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In Londons Oxford Circus
JK Rowling Comes
Out Against Scottish
Independence
By Jill Lawless
HARRY POTTER creator JK Rowling waded into the world of Muggle politics last
month, announcing a 1m donation to the
campaign against Scottish independence.
Scots will vote in a September 18 referendum on whether to leave their 300-yearold union with England and become an
independent country.
Rowling, who lives in Edinburgh, said
she had decided that while independence
might give us opportunities ... it also carries serious risks.
The more I listen to the Yes campaign,
the more I worry about its minimization
and even denial of risks, she wrote.
MICROSURGERY
This separation will not be quick
and clean: it will take microsurgery to
disentangle three centuries of close interdependence.
Rowling said she was particularly concerned about the impact on the economy
and on funding for medical research in
Scotland. She has donated millions to the
fight against multiple sclerosis, the disease
that killed her mother.
Rowling said the referendum would
be a historic moment for Scotland. I just
hope with all my heart that we never have
cause to look back and feel that we made
a historically bad mistake.
Rowling, one of Britains wealthiest
writers, made a substantial donation to
the anti-independence Better Together
campaign. Spokesman Mark Hutchinson
confirmed the donation was 1m.
ENERGETIC
Polls show the anti-independence side
narrowly ahead among Scottish voters, but
pro-independence forces have run a betterfunded and more energetic campaign.
Rowling predicted that some proindependence campaigners would discount
her views because she was born and raised
in England. She likened that stance to the
obsession with pure wizard blood of the
villainous characters in her magical saga.
When people try to make this debate
about the purity of your lineage, things
start getting a little Death Eaterish for my
taste, she wrote.

Inspectors Criticise
Schools Over
Islamist Plot

By Jill Lawless
THE BRITISH government last month
announced that schools would be required
to teach British values after inspectors
found governors with hard-line Muslim
views had intimidated teachers and imposed religiously motivated restrictions
at several schools.
Inspectors were called in after an anonymous letter alleged a plot called Operation
Trojan Horse by Muslim fundamentalists
to infiltrate schools in the central England
city of Birmingham.
Authorities believe the letter was a
hoax, but the alleged plot triggered several
inquiries and inflamed tensions in Britains
second-largest city, which has a large
Muslim population.
Inspectors said they had found a culture of fear and intimidation at a minority
of the 21 schools it inspected, and five
of them failed to protect students from
extremism.
Chief schools inspector Michael
Wilshaw said there was evidence of an
organized campaign to target certain
schools by some members of their governing bodies.
PROMOTED
Inspectors said governors had promoted
a narrow faith-based ideology at some
schools, whose students are overwhelmingly from Muslim backgrounds. At one
school, governors attempted to ban mixedsex swimming lessons; at another, music
lessons were dropped because they were
considered un-Islamic; and at a third, governors vetted the script for a nativity play
and told staff they could not use a doll to
represent the baby Jesus.
Staff and some head teachers variously described feeling intimidated,
undermined or bullied by governors,
and sometimes by senior staff, into making
changes they did not support, Wilshaw
said.
Park View Educational Trust, which
runs three of the criticised schools, rejected
the inspectors verdict and said it would
launch a legal challenge. Vice chairman
David Hughes said the inspectors came
to our schools looking for extremism.
EXPOSED
The Trojan Horse furor exposed a
feud between Education Secretary Michael
Gove and Home Secretary Theresa May,
who is responsible for law and order.
Continued on page 4

RRJury Finds
Coulson Guilty
Of Phone
Hacking,
Brooks
Acquitted

By Jill Lawless
TWO POWERFUL British political insiders met starkly different fates June 24 as
former News of the World editor Andy
Coulson was convicted of phone hacking
but fellow editor Rebekah Brooks was
acquitted, after a month-long trial centering on illegal activity at the heart of Rupert
Murdochs newspaper empire.
A jury at Londons Old Bailey unanimously found Coulson, the former spin
doctor of British Prime Minister David
Cameron, guilty of conspiring to intercept
communications by eavesdropping on
mobile phone voicemails. Brooks was
acquitted of that charge and of counts of
conspiring to bribe officials and obstruct
police.
The nearly eight-month trial one of
the longest and most expensive in British
legal history was triggered by revelations that for years the News of the World
used illegal eavesdropping to get stories,
listening in on the voicemails of celebrities, politicians and even crime victims.
The scandal led Murdoch to shut down
the 168-year-old tabloid and spurred
criminal investigations in which dozens
of journalists and officials have been
arrested.
The jury also found former News of the
World managing editor Stuart Kuttner not
guilty of phone hacking.
ACQUITTED
Three other defendants Brooks
husband Charles, her former secretary
Cheryl Carter and News International
security chief Mark Hanna were acquitted of perverting the course of justice by
attempting to hide evidence from police.
The defendants stood silently in the
dock as the forewoman of the 11-member
jury announced the verdicts.
Coulson showed no emotion as he was
declared guilty. He faces a maximum
sentence of two years in jail on the hacking conviction.
Brooks mouthed thank you after she
was cleared of all charges, and exchanged
a glance with Carter, standing next to her

in the dock. After the verdicts she and

her husband left court without speaking
to reporters.
The jury, which has been deliberating
for eight days, is still considering two
further charges of paying officials for
royal phone directories against Coulson
and former News of the World royal editor
Clive Goodman.
CONSPIRING
Brooks and Coulson, both 46, were accused of conspiring, along with Kuttner, to
hack phones between 2000 and 2006. She
edited the News of the World from 2000
to 2003 with Coulson as her deputy and,
the trial revealed, on-off lover. Coulson
then took over as editor, before becoming
Camerons communications chief.
All the defendants denied wrongdoing.
Prosecutors argued that senior editors
must have known that hacking was taking
place at the News of the World but only
Coulson was convicted by the jury.
The verdict puts pressure on Cameron,
who employed Coulson after two News
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RRBritish Jihadist
Preaching Violence On
Twitter Causes Concern
A MAN described as a British jihadist
called for the beheading of Britains Prime
Minister and Home Secretary last month.
Currently in Iraq or Syria, and thought
to be fighting for ISIS, Abu Rashash
Britani directed his Twitter rant at Mr
Cameron and others on behalf of the
mujahideen.
The fear of how social media is influencing some young British nationals caused the account to be promptly
removed.
Home Office spokesman said: We do
not tolerate the existence of online terrorist
and extremist propaganda.
Last night Baroness Neville-Jones, 74,
former chairman of the Joint Intelligence
Committee, repeated the warning saying:
There are many potential threats to the
security of the UK but this is the most
serious to our homeland.
The latest Twitter attack came after the
British security service MI5 pledged to
beef up in monitoring of social media in an
effort to quell extremism. The government
believes that the radicalisation of Muslims
in Syria is the biggest threat to national
security in decades.
There are believed to be around 400
500 British nationals fighting for ISIS,
with others having been banned from leaving the UK to stop them getting training.

YOU ARE WHAT YOU WEETABIX

COMMUTERS were rubbing their eyes

for more than one reason one at 9 am
one morning last month in London.
The sight of a giant octopus, not a real live
one, blocking roads and causing traffic chaos
during the morning rush hour in Britains busiest shopping district. Astonished commuters
snapped pictures of the polystyrene beast,
which was on the back of a lorry which had
broken down in the middle of the diagonal
crossing at the Oxford Circus junction.
Transport for London (TfL) tweeted a picture of the eight-legged obstruction saying:
A lorry carrying an octopus has broken down
at Oxford Circus. Approach with care.
The octopus caused traffic jams around
Oxford Street, one of Londons most popular
tourist destinations, with more than 200 million visitors per year.
The lorrys owner also took to Twitter and
said: Hes no Paul the Octopus, but hes
been causing ripples with the London traffic.
The company said it thought the creature
was part of a World Cup related publicity
stunt by a betting company.
The driver told Sky News he had been
hired to take the octopus from Peckham to
Hammersmith. He said the location of the
breakdown was an unfortunate coincidence
and he had managed to restart the lorry and
carry on with his journey.
He added: Would I stop the lorry at
8:10am in the middle of Oxford Circus? Are
you joking?
Travellers Advised To Apply Early

Delays In British
Passport Issuance/
Renewals
WITH a backlog of applications, the British Passport Office could now be faced
with a strike by workers.
Staff are protesting the job-cuts that they
say have played a big part into the hold up
of issuance of passports over the last number of months. And, now the busiest time
of the year just got worse, as the office has
received 300,000 more applications than
during the same period last year.
The Public and Commercial Services Union claims that offices are undermanned, and fighting a backlog of 500,000
passport applications.
The PCS said the agency was in crisis
because major job cuts and office closures had left it unable to handle demand.
MPs have been inundated with more than
500 complaints in recent weeks from
constituents about delays.
The Home Office website advises it
takes three weeks to renew a passport,
but travellers are complaining it is taking
twice as long. We have had a number of
calls here at the Union Jack offices on the
delays and difficulties in reaching help by
telephone.
In a letter to the Passport Offices chief
executive Paul Pugh, the PCS said the
problems were heightened by the loss of 315
staff and closure of 23 offices since 2010.
The layoffs were executed despite a
surplus being posted by the agency of
73m last year.
PCS chief Mark Serwotka told the Daily
Mail the union would consider industrial
action if the situation was not addressed
satisfactorily by the end of June. He added:
The Passport Office is failing holidaymakers because of a political decision to cut staff
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Google Street View Garage
Murder Joke Backfires

AN APOLOGY was necessary last month

from an Edinburgh garage owner who staged
a joke murder which was misunderstood
when spotted online.
The prankster spotted the Google Street
View camera vehicle in his area and staged
the scene that caused the controversy.
Police visited Dan Thompson, 56, following a complaint by a member of the
public who spotted the hoax online, reported
the BBC.
The mechanic had layed on the road
while his colleague stood over him with a
pick axe handle after spotting the Google
camera car from a distance. Thompson
said: By complete fluke, I saw the Google
car coming along the road but it had to loop
the block so I had one minute to rush back
inside the garage and set up the murder
scene. There are pictures of men on Google
flashing their bums but we thought we would
be more classy.
The image was not uploaded to Street
View for 12 months, by which time the pair
had forgotten the prank.
Thompson said: Two uniformed officers
came down to the garage to interview us.
They were treating it seriously at first I
was mortified because we didnt want to
waste police time,
Thompson added: We explained to the
police what we had done and they thought
it was hilarious.

Irish Dancing Taken Around

The World By Three Lads
Spreading Cheer

DEDICATING a whole year to traveling

the world kicking up their heels with Irish
dancing, three Dublin men talked of their
adventure last month, and shared a video.
Chris McGrath, Kevin Cobbe and Ian McNamara quit their respective jobs to spread
Irish cheer, and began their epic journey,
kicking off in Dublin, at the start of 2013
and went on to Irish dance in 23 countries.
They graced iconic locations such as the
Chichen Itza in Mexico, the Maachu Picchu
Inca site in Peru and the Amazon rainforest,
before heading to the beach in Rio de Janiero
and the Sydney Opera House.
People were able to track their progress
at www.thewirld.org with the hope of getting
more of their fellow compatriots involved
in the craic.
Their journey from May 2013 onwards
is fast approaching 250,000 views on
YouTube already.

Missing UK Veteran Found At

D-Day Events In France

POLICE reported that an 89-year-old World

War II veteran who was reported missing
from a nursing home in England had been
found in Normandy after traveling to attend
D-Day commemorations last month.
Bernard Jordan, who had last been seen
at The Pines home in Hove, southern England, on the morning of June 5. That evening
staff called police.
The following day, D-Day, Sussex Police
said that another veteran later called to say
he and Jordan were at a hotel in Ouistreham,
France. Officers also spoke to Jordan and
determined he was fine.
The force said Jordan left the home wearing his service medals and joined a group of

veterans heading to France by bus.

Chief Superintendent Nev Kemp tweeted:
Veteran reported missing by care home
who said he cant go to Normandy for DDay remembrance. Weve found him there!

TODAYS
BRITAIN

Ambulance On Emergency Call

Picked Up Hitchhikers
open-mouthed, reported the Manchester

GLENN BUSCOMBE couldnt believe it when

he was being rushed to hospital in Plymouth,
last month with a suspected blood clot,
and then his disbelief exploded when the
Ambulance stopped to pick up hitchhikers.
Buscombe knew a blood clot could cost
him his leg and was stunned when his
ambulance picked up the pair. It was the
early hours of the morning when the 60year old Polperro man was being rushed to
hospital, only to see the door slid open and
a woman in a skimpy skirt climbed inside
while her boyfriend hopped onto the front
seat, reported the Western Morning News.
Buscombe said: I was in terrible pain.
The leg was swollen and my toes were starting to go black. I couldnt believe what was
going on. The paramedic in the back with me
looked as confused as I was.
The ambulance driver then gave the pair
a lift to the next town before dropping them
off headed to A&E in Plymouth.
The retired carpenter was told by doctors
at the citys Derriford Hospital he might have
to have his right leg amputated because of
a deep vein thrombosis. But after being
transferred to another specialist hospital unit
medics restored his blood flow with a series
of injections.
Following a complaint from Buscombe,
South Western Ambulance Service NHS
Foundation Trust who have launched an
urgent investigation. A service spokesman
said: The Trust takes all complaints seriously and started an investigation to establish
exactly what happened during the transfer.

Housemates Balloon Joke

Welcomes Amazed Friend
Back From Trip

WHEN Richard Southgate returned back to

London from a working trip, he was greeted
to a room filled with 2,300 balloons.
Pals and housemates Jamie Muscato and
Joe Mott had spent 30 days inflating the balloons in their pals room as prank.
Southgates reaction on returning home,
was captured on video and posted on
YouTube.
It shows the two jokers welcoming their
friend home with hearty hugs, before filming
him as he walks to his bedroom door.
Southgate seems to suspect something
is amiss, asking his friends: What have
you done?
Seconds later, his face changes as he
opens his door, before staring, stunned at
the thousands of balloons streaming out of it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbHEE5XJMpA

Naked Protest Cycling Ride In

Cities Around The World

THE ELEVENTH annual World Naked Bike

Ride saw Manchester and Brighton hosting
last month in the UK.
Thousands of cyclists took part also in
Portland, Oregon; Barcelona and Thessaloniki in Greece.
Hundreds of bare bikers left All Saints
Park in Manchester to streak through the city
streets causing onlookers to stop and stare

Evening News.
Organiser Sean Fitton said there were
more than 200 participants for the 2014
event double last years turnout. It was
amazing, he said. There were a lot more
people here so it was just huge. Nice weather
certainly helped for a start.
Despite the fact the vast majority of
cyclists bared all for the ride, he said it was
vary rare for anyone to take offence.
In Manchester there is very little of that.
I think we had one person who didnt like
it everyone else cheers and jokes, he said.
Similar responses were reported in the
other cities, very few complaints.
The rides are held in more than 75 US
cities and in more than 20 other countries,
but Portlands is believed to be the largest,
with more than 8,000 participants last year.
Oregon ride spokesman Carl Larson said
This is a party, but its also a protest. It is
about oil dependence, cycling vulnerability
and body image.

Scooter In The Handbag

Invention Wins Top Award

IMAGINE leaving a social event and unfolding

a scooter out of your handbag before rolling
off down the road.
A 22-year-old
university student
has just won first
prize in the prestigious Power of Aluminium awards
for designing
such a vehicle.
Perhaps not
everyones idea of travel, but certainly a
step, or scoot, in the right direction.
George Mabeys design sees parts of
aluminium linked with a cable which pulls
everything together and the scooter supports
an adults weight.
The prize, which celebrates innovative
uses of the metal, highlights the scooter,
weighing less than 5kg, as the first prototype
to be exhibited as part of the London South
Bank Universitys Shape Product Design and
Engineering Product Design degree show.
The handy device which is so small it
can fit in a handbag is being made after
impressing judges and could cost around
1,000.
Mabey, from Southampton, an engineering product design student, won a 1,000
prize, and said: I was amazed at winning
such a brilliant competition, which I was
proud to take part in.

Game Of Thrones Fan Creates

Edinburgh Style Version

EDINBURGH has become the subject city

of a recreated Game Of Thrones opening
sequence by an avid fan.
Fantasy locations like Kings Landing and
Westeros have been substituted with iconic
Edinburgh landmarks by Steven Jefferies,
from local town Musselburgh.
The Game of Thrones series opens with
a sweeping 3D birds-eye view of the fictional

kingdom of Westeros giving fans a synopsis

of what the storyline will be. The newly
created version by Jeffries sees Edinburgh
Castle, the Scott Monument and Forth Bridge
rise from the earth all intricately assembled
like tiny clockwork models.
The 28-year-old was inspired to pay homage to the show while giving a 3D graphic
lesson to friends.
Jeffries said: The reaction has been really
good everything I was hoping for, really,
said the animator, who spent months collecting satellite imagery, terrain maps and
photographs.
Im hoping that people watch it and enjoy
it, and get something out of seeing their city
as a miniature model built up in 3D.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XulXa1novhI

Woman Experiences Meaning

Of The Eagle Has Landed

RELAXING in her living room, about to watch

the tennis on TV, a retired teacher got the
shock of her life last month when an eagle
flew into her living room.
The 18-inch tall Russian Steppe landed
on her cabinet and began knocking off ornaments with its 4ft wings. After causing a bit
of destruction at the house in Poole, Dorset,
the bird settled down and began pecking at
a bowl of potpourri.
Morrell and friend Karen Ruddlesden tried
to tempt the bird outside using pieces of ham
but ended up having to call the Wessex Bird
of Prey Rescue Centre.
After half an hour the eagle was finally
lured off its makeshift perch by rescuer Jon
Ball, who used a dead chick to tempt the bird
out of the house.
It was discovered later that the eagle was
a trained bird called Storm that wards off
seagulls at a nearby landfill site.
The bird had been missing for three days
after breaking its tethers.
Morrell said that she might think twice
before leaving open her patio doors in future
following her experience.

month, except for . . . the Queens hat.

Apparently Her Majestys large hats led
to a hasty change of plans by the French
government over what car she should travel
in during last months trip to Normandy.
There had been months of preparations
for Her Majestys official visit to France, as
part of the 70th anniversary of the D-Day
landings on June 6.
Original plans had the Queen in President
Francois Hollandes low-roofed official
Citroen DS5.
But the Elysee Palace then realised the
Queen would not be able to sit upright in the
back of the car or the larger C6 model without
the possible squashing of her headwear.
The presidential fleet did include people
carriers that have more headroom but these
were seen as being unfit for the British
monarch.
As a result, the Elysee Palace chose a
Renault Vel Satis which had been mothballed.
It was 62.2 inches high 2.6 inches taller
than the compact executive DS5.
The model provided for the Queen was an
armoured 3.5-litre V6.

Front Room Cannabis Farmer

Busted Himself After He
Accidentally Calls 999

A MAN with an 18,000 cannabis farm in his

front room was arrested after accidentally
dialing 999 from the house.
The 42-year-old suspect somehow rang
the emergency number from a landline at
the property in Crewe, Cheshire, last month
The call was logged as an abandoned
emergency call and police officers were
dispatched to check on the welfare of the
caller.
But when they knocked on the door and
went inside they found 18 mature cannabis
plants being grown in the front room each
with an estimated street value of 1,000.
After the unusual drugs bust, Crewe Police
tweeted: Epic fail of the day goes to the man
in Crewe who rang 999 by accident. We arAy Up Ya Daft Hapeth Yorkshire rived to check he was safe... and found his
cannabis farm!
Warning To Tour Riders
A spokesman for the Cheshire force said:
IF ANY Tour de France riders have any ques- A 42-year-old local man has been arrested
tions to how different Yorkshire can be, they in connection with the discovery.
have a new video to check out before the big
race this month . . . spoof video.
Supermarket Criticized For
Alistaire McGregor made the tongue-inKKK-Like Design
cheek clip, and it warns competitors that
SUPERMARKET
locals wont like bright-coloured jerseys and
chain Asda has
advises wearing a grey cardigan or heavy
been criticized
duty donkey jacket instead.
for the design
Riders are also told to fit in with the
of its World Cup
locals includes wearing a flat cap instead of
wearable Engthem shiny ats wi holes in, referring to
land flags that
cycling helmets.
some customMcGregor, 31, said the inspiration for the
ers say resemble
video came from seeing an elderly gentlehoods worn by
man tackling a part of Holme Moss, one
the Ku Klux Klan.
of the King of the Mountain stages on the
Designers of
Grand Depart.
the flag a St
I saw an old guy going up the hill on an
Georges Cross
old steel bike that looked like it weighed more
with the word
than my car, with all this heavy gear on, he
England on it included a white hood.
told the York Press.
In response to customer complaints on
The video has been watched by over
Twitter, Asda said last month its simply
108,000 users.
http://youtu.be/j3h-hE-4X4Q
a flag with a hood nothing more, nothing
less, adding that designers opted for a hood
Queens Too Big Hat Saw
as you never know what the British weather
French President Change Car will bring.
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smoothly on the beaches of Normandy last Wal-Mart.

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The A-Listers

UKIPS Votes Change

Balance Of Power

LABOUR was in turmoil after the local elections last month as senior MPs
rounded on Ed Miliband for failing to anticipate the dangers of a UKIP surge.
As town hall election results left Labour MPs depressed about their chances of regaining
power, Mr Miliband was accused of running a tremendously ill-judged campaign marred
by gaffes.
Nigel Farage said that UKIP had sent
Leading accountancy firm PWCs Cities of
tremors through the old three-party politi- Opportunity Index found London is technocal system as an exclusive poll showed he logically on top of its game, jumping from
faces an uphill struggle to hold onto support eighth place in last years report to joint first
in next years general election.
with Seoul for technology readiness this year.
With results from Englands local elections The report is based on 59 indicators rating
showing scores of council seats falling to factors such as health, education, ease of
UKIP from Labour in the North and the Tories doing business and cost of living.
in the South, Mr Farage declared: The UKIP
PwC partner David Snell, author of the
fox is in the Westminster henhouse.
report, said: Theres no more potent a reThe Liberal Democrats were by far the minder of what sustainable growth looks like
biggest casualties, losing two councils in than the view of London when you draw the
what were regarded as their heartlands, and dots between our ranking on higher educamore than 100 seats.
tion, technology access, skills, attractiveness
After four years as the junior partner in for foreign direct investment, and ease of
the Coalition, they are weaker than they doing business.
have been for a quarter of a century so
As well as claiming first place in three of
weak that they face the prospect of being 10 key areas, London was ranked second
reduced to an ineffectual rump in next Mays behind Paris for intellectual capital and
general election.
innovation.
More even than David Cameron or Ed
But the report also shows London has the
Miliband, Nick Clegg epitomises those de- highest cost of transport in the index, and fifth
fects that have led voters to desert the three highest cost of living.
main parties for UKIP.
However, Nigel Farages national surge ran Beware The Swarm
A massive swarm of bees trapped shopout of steam in London where his campaign
pers and sent commuters running for cover
flopped.
The elections in London were also a disap- near Victoria Station a couple of weeks ago.
Tens of thousands of the insects covered
pointment to the Tories who struggled without
the Boris effect, handing Labour its best shop windows and landed on passers-by
making their way to work.
results in the capital since 1971.
One woman told how she was trapped in a
Labour became the biggest party in the
capital, snatching control of several councils, shop for half an hour as she ducked for cover
including Hammersmith and Fulham, a flag- afraid of being attacked.
ship Tory authority previously described as
Lara Buckle said: All of a sudden there
David Camerons favourite.
were thousands and thousands of bees flyLabours gains included Croydon, which ing around. You couldnt even see the sky
was taken from the Conservatives, and they were that many. At first people were
Redbridge, where it took control for the first just walking through it, it looked like dust
time. It also gained Harrow and Merton, as particles and then all of a sudden people
well as holding Enfield, Haringey, Waltham started panicking, hitting themselves, trying
Forest and Brent.
to get them off.
Labour now controls at least 21 councils in
Shopowners on Victoria Street closed their
London, which equals its record from 1971. doors and commuters were forced to remain
indoors until the swarm moved on.
London Beats New York To Top
According to the British Beekeepers AsCity Title
sociation, swarming bees could have come
London has been named the world capital from a hive very close by. They often stop to
for business, finance and culture, beating check they have the queen with them before
New York, Singapore and Beijing.
moving on to their new home.
In a study of the 30 most influential cities,
The likelihood of being stung by swarming
the UK capital was ranked first overall and also bees is low, although they should be avoided
for economic clout, technology readiness and and a swarm collector collected.
as a city gateway, meaning it is an excellent
The swarm was collected and moved
transport hub and tourist destination.
carefully to a new safe home nearby.

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Having film and TV stars turn up regularly

on your doorstep might sound like a dream
come true. But for residents living near
Lincolns Inn Fields in Holborn the frequent
presence of the likes of Meryl Streep, Kiefer
Sutherland, Emma Watson and the cast of
Downton Abbey has become a living nightmare.
Neighbours are now calling for a moratorium on movie-making in the public square,
saying the Georgian idyll in the shadow of
the City is under siege from celebrities and
their entourages.
In the past few weeks, the public gardens
have hosted the cast of ITVs Mr Selfridge,
witnessed a spectacular car crash for 24:
Live Another Day and seen Streep and Helena Bonham Carter shoot Suffragette. The
historic district has long been a draw for big
budget movie makers, with Guy Ritchies
Sherlock, Richard Curtiss About Time and
the Harry Potter films all shot in the area.
It has probably witnessed more whodunits
than the neighbouring Old Bailey, with annual
visits from crews filming Agatha Christies
Poirot and Miss Marple. But locals say the
number of crews rolling into the square has
gone through the roof since 2010, when
Camden council outsourced the management of the square as a location to private
firm FilmFixer.
FilmFixer director Karen Everett said:
FilmFixers most important role for Camden
council is to protect residents and ensure
they are respected by filmmakers. Camden
council has specifically sought our expertise
in order to manage filming effectively for the
borough. We enforce strict codes of conduct
on filmmakers activities.
We are held fully accountable to the
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earned on their behalf.

Umaniec, in October 2012. Umaniec was

sentenced to two years jail for the attack.
Experts spent nine months analysing the
many layers of the surface of the painting and
its combination of oils, pigments, resins, egg
and glues in some areas ink had soaked
through to the back of the canvas. They
then spent another nine months creating test
canvases to assess solvents and cleaning
methods and ageing canvas samples with
heat and light before doing the restoration
work. Black on Maroon was one of a series
of works presented to the Tate by Rothko
in 1970.
The painting was valued at between
5m-9m during Umaniecs trial. He claimed
that his attack was an artistic act in the name
of Yellowism.

shortage.
Three schemes were officially launched
recently at an event in the East End.
Jeremy Stibbe, executive director of development, regeneration and sales at Peabody,
said:All profits generated from the private
and shared ownership sales will go back
into Peabody and be used to benefit local
communities, charities and families, helping
to further enhance peoples quality of life.
Mr Stibbe said the level of public funding
for housing association schemes had plummeted from around 60 percent of the total to
less than 20 percent, forcing Peabody to look
at new ways of funding itself.
George Peabody set up his Donation Fund
in 1862. It now owns around 27,000 homes
across the capital, worth 10bn in total.

Trusts 600m Home Sales To

Fund Social Schemes

And finally ...

One of Londons biggest housing associations launched a 600m programme

of private home sales to help fund its social
scheme for low-income workers.
The 152-year-old Peabody trust founded
by American philanthropist banker George
Peabody hopes to deliver hundreds of
flats a year for sale to help ease the housing

Tate Praised For Saving Defaced

Rothko Painting

The family of Mark Rothko has praised

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Black on Maroon 1958 was defaced with
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Game Of Thrones Puts

Northern Ireland On The Map

OPPONENTS of Scottish independence reacted with delight

last month after President Barack
Obama called for a robust, united
and effective Britain.
Obama was asked for his opinion during
a news conference with Prime Minister
David Cameron after a meeting of the G-7
group of nations in Brussels.
He said that while the decision was up
to Scottish voters, we obviously have
a deep interest in making sure that one
of the closest allies we will ever have
remains a strong, robust, united and effective partner.
American officials have largely refrained from expressing an opinion on
whether Scotland should become an independent nation and end its 300-year union
with England. Scottish voters will decide
whether to go it alone in a referendum on
September 18.
PARTNER
The United Kingdom has been an
extraordinary partner to us, Obama said.
From the outside at least, it looks like
things have worked pretty well.
The Better Together campaign, which
is urging Scots to reject independence,
quickly tweeted a variation on the famous
Obama Hope poster bearing Obamas
words under the heading Nope.
Lawmaker Douglas Alexander, the
Labour Partys Scottish affairs spokesman, said Obamas remarks were a clear
statement of support for the UK staying
together.
Scotlands pro-independence First
Minister Alex Salmond said Obama had
been right to say it was a decision for the
Scottish people, and quoted the presidents
famous phrase: Yes we can.
He added, diplomatically, that when
Scotland gained independence, the US
would have two allies instead of one.

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GIANTS, DRAGONS and vengeful

queens have for generations populated
Northern Irelands folk tales. Now, such
creatures are visiting the land in a different
version on the sets for the hit TV show
Game of Thrones. But rather than spells
and destruction, theyre bringing an economic boost to this British province still

healing from its past of political violence.

Fans of the HBO fantasy drama would
recognize here the landscapes from the fictional land of Westeros the castle of Winterfell, the seaside cliffs of the Iron Isles
and the Kings Road leading to the north.
About 75 percent of the show is filmed in
Northern Ireland, both in natural settings

Queen Unveils British

Government Plan
By Danica Kirka
THE QUEEN unveiled the governments
legislative agenda for its final year in
power last month on a day that showcases
Britain in grandest style offering a sumptuous display of pomp and power.
The main ceremonial event of Parliaments calendar is a moment of pride,
replete with ermine and silk and evoking
centuries of grandeur. Thousands of tourists lined the streets near the gothic spires
of the Houses of Parliament to watch the
parade of carriages in hopes of getting a
glimpse of the monarchs gloved hand.
The speech marks the final opportunity
for the Conservative-led government of
David Cameron to offer ideas ahead of the
election set for 2015. A package of measures was offered including laws making
it simpler to recall wayward lawmakers
and changes in pension plans.
The plans also included laws intended

to safeguard people acting as Good Samaritans, protecting them in the case of

lawsuits stemming from actions taken in
an emergency. A bill was also announced
to place a mandatory five-pence charge
(about eight cents) for supermarket bags.
Cameron and Deputy Prime Minister
Nick Clegg suggested the program was
unashamedly pro-work, pro-business and
pro-aspiration.
The monarch traveled in the resplendent new Diamond Jubilee State Coach.
The coach, which was made in Australia,
requires three grooms and six horses.
The coachs interior is lined in yellow
silk and is comprised of pieces donated by
historic sites and organizations. The seat
handrails, for example, are from the Royal
Yacht Britannia, while the window frames
and interior panels include material from
Canterbury Cathedral, 10 Downing Street,
and the Antarctic bases of Capt Scott and
Ernest Shackleton.

Euroskeptics Surge But Dont Win In UK Election

BRITAINS Conservatives hung onto victory in a special election closely watched
as a test of surging Euroskeptic sentiment.
Conservative candidate Robert Jenrick won the Newark parliamentary seat
by 7,400 votes down from the 16,000-vote majority the party won in 2010.
The United Kingdom Independence Party came second with 10,000 votes, up
from fifth place in 2010.
Some had predicted UKIP which wants Britain to leave the European Union
would do even better after it gained more than a quarter of British votes in
elections to the European Parliament last month.
Leader Nigel Farage said he had hoped the party would do better but for
UKIP its still a good nights work.
Conservatives hailed the win, since voters often punish governing parties in
mid-term elections.

and in the Titanic Studios in Belfast.

Since the pilot episode began filming in
2009, attracted by the local governments
financial incentives, the shows presence
has helped foster a film industry that is
catching the eye of other Hollywood productions. And Northern Ireland is taking
advantage of the attention by promoting
the filming locations as tourist destinations.
QUEEN
The latest and perhaps most illustrious visitor is the Queen, who toured
the studio sets last month. But thousands
have already been visiting from across
the globe.
The season four finale of Game of
Thrones one week last month was watched
by 7.09 million viewers in the United
States according to prime-time viewership
numbers complied by the Nielson Co. That
makes it HBOs most-watched program
since The Sopranos in 2007.
But the numbers are likely higher since
TV audience habits have changed since
2007 and Game of Thrones has fans globally who watch on local networks and via
DVD or streaming services.
For Northern Irelands tourism industry,
that represents a huge pool of potential
visitors. The province hopes to use the
shows popularity to increase the number
of tourists to over two million annually by
2016, from 1.8 million in 2013 more than
the regions population of just 1.8 million.
DEMAND
Coach operators have created Game
of Thrones tours, for which demand hit
a record as the show reached its season
finale this month.
They are using some of our most iconic
scenery in Game of Thrones which is excellent, said Arlene Foster, minister for
enterprise, trade and investment.
Beyond tourism, the direct employment
of local workers has been very important
for the local economy, she said.
Statistics cant do justice to the Game
of Thrones effect on Northern Irelands
economy, said economist Graham Brownlow, from Queens University Belfast. He
says the show is helping to improve the
provinces international image, which for
decades had become synonymous with political violence and economic stagnation.

THE HEADLINES
RRCoulson Guilty . . .
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of the World employees were convicted
of phone hacking in 2007. Coulson quit
Downing St in 2011 when police reopened their hacking investigation.
Following the verdict Cameron apologised for hiring Coulson.
It was the wrong decision and I am
very clear about that, he said.
VINDICATED
It is the now-vindicated Brooks who
has been the focus of most attention in
what one lawyer called the trial of the
century. The case drew intense media
and public interest from around the
world. Brooks, in particular has been the
subject of a level of media fascination
and online abuse that her lawyer called
a witch hunt.
From humble origins in northern England, Brooks rose to become chief executive of Murdochs influential British
newspaper division and was a friend and
neighbor of the prime minister as part of
the horse-riding Chipping Norton set,
a reference to the tony rural town near
her home. Friends included Cameron and
former Prime Minister Tony Blair, who
offered advice as the scandal erupted: It
will pass. Tough up.

Inspectors Criticise Schools

Over Islamist Plot
Continued from page 1
Newspaper reports based on leaks and
anonymous briefings saw each department
blame the other for failing to tackle the
roots of extremism.
Gove told lawmakers in the House of
Commons that he planned new rules to
ensure that all schools actively promote
British values.
But there may be little consensus on
what those values are or what constitutes
extremism.
The Muslim Council of Britain said it
was concerned that the inspectors were
conflating religious belief and extremism.
It said in a statement that extremism
will not be confronted if Muslims and
their religious practices are considered
as, at best, contrary to the values of this
country, and at worst, seen as the swamp
that feeds extremism.
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Pippa
Finishes
Ride
Across
America

GDP Measurement
Now Includes
Prostitution, Drugs

Criminal Law & Immigration

Law, What You Need To Know
AT ONE point, there were only a limit number
of crimes that could lead to a noncitizens deportation. And for even noncitizens who found
themselves in deportation proceedings; immigration judges had wide discretion to cancel deportations. However, during the past 90
years, the relationship between immigration
law and criminal law has become inseparably
intertwined, often resulting in harsh consequences for the noncitizen. Under current
law, many times a noncitizens immigration
fate is sealed during a criminal case. Further,
this truism applies to all noncitizens, including
lawful permanent residents, temporary nonimmigrant visa holders, and undocumented
individuals. Thus, if individuals who are not a
United States Citizen and find themselves in
criminal court, it is imperative they determine
the immigration consequences of the charge
before taking a plea.
Fortunately, the United States Supreme
Court recently held it is a criminal defense
attorneys obligation to advise a noncitizen
defendant if immigration ramifications will
result from a plea agreement. The Court recognized that deportation is often worse than
any criminal sanction and is often the most
important consideration in any criminal case
involving a noncitizen. While this decision
should be rightfully hailed for its protection
of often vulnerable noncitizens, the Court
left open the question of when immigration
consequences attach to a plea. For example,
in the concurrence, Justice Alito observed
that the most well-crafted plea could help a
noncitizen avoid being deportable. However,
if the foreign national leaves the country, the
same conviction (despite not being a deportable crime) could prevent the person from
being legally admitted back into the country.
Additionally, identifying which convictions

will carry immigration consequences is

neither easy nor intuitive. A person who is
convicted of walking into JC Pennies on
two separate occasions and taking clothes
without paying for them may be permanently
ineligible to remain in the country. However,
a person guilty of kidnaping may never be
placed in deportation proceedings or refused
entry into the United States.
Given the complex and highly fact specific
nature of immigration law, in most instances
a criminal attorney will be unable to determine which convictions carry immigration
consequences because terms like crime
involving moral turpitude are not defined
as a part of federal immigration statutes.
Further, fact-specific considerations like
the immigration status of the defendant (eg
permanent resident or undocumented) in
addition to the classification of the crime
may also that affect the analysis. Thus, it is
imperative noncitizens insist on obtaining an
accurate immigration consequences opinion,
that takes into consideration the noncitizens
unique situation before taking a plea- as any
misstep could result in permanent banishment from the country.
It is important for all noncitizens to stay
out of trouble, but if they find themselves in
criminal court, they should not compound the
situation be being unaware of the immigration
consequences stemming from the resolution
of the case.
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By Danica Kirka
BRITAIN is putting a price on vice.
Prostitution and the import, manufacture and consumption of illegal drugs like
crack cocaine and heroin will be included
in the official estimates of the countrys
economy, the national statistics agency
said last month.
Some of these activities, like prostitution, are legal in certain European Union
countries, and comparable figures are
needed. All member states need the same
standard because they are used to assess
a member states contribution to the EU
budget.
The new estimates also simply seek to
get a more realistic picture of the economy
warts and all. At the moment, the only
illegal activities included in Britains
GDP are estimates on alcohol and tobacco
smuggling.
EVOLVE
As economies develop and evolve, so
do the statistics we use to measure them,
said Joe Grice, the chief economic adviser
to the Office of National Statistics. These
improvements are going on across the
world and we are working with our partners in Europe and the wider world on the
same agenda.
Illegal drugs and prostitution are already
measured in Estonia, Austria, Slovenia,
Finland, Sweden and Norway, the ONS
said in a report.
In Britain, they would add approximately 10bn to gross domestic product in
2009, the ONS said. That remains a very
small portion of the overall GDP, which
now stands at 1.5 trillion.
Nonetheless, calculations may prove
challenging.
To measure prostitution, statisticians
will have to tabulate up the value of things
like brothel rental, condom sales, makeup
and the clothing of sex workers.
For illegal drugs, the ONS will examine
production and sales of crack cocaine,
powder cocaine, heroin, cannabis, ecstasy
and amphetamines. Growing drugs will be
classed as production, buying them for
home use, expenditure, while selling
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PRINCESS KATES little sister Pippa

Middleton and her brother James completed a 3,000 mile charity bike race
across America.
Pippa, 30, crossed the finish line just
after 3am in Annapolis, Maryland on June
21, after covering 3,000 miles in six days,
ten hours and 54 minutes
As part of a team of eight, the siblings
rode their bikes from San Diego to Annapolis, Maryland crossing 12 states as
part of Race Across America.
Pippa and James have trained for
eight months for the race. They joined
275 competitors to bike mountains and
across deserts.
Riders regularly hallucinate through
lack of sleep. Pippas a tough cookie,
said race coordinator Rick Boethling,

who revealed that women rarely compete

in the race.
The Middletons team raised money for
the British Heart Foundation of which
Pippa is an ambassador and the Michael
Matthews Foundation, named after their
teammate James Matthews brother who
died while descending Mount Everest.
I was shocked to learn that nearly three
times more women die from coronary
heart disease than breast cancer, Pippa
said in a statement released by the British
Heart Foundation, writes ABC News.
Im passionate about raising awareness amongst women of this killer disease
and I look forward to working with the BHF
to highlight to women the risks of heart
disease and importantly, how they can
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Drive A Car In
The UK Just
Dont Park It
THE FIRST parking meter was known as
Black Maria. She appeared in July 1935 on
the streets of Oklahoma. Britain had to wait
till June 1958 before its first one appeared,
fittingly enough outside the American
Embassy in Grosvenor Square, London.
Then you would pay
six bob (30p) an
hour, today its four
pounds.
Here in Ludlow,
we have meters and
if you opt for a half
hour, you will only be
charged 10p. The council will actually allow
you a free fifteen minutes if you are merely
stopping for a quick shop. This strikes me as
a further indication of the advanced level of
civilisation in Shropshire allowing someone
to have a little bit of something for nothing.
Other towns and cities in the country are
nowhere near as generous. Up to quite recently, you could park for free in most places
on a Sunday, until the authorities realised they
were denying themselves a lucrative source

of income. In Salisbury, by way of generosity

they offered a single flat rate of 1.70 for any
duration of parking, compared with 1.40 an
hour every other day of the week.
NON-TRANSFERABLE
I have often seen motorists leaving a
car park offering incoming drivers their
parking tickets should they have a decent
length of unexpired time on the ticket. This
is, of course, strictly against the law and
is expressly forbidden by the word, Nontransferable, prominently printed on the
ticket. But as the handing-over usually takes
place out of sight of parking wardens, it is
quite a common occurrence.
Then I came across Worcestershire which
has devised its own method of defeating
car park philanthropy. This authority has
large machines which instruct you to enter
the registration number of your car when
you purchase the ticket. What this means
in practice is that groups of people form
around ticket machines as people struggle
to understand the instructions: you do not
immediately realise if you are new to the
system the sequence in which things are to
be done. Do not put your money in before

Black Maria
you read the notice. The registration letters
have to be put in first, followed by the exact
payment before you press the green button
and get your ticket.
Thus largish groups gather around the
machines, increasingly irritated especially if
it is cold or wet. All to enable Worcestershire
County Council to prevent generous-spirited
motorists from giving away unexpired tickets.
UNLIKELY
You also notice that car park fees are graduated in unlikely sums. Salisbury charges 1.40
per hour or 1.70 per Sunday. This means
the motorist is obliged to carry around various denominations of coin because the one
thing you can be certain of is that no parking

machine anywhere will give you change. This

means that drivers habitually overpay. Official
figures show that UK councils derived 1.4bn
last year in parking charges, of which nearly
40m came from overpayments.
There is no excuse for this. I first visited
Portugal in the late 1990s, a time when it
was a pretty primitive place outside the cities.
Yet, in one isolated caf far off the beaten
track, I used a fag machine which gave me
change. If the Portuguese could give change
for cigarettes twenty years ago, why is it so
difficult for parking machines to do the same?
Theres another place which seems to run
on parking charges: NHS hospitals. MacMillan nurses are best known for their care of
terminally ill cancer patients but they also
keep an eye on car park charges in hospitals
since the patients often spend long periods
there for treatment. Their studies show that
the cost of parking ranges from 11.85 a day
in London down to 4.26 for the same period
in the North East, averaging out at 7.66. It is
little wonder that Scotland is enjoying its SNP
government since they abolished hospital
charges back in 2008, giving a saving of over
15m to patients and staff.
DECENCY
Back in Salisbury, parking wardens are
known as Ambassadors. This gives them
a title approximating to the importance of
their job though not necessarily reflecting
the honour in which they are held by their
fellow citizens. But if decency is associated
with such a grand title, it is not always seen
in the conduct. One Ambassador saw a
vehicle parked on the roadside in Wilton and
ticketed it pronto. Had he looked around him
he would have seen the driver attending to an
old lady who had collapsed on the pavement
as the driver went by. She stopped, attended

to the old lady and got a parking ticket for

her pains.
Councils have, however, belatedly been
trying to get up-to-date technologically by
allowing motorists to use a credit/debit card
to pay for their parking which at least saves
the bother of carting around a pocket full
of loose change. I quite like the Parkulator
which operates in several US cities where the
motorist purchases his own in-car meter that
uses money only when parked.
Ideally, I would favour a machine that
works out how long you can park for any
coin or combination of coins you can stick
in the slot. If, say, parking costs 1.40 an
hour and you only have a 50p and a 10p
coin, that would give you 6/14 of an hour, or
just under half an hour. How difficult is that
for a machine to do in these technologically
advanced days?
DESERTING
The end-product of councils making
fortunes out of parking is that shoppers
are increasingly deserting town centres,
favouring out-of-town malls where parking
is often but by no means always free.
It is impossible not to feel sorry for town
centre retailers.
I recently spent a weekend in Manchester whose hotels can be very pricey and
frequently full but theres one place at least
which bucks the trend. If you are looking
for somewhere reasonably priced that is
comfortable and immaculately cared for, why
not try Hello Hotel on the East Lancs road out
of town. The website is rather unfortunately
named www.hellohotel.co.uk but it really is
an excellent bet.
And overnight parking is free!
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UK Education Revamp Leaves US Authors On The Shelf

By Jill Lawless
BRITAINS education minister says he
has not killed a mockingbird, but many
literature-lovers dont believe him.
Michael Gove has outraged some readers and academics with his campaign to
put the basics and Britishness back
into schools.
Longtime American favorites including
John Steinbecks Of Mice and Men and
Harper Lees To Kill a Mockingbird are
off the syllabus for a major high school
English qualification under new guidelines
that focus almost exclusively on writers
from Britain and Ireland.
Some educators fear that could lead to
the narrowing of British minds.
The idea of cutting out American books
because they are not British is c razy, said

John Carey, a literary critic and emeritus

professor at Oxford University.
Exam boards in England and Wales
set school syllabuses in line with government rules.
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Gone are Lee, Steinbeck, Arthur Millers play The Crucible and the autobiography of Maya Angelou, who died last
month. Gone, too, are African and Asian
writers including Haruki Murakami,
Chinua Achebe and Chimamanda Ngozi
Adiche.
The purge of Americans and others is
the product though not, the government
says, the goal of an attempt to make the
school curriculum more rigorous. New
government rules say GCSE pupils must
study high quality, intellectually chal-

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and close local offices.
But the Home Office said the vast
majority of people were receiving their
passports on time. A million had been issued since the start of April. A spokesman
added that the Passport Office had redeployed more than 200 staff since January to
help with the increased demand; and, that
has also increased the number of telephone
staff from 350 to 1,000.
The spokesman reminded all applicants
that they should not not book travel until
they have received their passports.
Later last month Home Secretary Theresa May apologised for delays in processing passport applications and insisted the
government is doing all it can to deal with
the situation. I am sorry and the government is sorry, she told MPs in a Labourled Commons debate on the delays.

Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper

said the situation was a shambles and
accused May of incompetence.
She has come to this late. She hasnt had
her eye on the ball, Cooper told Parliament.
It is really unfair on people who have
saved up everything for their holiday and
now its being wrecked by her incompetence.
May said the passport office was dealing with the highest demand for passports
for 12 years. She said the annual surge
in demand in summer had started much
earlier than usual.

lenging, and substantial works, including a 19th-century novel, a selection of

poetry, a play by William Shakespeare
and post-1914 fiction or drama from the
British Isles. (Previous rules mentioned
contemporary writers without reference
to nationality). A requirement to study
authors from different cultures has been
dropped.
Gove strongly denied that his goal was
to banish non-British authors.
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are required to learn, and that those who
read more widely and internationally
will do better on the exams. It also says
pupils are required to study seminal world
literature including American classics
between the ages of 11 and 14.
Critics of the new English rules say
they will have a restrictive, rather than
broadening, effect.
Michael Gove wants everybody studying traditional literature, and he wants
it to be British, said Bethan Marshall,

chair of the National Association for the

Teaching of English. I think thats a bit
of a mistake.
This is not the first time Gove, who
has been education secretary in Britains
Conservative-led government since 2010,
has faced strong opposition to his plans.
His overhaul of primary education was
called neo-Victorian by a Cambridge
University professor, and his proposal to
make history lessons more British in focus
was condemned by many academics.
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KEEPING UP WITH BRITAINS

FAVOURITE SOAP OPERAS

THIS MONTH was the month when Coronation Street killed off Tina McIntyre. The killer
is immediately exposed to be Rob Donovan,
who had knowm about Tinas affair with Peter
Barlow, Robs brother in law. Rob goes round
to see Tina to tell her to back away from Peter
and leave him alone, but Tina wont give Rob
what he wants and refuses to let Peter go.
Further, she threatens to tell the police about
Rob and Tracy buying in stolen goods to sell
at Barlows Buys. Rob and Tina fight it out on
the balcony of Tinas flat above the builders
yard and in the commotion, Tina falls to the
cobbles below. Rob watches Tinas lifeless
body on the ground beneath him, dashes
down the stairs only to find that Tinas not
dead. She rises like a phoenix and tells Rob
what she thinks of him. I was born gobby!
she reminds him, but her words fail after Rob
spies a length of lead piping. He picks it up
and uses it to finish off Tina and he leaves
her dead body on the cobbles.
Later, Leanne and Kal find Tinas body
and shes rushed into intensive care where
Rita and David keep a vigil by her bedside
but she eventually dies. The cops come to
the cobbles to interview the likely suspects.
Rob and Tracy concoct an alibi for Rob so
that his whereabouts at the time of Tinas
death can be covered, although he hasnt yet
told Tracy why he needs the cover story. The
cops arrest Carla Connor who immediately
gets on the phone to her lawyer, a scary lady
called Pauline Mansell. If you were in trouble,
youd want Pauline Mansell on your side too.
Roy determines to support Carla as best as
he can, as he knows it would be what Hayley
would have wanted. And although hes unsure how to support and console, he does
the decent thing and offers to take Carla for
a drink. Youre better at this than you think,
Carla tells him.

In other news this month, Beth returns

from her trip to Latvia where she was going for a boob job. She tells her family she
couldnt go through with the operation and
gives the money she was going to spend on
her dcolletage to Chesney and Sinead to
invest in the kebab shop instead.
Maria makes a fool of herself this month
after shes outed as being the mystery text
sender whos been sending threatening texts
to Tyrone and pretending they were from
his ex, Kirsty. Marias found out by Fiz and
Tyrone and theyre furious with Maria and
want to press charges with the cops. Kirk
talks them out of it and explains that Marias
been having a hard time since Marcus left
her for Todd.
Over at the Victoria Court gym, Gail starts
a new job as the receptionist. Shes working
alongside personal trainer Kal, whos having
an affair with her daughter-in-law Leanne,
who should be making up with Gails son
Nick, so when Gail finds out what Leanne
and Kal are up to shes not best pleased. Of
course Nick finds out and he tells Leanne that
he wants a divorce.
And finally, the drama continues when
Anna confesses to Owen that she slept with
Pat Phelan. She says she had no choice because Pat Phelan offered to release Owen and
Gary from their debt if she spent an afternoon
in a sleazy hotel room with him instead. The
news is too much for Owen to take and he ups
and leaves to a new job in Scotland. But hell
be back, these two just have to work it out,
theyre too good together to be apart for long.
Glenda Young
My Coronation Street fan sites:
http://coronationstreetupdates.blogspot.com
http://www.corrie.net
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Couple Convicted Of Killing

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last month of murdering the womans
parents, burying their bodies and collecting their pension checks for 15 years.
A jury at Nottingham Crown Court
found Susan and Christopher Edwards
guilty of shooting William and Patricia
Wycherly in May 1998.
Prosecutors said the debt-ridden
Edwards collected almost 250,000 by
pretending her parents were still alive.
In 2005 they sold the parents home in
the central England town of Mansfield,
with the bodies buried in the backyard.
Police Detective Chief Inspector Rob
Griffin said the couple, desperate for
money, decided an easy way to get their
hands on it was to kill their parents, and
thats what they did.
I think cold is the word, he said.
They used some of the money to
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Sinatra.
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BRITAINS top counterterrorism official
says the countrys espionage rules allow
its electronic spy agency to routinely
intercept online communications between
Britons who use US-based platforms such
as Facebook, Twitter and Google.
A witness statement by Office for Security and Counterterrorism chief Charles Farr,
made public last month, said data sent on
those services is classed as external rather
than internal communications because the
companies are based outside Britain.
Britains Home Office confirmed the
document was genuine. It was written in
response to a legal action by civil liberties
groups who are seeking to curb cyberspying, and was published by the groups.
Britains electronic intelligence agency,
GCHQ, has broad powers to intercept communications outside the country, but needs
a warrant and suspicion of wrongdoing to
monitor Britons.
INTERCEPTED
In the document, Farr said some internal
communications are intercepted under the
external rules, but they cannot be read,
looked at or listened to except in strictly
limited circumstances. He said that was a
significant distinction.
Civil liberties organizations say the
rules are too vague and allow for mass
surveillance.
The security services consider that
theyre entitled to read, listen and analyze
all our communications on Facebook,
Google and other US-based platforms,
said James Welch, legal director of Liberty one of the groups involved in the
legal action. If there was any remaining
doubt that our snooping laws need a radical
overhaul there can be no longer.
GCHQ did not immediately respond to
a request for comment.
The rights groups launched their legal
action after leaks about cyber-snooping
from former US National Security Agency
contractor Edward Snowden. He revealed
details of a program called PRISM giving
the NSA access to Internet companies
customer data, and a British operation,
TEMPORA, that allows GCHQ to harvest
data from undersea cables.

Northern Irishman
Admits To Running
IRA Gun Range
Susan and Christopher Edwards
Police unearthed the bodies in October after being tipped off by a family
member that Christopher Edwards had
admitted burying the bodies.
The couple had moved to France
but were arrested at a London railway
station after emailing police to say they
wanted to surrender.
They pleaded not guilty to murder.
Susan Edwards testified that she had
been provoked into shooting her mother
after her mother killed her father.
But a jury did not believe the story.
The couple were to be sentenced
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A NORTHERN Ireland man has pleaded

guilty to charges that he helped run an
Irish Republican Army firearms training
camp and plotted a possible attack on a
prison governor.
A Belfast judge said last month he
would postpone sentencing for 48-year-old
Sean Kelly until the trial of three others.
Like Kelly, the others were arrested in
March 2012 in a County Tyrone forest
near the IRA firing range. The three others
continue to deny involvement.
Lawyers for Kelly said he would plead
guilty to six of 10 charges against him, including possessing a rifle, ammunition and
other firearms; involvement in weapons
training; and gathering information for a
potential gun attack on a prison governor
at his home.
While most IRA members renounced
violence in 2005, several small breakaway
factions remain active.

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Dont Believe
Everything You Read!
IF I WAS to tell you there is a lot of alarmist
rubbish spoken about FATCA, would you
be surprised? Ive had a number of calls
recently from people who are very worried
about what theyve read about potential
penalties and so Ive decided to write this
article as the (very) small voice of reason.
Firstly, the IRS do have limited resources. They have a lot of power and its
very easy to demonize them, but like any
other organization they have to pick where
to place their resources and what their
priorities are to be. Since 2008, foreign
issues have been a major concern following a report on the unknown size of the
international tax-gap (difference between
what was declared and what should have
been declared).
Now subtlety is not the American way,
and so they tackled this problem with
a sledgehammer or maybe a nuclear
missile, rather than a more balanced approach. The filing of Foreign Bank Account
Reports was at an unrealistically low level,
very few professionals and even fewer
taxpayers knew about it and it seemed a
good place for the IRS to concentrate their
efforts. The idea was that almost all noncompliant taxpayers would be treated the
same, whether they had not declared one
account with $12,000 or twenty accounts
of five million each.
Adding to the complication has been
the fact that the non-declaration of overseas assets somehow became connected
with the funding of terrorism. This is
quite a leap, but in the increased security
awareness after 9/11 it was easy to make.
Having foreign accounts was seen as
un-American, which is not particularly
helpful to anyone!
The IRS have not had a major response
to the overseas disclosure programs
theyve initiated. The total for the 2009
and 2011 programs was approximately
30,000 taxpayers. Another approach was
needed and this is where FATCA comes
into play. Passed into law in 2010, but
only coming into effect now, I first wrote
about this back in December 2012. The
idea was to require the foreign banks and
financial companies to submit details of
their customers income, which would
get around the lack of information coming from the taxpayers themselves. Its
quite a good wheeze really! The foreign

financial industry ignored it for as long

as they could, and then raised merry hell
about how difficult it was going to be to
comply with it.
As happens all too often, the effect on
the individual customers, investors, policy
holders and US taxpayers was way down
the list of concerns! The fact that we (Im
in this too!) had been putting up with filing
Form 8938 since 2011 just means we
are made of sterner stuff than the foreign
banks and investment companies!
When the IRS is determining penalties on taxpayers, they keep a sense of
proportion. For people who have not filed
Foreign Bank Account Reports (FBARs),
the lowest level of penalty is a naughty
letter. This should be the penalty used
unless there are specific reasons for a
more severe penalty. These reasons could
include a huge amount being involved, a
previous naughty letter having been issued, the balance in the account having
been missed off a tax return or a taxpayer
in the financial industry who could be
expected to know about the requirements.
These are all pretty reasonable.
In my experience, the IRS are very
unlikely to charge a financial penalty to, for
example, someone with a UK account they
have had since before they came to the
US and into which a UK pension is paid.
The key is that the situation is remedied
when the taxpayer finds out about their
filing requirements.
The IRS wants to charge penalties
on the right cases, because longer-term
it does them no good to look unduly
vindictive. They would prefer taxpayers
to be compliant and in my experience
that is the main outcome theyre looking
for. Charging penalties will often mean
appointing an agent to the case this is
more expensive for them, so they have to
be sure it will be worth it.
So the moral of the story is, if a headline looks like a horror story and rather
unlikely it probably is! Concentrate on
the fictional side of the second word and
please dont fall victim to the imaginative
connotations of the first word!
Mary-Heather Styles is an Enrolled
Agent (tax specialist) in the US and has
specialised in tax in the US and the UK
for over half her lifetime! In addition to
making her incredibly old, this helps her
keep a sense of proportion about taxes
generally. She is based in Phoenix, and
can be contacted on (602) 845-1420 or at
mhstyles@transatlantictax.com.

Pound Jumps After Hint Of Interest Rate Hike

THE POUND jumped June 13 to reach its
highest level against the dollar in nearly
five years after the Bank of Englands
governor predicted an interest rate hike
might come sooner than expected.
The British currency rose to $1.6960
from $1.6830 the day before after Mark
Carney predicted an interest rate rise, The
last time the pound traded above $1.70 was
in August 2009.
Carney told an annual banquet of bankers that the Bank of England is not precommitted and would make its decisions
according to incoming economic data.

Further underscoring the recovery in

the British economy, credit rating agency
Standard & Poors lifted its outlook for
the countrys debt to stable from negative. That means there is less chance of a
downgrade in the coming years, something
the agency credited to improvements in
public finances and the pickup in growth.
Should the Bank of England lift interest rates this year, Britain would be way
ahead of the ECB, which is still cutting
rates and maybe even ahead of the US
Federal Reserve, said Stephen Lewis, chief
economist of Monument Securities.

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FOOTBALL, FUTBOL, or soccer! The Worlds

gone bonkers! Is that all there is to life? Apparently so since the pubs are packed! No one
seems to be working? Its summer not winter,
yet the topic of conversation is: World Cup.
All very confusing. Soccers become almost
as popular as my sport, sailing. Even at the
very successful Annual British Home Fete
with all those delightful goodies from hand
crafted gifts to bangers smothered in onions,
to desserts to live for. The conversation
eventually turned to soccer.
Im chatting to this very interesting lady,
found out she was from Glasgow so I asked
her if she knew that Glasgow Rangers
FC were playing a friendly with Ventura
County Fusion on July 15, 7pm at Ventura
College Sportsplex. No she replied, but
that sounds great. A lot of fun. Oh, please
excuse me, my assistant Daryl is calling me
over to open the Fete! Well knock me over
with a feather. Thank goodness I wasnt using
soccer language. No wonder she was nice.
Shes the Deputy Consul General, Bernadette
Greene. Wouldnt it be nice if she officiated
at the Rangers game?!?
The following Saturday saw England defeated by Italy 2-1. We watched the game at
the Four Seasons Hotel in Westlake Village,
an absolutely gorgeous hotel with sumptuous gardens complete with waterfalls. The
event was put on by the BABCLA, hosted
by their President Paul Wright and Michael
Newcombe, a Brit who is GM of the hotel.
The event was attended by several hundred
people, a total success! I walked to the front

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Leo Lewis, Barry Venison, Graham Smith, Ranbir Shergil with the
Brazilian dancers at the Four Seasons Hotel. Photo: Leo Lewis
of the crowd to take a picture just as England agency in the United States who was a
former goalkeeper that played for Notts
scored its only goal.
Presiding over the party and welcoming County, Colchester United, West Bromwich
everyone was LAs Consul General Chris Albion, and Cambridge, making a total of 250
OConnor, accompanied by his two daughters league appearances, including a Watney Cup
with the LA Consul General of Brazil, Carlos Winner in 71.
Smith joined Ventura County Fusion as
Sada who was kind enough to bring six of
Brazils most beautiful ladies to entertain manager in 2007 for GM Ranbir Shergil. He
and cheer us up with exotic dancing after is currently Technical Director for the Fusion
as well as the Sacramento Republic. He must
losing the game.
There were lots of interesting people be doing something right as Sacramento is
including Barry Venison, a former footballer drawing crowds of 20,000+ a game, with the
who played for Liverpool, Newcastle, and last five games sell outs. Just been confirmed
Southampton; LA featherweight boxer Julian of a friendly with Englands Premier League
Ramirez; Erin Morgart, Ms United Nations team West Bromwich Albion two games July
USA 2013; and Graham Smith, (a delightful 21 and 25 7:30 pm at their brand new state of
man, I might add), founder of First Wave the art stadium with a natural grass full size
Sports Marketing, the third largest soccer field (80 yards by 120 yards) .
These two lads Ranbir Shergil and Graham
Smith we should be awfully proud of. They
have done an enormous amount of good
advancing football in California. They have
worked extraordinarily hard setting the highest standard possible of sportsmanship and
it shows in their players and audience alike.
Really well done lads. www.sacrepublicfc.

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As Im talking
to the CG Chris
OConnor and
his two girls,
were agreeing
what a pleasant
afternoon it was.
Chris mentioned
how he had recently returned
from London, a
get together of
other CGs some
from major trouble spots in the
world and how
he felt somewhat
embarrassed admitting he serves
LA, which hes
enjoying very
much. Just as
danger loomed
in the form of
six scantily clad
gorgeous ladies
dressed (well almost dressed) mostly with a plume feather
head dress, making their entrance on stage.
To their credit they were terrific sports taking pictures with everyone. Check out our
website www.ujnews.com and www.babcla.
org Ive left a space so you can photo shop
yourself in for a picture.
Also, taking pictures in the comfort of
a mock aircraft from Air New Zealand (my
favorite way to fly back to the UK). Air NZ was
offering a chance to win round trip tickets to
the UK which was won by an English born
lady, Sharon Rubin and her niece Madison. A
lot of people dont know they stop over in LA
from N Zealand to London, so its sometimes
at a more reasonable price. Check them out. I
personally recommend them. Ive always had
a very pleasant flight. They were particularly
caring a couple of years ago while returning
for my mothers funeral, by giving me an extra
seat for sleeping, to feel fresh on my arrival.
www.airnewzealand.com
All in all, a superb afternoon. Congratulations to Paul Wright, Joanne Lichtenstein,
Gillian Campbell, and the numerous others
that made the event so successful.
Heres an event we know the entire
family will enjoy. July 18 to August 10, the

Lythgoe Family Productions have created

Princess and Pirate sing along concert at
the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City. This
is the same Lythgoe Family (yes, son Kris
and ex-wife Bonnie are related to Nigel) that
introduced professional Pantomimes to LA,
importing the entire stage sets from London,
which theyve been running successfully for
the last four years.
This live fun show isnt expensive. If youre
a valued UJ reader theyll throw in an extra
discount. Now thats something to sing about
and did we mention FREE parking. Were both
looking forward to seeing this new show.
(See Karens calendar for details).
Sadly we lost Martin The Plumber
Cowley, beloved husband of Lynda, brother
of Dale and Steven, son of June, who sadly
passed away on May 29, 2014. Martin was
an extremely popular member of the British
and Santa Monica Community, known for his
lovely smile, his pure zest for life and generous heart; he was everyones best friend.
He will be sadly missed by all. RIP Martin.
Martins mother posted this: To all the
lovely people I met on my stay in LA, Thank
you for the love and support you gave me
over the loss of my son Martin. True friends
are few and far between. I feel privileged to
know you all felt the loss of Martin as a personal friend as much as we the family have
lost a wonderful son and brother.
The untimely demise of Martin Cowley
following his battle with cancer, can only
serve to remind us all just how short life really is. He was loved, admired, and respected
by the local community, which was shown
by the huge turnout for his memorial. Our
condolences go out to the Cowley family.
We cant emphasize enough, while we
only write this column, we depend on you
all to let us know from anywhere in the US,
Brits you think we should know and recognize for services to the British and American
Community. To be in our position serving the
Brits is hugely rewarding, but we must hear
from you to make this happen. These Brits
dont have to be famous; they just have to
be good Brits.

Contact Leo and Karen or Car Man Phil

at PO Box 5691 Oxnard, CA 93031 or
britishlad12@yahoo.com

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it in a variety of recipes.
(I need to note a few errors in last
months column, when I told you about the
Scottish Baking Awards, started by Melanie
Andrews McCrae, coming up September
28 in Glasgow. I gave the wrong full name
and somehow the details were missing
some letters from reader Christina Conte,
who is going to be one of the judges.
Should have read: www.christinascucina.
com, for her blog and if you want details
of the awards; www.scottishbakingawards.
co.uk. Sure wish I could be there!)

The biggest seller is cookbooks and the

second is diet book how not to eat what
youve just learned to cook!
Andy Rooney
AH THE DOG days of summer wonder
why they call it that? This is a lame segue
for me to say I have another dog in my life,
Daisy a 12lb bundle of fur, part Westie and
poodle, takes some getting used to such a
small dog, but shes perfect! Lovely to have
someone to greet me when I come home,
and she is also is quite happy to visit my
husband in the nursing home, plus letting
many of the residents pet her! Therapy for
them and us!!
Anyway, nothing to do with the recipe,
but I know we dont want to cook much in
the summer and especially use the oven,
but I can tell you this recipe is worth it, so
easy and only needing 15-20 minutes. I
have been going through mounds of recipes
I have been collecting through the years,
and starting to try out some of them, and I
enlist the help and opinion of good friends
by trying them out on them! I never have a
problem for volunteers!! Anyway I recently
spent a lovely evening with dear friends,
and tried out three new recipes, the salad
was super, chicken OK, and this dessert
just yummy, we all had seconds! I cant
remember how long ago I found it but I
adapted it from a BBC Good Food recipe.
You can use any blend of fruit, and fresh
is best in this recipe, I used part raspberry,
blackberry and blueberry, and liked the

Summer Fruit Bread

Pudding

1-2lb mix of summer fruits; raspberries, blackberries, blueberries

4 Tbsp Demerara or golden sugar
8-10 slices of cinnamon and raisin
bread
2 Tbsp butter
Pepperidge Farm Cinnamon Raisin bread.
Hope you like my version. You can serve it
with cream, ice-cream, custard or crme
fraiche, and our preference was the crme
fraiche, now can be found at supermarkets.
It is interesting to find it though as I have
found it with the cream, or sour cream, or
cream cheese! Worth the hunt, I love to use

Last months Sticky Toffee pudding recipe

I had 1/2 Milk and should have read 1/2

cup of Milk.)

Heat oven to 400 degrees F. Mix 2/3 of

the mixed fruit in a lightly greased baking
dish, put the rest of the fruit and 2 Tbsp of
the sugar into a processor, and whizz into
a puree, add to the fruit in the dish. Spread
the bread with the butter, and cut in halves
to make triangles. Cover the fruit with the
bread butter side up, and sprinkle with the
remaining sugar. Cover with foil and bake
10 minutes, then uncover and bake 10 more
minutes, so the bread is toasty and the fruit
mixture bubbling. Four servings
(I welcome comments, requests and
recipes and can be reached at Yourcuppatea1@yahoo.com)

(Your comments, requests and recipes are welcomed. If you want to contact
me please Email me at: Sandra Cherry Yourcuppatea1@yahoo.com)

Queen Welcomes Chinese

Premier At Windsor Castle
By Sylvia Hui
CHINESE premier Li Keqiang began his
visit to Britain with a meeting with the
Queen at Windsor Castle last month a
royal treatment that highlights the importance Britain places on its business and
political ties with China.
Britain pulled out all its ceremonial
stops for Li, who is on a three-day visit to
boost trade ties and mend diplomatic relations that had cooled after Prime Minister
David Cameron met with exiled Tibetan
spiritual leader Dalai Lama in 2012.
A military band played to welcome Li
and his wife Cheng Hong to the castle, before the queen greeted the pair in a lavishly
decorated drawing room. The Chinese

Tour Of English Country Homes Art Starts In Texas

ARTWORK and furniture from the grand
English country house Houghton Hall are
going on a US tour.
Houghton Hall: Portrait of an English
Country House opened last month at the
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. It will be
on view through September 21 before
traveling to San Francisco and Nashville.
The show, which marks the first time
the collection has traveled outside of
England, includes more than 100 objects

O B I T UAR I E S

Winston Churchills
Daughter Mary Soames

Actor Comedian Rik Mayall Dies

RIK MAYALL, one of a generation of

performers that injected post-punk energy
into British comedy, has died. He was 56.
Mayalls management firm Brunskill
Management said the comedian died at
his London home.
In the 1980s Mayall was part of the
Comic Strip, a hugely influential group
of alternative young comics that included
Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders and
Mayalls writing and performing partner,
Adrian Edmondson.
He was best known for co-writing and
performing in The Young Ones, a sitcom
about slovenly students that was much
loved by those it satirized.

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On television he memorably played

Conservative politician Alan Bstard in
the sitcom The New Statesman and lecherous Lord Flashheart in comedy classic
Blackadder.
He and Edmondson also created and
starred in Bottom, a surreally violent slapstick series about two unemployed slobs.
Film appearances included the title role
in 1991 fantasy Drop Dead Fred which
gained him a US cult following and 1999
British comedy Guest House Paradiso.
CAREFREE
There were times when Rik and I were
writing together when we almost died
laughing, Edmondson said. They were
some of the most carefree, stupid days
I ever had, and I feel privileged to have
shared them with him. And now hes died
for real. Without me. Selfish bastard.
The wife of Mayall says the comedian
suffered an acute cardiac event, though a
coroners office says a post-mortem on the
late entertainer was inconclusive.
Barbara Mayall said that the comic collapsed as he returned from a run.
In 1998 Mayall was on life support
and in a coma for several days after an
all-terrain vehicle accident.
The main difference between now and
before my accident is Im just very glad to
be alive, Mayall said last year.
Other people get moody in their 40s
and 50s men get the male menopause. I
missed the whole thing. I was just really
happy.

Belfast Man Wrongly

Convicted Of IRA
Bombing Dies
GERRY CONLON, who was imprisoned
unjustly for an IRA bombing and inspired
an Oscar-nominated film, has died. His
family says he died June 21 at his Belfast
home following a long battle with cancer.
The 60-year-old Conlon was a central
figure in one of Britains greatest miscarriages of justice. He and three others were
convicted and sentenced to life for the
1974 bombing of a pub in Guildford, near
London, that killed five people.
Conlon protested his innocence, a position vindicated in 1989 when the so-called
Guildford Four were exonerated and freed.
By then his father Giuseppe, convicted for
an alleged lesser role in the bombing, had
already died behind bars.
Conlons autobiography, Proved Innocent, was the basis for 1993s In the Name
of the Father starring Daniel Day-Lewis
as Conlon.

leader then traveled to central London for

a formal inspection of British soldiers and
a meeting with Cameron at his office in
Downing Street.
Lis meeting with the queen was unusual
because the privilege is typically granted to
a head of state. Analysts say China likely
pushed for the royal audience, underscoring its increasingly aggressive approach
to diplomacy.
As the worlds second largest economy
and a rising political force, Beijing considers its leaders deserving of all honors and
distinctions when they go abroad and it
isnt afraid to make demands.
China and the US have tangled over
protocol surrounding state visits, with Beijing insisting they be defined as top level.

MARY SOAMES, 91, the last surviving

child of British leader Winston Churchill,
has died.
Her son Nicholas Soames said last
month that she died the previous evening
after a short illness.
Born Sept. 15, 1922, Mary Soames was
the youngest of five children of Churchill
and his wife Clementine.
As her father led Britains fight against
Nazi Germany during World War II, she
joined the Red Cross and served in various
military units in London, Belgium and Germany at times in anti-aircraft batteries.
She later married Conservative politician Christopher Soames, becoming Lady
Soames when he was made a peer.
Soames wrote several books about
her family, including a biography of her
mother.
She is survived by five children including Nicholas, a Conservative member of
Parliament.

in settings that combine paintings, porcelain and furniture.

The house was built in the early 1700s
by Englands first prime minister, Sir
Robert Walpole. His old master paintings
were infamously sold by his grandson
to the Russian empress Catherine the
Great in 1779, but descendants added
to the collection. The exhibit features
loans of some of those paintings sold to
the czarina.

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RRThis paper reaches the British community in all parts of Florida and, of course, the US

ENGLAND WORLD CUP TEAM Following

Englands June tune-up matches in Miami,
one local expat had this letter published in
the Miami Herald:
Sir: As a Miami resident of 30 years and
a lifetime supporter of the English soccer
team, especially now that Beckham will be
bringing Major League Soccer to Miami, I
was excited to join fellow fans at Sun Life
Stadium yesterday to greet the English
team. As the competing team from Ecuador
excitedly greeted their fans and signed
autographs, the English players and their
manager, Roy Hodgson, simply left their
two coaches and entered the stadium without acknowledging the fans. The English
fans consisted of ex-pats, men, women and
children who had travelled from all over the
South East, other USA states and the World
and paid good money to stand in the rain for
two hours just to call-out the players names
and demonstrate their support. Despite our
surprise and disappointment at the teams
arrogant indifference, we waited to greet
them again when they left after the match.
This time there was even less recognition,
and team members stared at us out the
coach windows as they splashed past, as
though we were zombies standing out in the
rain. Good luck in Brazil, England. Without
your fans, you will need all the help you
can get. ROBERT HUBBARD. Theres an
English saying that Pride comes before
a fall. Just days later, England lost both
matches and were booted out of the World
Cup. PK.
n BRITISH BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT
Scottish spirits company Edrington Group
has just opened a Miami office. Doubtless
many of their famous brands brands of
Scotch Cutty Sark, the Macallan, Famous
Grouse will have glided down your British

throats at some stage. I have attended their

elegant and well-received Macallan tasting
events in Miami over the years, invited by
their brand ambassador over from Scotland.
Since Miami is such a huge Scotch drinkers
market (Latins love it more than Brits!) they
obviously decided an office here would pay
off. For company info phone Edrington on
(305) 742-0817.
FLORIDA GOOD NEWS! Floridas
economy outpaced the rest of the nation
in 2013, growing 2.2 percent compared to
the national average of 1.8 percent. Source:
the US Bureau of Economic Analysis. Additionally, Florida saw well above average
job growth in May 2013 adding 17,280
private-sector jobs, one of the largest
growth rates of any state.

Virgins history of doing things differently.

(Footnote: In February Sir Richard and Lady
Joan attended a charity event at Miamis
Baptist Cardiac and Vascular Institute where
doctors had performed a life-saving operation on the moguls Mrs. As appreciation
Branson helped raise $100,000 for the
institute and donated a $300,000 seat to
auction on his Virgin Galactic flight to outer
space. Our Grinning Giver steps up again!)

n BRANSON
WATCH MIAMI. A
frequent visitor to
Miami, since he
started Virgins Miami-London routes
27 years ago, Branson recently bought
a home overlooking
Sir Richard the cruise ships, and
Branson
last year opened an
office for Virgin Hotels. Now Englands beloved trailblazing
entrepreneur is mulling another venture:
Virgin Cruiselines. He has started seeking
investors to launch this cruiseline which
would be based in Miami and is also
scouting locations for Virgin hotels in South
Florida. His company issued this statement:
Virgin is exploring opportunities within the
leisure sector in Florida including hotels and
cruiselines. Both markets lend themselves
to creating a new proposition based on

n THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT in Florida: I get frequent US immigration enquiries

to my office for that use Legal Immigration
Services below on this page but also from
Americans wanting to move to the UK. Often
it is Florida expat Brits wanting advice on
how to repatriate with an American spouse
or an American professional hankering to
work in the UK. So be advised that UK Immigration and visa matters specifically are
handled by Martin Southey in the Miami
British Consulate General. Email your query
to martin.southey@fco.gov.uk On subject
line put: Immigration to the UK. Note: The
British-Consulate General in Miami does
not handle USA visa/immigration matters.

THEY LOVE OUR ACCENT CORNER.

Found on YouTube for Americans wanting
to sound like us arent we flattered just
search HOW TO FAKE A BRITISH ACCENT.
The lesson is by an enterprising Brit called
Philip Barker. He has compiled recordings
of how we speak from every part of the
UK, from a ripe Cornish accent to a rough
Cockney one. (FYI: My favourite accent
is Geordie least favourite is common
Cockney).
n

n QUEEN Tribute band called Dios

Salve a La Reina (God Save the Queen)
Internationally recognized by Rolling Stone

magazine in 2011 as the best band tribute

of all times. God Save The Queen performs
August 9 at the Fillmore Miami Beach where
they will masterfully recreate the iconic
concert, Queen Magic Tour 1986 Live at
Wembley. As good as the original ones
said Queen Tour Manager. (I find that a
tad implausible from he who worked and
experienced the original ones every night,
but high praise indeed for this Argentinian
tribute band PK).
n SUBMIT NEWS ITEMS from all crannies of Florida. This Miami-based columnist
cant know whats happening amongst the
Sunshine States huge British diaspora unless readers notify me. Have you launched
a British business in the last six months?
Have a British event coming up? Has a
new British pub, shop or British Club just
launched? Email me details with senders
name and phone number and put UJ Florida
on the subject line. When I started this page
21 years ago it was to serve and inform
our British community. That still holds true

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IIII BRITBIZ IN THE US & CANADA IIII

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Angelina Jolie In Queens Birthday Honours List

By Jill Lawless
ANGELINA JOLIE can add royal recognition to Hollywood stardom. The
Oscar-winning actress has been named an
honourary dame the
female version of a
knight by the Queen.
Jolie, a United Nations special envoy,
received the honour
last month for her work
combatting sexual violence in war zones.
Jolie, who won a supporting actress
Academy Award in 2000 for Girl, Interrupted, has spoken of scaling back her
movie roles to focus on humanitarian
work. She said that to receive an honour
related to foreign policy means a great deal
to me, as it is what I wish to dedicate my
working life to.
Because she is not a British or Commonwealth citizen, Jolie wont be entitled
to use the title dame before her name.
Previous US recipients of honourary
knighthoods include director Steven Spielberg, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and
former President Ronald Reagan.
Jolie, who was in London to co-host an
international summit on sexual violence,
was among hundreds of people recognized
in the queens annual Birthday Honours
List for services to their community or
national life.
SPRINKLING
Most of the honours go to people who

are not in the limelight from soldiers and

civil servants to academics and entrepreneurs but there is always a sprinkling of
famous names.
Three-time Oscar winner Daniel DayLewis was made a knight for services to
drama and can now call himself Sir Daniel. The actor, who won Academy Awards
for My Left Foot, There Will Be Blood and
Lincoln, said he was entirely amazed and
utterly delighted in equal measure.There
were damehoods for novelist Hilary
Mantel, author of the prize-winning Tudor
page-turners Wolf Hall and Bring Up the
Bodies, and for fashion designer Zandra
Rhodes.
Actress Maggie Smith, who plays the
imperious Dowager Countess of Grantham
on TVs Downton Abbey, was made a
Companion of Honour, an award limited
to 65 people of distinction.
Homeland star Damian Lewis was
named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, or OBE.
The British actor said he was very
surprised but very happy with the honour.
UN-BRITISH
I decided to do the very un-British
thing of accepting the compliment,
Lewis said.
OBEs also went to Beatles expert and
author Hunter Davies, musician Talvin
Singh, and John Simpson, longtime editor
of the Oxford English Dictionary.
In the field of science, there was a
knighthood for physicist Thomas Kibble,

whose work contributed to the discovery

of the Higgs boson the so-called God
particle.
Among those honoured for charity work
was the late Stephen Sutton, a teenager
who raised 4m while battling terminal
cancer. Sutton, who died in May at age
19, was named a Member of the Order of
the British Empire, or MBE.
Sylvia Lancaster, who founded a campaign against hate crime after her daughter,
Sophie, was attacked and killed by a gang
of youths in 2007 because of her Goth
appearance, received an OBE.
Recipients covered a wide range of
achievements, from confectioner Chantal
Coady, honoured for services to chocolate
making, to civil service debt manager
Barry Cox for services to debt and
Arthur Dean, president of the Dwarf Sports
Association. He was recognized for services to people with restricted growth and
to disabled sport.
COMMITTEES
Britains honours are bestowed by the
monarch, but recipients are selected by
committees of civil servants from nominations made by the government and the
public.
Wales rugby coach Warren Gatland
and British golfer Laura Davies were
among players and officials who were
also honoured.
Former All Blacks hooker Gatland has
coached Wales since 2007, and was made
an Officer of the Order of the British Em-

pire. Hes led Wales to two Six Nations

Grand Slams, and coached the British and
Irish Lions to a series victory in Australia
last year.
Davies, the most successful British
female golfer with four major wins, was
knighted and made a Dame.
Dario Franchitti, a Scot, was made a
Member of the Order of the British Empire.
He was forced to retire in November because of a spinal injury in a race crash the
month before. That ended a career in which

he won the IndyCar Series four times

and the Indianapolis 500 three times.
Also receiving an MBE was British
Olympic skeleton gold medalist Lizzy
Yarnold.
In descending order, the honours are
knighthoods; Commander of the Order
of the British Empire or CBE; OBE; and
MBE. Knights are addressed as sir or
dame. Recipients of the other honours
have no title, but can put the letters after
their names.

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Karens Calendar of Events

thru 6: Highland Renaissance Festival in Eminence, KY www.kyrenfaire.com (859) 846-4530.
thru 6: Door County Renaissance Fantasy
Faire at 5226 Monument Point Road Egg Harbor,
WI www.doorcowirenaissance.com
5-6: Magical & Medieval Fantasy Faire in
Hillsboro TX www.middlefest.com
5-27: Northwest Renaissance Festival 20
mins NW of Spokane, WA www.nwrf.net
5-Sept 4: Bristol Renaissance Faire at 125520
120th Ave., Kenosha, WI www.renfair.com
6: Ventura Motorsports Gathering at Saticoy
Country Club 4450 Clubhouse Dr, Somis, CA.
Bill (805) 890-1461. www.venturamotorsportsgathering.com
6-25: Sherwood Forest Summer Camp at
1883 Old Hwy 20, McDade, TX.
9-12: Utah Midsummer Renaissance Faire
at Cedar City Main St Park, Cedar City, UT www.
UMRF.net
10-13: BC Renaissance Festival at Thunderbird Show Park, 24550 72nd Ave, Langley, BC.
o Visit You Say Tomato in San Francisco,
CA 94109 to find the largest range of British
groceries! Puddings, cakes, pasties, bacon,
pies, crumpets and much more (415) 921-2828.
11-13: The Lock House Pirate Fest at
Susquehanna Museum at the Lock House 817
Conesto Street Havre de Grace, MD 21078 www.
thelockhousemuseum.org
11-13: Medieval Mayhem at Mountain Meadow Recreation Center, Pinetop Lakeside, AZ.
12-Aug 17: Great Lakes Medieval Faire
seven miles south of I-90 on St Rte 534, near
Geneva, OH.
12-Aug 3: AGM BlackRock Medieval Summer
Fest at Augusta, MI 49012 www.blackrockfest.com
12-13: Old Fort MacArthur Days 2014 at
Angels Gate Park, San Pedro, CA www.ftmac.org
15: Be a part of history as Rangers FC
(Glasgow, Scotland) visits SoCal. With more
than 50 top-flight league titles, Rangers FC is one
of Great Britains most decorated soccer clubs.
Ventura County Fusion vs Rangers FC 7pm at
Ventura College Sportsplex, 4667 Telegraph Rd
Ventura, CA 93003.
17-21: Sea Dog Nights & Gypsy Carnival at
Cheadle Lake Park, Lebanon, OR www.seadognights.com

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o Camerons Inn of Half Moon Bay, CA
94019 is your World Cup headquarters for all
games LIVE (650) 726-5705.
18: Pagosa Springs Renaissance and Pirate
Festival at Downtown Pagosa Springs, Pagosa
Springs, CO 81147. (970) 264-2360.
18-Aug 10: This is something your kids will
really enjoy. Fun, exciting, and a memorable event
they will be talking about for a long time! Good
solid family entertainment at a more than fair
price to make it affordable. Join Lythgoe Family
Productions July 18 through August 10 for a Princess and Pirates sing-a-long concert at the Kirk
Douglas Theatre 9820 W Washington Blvd, Culver
City, CA 90232. The show is one hour only and if
your kids enjoy singing to FROZEN they will love
this show. There will be lots of fun activities to do
before the show including karaoke, face painting
and family photos. Space is limited so book early.
Tickets start at $24 using the code PIRATE for a
20% discount. Did we mention FREE PARKING!
(213) 628-2772 www.centertheatregroup.org
16-21: Maryland Arizona Highlands Celtic
Festival at Foxglenn Park 4200 East Butler
Avenue, Flagstaff, AZ 86004 www.nachs.info/
festival.shtml
19-27: Canterbury Renaissance Faire at 6118
Mt Angel Hwy, Silverton, OR.
19-20: Elizabeth Celtic Festival at Casey
Jones Park, 34190 County Rd 17, Elizabeth, CO.
o Ye Olde Kings Head of Santa Monica, CA
90401 is showing all World Cup Games LIVE.
Dont forget to stop by the bakery for your favorite
pie and coffee to go (310) 451-1402.
20: Central Coast British Car Club 24th year
at the Channel Islands Harbor Park in Oxnard,
CA 9-3 Martin Keller MHKflyer52@outlook.com
website: www.centralcoastbritishcarclub.com
23: Manchester United vs LA Galaxy at Rose
Bowl Stadium www.lagalaxy.com
25-27: Faerieworlds Summer Solstice Celebration at Eugene, OR. www.faerieworlds.com
26-27: Evangola Pirate Fest at Evangola State
Park, Angola NY www.piratefest.civilwarsignals.org
26-27: Ren in the Glen Faire at Glenwood City,
WI www.renintheglen.com
26-27: 66th Pacific Northwest Scottish Highland Games at Enumclaw, WA www.sshga.org
AUGUST
1: Saint Andrews Highland Games at Greenmead Historical Park, Livonia, MI.
2-3: The World of Faeries Festival at Vasa
Park, 35 W217 route 31, South Elgin, IL 60177.
2: Ishpeming Art Faire and Renaissance
Festival at Lake Bancroft Park, Ishpeming, MI.
o Mayflower Club of N Hollywood holds
Celtic Irish Dance workshops 7,14,21,28; Doc

and Stumpy return with a Pirate Burlesque Show

11,12,13 (818) 769-9805.
2-3: San Jose Renaissance Faire at Guadalupe River Park, San Jose CA www.sanjosefaire.
com
2-17: Washington Midsummer Renaissance
Faire at Kelly Farm, Bonny Lake, WA.
2-17: Big Bear City Renaissance Faire at
Pedersens Mill, 39115 Rim of the World Dr
Fawnskin, CA.
2-21: New York Renaissance Faire at Sterling
Forest, Rte 17A, Tuxedo, New York www.renfair.
com/NY
2-Oct 26: Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire at
2775 Lebanon Rd, Manheim, PA.
3: Colorado Renaissance Festival at Perry
Park Rd, Larkspur, CO www.coloradorenaissance.com
4-10: Michigan Pirate Festival at Harbor
Island, Grand Haven, Michigan www.michiganpiratefestival.com
8-10: Pirates of the Pacific Festival at Port of
Brookings-Harbor, OR www.piratesofthepacificfestival.com

Northeast Ohio Calendar

By Joe Nicholls. Joe & Kevin McGinty can
be heard on The Sounds of Britain and Ireland
Sundays 4-5pm (EDT) on Clevelands WCPN
90.3FM) & www.wcpn.org
JULY
1: SHANO, Scottish Heritage Meetings, St
Bartholomew Church, 435 SOM Center Rd,
Mayfield 7:30pm, (216) 464-1116.
3: Daughters of the British Empire, Monthly
Meeting, Lyndhurst, 7pm, (440) 461-2533.
4, 18: British-American Club, Fish & chips dinners, 8564 Ravenna Rd, (off Rte 82) Twinsburg,
6:30-8:30pm, (330) 963-6370.
4, 11, 18, 25: West Side Irish American Club,
Irish-American style dinners, 8559 Jennings Rd,
Olmsted Township, 6-9pm, (216) 251-4075.
9: Calon Lan Welsh Club, Lunch Meeting,
Dennys Restaurant, Rt.224, Boardman. 1pm,
(330)758-4202.
11, 25: British-American Club, Pub Nights ,
8564 Ravenna Rd, Twinsburg, 8:30pm, (330)
963-6370.
13: Scottish American Society, Picnic at the
Frosts,5679 Sherwood Forest Dr, New Franklin,
1pm, (330) 882-0342.
18,19 & 20: Cleveland Irish Cultural Festival,
Cuyahoga County Fairgrounds, Berea, Fri. 4-11,
Sa.1-11, Sun. 1-10, (440) 221-4233.
19: Cleveland Manx Society, Picnic in the Red
Barn, Macintosh Farm, 10410 Broadview Hts,
1pm, (216) 481-2476.
25: RSCDS Cleveland Hts. Group, Free
Beginners Scottish Country Dance Class. Other
classes every Friday, Communion of St. Parish,
2175 Coventry Rd, Cleveland Hts 7:30pm (216)
432-9038.
AUGUST
2: British Car Council, British Car Day,
Includes Jaguar Club of Ohios Concours &
BACCs booth, Ursuline College, 2550 Lander
Rd (just S of Cedar Rd),Pepper Pike, All Day,
(330)467-3953.

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Tests Confirm Painting Is

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SCIENTIFIC tests have confirmed that

a painting donated to Britains National
Trust by a wealthy supporter is a Rembrandt self-portrait worth tens of millions
of pounds.
The portrait of the artist, wearing a cap
with a white feather, was long thought to
be the work of one of Rembrandts pupils
and was credited as in the style of the
17th-century Dutch master.
But last year a Rembrandt expert declared it genuine, and the National Trust
said last month that tests on the paint, the
signature and the wooden panel all confirm
its authenticity.
The painting was given to the heritage
body in 2010 and hangs in Buckland
Abbey in southwest England, the former
home of 16th-century seafarer Francis
Drake.
It went on display at the abbey last
month.

Del Mars 2014 Opening

Day Hat Contest Marks
Its 20th Anniversary
ONE OF the highlights of the racing season
in the UK is Royal Ascot Ladies Day eyes
are diverted for a while to the most outrageous and colourful designs of headwear
one can imagine. Well, for the last two decades racegoers at Del Mar, California, have
been experiencing their very own Hat Day.
Opening Day at Del Mar, Thursday, July
17, will mark the 20th anniversary of its
long-standing tradition, The Opening Day
Hat Contest. This years Hat Contest is expected to bring even more ornate, whimsical
and over-the-top hat fashion to the famous
seaside racetrack.
Officially established in 1995 by Julie
Sarno as The One and Only Truly Fabulous
Hats Contest, competition remains fierce
each year as many serious hat enthusiasts
spend months meticulously designing the
perfect topper to complement their Opening Day attire. The five hat categories that
contestants can sign-up for include: Best
Racing Theme, Funniest/Most Outrageous,
Most Glamorous, Best Flowers/All Others,
and Best Fascinator.
PRIZE
Each of the categories has a $300 plus
$100 Studio Savvy gift certificate first prize,
$200 for second and $100 for third. The
prizes combined total is valued at $5,000.
Additionally, the coveted Bing Crosby
Grand Prize winner will receive a $1,000
BCBG gift certificate along with a $500
gift certificate from our local hat sponsor,
The Village Hat Shop.
Racetrack goers and hat enthusiasts alike
who wish to parade their creations and
participate in the contest, can head over to
Plaza de Mexico located inside the Stretch
Run admission gates. Entries are taken from
11:30am to 3pm around the large fountain.
The Del Mar summer meet opens
on Thursday, July 17 and runs through
Wednesday, September 3. Racing takes
place Wednesday through Sunday with
post time for the first race on most days at
2pm. On Fridays first post is shifted to 4pm.
For more information, call (858) 7551141 or visit www.delmarscene.com.

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The Fallen Angel

by Daniel Silva

WHAT DO the Pope, an Israeli secret serviceman, the Hezbollah, Palestine, an Antiquities
expert, money, and a death all have in common? Youll find out this and much, much
more in this fascinating book.
Gabriel Allon has retired (or so he thinks)
from working for Israeli intelligence and has
returned to his love the restoration of classic paintings currently Caravaggios The
Deposition of Christ. He is working on a piece
at the Vatican when his friend Monsignor
Luigi Donati the Popes private secretary
comes to him and asks him to look at a
body on the floor of St Peters Basilica. It is
a woman who was hired to do research into
the Vaticans museum collection to verify that
all of the pieces were gained by legitimate
means. It is speculated
that Claudia Andreatti has
committed suicide from
the very top but Gabriel
and Donati believe differently. Although Gabriel
has retired he is asked
to do the investigation.
The Vatican doesnt need
another scandal. Gabriel
reluctantly agrees and you are then carried off
to the depths of the Vatican, to the glamour
of St Moritz, to Jerusalem and many stops
in between.
Claudia, it seems, discovers that some
of the antiques are not quite as innocently
acquired as they should have been and as
she started to dig she found out more than
certain people thought she should. Others get
killed along the way as they cross the wrong
people and it seems, at times, that the trail
has gone dead but Gabriel is not one to give
up and he keeps digging.
Gabriel has to tread lightly as most of the
Police he comes in contact with know of his
interesting past and really dont want him
around digging up trouble. He has several
close calls but the final and biggest challenge
is when the Pope himself asks him to be his
personal bodyguard once again (he had done
it many, many years ago) as he goes to Israel
and Palestine at Easter for a 10-day tour and
hopes to get the two sides speaking again.
Gabriel discovers there is a plan in place that
will probably start World War III if it happens.
Convincing all those that are threatened to
take him and his team seriously isnt easy.
We are reminded of the Holocaust and the
pain that caused many, current day political
issues (as this book takes place in current
day) and we learn much about the history
on all sides of many issues. It is a wonderful read Im really glad I stumbled upon it
and will certainly be picking up more of his
books to read.
Although the book is fiction Silva has
done extensive research into the world of
antiquities, the Church and the secret service.
He has many friends who have helped him
along the way and the history in the book is
absolutely amazing. Take a break and read
this one its an easy read and youll be
sucked in from the very beginning.

Unemployment Drops As
Economy Strengthens
BRITAINS unemployment rate is falling sharply as the economy continues to
strengthen, but wage growth continues
to lag, official figures showed last month.
The Office for National Statistics said
the jobless rate dropped to 6.6 percent
in the three months ending in April
from 7.2 percent in the period ending
in January.
Some 72.9 percent of the population
aged 16 to 64 was working, still just
slightly less than before the 2008-2009
economic downturn brought on by
the global financial crisis. There were
780,000 more people working than a
year earlier.

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Laura, Lizzy, Dario And Two

Charlottes On The Queens List

GOLFER Laura Davies was made a Dame on

the Queens Birthday Honours list. A winner
of 84 tournaments worldwide, including four
Majors, she is the most successful English
woman on the ladies golf circuit. The captain
of England womens cricket team, Charlotte
Edwards has put in 274 appearances that
include Tests, ODIs and T20 and she received
the CBE. Teammate and bowler Jenny Gunn
with over 100 appearances for the national
side got an MBE. There were MBEs for four
time IndyCar champion and three time Indianapolis 500 winner Dario Franchitti, Olympic
gold medal winner in the Skeleton, Lizzy Arnold, and Para-Olympic gold medalists Kelly
Gallagher and Charlotte Evans. England and
Leeds Rugby League skipper Kevin Sinfield
gets the MBE, while Welsh rugby union coach
Warren Gatland, received an OBE.

Cricket; Sri Lanka In England

Englands five match ODIs series went to

the final game where a controversial decision
saw Jos Buttler run out in the non-striking
position which gave Sri Lanka the advantage
and the series 3-2. England started the series
with an 81 run win using the D/L method at
the Oval. England 247-6. Sri Lanka 144 all
out. Sri Lanka won by 157 runs at Chesterle-Street, Durham, where England suffered a
major collapse. Sri Lanka 256-8 at 50 overs.
England 99 all out. At Old Trafford, England
won by 10 wickets using the D/L method. Sri
Lanka 67 all out. England 73-0 at close. At
Lords, the Sri Lankans conquered by seven
runs. Sri Lanka 300 (Kumar Sangakkara
112)-9 at 50 overs. England 293 (Jos Buttler
121)-8 at 50 overs. At Edgbaston in the fifth
and final game, Sri Lanka won by six wickets.
England 219 all out. Sri Lanka 224-4 at 50
overs The tourists played a four-dayer against
Northamptonshire, which saw the third day
washed out and the match was drawn Sri
Lanka 558 (Jayan Silva 152, Hettige Thirimanne 156) and 99-4 at close. Northants
345 (Robert Keogh 120).
England was thwarted from a victory

at Lords in the First Test, where the Sri

Lankans held on with just one wicket left
to fall. A debut century from Gary Balance,
and a double century from Joe Root, was
the measure of a confident England side.
England 575 (Joe Root 200)-9 dec and 267
(Gary Balance 104)-8 dec. Sri Lanka 453
(Kumar Sangakkara 147, Angelo Mathews
102) and 201- 9 at close.
The Indian Premier League concluded at
Mumbai, June 1, with the Kolkata Knight
Riders beating the King XI Punjab by three
wickets. King XI Punjab 199 (Wriddhiman
Saha 115)-4 at 20 overs. KKRs 200-7 at
close Chris Gale claimed his 100th cap for
the West Indies at Sabina Park, Jamaica, but
there was little celebration. New Zealand won
the first Test by 186 runs. New Zealand 508
(Kane Williamson 113, Jimmy Neesham
107)-7 dec and 156-8 dec. West Indies
262 and 216.

Aidan OBrien Claims Another

Derby Winner

Irish trainer Aidan OBrien, added a fifth

Epsom Derby victory to his racing resume,
when his son, Joseph, rode Australia, to a
one and a quarter length win at the 235th
running of the Derby, June 7. The 11/8
favourite edged out Kingston Hill (15-2) in
second place, Ramsdal (20-1) was third. 16
ran. It was the third consecutive Derby success for the Coolmore Stables. The horse is
owned jointly by Mrs Sue Magnier, Michael
Tabor, Derrick Smith and Teo Alt King,
familiar names in the racing world A day
earlier, Taghrooda (5-1),owned by Sheik
Hamdan Al Maktoum won the Epsom Oaks
by three and three quarter lengths North
Yorkshire trainer Kevin Ryan, captured the
French Derby at Chantilly, where The Grey
Gatsby, a 20-1 shot ridden by Ryan Moore
beat odds on-favourite Prince Gibraltor, by
three lengths.16 ran California Chrome
failed to win the triple crown at Belmont,
where Tonalist, took the honours much to the
chagrin of Chrome half-owner Steve Coburn.
Chrome had earlier won the Kentucky Derby
and the Preakness, but three top class races
in five weeks proved too much.

Nadal & Sharapova Are French

Champions

The red clay of the Roland Garros stadium

that hosted the French Open, May 25-June
8, has favoured Rafael Nadal over the
years, but not so the British players. Andy
Murray reached the semi-finals, where the
much admired Spaniard cast the Scot aside
6-3, 6-2, 6-1. Previously, the Wimbledon
champion had worked his way through

of tickets remaining after just one day of

sales, said USA Rugby Chief Executive
Officer Nigel Melville. Monday was a great
testament to the rising interest in the sport,
and our match will be one that no sports fan
will want to miss.
As a global sponsor of rugby, we are very
excited to see how the sport is expanding here
in the United States, said AIG Global Head
of Sponsorship Danny Glantz. The response
in the first 24 hours of ticket sales enhances
what we already knew, that this match will
be one of the premier sporting events in 2014
for both the rugby supporter and the casual
fan wanting to learn more, and will serve as
another great milestone for the game, the city
Andrew Gulubic (Kazh), Marinko Matasevic
(Australia) Philipp Kohlschrieber (Germany)
which went to a fifth set of 12-10. He then
went on to take out Spains Fernando Verdasco, and in the quarter-finals, Frances
Gael Montfils. Heather Watson beat Barbara
Zahlova-Strycova in the first round, but
succumbed to the eventual finalist, Simona
Halep of Romania in the second. James
Ward won a series of qualifiers to earn a first
round contest against Tommy Robredo, but
went out in four sets. Both Williams sisters,
Venus and defending champion Serena went
out in the second round. Maria Sharapova
beat Simona Halep in the womens final, and
Rafael Nadal claimed his ninth French Open
title overcoming Noval Djokovic in four sets.

Murray & Mauresmo Team Up

Andy Murray approaches Queens Club

and Wimbledon with the hiring of new coach
Amelie Mauresmo, The French woman
has won both French and Australian Open
Championships. The Aegon Championships
at the Queens Club, June 5-15, witnessed
defending champion Andy Murray beat PaulHenri Mathieu, but then tumbled out in the
second round to Radek Stepanek. The Czech
won 7-6 (12-10) 6-2. Dan Evans (bt Jurgen
Melzer) and James Ward (bt Blad Rola) got
through their first round encounters, but went
out in the second to Kevin Anderson and
Grigor Dimitrov respectively. Jamie Murray
brought a British flavor to the tournament
reaching the doubles final with Aussie partner
John Peers, but they could not dispatch
Alexander Peya and Bruno Soares At
the Aegon Classic in Birmingham, Heather
Watson played as the new British number
one, but went out in the opening round in a
three setter against Aleksandr Wozniak
At the Aegon International at Eastbourne,
Heather Watson recorded her best career win
ever, beating Flavia Pennetta of Italy, ranked
twelfth in the world, 6-7 (6-8) 6-4, 6-2.

Golf: Monty Wins In America,

Kaymer Destroys PGA Field

Colin Montgomerie, secured his first

ever win on American soil, claiming the US
Senior PGA championship in Michigan with
a 13 under 271,four clear of the field. Scottish youngster Kylie Walker, won her first
European tournament winning the Deloitte
Ladies Open in Amsterdam, while Charley
Hull, finished joint third, two strokes behind
the winner Jessica Korda, in the LPGA Airbus
Classic in Mobile, Alabama.
Rory McIIroy charged into a first round
lead at the Memorial Tournament at Dublin,
Ohio, with a stunning nine under par 63, but a
78 in the next round put paid to a great start.
Fellow Brit Paul Casey, was in contention for
a while, with 66s in both his first and second
rounds before finishing six distant of winner,
Hideki Matsuyama (13 under 275). The
Amateur Curtis Cup witnessed the Americans
beat Britain and Ireland 13pts to 7pts at the
St Louis Country Club.
Germanys Martin Kaymer dominated the
American PGA Championship at Pinehurst,
NC, concluding June 15. Kaymer started off
with two rounds of 65, finishing with a nine
under 271, eight strokes clear of the field. It
was his second Major. Some fourteen Britons
were in the field but half did not survive the
cut. Top Brit finishers were Justin Rose
12 strokes adrift, and Ian Poulter, a stroke
behind him.

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muscled out of the game in the second

half just when they looked to be heading
for victory.

Wales Continue To Struggle In

South Africa

England Go Down To New

Zealand

UNSURPRISINGLY, the home nations experienced mixed fortunes in their opening

summer tour matches.
England had the toughest programme,
taking on the World Champions, New
Zealand, in their own backyard. Our lads
were certainly not disgraced but on these
showings they will not be favourites to win
next years World Cup on home soil.
In the First Test in Auckland, it took a
late try from Conrad Smith to inflict a 20-15
defeat on England, the All Blacks setting
a new international record of 31 games
without defeat. England missing several
key players still at home on Premiership
duty could count themselves unlucky in
that for the crucial last ten minutes they
were down to 14 men. It was a sheer lack
of numbers that enabled Smith to scrape
over the line.
Thus England looked to the Second Test
with some grounds for optimism. England
racked up an early ten point lead with a
penalty from Owen Farrell and a surging
run from Marlon Yarde which led to another
converted try. The difference in class at
this level can be measured in fractions of
inches when the game is played at high
intensity and pace. England always seemed
to be stretching for that little bit extra which
comes easily to All Blacks, slight misjudgements which cancel key opportunities. This
was most clear in the mid-section of the
match in which the home side came from
6-13 behind with three second-half tries
and a penalty to lead 28-13.
Gallant England scored two late tries
to narrow the gap but predictably the All
Blacks extra class secured a positive
result. The All Blacks clinched the threematch series with a convincing victory. The
28-27 scoreline flatters England who were

Wales have never beaten South Africa

south of the equator and sadly it seems
unlikely to happen this year either. They had
tasted some success on their tour with a
convincing 34-12 win over Eastern Province. But Test rugby is a different animal.
They took an early lead with a drop goal
from Dan Biggan but thereafter the South
Africans more or less controlled the game
with the same sort of ease that the All
Blacks display. It is that added pace and
incisive running that differentiates southern
hemisphere sides from their European
counterparts. Just occasionally Wales
disconcerted the opposition, most notably
with a brilliant long-distance solo try from
Alex Cuthbert.
They also did remarkably well at the
death when wave after wave of Springbok
attacks a few paces from the Welsh line
were held. But in truth, the Dragonhood
never really looked anywhere near good
enough to register a second all-time win,
finally succumbing 16-38.

Scotland And Ireland Enjoy

Visits To America

Scotland embarked upon a somewhat

rambling tour of the New World. They took
on the USA in the heat of Houston and ran
out quite comfortable 24-6 victors. Their
new coach, Vern Cotter, will have been
pleased with the result but not with its
manner. Scotland were simply too sloppy.
Canada offered the Scots rather tougher
opposition in Toronto where the summer
warmth was considerably less oppressive.
This was a far more competitive match and
it took a late penalty from Greig Laidlaw to
secure the honours for the Scots at 19-17.
The most comfortable of the home
nations was Ireland. They won a first-ever
series against Argentina with a couple of
hard-fought yet clear-cut victories. Among
the new faces on view for the Irish is Rodney Ah You, a New Zealander by birth who
plays at prop. He has the sort of name that
demands a double-take.
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Hard Hitting Froch Retains Title,

McDonnell Claims WBA Crown

Carl Froch landed a humdinger of a

punch at Wembley Stadium, May 31, where
a record British boxing crowd of 80,000
plus, witnessed George Groves hit the deck
in the eighth round, and remain motionless
for a moment before the ref stopped the
bout. The rematch between the IBF & WBA
super-middleweight champion from Nottingham (33-2) and London George (19-2)
who entered the stadium atop a London
bus proved cagey until the fifth round when
the skilled violence ratcheted up and Froch
edged into a points lead by the time of the
knockout. Groves complained hed dropped
his game plan for one second, and Froch had
taken immediate advantage. On the under
card, Jamie McDonnell (24-2) claimed the
WBA bantamweight crown after stopping
Thailands Tabtimdaeng Na Rachawat (523) in the tenth round. Former 2008 Olympic
champion James DeGale (19-1) finished off
Sacramentos Brandon Gonzales (18-1-1)
in four rounds and 2012 Olympic champion
Anthony Joshua, overcame Matt Legg to
push his record to 6-0.
Paul Butler retained his unbeaten record
to take the IBF bantamweight crown off
Stuart Hall (16-3-2) of Darlington, at the
Metro-Radio-Arena in Newcastle, June 4.
A split decision pushes Butler from Chester
to 16 and 0 Birmingham born, Blackpool
raised, and now a Manchester resident,
light-middleweight Brian Rose, put on a
brave performance at the Barclays Centre
in Brooklyn, New York, June 14, attempting
to dethrone Demetrius Andrade of his WBO
crown. Rose (24-2-1) came in to the ring
after eleven consecutive victories, but the
unbeaten Providence, Rhode Island champion (34-0-1) had Rose down twice in the
first three rounds, and brought the contest
to an end in the seventh.
The Brownlee brother triathletes, Alistair
and Jonny, usually put in a good performance
at the London Triathlon at the World ITU
series, but at the May 31 race, Spaniard
Mario Mola, took the honours with Olympic
champion Alistair, back in fourth place
Welsh cyclist Geraint Thomas, won the
five day Tour of Bavaria, which concluded
in Nuremburg.

Rugby Union Results

Rugby union finally ended its 2013-14

season with the two big European games.
French side Toulon, won the Heineken Cup
final and became the European club champions at the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff, beating the Saracens 23-6. Bath won the other
European trophy, the Amlin Challenge Cup at
Cardiff Arms Park, overcoming Northampton
30-16. The Barbarians beat England at
Twickenham 39-29, while Northampton won
the Aviva Premiership Final 24-20 over the
Saracens. All games concluded late May.
A series of International fixtures filled the
calendar last month. Scotland beat the US
Bald-eagles at Houston, 24-6. Ireland won
29-17 against Argentina at Resistencia, New
Zealand beat England 20-15, and Australia
marked France down 50-23. More games
June 14. New Zealand edged England 28-27
at Dunedin, South Africa took Wales 38-16,
while Scotland won 19-17, in Toronto over
the Canadians. Australia topped France 6-0,
and Ireland beat Argentina 23-17.

World Cup-Warm-Ups

85,000 Wembley fans gave a roaring

sent off for Englands trip to Brazil, May 26,
where a 3-0 win over Peru gave coach Roy
Hodgson the positive result he was looking
for. Goals by Daniel Sturridge, Gary Cayhill
and Phil Jagielka provided the pleasure. In
Miami for two games, June 4 and 7, a
crowd of 21,000 plus at the Sunlife Stadium
watched England and Ecuador tie. Both sides
went down to ten men in the 78th minute,
as Manchester Utds Antonio Valencia and
Liverpools Raheem Sterling got in to a fracas and both received their marching orders.
Ecuador took the lead in the eighth minute,
while Wayne Rooney notched his 39th goal
for the Three Lions some twenty minutes
later. Ricky Lambert got one six minutes after
the break, and Michael Arroyo leveled it in the
70th minute. The second game four days later
against Honduras witnessed a very physical
encounter where the ref halted the game after
23 minutes, for 30 minutes, when a vicious
thunderstorm topped the arena. 45,000 plus
turned up, where Brayan Beckeles was sent
off in the 66th minute. England could not find

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the net against ten men however, and the

encounter ended 0-0.
Scotland was seconds from victory over
Nigeria at Craven Cottage, when Nwofer put
in a late equalizer for a 2-2 draw. Charlie
Mulgrew put Gordon Strachans men in
front in the tenth minute, then Uchebo leveled it minutes from the break. Egwuekwe
found his own net in 52nd minute, and the
Scots secured an advantage they would not
keep Gareth Bale and Aaron Ramsey
were missing for Wales, at a friendly at
Amsterdam, where the Dutch won 2-0
Northern Ireland had won only one of their
last 20 games, and they did not improve their
record at Montevideo, when the only goal of
the game gave Uruguay the victory. A couple
days later in Chile, they went down 2-0.
American soccer reverberated to the news
that Landon Donovan had not made Jurgen
Klinnsmans final cut, but the US carved out
victories prior to their departure to Brazil. At
Candlestick Park, the USA beat Aberbaijan
2-0 courtesy of Mix Diskerud and Aron
Johannsson. The US won in New Jersey,
with nettings by Fabian Johnson and Clint
Dempsey, who survived a Turkish penalty
in the closing minutes, where Selcuk Inan
brought the final score to 2-1. Jozy Altidore
regained his shooting boots with a brace
against Nigeria in Jacksonville, Florida, but
the Africans scored four minutes from time
with a penalty. The scoreline 2-1.

Late Cricket

Stuart Broad became the first English

bowler to take two hat-tricks, which he accomplished during Sri Lankas first innings
at Headingley in the second Test match. Sri
Lanka would clinch victory by 100 runs with
just two balls of the match left. Sri Lanka 257
and 457 (Angelo Mathews 160). England
365 (Sam Robson 127) and 249 (Moeen Ali
108). Sri Lanka win the short test series 1-0
Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire share the
lead at the top of the County Championship
mid-June, both having accumulated 118pts
from nine games. Hampshire lead Division
Two with 139pts, with Worcestershire, just
behind on 138pts The West Indies beat
the Kiwis by 10 wickets in their second and
final Test at Port of Spain, Trinidad, to tie
the short series 1-1. New Zealand 221 and
331. West Indies 460 (Kraigg Braithwaite
129, Darren Bravo 109) and 95-0 at close.

Late Sport

The Mercedes Formula One team won

the Monaco Grand Prix, with Nico Rosberg
first and Lewis Hamilton second. The third
man, Red Bulls Daniel Ricciardo, took the
Canadian Grand Prix, June 8, breaking the six
time consecutive winning streak of Rosberg
and Hamilton. Rosberg was second, while
Hamilton did not finish. Williams Felipe
Massa, took the pole at the Austrian Grand
Prix, June 22, the eighth race in the series,
but by the 40th lap Nico Rosberg was in
front and went on to win. Team-mate Lewis
Hamilton starting ninth of the grid finished
second. Rosberg leads the drivers table with
165pts, with Hamilton on 136pts
Britains Heather Watson got a walkover
to the semi-finals of the Aegon International at
Eastbourne, when 2011 Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova, pulled out with a hamstring
injury. She became the first Briton to reach
the last four since 1982, but went out to the
19-year-old American, Madison Keys, who
went on to win her first big tournament Finlands Mikko llonen won the Irish open at Fola
Island, Cork, June 22, where a 13-under par
gave him a one stroke victory. Englishmen
Matthew Baldwin and Danny Willett (hole
in one on third round) finished two behind.
Rory McIIroy did not survive the cut More
international rugby union matches June 2021. New Zealand captured the third and final
Test at Hamilton beating England 36-13, thus
winning the series 3-0. Wales were unlucky
at Nelspruit, and were beaten in the closing
minutes 31-30 by South Africa. Australia
beat France 39-13, while Scotland won in
South America, topping Argentina 21-19.

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Bradley Wiggins
Set To Miss
Tour de France
By Samuel Petrequin
FORMER Tour de France winner Bradley
Wiggins expects to miss this years race,
complaining that his team is focusing on
his bitter rival and defending champion
Chris Froomes title defense.
Wiggins, who became the first British
rider to win cyclings showpiece two years
ago, was not selected to compete with
Froome at the Criterium du Dauphine, the
tuneup event for the Tour. It was a clear
indication that he was unlikely to line up
in Yorkshire on July 5 for the Tours start
in England.
Speaking to the BBC Breakfast program
last month, the 34-year-old multiple Olympic gold medallist voiced his disappointment at being left out by Team Sky despite
a recent surge in form and his victory at the
Tour of California last month.
I am gutted, Wiggins said. I feel I am
in the form I was two years ago. Now if I
want to go to the Tour again, the reality is
that I might have to go elsewhere. I also
understand that cycling is a team sport and
it is all about Team Sky winning and Chris
is defending champion.
Wiggins contract with Sky expires at
the end of the season.
COMPETING
Having missed the Tour again this
year, I wouldnt like to leave it there,
said the former pursuit specialist, who
could now turn his focus on competing on
the track at the Commonwealth Games in
Glasgow, Scotland, in August. Id love to
go back at some point so there is the chance
that I would go back to the Tour next year.
Froome struggled at last months Tour
at the Dauphine while Wiggins was forced
to drop out of the Tour de Suisse with a
knee injury.
Froome, will be surrounded by a team
made of strong climbers in the mountainous event, including last years Dauphine
runner-up Richie Porte, Vasil Kiryienka,
David Lopez, Mikel Nieve, Danny Pate,
Geraint Thomas and Xabier Zandio.
Froome and Wiggins have endured
a frosty relationship over the past few
years. Tensions first arose during the 2012
Tour, with Froome sometimes looking
the stronger rider in the climbs but being
ordered by the team to support Wiggins
rather than attack.
Last year, after suggesting he would
seek to defend his title and upset Skys
plans of making Froome its leader, Wiggins missed the race because of health
issues and Froome easily won the 100th
edition of the race.
Froome recently said his relationship
with Wiggins was back to normal, and
Wiggins was adamant he would support
his younger teammate if he was selected.

Wiggins Headlines England

Cycling Team For Glasgow
FORMER Tour de France champion and
four-time Olympic gold medalist Bradley
Wiggins headlines Englands cycling team
for the Commonwealth Games.
Wiggins, who won the 2012 Tour, was
named last month as part of Englands
road race team for the games in Glasgow,
Scotland.
Wiggins, who is unlikely to compete in
this summers Tour, has indicated he could
also return to the track.
The English team features seven other
Olympic champions: Laura Trott, Joanna
Rowsell, Dani King, Ed Clancy, Steven
Burke, Jason Kenny and Philip Hindes.
The Commonwealth Games take place
from July 23-August 3.

Joe Cole Signs Free Transfer

With Aston Villa

FORMER England midfielder Joe Cole signed a

two-year deal with Aston
Villa last month, giving
him a chance to prolong
his career with another
Premier League club.
The 32-year-old Cole
joined the Birmingham club on a free transfer
after being released by West Ham at the end
of the season.

Everton Manager Martinez

Signs New Five-Year Contract

EVERTON rewarded Roberto Martinez for an

impressive first season as manager with a
new five-year contract last month.
Martinez, who took over from David Moyes
a year ago on a four-year deal, led Everton
to fifth in the English Premier League with a
record points tally. Everton will play in Europe
next season for the first time since 2010, in
the Europa League.
The 40-year-old Martinez began managing at Swansea, then Wigan, where he won
the FA Cup last year. Hes tied to Everton
until 2019.

Sami Hyypia Takes Charge Of

Second-Tier Brighton

FORMER Liverpool defender Sami Hyypia

says the ambition of English second-tier club
Brighton was what attracted him to apply for
the managers job.
Hyppia, who played more than 100 internationals for Finland, was introduced as
the new coach last month, on a three-year
contract.
The 40-year-old Hyypia was fired as
manager of Bayer Leverkusen in April after
winning only three games in 12, but managed
the team in the Champions League.

Pantillimon Leaves Man City

For Sunderland

SUNDERLAND says it has signed goalkeeper

Costel Pantillimon for four years on a free
transfer.
The 27-year-old Pantillimon, who has
played 18 times for Romania, will officially
join Sunderland on July 1 after his contract
expires at English champion Manchester City.
He made 29 appearances for City in three
years and replaced Joe Hart for two months
in the 2013-14 season when Englands firstchoice goalkeeper had a loss of form.

Ronald Koeman Hired As

Southampton Manager

SOUTHAMPTON has hired former Dutch defender Ronald Koeman as its new manager.
The 51-year-old Koeman says on Twitter
that he has just signed at the great English
club and is very much looking forward to
the new season.
Koeman signed a three-year deal at the
Premier League club last month. His brother,
Erwin, has also joined Southampton as assistant first-team manager.

Moyes Tempted By Offers

After United Firing

FORMER Manchester United manager David

Moyes says he is being tempted by one or
two very good offers to return to football
coaching, just a few months after being fired
by the Premier League giants.
Writing in British newspaper The Sunday
Times in his first media comments since his
departure, Moyes says another possibility is
that I may choose to have a break and enjoy
watching and observing football throughout
the world. What I do know for sure is that I

have moved on.

The Scot says it could well be that gone
are the days of long-term planning ... It was
unfortunate I wasnt given more time to
succeed.

David Beckham Hints At

Possible Comeback

DAVID BECKHAM says he might come out of

retirement and play soccer again.
The 39-year-old former England captain
retired last year after a final stint at Paris
Saint-Germain. He says in a BBC documentary he had a tough time after he stopped
playing.
Beckham is trying to launch a Major
League Soccer team and build a stadium in
Miami. He says theres never been a playerowner, but maybe?

McDermott Fired By Fallen

English Power Leeds

FALLEN English power

Leeds United has fired
manager Brian McDermott
in the wake of a takeover
of the second-tier English
club by Italian businessman Massimo Cellino.
McDermott left the club
last month, 13 months into a three-year contract, with Cellino saying the coach had been
very understanding of my wish to implement
a new structure.
Leeds finished 15th in the 24-team League
Championship at the end of a difficult season
marred by takeover speculation. The team,
which hasnt been in the Premier League
since 2004, won the English top-flight title
in 1992 and reached the Champions League
semifinals in 2001 before falling into financial
difficulties.

Sheringham Joins West Ham

As Attacking Coach

WEST HAM manager Sam Allardyce has

responded to demands to make his team
more entertaining by hiring former England
forward Teddy Sheringham as the clubs new
attacking coach.
Sheringham, who played for West Ham for
three years toward the end of his long career,
will join the London team on a part-time basis
for the start of preseason. He also played for
Manchester United and Tottenham in his 25year career, and won 51 caps for England.
Allardyce has already signed Argentine
striker Mauro Zarate from Velez Sarsfield in
this offseason.

Poyet Extends Deal At

Sunderland Thru 2016

SUNDERLAND manager Gus Poyet has

signed a new contract with the Premier
League club, keeping the former Uruguay international at the Stadium of Light until 2016.
Poyet enhanced his burgeoning reputation
at managerial level by guiding Sunderland to
safety last season with four wins from its
last five games and also to the League Cup
final, where the team lost to Manchester City.
The 46-year-old Poyet said: I am delighted to extend my stay with Sunderland after
an unbelievable season and our famous great
escape the prospect of creating more of
those memories is one which excites me.

Stoke Signs Steve Sidwell

To Two-Year Deal

MIDFIELDER Steve Sidwell has signed a

two-year deal with Premier League club Stoke
after being released by Fulham.
He will join his new side in July when his
current contract expires.
Sidwell started his career with Arsenal
and played with different clubs before joining
Chelsea in 2007. He spent one season at
Stamford Bridge, then moved to Aston Villa
before switching to Fulham in 2011.

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Chamberlin, et al, but against Uruguay
and Italy defensive glitches and sloppy
work in the attacking third were too much
to overcome.
Thus did England stumble out of the
tournament after just two matches, and
the humiliation of that failure can be
tempered by the fact that the same fate
befell defending champion Spain. Their
glorious era consecutive European
Championships sandwiched around the
2010 World Cup title ended ignominiously. A rampant Dutch team thrashed the
Spaniards, 5-1, in a rematch of the bitter
final they played four years ago, and a
subsequent 2-0 loss to Chile ended their
quest to repeat.
Spain exited after defeating Australia,
3-0, and all-time leading scorer David
Villa who before the tournament
had announced his retirement from the
national team signed off by steering a
clever back-heel into the net for his 59th
international goal. Villa is the first player
signed by the new Major League Soccer
expansion team, New York City FC,
which comes into the league next year.
Another player linked to MLS captained England in its group finale against
Costa Rica, and what becomes of the
national team as Frank Lampard and others ride off into the sunset will dominate
discussions for the next few months.
Lampard had been in discussions with
the Los Angeles Galaxy last year before
re-signing with Chelsea, with which hes
parted ways. He could be bound for New
York City FC as well.
I dont know whether I will or not,
Lampard told BBC Radio regarding his
retirement from England. I am going
to get home and make a decision at that
point because I have my own (club) future
to sort out as well.
This is not the time and place to make
the decision. Sometimes when you are
away for a month you dont always come
up with the right judgment.
Hours after a second 2-1 loss had eliminated manager Roy Hodgsons team, the
FA announced he would stay on. His contract runs through the 2016 Euros. There
are some positives, said chairman Greg
Dyke to Sky Sports. Weve got some
young players that have been blooded and
got into tournament football here.
I think everybody felt we played
really well and narrowly lost in the first
game [to Italy] and then the second game
couldve gone either way. We were not
humiliated or anything like that.
While Spain was being humiliated,
the Netherlands, Colombia, and France
romped to impressive group victories,
Brazil endured a tie with Mexico to top
Group A, and Argentina, Germany, and
Belgium were impressive at times yet
shaky occasionally.
The USA scored a late winner from
substitute defender John Brooks, one of
five German-based players on the squad,
to beat Ghana, 2-1, in its opener and atone
for losses to the same country by the same
score in the last two World Cups. The
second group game will go down as one
of the most dramatic in the teams long
history.
Portugal, 3-2 losers to the USA at the
2002 World Cup in which the Americans
reached the quarterfinals, took a 1-0 lead
in the fifth minute on a defensive miscue.
The USA rallied with a scintillating strike
by Jermaine Jones and a bundled goal
by Clint Dempsey and led, 2-1, deep
into stoppage time. They were within
seconds of a spot in the second round
before an otherwise subdued Cristiano
Ronaldo swerved a superb cross that
substitute V
arela headed powerfully into
the net. The 2-2 tie left both the USA and
Germany, which tied Ghana by the same
score, needing a point out of their meeting
in the group finale to advance.

Gerrard To Spend Summer

Considering England Future

ENGLAND captain Steven Gerrard will spend

the summer deciding whether to retire from
international football after the teams early
World Cup elimination.
Its not right to make a decision now or
in a week, the 34-year-old said just before
England met Costa Rica in their last game.
Gerrard has made 113 international appearances, including the 2-1 losses to Italy
and Uruguay in Brazil, which led to Roy Hodgsons side failing to qualify for the second
round at the World Cup. Gerrard struggled
to exert his usual influence in the center in
Brazil, noticeably fading against Uruguay and
inadvertently flicking the ball on for Liverpool
teammate Luis Suarez to score the winner.

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~ RUGBY ~

FORMER England captain Andrew

Flintoff has come out of retirement to
play for Lancashire in the domestic T20
Blast competition.
The 36-year-old allrounder, who
played 79 tests and 141 one-day internationals for England, retired in 2010
after a string of injuries but has been
training with Lancashire, his old club,
in recent months.
Flintoff tells the BBC when Im
bowling it still hurts a bit, but Im loving
running into bowl and if I can take that
into a game I might be quite dangerous.
Flintoff was a star of the England
team that won the Ashes in 2005. He was
captain when England was whitewashed
in Australia in the 2006-07 series but
was a member of the side that regained
the urn in 2009.

NORTHAMPTON became English rugby

champion for the first time in dramatic circumstances on Saturday, beating Saracens
24-20 in the Premiership final after scoring a try in added-on time in extra time at
Twickenham.
A try by replacement prop Alex Waller
in the last passage of play in the match was
only confirmed after a long review by the
television match official.
Northamptons England center Luther
Burrell says to go to the death like that,
Im just speechless.
Saracens, who topped the regularseason standings, finish the season emptyhanded after also losing the European Cup
final to Toulon in Cardiff last month.
Extra time was required for the first time
in 14 Premiership finals, with the score at
14-14 after 80 minutes following an unconverted try by Saracens center Marcelo
Bosch in the 73rd minute.

Snooker Player
Flintoff Out Of
Fined For Not
Northampton Becomes
Retirement, Playing English Champion For Sending Cue To Fan
BANNED SNOOKER player Stephen
In English T20
First Time

GROUP OF 16

QUALIFIERS & TABLES

(at time of Press)
BRAZIL
CHILE
URUGUAY
COSTA RICA
HOLLAND
MEXICO
COSTA RICA
COLUMBIA
GREECE

WORLD CUP GROUPS

Group A

P W D L GF GA Pts
Brazil
3 2 1
0 7 2 7
Mexico 3 2 1
0 4 1 7
Croatia 3 1 0
2 6 6 3
Cameroon 3 0 0
3 1 9 0

Group B

P W D L GF GA Pts
Netherlands
3 3 0
0
10 3 9
Chile
3 2 0
1 5 3 6
Spain
3 1 0
2 4 7 3
Australia 3 0 0
3 3 9 0

Group C

P W D L GF GA Pts
Colombia 3 3 0
0 9 2 9
Greece 3 1 1
1 2 4 4
Cte dIvoire
3 1 0
2 4 5 3
Japan
3 0 1
2 2 6 1

Group D

P W D L GF GA Pts
Costa Rica 3 2 1
0 4 1 7
Uruguay 3 2 0
1 4 4 6
Italy
3 1 0
2 2 3 3
England 3 0 1
2 2 4 1

Group E

P W D L GF GA Pts
France 2 2 0
0 8 2 6
Ecuador 2 1 0
1 3 3 3
Switzerland
2 1 0
1 4 6 3
Honduras 2 0 0
2 1 5 0

Group F

P W D L GF GA Pts
Argentina 3 4 0
0 6 3 9
Nigeria 3 1 1
1 3 3 4
Bosnia & H 3 1 0 2 4 4 3
Iran
3 0 1
2 1 4 1

Group G

P W D L GF GA Pts
Germany 2 1 1
0 6 2 4
USA
2 1 1
0 4 3 4
Ghana 2 0 1
1 3 4 1
Portugal 2 0 1
1 2 6 1

Group H

Belgium
Algeria
Russia
Korea

P W D L GF GA Pts
2 2 0
0 3 1 6
2 1 0
1 5 4 3
2 0 1
1 1 2 1
2 0 1
1 3 5 1

WORLD CUP FACTS:

World Cup Winners To Win $35m

THE AMOUNT of $35m is higher than what
Spain, the 2010 World Cup winner won four
years ago. They claimed an amount of $31m.
FIFA secretary general Jer Valcke stated the
runners-up will claim $25m.
The team winning the match for the third
place will win $22m and the fourth place
country will win an amount of $20m. USD.
Each country which makes it to the knockout stage will receive a guaranteed minimum
of $8m.
2014 Is Expensive World Cup Ever
NO EXPENSES are being spared for this
World Cup, Brazil set out to organize a never
to forget, legendary tournament. Costs up to
the opening game June 12 were $14-16bn!
See here the total costs of the last five World
Cups:
1994 USA: $30m
1998 France: $340m
2002 Japan/South Korea: $5bn
2006 Germany: $6bn
2010 South Africa: $4bn

Ex-England Spinner
Emburey Has Skin Cancer
FORMER England international John
Emburey has undergone surgery after being diagnosed with skin cancer.
The 61-year-old offspinner, who took
147 wickets in 64 tests, says his condition isnt the most aggressive form or
life-threatening and can be eliminated
through surgery.
Emburey says being exposed to the sun
while playing cricket may have contributed
to him getting cancer.
He said in an edition of The Sun that
its the result of playing cricket for so
many years, not wearing a hat and not
wearing sun cream.

Pietersen Receives Apology

From English Cricket
THE ENGLAND and Wales Cricket Board
has apologized to Kevin Pietersen after its
head criticized the batsmans attitude in the
winter Ashes collapse against Australia.
ECB managing director Paul Downton
said the 33-year-old Pietersen appeared
disinterested and distracted in the fifth
test of the 5-0 series defeat, and claimed in
the radio interview that he was unable to
find anyone within the England setup who
wanted the player to remain in the team.
Pietersen denied the allegations, and
last month the ECB said Paul Downton
and the ECB both apologize to Kevin Pietersen for those comments made that were
in breach of the settlement agreement
made with the batsman when his England
contract was terminated earlier this year.
Both sides were bound by confidentiality provisions.

Farah To Race Both

5,000 And 10,000
In Glasgow
DOUBLE Olympic and world champion Mo Farah has been entered to
race in the 5,000 and 10,000 meters
at the Commonwealth Games in
Glasgow in August.
Farah is named for both distances
in Englands athletics squad of 129.
He is looking to become the first
athlete to complete the full set of
Olympic, world, European and
Commonwealth 5,000 and 10,000
titles.
Farah withdrew from the 2010
games in New Delhi because of fatigue, and finished ninth in the 5,000
in Melbourne four years earlier.
Olympic long jump champion
Greg Rutherford and emerging
heptathlon star Katerina JohnsonThompson are among other medal
favorites.
Chef de mission Jan Paterson
says, Athletics is our largest squad
and I am delighted by the caliber of
athletes.

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Argentina Facing
Sanctions Over
Falklands Banner
ARGENTINAS football association is
facing disciplinary measures from FIFA
after some national-team players unfurled
a banner at a recent friendly related to the
dispute over the Falkland Islands.
Before the pre World Cup match
against Slovenia, Argentine players stood
behind a banner that read in Spanish: Las
Malvinas son Argentinas The Malvinas
are Argentine.
FIFA said last month it was investigating the case, citing a statute that prohibits
provocative or aggressive actions and
another dealing with team conduct.
Britain and Argentina went to war
in 1982 over the Falklands in the South
Atlantic known as Malvinas in Spanish.
Since the defeat Argentina has continued
to raise the issue of sovereignty.
FIFA insists the World Cup is a sporting
event that should stay clear of politics.

Lee has been fined 1,815 after pleading

guilty to fraud for selling a fan a cue on
Facebook, but not sending it.
Lee, once the fifth-ranked player in the
world, appeared before the Magistrates
Court in Swindon last month following a police investigation prompted by
a complaint by Marco Fai Pak Shek of
Hong Kong.
Shek agreed to buy the cue from Lee for
1,600 but never received it. Lee must now
pay back that money in addition to a 110
fine and 105 in additional fees.
Lee was found guilty last September of
seven charges of match fixing in 2008 and
2009 and received a 12-year ban from the
sport. His appeal was dismissed last month.

Smith Picked For

England Gymnastics
Team At Glasgow
THREE-TIME Olympic medalist Louis
Smith is in the England gymnastics
team for the Commonwealth Games in
Glasgow in August.
Smith retired after the Olympic
Games in London in
2012 but returned to
training in January,
with the goal of competing at the Commonwealth Games.
He says, Im over
the moon to have been
selected ... this is something Ive worked
so hard towards since the end of last
year and its testament to my coach and
everyone around me who have given me
the support.
Smith won an Olympic silver medal
on the pommel horse in London as well
as a bronze in the team event, to add to
the bronze he picked up on the pommel
horse in Beijing, four years earlier.
~ SAILING ~

Ainslie Launches
Americas Cup
Challenge
Britains Johnson-Thompson
Wins Hypo Heptathlon
KATARINA Johnson-Thompson won the
womens heptathlon at the IAAF Hypo
Meeting last month for the fourth British
victory in five years after Jessica EnnisHill dominated the event from 2010-12.
Ranked third before the final discipline,
Johnson-Thompson came second in the
800 meters to overtake leader Nafissatou
Thiam of Belgium and last years winner
Brianne Theisen-Eaton of Canada.
Johnson Thompson won the long jump
with a 6.70-meter effort and finished the
competition with a personal best of 6,682
points to beat runner-up Theisen-Eaton,
who set a Canadian record with 6,641.
Dafne Schippers was third with a new
Dutch best mark of 6,545 points, edging
fellow Dutchwoman Nadine Broersen by
nine points. Thiam dropped to fifth with
6,508.

MULTIPLE Olympic
champion Ben Ainslie
is trying to raise about
80m in his bid to bring
back the Americas Cup
trophy to Britain in 2017.
The Americas Cup
is named after the yacht
America, which won the inaugural trophy
off the Isle of Wight in 1851. It has never
been won by a British entry.
Ainslie launched his project in a presentation attended by the Duchess of
Cambridge, a keen sailor herself.
Ainslie already won the regatta once,
playing a pivotal role as Oracle Team USA
defended its title in a stunning comeback
last year.
Ainslie will skipper a new team he
hopes will win the next Americas Cup
in 2017.
He says we want to bring it home,
it would be an amazing thing for this
country.
Ainslie says his team has already
secured about 40 percent of the 80m
funding.

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Wimbledon, Andy Murray

And The World Cup
THE FIRST question posed to Andy
Murray at his pre-Wimbledon news
conference concerned Englands
early exit from the World Cup and
how the tennis player might feel
to have the hopes of a despondent
nation on his shoulders.
Murray paused, before replying
with a single word: Wow.
Then Murray smiled and again
said, Wow.
Welcome back to the All England
Andy Murray with new coach Amlie
Club, Andy, where the attention and
expectations are unlike those heaped Mauresmo during a practice session at
Queens Club.
on any tennis player at any other
tournament.
Englands early elimination from the
While Murrays baseline game is rather World Cup, the attention on Our Andy at
conventional by todays standards, his Wimbledon figures to be as strong as ever.
coaching decisions have been groundPRESSURE
breaking. After parting in March with
Anytime you taste what it feels like to
Ivan Lendl whose hiring was followed win it once, you obviously want to win it
by those of fellow past greats of the game again. So theres an element of pressure
Stefan Edberg (by Federer) and Boris you put on yourself, for starters, because
Becker (by Djokovic) Murray picked you sort of want to see what that feels like
former womens No 1 Amelie Mauresmo at least one more time, said ESPN analyst
as a replacement last month month.
John McEnroe, who won Wimbledon three
WINNING
times. From that standpoint, hes going
Murray, who grew up in Dunblane, to be feeling pressure. Clearly now once
Scotland, has made plain that those aims people know he can do it, theyre going to
are primarily about winning more Grand think he should do it again.
Slam trophies.
After composing himself, Murray did
He earned his first at the 2012 US Open, get around to answering the news confershortly after winning a gold medal at the ence opening query: To be honest, I dont
London Olympics. Those triumphs fol- feel too much different than I did a few
lowed his loss to Federer at Wimbledon days ago. Im here to try and win the tourthat year. In 2013, Murray beat Djokovic nament. Thats it. My focus is solely on the
in the Wimbledon final to end the 77-year first match, preparing properly for that.
drought.
Apparently the Scotsman is doing someScotlands vote in September about thing right. In his opening match, June
whether to break away from Britain 23, Murray entered the Centre Court to a
Murray has steadfastly avoided weighing rapturous ovation, and then open his title
in will be a popular topic of conversation defense by sweeping away David Goffin
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Amid Search For Scapegoats,

Three And Out
Hodgson Is Fortunate
By Rob Harris
AFTER ENGLANDS World Cup fiasco, Roy
Hodgson realizes the country is searching for a scapegoat, and accepts hes
fortunate to have survived as coach.
Despite England failing to reach the second round at a tournament for the first time
since 1958, the Football Association wants
Hodgson to see out his contract until the
2016 European Championship.
I am very pleased to have had that backing scapegoats are always necessary in
times of failure. One understands that after
being in football for a long time, Hodgson
said. One would like to think your work
you do is judged over a long period of time
... on your ability, on what you bring to the
job and what qualities and what you can do
going forward.
With no significant clamor for Hodgson
to be Englands fall-guy, the 66-year-old
Londoner is vowing to complete his four-year
contract, certain he retains the support of
players and coaches.
SELFISH
I didnt want to be the one for selfish reasons possibly to turn around and say Right,
its hurting me. Ill take the easy way out,
Hodgson said at Englands Rio de Janeiro
training base. I didnt want to resign.
Despite England opening Group D with two
2-1 losses to Italy and Uruguay, there were
glimpses of a potentially promising future for
some of Hodgsons younger players, includ-

ing 19-year-old winger Raheem Sterling and

20-year-old midfielder Ross Barkley.
I believe theyre more than accepting of
the work were trying to do, that they share
our belief, share our goals, share our vision.
As a result, with the backing of the FA and
the people around me I feel Im the right man
to continue.
FUTURE
And, going into qualifying for the 2016
European Championship in September,
Hodgson sees hope for the future.
The major calamity or the major blow for
us is the fact that we feel we were so close,
Hodgson said. All these young players were
so close to reaching that and getting that
confidence whereas now, like the rest of us
more experienced ones, have got to suffer
the fact we have failed.
In the final game against Costa Rica, a
milk-toast performance by an England team
with nine changes, saw a 0-0 draw give the
Central Americans top spot and qualification
in the group. Following this performance valid
criticism was heaped upon Roy Hodgsons
tactics and the teams lack of adventure.
Englands bottom place finish is the first
time England have ever been knocked out the
World Cup at the group stage since 1958.
They scored two goals, lost two games and
drew one.
Meanwhile, Uruguay beat Italy 1-0, amidst
controversy of yet another biting incident by
Luis Suarez, and qualified in second place
in Group D.

For England

By Ridge Mahoney
FOR ENGLAND, the 2014 World Cup
ended in Belo Horizonte, where 64
years ago an unknown band of scrappy
American players shocked the world
by topping the games aristocrats, 1-0.
At this World Cup, another team
from the Concacaf region that conglomeration including Central America
and Canada and everything in between
blossomed into a remarkable story.
Grouped with three previous World
Cup winners, Costa Rica playing
in the competition for just the fourth
time reached the round of 16 before
tying England, 0-0, in the final group
game by stunning Uruguay, 3-1, and
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as he netted Italys winner.
A promising fleet
of younger players
lacked the steely edge
to flourish in a harsh
environment. There
will be better days
for Daniel Sturridge, Ross Barkley,
Adam Lallana
Rickie Lambert,
Adam Lallana, Jack Wilshire, Raheem
Sterling, Luke Shaw, Alex OxladeContinued on page 15