right to produce the volumes of pan-

creatic cells that wouldbe necessaryfor

clinical use.
Professor Meltons team appears to
have cracked this problem by identify-
ing an efficient way to turn both stem
cell types into beta cells.
When the cells were tested in the
laboratory, they produced insulin,
responded to glucose and appeared to
work normally for many months when
implanted in mice.
Crucially, a single production line of
cells could be used to treat all patients,
rather than each person needing their
own genetically matched treatment,
the study suggests.
Before being transplanted into the
Continued on page 2, col 3
disease in which the body kills off all its
pancreatic beta cells. The cells produce
insulin, which regulates blood sugar.
Without beta cells, the bodys sugar
levels fluctuate wildly, meaning that
patients need to monitor glucose and
typically inject insulin several times
each day.
In a study, published today in the
journal Cell, Professor Meltons team
used embryonic stem cells and adult
cells that had been genetically
rewound.
Both these cell types have the ability
toturnintoanycell typeinthebody, but
require the right biochemical environ-
ment to be coaxed down a particular
developmental route. Scientists have
struggled for years to get the set-up
gratifying to know that we could do
something that we always thought was
possible, but many people felt it
wouldnt work.
If we had shown this was not
possible, then I would have had to give
up on this whole approach. Now Im
really energised.
Chris Mason, professor of regenera-
tive medicine at University College
London, said that if confirmed in a
clinical trial the impact on diabetes
would be a medical game-changer on
a par with antibiotics and bacterial
infections. The scientists are now in
the last stages of animal testing in non-
human primates.
Type 1 diabetes, which normally
begins in childhood, is an autoimmune
advent of antibiotics. Jose Oberholtzer,
anexpert intransplantationat the Uni-
versity of Illinois at Chicago, predicted
the development wouldleave a dent in
the history of diabetes.
About 400,000 people in Britain
have type 1 diabetes, including 30,000
children. The breakthrough could also
help 10 per cent of Britains three mil-
lion type 2 diabetes sufferers.
The advance is the culmination of
23 years of research by the Harvard
scientist Doug Melton, who began
working on type 1 diabetes when his
son, Sam, had the condition diagnosed
in childhood.
Professor Melton said yesterday that
his team were now just one step away
from the finish line, adding: It was
Acure for diabetes is within reach after
scientists developed a treatment that
eliminates the need for sufferers to
inject insulin.
The therapy involves a one-off
transplant of laboratory-grown pan-
creatic cells, which scientists have
finally succeeded in producing in large
enough volumes to be able to treat
patients. The cells worked normally for
many months when implanted into
mice, and the first human patients
should undergo the treatment in the
next few years.
The breakthrough by Harvard scien-
tists was hailed yesterday as a medical
advancepotentiallyas significant as the
Euro recession fears
Wall Street plunged amid
fears that Germany could be
in recession after it reported
a near 6 per cent drop in
exports in August, the steepest
fall since 2009. Page 29
Ebola screening
Passengers arriving in Britain
from west Africa will face
extra ebola checks from this
weekend, after an abrupt
government U-turn on
screening at airports. Page 4
Prisoner voting ban
A serial killer and a child
rapist are among more than
1,000 offenders who are trying
to win compensation from
Europe over a blanket ban
on prisoners voting. Page 13
Student terror arrest
A 20-year-old physics student
at a leading London university
was arrested in this weeks
counter-terrorism raids and
is suspected of plotting a gun
attack in the capital. Page 7
England victory
England beat the minnows of
San Marino 5-0 at Wembley
to maintain their perfect start
to the Euro 2016 qualifying
campaign. They remain at the
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Diabetes: a cure at last
Scientist devoted 23 years to research after infant son developed condition
On the brink
of history,
says Farage
Laura Pitel Political Correspondent
Ukipwas last night confident of making
political historybywinningtheClacton
by-election and breaking into West-
minster.
Nigel Farage declared that after
years on the political fringes, Ukip
would today become a serious political
party by securing its first elected MP.
Douglas Carswell, the former
Conservative MP for Clacton, was pre-
paringtoreturntotheCommons under
a purple banner after his spectacular
decisiontodefect toUkipsixweeks ago.
Shortly before polling stations closed
in the Essex seaside town last night, Mr
Farage said that he was increasingly
confident that his party would win.
Mr Carswell has been favourite to
take the seat after two polls placed him
comfortably inthe leadshortly after his
defection.
Victory would underline the
extraordinary ascent of Ukip, from
polling 3.1 per cent in the 2010 general
election to second place in seven by-
elections since 2011.
Overturning a 12,000 Tory majority
in Clacton would deliver a major blow
to David Cameron, who fears that the
Eurosceptic party will prevent him
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Pensions keep public sector
workers ahead in pay stakes
Jill Sherman Whitehall Editor
The pay gap between the public and
private sector has almost closed during
this parliament but public sector work-
ers are still better off because of their
generous pension arrangements, new
figures show.
An analysis by the Institute for Fiscal
Studies shows that the austerity pro-
gramme, which included a two-year
public sector pay freeze, has reduced
the pay difference with the private sec-
tor to pre-crisis levels.
Nurses, teachers and local govern-
ment workers earnonaverageonly4per
cent more than their private sector
counterparts and this is likely to drop to
2 per cent next year. After next years
election, the gap could reverse if the
government continues to bear down on
public sector pay, the IFS said.
However whenpensions arefactored
in, public sector workers are 17 per cent
better off because these are still
linkedwithfinal salary. Almost all com-
panies in the private sector have
dropped the salary link and pension
pots are dependent on market growth.
Including pension benefits, an average
public sector worker now earns
34,000 compared with 29,000 for a
private sector worker.
Carl Emmerson, deputy director at
the IFS, said that if the next govern-
ment wantedtocontinue tobringdown
the public sector pay bill, it would be
better to do so by reducing pensions
rather than pay. He said: When you
look at pay alone, it looks like public
sector workers are paid the same on
average as a private sector worker but
this ignores pension provision which is
much worse in the private sector.
The government has already an-
nounced big reforms to public sector
pensions by moving most workers to a
pension linked to average career sala-
ries rather than final pay, However
these reforms will not kick in for a
decade as older workers are protected.
A separate report from the IFS
showed that take-home pay for
female public sector workers was still
8per cent higher than their equivalent
in the private sector; the salaries for
male workers were equal.
The Institute added, however, that
the grades with the highest differences
were lower-paid female public sector
workers such as cleaners and catering
staff, a group that most governments
wouldbe unlikely topenalise any more.
The uncomfortable truth is that it is
lower paid workers, women and those
in poorer regions who do best in the
public sector relative to the private sec-
tor, Jonathan Cribb, IFS research
economist said.
Frances OGrady, the TUC general
secretary, said the IFS figures showed
just howdeepthe pay squeeze hadbeen
for vital public sector staff. Already the
NHS is having difficulty recruiting and
retaining staff, and morale has hit rock
bottom following the governments
rejection of its own pay review bodys
recommendation, she said.
The Treasury said: Pay restraint
since 2010 will have saved the taxpayer
an estimated 12 billion by 2014-15,
helpingprotect crucial frontlinepublic-
sector services and jobs.
Reforms to public service pensions
are predicted to save 430 billion over
the next 50 years and will be fair to tax-
payers, employers and employees.
Diabetes treatment is a game-changer
Continued from page 1
mice, the cells were placed in a porous
capsule, which allowed insulin to
diffuse out, but protected the cells from
attacks by the bodys immune system.
This eliminated the need for genetic-
matching to patients, meaning that
cells couldbe producedonanindustrial
scale and used in patients without the
risk of immune rejection. A further
advantage would be that the capsule of
cells could be quickly removed and
replaced if it stopped working.
Although insulin injections help to
keep glucose levels broadly in check,
they do not match the bodys fine
tuning, and this lack of control can
eventually lead to complications from
blindness to the loss of limbs.
Richard Elliott, of Diabetes UK, said
that the treatment could transform
the lives of people with the condition,
although it was likely to be years before
the cell-based therapy could be used
routinely. It could mean they no
longer needtouse insulin, whichwould
be a historic breakthrough, he added.
The treatment could also help the
10 per cent of patients with type 2
diabetes who rely on insulin injections.
Type 2 diabetes, which is diet related
andaffects about 3millionpeopleinthe
UK, occurs when the insulin cells stop
working properly or when the body
stops responding normally to insulin.
6Thediscoveryof anewtypeof good
fat made in the body could help to
prevent and treat type 2 diabetes. The
previously unidentified lipid molecules
increase insulin sensitivity and blood
sugar control. Unlike omega-3 fatty
acids found in oily fish, the good
fat named fatty acid hydroxyl
fatty acids, or FAHFAs, are
molecules found in fat cells as
well as other cells throughout
the body.
The NHS estimates that in
England there are 3.1 million
people over 16 with diabetes but by
2030 the figure is expected to rise to
4.6million, with nine out of ten suffer-
ers having type 2 diabetes.
The new findings, made by a team of
scientists from Beth Israel Deaconess
Medical Center in Boston and the Salk
Institute in California, was published
online by the journal Cell.
Devolved powers for northern cities
Billions of pounds and greater powers
are tobe devolvedtocity regions across
England in response to the Scottish
referendum, under measures to be
unveiled next week.
Greg Clark, the cities minister, will
set out the next phase of devolving
power from Whitehall to northern
cities such as Manchester, Liverpool
and Leeds, as he calls on industry
leaders to invest in order to help drive
upeconomicgrowth. Hewill alsorevive
the idea of directly elected mayors
Some 12 billion is to be allocated
over the next five years to help to boost
local economies across the regions,
mainly for housing and transport.
Further measures are likely to be
announced by George Osborne, the
chancellor of the exchequer, in the
autumn statement.
David Cameron has been under
mounting pressure to devolve respon-
sibilities suchas taxationandwelfare to
English councils since the referendum.
Regional organisations demanded the
same powers pledged to Scotland
during the referendumcampaign, to be
set out in a white paper next month.
Later this month, city leaders are
planning to submit their own report
calling for powers over business rates,
property tax, skills and welfare as well
as backing a raft of metro-mayors.
Whitehall, however, has long resisted
ceding powers to local councils.
Mandarins backsomedevolutionbut
are resisting more ambitious plans to
move taxation or welfare out of White-
hall control. Mr Osborne, MP for Tat-
ton, in Cheshire, has been particularly
keen to boost growth in northern cities
and help the Conservatives get a foot-
hold in traditional Labour voting areas.
Mr Clark and the chancellor are
working closely with city regions, such
as Manchester, and are keen to give
them more influence. Manchester city
council has joined forces with nine
other districts in the area and pooled
resources for housing, regeneration
and planning, giving them more clout.
Manchester will be just the first and
this will roll out to other cities, Mr
Clark told Property Week magazine.
Any city that can demonstrate the
ambition to make more of its revenues
than the Treasury can will get the
financial support and spending powers
that it needs to make a real difference.
It is our belief those who live and
work in our great cities know what
money should be spent on better than
anyone else, and were giving them the
powers to do just that.
Six other metropolitan authorities
are currently in talks with the Treasury
to agree their own financial settle-
ments, including Birmingham, Bristol,
Tyneside, Leeds and Liverpool.
Jill Sherman
Profile Professor Melton
D
oug Meltons satisfaction is
as much personal as
professional. His son was
found to have type 1 diabetes
when he was six months old.
Later, his daughter received the
same diagnosis. The Harvard
professor, who completed his
PhD in molecular biology at
Trinity College, Cambridge,
told The New York Times:
Like any parent, I asked
myself, What can I do?
The answer was to shift
my research to an area
that might help them. I
wanted my children to know
I was doing everything I could.
He had to overcome scepticism
and political hurdles. In 2001 he
secured private funding when
George W Bush cut research into
new stem cell lines. In 2007 he
appeared on Time magazines list
of 100 most influential people.
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First there were cars, then snow-
mobiles, and now there is a camel. To
further its aimof creatinga virtual copy
of the entire world, Google has
strapped a camera to a camels hump
and sent it off into the desert.
The camel-cam has captured a trek
through the Liwa oasis, west of Abu
Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates.
Like a virtual nomad, the curious can
logontoGoogle Street Viewandfollow
the camels journey as it roams across
rolling sand dunes, through date farms
and past tiny settlements.
Street View is a function of Google
Maps, the technology giants vast
mapping project, which has already
captured satellite imagery of the entire
planet. Street View zooms in even
closer to the Earth, presenting a virtual
three-dimensional view from roads,
landmarks and even inside buildings.
We want to give users the opportu-
nity to really see what theyre looking
for in the places that matter to them,
Ulf Spitzer, the programme manager
for Street View, said. Ideally, we would
like to cover everything.
His team has already captured the
pyramids of Giza and the great sphinx
inEgypt, but moreof thewonders of the
Middle East were high on the list.
The region is extremely interesting
for us, Mr Spitzer said. But were
looking to cover more historic sites
anything thats a Unesco world heri-
tage site or an important landmark.
Doing so would help people with their
travel plans, he said.
NajeebJarrar, theGoogleengineer in
charge of the desert mapping project,
saidthat mountingacameraonacamel
a first for Street View helped to
minimise the environmental impact on
the desert.
Some of the richest history in this
desert lies in the Liwa oasis, he said.
Manypeopleacross theUAEcantrace
their origins to the first tribes that
settledthere andestablishedthe region
as a trade centre. The oasis is also home
to date farms, whose trees and fruit are
important cultural symbols the
trunks of the palms were used to weave
the walls of Bedouin tents, baskets and
more, while the fruit was a treasured
treat for the locals.
The camera that was strapped to the
camel is known as the Trekker. It has
already been carried by humans to
capture images of the Grand Canyon
and other places that cannot be
reached by car.
Google has also employed fleets of
trolleys and trikes to take photographs
for Street View. The photographs are
patched together using GPS informa-
tion from the camera and depth infor-
mation from its lasers to form a single
360-degree image.
Trekkers are currently being used to
capture popular walking routes in the
Peak District, which will make it the
first national park in the UK to be
mapped with Street View. Google has
already pictured the racecourse at
Epsom Downs, the inner courtyards of
Edinburgh Castle, the pitch at
Wembley Stadium and Hyde Park in
London.
The imagery is not, however, limited
to what can be found on solid ground.
Google has used underwater cameras
to capture scenes from the Great
Barrier Reef in Australia. It has also
begun to picture the insides of build-
ings, including museums, art galleries,
airports and train stations.
The Street View project was
launched in 2007 to chart the roads of
the US. It uses automatic face-blurring
to hide the identities of the people it
photographs. However, privacy cam-
paigners haveattackedStreet Viewcars
on occasion. It is hoped that the camel
will not meet the same fate.
The technology giants roving eye
conquers its latest frontier with a
trek that follows every roll of the
sand dunes, writes James Dean
Social media is marketplace for dodgy gear
Criminals selling counterfeit goods are
increasingly turning to social networks
such as Facebook and Twitter to sell
their illegal wares, the government has
warned.
Sales of pirated goods on social
mediahave jumpedby15 per cent inthe
past year, according to a report by the
Intellectual Property Office.
Thousands of counterfeit items are
available for purchase on social media
every day, the report said, with Face-
book traders openly publishing photo
albums of such merchandise including
clothing, footwear, jewellery, handbags,
music, games and films.
Baroness Neville-Rolfe, the intellec-
tual property minister, said: Criminals
who steal work and ideas, or make and
sell fakemerchandise, poseareal threat
to jobs in the UK, and deceive consum-
ers who want to know the goods they
buy are the real thing.
Pirate Facebook traders often have
hundreds of friends to help them sell
their goods, the report said.
The Anti-Counterfeiting Group, a
trade association that represents 160
organisations, said that it would be
taking action in the coming year. In
December the group found 30,000
Facebook listings advertising counter-
feit goods, as well as hundreds of pro-
files for pirate traders.
The group was later successful in re-
moving 650 traders and 2,500 listings
from the social network.
Some 72 millionitems of copyrighted
digital material were removed by the
British Phonographic Industry last
year. More than 1.6 million links to
books that infringed copyright were
taken down by the Publishers Associa-
tion last year, a four-fold increase on
the year before.
James Dean
Technology Correspondent
Street Views toughest assignments
Great Barrier Reef, Australia
Underwater propeller-
powered camera
Hazards: Sharks, coral
Churchill tundra, Canada
Ice buggy-mounted camera
Hazards: Polar bears, cold
Canals of Venice, Italy
Gondola-mounted camera
Hazards: Low bridges,
tourists
Raffia, a 10-year-old
camel, roams the
Liwa oasis in the
United Arab
Emirates with the
Google camera
strapped to its back
How does
Google map
the desert?
Camel-cam
of course
Criminals
who steal
ideas or
sell fake
merchandise
pose a real
threat to
jobs
Baroness
Neville-Rolfe
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Patients waiting longer
Hospital waiting times are getting
longer, patients are struggling to
get access to mental health
services and stress among NHS
staff is rising, according to a
report by the Nuffield Trust and
Health Foundation. The number
of patients waiting more than
four hours in A&E for a bed had
risen 79 per cent since 2010-11, it
said, and one in ten waited more
than 18 weeks for an operation.
A tablet at bedtime
TV sets are disappearing from
childrens bedrooms and being
replaced by tablet computers for
viewing on demand, suggests
research by Ofcom. One in three
children aged between 5 and 15
owns a tablet computer, nearly
twice as many as a year ago.
Despite the rise of on-demand
TV, older children are watching
less 14.6 hours a week now,
compared with 15.4 hours in 2013.
Illegal parking tickets
Calderdale council has suspended
all on-street parking charges after
discovering serious errors in its
legal documents going back six
years. The mistake came to light
after a parking ticket was
sucessfully challenged by a
member of the public, and is
expected to cost the council
hundreds of thousands of pounds
as an estimated 7,000 drivers
become eligible for refunds.
Bake Off ratings win
Nancy Birtwhistles victory in The
Great British Bake Off attracted a
bigger television audience than
any other programme this year
except the World Cup final. The
series finale on BBC One had a
peak of 13.3 million viewers on
Wednesday night, according to
initial overnight ratings. Its
average audience, 12.3 million,
was slightly ahead of the football,
which had a peak of 16.7 million.
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Virus cannot
beat modern
medicine
Analysis Dr Mark Porter
E
bolas fearsome
reputation was earned
in rural Africa, not in
Europe or America
where, thanks to
modern medicine, it faces a far
more hostile environment.
While patients with ebola have
been treated in the West before,
this is the first time that
significant numbers of them are
likely to receive the best that
modern medicine has to offer, and
it will affect the prognosis.
About half of all the 8,000 or
so suspected cases so far have
died, giving a fatality rate of
50per cent. But averages like this
mean little for individuals. The
chances of an infirm elderly
person in rural Liberia surviving
are tiny. A fit young man treated
here in the UK such as the
nurse William Pooley is more
likely than not to pull through.
Much has been written about
experimental treatments such as
ZMapp and the antiviral
brincidofovir, but its still too
early to tell just how big a
difference these make.
What definitely does help is our
ability to provide very sick
patients with the sort of support
that is standard fare in a modern
intensive care unit.
While ebola may win a few
battles here in the West, experts
are unified in their belief that the
virus will never win the war.
Passengers from ebola zone face
symptom check and blood tests
Passengers arriving in Britain from
west Africa will face extra ebola checks
from this weekend after a government
U-turn on airport screening.
Blood tests will be carried out at
Heathrow, Gatwick and the Eurostar
terminal in London if travellers arrive
from Sierra Leone, Guinea or Liberia
showing signs of illness or after close
contact withvictims of thedeadlyvirus.
A British man with ebola symptoms
died last night in Macedonia, prompt-
ing an urgent investigation by the For-
eign Office. The hotel in Skopje where
he stayed was sealed, keeping another
Briton inside.
Jovanka Kostovska, of the Macedo-
nianhealthministry, saidthemaninhis
fifties, who arrived from Britain last
week, had been suffering from fever,
vomiting and internal bleeding and his
condition had deteriorated rapidly.
Samples were sent to Germany for
tests to confirm the cause of death and
officials were investigating whether the
man had recently been in west Africa -
though according to his colleague he
had not. Last night the countrys health
ministry admitted there were high
chances that this is not a case of ebola.
David Cameron made the decision
on screening despite scientific advice
fromPublicHealthEngland, whichhad
said that it was almost never worth-
while. Government sources said that
the decision involved the juxtaposi-
tion between politics and science.
Lucy Moreton, general secretary of
the Immigration Services Union, said:
The only reason to do this is presenta-
tional and for political reasons.
Downing Street denied that it had
acted after newspaper coverage yester-
day demanding to knowwhy travellers
were not being tested, saying that the
plans had been under discussion for
some time. Hours before they were
announced, Michael Fallon, the de-
fence secretary, had insisted that
screening was not needed and warned
against hysteria on ebola.
Under the enhanced screening
plans, border agents will use flight
records to identify passengers arriving
from the three west African countries,
even if they arrived via a connecting
airport. They will face questions from
health staff about their movements,
contacts and state of health.
Travellers with symptoms or who
have beenincontact withebola victims
faceimmediatequarantine. ADowning
Street spokesman said: These meas-
ures will help to improve our ability to
detect and isolate ebola cases.
Ebola victims showno symptoms for
uptothreeweeks after infection, mean-
ing they would not be picked up by
screening checks until they had be-
come unwell.
David Miliband, the former foreign
secretary, criticised the slow response
tothecrisis inwest Africa. Mr Miliband,
who is in Sierra Leone with the Inter-
national Rescue Committee, which he
heads, called on the worlds big guns
to lend support. He said: Theres no
question that theres been a tardiness, a
slowness, a lateness of response.
Leading article, page 20
Chris Smyth, Richard Ford
Shaun Turton Bucharest
sore throat, weakness
are similar to many
other diseases, so
recognising infection
early is difficult. Later
symptoms include
diarrhoea, vomiting, a
rash, impaired kidney
and liver function,
stomach pain and
bleeding. Suspected
cases are confirmed by
a blood test.
How dangerous is it?
About two thirds of
people affected die. The
direct cause is often
multiple organ failure.
How is it spread?
Through direct contact
with infected blood or
bodily fluids. It cannot
be spread through the
air. Ben Neuman, a
virologist at the
University of Reading,
said: The list of people
who can give you ebola
is pretty similar to the
list of people who have
seen you naked
doctors, nurses and very
close family members.
How quickly does it
spread?
Case are doubling every
few weeks. The World
Health Organisation
said that, without better
controls, the number
could hit 20,000 within
weeks. Even with
enhanced isolation of
victims in west Africa,
the total will climb from
more than 8,000 known
cases. Many others will
go unrecorded.
How is it treated?
There is no treatment
other than keeping
patients hydrated and
hoping they recover.
Outbreaks are fought by
trying to isolate affected
areas and burying
bodies quickly. A series
of vaccines is being
trialled. Will Pooley, a
British nurse, recovered
after being given
ZMapp, an experimental
drug. Volunteers in
Oxford are testing a
potential vaccine.
How many people
come to Britain from
Sierra Leone, Guinea
and Liberia?
An estimated 6,000-
10,000 per week.
How effective is airport
screening?
The WHO said it was
effective for passengers
leaving affected nations,
and those embarking in
west Africa should be
checked. However, it
can be carried without
symptoms for weeks.
An isolation unit with a team of specialists is in place at the Royal Free Hospital in London to deal with cases of ebola
LEON NEAL
Inside today
Spanish nurse seriously
ill as fear grips hospital
World, page 26
Q&A
What is ebola?
A virus first identified in
1976 among a group of
Belgian nuns in Zaire
(now the Democratic
Republic of Congo). The
virus is thought to have
originated in fruit bats,
to have been caught by
apes and passed to
humans through eating
bush meat, which
includes bats, monkeys
and lions. The current
outbreak, the worst
known, has killed more
than 3,800 people in
west Africa.
How do you know if
you have it?
The virus incubates for
up to three weeks
before causing
symptoms. Only then
do patients become
infectious. The initial
symptoms fever,
headache, muscle pain,
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Forget Venice. For the Clooneys,
theres no place like Sonning
The rumours began over the weekend.
In the small Thameside village of Son-
ning, with its pretty church and 500-
year-old pub, a mansion had been sold.
Not just any mansion: a Georgian
riversideproperty, surroundedbyaring
of trees, protectedbymorethanadozen
CCTV cameras and with enough bed-
rooms to house a Brangelina-style
family.
Then, on Saturday night, a newly
wed couple were spotted in one of the
nooks of that 500-year-old pub the
Bull Inn. Not just any newlyweds: the
most famous newlyweds in the world.
The Clooneys have bought their
marital home, and they have chosen
the Home Counties.
Yesterday Sonning was still digesting
the news of the arrival of yet another
multimillionaire to a stretch of river
already favoured by financiers and
Arab sheikhs, and on which properties
are among the most expensive in the
world. But the village was also moving
to practicalities.
Over lunch in the Great House
Hotel, the discussion was
about where George
Clooney and his barrister
wife Amal Alamuddin
would shop. Well, said
David Beddis, theres
the Waitrose at
Woodley. Tony
Thorne agreed that
was the obvious
choice, adding only
that one shouldnt dis-
count the Sainsburys
at Winnersh. Either
way, both were ada-
mant that, whatever
happened, the Thames
Valleys latest A-list resi-
dent was not goingtogo
grocery shopping in the direction
of Reading station. Thats where the
Tesco is.
Residents werekeentopoint out they
were not star struck: celebrities are no
rarity in these parts. Indeed one said,
with a hint of pride: You often see
Theresa May around the village.
In Saint Andrews church, Dave Cos-
tard also argued that Clooney should
feel at home and demonstrated why
by opening the parish magazine. Paul
Daniels is in one picture, so is Debbie
McGee. Michael Parkinson makes an
appearance. As, naturally, does the ubi-
quitous home secretary. He will be
greatly welcomed, said Mr Costard.
Especially in some quarters. Im sure
the ladies and girls of Sonning will
welcome him with open arms.
They might not be the only ones
who are pleased: Clooneys ac-
countant might also approve of the
purchase that was arranged by
Savills. Some analysts be-
lieveLondonpropertyto
be overvalued, fore-
casting a drop in prices
next year of 2-3 per
cent and possibly
more in prime areas.
The couple are
following the exam-
ple of other affluent
buyers, who have
been looking to cash
in their London gains, exploiting the
price lag between capital and shires.
How though would the Clooneys
occupy their time? As luck would have
it, the neighbours are thespians. Over
the river is the Mill At Sonning, a
theatre Mr Costard recommends.
They get entertaining shows, he said.
Currently, they are playing A Party To
Murder endorsed in press clippings as
Cheekyandskilfullycraftedmayhem.
One actor has her ownbig screenexpe-
rience, having appeared in Hot Fuzz. If the newlyweds dont fancy cooking, they could go out to a local restaurant
Budget airline
to introduce
family seating
Package holiday travellers will soon
enjoy family booths with facing seats
and romantic pods for couples, thanks
to a charter airlines plans to make
travel experiences special.
Thomson Airways, which is based at
Luton airport, will offer the innovative
seating arrangements on 47 new Boe-
ing 737 jets due for delivery by 2020.
As well as allowingfour tosixpassen-
gers to sit around a table at the back
of the plane, the aircraft will offer pods
for couples, with mood lighting and a
place for champagne between two
seats.
During flights, dedicated holiday-
makers equipped with iPads will give
passengers advice and information on
their holidaydestination. Thecompany
also plans to introduce a beach snack
bar for those travelling in its Premium
Club.
The airline has announced that it is
buying two Boeing 787 Dreamliner jets
which will allow it to fly to new long-
haul destinations including Costa Rica
and possibly Vietnam and Malaysia.
DavidBurlingof Thomsonsaid: Our
overall goal is to make travel experien-
ces special and as the flight marks
both the start and end of the holiday
we see it as anintegral part of the whole
holiday experience.
Tom Whipple
Billy Kenber
TIMES PHOTOGRAPHY, VAGNER VIDAL /INS
The Clooneys were
seen in the Bull Inn
Life-saving
Titanic map
to be sold
A deck plan and the only surviving
menu from the Titanics first-class
restaurant are expected to be sold for
up to 100,000 at auction next week.
The deck plan was used by French-
bornElise Lurette tofindher way tothe
lifeboats after the passenger liner hit an
iceberg in April 1912. More than 1,500
passengers and crew drowned but Ms
Lurette, a 59-year-old maid, survived.
The plan was given only to first-class
passengers. Ms Lurette, whoworkedfor
the wealthy Spencer family, wrote on it
Depart le 10 Avril and marked the
paper plan with a cross to indicate the
location of her cabin.
Also in Ms Lurettes coat pocket
when she was rescued was a lunch
menu. The choice in the first-class
restaurant included mutton chops,
roast beef, Melton Mowbray pie, lamb
and mint sauce, ox tongue, tapioca
pudding and greengage tart.
After managing to find a lifeboat Ms
Lurette sat alongside her employer,
Marie Spencer, Molly Brown, anAmer-
ican passenger who was depicted in the
1997 movieTitanic, andFrederickFleet,
in lifeboat number six. She kept the
documents and left them to her family
before her death a year later. The docu-
ments will be sold by Henry Aldridge
and Son of Devizes on October 18.
Simon de Bruxelles
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E-cigarettes allowed
to advertise on TV
as rules are relaxed
Electronic cigarettes will be seen in TV
commercials for the first time, under
new rules that take a relaxed approach
to celebrity endorsements.
The Advertising Standards Author-
itys first specific guidance on e-
cigarettes focuses on restricting the
products appeal to children and non-
smokers, but says companies should
not be stopped from making them
attractive to those who already smoke.
The guidance was welcomed by anti-
tobacco campaigners, but some public
health experts continue to push for a
total ban on advertising of e-cigarettes,
sayingit will inevitablyattract children.
Until now, e-cigarettes have been
covered only by general guidance pro-
hibiting misleading, harmful or offen-
sive advertising, while existing rules on
tobacco meant the products could not
be seen in screen commercials. From
next month, e-cigarettes manufactur-
ers will have greater freedom to adver-
tise to adult smokers, as long as adver-
tisements do not appeal to children,
feature people under 25 or appear in
programmes popular with the young.
Ads will also be banned from pro-
moting tobacco or encouraging non-
smokers to use e-cigarettes.
Shahriar Coupal, director of the
ASAs committee of advertising prac-
tice, said: Weve moved quickly to put
in place appropriate and clear regula-
tion around e-cigarette advertising.
Because e-cigarettes contain no to-
bacco, only nicotine, many experts be-
lieve they are safer than cigarettes and
thousands of lives would be saved if
smokers switched. However, the new
rules will not allow the products to
claim they are safer or healthier than
cigarettes unless they are licensed as
medicines. Doctors will not be able to
endorse them.
Deborah Arnott, chief executive of
Action on Smoking and Health (ASH),
said she would have preferred a ban on
celebrity endorsements and free sam-
ples, but welcomed greater protection
for children.
Professor Martin McKee, president-
elect of the European Association of
Public Health, called for a total adver-
tising ban. These recommendations
fly in the face of experience that adver-
tisers, such as those promoting alcohol,
find many ways to circumvent commit-
ments not to target children, he said.
Charles Hamshaw-Thomas, of the
e-cigarettemakers E-Lites, said: E-cigs
are proving an enjoyable and increas-
ingly popular alternative to cigarettes
among many smokers, but as a young
industry we have to showwe are run by
responsible professionals and not
sniggering schoolboys.
Chris Smyth Health Correspondent
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Jenny McCarthy, the actress, stars in a controversial e-cigarette advert in America
Lung cancer
can go unseen
for 20 years
Hannah Devlin Science Editor
Lung cancer can go undetected for
more than 20 years, according to
research that could explain why the
disease is so difficult to treat and
survival rates remain so low.
The study, one of the most detailed
investigations into the genes involved
in lung cancer, revealed that in some
patients the first mutations that caused
their cancer occurred more than two
decades before diagnosis.
By the time it is treated, the cells
within lung cancer tumours have often
diversified, accumulating a vast range
of mutations, meaning that most drugs
are effective in only a fraction of cells.
Charles Swanton, who led the work
at Cancer Research UKs London
Research Institute, said: Survival from
lung cancer remains devastatingly low,
with many new targeted treatments
making a limited impact.
The study is published in the journal
Science. Morethan40,000peopleinthe
UK have lung cancer diagnosed each
year and fewer than 10 per cent survive
for more than five years.
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Student suspected of gun terror plot
A physics student at one of Londons
most prestigious universities was ar-
rested in this weeks counter-terror
swoop and is suspected of plotting a
terrorist gun attack in the capital, it
emerged last night.
Scotland Yard said last night that the
20-year-old undergraduate was the
fifth person arrested over a suspected
plot to carry out an Islamic State-
inspired attack.
His arrest was not disclosed earlier
for operational reasons, police said, but
it is understoodthat he was detainedon
Tuesday afternoon. Four other men
werearrestedearlier that dayin4.30am
armed raids in west London.
It is believed that a firearm and am-
munition were recovered in raids
carried out some time ahead of this
weeks counter-terrorism operations.
The concern that the suspected plot
might have involved firearms explains
Scotland Yards decision to employ
heavily armedunits. Specialist firearms
officers used stun guns and a taser and
wereequippedwithfull protectivebody
armour whentheycarriedout theraids.
Despite a social media backlash over
the arrests and criticism of the show of
force by police, security sources insist
the arrests were part of an intelligence-
led operation following months of sur-
veillance aimed at the early stages of
attackplanning. At least oneof thesus-
pects is said to have travelled to Syria.
Last nights disclosure of a further
arrest indicates the investigation is still
live and there may be more police
action as detectives discover more de-
tails about the alleged plot.
Scotland Yard said in a statement:
OnTuesday 7 October 2014, inthe aft-
ernoon, a fifth male was arrested on
suspicion of being concerned in the
commission, preparation or instigation
of acts of terrorism. His arrest followed
the arrest of four other males as part of
the ongoing investigation.
The menwere arrestedall under the
TerrorismAct and a warrant of further
detention was granted at a magistrates
court on Wednesday 8th October. All
are UK nationals.
The men are being interviewed at
Southwark high-security police station
and other police stations. Detectives
canholdthemuntil next Tuesday. They
can then seek to detain them a further
seven days without charge.
The suspects are all allegedly known
to each other. The newly disclosed
arrest is of a student at a London
university who cannot be named for
legal reasons.
He is a member of a social media
group called Islam is Peace: Judge for
yourselves. Another group, For ASafer
Syria, is described as an online
platformlaunched. . . insupport for end-
ing the brutal inhumane crackdown by
Bashar al-Assad on his own people.
Events organised in tribute to the
murderedBritishhostageAlanHenning
were recently posted on the page.
Another of those arrested is under-
stood to be Rawan Kheder, 20, whose
father is the trustee of the Kurdish
Council of Imams and Preachers.
Friends of two other arrested men
Tarik Hassane, 21, and Gusai Abuz-
eid, 21 expressed shock and disbelief
at their arrests.
Security agencies believe that Mr
Hassane has been to Syria, but flew
backtoLondononSundayfromSudan,
where he is a medical student at the
University of Medical Sciences and
Technology in Khartoum.
His relatives played down the
significance of his arrival inthe country
just 48 hours before his arrest, saying
that he had returned to spend the
Eid holiday with his family. Friends
said that he was inSyria to give medical
aid and that he had had the nickname
surgeon since year seven because
of his aspiration to be a doctor.
There has been increased anti-terro-
rist police activity across the country,
especially in London, since the threat
level was raised to severe in August.
Tensions were raised further when
Islamic State urged its sympathisers to
carry out attacks in the West.
Police concede that the threshold for
intervening in a suspected terror plot is
lower than it was six months ago and
that theyless likelytolet things run in
the hope of gathering more evidence.
TurkeywidensriftwithNato, pages22, 23
Fiona Hamilton, Georgie Keate,
Sean ONeill, Samuel Conn
I had bomb-making list,
admits secret defendant
A defendant in Britains most secretive
terrorism case has pleaded guilty days
before his trial was due to begin.
Mounir Rarmoul-Bouhadjar, 26,
from London, admitted at the Old Bai-
ley this week to possessing a document
entitled Bombmaking.
His guilty plea can be reported after
Mr Justice Nicol lifted reporting re-
strictions. A second charge of possess-
ingafalseBritishpassport was dropped.
Rarmoul-Bouhadjars co-defendant,
Erol Incedal, 26, will stand trial next
week on related charges. Mr Incedal
and Rarmoul-Bouhadjar had been
known as AB and CD for months after
their arrest in October last year as the
government argued that the case
should be conducted in secrecy.
An appeal by the media resulted in
restrictions being relaxed and the
defendants names made public. Parts
of the trial will still be conducted
behind closed doors.
Rarmoul-Bouhadjar will be sen-
tenced at the end of Mr Incedals trial.
Soldiers told not to wear uniforms
Deborah Haynes Defence Editor
Sean ONeill
British soldiers, cadets and reservists
have been told not to wear their
uniforms in public when visiting the
Netherlands and Belgium because of
concerns by their governments about
the chance of a terrorist attack.
Hundreds of British military person-
nel are expected to visit both countries
in the coming months as part of orga-
nisedtrips tocommemorate key battles
of the First and Second World Wars, as
well as annual Remembrance Day
services.
They will be able to wear their uni-
form at any ceremonies that they
attend but will change into civilian
clothes when socialising in bars and
restaurants or using public transport.
Anarmyspokesmansaid: Following
guidance from both the Dutch and
Belgian governments that members of
their militaries should not wear uni-
form in public places, UK troops will
adopt this policy outside of official
commemorative activities.
The guidance is also being shared
with regimental associations to alert
veterans travelling to the Netherlands
and Belgium of the sensitivities about
wearing military uniform.
Veterans do not typically wear full
uniform, however, and are unlikely to
feel the need to hide their berets,
medals and regimental blazers.
I imagine there is no way on Earth
they will be taking those off in the pubs
afterwards just because of the threat of
a few jihadis lurking in the shadows, a
defence source said.
The Dutch and Belgium govern-
ments issued the no-uniform rule for
their forces last month, amidfears of an
attack by militants fromeither country
who had travelled to Syria to join
Islamic State.
Despite the threat posed by Islamist
extremists inthe UK, there has beenno
change in uniform guidance issued to
personnel by the Ministry of Defence.
Shock over
arrest of
normal boys
The suspects in the alleged terror
plot were last night described as
laid back, normal guys who
enjoyed playing football and grew up
together in inner-city London (Fiona
Hamilton, John Simpson, Georgie
Keate and David Brown write).
Neighbours confirmed that police
raided the home of Rawan Kheder,
20, on Tuesday morning.
His father, Emin Kheder, is a
chairman of trustee of both the
Salahuddin Trust, an Islamic
charity, and the Kurdish Council of
Imams and Preachers in Britain. He
refused to comment last night. The
family is well known in the Kurdish
community in London, sparking
surprise that Rawan had been
accused of involvement in an alleged
Isis-inspired plot.
Neighbours said that police
officers had been coming and going
since the raid on Tuesday.
One, who did not want to be
named, said: I know the family very
well, I have known them for years.
My son knows Rawan, they are
friends. They are such a nice
family. She identified a picture of
Rawan and said: Hes a nice boy,
very polite.
He attended Westminster City
School with Tarik Hassane and
Gusai Abuzeid, both 21. They are
thought to be long-term friends with
a fourth suspect, who has not yet
been named.
Mr Abuzeid was said to have eaten
dinner with his family and watched
Homeland, the American counter-
terrorism programme, before his
home near Marble Arch was raided.
His brother Adai said he had little
interest in religion and could not
have been involved in any plot. He
told The Daily Mail: I looked at
Gusai, using my eyes to ask what
was going on. He just looked baffled.
I was more shocked than scared.
We havent heard from him since.
Hes working hard to make
something of his life. I cant believe
hes been arrested it doesnt make
sense.
He smokes, he drinks, he has a
girlfriend. If anything, hes not really
a Muslim he doesnt pray. Hes
not political either. Our whole
family is against what is going on
out there. He said six members of
his family, including his elderly
grandmother and father, who is a
political refugee from Libya, were
forced on to the floor by police.
Tarik Hassane, top, and
Gusai Abuzeid,
pictured with friends
at Westminster City
School, were described
as laidback, normal
guys. The arrest of
Rawan Kheder, left,
over an alleged Isis-
inspired plot also
surprised neighbours
because his family is
well known in the
Kurdish community in
London. Below,
messages of support
for the suspects
on Twitter
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News By-elections
Farages millionaire friends
Ukip members have accused the party
of allowingdonors tobuytheir wayinto
top positions after the latest business-
man to donate money was awarded a
parliamentary seat to fight.
Since Arron Banks pledged to give
1 million to Ukip last week, after a
dramatic switch of his allegiance from
the Conservatives, it has emerged that
the insurance tycoonintends tocontest
a Westminster seat next May.
This week, another donor, Paul
donated more than 1.3 million in cash
and services to the party since 2003,
also wields substantial influence in the
party, sitting on its national executive
committee.
Mr Bown, a retired bookmaker
and businessman, has conducted
polling for the party and been an
integral figure in developing Ukips
campaign strategy.
Caven Vines, a Ukip councillor in
Rotherhamandthe partys parliament-
ary candidate for Wentworth and
Dearne, said: If youve got a big
enough chequebook, anyone listens to
you. Its not right, he said, but added
lifes not right. When he travels
to London this week, he said, I dare
say Ill be asking a fewquestions about
the issue.
Another parliamentary candidate
for Ukip, who asked not to be named,
said: Its really not good that donors
can just rise up in the party because
they give money. And it makes you
wonder. Were campaigning along one
line, but then it seems were becoming
just like the rest of them.
Nigel Farage, the Ukip leader, told
The Times yesterdaythat Mr Banks had
been in touch a lot since his
announcement of a 1 milliondonation
last week.
Mr Farage said: He wants to go
ahead as a candidate but he also wants
to talk about fundraising for us. Hes
very interested in political polling and
issues like that but things have been
rather busy lately and we havent had
time to discuss that.
At last weeks press conference, Mr
Banks said that, like other donors, he
would be stipulating where his money
went. I think it will be directly to the
party but it will be for specific purposes
the election campaign.
Asked about the idea that he could
get involved with directing certain
aspects of the election campaign, such
as market research, he said: Theres
a whole package of things we might
do for Ukip and that might be one
of them. Nigel Farage, the Ukip leader, armed
Sykes, the Yorkshire businessman who
has donated more than 4 million to
the party, was made Ukips chairman of
campaigns. His appointment to the in-
fluential post has caused consternation
among party members.
A senior Ukip party figure, who
asked not to be named, said: Why on
earth has Paul Sykes been appointed to
run campaigns? What does he know
about campaigning? One stint in 1997
for Jimmy Goldsmiths Referendum
party isnt good enough.
A third donor, Alan Bown, who has
Lucy Fisher, Laura Pitel
By-election win in Clacton
will make political history
Continued from page 1
from securing a second term in
Downing Street.
Despite efforts by the Tories to fend
off the Ukip threat by promising an in-
out referendum on Britains member-
ship of the European Union, Mr Far-
ages party has continued to grow in
strengthbyhighlightingpublicconcern
about immigration.
The prime minister will now face
calls to take a tougher stance on both
issues, and to reconsider entering a
non-aggression pact with Ukip. He will
also be braced for further defections by
MPs fearful of losing their seats if they
stick with the Tories.
Ed Miliband is also under significant
pressure from Ukip in Labours north-
ern heartlands. Senior party figures
warned last night that Ukip had been
polling only 2,000 votes behind in a
second by-election yesterday in Hey-
wood & Middleton.
Mr Farage saidthat he didnot expect
towintheGreater Manchester seat, but
predicted that the party would do
phenomenally well.
The fact is that in nearly all of those
big cities of the northnowthe Conserv-
ative party and the Lib Dems have
almost disappeared, the Ukip leader
said. We are the only challenger to
Labour in those seats.
Ukiphas comealongwaysincebeing
written off as a bunch of fruitcakes,
loonies and closet racists by Mr Cam-
eron in 2006.
It secured its first elected representa-
tives in 1999, when Mr Farage became
one of three MEPs, but it has only
recently begun to break through on the
domestic political scene.
A turning point came in March 2011,
when Ukip was runner-up in the
Barnsley by-election, the first time it
hadever come secondina Westminster
contest. Since then it has come second
to Labour, the Lib Dems and the Con-
servatives in seats across the country.
In May last year it secured a record
number of council seats, making huge
gains in the Eastern counties of Essex,
Lincolnshire, Norfolk and Kent.
Last MayUkipbecame the first of the
small parties to top a national poll in
100 years, winning first place in the
European elections, with 27 per cent of
the vote.
The party is still enduring growing
pains. Despite the claim by Mr Farage
that it has come of age, it suffers from
its relative inexperience and small size.
Poor vetting of candidates has left it
exposed to embarrassing outbursts
from racist or bigoted candidates.
It is heavily reliant on a small group
of donors for its funding, which pales in
comparison to support for Labour and
the Conservatives.
Red Box
Jointhe columnists and
political commentators Tim
Montgomerie, MatthewParris
andDominic Cummings for
aRedBoxdebate onthe future
of the Conservative party
onTuesday, October 28, at
the offices of The Times
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buy way to the top of Ukip
with a McFlurry ice cream, meets Howling Laud Hope, the Official Monster Raving Loony candidate on Clactons seafront
Battle of the doorsteps
rages right to the end
Ukip fielded activists at each of Hey-
wood and Middletons 51 polling
stations in yesterdays by-election, and
boasted 100 more campaigners on the
streets, in a fierce campaign that began
just a month ago with the death of the
Labour MP Jim Dobbin.
Members from Devon, Worcester-
shire, Scotland and Sheffield travelled
to get out the Ukip vote. The party de-
livered 200,000 leaflets, it claimed.
According to the latest opinion poll,
published by the Tory peer Lord Ash-
croft on Monday, Ukip reached 68 per
cent of the seats residents by visit, tele-
phone call, leaflet, letter or email in the
weeks before the by-election.
This almost matched Labour, which
reached69per cent of the local elector-
ate; Labour could count onhundreds of
activists from the red-dominated
Greater Manchester region.
Whatever happens, weve certainly
not lost the battle onthe doorstep, said
one Ukip activist yesterday.
The party was also a strong presence
on the roads, with three advertising
vans, a minibus and a megaphone-
mountedcar driving aroundthe consti-
tuency. Inside the latter, Denis Allen, a
former lieutenant in the Light Infantry
and Ukips candidate in Telford, broad-
cast through the speakers: Vote for
Ukip! Vote for change!
A Labour insider admitted grave
concern at the indent Ukip had made
onthevoteinHeywoodandMiddleton.
Labour sources were predicting that
their majority, which stood at 5,980 in
2010, could be reduced to just 2,000.
At least nine Labour MPs were out in
force in the seat yesterday. The Times
joined Graham Jones, Labour MP for
Hyndburn, and Alan Campbell, MPfor
Tynemouth, whowerecampaigningon
housing estates in Castleton in pouring
rain.
Mr Jones said that the rise of Ukip in
the north is an anti-Labour vote. It
used to be the Lib Dems, now its
coalescing around Ukip.
Many residents who claimed that
they were voting Labour said they did
so with reluctance. Stephen Williams,
65, a former bus driver, said: Imvoting
Labour because I cant stand the flip-
ping Cons or the flipping Liberals. But
Imnot happy at all with Labour, mind.
It used to be for the working man,
but all politicians are in the same pot
now. I was tempted by Ukip but figured
it would be a vote for the Cons.
Many of the votes Ukip gained ap-
peared to have come from Labour.
Michael Nolan, 69, a retired wholesale
manager, who voted Ukip, said: Ive
beenLabour all mylife, andmydadtoo,
but its time for a change. That Mili-
bands got no charisma. He added that
his three grown-up children and
ex-wife were voting Ukip, too.
John Bickley, the Ukip candidate,
said: This is a two-horse race between
Ukip and Labour. Were seeing many
Labour voters switching to us.
6The tension between Labour and
Ukip rose to sucha pitchyesterday that
the police were called after an incident
between two opposing councillors.
Donna Martin, a Rochdale Labour
councillor, was accused of damaging a
mobile phone belonging to Paul Broth-
wood, aDudleyUkipcouncillor, during
an altercation outside a polling station
at Jumbo Social Club. Mr Brothwood
called the police. No charges were
brought. Ms Martin told The Times she
had asked Mr Brothwood to stop put-
ting his phone near her face and photo-
graphing her. She said only the phones
case was damaged.
TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER , RICHARD POHLE
Carswell is our enemy, but
we can be friends, says Gove
Douglas Carswell will not be shunned
in the corridors and tea rooms of West-
minster, Michael Gove has insisted.
Some Conservatives believe that
they would be forced to avoid a Ukip
MP in the House of Commons for fear
of falling under suspicion themselves.
Speaking on a visit to Clacton earlier
this week, the chief whip said that
the atmosphere would not be like
war-time Paris if Mr Carswell was
elected. Theres no rule against frater-
nisation with the enemy, he said.
Once every member of parliament is
there then we will treat them all in the
same way.
Mr Gove rejected claims by Mark
Reckless, another Ukip defector, that
party whips were leaning heavily on
others who might jump ship.
No, we dont put pressure onpeople.
We try very hard to make sure we un-
derstand what peoples concerns are.
Theres a caricature view of how
parties and whips offices operate. We
dont do that. We operate by friendship,
persuasionandsupport. WithMark, we
took him out to lunch, made sure how
he felt about all the major issues. The
difficulty in Marks case is, he clearly
made a decision and as a result of
having made a decision, he did not fol-
low through on the undertakings he
gave us on loyalty to the leader and to
the party. Mr Gove said that he could
never becertainthat therewouldnot be
further defectors. Like Queen Eliza-
beth I, I cannot make a window out of
mens souls. You can never know what
people are going to do.
If, as expected, Mr Carswell arrives in
Westminster next week, he will have to
navigate a series of commons etiquette
questions. Where will he sit in the
chamber? asked one MP. And what
about the tea room? The Conservatives
sit at one end. Labour sit on the other
side. He will be alone. The black sheep.
No one will want to talk to him, or be
seen talking to him.
Laura Pitel Political Correspondent
A final flurry before polls close
Theres a first time for everything,
Nigel Farage said, while anxiously
clutching a McFlurry in the middle of
Clacton-on-Seas town centre. It was a
reference to the McDonalds ice cream
bought for him by Douglas Carswell.
In between tentative mouthfuls,
however, he could barely hide his
excitement that the man standing next
to him was on the verge of becoming
Ukips first elected MP. Surrounded by
a crowd made up of photographers and
iPhone-wielding supporters, the party
leader took a moment to reflect on the
occasion. Ukip was finally coming of
age, he said.
The party turned 21 last month, and
Mr Farage claimed that it had out-
grown a phrase when it was embar-
rassed by racist or bigoted outbursts
from candidates. He appeared to have
forgotten an incident in August when
one of the partys newly elected MEPs,
Janice Atkinson, described a Thai
constituent as a ting tong.
The Ukip leader said that he had
sometimes felt like the patron saint of
patience after fighting and losing 35
by-elections. He was reluctant to say,
however, that winning the 36th would
mean Ukip had finally entered the pol-
itical mainstream. Having won the
European elections, does breaking
throughunder first-past-the-post make
us now a serious political party in Brit-
ain? Yes, he said. I think the word
mainstream . . . its rather too maligned
for me. I cant bear the thought of it.
Clacton appears to have enjoyed the
political circus that has descended on
the town over the past six weeks. Even
those too young to vote were yesterday
takenby the occasion. Look, its Doug-
las Carswell! shoutedone schoolboyas
the Ukip candidate walked by.
At the Tudor Greenpolling stationin
Jaywick, on the southern tip of the Es-
sex constituency, voters excitedly told
of switching to Ukip from both Labour
and the Conservatives.
I just want to shake up politics a bit,
said Brian Stote, 57, a full-time carer for
his disabled wife. I want Labour to
know that we wont accept whatever
Europe says.
Philip Growden, 74, was once a Con-
servative supporter, but
voted for Ukip yesterday.
They are for the people,
he said of his new party.
The others are totally
out of touch. John
Chittock, a former
member of the
local Conservative
association, was acting as a teller for
Ukip at the polling station. He said that
there was a sense of history-making at
the ballots. Some of them [voters]
come up to you and give you a little
squeeze of the arm on the way out, he
said. Others give you a wink and a
nod.
As for Mr Carswell himself, he said
that the campaignhadbeenincredibly
invigorating. About 300 volunteers
turned out yesterday alone to help get
out thevote. I feel as if Ivefinallycome
home, Mr Carswell said.
As he and Mr Farage joked around
for the cameras, there was no sign of
anyof thetensionthat somebelievewill
inevitably develop between the two
men. The Ukip leader has a
history of responding badly
to threats to his authority.
Yesterday, however, it
was all smiles as the pair
waited the last anxious few
hours before their fate was
sealed.
Mr Carswell said that
he was convinced that
he had made the right
decision by jumping
ship. He compared
Labour and the Con-
servatives to the big
banks that had
turned out to be not
that good at bank-
ing.
Douglas Carswell:
victory was so close
he could taste it
Clacton
Laura Pitel
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Boney wasnt
great in bed
Napoleon the Great? Not according
to the historianAdam Zamoyski,
who argued withAndrew Roberts at
anIntelligence Squared debate on
Wednesday that the Corsican
despot wasnt all that impressive. As
one example, Zamoyski referred to
Napoleon losing his virginity to a
prostitute but said that she was the
fourth one that he had tried to
purchase. Now excuse me, but if a
young officer cannot pick up a tart I
dont see that as some mark of a
great achiever, he said.
Roberts won the post-debate vote,
though, despite the sneering
moderator, Jeremy Paxman, who said
that Napoleon was too short to be
dashing. Some might take that as a
dig at Roberts himself, who is 5ft 6in.
Aptly, since the debate clashed with
the final of The Great BritishBake
Off, Paxo reflected that the only
Briton to be called the Great is
Alfred, best known for burning cakes.
royal fillip for farage
While David Cameron was being
debagged at BuckinghamPalace on
Wednesday night for the offence
that landed him in purr-gatory, the
Duke of Edinburgh was similarly
loose-lipped after a banquet at
Lords to mark the cricket grounds
bicentenary. One guest suggested
that the duke should stand for
parliament. No need, he replied.
Theyll soon have that Farage chap
chivvying them up. And to think
that the Queen was criticised
merely for saying that people should
think before voting inScotland.
hacking jackets too hot
Peter Hennessy, the constitutional
historian, delivered a valedictory
lecture this week at Queen Mary
University of London, where he has
been a professor for more than 20
years. He used part of it to reflect
on his bad fashion sense when he
joined The Times 40 years ago as
Whitehall correspondent. In an
attempt to persuade the Civil
Service mandarins he lunched that
he was much older than a lad in his
mid-20s, Hennessy said he took to
wearing heavy tweed suits . I
literally sweated for my stories, he
said. As the years passed, his dress
changed. A colleague recalled the
time that Hennessy burst into his
office late at night wearing a white
tuxedo. Saw your light on and had
to ask: what do you think? he said.
Is it a bit too Sean Connery?
These days he restricts his fashion
statements to luridly bright socks.
A new publication comes to my
attention. Jail Mail is a monthly
newspaper delivered to all prisons
in Britain, a captive audience of
87,000. The paper provides them
with crime reports, puzzles, lots of
adverts for lawyers (probably a bit
late) and, oddly, a review of the new
iPhone. For some reason, it lacks a
travel section.
judi stamps out tattoos
At 42, Finty Williams is old enough
to have tattoos if she wants them
but the actresss mother, Dame Judi
Dench, drew the line at the idea of
her daughter growing ivy over her
body. I wanted to have ivy tattooed
on me for my 40th [birthday], then
add to it every year so that Id look
like it was covering me by the time I
was 70, she tells SurreyLife. Ma put
her foot down. Time for Dench to
turn over a new leaf?
patrick kidd
Its just not cricket, says
pundit in Twitter row
Valentine Low
One is the emollient, avuncular voice
of cricket on the BBC, the other a
former pop star who modelled a super-
market lingerie range.
At first glance, there would seem to
be no reason why the worlds of Jona-
than Agnew and Jessica Taylor of Lib-
erty X should ever collide.
Collide they did, however, in an acri-
monious exchange whichyesterday led
to Agnew quitting Twitter, complain-
ing: It has become so unpleasant.
And, a few short hours later, joining
it again.
It was all crickets fault.
Ms Taylor, 34, is the wife
of Kevin Pietersen,
the cricketer whose
autobiography has
been making head-
lines this week. The
talking point concern-
ed the spoof account
@KPGenius, which
angered Pietersen with a
string of mocking tweets
in the summer of 2012.
In a discussion
about the allega-
tion that three
of Pietersens
England
teammates Stuart Broad, Graeme
Swann and Tim Bresnan knew the
password to the account, Ms Taylor felt
that Agnew was pulling his punches.
She wrote: There is absolutely no
reason to have the password for a
Twitter account unless you intend to
tweet from it. Anyone with a brain
knows that.
Agnew tweeted back: @Jessica-
LibertyX lose the attitude. One person
(account holder) runs the account.
Others, with access, can provide info.
Anumber of other Twitter users who
had been following the exchange
weighed in. One told Agnew: Hope
youre the first ebola victim.
Yesterday morning Agnew
announced that he was quitting the
social media site. Almost did this
last night. This is not what Twitter
was when I joined. I will now
leave it to the bullies and trolls.
Shame, he wrote, before
deleting his @Aggerscricket
account.
A few hours later he was
back again, because it was
the only way he could
catch up on the latest
news about the row.
However he said he
would no longer be
tweeting: I will be
monitoring news but I
amcertainly not going to
engage. It has become a
jungle out there.
Jessica Taylor
defended her
husband, Kevin
Pietersen
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Nobel prize novelist is a man of few words
Jack Malvern Arts Correspondent
A French author with a formidable
reputation in his own country but little
known elsewhere yesterday won the
Nobel prize for literature.
Patrick Modiano, 69, was described
by the Nobel Academy in Sweden as a
Marcel Proust for our time, but his
book sales in Britain are negligible.
The number of Modiano books sold
in Britain since 1998, according to
Nielsen Bookscan, is 2,123 an
average of 133 books a year.
The author may be best known
outside France for his screenplay for
Lacombe Lucien, a downbeat film of
collaboration during the Second World
War, directed by Louis Malle of the
French new wave. Peter Englund,
permanent secretary of the Nobel
Academy, admitted that the winner of
the 700,000 prize was obscure outside
France.
Patrick Modiano is a well-known
name inFrance but not anywhere else,
he said. He writes childrens books,
movie scripts but mainly novels.
His themes are memory, identity and
time. His best known work is called
Missing Person. Its the storyof a detect-
ive who has lost his memory and his
final case is finding out who he really is:
he is tracing his own steps through his-
tory to find out who he is.
Modiano tends to write short tales of
about 150 pages, which Englund said
were variations of the same theme
memory, loss, identity, seeking. The
authors name has appeared in The
Times five times over the past 30 years,
including a mention in the obituary for
Joanna Kilmartin, who translated his
work into English. The sole description
of Modiano was of someone who was
agonisingly shy and inarticulate to the
point that he never finishes a sentence
despite being one of Frances best-
known novelists. Akane Kawakami, a
lecturer in French at Birkbeck, Uni-
versity of London, who has written a
book on Modianos work, said that the
author was ignored outside France
because of his choice of subject matter
and spare prose style.
One reason is that he writes very
much about the [German] occupation,
she said. Thats a periodwhichis a hor-
rible black hole in the French con-
sciousness, but not so much for other
countries.
He writes a very French classical
prose. It translates well, but it looks
simple and is not so attractive in En-
glish. The limpidity of his prose is really
wonderful, but it is a limited vocabu-
lary. He has favourite words, things like
evanescent, light, and shades of grey.
Dr Kawakami said that the prize was
a surprise eventoher because Modiano
kept such a lowprofile. Hes quite a re-
cluse. Hes not a shouty writer.
He made a terrible appearance on
Apostrophes, whichis theFrenchequiv-
alent of Front Row, duringwhichhe just
couldnt speak. I have never managed
to interview him.
Harvill, which published Modianos
The Search Warrant in English in 2000,
quickly ordereda reprint after the news
broke yesterday.
However, Dr Kawakami suggested
that Times readers might prefer to
begin with Missing Person, which is
known in France as Rue des Boutiques
Obscures. Its a good story a detect-
ive story with a twist, she said.
Leading article, page 20
Intimate photos of Dr Who star and
model girlfriend are leaked online
James Dean
Technology Correspondent
The actor Matt Smith, the former star
of Doctor Who, has become the latest
victim of a celebrity photo leak along-
side his former partner, the model
Daisy Lowe.
Intimate photographs of the couple,
believedtohave beenstolenbyhackers,
were leaked online yesterday.
Hundreds of privateimages of British
andAmericancelebrities, includingthe
actresses Jennifer Lawrence and Kir-
sten Dunst and the singer Rihanna,
have been leaked on the internet since
late August.
The pictures are believed to have
been stolen from the celebrities cloud
storage accounts. Smith played the
eleventh Doctor before handing over
the role to Peter Capaldi last year.
Smiths relationship with Lowe end-
ed in 2011.
Earlier this we
Lawrence, the 24-year
old star of The Hung
Games films, brand
the photo theft a s
crime.
She said that any-
one who looked at
the images should
cower with shame
because they were
perpetuating a sexual offence. Many
of the leaked photographs show the
stars posing for naked self-
in bathrooms, bed-
and dressing
hackers are believed
have used a variety
of techniques to
steal the images
fromcloudstorage
services, including
Apples iCloud.
The FBI is investi-
gating.
Representatives-
for Smith and Lowe
did not respond to
requests for com-
ment yesterday.
Criminals remotely wipe
phones seized by police
James Dean
Criminals are deleting all the data from
their smartphones fromafar after their
devices are seized by police, detectives
across the country have said.
Six police forces each said that at
least onedevicehadbeenwiped while
they were holding it. Dorset police re-
ported six incidents within one year.
Smartphone and tablet owners can
download remote wiping software to
protect their personal data if their
handset is lost or stolen.
Dorset police toldthe BBC: We dont
knowhowpeople wipedthem. We have
cases wherephones get seized, andthey
are not necessarily taken from an
arrested person but we dont know
the details of these cases as there is not
a reason to keep records of this. Cleve-
land police confirmed one remote
wiping incident, but said it was unclear
whether the phone had been wiped
before being seized.
Asked by the BBC if the force be-
lieved the issue had harmed its investi-
gation, the spokeswoman said: We
dont know because we dont know
what was on the phone.
Derbyshire police confirmed one in-
cident. Aspokeswoman said: The case
concerned romance fraud, and a phone
involved with the investigation was
remotely wiped. It did not impact upon
the investigation, and we went on to
secure a conviction.
Cambridgeshire, Nottingham and
Durham police each confirmed one
incident of remote wiping.
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are going,
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Bardot and
Elizabeth
Taylor and,
above, Dante
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Modiano is
revered in
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little known
elsewhere
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Antibiotic prescriptions soar as
doctors ignore superbug warning
Chris Smyth Health Correspondent
The NHS is doling out increasing
amounts of antibiotics, according to a
comprehensivereport that warns drug-
resistant superbugs are on the rise.
The health service was accused of
squandering an unbelievably precious
resource as figures showed that hospi-
tals and out-of-hours GPs are failing to
cut back on unnecessary prescriptions
despite dire warnings fromtop doctors.
Public HealthEnglandwill challenge
GP practices and hospitals to justify
their antibiotic use as the agency pub-
lishes the first comprehensive data on
one of the biggest threats of our time.
David Cameron has warned that the
rise of antibiotic-resistant superbugs
could take medicine back to the dark
ages, while Professor Dame Sally
Fruitful season Emily Thompson gets to work picking apples at Wisley Gardens,
in Surrey, before too many fall to the ground. Windfalls are left for the wildlife
VAGNER VIDAL /INS
Epidurals should be given when requested
Kat Lay
The right time to give a woman in
labour an epidural is when she asks for
it, according to a new study.
Researchers in Singapore studied
15,752 first-time mothers, some of
whom were given epidurals when less
than 4cm to 5cm dilated and others
who were given the procedure later on.
They found that neither group was
more likely to need a caesarean section
or anassistedbirthusingforceps. There
was no difference in the time spent in
the second, pushing, stage of labour.
An epidural is a type of local anaes-
thetic, injected just outside the spinal
columntoprevent painbeingfelt below
the waist or in the abdomen.
Dr Ban Leong Sng, lead researcher
on the project, of the KK Womens and
Childrens Hospital in Singapore, said:
The right time to give the epidural is
whenthe womanrequests painrelief. If
they request [it] early during their la-
bour, the evidence . . . does not provide
a compelling reason [for refusal].
NHSstatistics showthat 16.5per cent
of deliveries needed anepidural or cau-
dal anaesthetic last year. The study was
published in the Cochrane Library, a
database of healthcare research, fund-
ed by The Cochrane Collaboration.
Davies, chief medical officer, has
warned of an apocalyptic scenario
where procedures, from hip replace-
ments to chemotherapy, become fatal.
Between 2010 and 2013, total
NHSantibiotic consumptionrose 6 per
cent, an increase which PHE said was
unjustified. Last year doctors handed
out 27.4 daily doses of antibiotics per
1,000 people, compared with 25.9 four
years ago.
We dont think theres been a major
change in society over the past four
years that can explain this, said Susan
Hopkins, the epidemiologist who com-
piled the report. As a starting point, we
want to roll back to 2010. We need a re-
duction in prescribing to patients. If we
dont, they will develop resistant bugs in
their bodiesandthesebugswill flourish.
Northern areas use many more anti-
biotics than the south, with usage in
Merseyside as high as in southern
Europe, and30per cent higher thanthe
Thames Valley with the lowest rates.
GPs, who issue the bulk of antibiotic
prescriptions, had a 4 per cent rise.
Hospitals increased antibiotic use by 12
per cent, while urgent care centres, out-
of-hours GPs and dentists had a 32 per
cent rise.
Dr Hopkins foundthat onein25bugs
that cause bloodstream infections is
nowresistant to at least one key antibi-
otic, and resistant E.Coli infections
were up 12 per cent. While relatively
fewbugs aresofar resistant toall antibi-
otics, Dr Hopkins warned that without
moreactionBritaincouldbeheadingto
asimilar situationtoIndia, where10per
cent of such infections are untreatable
by common drugs.
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Fixer knew
of Dewani
murder plot
Ruth Maclean Cape Town
A middleman who introduced Anni
Dewanis killers to the man allegedly in
charge of arranging her murder knew
about the plot, a South African court
was told on the third day of the trial.
Shrien Dewani, 34, a British bus-
inessman, denies any involvement in
the murder of his wife on their honey-
mooninCapeTownin November 2010.
Monde Mbolombo, whohas received
immunity from the prosecution in
return for testifying in the trial, says he
recruited Mziwamadoda Qwabe and
Xolile Mngeni, the men convicted of
killing Mrs Dewani, at the request of
the Dewanis taxi driver, Zola Tongo.
However, Francois van Zyl, Mr
Dewanis lawyer, put it to Qwabe that
Mr Mbolombo was intricately involved
in hatching the plan between the men.
Monde clearly played a role in the
events of that night; he was not just a
link. What doyousaytothat? he asked
Qwabe at the Western Cape High
Court yesterday. Qwabes reply to most
questions was: I do not recall.
Mr van Zyl, referring to telephone
records obtained by the court, said that
at 9.30pm on the night of the murder,
Mr Mbolombo told Qwabe: It must
happen today.
The court adjourned early because
both Qwabe and Mr Dewani com-
plained of upset stomachs. It will
resume on Monday.
Killers and rapists
demand cash for
losing their vote
Richard Ford Home Correspondent
A serial killer, a child rapist and two
people who have been told they must
dieinprisonareamongmorethan1,000
offenders who are trying to win com-
pensation for the prisoner voting ban.
Among those bringing the human
rights challenge are Kenneth Regan
and WilliamHorncy, serving whole life
sentences for the murder of a million-
aire and his family, and David Mulcahy,
the railway rapist, who is serving life
for three murders and seven rapes.
The claims follow a European Court
of Human Rights ruling nine years ago
that the blanket ban on prisoners
voting was unlawful.
Neither the previous Labour govern-
ment, nor the coalitionhas beenwilling
to give sentenced prisoners the vote
and, in 2011, parliament agreed to keep
the ban despite the Strasbourg ruling.
The 1,014 cases have been before the
human rights court for the past five
years and it has now asked the govern-
ment for its comment on them.
Although the court ruled that the
blanket ban was unlawful it has never
awarded compensation in prisoner-
voting cases.
Sean Humber, head of human rights
at LeighDay, one of the lawfirms hand-
ling claims, said: The important point
about human rights is that they belong
to all of us all, and not just the morally
deserving. While the main purpose of
the action is to make the government
take action to bring the unlawful blan-
ket ban on prisoner voting to an end, it
is clearly right that those denied the
vote are entitled to compensation for
the past breach of their rights.
Chris Grayling, the justice secretary,
said: I just dont believe that the public
want to give prisoners, some of whom
have committed the most heinous of
crimes, the right to vote. It should be
our parliament, not an unelected court
inStrasbourg, that has thefinal sayover
such matters.
The cases are listed in a document
from the European Court of Human
Rights which states that applicants
were all incarcerated and were pre-
vented from voting in one or more of
elections to the European Parliament
in 2009, the general election in 2010
and elections to the Scottish Parlia-
ment, Welsh Assembly and Northern
Irish Assembly in May 2011.
Regan and Horncy have both been
told they will die in prison after being
convicted of the murder of Amarjit
Chohan, 51, his wife Nancy, 25, their
two children, aged 18 months and two
months and Mrs Chohans mother
Charanjit Kaur.
Small wonders
A gloxinia
stamen and a
snail on a
plant have
been
shortlisted
for the macro
category
of the
International
Garden
Photographer
of the Year
competition
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Good schools will have shorter, lighter-
touch inspections every three years as
Ofstedmoves away fromits cliff-edge
approach to monitoring standards.
The secondary schools will be visited
by only two inspectors, who will spend
one day withthe headandteachers and
another morning reporting their find-
ings to governors. Primary schools will
be checked by a single inspector.
Sir Michael Wilshaw, the chief
Good schools given easier inspections
as Ofsted concentrates on the weakest
Greg Hurst Education Editor
RAFofficer abused
children on base
A former RAF officer has
admitted 16 charges of sexual
abuse against boys in his scout
troop on a British base in
Germany in the 1980s and was
found guilty of seven more
charges. Eddie Graham, 63,
admitted abusing nine boys at
RAF Gatow in Berlin and was
found guilty of attacks on four
more.
His court martial at Bulford
Military Court in Wiltshire was
told that he abused boys aged
between 8 and 14. His victims
contacted police after the
revelations about Jimmy Savile,
but officers were powerless to act
because the abuse occurred
abroad. The German authorities
said that because the offences
occurred while Graham was a
British serviceman they could not
prosecute him, so the RAF Police
took over the case. Graham will
be sentenced on November 10.
Petrol thiefs disguises
Police are searching for Britains
most prolific petrol thief, who has
evaded arrest 29 times over two
years by using an array of
disguises (Simon de Bruxelles
writes). Devon and Cornwall
police said they had no idea of
the identity or even the gender of
the robber, who repeatedly drives
away in his or her silver Vauxhall
Zafira without paying for petrol.
The spree began in September
2012 at an Esso garage in
Plymouth, and the thief, whose
disguises include woolly hats and
blonde wigs, has evaded detection
by using cloned number plates.
BBC chief starts work
The new chairwoman of the
BBC Trust, the corporations
governing body, vowed that the
interests of licence-payers would
come first as she took up the
position (Alex Spence writes).
Rona Fairhead, above, also
promised to fight for the BBCs
independence and to give Lord
Hall of Birkenhead, the director-
general, space to continue his
reforms. Ms Fairhead, who sits on
the boards of HSBC and Pepsico,
was chosen by the government to
replace Lord Patten of Barnes. He
stood down in May after suffering
from serious heart problems.
Definitely ex-parrots
A bird keeper has been ordered to
get rid of his parrots after
neighbours complained that the
noise was making their lives
unbearable. Neighbours of Peter
Hammond, 76, claimed he kept
up to 500 parrots in his home in
Battisford, Suffolk. Mr Hammond
lost a retrospective application to
keep the birds, as well as ten dogs,
at a Mid Suffolk district council
meeting. Sarah Griffiths, his
neighbour, said that her family
had suffered because of the mans
hobby. She said the parrots emit
what can only be described as
alarming primeval squawks.
Police class
4-year-olds
as rapists
Richard Ford Home Correspondent
Police in the West Midlands have
classed two four-year-old boys as
rapists, and suspect that a one-year-old
girl was guilty of assault, although they
could all be victims of a typing error.
The force recorded a total of 40
under-10s as rapists, and a further 84
childrenwere suspectedof other sexual
crimes, according to details provided
under the Freedomof InformationAct.
Two children recorded as aged two
were suspected or deemed responsible
for criminal damage between 2011 and
2013, according to figures requested by
the Birmingham Mail.
None of the children could be prose-
cuted because each was under 10, the
age of criminal responsibility.
A spokesman for West Midlands
police said in a statement: Data on
ages is calculated from date of birth,
which is inputted manually. Therefore
inaccuracies may result from human
error.
However, in order to comply with
the Freedom of Information Act 2000,
we have disclosed the recorded data
despite its inaccuracies.
which schools in east Birmingham
were found to have been taken over by
Muslim fundamentalists, revived Sir
Michaels interest in no-notice inspec-
tions. However he has decided instead
to make greater use of existing rules to
inspect schools without warning if con-
cerns warrant such an approach. He
ordered40snapinspections earlier this
term to test this power.
The new lighter-touch approach, to
be introduced next September, applies
to schools rated good in their last in-
spection 61 per cent of primary and
48 per cent of secondary schools, ac-
cording to Ofsteds last annual report.
Weaker schools will still be subject to
a full two-day inspection by up to four
inspectors. Outstanding schools were
exempted from routine inspection by
Mr Gove, although Ofsted can visit if
results plummet, key staff leave or
parents demand an inspection.
The shorter inspections for good
schools will begin with an inspector
spending an hour with the head
teacher, asking about the schools
strengths and weaknesses, backed up
by performance data, Sir Michael said.
Inspectors will visit classrooms, as
now, but not undertake formal lesson
observations nor award a grade for the
standard of teaching in each lesson.
They will continue to issue separate
grades for the strength of each schools
leadership, pupils behaviour, standards
of teaching and levels of achievement.
Sir Michael is consulting heads and
teachers on whether Ofsted should
introduce a fifth grade specifically on
howwell the school prepares its curric-
ulum to be broad and balanced and
meet the needs of its children. This was
promptedbytheOfsteds inspections of
25 schools at the centre of the Trojan
Horse episode, which found that in
several the curriculum had been con-
sciously narrowed withgreater empha-
sis on Islamic studies.
Sir Michael said he was not advocat-
ing drive-by inspections. Shorter vis-
its would pick up onproblems.You can
spot a good school withinhalf anhour.
The change was largely welcomedby
the unionfor most secondaryheads but
criticisedbyprimaryheads leaders and
teachers unions, who called for more
wholesale reform of inspections.
inspector, said that he had abandoned
plans to switch to the routine use of no-
notice inspections. Heads will instead
continue to be told in a lunchtime
telephone call to expect Ofsted to
arrive at 8am the next morning.
He had clashed with Michael Gove,
the former education secretary, after
demanding fresh powers to inspect
schools without warning, but Sir Mich-
ael admittedinJune he haddecidednot
to proceed with such an approach.
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Hollywood heroes
rescue Clive James
from hospital hell
Clive James, the critic and broadcaster
who is terminally ill, has described in
versehowhis lifewas savedafter hewas
rushed to hospital with a fever.
It is the latest poemdocumenting his
failing health since he revealed that he
is close to death after a battle with
leukaemia and emphysema.
The new poem, entitled My Latest
Fever, published in todays New States-
man, which is guest-edited by Grayson
Perry, James writes that he found
himself inhospital again expectingan
attack of bugs to rival the German
invasion of Russia.
Drawing wry comparisons withfilms
such as Rambo: First Blood and Shooter,
in which the protagonists treat their
own wounds, James pictured his body
mending itself in his hospital bed,
though he said: While liquid drugs
were pumped into my arm, / My
temperature stayed sky high.
After 11 days, his temperature finally
dived off the bridge like Catherine
Zeta-Jones / Fromthe Petronas Towers
in Kuala Lumpur, referring to the film
Entrapment.
He concluded: They sent me home
tosleepinadrybed/ Where I felt better
than I had for months. / No need to
make a drama of my rescue: / Having
been saved was like a lease of life.
Jamess most recent poem, released
last month, was called Japanese Maple
and was a more sombre work, describ-
ing his solace in watching rain fall on a
Japanese maple tree chosen by his
daughter.
He has been severely ill since 2010
and went public about his poor
health in 2011, revealing he had been
admitted to hospital for kidney failure
and was then immediately diagnosed
for everything else as well, including
several lung diseases and a version
of leukaemia that is supposed to
develop slowly but, in my case, couldnt
wait to get started, mainly in my
lungs.
James, who turned 75 on Tuesday,
joked in the New Statesman earlier
this month: I am in the slightly
embarrassing position where I write
poems saying I am about to die and I
dont.
My Latest Feve
Clive James
The writer, who is
terminally ill, dreamt of
Rambo and Angelina
as he fought for his life,
Kaya Burgess reports
My latest fever clad me in cold sweat
And there I was, in hospital again,
Drenched, and expecting an attack of bugs
As devastating as the first few hours
Of Barbarossa, with the Russian air force
Caught on the ground and soldiers by the thousand
Herded away to starve, while Stalin still
Believed it couldnt happen. But instead
The assault turned out to be as deadly dull
As a bunch of ancient members of the Garrick
Emerging from their hutch below the stairs
To bore me from all angles as I prayed
For sleep, which only came in fits and starts.
Night after night was like that. Every day
Was like the night before, a hit parade
Of jazzed-up sequences from action movies.
While liquid drugs were pumped into my arm,
My temperature stayed sky high. On the screen
Deep in my head, heroes repaired themselves.
In Rambo: First Blood, Sly Stallone sewed up
His own arm. Then Mark Wahlberg, star of Shooter,
Assisted by Kate Mara, operated
To dig the bullets from his body. Teeth
Were gritted in both cases. No one grits
Like Sly: it looks like a piano sneering.
Better, however, to be proof against
All damage, as in Salt, where Angelina
Jumps from a bridge on to a speeding truck
And then from that truck to another truck.
In North Korea, tortured for years on end,
She comes out with a split lip. All this mayhem
Raged in my brain with not a clich scamped.
I saw the heroes march in line towards me
In slow-mo, with a wall of flame behind them,
And thought, as I have often thought, This is
The pits. How can I make it stop? It stopped.
On the eleventh day, my temperature
Dived off the bridge like Catherine Zeta-Jones
From the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur.
I had no vision of the final battle.
The drugs, in pill form now, drove back the bugs
Into the holes from which they had attacked.
It might have been a scene from Starship Troopers:
But no, I had returned to the real world.
They sent me home to sleep in a dry bed
Where I felt better than I had for months.
No need to make a drama of my rescue:
Having been saved was like a lease of life,
The thing itself, undimmed by images
r being so.
Clive James is
terminally ill
with cancer.
The publication
of his new
poem coincided
with his
75th birthday
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Marr unmasks the leaders loved and hated at No 10
Andrew Marr has described No10
under David Cameron as a surprisingly
happy place compared with the eras of
Gordon Brown or John Major.
The former BBCpolitical editor gave
a potted history of the prime ministers
official residence since the days of
Margaret Thatcher to an audience at
the Cheltenham Literature Festival.
Hesaidthat theatmospherechanged
abruptly with the arrival of each new
leader, resulting in alternating periods
of contentment and turmoil.
Cameron is loved by the civil ser-
vice, he said at the festival, which is
sponsored by The Times and The Sun-
day Times. All they want is decisions to
be taken clearly and without problems.
They send himthe papers and he reads
them all and they have a decision the
next day. Hes the first prime minister
since [Tony] Blair where the papers
come back the next morning.
Mr Browns No 10 had a strict hier-
archy but was a place where the paper
didnt flowproperly, he said. He had a
gang of rather overweight big boys with
rather floridfaces whocame andstared
at you.
Mr Blairs tenure was characterised
byyounger women: [It] was full of pret-
ty girls half in love with Tony, with
Cherie following them around with a
scowl. Alastair Campbell, Mr Blairs
communications chief, and Jonathan
Powell, his chief of staff, made their
presence felt even when they were not
in the room.
The later days of Thatchers decade
in power differed totally from Mr
Majors leadership. They were com-
pletely terrified of [Thatcher]. You
could hear a pin drop. When John
Major came in it all went to pot. John
Majors No 10, all the way through, felt
besieged. It felt like there were Thatch-
erite forces, socialist forces out there. It
was a fairly miserable experience.
Marr said that throughout his career
he had noticed power draining from
Westminster towards the City of
London, to the extent that he would
rather have Robert Pestons job as the
BBCs economics editor.
Thats where the action is . . . thats
where the power has gone. If I had my
time over again I would spend more
time with economics textbooks, blow
through the jargon, go into the City,
meet those guys because thats
where the decisions are being made.
Marr, who was promoting Head of
State, his first novel, said that a long
timeago government hadthepower to
fix wages and control mortgage rates.
Now they cant even tax the biggest
corporations in this country the
Googles and the Amazons. Thats why
a lot of people not me despise
politics. Its because theydont have any
power any more.
He said politicians might regain re-
spect if theyweretoemulateMPs of the
past who had other careers first. We
have lost muchof that gritty, real-world
experience in the House of Commons.
I wouldlike tosee nobody allowedtobe
elected to the House of Commons until
they are 40. That way, they would have
to do something else first.
Jack Malvern Arts Correspondent
ANDREA DUNLAP/GOOGLE
Pie in the
sky?Its a
wind farm
with wings
G
oogle has offered
tantalising
glimpses of a
future where
wind turbines
are tethered 300m from the
ground spelling an end to
the controversial ground-
based versions (David
Sanderson writes).
The winged turbines,
which would float at high
altitude tapping into the
higher wind speeds, could
increase the amount of
energy produced and save
on construction costs, one
of the companys British
executives has said.
Peter Fitzgerald, Googles
UK sales director, said the
turbines could help resolve
the worlds energy crisis.
It is kind of out there,
Mr Fitzgerald said at the
Cheltenham Literature
Festival. It is tethered, has
wings and you go to high
altitude flying around
bringing energy.
You have to spend a lot
of money on steel and
concrete to build these
massive turbines and you
can only do that in about 15
per cent of the world where
the wind is fast enough.
Already you are getting
double that amount of land
where you can do it [with
the tethered turbines], he
claimed. Mr Fitzgerald said
the companys Google X
department was continually
working on the next
generation of big bets ... the
moonshots. He spoke
about Project Loon, which
uses balloons to bring
internet access to remote
areas. The balloons are
equipped with internet-
delivering technology and
fly at high altitude, using
algorithms to try to figure
out how [best] to ride wind
currents.
There are so many parts
of the world where if you
put broadband in it is so
expensive and it will take
forever, he said. But if you
use balloons it is low cost
and you can get hundreds
of millions of people on the
internet. Other products
the company is developing
include connected lenses,
equipped with micro-
technology which analyses
glucose levels in tears and
could help tackle diabetes.
The Former England footballer Sol
Campbell has said that he would be
prepared to have a conversation
with the Conservative Party about
involvement in politics. Campbell,
who was brought up in east London
with nine brothers and two sisters,
said he could be crucial in securing
the black vote. He provoked surprise
on Twitter last month by revealing his
vehement opposition to Labours
proposal for a mansion tax.
Madhur Jaffrey, the actress and food
writer, has said she would gladly
strangle Tom Kerridge, the
Michelin-starred chef, after he
suggested that many professional
kitchens were offputting to women
because they were like war zones. Ms
Jaffrey told the festival that women
had been running large kitchens for
thousands of years, adding that men
only began doing so when there
[was] money to be made.
Sitting in the audience for his own
shows has been dispiriting for
Michael Frayn, he said at the festival.
The playwright and novelist described
one of his experiences, at a preview of
Noises Off: When the lights went
down, a women opened her
programme and, just in that silence
before the play starts, she said, Oh,
no, I thought this was by Alan
Ayckbourn.
Cheltenham in brief
Andrew Marr: The
City is where the
power has gone
Sol plays on the right
Jaffrey defends women
Dont join your audience
Google says its winged
turbines, which float 300m
above the ground, could
help to solve the worlds
energy crisis
Opinion
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Two truths that Labour doesnt want to hear
Voters like good leadership and economic competence: no wonder Ed Miliband had the worst conference showing
I
f I ever make it into a book of
quotations I hope it will be for
the observation that a week is not
a long time in politics. Forty
years, though, is a very long time
in politics and it is precisely 40 years
today since October 10, 1974, the last
time any Labour leader, apart from
Tony Blair, won an overall majority
in the House of Commons. Coalition
talks between the Tories and the
Liberals had failed in February of
that year, allowing Harold Wilson to
form a minority government. Eight
months later, in a second election,
Labour won an overall majority of
three seats.
As the curtain falls on the party
conference season but rises on the
by-election results in Clacton and
Heywood and Middleton, the
assumption of most commentary is
that the four years since 2010 have
been such a long time in politics that
the prevailing rules have been
repealed. In a two-party state it used
to be axiomatic that a reputation for
economic competence allied to good
leadership would deliver a clean and
decisive victory. It was thought
necessary to appeal to centrist
opinion in order to assemble a
winning coalition of voters. It was
assumed that protests that flowed in
the middle of a parliament would
ebb by the end.
Politics seems messier and less
predictable now than it has in 40
years. It appears that Labour can win
a Wilson-like majority on as little as
34 per cent of the vote when in 1974 it
required 39 per cent. Ed Miliband is
aiming to do with the nation what he
did with his brother, which is to win
power on the tiniest of margins. It is
also why, when Labours poll ratings
dip below even the low level of its
ambitions, despair comes quickly to
the ranks. Senior Labour people
know that their leader has bet the
whole party on the rules of politics
having been abrogated.
It would be foolish to dismiss the
novelty elements of contemporary
politics. In 1974 Labour and the
Tories between them took 75 per
cent of the vote and the Liberals a
further 18 per cent. Other parties,
which polled 7 per cent in 1974, are
currently taking 26 per cent of
popular preferences, 14 of which is
going to Ukip. The mood has turned
against the established political class
and the fable of the Liberal
Democrats within the coalition is a
simple tale of what happens when
you pass from outside the gilded elite
of politics to a hateful position on
the inside.
Heywood and Middleton and
Clacton both feel like places that
politics forgot. At the age of eight,
Harold Wilson famously went from
Huddersfield to London with his
family and had his picture taken
outside the door of 10 Downing
Street. At the age of eight, when Mr
Wilson was inside Downing Street, I
took what turns out to be an almost
equally momentous political journey.
I went on a trip from Heywood to
Clacton. It felt like it took a week to
get there, which is a long time in
holidays. I remember thinking at the
time: When there are simultaneous
by-elections in these constituencies,
Ill get a column out of this.
Since that day both Heywood and
Middleton (which is two places
rather than one) and Clacton have
lost population, which tells you a lot.
In Heywood, I am always struck by
the people who gather on the streets.
Six per cent of the town is
unemployed but as many again are
not working but not claiming benefit
and the same number again are sick
and disabled. Thats almost a fifth of
the town. Clacton has a similar feel.
A quarter of the people of Clacton
are retired and more than half the
town is older than 55. In both places
nine out of ten people are white
British. These are not places that
have changed much since 1974.
Except politically. Clacton, under a
different name, was Tory in 1974 but
fell to Labour in Tony Blairs 1997
landslide, until Douglas Carswell
took it back in 2005. Heywood and
Middleton has the air of a place that
has been forever Labour and it is, in
fact, the site of the biggest by-
election victory in British political
history. In May 1940, in the midst of
a coalition government that nobody
minded, Ernest Everard Gates held
off the challenge of the British Union
of Fascists by taking 98.7 per cent of
the votes cast. The only surprise is
that Mr Gates was a Conservative,
holding a seat that had been Tory
since 1923 and had been Liberal
before that.
These are exactly the sorts of
places that might be exceptions to
the rules of British politics. Yet there
is a clue in the language to the limits
of such an analysis. Exceptions do
not prove rules; they disprove them.
The word prove originally meant
test. The exceptional case of
Clacton will test the rules but a
Labour win in Heywood and
Middleton will show that, when alls
said and done, they still apply. It will
be an appropriate place for such a
point to be made. Repelling assaults
on the citadels of Westminster are
second nature to the people of
Heywood, because the town is
named after Peter Heywood, the
magistrate who arrested Guy Fawkes
after the failure of the Gunpowder
Plot of 1605.
Nigel Farage is a Guy Fawkes for
our time. He was even caught posing
on a tank this week, in a Heywood
museum. He thinks he is blowing up
the rules but I cannot believe that
the political facts of life which have
held true since 1974 count for
nothing.
It is true that nothing today, 40
years on, is quite as it was. But
instant reflection on the conference
season impels the thought that
Labour was the clear and decisive
loser. Waiting, hoping to benefit from
a broken system, a Labour party
content with such a victory would
barely merit it.
The four years since 2010 have
not, in fact, been all that long. Some
Lib Dems have come to Labour, the
rest have gone elsewhere, the Tories
blew the vital boundary changes and
Ukip is a new force that threatens to
deny them victory, even though the
economy is now better. There we are,
thats politics done with.
The accompanying conclusion is
that there is surely life left in the
truth that economic competence and
credible leadership count, even in a
broken system. This is the lesson for
Labour. The essential point about
Harold Wilson was that he sought a
wide appeal. He was the folksy
charmer from Huddersfield who was
smarter than all the posh boys he
encountered at Oxford. He had a
100 per cent strategy. He fell short of
that but the rules of politics gave him
victory. It is what Mr Blair did too
but there are Labour party rules
that mean were not allowed to
mention him.
Labour could win a Harold Wilson-type
victory with only 34 per cent of the vote
Morland animation
Our cartoonist sees the
Liberal Democrats digging
themselves into their hole
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when choosing kids pets
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dip, despair comes
quickly to the ranks
comment pages of the year
A party content with
victory from a broken
system wouldnt merit it
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Opinion
@helenrumbelow
Helen Rumbelow Notebook
The Sandy Hook massacre has exposed the nations struggle between freedom and conformity
Home-schooling is Americas next culture war
F
amily life in the US began,
for me, with a lesson on the
peculiarities of American
freedom. We had moved into
our home in a Washington
suburb and parked on the street
outside. An hour or so after the
removal people had gone we had a
knock at the door. It was a neighbour
with gifts for the kids, which youd
expect in friendly, warm, picket-
fenced America, and advice about
parking, which, frankly, we did not.
You had better move your car,
she warned. You have left it facing
the wrong way. Welcome to the land
of the free. In Washington and many
other parts of the US (including
Texas, for goodness sake) you have
to park facing the direction of traffic.
We had just arrived from Brussels
where you can park in the middle of
the road if you can find a space
between the officials limos. It was a
shock to discover Brussels was, in
some respects, freer than Washington.
There is a tension, of course,
between my freedom to do
something and your freedom to
avoid the consequences of me doing
it. In America you would generally
expect those who feel themselves
upset by my freedom to have to take
a hike (suck it up is the great
American phrase) unless I am
genuinely motoring over their toes.
But you would be wrong: America
can be a constrained and conformist
place. And although I never heard a
libertarian say heck, Ive had it; Im
moving to Brussels, those
Americans who say that they believe
in freedom are often not as welcome
as one might expect.
Which is why there is about to be
a big fight about home education. In
the next few weeks the commission
established after the ghastly 2012
massacre of children at Sandy Hook
elementary school in Connecticut is
due to report; one of its
recommendations will be to tighten
the law on home-schooling in the
state. The killer, Adam Lanza, had
for a time been home-schooled by
his mother. The commission is
suggesting that parents of home-
schooled children with behavioural
and emotional problems would have
to submit education plans to the
authorities. No plans; no home-
schooling.
Cue outcry from Americas
vociferous home-schooling
community and the start of a fight
that will echo around the nation,
pitching the freedom of parents to do
what they want against the freedom
of children to have the right to a
decent start in life and for that
start to be checked by someone
outside the family.
American home-schooling has an
odd history. It began in the counter-
culture 1960s and was favoured by
hippies who admired the British
educationalist AS Neill, father of the
Summerhill free school. But as time
passed and home-schooling became
more popular and legally acceptable
it was taken up as the darling cause
of the evangelical movement. And
while Neill trumpeted the
psychological freedom of the child,
the evangelicals were much more
interested in freedom from the state.
Home-schooling in modern
America is often seen as a way to
keep the government in its place; a
challenge to the insidious power of
officialdom. Now, in the wake of a
massacre that horrified the nation,
home-schoolers think officialdom is
fighting back.
So who will win this battle that the
Sandy Hook commission is about to
start? About 3 per cent of American
families home-school their kids
thats about two million children.
They have lawyers. But their basic
appeal will be outside the law; it will
be to the libertarian instincts they
believe exist in the hearts and minds
of Americans, even those whose
minds have been polluted by school.
It might be tough. Americans like
to think of themselves as suspicious
of government. But when America
was set up, those spiky individuals
who defeated the natives and went
west to conquer a whole continent
faced a problem. In the absence of
government they needed natural
order in their townships. Orderly
community life was much prized and
informs the American experience;
which is why sometimes Americans
actually approve of conformity
rather more than Europeans.
The home-school people are
screaming: They are coming for our
children. Many Americans will be
unconvinced. Part of American
freedom is American community,
American rules. Although you can
make a decent case that Adam Lanza
would have killed whichever way he
was educated, the Sandy Hook
commission seems to be on
reasonable American centre ground
when it says: OK, home-school but
lets talk about what you do, at least
in some circumstances.
The commission is reflecting an
aspect of Americanism that we do
not always recognise. When they
circled the wagons around western
campfires they probably all faced the
same way. It just made sense.
The Sandy Hook killer was taught at
home. Now officialdom is fighting back
Begun by hippies, it
became a darling
cause of evangelicals
Illiberal liberals
are no friends
of a free press
Mick Hume
A
s news breaks that police
have been secretly
hacking journalists phone
records, perhaps we
should update an old
warning to the UKs liberal elites:
First they came for The Sun, but you
did nothing, because you hate The
Sun. Then they came for the Mail on
Sunday, but you did nothing, because
you hate the Mail even more. Then
they came for . . .
But that wouldnt be fair. Those
illiberal liberals did not do nothing.
They actively encouraged firmer
official action to monitor tabloid
journalism, using phone-hacking at
the News of the World as the pretext.
Now they are up in arms about
police use of the Regulation of
Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA)
secretly to trawl journalists phone
records and identify confidential
sources for stories about Plebgate and
Chris Huhnes speeding points. Are
our leading liberals really naive
enough to imagine the police would
play by their rules? Pigs might fly first.
The Labour MP Keith Vaz protests
that the police phone hackers have
struck a serious blow against press
freedom. Noble words. He is no
relation, presumably, to the chairman
of the home affairs select committee
who, in 2011, lambasted the Met for
not doing enough to crack down on
the excesses of tabloid journalism?
The Liberal Democrat conference
has pledged to reform RIPA to
protect responsible journalism, a
policy proposed by the former MP
Evan Harris, now a lobbyist for Hugh
Grants Hacked Off. Nobody has
been more responsible than Hacked
Off for encouraging a contemptuous
official view of tabloid hacks, whom
the campaigns executive director
branded a different breed at the
Leveson inquiry.
Nick Davies, of The Guardian, who
led the crusade to expose hacking at
the News of the World, says that the
police have cheated by using RIPA to
hunt down sources. Yet to judge by
his new book, Hack Attack, Daviess
role in the hacking scandal was to
act as the provisional wing of the
Metropolitan Police, insisting that a
stricter interpretation of RIPA would
empower them to arrest more
members of the tabloid press. The
Met eventually followed the scent
that he laid for them, rounding up 63
tabloid journalists, then using RIPA
to hack phone records.
The lesson of all of this is that
press freedom is an indivisible liberty
that we defend for all or none at all.
If you invite the authorities to police
journalism, dont be surprised to find
them supporting a free press as a
rope supports a hanging man.
If choosing
kids pets,
try rat-like
cunning
W
hen you choose a pet
for your children, you
choose their first
romantic partner,
imprinting them for
life. This explains a lot about our
nations poor reputation when it
comes to relationships. When, as a
girl, I got a hamster, a creature prized
only for fluff and sleeping all day, I
basically fell for a cast member of The
Only Way is Essex; next was a Woody
Allen of a whiny, nervous wreck
guinea pig. The tortoise, with its
disdainful tour of the garden, was like
making a life commitment to Prince
Philip. Given this history, no wonder
the British (especially me) continue
to make poor choices when it comes
to heavier petting in adulthood.
This week the London scientist
John OKeefe won a Nobel prize for
his research into the soul of a rat. I
too have searched for the soul of a
rat and found it behind our dusty
record collection. Because when it
came to my own childrens pets, I
decided to get one of the most-hated
vermin on earth. Two of them,
actually. My decision was tested early
on when Oreo and Nibbles escaped
just as our most rat-phobic friend
came for brunch, popping their
ratty heads in and out of kitchen
shelves as we attempted to both
conceal and capture them, like
in a poor mans Fawlty Towers.
But the principle remains:
when every conversation
about us having rats leads
to Rentokil, these creatures
teach your children to love
without prejudice. Theres a
reason rats are called
cunning, its shared with
every social group termed
cunning, from the Jewish to
the ambitious poor. Its a
cruel way of saying your
intelligence threatens us. Rats
are bright and like to party, its
just that they have yellow teeth
and an image problem. Yes, Im
setting my children up to fall in
love with the Scottish. This is a
good thing.
Lab fab
P
rofessor OKeefe got
some flak for
experimenting on rats. A
few years ago I was the first
journalist to tour the rat
experimentation laboratory of
AstraZeneca, which focused on
cancer medicines.
Light rock music played as rats
rolled across each other in bright
plastic runs. It was only when I looked
closer I felt a twinge of conscience.
Some had human lung-cancer
tumours hanging off their
flanks, others in prostate
cancer trials bore vasectomy
scars. But to me, after I
adjusted my eye and
my thoughts, it was
no stranger than
milking time in an
industrial dairy.
Less strange, in
fact. Of course I
was aware my
visit was heavily
supervised but
what surprised
me, and
could not
be faked,
was that the
staff who cared
for the rats were
animal-potty. You
know, the kind
who have pet
photos on their
desks instead of
humans. Wasnt this
the worst job for
them? No, they said,
the best. Unlike farm
workers, they got to work
with animals and provide something
amazing for humans, rather than just
sausages.
Stampy duty
A
fter a day on the treadmill, my
son and rats like to slump
together in front of the TV.
But if only they would watch TV.
Instead, theyre addicted to a
phenomenon known as lets play.
These are YouTube videos of a bloke
commentating as he plays a video
game. Its TV unlike anyone over the
age of 25 knows or wants. Stampy is
a bloke from Portsmouth with many
millions of followers and is arguably
Britains biggest internet success.
Stampys nasal laugh rings out in
family households across the land.
Parents laugh just as maniacally,
having lost their mind with tedium.
Glad tidings! Stampy has thousands
of adolescent male imitators.
I sit there silently and feel all this
watching of playing is pornographic.
The stars fiddle with their joysticks
alone and their fans watch them
alone. Will any of these boys get a
girlfriend? But what I say is:
Wouldnt you rather play Minecraft
than watch Stampy play it? Lots of
sssshhh mum. My partner defends
Stampy: How many more people
watch football, than play it, huh?
Imagine the police
playing by the rules?
Pigs might fly first
be
wa
de
them?
wo
@justinonweb
Justin
Webb
the times | Friday October 10 2014 FGM 19
Opinion
The ghost ship that triggered an Arctic cold war
Canada must not use its historic discovery of a lost British ship to pursue its bogus claim over the Northwest Passage
O
pposite the statue of
Captain Scott in Waterloo
Place, London, stands
that of another British
explorer, Sir John
Franklin, two figures frozen in ice
and time. The inscription on the
Franklin statue is misleading: To the
great Arctic navigator and his brave
companions who sacrificed their
lives in completing the discovery of
the North West Passage. AD 1847-8.
Franklin famously did not
complete the discovery. Sir John, his
two ships and 128 officers and crew
became stuck in the ice and perished.
Human remains discovered much
later suggested that the crew had
resorted to cannibalism. The boats
had vanished. Franklins attempt to
find a route through the Arctic
Ocean connecting the Atlantic to the
Pacific was a grand, grisly and heroic
Victorian failure, commemorated in
story and song. The Northwest
Passage and the fate of Franklins
expedition have been entwined
myths and mysteries for 170 years.
Now climate change has caught up
with him. The retreating ice has
unlocked the Northwest Passage,
revealed Franklins ship and ignited a
debate over sovereignty, free trade
and exploitation of increasingly
accessible natural resources.
Last week Stephen Harper, the
Canadian prime minister, confirmed
that a wreck discovered by Canadian
scientists on the seabed in Victoria
Strait is HMS Erebus, Franklins
flagship. Canada has spent millions
on the search for the Franklin
expedition and the discovery has
been hailed not just as a historic
breakthrough, but as a moment of
national self-definition, proof of
Canadas possession of the passage.
This is a truly historic moment for
Canada, Mr Harper announced.
Franklins ships are an important
part of Canadian history given that
his expeditions laid the foundations
of Canadas Arctic sovereignty. In
Canadian eyes, the passage between
its mainland and its Arctic islands is
an internal waterway.
That is flatly contradicted by the
US (and most of Europe), which
insists that the passage is
international, like the straits of
Gibraltar, and should be freely and
permanently accessible to all
shipping. To ram home that point, in
1985 the US sent an icebreaker
through the passage without asking
Canadas permission, sending that
normally tranquil country into a rage.
The question of who owned the
passage was largely hypothetical so
long as it remained bound in pack
ice, all but impassable. Global
warming, however, has done what
generations of explorers could not
do: opened up a valuable trade route
around the top of North America.
The first large freight vessel,
carrying coal from Vancouver to
Finland, traversed the passage last
autumn. Scientists predict that in ten
years it will be navigable for up to
eight weeks a year; shipping via the
Arctic could account for a quarter of
the cargo traffic between Europe and
Asia by 2030. Roald Amundsen made
the first complete transit by sea, in a
three-year journey on a shallow-
draft herring boat that started in
1903; now cargo ships can plough
through the Northwest Passage in a
few days. The dream of explorers
since John Cabot in the 15th century
has become a lucrative reality.
Canadas claim to sovereignty is
part of a wider territorial tussle for
the Arctic and the oil riches beneath
it, involving Canada, the US, Russia,
Norway and Denmark. Last year
Canada said that it planned to file an
extended continental shelf claim that
includes the North Pole. One sponsor
of the scientific hunt for Franklins
ships is the oil company Shell.
The discovery of Franklins ship
does not enhance Canadas legal
position. Rather, it is being used as
political tool to underpin what is
essentially a cultural and emotional
claim to sovereignty. The Franklin
expedition is embedded in Canadian
national mythology. The numerous
expeditions sent to find the missing
ships successfully charted the
waterways, mapping Canadas
northernmost edges. This is a de facto
argument: Canada polices these seas,
therefore these seas are Canadian.
John Franklin would have taken a
very different view. HMS Erebus was
a British ship. Built in south Wales
and manned by seamen from
England, Scotland and Wales, she
embodied a very particular British
imperial attitude to exploration,
science and trade.
When he set off from Greenhithe
in May 1845, with more than 1,000
books and 8,000 tins of food to last
three years, Franklin was not
concerned with sovereignty. His was
a scientific expedition to map the last
unnavigated sections of the waterway
and find the Northwest Passage. His
intention, like all those who sought
the passage before him, was to forge
an international shipping route, a
free trade channel, a time-saving,
profit-boosting short cut from
Europe to the riches of Asia.
Like so many aspects of empire, the
quest for the Northwest Passage was
framed as a commercial project that
would benefit the rest of the world.
Britain ruled the waves, of course, but
the idea that any one country might
lay claim to the passage would have
been as alien to Franklin and his
crew as the idea of owning the waters
around Cape Horn.
Instead of propping up a
nationalist claim, the grave of
Franklins ghost ship should be
declared a World Heritage Site, a
place of international importance
marking a shared trade route of
expanding global significance.
That would make it harder to drill
for fresh oil, thus reducing fossil fuel
emissions, slackening global warming
and, with satisfying circularity,
slowing down the process that has
finally revealed Franklins last berth.
Canada is planning to
extend its claim to
include the North Pole
The retreating ice is
unlocking the Arctics
natural resources
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Leading articles
Screening Ebola
The government should not be distracted by political arguments about ebola
screening. The fight against the virus will be won in hospitals and in Africa
It is six weeks since Britains first confirmed victim
inthecurrent ebolaepidemic. Thenext oneis only
a matter of time. That persons chances of survival,
and the number of others infected, will depend
crucially on how quickly he or she receives a
diagnosis and is isolated.
Swift action on both fronts will take a national
effort and vigilance at every surgery and hospital,
not just at specialist units and ports of entry. The
international effort, meanwhile, must be concen-
trated on the countries worst affected in West
Africa. The debate onwhether or not to screenin-
coming passengers at airports is politically
inspired and largely irrelevant.
Yesterday the government swung from confu-
sion over screening to cautious support. In the
morning the Department of Health and the de-
fence minister ruledit out. Bylunchtime the chan-
cellor of the exchequer was keeping his options
open. By the evening, limited American-style
screening had been announced for Heathrow,
Gatwick and Eurostar stations. This may silence
the coalitions critics inWestminster for a fewdays
but the evidence suggests it will dolittle tohalt the
spread of the virus.
The screening announced inthe US will consist
of questionnaires for passengers arriving at five
airports from Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone,
andbodytemperature checks for a small minority.
Exit screening along similar lines is already hap-
pening in the worst-hit countries, where the
World Health Organisation argues that it is most
effective. Yet even at the heart of the crisis screen-
ing is of limited use. Fewer than 100 passengers
have been prevented from boarding flights out of
Africa and most have subsequently had malaria,
not ebola, diagnosed.
At theroot of theproblemis thegestationperiod
of the disease. It can take three weeks for victims
tostart showing the most obvious symptoms, such
as severe vomiting and diarrhoea. Even these are
easily confused with signs of less serious infec-
tions. This is whythescreeningduetostart tomor-
row at JFK airport, in New York, would not have
stopped Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian who
enteredthe UScarryingthe virus but without visi-
ble symptoms and who died of it on Wednesday.
The lesson to be learnt fromthe Duncan case is
not that developed countries can barricade them-
selves off fromebolabytakingtravellers tempera-
tures at airports they cannot but that even
the worlds best-equippedhealthsystems are pow-
erless against this disease if they are not alert.
When he first sought medical help in Dallas, Mr
Duncan was sent home with antibiotics even
though he said he had arrived recently fromLibe-
ria. Dozens are nowunder observationinTexas in
case they were infected by him.
Spains response in the case of a nurse fighting
for her life is no more reassuring. Teresa Romero
was known to have treated a Spanish missionary
who died of ebola when she attended a hospital
with early symptoms. She was given paracetamol
and discharged. More than 80 others are being
monitoredhavingbeenat riskof infectionbecause
of inadequate training or protection.
The ebola virus does not show itself until it is
contagious. Nor does it wait for a direct flight, as
Keith Vaz has noted, putting his finger on another
reason why the screening he advocates is so im-
practical. Direct flights from the worst-affected
cities to London have been suspended. Travellers
from Sierra Leone must come via Paris, Brussels
or Nigeria. The case for screening on arrival there
is stronger thanhere. Britishresources must be fo-
cused on the primary care level where the next
case is most likely to appear, and on the stricken
countries where the ebola infection rate is dou-
bling every 20 days. The doctors, nurses and mili-
tary personnel heading to Sierra Leone will save
lives there, but also at home.
Buffered Border
A secure zone on the Turkish-Syrian border would help to defeat Isis
The coalition against the unholy war launched by
Islamic State is already tying itself in knots. The
allies are manifestly unsure as to how the Syrian-
Turkishborder townof Kobani canbe saved with-
out the deployment of groundtroops. They are re-
alising with increasing dismay that air strikes in
northern Syria can stall an attack by the jihadists
but cannot ultimately turn the tide of battle. And
the coalition is struggling to persuade Turkey to
subordinate itself to a single goal: the annihilation
of Islamic State, also known as Isis.
Some of these issues can be clarified by taking
seriously the Turkish request for a buffer zone, a
secure, defendedspace that wouldspanthe border
of TurkeyandSyria. TheUnitedStates andBritain
say they are examining the idea. Only France
has so far expressed a readiness to take part in a
buffer-zone force that would address Turkeys
security concerns and the swelling refugee crisis.
Yet the case for establishing a buffer zone has
never been so compelling. As the Turks see it, the
zone couldextendsome 40kilometres intonorth-
ern Syria, providing a multinational defence of
some 160,000 fugitives from Isis.
Air space above the zone would have to be
patrolled lest Isis trains its artillery on the fleeing
Kurds, or Assads jets try to establish control over
what is still technically Syrian territory. The zone
would also incorporate the tomb of Suleiman
Shah, grandfather of the founder of the Ottoman
empire, which is situated in a Turkish enclave on
Syrian terrain.
Similar buffer zones have been effective else-
where on the Korean peninsula since 1973 and
in Cyprus since 1974. AUnited Nations resolution
allowing force would have to be passed in order to
apply these precedents to the Turkish-Syrianbor-
der. That would require Russian support, which
Moscow strongly indicated yesterday it would
withhold.
A Turkish-Syrian buffer zone would, however,
be a time-limited creation erected above all to
ease a humanitarian crisis that is growing worse
by the day. Staffan de Mistura, the UN envoy in
charge of finding a peaceful resolution in Syria,
has warned that the Isis conquest of Kobani will
lead to a grotesque spectacle. The world has seen
what happens when a city is overtaken by the
terrorist group, he said. Massacres, humanitar-
ian tragedies, rapes, horrific violence.
For the time being a broad international con-
sensus determinedtoprevent suchatrocities must
be legitimacy enough for a buffer zone. Many
countries, including Britain, have held back from
becoming engaged in Syria, believing military
action in Iraq to be better supported by inter-
national law. The battlefieldis, however, changing
fast, as is the predicament of civilians in northern
Syria. Contributing in some way to a buffer zone
and protecting the border of a Nato ally should be
regarded as a legitimate mission.
The by-products of a buffer zone are all condu-
cive to victory over the marauding armies of Isis.
It would ensure a more active Turkish involve-
ment in the war. It would bring the conflict closer
to the Isis headquarters in Raqqa. It would be a
signal that the international community is com-
mitted to rebuilding Kobani and bringing back its
Kurdish population once the jihadis have been
defeated. And it sends a message to the Assad re-
gime that it no longer has remit in this stretch
of northern Syria.
Nobel Cause for Literature
The prize sparks controversy but should be applauded for promoting obscure writers
He is well known in France, but not anywhere
else. With these stirring words, the permanent
secretary of the Swedish Academy, which awards
the Nobel prizes, yesterday commended Patrick
Modiano, who is this years laureate for literature.
While the description of Modianos artistic stand-
ing may sound downbeat, it is strictly true and
nothing to be defensive about. The academy has
done exactly what it should be doing: honouring
literary excellence without regard to national and
linguistic boundaries.
Modiano has won many awards in France since
publicationof his novel, La place de letoile, in1968,
yet fewof his novels have beentranslated. Perhaps
part of the reason is that many deal with a specific
episode in French history the Nazi occupa-
tionyet the themes of trauma, memory and
secrecy that Modiano explores are of universal
significance. His Nobel prize is not only a due
recognitionbut a service tothe literary public out-
side his homeland.
The Nobel prize for literature often throws up
controversy because artistic excellence is a more
subjective criterion than scientific discovery.
Some past laureates are admittedly much less
fashionable than they once were. Fewpeople now
read Pearl S Buck, who was awarded the prize in
1938 for her rich and truly epic descriptions of
peasant life in China. Numerous great writers of
the 20th century went unrecognised by the aca-
demy, from Anna Akhmatova to Stefan Zweig.
Yet for all its occasional idiosyncrasies, no insti-
tutiondoes morethantheNobel prizetoinvest the
concept of world literature with real substance.
Some laureates, such as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
(1970) and Gao Xingjian (2000), have suffered
censorship at home. The Nobel awards spread
great writing far beyond the confines of national
borders and oppressive governments.
Daily Universal Register
World: The Nobel Peace Prize winner is
announced in Oslo; annual meetings begin
of the International Monetary Fund and the
World Bank Group; World Mental Health
Day; the Russian president, Vladimir Putin,
is in Belarus for the annual summit of the
Commonwealth of Independent States.
Goldcrests are
arriving from the
continent to join
our million-strong
native population
for the winter, and
accompanying them
on their gallant flight across the sea there
are sometimes firecrests. Both are tiny birds,
easily overlooked. But when found, both
species are quite tame. As they move
restlessly along hedges or through the
foliage of conifer trees, snatching up insects,
they often seem unaware that someone is
standing near by watching them. As they
can be closely observed it is easy to
distinguish them. Both are greenish birds
with a brilliant orange or yellow line on
their crown. Whereas the goldcrest has only
a black stripe either side of the crown, the
firecrest has a black stripe, a broad white
stripe below it, and finally another small
black stripe through the eye. The firecrest is
also a brighter green above, and whiter
below. They display their flaming crests
most extravagantly in the breeding season,
when they are courting and when they are
threatening rival males. Older men may
have trouble detecting them, since the birds
very thin, high-pitched call-note can escape
their powers of hearing. Older women can
often still hear it. derwent may
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pictured, four times
Olympic gold medallist
rower, 44; Amanda
Burton, actress, Silent
Witness (1996-2004)
Waterloo Road (2010-11),
58; Baroness (Susan)
Campbell of Loughborough, chairwoman,
Sport UK (2003-2013), 66; Mary Curnock
Cook, chief executive, Universities and
Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS), 56;
Judith Chalmers, presenter, Wish You Were
Here? (1974-2003), 78; Charles Dance,
actor, Gosford Park (2001), Game of Thrones
(2011-), 68; Eric Fellner, film producer, Love
Actually (2003), Les Misrables (2012), co-
chairman, Working Title Films, 55; David
Hempleman-Adams, explorer and
mountaineer, 58; John Makinson, chairman,
Penguin Random House (since 2013),
chairman and chief executive, Penguin
Group (2002-13), 60; Nicky Morgan,
education secretary and Conservative MP
for Loughborough, 42; Dame Gillian Oliver,
director of service development, Macmillan
Cancer Relief (2000-04), 71; Murray Walker,
motor racing commentator, 91.
In 1903 Emmeline Pankhurst formed the
Womens Social and Political Union in
Manchester to fight for female emancipation;
in 1935 the first performance of Porgy and
Bess by George Gershwin took place in New
York; in 1963 the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty,
signed by Britain, America and Russia, came
into operation; in 1970 the Fiji Islands
proclaimed their independence; in 1975
Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor
married for the second time.
I submit to you that if a man hasnt
discovered something he will die for, he isnt fit
to live. Martin Luther King Jr, speech in
Detroit (1963)
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Circus plea
Sir, The House of Commons voted in
favour of banning the use of wild
animals in circuses in 2011 but the
government has still to take action
despite issuing draft legislation. While
Whitehall procrastinates, lions, tigers,
camels and other wild animals are
suffering. Our exposs have shown
the reality of life in some circuses,
including the abuse of Anne the
elephant in Bobby Roberts Super
Circus three years ago, and the
repeated pacing of big cats at Peter
Jollys Circus earlier this year. The
return of a big-cat act to Britain is a
direct result of government inaction.
Jim Fitzpatrick MP has put forward
a bill with the aim of putting in place
a ban before the general election. We
urge the government and MPs to
support this bill at its second reading
next Friday.
dame judi dench and jan
creamer
Animal Defenders International
Honours contrast
Sir, There is no more telling
illustration of one of the absurdities
committed by the honours committee
than the excellent obituary of Peter
Williams, the first director of the
Wellcome Trust who, as you point
out, was never knighted, appearing in
the same edition (Oct 8) as a picture
of Sir Mick Jagger attending a dinner.
ch noble
London SW7
Feminism has skewed society for boys
Sir, In How to Be a Man: thats the
book we need (Oct 8) Alice
Thomson is right to point to the
growing emasculation and
frustration felt by many young men.
Feminism continues to redefine the
identities of young, mainly working-
class males. Since the 1980s middle-
class feminists have skewed society
to reflect an anti-male agenda.
Set against this has been a
transition to a service economy,
where soft skills are in demand.
The result has been greater
empowerment of women at work
and growing financial independence
from men. At the same time,
perceptions of marriage have
changed: gone is the certainty of
family life of the 1950s and in its
place are more fragmented
environments, often without the
paternal role models which are so
important to the developing male
identity.
This combination of factors
creates many of the chronic social
problems relating to young men.
They leave school with inferior
qualifications and poorer job
prospects. Dismissed as potential
husbands, fathers and providers by
women at work or supported by the
state, they feel unwanted, and
express growing anger. The greater
tolerance in society for men are
useless statements, jokes and
advertisements reflects a situation
for which there is an increasing
human and economic cost.
john barker
Prestbury, Cheshire
Sir, Young people today are ready
targets for those who wish to use
them for their own ends, which
often leads to their being so troubled
while they try to find themselves.
Media interest in young people may
well encourage self-absorption and
much advertising is directed their
way. The notion of adulthood has
been undermined and the subjection
of boys to the same sort of media
horror that confronts girls must be
avoided. It is unfortunate for some
young people that they are
supposedly protected by being
compelled to keep the company of
other disaffected youngsters in
school or college rather than
learning about adult life from adults,
such as employers of apprentices.
We do not need a book for boys.
We need to ask how it is that we
allow boys and girls to be misused
by the very adult world that they are
so keen to join.
peter inson
East Mersea, Essex
Sir, What an excellent piece by Alice
Thomson. However, I did write a
book for men, Saving the Situation,
in 1996, with a foreword by Baroness
Faithfull. She was so horrified by the
statistics about male victims that
she sent us to discuss the problem
with Lord Mackay of Clashfern. Our
estimate was that at least 100,000
men had been excluded from their
homes due to false allegations of
domestic violence since 1992. Our
statements were frowned upon by
the government and nothing
was done.
julian nettlefold
Family Practice Press
Sir, Alice Thomsons article is to be
applauded. I am a retired female
academic currently completing a
book (with a former male colleague)
about the occupational experiences
of male primary school teachers.
My data confirms the articles
views that men as well as women
can be stereotyped and I suggest
both women and men start to work
together to end these unfair gender
practices.
dr elizabeth burn
Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear
Sir, I fear I would never be able to
secure employment with a top
management consultancy, not
just because Im a little unsure
what management consultancy
is, but also because I have
absolutely no idea what a
mani/pedis is/are.
rob matthews
Formby, Merseyside
Bankers freedoms
Sir, It is unsurprising that John
Trueman and Alan Thomson
(Bankers jump the gun , Oct 8) are
resigning as directors of HSBC rather
than face new rules under which
senior managers could be fined and
disqualified.
The change means that if a
financial institution is accused of
misconduct by the Financial Conduct
Authority, people in senior positions
will have to show that they are not
responsible for reckless misconduct
in other words there is a
presumption of guilt. It is ironic that
this comes at a time when the
European Convention on Human
Rights, which enshrines the
presumption of innocence until
proven guilty, is under attack, and
there is public celebration for 800
years of Magna Carta. It is a pity that
parliament and the public believe that
bankers have forfeited fundamental
freedoms.
harvey rands
Memery Crystal LLP, London WC2
Betrayal of values
Sir, Mr Camerons plan to leave the
European Convention on Human
Rights would not only send the wrong
message to Mr Putin (letter, Oct 7), it
would betray the one major European
institution which the Conservative
Party played a key part in creating in
the aftermath of the Second World
War. I attended the first meeting of
the consultative assembly of the
Council of Europe in 1949. The
Conservative delegation, led by
Winston Churchill and including
Harold Macmillan, David Eccles and
Sir David Maxwell Fyfe (the British
prosecutor at the Nuremberg trial in
which Goering was convicted)
warmly supported the creation of the
European convention. It seemed the
right time to entrench the rule of law
in Europe to ensure that no state
would ever again abuse its power over
its citizens.
The convention is incorporated into
EU law. This means that EU
institutions as well as individual states
are committed to the convention,
surely a safeguard for individuals that
should be welcomed by those who
fear excessive interference by the EU.
I am neither a terrorist, nor black-
bearded, but in the age of the
surveillance state I will sleep less well
if a Conservative-led government
forgets history and tries to slither out
of the body of European law which
protects us all.
christopher layton
Hon Director-General,
EU Commission
Windy din
Sir, Richard Black`s claim (letter, Oct
8) that noise is not an issue with
renewable energy should spend a
night in a tent near the eight turbines
on Wharrels Hill, Cumbria. He will
have changed his mind by morning.
susan wasilewski
Wigton, Cumbria
God only knows . . .
Sir, In view of the forthcoming BBC
charter renewal, not to mention
questions about the licence fee, the
insistent refrain of the BBC Children
in Need song, God Only Knows
What Id Be Without You . . . , may
appear somewhat portentous.
sue balsom
Llanfarian, Aberystwyth
Plane or train?
Sir, The closure of Richard Bransons
Little Red airline (News, Oct 7) comes
at a time when people in their
millions are rediscovering trains,
raising a question over the attraction
and viability of short-haul air
services. Together with the
introduction of aircraft that can carry
up to a third more passengers, this
leads me to wonder whether we need
new runway capacity.
james miller
London N1
Ums n runs
Sir, Apropos To um or to er?
(Oct 6). My teacher in the Fifties used
Um and less frequently Like.
In our version of classroom cricket,
the Ums were runs and the Likes
were wickets. It required a lot of
concentration to keep the score.
dr james visick
Norwich
Sir, In various papers has appeared
a letter, or part of a letter, written
by Private C. Derry, of the 2nd
Battalion, Welsh Regiment. It
concerns the fall of my much-loved
nephew, Captain Mark Haggard, of
the same regiment, on September
13 in the battle of the Aisne.
Since this letter has been
published and, vivid, pathetic, and
pride-inspiring as it is, does not tell
all the tale, I have been requested,
on behalf of Marks mother, young
widow, and other members of our
family, to give the rest of it as it was
collected by them from the lips of
Lieutenant Somerset, who lay
wounded by him when he died.
It seems that after he had given
the order to fix bayonets, my
nephew charged the German
Maxims at the head of his
company, he and his soldier servant
outrunning the other men. Arrived
at the Maxim in front of him, he
shot and killed the three soldiers
who were serving it, and then was
seen fighting and laying out the
Germans with the butt end of his
empty gun, laughing as he did so,
until he fell mortally wounded and
was carried away by his servant.
His patient and heroic end is told
by Private Derry, and I imagine
that the exhortation to Stick it,
Welsh! which from time to time
he uttered in his agony, will not
soon be forgotten in his regiment.
Of that end we who mourn him can
only say, in Derrys simple words,
that he died as he had lived an
officer and a gentleman.
Perhaps it would not be
inappropriate to add as a thought
of consolation to those throughout
the land who day by day see their
loved ones thus devoured by the
waste of war, that of a truth these
do not vainly die. Not only are they
crowned with fame, but by the
noble manner of their end they give
the lie to [those] who tell us that we
English are an effete and worn-out
people, befogged with mean ideals,
lost in selfishness and the Iust of
wealth and comfort. Moreover, the
history of their deeds will surely be
as a beacon to those destined to
carry on the traditions of our race
in that new England which shall
arise when the cause of freedom
for which we must fight and die has
prevailed to fall no more.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
h. rider haggard
Ditchingham, Norfolk, Oct 9.
on this day october 10, 1914
THE DEATH OF
MARK
HAGGARD
Winstons words
Sir, Tim Montgomerie is right to
invoke Churchill in calling on the
prime minister to paint a picture
of a welfare state of which we can
all be proud (Churchill would be
aghast at this Tory plan, Opinion,
Oct 9). In 1901 Churchill wrote to a
friend saying: For my own part, I see
little glory in an empire which can
rule the waves and is unable to flush
its sewers.
Likewise, theres little glory in a
growing economy when two thirds
of poor children live in working
families and child poverty numbers
are expected to rise steeply by 2020.
alison garnham
Chief executive, Child Poverty
Action Group
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Stitch in time
Sir, Lord Rogers of Riversides
architectural practice is being sued
(Drip, drip of bad news, Oct 3) over
homes in Milton Keynes where water
has caused supporting timber to rot.
Problems could have been avoided if
a member of the Institute of Clerks of
Works and Construction Inspectorate
had been employed, providing
impartial inspections. The cost of a
clerk of works is tiny in comparison
to the overall costs of such projects.
tony smith
Fellow, Institute of Clerks of Works
and Construction Inspectorate
A healthy tree
Sir, I was alarmed to read of Brian
Blesseds experience with deceitful
genealogists (report, Oct 9). People
wanting help with family history
should be aware that the Association
of Genealogists and Researchers in
Archives (Agra) is the recognised
body for genealogists and that our
members are regulated and reputable.
ian h waller
Chairman, Agra
Dastardly web
Sir, The world wide webs first
description on film might have been
in 1979 (letter, Oct 9), but the term
had been used on the wireless in a
1954 episode of Take It From Here.
Frank Muir and Denis Norden used it
to describe the criminal organisation
of the dastardly Dr Chu Manfu.
dr john burscough
Hibaldstow, N Lincs
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Turkeys demand to topple
Assad widens rift in Nato
Splits within Nato deepened yesterday
when Turkey refused to fight Islamic
State militants poised to take a key
border town unless the West promised
to join battle against the Assad regime.
The West has given a lukewarm
reception to demands for a buffer zone
on the Syrian side of the border, with a
no-fly zone patrolled by Nato. Yester-
day, however, Turkey upped its de-
mands, saying the West must agree to
moves to bring down the Assad regime
before it will send tanks and troops to
save the Kurdish town of Kobani.
Russia complicated the picture by
warning that a no-fly zone would be
illegitimate without UNSecurity
Council backing, something it has
vowed to veto. The wrangling under-
lined the complex battlefield in Syria,
with Isis the sole focus of US-led air-
strikes while President Assad, who the
West was on the verge of bombing last
year, is left unmolested.
Turkeyregards Damascus as the pre-
eminent enemy in Syria and is holding
out for a pledge to target the Assad
regime, despite predictions that
Kobanis fall is imminent without an
intervention only Turkey can provide.
Its not realistic to expect that
Turkey will lead a ground operation on
its own, Mevlut Cavusoglu, the foreign
minister, said yesterday in a defiant
appearance alongside Jens Stoltenberg,
Natos new secretary-general.
Mr Cavusoglu said that Turkey was
prepared to take on a bigger role, but
onlywhenadeal hadbeenreachedwith
the US-led coalition that included
more commitment to fighting Assad
and his regime.
The Turks have beenemboldened by
French support for their demand. Brit-
ainhas alsosaidit is preparedtoconsid-
er the idea. Mr Stoltenberg, however,
said the issue of a buffer zone had not
been formally considered within the
alliance. Isis poses a grave threat, he
warned. So it is important that the
whole international community stays
united in this long-term effort.
His language reflects anxieties about
antagonising Turkey. Hours earlier,
Ahmet Davutoglu, the prime minister
of Turkey, hit out against those who
were silent in the face of the missiles
launched by the Assad regime, for
creating a global perception that
Turkeyshouldinstantlysolvetheissue
of Kobani by itself.
Mixed messages have emerged from
Washington, with the State Depart-
ment suggesting that a buffer zone
merited examination, only for the Pen-
tagon and the White House to deny
they were considering such a move.
General John Allen, the retired US
commander leading the effort against
Isis, arrived in Ankara yesterday to
press Turkey over its involvement.
Isis fighters continued to fight their
way towards the centre of Kobani de-
spite intensified airstrikes throughout
the day. Gun battles raged in the towns
industrial district, only 500m from the
Mursitpinar border gate to Turkey.
Azad Dayfur, a Kurdish fighter posi-
tioned near the gate, said that while
yesterdays airstrikes had pushed Isis
back, the assault had been renewed.
Much of the western part of the city
is nowcovered in thick smoke. Islamic
State is setting fire to houses in the
neighbourhoods it controls, so that the
smoke will make it harder for the jets to
hit their targets, Mr Dayfur said.
US Central Command insisted that
Kurdish fighters were holding the line,
despite reports that jihadists now con-
trolled a third of Kobani.
Turkey is struggling to contain the
fury of its Kurdish population at its in-
action. At least one person was killed
andeight woundedafter militarypolice
opened fire on a crowd following the
funerals of two protesters inthe Darge-
cit district of Mardinyesterdayevening.
Leading article, page 20
Aleppo
Damascus
Raqqa
Proposed 15-mile
wide bufer zone
Isis control
Isis support
Kurdish control
LEBANON
S Y R I A
T UR KE Y
I R AQ
Deir Ezzor
50 miles
Tomb of
Suleyman Shah
Kobani
10-year-
Turkey
Catherine Philp Beirut
Hannah Lucinda Smith Mursitpinar
Deborah Haynes Defence Editor
Jihadists from Islamic State (Isis) have
hailed their youngest martyr with
songs, two weeks after the ten-year-old
boy was alleged to have died in Syria
with his father in a US airstrike.
The child was praised online by
jihadists as a role model and referred to
as the lion cub of the Isis leader Abu
Bakr al-Baghdadi.
Pictures showthe child, who is given
the nom de guerre Abu Ubaidah,
posing in a mask and a suicide belt.
Other images show him in combat
clothing, levelling machineguns and a
rifle, andraisingafinger symbolicallyto
the heavens to display his piety.
Theboys father, whois believedtobe
an Isis fighter from the Gulf or Saudi
Arabia, is also pictured with a suicide
belt. The picture of father and son
together carries a eulogy from the boy:
Tom Coghlan
Hannah Lucinda Smith Suruc
Turkish soldiers keep watch across the
Ankara revives buffer plan
Behind the story Catherine Philp
T
urkey has
been seeking
to establish a
buffer zone on
the other side
of its border with Syria
since the conflict
began three years ago,
long before Islamic
State rose to strength.
Ankara first mooted
it as a place where
Syrian refugees could
be protected. It hoped
that such a zone,
which would require a
peacekeeping force,
would help to ensure
its own security. The
idea gained little
traction among its
Nato allies, save for
France.
Now Turkey has
revived the buffer zone
as a condition of its
military involvement
against Isis. The
proposal, however, is
no longer purely
defensive. As Turkey
envisages it, the buffer
zone would not only
accommodate refugees
but serve as an area to
train and equip
moderate Syrian rebels
for the fight against the
Assad regime, which it
still sees as the
primary enemy. Isis, in
the meantime, remains
the most powerful
enemy of the regime.
Ankaras demand for
the establishment of a
no-fly zone underlines
this offensive role. Isis
has no air force so
could not attack from
the air. Only the Assad
regime has that
capability. If the zone
were being used to
train anti-regime
rebels, Assad would
have every interest in
attacking it.
Turkey sees the zone
as a way of quashing
the fledgeling Syrian
Kurdish autonomous
region just across the
border. Syrian Kurds
are seen by many
opposition rebels
and by Turkey as
allies of Assad.
More importantly,
however, Turkey sees
that self-governance as
emboldening its own
Kurdish separatists, to
whom the Syrian
Kurds are closely
allied. Crushing that
threat would be a
highly attractive
by-product of
establishing the buffer
zone.
Militants adapt tactics to avoid coalition airstrikes
Analysis Catherine Philp
T
he failure of
airstrikes to push
back Islamic State
(Isis) fighters from
Kobani underlines
the shortcomings of the US
strategy of trying to break
the jihadists from the air.
When the strikes began
last month, their targets
were largely static
administrative centres, oil
refineries and checkpoints.
Not only have those
targets begun to run out,
hitting them has done
nothing to regain an inch of
territory that Isis has taken
or even prevent it from
conquering more.
Activists on the ground in
Syria say that while the
airstrikes had forced the
jihadists to change their
behaviour, the aerial assault
has done little to degrade
their capabilities.
Most of the fighters
involved in the assault on
Kobani came from Raqqa,
and banked on it taking the
Pentagon time to track their
new positions.
They exploited coalition
reluctance to launch daytime
strikes to press their assault
on the town, hiding tanks
and weaponry under
camouflage.
The Pentagon has confined
most of its airstrikes to the
hours of darkness because of
the risk of anti-aircraft fire
during the day.
Christopher Harmer, an
analyst at the Institute for the
Study of War, in Washington,
said the coalition failures
around Kobani emphasised
the limitations of their
campaign against an
unconventional enemy. Isis
is a mobile force, he said. Its
hard to hit that when you
dont have anyone on the
ground calling in targets.
He estimated that only
one in ten sorties flown over
Iraq and Syria had resulted
in ordnance being dropped.
Washington insists it is
focused on the long game,
destroying Isis rather than
thwarting immediate gains.
As horrific as it is to watch
what is happening in Kobani,
you have to understand the
strategic objective, John
Kerry, the US secretary of
state, said on Wednesday.
Yet many warn that the
longer areas remain under
Isis control, the more
entrenched its rule will
become.
Two Australian aircraft refuel over Iraq during a night sortie
the times | Friday October 10 2014 FGM 23
old boy hailed as lion cub martyr by Isis
many factions in the Syrian civil war
using children on the frontline. The
report also identified children as young
as 12 being sent to training camps by
Isis.
A former child soldier interviewed
for the report saidthat Isis leaders iden-
tifiedyounger childrenas having great-
er potential to become leaders and
fighters through early indoctrination.
Isis has expended considerable effort
on attracting entire families of jihadists
to Syria. Khaled Sharrouf, an Austra-
lian jihadist, caused widespread revul-
sion in his homeland after posting
pictures of his ten-year-oldsontakenin
Raqqa strugglingtoholdaloft a severed
human head.
Thats my boy! he wrote in the
caption of the picture posted online in
August.
Isis supporters have produced online
videos that praise Abu Ubaidahs sacri-
fice and describe how he would walk
beside rivers in paradise in the com-
pany of Prophet Muhammad. Online
footage shows the boy trying to fire a
Kalshnikov rifle that he can barely lift
and chanting slogans in praise of Isis.
Analysts said that the video was
unusual in portraying the boy as a
martyr rather than a victimof Western
aggression. It is not typical to see a
child being posed as a martyr. They are
puttinghimupas thoughheis aserious,
though extraordinarily young, fighter,
saidDaveedGartenstein-Ross, director
of the Centre for Terrorist Radicalisa-
tion at the Foundation for Defence of
Democracies in Washington.
He said that images of children pos-
ing with suicide bombs and weapons
were not uncommon among groups
such as Hamas and Hezbollah but that
the veneration of a child martyr
appeared a natural extension of a trend
within Isis. Poor kid. This is child
abuse, he added.
militia defending towns such as Kobani
announced that it would not allow
soldiers younger than 18 to fight after
a damning Human Rights Watch
report identified the group as one of
May Allah protect you, my precious
father
You who have taught me the love of
jihad and the people of jihad
You who have made your life cheap
for the sake of your mawla [spiritual
leader]
May he protect you.
The use of child soldiers in Syria has
been widely reported, though they are
rarely as young as ten. Among the
wounded Kurdish defenders of the
besieged town of Kobani being treated
in Turkey yesterday was a 13-year-old
fighter.
The boy, named Zakaria, said that he
had been fighting alongside his father.
Interviewed with his mother on the
steps of a hospital in Suruc, just inside
Turkey, the boy appeared furious as
smoke rose in the distance. He then
attempted to hobble towards Kobani
with help from friends.
Three months ago the Kurdish YPG
Victim of
MH17 had
oxygen
mask on
At least one passenger had time to grab
an oxygen mask after a Malaysia Air-
lines flight was hit by a missile over
Ukraine in July, the Dutch authorities
said yesterday.
Details of the mask, disclosed by
Frans Timmermans, the Dutch foreign
minister, appeared to confirm experts
assumptions that shrapnel which tore
into the front of the Boeing 777 on July
17 would not have killed all 298 people
on board instantly. Oxygen masks
would have dropped automatically
when the ruptured cabin lost air pres-
sure at 33,000 feet and passengers
would have had moments to grab them
before the airliner broke up.
The Dutch national prosecutors
office, which is conducting the inquiry
into the crash of Flight MH17, said that
the passenger was Australian and that
his relatives had been told after his
body had been identified. The elastic
strap was around his neck but the mask
was not on his face. It was not known
who put the mask on the victim
because no fingerprints, saliva or DNA
had been found on it.
No other masks have been found at-
tached to the remains of passengers
and crew, which had mostly been re-
turned to the Netherlands, the depar-
ture point of the aircraft, which was en
route to Kuala Lumpur.
Mr Timmermans, who has just been
appointed deputy president of the
European Commission, mentioned the
mask in a television interview on
Wednesday night. He was defending an
emotional speech in which he had spo-
ken to the UN Security Council about
the horror felt by the passengers when
they knew the plane was going down.
He acknowledged that no one
aboard would have seen the missile hit,
and added: But do you know that
someone was found with an oxygen
mask on their mouth, and so they had
the time toput it on? Yesterday, he said
that he regretted his disclosure after
families of other victims were angry
that they had not been told.
Prosecutors told them that no con-
clusions had been drawn about the
mask pending the outcome of the full
inquiry, which has been hampered by
lack of access to the crash site. Mr Tim-
mermans said: I have an enormous
amount of sympathyfor the next of kin.
The last thing I want todois compound
their suffering in this way.
Apreliminaryreport byDutchinves-
tigators last month found that the air-
liner was brought down by multiple
high-energy objects from outside the
aircraft, an event that would be con-
sistent with the detonation of the war-
head of a Russian-made BUK missile.
Western states assume that Russian-
backed rebels fired the missile, possibly
with the assistance of a Russian crew.
The impact of the shards of steel pene-
trating the front of the fuselage caused
the aircraft to break up in flight.
Passengers not hit by shrapnel would
have been aware of the catastophe as
the aircraft bucked in the sky before
hitting the ground 80 seconds later.
The Netherlands
Charles Bremner Europe Editor
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Giant bird terrified
woman lost in bush
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Which twin will be heir to
the throne of Monaco?
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border with Syria as Kobani burns. Isis fighters are believed to have seized control of a third of the town from the Kurdish militia, but Turkey has refused to intervene
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Palestinian unity cabinet holds historic first meeting
ThePalestinianprimeminister claimed
that years of division are behind us
yesterday as he became the first to visit
the Gaza strip in nearly a decade and
hosted the unity governments first
cabinet meeting.
Rami Hamdallahs trip was consid-
ered an important step towards ending
the seven-year schism between the
secular Fatah, which governs the West
Bank, and the Islamist Hamas, which
seized control of Gaza in 2007.
It was also meant to reassure potent-
ial donors before a conference in Cairo
that aims to raise billions to rebuild the
Gaza strip, which suffered huge dam-
age to its infrastructure during last
summers war between Hamas and
Israel. At least 17,000 homes were de-
stroyed in the conflict, in which 2,200
Palestinians and 73 Israelis were killed.
The first and most important priori-
ties of thegovernment aretoensurethe
return of normal, safe life in Gaza and
complete unity withthe West Bankand
east Jerusalem, Mr Hamdallah said.
Hamas won a large majority in the
2006 Palestinian election, but Fatah
disputedtheresults andaunitygovern-
ment was formed the following year.
The Islamist group then seized control
of Gaza itself in2007 andsince thenthe
Palestinian territories have been
governed separately.
A unity deal announced in April was
meant to end the division. Both sides
formed a technocratic cabinet and
pledged to hold elections within six
months, but those plans were suspend-
ed during the summer war in Gaza.
Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian
president, last month accused Hamas
of running a shadow government.
Hamas arranged a warm welcome
for Mr Hamdallah yesterday, encour-
aging Gaza residents to greet him and
deploying security forces heavily
around his convoy. It was keen to avoid
a repeat of the incident in July when
Jawad Awad, the Palestinian health
minister, had to abort a trip to Gaza
after crowds pelted him with shoes.
Hamas has a lot to show in terms of
its support, Husam Zomlot, a senior
member of the Palestine Liberation
Organisation, said. What it did today,
lending every support to this meeting,
was a good first step.
Mr Hamdallah toured areas in Gaza
damaged during the summers 50-day
war. The Palestinian Authority, led by
Fatah, has saidit will oversee the recon-
struction, to assuage Israeli concerns
that Hamas will try to import weapons.
In a sign of shifting policy in
Jerusalem, Mr Hamdallah and other
ministers were allowed to enter Gaza
through the Erez crossing with Israel.
In April, Binyamin Netanyahu, the
Israeli prime minister, urged world
leaders to reject the unity pact and
vowed not to allow ministers to cross
between the West Bank and Gaza.
Israel tried to stage a political coup
against this government, Mr Zomlot
said. And now its admitting defeat,
admitting failure.
Sami Abu Zuhri, a Hamas spokes-
man, saidthat the groupwelcomes the
reconciliationgovernment inGaza and
calls on it to meet its responsibilities
towards the people of Gaza.
Beaten Silva backs
rival in Brazil poll
Brazils Socialist Party, led
by Marina Silva, has
thrown its support behind
Acio Neves, of the
centre-right Social
Democrats, who is hoping
to unseat President
Rousseff in the run-off on
October 26. Marina Silva
was beaten in the first
round by Mr Neves.
Gardener killed
by swarm of bees
Douglas A swarm of bees
from a hive estimated to
hold 800,000 attacked
four gardeners in southern
Arizona, leaving one dead
and another critically
injured. The men had
been mowing grass and
weeding when the insects
emerged from a nearby
attic and attacked.
Corpulent corpse
starts funeral fire
Virginia The roof of a
crematorium was
destroyed by fire as staff
tried to incinerate the
body of a 36-stone man.
Jerry Hendrix, who runs
Southside Cremation
Services, in Henrico
County, said the oven got
too hot too quick, because
of the extra weight.
Gaza
Gregg Carlstrom Jerusalem
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Monaco faces riddle
over which twin will
be heir to the throne
Monaco could face a constitutional
dilemma after the announcement that
its royal couple are expecting twins:
which one will inherit the principalitys
throne and be first in line to a 1 billion
fortune?
Monacos royal palace has confirmed
reports that Prince Albert II, the tax
havens ruler, and Princess Charlene,
his South African wife, were expecting
twins towards the end of the year.
If the babies are of different sexes,
Prince Alberts successor will be easy to
determine since, under Monacos con-
stitution, boys haveprecedence. But the
best constitutional lawyers in Monaco
and France are at a loss to say what will
happenif the twins turnout to be of the
same sex.
If both are boys, one
is certain to become
ruler, although no
one knows
which. If both
are girls, one
will become
heir appar-
ent, but she
would lose
her place if
the couple
went on to have a
son.
Many lawyers
say that the twin
born first should be
considered the older,
and therefore first in
line. In Belgium, for
instance, Princess
Claire, the British-born wife of Prince
Laurent, King Albert IIs second son,
gave birth to twins in 2005. The first-
bornsonprecedes thesecondintheline
of succession to the throne.
However, Stphane Bern, Frances
best known royal expert, said that
European monarchies were divided
over the issue, and that there was a case
for the opposite point of view. Mr Bern
said that when Marie Leszcynska, the
Polish wife of Louis XV, had female
twins, the second-born was considered
to be the older on the grounds that she
had been conceived first.
The conundrum will be even greater
if the babies are delivered by caesarean
section, according to lawyers. In such a
scenario with an obstetrician deter-
mining who is born first Monaco
would find itself in unchartered legal
waters.
Monacos residents once
thought that they wouldnever be
troubledbysuchconcerns. Prince
Albert had many liaisons and
two childrenout of wedlock
but no wife when he suc-
ceeded Prince Rainier, his
father, as Monacos 14th rul-
er in 2005. However, Prince
Albert surprised his subjects
in2011 when, at the age of 53,
he married Charlene Witts-
tock, an Olympic swimmer
20 years his junior.
Monacos future ruler
would inherit the palace and
its extensive collection of art-
works, along with the right to
expenses said to be tens of
millions of euros a year. The
monarch could also hope to
inherit a substantial slice of
Prince Alberts personal for-
tune, which is estimated at
about 1 billion.
Monaco
Adam Sage Paris
France prosecutes parents
for refusing vaccination
A mother and father were put on trial
yesterdayfor refusingtovaccinate their
children, as French prosecutors clamp
down on a growing campaign against
immunisation, which they claim is
endangering the health of the nation.
The couple, from the Yonne area of
Burgundy, faceuptotwoyears inprison
and a 30,000 fine if found guilty of
refusing to allow their children to be
inoculated against diphtheria, tetanus
and polio.
Prosecutions of this kind are
extremely rare in France, but officials
decided to make an example of Samia
and Marc Larere by using child mis-
treatment laws to punish them for
refusing to have their daughter, aged
three, and son, one, vaccinated.
There is a movement of distrust and
suspicion of vaccinations, which is
worrying me, Marisol Touraine, the
health minister, said. I am launching
an appeal so that vaccinations do not
come to an end, and so that people do
not take risks withtheir ownhealthand
that of the French population as a
whole.
Parents inFrance have a legal obliga-
tion to vaccinate their children against
the three diseases. Other vaccinations,
including the BCGjab against tubercu-
losis, are recommended but are not
legally binding.
Mr and Mrs Larere rejected the jab
because it contains aluminium salts,
which they say can cause macrophagic
myofasciitis, a rare muscle disease. The
salts are an adjuvant, designed to stim-
ulatethebodys responsetothevaccine.
Mrs Touraine said there was no evi-
dence that the salts were dangerous.
The Lareres case came to light last
year when a doctor alerted officials
after their son had a hospital check-up.
When they continued to refuse the jab
prosecutors chargedthemwithneglect.
Mr Larere told the court he would
rather be fined or jailed than let his
children have the jab. I amprepared to
accept a lot of sacrifices soas not toplay
Russian roulette with my children, he
said. When you ask questions of doc-
tors about the dangers, about why it
contains prohibited adjuvants, you
realise its ludicrous.
Maitre Emmanuel Ludot, their law-
yer, argued that the legislation was
unconstitutional. Theright tohealthis
. . . also the right not to have a vaccina-
tion, he said.
The trial was adjourned after the
court in Auxerre referred the question
of constitutionality to the Conseil Con-
stitutionnel, whose decisions are not
subject to appeal.
Adam Sage Paris
Prince Albert had
two children before
he met Charlene
Anger in the street The cancellation of talks with demonstrators by the Hong Kong government led to more student protests
Ebola patients are dying on the streets of Monrovia, Liberia, where they outnumber hospital beds by five to one
Ebola nurse critically ill as
fear grips Spanish hospital
The Spanish nurse who is the first
person to catch ebola outside Africa
was criticallyill last night as someter-
rified medical staff refused to treat
patients suspected of carrying the
virus.
Teresa Romero, 44, helped to treat
two Spanish missionaries returning
from west Africa. Both died, and on
Monday she tested positive for the
virus. She is nowinisolationat Carlos
III hospital in Madrid.
Ignacio Gonzlez, the head of the
Madrid regional government, said
that Ms Romero was very ill and her
life is at serious risk as a result of the
virus. Her brother, Jos Ramn
Romero, said: We dont have great
hopes for her. Spanishmedia report-
ed that she had respiratory failure.
Fear spread among staff at the hos-
pital, with some refusing to treat
seven people who are on an isolation
ward because they came into contact
with Ms Romero. Atotal of 84 people
are under observationinMadrid. The
authorities said that they would not
force staff to treat ebola patients, and
extra staff were being drafted in.
As pressure mounted on the gov-
ernment over its handling of the cri-
sis, a doctor who cared for Ms Rome-
ro wrote a report detailing blunders
in her treatment. Juan Manuel Parra
treated the nurse when she went to
her local hospital in Alcorcon, south-
west Madrid, complaining of a fever
on Monday. Dr Parra was the only
doctor on emergency duty.
From 8am until after midnight, he
looked after Ms Romero, who had
diarrhoea and was vomiting and
coughing. He said that he had to put
on and remove a protective suit 13
times while treating other patients.
It was not until 5pmthat he wore a
full protective suit but it was too
small, leaving his wrists exposed.
Dr Parra said that Ms Romero was
brought intothehospital inaconven-
tional ambulance and staff wore no
protection. Fromthe moment I took
the decision to take on the patient
andtake charge of the situation, I was
the only doctor who looked after her
while she was here, accompanied by
nursing staff when I visited her
room, he wrote.
She was isolated from other
patients by a curtain and two pieces
of tape. With her condition worsen-
ing, she was eventually transferred to
the Carlos III hospital.
Dr Parra found out in the media
that she had tested positive for ebola.
He, another doctor and two workers
admitted themselves to quarantine.
Spain acknowleged to the Euro-
pean Union that Ms Romero may
have become infected because of the
possiblerelaxationof securitymeas-
ures during the movement of the
body of [a Spanish missionary] or the
disposal of waste material.
Mariano Rajoy, the prime minister,
has resisted calls to sack Ana Mato,
the health minister.
Ms Romero fell ill on September
30, but was not admitted to hospital
untila week later, raising fears that
others may have been exposed. She
said that she might have caught the
virus after touching her face with a
glove after cleaning the room of a
dead missionary. Javier Rodrguez, of
the Madrid health authority, accused
her of lying by failing to say that she
had treated ebola patients.
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Spain
Graham Keeley Madrid
Hope is fading for Teresa Romero
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Spend all you need, IMF tells Africans
Leaders of the African nations struck
by ebola have pleaded for help as a
leading American scientist said that
the outbreak reminded him of Aids.
President Koroma of Sierra Leone
warned that government revenues
were drying up, as he and the leaders
of Guinea and Liberia called for
hospital beds, health workers and
financial assistance.
Underlining the scale of the crisis,
Christine Lagarde, the managing
director of theIMF, urgedtheaffected
nations to forget their immediate
budgetary responsibilities.
It is goodtoincreasethedeficit. We
dont say that very often, she said at a
conference on ebola hosted by the
World Bank in Washington.
Theeconomies of thethreenations
arebeingdevastatedbythecrisis. The
International Monetary Fund has
warned that the fallout from ebola
could knock 3.5 percentage points off
growth in Sierra Leone and Liberia
this year, and1.5percentagepoints off
Guineas GDP. Their keyindustries of
agriculture, mining andtourismwere
all suffering, the presidents said, yet
the burden had fallen largely on the
affected nations. This disease
deserves an international response,
President Cond of Guinea said.
Tom Frieden, director of the US
Centers for Disease Controls and
Prevention, said: Ive been in public
heath service for 30 years and the
only thing Ive seen like this is Aids.
We will have to work hard to stop it
becoming the next Aids.
Philip Aldrick Economics Editor
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Al-Qaeda suicide bomber
kills 50 Shia in Yemen
Yemen
lona Craig Sanaa
Sri Lanka told to burn seized hoard of poached ivory
Sri Lanka has been urged to destroy a
huge stockpile of blood ivory seized
more than two years ago, amid fears
that the president intends to place it
under his personal control.
Conservationists have written to
Mahinda Rajapaksa demanding that
the 359 elephant tusks, worth about
1.8 million and originally poached in
Tanzania, be publicly burnt to demon-
strate Sri Lankas opposition to the
global ivory trade. The haul hadbeenin
transit from Kenya to Dubai. Seven
months after the seizure, Mr Rajapak-
sas office tried to have the ivory trans-
ferredtohis personal control. Ina letter
to the director general of Sri Lankas
customs department, Mr Rajapaksas
chief of staff wrote: I shall be thankful
if you could kindly get the tusks re-
leased to the Presidential Secretariat as
early as possible.
The letter said that the tusks would
be donated to a Buddhist temple, Sri
DaladaMaligawa. After apublic outcry,
the transfer whichexperts saywould
have been a clear violation of UN laws
on wildlife trade never happened. In
their letter, the teamof Sri Lankancon-
servationists, allied to the Bill Clinton-
led Clinton Global Initiative (CGI),
said: We call upon you to demonstrate
your sincere commitment by publicly
burning the stock of blood ivory, as has
been done by many other countries
with a similar commitment to stop the
brutal practice of killing elephants.
The letter, seenbyThe Times, was co-
signed by the Federation of Environ-
mental Organisations of Sri Lanka and
the CGI. Blood ivory is the termused to
describe ivory that has beentakenfrom
animals killed for their tusks.
Leslie Gamini, a spokesman for Sri
Lankas customs department, con-
firmed that the tusks, which DNA
analysis showed were poached in
Tanzania, remained in its custody. We
have not decided what to do with them
and nobody has given the order to de-
stroy them, he said.
Shruti Suresh, a campaigner at the
Environmental Investigation Agency
in London, said that the only legal use
for the tusks under UNlawwould be in
scientific research or education. Do-
nating them to a temple for religious
purposes would be a breach of the
Convention on International Trade in
EndangeredSpecies towhichSri Lanka
is a signatory, she said.
Ms Suresh also asked why the tusks
were still being held and why so little
progress had been made in identifying
the ivory smugglers and poachers be-
hind the seizure.
This was a huge shipment and a
highly organised network but to date
we are not aware of a single arrest, she
said.
Sri Lanka
Robin Pagnamenta Mumbai
Upto50people, includingtwochildren,
were killed when a suspected al-Qaeda
suicide bomber blew himself up during
a Shia demonstration in Yemens cap-
ital, Sanaa, hastening the countrys
descent into sectarian conflict.
Body parts littered the street on the
edge of Tahrir Square where thousands
of Shia Houthis, also known as Ansar
Allah, had gathered to demonstrate
against the appointment by President
Hadi on Tuesday of Ahmed Awad bin
Mubarak as prime minister.
Protesters, many of who were carry-
ing AK-47 rifles, flocked to the square-
after the blast to hear a speaker rail
against al-Qaeda.
Yesterdays attack was the deadliest
in the city for more than two years and
the first to target civilians, 75 of whom
were injured.
Hours later, a suicide car bomber
rammed a security outpost on the out-
skirts of the port city of Mukalla, killing
20 soldiers and wounding 15.
The Houthis have long been rivals of
the Sunni extremists of al-Qaeda inthe
Arabian Peninsula and its insurgents,
Ansar al-Sharia. Only in the past six
months have they started carrying out
assaults against Shia, with a sharp rise
in attacks against Houthis since Ansar
Allah fighters seized Sanaa last month.
A United Nations-brokered peace
deal was signedby a number of political
factions in an attempt to stemthe crisis
after four days of heavy fighting in the
city. The deal was meant to pave the
wayfor theappointment of anewprime
minister and the formation of a new
government, as well as to establish eco-
nomic reforms.
However, the Houthis have refused
to adhere to terms of the agreement
that include the removal of their mili-
tiamen from the streets of the capital
and government institutions. Critics of
the Houthis view them as a proxy of
Iran bent on seizing power.
Soft landing This giraffe returned to her birthplace in the Masai Mara to deliver
her calf. She gave birth standing up, leaving her offspring to fall 6ft to the ground
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359 elephant tusks from Tanzania
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Women more racist
than men in search
for someone to love
It may not be something anyone would
care to admit, but when it comes to
dating, everyone is a bit racist.
Christian Rudder, founder of the
OkCupid dating website and probably
one of the worlds leading authorities
on finding a mate, said that the vast
majority of people sought a relation-
ship with someone fromtheir own eth-
nic background, and that women were
more race loyal than men.
He has used billions of pieces of data
gleaned fromthe users of his website to
establish what we really think when it
comes to first impressions a good
guide to latent prejudice.
Almost 100 per cent of the three mil-
lion or so users of OkCupid said they
were totally in favour of mixed-race
marriages. However, when it came to
approaching or responding to a pro-
spective partner online, every ethnic
group showed a strong preference for
someone from the same background.
The only exceptions were black men
who prefered Latin American women,
and Asianand LatinAmericanwomen,
who favoured white men.
Overall, women, whom studies have
found to be more risk-averse and con-
servative, showedastronger preference
for men of their own race.
Mr Rudder saidthat hedidnot want to
accuse online daters of racism. An indi-
vidual cant really control who turns
themon. I do think the fact that race is a
sexual factor for so many and in such a
consistent way, raises deeper questions,
he said.
These and other findings about dat-
ing behaviour have been collated and
publishedinabookDataclysm: WhoWe
Are (WhenWe Think NoOnes Looking).
Some of the findings are unsurpris-
ing. While women on the dating scene
arelookingfor menof roughlythesame
age, men of all ages, right up to the over
50s all want to date women aged 21.
Women want men to age with them,
Mr Rudder said, while men appear
inexorably drawn towards youth,
however unrealistic their chances.
The finding is bad news for middle-
agedwomenlookingfor love. However,
the findings on recruitment were even
more worrying. Mr Rudder was able to
use his websites model for ranking
users attractiveness all dating sites
do apparently on an online recruit-
ment service. The results showed that
while mens appearance meant nothing
in the job market, with everyone from
the ugliest to the most handsome get-
ting the same amount of work, looks
counted for women. More attractive
women got more work.
Mr Rudder said: Women are treated
like they are on OkCupid even though
they are looking for a job. Male HRstaff
weigh up female applicants beauty as
they would in a romantic setting.
The dating website was also able to
work out what factors should make for
a good match. The most ordinary ques-
tions have amazing predictive power,
he said. Do you like scary movies? or
Have you every travelled alone to
another country? came out top, well
ahead of lifes bigger questions such as
Do you believe in God. In three quar-
ters of the couples OkCupid brought
together for a long-term match, both
parties answered these questions inthe
same way.
United States
Rosemary Bennett
Social Affairs Correspondent
Diving for cover Tourists landing at the airport on Saint Martin, in the Caribbean, do not have far to go to find the beach
Girlfriend survives 17 days
in bush after a bender
An Australian woman claims to have
survived after being lost inrugged bush
for 17 days, during which time she was
chased by a crocodile and threatened
by a cassowary, a giant bird. Her family
said that she survived on creek water,
insects and small fish and lost two and
a half stone.
Shannon Fraser, 30, stumbled half-
naked, sunburnt and bleeding on to a
remote Queensland farm close to
where she vanished after a bender
on September 21.
Its the The Biggest Loser [a TV
show in which contestants
compete to lose weight]
meets Bear Grylls, Dylan
Fraser, her brother, told
The Courier-Mail in
Brisbane.
Police are mystified
that a search using a
helicopter, quad bikes
and officers on foot fail-
ed to locate her, especial-
ly as she was found near
the Golden Hole swimming
spot from which she had
disappeared.
Ms Fraser had gone
to the pool late last month with two
men, including her partner, Heath
Cassidy, towhomshehadproposedtwo
days before.
Mr Cassidy, who admitted yesterday,
that the pair had been on a bender in
the days before her disappearance, said
hefearedthat Ms Fraser has beeneaten
by a crocodile. Her whole body is
scarredandpeeling. Shes beenthrough
alot, Mr Cassidysaid. Its amazingshe
is still alive.
Ms Fraser, amother of two, was taken
to hospital and police say that it will be
three days before she is well enough to
talk about what happened to her. A
Queensland health service spokes-
man said yesterday: Her condition
and symptoms are consistent with
an extended period in the bush.
Doctors are treating Ms
Fraser for third-degree burns,
welts from swarms of stinging
flies and have swabbed stones
from her feet.
Rhys Newton, a police in-
spector, said that the search
had been professional and
comprehensive and he could
not understand why officers had
not found her. I have every confi-
dence in the search co-ordinators
and I amconvinced that there was
an extremely high probability of
locating that missing person
had she been in that area we
were searching, he said.
Australia
Bernard Lagan Sydney
A cassowary put
Shannon Fraser
in fear for her life
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right to party
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50th birthday bash
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do without
Business breakfasts
tips are the pits
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Dorchester
feels backlash
Sharia boycott
begins to bite
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Wall Street spooked
as Germany stumbles
Patrick Hosking, Philip Aldrick and
Alexandra Frean in Washington
Wall Street plunged last night amid
fears that Germany, the traditional
powerhouse of Europe, could already
be in recession after it reported a near
6per cent dropinexports inAugust, the
steepest fall since 2009.
The worst monthly export perform-
ance from Germany for five years
spooked global investors and heaped
freshpressureonEuropeanpolicymak-
ers to inject more adrenaline into the
moribund eurozone economy.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average
slid by 334.97 points to 16,659, wiping
out all of Wednesdays gains, the best
day of the year for Wall Street after a
dovishFederal Reserve saidit was inno
hurry to raise US interest rates.
Coming only days after poor figures
on industrial production and weaken-
ing consumer and business confidence,
the export data led some analysts to
predict that Germany would post
shrinking output for the secondsucces-
sive quarter, the official definition of
recession.
Germanys Federal Statistical Office
blamed the 5.8 per cent fall in exports
partly on the late timing of the school
holidays this year, which led to some
factories being temporarily closed. The
crisis inUkraine and Russiansanctions
have also been blamed for the exports
lurch.
However, investors were unnerved
that Germany, home to a string of
world-beating exporters from Siemens
and Volkswagen to BASF and Bayer,
appeared to be struggling. Carsten
Brzeski, an economist with ING, de-
scribed the latest August data as a sum-
mer horror story: The economy seems
to need a small miracle inSeptember to
avoid a recession in the third quarter.
The stumble in Germany, the euro-
zones biggest economy, is likely to in-
tensify pressure on the European Cen-
tral Bank to do more to stimulate the
18-member currency bloc. It comes just
adayafter theIMFdowngradedits full-
year growth forecast for Germany and
said the probability of the eurozone
re-entering recession had doubled to
nearly 38 per cent since April because
of slowdowns in France and Italy as
well as Germany.
Christine Lagarde, managing direct-
or of the IMF, signalled yesterday that
Europe risked a Japan-style lost decade
unless EU members pulled together to
fend off the threat of recession. We are
not saying that we are heading towards
recession [in the eurozone] but we are
saying there is a serious risk that hap-
pens if nothing is done, she said. More
we hope will be done.
Earlier this week, the IMF urged the
EuropeanCentral Banktomove tofull-
blownquantitative easing a stimulus
policythat has beenrepeatedlyblocked
by Germany.
However, Mario Draghi, president of
the European Central Bank, suggested
that member states should do more
throughfiscal policy. Inremarks clearly
aimed at Germany, he urged European
governments to take more fiscal meas-
ures to stimulate demand. For govern-
ments and European institutions that
have fiscal space, then of course it
makes sense to use it. You decide to
which country this sentence applies,
he said.
This was rejected by the German
Continued on page 32, col 4
A gentlemanly
payday missive
W
ho is Sutay Ceyhan
apart from the
only person alive
with a high opinion
of payday loan
merchants? I just have to confess
that your service is absolutely
award-winning, Sutay writes on the
GetCashToday website. No surprise
either, when it delivers 500 cash
with only 60-second approval.
Not all businesses have such
appeal. So, it must rile the industry
that killjoys such as the Archbishop
of Canterbury and Stella Creasy,
MP, are so resistant to its charms.
Payday lenders are velociraptors,
scarier even than tyrannosaurus
rex banks is how Ms Creasy puts it.
Such a one for a crisp soundbite.
Still, you do wonder if Britains
regulators arent secretly thankful
for the likes of Wonga. What would
they do all day if they werent
cracking down over fake lawyers,
forcing a 220 million debt write-off
or berating advertising puppets for
omitting 5,853 per cent APRs?
Yesterdays 227-page regulatory
missive came from the Competition
& Markets Authority (CMA). It
wants to see a high-quality price
comparison sector for payday loans
(report, page 46). Nothing wrong
with that, either, except that soon
there will only be four companies
left, according to another regulator,
the Financial Conduct Authority
(FCA). It said last week that its 0.8
per cent a day interest and fees cap
on loans will kill off 99 per cent of
the UKs 400 payday lenders,
leaving the industry focused on
Wonga, QuickQuid and Dollar
Financial, which already have 70 per
cent of the 2.8 billion market.
Well, maybe. Sure, the industry
needs cleaning up. Yet beware the
unintended consequences: namely
driving those desperate for cash to
the baseball bat brigade. No way will
the banks touch the 1.8 million
payday loan customers, what with
38 per cent having a bad credit
rating, 35 per cent in arrears with
creditors, 11 per cent having a
county court judgment and 10 per
cent visited by a bailiff. Lets hope
Martin Wheatley, the FCA boss on
610,000 a year, has a feel for it all.
The CMA was on better ground,
pledging to make things harder for
lead generators those rapacious
website middlemen selling potential
borrowers details to lenders.
Wouldnt it be nice if they declared
what theyre up to? Yes, but its a bit
naive to think they all will. Such a
gentlemanly business, payday loans.
Wolfgang in denial
B
rilliant timing from Wolfgang
Schuble. Who could have
picked a better day for the
German finance ministers little
speech on the sidelines of the
annual World Bank/IMF bash?
Growth and austerity: can the
eurozone have both? Not judging
by the goings-on in Germany,
Wolfgang. Have you seen Augusts
German export figures? Shocking.
Down 5.8 per cent compared with
July, the biggest drop since the world
was financially poleaxed in January
2009? Forget the speech. What
about Germany being in recession,
having seen the second quarter
already contract by 0.2 per cent?
Mr Schuble denied it was and
may have a point. August got
whacked by the summer hols and
Vladimir Putins Crimea adventures
hit business in Russia, but July was
unusually strong, magnifying the
drop. And first-quarter German
growth was decent enough.
No one should read too much
into a months figures, not even
George Osborne. He couldnt resist
warning that the eurozone risks
slipping back into crisis, compared
to Britains stable economy with its
working plan. Really George, is
there an election coming up?
Curvy forecasts
I
ts 50 per cent off at N Brown
but luckily thats the togs for the
larger lady. The shares have only
been discounted by 13 per cent
quite generous too after yesterdays
profits alert (report, page 51). No
ones quibbling about the makeover
for the catalogue retailer, brought
about by Angela Spindler since she
took over as chief executive over a
year ago. Yet, who would have
thought brands such as JD
Williams, Simply Be and Jacamo
were fast-moving fashion? Three
weeks ago Ms Spindler said: Two
weeks into September, we remain on
track to deliver our full-year
forecast. Well, now the expected
102 million is down to between 88
million and 92 million.
Warm September weather is one
reason. Another is Ms Spindlers
decision to skew 60 per cent of
marketing to the autumn-winter
season. Shes probably right but the
extra 6millions had no impact,
8million of profits have vanished
and theres up to 4 million of pain
from shifting stock. Lets hope Ms
Spindler learns from the experience.
Its the customers, not the forecasts,
that are meant to be curvy.
In the money
D
o you recall Lee Cameron?
Hes the deputy CEO of
Monitise, the mobile
payments group, who cashed in
667,500 of shares under option last
month at 44.5p, just days before
news from Visa saw them tank to
27.75p. Well, luckily the shares are
up since then, to 29.25p, even if
theyre down 43 per cent in a year.
Mr Camerons pay has now jumped
from 473,000 to 677,000 after a
413,000 bonus. More monitising.
alistair.osborne@thetimes.co.uk
business commentary Alistair Osborne
M
eerkats, Asian
otters and
Galpagos
tortoises are playing a
starring role in a new
wireless technology after
Google, Ofcom and
ZSLLondon Zoo started to
stream footage of the
animals over white
spaces in the airwaves
(Nic Fildes writes).
Ofcom has identified
bands of spectrum that sit
between existing
frequencies and expects
that commercial services
using the airwaves could
be launched in 2015. The
zoo trial will stream live
footage of the creatures to
YouTube. Google has
licensed spectrum from
Ofcom for the trials.
Meerkats
the stars
of wireless
space race
TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER, JACK HILL
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Business
economics
Germany: Wall Street plunged
amid fears that the traditional
powerhouse of Europe could
already be in recession after it
reported a near 6 per cent drop
in exports in August, the
steepest fall since 2009. The
performance spooked global
investors and heaped fresh
pressure on European
policymakers to inject more
adrenaline into the moribund
eurozone economy. Page 29
China: London has taken
another big step towards
becoming the main non-
Chinese centre for renminbi
trading after Britain became
the first country to launch a
sale of bonds denominated in
the currency of the Asian
giant. The Treasury said that
the proceeds of the sale will be
used to establish a reserve of
Chinese currency. Page 32
banking & finance
1.15%
National Australia Bank:
Australias fourth-largest
lender has blamed problems in
its British subsidiary for a
profit warning that is expected
to lead to earnings for the year
falling more than 10per cent
below market forecasts. NAB
said that full-year results for
the 12 months to the end of
September would be off by as
much as 14 per cent after
taking into account the cost of
670million of new provisions
at Yorkshire and Clydesdale
banks. Page 33
Pritchard Stockbrokers: The
Financial Conduct Authority
has fined and banned David
Gillespie, the managing
director of the broking firm,
and David Welsby, the finance
director, for serious failings in
the protection of client money.
The FCA also censured the
firm for recklessly failing to
protect client money. Pritchard
entered administration more
than two years ago.
construction &
property
1.73%
New owners: Lending to first-
time buyers has fallen for the
first time since January, adding
to mounting evidence that the
housing market is slowing
down. After climbing to record
highs on the back of an
improving economy and
government incentives, first-
time buyer lending declined by
4 per cent between July and
August to 28,900 loans,
according to the Council of
Mortgage Lenders. Overall, the
number of loans was down
3per cent at 65,400. Page 32
Home costs: Average house
prices in England and Wales
are set to increase by 30 per
cent in the next five years
despite a raft of recent
evidence pointing to a
slowdown in the property
market. While prices in
London are set to rise by
almost 33 per cent, it will not
be the leader of the pack,
according to research by
Rightmove, the online
property portal, and Oxford
Economics, an economic
consultancy, whose forecasts
take into account asking and
sold prices as well as surveyor
valuations.
Songbird Estates: The
majority owner of Canary
Wharf has reached a partial
settlement over the collapse of
Lehman Brothers, one of its
biggest tenants, in September
2008. A bankruptcy court in
New York has approved the
settlement between Canary
Wharf and Lehman of claims
filed a year after the bank
collapsed at the start of the
financial crisis. Songbird,
which was claiming
$350million, will receive
18.75per cent of the total.
London commercial: Demand
for office space in the City of
London has risen to its highest
level in 14 years as companies
from outside the financial
sector traditionally linked with
the area compete for space in
the Square Mile. Page 37
consumer goods
0.63%
New Britain Palm Oil: A large
Malaysian conglomerate has
made a 1.1 billion bid for one
of the worlds largest producers
of palm oil. Sime Darby has
offered 715p a share for the
London-listed commodity
producer, in a move that
represents an 85 per cent
premium to New Britains
closing share price on
Wednesday. The knock-out
offer sent New Britain shares
soaring 286p to 672p.
Burtons Biscuits: The maker
of Cadbury Fingers and
Jammy Dodgers is in talks to
sell its licence to make
Cadbury-branded products as
it pursues plans for a 2 billion
takeover of a rival. Executives
believe that selling the licence
to Mondelez International
could remove a competition
issue that could arise if
Burtons acquires United
Biscuits. The company is
believed to have already struck
an outline agreement with
Mondelez, formerly Kraft,
which owns Cadbury. Page 37
leisure
1.39%
Novus Leisure: Toby Smith,
former chief executive of
Stonegate Pub Company, is to
be chief executive of the Tiger
Tiger operator, succeeding Tim
Cullum, who is leaving after a
year in the post.
Dorchester Collection:
Operating profits at the luxury
hotel operator jumped by
29per cent to 41.6 million last
year, on flat turnover of
302million, although results
this year are expected to be
affected by a backlash against
the Sultan of Brunei, the
groups ultimate owner. Page 37
Peel Hotels: Reporting a
21.5 per cent jump in
underlying half-year earnings
to 1.33 million, Robert Peel,
the hotel groups chairman and
founder, said that investors
can expect, after several years
of disappointing results, a
relative improvement in the
fortunes of their company.
natural resources
0.84%
Fracking: Government failure
to secure progress on fracking
risks costing jobs, according to
the CBI. John Cridland, the
director-general, said that one
in five members believed that
the countrys energy security
was worse than five years ago.
Heavy industry companies
complain that they are
penalised by energy prices that
are higher than those paid by
European rivals. Page 32
JohnWood: The oil and gas
services provider said that its
performance this year was in
line with expectations. This
was led by growth at its PSN
Production Services side,
which has a strong position in
the US shale industry. Tempus,
page 38
Exxon Mobil: A World Bank
arbitration tribunal ruled that
Venezuela must pay the oil
company $1.6billion to
compensate for a 2007
nationalisation. A separate
decision in 2012 ordered the
countrys state oil company to
pay Exxon $908 million. The
nationalisation will not incur
double compensation.
professional &
support services
0.53%
Royal Mail: The former state-
owned postal service has had
to put aside 18 million to
settle a French investigation
into allegations that it acted
anti-competitively. It said that
it had made a provision of
12million against the likely
cost of any fine imposed by the
French authorities and a
further 6 million to cover its
expected legal bill. Page 31
Banking Standards Review
Council: Britains new banking
standards body has appointed
Dame Colette Bowe, the
former head of Ofcom, as its
first chairwoman after she was
selected by an independent
panel of experts that included
Mark Carney, the governor of
the Bank of England. The
economist will chair the
industry-funded body as it
begins with a mandate to
enforce and improve
professional morals in financial
services.
Hays: The recruitment
specialist, which operates in 33
countries, reported a positive
trading update for the three
months to the end of
September. Fee income was up
by 9 per cent on a like-for-like
basis and there were strong
performances from Britain and
Australia. Tempus, page 38
retailing
2.14%
NBrown: Unusually warm
weather in September hit sales
at the home shopping group,
which owns brands such as
JDWilliams and Jacamo that
cater for a broad size range.
The companys shares slumped
13 per cent to 302p after a
warning accompanied half-
year figures that revealed a
3 per cent drop in profit to
42.7 million.
Jessops: The photography
chain has made an operating
profit of 280,000 from sales
of 56 million in its first full
year since collapsing into
administration. Jessops intends
to open six stores over the next
few weeks, taking its estate to
34 outlets, and is testing
concessions within Sainsburys
supermarkets.
Mothercare: Investors backed
a 100 million rights issue at a
shareholders meeting. The
money will be used to shut a
quarter of Mothercare stores,
refurbish the rest and improve
the digital operation.
technology
1.65%
NCC: Turnover at the cyber-
security consultant rose by
11 per cent on a reported basis
to 39.5 million in the four
months to the end of
September. It said that there
had been a delay in a project to
offer clients a secure website.
Tempus, page 38
Monitise: The mobile
payments companys annual
report showed that payments
to Al Lukies, the co-chief
executive and founder, rose to
1.1 million from 616,000
largely thanks to his bonus
almost trebling to 819,000.
Lee Cameron, the deputy chief
executive, saw his pay rise to
677,000 from 473,000.
Kofax: The software company,
which is de-listing from
London and moving its base to
Nasdaq, has issued a profit
warning after it said a large
deal had slipped. Shares fell by
20 per cent as its warning
followed those from Aveva and
Spirent.
telecoms
1.05%
Regulation: The European
Commission will stop
regulating the retail market for
fixed-line telephony at the
retail level, in line with local
regulators.
GPS: Van drivers operating in
the City of London pose a
threat to high-frequency
trading in the area, according
to figures showing a 50 per
cent spike in the amount of
GPSjamming incidents in the
Square Mile. Page 43
Carphone Warehouse: Sir
Charles Dunstone, the mobile
phone billionaire, will celebrate
his 50th birthday in Venice.
Like George Clooney, the
former mobile phone
salesman has taken over the
Citys five-star Cipriani Hotel,
although the celebrations are
due to begin on board his
recently refitted superyacht.
Page 31
transport
0.27%
Uber: Travis Kalanick, the 38-
year-old founder of the taxi
app, tops Fortune magazines
40 under 40 list of rising
business stars, sharing the
position with Brian Chesky, 33,
the chief executive and co-
founder of Airbnb, which
enables people to rent out
their homes. Page 32
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hoping that todays trade
data shows a significant pick-
up in export volumes and
values in August after the
British Chambers of
Commerce warned earlier
this week that a poor trade
performance could damage
the recovery. While the
economy has been surging
ahead, exports have been
trailing behind, something
the government is
particulary concerned about.
According to the BCC
exports slumped in the third
quarter compared with the
previous three months. John
Longworth, its director-
general, said that the
disappointing decline
highlights that we must do
something radically
different. The most recent
set of figures from the Office
for National Statistics
showed that Britains deficit
in goods and services
widened to 3.3 billion in
July, up from 2.5 billion in
the previous month. This was
the biggest shortfall since
September 2013.
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estate agent. The average price of a luxury ski home in 20 of the
worlds top resorts rose by 5.9 per cent in the year to June.
Queenstown, in New Zealand recorded the strongest annual price
growth, up 24.8 per cent.
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Burberry SocGen turns more positive 1.8%
IAG Ongoing fears about ebola -3.0%
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Business
How white van man can foil wheels of trade on stock exchange
French letters to cost Royal Mail 18m
Harry Wilson
Royal Mail celebrated the first anni-
versaryof thepricingof its stockmarket
flotation with the announcement that
it has had to put aside 18 million to
settle a French investigation into alle-
gations that it acted anti-competitively.
The former state-owned postal ser-
vice said that it had made a provisionof
12millionagainst the likely cost of any
fine imposed by the French authorities
and had set aside a further 6millionto
cover its expected legal bill.
Ina statement toinvestors yesterday,
Royal Mail confirmed that it was facing
the penalty as a result of alleged
breaches of antitrust laws by one of its
subsidiaries, GLS France. Royal Mail
confirms that, whilst a settlement has
been agreed in principle, the French
regulator is continuing its investi-
gation. By agreeing to settle and pro-
vide compliance commitments now,
Royal Mail will benefit from a reduc-
tion to any fine, the company said.
The investigation by the French
competition authority is looking into
the activities of GLS up to the end of
2010 as part of an inquiry that has
drawn in other big international deliv-
ery companies.
Shares inRoyal Mail shruggedoff the
news and the stock closed yesterdays
trading session up 1 per cent at 402p,
valuing the company at 4billion.
The timing of the announcement on
the eve of the first anniversary of the
pricing of Royal Mails controversial
listingis embarrassingfor thecompany.
Since floating, politicians including
Vince Cable, the business secretary,
have been criticised for under-pricing
the companys shares after they surged
in value when they began trading at
330p in London last October.
Moya Greene, Royal Mails Canadian
boss, joined the company only in 2010
and so the revelation of the French
investigation has done little to dent her
reputation. A spokesman for Royal
Mail declined to comment on whether
the company could go after any of its
former executives to claw back their
pay once a fine was agreed.
Royal Mail does not expect to hand
over the money that it has set aside for
the French fine until the second half of
next year at the earliest.
FedEx, the US logistics company,
Germanys Deutsche Poste, and its
Dutch rival TNT Express, which last
month made a provision of 50million
against the cost of the investigation, are
facing similar allegations.
In July, Royal Mail admitted that it
had received notice from the Autorit
de la Concurrence that it was being in-
vestigatedover the allegedcompetition
law breaches.
It is not only foreign companies that
are facing action. La Poste, Frances
postal operator, announced at its in-
terim results that it had made a provi-
sion against the cost of the investi-
gation, withanalysts at UBS estimating
a fine of between 40million and
50million.
SNCF, the French railway operator,
has also been caught up in the inquiry
and said it had received a notice of
grievances in early July.
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Car thieves and white van men operat-
ing in the City of London pose a threat
to high-frequency traders operating
around the London Stock Exchange.
High-frequency trading, which ac-
counts for between a third and 40 per
cent of all volumes in London accord-
ing to estimates, relies on global posi-
tioning system information to time
stamp trades to a millionth of a second.
However, a sensor set up in the
Square Mile has loggeda huge increase
in the use of GPS jamming equipment
invehicles over the past year that could
interferewiththesignals neededfor the
traders computers.
Professor Charles Curry, who moni-
tors GPSjamming incidents across the
country, said that he recorded 162
events, where the signal was inter-
rupted by five seconds or more in July
this year up 50 per cent on last year.
GPSjammers, which cost less than
40ontheinternet andslot intothecig-
arette lighter on a dashboard, are used
by lorry and minicab drivers and car
thieves to block equipment that tracks
their movement. White van men use
them to avoid being detected by their
bosses when moonlighting.
Professor David Last, a former presi-
dent of the Royal Institute of Naviga-
tion, said that GPS signals are quite
weak. The satellite signal is weak. Its
like spotting a car headlight from New
Zealand. A sniff of interference could
knock it out, he said. The London
StockExchange, which collates trading
information, uses back-up systems to
ensure that the information is robust.
However, Professor Curry said that the
rising use of more powerful GPSjam-
mers could present a black-swan
event author NassimNicholas Tal-
ebs term for an unpredictable and un-
usual disruptive event that the ex-
change needs to prepare for.
Nic Fildes,
Technology&Communications Editor
Its for you and you: Sir
Charles calls friends to
Venice for 50th birthday
Sir Charles Dunstone, the mobile
phone billionaire, will be joined by
dozens of his friends in Venice this
weekend to celebrate his 50th birthday.
The former mobile phone salesman
has taken over Venices five-star Cipri-
ani Hotel, which recently hosted Ge-
orge Clooneys wedding tothe bar-
rister Amal Alamuddin, although
the celebrations are due tobegin
onboard Shemara, his recently
refitted superyacht that was
owned in the 1950s by socia-
lites Lord and Lady Docker.
The guest list includes the
great and the good of the
business world. Eddie Jor-
dan, Sir Stuart Rose, Kar-
ren Brady, Lord Allen of
Kensington and Lord Coe
are among those believed
tohave beeninvitedby Sir
Charless wife, Celia. Dur-
an Duran are said to have
been booked to play at the
main party on Saturday
night. Sir Charles is good
friends with Simon Le Bon
and his wife Yasmin, the
model.
Sir Charles set up Car-
phone Warehouse in 1989,
with 6,000 of savings,
while working as a sales
manager for the mobile-
phone division of NEC.
The company mainly
supplied big corporate
users, but he realised
that those who really
needed mobiles were
small businesses and the
self-employed. Then, the
Motorola MicroTAC cost
about 2,000.
In August Sir Charles
completed a 3.7billion merger
Richard Fletcher Business Editor
The riotous past behind an elegant exterior
Behind the story Richard Fletcher
S
hemara will take
centre stage
during this
weekends
celebrations in
Venice. Sir Charles
Dunstone bought the
yacht in 2010 and has
spent three years and
millions of pounds
restoring the vessel to her
former glory. The elegant
yacht became infamous
in the 1950s for the
lavish parties hosted
by the socialites
Lord and Lady
Docker, who
then owned her,
including a
cocktail party for 45
Yorkshire miners. We
had a riotous day,
Lady Docker is
reported to have said at
the time.
She was sold in 1965 to
Harry Hyams, the
reclusive property
tycoon, for 290,000 and
languished in Lowestoft
for decades. In 1970
Elizabeth Taylor and
Richard Burton are
said to have boarded
the yacht with a
view to buying
her but
decided
against.
Sir Charles
rescued
Shemara from
decay and has
had the yacht stripped
down and rebuilt in
Portsmouth. The work
was finally finished in
June.
Sir Charles, a keen
yachtsman who is
backing a bid by Sir Ben
Ainslie, the Olympic
yachtsman, to mount a
British challenge for the
Americas Cup, also owns
two racing yachts: the
98ft Hamilton and 73ft
Enigma.
Built in 1938, Shemara
was used by the Royal
Navy during the war as a
training ship to practise
attacks on submarines.
merger
Sir Charles Dunstone, with his wife Celia, left, will celebrate his 50th birthday with a lavish party at the Cipriani hotel in Venice
withhigh-street rival Dixons. He chairs
the new company, which has annual
sales of 10.5billion, and more than
43,000 staff in 3,000 shops in Europe.
Sir Charles, estimated to be worth
1.4 billion, has signed up to Bill Gatess
and Warren Buffetts Giving Pledge
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First-time buyers
struggle to find
loans as stricter
rules deter banks
Lending to first-time buyers has fallen
for the first time since January, adding
to mounting evidence that the housing
market is slowing down.
After climbing to record highs on the
back of an improving economy and
government incentives, first-time
buyer lending declined by 4per cent
between July and August to 28,900
loans, according to the Council of
Mortgage Lenders.
Lending to home movers weakened
for the first time in five months, falling
by 3 per cent to 36,500 loans, and buy-
to-let loans fell by 13 per cent. Overall,
the number of loans was down 3per
cent at 65,400.
Experts believe that newrules aimed
at curbing risky lending, implemented
by the Financial Conduct Authority,
and the decision by the Bank of
Englands Financial Policy Committee
in June to limit high loan-to-income
deals have combined to dampen
market activity.
The CMLs figures were released
after a survey from the Royal Institu-
tion of Chartered Surveyors found that
house price momentum had slowed to
rates last seen 16 months ago.
New buyer demand fell for the third
consecutive month. Caution took a
particular toll in London, where pro-
spective new buyer demand dropped
for thefifthconsecutivemonth, accord-
ing to the survey.
The CML data and RICS survey re-
inforce our belief that with housing
market activity off its early-2014 highs
house prices are likely to generally
rise at a more retrained restrained rate
over the coming months, Howard
Archer, chief UKand European econo-
mist at IHS Global Insight, said.
Aseparate report fromLSL Property
Services showed that the average cost
of ahomeinEnglandandWales roseby
0.5per cent in September to 275,820,
the slowest monthly increase this year.
On an annual basis they were up
10.6per cent, down slightly from the
level in July.
The report found that only house
prices in Greater London, the south-
east, east Anglia and the southwest had
surpassed their levels before the finan-
cial crisis struck. Of the six remaining
regions, the north has the furthest
ground to travel, with average prices
8.3per cent below their housing boom
high in March 2008.
September saw the lowest monthly
increase in property prices in 2014 so
far, as a newspell of market adjustment
sets in for the autumn, David Newnes,
of LSL, said.
But while price growth dulls, activi-
ty inthe market is still vibrant, andtotal
house sales completions are up 16 per
cent year-on-year in September.
Kathryn Hopkins
Property Correspondent
Yuan makes
British bond
debut through
Bank of China
Britain became the first country to
launch a sale of bonds denominated in
the yuan, in a big step towards estab-
lishing London as the main non-
Chinese centre for trading of the
currency.
TheTreasurysaidtheproceeds of the
debt sale, the first by any country other
than China itself to be issued in yuan,
will be used to establish a reserve of the
currency and marks another sign of
the countrys growing financial clout.
Bank of China, one of the countrys
big four lenders, has been selected to
help to lead the sale of the bonds to
investors, along with HSBC and
Standard Chartered, Britains Asia-
focused banks.
George Osborne hailed the deal as
the way to cement Britains place as the
centre of global finance. The chan-
cellor said: We need to make sure
[the yuan] is used and traded here, as
that will be not only goodfor China, but
good for British jobs and investment
too. Mr Osborne has led several trade
missions toChinaas well as hostingfre-
quent delegations of senior Chinese
politicians.
Trading of the yuan increased by
50 per cent last year to $25.3 billion per
day, but the UKis facing tough compe-
tition fromFrankfurt and Luxembourg
to become the European hub of
Chinese finance and securing pre-
eminence is seen as crucial to the long-
term future of the City.
Andrew Carmichael, at Linklaters,
the law firm, said: Britain is keen to
bolster its position as the worlds
leading centre for foreign exchange
trading.
At the same time the UK is pushing
ahead with building business and fi-
nancial links with China and Asian
economies as regulation is threatening
to disrupt these flows. Standard Char-
tered was recently threatened by New
Yorks banking regulator with the loss
of its dollar-clearing licence if it did not
cleanupits operations, whileHSBChas
come under scrutiny after large fines
have been levied by American author-
ities over money laundering.
Britains decision to build up yuan
reserves alsopoints toa future inwhich
the currency might come to rival the
US dollar as the worlds main reserve.
Harry Wilson
T
ravis Kalanick,
the 38-year-old
founder of the
taxi app Uber, tops
Fortune magazines
40 under 40 list of
rising business stars
(Alexandra Frean
writes). Mr Kalanick,
pictured above with
his girlfriend, Gabi
Holzwarth, shares the
No 1 position with
Brian Chesky, 33,
right, the co-founder
of Airbnb, which
enables people to rent
out their rooms or
apartments. The
ratings illustrate the
growing power of the
sharing economy. In
the past 12 months,
Uber has quadrupled
the number of
markets it serves to
more than 170 cities.
It raised $1.2 billion in
June, setting a
$17billion
valuation that is
among the
highest for a tech
start-up.
Airbnb has
been used
by 20
million
people
since it
was
founded in
2008. On its
peak night
this summer,
425,000 people stayed
at an Airbnb room.
The list also
includes 15 women,
two from Britain.
Eighteenth on the list
is Liv Garfield, 39, the
new chief executive of
Severn Trent. In 39th
position is Dame
Ellen MacArthur,
38, the
yachstwoman, who
has launched a
foundation
promoting
the circular
economy
movement,
in which
products
and
buildings
are
designed for
re-use.
PAUL MORIGI/GETTY IMAGES
Fracking stand-off poses threat to
energy supply and jobs, CBI warns
The governments failure to secure
progress on fracking poses a threat to
job creation, according to Britains
biggest business group.
John Cridland, director-general of
the CBI, saidthat one infive of its mem-
bers believe that Britains energy secur-
ity is worse than five years ago. He
added that high costs were affecting
manfacturers ability to compete.
Heavy industry already complains
that it is penalised by higher energy
prices than competitors in continental
Europe. Mr Cridland said that heavy
energy users pay 35per cent more than
the median of the 15 biggest economies
in the EU and that some CBI members
reported costs were 50per cent higher
than in some European countries.
Developers attempting to exploit
British deposits of shale gas have been
stymied by protests and reluctance
from local authorities and landowners.
Developments with shale in the US
are undoubtedly adding to this pres-
sure, Mr Cridland said. We need to
secure progress on fracking so that we
are making the most of what we have
availabl. The reality of our energy crisis
is starting to bite on the ground. Think
only of the job losses at Tata Steels site
inPort Talbot it directlycitedenergy
as a key factor in that decision.
The desperation to secure affordable
power supplies was underscored by
Ineoss move into fracking, which came
with a promise that it would hand 6per
cent of revenues to landowners and
local communities. The company won
a battle with the unions this year to
keep its Grangemouth refinery open
despite high energy costs.
Mr Cridland also struck a note of op-
timism about Britains manufacturing
recovery, particularly trade withChina.
Britains exports to China are growing
faster than those of Germany or
France, having doubled since 2007. In
absolute terms, though, Britain still has
catching up to do with Germany and
France. Last year China bought 5.4per
cent of Germanys exports, compared
with 2.1 per cent of those from Britain.
Mr Cridland trumpeted British Air-
ways newroute toChengduinSichuan
province. However, Willie Walsh, the
chief executive of the airlines owner,
IAG, conceded last week that the route
had begun disappointingly, laying the
blame on the visa system for deterring
Chinese visitors.
The CBI says that British companies
arestill ontheexpansiontrail. Its indus-
trial trends survey in July showed that
plans to invest in new products and
innovation were at their highest level
since 1989.
Marcus Leroux
Writing cheques cant cure
weak growth, Germany says
Continued from page 29
finance minister Wolfgang Schauble,
whosaidwriting cheques was nocure
for Europes weak growth. Structural
reforms in France and Italy were the
answer, he said, adding: We dont have
a recession in Germany, we have a
weakening of growth.
George Osborne, the chancellor,
warned that the eurozone risked slip-
ping back into crisis and Britain was
not immune to Europes problems.
Its already having an impact on our
manufacturingandour exports, andwe
need to send a clear message out
around the world that we have a stable
economy [and] our economic plan is
working, he said.
The currency zone is by far Britains
biggest trading partner and there are
question marks over whether the UK
could sustain its recent cantering
growth if the slowdown across the
Channel intensifies. Augusts big drop
in industrial production all but con-
firmed that German industry is back in
recession, JonathanLoynes, of Capital
Economics, said.
However, other economists were less
worried by the August number. Huw
Pill, of Goldman Sachs, said: The
headlines have been a bit hyperbolic.
Germany is weakening, but July was
very strong for exports, productionand
orders. Take the two months together
and the trend is much less extreme.
The drop, in seasonally adjusted
terms, means Germanyexportedgoods
worth a total of 92.6 billion (72.9 bil-
lion) inAugust, downfrom98.3billion
in July, while imports shrank by 1.3 per
cent to 75.1 billion.
Exports in France also fell in August,
by 1.3 per cent, according to data re-
leased yesterday.
Oil price falls below $90, page 35
All hail
the power
of sharing
6Interest rates were left unchanged
at 0.5 per cent yesterday as benign
inflation figures and a dovish tone
from the US Federal Reserve left the
Bank of England in no hurry to
tighten policy. The nine-strong
Monetary Policy Committee also
left the quantitative easing policy
unchanged, maintaining the stock of
purchased assets at 375 billion. The
pound rose above $1.62 for the first
time in a week before the
announcement but fell back later in
the day.
Speculation that rates might soon
start to be lifted was prompted over
the summer by the decision of two
members of the panel to vote in
favour of higher rates. However,
CPI inflation last month fell to
1.5per cent, well below the panels 2
per cent target, the housing market
is showing signs of cooling and the
manufacturing recovery is easing.
Minutes this week from the US
Federal Reserve showed that it was
worried about the global economy
and the strength of the dollar.
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Bank blames
profit alert
on British
subsidiary
Harry Wilson
National Australia Bank has blamed
problems in its UK subsidiary for a
profit warning that is expected to lead
to Australias fourth largest lender re-
port earnings for the year more than
10per cent below market forecasts.
NAB said that its full-year results for
the 12 months to the end of September
would be off by as much as 14 per cent
after taking into account the cost of
670million of newprovisions at York-
shire and Clydesdale banks.
A new 420million provision to
compensate customers who were
mis-soldpayment protectioninsurance
made up the larger part of the conduct
charges. NAB also said that it would
make a 250million provision for costs
relating to interest hedging products.
YorkshireandClydesdaleareexpect-
ed to be sold by NAB, although it has so
far struggled to find a buyer willing to
take on its UK business given the con-
tinuingcosts of clearinguplegacyprob-
lems that have led to large writedowns
on its loan book.
However, the emergence of several
private equity-backed challenger len-
ders has expanded the range of potent-
ial buyers of the business. The bank
couldalsolist its UKoperations, follow-
ing the lead of OneSavings, Aldermore
and most recently Virgin Money.
Andrew Thorburn, the chief execu-
tive of NAB, has made no secret of his
desire to get rid of the operation as part
of restructuring of the banks wider
overseas businesses. NAB has already
filed details of a plan to sell a 27 per
stake in Great Western Bank through a
stockmarket listingof its USsubsidiary.
Mr Thorburn described the provi-
sions in the UK as disappointing, but
said that the underlying performance
of the bank remained strong. Taking
these decisions gives us more clarity
going into the future and allows us to
focus on the core Australian and New
Zealand franchises, which remain in
good shape, Mr Thorburn said.
NABaddedthat its profits wouldalso
be hit by a $297million impairment on
a failed IT upgrade project, saying that
the expected benefits of the software
had been substantially reduced.
The bankaddedthat it hadalsotaken
a$120millionhit onadeferredtaxasset
inits NewYorkbranchafter reassessing
the recoverability of the money.
NAB will publish its full-year figures
onOctober 30and said that it expected
cash earnings to be in the range of
$5.1 billion to $5.2billion.
Sathnam Sanghera
Im sure it hasnt
escaped your
attention, despite
the advance of
Islamic State in Iraq
and the alarming possibility of
recession in the eurozone, that today
marks the conclusion of London
Breakfast Meetings week.
And Im sure that you, like me,
were delighted to pick up this months
edition of Director to see the official
magazine for the Institute of
Directors marking the great occasion
by running a column on Five Tips for
Brilliant Breakfast meetings, from
one Jane Sunley, chief executive of
people engagement specialists Purple
Cubed. Sunley claimed that the
business breakfast is fast replacing
the power lunch.
It was disappointing to discover
that the advice it contained was the
worst dispensed anywhere since MI6
suggested to Tony Blair that there
might be weapons of mass
destruction in Iraq. Tip three stuck
out in particular because it combined
two things I have complained about
in this slot in recent weeks early
mornings and fitness fads. Arrive at
the meeting early, it said. Even
better, go to the gym beforehand so
that youre wide awake and ready to
go, even if youre not a natural
morning person. Which,
intellectually, is like recommending
you lose weight by eating a tray of
doughnuts.
The rest of the advice was pretty
woeful too. Research your venue.
Breakfast can be a noisy affair, so find
a place you can hold a conversation.
If breakfast is noisy, youre doing it
wrong. Or getting it confused with a
Friday night out. Then: If youre
doing the entertaining, try to match
your guest. Theres no point ordering
the full English and side order of
pancakes if your guest chooses half a
grapefruit.
So, let me get this: Sunley wants
people to turn up early for breakfast,
pink in the face with physical
exhaustion, and then copy their
guests order? Surely the only point
and benefit of waking up early is to
have a full English.
The whole thing made me suspect
not only that the author has never
had a breakfast meeting, but that she
has never had breakfast. Then it made
me despair for the standard of
professional business advice out there
in general. One could overlook such
silliness if Sunley was dim, and if such
daftness was rare.
However, she turns out to be a
panel member of the Economist
Intelligence Unit, a visiting fellow at
both Oxford Brookes and Sheffield
Hallam universities, and the author of
two books. And, unfortunately, her
column is typical of the woeful
professional advice I stumble across
every week in the process of
researching this column. Need
evidence?
Well, take, for example, the article
published on Business Insider this
week entitled 21 Conversation
Starters Professionals Can Use To
Break The Ice. Which included the
suggestion that people trigger
conversations with strangers with
lines such as Whats the scope of
your responsibilities for the
company?, and How did you get
into accounting?, and College
football has certainly been in the
news this week. Are you following
any teams? Im not sure what
worries me more that someone
would seek such advice, or that
someone would suggest such advice,
or that someone might actually put
such wooden dialogue into practice.
Then there was a piece published
on Inc.com the other week entitled
Worlds Most Fun (and Effective)
Productivity Tip. Which suggested
we boost our workplace effectiveness
by . . . dancing. A few weeks ago in
Brooklyn, New York, more than 100
people gathered at a morning rave,
began Laura Garnett, who helps
business owners and CEOs develop a
personalized leadership and
performance strategy by identifying
their zone of genius. As a harried
entrepreneur, I left the event feeling
clear-headed, creative, and focused.
Unfortunately, her article left me
feeling tired, confused and enveloped
by cringe.
And on it goes. Here is a column on
how you can boost your confidence
and learn more about yourself and
grow by walking into a coffee shop
and asking for 10 per cent off your
purchase or purposely sit in the
wrong seat on an airplane. Here is a
long piece about what management
lessons can be learnt from James
Bond, which seems to overlook the
fact that Bond kills people, sleeps with
most of the women he meets, and is a
fictional creation. Another impossibly
confused and suspect article
published on Inc.com, entitled 10
Words People Who Lack Confidence
Always Use, recommends that
professionals eradicate the words
impossible, confused, suspect
might, worried, quandary,
wont, usually and likely from
their vocabulary because they are
inherently negative.
Whats driving this stupidity? I
blame the internet. Lets face it,
professional business advice has long
involved little more than banal list-
making, as reflected in popular
business books such as The 48 Laws
of Power. However, now that so
much online journalism, on sites such
as Buzzfeed and Business Insider, is
also basically a process of list-making,
we are plunging new depths of
inanity.
I was going to end by expressing
gratitude for exceptions in the form of
certain newspapers and the
intellectually rigorous Harvard
Business Review, which this month
ran a reassuringly dense 300,000-
word feature on offices. But then I
came across a blog on the HBR
website about managing the immoral
employee, in which Dr Tomas
Chamorro-Premuzic asked: How do
we handle individuals who are prone
to unethical behaviors, especially if
they are talented and hard to
replace?
It began pretty sanely, pointing out
that dishonest work behaviors, such
as staff abuse, rule bending, and theft
cost the economy billions before
drawing six tips drawn from the
academic literature on how to
manage morally weak employees.
These included engage them, lead
by example, pair them with ethical
peers, invest in moral training,
reduce their temptation, and create
an altruistic culture. Everything,
except the one blindingly obvious
thing: fire them. It made me want to
wake up at 3am, go to the gym and
have a noisy breakfast meeting with
Dr Chamorro-
Premuzic at which I
copied absolutely
everything about his
order.

My first tip for avoiding inane advice

steer clear of the breakfast club
Sathnam Sanghera is a journalist and author. Follow him on Twitter @sathnam
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Alex Ralph, Patrick Hosking
Payday lenders face
further crackdown
The payday loans industry will have to
reveal details of its products on accred-
ited price comparison websites as part
of tighter regulations designed to save
customers 45 million a year.
The Competition and Markets
Authority is pushing ahead with plans
floated in June to force websites that
sell potential borrowers details to len-
ders to be more open with customers
about their interests andindependence.
Payday loan companies will also be
required to introduce greater trans-
parency on fees and charges for late
repayers and forced to give borrowers a
summary of charges paid on loans.
The competition regulator says that
the rules would shake up the market by
opening it up to new entrants and
ushering in better deals.
The CMA warned in June that the
payday lending market was broken and
a lack of competition was adding 5 to
10 to every loan.
The industry has claimed that it is
being demonised and revealed that
lending has slumped 50 per cent as a
result of tougher rules.
The Financial Conduct Authority is
due to enforce a price cap fromJanuary
2 that will ensure consumers never
repaymore thantwice the amount they
borrow.
SimonPolito, the chairmanof CMAs
investigation, said: Whilst the FCAs
price cap and its other regulatory
actions to clean up the market will pro-
tect customers from some of the worst
excesses, greater competition will drive
prices down and is the only way to
ensure that customers are offered the
best possible deals.
He said that the introduction of
accredited websites would provide
impartial, relevant and accurate infor-
mation about payday loans, making it
easier for customers to make compari-
sons and encourage lower-cost loans.
The CMAwants the FCAtoset up an
accreditation scheme for payday loan
price comparison websites. Under the
proposals, every payday lender will
have to have its loans listed by at least
one accredited comparison website.
The move to force websites that sell
potential borrowers details to lenders
to explain their role and how they op-
erate much more clearly to customers
is in response to concerns among offi-
cials that the lead generator websites
have very little transparency. The
CMA is concerned that customers are
generally unaware that these web-
sites simply sell details to lenders based
on the fees that lenders offer them.
The clampdown from regulators fol-
lows widespread criticism. The CMA
saidthat its proposals hadbeenreached
following talks with consumer groups,
debt charities, lenders and trade asso-
ciations. It will nowwork with the FCA
andconsult ontheplans until theendof
the monthbefore issuingits final report
early next year.
A
fter 12 years of lobbying on
behalf of the commercial
property industry, Liz Peace
is retiring. She will make way for
Melanie Leech, who will become
chief executive of the British
Property Federation next year. Ms
Leech is no stranger to the world of
lobbying as she has been director-
general of the Food and Drink
Federation for the past nine years.
She also has quite a lot of
practice in firefighting, having
held senior government roles,
including communications
director at the Cabinet Office
and head of broadcasting
policy at the Department for
Culture, Media and Sport. She
will have her work cut out
trying to persuade the
main political parties
to pledge to make
both business rates
and council tax
fairer.
(Kathryn Hopkins)
Business big shot a corking good read from
the supermarket wine rack
In the light of the Tesco accounting
scandal, Harpers, the wine and
spirits trade mag, has a hair-raising
account of life as a supermarket
wine buyer from Angela Mount,
formerly of Somerfield. She writes:
The pressure on buyers is
enormous at any company facing a
difficult year-end, and each buyer is
tasked with bringing in a certain
extra amount each week. It was one
of the many factors that finally
made me decide to leave
Somerfield. The message was get
the brands listed who are going to
pay us money. Customers have
wine in a rack; supermarkets have
wine in a racket.
beware the meltdown
Pushed by reporters for
details on the cost of
building a nuclear plant at
Hinkley Point, the chairman
of the French company EDF
seemed in danger of going
nuclear himself. Henri Proglio,
right, somewhat en
colre, eventually
started muttering
at a table of British
journalists in
French. When
asked for an
explanation in
English, he snapped, helpfully: Its
the same in English.
single-sex wards
Vince Cable has written to 19 FTSE
250 companies to tick them off for
not having any female directors.
Top of the list is Al Noor Hospitals
Group a company that,
gloriously, has managed to find two
people called William Ward to sit
on its board but still cant find a
single woman.
everyone say cheese
British Land could be forgiven for
preferring its latest City skyscraper
to be known as The Leadenhall
Building. Alas, the Cheesegrater
has stuck. At a media dinner hosted
by Chris Grigg, its chief executive,
each table had a grater and a pile of
grated cheese as its centrepiece.
banker gets payback
Tyrel Oates emailed his boss to ask
for a pay rise. A fairly
unremarkable event except that
he emailed the chief executive of
Wells Fargo, one of Americas
largest banks. And 200,000 of his
colleagues. Oates, a Tolpuddle
Martyr for the information age,
implored his boss (or, more likely,
his bosss bosss bosss boss) to show
that American corporations had a
heart.
CI TY PEOPLE
The feuds, the faces and the farcical
Marcus Leroux @marcusleroux
name melanie
leech
age 52
position
director-
general, food
& drink industry
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OldMutual has put abargainbasement
price on shares in its American asset
management business after it laboured
to sell the listing to nervous stock
market investors.
The Anglo-South African financial
services group priced shares in
OM Asset Management at $14 apiece
late on Wednesday night, raising
$308 million and valuing the fund
manager at $1.7 billion.
The price is belowthe range of $15 to
$17 that Old Mutual and its bankers
targeted late last month when they
started the sale.
Bank of America Merrill Lynch,
Morgan Stanley, Citigroup and Credit
Suisse managed the listing for Old
Mutual, which has been considering a
flotation for OM Asset Management
for the past four years.
The asset management arm runs
$215 billion of money on behalf of
savers and investors and has been revi-
talised by Old Mutual during the past
two years.
Despite the lower-than-hoped for
valuation against the $2 billion it could
have been worth, Old Mutual said that
it was happy to have managed to off-
load 22 million shares, accounting for a
stake of just over 18 per cent.
We are pleased to have completed
this transaction in a week when the
US markets have been extremely
volatile, it said.
Six out of 14 initial public offerings to
be launched since Labor Day in the US,
on September 1, have priced their
shares at below the range initially set
amid investor concerns about the
health of the economy.
Old Mutual is also expected to sell
further tranches of shares in OMAsset
Management in future as it moves to
cut the size of its holding. One source
said: We only sold 18 per cent. Theres
the option to sell a lot more.
Norway helps
Rolls-Royce
power ahead
E
ngines made by
Rolls-Royce have
been selected by a
Norwegian airline
to power nine
extra Boeing 787
Dreamliner aircraft (Tim
Webb writes).
Norwegian has also
signed a $440million long-
term after-care service
contract for the Trent 1000-
Ten engines.
We are very pleased that
Norwegian has once again
chosen us to support its
fleet expansion, Dominic
Horwood, chief customer
officer for civil large
engines at Rolls-Royce,
said.
The Dreamliner, which
was launched in 2011, is
Boeings rival to the Airbus
A350.
Both aircraft are smaller
and more efficient than
jumbo jets and carry fewer
passengers on high-
frequency intercontinental
and long-distance routes.
Rolls-Royce makes more
than half its revenues from
after-care and servicing.
More than 450
Dreamliner aircraft
powered by Trent 1000
engines have been ordered
by 25 customers. In March,
Rolls-Royce was selected by
All Nippon Airways to
provide Trent 1000 engines,
worth $1.1 billion, for 25
Dreamliner aircraft. Other
customers include British
Airways and Royal Brunei.
Shares in Rolls-Royce
rose by almost 2 per cent on
yesterdays announcement,
but eventually closed down
1p at 942p.
6 Thomson Airways is to
introduce family booths
and pod-style seating with
mood lighting for
couples. The airline, owned
by TUI Travel, is also
upgrading its fleet through
the addition of 47 Boeing
737 Max aircraft, due to be
delivered by 2020.
Rio Tintos drive to meet Chinese
iron ore demand angers Glencore
Rio Tinto defied the prognosis of its
former suitor Glencorebystickingtoits
plantopumpmillions of tonnes of extra
iron ore into the global market.
Glencore, whose rejected merger
proposal with Rio emerged this week,
has criticised rivals for creating an
oversupply in an attempt to meet Chi-
nese demand. Rio Tinto and its rivals,
such as BHP Billiton and Vale of Brazil,
have ambitious expansion plans de-
spite a huge surplus in supply.
The big producers are betting
that their relatively low-cost bases
and high-grade reserves will
mean that they withstand spells
of weak pricing better than rivals.
However, Ivan Glasenberg, the
chief executive of Glencore, said
this weekthat the bene-
fit of booming
Chinese
demand meant that the so-called su-
percycle commodities boom was not
filtering through into higher prices.
Iron ore is being attacked because
everyoneis addingproduction, hesaid.
Youre just killing the supercycle with
oversupply.
China is the key iron ore market and
Rio Tinto relies on iron ore for the vast
majority of its earnings. Rio Tinto told
investors yesterday that Chinese steel
production, thekeydeterminant of iron
ore demand, would rise to one bil-
lion tonnes by 2030.
In an update to investors
yesterday, Andrew Hard-
ing, the chief executive of
RioTintos ironoredivision,
said: The whole reason we
are pushing more tonnes in-
to the market is to fill a void. If we dont
fill that void, someone else will.
BHPs and Rio Tintos networks of
mines in Western Australia are vying
with each other to be the worlds lowest
cost. Vale, which relies heavily on
Brazilian production, is hoping to com-
pete by shipping its ore to China in its
own 400,000 tonne-capacity carriers.
BHP this week laid out plans to re-
duce costs and ramp up production in
western Australia, which it said would
make it the lowest-cost producer.
Mr Harding said that higher-cost
supply was beginning to get pushed out
of the market. He estimates that this
year 125 million tonnes of supply will
leave the market, with 65 million ton-
nes coming from Chinese producers
who mine lower grade ore.
Iron ore prices hit five-year lows this
year and projections of further falls
have miners scrambling to cut costs.
Smaller, less efficient miners are in
many cases struggling to survive, while
a fewmega miners, including Rio Tinto
and BHP, take a bigger share of the
$130billion seaborne iron ore market.
Analysts at Investec said that the up-
date was relatively upbeat: The com-
pany sees the iron ore market funda-
mentals as robust despite the price
weakness of late [in] a more upbeat
presentation with regards to the out-
look on the iron ore market than BHP
released at the start of the week that fo-
cused on supply outpacing demand.
Analysts reckonthat if ironoreprices
remain low it will constrain Rios re-
turns to shareholders, which might
push them into Glencores arms.
However, leading shareholders have
said that they see Glencores interest as
an opportunistic attempt to capitalise
on weak iron ore prices.
Iron ore is the sole major commodity
that it trades but that it does not pro-
duce itself.
Opec urged to cut supply as oil prices slide below $90
Oil prices have dropped below $90 a
barrel to hit a 27-month lowbecause of
the global glut of crude, feeble demand
and the strong dollar.
The price of Brent crude fell $1.42 to
$89.96, the lowest since June 2012.
The fall puts further pressure on
Opec to cut production when it holds
its bi-annual meeting next month in
what has beenbilledas the cartels most
important summit for years. Saudi
Arabia, the worlds largest producer,
has so far refused to make any signifi-
cant cuts for fear of losing market share
to Iranand Iraq, its two resurgent rivals
in the oil producers organisation. The
Saudis hadpromisedearlier this year to
keep prices above $100.
Oil companies are anxiously watch-
ing the seemingly inexorable decline in
prices. If they hit $80, the most expen-
sive shale oil and oil sand projects in
North America will be halted.
Barclays yesterday slashed its Brent
oil price forecasts for the fourthquarter
this year from $106 to $93. Next years
forecast of $107 has been downgraded
to $96. It said: The rapid demand
contraction, dollar strengthening and
unexpected Libyan output return has
lowered prices and shields the market
from a disruption in supplies from Lib-
ya, Iraq or other Opec countries.
Prices hit $115 in June when the ad-
vance by Islamic State led to fears that
Iraqi exports would be disrupted, trig-
gering a global supply shortage. De-
spite the conflicts in Iraq and Ukraine
and instability in the Middle East, sup-
plies remain largely unaffected while
demand is weakening.
The strengthening dollar, in which
oil is priced, has also hit demand
because it makes crude more expensive
for all but the US, where crude invento-
ries are much bigger than expected,
adding to evidence of the global glut.
The International Monetary Fund
has warnedof sluggishglobal economic
growth, which will dampen demand.
Old Mutual
aims low on
fund manager
Miles Costello
Marcus Leroux
Tim Webb
ERIC SCHULTZ/AP
Nearly all Britains top 250-listed com-
panies will have to tighten pay policy in
the wake of guidelines on withholding
or demanding back bonus payments
from errant executives.
About 90 per cent of companies list-
ed in the FTSE 250 index will have to
draft new bonus policies or make their
existing rules much clearer after the
latest update tothe rules onbest board-
room practice, according to Deloitte.
In its first update to the Combined
Code for two years, the Financial Re-
porting Council said last month that
companies must put in place a mecha-
nism relating to either clawback or
malus. Under malus, a company can
withhold a bonus if an executive has
misbehaved, while under clawback, it
demands the return of payments that
have been made, for similar reasons.
The regulator said that the latest
guidelines would come into effect from
the beginning of this month.
Deloitte estimates that only one
business in ten has a clawback or malus
bonus policy that is fit for purpose for
their next financial year.
Mitul Shah, a partner in the remu-
neration team at Deloitte, said: Com-
panies will need to start planning for
[the new rules] as soon as possible as
there are a number of complexities in-
volved in implementing these policies.
Pay policies
off the pace
Miles Costello
Ivan Glasenberg is
critical of Rio Tintos
production tactics
36 FGM Friday October 10 2014 | the times
Business
Apple rejects activist investors
plea to buy back cheap shares
Alexandra Frean Washington
Carl Icahn put Apple in his sights once
again yesterday, urging the tech com-
pany to ramp up its share buyback pro-
gramme in the belief that its stock is
selling at half its real value.
In a long, and extremely optimistic,
letter about Apples prospects, the
activist investor said that its shares,
trading at just under $100 when
markets opened yesterday, were worth
$203. The shares poppedbynearly1 per
cent shortly after the letter was made
public.
The billionaire, who owns just under
1 per cent of Apple, emphasised that he
did not intend to criticise senior man-
agement. Infact, he describedMr Cook
as the ideal CEO for Apple.
However, he took credit for influenc-
ing a previous share buyback that had
helped to boost shares considerably.
This timelast year hewrotetoMr Cook,
urging him to start an immediate
$150billion share buyback.
The company said in April that it
would pump an additional $30billion
into a buyback programme that started
in 2012, taking the total to $130billion
by next year. It alsoannouncedan8 per
cent dividend increase and a seven-to-
one stock split. Since Mr Icahns initial
letter the shares have risen by 35per
cent.
Apple lost no time yesterday in issu-
ing a quick thanks, but no thanks
response to Mr Icahn.
We always appreciate hearing from
our shareholders. Since 2013 we have
been aggressively executing the largest
capital return programme in corporate
history. As we have said before, we will
review the programme annually and
take into account the input from all of
our shareholders, the company said in
a statement.
This rejection, though, is unlikely to
deter Mr Icahn. Apple reported a profit
of $7.75billion in the quarter ending
June 28. In his letter he forecasts earn-
ings growth for Apple over the next
three years of 44per cent, 30per cent
and 30per cent, driven by strong reve-
nue growth.
We assume existing iPhone users
will continue to act like an annuity,
choosing to stay with the iPhone each
time they upgrade, his letter stated. Mr
Icahn added that the iPhone will take
market share because its merits are no
longer viewed in isolation from the
overall Apple ecosystem of products
and services, which include iOS, iPad,
Mac, Apps, App Store, iCloud, iTunes,
and (more recently) Apple Watch, Ap-
ple Pay, Home, Health, Continuity,
Beats.
The letter also referred to his hopes
for future Apple products, including a
larger iPad, the iWatch, Apple Pay and
even an UltraHDtelevision set in 2016.
Apple has not indicated whether it
intends to make televisions and reports
have suggested that it has decided to
delay the introduction of the larger
iPad.
Pre-empting criticism from analysts
and investors who believe that some
activists are only interested in short-
term gains, Mr Icahn, whose Apple
holding is worth more than $5 billion,
pledged that his hedge fund would
hang on to its investment if Apple
agreed to his suggestion to make a ten-
der offer for shares a lot more, and
sooner.
S
hares in Bahamas
Petroleum
Company rose by
a quarter after a new
law in the Bahamas
set a legal framework
for oil companies
there (Tim Webb
writes). Tourist
destinations such as
the Canary Islands
and Comoros Islands
are already potential
hotspots for explorers.
Explorer
basks in
the sun
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Business
Offices in demand as new industries squeeze into Square Mile
Demand for office space in the City of
London has risen to its highest level in
14 years as companies fromoutside the
financial sector traditionally linked
with the area compete for space in the
Square Mile.
Office take-up has increased from
2.2 millionsq ft inthe second quarter of
the year to 3 million sq ft in three
months to September, a rise of 39 per
cent. Demand for office space has not
been above 3 million sq ft since 2000,
according to research from Knight
Frank, the propertyconsultancyfor de-
velopers, owners andoccupiers of com-
mercial property in the City.
In the first nine months of the year
alone, 6.9 million sq ft of office space
was acquired in the area, compared
with 5.8 million sq ft for 2012.
Occupier demand has come from a
variety of industries, including pre-lets
by Amazon and the London Business
School. Dan Gaunt, head of the city
agency at Knight Frank, said: I see this
as evidence of the Manhattan-isation
of the City office market, where finance
is now one of several sources of office
demand now the Square Miles eco-
nomy has drawn in a variety of newin-
dustries, as is the case inNewYorks key
office markets.
He warned City landlords that
they are now facing the challenge of
delivering an environment where
both a corporate law firm and a
technology company could be sharing
the same office building, with the re-
quirement to ensure that branding
and the decor of common areas are
acceptable to two very different
tenants.
As a result of the high take-up, the
supply of offices in the City fell during
the third quarter to 8.7 million sq ft,
representing a vacancy rate at present
of 7.3 per cent, the lowest level since
2007 and below the long-term average
of 9.2 per cent.
Kathryn Hopkins
Property Correspondent
REUTERS, GETTY IMAGES, SPLASH NEWS
Dorchester out of
fashion over Sharia
W
ith an average
rate of well
over 500 a
night and suites costing
thousands of pounds, the
Dorchester Collections
super-luxury hotels
cater to an elite of the
worlds richest and most
glamorous people
(Dominic Walsh writes).
Its financial
performance is as
impressive as its
clientele.
According to
accounts filed
at Companies
House, the
group achieved
a turnover
of 302
million
last year
and an
operating
profit of
almost
42
million.
It said
that
while turnover was flat,
due to the windfall from
the Golden Jubilee and
Olympics in London the
previous year, profit was
29per cent higher due to
property revaluations. In
addition, the directors
report, signed off in
May, talks optimistically
of its ten hotels
benefiting from
continued growth in
demand this year.
That optimism may
turn out to
have been
premature.
Even as the
auditors
were
signing
off the
accounts,
the
company
was
feeling
the start
of a
backlash
over the
decision of the Sultan of
Brunei, the owner of the
group through the
Brunei Investment
Agency, to introduce
Sharia in his tiny oil-rich
kingdom.
Suddenly, celebrities
were less keen on
staying in hotels owned
by a regime that
supports punishments
such as the severing of
limbs for theft and the
stoning to death of
adulterers and
homosexuals. The likes
of Ellen DeGeneres,
Sharon Osbourne and
Stephen Fry took to
Twitter to call for a
boycott.
The Dorchester
Collection last night
refused to comment on
trading this year, but it is
clear that the backlash
has had an impact.
Reports in Los Angeles
suggest that the Beverly
Hills Hotel had lost
$2million in
cancellations by June.
The fallout has affected
other Dorchester
Collection hotels,
including Le Meurice, in
Paris, and the Hotel
Principe di Savoia, in
Milan, both favourites
with the fashion
industry. The
Dorchester itself, in
Park Lane, suffered as
banquets and product
launches were cancelled
at late notice. They had
a big dip, no doubt about
it, said the manager of
a rival London hotel.
But theyve dealt very
effectively with the PR
nightmare and the signs
are that business has
bounced back. It also
helped that the
Dorchester has a big
Middle Eastern
clientele.
Chris Cowdray, the
Dorchester Collections
chief executive, insisted
recently that it would
weather the storm.
Burtons set to drop
Cadburys link in bid
to take the biscuit
Burtons Biscuits is in talks to sell its
licence to make Cadbury-branded
products as it pursues plans for a 2bil-
lion takeover of a rival.
Executives believe that selling the
licence to Mondelez International
could remove a potential competition
issue that would arise if Burtons
acquires United Biscuits. The company
is believed to have already struck an
outline agreement with Mondelez, the
American group formerly known as
Kraft, which owns Cadbury.
The potential sale of United Biscuits
is one of Britains biggest live prospec-
tive merger deals and there has been
significant interest from potential buy-
ers. United Biscuits is twice the size as
Burtons, its nearest rival, andowns four
of the five top-selling biscuits in Britain
McVities Digestives, Go Ahead!,
Jaffa Cakes and Jacobs Cream Crack-
ers. More than four million packets of
McVities digestives areeateneveryday
and the McVities brand has targeted
more than 500 million in annual sales
in the next few years. Total sales at
United Biscuits rose by 4.3per cent to
1 billion last year.
Blackstone and PAI Partners, its pri-
vate equity owners, are running a
dual-track process to decide whether
to sell the business or to float it in
London. They bought the group for
1.6billion eight years ago.
Burtons, whose brands include Cad-
bury Fingers and Jammy Dodgers, is
facing stiff competition from Kelloggs,
the American food giant, and Ulker
Food Group of Turkey.
Ferrero, the Italian
confectionery
group, is also under-
stood to be interest-
ed. Sources said that
Kelloggs was under-
stood to be the most
advancedinnegotiating a deal to
buyUnitedBiscuits for between1.5bil-
lion and 2 billion. John Bryant, the
Kelloggs chief executive, is leading a
senior management team in London
this month in an attempt to strike a
deal.
United Biscuits could yet scupper
any negotiations by opting for a flota-
tion. Martin Glenn, its chief executive,
has met analysts and investors this
week is understood to have received
positive feedback regarding a potential
listing.
Mr Glenn told The Times last year:
We want McVities [and United Bis-
cuits] re-emerging as a world-class bis-
cuit company and challenging Amer-
ican multinationals, such as Mondelez
International and PepsiCo, and in the
UK there is still a lot to go for.
United Biscuits, which is likely to
change its name to McVities before a
sale or flotation, is being advised by
Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan and
Centerview Partners. It is understood
that bids from prospective buyers are
due at the end of this month. All parties
declined to comment.
Deirdre Hipwell
Crunch time
56m
packets of McVities digestives are
eaten in Britain each year
40%
United Biscuits UK market share
8.5kg
of biscuits are eaten by the average
Briton each year
7bn
biscuit-eating moments
last year, nearly 1
times more
than
confectionery,
acording to
United Biscuits
Celebrities for
and against
the boycott
Not that you were
necessarily going to
stay there, but time to
boycott the Dorchester
Group
Stephen Fry
No Virgin employee,
nor our family, will stay
at Dorchester Hotels
until the Sultan abides
by basic human rights
Sir Richard Branson
Is this man going to
start stoning certain
hotel staff members
and clientele now?
Sharon Osbourne
I wont be visiting the
Hotel Bel-Air or the
Beverly Hills Hotel
until this is resolved
Ellen DeGeneres
What is this, Berlin,
1933? Evil flourishes
when good people do
nothing
Jay Leno
Throwing the staff of
Dorchester Collection
Hotels under the bus
to make a political
point is not acceptable
Russell Crowe
For a sultan that has
$20 billion, this loss of
business doesnt even
make a dent in his
fortunes. But the hotel
staff are being
negatively affected
every day
Kim Kardashian, left
Jay Leno,
right, and
Ellen
DeGeneres
led protests
against the
Sultan of
Brunei, left,
while hotels
favoured by
fashionistas
have also
suffered
6The body that manages the
Queens property has announced
that it has agreed to sell one of its
retail parks to Royal London for
37million, the first time the Crown
Estate has disposed of a directly
owned asset of this sort. Hannah
Milne, regional portfolio manager at
the Crown Estate, said that Apsley
Mills near Hemel Hempstead was
being sold to improve the coherence
and quality of its existing portfolio.
38 FGM Friday October 10 2014 | the times
Business Markets
ExxonMobil and Woodside. In the
turbine division, Wood is close to
resolving the difficult Dorad contract
in Israel, with the chance that some
earlier losses may be written back at
the year end.
I tipped the shares, up 13p at
692p, at the start of this year. They
now sell on a very reasonable 11
times this years earnings.
On the basis of all the above,
recent falls look overdone. Buy.
hit, as there was a dearth of early
stage wins that would then lead to
larger contracts.
Yesterdays trading announcement
indicated again, after a positive
update in August, that some early
stage work was trickling in again,
which augurs well for prospects for
next year and 2016.
The news coincided with a day for
investors and analysts to hear about
prospects for its PSN Production
Services division. This is doing well
out of the shale boom in the US.
Five years ago it barely existed;
today, aided by the purchase last year
of Elkhorn, revenues are standing at
$1 billion. Other work is coming
through from large clients such as
S
hares in John Wood Group have
been weak over the past month
or so, on fears that the falling oil
price will mean less investment in
the sector, a slackening of contract
wins and the need to take work at
lower margins.
The good news is that none of this
seems to be happening. Wood,
because of its diverse workload, is
less exposed to cutbacks by the big
producers than others in oil and gas
services.
The company warned last year
that its engineering division might be
companies news
PRICES
BAE sheds managers
BAESystems is cutting 440
managerial jobs at its jet division
as it weathers the drop in
government spending. Its two
sites in Lancashire, with 11,000
workers, will be worst hit,
accounting for half the job losses.
The cuts by the defence
company, which makes
Eurofighter warplanes and Astute
submarines, come after a review.
The company has already warned
that cuts in the US military
budget would take 10 per cent off
full-year earnings.
Helicopter chief jailed
The former chief executive of
Finmeccanica, the Italian defence
company, has been sentenced to
two years in prison for falsifying
invoices in a 560 million (440
million) helicopter contract with
India. Giuseppe Orsi, the former
boss, and Bruno Spagnolini,
ex-head of the Finmeccanica
helicopter unit, AgustaWestland,
had also been accused of bribing
Indian officials but were cleared
at a court north of Milan.
Bank standards chief
Britains new banking standards
body has appointed Dame
Colette Bowe, the former head of
Ofcom, as its first chairwoman
after she was selected by an
independent panel of experts that
included Mark Carney, the Bank
of England governor.
An economist by profession,
Dame Colette, 67, will chair the
industry-funded banking
standards review council to
improve morals in the City.
Amazon to open shop
Having established itself as a
leading online retailer, Amazon
plans to open its first bricks and
mortar shop, near New Yorks
Empire State Building, in time for
the holiday season.
The pop-up store is expected to
hold goods for same-day delivery
and for online order pick-up as
well as display products such as
its Kindle tablets, smartphone,
and TV box, according to the
Wall Street Journal.
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Buy, sell or hold: todays best share tips
Caution is
still key as
recruiter
beats bets
H
ays produced its third
quarterly trading update
in a row that beat market
expectations. For the first
time in almost four years
its three biggest markets Britain,
Germany andAustralia were all in
positive territory, as recorded in the
first quarter of its financial year, to
the end of September.
In Australia, the natural resources
sector is on the way up, and the
2 per cent rise in fee income there is
the first in two years.
Britain was especially strong,
confirming the experience of
Robert Walters, a smaller
rival to Hays in the
recruitment business, a
couple of days ago. The
sector is one of the clearest
indicators of economic
recovery, as people become
more confident in moving jobs,
and that upturn has spread to all
regions save Scotland, where the
referendum created uncertainty.
So if you exclude theCity, and
there are signs that hiring is rising
again in financial services, the rise
in fee income in London was
23 per cent. The recovery is
spread across public and
private sectors; in the
former, hiring in education
was boosted by the new
scholastic year.
And yet the fortunes of
recruiters such as Hays are
tied to macroeconomic
factors, to the extent that there
is little point in making forecasts too
far out. Germany and France may
have grown fee income by 7 per cent
apiece but the signs are not good
from the eurozone, and
that could go into reverse
again.
Hays makes three points
in its defence. There was no
sign of a tailing off as the
quarter approached its end, or
so far into October.
Its model in France, providing
temporary staff on fixed-term
contracts, is proving popular with
cautious employers. Hays reckons it
can still continue to increase fee
income whenever GDP growth in
any given territory is at 1 per cent
or more.
The shares, up 2p at 122,
sell on about 17 times this years
earnings. It is true that fee income
growth will increasingly feed
through into earnings, and analysts
were inclined to upgrade their
forecasts for this year. That caution
remains, though.
Debt is being eliminated, and there
will in due course be a special
dividend. This looks the best reason
to hold the shares.
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160p
150
140
130
120
110
Like-for-like fee growth
Debt 60m (97m at 30 Sept 2013)
8,237 employees, 5,357 consultants,
in 237 ofices, across 33 countries
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8%
7%
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11%
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Cont
Europe
and ROW
Asia
Pacific
T
here has been such a rush to
register new domain names on
the internet that the Internet
Corporation for Assigned Names and
Numbers, the international body
overseeing the process, has been
swamped. This is the charitable
explanation for the delay in
transferring the .trust name from
Deutsche Post, which was happy to
sell to NCCGroup.
NCC wants to launch a third
cybersecurity service, in addition to
its advice and data storage
businesses. The domain would
let companies conduct
transactions with each
other in the certainty that
they were dealing with the
right site and not a
scammer or phisher.
The market is potentially
huge, but the service has been
delayed by three or four months
and will now start in February. A
selection of NCC clients will then be
introduced, with first profits through
by the 2015-16 financial year.
The advice side is growing faster
than storage, with revenues up 14 per
cent in the four months to the end of
September, traditionally the quietest
period for NCC. The shares, up 2p at
187p and a subdued market this year,
sell on 21 times earnings for this year,
depressed by the investment in the
domain. One for the patient.
9%
Rise in net fees in
first quarter
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MY ADVICEHold
WHYThe latest in a series of
encouraging updates, but
there must be some concern
over prospects for its business
in the eurozone
B
reedon Aggregates, the UKs
biggest independent producer
of heavy building materials,
continues to make infill
acquisitions even as it waits to see
what assets will fall off the table
from the Holcim merger with
Lafarge. The latest deal is for Barr
Quarries in Scotland, which also
has asphalt and ready-mixed
concrete plants, for 20.8 million or
a bit less than eight times earnings.
One day that transformational
acquisition will come along but, for
now, Breedon is doing well enough
out of consolidation in the industry.
And finally . . .
MY ADVICELong-term hold
WHYNew market is promising,
if it is taking time to enter
MY ADVICEBuy
WHYThe fall in the shares
looks overdone
hays
Up 6% rise in group headcount
ncc group
Revenue 39.5m, up 11 per cent
john wood group
$1 bn size of USshale revenues
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the times | Friday October 10 2014 FGM 39
Markets Business
H
eadline acts
such as the
Rolling Stones
and Mumford & Sons
have helped the
company behind the
Glastonbury festival
to make 35 million in
revenue, although
profits were down
(Alex Ralph writes).
The festival made a
pre-tax profit of
764,000 last year
after the costs of sales
and administrative
expenses wiped out
much of the takings.
In 2011, when the
festival was previously
held, it made a profit
of 1.8 million on
revenues of
32million. The
accounts show that
Glastonbury donated
348,162 to charity.
Tickets for next
years festival sold out
in 26 minutes. The
150,000 standard
tickets are priced at
225.
Glastonbury
keeps cash
rolling in but
profits slide
TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER, ROB STOTHARD
Miners a rare jewel amid
Europes gathering gloom
Gary Parkinson Market report
The Feds salutary effect on the stock
market proved short-lived, but its
boost to mining shares endured.
After Americas central bank
signalled that worries about an early
interest rate rise were misplaced, the
FTSE 100 ran nearly 50 points higher.
Deepening concerns about Europes
economy then smothered any
transatlantic optimism and Londons
leading index staged a galloping
retreat to its lowest this year, off 50.4
points at 6,431.9. Germany is a
growing worry and October is living
up to its reputation as the markets
choppiest month.
However, the Federal Reserves
concern about the strength of the
dollar was taken as supportive of
metals, priced in bucks. Where metals
went, miners followed, and precious
metal miners went furthest.
Gold ticked up to its dearest
in a couple of weeks, rising
for a fourth day as
speculators who had bet
against its price tripped over
themselves to close costly
positions.
Mexicos Fresnillo, in truth
more of a silver than gold miner,
added 46p to 770p and South
Africas Randgold Resources
advanced 248p to 42.98 as Numis,
among the Citys better brokers, urged
clients to buy both, while trimming
target prices for each. Another two
brokers, Peel Hunt and Canaccord
Genuity, afforded another goldminer,
Centamin, a similar rating after
production proved solid in Egypt,
where it remains bogged down in a
legal challenge.
Sentiment towards Londons quoted
miners, which dominated the
leaderboard, was further lifted by
Alcoa, the American aluminium
group, which delivered muscular
quarterly earnings and a
reassuringly bullish outlook.
Conversely, a string of
Footsie constituents were
marked lower after starting
to trade without rights to
the next dividend. Among
them were Kingfisher, the
owner of B&QDIY, off 16p at
296p, and the insurer Aviva, down
13p at 499p.
Ebolas spread to Europe ensured
that airlines and tour operators
remained friendless. IAG, which owns
British Airways and Iberia in Spain,
where a case of the deadly virus has
been confirmed, lost 10p to 333p,
while TUI Travel, whose brands
include First Choice and Thomson
holidays, fell 10p to 357p.
Among the tiddlers, a bid for one
palm oil producer prompted interest
in others. DekelOil was chased 5.5per
cent higher to 1.45p and MPEvans
6.8per cent to 457p. From palm oil
to North Sea oil, and a progress
report on its Phoenix project lifted
Enegi Oil 10.5 per cent to 2.625p.
Hardy Oil &Gas bulls took heart
from reports in India that its
Petroleum Ministry is acting to try to
progress discoveries held up by the
regulator. Good news for Hardy, 2p
easier at 97p, whose hefty D3 block
has been bogged down for some time.
Stellar Diamonds edged 1.9 per
cent higher to 1.375p after recovering
its first diamonds from a kimberlite
pipe in Guinea. London Mining
shares that traded as low as 0.1p on
Wednesday more than doubled to
1.55p as private investors piled in.
Option money was how one market
marker described it: if funding is
secured, the shares might jump to 10p.
If not, they go to zero and punters
lose only what they put in.
Venture Life ticked another penny
higher to 98p, making a near-20 per
cent improvement in a week after
decent interim results, a push by WH
Ireland and directors buying shares in
the specialist in life sciences products
for an ageing population.
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Run for your lives, says uber bear
equity forecast
S
ocit Gnrales
uber bear is
growling again.
Albert Edwards,
strategist and howling
voice of dissent
throughout this last
bull market, is calling
the top for shares.
Sort of.
Mr Edwards, who
regularly touts the
idea of an economic
Ice Age in which
stock markets
collapse under global
deflationary pressure,
urged the French
brokers clients to
sell everything and
run for your lives.
You can feel the
growing nervousness
in an increasingly
choppy market, he
said. Fund managers
are worrying that we
have reached the end
of the road and a
market top may be
forming. Not only are
there concerning data
coming out of the
formerly dependable
Chinese and German
economies, there are
also expectations for
the kind of US
inflation that
triggered the Fed to
introduce quantitative
easing. Yet, there
seems to be no
prospect of that now.
Quite the reverse.
So maybe its time
to stop dancing and
sit this one out, Mr
Edwards suggested.
Am I calling a top?
Whats the point? As
an uber bear I am
used to being called a
stopped clock. By
contrast the market
embraces a bullish
forecaster, however
often they are shown
to be overly
optimistic.
Sell everything: Albert
Edwards, the howling
voice of dissent
Wall Street report
See-sawing on Wall Street gathered
pace as the Dow Jones industrial
average recoiled from its best day of
the year to tumble 334.97 points to
16,659.25 on fears, prompted by the
latest German export data, that
Europe is sliding into recession.
European money
deposits %
Gold/Precious
metals (US dollars per ounce)
Dollar rates
Australia 1.1390-1.1392
Canada 1.1164-1.1165
Denmark 5.8694-5.8696
Euro 0.7885-0.7885
Hong Kong 7.7562-7.7571
Japan 107.98-107.99
Malaysia 3.2534-3.2554
Norway 6.4718-6.4740
Singapore 1.2717-1.2719
Sweden 7.2213-7.2236
Switzerland 0.9548-0.9549
Other Sterling
Argentina peso 13.660-13.662
Australia dollar 1.8359-1.8366
Bahrain dinar 0.6040-0.6116
Brazil real 3.8616-3.8777
Euro 1.2712-1.2714
Hong Kong dollar 12.504-12.506
India rupee 98.318-98.522
Indonesia rupiah 19753-19791
Kuwait dinar KD 0.4640-0.4666
Malaysia ringgit 5.1550-5.3584
New Zealand dollar 2.0488-2.0508
Singapore dollar 2.0496-2.0508
S Africa rand 17.873-17.889
U A E dirham 5.9176-5.9240
Money rates %
Base Rates Clearing Banks 0.5 Finance House 1.0 ECB Refi 0.05 US Fed Fund 0-0.25
Halifax Mortgage Rate 3.5
Treasury Bills (Dis) Buy: 1 mth 0.38; 3 mth 0.42. Sell: 1 mth 0.35; 3 mth 0.38
1 mth 2 mth 3 mth 6 mth 12 mth
Interbank Rates
0.5079 0.5324 0.5643 0.7133 1.0590
Clearer CDs
0.58-0.43 0.60-0.45 0.65-0.50 0.80-0.65 1.13-0.98
Depo CDs
0.58-0.43 0.60-0.45 0.65-0.50 0.80-0.65 1.13-0.98
Eurodollar Deps 0.15-0.25 0.19-0.29 0.23-0.33 0.36-0.46 0.51-0.66
Eurodollar CDs 0.15-0.08 0.18-0.12 0.22-0.15 0.36-0.21 0.52-0.38
Mkt Rates for Range Close 1 month 3 month
Copenhagen 9.4176-9.4747 9.4610-9.4630 42ds 130ds
Euro 1.2731-1.2668 1.2713-1.2712 4pr 11pr
Montreal 1.7926-1.8016 1.7993-1.8003 10pr 27pr
New York 1.6107-1.6224 1.6120-1.6121 4ds 13ds
Oslo 10.377-10.435 10.434-10.437 83pr 254pr
Stockholm 11.388-11.645 11.641-11.647 17ds 61ds
Tokyo 174.02-174.99 174.02-174.10 9ds 31ds
Zurich 1.5343-1.5400 1.5389-1.5397 8ds 26ds
Premium = pr Discount = ds
Sterling spot and forward rates
Exchange rates
Bank buys Bank sells
Australia $ 2.000 1.740
Canada $ 1.960 1.700
Denmark Kr 10.160 8.910
Egypt 12.690 10.090
Euro 1.390 1.210
Hong Kong $ 13.420 11.800
Hungary 429.370 353.260
Indonesia 22667.100 18080.500
Israel Shk 6.580 5.610
Japan Yen 188.170 162.970
New Zealand $ 2.300 1.950
Norway Kr 11.310 9.780
Poland 5.880 4.820
Russia 69.500 57.880
S Africa Rd 19.950 16.900
Sweden Kr 12.400 11.020
Switzerland Fr 1.690 1.460
Turkey Lira 4.090 3.270
USA $ 1.760 1.540
Rates for banknotes and traveller's cheques as
traded by Royal Bank of Scotland plc yesterday
AHDB meat services
Average fatstock prices at representative
markets
(p/kg lw) Pig Lamb Cattle
GB 111.09 153.51 180.78
(+/-) +3.08 -2.33 +0.77
Eng/Wales 111.09 153.78 179.60
(+/-) +3.08 -2.68 +0.68
Scotland unq 150.81 209.98
(+/-) +0.61 +6.06
London Metal Exchange
(Official)
Cash 3mth 15mth
Copper Gde A ($/tonne)
6766.5-6767.0 6712.0-6712.5 7310.0-7320.0
Lead ($/tonne)
2081.0-2082.0 2093.5-2095.5 1980.0-1985.0
Zinc Spec Hi Gde ($/tonne)
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Tin ($/tonne)
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Nickel ($/tonne)
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Sterling
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Euro
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Bullion: Open $1219.75
Close $1224.24-1224.72 High $1232.86
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Krugerrand $1211.00-1286.00 (751.18-797.70)
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Homeland is about
an intelligence
officer, its not
about a love affair
Its back on Sunday but is Brody? Andrew Billen
talks to the shows creators about its reinvention
E
very winter the writers
of the US espionage
drama Homeland take a
trip to Washington DC
to spend a week
listening to retired and
serving intelligence
officers, State
Department officials, White House
staffers and journalists. The
Homelanders want to know what
troubles the minds of the real players
in American foreign policy and the
war on terror. And this year, says the
shows creator and executive producer
Alex Gansa, who is with Howard
Gordon the brains behind Homeland,
it was all about the drawdown [of
troops back to the US] that was going
to happen in Afghanistan and the
murky, murky relations we have with
Pakistan, its immediate neighbour. At
the time, the rise of Islamic State (Isis)
in Syria and Iraq was a cloud no bigger
than a terrorists clenched fist.
This January can only have been
a more than usually urgent fishing
expedition. Gansa and Gordons
mission was to find not merely a
fourth act to their story but its
reinvention. Season three had ended
with Damian Lewiss character
Nicholas Brody the US Marine
turned by al-Qaeda and then turned
again by his lover, the CIA agent
Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes)
hanged. Carrie was left pregnant
with his child. Homeland had a
reputation for writing its co-stars
out in body bags, but this time a
season had concluded not with a
cliffhanger but having apparently
hurled itself off a cliff.
Speaking from LA, Gansa says the
economics of a successful television
series would have never allowed the
show to end there. We didnt think
the story was over anyway. In fact,
we always thought Homeland was a
series about an intelligence officer and
not about a love affair. Brodys had
been a death much foretold, especially
to Lewis. I think I must have called
Damian three times to tell him that
his character was dying.
Brody was given a reprieve. By
delaying the characters death from
the end of season two to mid-series
three and finally to its end, Gansa
believes some extraordinary television
was produced. The downside, some
might say, was the ridiculous remote-
control killing of the vice-president
in season two and the teen-rom
adventures of Brodys daughter in
season three. Even Gansa admits
the first season was hard to match.
The story just felt very pure and you
cant find that every season. You try
and you hope and sometimes you
strike it and sometimes you dont.
He insists, however, it was his and
Gordons original intention to put
Carrie into the field in season two
and thereafter make each run tell a
distinct story, rather in the manner
of The Wires five seasons. This
Sundays premiere on Channel 4,
then, has Carrie as a station chief in
the US embassy in Kabul, in charge
of assassinating terrorists from an
ever-growing list. Cracking an apiarist
joke, it is called The Drone Queen.
When the bombing of a Taliban leader
kills innocent civilians at a wedding
party, Carrie is sent to Pakistan to talk
through the disastrous consequences
with the US ambassador, another
strong, trouser-suited female played
by Laila Robins.
Pakistan and Afghanistan feel, I say,
an odd relocation for a series named
Homeland. Youre very smart to point
that out, says Gansa, perhaps playing
for time. This season weve made it
a priority to create in Pakistan a little
America, an embassy compound in
which a lot of Americans are serving.
By viewing these people overseas we
I think I
must have
called
Damian
Lewis
three
times to
tell him
that his
character
was dying
40 FGM Friday October 10 2014 | the times
arts
arts
forces a fighting chance against
the Taliban. And it puts people like
Carrie Mathison, it puts people like
Lieutenant Edgars, the guy whos
flying the mission, and drone pilots
in a very, very psychologically tough
situation not to mention the people
on the ground, for Gods sakes!
Speaking to me two years ago,
Lewis boasted that the series had
avoided easy parallels between
Islam and violence. I wondered, he
said, if there was a more subversive
story to tell of a Marine who found
some sort of sustenance in Islam as a
force for good. With the introduction
of a sympathetic Pakistani medical
student played by Suraj Sharma
(from Life of Pi), Homeland will
continue to be an uneasy watch for
hawkish Americans. Yet last week in
The Washington Post, the film-maker
Laura Durkay called Homeland the
most bigoted show on television:
The entire structure of Homeland
is built on mashing together every
manifestation of political Islam,
Arabs, Muslims and the whole Middle
East into a Frankenstein-monster
global terrorist threat that simply
doesnt exist.
Its impossible to win, says Gansa.
A lot of the audience felt that the
strength of Homeland was the
Brody-Carrie relationship and the
other half felt that that was a complete
distraction and that Carrie was a
moonstruck teenager. You cant spend
your whole life as a creative person
worrying about how people are going
to respond or whether youre coming
down on the right or left side of an
issue. Youve just got to try to tell the
truest story you can and be honest to
the characters youve created.
I wonder if he is cursing that the
new season of Homeland focuses on
the Taliban and al-Qaeda just as the
world is gripped by the rise of Isis.
Im relieved, actually. Im very
comfortable telling a story adjacent
to that crisis. I think it is so painful
to turn on the news and see whats
going on in that part of the world
right now. Its too incendiary.
For those of us who have watched
Homeland as much for Carrie and
Brody as the politics there is intriguing
news. Carries baby is now being
brought up by her sister and we are
promised a sensational revelation
about the reasons for that next week.
Meanwhile, can it be true that Lewis
has been spotted on the Homeland
lot? All I can tell you, says Gansa,
is yes, its true Damian Lewis was
on the set in Cape Town, but its also
true that Nicholas Brody is dead.
We are, I assume, talking either ghosts
or flashbacks either of which could
be symptomatic of bipolar Carries
precarious mental state.
In DC, one fan will receive this news
anxiously. President Obama requests
advance DVDs of the show. He told
us, Please be gentle on Carrie this
season, reveals Gansa. It would
appear the writ of the most powerful
man on Earth runs only so far.
Series 4 of Homeland begins on
Channel 4 on Sunday (9pm)
Claire Danes as Carrie
Mathison in Homeland
and, far left, in the
first episode of the new
series. Left: Alex Gansa
Blakes 7
When Gareth Thomas wanted out
of the 1970s BBC sci-fi drama after
two seasons, Blake went MIA. For
the next two series his crew looked
for him finding him in the finale.
Inspector Morse
John Thaw played the clapped-out
Morse on the mortuary slab in the
last episode in 1999. Morses younger
self has been revived in Endeavour.
Taggart
Marc McManus, who played the
grizzled Glasgow tec, died 11 years
into Taggarts run in 1994 but
the series stayed on the beat for
STV for another two decades.
Dallas
Patrick Duffys Bobby Ewing was
killed off in 1985. He was persuaded
back and the season without him
was revealed to be his wifes dream.
When the
lead leaves
the times | Friday October 10 2014 FGM 41
COURTESY OF 20TH CENTURY FOX
This season
weve created a
little America
in Pakistan
Two and a Half Men
In 2011 Charlie Sheen was so
disparaging about its showrunner
Chuck Lorre that he was sacked.
Lorre cast Ashton Kutcher as his
replacement. The series thrives.
are commenting a little bit on how
America projects its power in other
parts of the world and how that is a
reflection of who we are as people.
It is this philosophical discussion,
recurring over three years in the space
between the Brody-Carrie romance
and the killings, that lifts Homeland
into a category of popular television
all its own. Which other series would
make its hero (never mind heroine)
responsible for scores of civilian
deaths and, what is more, receive
the news with a look of irritation
rather than horror? Carrie is getting
harder and harder to like.
I agree. Except to say, you know,
whats the alternative? In other
words, what other policy is possible
in that part of the world right now?
Nato forces are drawing down in
Afghanistan. Obviously we dont want
to surrender that country after all the
blood and treasure weve spent there.
So the strategy now is to try to kill as
many bad guys as we can before we
leave and give the Afghan security
Watch the trailer
for Homeland
season four
tablet editions and
thetimes.co.uk/arts
42 FGM Friday October 10 2014 | the times
arts
D
oubtless they will be
frothing from all
available orifices in
Tunbridge Wells.
Magna Carta has
been sold . . . to the
Chinese! Happened
this week, apparently,
while we were all enthralled by the Lib
Dem conference. Shocking. What next
for our national treasures?
Westminster Abbey flogged to Qatar?
Bruce Forsyth put on permanent
display in Disneyland?
OK, I am being economical with the
actualit. It wasnt the great charter
itself that was sold. It was Magna
Carta Island in Berkshire, the Thames
isle where (according to one theory)
King John famously met his rebellious
lords on June 15, 1215 before putting
his moniker, or at least his whopping
Great Seal, on the document
enshrining the freedoms that have
been fundamental to our island story
ever since: namely the right of rich
barons to fleece helpless peasants
whenever they get the chance.
The island was put on the market in
the summer, asking price 3.95 million
which is roughly what my dentist
charges for root-canal work. For a
seven-bedroom house incorporating a
17th-century chapel, 3.7 acres of prime
Berkshire land, 400m of river frontage
and of course all that medieval history,
four million quid seems like a snip.
Either way, Sothebys International
Realty tells me that an offer close to
the asking price was accepted from a
Chinese family on Tuesday. After 800
years, what impeccable timing! It was
A new
dawn for
funding
music?
What good news that
the Aurora Orchestra,
the most bracing
breath of fresh air to
invigorate the British
classical music scene
in the past ten years,
has landed a multi-
album deal with
Warner Classics, the
giant that now owns
what was the classical
division of EMI. Its not
such good news that
the orchestra has had
to plea for 10,000
of crowdfunding
in order to proceed
with the recording
of its new album,
Insomnia. The money
has to be raised by the
end of the month.
Whats happened to
the notion of record
companies forking out
the initial investment
for recordings? That,
it seems, is hopelessly
20th century. These
days performers need
diplomas in millionaire
schmoozing as well
as more traditional
musical skills. Go to
crowdfunder.co.uk/
aurora if you want to
help this brilliant band
etch a few groovy
grooves in the vinyl
as we used to say in
the 20th century.
David Cameron needs to brush up on his Magna Carta
ANDREW MATTHEWS / PA
Richard Morrison the arts column
charter, which will be brought
together for the first time in history
(bl.uk/magna-carta for details).
The BL itself has two copies, the
others (owned by Lincoln and
Salisbury cathedrals) will be brought
to London and exhibited together
for three days only on February 2-4.
A big event is planned for the 1,215
ballot-winners, apparently hosted by
costumed characters from the 13th
century (gosh, sounds like lunch at
the Garrick), but time will also be set
aside to give the worlds most eminent
medievalists a unique chance to
examine the manuscripts side by side.
Then the various charters will go
back to their usual homes to be the
centrepieces of individual celebrations.
Lincoln inaugurates its Magna Carta
Vault next April, part of a 22 million
restoration, while Salisbury opens a
permanent exhibition in February,
when its Magna Carta returns.
As for the BL, its huge exhibition,
running from March to September,
will bring together for the first and
maybe last time, certainly in our
lifetimes the three seminal
documents enshrining the liberties of
the English-speaking world: Magna
Carta and (making their UK debuts)
the American Declaration of
Independence and Bill of Rights.
Many historians argue that Magna
Carta, by limiting the supposedly God-
given powers of the King, inspired the
founding fathers of the United States
to ditch him altogether.
I just hope all these Magna Carta
celebrations, for which HM Treasury
has forked out 1 million, dont get
hijacked by people making political
points about British nationality or
about what should be taught to
schoolchildren (as, to a certain extent,
the First World War centenary was
hijacked). Magna Carta might have
been an important landmark in the
history of civil rights, but that journey
from serfdom to democracy began a
century earlier and still goes on today.
It needs careful explanation, not
political grandstanding. David
Cameron has already come close to
the latter when, in the wake of the
alleged takeover of Birmingham
schools by Islamic extremists, he said
that every child in Britain needed to
study Magna Carta as the foundation
of all our laws and liberties.
He should brush up his own
knowledge first. Two years ago he was
unable even to offer a translation of
the words magna carta on the Late
Show with David Letterman. No, not
even a vague, Eton-educated stab in
the dark. Good grief. In the immortal
words of Tony Hancock: Does Magna
Carta mean nothing to you? Did she
die in vain?
For all that
medieval history,
four million quid
feels like a snip
also on Tuesday that the British
Library announced a ballot to win the
ticket of the century or perhaps
that should be eight centuries. To
mark the 800th anniversary of Magna
Carta, the BL is offering 1,215 lucky
people (oh, the symbolism!) the chance
to view all four surviving copies of the
The City of Londons 1297 Magna Carta and three others are to go on show
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15, 99min
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Jack OConnell
at the centre of
the action in 71
THE
CRITICS
the big film
Blood and guts in Belfast
Kate Muir
sees The Maze Runner lose its way p8
Will Hodgkinson
listens to a pair of Jessies p9
Rachel Campbell-Johnston
navigates Sigmar Polke at Tate p11
I
t is the basic premise of any
number of war movies: a
soldier is stranded behind
enemy lines, and during his
struggle for survival finds
himself questioning just who
the adversary really is. But
by transposing the action to
the back streets of Belfast during
the Troubles, 71 brings a fresh
perspective and a piercing urgency
to a well-worn scenario.
This propulsive, sickeningly tense
thriller works particularly well because
of the surreal familiarity even
banality of the backdrop. This is
not the barbed-wire labyrinth of the
trenches in occupied France; its
not the blasted moonscape of
Afghanistans mountain country or
the unforgiving desert of the Gulf
war. Its a sprawl of dowdy little
terraces, populated by lippy kids and
no-nonsense matriarchs. But for the
blazing cars and simmering hostility it
could be any unprepossessing inner
city in the UK.
Jack OConnell flexes every fibre of
his formidable star quality as newly
minted British soldier Gary Hook.
He has hurled himself into the
training with a gusto that is only
slightly deflated by the news that his
platoon will be posted, not to
Germany, but to Northern Ireland.
He and his fellow squaddies are not
the only new recruits to arrive in the
barracks. His new commanding
officer, Lieutenant Armitage
(Sam Reid), comes from a world far
away from the gritty sectarian hatred
and privation of Belfasts streets.
His brayed greeting (Hellair!)
betrays his nerves. A briefing explains
the stark divisions that carve up
the city the roads that serve
as a frontlines and the no-go areas,
including the monolithic Divis flats.
It doesnt take long for the soldiers
to have to put their training into
practice. Their very first outing, a
spectacularly mismanaged routine
operation in co-operation with the
brutally gung-ho police, rapidly
ignites. Gary smirks incredulously
as a gang of feisty pre-teens
bombards them with bags of
urine. But the smile fades as he
comprehends the full force of the
hostility that crashes down on them.
Director Yann Demange crafts a
brilliant sequence in which the
soldiers, unwelcome in the Catholic
side of town, are greeted by a
cacophony of bin lids bashed on
pavement. Veiled by the assault
of noise, menacing figures mass in
the background.
The explosion of violence that
leaves Gary bewildered, alone and
covered in the blood of his closest
friend is superbly executed. But
its the aftermath that really
ratchets up the tension. Following
a shocking and unexpected event
that snatches Gary away from
safety, we follow the wounded young
soldier as he stumbles through the
hellish sulphurous yellow of the
smoke-filled streets. OConnell
gives a wrenchingly physical
performance we feel every
shuddering breath he forces.
The one question mark that hangs
over the story is the role of the covert
British undercover team that becomes
as palpable a threat to Gary as the
IRA. Their murky motivation and
machinations feel more like a
forced plot device than a credible
story strand.
Effie Gray
12A, 108min
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The Rewrite
12A, 107min
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Annabelle
15, 99min
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Gold
15, 86min
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I
f ever a story cried out for the
richly saturated, passionate tones
of melodrama, its Effie Gray.
Scripted by Emma Thompson, this
is the story of Effie aka Euphemia
(Dakota Fanning), the teenage bride of
the critic and essayist John Ruskin
(Greg Wise) and, later, the wife of the
pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett
Millais (Tom Sturridge). Its a tale of
intrigue and scandal; cruelty and
sexuality. Or at least it should be.
Unfortunately, this buttoned-up
costume drama is as wishy-washy as a
watercolour. Partly because of
Fannings somewhat bloodless
performance and partly due to the
focus on the oppressive abuse of Effies
relationship with Ruskin rather than
the release of her romance with
Millais, this love triangle lacks edge.
The latest Hugh Grant rom-com,
The Rewrite is a well-crafted piece,
full of persuasive character detail and
genuinely funny dialogue. Grant plays
Keith Michaels, an Oscar-winning
writer whose career has hit the skids.
In desperation, his agent puts him
forward for a teaching position in a
damp corner of upstate New York. Its
a job for which he is uniquely
unsuited. He sleeps with a pupil and
offends a powerful faculty member,
played by Allison Janney, and thats
before he has even stepped into a
lecture theatre. Marisa Tomei is
sparky and likeable as the single-mum
mature student who helps him to take
stock of his life.
The prequel to last years The
Conjuring, Annabelle is an effectively
jumpy horror about a demonically
possessed doll. Unfortunately, its
effective mainly because it steals
practically everything from other,
better movies. Theres the creaky
rocking chair that moves by itself; the
possessed sewing machine and a
whole lot of Rosemarys Baby chewed
up and spewed out.
The quirky Irish comedy Gold stars
James Nesbitt and Maisie Williams
(Game of Thrones). This is presumably
why it is being released, because its
not due to any actual merit. David
Wilmot stars as Ray, absent father of
the aspiring runner Abbie (Williams)
who snivels back into her life and
wrecks everything he touches. As
charmless as it is unfunny. Wendy Ide
Jack OConnell thrills as a lost
and hunted soldier at the height
of the Troubles, says Wendy Ide
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This tedious teen tosh is less
taught thriller, more Lord of
the Flies-lite, says Kate Muir
Weve got
to get out
of this place
The Maze
Runner
12A, 115min
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I
n the annals of dystopian
young-adult franchises,
The Maze Runner is less than
totes amazeballs. Frankly, its
a bit whatevs and derivs of the
colossus of The Hunger Games.
But allow, fam you may just
have to give your offspring
bare ps to purchase a cinema ticket
because, after all, YOLO.
YOLO (you only live once, oldsters)
could also describe the philosophy of
the adolescents trapped in the maze
of the title. Every so often one makes
a dash for the exit, never to return, as
the concrete passageways become
monstrous by night, populated by
creatures called Grievers.
The film was adapted from James
Dashners books and, like The Hunger
Games and Divergent, pits teenagers
against each other in the shadow of a
futuristic dictatorship. This time the
protagonist is a young man, Thomas
(Dylan OBrien), who wakes up in a
rattling goods lift hurling him upwards
into the Glade, a verdant expanse
surrounded by skyscraper-sized walls
and the entry to the maze. Thomas
has lost his memory and seems
puzzled by this confined space, but to
us it seems tediously similar to the
island in Lord of the Flies or the arena
in The Hunger Games.
The Glade is populated by lost boys,
or at least boys who have also lost
their memories. They grow crops,
build huts and live on supplies that
come in the goods lift each month
with a greenie: a new member of
their community. The elite of the
group are maze runners who run in
to map the labyrinth, a city without
street signs or windows that changes
its configuration every night.
At first they seem a milquetoast
bunch, saying Good job! and living
in harmony, which never makes for
great cinema. Eventually, though,
the Lord of the Flies character types
emerge: handsome Thomas becomes
a maze runner and leader like Ralph;
Gally (Will Poulter, with his great
puckered, worried face) is the
opposing force, like Jack in Goldings
novel, and a Piggy turns up in the
form of Chuck (Blake Cooper), a
chubby, behind-the-curve kid.
Aside from Thomas Brodie-Sangster
(Newt), the rest of the cast has that
The Calling
15, 108min
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Giovannis Island
102min
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Filmed in
Supermarionation
PG, 119min
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Gone Too Far!
12A, 87min
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I
n The Calling Susan Sarandon
stars as the now-ubiquitous
grumpy, hard-talking female
detective and gives a rounded and
funny performance. Fun is also had
with her passive-aggressive mother,
played by Ellen Burstyn. However, the
script of this Canadian serial killer
movie is heavily signposted, so that
even Sarandons Hazel Micallef seems
bored by it. The killer likes to make
dramatic, effortful statements
stolen stomachs; heads in freezers
and moulds the victims mouths into
strange shapes. So when Christopher
Heyerdahl walks into town as a
religious healer with mad, staring blue
eyes, no one is surprised, least of all us.
Giovannis Island is an anime
feature about two young brothers
who find themselves under Soviet
occupation after the Second World
War on the formerly Japanese island
of Shikotan. The brothers, Junpei and
Kanta, are obsessed by toy trains and
the galactic railroad, despite never
having seen a real train
in their fishing village.
When the Soviet
forces and their
families arrive, the
Japanese and Soviet
children are wary of
each other until, in a
charming moment, each
group sings the others songs.
The burgeoning friendship
between Junpei (he Italianises
his name to Giovanni) and the
Soviet commanders daughter
comes as relations between the two
communities sour. The Japanese are
starving, Junpeis father is sent to a
prison camp and the film, directed by
Mizuho Nishikubo, enters into grim
adult reality.
If the words Thunderbirds are
go! leave you panting with nostalgia
then the documentary Filmed in
Supermarionation is sure to fascinate,
although at almost two hours it may
leave even the biggest fans of film-
maker/puppeteer Gerry
Anderson flagging.
Thunderbirds,
Captain Scarlet and
the Mysterons, Joe 90
and Supercar were
created by the zany and
resourceful AP Films in
a warehouse in Slough in
the Sixties. The documentary
shows talking-head interviews
with producers and puppeteers and
explains Supermarionation, a term
coined by Anderson to describe
humanoid puppets such as Lady
Penelope, above on near-invisible
strings with mouths electronically
synchronised to the script and a
background of explosive special effects.
The pleasure lies in watching
excerpts from the old, delightfully
clunky series: Thunderbird 1 blasting
off through the plastic palm trees of
Tracy Island and those pale-blue
air-hostessy uniforms on the pilots
Scott, Virgil, Gordon, John and Alan.
still-in-a-school-play stench and the
characters gain little depth.
The trips into the maze get
formulaic and once you see that
the boys have made an observation
platform of tree trunks, the question
recurs: what about a bigger ladder to
see over the top? But thats too simple
and would prevent the monsters
in the maze from scaring your
arachnophobic child. While under-12s
might be shocked by the monsters,
older viewers will find the attacks are
muddily filmed, so the full horror goes
unseen. The decision to cut 43 seconds
of threat, violence and injury and go
from a 15 to a 12A certificate may have
been the wrong one. What could have
been a scary creature-feature has been
reduced to an unintelligent actioner.
The dystopian element is equally
underexploited. The boys are
worryingly incurious about the fact
that their supplies and walls are
printed with the letters WCKD. Does
the unknown authoritarian power
knowingly call itself wicked? Is it a
reference to Kafkas The Trial? Or is it
an advert for WKD alcopop? Discuss.
But they dont bother.
Keep turning right, kids: Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Dylan OBrien, Kaya Scodelario and their fellow maze runners
Just as boredom sets in, a new
greenie arrives in the form of Teresa,
played by Kaya Scodelario (Wuthering
Heights, Skins). In her limp hand is a
note: Shes the last one ever. Now
this is an interesting scenario. Will the
lads make whoopee to keep civilisation
going? Will Teresa make them form
an orderly queue? No, she just ends
up being one of the lads, with some
snoozeworthy lines, and those hoping
for the traditional young-adult love
triangle will be disappointed.
Still, teenagers adore a gladiatorial
popularity contest because its just like
school. Kids raised on Big Brother will
also relish the tempers fanned by a
confined space. To me, however, The
Maze Runner looked like a multiplayer
computer game and perhaps that is
because its the work of the first-time
director Wes Ball, whose credits total
a seven-minute CGI animated short.
Ball is clearly handier with effects
than actors and the crediting of
three screenwriters smacks of messy
rewrites. Still, a sequel, The Scorch
Trials, is lined up for next year. Have
no doubt that this franchise will be
thoroughly milked.
Gone Too Far! is set among black
teenagers in south London and is
based on the Olivier award-winning
play by Bola Agbaje. The comedy has
some real moments of insight and wit
but suffers from some of the hammiest
acting around: its like a panto
transferred to a Peckham park.
Directed by Destiny Ekaragha, it
focuses on Yemi, a Londoner whose
long-lost Nigerian brother full of
bonhomie, occasionally speaking
Yoruba and wearing socks and sandals.
Yemi finds him cripplingly
embarrassing, a knock to his street
cred in front of the local girls.
Malachi Kirby is convincing as Yemi
but his mother, played by Golda John,
takes over-the-top to a new low.
Unnatural dialogue betrays the stage
roots of the film, but the issues behind
the teenagers feuds a schism
between communities with African
ancestry and those with Jamaican
are given a thorough airing.
Kate Muir
film
Under-12s
might be
shocked
but the full
horror is
muddily
filmed
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Jessie Ware
Tough Love
Island
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Jessie J
Sweet
Talker
Universal/Island
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Two big Jessies battle it out
The understated
love songs of
Jessie Ware thrill
Will Hodgkinson
frantic Jessie J
should take note
F
or a brief period in the
1980s, tasteful jazzy pop
became the height of
chic. Sade was queen of
the scene, saxophones
were nothing to be feared
and white soul poseurs
Curiosity Killed the Cat
even coaxed Andy Warhol out of
retirement. It was music that went
with a new shirt from Paul Smith
and a Saturday night date in a wine
bar and now Jessie Ware is on a
one-woman crusade to revive that
smooth soundtrack to the lush life.
Her accomplished second album is
the musical equivalent of suburbia:
easy to mock, even easier to slip into.
All the emotion of life is there, but its
restrained by decency, politeness,
understatement. Even the cover, in
which the 29 year-old south Londoner
stares out of a window wearing a crisp
white mans shirt, suggests a certain
dignified melancholy.
Ware is in a state of recently
married bliss, but you would never
guess from the title track. Its a love
song about solitude, a close relation to
the post-divorce work of Phil Collins,
in which her lighter-than-air soprano
glides over a gossamer synth and the
kind of beat that doesnt like to get in
the way.
Ware stands out by her normality. In
recent years female singers have
become known for everything apart
from their singing: Rihanna for her
sexuality, Lady Gaga for her
theatricality and Miley Cyrus for being
a one-woman hormonal explosion.
Ware asks to be judged on nothing
more than her voice and songwriting.
She had a brief early career as a
journalist, working at The Jewish
Chronicle and the Daily Mirror, and
she might have the inhibition of one
more inclined to comment from the
sidelines; she has talked in interviews
about her discomfort at being a star.
That reticence is at the heart of the
album. It has feeling and urgency, but
its not in any way brash or showy.
How did you get here?
When did it begin? No one
else can hear us, she coos
on the Sade-like Sweetest
Song, while Pieces is an
ultra-slow heartbreak
ballad complete
whose strings
build into a
crescendo of
misery. It sounds like
Kate Bush in one of her
more commercial moments:
unguardedly emotional,
rooted in experience
and with a complete lack
of edginess.
The best song is the
saddest. Say You Love Me
has a complex melodic
intersection of the type
thats used to put
X Factor contestants
through their paces
and words about a
relationship that is
meant to be, but still
appears to be falling
apart. Theres a
vulnerability to the
song that suggests
its born of experience, which it is:
Ware wrote it after she and her now-
husband had gone through a rocky
patch.
Sometimes Ware goes too far in her
quest for timeless adult pop tailored to
soothe everyone and offend no one.
Champagne Kisses is an ode to her
husband thats so syrupy you feel a
little queasy after listening to it. As is
the way with so many modern pop
albums, Tough Love has required a
small army of collaborators, American
producer-to-the-stars Benny Blanco
among them, but what shines through
is a unique timbre in Wares voice. Say
You Love Me, which she co-wrote with
Ed Sheeran, is the most commercial
song here, but its made affecting by
the tender way in which Ware sings:
Wont you stay?
Above all, this is a suburban album.
Accessible and classy, its very much in
the spirit of the Eighties, the decade
when suburbia, with its values of
comfort, aspiration and unchanging
reassurance, really made sense.
From one big Jessie to another: in
the week Jessie Ware has brought
back a sense of restraint to pop,
Jessie J has done everything in her
power to get rid of it.
Jessie J is the outgoing performing-
arts-school type who had huge hits
with Do it Like A Dude and Price Tag
before becoming an all-round
celebrity, appearing at the Olympics
closing ceremony and as a judge on
The Voice. Shes good at being a pop
star and shes a cheerful role model for
her mostly young, mostly female
fanbase, but listening to her third
album is like being bludgeoned to
death by the cast of Glee.
Im going to do it like it aint been
done! the 26-year-old Londoner barks
on Aint Been Done, before doing it like
its been done many, many times on a
slice of pure pop thats juiced up with
urban attitude and studio effects. She
switches to Queen-like rock balladry
for Burnin Up, which crams in not
only as many musical styles but also as
many clichs as possible. It becomes a
sultry R&B anthem, then a dancefloor
banger, then the rapper 2 Chainz
pops up to say something about
Lamborghinis and finally it ends
with an electronic disco section.
At the very least its value for money.
Jessie J has a musical-theatre
students approach to
making an album, doing
professional imitations
of whatever style the
song demands. Shes
defensive about her
abilities, too. Why
do they hate me?
she asks on Loud.
Why are there blogs
set up to debate but
only forsake me? Its
not a question you really
want her to ask. Nobody
wants to imagine their
favourite pop star googling their
own name.
T
he prospect of the singer
Cecilia Bartoli running out
of archive discoveries seems
about as remote as Bartoli
running out of breath.
Every few years this magnetic star
mezzo, pictured below, pops up with
another glossily packaged release,
a promotional tour and a new set of
foot-tapping, larynx-wobbling arias
that few other people knew existed.
The new albums title tells us where
she found them, in St Petersburg, in
the Mariinsky Theatres library
resting place of music written in the
18th century by the court musicians
of what the publicity calls three
formidable tsaritsas. Catherine the
Greats name we know about, but
thats not quite the case with her
Empress predecessors Anna
Ioannovna and Elizabeth Petrovna, or
two of the visiting composers featured
here, Francesco Araia and Hermann
Raupach. None of the 11 selections, all
from operas, has been recorded before.
Bartoli hurls herself into these lost
artefacts of the Russian baroque with
every drop of her usual flair and a
little more vibrato than before. Theres
nothing pale-faced either about the
musicians of Diego Fasoliss group
I Barocchisti; when her coloratura
flights fuse with their racing strings
its as if youre spinning into a vortex.
The performances giddy
excitements delay for a time the
realisation that the musics quality, this
time round, isnt quite from the eras
top drawer. Gestures and rhythms
often appear cut from the Baroque
Pattern Book; melodies lack a twist of
distinction. Yet the spectacle rolls on,
unstoppable: who can possibly yawn
and thumb-twiddle when Bartoli
burns your ears, defiantly
trumpeting Hercules
descent into hell in
Raupachs Altsesta?
And thats in
Russian, too.
Italian is the
usual language,
though, relished
in the gentler
arias lamenting
approaching
death or when the
music bends toward
the pastoral, with
flute and oboe solos.
There is something special
about Bartoli treading pianissimo,
delicately caressing each vowel and
consonant; I wish she did so more often.
Like all her albums, however,
St Petersburg is about coloratura
firepower, about trills, runs and violent
emotions. As for great music, well that
can just about wait for another time.
Geoff Brown
Cecilia Bartoli
St Petersburg
Decca
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rock
classical
Who can yawn or
thumb-twiddle
when Bartoli
burns your ears?
miser
Jessie Ware turns in a
lush, restrained album,
while Jessie J, right,
does anything but
The worlds finest
lieder singers pick
their favourite
Schubert song
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I survived and I
didnt kill anyone,
I dont think
Ozzy Osbourne has a DVD out on his decadent life.
But how much can he recall, asks Rhys Blakely
T
he latest offering from
Ozzy Osbourne is a
DVD memoir, but
if youve followed his
career, this might ring
an alarm bell. Nobody
doubts hes led a life
of unparalleled
heavy-metal decadence. But how
much of it can he really recall?
Ozzy admits to spending most of
the Seventies, Eighties and Nineties
as a raving drug addict. The blizzards
of cocaine, the booze and the frequent
blackouts help explain his antics
decapitating small animals (one dead
bat, two live doves) with his teeth;
snorting a line of ants; his arrest in
1989 for the alleged attempted murder
of his wife, Sharon.
Ozzy started out as a soul singer
in Birmingham, doing Otis Redding
covers; his heroes are the Beatles
and he seems bewildered at the role
he played in inventing heavy metal.
But mind-bending substances might
explain the competing explanations
of how Black Sabbath, his first real
band, came to lay the foundations of
an entire subculture.
Survey the wreckage hes left in
his wake over the past 40 years
(hes admitted to not being able to
remember the birth of his first two
children) and its hard not to think
his life story could be viewed as tragic,
if not for the enormous popularity
of his bumbling brand of henpecked
self-destruction, as showcased on
the mega-hit Noughties reality TV
show, The Osbournes.
And today? Well, at the age of 65,
the Prince of Darkness leads a
seemingly sedate existence in a
palatial mansion in Beverly Hills,
surrounded by a pack of small dogs.
He shuttles himself between his
personal gym and his daily AA
meetings, is haunted by past
misdemeanours and the urge to drink,
and wonders, as we all might, at his
bodys capacity to rejuvenate itself.
Your liver can repair itself with
time, he tells me, settled in a
throne-like armchair in a vast
marble-floored mausoleum of
a sitting room. And what
about his brain? He looks
pensive for a moment.
I told my therapist last
week, My short-term
memory is destroyed.
Do you think I have
brain damage? And he
said it will repair in
time. And I thought,
f*** me, I havent got
that many years left.
All things
considered, Ozzy
appears to be in
pretty good shape.
Hes been sober for
18 months, after
falling off the
wagon last year,
which prompted
Sharon to kick
him out of the
family home for a
spell. Theyve since
reconciled. I ask if there was a trigger:
Im a f***ing alcoholic, he shrugs.
The Ozzy brand demands a nod to
the occult, and sure enough hes
wearing a necklace made up of dozens
of tiny gold crucifixes. The jewellery
(theres a big gold ring in the shape of
a skull) is paired with a black T-shirt,
black trousers and a comfy-looking
pair of black slippers. His hair is dyed
chestnut and a veneer of foundation,
applied for an upcoming photoshoot,
gives him a healthy Californian glow.
Hes confessed to dabbling with plastic
surgery and he looks trim; a knock-out
smile reveals a mouthful of what
appears to be very expensive dentistry.
The Brummie accent (he grew up
in Aston, dirt poor, the son of a factory
worker) may be mangled by that
famous Ozzy slur, but the work ethic
surely nobody has toured harder
seems undiminished. Black Sabbath
will do a farewell tour sometime
soonish and release another album,
the follow-up to last years 13, the
bands first US No 1.Ozzy and Sharon
are reported to be worth in the region
of 170 million. Their LA home is on
a peaceful, sun-dappled street in one
of the citys classiest neighbourhoods.
The scant traffic on a weekday
afternoon consists almost entirely of
Hispanic gardeners in their pick-up
trucks and vans ferrying sunburnt
holidaymakers on sightseeing tours
of celebrity houses.
In the driveway there are three
black Range Rovers, a Bentley
and the truck used by the visiting
dog-grooming service. Ozzy used
to have a Ferrari, but Sharon sold it
when he started drinking again.
Im led into a lounge thats
festooned floor to ceiling with
expensive black-and-white photos,
mostly from the Sixties, including a
big original print of Frank Sinatra
and Mia Farrow at Truman Capotes
black-and-white ball in 1966. Its
surrounded by images of movie icons
Brando, Dean, Newman et al.
Please dont touch, says Tom, Ozzys
rather posh English assistant. A visitor
recently scuffed a piece of art; Sharon
was not amused. Its not very
rocknroll. Ozzy tells me about the
time a fan came to a concert in the
Eighties, wearing a freshly butchered
cows head as a hat, but today theres
the sense that age and money might
have finally mellowed the Osbournes.
Im taken to his study; the first photo
I see is of him next to Cliff Richard,
meeting the Queen. I think she does
a tremendous job, he says.
His new CD and DVD, Memoirs of
a Madman, picks up the Ozzy story
shortly after he was asked to leave
Black Sabbath (his drinking and
drug-taking having got out of
hand) in 1979.
The DVD gives a whirlwind
tour through the Eighties
and Nineties, a period when
Ozzy was biting heads off
bats and outraging
Americas moral
majority by
urinating
on the Alamo.
Looking back,
he says he didnt
believe in
blackouts
(I thought it
was a scare
tactic to stop
me drinking)
until he
woke up
one morning
Its like being
possessed. Its
hard being
an alcoholic
wok
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accused of trying to strangle his wife.
She didnt press charges.
But the scariest thing is probably the
sight of Ozzy on stage circa 1984,
dressed in a kind of purple-sequinned
tent with shoulder pads. He was
chubbier back then and he wore lots of
mascara. He looks, in fact, like
Elizabeth Taylors deranged evil twin.
People thought I was camp not my
favourite time, he admits. Indeed, the
onstage extravagance is enough to
make one wonder whether the
madman stuff had been
an act all along.
In 2011, his son
Jack helped make a
documentary,
God Bless Ozzy
Osbourne, that
raised a similar
question. Jacks
theory was that
the young Ozzy
was blindsided
by his early
success; that he
was an incredibly
successful musician
who developed a
fantastically entertaining
way of being self-destructive to mask
his insecurity.
The obvious question then is where
did the Ozzy persona finish and the
real John (his given name being John
Michael Osbourne) begin? He says
that for years he tried to separate the
two. Today, when he attends his AA
meetings hell introduce himself as
John but the division has never
really held.
The way I tried to explain it was
that the guy who works at the circus
as Coco the Clown, he doesnt go
home with his big nose and boots [on].
He takes [his] mask off and is a normal
guy. But I wasnt doing that: Ozzy was
John and John was Ozzy.
And both were alcoholics. Ozzy may
have made millions out of messing
about with inverted crosses, but the
darkest thing in his life has been this
disease. I said to my therapist, last
Friday: You know what? Its like
being possessed with something.
Its so hard being an alcoholic; it
creeps up when you least expect it.
You know that film, The Lord of the
Rings, when Gollum slowly opens one
eye? Its like that.
In the past, Ive been with people
and theyve been drinking. Its
Christmas and Ive been sober. Ill
think when I go home Ill have one.
And when I wake up everyones left
the house. Im on my own, in my own
piss on the floor.Hes a believer, he
says, in the 12-step recovery program
that calls for him to acknowledge a
power greater than himself.
I ask him what it is. The old Ozzy,
you might imagine, would have said
Beelzebub before trying to bite my
ear off.
Its this place. The sky, the ocean
. . . the goodness in me, if I have any
left . . . nature, the world, the universe.
Whatever it is, its kept me sober and
going back every day for
18 months.
He catches himself;
perhaps hes getting
a bit too sombre.
Im not turning
into the heavy-
metal f***ing
pope, he says.
Im still crazy.
I always will
be crazy. Im
not going to
fake being crazy.
I am.
So, any regrets? I
get asked this question
a lot. I dont. You go to
the crossroads, you take one
[path] and you better be prepared to
take the good and the bad that comes
because you cant change it. I chose
the path that I went on to get here and
I survived and havent killed anyone,
I dont think.
But he doesnt hide his past sins.
The reality show may have propelled
him to a new level of fame, but he
suggests it also sent his two children
Kelly and Jack off the rails and into
their own addiction problems. The
kids were getting out of hand, smoking
dope, drinking, he says. He admits
to having been, at points, an abysmal
father. He says that he is ashamed at
having beaten his first wife.
So is he happy today?
Im happier. My head still tries to
kill me on a daily basis. I am haunted
by things. But today Im doing OK.
Memoirs of a Madman will be
released on DVD, CD, LP and
picture disc on Monday by
Epic/Legacy Recordings
I always will be
crazy. Im not
going to fake
being crazy
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Ozzy Osbourne
and friend at
home in LA. Left:
playing live in
1991. Above right:
with wife Sharon
and children
Aimee, Kelly
and Jack in 1987
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Obituaries
Andrew Kerr
One of the founding fathers of the Glastonbury festival whose vision of a new-age gathering in 1971 attracted an audience of just 12,000
Kerr, pictured in 1971, once worked as a researcher for Randolph Churchill whose son described him as intolerably hip
When Andrew Kerr approached the
Somerset farmer Michael Eavis in 1970
and asked if he could use his land for a
rock festival, he had in mind a very
different kind of event to what
Glastonburywouldeventuallybecome.
Rather than 120,000 festivalgoers
corralled behind a 1 million security
fence paying ticket prices in excess of
200, Kerr proposed a freewheeling
event withnoadvertisingandnoticket-
ing. Hewantedacounter-cultural gath-
ering of hippy tribes who would be fed
on brown rice and lentils paid for by
donations from Jean Shrimpton
while they listened to free music by
David Bowie, Hawkwind, Fairport
Convention, Traffic andArthur Brown.
Dubbed the Glastonbury Fair, it was
timed to coincide with the summer
solstice in June 1971 (a mystical date in
the Druidic calendar) and was built
around a pyramid stage made of scaf-
folding and plastic sheeting. Kerr a
former public schoolboy turned new-
age devotee believed in ley lines as
the source of the Earths spiritual
energy and the power of occult ritual.
A report in The Observer at the time
noted: Kerr has the intensity of a man
with a deep spiritual obsession. He
claims he is trying to re-create a prehis-
toric science, whose huge energies are
not recognised by modern society.
The 1971 festival was not the first at
Worthy Farm. Eavis had held a small
event the previous year. The 1 charge
included free milk. However, he had
lost money so when Kerr offered to pay
off the farms debts in return for the use
of his land, he enthusiastically
embraced the idea. To fund the event,
which cost a reported 41,000, Kerr
sold family heirlooms and enlisted the
help of Arabella Churchill, the wild-
child granddaughter of Sir Winston
and daughter of Randolph Churchill.
The pair were dismissed by some in
the music business as a couple of toffs
but their improbable vision of combin-
ing modern pop culture and ancient
magical rites dreamt up over months
staying at the farm and climbing Glas-
tonburyTor attracted12,000people.
Copious quantities of cannabis and
LSD were consumed and John Craven,
at the time ajunior reporter onregional
TV news, told viewers that locals were
horrified by the free lovemaking, fer-
tility rites, naked dancing and drug-
taking. One policemanreported: Our
men saw this girl making love in the
mud . . . About a thousand people stood
byandwatched. Yet therewas virtually
no trouble and only two arrests al-
though a naked druid named Rollo
Maughfling was sectioned under the
Mental Health Act.
There were no further festivals at
Glastonbury until the late 1970s al-
though each summer hopeful hippies
turned up at the farm. When Eavis re-
vived the idea on a more commercial
footing in1978, Kerr remainedinvolved
in its running and many of his innova-
tions including the pyramid stage
and his eco-politics continue to
shape the event today.
He brought a new green conviction
toWorthyFarm, raisingenvironmental
and ecological concerns to a national
level of debate for the very first time,
said Eavis, on hearing of Kerrs death.
Bornin1933at Ewell, Surrey, Andrew
Kerr was the son of a naval officer and
a descendant of the 6th Marquis of Lo-
thian. He was educated at Radley,
where undiagnosed dyslexia led to him
being dismissed as stupid, and when he
followed his father into the Royal Navy
to do his National Service, it was not as
an officer but as a stores assistant.
After various dead end jobs, in 1958
he went to work for Randolph Church-
ill as a personal assistant, initially to as-
sist inresearchontheofficial biography
he was writing of his father.
When he reported for work at
Churchills country home, Stour House
in Suffolk, his employer greeted him at
breakfast on the first morning with the
words: Mr Kerr, Imafraid I was rather
drunk last night and dont really know
why youre here.
Despite this unpromising start, he
worked for Churchill for the next ten
years until his death in 1968. His abili-
ties as a researcher were poor and the
task was soon ceded to the historian
Martin Gilbert; but Kerr became his
employers close and trusted compan-
ion and was virtually adopted as one of
the family.
He was described by Randolph
Churchills son as intolerably hip a
put-down which provided Kerr with a
delicious title for his autobiography,
published in 2011. However, he became
a close friend to his daughter Arabella
(who died in 2007) and was warmly
welcomedintoChurchills circle of high
society friends, including Lady Diana
Cooper and John Profumo, whom he
helped to hide fromthe press following
his resignation from the government
over his affair with Christine Keeler.
At a luncheon hosted by Cooper,
Kerr found himself seated next to Prin-
cess Margaret, on whom he tried out
the theory that the Bible described
supernatural events carried out by
extra-terrestrials. I think she must
have guessedI was a bit high, he noted.
His interest in the writings of the
eccentric new age guru John Michell
his inspiration for his conversation
with Princess Margaret led himinto
the hippy demi-monde of the time and
a visit to the Isle of Wight festival in
1970inspiredthe idea for his ownevent,
to be organised on a radically different
basis. There seemed to be a need for a
free festival, he wrote. All the others
had some profit motive behind them.
The bread [money] was made out of the
people who could least afford it. It was
time they were given a party.
When Stonehenge, his first choice of
site, proved unfeasible, he settled on
Glastonbury and together withArabel-
la Churchill, set about planning the
event. They took decisions on the basis
of astrology and tarot card readings.
The pyramid stage on which
Churchill spent 4,000 of her own
moneywas constructedas a 10:1 scale
replicaof the Great Pyramidat Gizaand
built upon a site identified by John Mi-
chell as a ley line allegedly connecting
Glastonbury and Stonehenge. What
weweretryingtodowas tostimulatethe
Earthsnervoussystemwithjoy, appreci-
ation and happiness so that our mother
planet would respond by breeding a
happier, more balanced race of men,
animals and plants, Kerr explained.
Eavis later confessed that he found
his fellow organisers to be slightly un-
hinged. Hedescribedonetarot reading
after a disagreement: The message
read: No one withthe name of Michael
should be involved with the festival.
And I said: Hang on a minute, isnt this
my farm? However, he paid tribute to
Kerr andChurchill as theeco-warriors
of their day without whose boundless
energy and enthusiasm Glastonbury
never would have succeeded. The
remarkable spirit of the event argua-
bly Britains closest answer to Wood-
stock was captured by the directors
Nicolas Roeg and Peter Neal inthe film
Glastonbury Fayre.
Inthemid-1970s Kerr andhis partner
Lytte Piggott moved to a remote new
age crofting community at Scoraig in
Ross and Cromarty, accessible only by
boat or a five-mile hike. They had two
children, Martha and Jonah, now both
crofters in Scotland. After Piggott left
him Kerr embarked on various alter-
native lifestyles, including living in an
ashram with an Indian guru and work-
ingas a drystone-waller, before settling
again in Piltdown, near Glastonbury.
He described the festivals rebirth in
1978: Id been away for the weekend
and I came back and saw these tepees
over thehedgenear thefarmhouse, and
there was Michael on his tractor with a
coupleof milkchurns ontheback. I said
whats going on, and he said with a
broad grin on his face, weve got a
festival on our hands. By 1982 it was a
regular event. To mark the 40th anni-
versary of the Glastonbury Fair, Kerr
was invited to organise a Spirit of 71
stage featuring several of the original
performers. It was the most blessed
thinginmylife, hesaid. Thechanceto
live out a dream, a really crazy dream.
Andrew Kerr, co-organiser of the
Glastonbury festival, was born on
November 29, 1933. He died on October 5,
2014, aged 80
He took decisions on the
basis of astrology and
tarot card readings
BRIAN WALKER
At lunch with Princess
Margaret he described
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Nicholas Romanov
Stateless head of Russias former ruling family who in 1998 co-ordinated the burial of the ill-fated last tsar and his family
Nicholas Romanov in St Petersburg in 1998 for the burial of the murdered former Russian royal family, below
Although regarded by many as the
head of Russias former ruling family,
Nicholas Romanov never showed any
interest in claiming back the throne.
Indeed, he was a republican who
believed that the country had no need
of a tsar. Its all over, he said in 2003.
That would be another upheaval and
we have barely learnt to deal with
democracy.
Instead, he concentrated on
strengthening the ties between the
widely scattered descendants of the
Romanovs (he lived in Italy) and on
rebuilding links with their erstwhile
homeland. I am a lover of history and
I havelearnt fromit, heexplained. This
reaped a significant dividend in 1998
when he was asked by the Russian
authorities to advise on the burial in St
Petersburgs cathedral of theremains of
the imperial family, exhumed seven
years earlier.
It was Prince Nicholas who suggest-
ed that all of those killed with Tsar
Nicholas II at Yekaterinburg in 1918
including his doctor and three servants
should be interred together. He
hoped that this gesture towards equali-
ty would help Russia to come to terms
with its past. In 2006, his lobbying of
President Putin led also to the return
fromDenmark of the coffinof the tsars
mother, the Dowager Empress Maria
Feodorovna, sothat she couldlie beside
her husband, Alexander III.
Romanov founded an association
intended to prevent the family from
losing touch and with what he termed
their Russian-ness in 1979. As well as
engaging in charity work in Russia, the
organisation was also intended to keep
interlopers out. For years he received
begging letters from those claiming to
be descendants of children of the tsar
whoweresupposedtohaveescapedthe
massacre in 1918.
As president of theassociation, heled
representatives of the Romanovs at the
funeral ceremonies. However, his claim
to do so was disputed by his cousin,
Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna,
on the basis that his parents marriage
was not between equals and so violated
imperial protocol. Moreover, she re-
garded Russias current rulers as being
Bolsheviks still, and any dealings with
them as anathema. Its all very sad,
said Prince Nicholas, pointing out that
in any event no living Romanov now
qualified as a potential tsar under the
strict laws of succession. The Roma-
nov family is the history of Russia. We
did a lot of bad things but a lot of good,
too. We represent Russias past. But ex-
erting oneself, scrambling to get power
and privileges. . . . Excuse me, were liv-
ing in the 21st century, not the 18th.
After the funeral of the last tsar and
his family he said, I have always said
that not only were we burying the tsar
and those who died with him, but we
were also burying the most blood-
stained pages of our past. Leave themto
scholars. Russians shouldlookforward.
The elder of two boys, he was born at
CapdAntibes in1922. His father Prince
Roman Petrovich of Russia was de-
scended from the younger son of Tsar
Nicholas I (1825-1855), and was cousin
and godson to Tsar Nicholas II. His
mother Praskovia was the daughter of
the Grand Duchess Militsa, a princess
of Montenegro. Praskovias father had
been a childhood friend of the tsar.
Nicholass parents left Russia in 1919
on board the British battleship Marl-
borough, which also carried into exile
the Dowager Empress aunt to King
George V as well as Prince Felix Yu-
supov, the murderer of the tsars adviser
Grigori Rasputin. It was Nicholass
grandmother who was said to have
introduced the mystic to the tsarina.
Young Nicholas was given a Russian
upbringing in France, keeping to the
pre-revolutionary Julian calendar and
being taught according to the imperial
curriculum. His parents assumed that
within ten years the Bolsheviks would
losepower andthefamilywouldbeable
to return. Not that they scorned the
Red menace; his grandmother bought
almost the only house on the Riviera
not in sight of the sea because she was
worried about being abducted by a
Soviet submarine.
In 1936 they moved to Italy, as the
schools were thought to be better for
Nicholas, who hoped to pursue a naval
career, although the discovery of his
short-sightedness put paidtothis. They
livedas guests of KingVictor Emmanu-
el, Queen Elena being a sister of
Militsas. Indeed, following the occupa-
tion of Montenegro by the Italians dur-
ing the Second World War, Nicholas
was offered its throne because of the
family connection to the country.
Wisely, he declined.
When the Germans took control of
Italy, the Romanovs went into hiding,
finding refuge in the Vatican. Prince
Nicholas was obliged to abandon his
plans to study engineering and after
Rome was liberated in 1944 he worked
for the US propaganda service.
One consequence of the war was
that, once Russia was under attack,
Nicholas and his parents rediscovered
their love for it. You see, he said in
2003, we always had this sense that we
belonged to Russia, but that Russia did
not belong to us. And belonging to it is
a great joy. I am very proud that I am a
Romanov. Even so, he was unable to
visit Russia until 1992, and spent most
of his life as a stateless person, using a
letter from the King of Greece as a
travel document and only taking
Italian citizenship in 1988.
The abolition of Italys monarchy
had prompted him to settle in Cairo in
1946. He intended to go to university
there, but headmitted: I enjoyedavery
carefree life: the women in Egypt were
beautiful and some of them were
available. Nothing to be proud of, but I
did enjoy myself.
In 1951 he married Countess Sveva
della Gherardesca, whose ancestor
Ugolino features in Dantes Divine
Comedy. After his brother-in-law died
in1955, he tookover the familys estates
in Tuscany and for the next 25 years
bred cattle and produced wine.
He sold the land in 1982, and there-
after he and his wife wintered in Switz-
erland and spent the summers with
their three daughters Natalia, Elisaveta
and Tatiana, who all married Italians.
The daughter of Natalia, Nicoletta Ro-
manoff, is a well-knownactress inItaly.
In 2003 Prince Nicholas hosted a
party at Claridges to celebrate the
publication of a new edition of the
Almanach de Gotha, the directory of
European aristocracy. He was at pains
topoint out that admittance toits pages
was not a foregone conclusion. South-
ern Italy is full of dukes, he noted.
Very nice families, but there are mil-
lions of them. And the Almanach has
always been very careful with
Portuguese dukes.
He spoke five languages, but to his
daughters regret, did not teach them
Russian. I would have made them
foreigners in Italy, he explained.
Nicholas Romanov, head of the Romanov
family association, was born on
September 26, 1922. He died on
September 15, 2014, aged 91
Sheila Stewart
Author who chronicled Britains vanishing rural life after emerging from a poverty-stricken upbringing in childrens homes
Sheila Stewart had written two books
about traditional country life when her
butcher told her to investigate a local
character he had heard singing in the
pub in the Oxfordshire village of En-
stone. Intrigued, she wrote to the man,
a retired farm labourer Mont Abbott,
and asked to meet. His answer came
back, Thee can come if thee wants. I
have no transport, only a wheelbar-
row. She in turn replied that she would
come to his house the following Friday
at 2 oclock: If the wheelbarrow isnt
there, I shall know youre out.
It was the start of two years of close
conversation that became Lifting the
Latch: A Life on the Land, published in
1987, a record of a disappearing way of
life that included carting, shepherding,
church and pub, and was cited by Iona
Opie, the folklorist and childrens
literature specialist, as one of her
favourite books.
Before this Stewart had published
Her first book, A Home From Home
had been published in 1967, and was
rather different. An eye-opening
account of her time in childrens homes
run by the Waifs and Strays Society
(now The Childrens Society), it
detailed the lack of food and clothing,
enforced head-shaving to prevent lice,
how her feet had become deformed
fromwearing the same pair of boots for
years, and the bullying and loneliness
she endured.
In spite of this, it was a positive tale,
paying tribute to the efforts of the staff,
particularly at one home in Ealing.
Much of the credit was due to her,
though, particularly as the first girl
from the home to attend a grammar
school rather than to go into domestic
service at the age of 14.
Stewart was also a pioneer in educa-
tion, setting up one of the first private
nursery schools in the country, which
started in her own front room. Many of
the ideas she introduced were docu-
mented as best practice by the Depart-
ment of Education. After moving to
purpose-built premises, she sold the
school to concentrate onwriting but, as
with her academic achievement, her
influence lived on.
Sheila McCairn was born in Apple-
dore, Devon in 1928. She only discov-
eredinlater life that she was the illegiti-
mate daughter of a maid servant and
that her father had been marked as
Not known on her birth certificate.
Her mother, Maisie, moved to London
soon after her birth and left her with
distant relatives, an elderly couple
living in a fishermans cottage on the
Taw estuary. She recalled that they
survived on a diet of gathered shellfish
and could not afford to buy her bloom-
ers, a matter of some scandal when she
was taken into care at the age of three.
After school, she trained as a teacher
in Chichester and found a job at the
Friends School in Sibford, Oxfordshire,
where she taught English and PE. She
met her husband, Eric, at the local table
tennis club, and they were married in
1952, with the reception given by the
matron at Stewarts final home. Their
first child, Sarah, now a horticulturist,
was born in 1955, followed by Tim, a
security-fencing director, in 1959, and
Mathew, apayments consultant, in1962.
The family eventually settled in
Warwickshire where, in her sixties, she
gavelectures toWomens Institutes and
was active with local horticultural and
pensioners groups.
Her final book in 1993 was Ramlin
Rose: The Boatwomans Story, an oral
history of the women who worked on
horse-drawn narrow boats along the
Oxford Canal.
Sheila Stewart, writer, was born on
January 6, 1928. She died on September
3, 2014, aged 86
The Romanovs did a
lot of bad things, but
a lot of good too
CountryKatein1971, basedonthechild-
hood memories of an elderly woman in
a Warwickshire village, and written in
the vernacular. Aradio adaptation won
her a Writers Guild Award, and she
followed it in 1975 with Country
Courtship(1975), about rural customs of
love and marriage.
Stewart set up a private nursery school
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the times | Friday October 10 2014 FGM 51
Games
Tips for Intermediates
19 - Responding to a
take-out double
Left-hand opponent opens One-
of-a-Suit, partner doubles and
right-hand opponent passes.
Partners double shows an opening
hand with three+ cards in all unbid
suit. If the next hand had bid, the
double would be cancelled and you
would not have to bid. With the
next hand passing, you have to bid.
You must choose your best of the
other suits, preferring a major to a
minor. You should jump a level
with fair values (about 9+ points)
and jump to game with 13+ points.
Exercise: What would you bid
after (1) - Double - (P) - to you?
(i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
Hand (i): Bid 1. You cannot pass! If
you do, 1 doubled will become the
final contract (when opener happily
passes) and it will make overtricks.
Hand (ii): Bid 4. Eight-card heart
fit and values for game.
Hand (iii): Bid 2 jumping to
show 9-12 points. Bid 1 and part-
ner will think you might have
nothing [like Hand (i)].
Hand (iv): Bid 2. Jump to show9-12
and choose the major to the minor,
even though you have one more
club. If theres a game to be had, its
far more likely to be 4 than 5.
Note that if the bidding went (1)
- Double - (2) - to you [such that
the double was cancelled], with
Hand (i) youd pass (relieved!) and
with (ii) still bid 4. Youd have
close choices between 2 and 3
with (iii) and 2 and 3 with (iv).
The fifth spade and the 5431 shape
would tempt me to 3 with (iii) and
the lack of wasted values and 109
would tempt me to 3 with (iv).
West led out AK, East follow-
ing upwards (to deny a doubleton)
and West switched to 10 (best).
Winning K, declarer cashed A
and led to (J and) K. Leaving
Q out, he ruffed 8, then
crossed to Q and ruffed 10. He
now led out A, hoping for a 3-3
split (and 8 discard on 4).
West was out of spades, but if he
ruffed, hed have to lead away from
K, so he discarded 4. Declarer
ruffed 4 and again West discard-
ed. At trick 11 declarer exited with
10. West won Q, but finally had
to lead from K10. Declarer beat
10 with dummys Q and scored
the last trick with A. Game made.
andrew.robson@thetimes.co.uk
Contract: 4, Opening Lead: A
Dealer: West, Vulnerability: Neither
1 Dbl Pass
2(1) Pass 4(2) end
(1) Jumping to show 9-12 points.
(2) Three-and-a-half Hearts really.
S W N E
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Q7
J73
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9764
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KJ982
Q43
K942
6
Q2
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42
A9752
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W E
S
J953
J6
962
J973
AK42
A542
54
Q52
Q76
K1093
10873
A8
108
Q87
AKQJ
K1064
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Winning Move
Black to play. This position is from Keres-
Petrosian, Candidates 1959.
This is one of Petrosians most famous
combinations. He has already given up a
rook to gain access to the white king
position. How did he now conclude?
For up-to-the-minute information follow
my tweets on twitter.com/times_chess.
Petrosian Memorial
On November 3 in Moscow the
Petrosian Memorial will com-
mence, a tribute to the Armenian
grandmaster who held the world
title from 1963 until 1969. Petrosian
also won two individual gold med-
als on top board for the USSR in
the chess Olympiads and in per-
sonal encounters defeated all of
the world champions with whom
he came into contact, namely
Euwe, Botvinnik, Smyslov, Tal,
Spassky, Fischer, Karpov and Kas-
parov. Todays game is an object
lesson in how to extract a winning
advantage against a notoriously
solid opponent who seems more
than happy to enter simplifications
and play for a draw. The notes are
based on those in the outstanding
new book on Petrosian by Thomas
Engqvist, Petrosian: Move by Move
(Everyman Chess).
White: Aleksandar Matanovic
Black: Tigran Petrosian
Kiev 1959
Caro-Kann Defence
1 e4 c6 2 Nc3 d5 3 d4 dxe4 4
Nxe4 Nd7 5 Nf3 Ngf6 6 Nxf6+
Nxf6 7 Bc4 Bf5 8 Qe2 e6 9 Bg5
Be7 10 0-0-0 Bg4
This is a clever prophylactic
move played to eliminate any idea
of Ne5 which would give White
chances of claiming the initiative.
11 h3 Bxf3 12 Qxf3 Nd5 13 Bxe7
Qxe7 14 Rhe1 0-0 15 Kb1 Rad8
16 Bb3 Qf6 17 Qe2 Rd7 18 c3
The d4-pawn is a natural target
for Black so White secures it.
18 ... b5
Targeting the c3-pawn instead.
19 g3 Rfd8 20 f4 b4 21 Qf3
Simagins recommendation 21
Bxd5 Rxd5 22 cxb4 is better. After
22 ... Qg6+ 23 Qd3 Rxd4 24 Qxg6
Rxd1+ 25 Rxd1 Rxd1+ 26 Kc2 hxg6
27 Kxd1 Kh7, a complicated but
drawn pawn ending has arisen.
21 ... bxc3 22 bxc3 c5 23 Re5
cxd4 24 Bxd5
The knight had become too
strong on d5 because of the pawn
breaks with the c- and b-pawns.
Now, though, when the defending
piece disappears Whites kings
position becomes very unsafe.
24 ... Rxd5 25 Rxd5 exd5
Its important to keep both the
major pieces due to Whites bad
kings position. 25 ... Rxd5 26 Rxd4
forces an exchange of rooks since
26 ... Rb5+ is answered by 27 Rb4.
26 Rxd4 h6 27 g4 Qe7 28 Qf2
Rb8+ 29 Ka1 Qa3 30 Qc2 Re8 31
Rb4
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I D D D ]

31 ... d4
The third important break with
a pawn. These three pawns, which
sacrificed themselves for a higher
purpose, should really be dubbed
the three musketeers.
32 Rxd4 Re1+ 33 Rd1 Rxd1+ 34
Qxd1 Qxc3+ 35 Kb1 Qxh3 36 a4
h5 37 gxh5 Qf5+ 38 Kb2 Qxf4 39
Kb3 Qf5 40 Kc4 Kh7 41 Qd2
White resigns
Bridge Andrew Robson Word Watching Paul Dunn
Grubber a. A lepidopterist b. A rag-and-bone man
c. A low kick
Pomology a. Fruit-growing b. Posh English phraseology
c. The science of perfume
Churrigueresque a. With starkly contrasting shades
b. Baroque c. Sausage-like
Across
5 One not getting involved in
other countries affairs (12)
8 Polish pianist-composer (6)
9 Marine reptile (6)
10 Embarrassing mistake (4)
12 Make wider (7)
14 Acetic acid (7)
15 A furtive look (4)
17 Large underground
chamber (6)
18 Detection device (6)
20 Male hormone (12)
Down
1 The charge of the
(Tennyson) (5,7)
2 Highest aftmost deck (4)
3 Combination of substances
(7)
4 Grow greater (8)
6 Former Indian coin (4)
7 Working for ones own
benefit (4-8)
11 Light musical stage work
(8)
13 Wood or nail coating (7)
16 Essential nature
(philosophy) (4)
19 Midday (4)
Solution to Crossword 6527
T2 CROSSWORD No 6528
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5 6 7
8 9
10 11 12
13
14 15
16
17 18 19
20
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E R F P T D N
P I E C E A S I N I N E
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R E M E D I A L R A G A
O T T
B O N O W I R E L E S S
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I N I G O S M E T A N A
N L T U T D H Y
Times Quick Crossword No 6528
Check todays answers by ringing 09067 577188. Calls cost 77p per minute.
Polygon
From these letters, make
words of four or more
letters, always including
the central letter. Answers
must be in the Concise
Oxford Dictionary,
excluding capitalised
words, plurals, conjugated
verbs (past tense etc),
adverbs ending in LY,
comparatives and
superlatives.
How you rate
12 words, average;
16, good; 21, very good;
27, excellent
Yesterdays answers
emit, etui, item, mist, mite,
must, mute, muti, quest, quiet,
quietism, quit, quite, quits, site,
smite, smut, squit, stem, stum,
suet, suit, suite, time, times
Word Watching answers
Grubber (c) In rugby a kick that goes straight along the ground.
Pomology (a) The branch of horticulture concerned with the
study and cultivation of fruit.
Churrigueresque (b) Architecture in the baroque style of Jos
Churriguera (16501725), the Spanish architect and sculptor.
Winning Move solution
1 . . . Q x f 4 + ! 2 Q x f 4 R h 1 m a t e .
Chess Raymond Keene
Sudoku No 6873 Fiendish
7
6 4 8
8 9 1
9 8 3
4 2 7 8 5
2 3 1
5 6
2 6 4
2 9 7
Fill the grid so that every column, every rowand every 3x3 box contains the digits
1 to 9 Solutions tomorrow, yesterdays solutions below
Killer No 3949 Deadly 56min
19 17 10 13
11 23 12 22
20 8
3 18 21
8 20 19
13 17 11 4 16
11 23
9 18 25
14
Fill the grid so that every column, every rowand every 3x3 box contains the digits
1 to 9. The digits within the cells joined by the dotted lines add up to the printed top
left hand figure.
Within each dotted line shape, a digit CANNOT be repeated.
Codeword No 2212
Numbers are substituted for letters in the crossword grid. Below the grid is the key.
Some letters are solved. Whenyouhave completedyour first wordor phrase youwill
havetheclues tomoreletters. Enter theminthekeygridandthemaingridandcheck
the letters on the alphabet list as you complete them.
M
M
I
I
N
N
10 9 26 6 22 7 15 20 9 18 21
4 14 4 5 9 15 5 20 19
2 4 10 22 8 14 20 9 21
25 8 4 7 22 21 17 22 1
20 21 5 22 2 2 4 8 22
11 25 12 15 12 25 9
6 4 2 22 20 21 9 10 12 15 2 22
25 9 25 3 21 21 21
25 20 8 15 6 13 25 5 14
20 5 15 10 9 5 21 21 15
15 12 22 4 5 14 25 2 23
15 3 2 9 5 8 21 22 21
16 20 15 8 8 14 24 3 21 20 20
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Sudoku, Killer and Codeword solutions
7 5 3 1 8 6 4 2 9
8 2 9 5 3 4 1 6 7
6 1 4 2 9 7 8 5 3
9 8 1 3 6 5 2 7 4
2 6 5 7 4 8 9 3 1
3 4 7 9 1 2 5 8 6
4 9 6 8 2 3 7 1 5
1 7 8 6 5 9 3 4 2
5 3 2 4 7 1 6 9 8
4 5 8 3 9 2 6 7 1
2 9 1 7 6 4 5 8 3
7 6 3 5 8 1 4 9 2
5 1 9 8 4 6 3 2 7
8 3 2 9 5 7 1 6 4
6 4 7 2 1 3 8 5 9
1 8 4 6 7 9 2 3 5
9 2 6 4 3 5 7 1 8
3 7 5 1 2 8 9 4 6
A G I R L M I S S J
B O A A I T I E
A M S T U N T A T
C U B E E U K N O T
K O E X I S T Z Y
F L U X N O P A L
S A R D I N E
D U E L E I T C H
Q N T O X I C O A
U N I T V N S W I G
I Q V E R G E B O
F L U R O O W N
F E D I T T H E Y Y
No 6869 No 3947 No 2211 Solution right
52 FGM Friday October 10 2014 | the times
Sport
52
York
Rob Wright
2.00 Four Seasons 4.05 Esteaming (nap)
2.30 See The Sun 4.40 Cabelo
3.00 Storm King 5.10 My Single Malt (nb)
3.30 Brando
Thunderer: 3.00 GM Hopkins (nap). 3.30 Brando.
Going: soft (good to soft on bends)
Draw: no advantage Racing UK
Tote Jackpot meeting
2.00 Nursery Handicap
(2-Y-O: 7,762: 6f) (10)
1 (10) 12334 GEORDIE GEORGE 21 (D) J J Quinn 9-7 P Makin
2 (4) 213 CHARLIE CROKER 18 (D) K A Ryan 9-5 S A Gray (5)
3 (8) 010 FOUR SEASONS 115 (D) C Appleby 9-4 A Kirby
4 (9) 0105 PILLAR BOX 76 (BF) W Haggas 9-2 G Cox (7)
5 (1) 10553 GEORGE BOWEN 21 (D) R Fahey 8-11 R L Moore
6 (3) 33136 MIAMI CAROUSEL 77 (D) J J Quinn 8-10 Joe Doyle (5)
7 (7) 31 ACOLYTE 35 (D) R Charlton 8-7 W Buick
8 (6) 31043 SHOWSTOPPA 13 M Johnston 8-6 J Fanning
9 (2) 54421 THE WISPE 12 R Cowell 8-0 C Hardie (3)
10 (5) 030 NORMANDY KNIGHT 33 R Fahey 8-0 P P Mathers
9-2 Acolyte, 5-1 The Wispe, 6-1 George Bowen, 7-1 Geordie George, Pillar Box,
8-1 Four Seasons, Showstoppa, 12-1 Charlie Croker, 14-1 others.
Rob Wrights choice: Four Seasons has had a break since
flopping at Ascot Dangers: Charlie Croker, Geordie George
2.30 Handicap (11,644: 5f) (20)
1 (10) 12304 ECCLESTON 41 (D) D O'Meara 3-9-7 D Tudhope
2 (1) 46510 PEARL BLUE 41 (CD) C Wall 6-9-6 G Baker
3 (9) 00623 BOGART 20 (P,CD,BF) K A Ryan 5-9-6 Amy Ryan
4 (3) 66003 SEE THE SUN 13 (P,C,D) T Easterby 3-9-5 D Allan
5 (13) 11V45 SILVANUS 18 (D) P Midgley 9-9-5 G Lee
6 (19) -2040 GRAPHIC GUEST 20 (H,D) R Cowell 4-9-4 A Beschizza
7 (14) 00000 MAGICAL MACEY 27 (B,D) T D Barron 7-9-4 P Makin
8 (7) -0200 PEARL ACCLAIM 27 (D) D Nicholls 4-9-3 A Nicholls
9 (15) 00000 ANCIENT CROSS 76 (T,CD) M W Easterby 10-9-3 K Fallon
10 (6) 10005 GLADIATRIX 6 (D) B Millman 5-9-2 R Havlin
11(18) 56353 JAMAICAN BOLT 13 (D) G Oldroyd 6-9-1 B McHugh
12 (5) 2V204 LONG AWAITED 13 (D) T D Barron 6-9-1 G Gibbons
13(11) 03420 PIAZON 55 (D) Michael Bell 3-9-1 W Buick
14(12) -0065 SECRET ASSET 73 (H,CD) Jane Chapple-Hyam 9-9-1
P Cosgrave
15 (4) 21400 ARCTIC FEELING 9 (C,D) R Fahey 6-9-1
Sammy Jo Bell (5)
16(20) 01060 JUDGE 'N JURY 13 (T,CD) R Harris 10-9-1 A Kirby
17 (8) 22110 SECRET MISSILE 6 (B,D) W Muir 4-9-0 Martin Dwyer
18(16) 31000 TOP BOY 18 (V,CD) D Shaw 4-9-0 D Swift
19(17) 00030 FREE ZONE 41 (P,D) R Cowell 5-9-0 F Tylicki
20 (2) -0100 ASIAN TRADER 41 (D) W Haggas 5-8-13 N Alison (3)
7-1 Bogart, 8-1 Asian Trader, 9-1 Long Awaited, See The Sun, 10-1 Eccleston,
11-1 Pearl Blue, 12-1 Arctic Feeling, Jamaican Bolt, Judge 'NJury, 14-1 others.
Wright choice: See The Sun, back to form at Haydock, is
nowfitted with cheekpieces Dangers: Top Boy, Pearl Blue
3.00 Handicap
(16,172: 1m 110y) (18)
1 (7) 05102 DON'T CALL ME 20 (T,D) D Nicholls 7-9-5 A Nicholls
2 (5) 31030 BALDUCCI 13 (V,D,BF) D O'Meara 7-9-5 D Tudhope
3 (4) 0-111 GM HOPKINS 14 (D) J Gosden 3-9-3 W Buick
4 (6) 13010 BIG JOHNNY D 13 T D Barron 5-9-3 G Gibbons
5 (13) 00005 LEVITATE 27 (V,D) J J Quinn 6-9-2 P Makin
6 (16) 10006 NAVAJO CHIEF 13 (CD) T Jarvis 7-9-2 G Mahon (7)
7 (12) 60031 EARTH DRUMMER 20 D O'Meara 4-9-1 Sam James
8 (17) 66002 STARBOARD 46 D Simcock 5-9-0 J Crowley
9 (2) 0-160 HOMAGE 13 (D) W Haggas 4-9-0 R L Moore
10(18) 03310 ANDERIEGO 6 (B,CD) D O'Meara 6-8-11 K Fallon
11 (9) 42260 SPIRIT OF THE LAW 13 (CD) R Fahey 5-8-11
J Garritty (5)
12 (1) 60130 OSTEOPATHIC REMEDY 20 (T,D) M Dods 10-8-11
C Beasley (3)
13(11) 14116 PEARL NATION 14 (H,D) M Appleby 5-8-10 A Mullen
14(14) 50614 STORM KING 27 (P,D,BF) D Griffiths 5-8-10 O Murphy
15 (3) 13000 ST MORITZ 22 (V,CD) D O'Meara 8-8-10 G Lee
16(10) 50221 BIG BAZ 13 (D) W Muir 4-8-9 Martin Dwyer
17 (8) 13210 NO POPPY 6 (H,CD) T Easterby 6-8-7 D Allan
18(15) 22033 CROWDMANIA 12 (D) M Johnston 3-8-3 J Fanning
5-1 GMHopkins, 7-1 Homage, 8-1 Big Baz, 9-1 Earth Drummer, 10-1 Don't Call
Me, 11-1 Anderiego, Starboard, 12-1 Balducci, 14-1 Big Johnny D, 16-1 others.
Wright choice: Storm King pulled hard in a slowly run race
whenfourthat Chester Dangers: GMHopkins, BigJohnnyD
3.30 Maiden Stakes
(2-Y-O: 6,792: 5f 89y) (13)
1 (12) ARTIST CRY R Fahey 9-5 R L Moore
2 (1) 403 BRANDO 33 K A Ryan 9-5 G Lee
3 (10) 03 ETIENNE GERARD 13 N Tinkler 9-5 Shelley Birkett (5)
4 (9) FOREST MISSILE J Wainwright 9-5 R Da Silva
5 (4) 5 HANDSOME DUDE 83 T D Barron 9-5 G Gibbons
6 (3) 634 QUINTUS CERIALIS 26 Clive Cox 9-5 A Kirby
7 (11) 00 REFLATION 28 R Hannon 9-5 P Dobbs
8 (7) 35 WOLFOFWALLSTREET 122 E Walker 9-5 G Baker
9 (2) 50 GRANOLA 29 D Brown 9-0 O Murphy
10(13) 0 KINLOCH PRIDE 33 N Wilson 9-0 D Fentiman
11 (5) 5 SPIRITUAL JOURNEY 17 Mrs A Duffield 9-0
P McDonald
12 (6) 05 THREATORAPROMISE 58 T Coyle 9-0 B McHugh
13 (8) 26202 ZUZINIA 3 M Channon 9-0 J Fanning
5-2 Brando, 5-1 Quintus Cerialis, Zuzinia, 8-1 Handsome Dude, 9-1 Artist Cry,
Etienne Gerard, 12-1 Wolfofwallstreet, 16-1 Granola, 20-1 others.
Wright choice: Brando improved when third over course
and distance last time Dangers: Granola, Quintus Cerialis
4.05 Handicap (12,938: 1m 4f) (13)
1 (3) 11164 TREASURE THE RIDGE 6 (B,D) A Reid 5-9-12 D Brock (3)
2 (13) 15625 ESTEAMING 48 (CD) T D Barron 4-9-12 G Gibbons
3 (1) 0-005 ARDLUI 104 (B,D) T Easterby 6-9-10 D Allan
4 (2) 00000 CHANCERY 13 (P,CD) D O'Meara 6-9-10 D Tudhope
5 (4) 40600 HI THERE 22 R Fahey 5-9-10 B McHugh
6 (12) 50103 ARAMIST 13 (D,BF) G A Swinbank 4-9-8 R Winston
7 (9) 15104 KINGS BAYONET 36 (D) A King 7-9-7 Hayley Turner
8 (5) 11105 SAVED BY THE BELL 63 (CD) D O'Meara 4-9-7 Sam James
9 (10) 11360 DOLPHIN VILLAGE 12 (D) R Fahey 4-9-6 G Chaloner (3)
10 (8) 50115 ZEUS MAGIC 20 (CD) B Ellison 4-9-3 O Murphy
11 (7) 22000 KASHMIR PEAK 70J J J Quinn 5-9-2 P Makin
12 (6) 10120 OLD TOWN BOY 15 P McBride 3-9-1 R L Moore
13(11) 12131 EMERAHLDZ 55 (D) R Fahey 3-8-10 J Garritty (5)
6-1 Aramist, 7-1 Saved By The Bell, 15-2 Chancery, 9-1 Emerahldz, Esteaming,
Kashmir Peak, Kings Bayonet, Old Town Boy, 10-1 others.
Wright choice: Esteaming, given a lot to do at Newmarket,
will appreciatethissofter groundDangers: Chancery, Ardlui
4.40 Maiden Auction Stakes
(2-Y-O: 6,469: 1m) (15)
1 (12) 0 WHO DARES WINS 20 R Hannon 9-3 P Dobbs
2 (11) 64 COMANCHE CHIEFTAIN 39 M Appleby 9-1 A Mullen
3 (15) GHOSTLY ARC N Wilson 9-1 P Sword (7)
4 (6) 00 MR CHRISTOPHER 21 N Wilson 9-1 J Haynes (3)
5 (14) 005 PONTY GRIGIO 23 T Easterby 9-1 D Fentiman
6 (7) BLETCHLEY PARK R Fahey 8-13 T Hamilton
7 (3) NOT AGAIN T Easterby 8-13 G Lee
8 (9) 334 RED RUBLES 85 (H) A Balding 8-13 D Probert
9 (13) MYTHICAL MOMENT W Haggas 8-12 R L Moore
10 (1) SUN ODYSSEY W Haggas 8-12 J Fanning
11 (2) 6 FATHER BERTIE 13 T Easterby 8-11 D Allan
12 (5) 2 STORM ROCK 35 H Dunlop 8-11 W Buick
13(10) BROSNAN N Quinlan 8-6 Sam James
14 (4) 453 CABELO 17 B Ellison 8-6 Joe Doyle (5)
15 (8) 0 GOOD MOVE 44 B Rothwell 8-6 J Sullivan
100-30 Red Rubles, 7-2 Cabelo, 9-2 Storm Rock, 8-1 others.
Wright choice: Cabeloranwell whenthirdat Newcastleand
isbredtorelishthistripDangers: RedRubles, Father Bertie
5.10 Apprentice Handicap
(6,469: 7f) (20)
1 (8) 35201 SHOURANOUR 53 (P) D O'Meara 4-9-9 Josh Doyle (5)
2 (19) 53000 DUBAI HILLS 14 (D) D O'Meara 8-9-8 G Mahon (5)
3 (18) 00000 WHOZTHECAT 13 Declan Carroll 7-9-8 L Leadbitter (5)
4 (5) 00000 ASKAUD 15 (P,D) S Dixon 6-9-8 M Hopkins
5 (14) 11500 REPETITION 20 (D) K Stubbs 4-9-8 S A Gray
6 (1) 46001 MON BRAV 9 B Ellison 7-9-8 Alistair Rawlinson (3)
7 (9) 43P05 MUJAZIF 7 D Nicholls 4-9-7 A Hesketh (3)
8 (20) 00540 NORSE BLUES 20 (D) T D Barron 6-9-7 P McGiff (5)
9 (7) 0-000 RODRIGO DE TORRES 11 (H,C,D) J Murray 7-9-7 Doubtful
10(15) 34003 REGAL DAN 49 (D) D O'Meara 4-9-6 K Shoemark (3)
11(12) 12000 TALENT SCOUT 24 (P,D) Mrs K Tutty 8-9-6 P Millman (3)
12 (2) 51650 FIELDGUNNER KIRKUP 20 (D) T D Barron 6-9-6
Gemma Tutty (3)
13(16) 02200 GATEPOST 13 (C) R Fahey 5-9-5 J Garritty
14 (4) 20132 MY SINGLE MALT 28 (H,P) J Camacho 6-9-4 Joe Doyle
15(11) 03316 INSTANT ATTRACTION 13 (D) Jedd O'Keeffe 3-9-4
Megan Carberry (3)
16(13) 40000 SHOWBOATING 14 (T,P,D) A McCabe 6-9-3 N Garbutt
17 (6) 23030 GRAN CANARIA QUEEN 21 T Easterby 5-9-3
Rachel Richardson (3)
18(17) 0-206 PERSONAL TOUCH 62 (D) R Fahey 5-9-2 Sammy Jo Bell
19(10) 06435 ZACYNTHUS 17 (D) Shaun Harris 6-9-2 J Nason (3)
20 (3) 3-053 ROUSAYAN 123 (BF) D O'Meara 3-9-1 M M Monaghan
13-2 Mon Brav, 9-1 Shouranour, 10-1 Dubai Hills, Regal Dan, 11-1 Fieldgunner
Kirkup, 12-1 Askaud, Norse Blues, Rousayan, 14-1 others.
Wright choice: My Single Malt travelled best over anextra
half-furlong at Chester Dangers: Shouranour, Mon Brav
Wolverhampton
Rob Wright
5.45 Ashkari 7.50 The Wee Barra
6.20 Nyanza 8.20 Excilly
6.50 Eternitys Gate 8.50 Dimitar
7.20 Galactic Halo 9.20 Palace Princess
Going: standard At The Races
Draw: 5f-7f, low numbers best
5.45 Handicap (2,911: 5f 216y) (13)
1 (9) 50034 REALIZE 27 (T,D) H Morrison 4-9-7 James Doyle
2 (8) 00300 HADAJ 13 (D) M Herrington 5-9-7 Kevin Stott (5)
3 (12) -0434 AMBITIOUS BOY 13 (D,BF) A Hollinshead 5-9-7 J Duern (5)
4 (4) 06042 ASHKARI 20 (P,D) Clive Cox 3-9-6 S Drowne
5 (10) 52221 DOMINIUM 27 (B,CD) J Gask 7-9-6 D A Parkes (7)
6 (2) 00260 BABY STRANGE 13 (C,D) D Shaw 10-9-4 A McLean (7)
7 (6) 00405 LASTCHANCELUCAS 15 (B) Declan Carroll 4-9-4 J Hart
8 (5) 00455 SPRINGLIKE 24 (D) Miss A Weaver 3-9-4 D Muscutt (5)
9 (7) 43030 PUNK 15 (V) G Peckham 3-9-4 Luke Morris
10(13) 33246 STORM LIGHTNING 25 (C) W M Brisbourne 5-9-3 W A Carson
11 (3) 23006 AL'S MEMORY 17 (C,D) P D Evans 5-9-2 Martin Lane
12(11) 64033 ROCKET ROB 9 (C,D) W Musson 8-9-1 Doubtful
13 (1) 4326- FLICKSTA 324 John Ryan 3-9-0 J Mitchell
11-2 Dominium, 13-2 Al's Memory, Ashkari, 15-2 Ambitious Boy, Realize, 10-1
Baby Strange, Storm Lightning, 14-1 Flicksta, Hadaj, 16-1 others.
6.20 Handicap (2,911: 1m 5f 194y) (7)
1 (3) -0500 PARIS SNOW I Williams 4-9-13 S Donohoe
2 (1) 30205 LINEMAN 14 (P,C) A Hollinshead 4-9-9 J Duern (5)
3 (6) 34156 GRAYSWOOD 20 (P,D) W Muir 4-9-6 Martin Dwyer
4 (7) 14431 ATALANTA BAY 27 (H) M Tregoning 4-9-5 R Kingscote
5 (2) 24544 ADMIRABLE DUQUE 14 (E,B,C,D) D Ffrench Davis 8-9-5
Martin Lane
6 (4) -1133 NYANZA 81 A King 3-9-2 D Sweeney
7 (5) 0-111 HIGH SECRET 7 (CD) Sir M Prescott 3-9-2 Luke Morris
Evens High Secret, 6-1 Paris Snow, 13-2 Atalanta Bay, 9-1 others.
6.50 Handicap (5,175: 5f 20y) (13)
1 (12) 24050 SLEEPY BLUE OCEAN 9 (P,C,D) J Balding 8-9-7 J Hart
2 (1) 06022 MONUMENTAL MAN 17 (P,C,D) J Unett 5-9-7
D Muscutt (5)
3 (11) -1005 ZAC BROWN 60 (D) T D Barron 3-9-6 Martin Dwyer
4 (2) 24255 ANGELITO 27 (D) E McMahon 5-9-5 P Mulrennan
5 (4) 10450 CLEAR PRAISE 92 (C,D) S Dow 7-9-5 T Harrigan (7)
6 (6) 33214 NEWTON'S LAW 35 (H,T,D) B Meehan 3-9-5 James Doyle
7 (8) -1061 CLEARING 77 (D) J Boyle 4-9-3 P Cosgrave
8 (3) 23010 DISTANT PAST 21 (C,D) K A Ryan 3-9-3 Kevin Stott (5)
9 (13) 00315 TOM SAWYER 24 (B,D) J Camacho 6-9-3 Doubtful
10 (7) 33314 ETERNITYS GATE 9 (D) P Chapple-Hyam 3-9-2 J Crowley
11 (5) 11566 DREAMS OF REALITY 67 (E,C,D) T Dascombe 3-9-0
R Kingscote
12 (9) 04040 TEMPLE ROAD 143 J M Bradley 6-9-0 Luke Morris
13(10) 20050 ROYAL ACQUISITION 44 (P,D) R Cowell 4-8-13 A Beschizza
7-1 Clearing, Newton's Law, 15-2 Distant Past, Dreams Of Reality,
Monumental Man, 8-1 Eternitys Gate, 9-1 Zac Brown, 10-1 others.
7.20 Maiden Stakes (2,587: 1m 141y) (12)
1 (12) 26 CHAUVELIN 13 R Charlton 3-9-2 G Baker
2 (2) HONEY BADGER A Hutchinson 3-9-2 S Drowne
3 (10) 3344 KICKING THE CAN 39 P Chapple-Hyam 3-9-2 R Havlin
4 (1) 00 KIRTLING 38 A Brown 3-9-2 R Tart
5 (5) 03443 KUBEBA 14 P Cole 3-9-2 Luke Morris
6 (9) 65 SO IT'S WAR 18 K Dalgleish 3-9-2 T Eaves
7 (6) 5-035 THRTYPOINTSTOTHREE 43 Mrs N Evans 3-9-2
P Prince (3)
8 (7) HIDDEN AMBITION S Hollinshead 5-9-1 J Duern (5)
9 (4) -0040 SERAPHIMA 35 (V) Mrs L Williamson 4-9-1 J Hart
10 (8) GALACTIC HALO Lady Cecil 3-8-11 James Doyle
11 (3) 65 HOUSEWIVES CHOICE 128 (H) J Bethell 3-8-11 T E Durcan
12(11) PERSONA GRATA E Walker 3-8-11 R Kingscote
4-1 Kicking The Can, Kubeba, 5-1 Chauvelin, 6-1 Persona Grata, 7-1 Galactic
Halo, 9-1 So It's War, 10-1 Housewives Choice, 14-1 others.
7.50 Nursery Handicap
(2-Y-O: 2,264: 1m 141y) (13)
1 (8) 45520 ROMANCE STORY 17 (P,BF) S Bin Suroor 9-7
Kevin Stott (5)
2 (9) 500 MASTER ZEPHYR 20 R Charlton 9-5 G Baker
3 (12) 063 THE WEE BARRA 23 K A Ryan 9-4 P Mulrennan
4 (10) 06601 SECRET LIGHTNING 31 M Appleby 9-4 A Mullen
5 (6) 30100 JUST MARION 16 (C) P D Evans 9-4 Martin Lane
6 (4) 30044 AULD FYFFEE 10 John Ryan 9-3 K Fallon
7 (11) 60444 MIKANDY 11 Clive Cox 9-3 R Tate (3)
8 (3) 0065 KOPASSUS 16 P Chapple-Hyam 9-0 J Crowley
9 (13) 0600 AVENUE DES CHAMPS 17 (P) Jane Chapple-Hyam 8-12
P Cosgrave
10 (7) 54066 SEAMOOR SECRET 8 (T) A Hales 8-12 C Beasley (3)
11 (2) 50512 INVINCIBLE WISH 6 (C) B Ellison 8-10 P Pickard
12 (1) 5004 ROMAN DE BRUT 10 I Williams 8-9 S Donohoe
13 (5) 00004 OCEAN CRYSTAL 7 John Ryan 8-6 R Powell (3)
9-2 Romance Story, 7-1 Master Zephyr, 8-1 Mikandy, 9-1 Invincible Wish, Just
Marion, Secret Lightning, 10-1 Kopassus, 11-1 Auld Fyffee, 12-1 others.
8.20 Median Auction
Maiden Stakes
(2-Y-O: 2,264: 7f 32y) (12)
1 (6) BANGERS T Dascombe 9-5 Stephen Craine
2 (12) 5 DOCTORS PAPERS 10 D Brown 9-5 S Levey
3 (2) 06 FIRST SUMMER 14 E McMahon 9-5 P Mulrennan
4 (4) 05 KERRYMERRY 23 I Mohammed 9-5 A Subousi (7)
5 (9) 00 LONELY RANGER 29 Miss A Weaver 9-5 P Cosgrave
6 (5) 5 MARMOT 28 R Charlton 9-5 Doubtful
7 (7) 00 MYSTERIOUS STAR 17 M Meade 9-5 D Sweeney
8 (8) 6 NIGHT GENERATION 9 Sir M Prescott 9-5 Luke Morris
9 (3) PADLOCK D Simcock 9-5 J Crowley
10(11) 5 UNNOTICED 16 O Pears 9-5 R Winston
11 (1) 22 EXCILLY 14 (BF) T Dascombe 9-0 R Kingscote
12(10) 65 GENTLEMUSIC 17 M Botti 9-0 D Muscutt (5)
1-2 Excilly, 9-1 Gentlemusic, 10-1 Unnoticed, 16-1 Padlock, 20-1 Bangers, 22-1
Night Generation, 25-1 First Summer, 33-1 Mysterious Star, 50-1 others.
8.50 Handicap
(2,264: 7f 32y) (12)
1 (2) 00033 BOGSNOG 13 (C,D) K Stubbs 4-9-7 T Eaves
2 (6) 54144 ZED CANDY GIRL 34 (P,CD) J Stimpson 4-9-7
E J Walsh (5)
3 (7) 04000 LLEWELLYN 13 (D) Declan Carroll 6-9-7 N Farley (3)
4 (9) 60505 RICH AGAIN 16 (P) J Bethell 5-9-6 T E Durcan
5 (12) 623 QUAINTRELLE 16 E Vaughan 3-9-5 G Baker
6 (5) 6-505 LARGHETTO 14 (C,D) I Williams 6-9-3 G Downing (5)
7 (3) 00003 DIMITAR 27 (P,C,D) J Farrelly 5-9-2 S Donohoe
8 (10) 22564 BOSSTIME 14 (P) J Holt 4-9-2 R Havlin
9 (4) 60-00 NASHMI 112 (V) G Peckham 3-9-2 Luke Morris
10 (8) 5036 UNBRIDLED JOY 38 (BF) Clive Cox 3-9-0 R Tate (3)
11 (1) 32432 ORWELLIAN 20 (BF) B Smart 5-8-12 P Mulrennan
12(11) 02222 SLINGSBY 20 (B,BF) M W Easterby 3-8-11 B McHugh
4-1 Orwellian, 7-1 Bogsnog, Slingsby, 15-2 Dimitar, Larghetto, Quaintrelle,
8-1 Unbridled Joy, Zed Candy Girl, 9-1 Rich Again, 16-1 others.
9.20 Handicap
(2,264: 7f 32y) (12)
1 (9) 12310 POUR LA VICTOIRE 16 (B,D) A Carroll 4-9-7
W Twiston-Davies
2 (10) 05020 MALAYSIAN BOLEH 18 (C,D) S Dow 4-9-7 H Bentley
3 (1) 02546 MONSIEUR ROYALE 25 (B,C) G Oldroyd 4-9-6 B McHugh
4 (8) 60014 ARABIAN FLIGHT 9 (P,CD) M Appleby 5-9-6 A Mullen
5 (6) 04562 BLACK DAVE 3 (D,BF) P D Evans 4-9-4 Martin Lane
6 (7) 21416 CLAPPERBOARD 52 (B,D) P Fitzsimons 3-9-3 W A Carson
7 (5) 0/000 TWO PANCAKES 13 Declan Carroll 4-9-2 N Farley (3)
8 (12) 025 REMEMBERANCE DAY 17 L Eyre 3-9-2 D Allan
9 (4) /40-0 DAZEEN 168 (D) M Herrington 7-9-1 R Winston
10 (3) 00643 PALACE PRINCESS 14 E Dunlop 3-8-13 P Mulrennan
11(11) 10036 STREET BOSS 22 (V,D) Jedd O'Keeffe 3-8-12
R Kennemore
12 (2) 03305 EASTLANDS LAD 79 (BF) M D Hammond 5-8-7 T Eaves
9-2 Arabian Flight, 5-1 Black Dave, 11-2 Palace Princess, 13-2 Malaysian
Boleh, 15-2Pour La Victoire, 10-1Clapperboard, Monsieur Royale, 12-1 others.
RobWrights midday update
thetimes.co.uk/sportsbook
Bet of the day
Esteaming (4.05 York)
Hasrunwithcredit onbothstartsat thistrack
and shaped as though still in form when a
fast-finishing fifth at Newmarket last time
Course specialists
Carlisle: Trainers Karen McLintock, 3 from 8
runners, 37.5%; C Longsdon, 6 from 19, 31.6%.
Jockey N Fehily, 3 from 8 rides, 37.5%.
Newton Abbot: Trainers D McCain, 3 from 8, 37.5%;
P Nicholls, 39 from 135, 28.9%. Jockeys A P McCoy,
58 from 207, 28.0%; D Jacob, 24 from 104, 23.1%.
Wolverhampton: Trainers S Bin Suroor, 29 from 87,
33.3%; S Dow, 9 from 37, 24.3%. Jockeys C Beasley,
11 from 40, 27.5%; T E Durcan, 33 from 157, 21.0%.
York: Trainers Jane Chapple-Hyam, 3 from 13, 23.1%;
W Haggas, 27 from 118, 22.9%. Jockeys R L Moore,
34 from 172, 19.8%; K Fallon, 30 from 195, 15.4%.
Martin is quietly confident over Quick Jack
Tony Martin believes that Quick Jack
has the little bit of class needed to
help him to justify favouritism in the
Betfred Cesarewitch at Newmarket
tomorrow.
Martin knows better than most the
attributes required to win the famous
staying handicap, whichhas attracteda
maximum field of 34. He landed the
2007 renewal with Leg Spinner and his
other challengers, Barba Papa and Arc
Bleu, both made the frame.
You need a horse with pace, to be
able totravel, andstamina, toget home,
plus a little bit of class, he said yester-
day. Quick Jack has that and would be
a very similar type to my other horses
whohaveeither wonor runrespectably
in it. I could not single out which of the
four was the best or worst.
Quick Jack has been transformed
since being switched to Martins yard
earlylast year, scoopingcompetitivera-
ces on the Flat and over hurdles.
The five-year-old, who will be ridden
by Richard Hughes in the 250,000,
two-and-a-quarter-milemarathon, has
been absent since winning at the
Galway Festival in July, but that has
been a deliberate ploy.
Youve got to try to conserve your
horse, have him right for the big day,
Martin said. This has been the plan
since Galway as its a big pot and we
thought it was well worth having a shot
at. His formindicates that hehas agood
chance, hes healthy, and Im happy
with him. He had a few issues when he
first arrivedbut we sortedthemout and
everything has gone right from there.
Hes never let us down and been very
consistent fingers crossed he
can continue that.
Martin makes several
references to fingers
crossed and punctuates
other sentences with the
words touch wood. He
recognises that fortune
can play a part, as it did in
the Cesarewitch six years
ago when the well-
fanciedArc Bleufinished
second.
He was
desper-
ately unlucky, the Co Meath-based
handler said, wincing at the memory.
He broke too well and was very free up
in the first two the whole way. Unfortu-
nately, Johnny [Murtagh] could never
rein him back and get him to drop the
bit. He was always doing too much.
Any runner showing similar zeal
tomorrow could struggle, especially
with more rain forecast. The Cesare-
witch is the only race that starts in one
county (Cambridgeshire) and ends in
another (Suffolk) but Martin is not in
doubt about Quick Jacks ability to
stay the distance, nor his effec-
tiveness on testing going.
The way he galloped up
the hill when winning at Gal-
way and Cheltenham makes
me think he will get a furlong
or two more on a level track,
he said. Hes won on all types
of groundandthepossibilityof
it being soft would not worry
me. Martin intends running Thomas
Edison and Ted Veale in the Irish
Cesarewitch at the Curragh on Sunday
but laughs at the prospect of pulling off
a notable double. However, the
bookmakers are unlikely to see the
funny side if he does.
The former riders reputation for
getting horses to peak on the big
occasions, forged when the
gambled-on Xenophon won the Coral
Cup at the Cheltenham Festival in
2003, is well earned.
Soon, his focus will switch fully to his
National Hunt team, which includes
the popular pair of Flemenstar and Bog
Warrior. Flemenstar, among the
highest-rated chasers in Ireland, has
been out for 11 months because of
tendon trouble but is on the comeback
trail. Hes still at his owners, doing his
pre-training, Martin said. The vets
have been happy with his check-ups, so
hes cracking on with him.
BogWarrior is backfromhis summer
break and doing routine exercise, but
this weekend is all about the possibility
of a Cesarewitch double. Can Martin
scoop both versions? One would be
great, he said.
Andy Stephens
Martin is hopeful
that Quick Jack,
right, can add to
his fine record in
the Cesarewitch
Blinkered first time: Carlisle 5.20 The Phantom Winger.
Wolverhampton 5.45 Punk. 8.50 Nashmi.
6 Despite her brilliant success in the
Qatar Prix de lArc de Triomphe on
Sunday, Treveis still rated5lbbelowthe
worlds best. The latest official ratings,
released yesterday, put Treve on 125,
while Just AWay, who trailed in eighth
at Longchamp, is still rated 130.
Rookie waits in wings
Marussia agonise over
risking reserve driver
Alexander Rossi in Sochi
Formula One, page 56
Shooting from the lip
In his new book, and in
the flesh, Roy Keane
cant help lashing out
Commentary, pages 58-59
BRIAN LAWLESS / PA
the times | Friday October 10 2014 FGM 53
Sport
Ayr
Going: soft
2.10 (1m) 1, Royal Regent (Megan Carberry,
80-1); 2, Sir Chauvelin(Evens fav); 3, Go DanGo
(22-1). 7 ran. 3l, 2Ol. Mrs L Normile.
2.40 (6f) 1, Explain (D Sweeney, 11-4 fav);
2, Aprovado (8-1); 3, Named Asset (18-1).
10 ran. Hd, 5l. M Meade.
3.10 (6f) 1, Lord Buffhead (Jason Hart, 14-1); 2,
Monel (17-2); 3, Saxonette(14-1). JumboSteps
3-1 fav. 14 ran. NR: Opt Out. 1Kl, Kl. R C Guest.
3.40 (6f) 1, New Lease Of Life (G Bartley, 8-1);
2, Rock Canyon (16-1); 3, Live Dangerously
(14-1). Captain Scooby (5th) 9-2 jt-fav. Coiste
Bodhar 9-2 jt-fav. 15 ran. 1l, 1Nl. J Goldie.
4.10 (5f) 1, Fredricka (J Hart, 100-30);
2, Margrets Gift (13-8 fav); 3, Scoreline (6-1).
6 ran. NR: Chookies Lass, Lexington Rose.
2l, nk. G Moss.
4.40 (1m5f 13yd) 1, Rockweiller (J Hart, 11-2);
2, Harrisons Cave (3-1 jt-fav); 3, Nay Secret
(14-1). Ronald Gee (5th) 3-1 jt-fav. 8 ran. NR:
Hatton Springs, Schmooze. 1Nl, 2Ol. S Harris.
5.10 (7f 50yd) 1, Our Boy Jack (GChaloner, 8-1);
2, Evanescent (13-2); 3, Farlow (8-1). Trixie
Malone (5th) 4-1 fav. 14 ran. 3l, nk. R Fahey.
5.40 (7f 50yd) 1, Royal Duchess (Megan Carber-
ry, 15-2); 2, Uncle Brit (25-1); 3, Pats Legacy
(4-1 fav). 11 ran. NR: Petergate, Very First
Blade, Wotalad. Ol, 1Nl. Mrs L Normile.
Jackpot: not won. 14,575.22carriedforwardto
York today).
Placepot: 845.80. Quadpot: 130.20.
Exeter
Going: good to firm (good in places)
2.20(2m3f hdle) 1, Shadarpour (WHutchinson,
100-30); 2, Get Home Now (3-1 fav); 3, Fuzzy
Logic (14-1). 8 ran. 2Nl, 5l. A King.
2.50 (2m 5f 110yd hdle) 1, Ni Sin E Mo Ainm
(Michael Byrne, 7-2); 2, Yabadabadoo (5-2 fav);
3, State Department (4-1). 7 ran. Hd, 14l.
N Mulholland.
3.20 (3mch) 1, Caulfields Venture (Aidan Cole-
man, 11-4 co-fav); 2, American Legend
(11-4co-fav); 3, WelshBard(9-1). AccordingTo
Sarah (4th) 11-4 co-fav. 5 ran. NR: Regal
Presence. 2Nl, 9l. Miss E Lavelle.
3.50 (3m ch) 1, Many Stars (Ian Popham, 4-7
fav); 2, Mackeys Forge (5-2); 3, Armedand
beautiful (9-1). 5 ran. Ol, 1l. D Skelton.
4.20 (2m 1f hdle) 1, Landau (J M Maguire,
1-3 fav); 2, Free Of Charge (4-1); 3, Sonny The
One (7-1). 8 ran. NR: Like A Diamond. 6l, Ol.
G Elliott (Ire).
4.50 (2m 1f hdle) 1, Prettyasapicture (Thomas
Bellamy, 5-1); 2, Bajan Blu (3-1 fav); 3, Jaja De
Jau (7-2). 11 ran. Kl, 12l. A King.
Placepot: 5.60. Quadpot: 2.50.
Worcester
Going: soft
2.00 (2m4f ch) 1, The Omen (Alan Johns, 14-1);
2, Pure Poteen (13-8 fav); 3, Islandmagee (9-2).
12 ran. 6l, 44l. T Vaughan.
2.30 (2m 110yd ch) 1, Topthorn (Mr Z Baker,
16-1); 2, El Toreros (11-2); 3, Think Its All Over
(9-2). Sportsreport (pu) 11-4 fav. 10 ran. 23l, 8l.
M Bosley.
3.00 (2m flat) 1, Masterplan (N D Fehily, 15-8
fav); 2, A Good Skin (5-1); 3, Vieux Lille (10-1).
6 ran. Ol, 3l. C Longsdon.
3.30 (2m 7f hdle) 1, Debt To Society (Harry
Challoner, 9-4); 2, Tempuran (15-8 fav);
3, Douchkirk (7-1). 5 ran. 47l, Kl. R Ford.
4.00 (2m hdle) 1, Taaresh (Adam Wedge, 7-1);
2, Kayfton Pete (8-1); 3, El Macca (7-1). Going
Concern (4th) 7-4 fav. 7 ran. NR: Minella Hero.
5l, 1l. K Morgan.
4.30 (2m hdle) 1, Stephanie Frances (Harry
Skelton, 4-1); 2, Midnight Spin (8-1); 3, As De
Mee (6-4 fav). 6 ran. NR: Gaelic Myth. 2Kl, 4Kl.
D Skelton.
5.00 (2m 7f hdle) 1, Ballycoe (Sam Twiston-
Davies, 9-4 fav); 2, Castle Cheetah (5-1); 3, The
WinkingPrawn(28-1). 10ran. 1Kl, 33l. PNicholls.
Placepot: 469.00.
Quadpot: 80.30.
Wolverhampton
Going: standard
5.20 (5f 216yd) 1, Luna Mission(MHarley, 7-2);
2, Scent Of Summer (7-2); 3, Marys Secret
(22-1). Silvery Blue (5th) 9-4 fav. 12 ran. NR:
Slovak. 1Kl, Kl. M Botti.
5.50 (7f 32yd) 1, Pollination (WBuick, 5-6 fav);
2, Yard Of Ale (40-1); 3, Copperbelt (11-4).
5 ran. NR: Bold Spirit, Gentlemen, Tasaaboq.
1l, nk. C Appleby.
6.20 (1m 141yd) 1, Jet Mate (M Dwyer, 13-2);
2, Framley Garth (15-8 fav); 3, Activation
(16-1). 11 ran. NR: El Draque, Missandei.
Kl, sh hd. W R Muir.
6.50 (2m 119yd) 1, Mister Bob (T E Durcan, 9-4
fav); 2, Black Iceman (8-1); 3, Annaluna (6-1).
8 ran. 3l, 1Kl. J D Bethell.
7.20 (1m 141yd) 1, Complicit (L Morris, 7-2);
2, Emirates Flyer (4-5 fav); 3, Premio Loco
(13-2). 7 ran. NR: Solar Deity, Zampa Manos.
Ol, nk. P F I Cole.
7.50 (1m 4f 50yd) 1, Strawberry Martini
(MDwyer, 2-1); 2, Perspicace(4-9fav); 3, Dukes
Den (33-1). 5 ran. 1l, 9l. W R Muir.
8.20 (1m 1f 103yd) 1, Evacusafe Lady
(M Harley, 4-5 fav); 2, Classic Mission (8-1);
3, Coillte Cailin (40-1). 11 ran. NR: On The Hoof,
Scarlet Plum. Kl, nk. J Ryan.
Placepot: 13.80.
Quadpot: 3.40.
Yesterdays racing results
Newton Abbot
Rob Wright
2.20 Polamco 4.30 Petrovic
2.50 Solar Impulse 5.00 Abbeygrey
3.20 Sound Investment 5.30 More Bucks
3.55 Taquin Du Seuil
Going: good to soft (soft in places) At The Races
2.20 Novices' Hurdle (5,064: 2m 3f) (9)
1 03- ARENICE ET PICTONS P Nicholls 4-10-12 S Twiston-Davies
2 64-6 BORGUY 32 J Snowden 4-10-12 D Jacob
3 6U4-6 BUCKHORN TIMOTHY 161 C Tizzard 5-10-12 B Powell
4 BURTONS WELL Miss V Williams 5-10-12 A Coleman
5 5/13- CREATIVE BORU 226 Mrs L Young 6-10-12 R Dunne
6 051- POLAMCO 190 (T) H Fry 5-10-12 R Mahon
7 421- SYKES 194P P Hobbs 5-10-12 R Johnson
8 P-U TEA TIME FRED 166P S Gardner 5-10-12 Miss L Gardner (5)
9 -P66P HUNTSMANS LADY 11 J Frost 4-10-5 Tom O'Brien
11-4 Polamco, 9-2 Arenice Et Pictons, Sykes, 7-1 Borguy, 8-1 others.
2.50 Novices' Chase (6,330: 2m 110y) (4)
1 22-21 TURN OVER SIVOLA 136 (D) A King 7-11-5 W Hutchinson
2 0260- LITTLE JON 189 N Twiston-Davies 6-11-0 R Hatch (5)
3 P-P33 SURPRISE US 10 (P,C,D) M Gillard 7-11-0 T Cannon
4 3051- SOLAR IMPULSE 172 (T,D) P Nicholls 4-10-4
S Twiston-Davies
5-6 Turn Over Sivola, 2-1 Solar Impulse, 11-2 Little Jon, 20-1 Surprise Us.
3.20 Handicap Hurdle (15,640: 2m6f) (8)
1 0-211 HENRYVILLE 6 (H,CD) H Fry 6-11-13 A P McCoy
2 1103- SOUND INVESTMENT 167 (T) P Nicholls 6-11-12 S Bowen (7)
3 210-1 ANY GIVEN DAY 51F (D) D McCain 9-11-12 W Hutchinson
4 4100- UNCLE JIMMY 190 (D) P Hobbs 7-11-8 R Johnson
5 1300- LIKE MINDED 189 (T) D Skelton 10-11-5 Miss B Andrews (7)
6 4255- TOBY LERONE 198 D Skelton 7-10-8 H Skelton
7 3-431 DELLA SUN 11 (C) A Whitehead 8-10-4 J Wall (7)
8 6312/ SPIRIT D'ARMOR 943 (BF) Miss V Williams 8-10-0 A Coleman
3-1 Henryville, 4-1 Uncle Jimmy, 11-2 Like Minded, 6-1 others.
3.55 Intermediate Chase
(18,768: 2m 5f 110y) (5)
1 112F- BLACK THUNDER 212 (C) P Nicholls 7-11-10 N Scholfield
2 3211- TAQUIN DU SEUIL 211 (D) Jonjo O'Neill 7-11-10
R McLernon
3 1253- WONDERFUL CHARM 189 (T,D) P Nicholls 6-11-10
S Twiston-Davies
4 1235- DOUBLE ROSS 189 (D,BF) N Twiston-Davies 8-11-6
J E Moore
5 /232- COLOUR SQUADRON 211 (BF) P Hobbs 8-10-8 A P McCoy
9-4 Taquin Du Seuil, 11-4 Colour Squadron, 7-2 Wonderful Charm, 5-1 Double
Ross, 7-1 Black Thunder.
4.30 Mares' Handicap Hurdle
(5,064: 2m 6f) (8)
1 411P- BARTON ROSE 205 N Mulholland 5-11-12 M Byrne
2 P23-P RUBY GLOW 146 J S Mullins 6-11-7 A Thornton
3 63PP- RUSSIE WITH LOVE 174 (D) C Down 8-11-7 James Davies
4 3-562 TAGGIA 122 Mrs A Batchelor 7-11-4 L Aspell
5 5-613 OUR MAIMIE 80 (BF) G McPherson 8-11-3 W Hutchinson
6 45551 PETROVIC 21 (T) Jonjo O'Neill 5-11-2 A P McCoy
7 6P000 SHABRA CHARITY 13 (T) A McCann (Ire) 9-11-0
J Moore (7)
8 13-36 NELLIE FORBUSH 119 (P) Mrs S Leech 4-10-10
Killian Moore (5)
9-4 Petrovic, 5-1 Barton Rose, 11-2 Our Maimie, Taggia, 7-1 Nellie Forbush,
9-1 Russie With Love, 11-1 Ruby Glow, 14-1 Shabra Charity.
5.00 Handicap Chase
(4,548: 3m 2f 110y) (7)
1 0440- TEA CADDY 176 (T) J Snowden 8-11-12 B Powell
2 625-4 CRUDE 153P Paul Henderson 9-11-8 N Scholfield
3 2P12- MILOSAM 183 (B,BF) P Hobbs 7-11-5 Tom O'Brien
4 64231 ABBEYGREY 5 E Williams 5-11-5 A Wedge
5 2-P10 WHERE'D YA HIDE IT 117 Paul Henderson 8-10-13
Mr G M Treacy (7)
6 523P- TUSKAR ROCK 183 (B) Miss V Williams 11-10-13 A Coleman
7 34206 DUROOB 14 (B) A McCann (Ire) 12-10-10 J Moore (7)
7-4 Abbeygrey, 5-2 Milosam, 6-1 Tea Caddy, Tuskar Rock, 10-1 Crude, 14-1
Where'd Ya Hide It, 20-1 Duroob.
5.30 NH Flat Race (2,053: 2m 1f) (8)
1 1- MORE BUCK'S 178 (D) P Nicholls 4-11-7 Miss M Nicholls (7)
2 BELLS OF CASTOR T Vaughan 4-11-0 M Byrne
3 0- BILBROOK BLAZE 191 (T) P Hobbs 4-11-0 R Johnson
4 DASHING OSCAR (T) H Fry 4-11-0 C Brassil (7)
5 KINGS LANE N Mulholland 5-11-0 D Jacob
6 U- NATIVE RIVER 207P C Tizzard 4-11-0 B Powell
7 NORTHANDSOUTH N Twiston-Davies 4-11-0
S Twiston-Davies
8 ACT NOW A Honeyball 5-10-7 Rachael Green
1-2 More Buck'S, 8-1 Northandsouth, 9-1 Act Now, Dashing Oscar, 16-1 Kings
Lane, 22-1 Bilbrook Blaze, Native River, 25-1 Bells Of Castor.
Carlisle
Rob Wright
2.10 Nafaath 4.20 Back To Bracka
2.40 Knights Parade 4.50 Bright Abbey
3.10 Drop Out Joe 5.20 Kingswell Theatre
3.45 The Friary
Going: good (good to soft in places) Racing UK
2.10 Conditional Jockeys' Handicap
Hurdle (3,249: 2m 1f) (15)
1 460P/ NAFAATH 21F D McCain 8-11-12 N Slatter (6)
2 245F- BIGGAR 224 (P) Miss L Russell 6-11-12 Ryan Nichol (10)
3 02-00 HANGA ROA 101 (D) F J Brennan 4-11-12 M Hamill (5)
4 23120 DYNAMIC DRIVE 15 (H,T,D) M Barnes 7-11-10S Mulqueen (6)
5 0033- WYFIELD ROSE 204 A Whillans 5-11-10 D Irving (5)
6 3334- SPANISH FLEET 228 J Wade 6-11-7 D O'Regan (5)
7 0P-B4 BOB'S CALL 13 T Coyle 5-11-7 J McGrath
8 21-44 FUNKY MUNKY 15 (C,D) A Whillans 9-11-6 R Day (5)
9 0-236 ASUNCION 42 R Menzies 4-11-6 T Kelly (3)
10 404-0 TWEEDO PARADISO 120 (CD) Mrs R Dobbin 7-10-10C Nichol
11 0-562 DISTRICT ATTORNEY 31F C Fairhurst 5-10-8 J Colliver
12 3P-05 KNIGHT VALLIANT 136 (C) Mrs B Butterworth 11-10-7Colm McCormack
13 54P-4 DALSTONTOSILOTH 150 F Murtagh 6-10-7 C Bewley (3)
14 203-6 ACORDINGTOSCRIPT 23 (H) M Todhunter 8-10-0H Challoner
15 5131- NALIM 194P H Bethell 8-10-0 J England
6-1 Funky Munky, 7-1 Tweedo Paradiso, 15-2 Dalstontosiloth, 8-1 others.
2.40 Novices' Hurdle
(3,249: 2m 1f) (12)
1 41 HEIST 42 (T,D) P Griffin (Ire) 4-11-5 B Hughes
2 00-1 KNIGHT'S PARADE 14 (T) G Elliott (Ire) 4-11-5
T Scudamore
3 5212- VOYAGE A NEW YORK 177 (C,D,BF) Miss L Russell 5-11-5
W Renwick
4 35- ASTAROLAND 236 J Candlish 4-10-12 Peter Carberry (3)
5 00/00 CAPTAIN RHYRIC 31 J Moffatt 5-10-12 T Kelly (3)
6 1220- FLY HOME HARRY 188 (D) G A Swinbank 5-10-12
P Moloney
7 310- GOLANS CHOICE 202 Mrs R Dobbin 5-10-12 B Harding
8 25-04 HAIL THE BRAVE 110 P Kirby 5-10-12 H Brooke
9 60- PEGASUS WALK 179 Mrs R Dobbin 5-10-12 C Nichol (3)
10 SKAGHARDGANNON LAD J Candlish 8-10-12 N Fehily
11 VITAL EVIDENCE 98F D McCain 4-10-12 J M Maguire
12 40 DALBY SPOOK 10 Mrs D Sayer 4-10-5 J Reveley
3-1 Vital Evidence, 7-2 Voyage ANewYork, 4-1 Knight's Parade, 6-1 Fly Home
Harry, 9-1 Heist, 10-1 Dalby Spook, 16-1 others.
3.10 Novices' Chase
(4,223: 2m 4f) (5)
1 03-62 CAPELLANUS 54 (D) B Ellison 8-11-4 D Cook
2 232P- DROP OUT JOE 202 (C,D) C Longsdon 6-11-4 N Fehily
3 33-06 GENEROUS CHIEF 16 C Grant 6-11-4 B Hughes
4 611-5 KEENELAND 126 (D) D McCain 7-11-4 J M Maguire
5 5/3-4 WATER GARDEN 160 R Menzies 8-11-4 T Kelly (3)
9-4 Drop Out Joe, Keeneland, 7-2 Capellanus, 13-2 Generous Chief, 8-1 Water
Garden.
3.45 Handicap Chase
(6,498: 3m 2f) (6)
1 036-3 MAZURI COWBOY 83 B Ellison 9-11-12 W Renwick
2 231P- ORANGE NASSAU 178 (D) C Longsdon 8-11-12 N Fehily
3 41352 DARK GLACIER 46 (T,B) P Bowen 9-11-12 D Devereux
4 56-23 DREAMS OF MILAN 120 (BF) D McCain 6-11-5 J M Maguire
5 131P- THE FRIARY 208 (T,P) Miss L Russell 7-11-4 D R Fox (3)
6 431-2 OUTLAW TOM 153 (P) Miss L Russell 10-10-8 P Buchanan
3-1 Dreams Of Milan, 9-2 Dark Glacier, Mazuri Cowboy, Orange Nassau,
Outlaw Tom, 11-2 The Friary.
4.20 Novices' Hurdle (3,249: 2m 4f) (9)
1 112P3 ROLLING MAUL 37 (V,BF) P Bowen 6-11-12 D Devereux
2 1P221 TOM'S ARTICLE 13 G Elliott (Ire) 5-11-5 T Scudamore
3 165-1 BACK TO BRACKA 142 (D) Miss L Russell 7-10-12
W Renwick
4 3000- CROWN AND GLORY 288 C Fairhurst 7-10-12 F Keniry
5 4/20- GARTH 193 Miss L Russell 6-10-12 D R Fox (3)
6 MOUNT BECKHAM Miss C Cannon (Ire) 5-10-12 B Hughes
7 P-1 SIMPLY THE WEST 145P C Longsdon 5-10-12 N Fehily
8 5253- THE BACKUP PLAN 177 D McCain 5-10-12 J M Maguire
9 050- QUEENS REGATTA 168 B Mactaggart 5-10-5 B Harding
15-8 Back To Bracka, 3-1 Rolling Maul, 4-1 Tom's Article, 6-1 others.
4.50 Handicap Chase (6,498: 2m) (6)
1 1023F AUTHINGER 40 (D,BF) F Murtagh 6-11-8 B Harding
2 11F5- CLASSIC MOVE 174 D McCain 5-11-7 J M Maguire
3 541-6 IT'S A MANS WORLD 49F (D) B Ellison 8-11-5 D Cook
4 2140- BRIGHT ABBEY 173F (D) Mrs D Sayer 6-11-2 J Reveley
5 522-2 FINAL ASSAULT 16 (D,BF) Miss L Russell 5-10-13 D R Fox (3)
6 21121 ROBIN'S COMMAND 16 (D) Mrs R Dobbin 7-10-12 C Nichol (3)
11-4 Classic Move, 100-30 Bright Abbey, 4-1 It's A Mans World, 9-2 others.
5.20 NH Flat Race (1,559: 2m 1f) (14)
1 431 DIVINE PORT 23 (D) G A Swinbank 4-11-7 P Moloney
2 A GOOD CATCH Karen McLintock 6-11-0 F Keniry
3 CLASSIC STATEMENT Mrs R Dobbin 6-11-0 W Renwick
4 2- DEADLY MOVE 202P C Longsdon 5-11-0 N Fehily
5 DERRYDOON Karen McLintock 4-11-0 P Brennan
6 4- KINGSWELL THEATRE 216 Miss L Russell 5-11-0
C Nichol (3)
7 6- KRASNODAR 172 (BF) J M Jefferson 4-11-0 B Hughes
8 64 MR STEADFAST 11 (T) G Elliott (Ire) 4-11-0 J M Maguire
9 SHEPHERD STORM J Wade 4-11-0 J Dawson (5)
10 634 THE PHANTOM WINGER 45 (V) S West 5-11-0 J Colliver (5)
11 5/3 TIMEFORTEE 13 G Harker 5-11-0 D C Costello
12 06- HOPEFULL 241 R Mike Smith 4-10-7 P Buchanan
13 3- INNIS SHANNON 341 G Bewley 4-10-7 J Bewley (5)
14 MAYZE BELL A Whillans 5-10-7 C Whillans (5)
7-2 Divine Port, 4-1 Mr Steadfast, 11-2 Deadly Move, 6-1 others.
Defeated Murray facing
struggle to reach finals
Tennis Andy Murrays hopes of
reaching the season-ending
Barclays ATP World Tour Finals
at Londons O2 arena suffered
another blow when he was beaten
2-6, 6-1, 6-2 by David Ferrer at
the Shanghai Rolex Masters
yesterday. Ferrers win means that
he replaces Murray in ninth place
in the Race to London standings
on 3,715 points, while the British
No1 is tenth on 3,655. Only the
top eight qualify.
The Scot has not lost all hope
of reaching the finals, but the
defeat means that he is likely to
compete for ranking points at the
Valencia Open, which starts on
October 20, and could also figure
at the Paris Masters a week later.
Froch scared of me
Boxing James DeGale has
accused Carl Froch of being
scared to face him, saying that
losing to him would ruin the IBF
and WBA super-middleweight
champions reputation. DeGale
faces Marco Antonio Peribn, of
Mexico, at the Echo Arena,
Liverpool, on November 22 and is
the mandatory challenger to face
Froch next.
Britain face final hurdle
Equestrianism The Great Britain
showjumping team have secured
a place in the last round of the
Furusiyya FEI Nations Cup
jumping final in Barcelona
tomorrow after superb rounds
from Joe Clee, on Utamaro
DEcaussines, and Spencer Roe,
on Wonder Why, in yesterdays
qualifying round. Both riders
finished on four faults.
Is the grass necessarily greener for
those rugby league players converting
to union? Sam Burgess will shortly
discover whether that is the case at
Bath, but for Joel Tomkins, who broke
into the England side for last years
autumn internationals, a return to his
native Wigan was based on the
straightforward honest assessment
that he was a better league than union
player.
Tomkins had three years at Saracens
and does not regret the experience for
one moment, but knew once he settled
back to life at Wigan Warriors that
he had made the right decision. That
was in June, when he was still
recovering from back surgery. The
27-year-olds transition from union
centre to league second row proved
almost seamless, despite the game
speeding up around the rucks in the
time Ive been away.
Four months on, heis relishingaFirst
Utility Super League Grand Final
appearance tomorrow against St
Helens, arch rivals whom he helped to
overcome in the 2010 Old Trafford
showdown. I hadthosefears movingto
union and coming back, Tomkins said.
You have to go into it 100 per cent and
give whatever you can. Those are the
risks. Returning toleague I knewwould
be a lot easier thangoing the other way.
Its like riding a bike. Youve done it
for so long, it doesnt really leave you,
though its not been easy. Its been a lot
of hard work, but I feel at a level now
where Im confident.
Last years final was not easy,
watching Wigan and younger brother
Samlift the trophy. This year the boot is
on the other foot with Sam, after a
testing first season in the NRL with
New Zealand Warriors, part of the Sky
Sports commentary team. The pair are
reunited in Englands league squad for
the Four Nations down under this
month, another reason for Joel to call
time on his union spell.
Sam, jealous? I hope not, Tomkins
said. I wasnt whenI was watching him
do the double last year. Hes a massive
Wigan fan. Hes been as nervous as we
have the last few weeks with the nail-
biting games. Its always a bit special to
play with Sam or Logan [their younger
brother at Salford Red Devils]. Sams
got a lot of experience this year in the
NRL and its a massive goal of his and
everyone to beat the Aussies. Itll be
fantastic if we can get a win there.
Joel was part of anEnglandteamwho
beat Australia at Twickenham last
November. In common with Burgess,
his main ambition was to play union
internationally. Three caps and being
adual-codeinternational was amassive
achievement for me, hesaid. Probably
being there for three years wasnt quite
enough to really fulfil what I wanted to
do. But when the opportunity arose to
come back, I had a good look at myself
and decided I was a better league than
union player.
I had more to give in league and Ive
a lot of loyalty to it. The games been
struggling and unions gone up a level.
Its important people can come and see
what a great game league is. That might
sound hypocritical after Ive been to
union, but thats how I feel.
Even if we werent in the Grand
Final and I wasnt going on tour, it
would have been the right decision.
Being away you dont realise what
youve got until youve not got it any
more.
Crossing the great divide
Lote Tuqiri
Dual-code Australia back played for
Waratahs, Leicester and Leinster.
Back in league at South Sydney
Rabbitohs and won the NRL Grand
Final last Sunday with Sam Burgess.
Chev Walker
Former England and Great Britain
player joined Bath in 2006 in a deal
part-funded by the RFU. Returned to
league ten months later at Hull KR.
Now with Bradford Bulls.
Setaimata Sa
Samoa and New Zealand league
player joined London Irish last year
from Catalan Dragons but switched
back in signing for Hull in May.
Iain Thornley
Threequarter is injured for
tomorrows Grand Final with a knee
injury. Returned to Wigan in 2012
after two years with Sale Sharks.
Words by Christopher Irvine Playing to his strengths: Tomkins is pleased that he made the difficult decision to
return to league, the code he thinks suits him best, after three years at Saracens
MARTIN RICKETT / PA
Tomkins enjoying green grass of home
Rugby league
Christopher Irvine
54 FGM Friday October 10 2014 | the times
Sport Rugby union
54
Standing by
injured players
is hurting us,
says Cockerill
RobHawkins was inthe final year of his
contract with Leicester when his arm
was broken by Calum Clark, the
Northampton Saints flanker, in the
2012 LV= Cup final.
The injury ended his season and
Hawkins couldhave facedanuncertain
future, but the clubstoodby their hook-
er and awarded him a new two-year
contract. Hawkins spent two more sea-
sons at Welford Road before landing a
two-year deal with Newcastle Falcons.
In his search for answers as to why
Leicester havebeenhit sobadlybyinju-
ries in recent years, Richard Cockerill,
the director of rugby, rejects the notion
that his training methods are stuck in
the amateur days, but he admitted that
his desire to stick by players, such as
Hawkins, could be a significant factor.
If loyalty is to blame, he makes no
apology for it, even though Leicesters
threadbare squad goes into tonights
game against Harlequins after three
successive defeats and sitting ninth in
the Aviva Premiership.
Some of it is circumstance, but after
threeyears of it, it cant just bebadluck,
Cockerill said. Maybe its [player]
retention. If a blokes been out 12
months with an injury, do we support
himor say, Hes busted, lets sign some-
one else? We look after our players
whentheyareinjured. Youhavetosend
theright messages. Sometimes that will
cost you in the short term, but in the
long term it is what we are about.
Leicester remain without key names
such as TomCroft, who has spent most
of the past two years injured, Tom
Youngs, Dan Cole, Ed Slater and Geoff
Parling, but they do have Manu Tuilagi
back and Brad Thorn makes his Wel-
ford Road debut in the second row.
Harlequins have George Lowe in
their squad for the first time since he
suffered a neck injury in September of
last year that almost ended his career.
6 KurtleyBealehas beensuspendedby
the Australian Rugby Union and will
face a disciplinarytribunal for allegedly
sending inappropriate and deeply
offensive text messages referencingan
ARU staff member. It has been report-
ed that they referred to Di Patston, the
ARU business manager, with whom
Beale had a heated argument on the
flight to Argentina last week.
Alex Lowe
Leicester Tigers: M Tait; B Scully, M Tuilagi, O Williams,
V Goneva; F Burns, B Youngs; M Rizzo, L Ghiraldini,
F Balmain, B Thorn, G Kitchener, J Gibson, J Salvi,
J Crane. Replacements: N Briggs, M Ayerza, T Pasquali,
S de Chaves, R Barbieri, D Mele, S Harrison,
M Benjamin.
Harlequins: M Brown; M Yarde, M Hopper, T Casson,
A Tikoirotuma; N Evans, D Care; J Marler, J Gray,
W Collier, C Matthews, G Robson, L Wallace,
C Robshaw, N Easter. Replacements: D Ward,
M Lambert, K Sinckler, S Twomey, J Trayfoot,
K Dickson, G Lowe, O Lindsay-Hague.
Referee: T Wigglesworth.
Television: Live on BT Sport 2 from 7pm, (kick-off 7.45).
Bid to become bigger leads to
doping feasting on young blood
P
eter Davies was 19years old, in
May, when a doping control
officer knocked on his door
early in the morning. He
played rugby union for
Newport High School Old Boys in the
SWALEC League 3 East. It may seem
odd that a doping officer should be
interested in a 19-year-old amateur;
clearlyhis mother thought sobecause a
few minutes after his arrival, during
which Davies had failed to provide a
urine sample, she reminded her son
that he had a university exam to go to.
What she did not say was that the exam
was not for more than five hours.
The officer left after half an hour and
returned six days later when Davies
flatly refused to give a sample. The two
incidents constituteananti-dopingrule
violation. Yesterday, Davies was givena
two-year ban from competitive sport.
His story would seem peculiar if
isolated, but it is not. Two years ago,
Gwent Police were tipped off about
large amounts of money more than
40,000 being sent in the post from
an address in Risca. The address was
that of a family on benefit.
A police investigation called Opera-
tion Winter was opened into conspira-
cytosupplysteroids that resultedinten
arrests and the criminal conviction of
Philip Tinklin for contravention of the
misuse of drugs act. In August, in the
sports court of law, Tinklin was given a
life ban from sport for possession of
prohibited substances, for trafficking,
assistingandencouragingtheir use. His
daughter, Sophie, an amateur boxer,
was banned for four years.
The intelligence from Operation
Winter was hugely important to UK
Anti-Doping (Ukad). In June, it led to
an eight-year ban for Clive Peters, a
rugby team manager for Surrey
under-15 to 18s, for possession and
trafficking. There was no evidence that
Peters had attempted to distribute to
the players he managed.
Amonth after Peters was suspended,
Ukad announced the three-year ban of
Christopher Edwards, a 29-year-old
who played rugby for Tredegar in
Welsh League 2 East. Edwards had
been caught because a third party had
sent Ukad a carrier bag containing
syringes, needles and empty bottles of
Trentest, an anabolic steroid.
Arguably the most concerning case
in south Wales this year was that of
Dean Colclough, the former Swansea
hooker, whoreceivedaneight-year ban
for possession and trafficking steroids.
It was fromColcloughthat SamChalm-
ers, the son of Craig Chalmers, the
former Scotland fly half, purchased the
steroids that, last year, brought him a
two-year ban. Chalmers was 19andsays
he did not know what he was taking.
Thecircumstantial evidencemounts.
Inthepast twomonths, two19-year-old
Welsh rugby league players have been
banned for taking steroids.
The geography here is not hard to
spot. It would be safe to assume that
south Wales is now being acutely
target-tested. Ukad has been frustrated
that it could not get access to
Colcloughs distribution lists, yet when
an officer turns up on the doorstep of a
19-year-old amateur, it suggests that its
local intelligence network is strong.
You just have to look at the number
of cases we are running in the region to
see it is of concern, Andy Parkinson,
the Ukad chief executive, said.
This might look like a Welsh issue,
thoughthat wouldignoreathirdleague
player, from the Gloucestershire All
Golds, who was banned in August. He
was 18andresearchedhis entire doping
programme online. Union players in
England test positive, too.
Doping always was and still remains
a concern at professional level in all
sports, although the most-tested group
in rugby, the top professionals, have a
comparatively good record. At that
level, education on nutrition and
supplementation is good. Of all the
above cases, only one was a
professional, Rhys Pugsley, one of the
youngWelshrugbyleague players, who
was with the Wigan Warriors academy.
The greater problem here would
appear to lie within two groups at the
levels beneath the professional game:
goodsenior players looking for a leg-up
to a professional contract, and ambi-
tious junior players who can see the
value of size.
As Parkinson said: In any sport
where athletes are required to be
bigger, this is a concern to us.
Three aspects collide dangerously.
One: the need to be big in rugby.
Chalmers was told time and again that
he was too small. Two: image enhance-
ment, the social requirement of the
body beautiful, magazines that tell you
how to get a six-pack in six weeks.
Needle exchanges report that there is a
higher use from steroid-users now
than heroin-users. Three: availability.
Steroids used to be distributed in dark
corners of gyms; now teenagers can
shop for them online. And the internet
can blur the line between a supplement
and a steroid. Again, ask Chalmers.
One senior voice within rugby
described this triple whammy as the
perfect storm.
Stephen Watkins, the RFUs anti-
doping manager, said: Sam Chalmers
is reflective of the young people weve
caught. The young players weve
caught are not dreadful people, theyve
just made a dreadful mistake.
The Welsh Rugby Union yesterday
said that it takes anti-doping offences
very seriously. Education pro-
grammes are in place but will soon be
more widespread. Schools have just
employed 43 new rugby officers who
will also act as anti-doping advisers.
The measures are wisely taken.
Doping is changing and so are those
who dope.
Owen Slot reports on
the worrying trend of
under-pressure players
early in their
career who
are turning
to steroids
Workout warriors: the value of size in sports like rugby has led to a contemporary kind of youthful, impressionable dopers
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Comparing badly
6Rugby union did not fare well
when compared with other sports in
statistics released by the World Anti-
Doping Agency (Wada) this year.
Wada compiled figures from across
all agencies and laboratories in 2013
and showed that while cycling and
athletics had rates of 1.2 per cent of
positive tests, rugby was at 1.3 per
cent. Weightlifting was 3.4 per cent.
6Cycling and athletics test more
than rugby: 22,252 cycle racers were
tested in 2013, 24,942 athletes and
6,126 rugby players.
6Unions big scare about doping in
young players came at the Craven
Week schools tournament in South
Africa in 2011, when four boys tested
positive for banned substances.
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Wasps flight just a part of nomadic clubs history
W
asps move to
Coventry might be
new for rugby union,
but it is a story that
goes back nearly a
hundred years on the other side of
the Atlantic. In the fledgeling years of
American football professionalism,
teams frequently moved to survive. It
was nothing uncommon for a club to
be resurrected in a different city with
the same owners and the same
players. These switches were rarely
controversial. Supporters understood
the realities of the situation and
accepted that, in the era of the
American Depression, it was all right
for a clubs owner to up sticks to keep
the club afloat.
Not until much later in the 20th
century were these moves
controversial. With the sport believed
to be free of financial instability, the
perception of the move altered
radically. Suddenly the abandonment
of a community for what was
perceived as purely financial motives
provoked the purists wrath.
Not surprisingly, the owners of the
clubs cited financial problems for
decisions that turned fanatics against
their beloved clubs. And this brings us
to Wasps, their supporters, their
owner, Derek Richardson, and the
present state of the club game in
England.
Wasps supporters are stunned.
Fans who have followed them
throughout their and the clubs life
have been kept not so much in the
dark as pitch black.
It took no time for a petition of
1,000-plus supporters to be raised to
rail against the move. But the game
has changed with professionalism.
There are a new set of rules by which
the sport proceeds.
Fans are consumers. Their devotion
is another part of the profit-driven
reality of business. So the petitioners
position is feeble. There are all too
few of them to win the intellectual
argument about the need for a move
and even if there were 15,000 season
ticket-holders, Wasps are their club to
support but they no longer belong
to the fans.
The days of a few thousand
cheering them on at Sudbury and
feeling an intrinsic part of Wasps is
over. It is over with every Premiership
club. The clubs will dress it up and
market their gratitude to the
supporters, but the point of a
supporter is to come through the
turnstile as shoppers walk through
supermarket doors.
Adams Park and High Wycombe
has failed. Consumer numbers are
simply insufficient. Even had the
local council granted planning for
a larger stadium, one wonders
whether Richardson really wanted
to increase the size of a small
ground that Wasps could not fill even
when they were the greatest team in
Europe.
The official line is that Richardson
saved Wasps from bankruptcy. The
club are indebted to him, to the
extent that they are his club now, not
theirs. In the infancy of the
professional game one owner
described his ownership of a famous
club to me as a stewardship to be
passed down to the next generation.
That was a wise and noble
aspiration, but those days are done.
Let us flip back in history and cross
the Atlantic again. The fury of the
fans of the franchised teams who
found their sides shifting across
America was based upon the
helplessness of the individual in the
face of corporate sport. The NFL
awarded franchises not to the city, but
the individual who owned the teams.
Clubs were one mans business and
with the Depression-era history,
corporate greed became the enemy of
the American working man. This is
the tale told with sound and fury; an
essential move according to Wasps
management; a betrayal according to
the diehard fans.
Societys vision has regressed in this
instantaneous age. One week is a long
time in a news cycle, two decades
takes us back to the Old Testament. In
reality, 20 years is a brief period in the
evolution of something that has been
as complicated as the
professionalisation of rugby union. If
you believe that the clubs have been
liberated by the various financial
windfalls, as the endless propaganda
that passes for information tells us, it
is easy to see the managements
position in the murkiest light.
History dumped for a world-class
facility (world-class meaning
anything that is not a dump) in a
fantastic city. Now, home is where
the heart is but Coventry as a
fantastic city? Come on Wasps PR
machine, lets go easy on the excess. I
understand why this reads like an
absolute insult to the clubs fans. I
empathise with them.
Yet if Wasps are losing millions per
year and the game is not half as
professional as some would have
you believe, surely the bloke who
saved the club has the right to shift
that club in an attempt to shore up his
own depleted finances.
Wasps have long been nomadic.
Their original name lacks any
geographical hint. In the professional
era they have wandered (not far or
wide) without finding home. There is
an undoubted corporate logic in the
move even as there is a wrath in
taking the supporters team into
another part of the country.
Wasps became London Wasps and
fooled no one. High Wycombe was
never part of the capital. Now they
have reverted to Wasps. Better to
come clean and rename themselves
Coventry Wasps. That city is every bit
as much their future as London and
High Wycombe is their past.
Stuart Barnes
Commentary
Youve come a long way: Sudbury is Wasps past and Coventry is their future
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Sport
56
Marussia history
2010 Founded as Virgin Racing
but bought by Russias Marussia
car company. The team finish 12th
and last.
2011 The team recruit experts
from McLaren, but still finish last.
2012 Mara de Villota is badly
injured in testing. Marussia finish
11th of 12 teams.
2013 Max Chilton finishes every
grand prix and the team again
end up one place off the bottom,
earning a financial bonus.
However, De Villota is found dead
in a Spanish hotel, believed to be
a result of her injuries.
2014 Was to be Marussias best
year after Bianchi finished ninth in
Monaco, scored their first points
in F1 and set up a $40 million
prize bonus to help to secure the
teams financial future.
Words by Kevin Eason
His name is above the garage and car
No17 has been checked and is ready
to race. The only absentee is Jules
Bianchi.
The agony of the past week was
etched on the face of Graeme
Lowdon, Marussias sporting
director. This morning, he will decide
whether Marussia will race at the
Russian Grand Prix this weekend
with two cars, one, or not at all.
LowdonarrivedinSochi yesterday,
shell-shocked by the accident that
has left Bianchi, his driver, in inten-
sive care in Japan. The 25-year-old
was a rising star in Formula One but
has sufferedaseverebraininjurythat
he may be lucky to survive, never
mind drive again at 200mph.
In an incident of this cruelty, there
must be answers and these will be
sought by drivers tonight when they
meet Charlie Whiting, the F1 race
director. He was at the controls of the
Japanese Grand Prix last Sunday
when the rain teemed, the light
dimmedandBianchi veeredfromthe
circuit at 130mph and smashed into
the back of a recovery tractor.
Nico Rosberg said that the drivers
would have a list of questions, and
Sergio Prez, of Force India,
demanded that the FIA, the govern-
ing body, recounts exactly what
happened in Suzuka.
It is not acceptable, Prez said.
We have to look for answers from
the FIA on what happened in this
tragic accident. We have tomake sure
theyhear us. Inthefuturewhenthere
is a tractor coming up to pick up the
car, we need a safety car, inno matter
what conditions.
Lowdon was at the Mie Medical
Centre inYokkaichi onSundaynight,
where doctors operated for more
than three hours, trying to ease the
swelling in Bianchis brain. Lowdon
Drivers want answers
over Bianchi accident
Formula One
Kevin Eason
Motor Racing Correspondent, Sochi
Max Whitlock, right,
won a surprise silver
medal at the World
Gymnastics
Championships in
Nanning, China
yesterday, but only
after scraping into the
all-around final
because of an injury
to a team-mate (Rick
Broadbent writes).
The European
pommel horse
champion thought
that his hopes went
with a disappointing
qualifier, but a wrist
injury to Nile Wilson
meant a late, second
opportunity. He
matched Britains best
previous result in the
all-around final, by
Dan Keatings in 2009.
The whole trip has
been a rollercoaster,
Whitlock said. I
really cant believe
Im now standing with
the world silver.
Kohei Uchimura,
Whitlocks idol, took
his fifth successive
title for Japan.
I think I went out
and competed with no
pressure, Whitlock
said. I nailed my best
routine of the week
on the pommel and
that set me off.
Whitlock led after
the first discipline
before Uchimura took
control of the final.
However, a fine floor
routine sealed second
place, while Dan
Purvis, his team-
mate, was 11th.
The medal is a big
boost to Britains men,
who had come fourth
in the team final.
Claudia Fragapane,
winner of four golds
at the Commonwealth
Games, is in action in
todays all-around
final alongside Ruby
Harrold.
Whitlock takes advantage
of injury to claim silver
ZHANGAILIN/ALAMY
had to fly to Sochi to organise a team
running on fatigue and hope, leaving
behind John Booth, his team princi-
pal, who refused to leave Japan while
his driver fought for his life.
Outside the Marussia hospitality
paddockinSochi, everything seemed
normal as mechanics scurried back-
wards and forwards with their boxes
of components. Inside, Lowdon
struggled to explain the devastation
of seeing a young life hanging in the
balance and how he had to decide
whether Marussia would or
indeed should race this weekend.
The balance is between respect for
amuch-lovedcolleagueandthecom-
petitive urge that drove Bianchi on to
become a racing driver, graduating
from the Ferrari academy to the
threshold of a drive with the great
Scuderiaafter anapprenticeshipwith
Marussia these past two seasons.
Alexander Rossi, the American, is
on standby to take Bianchis place.
Although he has tested an F1 car, he
has not raced one, and certainly not
on such a tumultuous weekend
ostensibly Marussias home grand
prix. Apart from running the team,
Lowdon will have to face Marussias
corporate guests with a handshake
and smile to hide a heavy heart.
Perhaps the psychological
demands will be too great for him, his
drivers and his team. There was no
sign yesterday of Max Chilton, Bian-
chis British team-mate; his mental
state will also have to be determined
before he is allowed on to the track
for the practice sessions today.
Bernie Ecclestone, F1s chief
executive, has told Lowdon to do
what he must, even if it means that
the Marussia cars miss the race.
Ecclestone has been a rock in the
past few days, calling regularly to
check on Lowdon, Booth and, more
importantly, Bianchi.
It was difficult to escape Bianchis
plight around the paddock yesterday.
Lowdon summed it up when he said:
Jules is not just an extraordinary
driver, heis anextraordinaryperson.
The tributes and concern were
heartfelt. Felipe Massa survived
being hit on the head by a metal
spring travelling at 160mph at the
2009 Hungarian Grand Prix. He was
brought out of acomaandrevivedhis
driving career with Ferrari and now
Williams, but for him, the Japanese
Grand Prix last weekend was the
worst race of my life.
Massa said: It is so difficult to be
everyday because I am thinking
about Jules.
For Russia, this weekend was to be
a celebration but, for a sombre F1, it
will be a weekend of tribute and hope
for a young driver the driver
missing from car No17.
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Football Sport
Football
European Championship
Qualifying Group C
Belarus (0) 0 Ukraine (0) 2
10,500 Martynovich (og) 82
Sydorchuk 90+3
Macedonia (1) 3 Luxembourg(2) 2
Trajkovski 20
Jahovic 66 (pen)
Abdurahimi 90+2
Bensi 39
Turpel 44
7,000
Slovakia (1) 2 Spain (0) 1
Kucka 17
Stoch 87
Alcacer 82
9,478
P W D L F A GDPts
Slovakia........... 2 2 0 0 3 1 2 6
Spain................2 1 0 1 6 3 3 3
Ukraine.............2 1 0 1 2 1 1 3
Macedonia....... 2 1 0 1 4 7 -3 3
Luxembourg.....2 0 1 1 3 4 -1 1
Belarus.............2 0 1 1 1 3 -2 1
Group E
England (2) 5 San Marino(0) 0
Jagielka 24
Rooney 43 (pen)
Welbeck 49
Townsend 72
Della Valle (og) 77
55,990
Lithuania (0) 1 Estonia (0) 0
Mikoliunas 76 4,800
Sent off: K Kallaste (Estonia) 86
Slovenia (0) 1 Switzerland(0) 0
Novakovic 80 (pen) 8,500
6Table on page 74
Group G
Liechtenstein(0) 0 Montenegro(0) 0
2,790
Moldova (1) 1 Austria (1) 2
Dedov 29 (pen)
10,000
Alaba 14 (pen)
Janko 52
Sent off: M Janko (Austria) 83
Sweden (0) 1 Russia (1) 1
Toivonen 50
44,000
Kokorin 11
P W D L F A GDPts
Russia.............. 2 1 1 0 5 1 4 4
Montenegro.....2 1 1 0 2 0 2 4
Austria.............2 1 1 0 3 2 1 4
Sweden............ 2 0 2 0 2 2 0 2
Liechtenstein...2 0 1 1 0 4 -4 1
Moldova........... 2 0 0 2 1 4 -3 0
Under-20 international: Germany 0
England 1 (in Heerenveen).
Golf
European Tour Portugal Masters
Vilamoura, Algarve: Leadingfirst-round
scores (play suspended because of
heavy rain, resumes today; Great Brit-
ainandIrelandunless stated): 60: NCol-
saerts (Bel). 63: A Levy (Fr), S Jamies-
on. 64: R Cabrera Bello (Sp). 65: F Agui-
lar (Chile), DWillett, DLynn, CDoak. 66:
R Bland, T Aiken (SA), J Kruger (SA), B
Grace (SA), E de la Riva (Sp).
LPGA Tour Sime Darby
KualaLumpur G&CC: Leadingfirst-round
scores (South Korea unless stated):
65: S Lewis (US). 66: Ryu So Yeon, Choi
NaYeon, Ji EunHee, ParkHeeYoung. 67:
P Phatlum (Thai), J Shin (US), Lee Mi
Hyang, A Yang, Feng Shanshan (China).
Gymnastics
World Championships
Nanning, China: Men: All-around: Final:
1, K Uchimura (Japan) 91.965pts; 2, M
Whitlock (GB) 90.473; 3, Y Tanaka
(Japan) 90.449.
Tennis
ATP Shanghai Rolex Masters
Third round: T Berdych (Cz) bt I Karlovic
(Cro) 6-3, 6-4; G Simon (Fr) bt M Jaziri
(Tun) 6-2, 6-3; J Benneteau (Fr) bt J
Sock (US) 6-3, 6-4; D Ferrer (Sp) bt A
Murray (GB) 2-6, 6-1, 6-2; M Youzhny
(Russ) bt J Mnaco (Arg) 5-7, 6-3, 6-2; F
Lpez (Sp) bt J Isner (US) 6-3, 6-4; N
Djokovic (Serbia) bt MKukushkin (Kaz)
6-3, 4-6, 6-4; R Federer (Switz) bt
R Bautista-Agut (Sp) 6-4, 6-2.
WTA Generali Ladies
Linz, Austria: Second round: A-L Fried-
sam (Ger) bt J Cepelova (Slovakia) 6-0,
6-4; K Knapp (It) bt M Rybarikova (Slo-
vakia) 6-3, 0-0 ret; Karolina Pliskova
(Cz) bt M Barthel (Ger) 6-4, 6-2; T
Pironkova (Bul) wo E Bouchard (Can).
Football
Kick-off 7.45 unless stated
European Championship qualifying:
Group A: Holland v Kazakhstan; Latvia v
Iceland; Turkey v Czech Republic. Group
B: Belgium v Andorra; Cyprus v Israel;
Wales v Bosnia-Herzegovina (at Cardiff
City Stadium). GroupH: Bulgaria v Croa-
tia; Italy v Azerbaijan; Malta v Norway.
European Under-21 Championship play-
offs, first leg: EnglandvCroatia(5.45, at
Molineux, Wolverhampton).
European Under-19 Championship qual-
ifying: Group one: England v Belarus
(3.30, in Grevenmacher, Luxembourg).
Scottish Championship: Raith v Queen
of the South (7.35). League One: Ayr v
Dunfermline.
Rugby union
Aviva Premiership: Leicester v Harle-
quins (7.45).
British & Irish Cup: Pool two: Yorkshire
Carnegie v Rotherham Titans (8.0).
GuinnessPRO12: BenettonTrevisovCon-
nacht (7.0); Munster v Scarlets (7.35).
Other sport
Basketball: BBL Championship: New-
castle v Sheffield (7.30).
Equestrianism: BirminghamNEC: Horse
of the Year Show.
Ice hockey: Rapid Solicitors Elite
League: Braehead v Fife (7.30).
Fixtures Results
Koscielny injury makes Wenger count to ten
Arsne Wenger may be forced to play
Nacho Monreal out of position at
centre back and Hector Bellerin, the
teenager, at right back in Arsenals next
Barclays Premier League match
against Hull City a week tomorrow
after the clubs injury problems
worsened yesterday.
Laurent Koscielny became the tenth
Arsenal player undergoing treatment
whenthe France defender was released
frominternational duty yesterday with
an achilles injury.
Koscielny returned to the club for
assessment after complaining of pain
during training with France, which led
to him being ruled out of their friendly
internationals against Portgual and
Armenia. Arsenal are hopeful that
Koscielny will be fit to face Hull, but his
injury remains a setback that has
exposed the lack of cover in Wengers
squad, particularly defensively.
Wenger decided to operate with a
small squad during the summer, reject-
ing the opportunity to sign additional
players at centre back and in holding
midfield, a gamble that appears to have
backfired as a result of the injury
problems that have marred their start
to the season.
The Frenchmans lack of options at
the back will be particularly acute
against Hull, as the virtually ever-
present Calum Chambers will be sus-
pended after collecting his fifth Prem-
ier League booking of the season in last
weekends defeat away to Chelsea. The
19-year-old was also shown a yellow
card in Arsenals Champions League
qualifier against Besitkas in August.
As a result, Wenger will be forced to
handa Premier League debut to Beller-
in, who made his first start for the club
in the Champions League defeat away
to Borussia Dortmund last month, and
will have to make a further reshuffle if
Koscielny fails to recover in time.
Moving Monreal to centre back
alongside Per Mertesacker appears to
be his only option, but the Spaniard has
not played for a month as a result of
back trouble.
Arsenals continuing injury problems
are the source of much frustration to
Wenger, who has commissioned an
internal inquiry in an attempt to get to
the bottom of them without any obvi-
ous success. Mesut zil returned to the
club yesterday to begin his recovery
after rupturing knee ligaments against
Chelsea last weekend, the seriousness
of which was not discovered until he
had a scan while on international duty
in Munich on Wednesday.
In addition, Olivier Giroud and
Mathieu Debuchy are long-term casu-
alties with fibia and ankle problems
respectively, while Aaron Ramsey is
not expected to play before the start of
next month because of a hamstring
strain. Serge Gnabry, Yaya Sanogo,
Abou Diaby and Mikel Arteta are also
out, while Theo Walcott is back in
training after cruciate knee ligament
damage. His return date is not known.
Matt Hughes
Deputy Football Correspondent
Case for treatment: Koscielnys achilles injury means Arsenal have a shortage of
fit defenders for their next Premier League game against Hull a week tomorrow
BEN QUEENBOROUGH/BPI/REX
United set to offer Blackett fresh deal
Manchester United plan to reward
Tyler Blackett with a new contract
after the England Under-21 centre
halfs first-teambreakthrough at Old
Trafford.
United are expected to open talks
with Blackett over a fresh deal after
the international break.
Blackett has taken advantage of
Uniteds defensive injury crisis to
start five of their seven Barclays
Premier League games this season
after first impressing Louis van Gaal,
the manager, onthe clubs pre-season
tour to the United States.
The 20-year-old, who made his
competitive debut in the 2-1 defeat at
home to Swansea City on the
opening day, is out of contract at the
end of the season. He earns about
2,000 a week, although his wages
would increase dramatically under
the terms of a new deal.
Blackett made his debut for
England Under-21 last month
when he went on as a substitute
against Moldova, although Gareth
Southgate, the head coach, omitted
the defender from his squad for the
European Championship two-leg
play-off against Croatia in the belief
that there were better candidates.
Blackett has benefited from a glut
of injuries at Old Trafford, but Van
Gaal hopes to have one of Phil Jones
or Chris Smalling back for the game
against West Bromwich Albion at
The Hawthorns a week on
Monday.
The match will come too
soon for Jonny Evans, who is
twotothree weeks away from
a return with an ankle
injury, and Patrick
McNair, the North-
ern Ireland Under-
21 centre half, is on
the sidelines with a
hamstring prob-
lem.
Uniteds faint
hopes of re-signing
Cristiano Ronaldo
were as good as
written off by his
agent yesterday,
Jorge Mendes announc-
ing that the World Player of the Year
will stayat Real Madridtothedeath.
United have explored the feasibili-
ty of a move for Ronaldo, but while
thecost of fundingadeal was prohibi-
tive, Mendes has indicated that the
Portugal forwards respect for his
former club does not amount to a
wish to return to Old Trafford.
Amore realistic target for Unitedis
Kevin Strootman, the Roma and
Holland midfielder. Despite hinting
that United had inquired about
Strootman, James Pallotta, the
Roma owner, insisted this week
that the Italian club dont
have any interest in selling
and suggested that not
even a bid of 75million
would be enoughto prise
himaway, although that
appears to be little more
than a negotiating
position.
James Ducker
Northern Football Correspondent
Taking his chance:
Blackett has made five
league starts after
impressing Van Gaal
in the United States
6Liverpool are facing the prospect
of further defensive disruption as
they assess the extent of an injury to
Dejan Lovren. The centre back has
returned to Merseyside for checks
by Liverpools medical staff after
withdrawing from the Croatia squad
for their European Championship
qualifiers against Bulgaria and
Azerbaijan with an abdominal
problem, which surfaced in training
with his national squad. The
25-year-old has been an ever-present
for Liverpool since his 20million
summer move from Southampton.
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Arsenals long-held positionamong the
Champions Leagues top seeds is as
good as over after Uefa announced a
radical shake-up of the seeding system
for next seasons competition.
Gianni Infantino, the general secre-
tary of European footballs governing
body, said yesterday that the winners of
the Barclays Premier League, along
with the six champions from Europes
other highest-ranked leagues and the
reigning EuropeanCup-holders, would
automatically be placed among the top
seeds in the draw.
The move, which signals the end of
teams who finish fourth, third or even
second in their domestic leagues
having a chance of a topseeding, will be
ratified at the next Uefa executive
committee meeting in December. At
present, the existing co-efficient
systemrewards teams whoconsistently
qualify for the competition, such as
Arsenal, yet penalises those relatively
new, such as Manchester City, champ-
ions in two of the past three seasons.
James Ducker
Northern Football Correspondent
Arsenal hit by
seedings blow
Fifa backing
for treatment
of Courtois
Rory Smith
Fifas chief medical officer has insisted
that Chelsea acted correctly over the
head injury suffered by Thibaut
Courtois during the Barclays Premier
League victory over Arsenal on Sun-
day.
The 22-year-old goalkeeper, having
been examined by Chelseas medical
staff, played on after seemingly being
knocked out in a collision with Alexis
Snchez, but was forced off 14 minutes
later and taken to hospital for a precau-
tionary scan. He has since joined up
with Belgiums squad for their Euro-
pean Championship qualifiers.
I knowthe doctors at Chelsea andat
Belgium, Dr Michel DHooghe, the
head of the Fifa medical commission,
said. They are serious people. The lady
doctor at Chelsea [Eva Carneiro] did a
correct examination.
Shecametotheconclu-
sion that he could go on,
but she kept aneye onhim
and from the moment
he didnt feel well they
took the right deci-
sion to take himoff.
League set to
launch review
The Football League is to conduct a
review into the under-representation
of black, Asian and ethnic minorities
in management and coaching (Gary
Jacob writes).
Only two non-white managers are
employed by the 92 clubs and calls for
the adoption of an equivalent of
American footballs Rooney rule,
which requires at least one ethnic
minority candidate to be interviewed,
have increased.
It is intended that a report and
recommendations will be presented
to clubs and published at the end of
the season.
Cheap shots take Second
Keane as mustard: the Aston Villa and Ireland assistant manager was again tart in his responses as he launched his book at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin yesterday
T
here is much in Roy Keanes
new book that is thoughtful
and self-mocking, insightful
and funny. He spends more
than a third of The Second
Half relating his experience of
managing Sunderland, which you
would not believe from scanning
through some of the more incendiary
extracts, and as he put it yesterday, Its
not all about falling out with people. A
fair point, apart from the fact that he is
so damnably good at it.
Jos Mourinho is the latest. During
AstonVillas 3-0defeat awaytoChelsea
late last month, the Portuguese left his
dugout before the final whistle and
attempted to shake hands with Paul
Lambert, the Villa manager, and
Keane, his assistant, who blanked him.
The game is still going on, Keane
said. Its disgraceful. Ive seen him
doing it to other managers, it is a
disgrace. The game is still going on. You
wouldnt do that on a Sunday morning,
you would get knocked out. Was it
disrespectful? What do you think?
Thats a stupid question. Yeah.
The Second Half, written with Roddy
Doyle, the esteemed novelist, does not
read like a long settling of scores. He
talks about frailties, self-loathing, of
how working with Ireland and Villa
has given me back a love of the game
and a hunger that he has not had for a
long time, but niceties such as that
tend to disappear at a press conference
and all the old fascinations remain: Sir
Alex Ferguson, Alf-Inge Haaland,
Saipan and Mick McCarthy.
Mourinho was a newtopic, but it was
not one Keane volunteered at his book
launch in Dublin yesterday; he was
asked and he answered, witheringly.
ThesameappliedtoFerguson, his long-
time manager at Manchester United,
although, in this instance, the clubs
former captain is still irked about his
departure in 2005 and what he per-
ceives as a rewriting of history. He used
the word lies a lot. Specifically: A
pack of lies, just lies and lies and lies.
Its afterwards when people start
coming out with all sorts of nonsense,
Keane said. For Alex Ferguson, not
just tocriticise myself, but other players
who were part of a team that brought
some good days to lots of supporters,
for himto criticise that when you think
of what he made out of it. He made mil-
lions of pounds out of it. He got his
statues, hes got his stand named after
him and to come back and criticise . . . I
said at the time, I wasnt too bothered
about myself, but to criticise people
who brought him success
was just ridiculous. Will
I ever forgive him? I
dont know. Listen, I
dont know. Well see
if we ever cross paths
again.
In his own auto-
biography, Ferguson
said that Keanes tongue was the
hardest part of his body. I kick pretty
hard, came the response. It was a
cheap dig. He was never critical when
we were winning trophies and he was
gettinghis newcontracts, gettingcalled
Sir this. He was not pulling me or other
players, saying, Listen, you need to
relax a bit.
Keane was asked to attend the
ceremony when Fergusons statue was
unveiled outside Old Trafford two
years ago. I dont think he invited me,
it was probably his committee or his
son, but why wouldI gotothat? Keane
said. That was all power and control.
Ruud van Nistelrooy was there. But
Im not Ruud van Nistelrooy, he said.
But he also fell out with Ferguson
badly. Not as badly as me. Was that
not a conciliatory gesture? No, no.
What do you mean by power and
control? So, what, he comes in and
were all standing and applauding and
hes, Ive got you where I want you?
By then, Keane was with a
gaggle of newspaper
journalists, a few of
whom had felt Fer-
gusons wrath.
You have to
defend yourself,
he said. A lot of
peoplearesitting
around here
and people are frightened of him. You
cant go against him because youll
never be allowed to speak to him again
but, thankGod, I dont have those prob-
lems. Why do people let him get away
with that? People sit back and are
frightened to death of him.
Does that includeother managers? I
think a lot of managers would probably
be intimidated by him, probably bowto
him, Keanesaid. Alot of managers are
heavily influenced by him, of course. I
think [Roberto] Martnez reckons he
was misquoteda fewyears agowhenhe
saidthat Fergusonhadhis disciples, but
he obviously does.
Ferguson was also in Dublin on a
speaking engagement last night. He
referred to Keane as one of the best
midfielders in Europe.
Keane then moved on to Haaland,
the subject of another running feud.
Keane begins his book by saying there
are things I regret inmylife andhes not
one of them, which Haaland respond-
ed to onTwitter witha picture compar-
ing his old and prolifically bearded
adversary to Saddam Hussein.
Keane was aware of it. I played against
him, I know what hes like, he said. So
whats he like? Weak . . . average
player. Sneaky? Thats being polite.
Working with Doyle, the author of
The Commitments and Paddy Clarke Ha
Ha Ha, had been like a therapy
session, Keane said, and The Second
Half is largely upbeat (it ends with the
sentence, it was brilliant). There was
less of that yesterday the book is
recommended but it is difficult to
move on from the old Keane when the
barbs are as sharp as this.
George Caulkin hears
Roy Keane take a fresh
swipe at Jos Mourinho
at the official launch of
his new book in Dublin
Cold shoulder:
Mourinho,
right, was
disgraceful in
his approach to
Lambert
Courtois suffered
concussion
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Outspoken Keane still struggling
to keep dark side under control
Matt Dickinson Chief Sports Correspondent
C
ontrary to advance billing,
Roy Keanes new book does
not read like a rampage,
taking down his enemies
remorselessly over 290
pages. The tone is often of regret,
with self-loathing thrown in.
The freshest, most interesting
chapters involve Keanes years in
management and a typical story takes
us to a pre-season training camp
when he was manager of Sunderland.
The Irishman is unhappy when Craig
Gordon, his 9million goalkeeper, is
beaten in a match from 30 yards.
The next day Keane pulls on a pair
of gloves and challenges his players to
shoot from distance, saying that they
must pay him 100 if they miss but he
will give them 1,000 if they score.
He keeps a clean sheet, winning
800 and seemingly proving his point
that his goalkeeper should not
concede from that far out. That
Gordon, a Scotland player, is looking
on appalled occurs to him only
afterwards. Id embarrassed, and
maybe, belittled, the goalkeepers,
Keane observes. I hadnt meant to.
That often happens in Keanes life;
impulsive actions or words with
unintended consequences. Maybe I
should have . . . is probably the most
commonly used phrase in the book.
That, or maybe I shouldnt have . . .
Why did he ask Carlos Queiroz, in
front of the entire Manchester United
squad, if he sh***** his missus in the
same position every night in a jaw-
dropping complaint about repetitive
training the final insult in a tirade
that sealed his exit from Manchester
United? I havent a clue why I said
that and still dont, Keane notes.
Why does he lose his rag when
even when I know I might be right,
theres a voice in my head going,
Youll pay for this?
Why does he feel a restlessness that
can quickly turn to self-destruction?
I can be sitting at home, the most
contented man on the planet, he
writes. An hour later I go, Jesus
its hard work, this.
The most fascinating passage of his
book promises to answer these deep
questions, to take readers to the core
of his being. I dont know if its low
self-esteem, he says. But we never do
find out. The moment passes and we
do not discover if there is something
in Keanes childhood, his upbringing,
his genes that can explain why he
runs away from easy bliss, often
destabilising his own life.
Why does he do it? Keane might be
regretfully asking that question again
of himself this morning after the
launch of The Second Half, ghosted by
the novelist Roddy Doyle, in Dublin.
Instead of the introspection of his
book, Keane played up yesterday to
the caricature of the angry man,
attacking Ferguson, calling Jos
Mourinho a disgrace for something as
petty as post-match handshakes.
Instead of the coach who appeared
to be regaining balance in his
professional life as an assistant with
Ireland and Aston Villa, stepping
stones back to management and the
successful career he seems to crave,
Keane was living down to the dark,
scary stereotype. Why was he
sounding off, playing to the gallery?
The common answer is that he does
not give a f*** but, actually, his book
reveals that he does care. He minds
what people think. He frets how he
will be remembered.
We all want to be liked, Keane
notes when writing about his
struggles to win over the dressing
room at Ipswich Town.
His skin is thin. People often say
that the Championship is one of the
toughest leagues in the world. I won it
as a manager I have to say that. No
one else ever does, he writes,
troubled that a successful season at
Sunderland is not properly
acknowledged.
Keane wants to be taken seriously
but, as we were reminded yesterday,
he cannot help lashing out like a
baited bear, for everyones
amusement. Go on Roy, give us a rant
and a brooding stare. Grow that beard
until you look like a pirate lost for
years at sea.
It is self-defeating because he must
know that if he wants to return to
management, and to rebuild his
career after his messy departure from
Sunderland and failure at Ipswich, he
should be avoiding talk of feuds with
Ferguson, and suggesting that
Mourinho would be knocked out in
Sunday morning football, and
worrying about rebuilding his
credentials.
The room might groan in
disappointment, but he should be
talking reflectively of what he learnt
at Ipswich from his mistakes. I dont
think Im a bad manager, but at
Ipswich I managed badly, he admits
in his book. My recruitment wasnt
good enough, he notes. Ive no
excuses. He confesses that he badly
mishandled some relationships,
talking down to people.
What sort of manager does he want
to be? It is perhaps not a great
surprise to hear that Keane regards
himself as unashamedly old school.
He tells how on the eve of his debut
for Nottingham Forest, Brian Clough
took the teenage Keane aside with the
instruction: Get it, pass it to one of
your team-mates, and move. Can you
do that? He does not try to deny that
his own coaching has moved little
beyond the simplest template. At
Sunderland, he notes that the only
time wed try to be tactically
clever, wed play with a sitting
midfielder.
He is aware of sports science, and
the use of technology, but admits
falling asleep in a meeting with
Prozone when the company came to
peddle its software. Its all about
characters is probably the line that
best sums up his approach to
management.
It is not the most persuasive of
philosophies, but Keane clearly
believes that simple instruction and
plain speaking can work. At 43, he
insists that he has learnt an awful lot
since he took over at Sunderland and
was initially overwhelmed by the
workload.
As a manager Id like to take
Cloughs warmth and Fergusons
ruthlessness, and put them in the mix
but also add my own traits, he
explains, but the worry for any future
employer remains what those traits
are exactly.
Keane has certainly reminded us
that there is something compelling
or box office about him, and
forthcoming speaking engagements
to plug his book will no doubt
reinforce his shock value.
Yet as he lashes Ferguson who
actually does not come out of the
book that badly any clubs thinking
of recruiting Keane will also know
that the self-destruct button is never
far away.
Arm-to-arm combat: Keane is embroiled in a heated disagreement with Patrick Vieira in a Premier League match in 1999
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Wales golden
generation
can qualify,
says Coleman
Gary Jacob
Chris Coleman ran the risk of getting
ahead of himself yesterday by herald-
ing a golden generation in Welsh
football and a chance to make history.
There were nods and comparisons to
the greats andit soundedas if his Wales
side were on the cusp of reaching a
leading tournament andnot at the start
of a campaign. Perhaps it was because
meeting Bosnia-Herzegovina tonight
will probably determine their destiny
and, for Wales, it has nearly always
been over before it had begun.
WithBelgiumexpectedtowalkaway
with the Euro 2016 group B, Wales
fancy their chances of edging Bosnia
and Cyprus as runners-up. It is a
familiar scenario but has rarely played
out, owing to Wales frequently shoot-
ing themselves inthe foot at the start of
recent campaigns.
Yes, we can create history, Cole-
man, the Wales manager, said. They
have a great chance to live up to the tag
they have been given as the golden
generation. If a bit of luck comes our
way and we handle the pressure, then
this can be the golden generation.
It was quite a statement as Coleman
played with Neville Southall, Mark
Hughes, Ian Rush, Dean Saunders and
RyanGiggs. What a teamthat was, but
we did not do it, Coleman said. These
[my] boys have also been handed that
label and will live up to it if they do the
business. Are they good enough? Yes.
The fresh start comes at a Cardiff
City stadiumthat will be full but a team
stripped of two of its three stars in
Aaron Ramsey and Joe Allen, who are
among five absent midfielders. Like his
Wales (5-3-2): W Hennessey (Crystal Palace)
C Gunter (Reading), J Chester (Hull City), A Williams
(Swansea City), B Davies (Tottenham Hotspur),
N Taylor (Swansea City) H Robson-Kanu (Reading),
A King (Leicester City), J Ledley (Crystal Palace)
G Bale (Real Madrid), S Church (Charlton Athletic).
Bosnia-Herzegovina (4-1-3-2): A Begovic (Stoke City)
A Vrsajevic (Hajduk Split), O Vranjes (Pribram),
T Sunjic (Kuban Krasnodar), S Lulic (Lazio) M Besic
(Everton) S Prcic (Rennes), S Pjanic (Roma), T Susic
(Hajduk Split) E Dzeko (Manchester City), V Ibisevic
(Stuttgart).
Referee: V Bezborodov (Russia).
Television: Live on Sky Sports 5 (kick-off 7.45pm).
predecessors, Coleman must wonder
how thin his squad is.
OntheonlyoccasionWales qualified
for a tournament, the 1958 World Cup
finals, they were helped by John
Charles and Cliff Jones. We are look-
ing forward to the titanic challenge,
Coleman said. There is a vibe about
the team. It is a huge task to qualify but
it is possibleandwehaveagoodenough
squad. I would rather lose a fight walk-
ing forward throwing punches than on
my hands and knees crawling away
getting kicked up the backside. Who is
prepared to step forward and accept
that, knowing if they make a mistake
the consequences could be dire?
Wales, who also meet Cyprus on
Monday, will be in a decent position if
they achieve consecutive home victo-
ries. Led by Edin Dzeko, the Manches-
ter City striker, Bosnia-Herzegovina
surprisingly lost to Cyprus in their
opening game. It could be more pres-
sure on them, it could fire them up
more, but its about us, Coleman said.
Safet Susic, the Bosnia head coach,
said that he had no special treatment
planned for Gareth Bale. Asmir Begov-
ic, his goalkeeper, has never conceded
against the Real Madrid player in five
meetings. Hehas oneheckof aleft foot
and his free kicks move freakishly,
Begovic said. We dont want to give
him situations like that.
Giving voice: Keane lets his players
know his feelings as a manager
Half into stoppage time
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Crowd watch
The undisputed highlight of the
evening came half an hour in, when
one of the 55,990 fans who did not
have better things to do on a
Thursday night ranted and raved for
two minutes about Roy Hodgsons
sides inability to score more than one
against the worst side in the world.
He received a polite smattering of
applause from his peers near by, but
seemed to be pacified by Wayne
Rooneys penalty moments later.
Record watch
Much of the build-up to the game
centred on whether this would be the
night that Wayne Rooney broke Sir
Bobby Charltons England
goalscoring record. This seemed a
little ambitious, given that he would
have needed to score nine times to do
so. That would be good going, even
against San Marino, given that the
visiting teams game plan centred on
fouling, and if that didnt work,
placing as many players as possible in
the box and hoping for a kind
ricochet when the shots came in.
Tactics watch
These games teach managers, players
and fans alike the sum total of
nothing, essentially. What few bits of
wisdom gleaned here can be boiled
down to: Aldo Simoncini, San
Marinos goalkeeper, should be the
subject of a biopic; the Pirlo role at
the base of a midfield diamond is
basically the only one that James
Milner cannot play; you dont really
need to play two central defenders
against a team ranked below the
Turks and Caicos Islands by Fifa.
Words by Rory Smith
Rooney still
standing in
shadow of
predecessors
K
icked in the face, Wayne
Rooney won the penalty
and promptly, and firmly,
scored the spot-kick that
takes him to 42 goals for
England. Two more and he will be level
with Jimmy Greaves, which is not the
same as saying he will be equal.
In a nation starved of much else to
celebrate with the national team, we
seemoddly fixated with side issues like
the captaincy and goalscoring
charts.
They do at least provide
something to savour, and a
link to the past, though it is
hard to think of what
Rooney and Greaves have
incommon, least of all their
rate of international goals.
Rooney has reached
his 42 goals after 98 caps.
It took Greaves just 57
games to amass his 44. He had
his duck-shoots, including
three in a 9-0 rout of
Luxembourg, among an
England record of six
hat-tricks, but his tally alone tells a
story of an astonishingly ruthless
finisher.
There is nothing to be gained by
criticising Rooney for easy pickings,
but, as he nears Greavess mark
and how he should have done so
last night, spurning a succession
of chances against the part-
timers of San Marino it
is only
fair to
wonder
what one
of the
games great goalscorers
might haveamassedfor his
country in happier circum-
stances.
Greaves was only 26 at
the time of the World Cup
finals in 1966, when a heavy
tackle against France gashed
his shin, andhelost his placeto
Geoff Hurst. The world knows
what happened next.
The ousted, downcast
Greaves played his last game
for England the next year and
retired from the international
game months later. We may well
reflect what might have been
which is, perhaps, where he does share
something with the man who, despite
last nights misses, will soon overtake
him with as much inevitability as last
nights 5-0 win.
Even as he closes inexorably on the
tallies of Greaves, Gary Lineker (48)
and Bobby Charlton (49), the debate
continues as to what Rooney has not
achieved as he nears his 29th birthday.
The Manchester United striker
should still have one, perhaps two,
tournaments left in him, but we
The England captain is closing in on the
goalscorers who went before him but has
yet to convince he should be spoken of in
the same breath, says Matt Dickinson
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had
timers
fair
wo
finals
his
what
fo
reflec
Spot the difference: Rooney scores a penalty against San Marino last night, but
Chambers
made a
confident
first start
at the back
for his side
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Southgate raises bar to help prepare players for senior service
GarethSouthgatewill sendhis England
team into their European Under-21
Championship qualifying play-off with
the message that victory alone will not
be sufficient to satisfy the head coach.
England host Croatia in the first leg
at Molineux tonight before the return
leg inVinkovci onTuesday, having won
their groupeasily, with28 points froma
possible 30, averaging three goals a
game and conceding a total of two.
Having disposed of the lesser lights,
the stakes have been raised against a
Croatia side who, according to South-
gate, are a step up in standard.
Awaiting the winners is a place in
next summers finals in the Czech
Republic, wherethereis anopportunity
tomake amends for a calamitous show-
inginthe previous tournament, in2013.
Then under Stuart Pearce, Southgates
predecessor as head coach, they
careered out at the group stage after
losing all three of their matches,
prompting a barrage of criticism. They
did not fare much better in 2011 with
two draws and an equally swift exit.
The response since 2013 fromwhat is
a largely new squad has impressed
Southgate, though, and he is demand-
ing style and substance, standards that
it is hoped will eventually reap rewards
at senior level.
Weve started this process on the
back of a tournament where people
said that we could not play or didnt
care, Southgate said. I think this
group of players have shown that is not
true. Now we want to play. Im setting
the bar high for them.
Its not enough just to win. I want
them to win with a style that will make
them successful to take them to the
seniors. If Immakingit harder for them
sobe it, but thats the benchmarkI want
to set.
That Pearces team arrived in Israel
for the 2013 tournament after nine
victories represents a cautionary tale.
There is a realisation at the FA that its
teams need to arrive at such
tournaments with a style of play
already implemented if they are to
compete successfully.
I want us to showpeople the type of
football weve played and reproduce
that, Southgate said. Croatia proved
dangerous foes on the road in qualify-
ing, with maximum points away from
home ina taxing group, whichincluded
Switzerland and Ukraine.
Weve set out from the start that
we want to control matches with
possession and thats key, Southgate
said. What will be the threat from
Croatia is their ability to counterattack.
Its something weve faced before but
the quality is a step up.
Southgate can call on the in-form
Saido Berahino, the West Bromwich
Albion forward, who is the joint-top
goalscorer inthe competitionwithnine
goals.
What I like about Saido is when he
has dips in form he recognises it, he
acknowledges it and has a desire to put
it right, Southgate said. This is a lad
who has been a pleasure to work with
right throughout this campaign.
Brendan McLoughlin
England Under-21 (4-2-3-1): J Butland (Stoke City)
E Dier (Tottenham Hotspur), M Keane (Manchester
United), L Moore (Leicester City), L Shaw (Manchester
United) T Carroll (Tottenham Hotspur), W Hughes
(Derby County) N Redmond (Norwich City), J Forster-
Caskey (Brighton &Hove Albion), S Berahino (West
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Stones likely
to be out until
new year with
ankle injury
John Stones will have surgery on his
damaged ankle ligaments, which could
rule the young England and Everton
defender out of action until January.
If the 20-year-old is sidelined for
up to 14 weeks as predicted, he will miss
16 games for his club and three for his
country the Euro 2016 qualifiers
against Estonia on Sunday and Slove-
nia on November 15, and the friendly
international against Scotland in
Glasgow three days later.
Stones injured the ankle in an awk-
ward fall during the closing stages of
Evertons 2-1 defeat away to Manches-
ter United last Sunday and Roberto
Martnez, the manager, said yesterday
that he will require an operation.
The defender made his international
debut in the 3-0 win over Peru on May
30 and has won four caps. He started at
right back in Englands 2-0 win over
Switzerland in their opening European
Championship qualifying match last
month and had been named in Roy
Hodgsons squad for the match against
San Marino last night and Estonia
before having to withdraw.
Martnez has paired Stones with Phil
Jagielka, his England colleague, in
three of Evertons past four Barclays
Premier League games.
The manager is likely to turn back to
Sylvain Distin, who started the season
as Jagielkas central defensive partner,
with the highly regarded Stones
whom Martnez has tipped as a future
Everton captain having to bide his
time or fill in at right back for the
injured Seamus Coleman.
Everton conceded ten goals in their
opening three Premier League games,
then three more at home to Crystal
Palace and in the Capital One Cup
away to Swansea City.
Distin, 36, was unavailable through a
muscle injury for Evertons past three
games, but will be fit for the home fix-
ture against Aston Villa a week tomor-
row, when they will be looking for only
their second Premier League win.
Martnez said: John will need
surgery, which will give us a perfect
recovery for his left ankle. Its a clear
injury, not a complicated one.
Pete Oliver
endlessly cast back to Euro 2004 and
the great expectations that have not
quite been fulfilled.
Sincethat prodigious announcement
of his talents, with four goals in four
matches as a teenager, his tournament
tally has disappointed, with only one
goal at three World Cup finals and
another at Euro 2012. Charlton and
Lineker, it shouldnot be forgotten, both
scored in World Cup semi-finals en
route to their totals.
This is not to decry Rooneys
unfoldingfeat, but therewas nodisguis-
ing his own frustration at the end of a
night that yielded a predictably easy
win for England, but not the hat-trick
that was so easily within the captains
grasp.
Against a San Marino side ranked
joint last at 208th in the Fifa rankings,
who have now lost their past 65
qualifiers since a draw with Latvia in
2001, there had never been a more
inviting opportunity to shoot up the
charts.
That penaltyshortlybeforehalf-time
set Rooney onhis way but Aldo Simon-
cini, the accountant withthe masochis-
tic streak who volunteers to play goal
for San Marino, kept thwarting him
with blocks and parries.
When the eager Jack Wilshere lofted
the ball over the top in the second half,
enjoying more freedom than his
restrictive role at the base of the
diamond in Switzerland, Rooney went
for the lob that should have been easy
given that Simoncini was stranded in
no mans land. Chance fluffed.
A minute later, Rooney was through
and tried to round the goalkeeper, but,
as theball caught under his feet, Simon-
cini dived to block.
When Rooney crossed soon
afterwards, and the ball deflected off
the chest of Alessandro Della Valle for
Englands fifth goal, the stadium
announcer at Wembley seemed to take
pity on the United forward.
Goalscorer for England, Wayne
Rooney! he shouted, but even the
beneficiary lookeda bit sheepishat that
one. It will have to go down as an own
goal, withSundays game inEstonia the
next chance for Rooneytoclose the gap
on Greaves and the rest in the
pantheon.
No doubt Rooney will claim that it is
not about individual glory and that he
was just gladthat Englandtookanother
step along the route to Euro 2016, but a
game so pointlessly uncompetitive
really should have allowed him to
plunder more than one goal. Greaves
will certainly believe that he would
have had a hat-trick in his prime.
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Little point in taking The Great San Marino Back Off on tour
It would be insulting to the people
of Newcastle or Derby, or
Southampton, or even the remotest
Cumbrian village come to that to
expect them to get excited about
staging spectacles such as this.
Tickets for a senior international
match would sell out at any of those
venues no doubt, as shown by the
remarkable figure of 55,000 turning up
last night, but if the FAreally wants the
national team to reconnect with the
country, those in the provinces deserve
to see them engaged in a proper
contest.
This was far fromthat, withtheprevi-
ous evenings televisual offering of the
final of The Great British Bake Off
offering far more bite.
Sadly, it seems that the prospect of
England genuinely going on the road,
as they did during the seven years it
took to rebuild Wembley at the start of
this century, remains a distant dream.
The FA may have more flexibility
regarding its scheduling when the orig-
inal ten-year debentures at the rebuilt
national stadium expire in three years
time, which was briefly the source of
great excitement when it became
knownyesterday, but inrealityremains
committed to the notion of Englands
permanent home being underneath
the north London arch.
Even if its coffers are swollen by the
establishment of a permanent NFL
franchise at Wembley, which would
take some pressure off the repayment
of loans due to expire in 2023, England
will be staying put.
After 2017, the odd game could be
movedelsewhereif therewas acompel-
ling reason, such as struggling to sell
out Wembley, but that is the extent of
the FAs commitment at this stage. In
reality, then, it will be a case of sending
San Marino to Sunderland, or Liech-
tensteintoLeeds, rather thanagenuine
attempt to take England back to the
people. On this evidence they should
not get too excited the first Mexican
Wave broke out after just 30 minutes,
indicative of a crowd hardly immersed
in the action.
England, with Roy Hodgson, the
manager, committed to all-out attack,
could not be faulted as they went about
what is always a thankless task against
such limited opponents with enthusi-
asm and professionalism, and Uefa is
largely at fault for persisting with such
mismatches.
The expansion of the European
Championship to 24 teams has also
served to make the qualification less
competitive, so that even the odd
embarrassing defeat will be of little
consequence to the leading nations.
In fairness, Uefa has responded with
one positive innovation in recent years,
and the establishment of the Nations
League after 2018 should help to bring
an end to the endless cycle of meaning-
less friendlies, which are often mis-
matches themselves. With Uefas 54
members to be split into four divisions,
England will find themselves playing
the likes of Germany and Spain more
regularly, whichwill reassert theprima-
cy of Wembley definitely the stage
for such fixtures.
For those England fans living north
of Watford Gap, watching the odd
thrashing of Andorra or the Faroe
Islands will remain as good as it gets.
Matt Hughes
Easy pickings
for England
as mismatch
allows view
of a diamond
Miserable was the word that came to
Roy Hodgsons mind, briefly, when he
contemplated some of the qualifying
matches that England would face in
their inevitable procession towards
Euro 2016. So, with that in mind, it feels
relatively uplifting to say that last night
felt about as productive as the habitual
turkey-shoot against San Marino can
be.
Goals from Phil Jagielka, Wayne
Rooney, Danny Welbeck and Andros
Townsend, a substitute, put England
4-0 up before Alessandro Della Valle,
the San Marino captain, deflected a
Rooney cross into his own goal in the
closing stages. Rooney might reflect on
a couple of missed opportunities on a
night whenhe couldhave movedcloser
to Sir Bobby Charltons record of 49
goals for England, but was restricted to
just the one, his 42nd, from a penalty.
That is the reality of international
football these days. You expect
mismatches and, in some cases, while
they are utterly one-sided, they are not
quite the goal avalanches that might be
imagined. San Marino will take some
respectability from keeping the score
down to five, for which they can thank
Aldo Simoncini, their goalkeeper, who
combinedsomeerraticmoments witha
fewvery good saves. It was not a match
from which to draw grand, wide-
ranging conclusions, but at least Roy
Hodgson had the chance to take
another look at his diamond formation
in midfield.
Raheem Sterling did not capitalise
this time, prior to his substitution at
half-time, but others did, notably Alex
Oxlade-Chamberlain and Adam
Lallana, who brought more intensity
and ingenuity in the second half.
It was an evening for
experimentation, really. Hodgson went
withCalumChambers at right back, for
his international debut, and gave
Kieran Gibbs a first competitive run-
out at left back.
Some of his choices, such as the
recalls for Jagielka and James Milner,
appeared a little more conservative,
although Milner was being tried out at
thebaseof themidfielddiamondbefore
swapping positions with Jack Wilshere
during the second half following the
half-time arrivals of AdamLallana and
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, who was
lively.
A YouTube compilation of San
Marinos worst moments last night
would make for amusing viewing.
There was Simoncini, the poor San
Marino goalkeeper, as he looked
shocked at having an indirect free kick
awarded against him for handling the
ball twiceinthepenaltyarea. Therewas
a throw-in from Mirko Palazzi that
went straight out of play for anEngland
goal kick. There was the way that they
defended so deep as to appear as two
banks of five on the edge of their own
penalty area.
For all that, though, it was possible to
discern a slight increase in
organisation, at least in the first half,
since their previous visit to Wembley, a
5-0 defeat two years ago.
At one stage in the first half, they
even attacked down the left wing
throughMatteoVitaioli, whocut inside
and struck a right-foot shot a yard or so
wide of Joe Harts near post. That brief
flurry of activity at Harts end of the
pitchcame shortly after Jagielkas 24th-
minute goal.
To that point, Englands huffing and
puffing, their passing and probing, had
been of little consequence. Rooney had
seen a free kick saved by the erratic
Simoncini, while Welbeck had a shot
deflected wide by Jagielka following
good work by Milner down the left-
hand side, but there was little to excite
the crowd until Rooney moved infield
midway throughthe first half and had a
Cardiff City
Campbell, 21
West Ham United
C Cole 42, Noble 90+3
0
2
1
England
Jagielka 24, Rooney 43 (pen), Welbeck 49,
Townsend 72, Della Valle (og) 77
San Marino
5
0
Inside today
Rooney chases records
but mainly vindication
Matt Dickinson, pages 60-61
Starting the rout: Jagielka heads in the opening goal for England as they stroll to a predictably emphatic victory. The home
Oliver Kay
Commentary
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correspondent
Hodgson proved
committed to
all-out attack
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joe hart (man
city) Midway
through the first half,
Hart looked at the
Mexican wave sweeping
around Wembley and
clearly envied the
chance to do something.
Substitutes
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain
(Arsenal, for Henderson, 46min) 8
Adam Lallana (Liverpool, for
Sterling, 46) 7
Andros Townsend (Tottenham
Hotspur, for Welbeck, 66) 7
Not used: Fraser Forster, Ben Foster,
Leighton Baines, Nathaniel Clyne, Fabian
Delph, Jonjo Shelvey, Rickie Lambert.
6
England (4-1-2-1-2)
by Rory Smith
calum
chambers
(arsenal)
That San Marinos only
shot came down
Englands right will
plague the teenagers
dreams for years.
gary cahill
(chelsea)
The centre back was
employed as an
on-pitch cheerleader for
his colleagues. He
applauded warmly and
well.
phil jagielka
(everton)
His first competitive
goal for England was
only marginally less
memorable than his
strike in the Merseyside
derby.
kieran gibbs
(arsenal)
An impressive
performance that, given
Leighton Bainess form,
might be enough to earn
him the nod against
Estonia.
james milner
(man city)
It doesnt matter, not
really, but Hodgsons
decision to play Milner
in an anchor role looked
like a sop to a player he
left out in Switzerland.
jordan
henderson
(liverpool)
This was not the sort of
game where the
midfielders high-
intensity pressing was
required.
jack wilshere
(arsenal)
The sort of evening
when Wilshere
could have got through
a 20 pack of
Marlboro Reds and
still dictated play.
raheem
sterling
(liverpool)
The teenager has looked
tired in recent weeks
and will have profited
from being the second
man off.
danny welbeck
(arsenal)
Continued his fine
goalscoring form by
his standards since
his move to Arsenal by
finishing Alex Oxlade-
Chamberlains cut-back.
wayne rooney
(man united)
The captains penalty
took him to 42 England
goals. He missed enough
chances, especially in
the second half, to have
made it to 46.
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6
6
7
6
6
7
6
7
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Costa and Co struggle as Spain run ends
Spains run of 14 successive victories in
away qualifiers for the European
Championship or World Cup ended
dramatically last night when they were
beaten 2-1 by Slovakia.
Miroslav Stoch, the former Chelsea
player, headed the winning goal three
minutes from time from a cross by
Michal Duris in a Euro 2016 group C
qualifying match.
Spain, whose starting line-up
included three present Chelsea players
in Csar Azpilicueta, Cesc Fbregas
and Diego Costa, are rebuilding after
losing their worldcrowninthe summer
and the result suggests they may strug-
gle to retain their European trophy.
Juraj Kucka gave Slovakia a first-half
lead direct from a free kick, but Paco
Alcacer had appeared to rescue a point
for Spain when he brought them level
in the 82nd minute.
Switzerland have started their group
Equalifying campaignwithtwodefeats
after they lost 1-0 away to Slovenia last
night. TheSwiss, beaten2-0byEngland
in their opening match, dominated the
first half but were denied by a series of
fine saves by Samir Handanovic, the
Slovenia goalkeeper.
Slovenia, who had gone down to an
86th-minute goal by Estonia last
month, produced their own decisive
late strike last night. Milivoje Nova-
kovic converted a penalty 11 minutes
from time after Johan Djourou, the
former Arsenal defender, had fouled
Kevin Kampl.
Lithuania recorded a 1-0 home win
over Estonia, their Baltic rivals, via a
goal by Saulius Mikoliunas in the 76th
minute. Ken Kallaste, the Estonia de-
fender, was sent off four minutes from
time for a second bookable offence.
Sebastian Larsson, the Sunderland
midfielder, had a penalty saved as his
Swedenteamwere held1-1 byRussiain
Stockholm in group G. The Swedes,
missing the injured Zlatan Ibrahimov-
ic, fell behind in the tenth minute when
Aleksandr Korkorin scored from out-
side the penalty area for Russia and
three minutes later Igor Akinfeevsaved
Larssons spot-kick.. But four minutes
after the breakOlaToivonenequalised.
Costa, right, challenges Skrtel but
Spain were to come off second best
shot saved. Englands opening goal was
entirely routine in its conception
unless, of course, you are of the view
that Cahills trip on Simoncini was
deliberate.
If Cahill intended to trip the San
Marino goalkeeper, it was probably in
the belief that he was entitled to appeal
for a penalty, since he was being heldby
Della Valle. Either way, when Milners
corner was swungtothe edge of the six-
yard box, Simoncini was sent sprawling
and Jagielka nodded the ball into the
net to open the scoring.
On the touchline, Hodgson and his
staff eschewed the usual fist-pumping
infavour of the sedentary applause you
might expect at a county cricket
ground.
The reaction from the crowd was
barely any more animated. A few
minutes there was the first Mexican
wave, whichtends tobe symptomatic of
boredom rather than excitement.
Englandlackedrhythmandintensityin
the first half, but they were keeping
Simoncini busy.
He frustrated Rooney on a couple of
occasions after the interval, but the
moment the accountant will treasure
whenhe returns to work next week will
be the outstanding save he made from
Welbeck on 42 minutes.
From Gibbss first-time cross,
Welbeck hit a rising shot goalwards,
only for the goalkeeper to perform
heroics in keeping the ball out.
A minute later England were 2-0 up.
Andy Selva almost took Rooneys head
off with a flying boot and, from the
resulting penalty, the England captain
scored his 42nd international goal,
moving to within two of Jimmy
Greaves total and seven short of
Charltons record.
Englandimprovedinthesecondhalf,
with Oxlade-Chamberlain and Lallana
replacing Jordan Henderson and the
quiet Sterling.
Usually you would say that the game
opened up once the oppositions
resistance has been broken, but it did
not workquite like that. Englands third
goal, on 49 minutes, was one that
Arsenal fans will enjoy, Oxlade-
Chamberlain winning the ball high up
the pitchto set up Welbeck, sliding inat
the near post.
Lallana thought he had scored
midway through the second half,
flicking Oxlade-Chamberlains shot
past Simoncini, but his effort was
disallowed because Chambers, not
obviously interfering with play, was in
an offside position.
Five minutes later it was 4-0, with
Townsend producing his party piece,
stepping inside fromthe right wing and
beating the goalkeeper with a fierce
shot inside the near post.
The fifth goal came when Rooneys
cross bounced in off Della Valle. The
stadium announcer tried to award it to
Rooney, but the captain will know
better.
He could and should have scored
more, but it was not a night tolose sleep
over such things.
San Marino (5-4-1): A Simoncini (AC Libertas) 8
M Palazzi (Rimini 6; sub: L Buscarini, Cailungo, 74min),
F Vitaoli (Murata) 7, A Della Valle (Folgore) 6, C Brolli
(Folgore) 6, M Battistini (Juvenes-Dogana) 6
A Hersch (Folgore) 5, N Chiaruzzi (Tre Penne) 6, L Tosi
(Folgore 5; sub: A Gasperoni, Tre Penne, 63 5),
M Vitaioli (Fiorentino) 7 A Selva (La Fiorita 5; sub:
D Rinaldi, La Fiorita, 87). Substitutes not used:
E Benedetti (Cesena), G Muraccini (Folgore), M Cervellini
(Juvenes-Dogana), M Stefanelli (Juvenes-Dogana),
C Valentini (Tre Penne). Booked: Selva, Rinaldi.
Referee: M Borski (Poland).
Bill Edgar
side had huffed and puffed until that 24th-minute strike, but the minnows weaknesses were exposed later in the match
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P W D L F A GD Pts
England.....................2 2 0 0 7 0 7 6
Lithuania...................2 2 0 0 3 0 3 6
Estonia......................2 1 0 1 1 1 0 3
Slovenia.................... 2 1 0 1 1 1 0 3
Switzerland.............. 2 0 0 2 0 3 -3 0
San Marino............... 2 0 0 2 0 7 -7 0
Englands fixtures
Sunday: Estonia (a). Nov 15: Slovenia (h).
2015: Mar 27: Lithuania (h). Jun 14: Slovenia (a).
Sep 5: San Marino (a). Sep 8: Switzerland (h).
Oct 9: Estonia (h). Oct 12: Lithuania (a).
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Wayne Rooney inched closer towards
Sir Bobby Charltons England goal
record last night by scoring his 42nd
international strike as Roy Hodgsons
side cruised to a 5-0 win over San
Marino in their Euro 2016 qualifying
match at Wembley.
The Englandcaptainscoredfromthe
penalty spot two minutes before half-
time after Phil Jagielka had given them
the leadwitha powerful header. Danny
Welbeck, Andros Townsend and an
own goal from Alessandro Della Valle
underlined the home sides obvious
superiority in the second half.
Rooney was briefly given a 43rd goal
by the stadiumannouncer, as it was his
cross that Della Valle deflected into his
own net, but that error was soon
amended and the own goal awarded.
The Manchester United striker is seven
goals behind Charltons record, but is
closing in on Jimmy Greaves, who is in
third place with 44 goals.
Rooney may regard this as a missed
opportunity to score more goals, but
Hodgsonwill havenocomplaints about
an emphatic victory that cemented
Englands positionat the topof groupE.
Hodgson rested Leighton Baines as
Kieran Gibbs won his fourth cap at left
backandCalumChambers, his Arsenal
team-mate, made his debut on the
opposite flank, but the Everton defend-
er is likely to return to for Sundays
match against Estonia in Tallinn.
Lithuania beat Estonia 1-0 and have
joined England at the top of the group
withsixpoints fromtwomatches, while
Switzerland suffered a surprise 1-0
defeat by Slovenia.
Rooney moves closer to record
Matt Hughes
Deputy Football Correspondent
England 5 San Marino 0
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