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Massacre in
the market
News, pages 2-15 Three suspected terrorists lie dead after being shot by police in Borough Market, London.
Saturdays attack was the third in Britain by Islamist extremists in three months
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News London terror attack
Extremist was reported to police
Fiona Hamilton Crime & Security Editor
David Brown, John Simpson
Duncan Gardham
One of the London Bridge terrorists
tried to recruit young children to join
Islamic State and was twice reported to
police over his extremist views, it was
claimed yesterday.
The Pakistan-born radical, who grew
up in Britain, was named by relatives
yesterday as one of three men who
carried out a car and knife rampage in
the heart of London on Saturday night
the third Islamist attack on British
soil in two and a half months.
Among the dead were a Canadian
citizen and a man aged 27 from St Malo
in Brittany who was working in the
Boro Bistro near the attack in the busy
Borough Market area. Bystanders who
tried to help a blonde victim in her
twenties, who died in the attack, said
that the killers looked brain dead as
they stabbed her repeatedly.
It was claimed that the man, whom
The Times is not identifying after a
Metropolitan Police request, was twice
reported to the force about concerns
over his radicalisation before he took
part in the attack in which seven people
died and scores were gravely injured.
One man reported him to police after
learning that he had accessed the online
rants of a radical American preacher, he
said, and an east London housewife said
that she told officers last summer of her
fears about his recruitment of local
schoolchildren. A teenager who worked
in the same gym as the killer in Barking,
east London, also said the terrorist had
approached him to join Isis. The allega-
tions will add to pressure on police and
the intelligence services after claims
that they were warned about Salman
Abedi, the 22-year-old Manchester
suicide bomber. MI5 is reviewing
missed chances to stop Abedi before he
killed 22 people at a pop concert last
month. Police said there had been no
reports to the counterterrorism hotline.
Khalid Masood, who killed three
people with a car and stabbed a police
officer to death at Westminster in
March, also appeared on the periphery
of the security services radar, albeit
several years earlier.
In the latest attack, the three terror-
ists killed seven people and injured 48
when they used a rented white van to
ram into pedestrians as they careered
along London Bridge at up to 50mph.
They then stabbed people around the
nearby bars of Borough Market. They
attacked indiscriminately, shouting:
This is for Allah! Last night 36 people
remained in hospital of whom 21 were
critical. It is feared that the death toll
will rise. In other developments:
6 Armed police launched raids in east
London as they hunted alleged accom-
plices of the gang. Several men were
arrested at a council estate in Barking,
where four women in burkas were
taken away in handcuffs.
6 Theresa May said that Thursdays
election would go ahead but a vast de-
ployement of police is expected.
6 It emerged that armed officers
brought the incident to a close within
eight minutes by shooting dead all
three terrorists. A member of the public
Monday June 5 2017 | the times
was shot in the head but their condition
is not believed to be life-threatening.
Assistant Commissioner Mark Row-
ley, the Mets head of counterterrorism,
said that eight police officers opened
fire and used 50 rounds while bringing
the suspects down. He hailed the brav-
ery of marksmen who entered Borough
Market, identified and shot dead the
terrorists within minutes. The attackers
wore fake suicide vests, possibly to
ensure that they would be killed.
Mr Rowley said: The situation these
officers were confronted with was
critical. A matter of life and death, three
armed men wearing what appeared to
be suicide belts. They had already
attacked and killed members of the
public . . . the firearms officers fired an
unprecedented number of rounds to be
completely confident they had neutral-
ised those threats.
As of last night, there had been no
claim of responsibility from Islamic
State. However, the organisation used
an encrypted messaging channel to call
on extremists to target markets and run
over civilians hours before the attack. A
poster in Arabic and English featuring a
handgun, a knife, and a lorry, reading
gain benefit from Ramadan, the holy
month which began on May 26, and
kill civilians of the crusaders, run over
them by vehicles was published over
the weekend. Similar calls to arms were
posted on YouTube.
The terrorist alert remains at severe,
meaning that an attack is highly likely.
Matt Ridley, page 27
Clare Foges, page 28
Leading article, page 31
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The terrorists walk through the
market area looking for victims
moments after crashing their van into
railings. Police were quickly on the
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scene to respond to victims and were
seen in Twitter footage, far left, telling
drinkers at a bar in Southwark Street
to keep down during the attack
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News
News
Keep up
with the
threat, May
tells MI5
Francis Elliott Political Editor
Sean ONeill Chief Reporter
Theresa May instructed MI5 to keep
up with a changing terror threat in
what Whitehall figures said was grow-
ing frustration over the intelligence
agencys handling of potential jihadists.
The prime minister said that we can-
not and must not pretend that things
can continue as they are. Although she
said there was too much tolerance of
extremism in the country, it is under-
stood that her message was also direct-
ed at the countrys security service.
The concern prompted in No 10 by
the Westminster and Manchester
attacks has turned to anger, according
to a well-placed figure. Mrs May said:
We believe we are experiencing a new
trend in the threat. As terrorism breeds
terrorism, and perpetrators are in-
spired . . . by copying one another and
often using the crudest of means of
attack.
Promising to ensure police and
security services had all the powers
they need, she said the counterterror-
ism strategy needed to keep up to
cope with a more complex, hidden and
fragmented threat.
A senior Whitehall official said the
significant change in the number and
type of terrorist activity in recent
months meant an urgent review of
those seen as a threat was needed. The
security service has 3,000 people under
various levels of surveillance but it was
disclosed last month that there are a
further 20,000 who are still on databas-
es but no longer considered active.
Khalid Masood, the Westminster at-
tacker, and Salman Abedi, the Man-
chester suicide bomber, were in the
second category of residual risk
rather than current threats.
Questions are being asked about
whether MI5 has adequate mecha-
nisms in place to spot when individuals
in the residual group return to extrem-
ist activity and violence. One senior
official said: They [MI5] know they
dont have enough coverage of these
20,000 people and there is real concern
that they dont seem to be able to spot
people who have dropped out of the
3,000 and are then coming back.
Theresa Mays statement, pages 10-11
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News
News London terror attack
Terrorist van
brushed my
hand as it
flashed past
Witnesses describe how
a Saturday night out
turned to horror and
confusion, Jack Malvern
and Peter Yeung report
S
hortly after ten oclock,
tourists and revellers crossing
London Bridge either on their
way home or looking for one
last drink for the evening saw
what they thought was a horrible car
accident.
A speeding white van travelling at
about 50 miles an hour mounted the
pavement, smashed into its first
victim and veered back on to the
road. Witnesses then realised to their
horror that this was no accident.
As the driver swerved on to the
pavement again, they began to realise
his real intent he was seeking his
next victim.
The S-shaped path taken by the van
was the beginning of an episode
lasting at least eight minutes in which
the trio of attackers used their rented
van and long-bladed knives to kill as
many people as they could before
counterterror police arrived to shoot
them dead.
Ian Houghton, a journalist for The
Sunday Times, was about 20 yards
from the southern end of the bridge
when he saw the van coming over the
crest towards him. I became aware of
this van coming at great speed. It
swerved fully on to the pavement
then back on to the road, almost to
the central reservation.
When he saw it veer back on to the
pavement he realised that he would
have to run into the road, but he saw
the van coming for him still. I
thought: The buggers got me, but I
stepped to the right and it flashed past
me, just brushing my hand.
Both Mr Houghton and Holly
Jones, a BBC journalist on the bridge,
said that they saw at least five
people injured by the van. Mr
Houghton saw two people lying down
and another on the far side of the
road. Then the van came to a halt at
the other end of the bridge between a
pub popular with City workers The
Barrow Boy and Banker and an
overhead railway bridge on the south
side of the Thames.
Ms Jones found herself within a
curve of the vans S. He swerved
right around me and then hit five or
six people. He hit about two people in
front of me then three behind, she
said.
When the van stopped the side
doors opened immediately and two
men, and then the driver, with knives
between 10in and 12in long jumped
out. Erick Siguenza, who was standing
on the south side of the bridge, said
that he thought that the men were
getting out to help the people they
had hit. The three people literally
started kicking them, punching them,
and took out knives. It was a rampage
really.
Mr Siguenza said that the men
headed down the stairs next to
Southwark Cathedral and ran
towards a crowd of people while
shouting: This is for Allah.
Anna Patrick, 36, who was visiting
from Bristol, watched as the van
stopped. We knew something wasnt
right. It wasnt a normal car crash. We
grabbed each others hands and ran.
The doors of the van opened
straight away and people jumped out.
That was the thing that made us
think to run.
The first knife attacks were in the
streets, but the men, who roamed in a
group, started to burst into pubs and
restaurants in search of victims.
Alex Martinez, a barman at the El
Pastor restaurant, jumped into a bin
to hide from the men, who were
wearing mock suicide vests. I saw [a]
man with a knife in his hand and
after that a man started screaming so
I knew something wrong was
happening, he said. The man started
screaming and dropping everything
on the floor the plates, the cutlery,
the bottle, everything.
Witnesses were too panicked to
observe the attackers route, but the
killers ran into The Wheatsheaf pub,
which is frequented by young
drinkers, and the Black & Blue
restaurant, popular with steak lovers.
They also tried to enter The Market
Porter and The Southwark Tavern
pubs and stabbed a man standing
outside The Globe.
Jamie, a diner at Black & Blue, said
that he heard a massive bang and
hid under the table. A woman with
him, who declined to be named, said
that the three men simply walked
into the restaurant, stabbed someone
in the face and someone in the
stomach.
She added: One of them had a big
knife, then he came in and walked
around the restaurant, I guess they
just kind of stabbed anyone that they
saw and knocked things on the
ground and then we just hid.
Richard Angell, director of the
think tank Prospect, who was in the
Arabica restaurant next-door, watched
as one of the victims emerged. I
looked up a few minutes later and
there was a guy leaving literally the
next-door restaurant [Black & Blue]
covered in blood, holding his chest or
his neck in some way and meandering
through the rabbit warren that is the
market and Im hoping that he found
a paramedic quickly.
Gerard Vowls, who had been out
drinking and watching football at a
pub, said that he followed the men as
they walked towards a branch of
Natwest. He watched in horror as
they attacked a woman ten or fifteen
times and tried to intervene. I tried
to help. I threw something at them.
He tried to warn a man coming out of
The Globe pub about the attackers, but
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HOW IT HAPPENED
Van crashes on the
2 south side of the
bridge by Borough
Market
The Wheatsheaf pub
SOUTHWARK
3 The three killers flee
CATHEDRAL
the vehicle on foot
with knives and race
down the cathedral steps
10.16pm armed police
officers shoot and kill
three assailants
outside the RAILWAY
Wheatsheaf pub
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Two police marksmen
crouch behind a BMW
A couple that live
above the Southwark
Tavern shout at police
and direct them to
the killers
The Southwark Tavern
had to watch as an attacker cut him
down.
The killers final moments appeared
to have been on Stoney Street, where
they were recorded in a brief video by
someone hiding in a bar opposite The
Market Porter. The three men
appeared to amble past slowly on
their way towards The Wheatsheaf.
It was at this moment, that a keen-
eyed couple, living in a flat above the
Southwark Tavern pub, had leant out
of their sitting-room window to find
out where the noise of sirens and
screaming was coming from. They
saw the killers and shouted to police
where they had headed. A police car
changed tack and stormed after them.
An image taken by Gabriele Sciotto
then showed two of the men lying on
the pavement outside The
Wheatsheaf, apparently dead.
The picture tallies with an account
by an unnamed witness who told Sky
News that he had seen police
marksmen outside Brindisia, a
restaurant about 30 metres away
from where the bodies lay. [It was]
outside Brindisa, he said, imitating
the noise of a machine gun. Brrr-a,
brrr-a, brrr-a, like that, letting off
gunshots. Two armed marked police
behind the [BMW] X5, a black X5.
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News
News

1 Saturday 10.08pm
MONUMENT
STATION
Hero hit back against
The Met is notified
that a vehicle had struck
pedestrians on London
Bridge. The white rental
brain dead knifemen
van speeds across the
bridge where it mounted Fariha Karim
the pavement and hits 1 sheaf [pub]. As they left, I was going, Oi,
pedestrians A construction worker hurled chairs,
pint glasses, bottles and discarded bi-
cycle parts at the terrorists to get them
LONDON to stop attacking a woman who had
BRIDGE already been repeatedly stabbed.
At least one
RIVER helicopter lands
Gerard Vowls, 47, said he heard one
shout This is for Allah as they crowd-
carrying SAS troops
THAMES ed over her. He had been watching the
Champions League final in a pub and
was going home when the attack began.
The three men appeared brain
dead, he said. They just looked blank.
They were in another frame of mind.
They just didnt care who they killed.
They looked organised. They knew
what they wanted to do, and it
was to stab people. They ey just
wouldnt stop.
Mr Vowls heard a
man say that he had
been stabbed. At first
2 he did not believe
3 him, but the man
moved his hand and
blood began to pour
from his torso. Then
he saw a blonde
woman, thought to bee
in her twenties or thir-hir-
ties, being stabbed. All
4 Attackers run into three of them were on n the one
pubs and woman. One went, This This is for Allah
Allah.
restaurants, stabbing They went on stabbing her. She was
T victims including an going, Help me, help me .
on-duty policeman who Mr Vowls said: I tried to throw a bike
tries to fight them with at him. It was the basket of the bike. The
his baton bike was on the ground. The three of
them ran off towards Borough Market.
They got as far as the Globe [pub] and
some guy came round the corner say-
Possible ing, Run, run, run, theyve got knives.
terrorist Theyre terrorists. Theyre going to kill
Ov
another one. They went to the Wheat-
cowards! I chucked a bottle at them,
pint glasses, stools, chairs whatever I
could find.
Then [the attackers] went to the
Market Porter. They stabbed a man and
then a woman. I heard bottles going.
They came out of there. They went to
the restaurant on the right. They went
in there, then they came out, and they
stabbed a black guy. I heard him
scream. It was like a sword battle.
Mr Vowls said that he could see that
the suicide belt strapped to the chest of
one of the men was a fake. I could see
it was duct tape. I knew it wasnt real.
After the attack, Mr Vowls spoke
to other people caught up in
the viviolence. A man told
him that a friend who had
bee
been stabbed had just
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died. He just started
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crying his eyes out. I
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was putting my arm
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He returned to his
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flat in Bermondsey
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and said that he woke at
5.30
5.30am yesterday haunt-
ed by the memory of the
woman crying for help.
A Roman
Romanian baker hit an at-
tacker over the hea
head with a crate. Florin
Morariu, who works at Bread Ahead in
the market, said: Everyone was run-
ning, people, women, they were faint-
ing. Seeing the stabbings, he at first
froze but then struck one of the attack-
ers. Afterwards he let about 20 people
into the bakery and closed the shutters
to keep the terrorists out.
Diners in the El Pastor restaurant on
Stoney Street used cloths and ice to

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Hospitals They went to a restaurant, and [then] cab round and was about to ram him.
F Southwark treating He side-stepped and three police offi-
Tavern F injured Gerard Vowls, above, told of throwing cers came running with their batons
all I could find at the three attackers drawn.
HATZOLA; NEIL HALL/REUTERS
Police, paramedics and bystanders
treating casualties struck by the van
as they walked across London Bridge.
Ancient market that was
Floral tributes were left yesterday

[They shouted] Get back. Brrr-a,

brrr-a, brrr-a. Three shots like that.
Kumi de Costa was in a taxi with
two friends when the police fired.
The cab driver turned into the
market and we got stuck right in the
middle of the shooting. We were in a
one-way street and couldnt turn
around. There were loads of shots
being fired. Two people were on the
floor behind the church with two or
three people leaning over them. About
50 police were pointing guns at us . . .
our hands were up, we were trying to
get out so they shooed us away.
Irene Smith, 32, recalled large
numbers of people fleeing the area in
panic and then an eerie quiet, as if
there had been an apocalypse.
For others there was a sudden sense
of purpose as people banded together
to defend themselves. One man, who
did not identify himself, grabbed his
friend Georgie and ran towards a
group of cooks on a cigarette break. I
said to them: Right, theres a terror
attack, lets lock these doors, lets get
people in.
revived by celebrity chefs
Tom Whipple
Borough Market likes to trace its
origins to 1014, when Olaf Haraldsson
rode on London and noted a great
market town on the south bank. More
plausibly you could date it to 1406,
when Henry IV granted the region as-
say and assize of bread, wine, and ale
and other victuals.
Really, though, the true origins of
Borough Markets modern incarnation,
and its cornucopia of overpriced ale
and other victuals, lie not in Vikings on
horseback but in celebrity chefs on
mopeds.
In the early Noughties, Jamie Oliver
was a regular sight on his scooter, whiz-
zing past pukka offerings that would
later find their way into his recipes on
The Naked Chef.
In the years that followed, Boroughs
rise in prominence matched Olivers, as
both took advantage of the foodie revo-
lution. The market went from being a
monthly Saturday event, offering
cheeses and meats to connoisseurs, to a
weekly one, as the appetite for good
food grew.
It is now open six days a week, selling
craft produce by day and craft beer by
night. During the 1970s and 1980s,
when it faltered as a wholesale market,
few could have imagined Borough
would now support a business selling
artisan chocolate a short walk from
another serving sushi.
Pubs that weathered the fallow years,
wondering how they could replace
their lost clientele of market traders,
now find themselves in one of the most
profitable sites in London.
That is not to say there arent still
market stalls, but you are as likely to be
able to buy a pound of oysters as a
pound of veg (and that veg will be the
purple-sprouting, organic kind).
And amid the unpasteurised cheeses
and exotic game there are stalls that
would make Olaf feel welcome tradi-
tional Nordic smoked salmon, import-
ed direct from his Viking home.
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News London terror attack
Burka women among a dozen
David Brown, Katie Gibbons, Fiona
Hamilton, Neil Johnston, John
Simpson, George Sandeman
Twelve people were arrested in the
early hours of yesterday morning as
police began to dismantle the alleged
network of the three jihadists who
spread terror through London Bridge.
Four burka-clad women and a
white female Muslim convert were
among those detained in east London,
where footage also emerged of
heavily armed police officers pinning
several men to the ground before
taking them into custody.
At this stage counterterrorism
detectives believe that the trio of
fanatics were acting alone when,
shortly after 10pm on Saturday night,
they launched a car and knife
rampage in London Bridge and
nearby Borough Market. They rented
a white van from B&Q, the store
confirmed, although it did not say
when or where. The men rammed the
vehicle into pedestrians on London
Bridge before jumping out and
running through busy streets of bars
and restaurants, stabbing people
indiscriminately while shouting this
is for Allah.
With all three assailants shot dead
by armed police within eight minutes,
the focus shifted to whether they had
any accomplices who inspired the
attack or helped them to make
preparations.
A string of arrests were made at
about 7am yesterday at a block of flats
in Barking, east London, where one of
the attackers, in his 20s, lived with his
wife. His identity is known to The
Times but police have requested that
it remain secret. Several male
suspects were held down by heavily
armed officers during the raid while
four women wearing burkas and
headscarves were led out of the block.
Two of the men had shaved heads
and full beards, and one was wearing
Islamic robes.
The attacker in his 20s is believed
to have arrived in Britain as a child
with his parents who were asylum
seekers from Pakistan. His mother is
dead but his father lives in east
London.
He regularly hosted groups of men
wearing Islamic dress at his home and
worked a few hours a week at an
Islamic fitness centre which holds
sessions in martial arts and ultimate
fighting. It runs segregated classes for
men and women. According to his
online CV, he worked on the
transport network and had taken an
English foreign language teaching
course and worked for a real estate
company.
A relative of the man, who asked
not to be identified, said: He was a
good person, a very religious person,
a fundamentalist you might say. I
never heard him say a bad word
about another person, any non-
Muslim people. I saw him on Friday.
He was at prayers at the gym. We
shook hands.
He said he had a good
understanding of elements of the
Koran, attended Islamic lectures and
went regularly to see a sheikh who
was teaching him the philosophy of
the Prophet Muhummad. He did
boxing, the Korean martial art
taekwondo, and weightlifting at the
gym.
Abdul Latif, 13, speaking yesterday
with the permission of his father,
Mohammed, said the killer had been
expelled from a local mosque last
year after trying to recruit fellow
Muslims to Islamic State.
Abdul, who worked alongside the
man at the gym, said: He was coming
Isis influence
in new ploy
Behind the story
F
ake suicide-bomb vests
and longer knives: these
two aspects of Saturday
nights attack appear to
indicate potential new
developments in terrorism
plotting (Michael Evans writes).
The authorities noted that at
least three victims had had their
throats slit by attackers with long
hunter knives, recalling the
ritualistic killings of western
hostages by Islamic State in
Syria. All three attackers also
wore imitation suicide-bomb
vests and Whitehall sources said
it marked the first time that
terrorists in Britain had resorted
to using a deliberate trick to
complicate decision making for
the police.
Neither the police nor the
security services are aware,
however, of any new edict from
Isis or other terrorist
organisations recommending
such a method. Sources said that
the aim of the fake suicide vests
was to generate fear among
civilians and the emergency
services. But the rapid response
from armed police officers after
the first 999 call foiled the
attempt by the three terrorists to
spread further panic.
Sources said that there was
nothing sophisticated about the
fake suicide vests, which could
have been made up quickly using
basic canisters to give the
impression of an explosive
device. Since such a method is
unprecedented the police will be
looking for any sign of plotting
that took place before the attack
that might indicate guidance
from overseas.
The second potentially new
development was the knifing
across the throats of several
victims. The three terrorists used
a combination of stabbings and
knifings across the throats,
however, indicating that there
may not have been a preplanned
attempt to turn the attacks into a
form of ritualised killing.
to the mosque and he said, Do you
want to join Isis? My brother and
other people told him to leave. He
came back again and he was asked to
leave.
Erica Gasparri, 42, a housewife,
said she had reported him to police
last summer because of her fears
about his recruitment of local
schoolchildren.
She said he and two other men
would gather the children after school
at a park opposite Northbury Primary
School in Barking by offering them
sweets.
The mother of three said: He was
always in the middle of the group, he
was in charge. I asked him what he
was doing with my children. He said
he was teaching them about religion.
I said my children can learn in the
mosque, I did not want him teaching
them. He said one day your god is
going to be converted into Islam. He
said he should not be speaking to me
because I was a woman but I could
talk with his wife.
She added: They were waiting for
Monday June 5 2017 | the times
the children of the neighbourhood.
They would give the children
chocolate while talking to them. They
would pray in the park for hours.
Another man who knew the alleged
killer said he had become increasingly
extreme over the past two years.
Speaking to the BBC anonymously,
the man said: We spoke about a
particular [terrorist] attack that
happened and like most radicals he
had a justification for anything, for
everything and anything. That day I
realised I needed to contact the
authorities.
He said that he listened to the
preachings online of Ahmad Musa
Jibril, an Arab-American Islamist
preacher who is understood to have
influenced westerners to fight in the
Syrian conflict. An academic study
published by Kings College London
in 2014 identified Jibril as an
influential cheerleader for fighters
trying to unseat President Assad, the
Syrian leader. The report revealed
how such preachers were harnessing
social media to inspire foreign
fighters. There was no evidence to
suggest these individuals were
practically involved in helping
fighters to reach Syria, however.
The man said: Ive heard some of
this stuff and its very radical. Im
surprised this stuff is still on Youtube
and easily accessible. I phoned the
anti-terrorist hotline, I spoke to the
gentleman. I told him about our
conversation and why I think hes
been radicalised.
The man also claimed that the
alleged attacker was not arrested after
he was reported and was allowed to
keep his passports. He added: I did
my bit. I know a lot people did but the
authorities didnt do their bit.
The Met did not respond to
allegations that the killer had been
reported to them. A spokeswoman
said it was not naming the attackers
for operational reasons.
It is understood that, of the three
men, only the gym workers identity
had been confirmed internally by
police last night.
Ken Chigbo, 26, a market analyst
who lives in the same block as the
killer said: He was really sociable. We
would play table tennis and football
together. He organised a barbecue
which I went to last week.
I know he was quite a devout
Muslim, I heard him talking about the
Koran. He would preach to young
Muslims at the flat. Sometimes up to
six people quite regularly. Mr Chigbo
said that he wore a headscarf and a
robe over tracksuit bottoms.
Charisse Redouane, 38, thought to
be a Muslim convert, was also
arrested at 7am yesterday by armed
police in Barking. The mother of one
was seen leaving the building in
handcuffs. Neighbours said that a
Muslim man had often visited her
and believed he had been arrested.
He was seen signing in to the building
at 6.30pm on Saturday.
Witnesses said they were woken by
the sound of officers knocking on
their door before the doors were
blown off with an explosive charge
that was felt several doors down.
Others said they heard three loud
bangs and the woman and her baby
were taken away by police.
An online CV under the name
Charisse Redouane lists her as a
female personal assistant with 18
years experience, and the website for
George Brooker House care home in The block of flats raided by police
east London praised her hard work in yesterday. Among those detained
fundraising in 2013. and led away was Charisse
Other raids yesterday included a Redouane, centre right, who is
flat above a Paddy Power betting shop believed to be a Muslim convert
on Barking Road in East Ham.
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Suspects were handcuffed
and laid on the ground
during the raids on flats in
Barking, where 12 people
Londoners offer
safety to strangers
via social media
Graeme Paton
Londoners used Facebook and Twitter
to offer shelter to people caught up in
the chaos and to residents of nearby
hotels fleeing the scene of the attack.
People living close to London Bridge
sent messages on social media within
minutes to help those left on the streets,
often with little more than a phone.
The Royal Oak, a pub about half a
mile away, sheltered up to 150 people
from a Premier Inn that was evacuated
until about 2.30am. They included
about 30 children under ten and one
hotel guest who followed instructions
to leave so quickly that he was dressed
only in his boxer shorts.
Taxi drivers gave free rides to people
stuck next to the police cordons around
London Bridge and Borough Market.
Ryan Sherman, 24, and his girlfriend
Farah Dib, 28, live in a three-bedroom
flat half a mile from London Bridge and
used Facebooks safety check to offer
accommodation. The feature, intro-
duced in 2011, allows people caught up
in disasters or attacks to tell family that
they are safe, and those near by to offer
food, shelter, equipment and transport.
Their offer was spotted by a family
from Toronto, Canada, who were stay-
ing on Borough High Street after a
dance tournament in Blackpool on
Pacheco, 47, who
Friday. Myra Saraza-Pacheco,
was with her husband, nd, her daughter
lyns dance part-
Jenalyn, 16, and Jenalyns
ner, were told to leave their Airbnb
flat at 10.30pm.
The police told us to find a
one of
hotel to stay at but none
them wanted to take us in.
We were wandering the
streets with a whole hole
bunch of other lost ost
people wondering what at
Myra Saraza-Pacheco
were arrested including and her daughter
five women. Forensic Jenalyn were taken
science officers searched in by Farah Dib and
the area for evidence Ryan Sherman
Brothers urged to attack
John Simpson Crime Correspondent
Islamic State jihadists and sympathis-
ers crowed over the London Bridge
attack yesterday as it emerged that the
group had called on extremists hours
earlier to target markets and run over
civilians.
Supporters used the groups encrypt-
ed messaging channels to proclaim that
these are the black days we promised,
according to Site intelligence website.
A poster in Arabic and English,
featuring a handgun, a knife, and a lorry
reading gain benefit from Ramadan
and kill civilians of the crusaders, run
over them by vehicles, was published
over the weekend.
The group regularly posts calls to
arms, targeting Muslims vulnerable to
radicalisation, and in its latest propa-
ganda incited them to exploit Ramadan
a reference to the belief that good
deeds receive extra reward in paradise
if they are performed during the holy
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to do, Mrs Saraza-Pacheco told The
Times. I went on Facebook to tell
friends and family we were safe and we
found a few people offering shelter. I
messaged a few of them not knowing
what would happen and half an hour
later we got a message back from Ryan
saying they had a place.
Mrs Saraza-Pacheco, who was due to
fly home from Heathrow yesterday
evening, said: They really are guardian
angels. To invite strangers into your
home is amazing. So kind.
Ms Dib said: Were only a few
minutes away. We saw people running
away in large groups and it was just
natural to do anything we could.
The hashtag #SofaForLondon was
also shared online hundreds of times.
George Moss, 22, was taken in by Holly
Robinson and Mary Lynch, who used
the hashtag to advertise a bed in their
home in Vauxhall. Ms Lynch, 23, said:
If I had been in that situation I would
want to know that people were going to
open up their homes.
Jade McIntosh, 28, who works at the
Royal Oak, said she had been about to
close up at 11pm when people started to
stream by. Three young men came
running in in a panic and screaming for
us to lock the doors, she said.
A while later we saw lots of families
and children on the street who had
been taken out of
P
a Premier Inn.
The kids
were in their py-
jam
jamas, some
didnt have
shoes on and
there was
even one guy
just with his
boxer shorts
on. We didnt
think twice
ab
about letting
the in, it just
them
seem like the
seemed
natur thing to
natural
do.
month, which began on May 26. Mus-
lim brothers in Europe who cant reach
the Islamic State lands, attack them in
their homes, their markets, their roads
and their forums, one outlet said said
in a video titled Where are the lions of
war? and published on YouTube.
Another message described the
Manchester Arena suicide bombing
that killed 22 concertgoers last month
as a lesson to the leaders of the
crusader countries, according to a
translation by the Middle East Media
Research Institute.
Do not despise the work, the
message added. Your targeting of the
so-called innocents and civilians is
beloved by us and the most effective, so
go forth and may you get a great reward
or martyrdom in Ramadan.
Abu Mohammed al-Adnani, the late
spokesman for the Islamist militia,
called last year for lone wolf attacks
during Ramadan, leading to the blood-
iest in many years.
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Revellers on summer night out
Billy Kenber, Fariha Karim
Charles Bremner, Graeme Paton
The bars and restaurants of Borough
Market were teeming with tourists, hip-
sters and well-heeled foodies. Young
women in strappy dresses and men who
had stayed out to watch the Champions
League final spilled out into the area
that is transformed from an expensive
farmers market during the day to a
huge party on warm summer evenings.
Shortly after 10pm on Saturday
night, they found themselves caught up
in a frenzied terrorist attack.
The three attackers, after leaving the
van that they had used to run over
several pedestrians, ran into the market
and set upon diners and revellers with
ten-inch hunting knives. On a twisted
pub crawl, they struck many from be-
hind, slashing throats and inflicting
deep wounds to chests and faces.
Seven people were killed and 48
injured in the attack. Last night the
NHS said that 36 remained in hospital,
21 of whom were in a critical condition.
daniel oneill, 23
Elizabeth ONeill said her son, Daniel,
had been having a drink in a Borough
Market bar with friends when he briefly
went outside and was stabbed in the
stomach.
He had just stepped outside the bar
for a second and a man ran up to him
and said This is for my family, this is for
People caught up
in the atrocity ran
for their lives while
others were calmly
escorted from the
chaos around
London Bridge and
Borough Market.
Brett Freeman,
from Dagenham,
had his life saved
by doctors after he
was stabbed four
times. Geoff Ho,
left, a Sunday
Express journalist,
was cut in the
throat as he tried
to stop a bouncer
being attacked
Islam and put a knife in him, Ms
ONeill said.
As shots were fired by police outside,
he managed to run back into the bar
where a friend created a makeshift
tourniquet to stem the bleeding. She
credited Daniels friends and two police
officers for saving his life by making the
tourniquet and applying pressure to his
wound as a police car raced him to hos-
pital. Two police officers remained in
the back with him and they had him ly-
ing across them and they placed pres-
sure on the wound, Ms ONeill said.
Speaking outside Kings College Hos-
pital in south London, she said her son,
a former student at Leeds Beckett Uni-
versity, had been left with a seven-inch
scar. These people say they are doing
this in the name of God which is an ab-
solute joke, she said. Theyre callous,
theyre barbaric and theyre cowards.
In a Facebook post, Mr ONeills
brother, Patrick, wrote that he still
cant get over the horror of last night.
He wrote that he had received a call
from Daniels girlfriend, Rebecca Ward,
telling him not to come to London
Bridge as theres been a terrorist attack
and that my brother has been fatally
stabbed. He added that his brother was
making a a good recovery and is about
walking. Thank God.
candice hedge, 31
Candice Hedge, a waitress at Elliots
restaurant in Borough Market, had just
finished a shift and was enjoying a drink
at the bar with her boyfriend when one
of the attackers walked up to her from
behind, grabbed her head and slit her
throat.
She survived because the weapon
missed her arteries and windpipe.
Her mother, Kim Del Toro, said that
her daughter, who moved from Bris-
bane, Australia, to London a year ago,
was unable to talk because of the injury.
Shes been stabbed around her neck,
her throat. Shes all bandaged up, Ms
Del Toro said.
She couldnt speak, but I got to see
her and she gave me the thumbs up, so
I knew that she was OK.
She said that her daughters boy-
friend, Luke, who works in the same
restaurant, had gone outside to investi-
gate the commotion. He saw some
men with knives coming toward them,
and he ran back inside to see where
Candice was, Ms Del Toro said.
After she was stabbed Ms Hedges
boyfriend grabbed her and rushed her
to an ambulance. Last night she posted
on Facebook to say she was doing OK.
Bit of pain but I will survive. Thanks
for your thoughts and well wishes. Love
to all, she wrote.
geoff ho
A financial journalist at the Sunday
Express, Geoff Ho was injured after
apparently stepping in to try to prevent
a bouncer being stabbed at the
Officer stabbed in face
A police officer was stabbed in the
face as he tackled the terrorists
armed only with a baton.
The officer with the British
Transport Police, who has not been
named, is in a stable condition after
suffering face, head and leg injuries.
Paul Crowther, chief constable of
the force, visited him in hospital and
said he had acted with enormous
courage, adding: Although he is
seriously unwell, he was able to
recount how he faced the attackers
armed only with his baton.
For an officer who only joined us
less than two years ago, the bravery
he showed was outstanding and
makes me extremely proud.
Assistant Commissioner Mark
Rowley, head of Scotland Yards
specialist operations, confirmed that
an off-duty Metropolitan Police
officer was also in a serious
condition in hospital, although
his injuries are not thought to be
life-threatening.
Ken Marsh, chairman of the
Metropolitan Police Federation,
commended the actions of the
police. There are barely words to
describe their bravery: officers who
ran towards danger with no thought
for their own safety, he said.
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Southwark Tavern. Mr Ho, a martial
arts enthusiast, was having a drink with
friends when terrorists tried to attack a
doorman standing at the entrance to
the pub.
Mr Ho was initially reported as miss-
ing after a newspaper story showed the
business editor shirtless and bleeding
heavily from the neck as he was led to
an ambulance. It later emerged that he
was in hospital in intensive care.
He posted on social media that he did
not know whether it was stupid or no-
ble to jump in and break up the fight
outside the Southwark Tavern but he
was not going to let two people attack a
lone bouncer on his watch.
A friend and colleague of the journal-
ist said that he was the kind of bloke
who would try and act as a peace-mak-
er or defend someone in a fight.
Marco Giannangeli, the newspapers
defence and diplomatic editor, said that
Mr Ho was a regular at the watering
holes in London Bridge and
Borough, which are very close to our
office.
Though events are still not clear it
seems that he may have tried to inter-
vene to help other people, he added.
Knowing Geoff, it would not surprise
in the slightest.
He wrote that Mr Ho remained in the
intensive care unit but was out of the
woods, thank heavens.
In a statement, the Sunday Express
editor, Martin Townsend, said Mr Ho
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Oliver Dowling and

Marie Bondeville,
above, suffered
multiple knife
wounds in a tapas
bar; Daniel ONeill,
right, was saved
after friends and
police staunched
the flow of blood
from a stab
wound; Candice
Hedge, left, a
waitress, was
attacked as she
had a drink at the
end of her shift

had throats slit from behind

was an absolutely first class reporter
and a fine and decent man.

oliver dowling, 32, and

maria bondeville
Oliver Dowling and his girlfriend,
Maria Bondeville, suffered multiple
stab wounds after being attacked while
eating at a tapas restaurant.
Mr Dowling, who is from Christ-
church in New Zealand, was put in an
induced coma after four hours of
surgery having sustained injuries to his
face, neck and stomach.
His sister said that the attackers knife
did not hit any vital organs. Doctors
are very happy with how hes come out
the other side, she said, thanking medi-
cal staff for their tireless efforts in
helping my brother out.
Mr Dowlings girlfriend, who is an
employee at a banking research firm in
London, was one of several French
nationals injured in the attack. One
French person was killed.
She is thought to have suffered back
and neck wounds and doctors spent
several hours operating on her.
Another French citizen is said to have
sustained serious injuries to her legs
when she was hit by the attackers van
on London Bridge.
brett freeman, 32
Brett Freeman, a father of three from
Dagenham, east London, was stabbed
four times during the attack. He was
pictured recovering in hospital with a
bloodied face and a number of wires on
his chest connected to machines. His
friend, Darren Mole, who posted the
photograph on Twitter, wrote: Just
woke up to find a friend of mine stabbed
4 times in the #LondonBridge terror
attack.
man shot by police
One unnamed man was caught in the
crossfire as police fired about 50 bullets
at the attackers. He sustained a gunshot
wound to his head.
A senior doctor at the Royal London
Hospital confirmed that the man had
been shot in the head but added that the
injury was not life-threatening.
Malik Ramadhan, the divisional
director for trauma at the hospital, said
that the patient was expected to make a
full recovery.
canadian victim
Justin Trudeau, the Canadian prime
minister, confirmed last night that a
Canadian national was one of the seven
people killed in the terrorist attack. He
described it as a senseless attack. We
grieve with the families and friends of
those who have lost loved ones, and
wish all those injured a speedy and full
recovery, Mr Trudeau added.
spanish victim
Spains foreign ministry said that one
Spaniard was wounded.
Who needs surgery, who can wait?
Chris Smyth Health Editor
When Karim Brohi, a trauma surgeon,
was called to work at the Royal London
Hospital at 11pm on Saturday, he was
faced with a dozen seriously injured
patients and no idea what would
happen next.
The biggest challenge is youve got a
number of people lined up, more com-
ing in, and youve got to rapidly deter-
mine where someone needs emer-
gency intervention but you havent got
long before you need that bed bay for
someone else, he said. In the receiving
phase, youre completely on your own.
You dont know if youll be restocked
with blood or how many patients or
what the injuries are. You have to treat
the hospital as completely isolated and
protect blood, staff and resources.
The Royal London, in Whitechapel,
east London, dealt with 12 victims. Last
night five hospitals across the capital
continued to treat 36 of the 48 who
were injured, with 21 remaining in a
critical condition. Stab and crush
wounds were the main cause of serious
injury, requiring immediate surgery to
stop patients bleeding to death or suc-
cumbing to brain damage.
More than 80 health staff were
deployed to the scene to help prioritise
Health chiefs praised paramedics, who
were on the scene within six minutes
the most severe cases and health chiefs
praised paramedics who were on the
scene within six minutes.
Theresa May visited the 14 patients
who were taken to Kings College Hos-
pital in south London, eight of whom
are in critical care, while 12 patients,
half of whom are critical, are still in the
Royal London.
Professor Brohi, 48, who acted as sur-
gical commander on the night of the
attack, said that the most crucial task
was prioritising injuries. Triage is a
fundamental part of it at the scene, at
the front door of the hospital, at theatre.
Whos the sickest, who needs surgery,
who can wait? he said.
Once the most life-threatening inju-
ries have been identified, surgeons can
operate to repair the immediate dam-
age. Within an hour and a half of the
attack, more than 40 consultants had
been called in and Professor Brohi was
making decisions on which of the 12
victims needed surgery.
The Royal London is one of four
major trauma centres in London and
deals with horrific injuries every day.
Its no different in terms of the things
we were treating. Its different in terms
of the volume that was dumped on us in
a short period of time.
The whole system is geared up to
make order out of chaos. I dont think
anyone in the hospital thought this is a
scary situation. There are 27 major
trauma centres around the country and
their reason for existing is exactly this.
For a unit that sees 40 or 50 serious
cases a day, a surge of 12 is a busy day but
by yesterday the hospital was getting
back to normal. If wed had an incident
the size of Paris or the Kabul bombing
[which killed 130 and 90 people respec-
tively], that starts to put a level of strain
on the system, he said. But we felt we
were within our capacity.
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Revamp of scheme Mays address
to stop radicalisation to nation
hit by funding row A
The PM has raised
four areas of particular
concern in the fight
against extremism,
Francis Elliott writes
Confronting radicals
An overhaul of the governments key
counter-radicalism programme was
put back until after the election amid
rows over cash.
Amber Rudd, the home secretary,
faced resistance from the
Ministry of Defence and
some in the security and
intelligence services over
moves to divert more
resources to Prevent. The
MoD was said to have com-
plained that other elements of
the counterterrorism strategy
would miss out.
Senior officials said that Ms
Rudd had prevailed but that
extra cash would come with
greater pressure on people
to co-operate with the
programme, which is designed to keep
mainly young people safe from the
terrorist groomers.
The 40 million programme was first
postponed after the Westminster terror
attack on March 22 and has now been
put off until after the election.
In her statement yesterday, Theresa
May said there had been too much
tolerance of extremism. We need to
become far more robust in identifying it
and stamping it out across the public
sector and across society, she said.
That will require some difficult, and
often embarrassing, conversations.
Sajid Javid, the communities secre-
tary, expands on that theme today,
writing in The Times that there is a
Schools must help Muslim pupils mix
Improving integration
Schools with predominantly Muslim
pupils will have a duty to integrate them
with children from other schools under
Theresa Mays plans to reduce segrega-
tion in Britains largest cities (Oliver
Wright writes).
In proposals expected to be brought
forward shortly after the election,
schools in predominantly Muslim areas
could be twinned with schools in other
areas, with joint teaching, sporting
events and activities made available.
The schools will also be expected to
include the teaching of British laws, his-
tory and values in the core curriculum.
The plans call for a renewed focus on
improving English literacy across all
ages, an area that was identified by a
recent report as a key driver of segrega-
tion, especially among women in Mus-
lim communities.
The proposal on school integration
was contained in a government paper
that was due to have been published last
month but was delayed because of the
special, unique burden on the Muslim
community to set young people on the
path to peace rather than the road to
war.
Mr Javid, 47, who acknowledges an
Islamic heritage but is not practising,
adds: As British Muslims, we rightly
condemn terror attacks. But we must go
further. It is not enough to condemn.
Muslims must challenge too. This will
take courage.
All communities must feel confident
in calling out extremism where they see
it. It may be uncomfortable, people may
feel embarrassed about making judg-
ments but we can no longer shy away
from those difficult conversations.
Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader,
has said that the Prevent programme
had been seen to target the Muslim
community. Baroness Warsi, the
former Tory party chairman, has said
that it was broken and should be
paused.
However, Dame Louise Casey, the
former integration tsar, told the
government to be more robust in
taking on false perceptions about the
programme and to do more to promote
its successes.
In her report, to which the govern-
ment has yet to respond officially, she
raises the case of a boy who was falsely
claimed to have been referred to
Prevent in July last year because
through a misspelling of terraced he
election. It was recommended by Dame
Louise Casey in her report into
improving community cohesion that
was published last year.
The Conservative manifesto
commits the party to introducing a
new integration strategy that will
seek to help people in more isolated
communities to engage with the wider
world.
It says that it will work with schools
that have intakes from one predomi-
nant racial, cultural or religious back-
ground to get to know people with dif-
ferent ways of life.
Mrs May implicitly repeated the
pledge yesterday when she said that, to
take on extremism, we need to live our
lives not in a series of separated, segre-
gated communities, but as one truly
United Kingdom.
The plans are expected to be con-
tained in a consultation paper that
could be published before parliament
rises for the summer recess.
As well as a response to radicalisation
the move is being seen as an attempt
to address the issues raised by the
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statement from
Theresa May:
Our country
fell victim to a
brutal terrorist attack
once again . . . This is, as
we all know, the third
had written that he lived in a terrorist terrorist attack Britain
house. has experienced in the
In fact, Dame Louise said, the boy
had been referred to social services, not
last three months. In
March a similar attack
Prevent, because he had also written: I took place just around the
hate it when my uncle hits me. corner on Westminster
Nazir Afzal, the former chief execu- Bridge.
tive of the Association of Police and Two weeks ago the
Crime Commissioners, who criticised Manchester Arena was
the industry attacking Prevent in an attacked by a suicide
interview with The Times on Saturday, bomber and now London
stepped up his attack on prominent has been struck once
figures in Muslim communities who, he more.
said, were in their roles for all sorts of And, at the same time,
wrong reasons. the security and
Mr Afzal, who as chief crown prose- intelligence agencies and
cutor for the northwest, was instru- police have disrupted five
mental in bringing the Rochdale credible plots since the
s
se
sex-grooming gang to justice, Westminster attack.
to the BBC that he had spent
told In terms of their
2 years meeting so-called com-
25 planning and execution,
m
munity leaders who represent no the recent attacks are not
o but themselves.
one connected but we believe
The majority of British Mus- we are experiencing a
lii
lims were female, under 25 and new trend in the threat
fr
from low-income backgrounds, we face.
M Afzal said, yet most commu-
Mr As terrorism breeds
n
nity leaders were middle-class terrorism, perpetrators
m over 50. He questioned why
men are inspired to attack, not
m
minority communities were only on the basis of
th
thought to have community carefully constructed
lea
lea
le
leaders when white communities plots after years of
did not. planning and training,
New laws to tackle so-called hate and not even as lone
speech and a commission for counter- attackers radicalised
ing extremism are promised in the Tory online, but by copying one Theresa May perversion of Islam and a
manifesto. The commission will ident- another and often using spoke after a perversion of the truth.
ify examples of extremism and expose the crudest of means of Cobra meeting, Defeating this ideology is
them, to support the public sector and attack. attended by one of the great
civil society, and help the government We cannot and must Mark Rowley, a challenges of our time, but
to identify policies to defeat extremism not pretend that things Met assistant it cannot be defeated by
and promote pluralistic values, it says. can continue as they are. commissioner military intervention
To defeat extremism, we need to Things need to change alone.
learn from how civil society and the and they need to change It will not be defeated
state took on racism in the 20th in four important ways. by the maintenance of a
century. We will consider what new First, though the permanent defensive
criminal offences might need to be recent attacks are not counterterrorism
created, and what new aggravated connected by common operation, however skilful
offences might need to be established, networks, they are its leaders and
to defeat the extremists. connected in one practitioners.
Sajid Javid, page 15 important sense. It will only be
They are bound defeated when we turn
together by the single peoples minds away
evil ideology of Islamist
extremism that preaches
hatred, sows division
from this violence and
make them understand
that our values
so-called Trojan horse scandal, which and promotes pluralistic British
emerged in Birmingham more than sectarianism. values are superior
two years ago. It revealed attempts by It is an ideology that to anything offered by
Muslim community leaders to enforce claims our western values the preachers and
strict conservative Islamic values on a of freedom, democracy supporters of hate.
number of schools in the city. and human rights are Second, we
A report commissioned by the De- incompatible with the cannot allow this
partment for Education found that religion of Islam. It is an ideology the safe
while there had been no evidence of ideology that is a space it needs to breed.
radicalisation in the schools concerned,
there was evidence of a co-ordinated,
deliberate and sustained attempt to in- mination to crack down on web giants.
troduce an intolerant and aggressive
Islamic ethos.
The integration strategy is not with-
Cyberspace Speaking outside No 10 yesterday
morning the prime minister launched
her strongest attack on the role Face-
out controversy. Many Muslim parents
attributed the academic success of the
Trojan horse schools to their emphasis
crackdown book, Twitter and Google play in fom-
enting extremism.
We cannot allow this ideology the
on strict conservative values. They
didnt want their children to become
suicide bombers they wanted them
promised safe space it needs to breed, she said.
Yet that is precisely what the internet,
and the big companies that provide
to become doctors and dentists, one internet-based services provide.
senior council figure said at the time. Regulating web giants We need to work with allied demo-
They thought the schools were help- cratic governments to reach inter-
ing to achieve this. national agreements that regulate
It is one of the many difficult con- Theresa May accused internet com- cyberspace to prevent the spread of
versations that Mrs May identified in panies of giving extremists a safe extremist and terrorism planning.
her Downing Street speech yesterday. space as she expressed renewed deter- The partys manifesto vowed that
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Longer prison terms Analysis

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The prospect of police putting a greater entences for those convicted
emphasis on less serious terrorism of terrorism-related offences
offences was raised yesterday, in an are expected to be
acknowledgment of the changing na- lengthened after Theresa May
ture of the threat (Francis Elliott and indicated in her Downing Street
Yet that is precisely what significant progress in more fragmented, more normally would. Our Sean ONeill write). speech yesterday that things
the internet, and the big recent years there is, to be hidden especially society should continue The prime minister suggested that cannot continue as they are
companies that provide frank, far too much online the strategy to function in new methods were required to prevent (Richard Ford writes).
internet-based services tolerance of extremism in needs to keep up. accordance with our potential attackers making the journey The most serious acts of
provide. our country. So we need to So in light of what we values. But when it from radicalisation to terrorism. terrorism carry a life sentence
We need to work with become far more robust in are learning about the comes to taking on The path between seeing some of and judges impose lengthy
allied democratic identifying it and changing threat, we need extremism and this stuff and going out and doing it is minimum terms, but Mrs May
governments to reach stamping it out across the to review Britains terrorism, things need to obviously getting shorter, said a hinted yesterday that she wants
international agreements public sector and across counterterrorism strategy change. Whitehall official. Offences that might those convicted of a range of
that regulate cyberspace society. to make sure the police As a mark of respect, once have been regarded as falling lesser offences to be locked up
to prevent the spread of That will require some and security services have two political parties have short of the intention and ability to for longer. To do this she could
extremism and terrorism difficult, and often all the powers they need. suspended our national carry out an attack are potentially more introduce a system of extended
planning. embarrassing, And if we need to campaigns for today. But serious, the source added. Mrs May sentences that is already used for
And we need to do conversations. increase the length of violence can never be said: If we need to increase the length people convicted of violent and
everything we can at But the whole of our custodial sentences for allowed to disrupt the of custodial sentences for terrorist- sexual crimes which do not carry
home to reduce the risks country needs to come terrorist-related offences democratic process, so related offences, even apparently less life sentences but where the
of extremism online. together to take on this even apparently less those campaigns will serious offences, that is what we will do. court considers there is a
Third, while we need to extremism, and we need serious offences that is resume in full tomorrow Iain Duncan Smith, the former significant threat to the public.
deprive the extremists of to live our lives not in a what we will do. and the general election welfare secretary, said that the next Home Office figures show that
their safe spaces online, series of separated, Since the emergence of will go ahead, as government would have to revisit 72 prisoners held for terror-
we must not forget about segregated communities, the threat from Islamist- planned, on Thursday. whether to toughen restrictions on related offences were released
the safe spaces that but as one truly United inspired terrorism, our As a country, our those suspected but not convicted of from British prisons in the year
continue to exist in the Kingdom. country has made response must be as it terrorism. Under David Cameron, to September 2016, of whom 28
real world. Fourth, we have a significant progress in has always been when controversial control orders were re- had sentences of less than four
Yes, that means taking robust counterterrorism disrupting plots and we have been confronted placed by terrorism prevention and years.
military action to destroy strategy, that has proved protecting the public. by violence. We must investigation measures, (Tpims), but In addition to looking at
Isis in Iraq and Syria. But successful over many But it is time to say come together, we must Mr Duncan Smith suggested that they sentencing, Mrs May said in the
it also means taking years. But as the nature of Enough is enough. pull together, and united had been ineffective. Conservative manifesto that she
action here at home. the threat we face Everybody needs to go we will take on and One of the things that I was con- would consider new criminal
Though we have made becomes more complex, about their lives as they defeat our enemies. cerned about in coalition I know offences to tackle extremism.
Theresa May was when she was home
secretary was that the Tpim order
Britain would become the global petrator, Khalid Masood, had sent a vide a service where people feel safe . . . that we brought in, which gives those manage thousands of low-priority
leader in the regulation of the use of message on WhatsApp shortly before We want Facebook to be a hostile envir- powers, was watered down. And I think suspects had repeatedly failed.
personal data and the internet, and driving his car into pedestrians on onment for terrorists. it was weakened too much, he told the Mark Rowley, assistant commission-
called for the same rules that govern life Westminster Bridge and fatally stab- A Google spokesman said: We . . . BBC. [The security services] are er at the Metropolitan Police, told MPs
offline to apply online. bing a policeman. The messaging com- share the governments commitment to watching at least 500 people every hour in July of that year: We not only have
The document proposed preventing pany says its service is so secure that no ensuring terrorists do not have a voice of every day. There are thousands more the people we are concerned about at
the industry from directing users to one but the sender and recipient can see online. that they need to watch, but its just not the top of the pyramid, who are, if you
hate speech, even unintentionally, and a message, not even WhatsApp itself. Nick Pickles, Twitters UK head of feasible. They needed to lessen the like, a risk at the moment, but we have
called for internet companies to devel- But Whitehall is understood to be public policy, said: Terrorist content burden, he added, by putting those they a residual pool of people who we are
op technicaltools to identify and more concerned about extremist con- has no place on Twitter. We continue to are most concerned about in a place satisfied are not active at the moment
remove terrorist propaganda. tent available on the internet and how expand the use of technology as part of where they cannot do anything. but we are concerned they may reacti-
After the Westminster terrorist the spread of footage of attacks can in- a systematic approach to removing this He added: That allows them to go vate. That is clearly very difficult.
attack in March Amber Rudd, the home spire copycat attacks. type of content. wider, to investigate and look further MI5 has said that it must prioritise its
secretary, raised the prospect of crack- Last night web companies insisted We will never stop working to stay a ahead at the others. And I think this is limited resources on those suspects it
ing down on encrypted messages sent that they were committed to tackling step ahead, and will continue to engage really what Theresa May is getting to. knows are planning attacks, and it is at
on programmes such as WhatsApp, extremism. Simon Milner, Facebooks with our partners across industry, gov- The intelligence and security com- full capacity monitoring 3,000 people
which is owned by Facebook. The per- director of policy, said: We want to pro- ernment, civil society and academia. mittee reported in 2015 that attempts to caught up in 500 active investigations.
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Security services and the police
Sam Coates Deputy Political Editor
Jeremy Corbyn declared last night that
policing could not be done on the
cheap as he put his response to terror-
ist attacks at the forefront of Labours
election campaign.
He sought to capitalise on claims that
police and the security services were
underfunded after all the main parties
paused their campaigns temporarily
with days to go until polling.
You cannot protect the public on the
cheap. The police and security services
must get the resources they need, not
20,000 police cuts. Theresa May was
warned by the Police Federation but
she accused them of crying wolf, he
told an audience in Carlisle.
Mr Corbyn went on to suggest that
Britain was more vulnerable to terror-
ism because it supported countries
such as Saudi Arabia. Yes, we do need
to have some difficult conversations,
starting with Saudi Arabia and other
Gulf states that have funded and fuelled
extremist ideology.
It is no good Theresa May suppress-
ing a report into the foreign funding of
extremist groups. We have to get seri-
ous about cutting off the funding to
terror networks, including Isis, here
and in the Middle East.
Ben Wallace, the security minister,
attacked Mr Corbyn for making a
hastily arranged speech designed to
help [him] run from his record on
counterterrorism policy.
He added: He has boasted about
opposing every single terror law, op-
posed the use of shoot-to-kill, and gave
cover to the IRA when they bombed
and shot our citizens. Voters will judge
him on his views and actions over the
last 30 years, not his desperate pro-
mises three days out from polling.
Ukip did not suspend campaigning,
with Paul Nuttall, its leader, saying that
a second disruption following a three-
day pause after the Manchester suicide
bombing was precisely what the ex-
tremists would want us to do and could
lead to more attacks. It is time to start
honouring our dead with more than
just words. The only guarantee that will
come from our choosing to stall the
democratic process again will be more
attacks. It is what these cowards want.
Cabinet Office officials discussed
yesterday whether to use the army to
guard polling booths, although an en-
hanced police presence on Thursday is
May must mind the lesson of Madrid
Analysis
W
hen Britain goes to
the polls on
Thursday the
Conservatives will
be hoping that the
traditional centrist values of
national security and immigration
control will benefit them, but
Theresa May would do well to
remember that this has not always
proven to be the case (Charles
Bremner writes).
Around the world, terrorism often
triggers national unity and benefits
conservative parties. Studies in
Israel over the years have shown, for
example, immediate but limited
surges in support for the Likud party
after Palestinian violence.
Conservative positions on . . .
issues including national defence,
military funding and immigration
are more popular during periods of
heightened terror threat, Robb
Willer, an expert at Stanford
university in California, has said.
However, the most spectacular
Labour backs shoot-to-kill
Jeremy Corbyn insisted last night
that he had no concerns over police
shooting dead the London Bridge
terrorists, despite confusion in the
past over his stance on a
shoot-to-kill policy (Henry Zeffman
and Sean ONeill write).
The Labour leader praised the
actions of the officers involved,
saying that they had acted quickly
and decisively to save lives. He
added: Their professionalism was
again exemplary.
After the Paris attacks at the
Bataclan theatre and Stade de
France in November 2015, Mr
Corbyn was criticised across the
political divide after he told the BBC:
I am not happy with a shoot-to-kill
policy in general. I think it is quite
dangerous and can often be
counter-productive.
Supporters claimed that his words
had been taken out of context and
said that, in a previous answer, he
had not ruled out bringing security
services on to the streets if
necessary. A Labour spokeswoman
said: Jeremy would take whatever
action was necessary and effective
to protect the security of our people
and our country.
In 1987 it was reported that Mr
Corbyn had attended a public
meeting at which he stood for a
minutes silence to remember the
deaths of eight IRA men shot dead
by the SAS as they tried to blow up
a police station.
The Corbyn camp says that he
wants to strengthen the police
response to terrorism and to reverse
cuts to officer numbers.
In a speech after the Manchester
bombing, he said: There is no
question about the seriousness of
what we face. Over recent years, the
threat of terrorism has continued to
grow. Austerity has to stop at the
A&E ward and at the police station
door. We cannot be protected and
cared for on the cheap. There will be
more police on the streets under a
Labour government. And if the
security services need more
resources to keep track of those
who wish to murder and maim, then
they should get them.
electoral impact from terrorism is
often said to have been the defeat of
Spains centre-right government in
March 2004. Three days before the
general election, bomb attacks on
trains in Madrid killed more than
190 people and injured more than
2,000. Voters were expected to re-
elect the conservative Popular Party,
but they put the Socialists of Jos
Lus Rodrguez Zapatero into power.
Historians have ascribed the
defeat to an effort by Jos Mara
Aznar, then leader of the Popular
Party, to blame Basque separatists,
which was seen as an attempt to
deflect attention from Islamist
extremists and Spains unpopular
participation in the invasion of Iraq.
Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility two
days after the attack.
In France, where Islamists have
killed about 250 people since 2012,
the two most likely beneficiaries
the conservative Republicans and
far-right National Front have
failed to break through. Franois
Hollande, a Socialist, ousted the
conservative Nicolas Sarkozy from
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more likely. Downing Street said it had
not heard of a plan to use the army.
The National Counterterrorism po-
licing network said forces would review
security at polling stations. A spokes-
man for the National Police Chiefs
Council said: The terror threat level
remains at severe, which means an
attack is highly likely, so we urge people
to stay alert and vigilant and report any
concerns to police.
David Davis, the Brexit secretary,
told The Andrew Marr Show on BBC
One that the election could not be post-
poned because parliament had been
dissolved and there were no MPs. Im
not sure it can be legally done. I mean in
order to do this youd have to have some
change of law and whos going to do
that? Parliament no longer exists. Im
not a Member of Parliament for the
duration. I think were locked into June
9th. I think, actually, the public would
want us to be locked into June 9th.
Pressing ahead with the poll was the
right decision, he said. On the one
hand, clearly, we want to respect the
people whove been injured and killed,
well want to pay proper respect and
therefore we dont want to carry on
across it. But on the other hand the
people doing this are doing this because
they despise the freedoms we have.
And those freedoms can be the free-
dom to go out on a Saturday night or
the freedom to cast a vote and it may be
we dont know at least I dont
know, Im not briefed this morning on
this, but I dont know whether or not
they are deliberately trying to disrupt
the general election or whether this is a
coincidence of timing in that sense.
The Conservatives and Labour bick-
ered yesterday over whether Mrs Mays
statement in Downing Street was itself
a breach of the pause in the campaign.
The prime minister spoke of clamp-
ing down on hate preaching, the spread
of extremist ideology online, and
reviewing police and security powers.
Emily Thornberry, the shadow for-
eign secretary, told The World This
Weekend on BBC Radio 4: I dont think
its right to get dragged into plans at this
stage, so soon after those attacks.
A TV showdown between the SNPs
Nicola Sturgeon and Tim Farron of the
Lib Dems was postponed after the
attack. The BBC announced plans to
shift its Question Time Leaders Special
from last night to tonight.
Thunderer, page 28
Crises before elections
October 5, 1974 disease. Tony Blair had lost to Jos Luis
the presidency in 2012, two months The Guildford pub hoped to go to the polls Rodrguez Zapatero, the
after seven people were killed by a bombings occurred in May but the spread of Socialist candidate.
gunman on a motorbike in Toulouse. when the Provisional the disease made Many believe that the
The Paris attacks of 2015 boosted IRA detonated two campaigning impossible Popular Party would
Marine Le Pens National Front, bombs at two pubs in and the election was have won the election if
which enjoyed a surge of support in Guildford, Surrey, killing delayed. Ten million it had not been for the
regional elections weeks after the four soldiers and one cows and sheep were al-Qaeda attack, for
November massacre, but it failed to civilian, and wounding killed to halt the disease which the government
win a single council. The November 65 other people. The and the election took tried to blame Basque
attack was thought to have given the general election place on June 7. Mr Blair separatists.
Front a three-point lift in votes. between Harold Wilson won another landslide
When a police officer was for Labour and Ted victory. April 20, 2017
murdered by an Islamist in Paris in Heath for the One policeman was
April, days before the presidential Conservatives, who was March 11, 2004 killed and two were
first round, President Trump the incumbent, went The Madrid train wounded in a shooting
tweeted that the attack would ahead on October 10 bombings took place in central Paris days
probably help Ms Le Pen because and Labour emerged three days before a before the first round
she was strongest on borders, and victorious with a general election. of the French
. . . strongest on whats been going on majority of three. Both Co-ordinated explosions presidential election
in France. Voters did cite a tough leaders sent telegrams on the rail network this year. The attack
line on immigration and policing as of condolence. killed 192 and injured took place on Thursday,
motives for backing Ms Le Pen, but nearly 2,000 people. April 20, and the first
she won fewer votes in the first April 2, 2001 Before the attack, the round of the election
round than expected and was easily The decision was taken incumbent Popular went ahead on Sunday,
beaten in the run-off by Emmanuel to delay the general Party, whose candidate with Emmanuel Macron
Macron, an inexperienced politician election by a month for prime minister was and Marine Le Pen
with no law-and-order credentials because of an outbreak Mariano Rajoy, led the going through to the
who emerged from the Socialist of foot-and-mouth polls by five points but second round.
government.
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starved of funds, claims Corbyn
Helicopter
drops SAS
on bridge
to join hunt
Michael Evans, Deborah Haynes
An SAS counterterrorist unit on 24-
hour standby flew by helicopter to the
London Bridge terrorism scene to hunt
down other jihadists who were feared
to have been planning more attacks
after the Borough Market stabbings.
At least one dark blue Eurocopter
Dauphin helicopter, nicknamed Blue
Thunder after a Hollywood film,
carried around 12 members of the SAS
on to the bridge having flown from an
airfield outside London.
Their deployment came after the
Home Office made an urgent request
for military back-up for the police
counterterror squads.
Each aircraft can only carry small
numbers of troops when in full combat
gear. Kitted out with rifles, night-vision
goggles, body armour and special com-
munications equipment, the SAS team
operated with the police through the
night as they worked to establish
whether any more attackers were on
the loose.
A concern that there may have been
more than just the three dead terrorists
led to the decision to deploy the SAS.
The elite troops remained on the
ground in London yesterday and into
the night in case of a new emergency.
Special forces were deployed in
support of the police, a Whitehall
source said. They were not involved in
the killing of the terrorists. They re-
main at high readiness should they be
required.
The 70-strong Blue Thunder team,
set up after the 2015 Paris attacks, is
only mobilised at times of crisis under
the orders of the home secretary.
The SAS unit was part of the elite reg-
iments counterterrorist squadron of 40
to 45 soldiers who are always ready at
short notice to support the police in a
serious terrorist attack. The Eurocopter
Dauphins, painted blue to blend in with
civilian air traffic, are flown by 658
Squadron Army Air Corps, which sup-
ports 22nd SAS Regiment.
A counterterrorist team from the
GUSTAVO VALIENTE/I-IMAGES
The Blue Thunder
helicopter carrying
SAS troopers flies
into London Bridge
SAS regiments Hereford headquarters
has been based permanently in the
metropolitan area for at least ten years
and includes surveillance and bomb-
disposal specialists.
The surveillance expertise, using ad-
vanced night-time technology, would
have helped the police in their search
for more terrorists outside the three
attackers.
However, the armed police response
which reached the market, identified
the terrorists and killed them all within
eight minutes was so fast that the
SAS was not required to back them up
until at least an hour later.
While the counterterrorist police
have been trained by the SAS for years,
that training has become far more in-
tense over the past two years. Those
police units are now regarded as so pro-
ficient that the request for the elite mili-
tary unit was made as a precautionary
move, Whitehall sources said last night.
Blue Thunder was the name of a
Hollywood film in the 1980s that used
modified Gazelle helicopters in a num-
ber of action-thriller sequences.
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Officers swoop in
minutes and fire
50 shots at killers
Sean ONeill Chief Reporter
Deborah Haynes Defence Editor
Within seconds of the first 999 calls
reaching police command centres on
Saturday night, armed response vehi-
cles were racing through London, blue
lights flashing and sirens wailing.
Three ARVs reached Borough
Market within minutes, the officers
leaping from the vehicles to locate the
suspects. They found the terrorists on
Stoney Street, where bars and restau-
rants were being barricaded.
Eight officers, understood to be from
both the Metropolitan and City of
London police forces, confronted the
three men, who were close to one
another and appeared to be wearing
suicide bomb vests.
Trained to locate, contain and
neutralise the threat, the officers took
aim and fired 50 rounds, an unprece-
dented number for a firearms operation
in the capital. Within eight minutes of
police receiving the first reports of the
attack, the killers were dead.
The police officers were praised last
night for saving lives by responding
with the same speed as special forces
units, from whom they have learnt
since working together during the July
2005 terrorism crisis in London.
They are all trained to go for it, a
special forces source said. The
squeamishness about killing someone
has disappeared. There is no hesitation.
Its an important message this is
what happens to terrorists.
Borough Market on Saturday night
presented police with exactly the kind
of anti-terrorism scenario that they
have been fearing and preparing for
since the Mumbai attacks in 2008.
A group of attackers were on the
loose, running through one of Londons
busiest areas for nightlife and trying to
force their way into bars and restau-
rants to kill.
This was markedly different from the
situation at the Palace of Westminster
in March when a police protection offi-
cer shot and killed the knifeman Khalid
Masood after he had driven his car into
pedestrians on Westminster Bridge.
In the narrow streets around Bor-
ough Market, the officers were search-
ing for multiple attackers and there
were hundreds of members of the
public who might stray into the line of
fire.
Gabriele Sciotto had been watching
the Champions League final in a bar
and came outside to a scene of chaos.
Lots of shots were fired, there were lots
of officers shooting I saw all three of
the attackers taken down, said Mr
Sciotto, 25, a photographer, who used
his phone to capture the stark image on
the front page of todays Times of one of
the suspects, gas canisters strapped to
his chest, lying on the ground and an
accomplice nearby. Police officers are
seen standing over both men pointing
their guns downwards.
Mr Sciotto said: At the moment they
were shot it seemed to be just me, the
police and the attackers on the street. It
was very dark, very confusing I was
really struggling to breathe.
He was unhurt but another member
of the public suffered non-critical
gunshot wounds in the operation. As a
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matter of procedure, there will be
an investigation by the police watchdog
into the circumstances of the shooting.
Wary that such intense scrutiny is a
deterrent to the recruitment of more
officers to firearms duties, Assistant
Commissioner Mark Rowley, head of
counterterrorism, spoke out strongly in
support of those who opened fire.
The situation these officers were
confronted with was critical, a matter of
life and death. Three armed men, wear-
ing what appeared to be suicide belts,
had already attacked and killed mem-
bers of the public and had to be stopped
immediately, Mr Rowley said.
He added: I am humbled by the
bravery of an officer who will rush
towards a potential suicide bomber
thinking only of protecting others.
A police source said that since
Mumbai, when Islamist gunmen killed
164 people, firearms officers had been
trained to adopt new tactics in terrorist
incidents. There was a step change
again after the Paris attacks of 2015,
which led to a drive to recruit an extra
1,500 armed officers, 600 of them for
London.
At any hour of day or night there are
between 30 and 40 police ARVs patrol-
ling London. The BMW X5s carry three
firearms officers, all equipped with a
Glock 17 handgun and Sig Sauer
5.56mm assault rifle.
The source said: The traditional
tactics of locate, contain and negotiate
are completely inappropriate for this
type of terrorism. The new tactic is
locate, contain and neutralise.
Officers are trained to shoot for the
central torso of an attacker, the largest
target. If a suicide vest is visible, how-
ever, they are told to aim for the head
and to continue shooting until satisfied
that the threat is neutralised.
The shootings were carried out by
police officers but special forces
personnel were also deployed to the
scene two hours after the incident
began over concerns that another at-
tacker might be at large. SAS troops
were flown by their helicopter, nick-
named Blue Thunder, from their
London base at Northolt, landing on
London Bridge.
Armed police killed the attackers
within eight minutes of the first 999
call. They are trained to be aggressive
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Trumps sideswipe
at London mayor
strikes a sour note
Charles Bremner Paris
Boer Deng Washington
President Trump mocked Sadiq Khan
and hit out at gun control as world
leaders voiced solidarity with Britain
over the attack in London.
Amid a chorus of condemnation of
the assault, including from Russia, Mr
Trump tweeted: At least 7 dead and 48
wounded in terror attack and Mayor of
London says there is no reason to be
alarmed!
He was referring to a statement in
which Mr Khan said that people should
not be alarmed to see a higher police
presence on the streets of London
following the incident.
In a series of early morning tweets
sent from his golf course in Virginia,
where he spent much of the weekend,
the US president wrote: We must stop
being politically correct and get down
to the business of security for our
people. If we dont get smart it will only
get worse. He also turned the atrocity
into an argument over US gun control.
Do you notice we are not having a gun
debate right now? Thats because they
used knives and a truck!
Mr Trump argued that the attack jus-
tified his attempts to ban entry to the
United States from six predominantly
Muslim countries.
He also expressed support for Brit-
ain. Whatever the United States can
do to help out in London and the UK,
we will be there WE ARE WITH
YOU. GOD BLESS! he wrote.
The White House issued a more tem-
perate statement about Mr Trumps call
to Theresa May in the aftermath of the
President Trumps series of tweets
included this mocking observation
attack. The president offered his con-
dolences for the brutal terror attacks on
June 3 and praised the heroic re-
sponse of police and other first re-
sponders, it said.
On Twitter, the US Embassy in
London commended the strong lead-
ership of the @MayorofLondon as he
leads the city forward after this heinous
attack.
A spokesman for Mr Khan later said:
that the mayor has more important
things to do than respond to Donald
Trumps ill-informed tweet that delib-
erately takes out of context his remarks
urging Londoners not to be alarmed
when they saw more police - including
armed officers - on the streets.
Irans supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei, said that attacks by Islamic
State in Europe and elsewhere showed
that western policies in the Middle East
had backfired. Today Daesh [Isis] is
being pushed out from its birthplace in
Iraq and Syria and is moving to other
countries, he said in a televised speech,
adding that this was a fire that [western
powers] themselves ignited and now
has backfired on them.
Other world leaders expressed soli-
darity in their responses to the attack.
Today we are united across bor-
d in horror and mourning, but
ders
a
also in determination, Angela
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Merkel, the German chancellor,
s
said. In the fight against all forms
o terrorism, we are resolutely at
of
B
Britains side.
President Macron of France
id after
said f speaking to Mrs May by tele-
phone that the attack was abominable
and cowardly. A French citizen was
reported to have died in the attack.
President Putin of Russia said in a
message to Mrs May that the London
Bridge attack was shocking in its
cruelty and cynicism. He expressed
his confidence that the response to the
incident should be the escalating of
joint efforts in the fight against the
forces of terror around the world.
Jean-Claude Juncker, president of
the European Commission, offered
full and unwavering support, adding:
The cowardly people who committed
these attacks will not undermine our
resilience, our compassion or our
democracies.
The attack was greeted with shock
and anger across the Commonwealth,
with Justin Trudeau, the Canadian
prime minister, decrying the awful
news and Malcolm Turnbull, prime
minister of Australia, sending his
countrys prayers and resolute
solidarity with the people of Britain.
One Canadian citizen was among those
who died.
Bill English, New Zealands prime
minister, said: Too many lives are
being taken by terrorists set on inflict-
ing pain and suffering on innocent
people.

Three varied attacks for a single cause

Analysis son of Libyan immigrants packed
Twelve years of terror homemade explosives into a they did, they tried to given a round of

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ore than 30 people
have been killed and
many more injured in
three terrorist attacks
in Britain in as many
months (Deborah Haynes writes).
The five terrorists behind the
atrocities two lone attackers and
rucksack and detonated the charge affect us . . . were applause. Inside the
July 7, 2005 The 7/7 central London among the throngs leaving a pop
Manchester carrying on with our stadium an inner
bombings hit three Tube stations
and one bus. More than 700 people
concert by the US singer Ariana
Grande at the Manchester Arena.
sings out daily life and they have
not achieved
cordon was set up for
them at the front. A
were injured and 53 were killed in Twenty-two people, including in defiance anything, she said. minutes silence in
Britains first Islamist suicide attack. children, were killed. Grande took to the honour of the victims
The devices main ingredient was of violence stage wearing a One was held at the start.
June 30, 2007 Two men with links triacetone triperoxide the Love Manchester Seven children, the

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the three men who brought carnage to radical Islamist groups drove a compound used by the July 7 illie jumper singing her hit youngest aged eight,
to London Bridge appear to have burning car into Glasgow airports bombers in London in 2005 and by Mitchell Be Alright as the died in the Manchester
been motivated by the same jihadist main terminal, injuring five people. the Isis-trained cell that carried out was at crowd burst into Arena bombing. The
cause. But their actions are different the Paris and Brussels massacres. the applause and jumped first of the funerals of
in terms of methodology, planning, May 22, 2013 Lee Rigby, a soldier, The police have not ruled out that Ariana up and down. The the victims was due to
support and sophistication. was stabbed and hacked to death by Abedi was part of a wider network. Grande concert in One Love pl
take place this
The most rudimentary was that two Islamist extremists in Woolwich. Saturdays van and knife attack Manchester two weeks Manchester mor
morning: that
committed by Khalid Masood, 52, a sits between the other two. The ago when Salman concert, of Eilidh
Muslim convert, who used a hired March 22, 2017 Five people were three terrorists used the same kind Abedi, 22, detonated also M
MacLeod,
car to carry out a rampage on killed and more than 50 were of tactics as Masood, turning a hired his bomb, killing 22 featuring 14 on the
14,
March 22. He killed four pedestrians injured when Khalid Masood drove a van into a killing machine before people and injuring Justin I of
Isle
and injured many more as he car along the pavement of charging at strangers with knives. more than 100 others Bieber, B
Barra.
ploughed into people crossing Westminster Bridge. He was shot That they made an attack together (Gabriella Swerling Coldplay Some
Westminster Bridge at 76mph. He dead after stabbing a police officer means it was more co-ordinated writes). and Katy 50
50,000 fans
then ran to New Palace Yard and and trying to enter Parliament. than that at Westminster. But their The 14-year-old from Perry, took in
fatally stabbed a policeman before failure to do more damage indicates Harrogate, North place amid Manch
Manchester
being shot. Investigators believe that May 22 Twenty-two people were that they did not conduct much Yorkshire, was hit by tight security ty a th as ever
showed that,
he was a lone wolf, though Masood killed and 119 injured when Salman preparation or have much training, shrapnel in the attack day after the attack k iin i the
in h city,
i music could
appears to have been spurred into Abedi detonated a suicide vest after according to security experts. but arrived defiant, in London. bring people together.
action by the calls of terrorist a Manchester Arena concert. Professor Michael Clarke, the her wheelchair, at There were Sitting outside the
groups such as Islamic State. former director-general of the Grandes star-studded emotional scenes cricket ground as Take
Exactly two months later on 22 June 3 Three attackers drove a van Royal United Services Institute, benefit gig at the Old outside the stadium as That did their
May the second attack occurred. along London Bridge hitting said: We have been saying for the Trafford cricket a guard of honour was soundcheck, hundreds
The suicide bombing by Salman pedestrians, then stabbed people in last three years that there is a wave ground last night. formed for families of joined in song as girls
Abedi, 22, is the most sophisticated the street, restaurants and pubs, building. Everyone knew it would Its important to be the victims attending wearing Grandes
of the three atrocities and the most killing seven and injuring nearly 50. eventually break here and that is here because what the gig and they were signature bunny ears
well planned. The Manchester-born what happened.
the times | Monday June 5 2017 1GM
Fans arriving for the concert said that
they were nervous about the big crowd.
One said that they would all be fine
once the music starts. The body of
Eilidh MacLeod was brought home to
Barra, left, for the funeral today
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As British Muslims,
we must do more
than just condemn
They identify as Muslims. And they
Sajid Javid carry out their attacks ignorantly,
Comment offensively in the name of Islam.
Thats why, although we all share
the responsibility for tackling
O
Ariana Grande was backed by the Parrs Wood High nce again, our country terrorism, theres a special, unique
School Choir at Old Trafford cricket ground. Robbie has experienced terror. burden on the Muslim community.
Williams took a bow with his former band, Take That. We react to such I should be very clear on this. Im
Pharrell Williams and Miley Cyrus also performed barbarity by expressing not for one second saying that
unity and defiant hope, Muslims are in any way responsible
believing that if we stand together for terrorists. Around the world
terror can be defeated. But with Muslims are fighting on the front
three terrorist attacks in as many line of the battle against extremism.
months it is time to face some hard It would be absurd to say that the
truths. As Theresa May said in actions of a tiny handful in any way
Downing Street yesterday, enough is represent a peaceful, wonderful
enough. religion that is the guiding light for
We have seen all too often that more than a billion people.
there are some people in our So why talk of a special burden?
country who reject our shared Because this terror will not be ended
values. Who are born here, raised on the battlefield or through
here, have the same opportunities negotiation. A lasting peace will
and advantages enjoyed by the rest only come when young Muslims
of us, yet choose to turn on their growing up in Britain decide that
fellow citizens in the most brutal this is not their fight and they want
way imaginable. We talk about the no part of it. When they turn their
actions of a poisonous few, but the backs on the preachers of hate.
reality is that the problem is We need to offer not just a
significant in size. counternarrative, which rebuts the
It is only human to wish to pull extremists, but a positive and self-
together at times of tragedy, to confident narrative that promotes
believe that our hope can stand pluralistic, British values and
against hate, but if we only talk their compatibility with an Islamic
about standing together in our life. And that message can best come
communities we risk ignoring the from within the Muslim community.
divisions that corrode our society. In the war against extremism
After any terrorist attack a lot of were not fighting against an army.
w
well-meaning people line up to say it Were fighting against an idea. And
has nothing to do with Islam. That the battle for the hearts and minds
the perpetrators are not true of the next generation will not only
Muslims. They are, of course, right. be won on a dusty foreign battlefield
But speaking as a Muslim myself, we or in high-level government talks.
need to ask ourselves searching It will be won in the schools. In
questions. the mosques. On the streets. In our
As British Muslims, we rightly communities. And in cyberspace.
condemn terror attacks. But we The answers are not easy. But I
must go further. It is not enough to know that we cant continue as we
condemn. Muslims must challenge are. We need to come together as a
too. This will take courage. All country and as a society. We need to
communities must feel confident in confront the extremists who want to
calling out extremism where they divide us and the terrorists who
see it. It may be uncomfortable, destroy innocent lives. And the best
people may feel embarrassed about way we can do that is by all of us,
making judgments, but we can no together, sharing in the pluralistic
held placards reading nervous, but we are Manchester were longer shy away from those difficult values that help to make Britain the
for our angels and still here. strong, were still conversations. best country in the world.
wore T-shirts with Both Millie and Ellie singing our song Theres no avoiding the fact that Sajid Javid is secretary of state for
slogans such as Never attended last nights before launching into these people think they are Muslims. communities and local government
mind the terrorists, we concert thanks to free his hit Angels. Pharrell
are Manchester and tickets allocated to Williams was next up,
Love not hate.
The Manchester bee
those who were at the
original Grande gig.
and said: I dont feel
or smell or hear or see
Harry joins Ramadan meal
symbol, which has
come to symbolise
solidarity with the
On Saturday night the
23-year-old American
pop star tweeted that
any fear . . . all we feel
tonight is love,
resilience, positivity.
and prayers for the victims
victims, made she was praying for Grande had made
appearances on London. In an effort an emotional surprise Prince Harry shared supper with said: Ramadan is a time of reflection,
painted faces, clothing to show that we wont visit to fans in hospital Muslims at a community centre in for spending time with family and
and headbands. let hate win she had on Friday night. Lily Singapore as tributes were paid to friends while giving support to those
Ellie Willett, 14, vowed to return to the Harrison, eight, from victims of the attacks. who are less fortunate. We are hon-
from Colwyn Bay, city after the Arena Stockport, was hit by As part of his two-day trip to the oured that Prince Harry was able to
north Wales, was also bomb, but not before shrapnel in the attack island state, where he is staging a fund- join us for this iftar [meal] and to meet
caught up in the she enlisted the help of but said she felt like a raising Sentebale Polo Cup tomorrow, with the young people that are part of
panicked rush to celebrity friends. rock star after the prince broke the Ramadan fast with the Jamiyah Singapore community.
escape the attack on Musicians including meeting her idol. dates and porridge. Earlier Harry was welcomed to the
May 22, eventually Miley Cyrus, Little Proceeds from One Muhammad Rafiuddin Ismail, secre- centre by a group of Malay drummers
managing to escape Mix, Pharrell Love Manchester will tary-general of Jamiyah Singapore, a who beat out a rhythm on a traditional
into the arms of her Williams, Usher, the go towards the We welfare organisation, said: Our instrument called a kompang.
mother, Faye, 39, Black Eyed Peas, Take Love Manchester thoughts go out to the families of the
outside. Since then she That, Robbie Williams emergency fund to victims of the London terror attack last
has been too scared to and Niall Horan from support grieving night.
be among a crowd. One Direction were families and victims of Harry bowed his head as the secre-
Im nervous, she called upon to raise the bombing. More tary-general added: Let peace and har-
confessed. But I think money for the families than 6 million has mony prevail in communities all
it will go away once of the victims of the been raised so far, over the world.
the music starts. Manchester bombing. with the organisers Mohd Hasbi Abu Bakar, pres-
Her mother added: Robbie Williams expecting at least ident of Jamiyah Singapore,
The London attacks took to the stage to 2 million to be raised
have made me more lead chants of from the concert. Prince Harry shared food with
a youth worker at the centre
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Police investigate NHS waiting list fiddle
Chris Smyth Health Editor
Police are investigating allegations that
an NHS hospital fiddled waiting times
to meet targets.
NHS counterfraud agents are
also looking into claims that bosses
manipulated computer systems to hide
the extent of long waits.
Dozens of patients are known to
have been harmed, including one who
suffered loss of sight, and hundreds are
still waiting for surgery after more than
a year.
Kettering General Hospital accepts
that waiting lists were wrongly reported
but insists this was an IT error rather
than a deliberate cover-up. However,
David Phelan, a former surgery man-
ager at Kettering and now a governor of
the hospital, said that officially reported
waiting times were based on a lie.
Hospitals are told to make sure that
92 per cent of patients are given routine
operations, such as hip replacements,
within 18 weeks. Mr Phelan claims that
bosses were so obsessed with hitting
the target that they asked for databases
to be programmed to exclude patients
who had waited for more than a year
and those who had not been in touch
for six months.
He first noticed the anomalies in
2015. Theyve bastardised the data so
badly they actually dont know what
the waiting list is. They dont know how
many patients were affected, he said.
Norman Lamb, the Lib Dem health
spokesman, demanded a full inquiry.
There appears to be a rotten culture
which has to be confronted, he said.
Detectives have interviewed Mr
Phelan and visited the hospital in
response to the allegations but have yet
to decide whether to open a formal
inquiry. It is unclear whether the claims
would be treated as fraud, misconduct
in a public office or a data crime. An
allegation of potential misconduct at
Kettering General Hospital has been
made to Northamptonshire police and
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we are in the process of scoping that
allegation, a police spokesman said.
Fiona Wise, interim chief executive
of Kettering General Hospital, said:
Naturally we will work with [the police
and NHS Protect] to demonstrate how
we have handled our waiting-time is-
sues. The trust has openly and publicly
admitted that we have had problems
with our waiting-times data, systems
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have worked hard to address all of
those issues and ensure that patients
do not wait for too long. We have also Place the numbers 1 to 9 in the
categorically refuted any allegation spaces so that the number in each
that the trust has deliberately manipu- circle is equal to the sum of the four
lated its waiting-list data. surrounding spaces, and each colour
total is correct
Solution and more puzzles
MindGames in Times2
Doctor calls Hit-and-run killer jailed
for natural A driver who killed a boy cyclist
then burnt his car to hide the
caesareans evidence has been jailed for three
years and four months. Steven
Mills, 29, of East Bridgford,
Nottinghamshire, hit Jack Archer,
Chris Smyth 14, on July 25 last year. At
Nottingham crown court he
Tens of thousands of women should be admitted causing death by careless
offered natural caesareans on the driving, perverting the course of
NHS, a leading doctor has said. justice and failing to stop.
Letting babies wriggle their way out
of the incision to the womb and lie Wrong side of the law
skin-to-skin with mothers immediately
is safe and could boost breastfeeding, a A former magistrate in Australia
study found. was jailed for three years for
Doctors at the Euroanaesthesia planning to sell more than 3,000
conference in Geneva will be told today worth of crystal meth. Michael
by Felicity Plaat, an anaesthetist at Durbin, 61, of west London,
Imperial College London, that women admitted possession with intent
who need to have caesareans miss out to supply at Southwark crown
on the experience of birth and doctors court. The drugs were discovered
ought to offer them a chance to during an immigration raid.
replicate a natural delivery.
In a natural caesarean, the parents Stoat eats rare chicks
watch as the baby is partly brought out
of the abdomen. After the doctor A stoat is thought to have eaten
delivers the head and shoulders, the two rare black-winged stilt chicks
baby then pushes its way out of the even though their nest had been
womb, mimicking the experience of under 24-hour guard for ten days
natural birth. by a team of 25 who feared that
Parents were worrying beforehand poachers might steal the eggs.
that it was going to be gruesome but The parents were seen
it isnt really. They are absolutely abandoning the nest at Welney
entranced by it, Dr Plaat said. Wetland Centre in Norfolk.
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I hid Queen Mothers racism to protect her, says diarist
David Sanderson Arts Correspondent
One of the most acerbic diarists of his
generation has revealed that he excised
references to Queen Elizabeth the
Queen Mothers racial prejudices.
Sir Roy Strong said that there was a
certain streak of me that was protec-
tive and that he had not recorded the
Queen Mothers racism because it was
too awful.
The former director of the National
Portrait Gallery and Victoria and Al-
bert Museum told the Hay Festival that
on the whole he included all his ob-
servations and never rewrote them. Sir
Roy, whose entries in his first two vol-
umes have been described as waspish,
added: I am always protective of
people who are close to me, who are
friends. I revere the monarchy for all its
faults.
I can remember the Queen Mother
came to lunch at Ham House, which
was a branch of the V&A, and she said,
I will bring the liquid refreshment, and
we all knew what that meant.
Suddenly in the middle of lunch, I
was on the left of her I think, and the
Queen was in Africa at the time, and the
Queen Mother leant over to me and
said, Beware the blackamoors. I
thought, I cant put that down, its too
awful. But one knows she was colour
prejudiced. So I always felt there was a
certain streak of me that was protective
of things, but on the whole not.
When his first volume of diaries was
published in 1997, covering from 1967
until 1987 when he left the V&A, Sir Roy
was asked by his publishers lawyers,
after they saw his entries about the
royal family, if he cared whether he saw
Princess Margaret again. He said that
he did not.
His second volume, covering 1988-
2003 also includes wicked gossip
about the royal family, although Sir Roy
told the Hay Festival that he remained
close to some members, including the
Prince of Wales.
He said that he would never rewrite
acerbic entries about people, but
added: As one gradually got to know
them then [I would] write something
different.
Sir Roy said that the British film di-
rector Tony Palmer had once told him
that he had a wonderful way of being
acerbic about people in your diary but
in a way that they will not take offence.
He added that he and Prince Charles
shared charming correspondence,
which is of course private, adding that
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he had already handed his papers over
to the Bodleian Library in Oxford.
Sir Roy, who has spent many years
creating the renowned Laskett Gar-
dens in Herefordshire, said that Prince
Charles loves his garden and we al-
ways rag each other. He said that he
would frequently point out flaws in the
princes garden at Highgrove adding
that he disliked the colour of his gates.
Its his garden, I always respect that,
he said. Every so often he pops up in
my life . . . . he got a pair of iron gates
painted black and I say have you paint-
ed them blue yet? and he never, never
does. And we go on and on with that.

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Princes letters
revealed agony
of his marriage
Tom Whipple
Prince Charless marriage to Diana had
become, he confided, like a Greek trag-
edy. One day, he promised, he would
tell Nancy Reagan all about it, but until
then he let her know simply that it
would certainly make a very good
play!
That 1992 letter was just one of doz-
ens sent between the Prince of Wales
and the former first lady, revealing an
enduring friendship p between the
pair that spanned decades.
vered
The letters covered
happy and sadder pe-
riods in both their ir
lives. Frustration
with the press was
hinted at when
Andrew Morton
published his
book Diana: Her
True Story. No
one can really un-
derstand what it alll
means until it hap- p-
pens to you, which h is
why it all keeps getting
worse and worse. One day I
ole story. It is a kind
will tell you the whole
of Greek tragedy and would certainly
make a very good play! He added: It is
so awful that very few people who ha-
vent been witnesses would believe it.
When Mrs Reagan realised a tell-all
scandalous biography was about to be
published about her, Charles wrote to
offer comfort, describing the 1991
memoir as an appalling book. The
prince told her: We live in an increas-
ingly uncivilised world. I know exactly
the methods these dreadful people em-
ploy to create the maximum amount of
controversy . . . so as to make the maxi-
mum amount of money.
The correspondence, released by the
Reagan Presidential Library and re-
ported in the Mail on Sunday, also
covered more upbeat times, such as the
night in 1985 when Diana danced with
Ronald Reagan and film stars at
the White House. Diana
hasn got over danc-
still hasnt
w John Travol-
ing with
ta, Neil Diamond
an Clint Eastwood
and
in one evening, not
to mention the
P
President of the
U
United States as
w
well!, Prince
C
Charles wrote.
Mrs Reagan,
who died of heart The Princess of Wales took some time to get over her dance with John Travolta, Charles wrote to Nancy Reagan, far left
failur
failure last year aged
94, appeared
app to have be- The librarys decision to release the ter, Mr Reagan had dementia diag- 6 A 25,000 pearl necklace and a full
gun her friendship with private correspondence gives a rare nosed. Charles returned the favour, Claridges crockery set specially com-
Charles in th the early 1980s. In glimpse into a friendship of which few writing to Mrs Reagan: I so wanted to missioned to recreate the hotels dining
1981, he visited the Reagans
Re for a ban- people were aware and shows that the write to say how much my heart goes experience are among the items to be
quet, in which they ate a dessert called promise of lifetime devotion was not out to you. I have minded so much for auctioned from the estate of Raine
Crown of Sorbet Prince of Wales. In a idle talk. In 2002 Charles turned to you ever since your husband became ill Spencer, stepmother of Princess Diana.
thank you letter to the pair, he wrote of Nancy after the death of the Queen with that beastly Alzheimers as I can The collection, with an estimated value
sitting next to Mrs Reagan: I am a de- Mother, writing: I fear it has not been well imagine how soul-destroying it of 2 million, is being sold by Christies.
voted admirer for life! . . . What more easy to cope of late . . . I have dreaded must be to be unable to do anything to Countess Spencer, daughter of the
could anyone want than an enjoyable her eventual departure and now she help as the illness gradually drags your novelist Barbara Cartland and the
visit to Washington and a special culi- leaves an enormous chasm in my life. loved one into a separate world from printing heir Alexander McCorquo-
nary creation named after you! In 2004, 23 years after their first let- which you are barred. dale, died last year aged 87.

Let heritage sites rot, urges academic Jobless Kids Company staff
Some heritage sites cannot be pre-
served and should be allowed to decay,
according to an academic.
In the future, climate change, falling
budgets and other pressures will mean
that some heritage sites cannot be pro-
tected, according to Caitlin DeSilvey, of
the University of Exeter. If heritage has
to be lost, she says, it should not always
be viewed as a failure, but as a deliberate
decision to allow nature to take its
course and to learn from change.
There is room to explore more
creative approaches in how we care for
heritage, said Professor DeSilvey.
What happens if we choose not to
intervene? What possibilities emerge
when change is embraced rather than
resisted? What if we allow things to be-
come ruins? Processes of decay and dis-
integration can be culturally as well
as ecologically productive, but we
also need to recognise that people have
very strong feelings about these places,
and those need to be considered as well.
This approach only applies in cer-
tain circumstances: when preservation
or repair is not possible or realistic due
to cost or other issues, she added.
She cites the former atomic weapons
facility at Orford Ness, Suffolk, man-
aged by the National Trust through a
policy of continued ruination.
Orford Ness is an interesting case
because it shows that we dont always
have to associate ruination with failure
and neglect, she said. Where the pro-
cess of physical decay is going on and
nature is moving in, we can try to see
this in a positive light and ask ourselves
what we can learn from those changes.
She said it cost the National Trust
about 1,500 a week to preserve a site
such as Mullion Harbour in Cornwall.
Phil Dyke, adviser for the National
Trust, said: Were committed to pro-
tecting historic buildings and struc-
tures when it is realistic but at the
same time making sure we understand,
record and celebrate the significance of
those that are most at risk of being lost.
carry on working unpaid
Tom Whipple
Former staff of Kids Company, the
charity that closed in 2015 amid
controversy about how it spent its
funds, are still supporting vulnerable
children unpaid and in their own time.
The youth workers say that they have
struggled to find new jobs because of
the stigma of having worked at the
charity. Stef Pruski, who worked there
for eight years, told The Observer that
she had applied for 150 jobs but had had
only one interview. Another said: Kids
Company used to have someone come
from the jobcentre as a drop-in to give
clients advice. And now were going to
the jobcentre ourselves, in the same sit-
uations we were trying to get our clients
out of . . . People have lost their homes.
People are massively in debt.
However, staff said that they were
continuing to do the work they used to
do, unpaid. If we stopped, wed be
compounding everything they think
already about anyone who comes into
their lives: that they dont really care,
said Ms Pruski.
the times | Monday June 5 2017 2GM
A miraculous
intervention
In a close election, some look for
divine intervention. Jerry Hayes, a
former MP for Harlow, recalls how
Pope John Paul II helped him to
win re-election in 1987 in a
marginal seat. Hayes, a Catholic
with many voters of the same faith,
visited Rome, had his photo taken
with the Pope for his local paper
and then filled his pockets with
rosaries from the Vatican gift shop,
which he distributed to
constituents, telling them that they
had been blessed by John Paul.
I was like some indulgence
seller, he recalls. The trick worked;
Hayes doubled his majority. John
Paul later became a saint, he says.
This was probably his first
miracle.
Jeremy Corbyn has confirmed that
El Gato, his cat, will move into
Downing Street if Labour wins the
general election. That could be fun
for the police outside No 10. El Gato
only comes inside when Corbyn
whistles Tie A Yellow Ribbon, a hit
in 1973 for Tony Orlando and Dawn,
from the doorway. Of course, the
civil service may amend the yellow
ribbon to red tape.
TMS
diary@thetimes.co.uk | @timesdiary
all partied out
Lets mourn the demise of a
once-great political party. Not the
Lib Dems but the Monster Raving
Loony Party, which is fielding only
12 candidates on Thursday. A pity,
since the heirs to Screaming Lord
Sutch, above, have some good
policies, such as making Germany
pay for all treatment of German
measles and Spain for Spanish flu,
renaming Oyster travel cards
Sardines to reflect cramped Tube
carriages and saving council
budgets by only painting yellow
lines in places where you can park.
tourist trap
At the funeral last week of Rhodri
Morgan, the former first minister of
Wales, his daughter, Mari, said that
he was always very keen to pick up
hitchhiking tourists in his camper
van. Its because he had a captive
audience, she said. We never
listened to him and it was an
opportunity to share his knowledge
about Wales. He would give them a
list of 45 must-sees in the two days
they were here. They probably just
wanted a sleep.
Asking children for their opinion can
be a hostage to fortune. Fred ACourt
sent a story from the 1970 general
election when one little boy
enthusiastically told a Labour
canvasser that he wanted Harold
Wilson to win. Asked why, he replied:
Because daddy says that if Wilson
wins were emigrating to Australia.
a bogey remedy
There was not much mirth about
yesterday, for obvious reasons, so
heres an old story I've had up my
sleeve about that perennial medical
conundrum: the placebo. Russell
Harty, the talk show host, used to
take beta-blockers for nerves. He
would wrap a pill in tissue to take
just before filming. Once, however,
he found it had dissolved, leaving
only goo on the tissue. Harty
sucked it in desperation in the hope
that some trace of the drug
remained and immediately felt
calmer and more relaxed. It was
only after the programme that he
felt in his other pocket and found
the tissue with pill intact. His
miracle cure had been some snot.
patrick kidd
Times article solves
missing dog mystery
Jerome Starkey
Britains best-connected pet dog has
been reunited with his owners, thanks
to a story in The Times.
An off-duty policeman recognised
Vincent, a fox red labrador owned by
Matthew Freud, the PR boss, after his
picture was published in Saturdays
paper. The three-year-old dog, valued
at 2,000, had been missing since
May 25, raising fears he had become the
latest victim in a series of thefts of pedi-
gree gundogs across Britain.
The policeman read about Vincent
on his journey home from work and
contacted Mr Freuds family to say he
had spotted the dog at Earls Court, cen-
tral London. Caroline Hutton, Mr
Freuds ex-wife who had been
walking Vincent in Hyde Park
when he disappeared said
the policeman told her he had
tried to catch him, but in vain.
She scoured the streets of
Earls Court for two hours
and was about to give up
when she received a tip that a
member of the public had him
near by. Mr Freud had offered
a 5,000 reward, but Ms
Hutton said no money
changed hands.
A missing poster had
been published on Twitter
Vincents image was
retweeted 2,000 times
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almost 2,000 times after it was picked
up by celebrities, including the singer
Lily Allen and Jeremy Clarkson.
Ms Hutton, 50, said the family was
overjoyed to have Vincent safely home
although where he had been for the
previous ten days remained a mystery.
He had definitely been fed. Someone
had been looking after him. He wasnt
scrawny or smelly, she said. We are all
so happy he is home . The relief and joy
is tremendous. We never gave up hope
and the online community were so sup-
portive we are so grateful to them.
Mr Freud said the dog was a proper
part of the family, and they had been
devastated when he disappeared. He
added that he was newly appreciative
of how good a group of friends we have,
to have been so well supported.
Almost 5,000 dogs were re-
ported stolen in England and
W
Wales from 2013 to 2015, but
campaigners say the real
figure is much higher because
police rarely treat dog thefts as
criminal offences. Owners are
being deliberately targeted for
their breed. We have seen a trend
in the theft of litters, Nik Oak-
ley, of DogLost.co.uk, said.
Five puppies like Vincent
were stolen from a kennel in
Soham, Cambridgeshire, last
year. Their owner, Hazel
Haird, said: I can live with
them being stolen, as long as
they have a happy home.
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ANDREW SHARPE/GEOFF ROBINSON PHOTOGRAPHY; ALAMY

S
ummer will take the southwest and by the are expected to reach normality after an temperature was 9.1C, Dawn at Southwold pier in
Put away the a break today afternoon it is expected about 18mph. Tomorrow unusually warm spring. 1.4C above average. Suffolk heralded a sunny
with wet and to be heavy in London is also expected to be Wales and Northern Forecasters are day yesterday, as did the
sun cream, windy weather and the southeast. damp and chilly, Ireland had their hottest optimistic about the sunrise at Pilsdon Pen,
likely to spread Highs will range from MeteoGroup said. spring since records weekend, however. It Dorset. Dog walkers in
summer is across the country 19C before the rain The outlook suggests a began in 1910 and in could reach 23C in Batheaston, Somerset,
turning nasty (Chris Smyth writes).
Rain will move from
arrives, to 13C
afterwards. Wind speeds
return to Britains
disappointing summer
England only 2011 was
warmer. The average
London on Saturday.
Weather, page 56
made the most of the
weather

Blood test to transform cancer care

Oliver Moody Chicago challenges and say that for now the the most common kinds of tumour to
method is better suited to tracking the Analysis be used by doctors within three to five
Cancer care will be revolutionised by progress of cancers after treatment. years. The tests cost about 775 at

blood tests that can detect relapses
within days and spot tumours in
healthy people up to a decade before
the first symptoms appear, scientists
have said.
The tests can find growths while they
are still as small as a pinhead during
annual NHS check-ups for high-risk
groups such as smokers, the over-50s or
people with a family history of cancer.
This would allow surgeons to operate
early on the patient.
Some researchers claim that the
screening tests could cut the number of
cancer deaths by as much as 40 per cent
in the near term, rising to 90 per cent if
the devices reach maximum sensitivity.
The tests, which are known as liquid
biopsies and flag up tiny fragments of
tumour DNA that leak into the blood-
stream as cancer cells die, could
become a part of routine health checks
within five years, according to one aca-
demic. Others believe that it will take
longer to overcome a host of technical
A
Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos are among nyone who two answers. The first technology. Peter present but that could soon come down
the investors who have poured follows is the tendency to cry Gibbs, of Melbourne to as little as 150. Dr Gibbs envisages
$100 million of funding into Grail, a health wolf. The CA 125 test, University, said that all people over the age of 50 undergoing
Silicon Valley startup that has said it news could for example, wrongly researchers were on cancer screening once a year.
will bring a prototype to market in 2019. be forgiven tells 22 per cent of the brink of a single Bert Vogelstein, professor of oncolo-
A Grail-funded study presented over a niggling twitch of healthy women that DNA test that could gy and pathology at Johns Hopkins
the weekend at the American Society of dj vu (Oliver Moody they have ovarian identify 90 per cent of University and one of the fathers of the
Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual writes). Blood tests cancer. However, the most common liquid biopsy, said: If you could detect
conference showed that a new kind of for prostate and there is evidence that cancers at an early all cancers while they are still localised,
liquid biopsy designed to minimise ovarian cancers have liquid biopsies could stage. This alone you could diminish cancer deaths by 90
false alarms had found 89 per cent of shown great promise deliver false positives could allow tens of per cent. But thats a theoretical figure.
tumours in patients with advanced only to be abandoned significantly less than thousands more The available data suggest that its
lung, breast and prostate cancer. by doctors. 1 per cent of the time. patients a year to be going to take quite a while, and there
Another American company, Guard- Why should the The other reason to cured while their are a lot of obstacles to overcome.
ant Health, has announced a clinical liquid biopsy be any be hopeful is the tumours are small 6 A cancer app that tracks patients
trial that will aim to detect the first hints different? There are versatility of this enough to cut out. symptoms could extend their lives by
of cancer in thousands of patients about five months. Scientists at the Me-
known to have inherited genes that put morial Sloan Kettering cancer centre in
them at risk of the disease. One of the big advantages that liquid is that the technology can pick up only New York found using smartphones to
Findings from a third study at the biopsies may have over other screening 30 to 50 per cent of early-stage cancers alert doctors to problems that patients
conference, led by the Melbourne Uni- tools for cancer is a much lower rate of at present. might not think worth reporting had a
versity, indicated that a much simpler false positives. Several studies suggest Peter Gibbs, a senior bowel cancer re- stronger effect on life expectancy than
version of the test could pick up about that fewer than 0.5 per cent of people searcher who worked on the Melb- some frontline drugs. Similar
50 per cent of early pancreatic cancers would be given a wrong diagnosis by ourne study, said he expected the first technology is being tested in the NHS.
by looking for a single mutation. using the method. The main drawback screening devices capable of detecting Leading article, page 31

Drug combination can double prostate victims life expectancy

Oliver Moody
Giving men with advanced prostate
cancer a testosterone-blocking drug as
a first line of defence could cut their risk
of dying from the disease by more than
a third and double the life expectancy
of some.
Each year more than 46,000 men in
the UK are found to have tumours in
the gland beneath the bladder, and the
disease kills 11,000 people. In about
20,000 of these patients the cancer has
already colonised other parts when it is
identified. At present the standard
treatment is androgen deprivation
therapy (ADT), which starves the
tumour of testosterone and the other
hormones it needs. When ADT stops
working the patients are given abirater-
one, which shuts down the production
of male sex hormones. A trial organised
by Cancer Research UK has shown that
giving men abiraterone at the same
time as ADT cuts the odds of dying over
three years by 37 per cent and the odds
of a relapse by 71 per cent.
Among stage IV patients, whose can-
cers have spread widely by the time
they are diagnosed, the combination
therapy could raise average life expect-
ancies from three and a half years to
seven, researchers said. Nicholas
James, professor of clinical oncology at
the University of Birmingham and the
trials lead scientist, said that the find-
ings would transform the way the
cancer was treated. These are the most
powerful results Ive seen from a
prostate cancer trial, he said at the
American Society of Clinical Oncology
conference in Chicago.
The research involved 1,917 patients
aged 67 on average. Between 2011 and
2014, half were given ADT and half
received abiraterone and ADT. By the
end of the study fewer than one in 20 of
the abiraterone group had relapsed,
compared with a quarter of the ADT-
only group. The drug was discovered at
the Institute of Cancer Research in
London. Paul Workman, the institutes
chief executive, said that it should be
assessed as a treatment of first resort
for advanced prostate cancers.
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Used car batteries
will power homes
Emily Gosden Energy Editor
Old electric vehicle batteries are to be
sold to households to store power in
their homes under plans announced by
Renault.
The company, Europes biggest elec-
tric carmaker, has struck a deal with the
domestic battery provider Powervault
to repurpose old batteries when they
are no longer fit for use in cars.
Powervault said that using the
second life batteries would enable it
to offer home storage for about 3,000,
a 30 per cent discount on new lithium-
ion home batteries, and should boost
take-up.
Only a few thousand UK households
are thought to have installed batteries,
but it is considered a fast-growing
market as technology costs fall.
Batteries are primarily marketed at
households with solar panels to allow
them to store surplus solar power
generated during the day for use when
it is dark, reducing the power they need
to buy from a supplier.
Powervault said customers could cut
electricity bills by up to 35 per cent by
using their spare solar power and also
charging batteries with cheap night-
time economy 7 electricity rates. A typi-
cal large family home with solar panels
could save up to 210 a year, meaning it
would still take at least 15 years to
recoup the battery installation cost.
The Renault-Powervault partner-
ship aims to take advantage of the fact
that the energy requirements of car
batteries are far greater than those for
home storage. Lithium-ion batteries
degrade over time as they are re-
charged, reducing their storage capa-
city. Most car batteries are expected to
have a usable life of eight to ten years.
An old electric vehicle battery that is no
longer good enough for use in a car can
still provide enough capacity to be
turned into two home batteries.
Joe Warren, managing director of
Powervault, said: When the battery
gets down to about 70 or 80 per cent, it
can be reused in a home energy storage
application. Its still got plenty of life left
inside it. The potential drawback is
size, as households are buying a big
partially depleted battery pack rather
than a more compact new one.
The companies are installing the
second life batteries in 50 homes from
this summer in a trial backed by M&S
Energy to check their performance
before launching the product more
widely. Mr Warren said Powervault had
sold about 400 batteries in the UK but
was aiming to sell 30,000 by 2020,
boosted by the Renault deal.
The number of electric vehicle bat-
teries coming to the end of their usable
life is also relatively small, with about
100,000 electric cars on the road in
Britain. Renault, which has sold about
7,400 in the UK and 100,000 across
Europe, said it expected to have up to
20,000 batteries ready for second life
usage by 2020.
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Surge in the
number of
new solicitors
Frances Gibb Legal Editor
The legal profession has expanded with
a huge influx of lawyers over the past
decade, figures from the Law Society
show.
The number of solicitors in England
and Wales in July last year was 175,160,
almost a third more than the total for
2006. Of those, 136,176 had a practising
certificate. The figures show that in
1979 there were 35,770 practising solici-
tors in England and Wales. That rose to
52,399 in 1989, 79,503 in 1999 and
115,475 in 2009.
Women now make up 62 per cent of
the total, compared with 53 per cent ten
years ago; and the number of solicitors
from an ethnic minority background
has doubled in the past 16 years to make
up 16 per cent, or 19,145.
The number of potential recruits is
also on the rise with 15,950 students
graduating with law degrees from
universities in England and Wales last
year up 3 per cent on 2015.
The number of trainees increased
over the same period, with women ac-
counting for 62 per cent of all trainees.
Robert Bourns, president of the Law
Society, said: Increasing diversity is a
powerful force for good and a cause for
celebration. There was still a gender
and ethnicity gap at senior levels, how-
ever, with more than 40 per cent of men
becoming partners, compared with less
Spiky blond A rare leucistic hedgehog that was found severely underweight is than 20 per cent of women and just over
recovering at Tiggywinkles wildlife hospital near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire 20 per cent of ethnic minority solicitors.
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British convert
held by Kurds
after fleeing
Isis stronghold
Tom Whipple
Jack Letts, the 21-year-old British
Muslim convert who is suspected of
going to Syria to help to build an
Islamist state, has escaped from the Isis
stronghold of Raqqa and is now a
prisoner of the Kurdish militia.
Three years after Letts, known as
Jihadi Jack, called his parents who live
in Oxfordshire to tell them he was in
Syria, he has managed to flee Isis-held
areas, apparently after being guided by
resistance fighters across a minefield.
His parents, Sally Lane, 55, a book
editor, and John Letts, 56, an organic
farmer, said that they were elated by
the news which, they said, came after
Letts had become disillusioned with Isis.
We are immensely relieved. Its the
first time weve known that he might
have survived all this, Ms Lane said in
an interview with The Oxford Times.
She and Mr Letts are themselves due
to stand trial after trying to send money
to their son. They say that he requested
it to pay smugglers to help him to
escape, but the transaction was blocked
by the UK government, which feared
that it would go to fund terrorism.
He has been speaking to his parents
from a Kurdish prison cell, where he
said that he wanted to come home to
explain some things to his parents.
Letts, who went to Cherwell School
Jack Letts in Syria. He has rejected Isis
because of its killings and mass rapes
Albert Hall digs deep to Doctors cast doubt on recovery position
find room for performers
Jack Malvern
The Beatles celebrated the cavernous
size of the Royal Albert Hall in their
song A Day in the Life by speculating
that it was the equivalent of 4,000
holes in Blackburn, Lancashire.
The concert halls chief executive has
said that he will be content with one or
two holes as he makes plans for a new
auditorium beneath the existing site.
Craig Hassall, chief executive of the
hall, said that he was investigating the
in Oxford, converted to Islam as a
teenager. In 2014 he went on holiday to
Jordan, but then called his parents to
tell them he had instead travelled to
Syria, to territory held by Isis.
The Mail on Sunday reported that it
had seen messages sent to his parents,
which show that, during his time in
Syria, he became increasingly troubled
by the disconnection between his idea
of an Islamic state and the brutal reality
of murders and mass rape.
His father told the paper that on
receiving these messages he had been
terrified that his son, who was by this
time trying to avoid the Isis secret police,
could be captured and put to death.
There are hundreds of thousands of
people in Raqqa, and so many are in
anguish, so many have been killed.
Worst of all was the thought he could be
tortured. What does Isis do with so-
called apostates? You know the answer,
and all the time I lived with the thought
that they could do this to him, he said.
In more recent messages to his
parents, Letts says that he was indeed
captured, but that the Isis courts re-
leased him because he had not broken
any Islamic laws. I was argumentative
when I was in an Isis prison threatened
with death. I walked out of the Isis court
when the judge annoyed me, and so I
got jumped on by loads of different
people, he said, in claims that cannot
be independently verified.
[I] made it clear to the Isis judge that
I thought he was not a Muslim . . . Ive
been in ten different prisons in a year
and a bit.
Now Mr Letts and Ms Lane, who face
up to 14 years in prison if convicted,
hope that their son can make his way
back to Britain. They said, however,
that the Foreign Office has not yet
provided the assistance it said it would
to help them to achieve this.
A spokeswoman for the Foreign
Office said that it did not have the
resources to search for and help Letts.
The UK advises against all travel to
Syria and parts of Iraq, she said. As all
UK consular services are suspended
in Syria and greatly limited in Iraq,
it is extremely difficult to confirm the
whereabouts and status of British
nationals in these areas.
possibility of a new performance space
in the basement in addition to plans for
a great excavation to provide better
facilities for artists preparing to go into
the main auditorium.
Mr Hassall said that he wanted an
auditorium at the west London venue
that was somewhere between the 5,272-
seater main arena and its Elgar Room,
which has a capacity for 200.
He suggested that he could an-
nounce a start date for such a project in
2021, the 150th anniversary of the hall.
Handstand to restart
heart helps astronauts
solve pressing problem
S
ending a manned tens of millions of miles
mission to Mars of freezing emptiness,
poses some of the sustaining astronauts for
greatest years of isolation (Chris
technological Smyth writes).
challenges humanity has Then, if one of them
ever faced: a spacecraft becomes ill, you have to
must be maintained over do first aid standing on
The recovery position has been a key
part of first aid for decades, but research
suggests that it should no longer be
used after accidents because it can
make it harder for doctors to spot
breathing difficulties.
A study by doctors found that in
nearly half of cases when a patient had
been placed in the position, it took two
minutes or more for experienced first-
aiders to notice that they had stopped
breathing. This could delay life-saving
treatment and reduce the patients
chances of making a full recovery.
The position was brought into British
first aid manuals in the 1950s for use on
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Performing CPR in zero
gravity isnt mission
impossible if the first aider
braces against the ceiling
would simply propel the
first aider through the air.
There is no documented
case of a cardiac arrest in
space, but the question is
not if but a matter of
when, said Jochen
Hinkelbein of the
University Hospital of
Cologne, president of the
German Society for
Aerospace Medicine. In
the future more and more
long-term missions are
planned, for example
flying to Mars.
Several tests have
attempted to find CPR
techniques that work in
zero-gravity simulators,
ranging from first aiders
strapping themselves to
the floor to them giving
the patient a Heimlich-
like reverse bear hug.
Professor Hinkelbein will
tell the Neuroanaesthesia
conference in Geneva
today that there is a clear
winner. A handstand
method, where the first
aider braces their feet
against the ceiling and
pins the patient against
the floor, succeeded in
moving the chest the
required 5cm and
achieving 100
compressions a minute.
Astronauts should
know how to do it, they
should use the best
available [method] and
thats the handstand
but only if you have walls
two metres apart, said
Professor Hinkelbein.
In larger spaces, where
they cannot brace against
walls, astronauts must
revert to what is known
as the Evetts-Russomano
technique. This is where
the patient floats freely
and the other person sits
on their chest. This
method does not give as
your head. Proving that deep a compression, but
space scientists leave
nothing to chance,
does give a higher
number per minute.
astronauts now have the Professor Hinkelbein
answer to the burning
question of how to do
admits that they are yet
to solve the problem of
cardiopulmonary
resuscitation in zero
what to do when
lifesaving treatment fails.
gravity. If youre not successful
CPR is the standard and you have a body you
treatment for someone can store him or freeze
whose heart has stopped. him. The easiest thing to
However, the vigorous do would be to put him
chest compressions into the waste module
needed to restart it are and drop him but
not possible when thats an ethical problem
weightless, as the thrusts not a technical one.
casualties who were unconscious but
breathing normally. It was based on
research from the 1890s that suggested
hindered breathing assessment [and]
delayed breathing arrest identification
and the initiation of cardiac compres-
that lying patients on their sides could sions, Dr Freire-Tellado said.
help to keep their airways open. The researchers recommended lying
Miguel Freire-Tellado, who led the the patient on his or her back, pushing
study in Galicia, Spain, said: The the head back and lifting the chin. This
recovery position may have been useful lifts the tongue away from the back of
prior to the development of the mobile the throat and in the study 85 per cent
phone, and there may still be occasions of first-aiders spotted breathing
when it might be used such as in the problems in less than two minutes.
case of an elevated number of victims, A spokesman for St John Ambulance
or if it is necessary to leave the victim welcomed the research but said: At this
alone. stage we will not be changing any
In the study, however, published in advice around the recovery position as
the journal Resuscitation, the position we feel more evidence is needed.
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Fallon misinterpreted on tax plans

Oliver Wright Policy Editor
The defence secretary was misinter-
preted when he pledged that the Con-
servatives would not raise taxes for the
highest earners under any circumstan-
ces, senior Tories claimed last night.
In an attempt to limit the damage
caused by Sir Michael Fallons remarks
the party released a transcript of the
interview in which he said that the only
way higher income earners taxes
would go up would be if they stayed at
home on Thursday.
Senior sources suggested that Sir
Michael had been referring to Labour
plans to increase taxes on the highest
earners and did not represent a pledge
not to raise taxes under any circum-
stances. In the transcript Mr Fallon said
that the only way you can be sure your
tax will go up, if youre a higher rate tax-
payer, [is] if you stay at home rather
than vote Conservative on Thursday.
But Labour leapt on the confusion
and Jeremy Corbyn claimed that the
Tories were in chaos over their plans.
One minister says theyre going to give
no more tax rises indeed possibly tax
reductions for the very wealthiest, then
they cant answer the question about
tax rises for the rest of the population,
then they cant answer the questions
about funding social care, he said.
John McDonnell, the shadow chan-
cellor, added: The mask has finally
slipped. The only guarantee the Tories
are prepared to give at this election is to
big business and high earners while low
and middle-income earners have seen
no guarantee.
Theresa May said that the partys
position on tax had not changed. She
added: What people will know when
they go to vote on Thursday is that it is
the Conservative Party that always has
been, is and always will be a low-tax
party. It is our firm intention to reduce
taxes for ordinary working families.
The Conservative manifesto makes
no commitment not to raise taxes,
ditching David Camerons controver-
sial pledge in 2015 not to raise the three
main levies: income tax, national insur-
ance contributions or VAT. Abandon-
ing that promise was billed two weeks
ago as a responsible move to give the
government the maximum flexibility
to cope with Brexit uncertainty.
Meanwhile, the Tories cited research
that suggested that ten million homes
with large gardens would be hit by Lab-
our plans for a land value tax to replace
council tax. They said that the majority
of homes affected would be in the
southeast where bills may rise by
4,000. Under Jeremy Corbyns plans
no one escapes Labours intention to
squeeze homeowners dry, Andrew
Percy, the communities minister, said.
Either you are whacked with mas-
sive bills in places where property is
dearer or youll suffer a hike for living in
a part of the country where there is
more space for bigger gardens.
Labour said that they were keen to
DENIS DOWLAND
spend the last few days of the campaign
focusing on their plans to raise taxes to
pay for increased spending on public
services. They said this contrasted with
Tory confusion over whether or not all
income tax would be frozen. Mr
McDonnell hinted that Labour could
cut VAT once Britain left the EU.
The concept of fairness is at the
heart of everything we do. When it
comes to tax it will always be a fair tax
policy, he told The Observer. And if I
can reduce the burden of taxation on
middle and low earners I will do it as we
grow the economy. I will do it. VAT is a
real problem for many people. When
we come out of Europe there is more
flexibility on VAT, particularly in terms
of the lower levels.

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A notice on the artists
No 10 artist an editorial from the
Islington Gazette
of 13,500 paintings and
sculptures for hanging
website said that he
would provide a limited
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eremy Corbyn is
already offering
the country a
radical political
alternative, and if
he becomes prime
minister this week he
could take No 10 into a
more modern artistic
direction (Henry
Zeffman and Jack
Malvern write).
The Labour leader has
hinted that he would
reject the governments
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right, for 80 from a
charity stall at an
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2013. I enjoy abstract
art and Ive got friends
around here who have
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Pollsters split on size of Tory victory Pledged million new homes

Sam Coates Deputy Political Editor
The Conservatives have a lead of
between one and twelve points, accord-
ing to six weekend polls that showed
the industry unable to come to a con-
sensus about the state of the race.
All six suggested that Theresa May
would be returned to Downing Street
on Friday morning but differed on
whether there would be a landslide or a
hung parliament dominated by the
Tories. Tory and Labour campaigners
who have spoken to The Times in recent
days believe that the Tories are on
course for a 50 to 100-seat majority and
reject polls that show a tight race.
The leads predicted for the Tories are
one point from Survation online, four
from YouGov, six from Opinium, nine
from ORB, eleven from ICM and
twelve from ComRes. All were taken
before the terrorist attack in London on
Saturday night and some before Friday
nights BBC Question Time special with
Mrs May and Jeremy Corbyn.
The Tories have between 40 per cent
and 47 per cent of the vote and Labour
Voting intention
YouGov ICM ComRes ORB
C actual housebuilding increase of only
Lab
Apr Apr May
18 28 5 12
has between 34 and 39 per cent. Mrs
Mays rating also slipping below Mr
Corbyns for the first time. A YouGov
poll for The Sunday Times found that
44 per cent think Mr Corbyn is doing
badly, compared with 47 per cent who
think the same of Mrs May.
Colin Rallings and Michael Thrash-
er, directors of the Elections Centre at
Plymouth University, pointed out that
the Tories beat Labour by seven points
is actually only 9,000 a year
50
Henry Zeffman Political Reporter
45
Theresa Mays pledge to build one
40 million homes by 2020 will result in an
35 9,000 properties a year, research has
30 found.
The Conservative Partys commit-
25 ment, which runs from mid-2015 to the
end of 2020, amounts to a housebuild-
20 ing rate of 175,000 properties a year.
May May May June However, the present ten-year average
13 26 04 rate of housebuilding in England is only
slightly smaller, at 166,000 new homes
in the popular vote in 2015 and that any a year.
lead less than that would represent a Mrs Mays plans will cause the hous-
swing away from the Tories to Labour. ing surplus, which is the difference
John Curtice, professor of politics at between the housing stock and the
the University of Strathclyde, said in number of households, to fall by 2022,
The Sunday Telegraph: The odds are according to research by Property Part-
still heavily stacked against Mr Corbyn. ner, a property investment website.
However, a ten-point increase in his Last year England had a housing sur-
partys poll rating . . . could prove suffi- plus of 2.2 per cent, or 504,079 homes.
cient to deny Mrs May the landslide On the rate of housebuilding set out in
majority that she set out to achieve. the Conservative manifesto and the
rate of household growth projected by
the Office for National Statistics
(ONS), the surplus would fall to 1.4 per
cent by 2022 and enter deficit in 2025.
London has had a housing shortfall
since 2014.
The manifesto also promises an extra
500,000 homes by 2022.
In the Labour Partys manifesto,
Jeremy Corbyn promised one million
more homes by the end of 2022,
amounting to 200,000 homes a year, an
increase of 34,000 a year on the present
rate of building.
The Liberal Democrats have pledged
a housebuilding rate of 300,000 homes
a year by 2022.
Mark Weedon, head of research at
Property Partner, said: The housing
market is broken, there are not enough
homes and despite both of the UKs
major parties stated ambitions to tack-
le the housing crisis, their manifesto
plans fall short given the scale of the
problem.
the times | Monday June 5 2017 2GM
Living it up
in retirement:
the flat with
built-in care
Greg Hurst Social Affairs Editor
Apartments next door sell for up to
7 million. Many share commanding
views of the River Thames and have
similar luxury furnishings within.
However, residents at a new develop-
ment in central London will have
amenities that their millionaire next-
door neighbours simply wont: on-site
care assistance around the clock.
Welcome to Bankhouse, which
opens next month and is staking a
claim to be one of Britains most sought-
after and forward-looking retirement
communities.
Its prime location means residents
will be a short stroll from the Oval, the
Imperial War Museum and, just across
the river, Tate Britain, with the South
Bank and its cultural attractions a
25-minute walk away.
Should age catch up with them they
will be able to call on a carer to check on
their wellbeing, get them up and about,
order and collect medication and help
with social activities to counter the risk
of isolation.
On-site care is part of the package
offered to residents who move into this
shared-ownership development, pro-
vided by One Housing, a specialist care
provider.
Extra care services are available at
extra cost, such as dressing, bathing,
Dealer accused of stealing masterpieces loses extradition fight
A Mayfair art dealer faces trial in the
United States after losing his extradi-
tion battle over allegations that he stole
$10 million of masterpieces by artists
including Pablo Picasso, Henry Moore
and Marc Chagall from wealthy clients.
Timothy Sammons, 61, a former dir-
ector of Sothebys in New York, is ac-
cused of selling valuable artwork for
four women, but never giving them the
money. He faces 14 US charges of grand
using the lavatory and acting as a com-
panion for a short walk or to attend a
social event.
Housekeeping services such as
cleaning, laundry, ironing and shop-
ping are also available on demand.
The 36 flats are being built and subsi-
dised by St James, a subsidiary of the
high-end developer Berkeley Group, as
a condition for approval to build three
towers of private apartments on the
site. This includes The Corniche, where
the cheapest flat costs 3.6 million
and penthouses are marketed at
22 million.
One and two-bedroom apartments
in the Bankhouse, where prices range
from 565,000 to 870,000, are
reserved for people age 55 and over,
who no longer work and who do not
own another property.
Residents will be able to buy a share
of up to 75 per cent, and pay no rent on
the remaining 25 per cent, which will be
subsidised by the developer. A purchas-
er who buys a 60 per cent share will also
have 25 per cent rent-free and pay rent
on the balance of 15 per cent.
An annual fee of 0.75 per cent of the
purchase price will pay for the core
on-site care package, while the addi-
tional care and housekeeping services
will cost about 19 an hour.
The building has communal facilities
including a floating garden on the
larceny and one of scheming to
defraud. The maximum sentence for
grand larceny is 25 years.
The criminal indictment follows
years of civil proceedings in the High
Court and US courts as his clients
attempted to recover their money.
Mr Sammons was declared bankrupt
in January, had his passport confiscated
and his 4 million home in Primrose
Hill, north London, repossessed after
Residents of Bankhouse, in a prime London location, will pay an annual fee for a
standard care package but can buy extra services such as a walking companion
first floor between the tower and its
illustrious neighbour. There is also a
restaurant and bar, and a lounge for
coffee mornings, clubs and activities in-
cluding, inevitably and perhaps reas-
suringly, bingo.
It is seeking to appeal to a generation
in their mid-fifties and sixties who
might have sold their family home and
moved to a comfortable, if a little torpid
and isolated, retirement on the south
he defaulted on loans. Contesting the
US attempt to extradite him, Mr Sam-
mons claimed that his right to a family
life would be severely disrupted under
Article 8 of the Human Rights Act
because of the financial and emotional
support he gave his family.
His lawyer, Aaron Watkins, told the
court: I accept this is potentially in
excess of a $10 million US fraud.
Mr Sammons, a trained solicitor, set
coast or in the West Country and
perhaps subsequently into a residential
care.
We have had a lot of interest in it,
Kay Mistry, sales adviser at Site Sales,
which is marketing the flats, said. It is
for people who want a more dynamic
life and to get a boost of energy from
being in a vibrant area near museums,
galleries and shows but who have care
when they need it.
up his own fine art agency in 1995 after
running the Sothebys Chinese art dep-
artment. He brokered the sale of John
Singer Sargents painting Cashmere to
the Bill Gates Foundation for a record
6.7 million in 1996.
He told the court that contracts with
clients were not specific over when
they had to be paid by and added that
there had never been a criminal invest-
igation into himself or his businesses in
25
News
Rebus and
case of the
tweeting
novelist
David Sanderson Arts Correspondent
Ian Rankin has confessed that his writ-
ing speed is slowing down and attrib-
uted it partly to the demands made on
authors to promote themselves on
social media.
Britains most popular crime novelist,
who created the Inspector Rebus series,
said writers had to spread themselves
a lot thinner to maintain high public
profiles.
Rankin, 57, who published his first
Rebus novel in 1987, retreats to Cromar-
ty, in northeast Scotland, when panic
sets in as a deadline approaches.
There is no wifi, no mobile phone
signal, no telephone, no TV and I just
start writing, he told the Hay Festival.
I am slowing down . . . and I am not the
only writer finding this. After a couple
of pages I am knackered and I have to
take a break, have a cup of tea, do the
crossword and try again.
He used to be able to submit two nov-
els a year, writing between 15 and 20
pages a day, but a good day now
would be six pages.
Part of the problem might be
that . . . we are being asked to do social
media, we are being asked to go on tour,
to do Facebook pages, Q&As, more
interviews, invited on to radio pro-
grammes and TV documentaries. The
notion of locking yourself away
and writing all day has pretty much
gone.
The explosion in the number of liter-
ary festivals and publishers insist-
ence that writers attend had eaten
dramatically into writing time. Rankin
said that if he was given 12 months to
deliver a book, the first six would largely
be taken up promoting his previous
novel.
He said, however, that compared to
literary novelists I think I still put in a
fair days work, adding: I wont get
away with saying it will take me ten
years to write a book. Ten years? Nine
years in a pub.
He drew a comparison with the in-
dustry of the past when he said publish-
ers were like gentlemans clubs and, if
one or two writers were making money,
the publisher was happy to carry a
stable of writers who did not because
they liked them.
Rankin also revealed his frustration
when his novels are translated into
American English. They take out the
local colour, little linguistic things.
Fleshmarket Close, they changed to
Fleshmarket Alley, because Americans
will not understand what a close is.
The novelist, who has sold more than
20 million Rebus books, said that he
would this summer identify the pub-
lishers who rejected his first novel.
Letters from five companies declining
Knots & Crosses will form part of an
exhibition celebrating three decades of
the Edinburgh detective.
the UK. District Judge Mike Snow dis-
missed the arguments against extradi-
tion. He said: The seriousness of the
allegations and the public interest in
honouring this countrys international
obligations satisfies me that . . . extra-
dition is not incompatible with their
Article 8 rights.
Mr Sammons has 14 days to appeal
before the home secretary decides
whether to extradite him.
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Rich investors keep the
young off the land
Libby Purves
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We wobbled in 1987 too but look at us now
Anxiety was the backdrop to the election 30 years ago yet prosperity has soared since and the same will happen again
Matt
Ridley
@mattwridley
A
gainst the background of
a terrorist campaign, a
Tory government under a
determined woman was
cruising towards an easy
victory against a socialist Labour
party in a June election, but
stumbling badly in the campaign. It
was a dangerous world, with an
impulsive American president and
an undemocratic Russia and China.
There was a funding crisis in the
NHS and dire warnings of global
environmental disaster: yes, this was
1987, the year of Margaret Thatchers
third election victory and of the
Enniskillen bombing, shortly after,
which killed 12 and injured 63.
Neil Kinnocks Labour manifesto
of 1987 reads very like Jeremy
Corbyns: in favour of nationalised
utilities and more money for the
NHS, against nuclear missiles. The
two manifestos said this general
election on June 11 faces the British
people with choices more sharp than
at any time in the past 50 years
(1987), and what makes this election
different is that the choice is starker
than ever before (2017).
In the case of 1987 we know what
happened next. The British people
were embarking on a period of
prosperity unprecedented in their
history, belying the competing
pessimisms of the parties campaigns.
Over the past three decades, per
capita GDP has almost doubled in
real terms from 18,033 to 28,488
(in 2016). In 1987 Britains GDP per
1GM
capita was lower than that of both
Italy and France. Today it is higher
than both.
Despite an increase in population,
an increase in women working and
the loss of old-style jobs to
automation, the employment rate in
Britain is higher today, at 75 per cent,
than it was then, at 69 per cent. Then,
1987 was considered a boom time but
unemployment was 10.6 per cent,
compared with 4.6 per cent today.
Compared with three decades ago,
hourly wages are up, manufacturing
production up, working hours down,
food and clothing prices down. The
tax threshold is much higher, the top
tax rate lower and more of the
countrys tax is paid by the richest few
per cent. Income inequality is about
the same. London has gone from
sleepy commercial backwater to the
worlds financial centre. Its cuisine is
unrecognisably transformed.
These are extraordinary changes
for the better. There is more. There
are twice as many university places
None of this promising
possibility was in the
manifestos of the day
today. In those three decades,
Britains carbon dioxide emissions
have declined from ten to seven
tonnes per capita. Although there
are nearly twice as many cars on the
road, more than twice as many rail
passengers and more than three
times as many air passengers, the air
is much cleaner today.
NHS expenditure has more than
trebled since 1987 in real terms. Life
expectancy has increased from 75 to
82 years. Age-adjusted
cardiovascular death rates among
women have halved, as has
age-adjusted lung cancer mortality
among men. The number of crimes
in the Crime Survey for England and
Wales (excluding fraud) has halved.
And I have not started on the
improvements in technology. A
mobile telephone in 1987 weighed 1.5
kilograms, cost 2,000 (5,000 in
todays money) and had half an hour
of battery life after ten hours of
charging. There was no internet
outside a few institutions; the search
engine had not been invented, let
alone email or social media. Air
travel cost more than double what it
does today, telephone calls even
more than that.
My point is that none of this
promising possibility merited a
mention in the manifestos of the day.
There were no competing visions of
making Britain great, to borrow a
phrase. Instead, the discourse then as
now was dominated by doom and
gloom about the future.
It was in 1987 that Gro Harlem
Brundtland, the former Norwegian
prime minister, released her
eponymous report to the United
Nations on environment and
development. She warned: This
greenhouse effect may by early next
century have increased average
global temperatures enough to shift
agricultural production areas, raise
sea levels to flood coastal cities, and
disrupt national economies. She
warned that the deserts were
advancing, forests were disappearing,
acid rain was devastating ecosystems
and the ozone layer was in trouble
to such an extent that the number
of human and animal cancers would
rise sharply and the oceans food
chain would be disrupted.
None of which happened, partly
because action was taken but mostly
because the scares were wildly
overblown. Deserts have been
retreating for years now, partly
thanks to global greening caused by
Comment
GETTY IMAGES
Users of 1.5kg mobiles in 1987 would
not believe the scale of innovation since
higher levels of carbon dioxide. The
net rate of forest loss has fallen to
approximately zero according to the
UN Food and Agriculture
Organisation. Sea-level rise has been
modest. The number of people living
in extreme poverty more than
halved. Famine largely disappeared.
Population growth rates have fallen
steeply.
So imagine now looking back
from 30 years hence, in 2047. We
may all have been incinerated by
asteroids or war. If Jeremy Corbyns
socialism comes to power this week,
we may have become the worlds
basket case, like todays Venezuela
or Cuba. (Chvez showed us that
there is a different and a better way
of doing things, Mr Corbyn said
when Hugo Chvez died; he called
Fidel Castro a champion of social
27
justice when that homophobic
brute died.)
But the overwhelming probability
is that by 2047 there will have been a
vast improvement in living
standards, opportunities and
knowledge, and that Britain will have
enjoyed more than its fair share of
this thanks to its language, its law, its
science, its open economy and its
decision to leave a protectionist and
dirigiste Brussels regime to become a
Many of the problems
that preoccupy us
will have been solved
global champion of free trade. With
the likely exception of our ballooning
2 trillion national debt, many of the
problems that preoccupy us today
will have been solved or ameliorated.
If we are steadfast and sensible, the
Islamist terrorists will eventually fail
just as the Irish nationalists did.
And this will have come about, not
because of what politicians promise
to do to the country, but because of
what a law-abiding and free people
can achieve and do for each other
through enterprise, innovation and
exchange. The reason that Theresa
May has stumbled so badly in this
campaign is because she has failed to
set out an optimistic vision of mutual
prosperity creation in a liberal
society, and has instead allowed
herself to be drawn into a
mean-spirited, zero-sum bidding war
funded by taxation.
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Internment is not the answer to jihadism
Setting up a British version of Guantanamo Bay would be a PR gift to our extremist enemies
Clare
Foges
@CLAREFOGES
T
he pattern is established.
Breaking news; the sinking,
familiar feeling. Statements
from senior police and
politicians. The defiance;
Keep Calm and Carry On
repurposed for the occasion. The
candle-lit vigils, the flowers, the faces
of the dead.
Increasingly, there is a new part of
the pattern: those who rail against the
pattern itself who demand that
instead of weeping, mourning, candle-
lighting and flower-laying we have
Action This Day. They scorn the
inadequacy of the words spoken by
politicians. They sneer at the poems
read. They hate the we all stand
together stuff. Cue Nigel Farage
yesterday: We want real action from
our leaders, not more hand-wringing.
As to what that action might be,
we are often low on specifics. But in
recent weeks, since the Manchester
attack and with increasing
urgency since Saturday an old
word has been exhumed: internment.
Last week Tarique Ghaffur,
assistant commissioner at Scotland
Yard at the time of 7/7, called for
internment camps where extremists
would be made to go through a
deradicalisation programme. Ukip
leader Paul Nuttall has said, regarding
internment, that nothing should be
Melanie Reid Notebook
We cant all
switch to the
high-tech
spin cycle
Y
ou are only as old as your
technological capabilities.
In an attempt to stay
young, I submit myself to a
tutorial from my son on
how to obtain music online. He even
bought me a little wireless speaker to
play it through.
I get it. At least I think I do. Ive
nervously downloaded two albums,
which I keep forgetting to play, but
Im totally confused by the myriad
different ways of paying. With the
set-up I have, apparently, I will be
charged a small monthly amount
after three free months but Im
only renting the tunes; I dont own
them. Which I suppose has a certain
youthful symbolism.
Actually, these are landmark
conversations. I remember trying to
explain to my parents the benefits of
an automatic washing machine. They
were quite happy with their twin tub.
It worked perfectly well; the labour-
saving revolution was unnecessary. A
off the table. Farage said yesterday
that the calls for internment will
grow. Social media is alive with calls
to lock people up without trial.
How seductive is this idea, that we
can with surgical precision remove
the nasty elements from our streets
and surround them with barbed wire.
Admittedly, my first instinct is to
sympathise. Arguments about civil
liberties and Magna Carta seem
dripping wet when set against the
misery these people could cause. I
think of Joseph Conrads words in
The Secret Agent, of the terrorist
walking frail, insignificant, shabby,
miserable and unseen and wish
every frail, insignificant, shabby,
miserable jihadi sympathiser locked
up, with unapologetic unconcern for
their human rights. I am all in favour
of the un-PC and unpalatable
solution as long as it actually works.
But ask more questions of the idea
In Northern Ireland,
internment increased
violence dramatically
of internment and it falls apart. Who
would we actually intern? MI5 has
revealed that as well as the 3,000
suspected jihadis who are currently
on the radar, a further 20,000
individuals have been subjects of
interest in recent years. Leaving
aside the logistics and eye-watering
expense, what is the threshold for
interning one of these people? A
social media post railing against
western foreign policy? Mumblings
in favour of freedom fighters in the
Arab world? Other than the evidence
tumble drier? Unthinkable. It turns
out quite a few friends had the same
twin tub conversation. There was a
common theme: the fathers resisted
them, sometimes unto death, and the
mothers, once theyd used an
automatic, couldnt believe how
miraculous they were. Funny, that.
Given the speed of change, I cant
even begin to imagine what our
children will resist when their turn
comes.
Buyers beware
N ot everything happening in the
US is gloomy. Thanks to a
court ruling over a green tea-
flavoured beverage, the pitiless old
legal doctrine of caveat emptor let
the buyer beware could be
making a comeback.
Ive always rather enjoyed the
frisson of caveat emptor: teetering on
the edge of a decision from which
there is no comeback, testing your
nerve, trusting your instinct. Are
you absolutely sure? Do you really
want this?
After decades of being cotton-
woolled by consumer law, we dont
think like that any more.
Purchasing is easy, risk-
free, thoughtless:
you thump the
buy now button
safe in the
knowledge you
can always send it
necessary to bring someone to trial,
what form of words means we can
lock someone up?
Once we have determined this
threshold and rounded up hundreds
or thousands of these men, is it a
wise idea to put them together in a
confined space, to concentrate and
inflame their toxic beliefs, given that
we know radical ideas in prison are
as infectious as MRSA in hospitals?
Would they come out with new
networks and grievances or would
we keep them in there indefinitely?
Most importantly, what impact
would internment have on
recruitment to the cause? Here we
would be wise to learn the lessons of
history specifically our history in
Northern Ireland. Operation
Demetrius began on the morning of
August 9, 1971, with dawn raids and
doors battered down to round up and
intern 342 people with suspected
links to the IRA. There followed an
eruption of protests and riots.
Violence increased dramatically,
from 34 conflict-related deaths in the
first seven months of the year, to 22
in the three days after. Internment
failed to quell the terrorists, instead
rallying foot soldiers and donations
to the IRAs cause. One officer in the
Royal Marines reflected that
Operation Demetrius increased
terrorist activity, perhaps boosted
IRA recruitment, polarised further
the Catholic and Protestant
communities and reduced the ranks
of the much-needed Catholic
moderates. Do we need any further
grievances to fuel the fire?
Of course, we shouldnt avoid
anything that would be effective
merely because our enemies might
back. Very few purchases remain
genuinely your responsibility only
horses, in fact, which have been a
trap for the unwary for millennia,
and old houses.
Last month in the Northern District
of California court, Swearingen v
Healthy Beverage reintroduced the
idea that maybe we shouldnt be so
bone idle about buying stuff. Mary
Swearingen and Robert Figy were
health-conscious consumers who
didnt want added sugars.
The Steaz green tea product they
purchased had
evaporated cane
juice (ECJ) on the
label, ie sugar.
The plaintiffs, in
alleged
ignorance of this,
bought
the
call it a provocation. But the main
argument against internment is that
there are more effective and less
inflammatory tools we could use.
For instance, we could reintroduce
control orders, which were foolishly
repealed in 2011 and replaced by
TPIMs (terrorism prevention and
investigation measures). Control
orders were far more restrictive than
TPIMs in several respects. Suspects
could be placed under curfew for 16
hours a day. Their access to mobile
phones could be limited and internet
access banned. They could be barred
from associating with certain people.
All this provoked outcry from the
civil liberties brigade and the Lib
Dems, who claimed a great victory in
introducing the softer TPIMs. While
control orders were open-ended,
TPIMs last only two years. While
control orders needed only suspicion
of involvement in terrorism, TPIMs
require reasonable belief. Beefed-up
control orders should be reinstated.
Through effective electronic tagging
and heavily restrictive conditions,
these could have similar outcomes
to internment containing and
constraining thousands of suspect
individuals but without
the PR coup for Isis of a British
Guantanamo Bay.
In the wake of barbarity we can all
sympathise with the urge to take
tough action, but that action should
aim to take the heat out of the
situation, not turn it up. It should aim
to identify, constrain and where
possible deradicalise these people
long term, not recruit more people to
the cause. We are clearly in for a
long, wearying and brutal fight but
internment will never help us win it.
drink, then claimed they were misled.
The judge, however, dismissed the
action on the grounds that the
companys website explained what
ECJ was and the plaintiffs
acknowledged they may have
read that.
Sugar masquerading as ECJ is a
favourite trigger for US litigation,
with scores of class actions winning
compensation for misinformation.
But is the mood changing? Legal
commentators suggest that the
information age, where everything
can be Googled, shifts the burden of
responsibility towards the buyer.
Reading the leaves
T alking of tea, I am being
educated in a different way. A
recent imaginative gift I
received was a monthly delivery of a
vintage Penguin classic with a sachet
of interesting tea.
Month one was a 1960 edition of
Lady Chatterleys Lover, which must
have been owned by someone
cosmopolitan because it failed to
fall open at the dirty bits, along
with some lapsang souchong
butterfly tea.
Month two was a 1959 copy of
The Little Flowers of Saint Francis:
with five considerations on the sacred
stigmata, and some Ti Kuan Yin iron
goddess tea.
From sins of the flesh to sainthood.
I await month three with curiosity.
1GM Monday June 5 2017 | the times
Corbyns promises
to under-25s are
nothing but a con
Charlotte Gill
I
s there anything Jeremy Corbyn
wont do to entice young people?
Whether its promising
7.5 billion for university
education, appearing with grime
stars on Snapchat, or suggesting to
readers of the NME that existing
student debt can be eradicated, it
seems theres nothing the Labour
leader will not say in order to win
the under-25 vote.
All of this has made him look very
altruistic indeed, many of my
peers now think of him as a
millennial messiah, with his
outrageous pledges to make life
easier, most of which are not
properly costed in the partys
manifesto and would have hideous
effects on the economy. They are
particularly taken with his peace-
and-love stance on nuclear weapons,
which would work perfectly if we
were living in the non-violent world
it presupposes.
Young people really should be
more cynical about Corbyn; after all,
Labours campaign
shows how stupid it
thinks the young are
he is cynical about them. As
everyone knows, come election time
under-25s are the worst group at
showing up to vote. This isnt for any
profound reason: some young people
are, as Catherine Tate would put it,
simply not bovvered about politics
and may not even know who
Theresa May is, let alone be able to
make educated choices about her or
her rivals.
The left, which can only win by
exploiting their ignorance, therefore
sets about trying to buy them with
gimmicks, whether its Snapchat
videos or promises of student
funding that dont stack up.
Far from showing that Labour
supports young people, its campaign
demonstrates how stupid it thinks
many of them are, while positioning
itself as the good parent at the
hustings. Worse still are Labours
faux concerns over democracy: we
twentysomethings are told
repeatedly that your vote matters,
implying that everyones views are
respected. But how true is that if you
like the look of Paul Nuttall?
If the party really wanted more
under-25s to be talking about politics
it would spend the years before
elections educating them, not trying
to bribe them at the last minute. But
if every young person was truly
clued-up about politics, it would
actually be destructive to the lefts
aims, as knowledge breeds
ideological diversity (and makes you
better at sums, too).
In short, if the young were
properly engaged, more under-25s
would be voting Conservative.
Charlotte Gill is a freelance writer
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Rich investors keep the young off the land
Getting a foothold on the farming ladder is as difficult as buying a house, thanks to tax breaks that have helped prices soar
Libby
Purves
@lib_thinks
D
rive round rural Britain in
election season and your
teeth are set on edge by
political posters alongside
the lanes. While normal
citizens have only front windows,
gateposts or the backs of cars from
which to advertise their preference,
farmers and landowners whack up
enormous hoardings endorsing some
smug-faced local candidate.
No need to spell out which two
parties are usually the beneficiaries;
but even if they happen to be your
favourites there is something galling
about it. It drills right down to
atavistic feelings about land
ownership. You start channelling the
peasants revolt or muttering the
17th-century rhyme against the
enclosures: They hang the man and
flog the woman/Who steals the
goose from off the common,/But let
the greater villain loose/Who steals
the common from the goose. How
dare anybody own the actual earth?
The dust we are born of and return
to? This land is your land, this land is
my land. . .
Of course all freehold
householders do own a patch, or
share it with a mortgagor. But this is
generally on a smallish footprint, tied
up with the acceptable idea of
privacy and home. The idea of
thousands upon thousands of acres,
whole vistas and valleys, being held
by one wealthy family or individual
has always grated. You could argue
that even the 17th-century
enclosures had some merit, fostering
benign farming, and that in any age
a degree of protection is perfectly
reasonable for growing crops or
livestock. Yet really big estates stir up
the revolting peasant in all of us.
It is not just old ducal
families who sit on
thousands of acres
Who does not hate encountering a
harsh private sign in what seems
like the wild, finding a footpath
closed or encountering the full get
orf my land treatment?
Within reason and decorum I
submit that this bolshieness, hyped
up in election times, is a healthy
instinct. Owning a landscape is not
the same as owning a top hat, or
indeed a house. So it was interesting
to note remarks by the farmer and
TV presenter Adam Henson at the
Hay festival, regretting the buying up
of farmland by pop stars, film stars
and hedge fund managers. This
land-grab, he points out, makes it
very difficult for younger people to
get securely into farming (the average
age of active farmers is now 59).
It is not just old ducal families who
sit on thousands of acres: alongside
the pop stars and financiers, Henson
cites Sir James Dyson, who owns
over 25,000 acres of England (as
much as the Dukes of Bedford and
Marlborough put together) and is
said to be looking for another 20,000.
Big landowners do use tenant
farmers to run their estates but often
on short-term tenancies, so they
have less incentive to care for soil
quality or landscape in the long term.
Sometimes, of course, the big owners
are exemplary guardians of the
environment (often because of
country sports, but thats another can
of worms). Sometimes they are
innovative farmers. Dyson at least
has said he would look at
experiments with robotics to improve
the industry.
But the elephant in the room, the
awkward pachyderm no
urban-minded election manifesto
ever mentions, is that people buying
up farmland are often mere investors
and exceptionally pampered ones
at that. Since the mid-2000s, prices
have risen sharply: we bought a
smallholding (40 acres) in 1990 for
my husbands quixotic and
fascinating retro-farming experiment
with horses and organics, and sold
house and land at the millennium for
the same price we paid originally.
Fair enough. Since then, prices for
arable land at least have shot up
sixfold, and it would have been
absurd for us to try it. But even in
This is the rustic
version of buy-to-let,
only with a tax bonus
1990 traditionally minded people
would say Always buy land if you
can, theyre not making any more of
it. So agents and accountants smiled
on farmland investments, and now
these have indeed beaten the FTSE
100 index hollow.
But when I said that these
investors are pampered, get this:
whatever their status, wherever they
actually live, however unspecked
their designer wellies, they are
allowed to pass it all on free of gift or
inheritance tax (IHT).
Thats the golden ticket. If you
have owned and occupied farmland
for two years or rented it to others
for seven, you escape IHT. As long as
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it has been growing crops or
coppiced woodland, rearing animals
(including racehorses), or locked in
to a habitat scheme, it escapes that
tax, as well as possibly earning
subsidies. The attraction for wealthy
investors is obvious, and so is the
effect of their intervention on the
dramatic rise in prices which
excludes young people who want a
career on the land. In parallel with
their big-city cousins looking for
flats, they cant get a foot on the
ladder because richer, older people
are either sticking to absurdly large
tracts or indulging in landlording:
the rustic version of buy-to-let, only
with a tax bonus.
The original reason for the law is
obvious: if swingeing IHT was
imposed every time an old farming
couple died, some land would need
to be sold each time and viable-sized
farms would fragment into tiny units
that dont pay. But the universal
privilege, lingering on unquestioned
in an age of cynical investment and
applied to immense acreages, is hard
to justify. Certainly there are good
landowners: generous and
thoughtful, creative, environmentally
responsible, public-spirited and
treating the land as a sacred trust.
But no difference is made between
them and the artful tax-dodgers for
whom a field is just another share
certificate. Is that fair?
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Letters to the Editor
The world view
Sir, Today marks the 70th anniversary
of the speech made at Harvard
University by US Secretary of State
George Marshall. In its profundity,
humanity and clarity, it surely ranks
as one of the worlds greatest
diplomatic texts. It gave rise to the
European Recovery Programme, an
illustration without precedent of co-
operative European endeavour, made
possible by far-sighted US and
Canadian generosity.
I hope the text of General
Marshalls speech will be readily
available when the G20 leaders
gather next month under German
chairmanship, and in the warmth of
German hospitality, in the famously
outward-looking city of Hamburg. I
hope likewise that appropriate
attention will be given to the Berlin
Declaration, issued jointly by the
European Council, the European
Parliament and the European
Commission on March 25, 2007, the
50th anniversary of the signature of
the Treaty of Rome. It can be said to
record an extraordinary and vastly
reassuring fulfilment of the
aspirations of the European Recovery
Programme.
The parameters of international
involvement have become more
complex but they have not
fundamentally changed. We should
be neither surprised nor concerned if,
from time to time, expression of
democratic opinion by ballot box
occasions changes in the style of
collective management of that
involvement.
sir peter marshall
London W8
Shifting Venice
Sir, You report the problems
occasioned by increased tourism to
Italy and the proposals for turnstiles
in St Marks Square, Venice, for the
management of crowds (News, June
1). Some years ago, John Julius
Norwich suggested that Venice might
be reconstructed on the mainland.
True aficionados could continue to
travel to the city and imbue the
perfume of the canals and the
crumbling ambience, while the
tourists might experience the
architectural splendour without the
discomforts. Time for a review?
g franco
London, WC2A
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Brexit reversal and the general election
Sir, Thank God for Matthew Parris
(May has my vote but only with
gritted teeth, Comment, June 3). We
are geographically, historically,
economically and culturally
European. We cannot escape from
Europe. Only the old can now
remember the terrible consequences
of war in Europe and its aftermath.
The EU is not perfect. It is not a
truly federal union, like the US, and
will not be so for decades, perhaps
never. But it has been successful for
60 years in enabling differences
within Europe, particularly between
France and Germany, to be resolved
by negotiation and agreement, not by
war, and in strengthening the
influence of Europe in todays wider
world. We should be part of it.
The consequences of Brexit for
Britain are already becoming
apparent: slower growth, damaging
uncertainties for industry, commerce
and finance, and in the longer term a
weaker and less prosperous Britain.
The benefits of Brexit are
unpredictable and uncertain a
theoretical, but probably in practice
illusory, recovery of sovereignty.
Most of our young people voted to
Remain; it is they who will pay the
long-term price of Brexit. Where are
the political leaders, the statesmen
and women, who will have the
wisdom and the courage to say not,
We have taken a decision; lets get on
with it, for better or worse, but We
Supporting Prevent
Sir, Nazir Afzal is to be congratulated
for the clarity with which he defends
Prevent, Britains world-leading
counter-radicalisation strategy
(Muslims are offered a cause to die
for Id give them something to live
for, Saturday Interview, June 3).
Afzal is right to highlight that much
of the controversy around the
strategy is the result of a concerted
campaign by a small but vocal fringe
that wrongly characterises Prevent as
an attack on Muslims. Exaggerated
stories of Prevent referrals
standard safeguarding procedures
have been peddled by some of the
groups Afzal identified and are often
reported uncritically by elements
within the British media.
Widespread claims that the strategy
marginalises communities, however,
on this day june 5, 1917
THE UNITED
STATES AND
THE WAR
Today ten million citizens of the
United States are summoned by
their country to register as soldiers
in the cause of freedom. The
Germans have been working hard to
prevent them from answering the
call. Demonstrations against the law
and its enforcement have been
organized and financed, but the
result has been to fill real
Americans, who include many
millions of German origin, with
are on the verge of making a dire
historic mistake; lets put it right
before its too late?
robert armstrong
House of Lords
Sir, Matthew Parriss piece reveals, at
least in part, why voters are
disillusioned with politics and
politicians. As he says, about 490 MPs
backed Remain and only 158 backed
Leave, while the electorate was split
52 per cent to 48 per cent the other
way hardly a ringing endorsement
of representative democracy.
david watson
Waterlooville, Hants
Sir, Matthew Parris is correct to
assert that Remainers should not
accept that the argument that the UK
should stay in the EU is lost.
Is the EU a corrupt, inefficient,
sclerotic, bureaucratic, arrogant
panjandrum? Undoubtedly. Has it
succeeded in keeping the major
European nations at peace for over 70
years, brought stability and prosperity
to its members, fostered democracy in
the former Warsaw Pact countries
and partially checked Russian
expansion? Absolutely.
It needs reform to restrict
economic migration, restore border
integrity and curb foolish ambitions
for greater federalism. But who is best
placed to lead the push for these
reforms other than the UK?
are belied by Policy Exchange
research showing that British Muslim
communities are in fact generally
supportive of government
intervention to tackle extremism.
Amber Rudds stated intention to
strengthen Prevent should be
supported by all those who are
serious in their desire to challenge
extremism of all kinds within our
society.
hannah stuart
Co-Head of Security and Extremism,
Policy Exchange
Myths recycled
Sir, Sheila Taylor perpetuates the
myth that cyclists dont belong on the
road (Two-wheel trouble, Letters,
June 3). The police have no way of
enforcing the use of cycle tracks
because no such law exists.
disgust at the disloyal movement.
The Pan-German League laboured
with all its strength against the very
conception of international
relationships which Americans most
highly prize, and which is the ideal
aim of President Wilsons foreign
policy. The Balfour Mission has
helped to open the eyes of many
Americans as to the true significance
for mankind of a German victory or
a German peace, but the Germans
themselves have taught the lesson,
and continue to teach it best.
Effective military help, it seems,
may be expected earlier than was
supposed. That will be a bitter
disappointment to the Germans who
have been assured that American aid
could not reach the Allies until the
conflict had been decided, just as
they were again and again
comforted by assurances that in no
circumstances could a British
conscript army be trained and
equipped in time.
It is now probable, our
Washington Correspondent tells us,
that General Pershings
Expeditionary Force will be
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The solution is for the government
to table an alternative proposal,
whereby in return for an EU
commitment to implement the
reforms we require within a five-year
timescale, we would hold a second
referendum on membership.
anthony h ratcliffe
London W1K
Sir, The prime ministers contribution
on Brexit has done little to raise the
quality of the debate above the banal.
Grand aspirational statements
address none of the crucial issues. She
makes much of achieving a
successful Brexit without telling us
what that might look like.
For a retired scientist such as
myself who was funded by and took
part in several European projects,
Brexit will always be a failure. I saw at
first hand that being part of the
European project enabled us to bring
together the best scientists from
around Europe and take on
transnational problems that would
yield direct benefits to society.
professor barry sharp
Loughborough, Leics
Sir, Matthew Parris should not be
surprised at Mrs Mays conduct of the
election. If you hire Australians as
in Sir Lynton Crosby you get
sledging.
jon rayman
London W24
The reason cyclists avoid some
cycle lanes is that they are often
poorly designed and maintained.
Many run parallel to parked cars,
meaning that a careless driver
opening a door without looking can
cause serious injury. Experienced
cyclists ride a cars door-width away
from this danger and do not
appreciate drivers berating them for
doing this.
As a driver and a cyclist I respect
the rules and have no problem with
cyclists who jump red lights being
fined, but research shows that a
higher proportion of cars jump red
lights than cyclists.
So lets not turn this into cyclists vs
drivers. It is about safe and respectful
road use vs dangerous behaviour that
can kill. We should all remember that
when driving or cycling.
michael brunskill
Gateshead, Tyne and Wear
promptly followed by from 100,000
to 120,000 men of the National
Guard. They will be called up for
Federal service next month, and as
they correspond to our Territorials,
and many of them have had the
training of service on the Mexican
border, they will be fit to sail within
a relatively short period. An equal
number, it is thought, may be
dispatched in the winter, so that
when the recruits from the first
conscription of 500,000 are ready
for the field next year they will come
to supplement some 250,000 trained
troops who have preceded them
under the Stars and Stripes.
The presence of American soldiers
at the front will undoubtedly quicken
the spirit of all the Allies and further
depress the enemy, while it will bring
home to all citizens of the Republic
with a new vividness their direct
concern in the great struggle.
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MPs moral vision
Sir, We should certainly expect our
politicians to have a moral vision
(Dont let MPs fob you off by saying
they dont do morality, Register,
Faith, June 3). This does not mean
that they are to engage in moral
grandstanding, but rather that they
have a desire to improve society, and
a road map of how to get there.
The American preacher, William
Sloane Coffin, at the time of the
Vietnam War, told Henry Kissinger:
Sir, my job is to say to you, let justice
roll down like mighty waters. Your job
is to get the plumbing in place.
We need politicians with a sense of
moral mission, who want to affect
change for the right reasons, not just
technocrats who can pull the levers of
Whitehall machinery.
zaki cooper
Council of Christians and Jews
London NW9
Trump on climate
Sir, In withdrawing from the Paris
climate change accord President
Trump is redeeming a campaign
promise he made to his electorate.
Surely this triumph of the democratic
ideal is an occasion for celebration.
professor geoffrey alderman
University of Buckingham
Sir, Climate change may or may not
be caused by human activity but I
wonder if, instead of trying to reverse
it, we should accept the situation and
move on. Undoubtedly, there will be
profound changes. Ocean levels will
rise, island nations may be inundated,
major seats of government and
finance may need to relocate.
On the other hand, deserts may
bloom, arid land become productive
and fresh water become more
available. Trump has exposed the
Paris accord as a political consensus
to preserve the status quo. We should
embrace science, technology and
ingenuity to shape our future.
kevin lowe
Portadown, Co Armagh
Linguistic travels
Sir, Matthew Parris, in Anglesey,
found it almost dreamlike to knock
on a British front door and be
answered by someone looking totally
British, dressed British, house
decorated and furnished British, but
in a tongue strange to me
(Overcoming the language barrier,
News, June 3) . Many years ago, my
father wrote that the Welsh language
is the most British thing in Britain:
spoken from the Firth of Clyde
(Clwyd), through Cumbria (Cymru) to
Dover (dwfr, water), before the
English came in, and taken over the
Channel to Brittany by emigrants.
professor goronwy
tudor jones
Abersoch, Gwynedd
Irony in italics
Sir, Oliver Kamm suggests using
emojis to indicate where a comment
has been meant in jest or with irony
(No need to emote so much about
emojis, Register, June 3). The
notorious British politician and
journalist, Tom Driberg, proposed a
new typeface, based on italics with
the slope reversed, to be called
ironics, for just this purpose.
As Bernard Levin remarked: There
is no joke so obvious that some
bloody fool wont miss the point.
dr john doherty
Gaoth Dobhair,
Co Dhn na nGall, Ireland
the times | Monday June 5 2017 1GM
Daily Universal Register
UK: Many schools reopen after half-term;
the funeral of Eilidh MacLeod, a victim of
the Manchester bombing, is held in Barra.
Nature notes
Skylarks are in full
voice everywhere,
singing over the
fields, heaths and
moors where they
have their nests.
Sometimes they fly
into the wind at the same speed as the wind
is coming towards them, and as a result stay
almost motionless in the air except for their
beating wings. At other times they fly in
wide circles above their territory. George
Meredith wrote a rapturous poem about
their song that was the inspiration for
Vaughan Williamss famous composition The
Lark Ascending. However, Meredith had also
listened carefully to the song, and described
it as chirrup, whistle, slur and shake,
indicating that not all the individual notes
are beautiful. It was the intense, continuous
linking of them its silver chain of sound
that he found so marvellous. Meanwhile,
as the male skylark sings, his mate is on the
ground below, sitting on her eggs in a
well-concealed nest of grass. derwent may
Birthdays today
Dame Margaret Drabble,
pictured, author, A
Summer Birdcage (1963),
78; Laurie Anderson,
performance artist, 70;
Martha Argerich, pianist,
76; Moira Anderson,
singer, Stars on Sunday
(1969-79), 79; Earl of Dundee, a lord in
waiting (1986-89), 68; Alexander Ellis,
diplomat, director-general of the
Department for Exiting the EU, 50; Ken
Follett, novelist, Eye of the Needle (1978), 68;
Claire Fox, founder and director, Institute of
Ideas, 57; Dame Elizabeth Gloster, a Lady
Justice of Appeal and first female judge of
the Commercial Court, 68; Kenny G,
saxophonist, Duotones (1986), 61 ; Sir David
Hare, playwright, Teeth n Smiles (1975), and
screenwriter, The Reader (2008), 70; Simon
Hopkinson, restaurateur, chef and writer,
Simon Hopkinson Cooks (2013), 63; Ken
MacQuarrie, director (nations and regions),
BBC, 65; Roger Michell, film director,
Notting Hill (1999), 61; Phil Neale, cricketer,
captain of Worcestershire (1982-91), 63; Ross
Noble, comedian, 41; David Poole, artist,
president, Royal Society of Portrait Painters
(1983-91), 86; Nigel Rees, author, founder
(1976) and host, Radio 4 programme,
Quote . . . Unquote, 73; Lord (Jeff) Rooker,
Labour MP (1974-2001), chairman, Food
Standards Agency (2009-13), 76; Laura
Sandys, chairwoman, European Movement
(2015-16), Conservative MP (2010-15), 53;
Richard Stone, royal portrait painter, 66; Ed
Vaizey, Conservative MP for Wantage, 49;
Mark Wahlberg, actor, The Fighter (2010),
46; David Weir, athlete, six-time Paralympic
gold medallist (2008, 2012), 38.
On this day
In 1661 Isaac Newton was admitted as a
student to Trinity College, Cambridge; in
1944, just before midnight, troops took off
from airfields on their way to Normandy for
D-Day; in 1967 the Six-Day War began; in
1972 the Duke of Windsor was buried at
Frogmore, Windsor; in 1975 the Suez Canal
was reopened by Egypt; in 1977 the first
personal computer, the Apple II, went on sale.
The last word
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of
human qualities because as has been said, it is
the quality which guarantees all others.
Winston Churchill, British prime minister,
in Great Contemporaries (1937).
Terror on London Bridge
The third attack on Britain in three months is a moment for reflection and change.
A new government after the election has the primary task of making the country safe
Unreal City, wrote TS Eliot in The Waste Land.
A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many. I
had not thought death had undone so many. Late
on Saturday night, Eliots words came dreadfully
true when a white van mowed down pedestrians
before three men, armed with long blades, jumped
out and began slashing people at random. Death
has undone seven people at the current count,
though with 48 others injured, some of them
severely, that count may rise. This is the third
serious attack in three months after Westminster
Bridge and the Manchester Arena. Enough, as the
prime minister said in Downing Street, is enough.
With every atrocity the temptation to erect a
fortress around Britain grows. As Boris Johnson,
the foreign secretary, said: The wells of tolerance
are running empty. Of course it will always be
important that the freedom which is under attack
should not be surrendered in the act of defending
ourselves. The extraordinary bravery of the police
has to be recognised. It takes a quality lacking in
most of us to defy human instinct by running
towards, rather than away from, danger. The
police is the force that preserves law and order, the
very rock of British democracy. That said, Theresa
May was right to stress that something has to
change. After this latest fatal terrorist attack it is
vital to reiterate the importance of free association
but it is not enough. A strengthened response to
terror, as she said, should fall into four categories.
The first point is that the recent terrorist attacks,
although not linked organisationally, are certainly
linked ideologically. There is a perversion of
Islamic thought which regards people at leisure
in the metropolis as decadent and diabolical. By
extension, this thinking denigrates the freedoms
and rights that people enjoy in liberal democracies
as secondary to the wisdom exhibited in divinity.
This is, first and above all, a battle of values and if
the battle is not joined and won at the level of
ideas, no amount of intelligent policing will ever
suffice. This requires, once again, the leaders of the
Muslim faith to do, as Sadiq Khan, the mayor of
London, has already done, to condemn barbarism
today and follow it up with their teachings every
day.
The second category of response must reflect
the fact that extremism is incubated online. Social
Developments in medicine promise a drastic improvement in cancer survival rates
From the eighth until the tenth centuries the
frontier of scientific knowledge passed through
Basra and Baghdad. They were the intellectual
hotspots of the Abbasid Caliphate, which preserved
and extended Greek medicine and mathematics,
including the creation of the worlds first hospitals
and the tradition of inquiry into surgical medicine.
The caliphate kept alive a tradition of free scientific
thought which, in a dark age in Europe, might
otherwise have died out and which represents the
finest in human thought and endeavour.
Tracing that line forward eleven centuries to
Chicago, it is gratifying to note, on a fateful day,
that there is some good news in the world. New
developments revealed at the annual conference
of the American Society of Clinical Oncology
raised the prospect that cancer care might be
transformed by blood tests that can detect relapses
within days and locate tumours in healthy people
up to a year before their first symptoms appear.
A growth as small as a pinhead can now be
deciphered as life-threatening and operated on
quickly enough for patients to survive. There are
high hopes for this screening. The immediate
prospect is that deaths from cancer could be cut by
media have made it easier for like-minded zealots
to gather, confirm one another in warped thinking,
and arrange to effect violent reprisals on their host
society and fellow citizens. The internet compa-
nies are the great technological innovators of our
time. It is not credible that they cannot do more
to regulate the wicked conversations of those who
seek to do us harm. Cyberspace cannot be a safe
space for terrorists. The early years of the internet
have encouraged the free-wheeling belief that
its content cannot be regulated and that people
should be left to their own devices online. That
view is longer sustainable and the tech companies
need to recognise this.
The third response is in the physical conditions
of the places in which terrorists are bred. There
will always be an argument about the extent to
which British foreign policy contributes to the
desire of people who then inflict such damage. To
which it can gently be pointed out that millions
of people can march defiantly in protest at
British foreign policy without any one of them
ever entertaining the idea of murder. There is no
excuse and Mrs May is right to say that extremism
has been too easily tolerated in Britain.
The Times reported on Saturday the view of
Nazir Afzal, a former chief crown prosecutor, that
Islamist groups such as Cage and Prevent Watch
were undermining the fight to curb terrorism by
circulating myths about Prevent, the governments
anti-radicalisation programme. Too many Muslim
leaders, Mr Afzal said, are happy to present their
community as victims rather than as people
responsible for their own actions. So far, more
than 8,000 people have been referred for inclusion
in Prevent, and, according to Mr Afzal, it has
stopped 150 people going to Syria. Its work needs
to be strengthened rather than abandoned.
The fourth category of response to the atrocity
is to review the counterterrorism strategy which
has now failed three times in as many months. If
there are new powers that could help the author-
ities to act, then, in the light of the increased threat,
there may be a case for granting them. Though it
is obvious that longer custodial sentences will not
deter those who are content to lose their lives in
the act of terrorism, it may help to deter their ac-
complices and accessories to the crime. The same
Cause for Hope
40 per cent, rising to as much as 90 per cent if
technological improvement continues. Another
study showed great progress in early detection of
pancreatic cancer.
In due course, if the findings prove resilient to
rigorous peer review, tests should be available on
the National Health Service at a cost which is
not prohibitive. That could avoid a great deal of
personal anguish and pain and save a great deal
of money into the bargain. The same is true of
another application heard by the conference.
There is a cancer app that tracks a patients
symptoms in real time and, by alerting doctors and
nurses, via a smartphone, to problems that flare
up, can extend life by an average of five months.
The monetary saving is likely to be substantial
as a large part of the hospital budget is spent
on the readmission of discharged patents when
symptoms recur. A number of trials have shown
that if patients can be enabled to manage their
conditions better, there is no need for expensive
hospital care.
The pressure on health services all over the
world is acute and especially so in ageing societies
such as Britain. The general election debate has
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is true about extra resources. At the moment the
money available stretches to close surveillance on
something like 3,000 suspected jihadists. There
may well be many more who are a threat and
perhaps the net will need to be cast more widely.
This crime falls, as did the bomb in Manchester,
into the midst of a general election campaign. It is
crucial, as a response is calculated, that British
democracy should continue as unimpeded by
mindless terror as possible. A brief pause in
campaign proceedings was both humane and
practical. Not many politicians actually want to
spend the morning talking about tax policy in
the immediate aftermath of multiple murders.
Government security committees need to con-
vene, immediate contingency plans have to be
made and the prime minister has to speak
formally on behalf of the nation.
Once these vital functions have been fulfilled,
the election should resume with full vigour. No
politicians need to fear they are being disrespectful
if they are candid about their opponents. Tough,
vehement debate is democracys lifeblood.
We do not, as yet, know anything certain about
the twisted motivations of the killers. Whether or
not they consciously had the institutions of a
democracy in their sights is unclear. It is perhaps
more likely that they were brought to their acts
of eternal infamy by vast intolerance of people
enjoying the freedom to eat and drink at leisure. In
the perverted ideology of the killers, harmless
pleasures are recast as decadence.
We need to remember, though, that between
voting and walking the street freely there is a
direct connection. A democracy is a culture as well
as a set of institutions and events. The democratic
way of life connects the peaceful transfer of power
with the freedom to associate within the bounds of
law. London is not an unreal city. It is a defiant city
that has seen off tougher challenges than can be
presented by a group of maniacs in a white van,
armed with knives. There are therefore two
messages to send after the London Bridge atrocity,
with a general election in the offing. The first
is this: Stay Calm. Vote. The second is that, once
the election is settled, the new government has to
attend to the first principle of government the
security of the nation.
descended into an auction on which party can
spend the most money but the harsh truth is that
more good sense has been spoken about a viable
NHS in the proceedings in Chicago than on the
hustings in Britain. The future of developed
societies lies in the application of knowledge to
find ingenious solutions to intractable problems.
That is why, in all human history, there has
perhaps been no greater tradition than that of the
scientific method in which a hypothesis is put,
tested and verified or falsified according to the
material facts of the world.
After the Abbasid Caliphate ceased to be the
crucible of scientific life, inquiry into medical
knowledge was revived in the European renais-
sance, especially in William Harveys great work
on the structure of the human heart. Harvey
was only able to make such advances, as were
the Muslim scholars before him, because they
lived in a nation that valued dissent, the clash
of competing ideas and the truth to be found in
this world rather than the next. The gradual
progress of medical knowledge is a reminder both
that this is one of humanitys greatest virtues and
that it is open to everyone.
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Battle for Raqqa:
coalition forces
to attack in days
Syria
Hannah Lucinda Smith Istanbul
The battle for the heart of Islamic
States self-proclaimed caliphate will
start in the next few days, according to
Americas key ally in Syria.
The Syrian Democratic Forces
(SDF), a coalition dominated by
Kurdish fighters, is within two miles of
Raqqa to the north and east. It yester-
day took the strategic Baath Dam on
the Euphrates river and the nearby
village of Hamama.
The forces reached the outskirts of
the city and the major operation will
start . . . in the coming few days, Nouri
Mahmoud, spokesman for the YPG, the
Kurdish contingent of the SDF, said.
A source from Jaysh al-Thuwra
(Army of the Revolution), an Arab rebel
militia allied to the SDF, told a local
news site that it had sent 200 fighters to
the Raqqa front. The troops were
moved from the countryside north of
Aleppo, where rebel forces are locked in
battle with President Assads forces.
The US, which is supporting the SDF
with weapons, air power and special
forces advisers, said that militias were
poised around Raqqa, having
snatched 135 square miles of territory
from Isis over the past week.
Colonel Ryan Dillon, spokesman for
Operation Inherent Resolve, the US-
led coalition against Isis, said: Raqqa
will be liberated. The pace at which that
happens will be determined by the SDF.
The coalition made up of 71 forces
around the world is unprecedented . . .
and it shows the unity of effort to defeat
an enemy that poses a threat not only to
Iraq and Syria, and to the region, but to
the entire world.
Raqqa has been under Isis control
since January 2014 and was the jihad-
ists first big urban stronghold. The fall
of the city will be a severe blow at a time
Raqqa to the Ain Issa camp, north of
the city in SDF territory. At least 800
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intensify. Fifteen civilians were killed in
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militia Residents of Raqqa are overwhelm-
Rebel ingly Arabs from the Sunni Muslim
Isis sect, while the YPG follows the secular,
leftwing ideology of Abdullah Ocalan,
when it is rapidly losing territory across founder of the Kurdistan Workers
Iraq and Syria. Party (PKK), which has been fighting in
Raqqa has become the centre of Isis eastern Turkey for three decades.
operations since the battle to retake Many Syrian Arabs are hostile to the
Mosul, its stronghold in Iraq, began last YPG, accusing it of co-operating with
October. The fighting there is also en- the regime. Turkey, an ally of the US in
tering its final stages as the Iraqi army the war against terrorism, is furious
moves into the westernmost suburbs. about Washingtons support for the
About 200,000 people are believed YPG. Ankara disputes a distinction
to remain in a shrinking patch of Isis- drawn by the US between the YPG and
held territory in Mosul. About 700,000 the PKK and claims that weapons are
have already left. Escapers have report- being sent from Syria into Turkey and
ed that the jihadists are shooting people used to attack Turkish security forces.
who try to flee. President Trump agreed last month
Scores of top Isis figures and their to arm the YPG with heavy machine-
families have fled from Mosulto Raqqa, guns and anti-tank weapons, and the
from where a number of recent terrorist first shipment was delivered last week.
attacks in Europe are believed to have President Erdogan has warned that
been orchestrated. After Raqqa, the Turkey will act against the YPG in Syria
eastern Syrian city of Deir Ezzor will be should the group provoke it. How-
Isiss last bastion in the Levant, ever, Binali Yildirim, the Turkish prime
although there are reports that the minister, has taken a milder line, telling
jihadists are regrouping in Anbar prov- reporters that the US had shared infor-
ince in Iraq, close to the Syrian border. mation with Ankara.
The humanitarian cost of retaking We expressed our discomfort. [The
Raqqa is likely to be huge, and there are US] gave us assurance that there is no
fears of a second war between the possibility that the weapons will be
factions that are now united to fight Isis. used against our security forces and
Thousands are streaming from civilians, he said.

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or three and a
half years, Raqqa
has been living in
darkness.
(Hannah Lucinda
Smith writes).
We have seen little of
what life is like there
under Islamic State apart
from grisly propaganda
videos and grainy footage
shot secretly by
dissidents. However, the
coalition of forces
advancing on the city
knows what horrors it
can expect.
Mosul may have
de facto capital of Isis but
Raqqa was the place
where it bedded in first.
Since January 2014 the
jihadists have been the
uncontested power in the
city, stamping out rivals
and operating with an
arrogant sense of
impunity. Everything that
Isis has used elsewhere it
is likely to have
duplicated to a greater
degree in Raqqa.
In other towns that
Islamic State has fled it
has left behind booby
traps for liberating forces
to pick through. Those
faced with that grim task
say there is nothing that
Isis will not turn into an
IED, even a hollowed-out
human corpse.
In Iraq Nato has been
training specialist bomb
disposal squads but the
Kurdish militias
spearheading the advance
on Raqqa do not have
that kind of expertise.
Isis will almost
certainly have dug a
network of tunnels
underneath the city. In
Mosul it managed to use
its warren to devastating
effect with fighters
disappearing and popping
up again to cut off and
surround advancing
forces. Although Raqqa is
a far smaller city it could
prove just as bloody and
tricky to take if an
extensive tunnel system
has been dug.
Once the fighters and
the booby traps are
cleared, what will remain
is the evidence of Islamic
States atrocities mass
graves, prisons and
documents. There begins
the longest and trickiest
challenge: unpicking
what really happened
during Raqqas darkest
days.
Ayatollah Mike to lead
Jacqui Goddard Miami
A controversial CIA operative known
as the Dark Prince, who presided over
the hunt for Osama bin Laden and the
killing of thousands of Islamist mili-
tants, has been appointed to head US
spy operations against Iran.
The assignment of Michael DAn-
drea also known as Ayatollah Mike
and immortalised in the Hollywood
film Zero Dark Thirty is one of
several moves within the intelligence
agency that herald a more vigorous
push on Iran, in line with a campaign
pledge by President Trump.
Robert Eatinger, a former CIA
lawyer who worked with Mr DAndrea,
told The New York Times: He can run a
very aggressive programme, but very
smartly,
Mr DAndrea is a convert to Islam,
having married a Muslim woman he
met during service overseas.
He is described by associates as an
abrasive workaholic and was a key ar-
chitect of the CIAs counterterrorism
drone programme in Pakistan, Afghan-
istan and Yemen, which has taken out
thousands of militants.
However, it also took the lives of hun-
dreds, if not thousands, of innocent ci-
vilians, a record that also earned Mr
DAndrea the nickname The Under-
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CIAs new hardline approach on Iran
taker. He is a polarising figure in intel-
ligence circles, respected by many for
his operational knowledge and acuity.
Michael Morrell, former deputy di-
rector of the CIA, once described him
as one of the finest intelligence officers
of his generation after 38 years of ser-
vice, having significantly weakened al-
Qaeda.
Mr DAndrea, who is in his 50s and
keeps a bed in his office so he can sleep
there, was once asked what he does for
fun. He replied coldly: Work.
But the shadowy Mr DAndrea was
also blamed for having dropped the ball
when it came to keeping track on Naw-
af al-Hazmi, a militant who went on to
hijack a passenger jet and crash it into
the Pentagon on September 11, 2001.
Some also hold him responsible for the
deaths of seven CIA employees who
were killed in 2009 by a double-agent
who had not been thoroughly vetted
under his watch.
As the head of the CIAs counterter-
rorism centre from 2006, he is credited
with having significantly weakened al-
Qaeda, but prisoner torture pro-
grammes he initiated were condemned
by the US Senate as inhumane and in-
effective in 2014.
His appointment is part of a muscu-
lar new stance against Iran by the CIA,
under the new leadership of the former
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Republican congressman Mike Pom-
peo, and is a partial following through
on a campaign pledge by Mr Trump to
get tough on what he called the No 1
terrorist state.
Mr Trumps approach to Iran has also
been echoed in his hawkish appoint-
ments to the National Security Council,
though he flip-flopped on a campaign
pledge to tear up the Iran nuclear
agreement struck by his predecessor,
Barack Obama.
Despite criticising the landmark
deal, under which Iran agreed to limit
its nuclear programme in exchange for
six world powers easing sanctions, Mr
Trump quietly ratified it in April.
US glued to Cosby show
as sex trial starts
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UN envoy insists
Trump believes
in climate change
United States
Boer Deng Washington
The US ambassador to the United
Nations appeared to contradict the
White House yesterday by insisting
that President Trump believed in
climate change, despite pulling out of
the Paris climate accord.
Nikki Haley said that Mr Trump
knew the climate is changing and he
believes pollutants are part of the
equation, telling CNN that the United
States would continue to be a leader in
the environment.
Ms Haleys comments stood in con-
trast to previous statements from Mr
Trump, who has claimed that the idea
of man-made climate change is a hoax
created by the Chinese.
Asked if Mr Trump stood by those
comments, Scott Pruitt, Mr Trumps
Environmental Protection Agency
chief, said yesterday: I think the presi-
dent made it clear in that statement
that the climate changes.
Ms Haley insisted that environmen-
tal protection was important to
Americans, saying that it was who we
are [and] what we do.
Advisers have scrambled to contain
the fallout over Mr Trumps decision to
withdraw the US from the Paris accord
last week, which drew condemnation
from world leaders and protests at
home.
Rex Tillerson, the secretary of state,
said yesterday that the US would not
change efforts to reduce emissions,
even though Mr Trump has rescinded
an Obama-era moratorium on leasing
federal land for coal mining.
Mr Trumps decision fulfilled a cam-
paign pledge that he had made to hard-
liners led by Steve Bannon, the populist
senior adviser who has railed against
the climate pact. It alienated moderates
in Mr Trumps circle, including his
daughter Ivanka, and infuriated oppo-
nents on the left.
Those divisions were in evidence in
You can count on the US,
Mattis tells defence ministers
Richard Lloyd Parry Singapore
James Mattis has promised that Presi-
dent Trumps America First policy
will not mean a retreat from engage-
ment with the world at large and the
threats posed by North Korean nuclear
weapons, Islamist terrorism and Chi-
nese aggression in the South China Sea.
Like it or not, we are part of the
world, the US defence secretary told
defence ministers at the Shangri-La
Dialogue in Singapore, an annual gath-
ering organised by the International
Institute for Strategic Studies. That
carries through for all the frustrations
that are felt in America right now, for
the sense that at times we have carried
an inordinate burden.
He quoted a joke attributed to Win-
ston Churchill: Once weve exhausted
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Washington at the weekend. A Pitts-
burgh not Paris demonstration was
held yards from the White House in
Lafayette Square. About 200 people
attended, holding placards that read
Thank you, Mr President and chant-
ing jobs, jobs, jobs. The protests title
was inspired by Mr Trumps statement
in announcing the withdrawal: I was
elected to represent the citizens of
Pittsburgh, not Paris.
Hours later, thousands of protesters
gathered for the March for Truth, one
of several anti-Trump rallies across the
country. Some held signs that read
Make the Planet Great Again, a
slogan coined by President Macron of
France. In a video address, Mr Macron
urged concerned American scientists
to find a second homeland in France
to join in combating climate change.
Supporters of Mr Trump believe that
withdrawal from the accord will jump-
start hiring stifled by regulations put in
place by President Obama to meet
carbon emission targets. Critics say
that it sends the message that the US
will not be a leader on tackling the
threat of global warming.
President Trumps decision under-
mined our stature, said Al Gore, the
former vice-president who has become
a leading environmental campaigner,
who Ivanka Trump had asked for
advice on climate change.
Ms Haley said she believed that regu-
lations put forward by Mr Obama had
been too stringent. What we want to
do is say, We are a sovereign country,
were gonna make sure were looking
out for the US first, [but] we will always
be a leader in the environment. There is
a balance.
The former South Carolina governor
has emerged as a well-liked figure, cap-
able of striking the right tone between
putting forward Mr Trumps America
First philosophy and working with
diplomats. A powerful speech at the
UN after the Syrian gas attacks won
particular plaudits.
all possible alternatives, the Americans
will do the right thing. We will still be
there and we will be there with you.
Mr Mattis was speaking days after Mr
Trump announced the USs withdrawal
from the Paris climate change treaty
and after a Nato summit at which he
failed explicitly to commit to the orga-
nisations doctrine of collective defence.
Mr Mattis emphasised the import-
ance of the USs alliances at least
with its Asian partners, including
Japan, South Korea, Thailand and the
Philippines. The United States will
continue to adapt and continue to ex-
pand its ability to work with others to
secure a peaceful, prosperous and free
Asia, one with respect for all nations
upholding international law.
He added: What a crummy world if
we all retreat inside our own borders.
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France seeks defence pact with
Commonwealth over Brexit fears
France
Richard Lloyd Parry Singapore
France is pushing to join a Common-
wealth defence pact in an effort to
maintain its close military links with
Britain after Brexit.
The Five Power Defence Arrange-
ments (FPDA) were created almost half
a century ago after Britains military
withdrawal East of Suez, and have in-
creasingly been regarded as a Cold War
anachronism. However, this year the
FPDA have been brought back into
focus by international terrorism fears,
North Korea, Chinese expansionism
and President Trumps foreign policy.
At a meeting in Singapore, the five
members of the FPDA Malaysia,
Singapore, Australia, New Zealand and
Britain agreed to expand their
annual exercises to focus more on
counterterrorism and maritime secur-
Street party Over 60 groups took part in the Carnival of Cultures in Berlin this weekend. Now in its 22nd year, the festival celebrates multiculturalism and diversity
Islamic bank will make
Nice unsafe, says mayor
Adam Sage Paris
An Islamic investment business has
been prevented from putting its name
on the front of its latest branch because
officials fear that the word Islamic
will provoke a racist reaction.
In a letter refusing permission for
NoorAssur to use its logo on the faade
of its branch in Nice, Christian Estrosi,
the citys mayor, warned of a big risk of
public disorder if the term Islamic
finance appeared on the street.
The mayor said that his decision was
justified because the Sharia-compliant
branch was near the promenade where
86 people were killed when a lorry
driven by a jihadist ran into crowds of
people on Bastille Day last year. He said
that the term Islamic finance also
evoked the sort of multiculturalism
that he rejected.
Critics accused Mr Estrosi, who was
among the French mayors to ban
ity. Now they also face a dilemma over
whether to accept France, which has
asked to join the defence arrangements.
People say that the FPDA is irrele-
vant, so why is it then that the French
want to join? said a senior government
source, who was present at the meeting
of ministers of four of the five members
in Singapore.
A spokesman for Sylvie Goulard, the
French defence minister who was in
Singapore attending a meeting of de-
fence ministers, did not respond to a
request for comment. A French official
said the request reflected Frances wish
to maintain a military presence in east
Asia, to strengthen diplomatic
relationships with the increasingly
prosperous economies of southeast
Asia and to maintain its post-Brexit
military co-operation with Britain.
It makes sense because France
wants to remain a power in Asia and
Islamic swimwear on beaches last year,
of discriminating against Muslims.
Mr Estrosi, 61, said the NoorAssur
branch in Nice would face antagon-
istic gatherings . . . as soon as such logos
were known about. In a statement, the
council said: The term Islamic finance
could result in public disorder, putting
the employees and the customers in
danger, notably because of the terrorist
attack of July 14, 2016, in Nice.
Two other branches of NoorAssur
elsewhere in France have been vandal-
ised in recent months. The statement
added that the words Islamic finance
clearly represent a mark of multi-
culturalism, which Nice refuses. There
is not a Christian finance or a Jewish fi-
nance.
Sonia Mariji, 56, who founded Noor-
Assur in 2015, said that she planned to
contest the ban. A lawyer for the bank
said: The . . . ban necessarily involves
discrimination based on religion.
because Britain is our closest military
friend, the official said. With Britain
out of Europe, who is to be our partner?
Germany is not the same.
The French request seems likely to be
rejected because of resistance to ex-
panding the membership of the FPDA.
The group was formed in 1971 to protect
Singapore and Malaysia against the
threat from Indonesia, which fought a
war with Malaysia in the mid-1960s. A
similar conflict now is unimaginable
but the continuing existence of the
FPDA annoys Indonesia. If you
change [the FPDA], youd invite suspi-
cion and erode legitimacy, Ng Eng
Hen, Singapores defence minister, said
yesterday at the Shangri-La Dialogue, a
meeting of ministers and security ex-
perts organised by Britains Inter-
national Institute for Strategic Studies.
Under the FPDA, Australian and
British air force officers operate an air
Suicide bombers kill 18 at
funeral after Kabul attack
Afghanistan
Hugh Tomlinson Delhi
The violence blighting Afghanistan
worsened at the weekend when suicide
bombers struck a funeral in Kabul,
killing at least 18 people in the third
attack on the capital in four days.
More than 1,000 mourners had gath-
ered to bury the son of a prominent pol-
itician, one of at least four protesters
killed a day earlier, when troops opened
fire on an anti-government demonstra-
tion outside the palace of President
Ghani. Protesters had gathered to de-
mand that the president resign after the
lorry bomb that ripped through Kabuls
diplomatic quarter last week, killing at
least 90 and wounding more than 400.
Witnesses reported three separate
blasts as bombers mingled with the
crowd. Among the mourners was
Abdullah Abdullah, the countrys chief
executive, who was unharmed, along
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defence system at a Malaysian base,
which could come into operation in case
of a conflict with China over the disput-
ed islands in the South China Sea that it
is claiming.
Malaysia and Singapore are increas-
ingly worried about terrorist attacks by
Islamic militants such as those who re-
main in control of parts of the city of
Marawi in the southern Philippines
after seizing it last month.
Malaysia was also rattled by the as-
sassination with a nerve agent of the
brother of Kim Jong-un, the North
Koran leader, at Kuala Lumpur airport.
We are going through uncharted
waters, Hishammuddin Hussein, Ma-
laysias defence minister, said. Never
have we seen trucks used to kill, burning
people alive in cages. The five nations of
the FPDA have a lot to contribute [and]
the situation in Korea makes the FPDA
more important today.
CHRISTIAN MANG/REUTERS
with several government officials.
Medical staff said that the death toll was
likely to rise.
Afghan MPs criticised Mr Ghani for
failing to protect such a prominent
gathering, heaping further pressure on
an administration that was already fac-
ing a national outcry after last weeks
bombing.
The governments failure to protect
civilians has further raised doubts
about the ability of Afghan forces to
tackle the mounting insurgency. The
bombers last week were able to drive a
sewage lorry packed with explosives
and penetrate the tight security cordon
around the diplomatic quarter. They
were turned away only when they tried
to enter the Green Zone, which houses
Nato military headquarters and several
foreign embassies. The bomb was then
detonated at rush hour on a street
packed with cars and pedestrians out-
side the German embassy.
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Thousands pay tribute
to Tiananmen victims
Hong Kong Thousands of people
in Hong Kong attended a
candlelight vigil to commemorate
victims of the Tiananmen Square
crackdown while Taiwans
president called on Beijing to
face up to its history. President
Tsai said that in 1989 the actions
of people who challenged the
political system in China had
inspired a generation. She
appealed to Beijing to face up to
June 4 with an open mind and
said Taiwan was willing to share
its experiences of becoming a
democracy to ease the pains of
such a transition. For democracy:
some are early, others are late, but
we will all get there in the end,
she wrote on Twitter. (AP)
Bahrain shuts paper
Dubai Bahrain shut down a
prominent independent
newspaper until further notice
over an article about unrest in
Morocco. It is the third time the
government has ordered the daily
Al-Wasat to stop printing since
the islands Arab Spring protests
in 2011. The Information Affairs
Authority said it was because of a
story affecting the relations of
the kingdom of Bahrain with
other countries. (AP)
Helicopter fall deaths
Vienna A mountain rescue worker
and a climber died in the Alps
when a rope hauling them up to a
helicopter came loose and they
fell into a ravine. A man and a
woman had sought help from
emergency services during a trek
near Trofaiach, Austria. The
rescue worker, 28, was lowered
down but the rope malfunctioned
as the three were winched up.
The womans companion was
seriously injured. (AFP)
Pig head poll warning
Texcoco Threatening phone calls
and pig heads dumped at polling
stations marred the last hours of
an election in State of Mexico
where President Pea Nietos
party is battling the new party of
Andrs Manuel Lpez Obrador,
who leads polls for a presidential
vote next year. Prosecutors said
the pig heads were to deter voters.
It is not clear who was responsible
but such claims are common in
Mexican polls. (Reuters)
Rescued lions shot
Johannesburg Two lions that
were freed from circuses in South
America and taken to a wildlife
refuge in South Africa have been
killed by poachers. The Emoya
Big Cat Sanctuary in Vaalwater,
100 miles north of Pretoria,
rescued a group of 33 lions from
Peru and Colombia last year. The
killing of the two males, named
Jos and Liso, came despite
24-hour security at the refuge,
including armed patrols. (AP)
Drunk man murders 9
Moscow A drunken man shot and
killed nine people after an
argument broke out during a
festive dinner in Redkino, about
75 miles northwest of Moscow,
Russian investigators say.
Survivors told police that the
suspect, who has been arrested,
quarrelled with others at the
dinner before leaving the house
and returning with a hunting rifle.
The victims were four women
and five men. (AP)
the times | Monday June 5 2017 2GM
US glued to the
Cosby show as
sex trial starts
United States
Boer Deng Washington
He cultivated a television persona as a
wise and lovable father figure who
made Americans laugh, but in life he
has become embroiled in claims of rape
and sexual assault.
Bill Cosby, 79, the actor best known
for playing a sweater-wearing patriarch
teaching family values on The Cosby
Show, is due to appear in court today to
face three charges of aggravated inde-
cent assault against a woman 35 years
his junior.
It is the only one from among 60 alle-
gations of rape and sexual misconduct
levelled against the comedian to have
led to a criminal case due to the time
The frail star will face three charges
out of 60 allegations made by women
limit on the claims made against him.
Andrea Constand, the complainant, is
expected to testify in a trial that is being
compared to the case of OJ Simpson in
the mid-1990s.
Mr Cosby has pleaded not guilty,
claiming that any relations were con-
sensual. He is alleged to have invited
Ms Constand, who became a friend
through her work at Temple University
in Philadelphia, to his home to discuss
her plans at the university, his alma
mater.
According to the Montgomery coun-
ty district attorney prosecuting the
case, Mr Cosby gave her three blue pills
Climber scales huge cliff without ropes Terror stampede leaves
Jacqui Goddard
An American daredevil has completed
a feat considered the rock-climbing
equivalent of the Moon landing, scaling
a 3,000ft high cliff face without ropes or
safety gear.
Fellow climbers called Alex Hon-
nolds ascent of El Capitan in California
incomprehensible and insane. In
what is the worlds most dangerous
unassisted climb, he hauled himself up
the sheer granite wall using only his
skill and brute strength, a style known
as free soloing.
The climb is higher than the Burj
Khalifa skyscraper in Dubai, the
worlds tallest building. This is the
Moon landing of free soloing, Tommy
Caldwell, a leading climber, said.
Honnolds feat was done in secret
starting at 5.32am on Saturday, with
only a team led by his climbing partner
to film the 3 hour 56 minute ascent for
a National Geographic documentary.
Whereas El Capitan, in Yosemite
and a glass of wine that rendered her
unable to respond to his advances and
assaulted her.
Similar stories have been put forward
by the dozens of other women who
have accused Mr Cosby of assault dat-
ing back to 1965, including Janice Dick-
inson, a model, and Michelle Hurd, an
actress. Mr Cosby denies all the
allegations.
Ms Constand, 44, went to the police
in 2005, months after the alleged
assault, but the prosecutor declined to
press charges.
In 2015 evidence for the case was un-
sealed, showing that he had admitted to
obtaining prescriptions for Quaaludes,
a sedative, to slip them to women he
wanted to sleep with. Judge Steven
ONeill has ruled that it will be
admissible in the criminal case against
Mr Cosby.
He said that he would allow only one
of 13 other alleged victims that the pros-
ecution had put forward to testify
alongside Ms Constand. The woman,
known only as Prior Alleged Victim
No 6, said she had met Mr Cosby in
1990 and struck up a friendship.
A few years later he is said to have in-
vited her to his hotel room to offer pro-
fessional advice. She alleged that he
gave her a pill, after which she woke up
naked next to him, unsure what had
happened.
Mr Cosbys defence team is expected
to focus on the lack of evidence for the
allegations from the state concerning
Ms Constand. His lawyers are likely to
paint Mr Cosby as a victim of unscru-
pulous women attempting to extort
money from an ill and aged star.
In 2015 he filed a countersuit in Mas-
sachusetts claiming defamation against
seven accusers who said that he had
assaulted them.
The actor is said to be losing his sight
and has appeared in court walking with
a cane. Camille Cosby, 73, his wife of 52
years, and Phylicia Rashad, the actress
who played his wife on The Cosby Show,
are both expected to attend the trial in
support of Mr Cosby. A number of black
comedians, as well as conservative
groups, have defended him.
El Capitan in California. Alex Honnolds across ledges the width of matchboxes
ascent has astonished fellow climbers
National Park, has been conquered by
free climbers, who use no equipment
other than safety ropes, Honnold, 31,
uses only his hands, feet and body
strength to move up the rock face and
takes nothing with him but a bag of
chalk to keep his hands dry. It is the
purest form of climbing, leaving no
margin for error.
He first attempted the climb in Nov-
ember but gave up within an hour, as
the conditions did not feel right. On
Saturday he moved so fast that his
camera team, who did use ropes and
Floating mosaic This man may be keeping cool but he is in the wrong place to
appreciate the artistic effect of the plastic balls at a water park in Wuhan, China
equipment, could barely keep up. The
route that he chose, known as Free-
rider, is described as a zigzagging odys-
sey that traces several spidery networks
of cracks and fissures, some gaping,
others barely a knuckle wide.
National Geographic reported:
Along the way, Honnold squeezed his
body into narrow chimneys, tiptoed
and, in some places, dangled in the
open air by his fingertips.
He started planning the climb years
ago, but there were so many little
sections where I thought Ugh
cringe, Honnold said. But in the years
since, Ive pushed my comfort zone and
made it bigger and bigger until these
objectives that seemed totally crazy
eventually fell within the possible.
Honnold, who tours the world seek-
ing new challenges, made his name in
2008 when he completed ascents of the
northwest face of Half Dome, near El
Capitan, and the Moonlight Buttress in
the Zion National Park, Utah.
KE HAO/XINHUA/ALAMY
1,500 football fans injured
Italy
Tom Kington Rome
More than 1,500 people were injured on
Saturday night in a stampede in central
Turin thought to have been started by a
firecracker.
About 30,000 Juventus fans had
crowded into Piazza San Carlo to watch
the Champions League final on a big
screen. When the firecracker exploded
many thought it was the start of a
terrorist attack and ran screaming from
the square, trampling others.
Three people were seriously injured,
including a seven-year-old boy who
suffered head and chest injuries. We
were buried by people, his sister said.
Officials said that 1,527 were injured,
many of them suffering cuts as they fell
on broken glass bottles. The square was
left bloodied and littered with aban-
doned belongings and shoes that had
35
World
Mice blast off
in pursuit of
a cure for
osteoporosis
Jacqui Goddard Miami
A squad of spacefaring rodents
travelling at 17,500mph are due to dock
at the International Space Station to-
day, becoming the first American
mousetronauts to be given a return
ticket into orbit.
Snuggled together in a cargo facility
known as the rodent transporter that is
packed aboard a Dragon spacecraft, the
40 mice blasted off on Saturday from
Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canav-
eral, in Florida, on a medical research
mission that could ultimately lead to
doctors being able to reverse osteo-
porosis in humans.
If successful, this will have tremen-
dous implications for patients on
Earth, said the projects chief scientist,
Chia Soo of the University of Califor-
nia, Los Angeles.
The mice were part of a 2,700kg
cargo on Dragon, which was lifted into
orbit by a 23-storey Falcon 9 rocket op-
erated by the commercial space flight
company SpaceX. Half of the mice are
due to return next month when the
Dragon splashes down in the Pacific.
They are due to dock at the ISS, 350
miles above the Earth, today, where
their human crewmates will help them
to disembark and place them in more
comfortable habitats.
During their stay in orbit, they will
take part in a study known as NELL-1,
which will analyse the potential of a
newly discovered protein therapy to re-
build bone. The study is important both
to life in space, where astronauts suffer
extreme bone loss owing to the lack of
gravity, and on Earth, where one in
three women over 50, and one in four
men in the same age bracket, suffer
from osteoporosis-related fractures.
Men and women past the age of 50,
on the average, lose about a half per
cent of bone mass per year. But in mi-
crogravity conditions the astronaut, on
average, loses anywhere from 1 to 2 per
cent of bone mass per month, Profes-
sor Chia said.
If it can work for microgravity-
related bone loss, then it could have
increased use for patients one day on
Earth who have bone loss from trauma
or ageing, Professor Chia told Space-
flight Now.
been torn off the feet of fans as they ran
for safety. Renato Saccone, the Turin
prefect, said that the crowd was taken
by panic and by the psychosis of a
terrorist attack.
The firecracker, of the kind often
used by fans at Italian football games,
was set off near the end of the game,
which Juventus lost 4-1 to Real Madrid.
Witnesses said an unknown person had
shouted that an attack was under way.
Panic grew when a railing in the
square collapsed as the crowd fled,
creating a second loud noise and send-
ing some fans tumbling six feet on to
the ramp of an underground car park.
Fans, still fearing a terrorist attack,
took refuge in local bars and restau-
rants. One diner said that terrified
people fleeing from the piazza had
hammered on the door of the restau-
rant, with one shouting: Help us, they
are shooting in the piazza.
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World
Sobyanin clearly thought the idea or replaced. The problem was that
FROM OUR was a smart, populist move before
mayoral and presidential elections
many in normal repair were
scheduled to be destroyed and the

CORRESPONDENT next year. But he seems to have

Residents of popular Moscow flats
built in the Khrushchev era are fighting
the city authorities to save them
Soviet period. But not all apartment
Tom Parfitt blocks are equal. Some people close
to the centre are lucky enough to
RUSSIA occupy high-ceilinged flats in
grandiose, honey-coloured
buildings of the Stalin era. And
hundreds of thousands live in
districts that are dominated by
khrushchevki the five-storey,
no-elevator blocks mostly
constructed under Nikita
Khrushchev in the 1950s and 1960s.
Residents complain that not all of the
4,500 khrushchevki need demolition
dilapidated housing and should be
levelled by next year.
Under a draft law, 4,500 buildings
could come under the wrecking ball
underestimated Muscovites
affection for their neighbourhoods
and failed to provide the guarantees
that many, if not all, demand.
I went to visit Natalya Panarina,
77, a retired chemist, at her home,
which is earmarked for destruction,
in the Lomonosov district. She
admits that when she and her
family moved into the brand-new
khrushchevka in 1962 her mother
was not impressed. Her first
reaction was to burst in to tears,
Ms Panarina recalled. Her father
was an award-winning engineer and
her parents had been accustomed
to spacious quarters in the town of
Satka in the Urals. They soon came
to love their cosy third-floor flat.
Ms Panarina stayed in the
building after her parents died and
lives with her cat Businka. She does
not want to leave, she says, because
relocation rules were vague.
They suggest you can be
rehoused in a neighbouring district,
and for us that could mean
somewhere right out near the
MKAD [the outer ring road] where
there are practically no facilities.
It is clear why many Muscovites
would be reluctant to give up their
homes. The area outside Ms
Panarinas building is typical: full of
slender birch and poplar trees.
There are wooden benches and a
neat childrens playground. A
woman pushes a pram down quiet
paths and a man holds open a door
so a cat can slink home.
Faced with losing beloved
neighbourhoods, a large number of
people are lobbying against the law,
due for a second reading in
parliament next month. Some
people say this is not about
politics, said Yuliya Sverchkova,

A
colleague who used to
work in Moscow once
described its suburbs
memorably as a giant
concrete sneeze.
It is true that there are great
expanses of soulless-looking high-
rises, many thrown up during
spurts of construction in the late
The khrushchevki are under
threat from a huge demolition
project that has divided the capital
and brought tens of thousands of
Muscovites on to the streets in
protest.
Sergei Sobyanin, Moscows
Kremlin-loyal mayor, says that the
blocks are uncomfortable, largely
with one million people affected.
Residents have been promised that
they will be rehoused in shiny new
high-rises, to be built in the same or
adjoining districts. Two thirds of
owners in each building must
approve demolition before it can go
ahead. Voting began last month and
will go on until June 15. Mr
everything she needs is on the
doorstep: shop, doctors clinic, bus
stop. Why should I go to some
place, God knows where, not
knowing what awaits me? she said.
Lina Tumarkina, 35, a designer
who lives on the same stairwell,
said no one was against genuinely
decrepit buildings being renovated
28, a picture editor living in a
khrushchevka ten minutes from Ms
Panarina, and who attended a rally
of 30,000 people against the
demolitions last month. But this is
a political question, about the
decisions made by our government.
Maybe if we keep up the pressure
they will see sense and back down.

We dont need overseas

aid, says Mugabes wife
Zimbabwe
Aislinn Laing Johannesburg
President Mugabes wife has declared
that non-governmental organisa-
tions are no longer welcome in
Zimbabwe since the country has
enjoyed a bumper harvest and will
not need food aid.
Grace Mugabe also claimed that
NGOs were interfering in the coun-
trys turbulent politics and suggested
that they should be vetted.
We dont need them any more
because they always want to come
here and disturb our politics, she told
an audience at a rally in Marondera,
50 miles east of Harare. We are
having a bumper harvest this year so
there is no need for NGOs any more.
Mrs Mugabes claims about the
harvest were largely borne out by the
facts. The UNs Food and Agricultur-
al Organisation said recent good
rainfall meant that Zimbabwes maize
crop, harvested over the past two
months, was better than previous
years but had still been diminished by
an outbreak of parasitic armyworm
and flooding.
However, aid agencies said that the
number of people who were short of
food had increased significantly this
year because of flooding, drought and
the knock-on effect of last years poor
harvest.
According to the World Food
Programme, 4.1 million people in
Zimbabwe, almost half of its rural
population, have struggled to find
enough food this year. The UN body
estimates that 27 per cent of children
Grace Mugabe
has become
increasingly
outspoken
in the country are stunted because of
malnutrition.
Mrs Mugabes claims that NGOs
were interfering in politics echoed
those made by her husband in the
run-up to elections. Mr Mugabe has
previously threatened to deregister
NGOs, suggesting that they were
working with the opposition Move-
ment for Democratic Change.
The Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition,
an umbrella organisation represent-
ing about 80 civil society groups,
accused Mrs Mugabe of hypocrisy
and said that the government rou-
tinely appealed to NGOs for help in
tackling hunger and sickness.
The presence of the NGOs pro-
viding food has been necessitated by
the governments incompetence and
failure to feed the starving communi-
ties. Most NGOs are responding di-
rectly to the mismanagement and
failure by the government to provide
those services, Memory Kadau, the
coalition director, told South Africas
News 24. It is public record that Zim-
babwe requested assistance from the
international community to respond
to the El Nio-induced drought.
Mrs Mugabe, 51, who is 42 years her
husbands junior, joined him in
Marondera on Friday for the first of
ten rallies across the country as
Zanu-PF steps up its campaign before
elections next year. She has become
increasingly outspoken since being
elected to run Zanu-PFs womens
league and, some believe, has ambi-
tions to inherit her husbands job.
She is also thought to be expanding
her business ventures to support her-
self and the couples three children
amid fears that the president could
soon succumb to illness.

Dubai villa does belong to Zuma

South Africa
Aislinn Laing Johannesburg
Jacob Zuma has denied that a luxury
home in Dubai has been bought on
his behalf by business associates
amid claims it may be a bolthole for
him to flee corruption allegations.
The 19 million marble, gold and
mosaic-laden villa on a golf estate is
thought to have been bought in 2015
by the Gupta brothers, who run a vast
business empire. A letter, apparently
drafted on behalf of the South Afri-
can president to the rulers of the
United Arab Emirates, in which he
asks to use the tax haven as his
second home, suggests he intended
to use the address as his own.
The draft was leaked to the South
African media among documents
and emails said to have been
exchanged by Ajay, Atul and Rajesh
Gupta and Duduzane Zuma, the
presidents son.
The Indian-born brothers are
alleged to have used their close links
to the Zuma family to win lucrative
state contracts, something they deny.
Opposition parties have laid charges
against Mr Zuma, his son and the
Guptas. An official inquiry has been
ordered into corruption allegations.
The villa was bought after a view-
ing by Rajesh Tony Gupta in 2015,
according to South Africas Sunday
Times. Reporters said that a gold
plaque on the gate read Gupta.
Mr Zumas spokesman said that the
claims were made up and he intended
to live at his estate in KwaZulu-Natal
when he retired in 2019.
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Villagers kiss hand of arrested mobster

Italy
Tom Kington Rome
Residents of a village in Calabria have
shocked Italy by lining up to kiss the
hand of a dangerous mafia boss who
was captured after some 23 years on
the run.
Locals in San Luca turned out to pay
their respects to Giuseppe The Goat
Giorgi, 56, a drug baron and one of
Italys five most wanted fugitives, as he
was led out of a house where he had
been hiding in a cavity behind a fire-
place.
A police video recording of the hand
kissing was compared in Italy to scenes
from The Godfather and was con-
demned as intolerable by Ennio Stami-
le, an activist with the anti-mafia group
Libera. This is emblematic of how
Calabria has lived for decades, he said.
Children are brought up to revere ma-
fia bosses like heroes who provide a
living.
The images brought home how
Giuseppe The
Goat Giorgi, 56,
was captured after
23 years on the run
Calabrias NDrangheta mafia
thanks to its domination of global
cocaine trafficking now earns the
kind of respect once commanded by
Sicilys Cosa Nostra, which has been
weakened by arrests.
San Luca, a village of about 4,000
inhabitants in the Aspromonte moun-
tains in the toe of Italy, has never
swayed from its loyalty to NDrangheta
despite a vicious feud between two
local clans that started when an egg
was thrown by one member at a rival in
1991.
The feud escalated into years of tit-
for-tat killings that spread to Germany,
culminating in the massacre of six
alleged members of one clan outside a
pizzeria in Duisburg in 2007.
When the local boss Antonio Pelle
died in 2009, the areas football team all
wore black armbands, and now this
month no candidate has been brave
enough to stand for elections in the
region.
Giorgi, who faces 28 years in jail for
drug smuggling and has been accused
of scuttling ships in the Mediterranean
loaded with radioactive waste, went on
the run in 1994, but police recently sus-
pected that he was back in San Luca
after wiretapping his family.
Arriving in the early hours of Friday
to avoid the attention of local lookouts,
police raided apartments lived in by
Giorgis wife and daughters, finding an
empty but still warm bed that they
suspected he had slept in.
The police punched holes in walls
with a 3ft-long drill for five hours while
the family screamed threats at them,
insisting that no one was hiding,
Federico Cafiero De Raho, the magis-
trate leading the hunt, said.
Eventually, they heard a voice call-
ing: Enough, enough, I am here, youve
found me.
Giorgi slithered out of a tiny cavity
behind a fireplace, similar to the hiding
places used by other bosses in houses
throughout San Luca. He was practi-
cally walled in, said Vincenzo Fran-
zese, one of the officers present.
Stay calm, sooner or later it had to
happen, the mafia boss told his two
daughters, both in their twenties,
before he was led out smiling by police
and proffering his hand to be kissed by
locals who had been waiting outside
the house.
Writing in La Repubblica, the
journalist and mafia chronicler Attilio
Bolzoni wrote that the kisses showed
San Luca was still stuck in the Middle
Ages.
In Sicily this happened a few
decades ago, he wrote.
In these villages perched on the
Aspromonte mountains its still going
on.

AXEL ACOSTA

Beauty queen Winemakers

joins protests
in Venezuela
M
iss Venezuela
has become
the latest of
the countrys
celebrities to
speak out against the
government of President
Maduro (Stephen Gibbs
writes).
Keysi Sayago, who will
represent Venezuela at the
Miss Universe competition
later this year, has taken
part in several recent
opposition demonstrations.
You cannot remain
indifferent about whats
happening, she said in a
speech to hopefuls for her
Miss Venezuela crown. Ive
seen it with my own eyes.
Over the past two months
there have been near-daily
demonstrations against Mr
Maduro, who is blamed for
ruling like a dictator and
presiding over the worst
economic crisis in the
countrys history. In
Caracas officers with tear
gas stopped hundreds of
demonstrators marching at
the weekend.
Ms Sayago, a mechanical
engineering graduate, said
that national guardsmen
had threatened her at one
protest. We had to run
away. Im not OK with
that, she told the pageant
contestants in their
shimmering gowns.
A student who was badly
burnt during a protest last
month died of his injuries
yesterday. Orlando Figuera,
Keysi Sayago addressed candidates to succeed her as Miss Venezuela, telling them she had been threatened by security forces
22, is the 65th fatality since
protests began in early
April. The demonstrations
started after Venezuelas
supreme court, which is
loyal to the president, tried
to usurp parliaments
powers. Mr Maduro, in
what he says is an attempt
to defuse the crisis, is
creating a constituent
assembly to redraft the
constitution.
The competition to find a
successor to Ms Sayago,
which is being held in the
northern state of Carabobo,
has another political twist:
one of the contestants is
related to Hugo Chvez.
Andrea Cristina Chvez
Snchez, 23, is the daughter
of the late presidents
cousin, who was previously
the oil and mining minister.
Venezuela holds the
record for the most Miss
World titles, having won six.
raise a glass
to lyses
new adviser
France
Adam Sage Paris
The appointment of a renowned
wine-industry lobbyist to President
Macrons staff has led to a dispute that
is pitting winemakers against health
experts.
The wine industry sees Audrey Bour-
olleau, 37, as their champion who will
defend the core values of French civili-
sation from within the apparatus of
government.
Doctors view her as a threat to public
safety and think that her beliefs will
lead to France falling into an alcoholic
stupor.
Ms Bourolleau, who has been
appointed as the presidents agri-
cultural adviser, earned her reputation
as the head of the Vin et Socit lobby
group, where she fought against laws
that restrict advertising for alcohol and
persuaded MPs to vote in legislation
that authorised the promotion of wine
tourism.
La Revue du vin de France, the wine
industrys bible, named her woman of
the year in 2014 and has now welcomed
her appointment to Mr Macrons team.
However, 11 associations and health
experts involved in the struggle against
alcohol addiction have published a
statement expressing their concern,
saying: The risk is that agricultural
and wine policy will be implemented to
the detriment of an efficient fight
against the harmful consumption of
alcohol.
France exported wine and spirits
worth 11.6 billion last year, making it
the countrys second-most lucrative
product, after aircraft.
Amine Benyamina, chairman of the
French Federation for the Study of

Thief poses as pilgrim to snatch Italian saints brain
Tom Kington
Police in northern Italy set up road
blocks at the weekend in the hunt for a
thief who posed as a pilgrim and stole
part of the brain of St John Bosco, one
of the countrys best-loved saints.
He entered the church at Castelnuo-
vo honouring the 19th-century saint
and made off with a glass case contain-
ing the relic, to which devotees pray.
John Bosco, during a lifetime work-
ing with children in Turin, founded the
Salesian religious order which aids the
poor. He was canonised in 1934.
Cesare Nosiglia, the archbishop of
Turin, condemned the profound
moral misery of whoever takes such a
symbol, which is to be worshipped by
all. With little resale value, investiga-
tors suspect that the thief plans to
demand a ransom for the brains release
or to use it in satanic rites, during
which Christian symbols are defiled.
Body parts said to belong to saints,
which were bought and sold in the
Middle Ages, are prized in Catholic
churches around Europe today and
have often been targeted by thieves.
In 1983 a priest is said to have stolen
Jesuss foreskin from a church near
Rome, and a phial of Pope John Paul IIs
blood was stolen in 2014.
The most spectacular theft was in
1991, when three armed, masked men
sent by Felice Maniero, an underworld
boss, stole the chin of St Anthony from
a church in Padua. The plot was foiled
when the chin was intercepted by police
as it was about to be sent to South
America.
Years later Maniero said that the
heist had got off to a bad start when his
men got their body parts mixed up. I
ordered them to grab the tongue of St
Anthony, which would have been
worth more in a trade, but those block-
heads came back with the chin, he said.
Addiction, said that alcohol was
responsible for 50,000 deaths a year in
France, and that Ms Bourolleaus role
at the lyse would mean that wine-
makers interests shaped agricultural
policy.
I trust Emmanuel Macron but it is
my duty to tell him to be careful. We
know Audrey Bourolleau and we will
be vigilant to ensure that her advice
does not run counter to the general
interest, he said.
An lyse spokesman dismissed the
criticism, saying that her role covered
agricultural affairs and would not cover
public health policy.
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Interest rate rise could
ruin 80,000 businesses
Fourfold increase in companies at risk
Philip Aldrick Economics Editor low rates of 0.25 per cent are keeping
unviable, over-indebted zombie firms
One in 25 businesses, or nearly 80,000 on life support and tying up capital that
enterprises, would struggle to handle could otherwise be directed at more
an increase in interest rates of as little as productive businesses that would drive
a quarter of a percentage point, accord- stronger economic growth.
ing to research by the insolvency trade Andy Haldane, the Bank of En-
body, in the clearest sign yet of the frag- glands chief economist, has conceded
ile state of corporate balance sheets. that, by keeping zombie companies
It is thought that some 79,000 going, low rates may be one of the
businesses would be unable to repay causes of the nations chronically weak
their debts if rates were to rise, four productivity.
times as many as in September when The increase in companies at risk of
the Association of Business Recovery financial distress has come as the
Professionals, or R3 as it is known, economy has slowed and as currency
conducted a similar survey. hedges protecting firms against higher
The research also revealed that import costs have dropped away. Input
96,000 companies are only paying costs for businesses have been rising at
interest on their borrowings and failing more than 15 per cent largely because of
to clear their debts. the cheap pound.
The findings are likely to revive Andrew Tate, a spokesman for R3,
concerns from economists that ultra- said: This is the first increase in the
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number of businesses worried they
would be unable to cope with an inter-
est rate rise since 2014, and it coincides
with a period of slower-than-expected
growth and a small rise in corporate
insolvency numbers.
The sharp fall in the pound has
made things difficult for importers,
while a rising national living wage and
the rollout of pension auto-enrolment
have added to businesses running
costs.
Mr Tate said that only repaying the
interest is also a common characteristic
of a zombie business and that rising
inflation, which has soared from 0.3 per
cent in April last year to 2.7 per cent,
could deal companies a double blow.
High inflation is driving up costs and
should the Bank respond by raising
rates the double whammy could
create more problems. The research
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For the moment, with rates at a
record low, the number of companies in
financial distress is falling, R3 said. On-
ly 25,000 companies are struggling to
pay debts compared with the high of
134,000 in May 2013. Fewer companies
have had to renegotiate payment terms
with their creditors, the survey also
found.
Strong growth is the best defence
against corporate distress but the
growth slowed to just 0.2 per cent in the
first three months of the year, down
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in sterling
Robert Lea Industrial Editor
Britains exporters and builders
merchants brushed off Brexit fears,
with both sectors reporting a strong
start to 2017.
The devaluation in the pound as well
as a rise in confidence in global markets
has resulted in a surge in perform-
ance at overseas-facing British manu-
facturers, according to the engineering
bosses federation, the EEF.
Builders merchants meanwhile re-
ported a growth in business of 6 per
cent well above GDP in the open-
ing months of the year during which
the housebuilding industry finally
clicked into gear, helped by generally
fair weather.
After the latest quarterly survey of its
members, the EEF said confidence in
industry was such that the federation
was revising up its forecasts of eco-
nomic growth in manufacturing. It said
it now expected the sector to expand in
2017 by 1.3 per cent against a previous
forecast of 1 per cent.
Though the EEF is still predicting a
manufacturing slowdown in 2018 it
reckons that it will continue to grow at
a rate of 0.5 per cent rather than the 0.1
per cent it had previously feared.
As manufacturing remains such a
relatively small part of the economy,
the EEF admitted that its revisions did
not move the dial for GDP in general. It
still expects GDP growth of 1.8 per cent
this year and 1.3 per cent next.
The survey found that 61 per cent of
manufacturers were reporting better
demand from European markets.
Employment intentions and demand
for new labour were both at three-year
highs in the sector, having improved for
three consecutive quarters.
The proportion of manufacturers re-
porting an increase in output and or-
ders was 25 percentage points higher
than those reporting a decline.
The recovery in manufacturing
globally is a big part of the story, Lee
Hopley, the EEFs chief economist, said.
Its very encouraging that UK manu-
facturers have positioned themselves
to capitalise on . . . a competitive pound
and resurgent world economy.
Growth and confidence hasnt been
knocked off track by the snap election,
but it is not plain sailing from here.
Whoever forms the next government
must set in stone as a matter of urgency
a bold industrial strategy.
Separately, the GFK market research
agency said its latest builders mer-
chants building index found the sector
grew by 5.9 per cent in the first quarter.
Sales of tools, ironmongery and timber
and joinery were particularly strong.
Growth in global trade, page 42
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on its food
delivery map
Deirdre Hipwell Retail Editor
Amazon is to deliver food to another 42
postcodes in the south east of England
as its aggressive assault on the online
grocery market continues.
As it approaches the first anniversary
of its UK launch, Amazon Fresh will
announce this week it is extending food
deliveries to new areas in Hertfordshire
and Bedfordshire. The expansion
means that Amazon Prime members
from Watford and St Albans to Berk-
hamsted and Luton will be able to order
their weekly shop.
Following the expansion Amazon
Fresh will be available in 302 postcodes
across London and the South East in a
move that will put pressure on Ocado,
its rival online food retailer. Jeff Bezos,
Amazons chief executive, who once de-
scribed his approach to the publishing
industry as a cheetah pursuing a sickly
gazelle, has made it clear that there is
Greens Arcadia hit by 16% profits fall BA owners
Alexandra Frean
Sir Philip Green is understood to have
earmarked most of his 100 million
investment in his struggling Arcadia
fashion empire to boost online shop-
ping in a bid to combat sliding sales at
Topshop.
The Monaco-based tycoon is
thought to have appointed McKinsey
to advise him on e-commerce at the
group, which also owns Dorothy Per-
kins, Wallis, Burton and Miss Selfridge.
Sales at his holding company Taveta
Investments fell by 2.5 per cent to just
over 2 billion in the year to August
2016 and profits fell 16 per cent to
211 million, according to a source.
The figures, were submitted in a
filing at Companies House last week
but are not yet public.
The accounts are also understood to
show that Taveta invested 100 million
in Arcadia last year. The bulk is thought
to have gone into boosting sales online
no sector of retail, including online
food delivery, which Amazon does not
want to dominate.
Market experts speculate that Ama-
zon Freshs rapid expansion and its sur-
prise tie-up with Morrisons, which
already had a 25-year supply contract
with Ocado, is starting to eat market
share in the south east from Ocado, the
UKs main pure play online food pro-
tagonist.
Ocado took 15 years to turn its first
modest profit and has long been a stock
that investors either love or hate. How-
ever, Ocado has achieved its own coup
after finally delivering on its promised
deal to license its proprietary techno-
logy Ocado Smart Platform to an
international retailer. Yesterday the
company, started by former Goldman
Sachs bankers, said that it had signed a
deal with a European grocery retailer. It
did not disclose the name of the retailer
because of commercial sensitivities but
and overseas. In the previous year,
Arcadias overall sales, excluding BHS,
were flat, while online sales rose by
nearly 24 per cent.
Sir Philip is said to be 200 per cent
focused on Arcadia again, as he reor-
ganises and reinvests in the business
and attempts to put past troubles be-
hind him after two difficult years.
His BHS chain went into administra-
tion in April last year, resulting in
11,000 job losses and leaving a 571 mil-
lion deficit in the pension fund. It failed
just over a year after Sir Philip sold it for
1 to a consortium led by Dominic
Chappell, a serial bankrupt.
More than 100 MPs passed a motion
calling for him to be stripped of his
knighthood and labelled him a billion-
aire spiv. He has since paid 363 mil-
lion from his own funds to help top up
the pension fund, but critics say this is
not enough.
Falling sales at Taveta, while signifi-
cant, came during a year when Arca-
Amazon Fresh is to start delivering groceries to parts of Bedfordshire and
said that the transaction would be the
first of multiple deals in the medium
term.
Ajay Kavan, vice-president of Ama-
zon Fresh, said there was no doubt that
the UK grocery sector was one of the
most competitive in the world. Speak-
ing to The Times, he said: We recog-
nised from day one that the bar in UK
grocery is high but we have always be-
lieved that the key to long-term success
in Fresh is offering a vast selection at
low prices with an excellent customer
dias Wallis and Dorothy Perkins labels
lost a third of their retail space when
BHS went out of business, and amid a
wider squeeze on the high street.
Online sales rose 16 per cent last year,
but rising food costs and utility bills
have left households with less disposa-
ble income and a reduced desire to
spend on non-essentials.
The latest high street sales tracker
from BDO showed that year-on-year
sales in the fashion sector fell by 3.6 per
cent last month. BDO said sales were
down for the first three weeks of May
and that the drop in sales suggested a
worrying downward spiral for clothing
retailers.
Separate data from Ipsos Retail
Performance shows that consumers
avoided the high street in May, with
shopper numbers falling by 4.2 per cent,
despite the bank holiday and warmer
weather.
Representatives of Sir Philip and
McKinsey declined to comment.
experience. We said we would take our
time and be methodical but a year since
we launched we are really pleased with
the take-up and the response.
When Amazon Fresh launched last
June it offered 130,000 products in 69
postcodes. Now it has 180,000 products
from fresh produce and baked goods
to homewares, electronics, pet supplies
and health and beauty products and
has more than quadrupled the areas it
supplies. Mr Kavan said Amazon was
also very pleased with its relationship
board does
not get IT
Alexandra Frean
The owner of British Airways is facing
criticism for not having enough board-
level IT expertise after a computer
glitch disrupted the journeys of about
75,000 passengers and cost the com-
pany an estimated 150 million.
Glass Lewis, an influential share-
holder advisory group, said that the
board of International Airlines Group,
which owns Iberia and Aer Lingus as
well as BA, needed to add more non-ex-
ecutives with specialist IT knowledge,
according to reports.
We believe the board should con-
sider bolstering the IT experience of its
non-executive cohort, particularly in
light of the fact that . . . only one of the
the times | Monday June 5 2017 1GM
Hertfordshire, as figures show the average online food shop is worth $83.40
with Morrisons and said that some of its
products, such as its semi-skimmed
milk, were among the top sellers.
Amazon and Ocado are competing
for market share in one of the most ad-
vanced online food markets in the
world. Last week data from Kantar
Worldpanel showed that Britain
topped a poll for the largest online food
baskets in the world for the second-year
running. The information group said
that the average expenditure on a UK
online grocery basket was $83.40,
currently serving non-executive di-
rectors has IT experience, Glass Lewis
warned before the companys annual
meeting next week. The group also
highlighted criticism of Bill Francis,
IAGs global head of IT, for his lack of
experience.
The comments reflect a growing
frustration that many companies have
boards made up of directors who are
too old and out of date to understand
advanced information technology.
Those over 50 probably never studied
IT and most will never have gone on to
learn what it really is, one expert said.
Roger Rawlinson, managing director
of NCC, a cybersecurity company, said
that there was a lack of awareness at
board level of how to prevent
cyberattacks and what to do once they
occur.
A lot of boards simply havent
thought it through, he said. BA is not
the only company to have problems
with technology. When it does go
wrong, you need to be on top of it.
BA has said that the IT shutdown was
caused by an internal power surge.
IAG declined to comment.
DAVID RYDER/BLOOMBERG/GETTY
which was far higher than the second-
place France where basket sizes aver-
aged $68.60. More importantly, Kantar
Worldpanel said that there was signifi-
cant capacity for the market to grow
because fewer than one third of UK
households bought their groceries on-
line. Mr Kavan said that Amazon was
really focused on Amazon Fresh and
there were no plans to expand outside
southern England, but we have
launched in Japan [nine weeks ago] and
in Berlin [five weeks ago].
Creative firms will suffer
if immigration is cut back
Dominic Walsh
The video game and film industries
have become the latest to warn about
the impact of a shortage of European
workers after Brexit.
The Creative Industries Federation
said that most of its members believed
that restricting immigration would hin-
der their businesses.
Of those surveyed by the federation,
75 per cent said that they employed EU
nationals from outside Britain and
61 per cent used non-British freelan-
cers. Most said that these positions
could not be filled by British workers.
The federations 1,000-plus members
are drawn from a varied background,
from architecture to video games, pub-
lishing to performance and creative
technology to craft and design, as well
as universities, colleges and conserva-
Ocado deal
arrives over
a year late
Deirdre Hipwell
Ocado first promised to sign a licensing
deal with a third-party international
retailer by the end of 2015 but failed to
deliver. Now, 18 months late, the
online grocery company has finally
announced a deal with a European
regional retailer.
Even though the retailer that has
signed up to use Ocados proprietary
smart platform technology has not
been named the contract is still signifi-
cant. Much of the growth story for Oca-
do depends on it not only becoming
more efficient in deliveries but also in
licensing its technology to retailers
around the world. Until the deal with
the mystery European grocer, only
Waitrose and Morrisons had signed
substantive deals. Ocado also had to
change the terms of its original contract
with Morrisons after the grocer started
to sell food through Amazon.
Ocado said yesterday that its new
European partner had signed up to use
its full software platform and its know-
how and support services required to
create an efficient and intelligent on-
line grocery business with orders ini-
tially fulfilled from their manually op-
erated centralised warehouse. The re-
tailer will pay an upfront fee and then
extra sums based on the volume of
products sold online. The retailer has
not signed up for Ocados full automat-
ed mechanical handling equipment
robot food-goods pickers in central-
ised warehouses but has the right to
request it in the future.
Tim Steiner, chief executive of Oca-
do, said the deal was an exciting step in
the evolution of our business. He
added: Our discussions with other re-
tailers across the globe are ongoing and
we continue to expect to sign multiple
deals in the medium term.
The failure to sign a European deal
was in danger of becoming a millstone
around Ocados neck. As long as 16
months ago executives were talking up
the prospects, saying the online super-
market was in talks with multiple
partners and some of the negotiations
were at a very advanced stage.
Having missed its self-imposed 2015
deadline for a deal Mr Steiner refused
to announce a new target date. He said
in February that Ocado had not been
experienced enough in understanding
all of the hurdles to get to the finishing
line with a foreign retailer.
toires. More than half said that they
were already struggling to cope with
skills shortages.
John Kampfner, the federations chief
executive, said: Securing talent is the
biggest challenge facing the creative
sector today and restricting immigra-
tion will make this even more difficult.
He said that EU nationals were fill-
ing skills gaps not being met by our own
education system and that there would
have to be an overhaul of the existing
system to prevent not only the creative
sector from losing out post-Brexit but
also sectors such as engineering,
science and technology.
Ian Livingstone, chairman of Sumo
Digital, a Sheffield-based game devel-
opment studio, said: Hiring the best
overseas talent does not displace Brit-
ish jobs, it helps to secure them.
John Kampfner, page 44
Whiplash backlash
will hurt us all
business commentary Katherine Griffiths
A
s one of the least popular
of Theresa Mays
ministers, Liz Truss may
be packing her bags this
week after a cabinet
reshuffle if, of course, the Tories are
re-elected. Not a lawyer by training,
the justice secretary has been
subject to multiple attacks at the
ministry, particularly for her
perceived lack of support for the
judiciary over its stance on Brexit.
There is also dissatisfaction with her
advocacy for the legal profession,
something that some senior lawyers
claim shows a lack of independence
from Downing Street.
The irony is that for many in the
business world, the legal profession
is already overweening and should
have its voice heard less, not more.
One area of friction is whiplash
reform and the way in which
compensation for catastrophic
injuries is calculated, known as the
Odgen rate. Unless it is rethought,
an updating of Ogden in February
will increase costs to the NHS, the
biggest payer of compensation for
serious injuries, by 6 billion.
The insurance industry and
lawyers have their own self-
interested positions in the debate.
Insurers urge an end to the
compensation culture that has
jacked up car insurance claims and
their costs. Lawyers want access to
payouts for the victims of crimes
and accidents, which comes with
fees for themselves.
It may become clear soon which
way the government will come
down in this fight. If Mrs May wins
on Thursday, she would have a few
days to consider the leadership of
the justice department before
deciding whether to include reform
of whiplash and Ogden in the
Queens speech on June 19.
There is talk that Ms Truss may
be replaced by Brandon Lewis, a
Home Office minister in charge of
the fire and police services. Lawyers
would be pleased no doubt that Mr
Lewis qualified as a barrister and so
is one of their own. They should
curb their celebrations. An
escalation of claims costs creates a
bill that someone has to pay. That
will be taxpayers, for the extra costs
on the NHS and insurance
policyholders. Whoever is running
the ministry should consider that
when lobbying starts.
No surrender
P
owerful forces are at work in
the mysterious world of
international bank regulation.
Last week John Cryan, the British
chief executive of Deutsche Bank,
said that European banks should
not surrender to American
attempts to bulldozer through
changes to the risk assessment of
their lending books, which could
require banks to hold much more
capital.
The struggle is coming to a head,
with politicians and regulators keen
to get an agreement on the capital
rules known as Basel IV before the
next meeting of the G20 in July.
The issue may seem over there,
with the changes being shepherded
through by Switzerlands Basel
Committee on Banking Supervision,
41
Business
but they will become real over here.
Britains biggest lenders are allowed
to attach relatively small risk
probabilities to their mortgage
loans, reflecting the fact that their
portfolios are largely made up of
conservative loans that rarely sour.
American banks offload their
mortgage lending to the
government-owned entities Fannie
Mae and Freddie Mac and so riskier
commercial and unsecured loans
make up a higher proportion of
their books. But if the Americans
get their way, internal models will
be curtailed and British and
continental banks will have to
increase their risk weights. That will
force them to hold more capital
against their loans. The changes
may not be enforced for several
years, but if banks know they have
to move in a certain direction, the
result will be more expensive loans
and constrained mortgage
availability. For anyone hoping their
home will be their nest-egg in years
to come, that would be bad news.
Its a waiting game
A
nyone in the City feeling
warm and fuzzy after Theresa
May had cosied up to
business in the past few days with
warm words about her Brexit
priorities may want to think again.
One of Londons experts on
financial regulation has a different
view. Simon Gleeson, a partner at
Clifford Chance, the law firm, to
whom banks and officials are
turning for expertise on the rules
that govern European financial
services, said in Brussels last week
that he believed there would be a
hard Brexit with no agreement. In
that situation, he added, there is a
real risk that supervision of major
European firms will simply fall
apart.
Mrs Mays comments seem ill-
considered and vague. The City
hopes that she is keeping her cards
close to her chest before serious
negotiations start. They have little
choice but to wait and see.
Knockout blow
T
his week a trial could start at
which Fred Goodwin gives
evidence. Most shareholders
suing Royal Bank of Scotland over
its disastrous 12 billion rights issue
are ready to settle for 82p a share,
but a group, mainly of staff, is
holding out. If the group gets
funding, the case could start on
Wednesday. It is unlikely that they
will raise the 7 million or more
needed to push ahead. That could
mean RBS is off the hook, a travesty
of justice in many peoples eyes.
It is also a case study for Lloyds,
which faces a class action this year
over its purchase of HBOS in 2008.
Those involved will have noticed
that RBS litigants who held out got
twice as much compensation as
those who settled early. If Lloyds
fears it is on shaky ground, a
knockout compensation offer in
summer could spare it months of
distraction.
katherine.griffiths@thetimes.co.uk
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Tough times put nightclub owners float on ice

Dominic Walsh
Britains biggest nightclub operator has
put a stock-market listing on ice until
next year because of challenging trad-
ing conditions and pending completion
of a refurbishment of some venues.
A year ago Deltic Group, created
from the ashes of Luminar, had indicat-
ed that it was preparing to appoint ad-
visers to consider strategic options, in-
cluding an initial public offering or pri-
vate equity sale, within 18 months.
Yesterday, however, Peter Marks, its
chief executive, said that he was not
considering any corporate activity for
now and was instead focusing on com-
pleting 20 refurbishments by the end of
next summer.
It has been suggested that Deltic
could take advantage of the plunge in
the share price of Revolution Bars
Group after a surprise profit warning
and look at reversing into the company,
although Mr Marks played down the
idea. You couldnt say never, but its too
early to say, he said. The share-price
fall seems quite an overreaction but if
the market continues to overreact
youve got to consider all options. But
were not actively looking at anything
right now.
We will always be opportunistic on
acquisitions or mergers, but were not
actively looking at anything because
we feel were in transition and still have
more to do. We need to have a story
thats robust and a tail thats fixed.
Asked whether he had appointed ad-
visers to a possible IPO or other type of
exit, he said: Our view on advisers is
that until we are happy we have got the
right story and have caught up on the
investment backlog, we should hold off.
But hopefully that will happen within a
year, macro factors permitting.
The group, which has 57 venues
under such brands as Pryzm, Atik and
Bar&Beyond, is investing 8.1 million,
down slightly on the 8.4 million it in-
vested last year, although that included
the one-off 2.5 million cost of opening
a large Pryzm in Birmingham.
Today Deltic will report a fall in un-
derlying earnings from 13.4 million to
11.5 million in the year to February 25
in a challenging trading environment
while it also decided to implement a
more aggressive depreciation policy in
line with best practice.
Turnover improved by 1 million to
102 million as admissions increased by
1.7 per cent on a like-for-like basis to 7.2
million, although the spend per head,
excluding VAT, fell by 80p to 14.09. Mr
14.09
The average spend per head at a Deltic
Group nightclubs, down 80p in a year
Marks said: The late-night sector
faced challenges from which we were
not immune. Nevertheless, as the
market leader with a strong balance
sheet we were able to continue to invest
in long-term growth opportunities.
He said that this year had started well
and the absence of a football tourna-
ment would help summer trading, al-
though the company had to swallow an
extra 1 million in costs from business
rates, the living wage and duty.
Asked about consumer confidence,
he said: I would say its OK. I dont see
any impact from Brexit. I think our con-
sumer remains price-sensitive and re-
mains driven by occasions. Theyll go
out a bit less but spend a bit more. Im
pretty flat on the future, to be frank. I
dont see it as being particularly good or
bad.
Luminar, which at its peak had more
than 300 nightclubs and discotheques,
went bust in 2011 and Mr Marks led a
34 million rescue backed a consortium
of private investors.

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Relations
World Bank
sour in forecasts
pre-Brexit 4% rise in
sugar war global trade

T
he opening shots Philip Aldrick Economics Editor
have been fired in
what is likely to be Global trade will defy fears of protec-
one of the first and tionism in America to grow at its fastest
fiercest battles to pace this year since 2014, according to
shape post-Brexit trade World Bank forecasts. Having slowed
policy (Marcus Leroux for two years, global trade volumes are
writes). expected to rise 4 per cent this year. The
British Sugar has world economy is forecast to expand by
embarked on a Back British 2.7 per cent, up from 2.4 per cent in 2016.
Sugar campaign, in Until 2015, global trade had been ex-
opposition to Tate & Lyle panding more rapidly than global GDP
Sugars, which campaigned but that trend was reversed amid a fall
to leave the EU. British in Chinese growth and sluggish invest-
Sugar, part of Associated ment. With the election of President
British Foods, produces its Trump last year and a groundswell of
Silver Spoon brand from support for populist parties in Europe
British beet, but Tate & there had been fears that trade could
Lyles sugar is refined from suffer another setback.
imported cane. The World Bank warned in its Global
British Sugar is effectively Economic Prospects report that pro-
the monopsony sole tectionism remained a threat but said
buyer for the production British Sugar makes its Silver Spoon from British beet whereas Tate & Lyles products are made in London from imported cane that, so far, there was little evidence of
of Britains 3,500 growers it. Protectionist measures do not
and makes two-thirds of restrictions on cane imports Tate & Lyle says Brexit is cane sugar in 2015, pushing trading environment appear to have been a significant factor
Britains sugar. to protect beet growers, but a golden opportunity for it to a 21 million loss. broadly equalises some of behind weak trade since the global fi-
Farmed commodities, and it has been liberalising in Britain to revive cane sugar Paul Kenward, managing those distortions. nancial crisis, the World Bank said.
sugar in particular, are a recent years. In September refining. It claims that EU director of British Sugar, Gerald Mason, of Tate & The number of new trade restric-
common source of trade an EU restriction on beet protectionism has restricted said that imported cane Lyle, said: The EU has a tions in 2016 was broadly in line with
disputes because of state production will be phased choice and led to it halving from Brazil or Thailand cheap white sugar policy previous years. And although the use of
subsidies and claims of out. The consequences for the size of its UK refining benefits from state and an expensive raw sugar non-tariff restrictions appears to have
protectionism. The EU has cane producers who export business. The company paid subsidies, which creates a policy. Thats what makes increased, their dampening effect has
historically had tight to the EU could be stark. an extra 34 million for raw distortion and the current us uncompetitive. been limited. Nevertheless, an expand-
ing stock of restrictions and growing
uncertainty about the direction of
trade policy in some major economies
could have a material negative impact.
Shearings grows again thanks Turkish pizza group seeks slice Despite the recent improvement in
world trade, the possibility of rising
to the adventurous over-50s of action on London exchange trade protectionism has become a
major source of concern.
Global trade growth hit a low of
Dominic Walsh National Holidays and owns the Coast Dominic Walsh admission will be Tom Singer, a former 2.5 per cent last year, just above the
& Country and Bay hotel brands, spent finance director of Intercontinental World Banks estimate of 2.4 per cent
When James Smith started operating 4.6 million on upgrading its 44 hotels, The restaurant company that has the Hotels Group, Bupa and William Hill. GDP growth. The trade recovery began
coach tours from Wigan and Southport taking total investment over the past Dominos Pizza franchise in Turkey, The company has 488 stores in in the second half of the year, supported
in 1914 the first was to John oGroats. three years to almost 13 million, and Russia, Azerbaijan and Georgia will an- Turkey, 76 in Russia, four in Azerbaijan by stronger industrial activity. Signs of
More than a century later, Shearings more cash was ploughed into its 240 nounce plans today to float on the and three in Georgia. It has been owned higher levels of investment this year are
Leisure Group, as it is called, runs holi- coaches and IT infrastructure. London Stock Exchange. DP Eurasia, since 2010 by Turkmen Private Equity expected to support the trade recovery.
days and hotel breaks to 170 destina- Richard Calvert, the chief executive, which has 571 stores, hopes to raise and Aslan Saranga, DP Eurasias chief For the first time in years, the World
tions in Europe and beyond. Today the said: The kind of short breaks and 20 million to support expansion in executive since its inception in 1996, Banks forecast was not revised lower
group, controlled by Lone Star Funds, a holidays that todays over 50s want has Russia, while current shareholders plan when it opened its first store in Istanbul. from its January outlook but held
US private equity house, reports its changed beyond recognition. Were to sell almost half their holdings. This year it intends to open 70 new steady at 2.7 per cent. Eurozone growth
fourth successive year of growth in healthier and more adventurous than The group would become the third stores 30 in Turkey, Azerbaijan and was revised up from 1.5 per cent to
sales, profits and passengers. ever, and as interested in walking Dominos master franchisee to float on Georgia and 40 in Russia with a 1.7 per cent this year and by 0.1 percent-
In the year to December, Shearings, holidays in Austria and river cruises on the exchange after Dominos Pizza target of opening of 70 to 90 more age points in 2018 and 2019.
which targets the grey pound, lifted un- the Rhine as hotel breaks on the Group and DP Poland. DP Eurasia an- stores a year over the medium term. Apart from protectionism, the World
derlying earnings by 13 per cent to Cornish coast. nounced that, at admission on July 3, Last year DP Eurasia reported adjust- Bank said the biggest threat to global
10.3 million on the back of improved Shearings is the product of a series of Peter Williams, formerly chief execu- ed underlying profits of 16.6 million. growth came from an increase in bor-
gross margins and a tight rein on costs. mergers and acquisitions throughout tive of Selfridges, would become chair- Like-for-like sales grew by 7 per cent in rowing costs for emerging markets,
Revenues for the year rose 3 per cent its history. In 1982 James Smith & Co man. Mr Williams is chairman of Turkey and 41.6 per cent in Russia. It many of which are heavily indebted.
to 207.2 million, and passenger num- by then known as Smiths Happiways Boohoo.com and senior independent said trading in the first quarter of this The reassuring news is that trade is
bers grew by 4 per cent to 1.12 million. became part of a rival business launched director of Rightmove. Also joining the year had remained strong, with adjust- recovering, Paul Romer, the World
The group, which also trades under by Henry Shearing in Oldham in 1919. board as a non-executive director at ed underlying earnings up 40 per cent. Banks chief economist, said.
the times | Monday June 5 2017 1GM
Mark Littlewood
Politicians choose to bicker over the
money tree rather than help it grow
The belief that our
elected
representatives
often come across as
evasive, insincere
and mealy mouthed is largely due to
contorted linguistic customs and
practices that they all seem to adopt.
They dont talk in the same way that
ordinary people do and are prone to
use phrases that can often mean the
exact opposite of their normal
definition. If a friend or colleague
starts a sentence by saying that they
wish to be absolutely clear, the
words that follow will tend to be
straightforward and unambiguous.
When a politician begins a statement
by intimating that they are about to
be, or have been, clear, what
typically comes out of their mouths is
opaque, vague and difficult to
understand.
In short, politicians tend to use
words in an attempt to signal their
own virtues, rather than to accurately
describe the world around them. An
irritating example in recent years has
been that the noun families must
always be preceded by the adjective
hardworking. In fact, as household
incomes have increased, over the
years, average working hours have,
unsurprisingly, fallen. By and large,
people will seek to secure more
leisure time as wages rise and they
can more readily afford not merely
the bare essentials of life but a wide
range of luxuries as well. But woe
betide any political party that doesnt
seek to empathise with how hard life
is for the average citizen, even if the
prevailing data shows that their
position is measurably improving.
Similarly, no politician will ever say
they are on the side of idle single
people, even if such a demographic
clearly exists and is probably growing.
This election period has borne
witness to the emergence of another
piece of unhelpful and inaccurate
campaigning jargon. Most politicians
have an inability to mouth the word
manifesto without also spitting out
the prefix fully costed. This has had
the effect of reducing arguments over
tax and spending to an unedifying
spat over bean-counting rather than
allowing any real room for parties to
spell out a rather more general, but
much more important, strategic
vision for the future of Britain.
Of course, in a narrow sense, if our
putative prime minister wants to
spend billions more on government
programmes, it is reasonable to query
how he or she intends to go about
paying for it. Similarly, a pledge to
cap, or even reduce, the tax take in
certain areas, invites the question as
to which areas of spending might face
a corresponding squeeze
However, the uncomfortable truth
is that a governments economic
policy does not operate in a vacuum.
Changing the rate of a particular tax
or altering the level of acceptable
government borrowing is not the
same as altering the volume on your
television set. Fiscal policy has a
profound impact across the wider
economy and although these effects
are often unpredictable and even
unverifiable, that does not make them
any less real.
The Labour Party has put forward a
range of proposed tax rises
amounting to 48.6 billion, which, to
one decimal point, is intended to pay
exactly for 48.6 billion of promised
additional state spending. In reality,
governments rarely achieve a level of
accuracy anything like this precise,
with politicians tending to be too
optimistic about the amount of tax
they can raise as well as the ability of
the state to keep spending under
control. But even more uncertain are
the dynamic effects of policies.
Labours plan to increase corporation
tax to 26 per cent will clearly generate
some revenue. It is possible, albeit
unlikely, that it will actually raise
more revenue than the current, lower
level. But what impact will it have on
economic growth, inward investment
and job creation? Even a relatively
mild adverse effect in any of these
Families are not as hardworking as in
the past, whatever the politicians say
areas could punch a multibillion
pound hole in the partys entire plan,
rendering an attempt to measure
income and expenditure to the
nearest 100m a pointless exercise.
However, because these wider effects
arent easily subject to precise
mathematical modelling, we lazily fall
back on an assumption that the
governments role in the economy is
simply configured on a one pound in,
one pound out basis. Politicians
therefore craft policies on the cynical
and binary basis that if you rob Peter
to pay Paul then you can be pretty
confident of securing Pauls vote.
Because it is easier to focus on
discussions about how to divide up a
pie than it is to consider what is
needed to make a bigger, tastier pie,
this election campaign has been more
about rudimentary mathematics
and some leading politicians have not
even shown mastery of this than it
has been about profound economics.
In fairness to the Conservative Party,
they shied away from producing their
own vast tax and spending
spreadsheet. But they havent filled
that vacuum with any overarching
narrative, they have filled it with trite
soundbites.
Despite claims to the contrary, the
government of Britain does, in fact,
have access to a magic money tree.
That money tree is the
entrepreneurial and dynamic private
sector which, despite all the barriers
and restrictions thrown in its way,
somehow continues to drive the
economy forward. Ensuring this tree
can flourish and grow is the route to
greater and more widespread
prosperity.
If the next government can nudge
the UKs economic growth up from
about 2 per cent to about 3 per cent,
then average incomes will rise by
more than a third rather than by
barely a fifth over the next decade.
Rather than addressing this central
issue, politicians are simply
squabbling about how much fruit they
can rip from the tree and which
branches to use as firewood. That
paints a pretty depressing picture for
Britain over the
longer term,
whatever the
outcome of
Thursdays election.
Mark Littlewood is director-general
of the Institute of Economic Affairs
Oliver Kamm
Why Trumps deficit of
understanding puts the
global economy in peril
I
t will sound extraordinary but
here goes: the global economy
is in danger of stalling because
the leader of the free world
doesnt know how to add up.
Meeting EU officials last week,
President Trump reportedly
complained that the Germans are
bad, very bad for running a trade
surplus with the US and pledged to
block German car exports to the US.
In January he proposed a 35 per
cent tariff on imports of German
cars. He also floated the idea to
Angela Merkel of a bilateral trade
deal evidently unaware that
Germany negotiates no deals
separately from the EU.
Mr Trumps ideas on trade
threaten needless damage to global
growth and its important to be clear
why. The commonsense answer is
that discriminating against German
UK current account balance
as % of GDP 4 wed expect the US to be a deficit
2
0
-2
-4
-6
Source: ONS
-8
1997 01 03 05 07 09 11 13 15 17
imports will provoke retaliation by
the EU, which will be entitled to do
this under World Trade
Organisation rules. But thats not all.
Its a misconception that Germanys
wide current-account surplus
derives from unfair trade policies.
Nor does it follow that imposing
import tariffs on surplus countries
would shrink the US trade deficit.
The essential reason why the US
runs a wide current-account deficit
is nothing to do with the trade
policies of the EU or China, or a lack
of US competitiveness. Its because
the US has a low and declining
savings ratio. A country that runs a
current-account deficit has more
investment opportunities than can
be met by domestic savings.
Conversely, a country with a big
current-account surplus, like
Germany or China, has an excess of
domestic savings, which is invested
overseas.
Under the postwar Bretton Woods
system of fixed exchange rates, the
advanced industrial economies
maintained controls on capital
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flows. The era of fixed exchange
rates ended in the early 1970s but
capital controls persisted right up to
the 1980s. Since their abolition,
weve been in a different age.
Inevitably, in a world of capital
mobility, not all countries will have
current-account balances that sum
to zero.
Even so, does it not make sense
for the US to try and reduce its
current-account deficit as Mr
Trump proposes? It doesnt, for two
reasons. First, imposing tariffs on
imports from surplus countries will
have no direct effect on the US
deficit, as this wont affect US
savings and investment. The only
way of reducing the deficit is by
increasing domestic savings relative
to investment.
Second, theres nothing
intrinsically wrong with being a
deficit country, nor anything healthy
about running a surplus. Indeed,
country because it provides the rest
of the world with a vital service: a
universally recognised reserve
currency for international
transactions. If the rest of the world
stopped wanting dollars, then the
dollar would depreciate and the
current account would move
towards balance.
The US is not being unfairly
exploited by other countries: far
from it. But a British perspective
yields a slightly different lesson.
There is something worrisome
about our own external imbalance.
The UK current-account deficit
narrowed sharply at the end of last
year but this reflects weakness
rather than success. The sharp
depreciation of sterling in the past
year reflects a rational judgment by
international investors that the risk
of holding sterling-denominated
assets has increased in the light of
Brexit.
The pound is not a reserve
currency like the dollar (or, to a
lesser extent, the euro); there is no
comparable global demand to hold
it. A UK current account moving
towards balance doesnt mean we
are more competitive: it means
our economic prospects look poorer
to the outside world. We can only
hope this isnt borne out in practice.
Oliver Kamm is a Times leader writer
and columnist. Twitter: @OliverKamm
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Britains got talent but were not providing the skills
John Kampfner
Comment
A
nyone who has followed
the debate over why
there are so many
award-winning Old
Etonian actors will know
there are at least three contributing
factors to their success. The likes of
Eddie Redmayne, Damian Lewis
and Dominic West had access to
top-class teaching, excellent
facilities and the chance to appear
in plays several times a year.
Natural talents were given
opportunities to hone their skills.
But thats not how one minister sees
it. Old Etonians, he told me,
graduated to stellar careers on stage
and screen because they had read a
lot of books: the work of William
Makepeace Thackeray to be precise.
Vanity Fair might provide some
handy hints on ambition and loose
morals, but it doesnt quite do it for
me as the indispensible guide to a
21st century career. Crass
government thinking on education
has contributed to skills gaps, not
just in the creative industries but in
Eddie Redmayne is among the Old Etonian actors who benefited from a broad education that is often lacking in the state sector
any sector that requires imagination
and innovation. Ministers have
presided over a narrowing of
learning in state schools just as
countries such as China have been
moving towards a more creative
education. This matters because
Brexit alert the talent and skills
crisis is about to get a lot worse.
The creative industries have been
growing at nearly double the rate of
the economy at large. From film to
fashion, architecture to art, design
to music, the sector produces more
for the economy than automotive,
aerospace and oil and gas combined.
As in other important parts of the
economy, non-UK EU nationals
have been key to success. A new
survey of Creative Industries
Federation members shows that
75 per cent employ European
workers. Crucially, they believe that
two-thirds of these jobs could not
Shell slashes North Sea costs
to make a profit in a crash
Emily Gosden Energy Editor
Royal Dutch Shell has cut operating
costs for some of its North Sea fields
by 70 per cent since the price of crude
crashed, the oil company said.
Andy Brown, Shells head of up-
stream, said it was able to make sig-
nificant money in the North Sea at
$50 [a barrel oil prices] thanks to the
reductions, which analysts said were
among the steepest by any company.
Mr Brown said he had been
shocked by some of the inefficiencies
Shell found when it reviewed opera-
tions worldwide after oil prices fell.
Shells global operating costs have
been cut by 20 per cent, or $10 billion,
since 2014. In the Gulf of Mexico, for
example, it has cut the number of
vessels serving its platforms from 61
to 16, and halved the time it takes to
drill wells.
The North Sea, historically one of
the most expensive oil production
basins, was an extreme case for
Shell. Between 2014 and now, we
have reduced our unit operating costs
by up to 70 per cent. [We have] funda-
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be filled by British workers. Just
under three-quarters are convinced
that restricting immigration will
limit their capacity to do business.
Britain has talent, but talent
alone is not enough. The UKs
reputation as a creative powerhouse
is also built on skills and that is
where for years we have been
failing. More than half of the
organisations in our survey had
skills shortages and 80 per cent of
those were not confident these
would be resolved any time soon.
Official skills shortages in areas
such as animation and visual effects
have been masked by the influx of
brilliant young Europeans, and
others, wanting to share in our
creative buzz. The loss of ready
access to EU workers combined
with net migration targets would
blast a hole through this workforce.
The optimists spot a chance to
mentally sharpened up our business,
Mr Brown said. Back in 2014 we were
still in a positive place because the oil
price was $99 but we had to make
those cuts to still be profitable.
Mr Brown said more than 700 sep-
arate initiatives had contributed to
efficiency savings in the North Sea.
The biggest savings came from re-
ducing the time that fields were shut
down for maintenance. The company
declined to say how many jobs it had
cut in the North Sea but across its en-
tire UK operations 1,350 have gone
over the past two years. Contractors
have also been hit, with pay cuts at
Wood Group prompting strikes by its
workers on Shell platforms last year.
Figures from Wood Mackenzie, the
consultants, show that average
operating costs in the North Sea have
fallen from $29 a barrel in 2014 to $16
in 2016.
Adam Davey, market intelligence
manager at the industry body Oil and
Gas UK, said the averages masked a
wide range between fields, with
late-life fields typically the most ex-
pensive. The most extreme example
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return British jobs to British
workers. But we are not prepared to
plug the gaps. We dont give young
people what they need to take their
place in a modern workforce. Our
schools are trapped in notions of a
traditional education, as epitomised
by the English Baccalaureate or
EBacc. We continue to encourage
false choices between science and
the arts whereas many jobs require
a mix of skills. You cannot build a
project on the scale of HS2 with
maths and physics alone. You need
the capacity to think in 3D. You
need imagination. Numeracy and
literacy are educational basics, but
creativity is an equal prerequisite.
Even if we sorted education and
skills now, it would take years for
the results to filter through. We need
short and medium-term flexibility
on immigration in any Brexit deal.
Hence a potential opportunity:
the government could get to grips
with what business means in the
21st century and finally get the
sectors that are the backbone of a
modern economy. The Star Wars
star John Boyega or the fashion
designer Vivienne Westwood are as
important to the UKs balance sheet
as the Nissan plant in Sunderland.
This means not only educating
the workforce of the future but also
understanding different ways of
working. For instance, freelancing is
an entirely proper and highly
valued way of earning a living in the
creative sector, quite distinct from
the derided gig economy. Highly
specialised jobs in film production
or architecture are not remotely
comparable to Uber drivers. Yet
there is as yet no freelance work visa.
It is a small but telling indication of
how Britain is failing to understand
the nature of employment.
There may no longer be jobs for
life but there are sectors, the
creative industries among them,
more likely to deliver sustained
employment and revenues. An
unintended consequence of leaving
the EU is that the UK might finally
have to back its own success stories.
John Kampfner is chief executive
of the Creative Industries Federation
is thought to be the Greater Kittiwake
field, which Enquest bought in 2014
when the operating costs were more
than $100 a barrel. They have been
cut to under $30 a barrel. Other oper-
ators, such as Premier Oil, have re-
ported reductions from $43 a barrel
in 2013 to a forecast $21 this year.
Most companies were more than
covering operating costs, Mr Davey
said, though may not recoup their
original capital investment, especial-
ly on projects sanctioned while prices
were higher.
Shell agreed in January to sell most
of its existing North Sea production
to Chrysaor for up to $3.8 billion, as
part of a $30 billion divestment drive.
Its production is, however, due to be
boosted again by two big fields start-
ing up west of Shetland.
Shell has also reined in capital ex-
penditure, from $47 billion for it and
BG Group in 2014 to $27 billion for
the combined group last year. Mr
Brown said: If a project comes to me
that is not below $40 a barrel break-
even it will be tough to convince me
to invest in it.
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TIM WIMBORNE/REUTERS

Battle lines drawn

over once-mighty
technology group
Alexandra Frean
The founder of a one-time technology
high flyer will go head to head today
with the groups new owners to deter-
mine the future of what was once one of
the countrys most promising startups.
David Browns lawyers will confront
representatives of Smith and William-
son, the administrators for VE Inter-
active, who are seeking to appoint a
committee to oversee potential pay-
ments to creditors of the company,
which was recently sold for a fraction of
its former $1 billion valuation.
In what is expected to be a heated
meeting between representatives of the
companys founder, its new owners,
creditors and shareholders, the admin-
istrators are also exploring whether to
take action against former officers of
VE for actions that caused or exacer-
bated the companys insolvency, ac-
cording to a filing at Companies House.
The story has all the hallmarks of a
cautionary tale for the technology
start-up age. In particular it shows what
happens when charismatic founders
with big dreams attract millions of
pounds of capital from investors with
no track record in the sector, but fail to
follow through on the execution.
The drama follows a string of other
gets and racked up losses as it expanded
overseas. Its value was slashed to
300 million in March in a 3 million
refinancing as it struggled to pay staff
costs and debts when it said revenues
grew much slower than expected. Mr
Brown was forced out.
New investors, led by Doug Barrow-
man, a Scottish venture capitalist, and
Mark Pearson, founder of myvoucher-
codes, installed a new chief executive,
Morten Tonnesen, and ran a fund-
raising process to seek between
20 million and 40 million of invest-
ment. After they failed to meet their
target last month, VE went into admin-
istration. The new investors are under-
stood to have spent 2 million in a pre-
packaged sale and ploughed around
10 million into the company to keep it
as a going concern.
It is understood that the law firm Ed-
win Coe is investigating allegations of
misuse of company funds by senior VE
officers and the potential misrepresen-
tation of sales of secondary shares.
Wrongdoing has not been established the Reserve Bank and when updated national
and the investigation is continuing.
Mr Brown admits that his company Australia makes it dismantling high import
tariffs. Later came the
account figures are
released on Wednesday,
had short term cash issues . . . because unprecedented natural largely because of the
it grew so big so fast. But he has dis-
missed other allegations of wrongdoing
record 103 not out resources boom,
primarily of iron ore and
devastation caused by
Cyclone Debbie in
as total rubbish and has accused VEs coal, and vast exports to March.

epic British start-up flame-outs, includ-
ing Powa, an e-commerce company;
Fling, a social messaging app; and taxi
app Karhoo, which all failed despite
raising millions.
At its height VE, which develops soft-
ware to encourage online shoppers to
complete purchases, valued itself at
1.5 billion, giving it the coveted uni-
corn label attached to tech companies
worth $1 billion or more.
The company attracted more than
50 million from investors, including
many high net-worth individuals, and
millions more through secondary share
sales. It failed to hit performance tar-
new owners of smearing his reputa-
tion. Every single transaction which
related to the company is in the ac-
counts, he said.
Mr Brown will not attend this after-
noons creditors meeting at the City of-
fices of Smith and Williamson and will
be represented by lawyers. He says he
has the support of other shareholders
and creditors. His legal team can expect
to pitch against lawyers representing
Mr Barrowman and other interested
parties for the start of what is likely to
be a protracted process.
Representatives of VE and Smith and
Williamson declined to comment.
A
ustralias recession, matching the China. This, in turn, has Moreover, not all agree
mineral-rich record set by the spawned about that Australia has had
hinterland is Netherlands over 26 years A$400 billion sustained growth for the
expected to that ended in 2008 with (230 billion) of new past 26 years. Glenn
propel the the financial crisis. ports, railways, roads and Stephens, a former
nation to a prosperity Australias world- factories. Reserve Bank governor,
milestone this week, the leading position is partly Yet there are signs that believes that Australia
worlds longest period of the result of tough the run is slowing. Three did go into recession
constant growth (Bernard decisions made in the of Australias largest during 2000 and also
Lagan writes). years leading up to and financial institutions are during the global
Official figures to be immediately after the forecasting paltry growth financial crisis. I think it
released on Wednesday millennium, including of 0.1 per cent or less. is a mistake for us to keep
are expected to show that floating the currency, Australias largest bank, telling this story of so
Australia has achieved decentralised wage- the National, is even many years with no
103 quarters without fixing, independence for tipping negative growth recession, he said.

Even with gold-plated protection, a US investors go short as

chink can be found in your armour Micro Focus deals nears
come the scene of a row after Palling-
Harry Wilson hurst Resources was criticised for a
Comment derisory offer for the Faberg owner.
For as long as shares have existed,
majority owners have put their inter-
Israel, Mexico, Spain and Thailand
have taken steps to enhance protec-
tions for smaller shareholders
through updates to corporate govern-
ance rules and on insider dealing.
Alex Ralph
Two American activist investors have
taken short positions in Micro Focus
ahead of an $8.8 billion acquisition of
only two investors with disclosed short
positions in Micro Focus, also hold
equity stakes in Micro Focus Hewlett
Packard Enterprise, which is listed in
New York, separate filings show. This

I
f you are a minority investor in a
British company, then you are
among the best-protected share-
holders in the world. Safeguards
for smaller investors are bettered
only by five other countries, accord-
ing to the World Bank.
Then again, two of these are
Malaysia and Kazakhstan, which
makes you wonder how rigorous the
study was. Certainly, investors in
Fusionex would raise a wry smile at
the idea of Malaysia being an earthly
paradise for minority shareholders
after the software company became
the centre of a heated row last week
when its Malaysian founder was
accused of trying to seize control.
Similar coups have popped up
across the City in recent times, but
Neil Woodford and other big institu-
tional fund managers were called out
for attempting to ride roughshod over
smaller shareholders in Touchstone
Innovations; and Gemfields has be-
ests ahead of smaller investors. Share-
holders have often been happy to go
along for the ride, even when the
terms are unfair, so long as they end
up with at least some of the rewards.
In markets where corporate
governance and good behaviour are
increasingly codified these arrange-
ments are becoming more controver-
sial and shareholder activism increas-
ingly lauded.
Take the UK Investor Forum. This
was established to answer a charge
that diffuse shareholder registers have
granted insiders too much power.
Though still in its infancy, the organi-
sation has led campaigns to ensure
shareholders are protected, most ob-
viously at Glencore, after its failure to
offer investors the right to buy new
shares when it undertook a contro-
versial $2.5 billion capital raising.
Across the world, moves are under-
way to improve the situation for
minorities. Countries including Brazil,
The intense coverage of minority
shareholder rows in the UK is a testa-
ment to the relative rarity of out-and-
out assaults on rights here. The
OECD has pointed out, however, that
Britain, America and Australia are the
exception in terms of a general lack of
concentrated stakes in listed compa-
nies. Around the world, company
groups and concentrated ownership
are normal, said the OECD.
The strictness of UK rules was
highlighted by the Bumi situation
where the City watchdog stepped in
and fined the coal miners successor
company, Asia Resource Minerals,
4.7 million.
In the case of Fusionex, its joint
broker and public relations adviser
have quit in protest at the goings on.
This reflects concerns about potential
regulation further down the line, but
also the reputational risks of being
seen to be connected to controversial
players.
Hewlett Packard Enterprises software
business.
Third Point, the hedge fund of Dan
Loeb, has joined Starboard Value,
another New York-based fund, in
shorting the company in recent weeks,
regulatory filings show.
Micro Focus shares have eased back
from record highs after it revealed that
there had been a decline in revenue at
HPE Software. The shares had risen by
about 50 per cent over the past 12
months, lifting Micro Focus into the
FTSE 100, and hit a record of 26.60 last
month.
The reverse takeover will be the
largest deal by Micro Focus and the
biggest acquisition of a foreign tech-
nology company by a British group.
Under the deal, which secured share-
holder approval last week, HPE will get
$2.5 billion in cash and shareholders
will hold 50.1 per cent of the enlarged
group.
The American funds, which are the
suggests that the bets could be part of a
so-called merger arbitrage trade, in
which investors buy and sell stocks of
two merging companies in an attempt
to profit from the difference between a
target companys share price after a
takeover announcement and when the
deal closes.
Third Point and Starboard Value did
not respond to requests for comment.
One source played down concerns
that investors might be betting that the
deal could run into problems and said
there was likely to be volatility when
the takeover was completed and Amer-
ican funds, which are not allowed to
hold foreign stocks, were under pres-
sure to sell out.
Investor jitters were soothed last
week when Micro Focus said that oper-
ating profit margin in the software busi-
ness it is buying had improved after
costs were cut. However, it also un-
veiled a sharp fall in quarterly sales and
profit.
46 1GM Monday June 5 2017 | the times

Business Working Life

Medieval London re-asserts its

businesses are meeting as part of a
G OI NG FOR GROWTH trades guild.
Our story is typical of London
Resurgent manufacturing is inspiring a now, says Mark Brearley, professor of
cities at The Cass, London
return to a historic form of pressure Metropolitan University, and the
proprietor of Kaymet, a supplier of
group, Hazel Sheffield discovers aluminium trays and trolleys that was
founded in south London in 1947.
A production economy that had
been written off, assumed to be in
terminal decline, has in fact returned
to growth. Just as that starts to be
evident, we get confronted by
accommodation shortages and the
threat of expulsion. We find that we
need to put energy into fighting, he
says.

I
ts closing time at the E5
Bakehouse under the railway
arches at London Fields, in the
east of the capital. In the back,
past still-warm ovens, a group of
East End traders gathers on benches.
And as the Victorian sound of trains
rattling overhead competes with
speakers, something from a much
earlier era is taking place: local
Professor Brearley is addressing a
group of small business owners who
are concerned about challenges
including rising rent, competition for
space and higher business rates.
If there is to be a fight, these traders
believe there is strength in numbers.
They are part of the East End Trades
Guild, a co-operative of small or
independent businesses that have
become comrades in battle. Foes
include Transport for London, with
companies in the railways arches
worried that rent increases of
between 200 and 300 per cent could
put them out of business.
Theyve called a temporary
ceasefire on a wet Wednesday
evening for their first social gathering.
Theres charcuterie from Guild
members Il Cudega, an Italian deli
just around the corner, and local beer
from Five Points.
Krissie Nicolson, the founding
organiser, sits in the back. The 41-
year-old got involved after reading an
interview with Paul Gardner, a paper
bag seller in Spitalfields, about his
struggle to survive.
Mr Gardner is the fourth
generation proprietor of the
Gardners Market Sundriesmen,
something of an Old Curiosity Shop
and said to be the oldest family
business in Spitalfields.
Community support shown to Mr
Gardner, who said he feared that the
147-year-old company would face
closure, led to the landlord softening
a planned rent increase.
Inspired, Ms Nicolson started the
guild in 2010, resurrecting a medieval
model to protect common interests.
She has adapted the structure to
welcome different industries and has
applied ideas she learnt studying
community organising under Jane
Wills from Queen Mary University of
London.
In the strict sense what Krissie is
doing isnt a guild, Professor Wills
says. Shes not controlling markets,
labour, skills. But she is organising an Krissie Nicolson established the East
economic interest group so that
traders can have a voice in the Question Time-style events, stood up
economic decisions in the city. together, and asked the mayor in
The guild works by building person. He agreed.
relationships with policymakers so We were creative about it, Ms
members have a say in changes that Nicolson says. The point is to
shape their destiny. strengthen collaboration and trade
Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, within the wider community. With
did not respond to a video invitation Brexit on the horizon, relationships
from the managers of E Pellicci, a bring economic resilience.
family-run caf that opened on the Manufacturers used to be a
Bethnal Green Road in 1900, to join common sight in the capital, from
them and other guild members in textile and fashion industries
December. So a group of members clustered in east London to
went to one of the mayors regular shipbuilding on the banks of the

Offering protection in an uncertain world

Over the past 15 years,
the number of micro-
businesses with no
employees other than
the owner has
increased by 70 per
cent (Hazel Sheffield
writes). However, these
companies share of a facilitator for the 200
total turnover fell from
7 per cent to 6 per cent
over the same period,
according to research
by the New Policy
Institute.
The East End Trades
Guild says that it offers
unity and protection in
uncertain times as more getting local business
people shun office work owners to act like local
for independence. representatives, Jane
Krissie Nicolson is Wills, of Queen Mary
paid to run the Guild University of London, an
out of subscription fees expert in community
that start at 100 a year, organising, says.
but she sees her role as Krissies job will be to
support them so that
members, rather than a they have time and
leader. She plans to energy to recruit new
train traders to take on members.
franchises as the model There is already
spreads to other areas, interest in replicating
much like shop the model in north
stewards did in the London and Ms
unions. Nicolson hopes it can
The challenge is spread further afield.
the times | Monday June 5 2017 1GM
muscle underneath the arches
End Trades Guild after being inspired by the plight of Paul Gardner, whose family-owned Market Sundriesman business is under pressure from high rents
Thames. In the past century many of
those industries have gone into
decline. The number of
manufacturing jobs in London fell by
51 per cent, from 264,000 to 129,000,
between 1996 and 2015. It was almost
the only industry to lose jobs over the
period, according to the Office for
National Statistics, with jobs in
London in general up by 40 per cent.
Yet in the past few years, the
makers have begun to return.
Offshore manufacturing has lost its
allure, while improvements in
SMALL BUSINESS NEWS
Delays to rate compensation hitting small business prospects
James Hurley Enterprise Editor
Small business owners have hit out at
delays to compensation promised to
companies suffering from high busi-
ness rates.
Thousands of companies were told
they would receive financial assistance
to soften the blow of increased business
rates, the tax based on the rental value
of commercial properties.
Some suffered rates rises of up to
3,000 per cent after changes in April,
because of a long delayed revaluation of
commercial property values last year.
technology mean that jobs are more
highly skilled. Buyers are also starting
to value homemade goods, slower
processes and transparency in
production
Professor Brearley, 54, is optimistic
about the future of domestic
manufacturing. He has counted more
than 130 independent bakeries in
London, 100 workrooms making
clothes, more than 40 breweries and
20 leather producers.
Bilgehan Han Ates opened
Blackhorse Lane Ateliers, the first
Although most companies did not
face an increase, there was outcry on
behalf of those that did.
In the March budget, measures were
outlined to help those facing the biggest
increases, including a 300 million
hardship fund.
David Gauke, chief secretary to the
Treasury, said that the government was
urgently trying to push through the
compensation after complaints that the
relief had failed to materialise.
While some companies are receiving
higher bills, the promised help has not
arrived. Local authorities, which issue
denim factory in north London in 40
years, in April 2016. He spent his
early career travelling to factories in
Vietnam, Turkey and China for big
fashion houses.
One day, long after he left fashion,
he was shopping for jeans in Regent
Street and bought three pairs labelled
the same size. When he got them
home he found the labelling was so
sloppy, one pair didnt fit.
Blackhorse Lane Ateliers is active
in its community, offering locals a
discount, running workshops and
the bills, said that they were waiting for
guidance from the government and
although that has been given the Feder-
ation of Small Businesses said that
councils were now saying they could
not act because of election purdah.
Mike Cherry, national chairman of
the FSB, said: The first order of busi-
ness for the communities secretary in
the next government should be to get a
grip and make sure the promised help is
delivered in the first month of office.
Mr Gauke said: We are trying to get
[the compensation package] through as
quickly as we possibly can. There is a
Working Life Business
BEN GURR FOR THE TIMES
inviting in schools. At the social, other
traders want to know how Mr Ates
maintains that level of involvement
while also running a business. He
simply smiles and assures them that
it gets easier with time.
There are many other concerns.
Chau-Jean Lin is the founder of
Marulin, a small business importing
Taiwanese tea. She says she is worried
about currency fluctuation during
Brexit. Someone else says that
members struggle to find affordable
space to expand their businesses or
big compensation package . . . to help
those who are seeing significant
increases.
We have to remember one of the
things we have done is extend small
business rates relief which means a lot
of the smaller businesses who previous-
ly were paying rates now no longer do.
He made the comments at a small
business election hustings at the Impe-
rial War Museum on Friday.
John McDonnell, shadow chancel-
lor, and Baroness Kramer, the Liberal
Democrat business spokeswoman, also
aired concerns.
47
the skilled workers needed. One of
these traders, Len Maloney, isnt at
the social. His garage, J C Motors, is
in limbo while he waits for TfL to tell
him about rent increases which he
believes could prove fatal for his
business.
Its important for kids to see that
there are jobs for them within their
community that dont involve going
to university, he says later that week,
remembering the former owner who
once took a chance on him. Mr
Maloney has since trained young men
in Hackney as apprentices and some
have gone on to become staff.
At the social, Ms Nicolson notes
down traders concerns and then
updates those present on a meeting
with the mayor of Tower Hamlets
about a potential asset transfer from
the council. Members hope the
council will transfer a building to the
Guild to manage on behalf of traders.
She adds: Were also working on
defining affordable rent so we can
discuss that with aggressive
landlords.
Once, traders might have joined a
chamber of commerce to voice these
concerns. Martin Saffer was the
honorary ratings and evaluations
surveyor for the Hackney and Tower
Hamlets Chamber of Commerce for
A lot of people are out
on a limb and dont
know where to turn
20 years from 1979. In the mid-
nineties, it merged with a larger north
London group, leaving east London
traders with no local organisation. He
says the East End Trades Guild is
filling that gap. Its not a wealthy
location, says Mr Saffer, who was
brought up in Hackney. A lot of
people are out on a limb and dont
know where to turn.
Like Mr Ates and Mr Maloney, Mr
Brearley believes small traders need
to be visible and to build relationships
with the public and policymakers to
survive.
Association gives voice, allows
impact, Mr Brearley says. This is
why I am so happy to be here tonight.
The East End Trades Guild is a model
we need others to follow.
Graeme Craig, director of
commercial development for TfL,
said: Independent businesses are
very important to us. They make up
the vast majority of our commercial
estate.
Our leases are flexible to reflect
our tenants business needs. We work
with each tenant individually and
seek to agree fair rents that relate to
comparable prices in the local area.
The audience was made up of
members of the Federation of Small
Businesses and the Association of
Convenience Stores.
Mr Gauke, Mr McDonnell and Ms
Kramer agreed that there needed to be
a fundamental reform of the tax to level
the playing field between the high
street and online retailers, with
business rates penalising those who
had physical operations.
However, when invited to offer some
ideas on how this might be achieved,
none of the politicians provided any
details.
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2,315.96 Jupiter Fund Mgmt 506 + 12K 2.6 17.7 4,533.97 Provident 3059 32 4.0 17.0 62.05 First Propv 53K 2.8 14.1
178.76 Charles Stanley 352O + 10X 1.4 1,412.81 Unite Group 629K 2.4 6.6 605.84 Oxford Inst 1057 12 1.2
1,270.70 Just Group 136V 2N 2.4 4.70 Proxamav V -0.3 5.09 Fletcher Kingv 55N 3.6 21.8
153.90 Charles Taylor 225 + 1N 4.4 12.4 394.18 Urban&Civic plc 272 + 4N 1.0 8.8
1,397.49 Lancashire Hdgs 699 + 9 1.4 13.0 45,691.54 Prudential 1767 + 18 2.2 23.5 308.12 Foxtons Group 112 + 1 4.4 10.9 26,085.42 Philips El nv 2805Y + 57O 2.4 25.6
564.51 Chesnara 377 6 5.0 39.8 12,742.50 Wolseley 5035 + 47 1.9 28.3
45.49 Leaf Clean Energyv 38K + K -3.2 80.74 Qatar Inv Fund 78K X 3.8 -3.5 1,011.22 Galliford Try 1220 20 6.7 8.6 4.22 PhotonStar LEDv 1Y -3.1
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107.60 City Lon Inv Gp 399O + 4X 6.0 13.2 13.69 Wynnstay Propsv 505 2.6 7.2
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2,440.77 Close Bros 1609 3 3.5 12.3
371.42 CMC Markets 129 + 2O 8.6 2,001.64 Liberty Group 699W + 14N 6.0 14.9 1,344.80 Rathbone Brs 2648 + 115 2.0 33.8 2,019.19 Gr Portland 618 11K 1.4 3.8 Consumer goods 2,728.84
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79.98 Livermore Invsv 45O + N 15.1 5.1 508.40 Reddev 167N 6N 5.7 19.7 942.35 Hansteen Hldgs 126K 1Y 4.2 9.1 16,404.85 Rolls-Royce 891K + 18K 1.3 -4.0
2,331.51 CYBG 264 3K 2.07 Agriterrav V -0.3
49,765.54 Lloyds Bkg Gp 69N 2W 3.3 28.9 2,127.13 Robeco N/V 2658Y 323.10 Harworth Gp 100K N 3.2 1.26 Ross Gp X 14.8
28,200.46 Deutsche Bk 1364W 78O 13.96 Aireav 33O + 1K 4.4 8.8
4,765.75 Direct Line Ins 346K + 1V 4.0 17.1 41.95 LMS Capital 43K N 1,353.55 Rolinco N/V 2478K 8.11 Heath (Samuel)v 320 3.6 12.1 2,033.54 Rotork 233X 9K 2.1 30.3
327.00 Anglo-Eastern 825 + 55 0.2 11.6
86.47 Downing ONE VCT 85V 7.0 9.96 Lon Capital Grpv 2X V -0.1 30,687.73 Ryl Bk Scot 258W 3V -4.3 378.82 Helical Bar 320K 16 2.3 3.4 21.77 Scien Dig Imagingv 24K N 14.0
83.83 Animalcarev 395 2K 1.6 28.8
0.71 Draganfly Invsv 1 + V -0.8 12,133.60 Lond Stk Ex Gp 3483 + 92 1.0 55.7 6,391.22 RSA Ins 625 + 5 0.8 90.5 47.93 Highcroft Invs 927K 4.2 16.6 993.60 Senior 236Y K 2.6 21.8
23,726.48 AB Foods 2997 + 47 1.2 21.5
243.57 Severfield 81K 3K 1.8 20.1
766.00 Barr (AG) 656 4 2.0 21.4
13.04 Six Hundredv 12K 9.0
4.62 BlenheimNtrlv O -3.2
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1,912.81 Britvic 725K + 20K 3.3 16.9 0.45 Slingsby (HC)v 45 -0.6
Mkt cap Price Wkly Forecast Mkt cap Price Wkly Forecast 7,969.76 Burberry Grp 1818 + 40 2.0 30.8 6,434.34 Smiths 1627 + 45 2.5 15.0
(million) Company (p) +/- Yld% P/E (million) Company (p) +/- Yld% P/E 36.35 Solid Statev 430 2.7 9.0
923.55 C&C Grp 296O 2 3.9 24.2
126.13 Carr's Grp 138 2K 2.7 13.2 177.16 Somero Enterv 315 + 2K 1.6 18.3
9,030.60 3I Group 930K + 62 2.8 53.6 0.34 IVCO Propty V 102.3 106.77 Character Grpv 505 2.9 12.0 3,185.43 Spectris 2672 + 74 1.8 30.5
2,024.87 3i Infrastructure 197 2 3.9 18.0 1,383.85 JLaingInFr 139K 4.9 17.1 109.17 Churchill Chinav 995 52K 1.9 0.2 4,136.64 Spirax-Sarco 5625 135 1.2 38.1
381.79 Abrdn Div I&G 115O + K 5.6 -7.7 911.14 JPM American 382K + X 1.3 -4.0
8,470.86 Coca Cola HBC 2325 + 56 1.4 28.6 49.06 Stadium Groupv 128K 4 2.1 27.3
1,228.17 Aberforth Smlr 1297 36 2.0 -12.3 304.35 JPM Asian 323 3.9 -11.5
2,503.10 Alliance 706 + 3 1.8 -4.5 21.05 JPM Brazil 61W 0.8 -12.8 50.08 Colefaxv 490 + 22K 0.9 21.2 17.38 Surface Trsfmsv 19N N -8.4
39.07 Arc Cap Hldgsv 20Y 472.3 172.48 JPM Chinese 237 O 0.6 -14.0 4.71 Conchav N -1.3 9.05 Tex Hldgs 142K + 1 4.9 7.7
5.44 Athelney Trust 252 3.4 -6.8 376.73 JPM Claverhs 687 + 2N 3.5 -6.9
1,516.66 Cranswick 3005 + 74 1.2 28.4 448.24 Thorpe FWv 387K 9 1.0 32.0
291.93 Baillie Gifford SN 701 + 49K 4.2 5.26 JPM Elect Mg C 101 0.3 -1.0
965.46 Bankers 785 5 2.1 -5.5 255.88 JPM Elect Mg G 759 + 17K 1.1 -1.9 871.12 Dairy Crest Group 617K + 3K 3.5 22.2 3.98 Torotrak X -0.6
281.64 BH Global 1275 10 -10.8 81.89 JPM Elect Mg I 113N + O 3.4 -1.7 359.78 Devro 215K 1K 4.0 59.8 31.68 TP Groupv 7K + 1
35.38 BH Global 990W 7O -10.2 986.73 JPM Em Mkts 794 4 1.1 -12.0 59,449.47 Diageo 2361K + 24K 2.4 26.5 6.10 Transense Techv 64 K -3.8
269.90 BH Macro 2030 13 -7.3 235.04 JPM Eur IT Gth 301N O 2.2 -10.1
18.12 Distil PLCv 3X 6.42 Tricornv 19 -8.4
14.41 BH Macro 1719N 10Y -7.8 154.95 JPM Eur IT Inc 164 + K 3.0 -5.3
45.45 BH Macro 1559Y 7W -7.9 603.16 JPM Euro Smlr 378K + 6 0.8 -8.9 11.13 Equat Palm Oilv 3V 1.17 Turbo Powerv -1.3
400.26 Biotech Growth 725 + 7N -7.1 189.79 JPM Gl Conv 99 + 3N 4.5 -2.2 151.24 Finsbury Foodv 116 1 2.2 19.3 1,533.48 Ultra Electrncs 2171 + 13 2.1 26.2
84.62 BLK Com Inc 72O 1W 5.4 0.1 371.35 JPM GEMI 125N 3.8 -3.3 350.27 Games Workshop 1090 + 164 4.7 28.4
118.16 BlckREmEur 329K V 1.8 -5.1 373.77 JPM GG&I 302X O 2.1 -3.4 1,577.11 Vesuvius 581K + 1K 2.8 33.6
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262.49 BlckFroInv 149K 1 3.3 4.3 65.47 JPM Inc&Cap Ord 95K + K 7.8 455.05 Vitec 1017 + 74 2.4 50.6
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162.40 BLK Latin Am 413K 6V 2.9 -12.2 JPM Inc&Gth Inc 0.86 Hidong Estate 50
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317.97 BlckRck Throgmorton 430 6K 1.7 -16.5 193.08 JPM Jap Sml Co 355K + 8O -13.5 27.17 Hornbyv 32V N -1.1
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1,640.70 Caledonia Inv 2956 + 110 1.8 -14.1 777.68 Jupiter Euro Opps 701K + 13 0.7 -2.1 12,244.67 Kerry Gp 6952O + 50O 0.6 26.9
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185.71 City Merch Hi Yld 199V + O 5.0 2.7 12.73 Juridica Invsv 11K + V -49.0 259.18 Allnce Pharmav 54O + 1K 2.0 11.1
1,483.40 City of Lon IT 439 + 1 3.8 1.9 246.45 Keystone IT 1810 20 2.9 -9.3 341.19 McBride 187N 11O 20.1
230.67 Crystal Amber Fdv 234K 1K 2.1 3.0 687.99 Law Debenture 587K + 5K 2.8 -7.7 74.88 Anpariov 327K 1.5 26.0
648.57 Mulberry Groupv 1081 + 1 0.4
73.04 Dunedin Entp 347V 2O 5.0 -29.2 413.39 Lowland 1540 15 3.1 -4.9 631.80 Nicholsv 1709 114 1.5 26.4 0.75 Aortech Intv 13K -2.8
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303.01 Edin Wwide 613 4 -6.4 139.39 M Currie Pac 388 + 4V 2.0 -11.8 104.14 Norcros 170 Y 3.8 7.8
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1,010.52 Ibstock 248X + 12Y 2.7 11.2
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385.97 European Investment 925 + 5 1.7 -9.6 534.40 Merchants 491N + 1 4.9 -2.1 26.70 Industrial Multi Pro 317K
1,306.97 Schroders N/V 2313 42 3.5 13.8 12.08 Pittardsv 87 94.5 296.53 Circassia Phm 89N 4K -1.8
317.96 F&C Cap&Inc 321 3.2 0.7 140.36 Mid Wynd 450O + 10O 1.0 1.1 3,684.35 Intu Properties 271Y + 2V 5.0 24.2
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1,191.06 F&C Comm Prop 149V + X 4.0 8.5 1,517.01 Monks Inv Tst 709 + 7 0.2 1.8 99.87 Portmeirionv 927K + 45 3.2 14.8
35.55 Sharev 24O 2.5 54.0 1,035.97 James Halsteadv 499 17 2.4 29.5
746.42 F&C Glbl Smaller 1312 + 9 0.9 1.6 130.52 Montanaro Eur Sml 780 5 0.9 -13.0 10.50 Provexisv K 6,685.75 Convatec Group 342K + 17K
3,196.62 Foreign & Col 587K 3K 1.6 -7.1 546.23 Murray Income Trust 815 2O 3.9 -7.6 851.45 Shawbrook Gp 339Y K 13.3 1,078.13 John Laing Group 293O 1O 1.7 5.7
555.58 PureCircle 319Y 7O 77.5 14.51 Creighton 24N + 3 12.1
266.93 F&C Priv Eq Ord 359 3N 4.0 1,596.83 Murray International 1252 11 3.8 3.8 74.08 Sigma Capv 83K 4K 21.0 634.35 Keller 881K + 21 3.0 30.4
127.40 F&C UK HIT A 107 + K 4.4 -6.5 990.70 Nb Global Floating 97X + W 3.6 0.8 1,471.81 PZ Cussons 343N + N 2.3 24.5 1,820.65 Dechra Pharma 1954 + 85 0.9
6,306.07 St James Place 1193 + 21 2.4 56.0
1,316.83 KennWlsn Eur RE 1044 + 5 4.2 7.5 134.25 REA 332K + 7X -8.5
126.10 F&C UK HIT B 106K + N -6.9 307.62 Pacific Assets 257 2O 1.0 0.7 24,508.95 Stand Chart 745 + 11K 10.76 Deltex Medicalv 3X K -4.0
134.55 F&C UK HIT UNIT 419 3.3 -8.5 982.17 Perp I&G 408K + 2Y 3.2 -6.1 4,846.26 Kingspan Group 2707 11W 0.8 22.4 25.06 Real Gd Fdv 35K 1 6.0 393.18 Eco Animal Hlthv 605 + 17K 0.7 79.6
7,593.21 Standard Life 383K N 4.7 17.7
255.75 F&C UK Real Estate 109 + 5 4.7 10.8 820.63 Personal Assets 41530 + 280 1.3 1.5 8,492.68 Land Sec 1074 1 3.3 15.9
1.79 Starvestv 3W O 16.0 346.00 Stock Spirits 173 + 4O 1.6 24.4 95.17 EKF Diagnosticsv 20K + N
269.95 Fidlty Asian Val 400 O 1.1 -1.0 464.45 Picton Prop 85O + N 3.9 5.9
1,123.15 Fidelity China Sp 204W + 1 0.8 -12.1 1,351.52 Polar Cap Tech 1018 + 6 25.55 STM Groupv 43 + 5 3.2 11.1 18.34 Lon & Assoc 21K K 0.7 -7.7 6.65 Tandemv 135 2.8 8.6 24.49 e-Therapeuticsv 9V + 1K -1.8
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157.64 Fidlty Jap Val 116 + 3X -17.3 27.32 Prm Eng & Wtr ZDP 113K 2.28 Tau Capitalv 4X -2.0 288.21 Low & Bonar 87K + K 3.2 16.9 60.12 Tax Systemsv 74K -7.5 1,161.68 Genus 1900 + 39 1.0 37.1
626.20 Fidlty Spec Val 237 6K 1.5 -5.8 1,044.75 Renewables Inf 111N K 5.7 11.9 0.90 Tiger Res Finv X -5.9
65.45 LXB retail Propsv 38Y 10.67 Ternv 9 + K 83,898.62 GlaxoSmKline 1706 + 62K 4.6 50.0
1,143.18 Fins Gwth & Inc 744K + 11 1.7 0.8 2,895.74 RIT Cap Ptnr 1865 12 3.0 157.47 TISO Blackstar Gpv 59N 0.2 -4.9
919.98 GCP Infrastructure 125K 1 6.0 15.7 1,071.55 Riverstone 1263 17 -19.9 123.82 Macau Prop Op 162 253.12 Treatt 488 + 33 0.8 41.7 1.43 Gunsyndv -0.6
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4.43 Trading Emissnsv 1O 422.5 2.4 817.25 Marshalls 409Y + 17X 1.8 22.0 4,036.47 Hikma Pharms 1680 12 1.4 26.8
19.67 Gldn Prosp Prc Mtl 34V 2N -17.9 685.65 Schrd Asia Pac 409W + 1 1.1 -10.6 76,674.01 Unilever (NV) 4471K + 48V 2.4 28.7
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56,015.32 Unilever 4372K + 62 2.4 28.1
16.65 Gresham Housev 317K + 2K 0.7 -29.9 251.27 Schrod Jap Gwth 201N + 5X 1.3 -5.9 1,295.67 Virgin Money Plc 291V 8Y 1.6 10.0 214.82 McKay Secs 229 + O 3.8 14.7 83.83 Immunodiag Sysv 285 10 0.4 -2.6
217.06 Hansa Tst 899O + 4N 1.7 -31.0 273.29 Schrod UK Gwth 175K 1N 3.0 -11.6 30.47 Volverev 747K 22.9 503.97 Victoriav 554 + 8
382.54 MedicX Fund 89K K 6.6 12.2 66.26 ImmuPharmav 50 4W -8.3
212.40 Hansa Tst A 895 1.7 -31.3 190.41 Schrod UKMid 532K + 1 2.1 -12.9 34.77 WH Irelandv 125 0.65 Walcom Groupv Y 4.9
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201,988.30 Wells Fargo 4041Y 26W 3.0 12.6 552.20 Morgan Sindall 1235 + 5 2.4 15.1
225.28 Hend High Inc 197K 2V 4.6 2.0 5,536.35 Scot Mtge 400K + K 0.7 3.2 18.92 LiDCOv 7O K 86.1
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2,757.92 HICL Infra 169 2K 4.6 15.0 1,939.63 Tplton Emg Mkt 689K K 1.2 -12.5 4,616.84 NMC Health 2260 + 77 0.3 39.5
842.31 NewRiver REIT 360 + 9Y 6.6 23.2 26.86 Amiad Water Systv 118K 2K 10.5
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72.98 IPST UK Eq 193 + 1K 3.2 -1.0 198.88 Witan Pacific 315 + K 1.5 -13.7 78.47 Aseana Props 39W 5.4
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120.53 Invesco Per End Inc 82N + 2K 6.1 7.2 764.15 Woodford Patient Cap Tr93 + O 0.2 -7.7
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41,338.52 Shire 4554 97K 0.5 43.46 Dods Gpv 12O + N 27.7 141.82 Firestone Dmdsv 44O O 23.9 100,148.88 Total SA 4081V 44V 5.2 17.1 3,674.25 RPC 885K + 24K 1.9 35.2 323.11 Iomartv 300 + 1 1.0 27.2
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Bond girl who triggered a

battle with the censors
Molly Peters
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Obituaries

Sir Jeffrey Tate

Internationally renowned conductor born with severe disabilities who qualified as a doctor but immediately gave up medicine for music
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Jeffrey Tate was at a crossroads. He was
a qualified doctor with a promising
career ahead as an eye surgeon. How-
ever, he was also an excellent pianist
and had just taken a most enjoyable
year off from medicine working as an
accompanist for the London Opera
Centre. Now the Royal Opera had
offered him the post of rptiteur, help-
ing to rehearse opera singers before
handing them over to the big-name
conductors. It was the bottom of the
musical food chain, but Tate loved it
and the singers loved him.
There were two other considera-
tions: first, he had no musical qualifica-
tions to speak of, and second, he was
severely disabled. As he told the author
David Blum: I had misgivings but I
knew that I had to do it. Georg Solti,
the music director of Covent Garden,
had fewer doubts. He appreciated Tates
musical qualities his ability to follow
any conductors beat, his knack for
playing an entire orchestral score on
the piano and took the young pianist
under his wing, teaching him about the
ways of the business and introducing
him to recording studios.
For a period in the 1980s and 1990s
Tate was a familiar presence to British
audiences, with the Royal Opera and
the English Chamber Orchestra. He
spoke openly about the two conditions
he had lived with since childhood,

I was never taught. I got

my training by watching
other conductors Sir Jeffrey Tate conducting the Orchestra dellAccademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. His career took him across Europe, with posts in Italy, Switzerland and Germany

congenital spina bifida and kypho-
scoliosis, a bending and twisting of the
spine. As he approached the podium,
audiences wondered how he would
make it. He moved quickly, lurching, his
stick pointing to one side, his head sunk
into his shoulders. A nod to the audi-
ence, and with a big heave he was up on
his stool.
Conducting came naturally to Tate, a
tall man whose disability masked his
height. He had long arms, large hands
and a big face, and he was always eager
to learn. I was never taught conduct-
ing, he once explained. I got my train-
ing by watching other conductors. He
once compared his art with making
pottery on a wheel. When you conduct
a vocal line, its somewhat like having
wet clay in your hands.
Jeffrey Philip Tate was born in April
1943, in Salisbury, Wiltshire, where his
father, Harry, an RAF officer who after
the war joined the post office, was
stationed. He was three when his
mother, Ivy (ne Evans), who played
piano and sang for pleasure, took him to
the doctor because of his flat feet. It was
then that the serious malformation of
his spine was discovered.
Much of his childhood was spent in
hospital. They wrenched a rib out of
me and shoved it on the back of my
spine, and they did some neurological
things for my leg, he said. He was also
developing gourmet tastes, recalling
hospital food being so awful that he
would hide it in his locker and when we
were taken outside, wait for a suitable
moment to empty it into the hedge.
The family moved to Farnham,
Surrey, when he was seven and he
became a choirboy and eventually head
chorister at the chapel of St Thomas-
on-the-Bourne. He was a pupil at Farn-
ham Grammar School, where Alan
Fluck, later founder of Youth and
Music, was his music teacher. An occa-
sional visitor was Benjamin Britten,
whose partner, Peter Pears, was from
the town, although a musical career
was not on Tates mind. I was a good
but not brilliant pianist, an indifferent
cellist and I could sing, he said.
Conscious of how much he had bene-
fited from medicine, he opted to train as
a doctor, winning a state scholarship to
Christs College, Cambridge. However,
much of his time there was spent with
musical luminaries such as David
Munrow and Christopher Hogwood,
directing plays or playing piano for the
Footlights.
Moving on to St Thomas Hospital,
London, Tate became known for his
eccentricities, including wearing black-
and-white check trousers and a velvet
cloak on his ward rounds. He organised
a choir of medical staff, giving perform-
ances at Southwark Cathedral of works
such as Purcells Dido and Aeneas, sang
in the Philharmonia Chorus under
Otto Klemperer, gave faultless rendi-
tions of Nol Coward songs at parties
and indulged in his passion for trad jazz.
At a New Years Eve party he was
asked to play the piano for John Kentish
(obituary, November 23, 2006), a fellow
guest and principal tenor at Sadlers
Wells Opera.
I never expected to be accompanied
so brilliantly by a complete stranger,
recalled Kentish, whose wife, Leigh,
was involved at the London Opera
Centre, which needed accompanists
would Tate be interested?
He auditioned and was accepted, but
suffered a rare setback, failing part of
his medicine finals because I had been
playing too much music. Not prepared
to allow such a blemish on his record, he
retook them, qualified and spent a year
as a house physician before moving to
the opera centre. There he met the
soprano Teresa Cahill, who in 1970
urged him to apply for a similar post at
Covent Garden. At first he was unsure,
but, despite Tates lack of conservatoire
training, Solti insisted.
Over the ensuing years he also
worked with Pierre Boulez on the Bay-
reuth Ring Cycle, Herbert von Karajan
on Parsifal for the Salzburg Easter Festi-
val, and the first complete performance
of Lulu at Paris Opera. Soon he was
appearing on disc as a particularly
capable harpsichordist. I try to come
to each assignment with an unbiased
mind, ready to absorb what I can and
give what I can, he told The Times of his
varied musical career.
In 1977 John Pritchard invited Tate to
be his assistant in Cologne. Here he met
the tenor Ragnar Ulfung, who also
happened to be the director of Gothen-
burg Opera in Sweden, and was looking
for a conductor for Carmen. This was
Tates next big opportunity and, having
nervously agreed, found it to be a reve-
lation. As the music moved under my
hands, I suddenly felt that I was doing
something I had been waiting to do all
my life, he recalled
Back in Cologne, Pritchard gave him
a run of Les Contes dHoffmann to con-
duct, although on his first night he mis-
judged the steps and fell backwards into
the arms of a viola player. His debut at
the Metropolitan Opera in New York
came in December 1980, when James
Levine pulled out of Lulu and Tate was
the only other musician available who
knew the score. Solti advised me that I
would be mad, he recalled. But I
decided to go through with it. It was a
terrifying four hours.
Meanwhile, in 1977 he had met Klaus
Kuhlemann, a German geomorpholo-
gist, who became his partner and who
survives him. Tate was always open
about his sexuality, posing with Kuhle-
mann for The Sunday Times in 1989.
In 1982 he was asked to conduct the
He failed his finals
because he had been
playing too much music
ECO in a recording with Kiri Te Kana-
wa of Songs of the Auvergne for Decca.
It was his first occasion with this
orchestra and his first time conducting
outside the opera pit. Before long Tate
and the ECO were recording the com-
plete Mozart symphonies and piano
concertos, the latter with Mitsuko
Uchida. Hes intellectually precise and
vigorous, and never lets anything get
past him, Uchida told Blum.
Tate returned to Covent Garden in
1982, now as a conductor in his own
right, for Mozarts La Clemenza di Tito.
Leigh Kentish recalled: Certain people
had reservations and were em-
barrassed about the idea of a disabled
person conducting. They were amazed
when Jeffrey achieved such outstand-
ing musical results and, incidentally,
got marvellous notices. Soon he was
appointed principal conductor, helping
Bernard Haitink with programming.
By the mid-1990s Tate was conduct-
ing across Europe, including Hans
Werner Henzes reworking of Monte-
verdis Il ritorno dUlisse in Salzburg, a
rare accolade for a British musician.
There were appointments in Switzer-
land, the Netherlands and Italy, and
since 2009 he had been chief conductor
of the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra.
Since leaving the ECO and Covent
Garden in the mid-1990s he had largely
vanished from the British musical
scene, save for a run of Der fliegende
Hollnder at Covent Garden in 2011.
Ill health was never far away and he
survived legionnaires disease and a
life-threatening bacterial infection.
Since 1989 he had served as president of
Shine, the spina bifida charity. He
collapsed and died while visiting the
Accademia Carrara art gallery in
Bergamo, Italy, six weeks after being
knighted by the Duke of Cambridge.
Tate never allowed music to be his
all-consuming passion. He was widely
read, a collector of early Meissen porce-
lain, an explorer of churches, an out-
standing cook and a lover of fast cars.
Music in itself cannot be my whole
life, he explained. I like to try and be as
complete as I can, and music is only one
element. If I only had music I think I
would become slightly dead.
Sir Jeffrey Tate, conductor, was born on
April 28, 1943. He collapsed and died on
June 2, 2017, aged 74
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Sir Paul Judge
Businessman who risked his home to make a fortune and later gave millions to establish the Cambridge business school
When Paul Judge was in his mid-
thirties he made a business decision
that could best be described as risky: it
would make him a multimillionaire or
cost him his home.
After a rapid ascent up the corporate
ladder of Cadbury Schweppes, having
joined the food and drinks company
straight from business school in 1973,
Judge was put in charge of selling Cad-
bury Typhoo, an unprofitable area of
operations consisting of jams, teas, milk
and other soft drinks, in 1985. He was
given strict guidelines: it was not to be
sold for anything less than 70 million;
it could be sold only as a single business;
and under no circumstances was it to be
sold to a competitor.
Judge reasoned that the only way to
make a profit would be to lead a
management buyout, so he remort-
gaged his home in Worcestershire to
help to raise the money needed to fi-
nance the purchase. Negotiations
started in December 1985 and dragged
on for several months, during which
time his father died. Judge survived on
four hours sleep a night, consuming a
diet of chocolate biscuits and whisky
but the risk paid off.
By May 1986 Premier Brands had
been formed, with Judge as managing
director and a team of eight fellow
employees from Cadbury Schweppes
whom he had persuaded to join him.
Profits reached 31 million. When
Judge sold the company for 310 mil-
lion in 1990 his 90,000 investment
from the remortgage of his house was
worth about 45 million.
Looking back on his career with Cad-
Molly Peters
Bond girl with a striking role in Thunderball that led to a battle with the censors and the threat of an X certificate for 007
Playing the part of a nurse tasked with
looking after James Bonds every need
at a health farm in the film Thunderball
(1965), it did not take Molly Peters long
to get her kit off.
Indeed, she became the first Bond
girl to remove her clothes on-screen.
The scene was racy enough for the
British Board of Film Censors (BBFC)
to tell the film-makers that the sight of
the naked Peters was likely to result in
the film being given a commercially
ruinous X certificate. In the end she was
seen partially covered with strategic-
ally placed bed linen.
The scene was one of 32 objections
raised by the censor, many of them
involving Sean Connerys predatory
agent and Peterss blonde and sensuous
nurse, Patricia Fearing. I get the
impression that this screenplay has
been deliberately hotted up with a view
to its including more sex, sadism and
violence than the previous Bond pic-
tures, John Trevelyan, the secretary of
the BBFC, told Harry Saltzman,
co-producer of Thunderball.
In one of the films most erotic scenes,
Connery massages the naked Peterss
back with a mink glove. The fur redu-
ces the tension, Bond explained. Not
mine, the aroused nurse responds.
After considerable negotiation, most of
the controversial scenes were allowed
to remain, but Trevelyan insisted that
the mink glove was a stroke too far.
Reluctantly, the film-makers agreed
to remove the scene in return for the
movie receiving an A rating, as the
previous three Bond films had done.
Papers in the BBFC archive confirm
that they had little choice and that
Thunderball came within an inch of
being X-rated, which would have wiped
out the films under-18 audience and hit
box-office takings hard.
bury Schweppes, Judge, a surprisingly
modest man, said: Every promotion
was a pleasant surprise. He was careful
with his new-found wealth, buying a
flat in London and a holiday home in
Portugal. He also took himself down to
Savile Row for a suit off the peg.
The sale, he said, did not really
change his life. Perhaps its my busi-
ness training but I am instinctively
looking for value for money.
In 1990 he gave 8 million to Cam-
bridge University for a business school;
this was named after him and opened
by the Queen in 1995. Judge chaired its
advisory board for 12 years. According
to the Financial Times rankings, the
Cambridge Judge Business School is
one of the top five in the world.
We have always had the attitude of
the educated amateur in this country
when it comes to management, Judge
said. Our traditional universities have
been disinclined to view it as a pro-
He had a great capacity
for absorbing facts, not
all of them useful
fession like law or medicine that needs
to be properly taught and needs proper
facilities.
He was rated one of the top 40 under
40 by Business Magazine in 1986 and
earned the respect of Norman Fowler,
the chairman of the Conservative
Party, who appointed Judge director
general in 1992, a position that he
accepted without remuneration.
The Bond franchise later extracted a
mild revenge on Trevelyan, who,
according to his obituary in The Times
(August 18, 1986) never shrank from
using his scissors, especially when it
came to protecting the young. The
villain played by Sean Bean in Golden-
Eye in 1995 the first Bond film not
based on a story by Ian Fleming was
given the name Trevelyan.
Judges foray into politics was not as
successful as his tenure in business and
he made enemies. Although he was
credited by Fowler as the person pri-
marily responsible for improving the
management of the Conservative Party
organisations and for achieving the
turnaround in our financial fortunes,
reducing the partys overdraft from
19 million to 2 million, he was forced
to consider his options after three years
when Brian Mawhinney took charge.
He was criticised in 1993 when he
made 50 party employees redundant as
part of a cost-cutting drive. Then, in
January 1995, he lost a libel action
against The Guardian newspaper. Judge
paid both sides costs, amounting to
about 300,000. He later spent a year as
a ministerial adviser to the cabinet
office on competitiveness, deregula-
tion, privatisation and IT.
Paul Rupert Judge was born in Forest
Hill, south London, in 1949. His father,
Rupert, was a schoolmaster, and his
mother, Betty, a housewife. Ever the
entrepreneur, he made money by sell-
ing programmes at Blackheath rugby
club on Saturday afternoons.
Judge went to St Dunstans College,
an independent school in Catford,
south London, and then won a scholar-
ship to Trinity College, Cambridge,
where he read natural sciences.
A career as a chemist was on the
cards until he read Anthony Sampsons
Anatomy of Britain, which triggered an
interest in business. He switched to
management studies in his last year at
Cambridge and gained a Thouron
scholarship to undertake an MBA at
To coincide with the cinematic
release of Thunderball, Peters posed for
Playboy with a bevy of other Bond girls,
including Honor Blackman, Claudine
Auger and Shirley Eaton. The pictures
were accompanied by an essay by the
Bond screenplay writer Richard Mai-
baum, who described them as these
sensuous cinema sirens with whom 007
has to put up and bed down. Peters was
Judge was not afraid of taking risks
Wharton Business School at the
University of Pennsylvania. After a
summer spent driving from Philadel-
phia to Mexico and back in a 1967
Mustang, Judge joined Cadbury
Schweppes.
In 1976 he married Jane Urquart at
Trinity College Chapel, but they
divorced in 1980. Having met Anne
Marie Foff while studying in America,
Judge saw her again when he was
working for Cadbury Schweppes in
Connecticut. They moved to east
Africa when he was made managing
director of the Kenya division. The
couple were married in 1983 and had
Molly
M olly Pet
Peters
ers giving
gii i BBond a massage
with a mink glove. Later the roles
were reversed, but the scene was cut
not perturbed and saw the film a total of
16 times, which she admitted was in
part because I looked at the screen and
thought, You look all right, girl!
After Thunderball, Peters made a
handful of TV appearances and had
one further minor film role, playing a
secretary in the comedy Dont Raise the
Bridge, Lower the River, with Jerry
Lewis. Yet after 1968 she wasnt seen on
screen again and joined a long list of
Bond girls who were loved and left on
the shelf.
She revealed in a Bond documentary
many years later that her career had
been derailed because of a disagree-
ment with her agent. She declined to
expand on the circumstances, but
walked away from the acting profession
and lived quietly in Ipswich, where she
raised a son, who predeceased her.
Born Mollie [sic] Peters on March 15,
1942 in Walsham-le-Willows, Suffolk,
she began her career as a teenage
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two boys, Christopher and Michael,
who are engineers. After several visits
to the Severn Valley Railway, Judge and
his sons built a replica in their
garden.
Judge was said to have an incredible
capacity for absorbing facts, not all of
them useful, and was known to drop
into conversations details of the num-
ber of packets of crisps per capita sold
each year. He was never short of work,
holding positions with the Schroder
Income Growth Fund, Boddington
Group, WPP and Barclays. He was
knighted by John Major in 1996. He was
a member of the Togolese presidents
investment advisory committee, and
helped to set up mobile medical clinics
in the country.
His personal life was sometimes
complex. In 2001 his marriage to Anne
ended and the next year he married the
businesswoman Barbara Thomas, the
first woman to chair the UK Atomic
Energy Authority Private Eye
dubbed her the Atomic Kitten.
In 2009 Judge launched the Jury
Team, a movement aimed at promoting
independent thought. However, it fail-
ed to win any seats in the 2010 general
election and was disbanded. He be-
came an alderman and freeman of the
City of London, and was a sheriff for
one year in 2013. He will be remem-
bered, however, for the Cambridge
business school and the risks that he
took to make a fortune.
Sir Paul Judge, businessman, was born
on April 25, 1949. He died after a short
illness on May 21, 2017, aged 68
model, appearing in a state of semi-
undress on the covers of such mens
magazines as Cavalcade, Beau, Parade,
Best for Men, Dapper and Escapade.
She made her film debut in Peter
Studies Form (1964), a piece of low
titillation about an artist who tries his
hand at painting and sculpting, before
getting a camera and discovering a tal-
ent for photographing nude women. It
brought her to the attention of Terence
Young, who had directed the first two
Bond films, Dr No and From Russia with
L
Love. He invited her for a screen test.
She recalled being introduced to
C
Connery on the set at Pinewood
S
Studios. I was very nervous, she said.
another corner of the studio I saw a
In
very tall and handsome man and I
remember Terence Young said to me,
Darling, of course you know Sean,
dont you? Well, Id never met Sean in
my life, so I was quite overawed.
In her first scene Bond forcibly grabs
and kisses her while shes giving him a
check-up. She primly resists his
advances and sets him up on a motor-
ised traction machine, quipping: First
time Ive felt safe all day.
When she leaves him alone for a few
moments, Count Lippe, an enemy
agent, attempts to kill 007 by turning up
the power on the traction table. Nurse
Fearings return saves the day and,
being a gentleman, Bond agrees not to
tell her boss about the incident if she
sleeps with him. They then repair to the
steam room and disrobe. When 007
checks out of the clinic, Fearing is eager
to arrange a further assignation but
it was the end of the affair and curtains
on her film career.
Molly Peters, actress, was born on March
15, 1942. She died of an undisclosed
illness on May 30, 2017, aged 75
the times | Monday June 5 2017
Law Report
Cost of release from agreement
over shares not tax deductible
Court of Appeal
Published June 5, 2017
Blackwell v Revenue and Customs
Commissioners
Before Lord Justice Longmore,
Lord Justice Patten and
Lord Justice Briggs
[2017] EWCA Civ 232
Judgment April 6, 2017
A taxpayer could not, in com-
puting the gain accruing to him
on the disposal of shares, bring
into account by way of deduc-
tion expenditure incurred by
him in buying his release from a
personal contractual obligation
to a third party restrictive of his
ability to vote or sell those
shares.
The Court of Appeal so held
when dismissing the appeal of
the taxpayer, Julian Blackwell,
from the decision of the Upper
Tribunal (Tax and Chancery
Chamber) (Mr Justice Newey
and Judge Charles Hellier)
([2015] STC 598), which allowed
the appeal of the Revenue and
Customs Commissioners from
the decision of the First-tier
Tribunal (Tax Chamber) (Judge
Richard Barlow and Mr Dun-
can McBride) ([2014] UKFTT
103(TC)) allowing the appeal of
the taxpayer from the Reve-
nues refusal of his application
for relief from Capital Gains
Tax.
Section 38(1)(b) of the Taxa-
tion of Chargeable Gains Act
1992 provides: (1) Except as
otherwise expressly provided,
the sums allowable as a deduc-
tion from the consideration in
the computation of the gain
accruing to a person on the
disposal of an asset shall be
restricted to . . . (b) the amount
of any expenditure wholly and
exclusively incurred on the
asset by him or on his behalf for
the purpose of enhancing the
value of the asset, being
expenditure reflected in the
state or nature of the asset at
the time of the disposal, and any
expenditure wholly and exclu-
sively incurred by him in estab-
lishing, preserving or defending
his title to, or to a right over, the
asset . . .
Mr Kevin Prosser, QC, and
Mr Charles Bradley for the
taxpayer; Mr Michael Jones for
the Revenue.
Lord Justice Briggs said that
in 2006 the taxpayer paid
17.5 million to be released from
certain obligations he had
undertaken in 2003 in relation
to his shares in Blackwell Pub-
lishing (Holdings) Ltd. Shortly
thereafter he disposed of those
Court Circular
Buckingham Palace
3rd June, 2017
The Queen, accompanied
by Princess Alexandra, the
Hon Lady Ogilvy, honoured
Epsom Races with her
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shares for a little over 100 mil-
lion. He sought to deduct the
17.5 million under section
38(1)(b) of the 1992 Act in com-
puting his capital gain on the
disposal of the shares. The
Revenue refused to allow the
deduction.
Looking more closely at sec-
tion 38(1)(b), it was common
ground that the taxpayer paid
the 17.5 million for the purpose
of enhancing the value of the
shares in his hands. However,
the Revenue submitted that the
17.5 million was not expendi-
ture incurred on the shares,
nor expenditure reflected in the
state or nature of the shares at
the time of the disposal. Nor
was it expenditure incurred
by the taxpayer in establishing,
preserving, or defending his
title to, or to a right over the
shares.
The parties recognised that
section 38(1)(b) really fell into
two limbs, the first requiring
both expenditure on the asset
and expenditure that was
reflected in the state or nature
of the asset at the time of its dis-
posal, and the second limb
being a freestanding alter-
native, namely expenditure
incurred in establishing, pre-
serving or defending title to, or
to a right over, the asset.
But the fact that they consti-
tuted alternative means of
establishing the condition for
deduction imposed by section
38(1)(b) meant that a reliable
interpretation of section 38
required both to be kept in mind
together, rather than viewed in
entirely self-contained com-
partments.
It needed also to be borne in
mind that section 38 applied for
the purpose of computing both
gains and losses on the disposal
of assets, and that assets were
defined in the widest terms by
section 21 of the 1992 Act as
extending to all forms of prop-
erty, including incorporeal
property generally, but also
chattels, such as works of art.
Generally speaking, the Cap-
ital Gains Tax legislation, and
concepts, phrases and words
used in it, were to be given a
broad commercial interpreta-
tion, and common sense ought
to prevail if a narrow juristic,
mathematical or technical
interpretation would conflict
with it.
The question whether the
payment made for release from
the applicable contractual obli-
gations had affected the state
presence today.
Kensington Palace
3rd June, 2017
Prince Henry of Wales this
afternoon arrived at Changi
Airport, Singapore, and was
received by the British High
Commissioner to the Republic
of Singapore (His Excellency
Mr Scott Wightman).
Kensington Palace
4th June, 2017
Prince Henry of Wales this
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or nature of the shares did not
depend on whether the expen-
diture affected their value.
The state or nature of the
shares was to be identified for
the purposes of section 38(1)(b)
by reference to the rights and
obligations which those shares
conferred or imposed on a
shareholder pursuant to the
applicable articles of associa-
tion, and the state or nature of
the asset was unaffected by the
making or subsequent dis-
charge of the relevant agree-
ment because it was a purely
personal agreement between
the taxpayer and a third party.
The agreement imposed
inhibitions on the taxpayers
exercise of his rights as a share-
holder, but the nature and state
of the asset constituted by the
shares remained the same
throughout.
It was not uncommercial to
apply a juristic analysis of the
intangible asset constituted by
shares in a company for the
purpose of ascertaining its state
or nature at any particular time;
and to draw a distinction
between the rights and obliga-
tions conferred and imposed by
the shares themselves and per-
sonal undertakings by a share-
holder to a third party which
might restrict the exercise of
those rights was both business-
like and legally correct.
Moreover, the 17.5 million
payment had nothing to do
with the taxpayers title to the
shares, or his title to rights over
the shares, for the purposes of
the second limb of section
38(1)(b). It was a payment to
discharge personal obligations
or to buy back rights that had
been entered into or conferred
upon the third party by the
relevant agreement. The rights
within the agreement were per-
sonal rights of the third party
over the taxpayer, not rights of
the taxpayer over the third
party.
It was also correct to have
confined the concept of the
establishment of title in sec-
tion 38(1)(b) to making good or
proving or clarifying the exis-
tence of a right, something
entirely different from acquir-
ing such a right.
Accordingly, section 38(1)(b)
of the 1992 Act did not apply to
the case.
Lord Justice Longmore and
Lord Justice Patten agreed.
Solicitors: GRM Law; Solici-
tor, Revenue and Customs
Commissioners.
afternoon attended an
Action for Aids Reception
given by the British High
Commissioner to the Republic
of Singapore (His Excellency
Mr Scott Wightman) at the
Residence in Tanglin Road,
Singapore.
His Royal Highness
afterwards attended a Meeting
with mental health youth
mentors, at the Residence.
Prince Henry of Wales this
evening visited Jamiyah
Childrens Home.
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Sport MIKE HEWITT / GETTY IMAGES

Chanderpauls Froome well placed to

start Dauphin defence
Cycling Chris Froome finished
safely in the bunch as he began his
bid for a record fourth triumph in

exit hastens the Critrium du Dauphin

yesterday. The Team Sky rider,
who won the race in 2013, 2015
and 2016 before going on to glory
in the Tour de France each time,

Yorkshire win
Yorkshire v Lancashire
Headingley (third day of four): Yorkshire (21pts) beat
Lancashire (3) by ten wickets
Specsavers County Championship
Paul Edwards
As if spurred to greater effort by the
presence at the crease of that tiny
parcel of bloody-minded intransigence
named Shivnarine Chanderpaul,
Yorkshires bowlers stirred themselves
to even greater efforts yesterday, and
their toil was abundantly rewarded.
Lancashire began the morning nine
runs behind but with six second-
innings wickets in hand. Steven Crofts
players could therefore harbour
realistic hopes of setting their hosts a
testing target or at least batting until
the weather closed in.
However, from the third over of the
session, when Dane Vilas edged Ryan
Sidebottom to Adam Lyth at second
slip until the moment just after lunch
when Alex Leess lofted four clinched
Yorkshires ten-wicket victory, Gary
Ballances men dominated the third day
of this game much as they had
controlled the previous two.
No one epitomised the home sides
approach better than Sidebottom and
Ben Coad, two seamers at very different
stages of their careers but with compa-
rable work ethics and, in this match at
least, similar levels of success.
Three overs after Sidebottoms initial
breakthrough, Coad took the vital
wicket of Chanderpaul for the second
time in the match when he came round
the wicket from the Kirkstall Lane End
and induced the master of the art of
playing inside the ball to give the
faintest of edges to Andy Hodd, the
wicketkeeper.
Instead of batting all day, as he had no
doubt envisaged, the Guyanese had
added only four to his overnight score
of 43 and Lancashire were still one run
in arrears when he departed. Any later
resistance, including Jordan Clarks 37,
merely delayed the inevitable, one that
had been built as much by Lyths
century on the second day as by the
excellence of probably the countrys
finest seam attack on the third.
Having ground out a 150-run lead on
Saturday, Yorkshire made the most of it
yesterday and when further incisions
were needed, Tim Bresnan made them
by taking three wickets in 16 balls late in
the morning. Coad ended the match
with figures of eight for 59 while
Sidebottom took six for 68. Add in the
formidable assistance of Bresnan and
Jack Brooks and you have a quartet
who give their opponents no respite.
Lancashire were eventually dis-
missed for 209, leaving their opponents
needing 60 to win, a task they complet-
ed in the eighth over after lunch.
Indeed, the game ended with Croft
bowling his spinners to improve his
teams over rate while Lyth and Lees
cruised serenely to the victory that
took their side up to second in the table.
From start to finish we dominated
the game, Andrew Gale, the Yorkshire
coach, said. I said in the dressing room
that we strive for perfection and as a
bowling unit I thought we were top
drawer. If I could show the academy
players a video of how to bat at
Headingley Adam Lyths innings would
be the one I would choose. Ive never
seen him work harder for a hundred.
Sussex and Worcestershire players observe a minutes silence before the third
day at Hove, something that did not take place at Lords yesterday morning
MCC defends late tribute
Elizabeth Ammon
A lack of spectators in the ground was
the reason given by MCC officials for
not holding a minutes silence for the
victims of the London terror attack
before the start of play at Lords.
After some surprise had been
expressed that Lords had not followed
the example of Edgbaston, Headingley
and Hove, players and spectators stood
in silence at the end of the lunch break,.
Middlesex, 42 without loss overnight
and needing another 251 runs to avoid
the follow-on against Somerset, started
the day badly when Nick Compton fail-
ed to get forward to a straight delivery
from Tim Groenewald and was trapped
in front so much so that he did not
wait for umpire Jeremy Lloydss finger
to be raised before walking off.
Nick Gubbins reached a half-century
but was leg-before to Peter Trego just
before lunch. A battling century part-
was 15th, 59 seconds behind stage
winner Thomas De Gendt.
Before the stage, Team Sky
lined up on the front of the
peloton for a minutes silence in
memory of those killed in the
terror attack in London on
Saturday night. As a team, our
sympathy goes to everyone
affected by this attack, Froome
said. De Gendt, the Belgian who
rides for Lotto-Soudal, came home
alone after dropping the last of his
breakaway companions with eight
kilometres left of the 170.5km
stage that started and finished in
Saint-tienne.
Final dive clinches gold
Diving Matty Lee, the 19-year-old
from City of Leeds, won the mens
10m platform title at the British
Championships in Edinburgh. Lee
won his first national title, saving
nership between Adam Voges, who his best effort until last with the
eventually retired hurt on 86, and Paul highest-scoring dive of the final to
Stirling ended before tea, when Stirling take gold with a total of 431.40
(52) edged behind off Jamie Overton points. Ross Haslam and Lois
but the home side avoided the follow- Toulson completed their golden
on, finishing the day on 311 for seven. hat-tricks with wins in the mens
Jonathan Trott returned to South- 3m springboard and womens 10m
ampton from a family emergency to platform titles respectively.
find Warwickshire 49 for six in their
first innings against Hampshire, 466 Wood squanders title
runs behind. He scored 101 to take the
visiting side to 254 all out, giving them Golf Chris Wood, the overnight
a chance of a draw today. leader, paid for a poor tee shot on
Derbyshire have not won a champi- the final hole to hand the Nordea
onship match since July 2015 and they Masters title to Renato Paratore in
must have retained hopes of ending Malmo. Wood pulled his ball into
that sorry record when Nottingham- the trees and was forced to take a
shire were five wickets down and only penalty drop from an unplayable
105 runs ahead at tea. In the 55 minutes lie, the resulting bogey dropping
possible thereafter, however, only Riki him into a tie for second alongside
Wessels was removed and Chris Reads Matt Fitzpatrick, his fellow
unbeaten 46 helped to add another 74, Englishman. The victory was the
and the game returned to tantalising first European Tour title for the
balance. Italian, who ended on 11 under par.

Scoreboards and results

Cricket
Specsavers County Championship
First division: Yorkshire v Lancashire
Headingley (third day of four): Yorkshire
(21pts) beat Lancashire (3) by ten wickets
Lancashire: First Innings 123 (B O Coad 6 for 25)
Second Innings (overnight 141-4)
S Chanderpaul c Hodd b Coad
D J Vilas c Lyth b Sidebottom
R McLaren c Leaning b Bresnan
J Clark c Hodd b Bresnan
S D Parry c Hodd b Bresnan
T E Bailey c Handscomb b Sidebottom
S Mahmood not out
Extras (b 2, lb 5)
Total (69 overs) 209
Fall of wickets: 1-23, 2-33, 3-61, 4-81, 5-145,
6-149, 7-197, 8-198, 9-205.
Bowling: Sidebottom 19-7-38-3; Brooks 19-3-
75-2; Coad 17-7-34-2; Bresnan 13-3-50-3; Rafiq
1-0-5-0.
Yorkshire: First Innings 273 (A Lyth 100)
Second Innings
A Lyth not out
A Z Lees not out
Extras (b 4, lb 2, nb 2)
Total (0 wkt, 20.5 overs)
Bowling: Bailey 1-0-9-0; Mahmood 1-0-6-0; Croft
9.5-1-19-0; Parry 6-1-12-0; Hameed 3-0-9-0.
Umpires: R J Bailey and M A Gough.
Hampshire v Warwickshire
Ageas Bowl (third day of four): Warwickshire,
with eight second-innings wickets in hand, are
186 runs behind Hampshire
Hampshire: First Innings 515 (S M Ervine 203; J
H K Adams 166; S Singh 6 for 144)
Warwickshire: First Innings (overnight 49-6)
G T Thornton c Rossouw b Abbott 10
I J L Trott lbw b Abbott 101
K H D Barker c Bailey b Ervine 63
W B Rankin b Crane 4 Umpires: G D Lloyd and P A Gustard
S Singh not out 16
Extras (b 7, lb 4, nb 4) 15
Total (102.1 overs) 254
Fall of wickets: 1-14, 2-15, 3-19, 4-22, 5-46,
6-49, 7-81, 8-185, 9-200.
Bowling: Abbott 17.1-4-41-2; Berg 14-5-26-0;
Salisbury 17-5-35-2; Holland 9-4-16-1; Crane
36-7-104-3; Ervine 9-2-21-1.
Second Innings
A R I Umeed c McManus b Berg
I J Westwood c Adams b Abbott
I J L Trott not out
*I R Bell not out
Extras (nb 2)
47 Total (2 wkts, 21 overs)
22 Fall of wickets: 1-5, 2-9.
15 Bowling: Abbott 6-3-10-1; Berg 5-0-23-1; Hol-
37 land 5-1-21-0; Salisbury 3-0-15-0; Crane 2-0-6-0.
8 Umpires: N G C Cowley and P J Hartley.
3 Third round: V Cepede Royg (Para) bt M Duque
0 Middlesex v Somerset
Lords (third day of four): Middlesex, with three
7 Bowling: Jordan 15-1-52-2; Archer 5-0-12-0;
first-innings wickets in hand, are 132 runs
behind Somerset
Somerset: First Innings 443-9 dec (D Elgar 158;
L Gregory 137)
Middlesex: First Innings
N R D Compton lbw b Groenewald
N R T Gubbins lbw b Trego
S S Eskinazi b Gregory
28 A C Voges retired hurt
25 P R Stirling c Davies b Overton
8 J A Simpson c Davies b Davey
61 *J E C Franklin not out
T S Roland-Jones c Davies b Groenewald
O P Rayner b Overton
T G Helm not out
Extras (b 2, lb 6, nb 8)
Total (7 wkts, 108 overs)
T J Murtagh to bat.
Fall of wickets: 1-46, 2-64, 3-116, 4-217, 5-222,
6-248, 7-290.
Bowling: Gregory 15-3-57-1; Davey 22-6-58-1;
Groenewald 21-8-36-2; Overton 22-6-45-2;
Leach 18-4-72-0; Trego 10-2-35-1.
Umpires: J W Lloyds and B V Taylor.
Second division
Durham v Northamptonshire
Emirates Durham (third day of four): North-
amptonshire, with nine second-innings wickets
in hand, need 161 runs to beat Durham
Durham: First Innings 166 (N L Buck 6 for 34)
Second Innings (overnight 78-1)
S C Cook b Sanderson 42
B J McCarthy b Kleinveldt 3 Fall of wickets: 1-215, 2-220, 3-224, 4-260, 16min 54sec; 2, A Domont (Fr, AG2R) at 48sec (17) R Bautista (Sp) 6-1, 6-2, 6-2; (6)D Thiem
C T Steel lbw b Azharullah 128 5-260, 6-276, 7-294, 8-296, 9-308. behind; 3, D Ulissi (It, UAE Team Emirates) (Austria) bt H Zeballos (Arg) 6-1, 6-3, 6-1.
G Clark b Kleinveldt 6 Bowling: Magoffin 9-3-18-0; Philander 19-4- 1:03. Selected: 9, B Swift (GB, UAE Team Emir- Third round: (15) G Monfils (Fr) bt (24) R Gas-
*P D Collingwood c Rossington b Azharullah54 72-3; Archer 24.2-5-91-4; Jordan 15-4-37-0; ates); 15, C Froome (GB, Team Sky) at 1:09. quet (Fr) 7-6 (7-5), 5-7, 4-3 (ret); K Khachanov
7 M J Richardson c Rossington b Buck 14 Wiese 18-1-62-2; Nash 1-1-0-0; van Zyl 10-6- (Russ) bt (21) J Isner (US) 7-6 (7-1), 6-3, 6-7
2 R D Pringle not out 47 15-1. Golf (5-7), 7-6 (7-3); (8) K Nishikori (Japan) bt
17 P Coughlin c sub b Azharullah 20 Second Innings European Tour Nordea Masters, Chung Hyeon (S Kor) 7-5, 6-4, 6-7 (4-7), 0-6, 6-4.
47 S W Poynter c Wakely b Azharullah 5 D K H Mitchell lbw b van Zyl 54 Barseback CC, Malmo, Sweden Fourth round: Women: (13) K Mladenovic (Fr)
2 G T Main lbw Azharullah 0 B L DOliveira c Jordan b Wiese 12 Leading final-round scores (Great Britain and bt (4) G Muguruza (Sp) 6-1, 3-6, 6-3; Je Osta-
75 Extras (b 3, lb 2, w 7, nb 18) 30 T C Fell c Archer b Jordan 22 Ireland unless stated): 281: R Paratore (It) 68, penko (Lat) bt (23) S Stosur (Aus) 2-6, 6-2, 6-4;
Total (112 overs) 376 J M Clarke b Jordan 10 72, 71, 70. 282: C Wood 74, 68, 68, 72; M Fitzpat- (11) C Wozniacki (Den) bt (8) S Kuznetsova
Fall of wickets: 1-69, 2-79, 3-81, 4-98, 5-241, O B Cox not out 3 rick 73, 70, 71, 68. 283: T Olesen (Den) 72, 70, 70, (Russ) 6-1, 4-6, 6-2; (30) T Bacsinszky (Switz)
6-285, 7-325, 8-370, 9-376. J C Tongue not out 7 71; G Coetzee (SA) 73, 71, 73, 66. 284: M Pavon bt (10) V Williams (US) 5-7, 6-2, 6-1.
Bowling: Kleinveldt 25-4-103-2; Sanderson 27- Extras (b 4, lb 1, w 5, nb 6) 16 (Fr) 74, 69, 74, 67. 285: J Donaldson 69, 69, 75,
8-67-1; Buck 24-5-57-1; Azharullah 21-5-72-5; Total (4 wkts, 43 overs) 124 72. 286: M Siem (Ger) 74, 73, 71, 68; A Sullivan (Col) 3-6, 7-6 (7-2), 6-3; (5) E Svitolina (Uk) bt
Keogh 13-2-56-1; Hughes 2-0-16-0. Fall of wickets: 1-26, 2-90, 3-109, 4-115.
73, 71, 73, 69; Wang Jeunghun (S Kor) 72, 71, 70, M Linette (Pol) 6-4, 7-5; (2) Karolina Pliskova
73; N Colsaerts (Bel) 73, 72, 72, 69; E Pepperell
Northamptonshire: First Innings 338 (M D E (Cz) bt C Witthoeft (Ger) 7-5, 6-1; P Martic
van Zyl 13-6-27-1; Wiese 6-0-13-1; Philander 70, 74, 71, 71; A Connelly (Can) 72, 70, 73, 71; B
Holden 124; J J Cobb 96; A M Rossington 65). (Cro) bt (17) A Sevastova (Lat) 6-1, 6-1.
4-0-15-0. Hebert (Fr) 70, 71, 70, 75.
Second Innings Third round: Mens doubles: F Verdasco (Sp) &
M D E Holden c Jennings b Coughlin 0 Umpires: S A Garratt and N A Mallender. N Zimonjic (Serbia) bt S Groth (Aus) & R Lind-
R I Newton not out 25 Nottinghamshire v Derbyshire
Rugby league stedt (Swe) 6-2, 6-4; R Harrison (US) & M
22 *A G Wakely not out 18 Trent Bridge (third day of four): Nottingham- Betfred Super League: Huddersfield 44 War- Venus (NZ) bt P Raja & D Sharan (India) 4-6, 7-6
56 Extras (lb 1) 1 shire, with four second-innings wickets in hand, rington 4; Salford 24 Wakefield 34; Widnes 26 (7-5), 6-2; (5) J Murray (GB) & B Soares (Br) bt
6 Total (1 wkt, 12 overs) 44 are 179 runs ahead of Derbyshire Catalans Dragons 6; Castleford 16 St Helens 12. (9) R Bopanna (India) & P Cuevas (Uru) 7-6
86 Fall of wicket: 1-0. Nottinghamshire: First Innings 229 (S J Mullan- Kingstone Press Championship: Batley 20 Tou- (7-5), 6-2.
52 Bowling: Coughlin 6-0-26-1; McCrathy 3-1- ey 76; A P Palladino 4 for 44) louse 28; Dewsbury 38 Bradford 12; Feather- Third round: Womens doubles: I-C Begu (Rom)
2 10-0; Main 3-1-7-0. Second Innings (overnight 67-2) stone 20 Hull KR 20; London Broncos 34 Halifax & Saisai Zheng (China) bt Ying-Ying Duan &
38 Umpires: M Burns and S J OShaughnessy. S J Mullaney c Taylor b Mendis 62 6; Sheffield 38 Rochdale 14; Swinton 26 Oldham Shuai Peng (China) 6-4, 6-2.
1 S R Patel lbw b McKerr 82 4. Mixed doubles second rd: R Ram (US) & C Del-
29 Sussex v Worcestershire
M J Lumb c Hughes b Mendis 21 P W D L F A Pts lacqua (Aus) bt (6) J-J Rojer (Neth) & Hao-
3 Hove (third day of four): Worcestershire, with
M H Wessels b Mendis 46 Castleford 17 14 0 3 591 266 28 Ching Chan (Taiwan) 6-3, 3-6, 10-6.
16 six second-innings wickets in hand, are 143 runs
*C M W Read not out 46 Salford 17 12 0 5 468 308 24
311 behind Sussex
Sussex: First Innings 579-8 dec (L W P Wells
B A Hutton not out 6 Leeds 17 11 0 6 439 351 22
Extras (b 4, lb 8, w 2, nb 8) 22 Wakefield 17 11 0 6 436 362 22
155; L J Wright 87; H Z Finch 82; D Wiese 66)
Worcestershire: First Innings Total (6 wkts, 82 overs) 313 Hull
Wigan
17 10 1 6 412 392 21
17 7 2 8 382 411 16
Cricket fixtures
D K H Mitchell c van Zyl b Wiese 121 Fall of wickets: 1-20, 2-35, 3-172, 4-185, 5-233,
6-282. St Helens 16 7 1 8 318 282 15 Champions Trophy: Group A: Kia Oval: Australia
B L DOliveira c van Zyl b Wiese 80 Catalans Dragons17 6 1 10 339 463 13
Bowling: Taylor 12-1-43-1; McKerr 23-5-87-2; v Bangladesh (1.30).
T C Fell c Jordan b van Zyl 6 Huddersfield 16 5 2 9 324 385 12
Mendis 24-2-93-3; Palladino 10-2-40-0; Reece
J M Clarke c van Zyl b Archer 22 Warrington 17 5 2 10 282 453 12 Third unofficial ODI: Northampton: England
9-1-22-0; Thakor 3-0-14-0; Madsen 1-0-2-0.
O B Cox c Jordan b Philander 12 Widnes 17 4 1 12 287 466 9 Lions v South Africa A (2.0).
R A Whiteley b Archer 3 Derbyshire: First Innings 363 (B A Godleman
Leigh 17 4 0 13 290 429 8
E G Barnard lbw b Philander 22 121; W L Madsen 56) Specsavers County Championship (final day of
four, 11.0. 96 overs minimum): First division:
*J Leach lbw b Archer 6 Tennis Ageas Bowl: Hampshire v Warwickshire.
J C Tongue c sub b Philander
J D Shantry c Burgess b Archer
0
16
Cycling French Open: Roland Garros, Paris Lords: Middlesex v Somerset. Second division:
N M Lyon not out 0 Fourth round (seeds in brackets): Men: (20) P Trent Bridge: Nottinghamshire v Derbyshire.
Critrium du Dauphin
Extras (b 6, lb 11, w 1, nb 6) 24 First stage (Saint-Etienne to Saint-Etienne, Carreno-Busta (Sp) bt (5) M Raonic (Can) 4-6, Hove: Sussex v Worcestershire. Emirates
Total (96.2 overs) 312 170.5km): 1, T De Gendt (Belgium, Lotto) 4hr 7-6 (7-2), 6-7 (6-8), 6-4, 8-6; (4) R Nadal (Sp) bt Riverside: Durham v Northamptonshire.
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Sport

Beggys Derby David Nicholls dies

David Dandy Nicholls, who

excelled as a trainer of sprinters on
the Flat, has died at the age of 61. A
Castleford dig
deep to exploit
redemption former jockey, who was best known
for his association with the brilliant
sprinter Soba, Nicholls proved an
even better trainer and enjoyed
group one success through the likes
Salford slip-up
Rugby league

after drugs ban of Continent, Bahamian Pirate and

Regal Parade, as well as landing a
host of valuable handicaps,
including six victories in the Ayr
Gold Cup. His wife, Alex Greaves,
Christopher Irvine
A third game in ten days for Castleford
Tigers meant that they rested half their
team and then had to dig deep for a
16-12 victory against St Helens
Racing hard, keeping his head down and hop- and son, Adrian, were also yesterday that tightened their grip at
Mark Souster Racing Writer ing for that elusive break. Credit, too, successful jockeys. the top of the table.
in the first place to Aidan OBrien for They trailed until the 72nd minute,
This time the high was natural, the offering Beggy a shot at redemption. when Tom Holmes grounded a kick by
stimulant the rare accolade of being There are many superlatives one can as he reconnoitred tiring horses. A Greg Minikin and Paul McShane
a Derby-winning jockey. In 2min write about OBrien with regard to his switch to the left soon became one to converted. Saints had led 12-4 at the
33.02sec, Padraig Beggys wilderness genius as a trainer. But the one that had the right and suddenly he had a clear break through tries by Mark Percival
years were over. perhaps been overlooked was that of run. How he made the most of it. and Louie McCarthy-Scarsbrook on
Understandably, the 31-year-old empathy. He looks for and sees the best Inside the final furlong he ate up five his 200th appearance, but could find no
could barely contain himself, jigging in everyone. lengths in rapid time. Ahead and on his way past the home side in the second
and bobbing with delight at the post- OBrien said: Padraig is a world- inside was Ryan Moore on Cliffs Of half. Holmes added to earlier scores by
race press conference for all the world class rider. He has been with us a good Moher, who seemed to be poised to Kieran Gill, on his debut, and Mike
as if he was still on Wings Of Eagles. while now and we really appreciate his justify the hopes of his connections. McMeeken, as Castleford moved four
Beggys career, blighted by a 15- work day in, day out. There was no Indeed, Moore said aftewards that he points clear of Salford Red Devils, who
month ban after he tested positive for question that he wouldnt ride. thought he had won. But there was succumbed 34-24 to Wakefield
cocaine in Australia in 2014 his spot When Beggy returned from Sydney, Beggy, hurtling past and over the line Trinity, their sixth league win in a row.
of bother, as he called it and the it was to Ballydoyle that he went in by a margin of three quarters of a In the bottom four, Huddersfield
limited opportunities that are afforded January 2015, OBrien having been per- Jockey Beggy won the Epsom classic length. Giants, the beneficiaries of having
a supposed journeyman, seemed suaded that the jockey had the requisite with Wings Of Eagles on Saturday I never thought of giving up [after played only once over the bank holiday
destined to be a mere racing footnote. ability and that in the right environ- his ban], Beggy said. Not being able to weekend, put Warrington Wolves to
Instead his exploits in his first ride in ment he might thrive. He was low down from as far back in the field as, ride anywhere was the hardest part. I the sword. The pressure on Tony
the classic have garnered headlines the riding pecking order but such is the metaphorically, Beggy had done. played lots of golf, got down to 14 [hand- Smiths position as head coach grew
around the world as the 40-1 outsider depth of equine talent under OBriens Coming into the straight, the son of icap]. Aidan is a marvellous man to with a 44-4 hiding at the John Smiths
provided the biggest-priced winner of control, that if Beggy was going to get Pour Moi winner in 2011 had only train a horse and he is also a fair man, Stadium. Dont take anything away
the Derby since Snow Knight, at 50-1, the sort of chance he craved, then it two horses behind him. you know. I owe him a lot. from Huddersfield, they played well, a
in 1974. That is the beauty of sport, the would only be at Ballydoyle. Six of the Up front, two of OBriens sextet 6 ITVs Derby coverage drew the big- disconsolate Smith said.
ability to forgive, offer a second chance 18-strong field were his, but even Douglas Macarthur and The Anvil gest audience for the race since 2013. Widnes Vikings leapfrogged Leigh
and rehabilitate. OBrien was scratching his head in were setting a searching pace. Wings of An average of 820,000 watched cover- Centurions at the bottom of the table
Not everyone takes it. But credit slight disbelief at the outcome. Eagles move through the field was age from 1.30pm with an 11.3 per cent with a 26-6 home defeat of Catalans
must go to Beggy for doing so, working At Epsom, Wings Of Eagles came barely noticed and not straightforward share and a peak audience of 1.7 million. Dragons.

8 2013- JACK SNIPE 43 (P,D) J Scott 8-10-5 D Noonan 3 (9) CHEEKY RASCAL R Hannon 9-2 T Marquand 4.20 Maiden Stakes
Newton Abbot 3-1 Strollawaynow, 4-1 Peterbrown, 9-2 Calin Du Brizais, 5-1 Beuvron, 4 (16) FOLLOWTHESTEPS I Furtado 9-2 D Nolan (Div II: 3-Y-O: 4,528: 1m 53y) (9) Thirsk
Rob Wright 11-2 Mahlers Star, 9-1 Jack Snipe, 12-1 Bankhall, Railway Storm. 5 (18) 42 PORCHY PARTY 20 T Dascombe 9-2 R Kingscote 1 (3) 06 ALADDIN SANE 18 B Meehan 9-5 J Uys (7) Rob Wright
Wright choice: Calin Du Brizais was a game winner over course 6 (1) DREAM OF DELPHI W Haggas 9-0 P Cosgrave 2 (9) 6- ETERNAL DREAM 350 W Knight 9-5 O Murphy
2.10 Thady Quil 4.10 Pollys Pursuit and distance last week Dangers: Mahlers Star, Beuvron 7 (2) SIMPSON E Walker 9-0 L Morris 2.00 Mabo 4.00 Rayaa
3 (6) MESBAAR R Varian 9-5 A Atzeni
2.40 Exxaro 4.45 Deauville Dancer 8 (6) BULLSEYE BULLET M Usher 8-12 S Drowne 2.30 Jedi Master 4.35 Kroy
3.10 Magie Du Ma 5.15 Paladin 4 (5) 0- MEYRICK 297 W Haggas 9-5 P Cosgrave 3.00 Tontos Spirit (nb) 5.05 Isabella
3.40 Calin Du Brizais 4.10 Mares Maiden Hurdle 9 (7) FOUR FIFTY THREE M Tompkins 8-12 H Bentley 5 (2) MONAADHIL M Tregoning 9-5 J Crowley 3.30 Buccaneers Vault 5.35 Navajo Thunder
10 (8) 6 MAJOR PEIRSON 20 J Hughes 8-12 F Norton 6 POWDERHOUSE 21 (P) C Appleby 9-5 James Doyle
Thunderer: 2.40 Alcala (nap). 5.15 Paladin. (5,020: 2m 2f 110y) (8) 6 (1)
Going: good to firm Racing UK
11(12) AMOURICE Jane Chapple-Hyam 8-9 S Donohoe 7 (8) 06 UPENDED 17 C Wall 9-5 M Harley
1 154-3 GLANVILLES GUEST 21 Nick Mitchell 5-11-0 G Sheehan Draw: 5f-6f, high numbers best
Going: good, good to firm in places 12 (4) BLUE HAVANA J J Quinn 8-9 S W Kelly 8 (4) 42 WONDERFILLO 75 P Cole 9-5 L Morris
2 0F-F MAC BELLA 21 E Williams 5-11-0 A Wedge
At The Races 13(14) BOREAGH LASS H Candy 8-7 D Sweeney 9 (7) 00 TALLULAH'S QUEST 17 Miss J Feilden 9-0 A Beschizza
3 /0P5- MILAN HART 51 M Hill 7-11-0 D Jacob 2.00 Novice Stakes
14(10) CRYSTAL CASQUE B Millman 8-7 R Tate 5-4 Wonderfillo, 5-2 Mesbaar, 13-2 Monaadhil, 10-1 Meyrick, 12-1 others.
4 /F5-4 MISS FLEMING 12 (T) T George 5-11-0 A P Heskin
2.10 Handicap Hurdle 15(11) ROMAN SPINNER (T) Rae Guest 8-7 A Beschizza (Div I: 2-Y-O: 2,911: 6f) (11)
5 44U-P MOONTRIPPER 9 P Dando 8-11-0 Mr C Orr (7)
(3,899: 2m 5f 122y) (14) 16 (5) 45 SHAZZAB 14 R Fahey 8-7 Joe Doyle 4.55 Fillies Conditions Stakes 1 (9) BYRON'S CHOICE M Dods 9-2 P Mulrennan
6 2363- PASSMORE 48 A King 5-11-0 W Hutchinson
17(17) 03 TIME FOR TREACLE 14 B Haslam 8-7 C Hardie 2 (10) 5 MABO 16 R Fahey 9-1 P Hanagan
1 0P6-P BUTNEY ISLAND 35 (C) Nick Mitchell 7-11-12 T Bellamy 7 120-2 POLLY'S PURSUIT 12 (H) N Henderson 5-11-0 D Bass (7,561: 7f) (6)
18(15) VALLESA D Brown 8-7 A Jones (3) 3 (4) 6 MR WAGYU 37 J J Quinn 9-1 J Hart
2 P04-6 BYRON BLUE 19 (T) B Barr 8-11-12 G Sheehan 8 /23-0 UNDISPUTED 17 (H) N Williams 6-11-0 T Scudamore 1 (4) 0422- ALJULJALAH 221 (D) R Varian 4-9-4 A Atzeni
4-1 Porchy Party, 5-1 Dream Of Delphi, Time For Treacle, 13-2 Cheeky Rascal, 4 (3) 0 ANOTHER DAY OF SUN 11 M Channon 9-0 S De Sousa
3 0355- ICE KONIG 40 (CD) J Frost 8-11-10 Miss B Frost (7) 5-2 Passmore, 100-30 Polly's Pursuit, 5-1 Undisputed, 11-2 Mac Bella, 2 (5) 35114 HELLS BABE 2 (CD) M Appleby 4-9-4 A Rawlinson (3)
7-1 Shazzab, 10-1 Followthesteps, 14-1 Blue Havana, 16-1 others. 5 (7) 000 ROCK ON BERTIE 17 N Tinkler 9-0 T Eaves
4 2140- AVITHOS 67 M Gillard 7-11-9 J Banks 15-2 Glanvilles Guest, 9-1 Miss Fleming, 10-1 Milan Hart, 100-1 Moontripper. 3 (3) 4240- SAME JURISDICTION (D) E Dunlop 6-9-4 R L Moore
6 (11) 00 ARCHIE PERKINS 20 N Tinkler 8-13 Josephine Gordon
5 5PP-1 RAINBOW HAZE 25 P Dando 11-11-8 Mr C Orr (7) Wright choice: Pollys Pursuit was a promising second on 4 (2) 1260- BLETCHLEY 261 (H,BF) R Beckett 3-8-8 O Murphy
6 2U5-2 FUHGEDDABOUDIT 20 (P) J S Mullins 10-11-7 J McGrath her debut over hurdles Dangers: Undisputed, Passmore 2.50 Selling Stakes 5 (1) 01 PRESENT TENSE 33 J Gosden 3-8-8 D Probert
7 (6) 0 EMERALD ROCKET 14 K Burke 8-13 B A Curtis
7 040-0 ON ALBERTS HEAD 16 (H,T) R Woollacott 7-11-5 D Jacob (3,235: 6f) (10) 8 (1) 600 MOUNT HELLVELYN 14 C Mulhall 8-12 J Sullivan
6 (6) 3 VOI 124 C Allen 3-8-8 N Garbutt (3)
9 (8) HAMBA MOYO T Easterby 8-10 D Fentiman
8 40/5- BAY FORTUNA 38 M Usher 8-10-12 D Crosse 4.45 Handicap Chase (5,198: 2m) (5) 1 (6) 1-500 MONSIEUR PADDY 61 A Carroll 4-9-9 G Downing 7-4 Same Jurisdiction, 9-4 Bletchley, 4-1 Aljuljalah, Present Tense, 14-1 Hells
10 (5) ALIENTO O Pears 8-8 A Mullen
9 P3-64 THADY QUIL 10 (E,T,B) M Keighley 7-10-11 A Tinkler 2 (1) 240-0 JACK NEVISON 19 (P) John O'Shea 4-9-5 T Whelan Babe, 100-1 Voi.
1 414-1 STYNES 19 (T,C,D) G McPherson 7-12-1 D Hiskett (5) 11 (2) 6 HARVEST DAY 9 (T) M W Easterby 8-7 N Evans (3)
10 36P0- ATLANTIC KING 157 N Hawke 4-10-11 C Gethings (3) 3 (2) -0060 COOPERESS 19 (B) John O'Shea 4-9-4 Doubtful
2 1PU-1 CAPE CASTER 25 (D) E Williams 6-11-12 A Wedge 5-4 Mabo, 4-1 Another Day Of Sun, 8-1 Byron's Choice, 9-1 Harvest Day,
11 UP43- SIZING SAHARA 107 Paul Henderson 9-10-11 T O'Brien
3 20-21 DEAUVILLE DANCER 7 (T,D) D Dennis 6-11-8 A Coleman
4 (3) 500-0 DIMINUTIVE 24 (P,CD) G Harris 5-9-4 S Donohoe 5.25 Handicap (3,881: 7f) (13) 12-1 Emerald Rocket, Mr Wagyu, 16-1 Aliento, Hamba Moyo, 20-1 others.
12 001-3 HIJA 19 (P,C) G Haywood 6-10-10 Alice Mills (5) 5 (5) 41000 OAKLEY PRIDE 7 (T,V) Miss G Kelleway 3-9-1 L Morris
4 U14-4 THE YANK 15 (CD) D Bridgwater 8-11-5 M Bastyan (7) 1 (3) 0-003 FLYBOY 14 (B) R Fahey 4-9-7 A McNamara (3)
13 0P60- BADILOU 157 (H) M Hill 6-10-9 N De Boinville 6 (10) 33033 LOUMARIN 11 (P,BF) M Appleby 5-9-0 R Dawson (7)
5 5225- VEXILLUM 10F (P,D) N Mulholland 8-11-1 T Scudamore 2 (11) 20-23 MANTON GRANGE 34 G Baker 4-9-7 James Doyle 2.30 Novice Stakes
14 0034- DROPZONE 39 B Forsey 8-10-6 D Noonan 7 (8) 3-322 BLACK BUBBA 6 (BF) P D Evans 3-8-11
2-1 Deauville Dancer, 7-2 The Yank, 4-1 Cape Caster, Stynes, 5-1 Vexillum. Katherine Glenister (7) 3 (4) -2033 STOSUR 12 (B,D) Miss G Kelleway 6-9-7 David Egan (7)
7-2 Fuhgeddaboudit, 6-1 Rainbow Haze, 7-1 Bay Fortuna, 8-1 Ice Konig, 10-1 (Div II: 2-Y-O: 2,911: 6f) (11)
Wright choice: Deauville Dancer won easily at Huntingdon 8 (4) 4433- BOURBONISTO 213 (BF) B Haslam 3-8-11 C Hardie 4 (10) 1-003 GLORIOUS POET 12 (D) J Spearing 4-9-7 T Marquand
Badilou, Hija, Sizing Sahara, 12-1 On Alberts Head, Thady Quil, 14-1 Avithos, 1 (9) 0 ACROMATIC 17 J J Quinn 9-2 J Garritty
last week and can defy a 7lb penalty Danger: Cape Caster 9 (7) 40-00 KODY RIDGE 19 (H) D Dennis 3-8-11 D C Costello 5 (6) 0-035 TASKEEN 24 R G Fell 4-9-6 D Nolan
16-1 Byron Blue, 20-1 Butney Island, Dropzone, 33-1 Atlantic King. 2 (2) CURZON D O'Meara 9-1 Josh Doyle (3)
10 (9) 3-300 SPIRITOFEDINBURGH 7 (V) B Powell 3-8-11 6 (9) 505-4 ANOTHER BOY 17 (P,D) R Beckett 4-9-5 O Murphy
Rob Wrights choice: Thady Quil set an overly strong pace K Shoemark (3) 7 (1) 31650 BORN TO FINISH 23 J Osborne 4-9-5 D C Costello
3 (1) 0 EYES OF FIRE 42 O Pears 9-1 A Mullen
at Worcester Dangers: Fuhgeddaboudit, Rainbow Haze 5.15 Conditional Jockeys Handicap 4 (4) 60 HEAVENLY PULSE 14 Mrs A Duffield 9-1 T Hamilton
100-30 Black Bubba, 7-2 Loumarin, 11-2 Bourbonisto, 6-1 Jack Nevison, 8 (2) 100-5 BIG CHILL 23 (D) P Chamings 5-9-3 C Bennett (3)
Hurdle (5,020: 2m 167y) (17) 8-1 Oakley Pride, 10-1 Kody Ridge, Spiritofedinburgh, 12-1 others. 9 (12) 10-30 SISTER DUDE 7 (D) J Portman 4-9-0 M Harley
5 (7) 6 RAMPANT LION 7 (BF) M Johnston 9-1 J Fanning
2.40 Novices Handicap Chase 1 P35-0 MARJU'S QUEST 24 (D) A Wintle 7-12-0 J Bargary
10 (7) 00342 FLYING FANTASY 33 (D) M Appleby 5-9-0 B A Curtis
6 (10) 642 JEDI MASTER 16 R Fahey 9-0 P Hanagan
(6,393: 2m 4f 216y) (5) 2 U35-0 JACK BEAR 26 H Whittington 6-11-12 H Bannister 7 (8) JAFFAR (E,B) S Dixon 8-13 Josephine Gordon
3 3P/0- PALADIN 115 (H) M Blake 8-11-12 P Donovan (5)
3.20 Handicap 11 (8) 461-6 PACIFIC SALT 34 (C) Mrs P Sly 4-8-13 R Hornby
8 (3) MAKOFITWHATYOUWILL N Tinkler 8-13 T Eaves
1 F313- ALCALA 45 (T,D,BF) P Nicholls 7-11-8 S Twiston-Davies 12(13) 00062 KING OF SWING 6 R Hughes 4-8-13 S W Kelly
4 /540- CHANTECLER 143F (T) N Mulholland 6-11-11 H Reed (6) (3-Y-O: 6,301: 1m 2f) (15) 9 (5) KANNAPOLIS M W Easterby 8-12 H Shaw (7)
2 /3P-4 EXXARO 11 (D) C Tizzard 7-11-6 H Cobden 13 (5) 2640- BRYGHT BOY 223 E Walker 4-8-9 L Morris
5 5010- SWALEDALE LAD 144 (D) G McPherson 10-11-10 1 (5) 34-25 ROMANOR 21 (H) E Walker 9-7 L Morris 10(11) RICKYROADBOY M Walford 8-12 G Lee
3 252-0 DRIFTWOOD HAZE 23 (D) P Dando 9-11-1 Mr C Orr (7)
D Hiskett (3) 5-1 Flyboy, Glorious Poet, 13-2 Manton Grange, Taskeen, 7-1 King Of Swing,
2 (4) 15 COMRADE CONRAD 21 (D) R Charlton 9-7 11 (6) 06 MONKEY MAGIC 24 N Tinkler 8-9 S De Sousa
4 201-2 SUCH A LEGEND 20 (T) K Bailey 9-10-13 D Bass 6 51-11 LAKE CHAPALA 13 (H,D) C Gordon 8-11-10 D Noonan K Shoemark (3) 10-1 Another Boy, Flying Fantasy, 12-1 Sister Dude, 14-1 others.
5 U0F-3 ROYAL PLAZA 20 (H,T) A King 6-10-9 W Hutchinson 4-5 Jedi Master, 5-1 Rampant Lion, 6-1 Curzon, 14-1 Eyes Of Fire, Heavenly
7 3405- ARTY CAMPBELL 192 (P) B Llewellyn 7-11-10 J Williams (3) 3 (14) 0-1 METEOR LIGHT 34 (H) E Vaughan 9-7 A Beschizza
Pulse, 16-1 Acromatic, Monkey Magic, 20-1 Jaffar, 25-1 others.
7-4 Alcala, 7-2 Such A Legend, 4-1 Exxaro, Royal Plaza, 10-1 Driftwood Haze. 8 3/5-6 ANOTHER JOURNEY 16 (D) S Davies 8-11-9 C Hammond (5) 4 (12) 222-1 INTERWEAVE 60 (V) Sir M Stoute 9-5 R L Moore 6.00 Handicap (2,588: 7f) (18)
Wright choice: Exxaro made a promising start for his new 9 425P- WELD ARAB 42F M Blake 6-11-7 H Cobden 5 (6) 510-4 VIKING HOARD 36 H Dunlop 9-4 D Probert 1 (18) 605-0 CLUBLAND 154 S R Bowring 8-9-7 A Rawlinson (3)
yard when fourth at Warwick Danger: Alcala 10 032-0 INTIFADAH 20 (T,B,D) T Symonds 5-11-7 T Dowling (3) 1 HAKEEM 41 W Haggas 9-4 J Crowley
3.00 Handicap (2,911: 1m 4f 8y) (12)
6 (11) 2 (14) 3000- DOCTOR BONG 185 (B) G Harris 5-9-7 B Robinson (7)
11 032-3 KASTANI BEACH 20 (V,D) J S Mullins 11-11-7 D Sansom (8) 7 (9) 2-1 EVENING HILL 20 R Hughes 9-3 S W Kelly 1 (6) 350-0 CORREGGIO 39 M D Hammond 7-9-7 P Hanagan
3 (1) 00-00 SEHAYLI 103 L Carter 4-9-7 B A Curtis
3.10 Handicap Hurdle 12 56-21 ORION'S MIGHT 16 (H,P,D) M Sheppard 7-11-3 S Sheppard 8 (3) 6-310 CLOUD DRAGON 37 H Palmer 9-2 James Doyle 2 (2) -0322 STONEBOAT BILL 12 (C,BF) D Carroll 5-9-6
4 (6) -2222 TIDAL'S BABY 33 (P,BF) A Carroll 8-9-6 G Downing Ger O'Neill (7)
(12,512: 2m 2f 110y) (8) 13 25-60 MARMONT 13 Jo Davis 4-11-3 J Sherwood 9 (13) 1-30 MANANGATANG 21 L Cumani 9-2 A Atzeni 5 (5) -0251 MAGIC MOMENTS 19 (D) A King 4-9-6 M Harley 3 (9) 21442 SURROUND SOUND 10 (E,T,D) T Easterby 7-9-6
14 336-5 THE KVILLEKEN 21 (P,D) M Keighley 9-10-12 H Stock (5) 10 (1) 146-4 OUR BOY 47 P D Evans 9-1 David Egan (7) 6 (10) 4-061 INTIMATELY 18 (CD) J Portman 4-9-6 P-L Jamin (7) Rachel Richardson (3)
1 3PP-1 ROSSETTI 11 (H) N Mulholland 9-11-12 W Hutchinson
15 001-4 FROZEN OVER 20 (T,D) C Down 9-10-12 K Edgar 11 (7) 00-16 LIGHTLY SQUEEZE 21 (H,P) P Hide 9-0 H Bentley 7 (4) 0-000 MAJOR ASSAULT 20 M Salaman 4-9-4 Doubtful 4 (12) 56-06 STECCANDO 36 S Haynes 4-9-4 T Hamilton
2 5204- MAGIE DU MA 67 (H,T) D Pipe 4-11-10 T Scudamore
16 0316- KARL MARX 48 (B,D) M Gillard 7-10-2 C Deutsch 12 (2) 561-1 RAKE'S PROGRESS 17 Mrs H Main 8-13 G Lerena 8 (15) 6005 DOODLE DANDY 12 D Bridgwater 4-9-4 D C Costello 5 (10) -2115 MY RENAISSANCE 5J (D,BF) S England 7-9-4
3 430-1 GOLDEN BIRTHDAY 23 (T,D) H Fry 6-11-5 N P Madden
17 605-P BUZ BARTON 26 J Frost 9-10-1 S Houlihan (5) 13 (8) 100-4 COTINGA 18 R Beckett 8-12 O Murphy Jane Elliott (5)
4 0/40- TEA IN TRANSVAAL 240 (C) E Williams 6-11-4 A Wedge 9 (13) 00400 QORTAAJ 13 (E) D Loughnane 4-9-4 S W Kelly
11-4 Lake Chapala, 6-1 Orion's Might, 8-1 Kastani Beach, 10-1 Intifadah, 14(10) 04-00 GO ON MAYSON 10 P D Evans 8-9 S Donohoe 6 (3) 10222 HANNINGTON 21 (T,BF) M Appleby 6-9-3 S De Sousa
5 4F2-4 WISHFULL DREAMING 22 (BF) P Hobbs 6-11-4 R Johnson 10 (2) 0-050 SEE YOU IN MALTA 4 J Candlish 4-9-3 D Nolan
14-1 Arty Campbell, Frozen Over, Swaledale Lad, The Kvilleken, 16-1 others. 15(15) 060- PROSECUTION 180 H Morrison 8-5 F Norton 7 (5) 542-0 JUDICIOUS 36 G Harker 10-8-13 J Fanning
6 611-3 ASHOKA 35 (T,P,D,BF) D Skelton 5-10-13 H Skelton 11(11) 000-3 CAINHOE STAR 19 A Carson 4-9-0 L Morris
Wright choice: Paladin drops in trip after failing to stay at 4-1 Hakeem, Interweave, 7-1 Manangatang, 8-1 Comrade Conrad, 10-1 Rake's 8 (7) 0000- FLYING POWER 198 (D) J Norton 9-8-7 P Aspell
7 1125- LIMITED RESERVE 37 C Williams 5-10-12 T O'Brien 12(12) 0-000 POOR DUKE 28 (P,C,D) M Mullineaux 7-8-13 R Tart
Kempton and is well in Dangers: Jack Bear, Lake Chapala Progress, Romanor, 12-1 Evening Hill, Meteor Light, 14-1 others. 9 (1) /100- TONTO'S SPIRIT 51J (D) K Slack 5-8-5 A Mullen
8 213-2 CLENI WELLS 6 (H) M Hill 6-10-8 C Deutsch (3) 13(16) 64000 KEENE'S POINTE 12 (D) S Hollinshead 7-8-13
A Beschizza 10(11) 0005- DANZELLA 276 C Fairhurst 5-8-2 D Fentiman
9-2 Ashoka, Golden Birthday, Wishfull Dreaming, 5-1 Rossetti, 11-2 Tea In
14 (8) 11064 MAGIC MIRROR 13 (P,D) M Rimell 4-8-12 T Marquand 11 (8) -0506 NEVER SAY 24 (P) J Ward 4-8-2 J Sullivan
Transvaal, 15-2 Cleni Wells, 9-1 Magie Du Ma, 14-1 Limited Reserve. 3.50 Maiden Stakes
Wright choice: Magie Du Ma travelled well for a long way at Leicester (Div I: 3-Y-O: 4,528: 1m 53y) (10)
15 (7) 0000- MY TIME 276 (H,D) M Mullineaux 8-8-7 J Quinn 12 (4) 000-0 DUTCH BARNEY 37 (P) B Leavy 7-8-2 R P Walsh (7)
4-1 Hannington, My Renaissance, 9-2 Stoneboat Bill, Tonto's Spirit, 11-2
16 (3) 0-003 TOM'S ANNA 23 (D) S Regan 7-8-7 Joe Doyle
Warwick and can do better Dangers: Rossetti, Cleni Wells Rob Wright 1 (8) CONTANGO A Balding 9-5 O Murphy 17(17) 36330 BOLD MAX 13 (P) Miss Z Davison 6-8-7 R Powell Surround Sound, 12-1 Correggio, Steccando, 16-1 Judicious, 25-1 others.
2 (7) 5- EBTKAAR 198 R Varian 9-5 A Atzeni 18 (9) 0/00- PURANA 431 (T) Ms N Hugo 6-8-7 I Goncalves
2.20 Crystal Casque 4.20 Mesbaar
3.40 Handicap Chase 2.50 Jack Nevison 4.55 Present Tense 3 (10) IDIDITFORYOOOO B Meehan 9-5 T Marquand 7-2 Magic Moments, 9-2 Tidal's Baby, 11-2 Intimately, 7-1 Cainhoe Star, 11-1 3.30 Handicap (3,235: 6f) (12)
(5,198: 3m 1f 170y) (8) 3.20 Viking Hoard 5.25 Flyboy 4 (1) 0- IGNACIO ZULOAGA 177 J Hughes 9-5 F Norton Magic Mirror, 12-1 Doodle Dandy, Tom's Anna, 16-1 Clubland, 20-1 others. 1 (1) 000-0 POMME DE TERRE 36 (B,CD) M Dods 5-9-9 P Mulrennan
1 50-31 CALIN DU BRIZAIS 6 (B,CD) N Hawke 6-11-13 3.50 Verity 6.00 Magic Moments 5 (5) 0-0 NISEKO 28 (B) W Muir 9-5 D C Costello
2 (11) 0-360 ROSE MARMARA 15 (T,D) B Rothwell 4-9-7 B McHugh
C Gethings (3) 6 (4) 00 RULED BY THE MOON 30 I Furtado 9-5 D Nolan
Going: good, good to soft in places 3 (7) 65635 BUCCANEERS VAULT 9 (V,D) P Midgley 5-9-5 G Lee
2 F02-2 MAHLERS STAR 21 D Bridgwater 7-11-12 T Scudamore 7 (9) SOQRAT E Dunlop 9-5 J Crowley
Draw: no advantage Racing UK Blinkered first time: Ayr 6.55 Insurplus. 7.55 Riponian, 4 (4) 0-050 BERNIE'S BOY 14 (P) R G Fell 4-9-5 T Hamilton
3 131-2 BEUVRON 30P (P) M Hill 7-11-10 J Best 8 (2) 00 UNIT OF ASSESSMENT 17 W Knight 9-5 H Bentley
Kings Of Luxor. 8.55 Aumit Hill. Leicester 2.50 5 (8) 0-450 DINNERATMIDNIGHT 16 (T,B,D) Richard Guest 6-9-4
4 1135- PETERBROWN 278 (BF) P Hobbs 9-11-10 L Heard 9 (3) 0 CAREYANNE 47 B Baugh 9-0 R Tart
5 2P1-4 BANKHALL 26 (P) K Bishop 6-11-2 A Glassonbury
2.20 Maiden Stakes (2-Y-O: 3,881: 6f) (18) 10 (6) VERITY Sir M Stoute 9-0 R L Moore Spiritofedinburgh. 3.20 Interweave. 3.50 Niseko. 6.00
Kevin Stott
6 (10) -3030 COMPTON PARK 39 (T,CD) L Eyre 10-9-1
6 313-1 STROLLAWAYNOW 23P D Arbuthnot 10-11-0 D Jacob 1 (13) ALIFAX J Osborne 9-2 D C Costello 15-8 Verity, 9-4 Ebtkaar, 7-2 Soqrat, 13-2 Contango, 10-1 Ididitforyoooo, Qortaaj. Newton Abbot 2.10 Thady Quil. 5.15 Intifadah. Josephine Gordon
7 023-0 RAILWAY STORM 27 J Frost 12-10-13 Miss B Frost (7) 2 (3) BILLY BOOTH Miss G Kelleway 9-2 M Dwyer 25-1 Ruled By The Moon, Unit Of Assessment, 33-1 others. Thirsk 2.30 Jaffar. 3.30 Buccaneers Vault. 4.00 Willsy. 7 (12) 00-00 ETIENNE GERARD 16 (P,D) N Tinkler 5-9-1 S De Sousa
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U-20s giving England hope at last continued from back

Liverpool close on 35m Salah
scored 15 goals and provided 11 assists in
31 league appearances last season will
add pace, threat and creativity to his
Football have reached the last eight, beating quintet]. He was recruited from line-up. The deal will kick off a summer
Paul Joyce Argentina and the hosts en route to Sheffield United for 1.5 million last in which Liverpool intend to spend
topping a group that also contained summer. heavily in readiness for a return to the
Englands quiet progression at the Guinea showcases an ability to adapt. There is an emphasis now on Champions League.
Under-20 World Cup in South Korea Simpson has benefited from snapping up the best young talent in the Liverpool had a 28 million bid for
may have caught off-guard rivals who co-operation from Premier League country, while the reality that Koeman Salah rejected at the end of last week
expected them to suffer yet another clubs over the release of players and will try to spend big on proven but plan to continue talks.
premature exit, but a sense of surprise there is genuine belief of reaching the performers means that the window of Salah made just 19 appearances for
has been absent from within the squad. last four for only the second time in the opportunity is smaller than ever. Chelsea, scoring two goals, before
Victory over Mexico today would competitions 40-year history. Yet Dowell, who has been at Everton going out on loan to Fiorentina and
propel Paul Simpsons side into the We came up against three different since the age of seven and is as elegant then Roma, but appears to have recov-
semi-finals of a competition that has types of opposition in the group on the pitch as he is articulate off it, ered from that bump in his career. The
been a clear target and a chance for Asian, South American and then Afri- displays a refreshing attitude in not deal will double Salahs wages to almost
those involved to showcase their ability can and we have done well to work looking at anyone but himself. 90,000 a week.
rather than the usual graveyard of things out as we have gone on, Dowell It doesnt change a lot, said Dowell, Klopp remains confident that Virgil
the teams ambition (victory in their said. We feel that whoever we come up an important member of the Everton van Dijk, the Southampton defender,
opening match ended a tournament against we can beat at the moment. Under-23 squad that won Premier could move to Merseyside. The
record of 17 games without a win). While there are a cluster of England League 2 last season. Obviously Holland centre back is aware of interest
We have been speaking about players whose profiles already Everton now has the luxury of going from Manchester City, Chelsea Man-
winning this tournament ever since we out and buying players, but if you are chester United and Arsenal, but Liver-
met up for a camp back in August, said good enough, you are good enough. pool are confident that the chance to
Kieran Dowell, 19, one of five Everton Mexico U-20 The manager and the coaches have work with Klopp will prove decisive.
players in South Korea. We set goals at v England U-20 given me stuff to work on and, Klopp, however, is facing a battle to
the start of the year and obviously the hopefully, I can take that forward and land Naby Keita, his priority midfield
biggest goal is to progress as a player Today, noon kick-off BST
T show that I am worthy of a chance. I target, with the German club Red Bull
and help England win the 2022 World TV: Europsort 2 Dowell is hoping his performances in think the goal against South Korea Leipzig ruling out his departure. Keita,
Cup. The one below that is to win this Korea will be noticed by his manager shows that [Im taking it on board]. It a Guinea player, was crucial in propel-
World Cup in Korea. Thats the aim and was nice to show it in a World Cup. ling Leipzig into the Champions
we know we are capable of winning it. command attention, such as new Tom Davies, often gives the impression That goal, drifting into the penalty League for the first time next season.
Gareth Southgate, the England Liverpool signing Dominic Solanke, the that the clubs youth ranks are the last area from the right and sweetly While it was felt in Germany that an
manager, last week name-checked the career of Dowell is an interesting case place he will search for reinforcements. dispatching Kennys cut back, show- offer for Keita in excess of 50 million
under-20s, together with the under-17s study. He is a talent to whom former Englands win over Costa Rica in the cased Dowell at his best and it is would be considered, Ralf Rangnick,
who should not have lost the Euro- Everton manager Roberto Martnez last 16 came courtesy of two slick goals unlikely that there will be a shortage of the sporting director, has publicly
pean Championship final (on penalties, handed a senior debut as far back as from Ademola Lookman, a player clubs willing to offer him a loan move. stated that the player will not leave.
to Spain) last month as proof that December 2014, and privately raved signed by Everton from Charlton Yet with Everton in the Europa We wont sell one of the players. We
there is emerging talent below Dele Alli about, only for the landscape to change Athletic in January for a fee that League next season, opportunity could keep the team together, he said.
and John Stones. after the Catalans departure. could rise to 11 million. Dominic knock and the dream remains of Klopp also wants a left back,
If it sounds like England getting Indeed, the present Everton manag- Calvert-Lewin is another club-mate of following Davies, a year younger but although he has withdrawn his
ahead of themselves once again, then er, Ronald Koeman, notwithstanding Dowells in Asia [Jonjoe Kenny and who has been excused England duty interest in Ryan Sessegnon, the Fulham
the manner in which the under-20s the emergence of Dowells close friend, Callum Connolly complete the this summer, as a first-team regular. teenager.

8 (2) 155-6 VINCENZO COCCOTTI 18 (D) K Cunningham-Brown 5-9-0 5.35 Fillies Handicap 5 (5) 65-10 MUSCIKA 19 (D) D O'Meara 3-9-0 D Tudhope 7 (9) 600S/ WHITE NILE 1042 Mrs L Young 8-9-3 N Garbutt (3)
Hollie Doyle (3)
(3,558: 1m 4f) (9) 6 (8) 3020- NAPLES BAY 212 J J Quinn 3-8-12 J Hart Windsor 8 (5) 1-420 PRIORS BROOK 61 A Balding 6-9-0 Joshua Bryan (7)
9 (5) 32021 MESHARDAL 11 (P,CD) Mrs R Carr 7-8-13 J Sullivan
10 (6) 1-00 OH JAMES 16 (H,CD) T Easterby 4-8-13 A Mullen 1 (8) 0505- PENNERLEY 238 M D Hammond 4-9-9 P Hanagan 7 (7) 200-6 DAWOODI 5 Miss L Perratt 3-8-10 P McDonald Rob Wright 9 (4) 1530- JAZZY 21J (T,P) M Keighley 4-8-12 T Queally
2 (4) 4-314 LADY TURPIN 74 (D) R Fahey 4-9-7 S Woods (7) 8 (2) 05-32 THE MCGREGORNATOR 5 (T,P) A Keatley (Ire) 3-8-8 10(10) 06022 ESSENAITCH 14 (C) P D Evans 4-8-8 S Donohoe
11 (9) 321-3 QUESTO 44 (D) Miss T Waggott 5-8-7 J Fanning D Sheehy (7) 5.40 Nine Below Zero 7.40 Ice Age 7-2 Opposition, West Drive, 6-1 Priors Brook, 7-1 Croquembouche, Fleeting
3 (2) 0-240 FILLYDELPHIA 10 (D) P Holmes 6-9-4 Paula Muir (7)
6.10 Madame Bounty 8.10 Fethiye Boy
12 (3) 0510- ROUND THE ISLAND 232 (D) R Whitaker 4-8-7 6-4 The Mcgregornator, 4-1 Aprovado, Danish Duke, 7-1 Muscika, 12-1 Tatlisu, Visit, 8-1 Essenaitch, 10-1 Ravenous, 12-1 Ibazz, 14-1 Jazzy, 20-1 White Nile.
N Evans (3) 4 (5) 0000- CADMIUM 216 M D Hammond 6-9-1 Lauren Steade (7) 6.40 Mancini 8.40 Suspect Package (nap)
14-1 Naples Bay, 20-1 Star Citizen, 25-1 Dawoodi.
7-2 Meshardal, 9-2 Questo, 13-2 Compton Park, Pomme De Terre, 7-1 5 (3) 6-013 MRS BIGGS 10 (C) D Carroll 5-9-1 P Dennis (5) 7.10 Fleeting Visit
Buccaneers Vault, 9-1 Vincenzo Coccotti, 10-1 Rose Marmara, 12-1 others. 6 (9) 60-55 DUKE'S GIRL 18 Michael Bell 3-8-13 P Mulrennan 7.40 Handicap (7,439: 6f) (12)
7 (7) -3350 SPIRIT OF ROME 20 J Bethell 3-8-5 Hollie Doyle (3)
7.55 Handicap (2,588: 7f 50y) (14) Going: good to firm, good in places
1 (1) 21-34 SPRING LOADED 26 (CD) P D'Arcy 5-9-7 J Haynes
1 (3) 300-0 RIPONIAN 40 (T,B,D) S Corbett 7-9-8 G Whillans (5) Draw: 5f-6f, low numbers best At The Races
4.00 Handicap (3,558: 7f 218y) (17) 8 (1) 006-5 NAVAJO THUNDER 10 M Appleby 3-8-2 Jane Elliott (5) 2 (5) 111-0 UPSTAGING 10 (D) P Cole 5-9-6 K Shoemark (3)
9 (6) 4-012 DYNA MIGHT 5 (P,D) O Pears 3-8-1 A Mullen 2 (8) 0-400 RIOJA DAY 5 (B,CD) J Goldie 7-9-6 Sean Mooney (7) 3 (9) 5-300 DOUGAN 52 (D) P D Evans 5-9-6 F M Berry
1 (8) 32220 TADAAWOL 21 (P) R G Fell 4-9-9 T Hamilton 5.40 Novice Stakes (2-Y-O: 3,946: 5f) (5)
7-4 Dyna Might, 11-2 Mrs Biggs, 6-1 Lady Turpin, 13-2 Pennerley, 7-1 Duke's 3 (5) 0225 BONNIE GALS 32 K Dalgleish 3-9-4 R Scott (5) 4 (10) 61-14 JORDAN SPORT 105 (H,D) D Simcock 4-9-5 J P Spencer
2 (1) 340-3 RAYAA 46 (T) J Butler 4-9-7 G Lee
Girl, 15-2 Spirit Of Rome, 14-1 Fillydelphia, Navajo Thunder, 16-1 Cadmium. 4 (2) 060-0 DIAMOND AVALANCHE 29 (H,P) P Holmes 4-9-4 1 (1) 1 NINE BELOW ZERO 9 (D) R Beckett 9-8 F M Berry 5 (12) 1-305 CHARLES MOLSON 23 (D) P Chamings 6-9-4 P Cosgrave
3 (9) 050-0 FAVOURITE TREAT 38 (E,CD) Mrs R Carr 7-9-7 J Sullivan D Tudhope
2 (2) 422 CHOICE ENCOUNTER 21 Michael Bell 9-2 J P Spencer 6 (6) 00-13 LITTLE PALAVER 24 (CD) Clive Cox 5-9-4 H Crouch (3)
4 (11) 0-500 SUNNUA 14 R Fahey 4-9-6 S Woods (7) 5 (10) -4550 THE BARD'S ADVICE 31 K Dalgleish 3-9-4 C Lee (5)
3 (5) 0 LETHAL LUNCH 56 (BF) R Hannon 9-2 S Levey 7 (2) 0-362 STAKE ACCLAIM 16 (C,D) D Ivory 5-9-1 R Winston
5 (12) 44-23 ROYAL HOLIDAY 82 (P,D) Mrs M Fife 10-9-5 B McHugh
6 (13) 43401 KIWI BAY 12 (D) M Dods 12-9-5 P Mulrennan
Ayr 6 (7) 44-00 VINTAGE DREAM 13 N Wilson 3-9-3
7 (9) 26025 HOLLYWOOD HARRY 10 (P) K Dalgleish 3-9-3 C Beasley
T Eaves
4 (4) 4 MIDSUMMER KNIGHT 9 M Channon 9-2 C Bishop 8 (7) 13005 ELJADDAAF 17 (H,D) D Ivory 6-9-0 J Duern (3)
Rob Wright 5 (3) 64 THE GOLDEN CUE 14 S Hollinshead 9-2 R Ffrench 9 (3) 04-10 UDONTDODOU 19 (C,D) Richard Guest 4-9-0 S Levey
7 (7) 0-060 FRAMLEY GARTH 37 (CD) P Holmes 5-9-4 Paula Muir (7) 8 (12) 300-0 NELLIE'S DANCER 28 S Dixon 3-9-2 P Pilley (5)
13-8 Nine Below Zero, 5-2 Lethal Lunch, 11-4 Choice Encounter, 7-1 10 (4) 1331- SUMMER CHORUS 247 (H,D) A Balding 4-8-12 D Probert
8 (4) 0-050 MR COOL CASH 28 (CD) Richard Guest 5-9-3 J Fanning 5.55 Born To Be Alive 7.55 Hollywood Harry 9 (1) 0-523 SS VEGA 5 J Goldie 4-9-2 Sam James
Midsummer Knight, 14-1 The Golden Cue. 11(11) 0-544 PIXELEEN 23 (CD) M Saunders 5-8-12 Georgia Cox (5)
9 (16) 22133 KENSTONE 39 (P,D) A Wintle 4-9-2 Hollie Doyle (3) 6.25 Love Oasis 8.25 Saint Equiano 10(14) /0050 NEW DECADE 5 (D) J Goldie 8-9-0 P McDonald 12 (8) 3-142 ICE AGE 17 (CD,BF) E Houghton 4-8-12 C Bishop
10(14) -0506 WILLSY 6 (B) Mrs K Tutty 4-9-2 Gemma Tutty (5) 6.55 Goninodaethat 8.55 Stoneham 11 (4) 00-00 KINGS OF LUXOR 17 (B) R Burns (Ire) 4-9-0 R Aguiar
11(17) 06650 GREEN HOWARD 35 (B,C,D) R Bastiman 9-9-0 7.25 The McGregornator 6.10 Maiden Stakes (2,911: 6f) (7) 9-2 Ice Age, Spring Loaded, 6-1 Little Palaver, Summer Chorus, 7-1 Stake
12(13) 000-0 LEGEND STATUS 43 (T) A Keatley (Ire) 3-8-13 Acclaim, 8-1 Udontdodou, 10-1 Charles Molson, Jordan Sport, 14-1 others.
D Fentiman D Sheehy (7) 1 (7) 000- AEGEAN SECRET 265 J Bridger 3-9-5 M Godwin (5)
12 (3) 216-0 MANGO CHUTNEY 38 (P,C) John Davies 4-9-0 P Makin
Going: good, good to firm in places
13 (6) 40052 HIGHLY FOCUSSED 17 Mrs A Duffield 3-8-11 S A Gray 2 (4) ASTONE MAN A Carroll 3-9-5 R Winston
13 (2) -1403 REBEL STATE 28 (D) Jedd O'Keeffe 4-8-11 J Garritty
Draw: no advantage Racing UK 8.10 Handicap (3-Y-O: 4,690: 5f) (10)
14(11) -0350 MAGIC JOURNEY 73 J J Quinn 3-8-10 J Hart 3 (6) 33 DIRCHILL 16 T D Barron 3-9-5 F M Berry
14(15) 33-04 BOLD SPIRIT 11 (T,V) D Carroll 6-8-10 P Dennis (5) 4 (5) 60 FIVOS 12 D Bridgwater 3-9-5 S Levey 1 (8) 031-0 DAGONET 10 (T) R Charlton 9-8 K Shoemark (3)
11-4 Ss Vega, 9-2 Legend Status, 11-2 Highly Focussed, 7-1 Hollywood Harry,
15(10) 0-045 IN FOCUS 27 (T,D) P Kirby 6-8-8 P Hanagan 5.55 Maiden Stakes (3,235: 1m) (8) 5 (1) 54- PAPA DELTA 366 A Carroll 3-9-5 W A Carson 2 (10) 01-63 OPEN WIDE 10 (P,C) Mrs A Perrett 9-7 G Lerena
8-1 Bonnie Gals, Magic Journey, 16-1 Kings Of Luxor, Rioja Day, 25-1others.
16 (5) 10060 NELSON'S BAY 13 (D) W Storey 8-8-4 Sammy Jo Bell (3) 1 (4) 00- BRENDAN 401 (H) J Goldie 4-10-0 Sam James 3 (7) 1-246 BLITZ 38 (D) Clive Cox 9-7 H Crouch (3)
6 (2) 0332- MADAME BOUNTY 324 (BF) E Walker 3-9-0 L Keniry
17 (6) 000-0 THE KING'S STEED 13 M D Hammond 4-8-2 A Mullen 2 (7) 00 DONNACHIES GIRL 14 A Whillans 4-9-9 R Scott (5) 4 (9) 31-50 BIG LACHIE 35 (D) D M Loughnane 9-6 C Bennett (3)
8.25 Handicap (5,822: 7f 50y) (8) 7 (3) MAKE SAIL A Carroll 3-9-0 D Sweeney
5 (1) 21-41 DESERT SPORT 26 (D) R Cowell 9-5 P Cosgrave
7-1 Rayaa, 8-1 Kenstone, Kiwi Bay, Mango Chutney, 10-1 In Focus, Mr Cool 3 (6) 2 BORN TO BE ALIVE 21 K Burke 3-9-3 C Lee (5) 4-6 Dirchill, 11-4 Madame Bounty, 13-2 Make Sail, 16-1 others.
Cash, Tadaawol, 11-1 Green Howard, 12-1 Favourite Treat, 14-1 others. 0- CHINESE SPIRIT 252 R Mike Smith 3-9-3 P McDonald 1 (4) 6-604 FIELDSMAN 5 (D) D O'Meara 5-10-0 D Tudhope 6 (6) 01-00 AWESOME ALLAN 25 (T,CD) P D Evans 9-5 F M Berry
4 (2)
2 (6) 11024 SAFE VOYAGE 17 (D) J J Quinn 4-10-0 Josh Quinn (7) 7 (3) 131-0 BROADHAVEN HONEY 23 (CD) A Carroll 9-2 W A Carson
5 (5) 5-324 LAMLOOM 15 D O'Meara 3-9-3 D Tudhope 6.40 Maiden Stakes
4.35 Handicap (3-Y-O: 2,911: 6f) (18) 6 (1) RED STAR DANCER Miss L Perratt 3-9-3 S A Gray 3 (7) 000-0 MAJDOOL 13 (D) N Wilson 4-9-13 T Eaves 8 (5) 1004- SECRET POTION 223 (D) R Harris 9-0 D Sweeney
4 (8) -1053 CHAPLIN BAY 10 (P,D) Mrs R Carr 5-9-4 L Edmunds (5) (3-Y-O: 2,911: 1m 2f) (9) 9 (4) -0113 FETHIYE BOY 19 (CD,BF) R Harris 8-13 D Probert
1 (13) 0-126 STUBYTUESDAY 23 (D) M W Easterby 9-7 N Evans (3) 7 (3) 0 DRUMOCHTER 124 C Hills 3-8-12 C Shepherd (3)
5 (3) 00-02 JAY KAY 5 (H,CD) K Burke 8-9-4 C Lee (5) 1 (9) 6 MANCINI 12 J Portman 9-4 R Kingscote 10 (2) -1232 MONTEAMIATA 2 (D,BF) E Walker 8-13 R Kingscote
2 (7) -2345 SHEEPSCAR LAD 35 N Tinkler 9-7 S De Sousa 8 (8) HIGH ANXIETY J Weymes 3-8-12 C Beasley
6 (1) 021-5 SAINT EQUIANO 17 (C) K Dalgleish 3-9-2 C Beasley 2 (1) 0 DESERT SONG 21 P Phelan 9-1 D Sweeney 100-30 Desert Sport, 9-2 Fethiye Boy, 5-1 Blitz, 11-2 Monteamiata, 13-2 Open
3 (3) 020-3 GAVAL 13 T D Barron 9-7 P Makin 8-11 Born To Be Alive, 5-2 Lamloom, 11-2 Drumochter, 20-1 Donnachies Girl,
33-1 Brendan, Chinese Spirit, Red Star Dancer, High Anxiety. 7 (2) 22624 TAILOR'S ROW 32 M Johnston 3-9-1 P McDonald 3 (5) 02-32 SHADOW WARRIOR 34 P D'Arcy 9-1 J Haynes Wide, 8-1 Broadhaven Honey, 10-1 Awesome Allan, 14-1 others.
4 (12) 4-241 ARNOLD 15 (D) Mrs A Duffield 9-7 J Fanning 4 (4) 4-22 STEAMING 16 (BF) R Beckett 9-1 F M Berry
8 (5) 25406 PARTY TIGER 16 (P) R Fahey 3-8-5 Sammy Jo Bell (3)
5 (9) 336- HARVEST MOON 188 R Fahey 9-7 S Woods (7)
6.25 Fillies Handicap (3,235: 6f) (8) 3-1 Jay Kay, Saint Equiano, 5-1 Tailor's Row, 6-1 Chaplin Bay, 7-1 Safe Voyage, 5 (2) JOSH THE PLOD A Balding 8-13 Jason Watson (7) 8.40 Handicap (3-Y-O: 2,911: 1m) (13)
6 (14) 3-261 EDGED IN BLUE 41 (D) K Burke 9-6 J Vaughan (3) 6 (6) STELLEKAYA M Tompkins 8-13 T Queally
8-1 Fieldsman, 12-1 Party Tiger, 25-1 Majdool. 1 (12) 3432 ARSENIO LUPIN 23 (T) D Quinn 9-9 A Fresu
7 (10) 0050- EDGAR ALLAN POE 227 R Bastiman 9-5 D Fentiman 1 (5) 302-0 DUCHESS OF FRANCE 16 (T) A Keatley (Ire) 4-10-0 7 (7) 50- BERMONDSEY BELLE 160 Mrs L Wadham 8-10 R Ffrench
8 (11) 00260 STRINGYBARK CREEK 18 M Channon 9-4 G Lee D Sheehy (7) 2 (10) -4461 EL TORITO 33 (P,C) J Boyle 9-9 C Bennett (3)
8.55 Handicap 8 (8) 00- FRENCH SILVER 251 A Carroll 8-8 W A Carson
9 (1) 106-0 UNCLE CHARLIE 14 (D) Mrs A Duffield 9-4 Kevin Stott 2 (6) 6-030 MININGGOLD 15 (P,D) M Dods 4-9-11 Cal Rodriguez (5) 3 (13) 22-62 PILLAR OF SOCIETY 32 R Hannon 9-7 S Levey
9 (3) 00 SHAMONIX 14 M Usher 8-6 K O'Neill
10 (5) -0044 CUPID'S ARROW 11 (BF) Mrs R Carr 9-3 J Sullivan 3 (7) 62060 SARABI 6 (P) S Dixon 4-9-6 P Pilley (5) (3,235: 1m 7f) (8) 4 (11) 0-20 SEE THE MASTER 17 Clive Cox 9-7 S Hitchcott
8-13 Steaming, 7-2 Shadow Warrior, 7-1 Mancini, 14-1 Josh The Plod,
11(18) -6206 DAPPER MAN 14 (P) R G Fell 9-3 T Hamilton 4 (4) 0-466 RECKLESS SERENADE 4 K Dalgleish 3-9-4 R Scott (5) 1 (7) 35-12 STONEHAM 45J (H) I Jardine 6-9-10 L Edmunds (5) 5 (2) 556-3 SUSPECT PACKAGE 23 (H) J Fanshawe 9-6 D Muscutt
20-1 Bermondsey Belle, 25-1 others.
5 (3) 36-32 LOVE OASIS 4 M Johnston 3-9-2 P McDonald 2 (6) 60-55 BRAES OF LOCHALSH 23 (P,C,D) J Goldie 6-9-7 6 (5) 500-4 FAIR POWER 40 S Kirk 9-5 M Godwin (5)
12 (6) 430-0 FOXY BOY 14 M Dods 9-2 P Mulrennan
6 (1) 054-0 LOTARA 152 J Goldie 5-9-2 Sam James Sam James 7 (9) 445-4 HERNANDES 16 E Walker 9-5 L Keniry
13 (4) 520-6 MY CHERRY BLOSSOM 23 T Easterby 9-0
Rachel Richardson (3) 7 (2) -3235 BLOOMIN LOVELY 80 J J Quinn 3-9-2 J Hart 3 (5) -4354 VERCINGETORIX 25 (P) I Jardine 6-9-7 J Gormley (7) 7.10 Handicap (4,690: 1m 3f 99y) (10) 8 (3) 364-1 KEEPUP KEVIN 17 (D) Mrs P Sly 9-5 J Fahy
14(15) 00-00 PAVERS PRIDE 14 N Wilson 9-0 P Hanagan 8 (8) 20-00 HARBOUR LIGHTNING 10 N Wilson 3-8-9 S A Gray 4 (4) 501-0 LA BACOUETTEUSE 14 (B,CD) I Jardine 12-9-5 T Eaves 1 (2) 20-20 CROQUEMBOUCHE 24 (C) E De Giles 8-9-7 9 (4) 443-5 BROUGHTONS KNIGHT 17 H Spiller 9-2 S Donohoe
15 (8) 00-00 DECADENT TIMES 11 Mrs M Fife 8-13 B McHugh 7-4 Love Oasis, 7-2 Duchess Of France, 11-2 Mininggold, 8-1 Bloomin Lovely, 5 (1) 501-2 BUZZ BOY 5 (B) A Keatley (Ire) 4-8-6 D Sheehy (7) Rossa Ryan (7) 10 (7) 2530 DUBAI WAVES 34 H Palmer 9-2 J Mitchell
16(16) 6-443 JORVIK PRINCE 14 (P) Mrs K Tutty 8-13 10-1 Reckless Serenade, Sarabi, 12-1 Lotara, 20-1 Harbour Lightning. 6 (8) 043/5 CADORE 18J (P) Mrs L Normile 9-8-3 Sammy Jo Bell (3) 2 (7) 2-050 IBAZZ 84 I Williams 4-9-5 R Winston 11 (8) 041-2 RAJ BALARAAJ 35 G Baker 9-1 P Cosgrave
Gemma Tutty (5) 7 (3) 42-05 ESSPEEGEE 12 (P) A Bailey 4-8-2 N Alison (3) 3 (1) 40-56 FLEETING VISIT 23 E Houghton 4-9-4 J Fahy 12 (1) 56-03 FAMOUS DYNASTY 10 M Blanshard 8-8 D Probert
17(17) 33-50 KROY 15 (P) O Pears 8-12 A Mullen 6.55 Handicap (2,588: 6f) (10) 8 (2) 000/ AUMIT HILL 557 (B) J J Quinn 4-8-2 S A Gray 4 (3) 100-4 RAVENOUS 23 (CD) L Dace 6-9-4 K O'Neill 13 (6) 006-0 EDE'S E RIDER 124 P Phelan 8-2 K O'Neill
18 (2) 606 NOBLE SWORD 13 Jedd O'Keeffe 8-12 J Garritty 9-4 Stoneham, 5-2 Buzz Boy, 7-1 Vercingetorix, 8-1 Braes Of Lochalsh, 5 (8) 103-6 OPPOSITION 18 (D,BF) E Dunlop 4-9-4 P Cosgrave 6-1 Arsenio Lupin, Keepup Kevin, Suspect Package, 7-1 Pillar Of Society, Raj
1 (3) 45-03 BUNCE 4 (C,D) Miss L Perratt 9-10-0 L Edmunds (5)
11-2 Arnold, 7-1 Jorvik Prince, 8-1 Stubytuesday, 10-1 Edged In Blue, Harvest Esspeegee, 10-1 Aumit Hill, La Bacouetteuse, 25-1 Cadore. 6 (6) 316-4 WEST DRIVE 12 (P,CD,BF) R Varian 4-9-3 H Bentley Balaraaj, 8-1 See The Master, 9-1 El Torito, Hernandes, 10-1 others.
2 (10) 02000 MO HENRY 17 (V,CD) A Keatley (Ire) 5-9-13
Moon, Sheepscar Lad, 12-1 Cupid's Arrow, Gaval, 14-1 others. D Sheehy (7)
3 (5) 0-401 GONINODAETHAT 12 (CD) J Goldie 9-9-13
5.05 Maiden Fillies Stakes Sean Mooney (7)
Yesterdays racing results
(3,558: 7f 218y) (12) 4 (1) -0015 FRANGARRY 6 A Bailey 5-9-12 C Shepherd (3)
5 (9) 30-46 INSURPLUS 17 (B) J Goldie 4-9-12 Sam James
1 (10) /000- INGLEBY ERIN 307 C Teague 4-9-11 N Evans (3)
2 (1) 0 BEST OF MY LOVE 10 M Channon 3-9-0 S De Sousa
6 (4) 00640 MISU MONEYPENNY 33 (P) S Dixon 4-9-5 P Pilley (5) Perth Twiston-Davies, 7-4); 2, Chitu (Evens
fav); 3, Colla Pier (9-2). 5 ran. Nk, 8l. Dr R Fakenham 3.30 (2m ch) 1, Eyes Of A Tiger (T
Scudamore, Evens); 2, Stynes (4-5 fav). 2
7 (7) 02535 SEA OF GREEN 4 (P) J Goldie 5-9-3 P McDonald Going: good Going: good (good to firm in places)
3 (7) 00 CATSKILL 13 W Storey 3-9-0 Megan Nicholls (5) Newland. ran. NR: Get Rhythm, The Way You Dance.
8 (8) /056- RED SHADOW 495 (P,D) A Whillans 8-8-12 R Scott (5)
4 (11) 6-0 HARBOUR BELLE 14 M Dods 3-9-0 P Mulrennan 2.15 (2m 4f hdle) 1, Jimmy Breekie (P E 4.15 (2m 7f ch) 1, Beeves (Sean Quinlan, 2.00 (2m 7f hdle) 1, Camillas Wish (Miss B 1l. B Ellison.
9 (2) 00-0 PICCOLINO 33 (P) J Riches 3-8-4 Connor Murtagh (7) 12-1); 2, Aerlite Supreme (16-1); 3, Volnay
5 (3) 4- ISABELLA 216 D O'Meara 3-9-0 P Makin Corbett, 2-1 fav); 2, An Fear Ciuin (5-1); 3, Air Smith, 9-2); 2, Overtoujay (7-2); 3, 4.00 (2m 4f hdle) 1, Beaumonts Party
10 (6) 0-000 WARLEGGAN 5 Miss L Perratt 3-8-4 S A Gray De Thaix (11-2). 11 ran. NR: Yes Tom. Nk,
6 (6) 5 LES PECHEURS 32 J Ewart 3-9-0 Danielle Mooney (7) Squadron (5-1). 11 ran. 4Kl, 3l. S Crawford. Presenting Berkley (Evens fav). 5 ran. (Miss A Peck, 15-2); 2, Prince Khurram
100-30 Goninodaethat, 7-2 Mo Henry, 6-1 Frangarry, Sea Of Green, 8-1 Bunce, 3Kl. Jennie Candlish.
7 (9) LOVE CANDY S Haynes 3-9-0 N Farley 2.45 (2m 4f ch) 1, Indian Temple (H Reed, NR: Don Sebastian. 5l, 21l. R Ford. (15-8 fav); 3, Roja Dove (7-2). 7 ran. Kl, Kl.
Insurplus, Misu Moneypenny, 20-1 Piccolino, Red Shadow, 25-1 Warleggan. 4.45 (3m hdle) 1, The Caller (G Sheehan, Laura Morgan.
8 (8) 05 LYRIC HARMONY 14 G Bravery 3-9-0 Kevin Stott 9-2); 2, Brave Spartacus (14-1); 3, Always 2.30 (3m ch) 1, Thats The Deal (L Edwards,
On The Run (5-2 fav). 9 ran. 3Kl, 8l. T Reed. 4-1); 2, Dubai Devils (11-4 fav); 3, Work Du
9 (12) 0-4 MISS PATIENCE 58 (H) P Chapple-Hyam 3-9-0 G Lee 8-1); 2, Shady Glen (7-2); 3, Speed Demon 4.30 (3m ch) 1, Court Dismissed (W
10 (5) 6 POWERCELL 21 T Easterby 3-9-0 Rachel Richardson (3)
7.25 Handicap (5,822: 6f) (8) Breteau (11-2). 10 ran. 3l, 6l. W Greatrex.
(11-8 fav). 4 ran. 5l, 26l. J Cornwall. Hutchinson, 6-4 fav); 2, Shaiyzar (11-4); 3,
3.15 (2m hdle) 1, Attest (H Bannister, 5.15 (2m flat) 1, Mighty Thunder (B
11 (2) 6 SUPER RUBY 20 K Burke 3-9-0 J Vaughan (3) 1 (6) 30300 TATLISU 30 (CD) R Fahey 7-10-0 Connor Murtagh (7) 100-30); 2, Salto Chisco (9-4 fav); 3, Mr Larkhall (7-1). 6 ran. NR: Provincial Pride,
Campbell, 10-1); 2, Arizona Bound (3-1); 3, 3.00 (2m hdle) 1, Gannicus (B Powell,
12 (4) WHITE ROSA H Palmer 3-9-0 Josephine Gordon 2 (3) 32102 APROVADO 12 (P,D) M Dods 5-9-12 Cal Rodriguez (5) Grumpy (100-30). 6 ran. NR: Flycorn. 6l, Rogue Dancer. 1l, 8l. D McCain Jnr.
Special Prep (4-1). 11 ran. Nk, 3l. Miss L 11-2); 2, Coroberee (2-1 fav); 3, Ritasun
7-4 White Rosa, 11-4 Isabella, 7-2 Lyric Harmony, 6-1 Miss Patience, 16-1 Best 3 (1) /06-0 STAR CITIZEN 16 (D) F Watson 5-9-3 L Edmunds (5) 12l. W Greatrex. Russell. (8-1). 6 ran. NR: Amble Inn. Hd, Kl. Placepot: 241.40.
Of My Love, Love Candy, 20-1 Harbour Belle, Super Ruby, 33-1 others. 4 (4) 101-3 DANISH DUKE 13 (P,CD) Mrs R Carr 6-9-1 T Eaves 3.45 (2m Ch) 1, Vosne Romanee (S Placepot: 33.40. Quadpot: 13.70. B Powell. Quadpot: 9.60.
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Show Zidane respect hes player on the pitch, winning the ball ian onslaught, Real began implement-
Henry Winter and creating. ing Zidanes game plan of swift attacks,
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And it was Zidanes game plan and finding space before the Italians could
mood-setting underpinning victory. It regroup, leaving them exposed when

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Juventus was Zidane who plotted a path through Ronaldo exchanged passes with Dani

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Mandzukic 27 the assault course of Bayern Munich, Carvajal and threaded a low shot via a
Atletico Madrid and Juventus. Yet still slight deviation off Leonardo Bonucci

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questions are posed over how good he past Gianluigi Buffon, marking
Real Madrid is, whether great players can make Reals 500th goal in Europes elite
Ronaldo 20, 64, Casemiro 61, Asensio 90
great managers. Time will tell but two competition.

There were no wild celebrations from

Zindine Zidane when he became the
first coach since Arrigo Sacchi in 1990
to retain European club footballs most
prestigious trophy. Real Madrids man-
ager did not hug himself, hog the lime-
light, or preen over his formidable feat.
He is too dignified, too humble.
He simply talked about how grate-
ful he felt to Real, saying how lucky
he was to be involved with such a squad,
and also feeling part of the furniture.
As furniture goes, Zidane is an exqui-
sitely designed trophy cabinet.
He had a picture taken of him with
his family and the trophy. He wore a
slightly bashful, but proud, look as his
triumphant players hoisted him in the
air. Real love him, and the sport should
respect an individual who behaves with
class.
There is a nobility to Zidane that will
never be eroded by the memory of his
extraordinary headbutt on Italys
Marco Materazzi in Berlin shortly after
Fifa officials had toured the press box,
collecting an overwhelming number of
votes for the Frenchman as player of
the 2006 World Cup. If anything, that
loss of temper, and attack on Materazzi
for an alleged slur, simply adds to the
Zidane mystique, hinting at the depths
to his character.
It is one of the many reasons why
Reals players have responded so enthu-
siastically in the 18 months since Zidane
replaced Rafa Bentez , embarking on a
run of 87 games that has brought only
seven defeats and the riches of those
two Champions Leagues, La Liga, the
Uefa Super Cup and Fifa Club World
Cup. And some people still doubt
Zidanes ability as a coach.
His man-management is masterful.
Everyone knows what a special player
he was, having scored that unforgetta-
ble volley to guide Real to the
Champions League in 2002. Yet he
Champions Leagues in his first two
seasons indicates he has potential.
Zidane deserves more respect.
Hes intelligent, treating players as
One of the most magnificent of those
500 came from Zidane in 2002, an
incredible hooked volley. Juventuss
equaliser almost matched Zidanes
Goals for Ronaldo
adults, making all in and around the famous strike. It was the quality of the
first team feel important. His shrewd move, as well as the finish that so Ronaldos second strike on Saturday night was his 600th career
deployment of Ronaldo, 32, this season impressed as the ball flew through the goal. Here is how they break down
has been a masterclass in rotation. air from Bonucci to Alex Sandro to
Of Reals final six away games in La Gonzalo Higuan to Mario Mandzukic. Where and how he scored
Liga, Ronaldo played only the last two, Carvajal was tight, Casemiro was trying
Opposition Non-Spanish oposition
starting against Celta Vigo and Malaga to get close, but Mandzukic was too
as they sealed the title. Of the previous quick, chesting the ball down and then Seville 25 Bayern Munich 9
sending it arcing over Keylor Navas. It Atletico Madrid 21
Aston Villa 9
was a brilliant goal, although a taller, Tottenham Hotspur 8
Next seasons seedings more alert keeper than Navas might Celta Vigo 20 Schalke 7
have reached it. Reals pursuit of perfec- Getafe 20 Ajax 7
Pot one (confirmed): Real Madrid, tion and chase of Manchester Uniteds Barcelona 16 Wigan Athletic 7
Bayern Munich, Chelsea, Juventus, David De Gea makes such sense. Fulham 7
Athletic Club 16 Juventus
Benfica, Monaco, Spartak Moscow, Zidane has not spent much in revital- 7
Shakhtar Donetsk ising Real. He has worked with players, Malaga 16 Galatasaray 6
bringing better balance into the side, Espanyol Bolton Wanderers 6
Pot two (provisional): Barcelona, 15
ensuring a cutting edge but with a more Newcastle United 6
Atletico Madrid, PSG, Borussia Levante 14
secure feel. He believed in Isco when Arsenal 6
Dortmund, Seville**, Manchester
some might have rushed back Gareth Valencia 13 Portsmouth 6
City, Porto, Manchester Utd
**Will be placed in pot two if they get through Bale. Zidane stayed calm at the break.
the qualifying round. His instructions were simple, telling Where they were scored How they were scored
Pot three (provisional): Tottenham, them to play wider and put more Home Away Left Right
FC Basle, Dynamo Kiev*, Ajax*, pressure on them. Zidane told us he
Olympiakos*, Anderlecht, Napoli*, really believed in us, Ronaldo said.
Liverpool* He made a tactical tweak, shifting 384
*Need to confirm participation in Champions Toni Kroos more central, and Real ran 328 241 110
League group stage by getting through the riot in the second half. Zidanes belief in
qualifying rounds. 104
Casemiro was again vindicated, spec-
Pot four Eight spots remain for tacularly, when the man deputed to
Celtic and other clubs coming Neutral 31 Other 2 Head
shield the defence slammed in a low
through qualifying rounds shot that clipped Sami Khedira and
beat Buffon. Then the magnificent Goals inside or outside the box Playing for
Draw dates
June 19 First and second qualifying Modric got behind Sandro, and cut the Real Madrid Portugal
ball back to Ronaldo, whose clever run Inside
rounds 502
had caught Bonucci cold, and drove the 406
July 14 Third qualifying round
August 4 Play-off round ball in across Buffon.
August 24 Group stage There was embarrassment for both 98 71
Manchester 118 Sporting
sides with Juan Cuadrados expulsion
Outside United Lisbon 5
for two yellow cards, the second being
four, against Leganes, Sporting Gijon, innocuous contact with Sergio Ramos Most goals in major European finals
Deportivo La Coruna and Granada, that brought shameful theatrics from
Ronaldo was rested, saving him for the Real captain. By the end, the Old 7 7 2
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home matches and the Champions Lady looked very old. Even Zidanes
League. Ronaldo delivered, scoring substitutions paid off, with Marco
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He is so much more. Zidane has been
building for these moments, learn-
ing his craft with the
reserves, and then as
assistant to Carlo
Ancelotti. He gets
accused of gettingg
lucky, inheritingg
some special talents,
including Cristiano
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among the five great-
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but Luka Modric was the best st
continued from back
Hazard hints at move to Madrid
point I wasnt going to make it. Its
definitely been a tough year, but itll be
fine in the long term. Ill be able to rest
now over the summer, do a bit more
rehab and then come back for next
season stronger.
Real have now won three of the past
four Champions League titles and Bale
said that feat, and becoming the first
team since AC Milan in 1990 to
Zidane saying he wanted to save
him for the key games.
Ronaldos transformation
f
from tricky winger and goal-
scoring phenomenon from out
wide to now becoming the
most efficient, devastating
central striker in world
f
football has been helped by
Zidane. His role is clear,
and shaped and encour-
a
aged by Zidane: stay in the
f
final
lous
third and use that fabu-
timing and technique to
destroy defences.
they had to withstand an Ital-
retain the European Cup, strengthened
their case to be regarded as one of
the great club teams of all time from the
continent.
I dont see any reason why not, he
said. Weve won three Champions
Leagues in four seasons so I think we
have to be in that category.
It adds to the history of this club,
and we want to make more. I think
with experience we can always get
better.
not have been moved by the poignant
sight of Buffon walking past the trophy,
eyes down, so near yet so far for the
third time, as Zidane prepared to get his
hands on it again.
Juventus (3-4-2-1): G Buffon 6 A Barzagli 5 (sub:
J Cuadrado 66min, 5), L Bonucci 6, G Chiellini 5 Dani
Alves 5, S Khedira 5, M Pjanic 5 (sub: C Marchisio 70, 6),
Case for the defence
Alex Sandro 6 P Dybala 6 (sub: M Lemina 78),
M Mandzukic 7 G Higuain 4. Substitutes not used
Neto, M Benatia, K Asamoah, S Lichtsteiner. Booked
Sandro, Pjanic, Dybala, Cuadrado. Sent off Cuadrado.
Some typical, and other The upshot of this principle is that if
a final pits an outstanding defensive
Real Madrid (4-4-2): K Navas 7 D Carvajal 6,
S Ramos 7, R Varane 6, Marcelo 7 Casemiro 8, less typical, deficiencies team against a stellar attacking
collective, the team with the great
T Kroos 6 (sub: A Morata 89), L Modric 8, Isco 7 (sub: M
Asensio 82) K Benzema 6 (sub: G Bale 77), C Ronaldo
8. Substitutes not used K Casilla, Nacho, M Kovacic,
meant Juventus fell defence ought to win. Taking all this
into account, you might have expected
Danilo. Booked Carvajal, Ramos, Kroos, Asensio.
Referee F Brych (Ger). short in Cardiff, writes Juventus to beat Real Madrid in the
Champions League final. Rarely can
James Gheerbrant two teams have entered a major
Were still quite young as a whole European final with such contrasting
team and weve got a great squad, In American sport, there is an oft- profiles: in the 12 matches leading up to
we havent just got 11 players. quoted truism: offence wins games, the final, Juventus had scored 21 goals
Were very strong at the moment; defence wins championships. To a large and conceded three (just one from
were confident. extent, this holds true in football too. open play); Real Madrid had scored 32
Bale said the Real dressing room was Take, for example, the past four major and conceded 17.
becoming accustomed to the feeling of international tournaments (World Of course, it didnt work out like that.
victory in European footballs flagship Cups and European Championships), The Italians previously ironclad
competition. whose winners Spain in 2010 and rearguard disintegrated and conceded
Its still the same [feeling], but I think 2012, Germany in 2014 and Portugal in more goals in 90 minutes than they had
its a little bit more relaxed, were 2016 between them conceded three in 1,080 minutes against Monaco,
getting a bit used to it, he added. goals in 15 knockout matches. Barcelona, Porto, Seville, Lyon and
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due after this masterclass PHIL DUNCAN / REX FEATURES

ALEXANDER HASSENSTEIN / GETTY IMAGES

118
Goals in 177 games
since turning 30,
Wayne Rooney has
17 in 67

71
Real Madrid have failed
to score only once in
their past 71 games, the
team who stopped
them
Man City
Tony Cascarinos five best
European Cup final goals
Mario Mandzukic,
above, for Juventus v
Real Madrid, 2017
An incredible effort, as
much for the build-up
as the strike: the
Gonzalo Higuan knock- pomp of his career, the
off, the way the ball
didnt touch the ground justified his status as
after Leonardo
Bonuccis diagonal pass, expensive player. The
almost like a training-
ground move. From the
moment Mandzukic
received the ball, he
knew exactly what he
wanted to do. His chest
control was perfect
and his finish was
wonderful. Some people
blamed the goalkeeper
but I thought he caught
him by surprise.
Zindine Zidane for yards. Great players
Real Madrid v Bayer
Leverkusen, 2002
This was a goal that
typified what a great
player he was. The ball
was dropping out the
air and he watched,
swivelled perfectly and
hit it into the top corner.
I remember telling
everybody about how
brilliant he was when he
was at Bordeaux, when league title, but this was
he was relatively his legendary moment.
unknown, but at Euro
96 he was a little bit Lionel Messi
disappointing. But this for Barcelona v
goal was right in the Man United, 2009
I loved this goal. Messi
sort of strike that is 5ft 7in. United had Rio
Ferdinand and Nemanja
the worlds most Vidic at centre back. I
just remember thinking:
type of goal that only Bloody hell, what did
he could score. he just do there? Hes
renowned for dribbling
Steven Gerrard past people but in a
for Liverpool v funny way this is the
AC Milan, 2005 goal that I associate
You have to put goals with his greatness. It
into context. Liverpool wasnt a powerful
were 3-0 down, the ball header but perfectly
came to Gerrard, and he directed, looping over
wasnt exactly known Edwin van der Sar.
for heading it into the
top corner from 15 Frank Rijkaard for AC
Milan v Benfica, 1990
have a way of picking This summed up what
their moments you Rijkaard was all about:
could see by the way his athleticism to burst
that he ran back to the from midfield, his drive.
halfway line, waving to He reminded me a bit of
everybody, he knew Frank Lampard in the
that that was the lift way he burst through
they needed. He played the heart of a defence. It
right back, centre was a beautifully judged
midfield and centre first-time pass by Marco
forward in that game: he van Basten and a
might not have won the brilliant finish.

collapses as lumbering Higuan fails his latest test

Dinamo Zagreb. The formidable unit of
Andrea Barzagli, Leonardo Bonucci
and Giorgio Chiellini, who had won
such praise for their mastery of the old-
fashioned art of penalty-box defending,
was picked apart. This was, by any
measure, a fairly catastrophic failure of
their strongest suit on the biggest stage.
What happened? We let go psycho-
logically, Massimiliano Allegri, the
Juventus coach, said. We should have
reacted [after Real Madrids second
goal] and defended tooth and nail.
There was an element of misfortune.
Keylor Navas repelled a fifth-minute
Miralem Pjanic strike bound for the
bottom corner, while Reals first two
goals, scored by Cristiano Ronaldo and
Casemiro, took faint deflections that
carried them agonisingly beyond the
reach of Gianluigi Buffon, the 39-year-
old goalkeeper who must have felt that,
in those moments, destiny was keeping
the only major trophy he has never won
just beyond his grasp. For a club
haunted by their six previous defeats in
European Cup finals, such luckless
moments were bound to loosen
their mental grip.
But Juventus also suffered from
the fact that the match did nott
unfold as predicted. Counter to
expectations, the first half
was exceptionally open,
with Juventus exerting the
greater pressure.
For the neutral, this was
highly entertaining, but
for Juventuss unusually
superannuated XI
with an average age off
30 years and 11 months,
this was the second-oldest team ever in
a Champions League final playing at
that pace was not sustainable. In the
second half, they were gassed, with Real
able to pen them in their half at will
and ruthlessly targeting 36-year-old
Barzagli on the right flank.
But this was not just a failure of an
esteemed defence. In central mid-
f
field, Sami Khedira and Pjanic were
overrun, with Paul Pogbas thrust
much missed. And in attack,
with the honourable exception
of Mario Mandzukic, they
flunked their task too.
This was a rare opportunity
for the Juventus forwards, as
Higuan lost and failed to
score in his fourth major
final in as many years
it is unusual to come up against such a
porous defence in a major final. With
two attacking full backs in Dani Carva-
jal and Marcelo and only one true hold-
ing midfielder in Casemiro, Real were
there to be got at. But Juventus scored
just once, and that from a freak wonder
goal with a whiff of goalkeeping error.
At the centre of this failure was
Gonzalo Higuan, the Argentina
forward who is becoming a lumbering
emblem of big-stage underperform-
ance. This was the fourth major final in
as many years in which he has failed to
score and finished on the losing side,
following the 2014 World Cup and 2015
and 2016 Copa America, and this was
perhaps his most immobile, invisible
showing yet. Marca and AS, the Spanish
newspapers garnished his non-
performance with a zero-star rating.
No one should judge Juventus too
harshly. They are a rung below Real in
the food chain, as illustrated by Zidane
leaving out of his XI three players
Gareth Bale, James Rodriguez and
Pepe who between them have more
than twice as many Ballon dOr nomi-
nations as Juventuss starting line-up.
The past five Champions League
finals have all pitted one of Europes
second-tier pretenders against one of
the continents three superclubs: Real,
Barcelona or Bayern Munich. On each
occasion, the superheavyweight has
triumphed. It is hard to make that final
step up, as Borussia Dortmund and
Atletico Madrid would testify.
Life gives us the opportunity to try
again next year, Allegri said. He must
hope that, if defence doesnt win
championships, perseverance will.
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Sport
Draw opens up to give
Murray hope of first
title at Roland Garros
Tennis
Stuart Fraser Tennis Writer, Paris
Despite Andy Murrays frustrations
during the build-up to this years
French Open, in the midst of illness and
a run of poor form, the world No 1 still
clung to a hope that competing on the
Parisian clay was not a lost cause.
So often throughout his career he has
found a way to progress in the face of
adversity and, once again, he has done
so here. After looking completely out of
sorts during his practice sessions on the
eve of the tournament, the Briton now
enters the second week in Paris with the
belief that he can lift the Coupe des
Mousquetaires for the first time on
Sunday.
The further that you go, the better
you start to feel, the more confidence
you get and you are in the second week
of a [grand] slam, so anything is poss-
ible, Murray said. Why not set the bar
as high as possible?
Its better to say, OK, I want to
try and win the tournament and
fall short and lose in the final than
to say, Im delighted getting to
the second week and then lose
in the fourth round.
I want to try and go as far as
possible but there are no guar-
antees. If I play like I
did in the last few sets [against
Juan Martn Del Potro on
Saturday], then there is no
reason why I cant win
a few more matches.
Even if Murray does not
go all the way here
which is the more likely
outcome given that
Rafael Nadal, the nine-
times champion, is the
overwhelming favourite
after dropping only 20
games in four matches en
route to a quarter-final
against his compatriot
Pablo Carreno it may
be that we look back in
six weeks time, after
Will Murray fall before the quarters two slams in a row?
Since Andy Murray reached his first grand-slam quarter-final in 2008, he has not gone two consecutive slams without getting
to the last eight. But he will have to see off Karen Khachanov, the talented Russian, if he is to maintain his remarkable feat
2008 2009
Australian Open First Fourth
round round
French Open Third Quarter-
round final
Wimbledon Quarter- Semi-
final final
US Open Final Fourth
round
Ainslies team on the rise and ready for high-speed semi-final showdown
Sailing
Ron Lewis
Land Rover BARs hopes of reaching
the Americas Cup final could be decid-
ed by a series of high-speed races
against Emirates New Zealand in
strong winds this week.
Ben Ainslies team were picked by
New Zealand as their semi-final oppo-
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Wimbledon, at his victory against Del last year. I wasnt playing well enough
Potro as the turning point of his year. last week [during practice] to win the
It has been perplexing at times in tournament, Murray said. But things
recent months to see Murray, the great can change very quickly.
problem-solver that he is, unable to You dont become a bad tennis
work his way back into matches. On player overnight. Even when you are
Saturday, though, he dug deep to edge a not playing well, if youre training hard
bruising 83-minute first set against his and trying to do things right, things can
Argentine rival and then stamped his turn around very quickly. I felt like I
authority on the match with the could turn it around. It wasnt going to
assertiveness he showed during his run be easy but I feel like Ive done a good
of 24 consecutive victories at the end of job of that. Im playing way better than
I was a week, ten days ago.
I think in the matches here Ive been
more switched on. I didnt play perfect
tennis in the first two rounds, I didnt
play perfectly on Saturday, but it gives
you a lot better chance of turning your
form around and also winning matches
just by playing smart because when Im
not playing well I can still win matches
against top players. I did it last year a
bunch.
Today, Murray will attempt to avoid
failing to reach the quarter-finals at Muguruza lost
consecutive grand-slam events for her cool as the
the first time since 2008 when he French fans
plays Karen Khachanov. booed her in
The promising 21-year-old the final set
Russian yesterday defeated
John Isner to become the
youngest man to reach the
round of 16 at Roland Garros in
the past eight years.
Khachanov, at 6ft 6in, hits
Muguruza lashes out as
h
with much power and is already
set to enter the top 40 after his run
here. He is a cool customer who likes
her defence ends in tears
tto play chess in his spare time, and in
his press conference yesterday, he ap- Garbie Muguruzas by the behaviour of the going to be in the chair
peared unfazed before the biggest French Open didnt so partisan home fans, again, Nadal said
match of his career. much end with a who had booed her during a heated debate
Murray was calm on the court on whimper but a scream during the deciding set. with Ramos.
Saturday, noticeably preferring to say when the defending I think the audience
shush to himself rather than mutter. champion shouted was really tough today, Murray into quarters
I know my head right now is in the angrily at a ball boy she said. I just think Jamie Murray reached
right place because I am working things for her towel in the that they sometimes the quarter-finals of the
out on the court and thats what I care deciding set of her should be a little bit mens doubles with his
about, Murray said, with his game face defeat by Kristina more respectful. Im not Brazilian partner, Bruno
well and truly on. Mladenovic, of France here to create enemies, Soares, after they beat
(Stuart Fraser writes). I love playing here. It is Rohan Bopanna and
Murray has had a poor year by his standards The Spaniards loss not a good feeling. Pablo Cuevas 7-6 (7-5),
but impressed in his victory on Saturday meant that a first grand- 6-2. Murray said: Its a
slam singles title will be Nadals mixed feelings big opportunity for us
won by one of the Rafael Nadal eased into now to progress far in
quarter-finalists, after the quarter-finals with a the tournament.
Svetlana Kuznetsova, 6-1, 6-2, 6-2 win against
Sam Stosur and Venus Spanish compatriot Comeback king Carr
Williams also lost at the Roberto Bautista Agut, The comeback of the
last-16 stage yesterday. but was left furious with day came from Simon
Muguruza, 23, was so umpire Carlos Ramos Carr, 17, of Ireland, who
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 upset by her 6-1, 3-6, 6-3 after receiving a time recovered after losing
Final Final Semi- Final Quarter- Final Final Fourth defeat that she broke violation for exceeding the first nine games to
final final round down in tears during the 20 seconds allowed defeat American Vasil
Fourth Semi- Quarter- Absent Semi- Semi- Final ? her post-match press between serves. You Kirkov 0-6, 7-6 (7-4), 6-2
round final final final final conference and had to are going to have to in the boys singles first
Semi- Semi- Final Won Quarter- Semi- Won leave the room briefly. give me many more round. Worryingly, there
final final final final The Spaniard had been warnings in this match are no British boys in
Third Semi- Won Quarter- Quarter- Fourth Quarter- particularly perturbed because you are not the junior events here.
round final final final round final
nents in the best-of-nine challenger and none of these teams have much Freddie Carr, the grinder, said that he since the end of November, much less
play-offs. But with the winds on the experience in those sort of conditions, was not surprised by New Zealands time than Oracle who advanced to
Great Sound in Bermuda due to top 20 Whitmarsh said. You dont really want decision to pick BAR as their oppo- the next stage after coming top of the
knots by tomorrow, Martin Whit- to be out there in 24 knots, because nents. Our angle of improvement is qualifying group and the other semi-
marsh, the Land Rover BAR chief exec- there is a high risk that if you crash, you steep and I would have picked us, too, finalists, Artemis Racing and Softbank
utive, feels that the tough conditions are going to total the boat. because I would have wanted to nip Team Japan.
could level the playing field against a Potentially, by the middle of the that in the bud, Carr said. We are the If we had our time again we would
boat that only lost to Oracle Team USA week, we could be into new territory. most improved team here. Every day have come sooner and been exposed to
during the qualifiers. That is both scary and exciting, but it we have gone out and got better. our competitors and these conditions,
The boats can race in up to 25 knots hints at opportunity. BAR have been based in Bermuda Whitmarsh said.
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Champions Trophy Sport

Global spectacle falls flat as Route to the final

10.30 unless stated

June 1

Kohli exposes gulf in class

Group A
Oval England beat Bangladesh
by eight wickets

June 2
Group A
MATTHEW IMPEY/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK Edgbaston
New Zealand v Australia, no result
India v Pakistan

72
Edgbaston (Pakistan won toss): India (2pts) beat June 3
Pakistan by 124 runs (D/L method) Group B
John Westerby Oval South Africa beat Sri Lanka
by 96 runs
runs India scored in
Depending on which estimate you
the final four
believe, this is a fixture that can attract Yesterday
overs of their
a television audience of up to a billion Group B
innings
viewers, one of the most widely Edgbaston India beat Pakistan
watched sporting events on the planet. by 124 runs (D/L method)
Meetings between these rivals are rare
and, while the sense of occasion was Today
still tangible yesterday, the contest Group A
failed to live up to the billing. Oval
Not that any of the raucous contin- Australia v Bangladesh (1.30pm)
gent of India fans offered a word of
complaint. Their team had outclassed Tomorrow
their rivals with plenty to spare and, for Group A
good measure, they had been treated to Cardiff
the sight of Virat Kohli in full flow. England v New Zealand
While Kohlis side now approach
their game with Sri Lanka at the Oval Wednesday
on Thursday with high hopes of clinch- Group B
ing a place in the Champions Trophy Edgbaston
semi-finals, Pakistan know they must Pakistan v South Africa (1.30pm)
beat South Africa at this ground on
Wednesday to stay in the competition. Thursday
Kohlis crescendo towards the end of Group B
Indias innings, during a game- Oval India v Sri Lanka
changing partnership with Yuvraj
Singh, had been the defining passage of Friday
play. After being sent in to bat, India Group A
had reached the final few overs with Cardiff
wickets in hand, the product of a New Zealand v Bangladesh
circumspect start, during which
Shikhar Dhawan flickered briefly and June 10
Rohit Sharma struggled for fluency, but Group A
still made 91 from 119 balls. Kohli, the India captain, looks to score on the off side during his unbeaten innings of 81 off 68 balls at Edgbaston Edgbaston
Greeted by chants of Kohli, Kohli, England v Australia
Kohli, the India captain began with 59 balls when Yuvraj was trapped in
caution too, but was then spurred into Scoreboard front by a full ball from Hasan. June 11
action by Yuvrajs arrival at 192 for two Amid a flurry of runs in the final few Group B
in the 37th over. Yuvraj was soon hitting India (balls) Mohammad Hafeez c Kumar overs, Pakistan lost Mohammad Amir Oval India v South Africa
boundaries down the ground and Kohli R G Sharma run out 91 (119) b Jadeja 33 (43) and Wahab to injuries. Amir limped off
began leaning into his strokes with S Dhawan c A Ali b Khan 68 (65) Shoaib Malik run out 15 (9) after injuring his knee, then Wahab, his June 12
extra intent. *V Kohli not out 81 (68) *Sarfraz Ahmed c Dhoni fellow left-arm seamer, followed, ap- Group B
Pakistan contributed to their own Yuvraj Singh lbw b H Ali 53 (32) b Pandya 15 (16) pearing to nurse a sore ankle. Cardiff Sri Lanka v Pakistan
failure with a pitiful fielding perform- H H Pandya not out 20 (6) Imad Wasim c Jadhav b Pandya 0 (1) A series of breaks for rain meant that
ance. Sharma had been allowed to Extras (lb 2, w 2, nb 2) 6 Shadab Khan not out 14 (24) Pakistans batsmen were left to chase a June 14
escape on 47 with a top-edged sweep off Mohammad Amir c Jadhav b revised target of 289 from 41 overs, but Semi-final
Total (3 wkts, 48 overs) 319 Yadav 9 (16)
Shadab Khan and would have been run M S Dhoni, K M Jadhav, R A Jadeja, they never looked likely to threaten Cardiff
Hasan Ali c Dhawan b Yadav 0 (3)
out on 70 by a better throw from Imad B Kumar, U T Yadav and J J Bumrah did India. Hardik Pandya took a well- Group A winner v Group B runner-up
Wahab Riaz absent hurt
Wasim. Yuvraj was dropped on eight by not bat. Extras (lb 2, w 6) 8
judged catch at deep backward square
Hasan Ali, then Faheem Ashraf, the Fall of wickets: 1-136, 2-192, 3-285. leg to hold on to Azhar Alis top edge. June 15
substitute, missed Kohli, when he had Bowling: Amir 8.1-1-32-0; Wasim 9.1-0-66-0; Total (33.4 overs) 164 Ravindra Jadeja then ran out Shoaib Semi-final
made 43, off Wahab Riazs bowling. H Ali 10-0-70-1; Riaz 8.4-0-87-0; Khan Fall of wickets: 1-47, 2-61, 3-91, 4-114, Malik from backward point. Edgbaston
10-0-52-1; Malik 2-0-10-0. 5-131, 6-135, 7-151, 8-164, 9-164.
Giving a second life to batsmen of this The final six wickets fell in a flurry. Group B winner v Group A runner-up
Bowling: Kumar 5-1-23-1; Yadav
calibre is asking for trouble. Pakistan (balls)
7.4-1-30-3; Bumrah 5-0-23-0; Pandya
To the undoubted frustration of adver-
And the trouble duly arrived as Yuv- Azhar Ali c Pandya b Jadeja 50 (65) 8-0-43-2; Jadeja 8-0-43-2. tisers who had paid a pretty penny to Final
raj raced to a 29-ball fifty, while Kohli Ahmed Shehzad lbw b Kumar 12 (22) Umpires: H D P K Dharmasena (Sri the tournament organisers, this global June 18 Oval
unfurled some strokes of sheer beauty. Babar Azam c Jadeja b Yadav 8 (12) Lanka) and M Erasmus (South Africa). television spectacle had reached a
The third-wicket pair had added 93 in disappointingly premature conclusion.
How they stand
England squad are adamant that the show goes on Group A
W L T NR NRR Pts
England 1 0 0 0 0.40 2
Steve James been briefed on how we are going to be dining in Leicester Square. Ben I had a bit of a stiff back in the Lions Australia 0 0 0 1 0 1
protected. We are very comfortable struggled to get back to the hotel game at Nottingham on Thursday so it New Zealand 0 0 0 1 0 1
England reassembled in Cardiff that there is a ring of steel around us so because of the roads being cordoned was just a case of making sure my back Bangladesh 0 1 0 0 -0.40 0
yesterday to prepare for their second that everyone who is in the ground will off, Finn said. But as far as I am aware was 100 per cent, he said.
match in the Champions Trophy, be safe. As long as our minds are at ease, no one else was affected or involved. It was a result of doing a bit of travel Group B
against New Zealand tomorrow, but we will be alright to play cricket. Everyone in our squad was fine. and bowling on top of each other in the W L T NR NRR Pts
their thoughts were with those caught We toured Bangladesh last year Liam Plunkett and Mark Wood were, last few days. India 1 0 0 0 3.02 2
up in the terror attack in London. under very tight security and were however, unable to retrieve their cars It was a little bit like being on trial on South Africa 1 0 0 0 1.92 2
We are all very sad and touched by looked after very well. This tournament from the cordoned-off area yesterday, Saturday but I think it was mixture of Sri Lanka 0 1 0 0 -1.92 0
what happened. It is at the forefront of will be no different. meaning that they took a bus with some seeing my fitness and how I was bowl- Pakistan 0 1 0 0 -3.02 0
everyones mind, Steven Finn said. Steve Smith, Australias captain management to training in Cardiff for ing. If I had bowled a big pile of garbage
We send our condolences to all those whose team play Bangladesh at the Tuesdays match. then I wouldnt be stood here now.
affected by it. Oval in London today, reiterated that Finn was confirmed as a replacement Such are Englands concerns about Television
Finn, though, was adamant that the sentiment. Weve been briefed by our for the injured Chris Woakes yesterday their seam attack, as well as a reluc- Sky Sports 2, from 1pm (1.30pm
show should go on, as it did for Pakistan security team and they are comfort- morning. The fast bowler revealed that tance to play two spinners at Cardiff start). Highlights: BBC Two at
against India in Birmingham yesterday. able, he said. Its about just being it was a minor back problem that with its short straight boundaries, that 12.50am
It is a sorry state of affairs but we will diligent with everything that we do and delayed his being named in the squad as Finn could be plunged into the starting
keep playing cricket and be defiant in continuing the tournament as usual. much as the selectors James Whitaker line-up.
the face of it and hopefully put a smile While many were at home, some of and Mick Newell monitoring how he I think Ive got a good record in Radio
on peoples faces here, he said. the England squad were staying in a was bowling for England Lions against one-day cricket, he said. I am slightly Talksport 2 from 1pm and BBC 5 live
We are fully supportive of the hotel near Tower Bridge, less than half South Africa A at Northampton on taller than the other guys and can sports extra from 1.15pm
security plans that are in place. We have a mile from the attack. Ben Stokes was Saturday. therefore get a bit more bounce.
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Sport Rugby union
All Blacks fans are among the
most arrogant in the world.
Even baristas have a go at you
Ben Kay
British & Irish Lion
in 2005
The chances of the British & Irish Lions
defeating New Zealand in the Test
series have not receded on account of
their opening performance in
Whangarei on Saturday. It was scruffy,
disjointed and error-strewn but with
the players still in the clutches of jet lag,
thanks to the punishing schedule set for
them, I expected little more.
The reaction in New Zealand was al-
so predictable. Is this the worst Lions
team ever? heckled one fan at
half-time as the Provincial Barbarians
walked off with a 7-3 lead. Different
quarters of the Kiwi media branded
them mediocre, incompetent and a
disgrace to the jersey.
New Zealand sports fans are among
the most arrogant in the world. Where
Saturdays performance has made life
tougher for the Lions is in convincing
those Kiwis and their future
opponents, all of whom will be tougher
and slicker and more skilful than the
Barbarians that they are still a team
to be feared.
New Zealand rugby fans have earned
the right to be arrogant because they
have been raised on a diet of virtually
penalties and struggled to retain
possession. It is impossible to say how
Hogg must cut out the errors if he is to
start at full back against the All Blacks
unbroken success. The All Blacks are
more than just a nations rugby team,
they are a national symbol and so even
non-rugby supporters feed off that su-
periority.
As a Lion in New Zealand, it is there-
fore impossible to escape the pressure
and scrutiny. At every turn they will
have the locals doubting them; the man
at reception smirking as he checks
them in to a hotel, the barista with a
little dig as she makes a coffee. Winning
their respect as a visiting team is
virtually impossible.
The only way to combat that
pressure is with a performance. It is not
about engaging in a slanging match
with the waiter or chambermaid but
about each player deriving a quiet con-
fidence from knowing that they have
begun to prove a point to the naysayers.
One game in and the Lions do not yet
have that comeback. Yes, they won but
the performance left the Kiwis licking
their lips at what might befall the tour-
ing side against the Blues on Wednes-
day, or the Crusaders on Saturday.
Ian Kirkpatrick once said: You can
never beat Wales, you can only score
more points than them. I would
suggest that applies tenfold to the
Kiwis.
In 2003, England defeated the All
Blacks in Wellington and the response
was to criticise the way that we played,
to claim that England were ruining
rugby and that we had the ugliest pack
of all time.
Only the last of those might have
been true but the point was that even
in victory you received little credit from
New Zealand rugby people. The Lions
need to own the agenda.
If they turn up against the Blues and
put in a strong performance, everyone
will forget what happened. If they dont,
then it ratchets up another level. A
struggle against the Crusaders and you
may well find even more Kiwis dismiss-
ing a Lions squad that we felt was the
strongest ever as worse than 2005.
Half asleep
Alun Wyn Jones, understandably, has
refused to use jet lag as an excuse for the
performance on Saturday. Very noble
of him but I am certain that the
Lions skill levels, sharpness and
decision-making were all dulled by
travel fatigue.
The odd mistake is inevitable in a
game but the list of individual errors
was unusually high: Iain Henderson
misjudging kick-offs, Jonathan Sexton
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What they said
in New Zealand
That was pathetic.
There will be
apologists, but that
was horrible and
theyd better get their
act together
former all black
richard loe in the
new zealand
herald
In blunt terms the
Lions looked
incompetent
overhitting a cross-kick, Stuart Hogg paul gifford in the
blowing a try, Rory Bests crooked sunday star times
throw at the lineout.
The Lions driving game did not
function, they conceded far too many
many of those problems were down to
jet lag but I would wager a significant
number, if not all.
Tiredness affects the central nervous
system and you only have to be a few
per cent off to deliver a performance
like that. Research shows that jet lag
hits hardest three days after arriving.
This game was on day three.
A good lesson
The Provincial Barbarians were the
ideal opponents for the Lions first
game. They were accomplished rugby
players (but no more) and they gave the
Lions an early sighter of the attacking
systems to come.
Although they were a scratch side,
most teams in New Zealand attack in
the same way and so that unfamiliarity
did not affect their fluidity with the ball
as much as it did at the scrum. New
Zealand teams offer multiple threats in
attack; they can make standard outside
breaks, go wide with a long pass or
cross-kick if the defence gets narrow,
or, conversely, give an inside ball and
flood through the same channel.
The Lions have conceded the
psychological advantage to the Blues
and Crusaders because neither Super
Rugby team has anything to fear before
The pressure is really on
Sexton now. He needs to
put in a big performance
two pivotal matches. The Blues are
suspect defensively but are capable of
tearing anyone apart in attack. The
Lions must control the game on
Wednesday and play a bit like Saracens,
perhaps not surrendering quite as
much possession, but frustrate the
Blues and be ready to shift through the
gears when the chances present them-
selves. The Lions made nine line breaks Sexton, who is battling with
but scored only two tries on Saturday; Farrell for the starting berth at
they have to be more accurate. No 10, must improve in his next
start after Saturdays scruffy and
Dont write off Sexton yet but disjointed performance against
Sinckler is still a bench man the Provincial Barbarians
Sexton had a poor game. I would be
prepared not to judge his Test creden-
tials on this first performance but the
pressure is really on him now; he needs
a big performance on his next start.
Owen Farrell made an emphatic
The ruck
Stephen Jones
impact off the bench, bringing control,
direction and tempo, but it can be easier
joins Owen
to do that when you have been sitting
on the sidelines working out what the
Slot for our
problems are.
Ben Teo is the player whose stock
podcast from
rose the most. We know that Gatland
likes a direct runner at inside centre
New Zealand
and Teo carried strongly over the gain-
line and offloaded well. Taulupe
Faletau and Ross Moriarty had good
games, so too Kyle Sinckler although I
still see him as an impact player in the
Every Monday
Tests. Stuart Hogg is in the same boat as and Thursday
Sexton; for many he was a nailed on
choice at full back but he needs to cut
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One decision that

made Lions look
weak and panicky
prove defining. A moment that rugby
Stuart Barnes historians will look back on and say:
The writing was on the wall when
they opted for the three points.
There is, of course, a strong case for
the kick at goal. The Lions will point
out that, two minutes from the end of
the game, the Barbarians were less
than 15 metres from the Lions tryline

T
he defining moment of the with a lineout throw on their ball.
Lions tour opener against Points were needed as a buffer. A
the New Zealand successful penalty would have
Provincial Barbarians solidified the situation you take
occurred in the 66th your points. Old school logic in this
minute. The playing cast was a instance.
familiar one. The Lions led a team Farrell had a rare aberration and
comprising predominantly bit-part struck the nearside post, and the
Super Rugby players 13-7. Angus Barbarians escaped without
Gardner, the Australian referee, punishment. I hope the miss teaches
awarded a penalty to the tourists, on the Lions a lesson. This is a rugby
the 15-metre line, bisecting the country where tries are king, and
attacking 22. A kick that Owen the psychological edge is every
Farrell nails in his sleep. bit as important as the physical
Alun Wyn Jones was involved. The one. Any good New Zealand team
Wales second row and captain last would have kicked to the corner and
season pointed to the posts while backed themselves to score from close
Farrell waited, ball in hand. They range, not tried to take whatever
signalled for goal. Against Scotland in points were available to increase the
the Six Nations, Jones in collusion lead. They would have looked for the
with another fly half, this time his killer blow.
club colleague, Dan Biggar decided The Lions were playing a team of
to kick for the corner and not the semi-professionals and lacked the
posts at a stage when Wales needed self-belief and courage to kick to the
the points. corner, drive the lineout straight
On that occasion, the penalty was through the opposition and put an
nearer the touchline. It was reported emphatic end to the resistance.
that Leigh Halfpenny was cool on his It was a weak decision, a panicky
prospects but, with the Wales full decision, one that would have had
backs record, that was a tough one to Steve Hansen grinning from ear to
believe. Biggar himself kicks such ear. To beat the best, a team have to
goals more often than he misses dare, to beat them in New Zealand
them. the Lions will have to be bolder than
The gamble failed. Wales ended up this gathering of individuals have
with nothing, ended up losing. Jones been in their careers. And yet here we
was criticised, with some were, the first match and the Lions
commentators describing the decision were reduced to chasing penalties.
as a blow to his chances of leading the The kick to the corner was the
Lions to New Zealand. strong statement. The one that said:
There was an uncanny resemblance OK, we have not been at our best but
to the World Cup in 2015. England it is the first game of the tour and we
were trailing Wales by three points have a little jet lag. But enough is
in this instance much later in the enough. Time to end this charade.
game and the captain, Chris Instead, they snatched at any
Robshaw, had a reputation for making opportunity to scramble an opening
the wrong call. They are only ever victory. As it transpired, Farrells
right when they come off. The errant boot confirmed the decision as
penalty was close to the touchline but the wrong one. Caution and
one of the deadliest boots in Test- conservatism came to nothing.
match rugby had just entered the fray. As King Lear said, nothing will
Farrell was off the bench, straight into come of nothing. And this was a
the action, or rather the debate. nothing of a decision if ever I saw
England eventually opted for the kick one. Naysayers will contend that it
Good omen? This was the worst first-match struggle since 1971 when Lions beat All Blacks 2-1 to the corner, going for the win was the correct call because of the
when a draw would have narrow six-point lead. In another
2017 in Rotorua Margin of victory: 13 points Lost series 3-1 to South heaped enormous pressure on time and place maybe, but not in
Won Margin of victory: 14 points Lost series 2-1 to New Africa Wales, who faced Australia the N Zealand in 2017 and not
New
13-7 v Provincial Barbarians Lost series 3-0 to New Zealand next week. A stunningly ill- a
against this opposition.
in Whangarei Zealand 1977 conceived decision came to In the first Test, if the Lions have
Margin of victory: 6 points 1989 Won nothing and England were a six-point lead, Ill be screaming
2001 Won 41-13 v Wairarapa-Bush on the way to being kick it from the commentary
2013 Won 44-0 v Western Australia in Masterton knocked out of the box, but this was a long way
Won 116-10 v Western Australia in Perth Margin of victory: 28 points World Cup. from that date with New
59-8 v Barbarians in Perth Margin of victory: 44 points Lost series 3-1 to New Zealand Little decisions Zealand on June 24. The
in Hong Kong Margin of victory: 106 Won series 2-1 against have massive first step towards it was a
Margin of victory: 51 points points Australia 1974 consequences. t
teetering one, one that by
Won series 2-1 against Lost series 2-1 to Australia Won So it was that full time had gone
Australia 1983 59-13 v Western Transvaal the Lions were backwards. Not so much a
1997 Won in Potchefstroom left with challenge thrown down as a
2009 Won 47-15 v Wanganui Margin of victory: 46 points another choice, confidence booster to the
Won 39-11 v Eastern Province XV in Wanganui Won four-Test series 3-0 thankfully not All Blacks. A different,
37-25 v Royal XV in Port Elizabeth Margin of victory: 32 points against South Africa of the short- braver definition of Lions
in Rustenburg Margin of victory: 28 points Lost series 4-0 to New term magnitude rugby is urgently
Margin of victory: 12 points Won series 2-1 against South Zealand 1971 of the England v required on Wednesday.
Lost series 2-1 to South Africa Lost Wales call. Yet, in
Africa 1980 15-11 v Queensland the long term, the Jones, perhaps
1993 Won in Brisbane decision to notify mindful of past calls,
2005 Won 28-16 v Eastern Province Margin of defeat: 4 points Gardner that the took the safe option
Won 30-17 v North Auckland in Port Elizabeth Won four-Test series 2-1 Lions would take of going for the
34-20 v Bay of Plenty in Whangarei Margin of victory: 12 points against New Zealand the three points posts, rather than a
on offer could victory-sealing try
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Dont judge Lions
on opener real
tour starts now chance do Lions have after that? were
Owen Slot the headlines. And yes, they may well
Chief Rugby turn out to be correct, but from the evi-
Correspondent
Whangarei dence of Saturday night in Whangarei,
really, it is not possible to judge.
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The Lions opener gave proof of just
NZ Barbarians
2
one undisputable fact: it is impossible to
replicate first-class rugby three days
1
13
after crossing the globe.
Lions Yes, a lot of them played like drains.
But that was not the real Stuart Hogg
out there. No, the dismal performance
Predictably, in New Zealand yesterday, from Iain Henderson is not remotely a
the kneejerk reaction was to write off reflection of the true player.
the Lions. One game in and apparently The inclination on Saturday was to
they are goners. Pathetic Lions will observe, stroke your chin and run a red
struggle in New Zealand and What line through one player after another:
Scorers: Provincial Barbarians:
Try: Anderson-Heather
(23min). Conversion: Gatland.
British & Irish Lions: Try:
Watson (52). Conversion:
Farrell. Penalty goals: Sexton
(17), Laidlaw (43).
Scoring sequence (Barbarians
first): 0-3, 7-3 (half-time),
7-6, 7-13.
Provincial Barbarians: L Laulala;
S Vaka, I Finau (rep: J Lowe
17), D Sweeney, S Reece,
B Gatland (rep: J Webber 58),
J Stratton (rep: R Judd 54),
A Ross (rep: T Fahamokioa 50),
S Anderson-Heather (rep:
A Makalio 41), O Jager (rep:
M Renata 61), J Goodhue,
K Mewett (rep: P Rowe 61),
J Tucker (rep: Mewett 64; rep:
Tucker 69), L Boshier (rep:
M Matich 46), M Dunshea.
British & Irish Lions: S Hogg;
A Watson, J Joseph, B Teo,
T Seymour; J Sexton (rep:
O Farrell 49), G Laidlaw (rep:
R Webb 58); J Marler (rep:
M Vunipola 50), R Best (rep:
J George 50), K Sinckler (rep:
T Furlong 50), AW Jones,
I Henderson (rep: G Kruis 50),
R Moriarty, S Warburton (rep:
J Tipuric 67), T Faletau.
Referee: A Gardner (Aus).
Lions fixtures
Wednesday
v Blues
Eden Park, Auckland
Saturday
v Crusaders
AMI Stadium,
Christchurch
Tuesday, June 13
v Highlanders
Forsyth Barr
Stadium, Dunedin
Saturday, June 17
v Maori All Blacks
Rotorua
International
Stadium
Tuesday, June 20
v Chiefs
FMG Stadium
Waikato, Hamilton
Saturday, June 24
v All Blacks
Eden Park, Auckland
Tuesday, June 27
v Hurricanes
Westpac Stadium,
Wellington
Saturday, July 1
v All Blacks, Westpac
Stadium Wellington
Saturday, July 8
v All Blacks, Eden
Park, Auckland
All at 8.35am,
live on Sky Sports 1
and TalkSport
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How Faletau pulled
off an amazing
try-saving tackle
Taulupe Faletau ran from
inside his own half to tackle
Inga Finau and hold him up
over the line to prevent a
certain first-half try
no, Hoggs not going to make the Test
team, nor Henderson, nor Tommy
Seymour, nor Greig Laidlaw, nor
Jonathan Sexton and on it goes.
Those players, however, have a right
to feel shortchanged that this disgrace
of a fixture list was landed on the Lions
of 2017 and that they were the ones to
bear the load and suffer for it.
This tour is only ten matches long, as
we know. And as Ben Teo pointed out
after the game on Saturday, each player
gets two opportunities, at the most, to
state a case for their inclusion in the
Test side. How would you feel, then, if
one of those chances was handed to you
on a day when you were physically
unprepared to take it?
That is the reality of this tour. The
language of the Lions tells us that it is an
honour and a privilege to pull on that
red jersey, but if it was handed to you on
Saturday to play the Provincial
Barbarians, a scratch side made up
partly of amateurs, then it was no
honour; it was your misfortune.
That is not to denigrate the occasion.
There was a wonderful festival feel to
the Toll Stadium on Saturday evening
when, it seemed, an entire town turned
out to see the famous visitors who had
pitched up on their back lawn.
The following day, the Lions were
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given their official welcome at the
Waitangi Treaty Grounds, the most
famous Maori landmark in the country,
and a spectacular occasion unfolded Metres Faletau sprinted
with the Lions squad lining out, as if to
before he pulled off his
go to battle, before a hundred-plus try-saving tackle
Maori, who had come from all around
the country, in full warrior regalia,
chanting their battle cry.
This was extraordinary and dramatic
and a world away from the antiseptic
world of modern professional sport. As
John Spencer, the tour manager, said: 1 2
The Lions is unique. We want to go
back to certain traditions.
However, on a schedule like this, you
cannot but wonder if it was worth the
sacrifice of an entire days training.
Likewise, as Warren Gatland, the Lions
coach, pointed out, there were a
number of his squad doing community
visits on Friday and spending hours in
sponsored vehicles, with some of these
players suffering back spasms.
Over the next five weeks, the Lions
have some work to do to nail the
argument that any of this is helping
them to win Test matches. Spencer is The Lions No 8 sets off from inside his Stuart Hogg comes across to tackle
desperate to maintain old values. I own half as the Provincial Barbarians Laulala, who offloads to the
dont like the word brand but look full back Luteru Laulala sprints clear, supporting Finau who has no one
what a creed it is, he says. He talks of supported by centre Inga Finau between him and the try line
the moral aspect of our players to show
respect and friendship. castigate the Lions, there is another, Lions did in playing three days after
It does all sound wonderful, but which is to sympathise. Teo was one of landing.
respect is won first and foremost in the players who had done himself As the floodlights went out on the
their rugby and there were locals jeer- credit so, after the match, he was in a Whangarei shocker, you could draw a
ing hysterically on Saturday evening as decent position to give it all some per- million and one conclusions. You could
the possibility dawned of the rag-tag spective. The last three days have been say that Sexton is not in form. You could
team of Barbarians putting the Lions to really tough, he said, waking up at one say that the Sexton-Owen Farrell
the sword. However moving the Maori in the morning, some guys getting one dream-team partnership was dead in
ceremony the following day, the most or two hours sleep; boys really, really the water.
poignant moment of the weekend was tired before training, before games. You might have wondered about
when Sam Anderson-Heather, the Gatland mentioned Andy Farrell, his certain nationalities. Was it just
hooker who is an amateur with a full- assistant coach, being given sleeping coincidence that the three Scots all
time job as a property maintenance pills yet still waking up at 4am. Anyone struggled? Were they nervous to be
man, bundled past two defenders to put who has crossed the globe will playing alongside players from stronger
the Barbarians in the lead. recognise this as the common outcome nations? Or is it just the case that Teo,
They didnt manage to hold it, but of jet lag. This is why no other first-class Farrell and Kyle Sinckler happened to
while one immediate impulse is to professional team attempt what the have adapted to the jet lag better than
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Faletau, having sprinted for 50 metres, catches up with the
centre and begins to tackle him about seven metres from
the tryline
them? Or you could say that the Lions
are pathetic and will struggle in New
Zealand. A safer conclusion is that
Saturday was nothing to do with the
rest of the Lions tour, a one-off played
with one hand tied behind their backs.
Wednesday against the Blues and this
Saturday against the Crusaders will
give a proper indication of the scale of
the struggle ahead.
Spencer said yesterday that he hoped
future Lions tours would have better
preparation time. But overwhelming
all that is the privilege of being a Lion,
he added. I would disagree; is it such a
privilege to be a Lion when you are not
given the opportunity to play like one?
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After Saturdays tour opener, Owen Slot assesses the likelihood of those who
were involved lining up against the All Blacks at Eden Park on June 24
Tackles made by
Faletau, more than any 15 Stuart Hogg
other Lion. Warburton, Horrible performance.
Moriarty and Best all Botched two tryscoring
made 11 chances. Needs one
more chance to shine
14 Anthony Watson
The 23-year-old took
his try well, but the
whole back three
misfired
13 Jonathan Joseph
Struggled to make an
impression, though
hardly surprising in a
new back line
12 Ben Teo
One of the standout
performers. Really
advanced his chances
of a Test place
Replacements
11 Tommy Seymour
The Scotland wing
looked uncomfortable
and defensively out of
position
10 Jonathan Sexton
Failed to impose his
quality and personality.
Looked nothing like he
does for Ireland
9 Greig Laidlaw
Poor service. Tried and
failed to reinvent
himself as a sniping
scrum half
1 Joe Marler
Scrum failed to impose
itself. Didnt help Test
chances by picking
fight with Gatlands son
2 Rory Best
At least the Lions
lineout was one area
that did function well in
Whangarei
3 Kyle Sinckler
Rose to the challenge,
As Faletau and Inga slide over the line, the Welshman is but hard to see him
able to turn his opponent, holding him up and preventing getting ahead of Tadhg
him from touching down for a 5-3 lead. The Lions margin Furlong for a Test place
of victory was ultimately less than a converted try
since they became world champions in
continued from back 2011. The number of points conceded in 4 Alun Wyn Jones
Lions want 20 points per game those games averaged 33. The Wales captain was
and take three points when theyre on Were trying to work on some one of the leaders on a
offer, but we do realise that to play New attacking stuff, Warburton said. We night when the Lions
Zealand, youre going to [have to] score got in their 22 quite a few times but struggled
20 points minimum. didnt come away with tries. If you can
Youre going to have to score points score three or four tries a game, youll
against New Zealand. We know were give yourself a good chance.
not going to win the Test series by He also dedicated the rest of the tour 5 Iain Henderson
taking every three-point opportunity. to the victims of the terror attacks in Missed two restarts.
The Lions were jeered by the crowd London on Saturday night: We just The Ireland lock will not
on Saturday, especially when they wanted to wish all those involved all the enjoy the analysis
elected to kick for a penalty goal rather best wishes from the Lions players and session
than showing the ambition of going for management. Well commit our
the corners. performances and all our efforts to
The All Blacks have lost four times those involved recently in London.
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6 Ross Moriarty
Overeager and didnt
protect the ball well
enough, but bristled
with impressive intent
7 Sam Warburton
Not a brilliant night for
the tour captain, but he
is guaranteed to start
the Tests
8 Taulupe Faletau
The outstanding Lion
on the night. Gatland
absolutely needs him
to remain fit for Tests
16 Jamie George
Did a decent shift. The
injury to Ken Owens
raises the England
hookers Test prospects
17 Mako Vunipola
Found his feet fast. The
England prop is likely
to be on the bench for
the Tests
18 Tadhg Furlong
Will be given plenty
more opportunities to
show he should be the
starting tight-head prop
19 George Kruis
His ability to unlock
lineouts remains his
outstanding skill to get
him in the starting XV
20 Justin Tipuric
Had a great cameo, but
he needs Warburton to
be injured to get in the
Test side
21 Rhys Webb
Box-kicked well. He is
expected to be the Test
match bench option
behind Conor Murray
22 Owen Farrell
Asserted himself
quickly, played well.
Impossible to see him
left out of starting XV
23 Elliot Daly
Probably not a Test
starter. The Wasps
utility back did not
come on in this game
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I would listen
to Real offer
says Hazard
Gary Jacob, James Gheerbrant
Eden Hazard has admitted that he
would consider an offer from Real
Madrid and said that he had not yet
started talks about extending his con-
tract at Chelsea.
The forward, who said that he
watched Real lift the Champions
League on Saturday, joked that he
thought about where he may fit into the
Spanish team and concluded that he
would be on the substitutes bench.
However Hazard, who has three
years left to run on his deal at Stamford
Bridge, said that Champions League
glory was his next ambition, after twice
winning the Premier League with
Chelsea. The Belgium forward signed a
contract worth 200,000 a week in
2015, making him Chelseas highest
earner, but the club has been keen to tie
him down to new deal.
Hazard, 26, said it would be difficult
to ignore an offer from Real, who have
long courted him. His comments came
as Gareth Bale insisted that he was
happy at the Spanish champions and
wanted to make more history at the
club.
The Welshman has endured an
injury-plagued season, during which
his place in the starting XI has come
under threat for the first time, with Isco
starting instead of him in the 4-1 win
over Juventus in the Champions
League final on Saturday.
Hazards comments appear to have
increased the chances that he will join
Bale in Madrid.
Of course I will look at that, Hazard
said, when asked if he would consider
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an offer from Real. Honestly, I do not
know what will happen to me. I only
know that I spent three years under
contract with Chelsea and that we had
a great season last year with the coach
and the players.
We want to go further, including in
the Champions League. I feel good at
Chelsea, but you never know whats
happening.
Hazard and his Belgium team-mates
watched the final as they prepared for
their friendly match against the Czech
Republic today.
It would be best for me to sit on the
bench, Hazard joked of his possible
position in Madrid. But of course I also
want to win trophies. The Champions
League would be beautiful.
But thats also a goal for Chelsea.
I have not met the [Chelsea]
management yet. First I have two more
matches with Belgium, those are the
most important now. Then, a months
holiday. And honestly, I want to think
about football as little as possible.
Speaking after the final in Cardiff,
Bale, whose deal runs until 2022, said:
Im happy here in Madrid, were
winning trophies. I signed a long-term
contract here, my family is happy, so
well continue.
Bale, 27, who underwent ankle
surgery in November, said that he
understood Zindine Zidanes decision
to start him on the bench.
I pretty much knew I wasnt going to
start, he said.
Ive [only] been training five days
with the team. I was very lucky to be in-
volved, to be honest, because at one
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Waitangi
Sam Warburton has set the British &
Irish Lions the goal of scoring three
or four tries and accumulating at least
20 points in each of their remaining
matches as they attempt to beat the All
Blacks.
The Lions struggled to find attacking
rhythm during the first game of their
tour on Saturday night in Whangarei,
against the Provincial Barbarians, and
came close to a humiliating defeat.
The captain said yesterday that the
attack must sharpen up in time for the
Test series in three weeks time. We
want to get this back line moving,
Warburton said. Were not just about
taking scrums and driving lineouts;
weve got some electric players in that
back line so we want to score some tries.
We treat each game like a Test match
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Liverpool close
on 35m Salah
Paul Joyce
Northern Football Correspondent
Liverpool are looking to complete a
35 million deal for Mohamed Salah
this week as they prepare to reopen
negotiations with Roma for the
Egypt forward.
The fee matches that paid for Andy
Carroll in 2011 but Salah could end up
becoming Liverpools most expensive
player, with Roma seeking additional
payments depending on his progress.
The switch comes just three years
after the Anfield club missed out on the
attacker when they were gazumped by
Chelsea in an 11 million deal. Roma
paid 13 million for Salah at the start of
last season as the 24-year-old severed
ties with Chelsea after a series of loans.
Jrgen Klopp, the Liverpool
manager, believes that a player who
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