”

劳伦斯·布斯（LAWRENCE BOOTH）

肯普顿赛马场 (KEMPTON)

5.00 — RAMENSKY (O Murphy) 13-8(次热门) 1; Femme Fatale 4-9F 2; 2匹参赛. (E Lavelle). 7½. Tote: 2.63; NR: Virtue Diligence. 5.30 — SNOOKER MCCREW (A Redman) 11-1 1; Celtic John 11-1 2; Lovely Jubly 9-2(并列次热门) 3. 10匹参赛. (M Comley). 2l, 3/4. Tote: 12.90; 3.60, 3.10, 2.10. Ex: 121.40. Tc: 629.31. Tf: 696.60. CSF: 125.84. NR: Ocean Force. 6.00 — DECALOGUE (W Carver) 11-4F 1; Berkshire Boom 3-1(并列次热门) 2; Unionville 11-2 3. 10匹参赛. (J Osborne). nk, 1½. Tote: 3.75; 1.40, 1.60, 1.60. Ex: 12.90. Tc: 42.57. Tf: 44.30. CSF: 10.27. 6.30 — NATIONAL HONOUR (Toby Moore) 11-8F 1; Solar Swing 5-2(次热门) 2; Rupert The Brave 9-2 3. 9匹参赛. (C Appleby). 1¼, ½. Tote: 2.38; 1.10, 1.10, 1.30. Ex: 5.90. Tf: 17.00. CSF: 5.25. 7.00 — NONREM (J Callan) 18-1 1; Grey Tamam 9-4并列热门 2; Blowing Up A Storm 4-1 3. 8匹参赛. (B Meehan). hd, nk. Tote: 27.10; 4.90, 1.10, 1.60. Ex: 104.80. Tf: 442.20. CSF: 59.31. NR: Bling. 7.30 — ENCORE (H Davies) 1-2F 1; March Of Time 40-1 2; Missmisfortune 25-1 3. 8匹参赛. (W Haggas). 2¼, nk. Tote: 1.50; 1.10, 5.90, 4.40. Ex: 28.30. Tf: 305.50. CSF: 37.60. NR: Tilsworth Boe. 8.00 — SAX AVOIDANCE (K Fox) 5-1 1; Extraterrestrial 9-2 2; Hibernate 11-1 3. 9匹参赛. (Charlie Pike). nk, 6l. Tote: 6.00; 1.60, 1.70, 2.50. Ex: 33.90. Tc: 237.02. Tf: 133.90. CSF: 27.41. 8.30 — HAPPIER (Toby Moore) 2-1F 1; Roy Lane 7-1 2; Angel Summer 7-2(次热门) 3. 12匹参赛. (M Keighley). 2¼, ll. Tote: 3.00; 1.30, 2.70, 1.60. Ex: 20.20. Tc: 50.41. Tf: 97.30. CSF: 17.88.

头奖（Jackpot）未中奖，奖池 £23,892.87 结转。 Placepot £41.20. Q'pot £4.20.

塞奇菲尔德赛马场 (SEDGEFIELD)

2.00 — PADDY DE POLE (F Keighley) 15-8(次热门) 1; Fairlawn Skipper 11-8F 2; Parikarma 9-4 3. 3匹参赛. (P Nicholls). ½, ll. Tote: 2.88; Ex: 3.10. Tf: 3.10. CSF: 4.72. 2.30 — TRALEE GIRL (H Skelton) 4-9F 1; You Be Lucky Jean 7-2(次热门) 2; Blue Topaz 50-1 3. 7匹参赛. (D Skelton). 3l, 11l. Tote: 1.45; 1.10, 2.10. Ex: 2.40. Tf: 23.10. CSF: 2.45. 3.00 — JETEYE (J England)

evensF 1; Uncle Al 10-3(2ndFav) 2; All Dubh 4-1 3. 5 ran. (S England). 7½, 2l. Tote: 2.00; 1.10, 1.80. Ex: 4.00. Tf: 10.20. CSF: 5.06. 3.30 — MR MCWHINNY (J Andrews) 10-11F 1; Tom Creen 9-1 2; Clean Getaway 13-2 3. 5 ran. (T Ellis). 8l. 1l. Tote: 1.91; 1.10, 2.80. Ex: 8.30. Tf: 24.50. CSF: 8.67. 4.00 — AIMERIC (Sean Quinlan) 11-4(2ndFav) 1; William Yeats 6-5F 2; Beny Nahar Road 10-1 3. 10 ran. (J Candlish). 1l, 14l. Tote: 3.75; 1.30, 1.20, 2.60. Ex: 8.50. Tc: 27.82. Tf: 35.70. CSF: 6.53. 4.30 — LITTLEOWN LAD (J England) 5-4F 1; Expert Analysis 11-2 2; Mr Globalist 14-1 3. 10 ran. (S England). shd, 8½. Tote: 2.25; 1.20, 1.90, 3.40. Ex: 9.40. Tc: 68.12. Tf: 81.20. CSF: 9.33. Placepot £7.80. Q'pot £2.40.

2.21 — SATYRESS (T Kiely-Marshall) 11-8F 1; Off Spin 6-1 2; Hickton 9-1 3. 12 ran. (H Bethell). 2½, 1¾. Tote: 2.38; 1.30, 1.90, 2.20. Ex: 10.80. Tc: 58.87. Tf: 55.30. CSF: 10.13.

2.51 — BLADEY LADY (D Allan) 7-2(2ndFav) 1; Ma Fille De Reve

赛马结果 9-2 2; Claret And Blues 11-1 3; Claret Time 6-1 4. 16 ran. (T Easterby). 3 / 4, 6l, shd. Tote: 4.50; 1.30, 1.60, 2.90, 1.70. Ex: 28.80. Tc: 178.09. Tf: 165.40. CSF: 20.67. NR: Independent Roze. 3.21 — MAJESTIC JUDE (C Fallon) 2-9F 1; Master Celeritas 9-1 2; Diamondsforyou 5-1(2ndFav) 3.4 ran. (W Haggas). 3l, nk. Tote: 1.23; Ex: 2.10. Tf: 2.90. CSF: 3.09. 3.51 — LAMLASH BAY (B Garritty) 5-1 1; Fan Mail 7-4F 2; Dabbling 22-1 3. 11 ran. (M & D Easterby). nk, nk. Tote: 6.00; 1.60, 1.20, 4.90. Ex: 18.00. Tc: 185.10. Tf: 268.30. CSF: 14.02. 4.21 — MO ANAM CHARA (J Dickson) 5-2JtFav 1; Showtown 22-1 2; Soca Star 14-1 3. 10 ran. (G Harker). 1 / 4, 4 / 4. Tote: 3.70; 1.30, 4.80, 4.00. Ex: 63.10. Tc: 664.77. Tf: 566.30. CSF: 65.88. 4.51 — FRACTIONAL (C Fallon) 4-1(Jt2ndFav) 1; Always Blue 4-1(Jt2ndFav) 2; Donna Nook 3-1F 3. 9 ran. (W Haggas). 1 / 4, 1 / 2. Tote: 5.00; 1.40, 1.80, 1.60. Ex: 19.70. Tc: 55.01. Tf: 68.20. CSF: 20.78. 5.21 — FOREST CAPER (D

Tudhope) 12-1 1; The Childe Of Hale 9-4F 2; Red Hat Eagle 7-2(Jt2ndFav) 3. 12 ran. (D O'Meara). $1 / 2$ , $21 / 2$ . Tote: 15.70; 3.80, 1.50, 1.90. Ex: 58.50. Tc: 124.49. Tf: 254.40. CSF: 39.15. NR: Bay Breeze. Placepot £24.50. Q'pot £8.30. 温莎 (WINDSOR) 1.42 — MERTOUN (Rossa Ryan) 4-1F 1; Phantom Watch 12-1 2; Newfangled 9-2(Jt2ndFav) 3. 12 ran. (J Chapple-Hyam). 1l, hd. Tote: 5.20; 2.00, 4.20, 2.30. Ex: 59.90. Tc: 233.64. Tf: 289.40. CSF: 53.82. NR: Kodi Fire. 2.12 — INSTANT FORCE (P-L Jamin) 13-2 1; Red Blue Point 8-11F 2; Go Go Girl 33-1 3. 10 ran. (K R Burke). $1 / 2$ , $21 / 2$ . Tote: 7.50; 1.90, 1.10, 5.10. Ex: 15.60. Tf: 170.80. CSF: 12.10. 2.42 — SONG OF THE CLOUDS (T Marquand) 2-1(2ndFav) 1; Wootz 4-9F 2; Certainty 300-1 3. 5 ran. (W Haggas). $21 / 4$ , 23l. Tote: 3.00; 1.10, 1.10. Ex: 3.60. Tf: 25.20. CSF: 3.26. NRs: Regatta, Virtue King. 3.12 — QUEEN OF SCOTLAND (B Loughnane) 8-15F 1; Marquetry 22-1 2; Seacole 17-2 3. 7 ran.

(G Boughey). 4½, 1l. Tote: 1.54; 1.10, 7.80. Ex: 12.70. Tf: 51.10. CSF: 18.30. 3.42 — DISTANT RUMBLE (M Ghiani) 5-1(2ndFav) 1; Cape Toronada 6-1 2; Cypriot Diaspora 16-1 3. 13 ran. (R Teal). 4¼, shd. Tote: 7.10; 2.40, 2.40, 3.20. Ex: 61.00. Tc: 365.78. Tf: 813.60. CSF: 38.03. NR: Correspondence. 4.12 — KING OF BERKSHIRE (C Hutchinson) 11-8F 1; Parisian Scholar 7-1 2; Son Of Man 25-1 3. 9 ran. (A Balding). 6l, ½. Tote: 2.38; 1.30, 1.80, 5.10. Ex: 12.20.

Tc: 169.15. Tf: 189.60. CSF: 11.61. 4.42 — AMALOU (S Osborne) 22-1 1; Time After Time 3-1CoFav 2; Artavian 9-1 3. 11 ran. (D & C Kubler). nk, 8l. Tote: 29.50; 6.00, 1.50, 2.90. Ex: 149.10. Tc: 674.67. Tf: 2228.90. CSF: 90.03. 5.12 — CAMELEY DAYS (M Ghiani) 5-2F 1; Pedros Dream 50-1 2; Enter Sandman 20-1 3. 12 ran. (C Dwyer). 2¼, 1¼. Tote: 3.50; 1.50, 11.60, 5.00. Ex: 178.30. Tc: 2194.85. Tf: 2690.30. CSF: 166.92.

Placepot £20.20. Q'pot £6.00.

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“恢复健康吧，卡洛斯和亚尼克，”美国网球偶像约翰·麦肯罗在最后总结时说道，他是在回应新冠军兹维列夫是否能将这种统治力延续到明年的澳大利亚公开赛时如此表示的。

尽管这位德国选手在本赛季取得了巨大的成就，但卡洛斯·阿尔卡拉斯和亚尼克·辛纳依然是这场盛宴中的阴影。

去年，这两名选手瓜分了大满贯冠军，且大多数时候是在决赛中互相对决。他们统治级的 2025 年表明，这对年轻的竞争对手将接过前一代人——拉斐尔·纳达尔和罗杰·费德勒的接力棒，西班牙人和意大利人将把这项运动顶端的所有其他选手拒之门外。但谁会成为他们的诺瓦克·德约科维奇呢？

尽管兹维列夫一直稳居前 10 名，多次进入大满贯决赛，并在 2021 年获得奥运金牌，但在关于谁能将这对双子星变为“三巨头”的讨论中，兹维列夫在很大程度上被忽视了。

现年 29 岁的他比这两位球星都要年长，且属于一个——包括丹尼尔·梅德韦杰夫和斯特法诺斯·齐齐帕斯在内——曾被寄予厚望能从“三巨头”手中接过权杖的世代，结果却被德约科维奇的长青以及辛纳和阿尔卡拉斯的早熟所压制。而且，当他确实进入大满贯决赛时，场面也并不好看。

兹维列夫长期以来被认为在关键时刻会掉链子，主因是他六年前在美网首次闯入大满贯决赛时的表现。

当时 23 岁的他在一场由新冠疫情定义、且纳达尔和费德勒缺席的闭门赛事中，一路横扫其抽签区，而德约科维奇则因球意外击中线审员的喉咙而被取消资格。

常规戏码：兹维列夫在 7 月的温网决赛中连续第 10 次输给辛纳 盖蒂图片社

在决赛中，兹维列夫在对阵多米尼克·蒂姆时曾领先两个盘，但随后失去了领先优势，并在第五盘争取冠军点时再次失手。奥地利人带走了奖杯，而兹维列夫心中开始留下伤痕。

四年后，在巴黎对阵阿尔卡拉斯的比赛中，兹维列夫在输掉首盘后，艰难地追回接下来的两盘，但最终在五盘大战中落败。

深情之吻：兹维列夫赢得美网后 盖蒂图片社

在去年的墨尔本，他再次进入大满贯决赛对阵辛纳，结果三盘落败。

本赛季，由于阿尔卡拉斯在从手腕伤势中恢复，而辛纳在法网被酷暑击垮，并在纽约因膝盖炎症缺席，兹维列夫经历了一些宝贵的疗愈。

“上帝看到了我们多么努力，承受了多少痛苦，经历了多少艰辛，”他在周日举起奖杯前说道，“2026 年是之前所有年份积累的结果。”

然而，赢得两座大满贯奖杯并没有证明兹维列夫能够与辛纳或阿尔卡拉斯正面抗衡。这位意大利人对兹维列夫来说是一个特别棘手的问题，兹维列夫在两人最近的 10 次交手中全部落败。

在 6 月赢得罗兰·加洛斯公开赛后，兹维列夫在参加温网时打得轻盈且具有爆发力——而这两点通常都不是定义他比赛风格的特质。这使他在与辛纳相遇时赢得了一盘，当时他们处于

统治双雄

自从诺瓦克·德约科维奇赢得 2023 年美网冠军以来，卡洛斯·阿尔卡拉斯和詹尼克·辛纳几乎赢得了除两项以外的所有大满贯……

*两人均因伤缺席决赛，但除此之外，这位意大利选手的表现一如既往。

周日被问及兹维列夫是否认为自己是世界上最好的球员时，他停顿了一下。

“如果我们说现在，在詹尼克受伤且卡洛斯伤愈复出的情况下，也许是。但当两人都健康时，我不是。我一直输给詹尼克。如果每个人都健康，詹尼克仍然领先。”

兹维列夫近期对阵阿尔卡拉斯的记录仅比他对阵辛纳的交手记录稍微复杂一点。这位西班牙人是今年在大满贯赛事中击败他的唯一另一位球员。

当他们在澳网相遇时，这场对决经历了五盘，耗时 5 小时 27 分钟。但阿尔卡拉斯受到持续抽筋的影响，且在第三盘深处右腿受伤。兹维列夫未能将其彻底击败，阿尔卡拉斯最终获胜，完成了职业生涯大满贯。

由于辛纳本赛季回归巡回赛的消息尚未确认，兹维列夫仍有可能在年底成为世界第一。但真正的考验将在 2027 年面对状态良好的辛纳和阿尔卡拉斯时到来。

那个将接过“颠覆者”大旗的球员必须在面对最强者时证明自己的实力——而在美网决赛选手中，谢尔顿通过在四分之一决赛中史诗般地击败阿尔卡拉斯，证明了自己能够做到这一点。

如果不击败这两位最大的球星，兹维列夫只能捡拾他们的残羹冷炙。

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英超联赛

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■ 今日赛程

联赛杯第三轮 伊普斯威奇 v 阿森纳......(8.0) 利物浦 v 托特纳姆......(8.0) ITV1 和 Sky Sports Football 现场直播 彼得伯勒 v 巴恩斯利......(7.30) 雷丁 v 布伦特福德......(8.0) 西汉姆 v 富勒姆......

英冠联赛 布里斯托尔城 v 林肯城 ...... 米德尔斯堡 v 米尔沃尔 ...... ......

上半区

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国家联赛

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韦尔德斯通 对 哈利法克斯...... 沃辛 对 霍恩丘尔奇......

苏格兰超级联赛 法尔基克 对 之心 ...... 希伯尼安 对 基尔马诺克 ...... 马瑟韦尔 对 阿伯丁....

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苏格兰冠军联赛：斯滕豪斯缪尔 对 帕特里克。苏格兰甲级联赛：罗斯郡 对 昆之南。

英格兰足球联赛奖杯 (7.0) — 北区，C组：约克 对 纽卡斯尔 U21。D组：切斯特菲尔德 对 曼城 U21。南区，C组：威科姆 对 切尔西 U21。E组：斯温顿 对 水晶宫 U21。F组：莱顿东方 对 阿森纳 U21。 苏格兰挑战杯，联赛阶段：东法夫 对 马瑟韦尔。

板球 — 首场 T20I：英格兰 对 斯里兰卡（玫瑰碗球场，6.30pm）。首场 ODI：津巴布韦 对 澳大利亚（哈拉雷，8.30am）。第二场 T20I：阿富汗 对 印度（德里，2.30pm）。

郡冠军赛（第 1 天，共 4 天，10.30am）— 第一组：埃塞克斯 对 沃里克郡（切姆斯福德）。莱斯特郡 对 汉普郡（莱斯特）。萨里 对 格拉摩根（基亚椭圆球场）。萨塞克斯 对 诺丁汉郡（霍夫）。约克郡 对 萨默塞特（海丁利）。第二组：达勒姆 对 伍斯特郡（河畔球场）。格洛斯特郡 对 米德尔塞克斯（布里斯托）。肯特 对 兰开夏（坎特伯雷）。北安普顿郡 对 德比郡（北安普顿）。

球星结束大满贯抗议活动

男子和女子巡回赛的网球球星们已经结束了针对大满贯赛事奖金问题长达一年的抗议。包括詹尼克·辛纳（Jannik Sinner）、卡洛斯·阿尔卡拉斯（Carlos Alcaraz）和阿里娜·萨巴伦卡（Aryna Sabalenka）在内的顶尖球员在美网赛后宣布，其活动的“公开阶段”已经结束，因为他们上个月已获得一个球员咨询委员会，以便直接与四大满贯赛事合作。该团体希望大满贯的奖金能占到赛事总收入的 22% ；部分球员通过限制在法网和温网期间的媒体露面来提高公众意识。原计划在温网进行的进一步抗议活动在最后一刻被取消，温网已将其奖金池提高至 £6420 万 —— 增长了 20%。美网则通过 7920 万英镑 的奖金池（同样增长了 20%）避免了抗议，其中包含承诺拨给球员福利基金的 147 万英镑。

塔玛拉·普伦（TAMARA PRENN）

克雷格·霍普（CRAIG HOPE）报道于埃兰路球场

利兹 L·迈利 32 (乌龙), 博格尔 34 卡尔弗特-刘因 45+1 奥卡福 59

纽卡斯尔 图雷 90

对于纽卡斯尔来说，这是一个结果终于与表现相匹配的夜晚。

在英超开局的三场比赛中保持不败，并因夏季转会操作而受到赞誉，但从这场恐怖表演来看，秋季和冬季可能不会那么愉快。

马蒂亚斯·贾斯莱（Matthias Jaissle）的球队在半场时就落后三球，这完全在预料之中。无论是因为这里发生的情况，还是更多地基于你过去 10 天所看到的景象。

在联赛杯中以 1-0 勉强战胜米尔沃尔，此前是在主场 2-2 战平伯恩茅斯的同样糟糕的表现，在那场比赛的前 35 分钟内他们就落后两球。

因此，这场结果已成定局，而多米尼克·卡尔弗特-刘因（Dominic Calvert-Lewin）成了主队的送分员。他并非唯一一个从对手抢断无力、传球失误且进攻毫无头绪中获益的人。

利兹队长伊桑·安帕杜（Ethan Ampadu）掌控的中场在各项指标上都占据优势。有时你会怀疑主队是否多出了一名球员。你更会好奇纽卡斯尔最近几周为何在性格和韧性方面获得如此高的赞誉。这次比赛中完全没有展现出这些特质。

但撇开支撑他们良好开局的心理强度不谈，技术上的缺陷迟早会让他们付出代价。纽卡斯尔的数据一直感觉不可持续。他们在前三场比赛中被射门 45 次，为联赛最高；而在另一端，他们的累计预期进球数（xG）每场仅略高于 1 个。

这会让那些珍视比分的传统主义者感到愤怒 —— 但根据预期联赛排名，纽卡斯尔在本周末前处于第 19 位。现在他们在那个特定的表格中处于垫底位置。

看来，扭转数据的重任落在马蒂亚斯·费尔南德斯-帕尔多（Matias Fernandez-Pardo）单薄的肩膀上。这位本月从里尔加盟、身价 £5100 万 的明星球员正迎来他的首次正式首发。一名比利时记者在他在签约当天将其描述为“没有终结能力的伊登·阿扎尔”，这让在当地广播中听到此言的黑白军团拥趸感到非常恼火。那么，这种不讨好的评价是否有道理？

25 分钟后，这种激进的观点显得冷淡了，因为费尔南德斯-帕尔多仅触球 4 次，其中一次还是在自家禁区内的无意手球。到他在第 57 分钟被换下时，触球数达到了 15, 次，但没有一次令人印象深刻。

这并非他的错，更多是反映了他身后球员的失败。而且，仔细想想，他身边的球员同样如此。所以所谓的

多米尼克·卡尔弗特-刘因（DOMINIC Calvert-Lewin）昨晚成为了自 2003 年 3 月至 8 月间马克·维杜卡（Mark Viduka）在六场比赛中进球以来，首位在埃兰路球场连续五场英超比赛中进球的利兹球员。

卡尔弗特-刘因领衔，利兹联以强悍攻势折磨纽卡斯尔

这种认为这个版本的纽卡斯尔可能更适合客场作战的理论。其逻辑在于他们更注重速度而非精准度。而他们在这里学到的是，在思维速度面前，脚步的速度毫无意义。

丹尼尔·法尔克的球队表现出色。他们开赛三场不败的记录现已延长至四场，这感觉不再像是一个幻象。这是埃兰路球场在球场内外的最佳状态。他们嗅到了对手的脆弱，随即发起致命一击。卡尔弗特-刘因在半场结束前的一粒进球，彻底为对方敲定了败局。

那次射门体现了他的力量以及纽卡斯尔完全缺乏力量的现状，这位前锋强行挤过斯文·博特曼，随后在六码处完成射门。这是利兹联在13分钟内打入的第三球。

首粒进球在官方记录中是刘易斯·迈利 Own goal（乌龙球），但这完全归功于田中碧，他在中场空档处发起进攻，并在中场空档处完成射门。正是他那次20码外的射门在纽卡斯尔小将身上折射入网，而这位小将和他的许多队友一样，经历了一个极其糟糕的夜晚。

他的中场搭档肖恩·斯图尔的一次传球失误，让利兹联在取得第二球的道路上顺畅无阻：詹姆斯·贾斯汀传中，卡尔弗特-刘因头球击中杰登·博格入网。卡尔弗特-刘因在跳跃高度上胜过了两名纽卡斯尔防守球员——在力量之外，你还可以加上“欲望”这一因素。第四球发生在第59分钟，诺亚·奥卡福在对一次长传球后的散球反应最快，随后灵巧地完成射门。但整个夜晚，利兹联在抢第一、第二和第三次球时都更快。

有一段情节捕捉到了纽卡斯尔糟糕表现的缩影，尽管这并没有导致丢球。

博特曼试图将球传给同为荷兰人的斯图尔，但两人没有达成默契，导致安东·斯塔赫得以在空档中奔跑。他那次细腻的

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chip本该进球，但球击中了侧网。

球场一侧的主场观众误以为进球而欢呼。此时他们已贪婪地渴望更多，很快就开始高喊要求进五球。然而，最终完成进球的是纽卡斯尔，替补球员巴祖马纳·图雷在第90分钟在禁区边缘完成射门。

这对纽卡斯尔来说是一次残酷的现实打击，也为他们本赛季可能的走向敲响了警钟。

事实上，在开球前，纽卡斯尔的一支高级代表团穿过西看台后面的脚手架和临时设施时，这提醒了他们需要多么努力才能跟上步伐。不仅是要跟上曼城、阿森纳和切尔西，还有利兹联——后者在短期内或许是更相关的竞争对手。

利兹联的埃兰路球场扩建工程及其传递出的雄心，仍是纽卡斯尔由沙特主导的所有者尚未在泰恩赛德地区竖起的标志。

内部人士表示，如果没有这项工程，与顶尖球队之间的资产负债表差距将无法弥补。

不过目前，需要解决的是球场上的巨大差距。

利兹联 (3-4-2-1)：Trafford 6; Justin 7, Elvedi 6, Muharemovic 6; Bogle 7 (James 83min), Ampadu 8, Tanaka 8 (Aaronson 72, 6), Gudmundsson 7 (Bard 72, 6); Stach 6 (Longstaff 88), Okafor 7 (Wilson 72, 6); CALVERT-LEWIN 9 (Nmecha 78)。进球者：L Miley 32 (乌龙), Bogle 34, Calvert-Lewin 45+1, Okafor 59。黄牌：Calvert-Lewin。教练：Daniel Farke 8。纽卡斯尔 (4-2-3-1)：Hornicek 5; Dedic 5 (Livramento 58, 5), Thiaw 5, Botman 3, Hall 5; L Miley 4 (Bamba 80), Gonzalez 5 (Steur 19, 4); Murphy 4 (Toure 57, 6), Fernandez-Pardo 4 (Willock 57, 4), Barnes 4; Wissa 5。进球者：Toure 90。黄牌：Murphy。教练：Matthias Jaisse 4。裁判：Michael Salisbury 7。观众人数：36,693。

笑容更灿烂：Tanaka 路透社

铁锤帮传奇卢德克去世，享年64岁

作者：马特·巴洛（MATT BARLOW）

西汉姆联队向他们的偶像级英雄、“温柔巨人”卢德克·米克洛斯科（Ludek Miklosko）表达了敬意，他已于64岁时去世。

米克洛斯科在效力铁锤帮的八年间共完成了126场零封，人们对他最深刻的记忆或许是他在1995年的一系列鼓舞人心的扑救，这些扑救帮助球队阻击了曼联夺得英超冠军。这位深受喜爱的捷克球员以30 万英镑的价格从奥斯特拉瓦巴尼克队加盟，后来回到西汉姆联担任守门员教练，多年来球迷们一直传唱着他的名字。

西汉姆联的球员在昨天的训练前举行了默哀仪式，俱乐部将在今晚对阵富勒姆的联赛杯第三轮比赛前向他致敬。

此外，俱乐部还计划在下个月对阵女王公园巡游者的英冠联赛中举行纪念活动，米克洛斯科在女王公园巡游者度过了其职业生涯的最后三年。“安息吧，卢德克，我们挚爱且具有启发性的守门员，一个温柔的巨人，”西汉姆联在昨天的声明中说道。米克洛斯科曾获得42次国家队出场机会，他在2021年被诊断出患有癌症，并在三年后宣布决定停止进一步治疗。他的儿子马丁表示：“我们

心碎地宣布我的父亲卢德克在与癌症进行了一场勇敢且无畏的斗争后离世。‘我代表我的母亲和家人，衷心感谢球迷以及西汉姆联的所有人在我父亲患病期间寄来的亲切祝愿、关怀和祈祷。‘来自前队友和球迷的大量信息和祝愿，在他与癌症斗争的过程中带来了巨大的慰藉。我们对他离世感到心碎，但从他获得的巨大支持中得到了极大的安慰，并且知道他现在已经安息，不再受苦。‘父亲单纯地热爱西汉姆联，尤其是听到在每场比赛中人们大声且自豪地唱出他的名字。俱乐部及其球迷过去是，且永远将是我们家庭的一部分。’”

德泽尔比：我不会召回里沙利森

罗伯托·德泽尔比（ROBERTO DE ZERBI）将抵制任何在今晚热刺客场挑战利物浦的联赛杯比赛中召回里沙利森的冲动，并敦促他那些状态低迷的前锋保持信心。热刺在本赛季的前四场英超比赛中未能进球，而里沙利森——上赛季以12个进球成为队内最高得分者——被排除在阵容之外，这让这种尴尬进一步加剧。这位巴西球员有资格参加今晚在安菲尔德进行的第三轮比赛，但不会参与其中。“我的计划和想法没有任何改变，”德泽尔比说道。“我对我们没能打进的进球感到遗憾，但我们拥有进球的素质。

‘我们正在构建一个新的项目，一支新球队。如果球员们没有赢球或没有进球，我不能改变我对他们的看法。他们是非常优秀的球员。

‘如果我们想改变过去两个赛季的情况，我们必须变得更强大，并相信球员的素质以及我们一个月前做出的决定。你可以更换球员或教练，，，，但什么都不会改变。或者你保持谦逊，带着正确的工作精神。‘我相信我的球员。我希望他们像我相信他们一样相信他们自己。’

德泽尔比在对阵利物浦的比赛中将失去桑德罗·托纳利，因为这位中场球员在训练中受伤。他带领球员们去

作者：马特·巴洛（MATT BARLOW）

上周，他像在接手后的首场比赛在桑德兰失利后那样，再次带球员们去吃晚餐。他们回到了梅费尔区的地中海餐厅 Bacchanalia，由这位热刺主帅买单。“吃点东西，喝点水，来几瓶啤酒，”德泽比说，“这是我的荣幸。”

德泽比仔细研究了周六 0-0 战平埃弗顿的前半小时录像，以分析为什么他的球队无法将统治力转化为进球。“我们有 25-30 分钟踢得非常好，”德泽比说，“我们本可以打进两个。也许是因为没能进球，我们失去了信心。我们必须提高。”里沙利森在夏天要求离开热刺，随后又未能与埃弗顿、特拉布宗体育或达伽马就个人条款达成一致，他将继续被冷落。“我们在[开赛首日]以 3-0 输给了布伦特福德，当时里沙利森在场，”德泽比补充道，“也许你们忘了。只是提醒你们一下。”

赛事前瞻……利物浦 对阵 热刺

开球时间：晚上 8 点，安菲尔德球场。 电视转播：ITV4 和 Sky Sports 直播。 裁判：安迪·马德利（Andy Madley）。

韦伯对哈兰德进球感到“羞愧”

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帕特里克·多尔古，因此裁判迈克尔·奥利弗被要求推翻原判。但 VAR 官员似乎忽略了这样一个事实：处于越位位置的恩佐·费尔南德斯，鉴于他与曼联后卫利桑德罗·马丁内斯以及门将塞内·拉门斯的距离，已经干扰了比赛。周日晚上，据称对这次混乱感到“羞愧”的前世界杯决赛裁判韦伯表示，VAR 组认定，由于费尔南德斯没有触球，任何越位违例都是“主观的”——但他承认，他们没有“意识到其位置可能产生的影响，本应建议进行场上回顾”。韦伯就这次“判断错误”向曼联道歉，并承诺将进行审查。曼联主帅迈克尔·卡里克表示，他无法解释这一决定，在周日 1-0 告负后，他的球队在开局 4 场比赛中仅赢了一场。“我就是不明白，”他说，“如果规则是这样解读的，也就是说，你在距离球门 6 码远的地方扑向球并几乎触碰到它，导致利桑德罗必须做出反应，这竟然不算干扰比赛……如果执法者如此看待比赛，那就令人担忧了。”昨天，职业裁判协会（Pro Ref）宣布多诺休和安特罗布斯被停职，但此举未能平息争议。一些人呼吁英超完全放弃 VAR，认为由人类操作的系统不太可能有效地根除人为错误。

不过，这种情况被认为不太可能发生，因为俱乐部在 2024 年以 19-1 的投票结果决定保留该系统，而唯一投反对票的俱乐部狼队已不在英超联赛中。

这场德比战的混乱为职业裁判协会（Pro Ref）带来了一个艰难的周末，该机构还因在阿森纳 2-0 击败桑德兰的比赛中判定桑德兰获得点球而遭到阿森纳主帅米克尔·阿尔特塔的抨击，比赛在光明球场进行。

埃兹里·孔萨被判定在一次长传球中将丹·巴拉德拽倒——这一决定在 VAR 审查后得到了维持。“在这样的水平上，这是不可接受的，”阿尔特塔说，他的俱乐部已要求职业裁判协会给出解释。上个月，英超关键比赛事件小组裁定，在对阵阿斯顿维拉的比赛中，伊安·马特森对布鲁诺·吉马良斯的挑战本应判给阿森纳一个点球，并给维拉后卫一张第二黄牌。他们还表示，利物浦对阵诺丁汉森林的比赛中，由于阿里松对内科·威廉姆斯的挑战，诺丁汉森林被错误地判给了一个点球。当奥马尔·马尔穆什在受到纽卡斯尔联马利克·蒂亚乌接触而倒地且未获得点球时，热刺感到震惊，但该小组以 4-1 的结果裁定，尽管蒂亚乌接触的是马尔穆什而非球，但仍未达到判罚点球的标准。

人们正因为 VAR 而失去对足球的热爱……是时候终结这一错误了

by Oliver Holt 首席体育撰稿人

在 2019-20 赛季初英超联赛实施 VAR 的准备阶段，我们追求的是一种“完美比赛”的幻象：一场裁判执法存在感降低的比赛，一场绝无失误的比赛，一场裁判遭受的辱骂更少的比赛，以及一场阴谋论从此过时的比赛。

那么，就让我们把这称为“七年之痒”吧。因为在过去这段时间里， 并没有产生我们这些支持者所深切希望的效果。如果非要说有什么效果的话，那恰恰相反。

能让我们更多地讨论足球而非裁判判罚的想法已经破灭了。而且已经破灭一段时间了。足球在越来越大程度上不再关乎体育。

对于许多人来说——包括那些试图寻找方法禁止季票持有者入场，转而接纳高消费一日游游客的俱乐部——足球的价值在于它被视为演艺业的附属品。体育本身反而成了一种令人不便的干扰。

而 已成为这一趋势中不可或缺的一部分。技术本应是通往更优质比赛和更少争议的门户，但机器以及操作机器的人类都有局限性，而我们已经触碰到了这些局限。

想要一个“清晰且明显的错误”？看看这个：我们的比赛花费了远超健康限度的时间，去痴迷于有争议的越位，并试图解读那些晦涩到令我们困惑且愤怒的规则。

想知道 带来了什么？它传播了

开赛四周， 的低级失误已接连发生！

本赛季已经出现了多次 错误，但最令人气愤的或许是诺丁汉森林在 2-2 战平利物浦的比赛中获得的点球。裁判承认，在阿里松对内科·威廉姆斯的拦截中，森林队不应获得点球——但表示 没有介入推翻判决是正确的，因为这“并非一个清晰且明显的错误”。规则同样令球迷困惑，例如在伊普斯维奇 5-2 负于曼联的比赛中，雅各布·格里夫斯的乌龙球就是一个典型案例。哈里·马古尔在明显用手控制球后射门，球在格里夫斯身上折射入网——而这正是该进球被认可的关键，因为这是三种豁免情况之一，即进球者的无意手球应被忽略。

阿斯顿维拉 对阵 阿森纳

在伊恩·马特森在维拉禁区内对布鲁诺·吉马良斯的挑战未受处罚后，英超关键比赛事件小组（KMI）表示：“吉马良斯的支撑腿被明显接触，且马特森并未触球。本应出示第二张黄牌 [并判给阿森纳一个点球]。”

曼联 对阵 曼城

关于允许哈兰德进球有效的决定，裁判机构 Pro Ref 表示：“恩佐·费尔南德斯没有触球，因此任何越位违规都具有主观性。然而，VAR 未能意识到其位置可能产生的影响，应当建议进行场上回顾。”

KMI 小组在谈到判给诺丁汉森林队的点球时表示：“由于在尝试救球时的惯性，阿里松的接触是不可避免的。这次接触并非鲁莽，且未达到判罚点球的标准。但基于这不是一个清晰且明显的错误，VAR 的不干预得到了一致支持。”

责备。现在我们可以对着裁判、两名边裁、第四官员，以及那位坐在斯托克利公园（Stockley Park）被屏幕环绕的房间里不幸的官员大吼大叫，他试图计算一场足球比赛向他抛出的一系列问题，并且深知他每延迟一秒，都会将观众的愤怒招致在耳边。

它的另一个成就？它剥夺了英超联赛和其他所谓精英足球的自发性。它剥夺了足球迷最大的快乐，那就是毫无保留地庆祝进球。

利物浦 对阵 诺丁汉森林

顶级俱乐部的球迷们现在已经失去了那种尽情狂欢的感觉，因为你的脑海中总会有一个念头：也许我漏掉了什么。也许你刚才以为看到的那个进球，最终其实不算数。

我们已经到了这样一个阶段，即使是对像周日曼彻斯特德比这样一场比赛的讨论——这向来是国内赛程中最重磅的对决之一——也被VAR（视频助理裁判）那令人费解的决定所完全主导。VAR判定埃尔林·哈兰德为曼城打入的制胜球有效，尽管恩佐·费尔南德斯显然处于越位位置，且在球传向后点的哈兰德时，他奋力扑球的行为显然影响了比赛进程。

这是一个教科书般的例子，展示了VAR如何让足球变得更糟。

在老特拉福德现场执法的迈克尔·奥利弗是这个国家最好的裁判，然而在VAR的匆忙与混乱中，在它急于做出决定并让比赛恢复的渴望下，它将奥利弗排除在决策过程之外，没有要求他查看屏幕以便亲自回顾该动作。

根据VAR系统的运作方式，现场裁判无法参与在斯托克利公园（Stockley Park）进行的讨论。因此，正如裁判机构ProRef在周日晚上发表的长篇道歉信中所承认的那样，奥利弗第一次得知推翻对哈兰德越位判定并允许进球有效的决定时，该决定已经作为既定事实传达给了他。

1 VAR似乎在判定哈兰德是否越位（他确实没有越位）这件事上过于执迷，以至于完全忽略了对费尔南德斯是否影响比赛的主观判定，考虑到他与曼联后卫利桑德罗·马丁内斯以及门将塞内·拉门斯的距离之近。

随后，它又忽略了建议奥利弗进行现场回顾——如果奥利弗被允许观看回放，他肯定会判定该进球无效。

因此，在周日的老特拉福德表现更好的曼城以1-0赢得了比赛，而这个进球本不该成立。而且，这个进球可能会产生深远的影响。

曼联主教练迈克尔·卡里克因此承受了更大的压力。也许曼城因此获得的这两分将在本赛季的冠军争夺战中起到关键作用。

这曾是那种典型的、老派的人为失误。我们不需要VAR来制造人为失误，我们自己就绰绰有余。

VAR本应根除人为失误，但它没有做到。它只是增加了另一层人为失误。

在周日，VAR的无能被允许凌驾于比赛官员的卓越能力和经验之上。这简直是一团糟。它唯一的优点在于这是一个诚实的错误。

其实这就像VAR本身一样。VAR就是一个错误。越来越多的人开始意识到这一点，人们也因此失去了对这项运动的热爱。

有一种广泛且日益严重的认知，认为英超联赛正离其球迷群体越来越远。

人们觉得它正在夺走这项运动中最珍贵的东西。我对此已经思考一段时间了，而周日的比赛再次证实了这一点：是时候终结这个错误了。

事实上，人们越来越感觉到，一些俱乐部对自己的球迷群体持有几乎毫不掩饰的轻蔑。如果他们不对VAR采取禁令，这将成为证明。

在他们自己的赛事中废除VAR是在其权力范围之内的。瑞典超级联赛（Allsvenskan）就在没有VAR的情况下运行。如果英超俱乐部想要与其决裂，并向球迷展示他们在意他们，他们可以通过投票决定放弃它。

如果他们拥有远见、信念或对支持者的忠诚，那么英超联赛会做正确的事。但他们不会。

《今日比赛》带来了一剂及时的强心针

在本足球赛季的前几周，我觉得自己有成为一个统计数据的危险：成为那些逐渐远离《今日比赛》（Match of the Day）的观众群体中的一员。我在这50年里一直是个忠实观众，但有时感觉这个节目的衰落就像是一个自我实现的预言。用独立的集锦包来诱惑注意力难以集中的年轻一代，同时面对更多缺乏顶尖评论员参与的剧集，这种组合显然不是为了提升观众人数而设计的。但在周日晚上，在送儿子去大学上第一天课后，我比平时更需要分心转移注意力，于是我再次在其中找到了慰藉。

这依然像是在寻求一位老友的陪伴。马克·查普曼（Mark Chapman）是电视上最出色的主持人之一，韦恩·鲁尼（Wayne Rooney）和丹尼·墨菲（Danny Murphy）（两人均见上图）是极具个性和态度的优秀评论员，而曼彻斯特德比则为他们的讨论提供了各种争议点。

BBC 也许在试图让我们习惯没有它的日子，但我还没准备好就此放弃它。

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板球：第 58 页

给 VAR 搞砸者开红牌

德比惨剧后被停职的两人将不再执裁曼联比赛

独家报道 作者：迈克·基根 (MIKE KEEGAN)

《每日邮报》体育版获悉，周日曼彻斯特德比混乱事件中心的 VAR 官员在可预见的未来将被禁止执裁曼彻斯特联队的比赛。

在裁判主管霍华德·韦伯 (Howard Webb) 承认在判定埃尔林·哈兰德 (Erling Haaland) 为曼城在老特拉福德球场打入制胜球的决定中存在“判断错误”后，马特·多诺休 (Matt Donohue) 和助理布莱克·安特罗巴斯 (Blake Antrobus) 昨日已被暂停执裁本周末的赛事。

据知情人士透露，这对失职的搭档在一段时间内极不可能执裁曼联的比赛。

根据裁判机构 Pro Ref 的说法，多诺休和安特罗巴斯在“至少国际比赛日之后”之前将不会执裁。该机构再次陷入舆论风暴的中心。

哈兰德在老特拉福德球场第 60 分钟的进球在场上被判定为越位，当时这名挪威球员被认为超过了曼联的最后一名防守球员。

然而，VAR 介入并判定曼城前锋是被曼联后卫伸出的球鞋挡在了越位线以内

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英格兰球星亨利·波洛克 (Henry Pollock) 在敲定北安普顿新合同条款之际，透露了他移居海外或尝试其他运动的雄心。这位 21 岁的球员预计将在富兰克林花园球场签署一份为期两年的续约合同——尽管他对“每一个机会”都持开放态度。推广人埃迪·赫恩 (Eddie Hearn) 声称波洛克应该获得每年 100 万英镑的薪水，但这位后排前锋预计将获得一份价值 £1 的圣徒队新合同。

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8d. 这太夸张了，这太多了 (9) 5a. 如果可能，驱散另一种面貌 (8)

2d. 展开但乐趣被卖掉了 (7) 18a. 我，奇怪地在给出测量值时保持沉默 (10)

横向 1 图片线索 5 图片线索 9 关于再次行动的执行者 (4) 10 位于国家轴线上的俱乐部 (4) 11 关于皮肤的噩梦 (5) 12 临终仪式一点也不陈腐，嗯，女孩？(4)

10d. 我能织出的最好的织物 (7)

14 国际文凭与涉水鸟共存 (4) 15 图片线索 18 图片线索

明日答案

在 Pitcherwits 中挑战你的智慧——这是一个令人兴奋的谜题，其中部分答案以图片形式呈现！视觉线索的答案填入网格中的阴影区域。

PITCHERWITS 谜题书

MAILWORD

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纵向 1 图片线索 2 图片线索 3 简直不狡猾，这个小妖精！(3) 4 用少量方法制成的砖块持有者 (3) 6 重复的文具商，所以没有乱序 (7)

7 烤肉片状态不佳 (3) 8 图片线索 10 图片线索 13 数字起初是 seven，然后是 nine (3) 16 给曲线的一小部分裹上糖衣 (3) 17 假装在事实方面有些匮乏 (3)

昨日答案 — 横向：1 梅花王。5 鲶鱼。7 剑道。8 贝雷帽。9 草地。11 清晰。12 元素。13 下船。纵向：1 克尔凯郭尔。2 胜过。3 攀登。4 侦察。5 楔形。6 收获。10 蒸汽。11 螯。

横向

1 欧芹，例如 5 部长 11 恶魔般的 12 神秘的 13 玩具积木 14 蚀刻 15 海鲜项目 17 亚洲语言 18 海鱼 21 合适的 24 讽刺的 25 着色物质 26 熟练的射手 29 谷物 30 开始工作 34 场景 37 走不动的鸟

38 质数 39 改变航向 40 重新阅读 41 可食用的块茎

纵向

1 援助 2 任何时候 3 拉脱维亚城市 4 重击 5 芭蕾舞步 6 弯曲 7 用研磨剂清洗 8 涂有沥青的 9 最终 10 继续 16 消息 19 肢体

20 额外的板球得分 21 悠闲的步行者 22 有条件释放 23 可观察的弹药 27 恶棍 28 在边缘 31 女性名字 32 丰富 33 叶片 35 牧场 36 结论

答案 明日公布

HIDATO

完成网格，使 1 到 49 的所有数字连续连接——水平、垂直或对角线。提示：你不必从 1 或 49 开始。从中间数字入手可能会让你更容易开始。

答案 明日公布

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KENKEN

每行和每列应包含 1 到 6 且不重复。笼子中的数字必须使用给定的数学符号（顺序不限）组合，以得出该笼子开头所示的目标数字。单格笼子可直接填入给定的数字。

世界上最小、最难的十字谜题

将给定单词的乱序字母填入网格中，以形成六个五个字母的横向和纵向单词。

答案 明日公布

横向

1. FBI 特工 (美国俚语) (1-3)

2. 带司机的车 (口语) (4)

3. 华丽的花朵 (4)

4. 被强迫的 (4)

纵向

1. 一盏灯 (俚语) (4)
2. 鲸鱼座的一颗星 (4)
3. 在……之内 (4)
4. 狭窄的幅度 (4) 答案 明日公布

密码游戏 (CODEWORD)

密码格中的每个数字代表一个不同的英文字母。今天 25 代表 P，因此每当数字 25 出现时，请填入 P。控制格中已为您提供了两个字母作为起始。将它们填入主格中相应的方格内，然后利用您的词汇知识推导出缺失方格中应填入的字母。答案将于明日公布。

完成密码游戏以揭晓阴影方格中的单词。

可能存在多种解法。

参与方式：请致电 0901 293 6232 留下您的答案和详细信息，或发送短信至 65700，内容包含单词 CODE、您的答案以及您的姓名。短信和电话费用为 £1 加上标准网络费用。每周将从周一 00.01 至周六 23.59 收到所有正确每日参赛条目中随机抽取一名获胜者。答案每天 00.01 更新。仅限 18 岁及以上的英国居民（不包括北爱尔兰）。详见条款与条件。

您的用时：□ 分 □ 秒

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数字交叉谜题

4 分 8 秒

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明日公布答案

在每个方格中填入数字 1 到 9。水平方格之和等于右侧的总数。垂直方格之和等于底部的总数。穿过中心的对角线方格之和等于右上角和右下角的总数。

拼字游戏 SCRABBLE® 品牌 G₂ R₁ A₁ M₃ S₁

■ 右侧的棋盘显示了典型拼字游戏中的四行字母。利用每行字母组成一个 2-7 个字母的单词，并将其写在提供的空白格中。然后计算每行的得分。不要忘记使用单词双倍 / 三倍分和字母双倍 / 三倍分——且每组成一个 7 字母单词可获得 50 分奖金。空白字块可用作任何字母，但没有分数。答案请见明日报纸。 SCRABBLE® 和 SCRABBLE® 字块是注册商标。该游戏在美国的所有权归 Hasbro Inc 所有，在加拿大归 Hasbro Canada Inc 所有，在其他地区归 Mattel, Inc 的子公司 J.W. Spear & Sons Ltd 所有。

标准得分 201-215 由 JUDD 设计

四组字架 总时间 限制：20 分钟

昨日答案：SCRATCH 78 TREBLE 14 CITADEL 70 DIGNIFY 65 JUDD 总分：227

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单词搜索

列表中的单词都可以在网格中找到——方向包括正向、反向、向上、向下以及对角线——但除了一个。想要获得获胜机会，请找出缺失的单词。 今日主题：《权力的游戏》家族

ARRYN BARATHEON BLACKFYRE GREYJOY LANNISTER

MARTELL STARK TARGARYEN TULLY TYRELL

如何参与：请致电 0901 293 6234 留下您的答案和详细信息，或发送短信至 65700，内容包含单词 WORD、您的答案和姓名。短信和电话费用为 £1 另加标准网络费用。将从周一 00.01 至周五 23.59 之间收到的所有正确每日参赛条目中选出一名获胜者。答案每天在 00.01. 变更。仅限 18 岁及以上的英国居民，不包括北爱尔兰。详见条款与条件。答案将于明日公布。

数独 X

在每一行、每一列、每一条对角线（突出显示为 X 形）以及每个 3x2 的水平方格（有线框）中，分别填入数字 1-6 各一次。答案将于明日公布。

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快速问答

1. 哪个数学定理最早在 17 世纪被提出，并由安德鲁·怀尔斯在 1994 年证明？

2. 哪种成年男性歌唱声部比男高音低，比男低音高？

3. Haerfest 是哪个秋季词汇的盎格鲁-撒克逊语原形？

4. 谁在 1987 年的电影《罗克珊》（Roxanne）中饰演男主角？

5. 亨利八世的妻子中有多少人被斩首？

答案：见封底插页

GOGEN

AWE BOXED COME DEMOGRAPHY FAR FUND JAW LED QUARK VISTA

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

插入字母以组成列出的单词，在相邻单元格之间水平、垂直或沿任何方向对角线移动。将字母表中的所有剩余字母（除 Z 外）填入网格，使所有列出的单词都被拼写出来。

答案将于明日公布

桥牌大师课 / 隐喻填字游戏

第 17,966 期

西家 ♠ 无 ♥ AKQ762 ♦ AK5 ♣ Q643

您在 6♥ 局中担任西家，北家在开局时报了弱 2♠ 并领出 ♠A。您吃掉此牌并抽掉将牌，北家持有 ♥J-x-x，南家弃掉两张低点黑桃。现在您打出一张梅花到 ♣A，打出一张方块到 ♦A，两名防守方均跟牌。您再次领出一张将牌，从明手弃掉一张黑桃，南家弃掉了 ♠10。

您从叫牌中得知南家持有 ♦Q，因此打出最后一张将牌和另外两轮梅花，最后停在手牌。如果南家还保留一张梅花，您现在可以打出最后一张梅花，南家将被迫从 ♦Q 领出。如果南家还保留两张梅花，♦Q 现在将在 ♦K 下落。

想要获得获胜机会，请完成填字游戏以揭示阴影方格中纵向排列的单词。如何参与：请致电 0901 293 6233 留下今日答案和您的详细信息，或发送短信至 65700，内容包含单词 CRYPTIC、您的答案和姓名。短信 / 电话费用为 £1 另加标准网络费用。或通过邮寄方式，将完成的填字游戏寄至 Daily Mail Prize Crossword 17,966, PO Box 28, Colchester, Essex CO2 8GF。请附上您的姓名和地址。将从周一 00.01 至周五 23.59 之间收到的所有正确每日参赛条目中选出一名每周获胜者。邮寄条目必须在次日之前盖戳才有效。电话和短信必须在 23.59 前收到；答案在 00.01 变更。仅限 18 岁及以上的英国居民，不包括北爱尔兰。详见条款与条件。

HEATHER DHONDY

横向

6 分店林立的商店对某些问题的最佳描述？ (8,6) 9 离开研究所后，看起来异常像天使 (6) 10 两名女性在外观上保留了制服 (8) 11 统治者在加勒比海首都扰乱了吨位 (8) 13 允许披露的购物场所 (6) 15 紧张的喜剧演员和同伴使其产生神经质的抽动 (6) 17 宣布优势？关于正确 (6) 19 欧洲人在回归后遇到了巨大的尊重 (6) 20 像马萨诸塞州和特拉华州最好的食物一样 (8) 22 官方文件并非头衔人物所关注的事项 (8) 24 考虑非常疲惫的人在减轻体重后进行表演 (6) 26 理解现在在撤退中被扰乱的个体将获得报复 (3,4,3,4)

纵向

1 将名单放入其中，为重要器官设计名称 (5,9) 2 男子渴望地啃食三明治 (4) 3 直率的指南 (6) 4 鲍勃在放错切割工具后很生气 (8) 5 间歇地，地点，是的，蛋白质来源 (4) 7 内衣中（不完整）的亲切的奥斯卡和维克多 (6) 8 非常平静的类型本质上在堪萨斯西部，以查看作家的全部作品？ (9,5) 12 男子在法国岛屿上短暂展示的工艺 (5) 14 另一份备忘录中显示的温度量度 (5) 16 个人电脑，例如，是一个到达周围地方的人 (8) 18 在贫困地区辛苦工作而发热 (6) 21 普通薄布中的某些农民 (6) 23 不热心的粉丝 (4) 25 登山者在山坡陡峭处度假时进行速降 (4)

需要提示？发送 TIP 至 65700 即可获得今日填字游戏的四个答案，或致电 0901 293 6236。短信和电话费用为 £1 加上标准网络费用。今日提示仅在今日 00.01 至 23.30 之间提供。

昨日谜题答案

从左侧给出的数字开始，并按照指示向右进行。在 30 秒内，初级玩家必须完成自己的挑战；中级玩家必须完成自己的挑战以及初级玩家的挑战；高级玩家必须完成自己的挑战以及中级玩家的挑战。

数独 奖金数独

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HIDATO

初级< / td><>83< / ><>-19< / ><> $\div 16$ < / ><> $\times 12$ < / ><>+43< / ><> $\div 7$ < / ><> $\times 10$ < / ><>+5< / ><> $\div 9$ < / ><> $\times 40$ < / ><>< / >< / tr><><>中级< / ><>27< / ><>+48< / ><> 其 $^{6} / {15}$ < / ><> 其 25%< / ><> $\times 20$ < / ><>-6< / ><> 其 $^{5} / {6}$ < / ><>-8< / ><> 其 $^{5} / {8}$ < / ><> 其 $^{9} / {10}$ < / ><>< / >< / ><><>高级< / ><>85< / ><>减少40%< / ><> 其 $^{14} / {17}$ < / ><> $\times 11$ < / ><>减少 $33^{1} / {3}\%$ < / ><>+22< / ><> 其 $^{6} / {15}$ < / ><>减少25%< / ><> $\times 2^{1} / {3}$ < / ><> 其 $^{4} / _{14}$ < / ><>< / >< / table>

KAKURO

数字填字游戏

NINE TO FIVE

<><>< / ><>T< / ><>I< / ><>M< / ><>< / >< / ><><>M< / ><>O< / ><>N< / ><>E< / ><>Y< / >< / ><><>E< / ><>D< / ><>G< / ><>E< / ><>S< / >< / ><><>M< / ><>A< / ><>L< / ><>T< / ><>Y< / >< / ><><>< / ><>Y< / ><>E< / ><>S< / ><>< / >< / table>

单词轮盘：ceiling, cleg, cling, decile, decline, dele, deleing, deli, diligence, dingle, elide, eliding, geld, gelid, gild, glee, glen, glide, idle, idling, ledge, legend, lend, lied, liege, lien, line, lined, ling.

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通识填字游戏

通识填字游戏 横向：7 Clarke。8 冰块。 9 文件夹。10 八月。11 登记。 12 公证人。13 戴安·摩根。 18 飞行。20 非金属。22 西班牙。 23 暂停。24 小冠冕。25 房客。

KENKEN 数独 X

<><>4-5< / ><>1< / ><>4< / ><> $2 \frac{1}{2}$ 3< / ><>6< / ><>40×2< / >< / ><><> $3 \frac{1}{2}$ 6< / ><> $2 -$ 3< / ><>1< / ><> $2 \frac{1}{2}$ 2< / ><>4< / ><>5< / >< / ><><>2< / ><>8+5< / ><>3< / ><>5-6< / ><>1< / ><>4< / >< / ><><>1-3< / ><>8+2< / ><>6< / ><>9+4< / ><>5< / ><>2-1< / >< / ><><>4< / ><>1-6< / ><>5< / ><>3+1< / ><>2< / ><>3< / >< / ><><>1< / ><> $11 +$ 4< / ><>2< / ><>5< / ><> $2 \frac{1}{2}$ 3< / ><>6< / >< / table>

杀手数独 (KILLER SUDOKU)

全球最小、最难的纵横字谜 —— 横向：1 High。 4 Ea. 5 Sn. 6 Baht。纵向：1 Herb. 2 IA. 3 Hint. 5 Sh.

4< / td><>6< / ><>3< / ><>2< / ><>5< / ><>1< / >< / tr><><>2< / ><>1< / ><>5< / ><>6< / ><>4< / ><>3< / >< / ><><>3< / ><>4< / ><>6< / ><>5< / ><>1< / ><>2< / >< / ><><>1< / ><>5< / ><>2< / ><>3< / ><>6< / ><>4< / >< / ><><>5< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>4< / ><>2< / ><>6< / >< / ><><>6< / ><>2< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>3< / ><>5< / >< / table>

GOGEN

Y D X C H M E N P F B U G O J Q T R I K S V A W L

纵向：1 Blooper. 2 Graffiti. 3 Zealot. 4 Retainer. 5 Nugget. 6 Sensory. 8 Instrumentals. 14 No-go area. 15 Adelaide. 16 Glasgow. 17 Sanchez. 19 In a row. 21 Needle.

隐喻纵横字谜 No. 17,963

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1 手镯。 2 自然。 3 崇敬。 4 事件。 5 摊位。 6 月桂。 7 后退。 8 拥抱。 9 少女。 10 Meters。 11 回忆。 12 地窖。

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Harry and Meghan pull children out of their new school after just two days

Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet are removed from prep due to security fears

PRINCE Harry and Meghan have pulled their children from their new British school after just two days.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex removed Prince Archie, seven, and Princess Lilibet,

By Sam Greenhill Chief Reporter

five, from their prep school for security reasons.

The children have been living in Britain only since last month and started at school last week.

A spokesman for the Sussexes Turn to Page 5

Safety concerns: The Sussexes moved back to Britain last month

Weather Go to: dailymail.co.uk/weather for UK and world 5 day forecast

Summary: Showers & sun

UK TODAY: Rain showers dominate early, easing by mid-morning with sunny intervals. The afternoon remains mostly cloudy with occasional sunshine. Evening turns cooler with mostly clear skies. Max 21c.

Today's weather

	9am	12noon	3pm	6pm	9pm
London	18c	20c	22c	20c	16c
Plymouth	17c	19c	20c	18c	15c
Cardiff	17c	18c	18c	17c	15c
B'ham	17c	19c	19c	18c	15c
M'chester	16c	17c	17c	16c	14c
Newcastle	16c	18c	18c	16c	14c
Glasgow	14c	15c	16c	15c	13c
Aberdeen	14c	16c	16c	14c	13c
Belfast	13c	15c	16c	15c	12c

5 day forecast

	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun
London	20c	21c	21c	23c	23c
Plymouth	19c	19c	19c	20c	20c
Cardiff	19c	18c	18c	20c	20c
B'ham	18c	18c	18c	20c	20c
M'chester	16c	16c	16c	18c	19c
Newcastle	17c	17c	17c	18c	18c
Glasgow	16c	14c	15c	16c	16c
Aberdeen	14c	16c	16c	17c	17c
Belfast	16c	15c	15c	17c	17c

Europe forecast
	today	c	f	tomorrow	c	f	Geneva	today	c	f	tomorrow	c	f
								sun	29	84	thunder	21	70
Amsterdam	cloudy	23	73	thunder	18	64	Lisbon	sun	29	84	sun	26	79
Brussels	fair	27	81	rain	19	66	Madrid	sun	36	97	sun	31	88
Frankfurt	fair	28	82	rain	22	72	Paris	sun	33	91	fair	22	72
							Rome	sun	30	86	sun	30	86

Around the world yesterday

	weather	c	f
Algiers	Sunny	29	84
Amsterdam	Cloudy	20	68
Athens	Fair	30	86
Auckland	Cloudy	17	63
Bahrain	Sunny	43	109
Barcelona	Sunny	28	82
Basra	Sunny	45	113
Beijing	Sunny	26	79
Beirut	Sunny	29	84
Belfast	Cloudy	18	64
Belgrade	Cloudy	22	72
Berlin	Cloudy	16	61
Biarritz	Sunny	27	81
Brisbane	Fair	22	72
Brussels	Cloudy	20	68
Bucharest	Fair	22	72
Budapest	Cloudy	19	66
Cairo	Sunny	34	93
Cape Town	Showers	16	61
Casablanca	Sunny	32	90
Copenhagen	Cloudy	16	61
Corfu	Sunny	29	84
Dubai	Sunny	39	102
Dublin	Cloudy	22	72
Dubrovnik	Fair	25	77
Faro	Sunny	29	84

	weather	c	f
Florence	Sunny	29	84
Geneva	Sunny	24	75
Gibraltar	Fair	24	75
Guernsey	Fair	18	64
Helsinki	Sunny	15	59
Hong Kong	Thunder	28	82
Innsbruck	Showers	19	66
Istanbul	Fair	23	73
Jersey	Fair	20	68
Larnaca	Sunny	31	88
Las Palmas	Sunny	30	86
Lisbon	Sunny	32	90
London	Cloudy	24	75
Los Angeles	Fair	26	79
Luxor	Sunny	40	104
Madrid	Sunny	29	84
Malaga	Sunny	28	82
Malta	Thunder	24	75
Melbourne	Cloudy	18	64
Mexico City	Sunny	22	72
Miami	Fair	32	90
Milan	Sunny	26	79
Montreal	Cloudy	23	73
Moscow	Fair	16	61
Mumbai	Showers	30	86
Nairobi	Cloudy	21	70

day
	weather	time
		c f
New Delhi	Sunny	33 91
New York	Thunder	22 72
Nice	Sunny	26 79
Oslo	Cloudy	14 57
Palma	Sunny	29 84
Paris	Sunny	26 79
Perth	Fair	21 70
Prague	Cloudy	18 64
Rhodes	Sunny	29 84
Riga	Cloudy	17 63
Rome	Fair	28 82
Singapore	Fair	32 90
Stockholm	Fair	17 63
Strasbourg	Cloudy	25 77
Sydney	Sunny	28 82
Tangier	Sunny	32 90
Tel Aviv	Sunny	33 91
Tenerife	Sunny	34 93
Tokyo	Sunny	32 90
Toronto	Fair	26 79
Tunis	Fair	30 86
Vancouver	Fair	18 64
Venice	Sunny	25 77
Vienna	Showers	20 68
Warsaw	Cloudy	18 64
Wellington	Sunny	15 59

Moon and Sun

MOON rises: 12.03pm, sets: 8.16pm Sun rises London: 6.35am, sets: 7.15pm Manchester rises: 6.42am, sets: 7.24pm HIGH TIDE London Bridge: 5.18pm Liverpool: 2.22pm

Extremes (24 hrs to 11pm Sun) Warmest: Frittenden, 24c. Coldest: Braemar No 2, 2c. Wettest: Libanus, 31.60mm. Sunniest: Lerwick, 7.6hrs.

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Kemi: Tories DO want to scrap the hated 'death tax'

She says axeing inheritance levy would help 'ordinary families build generational wealth'

make any announcement till there's a clear plan.'

By Martin Beckford Policy Editor

Vow: Kemi Badenoch wants to axe 'death tax'

KEMI Badenoch wants to scrap the hated ‘death tax’, she said last night.

The Tory leader confirmed she was looking at how to ditch inheritance tax to relieve the burden that falls heavily on middle-class families.

Amid rows about billionaires donating to political parties, Mrs Badenoch said she wanted to help ‘ordinary families build generational wealth’, and there are growing expectations that she will announce the policy during her speech to the Conservative party conference in Birmingham next month.

New Shadow Chancellor Andrew Griffith has said that inheritance tax would be his first choice if he could get rid of any levy. It would follow Mrs

Badenoch's pledge to abolish stamp duty if she becomes prime minister – a policy which electrified last year's party conference and helped revive both the party and her leadership.

Mrs Badenoch last night revealed that she had asked her team to find ‘fiscally responsible ways’ to tackle the ‘burden’ of the levy on estates, while taking aim at Reform UK and its billionaire crypto backers.

'The people caught by inheritance tax are mostly home-owning middle-class families due to house price inflation, diligent savers, and small-business owners,' she said. 'The super-wealthy can afford trusts and sophisticated tax planning or move abroad.'

Mrs Badenoch seized on a claim made by Reform's Robert Jenrick that it would be ‘morally wrong’ to prioritise abolishing inheritance

ALEX BRUMMER PAGE 14

tax ahead of taking low earners out of paying income tax, marking a major policy divide between the two parties on the Right.

In the first official confirmation that the move is being considered after it was first revealed by The Mail on Sunday, she wrote on social media: 'Reform says abolishing inheritance tax is "morally wrong". I think it is morally wrong to punish people for doing the right thing – spending a lifetime working, saving, building up a business or a home to pass on to the next generation.'

She admitted that Conservative supporters will ‘sometimes include wealthy people’ but said her party was on the side of millions who have ‘paid their dues’ and want what they have built up to benefit their children or communities.

‘We are on their side,’ she said, adding: ‘But we won’t

Mrs Badenoch also took a swipe at Reform donors including Christopher Harborne, one of the two cryptocurrency tycoons whose record-breaking £72million donations are at the centre of a growing row over political funding.

She claimed that they 'don't need to worry about ordinary inheritance tax planning, because they keep money in crypto or out of the country'.

Last night her former Tory leadership rival Mr Jenrick hit back, saying: 'We can all agree inheritance tax is a bad tax. But the question is, when you have to choose what to cut first, given the appalling state of the public finances, what do you pick?

‘You are choosing to help the wealthiest 5 per cent, while we want to raise the tax-free personal allowance to £15,000 to benefit 97 per cent of workers instead.’

Although Andy Burnham has ruled out going to the country early, many in Westminster believe he will do so to free himself from Keir Starmer's manifesto pledges and red lines on tax.

He is known to favour a different kind of ‘death tax’, in the form of a potential 10 per cent levy payable by the majority of households on death to fund his plans for social care.

Blunkett fury - Page 10

Don't worry about AI, we have Trump!

By Jon Michael Raasch

DONALD Trump has claimed that artificial intelligence already has the only ‘guardrail’ it needs: Himself.

The US President posted on Truth Social yesterday: 'The only control or "guardrails" that AI needs is a strong and smart (high IQ!) President, and the USA has that, in spades!'

His comments came amid growing warnings about the technology's risks after Dario Amodei, the chief executive of AI firm Anthropic, warned its development must slow down at the weekend.

Yesterday Mr Trump hit out at Mr

Amodei, claiming he was ‘pretending to be a perfect little angel’.

Suggesting that fears about the technology were a ‘sick conspiracy’ to benefit China, the President added: ‘Whoever wins AI, wins. We are leading China, and all others, and will continue to do so. Conspiracy theorists, treasonists, traitors, and leakers, beware!’

Technology stocks tumbled yesterday as several AI leaders – including Sam Altman of OpenAI and Sir Demis

Hassabis of Google DeepMind – backed Mr Amodei. In New York, the tech-dominated Nasdaq fell more than 1 per cent in early trading following heavy sell-offs in Asia overnight.

Last night Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark also warned AI firms may need to introduce a ‘kill switch’ if the technology becomes too dangerous.

The White House is set to meet AI providers soon, leading Republican Mike Johnson said yesterday. He added that the US Congress could play a regulatory role in the future but did not want to act ‘irrationally’.

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Naked ambition: Sydney Sweeney bares all in the controversial advert for the bookmaker

Golden girl Amy tears a strip off Sydney...

BRITISH star sprinter Amy Hunt has accused Sydney Sweeney of sexualising women in sport after the actress posed naked in an advert for a bookmaker.

Role model: Amy Hunt hit out after race in Budapest

Ms Sweeney, 29, used sports equipment to protect her modesty in a promotional video for Novig – drawing condemnation from across the world of women's sport.

By Luke Power and Joanna Crawley

Ms Hunt, who this summer became the first athlete to win four gold medals at a single European Championships, used her post-race interview at the inaugural World Athletics Ultimate Championship to hit out at the actress.

After finishing fourth in the 200m in Budapest on Sunday, the 24-year-old Cambridge graduate said: 'Sydney Sweeney, this is what women in sport looks like. 21.4 [seconds, the winning time of Melissa Jefferson-Wooden], muscles, hard work, sweat, blood, tears. This is a beautiful evening.' The sprinter –

who has previously called herself ‘sexy and aggressive’ – said the reality of being a female athlete is rather different than the advert suggests.

She added: 'There's some low moments. Even turning up to this championship, my period started yesterday, so that's not really ideal.'

And Australian swimmer Ariarne Titmus, 26, a four-times Olympic gold-medal winner, inset, said: 'How do we live in a

world where monetising a women's body and sexualising women's sport is still a thing?'

The criticism comes after Novig founder Jacob Fortinsky revealed Ms Sweeney, who holds an equity stake in the company, had pushed to appear nude in the campaign. It

comes a year after a racism row over her ‘great jeans’ advert for American Eagle clothing.

Still mad for it! Oasis reveal they'll play four nights at Knebworth

By Codie Bullen Senior Showbusiness Reporter

Rolling in it: Liam and Noel Gallagher

THIRTY years after Oasis turned Knebworth into the defining spectacle of the Britpop era, they are heading back to Hertfordshire.

The Gallaghers will return to the scene of their greatest triumph next year, with four Knebworth dates confirmed in a 38-show world tour.

Over two days in 1996, 250,000 fans descended on Knebworth House to witness the band at the crowning moment in their career.

Now, brothers Liam and Noel are giving a new generation the chance to see it for themselves.

After the huge financial success of their comeback tour in 2025, Oasis Live '27 will see the band in

Scotland, England, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, France, Italy, the US and Ireland.

The tour kicks off in Glasgow on May 21 and includes 11 dates at Manchester City's Etihad Stadium. 'Start the celebrations,' the band wrote online. And, mocking criticism of the band, Oasis added: 'After a period of reflection, “The Most Damaging Pop Cultural Force In Recent British History” has declared itself fit for purpose and will once again return to lift the spirits of the people... It shall be a sight to behold.

A source previously said a tour ‘has been in the making for some time’, adding: ‘Unlike last time, there’s not such a panic about whether Liam and Noel will get on. It's just a case of them looking forward to getting on stage.'

Oasis had not performed together since their split in 2009, when Noel walked out after a backstage row with his younger brother. When they announced their comeback, the original run of 14 shows in Britain and Ireland was repeatedly extended as millions tried to secure tickets.

Fans complained of spending hours in online queues before discovering some tickets initially available for £148.50 were being sold for £355.20 under dynamic pricing. But standard ticket prices for 2027 will be fixed and range between £71.50 and £266.60.

Toll booth Britain Labour steps up ‘war on motorists’, with firms to get power to make drivers pay on new roads

Taking a toll: Booths across motorways could become a common sight in the UK under the proposed Highways (Financing) Bill

EXCLUSIVE By David Churchill

NEW toll roads could spring up across the country under Labour's latest ‘war on motorists’.

Khan triples number of 20mph zones in London

Ministers are planning to hand sweeping powers to private firms who stump up the cash for road building and maintenance projects.

Under proposed laws ‘slyly’ tabled last week, firms would effectively become the new highway authorities and be free to clobber drivers with crippling new tolls and penalties. It raises the prospect of Dartford Crossing-style toll roads, tunnels and bridges springing up across the country at pinch points where drivers often have little choice other than to pay.

It will apply to existing roads which firms upgrade as well as newly built schemes, meaning motorists face charges for using highways they currently drive on for free.

While supporters argue it could unlock investment to get roads built or upgraded that the public purse can't afford, critics say it threatens to create a ‘wild west’ patchwork of charges across the country.

It comes amid a blizzard of 'anti-car'

'They see drivers as a cash cow'

measures since Labour came to power, including the rise of 20mph zones, which have sparked a surge in speeding tickets.

LONDON'S Labour mayor has more than tripled the number of miles subject to 20mph limits on roads under his control.

In 2021, there were just 50 miles of 20mph zones on roads controlled by Transport for London (TfL), which Labour peer Lord Khan chairs. But this had jumped to 166 miles in March this year, according to figures obtained by the Daily Mail.

It means nearly half the roads across Greater London – an area of 600 square miles which borders the Home Counties – under Lord Khan's control are 20mph zones. He has control over 360 miles of highways across the region.

By David Churchill

Critics said it was the latest proof Labour's 'war on motorists', and lays bare the astronomical rise of 20mph zones across Greater London, which has become a blueprint for their rollout as the default maximum limit on residential roads across swathes of England.

deaths and serious injuries on London's roads. When roads controlled by town halls are included, more than half of highways across Greater London now have 20mph limits.

The rollout is part of Lord Khan's ‘Vision Zero’ initiative, which aims to eliminate all

But they have become controversial amid growing numbers of drivers being ensnared by speed cameras. These include crime author Lynda La Plante, who pleaded guilty in August to breaking the 20mph speed limit five times in six months in Kingston-upon-Thames.

Tory transport spokesman Greg Smith said: 'Having already made driving in

‘It’s clear Labour are trying to dodge accountability as they keep hammering away at drivers who they simply see as a cash cow.’

Shadow transport secretary Holden said: 'It's clear that Labour are planning a stealth tax bonanza in Andy Burnham's first Budget [next month] when it comes to overnight accommodation and now this, too. Labour is trying to slyly slip out plans for charging for road use – on top of their plan to raise fuel duty and for pay per mile – with no thought as to even capping what could be charged while potentially creating a Wild West of punitive new charges.

Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice added: 'Labour is waging a war on motorists and working families are paying the price.'

AA president Edmund King said: 'Drivers already pay for roads with the £34billion in fuel duty and vehicle excise duty (road tax) so extra charges would e centre of London utterly miserable thanks to endless cycle lanes, 20mph zones and uncapped roadworks, the greater expansion of 20mph zones in London is the next, sadly predictable, chapter in Labour's war on motorists.'

A TfL spokesman said: 'The evidence is clear that 20mph speed limits save lives.'

'I'm your wife, George. I am not paying you to park at my own house'

be a toll too far.' Since Labour won the 2024 election, it has also announced a pay-per-mile levy for electric and hybrid vehicles and is planning a fuel duty raid in the New Year which would push up pump prices even further after they spiralled following the Iran war.

The latest measures were unveiled in the Highways (Financing) Bill, which was tabled on Thursday without a written parliamentary statement or announcement on the Department for Transport website.

In July, the Mail revealed how parking tickets could more than double – from a £70 cap to £160 – outside of London under proposals being considered. Many councils have also hiked parking charges to boost their coffers, with some even considering a tax on workplace parking spaces.

The Bill would create a new regime under which private firms granted a licence after building or upgrading roads would be allowed to introduce new tolls to recoup their costs. In a letter to MPs titled ‘Official-Sensitive’, but seen by the Daily Mail, Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander said: ‘This model is a well-established way of financing major infrastructure in England and has been successfully used in other sectors such as energy and aviation.’

The overhaul would apply to A roads and motorways and be monitored by the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) regulator in a bid to ensure tolls do not become excessive. The Lower Thames Crossing, a planned 14.5-mile project connecting Kent and Essex near Dartford, is pencilled in as one of the first schemes to fall under the new regime, according to Ms Alexander's letter.

The Department for Transport said: 'Any tolls introduced under this legislation will be capped and independently regulated.'

Burnham's father - who never knew his son was PM - dies of Alzheimer's

By Greg Heffer

ANDY Burnham's father, who had Alzheimer's, has died.

The Prime Minister cancelled meetings yesterday and today, including a speech he was due to give at the TUC conference.

Shortly before becoming PM, Mr Burnham spoke of his ‘sadness’ that Roy, 85, would not be aware his son had the top job.

‘That’s a sadness because he would be [proud],’ Mr Burnham said in July. ‘The way I see it, it’s his achievement as well. A whole family achievement, although he doesn’t know it.’

Mr Burnham has often said his father's illness is one of the driving factors behind his bid to reform social care.

Shortly after he became PM, he vowed to help ‘my dad and the

Proud: With Roy at 2016 vote to run for Manchester mayor

millions like him'. He has promised to 'grasp the nettle' on social care reforms, saying after he replaced Sir Keir Starmer as Labour leader: 'I've got personal experience of the system.

‘My dad has Alzheimer’s and you see what the staff have to put up with. It’s not their fault. The system’s broken. You can’t leave social care like this.’

Roy was a former telephone engineer, first with the Post Office and then with BT.

Roy leaves wife Eileen and the PM's brothers, Nick and John.

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch gave her condolences, adding: 'Losing your father is a profoundly painful experience.'

Michelle Dyson, of Alzheimer's Society, applauded the PM as an 'advocate for improving the lives of people affected by dementia'.

Foreign aid set to double

LABOUR will more than double spending on foreign aid, the new international development minister said yesterday.

Kirsty McNeill declared herself ‘a huge believer in aid’ as she recommitted to a manifesto pledge to send 0.7 per cent of national income overseas.

Britain is set to spend £9.2billion on foreign aid in 2027, while meeting the 0.7 per cent target will cost an extra £11billion a year – dwarfing the £4billion rise for defence spending.

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said: ‘The decision for the children to move school was taken following a discussion with the family’s security team.

‘The parents remain extremely grateful to all the teachers and staff for the love, care and effort they have shown their family.

‘This decision should in no way be interpreted as a reflection on the school or the exceptional care the children have received there,’ the spokesman told Hello magazine.

It is understood that the Sussexes' security team were concerned that the distance and the heavy traffic on the school run route was difficult to make secure.

A friend added: 'It's a real shame, because they absolutely adored the school, the kids and their parents. They really wanted to make it work, but they had to make a difficult decision based on the fact that the team couldn't make the school run operationally secure.'

Archie and Lilibet will now join another school in the area after visiting for a taster session on Monday, the magazine said. Harry was spotted settling Lilibet into the reception class and the couple have been added to the parents' WhatsApp groups, it was said.

The dramatic development comes as it emerged that Harry's demand for taxpayer-funded police protection is being ‘reviewed’ now he is back in Britain.

The duke and duchess are said to have been informed that a decision was made at a meeting last week to examine the threat to both of them – the first time Meghan's security has been reviewed since the pair quit as working royals. As part of the assessment, the couple will be asked to provide details of their daily lives, details of school runs, addresses they regularly visits and routes.

The prince has been at loggerheads with the Home Office for years over its decision to

'They absolutely adored the school'

remove his automatic right to security. Harry argues that he was born a prince and needs police protection when in the UK. But he lost a series of legal battles against the Home Office which deemed he had forfeited the right to be able to call at will on taxpayer-funded protection after he quit as a frontline royal in 2020 and moved to California.

Only last year, after yet another defeat at the Royal Courts of Justice – against his father's Government – the prince declared in a petulant BBC interview that he could not imagine a time when he could safely bring his family to his country of birth. But now that he has had a sudden change of heart, bringing Meghan, Archie and Lilibet to live in the UK, his access to police protection is being reviewed, it is understood.

ITV News said the Home Office committee that decides on security provision for high-profile royals and politicians – known as Ravec – had written to Harry informing him a ‘full review’ will take place.

Last week, some in Harry's camp accused Buckingham Palace of trying to scupper the Ravec meeting with King Charles's bomb-shell letter, which made clear that the Sussexes remain, despite their return to Britain, 'private citizens', not working royals.

Harry and Meghan were taken by surprise by the letter and would prefer to be known as ‘public figures’, sources said. They believed the timing of the letter may have been an attempt to influence the Ravec committee on whether to reinstate Harry's taxpayer-funded security. At the time, the Daily Mail reported that such claims were incorrect, and the letter was sent out by the Palace to offer clarity ahead of a busy programme for the Sussexes.

Child's play: Lilibet and Archie in Britain

The Ravec review, called a risk management board (RMB), will be conducted for both Harry and Meghan.

Harry had an RMB completed in July, but this was conducted before those assessing his case knew about his plans to relocate his family to the UK.

ITV News reported that the only protection the Sussexes have been given by British police is the phone number of a liaison officer.

The duke has been told to call the number should he need police help, but he believes this is essentially zero protection as it would take officers a long time to reach him, were he or his family in distress or under attack.

Harry argues that he is the son of the British monarch, the fifth in line to the throne and a veteran of the Army who completed two tours of duty in Afghanistan.

He was criticised by some British officers for his decision to boast in his 2023 memoir Spare about how many people he had killed during his battles against the Taliban.

Some suggested this had massively increased his need for protection.

Scotland Yard does not discuss the security arrangements of royals but it is understood that protection is arranged on a case-by-case basis and is constantly under review. During some recent UK events attended by Harry, he has clearly been afforded police security. The Home Office was contacted for comment.

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By Jason Groves and Sophie Church

ANGELA RAYNER has been accused of ‘hyperventilating hypocrisy’ after she criticised mega donations to Reform UK but defended the millions that Labour is given by its trade union paymasters.

In an extraordinary intervention, the Communities Secretary yesterday vowed to ‘defend our democracy’ against ‘fascist oligarchs’ donating to Nigel Farage’s party.

Crypto billionaires Ben Delo and Christopher Harborne stunned the political establishment after announcing at the weekend that they would each give Reform £36million – the biggest ever single donations to a British political party.

Downing Street has now confirmed that the Government is set to change the law on donations retrospectively, potentially

'Terrified of our progress'

forcing Reform to hand back the money. Ministers have also indicated they could cap all future donations.

In a speech at the Trades Union Congress conference in Brighton, Ms Rayner said the two mega donations to Reform ‘could not be more different’ from the millions handed to Labour each year by the big unions. They have given the party about £150million since 2010.

Reform accused Labour of hypocrisy and suggested that it could move to ban union donations in the future if Labour tries to block its own donors.

Its Treasury spokesman Robert Jenrick accused Ms Rayner of a ‘deranged rant’ and said Reform was prepared to go ‘all the way to the Supreme Court’ or even

SKETCH by QUENTIN LETTS

WITH that JCB bucket of a jaw, there is something of the lurching bulldozer to Angela Rayner. Operators need to be careful. After you fire up the engine, too heavy a boot on the pedal can cause unintended damage.

Crump! Did she just call a couple of Reform-supporting billionaires 'fascist oligarchs'? For the sake of the Government's defamation lawyers, we must hope the Reform chaps do not take offence.

Labour strategists had agreed, maniacs, that Mrs Rayner should address the TUC's conference in rough-hewn Brighton. The Lib Dems are also heading to Brighton in a few days for their conference. The city's fleshpots will do better from the Comrades.

If defamation courts were like football, VAR might be looking at Big Ange's comments

After a few glory days for English's oyster bar (Dover sole £58), Ed Davey's moth-eaten masses will turn up with packed baps and a thermos of weak tea. spell

The TUC loves Big Ange and she loves them right back. They are both shameless with a lust for power. Unions have paid millions of pounds to Labour; she, by way of returning the affection, pushed Sir Keir Starmer to agree to the Employment Rights Bill. Since then, Sir Keir has been vapourised and an even more Left-wing prime minister is now in situ.

spell out of office, after she resigned as deputy PM over a property tax row, did wonders for her image.

Mrs Rayner's arrival on stage mid-afternoon occasioned hugs, kisses and applause. How she beamed. It is a sleek Mrs Rayner these days. That

She sat at the top table alongside a slightly dull chairman whose favourite expression was ‘thanking you’. As the conference’s composites were passed with 99 per cent majorities he scrunched up each motion and dropped it beneath his legs. TUC motions seldom signify much and the speeches were abysmal. Never mind.

The real point of a TUC conference is to have a few days of late-summer sunshine at the seaside on expenses, get bladdered and remind Labour MPs who's boss.

Mrs Rayner smiled enormously and blew kisses at hundreds of devotees sitting in the darkened hall under a ‘Unity Works’ banner. This was home territory for her, not just because her new £700,000 sea-front home was sited just a few blocks away. It was from the TUC that she sprang and to the TUC that she will continue to pay her dues.

A confident sashay to the lectern, a triumphant shake of barnet, and she was off, ladling just about enough praise on Andy Burnham for ‘bringing back hope’. What she possibly meant was ‘bringing back lovely MEEEE’.

Mr Burnham revived a Cabinet career that looked finished under Sir Keir. How quickly we have all forgotten about the nasal knight. The only mention I heard of the poor sausage during the debates was a derogatory one about his attitude to the Civil Service.

‘Only Labour is the party of work,’ averred Mrs Rayner. Unemployment statistics were not mentioned. The real

the European Court of Human Rights to fight any move to bring in retrospective legislation.

Reform's deputy leader Richard Tice said: 'You've now got a hyperventilating hypocrisy from the socialists ruining this country, who are trying to change the rules retrospectively, which is not the fair way, it's not the British way.

'And I think most people will say, "Does that just mean that Labour are terrified of the progress of Reform and they're trying to create an unlevel playing field?"'.

Under legislation going through Parliament, donations made by people living abroad will be capped at £100,000 a year. In a highly unusual move, No10 con-

Mr Delo and Mr Harborne are British citizens but have spent much of their careers overseas.

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firmed that the law will be backdated to March 25, when the idea of a cap was first floated by a Government review.

Returning donors will have to wait one calendar year before they can exceed the new cap.

Reform's leader Nigel Farage said any attempt to change the law retrospectively would

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‘make us look like an old communist country’.

Opening a debate in the House of Lords on political donations, Government minister Baroness

Taylor said: ‘We must put politics back under public control. We have shared concern of the rise of big money in our politics and its ability to dominate public power.’

Union bosses have opposed a cap for years, fearing that their influence over Labour could be diluted. But the TUC conference is expected to back calls for a cap today. However, union chiefs will argue that their donations should be exempt as they were funded by small levies paid by workers.

Ms Rayner told the conference that union cash ‘couldn’t be more different from a couple of offshore billionaires trying to buy our democracy’. She added: ‘Let me be clear: we will defend our democracy and society from any foreign dictator or fascist oligarch purpose of her speech was to attack Reform and its £72million windfall from two businessmen. ‘Nigel Farage’s sugar daddies,’ was what Mrs Rayner called them. Her own sugar daddies in the union movement did not react much. The TUC is never an easy gig.

She dismissed the argument that Reform's £72million was comparable to the loot the unions give Labour.

‘We,’ she said, ‘will defend our democracy and society from any foreign dictator or fascist oligarch who seeks to divide our country and buy our politics.’

I'm no libel lawyer but if defamation courts were like football, that one might be looked at closely by VAR.

The only other thing to report from the TUC was how middle-class it is nowadays.

The agitators included numerous radiographers and physiotherapists, the First Division Association of mandarins, a luvvie from Equity, a nerd from the nuclear regulator and a pretty well-spoken chiropodist who put his foot down – no one does it better – to insist that podiatrists were working-class. A blistering speech.

who seeks to divide our country and buy our politics.'

Labour sources said Ms Rayner's comments were not directed at any particular individual.

Mr Farage said neither Mr Harborne nor Mr Delo would be offered seats in the House of Lords or change the party's policies. He contrasted this with Labour, where the Government had moved swiftly to meet union demands on workers' rights.

‘If anyone is giving money to do political bidding, it is the trade unions,’ he said. ‘I would just warn the trade unions and the Labour Party that if you try to ban our donors, we in government would certainly ban yours. But I don’t want to go down that route.’

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st oligarchs' At home: Angela Rayner's speech to the TUC yesterday Billionaire donors are voters in the UK, insists Farage

By Jason Groves and Chris Pollard

NIGEL Farage last night insisted his party's two billionaire donors are ‘voters in the UK’ who are entitled to give any amount of money to a political party under current laws.

Questions have swirled about Ben Delo and Christopher Harborne since the weekend, when they confirmed they were each giving Reform UK a record-breaking £36million each.

The two crypto-currency billionaires have both spent years abroad, where they would have been caught by Labour's crackdown on foreign donors.

Reform's deputy leader Richard Tice yesterday declined to say when the two men had relocated to the UK.

But party leader Mr Farage said their donations were ‘100 per cent compliant with the law today’.

He said the huge sums had come from ‘two very successful British entrepreneurs’, adding: ‘Crucially they are two British entrepreneurs that are voters in the UK and, under the legislation, they are perfectly entitled to make these donations.’

Labour is planning to change the law to cap donations from British citizens who are based abroad at £100,000 a year.

Downing Street confirmed that this would be backdated to March 25 this year. After that point, any donor would have to prove that they had been resident in the UK for at least 12 months.

Strong defence: Nigel Farage

In an interview in April this year, Mr Delo, who spent years in Hong Kong, said he would ‘move back to Britain early so I can contribute more to Reform’s budget’.

However, official records that were seen by the Daily Mail suggest Mr Delo has been registered to vote at a property in Oxfordshire since 2022, which could allow him to escape Labour's planned crackdown.

Records also suggest that Mr Harborne, who spent years in

Thailand, has been registered to vote in Hampshire on and off since 2020. Last year, he was registered in a constituency where he owns a property under the heading ‘other electors’, which can include overseas voters living abroad.

Mr Harborne is reported to have changed his voter registration in June this year. However, he does not appear to have been registered in the UK at all in either 2021 or 2024.

Conservative frontbencher Baroness O'Neill told peers it was 'our current understanding that these donations would be caught by the overseas contributors cap'.

But Mr Farage defended the donations – and added that any attempt by Labour to block them would be ‘fought by us with all the might we have’.

The Reform UK leader said that rival parties were ‘having kittens’ at the idea that the scale of the donations could ‘level the playing field’ at the next election.

He said that Reform spent only £5.5 million at the 2024 general election, compared with £30 million by Labour and £23 million by the Conservatives.

Downing Street confirmed that Cabinet Office minister Louise Haigh has now written to the Electoral Commission asking for the spending limits to be reviewed. Ms Haigh said the £34million spending limit at elections was ‘too high, and ought to be reduced’.

RMT boss fears joined-up Right

Daily Mail THE RIGHT MUST UNITE REFORM UK

By Sophie Church Political Reporter

THE Right uniting at the next general election represents a 'real danger', a union chief warned yesterday.

Eddie Dempsey, general secretary of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers, suggested a pact between Right-wing parties should be feared more than any return to the fascism of the 1930s.

He said: 'What we're looking at is not [Oswald] Mosley and the black shirts. What we're looking at is an alliance between Reform and the oldest ruling party in Western Europe, the Tories.

‘That’s the real danger: a political alliance which brings these people into Parliament.'

Speaking at the annual gathering of trade unions in Brighton, Mr Dempsey added: 'On the fringes of that, there is a burgeoning street movement, which in some cases appears to be making connections even with old paramilitaries in terms of techniques.

‘So this is a completely different scenario that requires a different way of approaching things.

'There's a difference between dealing with the National Front and dealing with the prospect of an alliance between a socially right, economically Thatcherite far-Right political alliance between the Tory party – the oldest ruling party in Western Europe – and Nigel Farage.'

There have been repeated calls for the Right to unite to prevent the Left from seizing power.

Former Tory Cabinet minister Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg said: 'It is socialism and high taxation that threaten the country.'

According to website Unite the Right UK, tactical voting could see the Right return 484 MPs. A poll by More in Common last night found a third of Britons would be willing to vote tactically.

Another 400 reach UK on small boats

By Sam Lawley

BOATS filled with migrants were spotted reaching the UK yesterday.

The exact number of arrivals was not confirmed but it was suggested that as many as 400 people were brought ashore by Border Force vessels at Dover.

Pictures showed officials guiding migrants off one boat as it arrived on the mainland in the afternoon.

Home Office data last week confirmed the 44 per cent fall in the number of small-boat arrivals so far this year was partly due to poor weather. The number of days when conditions in the Channel were favourable for illegal dinghy crossings – dubbed ‘red days’ by officials – was 110 between January and the end of August.

It was down 11 per cent on the same point last year, when there had been 123.

On dry land: Migrants arrive in Dover on a Border Force vessel yesterday

Reform's private guards patrol towns 'turned into no-go zones by migrants'

Street presence: The guards in Braintree yesterday

By Lettice Bromovsky and Isaac Crowson

PRIVATE security guards carried out their first patrols in Essex yesterday to keep an eye on male migrants.

The Reform-led county council is spending more than £140,000 to hire contractors to monitor asylum seekers in Colchester, Braintree and Chelmsford amid fears they are leaving women too scared to go out alone.

Within minutes of starting their first shift, two operatives were called by passers-by who had seen four masked youths, who they believed were migrants, enter Poundland in Chelmsford. The guards entered the store, asked the group to leave and watched as they moved on.

Reform insists the patrols – named Operation Vanguard – have been brought in as a ‘direct response to concerns

'It's about making people feel safer'

raised among residents, particularly women and girls, over gatherings of male migrants in town centres'.

It comes as concerns grow over Home Office plans to increase numbers at a migrant camp at former RAF base MDP Wethersfield from 800 to 1,245 and extend its operation beyond 2027.

Essex resident Elena Sokolova, 38, said: 'The problem is that they don't integrate into society. I am a migrant and I integrated into the British way of life.

'The men make comments about women. They say they should be dressed more and cover up. They film the girls in the town. It's really worrying.'

Shop worker Sophie Edmonds, 33, says she has experienced 'big issues' with male migrants and now avoids walking around Colchester alone. 'Me and my friends have had comments and looks,' she added. 'They stare in groups. It's really intimidating. I never had a bad experience in

Colchester until the migrants moved into the camp. You shouldn't feel unsafe in your own town. It feels like a no-go area.'

Locals in Chelmsford said they were ‘relieved’ and ‘overjoyed’ at the introduction of the private security guards.

John Howes, 66, said his wife and daughter were now too scared to enter the city. He added: 'I think this is a really good idea. People are terrified.

'I know a woman who has been followed across the town by a migrant. The vibe of Chelmsford has changed totally since the migrants moved into that former RAF base.' The guards are provided by the company My Local Bobby, which was co-founded by former Metropolitan Police officer David McKelvey. He said: 'This is about making people safer and making people feel safer. The patrols provide reassurance.'

Essex County Council's leader Peter Harris said the council was particularly concerned about women and girls. He added that the Home Office now runs a fleet of 17 minibuses taking asylum seekers from Wethersfield into the towns and cities every day.

MDP Wethersfield, which is operated by Clearsprings Ready Homes on behalf of the Home Office, began housing asylum

20,000 paid to go home

ALMOST 9,000 Brazilian migrants have received golden goodbyes of up to £3,000 to leave Britain.

Taxpayers have footed the bill for 8,901 people from the South American country in the past two years under the assisted returns scheme. In total, 20,365 migrants have accepted the incentive.

But of the five biggest nations for small-boat migrants, just seven Eritreans, 11 Sudanese, 14 Afghans, three Somalis and 77 Iranians took up the offer which is available to failed asylum seekers and visa overstayers.

The bill for July 2024 to March was £35million, but sources told The Sun it now tops £40million.

Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp said Labour is ‘paying illegal immigrants to leave instead of stopping them arriving’.

The Home Office insisted the scheme is ‘vastly better value’ than paying for forced returns.

seekers in 2023. It provides accommodation for single men, aged from 18 to 65, while their asylum claims are being processed.

The Home Office says that the purpose of Wethersfield is to provide managed accommodation and to help end the use of expensive asylum hotels.

It adds that transport into local communities is provided to enable access to services which are not available on the site.

The Home Office also says that public safety is a priority and that the Wethersfield site has 24-hour security, CCTV and ongoing engagement with Essex Police and local authorities.

Reform and Tories back ECHR exit as Piddington goes to poll

By Fred Kelly

BRITAIN must leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) in order to stem the flow of illegal migration, the Conservatives and Reform claimed yesterday.

Conservative Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp and Reform UK's equalities spokesman Suella Braverman ramped up calls for the treaty to be ditched during a visit to Piddington village in Oxfordshire ahead of an unofficial protest 'referendum' on leaving the UK.

The 350 residents organised today's vote after Labour ignored their pleas against moving more than 1,200 male asylum seekers into a military barracks on the outskirts of their village.

Locals fear that, should the plans go through, they will be outnumbered four to one and women by ten to one.

Last week, a group of 133 local women wrote an open letter to every female MP declaring: 'Our safety, our security and our freedoms will be under threat.'

Yesterday, the Ladies of Piddington told the Daily Mail that of the 226 Parliamentarians approached, just four responded.

Ms Braverman said the scale of the problem in Piddington was stark. She said: 'This will

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dramatically transform the character of the village. These are the wrong plans for this village, and you know only harm and damage will come from it.

‘I applaud the efforts of these women to make their voices heard. They’ve spoken very powerfully, and they are the reason I’m here. I stand with them.’

Mr Philp also spoke with residents alongside Tory spokesman for women and equalities Joy Morrissey, who said party leader Kemi Badenoch had asked her to attend in her place.

Mr Philp said: 'The mothers and grandmothers of Piddington are clearly terrified for the safety of their daughters and granddaughters, because we know young male illegal immigrants are disproportionately likely to commit sex offences and rape.

'Being here underlines how important it is to kick out this Labour Government and leave the ECHR, which would enable us to deport illegal immigrants upon arrival, instead of imposing them on places like Piddington.'

The result of today's vote is expected to be in favour of ‘independence’ and the hope is that the purely symbolic vote will concentrate minds in Westminster.

The Labour Party is moving asylum seekers into military barracks across the country in a bid to end the use of hotels and cut the asylum bill.

The result in Piddington is expected around 7am tomorrow.

Grand Prix ace faces £1.4million buffalo bill!

By Sophia Stanford

A FORMULA One world champion who became the UK's biggest organic buffalo farmer faces a £1.4million tax bill after losing a court battle over his herd.

South African driver Jody Scheckter, 76, acquired Laverstoke Park in Overton, Hampshire, after relocating to England in 1996 with his wife Clare.

He poured £55million of his fortune into the biodynamic 3,000-acre farm to ‘produce the purest, best quality, organic food’.

At one point he owned Britain's largest herd of water buffalo.

He also set up an abattoir and composting plant, as well as a farm shop, dairy and ice cream production plant.

But the buffalo business, which had supplied meat to Ocado and specialised in

'Sadness at the failure of project'

buffalo mozzarella, closed in December 2023 amid ‘significant increases in costs, a reduction in milk volumes, and the additional capital investment required for future-proofing’.

Scheckter, the 1979 F1 world champion, had also been fighting a backdated tax bill of £1,457,634, after it was ruled the farming partnership through which he ran the business had wrongly offset losses it incurred against profits from other parts of his business between 2008 and 2010.

Loss: Jody Scheckter with one of his buffalos at Laverstocke Park in Hampshire

Winner: Scheckter at 1974 British GP

Seven-figure losses incurred by the LLP Laverstoke Farm Produce had been set off against taxes due on his other income – known as sideways loss relief – until in 2019 HMRC ruled this was not valid and demanded he pay up. The offset mechanism is open to farmers and smallholders only if the farm has become a profitable enterprise within five years of being set up.

In this case, the farm partnership had registered a loss almost every year and so did not qualify. Other operations including the composting plant are still going strong.

Dismissing his appeal in the tax chamber of the First Tier Tribunal, Judge Tony Beare expressed ‘sadness’ at the failure of Scheckter’s buffalo passion project and ‘regret’ for having to hand him a massive tax bill for the failed venture.

Scheckter raced in F1 from 1972 to 1980, winning ten Grands Prix. He remains the only African driver to have won a race or become world champion.

In 1984 he founded a weapons simulation business called Firearms Training Systems, whose revenue eclipsed £100million by the early 1990s. The company built firearms training simulators for military, law enforcement and security organisations.

He went on to pour much of his fortune from the firm into Laverstoke Park.

Ruling the losses for the three relevant years could not be offset against other earnings, the judge said because the LLP had not been profitable for more than five years previously, it fell foul of rules designed to prevent ‘hobby farmers’ from avoiding tax on other income.

Sobbing husband accused of drugging and raping wife for 20 years admits 60 charges

A HUSBAND yesterday admitted drugging and raping his wife without her knowledge for more than 20 years, pleading guilty to 60 charges.

The man, in his 60s, sobbed as he gave guilty pleas to rape, assault by penetration, sexual assault and attempted rape.

He also admitted administering a substance ‘with the intention of stupefying or overpowering’ her ‘so as to enable’ his wife to engage in sexual activity between November 2004 and October 2025.

The man, wearing a dark grey suit, blue shirt and dark blue tie, admitted a further charge of sharing intimate pictures or video footage. He also pleaded

By Richard Marsden

guilty to eight more charges of serious sexual assault.

The wife was present at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court with two relatives as he entered his pleas over 18 minutes. She watched intently as her husband spoke. At one point she held her head in her hands, appearing to wipe her eyes.

The offending involving the husband was carried out at the family home in Stockport, Greater Manchester. Thirteen other men are accused of offences against the unconscious woman.

They are aged between 29 and 74. Twelve of them have denied a range of offences including rape, conspiracy to rape, assault by penetration, sexual assault and conspiracy to administer a substance with intent. One has pleaded guilty to charges including conspiracy to rape.

Jonathan Kirk, 43, from Stockport, and Graham Brougham, 74,

'Tirteen other men accused'

from Cheshire, deny rape, conspiracy to rape and conspiracy to commit assault by penetration.

Robert Stewart, 70, of Stockport, denies rape and conspiracy to rape.

Mohammed Sabir, 29, of Stockport, faces five counts including rape. He denies them all.

Alan Keelan, 42, from Manchester, denies attempted rape and conspiracy to rape.

Jordan Wallace, 31, from Stockport, denies rape, attempted rape and conspiracy to rape.

Philip Wild, 58, of Stockport, has pleaded not guilty to attempted rape, conspiracy to rape, assault by penetration, conspiracy to commit assault by penetration and sexual assault.

Sean Peers, 38, of Stockport, denies assault by penetration.

Former Taunton Football Club chief executive Karl Lindsay, 56, of Taunton, Somerset, denies conspiracy to rape and conspiracy to sexually assault by penetration. Daniel Rayner, 42, from Whitstable, Kent, faces the same counts as Lindsay and pleaded not guilty.

Richard Townsend, 37, of

Heywood, Greater Manchester, denies conspiracy to commit assault by penetration and assault by penetration.

David Graves, 59, of Ilkeston, Derbyshire, denies conspiracy to rape, conspiracy to commit assault by penetration and conspiracy to commit sexual assault.

Keith Fotheringham, 59, a technician at the University of Dundee has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to rape, conspiracy to commit assault by penetration, conspiracy to administer a substance with intent and assault by penetration.

All the defendants are in custody apart from Wallace, Kirk, Brougham, Keelan and Peers, who have been granted bail.

A trial is scheduled to start in October and is expected to last at least two months.

Labour's farm tax is a mistake, blasts party grandee Blunkett

LABOUR veteran Lord Blunkett has admitted his party's family farm tax was a ‘mistake’.

Addressing a Countryside Alliance event, the former home secretary backed calls for Andy Burnham to oversee a ‘rural reset’ to undo the damage done by his party’s first two years in power.

Farmers were left furious after then-chancellor Rachel Reeves announced plans to levy a 20 per cent inheritance charge on assets worth more than £1million, end-

By Claire Ellicott Whitehall Editor

ing a waiver in place since the 1980s. But after protests by rural communities, ministers raised the threshold to £2.5million so most farms would not have to pay. Campaigners say it will still hit ordinary working family farms. Lord Blunkett blamed ‘Treasury economic orthodoxy’ for the hated plan.

'I think the family tax, the family farm imposition, was a mistake – a mistake made in the Treasury represented by my own party,' he said, adding it had 'touched a nerve'.

He later told the BBC: 'We've never won so many rural seats since 1945 – around 135 Labour MPs are either rural or semi-rural

'Time for a rural reset'

- and their voices need to be heard much more clearly.

‘If you’re an urban dweller all your life and you’ve got Treasury economic orthodoxy in your soul, you won’t understand that family farms are only family because they are passed down from one generation to another.'

The peer also called for the ban on trail hunting set out in the 2024 manifesto to be scrapped.

He was speaking alongside former prime minister David Cameron, who criticised Labour's ‘attack on shooting’.

‘It’s not just the shoots that suffer if they get attacked. It’s the pubs, it’s the restaurants, it’s the places where people stay, it’s the people that work in the shoots,’ Lord Cameron added.

Meanwhile, Minette Batters, the former president of the National Farmers' Union, said it was 'time for a rural reset'.

Tim Bonner, the Countryside Alliance chief executive, listed 27 Government policies that his organisation opposed.

These included the extension of inheritance tax to farms, plans to ban trail hunting, changes in betting rules and the tighter shooting regulations.

The Prime Minister's spokesman said Mr Burnham wanted to ‘rebuild trust’ with farmers and rural communities.

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COMMENTARY By Jamie Blackett

As the penny dropped that this year's catastrophic harvest was plunging farmers into despair and, critically from his point of view, going to hit cash-strapped voters with even higher food prices, Andy Burnham launched a rural charm offensive on social media.

‘I know I have work to do to win the trust of the farming community’, he wrote in a post. ‘As farmers you put food on our tables, serve as stewards of the great British countryside and provide the backbone of many rural communities.’

'As a mayor, I knew what it was like to be ignored by politicians in Westminster. As Prime Minister, I will not make the same mistake... Decisions will no longer be imposed from Whitehall, but made by the people who understand their communities.'

These words may come back to haunt him, if he does not act fast. Because trust in this government among rural folk could not be lower right now.

A recent survey on behalf of the Country-side Alliance found just 15 per cent of those living in rural areas think the party is concerned about the people who live and work there.

This is a big problem, particularly as Labour has a backbench full of semi-rural MPs who will be destined for the dole queue after the next election in three years' time unless something changes.

Labour grandee Lord Blunkett warned yesterday the party needs to ditch the family farm tax introduced by Rachel Reeves, which caused widespread protests. He said the planned ban on trail-hunting – where hounds follow a scent laid by handlers – should also be

abandoned. And he urged Labour to develop a deeper understanding of the countryside.

Anger: Farmers blocked the streets of Westminster in 2025 over Labour's tax plan

With a vegan minister and an animal rights fanatic deputy, what chance do farmers have?

If Burnham followed this advice, if he genuinely intends to devolve power to the countryside then he deserves our support in the rural community. But the signs are his words are hollow. No farmer I know would in any case welcome his devolution agenda, which so far appears to be limited to inserting another tier of government in local areas to enrich the client state of grifting politicians and entitled bureaucrats.

In fact, if only we country bumpkins were ‘ignored by politicians in Westminster’. Because the instinct to meddle in rural matters they do not understand is hardwired into Whitehall's Green Blob that has a stranglehold on the Department for Environment and Rural Affairs (Defra).

Since the King of the North's accession, one decision ‘imposed from Whitehall’ and not ‘made by the people who understand their communities’ is Labour’s proposed crackdown on game shooting by introducing licences on the release of game birds.

The Countryside Alliance says 'there has never been a more serious threat to game shooting'. But Burnham's Labour is not listening to 'the people who understand their communities', rather it is listening to self-professed environmentalists such as TV presenter

Chris Packham, who campaigns to ban game bird shooting.

What Labour refuses to grasp is that shooting and hunting bind rural communities together, involving those of every ilk, most of them ‘working people’ who could not be more different from Labour’s lazy ‘toff’ stereotype in its bigoted identity politics.

Another example of Labour's tin ear on rural issues is the response to this year's wild fires. The Green Blob thought it knew best – as usual – and effectively banned the controlled burning of excess vegetation on moors and heaths, almost certainly because it is a practice linked to sheep farming and grouse shooting in the uplands, two activities Green zealots wish to ban.

They would prefer to see the moors ‘rewilded’, and have convinced themselves blocking a few drains and introducing the odd beaver would re-wet the land to the extent it would never catch fire. All of us with experience of upland farming warned this was a recipe for disaster.

The chickens came home to roost with their tails on fire this summer when over 57,000 acres went up in smoke, emitting nearly 1.4 million tons of carbon. Homes were lost and a number of rare species lost vital habitats.

We might have expected some contrition and a partial U-turn, perhaps even an apology. Instead we got arrogance, ignorance and pig-headedness. Defra Secretary Dame Angela Eagle wrote an article in the Guardian explicitly ruling out a return to controlled burning and doubling down on the rewilding agenda.

Eagle is part of the problem. By appointing her as Defra minister in his Cabinet reshuffle, Andy Burnham went out of his way not to ‘win the trust of the farming community’ but to curry favour with Guardian-reading Leftists. And it can only be worrying for the livestock farmers Burnham professes to support that Angela Eagle is vegan. Meanwhile Eagle’s under-secretary at Defra is animal rights fanatic Baroness Hayman, who’s driving much of the anti-hunting agenda.

LABOUR is not the natural party of the countryside, but it need not be like this. One of the best agriculture ministers since the war is reckoned to have been Tom Williams in the Attlee government. Nye Bevan and Jim Callaghan were both farmers.

And Burnham has plenty of MPs with an understanding of the rural economy from whom to choose, such as the widely respected former farming minster Daniel Zeichner and newcomers Markus Campbell-Savours (who voted against the family farm tax) and Henry Tufnell, the son of a former chairman of the Country Land and Business Association. Instead, his selections appear to be a sign he intends to carry on with the culture wars.

Andy Burnham needs the farming community: He needs our skills and our risk-taking to avert a worsening food crisis, now that imports can no longer be relied upon. He needs our entrepreneurship to create the rural businesses needed for employment and build homes so badly needed. He needs our deep knowledge of the countryside to halt the biodiversity crisis and stop the wild fires.

So, as David Blunkett rightly identified, he would be foolish to alienate us by attacking our culture with a further hunting ban, or rob us of our futures by keeping the family farm tax. And he should bring in a team at Defra who truly appreciate what it is like to live and work in the countryside. We need more than warm words, Prime Minister.

■ Jamie Blackett is a farmer and the author of Red Rag To A Bull and Land Of Milk And Honey

Battered to death: Kinga Legg was killed in 2009

Man who murdered heiress lover in Paris hotel is jailed again for attack on dad, 83

Serial offender: Ian Griffin, 57. Right: Arriving at a French court in 2014

By Richard Marsden, Andy Russell and Peter Allen

A BRITISH businessman who battered his fiancee to death in a French hotel before going on the run has been jailed again – for a ‘degrading’ attack on his own elderly father.

Ian Griffin, 57, moved back to the UK after serving only 22 months of a 14-year sentence for the murder of Kinga Legg, 36, in May 2009.

Ms Legg, a Polish supermarket heiress, suffered more than 100 injuries during the 'frenzied' attack at the five-star Hotel Le Bristol in Paris. Her naked body was then dumped in a bathtub in their £1,000-a-night hotel room.

Griffin, who owned tanning and gadget shops in Cheshire, fled to Britain in his Porsche. After a five-day manhunt, he was found living in a tent in a wood near Macclesfield and was extradited to France.

In December 2014, he was sentenced to 20 years in prison which was reduced on appeal to 14. But Griffin, who was on crutches, was released in 2016 on medical grounds.

Griffin returned to live in a summer house at his parents' home near Warrington, where he attacked his father Bernard in May last year.

Mr Griffin Sr, then 83, had been on the phone to his other son Adrian when Griffin returned home from the pub. His father was heard saying: 'Oh heck, he's here and it's not looking good.'

Adrian feared for his parents' safety and called police, who arrived at the house to find Mr Griffin Sr with serious facial injuries.

Liverpool Crown Court was played body-worn camera footage in which Griffin's father, sitting on a sofa with a bloodied face, told officers: 'Am I glad to see you, he would have killed me.

‘He is terrible. He is a different person when he has had beer. I feel like I’ve been in a fight.’

The court heard that Mr Griffin Sr was punched, dragged to the floor and stamped on during the attack, which lasted between 30 minutes and an hour. It stopped only when his son forced him to sign a piece of paper, giving 50 per cent of his estate to Griffin's mother, Janet.

Prosecutor Andrew Scott said further footage of the attack, which was filmed on Mrs Griffin's mobile, 'highlighted the degrading treatment of his elderly father'.

Griffin was heard screaming abuse at his father and accusing him of buying

'Had a total meltdown'

MG cars ‘while [Mrs Griffin] scrambles around for £100 a week’. He was also heard telling his father: ‘I will break your motherf***** face.’

Police had also been called the day before the attack when Griffin threatened to ‘burn and bomb’ his parents’ neighbours’ home, the court heard.

Following the attack on his father, Griffin told police he had been elsewhere in the house at the time.

However, representing himself in court, he said the attack followed a period of six to eight weeks in which he had been trying to protect his parents from men who wanted to blackmail them.

He told Liverpool Crown Court: 'I'm dreadfully sorry about what happened, of course I am, he's my dad. I had a total meltdown.'

His mother, who was called in to give evidence in his defence, said he was ‘a very good son’.

In a victim personal statement, Mr Griffin Sr said he did not want any more contact with his son and was fearful of what would happen when he was released from prison.

Judge David Swinnerton jailed Griffin for a total of four years with a one-year extended licence period for causing grievous bodily harm and threatening to damage property.

He ruled that Griffin was at high risk of reoffending and told him: 'You repeatedly punched and kicked your father and left him bruised, bloodied and battered. Your father was a particularly vulnerable victim.'

Read this – and you’ll live longer!

Daily Mail Reporter

DAILY Mail readers can already boast that they are well-informed – but reading this newspaper is also good for your health, studies suggest.

In fact, someone's love for the written word – regardless of what they read – can even help them live longer.

Reading for pleasure boosts mental health and academic performance, leads to greater empathy and lowers risk of dementia, a review found.

Researchers at Cambridge University joined with The Queen's Reading Room – a charity founded by Camilla – as part of the National Year of

Reading. Professor Barbara Sahakian and Dr Christelle Langley, from Cambridge's psychiatry department, published a review of research in the journal Psychological Medicine.

One study, of more than 10,000 young people, found that children who begin reading for pleasure early have a better attention span, memory and executive functioning, such as problem solving.

Another survey of almost 5,500 adults aged 55 and older found those who engaged in pastimes such as reading were significantly less likely to develop cognitive impairment over a five-year follow-up.

Overall, the review - including some studies based on neuro-imaging - found that reading at any age improves brain and mental health, leads to better cognitive performance and cuts risk of mental decline.

'Survey data in adults suggested that reading was associated with reduced stress, greater empathy, enhanced wellbeing and decreased loneliness,' it reported.

Meeting of the wrecking squad

Nationalists from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland vow to break up UK

Summit: Leaders John Swinney, Rhun ap Iorwerth, Mary Lou McDonald and Michelle O'Neill at meeting in Cardiff yesterday

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SCOTTISH and Welsh nationalists yesterday signed a deal with Sinn Fein, pledging to support one another in their plans to break up the UK.

The leaders of the Scottish National Party (SNP) and Plaid Cymru announced a ‘memorandum of understanding’ with Irish republican leaders ahead of a ‘separatist summit’ in Cardiff.

Scottish First Minister John Swinney, Welsh First Minister Rhun ap Iorwerth, Northern Ireland's First Minister Michelle O'Neill and Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald pledged to work together on common goals, including 'supporting the right of each nation to determine its own future', inside the EU.

Mr Swinney said the meeting represents a ‘pivotal moment in the constitutional journey of the UK’ and claimed that Andy Burnham would be its last prime minister.

He demanded a fresh referendum within five years and said there should be ‘no obstacle’ to those in the three devolved nations being ‘able to determine their own future’.

A spokesman for Mr Burnham said the PM ‘believes strongly in the Union’ and was ‘committed to delivering change across all four nations’.

The meeting sparked anger from pro-union politicians, coming after Donald Trump triggered uproar by backing a united Ireland.

Harriet Cross, the Conservative spokesman for Scotland, said: 'This separatist summit is a blatant distraction from the real issues facing

'Westminster's time is ending'

Scotland, like education and the economy. John Swinney happily sitting shoulder to shoulder with the leader of Sinn Fein shows just how far he is prepared to go in pursuit of his lifelong dream of independence. It is a sight that will anger many Scots who remember the Troubles.'

Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland and DUP politician Emma Little-Pengelly accused Ms O'Neill, who is also vice president of Sinn Fein, of attempting to ‘weaponise the role of First Minister’.

She wrote on social media: 'Let me be absolutely clear. Michelle O'Neill is not travelling to this "summit" as First Minister, she has no authority to present herself as representing the FM role at any such "summit".

‘She has not sought any agreement or permission from me to travel, attend or sign anything.’

It came as Mr Trump stood by his comments on Irish unity, saying on the second day of his trip there that it was ‘one of the naturals of all time’.

Ms O'Neill said his comments show the independence debate is 'very much alive'. 'I think that tells us where the thinking is around what is the big prize for our people, and the big prize is unification,' she said. 'It is the end of partition and it is that new beginning in a new Ireland.'

Uproar: President Trump backed a united Ireland during his visit

The group, who met in their capacity as party leaders, rather than as officials in their respective governments, also stated ambitions for partnership around the economy, energy and international matters.

The agreement says: 'The political landscape is changing.

‘For the first time ever, people across these islands have first ministers in Scotland, in Wales and in the North of Ireland who are all committed to independence from the United Kingdom.

‘There could be no clearer sign that Westminster’s time is coming to an end. We believe there is a better way: nations working together as equals, sharing ideas and expertise, and building relationships based on mutual respect and common interests.

‘We believe constitutional change is coming. We therefore commit to strengthening cooperation between our parties and identifying practical areas where working together can make a real difference.’

The agreement plans to ‘reject Whitehall’s broken economic model’ and states ‘the future of our nations belongs in the European Union’.

Ms McDonald called it ‘historic’, adding: ‘It is that moment where we assert collectively our inalienable right to decide our futures.’

Mr ap Iorwerth said the people of Wales will set the timescale for any future independence referendum ‘when they are persuaded’.

‘It seems from the polls ... that people more and more are absolutely getting persuaded,’ he said.

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Speedboat killer is jailed for attacking partner with hot tongs in row over burnt pizza

First victim: Charlotte Brown

By Sam Greenhill and Inderdeep Bains

SPEEDBOAT killer Jack Shepherd was jailed for 20 months yesterday after attacking his new girlfriend with barbecue tongs.

The former fugitive separately rained punches on the terrified woman, called her ‘old lady hag’, and snapped her car keys when she tried to get away.

A judge at London's Isleworth Crown Court declared him a danger to society – and to women in particular.

Shepherd had been given a chance to rebuild his life when he was released halfway through his prison sentence for the 2015 killing of his date Charlotte Brown by drunkenly flipping his defective speedboat on the Thames before jumping bail and going on the run in Georgia.

Freed in 2024, the self-styled Casanova, now 39, was ‘out on licence’ when he bonded over badminton with a woman in her

'You pose a risk to any girlfriend'

50s who lived in the same shared house in Southall, west London.

Shepherd presented her with his ‘own version of his past’, the court heard, and it was police who eventually told her the shocking truth about his history. As well as killing Ms Brown, he was also jailed for a savage attack on a barman with a glass bottle.

The court heard that in February 2025, Shepherd snapped when his girlfriend threatened to speak to his probation officer about him. He 'pinned her down and punched her repeatedly', bruising her arm and leg.

Then in June 2025, booze-fuelled Shepherd was cooking on a barbecue when she told him he had burnt a pizza, prosecutor Katherine Lloyd told the court. 'The defendant had some sharply pointed barbecue tongs, and he turned and stabbed the tongs into the victim's left breast which caused a wound which bled.' She has a permanent scar.

The same month, when she tried to flee another argument, Shepherd reached through her car window and snapped the keys in the ignition, trapping her.

Shepherd became infamous as the ‘speedboat killer’ after fleeing to eastern Europe following the death of 24-year-old Ms Brown on their first date in 2015.

In 2018, he caused public outrage when he evaded his Old Bailey manslaughter trial and then launched an appeal against his conviction from his Georgian hideaway, funded via legal aid. He was flushed out by the Daily

Mail in January 2019, hauled back to London, and given a ten-year sentence – six for the speed-boat manslaughter plus four for ‘glassing’ the barman in Devon.

As he was on licence, Shepherd was recalled to prison in September 2025 after his latest arrest.

Yesterday, via video link from category B prison HMP Swale-side in Kent, Shepherd again tried to get off lightly, saying he 'deeply regretted his conduct'.

But judge Martin Edmunds KC told him: 'I place no faith or value in such expressions of remorse. Your pattern is to commit offences and apologise, and produce excuses... to shift blame.' He added: 'You pose a significant

Cuffed: Jack Shepherd at court in Georgia in 2019

risk... particularly to any new girlfriend'. He added this would be 'aggravated if you cannot control your drinking, and your track record so far is that you cannot'.

The woman, who the Mail is not naming, described her pain and ‘her loss of feelings of safety’.

Shepherd was sentenced to nine months for the beating, 20 for the barbecue tongs and three for the car key, to run concurrently.

Since he is in jail anyway until January 2029, serving the remainder of his term for killing Ms Brown and glassing the barman, this means he will not serve any extra days. The judge also imposed an extra four years on his licence period, until May 2032.

Now Hardy country is latest to win royal nature reserve status

Daily Mail Reporter

A DORSET landscape full of rare orchids and butterflies that inspired writer Thomas Hardy has been named England's newest national nature reserve.

More than 833 acres of habitats at Lyscombe on the Dorset Downs - equivalent to 468 football pitches - have been marked out as an area of focus for conservation and nature restoration by government body Natural England.

Located north of Dorchester, the landscape is home to ancient woodland and chalk grassland flora, including at least six different species of orchid such as pyramidal and bee orchids, as well as rare chalkhill blue butterflies.

Lyscombe becomes the 16th site to be declared a reserve under a scheme to mark King Charles's lifelong support for

'Benefits people and wildlife'

the natural environment, with 25 new protected areas planned by 2028.

Tony Juniper, chairman of Natural England, said: 'The King's Series of National Nature Reserves is taking nature recovery to a new level, showing what can be achieved when people and organisations come together in common cause, and not only for the benefit of wildlife, but people too.

'The declaration of the Lyscombe National Nature Reserve gives recognition to this unique mosaic of chalk downland and woodland, connecting up amazing wildlife-rich habitats while also creating new opportunities for all of us to connect with nature, and for generations to come.'

The Lyscombe landscape inspired Hardy's novels, including Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Far from the Madding Crowd.

Natural England said the site has the potential to be a significant area for nature recovery in the Dorset Downs.

Hayden died after ‘taking fentanyl-laced pill’

HAYDEN Panettiere died after taking a pill laced with fentanyl, officials linked to the investigation into her death have said.

The former child star was reported to have bought several black-market prescription drugs from a ‘long-time drug dealer’ she knew in Los Angeles, according to US news site TMZ.

Ms Panettiere, who was 36 when she died last month, allegedly took oxycodone laced with fentanyl. Just a few grains of the powerful opioid, which is 50 to 100 times stronger than heroin, can cause a fatal overdose.

The Heroes star and her on-off real estate agent boyfriend, Brian Hickerson, had flown from Los Angeles to South Carolina, where he is

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from, a day before she died. Mr Hickerson is believed to have given Ms Panettiere a dose of Narcan, a nasal spray that quickly counters the effects of an opioid overdose, after finding her unresponsive.

Police are now trying to trace the fatal pill back to the person who allegedly sold it to her, according to reports.

No one has been arrested in connection with Ms Panettiere's death. The official toxicology report has also not yet been released.

Mr Hickerson reportedly met investigators from the Drug Enforcement Administration last week as they continued their probe into his girlfriend's death. They had started dating in 2018, before breaking up and getting back together again in 2022.

Ms Panettiere's first acting role was in an advert at 11 months old, and she was later cast in the Scream film franchise and TV series Nashville. She had an 11-year-old daughter, Kaya, with former fiance Wladimir Klitschko.

She also battled addiction, spending eight months in a rehab facility in 2020 after contracting jaundice. In her memoir published earlier this year, This Is Me: A Reckoning, she wrote that a doctor once told her she would be ‘dead within five years’ if she didn’t stop drinking.

Struggle: Ms Panettiere

Injustice is Labour's stock in trade

LABOUR has an unequivocal dependence on money from the trade unions.

Unmistakably, the party makes sure its paymasters are rewarded with changes to legislation which favour their members, who also pocket above-inflation public sector pay rises. Very cosy indeed.

By comparison, there is nothing to prove crypto billionaires Ben Delo and Christopher Harborne are seeking such benefits from their twin £36million gifts to Reform UK.

More than anything, their donations seem driven by enormous frustration at the direction the country is taking and, indeed, Mr Harborne has explicitly stated that he expects ‘nothing personally’ in return.

Labour has gone into a tailspin at the idea that other groups or individuals should be able to donate unprecedented sums to political parties.

There is little wonder the party is being accused of ‘hyperventilating hypocrisy’.

Amid renewed talk of a donations cap, the general secretary of Unite has already suggested trade unions should be exempt.

Labour insists the legal changes should be retrospective – even though it is rare in this country to impose back-dated reform of this kind – and is designing donor residency time limits which appear tailor-made to scupper the two billionaires’ largesse.

When Labour speaks of ‘unfair influence’ in politics it is unwilling to admit how its own palms are so liberally greased by the unions.

What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander – apart from, it seems, where Labour's own coffers are concerned.

Protect the UK

BREAKING up the United Kingdom would be an unmitigated disaster for all four of its component parts.

Nationalist politicians from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have signed a pact to pursue such a goal – but they are motivated solely by self-interest.

It could easily backfire. The Scottish National Party and Plaid Cymru may find that aligning themselves so closely with Sinn Fein is not quite the ‘flex’ they think it is.

Andy Burnham has given succour to such separatism with his constant talk of devolution and his easily contradicted belief that relocating power to local hands is one of the main ways to secure improvement.

As a local politician who has fallen into national politics – unmandated, and increasingly looking out of his depth – this was always the argument he was going to make. He knows little else.

The danger now is that he does not possess the political skill to put this genie back into the bottle once and for all.

If he were to become the Prime Minister who triggered the end of the UK, he would never be forgiven.

Town and country

ANOTHER of Labour's great blindspots is its ignorance of rural Britain.

The furore over inheritance tax on family farms has been immensely damaging – and after dragging on for two years is yet to be finally resolved.

The PM speaks of alleviating ‘regional inequalities’. But his focus is on boosting northern towns and cities, while having very little to say about countryside communities.

Former Labour home secretary Lord Blunkett and ex-PM Lord Cameron are right, then, to join forces and call on the Government to take a new direction on rural affairs.

Overlooking the 10million Britons who live in the countryside is not a recipe for national unity. It is the very opposite.

Come on Kemi, ditch this monstrous tax - and unleash a new era of enterprise!

by Alex Brummer

WHEN I found out that I had blood cancer three years

ago, my first thought was how I could best provide for my family should the grim reaper call.

Overhanging everything was the ogre of inheritance tax (IHT), the most monstrous of all levies which punishes Britons after a lifetime of toil and prudence.

The prospect of handing over 40 per cent of my lifetime savings to HMRC, to reward feckless citizens living off state benefits, was enough to make my blood curdle.

At a time when my focus should have been on getting well again, my six months of intense chemotherapy were dominated by the unexpected administrative burden of estate planning.

Thankfully, the cancer is now in retreat. But coming face to face with the realities of IHT left a terrible taste.

It is one reason that I could not be more pleased to hear that Tory leader Kemi Badenoch is considering the abolition of Britain's most hated tax, and is thinking of announcing this at the Conservative Party conference next month.

It is a singularly brave move – a nuclear option. But one can only imagine the delirious joy such an announcement could bring to millions of households across Britain.

In 2007, when then Shadow Chancellor George Osborne proposed lifting the threshold at which people start to pay IHT to £1 million, the cheers almost took the roof off the Tory conference hall.

Hated

Gordon Brown, who was at the time enjoying a honeymoon in the polls after taking over from Tony Blair as Prime Minister in June, was so discombobulated by the announcement that it was one of the factors in his decision not to call a snap election and win a personal mandate for his policies.

Inheritance tax is hated for a reason. It is a form of double taxation – because it is by and large a levy on savings made from income that has already been taxed. That is why it seems so unfair.

It is also a tax on your family aspirations, hitting not only your children but your grandchildren.

And however much you strive and save to fulfil those ambitions for your family – and, currently, post-war baby boomers and subsequent generations are scheduled to pass on as much as £7 trillion to Generation X (those born between 1965 and 1980) and millennials – Left-wing politicians regard such savings as a pot of gold to be syphoned off for an ever-growing, sclerotic state sector.

As if this were not painful enough, the former Chancellor Rachel Reeves left behind a time bomb for citizens saving for retirement through pensions contributions.

From next spring, in an outrageously confiscatory act,

Labour insists that unspent pension pots will be included in the value of estates for inheritance taxes.

The move will punish spouses and descendants at the most vulnerable time in their lives and has dealt a fatal and confusing blow to the savings culture.

Imagine, instead, if all this money gobbled up by IHT were allowed to cascade down the generations to be invested in new housing, Britain's vibrant tech, AI, creative and pharmaceutical industries.

It could usher in a new age of higher growth and living standards, encourage people to spend and revive the high streets which politicians have helped destroy through more and more ill-designed taxes.

When George Osborne made his intervention in 2006-07, IHT raised a relatively modest £3.4 billion for the Exchequer. It is projected to bring in some £9 billion this year.

Funds which will be diverted from new investment and prosperity into the £400 billion and rising black hole of social protection and welfare.

Badenoch has vowed that all her budgetary changes will be fully costed and has pledged to fund an increase in the defence budget by delivering cuts in the bloated welfare budget.

Scrapping IHT may initially look daunting in terms of costs but if the resources could be found by shrinking the size of the public sector, where the numbers employed and their salaries have surged since Labour took office in July 2024, a new age of enterprise could be unleashed.

Just look north to our

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Nordic neighbours. The Left often glorifies Sweden's social market, with its generous health and welfare systems, as the model to which we should aspire. This analysis is totally outdated, however.

Successive Swedish governments have tilted towards a free-market model and parliament there voted unanimously to abolish inheritance taxes in 2004.

It is among the factors which unleashed a new era of entrepreneurship in Sweden. It includes a rising number of tech startups and world-leading companies such as the digital music producer Spotify and 'Buy now, pay later' champion Klarna, one of the fastest-growing financial technology outfits.

This Labour Party can't understand that savings should be encouraged precisely because they can be used to promote the economic growth they long for.

Abomination

As someone who had struggled for many years to pay off a large mortgage on a family home and meet the cost of three children and their education, it was only in my latter years that I had been able to save out of after-tax income.

The near certainty that my estate, consisting of a home in a leafy London suburb and savings (largely invested in UK equities) would be mutilated by 40 per cent tax charge appalled me.

The outrage was increased by a recognition that the very Labour politicians who advocate sapping taxes on wealth are those most likely to be taking entirely legal avoidance measures – as we learned from the disclosures of Angela Rayner's property dealings.

As the former Tory Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, himself a business creator, told me in the run-up to the 2024 election, inheritance tax is ‘an abomination’ and, when the time was right, he would seek its abolition.

The complexity of Britain's IHT rules, as I personally learned, is beyond the scope of most ordinary mortals and almost certainly some of the armies of HMRC inspectors required to enforce them.

Release

The Inheritance Tax Act of 1984, the primary legislation, stretched to up to 250-pages alone. Over the past few decades, almost every budget has changed or expanded the rules in an all-out effort to limit avoidance.

Reeves' efforts to bring land into consideration, to make rich owners pay more, ended up penalising family farms to a national outcry, and has undermined our food security.

Changes such as these, in the small print in every Budget, now mean that the IHT manual, the bible for advisers, consists of thousands of pages of administrative interpretation and practical advice. The reporting form for inheritance runs to 19-pages, while filling in the document requires someone to plough through 100-pages of accompanying notes.

If Badenoch decides to go all-out and abolish – or even soften – IHT, the political boost for the Tories could lift them out of the electoral oblivion from which the party has been suffering.

As it could significantly release the capital for personal and business investment – and catapult Britain out of an era of doom and gloom.

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Make Labour's anti-Israel mob watch this TV series

THE most bizarre story I've stumbled across lately is a spat between chimney sweeps over a website domain name.

Manchester? We're not talking The Sopranos waste-management here, more a Manc version of the Glasgow Ice Cream Wars.

The dust-up has broken out between a bloke with a firm called Mr Soot, who operates in Burnham country, and a woman who glories in the name of Sparkling Flues – which sounds like that Bonnie Blue bird from Only Fans.

Call me old-fashioned, but since when did chimney sweeps start having websites? Dick Van Dyke got by without chimchiminey.co.uk. Maybe Sooty and Sweep could get in on the act, too.

Who knew there were chimney wars in

REMEMBER the fuss last year over Adolescence, the Netflix drama about a ‘manosphere’-influenced-13-year-old white schoolboy arrested for murdering a girl classmate?

Brilliant, it may have been. But it was a work of fiction. That didn't stop Surkeir (remember him?) convening an emergency meeting at No 10 with the series' producers and various charities to address the problem of how to prevent young boys 'being dragged into a whirlpool of hatred and misogyny' online.

Encouraged by Starmer, Netflix agreed to waive subscription fees so secondary schools across the country could screen the show to students.

Adolescence was hailed as the greatest dramatisation since – oh, I dunno – Cathy Come Home, the 'landmark' 1966 film by Leftie director Ken Loach about a homeless working-class family fallen on hard times.

The hysteria surrounding Adolescence peaked when Kemi Badenoch was monstered on the BBC for not watching it.

How dare she?

That's because it reinforced the gormless woke agenda – white supremacy, misogyny, etc (see above). None of this is to discredit co-creator Stephen Graham, an actor for whom I have great regard. But it was a drama, not a documentary.

Yet politicians, up to and including the Prime Minister, took it as fact and acted accordingly.

And, yes, drama can often achieve more than documentary – as the superb Mr Bates vs The Post Office proved.

In which case, why isn't another Netflix series compulsory viewing not just in schools but in the Palace of Westminster and on big screens everywhere?

I've just spent the weekend binge-watching the fifth season of Fauda, the breathtaking drama about an Israeli counter-terrorism unit.

AUDA is the best thing on what we used to call 'television' this side of

HBO's oil industry Landman and Amazon's Clarkson's Farm. Despite being made by Israelis, it's pretty even-handed, showing both sides of the divide.

But after the Hamas pogrom of October 7, I assumed the fourth series would be the last. How could they dramatise the worst mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust?

The answer is: graphically, terrifyingly, truthfully. If anything, the real horror of that day, when cold-blooded Islamist fanatics murdered, raped and beheaded Jewish men, women and children, can only be imagined.

Fauda takes you inside that nightmare, exposing the banality and savagery of the Hamas violence. I won't go into detail, it's heartbreaking. You are free to watch it yourself, but I did so that you don't have to.

(Many of those involved in Fauda served in the Israeli security forces. One of them, Matan Meir, died in the war against Hamas in Gaza.)

Suffice to say that when the series reaches the October 7 massacre, viewers are advised to skip the next two episodes as they are likely to prove too painful. I watched them, with my heart in my mouth, with growing anger – not just at the Hamas barbarians themselves but at their brain-dead useful idiots in the West, especially in Britain.

What made me sick to the pit of my stomach was the man Hamas now see as their new pin-up, Ed Miliband, our smug Foreign Secretary, standing serious-faced at Buck House during the 9/11 memorial.

This is the man who has just given succour to the perpetrators

Bye, bye, everybody.

of that heinous attack by imposing sanctions on Israel. And before the usual far-Left apologists try to spilt hairs and claim that it was al-Qaeda, not Hamas, who flew the planes into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, let me remind you that on 9/11 they were dancing in the streets in Gaza and the West Bank.

Many years ago, I was at a dinner at the TUC where someone was trying to explain the difference between various

□ ACCORDING to yesterday's Daily Mail, film fans have been voting on the greatest on-screen love triangles. Surely that accolade belongs to Kate O'Mara's Triangle, no contest.

far-Left factions, including the International Socialists, the International Marxists, the Workers Revolutionary Party, Reggie Birch's Maoist Collective and so on. My old friend and sometime mentor, the late Terry Duffy, a patriotic former paratrooper who fought the real Nazis and fascists in the Second World War and went on to become leader of the engineering union, said: 'Doesn't matter, they're all Communists.'

Terry's remark still resonates. Don't differentiate between Al-Qaeda, Al-Jolson, Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis or any other bunch of headbangers beginning with 'H'.

They're all terrorists who hate Israel, hate Jews, and - yes - hate us, too.

So can we expect a Downing Street summit to discuss Fauda and the ‘whirlpool of hatred and misogyny’ stirred up by overindulged Islamists and grooming/rape gangs in Britain?

I wouldn't hold your breath. I'd like to tape Mister Ed to a chair at Leicester Square Odeon, along with a packed audience of the entire 'River To The Sea' keffiyeh clowns at gunpoint, and force them to watch episodes seven and eight of Fauda season five, so they can witness the true barbarity of the genocidal maniacs they support.

There's a word for these people. What is it? Oh, yes.

Adolescents.

AS THE columnist who brought you Two Jags, etc, I’ve been playing around with nicknames for Burnham.

Andy Capp didn't quite fit, despite the ludicrous 'King of the North' affectation (and because the monkey-hangers of Hartlepool, spiritual home of AC, objected).

Andy Pandy seemed more appropriate, since he seems to have the backbone of a puppet. Given his parochial obsessions, I also thought about Prime Mayor. But I must bow to my old mate and fellow hack J. Clarkson Esq, who has settled on ‘Councillor Burnham’. Brilliant. Councillor Burnham, it is.

ONE of the first columns I ever wrote, pushing 40-odd years ago for London's Evening Standard, when it used to be a newspaper, was a lament for a proper cheese sandwich. The yuppie-fication of the City meant you could get Brie on brioche and Camembert on ciabatta, but if you wanted Cheddar on crusty white you had to go south of the river as a basis for negotiation. Now I read that following Marks & Sparks' success with a strawberries and cream sarnie, Sainsbury's is bringing out an apple crumble version. Whatever happened to the More Rabbit Than Sainsbury's sandwich? Why would anyone want to eat an apple crumble sandwich? And, more to the point, where can you get a decent apple crumble these days? South of the river, probably. Lovely Jubbly!

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Daily Mail, Tuesday, September 15, 2026 Today's literary gem

“You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hope and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you.”

General Dwight Eisenhower at the start of the D-Day invasion, June 6, 1944

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ON miserable Sunday afternoons, a group of film buff friends and I often head to the local cinema.

This weekend was our first outing since last April and we saw Pressure. I'd been told it was about ‘the weather, the war and the D-Day landings’. Not exactly a romcom, then!

Writing this, just hours after watching it, I am struggling to find words to express the depth of emotion it stirred.

In brief, the D-Day landings required a very specific set of weather conditions and it was an exceptionally narrow gap in a severe Atlantic storm system that allowed one of the most significant events of the Second World War – the largest sea invasion in history to liberate Europe from the Nazis – to proceed at 6.30am on June 6, 1944. Some say that it was an act of God that the storm parted when it did. The film shows us human intervention was also required.

Step forward the redoubtable Scot, Chief Meteorological Officer Captain James Stagg, played so brilliantly by Andrew Scott (pictured) that I'm sure he'll never top this performance in his career.

He persuaded General Dwight Eisenhower (Brendan Fraser - also brilliant) to delay the invasion by one day.

When the film ended, not a single person in the cinema moved or made a sound until the credits stopped rolling and, even then, we remained sitting and silent. It's been a long time since a film made me smile, cry and caused my heart to skip a few beats, so tense was the narrative.

I was moved to tears by this epic...

For the first time, I truly understood how close we came to losing the war and what a very different world we'd be living in if we had.

If Pressure doesn't sweep the board at the Oscars, then the judges are fools. Even the score deserves an award.

With Remembrance Sunday only weeks away, I urge you to see this film – don't wait for it to hit the small screen. It is our duty to watch it and encourage others to do the same. Let us never forget.

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Megs, Queen of the Cotswolds? THAT crown's already taken!

FTER weeks of speculation, exploding WhatsApp threads and intense gossip and

guesswork here in the North Cotswolds, on Sunday, private citizen Meghan Sussex released some cosy images on Instagram of her family's new life in the English countryside.

Archie and Lilibet splashing in muddy puddles, fishing with Harry from a boat on a lake, bike rides in a deer park and roaring fires to toast little feet. It could not be more joyous.

And it didn't take long for internet sleuths to work out the location! Meghan doesn't do anything by accident, and I do wonder if she's desperate to break out of the bubble in which she has been living in recent months.

Let's face it, it must have been suffocating for an accomplished actress, who loves to play to a camera and has a business to promote, to lie so low.

Rumours persist that she's set on launching a very British version of her As Ever lifestyle brand – home, family, food, entertaining and fashion, all wrapped up in an ethos of wellness.

It could be a canny move on paper. We know that American tourists love the Cotswolds – which is where the Sussexes (currently staying with friends elsewhere) are expected to settle. And this part of the world is certainly a hot topic on Instagram.

One person in the know told me: ‘Meghan may not be a working royal, but she will make it her job to become queen of the Cotswolds.’

Really? Well, I have news for Meghan. Firstly, we have an actual Queen here already.

Camilla is often in residence at Charles's beloved country home in the area, Highgrove.

And we have another queen, too: someone who started building her own luxury lifestyle empire almost 25 years ago, open-

WHATEVER your politics, one can only feel for what Andy Burnham is going through today following the death of his father Roy, who had Alzheimer's, aged 86.

Sadly, for him, the demands of office will not stop for long enough to allow him to grieve. Prime ministers don't have the luxury of compassionate leave, and he'll be lucky if he gets 48 hours' grace. The job is 24/7 and those who put their head above the parapet knowingly sign up for it.

RIP Mr Burnham Sr. He would have been beyond proud had he known his son had made it into No 10.

ing her first store in 2002. Carole Bamford is the originator and founder of Daylesford Organic.

Daylesford has been phenomenally successful, though it doesn't come cheap. Quality never does. I justify the expense

ANGELA Rayner took to the airwaves on Sunday to pass comment on the huge £72million donation to Reform by two British crypto-billionaires.

Not so fast, Ange...

Labour's former deputy leader told us repeatedly how good her party is at vetting its own donations.

How quickly people forget about Peter Mandelson, best mates with one Jeffrey Epstein, and the embarrassing debacle surrounding his appointment by Keir Starmer as our ambassador to Washington. Not a lot of vetting took place there, did it, Ange?

of shopping at my nearby store by never buying in excess and knowing that whatever I do buy will be worth it for the taste or, when it comes to clothes, because it will last for years.

The emphasis is on organic,

I WORRIED that the long, hot summer would kill blackberry-picking this year. The crop is poor, but I didn't consider the presence of my five-year-old granddaughter.

IF YOU want proof that there is nothing in this country as useless as a Liberal Democrat MP – or council – go and talk to the good people of Piddington, who today will vote on whether to ‘leave the UK’. The Oxfordshire village – population 350 – is trying to stop a former MoD site being used to house up to 1,250 male asylum seekers.

As she filled her basket, she turned and said: 'This is the best thing, isn't it?' She was right - on a morning that couldn't have felt more autumnal.

which is Lady Bamford's driving passion. Even the wicks in her beautiful candles are organic!

As for jam – something the Duchess of Sussex is renowned for – Daylesford jams come from organic fruit grown on the Bamford estate and, I would say, are impossible to beat for taste. I doubt there's a market here for Meghan's brand.

Daylesford has built up a loyal and passionate clientele around the globe. So, if a UK version of As Ever is Meghan's intention, then she has a very big hill to climb.

Never mind, I suppose Harry could always get a job....

The women of Piddington fear for their safety. Some unkind people have taken to social media to say it serves them right for voting Lib Dem – a party which supports high levels of immigration and open borders. I would add that Piddington's plight shows you exactly who NOT to support at the next election.

Experts quit Letby's defence team with a blast at her barrister

By Liz Hull

LUCY Letby's barrister is damaging her chances of freedom, two experts who quit her defence team over 'scientific credibility' concerns claimed yesterday.

Helen Shannon, a British chemical engineer, and Geoff Chase, a professor of bioengineering based in New Zealand, were part of an international panel who last year backed claims that Letby was the victim of a miscarriage of justice.

They produced a 100-page report that cast doubt on her convictions for the attempted murder of two babies who were poisoned with insulin. But the pair now say they have withdrawn support from her defence team over concerns about the ‘scientific credibility’ and ‘unresolvable problems’ of some areas of its evidence.

And they accused Mark

McDonald, the barrister spearheading Letby's fight for freedom, of 'placing the long-term interests of Ms Letby at serious, unnecessary and unacceptable risk'.

Letby, 36, has always maintained her innocence and is challenging her convictions for murdering seven babies and attempting to murder seven others at the Countess of Chester Hospital.

She is serving 15 whole-life terms after being convicted across two trials at Manchester Crown Court.

The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC), the watchdog that investigates potential miscarriages of justice, is considering a dossier of evidence submitted last year by the expert panel, led by Canadian neonatologist Dr Shoo Lee, on her behalf.

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involved died of either natural causes or because of poor care.

Ms Shannon and Professor Chase told The Guardian that although they stood by their assessment that it was ‘very unlikely’ the babies – known as Babies F and L in the trial – were poisoned, they could not support other evidence being used by Letby’s defence team relating to the insulin cases.

Other arguments being put forward were ‘inconsistent with the available evidence, science and established physiology’, they said.

In a letter to the CCRC, the experts said: 'While it is entirely legitimate for the defence to advance multiple arguments, some of the other arguments now being put forward we cannot support as scientifically credible and which have, in our view, fundamental unresolvable problems.' Dr Lee claimed his experts had been assembled without bias to carry out an 'objective review' of the medical notes of the 17 babies that Letby was initially accused of murdering or trying to kill.

But in September their independence was called into question after it emerged he had written to the medics, saying: 'We might be her (Letby's) last hope.'

One senior neonatologist told the Daily Mail he declined to take part in the panel for several reasons, including the leading nature of the language in Dr Lee's email.

In April, it emerged Mr McDonald had been reported to the Bar Standards Board for alleged professional misconduct. Families of the killer nurse's victims are understood to have made a formal complaint to the legal regulator.

In response to the withdrawal of Ms Shannon and Professor Chase, Mr McDonald said the case for Letby's innocence did not 'stand or fall on any one expert'.

The CCRC, which has been reviewing Letby's convictions for 18 months, declined to comment. A public inquiry into the murders will publish its findings today.

Clarkson ‘effect’ sees rise in cancer checks

By Eve Simmons

JEREMY Clarkson and David Cameron have been credited with sparking a huge surge in checks for prostate cancer.

Visits to Prostate Cancer UK's online risk checker rose 11-fold after they revealed their diagnoses. It said 2,000 men a day used it prior to ex-prime minister Lord Cameron, 59, revealing his diagnosis in 2025 - soaring beyond 22,000 in the week that followed.

A similar boost was seen after ex-Top Gear star Mr Clarkson, 66, announced his diagnosis, with visits up from 8,425 a day to 51,000.

It's an uplift that has saved lives, said the charity, but Mr Clarkson insisted: 'There is plenty more to do. I'll keep saying it: Check your risk. It only takes a couple of minutes and it could save your life.'

Mr Clarkson and Lord Cameron are among survivors demanding wider screening – something this newspaper is campaigning for. In a letter to Health Secretary Yvette

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Cooper, they urged her to ‘commit to a targeted national screening programme’, adding: ‘Act now, rather than wait for further data while men continue to die.’

Mr Clarkson announced he was diagnosed with prostate cancer in episodes of his show Clarkson's Farm in June. He later told The Sunday Times he is now in remission, while Lord Cameron has also revealed he is now cancer-free.

Amy Rylance, from Prostate Cancer UK, said: 'We hear from so many men who say a celebrity diagnosis, like Mr Clarkson or Lord Cameron's, inspired them to check their risk and in some cases saved their life.'

The catwalk is a piece of cake for Prue and Alison

By Connie Rusk and Stephanie Takyi

AS a former restaurateur and Great British Bake Off judge, she knows how to get attention in the kitchen.

But Dame Prue Leith, 86, really took the biscuit when she hit the catwalk at the weekend. She wore a pink wig, oversized glasses and a white floral tulle dress, right, by sustainable brand Vin + Omi at London Fashion Week.

And she was joined by former Bake Off co-star Alison Hammond in Hoxton, east London, as they showed off

the label's Anarchy collection. This Morning presenter Ms Hammond, 51, also turned heads in an off-the-shoulder

an on the should number. She will return to Bake Off for a new series next week - with new judge Nigella Lawson taking Dame Prue's place.

Recipe for success: Alison Hammond

Mother-of-two endured 11 years of chemotherapy for cancer she didn't have

By Lettice Bromovsky

A WOMAN told she had a terminal brain tumour underwent 11 years of chemotherapy – only to find out she never had cancer in the first place.

Becky Jones was 21, newly in love and dreaming of a career in the police when doctors told her she had an aggressive brain tumour and just months to live.

Instead of building the future she had imagined, she spent the next 11 years on chemotherapy – suffering debilitating nausea, fatigue and other side-effects, in the constant fear that stopping would kill her.

Now, at 34, the mother-of-two has learnt that she never had a tumour after all.

Independent experts instructed on her behalf concluded she had been suffering from tumefactive demyelination, an inflammatory condition affecting the brain which can be treated with steroids.

Ordeal: Becky Jones, 34

Her case has emerged as part of a wider scandal involving patients treated at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust under retired consultant neuro-oncologist Professor Ian Brown.

More than 40 patients and their families are taking legal action over allegations of prolonged or unnecessary cancer treatment. A Royal College of Physicians' review of 20 cases found serious failures in clinical decision-making, patient consent and NHS oversight.

Fifteen were found unsatisfactory with repeated cases of chemotherapy being continued for years without a clear evidence base or adequate documentation explaining why it was necessary.

In some cases, patients were given more than 100 cycles of temozolomide, a chemotherapy drug normally used for high-grade brain tumours.

The review also raised concerns that patients were not properly warned about the risks of continuing treatment for prolonged periods and that systems designed to challenge unusual prescribing had failed.

In 2012, Ms Jones was a CCTV operator at Coventry City stadium and had recently met her partner Pete, who worked there as a steward. But severe migraines prompted medical investigations, with scans revealing a lesion on her brain.

She underwent a biopsy and was subsequently treated as though she had a grade-four glioblastoma – one of the most aggressive brain cancers.

But her lawyers say the diagnosis was made before the biopsy results had returned.

The trust has said affected patients have been reviewed by senior clinicians and appropriate care plans put in place.

It has also commissioned an independent examination of its processes for allowing staff to raise concerns.

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MIGHT Harry, having seen Prince George stealing the headlines last week on his

first day at Eton, want Archie to follow in his father's academic footsteps? Nowadays, only 20 per cent of Old Etonians have children there, compared with 60 per cent in the 1960s. Increasing fees are one reason, another is that fathers no longer have the automatic right to enrol sons at birth. All would-be pupils must now prove they have high academic ability, undergo interviews and pass a reasoning test. Having the monarch as grandpa no longer butters any parsnips – at least officially. And under the new regime, would Harry, not exactly a high-flier in his youth, have failed to make the grade?

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AFTER Donald Trump declared during his recent visit that he'd 'love to see' a unified Ireland, Andrew Neil reflects: 'There was a time when a US President advocating [this] would have been dynamite – dominating the news cycle... But it's Trump. He spouts drivel all the time. Nobody much cares... he has no idea what he's talking about. He'll be saying the opposite in a week.'

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DIVORCED Bad Sisters star Sharon Horgan, pictured, bluntly says of single life at 56: 'If you are in your mid-50s and you haven't found your person to get old with... how do you put yourself out there as a sexual person when

you're a pensioner, nearly? At a certain age, who will be left? Will it just be the weirdos and the freaks and the institutionally single bachelors and the old men?' Form a queue, chaps!

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SHORTLY after Diana Rigg's daughter Rachael Stirling failed a Bond movie audition in bed with Daniel Craig because her breasts were deemed too small, her father Archie Stirling encountered Craig at an airport baggage carousel. 'There were only two trolleys left,' Rachel tells a podcast. 'And Daniel took both of them. My Dad said, "I rather think, after you've rolled around in bed with my daughter, that you ought to give me one of the trolleys!"' Rachel doesn't disclose 007's reaction. Perhaps he thought Archie was off his trolley.

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LUCIAN Freud's pneumatic muse Sue Tilley tells how she suffered while posing naked for the late painter. '[Freud]... told me to get on the floor and make myself comfortable and there were lots of pillows... they were absolutely filthy,' Sue tells Radio 4. 'But I'm not fussy about hygiene so I didn't mind.' The painting, Benefits Supervisor Sleeping, sold for £17.2million. Sue, 69, didn't see a penny.

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NO MENTION in the new Barbara Cartland biography of royal author Tim Heald's short-lived attempt to secure Babs' permission to write her life story in the 1990s. She gave Tim access to her papers but then summoned him. 'She was furious I had discovered her first husband Sachie McCorquodale was a charmless drunk who used to beat her up,' Tim recounted. 'She didn't want anyone to know [that]. So she sacked me.'

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by Alexandra Shulman

I T'S unlikely that anybody in the history of weddings could have looked less attractive than I did on the day of my first marriage in 1994.

Even my sister made no objection when I made that comment to her not long ago. No 'Don't be silly. You looked so sweet.' Or, possibly worse: 'It was so you.'

Just a complicit silence.

There was an excuse. My then long-term boyfriend had proposed to me on a Monday and said he had booked the register office for the upcoming Thursday. Would I marry him?

This now appears to be an impossible feat as apparently marriage banns have to be posted 28 days in advance, but all I can say is that both he and I remember this as what happened.

It was an unconventional approach, but we had had an unconventional courtship and were living apart at that time. It was one of those make-or-break moments and, after thinking about it overnight, I made up my mind to accept and phoned him the next day, both frightened and elated to tell him my decision.

There was no time to organise anything, especially not something lovely to wear.

In my experience, the more important the occasion you are trying to find something for, the less likely it is you will find it. That's why it's worth buying anything you fall for when you see it, and then waiting for the right time to come to you. As it invariably will.

Be that as it may, I didn't have anything appropriate for a marriage in the wardrobe and ran into the top London boutique Browns on South Molton Street, near my office, with my friend and colleague Frances. There wasn't anything that I really loved but, given the time shortage, I plumped for a long-sleeved white dress by the then fashionable Ghost and a richly embroidered Dries van Noten shawl in layers of silk and tulle.

POSSIBLY because I had been miserable about having broken up with him on more than one occasion before we wed and fearful about what my future would be, I wasn't looking my best at that point.

Photographs of the day show me with a dreadful haircut that was intended to be a desirably messy shag but instead was just messy; a pasty pallor and an outfit that did me no favours draping me in shapeless fabric. Fortunately my sister and brother-in-law were the only witnesses – both of the marriage and my appearance.

It's one of my regrets in life that I looked that way on that day. Not hugely serious, but enough to remind me that if something doesn't feel right, it's better if need be to stick to something you feel good wearing. That dress never felt right. It was too sloppy and informal. The shawl made me look like the great-aunt of a Hindu bride.

No wedding gowns, though, are freighted with such import as those of royal brides. Some weeks after the engagement between Prince William and Catherine Middleton was announced in 2010, I was contacted by a member of her team asking if I might come in and have a chat about potential designers for her to consider making her dress.

Naturally I was honoured, but extremely apprehensive. Wedding dresses are not, as I have pointed out, my strong point. And this gown had to encapsulate a nation's dreams and expectations. From the moment the wedding was announced, the tom-toms began to beat about who would get the much desired commission.

This was no simple assignment. Catherine would need to work with a designer able to honour the tradition of royal wedding dresses, which come loaded with all the symbolism and heritage attached to such a historical event. Every detail would be scrutinised and analysed for decades to come.

The gown also needed to be the work of a British designer with the exceptional skill and imagination required for a job of this status, but also able to carry out the whole business in complete secrecy. Security was a big concern. It was essential that their identity didn't leak before the day.

They would also need the confidence to deal with the undoubted formality and regulations of the Royal Household while forging an empathy with the bride-to-be. After all, she had to feel comfortable with the designer seeing her in all states of undress and possibly at different junctures in the process where she might be feeling unsure. My gut reaction told me a woman would be the best solution.

When we met, Catherine was keen to know my thoughts and we crouched on the floor of one of the reception rooms in Clarence House looking at pages torn out of Vogue, showing British designers whom she might consider – Erdem, Vivienne Westwood, Catherine Walker, Bruce Oldfield, Alexander McQueen, along with established wedding-dress designers like Phillipa Lepley. From Catherine's reaction to these, it was impossible to read what she thought.

At this stage her usual wardrobe wasn't full of designer clothes and was similar to that of many young, middle-class, Middle England women, featuring brands like Reiss and Jigsaw. She wasn't familiar with the process of custom-made clothes nor of working with a high-profile designer.

It was a different situation from that of the late Queen Elizabeth's wedding dress in 1947. That was designed by British couturier Norman Hartnell, a man the then princess already had a close relationship with, as he had worked on much of her wardrobe. In those days, there were no brands like Reiss or

Jigsaw. The Royal Family's clothes were all made individually for them. Hartnell's gown was embroidered with crystals and seed pearls depicting white York roses, and wheat sheaves to symbolise regeneration after the destruction of the recent war. Around the hem were garlands of orange blossom, often used in royal gowns to demonstrate fertility, chastity and virtue.

In her book Fashioning The Crown, Justine Picardie quotes Hartnell's memoirs, which tell how the precise origins of the material used in the gown were scrutinised. 'What was the nationality of the worms that had provided the silk from which the satin was made and from which I intended to make the dress?' he wrote. When it emerged that he was planning to use a satin from the Scottish firm of Winterthur, he was told that certain circles were trying to stop this on patriotic grounds – the silkworms involved might be Italian, who were not our friends in the war, or, possibly worse, Japanese.

It's a sign of the way times change that when it was announced that the worms were fine – they were Chinese – Hartnell was given the all-clear to go ahead. Nowadays we might be far more wary of Chinese worms than of the Japanese versions.

BEFORE I left that afternoon, Catherine asked me who I thought would be best. Until that moment I hadn't had a firm favourite, but I considered the options in front of us and suggested that Alexander McQueen - now designed by Sarah Burton, who had taken over the role of creative director after his death - would be a good choice.

Sarah had a quietness about her that I thought would suit the bride-to-be, but also a strength of opinion and great expertise. Lee McQueen, as he was known, had long used symbolism in his work and rich craftsmanship was a keynote of the house. Catherine just nodded and thanked me for all the help.

It was only when I was seated in Westminster Abbey on the day of the wedding and got a text through from my assistant Sacha announcing that the dress was indeed McQueen that I had any idea Sarah had landed the prestigious job.

In the Abbey, none of us could see what was happening outside and so missed the great reveal moment in real time. I am sure I was not the only person who made the recommendation, but I was very happy that final dress was not only perfect for this historical ceremony but also that the new princess forged a relationship with Sarah that would last for years to come.

Which brings me to my own second, relatively recent wedding.

This time I had slightly longer to find something to wear. David and I had been together for more than 20 years and had been talking for ages about getting married or, more frequently, about not getting married. There was always another reason not to make the decision.

But after my mother died, something shifted. It was impossible to push the powerful recognition of the passing of time to the back of my mind. We didn't have for ever to keep batting this ball around. Tomorrow might not arrive. We needed to decide either to go for it or not. This time we booked a slot in Kensington and Chelsea register office (the same site as my first marriage) six weeks in advance. We had kept the news relatively private and planned a minuscule ceremony, but with the photographs of my past wedding running on a carousel through my memory I knew I had to do better on the clothes front this time around.

But what is a suitable wedding outfit for a second wedding in your 50s or 60s or later? In

As Vogue editor for 25 years, ALEXANDRA SHULMAN was a giant of fashion. Now, in a compellingly frank memoir, she reveals...

How I helped Kate choose her wedding dress — even though I'd looked a fright on my own big day

general the situation does not obviously lend itself to the big white wedding dress treatment. It's not age that is the issue but how much you want to present as the traditional, virginal bride.

Weddings are a meaningful acknowledgement of a relationship between two people and while obviously there is no rule about how to dress for such a thing, I wanted my clothes to reflect how I felt about the marriage. In truth, at the time I was a little unsure what that was.

Was it tempting fate to marry at such a late age? Would our previously harmonious relationship survive the new ties? Would marriage make us feel safer and happier? Or would we both feel a new restriction in our lives together? Would I feel a sense of resolution? I had no idea.

Nor did I have any idea what I wanted to wear, only what I didn't want to wear. I was clear that I would avoid the type of floppy, swampy dress that David particularly hates and I rather love – the ones he calls my Demis Roussos look were on my no-go list.

I wanted to buy something that I could wear again and ideally not

Bridal bliss: Kate Middleton wears Alexander McQueen in 2011. Above, Alexandra and David Jenkins tie the knot in April

only for very formal occasions. The wedding would be in late April when the weather could go any which way, adding the usual British uncertainty to what was going to work. I didn't want to freeze on the steps of the register office, but neither did I want to be wearing a heavy coat. That for some reason didn't seem joyful enough.

All white, I knew, was not flattering for me, and would also make me feel a bit silly. Navy – often my go-to – would be a little uncelebratory. Pink, perhaps, or green might be possible.

SURPRISINGLY for someone who has had a long career running a magazine filled with suggestions of what to wear for what, I was paralysed with indecision. I didn't even know where to start. The thought of ordering endless items online and then having to organise boxes of clothes to be returned, each piece of clothing another failure, was too grim to contemplate. I knew I had to go to a real bricks-and-mortar shop to try the outfit on there and then.

Eventually, only a week before the wedding, I took myself off to Liberty's, a department store with the great advantage of being a manageable size to navigate.

I wandered around the floors picking up bits and pieces to try, knowing they were unlikely to be what I needed. Soon pooling on the floor in the changing room were the many midi and maxi dresses I tried on. Sleeveless floral numbers more suitable to a summer garden party, slithery bias-cut styles that didn't suit me, exotically printed columns that reached the floor, ditto.

Looking at myself in the unforgiving light, I started to reconsider the whole business. Even, fleetingly, the marriage itself. Perhaps it would be best to stick to my edict of 'Wear something you are sure you feel comfortable in.' After all, it wasn't as if I didn't have countless dresses in my wardrobe from my years at Vogue.

Even so, that struck me as defeatist. Surely this marriage deserved better. The hunt would have to continue. Strolling mournfully towards the exit, I told the helpful sales assistant that unfortunately nothing worked and then... I spotted something perfect, coming to the rescue like the sight of land when lost at sea.

On the Jil Sander rail lined with otherwise monochrome tops and trousers, there hung a single pale pink satin pencil skirt decorated with small crimson poppies. I knew at a glance that it would fit me and was just what I wanted. And it was.

The assistant, excited at making a sale but also caught up in the emotion of helping to find a wedding outfit, scurried around to find a suitable top. She returned carrying a fine-knit bright tomato-red cardigan by Dries van Noten and – the icing on the proverbial cake – a crazy red feathered bag by the same designer.

The pencil skirt gave me a neat waist and hit exactly the right length below the knee. The cardigan was a flattering shape and the bag just the thing to make the outfit shout happily. Nothing swampy about it at all.

I knew that I would wear that skirt again and again, and each time it would remind me of the day, but it would go on to have new memories attached to it. And I delighted in going into my new married life as a scarlet woman, not a blushing bride.

When you know, you know. And I knew.

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Wallace: It's time for Britain to shoot down Putin's drones

BRITAIN should blow Vladimir Putin's deadly drones out of the sky over Ukraine, a former defence secretary said last night.

Ben Wallace backed calls for UK forces to engage Russian warheads heading towards Nato territory to prevent

By Mark Nicol and Andy Jehring

Kremlin attacks on Ukraine's neighbours.

Poland has led calls for its allies to step up for months, only to be ignored by its partners in the defensive alliance. But last night, following a strike that narrowly missed Boris Johnson and other former leaders near the Polish border, Mr Wallace urged Downing Street to meet the challenge.

Russia has increasingly targeted Ukraine's neighbours, including Poland, Romania and Moldova, with drones, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles.

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But Putin is likely to react furiously to Britain and others joining the conflict in the skies over Ukraine for the first time – should Nato change its policy.

Mr Wallace, who led international support for Ukraine after the 2022 Russian invasion, told the Daily Mail: 'It is the logical next step. There is nothing to stop a country shooting down incoming missiles or drones over Ukraine.

‘It is in line with international law and can’t be viewed as escalatory as the drones are over Ukraine, not Russia.’

It comes after Mr Johnson, the UK national security adviser Jonathan Powell and European officials narrowly avoided a Russian drone that struck a train on the Ukrainian-Polish border. They had disem-

'In line with international law'

barked at the Yahodyn-Dorohusk crossing often used by politicians visiting the war zone. Shortly after another train nearby was hit.

Ukraine expert Dr Olga Matveieva at the University of Paderborn, in Germany, said ignoring Russia's ‘incessant provocations’ was ‘no longer an option’ for Nato.

On the ground Ukrainians are growing tired of the West's failure to step up to meet Russia's threat.

Nato's policy has so far been to wait for Russian warheads to enter its airspace before engaging.

The Mail understands some member states insist the policy should be maintained, as to engage enemy targets over the conflict zone itself would be escalatory.

The Institute for the Study of War, a leading US think-tank, says that tactic is no longer viable as the Kremlin increasingly aggressively targets Nato states such as Poland and Romania. It also called on Nato members to provide Ukraine with more air defence capabilities and the ability to strike Russian drone and missile launchers.

Close call: Boris Johnson

Putin has reacted with hostility to recent UK efforts to support Ukraine, such as providing it with long-range missiles to strike targets within Russia's borders.

Last month, Russia's long-serving UK ambassador Andrey Kelin was withdrawn after seven years without a successor appointed. ■ A SECOND British soldier has been killed on operations in Ukraine, the Ministry of Defence confirmed yesterday.

The death on Saturday followed a ‘road traffic incident’, officials said, but gave no further details.

In December paratrooper Lance Corporal George Hooley, 28, was killed ‘testing a new defensive capability away from the front lines’.

New oil price jump after bombing of key Saudi pipeline

By Imogen Garfinkel

OIL prices have surged amid fears Saudi Arabia could run out of export stocks in a matter of days if it does not repair a bombed pipeline.

Satellite images have revealed the extent of damage to the 745-mile east-west pipeline after drones were launched from Iraq on Thursday, with a pumping station appearing badly charred.

Oil prices rose more than 3 per cent yesterday to \$108 a barrel. The pipeline has helped Saudi Arabia – the world's largest crude oil exporter – bypass the Strait of Hormuz by re-routing around 4million barrels a day to the port of Yanbu on the Red Sea.

If it remains shut, existing stocks at Yanbu could only support exports for around five to seven days, industry sources said, putting even more pressure on the price of crude.

The global energy market is already under severe strain after the Iran war triggered the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the world's oil and gas normally flows.

Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi rebels have launched attacks on targets in Saudi Arabia and captured the strategic Red Sea island of Perim in the Bab al-Mandab Strait, expanding their control of the narrow waterway.

Iraq said it had fired a military commander and launched an investigation after admitting the drone attack on the vital pipeline had originated in one of its provinces bordering Iran.

A further decline in Saudi oil flows will worsen the global supply crunch, which has already pushed global fuel prices to record highs and spurred inflation around the world.

King smooths out relations between Harry and Uganda over Invictus

By Rebecca English Royal Editor

UGANDA will now take part in Harry's Invictus Games next year after the King's right-hand man rang the country's military chief to smooth over relations.

Private secretary Sir Clive Alderton called General Muhoozi Kainerugaba to say King Charles had been ‘moved’ by his ‘sensitive consideration’ of what His Majesty’s opinion might be on the 2027 sporting event due to be held in Birmingham.

The elaborately titled ‘Chief of Defence Forces and Senior Presidential Adviser for Special Operations’ last week announced on X that he was pulling his country out of the Paralympic-style contest for military personnel over the ongoing ‘Harry/Meghan nonsense’ – following their UK return.

It prompted a stinging response from the Sussexes' spokesman, who claimed that a bombshell letter on behalf of the King sent last week by the Lord Chamberlain – emphasising the couple's 'private citizen' status had 'directly or indirectly' caused the Ugandans to pull out.

'Matter resolved after discreet call'

The Sussexes also shockingly accused the Palace of negatively affecting military personnel and veterans.

King Charles is head of the Armed Forces and immediately made clear he was ‘supportive’ of all initiatives benefiting the military.

The monarch, who is head of the ‘family of nations’, will be attending the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Antigua in November. Meanwhile, Harry is said to be keen for his father to attend next year when the Invictus Games returns to the UK for the first time since 2014 – when the King and Prince William both attended the inaugural event.

It will be the first time Uganda has taken part. But last week General Kainerugaba posted: 'In order not to be construed as being opposed to His Majesty King Charles III of the United Kingdom, whom we deeply revere, Uganda hereby withdraws from the Invictus Games. We shall not participate in anything that does not have His Majesty's approval.'

Stinging response: Harry and Meghan at the last Games

On social media yesterday, however, Colonel Chris Magezi, Uganda's acting director of defence public information, said the matter had been resolved after Sir

Clive made a discreet telephone call. He said: 'The Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) and Senior Presidential Adviser for Special Operations, General Muhoozi Kainerugaba has approved UPDF [Uganda People's Defence Force] participation in the upcoming Invictus Games next year in Birmingham.

‘The decision follows a telephone conversation between General Kainerugaba and the

Principal Private Secretary to His Majesty The King and Her Majesty The Queen of the United Kingdom, the Right Honourable Sir Clive Alderton KCVO.

‘In the discussion, Sir Alderton revealed that King Charles III was moved by General Kainerugaba’s sensitive consideration of the King’s opinion on the upcoming Invictus Games organised by Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex. Sir Alderton said King Charles III has no problem with Uganda's participation in the Invictus Games.' Colonel Magezi added that General Kainerugaba had 'promised that the UPDF would resume preparations to participate'.

Courtesy: Gen Kainerugaba

It is believed that Buckingham Palace had made the first move, with a source saying they were 'most grateful' to the Ugandans for their 'courtesy and understanding'. In contrast, the Sussex camp claimed that the Lord Chamberlain's letter had only created 'confusion', which was strongly denied.

Last week sources made clear that the King encourages all organisations in support of wounded service personnel.

Get rid of the monarchy for George's sake says Sturgeon

By Sam Lawley

BRITAIN should abolish the monarchy to save 13-year-old Prince George from his future role as King, Nicola Sturgeon has said.

The former first minister of Scotland insisted that scrapping the institution would relieve him of a ‘burden’ he has ‘no choice over’.

Speaking on Channel 4 documentary The Royals: Time To Go?, Ms Sturgeon told fellow republican John Humphrys that she had ‘huge sympathy’ for the Royal Family.

She added: 'In fact, I would say one of the arguments for getting rid of the monarchy is for the sake of members of the Royal Family, like Prince George, for example.

‘That kid doesn’t know any different. He has a certain life ahead of

'He has no choice. Is that really fair?'

him that he has no choice over. Is that really fair?

'And so I actually think it is one of the arguments for getting rid of the monarchy, to free the future members of the Royal Family from carrying that burden.'

In a poll commissioned to coincide with the show's release, more than one in four people said they supported scrapping the monarchy.

This rose to 38 per cent among 18 to 24-year-olds.

Ms Sturgeon's remarks came as she was yesterday reported to police for allegedly handling stolen goods following the embezzlement conviction of her estranged husband Peter Murrell.

Stuart Campbell, a pro-independence blogger, revealed he had written to Police Scotland accusing her of ‘reset’, an offence in Scots law meaning a person has been in possession of stolen property.

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Can sleaziest city on the planet EVER clean up its act?

THE jokes, jibes and mockery on social media were inevitable when, after 286 days at sea, a United States aircraft carrier filled with 5,000 sailors docked at a city notorious the world over for sex tourism.

It had been the longest modern naval deployment, so American TV teams descended on Pattaya anticipating mayhem as frustrated crew – fresh from a Middle East war zone – encountered the neon-lit go-go bars, massage parlours and beachside prostitutes that throng the pulsating Thai resort.

This is, after all, the simple fishing village that half a century ago was transformed into a notorious hub for prostitution as tens of thousands of US troops fighting in the Vietnam War spent their R&R there.

Pattaya in Thailand has 190,000 official residents – and some 60,000 sex workers, making it a magnet for Western sex tourists. IAN BIRRELL talks to the mayor whose dream is to reinvent it as a family resort...

from Ian Birrell

Today, with 120,000 registered Thai residents and up to 70,000 foreign expats, Pattaya is reputed to host at least 60,000 sex workers.

After almost ten months at sea, conditions on the USS Abraham Lincoln had deteriorated. Even its captain, Dan Keeler, admitted his ship 'looks like a dirty car in a parking lot'.

Yet, apart from one drunken fight and a few discreet hook-ups, his crew – which included hundreds of women – mostly spent their time on land eating, shopping and enjoying the beach, boosting both the city's economy and its ongoing efforts to shift its image.

‘Pattaya has a reputation as a place for nightlife and having sex,’ said its mayor, Poramet ‘Beer’ Ngampichet. ‘But we try to change the reputation – you can get everything here. Now we can say that this city is also a family destination.’

He talked glowingly about Pattaya's beaches, conventions and sports facilities. Yet the first thing I saw upon arrival here as I left my taxi was a scene symbolising its gruesome image: a very portly British pensioner holding hands with two young Thai women. 'It makes me uncomfortable too,' admitted the mayor when I told him.

There was a cosmetic clean-up of the city before the US sailors disembarked, with a few token arrests of sex workers. But now the spotlight is falling back on the sleazy side of 'Sin City' with looming indictments of two Western farang (foreigners) for murder.

First comes the case of Simon Carman, 45, an Australian accused of strangling an underage prostitute in an argument allegedly over money. He was seen on security cameras holding her hand waiting for a lift in his block of flats just before her death.

Police believe Carman picked up Tunchanok Donhomla – a 17-year-old who came to the city a week earlier from a poor rural area – by Pattaya's beach in June.

Her naked body was found in a suitcase dumped in long grass by rail tracks.

DAYS later, a 21-year-old British woman was arrested over the fatal stabbing of her 34-year-old boyfriend – reportedly from Stoke-on-Trent and running a cannabis farm – at a luxury rented villa by the city. She claimed he had committed suicide.

I have visited more than 100 countries, witnessing many sleazy scenes and dark places as a journalist – but Pattaya's ‘party’ scene is without parallel.

‘When you see the age of some of the girls and how they are presented, it’s just an indictment of humanity,’ says Chris, a retired Australian on a golfing trip with friends. ‘I like the people, the

IN PATTAYA, THAILAND

food, the golf here – but I don't like all the abuse of females.'

Men walk alone or in small groups along the most infamous streets filled with bars such as Slutz, Bliss or Little Hole and crowded with women who work in them, pleading for custom dressed as schoolgirls, nurses or in the skimpiest of G-strings.

Some grab men's arms or grope them, calling them 'handsome' and 'sexy' even when they are so fat, old or drunk they can barely walk. It is a head-spinning blur of loud music, blinking lights, hustling women – all trying desperately to lure in clients.

There are ladyboys – a Thai phrase for transgender women – seeking trade, a neon-lit ‘Boyz Town’ area, signs promoting lurid ‘ping pong’ shows, promises of ‘sexy girls’ for Indians or Russians.

Women sit in wire cages, waiting for men to throw balls at a target so that they tumble into a tank of water below them.

In surrounding streets there are scores of massage parlours. Women wearing the uniform of their ‘spa’ sit outside, many middle-aged or older. They chat, eat or look listlessly at their phones, calling out greetings to try to entice passing men.

‘Of course it is the sex capital of the world, whatever they might say,' said Paul, 58, a courier from Sussex whom I met leaving a bar on Soi 6, the most notorious street. 'If you want sex with a girl, you can get it anywhere here. You only have to look at a girl to get it.' He has been visiting the city since he was 21. 'Pattaya is what it is. There are nicer places in Thailand but lots of people come here. When I first came it was half the size, so that must mean it's popular. There's nowhere in the world like this.'

There are 22 million visitors a year to this city two hours from the capital Bangkok – but some are less open about their activities. One British man in his 50s sitting with a younger Thai woman told me he was on his ninth trip to Pattaya but knew nothing about its reputation. 'I've not seen anything like that,' he said, smirking.

Later, I met a lorry driver from Birmingham. Dressed in an England football shirt, he had just arrived that day. He admitted he was drunk, declined to give his name and told me it was his 18th time in the city ‘but I’ve never been down Soi 6, God’s honest truth’.

I watched as he stumbled down to the junction with that same street. Then he turned around and - seeing me observing him - walked straight back, muttering as he passed that he had become lost and was heading back to his hotel for the night.

Women working in the bars typically earn just over £1 for each drink they persuade a man to buy - and they decide if they wish to go off with them for sex.

If they fail to cajole enough customers into buying drinks, they can get sacked.

ROSTITUTION is supposedly illegal in Thailand – leading to charges of

'The Thai economy relies on tourism, and a big part of that income comes from sex work, but they deny that. It is strange and ironic,' said Chalidaporn Songsamphon, a professor of political science at Thammasat University in Bangkok who chairs the group. This clash was highlighted by Pattaya's affable police chief.

‘Sex is a part of human life,’ said Colonel Anek Srathongyoo. ‘There must not be under-aged sex. There must not be violence or rape. But we cannot forbid them if the relationship is consensual.

‘It is natural for man and woman to fall in love. It is not prostitution. They may find each other interesting while drinking in the bar and then they consensually go together to the hotel.’

Last year, this stunning tropical country – ‘the Land of Smiles’ – attracted 33 million tourists.

Professor Songsamphon said some estimates suggest that foreigners seeking sex are responsible for more than half the £34 billion earned from this crucial sector last year. ‘So many people from Europe and the US come here to fulfil sexual desires they cannot get at home,’ she said. ‘If they wanted the same sexual services at home in wealthier economies, it would be so expensive, so they come here to get them cheaper.’

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Bright lights, dark underbelly: Westerners walk past young bar girls in Pattaya, top, and neon signs light up the city

She argues that, while this can justifiably be seen as exploitation, most sex workers came from very poor places – often in Thailand's rural northern regions – with few other opportunities to earn sufficient money to support their families and villages.

Or in the succinct words of a 71-year-old man from Redditch, Worcestershire, a frequent visitor to Pattaya sitting with his mate and two Thai women in a bar: 'I know it's all about spending the money – but I've got the money and they haven't.' One bar 'girl' aged 46 said she worked on a farm until last year, cutting and carrying wood for as little as £2 a day. Now she can earn £200 a month just from drinks 'since I am very friendly and flirty'.

‘I don’t care if customers are fat and ugly,’ said this petite mother of two teenage children. ‘If they are nice and polite to me, I am willing to entertain them. Most are good, but if I find anyone who is not polite, I’ll walk away.’

Mac, a British bar owner and YouTuber, said women can clear 50,000 baht (£1,116) a month from drinks and tips, plus five times the minimum wage of 400 baht (£9) a day 'if [they're] doing any side hustles I don't know about – and these girls aren't paying tax.'

One former factory worker told me she was so naive when she first started working that when she was asked to give a massage to a man she thought ‘they meant a massage like I would give to my grandma’. She was amazed to receive half her previous monthly wage for one hour of sex.

Ticha, 30, was sitting by the beach waiting for clients. She was a rice farmer doing part-time prostitution in Pattaya to boost her income. 'I only come here when there is no farm work for me,' she said. 'I am not very happy having sex with strangers.'

Like many others, she hopes a foreigner might fall for her. 'I really wish to find a nice Western man who can take care of me and love me,' she said forlornly.

Regular visitors told me of friends who married women they met in Pattaya. Some moved to Thailand - a man from Nottingham I met on Soi 6 now lives in his wife's rural northern village. Others take their brides back to the UK.

Older Western men with much younger Thai women are a common sight in Pattaya. Some have retired there, others are on holiday. And, of course, not all these women are sex workers.

At Maximum Performance, a clinic specialising in testosterone replacement, a staff member said they had ‘thousands’ of customers – mostly older foreigners suffering low energy or sex drive who choose the course of treatment that does not shrink their testicles.

‘Many of the customers live here. Others come every year for two weeks and have a shot at the start of their holiday,' she said. 'It can be for exercise, or it can be for girls.'

In Pattaya there is also the sordid underbelly of paedophilic abuse – as shown by the recent murder case. The age of consent in Thailand is 18 – yet among the sex workers I found standing by the beach was a nervous 16-year-old ladyboy.

She had been selling herself for three months, explaining how her family ran up huge debts after its thriving transport business went bankrupt during the Covid pandemic and then an uncle was jailed for drug dealing, leading to big legal fees. 'I feel disheartened,' she said, adding that her customers were mostly Westerners, Russian or from the Middle East.

'My family used to be rich but sent me to be a sex worker here. If I collect enough money, I'll switch to a regular job.' This shy teenager could not get a bar job since she was underage so had to risk working on the streets. 'Yes, I am afraid sometimes – but not very much since I was born male. I can fight, I can defend myself.'

L ISA Hamilton, the head of Pattaya Nightlife Business Association, who runs a bar and guest house close to where Carman stayed in a suburb a couple of miles from the main strip, said many 'dirty old men' came to the city for sex with far younger women. 'I think there is something wrong with their minds,' she said. 'Some are nobodies in their home country with little money. Then they think they have big money here.'

Yet Hamilton – who is Thai and was married for 22 years to a Scotsman two decades older than herself until his death from cancer – said most tourists were respectful, some were lonely and many sought company as well as consensual sexual relationships.

A group of British expats were in her bar, mainly ex-military who meet there weekly to raise cash for charity. One pensioner said it was so cheap to live in Thailand he never cooked at home. Another man, the father of a ten-year-old son, told me Pattaya was a 'fantastic' place to raise children.

Dave Lee, 59, a former RAF technician who met his Thai wife in the Middle East, admitted he found it ‘a shock’ when he moved here 32 years ago. ‘You can get what you want in Pattaya,’ he said. ‘If you want to go looking for it, it’s all there. But if you’re married like me and happy, you don’t. I drink in a family-run pub, there’s no sleaze, nothing. It’s just like any normal pub.

'A lot of guys that come here have been through the mill. They've lost their wife or are lonely, they just want company. Sometimes it makes you cringe if I'm honest – old guys, young girls. It turns your stomach. But you don't know about their lives.'

His British friend Meran Moore, 60, a former secretary who has lived in Pattaya for five years, said: 'We just had a friend over from Britain so took them to see Sin City. You can see the ones who hate it – their faces filled with anxiety – and that breaks my heart.'

Clearly, despite the best efforts of the mayor of Pattaya and his team, this city has a way to go to rid itself of its tawdry reputation and transform it into the family holiday resort of their dreams.

Additional reporting: PRATCH RUJIVANAROM

£860,000 pay-off for civil service chief sacked by Starmer

BRITAIN'S former top civil servant has been handed a record £860,000 pay-off after being ousted by Keir Starmer.

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of £526,598. Long-serving mandarins usually leave with around £260,000. 'He negotiated well,' one senior civil servant told the Financial Times.

The payment had to be personally signed off by Sir Keir after Cat Little, the top official at the Cabinet Office, said she needed a ‘ministerial direction’ on the sum.

In a letter to Sir Keir, following the sacking in February, she said: 'The proposed award is greater than what Sir Chris would be contractually entitled

'He negotiated well'

to. However, I am informed that a settlement of this level is necessary given this is a departure from a high-profile, unique role that has been agreed at very short notice.'

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch accused Sir Keir of throwing Sir Chris ‘under the bus’ to ‘save his own skin’.

Appointing Sir Chris to the £220,000-a-year job in December 2024, Sir Keir lavished praise on him as ‘exceptional’. The Cabinet Office said: ‘We do not comment on HR matters.’

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September 15, 2026 ON THIS DAY

FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE SEPTEMBER 15, 1988

SECURITY for the Royal Family and senior Government ministers, including Mrs Thatcher, has been stepped up amid fears of a new IRA outrage. Senior RUC officers fear a terror campaign will be launched in a reprisal for the SAS ambush in Gibraltar which claimed the lives of terrorists Sean Savage, Mairead Farrell and Daniel McCann.

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

ROYAL superfans who queued for days to be the first to get a glimpse of the Queen's coffin broke down in tears when they finally got their chance to say goodbye. Distraught mourners paid their respects yesterday after the doors of Westminster Hall were opened for Her Majesty's lying in state. Some doffed their hats while others curtseyed.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SOPHIE DAHL, 49. The novelist and former model is the granddaughter of Roald Dahl, who named the main character in The BFG after her. In 2019 she wrote her first children's book, Madame Badobedah. Her nude Yves Saint Laurent beauty campaign from 2000 accounted for a third of all complaints about billboard ads that year. TOMMY LEE JONES, 80. The Texan actor starred in Men In Black and won an Oscar for The Fugitive. He said: 'I felt like the luckiest kid in the world because God had put me on the ground in Texas. I felt sorry for those poor little kids that had to be born in Oklahoma or England.'

BORN ON THIS DAY WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT (1857-1930). The 27th US President is credited with introducing golf to the White House, but was said to struggle playing while weighing 21st. He later became US chief justice, the only person to have served in both offices. FAY WRAY (1907-2004). The Canadian-born actress ‘screamed her way into movie history’ as Ann Darrow in King Kong in 1933. Sixty years later she said: ‘I’m liking it better now than I did in the beginning, when it seemed to me that it was not Shakespeare.’

ON SEPTEMBER 15...

IN 2020, relations were normalised between Bahrain and Israel, as part of the Abraham Accords.

IN 2024, the Jackson 5's Tito Jackson died, aged 70.

Rubiginous (coined late-1600s) A) Always asking questions. B) Rust-coloured. C) Freckle-faced.

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PHRASE EXPLAINED

Groves of Academe: The Academe community; refers to the Academia which was a grove near ancient Athens where philosophers taught.

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I'd be an excellent dictator. Very eccentric and quite mad. David Bowie, English singer-songwriter (1947-2016)

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Eden Confidential

Dec raises the roof at his £2.25m party pad

T 5ft 6in, Declan Donnelly rarely needs to mind his head while indoors.

But I hear that the ITV star plans to raise the roof at a glitzy party area he's building next door to his £7 million west London mansion.

Three years after the I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here! presenter snapped up the neighbouring building for £2.25million, he now has permission to increase the 'parapet height' of the property's party room.

The space already features a custom-built bar, vintage mirror, fancy fireplace and bespoke seating.

Hounslow Council planners have signed off on Dec's plan to raise the roof parapet by eight inches after he guaranteed 'high quality and conservation-appropriate architectural detailing'.

The council added that the ‘proposal remains limited in scope and does not alter the approved footprint, use, or overall form of the extension' and does not 'harm the character of appearance' of the nearby conservation area.

Documents posted online state: 'The (planning) variation comprises a modest increase in parapet height of approximately 200mm.'

Newcastle-born Dec, 50, one half of the presenting duo Ant and Dec, has an estimated fortune of £62million.

He lives with his wife Ali Astall, 47, and children Isla, eight, and Jack, four. In Easter 2021 burglars tried to raid the property while they slept, but went away empty handed after failing to break through the gates.

Dec's I'm A Celeb co-star Ant McPartlin relocated from Wimbledon to Surrey earlier this year. Ant recently joked that he was forced out of London, telling Dec (left) on a podcast: 'Yes, I had to move out of London because people were don because people were parking bikes outside of my house.'

Perhaps Dec's party house will tempt him to come back.

Sarah to join Holly on web

HOLLY Willoughby did it first, Vanessa Feltz followed and now Sarah Beeny is set to take her talents online.

The Property Ladder star, left, tells me: 'I'm about to launch my own YouTube channel. I want to talk on lots of different things but mostly the home.'

Beeny, 54, who was watching her four sons take to the catwalk at the Vin + Omi Anarchy show at the art'otel London Hoxton, adds: 'The big problem is the sponsorship, and getting the money to make it. I don't want to film it all by myself at home.'

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Happy news: Georgina Castle with husband Simon Lipkin and, top right, with newborn daughter Birdie

■ MCFLY star Tom Fletcher spoke of his 'overwhelming excitement' when producers hired him to write the music and lyrics for West End show Paddington. In April, the musical won a whopping seven Olivier Awards. Yet the singer insists his musical talents are nothing to write home about. 'I'm a terrible musician, I should not be doing this job,' humblebrags Tom, 41, at the Underbelly Boulevard Theatre in London's Soho.

Georgina shares first baby snap

JUST over a year after the bells rang on their wedding day, actress Georgina Castle, 33, and her West End actor husband Simon Lipkin, 40, are celebrating the arrival of their first child.

The daughter of former tennis ace and BBC Wimbledon pundit Andrew Castle, 62, announced the birth of their baby girl, Birdie Wilde Lipkin, over the weekend, sharing the happy news on Instagram with the words: 'Never known love like it.'

Georgina and Simon met while starring together in the West End production Of Elf the Musical in 2022.

Beware Botox and fat jabs, says Syal

DAME Meera Syal has urged younger women to steer clear of Botox and Ozempic, warning that cosmetic work can be ‘death’ for an actress.

The Goodness Gracious Me star, 65, praises Lesley Manville, Juliet Stevenson and Harriet Walter for ‘not having anything done to their faces’.

She adds: 'It's beautiful to see an older face that is reflecting every life experience.

‘Let’s normalise that for the young women growing up who are jumping to Botox and Ozempic in their 30s. Nobody needs to do that.’

Meera says: 'It seems to be death to me for an actress to mess with the mobility of your face, because that's what your face is for.'

Harry's Diana doc rival

PRINCE Harry's plans to make a film about his mother could already be facing stiff competition.

The duke is said to have ambitions to make a film about Princess Diana during his first year back in the country. Yet Harry's project will be trailing behind an exclusive documentary series titled Diana which has just launched on the streaming app Snips. The gripping microdrama, in which some scenes have been voiced by recordings of the late Diana, charts the key moments and steps that led to the late princess (right) finding her strength against The Firm.

An insider on the production tells me: 'It draws a direct, haunting parallel to the Sussexes' modern-day war with the institution and their current battle against the royal gatekeepers.'

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SPECIAL REPORT By WILL STODDART

A ISLING McCarthy had no reason not to let her eight-year-old daughter, Keeva, swim at their local beach during this year's August heatwave. The sea at Avon Beach in Dorset, where the family live, carried the Environment Agency's highest 'excellent' water-quality rating.

So when Keeva was hit by a wave and came out spluttering after swallowing ‘quite a lot of water’, Aisling didn’t give it a second thought, she told Good Health: ‘We had an ice cream – and went home.’

But two days later, Keeva was so lethargic that, out of character, she had to be woken up in the morning.

The family (including father Adam and twin sister Cornelia) were setting off on a camping trip to Devon, but Keeva refused to eat breakfast and slept for almost the entire journey. The following day her temperature was above 39C and she'd developed constant diarrhoea.

‘It wasn’t a typical stomach bug I’d seen in my children before,’ says Aisling.

'I was carrying her everywhere as she was so lethargic. Normally, I could control a temperature with Calpol, but it would come down and then she was burning up again.'

The day after, 'I noticed there was blood in her stool, and I panicked,' Aisling recalls – and the family raced to A&E, where Keeva was admitted. She was so dehydrated she was put on a drip and diagnosed with a viral infection. Fortunately, she began to improve and was

Severely ill: Keeva lies sick in hospital and inset, Steve Alcock, whose family were told he might die

began to improve and was discharged two days later.

But results of tests later revealed she had campylobacteriosis, a bacterial infection that can be contracted from contaminated food or water. It took around two weeks for Keeva's appetite to return and, a month on, she's still not back to full strength, says Aisling. When she contacted the local council about the quality of the water, it responded by asking whether the family had been to any food festivals – 'which we hadn't'.

Aisling found this frustrating because Keeva eats very little meat and the campylobacter bacterium is often associated with eating undercooked chicken; and her twin sister had not become ill. 'I couldn't think of a food she may have had individually that would have caused it,' she says.

She suspects Keeva's illness was related to her swim. Keeva's case exposes a worrying gap in the UK bathing water system. Although Avon Beach was officially rated 'excellent', routine checks do not test for campylobacter.

In England, the Environment Agency grades bathing waters – such as beaches and lakes – according to levels of two bacteria: E.coli, which can cause severe diarrhoea and, in serious cases, kidney failure; and intestinal enterococci, which can lead to urinary and skin infections.

Indeed, experts are warning that the tests used to award these reassuring grades are too narrow.

The tests date back to World Health Organisation (WHO) guidance from 2003, which identified intestinal enterococci as a warning sign of faecal pollution and therefore a risk of illness in swimmers.

The EU added E.coli in tougher bathing-water rules introduced in 2006, which England still follows.

But what's been left out is a host of other potentially dangerous bacteria, viruses and parasites found in sewage and animal faeces, say experts. As well as campylobacter, this includes salmonella, norovirus and the parasites giardia and cryptosporidium and adenovirus – which between them can cause vomiting, diarrhoea and agonising stomach cramps, as well as infections of the eyes, ears and airways.

Children and older people are particularly vulnerable because of their weaker immune systems.

Now figures exclusively revealed to Good Health suggest that more than half of the 1,279 swimmers (57 per cent) who reported becoming ill after swimming in rivers, lakes and seas between May and August this year had been at bathing waters officially rated ‘good’ or ‘excellent’.

According to the charity Surfers Against Sewage, in August alone more than 68 per cent of the 388 sicknesses reported that month came following visits to areas with good or excellent waters.

And the problem is getting worse, says the charity, which has received 1,645 reports of people becoming ill from bathing waters so far this year – already more than the 1,553 received during the whole of 2025 (last year, almost three-quarters of those cases involved bathing waters rated good or excellent).

These illnesses included gastroenteritis and skin, ear and eye infections, while some needed hospital treatment.

Among the bugs that current tests don't check for is vibrio, a

'A clear health risk' as the climate warms

bacterium usually found in warm subtropical waters, such as the Gulf of Mexico, which can cause severe wound infections and potentially fatal blood poisoning, killing around one in five of those infected, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But it's becoming more common in British coastal waters as they get hotter owing to climate change, say experts.

Scientists found three times more vibrio in a coastal estuary in south-west England during the hot summer of 2018, according to a 2020 study in Environmental Microbiology Reports. Water temperatures at the estuary reached 32.1C, compared with an average of 18.7C the following summer.

The researchers warned that during heatwaves, low-salt estuaries could become ideal breeding grounds for vibrio, similar to the Baltic Sea, which also has low salt levels and where infections are already established.

Indeed, in that hot summer of 2018, 492 vibrio infections were recorded across six northern European countries, including Germany and Sweden, more than three times the usual number. (While data is still being collected for 2026, already Germany had reported 17 cases by July, including two deaths following visits to the Baltic Sea.)

The British researchers who gathered the data warned that, as the climate warms, potentially dangerous vibrio in UK estuaries would provide a ‘clear human health risk’.

The Met Office reported in July that some seas around Britain were four to five degrees warmer than normal, raising concerns that this bacteria is on the rise again – yet no one is testing for it.

Now experts, including one who helped draw up the latest WHO water quality guidelines, are calling for water testing in the UK and Europe to be updated to reflect such emerging risks.

‘Although official bathing water quality has improved, the odds of illness among water users compared with non-water users remain similar to those reported around 30 years ago when bathing-water rules were far less strict,’ says Anne Leonard, a senior environmental epidemiologist and

'EXCELLENT' BEACHES HIT BY HOURS OF SEWAGE

A RATING of ‘good’ or ‘excellent’ bathing water does not mean the water is as clean as you might imagine.

When we compared Surfers Against Sewage discharge data (see main story) with the latest Environment Agency classifications, eight of the ten bathing waters in the UK that had the most hours of untreated sewage being discharged into them in July and August were officially rated ‘good’ or ‘excellent’.

(Note: Individual test results from samples taken during the current summer are usually posted two to five days later, but these are not used for the ratings, which are based on testing for four years to 2025.)

Bathing water	Sewage discharge hours	Rating
Wallasey, Merseyside	183	Good
Readymoney Cove, Cornwall	159	Good
Moreton, Merseyside	144	Good
Plymouth Hoe East, Devon	133	Excellent
St Anne’s, Lancs	125	Sufficient
Eastbourne, E. Sussex	89	Good
Birling Gap, E. Sussex	77	Excellent
Pevensey Bay, E. Sussex	75	Good
Seaford, E. Sussex	73	Excellent
Walney West Shore, Cumbria	68	Sufficient

Keeva was rushed to hospital after swimming in water rated ‘excellent’. So are official tests checking for the WRONG bugs?

Leading experts now think so, including one top scientist who helped write the current international guidelines on water quality

microbiologist at the University of Exeter, whose own research – published in 2020 – has shown this. Back then, beaches could be deemed safe to swim in with up to 2,000 faecal bacteria per 100ml.

Today, to get an ‘excellent’ rating E.coli levels must be just 250 per 100ml and for intestinal enterococci, 100 per 100ml. A ‘good’ rating allows 500 and 200, respectively.

For inland bathing waters such as rivers and lakes, the limits are double that: 500 E.coli and 200 enterococci per 100ml for 'excellent'; and 1,000 and 400, respectively, for 'good'.

Anne Leonard says one possible reason why more exacting standards haven't led to a reduction in infections is that the official tests don't look for the viruses and bacteria that are making swimmers ill.

E.coli and intestinal enterococci are useful warning signs of recent faecal pollution, she says, but 'may not always correlate well with important human pathogens, particularly viruses', such as norovirus and rotavirus (which also causes diarrhoea and vomiting) 'which may persist through wastewater treatment and in the environment'.

The WHO and the Environment Agency say that testing every water sample for every possible disease-causing bug would be slow and expensive.

Instead, intestinal enterococci are used as warning signs that faecal pollution has entered the water – and therefore there's a broader risk that other bugs and viruses will have, too.

But scientists are now questioning that assumption.

A review published last year in the Journal of Water and Health, which examined nine studies looking at illness linked to swimming – eight in the sea and one in fresh water, mainly in the US – concluded that relying on E.coli and

Readings don't reveal viruses in the water

intestinal enterococci alone ‘may not be sufficient to protect health’.

Eight of the studies found that swimmers were more likely than non-swimmers to suffer diarrhoea and vomiting, or ear, eye, skin and breathing problems – and the researchers, from Griffith University in Australia, found that swimmers were becoming ill even when the usual E.coli and enterococci tests suggested the water was safe.

And as Professor Sunny Jiang, a water-quality expert at the University of California, points out:

'E.coli and enterococci levels could either under-predict or over-predict the presence of human enteric viruses [viruses that infect the gut and are shed in faeces, such as norovirus].'

In other words, high bacterial readings do not reflect the concentration of viruses in the water.

More worryingly, low readings give swimmers false reassurance.

Evidence that these other bugs are causing illness includes 184 people reporting sickness and diarrhoea after bathing at a lake in Cardiff in 2024 – most of those then tested were found to have norovirus, a highly infectious vomiting bug that can spread through water contaminated with faeces.

In 2025, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) recorded 115 cases of leptospirosis in England, a potentially serious bacterial infection caught from water contaminated with the urine of infected animals. Stephen Alcock, a 68-year-old retired aeronautical engineer from Derby, nearly died from it after water splashed into his face while he removed a fallen branch from a fishing lake in October last year. Six days later he developed nausea, exhaustion and aching legs. His GP initially suspected gastroenteritis.

By day ten Stephen could no longer walk and his skin and eyes had turned yellow with jaundice. Within hours of an urgent admission to hospital, his liver and kidneys were failing. He was transferred to ICU, where he needed breathing support and dialysis. His family were warned he might die.

Tests confirmed leptospirosis and sepsis. Stephen spent five weeks in hospital, lost 14kg (2st 3lb) and had to learn to walk again. His kidneys have not fully recovered, and he has to be monitored every six months. 'I was unlucky to contract leptospirosis, but very lucky to be alive,' he told Good Health.

Professor Jiang believes routine testing should also look for coliphages, a type of virus that doesn't infect humans but targets bacteria – as this can act as a warning that water has been contaminated with faeces more reliably than one of the usual tests.

A study published last month found that coliphage levels, along with E.coli, more reliably predicted rates of diarrhoea or vomiting in swimmers in four Hungarian rivers and lakes (which met EU standards) than levels of intestinal enterococci (one of the two bacteria used in England's bathing-water tests) – which failed to predict an increase in illness.

For each tenfold increase in E.coli, the risk of gastrointestinal illness rose by around 73 per cent, while high levels of coliphages increased the risk by 45 per cent, reported the researchers from the University of East Anglia.

Enterococci are a less reliable warning of stomach illness because E.coli and coliphages can survive for longer, explains Paul Hunter, a professor in medicine and director of the National Institute for Health and Care Research Health Protection Research Unit in Gastrointestinal Infections, who led the analysis.

Even a leading expert involved in producing the water-testing protocols is now questioning them.

Dr Joao Brandao, an environmental health scientist at the National Health Institute Doutor Ricardo Jorge in Portugal, helped develop the WHO's latest recreational-water guidance published in 2021 – it retained intestinal enterococci as its main warning sign of faecal contamination, but he says not testing for more bacteria and viruses is now a major weakness.

He told Good Health he no longer fully supports the ‘latest WHO guidelines’ and checking ‘only for faecal pollution’ because new evidence and faster testing methods have since emerged. ‘Vibrio and other pathogens are not in the regulations as things that must be looked for, and this is just wrong.’

He adds that future checks should also look for ‘emerging infectious pathogens [eg Candida auris], antibiotic-resistant genes, microbial toxins and threats that are not necessarily associated with faecal pollution from faeces [eg, Staphylococcus aureus].’

Candida auris can cause dangerous bloodstream and organ infections and can be resistant to antifungal drugs. Microbial toxins

Ended up in ICU with sepsis and 'lucky to be alive'

produced by algae can cause rashes, vomiting, breathing problems and, in severe cases, liver or neurological damage. Staphylococcus aureus can cause skin and wound infections.

Another problem with water testing is that officials such as the Environment Agency do not test the water every day – for instance, it takes between five and 20 samples, depending on the site, across the entire bathing season (from May 15 to September 30).

Yet conditions can change within hours, says Professor James Ebdon, an environmental microbiologist at the University of Brighton. Heavy rain can wash manure from fields into rivers, overwhelm drains and trigger sewage overflows. A sample collected on a clean, dry morning may therefore reveal little about the water that swimmers encounter after a downpour several days later.

Indeed, in 2024 the Office for Environmental Protection warned that testing at one fixed spot can miss pollution elsewhere at the same bathing site, as sewage, farm run-off and other contamination is moved by rivers, wind and tides.

Worryingly, Avon Beach, where Keeva swam, is just a few hundred metres from the mouth of Christchurch Harbour, which environmental campaigners have dubbed the ‘toilet bowl of Bournemouth’ because large volumes of untreated sewage are discharged into the River Stour and carried into the harbour.

On August 19, just a few weeks after Keeva became sick, the Christchurch Harbour and Marine Society recorded 370,000 E.coli per 100ml in the Stour. The

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Brain-zapping patch to help sleep could also ease anxiety

A SKIN patch stuck on the face at night could increase the time spent in deep sleep – which is vital for protecting the brain against stress, depression and possibly even dementia.

The high-tech patch, called NEUSLeeP, is programmed to beam low-intensity sound waves through the skull into the

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subthalamic nucleus, the part of the brain responsible for deep, or REM (rapid eye movement), sleep.

The sound waves are thought to stimulate activity in cells in the region, helping to keep the brain in REM sleep for longer. At the same time, sensors built into the face patch measure electrical signals associated with sleep – including brain activity, eye movements and muscle response – to monitor the treatment's impact on REM rest.

During REM sleep, muscles in the arms and legs become temporarily paralysed – to stop us acting out dreams – and there is a natural rise in heart rate, blood pressure, breathing and brain activity during the ‘dreaming’ phase.

But REM sleep is also essential for keeping subthalamic nucleus. Scientists chose ultrasound because sound waves can penetrate deeper into the body than other forms of energy, such as magnetic pulses.

Meanwhile, extending out from the patch are four ‘arms’, each with an electrode at the end to pick up electrical signals used to measure how soon REM sleep began after bedtime and how long each episode lasted.

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In the middle of the patch there is a tiny generator designed to be level with the subthalamic nucleus deep inside the brain.

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Researchers now plan to set up larger trials to see if the patch can improve the symptoms of depression, anxiety and even post-traumatic stress disorder by increasing patients' REM.

When the electrically powered patch is switched on, sound waves pass harmlessly through the cheek and into the brain, where they 'excite' neurons (nerve cells) in the

Dr Kirstie Anderson, a consultant neurologist at Newcastle upon Tyne NHS Foundation Trust, said the skin patch research was ‘interesting’ but stressed the relationship between REM sleep and mental health is far from clear cut.

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readings were so high that a junior sailing week was cancelled. That month, three-year-old Ivy Foster became seriously ill with E.coli after paddleboarding with her family in Christchurch Harbour. The infection was resistant to several antibiotics and she was admitted to hospital twice with vomiting and diarrhoea.

Her mother Kimberley said at the time she was so ill ‘I thought she was going to die’.

An Environment Agency spokesperson said: 'During the bathing water season, 464 designated sites benefit from water quality monitoring by the Environment Agency, allowing the public to make informed decisions about when and where to enter the water should they choose to do so.

‘We urge members of the public to follow UKHSA safety advice and to always check our Swimfo website for the latest information.’

Keeva's family say her illness has taken away all enjoyment of the water. 'We don't even paddle any more,' says Aisling. 'We moved here for the beach and its natural beauty and this has been ruined in front of us.

A spokesperson for Bourne-mouth, Christchurch and Poole Council said they were ‘pleased that Keeva has recovered from her illness’. ‘We cannot comment on individual cases, but it is very difficult to trace back the cause of infection. We have had no notification from the UKHSA of other infections.’

FOR nearly a decade, Victoria Hindle tried to convince doctors her abdominal pain, low mood, heavy periods and weight issues were connected.

In fact, it's only because a common female health problem has recently been renamed that Victoria finally has the right diagnosis.

A team of experts announced earlier this year that polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), a condition that affects up to four million women in the UK, is now to be known as polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS).

And it's a simple change that could be hugely significant for thousands as it acknowledges that, rather than just being an ovary-specific disorder, the condition is complex and can affect the brain, ovaries and metabolic system.

It can often result in high levels of hormones including testosterone, responsible for symptoms such as acne, excess body hair, thinning hair, weight gain and irregular or absent periods.

The name change, which came after 14 years of deliberation, was partly to shift the emphasis away from cysts and the ovaries, says Aled Rees, a professor of endocrinology at Cardiff University: 'Many women don't actually have cysts, and the condition is far more complex than the name suggests.'

Now aged 43, and diagnosed with PMOS, Victoria is finally receiving the treatment she needs but is frustrated no doctors took her seriously for years.

‘I was told my abdominal pain and digestive issues were irritable bowel syndrome,’ says Victoria, who lives in Manchester and has an administrative

role at a university. ‘I asked specialists if my symptoms were related but was told they weren’t – I felt I was going crazy.’

The name PCOS originally came about because any fluid-filled cavities surrounded by a membrane in tissues and organs have traditionally been labelled as cysts.

But in this case they're not cysts at all, says Dr Vikram Talaulikar, an associate specialist in reproductive medicine at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

‘In fact, they are ovarian follicles – immature eggs surrounded by fluid. Women with the condition often have at least 20 follicles at any point of their menstrual cycle, because the follicles don’t develop further.’

ET confusing the picture, not all women with the condition have these ■ condition have these follicles – although they could still be diagnosed if they had at least two of the following symptoms: irregular periods, excess body hair or acne.

Michelle Akpata was diagnosed with PCOS in 2021 after going from around 12st to 23st within a year (she is 5ft 6in). 'I felt really low and I worried about it causing long-term health problems,' says Michelle, 30, a radio presenter from north London.

‘The extra weight also meant I got joint pains when I exercised, and became out of breath easily.’

PMOS can come with weight gain – or difficulty losing weight – as it affects the hormone insulin, which directs the body to use glucose from the food we eat, as well as playing a role in fat storage.

Michelle had also developed excess body hair, abdominal pain and fatigue. 'I didn't understand my diagnosis, seeing as I didn't have cysts on my ovaries.'

She was given painkillers and advised to have laser hair

GOOD HEALTH After years of struggling with her weight and low mood, Victoria finally has the right diagnosis ... thanks to experts simply renaming a common condition

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removal done privately – and simply advised to eat fewer carbs and more fruit and vegetables.

Meanwhile, women who do have the ‘cysts’ have been wrongly told they would need surgery to remove them – or that they would make them infertile, adds Dr Talaulikar.

‘We now know the condition starts due to abnormal signalling from the brain to the ovary, rather than starting in the ovaries – so the old name doesn’t reflect the current knowledge,’ explains Professor Bassel Wattar, a consultant obstetrician at Spire St Anthony’s Hospital in Surrey.

It's now thought that the brain triggers the secretion of luteinizing hormone (LH) and follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) in an irregular way – these reproductive hormones control when women's eggs mature, as well as levels of sex hormones such as oestrogen.

As more LH is secreted, the growth of ovarian follicles is stalled, and ovulation is delayed or halted. These follicles then remain visible in the ovary, appearing as 'cysts' on ultrasound scans.

Victoria first suspected she had PCOS ten years ago when she developed a constant, dull ache in her lower abdomen.

She noticed symptoms flared up in the week or so before her period – then improved after it finished. But an ultrasound scan showed no sign of cysts, and she was told she didn't have PCOS.

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Instead, she was repeatedly advised by medics to lose weight to improve her symptoms. This didn't work, as she explains: 'I'd been overweight since childhood despite being very active and not eating differently to anyone else.

'I tried eating less and moving more but it never worked, so I accepted being bigger and tried not to let it get me down.'

She adds: 'I was also asked about my periods, which had always been painful and heavy, but no one suggested this could be due to PCOS.'

In 2016, she was referred to a gynaecologist, who seemed interested only in treating the heavy bleeding and menstrual pain – and offered her antidepressants for her low mood before a period.

In 2018, Victoria had a coil implanted – her periods stopped completely and her abdominal pain gradually eased.

Five years later she was diagnosed with severely uncontrolled type 2 diabetes and by June last year, at 5ft 6in, she weighed 17st.

She was prescribed Mounjaro (tirzepatide) jabs for her diabetes. This proved life-changing: as well as her blood sugar levels returning to normal (she no longer needs the diabetes medication metformin), she's lost 7st.

Furthermore, her periods returned and are now light and pain-free, while her mental health is ‘better than ever’.

But it was only earlier this year that the cause of her problems was revealed – Victoria read about the PCOS name change, and asked her new GP about it. She was then diagnosed with PMOS.

She firmly believes an earlier diagnosis would have meant her weight

could have been better controlled, and she might not have developed type 2 diabetes – which in turn put her at increased risk of cardiovascular disease and shortened life expectancy.

It would also have spared her years of anguish, thinking she'd failed at losing weight.

‘Until the name change, there was a failure to appreciate what was happening to these women,’ says Professor Wattar, ‘and how their entire metabolic and hormonal health systems were affected by the syndrome – they were often simply told to take the contraceptive pill and go away’.

T'S now understood that, in fact, most women with PMOS have some degree of insulin resistance - meaning the hormone that helps cells mop up glucose, keeping blood-sugar levels stable, isn't as effective as it should be. This causes the ovaries to produce hormones.

Insulin resistance increases the risk of type 2 diabetes from as early as your 30s, explains Dr Talaulikar. And it makes weight gain more likely, as the body stores calories as fat rather than burning them – increasing the risk of high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart disease and fatty liver disease.

‘All of the metabolic complica-

Plight: Victoria Hindle has PMOS

tions stem from insulin being less effective – this is why GPs need to check blood-sugar levels, cholesterol, blood pressure and weight regularly in women with PMOS, and treat them accordingly, rather than just focusing on periods and fertility,' says Dr Talaulikar.

‘Before the name change nobody talked about the metabolic side of things – and women may not have been aware they were insulin-resistant and went untreated.’

Lifestyle and diet changes, such as reducing sugar intake and taking metformin, which improves the body's sensitivity to insulin, can help PMOS symptoms.

In Michelle's case it wasn't until she was referred for weight-loss surgery, which she had last October, that her health improved.

Since the operation, she's also now taking Mounjaro, and weighs around 14st. 'I can wear what I like and I'm much more confident,' she says. 'Hopefully the name change will mean GPs understand this condition better.'

But Professor Rees - medical adviser to the PMOS charity, Verity and the UK lead on the name-change process - warns that more still needs to be done in terms of educating doctors and raising public awareness, otherwise 'care will not improve significantly'.

Dr Talaulikar adds: 'The name change is like lighting the fire, but it takes a long time for people to change their habits clinically.

‘If women think they may have PMOS they need to make an appointment with their healthcare professional and bring the name change to their attention.’

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Page 36 GOOD HEALTH Seeing flashing lights? It may be a ‘silent’ migraine

Q NEARLY two years ago, I experienced a painless sparkling in both eyes, which lasted 15 minutes. Since then, it's happened three times. A CT scan of my brain was clear and I was told it was probably a migraine, even though I don't normally get them. I'm worried as I don't understand what is going on in my brain.

Sarah-Jane Kitching, Sandown, Isle of Wight. A THE symptoms you describe are typical of migraine aura – a temporary shimmering, flashing or sparkling disturbance that starts in the centre of the visual field and spreads outwards.

As you don't experience pain with it, I believe it might be migraine aura without headache, sometimes called acephalgic migraine – or silent migraine.

There is nothing that can be prescribed during an episode itself, as this resolves before any tablet could be absorbed, so the best solution is to find a quiet place to rest until it passes.

However, there are medications that can reduce the risk of silent migraines. These include the beta-blocker propranolol,

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which reduces the ‘excitability’ in the brain that leads to migraines; as well as topiramate (an anticonvulsant) or amitriptyline (an antidepressant), which calm hyperactive nerves involved in migraine onset.

In your case, I would not recommend preventative medication unless attacks become more frequent – weekly or more – as there is, as always with any drug, a risk of side-effects.

To confirm that it is silent migraine, the next time you experience an episode, try covering one eye, then the other. If the sparkling remains visible in both cases, this supports the migraine aura theory, as it shows the disturbance is in the brain.

If it disappears when one eye is covered, I'd suggest you need eye and vascular investigations (the latter to check blood flow).

Possible migraine triggers include stress, poor sleep, missing meals and dehydration – or even a combination of these.

Q I'VE HAD a cough for more than three years but scans show my lungs are clear. Doctors have tried various treatments, but nothing has worked. Will I just have to put up with it? Jeff Carlton, Whitby, N. Yorks.

A IT'S REASSURING that your chest X-ray and CT scan were clear, as this excludes serious conditions including tuberculosis and lung cancer.

In your longer letter, you say your symptoms eased when you were prescribed the antihistamine azelastine, as this helped with nasal congestion that contributed to the cough. You also mention relief from your regular asthma inhaler (Fostair).

However, it seems the only time your cough has been fully resolved is when you were prescribed antibiotics – this cleared your chest for six months, then the cough returned.

This points to an underlying bacterial lung infection – and one factor involved here is the daily dose of the steroid prednisone you're also taking for vasculitis (where the immune system attacks the blood vessels, causing them to narrow and restrict blood flow). Prednisone suppresses the immune system, possibly reducing its ability to fight off a lung infection.

It is also possible you do have a degree of bronchiectasis (where the lungs are damaged from repeat infections) that was missed on the initial scans.

Further investigations – by way of a high-resolution CT scan – might be required, along with three sputum samples to be cultured, to confirm this.

These samples should identify the specific bacteria involved, and look for fungal infection, as steroid inhalers such as Fostair are a risk factor for this.

Another possibility is that you have vasculitis that affects your respiratory tract or lungs. This, too, can cause a cough.

Your lung condition is complex and I suggest taking it up with your respiratory physician if you are under the care of one – or ask your GP for a referral to one.

■ WRITE to Dr Scurr at Good Health, Daily Mail, 9 Derry Street, London, W8 5HY or email drmartin@dailymail.co.uk. Dr Scurr cannot enter into personal correspondence. Always consult your own GP with any health concerns.

IN MY VIEW... Scans can't always detect weak bones

AS MANY as 50 per cent of women over the age of 50 will suffer an osteoporosis fracture - some following falls, others occurring spontaneously (the vertebrae in the spine collapsing, for instance). Clearly, it's vital we diagnose women early, so they can receive the right treatment pre-emptively.

Taking calcium and vitamin D supplements and drugs called bisphosphonates can prevent further bone loss, and such measures have been shown to reduce vertebral fractures by more than 40 per cent.

The standard tool for diagnosis is a DEXA bone scan - yet most doctors fail to realise a woman can have normal bone density on a scan yet still experience a fracture after minimal trauma.

This is because bone strength is not just about how much bone there is, but the quality of that bone - affected by factors such as the size of the holes in the bones' honeycomb structure.

As yet, there isn't a standard way to measure this, so prevention is key: exercise regularly (include impact activities such as skipping or dancing) and eat a calcium-rich diet, with dairy products and bony fish such as sardines.

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BEHIND THE HEALTH HEADLINES by PROFESSOR ROB GALLOWAY

'VE spent enough time working in A&E to know that living longer and living well are two very different things.

Take two recent patients of mine. One died at 96 after a wonderfully healthy life and only a very short final illness. The other died at 73, having suffered from diabetes and dementia since they were in their 60s.

The 23-year difference in their ages tells only part of the story. The other difference is between lifespan (how long we live) and healthspan (how long we remain well).

What two of my patients taught me about ageing well - and why Wegovy could help ALL of us

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Of course, how we age depends on our lifestyle, our socio-economic circumstances, the genes we inherit and plain luck. But while we can't change the genes we have, there is increasing evidence to show that the way we live can affect the way those genes behave.

That is why a study published in the journal Nature just two weeks ago is so exciting. It went under the radar, even though its findings are remarkable.

It found that semaglutide, the active drug in the weight-loss jab Wegovy, significantly extended the lives of old female mice.

It also improved their memory and physical performance and – crucially – changed the activity of genes involved in ageing – turning down some processes that damage cells and turning up others that help to keep them healthy.

The researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, started treating the mice when they were 20 months old, an advanced age for these animals, which normally live for around two to two and a half years.

For the experiment, 40 mice received daily semaglutide injections and 39

received salt-water injections for the rest of their lives. The results showed that semaglutide increased typical lifespan by 92 days on average.

For a mouse, that's a significant amount of extra time – about 12 per cent longer – even though treatment only began when they were already old.

HILE the dose was broadly equivalent to that given to people

having weekly Wegovy jabs, mice and humans process medicines differently, so we do not know whether the same dose would have the same effects on people.

But there's an even more important point. Longevity medicine isn't simply about keeping us alive for longer if it means those extra years are spent frail and ill.

Yet when the researchers tested a separate group of old mice after three months of semaglutide treatment, they performed better in tests of memory, co-ordination and endurance.

For instance, in one memory test, they found an escape hole in less than half the time of a placebo group, and they could run for almost three times as long before becoming exhausted.

But what really caught my attention was the effect of semaglutide on genes in the mice's liver cells – making those linked to inflammation less active, while others involved in repairing DNA and clearing away damaged proteins became more active. That matters, because long-term inflammation and the build-up of damage inside our cells are two of the reasons our bodies deteriorate as we grow older.

The drug also raised levels of NAD - nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide. This compound helps our cells produce energy and repair damage, but levels fall as we get older.

Plus, it made sirtuin genes more active. Sometimes called ‘anti-ageing genes’, these help our cells use NAD to cope with stress and repair damage.

Put all this together and semaglutide appeared to turn down processes that damage cells and turn up those that help maintain them. This might explain why the treated mice not only lived longer but remained healthier.

There is another crucial question: could the effect be down to the mice on semaglutide simply eating less and losing weight?

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In fact, in a separate experiment by the same researchers, comparing semaglutide with a diet containing 24 per cent fewer calories, both approaches led to mice losing similar amounts of weight and fat.

However, semaglutide produced better results in measures such as memory and blood-sugar control. That suggests the drug may be doing more than simply causing weight loss.

Studies in humans point to something similar.

A landmark trial in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2023, which looked at 17,600 people who were overweight or obese with cardiovascular disease, found that those given weekly semaglutide reduced their risk of a heart attack or stroke, or dying from cardiovascular disease by 20 per cent over the following three to four years.

A later analysis found that much of this benefit could not be explained simply by weight loss. It could be because semaglutide reduces inflammation, blood pressure, blood sugar and blood fats. But the truth is, researchers still do not know exactly why it protected the heart.

Another major trial found that semaglutide slowed kidney damage and reduced deaths among people with type 2 diabetes and kidney disease.

So we have strong evidence in humans that, beyond weight loss, this drug might help us remain healthier as we grow older.

It may even delay ageing. Another study, published in May in the journal Nature Communications, involving patients with HIV and excess abdominal fat, looked at DNA methylation – chemical marks on our DNA that can give an indication of how quickly the body is ageing.

And guess what – semaglutide slowed this process (even when HIV is well controlled, sufferers can have ongoing inflammation and signs their bodies are ageing more quickly, which is why these patients were studied).

So could semaglutide be used one day to extend both our healthspan and our lifespan?

Sleep app could help predict next FLU outbreak

MORE of us are using trackers to monitor sleep duration and quality. Some apps use the phone's microphone to detect noises such as snoring. But could they also help to predict the next outbreak of flu or Covid?

In a new study, the UK Health Security Agency analysed coughs detected overnight by a phone app, comparing weekly coughing levels between January 2023 and January 2026, with NHS 111 calls, positive flu and Covid tests as well as hospital admissions.

The results were rather fascinating: when coughing recorded on the app increased, so did NHS 111 calls for respiratory illnesses – about a week before rises in positive flu and Covid tests.

The study hasn't been formally reviewed by independent experts, so we must treat the results with caution. But this is still an interesting development.

By the time most people are ill enough to seek help, an infection may already be spreading widely.

Sleep apps could provide an earlier warning, giving public health teams valuable extra time to spot rising flu, Covid – or perhaps a new respiratory infection.

Potentially. But it's not the first treatment to raise that hope.

Metformin, the common diabetes drug, is one of the best-known examples, with some animal studies suggesting it led to a small increase in lifespan, although this has not been shown in humans.

Then there's NMN (nicotinamide mononucleotide), a substance our bodies make naturally and which is found in tiny amounts in some foods.

Early studies in 2024 found it delayed frailty in mice and kept some muscle genes behaving more like those of younger animals. Females also lived 8.5 per cent longer (although male mice did not).

So where does all this leave us? Well, if you're otherwise healthy and normal weight I don't think you should immediately start taking Wegovy in the hope of living longer – we've not yet had any human trials showing it can extend life or keep us healthier for longer, and these drugs can have side-effects.

But we do now have animal data on semaglutide's benefit for ageing – and strong evidence of wider health benefits in humans. And this is a drug we already use safely in obesity. So it does feel like we could be at the start of something very special.

And if semaglutide could help more people live like my 96-year-old patient, enjoying their families and the things they love and remaining well until very near the end, then its potential as an anti-ageing drug needs serious investigation.

And yes, even healthy, slim people may end up taking it. @drrobgalloway

GOOD HEALTH Could taking a LITHIUM supplement protect your brain against DEMENTIA?

T'S better known to us for its use in batteries, but could lithium – also found in drinking water, cabbages, wholegrains and potatoes – help to protect against dementia?

This is the suggestion behind several recent studies investigating whether this light metal – used for decades at high doses to treat depression and bipolar disorder – could play a role in brain health, albeit in much lower doses.

Lithium occurs naturally in minerals and rocks and enters the soil, rivers and lakes after being dissolved in rainwater.

As a result, it's naturally present in some foods and water in very small amounts.

It is not considered an essential nutrient and there is no officially recommended daily intake (although some researchers have proposed a provisional amount of 1mg daily for a 70kg adult). However, it's long been used in the form of lithium carbonate for treatment-resistant depression and manic bipolar episodes.

As Dr Thomas MacLaren, a consultant psychiatrist at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London, explains: 'Lithium can

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lower levels of the energy-boosting chemical dopamine involved in manic episodes, while enhancing activity of the GABA receptors [which calm the nervous system by damping down signalling].

But brain-protective qualities are also emerging. Dr Ivan Koychev, an NHS consultant neuropsychiatrist and a clinical associate professor in neuropsychiatry at Imperial College

London, explains: ‘Lithium seems to play a role in maintaining the effectiveness with which the brain makes connections between brain cells.’

This is important because although we are born with a fixed number of brain cells, our brains continue to form new connections – or synapses – throughout our lives, a process key to learning new information and building a brain that's more resilient to damage from disease such as Alzheimer's.

Lithium also inhibits an enzyme, GSK-3, which converts the naturally occur

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(which may, in turn, lead to thirst, constipation, nausea and muscle weakness). Higher concentrations can affect heart function and rhythm.

The Harvard study used lithium orotate: this appeared to become less trapped than lithium carbonate in the amyloid plaque, potentially explaining why the animals' Alzheimer's symptoms improved. Little is known about how it behaves in humans, but a

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converts the naturally occurring protein tau into the toxic misshapen clumps – or tangles – associated with Alzheimer's, adds Dr Koychev.

Scientists do not yet understand exactly why Alzheimer's develops – but one theory is that in some people increased GSK-3 activity is a driver.

It's also thought that with age, the brain's ability to clear out toxins weakens, which may lead to greater GSK-3 activity.

This leads to the build-up of abnormal protein clumps – or beta-amyloid plaques – which are a characteristic of the disease and thought to interfere with the brain's ability to store and recover memories, and manage complex activities such as speech and decision making.

Several recent studies have sparked this new interest in lithium. The most striking, led by Harvard Medical School, published last year in the journal Nature, established a link between low levels of lithium in the brain and cognitive impairment – and suggested that the element might also help protect against Alzheimer's.

The ten-year study found lower lithium levels in the post-mortem brain tissue of people with mild cognitive impairment, a potential precursor of dementia, compared with healthy people.

Interestingly, the lithium was found to be concentrated inside the amyloid plaques of those with Alzheimer's – suggesting the plaques might 'capture' or 'suck out' the lithium, leaving less available to protect healthy brain tissue.

The study also found that restoring lithium appeared to protect or improve the memory of mice bred to have Alzheimer's-like brain changes.

clinic in London. But a small-scale US trial involving giving low-dose lithium to older adults with mild cognitive impairment didn't replicate the dramatic improvements seen in the Harvard mouse experiment.

Experts agree that more research into lithium is needed.

One difficulty, says Dr Koychev, is obtaining funding for large-scale trials – ‘given that any resulting drug would only cost pennies because lithium is not a patented medicine.’ A further problem is that dementia starts developing ten to 20 years before first symptoms – ‘and by this point the brain is already damaged’.

HEN there is the question about which is the most suitable form of lithium to use. For instance, 1mg lithium carbonate – the type used in psychiatric medication – contains about 0.19mg lithium, while lithium orotate, used in supplements, contains about 0.04mg.

Bipolar disorder is treated with high doses – in the region of 400mg to 1.2g of lithium carbonate, says Dr Koychev.

‘We know that this is effective, but it has well-documented side-effects including nausea and tremors long term.’

It can make the kidneys less responsive to the hormone that concentrates urine, so you pass greater quantities of urine, causing thirst, dehydration and potentially reducing kidney function in some.

Also, it can block the release of thyroid hormones – leading to an underactive thyroid gland – and raise calcium levels clinical trial involving 40 people at Johns Hopkins University in the US is now evaluating the safety and tolerability of low-dose lithium orotate in adults with early-stage Alzheimer's.

Participants will receive either lithium orotate (containing 1mg lithium) or a placebo, daily for nine weeks.

Dr Koychev is a key investigator in a UK pilot study monitoring the effects of giving low-dose lithium carbonate to people at risk of Alzheimer's – as identified by raised levels of a biomarker called pTau 217, which is linked to amyloid build-up. (It is also already used to confirm the diagnosis if people have symptoms.)

The trial aims to recruit 100 people – with half given low doses of lithium carbonate and the rest a dummy pill.

In the meantime, given lithium is available in supplement form, should we all be taking a daily tablet – typically containing 4-5mg – as a preventative?

Dr MacLaren suggests those with a family history might consider it, even for a few weeks, to see if memory skills improve. But he stresses they must check with their GP. He also says a multivitamin including small amounts of lithium orotate is something he'd 'look seriously for myself in the future'.

But Dr Koychev believes it's too soon to recommend lithium supplements. 'Recommendations should follow the science and we are not there yet,' he says. 'This is particularly true for anyone with kidney or thyroid problems – who should discuss it with their health provider first before taking lithium,' he warns.

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Meanwhile, mice given lower levels of lithium throughout their lives developed accelerated Alzheimer's-like brain changes, while those with normal levels were better protected from symptoms.

Several studies have also found links between slightly raised levels of lithium in drinking water (occurring as a result of regional variation) and lower rates of dementia, says Dr MacLaren, who also works at the private Re:Cognition Health

YOUR heart may repair itself after a heart attack, say researchers at the University of Sydney. They've discovered that heart-muscle cells can start dividing, producing new cells after a heart

attack, reports the journal Circulation Research. Previously, it was thought that the heart muscle cannot regenerate. The hope is this could lead to new drugs for heart failure.

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0 N learning she had stage 4 pancreatic cancer that had spread to her liver, Roxane Isal's first thoughts were for her children, then aged only nine and six.

'I presumed I had just months to live – I couldn't bear to think of the milestones I would miss, or that I would not be there to support them as they grew up,' says Roxane, 43.

Her anxieties were well-founded: Pancreatic is one of the most feared cancers, claiming the lives of half of those affected within three months of diagnosis. About 10,500 people in the UK are diagnosed with the disease each year, with seven in ten cases so advanced at that point that the patient receives only palliative care, according to the charity Pancreatic Cancer UK.

And cases are rising, up by a fifth since the 1990s – mostly in women under 55, like Roxane. Globally, scientists are desperately trying to find out why, but known risk factors include age, smoking, being overweight and having a family history of pancreatic cancer.

Yet, two years after being diagnosed, Roxane is alive – and is cancer-free.

‘I’m still here – which is a miracle,’ says Roxane, who lives in west London with her husband Steve, 52, who works in e-commerce, and their children Maya, 11, and Ellis, eight. ‘My daughter has just entered secondary school – which is a milestone I thought I would never see.’

This has been possible thanks to intense new research efforts into pancreatic cancer – and the fact that Roxane is a carrier of the BRCA gene mutation linked to breast and ovarian cancer, but also an increased risk of pancreatic cancer.

Paradoxically, the same mutation has been found to make tumours more receptive to certain types of chemotherapy and can also enhance the effect of a cancer drug called a PARP inhibitor – these drugs stop the disease progressing, by exploiting the same defective DNA repair process that increases the risk of cancer in the first place, leading to the cancer cell dying.

A combination of both treatments destroyed Roxane's cancer and helped prevent it recurring.

New drug that's helping Roxane to overcome the bleak odds for pancreatic cancer

'Carriers of the BRCA gene respond more effectively to treatment with platinum chemotherapy [one of the more widely used types], explains Professor Naureen Starling, a reader at the Institute of Cancer Research and the NHS consultant medical oncologist who treated Roxane.

RESEARCH in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2019 found certain patients with stage 4 pancreatic cancer linked to the BRCA gene also responded to the PARP inhibitor, olaparib.

The researchers found that taking olaparib after chemotherapy roughly doubled the amount of time before their cancer returned, from 3.8 months to 7.4 months.

Crucially, a third of stage 4 patients were still alive three years later.

While not a listed NHS treatment, doctors can obtain the dual therapy for NHS patients using special ‘compassionate access’ requests to the pharmaceutical company.

‘Some patients with BRCA do exceptionally well,’ says Professor Starling, living ‘many years’ rather than just a few months.

But there is still a long way to go, says Diana Jupp, CEO of Pancreatic Cancer UK: 'Decades of underinvestment in research and appallingly low numbers of patients able to access clinical trials are holding us back.'

In May, a survey by the charity, involving 1,117 people with pancreatic cancer, found just 12 per cent had the chance to take part in a clinical trial.

Tragically, because pancreatic cancer is typically diagnosed late, many patients deteriorate so quickly they are too ill to qualify.

One reason for this is that early-stage pancreatic cancer can be virtually symptomless.

The pancreas, which produces digestive enzymes and hormones, is located behind the stomach.

Symptoms – including indigestion (the tumour interferes with the production of digestive enzymes, so food is not properly broken down); back pain; fatigue and weight loss – are so vague the cancer is often advanced before it's detected. More than 90 per cent of pancreatic cancer patients visit their GP multiple times in the two years before getting a diagnosis, according to Pancreatic Cancer UK.

This was certainly true for Roxane. She began feeling lethargic after eating in 2021, but working full-time as a digital marketing consultant and running around after her children, she put it down to normal tiredness.

But she continued to have a ‘strange reaction’ to certain foods – including bread, chilli and alcohol – which made her feel ‘warm and shaky'. Indigestion and food intolerances can develop, again due to enzyme dysfunction.

Assuming a food intolerance, she didn't see her GP for the first time until late 2023. But blood tests were normal.

Three months later Roxane developed back pain ‘so strong I couldn’t hold myself upright’, she recalls, but blamed hours of computer work. In fact, the tumour was pressing on to nerve endings in the middle of her back.

By January 2024, as well as the back pain she was barely eating and felt exhausted all the time. Things came to a head when she nearly passed out with dizziness after a bite of a croissant in April.

Roxane went to A&E, where blood tests showed her liver function was poor; a subsequent MRI found a 3.5cm cancer on her pancreas. The disease had also spread to her liver. 'I broke down in tears,' she says. 'After phoning my husband, I was consumed with how best to tell the children.'

She was ‘surprised but relieved’ to learn that her faulty BRCA gene gave her treatment options not available to all patients.

Roxane had ten sessions of chemotherapy from May to October 2024: 'It was horrific,' she recalls. 'I crawled from bed to sofa to hospital and back again. I lost 8kg, going from 62kg to 54kg [she is 5ft 9in].'

That September, she also had ablation, where heat was used to destroy the three cancerous patches on her liver, followed by radiotherapy in December.

Since January 2025 she's taken olaparib and a daily oral chemotherapy tablet – scans show she remains cancer-free. Roxane lives with uncertainty but knows she's 'Miracle': Cancer-free Roxane Isal with husband Steve, her son Ellis and daughter Maya

one of the lucky ones. But there is real hope that things could be changing for patients with pancreatic cancer.

A recent breakthrough trial found that a new oral drug, daraxonrasib, extended the time people with advanced pancreatic cancer survived. The drug blocks the KRAS protein which drives most pancreatic cancers.

In a trial, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, it nearly doubled the survival time for those with advanced pancreatic cancer compared with standard chemotherapy – from seven to 13 months, with manageable side-effects.

‘Around 90 per cent of pancreatic cancer patients have a mutation in the KRAS gene,’ explains Michelle Garrett, a professor of cancer therapeutics at the University of Kent. ‘This means the KRAS protein is always “on” so the signal for pancreatic cancer cells to grow and divide is always on.

‘Daraxonrasib provides hope for those whose cancer has spread and could potentially be used at earlier stages of the disease.’

HE discovery received an emotional reception at the annual conference of the prestigious American Society of Clinical Oncology when unveiled in May. 'It was a spine-tingling moment because the research demonstrates that what was previously undruggable is now druggable,' says Professor Starling.

It is not yet available on the NHS but has just been approved by the US regulator, the Food and Drug Administration.

Research is also under way into new diagnostic tests to catch the disease sooner. A team at Imperial College London is working on a breath test to identify compounds released by the cancer which are expelled in breath in early stages of the disease. It's hoped this could form the basis of a test for GPs.

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OATS – because they can lower ‘bad’ cholesterol. A new study published in Nutrients found that people who ate four 40g servings of oats a day for six weeks saw a more significant drop in their LDL cholesterol, compared to a control group having the same number of calories but fewer wholegrains. Oats are rich in beta-

glucan, a type of fibre that helps reduce cholesterol absorption from the blood.

Scientists at the University of Essex are also studying blood biomarkers for the disease.

But more needs to be done: Pancreatic Cancer UK is calling on the Government to increase the number of clinical trials and to widen their accessibility, as well as funding research.

‘Who knows what other discoveries may be just around the corner if only scientists can get the funding?’ says Roxane. ■pancreaticcancer.org.uk

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The Great British Sewing Bee, 8pm, BBC1

THE Queen Bee will be crowned in tonight's all-female final as, spoiler alert, historical Anna, extrovert Emma and engineer Beth (pictured with presenter Sophie Willian) sew the final garments of this year's competition. A bow tie and cummerbund await in the Pattern challenge, and judges Esme Young and Patrick Grant will be looking for neat pleats and precision top-stitching. For their last Transformation challenge they unleash the potential in tablecloths by turning them into a chic outfit for a beach club. Going into the climactic Made To Measure there's a clear leader, and as they get to work on outfits for their best pals, the pressure is on. The theme is metamorphosis, and the finished garment has to be worthy of the famous fashion fundraising event the Met Gala. Who will tick every sewing box and raise the trophy?

70 UP, 9PM, ITV1

WE'VE reached the end of an era for a television institution. Six decades in the making, this is the final catch-up with the seven-year-olds we first met back in 1964 in Michael

Apted's ground-breaking series 7 Up. Two of the original 14, Nick and Lynn, have sadly passed away (as has Apted, in 2021, with

Oscar-winning film-maker Asif Kapadia taking over as director) but the 12 survivors (including Peter, Symon, Paul, Tony, Neil, John, Andrew, Bruce, Jackie, Suzy, and Sue, pictured from top left) all feature in this two-part final chapter. They came from all backgrounds with social class being the main talking point, and it is remarkable to see

dreams have changed and to find out where life has taken them. It's also a snapshot of how Britain, too, has changed around them — and in that

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	Crime drama, starring Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro, Josh Brolin and Victor Garber.	11.05	T20 Cricket England v Sri Lanka.	11.00	Regional News (Followed by Weather)	11.05	Celebrity Gogglebox (AD,R) The VIP viewers give their thoughts on The Nevermets, Beat the Chasers, A Quiet Place, Outrageous Homes, King of Collectibles: The Goldin Touch and Top of The Pops 1992.
		11.40	Britain's Forgotten Girls (AD,R) The exploitation of girls by drug gangs across Britain and why, despite the authorities having been repeatedly warned, it has been allowed to continue.	11.15	Prescription for Murder: True Crime Presents (AD,R) Evie Adams seeks a loving family, but finds a man with a deadly secret.
12.35	Weather for the Week Ahead 12.40 BBC News	12.40	Celebrity MasterChef (AD,BSL,R) Pastry chef Ravneet Gill joins Grace Dent and Giorgio Locatelli. 1.40 Stolen Babies (AD,BSL,R) The stories of five women. 3.10 This Is BBC2	12.10	Shop on TV 3.00 70 Up (AD,BSL,R) First of a two-part final instalment of the documentary that started in 1964. 4.20 Unwind with ITV 5.10 Dickinson's Real Deal (BSL,R) David and the dealers are in Leeds.	12.05	Love Cheats (AD,BSL,R) 1.05 Taskmaster (AD,BSL,R) 2.00 The Great Celebrity Pottery Throw Down 2026 (AD,BSL,R) 3.05 Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA (BSL,R) 3.55 Millionaire Hoarders (AD,R) 4.50 Find It, Fix It, Flog It (R) 4.55 Couples Come Dine with Me (R) 5.50 Countdown (R)

MNT

CHANNEL 4

MONARCHY DEBATE The Royals: Time To Go?, 9pm, Ch4

THROUGHOUT his long career as a journalist, John Humphrys has never been afraid to ask difficult questions and tonight explores one of the most challenging questions of our time. He makes no secret of the fact that he's a lifelong royal sceptic, but if you want to understand why support for abolishing the monarchy is on the rise, especially among 18- to 24-year-olds, tune in as Humphrys speaks to royal supporters and critics alike.

FILM CHOICE Sicario, 10.40pm, BBC1

INTENSE crime thriller following a joint agency task force and their scattered approach to taking down a Mexican drugs cartel. Emily Blunt (pictured), Josh Brolin and Benicio del Toro star. The sequel is showing tomorrow.

CHANNEL 5

6.00 Milkshake! Peppa Pig (AD,R) 6.10 Tweedy & Fluff (R) 6.15 Odo (R) 6.20 Thomas & Friends (R) 6.35 Fireman Sam (R) 6.45 Peppa Pig (AD,R) 6.50 Pip and Posy (R) 6.55 The Adventures of Paddington (R) 7.10 Paw Patrol (R) 7.20 Rubble & Crew (R) 7.30 Peppa Pig (AD,R) 7.45 Tim Rex in Space (AD,R) 8.00 Stan & Gran 8.15 Paw Patrol (R) 8.25 Milo (R) 8.40 Peppa Pig (AD,R) 8.55 Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom (R) 9.05 Milkshake! Story Den

9.15 Jeremy Vine
11.30 Storm & Alexis
12.45 5 News at Lunchtime
12.50 Matt Allwright
2.20 Lies and Ex-Wives: Secrets
FILM on Maple Street (2024) (PG) ● Thriller, starring Ali Liebert and Matthew MacCaull.
4.00 Castle (R) The Greatest Detective Society requests Castle's assistance in solving a murder.
4.55 Love Nature (R) The history of sea glass on Seaham beach.
5.00 5 News with Dan Walker
6.00 Amazing Railway Adventures with Nick Knowles (R) Exploring Prague, Bratislava and Budapest.
6.55 5 News Update

7.00	Police Interceptors (R)Officers pursue a vehicle with obscured number plates and it charges off the wrong way down the A46, while Dan and Jules stop a disqualified driver.
7.55	5 News Update

8.00 Motorway Cops: Catching Britain's Speeders PCs Lucy Pond and Nick James back up patrols on the tail of a Megane that has failed to stop, and PC Ed Clarke hunts for a vehicle linked to the supply of drugs.

9.00 Forever Home An event leaves Carol trembling and terrified, especially as Robert's behaviour grows increasingly erratic and menacing. Starring Amy Nuttall and Douglas Henshall.

10.00 Killed by My Daughter: Murdered in Paradise (R) The true story of a family's luxury holiday to Bali that turned into a nightmare when Sheila von Wiese-Mack became the victim of a murder plot.

11.15 Buried Secrets: The Body in the Carpet (R) Following the detective work that solved the case of 15-year-old Karen Price, whose skeletal remains were found bundled up in an off-cut of carpet by builders in 1989.

12.15 Motorway: Hell on the Highway (R) 1.10 Cruise TV with LoveitBookit (R) 2.10 Amazing Railway Adventures with Nick Knowles (R) 3.05 Castle (R) 3.55 Cruising with Susan Calman (AD, BSL, R) 4.45 The Wonderful World of Chocolate (BSL, R) 5.10 The Wonderful World of Chocolate (BSL, R)

▲ Particularly liable to offend

Secrets, storms and melodrama in Graham Norton's dark new thriller

GRAHAM Norton goes Gothic? It sounds unlikely. The chat show host, temper and violent outbursts, he seems devoted to her.

whose novels have been proven bestsellers for the past ten years, prefers whimsy to horror.

But every crime mystery, however cosy, has a streak of underlying darkness. There's no such thing as a twee murder.

Clara Salaman's adaptation of Norton's 2022 hit, Forever Home, opened with a thunderstorm in the small hours. That's been a favourite of sensation novelists for 200 years, ever since Edward Bulwer-Lytton began a tale with the words: 'It was a dark and stormy night.'

A pulsating flash of lightning lit up the bedroom where retired teacher Carol (Amy Nuttall) was struggling to sleep. The space beside her on the still-warm mattress was eerily empty. Clutching her phone, Carol felt her way downstairs by its glimmering light. With a fearful shudder of alarm, she saw the door to the dank cellar standing open... the door that her partner Robert always kept locked.

‘Don’t come down here!’ his panicked voice echoed up the

ONE-IN-THE-EYE OF THE WEEK: Narrator Sir Michael Palin, on Secrets Of The Bayeux Tapestry: Inside The Museum (BBC2), told how during the Second World War, a Nazi bigwig dropped cigar ash on the cloth and burned a hole in it. All part of life's rich etc.

pitch-dark stairs. ‘Nobody’s allowed! It’s full of poison!’

Just summarising the first scene, it's impossible to resist the urge to indulge in melodrama, and this six-part thriller doesn't bother even trying. Robert, played by a dishevelled and grizzled Douglas Henshall, is sliding into dementia, and his two self-absorbed, grown-up children, Kaden and Sallie can't wait to pack him off to a nursing home.

But Robert doesn't want to leave. There's something very important to him in that cellar. When Carol takes a poke around, she finds photos of Douglas's wife, who vanished 20 years ago. She also unplugs a chest freezer, hidden behind a false wall. And it's not long before a hideous smell begins to pervade the house...

That's a plot-heavy set-up, and it's complicated further by the children's motives — Kaden needs money to pay the surrogate mother of a baby his gay partner yearns for, while wannabe influencer Sal appears to be

N. IRELAND TV VARIATIONS

BBC2: 10.00pm Colin from Accounts. 10.30 The Chronicles of Strangford. Retired ferryman John shows his grandson old home-movie footage. UTV: 11.15pm View from Stormont.

WELSH TV VARIATIONS

BBC2: 1.45pm First Minister's Questions. 2.45 The Edge. 3.30 Unbeatable. 4.00 Great British Railway Journeys. 4.30 Eva Longoria: Searching for Mexico. The food and culture of Nuevo Leon. ITV: 11.15pm Sharp End. Discussing Welsh politics. S4C: 6.00am Cyw. 12noon Newyddion S4C a'r Tywydd. 12.05 Colleen Ramsey: Bywyd a Bwyd. 12.30 Heno. 1.00 Bwrdd i Dri. 1.30 Ffermio. 2.00 Newyddion S4C a'r Tywydd. 2.05 Prynhawn Da. 3.00 Newyddion S4C a'r Tywydd. 3.05 Athrawon. 4.00 Awr Fawr. 5.00 Stwnsh. 6.00 Y Sin. 6.30 Codi Hwyl. 6.59 Newyddion S4C. 7.00 Heno. 7.30 Newyddion S4C a'r Tywydd. 8.00 Pobol y Cwm. 8.25 Rownd a Rownd. 8.55 Newyddion S4C a'r Tywydd. 9.00 Am Le i Fyw. 10.00 Clwb Rygbi. 10.30 Y Cosmos.

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS LAST NIGHT'S TV

Forever Home (Ch5) ★★★★☆

scheming to blackmail her married lover into leaving his wife.

As with his previous TV drama, Holding, Graham Norton's hyperactive imagination could do with reining in. Hitting us with all the sub-plots in the opening episode is too much, too soon.

But he has a gift for creating three-dimensional characters, with deeply selfish flaws that still leave enough leeway for us to feel some sympathy. Carol is clingy and eaten up with jealousy, but she genuinely loves Robert and despite his simmering

Norton is sometimes accused of setting his stories in a fey Irish neverland of sure-and-begorrah nostalgia. To escape that, Ch5 has transplanted this story to the Northumberland border country.

But some of his light humour survives the move. Denise Welch plays Carol's mother, the kind of woman who asks 'if everything is okay in the bedroom department'. You'll find mums like that everywhere.

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PICK OF DIGITAL & ON DEMAND TV

THE FITBIT KILLER, AMAZON PRIME VIDEO

IN MAY 2021, Caroline Crouch and her husband, Babis Anagnostopoulos (pictured), were the victims of a horrifying attack in their home in Athens. Caroline was killed, a few months shy of her 20th birthday, while Babis was found bound and gagged in the same room, with their infant daughter. The family dog had also been killed. News of the shocking crime quickly went global, not least because Caroline was British — born in Liverpool, she moved to Greece as a youngster. As well as the tragedy of Caroline’s young life cut

EMOTIONAL JOURNEY Gemma Collins: Everything. All At Once, 9pm, Sky One

THE GC' (pictured) has never been shy of the cameras, but for this intimate new, eight-part profile, the larger-than-life TOWIE star lets us see her at some of her most vulnerable moments as we follow her through an exceptionally eventful year in her life. The stresses of navigating IVF, planning her wedding and juggling a blended family test her relationship with fiance Rami to the limit, and that's before

short and her 11-month-old baby deprived of a mother, there was also an outpouring of sympathy for Babis. But something did not ring true — and as you can probably tell from the title, it was a digital activity tracker that led police to the killer. Mail reporter Nick Fagge covered the case and is a key contributor to this two-parter which follows the timeline from desperate police call to the killer's conviction. It does a very good job of setting the scene, hearing from police, lawyers and friends of the family, as well as Caroline's devastated father.

the heartbreak she has to deal with following the death of her mother. The first three episodes show back to back tonight.

RURAL REALITY SHOW Vinnie Jones In The Country, 9pm, Quest

THE footballer-turned-actor — who's been putting his country gent image to good use in his role as gamekeeper Geoffrey in The Gentlemen (Netflix) — returns for a new, third series from his 2,000-acre farm in West Sussex. With builder Wobbly and personal assistant Emma at his side, he's embarking on his most ambitious project to date — but the manor house renovation is put in doubt when he receives some devastating family news.

TRUE CRIME

Look Into My Eyes, ITVX

IN A small Florida town, George Kenney was a popular high school principal – who was hypnotising his students. His aim was supposedly to help them get better grades or win football games, but when three students died within months of each other, after being hypnotised, Kenney skipped town. This four-part series digs into the bizarre case and also hears from Kenney himself.

TIME	BBC 4	E4
7.00pm	9 (Scot 24)Fred Dibnah's Building of BritainBritain's canals	13Hollyoaks A comment from Cindy makes Dee Dee suspicious	Wheel of Fortune Sapna, Ben and Deborah compete to solve word puzzles to get the chance to spin the wheel and win big money prizes
7.30pm	The Lakes with Paul Rose The explorer visits Windermere	Brooklyn Nine-Nine Peralta tries to make a deal with a suspect to catch a car thief
8.00pm	To the Manor Born Audrey learns the art of housekeeping	Below Deck Down Under A guest has the crew scrambling all over the place, while the Housewives of Salt Lake City cause chaos	The 1% Club Quiz game show hosted by Lee Mack in which the questions are all about logic and common sense
8.30pm	Keeping Up Appearances Hyacinth moves into her retreat
9.00pm	The Boleyns: A Scandalous Family Documentary charting the rise and fall of the Boleyns, a story of love, sex and betrayal told from the family's unique perspective	Gogglebox The armchair critics share their opinions on Made in Chelsea, Dragons' Den, Line of Duty, Louis Theroux: Shooting Joe Exotic and The Graham Norton Show	Big Brother Housemates live under 24-hour surveillance as they attempt to avoid eviction from the Big Brother house
9.30pm
10.00pm	The Beginning and End of the Universe Professor Jim Al-Khalili unravels the cosmic mystery of science's creation story	First Dates After suffering a life-threatening illness, 29-year-old Georgina returns to the dating scene and is paired with 36-year-old security guard Seb	Big Brother: The Group Chat Kate Lawler and GK Barry host exclusive interviews with evicted housemates, celebrity fans and special guests
10.30pm
11.00pm	Japan's Master of Restoration The restoration of a ceramic horse	11.05 Naked Attraction Anna Richardson is joined by 70-year-old Sandra, and Toni-ann who dreams of being the heroine of her own erotic novel (To 12.10)	11.05 Family Guy Part one of two. Peter retells The Empire Strikes Back
11.30pm	11.50 The Sky at Night The engineering that is transforming modern astronomy (To 12.20)		11.35 Family Guy Part two of two. Peter retells The Empire Strikes Back (To 12.05)

ENTERTAINMENT & FACTUAL

5ACTION

Freeview 33 Sky 150

11.20am Gunsmoke. 12.25pm FILM: Young Guns of Texas. (1962) (U) 2.05 FILM: A Man Alone. (1955) (U) 4.00 Traffic Cops. 5.00 Motorway Cops: Catching Britain's Speeders. 6.00 Police Interceptors. 9.00 Motorway Cops: Catching Britain's Speeders. 10.00 Fare Dodgers: At War with the Law. 11.00 The X-Files.

BBC THREE

Freeview 23 Sky 115 Virgin 107 7.00pm The Catch Up. 7.05 Deadly 60. 8.00 Top Gear. 9.00 The Devil in the Family: The Fall of Ruby Franke. 11.35 To Catch a Stalker.

COMEDY CENTRAL

Sky 112 Virgin 132

12.55pm Impractical Jokers. 1.20 Friends. 9.00 FILM: Shaun of the Dead. (2004) (15) 11.00 Iain Stirling's Roast the Internet.

DISCOVERY

Sky 125 Virgin 177

11.00am Building Off the Grid. 1.00pm The Zoo: San Diego. 3.00 Baggage Battles. 5.00 Alaska: Homestead Rescue. 7.00 Wheeler Dealers. 9.00 Deadliest Catch. 10.00 In the Eye of the Storm.

E4 (DAYTIME)

Freeview 13 Sky 135 Virgin 106 11.00am Below Deck Down Under. 12noon The Simpsons. 2.00 The Goldbergs. 3.00 Modern Family. 5.00 The Simpsons.

5STAR (DAYTIME)

Freeview 32 Sky 128 Virgin 126 12noon Traffic Cops. 2.00 Police Interceptors. 5.00 Rogue Claimers. 6.00 Home and Away.

5 SELECT

Freeview 46 Sky 153 Virgin 138

12noon Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild. 1.00 Murder, She Wrote. 3.00 Columbo. 5.00 Sussex: Jewel of the South Coast. 6.00 Inside the Tower of London. 7.00 Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild. 9.00 Alexander Armstrong Across America. 10.00 Battlefront: WWII Road to Victory. 11.00 Prisoner: Cell Block H.

5 USA (DAYTIME)

Freeview 21 Sky 141 Virgin 120 12noon Law & Order. 6.00 NCIS.

FOOD NETWORK UK

Freeview 43 Sky 144 Virgin 168 11.00am The Great British Bake Off. 12.30pm Mary Berry – Cook & Share. 1.00 James Martin's French Adventure. 3.00 The Hairy Bikers' Comfort Food. 4.00 Jamie's 15 Minute Meals. 5.00 The Pioneer Woman. 6.00 James Martin's French Adventure. 7.00 The Great British Bake Off. 8.30 Mary Berry – Cook & Share. 9.00 Jamie: Fast and Simple. 10.00 Chopped Castaways. 11.00 Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives: Triple D Nation.

GREAT! TV

Freeview 34 Sky 157 Virgin 170 12noon Little House on the Prairie. 1.00 The Waltons. 4.00 Little House on the Prairie. 6.00 The Irish RM. 7.00 M*A*S*H. 9.00 Brush Strokes. 11.00 Robin's Nest.

ITV2 (DAYTIME)

Freeview 6 Sky 118 Virgin 115 10.15am Dawson's Creek. 11.10 Charmed. 12.10pm Deal or No Deal. 1.10 Supermarket Sweep. 2.10 Wheel of Fortune. 3.10 The Only Way Is Essex. 4.10 The Real Housewives of Potomac. 5.00 The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. 6.00 Celebrity Catchphrase.

ITV3 (DAYTIME)

Freeview 10 Sky 119 Virgin 117 9.10am Inspector Morse. 11.30 Heartbeat. 1.35pm The Royal. 2.40 Wild at Heart. 3.40 Classic Emmerdale. 4.40 Classic Coronation Street. 5.50 Heartbeat.

ITV4 (DAYTIME)

Freeview 26 Sky 120 Virgin 118
10.25am The Sweeney. 11.30 The Professionals. 12.35pm The Champions. 1.40 American Pickers. 3.45 The Sweeney. 4.50 The Professionals. 5.55 River Monsters. 6.25 World Rally Championship Highlights. Action from Chile.

MORE4 (DAYTIME)

Freeview 18 Sky 136 Virgin 147 11.35am Come Dine with Me. 2.15pm Four in a Bed. 4.50 Car S.O.S. 6.50 Grand Designs.

NAT'L GEOGRAPHIC

Sky 129 Virgin 183

11.00am Car S.O.S. 12noon Toronto Airport Uncovered. 1.00 Air Crash

Investigation. 2.00 Hitler's Last Stand. 3.00 Hidden Beneath the Cities. 4.00 How the Tudors Lost Their Heads. 5.00 Ice Road Rescue. 6.00 Nazi Megastructures: Battle Ready. 7.00 Air Crash Investigation. 8.00 Nazi Megastructures. 9.00 Hitler's Last Stand. 10.00 Planes that Changed History. 11.00 Air Crash Investigation.

PBS AMERICA

Freeview 84 Sky 173 Virgin 187 11.50am Ancient Greece: The Dark Chronicles. 1.00pm Grand Tours of the Scottish Islands. 1.40 The Bush Years: Family, Duty, Power. 2.35 Turkiye's Astonishing Antiquities. 3.40 Maps of Power. 4.50 Ancient Greece: The Dark Chronicles. 5.55 Grand Tours of the Scottish Islands. 6.35 The Bush Years: Family, Duty, Power. 7.25 Turkiye's Astonishing Antiquities. 8.35 Maps of Power. 9.45 Ancient Greece: The Dark Chronicles. 10.55 Turkiye's Astonishing Antiquities.

REALLY

12noon The Yorkshire Auction House. 2.00 The Repair Shop. 3.00 Salvage Hunters: The Restorers. 5.00 Long Lost Family. 6.00 The Repair Shop. 7.00 Celebrity Yorkshire Auction House. 8.00 Antiques Road Trip. 9.00 Who Do You Think You Are? 11.00 Help! My House Is Haunted.

SKY ARTS

Freeview 36 Sky 122 Virgin 123

12noon Classic Albums. 1.00 Tales of the Unexpected. 2.00 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. 3.00 Painting Birds with Jim and Nancy Moir. 4.00 Discovering: Christopher Plummer. 5.00 Portrait Artist of the Year 2024. 6.00 Tales of the Unexpected. 7.00 Alfred Hitchcock Presents. 8.00 Garbo: Where Did You Go? A portrait of Hollywood icon Greta Garbo. 9.55 Wonderland: From JM Barrie to JRR Tolkien. 10.55 The Movies. 11.55 Alec Guinness: A Class Act.

SKY ATLANTIC

Sky 108 Virgin 111

10.10am Succession. 12.55pm Homicide: Life on the Street. 2.35 Billions. 4.40 Succession. 6.55 The Gilded Age. 9.00 The Looming Tower. 11.00 Das Boot.

RADIO 4 FM: 92.4-94.6MHZ

5.00am News Summary. 5.04 Yesterday in Parliament. 5.32 Weather. 5.34 Shipping Forecast. 5.43 Prayer for the Day. 5.45 Farming Today. 6.00 Today.

9.00 The Life Scientific. Jim Al-Khalili talks with epigeneticist Edith Heard.

11.00 Add to Playlist. With saxophonist Emma Rawicz and pianist Arsha Kaviani. 11.45 Book of the Week: Redwood. By Ben Macintyre.

12noon News.

12.04 Call You and Yours. 12.57 Weather.

1.00 The World at One. 1.45 The Hitler Diaries Scandal. With Andrew Hunter Murray.

2.00 The Archers.

SKY COMEDY

Sky 113 Virgin 112

11.50am Will & Grace. 12.20pm Hacks. 1.40 Based on a True Story. 2.20 Upright. 3.00 Will & Grace. 4.00 The Office Movers. 5.00 Community. 6.00 Will & Grace. 7.00 The Office (US). 8.00 Animal Control. 9.00 Saturday Night Live UK. 10.15 Jack Dee: Small World. 11.50 Hacks.

SKY DOCUMENTARIES

Sky 114 Virgin 121

12noon FILM: The Loneliest Whale: The Search for 52. (2021) (PG) 2.00 The Two Escobars. 4.00 The Directors. 5.00 Disasters from Space. 6.00 FILM: Apollo 11. (2019) (U) 7.50 My Icon: Leon Pryce. 8.00 FILM: Spitfire. (2018) (PG) The story of British single-seat fighter plane the Supermarine Spitfire. 10.00 FILM: Bobby. (2016) (PG)

PICK OF TODAY'S RADIO

HISTORY'S SECRET HEROES, 3PM, RADIO 4

THE Lilliput Troupe of musical performers in the 1930s was made up of seven members of the Ovitz family from Romania. They suffered from dwarfism and were also Jewish, so when they were sent to Auschwitz, their fate seemed certain. However, they survived

2.15 Drama: The School Run. Comedy drama, starring Sam Swann.
3.00 PICK History's Secret Heroes.
3.30 BBC National Short Story Award 2026. Little Lands, by Lucy Caldwell.
4.00 PICK Artworks: Life as a Muse.
4.30 What's Up Docs?
5.00 PM; Weather.

SKY HISTORY

Sky 123 Virgin 131

11.05am Storage Wars. 12noon Pawn Stars. 1.00 History's Greatest Machines with Dolph Lundgren. 2.00 History's Greatest Mysteries. 3.00 Junk & Disorderly. 6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 Forged in Fire Tournament of Champions. 8.00 Pawn Stars. 9.00 History's Greatest Machines with Dolph Lundgren. 10.00 History's Greatest Mysteries. 11.00 The Proof Is Out There.

SKY ONE

Sky 106 Virgin 109

12noon Deep Dive Australia. 1.00 Hawaii Five-0. 3.00 S.W.A.T. 5.00 The Simpsons. 6.00 Superstore. 7.00 The Simpsons. 8.00 The Dyers' Caravan Park. 9.00 Gemma Collins: Everything. All at Once. 11.10 Never Mind the Buzzcocks.

after they were saved from the gas chambers by Joseph Mengele, who went on to experiment on them. Helena Bonham Carter tells their extraordinary and harrowing story, with contribution from actor Warwick Davis and historian Warren Rosenblum.

6.00 Six U Clock News. 6.30 Paul Sinha's Perfect Pub Quiz. Paul poses his audience in Canterbury questions about archbishops. Last in series. 7.00 The Archers. Tony tries to get involved. 7.15 Front Row. Arts news. 8.00 File on 4 Investigates. New series. Issues of major concern.

SKY SCI-FI

Sky 145 Virgin 140

12noon Star Trek: Voyager. 1.00 Stargate Atlantis. 2.00 Primeval. 3.00 Fantasy Island. 4.00 Stargate SG-1. 5.00 Star Trek: Voyager. 6.00 Star Trek: Enterprise. 7.00 Stargate Atlantis. 8.00 Stargate SG-1. 9.00 Resident Alien. 10.00 Evil. 11.00 The Walking Dead.

SKY WITNESS

Sky 107 Virgin 110

12noon FBI. 2.00 The Rookie. 3.00 Blue Bloods. 4.00 Nothing to Declare. 8.00 Caught on Dashcam. 9.00 The Rookie. 10.00 Blue Bloods. 11.00 The Rookie.

TLC

Freeview 12 Sky 133 Virgin 113

12noon The Big Bang Theory. 2.00 The Middle. 3.30 Young Sheldon. 5.00 The Big Bang Theory. 9.00

6.55 Heartbeat

Merton investigates a suspicious death with the help of CID, while Vernon employs a new female mechanic

Vera The detective

investigates the discovery of an unidentified teenage boy's body in a coastal town's shipyard, and discovers that the quiet community conceals a serious drugs problem

6.25 World Rally Championship Highlights Action from the Rally of Chile

EFL Cup Live Liverpool v Tottenham Hotspur (Kick-off 8pm). All the action from the third-round tie at Anfield. The teams last faced each other in this competition two seasons ago, when the Reds overturned a first-leg semi-final deficit with a 4-0 win here to prevail 4-1 on aggregate

MORE4

6.50 Grand Designs A family home near the Humber Estuary

7.55 Grand Designs Kevin McCloud follows a couple knocking down an old Thames boathouse and building a cutting-edge home in its place — in the middle of a community dominated by traditional houses

Popmaster TV: Grand

SKY MIX

Star Trek: The Next Generation Part one of two. A bizarre archaeological discovery suggests Data somehow died in 19th-century San Francisco

Hawaii Five-0

The detectives try to protect the sole witness in a high-profile murder case

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Final Ken Bruce hosts the final of the music quiz in which the players attempt to be crowned champion. Last in series

Antiques Road Trip Catherine Southon and James Braxton embark on the second leg of their five-part expedition, heading to Worcestershire

A surgeon reports the disappearance of his wife, and Goren suspects there is more to the case than meets the eye

Ant Anstead: Born Mechanic Ant buys a 1968 Alfa Romeo Giulia with no steering

11.05 24 Hours in A&E A patient undergoing treatment for cancer develops a swelling in her throat (To 12.05)

Cameras follow a 47-year-old man who is airlifted to St George's with injuries to his arm and leg after being knocked off his motorbike

Scott & Bailey
Andy punishes Janet (To 12.25)

Downton Abbey Cora makes a discovery that throws the inheritance issue into chaos, Mary keeps Matthew waiting for a reply, and the household is rocked by an announcement

Vinnie Jones in the Country New series. Wobbly and Emma are on standby when Vinnie receives some upsetting family news

U&DAVE

24 Hours in A&E

Grimm A preacher asks for Nick's help when his church is robbed, and it emerges that the congregation are all Wesens (To 12.00)

Criminal Intent The detectives' investigation into the death of a banker leads them to contacts and family members

Law & Order:

Wrestling: Collision Hard-hitting action, featuring stars including FTR, Thunder Rosa, Jon Moxley and Jay White (To 12.25)

10.25 All Elite

Steve Fletcher and Kirsten Ramsay restore an art deco lamp, and Matthew Nickels completely overhauls a precious stained glass window

The Repair Shop

How Do They Do It? Playing cards that can prevent cheating

Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing From Norfolk

You? The Best Bits Rob Brydon presents highlights from the panel show, featuring Jo Brand, Stacey Dooley, Diane Morgan and Bob Mortimer

7.40 Would I Lie to You? The Unseen Bits Extra material from the 12th series

How Do They Do It? Making holes in Swiss cheese (To 12.00)

8.20 Would I Lie to You? The Best Bits

Have I Got a Bit

More News for You Jo Brand hosts an extended version of the satirical quiz, with musician and activist Feargal Sharkey and comedian Zoe Lyons

QI XL Guests Phill Jupitus, Holly Walsh and Nish Kumar join Alan Davies and host Sandi Toksvig to contemplate the theme ‘nonsense’ in an extended episode

7.20 Last of the

Taskmaster Greg

Davies sets Alice Levine, Asim Chaudhry, Liza Tarbuck, Russell Howard and Tim Vine brilliantly bewildering tasks (To 12.05)

Summer Wine Compo overhears Nora Batty discussing the effect Errol Flynn's outfit used to have on her, so he sets out to become the man of her dreams

'Allo 'Allo! Rene arranges to sell the Fallen Madonna

8.40 'Allo 'Allo! Fanny and Leclerc's wedding coincides with a plan

9.20 'Allo 'Allo!

9.20 'Allo' Allo: General Von Klinkerhoffen is declared insane

9.55 New Tricks An old friend asks Gerry to investigate the murder of his grandson, and Sasha is forced to work with her ex-husband. Dennis Waterman and Tamzin Outhwaite star

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ARIES Mar 21 - Apr 20 IN AN abundant world, another person's success shouldn't irritate us. But seeing someone get what we want can expose parts of ourselves we don't wish to confront. As Venus connects to Pluto today hidden desires come to the surface. An uncomfortable reaction doesn't make you mean-spirited. It may simply be pointing towards something you yearn for but haven't admitted. Pay attention to the things that provoke you. Looking for answers? Your horoscope can guide you. Call for your personalised reading: 0905 789 0301*

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TAURUS Apr 21 - May 21 YOU'RE quick to explain why you don't need something. Sometimes this comes from contentment; sometimes it is a form of self-protection. Which is it today? A desire you've been minimising may find ways to attract your attention. Rather than judging yourself for wanting more, ask what the desire represents. Is it freedom, affection or simply the pleasure of choosing something for yourself? Life is rarely fair – but you have more power over your own fulfilment than you think. Looking for answers? Your horoscope can guide you. Call for your personalised reading: 0905 789 0302*

GEMINI May 22 - June 22 YOUR mind can construct an argument for almost anything, including why you shouldn't feel the way you do. Today the cosmos is making it harder to intellectualise your way around an emotional truth. Notice what you keep returning to despite having decided it isn't important. Repetition isn't always evidence of obsession; sometimes it means that something matters. The question isn't whether you should pursue a desire, but why you haven't acknowledged it. Looking for answers? Your horoscope can guide you. Call for your personalised reading: 0905 789 0303*

an old nerve today. Instead of dismissing the reaction as unreasonable, consider what it is protecting. Sometimes a disproportionate response is a sign that a present-day event has exposed an unmet need. Today Venus's connection to Pluto is revealing the fragility of a delicate situation. Don't be hasty to squash

WE DON'T always recognise what we want in a straightforward way. Sometimes our preferences are revealed through a pang of jealousy, a sense of relief, or the peculiar disappointment we feel when something we claimed not to care about doesn't happen. These reactions can feel

down an inconvenient feeling. Let it be felt. You have power over your future. Looking for answers? Your horoscope can guide you. Call for your personalised reading: 0905 789 0304*

LEO July 24 - Aug 23 BEING wanted can feel wonderful, but there is a difference between enjoying attention and needing it to confirm your importance. Today a challenging situation is the way the cosmos reveals where you stand in certain relationships. Nobody likes to be overlooked, but don't take a situation too personally today. Real validation comes from being seen and appreciated – not from being included from a place of obligation. You are more valuable than you realise. Looking for answers? Your horoscope can guide you. Call for your personalised reading: 0905 789 0305*

VIRGO Aug 24 - Sep 23 YOU'RE good at identifying what is appropriate and achievable. But desire doesn't always fit into a category we feel comfortable with. Existing plans tend to get disrupted when the heart has a say in the matter. Rather than immediately explaining why it is impractical, give yourself permission to investigate it. You don't have to act on an impulse simply because you've acknowledged it. Sometimes an inconvenient wish is pointing towards something you are missing. Looking for answers? Your horoscope can guide you. Call for your personalised reading: 0905 789 0306*

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unsettling because they don't fit the story we've been telling ourselves. Venus, planet of love, creates a tense aspect today with Pluto, ruler of taboo topics. Today's influences encourage us to pay attention to the desires that stir beneath our conscious intentions.

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KEEPING everyone comfortable has required you to become vague about your own preferences. This works until a decision matters enough to expose what you genuinely want. Pay attention to your first instinct today. As your ruling planet Venus squares Pluto, a challenge presents itself. Do you play along with a situation or be honest about how you feel? Naming what you want can be the kindest thing. Looking for answers? Your horoscope can guide you. Call for your personalised reading: 0905 789 0307*

SCORPIO Oct 24 - Nov 22 WE CLAIM we're indifferent even though we're hoping somebody will notice our absence. With Venus in your sign today making a dynamic angle to your ruling planet Pluto, your emotional reactions may come close to the surface. You don't have to suppress your feelings. But neither do you have to act on every one of them the moment they appear. Give yourself space to work out what's underneath your reaction. Looking for answers? Your horoscope can guide you. Call for your personalised reading: 0905 789 0308*

SAGITTARIUS Nov 23 - Dec 21 COMMITMENT, consistency, responsibility... They may not sound particularly entertaining, but obligations are hard to avoid forever. Are you resisting a particular demand because it genuinely isn't right for you – or because you dislike the feeling of having to be answerable? There is a strange freedom in knowing what you have agreed to and being able to trust yourself to honour it. You don't lose yourself by becoming dependable and loyal to what matters. Looking for answers? Your horoscope can guide you. Call for your personalised reading: 0905 789 0309*

CAPRICORN Dec 22 - Jan 20 YOU know how to turn an aim into an objective. But does the situation you

Objective. But does the situation you are dealing with today need more of a strategy? Some things in life are not so easy to measure. How do you quantify a sense of being at ease? Your progress so far has been tangible and yet you remain dissatisfied. That's not a lack of effort – it's an issue with how you prioritise productivity over your own peace of mind and sense of security. Looking for answers? Your horoscope can guide you. Call for your personalised reading: 0905 789 0310*

AQUARIUS Jan 21 - Feb 19 YOU can surprise yourself when an emotional response cuts across an opinion you thought you held firmly. Sometimes this leads others to think you are doing something just to be different. But your relationship with the choice to accept or decline involvement today is entirely up to you. Don't worry about your feelings on a matter not making intellectual sense, or the implications of being seen to change your mind. You know what you want in your heart. Looking for answers? Your horoscope can guide you. Call for your personalised reading: 0905 789 0311*

PISCES Feb 20 - Mar 20

SOMETIMES the clearest indication of what matters to us is our feelings when we imagine not having it. A sudden sense of loss, relief or longing may be revealing a preference you have been too distracted to recognise. You don't need to justify it or immediately decide what to do about it. Simply acknowledge what has surfaced today. There is a difference between being ruled by desire and listening to it intelligently. Your deeper feelings may point to where your emotional energy belongs. Looking for answers? Your horoscope can guide you. Call for your personalised reading: 0905 789 0312*

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Two sad lads were on a sopping wet mission

ON THE last day of August in 1976 my wife, son and I began the 250-mile

journey home from Hemsby in Norfolk to Burnley in Lancashire. There had been no rain for 45 days, and seven weeks of high temperatures. On the way back, we stopped at a village pub to pick up my parents, who were staying with relatives. We walked to the village shop to buy some special bacon. By the time we got back to the car we were drenched, as it had begun to rain heavily.

Uncle David had thrown a hundredweight sack of potatoes in the boot of our Singer Gazelle. Five people with luggage and a sack of

THE END OF SUMMER

Sign Language

The days are getting shorter now,
We draw the curtains after tea.
Some say they're sad that summer's done
But it can't come too soon for me.
It's been so hot, with little rain
That indolence has now crept in.
We've got so used to darkened rooms,
To ice-cold drinks with beer and gin...

Today's poem

potatoes, we set off down country lanes to find the main road, the A47. The ground could not absorb the water quickly enough, so it was filling the roadside ditches but also

The garden is neglected too The grass is yellow, shot with weeds. It's picking up now rain has come – I need to rake and sow some seeds. The shrubs and plants (those that survived) Are brown and shrivelled, past their best, But now that autumn's on its way I'll try to tackle all the rest.

TO BE QUITE CLEAR: This notice on a shop door in Manchester city centre includes a handy clarification for those not understanding just the word 'open'. F. Harvey, Bristol lying on the road. The wipers and demisters could barely cope. We got stuck behind an Austin 1100 whose driver was reluctant to travel faster than 20mph. Because of the conditions, we were unable to get past it.

September brings more sunny days
But cooler nights mean better sleep,
And now that showers drench the earth
I love the 'ber' months, after heat.
The hedgerows fill with nuts and fruit
And birds are gathering their nests,
Cold salad's off the menu now
For roasts and stews and all the rest.

After a good few miserable miles, he indicated to the left. We were going straight – good news. He pulled into a service station which had a working garage at the back of it. We all looked across at him as we passed by. Inside were two miserable-looking young men – their car had no windscreen, so they were absolutely wet through. The garage had a sign that read 'Windscreen fitted while you wait'. We still laugh about it to this day.

They forecast a wet winter soon – We need more rain to quench the earth, But it’s a while till winter comes With Hallowe’en and bonfires first. We’re told that future summer times Will become hotter every year. Let’s hope the ‘powers that be’ have plans But that’s unlikely soon, I fear.

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PARENTS' so-called fury over school uniforms requiring girls and boys to wear trousers is a ridiculous overreaction (Daily Mail). I have little sympathy for the girl who was apparently barred from lessons because she refused to comply with new correct uniform rules – that is the behaviour of a very spoilt child.

When I was a girl, I always preferred trousers but wore to school whatever on earth I was told to. During the 1990s and early 2000s many female students absolutely hated compulsory school skirts. We were not exactly fans of uniforms in general to be honest, for a variety of reasons.

School uniforms can be both protective and harmful depending on context, how the student pushes the boundaries of uniform rules to fit in and whether the student is part of a socially disadvantaged group.

Traditional girls' uniforms not only create an explicit barrier to active lunchtime play (ever tried taking part in a game of football on a windy day while wearing a knee-length skirt?) but also deter many local girls from cycling to and from school. It's easy to suggest putting on shorts underneath traditional garments to tackle such problems, but what a pain when male and female students could simply wear the same clothes!

It's really about time schools changed their sexist uniform policies. If female employees of the police force and NHS are no longer required to wear skirts or dresses, why can't we allow schoolgirls the convenience of more practical clothes at school? They are absolutely free to change into anything more feminine the minute they get home.

EMILIE McRAE, Trowbridge, Wilts I WAS amused to read this article! It reminded me of my headmistress's memorable comment on the last day of a 1960s school term – always a non-uniform, half-day occasion: 'Judith should NOT have worn trousers on the last day of term.' I was sent home to change. Needless to say, I went home but didn't change and refused to go back, much to my mother's consternation.

JUDITH MACBETH, Reading, Berks

Not-so-sweet deal

THE US slips deeper into the abyss of corruption, with Trump pledging to pay \$5,000 to every American adult if Republicans retain control of Congress in the midterm elections. No doubt Congress will sit quietly, say nothing and do nothing. The supposed Supreme Court will decide the President can do anything he wants to do.

It is another step towards a government of billionaires, for billionaires. It takes the US back to the level of banana republics. Britain, of course, banned voter bribery in 1729.

ROGER FOWNES, Bromsgrove, Worcs

IN CASE Andy Burnham is getting ideas, even if I was offered £5,000 I would never vote Labour.

S. HURLEY, Exeter, Devon

Bad timing

WHY can't all the party conferences be held during the elongated summer recess, rather than taking up valuable time in September? In that month, our MPs have only just come back from weeks off.

Especially in the very volatile times we are experiencing at the moment both at home and in the wider world, Parliament should not be wasting time with conferences.

HELEN PENNEY, Longborough, Gloucs

Medical waste

WITH regard to wastage in health-care (Letters), I recently had to have a short procedure under general anaesthetic in an NHS hospital. As it

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was so short, I declined the anti-embolism stockings they wanted me to wear. To my surprise and disgust, they went into the bin because 'they'd been taken out of the packet'. I had not been near them.

CHERYL FELIX, Marton, Lincs

Sally sense

REGARDING the huge salaries of charity CEOs, senior leaders of the Salvation Army receive a minimal living allowance to cover basic daily costs (roughly £15,000 to £20,000) and are provided with rent-free, modest accommodation that is managed or owned by the organisation.

A touch less than the six figures paid to CEOs of other charities!

SUSAN ATKINS, Alton, Hants

Marble bust

MARBLES have featured in the Answers To Correspondents page recently. A year ago I was in hospital. Being over 80 and eager to avoid a geriatric ward, I kept telling nurses and doctors I ‘had all my marbles’. After a few days, I found out none of the medics had understood because English was not their first language.

Having all one's marbles is a very useful expression for which there is no obviously suitable alternative, so I think it should be promoted.

BILL ANDREWS, Farnborough, Hants

Costs of living

AS I was sitting in my chair reading a book today, I reflected on what doing little was costing me daily. Insurances such as car, home, contents and annual travel came to mind. Then the fixed daily energy charges and council tax. TV licence, Sky TV subscription, internet and phone charges, and paper and magazine subscriptions followed.

Charity donations also feature but I'm pleased to be able to make these. Yes, some of these are optional, but a surprising amount sits in the background due to my very existence.

R. SHENTON, York

Back in black

YES, there is a demand for black balaclavas (Letters). I have knitted many of these over the past few years. They are destined for South Africa, where they are greatly appreciated by anti-poaching rangers!

JACQUELINE HARRUP, Southend-on-Sea, Essex

Baby boon

FURTHER to the letter regarding being taken to the polling station to vote, in the early Seventies I was a young mum with baby twins and rather housebound.

There was a knock at the door and a lady wearing a rosette asked if I was planning to vote. I told her I was unable to get to the polling station, so she not only offered to drive me

Our ordeal trapped in flight delay chaos

Mayhem: Passengers at Heathrow

LAST Tuesday was a day I would rather forget. My husband and I, both in our 80s, with him disabled, were looking forward to a trip to Lisbon to visit family. We booked assisted travel and all was going well until we checked the flight board in the assisted travel lounge area and Lisbon wasn't listed.

Our flight eventually came up, but only to say it was cancelled and we were told to go to collect our baggage. The wait for the assistance was two hours. So I pushed my husband in a wheelchair all the way to baggage reclaim, including down in a lift, against a stream of people all coming the other way with their luggage. The baggage hall was absolute chaos

– hundreds of people all scanning the information board to see which belt their cases would be on. People whose flights had arrived were fighting their way to the belts.

The staff were overwhelmed and admitted they had no idea what the plan was or what caused the problem. No one knew which conveyor belt to look on for their luggage. Eventually one security chap shouted out from a paper list the place name and belt number, but few people could hear

him amid the noise. Cases were piling up in the spaces between the belts. More and more cases came down the chute and people were not collecting them. All the seats were occupied and people were sitting on the floor. I had to park my husband and pick my way through the crowd to check the belts for our cases. None were from the cancelled Lisbon flight.

Six hours later, when most of the travellers had gone, the belts were idle. I'd spoken to every staff member but no one knew where our luggage was. We were feeling pretty desperate, with no food or drink except a vending machine. No help was offered at all. No one came to ask us if we were OK. It felt as if nobody cared. Eventually a very concerned baggage handler at the end of his shift said he would go to look through a pile of luggage stacked up somewhere not accessible to the public. Twenty minutes later he came back with both our small cases, found at the bottom of a pile of other luggage. We were so relieved and grateful for his initiative, but he had more common sense than all his bosses put together.

HAZEL HORSNELL, Worthing, W. Sussex

CRITICAL computer systems such as those running Bacs and the Stock Exchange have back-up versions which can be switched to should a new version fail or a software update cause problems. Why doesn't air traffic controller NATS?

DENNIS NISBET,

BENNIS MSELL, Whickham, Tyne and Wear

IS IT true the chief executive of NATS's salary is £1.4 million a year? JOHN COAN, Widnes, Cheshire

there but volunteered her colleague to babysit!

I'm afraid I did vote for the opposition but have always remembered her kindness. I couldn't imagine leaving my babies with a stranger today.

HAZEL GARDNER, Epping, Essex

In a spin

FURTHER to previous letters concerning young people being ignorant about vinyl records and record players, I have a similar story about old-style telephones.

to dial a number first. His reply? 'I can't – there aren't any buttons.'

PAMELA DARKE, Sale Moor, Cheshire

French lesson

WERE the Normans French (Letters)? Well, they spoke French, not Norse, and every English king spoke French for 300 years after the invasion.

Fighting talk

MICHAEL LYNCHEHAUN, Wallasey, Wirral

YOUR photos of a phalanx of men of fighting age wearing military balaclavas lined up in formation outside the Daily Mail's offices reminded me of the Battle of Cable Street, soon to have its 90th anniversary.

The Daily Mail should resist all attempts to intimidate the freedom of the press.

Name and address supplied

Post to be proud of

IN THE context of criticism of Royal Mail: an anonymous reader sent me a note thanking me for reminding them of their mother in a letter about the phrase ‘san fairy ann’. The only address the reader had was: ‘Les Beckett, Llangattock, Powys’. This was safely delivered this morning.

LES BECKETT, Llangattock, Powys

A few years ago, in an amateur production of Billy Liar (set in the era of rotary dial phones), a younger cast member was required to 'make a phone call' using an instrument from the period.

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Should RNLI crews pick up migrants?

THE RNLI should not be involved in assisting illegal immigrants in boats. They save many lives of people who genuinely are at risk. Illegal migrants are the responsibility of the Home Office and therefore the Government, not of a charity funded by donations from the public.

J. STEPHENS, Alton, Hants IN A BBC documentary on a lifeboat rescue, the reporter asked a crew member: 'Why do you put your own life at risk doing this work?' The lifeboatman replied: 'The sea does not discriminate.' It is a voluntary job paid for by ordinary people like me who have lived by the sea. These volunteers

do a sterling job and should be thanked, not denigrated by people with no comprehension of the sea and its might.

JOAN MOORE, South Molton, Devon

WHILE I don't agree with lifeboats being used as a taxi service to deliver illegal immigrants to this country, I don't believe demonstrators should target the unpaid crews.

COLIN COPCUTT, Towersey, Oxon I FULLY support the RNLI picking up ‘small boat’ occupants – as long as they are returned to their embarkation points.

Name and address supplied AREN'T the RNLI breaking the law by bringing illegal migrants to shore? Surely they are aiding and abetting criminal acts?

TERENCE PAVEY, Potters Bar, Herts HOW are migrant rescues funded? The RNLI operates on instructions from HM Coastguard and so, in effect, on government instructions. Does the Government pay, or are they funded from RNLI donations? TED FLINTOFF, West Hallam, Derbys

THE RNLI is a wonderful organisation but it should not be involved in ‘rescuing’ illegal immigrants coming here on boats, big or small. That’s why the Border Force is there.

KEITH RAWKINS, Sittingbourne, Kent

Straight to the POINT

■ NOW that we’ve seen the results of Channel 4’s investigation into Reform’s finances, when can we expect to see its investigations into all the other political parties’ finances?

MARK SAUNDERS, Lake, Isle of Wight ■ I SEE the Blackshirts are back, albeit too cowardly to show their faces.

J. RICHARDS, Birmingham ■ THE meaning behind the balaclava-wearing protesters is that they are ‘nobody’ representing ‘everybody’.

JIM CLOUGH, Bolton, Lancs ■ WHY all the talk about Andy Burnham's eyelashes? It is his eyebrows which are prominent.

NORMAN MOORE, Newcastle upon Tyne ■ WHENEVER I see Andy Burnham in the papers, he is always out running. I thought we paid him to run our country, not a marathon! TONY MEE, Melton Mowbray, Leics

■ SADLY the only one at No10 who appears to know what they are doing now is Larry the Cat! KAY WAKEFIELD-COLE, Ascot, Berks

■ WHEN Dolly Parton was asked if she'd ever run for the Senate, she replied: 'No, they have enough boobs there already.'

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Joy and pain of winning

The fallen: Arsenal's Steve Morrow and, inset, Jordan Henderson

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

QUESTION What are the worst

injuries to footballers caused by goal celebrations?

THE standard knee-slide goal celebration often results in injuries, one of the most famous being to Ole Gunnar Solskjaer who injured his medial knee ligament mid-slide after scoring in 1999. But as it was the winner in the 93rd minute of the Champions League final against Bayern Munich, he forgave himself saying 'I missed a couple of internationals for Norway but the celebration was worth it.'

Other celebrations have proved more costly. When Argentinian striker Martin Palermo, known as 'El Loco' (The Madman), scored an extra-time goal for Villareal in a key cup game, he jumped on to a pitch-side wall to celebrate with the crowd. However, the wall collapsed, crushing his leg and breaking both his tibia and fibula. Worse still, he then had to miss the 2002 World Cup as a result.

Arsenal defender Steve Morrow went from ecstasy to agony after scoring his first ever goal for the Gunners in the 1993 League Cup final victory over Sheffield Wednesday. In the post-match pitch parade, captain Tony Adams stuck him on his shoulders, only to drop him onto the turf, resulting in a badly broken arm, an injury that kept him out of that season's FA Cup final.

Even more catastrophic than a bone-jarring knee-slide is the poorly executed acrobatic flip, a prime exponent being Portsmouth striker Tresor Lomana LuaLua who pulled off a triple somersault with pike after equalising against Arsenal, only to roll his ankle and miss the entire rest of the season.

Off-pitch celebrations are somehow even more impressive, and none more so than England substitute Jordan Henderson at the Azteca Stadium in Mexico City at this summer's World Cup where he slipped on an advertising hoarding fracturing his left forearm and wrist and had to be stretched off.

More embarrassing still, plenty of managers have got carried away in the aftermath of a crucial goal and ended up in the treatment room. Former Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp pulled a hamstring celebrating a last-gasp victory against Tottenham at Anfield in 2023.

One who really should have known

QUESTIONS

Q: How are seashells formed and why do they come in so many different shapes and colours?

Pat Reynolds, Leamington Spa Warwickshire Q: What is the purpose and origin of a waistcoat, worn under a man's suit jacket? Sue Webb, Maidstone, Kent better was England head physio Gary Lewin who injured himself celebrating a Daniel Sturridge equaliser against Italy at the 2014 World Cup. Having leaped out of his seat, he landed awkwardly on a rogue water bottle, dislocated his ankle and had to be stretched off with his foot in a boot.

Perhaps the most severe post-goal injury though came in a Swiss Super League game when Servette FC's Paulo Diogo celebrated assisting a late goal in a 4-1 win over FC Schaffhausen in 2004. The midfielder jumped onto the metal perimeter barrier to celebrate with fans but caught his wedding ring on the fence as he jumped back down to the pitch. The jammed ring tore off the top of his finger and, although retrieved by a steward, surgeons were unable to sew it back on and had to amputate instead. To add insult to injury, he was also booked for his bloody celebration.

Števe Mitchell, Hertford

QUESTION Is Downing Street a through road with other residents apart from numbers 10 and 11 that we recognise?

DOWNING Street is not a through road, but a short cul-de-sac just off Whitehall in Westminster, London, and there are no longer any private residents living there.

In addition to No10 (Prime Minister's official residence upstairs and offices downstairs) and No11 (Chancellor of the Exchequer's official residence), there is No12 which is traditionally associated with the Chief Whip.

Historically, the street was lined with private townhouses, but over time these were all absorbed into government use, with some buildings (numbers 1 to 8) demolished in the 19th century to make way for larger government offices and press rooms, including parts of the Cabinet Office and what is now the Foreign Office complex.

Since 1982, Downing Street has been closed off by security gates and is essentially a secure government enclave, shut off from the general public and guarded continuously by armed police.

The 220 yards that comprise the length of the street are still, in theory at least, and according to the 1980 Public Highways Act, a public right of way. But in practice access is restricted to those with official or press passes.

Insisting on your rights as a member of the British public will not gain you access to the street, but there is an annual public ballot as part of the Open House Festival that offers a highly secure, formal guided tour every September.

Caroline Giles, Peterborough

QUESTION Why is it that RAF commissioned officers wear the same rank badges as the Royal Navy, while other ranks wear the rank badges of the Army? THE short answer is that the Royal Air Force was created in 1918 by merging two very different organisations: The Royal Flying Corps (RFC), which belonged to the Army, and The Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS), belonging to the Navy. As a result, the RAF inherited traditions from both services, and its rank system became a compromise.

A. Docherty, Richmond, N. Yorks

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TODAY'S RECIPE: Hot smoked salmon niçoise traybake

Punchy and high in protein. Serves 4 Ingredients

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200g green beans, trimmed and cut into 3cm pieces

200g cherry tomatoes, halved

150g pitted Kalamata olives

4 hot smoked salmon fillets (about 320g total)

For the dressing: 1 garlic clove, crushed

1 tbsp Dijon mustard 2 tbsp red wine vinegar 4 tbsp olive oil

Method

1 Heat the oven to 200C/fan 180C/gas 6. Toss the potatoes with $\frac{1}{2}$ tbsp oil and plenty of seasoning in a large roasting tin, then roast for 20 mins, or until the skin of the potatoes has started to crisp.

2 Add the green beans, cherry tomatoes and olives to the tray, then lay the salmon fillets on top. Drizzle over the remaining $\frac{1}{2}$ tbsp oil and roast for 15 mins, or until the fish is piping hot and the beans and potatoes are tender.

3 Meanwhile, cook the eggs in a saucepan of simmering water for 7 mins for fudgy yolks, or 9 mins for hard-boiled. Drain and transfer to a bowl of iced water.

4 To make the dressing, whisk all the ingredients together in a bowl with plenty of seasoning.
5 Once the eggs are cool enough to handle, peel and halve them. Lightly flake the salmon over the potatoes and arrange the eggs on top, then drizzle over the dressing and finish with a grinding of black pepper to taste.

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Stop battering Middle England, Jigsaw chief urges Burnham

Plea: David Ross with his ex-partner Shelley Ross

By Jane Denton

THE owner of Jigsaw has urged the Prime Minister to ‘stop hammering Middle England’ as tax hikes hit spending.

David Ross, who bought the upmarket fashion retailer in 2018, called on Andy Burnham to give businesses and their staff a 'fair deal', adding: 'Give us a chance, Andy.'

He said: 'The system is currently stacked against retailers and our customers. We will see whether Andy Burnham is genuine about reviving the High Street.'

The entrepreneur, who co-founded Carphone Warehouse, also said the Government should ‘stop hammering Middle England’.

‘Our customer works, pays her taxes and has watched frozen thresholds and higher bills eat her pay rise,’ he added.

‘Very often she’s also the person behind the till. Squeeze her and you squeeze the shop, the jobs and the tax take together. Leave working households' take-home pay alone.'

Businesses have been hit by higher taxes and soaring costs while workers have seen their spending power eroded by frozen income tax thresholds.

Many firms fear the worst is yet to come in next month's Budget, with tax hikes expected to fund extra spending on areas such as welfare and defence.

Ross called on Burnham to reform business rates. He said the threshold for employers' national insurance contributions should be raised to £6,000 and changes to workers' rights should target exploitative practices or contracts rather than flexible jobs.

‘Don’t let new employment rules kill the Saturday job, where millions of us learned the value of hard work,’ Ross said.

Jigsaw claimed its ‘turnaround is working’ after an 18pc increase in sales in the six months to July. Concession sales, where Jigsaw products are sold in department stores and other retailers, jumped 47pc, while online sales increased by 21pc. Managing director Tikki Godley said: ‘This season is further evidence that our turnaround is working.’

Tech stocks fall on AI slowdown alert

Industry bosses at loggerheads with Trump over safety fears

By Hugo Duncan

TECHNOLOGY stocks tumbled across the globe yesterday after AI chiefs called for its development to be slowed amid fears over its threat to humanity.

In a worrying start to the week for investors, the tech-dominated Nasdaq fell more than 1pc in early trading before clawing back some losses, while the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index – which tracks a group of chipmakers – slumped by as much as 6pc.

Among the losers were Arm Holdings, down 10pc, Nvidia, 3pc lower, Advanced Micro Devices, off 4pc, and Micron Technology, which fell 5pc.

BORROWING COSTS SOAR

The rout on Wall Street came after the heads of leading US AI companies – Anthropic boss Dario Amodei, Sam Altman of OpenAI, and SpaceX and Tesla chief Elon Musk – called for a more cautious pace of development of the technology amid mounting fears of the harm it can cause.

Amodei, whose company is behind the Claude tool, warned

UK BORROWING costs hit a 28-year high as investors bet on five interest rate hikes by the end of next year to tame rampant inflation.

The yield on 30-year gilts – a key measure of how much it costs the Government to borrow – jumped above 5.95pc to levels not seen since 1998.

The yield on ten-year US bonds rose above 5pc for the

that a swarm of AI agents may be able to take over the internet in six months to a year unless firms devote more time to system safety protocols.

He argued a slowdown would ‘greatly reduce the risk that something goes seriously wrong’. Altman and Musk agreed, while the former also said he would not proceed with plans to list ChatGPT owner OpenAI on the stock market this year due to safety concerns.

The comments had already triggered heavy selling in Asia overnight, where South Korea's Kospi sank 3.3pc, with chipmakfirst time since 2023. The equivalent UK gilt yield is at a 19-year high above 5.4pc.

Oil also surged towards \$110 a barrel yesterday, fuel-ling fears of a fresh inflation shock this winter as energy bills rise.

Investors are betting on five UK rate increases by the end of 2027, which would take the Bank Rate from 3.75pc to 5pc.

ers SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics down 6.4pc and 4.1pc respectively. In Tokyo, tech investment giant SoftBank plunged 10.7pc, dragging the Nikkei down 0.8pc. The prospect of higher interest rates and a surge in the price of oil above \$109 a barrel also hit sentiment. 'Oil and AI fears are causing a double headache for investors, with bond yields rising again and a loss of momentum on equity markets,' said Russ Mould, investment director at AJ Bell.

The FTSE100 index fared better, rising 0.4pc, or 47.13 points, to 10,697.57, as oil majors BP and

Shell made gains and investors shifting out of AI-related stocks looked to more traditional plays on the UK market.

Software and data stocks – which have been under pressure amid fears they will be the big losers from the AI revolution – bounced back. Sage gained 5.3pc, RELX rose 5.2pc and London Stock Exchange Group added 2.9pc.

Concern about AI has put industry chiefs directly at odds with Donald Trump, who sees the technology as a key economic engine and wants the US to be the global leader ahead of China.

The President claimed there was ‘a sick conspiracy’ against AI in the US and that ‘the only one that is happy about it is China’.

He said: 'Whoever wins AI, wins. We are leading China, and all others, and will continue to do so. Conspiracy theorists, treasonists, traitors and leakers, beware.'

Steve Sosnick, chief market analyst at Interactive Brokers, said: 'If this does lead to sort of a slowdown and a rethink of AI spending, that will have ramifications for the economy and some important sectors of the stock market because, essentially, we've been running hot based on AI spending.'

Disgraced Odey loses appeal over lifetime ban

CRISPIN Odey has lost his bid to overturn a lifetime ban from working in the City after a tribunal rejected his challenge to enforcement action by the financial watchdog.

The hedge fund manager was barred from the industry and fined more than £1.8m by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in March last year for a ‘lack of integrity’.

The FCA took action over Odey's handling of disciplinary processes relating to allegations of sexual misconduct at his company, Odey Asset Management.

After a hearing earlier this year, the Upper Tribunal dismissed his appeal on Thursday. The FCA said a 2021 report identified dozens of allegations of inappropriate conduct by Odey,

67 (pictured), towards female staff between 2003 and 2020.

The FCA also said he was later accused of breach-

ing the terms of a final written warning by sexually harassing a receptionist in 2021.

A green penalty for steel

STEEL is of critical importance to Britain, and Andy Burnham's Government, with a liking for state control, may feel it had little choice but to prop up Speciality Steel UK – once part of Sanjeev Gupta's failed metals empire.

The South Yorkshire-based firm, which makes steel for the aerospace, defence and energy sectors, is vital to UK supply chains.

Labour's commitment to British steel-making is commendable, but Government funds being used to prop up the sector are a huge drain on the Exchequer.

The National Wealth Fund is committed to injecting £2.5bn into steel-making in Britain. Whether this represents value for money for taxpayers is questionable.

The Government's green obsession has seen steel-making at Port Talbot come to a crunching halt and British Steel at Scunthorpe fall into public hands.

It is worrying that Speciality Steel, which already deploys a ‘green’ blast furnace, is at a standstill and has failed to find a private sector buyer.

Global conditions have seen China flood markets with cheap steel. Donald Trump has erected tariff barriers around America's native steel industry. It was hoped that some of the UK's big infrastructure projects, such as HS2 and new nuclear plants at Hinkley in Somerset and Sizewell C in Suffolk, would provide a healthy domestic market for specialist steels.

CITY EDITOR

There are real questions, however, as to whether shuttering traditional coking steel plants, which make virgin steel, and replacing them with greener electric arc furnaces is really the answer.

The implosion in British steel-making can be traced back to 2007 when listed Anglo-Dutch steel-maker Corus was sold to Tata Steel for £6.2bn. As good an investor as Tata has been, it fell out of love with steel-making and its command of the UK industry. Carbon taxes have piled on the agony and hard-earned taxpayer money has been flowing out of Speciality Steel at the rate of £3.5m a month since August last year. Potential buyers have fallen by the wayside, with Norwegian start-up Blastr the latest to call it a day.

Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds says taking the company under the Government's wing will 'keep options open' while Prime Minister Burnham's party engages with workers, industry and investors to determine the future of the company's sites. The reality is that, without entrepreneurial leadership, the future of production looks doomed.

As critical as steel is to the nation's security, one wonders if the National Wealth Fund would be better focusing on tech, pharma and creative industries – where the UK has competitive advantage.

Exchange risk

A GREAT shortcoming of the EU is the triumph of national over Brussels interests in financial services.

The EU has some 17 biggish banks, but none have been able to compete on the global stage with the likes of JPMorgan, Bank of America or Britain's HSBC.

A merger between Europe's two biggest stock markets, Deutsche Boerse and

Euronext, makes sense. It would provide a challenge to the London Stock Exchange where equity trading has been under pressure. Amsterdam, part of Euronext, has shown an ability to attract big initial public offerings such as Universal Music. Deutsche Boerse has cornered some derivatives trading through Eurex.

A combination could provide a market better able to compete with London and, most importantly, New York.

There are doubts as to whether Europe's competition regulators would sanction such a deal. Paris might regard a shift in the centre of European trading towards Frankfurt as unwelcome. It is also unclear whether the EU and Germany have the appetite for the high volumes of derivatives, foreign currency and other riskier trading that have kept the Square Mile ahead of the game since Brexit.

Take care

AS head of financial stability at the IMF, Tobias Adrian consistently warned of risks to global markets. His foreboding has been embraced by JPMorgan in a note cautioning about the risks in private credit, sovereign debt yields and the 'miscalculation' of AI-tech concentration values. These views are aligned with those of JPMorgan's chairman Jamie Dimon.

Healey 'must ditch raid on family firms'

BUSINESS leaders have urged John Healey to reverse his predecessor's devastating inheritance tax raid on family firms.

In a letter to the Chancellor ahead of his first Budget, organisations representing more than 200,000 companies branded the decision to hit enterprises with death duties 'the most damaging measure yet for private and family-owned firms'.

And they warned that previous chancellor Rachel Reeves' assault on the sector is 'undermining investment, jobs and the long-term future of some of Britain's most important companies' – leaving them vulnerable to foreign takeovers.

Reeves sparked outrage in the 2024 Budget when she announced changes to business property relief and agricultural property relief that left family firms and farms facing poten-

By Hugo Duncan

tially devastating inheritance tax bills of 20pc on assets worth more than £1m from April 2026.

Family businesses make up about 90pc of firms in the country and employ 57pc of the total workforce.

The tax raid provoked a fierce backlash, with farmers driving tractors through central London in protest and campaigners warning that more than 200,000 jobs were at risk.

Just before Christmas last year Reeves backtracked, raising the threshold from £1m to £2.5m, or £5m for married couples. However, this still leaves farmers and businesses facing inheritance tax bills, with Healey now under pressure to reverse the tax raid altogether.

Neil Davy, chief executive of Family Business UK, which organised the letter to Healey, said: 'The Chancellor has a

choice in his first Budget: Make it harder for British family businesses to invest, employ and pass their businesses on to the next generation by sticking with his predecessor's reforms; or give them the confidence to get on with building the economy.

‘Family firms are employers, investors and anchors in communities across the country.

'When you put a tax charge on the business itself at the point of succession, you risk forcing owners to do the very thing the Government says it wants to avoid – to sell assets, cut investment and jobs or put the future of the business in someone else's hands.'

The signatories, who also included UK Hospitality, the Country Land and Business Association and Build UK, said Reeves' changes 'have created a significant tax penalty for family ownership'.

HUGO BOSS CHAIRMAN QUITS AS ASHLEY TIGHTENS CONTROL

THE chairman of Hugo Boss has quit as Mike Ashley tightens his grip on the fashion group.

The German company said Stephan Sturm had ‘decided to step down’ after a year in the job following discussions with entrepreneur Ashley’s Frasers Group.

Frasers has raised its stake in Hugo Boss to close to 50pc in recent months as it seeks to take over the company entirely.

The FTSE100 retail giant plans to appoint a second representative to Hugo Boss' board after Sturm's departure.

Sturm, who was elected chairman in May last year, endured months of pressure as Ashley has sought to install his son-in-law, Frasers chief Michael Murray, as Hugo Boss' chief executive. Sturm will stay as chairman until October 15 or until a successor is found.

Frasers shares rose 0.8pc, or 6.5p, to 799p, bringing the year's gains to 17.9pc.

Level playing field needed against Chinese rivals, says Ford

THE European boss of Ford has called for a ‘level playing field’ in the battle against cheap Chinese cars flooding the UK market.

Jim Baumbick suggested policymakers could do more to recognise the value of traditional manufacturers in Britain

From John-Paul Ford Rojas in Madrid

and Europe, which employ thousands of staff, as they face the threat of Chinese rivals.

Without that, he said, the US car giant – which has sites in Europe - would have to ‘do what is necessary’ to remain profitable.

Ford, which boasts more than 5,000 staff in the UK and has been in Britain for more than a century, is among established car-makers being squeezed by the advance of Chinese brands such as BYD. There have been complaints that the competition is unfair because of heavy state subsidies and the ability of Chinese manufacturers to produce cars at much lower cost.

Baumbick, speaking to the Daily Mail at the Madrid Grand

Prix after Ford's return to Formula 1 as part of the Red Bull team, said: 'I think competition breeds excellence. But it needs to be a fair playing ground.

'I think regulators across Europe and in the UK need to create a level playing field.'

Real Estate

Aerospace & Defence
Aston Martin	33 $\frac{1}{8}$	$-\frac{1}{8}$	86	33 $\frac{1}{4}$
BAE Systems	1940	+42	2331	1609 $\frac{1}{2}$
Chemring Gp	529 $\frac{1}{2}$	-2 $\frac{1}{2}$	638	460
QinetiQ	482	+9 $\frac{1}{8}$	571 $\frac{1}{2}$	406
Rolls-Royce	1423 $\frac{1}{4}$ xd-30 $\frac{1}{4}$		1570 $\frac{1}{8}$	1029
Senior	295	+ $\frac{1}{2}$	311	164 $\frac{1}{8}$

Banks
Banco Santander	1092	-10	1106	716
Barclays	4782xd	-154	5308	3574
HSBC Hldgs	15364xd	-154	15978	9644
Lion Finance	13410	-260	13700	7380
Lloyds Banking	1098xd	-14	1178	818
Metro Bank	1768	-64	1824	100
NatWest Group	682xd	-15	7224	5054
Stan Chartered	2299xd	+1	23162	13772
TBC Bank	5100	-85	5185	3640

Beverages
Barr (AG)......590		708	585
Coca-Cola HBC......4644	+150	5170	3306
Diageo......1643	+40	1874	$1362^{1/2}$

Chemicals
Croda Intnal	3148xd	-29	3468	2518
Elementis	1688xd	-3	187 $\frac{1}{4}$	142 $\frac{8}{8}$
Johnson Matt	2218	-18	3199 $\frac{8}{8}$	2193
Victrex	935	-34	1010	539

Construction & Materials
Balfour Beatty	847	-12 $\frac{1}{2}$	926 $\frac{1}{2}$	622
Breedon	318	-9 $\frac{1}{8}$	361 $\frac{1}{4}$	273
Genuit Group	248-xd	-6 $\frac{1}{8}$	389 $\frac{1}{2}$	243 $\frac{1}{4}$
Grafton Gp	946-xd	-7 $\frac{1}{4}$	1050	808 $\frac{1}{8}$
Ibstock	76-xd	-2 $\frac{1}{4}$	142	76 $\frac{1}{4}$
Keller Group	2956	-36	3444	1376
Kier Group	248	+1 $\frac{1}{8}$	261 $\frac{1}{4}$	190 $\frac{1}{8}$
Volution	625	-26	712	562

	52-week		High	Low
Biopharma Credit....72 $\frac{1}{4}$			74 $\frac{1}{4}$	66 $\frac{8}{8}$
BlackRock Smlr....260	-1 $\frac{1}{2}$		354 $\frac{2}{2}$	66 $\frac{8}{8}$
BlkRckWldMining....971	-28		1060	607
BR Greater Eur....576	-12		624	516
Brunner....1542xd	+8		1580	1354
Caledonia Inv....381	-5		400	312
City of London IT....577	+5		597	497
Edin Inv Trust....830	+4		864	760
Edin Wwide....260	+2		290 $\frac{2}{2}$	194 $\frac{8}{8}$
Euro Sml Co....231 $\frac{1}{2}$	-4		246 $\frac{2}{2}$	197
F&C Inv Trust....338 $\frac{8}{8}$	-3 $\frac{8}{8}$		351 $\frac{4}{4}$	82 $\frac{4}{4}$
Fidelity China....243 $\frac{2}{2}$	-4		332 $\frac{2}{2}$	243 $\frac{2}{2}$
Fidelity Emg....1442	-68		1562	914
Fidelity Eur....420	-6		444	372
Fidelity Spec Val....460 $\frac{2}{2}$	-1		476 $\frac{2}{2}$	378
Finsbury G&I Tst....798	+21		873	713
Foresight Env....872xd	+2 $\frac{8}{8}$		91 $\frac{4}{4}$	61 $\frac{8}{8}$
GCP Infra Inv....84	-6		84 $\frac{8}{8}$	70
Global Smaller....1884xd	-4		197 $\frac{4}{4}$	163 $\frac{8}{8}$
Greencoat UK....111 $\frac{8}{8}$	+4		115 $\frac{8}{8}$	92 $\frac{4}{4}$
Harbourvest....3260	-25		3500	2785
Henderson Sml Co....943	-7		997	774
Herald Inv Trust....2865	-20		3260	2305
HG Capital Trust....405	-5		509	323
HICL Infr....1314xd	-1 $\frac{1}{4}$		140 $\frac{8}{8}$	109
ICG Enterprise....1382	-26		1600	1310
Invesco Asia....488	-14		516	394
JPM American....1200xd	-6		1254	1056
JPM Emerging Markets....164 $\frac{8}{8}$	-4 $\frac{8}{8}$		180 $\frac{4}{4}$	126
JPM Euro Disc....617	-10		663	557
JPM Japan IT....802			861	675
Jupiter Fund....160 $\frac{8}{8}$	-1		195 $\frac{4}{4}$	124
Law Debenture....1216			1276	995
M&G....332xd	-6		364 $\frac{8}{8}$	248 $\frac{8}{8}$
Mercantile IT....270	-2 $\frac{2}{2}$		289	237
Merchants Trust....659			688	539
Molten Ventures....662 $\frac{2}{2}$	-12 $\frac{2}{2}$		707	349 $\frac{4}{4}$
Monks Inv Tst....1594xd	-14		1656	1374
Morgan Sindall....4000	-34		5530	3958
Murray Inc Tst....975	+3		1024	873
Murray Intl Tst....366	+1		375 $\frac{2}{2}$	298 $\frac{2}{2}$
Neuberger Private Eqty Partners 1442			-28	1632

Electricity
Drax Gp	791 $^{12}$	-21	918	675
SSE	2312xd	-50	2757 $^{12}$	1660

Electronic & Electrical Equipment
Halma	3432	-202	4878	3272
Morgan Advanced	$238\frac{1}{2}$	-5	255	$187^{\text{®}}$
Oxford Instruments	2610	-150	3302	1782
Renishaw	4900	-230	5455	3150

Equity Investment Instruments
3i Infrastructure....	389	+1	396	326
Aberforth Smlr Cos....	1722	-2	1780	1418
AJ Bell....	586 $^{2}$	+2 $^{2}$	643	414 $^{8}$
Alliance Witan....	1352xd	-1	1390	1188
Allianz Tech....	694	-14	758	478 $^{2}$
Ashoka India....	249 $^{2}$	-1 $^{2}$	285 $^{2}$	217
AVI Global Trust....	259	-2	272 $^{2}$	239 $^{2}$
Baillie Giff Japan....	1080		1088	834
Baillie Giff US....	346	-5	366 $^{2}$	265
Bankers InvTst....	149	-1 $^{8}$	154 $^{8}$	126 $^{8}$
BH Macro....	423 $^{2}$	-2	462 $^{2}$	391

Next Energy Solar....50xd		64 $\frac{1}{4}$	44
Ninety One....207 $\frac{1}{4}$	-3	259 $\frac{1}{8}$	192 $\frac{1}{4}$
Oakley Capital Inv....528	+6	576	442
Pacific Horizon....1082	-38	1252	718
Pantheon Infra....117 $\frac{1}{8}$	-4	119 $\frac{1}{8}$	101
Pantheon Intl....386	-1	407 $\frac{1}{2}$	333 $\frac{1}{2}$
Partners Group....620	+4	942	593
Patria Private....600		642	548
Pershing Square....3772xd	-18	5090	3642
Personal Assets Tr....545xd	+2	557	517
Polar Cap Gl....250 $\frac{1}{2}$	-1 $\frac{1}{2}$	256 $\frac{1}{2}$	203
Polar Cap Tech....634 $\frac{1}{2}$	-19	733 $\frac{1}{2}$	421
Pollen Street....827	-6	964	702
Renewables Infra....762xd		78 $\frac{1}{8}$	63 $\frac{1}{2}$
RIT Cap Partners....2540	-5	2630	1970
Schroder Asia....819	-22	888	635
Schroder Oriental....445 $\frac{1}{2}$	-5	463	313 $\frac{1}{2}$
Scot American Inv....549xd		570	487

TOP RISERS	CLOSING PRICE	DAILY CHANGE
The Sage Group	1008.50	+5.27%
WPP	386.20	+5.20%
RELX	2603.00	+5.17%
GSK	1854.50	+4.74%
Trainline	202.40	+4.65%

	52-week		High	Low
Scottish Mortgage......	1468	-10	1545	1028 $\frac{1}{2}$
Sequoia Econ Infra......	84	-1 $\frac{1}{8}$	87 $\frac{1}{2}$	75 $\frac{1}{4}$
Syncona......	112	- $\frac{1}{8}$	115 $\frac{1}{4}$	86 $\frac{1}{8}$
Templeton Em......	319 $\frac{1}{2}$	-7 $\frac{1}{2}$	350	212
Twentyfour......	108 $\frac{1}{8}$	- $\frac{1}{8}$	114 $\frac{1}{4}$	104 $\frac{1}{8}$
Vietnam Enter......	717	-9	848	684
VinaCapital Vietna......	428	-8	498 $\frac{1}{2}$	414 $\frac{1}{2}$
Wwide Healthcare......	376	+5	399	324

Food Producers

Assoc Brit Foods......	1866	+22 $^{2}$	2315	18
Cranswick......	5090	+70	5690	4840
Greencore......	250 $^{4}$	+2 $^{4}$	306 $^{2}$	192
Hilton Food Gp......	681 $^{2}$	+15	708	456
Premier Foods......	192 $^{4}$	+3	209 $^{4}$	167
Princes Group......	302	- $^{2}$	479	297 $^{2}$
Tate & Lyle......	559	+1	569	329 $^{8}$
Unilever......	4697xd+145 $^{2}$		5472	4078

General Financial
3i Group	2631	-20	4459	2082
Ashmore Gp	209	-34	2664	153 $\frac{1}{2}$
Bridgepoint Group	290 $\frac{1}{8}$	-54	345	222 $\frac{1}{8}$
Capital Gearing	515	-1	530	52 $\frac{1}{4}$
CMC Markets	732	-10	785	206
Coats Group	76 $\frac{1}{2}$	-4	958	748
Cordiant Digital Infrastructure 122 $\frac{1}{4}$	123		-2	126
Foresight Group	467	-5	503	345
Hansa Investment Company 326	336		+6	344
ICG	1870	-33	2332	1463
IG Gp	1345xd	+14	1938	1025
Integrafin	364 $\frac{1}{2}$	-7 $\frac{1}{2}$	399 $\frac{1}{2}$	298 $\frac{1}{2}$
Intl Public Prtnships	1378xd	-18	1448	1174
Investec	653xd	-7 $\frac{1}{2}$	682	518
IP Group	654	-4	728	488
London Stock Ex	8474xd	+236	9992	7170
Man Group	306xd	+1	316	1598
Nth Atlantic Smir	403	+1	433	330
OSB Group	508xd	-5	643 $\frac{1}{2}$	4844
Paragon	773	-3	917	7112
Plus500	3578xd	-14	5070	2950
Quilter	1832xd	-4	2084	1594
Rathbone Grp	1614xd	-12	2265	1582
Ruffer Investment	301	-2	313 $\frac{1}{2}$	287 $\frac{1}{2}$
Schroders	586	+1	589 $\frac{1}{2}$	370
SDCL Efficiency	35 $\frac{1}{2}$		63	32
Seraphim Space	1778	-7	273 $\frac{1}{2}$	664

	52-week		High	Low
Temple Bar	414xd	$+1\frac{1}{2}$	429	346 $\frac{1}{2}$
TP ICAP	328 $^{14}$	$+3\frac{3}{4}$	355	240 $\frac{1}{2}$
XPS Pensions	301	$-\frac{1}{2}$	362	283

Health Care Equipment & Services
Convatec......2178xd	+13	2568	194
Oxford Biomedica......440	-32	913	424
Smith & Neph......10482	+40	14172	10082
Spire Health......246		249	1424

Housebuilders
Barratt Redrow	276 $^{4}$	-9 $^{4}$	409 $^{8}$	241 $^{4}$
Bellway	1951	-30	2868	1715
Berkeley Grp	3222	-62	4434	3104
Crest Nicholson	55 $^{8}$	-1 $^{4}$	175 $^{4}$	55 $^{4}$
Persimmon	1084 $^{2}$	-22 $^{2}$	1543 $^{2}$	998 $^{8}$
Taylor Wimpey	76 $^{4}$	-1 $^{2}$	116 $^{2}$	74 $^{8}$
Vistry Group	263 $^{4}$	-5	736 $^{4}$	224 $^{8}$

Industrial Transportation
Clarkson	4992	+50	5155	3430
Zigup	418 $^{1/2}$	-1	478	304 $^{1/2}$

Industrials
Bodycote	939	-1	956	601
Globaldata	58 $\frac{4}{3}$	-13 $\frac{8}{3}$	150	57 $\frac{8}{3}$
Goodwin	14620	-480	27600	10250
Hill & Smith	2815	-25	3095	2020
IMI	2966xd	-70	3148	2238
Melrose Ind	467xd	-9	681 $\frac{1}{4}$	448 $\frac{4}{4}$
RHI Magnesita	2765xd	-110	3345	1980
Rotork	484xd		491 $\frac{2}{3}$	288 $\frac{3}{3}$
Smiths Gp	2506	-41	2746	2118
Spirax Group	6720	-135	7960	6300
Vesuvius	363xd	-6	503	357 $\frac{4}{4}$
Weir	2600	-122	3546	2274

Leisure Goods

Games Workshop......17600xd	-50	21940	14200
ME Group......120	$-2^{38}$	$194^{38}$	$100^{14}$
Watches of Switz......627 $^{12}$	$-20^{12}$	$801^{12}$	$347^{38}$

Life Insurance
Aberdeen Group	2464xd	$-1\frac{1}{8}$	261	183 $\frac{1}{8}$
Aviva	709xd	$+1\frac{1}{4}$	737	591 $\frac{1}{8}$
Legal & General	290xd	$+2\frac{1}{8}$	316 $\frac{1}{8}$	234
Prudential	9764xd	-2	1220	916
St James Place	11242xd	$-2\frac{1}{2}$	1553	1053 $\frac{1}{2}$
Standard Life	920 $\frac{1}{2}$	$+4\frac{1}{2}$	953	623

TOP FALLERS	CLOSING PRICE	DAILY CHANGE
Globaldata	58.20	-18.72%
Ceres Power	368.60	-9.92%
Halma	3432.00	-5.56%
Oxford Instruments	2610.00	-5.43%
Antofagasta	3586.00	-5.38%

Media
4imprint	4280xd	-72	5000	3055
Autotrader Group	501xd	+118	816	4274
Bloomsbury	624	+3	672	4382
Informa	903xd	+14	9938	7394
ITV	704	-8	854	678
Mony Group	1968	+48	213	1442
Pearson	1191xd	+31	1326	8918
RELX	2603	+128	3557	2013
Rightmove Group	4938	+168	7264	404
WPP	3864	+198	4118	2248

	52-week		High	Low
British Land	390	-9	448 $\frac{1}{4}$	333 $\frac{1}{8}$
Derwent London	1796xd	-40	2146	1509
Grainger	164 $\frac{1}{4}$	-1 $\frac{1}{4}$	199	150 $\frac{1}{8}$
Grt Portland Est	300 $\frac{1}{8}$	-4	374	274 $\frac{1}{2}$
Hammerson	338 $\frac{1}{4}$ xd	-5 $\frac{1}{4}$	385 $\frac{1}{8}$	283
Harworth	176	-8	181	120
Land Securities	617 $\frac{1}{2}$	-13	722	532
LondonMetric Prop	176 $\frac{1}{4}$ xd	-1 $\frac{1}{4}$	215	176
Primary Hlth Prop	91 $\frac{1}{4}$	+8	108 $\frac{1}{4}$	87 $\frac{1}{2}$
Safestore Hldgs	533	-7 $\frac{1}{2}$	837	533
Savills	1008xd	-12	1108	808
SEGRO	930 $\frac{1}{4}$ xd	-2 $\frac{1}{8}$	997 $\frac{1}{8}$	633 $\frac{1}{8}$
Shaftesbury	136 $\frac{1}{4}$ xd	-1 $\frac{1}{4}$	154 $\frac{1}{2}$	126 $\frac{1}{4}$
Sirius Real Estate	91 $\frac{1}{2}$	-1 $\frac{1}{8}$	111 $\frac{1}{8}$	91
Supermarket Inc	81 $\frac{1}{8}$	+2	88 $\frac{1}{8}$	76 $\frac{1}{4}$
Target Healthcare	110		116	92 $\frac{1}{4}$
TR Property IT	287	-3	361 $\frac{1}{2}$	286 $\frac{1}{2}$
Tritax Big Box	144 $\frac{1}{8}$	-1 $\frac{1}{4}$	173 $\frac{1}{4}$	141
Unite Group	473 $\frac{1}{4}$	+1 $\frac{1}{4}$	727 $\frac{1}{2}$	448 $\frac{1}{4}$
Workspace Gp	350	-10	430	319 $\frac{1}{8}$

Retailers

	52-week		High	Low
Bunzl	2582	+16	2870	1989
DCC Energy	6335	+5	6390	4350
Diploma	7065	-50	7700	5015
Essentra	1048	-3	114	798
Experian	2858	+76	3858	2375
Hays	672	+4	768	298
Intertek Gp	5855	+5	5860	3582
Intl Workplace Gp	180xd	-14	2498	1684
Johnson Service Gp	1342	+12	1708	1258
Michael Page	216xd	+44	2484	1038
Mitie Group	209		2104	1368
Rentokil Initial	3304xd	+3	5064	3274
RS Group	7272	-8	758	5412
Serco	2524xd	+48	3244	218
Sthree	298	+10	3032	1378
Travis Perkins	5772	-10	714	5072
W.A.G	1002		106	1002

Mining
Anglo American....3890xd	-100	4306	2518
Antofagasta....3586xd	-204	4455	2271
Endeavour Mining....4492xd	-101	5290	2692
Fresnillo....2912xd	-102	4448	2080
Glencore....591xd	-14 $^{2}$	629	306 $^{4}$
Hochschild Mining....587xd	-25	808 $^{2}$	300 $^{4}$
Pan African Resources...116 $^{4}$	-6 $^{8}$	183 $^{8}$	81
Rio Tinto....7207xd	-167	8308	4572

Technology Hardware & Equipment
discoverIE Gp......758	-32	833	514
GB GROUP...... $154^{3/4}$	$+2^{2/4}$	259	$149^{3/4}$
Raspberry Pi......524	-29	1051	$257^{1/4}$
Spirent Comms...... $198^{3/4}$		$198^{3/4}$	$195^{1/4}$

Nonlife Insurance
Admiral Gp	3836xd	+50	4128	2644
Beazley	1304 $^{2}$	+ $^{2}$	1305	769
Hiscox	1882xd	+9	1899	1302
Lancashire Hldgs	633	+12 $^{2}$	694	565

AO World	90 $\frac{1}{2}$	+4	113 $\frac{1}{4}$	83 $\frac{1}{8}$
ASOS	412 $\frac{1}{2}$		435	206 $\frac{1}{2}$
B&M	231	+6 $\frac{1}{4}$	264 $\frac{1}{8}$	155 $\frac{1}{4}$
Burberry Gp	997 $\frac{1}{8}$	-20 $\frac{1}{8}$	1360	997 $\frac{1}{8}$
Currys	146 $\frac{1}{xxd}$	-1 $\frac{1}{8}$	168 $\frac{1}{4}$	117 $\frac{1}{4}$
Dr. Martens	64 $\frac{1}{xxd}$	-8	99 $\frac{1}{8}$	60 $\frac{1}{4}$
Dunelm Gp	770	+20	1170	715
Fraser Group	799	+6 $\frac{1}{2}$	835	618 $\frac{1}{2}$
Greggs	1742xd	+11	2032	1418
Howden Joinery	736 $\frac{1}{2}$	-7	970	723 $\frac{1}{2}$
Inchcape	803xd	-8	890	640 $\frac{1}{2}$
JD Sports Fashion	76 $\frac{1}{2}$	-1 $\frac{1}{2}$	104 $\frac{1}{2}$	65 $\frac{1}{4}$
Kingfisher	287 $\frac{1}{8}$	-8	370 $\frac{1}{2}$	246
Marks & Spencer	370 $\frac{1}{4}$	-8 $\frac{1}{4}$	410 $\frac{1}{8}$	308 $\frac{1}{8}$
Moonpig	261	+3 $\frac{1}{4}$	293	197
Next	14655	-30	15715	11575
Ocado Gp	206 $\frac{1}{4}$	+3 $\frac{1}{8}$	288 $\frac{1}{4}$	159 $\frac{1}{4}$
Pets at Home Gp	209 $\frac{1}{4}$	+1 $\frac{1}{4}$	228 $\frac{1}{8}$	170 $\frac{1}{8}$
Sainsbury(J)	340 $\frac{1}{4}$	+7 $\frac{1}{8}$	359 $\frac{1}{8}$	295 $\frac{1}{4}$
SSP Group	182 $\frac{1}{2}$	-2 $\frac{1}{4}$	214 $\frac{1}{8}$	138 $\frac{1}{8}$
Tesco	480 $\frac{1}{8}$	+15 $\frac{1}{2}$	501 $\frac{1}{4}$	413 $\frac{1}{4}$
WH Smith	363 $\frac{1}{4}$	-10 $\frac{1}{8}$	710	363 $\frac{1}{4}$
Wickes Group	176 $\frac{1}{8}$	-4 $\frac{1}{4}$	255	170 $\frac{1}{4}$

Telecoms
Airtel Africa	344 $^{1/4}$	$-^{1/4}$	420 $^{1/4}$	221 $^{1/4}$
BT Gp	204 $^{1/4}$	+3 $^{1/4}$	239 $^{1/2}$	174 $^{1/8}$
Gamma Comms	1124	-16	1182	701
Helios Towers	196 $^{2}$ xd	-2 $^{1/4}$	245 $^{1/8}$	138 $^{1/8}$
Telecom Plus	806	+11	1880	710
Vodafone Gp	130 $^{1/8}$	+1 $^{1/8}$	130 $^{1/8}$	84 $^{1/8}$

Br Am Tob	4250	+150	4962	3733
Imperial Brands	2553xd	+63	3341	2443

Oil & Gas Producers

BP	571 $^{4}$ xd	+6 $^{8}$	606 $^{4}$	410 $^{2}$
Energean	791		1026	683 $^{2}$
Harbour Energy	280xd	+7 $^{8}$	318 $^{4}$	185 $^{8}$
Hunting	388 $^{2}$	-11 $^{2}$	531	311
Ithaca Energy	282 $^{8}$ xd	-2 $^{4}$	286	153 $^{4}$
Shell	3582xd	+31	3583 $^{2}$	2562

Oil Equipment & Services

Wood Gp(J)	29 $\frac{3}{8}$		29 $\frac{3}{8}$	18 $\frac{1}{2}$
Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology
AstraZeneca	12154	+446	15542	10956
Genus	2134	-28	3170	1966
GSK	1854 $\frac{1}{2}$ xd +84		2268	1463
Haleon	342 $\frac{1}{2}$ xd +8 $\frac{3}{8}$		410 $\frac{3}{8}$	320 $\frac{3}{8}$
Hikma Pharma	1544xd +13		1851	1191
Oxford Nanopore	154	-2 $\frac{3}{8}$	183	104 $\frac{1}{2}$
Reckitt Benckiser	5120xd +120		6681 $\frac{1}{4}$	4443
Real Estate

Software & Computer Services
Alfa Financial	157 $^{4}$	+1 $^{8}$	245 $^{2}$	142 $^{8}$
Auction Tech	445	+9	483 $^{4}$	263
Baltic Classifieds	2exd	-	332	2 $^{8}$
Bytes Technology	396	+4 $^{8}$	438 $^{8}$	253 $^{8}$
Computacenter	5215	-5	5670	2388
Deliveroo	179 $^{4}$		179 $^{4}$	179 $^{4}$
Kainos Gp	1194	+8	1294	698 $^{2}$
NCC Grp	131xd	+4 $^{4}$	157 $^{4}$	113 $^{4}$
Playtech	415 $^{4}$	+11 $^{4}$	427 $^{8}$	232
Softcat	1859	+2	2112	1091
The Sage Group	1008 $^{2}$	+50 $^{2}$	1175	783 $^{8}$
Trustpilot	261 $^{4}$	+10 $^{8}$	298 $^{4}$	129 $^{4}$

Travel & Leisure
Compass Gp	31 $^{1/8}$	+1 $^{2}$	2637	27 $^{1/8}$
Dominos Pizza	2084xd	+1 $^{1/8}$	220	167 $^{1/4}$
easyJet	666 $^{4}$	-8 $^{-8}$	680	339 $^{4}$
Entain	5014xd	-8 $^{-8}$	905 $^{4}$	500 $^{4}$
FirstGroup	171	+1 $^{1/4}$	225 $^{8}$	158
Hollywood Bowl	247	+1 $^{2}$	307 $^{2}$	234 $^{2}$
Intercontinental Hts	154xd	+1 $^{2}$	10585	128 $^{1/8}$
Intl Cons Airl	409 $^{4}$	-10	488	342 $^{4}$
Mitchells & Butlers	269 $^{2}$	+2	301	228
PPHE Hotel Gp	1526	-4	2060	1302
Trainline	202 $^{8}$	+9	292 $^{4}$	185 $^{1/2}$
Wetherspoon (JD)	782	-1 $^{2}$	854 $^{2}$	555 $^{1/2}$
Whitbread	2327	-20	3274	2234
Wizz Air Hldgs	978	-38	1447	849 $^{2}$

Support Services
Big Yellow Gp....811 $^{1/2}$ -10 1180 807 $^{1/2}$ Babcock Intl....961xd -4 $^{3/8}$ 1502 921 Ex-Dividend Source: The Press Association

Utilities
Centrica	$147^{4}$ xd	$-3\frac{1}{4}$	$218^{1/4}$	$145^{1/8}$
Metlen	47	$-6/8$	$50^{7/8}$	$31^{1/4}$
National Grid	1105	$-25\frac{1}{2}$	1400	$1031\frac{1}{2}$
Pennon	$444^{1/4}$	$-5\frac{1}{4}$	600	$444^{1/4}$
Severn Trent	2916	-14	3280	2503
United Utilities	1320	-4	1457	$914^{1/4}$

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1.53—RACINGTV.COM RESTRICTED NOVICE STAKES (4) (2-Y-0) £10,000 added (£5,400) 5f (8)

101 (8)	1	MUGHEER 20 (D) (G) K R Burke 9-7......C Lee
102 (5)	5	PAPHOS 22 D Carroll 9-6......Z Wheatley
103 (6)	0	RUM POINT 10 D Carroll 9-6......O McSweeney
104 (2)	260	BLAKE'S MONARCH 87 (T) I Furtado 9-3......J Hart
105 (1)	5	CYBERSPACE 12 B Smart 9-3......P Mulrennan
106 (4)	7	REGAL ADVENTURE 158 N Tinkler 9-3......R Scott
107 (7)		MUVE ON T Easterby 9-0......D Allan
108 (3)	00	MALULEE 10 M Dods 8-9......M Winn

Probable SP: 11-10 Blake's Monarch, 6-4 Mugheer, 8 Paphos, 10 Cyberspace. FAVOURITES: -2 0 0 3 1 3 3 3 1

2025: Schrodinger's Cat 2 9 7 (Callum Rodriguez) 5-4 Fav Harry Charlton drawn (7) 8 ran.

2 22-WATCH RACINGTV FREE FOR 31 DAYS SELLING STAKES (4)

201 (2) 631183 LADY DUBLIN 14 (P) (D2) (G) O Pears 9-9.... H Russell 202 (4) 313464 FERN CLYDE 3 (HT) (D) T Easterby 9-5.... D Allan 203 (3) 19000 NIEWIADOMA 26 (B) A Watson 9-5.... P-L Jamin 204 (8) 65431L ROMAN CRYSTAL 14 (D) M & D Easterby 9-5.... B Garritty 205 (1) 972223 BIGALO 24 (BF3) Roger Fell 9-4.... K Stott 206 (5) 2343 MAXIMUS MERIDIUS 17 D Loughnane 9-4.... R Scott 207 (7) 5236 ROCK STEADY BEAT 41 (BF) K R Burke 9-4.... C Lee 208 (6) DIGRESSER N Tinkler 8-13.... A Jary (3)

Probable SP: 3 Rock Steady Beat, 4 Niewiadoma, 5 Lady Dublin, Maximus Meridius, 6 Bigalo, 8 Fern Clyde, 10 Roman Crystal.

2025: Mossvale Diva 2 9 5 (Ben Robinson) 11-10 Fav B Ellison drawn (5) 10 ran.

252—MARSKE FABRICATION AND ENGINEERING STRAIGHT MILE

301 (1) 452440 HARSWELL RUBY 32 (D2) (G) Roger Fell 4-10-0....K Stott 302 (9) 6L7307 BOWOOD 13 (D5) (G) I Furtado 6-10-0.....Elle-May Croot (5) 303 (7) 6L4414 COSMOS RAJ 14 (P) (CD9) (GS) D O'Meara 8-9-10.....D Tudhope 304 (8) 271L HENRY HALFLIGHT 163 L Bailey 3-9-9.....B Garritty 305 (11) 152716 EPHRON 27 (C&DD) (G) G Tutty 3-9-9.....C Beasley 306 (10) 240256 SHADOW RUN 17 S Dixon 3-9-8.....C Howarth (3) 307 (2) 445 BLUE BOY JUNIOR 30 D & N Barron 3-9-8.....D Nolan 308 (12) 595552 LAW OF DESIGN 15 (V) (S) I Williams 4-9-8.....P Mulrennan 309 (4) 512946 MOUNT KING 17 (BT) (D5) (G) T Easterby 6-9-7.....D Allan 310 (6) 112L66 LEGACY ROCK 15 (PT) (D2) (G) Dr R Newland 3-9-6.....C Lee 311 (5) 611127 PISANELLO 6 (V) (C&DCD5) (GS) D O'Meara 9-9-5.....M Winn 312 (13) 584344 JUST TYPICAL 15 (PT) (C&DD4BF3) I Williams 5-9-4.....J Hart 313 (3) L5427L VIVIANA 13 C Johnston 3-9-1.....J Mitchell

Probable SP: 4 Law Of Design, 11-2 Just Typical, 7 Mount King, 8 Pisanello, Cosmos Raj, Blue Boy Junior, Legacy Rock, 12 Harswell Ruby, Ephron. FAVOURITES: - - - - - - - 0 (W 9-7). AGES: - - - - - - - 4 2025: Just Typical 4 9 7 (Luke Morris) 18-1 J Williams drawn (12) 11 ran

3.23—START YOUR RACINGTV FREE TRIAL NOW HANDICAP (4) £10,000 added (£5.234) 5f 217vds (15)

401 (14) 523641 PAPA COCKTAIL 12 (D7) (G) M Herrington 7-10-2.... J Mitchell 402 (11) L5513L SIXTYGEESBABY 2 (TV) (D3) (G) D O'Meara 4-10-2.... M Winn 403 (13) 116828 SIR GARFIELD 25 (B) (D4BF2) (GS) J & S Quinn 5-10-0.... J Hart 404 (9) 1-24173 MAGIC BOY 31 (CDBF2) (G) N Tinkler 4-9-12.... A Jary (3) 405 (7) 6150LL REIGNING PROFIT 14 (GS) R Carr 7-9-11.... JP Sullivan 406 (6) 1-L2142 RETURN OF THE GODS 32 (DBF2) (G) E Bethell 3-9-11.... Oisin Orr 407 (4) 11-4822 STRAIGHT AHEAD 34 Craig Lidster 3-9-10.... T Eaves 408 (12) 000460 GRANT WOOD 11 (D5) (G) P Midgley 7-9-9.... D Nolan 409 (2) 21L412 COME ON OVER 12 (V) (C&DD) (G) D O'Meara 3-9-7.... D Tudhope 410 (8) 546073 ANAISA 10 (T) (D) T Easterby 3-9-7.... D Allan 411 (10) 1111L YORKSHIRE GLORY 147 (D9BF) B Haslam 5-9-7.... A Mullen 412 (15) 637074 ZARVALI 19 (P) Roger Fell 3-9-6.... K Stott 413 (1) 511L77 HOVER ON THE WIND 24 (D2) (G) P Midgley 6-9-5.... B McHugh 414 (5) 330224 SPIRIT OF APPLAUSE 14 (B) (D2) (G) T Easterby 6-9-3S B Kirrane 415 (3) 751075 SUGAR BABY 24 (C&DCD2) (G) P Niven 8-9-3.... P Mulrennan Probable SP: 11-2 Magic Boy, 13-2 Come On Over, 7 Straight Ahead.

Sixtygeesbaby, 8 Return Of The Gods, Anaisa, 10 Papa Cocktail. FAVOURITES: 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 2 1 0 (W 9-5). AGES: 5 4 4 7 3 4 4 3 3 6 2025: May Blossom 6 9 5 (David Allan) 11-1 J Camacho drawn (13) 14 ran.

TRACK FACTS: JACKPOT MEETING. L-H course. GOING:

Good-good to firm in places. STALLS: Straight centre; round inside. DRAW ADVANTAGE: Low 1m 2f. Top jockey: Jason Hart. Top trainer: T Easterby. Placed in the race last year: 2.53 Just Typical (1st); 3.23 Papa Cocktail (3rd); 3.53 Obito (2nd). Longest traveller: Niewiadoma (2.23) 252 miles. Headgear first time: 1.53 Blake's Monarch, 2.53 Legacy Rock, 4.54 Hurt You Never, Midnight Lir, Muker, Under The Radar.

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2.17—SSP SIGNS & GRAPHICS HANDICAP (5) (3-Y-0) £8,400 added (£4,397) 7f 3yds (11)

1 (10) 533153 TOASTMASTER 52 (D) (G) M Herrington 9-9.... K Shoemark 2 (1) 58761L WETSAND 45 (V) (D2) (G) James Owen 9-9.... L Morris 3 (11) 2125-48 MAGIC BOX 103 (D2) (S) W Haggas 9-7.... T Marquand 4 (4) 1-3LL MILLION GOLD 15 M Appleby 9-7.... R Havlin 5 (9) 62-9L16 SPLASH 25 (C&D) (G) D Ivory 9-7.... David Egan 6 (3) 102-465 PISCEAN STAR 12 (D) E Dunlop 9-6.... S Osborne 7 (5) 2-214 ARCHER'S GRACE 115 (D) J Fanshawe 9-6.... D Muscutt 8 (2) 736323 GALBA 38 K Frost 9-6.... Rossa Ryan 9 (6) 52L166 PERCY'S STAR 28 (B) C Dwyer 9-6.... S De Sousa 10 (7) 3-L5514 BERLINETTA 31 (G) J Channon 9-1.... B Loughnane 11 (8) 491L6 NAME THE DAY 28 (T) (D) G E J-Houghton 9-1.... NON RUNNER Probable SP: 3 Archer's Grace, 4 Toastmaster, 9-2 Wetsand, 8 Berlinetta, 10 Piscean Star, Magic Box, 12 Galba, 14 Splash, Percy's Star, 16 Million Gold. FAVOURITES: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

1	(1)	6	AMBIENCE 122 (T) K P De Foy 9-2....	David Egan
2	(9)	77	APPASSIONATA 14 Sir M Prescott 9-2....	L Morris
3	(10)	L	BLUE CORN 54 A Balding 9-2....	C Hutchinson
4	(11)		BUYBACK James Horton 9-2....	Rossa Ryan
5	(6)		CHASING DAYLIGHT D M Simcock 9-2....	C Rodriguez
6	(5)		IZABEL J Fanshawe 9-2....	D Muscutt
7	(8)		SEA LA ROMA W Haggas 9-2....	T Marquand
8	(7)		SPEAKING TREE E Walker 9-2....	K Shoemark
9	(4)	3	WATCH PARTY 38 (BF) R Varian 9-2....	R Dawson
10	(3)	9	WINTOUR 106 C Cox 9-2....	H Crouch
11	(2)		YOU'RE SENSATIONAL J & T Gosden 9-2....	R Havlin

Probable SP: 11-4 Sea La Roma, 7-2 Watch Party, 4 You're Sensational, 6 Speaking Tree, 10 Ambience, 14 Chasing Daylight, Izabel, 16 Buyback. FAVOURITES & 2025: No corresponding race.

3.17—BRITISH EBF NOVICE STAKES (2) (2-Y-0) £40,000 added (£21,600) 6f 3yds (7)

1	(4)		BAD DREAMS R Spencer 9-7....S Osborne
2	(2)		CATURRA ROCK E Dunlop 9-7....H Crouch
3	(3)	52	CHANNEL ISLANDS 19 P Evans 9-7....Rossa Ryan
4	(5)	3	FLICK OF AN EYE 20 S & E Crisford 9-7....S De Sousa
5	(1)	32	I AM ROYAL 13 R Hughes 9-7....B Loughnane
6	(7)		IF YOU LIKE (T) W Haggas 9-7....T Marquand
7	(6)	L	SCENIC BLUE 17 D Cunha 9-7....NON RUNNER
Probable SP: 13-8 Flick Of An Eye, 31 Am Royal, 4 Channel Islands, 6 If You

Probable SP: 13-8 Flick Of Air Eye, STAm Royal, 4 Channel Islands, 6 in 10 Like, 8 Bad Dreams, 20 Caturra Rock. FAVOURITES: -1 2 1 0 2 2 3 1 1 2025: Division 2 9 11 (James Doyle) 2-7 Fav W Haggas drawn (3) 8 ran.

3.47 - 'GRC 30' ANNIVERSARY OF YARMOUTH' NURSERY (5) (2-Y-0) £8,400 added (£4,397) 7f 3vds (11)

1	(5)	946	ASGAR 13 C Cox 9-9	H Crouch
2	(10)	0100	AGITATOR 47 (B) (G) Oliver Cole 9-8	T Marquand
3	(6)	4240	ROCKET BOOTS 47 James Owen 9-7	L Morris
4	(2)	422	REGAL TIGER 57 (BF) H Palmer 9-7	NON RUNNER
5	(11)	41	JAVELOT 28 (D) M Botti 9-6	S De Sousa
6	(1)	5924	KING OF MONTENEGRO 64 B Meehan 9-4	David Egan
7	(7)	017	INDIAN LAND 75 R Beckett 9-3	Rossa Ryan
8	(8)	02647	GREEN TITAN 12 G Boughey 9-2	B Loughnane
9	(3)	67LL	KIGALI 40 Ollie Sangster 9-1	James Doyle
10	(4)	9556	LILYWHITE HART 20 D Ivory 9-1	J F Egan
11	(9)	44	MANDOLIN RAIN 26 D Cunha 9-0	S Osborne

Probable SP: 9-4 Javelot, 11-2 Asgar, 10 Indian Land, 12 King of Montenegro, Kigali, Green Titan, 14 Mandolin Rain, 16 Rocket Boots. FAVOURITES: - - - 2 1 1 1 2 2 1 (W 9-5).

2025: Up The Agenda 2 9 5 (Tom Marquand) 3-1 Fav Jack Morland drawn (1) 8 ran.

ROBIN GOODFELLOW

GIMCRACK

1.53	Blake's Monarch	1.53	Mugheer
2.23	Rock Steady Beat	2.23	Bigalo
2.53	Harswell Ruby	2.53	Cosmos Raj
3.23	Come On Over	3.23	Return Of The Gods (nb)
3.53	Obito	3.53	SUPPLICATE (nap)
4.23	All Good	4.23	All Good
4.54	Golden Havana	4.54	Houndhill

NORTHERNER – 4.23 STARTLING (nap); 4.54 Cheerleader (nb).

3.53—MARKET CROSS JEWELLERS HANDICAP (4) £10,000 added (£5,234) 1m 2f 1yds (7)

501 (2) 825513 OBITO 16 (H) (D2) (S) D O'Meara 4-10-3....D Tudhope 502 (3) 51-111 SUPPLICATE 33 (D3) (G) R Varian 3-9-12....J Mitchell 503 (7) 823412 POL ROGER 12 (P) (D3) (GS) M Dods 6-9-8....C Beasley 504 (5) 534341 MAGICAL MERLOT 20 (D) (G) E Dunlop 3-9-3....J Hart 505 (6) 643 LEAGUE OF JUSTICE 10 G Tutty 3-9-0....J Dickson (5) 506 (4) 2244L7 PANELLI 16 (T) M Sowersby 4-8-11....A Mullen 507 (1) 23-5938 ENAMORUS 48 (P) H Palmer 3-8-8....J Nicholls (3)

Probable SP: 6-4 Supplicate, 7-2 Obito, 4 Pol Roger, 5 Magical Merlot, 10

FAVOURITES: - - - - - 0 1 1 0 (W 9-12). AGES: - - - - - 4 3 3 4 2025: Deber's Dream 4 0 6 (William Ryle) 13 3. J Candlich drawn (6) 7 ran

2025: Debora's Dream 4 9 6 (William Pyle) 13-2 J Candlish drawn (6) 7 ran.

4.23-TRY RACINGTV FREE NOW AT RACINGTV.COM/FREEITF FILLIES' HANDICAP (5) £7,000 added (£3,664) 5f (7)

601 (5) 87-1 ALL GOOD 43 J Camacho 3-9-10....T Kiely-Marshall (5) 602 (2) 528225 CANARIA QUEEN 15 (P) (D8) (GS) T Easterby 6-9-8....D Fentiman 603 (1) 315130 SEA HER EXCEL 10 (D2) (G) I Furtado 3-9-7....Elle-May Croot (5) 604 (3) 161405 DRAGON SPIN 24 (D2) Steph Hollinshead 3-9-7....C Lee 605 (4) 224221 STARTLING 12 (B) (D5) J Wainwright 4-9-7....J Hart 606 (7) 654276 MARAJITO 15 (C&DD) (G) T Easterby 4-9-6....D Allan 607 (6) 423148 DORALEE 3 (C&D2) (G) D & N Barron 5-8-9....R Scott

1 (4) 25-011L KING OF THE JUNGLE 25 (D5) (GS) M & D Easterby 6-9-11

2 (2) 332225 GOLDEN HAVANA 46 (V) (DBF) M Dods 3-9-11.....C Beasley 3 (1) 623468 BETWEENSTESTICKS 15 (P) (D10) (GS) R Carr 6-9-10.JP Sullivan 4 (6) 10L814 HOUNDHILL 38 (V) (D2) N Tinkler 3-9-10.....R Scott 5 (14) 2-07752 SPEEDING BULLET 12 (S) P Midgley 5-9-9.....D Nolan 6 (8) 64008L MUKER 12 (T) (C&D2D6) (GS) N Tinkler 8-9-9...Molly Keegan-Price (7) 7 (10) 4-64608 ICE COLD ALEX 16 (P) (D) O Pears 3-9-9.....H Russell 8 (11) 36L373 DC COGENT 12 (DBF) B Smart 4-9-8.....P Mulrennan 9 (9) 669335 UNDER THE RADAR 34 (P) (D) T Easterby 3-9-6.....D Allan 10 (7) 5592L6 HURT YOU NEVER 12 (P) (CD7) (G) Adrian Nicholls 7-9-5. J Nicholls (3) 11 (3) 726512 ALBEGONE 6 (P) (D10) (S) T Easterby 8-9-5.....J Dickson (5) 12 (13) 344489 MIDNIGHT LIR 6 (PT) (D2) (GS) M Dods 5-9-4.....M Winn 13 (12) 208313 ZUFFOLO 21 (B) (C&D2D5) (G) M Dods 6-9-3.....S B Kirrane 14 (5) 2L-9433 CHEERLEADER 29 (C&DD) (GS) Miss T Jackson 4-9-1.....A Mullen

FAVOURITES: - - - - - - 0 1 0 (W 9-11). AGES: - - - - - - 4 4 3 2025: Money Pockets 3 9 10 (Oisin Orr) 7-1 Martin Dunne drawn (10) 13 ran.

Drop in Class: 1.53 Rum Point is down 2 grades on last run (Class 2 to Class 4); Blake's Monarch (5); Malulee (2); 2.23 Niewiadoma (2); 2.53 Law Of Design (3). First run since wind surgery: 1.53 Blake's Monarch.

HOTSPOTS

WORK WHISPER EAGLE DAY

CAPTAIN HEATH TRIO ZIGHY (nap) (Yarmouth, 4.47) WATCH PARTY (nb) (Yarmouth, 2.47) MAGIC BOY (Redcar, 3.23)

MUKER (Redcar, 4.54) Down 21lb from last winning mark.

BURNT FINGERS LIL BROTHER (Yarmouth, 5.18)

ROBIN GOODFELLOW

GIMCRACK

2.17	Archer's Grace	2.17	Magic Box
2.47	Watch Party	2.47	Watch Party
3.17	I Am Royal	3.17	Flick Of An Eye
3.47	Asgar	3.47	Asgar
4.17	Due To Henry	4.17	Hamlet's Night
4.47	Gold Digger	4.47	Zighy
5.18	Creative Queen	5.18	Lil Brother

NEWMARKET - 3.47 JAVELOT (nap); 5.18 Diomed Duke (nb).

4.17—THURLOW NUNN STANDEN GROUNDCARE HANDICAP (4) £10,800 added (£5,653) 1m 2f 23yds (8)

1 (1) L14-L50 PRINCESS RASCAL 20 (P) (D2) (G) Oliver Cole 4-9-9.....R Dawson 2 (4) L-6345 PERCIVAL 22 (D) (S) D Cunha 4-9-9.....James Doyle 3 (5) L764-13 HAMLET'S NIGHT J129 (P) (BF) James Owen 5-9-9.....L Morris 4 (7) 993430 MYTHICAL GUEST 11 (C&D) (G) G Margarson 6-9-7..C Shepherd 5 (2) 5-2618L KOKANEE 24 (D2) (S) E Dunlop 4-9-7.....S Osborne 6 (8) 00-2535 DUE TO HENRY 16 (P) (D2) (S) E J-Houghton 5-9-5.....T Marquand 7 (3) 703471 ECHALAR 31 (H) (D) (G) I Williams 4-9-5.....B Loughnane 8 (6) LL77-57 ARTHUR'S REALM 15 (V) (D) (S) Gihan Arnolda 8-9-3.....D Keenan Probable SP: 7-4 Hamlet's Night, 5-2 Echalar, 8 Mythical Guest, Due To

1 (8) 42-28L0 BELLA LYRA 26 (P) (D) R Hughes 3-9-12......David Egan 2 (9) 16-1960 GOLD DIGGER 49 (PT) (Cⅅ) (G) R Spencer 3-9-11....S Osborne 3 (2) 51-L120 CHERRY BAKER 88 (D2) James Owen 3-9-10......L Morris 4 (4) 2211L MISS NIGHTCAP 30 (D) (G) E Smyth-Osbourne 3-9-10 James Doyle 5 (1) 3777L2 LADY ROXBY 10 (G) M Herrington 4-9-4......Rossa Ryan 6 (7) 17-1095 PASSING THOUGHT 10 (B) (D) (GS) E Walker 3-9-4......K Shoemark 7 (6) L23L21 SPACE BEAR 17 (Cⅅ) (GS) M Appleby 3-9-3......T Marquand 8 (10) 601373 POWDERING 10 (D3) (GS) M Herrington 6-9-3......H Crouch 9 (5) 143234 ZIGHTY 10 (P) (D2) G Boughey 3-9-2......B Loughnane 10 (3) 31-7665 TAROT 10 (H) (D) R Varian 3-9-0......R Dawson

Probable SP: 4 Miss Nightcap, 5 Space Bear, 11-2 Gold Digger, 6 Lady Roxby, Cherry Baker, 8 Powdering, 10 Zighy, 14 Tarot, Bella Lyra, 16 Passing Thought

5.18-WINNING EXPERIENCE WITH MOULTON RACING HANDICAP (4) £10,800 added (£5,653) 5f 42vds (7)

1 (5) 552131 DIOMED DUKE 12 (T) (D3) (G) S C Williams 4-9-12 Olivia Haines (7) 2 (2) 2-11020 SEA COOKIE 24 (V) (G) Tom Clover 3-9-12 ..... David Egan 3 (4) 1495-74 LIL BROTHER 17 (T) (D2) (G) Michael Keady 3-9-8 ..... S Osborne 4 (3) 3L6482 TWILIGHT FUN 63 (P) (CD3) (G) C Banham 6-9-6 ..... J Haynes 5 (6) 177326 CREATIVE QUEEN 11 (B) (C) (S) W Haggas 3-9-4 ..... James Doyle 6 (7) 253262 FIORELLA PRINCESS 26 (P) (DBF) (S) R Cowell 4-9-2

7 (1) 5-1 COURAGEOUS SIOUX 73 (D) (G) C Cox 3-9-2......NON RUNNER Probable SP: 7-4 Diomed Duke, 3 Fiorella Princess, 9-2 Twilight Fun, 11-2

Creative Queen, 11 Sea Cookie, 12 Lil Brother. FAVOURITES: -3 3 1 3 0 3 0 2 3 (W 9-5). AGES: -3 3 4 5 4 7 3 4 3 2025: Gold Star Hero 3 9 7 (Hector Crouch) 9-2 M Bell drawn (1) 7 ran.

TRACK FACTS: PRINCIPAL MEETING, L-H course. GOING:

Soft. STALLS: Straight centre; 1m2f inside. DRAW ADVANTAGE: High. Top jockey: Billy Loughnane. Top trainer: W Haggas. Placed in the race last year: 4.47 Lady Roxby (2nd). Headgear first time: 2.17 Percy's Star, 3.17 If You Like, 3.47 Agitator, 4.17 Princess Rascal, 4.47 Bella Lyra, Passing Thought, 5.18 Lil Brother, Sea Cookie. Longest traveller: Channel Islands (3.17) 251 miles. Drop in Class: 3.47 Agitator is down 3 grades on last run (Class 2 to Class 5); Rocket Boots (3); Mandolin Rain (2); 4.17 Mythical Guest (2). First run since wind surgery: 2.47 Ambience.

UTTOXETER SSR

2.00-CONDITIONAL JOCKEYS' HANDICAP HURDLE (4) £7,700 added (£4,066) 2m 7f 70yds (8)

3 277 PIKE ROAD 51 (P) (C&DD) (S) M Keighley 7-11-12..F Keighley 4 1FP CRYSTAL GLANCE 53 (P) (C2) O Greenall & J Guerriero

5 143 HARRY 11 (B) (S) D Pipe 9-11-7....Rian Corcoran (3) 6 533 TORRENT 26 (P) (C) (S) N Hawke 5-11-7....Murray Dodd 7 981 BETTY'S TIARA 27 (BT) (C&DD) B Pauling 8-11-4

8 2P0 CINNODIN 27 (B) (C&D) J Snowden 6-11-2. Isabelle Ryder (3) Probable SP: 11-4 Betty's Tiara, 10-3 Harry, 6 Torrent.

2.30-MAIDEN HURDLE (4) £10,000 added (£5.446) 2m 3f 207vds (10)

1 2P/4- BACK IT UP 309 James Owen 8-11-5 ..... J J Burke 2 568 IFYOU HAVEAPLAN 31 L Allan 5-11-5 ..... J Quinlan 3 23-4 JENTOBELLO 31 (P) I Jardine 6-11-5 ..... B Hughes 4 261# MARTYMILL 37 (P) A McCann (IRE) 5-11-5. James Smith (5) 5 3P-3 TRIGGER THE LIGHT 98 (H) S Bradstock 6-11-5

6 0-52 NIGHTFLYER 19 (P) J & A O'Neill 4-11-2 .... Jonjo O'Neill Jr 7 96# ON THE FLY 21 J & S Best 4-11-2 .... R McLernon

8 SIR VINNIE KENT Christian Williams 4-11-2....J Tudor 9 26F-TIME IN A BOTTLE 311 (HT) D Skelton 6-10-12 ... H Skelton 10 0-LL WHINNY HOUSTON 11 Sheila Lewis 5-10-12. Sean Houlihan Probable SP: 9-4 Martymill, 5-2 Time In A Bottle.

3.00-HANDICAP CHASE (4) £8,900 added

1 246 BLEU D'ENFER 15 (PT) D McCain 8-12-2 Harry Brown (10) 2 L4-F JET OF DREAMS 115 (PT) (D4) (G) W Greatrex 8-11-9...J Bowen 3 21-5 SUPREME GEORGE 115 (D4) (S) D McCain 6-11-8...T Gillard 4 336 DREAM DIAMOND 23 (H) James Owen 6-11-7.... J J Burke 5 122 ICE JET 24 (BF) D Skelton 4-11-1..... H Skelton Probable SP: 5-4 Ice Jet, 5-2 Dream Diamond.

3 30-HANDICAP HURDLE (4) £7,700 added

1 P-85 MAGHLAAK 53 (TV) (S) M Walford 7-12-1.... J Hamilton 2 253 NORMAN FLETCHER 23 (V) (S) N & W Twiston-Davies 7-12-0 S Twiston-Davies

3 336 ROCKSTOWN GIRL 77 (T) (D) (S) A McCann (IRE) 8-11-12 James Smith (5)

4 21/8 VIRTUAL ROCK 17 (T) (C) D Donovan 7-11-1.... J B Powell 5 LP1 TOMMY CULLEN 51 (P) (C&D) M Crawley 8-11-11 J Quinlan 6 4FL- GLANCE OF GLORY 170 (P) (D2) M Keighley 6-11-9. S Bowen 7 P4P ALL INN HAND 23 (BT) M Bowen 6-11-9.... J Bowen 8 B25 OCTOBER HILL 31 (PT) (D) (S) D Pipe 6-11-6 Rian Corcoran (5) 9 221 PHANTOM GOLD 61 (D) T Ellis 8-11-6.... J Andrews 10 0-39 THISCOULDBETHEONE 23 (PT) Henry Oliver 5-11-6. D Noonan 11 8L4 FADED FANTASY 11 (D2) Christian Williams 7-11-3.... J Tudor 12 311 ROYAL RHYTHM 9 (B) (D) (S) J & A O'Neill 10-11-0

Probable SP: 11-4 Phantom Gold, 5 Royal Rhythm.

TRACK FACTS: L-H course. GOING: Good-good to firm in places. Top jockey: Sean Bowen. Top trainer: O Murphy. Placed in the race last year: 4.30 Diesel Line (1st); Northern Rose (2nd). Headgear first time: 2.00 Imperial Data, 4.30 Bowling Shane, 5.05 Gaelic Rambler. Longest travellers: Martymill (2.30) & Rockstown Girl (3.30) Ireland; All Inn Hand (3.30), Axel Bleue (4.00), A Definite Getaway (4.00), Hudson (5.05) 235 miles.

WOLVERHAMPTON SSR

4.28-HANDICAP (6) £6,200 added (£3,245) 6f 20yds (13)

1 (12) 942 TRUST SERGEI 7 (C&DCD) G Hanmer 4-9-7 ....J Peate 2 (7) 233 CANDY WARHOL 23 (PT) (C&DC2) S Dixon 7-9-7. K O'Neil 3 (6) 624 DUE DATE 28 (V) (C&D2D7) C Wallis 6-9-7 ... R Hornby 4 (5) 5L7 HIDDEN VERSE 76 (B) (D) Dr R Newland 4-9-6. G Mangan 5 (9) 266 PAPA DON'T PREACH 13 (B) (C2) K Frost 7-9-6

6 (3) 06-7 NEAPOLITAN 7 (TV) (D) A Brittain 5-9-6.....C Hardie 7 (8) 6L0 MY DAD TOM 33 (P) R Hannon 3-9-5 .....S C Cronin (5) 8 (13) 764 KING CHERRY 19 (T) S C Williams 3-9-5 .....S M Levey 9 (1) LL7 LIEUTENANT SIR 26 (B) (D) A Watson 3-9-5

10 (4) 033 APEX STAR 26 W Knight 3-9-5....M Ghiani 11 (2) 5L0 OASIS COVER 7 (P) M Hammond 3-9-4....A Brookes 12 (11) 457 MISTER MOET 14 (P) (D2) S Dixon 3-9-4....T Heard 13 (10) 804 EM JAY KAY 22 (P) (C&DCD4) P McEntee 7-9-4

Probable SP: 9-4 Candy Warhol, 9-2 Trust Sergei.

4.59—RESTRICTED NOVICE STAKES (DIV 1) (5) (2-Y-0) £8,000 (£4,320) 6f 20yds (12)

1 (8) 1 THAMES WATERMAN 158 (C) R Hughes 9-11 .F Marsh 2 (9) 5 DARJEEL 20 R Hannon 9-4....S M Levey 3 (5) 0 LOWCOUNTRY 25 T Ward 9-4....A Voikhansky 4 (7) 00 WITHOUT FAIL 28 M Bell 9-4....R Hornby 5 (6) 5 CHRISTMAS IS COMIN 25 Mrs S Leech 9-1..Josephine Gordon 6 (4) COSMOCRAT S Dixon 9-1....K O'Neill 7 (10) L7 REDROSECASTANA 20 C Kellett 9-1....G Mangan 8 (1) 7 TARANIS 15 E J-Houghton 9-1....C Bishop 9 (11) AMORANCE James Horton 8-13....NON RUNNER 10 (12) KITTY REY (H) Ollie Sangster 8-13....S D Bowen 11 (2) 4 GHAZALIA 20 H Kobeissi 8-10....C Fallon 12 (3) 5 PICNIC PRINCESS 16 R & P Fahey 8-10....C Hardie Probable SP: 7-4 Thames Waterman. 4 Darjeel

5.30—RESTRICTED NOVICE STAKES (DIV 2) (5) (2-Y-0) £8,000 added (£4,320) 6f 20yds (11) 1 (11) 1 TREDEGAR SQUARE 36 J Fanshawe 9-8.....O Murphy 2 (10) CHAPEL DOWN Adam Kirby 9-4.....C Bishop 3 (1) 5 FIND YOUR FIRE 36 S C Williams 9-4.....M Ghiani 4 (3) MARHABA YA TAYIB R Hughes 9-4.....C Fallon 5 (9) 85 PREMIUM SEAT 20 J S Moore 9-4.....W Cox 6 (5) L ROMEO GUEST 125 J Channon 9-4.....G Bass 7 (4) 4 FALAH GLORY 8 D Cunha 9-1.....Jason Watson 8 (2) L SEADREAMIN 24 R & P Fahey 9-1.....C Hardie 9 (8) 9 SOL DORADO 20 M Tregoning 9-1.....R Hornby 10 (6) BIRKETT BANK C Cox 8-13.....J Leavy 11 (7) LL BLACK TREASURE 8 (H) Ollie Sangster 8-13.S D Bowen Probable SP: Evens Tredegar Square, 5 Birkett Bank.

6 00-NOVICE STAKES (4) £10,000 added

1 (11) L4 BEAUTIFUL RUMOUR 12 S Dixon 4-9-7.....K O'Neill 2 (3) 9L BLAZING GADEN 14 D J Jeffreys 5-9-7.....D Costello 3 (10) LL COILLTEDUDEISBACK 55 Adam Kirby 3-9-5. C Bishop 4 (12) U54 ENNOBLE 13 (T) A Brittain 3-9-5.....C Hardie 5 (2) FLAG OF NATIONS W Muir & C Grassick 3-9-5..L Edmunds 6 (9) 4 IRON DOME 30 C Cox 3-9-5.....C Fallon 7 (7) 52- NOT THAT GUY 326 (T) H Palmer 3-9-5.....O Murphy 8 (4) 45 ODDJOB 30 E Walker 3-9-5.....G Downing 9 (8) SIR CHOPS Steph Hollinshead 3-9-5.....L Catton (3) 10 (5) RED MELODY L Williamson 4-9-2...B Ffrench-Davis (5) 11 (1) L42 DUSK DAMSEL 14 J S Moore 3-9-0Millie Wonnacott (5) 12 (6) INKBERROW S & E Crisford 3-9-0.....H Davies Probable SP: 9-4 Inkberrow, 3 Not That Guy, 11-2 Ennoble.

6 30-SELLING HANDICAP (5) (3-Y-0) £7,600

1 (4) 407 SIOUXPERSONIC 22 J Camacho 9-9....R Sexton 2 (7) 21L ROGUE EXILE 28 (P) (D) James Owen 9-8....H Davies 3 (1) 086 CHALE CHALO 12 (V) (D) T Dascombe 9-8...O Murphy 4 (2) 212 PIAZZA 16 (D) Ollie Sangster 9-7....J Callan 5 (3) 85L HERE I BOW 15 (PT) (D) Oli Rix 9-7....J Peate 6 (5) 3-28 JUSTICE COURT 29 (T) (BF) J Osborne 9-6...W Carver 7 (6) 54L STATION BAR 14 (B) E J-Houghton 8-13....C Bishop Probable SP: 9-4 Justice Court, 5-2 Piazza, 5 Rogue Exile.

TRACK FACTS: L-H Tapeta course. GOING:

STALLS: 7f outside; remainder inside. Top jockey: Kieran O'Neill. Top trainer: M Loughnane. Placed in the race last year: 7.30 Stipulation (1st).

ROBIN GOODFELLOW

GIMCRACK

2.00 Betty's Tiara	2.00 Torrent
2.30 Time In A Bottle	2.30 Nightflyer
3.00 Dream Diamond	3.00 Ice Jet
3.30 Norman Fletcher	3.30 Norman Fletcher
4.00 Axel Bleue	4.00 Mt Fugi Park
4.30 Mi Sueno	4.30 Northern Rose
5.05 Mr Rafiki	5.05 Hudson

4.00-HANDICAP CHASE (3) £11,700 added (£6,179) 3m 10yds (7)

124 GRAND CLERMONT 15 (T) (C&DD) (S) D Pipe 10-12-2 Rian Corcoran (5)

1-P1 MT FUGI PARK 55 (B) (D2) J & A O'Neill 8-11-13..B Macey (5) L1F BAGHEERA GINGE 26 (V) (G) N & W Twiston-Davies 8-11-11 S Twiston-Davies

46L LIGHT N STRIKE 79 (G) E Lavelle 10-11-9 ...... B R Jones 1/L4- A DEFINITE GETAWAY 175 (P) (D2) M Bowen 8-10-11 S Bowen

4 30-HANDICAP HURDLE (5) £6,150 added (£2,248) 1m 76169 yds (16)

2F7 ZUCAYAN 21 (T) (D3) F O'Brien 9-12-0.....N Slatter (3) 44-4 LATIN 90 (H) O Murphy 5-11-13.....S Bowen 526 JET PATROL 10 (T) (D2) (G) James Owen 9-11-11 J J Burke 67P-TIME INTERVAL 149 (T) (D2) D Skelton 8-11-10...H Skelton 9-57 ANNUAL INVITATION 23 Christian Williams 5-11-9...J Tudor 83-F PROMETHEAN 123 (T) S England 5-11-8.....J Quinlan 35-F LADY DAPPLE ROSE 114 B Pauling 5-11-8.

9 FL0 DIESEL LINE 26 (T) (C&D) C & A Pogson 8-11-4..C J Todd
10 880 FINJIMK 45 Nick Scholfield 4-11-3 .... K Woods
11 216 MI SUENO 17 (P) (D2BF) (GS) Nick Scholfield 7-11-0..H Reed
12 8P5 UNCLE REMUS 18 Miss H Knight 5-10-12 ....B J Powell
13 173 NORTHERN ROSE 11 (PT) (C&D) G Hanmer 6-10-10

14 354 BOWLING SHANE 64 (PT) C Boultbee-Brooks 4-10-8 R McLemon

15 PL8 DELTA LEGEND 90 (T) S-J Davies 6-10-5....J Best 16 L-FP BATTLE STRIDE 10 (HT) R Armson 4-10-2...NON RUNNER Probable SP: 5 Mi Sueno, 11-2, Jet Patrol, 6 Latin

5 05—HANDICAP CHASE (4) £8,900 added

5-3L GAELIC RAMBLER 23 (BT) J & A O'Neill 6-12-0

317 MIX OF CLOVER 23 (P) (D) A Ralph 12-11-12 T Broughton (3)

1UL LADY KARA 19 (T) Dr R Newland 5-11-11....L Scott (3) 442 MR RAFIKI 61 (T) J & A O'Neill 5-11-10....R McLemon 45P- SLEEPING SATELLITE 145 (T) F O'Brien 8-11-8....J Hogan 61-P CAMARRATE 129 (T) D McCain 6-11-8....T Gillard L43 HUDSON 23 (P) M Bowen 5-11-4....J Bowen 11.2 MARTIN'S DENUO 9 (HT) (D) (G) D Pine 4-11-1

65U A DUBLIN JOB 10 (V) (D2) S-J Davies 9-10-10......J Best Probable SP: 5-2 Martin's Denuo, 5 Gaelic Rambler.

Drop in Class: 2.00 Imperial Data is down 2 grades on last run (Class 2 to Class 4); Pike Road (2). First run since wind surgery: 2.00 Crystal Glance, 3.00 Jet Of Dreams, 3.30 Glance Of Glory, 4.30 Time Interval, Delta Legend.

ROBIN GOODFELLOW

GIMCRACK

4.28 Due Date	4.28 Candy Warhol
4.59 Christmas Is Comin	4.59 Darjeel
5.30 Birkett Bank	5.30 Tredegar Square
6.00 Not That Guy	6.00 Not That Guy
6.30 Rogue Exile	6.30 Piazza
7.00 Manton Road	7.00 Manton Road
7.30 EAGLE DAY (nap)	7.30 Stipulation
8.00 Little Jaybee (nb)	8.00 Henery Hawk
8.30 Clipsham Noble	8.30 Le Rouge Chinois

7.00-HANDICAP (6) £9,000 added (£4,711) 1m 142vds (13)

1 (13) L34 R P MCMURPHY 14 (P) (C&D2) M Appleby 4-9-12...O Murphy 2 (8) 961 AMARACHI (5ibex) 3 (P) J Parr 4-9-12....H Burns (3) 3 (12) 40L CY TWOMBLY 7 (V) J Mackie 4-9-10....L Edmunds 4 (10) 450 MR FUSTIC 15 (PT) (C&D2) Andi Brown 8-9-10. M Ghiani 5 (9) 154 MANTON ROAD 20 (C&C2BF) R Phillips 4-9-8...K Fox 6 (6) L24 PRETTY SPIRITED 18 L Mullaney 4-9-8....A Voikhansky 7 (4) 636 CLOCH NUA 134 (C&D) T Culhane & S Barclay 7-9-8..S Donohoe 8 (1) L62 ROGUE OFFICER 20 (H) A Brittain 4-9-7....C Hardie 9 (7) 539 MALAKAI KITE 13 R Harris 3-9-6....C Bishop 10 (2) 710 CREATE 30 (P) S Dixon 6-9-5....K O'Neill 11 (11) 740 EXQUISITE SKYE 17 (P) Michael Keady 3-9-5...J Peate 12 (3) 283 CAPTIVE BEAUTY 16 R Burdon 3-9-4....E Agan (7) 13 (5) L6L ESPLANADE 18 C Hills 3-9-4....R Hornby Probable SP: 3 Amarachi, 9-2 R P McMRPHY

7 30-HANDICAP (6) £6,200 added (£3,245) 1m

1 (1) 456 EAGLE DAY 13 (B) (C&D5) P Evans 6-10-0 .....F Marsh 2 (4) 914 BALOO'S BLUES 54 (PT) C Hills 4-10-0..Jason Watson 3 (5) L44 THE DARK BARON 47 (C&DC) Kathy Turner 4-9-13

4 (2) 477 SPECIAL GHAIYYATH 12 P Charalambous & J Clutterbuck 4-9-13 Liam Wright (3) 5 (11) L47 NORFLONDONFOREVER 14 Faye Bramley 5-9-12. S M Levey 6 (12) 762 STIPULATION 37 (P) (C&D) M Loughnane 5-9-11 J Callan 7 (9) 643 BALLYBUNION 15 M Bell 3-9-10.....O Murphy 8 (8) 5L4 SAHM NAIF 8 (P) James Horton 3-9-7.....G Wood 9 (3) 189 AMRUM 20 (D) Ollie Sangster 3-9-7.....C Bishop 10 (7) 295 SNAFAY 31 (C&D) D Loughnane 3-9-6.....L Edmunds 11 (10) 576 MAGIC RUNNER 14 (C&D) R Carr 4-9-3.....W Pyle 12 (6) 0-92 HAVE YOU A MINUTE 30 (C&D) T Tate 6-9-2

Probable SP: 9-2 Ballybunion, 6 The Dark Baron.

1 (7) 53L VICTOR CEE 47 (V) P McEntee 3-9-9....Grace McEntee 2 (4) 464 KOFFEE AND KALE 22 (V) (D) M Bell 3-9-9..O Murphy 3 (1) 406 BASHOLO 141 (C&D6D2) T Culhane & S Barclay 7-9-8

4 (10) 03L LOVE ALIVE 41 (C&D) J Butler 3-9-8.... MP Sheehy 5 (9) 372 HENERY HAWK 14 (C&D3D4) Miss L Perratt 7-9-8

6 (2) 322 LITTLE JAYBEE 5 (C&D) P Evans 3-9-7.....E Greatrex 7 (3) 037 SHEIK YERBOUTI 34 G Harris 5-9-6.....J Leavy 8 (6) 133 DRAGON GOD 22 (T) (D) Jack Morland 4-9-6...G Wood 9 (5) 334 HARRY MOLE 19 (BF) Steph Hollinshead 4-9-5.D Costello 10 (8) 243 BANANA 21 (PT) (D2) S Dixon 7-8-12.....K O'Neill

8.30-HANDICAP (6) £6,200 added (£3,245) 1m 5f 219yds (9)

1 (1) 223 LE ROUGE CHINOIS 15 (P) D Appleby 6-9-9 O Murphy
2 (9) 14/5-SUMATRAN TIGER J122 (D2) R Phillips 9-9-4...J Peate
3 (2) 143 CLIPSHAM NOBLE 14 (P) Charlie Clover 4-9-4. Liam Wright (3)
4 (7) 661 DINAH MYTE 7 J Gallagher 4-9-2...W Pyle
5 (6) L54 D DAY MAJOR WINTER 20 James Owen 4-9-0 C Fallon
6 (3) 986/PINK WALLS J21 (H) M Mullineaux 6-9-0...G Wood
7 (5) 742 ECHO VALLEY 89 T Symonds 3-8-11...T Heard
8 (8) 5L6 THIS RIB 20 (T) D Loughnane 3-8-10...Laura Pearson
9 (4) 644 SAXOPHONIC 25 D M Simcock 3-8-10...J Dace (5)

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Limbering up: Donald PA

When Donald's batting, remember to duck! Big-hitting England new boy finally gets his chance to shine

By LAWRENCE BOOTH

Cricket Correspondent

T is just over a decade since Aneurin Donald, who will make his England debut in today's first T20 against Sri Lanka, was terrorising motorists in the usually peaceful Welsh seaside town of Colwyn Bay.

An exaggeration? Only just. Because during the course of a championship innings of 234 off just 136 balls for Glamorgan against Derbyshire in July 2016, aged just 19, he hit 15 sixes, not to mention 26 fours.

After making what Wisden described as ‘a sketchy start’, five of his blows dented cars parked in the members’ enclosure, while another hit a passing bus.

Asked if he had intended to bring up his 100, 150 and 200 by clearing the ropes, he admitted: 'Yes, it was in the mind.'

His double-century was, at the time, the joint-fastest in first-class history. The only mystery is why it has taken Donald, who captained England's Under 19s to a 3–2 win over Australia in 2015, until the age of 29 to play senior international cricket.

Part of the reason is sheer bad luck. Born in Swansea, he left his native Glamorgan towards the end of the 2018 season to join Hampshire, in the hope of boosting his England chances.

An incandescent innings of 173 off 144 balls against Warwickshire at Southampton briefly rekindled memories of Colwyn Bay. But he tore an anterior cruciate ligament playing five-a-side football that winter, ruling him out of the Covid-shortened 2020 season.

When he suffered a recurrence of the injury in March 2021, having attempted a comeback ‘without a functioning ACL’, he had to miss the whole of that summer too, and described himself as ‘devastated’.

Surgery followed, but by the time Donald returned to competitive first-team action in May 2022, he had been out of the game for 960 days, missing the prime years of 22 to 25.

He averaged just 28 in red-ball cricket that season, and in 2023 did not make Hampshire's championship team at all, restricted to the Metro Bank One-Day Cup, which by then had become almost a Second XI competition. But his close shave

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with retirement had instilled a new determination.

When he joined up with the England team this week, he opted against joining in the squad football match, for obvious reasons. And he decided, as he told Cricinfo recently, to 'put my best foot forward. I'm going to go down in a blaze of glory. If I'm going to get out, it's doubling down on what I'm good at'.

Another switch followed, this time to Derbyshire, where his

T20 batting has moved to another level. In this year's Blast his 489 runs at 40 came at the astonishing strike-rate of 230. He hit more sixes, 37, than anyone in the tournament.

In the Hundred, meanwhile, he struck at 217 for Trent Rockets, faster than anyone in the competition with more than 35 runs. His 19-ball 38 in the final came against a Manchester Super Giants attack that included Gus Atkinson, Josh Tongue and Liam Dawson. And although it was not enough to prevent defeat, it went down well with England white-ball coach Brendon McCullum.

Two years ago, when McCullum was still Test coach, Donald said: 'The rhythm of Bazball is something I've felt natural for me, since I started playing Championship cricket. That's the gear I play at.'

Now, with injuries to Phil Salt and Jacob Bethell freeing up an opening slot alongside Jos Buttler, Donald — who is hoping to put his interactions with England's new white-ball batting mentor Kevin Pietersen to good use — will get his chance to show McCullum what England have been missing.

‘He’s been on our radar for a long time,’ said McCullum, ahead of this evening’s first T20 at the Utilita Bowl.

‘He’s got an incredible amount of talent and I’m looking forward to seeing how he goes on the big stage.’ TV: England v Sri Lanka, 6.30pm, LIVE on Sky Sports Cricket.

Pietersen was shocked to get job offer, says McCullum

BRENDON McCULLUM has admitted Kevin

Pietersen was ‘shocked’ when he first asked him to join England’s white-ball set-up as a batting mentor. Pietersen joined the squad on Sunday ahead of today’s first T20 against Sri Lanka — the first of six limited-overs games in 13 days — and has been encouraged by McCullum to ‘challenge’ any aspect of the dressing room’s culture. His appointment comes less than two years after Pietersen criticised England’s training schedule during a white-ball tour of India, saying he was ‘absolutely gobsmacked’ that nets had been cancelled before the last two ODIs. He later described the situation as ‘absolutely disgraceful’. Those comments cropped up when McCullum first contacted Pietersen. ‘That was one of the first things we talked about,’ said McCullum. ‘He said: “Gee, I was just criticising you not long ago.” I said: “I don’t care about that. Some of it’s fair and some of it would need some explanation, but I have no problem with that.” ‘It’s healthy when you create an environment where you’re able to challenge. That’s one thing I want him to do.’ Meanwhile, McCullum has urged Brydon Carse to ‘get his house in order’ following his arrest outside a nightclub last month — and reminded other players of the price they may pay if they make headlines for the wrong reasons. ‘I hope it’s crystal clear what is expected, not just of this group but of those who have aspirations to play for us,’ he said. ‘There is a lot of talent around, if you’re not prepared to do that, other guys will be given those opportunities. ‘I’ve spoken to Carsey a lot and it’s the same message.’

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5.00 — RAMENSKY (O Murphy) 13-8(2ndFav) 1; Femme Fatale 4-9F 2; 2 ran. (E Lavelle). 7½. Tote: 2.63; NR: Virtue Diligence. 5.30 — SNOOKER MCCREW (A Redman) 11-1 1; Celtic John 11-1 2; Lovely Jubly 9-2(Jt2ndFav) 3. 10 ran. (M Comley). 2l, 3/4. Tote: 12.90; 3.60, 3.10, 2.10. Ex: 121.40. Tc: 629.31. Tf: 696.60. CSF: 125.84. NR: Ocean Force. 6.00 — DECALOGUE (W Carver) 11-4F 1; Berkshire Boom 3-1(Jt2ndFav) 2; Unionville 11-2 3. 10 ran. (J Osborne). nk, 1½. Tote: 3.75; 1.40, 1.60, 1.60. Ex: 12.90. Tc: 42.57. Tf: 44.30. CSF: 10.27. 6.30 — NATIONAL HONOUR (Toby Moore) 11-8F 1; Solar Swing 5-2(2ndFav) 2; Rupert The Brave 9-2 3. 9 ran. (C Appleby). 1¼, ½. Tote: 2.38; 1.10, 1.10, 1.30. Ex: 5.90. Tf: 17.00. CSF: 5.25. 7.00 — NONREM (J Callan) 18-1 1; Grey Tamam 9-4JtFav 2; Blowing Up A Storm 4-1 3. 8 ran. (B Meehan). hd, nk. Tote: 27.10; 4.90, 1.10, 1.60. Ex: 104.80. Tf: 442.20. CSF: 59.31. NR: Bling. 7.30 — ENCORE (H Davies) 1-2F 1; March Of Time 40-1 2;

Missmisfortune 25-1 3.8 ran. (W Haggas). 2¼, nk. Tote: 1.50; 1.10, 5.90, 4.40. Ex: 28.30. Tf: 305.50. CSF: 37.60. NR: Tilsworth Boe. 8.00 — SAX AVOIDANCE (K Fox) 5-1 1; Extraterrestrial 9-2 2; Hibernate 11-1 3.9 ran. (Charlie Pike). nk, 6l. Tote: 6.00; 1.60, 1.70, 2.50. Ex: 33.90. Tc: 237.02. Tf: 133.90. CSF: 27.41. 8.30 — HAPPIER (Toby Moore) 2-1F 1; Roy Lane 7-1 2; Angel Summer 7-2(2ndFav) 3.12 ran. (M Keighley). 2¼, ll. Tote: 3.00; 1.30, 2.70, 1.60. Ex: 20.20. Tc: 50.41. Tf: 97.30. CSF: 17.88. Jackpot Not won, pool of £23,892.87 carried over. Placepot £41.20. Q'pot £4.20. SEDGEFIELD 2.00 — PADDY DE POLE (F Keighley) 15-8(2ndFav) 1; Fairlawn Skipper 11-8F 2; Parikarma 9-4 3.3 ran. (P Nicholls). ½, ll. Tote: 2.88; Ex: 3.10. Tf: 3.10. CSF: 4.72. 2.30 — TRALEE GIRL (H Skelton) 4-9F 1; You Be Lucky Jean 7-2(2ndFav) 2; Blue Topaz 50-1 3.7 ran. (D Skelton). 3l, 11l. Tote: 1.45; 1.10, 2.10. Ex: 2.40. Tf: 23.10. CSF: 2.45. 3.00 — JETEYE (J England)

evensF 1; Uncle Al 10-3(2ndFav) 2; All Dubh 4-1 3. 5 ran. (S England). 7½, 2l. Tote: 2.00; 1.10, 1.80. Ex: 4.00. Tf: 10.20. CSF: 5.06. 3.30 — MR MCWHINNY (J Andrews) 10-11F 1; Tom Creen 9-1 2; Clean Getaway 13-2 3. 5 ran. (T Ellis). 8l. 1l. Tote: 1.91; 1.10, 2.80. Ex: 8.30. Tf: 24.50. CSF: 8.67. 4.00 — AIMERIC (Sean Quinlan) 11-4(2ndFav) 1; William Yeats 6-5F 2; Beny Nahar Road 10-1 3. 10 ran. (J Candlish). 1l, 14l. Tote: 3.75; 1.30, 1.20, 2.60. Ex: 8.50. Tc: 27.82. Tf: 35.70. CSF: 6.53. 4.30 — LITTLEOWN LAD (J England) 5-4F 1; Expert Analysis 11-2 2; Mr Globalist 14-1 3. 10 ran. (S England). shd, 8½. Tote: 2.25; 1.20, 1.90, 3.40. Ex: 9.40. Tc: 68.12. Tf: 81.20. CSF: 9.33. Placepot £7.80. Q'pot £2.40.

2.21 — SATYRESS (T Kiely-Marshall) 11-8F 1; Off Spin 6-1 2; Hickton 9-1 3. 12 ran. (H Bethell). 2½, 1¾. Tote: 2.38; 1.30, 1.90, 2.20. Ex: 10.80. Tc: 58.87. Tf: 55.30. CSF: 10.13.

2.51 — BLADEY LADY (D Allan) 7-2(2ndFav) 1; Ma Fille De Reve

RACING RESULTS 9-2 2; Claret And Blues 11-1 3; Claret Time 6-1 4. 16 ran. (T Easterby). 3/4, 6l, shd. Tote: 4.50; 1.30, 1.60, 2.90, 1.70. Ex: 28.80. Tc: 178.09. Tf: 165.40. CSF: 20.67. NR: Independent Roze. 3.21 — MAJESTIC JUDE (C Fallon) 2-9F 1; Master Celeritas 9-1 2; Diamondsforyou 5-1(2ndFav) 3.4 ran. (W Haggas). 3l, nk. Tote: 1.23; Ex: 2.10. Tf: 2.90. CSF: 3.09. 3.51 — LAMLASH BAY (B Garritty) 5-1 1; Fan Mail 7-4F 2; Dabbling 22-1 3. 11 ran. (M & D Easterby). nk, nk. Tote: 6.00; 1.60, 1.20, 4.90. Ex: 18.00. Tc: 185.10. Tf: 268.30. CSF: 14.02. 4.21 — MO ANAM CHARA (J Dickson) 5-2JtFav 1; Showtown 22-1 2; Soca Star 14-1 3. 10 ran. (G Harker). 1/4, 4/4. Tote: 3.70; 1.30, 4.80, 4.00. Ex: 63.10. Tc: 664.77. Tf: 566.30. CSF: 65.88. 4.51 — FRACTIONAL (C Fallon) 4-1(Jt2ndFav) 1; Always Blue 4-1(Jt2ndFav) 2; Donna Nook 3-1F 3. 9 ran. (W Haggas). 1/4, 1/2. Tote: 5.00; 1.40, 1.80, 1.60. Ex: 19.70. Tc: 55.01. Tf: 68.20. CSF: 20.78. 5.21 — FOREST CAPER (D

Tudhope) 12-1 1; The Childe Of Hale 9-4F 2; Red Hat Eagle 7-2(Jt2ndFav) 3. 12 ran. (D O'Meara). $1/2$ , $21/2$ . Tote: 15.70; 3.80, 1.50, 1.90. Ex: 58.50. Tc: 124.49. Tf: 254.40. CSF: 39.15. NR: Bay Breeze. Placepot £24.50. Q'pot £8.30. WINDSOR 1.42 — MERTOUN (Rossa Ryan) 4-1F 1; Phantom Watch 12-1 2; Newfangled 9-2(Jt2ndFav) 3. 12 ran. (J Chapple-Hyam). 1l, hd. Tote: 5.20; 2.00, 4.20, 2.30. Ex: 59.90. Tc: 233.64. Tf: 289.40. CSF: 53.82. NR: Kodi Fire. 2.12 — INSTANT FORCE (P-L Jamin) 13-2 1; Red Blue Point 8-11F 2; Go Go Girl 33-1 3. 10 ran. (K R Burke). $1/2$ , $21/2$ . Tote: 7.50; 1.90, 1.10, 5.10. Ex: 15.60. Tf: 170.80. CSF: 12.10. 2.42 — SONG OF THE CLOUDS (T Marquand) 2-1(2ndFav) 1; Wootz 4-9F 2; Certainty 300-1 3. 5 ran. (W Haggas). $21/4$ , 23l. Tote: 3.00; 1.10, 1.10. Ex: 3.60. Tf: 25.20. CSF: 3.26. NRs: Regatta, Virtue King. 3.12 — QUEEN OF SCOTLAND (B Loughnane) 8-15F 1; Marquetry 22-1 2; Seacole 17-2 3. 7 ran.

(G Boughey). 4½, 1l. Tote: 1.54; 1.10, 7.80. Ex: 12.70. Tf: 51.10. CSF: 18.30. 3.42 — DISTANT RUMBLE (M Ghiani) 5-1(2ndFav) 1; Cape Toronada 6-1 2; Cypriot Diaspora 16-1 3. 13 ran. (R Teal). 4¼, shd. Tote: 7.10; 2.40, 2.40, 3.20. Ex: 61.00. Tc: 365.78. Tf: 813.60. CSF: 38.03. NR: Correspondence. 4.12 — KING OF BERKSHIRE (C Hutchinson) 11-8F 1; Parisian Scholar 7-1 2; Son Of Man 25-1 3. 9 ran. (A Balding). 6l, ½. Tote: 2.38; 1.30, 1.80, 5.10. Ex: 12.20.

Tc: 169.15. Tf: 189.60. CSF: 11.61. 4.42 — AMALOU (S Osborne) 22-1 1; Time After Time 3-1CoFav 2; Artavian 9-1 3. 11 ran. (D & C Kubler). nk, 8l. Tote: 29.50; 6.00, 1.50, 2.90. Ex: 149.10. Tc: 674.67. Tf: 2228.90. CSF: 90.03. 5.12 — CAMELEY DAYS (M Ghiani) 5-2F 1; Pedros Dream 50-1 2; Enter Sandman 20-1 3. 12 ran. (C Dwyer). 2¼, 1¼. Tote: 3.50; 1.50, 11.60, 5.00. Ex: 178.30. Tc: 2194.85. Tf: 2690.30. CSF: 166.92.

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Now Zverev must gatecrash the Big Two...or he'll spend his career feeding off scraps

E SPN'S coverage of the US Open men's final between Alexander Zverev and Ben Shelton unexpectedly ended with a plea.

‘Get healthy, Carlos and Jannik,’ American tennis icon John McEnroe said as his parting shot, responding to whether new champion Zverev would take his dominance into next year’s Australian Open.

For all of the German's mammoth achievements this season, Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner remain the ghosts at the feast.

Last year, the two men split the Grand Slams, most often in finals against one another. Their dominant 2025 suggested their young rivalry would take the baton from the previous generation, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer, with the Spaniard and the Italian shutting out the rest of the field at the top of the sport. But who would be their Novak Djokovic?

Despite being an ever-present in the top 10, a multiple major finalist and Olympic gold

TAMARA PRENN at Flushing Meadows

medallist in 2021, Zverev was largely ignored in debates over who would make the duo a trio.

At 29, he is older than both stars and part of a generation — including Daniil Medvedev and Stefanos Tsitsipas — once tipped to take the reins from the Big Three, only to be shut out by Djokovic's longevity and Sinner and Alcaraz's precocity. And when he did make it to Grand Slam finals, it was not pretty.

The main reason Zverev had long held a reputation for stuttering in the biggest moments was how he fared in his first major final, at the US Open six years ago.

The then 23-year-old scythed through his draw at a behind-closed-doors tournament defined by Covid and the absences of Nadal and Federer, while Djokovic was defaulted for accidentally striking a line judge

Familiar routine: Zverev lost to Sinner for the 10th time in a row in the Wimbledon final in July GETTY IMAGES

in the throat with a ball. In the final, Zverev held a two-set lead against Dominic Thiem, lost it, served for the title in the fifth set and lost that, too. The Austrian left with the trophy, and Zverev started growing scar tissue.

Then came Paris, four years later, against Alcaraz. Having lost the opening set, Zverev clawed back the next two, only to lose in five.

Sealed with a kiss: Zverev after winning the US Open GETTY IMAGES

his next Grand Slam final, against Sinner in Melbourne last year, he lost in three sets.

This season, with Alcaraz recovering from a wrist injury and Sinner struck down by the sweltering heat at the French Open, and kept out by knee inflammation in New York, Zverev has undergone some valuable healing.

‘God has seen how hard we worked, how much we suffered, how much pain we went through,’ he said before lifting the trophy on Sunday. ‘2026 is the outcome of all the years that happened before.’

What winning two Grand Slams has not done, though, is prove Zverev can go toe-to-toe with Sinner or Alcaraz. The Italian is a particular problem for Zverev, who has lost all of their last 10 meetings.

After winning at Roland Garros in June, Zverev arrived at Wimbledon playing with lightness and explosivity — neither of which are qualities which normally define his game. This allowed him one set against Sinner when they met in the

Dominant duo

SINCE Novak Djokovic won the 2023 US Open, Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner have won all but two Slams...

*Alcaraz or Sinner absent due to injury at both

final, but from there it was business as usual for the Italian.

Asked on Sunday if Zverev considered himself the best player in the world, he paused.

‘If we say right now with Jannik being injured and Carlos coming back from injury, maybe. When both were healthy, I wasn’t. I was losing to Jannik all the time. If everyone is healthy, Jannik is still ahead.’

Zverev's recent record against Alcaraz is only slightly more intricate than his head-to-head against Sinner. The Spaniard is the only other player to beat him at a Slam this year.

When they met at the Australian Open, the clash went to five sets across five hours and 27 minutes. But Alcaraz was impaired by persistent cramp, and an injury to his right leg deep in the third set. Zverev could not kill him off and Alcaraz went on to win to complete the career Grand Slam.

With Sinner's return to the tour this season still unconfirmed, Zverev could yet end the year as world No 1. But the real test will come against a fit Sinner and Alcaraz in 2027.

The player who will take the mantle as disruptor must deliver the goods against the greatest — and of the US Open finalists it was Shelton who proved he could do that with his epic quarter-final win over Alcaraz.

Without beating the two biggest stars, Zverev will only be picking up their scraps.

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	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
West Ham......7	4	2	1	20	9	11	14
Swansea......7	4	2	1	11	5	6	14
West Brom......7	4	2	1	10	7	3	14
Middlesbrough.6	4	1	1	12	8	4	13
QPR......7	3	3	1	8	5	3	12
Charlton......7	3	3	1	6	7	-1	12
Wolves......6	3	2	1	14	10	4	11
Southampton....7	4	2	1	18	8	10	10
Birmingham....7	2	4	1	10	9	1	10
Stoke......7	3	1	3	11	11	0	10
Bristol City......6	3	1	2	10	11	-1	10
Norwich....7	3	0	4	13	13	0	9

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Aldershot v Yeovil ..... Boston Utd v Woking..... Carlisle v Forest Green..... Harrogate Town v AFC Fylde..... Solihull Moors v Barrow ..... Southend v Tamworth..... Sutton Utd v Eastleigh....

Wealdstone v Halifax...... Worthing v Hornchurch......

SCOTTISH PREMIERSHIP Falkirk v Hearts ...... Hibernian v Kilmarnock ...... Motherwell v Aberdeen....

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Rangers......6	4	1	1	7	4	3	13
Hearts......5	4	0	1	12	5	7	12
St Mirren......6	3	1	2	8	6	2	10
Motherwell......5	2	2	1	8	5	3	8
Dundee......6	2	1	3	7	6	1	7
St Johnstone......6	2	1	3	8	9	-1	7
Hibernian......5	2	0	3	7	9	-2	6
Dundee Utd......6	1	2	3	6	11	-5	5
Aberdeen......5	1	1	3	2	7	-5	4
Falkirk......5	0	2	3	3	7	-4	2
Kilmarnock......5	0	1	4	4	14	-10	1

Scottish Ch'ship: Stenhousemuir v Partick. Scottish League One: Ross County v Queen of South.

EFL TROPHY (7.0) — Northern, Group C: York v Newcastle U21. Group D: Chesterfield v Man City U21. Southern, Group C: Wycombe v Chelsea U21. Group E: Swindon v Crystal Palace U21. Group F: Leyton Orient v Arsenal U21. SCOTTISH CHALLENGE CUP, LEAGUE PHASE: East Fife v Motherwell.

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County Ch'ship (day 1 of 4, 10.30am) — Division One: Essex v Warwick's (Chelmsford). Leics v Hampshire (Leicester). Surrey v Glamorgan (The Kia Oval). Sussex v Notts (Hove). Yorkshire v Somerset (Headingley). Division Two: Durham v Worcs (Riverside). Gloucs v Middlesex (Bristol). Kent v Lancs (Canterbury). Northants v Derbyshire (Northampton).

Stars end Grand Slam protest

TENNIS stars from the men's and women's tours have ended their year-long protest against the Grand Slams over prize money. The top players — including Jannik Sinner, Carlos Alcaraz and Aryna Sabalenka — announced following the US Open that the ‘public phase’ of their campaign was over, having last month secured a player advisory council to work with the majors directly. The group wanted prize money at the Slams to reflect 22 per

cent of tournament revenue, and some raised awareness by limiting media appearances at the French Open and Wimbledon. Additional protests planned for Wimbledon, who increased their prize pot to £64.2million — a rise of 20 per cent — were called off at the 11th hour. The US Open avoided protests with a £79.2m prize pot — also a 20 per cent rise — including £1.47m pledged towards a player welfare fund.

TAMARA PRENN

CRAIG HOPE at Elland Road

LEEDS

L Miley 32 (og), Bogle 34 Calvert-Lewin 45+1 Okafor 59

NEWCASTLE Toure 90

FOR Newcastle, this was the night when the result finally caught up with the performance.

Unbeaten in three at the outset of the Premier League and lauded for their summer business, autumn and winter might not be so cheery on the evidence of this horror show.

Matthias Jaissle's side were three down by half-time, and it was no surprise at all. Be that on the basis of what played out here or, more so, what your eyes have told you in the past 10 days.

An unconvincing 1-0 win at Millwall in the Carabao Cup came on the back of an equally sketchy 2-2 draw at home to Bournemouth, in which they trailed by two after 35 minutes.

This, then, was in the post, and Dominic Calvert-Lewin was the home side's delivery man. He was not the only one to profit from opposition weak in the tackle, wayward in the pass and woefully short of ideas in attack.

Leeds captain Ethan Ampadu bossed a midfield that was superior by every metric. At times, you wondered if the hosts had an extra man. You wondered more how Newcastle have won such praise for their character and resilience in recent weeks. There were none of those traits on show this time.

But away from the mental strength that has underpinned their decent start, technical weaknesses were always likely to catch up with them. Newcastle's numbers have not felt sustainable. They conceded a league-high 45 shots in their first three games and, at the other end, their cumulative expected goals (xG) tally was just over one per game.

This will infuriate traditionalists — those who cherish the scoreline

— but an expected league position had Newcastle 19th going into this weekend. They occupy bottom spot in that particular table now.

A lot, it seemed, rested on the slender shoulders on Matias Fernandez-Pardo in reversing the numbers. The 21-year-old, a £51million marquee arrival from Lille this month, was making his full debut. 'Eden Hazard without the end product' was how one Belgian journalist described the forward on the day he signed, much to the irritation of black-and-white ears listening on local radio. So, was there any merit in the unflattering assessment?

After 25 minutes, the hot-takes felt cold, given Fernandez-Pardo had touched the ball only four times, and one of those was an accidental handball inside his own area. By the time he made way in the 57th minute, the touch count had reached 15, but none of them memorable.

That was not his fault, more a sign of the failings in behind him. And, come to think of it, to the side of him, too. So much for the

DOMINIC Calvert-Lewin last night became the first Leeds player to score in five consecutive Premier League games at Elland Road since Mark Viduka scored in six between March and August 2003.

Calvert-Lewin leads way as four-midable Leeds torment Toon

theory that this version of Newcastle might be better suited to playing away from home. The logic is they are more about pace than precision. What they learned here is that speed of foot counts for nothing when faced with speed of thought.

Daniel Farke's side were brilliant. Their own three-match unbeaten start has now extended to four, and that feels like less of a mirage. This was Elland Road at its best, on the pitch and in the stands. They sniffed a vulnerable opponent and went for the kill. Calvert-Lewin's goal, on the stroke of half-time, was the one that sealed the zip on the body bag.

That strike was about his force and Newcastle's complete lack of it, the striker barging his way through Sven Botman before finishing from six yards. It was Leeds' third goal in 13 minutes.

The opener was officially a Lewis Miley own goal, but it owed everything to Ao Tanaka, who started the move amid space in midfield and finished it amid space in midfield. It was his 20-yard shot that deflected in off the Newcastle youngster, who like many of his team-mates endured a torrid night.

His midfield sidekick, Sean Steur, was guilty of the stray pass that set Leeds on their way to a second, when Calvert-Lewin's header went in off Jayden Bogle from a James Justin cross. Calvert-Lewin out-jumped two Newcastle defenders — you can add desire to force. The fourth, in the 59th minute, was a smart Noah Okafor finish after he reacted quickest to a loose ball from a long throw-in. But Leeds had been quicker to first, second and third balls all night.

There was one passage that captured Newcastle's lame showing, albeit it did not end in a goal conceded.

Botman attempted to play a pass to fellow Dutchman Steur but the pair were not on the same page and Anton Stach was allowed to run clear. His delicate

High life: Calvert-Lewin's header comes off Bogle for Leeds' second GETTY IMAGES

HOW THEY STAND

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Arsenal......4	4	4	0	0	8	1	7	12
Man City......4	4	4	0	0	8	2	6	12
Leeds......4	4	2	2	0	7	3	4	8
Hull......4	4	2	2	0	5	2	3	8
Brighton......4	4	2	1	1	13	5	8	7
Chelsea......4	4	2	1	1	10	9	1	7
Brentford......4	4	1	3	0	7	4	3	6
Liverpool......4	4	1	3	0	6	4	2	6
Everton......4	4	1	3	0	5	3	2	6
Ipswich......4	4	2	0	2	7	10	-3	6
Nottm Forest......4	4	1	2	1	4	4	0	5
Newcastle......4	4	1	2	1	7	8	-1	5
Man Utd......4	4	1	1	2	7	7	0	4
Sunderland......4	4	1	1	2	3	5	-2	4
Bournemouth......4	4	0	3	1	6	7	-1	3
Crystal Palace......4	4	1	0	3	6	11	-5	3
Tottenham......4	4	0	2	2	0	5	-5	2
Fulham......4	4	0	1	3	4	7	-3	1
Aston Villa......4	4	0	1	3	1	7	-6	1
Coventry......4	4	0	0	4	0	10	-10	0

chip deserved a goal but rippled the side-netting.

The home crowd on one side of the ground cheered in error. They were greedy for more by now and were soon chanting for five. It was Newcastle who completed the scoring, though, as substitute Bazoumana Toure finished from the edge of the penalty area in the 90th minute.

This was a brutal reality check for Newcastle and serves as a warning for where their season could be headed.

Indeed, as a senior delegation from Newcastle filed through the scaffolding and temporary fixtures behind the West Stand before kick-off, it was a reminder of how just how much they need to keep pace. Not just with Manchester City, Arsenal and Chelsea, but Leeds, a club who are perhaps a more relevant rival in the short term.

Their Elland Road expansion — and the ambition it signals — is still one signpost Newcastle's Saudi-led owners have yet to plant on Tyneside.

Without it, say insiders, the balance-sheet gap to the very top will be impossible to bridge.

For now, though, it is the chasm on the field that needs addressing.

LEEDS (3-4-2-1): Trafford 6; Justin 7, Elvedi 6, Muharemovic 6; Bogle 7 (James 83min), Ampadu 8, Tanaka 8 (Aaronson 72, 6), Gudmundsson 7 (Bard 72, 6); Stach 6 (Longstaff 88), Okafor 7 (Wilson 72, 6); CALVERT-LEWIN 9 (Nmecha 78). Scorers: L Miley 32 (og), Bogle 34, Calvert-Lewin 45+1, Okafor 59. Booked: Calvert-Lewin. Manager: Daniel Farke 8. NEWCASTLE (4-2-3-1): Hornicek 5; Dedic 5 (Livramento 58, 5), Thiaw 5, Botman 3, Hall 5; L Miley 4 (Bamba 80), Gonzalez 5 (Steur 19, 4); Murphy 4 (Toure 57, 6), Fernandez-Pardo 4 (Willock 57, 4), Barnes 4; Wissa 5. Scorer: Toure 90. Booked: Murphy. Manager: Matthias Jaisse 4. Referee: Michael Salisbury 7. Attendance: 36,693.

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Hammers legend Ludek dies at 64

By MATT BARLOW

WEST HAM paid tribute to their cult hero and ‘gentle giant’ Ludek Miklosko, who has died aged 64.

Miklosko kept 126 clean sheets in eight years with the Hammers and is perhaps best

remembered for an inspirational series of saves which helped deny Manchester United the Premier League title in 1995. The popular Czech, signed from Banik Ostrava for £300,000, later returned to West Ham as goalkeeper coach and fans have continued to sing his name for many years.

West Ham players held a moment of silence before training yesterday and the club will honour him before tonight's Carabao Cup third-round tie against Fulham.

There are also plans for a tribute at next month's Championship fixture against Queens Park Rangers, where Miklosko spent the final three years of his playing career. 'Rest in peace Ludek, our beloved, inspirational goalkeeper and gentle giant of a man,' said West Ham in a statement yesterday. Miklosko, who won 42 international caps, was diagnosed with cancer in 2021 and announced three years later his decision to withdraw from further treatment. His son, Martin, said: 'We are

Beloved: Miklosko GETTY IMAGES

heartbroken to announce the passing of my dad Ludek, following a brave and courageous battle with cancer. 'On behalf of my mum and my family, I would like to sincerely thank the fans and everyone at West Ham for the kind wishes, thoughts and prayers sent to my dad during his illness. 'The many messages and wishes from his former team-mates and fans alike were a huge sense of comfort to him in his battle with cancer. We are heartbroken at his loss but take huge comfort from the immense support he received, along with the knowledge he is now at peace and no longer suffering. 'Dad simply loved West Ham, and especially hearing his name sung loud and proud at every game. The club, and its fans, were and always will be a part of our family.'

De Zerbi: I will not recall Richarlison

ROBERTO DE ZERBI will resist any urge to recall Richarlison for Tottenham's Carabao Cup trip to Liverpool tonight, urging his misfiring forwards to keep the faith. Spurs have failed to score in their first four Premier League games this season, an embarrassment heightened by the omission of Richarlison — last season's top scorer with 12 goals — from the squad. The Brazilian is eligible to play in tonight's third-round tie at Anfield but will not be involved. 'Nothing changes in my project, in my idea,' said De Zerbi. 'I am sorry for the goals we didn't score, but we have the qualities to score goals.

‘We are building a new project, a new team. I can’t change my opinion about the players if they don’t win or don’t score. They are very good players.

'If we want to change from the last two seasons, we have to be stronger and believe in the quality of the players and the decisions we made one month ago. You can change players or change coaches, change, change, change, and nothing changes. Or you stay humble, with the right spirit to work. 'I believe in my players. I hope they believe in themselves like I believe in them.'

De Zerbi, who will be without Sandro Tonali against Liverpool after the midfielder picked up a knock, took his players out to

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dinner last week as he did in April, after they lost at Sunderland in his first game in charge. They returned to Mediterranean restaurant Bacchanalia in Mayfair and the Spurs boss picked up the bill. 'Something to eat, some water, some beers,' said De Zerbi. 'It is a pleasure.'

De Zerbi pored over the first half-hour of Saturday's 0-0 draw with Everton to analyse why his side could not convert their dominance into goals. 'We played 25-30 minutes very well,' said De Zerbi. 'We could have scored two. We maybe lost confidence because we didn't score. We have to improve.' Richarlison, having demanded to leave Spurs in the summer and then failed to agree personal terms with Everton, Trabzonspor or Vasco da Gama, will remain out in the cold. 'We lost at Brentford 3-0 [on the opening day] with Richarlison,' De Zerbi added. 'Maybe you forgot. Just to remind you.'

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Webb 'mortified' by Haaland goal

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Patrick Dorgu, so referee Michael Oliver was ordered to overturn the decision. But the VAR officials appeared to miss the fact that Enzo Fernandez, who was in an offside position, had interfered with play given his proximity to United defender Lisandro Martinez and goalkeeper Senne Lammens. On Sunday night, former World Cup final referee Webb, who is said to be ‘mortified’ by the fiasco, said the VAR pair established that because Fernandez did not play the ball any offside offence was ‘subjective’ — but he admitted they had not ‘recognised the likely impact of his position and should have recommended an on-field review’. Webb apologised to United for the ‘error of judgment’ and promised a review would take place. United boss Michael Carrick, whose side have won just one of their opening four fixtures after Sunday’s 1-0 defeat, said he was at a loss to explain the decision. ‘I just don’t get it,’ he said. ‘If that’s how the rules are interpreted, that you’re not interfering with play because you have thrown yourself at the ball six yards from goal and nearly touched it, which then Lisandro has to react to... it’s worrying if that’s how the game is seen by those who are officiating it.’ Yesterday, Pro Ref announced Donohue and Antrobus had been stood down, but the move has done little to quieten the noise. Some have called for the Premier League to ditch VAR entirely, arguing that a system operated by humans is unlikely to effectively eradicate human error.

Such a scenario is viewed as unlikely, though, given clubs voted 19-1 to keep the system in 2024 and the one dissenting club, Wolves, are no longer in the Premier League.

The derby mess capped a difficult weekend for Pro Ref, who also came under fire from Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta over the decision to award Sunderland a penalty in the Gunners' 2-0 win at the Stadium of Light.

Ezri Konsa was judged to have dragged Dan Ballard to the ground from a long throw — a decision upheld after a VAR review. 'It is

unacceptable at this level, said Arteta, whose club have asked Pro Ref for an explanation. Last month, the Premier League's Key Match Incidents panel ruled Arsenal should have had a penalty at Aston Villa for Ian Maatsen's challenge on Bruno Guimaraes, with a second yellow card for the Villa defender. They also said Nottingham Forest were wrongly awarded a penalty at Liverpool for Alisson's challenge on Neco Williams. Tottenham were stunned when Omar Marmoush went down under contact from Newcastle's Malick Thiaw and did not get a penalty, but the panel ruled 4-1 that the threshold for a penalty was not met despite Thiaw making contact with Marmoush rather than the ball.

People are losing their love of the game because of VAR... It's time for the end of an error

by Oliver Holt Chief Sports Writer

IN the build-up to the implementation of VAR in the Premier League at the start of the 2019-20 season, we chased the illusion of the perfect game, a game where officiating became less visible, a game where mistakes were never made, a game where referees faced less abuse, a game where conspiracy theories became obsolete.

So let us call this our seven-year itch. Because in the time that has elapsed, VAR has not had the effect those of us who were in favour of it dearly hoped it would. It has had, if anything, the opposite effect.

The idea VAR would help us talk more about football and less about refereeing decisions is dead. It has been dead for some time. More and more, football is becoming less about sport.

For many, including the clubs trying to find ways to ban season-ticket holders and admit high-spending day trippers in their place, its value lies in the idea it is an adjunct to showbiz. The sport itself is an inconvenient distraction.

And VAR has become an indispensable part of that trend. Technology was supposed to be the gateway to better games and fewer controversies but machines, and the human beings who operate them, have limits and we have found those limits.

You want a clear and obvious error? How about this: our game spends way more time than is healthy obsessing about contentious offsides and trying to decipher laws that seem so arcane they baffle and enrage us.

You want to know what VAR has done? It has spread the

Four weeks in and we've already had VAR howlers galore!

THERE have been multiple VAR errors already this season but perhaps the most galling was Nottingham Forest's penalty in their 2-2 draw at Liverpool. Officials conceded Forest should not have been given a spot-kick for Alisson's tackle on Neco Williams — but said VAR was right not to intervene to overturn it because it was 'not a clear and obvious error'. The laws have baffled fans, too, with Jacob Greaves' own goal in Ipswich's 5-2 defeat at Manchester United a case in point. Having clearly controlled the ball with his hand, Harry Maguire's shot deflected in off Greaves — and that was key to the goal being allowed to stand because it is one of three exemptions for when an accidental handball by the scorer should be ignored.

ASTON VILLA v ARSENAL

AFTER Ian Maatsen's challenge on Bruno Guimaraes in the Villa box went unpunished, the Premier League's Key Match Incidents Panel (KMI) said: 'Clear contact was made on Guimaraes' standing leg and Maatsen made no contact with the ball. A second caution should have been awarded [along with a penalty for Arsenal].'

MAN UTD v MAN CITY

OF the decision to allow Haaland's goal to stand, referees' body Pro Ref said: 'Enzo Fernandez did not play the ball and therefore that makes any offside offence subjective. However, the VAR did not recognise the likely impact of his position and should have recommended an on-field review.'

THE KMI panel said of the penalty awarded to Forest: 'The contact from Alisson was inevitable as a consequence of his momentum in attempting to save the ball. The contact was not reckless and below the threshold for a penalty. But the non-intervention by VAR was unanimously supported on the basis it was not a clear and obvious error.'

blame. Now we can scream at the referee, his two linesmen, the fourth official and the unfortunate official sitting in a room surrounded by screens at Stockley Park, trying to compute a series of questions being thrown at him by a football match and knowing every second he delays brings the wrath of the watching public down around his ears.

Its other achievement? It has robbed the Premier League and other forms of so-called elite football of its spontaneity. It has robbed football fans of their greatest joy, which is celebrating a goal with abandon.

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Abandon has now been taken away from fans of top-flight clubs because there is always that thought in your head that maybe you have missed something. Maybe that goal you just thought you saw was not a goal after all.

We have got to a stage where even discussion of a game such as Sunday's Manchester derby, always one of the biggest fixtures in the domestic calendar, is totally dominated by VAR's incomprehensible decision to allow Erling Haaland's winning goal for Manchester City — even though Enzo Fernandez was clearly in an offside position and clearly influenced play when he flung himself at the ball as it was crossed to Haaland at the back post.

It is a textbook example of how VAR has made football worse.

Michael Oliver, the on-field official at Old Trafford, is the best referee in this country and yet in VAR's haste and confusion, in its desperation to make a decision and let play resume, it cut Oliver out of the decision-making process and did not call him to the screen so he could review the action himself.

The way the VAR system works, the on-field official is not party to the discussions going on at Stockley Park and so, as the lengthy mea culpa from referees body ProRef appeared to admit on Sunday evening, the first Oliver would have known about the decision to overrule the offside decision against Haaland and allow the goal to stand was when the decision was relayed to him as a fait accompli.

1 T appears VAR had become so single-minded about deciding whether Haaland was offside — he was not — that it totally neglected to consider the subjective decision about whether Fernandez had influenced play given his proximity to United defender Lisandro Martinez and goalkeeper Senne Lammens.

Then it neglected to recommend Oliver, who would surely have ruled out the goal had he been allowed to see a replay, conduct an on-field review.

And so City, who were the better team at Old Trafford on Sunday, won the game 1-0 with a goal that should not have stood. And it may be a goal with far-reaching repercussions.

Michael Carrick, the Manchester United manager, is under increased pressure because of it. Maybe the two points City gained because of it will be critical in this season's title race.

It was good, old-fashioned human error. We do not need VAR for human error. We are more than capable of that ourselves.

VAR was supposed to eradicate human error. But it has not. It has simply added another layer of human error.

On Sunday, the incompetence of VAR was allowed to override the excellence and experience of the match official. It was a mess. Its only redeeming feature was that it was an honest mistake.

A bit like VAR itself, really. VAR was an error. More and more people are recognising that. More and more people are losing their love of the game because of it.

There is a widespread and increasingly damaging perception that the Premier League are moving further and further away from their fanbase.

More and more people feel it is taking away what is most precious about the sport. I have thought this for a while now and Sunday only confirmed it: it is time for the end of the error.

There is an increasing feeling, in fact, that some of their clubs regard their fan-bases with barely disguised contempt. If they do nothing to banish VAR, it will be more proof of that.

It is within their power to scrap it in their own competition. Sweden's Allsvenskan operates without it. If the Premier League clubs wanted to turn their backs on it and show fans they care about them, they could vote to abandon it.

If they operated with vision or conviction or loyalty to supporters, then the Premier League would do the right thing. But they will not.

Match of the Day offers a welcome shot in the arm

IN the first few weeks of this football season, I have felt in danger of becoming a statistic: one of the growing percentage of viewers turning away from Match of the Day. I have been a loyal viewer for 50 years but sometimes it has felt as if the demise of the programme is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Seducing the reduced-concentration generation with separate highlights packages and facing more episodes without the services of some of their best pundits is not a combination designed to boost audience. But on Sunday night, even more in need of distraction than usual after dropping off my son for his first day at university, I found refuge in it again.

It was still like turning to an old friend. Mark Chapman is as good as any presenter on television, Wayne Rooney and Danny Murphy (both above) are excellent pundits with personality and attitude and the Manchester derby yielded up a range of controversies for them to discuss.

The BBC may be trying to wean us off it but I am not ready to let it go just yet.

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No more United games for duo stood down after derby shambles

EXCLUSIVE By MIKE KEEGAN

THE VAR officials at the centre of Sunday's Manchester derby fiasco are set to be blocked from working on Manchester United matches for the foreseeable future, Daily Mail Sport understands.

Matt Donohue and assistant Blake Antrobus were yesterday stood down for this weekend's fixtures after referees' chief Howard Webb admitted 'an error of judgment' had been made in the decision to allow Erling Haaland's winning goal for Manchester City at Old Trafford.

And it can be disclosed the bungling pair are highly unlikely to work on United games for some time, according to those with knowledge of the situation.

Donohue and Antrobus will not officiate until ‘at least after the international break’ according to referees’ body Pro Ref, who again find themselves in the eye of a storm.

Haaland's 60th-minute strike at Old Trafford was ruled out on the field for offside, with the Norwegian deemed to have strayed beyond United's last man.

However, VAR intervened and deemed the City striker had been played onside by the outstretched boot of United defender

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Pollock: I'd like to move abroad or try another sport

By NIK SIMON Rugby Correspondent

ENGLAND star Henry Pollock has revealed his ambition to move abroad or take up another sport as he finalises terms on a new Northampton contract. The 21-year-old is expected to sign a two-year extension at Franklin's Gardens — though he is open to ‘every opportunity’. Promoter Eddie Hearn claimed Pollock should be paid £1million a year but the back-row forward is expected to land a new Saints deal worth £450,000.

'I want to go and live in different countries, explore new sports, new avenues,' said Pollock. 'Obviously, Northampton's been great to me. I've been here my whole career and they have made me who I am. 'For me to stay here would be so special. I know it's not as easy as that and there's lots of moving parts that come into play. That's why I have an amazing team around me that can work all the little things out for me. I'm very open to new opportunities and I'm very open to exploring that. 'I'm under contract until the end of the year and then after that we'll see what happens. I'm going to have to assess all options. I've talked to my management about everything I can do.

'This year I'm very much focused on Northampton. After that, I guess that will be decided soon.' Pollock insists Hearn's comments about becoming a million-pound player have not added any pressure to his performances. 'I don't see it as pressure,' he said. 'I see it as him doing his job. He's the best sports promoter in the world. Eddie has been great for me, he has given me so many avenues to get into.'

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2. In mathematics, what does RMS stand for?

3. Which series of wars began as a result of a speech by Pope Urban II during the Council of Clermont in 1095?

3. Which composer of the Romantic period was romantically attached to French novelist George Sand?

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1. The sum of four numbers is 108. If five is subtracted from the first number, five is added to the second, the third is divided by five and the fourth is multiplied by five, then all the results are equal. What is the difference between the largest and the smallest of the original numbers?

2. What connects Bikol, Tagalog and Waray?

3. Which actor who has appeared in the Knives Out film series is returning to the London stage this month to appear in a revival of the play Golden Boy?

4. Which characters in Greek mythology were originally conceived as storm winds, and later portrayed as vultures with human female faces?

5. Which 18th-century political thinker wrote Common Sense, Rights Of Man and The Age Of Reason?

SOLUTION: PULLOUT BACK PAGE

3. Which reptile may KISS BALI?
4. Which is the odd one out: pituitary gland, thyroid gland, cerebrum, thalamus?
5. Using the chemical symbols, who may combine rhenium, lanthanum, titanium, oxygen and nitrogen?

FILL in the blank squares of the grid using only the numbers 1 to 9, without repeating any number in any line of blank squares. The lines must be filled in with numbers which add up to the total in the shaded box at the top or beginning of each line. A number in the bottom half of a shaded box gives a downwards total; in the top half, it's a horizontal total.

SOLUTION: PULLOUT BACK PAGE

KAKURO

KILLER SUDOKU

FILL in squares in the grid so each row, column and each 3x3 square contains all digits from 1 to 9. Each set of cells joined by dotted lines must add up to the number in the top-left corner. Numbers can't be repeated within each set of cells.

SOLUTION TOMORROW

NEED A CLUE? Call 0901 293 6238 or text KILLER to 65700 and receive four clues to today's puzzle. Calls and texts cost £1 plus your standard network charges. Today's clues available between 00.01 today and 23.30 only.

SOLUTION TOMORROW

PITCHERWITS™

1a. Text amount: a measure of stone support? (6,4)

15a. Texas art represented in HMRC bands (3,5)

1d. Wrong calibre to make a motor (9)

8d. This is over the top, it's too much (9)
5a. Dispel, if possible, the alternative aspect (8)

2d. Opens out but with the fun sold off (7)
18a. Me, oddly reticent in giving a measurement (10)

ACROSS 1 Picture Clue 5 Picture Clue 9 Doer about to act again (4) 10 Club located in an axis of countries (4) 11 Bad dream about skin (5) 12 Last rites not at all trite, eh, girl? (4)

10d. Fabric that at best I can weave (7)

14 International baccalaureate lives with a wader (4) 15 Picture Clue 18 Picture Clue

SOLUTION TOMORROW

PIT your wits against Pitcherwits – the exciting puzzle where some of the answers are in pictures! The solutions to the visual clues fit into the shaded spaces on the grid.

PITCHERWITS BOOK

MAILWORD

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DOWN 1 Picture Clue 2 Picture Clue 3 Simply not devious, this little gremlin! (3) 4 Brick holder made with little methodology (3) 6 Repeating stationer so not out of order (7)

7 Poorly from a grilled chop (3)
8 Picture Clue
10 Picture Clue
13 Number is seven at first, then nine (3)
16 Sugar-coating a bit of the curve (3)
17 Pretend to be somewhat short on facts (3)

YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION — ACROSS: 1 King of clubs. 5 Catfish. 7 Kendo. 8 Beret. 9 Grass. 11 Clear. 12 Element. 13 Disembarked. DOWN: 1 Kierkegaard. 2 Outdo. 3 Climb. 4 Scout around. 5 Cuneate. 6 Harvest. 10 Steam. 11 Chela.

ACROSS

1 Parsley, e.g.
5 Minister
11 Demonic
12 Mysterious
13 Toy bricks
14 Etches
15 Seafood item
17 Asian language
18 Marine fish
21 Suitable
24 Sardonic
25 Colouring substance
26 Skilled shooters
29 Cereal
30 Begin working
34 Scene
37 Flightless bird

38 Prime number 39 Alter course 40 Peruse again 41 Edible tubers

DOWN

1 Aid 2 At any time 3 Latvian city 4 Heavy strokes 5 Ballet step 6 Bend 7 Clean abrasively 8 Coated with bitumen 9 Eventually 10 Continue 16 Tidings 19 Limb

20 Extra cricket runs 21 Leisurely walker 22 Conditional release 23 Observable ammunition 27 Scoundrel 28 On edge 31 Woman's name 32 Abound 33 Blades 35 Pasture 36 Conclude

SOLUTION TOMORROW

HIDATO

COMPLETE the grid so that all the numbers, 1 to 49, connect consecutively — horizontally, vertically or diagonally. Hint: you don't have to begin with 1 or 49. Working on the mid-numbers might give you a better start.

SOLUTION TOMORROW

	19	17	15
	20			13	8
36					7
37				29	6
38			28		1
40			26			49
42	43

KENKEN

EACH row and column should contain 1 to 6 without repeats. Numbers in cages must combine to produce the target number shown at start of that cage using, in any order, the mathematical sign given. Single-box cages can be filled with the number given.

SOLUTION TOMORROW

WORLD'S SMALLEST, HARDEST CROSSWORD

FIT the scrambled letters of the given word into the grid to form six five-letter words across and down.

SOLUTION TOMORROW

ACROSS

1. FBI agent (U.S. sl) (1-3)

2. Chauffeured car (colloq) (4)

3. Showy flower (4)

4. Compelled (4)

DOWN

1. A lantern (sl) (4)
2. Star in Cetus (4)
3. Within (4)
4. Narrow margin (4) SOLUTION TOMORROW

CODEWORD

EACH number in our Codeword grid represents a different letter of the alphabet. Today 25 represents P, so fill in P every time the figure 25 appears. You have two letters in the control grid to start you off. Enter them in the appropriate squares in the main grid, then use your knowledge of words to work out which letters should go in the missing squares. SOLUTION TOMORROW

COMPLETE Codeword to reveal the word in the shaded boxes.

THERE MAY BE MORE THAN ONE SOLUTION

HOW TO ENTER: Call 0901 293 6232 and leave your answer and your details or text 65700 with the word CODE, your answer and then your name. Texts and calls cost £1 plus standard network charges. One weekly winner chosen from all correct daily entries received between 00.01 Monday and 23.59 Saturday. Answers change daily at 00.01. UK residents aged 18+, excl NI. See Terms & Conditions.

Your working time: □ mins □ secs

1		2			3	1	4	5	6	3	7	8	1	14
9	6	10	7	11		12		4		1		7	2	15
9		1		1	13	7	14	15	7	16	5	9	3	16
1	10	17		18		8		19		5		5	4	17
7		14	19	14	8	14	5		3	20	21	19	5	18
8				8		5		2		10			6	19
5	20	22	14	8	9		23	14	10	9	14	19	7	20
		10		14		9		9				4	8	21
15	4	14	15		9	5	10	14	1	12		14	9	22
4		1		9		1		14		1	4	8	10	23
16	1	5	6	1	10	5	4	16		15		15	11	24
14		6		12		7		6	14	1	24	14	12	25P
9	7	9	25	14	26	9	14			12		15	13	26N

	1			10
1				11
			4	23
		8		29
18	18	21	16	16

CROSS NUMBER

4 mins 8 secs

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NEED A CLUE? Text the word CODEWORD to 65700 to receive FOUR clues to today's puzzle or call 0901 293 6200. Texts and calls cost £1 plus your standard network charges. Today's clues available between 00.01 today and 23.30 only.

GHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

$^1$ A

$^2$ E

$^3$ B

$^4$ C

$^5$ T

$^6$ K

$^7$ V

$^8$ N

$^9$ D

$^{10}$ L

$^{11}$ O

$^{12}$ I

$^{13}$ Q

$^{14}$ H

$^{15}$ U

$^{16}$ G

$^{17}$ Y

$^{18}$ W

$^{19}$ P

$^{20}$ R

$^{21}$ M

$^{22}$ F

$^{23}$ J

$^{24}$ S

$^{25}$ X

$^{26}$ Z

SOLUTION TOMORROW

FILL each square with a number, 1 to 9. Horizontal squares add up to totals on right. Vertical squares add up to totals on bottom. Diagonal squares through centre add up to totals in top and bottom right.

SCRABBLE® BRAND G₂ R₁ A₁ M₃ S₁

■The board on the right shows four rows of letters from a typical Scrabble game. Use each row to form a word of 2-7 letters and write it in the blank squares provided. Then add up the score for each row. Don't forget to use the double and triple word and letter scores — and add a 50-point bonus for every 7-letter word. Blank tiles can be used for any letter but have no score. See tomorrow's paper for the solution. SCRABBLE® and SCRABBLE® Tiles are registered trademarks. All rights in the game are owned in the USA by Hasbro Inc, in Canada by Hasbro Canada Inc, and elsewhere by J.W. Spear & Sons Ltd, a subsidiary of Mattel, Inc.

PAR SCORE 201-215 by JUDD

FOUR RACK TOTAL TIME LIMIT: 20 MIN

Yesterday's solution: SCRATCH 78 TREBLE 14 CITADEL 70 DIGNIFY 65 JUDD'S TOTAL: 227

K	X	W	T	Y	R	E	L	L
A	R	I	S	U	A	P	H	B
B	L	A	Q	D	L	N	X	L
M	A	R	T	E	L	L	W	A
G	N	R	J	S	B	O	Y	C
A	N	T	A	S	A	N	D	K
F	I	Q	R	T	J	T	Y	F
E	S	X	R	E	H	K	P	Y
A	T	D	Y	Q	O	E	Y	R
Z	E	B	N	N	G	M	O	E
G	R	E	Y	J	O	Y	N	N

© 1997, United Feature Syndicate, Inc.

WORD SEARCH

THE listed words can all be found in the grid — running forwards, backwards, up, down and diagonally — EXCEPT ONE. For a chance to win, discover which word is missing. Today's theme: Game Of Thrones houses

ARRYN BARATHEON BLACKFYRE GREYJOY LANNISTER

MARTELL STARK TARGARYEN TULLY TYRELL

HOW TO ENTER: Call 0901 293 6234 and leave your answer and details or text 65700 with the word WORD, your answer and your name. Texts and calls cost £1 plus standard network charges. One winner chosen from all correct daily entries received between 00.01 Monday and 23.59 Friday. Answers change daily at 00.01. UK residents aged 18+, excl NI. See Terms & Conditions. SOLUTION TOMORROW

SUDOKU X

PUT the numbers 1-6 once in each row, each column, each diagonal (highlighted to form an X) and each horizontal 3x2 box (ruled). SOLUTION TOMORROW

		2
	2				1
				6
		4		5

QUICK QUIZ

1. Which mathematical theorem, first conjectured in the 17th century, was proved by Andrew Wiles in 1994?

2. Which adult male singing voice is lower than tenor and higher than bass?

3. Haerfest is the Anglo-Saxon origin of which autumnal word?

4. Who played the male lead role in the 1987 film Roxanne?

5. How many of Henry VIII's wives were beheaded?

SOLUTION: PULLOUT BACK PAGE

GOGEN

AWE BOXED COME DEMOGRAPHY FAR FUND JAW LED QUARK VISTA

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

INSERT letters to form listed words, moving between adjacent cells horizontally, vertically or diagonally in any direction. Insert all remaining letters of the alphabet (except Z) in the grid so all listed words are spelt out.

SOLUTION TOMORROW

BRIDGE MASTERCLASS | CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

No 17,966

West ♠ None ♥ AKQ762 ♦ AK5 ♣ Q643

YOU are in 6♥ as West after North has opened a weak 2♠ and led the ♠A. You ruff this and draw trumps, North holding ♥J-x-x, and South discarding two low spades. Now you play a club to the ♣A and a diamond to the ♦A, both defenders following. You lead one further trump, discarding a spade from dummy, and South discards the ♠10.

YOU know that South holds the ♦Q from the bidding, so cash your last trump and two further rounds of clubs, ending in hand. If South has kept one more club, you can play your last club now and South will be forced to lead away from the ♦Q. If South has kept two more clubs, the ♦Q will now be falling under the ♦K.

FOR your chance to win, solve the crossword to reveal the word reading down the shaded boxes. HOW TO ENTER: Call 0901 293 6233 and leave today's answer and your details, or TEXT 65700 with the word CRYPTIC, your answer and your name. Texts/calls cost £1 plus standard network charges. Or enter by post by sending the completed crossword to Daily Mail Prize Crossword 17,966, PO Box 28, Colchester, Essex CO2 8GF. Please include your name and address. One weekly winner chosen from all correct daily entries received between 00.01 Monday and 23.59 Friday. Postal entries must be date-stamped no later than the following day to qualify. Calls and texts must be received by 23.59; answers change at 00.01. UK residents aged 18+, excl NI. See Terms & Conditions.

HEATHER DHONDY

ACROSS

6 Shop with branches has best description of some questions? (8,6) 9 Look unusually angelic after leaving institute (6) 10 Two women retaining uniform by the look of it (8) 11 One ruling upset tons in Caribbean capital (8) 13 Disclose permitted place to buy goods (6) 15 Tense comic and companion getting to make nervy movement (6) 17 Declare advantage? About right (6) 19 European after comeback encounters great respect (6) 20 Like the best food in Massachusetts and Delaware (8) 22 Official document not a matter for titled figure (8) 24 Consider very tired person having lost weight performing (6) 26 Understand individuals now upset in retreat are to obtain revenge (3,4,3,4)

DOWN

1 Let in list with names devised for vital organ (5,9)
2 Man longingly nibbled sandwiches (4)
3 Forthright guide (6)
4 Bob is cross after misplacing cutting instrument (8)
5 At intervals, spot, yeah, source of protein (4)
7 Affectionate Oscar and Victor in underwear (not half) (6)
8 Very calm sort essentially in western Kansas to see all of a writer's output? (9,5)
12 Craft shown by chap shortly on French island (5)
14 Measure of heat shown in another memo (5)
16 PC, say, is one arriving around place (8)
18 Get hot toiling in deprived area (6)
21 Some farmer in ordinary thin cloth (6)
23 Unenthusiastic fan (4)
25 Climber abseiling on vacation in steep part of a mountain (4)

NEED A CLUE? Text TIP to 65700 to receive FOUR answers to today's crossword, or call 0901 293 6236. Texts and calls cost £1 plus standard network charges. Today's clues available between 00.01 today and 23.30 only.

SOLUTIONS TO YESTERDAY'S PUZZLES

www.30secondchallenges.com

START on left with number given and follow instructions as you go across. In 30 seconds, beginners have to complete their own challenge; intermediates have to complete their own challenge and the beginner's; advanced players have to complete their own challenge and the intermediate's.

SUDOKU
PRIZE SUDOKU

1	2	7	5	8	3	4	6	9
4	3	6	7	9	1	5	8	2
9	5	8	6	2	4	7	3	1
3	4	9	8	6	7	1	2	5
2	6	1	3	5	9	8	7	4
8	7	5	1	4	2	6	9	3
6	9	3	4	1	8	2	5	7
5	1	2	9	7	6	3	4	8
7	8	4	2	3	5	9	1	6

3	1	7	9	2	8	5	4	6
8	2	4	5	6	1	3	7	9
6	5	9	3	4	7	8	2	1
7	9	5	8	1	2	4	6	3
4	6	2	7	9	3	1	5	8
1	3	8	4	5	6	7	9	2
5	4	1	2	8	9	6	3	7
9	7	6	1	3	4	2	8	5
2	8	3	6	7	5	9	1	4

YOUR ANSWERS

5	9	4	8	2	6	7	3	1
8	3	6	1	4	7	2	9	5
7	1	2	3	5	9	6	4	8
2	8	7	9	6	3	5	1	4
1	6	5	7	8	4	3	2	9
9	4	3	5	1	2	8	6	7
6	2	9	4	7	8	1	5	3
3	7	1	6	9	5	4	8	2
4	5	8	2	3	1	9	7	6

WORD SEARCH Missing: LAGENA

30-SECOND CHALLENGE

HIDATO

Beginner	83	-19	$\div 16$	$\times 12$	+43	$\div 7$	$\times 10$	+5	$\div 9$	$\times 40$
Intermediate	27	+48	$^{6}/_{15}$ OF IT	25%OF IT	$\times 20$	-6	$^{5}/_{6}$ OF IT	-8	$^{5}/_{8}$ OF IT	$^{9}/_{10}$ OF IT
Advanced	85	LESS40%	$^{14}/_{17}$ OF IT	$\times 11$	LESS $33^{1}/_{3}\%$	+22	$^{6}/_{15}$ OF IT	LESS25%	$\times 2^{1}/_{3}$	$^{4}/_{14}$ OF IT

KAKURO

CROSS NUMBER

NINE TO FIVE

	T	I	M
M	O	N	E	Y
E	D	G	E	S
M	A	L	T	Y
	Y	E	S

WORD WHEEL: ceiling, cleg, cling, decile, decline, dele, deleing, deli, diligence, dingle, elide, eliding, geld, gelid, gild, glee, glen, glide, idle, idling, ledge, legend, lend, lied, liege, lien, line, lined, ling.

				19
9	4	6	8	27
1	3	2	5	11
2	1	4	3	10
8	7	5	9	29
20	15	17	25	25

			1	6			8	4
	1	3	2	8	5		5	2	6
	8	4		9	7			1	8
				3	2		4	7
	4	8			9	7	3
	1	3			8	2	1	5
		1	7		6	1		2	6
			9	8	3			4	7
		7	8	2	1	3
	8	6			4	9	3	1
	4	2					8	5

MAKING TRACKS

SOLUTION BELOW

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD ACROSS: 7 Clarke. 8 Ice cubes. 9 Box files. 10 August. 11 Register. 12 Notary. 13 Diane Morgan. 18 Flying. 20 Nonmetal. 22 Espana. 23 Abeyance. 24 Coronets. 25 Lodger.

KENKEN
SUDOKU X

4-5	1	4	$2 \frac{1}{2}$ 3	6	40×2
$3 \frac{1}{2}$ 6	$2 -$ 3	1	$2 \frac{1}{2}$ 2	4	5
2	8+5	3	5-6	1	4
1-3	8+2	6	9+4	5	2-1
4	1-6	5	3+1	2	3
1	$11 +$ 4	2	5	$2 \frac{1}{2}$ 3	6

KILLER SUDOKU

WORLD'S SMALLEST, HARDEST CROSSWORD — ACROSS: 1 High. 4 Ea. 5 Sn. 6 Baht. DOWN: 1 Herb. 2 IA. 3 Hint. 5 Sh.

4	6	3	2	5	1
2	1	5	6	4	3
3	4	6	5	1	2
1	5	2	3	6	4
5	3	1	4	2	6
6	2	4	1	3	5

GOGEN

Y D X C H M E N P F B U G O J Q T R I K S V A W L

DOWN: 1 Blooper. 2 Graffiti. 3 Zealot. 4 Retainer. 5 Nugget. 6 Sensory. 8 Instrumentals. 14 No-go area. 15 Adelaide. 16 Glasgow. 17 Sanchez. 19 In a row. 21 Needle.

CRYPTIC CROSSWORD No. 17,963

ACROSS: 1 Caravan site. 9 Rootles. 10 Scalpel. 11 Eft. 12 Ominous. 13 In error. 14 Fog. 15 Tithe. 17 Yearn. 18 Drops. 20 Tosca. 22 Pug. 24 Monster. 25 Message. 26 Ski. 27 Staunch. 28 Amasses. 29 Exceptional. DOWN: 1 Closing-down sale. 2 Rollout. 3 Vases. 4 Nastiness. 5 Imagery. 6 Expert appraisal. 7 Cry off. 8 Florin. 16 Tutorship. 18 Demise. 19 Satanic. 21 Abstain. 23 Grease. 25 Miami.

MAILWORD

ACROSS: 1 Stew. 5 Jet. 8 Hire. 9 Aruba. 11 Senna. 12 Rugby. 13 Namesake. 15 Arises. 16 Dale. 20 Ken. 21 Lit. 23 Con. 24 Eden. 26 Ardour. 28 Innuendo. 30 Parka. 33 Spiel. 34 Alien. 35 Tots. 36 Web. 37 Stet. DOWN: 1 Sheared. 2 Tin mine. 3 Ernes. 4 Weasel. 5 Jug. 6 Ebb. 7 Tay. 9 Ark. 10 Rued. 11 Snake. 14 Asian. 17 Aconite. 18 Loudest. 19 Enrol. 22 Trusts. 25 Nike. 27 Depot. 29 Nan. 30 Paw. 31 Ale. 32 Rib.*

SOLUTIONS TO TODAY'S PUZZLES

QUICK QUIZ:

1Fermat's Last Theorem. 2 Baritone. 3 Harvest. 4 Steve Martin. 5 Two. MINDBENDER: 172. 2 They are all languages spoken in the Philippines. 3 Basilisk. 4 Thyroid gland; the others are found in the brain. 5 Relation (Re-La-Ti-O-N).

MASTERQUIZ:

1 Crusades. 2 Root mean square. 3 Frederic Chopin. 4 Josh O'Connor. 5 Harpies. 6 Thomas Paine.

HONEYCOMB:

1 Bangle. 2 Nature. 3 Revere. 4 Events. 5 Stalls. 6 Laurel. 7 Recede. 8 Cuddle. 9 Damsel. 10 Meters. 11 Recall. 12 Cellar.

KUROSU

0 0 X 0 X X 0 X 0 X X 0 X 0 X X 0 0 0 X 0 0 X X X 0 X 0 0 X X X 0 X 0 0

30-SECOND CHALLENGE: Beginner: 600. Intermediate: 63. Advanced: 66.

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