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BRITAIN ’S BE ST Q UALIT Y NEWSPAPER

‘People are
scared to speak’
Terry Gilliam on
why he won’t
be cancelled
Review

The death of
the humanities
How we gave up
on old-fashioned
learning
Features

Home sweet
home
15 things I wish
I’d known before
my house
renovation
Saturday

William Sitwell
‘This is not a
restaurant, it’s
TV content’
Magazine

NHS 111
system hit
by cyber
attack
Days of disruption predicted as staff are
forced to resort to pens and paper
By Lizzie Roberts, Tony Diver,
Laura Donnelly and Martin Evans
THE security services last night began
an investigation into a cyber attack on
the NHS 111 system that has left patients
struggling to get urgent appointments
and ambulance call-outs.
NHS 111 staff have been forced to use
pens and paper after a crucial system
was shut down by hackers feared to be
linked to a hostile state.
The public have been told to expect
delays when calling the non-emergency
line as NHS sources said the disruption
could drive patients to overstretched
A&E departments over the weekend.
Officials believe normal service will not
resume until Tuesday at the earliest.
Hackers targeted Advanced, a firm
that supplies software to 85 per cent of
NHS 111 services. The firm’s Adastra system allows call handlers to dispatch
ambulances, book out-of-hours urgent
appointments, and fulfil emergency
prescriptions.
Care homes that use the firm’s Caresys software have also been affected,
along with mental health services
across the NHS that use its record management system.
An NHS source said: “At the moment,
call handling and response times are
holding up, but there is a concern that
that situation may change over the
weekend and that we could see a deterioration. Cases in need of an ambulance
are being prioritised.”
NHS 111 call handlers have been told
to use an alternative system to dispatch
ambulances, the source added.
The National Cyber Security Centre
said it was working with Advanced to
investigate the cause of the breakdown.
It comes after the Five Eyes intelligence alliance, consisting of Britain,
Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the
US, warned of the risk of state-sponsored cyber attacks co-ordinated from
Moscow targeting critical organisations
including the NHS, nuclear power stations and parts of the Civil Service.
There was said to be intelligence suggesting hackers within the Russian government were seeking to engage in
“malicious cyber activity” in response
to the “unprecedented economic sanctions” imposed on Moscow over the
Ukraine war. All NHS trusts were
warned in March to shore up their
cyber security systems and ensure they
had backups in place.
Bob Seely, a Conservative MP on the
foreign affairs committee, said: “It is
undoubtedly true that cyber warfare is
one of the tools of modern hybrid, fullspectrum conflict. It is used by adversarial states, including Russia, and other
states like China. This attack could be
criminal gangs acting with the tacit support of the Russian state or it could be
the Russian state itself. Considering that
we are one of the major supporters of
Ukraine, if it is the Russians it’s not
exactly going to be unexpected.”
The attack left NHS 111 staff “working
on paper” and was “negatively affecting” response times, according to a letter from NHS bosses sent to London
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GPs. The letter, seen by Pulse, the magazine, said that call handlers had been
left unable to book appointments for
patients directly and that family doctors
had been asked to “manage calls where
possible”.
Direct booking for call handlers into
other services was shut down and staff
were told to try to make bookings by
phone or email instead.
The Welsh Ambulance service said
the “major outage” had affected all four
UK nations and it could take longer for
111 calls to be answered over the weekend. Pharmacy sources said the attack
would also affect patients calling NHS
111 for emergency out-of-hours prescriptions. Pharmacists have been told
to check NHS emails for referrals and
they may receive calls from NHS 111 staff
directly. Health officials last night
encouraged patients to continue to call
111 for non-urgent health issues.
Other systems owned by Advanced
that have been affected include Caresys, software which is used by more
than 1,000 care homes. A patient record
management system, Carenotes, which
is used by more than 40,000 clinicians
predominantly in mental health services, has also been shut down.
Simon Short, chief operating officer
of Advanced, said a “security issue” was
identified on Thursday. “We can confirm that the incident is related to a

‘Call handling and response
times are holding up, but
there is a concern that that
situation may change’
cyber attack, and as a precaution we
immediately isolated all our health and
care environments,” he said.
The British software firm has more
than 25,000 customers and a turnover
of £330 million, according to its website. It has offices in Birmingham, Kent,
Atlanta, Bangalore, and Melbourne.
This latest attack will raise fears that
hackers could target private companies
that work with the NHS.
In 2017, parts of the NHS were crippled by a cyber attack from hackers in
North Korea. Hospitals, pharmacies and
GP surgeries were hit, with some hospitals forced to cancel treatment and
operations. In May, Russian hackers
from the criminal group Killnet said
they had attacked vital NHS ventilator
networks after a member of their gang
was arrested in the UK.
It came as the Society for Acute Medicine warned last night that the NHS
was running at “unsustainable levels”,
with long delays in emergency departments, staff shortages and a lack of
beds. Isle of Wight NHS Trust yesterday
declared a critical incident in response
to “sustained pressure”.
An NHS spokesman said 111 services
were available, but to call 999 in an
emergency: “There is currently minimal disruption and the NHS will continue to monitor the situation as it
works with Advanced to resolve their
software system as quickly as possible.”
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Liz Truss visited what is claimed to be the world’s largest Union flag on a former hovercraft hangar in the Isle of Wight

By Tony Diver
WHITEHALL CORRESPONDENT
LIZ TRUSS has been backed by Telegraph readers as Britain’s next prime
minister in the largest campaign poll to
date.
Six in 10 readers surveyed said the
Foreign Secretary should replace Boris
Johnson, in a fresh blow to Rishi Sunak’s
campaign.
The poll of almost 10,000 subscribers
came as Andrea Leadsom became the
latest senior Conservative to offer Ms
Truss her support.
In an article for The Daily Telegraph,
the former business secretary said Ms
Truss would make sure “every baby is
given the best start in life … unite the
Conservatives and lead a team drawn
from across the party”.
Yesterday, Ms Truss visited the Isle of
Wight, where she posed in front of what
is said to be the world’s largest Union
flag, at Venture Quays in East Cowes.
The site was previously used for
a photo opportunity by Margaret
Thatcher, Ms Truss’s political idol.
Last night’s leadership hustings in
Eastbourne, East Sussex, was the fourth
SPORT

Seldon quit university Scotland’s role in slave Jamie Carragher
amid financial inquiry trade ‘whitewashed’
Petulant
Sir Anthony Seldon stood down as
Scotland’s role in the slave trade has
Ronaldo
vice-chancellor of the University of
been whitewashed out of exams with
Buckingham amid an investigation
pupils taught to “vilify” the English, a
must be
that uncovered serious financial
leading historian has claimed. The
mismanagement, The Daily Telegraph
SQA, Scotland’s exam board, refused to shown
has learnt. The political historian left
include Glasgow in a list of ports
the door
the university in 2020, months after
deemed crucial to the transatlantic
the Charity Commission began an
inquiry into its governance, including
a risky deal to create a medical campus
120 miles away in Crewe. Sir Anthony
said he felt “unable to run the
university as I knew it should be run”.
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slave trade despite it importing vast
quantities of tobacco, rum and sugar
from the colonies. Prof Neil McLennan,
a former president of the Scottish
Association of Teachers of History, said
Glasgow’s past had to be acknowledged.
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Mrs Thatcher, Ms Truss’s political idol, also
posed in front of the giant flag in 1983

of the campaign. The Telegraph will host
a Q&A featuring the two candidates in
Cheltenham on Thursday.
The latest poll shows that 42 per cent
of Telegraph readers believe the winning candidate should cut taxes “as
soon as possible”, while almost half say
green levies should be scrapped to help
with the cost of living.
Sources close to Ms Truss yesterday
denied that she had set a date of Sept 21
for an “emergency budget” to be delivered if she wins the race for No 10. But
they said the budget would include an

immediate reversal of the increase in
National Insurance contributions, a
pause to green levies and the cancellation of a planned rise in corporation tax.
In an interview with the Financial
Times last night, Ms Truss said she
would not call a snap election if she
was elected leader next month.
The Telegraph’s poll revealed the candidates’ focus on Whitehall reform is
popular, with 71 per cent of those polled
agreeing or strongly agreeing with the
view that the “current size of the state is
too big”. Almost half said they supported Britain’s Net Zero 2050 target.
Two thirds of the 9,847 respondents
said that if Ms Truss wins the leadership, she should not give Boris Johnson
a job in her Cabinet. A large majority (85
per cent) said spending on the Armed
Forces should be increased.
Unlike some surveys carried out by
pollsters, the results were not weighted
by demographic to be nationally representative, but show a majority view
among Telegraph readers.
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Andrea Leadsom: Page 4
John Redwood: Page 17

WORLD

BUSINESS

Harry’s call inspires
Ukrainian medic

Bank could be ordered
to axe inflation target

A Ukrainian medic who spent a brutal
three months in Russian captivity has
revealed that a phone call from the
Duke of Sussex inspired her to keep
defending her country. Yulia Paievska
was serving as a paramedic in
Mariupol when she was kidnapped by
Russian soldiers. But in an interview
with The Daily Telegraph, Ms Paievska,
who competed in the Invictus Games,
said receiving a phone call from the
Duke after being released convinced
her to keep helping the war effort.
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Andrew Bailey could be told to
abandon the Bank of England’s 2 per
cent inflation target under radical
plans to reform its mandate and boost
the economy. The Bank’s Governor
could be ordered to target economic
growth in future, under plans being
floated by allies of Liz Truss, the Tory
leadership frontrunner. This would be
a significant departure from current
rules. The proposals are thought to be
one of several options being
considered, with talks at an early stage.
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Call for tougher laws for killer cyclists
Riding a bike and driving
a car in a dangerous
manner should be treated
the same, says Shapps
By Charles Hymas
HOME AFFAIRS EDITOR
KILLER cyclists will be prosecuted in a
similar way to motorists who cause
death by dangerous driving under a
proposed government crackdown.
Grant Shapps, the Transport Secretary, has proposed to replace the current “archaic” laws that limit the
maximum sentence to two years with a
new offence of causing death by dangerous cycling.
He said grieving relatives of victims

of killer cyclists had “waited too long
for this straightforward measure” to
tackle a “selfish minority” of aggressive
riders.
Mr Shapps said the overhaul was
needed to “impress on cyclists the real
harm they can cause when speed is
combined with lack of care”.
Campaigners have been calling for
cyclists to be treated the same as drivers
since mother of two Kim Briggs, 44, was
killed by a rider as she crossed a road in
east London in February 2016.
She was hit by Charlie Alliston, then
18, who was illegally riding a fixedwheel bike with no front brakes at
18mph. He was jailed for just 18 months
because no law existed to charge him
with the equivalent of causing death by
dangerous driving.
Prosecutors have had to rely on the

Offences Against the Person Act 1861,
designed to cover offences with horsedrawn carriages, to secure a conviction
of causing bodily harm by “wanton or
furious driving”.
Killer cyclists can also be charged
with manslaughter but legal experts say
it is not designed to prosecute riders
and juries are unlikely to find people
guilty.
By contrast, motorists face a maximum jail term of 14 years for causing
death by dangerous driving if the
offence was before June 28 this year.
For offences after that, the maximum
sentence is life following a law change.
The new offence causing death by
dangerous cycling would be included in
the Transport Bill, due before Parliament in the autumn. Although Mr
Shapps may not be Transport Secretary

“For example, traffic lights are there
to regulate all traffic. But a selfish
minority of cyclists appear to believe
that they are somehow immune to red
lights. We need to crack down on this
disregard for road safety.
“Relatives of victims have waited too
long for this straightforward measure.”
He added: “As we move into an era of
sustained mass cycling, a thoroughly
good thing, we must bring home to
cyclists – too often themselves the victims of careless or reckless motoring –
that the obligation to put safety first
applies equally to every road user.
There can be no exceptions.”
In 2019, 470 pedestrians were killed
on the country’s roads. This dropped to
346 in 2020 during the pandemic. Only
a handful of cases in recent years have
involved bicycles.

‘We need to close a gap in the
law and impress on cyclists
the real harm they can cause
with speed and lack of care’
under a new Tory leader after Sept 5, he
said he would continue to press for the
change.
Writing in the Daily Mail, Mr Shapps
said the current “archaic law” meant
prosecutions of killer cyclists must rely
on “a legal relic of the horse-drawn era
or invoke manslaughter, a draconian
option”.
“We need the cycling equivalent of
death by dangerous driving to close a
gap in the law and impress on cyclists the
real harm they can cause when speed is
combined with lack of care,” he said.

Father’s fury
as daughter, 7,
killed by
speedboat
Bledar Avdia, left,
brawls with Arjan
Tase, an off-duty
policeman who
allegedly killed his
seven-year-old
daughter Jonada,
above, after his
speedboat hit her
as she swam at an
Albanian beach

By Joe Barnes
THE father of a British girl who was
killed by a speedboat while on holiday
with her family in Albania was pictured
brawling with the off-duty police officer
allegedly responsible for her death.
Local police confirmed that Jonada
Avdia, seven, died instantly after being
hit by the boat while swimming just 15ft
from the shore on Potami Beach, southern Albania.
The girl, from Barking, east London,
had been holidaying with family in their
native Albania when she was allegedly
hit by off-duty policeman Arjan Tase,
who was said to have lost control of the
borrowed boat.
The boat’s propeller blades “caused
serious injuries that led to immediate
loss of life”, a police spokesman said.
Recounting the accident, Jonada’s
father Bledar said the boat “came in our
direction and came at hellish speed and
separated me and the girl. I dived down
under the water and the craft hit my
daughter with the engine part, cutting
her all over”.
Footage was shared by onlookers
after the accident on Tuesday showing
the father confronting Mr Tase. In the
video, Mr Avdia is seen grappling with
Mr Tase after the white speedboat
returns to shore.
Mr Tase was yesterday expected to
appear in court charged with manslaughter, local media reports said.
Mirela Kumbaro, the tourism minister, blamed the national chief of police
for the crash, the third such accident to
happen on beaches in Albania this summer, telling the Albanian Daily News:
“An angel is no longer among us
because of the stupidity of a man who
broke every law, every rule and every
norm with tragically irreversible consequences.”
‹
A British woman died and three other
UK nationals, including her husband,
were taken to hospital after a speedboat
crash in Turkey on Thursday off the
coast of Marmaris. Local reports say the
speedboat she was in collided with a
water taxi.

SIR KEIR STARMER promised during
his leadership campaign that he would
stand with striking workers in leaked
footage that has provoked a new row
with the Left.
The Labour leader joined members
of the University and College Union
(UCU) on the picket line on Feb 26 2020,
two days after online voting opened in
the party leadership race.
Sir Keir has banned his frontbenchers from appearing on the picket line

Help me find my son’s
killers, pleads mother
The mother of a boy aged seven who
died in an arson attack has pleaded for
help to find her son’s killers four years
on from the blaze.
Joel Uhrie died on Aug 20 2018
when a fire tore through the house in
Deptford, south-east London he shared
with his mother and older sister.
Ahead of the anniversary of his
death, Joel’s mother Iroroefe O Edu
appealed for information to help catch
his killers, who police believe may
have been in a gang.
Joel, who was due to start secondary
school next month, was found dead in
the upstairs bedroom, but Miss Edu
and his 19-year-old sister escaped by
jumping out of a first-floor window.

Teenage boy dies after
being stabbed in a park
A 15-year-old boy has died after being
stabbed in a north London park.
Officers were called to Highbury
Fields in Islington just before 9pm on
Thursday, a spokesman for the
Metropolitan Police said.
The boy was treated at the scene by
paramedics before being taken to
hospital, where he died a short time
later.
There have been no arrests and
inquiries into the incident are
continuing, Scotland Yard said.
A cordon around Highbury Fields
covers the whole park and will be in
place for “at least the rest of the day”
and possibly for a couple of days,
police at the scene said.

First Osprey chicks born
since records began
The establishment of the first breeding
pair of ospreys in Yorkshire for
hundreds of years “is nothing short of
a miracle”, according to a
conservationist.
The young adult pair, which has
have made its home on the Bolton
Castle estate in Wensleydale, has
produced two chicks – a male and a
female. Sacha Dench, visiting the
nesting site in the Yorkshire Dales as
part of her Flight Of The Osprey
expedition, which tracks the birds’
migration route, said: “ What has been
achieved is nothing short of a miracle.”
Ospreys have not been recorded
breeding in Yorkshire since records
began in 1800.

Loose Women star and
Radio 2 host join Strictly
Kaye Adams and Richie Anderson are
the latest celebrity contestants
confirmed for Strictly Come Dancing.
The Loose Women star, 59,
announced her involvement during
yesterday’s episode of the ITV daytime
show, while TV and radio personality
Anderson, 34, was unveiled during The
Zoe Ball Breakfast Show.
They join previously announced
stars in the line-up: Coronation Street
actors Will Mellor and Kym Marsh.
Adams said in a statement following
the announcement: “I wanted to make
the last year of my 50s memorable and
I can’t think of a better way of doing it
than showing the world my two left
feet. Pray for me.”

‘An angel is
no longer
among us
because of the
stupidity of a
man who
broke every
law, every
rule and
every norm
with tragic
consequences’ Tribute to father who
died in cycling accident

I will back strikers, pledged Starmer during campaign
By Dominic Penna
POLITICAL REPORTER

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during recent industrial action, putting
him on a collision course with the Left
of his party as the RMT railway union
and other groups go on strike.
Last month, he sacked Sam Tarry, a
shadow transport minister, for giving
unauthorised media interviews in support of rail strikes and flouting collective responsibility in the shadow
cabinet by deviating from the party line.
Defending his ban, Sir Keir insisted
that Labour must turn “from a party of
protest into a party that can win power”.
But during his campaign in 2020, he
said striking lecturers had his “full sup-

port” and told activists: “It’s really
important you get politicians to come
out and support you and stand with
you. I’m very proud to do that, to be
with you this morning and to support
you through this campaign, both as the
MP for here, from the shadow cabinet,
and as running as Labour leader.
“My leadership, if I win it, will be
standing with you and other campaigns
like you so we can win [on] issues like
this that are so important.”
Sir Keir described himself as a “proud
trade unionist” in a campaign video and
had joined UCU workers on a separate

interests is the Labour Party’s founding
mission. In the coming weeks, we will
campaign across the country for all
Labour MPs to stand with labour.”
Diane Abbott, the MP for Hackney
North and Stoke Newington, and one of
Mr Corbyn’s closest political allies,
tweeted the footage with the words:
“Starmer on a University and College
Union picket line in 2020. #SolidarityRMT.”
His latest position on the strikes is
that he supports workers’ right to take
industrial action but is not supporting
any specific campaign.

picket line in December 2019, the week
before the general election.
But this summer he has stopped
short of endorsing industrial action by
railway workers, despite saying he supported their “right to do so”.
The Momentum campaign group,
which was first established to support
Jeremy Corbyn’s hard-Left policies, said
his comments represented “the leadership we were promised, then denied”.
The group said in a statement: “We
won’t let Keir Starmer drive a wedge
between Labour and the trade union
movement. Championing workers’

Archie’s family ‘broken’ as legal action to let
12-year-old die with dignity in hospice fails

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London. The singer has sold 43m records worldwide.

ARCHIE BATTERSBEE will be taken off
life support this morning, his family
said last night after losing a last-ditch
attempt to move the 12-year-old to a
hospice.
A spokesman for the family said the
hospital had said it would be withdrawing the machinery keeping him alive
from 10am.
Judges ruled yesterday that the
youngster could not be moved to a hospice as his parents continued their battle for their son to die “with dignity”.
The judgment from Mrs Justice Theis
at the High Court found that moving
Archie from the Royal London Hospital
in Whitechapel to a hospice would be
against his best interests.
Last night, the European Court of
Human Rights said it would not intervene in the case of Archie Battersbee
after a request from his family.
Doctors gave evidence regarding
whether Archie should be moved to a
hospice, including the “not insignificant” risks of moving him such as a drop
in his blood pressure when moved.
The High Court was told that there
would be risks involved in moving

AP/HOLLIE DANCE

By Catherine Lough

Archie Battersbee’s life support will be
turned off in hospital today

Archie from his bed to a hospital trolley,
as well as the possibility that his tubes
could be dislodged or equipment would
fail while making the journey to the
hospice.
The judge said solicitors acting for
Archie’s parents, Hollie Dance and Paul
Battersbee, contacted Barts Health NHS
Trust, which runs the hospital, on Tuesday stating their preference for him to
be moved to a hospice.
They also said that they disagreed
with the decision to withdraw treatment and wanted to pursue “all legal

avenues reasonably open to them”.
Archie’s parents have fought to maintain his life support in the courts since
he was found unconscious after an accident at his home in April.
Doctors have declared him to be
“brainstem-dead” and the European
Court of Human Rights said on Wednesday that a planned withdrawal of medical treatment could not be delayed.
The judgment described how Archie
had suffered a “catastrophic” brain
injury and, according to his doctors,
had “no prospect of making any meaningful recovery”.
Doctors had previously given evidence that Archie was “weeks away
from a death which will otherwise
occur from a gradual further deterioration and then failure of his organs followed by the failure of his heart”.
Ms Dance said: “All our wishes as a
family have been denied by the authorities. We are broken, but we are keeping
going, because we love Archie.”
A spokesman for campaign group
Christian Concern, which is supporting
Archie’s family, said: “All legal routes
have been exhausted. The family are
devastated and are spending precious
time with Archie.”

A young father was killed in a freak
accident when he cycled into a
lamppost, an inquest heard yesterday.
Reece Thompson, 19, was described
as an “amazing and loving” father to
his 18-month-old son.
Mr Thompson, who played football
for local teams and rugby for the North
Wales regional side, was killed in the
accident near his home in Bangor,
North Wales.
He was taken to the Royal Stoke
University Hospital where he
underwent treatment, but died from
his injuries a week later.
His father, Dewi, had previously
said: “He was an amazing, loving and
selfless human.”

Lotto winner followed
late mother’s advice
A father-of-five is £1 million richer
after he followed his late mother’s
advice and snapped up two lottery
tickets.
Robert Cameron, from Glasgow,
matched five numbers and the bonus
ball in Saturday’s Lotto draw with a
lucky dip ticket he had initially
forgotten to buy. The 53-year-old
bought a lottery ticket on Friday July
29 with change from his pocket. When
he checked the result, he realised he
had won £3.70.
“My mum used to say, ‘a win leads to
a win’,” he said. “If you win something,
put it into something else.
“So I used my winnings to buy two
lucky dips.”

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Just when you
thought it was
safe to go back
in the water....
First there was a shark
attack. Now, a plague of
crabs has washed up
on a Cornish beach
By Daniel Capurro SENIOR REPORTER
CORNWALL was left reeling this week
from its worst shark attack in decades,
after a snorkeller was bitten off the Penzance coast.
Just days later, when holidaymakers
thought it was finally safe to go back in
the water, a plague of poisonous crabs
swept in on the tide.
The giant mass of spider crabs gathered in the shallow water off St Ives to
shed their skins, creating a carpet of the
spiky, ten-limbed creatures.
However, swimmers brave enough to
risk a sharp nip from one of the crabs or
a sore foot from standing on them
should not be overly concerned.
The crustaceans may have a venomous bite to see off predators, but are
actually harmless to humans.
In fact, there is a significant commercial fishery of the crabs, whose meat is
popular in Europe.
Despite the crabs’ docile nature,
more than a few visitors to Porthgwidden Beach were put off entering the sea

‘I was able to float above
them and tried not to step on
them. A lot of the tourists
were squealing at the sight’
by the gathering of the
he barbed
decapods just below the
e surface.
A few brave souls,,
however, did dare to
o
snorkel above them.
Kate Lowe, a marine
ne photographer, captured the event
vent with her
camera.
“I go snorkelling most of the
time throughout the year but I
have never seen spiderr crabs in
such numbers,” Ms Lowe
we said.
“When we turned up at the
beach it looked as though
ugh there were
lots of dark rocks underr the surface.
“But it turned out that there were
thousands of crabs just
st two or three
steps into the water.
“It was just really incredible,
ncredible, they
were only knee deep. I was able to float
on the water above them
em and tried not
to step on them.
“A lot of the tourists were squealing
at the sight of them.”
The crabs gather en
n masse to help
protect themselves from predators
while they wait for their
ir new exoskeletons to thicken and toughen.
ghen.
While they have been
n seen in British
waters in fewer numbers,
ers, mass gatherings like this are becoming
ming more common in the summer owing
wing to rising sea

temperatures from climate change. The
crabs are migratory and once their new
shells are tough enough, they will disperse and disappear to depths of up to
300ft, leaving Cornish beaches quiet
and claw-free.
European spider crabs are much
smaller than their giant Japanese cousins, with their carapace reaching about
8in in width and a claw-to-claw measurement of 20in.
The crustaceans are common in the
Mediterranean Sea and can migrate up
to 100 miles over the course of eight
months.
There were also reports that the spider crabs were spreading as far north as
Norfolk, which is usually well outside
their traditional range.
Fishermen in the seaside town of
Cromer said they had caught dozens of
the species where previously they had
seen none.
“We don’t want to see spider crabs,
because we’re fishing for brown crabs,”
said Henry Randall, a crab fisherman in
Cromer.
“Are we going to see more and more
every year?
“Are they going to take over? That’s
the concern.”
Scientists were quick to quell the
fears, however.
Alastair Grant, professor of ecology
at the University of East Anglia’s School
of Environmental Sciences, said they
were likely to “coexist with our more
familiar Norfolk species, just as they do
in south-west England”.
That sentiment was backed up by
Ron Jessop, senior marine science
officer at the East-

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Habitat
European waters, especially the
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20cm
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50cm

ern Inshore Fisheries and Conservation
Authority, in King’s Lynn, who said:
“Normally, spider crabs won’t out-compete brown crabs.
“Spider crabs are slow moving, less
robust and less aggressive than brown
crabs.”
The crabs are not the first plague to

Thousands of
European spider
crabs stormed the
beaches of Cornwall

strike the Cornish shores this
summer. On July 28, a snorkeller was bitten on the leg, by
what was claimed to be a blue
shark, during an organised swim
off Penzance. The company
behind the tour said such incidents were “extremely rare”.

Last month, the local Wildlife
Trust reported hundreds of octopuses swarming the county’s seas
and devouring lobsters. Fishermen
in the area have been able to sell the
octopus meat to Europe, where it is
popular, to make up for their lost
crustaceans.

Nightmare on beachfront for victim of seagull ‘Freddy Krueger’
By Daily Telegraph Reporter
A WOMAN was left with blood gushing
from her head after a seagull swooped
down and clawed her as she walked
home.
Brenda Thrumble said she resembled
“something from a Freddy Krueger
film” as a result of the attack.
Caught off guard, the 66-year-old
was forced to hide behind a bush in
order to escape the gull’s wrath.
Mrs Thrumble later got a tetanus
injection on the advice of doctors to
avoid suffering a bacterial infection.
She fell victim to the bird, thought to
have been protecting its young, on
Wednesday afternoon as she made her
way home in St Peter’s in Broadstairs,
Kent.
“I was walking along, minding my
own business when suddenly some-

thing went for my head,” she said. “It
came at me from behind so there was no
way of expecting anything, it just went
‘whack’ on my head.
“I put my hand on my head and blood
was coming out profusely. I thought ‘oh
my gosh’ that’s a lot.
“It had instantly drawn blood, it went
at me with its claws rather than beak.
There was lots of blood from the claws
that had gone straight across my head.”
Mrs Thrumble added: “I looked like
something from a Freddy Krueger film.
Blood was pouring out, down my face,
top and onto my toes. It was a real
shock. There were lots of little holes
where it had clawed at me, so there
wasn’t one big gash.
“It was a right old nightmare and not
a good experience to have.”
Mrs Thrumble took cover behind an
overhanging hedge before being

Brenda Thrumble
said the seagull
drew blood using its
claws

escorted to safety by a neighbour wearing a motorbike helmet.
She said: “I was frightened to move,
and afraid of it coming at me again. I
was close to a wall when it swooped.
“A nice man called Aaron on a motorbike came to help me and walked with
me to his house.
“He was wearing a helmet and we got
there without the seagull attacking.
“Luckily everyone was really nice,
the neighbours all helped me.”
After reaching safety, Mrs Thrumble
was assessed by paramedics and her
head wound was cleaned.
Mrs Thrumble said she will now be
“very cautious” around seagulls.
She continued: “It’s hard to say to
people to be careful as it came at me
from behind. It’s hard to know how to
warn people to avoid it happening to
them because it was so sudden. I wasn’t

Golfers cheer eagle on 14th hole
winging it from falconry show
By Daily Telegraph Reporter
AN EAGLE that escaped during a castle’s falconry show is on the loose.
Marvin, a Steller’s sea eagle, flew off
in front of spectators during a display at
Warwick Castle on Friday July 29.
Handlers have been trying to lure the
bird back to the castle, because it is
unlikely to survive for longer than a
month in the wild.
They are hopeful of its return, after
golfers spotted it basking in the sun on
the fairway of the 14th hole at Stratford
Park golf course in Stratford-uponAvon, Warwickshire.
Tony Jackson, a local councillor, saw
Marvin, which has an 8ft wingspan, as
he walked his dog on Sunday.
He said: “I had been taking a footpath
which takes you right across the golf

course when I spotted a bird I had never
seen before.
“It was rather striking and very large
so I took some pictures not knowing
what it was before it majestically flew
away.

‘It was rather striking and
very large so I took some
pictures not knowing what
it was before it flew away’
“It didn’t seem to be aggressive
although to be fair I didn’t get that close
just in case.
“It was only later when I posted it on
social media that I learnt that Marvin
had escaped from Warwick Castle and
its handlers were searching for it. So I

reported the sighting to the castle and
hopefully it can make it safely back to
where it belongs.
“It’s not every day you get to see one
of the world’s largest birds of prey take
off in front of you in the wild. It was
quite special.”
Steller’s sea eagles, which are native
to Russia, Korea, Japan, China and Taiwan, can weigh as much as 20lbs and
have a wingspan of 8ft.
They are on the red list of globallythreatened birds and it is believed there
are only 2,000 breeding pairs in the
world.
Handlers have since been out searching in the areas where the 11-year-old
bird has been sighted using food to try
to entice it in.
Warwick Castle said Marvin posed no
risk to other animals or the public.

eating anything at the time, you hear
about it happening at the beach when
people are eating chips, but I was walking down a side road.
“I presume the seagull was protecting its young, but I couldn’t see any anywhere, I couldn’t see any nests or any
babies.
“I know residents around there have
been plagued by them. I’d be nervous of
what it could do to a dog or to little children.”
According to the RSPCA, gulls that
swoop are usually trying to protect
chicks that have fallen out of or left the
nest. The animal charity said: “They’ll
stop when the person or animal has
moved away from their young.
“This behaviour usually only lasts for
a few weeks until the chicks have
fledged and are able to protect themselves.”

‘Blood was
pouring out,
down my
face, top and
onto my toes.
It was a real
shock. There
were lots of
little holes
where it
had clawed
at me’

Envy the hair, says Harrelson
in poem for infant ‘lookalike’
By Craig Simpson

Doppelgangers Woody Harrelson and Cora

WOODY HARRELSON has written a
poem for his baby doppelganger, after
her mother posted a photo of the child
on the internet.
Dani Grier Mulvenna, from Northern
Ireland, shared a photo of nine-monthold Cora grinning on Twitter, alongside
a still of Harrelson from the 2009 film
Zombieland, remarking that her daughter bore an uncanny resemblance to the
Hollywood star.
The True Detective actor responded
when the social media post went viral,
writing a paean to his infant lookalike
and declaring that he was “flattered” to
be compared to the baby girl.
The balding 61-year-old posted his
work on Instagram: “Ode to Cora:
You’re an adorable child/Flattered to
be compared.

“You have a wonderful smile/I just
wish I had your hair.”
The original social media post was
shared by 30,000 people on Twitter,
with many agreeing that Cora did,
indeed, look like Harrelson.
Ms Grier Mulvenna has since posted
a statement online saying: “It’s not
every day Woody Harrelson writes your
daughter a poem.”
Harrelson shot to fame in the critically acclaimed 1980s US comedy
Cheers, before moving into film.
His credits include a leading role in
the 1992 basketball comedy White Men
Can’t Jump, Natural Born Killers,
The Hunger Games and Indecent
Proposal.
The actor also has a reputation as
a committed activist, particularly on
issues such as the legalisation of marijuana and animal rights.

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News

Truss hits back at ‘militants’ after heckling
Unflustered by activists,
the Foreign Secretary
promises legislation to
tackle ‘unfair protests’
By Nick Gutteridge and
Dominic Penna
LIZ TRUSS promised last night to crack
down on “militant activists” after six
Extinction Rebellion protesters disrupted the fourth Tory leadership hustings in Eastbourne.
The Foreign Secretary said she would
pass new laws to stop hardline unions
and activists “who try and disrupt our
democratic process and our essential
services”. She had just taken to the stage

at The Winter Garden theatre when
a female protester interrupted her
opening remarks, yelling “shame on
you, Liz Truss”.
As the first woman was collared and
led out by security staff, four other
demonstrators shouted out from a stage
area calling for a “Green New Deal”.
One, still clutching an “In Liz We
Truss” placard, screamed “we just want
fair trade” and “good jobs” at the former
trade secretary, insisting “we will win”.
As the quintet was removed by
b ouncers the Foreign Se cretary
described them as “infiltrators”, and
Tory members in the audience booed
and chanted “out”,
Ms Truss then said: “Can I just say a
few words on the militant people who
try and disrupt our country, our demo-

‘I will make
sure that
militant
activists
such as
Extinction
Rebellion are
not able to
disrupt
ordinary
people who
work hard’

cratic process and our essential services. I would legislate immediately to
make sure we are standing up to militant trade unions who stop ordinary
commuters getting into work and to
protect our essential services.
“And I will make sure that militant
activists such as Extinction Rebellion
are not able to disrupt ordinary people
who work hard and do the right thing
and go into work. I will never ever, ever
allow our democracy to be disrupted by
unfair protests,” she said.
Later on during a question and
answer session, a sixth demonstrator, a
young man in a suit, stood up and
berated the Foreign Secretary about her
climate policies.
He accused Ms Truss of “killing people by licensing new oil and gas”, a ref-

erence to her plan to boost North Sea
energy to help Britain through the
energy crisis.
“I take it as a compliment that I’m so
popular with Extinction Rebellion,” she
said to applause from the audience as he
was also ejected by security.
She later added: “I’m a believer in
freedom to do as you want so long as
you don’t harm others. One person’s
freedom should not mean that other
people suffer misery.”
The host of the hustings joked that
the protesters had all “paid their £25
Conservative tax” given that they would
have had to sign up as members to enter
the venue.
The disruption came after a large
crowd carrying “Tories Out” placards
gathered outside the venue in East-

‘We all saw
the numbers.
If we don’t
get a grip of
this thing,
then we can
kiss goodbye
to winning
that next
election’

bourne before the hustings. Rishi
Sunak, who also spoke at length to the
gathering, was not targeted by the
Extinction Rebellion activists.
During his remarks, the ex-chancellor took aim at Ms Truss’s tax cutting policies, insisting they would not help
families through a “difficult period”.
He argued there was “no hope we’re
going to win that next election” unless
inflation was brought under control,
adding: “We all saw the numbers. And if
we don’t get a grip of this thing – and get
a grip of it fast – then we can kiss goodbye to winning that next election.
“The first thing to do is get a grip of
inflation and get a grip of it quickly and
not do things worse.”
Editorial Comment: Page 15

By Nick Gutteridge
and Simon Johnson
RISHI SUNAK was under fire last night
after telling Conservative members that
he had diverted government money
from “deprived urban areas” to wealthier countryside towns.
A leaked video showed him saying
that during his time in the Treasury he
had overturned spending formulas
inherited from Labour to make sure
more cash went to rural communities.
The remarks, which he made during
a private hustings event in Tunbridge
Wells, Kent, last Friday, will prove awkward as the country faces a cost of living
crisis.
It contrasts sharply with comments
he made during a Sky TV debate on
Thursday, during which he said his
record showed he was committed to
helping the poorest in society.
Last night Mr Sunak defended himself, telling The Daily Telegraph that the
furore was “very, very straightforward

to clear up” and there was “not a problem at all” if the public examined his
record in government.
In the video, published by the New
Statesman, Mr Sunak was seen standing
on a lawn addressing Tory members,
who were sitting around him.
“I managed to start changing the
funding formulas to make sure that
areas like this are getting the funding
they deserve because we inherited a
bunch of formulas from the Labour
Party that shoved all the funding into
deprived urban areas,” he told them.
“That needed to be undone, I started
the work of undoing that”, he added.
When asked that he appeared to be
arguing that more money should be
spent in wealthy areas like Tunbridge
Wells, Mr Sunak said: “People come to
that event from all over the county of
Kent, it’s not that they’re all from Tunbridge Wells and I think that again, it’s
slightly wrong to focus on that.”
Challenged again that the video did
not present a favourable impression of

him to voters, he said: “If people want to
clip a very short part and not have the
overall explanation, there’s not a lot I
can do about that.”
The average house price in Tunbridge Wells was £528,459 at the end of
last year, compared with a national

‘We inherited a bunch of
formulas from Labour that
shoved all the funding into
deprived urban areas’
average of £271,000. Mr Sunak also
raised the issue of centralised funding
formulas during a televised Tory hustings in Exeter last week, saying they
“don’t work properly” for rural areas.
He pointed out that “very small village primary schools” are punished by
Whitehall spending targets because
they are deemed to be not as efficient as
larger ones in towns and cities.
The ex-chancellor said he had already

started to change how money was allocated for social care and transport to
make sure more goes to the countryside. “We need to make sure that the
voice of rural Britain is heard loudly and
clearly down in Westminster,” he told
Tory members to applause.
Lisa Nandy, the shadow levelling up
secretary, expressed anger at his latest
remarks. “This leadership race is revealing the Conservatives’ true colours,” she
said. “It’s scandalous that Rishi Sunak is
openly boasting that he fixed the rules
to funnel taxpayers’ money to prosperous Tory shires.
“This is our money. It should be distributed fairly and spent where it’s most
needed – not used as a bribe to Tory
members.”
Mr Sunak previously faced criticism
over the allocation of levelling up cash,
which Labour claimed was being funnelled towards Conservative areas.
It emerged that 40 out of the 45 areas
given a share of a £1 billion towns fund
were represented by Tory MPs.

PA

Sunak defends hustings comments that
he removed money from ‘deprived’ areas

Rishi Sunak during a Conservative members’ event in Bexhill, Sussex, yesterday

Liz is the true blue candidate promising proper Conservative policies
Commentary
By Andrea Leadsom

T

his week, Conservative members
across the UK have begun to cast
their votes for the next party
leader, and our new prime minister. In
making this critical decision, they will
reflect, as we all must, on not just their
policies but also on their character and
the values that they stand for.
Now more than ever, we need
someone who embodies those core
Conservative principles of aspiration,
personal liberty and enterprise. We
need someone who recognises that it is
only through the determination and
ingenuity of people and businesses up
and down the country that we will

continue to prosper, someone who
stands by those who work hard and do
the right thing, and someone who
doesn’t apologise for our values or
country. Our next prime minister must
face up to the twin tasks of growing
our economy and standing up to the
likes of Russia and China abroad.
Liz Truss is that candidate. I have
served with Liz for many years and she
has proved time and again she can
deliver, whether that is trade deals the
naysayers said were impossible outside
the EU or her steadfast support for
Ukraine. Liz can deliver the many
opportunities made possible by Brexit,
and to continue the great work she has
done as Foreign Secretary in standing
up to Vladimir Putin.
Liz has always approached her work
with passion and drive, combining a
love of everything that makes Britain
great with an unshakeable optimism
for our future. She is a candidate of

hope, hard work and unity. We can
trust Liz to deliver on the promises we
as a party made to the British people in
2019. Her vision for Britain is spot on.
Liz shares my belief that everyone
should have the opportunity to
succeed and that to achieve this we
need to ensure that every baby is given
the best start for life and that every
family has access to the support they
need to do so. She recognises that
families are at the heart of our society,
that much of what motivates people is
building a better future for their
children and grandchildren, and the
vital importance of supporting them,
which is why she would review
taxation to ensure people aren’t
penalised for taking time out to care
for their children or elderly relatives.
Liz knows that the Conservatives
should be on the side of those who
work hard, do the right thing and take
personal responsibility. That is why

she will provide immediate help with
the cost of living for people across the
country by cutting taxes.
People should be able to keep and
spend their own hard-earned cash –
government should only tax what is
necessary to deliver first-class public
services, a strong welfare safety net

Liz will take immediate
action to help people
struggling with the
cost of living
and the right incentives for business
and trading success. The dynamic
entrepreneurs who start up and grow
businesses are a key driving force
behind the UK’s economic success,
creating thousands of new jobs and
providing critical investment in local
areas. Liz has the right prescription for

Britain’s struggling economy. She has a
bold plan that combines low taxes, a
positive belief in business, and a plan
to boost the supply side to grow our
economy – these are at the heart of
Liz’s economic plan.
She is acutely aware that too often
Treasury orthodoxy and the “silos”
created by Whitehall departments risk
holding us back from addressing the
increasingly burdensome tax system,
ensuring access to investment and
enacting bold supply side reforms.
Under Liz’s leadership, we will hug
business and enterprise close again.
She will transform our economy into a
high-growth and highly productive
dynamo, with a focus on the job
opportunities coming from our
growing green economy.
Perhaps above all, Liz has a keen
instinct for what the country and our
party want and need. She understands
the challenges people face and will

take immediate action to help people
struggling with the cost of living.
She knows they want positivity and
hope, not scaremongering and
declinism. Crucially, Liz can unite the
Conservatives and lead a team drawn
from across the party. That is how we
will take the fight to the opposition at
the next election and save Britain from
the disaster of Sir Keir Starmer’s
Labour Party forming a government.
With so much at stake, my fellow
Conservatives have an enormous
responsibility in the coming weeks.
We must choose a leader who will get
things done and govern in a
Conservative way. Just as importantly,
we must choose someone who can
restore faith in our politics. Liz Truss
will be the prime minister who can
achieve that.
Andrea Leadsom is MP for South
Northamptonshire

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News

Seldon quit
Buckingham
amid inquiry
into botched
finances
By Louisa Clarence-Smith
EDUCATION EDITOR
ONE of Britain’s top historians, who
advised prime ministers, had a stellar
track record in running formidable
institutions when he was appointed to
lead a university seven years ago.
Sir Anthony Seldon, the former master of Wellington College, had recently
been knighted for his services to education when he was asked to take over as
vice-chancellor of the University of
Buckingham, an independent university founded by his father and championed by Margaret Thatcher.
During a five -year tenure, he
attempted to pioneer “mindfulness”
modules and create Britain’s first drug
free campus, all while continuing a prolific output of political biographies.
Then, in 2020, he announced his resignation unexpectedly, saying that he
“burnt out” and had not taken time to
recover following the death of his wife,
Joanna, in 2016.
It can now be disclosed that he left
amid an investigation into how a deal
locking the university into paying £40
million in rent at a new medical campus
had been agreed despite no realistic
prospect of receiving that much money
in fees from students and other earnings.
Sir Anthony, an honorary historical
adviser to 10 Downing Street, left the
university in October 2020, months
after the Charity Commission began a
probe into the university’s governance,
including a risky deal to create a medical campus 120 miles away in Crewe.
An internal investigation found that
the deal agreed by the university with
Apollo Hospitals, an Indian healthcare
provider, and Michael Jones, a former
Conservative councillor, was signed
with “no independent due diligence”
and locked the university into paying
£40 million in rent over a decade, which
was far more than the income that it was
likely to receive from the campus.
The university’s latest accounts for
2019, delayed by more than a year as a
result of the inquiry, reveal that the deal

created financial uncertainty for the
university, which expects to pay more
than £6 million to exit the lease agreement. There are currently about 200
students enrolled at the 40-acre Apollo
Buckingham Medical Health Campus,
which opened in 2019 and has the
capacity for 5,000 students.
Other findings of the investigation
included that one of the university’s
subsidiaries had wrongly claimed back
£808,000 from HMRC in previous
years, which it needed to repay.
Sir Anthony was appointed vicechancellor of Buckingham in 2015. He is
the author of more than 40 books,
including biographies of the last five
prime ministers. During his tenure at
Buckingham, he published May at 10,
on Theresa May’s premiership, and was
a director of the Royal Shakespeare
Company.
The idea to create a medical campus

‘I felt I knew how to
turn around institutions
but my leadership was
no longer valued’
in Crewe with Apollo had been pitched
to Sir Anthony by Mr Jones, a former
leader of Cheshire East council, and his
business partner and physiotherapist,
Amanda Weston.
The partnership with Apollo and a
community interest company run by
Mr Jones and Ms Weston was finalised
by December 2018, when it was
announced by the university as a “landmark international deal”.
The investigation in 2020 found that
a former university staff officer had
“placed themselves in a position of conflict of interest” with that of the university. The findings are understood to
relate to Paul Jennings, the university’s
former finance director, who was a driving force behind the campus deal, and
his relationship with Mr Jones and Ms
Weston, who are said to have discussed
giving him shares in another company
previously involved in the campus.
Ms Weston told The Telegraph that a
discussion about giving Mr Jennings
shares in the company was “momentary” when they were “throwing around
ideas” and nothing came of it because of
a potential conflict of interest. The

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Mismanagement of cash
was impeding my ability
to be vice-chancellor,
claims political historian

Sir Anthony Seldon,
who has written
biographies of five
prime ministers,
with David
Cameron. Below,
the Crewe campus

investigation concluded that there had
been “no inappropriate loss of cash” .
Mr Jennings and Mr Jones could not be
reached for comment.
The Charity Commission closed the
investigation in September 2021, after
the university submitted more than 100
documents to prove its “improved
approaches to governance and manage-

ment”. It has cost Buckingham almost
£2 million in fees to ensure its accounts
are accurate and conclude the investigations.
In a statement, Sir Anthony said: “As
vice-chancellor, I made it repeatedly
clear that I did not agree to entering
into any relationship with the Crewe
project if it was to pose any financial
risk whatsoever to the university… after
my initial meeting I refused to have any
further contact with them.”
He added: “I felt I knew how to turn
around institutions but my leadership
was no longer valued and I was unable
to run the university as I knew it should
be run. The predicament was making
me ill so I quit after my five years, saddened to leave my colleagues, students
and community, and to see the progress
we had made together in my first four
years – the financial accounts in early
2019 noted that the outlook for the university had never been brighter with
numbers, new buildings and reputation
never higher – put under threat.”
The University of Buckingham said:
“The new administration raised the
issue of historic arrangements that had

been entered into not being appropriate. We then undertook a very thorough
audit which uncovered some issues in
the past with financial processes. We
made the full financial provision for the
potential impact of those arrangements
in our 2019 financial statement. We
fully investigated the suggestion of a
member of staff having a conflict of
interest and this issue was resolved.
There was no indication of criminal
activity. We have fully disclosed the
VAT wrongly claimed to the HMRC to
settle the matter. No staff are under
investigation.
“We have made a lot of progress with
the Crewe negotiations but there are
some outstanding matters to address.
“The 2020 financial return shows a
much-improved financial situation and
the university’s future is secure. After
the difficult year of 2019, the University
is now in a solid position. Student
acceptances are up by nearly 20 per
cent on 2019. The university is making
steady progress rising in the league
tables: In the Good University Guide
(2022), we climbed 20 places to regain
our position in the top 100.”

‘We fully
investigated
the
suggestion of
a member of
staff having
a conflict of
interest and
this issue
was resolved’

Former Church official accused Davie: ‘Claims about Westwood’s
of defrauding £5m from charity misconduct never reached me’
By Daily Telegraph Reporter
A FORMER Church official was accused
of clocking up more flights than globetrotting broadcaster Alan Whicker as he
appeared in court charged with
defrauding a charity of £5 million.
Martin Sargeant, 52, worked as operations manager for the Church of England’s Diocese of London from 2008
until his retirement in August 2019 and
was clerk of the City church grants
committee.
He is accused of defrauding the charitable trust – set up to support and fund
the restoration of churches – of around
£5.2 million over the course of a decade.
He is also accused of money laundering
after allegedly spending the money on

Martin Sargeant is
alleged to have spent
the money on
gambling and more
than 180 flights

gambling and taking more than 180
flights. Malachy Packenham, on the
alleged travel, told Westminster Magistrates’ Court: “Even Alan [Whicker]
wouldn’t have clocked up as many
flights over this period.”
Mr Sargeant appeared in the dock in
Dudley, West Midlands, and gave no
indication of plea when charges of fraud
by abuse of position and money laun-

dering were put to him. The fraud
charge alleges he abused his position as
operations manager to make a gain of
approximately £5.2 million between
January 1, 2009 and December 31, 2019.
He is accuse d of fraudulently
requesting grants for dysfunctional
churches and spending the money on
“personal entertainment or frivolous
things like gambling”, said Mr Packenham.
The magistrates decided the charges
were too serious to be dealt with in the
magistrates’ court and the case has
been sent to Southwark Crown Court,
where Mr Sargeant will appear on September. He was granted bail on conditions he does not leave the UK and does
not contact staff at Diocese of London.

By Anita Singh
TIM DAVIE, the BBC director-general,
will tell an investigation that no details
of Tim Westwood’s alleged misconduct
were brought to his attention when he
was in charge of radio output.
Mr Davie was head of radio from
2009 until November 2012, when he
took over as acting director-general.
The findings of an internal investigation, published on Thursday, included
an allegation that Westwood made
inappropriate sexual remarks to a
15-year-old girl.
Although the allegation concerned a
non-BBC event, it was made to BBC
management and passed to police, who
decided several months later that they

Book sales help Duchess buy
daughters £5m mews house
HER Mills and Boon romance novel
about an aristocratic redhead was a surprise hit with critics and became a bestseller.
Its success appears to have transformed the fortunes of the Duchess of
York after it emerged that she has
bought a £5 million Mayfair townhouse
as an investment for her daughters.
The property, sold by the Duke of
Westminster, is not intended to be her
home in the near future and is likely to
be rented out instead.
News of the purchase has led to questions over how the Duchess, who has
been candid about her financial difficulties in the past, can afford it.
She has so far written one successful
Mills and Boon novel with another on
the way, and has signed a 22-book deal
as a children’s author. She also has other
business interests, a source said.
The mews house was purchased from
the Grosvenor estate of the Duke of
Westminster, one of the richest men in
Britain. The Duke of York played no
part in the deal. The couple still have an
outstanding debt relating to the Swiss

chalet they own jointly. They both live
at Royal Lodge near to Windsor Castle,
albeit separately.
It is rumoured that the Duke and his
ex-wife could be asked to leave the
property during the next reign, after he
“stepped back” from official duties.
The Duke signed a 75-year lease on
the property in 2003, but it is understood that agreement could be broken

By Craig Simpson

The Duchess of York
wrote a bestselling
Mills and Boon novel
and has signed a
22-book deal as a
children’s author

as long as he was appropriately compensated.
The Prince of Wales, who is understood to be a key driving force behind
his brother’s disappearance from public
life, is reportedly minded to ask him to
move out of the large Windsor property
once he is king. Sources said it is within
the gift of the monarch to terminate the
Royal Lodge arrangement.

decision not to renew Westwood’s contract in 2013 was linked to the allegations made against him.
The Metropolitan Police is investigating four allegations of sexual offences
from 1982, 1985, 2010 and 2016. Westwood was a BBC Radio 1 DJ in 2010 but
worked for commercial stations in
other years, most recently Capital Xtra,
which is owned by Global.
In April, when allegations emerged
that Westwood had misused his position in the industry to take advantage of
women in their teens or early 20s, and
had indulged in predatory sexual
behaviour, Global announced that
Westwood had “stepped down from his
show until further notice”.
Westwood denies the allegations.

Heritage body fails to block
Cambridge tribute to Turing

JACK BOSKETT

By Hannah Furness

would take no further action. Though
Mr Davie was in charge of the radio
department at that time, and Westwood
was a star DJ at Radio 1, sources said the
complaint was not referred to him.
Nor was he aware of other internal
complaints, made in 2011 and 2012,
including allegations that Westwood
created a “toxic environment among
those he worked with at the BBC” and
that he made “sexualised and inappropriate comments” on air.
The corporation has commissioned
an independent review to be conducted
by Gemma White QC, who previously
led a House of Commons inquiry into
claims of bullying by MPs of parliamentary staff.
It will investigate whether the BBC’s

Up and running The name plate is added to the restored
King Edward I locomotive on the West Somerset Railway.

ALAN TURING’S statue is to be erected
in Cambridge despite a warning from
Historic England that it would “harm”
the character of the area.
King’s College, the mathematician’s
alma mater, applied to erect a 12ft-tall
steel tribute to Turing, the wartime
code-breaker, designed by Sir Anthony
Gormley.
The government body said the “eyecatching” monument would “be at
odds” with the traditional character of
the college’s grounds, but Cambridge
city council approved the plan.
Its decision goes against concerns
raised by the local authority’s conservation officer, who agreed the artwork
would comprise the “aesthetic significance” of King’s College, council documents state.
In favour of the artwork, described in
documents as an “abstract metal figure”,
it was argued a revival of interest in
Turing’s work, and persecution for his
homosexuality, had led to the making of
films such as The Imitation Game, and
that Turing was an important alumnus.
Michael Proctor, the provost of King’s,

said: “It was in the college’s tolerant,
open-minded and intellectual environment that Turing was able to live a fulfilled life, both as a homosexual man and
an abstract thinker, and we are enormously proud to acknowledge the significance of his unparalleled contribution to
science and modern computing in this
way.” The sculpture will be out of the
view of the public on King’s Parade, and
A revival of interest
in King’s alumnus
Alan Turing’s life and
work inspired the
making of
The Imitation Game

visitors will have to pay to enter the college to see it.
Historic England said it recognised
the importance of the sculpture and had
provided advice to the council, “setting
out the impact of the proposal on this
highly sensitive site and noting the public benefits of the proposal”.
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News
Scorched earth How the heat and lack of rain has transformed the landscape
This summer’s
searing
temperatures
have built on last
year’s warming
trend. After the
Met Office issued
its first Amber
extreme heat
warning in July
last year, this year
it issued its
first-ever Red
extreme heat
warning.
Temperatures
nudging – and
sometimes
exceeding – 40 C
(104F) have
scorched
attractions such
as Lulworth Cove,
Hyde Park, the
Scott Monument,
Ely Cathedral,
Warwick Castle
and Stonehenge,
replacing a palette
of lush greens
with the yellow
and browns
of parched
African savannah.
July’s 46.3 mm of
rain was 56 per
cent of the
month’s average
precipitation,
marking it out as
the driest July
since 1999
when 46.1 mm
of rain fell.

LULWORTH C OV E, D ORSET

H Y DE PARK, LON D ON

STON EHENGE

Emergency drought
facility may be closed
as it is too expensive
Electricity costs could be
why desalination plant is
shut, local MP says as he
questions Thames Water
By Olivia Rudgard, Emma Gatten
and Will Bolton
THAMES WATER may have shut down
an emergency drought plant to save on
power costs, the local MP has said.
The desalination plant in Beckton,
east London, has been switched off
despite water shortages and a looming
hosepipe ban, The Daily Telegraph
revealed earlier this week.
The first hosepipe ban comes into
force today for people living in parts of

Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, which
are supplied by Southern Water. South
East Water, which supplies parts of
Kent and Sussex, will introduce a hosepipe ban affecting 1.3 million people
from next week and Welsh Water has
also announced a ban covering parts of
west Wales.
George Eustice, the Environment
Secretary, is understood to be on annual
leave in his Cornwall constituency,
rather than in Westminster, as the
drought crisis intensifies.
A spokesman said yesterday afternoon: “George Eustice is in his constituency of Camborne and Redruth but
has been keeping in touch with Defra
policy officials regarding the drought
conditions and held a meeting with the
policy team at 11am this morning.” The

‘There’s no
silver bullets
– it’s about
looking at
supply and
demand and
where our
priorities are
in society’

Thames Water plant, which is designed
to take water from the Thames estuary
and treat it to create drinking water, is
out of action for maintenance, despite
being included by the company in
drought plans submitted to the Environment Agency earlier this year.
Desalination is energy-intensive,
requiring both electricity and heat.
Electricity costs have risen by around
50 per cent since last year.
The plant’s running costs are more
than ten times those of a standard sewage treatment works, the company said,
at around £660 per million litres, compared with £45 per million litres for a
standard plant.
Stephen Timms, MP for East Ham,
said: “It does seem puzzling to me when
clearly we are in a situation which is

exactly the kind of situation where this
plant was intended to help us, it seems
very strange that it’s out of action.
“If it’s planned maintenance, then
surely you plan for a time other than
when it’s most likely to be used?
“Is it because of the cost of electricity
on it and they just aren’t willing to pay
and run it? In which case obviously,
they should tell us.”
A spokesman for Thames Water said:
“[The plant] has the capability to deliver
up to 100 million litres of water a day
and we have recently carried out maintenance on various areas of the plant
and tested it to this maximum output.
“Due to further necessary planned
work the plant is currently out of service. Our teams are working as fast as
possible to get it ready for use early next
year, to help supply our customers if we
were to have another dry winter.
“However, even if the Gateway Water
Treatment Works was operational this
summer, we would still not rule out
temporary-use bans as part of the next
stage of our regional drought plan, due
to the weather patterns we have seen
this year and levels of customer usage.”
In its draft drought plans setting out
how the company plans to cope with
low water supplies, Thames Water
admitted that the plant could only deal
with two-thirds of its planned capacity.
The plant has been run only intermittently over the past 10 years. It has now
ceased to operate entirely and will not
be available to help with water supplies
this summer, as the South East faces
rapidly depleting water levels amid
continuing dry weather. The capacity

5-DAY
FORECAST
London
SUNDAY

26°
MONDAY

27°
TUESDAY

27°
WEDNESDAY

30°
THURSDAY

29°
SOURCE: MET OFFICE

problems are thought to be down to the
position of the plant on the estuary, and
the varying salt levels that result. High
flows through the plant produced water
with too much sediment, reducing the
effectiveness of the disinfection process.
In documents published earlier this
year, the company said that “demand
management”, including a push for
household water meters, public awareness of water-saving measures and leak
management, would make up for the
lost capacity.
Current maintenance is focused on
fixing pipework and electrical systems,
the company said, as part of a planned
£34 million project. More desalination
plants are not planned, the company
said, adding that it was focusing on
transferring water between different
areas and on building reservoirs.
The UK has not built a new reservoir
in 30 years. Speaking on the BBC’s
Today programme yesterday, Mark
Fletcher, chairman of British Water,
which represents the water supply
chain, said the energy intensity of desalination made it a less attractive option
unless renewable energy sources were
used.
He said: “It will have a role to play in
due course. The challenge with desalination is that it’s energy-intensive. If we
could provide that energy through
renewable sources then it becomes
more attractive. So I think it will have a
role to play.
“There’s no silver bullets – it’s about
looking at the supply and demand and
then looking at where our priorities are
in society.”

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Don’t snitch on people who flout
hosepipe ban, residents urged
Informing the authorities
should be a last resort, says
the chief executive of
Neighbourhood Watch
By Martin Evans
CRIME CORRESPONDENT
RESIDENTS should not “snitch” on
p e ople who ignore the re cently
imposed hosepipe ban, the chief executive of Neighbourhood Watch has said.
John Hayward-Cripps urged people
to have conversations with their neighbours rather than going behind their
backs to the authorities, as such behaviour could create further difficulties.
Water companies have asked householders to call a hotline to report
breaches of the restriction that has bee
imposed in parts of southern England.
Anyone found to have watered their
garden, washed a car or filled a paddling
pool could receive a £1,000 fine.
Mr Cripps said: “What is needed is a
certain amount of common sense and
treating people as you would like to be
treated yourself – if you had made a mis-

take. The best thing when dealing with
your neighbours, people who you live
amongst and see on a regular basis, is to
have a conversation with them.
“Snitching without having any
conversation is likely to irritate people.”
He added: “You might want to make
your neighbour aware of the ban and
explain why it is important to preserve
water. We have had the driest winter for
a long time, make them aware of the
fine they could be facing.
“With the cost of living crisis nobody
wants or needs a £1,000 fine.
“It is much better to keep calm and
speak in a respectful manner and try to
avoid getting angry and stressed
because that won’t help.”
He went on: “If people are consistently doing it and you have had a conversation with them and they have
ignored you then of course you can
report it to your local authority or the
water board.
“There is a place for reporting crime
but we should be sensible before we
take rash action. They are human
beings after all.”
The first hosepipe ban came into
force yesterday when Southern Water

introduced temporary restrictions for
its customers in Hampshire and the Isle
of Wight.
The restriction is the first to be put in
place in the region since 2012. The com-

‘With little rain forecast in
the immediate future, bans
could spread across the UK,
affecting millions of people’
Where hosepipe bans have been imposed
Northumbrian
Water
United
Utilities
Yorkshire
Water
Water
Hafren
Southern
Pembrokeshire Dyfrdwy
Water
and a part of
Carmarthenshire
Severn
Starting Aug 6
Anglian
Trent
Water
Water
Dwr
Cymru Thames
Hampshire/
Wessex Water
Isle of Wight
Water
Starting Aug 5
South West
Water

South East water
Hosepipe ban

pany has stressed there is “no direct risk
to customer water supply”.
South East Water, which serves 2.2
million customers in Kent, Sussex,
Surrey and Berkshire is expected to
introduce a ban that will affect
1.3 million customers next week.
The last time people were encouraged to inform on their neighbours was
during the pandemic, when ministers
urged the public to call the police if they
spotted people breaching lockdown
rules.
But it led to increased tension in
some communities, with the police having to intervene to break up violent confrontations.
While breaching a hosepipe ban
remains a civil matter that would not
normally involve police, there is
concern officers could be called in to
settle neighbourhood disputes that
escalate.
Some forces have warned that such
call-outs would create additional work
for officers who are overstretched.
With little rain forecast in the immediate future, hosepipe bans could
spread across the country, affecting millions of people.

Welby: the selfish rich must
act to tackle climate change
By Daniel Capurro
SENIOR REPORTER
THE selfishness of the rich risks climate
change “wreaking havoc” on the
world’s poorest, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev Justin Welby, has
warned.
During a speech to the decennial
Lambeth Conference of Anglican bishops, the Archbishop said that the
Church was a “revolutionary force” that
needed to be able to “challenge the selfishness of the rich”.
“Look at the failure to share the
Covid-19 vaccine. Now multiply [that]
several thousand times to an age shortly
to come, when climate change wreaks
havoc around the world, where sea levels rise,” he said.
“Will the rich withdraw behind high,
armour–protected walls? Or will we
seek together to do right? It is the
churches, acting together ecumenically, united, that have the global networks to do right.”
He added that the Church was one of
“revolutionaries” and quoted the Magnificat sung prayer he said was banned
by the East India Company in colonial
India to prevent locals from realising
God “might be on their side against tyranny”. The prayer talks of how God
“brought down the powerful from their

thrones, and lifted up the lowly; he has
filled the hungry with good things, and
sent the rich away empty.”
Protecting the environment has been
a central theme of the Lambeth Conference this year, with many of the more
than 650 bishops in attendance representing developing countries on the
front line of climate change.
On Wednesday, the Archbishop
launched the Communion Forest project aimed at harnessing Anglican
churches as forces for environmental
conservation.
He also condemned oil and gas companies that were paying large dividends
off the back of record profits rather than
investing more in their net zero goals.
The Church of England retains some
investments in fossil fuel companies on
the basis that it can influence them
toward greener policies.
Welby also obliquely addressed the
divisions that have wracked the conference over gay marriage.
He said: “We are not at liberty to
choose who are our brothers and sisters. Of course we have groups with different views. Of course they are God’s
gift to us, because the different view
will often challenge us and change our
minds, it can be prophetic. But we do
not, as I said earlier, go down the road of
expelling other Christians.”

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News

Scottish exams brush over role in slave trade
Children taught to ‘vilify’
English history despite
Glasgow imports being
‘hidden in plain sight’
By Max Stephens
SCOTLAND’S role in the slave trade has
been whitewashed out of exams with
pupils taught to “vilify” the English, a
leading historian has claimed.
Scotland’s exam board has refused to
include Glasgow in a list of ports
deemed crucial to Britain’s involvement
in the transatlantic slave trade despite
importing vast quantities of tobacco,
rum and sugar from the colonies.
Only the English ports of Liverpool
and Bristol were mentioned in the
course description for staff teaching
National 5 history, Scotland’s equivalent to GCSEs.
Prof Neil McLennan, a former presi-

dent of the Scottish Association of
Teachers of History, has repeatedly
asked the Scottish Qualifications
Authority (SQA) and Nicola Sturgeon’s
Cabinet for Glasgow to be included “as
a city associated with slavery gains”.
He said: “It is part of our reconciliation with a bloody history which England, Scotland and other European
countries, we are all guilty of.
“Unless we acknowledge it in our
education system we will never cleanse
the demons of the past. That is a good
example of the vilification of English
history without presenting the totality
of it, that is a real concern.”
Sir Tom Devine, a Scottish historian,
said Scotland had developed a sense of
“moral superiority” over England
because Glasgow did not directly
involve itself in the immediate “immorality of slavery”.
He said: “Glasgow’s role was hidden
from plain sight. Everybody knew that
cotton, before the end of slavery in the

Rewriting history Propaganda in Scottish lessons
‹The Loch Ness
monster is a
symbol of English
domination,
according to a
social studies
lesson plan given
to secondary
schools last
March. The
material was
designed to help
staff discuss what
the monster’s
portrayal in films
says about
Scotland’s image
and how it affects
“wider
contemporary
topics, such as the
independence

referendum”.
The lesson plan
says the monster
“shows the
somewhat
ambivalent
position that
Scotland holds in
the Union… the
very idea of a
prehistoric
monster in a loch
affirms the
stereotypical idea
that Scotland – by
contrast to
England – is a
rural wilderness,
perhaps one
bypassed by
progress”.
‹
The Scottish

Government
attempted to
expunge
mentions of Brexit
and England’s
1966 World Cup
victory in the
Queen’s Platinum
Jubilee book for
school children.
Officials asked for
52 changes and
objected to the
book using the
title Queen
Elizabeth II as
“she is not the
second Queen
Elizabeth here”.
This was a
reference to the
crowns of

England and
Scotland
remaining
separate until
after the death of
Elizabeth I in
1603.
‹
Pupils in North
Lanarkshire were
given a booklet
with proindependence
slogans along
with 16 photos of
the First Minister
and other SNP
politicians.
Decision Making
in Scotland was
used in a modern
studies lesson on
democracy.

British Empire, tobacco and sugar were
coming from the colonies across the
Atlantic and the USA. But there was precious little connection at that time with
the fact these produces could not have
existed in such massive quantities but
for chattel black, slave labour.”
By 1762 Glasgow and the towns of
Greenock and Glasgow Port were
importing more tobacco leaf harvested
by slaves in the colonies than London
and the English ports combined.
By 1800, 62 per cent of all imports
into the country were goods made on
Caribbean plantations.
A spokesman for the SQA said: “We
fully recognise the importance of learners understanding Scotland’s role in the
Atlantic slave trade and teachers have
always been free to include this content
in their lessons.
“We will work with history teachers
to review our curriculum guidance to
see if any further changes are needed.”
There is no restriction on Scottish

themes being included within British
topics and marks are awarded where
candidates demonstrate relevant
knowledge, and understanding in this
respect, they added.
Oliver Mundell, the Scottish Tory
spokesman for education, accused the
SNP government of overseeing an
“insidious attempt to rewrite aspects of
our history in a misleadingly partisan
fashion”.
Over the past decade historians have
frequently criticised the infiltration of
pro-independence ideology into Scotland’s classrooms.
Education Scotland was accused in
2020 of pushing “nationalist propaganda” after a historical timeline contained repeated references to Scots
being mistreated by the English.
It made mention of the 1995 film
Braveheart, stating that William Wallace had been an “inspiration to Scottish
nationalists” since his death in 1305, and
a reference to a pro-SNP magazine.

Bumper brood
expected at this
year’s Glorious
Twelfth shoot
THE Glorious Twelfth is to return next
week with a bumper brood of grouse as
shoots recover from some of their
darkest years.
The beginning of the shooting season
on Friday will be a big boost to rural
communities, with an increase in
employment and visitor numbers.
The positive picture for this grouse
season is in contrast to the last few
years, when a combination of the pandemic and bad breeding weather forced
the cancellation of many shoots.
Rob Mitchell, head keeper on a
grouse moor near Middleton-in-Teesdale in Co Durham, was out preparing
yesterday.
“Things are looking much more
promising this year as the weather was
good when the grouse were nesting and
we have been seeing some really
healthy broods,” he said.
“On a shoot day, I employ a large casual workforce, which can change daily
from school children to pensioners,
including family and friends.
“The financial benefits are really
important to them, as are the social
aspects. A day’s shooting brings people
together for something they have been
looking forward to for months .
“We have something really special
here. Long may it continue as grouse
shooting really can be a lifeline for so
many of our remote upland communities.”
Adrian Blackmore, director of the
Campaign for Shooting at the Countryside Alliance, said: “Grouse shooting
plays an incredibly important part in
the lives of many who live in our
uplands – not just economically, but
also socially.
“It is not just about landowners,
employees or individual interests, it is
about whole communities.
“After a couple of really poor years,
the prospects for this season are looking
far better for most moors, and that is
something to really celebrate.”

MARK PINDER FOR THE TELEGRAPH

By Hayley Dixon
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

Head keeper Rob Mitchell, who works on an estate in County Durham, said good weather has created healthy broods of grouse ready for this year’s shoots, after difficult years caused by Covid and bad breeding conditions

Museums told to ‘do the right thing’ with treasures of Empire
By Craig Simpson
MUSEUMS should consider returning
treasures taken during periods of British “occupation”, Arts Council England
has stated in new repatriation guidance.
The body has released a new “toolkit”
for handling demands for the return of
artefacts in the growing number of restitution disputes.
Museum bosses deciding the ethically sound solution to disputes should
give special consideration to artefacts
“originally taken in ways considered
unethical today, including during war,
conflict or occupation”, the guidance
states.
While these artefacts would be
blocked from being given away under
current British legislation, the Arts
Council has suggested that museums
could come up with alternative deals.

The guidelines published yesterday
state that there should be an “ethical
assessment” of what to do with disputed objects, adding: “Considering a
claim in accordance with ethical principles means, at its most basic level, discussing ‘the right thing to do’.”
What the right thing is should be
based on “the ethics of today” and not
historical ideas of morality, the guidance suggests, and if objects were
acquired unethically
ally museums should
consider “appropriate”
opriate” solutions
including giving away objects or sharing ownership.
Greek officials have
long argued that the
he
Elgin Marbles
were taken during
g
a period of Turk-ish occupation in
n
Athens, while Nigege-

Stolen artefacts Other nations’ history on display in Britain
Benin Bronzes
Royal artworks of
the Kingdom of
Benin taken by
British troops in
1897, claimed by
Nigeria. Held in
British Museum.

Mahdi armour
Protective gear
worn by Mahdi
Muslim soldier
at Battle of
Omdurman,
taken in 1898 and
held at Royal
Amouries,
claimed by
Sudan.

Elgin Marbles
Ancient Greek
sculptures
es taken
from Turkish–
rkish–
controlled
ed
Athens in
n
the early
y
19th
century,
left,
claimed
by Greece.
ce.
Held in the
he
British Museum.
Maqdala
treasures
Royal hoard,
above, taken from

Maqdala fortress
in what was
w then
Abyssina in
claimed by
1868, clai
Ethiopia.
Held
Ethio
in the
V&A.
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Ethiopian
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talbots
ta
Orthodox
O
holy
h
books
bo
from
taken fr
Maqdala in 1868,
claimed by
Ethiopia. Held in
the British
Museum.

ria’s claim to the Benin Bronzes stems
from the sculptures being taken during
a British raid in 1897.
These contested artworks are held in
the British Museum – along with similarly disputed items like a set of holy
books taken from Ethiopia.
Arts Council guidance states that if
the museum is legally prevented from
returning certain items, it may consider
offering “outcomes other than a transfer of legal ownership”, suggesting more
loan deals as a way around legal restrictions which have led to an impasse for
many repatriation claims.
The document, titled Restitution and
Repatriation: A Practical Guide for
Museums in England, also suggests that
museums could change the labelling on
potentially contentious objects to state
their “controversial past” and the “attitudes of those involved” in originally

Tourist furious at pedicab’s
£500 charge for short trip
A TOURIST has called for London’s pedicabs to be regulated after he was
charged £500 for a 10-minute journey.
It was only after making the card payment for the ride from Mayfair to Soho
that he realised £500 had been taken
from his account.
The man, who has not been named,
claims that he was “completely” distracted and did not see how much he
was being charged. “He completely distracted me,” he told MyLondon. “I’d had
a few drinks, and I should have realised
but I blindly put my card in the machine.
He was good at what he did. I wouldn’t
get in one again.”
The incident has been reported to
Westminster city council, with the man
hoping to retrieve his money if the
driver is caught. “It’s £500 – I’m not

going to let that go,” he said. “He should
be fined £5,000 and have his pedicab
taken off him. They’re not safe.”
This week, the council said they had
charged six pedicab operators more
than £5,000 as part of a crackdown on
the unlicensed vehicles in partnership
with the Metropolitan Police.
Adam Hug, the council leader, said:
“Unlicensed pedicabs are a dangerous
nuisance. We’ve had enough of drivers
blocking pavements and causing accessibility issues, annoying residents and
businesses late at night, and charging
extortionate fares to visitors.
“People visiting the West End
deserve to be able to travel through our
city safely without being ripped off by
unregulated drivers.
“We will continue to work with the
police to crack down on any pedicab
drivers who flout the law.”

Met officer shoots
man ‘seen wielding
firearm in street’

JANE BARLOW/PA WIRE

By Daily Telegraph Reporter

taking them. This follows recent “decolonisation” work which has highlighted
historical racism and links to slavery.
The 34-page paper has been published amid a growing number of
demands for artefacts to be returned to
their countries of origin. It is aimed at
helping institutions act with “transparency, collaboration and fairness”.
Alexander Herman, director of the
Institute of Art and Law, which drew up
the report, told The Daily Telegraph:
“This will serve as much needed guidance for the museum sector, which
until now has had little indication of
best practice or the relevant steps to
take when faced with a claim.
“With a growing number of cases in
the UK and elsewhere, the time is especially ripe for such guidance.”
Museums will not be bound to follow
the guidance.

Well drilled Members of the New Zealand Army Band perform the Haka on the
esplanade of Edinburgh Castle at this year’s Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo.

A MAN has been taken to hospital after
being shot by police in east London
yesterday afternoon.
Scotland Yard said officers were
called out to Greenwich at about
2.30pm after receiving multiple 999
reports of a man with a firearm in the
area.
Scotland Yard said the suspect was
located, a police firearm was discharged
and the man sustained a gunshot injury.
His injuries are not believed to be
life-threatening and he was transferred
to hospital after being treated at the
scene.
A Met police spokesman said: “While
the investigation is in its early stages,
this incident is not believed to be terrorrelated or that there is an ongoing threat
to the wider public.”
The Independent Office for Police
Conduct has been informed.

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The Daily Telegraph Saturday 6 August 2022

9

News

Delayed deliveries in many
areas would allow service
to cope with large number
of next-day packages

Track and
trace History
of the postal
service

By Matt Oliver

‹The Royal Mail
began under
Charles I in 1635.
Letters were
carried on foot or
horseback – and
the recipient had
to pay.
‹Horse-drawn
mail coaches
began operating
from 1784
followed by trains
in 1830. The
system was
revolutionised by
pre-paid Penny
Black stamps in
1840.
‹By 1900, six to
12 deliveries were
being made per
day in London.
‹The two-tier
postage system
was introduced in
1968, with first
and second class
stamps allowing
different speeds
of delivery.
‹The rise of
email hit demand
for letters and by
2000, Royal Mail
was down to two
deliveries per day.
This was cut to
one in 2003.
‹In 2019, a
second post for
parcels was
reintroduced.

THOUSANDS of households will not
receive their post until after 6pm under
a shake-up proposed by Royal Mail.
The postal service wants to push
back deliveries until later in the day as
part of plans to deliver parcels more
quickly.
With many online shopping orders
now made late at night, bosses want
postmen and women to set off on their
rounds later to give time for “next day”
packages to arrive at sorting offices.
But modelling of the changes has
found this could mean more than 100
areas of Britain getting their post at
5pm or later, The Daily Telegraph can
reveal. Of these, 17 areas may not get
their post until 6pm at the earliest,
including parts of London, Cornwall,
Cumbria, Wales and Scotland.
These include Abbey Wood, New
Cross, Rotherhithe and Southwark in
London, as well as Truro in Cornwall,
Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria and
Arbroath. Those in Kinross, near Perth,
may not receive parcels until 7.30pm.
A Royal Mail spokesman said the figures were based on “high level”
assumptions and no final decisions had
been taken. She insisted that all letters
would be delivered by 5pm at the latest,
compared with 4pm now.
They are also subject to negotiations
with the Communication Workers’
Union (CWU), which represents more
than 100,000 postal workers and is
threatening nationwide strikes in the
coming weeks.
An overwhelming majority of CWU
members voted for industrial action a
fortnight ago following a row with the
company over pay and conditions.
The union claimed the proposals
were “outrageous”.
A spokesman said: “The changes
would see our members delivering
for up to five hours in the height of
summer heat and in the darkness of
winter. This is just one example of how
Royal Mail are running down the postal
service in the UK and why our members
are balloting for strike action to defend
it. Postal workers need and deserve the
support of the public to win this battle.”
Royal Mail has given postal workers

a 2 per cent pay increase backdated to
April 1 and is offering the CWU a 3.5 per
cent rise, which depends on improvements in productivity and changes to
postal worker rosters.
However, the union has dismissed
the pay offer as a “serious real-terms
wage cut” when compared with soaring
levels of inflation, which is expected to
peak at more than 13 per cent in
October.
The union has 115,000 members in
the company, which employs a total of
about 140,000 staff.
If the CWU cannot reach a deal with
Royal Mail, it is threatening strikes that
would likely take place this month.
It would be the biggest strike in what
has already been called the “summer of
discontent”, after rail workers, barristers and airport staff all voted for industrial action, while teachers will be
balloted in September.
Royal Mail has repeatedly locked
horns with the CWU over modernisation plans. It claims that in order to
boost productivity and deliver more
parcels, as letter numbers decline, it
needs to introduce more automatic
sorting machines and adopt seven-day
working weeks.
Bosses argue this is in line with
standards that customers have come to
expect from rival delivery companies
and that too much post is currently
sorted by hand.
Royal Mail said moving to later delivery times would also allow more post to
be transported by train rather than lorries, cutting the company’s carbon
emissions.
A spokesman added: “We are in discussion with the Communication
Workers’ Union about moving start
times later to meet the growing customer demand for more next-day parcel
deliveries, and to reduce our environmental impact by moving more mail by
rail over time.
“We have made it clear that these
proposals are all subject to negotiation
and detailed design, and no plans have
been finalised.
“More parcel companies are now
delivering later into the evening to
meet changing customer needs, and
we are redesigning our network to deal
with growing numbers of parcels,
including investing in two new super
hubs. As part of our ongoing planning
and negotiation, we are exploring a
number of changes that would mean
that we would still deliver letters by
5pm, as opposed to by 4pm currently.”

PAUL QUEZADA-NEIMAN / ALAMY LIVE NEWS

No post until 6pm
under Royal Mail
shake-up plans

Lost in time Daniel Lismore, front, wears items from his “Be Yourself, Everybody Else is Taken” collection
at the V&A. The designer hosted a Fashion in Motion event yesterday to exhibit his wearable artwork.

NHS ‘too reliant’ on foreign doctors, say unions
By Daily Telegraph Reporter
A SURGE in the number of doctors and
nurses coming to work for the NHS
from overseas poses a risk to the health
service, unions have claimed.
An analysis of workforce figures
found the health service may be becoming overreliant on recruits from abroad,
with figures from NHS Digital showing
the share of healthcare staff from over-

seas almost doubled between 2014 and
last year.
Several organisations responded yesterday with fresh calls for the Government to tackle the NHS staffing crisis.
According to an analysis by the BBC,
34 per cent of doctors joining the health
service in 2021 came from overseas – a
rise of 18 per cent on 2014.
The broadcaster also found the share
of UK doctors joining the health service

had fallen from 69 per cent in 2015 to 58
per cent last year while the share of new
UK nurses fell from 74 per cent to 61 per
cent in the same period.
Patricia Marquis, Royal College of
Nursing director for England, said
“After a decade of real-terms pay cuts, a
growing overreliance on international
recruitment and limits on education
funding, our members are saying
enough is enough.”

‘Our
members
are
saying
enough is
enough’

10

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Saturday 6 August 2022 The Daily Telegraph

News
IRA had no
alternative to
violence, says
Sinn Fein chief

No horseplay
The King’s Troop
Royal Horse
Artillery leave
Horse Guards
Parade in London
after yesterday’s
Changing of the
Guard.
The band of the
Irish Guards
1st Battalion
Coldstream Guards
Corps of Drums
provided musical
support.

TERRORISM victims and political leaders have criticised Northern Ireland’s
first minister designate after she said
there was “no alternative” to the IRA’s
armed campaign during the Troubles.
Michelle O’Neill, the former deputy
first minister and vice-president of Sinn
Fein, said the IRA had no choice but to
wage its terror campaign until the Good
Friday Agreement.
The comments were criticised in
Northern Ireland, where in May the former political wing of the IRA became
the largest party for the first time.
Ms O’Neill, who has promised to be a
“first minister for all”, said in an interview with the BBC: “I don’t think any
Irish person ever woke up one morning
and thought that conflict was a good
idea, but the war came to Ireland.
“I think at the time there was no alternative, but now, thankfully, we have an
alternative to conflict and that’s the
Good Friday Agreement.”
Colin Worton, whose brother was
murdered by IRA, told the Belfast Telegraph: “For 30 years, the IRA was wedded to the bomb and the bullet, and
Sinn Fein is still trying to justify it. I
don’t think they’ll ever change.”
George Larmour, whose brother was
shot by the terrorists, said Ms O’Neill’s
comments were a “cruel and flippant
response and callous excuse for the
hurt, pain and grief that was inflicted on
innocent families”.
Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, the leader of
the DUP, said: “There was never a justification for violence. Even in Northern
Ireland’s darkest days the overwhelming majority of our people respected
democracy, the rule of law and – where
they felt passionately about a particular
cause – took part in peaceful protest.
Sinn Fein can pretend there was no
alternative but they are condemned by
the facts.”
The DUP has refused to enter a power
sharing agreement that would make Ms
O’Neill the first minister until London
removes or replaces the Protocol.

NIGEL HOWARD MEDIA

By James Crisp

Covid masks killing birds in PPE pandemic
Animals in every continent
are being caught in plastic
waste, with face coverings
among the worst offenders
By Lizzie Roberts
HEALTH CORRESPONDENT
FACE masks are entangling birds across
the world, with plastic pollution now
affecting avian populations in every
continent, research shows.
Birds and Debris, an online citizen
science project, is collecting photographs from around the world of birds
nesting or entangled in waste.
Nearly a quarter of the photos taken
show birds caught up in personal protective equipment (PPE), with the
majority being disposable face coverings, the researchers said.
The project, run by researchers at the

Environmental Research Institute, part
of the North Highland College UHI and
the University of the Highlands and
Islands, has been running for four
years.
Recent reports to the project include
a herring gull flying near John o’Groats
with a black plastic bag hanging from its
foot, a bird nest near Bogota, Colombia,
containing plastic string, and a dead
grey heron in Mauritania with fish netting wrapped around its beak.
Dr Alex Bond, one of the researchers
involved in the project from the Natural
History Museum in London, said
human debris impacting avian wildlife
is a “global issue”.
He added: “When you start looking
for this stuff, you’ll see it everywhere,”
he told the BBC. “We had reports from
Japan, Australia, Sri Lanka, the UK,
North America.”
Since its launch, the website has had
hundreds of reports of either entangle-

‘Some birds
have been
hurt from
masks
tangled
around their
legs and
beaks, others
suffer after
ingesting
the fabric’

ment or nest incorporation of debris. In
the study, published in the journal Science of the Total Environment, the
researchers examined 114 reports about
PPE and found the majority (95) were of
birds entangled or incorporating the
pandemic waste into their nests.
Most of the sightings were in the US
(29), England (16), Canada (13) and Australia (11), but photos from 23 different
countries, including Germany, France,
Finland, India and Italy, were also
included. “It’s almost all masks,” Dr
Bond said.
“And if you think of the different
materials a surgical mask is made from
– there’s the elastic that we see tangled
around birds’ legs or we might see birds
injured by trying to ingest the fabric or
the hard piece of plastic that secures it
over your nose.
“So we use this catch–all term of
‘plastic’ but it’s a whole range of different polymers, and masks are a good

A gull was rescued
after its legs were
trapped in the
elastic of a
disposable face
covering for about a
week

example of that.” Estimates have suggested 129 billion face masks and 65 billion gloves were used monthly at the
height of the pandemic globally.
The majority of disposable Covid
masks are made from plastic that cannot
biodegrade but may break down into
microplastics that spread into the
environment.
Previous research has suggested
1.6 billion disposable masks ended up in
the ocean in 2020.
Of 114 sightings reported, 106 (93 per
cent) were masks, according to the
study.
Other debris included disposable
gloves, in one case gloves and face
masks were both entangled in a nest,
the authors said.
Nine animals were found dead in
direct contact with PPE, but the majority of the animals’ fates were unknown
because the observers could not capture them to remove the rubbish.

Teenager with brain tumour
‘Ball-breaking’ female lawyer
given painkillers for ‘long Covid’ wins £150,000 in sexism case
By Lizzie Roberts
A TEENAGER suffering from a brain
tumour was misdiagnosed with long
Covid, his family have said.
Kane Allcock, 15, had been suffering
from persistent headaches after testing
positive for coronavirus in December.
But despite being admitted to A&E,
doctors mistakenly assumed he had
migraines caused by long Covid,
according to his mother.
The Office for National Statistics estimates 1.5 million people in the UK have
long Covid. According to guidance from
the National Institute for Health and
Care Excellence, long Covid refers to
patients who have experienced symptoms for more than 12 weeks, which

cannot be explained by another cause.
The teenager, from Crewe, Cheshire,
was given codeine and told he was
experiencing “post-Covid vertigo”.
However, he began to suffer more
severe headaches, was nauseous and
struggled to walk, owing to dizziness.
He suffered a seizure and was readmitted to hospital. An MRI scan
revealed he had acute hydrocephalus, a
build-up of pressure on the brain
caused by excess fluid. The scan also
found a large tumour and he underwent
a 7.5-hour operation to remove it. The
tumour was a low-grade or non-cancerous pilocytic astrocytoma.
Kane’s mother Nicki Allcock, a medical secretary for Child and Adolescent
Mental Health Services, said they took

him to a walk-in centre on the Easter
bank holiday weekend in Blackpool as he
felt too unwell to take part in a football
tournament. “They did a full examination and concluded that he may have
been suffering from post-Covid vertigo
and he was given codeine,” she said.
The next day the teenager was still
unwell so they took him home and went
to A&E. “They did some blood tests and
put him on oxygen and IV pain relief,”
she said.
Mrs Allcock said they were told he
was “just suffering from migraines” but
one nurse “seemed to take us more seriously” and admitted Kane.
Once the build-up of fluid on the
brain was identified, he underwent
emergency surgery in Liverpool.

By Daily Telegraph Reporter
A “BALL-breaker” female lawyer who
was sacked after she complained that
she was being paid less than her male
colleagues has won more than £150,000
in a sexism case.
Helena Biggs was warned she was in
danger of scoring an “own goal” when
she demanded to know why her salary
was not the same as a male executive
she shared an office with.
Ms Biggs, who was criticised for
being “pushy”, “overambitious” and a
“ballbreaker”, claimed she suffered a
campaign of victimisation that ended in
her dismissal after 15 years with the
firm. She also said her role as an
“enforcer” to tackle underperforming

Ex-BBC DJ guilty of stalking
broadcasters faces prison
A FORMER BBC DJ has been warned he
faces jail after being found guilty of
waging a relentless stalking campaign
against broadcasters and subjecting
presenter Jeremy Vine to an “avalanche
of hatred”.
Alex Belfield was labelled “the Jimmy
Savile of trolling” during a trial which
heard he repeatedly posted or sent abusive messages, videos and emails.
Jurors accepted Belfield caused serious alarm or distress to two victims and
was found guilty of “simple” stalking in
relation to Vine, the Channel 5 and BBC
Radio 2 presenter, and theatre blogger
Philip Dehany.
Bernie Keith, a BBC Radio Northampton presenter, was left feeling suicidal
by a “tsunami of hate”, the trial heard.
Vine also gave evidence against Belfield, telling jurors: “This is not a regular

troll here. This is the Jimmy Savile of
trolling.”
Describing watching Belfield’s video
output as like swimming in sewage, Mr
Vine said of the defendant’s conduct: “It
felt like I had a fish hook in my face and
my flesh was being torn, and the only
way to avoid further pain was to stay
completely still.”
Jurors at Nottingham Crown Court
deliberated for 14 hours and 27 minutes
before convicting Belfield of four
charges yesterday.
Belfield, 42, of Mapperley, Nottingham, showed no emotion and wrote
notes on a piece of paper as he was
found guilty of committing the offences
between 2012 and 2021.
The trial judge, Mr Justice Saini,
said: “There’s a good chance of a custodial sentence.”
Belfield was granted bail and will be
sentenced on Sept 16.

that she should be careful and that the
issue could be ‘dangerous’,” the tribunal
heard. He told the hearing that pursuing this issue could be an “own goal” for
Ms Biggs and she would be better off
leaving it alone.
However, she persisted and the firm
agreed to give her a pay rise although it
did not backdate the award.
Over the following two years, Ms
Biggs claimed she was “victimised and
targeted” resulting in her launching
grievance proceedings. She was signed
off sick and was fired in 2018.
The east London tribunal concluded
that Ms Biggs had been unfairly dismissed and had been the victim of sex
discrimination, victimisation and harassment as the firm “wanted her gone”.

Muslim charged with race
hate crime after CPS reversal
By Martin Evans
CRIME CORRESPONDENT

ELLIOTT FRANKS

By Daily Telegraph Reporter

staff led to her being viewed as the
“Wicked Witch of the West”.
The 47-year-old mother-of-two successfully sued A Bilborough and Company, a global shipping insurance firm,
for sex discrimination in 2020.
Now, she has been awarded £151,811
in compensation. The tribunal heard
that the solicitor, from Redhill, Surrey,
was promoted to associate director at
the company, where she worked as a
claims executive, in 2010.
In 2013 she accidentally discovered
that a similarly ranked male colleague
was paid £2,000 a year more than she
was, which she kept quiet about until
2015 when she raised the issue with
Steve Roberts, her direct manager.
“Mr Roberts responded by telling her

Little Women on the big stage Louisa May Alcott’s novel
has been adapted into a play at the Roman Theatre of
Verulamium in St Albans, Herts, running until Aug 14.

A MUSLIM man is facing allegations he
carried out racially motivated attacks
against three Orthodox Jews, after campaigners challenged the prosecution’s
decision to drop the religiously aggravated element of the case.
Abdullah Qureshi, 29, had admitted
assaults in Stamford Hill, north London,
but denied singling out his victims
because of their religion.
His pleas were initially accepted but
prosecutors have now admitted they
made a mistake and have reinstated
the part of the charge that alleges Mr
Qureshi deliberately chose to attack
Jewish people.
The incidents, reported by Shomrim,
a community organisation, led to widespread concern among the Orthodox
Jewish community in north London

and prompted the Sadiq Khan, Mayor of
London, to condemn the “appalling”
attacks.
One victim was struck in the side of
the head, while another was hit in the
face with a bottle. Mr Qureshi, of Dewsbury, West Yorks, previously admitted
grievous bodily harm and assault by
beating at Thames magistrates’ court in
April. The decision to spare him racehate charges prompted the Campaign
Against Antisemitism to make representations to the Crown Prosecution
Service, along with other organisations
and Jewish leaders.
The CPS has requested that the two
charges of religiously aggravated GBH
and religiously aggravated assault be
reinstated against Mr Qureshi. A third
new charge relates to a religiously
aggravated assault on a 16-year-old boy.
Mr Qureshi will attend court on
August 25.

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11

World news

Harry helped
me soldier on
after torture,
says medic
By Danielle Sheridan
DEFENCE EDITOR in Kyiv
A UKRAINIAN medic held by Russians
in a brutal three-month captivity has
revealed how a phone call from the
Duke of Sussex inspired her to keep
defending her country.
Yulia Paievska had been serving as a
volunteer paramedic on the front line
in Mariupol when she was kidnapped
by Russian soldiers as she rushed to
save victims of the city’s theatre bombing in March.
For three months, the 53-year-old
was tortured and made to believe by the
Russians that not only had Ukraine
ceased to exist, but that she would also
be killed.
But in an interview with The Daily
Telegraph, Ms Paievska – a member of
Team Ukraine for the Invictus Games –
said that receiving a phone call from the
Duke around a week after her release
had convinced her not to give up.
“He simply inspired me to continue
to fight,” said Ms Paievska, who founded
Tayra’s Angels, the volunteer ambulance corps, explaining that it was the
way the Duke had spoken so “strongly
and sincerely” about Ukraine that compelled her to get back to work.
“He said that he supports Ukraine
and all of us,” she said, and that “the
Invictus Games family
y always
y takes
care of its members”.
Despite admitting that “of course I
am afraid”, she said “there are more
important things than our fear and
our emotions”.
Ms Paievska began
w o rk i n g o n t h e
front line in 2014,
when she
retrained as a
medic to help
in the Donbas.
She rose to
fame for her
work helping injured
servicemen.

Reportedly having saved 500 Ukrainian soldiers in the Donbas and having
trained 8,000 people in tactical medicine – even treating wounded separatists and Russians – she was made a
Hero of Ukraine, the country’s highest
civilian honour.
But she was injured during one evacuation operation and had to have titanium hip replacements, leaving her
with chronic pain.
When Ms Paievska was ambushed by
the Russians on March 16, as she and a
colleague drove an ambulance through
a humanitarian corridor to help a
wounded civilian, she was considered a
prize by Moscow.
She was initially put into solitary confinement, refused medication for her
thyroid and asthma and given just half a
glass of water to drink each day.
Eventually, she was moved into a 10ft
by 20ft cell with more than 20 women
and experienced “beatings and torture
with electricity”.
As well as the physical abuse, she also
suffered mental torment.
“The Russians told me it was best to
commit suicide because they would kill
me anyway, but I tried to believe I
would survive,” she said.
“I had absolutely no information
about what was happening in the world.
I didn’t even know if my family was
alive or if my house had survived
because the Russians were almost
already in Kyiv when we left. They said
that no one supports us, that other
countries only give us old, rusty weapons. They said that no one needed us
and that everyone had long forgotten
about Ukraine.”
To keep as fit as she could in
the torrid conditions
she
conditi
exercised daily.
“Ab crunches, yoga
and
y
meditation,” she said
said. “I tried
to keep fit in jail. I think if
you can convince
convin yourself to sur
survive, you
will. I had no
reason
reaso to think
that I would
get
out,
because
bec
they
were
th
determined
de
to shoot me,
kill
ki me. But
for some

JULIAN SIMMONDS FOR THE TELEGRAPH

Invictus competitor held
captive for three months
says Duke’s phone call
inspired her recovery

‘It was after
the Invictus
Games that
the Russians
stopped
interrogating
and
torturing me.
I think that
spreading the
word to the
whole world
influenced
their decision
to trade me in
a prisoner
exchange’

Yulia Paievska
visiting the National
Small Bore Rifle
Association at
Bisley, Surrey. Inset,
the Duke and
Duchess of Sussex

reason I knew, I believed that I would
survive.”
Before the invasion on Feb 24, Ms
Paievska had been training to compete
at the Invictus Games in swimming,
archery and powerlifting. After her capture, her 19-year-old daughter, AnnaSofia Puzanova, competed in her place
in archery, where she won a bronze

medal. Ms Puzanova used the opportunity to raise her mother’s detention
with Harry, who founded the Games in
2014. He hailed the presence of the
Ukrainian team at the event as “extraordinary”.
Ms Paievska was led to believe by her
Russian captors that “no one cares
about the fate of Ukraine”. So “I just

cried from emotions” when the call
came in, she said.
“I am very grateful to Prince Harry,
because it was after... the Invictus
Games that the Russians stopped interrogating and torturing me. I think that
spreading the word to the whole world
influenced their decision to trade me in
a pri s oner exchange”, she said.

Although Ms Paievska would like to
return to the front line “to be as useful
to my country as much as possible”, she
lost 10kg during her imprisonment and
has accepted that her body will need to
steadily recover first.
She said she is “recovering through
sports” and that she plans to participate
in next year’s Invictus Games.

Amnesty’s war crimes claims are Ex-spy supports jail for parents
wrong, says group’s chief in Kyiv of children visiting banned sites
By Joe Barnes
THE head of Amnesty’s Ukrainian operation has publicly discredited its international headquarters’ report into alleged
war crimes by Kyiv’s armed forces.
Oksana Pokalchuk accused the campaign group of publishing “inadmissible and incomplete” evidence, and said
her colleagues in the war-torn country
had been shut out of the investigation.
In its report, published on Thursday,
Amnesty International claimed Ukraine
had endangered civilians by setting up
military bases in residential areas,
including hospitals and schools, in the
Kharkiv, Donbas and Mykolaiv regions.
Its publication prompted anger in
Kyiv, including from Volodymyr Zelensky, the President, with the Ukrainian

government accusing the human rights
organisation of siding with Russia.
In a social media post, Ms Pokalchuk,
head of Amnesty Ukraine, said: “The
Ukrainian office was not involved in the
preparation or writing of the text of the
publication. Our team’s arguments
about the inadmissibility and incompleteness of such material were not
taken into account.”
While looking into Russian attacks
between April and July, Amnesty
claimed it found evidence of Ukrainian
forces operating out of civilian buildings in at least 19 towns and villages.
The organisation said Ukraine had
committed “a clear violation of international humanitarian law” by operating
military bases out of at least five hospitals. It also claimed 22 out of 29 schools

visited in the Donbas and Mykolaiv
regions had been turned into military
bases. Amnesty said subsequent Russian strikes on the locations had
resulted in multiple deaths and injuries.
The report was criticised by some
military analysts. Jack Watling, a senior research fellow at the Royal United
Services Institute, wrote on Twitter
that the report “demonstrates a weak
understanding of the laws of armed
conflict” .
Agnès Callamard, Amnesty International’s secretary-general, said: “The
findings... were based on evidence gathered during extensive investigations
which were subject to the same rigorous standards and due diligence processes as all of Amnesty International’s
work.”

By James Kilner
PARENTS of children who use VPNs to
access banned websites in Russia
should be sent to prison, a former spy
who is close to the Kremlin has said.
Maria Butina also said that parents
who do not promote the Z pro-war logo
should be punished and that Russia’s
invasion of Ukraine will inspire new
novels to rival epics such as War and
Peace.
“If parents aren’t able to place restrictions on our children and educate them
then we don’t exist,” Ms Butina told
Vladimir Solovyov, the Kremlin’s archpropagandist, on Russian TV.
When Mr Solovyov replied, half joking, that perhaps the children’s parents
should be sent to prison, Ms Butina

By James Kilner

NACHO DOCE/ REUTERS

MOSCOW yesterday accused Kyiv of
shelling a nuclear power station under
its control, renewing safety fears over
Europe’s largest plant.
Russian forces captured the Zaporizhzhya power station and surrounding
areas in south-east Ukraine in March.
Western officials have sounded the
alarm over Moscow’s use of the plant as
a launchpad to fire at targets in nearby
Ukrainian-held territories, with little
chance of return fire.
The UN’s nuclear watchdog has
warned that the situation at the occupied power plant is “out of control”.
Yesterday, Russia and Ukraine
accused each other of hitting at least
one of the plant’s power lines.
The plant is still run by its Ukrainian
te chnicians but under Moscowinstalled management.
Russian state media claimed Ukrainian shells struck a high-voltage power
line at the plant and said a fire had broken out on the premises. Power necessary for the safe functioning of its
reactors had been subsequently cut off,
the Interfax News Agency said.
In turn, Ukraine’s state nuclear
power company Energoatom said Russian shelling had caused the damage.
“Three strikes were recorded on the site
of the plant, near one of the power

blocks where the nuclear reactor is
located,” an Energoatom spokesman
said. “There are risks of hydrogen leakage and radioactive spraying. The fire
danger is high,” they said, adding that
initially there were no casualties.
However, Ukrainian authorities said
the plant still worked and no radioactive
leak had been detected.
With Russian kit, including highly
combustible ammunition, stored in
Zaporizhzhya’s engine rooms, analysts
believe Moscow is using the threat of a
nuclear meltdown at the site to deter
future donations of heavy weaponry by
Ukraine’s Western allies.
A Western official has suggested
Ukraine could feasibly strike Russian
targets around the nuclear plant
because it is built to withstand terrorist
attacks, including by aircraft.
Kyiv used US-supplied kamikaze
drones last month to strike Russian
weapons and troops sheltering between
the plant’s cooling towers, some 150
yards from a reactor.
Separately, three grain ships left
Ukrainian ports yesterday and the first
inbound cargo vessel since the Russian
invasion was due in Ukraine to load.
Vladmir Putin meanwhile was meeting Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey’s
president, who is cultivating a role as a
mediator in the war, in the Russian city
of Sochi.

in 2019 in a prisoner exchange, she has
been a ferocious supporter of hard-line,
anti-Western policies and become a politician for president Vladimir Putin’s
United Russia party, where she has
talked up the superiority of Russian cinema over Hollywood and accused
Ukrainians of bombing themselves to
generate favourable propaganda.
After her appearance on Mr Solovoyev’s show, Ms Butina said that Russian children should read more and take
inspiration from Russia’s invasion of
Ukraine to create the next great Russian
films and novels about war.
“This generation is not lost,” she said.
“Based on the current events, young
directors will produce patriotic films
and will write novels no worse than Leo
Tolstoy’s War and Peace.”

Hypersonic missile expert
held on suspicion of treason

Enemies accuse each other
of shelling nuclear plant
By Rozina Sabur

responded: “Yes, of course. Of course.
Who brings them up?”
As part of the clampdown on dissent
against its invasion of Ukraine, the
Kremlin has banned social media channels such as Instagram, Twitter and
Facebook as well as an estimated 1,000
news websites, including the BBC and
The Telegraph.
Russians can skirt the restrictions
using a VPN, which allows a user to
redirect their internet address to
another location around the world.
Analysts said that daily downloads of
VPNs in Russia surged from 15,000
before the war to more than 475,000 in
March, frustrating the Kremlin.
Ms Butina, 33, was arrested for spying for Russia in Washington DC in
2018. Since being handed back to Russia

Back in action A Soviet Union-era van is driven over a
bridge rebuilt by the Ukrainian military near Kharkiv.

ONE of Russia’s leading hypersonic missile scientists has been detained on suspicion of treason by police in Siberia.
Alexander Shiplyuk may have been
working on President Vladimir Putin’s
top-secret missile programme when he
was arrested.
He was a director at the Siberian
branch of the Russian Academy of Science’s Institute of Theoretical and
Applied Mechanics and is the third
researcher in Novosibirsk to be arrested
for treason in the past six weeks.
Police detained Anatoly Maslov, a
physicist specialising in aerodynamics,
and Dmitry Kolker, a maths professor
and laser specialist, for allegedly passing state secrets to China in June. They
were flown to the 19th-century Lefortovo interrogation centre in Moscow.
Kolker, who had been receiving
treatment for advanced pancreatic cancer, died within two days of arrival.
The Tass news agency reported that
after his arrest intelligence agents
searched the offices of Mr Shiplyuk, a
career scientist who worked his way up
from trainee to be appointed a director
of the institute in 2015.
“There were operational events at
the institute,” said Vasily Fomin, head of
the institute. “This was connected with
our director Alexander Nikolaevich Shi-

plyuk. He was arrested. He is charged
with the same thing as Maslov, treason.”
Online, Mr Shiplyuk is quoted discussing coating for hypersonic missiles
and how science can be used to help
update the Russian military in a project
called Army-2020.
One photo showed the 55-year-old
posing next to a tank.
Russia’s war in Ukraine has stalled
but Mr Putin still boasts that his new
hypersonic Zircon anti-aircraft carrier
missile is “unstoppable” and that a new
nuclear missile called Satan-2, which is
armed with 14 warheads, is the most
dangerous weapon in the world.
Russian officials have said that both
missiles will be operational by the end
of the year.
There have been several arrests over
the past couple of months among topranking Russian officials and scientists.
Many have been charged with treason or insulting the Russian army, a
euphemism for criticising Mr Putin’s
war in Ukraine.
Since 2000, several leading Russian
scientists have also been arrested for
handing state secrets to China.
Some of those, like Mr Kolker,
claimed that they had been accused of
treason just for giving a lecture in
China.
Russian missile technology is considered amongst the best in the world.

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World news

Palestinians accuse Gantz
of ‘starting a war’ with
escalation in attacks that
left five-year-old girl dead
By James Rothwell in Jerusalem
and Siham Shamalakh in Gaza City
ISRAEL was on the brink of renewed
conflict with Palestinian militants in
Gaza last night after it launched air
strikes that killed a senior Palestinian
commander and a five-year-old girl.
The first strike on an apartment block
in Gaza City, which was carried out
yesterday afternoon, killed Tayseer alJabari, the commander of the
Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) movement.
Palestinian officials in Gaza said
that 10 people, including the small
child, were killed, and dozens had
been injured.
Israeli military officials said they had

carried out a preemptive attack after
several days of threats from militant
groups in Gaza, who were angered by
the arrest of a senior PIJ figure in the
West Bank this week.
The Israeli Defence Force announced
that air strikes were continuing overnight, targeting military positions.
Video footage from the aftermath of
the air strike showed black smoke billowing from an apartment block in
Gaza City.
Another video showed the father of a
five-year-old-girl carrying her body
through the street wrapped in a white
blanket.
PIJ leaders issued a furious response
to the attack, accusing Israel of “starting
a war”.
The Islamic Jihad group said it fired
more than 100 rockets at Israel yesterday, as an “initial response” to deadly
Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip.
“As an initial response to the killing of
senior commander Tayseer al-Jabari
and his brethren martyrs... the Al-Quds

Brigade covered Tel Aviv, central cities
and areas surrounding Gaza with more
than 100 rockets,” PIJ’s military wing
said in a statement.
“The Zionist enemy started this
aggression, and it must expect us to
fight non-stop... There will be no truce
after this bombing,” Ziad al-Nakhala
told Lebanon’s Al-Mayadeen television
channel from Tehran.
“There are no red lines in this battle...
Tel Aviv will also be one of the targets of
the resistance’s missiles... as will all
Zionist cities,” he added.
Benny Gantz, Israel’s defence minister, said after the air strikes: “The goal is
to protect the State of Israel and the citizens of Israel – we will not allow anyone to threaten or harm the citizens
of Israel. Whoever tries to do so – will
get hurt.”
Israeli military officials said last night
that their operation, Breaking Dawn,
was ongoing and that they were braced
for a barrage of rocket fire from Gaza on
central Israel.

REUTERS/IBRAHEEM ABU MUSTAFA

Gaza militant chief killed in Israeli air strikes

Smoke billows from a building hit in the
Israeli air strike on Gaza City

They estimated that between 10 and
20 Palestinian fighters were killed in
the air strike, which was launched at
2.16pm local time.
In a statement, PIJ accused Israel of
“starting a war against our people”.
“We collectively must defend ourselves and our people.
“We will not allow the enemy’s policy
of undermining the resistance and our

national perseverance,” the group said.
Tensions between Israel and Gaza
intensified this week after Israeli
forces arrested a senior PIJ figure in
the West Bank, which prompted its
leaders in Gaza to issue threats of a military response.
Earlier yesterday, a couple of hundred Israelis protested near the Gaza
Strip to demand the return of captive
Avraham Mengistu, an Israeli of Ethiopian descent, and the remains of two
Israeli soldiers held by Hamas.
The protesters were led by the family
of Hadar Goldin, who along with Oron
Shaul was killed in the 2014 Gaza war.
Hamas is still holding their remains,
as well as two Israeli civilians who
strayed into Gaza and are believed to be
mentally ill, in the hope of exchanging
them for some of the thousands of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel.
The protesters pushed through two
police checkpoints on a road near
the heavily-guarded Gaza frontier
before stopping at a third checkpoint.

An Israeli military spokesman said
the army acted preemptively after a
number of Palestinian anti-tank squads
were seen “on the move” near the border with Israel.
The army did not immediately
respond to reports that the airstrike also
killed a young child.
Last night’s escalation evoked bitter
memories of the Gaza conflict in May
last year in which some 260 Palestinians and 15 Israelis were killed.
Hamas, the Islamist group that controls Gaza, has signalled that it will join
forces with PIJ in any future round of
fighting in Israel, in what could lead to a
major conflict on a similar scale to last
year.
Later yesterday evening, Israel
launched a second series of air strikes
on Gaza targeting PIJ positions.
A White House spokesman said it was
monitoring the situation closely.
They said: “We urge all sides for
calm. We firmly believe that Israel has
the right to protect itself.”

Community
seeks revenge
after eight
gang raped in
South Africa
By Tom Collins and Peta Thornycroft
SOUTH African mobs have burnt
down the homes of illegal migrants as
they seek to avenge the gang rape of
eight women in an attack that shocked
the nation.
Thousands of angry residents from
the Kagiso township, west of Johannesburg, beat illegal mine workers, commonly known as “zama zamas”, with
machetes and clubs on Thursday. It
comes amid rising xenophobic violence
in the “Rainbow Nation”.
The miners mostly come from neighbouring countries and work in unsafe
conditions in the abandoned mineshafts that surround Johannesburg.
Locals blamed foreign migrants for
the gang rape of a group of models
who had travelled to the abandoned
mines, near West Village, Krugersdorp,
to shoot a gospel music video last week.
As they were filming, the assailants
emerged out of the bush and fired warn-

ing shots into the air. The models were
ordered to lie down at gunpoint and
then taken one by one into the bush to
be raped.
One of the victims said she pretended
to have a miscarriage after she was violated, to avoid being raped again
“I had no way out but to lie, because
they were picking us up one by one,”
she explained.
“There were others who were raped
by six to 10 men,” she told local press.
Another victim recalled how some of
the younger boys were forced to rape
the women by older gang members, or
risk being beaten themselves.
The shocking case has sparked a wave
of anti-migrant sentiment in South
Africa, which has a long history of xenophobia against African immigrants.
The police said illegal migrants who

DENIS FARRELL/AP PHOTO

‘They were picking us up
one by one. There were
others who were raped
by six to 10 men’

A mob of angry residents stripped suspected illegal migrant miners, beat them with sticks and set fire to their camps near Krugersdorp in South Africa, following the alleged gang rapes of eight women by miners last week

travel to the area in search of informal
work from neighbouring countries like
Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Lesotho and
Cameroon were behind the attack.
Since the incident, more than 130 people have been arrested.

The government is facing increasing pressure to deal with illegal immigrants. It has warned around 160,000
Zimbabweans who had temporary
work permits that they must leave
South Africa by the end of the year

unless they obtain a formal permit. The
visas were issued in 2009 to Zimbabweans working illegally in South Africa.
The move was seen as a gesture of goodwill while former president Robert
Mugabe drove Zimbabwe into the

ground with disastrous economic policies. The visa, which was initially
granted for a five-year period, had been
extended twice.
The sudden U-turn is believed to be a
show of force by South Africa’s govern-

ment, which is keen to demonstrate
action against illegal migrants.
The UN warned in July that the country “is on the precipice of explosive
violence” due to anti-migrant discourse
from senior government officials.

China scraps climate and anti-drug deals with US over Taiwan
By Simina Mistreanu
CHINA said it was ending cooperation
with the United States on key issues
including climate change, anti-drug
efforts and military talks, as relations
between the two superpowers nosedived because of Taiwan.
Beijing has reacted furiously to the
decision by Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the
US House of Representatives, to visit
the self-ruled island, which it claims as
its territory and has promised to retake
– by force if necessary.
This week she became the highest-

level US visitor to the territory in 25
years. Since she left, China has staged
unprecedented war games to encircle
Taiwan. At least four Chinese ballistic
missiles flew over the capital Taipei on
Thursday, according to Japan’s defence
ministry, the first time since 1996.
Yesterday tensions intensified after
China’s foreign ministry suspended
talks and cooperation on a series of
agreements with the US, including on
climate change.
The world’s two largest polluters last
year pledged to work together to accelerate climate action this decade, and

‘We are not
afraid of
having a
war with
Taiwan, the
US or any
country in
the world’

promised to meet regularly to “address
the climate crisis”. But that deal looks
shaky as relations deteriorate to their
lowest levels in years, as do agreements
ranging from talks on military matters
to anti-drug cooperation.
Beijing also announced that it would
impose sanctions on Ms Pelosi and her
immediate family in response to her
“vicious” and “provocative” actions.
The White House said that China’s
decision to cut off climate talks was
“fundamentally irresponsible”.
It came as Chinese warships and
fighter jets once again crossed the unof-

ficial border line in the sensitive Taiwan
Strait yesterday, prompting Su Tsengchang, Taiwan’s premier, to condemn
the “evil neighbour showing off her
power at our door”.
Taiwan’s defence ministry said the
drills were “highly provocative”.
“As of 11am, multiple batches of Chinese warplanes and warships conducted exercises around the Taiwan
Strait and crossed the median line of the
strait,” the ministry said in a statement.
It was rare for warships and jets to
cross the median line, though Chinese
incursions have become more frequent

Spacey ordered to pay £25.5m for
losses over ‘House of Cards’ firing
By Rozina Sabur
KEVIN SPACEY must pay $31 million
(£25.5 million) to the producers of House
of Cards over losses relating to allegations of sexual misconduct by the actor
after losing an appeal over the sum.
Spacey had sought to overturn an
arbitration order requiring him to pay
MRC damages following “explosive”
allegations involving young crew members that led to his firing from the popular Netflix show in 2017.
But Los Angeles Judge Mel Red
Recana found that Spacey and his lawyers “fail to demonstrate that this is
even a close case”, according to documents seen by the Press Association.
“We are pleased with the court’s ruling,” MCR’s attorney, Michael Kump,
said after the ruling.
Spacey, 63, starred in House Of Cards
for five seasons, playing the ruthless

Sexual conduct
allegations saw
actor Kevin Spacey
written out of
Netflix show

politician Frank Underwood, before
the Oscar winner’s career came to an
abrupt halt in 2017 when several sexual
misconduct allegations surfaced. He
has denied them.
In its complaint, MRC said it had to
fire Spacey, halt production of the
show’s sixth season and rewrite it to
remove Spacey’s central character
following claims he “systematically”
preyed upon and sexually harassed
young male staff throughout his career.
MRC said it was forced to shorten its
sixth season from 13 to eight episodes,
resulting in tens of millions in losses,
according to court documents.
An arbitration process determined
that Spacey had repeatedly breached
contractual obligations, including
MRC’s anti-harassment policies.
The arbitrator also found that Spacey
was not entitled to be paid for the
remainder of his contract.

‘China is
an evil
neighbour
showing off
her power at
our door’

after Beijing declared in 2020 the unofficial border no longer existed. The
drills are to continue until tomorrow.
On the Chinese coast across from Taiwan, tourists gathered yesterday in an
effort to catch a glimpse of military jets
heading toward the exercise area.
People at Pingtan Island took photographs and chanted, “Let’s take Taiwan
back”, as aircraft could be heard flying
overhead. “Our motherland is powerful.
We are not afraid of having war with
Taiwan, the US or any country in the
world,” Liu, a 40-year-old tourist from
Zhejiang province, told AFP.

Married model ‘fleeced 18
suitors’ to fund her lifestyle
By James Rothwell
A CHINESE model is under arrest after
allegedly defrauding 18 besotted boyfriends out of two million yuan
(£200,000) to fund her extravagant
lifestyle.
The married woman, identified by
media reports as Ms Wu, a 29-year-old,
from Shanghai, is accused of using emotional manipulation to obtain the
money and tricking her suitors into
believing they were engaged to her.
Her smitten boyfriends were so taken
in by her that some sat for pre-wedding
photographs and referred to Ms Wu in
text messages as their “wife”.
According to Shanghai TV, she
ensured the men were infatuated with
her before allegedly demanding money
by concocting sob stories about her
finances and stressful family life.
It is understood her tales of woe

included claims that she needed cash to
fund the medical care for her cancerstricken father as well as bail money for
a cousin and tax bills. The most desperate men took out loans in order to meet
the demands of Ms Wu, police said.
The alleged scam fell apart earlier
this year when one boyfriend was asked
by Ms Wu to embezzle the funds of
another with a fake request for cash to
cover inheritance taxes.
She was reported to police who found
her living in an apartment with her husband and two-year-old son.
According to the South China Morning Post, news of her arrest has both
shocked and amused the public. “I don’t
even have one boyfriend, but she has 18.
Now I know where the world’s single
men are,” one social media user said.
The struggle to find a wife in China is
fierce as there are about 35 million more
single men than women.

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Spain’s shining
light defies eco
blackout laws
By James Badcock in Madrid
MADRID’S shopkeepers and bar owners are toasting the capital’s firebrand
leader as she goes back into battle with
Spain’s socialist government.
“Isabel is a 10 out of 10. She looks out
for us Madrileños,” said Marta Fernández, manager of the café-bar Dixie on
the Plaza Santa Cruz.
Isabel Díaz Ayuso, the Right-wing
president of the capital’s regional government, earned cult status after she
freed Madrid from lockdown before any
other Spanish city last year.
Now, “Saint Isabel” has refused to
enforce new energy-saving rules forcing businesses to turn off exterior lights
at 10pm and impose temperature limits
on air conditioning and heating in
offices, bars and shops.
“Madrid will not be switching off,”
said Ms Diaz Ayuso just minutes after
the rules, aimed at reducing Spain’s use
of Russian gas, were announced.
“Those people in the government
live like lords and then make us do
things that go against common sense,”
said Ms Fernandez.
“People don’t like being treated like
idiots and being told what to do. You
can’t paralyse a country every time
there is some kind of crisis; now it’s
Ukraine and gas, but there will be
another one after that.”
Susana, who runs a jewellery shop,
said: “I admire her. She fought so that
we could keep working. I mean, what
bright spark thinks up these rules? You
cannot turn everything off in the centre
of Madrid with the trade we have here;
you can’t treat all cities alike.”
Ms Díaz Ayuso has managed to
morph from a figure of ridicule to arguably the country’s most powerful electoral asset in the space of three years by
choosing, and winning, a series of
bloody political battles.
The 43-year-old was once mocked for
questioning a low emissions zone in
Madrid by arguing that traffic jams were
part of the capital’s identity; now she is
seen as someone with a canny knack for
channelling popular sentiment.
Her anti-lockdown stance during the
pandemic changed her image from that

By James Crisp
and Rebecca Rosman in Paris
FRENCH butchers have been accused
of trying to ban vegan bacon because it
tastes too realistic.
The row broke out as France prepares
to outlaw plant-based foods being sold
using terms such as “sausage”, “steak”
or “bacon”, which traditionally apply to
meat products.
INAPORC, a pork industry association, served company La Vie with formal notice for “unfair competition” for
its vegan lardons.
It said they risked “deceiving consumers” into thinking they were buying
meat lardons and said their advertising
campaign, which urged customers to
“try pork without pork” threw discredit
on their industry.
La Vie took out a full back page advert
in Le Parisien to hit back at the meat
lobbyists.
It read: “Dear pork lobby. Thanks for
the compliment. We think that your
pork lardons are indistinguishable from
our veggie lardons. Would you mind
changing your recipe?”
This is printed on a mocked-up postcard, with the address printed on the

of a gaffe-prone, underperforming
leader of the Popular Party in Madrid to
a new star of the Right capable of winning 45 per cent of the vote in a snap
election she called in 2021.
Lockdowns are “paternalistic” and
inherently “Left-wing”, she told The
Daily Telegraph last November. Three
months later, she forced the People’s
Party to change leader after accusing
senior officials of spying and blackmailing her with corruption allegations.
After months of behind-the-scenes
rivalry between Ms Díaz Ayuso and
Pablo Casado, the People’s Party leader
at the time, she went public with the
spying accusation and within a week he
was forced to resign.
Now, Ms Díaz Ayuso has started a
new war. “Before closing down, banning and switching off, why not have an
adult conversation with citizens and
other levels of government to ask for
their co-operation on the basis of clear
criteria?” she said.
Pedro Sánchez, Spain’s prime minister, accused Ms Díaz Ayuso of being

‘We think your pork lardons
are indistinguishable from
our veggie lardons. Would
you change your recipe?’

‘People don’t like being
treated like idiots and being
told what to do every time
there is some sort of crisis’
“selfish” and “lacking solidarity” in the
face of “Putin’s blackmail”.
The government’s plan is designed to
help the country cut gas consumption
by 7 per cent under an EU energy-saving agreement in case Mr Putin turns
off the taps to Europe this winter.
The law will be applied across the
country on Tuesday but it falls to
regional authorities to enforce it.
Enrique Ossorio, Madrid’s vice president, said the city was considering
appealing against the law.
“If a shop window light is turned off
for 10 seconds, this satisfies the law,” Mr
Ossorio said, seemingly inciting
Madrid’s shopkeepers to flout the rule.
However, Pedro Mora, owner of Mayorpiel, a leatherware store, plans to follow the government edicts.
He is installing automatic doors in his
air conditioned shop to abide by rules
insisting entrances are not left open.
“These rules might not be perfect but
the law is there to be obeyed,” he said.
“Ayuso talks a lot about freedom and
businesses but we’ve had zero help
from her regional government.”

DAVID ROSE FOR THE TELEGRAPH

Rules forcing businesses in
Madrid to go dark at night
would be against common
sense, says firebrand leader

Vegan bacon
makers telling
porkies, say
butchers

Isabel Diaz Ayuso has been praised by shopkeepers and bar owners in Madrid after refusing to enforce new energy saving rules

right and room for a stamp, and an invitation for fake meat fans to send it to
INAPORC.
“The pork lobby is attacking us
because our veggie lardons are indistinguishable from pork lardons,” the
advert read. “Help us defend ourselves,
by sending them this letter.”
The labelling ban on plant-based
foods is meant to prevent shoppers
being confused between vegetarian and
meat meals.
Critics argue that it is unnecessary
and will harm a new industry that is
good for the environment because it
reduces meat consumption.
France’s Council of State said: “It will
no longer be possible to use terms
proper to sectors traditionally associated with meat to designate products
not belonging to the animal world.”
The ban was delayed on July 27 to
give the industry time to make appropriate changes to branding and marketing. “This law is going completely in the
opposite direction of two official priorities of the French government: the fight
against global warming and the reindustrialisation of France,” Nicholas Schweitzer, chief executive of La Vie, told
Plant Based News.

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Less drag, more
Chuck Norris,
Orban tells US
conservatives

By Verity Bowman

By James Crisp
EUROPE EDITOR

SIX people including a pregnant
woman were killed when a speeding car
smashed into oncoming traffic in Los
Angeles, in scenes that have been likened to a “war zone”.
Video footage showed the moment a
Mercedes ploughed through a red light
at a junction in the city’s Windsor Hills
district before striking multiple cars.
Vehicles can be seen exploding and
skidding across an intersection before
smashing into a petrol station.
It is understood that a three-year-old
was among those killed in the incident,
which happened at about 1.40pm on
Thursday. A further nine people were
injured, including six children.
The female Mercedes driver sustained serious injuries and was taken to
hospital where she is speaking to investigators.
One woman, whose car was hit as she
left the petrol station, told the Los Angeles Times: “I was getting out, had got
gas. All of a sudden, that Mercedes is
coming at me on fire. I didn’t have any
time to think about it. It hit my car. I
veered, hit the bench on the side.”
Another onlooker told ABC 7 that “it
looked like the whole intersection from
corner to corner was on fire”.
“A lot of sparks and electricity,” they
said. “At first I thought they dropped a
bomb on us. I thought another world
war had started. Then I realized it was a
car into the sign. Once the fire went
away and the booming left, I realised it
was two cars there. You could see the
people on fire and that’s just sad.
“I really pray for the people and the
community.”
California Highway Patrol described
the scene as “a war zone”.
Investigators said it was not immediately clear why the Mercedes driver was
speeding and did not stop.

SHELBY TAUBER/REUTERS

Six killed after
speeding car
runs red light
in Los Angeles

Trump cards Supporters of Donald Trump pray on the first day of the Conservative Political Action Conference in Dallas,
Texas. Mr Trump, who is yet to declare if he will stand in next year’s presidential election, will address the gathering today.

HUNGARY’S prime minister has urged
Christian conservatives in the US and
Europe to unite and battle “progressive
liberals” and “globalists”.
At a Right-wing political meeting in
Texas, Viktor Orban said that Hungary
was the “Lone Star state of Europe” and
boasted about his tough anti-immigration policies and laws against gay marriage.
Donald Trump will close the Conservative Political Action Conference
(CPAC) in Dallas today. It held a special
event in Hungary earlier this year.
Mr Orban said in his speech: “If I am
correct, Lone Star state means that
independence, freedom and sovereignty are the dearest values in this part
of America. Progressive liberals didn’t
want me to be here because they knew
what I would tell you – because I’m here
to tell you that we should unite our
forces because we Hungarians know
how to defeat the enemies of freedom
on the political battlefield.”
He added: “We must take back the
institutions in Washington and in Brussels [...] we must co-ordinate the movement of our troops, because we face the
same challenge.
“We are not the favourites of the
American Democrats. They did not
want me to be here and they made every
effort to drive a wedge between us.
They hate me and slander me and my
country as they hate you and slander
you and America you stand for.”
Mr Orban, who has been criticised
for his crackdowns on media freedom
and gay rights, was given a standing
ovation when he read from Hungary’s
constitution, which he amended to say
that marriage could only be between a
man and a woman. “Less drag queens
and more Chuck Norris,” he said.

Foreign Office blacklists Uber after envoy’s murder
Diplomatic staff told not to
use app after driver raped
and killed Beirut embassy
worker in ‘senseless’ attack
By Will Bolton
UBER has been blacklisted in Lebanon
by the Foreign Office after one of its
drivers raped and murdered a British
diplomat, an inquest heard.
Rebecca Dykes was killed while mak-

ing her way home from a night out with
friends in the Gemayzeh district of Beirut, Lebanon.
Tariq Houshieh, who was working
for Uber, raped the 30-year-old before
strangling her with a cord from his
hooded jumper and dumping her body
by the side of the road.
Ms Dykes had booked the ride using
the Uber app, whose driver identification and rating system was seen by
many, especially women, as offering
better safety guarantees than just hailing a cab off the street. Houshieh later

confessed to the “senseless” attack,
which took place in December 2017, and
was handed a death sentence in 2019.
He is now appealing to have the sentence commuted, MyLondon reported.
Houshieh was allegedly able to work
as a taxi driver despite having a criminal
record and twice being arrested for
alleged harassment and theft.
An inquest into the death held at
Southwark coroner’s court heard evidence from embassy security officer
Alyson King about the arrangements in
place. She told the court that in 2017

staff were advised to only use three vetted taxi companies for personal travel.
Uber was not one of the companies.
However, Ms King said that some
embassy workers would use different
travel companies. She said: “It came to
light afterwards, many staff were using
other taxi companies.”
Bharat Joshi, head of security for the
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, said a review after Ms
Dykes’s death had found a “very, very
strong” security culture.
Despite that claim, he added that

many staff working at the embassy
chose not to follow advice to use vetted
taxi firms, with many using Uber
because of their “familiarity” with the
brand and the long potential wait times
for the vetted companies.
He added that there had “never been
a serious incident” before this involving
Uber in Lebanon.
Following the murder, the government of Lebanon urged people to avoid
using the company, with one minister
branding it unsafe. Ms Dykes’s sister
asked witnesses at the inquest if guid-

ance had now been changed to actively
urge staff to avoid using Uber. She was
told they had updated their advice.
Ms Dykes had been working for the
Department for International Development and was in Lebanon helping refugees fleeing the war in Syria.
Jane Houng, Ms Dykes’s mother, said:
“I hope that no parent has to go through
what we have had to go through.”
Andrew Harrison, the senior coroner,
recorded a conclusion of unlawful killing and said “great steps” had been
taken to improve security of staff.

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ESTABLISHED 1855

Britain is gripped by defeatism

LETTERS
to the
EDITOR

The Bank of England
should admit that it
has no real control
over the inflation rate
SIR – Can we please see an end to the
nonsensical idea that the Bank of
England has an achievable inflation
target? If it really does, how is it so far
off it? Is complete incompetence to
blame? No, the reason is that it does
not control the factors that determine
the rate, except marginally.
Current inflation of around 9 per
cent is caused by events in the big bad
world outside Threadneedle Street.
Consider what level of bank rate would
be required to tame such inflation. The
Monetary Policy Committee should
pass a resolution to disband itself.
Adrian Hoare
Ascot, Berkshire
SIR – Is it right for the Governor of the
Bank of England to be so negative and
pessimistic about the British economy?
Does it help wealth creation? Does it
defend existing jobs, or help create
new ones? Does it attract enterprise
and capital to this country?
The Bank of England and the
Treasury have only a rough idea of the
likely economic conditions a year from
now, which might very well be better
than their gloomy forecasts (which in
any case are always wrong, and
sometimes by a wide margin).
By all means be straight with the
public about the implications of the
energy-price shock, together with long
overdue rises in interest rates and
mortgages, but for heaven’s sake don’t
talk the economy down.
Alasdair Ogilvy
Stedham, West Sussex

Broken NHS
SIR – While playing football on
Wednesday evening I was knocked
unconscious. No foul was given and
the referee waved play on.
Unfortunately, in my confused state
I was unable to play on and was driven
to Aintree Hospital A&E department.
On checking in at 7:35pm I was told
there was a nine-hour wait to be seen. I
felt awful but I reasoned that I wasn’t

dying, so decided the dire prospect of
waiting in A&E until 4:35am was less
attractive than any risk I had of some
undiagnosed injury, and showed A&E
the red card by being driven home.
I was then propped up in bed with
what felt like the mother of all
hangovers but at least I was not sitting
in A&E on a plastic chair wearing a
surgical mask.
The moral of this story: whatever
you do, don’t get ill or have an
accident, as the NHS is broken.
Jeffrey Edwards
Melling, Lancashire

Hosepipes and health
SIR – A hosepipe ban is imminent in the
South of England. Is this the right
answer to our water shortages and
environmental crisis?
A blanket hosepipe ban will lead to
the death of hundreds of thousands of
plants and trees in gardens. We need
these plants for our own survival.
Would it not be better to impose water
usage restrictions on people instead?
Isn’t the preservation of our green
spaces key to our environmental
survival, as well as our mental health?
Kate Chamberlain
London SE22
SIR – Are you telling me that, if I phone
to report that my neighbour is
watering his garden with a hose, the
police will come out, when they didn’t
even respond after I rang to tell them
the house opposite us had been broken
into by vandals, who were throwing
items out of windows?
Sandra Crawley
Shanklin, Isle of Wight
SIR – We have 10 water butts
strategically placed outside our house.
During the recent heatwave, we
watered our flowerbeds and pots as
necessary, but not the lawn. By the end
of that hot spell, none of the butts was
empty, although some were less than
half full.
Two days of rain, followed by
Cornish mizzle, have successfully
refilled the water butts to overflowing.
My parents bought a house on a new
estate in 1952. Every house had a store
outside the back door, which was
topped by a large metal water tank, fed
by a downpipe from the house roof.
Water could be taken directly from this
to the garden.
Why are all new homes not now
built with some means of collecting
and storing rainfall?
Anne Hanley
Gunnislake, Cornwall

Sunak’s Project Fear
SIR – I have received my ballot paper
for the Conservative leadership
election. Included in the envelope are

But it would be a mistake for those that run these services to
think that the public will accept this state of affairs for long.
The zealots of XR might be content enough to return to a
prelapsarian past, in which the conveniences of modern
civilisation are sacrificed in order for them to feel good about
themselves. It is fair to say they are in a tiny minority,
especially when the cost of living has risen so dramatically.
The next prime minister will have little time to make his or
her mark. He or she will take over an economy heading for
recession, a health service on the brink of collapse, and an
education system struggling to recover ground lost in
lockdown, while there are realistic fears of winter gas
shortages. None of these challenges can simply be managed
away. It will take ambition – and a determination to reject this
insidious spirit of declinism – to surmount them.

that inflation was returning, it was too dismissive of anyone
who criticised its complacency, and it spent years pumping
so much liquidity into the system – hand in hand with the
Treasury – that the conditions were perfect for a shock, such
as the rise in energy prices, to turn into extreme inflation.
At the very least, the Bank should accept that it ought to
have started raising interest rates earlier. The US Federal
Reserve has conceded that it made mistakes – why can’t Mr
Bailey? But there is also an urgent need to review its mandate
so that this disaster is never repeated. The Monetary Policy
Committee needs better, more heterodox members, the Bank
should be prevented from drowning the UK in cheap money
whenever growth slows, and monetary policy should take
into account asset bubbles. Above all, it needs to be forced to
take inflation much more seriously.

Bank must accept blame

Turing badly done by

“Something has gone wrong.” Kwasi Kwarteng, the Business
Secretary, was putting it lightly in remarks yesterday highly
critical of the Bank of England’s recent performance in
controlling inflation. Its governor, Andrew Bailey, had earlier
sought to defend the Bank’s actions, pinning the blame for
the inflationary tsunami on external factors such as the war
in Ukraine. That is highly disingenuous. The Bank always
took credit for falls in inflation, even those caused by cheaper
prices for Chinese imports, so how can it not also accept
some degree of responsibility for higher prices now?
The Bank’s mandate is to keep inflation at or around 2 per
cent. Now, it is expected to reach 13 per cent – and that may
be an underestimate given how poor its forecasts have been.
It did much too little over the past year when it became clear

Alan Turing, the computer scientist who contributed so
much to the breaking of the Enigma code, suffered great
misfortune in life. Though he is now celebrated enough to be
the face on the reverse of the £50 (little as it may be seen in
these cash-poor days), his fortune in public statuary is
unhappy. A clever, dignified sculpture, made from hundreds
of pieces of smoothed slate, stands indoors at Bletchley. In
Manchester a bronze of Turing sitting on a bench was joined
in 2021 by a hideous giant bee with his image forming its
eyes. Now Historic England has objected to the siting of a 12ft
sculpture of 19 steel blocks beside Gothic revival buildings in
the front court of King’s College, Cambridge. It has a point.
The sculpture, by Sir Antony Gormley, would be of interest in
another location – though no one would guess the subject.

leaflets from each candidate setting
out the reasons why we should vote for
them. It seems that Rishi Sunak has
reincarnated Project Fear, as his pitch
is: vote for me or all sorts of nasty
things will happen after the next
general election. There are no policy
commitments. This is deeply
disappointing and totally negative.
Brian Armstrong
North Shields

Bullied by China
SIR – It is beyond belief that the free
world continues to accept the “one
China rule” in relation to that country’s
claim on Taiwan (report, August 5).
Bodies such as the UN and the
Olympic committee still do not
recognise Taiwan as an independent
and democratic government, which
allows the Chinese government to
push acceptance for the idea that it is
part of China.
The free world, including the UN
and Britain, must drop its one China
rule. If not, the eventual occupation of
Taiwan will be another Hong Kongstyle exercise of China imposing its
undemocratic and belligerent will on
another nation.
A F Gomes
Haverhill, Suffolk
SIR – You report (August 4) that
Parliament has dropped TikTok, which
is owned by the Chinese company
ByteDance.
All Chinese companies are under the
ultimate control of the Chinese
Communist Party.
How is it possible that our
parliamentary authorities were blind
to the dangers of opening a TikTok
account?
Robin Gardiner
Melksham, Wiltshire

Tattoo tickets
SIR – I too am finding it impossible to
download my tickets for the
Edinburgh Military Tattoo (Letters,
August 3). The instructions online are
complex and I am constantly told that
my session has expired after only a
couple of minutes. As I am bringing
eight members of my family to
Edinburgh for the Tattoo, this is
worrying. I hope it can be resolved.
Sheila Mortimer
Cuckfield, West Sussex

Energy crisis
SIR – Following the lead of David Frost
(Comment, August 5) and Ambrose
Evans-Pritchard (Business, August 5),
we must ask how we can continue in
an environment where activists insist
that we can escape the current energy
crisis simply by using less electricity.

We must ask how money to help
those in poverty can be provided by an
economy that has collapsed because
there is no electricity available. The
answer, of course, is that it can’t; more
lives are likely to be lost due to
starvation than are likely to be lost as a
result of global warming.
The electricity industry will continue
to justify its actions by blaming us for
using too much power, rather than
putting its own house in order.
This cynical approach is illustrated
by the almost indecent pressure that is
being put on us to have smart meters.
When energy rationing begins, as it
shortly will, suppliers will be able to
control your smart meter to provide
electricity at peak times, and at a vastly
inflated premium. This can be done on
an individual basis, so saving the need
for whole areas to be cut off at peak
demand times, as well as providing an
extra source of revenue. Those of us
with old, conventional meters cannot
be controlled in this way.
Professor R G Faulkner
Loughborough, Leicestershire
SIR – The feeble response of police and
courts to the anarchic antics of
Extinction Rebellion, Just Stop Oil and
similar arrogant anti-capitalist sects
has shown that there are no
consequences for their antisocial
behaviour. The socialist-inspired Don’t
Pay campaign will foment civil unrest
and the police have neither the will nor
the resources to deal with it.
David M Owen
West Kirby, Wirral
SIR – It would be sensible to resume
fracking for Britain’s energy security.
However, the resulting gas would be
sold on the open market at prevailing
prices. I fail to see how that would
reduce our energy bills.
James Masters
Bucknell, Shropshire
SIR – Without question, the biggest
policy failure of our time concerns
energy. Over recent decades,
successive governments have shown
incompetence, negligence and
irresponsibility.
The central role of government is to
protect the nation and its people, and
to intervene in the market place as
necessary. Governments have
consistently failed the nation on
energy, so we are now dependent on
our enemies and untrustworthy
friends. We have no storage; when the
wind does not blow we have to import;
we shoot ourselves repeatedly in the
foot with green policies; we import
coal and gas when it is literally under
out feet. This is insanity.
If the Government is to take the
public with it through this winter it
must acknowledge this failure. It must
then set out plans to put the country’s
energy provision on an acceptable
long-term footing. It must show

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T

he eco-extremists of Extinction Rebellion (XR) have
turned pessimism and privation into a virtue. The
Industrial Revolution was Britain’s original sin, they
argue, and the only way we can atone for it is to accept
punishing reductions in our living standards. Progress itself
is deemed to be an illusion, while the expectation that goods
and services will over time get better and better is seen as a
sign of grotesque capitalist greed.
Unfortunately, something of this perverse world-view
seems to have made its way into official policy. As Lord Frost
wrote in this newspaper this week, rather than investing
ambitiously to ensure that Britain has enough energy and
water to meet demand, there is a growing tendency to
command the public to cut their consumption instead.
Hosepipe bans should be a last resort, not the first tool to be
grasped by water companies that have failed to tap
alternative supplies or invest enough in stopping leaks. A
similar story is playing out in energy. Successive
governments have done much too little to ensure that we
have sufficient reliable power generation or energy storage
facilities. If there are blackouts this winter, the public will
again be expected to pay the price for these blunders.
Britain is increasingly gripped by a form of defeatism.
Everyone thinks the NHS will face a terrible winter this year,
but nobody seems to be willing to propose serious changes or
reforms that would make that less likely – let alone to do
anything that would fix the health service for the long term.
The transport network continues to be plagued by strike
action by the rail unions, but passengers are expected to
accept disruption to their journeys without complaint.
It is the opposite of progress – and it is little surprise that
these issues are most acute in areas of the economy that are
either completely controlled by the state or highly regulated.

Making of a sandwich: 100 years ago Sailor Savouries offered salmon or shrimp paste

Favourite single-filling childhood sandwiches
SIR – Eleanor Steafel’s article about
the return of the single-filling
sandwich (Features, August 4), such
as the much-loved summer tomato,
reminded me of another childhood
favourite: bloater paste, which we
often had for tea. Happy times.
Wendy Whitelam
Dursley, Gloucestershire
SIR – My favourite single-filling
sandwich has to be sanded beetroot
on white bread, eaten on Barry
Island beach, usually in the rain.
Howard Thomas
Sandown, Isle of Wight
SIR – Then there are the delights of
sandwiches with a sweet filling
other than jam. A delicious filling of

responsibility and ownership, and
demonstrate how this current
catastrophic situation will never be
allowed to happen again. Blaming it on
market forces and external factors is
passing the buck. This has to stop.
Stuart Moore
Bramham, West Yorkshire

Minorities in ads
SIR – As Joe Cobbe (Letters, August 3)
points out, our successful British
female football team perfectly
reflected the ethnic mix of our current
population, of which perhaps 14 per
cent is made up of minorities.
However, television advertisements
now display the reverse proportions of
ethnic and white characters. Is there a
shortage of white British actors, or are
they just being denied employment in
the drive for diversity?
Sue Crouch
Eastcombe, Gloucestershire

banana, either sliced or mashed,
with an optional sprinkling of sugar,
takes a bit of beating. My particular
favourite is a condensed-milk
sandwich – and you get to lick the
spoon after making it. Heavenly.
Christina Veats
Swindon, Wiltshire
SIR – The single-filling sandwich that
has never gone away and is the staple
of so many summer tea parties is of
course cucumber.
Whether you like your cucumber
cut wafer thin or thick and chunky,
it is the most delicious of
sandwiches. I’m sure Oscar Wilde
would agree.
Viva A Lloyd
Walton-on-Thames, Surrey

Rent a cherry tree
SIR – Has Margaret Hirst (Letters,
August 3) considered renting a cherry
tree from a fruit farm, which costs
about £50 a year? Updates about
“your” tree are sent over the year, then
July is the time to pick its fruit. More
than enough for you and your friends.
Brenda Bennett
Hildenborough, Kent

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Visionless and out of his depth, Joe Biden has
just made his most dangerous blunder yet
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After the
humiliation
of the exit
from Kabul,
the US
president
has now
allowed
himself to
be perceived
as malleable
by China

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oe Biden was elected president in
2020 for one main reason: he
wasn’t Donald Trump. Nobody in
the Democratic Party was especially
wild about his candidacy. He
galvanised no particular base. What
campaign he ran was flat and devoid of
excitement. The sole idea was that he
was an unexciting figure who could
glide through the campaign without
incident, get into office and ensure
that the Republic was not led by
Trump.
It worked, of course. But while not
being Trump may be a virtue for a
campaign, it turns out not to be
enough to be a successful president.
This week, after days spent denying
that America was technically in
recession, Biden had a rare foreign
policy success to announce. After a
mere quarter of a century of
searching, America’s intelligence
agencies had finally caught up with
Ayman al-Zawahiri, the head of
al-Qaeda.
Biden’s announcement of Zawahiri’s
demise by drone strike was given with
the same solemnity and import with
which Barack Obama announced the
killing of Osama bin Laden 11 years
ago. But Biden’s announcement did
not have the same effect as Obama’s.
Perhaps because Zawahiri was
number two in al-Qaeda and less of a
household name. Perhaps because
Zawahiri’s ability to operate had
become so limited in recent years. Or
perhaps because the announcement
did not point to that great an American
success.
After all, it was a year ago this
summer that America scrambled out
of Afghanistan. During those messy,

bloody, humiliating days, Biden tried
to explain that the mission of the
two-decade long operation in the
country had been accomplished.
Principally because al-Qaeda was no
longer in Afghanistan.
While nobody was very keen on
another two decades of trying to turn
Afghanistan into a Jeffersonian
democracy, Americans remember the
embarrassment of that withdrawal.
There were some bare basics that were
still expected. Such as al-Qaeda not
being there. Then a year later it turns
out that the head of al-Qaeda was
visiting his family in a house in Kabul
just around the corner from the US
Embassy.
The dreams of Afghanistan that
existed in the 2000s lie in the dust,
certainly. But what dreams or even
vision have taken their place? What
are the ambitions of American foreign
policy in the Biden era? There must be
some, surely?
Trump had a policy of a clear and
very understandable kind. He wanted
to project American strength. He
wanted deterrence through strength.
And he didn’t mind putting forward
the “madman” tactic in foreign affairs.
That is the tactic of presenting
yourself as so potentially vengeful and
unpredictable when provoked that
nobody knows what you might do and
therefore should do nothing.
It is not a tactic that finds much
favour among the many think tanks
and foreign affairs professionals in
Washington. But it is a tactic with
something to be said for it.
The Taliban were clearly scared by
what Trump might do if they kept
killing American soldiers on his watch.

Vladimir Putin was clearly deterred
from swallowing up more of Ukraine
while Trump was president. And most
importantly, the Chinese Communist
Party did see that in Trump they had a
counterpart who was willing to call
them out both for illegal activities in
the realm of espionage and in the
realm of trade.
So what is the Biden doctrine? To
date, absolutely no one knows,
including him. His Secretary of State,
Anthony Blinken, is said to be
frustrated at the difficulty of getting
any decisions made, and he probably
has less visibility than anyone else
who has held that office in recent
decades. There seems to be no
particular idea. True, Biden joined the
international coalition against Putin,
but he seems to have gone back and
forth on what America’s strategic
objectives in Ukraine might be.
As a result, it was strangely left to
the Speaker of the House, Nancy
Pelosi, to make perhaps the single
most noteworthy foreign policy
intervention of this presidency so far.
During her trip to the Far East this
week, there was much speculation
over whether or not she should visit
Taiwan: a visit that would be seen in
Taiwan, Beijing and the rest of the
region as an expression of support for
the island’s independence.
For a matter of days and then a few
crucial hours, the whole American
press seemed to be following the flight
path of Speaker Pelosi’s plane. Would
the Chinese do the unthinkable,
(voiced by some of their more
bellicose outriders) and actually shoot
down a plane carrying the Speaker of
the House?

It was strangely
left to the
Speaker of the
House, Nancy
Pelosi, to make
perhaps the
single most
noteworthy
foreign policy
intervention of
this presidency
so far

That did not happen. But nor did the
White House seem to agree with the
travel plans of one of the Democratic
Party’s most senior leaders. In the
weeks ahead of the visit, the White
House seemed to deprecate the idea.
The CCP and the White House
strangely started to echo each other in
the suggestion that such a trip might
be “provocative”.
Of course, to allow the Chinese
communists to dictate the travel plans
of an American official ought to be
intolerable. But the White House
seemed at times to tolerate it, even to
agree. It was a position that Beijing
exploited with considerable aplomb.
It became reminiscent of the Dalai
Lama affair during the coalition years,
in 2012, when David Cameron and
Nick Clegg met with the Tibetan
leader while he was in London. On
that occasion it seemed as though the
prime minister and his deputy did not
know what they were getting into. But
the response was swift. Beijing
immediately cut off its trade mission
to the UK. Spooked, the UK
government was forced into a
humiliating apology, with officials
effectively promising never to meet
the Dalai Lama again.
While the CCP is adept at such
diplomacy, Cameron and Clegg proved
absolute novices at it. But it is one
thing if Britain is forced to kowtow to
Beijing and quite another level of
seriousness if America is. And that was
what the Pelosi row this week was
about.
Ten years ago, the question was
whether Britain was allowed to have a
policy towards Tibet. The answer
turned out to be “no”. Fast forward to

2022 and the question is whether
America is allowed to have a policy
towards Taiwan. The answer to that
must surely be “yes”. And yet.
For decades the US has had a policy
of creative ambiguity towards the
issue of Taiwan. In reality that means
that the attitude shifts with each
administration. There is considerable
difference of opinion even within
parties in the US. There are those on
both sides of the aisle who believe that
the US should be bellicose in
promising to defend Taiwan, others
who believe that Taiwan cannot be the
central issue in China-US relations.
There is something to be said for all
these attitudes.
Yet while a degree of ambiguity may
be desirable, the perception of
malleability is not. The upshot of this
week’s events was that the Biden
administration looked malleable on
the question of Taiwan and therefore
other questions, too. It looked capable
of being pressured, intimidated and
even bullied by the CCP, which has
pushed around smaller fish but hasn’t
dared take on America in such a way.
We shall see what the fallout is from
this week. But the biggest fear in the
US is not that the American side is
being driven in the wrong direction,
but that it isn’t being driven at all.
Biden, not for the first time in his
presidency, seems to be insecure and
unclear in his own thinking.
It is a change from Donald Trump,
for sure. But not necessarily the
change that America or the world
needs.
Douglas Murray’s latest book is
‘The War on the West’

CHARLOT TE LYT TON

Hosepipe bans are a gift to lockdown-nostalgic curtain-twitchers

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s if a cost-of-living crisis,
train-and-plane meltdown and
extreme heat weren’t enough to
fray tempers, South East Water has
decided to lob some extra gasoline into
the mix – by encouraging people to
snoop on hosepipe ban-dodging
neighbours. The company is urging its
customers to rat on those
surreptitiously wheeling out the
sprinklers, which at this stage is
practically an all-out call for war. Bans
have been enacted in Hampshire and
the Isle of Wight. Sussex and Kent will
face restrictions in the coming days.
Those missing following regulatory
minutiae to the letter á la lockdown
(remember the Covid hotline for
rule-breakers?) will no doubt be thrilled
at this opportunity to once again step
into the breach. Instead of drones and
helicopters being dispatched to root out
violators, South East Water has decided

to take the more community-spirited
(read: cheap) option, relying on the
“goodwill” of its customers, who
they’re clearly hoping have an axe to
grind with Sally from No 8.
I, too, would like to feel grass
beneath my feet again, and not
scorched earth. But this
is is a
depressing way to go about it,
sure to tip residents of alreadyparched suburbia into hellfire.
You can see it now: Mary
ry
leaning over her wooden
en slats,
enquiring just how Gerald’s
ald’s
lawn looks so lustrous in
n the
middle of a drought.
Expect tight-lipped
smiles, head-nodding to a
range of excuses (“we
import heat-resistant
African bamboo,
actually”) and the sight
of decapitated petunias

on the grass the following morning. It
won’t end there. Christmas will
become a new battlefield: every
non-anaemic wreath a sure sign of a
ban-denier; cards featuring baubles
barely clinging on to branches of
threadbare firs (not that Gerald will be
getting
one, obviously).
g ting on
get
know South East Water wants to
I kno
prevent the crispification of the
preve
planet, but pitting neighbours
plane
against each other on the most
again
touchpaper of topics – their
touch
llawns
law
ns – will surely provoke a
fallout none of us can weather.
fall

I

s it a bird? A plane? The
closest star to the sun, or
simply a cast-off from the
charcuterie board? So goes
ch
the riddle posted on
eminent physicist Etienne
em
Klein’s Twitter feed this
Klei

week. Sharing a photo purporting to
be the Proxima Centauri – the star
closest to the sun – he enthused at how
just-released images from the James
Webb telescope mean that “a new
world is revealed every day”. This
“level of detail”, he pointed out to his
90,000 followers, was proof of the
sheer wonder of the universe.
After amassing over 11,000 likes,
some followers mused that his snap of a
star located 4.25 light years from Earth
looked suspiciously like Spain’s
national sausage. And so the magic was
brought to an abrupt end, when Klein
admitted the close-up was, in fact, a
slice of chorizo. The gag was more than
an attempt at dad humour, he insisted
(presumably with cheeks a similar hue
to his meaty snack); rather a very
important lesson in fake news. Some
might suggest the easiest way to avoid
fake news proliferating is not to post it

in the first place, but there we are.
This was the first time Klein, director
of the French Commission for Atomic
Energy, has attempted posting a joke,
he said, clarifying that “according to
contemporary cosmology, no object
within the category of Spanish cold
meats exists anywhere other than on
Earth”. The good news, he added, is
that “some people understood the
trick”. The bad? That the galaxy looks
less delicious than we thought.

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or anyone approaching the middle
of August having not been on
holiday, the mind wants to know
only one thing: where to? Luckily,
destination inspiration is here courtesy
of Airbnb, where top of the list for
“unique stays” is ... Stoke. Yes, on-Trent.
I wouldn’t say my one trip to the area
screamed “holiday hotspot” (though in
fairness it was to the courthouse), but

the proof is here in black and white – or
at least the black and white of a PR
campaign designed to push
beleaguered holidaymakers into
less-loved parts of the country.
Given reports that we’ve developed
“staycation fatigue”, Stoke et al have
barely been getting a look-in. More fool
the detractors, if you ask me. Go and
join the weeping crowds at Heathrow;
the rest of us (okay, a handful? Enough
to fill a Honda Jazz?) will be hotfooting
it down the A500 for a chance to
marinate in the majesty of Robbie
Williams’s birthplace, nearly named
2021’s City of Culture last year (it lost
out to Coventry; the less said about
that, the better).
Aside from being spared a
purgatorial whirl through our airports,
you can be assured that very few other
holidaymakers will be there. Frankly, it
sounds like bliss.

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17

JULIET SAMUEL

L
Buffeted by
the political
winds, and
stacked full
of exTreasury
officials, the
institution
has got its
one real job
badly wrong

et’s hope he’s right this time. If
Andrew Bailey and pals at the
Bank of England are wrong about
inflation again, we’ll need higher
interest rates and a deeper recession to
drive it out of the system. That’s the
trouble with losing credibility. Once
you’ve lost it, you need to work harder
and harder to get it back.
The Bank this week released a dire
new set of growth and inflation
forecasts. A long, hard recession is
coming and inflation is meant to peak at
13 per cent this autumn and then head
conveniently back to the target of 2 per
cent in early 2024. Of course, in May,
the Bank thought inflation would peak
around 9 per cent. In December last
year, the Bank said that inflation was
due to “transitory” factors and would
peak at 4.5 per cent earlier this year. It’s
not hard to spot the pattern.
As Mr Bailey argues, it’s not the Bank
of England’s fault if Vladimir Putin has
decided to cut off the gas. The
governor’s imperative, naturally, is to
defend his own and his institution’s
reputation. Unfortunately for him, this
politicises an already uncomfortably
political position. Both Tory leadership
candidates argue that domestic policy
has a major role in controlling inflation.
Rishi Sunak talks up the importance of
fiscal policy. Liz Truss points the finger
at the Bank. Both are right to some
degree. The Bank cannot control gas
prices, but it did create an economy
primed for inflation by printing so
much money during the lockdowns
(when supply, not demand, was being
constrained) and then failing to wind up
the stimulus and raise rates when the
warning signs appeared.
The whole thing carries eerie echoes
of the 1970s. The first inflation spike of
9 per cent, in 1971, was brought on by
then-chancellor Anthony Barber’s
over-stimulation of the economy. The
second, 24 per cent in 1975, was sent
into the stratosphere by the Arab oil
embargo. The third, 18 per cent in 1980,
helped bring on Geoffrey Howe’s
recessionary “sound money” budget,
which finally pulled the country out of
the perpetual swamp of inflation.
The difference this time is that
setting monetary policy is now
nominally an independent process. No
one can tell Mr Bailey what to do. And
yet, somehow, markets have developed
the funny idea that the Bank is not truly
independent, but is being driven by
political imperatives. This is not just
because its mandate is being
successively diluted – first, with the
requirement to consider the UK’s
“competitiveness” in regulating banks
and second, with a vague demand that
it use markets to help achieve net zero.
It is also not just because of the Bank’s

enthusiastic participation in woke fads,
like membership of Stonewall’s
“diversity champions” scheme.
More fundamental than any of these
distractions is the suspicion that the
Bank has been openly used to finance
record deficit spending during the
pandemic by printing money, and that
its reluctance to wind up quantitative
easing and raise rates is related to fears
for the public finances. The Office for
Budget Responsibility has estimated
that for every 1 percentage point rise in
market interest rates, government
borrowing costs rise by £20 billion. And
when the Bank starts selling all the gilts
it bought, as it has now promised to do
in September, who is going to buy them
– and at what sort of discount? Is this
the real underlying reason for Rishi
Sunak’s extreme caution on fiscal
policy?
It is officially not the Bank’s job to
worry about this. Its legal mandate is
only to worry about inflation: it had one
job and has failed at it. So the question is
how the Bank found itself in this
position. It is unlikely there was some
sort of conspiratorial decision to
finance the Covid spending boom.
Instead, what appears to have
happened is that the Bank has been in
decay for some time, has filled its ranks
with sub-par economists and exTreasury officials, and therefore
became incapable of intellectually
rigorous, dispassionate and confident
stewardship of the economy. Although
one cannot call this a conspiracy, it
cannot have been entirely displeasing
to the Treasury to get the Bank back in
its orbit. The Treasury never liked the
idea of an independent, uncontrollable
Bank in the first place.
The rot began with Mark Carney.
Senior economists are divided on
whether Mr Carney was simply a PR
man or a great brain, but they all agree
that, unlike his predecessors, he was a
man determined to go places. Previous
governors and their deputies tended to
be owlish academic economists content
to live out their post-Bank days in
book-lined studies, digging into
obscure databanks and writing long,
turgid books. This was often true even
before Bank independence. Their sense
of worth came from their intellectual
work and the esteem of other
economists. Not so Mr Carney.
He was already a Davos man and he
seemingly wanted to be prime minister
of Canada, or else some sort of celebrity,
or, failing that, a paid-up member of the
save-the-world, UN climate crew (the
role he’s doing now). George Osborne, a
fellow worshipper of Davos celebrity,
was naturally wowed by the fellow.
Anyway, the perception was that
monetary policy had been solved.

Inflation had been controlled by cheap,
globalised production in China. It
wasn’t rocket science.
What followed was a steady shift in
the Bank’s culture. As it took over some
of the old Financial Services Authority’s
functions, it gained an influx of staff
used to an entirely different culture (Mr
Bailey himself spent some time at the
FSA). The Bank never managed to make
them its own. Instead, turnover
increased and quality declined. The new
chiefs no longer paid the usual respects
to their bespectacled predecessors and
forged their own path.
Today’s monetary policy committee,
although it has some clever thinkers on
it, like Michael Saunders (soon to leave)
and Catherine Mann, cannot really
boast a single world-leading economist,
of the kind young economists aspire to
become. While you might expect to

BLOOMBERG

Andrew Bailey has overseen the Bank of England’s
descent into a second-rate, politicised failure

Rate rise: Andrew
Bailey speaks to the
press on Thursday

have a bit of Treasury experience
among them, it is striking that all three
deputy governors are former Treasury
officials and two of them spent most of
their careers there. Most astonishingly,

Who cares if Britain runs
out of gas this winter? Rishi
likes Yorkshire lamb

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s energy bills soar, groceries get
pricier and health services fall
over, it’s heartening to see the
Tory leadership contest tackle the big
issues. Thanks to the brilliantly
penetrating questions asked by debate
hosts, we’ve learnt that Rishi Sunak
likes Prada and Liz Truss shops at
Clare’s Accessories. We have learnt that
Ms Truss enjoys Shirley Bassey and that
Mr Sunak might like to run
Southampton Football Club. We now
know that Liz Truss loves Welsh lamb,
but that Rishi Sunak prefers Yorkshire
lamb (can he really tell the difference?
Oughtn’t he to undergo a blind taste test
to restore trust in politicians? Can I
have a show of hands from this dour
studio audience?).
Here is what we haven’t learnt. We
don’t know how either of them plans to
keep homes warm and factories
running this winter. We haven’t learnt
what action they would take to ensure
the country has access to enough gas
imports if Europe cannot supply us. We
haven’t learnt whether they think we
can get significant new supply out of
the North Sea or British shale in time for
winter, or whether they would
temporarily reopen coal plants to see us
through. We haven’t heard how they
will deal with the acute pressure to give

households more help with energy bills.
To be fair to him, one hustings host,
Sebastian Payne, did ask Ms Truss how
she would respond to the “Don’t Pay
UK” campaign to stop paying energy
bills in October. She did not give him an
answer, but at least he asked.
At the hustings in Wales, Ms Truss
mentioned that she “used to work in the
shipping industry, liquified natural gas
(LNG) shipping”. I, for one, would
rather hear a bit more about her
thoughts on LNG shipping and a bit less
about her music tastes. I am sure I am
not alone.

Here is what we
haven’t learnt.
We don’t know
how either of
them plans to
keep homes
warm and
factories
running this
winter

O

n the topic of LNG, some readers
responded to my column last
week by protesting that now is
not the time to sign long-term supply
contracts for gas, since the price will
inevitably come down. I am afraid they
misunderstand how grave our
situation is.
Usually, in the winter, the UK meets
peak demand by importing gas and
electricity from Europe and has done so
increasingly despite warnings about
shrinking supply margins in Europe.
That slice of supply is now unlikely to
be available on all the days when we
need it. We have, meanwhile, run down
our own storage capacity and have little

the incoming member of the
committee, Swati Dhingra, is not even a
full professor of economics, but a
relatively junior “associate” professor at
the LSE. Her list of published journal
articles does not fill one page. She may
be a talented and impressive economist.
She is not, however, a senior figure in
her field.
All of this would be mere trivia if it
were not for the fact that the Bank has
failed in its duty so badly. Setting
interest rates is inherently a political
act, but it was able to masquerade
successfully as a boring technocratic
function for a long time because the
people doing it were, in their hearts,
data geeks and not political servants.
That is no longer true. The result is a
Bank buffeted around by the prevailing
political winds. We are all the poorer for
it – and getting poorer.

margin for error. Data collated by
Lambert Energy Advisory, a specialist
investment bank, shows that, without
EU flows last winter, the UK’s other
sources of gas would not have delivered
enough to meet demand. And last
winter was a mild one.
What’s more, gas producers have
under-invested in new capacity
because of government and regulatory
warnings about “stranded assets” –
investments that lose value due to the
phase-out of fossil fuels. Even now,
despite the pro-gas rhetoric, producers
are not confident it will last beyond the
current crisis. It was only in December
that Shell pulled out of developing the
North Sea’s Cambo Field after it became
a target of Cop26 protesters.
Offering long-term contracts to buy
gas is the only way we have to show we
are serious. If we want to increase
supply to the UK, we need to be a
reliable buyer. That doesn’t mean
offering to pay today’s prices for 10
years. But if the UK won’t offer an
agreed pricing mechanism and a
contract to enforce it, we cannot be sure
we will have enough gas to power the
country this winter. It’s as simple as that.

A

nyone wondering how Ms Truss
has managed to get so far ahead of
Mr Sunak should consider the
following. Mr Sunak repeatedly and
ridiculously tells Tory members that he
would “give you my everything, my
heart and my soul, everything I’ve got”
in their service (except, presumably, his
wife’s tax status). Ms Truss, by contrast,
when asked what she might do if she
weren’t a politician, said that whatever
it was, “it would probably be less stress
and more money”. I know which of
them I believe.

JOHN REDWOOD

Liz Truss’s tax cut plan is
perfectly Thatcherite

T
Her targeted
measures
are needed
to ease the
squeeze on
family
budgets,
especially as
global
energy
prices go up

his week, the Bank of England
delivered grave news. It forecast
even higher inflation for longer
than it had previously admitted, and
now predicts a recession lasting for
the whole of next year. The Bank is in
danger of doing too much, too late to
curb the inflation it helped to bring
about. It is no wonder that it has now
come round to the view that, on
current policy, we will have a
recession.
Writing in this paper before the
Bank announced its latest decision,
however, Nigel Lawson claimed that
Rishi Sunak is right to say we need to
press ahead with more tax rises on top
of the tax squeeze that he has already
imposed. This, it is said, is necessary
in order to double up on the Bank’s
efforts to curb inflation. Lord Lawson
said that Mr Sunak is the true
Thatcherite in this race. Having
served myself as head of Margaret
Thatcher’s policy unit, I beg to differ.
I admired Lord Lawson’s work as
financial secretary to the Treasury,
when he helped design a strong
anti-inflation policy to cure the rapid
price rises inherited in 1979-81 from
the outgoing Labour government. But
that strategy rested heavily on tough
control of money growth, along with
switching some of the tax burden from
income tax to VAT. It is a pity the Bank
and Treasury today thought money
supply growth did not matter and
went in for a major expansion by
creating more money and buying
bonds with it. This may have been
necessary in 2020 to combat the
lockdowns, but was continued for too
long in 2021 when we were well into
recovery. It was clearly likely to prove
inflationary.
I was also a fan of Lord Lawson as
chancellor when he made major
reductions to taxation. He prided
himself on removing smaller
individual taxes, and made large
reductions in the standard and higher
rates of income tax. He thought then,
rightly, that it would promote growth.

As he cut the rates of tax the revenues
rose, and the rich paid a bigger share
of the total.
He and I can agree that there are no
easy options from here. It is important
to prevent inflation from gaining a
strong hold on our economy, creating
a wage/price spiral where no one
wins. It is also important to limit
public sector borrowing. But this will
prove a lot more difficult if we have a
longer and deeper recession,
exacerbated by overly high taxation.
Lord Lawson tells us that Mr Sunak’s
delayed cuts in income tax make more
sense than Liz Truss’s immediate relief
of some of the cost-of-living pressures.
I struggle to understand how we can
base income tax cuts in the period
2025-29 on planned growth in those
years, when no one can make a reliable
forecast that far out.
The UK is the only major country
adding a National Insurance rise,
higher energy taxes and business tax
rises to a substantial tightening of
monetary policy and an energy shock.
The big increase in global energy
prices which we have to pay is like a
huge tax rise, with the added
disadvantage that most of the money
goes to overseas interests so we
cannot spend it at home on
government priorities as an offset.
Liz Truss’s targeted tax measures
are needed both to ease the squeeze
on family budgets a bit more, and to
make a direct reduction in energy
prices to help push inflation lower. If
we can keep a labour market with
plenty of vacancies for longer, we can
help more people into work and off
dependence on benefits, assisting
public finances. A recession will raise
the deficit mightily. Getting more
people into work cuts benefit bills and
will help curb public spending.
We are now in the business of trying
to manage ourselves out of the bad
outcomes the Bank has described.
That is only possible if we are clear
about the causes of the situation we
are in.

PETERBOROUGH
Hanging battles
Back in March, Peterborough revealed
that the Carlton Club, in London’s St
James’s, had commissioned a portrait
of Boris Johnson, below, to hang next to
the other paintings of Tory leaders. But
I can reveal that there is now disagreement among its secretive committee
about where the picture by Richard
Stone should be placed. There is concern about the fact that the fall of Johnson’s government began in the private
members’ club itself, after the former
deputy chief whip Chris Pincher was
accused of sexually assaulting two men
there (allegations he
denies).
The painting is
thought to have cost
tens of thousands of
pounds, and some
Boris backers on the
committee want it
to take pride of
place – like David Cameron’s likeness,
which is seen by any visitor who steps
through the front door. Others think it
would be better off in the basement.
Wildlife presenters at war
The naturalist Chris Packham, below,
isn’t known to be a shrinking violet.
The Springwatch presenter, who holds
forthright views on country pursuits,
only last week got into a scrap with the
BBC, co-signing a letter accusing the
corporation of not asking Tory leadership candidates enough questions
about climate change.
But after it was reported that
Adam Henson, the Countryfile
presenter, had praised sustainable shooting at a country sports festival,
Packham retweeted a
comment by Mark Avery,
from the campaign group
Wild Justice. “Adam, did
you say this? And what
else did you say in favour
of, or critical of shooting,

please?” demanded Avery – making
sure to tag in the BBC and Countryfile.
Does Packham think other green-fingered telly presenters are less entitled
to their opinions than him?
I’m sure we’ll find out soon.
Rishi’s support boost
Those tuning in to Monday’s Tory leadership hustings might have been surprised to see how much support there
was in the audience for Rishi Sunak.
Despite the former chancellor being
down in the polls, he was greeted by
rapturous applause and cheering from
members in Exeter – far outstripping
the welcome for his rival, Liz Truss.
What those at home might have missed
is that most of the cheering was coming
from two women standing right behind
the camera and microphone. Which
makes sense, given that they both work
for Sunak’s campaign.
Bounceback
Pulses were set racing in Whitehall
amid rumours of a surprise sacking of
the Cabinet Secretary, Simon Case. A
former aide to Prince William, he has
stood by Boris Johnson throughout his
recent woes. But on Thursday, emails to
the mandarin’s account started bouncing back, with an error message suggesting that he no longer existed as a
member of staff in the Cabinet Office.
Could one of Johnson’s last acts in
government have been to sack one
of his most loyal officials? Alas.
The issues were caused by an IT
upgrade.
Tikked-Off
China hawks in the Tory party
have managed to get Parliament’s official TikTok account
closed down over concerns
about data being transferred
abroad and used for nefarious
means.
But there is still a prolific

user of the Chinese-owned app in Westminster: Nadine Dorries, below. The
Culture Secretary has become something of a hit online, posting videos of
herself wearing
aviator sunglass e s at the
recent Top Gun
p re m i e re a n d
footage of politicians celebrating
the Lionesses’
second goal in
the Euros final
from their VIP
box.
B u t T i k To k
it s elf has not
always been a
supporter of her
content. A recent
video of Dorries
riding in a selfdriving vehicle
was accompanied by a warning to users:
“Participating in this activity could
result in you or others getting hurt.”
So much for cracking down on online
harms.
The Bond connection
Liz Truss surprised Tory members in
Cardiff this week by revealing that her
favourite song is Shirley Bassey’s Goldfinger, but she’s not the only 007 fan in
the Cabinet. The current PM has been
known to make the odd reference to the
debonair spy and once hired out the
Downing Street briefing room to screen
one of his films. It was just before he left
office after the Suez Crisis that Anthony
Eden flew to Jamaica to relax on Ian
Fleming’s resort, GoldenEye.
In Whitehall this week the PM was
nowhere to be seen. It would have been
a fitting finale to Boris’s premiership if
he had done the same.
Edited by Tony Diver
peterborough@telegraph.co.uk

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Saturday 6 August 2022 The Daily Telegraph

News Focus

How Britain
abandoned
its classical
education
A humanities education creates a more rounded person with strong critical faculties,
e
so why iss tthee Go
Government
trying to marginalise these classic subjects in our universities?
then-education secretary, Charles
Clarke (an alumnus of King’s College,
Cambridge, where he read Maths and
Economics) attacked the teaching of
classics, said he thought teaching
medieval history was a waste of public
money and useful only for
nce, most perceptive people had
“ornamental purposes”, and famously
an idea of what an educated
described the idea of education for its
person was. He or she had
own sake as “a bit dodgy”.
usually been to university: and,
His reward was to be attacked, even
whatever the degree and whatever the
by Labour supporters in academe, as
“educated person” ended up doing –
“illiberal” and “terribly narrow”. He
chairman of a company, doctor or
was branded “a philistine thug”. Some
lawyer, computer technician or a
among his political opponents argued
research scientist – that person had
that the Left dislike the humanities
some grasp of the humanities.
because they teach independent
They had read the great works of
thought, encourage debate – there are
English literature. They had the
few certainties in these subjects – and
rudiments (at least) of a foreign
give people that potentially dangerous
language. They knew some history,
critical faculty. This idea has gained
and a little about religion and about
ground among some academics, fuelled
philosophy. If someone made a
by the rise of the “woke” mob that
popular classical reference, be it about
would limit freedom of expression.
Julius Caesar being stabbed in the back
The assault on Clarke caused his
or Nero fiddling while Rome burned, it
successors to choose their words more
made sense. They could distinguish
carefully: and to ensure that stealth
Mozart from Stravinsky, Wren from
replaced outright aggression in
Richard Rogers, Van Dyck from Lucian
moving away from subjects that had
Freud. And all of this led to their
underpinned a university education
having a critical faculty they could
for decades and, in the case of classics,
deploy in their working lives, their
centuries. Some teachers of these
personal relationships, their
threatened subjects sought to fight
consumption of creative works, or
back. A notable advocate has been Prof
even just in choosing a prime minister
Dame Mary Beard, renowned as a
at a general election.
Cambridge classicist, but also for
Their grasp of our common
bringing aspects of civilisation to the
civilisation became a hallmark of our
masses through TV programmes.
establishment: people simply didn’t
“Humanities are not ‘the icing on
“belong” to our elite if they had no
the cake’, something that we can
knowledge of these things. But now
sponsor
in times of plenty and cut
Prof John Adamson
that may be about to change. The new
when the going gets rough,” Beard
establishment is computer literate,
says. “They are as essential as STEM
knows something of quantum
subjects to how we understand the
conformity and self-censorship in the
mechanics and is equal to any
world around us, make sense of where
face of intellectually feeble dead-end
mathematical problem. More and more ideologies. Yet the humanities are the
we have come from and grapple with
universities are dropping humanities
core of our cultural existence. We need what we see and read.
degrees mainly, it appears, through
“I once asked one of my senior
to cherish them, and support those
lack of demand. That is driven by the
colleagues what she thought a classics
who uphold intellectual honesty and
growing utilitarian belief that a degree freedom of thought.”
degree taught you … ‘To read difficult
in a STEM subject – science,
things,’ she said. I think it does more
Our cultural existence, however,
technology, engineering and
than that, actually, but reading difficult
seems less important to potential
mathematics – will ensure a graduate a students, for whom a university
things is an essential skill which has to
successful career in a way that one in
be taught and mastered, never more
degree must enhance employability,
English, classics or history won’t.
than in an era of fake news.”
not the expansion of the mind. And
This belief is questionable, but
In Britain’s growing private
although this interpretation of
important because people routinely
universities, by contrast, the absence
education as a utility dates back to
incur £50,000 of student debt. High
of political pressure has allowed the
Jeremy Bentham over 200 years ago,
university costs and the price
humanities to flourish. Prof John
and was famously mocked by Dickens
mechanism in higher education turn
Adamson, who directs the Humanities
in his 1854 novel Hard Times through
students into customers, who want
Research Institute in the University of
the character of Mr Gradgrind and his
guaranteed bang for their bucks. But
Buckingham (full disclosure: I too am a
obsession with children being
the process starts long before
professor in this institute), says that
force-fed “facts”, it has gathered
university, with fewer humanities
“we need the humanities because its
stunning momentum in this century.
A-level students because a more
This is not just because students are subjects – history, literature,
vocational degree requires
philosophy and the like – provide us
“customers”: it has had political
appropriate A-levels.
with an essential understanding of
drivers too. In 2003, Labour’s
It is hard to believe that, until the
what it is to be human: where we have
late 1950s, some trainee doctors
come from, who we are, and what we
entered medical school on classical
might become.
The swing towards STEM
scholarships, and learned about the
“They teach us that the
human body during training. When I
discernment of truth from falsity can
Annual change in UK students accepted
was an undergraduate, medical
only come from free debate, not just
through UCAS
students had to spend a year of their
among ourselves but in conversation
degree studying an arts subject, to
with the best that humankind has
Combined arts
broaden them out. A senior judge told
produced in the past. They inform,
me he advises would-be barristers to
inspire, and also warn. And by giving
History and Philosophy
take a degree in a subject other than
us knowledge of the best and worst
Linguistics,
classics
law before doing a conversion
of which humankind has been
capable, they free us from the
course, so they could feel “properly
Technologies
educated” rather than knowing only
myopia of the moment: the arrogant
the law. Serious journalism trainee
delusion that our own times are
Non-European languages
uniquely endowed with insight into
schemes rarely employ anyone
whose sole degree is in media studies.
what is virtuous and right.
-15%
-10%
-5%
0%
SOURCE: HIGHER EDUCATION POLICY REPORT
It is invaluable to understand the
“For without the humanities, we are
world beyond one’s vocation.
not only impoverished as individuals
and as a society; we are also
This was accepted wisdom when I
Fewer people are studying
was younger. I was fortunate enough
infantilised, for like a child we are even
the humanities
to attend one of our oldest and most
unaware of what we lack.”
Total humanities students (thousands)
This sums up what society has to
successful grammar schools, where
250
gifted teachers identified boys with
lose through its determination to push
aptitudes for either the arts or sciences
intelligent young people into the
and developed their strengths. I was
STEM world, and to fulfil the vision of
225
hopeless at sciences largely because,
successive education ministers to
despite the efforts of my excellent
make Britain a scientific powerhouse.
200
teachers, I simply couldn’t be
It doesn’t need to be either/or, but that
has become the nature of the debate as
interested in them – whereas
literature, languages, music and
politicians respond to the fear of our
175
history could not come in large enough
being left behind by developing
industrial economies, notably China.
quantities. I still recall the shock of
150
learning I had passed maths O-level,
Evidence of the Government’s
2009-10 11-12 13-14 15-16 17-18 19-20
SOURCE: HIGHER EDUCATION POLICY REPORT view appeared in May 2021 in a blog
again thanks to superb teaching. Now,
Simon Heffer

O

a scientific blockhead like me would be
rapidly written off.
Then, I managed to get into
Cambridge, took an undergraduate
degree in English and, later, a PhD in
history. Both have been exceptionally
helpful in my career in journalism,
writing, broadcasting and now as a
part-time university teacher. I did not
blink when my elder son followed me
to Cambridge to read classics, and his
brother went to the University of
London to read French and Spanish.
Both are remarkably intellectually
curious, and better citizens as a result;
and both, incidentally, have excellent
jobs. Whatever the popular view may
be, humanities are no dead end.
“Our great universities are
increasingly dominated by the
sciences,” observes Cambridge’s Prof
Robert Tombs, a brilliant historian of
France, “not only financially, but
through the talent and enthusiasm of
their best academics. The humanities,
already in danger of marginalisation,
risk crippling themselves by timid

‘Without the
humanities we
are impoverished
as individuals and
as a society’

Above, from top:
Charles Clarke;
David Cameron;
David Willetts;
Robert Tombs

by the then-education secretary
Gavin Williamson, written shortly
before his sacking for presiding over
the Covid lockdown exams fiasco. He
proclaimed that an increase in those
studying STEM showed students
were “starting to pivot away from
dead-end courses that leave young
people with nothing but debt”. He cut
funding for courses such as music
and art. Sir Gavin, as he now is, was
regarded in higher education as
possibly the most ignorant education
secretary in living memory, and
statements such as this suggest why.
The data make interesting, and
alarming, reading. A report by Dr
Gabriel Roberts for the Higher
Education Policy Institute found that
the popularity of the humanities has
fallen for over 60 years, relative to
other university courses. Between
1961/62 and 2019/20, the proportion of
UK students studying humanities fell
from 28 per cent to 8 per cent. In
recent years there has also been an
absolute fall in enrolments. The total
number of humanities students at UK
universities has fallen by around
40,000 in the past decade.
Dr Roberts’s report also illustrated
the decline in humanities studies in
schools and sixth-form colleges. Since
2016, almost all humanities subjects
recorded a fall in A-level entries larger
than the decline in the population of
18-year-olds. Some subjects have been
hit especially hard: there has been a
28.5 per cent drop in the past decade
in history of art – despite its vocational
use for those wishing to work in
galleries, museums or auction houses.
But even more mainstream subjects
are suffering: according to UCAS, the
universities admissions service,
acceptances for English studies,
including English literature, fell from
9,480 in 2012 to 6,435 in 2021.
Funding is a problem, but it is hard
to resolve the chicken-and-egg
argument about whether it falls
because applications fall, or viceversa. It also varies widely across the
UK. In Scotland, the unit of resource
for Scottish humanities students is
around 40 per cent lower than for
students in England, with an emphasis
on more “profitable” degrees, such as
the STEM subjects.
During the Cameron reign, with
Michael Gove as education secretary
and the higher education minister
David Willetts, the cumbersome
Research Excellence Framework was
created. It seeks to audit academics’
research “outputs”. The onus is on
teachers to “monetise” their activities
– something far easier if you are at the
cutting edge of developing artificial
intelligence than if investigating and
translating newly discovered ancient
papyri or medieval manuscripts. They
are asked to establish financial values
for their “outputs” and to justify their
existence according to the logic of the
markets. In a free society there is
much to be said for this logic – but it
simply does not, and cannot, apply to
teaching in the humanities.
Universities that have dropped
humanities courses include Sheffield
Hallam, which suspended its English
literature degree. Cumbria University
had taken similar action the year
before, which prompted the author
Philip Pullman to protest that the
study of literature “should not be a
luxury for a wealthy minority of spoilt
and privileged aesthetes”. That was a
rather clumsy way of expressing a
valid sentiment. Even the spoilt and
privileged might soon find it hard to
join a degree course to allow them this
study; and one benefit of a humanities
degree is not that it is the culmination
of such study but, rather, a stimulus
for a lifetime of learning, another
prospective loss to society if this trend
continues.
Also, universities feel additional
pressure to review such degrees. Under
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‘We need to
support those who
uphold intellectual
honesty and
freedom of
thought’
Prof Robert Tombs

‘Humanities are
not the icing on
the cake, they are
essential to how
we understand the
world around us’
Prof Dame Mary Beard

penalties if fewer than 75 per cent of
undergraduates complete their
courses, and if fewer than 60 per cent
are in professional jobs or studying for
a further degree within 15 months of
graduating. As STEM subjects usually
have a vocational pathway into
professions or postgraduate study,
universities will be more inclined to
pursue those subjects. About 70 per
cent of graduates of Sheffield Hallam’s
English literature degree gained
graduate entry level jobs.
It may be that the way humanities
are taught requires reform, to prove
that their intellectual rigour and the
training of students to think are as
valuable as ever. There is great
controversy about the excessive
politicisation of some humanities
courses – notably history, which in
some universities has become a
vehicle to promote identity politics, a
means to ridicule British history
because of the former empire, and an
outlet for politically-motivated
teachers. The bad publicity this has
attracted has undermined the
credibility of some degrees in the
eyes of employers.
There is also talk of reforming
A-levels so that pupils study a
humanities subject and maths
throughout their schooling, and of
embedding professionally valuable
skills in humanities degrees to
encourage applicants and boost their
employment prospects. Both have
their dangers: a top maths GCSE ought
to be sufficient to equip for life anyone
with a humanities bent; and if
humanities courses began to be sold as
vocational, their content would have
to include less of the pure learning
that distinguishes such courses.
Also, figures show humanities
graduates are as likely to be employed
as any others, and when subjects are
ordered according to average salaries
five years after graduation, humanities
subjects fall in the middle. Good
humanities graduates are not merely
educated in a rounded fashion, but
have skills employers want. In 2019
research by LinkedIn found that the
three most wanted “soft skills” were
creativity, persuasion and
collaboration. One of the top five “hard
skills” was people management, which
an empathetic humanities graduate
taught to think for him or herself
should find straightforward.
Two senior Microsoft executives
recently wrote: “As computers become
more like humans, the social sciences
and humanities will become even
more important … [they] can teach
critical philosophical and ethics-based
skills that will be instrumental in the
development and management of all
solutions.” A 2015 study of 1,700
people from 30 countries found that
most in leadership roles had a social
sciences or humanities degree.
Sarah Perry, author of The Essex
Serpent, has condemned the decline of
humanities as “dismal and
dehumanising, and I’m afraid its
effects will be far-reaching”. She
reflects the widely held belief – not
just among humanities teachers and
ex-students, but among many others
who understand the rich benefits to
themselves and to society of an
intellectual hinterland – that the
nature of humanities degrees creates a
better-rounded graduate. A good
humanities degree, rigorously taught
according to a syllabus of breadth and
depth, is excellent training for life.
Such graduates bring huge talents to
society in terms of their creativity,
intelligence and ability to think.
Above all, they should in their
studies acquire that critical faculty
that takes a lifetime to develop fully
but which, in a free society, is a most
valuable tool. It ill becomes any
government to seek to marginalise
the humanities, or to snuff them out,
in the supposed interests of what they
define as “progress”.

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Comment

AP

Waiting game:
travellers queue to
go through security
at Heathrow Airport
earlier this summer

CAMILLA TOMINEY

Flying is now a nightmare of incompetence and despair
I
Welcome to
the future of
foreign
holidays:
delays,
atrocious
customer
service and
nostalgia for
a lost
Golden Age
of travel

t is certainly a good thing, for
whoever owns his back catalogue,
that Frank Sinatra never flew on
Wizz Air at the height of summer
holiday season.
Because I’m not sure that the old
crooner would have found himself
romanticising the notion of “gliding/
starry-eyed/ where the air is rarefied”
if he’d had the misfortune to fly from
Málaga to Luton in the “comfort” of
one of the budget airline’s nonreclining ironing board seats.
In Come Fly With Me, Ol’ Blue Eyes
was singing about a bygone era of
travel, when silly things like actually
reaching your destination seemed to
matter to those in charge of the
aircraft.
Sadly, that so-called “Golden Age”
of air travel has been overtaken by a
sort of faceless, automated hell, with
smiling air hostesses serving free
flowing booze replaced by apps and
barcodes that only seem to provide a
one-way ticket to abject misery.
Just imagine the Chairman of the
Board having to grapple with one of
those self-service bag drop machines,
as we did at Heathrow Terminal 5 a
fortnight ago.
As I stood at the unmanned
computer terminal, printing out my
own luggage tags and fixing them to
our suitcases in the vague hope that
we might one day see them again, I
couldn’t help but conclude that we
have regressed since the days of paper
tickets, inedible plane food and
smoking sections.
Remember when you used to have
to call ahead to “confirm” your flights?
It might seem archaic now, but it was
really quite a handy way of ensuring
that you were going to get to go on
holiday, as opposed to spending days
camped out in the terminal, waiting
for a flight that may or may not take
off, as some poor travellers have
experienced this summer.
While I appreciate that, back in the
1950s and 1960s, flying was both more
dangerous and more expensive, with
little to do on board except twiddle
your thumbs, at least you were also
afforded the luxury of actually
speaking to human beings, not to
mention your plane almost always
being on schedule.
I know we have all got travel horror
stories to tell, but my experience over
the past fortnight, I think, is indicative
of everything that has gone wrong
with what Sinatra once sang so
lovingly about.
Granted, we went through nothing
like those poor souls having to
abandon Sotogrande for Southwold or

climb through luggage carousels to
retrieve their bags, but it does provide
a snapshot of what is turning out to be
the worst summer for travelling on
record.
And as one whistleblower told me
at Heathrow: most of it could have
been avoided had bosses done more
advanced planning.
Things didn’t bode well for the start
of our holiday to France and Spain
when we were informed by British
Airways a few days before we were
due to leave that our flight to Nice had
been cancelled.
Did we want to book onto another
flight, we were asked, and we duly
went through the motions to switch
to another scheduled service that
day. We couldn’t get seats together,
natch, but that’s what happens
when you try to merge two flights into
one.
With less than 24 hours to go until
take off, we logged on to the website
again – only to read a disconcerting
message basically saying “check in by
all means but you might be better off
rebooking it altogether”.
Eh? Since not even BA seemed
certain that the flight was going to go
ahead or not, it hardly inspired
confidence.
Indeed, another member of our
party (a group of us were flying out to
Collobrières in the South of France to
celebrate a couple’s recent marriage)
was so freaked out by the message
that he resolved to cancel the flights
altogether and drive the 820-mile,
14-hour journey instead.
In the end, the flight took off and
landed on time.
However, we arrived in Nice to
discover – as is so often the case these
days – that the car hire centre was
located somewhere seemingly closer
to Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat,
necessitating a lengthy monorail
journey.
Planes, trains and automobiles and
all that.
In another recent invention in the
interests of “progress”, one man
appeared to be handing out hire cars
on behalf of about seven different
operators. There’s nothing like
landing on time only to have to wait
two hours before being able to drive
out of the airport.
Is there something about being in
an airport that renders staff
completely unable to a) call more
colleagues to help when a queue is
forming, b) tell you why you are
having to queue for so long, or
c) apologise for the delay?
Perhaps it is the same mystical force

The SNP’s latest failure
was entirely predictable

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could have predicted that the SNP’s
flagship minimum pricing policy
on alcohol was doomed to failure,
but now we have the proof.
Alcohol deaths in Scotland have
reached the highest level in 13 years,
with 1,245 people dying from drinkrelated causes in 2021, the largest
death toll since 2008, according to
the National Records of Scotland
(NRS).
As I have written previously in this
column, my mother was an alcoholic
who drank herself to death in 2001, at
the age of 54.
Anyone who knows a chronic
alcoholic will tell you that it doesn’t
matter what the minimum price of the
booze is, they will simply cut back on
other things – like food – to fund their
habit.
By introducing a minimum unit
price of 50p, all the SNP has really
succeeded in doing is make the
poorest drinkers even poorer while
also hitting responsible drinkers in
the pocket. (The NRS also found the

death rate was 5.6 times higher in
Scotland’s poorest communities than
in the wealthiest.)
Incredibly, some are arguing that
the solution is to increase the
minimum unit price even further – to
65p – doubling down on a policy that
just hasn’t worked.
The only thing that gets a heavy
drinker to cut back on their
consumption, however, is therapy.
Yet the SNP has also failed to help
those addicted to drugs, with the
death tally falling by less than 1 per
cent last year.
Each and every one of these deaths
is a tragedy for the person who
couldn’t get help and their families.
The problem has got worse in
lockdown and still there is no plan to
curb this mounting crisis.
As Prof Sir Ian Gilmore, chairman of
the Alcohol Health Alliance UK, has
pointed out: “Unless urgent
investment is poured into treatment
services, there is no hope for turning
this tragic trend around.”

that makes people think nothing of
having a pint at nine in the morning
or paying £10 for a Toblerone they
could buy at the supermarket for less
than half that price. Have M&Ms ever
been more expensive than in the
average duty-free shop? I sincerely
doubt it.
Once we got to the beautiful
medieval French village, all was
magnifique.
Sadly Marseilles airport, from
where we were due to fly to Málaga
four days later, was rather less serene
as hundreds of sweaty passengers
were again largely left on their own to
work out which was the priority lane,
what to do with their bags and why
the flight was delayed.
Again: no explanation and no
apology. In what other world – except,
perhaps, the NHS – would a customer
be expected to wait anything up to
four hours without being told a dicky
bird?
Finally we arrived in Málaga, late
but grateful to have got there, to
collect another hire car. The process

couldn’t have been quicker – we were
met outside the exit, signed the
paperwork on the spot and were
handed the keys to our Fiat Panda
along with a ticket to get out of the car
park.
And that is where the trouble
started. Because you can no longer
pick up or drop off at an airport
without paying an obligatory £5 (and
£1 for every next minute), the entire
process has to be ticketed.
We got to the gate and inserted the
ticket, only to be told it was “invalid”.
We pushed the help button. No one
answered.
By now a significant queue of irate
Spaniards, along with fellow
holidaymakers, had built up behind
us desperate for us to stop being such
idiots and raise the barrier. Had we
tried paying, they suggested, as we
frantically attempted to call back the
man who had waved us off only
minutes earlier. He finally arrived on
one of those electric scooters, a sign,
perhaps, of where modern transport
is heading.

In what other
world – except,
perhaps, the
NHS – would
a customer be
expected to
wait up to four
hours without
being told a
dicky bird?

Which brings us to Thursday
night’s flight home. They call it Wizz
Air but there was nothing
particularly zippy about my
experience of a company that doesn’t
allow you to check-in on the app
without logging into the website,
which in turn doesn’t allow you to
check-in without logging onto the
app.
A text told us of a 70-minute delay
while the website maintained that the
flight was on schedule. After seeking
to engage with the online chat
function – which is basically like
Snapchatting with R2-DT – we called
the “helpline” (“you are 24th in the
queue”) only for the “helper” to tell us
she couldn’t help and that we should
call back later before putting the
phone down on us.
We were supposed to land at
10.30pm on Thursday evening but
didn’t take off until closer to 11pm.
Something about a technical fault and
prostrate crew member.
Welcome to holidaying in 2022. As
Sinatra would say: That’s Life.

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The Saturday Interview
B

was building the machines to make
the belts. I was challenging
everything price-wise. If something
didn’t work, I’d go to Italy to find a
machine that could edge the belts in
the way that we needed. Machines
have never held fear for me.”
Pre-farming he was also used to
weather impacting the bottom line.
“We made swimming costumes and
rain coats; a bad season of weather
could blow either out of the water. It
has far more impact on farming than
on fashion but it is still pretty big.”
I ask him what he thinks of Mulberry
now. The brand celebrated its 50th
anniversary last year and Johnny Coca
has been the creative head since 2015.
He pauses. “I’m not sure it knows
where it is going at the minute. What is
it that says it is embracing giving back,
while at the same time creating a
product that shows it is ahead of the
curve? Emma Hill and Georgia Fendley
did a very good job of using the heritage
that I had created. Whereas it had gone
a bit Prada-esque a while back.”
“If you wanted me to design a
handbag now …” he muses. “Firstly, I
wouldn’t want to design a handbag as
that is not the most important thing to
be doing. Secondly, I’d be doing a
different version of that [he points to
my tired-looking rucksack] which I did
years ago but out of materials that are
eco-friendly.” Hemp perhaps, I hazard,
with no real clue. “Could be.”
While at Sharpham Park, Saul shows
me around the mill he built in 2007,
where a scattering of employees are
casting their eyes over spelt grain as it
is pearled, milled and packaged, ready
to be sent out to customers directly
and to supermarkets, including
Waitrose and Sainsbury’s. There is the
dry, dusty smell of heat and metal, and
the sharp sound of continuous
processing. Saul is in his element,
raising his voice over the machinery,
explaining every process.
Just as when he was at the helm of
Mulberry, he is insistent that having
oversight of everything – growing,
harvesting, milling, pricing,
packaging, branding, selling – is a key
element of being able to stay flexible
and reactive. Spelt existed as a main
crop in Britain in 2000BC and was a
staple of the Roman army’s diet,
known as their “marching bread”. Its
proponents laud the health benefits: its

‘If I was going to farm, I
wanted to farm the right
way, and understand
what was happening’

‘Jeremy Clarkson has
done a fantastic job.
He brings the subject
of farming alive’

we address food security, and grow
nutritionally good food in the UK, is
massive,” he says. “It is coming.”
A report by the Department for
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
in December last year found that just
under half of the actual food on our
plates is produced in the UK. We
import 46 per cent of fresh vegetables
and 84 per cent of fresh fruit.
“We should be producing more like
80 per cent,” says Saul. “It’s a huge way
to go under difficult circumstances –
and unprepared. We should be able to
do things much more quickly if the
Government is focused on it.”
This sounds somewhat dramatic.
Does he think we will see rationing
next year, I ask, half-joking. “I really
hope not.” He is deadly serious. “Now
is a moment that the British people and
the British Government could support
farmers, because they know food
security and food inflation is on us.”
Many agree he is right to be
concerned. Living in a world of
supreme interconnectedness, of
course, means we’re vulnerable to
what’s happening on the other side of
it. The Ukraine war has most recently
brought this into sharper focus.
The Russian blockade of Ukraine’s
ports has meant up to 25 million tonnes
of grain has been left to rot in silos – an
amount Volodymyr Zelensky has
warned could balloon to 75 million
tonnes after this year’s harvest. Wheat
prices are up 59 per cent on last year,
sunflower oil is up 30 per cent, and
maize 23 per cent, according to the
World Trade Organization.
Alongside the cost of living crisis
and fuel concerns, fertiliser prices
have tripled in price already this year.
“The risk we have now is farmers
won’t be able to afford fertiliser and
we’ll end up with more feed for
animals, which doesn’t require
spraying to get the protein levels up
required for bread, which will
perpetuate our lack of food and
inability to feed ourselves.
“We will come to spring and find
there’s plenty of food for animals, but
nothing has been directed towards
human beings.” In May, the Bank of
England’s governor warned of
“apocalyptic” rises in the price of food.
Food inflation is at almost 10 per cent.
Already the trickle-down effect is
being felt keenly in our kitchens.
Almost one in 20 British people said
members of their household went a
whole day without eating in the past
month, because they couldn’t afford
or get access to food, according to
analysis by the Food Foundation. In
April, 13.8 per cent of households
experienced moderate or severe
food insecurity, a five per cent
increase on January.
That’s to say nothing of Covid and
Brexit which had already disrupted the
picture. Saul is not all doom and
gloom, however, far from it.
“The good news is we have had a
huge meat industry in this country, so
we could take a proportion of that now
and turn it back into plant-based.
There has to be a step change,” says
Saul, who does eat meat, usually
venison, but rarely. “Meat will
definitely remain but it is going to
become more expensive and less of a
part of our diets in every sense.”

gluten structure makes it easier to
digest than wheat and it’s a good
source of iron, micronutrients and B
vitamins. The only reason Saul heard
about the strong, resilient crop was
because his sister had been looking
into nutrient-rich and easily digestible
diets after being diagnosed in 2003
with bowel cancer and dealing with
the invasive radiotherapy. It had fallen
out of fashion in the 20th century
when crops producing higher yields
took over. Its detractors bemoan the
husk, which is difficult to remove and
makes its yield 40 per cent lower than
that of wheat. Either way, Saul saw a
gap and a rebranding opportunity.
In 2003 he sold his Mulberry
shares, using the money to buy the
failing dairy farm that was an
extension of the old manor house that
he and Monty have lived in since 1977
when they married.
“We were in the closing stage of the
battle with Christina Ong when the
farmer came round and said he was
going to put it up for sale. We had
made an offer on it 10 years previously
so we’d always wondered about it.”
Their elegant manor house is built
from local Blue Lias stone and
surrounded by cultivated herbaceous
borders and overflowing terracotta
pots. It feels like a haven. The couple
has three grown-up children in, or
very near, their forties – Will, Cam
and Freddy – and four grandchildren
ranging in age from one to 10. Saul
speaks particularly fondly of his
eldest grandson. “He says, ‘When you
die, Ra-ra, can I have your Jeep and
farm?’ ”
He has created hidden swings for
them and a summerhouse. His
vegetable garden is superb and he
built his own greenhouse, rightly
believing he could make it better and
cheaper himself.
As well as the farm and visits to
London to see customers he does a lot
of tai chi, including competitions.
Then there’s tennis, his love of car
racing and gardening. Once, he
designed and planted a 100ft
herbaceous border based entirely on
leaf colour, stretching from lightest
white-silver to reddy-black. How on
earth do you find the time for all this?
“When it’s a passion, you find time.”
He is a fan of Jeremy Clarkson. “He
has done a fantastic job. In Top Gear,
his car world, Jeremy was getting a bit
precocious. He is precocious in this
environment [Clarkson runs a
1,000-acre farm in the Cotswolds] but
his complete vulnerability is
marvellous. When you compare it
[Clarkson’s Farm, the Amazon
documentary] to Countryfile, which
has become anodyne with
information in comparison, Jeremy
brings the subject alive.”
I’m glad there is cause for cheer
because, from some angles, British
agriculture looks a depressing field.
“Yes, but I’m an optimist and the
opportunity is enormous. As a country
we are obstinate but forward- and
free-thinking and that is a vital
element of what needs to happen to
make these changes.
“We are a bit like submarines, we
have to take a deep breath and
disappear underwater for long periods
of time and before we come up for air.”

JAY WILLIAMS

ouncing along a dry dirt track in a
rusted Second World War Willys
Jeep, Roger Saul comes to an
unexpected halt. His eyes light up as
he points towards two empty fields.
“These are the ones I was telling you
about,” says the 72-year-old owner of
Sharpham Park, a 300-acre farm near
Glastonbury in Somerset.
I see acres of what looks like
neglect: pink clover intermixed with
rye grass, nettles and bindweed.
“Clover is excellent at fixing nitrogen
back into soil. We went organic
pretty much straight away. If I was
going to farm, I wanted to farm the
right way, and understand what was
really happening.”
A lot more is going on here beneath
the surface than meets the eye. Saul,
founder of luxury British fashion
brand Mulberry, is now a dedicated
organic and environmental player. The
farm – run by Saul for almost 20 years,
since being ousted from Mulberry
in a coup led by Singaporean
businesswoman Christina Ong – is the
UK’s largest grower of spelt, an ancient
wholegrain similar to wheat, with a
slightly nuttier taste.
Sharpham produces around 75
tonnes of spelt annually and mills
around 750 tonnes at its on-site mill
– 90 per cent of which is bought from
other farms. He is the UK’s biggest
producer of spelt, making and selling
grain, flour, bran, cereal, pasta and
spelt milk. He grows walnuts and
apples, and has a 130-strong herd of
red deer alongside a couple of Jack
Russells, an English pointer, and some
alpacas – beloved of his wife Monty, a
former Dior model, whom he met
during the Mulberry heydays.
Relaxed, softly spoken and polished,
with an orange cashmere jumper
draped over his shoulders and navy
combat trousers, on this parched
August day Saul is regrouping from
harvest. However he has a much more
pressing issue on his mind: global food
insecurity.
Since the war in Ukraine, experts
have started to warn we could be just
one global shock away from a food
crisis. We have, they say, become too
dependent on the rest of the world for
some of our meat and a lot of our fruit
and veg. Saul agrees wholeheartedly.
“We are near a Lord Kitchener
moment, when the question of how do

Roger Saul

‘Our food crisis is nearing a
Lord Kitchener moment’
The creator of luxury brand Mulberry is now one of our leading grain producers.
He tells India Sturgis why we must all make changes to secure the UK’s food supply
“There’s no way I’m saying to beef
and sheep farmers they shouldn’t be
[farming]. What I’d be trying to do is
encourage them to produce more
crops or fruit or vegetables on their
land.”
He is frustrated with a government
poleaxed by political in-fighting, a
leadership contest and distracted by
energy concerns. He doesn’t profess a
preference for Truss or Sunak, saying
both would be “very capable in their
own way but I want to hear more about
food security – and I would have liked
to hear more earlier”, and says that
Defra’s George Eustice should be given
more room to tackle these issues.
The way out, as Saul sees it, is
better training and support for
farmers to maintain soil health and go
organic where possible, decent
financial incentives to grow plantbased produce, reinstating capital
grants and on-going grants to help
farmers transition.
“[The Government] needs to move
fast. We all sow our seeds for winter
crops by October. They have got two
months to get out of their traps and
start telling farmers, ‘We are going to
pay you to look after the soil and we
are going to train you how to do this.’

“We have already shot ourselves in
the foot. Anything where we have
been pouring chemicals on is
effectively denuding the soil. Once you
have destroyed lots of those microbial
values, they are not coming back in a
hurry. You can’t just pour more
fertiliser on to bring them back.
“The one good thing Putin has
done is make it more expensive to
buy fertiliser and sprays so farmers
won’t use as much. That is massively
good news.”
Saul was born barely 10 miles from
where we’re standing, in Lottisham
near Shepton Mallet. His upbringing
was dominated by leather and farming:
his father was production manager for
a Clarks shoe factory, where 60,000
pairs of shoes were made weekly, and
he would take Saul on Saturday
mornings; his grandfather had an
arable farm and kept pigs in
Hemingstone in Suffolk, a spot he
visited frequently with his two
younger brothers and one older sister.
“As children we always wanted to
muck out the pigs or go on a combine
harvester. It was a close, warm family.
I’ve always wanted to recreate that.”
Despite his father’s job, the family
was “reasonably frugal”. Their house

was rented and his parents could only
afford to send Saul, the eldest son, to
boarding school. “We were taught
things had to be earned.”
He describes going to Kingswood in
Bath as a 10-year-old as “quite
traumatic” because of the closeness
fostered between siblings. “To go off
on my own, that was scary. It taught
me the resilience and independence
that I needed as I went on.”
He got a D and two Es in history,
geography and economics but
somehow landed a scholarship to
Westminster College to do business
studies, beating more than 200
applicants. He chalks this up to
having already set up a stall on
Portobello Road selling Victorian
military uniforms which he found in
Somerset and hitch-hiked across to
London. “I was trading and already
doing stuff. I think they thought, ‘this
boy means business’.”
But he left Westminster within the
first year to work for Carnaby Street
guru, menswear designer John
Michael Ingram, initially making
coffee and reorganising cupboards
before getting to work in the shops.
Inspired by hippies coming into the
store to sell belts that would then be

sold for vast profit, Saul decided to
try making a run of snakeskin
leather chokers.
“My father told me to go to
Bermondsey, where all the leather
wholesalers were, and I bought a load
of snakeskin in different colours. I
stitched them together, put a bit of
Velcro on the back and a cut-out
butterfly on the front.”
At the age of 20 he was selling them
to Biba and had relished the rush of
retail. The following year, in 1971, he
formed Mulberry with his mother, a
sleeping partner, and a £500 cash
injection from his parents that was a
21st birthday gift. His sister Rosemary
designed the tree logo, inspired by
mulberry trees that grew near his
school and in honour of the Mulberry
Harbour built for the D-Day landings
in 1944 – both his parents had been
army officers during the war, and
military uniform has long been a
source of inspiration for him.
At first, he made leather buckled
belts then moved into bags and
womenswear. Has there been much
crossover between the engineering
side of fashion and farming?
“It is surprisingly similar,” he says.
“For Mulberry, I was a manufacturer. I

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Saturday 6 August 2022 The Daily Telegraph

Features & Arts

Inside Boris and Carrie’s secret wedding party
“There are many opportunities, which
lead to disasters, and disasters can lead
to new opportunities, including to
opportunities for fresh disasters.”
He also described the mass
ministerial resignations that forced him
to resign as: “The greatest stitch-up
since the Bayeux Tapestry.”
According to Rachel Johnson, the
evening got livelier as the night wore
on. She described in an article for The
Spectator magazine how “we all busted
our best moves” including the slut drop,
in which women “collapse to the floor
like a broken deckchair”. While Rachel,
56, said she struggled to get up off the
floor, it was “not a challenge shared by
my sister-in-law … She could win a
Commonwealth gold hands-down in
this particular high-risk dance move”.
Later, a barefooted Rachel Johnson
joined in with a conga and “ripped off a
big toenail” for her troubles.

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Guests had no escape
from the speeches or
the bitching about
Rishi Sunak

Street food, hay
bales, ‘slut drops’ and
a giant conga:
Gordon Rayner on
the highlights of the
Johnsons’ nuptials

T

he bride wore a gold minidress,
the groom wore a baggy cream
suit and the guests wore
expressions of mild bemusement.
At the Prime Minister’s wedding
celebration, Sweet Caroline had been
chosen for the first dance as a romantic
tribute to Caroline Johnson, better
known as Carrie, but her husband Boris
seemed to think he was at an England
football match, where the song has
become a fan favourite.
His dad-dancing at the couple’s
wedding celebration last weekend was
more “let’s all have a disco”, as sports
crowds chant, than “how can I hurt
when holding you”, in the words of Neil
Diamond’s song.
The moment, however, was entirely
in keeping with the eccentricity of the
whole event, held in the middle of a
field where guests had no escape from
the speeches, the South African street
food or the bitching about Rishi Sunak.
It featured slut drops, congas, rum
punch, hay bales, a steel band, Abba
songs and Jacob Rees-Mogg, but
without an actual wedding for the
guests to attend, or a “sit-down” meal, it
was an event that appeared not to know
quite what it was trying to be.
It was supposed to have taken place
at Chequers, the Prime Minister’s
weekend retreat in Buckinghamshire,
where guests could have breathed in
the history of a house where presidents,
prime ministers and monarchs have
come and gone for more than a century.
But, following criticism of the plan,
the party was switched at the last
minute to the Daylesford House estate
of Tory donor Lord Bamford in
Gloucestershire, which might have
explained the slightly threadbare
nature of the arrangements.
A video of the happy couple’s first
dance, which was published online
yesterday, shows a sparse-looking
audience in a cavernous marquee
failing to answer Mrs Johnson’s
invitations to join in.
The Prime Minister, who wore a
charcoal suit on what was his third
wedding day last year, struggled to pull
off the Man From Del Monte look,
wearing a cream suit with trousers that
needed taking up and a jacket that
appeared too long for his body.
Carrie, 34, had greeted guests earlier
in the day wearing a £3,500 halterneck “Ruby” wedding gown by the
designer Savannah Miller which she

had rented for £25 a day, but by the
time the first dance happened at 8.30
she had changed into a shimmering
gold minidress with a plunging
neckline that was more disco diva than
blushing bride.
Neither she nor the 58-year-old Prime
Minister looked comfortable dancing in
front of their guests, and they may have
been relieved when their two-year-old
son Wilfred, dressed in a navy blue
sailor suit, toddled across to them
halfway through the dance and became
the centre of attention as he was twirled
around on the hips of his parents.
Guests did take to the dancefloor
when the DJ started playing Abba
records – a favourite of Carrie’s – and
there was even an attempt to get
Rees-Mogg to join in, which failed. The
fact that it started raining also drove
guests inside, where they had little else
to do but dance.
Earlier in the evening the guests
were treated to a succession of
speeches, starting with the Prime
Minister’s sister Rachel, standing in for
their brother Jo, who had been badly
delayed. She told the guests that, if her
brother was “world king”, as he had said
as a child he wanted to be, then Carrie
was “world queen”.
Carrie herself was next up, with a
funny and affectionate tribute to her
husband, who, she said, was “the
cleverest person I know but he never
makes anyone feel stupid”.
Last up was the Prime Minister
himself, who stood with one hand in his
trouser pocket and the other clutching
A4 sheets of notes.
In a defiant and typically joke-filled
speech, Johnson told his guests that he
had received “masses of letters to
resign, mostly from my closest family”,
according to The Times. He went on:
Clockwise from top left: Nadine Dorries,
Carrie and Boris Johnson, Lord and Lady
Bamford, Amanda Milling, Zac Goldsmith,
Rachel Johnson; Jacob Rees-Mogg (inset)

Around 200 people were invited to
the bash, held more than a year after the
couple married in a Catholic ceremony
at Westminster Cathedral. Guests
arrived from 5.30pm and the party
ended at 11.30pm, though many people
had to leave early because they had
such long journeys home.
Rachel said the party was held in “a
magical flower-filled field”, with
spectacular views over the Cotswolds,
but other guests whispered that the
party had the vibe of a failed pop festival,
complete with portable lavatories.
Instead of tables and chairs guests had
to make do with sitting on hay bales, or
standing up to eat their street food,
which was served from trailers.
Grass-fed British beef boerewors
rolls, masa corn tortilla tacos and
smoked barbacoa lamb were cooked by
Smoke and Braai, which specialises in
South African-style barbecues, and

there was ice cream supplied by
Dalton’s Dairy, a family-run firm from
the Peak District.
The guest list was light on
parliamentarians, partly because so
many of them had turned on the Prime
Minister only days before, and only the
most ultra-loyal Johnsonites received
an invitation. They included ReesMogg, the Brexit opportunities
minister, and his wife Helena; Ben
Wallace, the Defence Secretary;
Nadine Dorries, the Culture Secretary;
Amanda Milling, the former party
chairman; John Whittingdale, the
former culture secretary who once
employed Carrie Johnson; Jake Berry,
the former northern powerhouse
minister; Nigel Adams, the minister
without portfolio; and Lord Goldsmith,
a close friend of Carrie’s.
Other guests included the Australian
actress and singer Holly Valance, who
is married to the property developer
Nick Candy; the Prime Minister’s
father Stanley; Boris’s official
photographer Andrew Parsons and his
girlfriend Rhiannon Mills, the Sky
News royal correspondent; Lord
Bamford; and Dan Rosenfield, the
former No 10 chief of staff.
As a former head of communications
for the Conservatives, Carrie Johnson
knows all about messaging, and was
keen to put the word out that her
dress was rented, and that the food on
offer was eco-friendly because the
catering firm buys its ingredients
from local farmers.
But the messaging was somewhat
undermined by the reality. Guests
arrived in a stream of Range Rovers,
Rolls-Royces and other gas guzzlers,
with some even arriving by helicopter.
By choosing to hold their party in
such a rural location, the couple
ensured that it had the largest possible
carbon footprint. In only a matter of
weeks, though, worrying about
political mis-steps will cease to be much
of a concern for them.

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The Daily Telegraph Saturday 6 August 2022

25

Features & Arts

‘I won’t put my girls
in that organisation’:
the trans crisis
facing Girlguiding
I

n its current summer newsletter,
Girlguiding – the organisation
formerly known as the Girl Guides
– shares the real-life story of a recent
recruit welcomed warmly into
Rainbows, the organisation’s youngest
tier for four-to-seven-year-old girls.
The child in question – a lover of dolls
and scarves and dresses, we are told,
who wants to be called “Rainbow” – is
biologically male, though his mother
says in the article that his “true
gender” is female.
The circulation of “Rainbow’s story”
to the 290,000 girls between four and
18 who are members of Rainbows,
Brownies, Guides and Rangers has
caused a storm of protest among
parents. “I found it horrific reading,”
says Catherine, a former nursery
teacher and mother of three from
north London, whose eight-year-old
daughter is currently a Brownie.
“I really object to my child being
used as a prop in this social
experiment of pretending that
biological males can be girls.
Girlguiding is telling my daughter
that something that isn’t true, is true.
And to think the opposite is wrong.”
Far from being woke and
progressive, she says, the tone of the
article – that those who like dolls and
dresses are girls – is, she argues,
“wholly regressive in terms of sexist
stereotyping. I was a girl in the 1980s
who preferred train sets and play
fights, but it never occurred to me
that I was a boy. And no one
suggested it to me.”
In its move since 2018 to become
“proudly trans-inclusive”, Girlguiding
had been advised by Stonewall, the
LGBT rights organisation whose work
in this area with public, private and
charitable organisations has proved
controversial.

Last week, barrister Allison Bailey
was awarded £22,000 after winning
part of a tribunal claim she brought
against her chambers on the grounds
she had been discriminated against
because of her gender-critical views.
Her chambers had brought in
Stonewall in order to become more
trans-inclusive. Bailey had questioned
Stonewall’s positions, and accused it of
“trans-extremism”.
And last weekend, Stonewall
tweeted approvingly about research
suggesting that children as young as
two recognise their “trans identity”,
and castigated nurseries for not doing
enough to respect this (though the
Tweet was later amended, moving the
focus off the disputed research).
What worries Catherine most,
however, is that the implementation
of the new approach at Girlguiding
does not include sufficient
safeguarding controls – for example,
to stop biologically male children
sharing tents and showers with girls
such as her daughter when they go
away on camp.
“My daughter is looking forward to
becoming a Guide when she is 10, but
as it stands I will not be sending her.
These are crucial years for her as she
goes through puberty, and I don’t
want it to be normalised that she
should take her clothes off to get into
her pyjamas next to biological males
who have a penis.”
Catherine is therefore writing to
Girlguiding to register her objections,
which will be the latest in a recent
flood of concerns directed at the
charity, founded 109 years ago by
Robert Baden Powell and his sister
Agnes, two years after the former had
set up the Scouts for boys.
Earlier this year, Girlguiding found
itself in hot water when one of its

volunteer group leaders in
Nottinghamshire, 58-year-old Monica
Sulley, a trans woman, posted
Instagram pictures of herself in
bondage gear and with a fake assault
rifle. The images horrified some of
those with children in the Guides. On
Mumsnet, the popular website for
parents, a lengthy online debate took
place about how such a volunteer was
not picked up through Girlguiding’s
scrutiny processes.
“I will not put my girls in that
organisation until they have a more
robust safeguarding policy,” one user
wrote. “I am disappointed by
Girlguiding’s response to this,” said the
next. “As a leader myself, I am
increasingly disillusioned with the top
of the organisation”.

No policies exist to
stop biologically male
children sharing
showers with girls
Another – one of the 80,000
volunteers who run local Guides
groups – had already resigned: “I quit
because I couldn’t reconcile the
guidance with my understanding of
safeguarding.”
In a written response to its handling
of Monica Sulley, Girlguiding insists
that it “operates a thorough complaints
procedure and takes any safeguarding
concerns raised very seriously. In this
case, the volunteer has cooperated
fully and the investigation has
concluded. The volunteer made the
decision to leave and is no longer a
volunteer at Girlguiding.”
Yet the appearance of Rainbow’s
story has once again raised fears

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The charity founded by Baden Powell is facing accusations of being
captured by an extreme gender ideology. Peter Stanford reports

Signs of the times: Girl Guides take part in
a laundry competition in London, 1922

among some parents that Girlguiding
is putting the needs of young boys who
feel they are female above the
wellbeing of their daughters, in what
was created and has long been valued
as an all-women safe space. Alumnae
include actor Emma Thompson,
athlete Kelly Holmes, newscaster Kate
Silverton, author JK Rowling and
comedian Shappi Khorsandi.
One mother has decided against
sending her daughter to Rainbows
when she turns five. It says something
of the tone of the debate within
guiding that this mother doesn’t want
to be named for fear of a backlash, but
she tells me that she put her daughter’s
name down for a place in Rainbows
straight after she was born.
“I feel now that Girlguiding is
promoting an ideology in its recent
policy changes. When I was a Brownie,
it was all about girls being strong and
independent, building their selfconfidence. Today, it seems that
Girlguiding is refusing to acknowledge
that including biological males poses
some increased safeguarding
concerns, especially around

Changing society: Girl Guides take part in a
laundry competition in London in 1922

accommodation and among leaders.”
When she wrote to the local pack to
explain her decision, she was referred
to the head office – and received (she
says) a brush-off. “I am not anti-trans,
but these are children and
safeguarding is a red flag for me.
Girlguiding has become a top-down
organisation that doesn’t listen to its
members and tells them to like it or
lump it when they disagree.”
Girlguiding rejects this
characterisation, and questions the
extent of the internal criticism it is
facing. In response to my queries, a
spokesperson said: “Girlguiding
changes as the lives of girls and society
changes, and our community of girls,
volunteers, staff, parents and carers
told us during our strategy
consultation that they want us to be
inclusive and welcoming to all.”
Certainly, the organisation’s latest
published figures suggest that the
organisation is having no problem
recruiting, with a 20 per cent growth

seen since 2021 in its membership
among four- to 18-year-olds (though
that may also have something to do
with pent-up demand from the
lockdown period). And it is
oversubscribed, with 56,882 on the
waiting list, though its website also
concedes a drop in overall
membership “in the past few years”
from 500,000 to 330,000.
In the absence of any official
willingness to debate this latest flash
point, Heather Binding, founder of the
Women’s Rights Network – with 1,200
members in 70 groups, many of whom
are concerned at the treatment of
those who hold gender-critical views
– suggests that the message
Girlguiding is signalling with the story
is “that society has changed. Selfidentification is now the norm, so we
must all get on with it.”
While no one would want
Girlguiding to be behind when it comes
to general societal attitudes, its critics
feel it is currently too far in advance of
them. And, for an organisation that was
once a staple of middle England, it is
turning out to be an uneasy place to be.

What a man’s T-shirt really says about him
No garment can give
the world more intel
about the character
of the bloke wearing
it, says Laura Craik

HERE’S WHAT YOU
SHOULD WEAR

T

o some extent, every month is
T-shirt month if you’re a man. In
winter, they’re hidden under
knits. In spring, they’re layered under a
shirt. But August is a peak T-shirt
month and however much or little they
are into fashion, every man knows that
his choice of T-shirt says something
about him without him ever having to
open his mouth. But what if it says the
wrong thing? Here, we break down the
most common types of T-shirt dominating summer 2022, and the message they
convey.

Embroidered T-shirt
£39, percivalclo.com

Cotton polo shirt
£115, sunspel.com

Not all logos are created equal, and
nobody knows this better than
Graphic Logo Man, a font nerd ever
since he discovered Neville Brody as a
student. A designer/architect/art
director by trade, to say he overthinks
the logos on his T-shirts is an
understatement.
He has a proud selection of vintage
Atari, Sega and Mythos (it’s a Greek
beer) T-shirts amassed from the
frequent trips he took to New York,
Tokyo and Athens, back in the day
before he had kids and loved rooting
around second-hand shops for
obscure, imaginative finds.
But RedBubble ruined things: now,
anyone with a credit card and £25.99
can buy a Sega T-shirt.

SUPERDRY MAN
Shopping outlets have a lot to answer
for. So, too, does David Beckham.
Between them, these sartorial
bellwethers have created a monster,
and its name is Superdry Man.
At BBQs all over the country, you
can see him in his natural habitat, next
to the Weber, swigging on a Peroni as
the burgers gently char. In his mind,
Superdry is the sort of T-shirt that
nobody can call you a w--ker for
wearing, because, well, it’s Superdry.
Which is why he has 15 of them,
including a white one that says
Superdry in black letters, a khaki one
that says Superdry in yellow letters
and a washed-out black one that says
Superdry Vintage in a retro font.

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GRAPHIC LOGO MAN

LOW V-NECK
Simon Cowell

WHITE CREW NECK
Ryan Reynolds

GRAPHIC LOGO
Ben Affleck

POLO
Alexander Skarsgard

WHITE T-SHIRT MAN

one can possibly think that he looks
good in them. Russell Brand and Chris
Hemsworth are also fans, each man
neatly illustrating the V-neck’s biggest
ick: namely, how brazenly it shows off
a man’s chest hair, or lack of it. Hairy
men with a thick rug à la Cowell look
like they’re boasting about their virility,
while smooth, hairless men like
Hemsworth look weirdly effeminate.
Conclusion: the V-neck seems to
diminish any man who appears in it.
Choose a discreet crew neck instead.

solid, inoffensive choice. The problems
arise due to the sizing: by the time
they’ve bought one generous enough
to cover their gut, it’s too long in the
body and looks like a mini dress.

So, what should you wear? A quick
straw poll of midlife men reveals that
the T-shirt of their dreams resides in
Uniqlo. Its AIRism crew-neck tee is
generously cut, comes in eight sizes
(XXS – 3XL), 10 muted colours, and has
flattering sleeves that cover the upper
arm (as much a source of contention
for the midlife man as it is for female
counterparts). Best of all, it costs
£14.90. There is absolutely nothing not
to love about this T-shirt – unless you
want to make more of a statement.
For a wider, bolder range of colours,
including stripy options, try Sunspel:
excellent quality, but pricier at £75.
Arket’s T-shirt game is also strong this
summer, and includes terry towelling
options for those who prefer a heavier
fabric (from £55). Meanwhile Asket’s
“Care, Repair and Revive” programme
promises a high degree of
sustainability, and the T-shirts come in
responsibly sourced Egyptian cotton.
And if you’re after a quirky but discreet
graphic, try Percival (from £39).

He’s old enough to know who James
Dean was, and tasteful enough to
admire the classic white T-shirt the
actor wore in Rebel Without A Cause, as
well as Marlon Brando’s in The Wild
One. After a few too many Red Stripes,
he was once spotted by his wife posing
in front of the mirror, ciggie in mouth,
doing his best Brando impression.
Alas, the lack of similarities between
white T-shirt Man and his idol in The
Wild One days don’t stop there. Far be
it from his wife to body shame – she
loves a well-upholstered man – but she
does wish he’d buy a couple of sizes up,
and with a touch less Lycra in the mix.
White is such an unforgiving colour on
a paunch. Only the likes of Ryan
Reynolds can pull this one on or off.

LOW V-NECK MAN
This is a perplexing choice of T-shirt.
Its patron saint is Simon Cowell, but no

POLO SHIRT MAN
Polo shirt man comes in several
mutations, each with a very different
meaning. The dominant strain is the
man in heritage blue, mint or lemon
Polo Ralph Lauren, the default
summer holiday choice for Russian
oligarchs, Surrey fund managers and
KPMG auditors who last went clothes
shopping circa 1996, the week before
their honeymoon. As T-shirts go, it’s a

BAND TEE MAN
He knows he can’t wear a Rolling
Stones T-shirt any more, not least
because his son does, bought off
Depop for £49.99. Nirvana is equally
out of bounds, because for some
strange reason the parents in his leafy
west London enclave like to dress their
pre-school kids in toddler versions,
because why not dress your three
year-old in homage to known drug
user Kurt Cobain? Band Tee Man has
been a music lover all his life, and has
the T-shirts to prove it. Whenever pub
nights roll round, he overthinks which
ones he can get away with. The Doors?
Prince? Can he risk wearing his old
Metallica T-shirt, or has Stranger
Things rendered that out of bounds?

Midweight T-shirt
£17, arket.com

AIRism cotton T-shirt
£14.90, uniqlo.com

Lightweight T-shirt
£35, asket.com

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Saturday 6 August 2022 The Daily Telegraph

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Mr Dominic Cork, former
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journalist and broadcaster, 73;
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ST PAUL’S CATHEDRAL: 8 HC; 8.45
Morning Prayer; 11.15 Sung Eucharist,
Precentor; 3 Evensong, Precentor; 4.30
Organ Recital, Alexander Palotai; 5.30
Eucharist.
WESTMINSTER ABBEY: 8 HC; 10
Morning Prayer with hymns; 11.15 Sung
Eucharist, Sacrist; 3 Evensong, Rt Rev
Anthony Ball; 5 Organ Recital, Charles
Francis; 6 HC with hymns, Sacrist.
SOUTHWARK CATHEDRAL: 8.30
Morning Prayer; 9 Eucharist, Missioner;
11 Choral Eucharist, Missioner; 3 Choral
Evensong, Caroline Clifford; 6 Night
Prayer, Sub Dean, online only.
Streaming details from cathedral.
southwark.anglican.org
ALL HALLOWS BY THE TOWER: 11
Parish Sung Eucharist, Rev Jen
Midgley-Adam. Online viewing via
ahbtt.org.uk
ALL SAINTS, Margaret St: 11 High Mass,
Fr Peter Anthony; 6 Choral Evensong
and Benediction. Also streamed from
allsaintsmargaretstreet.org.uk
ALL SOULS, Langham Place: Worship
at 9.30 and 11.30 Ollie Lansdowne, 5.30
David Turner. Services also streamed
from www.allsouls.org
GROSVENOR CHAPEL, South Audley
Street: 11 Sung Eucharist, Rev Dr
Richard Fermer.
HTB Brompton Rd: Informal Service
9.30, 11.30, 5 and 7. 11.30 Service live
streamed from htb.org
HTB Onslow Square: Informal Service
10.30, 4.30 and 6.30. 11.30 Service live
streamed from htb.org
HOLY TRINITY, Sloane Square: 11 Sung
Eucharist, Canon Nicholas Wheeler.
ST BARTHOLOMEW THE GREAT,
Cloth Fair: 9 Eucharist (said), Fr
Jeremy Haselock; 11 Choral Eucharist
and Sermon, Fr Evan McWilliams; 5
Choral Evensong and Benediction, Fr
Evan McWilliams. Booking and
streaming details from www.
greatstbarts.com
ST BRIDE’S, Fleet St: 11 Choral
Eucharist, Rev Steve Morris; 5.30
Choral Evensong, Rector. Also available
to view via stbrides.com
ST CLEMENT DANES, Strand: 11 Choral
Eucharist and Baptisms.
ST GEORGE’S, Windsor: 8.30 HC; 10.45
Sung Mattins; 5.15 Evensong.
ST GILES-IN-THE-FIELDS: 11 Sung HC,
Rev Tom Sander; 6.30 Evensong, Rev
Tom Sander.
ST JAMES’S, Piccadilly: 11 Eucharist,
also streamed via sjp.org.uk; 2 Soul at
Saint James.
ST JAMES’S, Sussex Gardens: 10.30
High Mass; 6 Evensong and
Benediction. Also streamed via
stjamespaddington.org.uk
ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS: 10
Eucharist, Rev Richard Carter, also
view from stmartins.digital; 1.30
Eucharist in Cantonese.
ST MARYLEBONE, Marylebone Rd:
8.30 HC, Rev Paul Thomas, streamed
via www.marylebone.org; 11 Choral
Eucharist, Rev Katy Hacker Hughes; 6
Evening Worship with Prayers for
Healing and Anointing, Rev Katy
Hacker Hughes.
ST PAUL’S, Covent Gdn: 11 Eucharist,
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CHAOS AND
ANARCHY IN
CHINESE REPUBLIC.
A GLOOMY OUTLOOK.
LAST HOPE OF
SALVATION.
From PERCEVAL LANDON. HONG KONG, Sunday.
I have just concluded an inland journey from Pekin
to Canton, which has brought me into contact with
almost every aspect of life of Central China – industrial and agricultural, prosperous and depressed
alike. My way took me past the great half-Europeanised centres of the Yangtze Valley and through
quite unknown districts, where white men had
never been seen before; the aspects of China at war
and China under the daily threat of brigandage
were revealed; my companion and I went in chairs
around the almost inconceivably rich rice lands of
Hunan – of which the inhabitants claim that in a
good year their province alone can feed all China,
and in which a 120 per cent. harvest is now being
laboriously gathered in. We dropped down dead
rivers, on which no floating thing moved except
our own junk, and through shut and deserted
towns, so universal is the terror of the riverine
population of the South. We watched the military
effort of both sides in the futile and malignant
struggle which at this supreme moment in China’s
history is sowing deeper and deeper seeds of discontent and disunion, and at last, in baffled civilisation at Canton, there was spread before us proof of
that helpless stagnation of civil life, of trade, and of
all political hope which is stifling the South even
more than the North.
And throughout this visit of inquiry one
unhappy fact has become more and more
clear and certain – that by no body of men
could the mass of the people of China be as
miserably misrepresented as by the men,
whether of the old or the new Parliaments,
into whose nerveless and intriguing hands
the interests and wellbeing of the country
have been committed.

SOUTH CHINA
TROUBLES.
It perhaps will be of interest to deal first with the
military situation in South China. The expulsion of
Dr. Sun Yat Sen from office in Canton took place at
a time when the impetuous but ill-organised Manchurian expedition had been launched against, the
Northern Parliament. Its despatch was timed to
synchronise with Chang Tso Lin’s unsuccessful
raid into Chihli, but it lacked a leader as qualified
as Chang Tso Lin to bring the troops off again from
a lost enterprise. An unwieldy rabble of malcontents from Kwangtung, Hunan, and Yunnan have
for the past two months been lurching backwards
and forwards in 4he midst of a wide terror-stricken
area along the frontiers at Kwangtung, living by pillage, without either leadership or plan of action,

almost without munitions, and out of hand, intent
only—so far as any of them have any clear purpose
at all – upon getting home, therein lies the kernel
of the present situation in South China. Dr. Sun Yat
Sen, who is now exercising a braggart but impotent
authority from the decks of his cruiser Yungfeng,
depends wholly upon this return of his expeditionary force, not so much for his return to power as for
his very existence.
On the other hand, Chen Chiung Ming is
determined that, as a fighting unit, not a man
of Sun Yat Sen’s expedition shall ever reach
his home again.Slowly, but with fair steadiness, he and his’ Lieutenant Yehchu are
breaking up the hordes nominally commanded by Hsu Chung Chih. On our way
down the North River we passed through the
outposts of both sides, receiving civility from
each. In Shiuchou itself a state of desolation
reigned, in a city that has suffered pillage
twice within the last few months.

SUN YAT SEN’S
MENTAL BREAKDOWN.
Still, as I have said, Chen Chiung Ming is slowly
breaking up this Northern expeditionary force.
Unfortunately, as no one knows better than he,
that achievement of his aim will merely disperse
upon the face of the unfortunate country 20,000
men who are still nominally grouped under the
banners of Hsu Chung Chih and his lieutenants
Chu Pai Teh, from Yunnan, and Chen Chia Yu,
from Hunan. No means exist for detaining these
truculent followers of Sun Yat Sen as prisoners of
war. The situation is not much helped by the mental ill-health of Sun Yat Sen at this moment, whose
nervous prostration has already required the
assistance of two foreign brain specialists.
But the disappearance of Sun Yat Sen from the
arena will avail little. The root of the trouble is
that the only hope of the future in South China
– and, therefore, in all China – lies in Chen Chiung Ming. But with a resolute determination
greater even than that of Wu Pei Fu, who occupies a similar position in Northern politics, he
refuses to come forward as the saviour of the
situation. Had this trouble arisen in Europe,
two men of the moment would recognise their
responsibilities and make common cause. But
here neither one nor the other will intervene,
although it is obvious that without their support the action of no other party or person in
China can effect anything.

“YEARS OF TURMOIL”
TO COME.
If the truth must be told, chaos, helpless, and ever
deepening, broods over this richest of Eastern
lands. It is with poignant regret that after three
months’ study of Chinese affairs, both at first hand
and with the cordially extended help of everyone
here who is in a position to form an accurate opinion
of the situation, one leaves the country convinced
that there lie before China years’ of turmoil and
internecine strife. She can only be raised, by her
own efforts, and she still awaits, and is likely long to
await, a saviour from among her own people.

Church services tomorrow
Eighth Sunday after Trinity

Births

Eucharist, Fr Luigi Gioia, also streamed
via www.spkb.org
CHAPEL ROYAL, Hampton Court
Palace: 8.30 Eucharist.
GUARDS CHAPEL, Wellington
Barracks: 11 Choral HC, Band of the
Coldstream Guards, Rev Philip Francis.
OLD ROYAL NAVAL COLLEGE
CHAPEL: 11 Sung Eucharist, Rev Faith
Wakeling, also streamed from www.
ornc.org
CROWN COURT (C-o-S), Covent
Garden: 11.15 Morning Worship, Rev
Scott Rennie. A recorded service can be
viewed via crowncourtchurch.org.uk
ST COLUMBA’S (C-o-S), Pont Street: 11
Morning Service and Baptisms, Rev
William McLaren. Streamed from www.
stcolumbas.org.uk
WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL: Masses:
8, 10 (Sung), 12 (Sung Solemn), 5.30
(Sung) and 7; 9.30 Sung Morning
Prayer; 4 Solemn Vespers and
Benediction. Mass at 10 streamed from
westminstercathedral.org.uk
THE ORATORY, Brompton Rd: Masses:
8, 9, 10 (Family), 11 (Solemn Latin), 12.30,
4.30, 7; 3.30 Sung Vespers and
Benediction.
GREEK ORTHODOX CATHEDRAL,
Moscow Rd: 9.30 Mattins and Divine
Liturgy.
SALVATION ARMY, Oxford St: 11
Morning Worship, Major Liz Chape,
also viewed from www.salvationarmy.
org.uk/regent-hall
WESLEY’S CHAPEL, City Rd: 11
Morning Service and HC, Judith
Lampard; 7 Taizé Service. Streaming
details from wesleyschapel.org.uk
WESTMINSTER CHAPEL, Buckingham
Gate: 11 Morning Service, also streamed
via westminsterchapel.org.uk
WESTMINSTER METHODIST
CENTRAL HALL: 9.30 Church online; 11
Morning Worship; 6 Evening Worship.
Register or watch via MCHW.LIVE
ARMAGH: 10 HC; 11 Eucharist, Dean;
3.15 Evening Prayer.
BATH ABBEY: 8 HC; 9.30 Family
Communion; 11.30 Sung Eucharist; 3.30
Choral Evensong; 6.30 Informal Service.
Streaming details from bathabbey.org
BIRMINGHAM: 9 HC; 11 Sung
Eucharist, Precentor; 3.30 Evening
Prayer. Streaming details from
birminghamcathedral.com
BLACKBURN: 9 Parish Eucharist; 10.30
Cathedral Eucharist; 4 Choral
Evensong. View services via
blackburncathedral.com
BRADFORD: 8 BCP Common Prayer,
Very Rev Andy Bowerman; 10.30
Eucharist, Very Rev Andy Bowerman.
Streaming details from
bradfordcathedral.org
BRISTOL: 7.40 Morning Prayer; 8 HC,
Rev Nic Harris; 10 Cathedral Eucharist,
Rev Dr Minty Hull; 3.30 Choral
Evensong, Canon Jonnie Parkin.
CANTERBURY: 8 HC; 9.15 Mattins; 11
Sung Eucharist, Precentor; 6.30
Evening Prayer (said). Streaming details
from www.canterbury-cathedral.org
CARLISLE 7.40 Morning Prayer; 8 HC;
10.30 Eucharist with Organ Music; 3
Evening Prayer (said). Streaming details
from carlislecathedral.org.uk
CHELMSFORD: 7.45 Morning Prayer; 8
HC; 10.30 Eucharist, Rev Kate Moore;
3.30 Evening Prayer. Streaming details
from chelmsfordcathedral.org.uk

CHESTER: 8.45 HC; 10.30 Cathedral
Eucharist, Canon Jeremy Dussek; 3
Choral Evensong; 6 Compline. To view,
visit chestercathedral.com
CHICHESTER: 8 HC; 9.30 Children,
Families and Caregivers Service; 10
Mattins; 11 Sung Eucharist, Dean; 3
Evensong. Streaming details via
chichestercathedral.org.uk
COVENTRY: 9.15 Welcome to Sunday,
online only; 10.30 Cathedral Eucharist,
Canon Mary Gregory; 12 Litany of
Reconciliation; 4 Choral Evensong,
Canon Kathryn Fleming. Streaming
details from coventrycathedral.org.uk
DERBY: 8.30 HC, Rev Adam Dickens;
10.45 Cathedral Eucharist, Rev Adam
Dickens; 3 Evensong; 4.30
Thanksgiving Service to mark 60 years
of Independence for Jamaica.
Streaming details from derbycathedral.
org
DURHAM: 8 HC; 10 Morning Prayer,
Canon Michael Hampel; 11.15 Sung
Eucharist, Canon Michael Everitt; 3.30
Evensong. Streaming details from
www.durhamcathedral.co.uk
ELY: 8.15 HC; 10.30 Sung Eucharist,
Canon James Garrard; 4 Evensong.
Streaming details from elycathedral.org
EXETER: 8 HC; 9 Morning Prayer; 10
Choral Eucharist; 4 Choral Evensong; 6
Sundays@6. Streaming details from
www.exeter-cathedral.org.uk
GLASGOW, ST MUNGO’s (C-o-S): 11
Morning Service, also streamed from
www.glasgowcathedral.org
GLOUCESTER: 10.15 Eucharist, Canon
Richard Mitchell, also streamed from
gloucestercathedral.org.uk; 3 Evening
Prayer.
GUILDFORD: 7.45 Morning Prayer
(said); 8 HC (said); 9.45 Cathedral
Eucharist, Dean; 6 Evensong, Dean.
Streaming details from www.
guildford-cathedral.org
HEREFORD: 8 HC; 10 Cathedral
Eucharist, Ven Derek Chedzey; 11.30
Morning Prayer; 3.30 Evensong, Preb
Dr John Daniels. Streaming details from
herefordcathedral.org
INVERNESS: 8.30 Holy Eucharist; 10
Sung Eucharist, Rev M. Massey.
Streaming details from
invernesscathedral.org
ISLE OF MAN: 8.30 Communion (BCP);
10.30 Choral Eucharist, Rosemary
Clarke; 3.30 Sung Evening Prayer. Also
streamed from cathedral.im
LEICESTER: Closed for refurbishment,
services will be held in St Martin’s
House. 10.30 Eucharist, also streamed
via leicestercathedral.org
LICHFIELD: 8 HC; 10.30 Choral
Eucharist; 3.30 Choral Evensong.
Streaming details from www.
lichfield-cathedral.org
LINCOLN: 7.45 Litany; 8 HC; 9.15
Mattins; 10 Sung Eucharist, Chancellor;
12.30 HC; 3.45 Choral Evensong, Dr
John Davies.
LIVERPOOL METROPOLITAN
CATHEDRAL: Masses 9, 10, 11 (Solemn)
and 7.
LLANDAFF: 8 Holy Eucharist; 9 Parish
Eucharist; 11.15 Choral Eucharist; 4
Choral Evensong. Streaming details
from llandaffcathedral.org.uk
MANCHESTER: 8.45 Mattins, followed
by HC; 10.30 Holy Eucharist; 4.30
Evening Prayer. Streaming details from
manchestercathedral.org

NEWCASTLE: 8 Eucharist, Rev
Benjamin Jarvis; 10 Sung Eucharist,
Katherine Govier; 4 Choral Evensong.
Also streamed from www.
newcastlecathedral.org.uk
NORWICH: 7.30 Morning Prayer; 8 HC;
10.30 Sung Eucharist with Holy
Baptism, Rev Edwin Wilton-Morgan;
3.30 Evensong, Canon Andy Bryant.
OXFORD: 8 BCP HC; 10 BCP Mattins
(said); 11 Eucharist (said, with hymns),
Sub Dean; 6 Choral Evensong.
PETERBOROUGH: 8 BCP; 9.15 Family
Service; 10.30 Cathedral Eucharist, Vice
Dean;3.30 Evening Prayer. Streaming
details via www.peterboroughcathedral.org.uk
PORTSMOUTH: 8 HC; 9.30 Pompey
Sundays; 11 Eucharist, Chancellor; 5.45
Choral Evensong, Canon Nick Ralph.
Streaming details from
portsmouthcathedral.org.uk
RIPON: 8 HC; 9.30 Mattins; 10.30 Sung
Eucharist, Canon Michael Gisbourne;
12.30 HC; 3.30 Evensong.
ROCHESTER: 8 HC; 10.30 Cathedral
Eucharist, Canon Sue Brewer; 3.15
Choral Evensong.
ST ALBAN: 8 Eucharist; 9.30 Parish
Eucharist, Canon Tim Lomax; 11.15
Choral Eucharist, Dean; 6 Solemn
Evensong, Canon Tim Bull. Streaming
details from stalbanscathedral.org
ST ASAPH: 11 Cathedral Eucharist; 3.30
Evening Prayer.
ST DAVIDS: 8 Holy Eucharist; 9.30
Parish Communion; 11.15 Eucharist,
Canon in Residence; 6 Choral
Evensong, Canon in Residence.
ST EDMUNDSBURY and IPSWICH: 8
HC; 9 All Age Eucharist; 10.30 Sung
Eucharist, Dean; 3.30 Choral Evensong;
4.30 Visiting Choir Recital. Streaming
details from stedscathedral.org
SALISBURY: 8 HC; 9.15 Morning Prayer;
10.30 Eucharist, Dean; 4.30 Choral
Evensong, Chancellor. Streaming
details from www.salisburycathedral.
org.uk
SHEFFIELD: 10.30 Cathedral Eucharist,
Rev Dr Richard Walton; 4 Evensong,
Rev Ian Maher.
SOUTHWELL: 7.40 Litany; 8 HC, Rev
Erika Kirk; 10 Cathedral Eucharist,
Dean; 3.30 Evensong, Missioner.
Streaming details from www.
southwellminster.org
TRURO: 7.30 Morning Prayer; 8 HC; 10
Sung Eucharist, Dean; 4 Evensong,
Canon Elly Sheard. Streaming details
from trurocathedral.org.uk
WAKEFIELD: 8 HC; 9.15 Eucharist; 11
Eucharist (said); 3.30 Evening Prayer
(said); 4.30 Chantry Communion.
WELLS: 8.30 HC; 10.30 Cathedral
Eucharist¸ Sub Dean; 3 Evensong, Preb
Sharon Crossman.
WINCHESTER: 8 HC; 9 Cathedral
Morning Prayer, online only; 11 Sung
Eucharist, Canon Tess Kuin Lawton;
3.30 Evensong, Canon Andy Trenier.
Streaming details via www.
winchester-cathedral.org.uk
WORCESTER: 7.30 Morning Prayer; 8
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worcestercathedral.co.uk
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The Daily Telegraph Saturday 6 August 2022

27

Obituaries

Lady Butter

Sacred Mysteries

Close friend of the Queen and Prince Philip who established the Pushkin Prize for schoolchildren

PHIL WILKINSON/TOPFOTO

L

ADY BUTTER, CVO, who has died
aged 97, was one of the last people to
have known Prince Philip as a small
boy, and she became well known to
television viewers in many royal
documentaries; it could be said that the
mantle of the Queen’s cousin Margaret
Rhodes, after her death in 2016, fell on to
Lady Butter as she had witnessed so much
of royal life.
Myra Butter once observed that the
Queen Mother had hoped that Princess
Elizabeth would marry a Grenadier Guard
– many of whom, such as the future Duke of
Grafton, were stationed at Windsor Castle
during the war. But Elizabeth had set her
heart on marrying Philip.
Myra insisted that he had initially been
seen as unsuitable by the courtiers: “He was
outspoken,” she said. “They would call him
brash.”
But when the couple married, the
reaction, Myra recalled was: “Lucky her, we
thought, and lucky all of us. Because it was a
really good fairy tale, and it remains a really
good fairy tale.”
Judging Prince Philip as a father, Myra
Butter was robust in his defence. She was
staying with the Royal family when he first
dropped Prince Charles off at Gordonstoun
in 1962. “All I can remember is that when
Prince Philip came back… he looked slightly
shaken. He didn’t say anything, but he went
straight over and poured himself a stiff
drink. I do remember that. And I thought:
‘Oh, that has shaken you.’”
When Philip died, she declared that
nobody could have done the job of consort
as well as he did. He was dedicated and
intelligent, she said, adding: “He was a step
behind walking, but he was never a step
behind as a person.”
Myra Butter, who was a descendant of the
Russian poet Alexander Pushkin, was the
daughter of Sir Harold Wernher, 3rd Bt,
from the South African diamond family, and
Lady Zia (Countess Anastasia Mikhailovna
de Torby), daughter of Grand Duke Michael
Mikhailovich of Russia, a great-grandson of
Tsar Nicholas I.
Having pursued and been rejected by
Princess May of Teck, Princess Irene of
Hesse and Princess Louise (daughter of
Edward VII), Grand Duke Michael had
entered into a morganatic alliance with
Countess Sophia Nikolaievna von
Merenberg (Countess de Torby). They lived
in England, variously at Keele Hall in
Staffordshire and at Kenwood House in
Hampstead, and also in the south of France.
Lady Zia married Sir Harold in 1917, and
they had a son, who was killed in the Second
World War, and two daughters. The elder,
Georgina (Gina) married, first, Harold
“Bunny” Phillips, former lover of Edwina
Mountbatten, and secondly, Sir George
“Loopy” Kennard. Through her mother,
Myra was a first cousin of David, 2nd
Marquess of Milford Haven, Prince Philip’s
best man in 1947.
Myra Alice Wernher was born in
Edinburgh on March 18 1925 and was
brought up at Thorpe Lubenham Hall in
Leicestershire. Princess Elizabeth was a
childhood friend, and first came for tea
when she was two and a half; the young
Philip was also a regular visitor at Christmas
time.
It was a strict upbringing, Myra recalled.
She was a good mimic, and was musically

Lady Butter with a portrait of her ancestor, Alexander Pushkin: she also had Romanov roots

talented, but was easily bored: “There must
be something wrong with you,” her mother
admonished her on one occasion. “There is
always something to do.”
She loved riding, first appearing on a
donkey at a meet of the Pytchley Hunt aged
three, and was later a keen follower of
hounds. As a child she and her sister sang at
a concert at Lubenham, their performance
greeted with thunderous applause.
As a great childhood friend of Princess
Elizabeth, Myra was one of several wellconnected youngsters recruited as
playmates – “They got hold of some girls to
be part of the thing to make it more fun,” she
told the Telegraph in 2021. They had
swimming lessons together at the Bath Club
in Dover Street, London, and Myra joined
Elizabeth in the Buckingham Palace Girl
Guides, Robin Patrol.
At the beginning of the war she joined the

Order of St John and served as a volunteer
nurse at Market Harborough and District
Hospital for more than two years. Always
public-spirited, in 1942 she raised funds for
the Lubenham Cadet Nursing Division with
a fête at the family home.
On March 5 1946, at St Margaret’s,
Westminster, she married Major David
Butter, MC, the descendant of a 12thcentury Highland chieftain. He was a major
in the Scots Guards and had been wounded
in Italy; he was knighted in 1991, and was
Lord Lieutenant of Perthshire between 1975
and 1995).
Police had to control a crowd of 700 in
Parliament Square for the wedding, which
was attended by Queen Mary, Princess
Elizabeth, Princess Margaret and Princess
Marina, with Princess Alexandra as a
bridesmaid and Prince Michael as a page,
carrying the train. Prince Philip and his

Myra Wernher’s
wedding at St
Margaret’s,
Westminster, in
1946 to Major
David Butter, MC,
with Prince Michael
and Princess
Alexandra of Kent
carrying the train

mother, Princess Andrew of Greece, were
also present, as were the Mountbattens.
As it was so soon after the war, the bride
was unable to acquire white satin shoes, so
she recycled those she had worn at her
confirmation some years before. She
amused the guests by snatching some icing
from the wedding cake before it was
distributed.
The following year, the Butter family
attended the wedding of Elizabeth and
Philip. “The war had been so grey that the
Royal Wedding seemed to signify the world
coming to life again,” she recalled.
Afterwards, she said, she and her family
“rushed home and changed, then sped off
down the Mall to Buckingham Palace,
where we stood there shouting to get them
out on the balcony. Everyone I know claims
the credit for getting them out.”
The Butters lived at their family
stronghold, Cluniemore, on the banks of the
Tummel, a tributary of the Tay. There she
created a much-admired garden and hillside
woodland landscape, and grew what those
in the know regarded as the best begonias
and fuschias in Perthshire.
The estate became a haven for the Duke
of Kent when he was courting Katharine
Worsley, and for Princess Alexandra when
she began dating Sir Angus Ogilvy.
Myra shared with the Queen a lifelong
passion for horses, and owned Formulate,
who won the Waterford Candelabra Stakes,
May Hill Stakes and the Fillies’ Mile in 1978,
trained by Henry Cecil. She was co-owner of
her family’s Someries Stud in Newmarket,
which they sold to Sheikh Mohammed bin
Rashid Al Maktoum in 1990.
In 1987 Myra Butter was instrumental in
establishing the Pushkin Prize, a creative
writing competition for Scottish
schoolchildren, to mark the 150th
anniversary of Alexander’s death. Initially
restricted to the Tayside area, it was so
successful that in 1992 a charitable trust was
founded and the Prize expanded to all
secondary schools in Scotland, as well as to
English-language schools near the poet’s
home town of St Petersburg.
In 1998 she was invited back to Russia for
the reburial of the remains of the last Tsar’s
family at the Peter and Paul Fortress in St
Petersburg; she said the Russian delegation
were as interested in her Pushkin ancestry
as her Romanov roots. In 2018 she was
awarded the Medal of Pushkin for her work
with the Prize but returned it in March 2022
in protest at the invasion of Ukraine.
“I regarded the medal as such an honour
when it came to Scotland in better times,”
she wrote. “However, to witness the terrible
suffering taking place now is unbearable.”
Myra Butter, who was godmother to the
Duke of Kent’s daughter Helen, was
appointed CVO in 1992, and was a trustee of
the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme.
The Queen and Prince Philip both attended
her 90th birthday celebrations in 2015.
The Butters had four daughters and a son;
Sandra, the eldest child, was a bridesmaid to
the Duchess of Kent in 1961; Georgina was a
bridesmaid to Princess Alexandra, while
Marilyn married the Earl of Dalhousie, Lord
Steward of the Household.
Sir David Butter died in 2010, and Myra is
survived by their children.
Lady Butter, born March 18 1925, died July
29 2022

Anneli Drummond-Hay
Horsewoman who reigned supreme in both eventing and show jumping and competed into her 80s

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NNELI DRUMMOND-HAY, who has
died aged 84, was the foremost female
rider of her era; invincible in eventing
on the great Merely-A-Monarch, she landed
the world’s two premier three-day events,
Badminton and Burghley, in the early 1960s.
She then switched to show jumping,
scoring dozens of grand prix wins, a
European Championship, the Hickstead
Derby and two Rome Derbies. Many riders
enjoy a spell of supremacy in one discipline,
but being equally adept at two equestrian
sports put her in a class of her own.
From the outside Anneli DrummondHay’s life seemed dripping with glamour.
Steeped in Scottish aristocracy, she
appeared to glide from debutantes’ balls to
the world of international show jumping, in
a golden age for the sport when it was a
mainstay on primetime television.
But her true story was grittier. She
weathered an awkward and penniless
childhood, going against the grain to
become a professional rider when “it was
not the done thing for a lady of my
background”; her determination to win was
borne out of her struggle to survive.
Elizabeth Ann Drummond-Hay was born
at Shaftesbury in Dorset on August 4 1937, to
James Drummond-Hay and Lady Margaret,
née Douglas-Hamilton, daughter of the 13th
Duke of Hamilton. Anneli, as she was
known, was the third of seven children.
Although she was born into high society, by
the time she was born the money had been
frittered away.
Her father was an Army major while her
mother ran a polo club in Dorset. When the
Second World War broke out, the ponies
were requisitioned bar one ancient mare,
Independenza, on whom Anneli learnt to
ride bareback. She credited this foundation
for the independent seat that proved so
useful in her eventual career.
Tellingly, her predecessor in the show
jumping elite, the decade-older Pat Smythe,
was also based with the Drummond-Hays,
benefitting from the same excellent
grounding on polo ponies.
In 1947, Anneli’s father inherited the
family home, Seggieden House in
Perthshire, so they – and the horses – moved
north.
The childhood seemed idyllic – ponies in
the Highlands, minimal parental
supervision – but Anneli felt miserable. She
was home-schooled by a governess, and
recalls still being illiterate aged 11 – although

she ended up being a correspondent for this
newspaper at the 1968 Mexico Olympics.
She sought solace in her pony Spider, whom
she taught tricks, raced against local
Glaswegian miners in “flapping”
(unlicensed) races and who ignited her love
of jumping.
The gawkiness continued as Anneli
Drummond-Hay flopped on her society
debut – “I was so gauche, the other girls so
sophisticated, and after two deb balls I’d had
enough.” She worked as lady-in-waiting for
her uncle, the 14th Duke of Hamilton, at
Holyrood Palace, attending to a range of
celebrities, from Nikita Krushchev to Billy
Graham. All the while, she felt like a square
peg.
“My upbringing felt like a big con,” she
said. “Family heritage was so important, and
I had the right birth, but not the money to
match it. I had to pretend I was worthy of
my background and wasn’t horsey, when
the opposite was true.”
An ambitious catch ride saved her from
her plight. Her older sister Jane was invited
to compete at the Windsor European
Championships in 1955 but was getting
married, so Anneli took up the offer. The
horse, Freya, was habitually lame but
somehow completed with a double clear,
and Anneli was hooked.
She went on to train several moderate
horses to earn placings at Badminton, and

Anneli DrummondHay on Sporting
Ford at Hickstead
in 1970, above,
and left, at a
Variety Club lunch
the same year

boldly refused the Queen’s request to lend
one, Trident, for a man to take to the
Olympics.
Meanwhile, the love of her life, Merely-AMonarch, emerged. Anneli Drummond-Hay
bought the gelding as a wayward two-yearold for what seemed an extortionate sum of
£300, but in his prime she would wave
away blank cheques. He won the inaugural
Burghley in 1961 at the precocious age of six,
followed by success at Badminton.
By then, Anneli Drummond-Hay had
decided to divert to show jumping. In 1962,
female eventers were not allowed to
compete in the Olympics, for which she
would have been a shoo-in, and this may
have contributed to the switch.
However, she maintained that her
wonder horse was too precious, too
talented, to risk in the hurly-burly of

eventing – “and I wanted the technical
challenge of the bigger jumps”.
Monarch went on to win countless show
jumping prizes; a racing trainer even
begged to train him for the Gold Cup.
Despite his Fell pony bloodlines, Monarch
trounced the top two-mile chaser of the day,
Flame Gun, on the gallops.
It seems an aberration that Anneli
Drummond-Hay never competed in an
Olympic Games. She and Monarch were
shortlisted in show jumping and eventing
(women were permitted from 1964). But as
any horseman knows, one’s equine partner
must also peak at the right time, and an
untimely loss of form due to an abscess
robbed Monarch of his Olympic chance.
Besides Monarch, Anneli Drummond-Hay
found the key to the tiny, wily Xanthos – “I
had to shut my eyes and let him gallop flat
out” – to win the Hickstead Derby and two
Rome Derbies. Another star was Sporting
Ford, who jumped 2.37 metres – a British
high-jump record, but there was no recordkeeper present to ratify the achievement.
An invitation to compete in South Africa
culminated in Anneli Drummond-Hay’s first
marriage, to Errol Wucherpfennig, and in
1971 she emigrated.
After the marriage broke down, she
enjoyed an exceptional second riding
career, winning all the top classes in
apartheid South Africa with her string of
cheaply bought retrained racehorses,
including two Derbies and four FEI world
challenge titles.
After a spell back on the European
jumping circuit with her second husband,
fellow horseman Trevor Bern, in 2005 the
couple returned to South Africa, where
Anneli Drummond-Hay continued to
compete at a decent level into her 80s.
She said, aged 83: “I wouldn’t
contemplate not riding, it’s an everyday
thing, like brushing my teeth. I enjoy it. It
would be like saying, ‘I’ll never eat
chocolate again.’ ” She was inducted into the
British Horse Society Equestrian Hall of
Fame in 2010. She was crowned Daily
Express British sportswoman of the year
three times, and South African
sportswoman of the year eight times.
Anneli Drummond-Hay is survived by her
husband Trevor Bern, with whom she lived
in Johannesburg.
Anneli Drummond-Hay, born August 4
1937, died July 31 2022

Spoken from the bright
cloud on the mountain
CHRISTOPHER HOWSE

A

t the Transfiguration
That being the case, his
(which is marked
divine glory did not show. It
today), when Jesus’s
was a parallel condition to
three disciples, Peter, James the ability to walk on water:
and John, saw on a mountain this might be expected of a
his face and clothes bright
glorified body, Thomas
and shining and the figures
thinks, which possesses the
of Moses and Elijah with
quality of agility. But during
him, there is a mention of a
his earthly life, until his
voice from heaven: “This is
resurrection from the dead,
my beloved Son.”
Jesus did not display the
In his methodical way, St
qualities of a glorified body.
Thomas Aquinas in the
So his walking on the water
Summa Theologiae, registers was miraculous. In a parallel
an objection here. Haven’t
way the refulgence of Jesus’s
we already been told about a body at the Transfiguration
voice saying this at the
was miraculous, transitory,
Baptism of Jesus, yet God
like sun lighting up the air.
doesn’t repeat himself? On
St Thomas was discussing
the contrary, he answers,
this within a recognised
the voice was of God the
tradition. It bridged the East
Father uttering eternally the and West; 500 years before
only-begotten and cohim, one of the great
eternal Word. Jesus, the
sermons of St John of
Word of God, is not created, Damascus had been on the
but is begotten by being at
Transfiguration, which
all times spoken by the
Thomas quotes.
Father.
Even earlier, in the
Here Thomas insists that
fourth century, St Ephraim
on the mountain not only
the Syrian, in his surefire
Jesus is revealed as God, but poetic way, applied
so are the other two
apposite points to the
persons of the Holy
two biblical figures,
Trinity: God the
Moses and Elijah,
Father in the voice,
who appeared
and God the Holy
beside Jesus.
Spirit in the bright
Moses, he said,
cloud from which
divided the sea
the voice issues.
for the people to
At the same
walk in the
time, the
middle of the
theologian is
waves; Peter
careful to assert
raised a tent for
that the body of
the building of
Jesus which shines
the Church. Elijah
in glory is not an
mounted to
imaginary one
heaven in the
(such as an angel,
chariot of fire and
which is a spirit with
John, at the Last
no body, might rig
Supper, leant on
Jesus transfigured,
up in order to be
the breast of
visible to human in a 12th-century
Jesus the flame.
portable mosaic icon
beings). That, he
The mountain
says, was where
became a type of
the Manichaean sect (who
the Church, and on it Jesus
thought matter evil) went
united the two covenants,
wrong.
old and new, which the
No, Jesus’s body was a real Church received.
human body. Yet you might
St Augustine of Hippo,
expect it to be bright with
young when Ephraim was
glory from the first moment old, on the Mediterranean
of God becoming a man,
coast of Africa far west of
since the glory of God would Ephraim’s Syria in Asia
“overflow”. Moreover, the
Minor, imagined in a sermon
glory of Jesus’s soul (also
Jesus speaking to Peter
united with God and
when it was time for them to
enjoying the vision of God
go back down the mountain:
called the beatific vision)
“Come down, to labour in
would overflow too. It seems the earth,” he said. “The Life
obvious to Thomas that
came down, that he might
God’s glory would be visible be slain; the Bread came
as a kind of bright clarity.
down, that he might hunger;
Yet, he argues, Jesus took the Way came down, that
on human flesh and with it
life might be wearied in the
in fact assumed the frailties
way; the Fountain came
of humanity, being subject
down, that he might thirst;
to death, hunger, thirst,
and would you refuse to
tiredness and temptation.
labour?”

28

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Saturday 6 August 2022 The Daily Telegraph

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headed his firm’s push into
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series of investments made
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The crypto fundraising
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focused investment firms.
Bitcoin has fallen 45pc this
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Some mainstream companies have also gone cold on
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in 2021, sold down 75pc of its
stake in July.

By Matthew Field
HEDGE fund billionaire Alan
Howard has raised $1bn
(£820m) to invest in cryptocurrency, despite the sharp
downturn in the digital coin
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Mr Howard, the co founder of investment firm
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Conservative party donor,
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Blockworks reported. Brevan Howard did not respond
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siles and fighter jets over the
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tycoon has pledged $100m
(£82m) towards his country’s
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146⅝ Saga

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241⅛

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164¾ -1¾ —

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237⅞

167⅛ Caterpillar $

184¼ +⅝ 2.6

2.5

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13.5

182⅜

92⅞ Chevron $

153⅜ +2¼ 3.7

1.9

62½

42⅜ Coca–Cola Euro $

52⅛

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0.9

217

2897 +31 6.9

1105 -12½ 2.6 1342

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1170½ +40½ 10.1 10.8

304⅛

1776 +36 — 2217

3040

1774½ BHP Group

2246½ +41 12.2 12.1

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440

111

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90⅜

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12.4

164

648⅜

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1452½ -15½ —

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231½ Tesco

262

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85⅝

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80

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1.3

4533 -64 1.5

29.1

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58⅝

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3167¼ 2363 Bunzl

3055 -42 1.9

23.0

105⅝

52⅛ Exxon Mobil $

88¾ +1½ 4.0

1.3

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26⅞

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31.6

61½

23⅞ Foot Locker $

28¼

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5.1

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0.5

116⅛

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74⅜

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12.6

217¾ -1½ 8.4

66.0

6520

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5264 +8 3.3

16.6

420⅝

264½ Home Depot $

306⅜

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2.0

239⅜ -1¾ 4.8

8.3

195⅝

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91

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8.3

234⅝

167⅜ Honeywell $

191⅛ -1¼ 2.1

1.9

83

242

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6572

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T-Bonds

383¾

182⅛ Provident Fin ●

198¾ +1⅝ 8.6

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366

222½ Essentra ●

243½

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41½

26⅛ HP $

33⅝

+⅜ 3.0

5.5

France

1.41

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197⅞

95⅜ Quilter ●

121¼ -1½ 5.4

11.1

3689

2242 Experian

2846 -81 1.5

26.9

146

114½ IBM $

131¾ +⅛ 5.0

0.9

Germany

0.95

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-1.91

2230

1426⅛ Rathbones Grp ●

1816 -16 4.5

13.6

13640 8602 Ferguson

10245 -100 1.8

18.3

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35¼ Intel $

35⅜

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3.2

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0.16

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2950

1970 S & U

2140 +25 5.9

6.8

1185

578⅜ Homeserve ●

1179

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29.8

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2.05

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2934* -34 4.2

13.3

5824

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4190 -53 2.5

23.4

173

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115⅛ +2¾ 3.5

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2.86

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below are supplied by Interactive Data (Europe) Ltd. The
yields are calculated using historic dividend payments divided
by the closing share price multiplied by 100.

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52 week
High Low (p) Stock

Healthcare -0.53%
502

271⅜ Mediclinic Int ●

1440⅞ 1002 Smith & Nep

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P/E

2199

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186¾

155¾ Johnson&John $

171

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117

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78.0

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2.3

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77⅞

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2.8

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9.9

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1.7

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21.7

123⅞

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21.6

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541⅝* -7⅝ 1.2

38.2

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510

325 Ricardo Gp

406

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—

271⅛

217⅝ McDonalds $

1776* -25 2.6

892

444¾ Robt Walters

518

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349⅝

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280⅞ -2¾ 0.9

3.9

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334⅝ -4¼ —

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14.4

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210½

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23.9

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161⅞

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150

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25.8

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165⅜
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2.8

129½ Procter & Gamble $ 143½ -1¼ 2.5

1.6

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49⅜

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1.4

251⅝ -2¼ 1.8

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355

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92⅜

201⅜

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12.4

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153⅛ -1¾ 1.8

2.3

738

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412*

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2150* -50 2.7

47.7

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125⅞ +⅜ 1.8

2.1

4242

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2331* -61 1.6 -112.2

141⅝

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121½* +2¾ 6.2

20.0

187⅝

90¼ Walt Disney $

106¼ -1¾ —

18.6

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27.8

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17½

310⅝

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277⅜ -3⅝ 2.0

22.8

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164 +1½ 3.8

1633

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1134 +8 5.6

8.4

567¼

329½ HSBC

541⅞ +1⅛ 4.1

10.5

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6.0

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52 week
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Price (£) +/- Yld

NAV

548¼

302½ Glencore

175⅝

68¼ Hochschild Mng

80

151 Invesco BondIncPlus 159¼* +2¼ 6.9

170

533

401⅞ Kenmare Res

473 +6½ 5.4

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559

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1.3

694

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4927½ +97½ 10.7

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293

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215⅝ +8 3.2

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664
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610⅜ JPM Claverh'se

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557

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552½ +6½ 2.3

14.9

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980 +2½ 1.8 1018

19.7

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445⅜* +4¾ 2.8 -20.7

105

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225½ Legal & General

266½ -2¾ 6.9

7.8

95

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-7.8

732

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466¾ +7 4.6

14.8

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6.9

204

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… 5.7

—
3.1

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P/E

377

38⅛ Lloyds Bk Gp
182⅞ NatWest Group

27.4

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2507½ Brit Am Tob

3257* +37½ 6.7

11.0

1918⅝ 1434¼ Imp Brands

1838½ +5 7.6

6.1

3645

258⅛

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52 week
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56

3846 -37 2.0

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79⅞

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3282½ Diageo

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24.4

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107¾

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76⅝

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53⅝

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41¾ +1⅞ 4.3

2.3

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324½ Redde Northgate ● 373½ +3 5.6

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103

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19⅜

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104⅝

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93⅜

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7086 -210 1.5

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22.9

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52 week
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Price (p) +/- Yld

207¾ Balfour Beatty ●

278⅝ -2⅜ 3.2

765⅛

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483⅜

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7.4

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2336 -52 5.5

7.4

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4105 -100 0.2

9.8

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122½ +1 5.0

132

2459¼ 1833⅜ Shell

2150 +17½ 3.8

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510¼ Fullers 'A'

650 +24 1.7

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27½

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191¾ -1⅜ 1.7

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5386

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4921 -26 1.4

40.8

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20

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1.5

302¾

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187¼ +3¼ —

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158

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108⅝

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437

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330

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3177½ -34½ 2.9

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252

—

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279

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810½ -12 3.8

5.7

536

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440

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496

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2730

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8.7

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299

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151
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27.6

3270

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4248 -42 1.6

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Page 28

INSIDE

Viral impact
Western governments’
action on Covid and the
invasion of Ukraine have
fuelled inflation in the UK
Page 31

First things first
Liz Truss needs to hold
an emergency budget
on her first day as PM
to avoid a recession
Matthew Lynn
Page 30

ANDREW BAILEY would be told to
abandon the Bank of England’s 2pc inflation target under a radical plan to reform
its mandate and boost the economy.
Mr Bailey, the Bank’s Governor, may
be ordered to target nominal GDP in
future – the size of the economy in cash
terms – instead of seeking to keep inflation at 2pc, under plans being floated by
allies of the Tory leadership frontrunner
Liz Truss.
This would be a significant departure
from current rules. The proposals are
thought to be one of several options
being considered, with talks at a very
early stage. Mr Bailey vowed not to quit
as the Bank’s Governor on Friday as
Kwasi Kwarteng, the Business Secretary,
warned that “something has gone
wrong” at Threadneedle Street.
Inflation has surged to its highest level
in decades and the Bank is predicting a
recession, with price rises now expected
to peak at 13pc later this year.
It came as house prices suffered their
first fall in 13 months according to Halifax, with a drop of 0.1pc between June
and July.
Huw Pill, the Bank’s chief economist,
insisted in an interview with Bloomberg
that the dip would not turn into the kind
of “dramatic downturns we’ve seen in
the past”.
Liz Truss has pledged to closely examine the Bank’s mandate if she is elected
Prime Minister, as a source accused Mr
Bailey of doing “b----r all for a long time”
to rein in rising prices.
The Daily Telegraph has been told one
possibility is that the Monetary Policy

Committee’s (MPC’s) longstanding 2pc
inflation target could be scrapped altogether and replaced with a new instruction to monitor nominal GDP instead.
This “Nominal GDP Targeting” system would mean the Bank would adjust
interest rates to control the amount of
spending in the economy, rather than
inflation itself.
Nominal GDP growth effectively takes
into account both an expansion in economic output and inflation. Economists
have long debated whether it would be a
more effective target for central banks
seeking to smooth out economic peaks
and troughs.
The Bank of England and US Federal
Reserve both considered introducing
nominal GDP targeting in response to
the financial crash but decided to continue focussing on inflation.
The Governor yesterday defended
Thursday’s decision to increase interest
rates by 0.5 percentage points – the biggest jump in 27 years.
Speaking to the BBC Today programme, he said he “made a commitment” to serve eight years at the helm.
He said: “It’s very important to the Bank
that there’s stability in terms of the term
of the Governor.”
However, Mr Kwarteng said: “I think
there is an issue about how the Bank is
operating because clearly, if I say to you 2
per cent is your target, and you say to me,
‘Well, actually it’s going to hit 13 per cent’,
I would quite rightly say something’s
gone wrong.”
Ms Truss was yesterday warned by
another Cabinet colleague not to interfere with the Bank’s independence on
interest rates.

JAM PRESS/HYDRO ATTACK QUEENSTOWN

Truss allies
plot overhaul
of inflation
target at BoE
By Tony Diver

Jumping the shark Hydro Attack, the operator of semi-submersible crafts in Queenstown, New Zealand this week went
viral for ‘flying’ under water. The boats can dive 2m under water or jump up to 6m out of the water.

City grandee Gent fined £80,000 BBC to sell off £70m
for disclosing insider information ‘EastEnders’ studio
By Ben Woods
THE City grandee and former
chief executive of Vodafone,
Sir Christopher Gent, has
been fined £80,000 for
unlawfully disclosing insider
information.
He was found to have
revealed financially sensitive
information about Convatec
before it reached the markets
when he was chairman of the
FTSE 250-listed medical
equipment maker.
The Financial Conduct
Authority (FCA) said Sir
Christopher had “acted negligently” by telling two senior
members of staff at two of
Convatec’s biggest shareholders that the company’s chief
executive was retiring and it
planned to revise its financial
guidance.
Sir Christopher, who was
knighted in 2001, spent a decade as chairman of GlaxoSmithKline, where he came
under pressure from investors towards the end of his

tenure for the company’s
sluggish share price performance. He announced in
March 2019 that he would
leave as chairman of Convatec, with John McAdam
succeeding him.
Mark Steward of the FCA,
said: “Private disclosure of
inside information, especially
Former chief
executive of
Vodafone,
Sir Christopher
Gent, has been
fined £80,000

by the chairman of a listed
issuer, risks investor confidence and the integrity of
financial markets.
“Sir Christopher failed to
properly apply his mind to the
question of what information
he could properly disclose.
Inside information is not a
private commodity for those

with privileged access to it.”
The FCA found the information was disclosed despite
Convatec having a confidentiality and non-dealing obligation agreement with one of its
biggest investors.
Sir Christopher said that he
was encouraged to share the
information because he
believed he was acting in the
best interests of the company.
He added: “I am very disappointed that the FCA has
found against me in circumstances where I believed I had
sought advice and received
encouragement to act as I did.
“The decision acknowledges the steps I took to obtain
advice at the time and has not
questioned my belief that I
was acting in the best interests
of the company.”
A spokesman for Convatec
said: “The FCA has taken no
action against the company.
This is a personal matter for
Sir Christopher Gent and it
would not be appropriate for
us to comment further.”

By Ben Woods
THE BBC has hoisted a for
sale sign over the studio
behind EastEnders, as the
broadcaster battles sliding
income from the licence fee.
The corporation is planning to offload BBC Studios
Elstree and lease back the
space from a new owner,
allowing the long-running
British soap to continue to be
filmed at the site.
As well as EastEnders, the
studio has been used for setpiece BBC events, such as
Children in Need and its coverage of UK elections. Elstree
is reportedly worth £70m.
C o mme rci al p ro p e r ty
agents Lambert Smith Hampton have been hired to find
potential suitors, according
to an advert seen by The
Daily Teleg raph, wh i c h
described it as a “unique
opportunity to acquire an
iconic piece of production
history and write the next
chapter”. The broadcaster is

open to exploring “a number
of potential disposal structures”, the listing says.
The sale is part of efforts
by Tim Davie, the director
general of the BBC, to
increase the commercial
returns of the organisation
amid the erosion of its £3.2bn
annual licence fee income.
The efforts helped the
broadcaster’s commercial
arm – BBC Studios – make a
record £226m profit last year.
The decision to offload
Elstree comes as the TV and
film production sector grapples with a shortage of studio
space driven by an insatiable
demand for content from US
streaming companies. Netflix
has studios in Surrey and
West London and Disney in
Buckinghamshire.
A BBC spokesman said: “As
part of our ongoing review of
the BBC’s property portfolio
we are exploring the sale of
Elstree and leasing back part
for the continued production
of EastEnders.”

Musk urged to build next Tesla plant in the North East
By Matthew Field
ELON MUSK has been urged
to bring a Tesla plant to the
north east of England after
the electric car company
revealed its ambition to build
a dozen “gigafactorie s”
across the world.
Ben Houchen, the Conservative Mayor for Tees Valley,
wrote to Mr Musk yesterday
calling on the Tesla billionaire to bring an electric car
plant to the North East.
In a letter seen by The Daily

Telegraph, Mr Houchen
wrote: “In the UK, where we
have an £82bn automobile
industry which leads the
world in production of high
end vehicles, it would surely
make sense for Tesla to
develop a serious presence,
with Teesside being the best
possible location to do this.”
The Mayor said Teesside
could offer Tesla “hundreds
of acres of ideal developable
land” while avoiding “the
bureaucratic entanglements
seen at other sites”.

‘It would surely
make sense for Tesla
to develop a serious
presence in the UK’
Mr Houchen’s letter came
after Mr Musk on Thursday
night said Tesla planned to
open up to a dozen more
electric car factories to add to
its plants in California, New
York, Tex as, Berlin and
Shanghai. He told investors
the company planned to build

“at least 10 or 12 gigafactories”
and could announce its next
site by the end of the year.
The electric car company
is planning to produce 1.5m
vehicles in 2022, but Mr
Musk ultimately wants Tesla
to build 20m cars per year.
That would be double the
output at Toyota, the world’s
largest car manufacturer.
Mr Houchen said Teesside
would be able to offer Tesla
access to customs incentives
via the Teesside Freeport,
which opened last November.

A total of 21,000 new
Tesla’s have hit the road in
the UK this year, according to
industry figures.
At Tesla’s shareholders
meeting this week, Mr Musk
asked investors to shout out
where he should build his
next factory. He said: “We got
a lot of Canada, I am half
Canadian, maybe I should?”
Mr Musk was born in South
Africa to a Canadian mother.
In 2019, he said Brexit made
it too risky for him to pick the
UK for a Tesla factory.

29

30

***

Saturday 6 August 2022 The Daily Telegraph

Business comment

T

he Government would happily
have us all believe that Britain is
poised to become a world leader
in electric cars. But like so much of
what has come out of No 10 under Boris
Johnson it is a mirage.
Compared with America, China, and
parts of Europe such as Germany, we
are absolutely nowhere when it comes
to electric cars – stuck on the sidelines
of a race in which the main
competitors threaten to disappear over
the horizon because this country
abandoned even the merest pretence
of a coherent long-term industrial
strategy long ago.
With the Government missing in
action as the country stands on the
precipice of a full-blown economic
crisis in which real incomes are set to
tumble by the largest amount on
record, it is probably wishful thinking
to believe that the situation is about to
change any time soon.
Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak are
millions of miles away, in a parallel
universe it seems, in which they
played no part in
the chaos of the
last three years,
but merely
watched in horror
like the rest of us.
Meanwhile, the
great man himself
is on holiday –
again – just five
weeks before he is
due to leave
office, presumably
still muttering about “getting Brexit
done” as everything threatens to
tumble into the sea.
Still, the news that temperamental
Tesla tycoon Elon Musk is planning to
build as many as 12 more so-called
“gigafactory” battery plants represents
a golden opportunity for whoever
assumes the leadership to jump-start
Britain’s ambitions and become a
serious player in the electric vehicle
revolution by hitching a ride with the
planet’s wealthiest individual.
Musk, it is fair to say, divides opinion
with his maverick ways. He was forced
to pay a £20m fine from stock market
regulators for improper tweets. There

‘This is a
golden
opportunity
to jump-start
Britain’s
electric car
ambitions’

Truss needs emergency budget
on day one to stop a recession
on green levies. We will need to
transition to net zero one day – few
people dispute that – but right now we
are in the middle of both a cost of living
crisis and an energy crisis and that it is
hardly the best moment to impose lots
of extra taxes on heating and fuel. The
soaring cost will bring demand down
anyway, as well as boosting investment
in renewables. A break would ease the
immediate pressure on companies and
households.
Third, borrow some tricks from
Europe, even if it is not fashionable in
Conservative circles to say we could
learn from our neighbours across the
channel. In Germany and Spain, train
travel is virtually free right now. In
France, President Macron is
subsidising every litre of fuel, and has
scrapped his country’s equivalent of

W LYNN
MATTHEW

A

new wave of free schools
focusing on maths and literacy
standards. High-speed rail
connections between Liverpool and
Leeds via Manchester. Banning
wolf-whistling and doubling the
number of Channel patrols to clamp
down on immigration. Liz Truss has
made plenty of campaign pledges over
the last couple of weeks that will, most
probably, be swiftly forgotten the
moment she steps through the
doorway at 10 Downing Street. One,
however, may come back to haunt her.
Promising to avoid a recession.
Everyone from the Bank of England
to just about every major forecasting
body now believes that the next year
will see a major downturn in the UK
and right across Europe. With soaring
energy prices, tumbling real wages,
and looming energy rationing, it looks
inevitable. To avoid one, Truss is going
to have to launch an emergency
Budget on day one.
Scrapping tax rises, offering
immediate help as France and
Germany are doing, ditching
albatrosses such as the triple lock on
pensions, and accelerating financial
reform to turbo-charge investment,
will be the very minimum that will be
required. Even with all that, a
recession will be very hard to avoid,
and the promise may well come back
to haunt the new prime minister soon.
In her debate with Rishi Sunak on
Thursday evening, the PM-in-waiting
made her rashest pledge so far. On the
same day the Bank of England forecast
five quarters of shrinking output, she
argued that she could avoid a
recession. “We can change the
outcome, and we can make it more
likely that the economy grows,” she
said during a debate with her rival, the
former chancellor.
Really? It seems like a tall order.
Interest rates have been raised to the
highest level since the financial crisis
of 2008 and are still going up. If
inflation hits 13pc as forecast, real
wages will fall by close to 10pc this
year, an alarming figure. Energy bills
are still soaring and we may face
rationing over the winter. Even the
extraordinary willingness of the
British consumer to simply hammer
the credit card may wilt in the face of
that blizzard of bad news.
Of course, Truss could borrow a
trick from US President Joe Biden and

‘Of course, Truss could
borrow a trick from Biden
and change to a different
definition of a recession’

Liz Truss, in Thursday’s TV debate, vowed ‘we can change the outcome’ of the economy

simply change to a different definition
of a recession. Nineteen years of
shrinking output perhaps? A 40pc
drop in GDP? Or unemployment above
12m? If those were the measures, she
might be able to avoid one. On the
standard measure – two consecutive
quarters of declining GDP –it will be
very hard. To stand any chance of

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keeping that promise, Truss and her
new chancellor will need to launch an
emergency Budget within less than a
week of taking office. What should that
look like? Here are five places she
should start.
First, scrap the Johnson-Sunak tax
rises. The steep rise in corporation tax,
the extra National Insurance levies,
and the windfall tax on energy profits
should all be reversed.
Sure, that may cause borrowing to
rise a little, but that is what is meant to
happen as an economy heads into
recession. So long as it is accompanied
by a medium-term plan to bring public
spending back under control it will
help restore confidence that the deficit
won’t soar out of control. As booming
capital gains tax receipts this week – up
by 42pc year on year – have shown low
and simple taxes can raise more
revenue, and that can work across the
board. Next, a three-year moratorium

the TV licence (an interesting idea for
the UK, come to think of it). A series of
one-off breaks would ease the pressure
on households over the winter.
Fourth, we should scrap instead of
just suspending the triple lock on
pensions. If the over-70s start getting
13pc rises in their income while their
grandchildren are struggling to pay
rent and fuel bills it will be hard to
keep social order. It simply is not fair.
We need to distribute the pain equally,
and ending the lock would release
huge sums of money to spend
elsewhere, as well as funding long
overdue tax reforms.
Finally, the new chancellor should
accelerate financial reform. We have
talked about scrapping the absurd
Mifid II rules that restrict giant funds
from putting money into productive
assets but progress so far has been
painfully slow. If we got that done, the
investment it unleashed would help
make up for the coming collapse in
consumer spending, and might even
help improve productivity.
It is going to be incredibly hard to
avoid a recession this autumn. When
second quarter GDP figures are
released next week we may well find
we are already in the middle of a
downturn. Promising to avoid that was
a bold move by Liz Truss, and one that
may well come back to haunt her. To
have any hope she will need a bold,
radical Budget on day one. Otherwise
she will end up with the blame for a
downturn she said could be prevented
– and that will hardly be a great start to
her premiership.

‘Troubling’ complaints against
minority lawyers in the spotlight
By Lucy Burton
THE legal watchdog is to interrogate
why it receives more complaints about
black and Asian lawyers than their white
peers amid concerns about racial bias.
The Solicitors Regulation Authority
(SRA) has asked researchers from York,
Cardiff, and Lancaster universities to
investigate why it receives a disproportionate amount of complaints about
black, Asian and other minority ethic
lawyers, and why a greater proportion
of these then lead to an investigation.
The watchdog’s chief executive Paul
Philip said the current situation is
“troubling” with 25pc of those reported
to the SRA last year from a black and

Asian background, despite ethnic
minority lawyers making up just 18pc of
the practising population.
Mr Philip said: “There could be many
factors affecting the troubling picture
we are seeing, including wider societal
issues or structural features in the legal
sector, for example the different diversity profile of small firms compared to
large firms.
“Having a better understanding of
the causes will help us and others
address these issues.”
The regulator raised concerns earlier
this year after finding that 26pc of
reports received about black, Asian and
minority ethnic lawyers were taken forward for investigation compared to 17pc

for white colleagues. Although previous
inquiries into the issue have found no
evidence of discrimination, the SRA
admitted that it still does not fully
understand the “societal and sociological factors” driving the figures which is
why it has asked researchers to step in.
Prof Claudia Gabbioneta, at the
University of York’s business school,
said researchers will now “look at the
wider landscape”. She said the review
will explore what factors might make
black and Asian lawyers “more vulnerable to complaints than white solicitors”. Prof Gabbioneta will also look into
whether the cases that go forward for
investigation are “specific to any particular type of complaint”.

Global appeal
Luke Jerram’s
seven-meterdiameter, threedimensional
work of art,
‘Gaia’, is on
display at St
John The Baptist
Church on
Holland Road,
London, from
Aug 9-11. The
piece uses Nasa
imagery of the
Earth’s surface to
view the planet
floating in three
dimensions.

ANADOLU AGENCY VIA GETTY IMAGES

We must
roll out red
carpet for
Elon Musk

are also concerns about its workplace
culture with Tesla facing separate
sexual harassment and racial
discrimination lawsuits in California.
None of this should be overlooked in
an effort to court its founder, but
without a genuine concerted plan to
create the infrastructure required to
underpin the transition to an
electrified transport industry, the
country will continue to lag way
behind the true global trailblazers.
A battery factory building
programme is essential. China may
have an unenviable reputation for
trashing the planet in the singleminded pursuit of economic growth,
but it has quickly achieved supremacy
in the global battery arms race.
Continental Europe is on course to
have 27 gigafactories by the end of the
decade, a sixfold increase on forecasts
made just three years ago. With
planned annual capacity of nearly
800GWh, it will be enough to power
15m pure electric vehicles.
Number one spot goes to Germany,
which has bent over backwards to
ensure that Musk builds his first
European plant south-east of Berlin.
The state of Brandenburg allowed
Tesla to fell 170 hectares of forest
providing that the company replaced
every single tree that was cut down
with three new saplings. Giga-Berlin
will be the world’s second largest
lithium ion battery plant behind its
counterpart in Austin,Texas.
Ministers should embark on their
own charm offensive to ensure that
Brexit Britain is next on Musk’s list. As
things stand, our capabilities amount
to just a single Chinese-owned plant
producing batteries for the Nissan Leaf
model, which is built next door.
It is a statistic that should embarrass
this Government when Boris Johnson
talks breezily about leading a “green
industrial revolution” and building a
21st century, net zero economy.
Nissan has plans for a big expansion
that will turn the Sunderland plant into
one of Europe’s largest, and start-up
Britishvolt has pledged to build another
near Blyth in Northumberland, though
it is yet to secure full funding. That is
the extent of our capabilities.
Industry executives think eight
more are needed to maintain current
UK car production of 1.5m vehicles a
year if all models become electric,
while the Faraday Institution estimates
that we need at least 10.
Whatever the true figure, a
partnership with Musk is our best bet
to catch up. If Britain is serious about
electric cars, it needs him to invest
here. Tax breaks and guarantees of
smooth trade with the EU are vital. Red
tape needs to be torn up.
He is a chaotic figure and comes
with an elastic sense of propriety, but
this is a once in many generation
chance to participate in a genuine
industrial revolution.
The car industry will have to
undergo massive consolidation in the
coming years as it struggles with the
scale of structural change and Tesla is
in pole position to emerge as one of the
survivors. The UK should hold its nose
and roll out the red carpet.

PA

Ben
Marlow

Households cut back as energy bills soar
By Louis Ashworth
SOARING prices of gas and electricity
have led tens of millions of people in
Britain to slash their energy usage to
preserve cash, official data has revealed.
Out of the roughly nine in 10 people
who have noticed increased prices
since the end of March, 51pc, or 24m
people, say they have used less gas or
electricity in response, according to a
survey by the Office for National Statis-

tics (ONS). Cutbacks on non-essential
goods – often an early indicator of a
demand-driven recession – are even
more prevalent, with 57pc reducing
such spending. Meanwhile, 42pc,
equivalent to 19m people, are reducing
non-essential car journeys because of
rocketing prices at the pump.
The figures are based on surveys of
nearly 14,000 adults conducte d
between March and mid-June. The data
lays bare the steps households are tak-

ing to cut back on spending with inflation at a 40-year high.
The squeeze on incomes is expected
to intensify after increases in the Ofgem
energy price cap kick in. Analysts at
Investec say the cap could pass £4,000
early next year amid soaring gas prices.
Among those in England who had
seen cost increases, 42pc of people in
the most deprived fifth of areas reduced
their spending on food and other essentials, compared to 35pc on average.

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Business

How Covid is
taking its
revenge on
the economy
Western governments as
well as Putin’s attack on
Ukraine have fuelled
inflation, says Tim Wallace

V

ladimir Putin is getting the blame
for the inflationary spike
overrunning Western economies
and putting the UK on course for
recession.
“The Russian shock is now the
largest contributor to UK inflation by
some way,” said Andrew Bailey,
Governor of the Bank of England,
explaining the crunch engulfing the
economy in terms which will surely
delight the Kremlin.
But it is not the whole picture. The
invasion of Ukraine might have put
rocket boosters under the price of fuel
and food, but there is more to this
stagflationary squeeze than chaos on
Europe’s eastern frontier.
In February, Threadneedle Street
was already predicting a sharp
acceleration in prices – weeks before
tanks crossed the border and missiles
rained down on Kyiv.
Inflation had risen following
October’s rise in the energy price cap,
and the Bank of England thought more
was on the way as it anticipated a peak
CPI rate of 7.25pc in April.
So what was causing inflation before
the war, and is still contributing to the
cost of living crisis now?
Paul Fisher, a former member of the
monetary policy committee (MPC)
now at the Cambridge Institute for
Sustainability Leadership, lists seven
key factors pushing up prices. Only
one is the war in Ukraine, which is
affecting energy and food.
The others include pre-existing
energy issues – including the lack of
wind required for turbines last year
– and a jump in oil and gas as
economies rebounded from Covid.
This jump came on top of previously
pandemic-depressed oil prices which
were already pushing up annual
inflation, just by returning to normal.
Now inflation has taken hold, it
becomes self-sustaining as businesses
raise prices in anticipation of further
jumps in costs and workers similarly

ask for higher pay. Meanwhile,
sustained supply chain problems –
exacerbated by China’s “zero-Covid”
campaign causing repeated lockdowns
– are still wreaking havoc, extending
harm to the world economy that is so
reliant on the Asian powerhouse. But
China is not the only problem.
Right at the top of Fisher’s list – the
key factor pushing up prices – are
“expansive monetary policy” in the
form of low interest rates and record
levels of quantitative easing (QE), and
“expansive fiscal policy during the
pandemic”.
That fiscal expansion, in the form of
subsidies such as furlough, loans to
businesses, NHS spending and higher
benefits, took the budget deficit to
levels not seen since the Second
World War. Borrowing peaked at
£310bn in 2020-21, almost double the
£157.8bn deficit in the worst year of the
financial crisis.
Martin Beck, chief economic adviser
to the EY Item Club, says supporting
incomes of millions of workers even as
they produced no output – being stuck
at home and unable to work – was part
of a wave of extra money which was
ultimately “a root cause” of inflation
today. Combined with the other
problems identified by Fisher, more
money was effectively chasing fewer
goods and services – with the textbook
result of spiking prices.
“All of that loss of private sector
income, the Government stepped in
and replaced a lot of it, when the output
was reduced,” Beck says. “People
couldn’t spend the income at the time.
The argument was supply would race
ahead when the economy reopened,
but it is not back to normal because of
lingering effects – China’s Covid
lockdowns, supply chain disruptions.
Global demand is outstripping supply.”
When it comes to policymakers, the
case for the defence is powerful. As
Beck notes, “at the time, almost nobody
said there was too much support”.
Ben Broadbent, the deputy governor
for monetary policy at the Bank,
argues that even if it had been possible
to foresee events including the
invasion of Ukraine, slashing QE and
rising interest rates high enough, and
early enough, to combat the spike in

‘Interest
rates would
have been
miles into
double digit
territory and
we would
have had a
far bigger
recession’

inflation would have inflicted a dire
recession even as the nation was still
reeling from Covid.
“Let’s say we’d seen everything, all
of this, at the tail-end of 2020, which is,
given the lags, what we’d needed to
have had in order to have hit the
inflation target right now and offset all
the effects of that on inflation right
now,” he said last week.
“Interest rates, in order to offset that,
would certainly have been … miles into
double digit territory and we would
have had a far bigger recession even
than the one we’re forecasting now.”
In the leadership debates, Rishi
Sunak likes to remind Conservative
members of the threat lockdown posed
to employment and therefore the value
of furlough which, he says, “protected
10m jobs and saved more than 1m

US jobs hit pre-pandemic level
despite fears over recession
By Louis Ashworth
THE number of workers in the United
States has finally returned to pre-pandemic levels as America’s red-hot labour
market avoids damage from an economic downturn.
The US added 528,000 jobs during
July, the most in five months, with
June’s gains also revised higher, despite
surprise figures that show it has
entered a technical recession.
There were 153m non-farm payroll
jobs registered in total, versus 152m in
Feb 2020 before the pandemic struck.
Unemployment stood at a five-decade low of 3.5pc during the month,
while average earnings picked up more
than expected.
Stephen Juneau, an economist at
Bank of America, said the increase was
far higher than expected.
He said: “The report throws cold
water on a significant cooling in labour
demand, but it’s a good sign for the
broader US economy and workers.”
The figures are the latest sign of

surging demand for workers in the
wake of the pandemic, particularly
within the country’s services sector.
It is a boost for President Joe Biden,
who has argued that the country is not
suffering a real downturn despite
reporting two quarters of consecutive
falls in economic output that indicate it
is in a technical recession.

Diane Swonk, chief economist at
KPMG US, said: “This ups the pressure
on the Federal Reserve to raise rates
aggressively again in September.”
Job gains were broadly based, with
increases across a variety of sectors, according to the Bureau of Labour
Statistics.
Education and healthcare, leisure,
hospitality and professional business
services were the strongest performing
sectors.
Lydia Boussour, lead US economist
at Oxford Economics, said labour market momentum was still likely to cool
despite yet another expect-beating
month.
She said: “Despite the strong employment readings, we believe that labour
demand should resume its moderating
trend through [the second half of the
year] as companies face higher costs,
reduced consumer demand and lower
profitability.
“This should help bring worker
demand and supply closer into balance.”

153m
Workers registered in non-farm jobs –
up 528,000 in July and surpassing the
total recorded in Feb 2020

The report will strengthen the
resolve of the Federal Reserve to press
ahead with further rapid interest rate
increases as it tries to curb inflation.
In a sign of building inflationary
pressures, hourly earnings remained
elevated, rising 0.5pc across the month
to stand 5.2pc higher year on year.

businesses”. When the scheme came to
an end last October around 1m jobs
were still being supported, raising the
expectation of mass unemployment
when furlough was withdrawn. It led
to astonishment when, instead, the
jobless rate kept falling and monetary
tightening was prevented until the
Bank was certain a wave of
redundancies was not on the way.
The end result is that both ramped
up inflation just as energy became
more expensive and Russia invaded
Ukraine.
Britain’s stimulus would not have
had such an impact alone. Developed
economies across the world launched a
wide range of unprecedented economic
stimulus programmes in the face of the
viral threat, without knowing how
long the plague would last. America’s

By Gareth Corfield
AMAZON is buying the maker of robot
vacuum maker Roomba for $1.65bn
(£1.37bn), a deal that will prompt concern
about the tech giant gaining access to data
about customers’ homes.
The e-commerce giant has announced
a deal to buy iRobot Corporation for
$61-per-share, joining other smart devices
in Amazon’s stable including video doorbell Ring and the Alexa voice assistant.
The deal is subject to regulatory
approvals and is likely to draw close scrutiny given the data involved.
Campaign groups are concerned Amazon will gain information about the layout
of Roomba users’ homes. More than 40m
devices have been sold by iRobot around
the world. Robert Weissman, president of
US consumer rights group Public Citizen,
told Bloomberg News: “The last thing
America and the world needs is Amazon
vacuuming up even more of our personal
information.
“This is not just about Amazon selling
another device in its marketplace … it’s

about the company gaining still more intimate details of our lives.”
According to iRobot, its robots “can
map the floor of a home, sense changes in
the floor type being cleaned, spot clean,
avoid objects and cliffs (such as stairs)”.
Such technology relies on onboard sensors that monitor space and a Wi-Fi connection so it can be sent to a data centre

$255.4m
Sales reported by iRobot for the three
months leading up to July – $50m below
analysts expectations

for processing.
A similar deal struck in 2018 also
prompted concern among campaigners.
Amazon acquired remote doorbell company Ring for $1bn (£829m), before entering into partnerships with police,
distributed them to burglary victims as a
home security measure. Civil liberties

groups condemned the arrangements. A
spokesman for Liberty told the Daily Mail
police forces were “turning our front
doors into CCTV cameras”.
Three members of MIT’s Artificial
Intelligence Lab founded iRobot in 1999.
As well as the Roomba, its best known
product, the company makes other cleaning robots such as the Braava, an automated mop.
Yesterday, iRobot reported sales for the
three months leading up to July of
$255.4m (£211.7m). That fell $50m short of
the figure predicted by analysts. The company said it would shed 10pc of its workforce as a result, even as it announced the
Amazon acquisition.
Dave Limp, senior vice-president of
Amazon Devices, said: “We know that
saving time matters, and chores take precious time that can be better spent doing
something that customers love.”
Amazon’s Astro robot, which helps
with tasks such as setting an alarm, was
unveiled last year at an introductory price
of $1,000 but has received a lacklustre
response.

Felixstowe strike could lead
to Christmas freight delays
By Louis Ashworth
and James Warrington

AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES

THE continued selling power of David
Beckham helped the former England
and Manchester United star and his
wife Victoria share in a £8m dividend
last year.
Beckham Brand Holdings (BBH),
which manages his global sponsorships
and other business ventures, paid out a
£8.1m dividend after signing multimillion pound sponsorship deals with Fifa
video game maker Electronic Arts, football sticker maker Panini and Mark
Wahlberg-backed gym chain F45.
The Beckhams will benefit from the
dividend as the ultimate owners of the
company through their vehicle Footwork Productions.
Turnover at BBH’s subsidiary DB
Ventures fell from £12.7m to £11.4m,
and profit after tax rose from £8.9m to
£10.6m in 2020.
Mr Beckham’s other business, Seven
Global, saw profits jump from $9.91m
(£8.2m) to $18.2m (£15m) in 2020, amid
a decline in the company’s administrative expenses. Revenues dropped by
4.5pc from $24.3m to $23.2m.
Mr Beckham established Seven

Global almost seven years ago to help
monetise his celebrity status with a
series of commercial endorsements.
The company manages commercial
tie-ups with the likes of sportswear
brand Adidas and the luxury watchmaker Tudor.
It also oversees his partnership with
Safilo, the eyewear company, and the
fragrance firm Coty.
Earlier this year Authentic Brand
Group bought a majority stake in Mr
Beckham’s DB Ventures for a reported
$269m. As part of the deal the ex-footballer also became a shareholder in
Authentic Brands, which owns Forever
21 and Barneys in New York.
Mr Beckham restructured part of his
business towards the end of last year.
His consumer product venture GBG
International appointed advisers at
Teneo Restructuring as it came close to
collapse.
GBG International was a subsidiary
of Hong-Kong listed Global Brands
Group which had its shares suspended
due to financial difficulties.
Seven Global owned 51pc of GBG
International and bought the company
during the restructuring process.

handouts were particularly generous,
dishing out cash to families instead of
seeking to preserve jobs in the manner
of Britain’s furlough scheme.
That led to a wave of consumer
spending, straining the trade routes
from China and other suppliers of
goods in particular, with ramifications
for prices around the world.
In February, the Bank of England
listed US spending as a key distortion
in the global economy.
“Almost all of the increase in G7
goods consumption can be attributed
to the US, and around half to US
durable goods spending alone,” its
Monetary Policy Report said.
Do not flatter Putin that he alone has
wrecked Western economies. Covid
and the response to it by governments
and central banks have done the job too.

Amazon to gain data on millions
of homes as it hoovers up iRobot

Beckham nets £8m payout
from international ventures
By Helen Cahill

‘The
argument
was supply
would race
ahead when
the economy
reopened,
but it is not
back to
normal’

David Beckham’s Seven Global saw profits increase to £15m as administration expenses declined

BRITAIN faces a new supply chain
nightmare as workers at the country’s
top container port prepare to go on
strike for more than a week.
Almost 2,000 workers at Felixstowe
port will walk out for eight days in a
move that threatens to spark freight
chaos ahead of Christmas.
Workers will walk out from August 21
to 29, the Unite union said. Talks broke
down after the port’s owners did not
improve an offer of a 7pc pay increase.
The strike at the Suffolk facility threatens to cause major disruption in the
early stages of ‘peak season’ – the period
in the second half of the year when
importers are gearing up for Christmas.
Felixstowe, which is the UK’s biggest
container port, is a key hub for both
exports and imports and accounts for
nearly half the country’s container trade.
It handles nearly twice as many containers as Southampton, its largest rival.
Unite said the strikes will have a “huge
effect” on supply chains and cause
“severe disruption” to international maritime trade. It said the 7pc pay rise on

offer was “significantly below” the 11.8pc
rate of retail price index inflation in the
year to June, which it describes as the
“real” inflation rate. Consumer prices
rose 9.4pc in the same period according
to the Office for National Statistics.
Sharon Graham, its chief executive,
said: “Both Felixstowe docks and its parent company CK Hutchison Holding Ltd
are both massively profitable and incredibly wealthy. They are fully able to pay
the workforce a fair day’s pay. The company has prioritised delivering multimillion pound dividends rather than
paying its workers a decent wage.”
Further talks will be held on Monday
as part of efforts to avoid a walk-out.
A spokesperson for the Port of Felixstowe said: “The company continues to
actively seek a solution that works for all
parties and that avoids industrial action.
We understand our employees’ concerns at the rising cost of living and are
determined to do all we can to help
whilst continuing to invest in the port’s
success.
“The port has not had a strike since
1989 and we are disappointed that the
union has served notice of industrial
action while talks are ongoing.”

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Weather & Crosswords
Weather notes

Ardingly Reservoir is drying to a trickle

Waste Land of
a 1920s-style
drought beckons
By Guy Kelly
AS BRITAIN looks set to wilt for
another few weeks, with little in the
forecast even vaguely resembling
moisture, we might start to wonder if
this drought could rival the almost
entirely parched year of 1921.
At that time, high pressure from the
Azores camped over Britain and
couldn’t be removed for months and
months. Temperatures soared; rain
stayed away; the population fried.
“Day after day of these African
conditions is proving a severe strain on
the English constitution,” The Times
wrote that July, with some
understatement. People were
desperate. In London, a chauffeur
called Joseph Gorton became the first
Briton to be fined for wasting water,
when he left a hosepipe pouring down
a drain as he washed his car.
On Hampstead Heath, a fireworks
company, Brocks, put on a huge
daytime display in the vague hope it
might nudge the skies into rainfall.
You will be astonished to learn that
while “the clear blue sky was
immediately speckled with tiny puffs
of smoke”, the Hampstead and
Highgate Express reported “of rain
there was not a drop”. It was worth a
go. Arguably, Kent bore the brunt, as it
does today. The “Garden of England”
became like all of us at the moment:
permanently tired and in dire need of a
drink.
In Margate, less than 10ins of rain
fell over 12 months, conditions which
some have speculated inspired TS
Eliot’s The Waste Land.
Though a reflection on the Great
War, he wrote most of it in a Victorian
shelter on the town’s promenade while
he recovered from an illness that
September.
“What are the roots that clutch,
what branches grow / Out of this stony
rubbish? Son of man, / You cannot say,
or guess, for you know only / A heap of
broken images…” Plenty of ink has
been spilled about this year’s drought,
with no doubt more to come. Let’s
hope some of it’s up to Eliot’s standard.

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Klopp ‘filled
with rage’ by
World Cup
Football
By Chris Bascombe

Crystal Palace

0—2

Arsenal

Pretty in pink
Martinelli and Saka give
Arsenal perfect start
P2-3

Arsenal celebrate the first goal of the Premier League season, scored by Gabriel Martinelli, against Crystal Palace last night. Victory was sealed by Bukayo Saka’s late deflected shot

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp
says the thought of a mid-season
World Cup fills him with rage as
elite footballers ready themselves
for the most gruelling campaign yet.
Klopp doubled down on his longheld view that this year’s World Cup
in Qatar is “at the wrong time for the
wrong reasons” following the warning by Professional Footballers’
Association chief Maheta Molango
that top players’ careers would be
curtailed by the excessive workload
of the international calendar.
“If all the players have a break it is
not a problem,” said Klopp about the
interrupted campaign ahead. “It is
like a winter break. The problem is
the players who play the World Cup.
That is just not OK.
“If you go to the final at a World
Cup and win it or lose or a thirdplace match you are already quite
busy. Then the [league] starts.
“When I start talking about it, I
get really angry. My problem is that
as much as everybody knows it’s not
right, nobody talks often enough
about it that it will be changed.
“It is like climate change. We all
know something has to change but
nobody is saying what we have to
do,” Klopp added. “There must be
one meeting where they [Fifa, Premier League and FA] all talk to each
other and the only subject should be
the most important part of this
game; the players.”
Like other Premier League clubs,
Liverpool will schedule a winter
camp to prepare for the league
resumption on Boxing Day, with
Klopp’s side heading to Dubai.
Meanwhile, Mohamed Salah
looks re-energised, rejuvenated and
ready to renew his quest for the
Premier League Golden Boot after a
pre-season break and record Anfield
deal, with Klopp hoping to reap the
reward of Salah’s much-needed,
extended summer holiday.
After signing a contract extension
Turn to page 5

Ten Hag backtracks and offers Ronaldo peace deal
United forward could face
Brighton to solve injury crisis
Manager ‘very happy’ to have
unsettled striker at the club
By James Ducker NORTHERN
FOOTBALL CORRESPONDENT
Cristiano Ronaldo was given an
olive branch by Erik ten Hag last
night as the Manchester United
manager weighed up an emergency
recall for his unsettled striker.
Only days after ripping into Ronaldo and others for their “unacceptable” early exit from a friendly and
urging the Portugal striker to get fit

and prove his worth, Ten Hag
softened his tone yesterday.
Insisting it had been wrong for
people to single out Ronaldo for
leaving Old Trafford 10 minutes
before the end of last Sunday’s
friendly against Rayo Vallecano
when others had done the same, Ten
Hag lauded the 37-year-old’s application in training this week and
claimed he was “really happy” to
have him at the club.
With Anthony Martial likely to be
out for two to three weeks with a
hamstring injury, Ten Hag has to
decide whether to rush back Ronaldo for United’s opening Premier
League game against Brighton
tomorrow. Ronaldo wants to leave

Old Trafford this summer and is
weeks behind his team-mates in fitness after missing all the club’s preseason tour for personal reasons.
A 45-minute run-out against Vallecano – when he was also involved
in a tense touchline exchange with
Ten Hag – was his only pre-season
outing. But Martial’s absence has
exposed United’s lack of attacking
options. Ten Hag could turn to Ronaldo to answer his SOS, draft in
youngster Anthony Elanga or play
an additional midfielder and use
Bruno Fernandes as a false nine.
Asked if Ronaldo could be thrown
into the starting XI, Ten Hag said:
“We will see Sunday. I’m satisfied
with the whole team, they are really

working good, it’s a good culture
and also Cristiano is working really
good, really tough and hard.
“I’m really happy [with Ronaldo].
We have a top striker, I’m really
happy he’s here, he’s in the squad
and we stick to the plan.”
Despite Ten Hag’s claims, Jamie
Carragher, writing in his Telegraph
Sport column today, believes the
manager should tell the Old Trafford board to facilitate Ronaldo’s
departure on a free transfer “for the
greater good of Manchester United”.
“Since his return, Ronaldo has
been treated and acted as if he is
more important than the coach, and
even bigger than Manchester
United,” Carragher writes.

“It is damaging and undermining,
casting a shadow over the early
months of Ten Hag’s reign.
“The best way for Ten Hag to look
to the future is to rid himself of the
superstar who is clinging on to the
glories of the past.”
United have yet to disclose which
other players left the Vallecano
game early, however Ten Hag
insisted it had been wrong to single
out the striker.
“There were many players who
left, but the spotlight is on Cristiano
and that’s not right,” Ten Hag said.
“He [Ronaldo] was part of it. Once
again, there were a lot of players.”
Jamie Carragher: Page 4

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Sport
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Statement
victory for
Arsenal in
Palace raid
Crystal Palace
Arsenal
Martinelli 20, Guehi og 85

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By Jason Burt
CHIEF FOOTBALL CORRESPONDENT
at Selhurst Park
The Premier League is back and
with this fiercely fought and ultimately impressive win, Arsenal will
believe they are, too. Having been
dealt the fiendish task of a London
derby, under the Friday night lights,
away from home for the second season in a row to kick off the new campaign, they stood tall against Crystal
Palace, just as they had wilted
against Brentford.
The world was watching in anticipation of another pratfall because
the broadcasters selected this fixture in the hope of a repeat of the
raucous embarrassment Arsenal
suffered to kick off the last campaign. Although Palace will argue
that they deserved a point, it is
Arsenal who have given themselves
a solid launchpad.
A 2-0 defeat on Aug 13, 2021
became a 2-0 win on Aug 5, 2022,
and the mood was hugely different

in a season that feels it is “all or nothing” for them – and not just because
of the Amazon documentary.
Having lost here 3-0 only last
April it was also a significant
improvement on that performance
and another piece of evidence for
Mikel Arteta to forward his argument that his team are ready to go to
another level. Still, having spent
£115 million this summer to add to
last year’s vast outlay, he needed
this beginning and there is suddenly
strength and depth to the squad,
with Kieran Tierney, for example,
coming on as a late substitute.
For Arteta, there was also a small
personal milestone as he registered
his 50th top-flight win as Arsenal
manager, in 98 games, and actually
only Arsene Wenger has reached
that total in fewer games (94).
Palace will point to two clear-cut
chances that were not taken, either
side of half-time, which may have
changed everything, although
Arsenal also had their opportunities, while Arteta will have been
delighted by the performances of
his three debutants.
Gabriel Jesus added far more
focus and aggression and movement
to Arsenal’s attack; Oleksandr
Zinchenko showed all the “smarts”
that earned him game-time at Manchester City, and gained an assist,
Palace plundered:
Gabriel Martinelli
(above, right) heads
Arsenal into the
lead, before Bukayo
Saka (left, No 7)
fires in a shot that
deflects off Palace
defender Marc
Guehi’s head and
into the net to
make it 2-0

although the stand-out performance was delivered by a player
who was bought in 2019 but has not
featured in a first-team game until
now. William Saliba, still 21, was a
wonderfully quick, assured presence at the heart of the defence. And
he needed to be.
Glad All Over emphatically rang
out as the players emerged, in the
warm August sunshine, and for a
few seconds it was an anthem of
pure hope for every fan as the Premier League returned.
But the opening goal should have
been claimed by the visiting side
inside five minutes and by Gabriel
Martinelli after a strong slaloming

Arteta delighted by Saliba
on his long-awaited debut

win at Crystal Palace and was deservedly named man-of-the-match after
committing no fouls, winning 67 per
cent of his duels, making six clearances, seven recoveries and a pass
completion rate of 94 per cent. Pundits such as former Manchester
United defender Gary Neville
gushed that Saliba reminded him of
Rio Ferdinand. Arteta was equally
impressed. “You don’t really see that
at 21 in the Premier League against
this opponent and physical players.

By Jason Burt
Mikel Arteta hailed the “superb”
performance of William Saliba after
the defender finally made his debut

three years after signing for Arsenal
from Saint-Etienne.
The 21-year-old France international, who arrived in 2019 for
£27 million and has been on loan
ever since, started the impressive

run by Jesus. The forward’s shot
deflected off Marc Guehi to Martinelli who wastefully fired across
goal and wide.
The Brazilian made amends. Fifteen minutes later, Palace, who
were worryingly vulnerable at corners last season, were horribly
undone as Zinchenko peeled off
unmarked – Wilfried Zaha simply
failed to track him on the penalty
area’s edge – beyond the far post to
head the delivery from Bukayo Saka
back into the six-yard area. There
was Martinelli, also unmarked, to
guide his own header and although
Vicente Guaita got a hand to the ball
he could not keep it out. A tick for

Arsenal’s set-piece coach, Nicolas
Jover.
It was no less than Arsenal had
deserved. They had set a pattern of
dominance, they moved the ball
quickly and confidently and Palace,
who announced an hour before
kick-off that Christian Benteke had
left to join Wayne Rooney’s DC
United in the MLS, were feeding off
scraps, and not least in attack. In
fact, the greatest threat to the
Arsenal goal came from the lack of
certainty shown by their own goalkeeper, Aaron Ramsdale, when the
ball was at his feet.
Palace needed a glimmer of hope
and finally Zaha provided it by

SET-PIECE WORKS LIKE A DREAM
Bukayo Saka’s corner flies
high over the Palace
defenders to the edge of
the six-yard box. Oleksandr
Zinchenko runs in
unmarked, he heads the ball
back across goal and
Gabriel Martinelli nods in to
make it 1-0 to Arsenal
Zinchenko

Martinelli

Saka

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Tuchel: Chelsea
strikers will not
wear No 9 shirt
Players avoid ‘cursed’ jersey
after series of big-name flops
Club still in the market for a
defender after Cucurella deal
By Matt Law
FOOTBALL NEWS CORRESPONDENT

sprinting back to dispossess Jesus
and then drawing a foul from Ben
White, shoehorned in at right-back,
with a clever drag-back. From the
fre e -kick, Joachim Anders en
headed across goal and Odsonne
Edouard threw himself bravely into
a diving header, in front of an
Arsenal boot, only for Ramsdale to
superbly turn it away. At last, with
England manager Gareth Southgate
and his assistant Steve Holland
watching, Palace had threatened.
If Palace should have scored then
they certainly should have drawn
level when Zaha pierced their
defence with a wonderfully incisive
pass stabbed in behind Martin Ode-

gaard. Suddenly Eberechi Eze was
clear on goal only for Ramsdale to
block his weak low shot.
It is usually at this point that Palace’s momentum gets them back
into it and flaky Arsenal fold. We
have seen this game before. Instead,
something different happened. Yes,
Palace piled on the pressure, they
even played a 4-2-4 formation and
Arsenal struggled to clear.
But they also blocked and tackled
and denied Palace before they broke
away and scored. Or rather Palace
scored an own goal. It came as Saka
collected a pass on the right and
teased Tyrick Mitchell before crossing dangerously with Guehi unfor-

Crystal Palace (4-2-3-1) Guaita 6; Clyne 6, Andersen 6,
Guehi 7, Mitchell 6; Schlupp 6 (Hughes 86), Doucoure 7
(Milivojevic 75); Ayew 7 ,Eze 7 (Ebiowei 86), Zaha 7;
Edouard 7 (Mateta 58). Subs Johnstone (g), Ward,
Richards, Riedewald, Plange. Booked Clyne.
Arsenal (4-2-3-1) Ramsdale 6; White 6, Saliba 8, Gabriel
6, Zinchenko 7 (Tierney 83); Partey 6, Xhaka 6; Saka 7,
Odegaard 7 (Lokonga 90+3), Martinelli 7; Jesus 8
(Nketiah 83). Subs Turner (g), Holding, Soares, Pepe,
Nelson, Elneny. Booked Xhaka, White.
Referee Anthony Taylor (Cheshire).

With that composure, calmness and
presence,” he said. “He was superb.”
Asked what he now expected of
Saliba, who it was feared would
never play for Arsenal, Arteta added:
“Let him be and let him play. The
way we have tried to develop that
player… to sign him at 19 and bring
him back three years later is something unusual.
“Now we are exposing the player
in a very difficult environment
where he can develop and enjoy it.”

Arteta said that Arsenal’s first goal
scored by Gabriel Martinelli had
come as the result of a set-piece routine practised on the eve of the
match. “It was one of the set-piece
coaches that created [it)]” he said.
Despite having already spent
£115 million, Arsenal are still looking
to strengthen their squad. “We are
going to try,” Arteta said.
“There are a few things we have
planned and if we could do them it
would be great. But we have to focus

on the players we have to get the
best out of them.”
Palace manager Patrick Vieira
rued the failure of his side to take
their chances, having “dominated”
the game. He added that he was also
looking to strengthen before the
window closes.
“We are a bit short of numbers
and of experience,” he said. “We are
always looking to improve the team
and if we find the right players with
the right budget, we will do it.”

tunately stooping to direct a header
inadvertently past Guaita.
Whereas last season began with a
shock and a crisis for Arsenal now
they start with a win, a clean sheet,
a defiant performance and far
greater hope. It was a night for them
to calm their nerves and excite their
fans.

Thomas Tuchel has revealed that
Chelsea’s superstitious forwards do
not want to touch the No 9 shirt after
becoming convinced it is cursed.
Chelsea, who start their Premier
League season against Everton
today, have left the No 9 free after its
last wearer, Romelu Lukaku,
returned to Inter Milan on loan following a disappointing season back
at Stamford Bridge.
Club-record signing Lukaku has
joined a long list of high-profile
strikers, including Fernando Torres, Alvaro Morata, Hernan Crespo,
Gonzalo Higuain and Radamel Falcao, who failed to justify their reputations and transfer fees in the
No 9 shirt.
Chelsea are still in the market for
a new forward before the transfer
window shuts and are interested in
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, but
head coach Tuchel confirmed the
No 9 had not been deliberately left
open for a potential arrival.
“It’s cursed, people tell me it’s
cursed,” said Tuchel, who would not
be drawn on Aubameyang. “It’s not
the case that we leave it open for
tactical reasons, for some players in
the pipeline that come in and naturally take it.
“There was not a big demand for
No 9, when players sometimes want
to change numbers. But, surprisingly, nobody wants to touch it.
“Everybody who has been at the
club longer than me tells me ‘Ah,
you know, like he had the nine and
he did not score and he had the nine
and did also not score’. So, now we
have a moment where nobody
wants to touch the No 9.”
Two of Chelsea’s most prolific
strikers in recent years, Didier
Drogba and Diego Costa, wore the
number 11 and 19 shirts while they
were at Stamford Bridge. Tammy
Abraham scored 21 Premier League
goals in two seasons with nine on his
back but was sold to Roma last summer. New signing Raheem Sterling
has never worn the No 9 shirt and
will wear 17 at Chelsea, while Kai
Havertz has stuck with his favoured
29, Timo Werner is 11 and Armando
Broja has taken the 18 shirt he wore
on loan at Southampton.
Tuchel added: “I’m also superstitious, I can understand why players
maybe don’t touch it and have other
preferences. But I think Raheem
will help us a lot and in general it’s
our responsibility to create more
offensive positions to have maybe a
bit more players in the box.”
Chelsea completed the signing of
left-sided defender Marc Cucurella

for £55 million, plus £7 million in
add- ons, from Brighton, and,
despite Leicester City’s insistence
that he is not for sale, have not given
up on centre-back Wesley Fofana,
who they believe wants to move to
Stamford Bridge.
Talks have been held over midfielder Frenkie de Jong, who Chelsea believe would join them over
Manchester United if he decided to
leave Barcelona.
Cesar Azpilicueta has signed a
new two-year contract, but Tuchel
confirmed that he would still like to
sign another defender, even though
Chelsea may have to pay more than
the £80 million world-record fee for
a defender to land Fofana. Talks are
ongoing although Leicester do not
want to see and are digging in their
heels over the price.
Tuchel said: “Azpi and Trevoh
Chalobah play in the same position

Latest arrival: Defender Marc Cucurella has
signed a six-year contract with Chelsea

in the back three, Marc can play in
the back three on the left. Kalidou
[Koulibaly] can play in the back
three on the left and we have Thiago
Silva, who is not getting younger,
unfortunately.
“So, maybe we bring in one
player, maybe not. Let’s see if we
can make another signing.”
Teenage defender Levi Colwill
has joined Brighton on loan and
Chelsea have held talks over finding
an agreement for Werner to return
to RB Leipzig and Kepa Arrizabalaga
to join Napoli on loan.
Cucurella, who has signed a sixyear contract, said: “I’m really
happy. It’s a big opportunity for me
to join one of the best clubs in the
world and I’m going to work hard to
be happy here and help the team.”
Co - controlling owner To dd
Boehly, who is interim sporting
director, said: “Marc is an elite
defender of proven Premier League
quality and he further strengthens
our squad going into the new
season. We’re delighted Marc will
be a part of the present and future
at Chelsea.”

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‘The king is back’ Story

Sport
Football

Jamie Carragher
Petulant superstar must be
shown the door by United
Ten Hag should stamp his
authority as manager
after Ronaldo’s recent
‘unacceptable’ behaviour
Erik ten Hag would be wise to
spend a few days reading Sir
Alex Ferguson’s autobiography.
One line in particular should
scream out as he considers
what to do with Cristiano
Ronaldo.
“The minute a Manchester
United player thought he was
bigger than the manager, he
had to go.”
It would be surprising – and
contradictory – if Ferguson had
not already personally
delivered this message to Ten
Hag, having intervened in the
dispute between player and
club. Ten Hag was being
diplomatic about Ronaldo
yesterday, but given his
comments earlier in the week,
wherever the end of his tether
is, the Portuguese may have
located it.
Every United supporter
ought to have been encouraged
by their new coach publicly
criticising the early departure
of Ronaldo and others during
last Sunday’s pre-season
friendly against Rayo Vallecano.
Before Ten Hag can get United
performing again, he needs to
crack the whip.
“Unacceptable” is putting it
mildly about Ronaldo’s petulant
behaviour. Ten Hag should go
further and tell his board to
facilitate Ronaldo’s departure
on a free transfer for the greater
good of Manchester United.
This would not be a sign of
weakness even if, ultimately, it
is what Ronaldo wants. By
seizing the moment, Ten Hag
can make it known it is he who
wants Ronaldo out, sending a
message to the rest of the team
that he will not tolerate such
lack of discipline. Keeping
Ronaldo would prolong the

problem and what has become an
unwanted soap opera. Since his
return, Ronaldo has been treated,
and acted, as if he is more
important than the coach, and even
bigger than United.
It is damaging and undermining,
casting a shadow over the early
months of Ten Hag’s reign. Here we
are heading into a new season and
still all roads lead to Ronaldo. The
obsession with Ronaldo and his
future is eclipsing any positive
momentum that usually follows a
managerial appointment.
None of this is a Ten Hag
production, of course. He has been
handed an extremely difficult and
unwanted welcoming gift upon
arriving from Ajax. Ronaldo’s
presence is a legacy of United’s
miscalculation in signing him 12
months ago. I made my
reservations known at the time.
Everything since has confirmed the
mistake.
When the first mutterings of
Ronaldo wishing to leave this
summer were made, it felt like an
open goal for Ten Hag to show him
urrent stance
the door. United’s current
neer his exit
– unwilling to engineer
ause while there
– surprises me because
o can still
is no doubt Ronaldo
nary moments
produce extraordinary
en obvious
on a pitch, it has been
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for a while his individual
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talent no longer blends
lture.
a team ethic and culture.
hat if
My suspicion is that
Ten Hag held a poll within
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his squad, the majority
players would not mind if
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Ronaldo left. It is not
helpful seeing him throw
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his arms around after
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every misplaced pass.
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believe the supporters
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They will always love
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see his presence is now
han
doing more harm than
In charge: Erik ten Hag (left)
must lay down the law and
force Cristiano Ronaldo’ss exit

Tyler and BBC apologise for
Hillsborough ‘hooligan’ gaffe
By Ben Rumsby
The BBC and Martin Tyler have
apologised after the veteran commentator appeared to link the Hillsborough disaster with hooliganism
on the Today programme.

In an interview to mark the Premier League’s 30th anniversary,
Tyler referred to “Hillsborough and
other hooligan-related issues”, a
comment which provoked fury after
it went unchallenged.
Tyler was reminiscing about how
much the game had changed since

good. United need to move on,
creating a new culture in which
everyone pulls together.
Everything Ronaldo has done in
pre-season has been calculated to
serve his needs above those of the
new coach. Aside from the transfer
request and swift departure from
the pre-season game, look at his
social media post claiming “the
king is back” before his return,
timed to maximise media coverage
for him and embarrass the club.
And did he really have to post on
Instagram immediately after
United’s pre-season defeat by
Atletico Madrid? The statement
“working in progress” felt
choreographed.
Ronaldo is a phenomenon, but
there is one unbeatable opponent
in football. Time beats us all.
Ronaldo strikes me as a
footballer refusing to accept the
reality that, no matter how good
you are and have been, powers
dwindle with age. In his mind, he is
still the best, capable of winning
the Champions League.
The fact that no elite teams want
him should be a real
reality check. Yes,
Ronaldo can sstill score goals
at the high
highest level, but a
wise mana
manager leading one
of the top team
teams would see
him as contribut
contributing as part of a
squad and ther
therefore too
expensive.
They also k
know he is not
prepared to p
play second
fiddle, sulking when subbed
or left out of tthe starting XI.
All this gi
gives Ten Hag a
headache w
which will grow
in severity unless
Ronaldo goes. But it also
present the manager
presents
with an opportunity.
History is full of
examples of managers
going into the biggest
clubs and making a
statemen
statement with a major
decision on a highprofile p
player. Although
the elite coaches are
general
generally judged on

their signings, it is often those they
let go which set the tone for an era.
Look at Pep Guardiola at
Barcelona and Manchester City.
Upon taking over at the Nou Camp,
ditching legends such as
Ronaldinho and Deco were among
his first acts.
At City, Pep stamped his
authority by deciding Joe Hart was
not part of his plans. OK, that is
different to taking on a player of
Ronaldo’s stature. But it still sent a
message to the rest of the squad
given Hart was England’s No 1 and a
two-time Premier League winner.
Jurgen Klopp joined Liverpool a
matter of weeks after Christian
Benteke was the club’s joint record
signing.
From day one, he made it obvious
he was not for him. It was a bigger
call at the time than it looks now.
Antonio Conte went into Chelsea
and decided Cesc Fabregas did not
fit his vision for the team, benching
him and subsequently being
involved in a couple of media spats
with the player.
And I have often recalled the
moment Gerard Houllier criticised
Paul Ince’s performance in a team
meeting following an FA Cup tie at
Manchester United, shortly after he
became sole manager. Ince was the
Liverpool and England captain at
the time and still a top player. The
younger players like myself felt “we
have a real manager here”. Houllier
later decided to sell him because he
wanted a different vibe in the
dressing room.
The short-term pain of losing a
high-class, influential player was
counterbalanced by the manager
stamping his authority on the club.
Players know if those with the
highest status are disposable,
everyone has to get in line.
The key difference is that
Ronaldo wants out. United might
feel they are letting him win by
accepting his transfer demand.
They are wrong. The best way for
Ten Hag to look to the future is to
rid himself of the superstar who is
clinging on to the glories of his past.

1992, when he said: “You’ve got to
remember that football was in a bit
of a crisis at that time. We weren’t
that long after Hillsborough and
other hooligan-related issues as
well.”
Among those to condemn the
comment were Steve Rotheram, the
Metro Mayor of the Liverpool City
Region, who was present during the
1989 Hillsborough disaster and has
been a leading campaigner for justice for its victims and their families.
He wrote on Twitter: “‘Hillsbor-

ough and OTHER hooligan related
incidents’ Exceptionally crass comments from Martin Tyler on @BBCr4today – a man who should know
much better. Even now, people
whose careers are built on football
Sorry: Veteran Sky
commentator Martin Tyler
has apologised for linking
hooliganism to the 1989
Hillsborough disaster

Portuguese wants out
Cristiano Ronaldo decides he wants
to leave after a difficult campaign in
which the club miss out on
Champions League qualification

still spread these foul smears.” A
BBC statement said: “We regret that
we did not robustly challenge Martin Tyler on a comment which
appeared to link Hillsborough and
hooliganism.”
Tyler issued a separate apology,
saying: “There is no connection at
all between the Hillsborough disaster and hooliganism – I know that,
and I was not implying that there
was. I apologise sincerely and
wholeheartedly for any misunderstanding.”

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of Ronaldo’s summer

Gerrard shows
ruthless side to
raise Villa level

Returns for crisis talks
After missing the pre-season tour for family reasons,
the Portuguese and his agent, Jorge Mendes, hold
crisis talks with the club hierarchy on July 26

Training with the kids
Returns to training, posting pictures with teenagers,
including (front l-r) Charlie Savage and Hannibal Mejbri

Manager removes captaincy
from Mings and brings in
greater experience after last
season’s disappointing finish
By John Percy

Back in action
at Old Trafford
The 37-year-old
is given a
positive
reception by
United fans as
he plays 45
minutes against
Rayo Vallecano
at Old Trafford
last Sunday,
having posted
“The King is
Back” on social
media.

Klopp: Salah
looking sharp
From Page 1
of another two years, on £350,000 a
week, Klopp admits he is glad the
distraction of weekly questions
about Salah’s long-term commitment has been removed.
“Mo had one of the most intense
seasons ever, with the African Cup

of Nations and all of our games,”
Klopp said. “Everyone talks about us
playing 63 games and stuff like this,
but we had some players who played
a tournament in between as well,
which is absolutely ridiculous.
“After a few weeks of holiday, Mo
is always full of power and energy
and he came back in a good shape.
Knowing where he will be for the
next very, very important years in
his career, yes, that gave all of us a
boost. He looked really sharp in the
whole pre-season to be honest.

Walking out early
But there is a sting in the tail as
Ronaldo and Diogo Dalot are
pictured leaving before the end of
that match, much to manager Erik
ten Hag’s annoyance

Long may it continue, that would be
really cool.
“It is much better now than if he
would have been out of contract
next summer. I am 100 per cent sure
he could have pushed that aside, but
you would not stop asking and that
is the problem we would face.”
It is unlikely defender Nat Phillips, who has interested Fulham and
Bournemouth, will be allowed to
leave in this window after Ibrahima
Konate, who faces several weeks
out, sustained a muscle injury.

Steven Gerrard’s standards as a
player were always dizzyingly high,
so the final months of last season
with Aston Villa will have been
excruciating. As he emerged from a
lap of celebration following Villa’s
final home game of last season, a 1-1
draw against Burnley, the frustration was clear to see.
“Moving forward, this club cannot finish 14th again. We need to
change things, and come back better and stronger next season,” he
said. After being appointed last
November, and introducing a new
playing style, this is the season in
which Gerrard can be truly judged
as Villa’s manager, and he is in no
mood to tolerate another underwhelming campaign.
He is targeting a top-half finish, at
the bare minimum, and European
football remains the ultimate aim
for owners Nassef Sawiris and Wes
Edens. A drastic summer shake-up
was inevitable, with five new signings including Philippe Coutinho
and Diego Carlos, while Tyrone
Mings has been replaced as captain
by John McGinn. It was a ruthless
move which underlined Gerrard’s
determination to stamp his own
imprint on the squad, and has led to
comparisons with Gerard Houllier,
his former manager at Liverpool.
The Frenchman was confirmed as
Liverpool’s permanent manager in
November 1998 and used the
remaining seven months to scrutinise the squad, assessing who he
could rely on and who was dispensable, a process that led to Paul Ince
being replaced as captain in the
summer. Gerrard’s move to take the
armband off Mings is a similarly big
statement.
Gerrard has made changes to the
squad and received the financial
backing of Villa’s board, with more
than £45 million spent. He has also
been permitted to overhaul the
transfer policy by signing older,
more experienced players: Coutinho
was 30 in June, while Carlos and
Lucas Digne are both 29.

The new manager bounce
How Villa improved last season
Steven Gerrard Goals Dean Smith
1.4

1.3
Goals conceded
1.3

1.8
Points

1.3

0.9
Open play crosses
10.7

14.5
Long passes

46.8
All stats per game

55.7

Carlos already appears a very
promising buy, producing impressive performances during Villa’s
pre-season tour of Australia. The
club were initially told to pay more
than €40 million (£33 million) by
Sevilla for the centre-back and other
alternatives were considered,
including James Tarkowski, with
Gerrard even making a presentation
to the former Burnley defender at
his house.
Yet, after three days of negotiations, a fee of £26 million was agreed
for Carlos. He has already been
named as joint vice-captain. There
is also genuine excitement over the
capture of midfielder Boubacar
Kamara, who joined from Marseille
on a free transfer. He was viewed as
a high-potential Ligue 1 star and is
already a France international.
Gerrard is still targeting a “No 8”
midfielder before the transfer window closes, and possibly another
forward, while there are also plans
to extend the stays of some of the
current players: constructive talks
are ongoing with Douglas Luiz over

‘This club cannot finish
14th again. We need to
change things, and come
back better and stronger’
a new contract, with the Brazilian’s
deal running out next year.
There are also high hopes that
Leon Bailey, the £25 million buy
from Bayer Leverkusen, will have a
big season after a first campaign
ravaged by injury.
Trimming the squad is a priority,
with a number of players up for sale,
including Bertrand Traore, Anwar
El Ghazi, Kortney Hause and Frederic Guilbert. Carney Chukwuemeka, the England Under-19
international, left this week in a
£20 million move to Chelsea.
Villa offered to make him the
best-paid teenager in England and
dangled a regular starting place during a frustrating contract stand-off,
which was unresolved for nearly a
year. But Chelsea’s offer was
regarded as too good to turn down
for a player who, despite his
undoubted ability, made just two
league starts – with one of them a
disappointing 57-minute appearance in that Burnley match.
But there are homegrown talents
that Villa are building their future
around, including Jacob and Aaron
Ramsey, Cameron Archer and Tim
Iroegbunam.
And Gerrard has persuaded Neil
Critchley to leave Blackpool to be
his new assistant.
It all starts again for Gerrard at
Bournemouth today, and he knows
the spotlight will be on him.
Expectations will be high, but the
pursuit of perfection remains the
driving force, as it did when he was
a player.

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Your essential
guide to the
Premier League
weekend
Form guide

Win

Lose

Meslier

25
Kristensen

Rodak

2
Tete

14

5

21

Llorente

Koch

Struijk

8

12

Roca

Adams

11

19

7

Rodrigo

Aaronson

Adarabioyo

Ream

9

Reed

14

18

7

Pereira

Kebano

10

Neto

Podence

3

19

Ait-Nouri

Jonny

28

8

32

Moutinho

Neves

Dendoncker

23

16

4

Kilman

Coady

Collins



Travers

23

5

Mepham

Hill

Kelly

4

8

29

Cook

Lerma

Billing

15

33

Smith

Out Bryan (hand), Wilson (knee).
Test Chalobah (knock).

9

32

9

Mitrovic

Anthony

Solanke

Liverpool

23

27

11

Diaz

Nunez

Salah

6

3

14

Thiago

Fabinho

Henderson

26

4

Robertson

Van Dijk

32

66

9
Ings

Out Jota, Oxlade-Chamberlain (both
thigh), Kelleher (groin), Konate (knee),
Jones (muscle).
Tests Alisson (chest), Tsimikas (knock),
Keita (illness).

6

44

7

Luiz

Kamara

McGinn

27

3

5

2

Carlos

Mings

Cash

Newcastle United

Pope

2

4

33

13

Trippier

Botman

Burn

Targett

28

39

7

Willock

Bruno

Joelinton

Lloris

17

24

9

10

Wilson

Saint-Maximin

15

Romero

7

Toffolo

Williams

8

28

Colback

O’Brien

Sanchez

30

19

Doherty

Hojbjerg

Bentancur

Sessegnon

21

7

Kulusevski

Son


Out Richards (leg), Yates (knee).
Test Surridge (groin).

10

Aribo

Adams

8

6

17

Romeu

S Armstrong

35

2

11

Redmond Ward-Prowse

26

19

4

15

22

Niakhate

Worrall

Perraud

Salisu

1

1

Henderson

McCarthy

Pickford

5

2

19

Keane

Tarkowski

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Mykolenko

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16

Iwobi

Doucoure

Justin



11

10

7

Gray

Gordon

McNeil

20

Out Townsend (knee), Coleman (groin),
Rondon (ban), Calvert-Lewin (muscle),
Davies, Gomes (both knock).
Tests Begovic (ankle), Mina (knock).

Leicester City

Ward

2

3

6

27

Fofana

Evans

Castagne

25

22

Ndidi

Dewsbury-Hall

11

8

10

Albrighton

Tielemans

Maddison

9

Alli

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De Gea

20
Dalot

6

5

Chelsea

17

29

19

Sterling

Havertz

Mount

3

7

5

24

Alonso

Kante

Jorginho

James


Tests Broja (ankle), Barkley, Werner (both
hamstring).

12

Martinez

Maguire

39

Fred

McTominay

25

8

10

Sancho

Fernandes

Rashford

7

Brentford

11

17

19

Wissa

Toney

Mbeumo

15

6

27

Onyeka

Norgaard

Janelt


Out Ajer, Canos (both hamstring),
Pinnock (knee).

9

10

Trossard

Maupay

Mac Allister

25

12

13

20

Caicedo

Mwepu

Gross

March

6

28

2

18

6

3

4

5

3

Silva

Azpilicueta

Hickey

Jansson

Mee

Henry

Webster

Dunk

Veltman

16

1

1

Mendy

Raya

Sanchez

West Ham United

2

15

4

3

Johnson

Dawson

Zouma

Cresswell

41

28

Rice

Soucek

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Referee M Oliver (Northumberland)



20

8

22

Bowen

Fornals

Benrahma

Out Aguerd (ankle).
Test Diop (knock).

9
Antonio

Manchester City

10

9

26

Grealish

Haaland

Mahrez



20

16

17

Bernardo

Rodrigo

De Bruyne

Out Laporte (knee).

7

6

3

2

Cancelo

Ake

Dias

Walker

31
Ederson

Out Martial (hamstring).
Tests Sancho, Shaw (both illness), Pellistri
(ankle).

Brighton & Hove Albion

11

26

1



Ronaldo

Koulibaly

Fabianski

Tomorrow 2pm
TV Sky Sports, highlights MOTD2
Referee P Tierney (Lancashire)

Malacia

17

Vardy

Out Livramento, Tella (both knee),
Walcott (muscle).

Manchester United

1


Out Bertrand, Barnes (both knee),
Pereira (Achilles).
Tests Ward (knee), Perez, Choudhury
(both illness), Fofana (groin).



Bednarek Walker-Peters

1

12

Southampton

7

McKenna

Everton

Out Richarlison (ban), Skipp (heel).
Tests Tanganga (illness), Bissouma
(hamstring).

10

Sa

1



Kane

15
11

Dier

5

Nottingham Forest

Lingard

Today 3pm
TV Highlights MOTD
Referee A Marriner (West Midlands)

6

2

Out Shelvey (hamstring).
Tests Manquillo (groin), Fernandez,
Lewis (both calf).

Almiron

Tottenham Hotspur

1

Today 3pm
TV Highlights MOTD
Referee S Hooper (Wiltshire)



Out Hause (knee).
Tests Mings (knock), Buendia (thigh).

Digne

1

22

Out Chiquinho, Jimenez (both knee),
Traore, Semedo (both thigh).
Test Sarkic (thigh).



Martinez

Johnson

Out Rothwell (thigh), Fredericks (calf).

23

1

Awoniyi



Aston Villa

11
Watkins

Alisson

20

Zemura

Coutinho

Matip Alexander-Arnold

9

Today 3pm
TV Highlights MOTD
Referee P Bankes (Merseyside)

6



Out Dallas, Sinisterra (both thigh), Firpo,
Ayling, Forshaw (all knee), James (ban).
Tests Cooper (Achilles), Klaesson (ankle),
Drameh (thigh).

Bournemouth

42

Today 12.30pm
TV BT Sport, highlights MOTD
Referee A Madley (West Yorkshire)



Reid

Wolves

7

Robinson

Palhinha

Draw

Today 3pm
TV Highlights MOTD
Referee R Jones (Merseyside)

33
6

Bamford

Patterson

13

26



Harrison

3

16

Leeds United

1

Fulham

1


Out Moder (knee).
Test Mac Allister (groin).

Surface tension
Coventry’s first
Championship
match at home this
season – against
Rotherham
tomorrow – is in
doubt because the
pitch has been
affected by the
Commonwealth
Games rugby
sevens being
staged at the
stadium. An
inspection will be
held tonight.

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Sport
Football

Exclusive interview

Giant striker Kieffer Moore
says his unusual journey to
the top means he can live
with the best at Bournemouth
By Sam Dean
There are very few footballers like
Kieffer Moore, who stands at 6ft 5in
and weighs almost 16st, and there
are very few stories as compelling as
his rise to the Premier League. “It
has been different,” he says with a
smile. “I have got plenty of stories to
tell. But I would not change my
journey for anything.”
g the latToday, Moore will begin
est chapter in his remarkable career.
Having scored the goal that secured
promotion forr Bournemouth, the
fficially become a Prestriker will officially
layer at the age
mier League player
of 29.
th are his
Bournemouth
12th club, and football
was not even his first
e when
job: at an age
many of his teammates were making
oughs in
their breakthroughs
the senior game,
rking as a
Moore was working
d p ersonal
lifeg uard and
trainer.
Truro City,, Dorchester
Town, Yeovil Town, Norweng, Forest Green
gian side Viking,
ay United, Ipswich
Rovers, Torquay
ham United, BarnsTown, Rotherham
hletic, Cardiff City
ley, Wigan Athletic,
nemouth. How is
and now Bournemouth.
that for a CV? And that is before
one considers Moore’s interss with Wales.
national success
ly reached the
Having finally
top division, Moore is living his dream. But that is

not to say he never thought this
would happen. Even in those long
days as a lifeguard, when he would
wake up at 5am, work a full day and
then travel two hours each way to
train with Truro, there was always a
sense deep within that this day
would eventually come.
“It sounds stupid,” he says. “But it
felt like it was my destiny. I always
believed I would be a footballer,
from a very young age. It was meant
for me to make it in football.”
Last week, Moore was watching
Love Island with his fiancee when
the latest Sky Sports advert popped
up. It featured his strike against
Nottingham Forest, which took
Bournemouth back into the top
flight. For Moore and his partner,
who has been with him since
the start of his footballing
journey, it was a reminder
f
of how far
they have
a
come. “It almost
reassures
you,” he says. “I have
really got here, in the
Prem League.”
Premier
O
Over
an afternoo in Moore’s
noon
engaging compa
pany,
on Sandba
banks
beach, it
becomes clear
that the striker has
not reache d this
point in spite of his
unusual path, but
i There was no
because of it.
elite academ
academy, no high-class
f o o t b a l l i n g e d u c a ti o n .
on his brain and
There was only
le
his body, learning
all the
ada
time and adapting
to each
challenge.
co
“When you come
through an
a
academy you are almost
groomed
into being a certain type of player,”
he says. “I have taug
taught myself what
I can do. It has not b
been spoon-fed,
h
it has been sheer hard
work.

Lampard: Relegation talk
should motivate Everton
By Chris Bascombe
Everton manager Frank Lampard
says he understands why his team
are being tipped for relegation, but
has vowed to banish the pessimism
engulfing Goodison Park ahead of
today’s opener against Chelsea.

Everton narrowly avoided dropping into the Championship by winning their penultimate game. Since
then, Richarlison has been sold to
Tottenham and Dominic CalvertLewin is out injured so, with Salomon Rondon suspended, Lampard
has no recognised striker today.
Lampard admits he must strengthen

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The lifeguard
who finally
cracked the
big league

Happy as a sandboy: Kieffer Moore in relaxed mood at Sandbanks in Dorset ahead of the new season, and (below) in action for Bournemouth

“There are not many people like
me in the league at the moment, and
I believe I will be able to use that to
my advantage. It is about improving
and evolving, and there is a lot more
to my game than just my size.”
There is no point denying that his
size is a significant weapon, though.
Moore is not gangly, but powerful.
His frame is the product of those
days as a personal trainer, a decade
ago, when he packed on the muscle.
“I dedicated myself to the gym,” he
says. “To this day I have strict routines I have to do. It’s the mental side
of it as well, feeling strong.”
The path from non-League to Premier League has not been straightforward. Moore worked his way up
to the Championship, with Yeovil
Town, and then fell all the way back
down to the National League after a
challenging spell with Viking, in
Norway. “I was back to where I
started, in the blink of an eye.”
Although a blow, it was still an
improvement on being a lifeguard
and his other roles as a teenager. “I
worked in a restaurant, in a sweet
shop. Jobs many lads in football
would never have stepped foot in.”

A loan spell at Torquay, back
home in front of his friends and family in 2016, “kick-started the hunger” inside Moore. He soon earned a
move to Ipswich and restarted his
climb through the divisions.
You would be forgiven for thinking the story smooths out here.
Striker scores goals, works his way
up. Life could never be so simple for
Moore, however, and his career was
nearly over when he suffered a fractured skull while playing for Barnsley in 2019.
“That was a scary, scary point,” he
says. “In mid-air I lost consciousness, so my body ended up folding
over itself. The physios knew I was
knocked out and they put their
hands over my ears, to support my
head. When they took their hands
away, there was blood on them. So
the panic set in for them.
“Everyone was severely worried
about whether I would even be able
to function properly again, let alone
play football. In my first game back
the first ball was a goal-kick. It went
straight up into the air and I just
thought, ‘If I don’t commit to this, I
am going to get whacked anyway.’ I

ran straight at it and flicked it on,
and the crowd cheered.”
A few months later, Moore made
his debut for Wales, for whom he
qualifies through his grandfather.
Before that, he had almost committed to play for China. He had a lucrative offer from a club in Beijing and
the plan was for him to become a
Chinese citizen, via his grandmother, but “we couldn’t get it done
in time”. (Moore also has Italian heritage – his middle names are Roberto and Francisco – and he played
one game for England C in 2016.)
Moore has scored crucial goals for
Wales, including at last summer’s
European Championship, and he
struck four times in just 83 minutes
of action for Bournemouth last season, following his move from Cardiff. His action was limited due to a
broken foot, but he is now fully fit.
“Everything I have worked on
over my career has led me to this
point,” he says. “To finally be where
I dreamt of being, but when I look at
it I am not overly amazed. This is
part of my journey. I never get ahead
of myself, and maybe that is why I
have managed to keep going up.”

the squad before the transfer window closes after bringing in James
Tarkowski and Dwight McNeil from
Burnley and Ruben Vinagre on loan
from Sporting Lisbon. Everton last
night agreed a £33.7 million fee for
20-year-old Lille midfielder Amadou Onana and are hopeful Idrissa

Gana Gueye will return to Goodison
from Paris Saint-Germain.
However, Lampard says any negative appraisals will serve as motivation. “I know it’s there in certain
places,” Lampard said. “If you come
off a relegation battle and you lose a
player of high value to the team on
the pitch, it’s understandable. We
have brought in three players I’m
very happy with, but I understand
when people say we’re probably
going to be in a fight again.
“Any trepidation from the outside
is fine. For Evertonians, let’s see
how well we compete against Chel-

sea. And, when the window shuts,
let’s see what it looks like.”
Despite the downbeat predictions
– and the section of Everton fans
engaged in protests against the
Goodison board – Lampard believes
his team can be a surprise package.
He is trying to foster a sense of
togetherness to recreate the spirit
which kept the side up.
“If you look at a team like West
Ham two years ago, they saved
themselves from relegation and
then, two or three years later, were
in a European semi-final,” he said.
“So we must be positive.”

Defiant: Frank Lampard
believes Everton can be a
surprise package this
season after their escape
from relegation

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Pep Guardiola chopped and
changed his team –
particularly in defence – in
his first season as he
struggled to find the right
blend, with Vincent
Kompany injured and
Yaya Toure in and out.
New goalkeeper Claudio
Bravo proved to be a
failure, while it was no
surprise that City went
out and bought three
full-backs after a
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Kevin De Bruyne and Erling Haaland

This is Pep 3.0 – and it might be City
Guardiola’s busiest summer
of transfers brings a reboot
that makes a fifth title in six
seasons all the more likely
By Jason Burt
CHIEF FOOTBALL CORRESPONDENT
There is a certain degree of bemusement at Manchester City over the
reaction to the sale of Raheem Sterling and Gabriel Jesus and the
theory that it will damage the Premier League champions.
After all, Sterling was told he
could leave last summer, with City
pushing Tottenham Hotspur to
accept him as a makeweight in a
proposed deal to sign Harry Kane.
The move never happened, but it
proved that Sterling’s City career
was in its twilight.

And while Jesus has also been lavished with praise by Pep Guardiola,
he never quite became the true heir
to Sergio Aguero. He was actually
bought to take the striker’s place in
2016, one of Guardiola’s first purchases, as the manager quickly grew
frustrated with the Argentine’s initial reluctance to follow his tactical
instructions.
Similar to Sterling, Jesus was told
he could go last summer if he
wanted to and Juventus showed
interest before being put off by
City’s asking price – a sum Arsenal
ended up paying.
Both Sterling and Jesus had a year
left on their contracts at City and so
it made sense for them to leave now.
Extracting £100 million for the pair
feels like decent enough business,
even if they have been sold to title
rival Chelsea and Arsenal.
No one doubts that the signings

have strengthened the two London
clubs. One Premier League manager privately declared this week
that he confidently expected Jesus
to score 20 league goals for Arsenal,
ree – only
while Sterling’s pedigree
re goals
Aguero has scored more
under Guardiola at City – is
without question.
But City’s strategy has not
ne Sterwavered. Out have gone
25) and
ling (aged 27), Jesus (25)
Fe r n a n d i n h o ( 37 ), a s
planned, and in have
come Erling Haaland,
Julian Alvarez (both
22) and Kalvin Phillips
(26). The club would –
not unreasonably –
argue that represents a
clear upgrade.
Busy: Pep Guardiola wanted
to shake up his City squad

The final part of the summer
refresh was to sign a specialist leftback and allow Oleksandr
Zinchenko to leave. Although City
walked away from their first choice,
Cucur
Marc Cucurella,
after Brighton
wanted in excess of £50 milC
lion and Chelsea
stepped in,
there are o
other targets. Even
so, Guardi
Guardiola has told City he
can cope even if another
no signed.
player is not
City hav
have spent £97.9 million and brought in
£1
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million, with
th sale of periphthe
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younger playe added in. That
ers
is a profit of
£68.5 million –
remarkable for a
top club with such
ambitions. The figu
ures,
of course, are

skewed because of Haaland’s release
clause of £51 million, which is arguably a quarter of his market value.
But it is not just about the personnel or the finances. It is also about
the evolution and the effect it has on
the dressing room. It is six years
since Guardiola arrived at City and
this has been the busiest summer
since he joined. It has also been the
summer that he has wanted for the
past couple of years as he looks to
bring in new energy – and youth – to
a squad who needed a shake-up.
City thought about it last year but
there was not the value in the market or they could not prise away
their targets. One deal they could do
was trigger the £100 million clause
in Jack Grealish’s Aston Villa contract but that was partly because
they had been tipped off that if they
did not, Manchester United would.
It means we are looking at Pep 3.0

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Coach admits that Bernardo
could leave to join Barcelona

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Pep Guardiola has refused to rule
out Bernardo Silva leaving the club
before the close of the transfer window as the Manchester City manager revealed he would hold more
talks over his own future during the
season. Guardiola said City had yet
to receive any offers for Bernardo,
valued at £70 million.
But Barcelona are eager to sign
the Portugal midfielder before the
Sept 1 deadline.
The City manager insisted he
“100 per cent” wanted Bernardo to
stay, but said he would not stand in
the player’s way if he made it clear
he wanted to leave.
“I have said many times, I want
players to be happy here and for us
to try to do it together,” Guardiola
said ahead of City’s Premier
League opener against West
Ham tomorrow. “I would love
i Bernardo could continue
if
here because he’s a special
player for all of us in the
locker room, but I don’t know
what is going to happen.
“If he stays, it is perfect. If he
has to leave it is because football is
like this – the clubs have an agree-

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player as Bernardo going would be a
bitter blow and doubtless force the
club – who are searching for a leftback after pulling the plug on a
move for Marc Cucurella – back into
the market for a replacement.
Guardiola has 20 senior players to
call upon, including three goalkeepers, which is the smallest squad during his time as City manager.
Asked if he would need a replacement for Bernardo, who has three
years left on his contract, Guardiola

said: “If we have a lot of injuries,
maybe it [the small squad] will be a
problem, but hopefully that’s not
going to happen.
“I like to work with not much
players, so they’re more involved.
We have the academy and we
showed in the last year always, we
have a small squad and survived
well. We have the window in the
winter, maybe we have to take
something we cannot do right now.”
On Bernardo, Guardiola added:
“As far as I know, Manchester City
didn’t get any offer [for him].”
Guardiola is out of contract at the
end of the season, but said he would
be happy to extend his deal if all the
conditions were right and plans to
hold further discussions with the
club during the season.
“We spoke with the club. Middle
of the season, end of the season, we
will talk again about how we feel
and decide what’s best for the club,”
he said. “I said many times if they
want it, I’d like to stay longer, but at
the same time I have to be sure. It’s
not the second or third season, it’s
many years already, and I have to
see how the players behave.
“We will see what happens during the season and how we feel, and
the best decision for the club is
going to be taken.”

Howe: FFP will limit Newcastle for years
By Jason Mellor

y’s best side yet
at City. There is still a core of nine
players who have been part of at
least three title-winning teams since
the 2017-18 campaign – Kyle Walker,
Kevin De Bruyne, John Stones,
Ederson, Bernardo Silva, Aymeric
Laporte, Ilkay Gundogan, Phil
Foden and Riyad Mahrez – but new
arrivals will provide fresh impetus.
There is also a new dynamic: the
Haaland focus. It is the first time
City have signed such a superstar,
one who every leading club in world
football wanted.
And what of City’s style of play?
Guardiola’s retort to that question is
simple: “Why should we change the
way we play when we did really
quite well in these last seasons?” No
one expects a drastic change, or an
alteration of formation, even if it
would be strange not to, on occasions, get the ball forward more
quickly for Haaland.

ment, the player has the desire and I
will not be the reason to stop the
desire. When you are a football
player, your life is so short.
“You don’t realise, and immediately it is over. At the same time, I’m
just a little part of the club. What the
club decides is OK for me.”
City have already sold Raheem
Sterling, Gabriel Jesus and Oleksandr Zinchenko this summer and
Fernandinho has departed as a free
agent. But the prospect of such a key

Obviously there are legitimate
concerns: how quickly will the new
players settle and be integrated?
Guardiola also delayed the return
for pre-season and City have played
fewer warm-up games as he examines the demands of this unique season with a World Cup shoehorned
into the middle. City may start
slowly, as evidenced by the Community Shield defeat by Liverpool.
The reboot is also a show of faith
in Foden, who is cemented now as a
starter, Mahrez, who has earned a
new contract, and Grealish. Guardiola has faith in Grealish and points
to the bravery and threat the forward showed as a substitute albeit in
losing last season’s Champions
League semi-final to Real Madrid.
That trophy remains the unfulfilled
target as this third coming of Guardiola’s City set their sights on a fifth
league title in six campaigns.

Eddie Howe has warned that Financial Fair Play will continue to impact
Newcastle United’s transfer ambitions for a number of years after
signing a new long-term contract.
Howe replaced Steve Bruce at the
St James’ Park helm last November,
with a contract until 2024, and
guided Newcastle to Premier
League safety, which has been
rewarded by the club.
The former Bournemouth manager is confident Newcastle’s pursuit of England midfielder James
Maddison remains on track, despite
the unwillingness to meet Leicester
City’s £60 million valuation to help
remain within FFP constraints.
Despite having spent more than

£150 million on players this year
thanks to the backing of the Saudi
owners, on the eve of a new campaign where the Tynesiders are
expected to challenge for a top-six
finish, Howe has preached caution
to supporters expecting a plethora
of summer signings.
Newcastle open the campaign at
home to a newly-promoted Nottingham Forest side who have outspent
them in the transfer market since
the end of last season. Howe said:
“Financial Fair Play impacts us and
will continue to impact us for a
number of years. We haven’t got the
free rein that maybe has been perceived within the media, that we can
go and sign who we want and pay
extortionate fees and wages.
“We’re not in that position and I
don’t think we will be for some

period of time. We’re having to be
creative, smart and try to make the
right additions within the financial
constraints that we have.”
Newcastle have brought in Dutch
defender Sven Botman, England
goalkeeper Nick Pope, and made
full-back Matt Targett’s move from
Aston Villa permanent this summer,
at a total outlay of around £60 million. They have failed to add to their
strength in depth up front, and of
the pursuit of 25-year-old playmaker Maddison, Howe added: “We
are working hard, and we will wait
and see if we can get players before
the window shuts.
“I am hopeful we can do what we
need to make the squad as strong as
possible. At this stage, we’re maybe
a player or two light but by no means
under-strength. ”

In brief
Cornet seals £17.5m deal
West Ham last night
completed the
£17.5 million signing of
Ivory Coast forward
Maxwel Cornet from
Burnley on a five-year
contract. The 25-year-old,
who can play on the left as
a winger or full-back, said:
“It’s a new step for me to
join this big club and I’m
really happy to be here, to
be part of the project for
the club. I’m just excited
to start.” He joins Nayef
Aguerd, Flynn Downes

and Gianluca Scamacca as
the new faces at West
Ham, while goalkeeper
Alphonse Areola also
signed permanently after
a successful loan last
season.

during last Sunday’s
friendly win against
Sevilla. Meanwhile,
Fulham could be without
winger Harry Wilson for
more than eight weeks
due to a knee injury.

Leicester Pereira blow
Leicester defender
Ricardo Pereira will be
out for up to six months
after surgery on
Thursday to repair his
ruptured Achilles. The
Portugal right-back
sustained the injury

Gibbs-White tussle
Wolves manager Bruno
Lage rejected another bid
for Morgan Gibbs-White
from Nottingham Forest.
Newly promoted Forest
have made a third offer
worth up to £35 million
for the 22-year-old.

Birmingham hold on
Birmingham held on to
secure a 2-1 win over
Huddersfield in the Sky
Bet Championship at St
Andrew’s. First-half goals
from Scott Hogan and
home debutant
Przemyslaw Placheta, on
loan from Norwich, gave
new head coach John
Eustace’s side a seemingly
comfortable platform for
victory. But it was a
different story after the
break and Danny Ward
pulled one back.

**

10

Saturday 6 August 2022 The Daily Telegraph

Sport

Could Raducanu be
allergic to her racket?

Football results and fixtures
Sky Bet Championship
P
Birmingham 2
Millwall
1
Hull
1
Burnley
1
Blackburn
1
Blackpool
1
Cardiff
1
Watford
1
Coventry
1
Swansea
1
West Brom 1
Middlesbrough 1
Rotherham 1
Sunderland 1
Preston
1
Luton
1
Wigan
1
Bristol City 1
Norwich
1
QPR
1
Reading
1
Sheff Utd
1
Huddersfield 2
Stoke
1

HOME
W D
1 0
1 0
1 0
0 0
1 0
1 0
1 0
1 0
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 1
0 1
0 1
0 0
0 1
0 1
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 0

L
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0

F
2
2
2
0
1
1
1
1
0
0
0
1
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0

A
1
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0

AWAY
W D
0 1
0 0
0 0
1 0
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 1
0 1
0 1
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 1
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 0

L
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
1

F
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
1
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
1
0

Bristol City v Sunderland
Burnley v Luton
Norwich v Wigan
Preston North End v Hull
QPR v Middlesbrough
Reading v Cardiff
Sheffield Utd v Millwall
Stoke v Blackpool
Swansea v Blackburn
Tomorrow
Coventry v Rotherham

A
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
1
1
1
1
2
2

GD Pts
1 4
2 3
1 3
1 3
1 3
1 3
1 3
1 3
0 1
0 1
0 1
0 1
0 1
0 1
0 1
0 1
0 1
-1 0
-1 0
-1 0
-1 0
-1 0
-2 0
-2 0

(12.30)

Wycombe
Peterboro’
Forest Green
Port Vale
Cambridge
Derby
Plymouth
Portsmouth
Sheff Wed
Charlton
Accrington
Bolton
Exeter
Ipswich
Lincoln City
Shrewsbury
Morecambe
Cheltenham
Fleetwood
Bristol Rvs
Barnsley
MK Dons
Oxford Utd
Burton

P
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1

L
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
1
0
0
0
0

F
3
0
0
2
1
1
1
0
3
0
2
0
0
1
1
0
0
2
0
1
0
0
0
0

A
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
3
0
2
0
0
1
1
0
0
3
0
2
0
0
0
0

AWAY
W D
0 0
1 0
1 0
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 1
0 0
0 1
0 0
0 1
0 1
0 0
0 0
0 1
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 0

L
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
1
1
1
1

F
0
3
2
0
0
0
0
3
0
2
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0

A
0
2
1
0
0
0
0
3
0
2
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
2
0
1
1
1
3

GD Pts
3 3
1 3
1 3
1 3
1 3
1 3
1 3
0 1
0 1
0 1
0 1
0 1
0 1
0 1
0 1
0 1
0 1
-1 0
-1 0
-1 0
-1 0
-1 0
-1 0
-3 0

Barnsley v Cheltenham
Bolton v Wycombe
Burton v Bristol Rovers
Charlton v Derby
Exeter v Port Vale
Fleetwood v Plymouth
Forest Green v Ipswich
Milton Keynes Dons v Sheffield Wednesday
Oxford Utd v Cambridge Utd
Peterborough v Morecambe
Portsmouth v Lincoln City
Shrewsbury v Accrington

Sky Bet League Two
Walsall
Harrogate T
AFC W’don
Ley Orient
Salford City
Barrow
Northamptn
Crewe
Stevenage
Carlisle
Newport Co
Sutton Utd
Bradford
Doncaster
Colchester
Stockport C
Rochdale
Tranmere
Crawley
Gillingham
Grimsby
Mansfield
Swindon
Hartlepool

P
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1

HOME
W D
1 0
1 0
1 0
1 0
1 0
0 0
1 0
0 0
0 0
1 0
0 0
0 1
0 1
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 0

L
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0

Tennis

cinch Scottish Premiership
P
Celtic
1
Hearts
1
Rangers
1
Hibernian
1
Motherwell 1
Dundee Utd 1
Kilmarnock 1
Livingston
1
Ross County 1
St Johnstone 1
St Mirren
1
Aberdeen
1

HOME
W D
1 0
1 0
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 1
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 0

L
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
1
1
0

F
2
2
0
0
0
0
1
1
0
0
0
0

A
0
1
0
0
0
0
1
2
0
1
1
0

AWAY
W D
0 0
0 0
1 0
1 0
1 0
0 1
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 0

L
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
1

F
0
0
2
1
1
1
0
0
1
0
0
0

A
0
0
1
0
0
1
0
0
2
0
0
2

Aberdeen v St Mirren
Motherwell v St Johnstone
Rangers v Kilmarnock
Ross County v Celtic
Tomorrow
Dundee Utd v Livingston
Hibernian v Hearts

GD Pts
2 3
1 3
1 3
1 3
1 3
0 1
0 1
-1 0
-1 0
-1 0
-1 0
-2 0

(12)

cinch Scottish Championship

Sky Bet League One
HOME
W D
1 0
0 0
0 0
1 0
1 0
1 0
1 0
0 0
0 1
0 0
0 1
0 0
0 0
0 1
0 1
0 0
0 1
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 0

Barrow v Bradford
Colchester v Carlisle
Crawley v Leyton Orient
Crewe v Harrogate Tn
Doncaster v Sutton Utd
Gillingham v Rochdale
Grimsby v Northampton
Hartlepool v AFC Wimbledon
Mansfield v Tranmere
Newport Co v Walsall
Stevenage v Stockport Co
Swindon v Salford City

F
4
3
2
2
2
0
3
0
0
1
0
1
0
0
0
2
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0

A
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
3
2
2
0
0
0
0
0
0

AWAY
W D
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 0
1 0
0 0
1 0
1 0
0 0
0 1
0 0
0 0
0 1
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 0

L
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1

F
0
0
0
0
0
3
0
2
2
0
1
0
0
0
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0

A
0
0
0
0
0
2
0
1
1
0
1
0
0
0
3
0
0
0
1
2
2
2
3
4

GD Pts
4 3
3 3
2 3
2 3
2 3
1 3
1 3
1 3
1 3
1 3
0 1
0 1
0 1
0 1
-1 0
-1 0
-1 0
-1 0
-1 0
-2 0
-2 0
-2 0
-3 0
-4 0

Ayr Utd
Cove Rangers
Partick
Hamilton
Inverness
Morton
Arbroath
Queen’s Park
Dundee
Raith

P
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
2
1
1

HOME
W D
0 1
1 0
0 0
0 1
0 1
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 0

L
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
0

F
0
2
0
1
1
0
0
2
2
0

A
0
0
0
1
1
0
0
3
3
0

AWAY
W D
1 0
0 0
1 0
0 0
0 0
0 1
0 1
0 1
0 0
0 0

L
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1

F
3
0
3
0
0
1
0
1
0
0

A
2
0
2
0
0
1
0
1
0
2

GD Pts
1 4
2 3
1 3
0 1
0 1
0 1
0 1
-1 1
-1 0
-2 0

Arbroath v Inverness
Morton v Cove Rangers
Partick v Hamilton
Raith v Dundee

cinch Scottish League One
Airdrieonians v Falkirk
Alloa v Kelty Hearts
Clyde v Peterhead
FC Edinburgh v Dunfermline
Montrose v Queen of the South

cinch Scottish League Two
Albion v Dumbarton
Annan Athletic v Stenhousemuir
East Fife v Bonnyrigg Rose
Forfar v Stranraer
Stirling v Elgin
VANARAMA NATIONAL LEAGUE: Aldershot v Solihull
Moors, Altrincham v Maidstone Utd, Barnet v FC Halifax,
Dagenham & Redbridge v Gateshead, Dorking Wanderers v
Chesterfield, Notts County v Maidenhead Utd, Southend v
Boreham Wood, Torquay v Oldham, Wealdstone v Bromley,
Wrexham v Eastleigh, York v Woking, Scunthorpe v Yeovil
(5.20). North: AFC Fylde v Kettering, AFC Telford v Chorley,
Alfreton Tn v Chester FC, Blyth Spartans v Kidderminster,
Boston Utd v Southport, Brackley v Scarborough Athletic,
Bradford P A v King’s Lynn Tn, Curzon Ashton v Banbury
Utd, Darlington v Gloucester, Hereford FC v Spennymoor Tn,
Leamington v Farsley Celtic, Peterborough Sports v Buxton.
South: Bath City v Dartford, Chelmsford v St Albans,
Cheshunt v Hampton & Richmond, Dulwich v Braintree Tn,
Ebbsfleet Utd v Chippenham, Havant and W v Slough, Hemel
Hempstead v Farnborough, Hungerford Tn v Concord
Rangers, Oxford City v Eastbourne Borough, Taunton Tn v
Welling, Weymouth v Tonbridge Angels, Worthing v Dover.
SOUTHERN PREM.-Central: AFC Rushden & Diamonds v
Needham Market, Alvechurch v Stourbridge, Barwell v
Hitchin Tn, Bromsgrove Sporting v St Ives Tn, Hednesford Tn
v Redditch Utd, Kings Langley v Mickleover, Leiston v
Nuneaton Borough, Royston Tn v Basford Utd, Rushall
Olympic v Coalville Tn, Stratford Tn v Bedford Tn, Tamworth
v Ilkeston Tn. South: Bracknell Tn v Weston-S-Mare,
Dorchester Tn v North Leigh, Gosport Borough v Merthyr Tn,
Hanwell Tn v Truro City, Hartley Wintney v Swindon
Supermarine, Hendon v Yate Tn, Met Police v Hayes &
Yeading Utd, Plymouth Parkway v Chesham Utd, Salisbury
FC v Beaconsfield Tn, Tiverton Tn v Harrow Borough,
Winchester City v Poole Tn.

Results
Premier League
Crystal Pal (0) 0

Arsenal (1) 2
Martinelli 20
Guehi 85 og

Sky Bet Championship
Birmingham (2) 2
Hogan 5
Placheta 45

Huddersfield (0) 1
Ward 61

cinch Scottish Championship
Queen’s Park (2) 2
Murray 18
Thomas 32

Ayr Utd (0) 3
Akinyemi 46 90 pen
McGinty 78
943

Recurrence of blisters in her
latest match suggests Briton
has an underlying problem
that needs to be resolved
By Fiona Tomas
Emma Raducanu was blighted by
blisters in her second-round victory
over Camila Osorio at the Citi Open,
sparking fresh concerns over
whether she will be in a good
enough condition to mount a
defence of her US Open title.
It is not unusual for top-level tennis players to suffer blisters. Even
seasoned professionals can develop
calluses due to the repetitive gripping action and excessively squeezing their rackets in tense moments.
Rafael Nadal famously battled
through his 2014 Australian Open
quarter-final against Grigor Dimitrov despite a horrific callus blister
which split on court.
But Raducanu has had more than
her fair share of woes during her
first season on tour. A blister on her
dominant racket hand hampered
her at the Australian Open at the
start of the year, then another on her
right foot derailed her movement
around court during her straightsets loss to Marketa Vondrousova in
the Billie Jean King Cup in April. So,
why is it such a recurring problem,
and what can she do about it?
What happened on Thursday?
Raducanu started blowing on her
hands midway through her epic
encounter with Osario, who fell victim to a foot blister. Both required
medical time-outs late on and the
trainer could be seen taping up Raducanu’s sore hand, which played a
part in the 51 unforced errors she
committed en route to winning.
Afterwards, on-court interviewer
Rennae Stubbs was visibly shocked
by Raducanu’s injuries as she
described how the skin had been
“ripping off ” her hand.

AP

3pm unless stated

Ordeal: Emma Raducanu displays the sore hand that required on-court medical attention

Why do blisters occur – and why
does she keep getting them?
Essentially, blisters are caused by
repeated exposure to trauma and
friction. “Sometimes we just don’t
know why blisters happen, some
people are just really sensitive to
them,” said Dr Bella Smith, an NHS
GP partner and co-founder of
female athlete health hub the Well
HQ. “A blister is a form of defence.
Its purpose is to create a fluid to try
to protect itself from the trauma and
ultimately then it gets callused and
thick. It’s basically a burn and they
can be really difficult to solve.”
Will she be fit for the US Open?
The short answer is yes, although it
will not be straightforward. Time
out from tennis to allow the skin to
heal is one option, although that is
hardly feasible given she is deep in
preparations for the defence of her
Flushing Meadows crown.
“There could be some barrier
creams she could try,” suggested
Smith. “But she may need to see a
dermatologist.”

Does she need to change rackets?
Since her Flushing Meadows success, Raducanu is understood to
have used different models of the
Wilson Blade racket. She is into a
four-year deal with the manufacturer, which is believed to be worth
around £100,000 a year.
Using cushioned grips is one
method to keep blisters and hand
sores at bay, but the root cause of the
problem may be more complex.
“It might even be something on
the racket she’s allergic to which is
irritating her skin,” said Smith.
Will she be hampered by blisters
for ever?
As she exposes her body to the rigours of top-level tennis, her hands
could harden and adapt, according
to Smith. “It might be that as she
ages, her skin will thicken naturally,” she said. “She could check
there isn’t an underlying medical
cause. Certain medications can also
make someone more susceptible,
such as some contraceptive pills and
certain antibiotics.”

Sport on TV
Today
CRICKET The Hundred, Trent Rockets v Birmingham
Phoenix - BBC Two, 2pm & Sky Sports, 2pm. T20, West
Indies v India - BT Sport 3, 3pm.
CYCLING Vargarda - Eurosport 1, 2pm.
COMMONWEALTH GAMES BBC One, 9am, 1.15pm &
5.30; BBC Two, 12noon.
FOOTBALL Premier League, Fulham v Liverpool - BT Sport
1, 11.30am; Everton v Chelsea - Sky Sports Main Event,
5pm. Championship, Norwich City v Wigan - Sky Sports
Main Event, 12noon. National League, Scunthorpe United v
Yeovil Town - BT Sport 1, 5pm.
Ligue 1, Clermont Foot v Paris Saint-Germain - BT Sport 1,
8pm. Bundesliga, Borussia Dortmund v Bayer Leverkusen Sky Sports Football, 5.20pm. Coppa Italia, Torino v
Palermo - Premier Sports 1, 8.10pm.
MLS, Atlanta United FC v Seattle Sounders - Sky Sports
Football, 8pm; Charlotte FC v Chicago Fire - Sky Sports
Main Event, Sky Sports Football, Sky Sports Mix, Midnight;
Montreal v Inter Miami CF - Premier Sports 1, 12.35am;
DC United v New York Red Bulls - Premier Sports 2,
12.35am; Columbus Crew v New York City FC - FreeSports,
12.35am; Real Salt Lake v Los Angeles FC - FreeSports,
3.25am; Portland Timbers v FC Dallas - Premier Sports 1,
3.35am.
GOLF Indonesia Open - FreeSports, 6am. Cazoo Open - Sky
Sports Golf, Sky Sports Arena, 10.30am. AIG Women’s
Open - Sky Sports Golf, 1pm. Wyndham Championship Sky Sports Main Event, 8.30pm.

MOTORCYCLING British Grand Prix - BT Sport 2, 9am.
HORSE RACING Ascot - ITV, 1pm & STV, 1pm.
RALLYING World Rally Championship, Action from Stage
12 of the World Rally Championship - BT Sport 2,from
7am.
RUGBY LEAGUE NRL, Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks v St
George Illawarra Dragons - Sky Sports Action, 10.30am.
RUGBY UNION Rugby Championship, South Africa v New
Zealand - Sky Sports Action, 3.55pm; Argentina v Australia
- Sky Sports Action, 8pm.

Tomorrow
CRICKET One-Day International, Zimbabwe v Bangladesh FreeSports, 8.05am. The Hundred, Welsh Fire v Oval
Invincibles - Sky Sports The Hundred, Sky Sports Mix,
1.30pm. T20, West Indies v India - BT Sport 3, 3pm.
COMMONWEALTH GAMES BBC Two, 7.45am & 5pm; BBC
One, 9am & 1.15pm & 5.25pm.
CYCLING Vargarda - Eurosport 1, 11am. Tour of Leuven Eurosport 1, 2.40pm.
FOOTBALL Scottish Premiership, Hibernian v Hearts - Sky
Sports Main Event, Sky Sports Football, 11am; Celtic v
Hibernian - BBC Alba, 4pm.
Premier League, Manchester United v Brighton & Hove
Albion - Sky Sports Premier League, 1pm; & Sky Sports
Main Event, 2pm; West Ham United v Manchester City Sky Sports Main Event, Sky Sports Premier League, 4pm.
Ligue 1, Toulouse v Nice - BT Sport 1, 12noon; Lille v
Auxerre - BT Sport 1, 2pm; Rennes v Lorient - BT Sport 1,

4pm; Marseille v Reims - BT Sport 1, 7.30pm. Bundesliga,
VfB Stuttgart v RB Leipzig - Sky Sports Football, 2.30pm;
FC Cologne v Schalke 04 - Sky Sports Football, 4.30pm.
Coppa Italia, Salernitana v Parma - FreeSports, 7.55pm.
GOLF Cazoo Open - Sky Sports Golf, Sky Sports Arena,
10.30am. AIG Women’s Open - Sky Sports Golf, 1pm & Sky
Sports Main Event, 7pm. Wyndham Championship - Sky
Sports Mix, 6pm & Sky Sports Main Event, Sky Sports Golf,
8pm.
HORSE RACING Sky Bet Sunday Series - ITV4, 3.30pm.
MOTOR SPORT World Touring Car Cup, Race one from
Alsace - Eurosport 1, 10am. Race two - Eurosport 2, 3pm.
Indycar - Sky Sports F1, 8pm.
MOTORCYCLING British Grand Prix from Silverstone - BT
Sport 2, 9.15am; Moto3 race - ITV4, 10.45am; Moto2
race - BT Sport 2, 2.15pm; MotoGP race - BT Sport 2,
12.30pm. Motocross World Championship, Race one of the
MXGP class from Uddevalla, Sweden - Eurosport 2, 1pm;
Race two - Eurosport 2, 4pm.
RALLYING World Rally Championship, Action from Stage
20 of the World Rally Championship in Finland - BT Sport
1, 7.30am; Stage 22 - BT Sport 3, 11am.
RUGBY LEAGUE Super League Rugby, St Helens v
Castleford Tigers - Channel 4, 12.30pm. Championship,
Halifax Panthers v Batley Bulldogs - Premier Sports 1,
6pm.
SKI JUMPING Summer Grand Prix, Coverage of the men’s
HS135 event from Courchevel - Eurosport 1, 5pm.

**

The Daily Telegraph Saturday 6 August 2022

11

Sport
Commonwealth Games

Goalkeeper is England hockey
hero after penalty clean sheet
Hosts face Australia in final
seeking their first Games title
By Ben Bloom
at University of Birmingham
No prizes for guessing the hero. Just
as she has done on so many occasions during her illustrious international career – none more important
than the 2016 Olympic final – goalkeeper Maddie Hinch stepped up at
the most crucial point to keep England’s hopes of a first Commonwealth title alive.
This was the third successive
occasion England had found themselves in a Commonwealth semifinal shoot-out against New Zealand,
with the chance to bid for gold
awaiting the winner. That it came
after a drab, largely forgettable,
goalless match mattered nothing to
the capacity Birmingham crowd,
who were elated with the result.
New Zealand did not score any of
their four efforts in the shoot-out,
Hinch expertly saving three and the
other drifting wide. When Izzy Petter converted hers, it fell to Hannah
Martin to put the finishing touches
to the result – a task she took with
aplomb as she stuck her effort past
Tarryn Davey for a 2-0 win.
“Those kinds of occasions are
what keepers want to be a part of
because it is incredible,” said Hinch.
“To do it on a platform like that and
with that home crowd, it really does
give us that bit of extra belief.
“I had done some homework [for
the shoot-out], but New Zealand
have been off the scene for a while,
so I didn’t have as much as I hoped.
That’s where I have to trust in my
instinct, having done this a lot of
times now. So, I just tried to calm my
nerves and stay in the moment.”
Eager to build on England’s triumph at last month’s European
Women’s Football Championship,
the Birmingham 2022 organisers
have carefully constructed tomorrow’s bumper women’s sport programme by putting the hockey,

cricket and netball finals in quick
succession on the same afternoon.
With England’s cricketers and netballers playing semi-finals today, the
hockey players have now ensured
part one is complete.
“I’m towards the back end of my
career now, so this is something I’ve
been so desperately wanting my
whole career,” said Hinch of that
elusive Commonwealth title. “I’ve
been so close to it a couple of times,
so I really hope it goes our way.
“Whatever the outcome, as long
as we put out an incredible 60-minute performance, we can be proud
of what we’ve achieved here.”
Petter added: “We could make
history. It’s really exciting. We want
it so bad. When you have a crowd
like that behind you, it means so
much more.”
English hopes were high after
racking up 21 goals and conceding
just one in four unbeaten pool-stage
matches. Up against the reigning
champions, this would be their biggest test. If the entire match was
played at the frenetic intensity of
the opening half-dozen minutes, it
would have been an instant classic.
Alas, it was not. By that early stage,
b oth side s had already b e en
awarded two penalty corners apiece
– Giselle Ansley unable to convert
either of England’s – before decent
chances at both ends of the pitch,
with Holly Hunt smashing against
the outside of the New Zealand post.
That was the sum total of the
action until half-time, by which
point the two goalkeepers had
become mere spectators as 23 minutes of disjointed action passed by
and New Zealand managed to ride
out a yellow-card-enforced, 10-minute player deficit without alarm.
Both sides went closer in a third
quarter that ended with Hope Ralph
receiving New Zealand’s second yellow card of the game to again reduce
them to 10 players. Still, England
could find no way through, failing to
convert four penalty corners in
quick succession. Yet again, penalties would decide the tie to set up a
final against Australia, winners of
four out of six available Commonwealth titles.

Miller becomes oldest
flinger in town ... at 75
By Ben Bloom
Just two days after 72-year-old
Scottish compatriot Rosemary Lenton became the oldest Commonwealth Games champion, fellow
para lawn bowls player George

Miller broke her record, claiming
gold aged 75.
Miller, directing for visuallyimpaired bowler Melanie Innes, was
taking part in a mixed pairs B2/B3
final guaranteed a record-breaker,
with 75-year-old Welshman Gordon
Llewellyn on the opposing team.

GETTY IMAGES

Hinch to the
rescue again
in shoot-out

Gold: England’s Anthony Harding (left) and Jack Laugher on their way to victory in the men’s synchronised three-metre springboard diving

Laugher seals second gold in
24 hours and goes for treble
By Rebecca Johnson
Jack Laugher was full of praise after
he sealed his second gold medal of
the Commonwealth Games, winning the men’s synchronised threemetre springboard event alongside
Anthony Harding.
In a relatively new partnership,
they topped the leaderboard in yesterday’s event at Sandwell Aquatics
Centre with 438.33 points, winning
by a massive 61.56 points.
For Harding, it is his first medal
on his Commonwealth debut and
the 22-year-old was delighted to
finally have the chance to show
Despite Wales taking an early
lead, Scotland asserted themselves
and ran out 16-9 winners.
Miller, effectively Innes’s eyes
during matches, describing shots
and positions to her, said: “Bowls is
quite easy for older people but any
sport – walking, football, rugby, you
name it – get out there, exercise,
play games. Competing is brilliant
whatever age you are.”
Grandmother Lenton, who
claimed women’s pairs B6-B8 gold
three weeks before her 73rd birthday alongside Pauline Wilson, took

what he can do. He said: “I’m over
the moon with it, I mean, I did a
pretty OK performance, I could
have done a little better, I know
Jack’s maybe a little disappointed,
but I have just worked so hard for
this.
“I have waited plenty of years,
I’ve watched him [Laugher] at three
other Commonwealths, three Olympics, so it’s been a while for me to
get onto this kind of stage and he’s a
massive help.”
Laugher came into the competition with plenty of experience in the
discipline, having won it at Glasgow
2014 and the Gold Coast in 2018
alongside partner Chris Mears.

He also won gold in Thursday’s
one-metre individual springboard
event and has a chance to add a third
in today’s three-metre individual
springboard. “Two in two days, it’s
been great,” Laugher said. “I struggled to get to sleep last night a little
bit, felt a little bit worse for wear this
morning really...
Later on, England’s Matty Lee,
who won gold in the Tokyo Olympics
alongside Tom Daley, and Noah Williams triumphed in the men’s
10-metre synchronised platform
event. The pair came out on top after
facing close competition from Canada and Australia, who placed second and third respectively.

up the sport 20 years ago when routine surgery caused an infection
that left her facing nine further
operations and life in a wheelchair.
“I do want to inspire people,” she
said. “The age factor is good, but for
anybody who has an injury and it

changes their life, don’t give up. Just
go for it.”
As well as Lenton, Miller and
Llewellyn, seven other bowlers
playing in Birmingham were born in
the 1940s, with a further 33 born in
the 1950s. The oldest participant in
any Commonwealth Games is Canadian shooter Robert Pitcairn, who
was 79 when he took part in 2018.
Outside of lawn bowls and para
sports, 62-year-old Stephen Reilly,
an English-born Fijian table tennis
player, was the oldest athlete competing in Birmingham.

Senior service: George
Miller, who claimed gold
yesterday, is among 10
bowlers born in the 1940s
competing in Birmingham

12

***

Saturday 6 August 2022 The Daily Telegraph

Sport
Rugby Union

All Blacks in
dire need of
quick fix
After chastening defeats to
Ireland, New Zealand face a
South Africa side with the
muscle to exploit weak spots
ts
By Charlie Morgan
SENIOR RUGBY WRITER
New Zealand used to inspire a claslasYou
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know, the All Blacks kick more than
hey
anyone?” people would say as they
iled
stroked their chins and tries piled
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up. It was not quite true, of course.
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New Zealand just did it better than
most other sides.
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Kick-pressure was a key weapon
ated
in their armoury that manipulated
h to
better positions from which
launch incisive counters.
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whelm opponents with slick strike
moves and measured phase play, the
e-aAll Blacks were kings of the rope-aand
dope. The first Test against Ireland
hey
last month suggested that they
remain effective in this area.
New Zealand kicked 28 times and
ark,
amassed 197 tackles at Eden Park,
yet plundered six tries.
Of these, two were scored on the
inn
phase after a turnover. Quinn
son
Tupaea’s finish came with Jamison
Gibson-Park stuck at the bottom of a
half
ruck after the Ireland scrum-half
had coughed up the ball.
and,
In the series opener in Auckland,
heir
the All Blacks lost only two of their
ses86 rucks and were clinical in possession. Over the next two Tests, that
ucks
changed. New Zealand lost 11 rucks
nd’s
across Tests two and three. Ireland’s

figure
was six. A
first-half red
card mitigates
their problems in
Dunedin, but the All
Blacks surrendered six
breakdowns during the
decider. Those numbers
reflect a team struggling for
cohesion, who have become
predictable in possession.
Brad Mooar has paid for
that with his job, and the
beleaguered Ian Foster will
now assume responsibilities
for the attack.
In today’s Test, South
Africa will muscle up on the
gain line and flood the
breakdown. Malcolm Marx
starts in Nelspruit for that
very purpose. New Zealand’s ball movement has to
be accurate and ambitious.
Wales found space when they
Challenge: Captain Sam Cane must stop the
All Blacks giving away needless penalties

Beirne
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Sexton

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stopping opposition mauls aand
has outlined that as a priority.
Ireland marched across ffor
two pushovers in Wellingto
Wellington.
South Africa will challenge the
their
scrummaging as well.
Ireland muscled three setse
piece penalties in Dunedin and
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Andy Farrell’s team made life
l
difficult for the All Blacks’ pro
props
during phase play.
There are easy fixes for New
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Zealand, such as cutting out
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avoidable penalties. A potentially
clar
tougher task will be finding clarity

Henshaw arcing around for a
pull-back, Johnny Sexton
identified Ofa Tu’ungafasi in the
defensive line and sent Tadhg
Beirne past him for a clean break.

in two pivotal positions: blindside
flanker and inside centre. Tracking
the number of Test starts for New
Zealand at numbers six and 12 since
the start of 2016 is informative.
First, blindside flanker. Replacing
the supreme Jerome Kaino, who
bowed out in 2017, is proving tricky.
The All Blacks have turned to a
diverse range of players. Akira Ioane
and Shannon Frizell are bopping
carriers. Scott Barrett, an auxiliary
lock, has been at blindside flanker
twice. Ardie Savea and Dalton
Papalii are quick link men.
With Liam Squire having stepped
away from the game following a
string of injuries, there is a lingering
feeling that New Zealand are still
striving for a complementary balance in the back row.
Similarly, midfield life after Ma’a
Nonu has been turbulent. Tupaea, a
23-year-old finding his feet, featured in the first two Tests against
Ireland before David Havili took
over.
Big-money moves to clubs in
Japan and Europe have increased
turnover for the All Blacks.
The Springboks, of course, do not
have this problem. Jasper Wiese is
an example of an individual who left
South Africa and excelled, earning a
Test opportunity on the back of his
performances for Leicester.
T h e s e i m m i n e n t m e e ti n g s
between a famous pair of rivals will
hold up a mirror to New Zealand’s
form. For Foster and his team, it
seems like a sink-or-swim situation.

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The Daily Telegraph Saturday 6 August 2022

13

Sport

Duncan shrugs off caddie gaffe

Mercer move
can seal place
at World Cup

Bagman throws playing
partner’s ball into nettles
Scot in hunt for AIG Open
after second-round 74

Rugby Union
By Daniel Schofield
and Charlie Morgan

It was a day when Louise Duncan,
the darling of these galleries, first
watched her caddie throw her playing partner’s ball over a wall and
deep into a nettle bush, and finished
with the 22-year-old admitting that
depending on the size of her first
cheque as a pro here tomorrow, it
will either be a ferry to Arran or a
flight to Tobago.
The bizarre experience must have
told the Scot one thing: it is never
boring at the AIG Women’s Open.
Not when you are Louise Duncan,
anyway. A year ago, the then student
finished in a tie for 10th at Carnoustie, having gone into the final
round two shots off the lead.
The only downside of thi s
remarkable showing was that as an
amateur, she could not collect the
£80,000 she would otherwise have
picked up.
Now, on only her second start in
the paid ranks – having missed the
cut at last week’s Women’s Scottish
Open – Duncan again finds herself
in the mix going into the weekend in
the top 20 on two under.
She is six behind Korean Chun Ingee (66), the three-time major winner who is one clear of Swede
Madelene Sagstrom (65) and South
African Ashleigh Bulai (65)
“Two under for two rounds at
Muirfield in testing conditions is
quite good, and I’m happy,” Duncan
said after a 74.
“It was a grind, but after last year,
I knew what to expect. Although,
no, I didn’t expect what happened
on the second hole.”
Dean Robertson is her mentor as
well as her bagman. A former winner on the European Tour who
played on the same Walker Cup
team as Padraig Harrington, Robert-

GETTY IMAGES

By James Corrigan
GOLF CORRESPONDENT
at Muirfield

Off course: Louise Duncan watches caddie Dean Robertson scale the wall beside the second green to retrieve Sophia Schubert’s ball

son, 52, has seen it all and when
Sophia Schubert handed him a ball,
he thought the American had just
found it and wanted him to get rid.
So he threw it over his left shoulder.
In fact, Schubert was requesting
it to be cleaned and because of the
error was now facing a stroke-anddistance penalty.
Robertson duly scaled the wall
and, wearing shorts, got down on
his hands and knees and fearlessly
ventured into the nettles to locate it.
Schubert’s relief confirmed to him
that the stings were all worth it
“I was like, ‘Oh, no, tell me you
haven’t just done that?’,” Duncan
said. “But it was an honest mistake
and quite funny.
“He is always telling me to stop

Safety fears plunge
MotoGP into crisis
over young riders
By Adam Wheeler
For Scott Ogden, an 18-year-old rising star of MotoGP, the answer is
simple: if you are good enough and
fast enough then you are old
enough.
But not everyone agrees. MotoGP
and its Moto3 entry classes, with its
blend of teenage angst, lightweight
bikes and aggressive riding tactics,
is a sport grappling with an existential crisis over who should be
allowed to ride, brought into focus
by the deaths of two youngsters last

year, including a 15-year-old at
world championship level in
WorldSBK.
In a direct response to the tragedies, new rules are due to come in
next season raising the minimum
age to 18. Yet Ogden, who is jostling
for space in Moto3 at the British
Grand Prix at Silverstone this weekend and for the first home grand
prix of his rookie season and is better placed than anybody to comment on the issue, is adamant that it
was not age that caused the tragedies, and that the risks are a fact of
life for top riders.

being an idiot and to calm down, so
maybe he deserved that one.”
Robertson, the head coach at the
University of Stirling, is crucial in
Duncan’s rise.
His ability to keep her grounded
was seen to best effect on the ninth
after she had made three bogeys in a
row. It looked to be unravelling at an
alarming pace on the par-five when
she shortsighted herself with her
third, but a fantastic up-and-down
stopped the rot and on the next hole,
there was another courageous par
save, courtesy of a pitch from 70
yards to just six feet.
On the 13th, Duncan struck a
sumptuous seven iron to two feet
and, in truth, she should have been
a few shots better off. But that was

not about to ruin her optimism. “I
need to play the way I have been
playing and hit more fairways and
more greens, because that ultimately means more chances,” she
said. “Just stick in there, because
another top 10, or better, is of course
possible from here.”
Due to the hike in prize money, a
top 10 this time would be worth at
least £130,000, and that would alter
the nuptial plans for her and Jordan
Hughes, an international swimmer
she met at university.
“If it’s a big, big cheque, we’ll go
abroad and get it over with,” Duncan
said. “Oh, if that comes across badly,
I mean it in the nicest way possible.
Sorry, Jordan. Otherwise, yes, it
could be a ferry to Arran.”

“What happened last year was sad
but it is one of those things,” he says.
“It’s not the age, it’s the actions of
the riders, and they will do it at 25 or
at 16.”
MotoGP safety has improved
enormously in the past five years,
thanks to developments in rider
protection – mandatory airbags and
more dynamic helmet standards –
but fatalities still stalk the sport.
It is stark, then, to hear Ogden
talk of the risks riders are willing to
take doing the job they love – even if
it results in their death.
“Last year was a bad one for the
sport, but I don’t think it should be
all ‘bad press’ because those guys
loved what they were doing,” he
adds. “We all know the risks when
we get on the bike. These things…
they are rare… but they can happen.
It’s sad at the time, but you have to
move forward and as a rider you
cannot afford to think about it
otherwise you will lose that one per
cent to push for results.”
Ogden’s Moto3 class, in particular, is one of three races on a grand-

prix weekend that routinely has
spectators either watching on the
edge of their seats or nervously
through their fingers.
Moto3 is a buzzing hive of youthful exuberance, desperation, risktaking and no shortage of skills and
courage. The 250cc bikes supplied
by brands such as KTM, GASGAS,
Honda and Husqvarna are purposely regulated to offer minimal
performance differential; the riders
Dangers: Moto3 star Scott
Ogden says riders ‘all
know the risks’ when they
get on the bike but cannot
afford to think about it

create results through their tyre
preservation, bravery and race
tactics.
Typical scenes involve last-lap
squabbles of large groups split by
slithers of a second. Moto3 has been
responsible for the closest finales of
all time. At Mugello, Italy, in 2017 the

Gloucester are understood to have
secured the signing of Zach Mercer
in a move that will allow the backrower to represent England at next
year’s World Cup.
Mercer, named at No 8 in the Top
14 team of the season after helping
Montpellier to the title, has made no
secret of his desire to resume his
Test career and is thought to be
close to finalising a move to Kingsholm for the 2023-24 campaign.
Eddie Jones will consider Mercer
for selection in England’s pre-World
Cup camp if he is due to be joining a
Premiership club from July.
An extended training camp and
four warm-up Tests between July
and September would then give
Mercer plenty of time to prove his
worth, and there are precedents for
Jones bringing in players before
they have played in the Premiership
under a new contract.
Ben Te’o travelled to Australia in
2016, Piers Francis was in the squad
that visited Argentina in 2017 and
Brad Shields faced South Africa after
his move from the Hurricanes in
New Zealand the next year.
Mercer, a former England Under20 captain who won two caps in
2018, fell out of favour with Jones
following a win over Japan at Twickenham. Danny Care and Alex Lozowski were others to be cast aside
following a 35-15 victory.
Having traded Bath for Montpellier in the summer of 2021, Mercer
has been a huge hit in France.
Jones met Mercer after a game
between Montpellier and Castres in
November 2021.
“I am impressed with how he’s
growing his game,” Jones, who had
been visiting France on a World Cup
recce after the November internationals, said. “We’re hopeful that
he’ll come back and fight for a spot.”

top 21 finishers were split by less
than 3.5 seconds.
The category has become more
controversial recently. Repeated
sanctions for exceeding track limits
and “unsafe” riding as racers linger
in search of a slipstream “tow” for
the ideal qualification lap have
obscured results and achievements.
The antics have swung discussion
towards the hazards of adolescents
let loose and closely bunched on
super-light 150mph machinery. The
concern rose substantially after the
death of Jason Dupasquier last May
in Italy as the Swiss fell and was hit,
and of Spaniard Dean Berta Vinales
– cousin of current MotoGP rider
Maverick Vinales – while contesting
WorldSSP300.
“We’re racing and you have to
stop people overtaking you,” Ogden
says. “But it also gets to a point
where it is dangerous, and you know
accidents happen.
“Everyone wants to prove themselves in Moto3. I won’t do it [excessive tactics]…but if someone else
does then I won’t complain about it.”

**

14

Saturday 6 August 2022 The Daily Telegraph

Sport

Former Yorkshire coach Gale faces
fresh charge over 2010 Twitter post
Cricket
By Ben Rumsby
Sacked Yorkshire head coach
Andrew Gale has been charged by
the England and Wales Cricket
Board over a historic Twitter post
that resurfaced during the club’s
racism scandal.
The ECB, which had charged Gale
and another six of the county’s current or former players over the scandal in June, filed an additional
charge against him after he refused
to attend a disciplinary hearing.
Gale, who broke his silence last
month to deny “each and every”
accusation made against him and
brand the ECB’s investigation a
“witch hunt”, has now been charged
in relation to a 2010 tweet that
included the words: “Button it y--!”
It resurfaced in November days
before the same fate befell Azeem
Rafiq, the chief whistle-blower in
English cricket’s racism scandal,
who it emerged sent anti-Semitic

More trouble: The
ECB has filed an
additional charge
against Andrew
Gale over a tweet
from 2010

messages to a fellow cricketer in
2011. A sp oke sman for Rafiq
declined to comment on whether
his client, who last year apologised
over the exchange, had also now
been charged.
Yorkshire had initially suspended
Gale pending a disciplinary hearing
into his own message, which was
sent in reply to the then head of
media at Leeds United, Paul Dews.
Gale told the Jewish News at the
time: “This post is part of a conversational thread between Paul Dews
and myself ... the reference is to a
chant that was prevalent at the time
in relation to Leeds fans.
“Within a few minutes of the
post, Paul called me and explained
the meaning of the word and that it
was offensive to Jews. I was completely unaware of this meaning and
removed the post immediately.”
Gale was sacked following a mass
cull of Yorkshire’s entire coaching
staff, only for the club to admit in
May that unfair dismissal complaints by him and five of his former
colleagues were “well founded”.

Racing results
Brighton

Going: Good to firm
1.20 (5f215yds h’cap): Porfin (Grace McEntee
6-1) 1; Secret Handsheikh (5-2) 2; Minhaaj
(9-2) 3. Sapphire’s Moon 6-4F. 5 ran. 1¼, 1¼. (P
McEntee). NR: Rosequiano.
1.50 (5f215yds nov): Whistle And Flute (C
Bishop 10-3) 1; Betweenthesticks (5-2) 2;
Gottaifan (15-8F) 3. 4 ran. 1¼, 4½. (E
J-Houghton).
2.20 (5f215yds h’cap): Pink Crystal (T
Marquand 7-4F) 1; Impeach (16-1) 2;
Batchelor Boy (16-1) 3. 11 ran. nk, 1¾. (W
Haggas). NR: Under Curfew.
2.50 (6f210yds h’cap): Shalfa (S Cherchi 5-2F)
1; Whistledown (3-1) 2; Ravi Road (10-3) 3. 6
ran. 2½, 1¼. (M Botti).
3.20 (1m3f198yds): Temur Khan (Mollie
Phillips 9-4) 1; Hidden Pearl (3-1) 2; Miss
Metropolitan (17-2) 3. Global Style 2-1F. 6 ran.
2l, 1¼. (A Carroll). NR: Henley Park.
3.50 (7f216yds h’cap): Loquace (S Hitchcott
11-4) 1; Unsung Hero (5-6F) 2;
Somedayonedaynever (11-4) 3. 3 ran. ¾, shd.
(R Hannon).
4.25 (5f60yds h’cap): Lethal Angel (T Greatrex
9-2) 1; King Crimson (5-1) 2; Mr Pc (7-2F) 3. 9
ran. ½, 2½. (B Johnson).
Placepot: £169.10. Quadpot: £16.50.

Haydock

Going: Good to soft
5.07 (1m2f42yds h’cap): Billy Roberts (Miss
Stephanie Jardeback 10-3) 1; Sameem (9-1) 2;
Dandy’s Angel (15-8F) 3. 8 ran. nk, 4¾. (Simon
Whitaker). NR: Jackhammer.
5.42 (6f h’cap): True Jem (P-L Jamin 10-3) 1;
Fox Hill (11-2) 2; Little Miss Dynamo (15-2) 3.
Zim Baby 9-4F. 6 ran. 2¾, ¾. (K R Burke).
6.17 (7f212yds nov): Batemans Bay (H Crouch
11-8F) 1; Tellateller (22-1) 2; Ramz (9-2) 3. 11
ran. 2l, 1l. (R Beckett).
6.52 (6f212yds nov): Pol Roger (P Dennis 7-2)
1; Docklands (8-1) 2; Venetian (3-1F) 3. 8 ran.
nk, 1½. (M Dods).

7.27 (6f212yds mdn): Leitzel (D Tudhope 5-1)
1; Oscar’s Sister (10-1) 2; Fantizzy (20-1) 3.
Gold Aura 5-6F. 11 ran. 2¾, hd. (D O’Meara).
8.02 (6f212yds h’cap): Jill Rose (P Dennis 11-2)
1; Makinitup (7-1) 2; Boasted (8-1) 3. Monica
6-4F. 7 ran. nk, 2¾. (Simon Whitaker). NR: Under
The Twilight.
8.37 (1m3f140yds h’cap): Atacama Desert (D
Allan 9-4JF) 1; Colinton (9-4JF) 2; Lunar Jet
(7-2) 3. 5 ran. 3¾, 3¼. (K Frost). NR: Molinari.
Placepot: £797.00.
Quadpot: £86.90.

Musselburgh

Going: Good-good to firm in places
1.40 (1m208yds h’cap): Chinese Spirit (H
Russell 15-2) 1; Bankawi (7-2) 2; Cosa Sara
(10-3) 3. Breckland 3-1F. 7 ran. ns, 2½. (Miss L
Perratt).
2.10 (5f1yds): Looking For Lynda (S James 6-5)
1; New Definition (8-11F) 2; Little Betty (251) 3. 3 ran. nk, 9l. (K R Burke). NR: Wen Moon.
2.40 (1m5f216yds h’cap): Sir Chauvelin (P
Mulrennan 17-2) 1; Dark Jedi (4-1) 2; Happy
(10-3) 3. Ravenscraig Castle 5-2F. 6 ran. shd, ¾.
(J Goldie). NR: Excelcius.
3.10 (5f1yds h’cap): Eeh Bah Gum (O
McSweeney 9-4) 1; Global Humor (11-8F) 2;
Dapper Man (9-1) 3. 4 ran. 2¾, ½. (K Ryan). NR:
Astapor.
3.40 (7f33yds h’cap): Manigordo (C Hardie 9-1)
1; Abduction (13-8F) 2; Merricourt (11-1) 3. 6
ran. shd, ns. (T Easterby). NR: Ramon Di Loria.
4.10 (7f33yds h’cap): Monhammer (C Rodriguez
3-1) 1; Fanzone (13-2) 2; The Gay Blade (4-1)
3. Doomsday 13-8F. 5 ran. 1¾, hd. (Miss L
Perratt). NR: Hypersonical. Hypersonical| Rule 4
applies to All Bets, deduct 10p in the pound.
4.40 (1m4f104yds h’cap): Arrange (P
Mulrennan 4-1JF) 1; Red Bond (5-1) 2; Cuban
Cigar (12-1) 3. Well Planted 4-1JF. 9 ran. 7½, ¾.
(M Todhunter).
Placepot: £456.90.
Quadpot: £80.80.

Newmarket

Going: Good to firm
5.25 (6f nov): Poetic Union (R Kingscote 9-4F)
1; Eximious (8-1) 2; Lady Hamana (3-1) 3. 6
ran. 2¼, ns. (E Walker). 6.00 (7f sell):
Beechwood Mick (Rossa Ryan 9-1) 1; Duchray
(13-8) 2; Martha’s Moment (10-11F) 3. 4 ran.
2l, 6½. (D Loughnane). NR: Twinkle Twilight.
6.35 (7f mdn): Local Dynasty (James Doyle
15-8F) 1; Onslow Gardens (20-1) 2; Paisano
(9-1) 3. 10 ran. 3½, 1¾. (C Appleby). NR: City Of
Kings. 7.10 (1m6f h’cap): Giavellotto (N Callan
5-4F) 1; Praiano (7-2) 2; Law Of The Sea (112) 3. 4 ran. 5l, 2¼. (M Botti). 7.45 (7f h’cap):
Lady Raeburn (N Callan 4-1) 1; Jilly Cooper
(2-1JF) 2; Sayifyouwill (2-1JF) 3. 5 ran. 2l, shd.
(K Ryan). 8.20 (6f h’cap): Bergerac (N Callan
evs F) 1; Prontissimo (5-1) 2; Tanmawwy (118) 3. 3 ran. 3l, ¾. (K Ryan).
Placepot: £1,106.10. Quadpot: £11.00.

Thirsk

Going: Good-good to soft in places
2.00 (6f): Khulu (O Lewis 11-1) 1; Torious (5-1)
2; Hard Solution (16-1) 3. Mr Orange 9-4F. 12
ran. 1l, 3l. (D Thompson).
2.30 (5f nov): Sparkling Red (C Beasley 11-10F)
1; Saleet (7-4) 2; Let’s Have A Flyer (15-2) 3. 9
ran. 2¾, ¾. (M Dods). NRs: Equity’s Darling,
Mystical Dreams. 3.00 (7f): Finest Sound (A
Atzeni 5-2) 1; Symbolize (5-6F) 2; Perotto (103) 3. 3 ran. nk, 1½. (S & E Crisford). 3.30 (7f
h’cap): Alexa’s Princess (S Gray 14-1) 1; Love
Fifteen (7-2) 2; Capofan (6-1) 3. On The Pulse
3-1F. 9 ran. 1¼, ¾. (K R Burke). NR: Bara Lacha.
4.00 (6f h’cap): Brazen Idol (P Cosgrave 11-8F)
1; Spear Fir (15-2) 2; Emerald Lady (40-1) 3.
13 ran. ¾, nk. (S Pearce). NR: Lincoln Pride. 4.35
(1m4f8yds h’cap): Glory And Honour (S Gray
11-10F) 1; Jamih (6-1) 2; Glan Y Gors (10-1) 3.
12 ran. ½, shd. (D O’Meara). Jackpot:
£10,000.00, with £4,403.13 carried over
Placepot: £83.40.
Quadpot: £17.10.

Racecards

Ascot Jackpot Meeting
Marlborough
1.00 - Amanzoe
1.35 - Divine Magic (nb)
2.10 - Manaccan
2.45 - Super Superjack

3.20 - Pretty Sweet
3.55 - Isla Kai
4.30 - Franz Strauss
5.05 - Spangled Mac

Going: Good to firm-good in places TV: ITV1 1.35, 2.10, 2.45, 3.20,
3.55, 4.30 & 5.05 / Sky Sports Racing
Draw: No significant advantage.
[B] Blinkers [V] Visor [E] Eyeshield [T] Tongue Strap [P] Cheekpieces

1.00 Shergar Cup Curtain Raiser Classified Stakes (3) 1m 2f £25,405

1 933 Carolus Magnus (21) A Balding 4 9 12 Jason Collett 6
L Dettori 9
2 789 Civil Law [T](38) (D) R Teal 5 9 12
3 100 Hms President [B](7) (D) E J-Houghton 5 9 12
K Shoemark 7
4 S00 Humanitarian [H,T](30) (D) S C Williams 6 9 12
J L Martinez 1
N Currie 4
5 645 Pistoletto [P](12) (D) J Ryan 5 9 12
K McEvoy 2
6 431 Adjourn (21) (D) D M Simcock 3 9 4
Joanna Mason 3
7 211 Amanzoe (16) (D) W Haggas 3 9 4
H Turner 8
8 183 Atheby [P,T](15) J Chapple-Hyam 3 9 4
J P Spencer 10
9 803 Blenheim Boy (28) R Fahey 3 9 4
C Lemaire 5
10533 Value Theory (10) C & M Johnston 3 9 4
S.P. f’cast: 9-4 Amanzoe, 10-3 Adjourn, 9-2 Blenheim Boy, 7-1
Carolus Magnus, 12-1 Hms President, Atheby, 16-1 Value Theory, Civil
Law, 20-1 Others.

1.35 Full Of Surprises Classified Stakes (3) 7f £24,590
1
2
3
4

Orbaan [T](8) D O’Meara 7 10 3
N Callan 5
Bowman [P](10) (D) Mrs L Mongan 4 9 12
K McEvoy 1
Crazy Luck (11) (D) B Millman 4 9 12
H Turner 4
Divine Magic (14) (D) M Botti 4 9 12
Takeshi Yokoyama 2
5 591 Epsom Faithfull (29) (C)(D) P Phelan 5 9 12
Rene Piechulek 7
Emma Wilson 8
6 210 Gweedore (7) (D) K Scott 5 9 12
7 147 Stone Soldier [P](35) (D) A Watson 5 9 12 J P Spencer 3
8 606 Tadreeb (78) (D) M Attwater 4 9 12
A Fresu 6
S.P. f’cast: 15-8 Orbaan, 5-2 Epsom Faithfull, 5-1 Divine Magic,
15-2 Crazy Luck, 12-1 Stone Soldier, Gweedore, 16-1 Bowman, 25-1
281
120
119
312

Tadreeb.

2.10 Shergar Cup Dash (Handicap) (2) 5f £36,885

1 010 Lampang [T](7) T Easterby 5 10 2
C Lemaire 6
2 099 Hurricane Ivor [B](14) (D) W Haggas 5 10 2
Rene Piechulek 12
D Tudhope 3
3 307 Arecibo [P](35) (D) R Cowell 7 10 1
L Dettori 10
4 289 Judicial (42) (D1) J Camacho 10 10 0
5 202 King Of Stars [P](14) (D) M Appleby 5 9 11
Takeshi Yokoyama 8
H Turner 7
6 752 Manaccan [T](21) J Ryan 3 9 10
7 500 Blue De Vega [T](36) (CD)(D) R Cowell 9 9 9
Joanna Mason 2
8 105 Dubai Station [P](13) (D) R Cowell 5 9 9 K Shoemark 1
9 654 Count D’Orsay (21) (D) T Easterby 6 9 6 J L Martinez 11
N Callan 5
10617 Ready Freddie Go [P](8) (D) O Pears 4 9 6
RESERVE 9
11042 Dusky Lord [B](11) (D) R Varian 4 9 2
RESERVE 4
12440 Mokaatil [B](7) (D) I Williams 7 8 11
S.P. f’cast: 7-2 Arecibo, 9-2 King Of Stars, 7-1 Count D’Orsay,
Manaccan, 15-2 Hurricane Ivor, 10-1 Judicial, 12-1 Ready Freddie Go,
Lampang, 14-1 Others.

2.45 Shergar Cup Stayers (Handicap) (2) 2m £36,885
1
2
3
4
5
6

682
002
008
232
346
000

Rock Eagle (21) (D) R Beckett 7 10 2
K McEvoy 10
Red Verdon [P](25) (D) E Dunlop 9 10 1
A Fresu 2
Island Brave (42) (CD)(D) H Main 8 9 12 J L Martinez 3
Throne Hall [P](9) A Watson 5 9 12
Emma Wilson 9
Going Gone (21) (BF) J Boyle 4 9 12 Rene Piechulek 6
Themaxwecan [P](7) (CD)(D) C & M Johnston 6 9 9
J P Spencer 5

7 200 Make My Day [P](8) G L Moore 6 9 8
D Tudhope 4
8 060 Golden Flame (7) C & M Johnston 4 9 8 Jason Collett 8
9 766 Moliwood [B](31) (D) (BF) Dylan Cunha 4 9 5
K Shoemark 7
10232 Super Superjack (8) (CD)(D) (BF) M Harris 5 9 3
N Currie 11
11111 Red Force One [P](14) (D) P Kirby 7 8 11 RESERVE 12
12121 Mukha Magic [B,T](9) (D) G Kelleway 6 8 11 RESERVE 1
S.P. f’cast: 15-8 Super Superjack, 11-2 Rock Eagle, Throne Hall, 7-1
Red Verdon, 12-1 Going Gone, Island Brave, Themaxwecan, Make My
Day, Golden Flame, 20-1 Others.

3.20 Shergar Cup Challenge (Handicap) (2) 1m 4f £36,885

1 306 Angel Power [P](43) R Varian 5 10 2
H Turner 3
2 511 Charging Thunder [P](21) (D) D O’Meara 4 10 2
Rene Piechulek 4
3 360 Onesmoothoperator (42) B Ellison 4 10 0
Joanna Mason 11
4 011 Pride Of Priory (14) (D) W Haggas 4 9 11 K Shoemark 5
5 054 Pretty Sweet [P](7) (D) G Boughey 4 9 9 Jason Collett 10
6 607 Danehill Kodiac (21) (CD)(D) J Tickle 9 9 9 C Lemaire 2
A Fresu 8
7 112 The Whipmaster (15) (BF) G L Moore 4 9 9
8 750 State Of Bliss (50) (CD)(D) C & M Johnston 4 9 8
L Dettori 1
9 0-8 Southern Voyage (29) (CD)(D) (BF) A Watson 4 9 8
N Callan 9
10136 Celtic Art (45) (D) J Scott 5 9 8 Takeshi Yokoyama 12
RESERVE 6
11456 Faylaq [P](14) (D) Ewan Whillans 6 9 6
RESERVE 7
12432 Bad Company [P](2) J Boyle 5 9 4
S.P. f’cast: 5-2 Pride Of Priory, 3-1 Charging Thunder, 5-1 The
Whipmaster, 10-1 Onesmoothoperator, Angel Power, 12-1 Southern
Voyage, Pretty Sweet, State Of Bliss, 16-1 Others.

3.55 Shergar Cup Mile (Handicap) (Rnd) (2) 1m £36,885
1
2
3
4

Shelir [P](29) (D) D O’Meara 6 10 2
C Lemaire 7
Greatgadian (28) (D) R Varian 4 10 1
K McEvoy 4
Bopedro [V](14) (D) D O’Meara 6 10 1
J P Spencer 6
Lexington Dash [T](31) J McConnell (Ire) 5 10 0
A Fresu 2
5 464 Isla Kai (28) (CD)(D) (BF) N Tinkler 4 9 11 L Dettori 10
D Tudhope 11
6 154 Montassib (28) (BF) W Haggas 4 9 11
N Callan 8
7 932 Redarna [P](22) (C)(D) D Sayer 8 9 8
8 276 Imperial Sands [P](60) (D) A Watson 4 9 6 N Currie 12
9 108 Via Serendipity (28) (CD)(D) C Fellowes 8 9 6
Takeshi Yokoyama 3
10812 Jungle Cove (14) (D) J Harrington (Ire) 5 9 6
Emma Wilson 5
11 -30 Power of Darkness (14) (CD)(D) M Tregoning 7 9 5
RESERVE 9
RESERVE 1
12377 Coase [H](14) (D) M Wigham 5 8 11
S.P. f’cast: 5-2 Montassib, 10-3 Isla Kai, 7-1 Bopedro, 8-1 Via
Serendipity, Jungle Cove, 12-1 Greatgadian, Lexington Dash, Shelir,
16-1 Others.
7-5
100
084
-71

4.30 Shergar Cup Classic (Handicap) (3) 3YO 1m 4f £36,885
1
2
3
4
5
6

Supagirl (20) J Harrington (Ire) 10 2
C Lemaire 2
Approachability (10) C & M Johnston 10 0 H Turner 9
Franz Strauss [P](16) J & T Gosden 10 0 J L Martinez 10
Sheer Rocks (8) E J-Houghton 9 11
L Dettori 1
Hamaki [T](37) W Haggas 9 10
J P Spencer 7
Berkshire Breeze (28) (BF) A Balding 9 8
Joanna Mason 6
Jason Collett 11
7 922 Pub Crawl (12) M Bell 9 2
8 423 Charles St [B](16) (D) G Boughey 9 2
DOUBTFUL 8
9 335 Dancing Tango (22) H & R Charlton 9 2
D Tudhope 3
10245 Sharp Combo (8) C & M Johnston 8 13 Emma Wilson 5
11432 Wootton’sun (12) R Fahey 8 13
RESERVE 4
S.P. f’cast: 3-1 Berkshire Breeze, 7-2 Franz Strauss, 4-1 Hamaki,
7-1 Pub Crawl, 12-1 Sheer Rocks, Approachability, Sharp Combo, 16-1
Dancing Tango, 20-1 Others.
713
256
302
314
-31
322

5.05 Shergar Cup Sprint (Handicap) (2) 3YO 6f £36,885
1 -05 Corazon (14) G Boughey 10 2
2 921 Tolstoy [P](34) (D) S C Williams 9 13

A Fresu 1
Jason Collett 11

3
4
5
6
7
8

Admiral D (30) (D) R Fahey 9 12
Joanna Mason 6
Spangled Mac (16) (D) G Boughey 9 11
N Currie 5
Romantic Time (14) (D) W Stone 9 6 Emma Wilson 4
Adaay In Asia (11) (D) H Dunlop 9 5
N Callan 9
Razeyna (30) (D) W Haggas 9 3
J L Martinez 2
Sterling Knight (5) (CD)(D) E Dunlop 9 3
Takeshi Yokoyama 3
9 716 Amazonian Dream (26) (D) B Millman 9 2
K Shoemark 10
K McEvoy 7
10103 Twelfth Knight [P](7) (D) A Watson 9 1
RESERVE 8
11221 Conflict (14) (D) A Balding 8 11
S.P. f’cast: 3-1 Admiral D, 7-2 Razeyna, 9-2 Spangled Mac, 10-1
Tolstoy, Adaay In Asia, 14-1 Others.
962
111
024
311
331
033

Ayr

1
2
3
4
5
6

Belsito K Ryan 9 7
K Stott 3
35 Gincident (103) R Fahey 9 7
C Murtagh 1
277 Penalty Charge [V](26) K R Burke 9 7
B Garritty 4
033 Spioradalta (8) M Walford 9 7
J Garritty 8
454 Sprezzatura [B](44) I Jardine 9 7
A Mullen 2
53 Thankuappreciate (26) N Tinkler 9 7
F McManoman (3) 6
D Allan 5
7 3 Tyrone’s Poppy (17) T Easterby 9 7
8 262 We’renotreallyhere (17) (BF) J J Quinn 9 7
J Hart 7
Pop World M Dods 9 2
C Beasley 9
9
S.P. f’cast: 3-1 Thankuappreciate, 9-2 We’renotreallyhere, 5-1
Belsito, 6-1 Penalty Charge, 8-1 Spioradalta, 10-1 Gincident, Tyrone’s
Poppy, Sprezzatura, 16-1 Pop World.

7.45 Scottish Sun On Sunday Handicap (5) 6f £3,888

Marlborough
5.45 - Monhammer
6.15 - Eternal Halo
6.45 - Bringitonboris
7.15 - Thankuappreciate

7.15 Maiden Stakes (GBB Race) (5) 2YO 6f £4,050

7.45 - Water Of Leith
8.15 - Three Saints Bay
8.45 - Foreshadow

Going: Good-good to soft in places TV: Racing TV
Draw: A middle to high draw is an advantage in sprint races, low numbers favoured on the round course.
[B] Blinkers [V] Visor [E] Eyeshield [T] Tongue Strap [P] Cheekpieces

5.45 Tennent’s Lager Lady Riders’ Handicap (6) 1m £3,456

1 789 Politics [P](26) Phillip Makin 4 10 0
H Russell (3) 2
K Stott 1
2 666 Majeski Man (11) (D) (BF) P Midgley 5 10 0
3 121 Water Of Leith (5) (C)(D) J Goldie 4 9 12(5ex)
P Mulrennan 5
4 365 Raydoun (16) (D) R Fell 3 9 11
J Peate (5) 7
B Garritty 6
5 265 Lady Lade (15) K Dalgleish 3 9 11
A Mullen 4
6 166 Novak [P](14) I Jardine 3 9 8
J Hart 8
7 193 Jackmeister Rudi (17) (D) K Scott 3 9 4
B Robinson 3
8 966 Heights Of Aran (12) K Dalgleish 3 9 3
S.P. f’cast: 6-4 Water Of Leith, 5-1 Majeski Man, 7-1 Jackmeister
Rudi, Lady Lade, 8-1 Raydoun, Politics, 12-1 Novak, 20-1 Heights Of
Aran.

8.15 Specsavers Handicap (5) 7f £3,888

1 341 Viva Voce (10) (D) D & N Barron 5 10 9
Miss A Keighley (3) 3
Miss A Collier 7
2 732 Iron Sheriff [P](14) (D) R Fell 4 10 1
3 433 Monhammer (19) Miss L Perratt 4 9 13
Shannon Watts (3) 1
4 584 Fanzone [P](23) Liam Bailey 5 9 13
Miss Megan Brookes (3) 8
5 124 Breckland (17) (D) K Dalgleish 4 9 13
Miss Fern O’Brien 6
Amie Waugh 2
6 61U Bobby Shaftoe [B](2) J Goldie 4 9 10
7 132 Retirement Beckons (5) (CD)(D) (BF) Miss L Perratt 7 9 9
F McManoman 5
8 544 Chinese Spirit (5) (CD)(C)(D) Miss L Perratt 8 9 9
Miss S Brotherton 4
S.P. f’cast: 5-2 Viva Voce, 4-1 Iron Sheriff, 6-1 Bobby Shaftoe, 7-1
Retirement Beckons, 8-1 Monhammer, Breckland, Chinese Spirit, 12-1 Fanzone.

1 282 Merricourt [P](19) (CD)(C) I Jardine 6 10 1 A Mullen 7
2 0-6 Three Saints Bay [WS](100) (D) Liam Bailey 7 10 0
K Stott 2
P Mulrennan 3
3 058 Blowing Wind [P](40) M Dods 4 9 11
4 357 Eternal Glory (13) (D) C & M Johnston 3 9 10
A Breslin (3) 6
5 772 First Greyed [V](36) (D) M Dods 4 9 9
C Beasley 4
6 072 St Andrew’s Castle [B](3) (C) I Jardine 3 9 4
P Mathers 1
7 467 Timbukone [V](12) K Dalgleish 3 9 4
B Garritty 5
D Allan 8
8 463 Judgment Call (5) (BF) Miss L Perratt 4 9 4
S.P. f’cast: 5-2 Merricourt, 4-1 St Andrew’s Castle, 5-1 First Greyed,
6-1 Judgment Call, 8-1 Timbukone, 10-1 Eternal Glory, Three Saints
Bay, 12-1 Blowing Wind.

6.15 Made Brave Handicap (6) 5f £3,456

8.45 Classified Stakes (6) 1m 2f £3,456

1
2
3
4
5

Sixcor [P](8) (CD) (BF) Miss L Perratt 4 9 9 H Russell (3) 7
Eternal Halo (5) (D) K Dalgleish 3 9 8
B Garritty 6
Wrecked It Ralph (12) (CD) R M Smith 4 9 7 P Mathers 4
Elzaal (13) (D) P Midgley 4 9 3
B McHugh 3
Lord Of The Glen [B](12) (D9) J Goldie 7 8 13
P Mulrennan 5
6 793 Jessie Allan (12) (C) J Goldie 11 8 11
Shannon Watts (7) 1
A Mullen 2
7 505 Kaze Wo Atsumete (5) I Jardine 3 8 9
S.P. f’cast: 5-2 Wrecked It Ralph, 3-1 Elzaal, 4-1 Sixcor, 5-1 Eternal
Halo, 8-1 Jessie Allan, 10-1 Lord Of The Glen, 25-1 Kaze Wo
434
003
461
432
657

Atsumete.

6.45 Scottish Sun Handicap (5) 1m 2f £3,888
1
2
3
4
5

Highwaygrey (26) (D) T Easterby 6 10 2
D Allan 6
Zuraig [P](14) (D) I Jardine 4 10 2
A Mullen 3
Goodwood Glen (14) (CD) K Dalgleish 4 9 12 B Garritty 9
Golden Valour (79) R M Smith 6 9 11
J Hart 2
Bringitonboris [P](10) (C) K Dalgleish 5 9 10
B Robinson 5
6 573 Havana Party [P](23) I Jardine 4 9 9
K Stott 7
7 658 Royal Regent [P](26) (CD)(C) R M Smith 10 9 5 P Mathers
8
8 178 Flying Moon (7) (CD)(C) R M Smith 6 9 4 A Breslin (3) 4
9 431 Ayr Poet (5) (CD)(C) J Goldie 7 9 2(4ex) P Mulrennan 1
S.P. f’cast: 11-4 Highwaygrey, 3-1 Ayr Poet, 9-2 Bringitonboris, 7-1
Havana Party, 8-1 Zuraig, 12-1 Flying Moon, Goodwood Glen, 16-1
Golden Valour, 25-1 Royal Regent.
303
649
607
-45
544

1 6U3 Braes Of Doune (18) J Goldie 4 9 9
P Mulrennan 6
K Stott 3
2 097 Broctune Azure (24) G Boanas 4 9 9
Neeraj Rawal 4
3 278 Decoding (31) C & M Johnston 4 9 9
C Beasley 5
4 706 Ballynaveen Boy (11) K R Burke 3 9 1
B Robinson 2
5 4-5 City Vaults (23) D O’Meara 3 9 1
J Hart 1
6 542 Foreshadow [V](11) J J Quinn 3 9 1
A Mullen 7
7 787 Pasha Bay (5) Miss L Perratt 3 9 1
J Garritty 8
8 997 Quercus Robur [P](88) R Fahey 3 9 1
S.P. f’cast: 9-4 Foreshadow, 3-1 City Vaults, 5-1 Decoding, 6-1
Braes Of Doune, 10-1 Ballynaveen Boy, Quercus Robur, 14-1 Broctune
Azure, 20-1 Pasha Bay.

Haydock

2.25 Betfred ‘Play Fred’s 5 Million’ Handicap (2) 1m £18,900

1 458 Young Fire [V](8) (C)(D) D O’Meara 7 10 0 D Probert 6
2 617 Fame And Acclaim (39) (CD)(D) J L Eyre 5 9 10
L Edmunds 7
3 /13 Electrical Storm (35) (BF) S bin Suroor 5 9 9 A Atzeni 4
4 540 Mr Mccann [T](51) (C) H Palmer 3 9 9
T Marquand 3
5 009 Gioia Cieca (42) K Dalgleish 4 9 8
G Lee 2
6 403 La Trinidad [P](15) (D) (BF) R Fell 5 9 6
B Curtis 5
7 114 Dutch Decoy (7) (D) C & M Johnston 5 9 4
O Stammers (3) 1
S.P. f’cast: 2-1 Electrical Storm, 4-1 La Trinidad, Dutch Decoy, 11-2
Young Fire, 8-1 Mr Mccann, Fame And Acclaim, 25-1 Gioia Cieca.

3.00 Rose Of Lancaster Stakes (1) 1m 2f 100yds £45,368
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8

Anmaat (28) (D) Owen Burrows 4 9 7
J Crowley 5
Brentford Hope [P](35) (C)(D) R Hughes 5 9 7 P Dobbs 4
Certain Lad (28) (C)(D) M Channon 6 9 7
B Curtis 3
Foxes Tales (36) (CD)(D) A Balding 4 9 7
D Probert 7
Grocer Jack (21) (D) W Haggas 5 9 7
T Marquand 8
Intellogent (28) J Chapple-Hyam 7 9 7
A Kirby 6
Marie’s Diamond (13) (C) R Fell 6 9 7
S De Sousa 2
Passion And Glory (36) (D) S bin Suroor 6 9 7
L Steward 1
9 211 Peter The Great [B](43) (D) J & T Gosden 4 9 7
R Havlin 10
10 -41 Royal Champion (64) (D) R Varian 4 9 7
A Atzeni 9
S.P. f’cast: 2-1 Grocer Jack, 5-1 Anmaat, 11-2 Intellogent, 7-1
Royal Champion, Passion And Glory, 8-1 Peter The Great, 14-1 Foxes
Tales, 20-1 Certain Lad, Brentford Hope, 33-1 Marie’s Diamond.
2-1
-57
280
464
541
323
402
851

3.35 EBF Dick Hern Stakes (1) 1m £29,489
1
2
3
4

Auria (43) (D) A Balding 4 9 4
D Probert 5
Don’t Tell Claire (28) (D) D & C Kubler 5 9 4 L Keniry 7
Isola Rossa (28) (D) J Fanshawe 4 9 4
P Dobbs 3
Miss Marble [T](63) (D) S & E Crisford 4 9 4
S De Sousa 11
5 213 Random Harvest (14) (D) E Walker 4 9 4 S Osborne 4
6 514 Rising Star (32) (D) M Botti 4 9 4
A Atzeni 1
7 09- Sunset Bay (282) E Walker 4 9 4
T Marquand 8
8 321 Oscula (10) G Boughey 3 9 2
B Curtis 6
9 133 Crenelle (50) (D) J & T Gosden 3 8 11
R Havlin 10
10 1 Floral Splendour (22) (C) J Tate 3 8 11
J Crowley 12
11465 Midheaven (45) D O’Meara 3 8 11
P-L Jamin 2
12511 Thundershower (22) (D) J & T Gosden 3 8 11 M Harley 9
S.P. f’cast: 7-4 Oscula, 5-1 Crenelle, 7-1 Thundershower, 8-1 Miss
Marble, 10-1 Rising Star, 12-1 Floral Splendour, 14-1 Sunset Bay,
Random Harvest, Auria, 20-1 Others.
-68
588
136
015

4.10 Handicap (5) 3YO 1m 2f 100yds £5,400

Marlborough
1.50 - Let’s Fly Again
2.25 - Electrical Storm
3.00 - Grocer Jack
3.35 - Oscula

4 461 Let’s Fly Again (31) (D) C Cox 9 6
A Kirby 3
5 -74 Piffle (22) E Walker 9 5
S Osborne (3) 6
6 -18 Forward Flight [H](35) (D) A King 9 5
T Marquand 9
7 105 Yellow Bear [T](14) (D) D Carroll 9 3
H Shaw 8
8 082 Nine Dragons [T](38) T Dascombe 9 2
S De Sousa 2
9 038 Alvediston (30) J Chapple-Hyam 8 7
R Ffrench 5
10 -35 Brunello Breeze (49) T Tate 8 6
G Lee 10
S.P. f’cast: 4-1 Let’s Fly Again, 9-2 Delorean, 5-1 Nuvolari, 11-2
Nine Dragons, 8-1 My Mate Ted, 10-1 Piffle, 12-1 Brunello Breeze,
Alvediston, Forward Flight, 14-1 Yellow Bear.

4.10 - Playday
4.40 - Whitebeam
5.15 - Liangel Hope

Going: Good to soft-good in places TV: ITV1 2.25 & 3.00 / Racing TV

1.50 Betfred Nifty Fifty Handicap (4) 3YO 1m £6,966
1 484 Nuvolari [H](44) E J-Houghton 9 10
2 -33 Delorean (43) R Beckett 9 7
3 -56 My Mate Ted (85) R Teal 9 7

D Probert 4
P Dobbs 7
J Crowley 1

1 547 Come On John (39) R Fell 9 9
B Curtis 4
2 571 Playday (17) (D) R Beckett 9 8
J Crowley 8
3 281 Benjamin Bear (44) (D) A King 9 7
M Harley 6
4 -25 Glittering Choice (52) (BF) H Palmer 9 6 T Marquand 5
A Kirby 7
5 205 Samuel Spade (12) D O’Meara 9 5
6 544 Jubilee Girl (21) K R Burke 9 4
P-L Jamin (3) 3
7 621 Tessy Lad (16) (D) R Hughes 9 3
P Dobbs 9
8 233 Fergie Time (30) (BF) K Dalgleish 9 2
G Lee 1
H Shaw 2
9 4P0 Waba Daba Do [H](3) M & D Easterby 9 1
S.P. f’cast: 7-2 Playday, 4-1 Tessy Lad, 9-2 Fergie Time, 5-1
Benjamin Bear, 13-2 Glittering Choice, 10-1 Samuel Spade, 12-1
Come On John, Jubilee Girl, 25-1 Waba Daba Do.

**

The Daily Telegraph Saturday 6 August 2022

15

Sport
Database
Commonwealth Games (Finals)
Athletics
Men’s Decathlon: 1 Lindon Victor (Grenada)
8233pts, 2 Daniel Golubovic (Australia) 8197,
3 Cedric Dubler (Australia) 8030, 4 Kurt Felix
(Grenada) 7787, 5 Alec Diamond (Australia)
7689, 6 Harry Kendall (England) 7480, 7 Karo Iga
(Papua New Guinea) 6761, Dnf: Kendrick
Thompson (Bahamas).
Men’s Shot Put: 1 Tom Walsh (NZ) 22.26m, 2
Jacko Gill (NZ) 21.9, 3 Scott Lincoln (England)
20.57, 4 Chukwuebuka Enekwechi (Nigeria)
20.36, 5 Eldred Henry (Ivb) 19.97, 6 O’dayne
Richards (Jamaica) 19.9.
Men’s 1500m T53/54: 1 Nathan Maguire
(England) 3mins 11.8secs, 2 Daniel Sidbury
(England) 3:12.1, 3 Samuel Carter (Australia)
03:12.8.
Women’s Triple jump: 1 Shanieka Ricketts
(Jamaica) 14.94m, 2 Thea Lafond (Dma) 14.39, 3
Naomi Metzger (England) 14.37, 4 Kimberly
Williams (Jamaica) 14.25, 5 Ruth Usoro (Nigeria)
14.02, 6 Ackelia Smith (Jamaica) 13.83, 7
Mikeisha Welcome (Svg) 13.22, 8 Liliane Potiron
(Mauritius) 13.2, 9 Sandisha Antoine (St Lucia)
13.01, 10 Chantoba Bright (Guyana) 12.97, 11
Annie Topal (Papua New Guinea) 12.75, 12 Lerato
Sechele (Lesotho) 12.57, 13 Veronique Kossenda
Rey (Cameroon) 12.46.
Women’s 3,000m Steeplechase: 1 Jackline
Chepkoech (Kenya) 9mins 15.7secs, 2 Elizabeth
Bird (England) 9:17.8, 3 Peruth Chemutai
(Uganda) 9:23.2, 4 Aimee Pratt (England) 9:27.4,
5 Amy Cashin (Australia) 9:35.6, 6 Eilish Flanagan
(N Ireland) 9:57.2, 7 Nilani Rathnayaka (Sri
Lanka) 10:00.3, 8 Brielle Erbacher (Australia)
10:59.6.
Diving
Men’s Synchronised 3m Springboard: 1
Anthony Harding & Jack Laugher (England)
438.33, 2 Gabriel Daim & Nmuhammad Syafiq Bin
Puteh (Mas) 376.77, 3 Samuel Fricker & Shixin Li
(Australia) 374.52, 4 Ross Beattie & James Philip
Heatly (Scotland) 369.27.
Women’s 1m springboard: 1 Mia Jolie Doucet
Vallee (Canada) 291.85pts, 2 Brittany O’brien
(Australia) 279.6, 3 Amy Rollinson (England) 272,

4 Grace Reid (Scotland) 268.15, 5 Georgia Rae
Leslie Sheehan (Australia) 267.95, 6 Fan Qin
(Australia) 265.1, 7 Yasmin Isis Harper (England)
254.5, 8 Clara Kerr (Scotland) 239.95.
Men’s Synchronised 10m Platform: 1 Matthew
Lee & Noah Williams (England) 429.78pts, 2
Rylan Mackenzie Wiens & Nathan Zsombor-murray
(Canada) 413.85, 3 Domonic Bedggood & Cassiel
Rousseau (Australia) 412.56, 4 Benjamin
Cutmore & Kyle Kothari (England) 391.35.
Lawn Bowls
Women’s Triples Gold Medal Match: England 17
Malaysia 9. Bronze Medal Match: New Zealand
26 Cooks Islands 7.
Mixed B2-3 Para Pairs Gold Medal Match:
Scotland 16 Wales 9. Bronze Medal Match:
England 14 Australia 11.
Rhythmic gymnastics
Women’s All-around: 1 Marfa Ekimova (England)
112.3pts, 2 Anna Sokolova (Cyprus) 112.1, 3
Alexandra Kiroi-bogatyreva (Australia) 111.1, 10
Louise Christie (Scotland) 104.6, 11 Alice Leaper
(England) 103.6, 12 Elizabeth Popova (Wales)
102.75, 13 Gemma Frizelle (Wales) 98.3.
Wrestling
Men’s 65kg Gold Medal: Bajrang Punia (India) bt
Lachlan Mcneil (Canada). Bronze Medal 1: Inayat
Ullah (Pakistan) bt Ross Connelly (Scotland).
Bronze Medal 2: George Ramm (England) bt
Lowe Bingham (Nauru).
Men’s 86kg Gold Medal: Deepak Punia (India) bt
Muhammad Inam (Pakistan).
Women’s 57kg Gold Medal: Odunayo Folasade
Adekuoroye (Nigeria) bt Anshu Malik (India).
Women’s 62kg Gold Medal: Sakshi Malik (India)
bt Ana Godinez Gonzalez (Canada). Bronze Medal
1: Esther Omolayo Kolowaye (Nigeria) bt Abbie
Fountain (Scotland). Bronze Medal 2: Berthe
Etane Ngolle (Cameroon) bt Kelsey Barnes
(England).
Men’s 125kg Gold Medal: Amarveer Dhesi
(Canada) bt Zaman Anwar (Pakistan). Bronze
Medal 1: Mandhir Kooner (England) bt Kensley
Anthony Marie (Mauritius).
Women’s 68kg Gold Medal: Blessing Obordudu
(Nigeria) bt Linda Morais (Canada).

4.40 Handicap (3) 3YO 7f £10,800

1 400 Eldrickjones (64) R Fell 9 9
B Curtis 3
D Probert 5
2 311 Whitebeam (58) (D) H & R Charlton 9 6
3 323 Thunder Legend [P,T](37) (BF) W Haggas 8 13
T Marquand 4
4 111 Zero Carbon (35) (CD)(D) R Hughes 8 12
P Dobbs 1
5 216 Liamarty Dreams (15) (CD)(D) K R Burke 8 10
P-L Jamin (3) 2
S.P. f’cast: 7-4 Whitebeam, 9-4 Thunder Legend, 5-2 Zero Carbon,
10-1 Liamarty Dreams, 14-1 Eldrickjones.

5.15 Betfred ‘Hat Trick Heaven’ Handicap (5) 7f £5,400
1
2
3
4
5
6

Flatley (63) A Wintle 5 10 2
D Probert 3
Verreaux Eagle (21) (D) E Dunlop 4 10 1
B Curtis 1
Newton Jack (17) (D) W Kittow 5 10 1
T Fisher (7) 2
Dark Swansong [B](7) (D) C Cox 3 9 11
A Kirby 6
Star Zinc [H](84) C Fellowes 3 9 9
A Atzeni 4
Liangel Hope [P](17) (D) C Mason 3 9 6
Mollie Phillips (5) 5
7 542 Above It All [B](16) (CD)(D) E Walker 3 9 3 T Marquand 7
S.P. f’cast: 3-1 Above It All, 4-1 Liangel Hope, 9-2 Star Zinc, 5-1
Flatley, Verreaux Eagle, 11-2 Dark Swansong, 25-1 Newton Jack.
425
344
309
926
-54
451

Lingfield
Marlborough
5.00 - Ladybird
5.35 - Mildyjama
6.05 - Royal Mariner
6.35 - Ford Madox Brown

7.05 - Main Target
7.35 - Makfoul
8.05 - Buxted Reel (nap)

Going: Standard TV: Sky Sports Racing
Draw: Little effect.
[B] Blinkers [V] Visor [E] Eyeshield [T] Tongue Strap [P] Cheekpieces

5.00 Sky Sports Racing Handicap (6) 3YO 1m £3,726

1 022 Richard P Smith (7) (BF) E Dunlop 9 13
M Ghiani 1
G Sanna (7) 3
2 627 Aurelia Gold (39) B Johnson 9 11
3 974 Ladybird [P](24) M Tregoning 9 9
P Cosgrave 6
4 907 Cloch Nua (26) Mrs Stella Barclay 9 9
S W Kelly 5
5 464 Costa Adeje [P](16) T Dascombe 9 8
L Morris 2
B Sanderson (3) 4
6 772 Alwajd [P](17) I Williams 9 4
S.P. f’cast: 6-4 Richard P Smith, 7-2 Costa Adeje, 5-1 Alwajd, 6-1
Ladybird, 7-1 Aurelia Gold, 14-1 Cloch Nua.

5.35 EBF Fillies’ Novice Stakes (GBB Race) (5) 2YO 1m £3,672

1 4 Gilded Moon (21) E Dunlop 9 2
M Ghiani 8
2
Mildyjama R Beckett 9 2
H Crouch 3
D O’Neill 4
3 68 Nancy Angel (7) R Hannon 9 2
D Muscutt 6
4 4 Running Lion (28) J & T Gosden 9 2
5 96 Spin On Top (61) G Kelleway 9 2
C Noble 1
Spritzin’ Sir M Prescott 9 2
L Morris 7
6
7 60 Tamarosey (28) P Evans 9 2
D Keenan 5
Therapist A Balding 9 2
W Cox (3) 9
8
9 7 Tomouh Dubai (22) S bin Suroor 9 2
R Dawson 2
S.P. f’cast: 6-4 Running Lion, 9-2 Therapist, 5-1 Tomouh Dubai, 6-1
Mildyjama, 7-1 Gilded Moon, 12-1 Spritzin’, 20-1 Nancy Angel, 25-1
Spin On Top, 100-1 Tamarosey.

6.05 At The Races App Form Study Nursery (6) 2YO 6f £3,726

1 681 Girlswannahavefun (10) P Evans 9 13
P Cosgrave 3
M Ghiani 4
2 641 Royal Mariner [V](31) (CD) J Tate 9 8
L Morris 1
3 482 Jumra (12) A Watson 9 7
C Bennett 2
4 066 Rowdown Roza (24) M Usher 9 4
S.P. f’cast: 5-4 Girlswannahavefun, 15-8 Royal Mariner, 3-1 Jumra,
25-1 Rowdown Roza.

6.35 Follow AtTheRaces On Twitter Handicap (5) 7f £4,536

1 227 Touchwood (46) (BF) C Hills 4 10 4
D O’Neill 7
2 243 Blue Flame (7) (CD)(D) E Dunlop 5 10 4
Sorin Moldoveanu (7) 9

Medals table
1 Australia
2 England
3 Canada
4 New Zealand
5 India
6 Scotland
7 South Africa
8 Nigeria
9 Wales
10 Malaysia

Silver
44
46
24
11
8
8
7
3
5
4

Bronze Tot
46
140
38
131
24
67
13
41
9
26
19
35
8
22
6
16
10
19
3
11

Today's Gold medals 33
Athletics: Women's high jump, F55-57 shot put,
10km race walk, hammer, 400m hurdles, 800m
and 200m, men's hammer, 3,000m steeplechase,
1,500m, pole vault, 5,000m, 400m hurdles and
200m. Diving: Women's 3m synchro and 10m
synchro, men's 3m springboard. Lawn bowls:
Women's pairs, men's singles, men's fours.
Rhythmic gymnastics: Hoop, ball, clubs, ribbon.
Table tennis: Women's classes 3-5 singles and
classes 6-10 singles, men's classes 3-5 singles.
Wrestling: Women's 50kg, 53g and 76kg, men's
54kg, 74kg and 97kg.
Tomorrow's Gold medals 46
Athletics: Women's 100m hurdles, 400m, javelin,
4x100m relay, long jump, 1500m, 5,000m and
4x400m relay, men's triple jump, 400m, 10km
race walk, 4x100m relay, javelin, 800m and
4x400m relay. Beach volleyball: Women, men.
Boxing: Women's minimumweight, light/middleweight, light-flyweight, lightweight, featherweight and middleweight, men's flyweight, middleweight, light-heavyweight, bantamweight,
light-welterweight, light-middleweight, heavyweight, featherweight, welterweight and superheavyweight. Cricket: Women.
Diving: Women's 3m springboard, men's 10m
platform.
Hockey: Women. Netball: Women. Road cycling:
Women's and men's road race. Squash: Mixed
doubles. Table tennis: Women's singles, men's
doubles and classes 8-10 singles, mixed doubles.

3 465 Full Intention [P](107) (CD)(D) S Pearce 8 10 3
P Cosgrave 8
P Bradley (3) 11
4 156 Dynakite (133) L Carter 4 9 11
5 332 Ford Madox Brown (13) (C)(D) S C Williams 4 9 11
M Ghiani 5
6 565 Papa Cocktail (16) (D) Tom Clover 3 9 10 D Muscutt 2
L Morris 3
7 841 Melodramatica (14) (CD) R Guest 3 9 9
S Hitchcott 10
8 242 Mr Stanley (10) R Hannon 3 9 9
9 611 Queen Of Burgundy (9) (C)(D) M Appleby 6 9 9
R Dawson 4
10326 Prince Rock (17) (CD)(C) J Boyle 7 9 7
A Keeley (5) 6
Anna Gibson (7) 1
11 77- Sausalito (241) G L Moore 3 9 1
S.P. f’cast: 4-1 Ford Madox Brown, 9-2 Melodramatica, 5-1 Queen
Of Burgundy, 6-1 Mr Stanley, 7-1 Touchwood, 8-1 Others.

7.05 Maria Elliott Handicap (5) 6f £4,536

1 390 Thegreatestshowman [P](14) (C)(D) Miss A Murphy 6 10 2
S Cherchi (3) 8
2 135 Enduring (7) (D) E J-Houghton 4 10 0
C Bishop 9
3 473 Meydan Rose [P](26) (D) (BF) R Hughes 3 9 12
P Cosgrave 1
4 513 Main Target [P,T](38) (CD) K P De Foy 4 9 12 D Muscutt 2
5 559 Pablo Del Pueblo (16) (CD) J Boyle 4 9 10 P Bradley (3) 6
6 557 Tyson (26) R Hannon 3 9 10
Alexander Voikhansky (7) 7
7 621 Iconic Knight (15) (D) A Carroll 7 9 9
W Cox (3) 11
D O’Neill 4
8 -18 Diligently Done (67) (C) (BF) C Hills 3 9 8
L Morris 3
9 433 Thismydream [P,T](24) M Attwater 3 9 8
10413 Come On Girl [B](7) (CD)(D) (BF) M Appleby 5 9 3
R Dawson 10
C Bennett 5
11 -45 Duly Amazed [H](14) M Usher 3 9 2
S.P. f’cast: 7-2 Iconic Knight, 5-1 Meydan Rose, Come On Girl, 7-1
Main Target, 8-1 Thismydream, 10-1 Diligently Done, Enduring, 14-1
Pablo Del Pueblo, Thegreatestshowman, 16-1 Others.

7.35 Core Group Maiden Stakes (GBB Race) (5) 1m 4f £4,320

1 53 A Shining Moon (8) E J-Houghton 4 10 2
C Bishop 7
2 67 Mistybond (49) Emma Owen 6 10 2
C Hutchinson (5) 11
3 9 Storm Arcadio (8) L Horsfall 6 10 2 Georgia Dobie (3) 10
4 94 Hey Bails (34) D Menuisier 3 9 6
P Cosgrave 4
L Morris 1
5 0 Just Josh (71) A Stronge 3 9 6
R Coakley 5
6 43 Makfoul [T](26) S & E Crisford 3 9 6
R Dawson 2
7 02 Open Champion (15) R Varian 3 9 6
Anna Gibson (7) 3
8 8 Reel Power (40) G L Moore 3 9 6
Shearwater M Pattinson 3 9 6
J Bryan 8
9
R Clutterbuck (3) 6
10 9-2 Treble Joy (31) G L Moore 3 9 6
S W Kelly 9
11 00 Young Endless [V](8) C Fellowes 3 9 6
S.P. f’cast: 6-5 Open Champion, 2-1 Makfoul, 5-1 A Shining Moon,
7-1 Treble Joy, 25-1 Hey Bails, 33-1 Reel Power, 50-1 Young Endless,
Storm Arcadio, Shearwater, 100-1 Others.

8.05 Handicap (5) 3YO 1m 5f £4,536

1 325 Love Mystery (15) A Balding 9 11 C Hutchinson (5) 5
D E Hogan 4
2 273 Moonlit Warrior (13) (D) M Bell 9 8
L Morris 3
3 831 Shibuya Song (16) E Walker 9 7
D Costello 2
4 253 Buxted Reel [H](15) I Williams 9 7
M Ghiani 1
5 5-2 Turner Girl (8) E Dunlop 9 3
S.P. f’cast: 11-10 Shibuya Song, 4-1 Buxted Reel, 9-2 Love Mystery,
7-1 Turner Girl, Moonlit Warrior.

Newmarket
Marlborough
1.20 - Elegant Charm
1.55 - Tarlo
2.30 - Dark Mystery
3.05 - Night Of Luxury

Gold
50
47
19
17
9
8
7
7
4
4

3.40 - Novakai
4.20 - Love De Vega
4.51 - Bay Of Honour

Going: Good to firm TV: ITV1 3.40 / Racing TV
Draw: No significant advantage.
[B] Blinkers [V] Visor [E] Eyeshield [T] Tongue Strap [P] Cheekpieces

Cricket

ROYAL LONDON ONE-DAY CUP
GROUP A
Hove: Sussex 334-9 (50.0 overs; D M W Rawlins
91; C A Pujara 63; D Ibrahim 50; P A van
Meekeren 5-48); Gloucestershire 283 (44.2
overs; J R Bracey 87; Zafar Gohar 53). Sussex
(2pts) beat Gloucestershire by 51 runs.
GROUP B
The Ageas Bowl: Hampshire 236 (49.3 overs);
Worcestershire 192 (45.0 overs; E Barnard
85no). Hampshire (2pts) beat Worcestershire
by 44 runs.
Chelmsford: Derbyshire 318-6 (50.0 overs; B D
Guest 88; M H McKiernan 72no; L M Reece 52);
Essex 226 (44.2 overs). Derbyshire (2pts) beat
Essex by 92 runs.
THE HUNDRED MEN.-Old Trafford: Manchester
Originals 161-4 (100 balls, Buttler 59);
Northern Superchargers 162-4 (94 balls, Lyth
51). Northern Superchargers Men win by 6
wickets.
SECOND TWENTY20 INT'NAL.-Bristol: South
Africa 182-6 (20.0 overs); Ireland 138 (18.5
overs; W D Parnell 5-30). South Africa beat
Ireland by 44 runs.
SECOND TWENTY20 INT'NAL.-The Hague:
Netherlands 147-4 (20.0 overs; B de Leede
53no); New Zealand 149-2 (14.0 overs; M J
Santner 77no; D J Mitchell 51no). New Zealand
beat Netherlands by 8 wickets.
FIRST ONE-DAY INT'NAL.-Harare: Bangladesh
303-2 (50 overs, Das 81ret/inj, Anamul 73,
Tamim 62, Mushfiqur 52no); Zimbabwe 307-5
(48.2 overs, Raza 135no, I Kaia 110). Zimbabwe
win by 5 wickets.

Golf

CAZOO OPEN (Celtic Manor, City of Newport,
Wales).-2nd rd leaders (GB & Ireland unless stated): 135—J Guerrier (France) 67 68; 137—J
Veerman (US) 69 68; C Shinkwin 69 68; 138—M
Armitage 68 70; T Detry (Belgium) 72 66; J
Senior 71 67; E Kofstad (Norway) 70 68;
139—E Ferguson 68 71; M Korhonen (Finland)
68 71; D Whitnell 67 72.

1.20 Maiden Fillies’ Stakes (GBB Race) (4) 2YO 7f £4,320

1
Bright Diamond K R Burke 9 2
C Lee 5
2
Elegant Charm C Appleby 9 2
James Doyle 4
Jalapa R Beckett 9 2
R Hornby 7
3
Liberalist M Bell 9 2
David Egan 1
4
Magical Sunset R Hannon 9 2
R Scott 3
5
6
Primary Process [B]G Scott 9 2
C Shepherd 6
River Naver W Haggas 9 2
C Fallon 2
7
S.P. f’cast: 2-1 Elegant Charm, 3-1 River Naver, 4-1 Magical Sunset,
7-1 Jalapa, 8-1 Bright Diamond, 14-1 Primary Process, Liberalist.

1.55 Discover Newmarket Nursery (3) 2YO 7f £8,100

1 13 Killybegs Warrior (21) (CD) C & M Johnston 9 9
James Doyle 1
2 724 Tarlo (26) S & E Crisford 9 0
David Egan 2
Jimmy Quinn 3
3 712 Kodi Dancer (7) K R Burke 8 2
S.P. f’cast: 4-5 Killybegs Warrior, 9-4 Tarlo, 4-1 Kodi Dancer.

2.30 National Stud Handicap (5) 3YO 1m 4f £5,616

1 236 Madame Ambassador [P](32) C & M Johnston 9 10
R Kingscote 2
S M Levey 5
2 139 Cabrakan [B](8) R Hannon 9 10
James Doyle 3
3 513 Fearless Bay [P](5) E Dunlop 9 6
David Egan 4
4 390 Dark Mystery (35) I Williams 9 3
T Heard (3) 1
5 602 Mashkuur [B,T](14) J Chapple-Hyam 9 2
S.P. f’cast: 7-4 Fearless Bay, 5-2 Madame Ambassador, 4-1
Mashkuur, 5-1 Cabrakan, 10-1 Dark Mystery.

3.05 Handicap (2) 1m 2f £13,500

1 206 Kenzai Warrior (11) R Teal 5 10 2
S M Levey 6
2 38- Daramethos (414) (D) (BF) J & T Gosden 4 9 5
B Sayette (3) 3
3 -17 Falling Shadow (49) (D) C Appleby 3 9 5
James Doyle 4
4 532 Wonder Elmossman (25) J S Moore 4 9 0
J F Egan 2
5 -19 Whitefeathersfall (9) C & M Johnston 3 8 13
C Fallon 5
6 141 Night Of Luxury (23) (D) S bin Suroor 3 8 11
David Egan 1
S.P. f’cast: 11-4 Night Of Luxury, 3-1 Falling Shadow, 7-2 Kenzai
Warrior, 5-1 Daramethos, 7-1 Wonder Elmossman, 10-1
Whitefeathersfall.

3.40 Jewson Sweet Solera Stakes (1) 2YO 7f £34,026
1
2
3
4
5

1
821
21
15
332

Alseyoob (28) (CD) I Mohammed 9 2
Dandy Alys (9) R Beckett 9 2
Divina Grace (21) (CD) R Guest 9 2
Inanna (16) (D) S P C Woods 9 2
Ivory Madonna (30) (BF) R Spencer 9 2

S M Levey 5
R Hornby 4
C Shepherd 9
C Fallon 6

R Kingscote 3
P J McDonald 2
6 13 Lady Alara (16) C Hills 9 2
7 313 Lakota Sioux (49) (D) C & M Johnston 9 2
James Doyle 7
G Rooke 8
8 1 Mottisfont (26) (D) H Morrison 9 2
C Lee 1
9 1 Novakai (21) (D) K R Burke 9 2
S.P. f’cast: 5-2 Lakota Sioux, 4-1 Ivory Madonna, 9-2 Novakai, 11-2
Lady Alara, 13-2 Alseyoob, 14-1 Dandy Alys, Mottisfont, 16-1 Divina
Grace, 25-1 Inanna.

4.20 Time Test Handicap (2) 7f £13,500

1 208 Al Rufaa [H](28) (CD)(D) J & T Gosden 5 10 0
B Sayette (3) 3
2 0-0 Typhoon Ten (7) (D) R Hannon 6 9 12
S M Levey 6
3 220 Ropey Guest [V](14) (D) G Margarson 5 9 10
T P Queally 5
4 000 Star Of Orion [B](14) (CD)(C) R Beckett 4 9 10
R Hornby 4
5 436 Mitrosonfire (7) (C) W Muir & C Grassick 4 9 2
P J McDonald 1
6 1-1 Love De Vega (7) (CD) C & M Johnston 3 8 11
R Kingscote 2
S.P. f’cast: 2-1 Love De Vega, 3-1 Al Rufaa, 10-3 Mitrosonfire, 5-1
Ropey Guest, 10-1 Star Of Orion, 16-1 Typhoon Ten.

WOMEN’S OPEN (Muirfield, East Lothian,
Scotland).-2nd rd leaders (US unless stated, Par
71): 134—I-G Chun (S Korea) 68 66; 135—M
Sagstroem (Sweden) 70 65; A Buhai (S Africa)
70 65; 136—I-B Park (S Korea) 69 67; 137—H
Green (Australia) 71 66; M Yamashita (Japan)
69 68; 138—H Shibuno (Japan) 65 73; M Lee
(Australia) 68 70; S Kyriacou (Australia) 70 68; C
Boutier (France) 68 70; 139—M Stark (Sweden)
68 71; J-G Lee (S Korea) 71 68; H-J Kim (S
Korea) 73 66; H-J Choi (S Korea) 69 70; A Lee 72
67; M Alex 70 69; 140—L Duncan (GB) 67 73; A
Thitikul (Thailand) 71 69; N Hataoka (Japan) 71
69; B Henderson (Canada) 70 70; J Korda 66
74; L Maguire (Rep of Ireland) 71 69; G Lopez
(Mexico) 67 73; E Kristine Pedersen (Denmark)
70 70; K Hori (Japan) 72 68; 141—L Salas 71
70; C Hull (GB) 71 70; L Ko (NZ) 71 70; W
Hillier (Australia) 72 69; J Ewart (GB) 68 73; B
Altomare 70 71; A-L Kim (S Korea) 70 71; SungHyun Park (S Korea) 72 69; M Reid (GB) 73 68.

Rugby League
Betfred Super League
Huddersfield 22 Hull 16
Huddersfield—T: Lolohea, Fages, Levi (2).
G: Pryce (3). Hull—T: Walker, Wynne, Longstaff.
G: Gale (2). HT: 0-10.
Wigan 32 Warrington 6
Wigan—T: Halsall, Bibby, Marshall (3), Field.
G: Smith (3), Marshall. Warrington—T: Currie. G:
Ratchford. HT: 4-6.
P W D L
F
A Pts
St Helens
21 17 0 4 492 264 34
Wigan
22 16 0 6 648 395 32
Huddersfield
22 14 1 7 493 386 29
Catalans
21 13 0 8 437 353 26
Castleford
21 11 0 10 467 474 22
Salford
21 10 0 11 515 478 20
Hull
22 10 0 12 424 513 20
Hull K R
22 10 0 12 386 492 20
Leeds
21 9 1 11 441 422 19
Warrington
22 7 0 15 432 551 14
Wakefield
21 6 0 15 359 558 12
Toulouse
22 5 0 17 355 563 10

4.51 Handicap (2) 3YO 1m £13,500

1 204 Tuscan (28) C Hills 9 10
P J McDonald 4
2 -15 Bay Of Honour (28) (D) C Appleby 9 3
James Doyle 5
3 106 Spinaround [P](28) (D) J & T Gosden 9 3 B Sayette (3) 6
4 12- Croupier (323) (BF) S & E Crisford 8 12
H Burns (5) 1
5 332 Galiac (2) (C) (BF) W Muir & C Grassick 8 11
C Fallon 2
6 031 Point Lynas [H](10) (D) E Bethell 8 9
R Hornby 3
S.P. f’cast: 3-1 Bay Of Honour, 7-2 Galiac, 9-2 Croupier, 5-1 Tuscan,
Point Lynas, 6-1 Spinaround.

Redcar

Cricket

FOURTH TWENTY20 INT'NAL.-Lauderhill: West
Indies v India (3.30).
THE HUNDRED, MEN.-Trent Bridge: Trent
Rockets v Birmingham Phoenix (2.30).

Rugby League
BETFRED LEAGUE 1: London Sk v West Wales.

Rugby Union
THE RUGBY CHAMPIONSHIP: Argentina v
Australia (8.10pm), South Africa v New Zealand
(4.05pm).

Tomorrow
Cricket

SECOND ONE-DAY INT'NAL.-Harare: Zimbabwe
v Bangladesh (8.15am).
FIFTH TWENTY20 INTERNATIONAL.Lauderhill: West Indies v India (3.30).
THE HUNDRED, MEN.-Sophia Gardens Cardiff:
Welsh Fire Men v Oval Invincibles (2).
ROYAL LONDON ONE-DAY CUP.-Group A:
Riverside: Durham v Middlesex (11). Bristol:
Gloucestershire v Somerset (11). The Kia Oval:
Surrey v Warwickshire (11). Hove: Sussex v
Leicestershire (11).
Group B: Beckenham: Kent v Hampshire (11).
Emirates Old Trafford: Lancashire v Derbyshire
(11). Northampton: Northamptonshire v Essex
(11). Scarborough: Yorkshire v Worcestershire
(11).

Rugby League
BETFRED SUPER LEAGUE: Leeds v Salford, St
Helens v Castleford (1), Wakefield v Catalans
Dragons. Championship: Bradford v Workington,
Dewsbury v York, Halifax v Batley (6.30), Leigh v
Barrow, Newcastle v London Broncos, Sheffield v
Whitehaven, Widnes v Featherstone. League 1:
Cornwall RLFC v North Wales Crusaders,
Doncaster v Rochdale, Midlands Hurricanes v
Oldham (5.30), Swinton v Keighley.

11175 Swinging Eddie (25) G Tuer 6 9 3
Oisin Orr 2
12747 Tashgheel (11) G Tuer 4 9 1
S James 6
S.P. f’cast: 5-1 Give It Some Teddy, 11-2 Star Shield, 6-1 Hathlool,
7-1 Park Street, 8-1 A Boy Named Ivy, 10-1 Diamondonthehill,
Millionaire Waltz, Dulla Bhatti, 12-1 Others.

3.27 Handicap (2) 7f £13,500

1 100 Volatile Analyst [H](49) (D) K Dalgleish 5 10 2

C Rodriguez 1

2 951 Azano (20) (CD)(C)(D) D O’Meara 6 9 13

J Watson 2
S Gray 3
S James 4

3 356 Scottish Summit (28) (C) G Harker 9 9 6
4 109 Lion Tower (14) (D) G Tuer 5 9 5
5 211 Golden Voice [T](36) (D) W Haggas 3 9 2

Marlborough
1.42 - Bara Lacha
2.17 - Irish Approach
2.52 - Star Shield
3.27 - Volatile Analyst

Fixtures 3pm unless stated

4.02 - Excessable
4.35 - Purple Ice
5.10 - Glory And Honour

Going: Good to firm-good in places TV: Racing TV
Draw: Middle to high numbers have a decided advantage on the
straight course
[B] Blinkers [V] Visor [E] Eyeshield [T] Tongue Strap [P] Cheekpieces

1.42 Market Cross Jewellers Claiming Stakes (5) 2YO 6f £3,456

1 456 Bojink [P](7) G Boughey 8 13
Connor Planas (7) 1
2 344 Bara Lacha [P](2) (BF) D O’Meara 8 11
J Watson 2
3 00 Golden Alba (53) Craig Lidster 8 11
W Pyle (7) 4
4 647 Naughty Ted (17) Liam Bailey 8 11
S James 3
5 975 Thiago (21) A Brittain 8 4
C Hardie 5
S.P. f’cast: 4-7 Bara Lacha, 7-2 Bojink, 7-1 Naughty Ted, 10-1
Thiago, 33-1 Golden Alba.

2.17 Restricted Maiden Stakes (GBB Race) (5) 7f £4,320

1 0 Dubai Jeanius (34) M Herrington 4 9 11
T Eaves 1
2
Dan De Man Can J Camacho 3 9 7
C Rodriguez 6
3 0-0 Decontracte [B](65) M & D Easterby 3 9 7
S Gray 4
4 6 Garlogie (23) Ewan Whillans 3 9 7
Oisin Orr 5
5 03 Gold Splash [H](24) Tom Clover 3 9 7
Connor Planas (7) 8
6 73 Ice Shadow (22) A Brown 3 9 7
D Swift 13
7 62 Irish Approach (9) D O’Meara 3 9 7
J Watson 11
8 4-6 Joeyremy [B](65) M Dods 3 9 7
P Dennis 12
9 7 Darker (36) D O’Meara 3 9 5
D Nolan 7
10 0- Finbar’s Lad (292) E Alston 3 9 5
JP Sullivan 10
11 0 Streetscape (7) D & N Barron 3 9 5
T Hamilton 3
12 26 Carlton And Co (42) M & D Easterby 3 9 2
C Hardie 2
13 9 Dolly Gray (79) D Loughnane 3 9 2
S James 9
S.P. f’cast: 5-2 Carlton And Co, 11-4 Irish Approach, 5-1 Joeyremy,
7-1 Ice Shadow, 8-1 Gold Splash, 10-1 Dan De Man Can, 14-1 Dolly
Gray, 20-1 Darker, 33-1 Others.

2.52 Join Racing TV Now Handicap (4) 1m £5,616

1 770 Queen’s Sargent [P](57) M Dods 7 10 4
Laura Coughlan (5) 9
2 317 Hathlool [H](15) (D) M Appleby 4 10 4
S Gray 12
3 400 A Boy Named Ivy (45) (CD) M Dods 4 10 1
D Nolan 1
4 527 Dulla Bhatti [P](34) M Dods 4 9 12
T Eaves 7
5 561 Star Shield [P](19) (C)(D) D O’Meara 7 9 11
J Watson 5
6 210 Millionaire Waltz (14) (D) B Haslam 5 9 11
P Hanagan 11
7 026 Diamondonthehill (19) (C) M Dods 4 9 8
C Rodriguez 8
8 31- Park Street [H](234) (D) Miss T Jackson 3 9 8
P Dennis 10
9 458 War Defender [T](45) (D) T Easterby 5 9 8
S B Kirrane (3) 3
10044 Give It Some Teddy (7) (CD)(C)(D) T Easterby 8 9 8
D Fentiman 4

S Donohoe 5
S.P. f’cast: 11-8 Golden Voice, 4-1 Azano, 9-2 Volatile Analyst, 5-1
Scottish Summit, 6-1 Lion Tower.

4.02 Classified Stakes (6) 5f £3,456

1 000 Aconcagua Mountain [V](15) I Jardine 4 9 7 S James 8
2 302 Cuppacoco [B](10) (CD)(D) Mrs A Duffield 7 9 7
S Gray 10
3 535 Excessable [P,T](5) (CD)(D) T Easterby 9 9 7
Brandon Wilkie (7) 2
4 064 Hard Solution [V](10) (CD)(C)(D) D O’Meara 6 9 7
J Watson 3
5 453 Koropick [T](8) C Teague 8 9 7
P Hanagan 7
6 000 Littlemissattitude (17) D Shaw 5 9 7
JP Sullivan 9
7 340 Mrs Bagerran (52) T Waggott 4 9 7
D Swift 11
8 076 Newgate Angel (23) (D) T Coyle 6 9 7 K Schofield (5) 12
9 780 Pacopash [V](44) R Menzies 4 9 7
Paula Muir (3) 13
10756 Qaaraat [P](8) (D) A Brittain 7 9 7
C Hardie 5
11338 Stroxx [P](13) Liam Bailey 5 9 7
D Nolan 6
12408 By Moonlight [B](43) M Herrington 3 9 4
T Eaves 4
13600 Gala Bella (17) M Appleby 3 9 4
Oisin Orr 1
S.P. f’cast: 7-2 Cuppacoco, 4-1 Excessable, 5-1 Hard Solution, 7-1
Qaaraat, 10-1 Others.

4.35 Handicap (6) 3YO 1m £3,456

1 2-5 Tidewell (191) D Thompson 9 11
O McSweeney (5) 6
2 275 Purple Ice [B](22) M Dods 9 11
T Eaves 1
3 246 Jazz Samba (29) M & D Easterby 9 8
S Gray 4
4 -37 Red Astaire (54) T Easterby 9 8
D Fentiman 8
5 9-4 Lady Xenia (15) Craig Lidster 9 7
P Hanagan 3
6 032 Ravenglass (12) R Fahey 9 6
Oisin Orr 7
7 160 Stripzee [B](16) (C)(D) T Easterby 9 6 S B Kirrane (3) 9
8 859 Van Zant (7) R Carr 9 0
JP Sullivan 5
9 307 Premiership (3) T Waggott 8 4
A Elliott 2
S.P. f’cast: 11-4 Ravenglass, 7-2 Tidewell, 6-1 Jazz Samba, 7-1 Others.

5.10 Handicap (6) 1m 6f £3,456

1 831 Glory And Honour (4) D O’Meara 6 10 4(5ex)

2 -35 Jack Yeats [P](14) W Coltherd 6 10 0
3 252 Red Derek (35) L Williamson 6 10 0
4 761 Desert Quest (19) (D) Ewan Whillans 4 10 0

S Gray 11

Paula Muir (3) 7
A Elliott 4
A Brookes (7) 2

5 332 Taxmeifyoucan [P](8) (D) K Dalgleish 8 9 13

C Rodriguez 8
6 234 Bouncing Bobby (7) M Todhunter 5 9 10
D Nolan 3
7 404 Nataleena (60) (CD) B Haslam 6 9 9
P Hanagan 1
8 413 Overstate [V](25) (BF) Tom Clover 3 9 7 Connor Planas (7) 10
9 422 Prophesise [B,T](22) T Easterby 3 9 5 S B Kirrane (3) 9
S James 6
10 -98 Cornell (14) J J Davies 4 9 1
C Hardie 5
11536 Penelopeblueyes (26) A Keatley 3 8 9
12054 Tarbat Ness (39) J Berry 3 8 4
JP Sullivan 12
S.P. f’cast: 5-2 Glory And Honour, 4-1 Overstate, 6-1
Taxmeifyoucan, 7-1 Desert Quest, Prophesise, 14-1 Others.

Whistler’s Nap
Isla Kai (3.55 Ascot) is today’s nap for Whistler (Marcus Armytage) of
Telegraph Sport.

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Saturday 6 August 2022

TRAVEL SECTION OF THE YEAR

Why you’ve got it all wrong
about Benidorm

REBECCA REES FOR THE TELEGRAPH

P. 1 3

50 UK stays for less than £150 a night
Small-scale staycations don’t have to cost a fortune, says Laura Fowler – and the best boutique bargains come with plenty of charm and style

Y

ou wait two years for a minibreak
then two come along at once. First,
a multi-generational get-together in
the Cotswolds at the Swan Inn, set on the
dreamy banks of the Windrush. Our room
felt like home only nicer.
The following weekend, Bristol with old
friends. A fancy hotel for a treat – one of the
city’s grandest, now run by an international

chain that shall remain nameless. Alright,
I’ll tell you: it was the Bristol Marriott Royal
Hotel. Victorian facade, shiny revolving
doors, checker-board marble lobby. Impressive, but, I quickly realised, inescapably corporate, complete with a queue at check-in;
a £20 parking fee; Wi-Fi for members only.
Now, it’s not that I don’t love a posh hotel.
When they’re getting it right they can be

fantasy wonderlands. Yet simultaneously,
accelerated by the climate crisis and pandemic-induced shifts, the desire to live and
travel better has fuelled our appetite for
small-scale staycations. A wave of coaching
inns and coastal pubs are being reimagined
by a new generation of savvy young hoteliers, designers and trailblazing chefs to satisfy champagne taste on a beer-bottle

i Hugo and Olive Guest turned Glebe House
in Devon into an English ‘agroturismo’

budget. And there is a new breed of gourmet
guesthouse emerging – gems such as
Coombeshead Farm in Cornwall and Glebe
House in Devon, run by families passionate
about food, interiors and the planet.
These are places that are loved by their

owners, whose personal touch delights
at every turn and where fine dining is always
seasonal and local.
Here is our selection of 50 small and
lovely hotels, from coast to countryside,
which offer a wonderful, memorable
stay for a price that is accessible to all.
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Saturday 6 August 2022 The Daily Telegraph

JAKE EASTHAM; ROB BESANT; SETH CARNILL; JAMES BEDFORD; NEIL BIGWOOD; EMMA GUTTERIDGE; WE THE FOOD SNOBS; PETER FLUDE

Cover story

THE BEST BARGAIN BOUTIQUE HOTELS
Country
bistro’s sunny terrace overlooks slopes
grazed by Herdwicks (descended from
the farm’s original incumbents), which
feature on a menu of Cumbrian classics
with a global twist such as lamb sliders.
Rooms are crisp and contemporary.
Doubles from £130 B&B, two-night
minimum stay (01539 435055;
theyan.co.uk)

Glebe House
Southleigh, Devon
Their travels to Italy planted the seeds
of an idea for Hugo and Olive Guest,
who last year opened six-room Glebe
House in east Devon, a colourful
revamp of Hugo’s family B&B. “We
stayed at lots of lovely agriturismi and
liked that idea of a guesthouse that
feels personal, where you get to know
the family and its produce,” says Olive,
who also cites Coombeshead Farm (see
below) as a food inspiration. The
Guests are hands-on hosts – Hugo is
the chef – and put on events, from stilllife drawing classes to fishing trips that
end in a twilight dinner on the beach.
Doubles from £139 B&B (0140 487
1276; glebehousedevon.co.uk)

Weeke Barton
Dartmoor, Devon
This cob-and-stone Dartmoor hideaway
feels like a posh rental (and you can take
it over exclusively), but it’s principally
an eco guesthouse. Jo and Sam Gossett
have filled it with homely touches:
sheepskins on window nooks in its six
cocooning rooms, a well-stocked honesty bar that never closes, home-cooked
meals three days a week (organic veg
from the Teign Greens co-operative,
lamb from “John and Sophie next
door”), and a couple of playful spaniels.
Doubles from £140 (01647 253505;
weekebarton.com)

Coombeshead Farm
Lewannick, Cornwall
Drawn to the source of the produce he
was cooking in his restaurants, chef
and restaurateur Tom Adams and his
wife Lottie, a sustainability consultant,
moved to Cornwall and launched a
supper club on a former dairy farm
near the Devon border in 2016. They
have since added a restaurant, nine
bedrooms, a cottage, café, bakery,
farmshop and creatures great (Red
Devon cows) and small (bees) – but the
star attraction remains their sensational food, everything hyper-local
and handcrafted. Indeed, so committed are they to their ethos that they
actually lowered prices recently.
Doubles from £145 B&B (01566 782009;
coombesheadfarm.co.uk)

The Bear Inn
Hodnet, Shropshire
Interior designer Octavia Dickinson
breathed new life into every ancient
nook and cranny of the 500-year-old
Bear Inn last year. Her signature bold
colours, statement fabrics and art
make everywhere a joy, from the bar
and restaurant to the 12 bedrooms
named after trees – appropriate, as
green and lovely Shropshire abounds
with gardens – as well as the Bear’s
own walled kitchen garden (homegrown, local produce is a menu mainstay); those at Wollerton Old Hall and
Hodnet Hall and walking distance.
Doubles from £110 B&B (01630 685214;
thebearinnhodnet.com)

Joining the inn crowd: the Double Red Duke in Oxfordshire opened last May after a dramatic head-to-toe designer revamp
i

with a hearty welcome, 10 great-value
rooms, and vamped-up pub classics that
get rave reviews from restaurant critics
happy to make the drive from London
for the bone-marrow flatbread alone.
But don’t drive home – stay over instead.
Doubles from £99 B&B (01993 832116;
thelambshipton.com)

The Talbot
Malton, North Yorkshire
Tablescaping queen Mrs Alice owns
this revamped 17th-century hotel and
coaching inn in the market town of
Malton (“Yorkshire’s food capital”, as
Antonio Carluccio dubbed it), which
tells you all you need to know. Good

wallpaper, hunting and horseracing
fabrics – a nod to Newbury racecourse –
and Bramley’s goodies for dogs as well
as humans. The lofty, oak-beamed restaurant is a major draw.
Doubles from £120 B&B (01635 521152;
hareandhoundsnewbury.co.uk)

The Royston
Llwynaire, Powys

The slate buildings of a former sheep
farm have been transformed into the
Yan, a modern, family-run hotel in the
beautiful central Lake District. Nearby
are Grasmere, Rydal Water and Great
Langdale, while paths from the hotel
lead up to Fairfield and Helvellyn. The

The Royston is deep in the belly of
Wales, both miles from anywhere and
yet precisely where you want to be: that
is, surrounded by green, green, green.
Go walking directly from the door, the
Cambrian Mountains rising up to meet
the sky before you. Remote and rural it
may be, but there’s nothing backwater
about its seven sophisticated modern
bedrooms, welcoming living spaces,
and seasonal and sustainable menu.
Doubles from £129 B&B (01650 519228;
theroystonwales.com)

The Yan at Broadrayne
Lake District, Cumbria

Sitting pretty on Nun Monkton village
green, Alice is something of an overachiever, lauded and awarded for
design, sustainability and food. Yorkshire classics with a modern twist showcase the best of the region’s produce
(potted rabbit with rhubarb chutney;
east-coast mussels with Thai broth).
Rooms, either in the old inn or new ecofriendly garden buildings, are deeply
restful, all natural tones and raw wood.
Doubles from £120 B&B (01423 330303;
thealicehawthorn.com)

The Swan Inn
Swinbrook, Oxfordshire
Beside a stone bridge on a lane to
nowhere, the Swan Inn makes an excel-

Cocktail hour: Hare & Hounds, Newbury
i

The North Wessex Downs have an
embarrassment of top-notch pubs and
this year gained a new one outside Newbury: the Hare & Hounds, a 17th-century
coaching inn fresh from a refurbishment. Thirty rooms, spread across
restored stables, a lodge and coach
house, are tricked out in audacious

The Ram Inn
Firle, East Sussex
Down a tree-canopied lane from
Charleston House, the home and studio
of Bloomsbury artists Vanessa Bell and
Duncan Grant, is Firle, a blink-andyou’ll-miss-it hamlet that’s essentially a
cricket club and a pub. But what a pub!
The Ram Inn is just the ticket for a
South Downs escape, serving excellent
modern British dishes in its moody,
candlelit dining rooms, and putting
guests up in five fab rooms.
Doubles from £130 B&B (01273 858222;
raminn.co.uk)

Old Hall Inn
Peak District, Derbyshire
The Old Hall Inn and its neighbouring
Paper Mill Inn make a rewarding resting place in Chinley for Peak District
walkers and cyclists, with their comfortable, classic rooms (some have fourposters) and range of fortifying ales,
along with hearty pub food in the timbered dining room – or covered garden,
with burners and piles of blankets, for
year-round al-fresco dining.
Doubles from £99 B&B (01663 750529;
old-hall-inn.co.uk)

Saorsa 1875
Pitlochry, Perthshire
On the edge of the Cairngorms, Saorsa
1875 has a cracking USP: it is vegan from
nose to tail, serving breakfast, lunch
and dinner that is animal free, colourful
and imaginative (kohlrabi ravioli and
miso charred aubergine, perhaps). As
well as being a pioneer of plant-based
stays, it is a gem of a boutique hotel –
stylishly decorated in lush colours and
interesting prints, with homely touches
in the art, throws and quirky lamps, and
has a fab little bar serving craft beers
and locally inspired cocktails.
Rooms from £130 B&B (01796 475217;
saorsahotel.com)

The Hare & Hounds
Newbury, Berkshire

The Lamb Inn
Shipton-under-Wychwood,
Oxfordshire
There’s a gourmet inn around every
picture-perfect corner of the Oxfordshire Cotswolds. And yet still, the
Lamb Inn, new last year, shines bright
among them. It’s a stylish country inn

taste runs from top to toe: the colourpop bedrooms are on-trend but entirely
suited to the elegant Georgian building,
with long windows overlooking the
meadow running down to the Derwent;
the pub is a proper boozer, albeit supersmart, while the accomplished cooking
in the restaurant showcases all that’s
made in Yorkshire.
Doubles from £110 B&B (01653 639096;
talbotmalton.co.uk)

The Alice Hawthorn Inn
Nun Monkton, North Yorkshire

lent end to a country walk. Invariably
there are people drinking pints outside
in the sunshine, or, in winter, beside
one of the log fires. Produce comes from
the village farmer Tom Walker. Eleven
rooms, spread across the riverside cottage and stables, are cottage-lux and
deeply comfortable, with big-bottle
bathroom products made by local lady
Jessica Dean Smith. Given its location,
near Burford, it’s refreshingly unpretentious and good value.
Doubles from £140 B&B (01993 823339;
theswanswinbrook.co.uk)

Double Red Duke
Clanfield, Oxfordshire
Roll out the barrel: the Ram Inn, a pub with rooms in Firle, has a welcoming beer garden
i

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i Gourmet grub: the Lamb Inn in Shipton serves vamped-up pub classics to rave reviews
g Plant perfection: boutique hotel Saorsa 1875 in Pitlochry offers nose-to-tale vegan dining
Duke is a handsome devil, inside and
out. It opened last May after an overhaul by Sam and Georgie Pearman, the
inn-crowd power couple who specialise
in magicking pubs into boutique boltholes. Painterly murals and fanciful
wallpapers are combined with vibrant
velvets to create drama from head to
toe, from 19 seductive rooms to the
richly layered restaurant, where chefs
cook seasonal produce over fire, such
as saddle of lamb and spit-roast porchetta (the Hawksmoor founder and
chef Richard Turner was involved in
the creation of the menu). Bonus luxury:
the shepherd’s hut treatment room in
the garden.
Doubles from £108 B&B (01367 810222;
countrycreatures.com/double-red-duke)

Bradley Hare
Maiden Bradley, Wiltshire
The village of Maiden Bradley is surrounded by bucolic Cranborne Chase
dreaminess, with Bruton to the west,
Frome and Bath to the north. The village is part of the Duke of Somerset’s
estate, maintained just-so, and at its
heart is the gracefully restored Bradley
Hare. The former Soho House design
director James Thurstan Waterworth
did the interiors, and all 12 rooms are
gorgeous: the kind of muted tones and
quiet luxury that whispers “old money”
– yet joyfully, doesn’t cost too much of
the stuff.
Doubles from £135 B&B (01985 801018;
thebradleyhare.co.uk)

The Gunton Arms
Near Cromer, North Norfolk
It is hard to know what’s most exciting
about a stay at this Norfolk shooting
lodge: the deer park setting; the art collection (Lucien Freud, Tracey Emin,
Damien Hirst among them); the wowfactor interiors (a combination of maximalist designer Martin Brudnizki and
the very English decorator Robert
Kime); the food (venison cooked over
fire by Mark Hix alumni); or the price –
all this for less than a hundred quid.
Doubles from £95 B&B (01263 832010;
theguntonarms.co.uk)

Lord Poulett Arms
Hinton St George, Somerset
Honeyed Somerset stone walls without,
log fires within, and the welcome is just
as warm at this marvellous 17th-century
inn in sleepy Hinton St George. Everything’s delicious: the food (pub classics
cranked up several notches); the local
ales in a bar beloved both by locals and
faraway visitors; and the six cosseting
rooms – far more so than the low room
rate might suggest. Out back, find gardens and a boules court.
Doubles from £85 B&B (01460 73149;
lordpoulettarms.com)

Coast

The Bottle and Glass Inn
Binfield Heath, Oxfordshire
This thatched inn on chocolate-box
Binfield Heath near Henley has been
drawing fans from miles around for its
superb Sunday roasts since chef David
Holliday and sommelier Alex Sergeant
(both formerly of the Michelin-starred
Harwood Arms) took it over in 2017. The
drawback was the drive home after
your roast venison and Eton Mess – but
last year they opened three rooms, restful in gentle tones and contemporary
country style. Opening soon are five
shepherd’s huts.
Doubles from £142.50 B&B (01491
412625; bottleandglassinn.com)

The Pierhouse
Loch Linnhe, Argyll
Downtime in his beloved homeland
prompted luxury hotelier Gordon
Campbell Gray (the man behind Covent
Garden’s One Aldwych and the Machrie
Hotel & Golf Links on the isle of Islay,
among others) to shift down several
gears with his new project: a pair of
bonny wee boltholes with an altogether
m o re s u s t a i n a bl e o u tl o ok . T h e
Pierhouse is one of them: a sprinkling of
humble buildings on Loch Linnhe,
overlooking the Isle of Mull and the
Morvens, with 12 rooms and a restaurant that goes big on seafood.
Doubles from £130 B&B (01631 730302;
pierhousehotel.co.uk)

200-year-old hotel in a style that’s part
mid-century modern and wholly now.
There are velvet headboards and contrasting paints (shell-pink and peasoup green; butter-yellow and ocean
blue), set off by 1950s armchairs,
1960s G-Plan and 1970s cane, with
books and vinyl to fool around with. A
seasonal menu of fresh, bright dishes,
with an emphasis on the sea, is
devised by executive chef Nuno
Mendes and exquisitely presented on
vintage crockery.
Doubles from £100 B&B (01304
389127; therosedeal.com)

The Sandy Duck
Falmouth, Cornwall
Young owner Freyja Ducker breathed
new life into a crumbling Victorian
boarding house in Falmouth with the
kind of Scandi-Brit modernism that has
become the new seaside chic. Eight
bedrooms – most with sea views – are
painted in natural shades, with pareddown furniture and Hypnos beds;
home-made cakes are served in the cosy
lounge. The tight-knit team of locals
(plus Rhubarb the border terrier) know
the area intimately and love sharing offthe-beaten-track secrets with guests.
Doubles from £100 B&B (01326 311427;
thesandyduck.co.uk)

Brown’s
Pembroke, Pembrokeshire

Artist Residence
Brighton, East Sussex
Brighton is where the Artist Residence
story began – when Justin Salisbury
inherited his ailing family’s B&B on
Regency Square and, with barely any
cash to do it up, invited local artists to
redesign each room. Fourteen years
and five hotels on, and the Artist Residence look is instantly recognisable:
splashy and imaginative bedrooms with
iron four-posters and unusual art – and
the Brighton outpost has a cool café too.
Doubles from £95 room only (01273
324302; artistresidence.co.uk/brighton)

The Rose
Deal, Kent
Alex Bagner, author of How to Leave
London, illustrates exactly how it
should be done here. The Rose, in the
fishing village of Deal, is her latest venture, and with husband Christopher
Hicks – great-grandson of the inn’s original owner (who also owned the Walmer
brewery, producer of the ale still served
in the bar) – they have overhauled the

i Vintage appeal:

the Rose in Deal is a
colourful mix of
mid-century
modern design

ii Hip newcomer:
the Port Hotel is a
reimagining of the
Victorian-era hotels
on Eastbourne’s
seafront

Brown’s is best known for being the
pub where Dylan Thomas drank, and
though there is no shortage of those,
this was his local, within stumbling
distance of his writing shed above
Laugharne’s silty beach on the Taf
estuary. Be dro oms – panelle d,
beamed and done up in inky blue and
ochre – are now a good deal more chic
than the flannelette and candlewick
days of Under Milk Wood. Walk the
Wales Coast Path around the headland
to wide-open Pendine Sands.
Doubles from £130 B&B (01994
427688; browns.wales)
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Cover story
Albion House
Ramsgate, Kent
One of Queen Victoria’s first holidays
was in Ramsgate, aged four, where she
took donkey rides on the beach. She
stayed here, in Albion House (formerly
Townley House) and did so again as a
sick teenager, the sea air aiding her
recovery from typhoid fever. Nearly 200
years on, Albion House remains a stately
seaside retreat, its Regency interiors
restored with historic paint shades and
in-keeping modern accessories alongside antiques. The elegant restaurant
has sea views, as do most of the 14 bedrooms – including Little Victoria’s Room
where the future queen recuperated.
Doubles from £110 B&B (01843 606630;
albionhouseramsgate.co.uk)

Bike & Boot
Scarborough, North Yorkshire
OK, so this Victorian terrace hotel on
Scarborough’s seafront is hardly bijou –
but Bike & Boot is independent in spirit,
with rooms full of character, both historic and contemporary. It’s aimed, as
the name suggests, at outdoorsy types –
lovers of cycling, walking, surfing – and
also at families and dog owners (there’s
a boutique cinema and a pooch grooming area). No airs and graces in the
lounge bar here – this place is all about
fun. Pedal hard and play hard.
Doubles from £89 B&B (01723 655555;
bikeandboot.com)

Kylesku Hotel
Assynt, Sutherland
Continued from Page 3

Dorset House
Lyme Regis, Dorset
Owners Lyn and Jason Martin turned
a crumbling Georgian house in Lyme
Regis into a stylish B&B deluxe, with
five contemporary rooms that echo
their seaside location in colour and
design. There’s no restaurant, but the
Martins serve a hearty breakfast, G&Ts
and cake, and love dishing out tips for
the best local places to eat and visit.
Doubles from £130 B&B (01297
442055; dorsethouselyme.com)

Mason’s Arms
Branscombe, Devon
This 14th-century inn, in the thatched
comeliness that is Branscombe village,
got a recent makeover, updating its 28
cottage-esque rooms into something
altogether smarter, without losing
their irregular historic charm. Food is
a cut above average pub grub, and the
terrace is a joy on a sunny day. Branscombe beach and the Jurassic Coast
are a fossil’s throw down the lane.
Doubles from £120 B&B (01297
680300; masonsarms.co.uk)

What a location! Kylesku sits practically
on Loch Glendhu, on the North Coast
500 road, near Sutherland’s knockout
west-coast beaches – white sand and,
when the weather plays ball, turquoise
water. It’s all about honest-to-goodness
simplicity here. Unfussy rooms are
painted the colour of clouds, with crisp
white linens and tweed headboards; in
t h e a w a rd - w i n n i n g re s t a u r a n t ,
unwieldy langoustines and king prawns
are hoiked straight out of the water and
served on sharing platters at wooden
tables, indoors and out, overlooking the
water and peaks beyond.
Doubles from £99 B&B (01971 910047;
kyleskuhotel.co.uk)

i Coastal cool: Hope Cove House in Devon
g Check out the Artist Residence, Brighton
h ‘B&B deluxe’: Dorset House, Lyme Regis
wild-flowered dunes, birdlife and great
golden sands wide enough to ride
horses through the surf. There are 20
rooms, pale and classic with antique
furniture, and Norfolk-sourced food is a
passion here, from Wells lobster and
samphire to the estate’s own game in
the winter.
Doubles from £125 B&B (01328 711008;
holkham.co.uk)

Hope Cove House
South Hams, Devon
Restaurateurs Oli and Ra Barker’s taste
for eclectic vintage finds has transformed a bland 1950s house into a
funky eight-room coastal retreat. The
location couldn’t be better, presiding
The Victoria at Holkham
over Hope Cove, a champagne-sand
Near Wells-next-the-Sea,
beach on a glorious stretch of National
Norfolk
Trust-maintained coastline in South
Hams Area of Outstanding Natural
From the Earl of Leicester’s rather Beauty. As well as breakfast, their resgrand flintstone inn at the gateway to taurant serves fish-tastic dishes, and
Holkham Hall, it’s a stroll along tree- has a terrace overlooking the sea.
lined Lady Anne’s Drive to one of Brit- Doubles from £145 B&B, two-night
ain’s most magnificent beaches and minimum stay (01548 561 371;
nature reserves: Holkham Bay, with its hopecovehouse.co)

Beadnell Towers
Chathill, Northumberland

Penally Abbey
Tenby, Pembrokeshire

The Bull
Bridport, Dorset

Co-owner Melanie Boissevain is an interior designer, and it shows in her reimagining of this character-packed
18th-century house, a 10-minute walk
from Tenby’s south beach. It is welcoming, comfortable, but also superbly
designed and deeply luxurious, 12
rooms mixing up emperor beds, quality
antiques, razzmatazz chandeliers,
hand-stitched quilts and gothic windows. Rhosyn is its award-winning restaurant, where dinner might be a
six-course blow-out, and chef Richard
Browning whips even breakfast standards into works of art.
Doubles from £135 B&B (01834 843033;
penally-abbey.com)

When the Bull opened in 2006 it heralded a cultural change in Bridport, a
country mile inland from Dorset’s
Jurassic Coast, which became known as
“Notting Hill on Sea” as celebs from the
capital came to stay. The 16th-century
hostelry has been refreshed with
a smart restaurant serving modern British dishes, plus a pizzeria in the stables;
while upstairs, there’s a speakeasy hidden behind a door in the historic ballroom. Nineteen grown-up-glam rooms
have Cole & Son wallpapers, clawfoot
baths and vintage furniture found in the
town’s antiques quarter.
Doubles from £99 B&B (01308 422878;
thebullhotel.co.uk)

Port Hotel
Eastbourne, East Sussex

Gurnards Head
Near St Ives, Cornwall

Shaking off its “God’s waiting room”
reputation one address at a time, Eastbourne’s hip newcomer is the Port, a
reimagining of one of its Victorian seafront hotels. You can spot it a mile off:
it’s the only one painted black (whatever will they think of next?). Its mixologist shakes up the most sophisticated
cocktails in town, and its restaurant,
hung with works by local artists, serves
punchy small plates and Sussex wines.
Clean-lined bedrooms reflect the
shades of the coastline: shingle gold,
deep sea-blue and sunset pink.
Doubles from £85 B&B (01323 438526;
porthotel.co.uk)

Down on the toenail of England, the
Gurnard’s Head is a gorse-yellow inn
shining bright as a lighthouse on the
ragged coast west of St Ives. Cheerful
rooms overlook furze-carpeted moors
or the ocean, which is a pootle along a
country lane. The food is something
to write home about, even in these
gourmet parts: dishes are a spritzy celebration of earth and sea, with vegans
and pescatarians well catered for, plus
hearty roasts on Sundays.
Doubles from £147 B&B (01736 796928;
gurnardshead.co.uk)

George & Heart House
Margate, Kent
Designer-builder couple Kelly Love and
Dan Williams have reinvented this
300-year-old boozer in the spirit of
an east London scenester moving to
Margate. They brought in six local artists (Whinnie Williams among them) to
put their stamp on each room, and the
result makes an imaginative, exuberant
and very affordable addition to this
groovy seaside enclave. Guests also
have the run of retro Reggie’s Bar, the
Zen Den for treatments and meditation,
and a courtyard garden.
Doubles from £95 B&B (01843 225447;
georgeandheart.com)

ih Big shot: local
artists have put
their stamp on each
room of George &
Heart House in Kent
h The Kylesku

Hotel’s unfussy
decor lets the
knockout views
of Assynt shine

A homely little hotel on Northumberland’s wide-open coast, well-dressed in
William Morris prints and wood-panelled walls, with familial quirks (a wall
of vintage telephones in the lobby;
shelves stacked with curios and beachcombing finds). Its 18 individual rooms
are named in dialect – some accessible,
some dog-friendly, some for families,
and all delightful in soft shades and
tasteful wallpaper. The restaurant/bar
serves robust pub classics and local
ales, plus the hotel’s own Beadnell Gin.
Doubles from £129 B&B (01665 721211;
beadnelltowers.co.uk)

Llys Meddyg Hotel
Newport, Pembrokeshire
Pembrokeshire couple Ed and Louise
Sykes opened this low-key boutique
hotel last year on the spectacular
stretch of coast between Fishguard and
Cardigan. Set in a listed Georgian
house, it has eight deep-hued rooms, a
laid-back lounge and a Cellar Bar that
was once a Tudor pub.
Doubles from £130 B&B (01239 820008;
llysmeddyg.com)

Glenview
Skye, Highland
Heaven for poets, painters and lovers of
solitude, Glenview is a micro-bolthole
on Skye’s remote Trotternish Peninsula.
It offers bed and vegetarian breakfast
in just three characterful rooms – with
a retro cottagecore thing going on –
and a yoga studio, where owner
Simon Wallwork leads hatha sessions.
The views are something to meditate
on: out across the sea, where humpbacks, orcas and dolphins swim, to the
craggy peaks beyond.
Doubles from £95 B&B (01470 562248;
glenviewskye.co.uk)

The Tiger
East Dean, East Sussex
The South Downs village of East Dean is
as delightful as a summer’s day. On the
village green lies the Tiger Inn, a medieval smugglers’ tavern now painted
dazzling white, which is all atmospheric
gloom and low ceilings within, tables in
the sunshine outside, and five countrycasual rooms upstairs. Beachy Head is
a bracing couple of miles’ walk away.
Doubles from £110 B&B (01323 423209;
beachyhead.org.uk/the-tiger-inn)

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City
Number 38 Clifton
Bristol
In Bristol’s loftiest neighbourhood,
Number 38 Clifton is a (very stylish)
home from home: a renovated Georgian
house with drawing rooms and original
fireplaces, mustard-velvet armchairs
for idling in and a library with shelves of
books. Twelve smart bedrooms are distinctly decorated – deep-blue panelling
here, copper roll-top overlooking the
park there – and there’s a terrace garden, too. Some of the city’s best restaurants are a stroll away.
Doubles from £135 B&B (01179 466905;
number38clifton.com)

The Yard
Bath
i Tuck in at Guesthouse No 1 in York…
g … or relax at Number 38 Clifton, Bristol

This limestone coaching inn makes a
peaceful retreat from the crowds in the
centre of Bath. It is quietly tasteful, with
a restrained palette, Ercol furniture and
pared-back, tongue-and-groovy ScandiEnglish Modernism in its 14 bedrooms.
The wine bar has a hidden courtyard
garden, and breakfast hampers of
home-made goodies are brought to
your door in the morning.
Doubles from £137 B&B (01225 448896;
theyardinbath.co.uk)

which are inspired by the Orient
Express, others by Versailles, all of
them bordello-dark red, gold and
upholstered in House of Hackney velvets. A menu of “riders” with names
such as “Treat Me Like I’m Famous”
amps up the 24-hour party vibe.
Doubles from £149 B&B plus
some drinks (0131 2300445;
houseofgodshotel.com)

Guesthouse No 1
York

Velvet
Manchester

Behind the Regency facade of No 1 York
lies an unexpected conviviality: a jazzy
1920s vibe pervades the Marmalade
Lounge, there’s a vinyl library in the
lobby and record players in rooms.
Rooms are smart, in white linen and
many with four-poster beds – though
children and dogs are very welcome.
Doubles from £90 room only (01904
644744; guesthousehotels.co.uk/
no-1-york)

The 28 bedrooms, in shades of sage,
cornflower and clotted cream, overlook
chi-chi Ebury Street at the front (chic
bakery Peggy Porschen is across the
road); out back is a secret garden, with
deck chairs on proper grass. The new
Buttery restaurant offers Nyetimberfuelled breakfasts and keep-them-coming delicious small plates to enjoy later
in the day.
Doubles from £125 room only (020 7730
8191; limetreehotel.co.uk)

No 38 The Park
Cheltenham
This Georgian house-turned-boutique
hotel in Cheltenham’s Pittville neighbourhood is an elegant old thing: original details, from intricate cornicing
down to stone fireplaces, form the
period backdrop for contemporary
statement chandeliers and picture walls.
Rooms range from airy grandeur with
roll-top baths, to under-the-eaves cosy.
Doubles from £138 B&B (01242 822929;
no38thepark.com)

The Harrison Chambers of
Distinction
Belfast
A majestic four-storey townhouse that
was once owned by a department store

On Canal Street in the Village, Velvet
started as a vibrant brasserie-bar, and
now has 19 large, highly individual
rooms upstairs. Some are flamboyantfabulous – gold and black beds! Catholic kitsch murals! Four-posters and
chandeliers! – others dark and moody.
Those on the upper floors are quieter
– though in this location, you are bang
in Manchester’s party-hard heart.
Doubles from £98 room only (0161 236
9003; velvetmanchester.com)

g The secret garden at Lime Tree, London
h ‘Bordello red’: House Of Gods, Edinburgh

Georgian House Hotel
London

Jesmond Dene House
Newcastle

magnate has been transformed by
owner Melanie Harrison into a boutique hotel that delights at every turn.
Her personal touch is apparent in the
fresh flowers from her garden in each
room, and in the furniture, artwork
and trinkets throughout the property
that she has collected over the years.
Suites come with roll-top baths.
Doubles from £134 B&B (028 9460
0123; chambersofdistinction.com)

Lime Tree Hotel
London
Belgravia is many splendid things, but
good value it is not – which makes the
Lime Tree a rare find. The owners spent
lockdown giving their Georgian townhouse hotel a fresh new look that’s more
Somerset than SW1, with rattan lighting, botanical prints and oils of dogs.

An arts & crafts manor set in leafy gardens, Jesmond Dene House (try saying
that to the taxi driver after a few Newcastle Brown Ales) has the feel of a
country house, yet it is in a suburb 15
minutes’ drive from this dynamic city’s
centre. Lounges and the restaurant
impress with their panelled and carved
oak walls and ceilings, while there is
a room to please everyone, from pale
(but never chintzy) florals to restful
shades of grey.
Doubles from £120 room only (0191 212
3000; jesmonddenehouse.co.uk)

House of Gods
Edinburgh
In Edinburgh’s storied Cowgate neighbourhood, House of Gods is part intimate hotel, part decadent drinking den.
Cocktails form the mainstay of the experience, served in its moody pink bar, its
cocktail club, the late-night Lilith’s
Lounge, or in your room – some of

Interiors obsessives might recognise
the divine stairway of the Georgian
House Hotel, dressed in House of
Hackney’s Babylon wallpaper and
much shared on social media. The
Pimlico townhouse has been in owner
Serena von der Heyde’s family since it
was built in 1851 as part of Thomas
Cubitt’s development, and retains the
feel of a fabulous family home. The
basement Wizard Chambers rooms
are magical for kids, with their fourposter beds and gothic windows.
Doubles from £113 B&B (020 7834
1438; georgianhousehotel.co.uk)
All prices correct at time of going to
press.

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France
g A sea of olives:

‘In Perpignan,
food and wine
come in high
definition’
The city has great cuisine, warm weather,
culture, mountains and beaches – yet it is
oddly overlooked, says Anthony Peregrine

P

erpignan may overwhelm the
faint-hearted. It is so much
France’s Deep South that it is
almost in Spain. When the rest of the
country is hot, in Perpignan they are
grilling snails – for the Catalan cargolade dish – without necessarily needing a barbecue. The city comes out
fighting from a heavyweight history.
Capital of the 13th-century kingdom of
Majorca (long story), it remained under
Spanish influence until 1659. Then it
was ceded to France – though locals
will tell you that they are not so much
French (or Spanish) as Catalan.
This means they can get strident
about elements of their identity. The
sardane, for instance. In a highly competitive field, the Catalan folk dance –
which breaks out with uncommon
regularity – rates as one of the top
three to avoid in France. The Perpignanais also get a bit stuck on Salvador
Dali’s famed claim that their railway
station was the centre of the universe.
The Spanish Catalan artist came to this
conclusion after a bout of “cosmogonic
ecstasy”. Really? The station isn’t even
the centre of Perpignan. It requires
a hot slog out from the middle of town,
and rewards only Dali completists.
Should any exist.
That’s the negatives out of the way.
Otherwise, Perpignan simmers with
colour and more cultures from around
the Mediterranean than a lesser city
could handle. It is ferocious of festivity; conviviality coursing through conspiratorial old streets on any pretext,
or none at all. The fact that it is Tuesday night suffices. Festivities kick into
overdrive. Food and wine come in high
definition, and don’t invariably involve
snails. Unusually, the city responds to
the rhythms of both codes of rugby. It
is, thus, one of the few places in France
where one might talk of Saracens or
St Helens and be understood.
And, in the unlikely event that you
should tire of a tireless city, both Mediterranean sea and Pyrenean mountains are to hand. You might go rock
climbing in the morning, swim off
Canet-en-Roussillon in the afternoon
and then, crucially, be back in Perpignan for dinner and drinks, night-time
strolling and maybe dancing among
people more devoted to having a good
time than almost any others I know.

Make sense of the past
A while back, Perpignan wore an air
of mild desperation, shackled by more
Mediterranean history than it knew
what to do with. But that time, too, is
now history. The place has spruced
itself up. It is articulate and robust of
complexion, its present making
sense of a remarkably spirited past.
The best example of this is the Palace
of the Kings of Majorca, a vast 12thcentury red brick and river stone complex and a fine example of royal power
in action. The dimensions and
defences indicate that, with a bunch of
reasonably capable friends, you could
still hold off a horde.

SHUTTERSTOCK; ALAMY; CAMERA PRESS

adorn your next
martini the
Perpignan way

Get in your daily steps: stroll along the Basse to the Castillet medieval town gate, which stands at the crossing between the old and the modern city
i

Back down in town, you cram yourself into tight streets with half the city
surging around you, apparently running late for life. The other half lounges
on café terraces, smoking, drinking and
demonstrating that, round here, volume control has not caught on. Perpignan has ever been forceful.
Edging the narrow, central Place de la
Loge, Catalan gothic buildings of 14thcentury governance – the town hall, the
maritime exchange, the Palais de la
Députation – brooked no argument
then, and don’t now. In the town hall
courtyard stands Catalan sculptor Aristide Maillol’s masterpiece, La Méditerranée. It is a female nude seated with
elbow upon her raised knee. “Young,
luminous and noble,” says the blurb.
“Mournful,” I’d call her – as if she were
digesting depressing news from the
bathroom scales. No matter. You need
to see it. That gets you out of seeking
any more of Maillol’s celebrated works:
they are all mournful nudes. Better

FR ANCE
Montpellier
Toulouse

Perpignan

MEDITERRANEAN
SEA

50 miles

Essentials
Getting there
Ryanair (ryanair.com)
flies from Birmingham and
Stansted direct to
Perpignan until the end
of October 2022.
Aer Lingus (aerlingus.com)
flies from Dublin until
August 27. By train,
Perpignan is around nine
hours from London, via
Paris (sncf-connect.com)

•

Where to stay
Go for the two-star Hotel
de la Loge for 16th-century
character bang in the
historic centre
(hoteldelaloge.com;
room-only doubles from
£56). Five minutes walk
from the centre, the
four-star Dali Hotel has
hanging gardens, a gym, a
good restaurant, a rooftop
terrace overlooking the
nearby park – and the
swish of contemporary
style (dalihotel.fr; roomonly doubles from £69)

spend time at the oddly asymmetrical
cathedral and, nearby, France’s only
cloistered cemetery, the Campo Santo.
Or, especially, the prodigious Castillet
medieval town gate – almost all that’s
left of the city walls.
If you can manage 142 steps, you may
get to the terrace on top. Otherwise,
stick with the museum of Catalan culture, or the cinema close by. Founded in
1911, the fancifully ornate Cinéma du
Castillet is the oldest still operating in
France. In Franco’s time, it opened
three extra rooms to show pornography, thus attracting across the nearby
frontier droves of Spaniards deprived of
same at home.
The Hyacinthe Rigaud fine arts
museum also repays a visit. Rigaud was
the local 18th-century fellow who
painted Louis XIV en majesté – the portrait where the Sun King is wearing
white tights, holding a stick and has
apparently shouldered all his bedding.
Other of his fine portraits distinguish
the museum, which is probably just as
well. If you are called “Hyacinthe”, you
need to be good at painting. Works by
Picasso and Dufy also star, among many
others. Meanwhile, this year through to
Nov 6, George-Daniel de Monfreid leads
the temporary exhibition, alongside
works by his chum, Paul Gauguin.

Follow your stomach
If you can amble around the Vauban
market-cum-food court, or the Rue Paratilla area – with its abundance of food
shops, bars and restaurants – without
succumbing to food lust, well, it’s no
wonder we’ve never met. You’re in the
presence of world-class arrays of
cheese, meat, charcuterie, fruit, fish
and veg, and a zillion ways of cooking
them up together. You might favour the
boles-de-picolat meatballs with white
beans in a tomato sauce. Or an escalivida mélange of summer vegetables in
olive oil. Or the ouillade Catalan version
of a pot-au-feu. Or fish, oysters, mussels
in any number of versions. Or the
anchovies from down the coast. These
are not, as an anchovy-filleter once told
me, anchovies to be confused with the
meagre items found on pizzas. “Ours,”
she said, “are anchovies of elegance.”
Bang in the old centre, the Casa Sansa
does these, and other Catalan dishes, as
well as anyone. Busy retro decor indicates that the place has been going since
1846, so is largely on top of the job (2,
Rue Fabrique-d’En Nada). Should you
want posher, head for Le 17, hard up
against the St Jean Baptiste cathedral (1,
Rue Cité-Bartissol).
Wine-wise, the Roussillon region, of
which Perpignan is capital, is best
known for fortified sweet wines. Maury,
Banyuls and Rivesaltes have their
time and place – for me, after midnight,
on the sofa, with Joni Mitchell singing
somewhere nearby – but they tend
to obscure some cracking reds. Look
out for Collioure, Côtes de Roussillon
Villages or IGP Côtes Catalan on the
labels. Try them at Le Cour du Baron
wine bar on Rue du Théâtre. Mean‘Cram yourself
g

into tight streets
with the city
surging around
you’: the old
centre of
Perpignan at night

while, a few hipper bars cluster on the
Avenue Maréchal Leclerc – though
nightlife also remains lively on the
Places Verdun and République and anywhere around the old Castillet village
gate. You might need a late breakfast
the following morning. Take it on the
rooftop terrace of the Galéries Lafayette
department store.

Flamenco and flankers
This summer, a short break will scarcely
allow you time to leave Perpignan. Festivals abound. On Tuesdays and Thursdays through to Aug 18, shows and
concerts spring up across town for the
Rayonnantes festival. Meanwhile, to
Aug 21, the Tet-en-Fête event brings live
music, food and drink to the banks of
the River Tet on the Passeig Torcatis,
Thursday through Saturdays.
Among many other events, there is
a flamenco festival, from Aug 16 -20, and

Europe’s key celebration of photo-journalism, Visa Pour l’Image, from Aug
27-Sept 11 (visapourlimage.com).
As relevantly, rugby league enlivens
the summer, with the Catalan Dragons
once again riding high in England’s RL
Super League. They became the first
non-English team to win the League
Leaders’ Shield last year. See catalansdragons.com for fixtures. They play at
the Gilbert Brutus stadium. Or, if you
prefer the 15-man game, USAP (the Perpignan club) will be playing Brive on
Sept 10, as the Top 14 season gets underway (usap.fr).

Sand and summits
But if you must get out of town, the
nearest seaside is at Canet-En-Roussillon – around 30 minutes away by bus.
Get to the bus station at 33 Blvd Saint
Assiscle. It’s also a good place to start,
should you want to head instead for the

Pyrenees. One trip costs €1 (85p). That
said, if you want to get properly stuck
in, you might contact Deversud
(deversud.fr). They organise all manner of ways of knocking yourself out
in the mountains, climbing through
canyoning and beyond.
A final thought: among the bad
memories round here are those represented by the Rivesaltes internment
camp for people whom France didn’t
know what to do with. Just north of
Perpignan, this was the biggest such
camp in the French south.
It is now a first-rate memorial,
tracking the stories of Spanish Republicans, of Jews and Gypsies interned
here during the war, of German POWs
in the later 1940s and of the Harkis, or
Algerians, who sided with the French
in the colonial war, who were forced
to flee for France and who received
dismal treatment from the mother
country. It’s about an hour on the 135
bus from Perpignan bus station.

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Rail escapes

i Picnic spot: lunch is served on a day trip to the Colca Canyon

i Travel in style in one of the Andean Explorer’s plush carriages
j Hitting all the right notes: enjoy a pisco sour in the piano bar

Get luxury for less on an Andean rail odyssey
The greatest train journeys will never be cheap, but with a bit of know-how you can find style and drama at a more affordable price, says Luke Abrahams

I

have always loved the slow, rhythmic
hum and hypnotic sway of a train.
The allure of gazing, lost in thought,
out of huge windows for endless hours –
watching the ever-changing landscape
from the comfort of your bunk or seat –
has a pull like no other. There is no turbulence; no fear of lost baggage; no
snaking queue at passport control.
Train journeys to somewhere far, far
away are the epitome of poetic oldworld charm, and offer the ultimate
taste of the slow life in an age when time
itself has become a luxury.
But cheap they are not. Since the
gilded age, luxurious long-distance
trains have largely been the preserve of
the holidaying gentry and their diamond-dripped wives – and even now,
a ride on the likes of the Orient Express
and its peers can set you back several
thousand pounds a day.
But that needn’t be the case. You will
still have to be in the mood to splurge
a bit, but with a little research and
a good exchange rate, the splendours of
some of the world’s greatest mega-luxe
train journeys needn’t break the bank.
One of the more spectacular options
is veteran luxury train brand Belmond’s
Andean Explorer. Weaving through the
Peruvian Andes at a colossal 14,000ft,
the Belmond locomotive transports
passengers into a mystical world of
quintessential South American grandeur. From the former Incan capital
Cusco to the colonial charm of Peru’s
great second city Arequipa – a metropolis guarded by three godly volcanoes –
the Andean Explorer offers either one
or two-night jaunts across the country
that inject a dose of belle-époque glamour into your South American odyssey.
The route itself is heart-stoppingly
unique, with pauses at Puno, the shores
of Lake Titicaca and a night at Las Casitas, a Belmond pad in Colca Canyon,

h ‘A secluded
hideaway’: stay at
Las Casitas in
Colca Canyon

home to the Andean condor. It’s a
secluded hideaway complete with topnotch spa, lush valley views, period
bungalow chambers kitted out with terraces (think heated plunge pools), and
some fantastic local artisanal food.
The train sets off at lunchtime and, as
with most things Belmond, begins with
booze (a pisco sour, naturally) and copious canapés in your cabin. As the landscapes evolve from cities to small towns
and, finally, the first glimpse of the
mighty Andean peaks, the world of the
pullman begins to take centre stage:
mammoth technicolour plains begin to
branch out into crystal clear rivers that
snake their way up into the mouths of
turquoise and emerald-green lakes and

Train journeys to
places far, far away are
the epitome of poetic
old-world charm
lagoons; snow-topped mountain fortresses crown the moody clouds that
tower over epic swathes of grassland;
and exotic, wildly kaleidoscopic plants
frame countless national parks and
reserves neighboured by sleepy, misty
villages. It is delicious and dramatic
in the best way possible.
The train itself is as gorgeous as
the views. Carriages are named after
the local flora and, on first inspection, it
is almost impossible to believe that
these grand carts were built back in
the 2000s. Interiors are all art-nouveau
ceilings, lush mahogany panelling,
intricate marquetry work and exhaustively detailed brass grilles (which cannily hide the air conditioning units).
Then there is all the delicious iconog-

raphy. Look beyond the dashing blue of
the train’s gleaming exterior and you
will clock the chakana cross, a threestepped symbol of the Inca times that
represents the heavens, the earth and
the deathly underworld.
It is emblazoned, quite literally, everywhere you look on this train: the
stewards’ uniforms, the pretty napkins,
the tables and even the plush robes in
your marble-clad bathrooms. Elsewhere, muted chic rules the palette.
The dining cars – Llama and Muña – are
bright and elegant; the lounge car is
a joyful mix of old and new, with
a quaint little bar and a grand piano
made for pisco-fuelled midnight singalongs. There is even an onboard spa.
You wouldn’t think it, but taking
in all that scenery from the plush
observation car works up quite an
appetite – happily, as executive chef
Diego Muñoz makes sure passengers
are soon well versed in Peru’s gastronomic delights. When dinner rolls
around, expect everything from freshwater prawns to hearty tenderloins
on a menu crafted to the tunes of
ancient Incan feasts.
But Belmond saves the very best for
last. On the edge of lake Saracocha, passengers are treated to a magnificent
sunrise, then whisked away to the Sumbay Cave, filled with incredible Palaeolithic paintings. Afterwards, the train
begins to twist and turn back through
the desert and grasslands of the lowlands, and on to Arequipa. It’s a journey
you won’t forget.
The Andean Explorer, a Belmond Train
(0845 077 2222; belmond.com) offers
sleeper cabins from £1,100 per person.
The price includes 24-hour steward
service, all onboard meals, canapés
and beverages, onboard entertainment
and excursions

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9

FOUR CLASSIC JOURNEYS FOR A TASTE OF THE HIGH LIFE
Step aboard for a stylish ride through Canada, Australia, Portugal or South Africa

RICHARD JAMES TAYLOR/BELMOND; TOURISM NT/JARRAD SENG

The Rocky
Mountaineer
Canada

i Take in Lake
Lagunillas in Peru
from the Belmond
Andean Explorer

After a day or two being
unapologetically pampered
as you thunder from the
deep blue shorelines of
Vancouver to Banff, you will
find there is really only one
way to sum up a ride on the
Rocky Mountaineer: total
luxury. Interiors are slick
and minimalist, seats roomy,
windows enormous – and
the views from the huge
viewing platforms are
nothing short of epic.
It is all very upmarket but
not at all stuffy, with an
ethos of relaxed North
American comfort trumping
all the millennial modcons
(no Wi-Fi here).
Where Mother Nature is
concerned, you are in for a
real treat. Expect mammoth
grassy plains branching out
into the ice-capped
mountains of avalanche
country, snaking turquoise
rivers which in a heartbeat
transform into wild
cascading rapids, and if
you look really hard, the
occasional grizzly bear – the
train stops if the driver or
your host spots one – and
moose along the way. Meals
feature an array of local
classics, from prime cuts of
Alberta beef to seared
snapper sourced along the
route. You won’t actually
sleep onboard, but rather
spend the night in
Kamloops, Banff and Jasper,
where accommodation
comes in the form of
rustic alpine chic or cosy
ski-centric retreats.
The Rocky Mountaineer
(0800 195 01950;
rockymountaineer.com)
offers two-night journeys
from £1,050 per person,
based on two sharing,
including meals, drinks,
snacks, service and
sightseeing tours

The Ghan
Australia
With the pound still going
strong against the Aussie
dollar, a ride on the Ghan
from Adelaide to Alice
Springs really is the
definition of a slice of the
good life on the cheap. The

i Glass ceiling; the views from the Rocky Mountaineer are ‘epic’
flashy. The kitchen uses
Küppersbusch equipment;
the china is Vista Alegre and
all the crystal comes direct
from the house of Riedel.
Scenery? As the train glides
through the east, mountains
soar, green and firecoloured vineyards glow
and lakes glisten below the
deep blue skies. It all
sounds very idealistic, but
alas, this train really is
heaven on wheels.

i ‘Good life on

the cheap’: travel
to Alice Springs
on the Ghan

The Presidential Train
(00 351 9146 39516;
thepresidentialtrain.com)
offers a one-day gastronomic
experience for £631 per
person for a full day on the
rails, celebrating the best that
Portugal has to offer via
some of its best scenery

g Service please:

the Presidential
Train in Portugal

h Africa’s answer to
the Orient Express:
travel from Cape
Town to Pretoria
on Rovos Rail

two-day, one-night journey
north from Australia’s wine
country to its red centre
skittles through the most
diverse landscapes the
country has to offer – from
the deep green pastures and
rolling vineyards of the
south to the rich red,
astronomic splendour of the
mammoth outback. Extra
nice touches come courtesy
of multi-course, regionally
inspired food and fine
wines, served in the
onboard art-deco-glam –
and rather romantic –
Queen Adelaide Restaurant.
The menu changes often

according to the seasons,
but regulars include fresh
portions of saltwater
barramundi and tasty grilled
kangaroo fillet.
Early the following
morning, the train rolls
gently into first stop Marla,
where you will disembark to
watch the sun rise over the
outback (cameras are
a must). Back on board,
brunch is served as you
cross the state border into
the Northern Territory
through the terracotta
MacDonnell Mountain
Ranges, until at last you
arrive in Alice Springs, hub

Rovos Rail
Cape Town to Pretoria,
South Africa
of the Australian desertlands
and the largest town located
near to mystical Uluru.
The Ghan (00 61 8007 03357;
journeybeyondrail.com.au)
offers sleeper cabins (sleeping
two) from £733 for the
two-day journey – working
out at a steal of £183 per
person per night

The Presidential
Train
Portugal
Since it began traversing the
tracks between Sao Bento

and Quinta do Vesuvio in
1890, this train has carried
presidents, heads of state,
monarchs and popes – so
rest assured you are in good
company. You will spend a
whole day on board, passing
through some of Portugal’s
most spectacular spots –
including the country’s
top-notch culinary
destination, the Douro
Valley – while dining on
fresh fish, meats and
vegetables alongside
exceptional Niepoort wines.
Just as the occasion
demands, the accompanying
tableware bling is ultra-

Rovos Rail offers a handful
of the most bank-accountbusting train journeys in the
world, but luckily for
travelling Britons, the
current strength of the
pound against the rand
means they are now at their
most affordable. Bargain
aside, Africa’s answer to the
Orient Express really is an
education in luxury steam
travel. The full Pride of
Africa Royal Experience –
which runs for more than
2,000 miles across the
continent from Dar es
Salaam to Lobito – will set
you back thousands of

pounds, but instead of
travelling the whole route,
you can do individual
sections of it on a tailored
itinerary – giving you a
taste of its world-famous
service without maxing out
your credit card.
The most popular
section is Cape Town to
Pretoria (or vice versa),
which takes three days and
stops at Matjiesfontein, for
a stroll through its historic
village, Kimberly, the
Diamond mine museum
and the Big Hole. Onboard,
suites come complete with
a sofa, twin or double bed
and a little en-suite with a
shower – though, for a little
extra, the deluxe option
gets you a lounge area,
champagne and an even
bigger window to frame
those marvellous views.
There is no TV or radio
on board – but who needs
them when you are gliding
through the goldenfield of
Witwatersrand?
Rovos Rail (00 27 01231
58242; rovos.com) offers
sleeper cabins (sleeping two)
from £1,320 for the
three-day journey – working
out at just £330 per person
per night
Covid rules For full details
of entry requirements
and Covid rules for your
favourite destinations,
see telegraph.co.uk/
tt-travelrules. Refer to
gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice for further travel
information

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Europe

Keep cool this
summer on
a Scandi island
with wow factor
Now is the time to snub sweltering southern Europe
and head north to the glorious Nordic archipelagos.
Sarah Marshall picks 20 of the best offshore escapes

S

everal years ago, during a long
weekend in Manshausen, a Norwegian island high above the Arctic Circle, I learnt why every Nordic
person dreams of being king or queen
of their own patch of floating land.
Thousands of islets and skerries dotted the glassy waters along the Steigen
region’s fractured coastline. Rough
and windswept, many were governed
by the elements. But I was surprised to
discover a number had been snapped
up and shaped by human hands.
A seasoned explorer, Borge Ousland, who made headlines as the first
man to complete a solo, unaided journey to the North Pole, purchased
55-acre Manshausen as a private
escape for fishing, kayaking, diving,
hiking and climbing – all his favourite
pursuits, which could be done at a
much more leisurely pace. Later, he
would build cabins for tourists to rent.
He was in good company. On neighbouring Naustholmen, Randi Skaug,
the first Norwegian woman to scale
Everest, had also bought land and
opened a hostel. Both veteran adventurers were drawn to the region’s
emerald waters, golden beaches
backed by mountains, and limitless
opportunities for adventure. Despite
the achievements on their CVs, I had
the impression that this was their
most rewarding expedition to date.
Across the Nordic countries and
Scandinavia, where space is worshipped with religious fervour, owning an island is about more than land
rights – it has become a state of mind.
Every summer, Finns, Swedes,
Danes and Norwegians head off on an
annual pilgrimage to their summer
cabins, often located in remote, offgrid locations. Hopping on ferries or
driving over bridges, they weave
through a jigsaw of granite outcrops,
leaving any stresses, worries and commitments back on the mainland.
This far north, temperatures rarely
rise above the mid-20s. But with the
mercury soaring in southern Europe,
the idea of an Arctic beach break
sounds increasingly appealing.
In reality, any ice has melted away,

Spitsbergen

Sommaroy
100 miles

Senja
Lofoten

SW EDEN
Hailuoto

NORWEGIAN
SEA
Kvarken
archipelago
Vagsoy

FINLAND
Suomenlinna

Aland Islands

N O RWAY

Klovharun

Sandhamn
Tjorn
Laeso
Samso

Vrango

Mando
Romo

Mon

Gotland

Saint-Anne
archipelago

Bornholm

300 miles

Beaches
rival those
of Antigua,
the only
difference
being the
silence and
solitude

leaving behind a sculpted landscape of
jagged mountains, steep cliffs and
smooth granite boulders rolling into an
almost unbelievably clear sea.
Beaches rival the sparkling white
sands of Antigua and the boulderstrewn stretches of the Seychelles. The
only difference here is the silence,
the solitude and the absence of crowds.
At this latitude, longer daylight
hours allow activities to be done at
a slow, almost Caribbean pace. And
although the solstice has passed, there
is still an opportunity to paddle before
breakfast, hike after dinner and fall
asleep in the blue twilight hours.
Many islands in the archipelagos of
northern Europe barely register as a dot
on the map, yet they promise a world
of possibilities. Here are 20 of the best.

DENMARK
ble to drive along compact sandy
beaches or join organised tours to spot
seals and white-tailed eagles. From
August until November, starlings flock
to create a phenomenon known as the
black sun.

Bornholm
Best for foodies
Plump blackberries, sweet-scented
strawberries, delicate chanterelle
mushrooms… nature’s pantry overflows on this sun-soaked island cast
far into the Baltic. Master of Nordic
cuisine Rene Redzepi had his first foraging epiphany here and other chefs
have followed suit. Dine at Michelinstarred restaurant Kadeau in the
dunes of Dueodde beach; snack on
herring cooked over alder wood; and
browse or shop at the store where
posh liquorice brand Lakrids was
founded.

Hotel Kommandorgarden on Romo has
self-catering cabins from £154 per
night, sleeping a family of four (00 45
7475 5122; kommandoergaarden.dk)

Laeso
Best for wellbeing
Inhabitants of this North Sea island off
Jutland truly are the salt of the earth.
Since the 12th century, fine crystals
have been evaporated from ground
water collected in wells, eventually
finding their way into restaurant dishes
and spa menus. At Laeso Kur, a grassroofed resort built around a former
church, guests can indulge in skinenhancing treatments using salt, clay
and sea algae sourced from sea and
shore. Even the name Laeso translates
as peace and quiet, an indication of
what is in store.

Stay at Green Solution House, the
first climate positive hotel in Denmark. Doubles from £154 per night
including breakfast (00 45 5690
4444; bornholmhotels.dk/en)

Mon
Best for stargazing
Although nights are growing longer,
temperatures show no sign of dropping, providing ideal conditions for
sleep-outs under the stars. Free from
light pollution, Scandinavia’s first
Dark Sky Park is a window into an
astronomical world of constellations,
fiery meteor showers and galaxies far,
far away. Climb to the top of Aborrebjerg mountain, or walk along Mons
Klint, a four-mile stretch of chalky
cliffs plunging into a turquoise sea.
Pitch a tent at Camp Mons Klint, from
£55 per night for a family of four,
including electricity (0045 5581 2025;
campmoensklint.dk)

Romo and Mando
Best for wildlife
Set in the Unesco-listed Wadden Sea
National Park, these tiny islands are
part of the largest continuous system
of intertidal sand and mud flats in the
world. While a water-lapped road dam
connects Romo to the mainland,
Manso is best accessed with a tractor
bus at high tide. Once there, it’s possi-

Laerkely hotel offers two-nights,
half-board (two sharing) from £177pp
(0045 9849 8344; laerkely.dk)
Marvellous Mon: there is no better place for a sleep-out under the stars
i
j Nature’s pantry: visit Bornholm and savour the best in Nordic cuisine

Samso
Best for sustainability
Some of the biggest global nations could
learn a lot from this fleck in the Kattegat. Sparking a green revolution more
than 20 years ago, entrepreneurial residents clubbed together to buy a collection of wind turbines to provide
electricity and now sell excess to the
Danish grid. Waste straw from farms
is burned for heating, electric vehicles
are powered by solar energy and in
the future there may even be a ferry
powered by pig manure. For now, it is
a pleasant place to hike, cycle, and
breathe clean, emission-free air.
Property rental site Landfolk has
a thatched, half-timbered sea-view
cottage for six from £398 per night,
self-catering (landfolk.com)

SIX TIPS FOR
GETTING
AROUND
In essence, the Nordics
h
are a patchwork of islands
stitched together by
bridges, making it easy to
access most regions by
road. But in some
further-flung places,
such as Bornholm and
Gotland, the only way to
get there is by air or sea
Ferries are the
h
most economical and
environmentally friendly
option. They also double
as sightseeing cruises
Routes can be
h
complicated, so plan in
advance. Fylkestrafikk.
no has a useful travel
planner for northern
Norway. In Sweden,
try waxholmsbolaget.se
for the Stockholm
archipelago and
vasttrafik.se for the west
coast. Many Finnish
routes and timetables
are listed at lautta.net,
while Denmark is
served by multiple
ferry companies,
depending on the route
In popular
h
destinations, it is often
possible to purchase
tickets at the harbour.
If travelling on a car
ferry, it is better to
buy tickets in advance

SWEDEN
Gotland
Best for Viking history
Raiders and pirates or traders and
entrepreneurial explorers? Whatever
your opinion of the Vikings, they did
once rule Europe’s roost. Now a hot spot
for archaeological finds, this sleepy,
meadow-filled Baltic Sea island was
their trading base and later became a
centre for the Hanseatic League. Walk
along the medieval ringmuren of towers
and gates that once fortified Visby,
drink historic juniper-flavoured ale
(gotlandsdricka) and sample saffron
pancakes – a throwback to those days
when east would meet west.
Best Served Scandinavia offers a six-day
fly-drive twinned with Stockholm from
£1,395pp (two sharing), including flights
(020 3318 9747; best-served.co.uk)

Vrango
Best for car-free escapes
Wave goodbye to traffic lights and busy
roundabouts on the hour-long journey
from Gothenburg to the southernmost
island in its archipelago. The only way
to explore this nature reserve of granite-curved golden beaches is by foot,
boat or bike. Stroll slowly, searching for
wild asparagus, sea holly and waterfowl
which breed on tiny islets. Stay close to
the sea in a private boathouse at Kajkanten, where guests have access to a
floating sauna. Neighbouring Fiskeboa
is one of several great restaurants serving local catch. Alternatively, join a local
skipper and fish for your own food.

In some cases, it is
h
easier to access islands
from another country.
The best way to reach
Bornholm, for example,
is by crossing the
Oresund Bridge into
Sweden and picking up
a boat at Ystad

Where The Wild Is offers a six-night
island-hopping tour of the Gothenburg
archipelago from £1,300pp.
Flights cost extra (0117 450 7980;
wherethewildis.co.uk)

Most islands are small,
h
so once onshore, cycling
and walking are excellent
ways to explore

A sun-dappled harbour and quaint
flower-fringed villas don’t exactly set
the scene for dark encounters. Nevertheless, this popular stop in the Stock-

Sandhamm
Best for Nordic noir

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Caribbean cool:
g
the white sands
of Sommaroy

‘Refreshingly
gg
dramatic’: the
views from
Segla on Senja

NORWAY
Vagsoy
Best for surfing

trademark Scandi red. Find a high concentration in sleepy Nusfjord, once a
centre of the thriving trade, and inexhaustibly photogenic Reine.

Ride waves in an amphitheatre of emerald mountains at one of the most unexpected surf destinations in the world.
Swells regularly break in the bay of
Hoddevik, on the Stadlandet peninsula,
where beginners and pros gather to wax
their boards. The village sits at Norway’s most westerly point, a five-hour
ferry ride from Bergen. But a plunging
hairpin road, often used by daredevil
skateboarders, is the most iconic way to
arrive. Set in the bay, Lapoint Surf Camp
offers courses for all levels, with opportunities to hike, do yoga and cook beach
barbecues in between lessons.

NICLAS JESSEN/VISIT DENMARK; RUSLAN MERZLYAKOV; PLAINPICTURE; TINA AXELSSON/VISIT SWEDEN; VISIT NORWAY; VISIT ALAND

A four-day package costs from
£276, including self-catering
accommodation, lessons and kit
(0046 188 008 125; lapointcamps.com)

Lofoten
Best for cabin life
Shaped by the sea both environmentally and economically, this scenic
archipelago owes its good fortune to
fish. For 1,000 years, fishermen have
caught and dried cod along fragmented
shorelines at the base of arrow-head
mountains. A sense of pride and nostalgia is still as strong as the Arctic Ocean’s
fierce, irrepressible waves. Tap into
the past by staying in a rorbu, a converted fisherman’s cabin painted in

Black Tomato offers a seven-night B&B
stay from £3,200pp. Flights cost extra
(020 7426 9888; blacktomato.com)

Senja
Best for hiking
From hushed, serene pine forests to
angry, razor-sharp mountain peaks,
Norway’s varied landscapes trigger all
manner of emotions. Refreshingly dramatic, hiking trails weave high and low,
although it is the steep, challenging
climbs that deliver the best views. Take
the path to Hesten for a glimpse of Senja’s postcard peak, Segla, before tackling
the sail-shaped rock to watch clouds
rolling at your feet. When the sun only
rests for a few hours a day, there is no
rush to reach the top.

habitable, yet an adventure-seeking
community thrives far above the treeline in Longyearbyen, which only has
one road. Spend days spotting walruses, Arctic foxes and polar bears on
RIB excursions. At night, sample tipples from a well-stocked local champagne bar and a beer at the most
northerly brewery in the world.
Up Norway offers a seven-day trip
from £2,679pp, including activities.
Excludes flights (0047 4126 2960;
upnorway.com)

Sommaroy
Best for tropical beaches

Spitsbergen, Svalbard
Best for adventure

Once favoured by cattle farmers for its
seasonal grazing pastures, Summer
Island in Troms has many more attributes to justify its name. Although
water temperatures will never be
tropical, its pearl-white beaches and
turquoise waters could easily be mistaken for the Indian Ocean, while the
laid-back, easy-going 300-strong
community lives life at a distinctly
Caribbean pace. Hire a SUP or kayak
from outdoor centre 69Nord (69nord.
com) to paddle through aquariumclear water, marvelling at a cabaret
show of lipstick-red starfish and the
dancing tendrils of kelp.

It doesn’t get more extreme than Norway’s most northerly archipelago, only
800 miles from the North Pole. Frozen
for most of the year, on paper it is unin-

Arctic Holiday offers doubles at the
Sommeroy Arctic Hotel from £60 per
night, including breakfast (020 3761
7078; arcticholiday.co.uk)

Inntravel offers a seven-night stay
from £1,495pp half-board (two sharing), including car hire. Flights cost
extra (01653 617000; inntravel.co.uk)

GOURMET CHOICE THE BEST ISLAND RESTAURANTS
KADEAU
Bornholm, Denmark
Innovation and a natural
larder helped transform a
beachside cottage into one
of Denmark’s top new
Nordic Michelin-starred
restaurants. From the food
to the forks, everything is
locally made and the view is
superb. Lunch tasting menu
£208; kadeau.dk/bornholm
SANDHAMNS VARDSHUS
Sandhamn, Sweden
Pleasing diners for decades,
a menu of shellfish and

steak remains unchanged at
one of Sweden’s oldest inns.
Listen to rigging clattering
on masts from the
harbourside terrace, or
sneak inside the 17thcentury building to find
a cosy spot. Mains £16;
sandhamns-vardshus.se
KRAKAS KROG
Gotland, Sweden
Plucked from soil or sea and
taken directly to the table,
Gotland’s finest flavours
shape an ever-evolving
Scandinavian menu. Enjoy

warm summer nights
dining on a veranda, where
the comforting smell of
fresh bread drifts from a
wood-fired oven. Tasting
menu £113; krakas.se/en
ADLERFELT
Suomenlinna, Finland
Using seasonally foraged
berries, local fish and
vegetables, dishes served in
this bistro are as bright and
fresh as its vibrant interior.
Neon signs hang from
250-year-old timber walls,
while an outdoor terrace is

the place to sample
biodynamic wines. Mains
around £25; adlerfelt.fi
POLARHAGEN
Lofoten, Norway
Growing vegetables
organically above the Arctic
Circle, pizzaiolo Parsa and
his partner Lisa run
summer pop-ups on their
farm in Leknes. During
dinner, the couple share
their philosophy for
climate-focused sustainable
food production. From
£50pp; polarhagen.no

FINLAND
Aland islands
Best for freedom
Follow Finnish rules while listening to
Swedish voices in a place where
national identity is as changeable as the
sea breeze. Currently celebrating a centenary of autonomy from disputing
motherlands, these 6,700 islands (of
which only one per cent are inhabited)
are a shining example of keeping the
peace. Discover the archipelago, at the
entrance to the Gulf of Bothnia, on a sixhour cruise from Stockholm, splitting
time between main hub Mariehamn and
wild, gorge-filled Geta.

holm archipelago inspired one of
Sweden’s best-selling crime novels.
Trace a trail of deception and intrigue
on a themed Sandhamn Murders walking tour with Sandhamsguiderna or follow the lead of well-heeled Swedes by
focusing detective skills on picking the
best place to swim. Choose Trouville for
its white sands, Skarkarlshamn for its
sailing club or forest-backed Flaskberget for the glorious scent of pine.
Sandhamn Seglarhotell offers
doubles from £146, with breakfast
(00 468 5745 0400; sandhamn.com)

Bohuslan archipelago
Best for getting active
A string of jewels glistening in clear
water, 8,000 skerries and islets illuminate Sweden’s prettiest coast. A kayak
is often the best way to explore this
northern stretch from Gothenburg to
the Norwegian border, especially at
sunset when its signature Bohus granite
glows amber and rose. Join an artthemed water tour on the island of
Tjorn or glide alongside the red clapboard houses of Mosholmen. Once your

i ‘A hot spot of

archaeological finds’:
visit the town of
Visby on Gotland

j Kayaks are the best

way to explore the
Bohuslan archipelago

arms are tired, swap paddles for pedals
on a bike ride through the Iron Age settlement site in Pilane, weaving among
stone circles.
Original Travel offers a five-day
island-hopping break from £1,285pp
(two sharing), including flights (020
3958 6120; originaltravel.co.uk)

Saint-Anna archipelago
Best for camping
Enshrined in Swedish law is the right
for everyone to roam, sleep and eat
wherever they choose – if respect is
paid to nature. There are plenty of
options for pitch-ups, but few places
could beat the wild east for nights
spent under canvas in solitude. Shaped
during the last Ice Age, smooth, curvaceous boulders sink into the Baltic, providing a comfortable spot to camp, cook
and command a private island.
Much Better Adventures offers a
four-night Kayak and Wild Camp
self-guided trip from £760pp (3-8
people), including kit. Flights extra (020
3966 7597; muchbetteradventures.com)

Best Served Scandinavia offers a
seven-day trip from £850pp (two
sharing), including flights (020
8125 3183; best-served.co.uk)

i Hop from one Aland island to another, either by ferry or by hiring a sailing boat
Moomin mad: the Pellinge islands were the inspiration for creator Tove Jansson
j

Kvarken archipelago
Best for geological wonders

by visiting a crumbling lighthouse, colourful fishing villages and an organic
craft brewery. And discover why lichenlaced forests and sculpted dunes have
been luring artists since the early 1900s.

While climate change threatens sea
level rises around most of the globe,
here the reverse is happening. Crushed
by an ice sheet 10,000 years ago, the
land is slowly rebounding at a quarter of
an inch per year. Although you won’t
feel the earth move, effects are obvious:
once-submerged boat houses are
stranded on land, beaches are turning
into forests and many more islands are
surfacing from the sea. Climb an observation tower on Svedjehamn to study
the snaking De Geer moraines, another
geological curiosity.
Watch the scenery unfold from Kalle’s
Inn Glasshouses on Soderudden.
From £264 per night (two sharing)
including breakfast (coolstays.com)

Hailuoto, Oulu
Best for birdwatching
Throughout the year, more than 300
bird species have been spotted in the
wetlands of this northern Baltic Sea
island. Towering above the meadows
and reed beds, several bird hides provide excellent viewing platforms.
Spread your own wings a little further

Luotsihotelli Arctic Lighthouse Hotel
has doubles from £92 with breakfast
(00 358 4019 23464; expedia.co.uk)

Suomenlinna
Best for history
It takes less than 20 minutes to reach
one of Finland’s most important Unesco
world heritage sites from the mainland,
but a visit will take you back more than
200 years. Originally built by the
Swedes, a sea fortress straddles several

islands in the Helsinki archipelago,
with museums, bunkers and a Second
World War submarine open to the
public. Guided tours take place
throughout August, along with short
voyages in a traditional sailing ship.
For the full maritime experience, stay
in Villa Silo, a 19th-century wooden
home in the Russian merchant’s
quarter. From £211 per night for
four (airbnb.co.uk)

Pellinge
Best for Moomin fans
As Finnish as saunas and Santa,
Moomins (left) embody a national
Nordic spirit. Creator Tove Jansson
found inspiration for many of her stories on the tiny island of Klovharun,
where she owned a summer cottage.
Now managed by a heritage group,
the artist’s former home is only open
for one week every July. But it is possible to explore the landscapes that
inspired her work. A two-hour drive
from Helsinki, the Pellinge islands are
part of the Porvoo archipelago.
Pellinge Cottages has a number of
properties to rent, including the
beachside Dalen cabin (sleeps six)
from £493 for a week (00 358 4006
70785; pellingecottages.fi)

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Spain

How to savour the high life – in Benidorm
Forget egg and chips and sunburnt Brits. The Spanish resort town has moved upmarket with smart
hotels, gourmet restaurants, landmark architecture – and its own heliport. Eddi Fiegel checks it out

‘I

FIVE PLACES TO
GO FOR THAT
FIVE-STAR FEELING

can recommend the egg cooked
at 65 degrees, with foie, truffle
sauce and Pedro Ximenez,” said
the waiter as I sat looking out to sea on
the terrace of the D-Vora restaurant in
Benidorm. “It’s the house speciality.”
I wasn’t entirely convinced by the
sound of it, but it looked like the middle-aged Spanish couple at the table
next to me had taken his recommendation and were enjoying it, as their
soft chatter mingled with the sound
of the bossa nova from the restaurant.
This wasn’t what I had expected of
Benidorm. I had been here before, but
only on my way to somewhere else and
nothing I had heard had ever compelled me to linger. On the contrary,
for me, and no doubt for many others,
the very name Benidorm had become
synonymous with beer-swigging
Brits baking in the sun and a high-rise
hell of karaoke bars and cafés dishing
up egg and chips.
Recently, however, I had begun to
hear talk of a different Benidorm, with
fine-dining restaurants and stylish
new hotels offering classes in yoga and
ceramics; a place with leafy pedestrianised promenades, a heliport and an
impressive record on sustainability,
not to mention some of the most luxurious new property developments in
Spain. I had even heard that the lofty
high-rises, so long the subject of scorn,

jLLUM DEL MAR,

VILLA VENECIA HOTEL
Often cited as Benidorm’s
top restaurant, Llum has
panoramic views of the bay
and the kind of formal fine
dining you would expect in
Madrid or Barcelona. My
amuse-bouche of red prawn
and soya croquettes was
divine – almost in itself
worth the admission price.
(mains from £19; 00 34 6374
16142; en.hotelvillavenecia.
com/restaurants)

JOSHUA TARN FOR THE TELEGRAPH

Valencia

S PA I N
Benidorm

Murcia
50 miles

were now being viewed in a new
light – not least in a poignant forthcoming film starring Timothy Spall,
It Snows in Benidorm, in which the
beautifully shot skyline features
almost as prominently as the narrative.
I had come to see for myself. The
journey north from Alicante airport
takes little more than half an hour and
there is no mistaking the city as soon
as it comes into view – a strange,
almost futuristic valley of tall, thin
towers stretching skywards like giant
candles on a cake, with the Sierra
Aitana mountains forming a natural
backdrop to one side and the Mediterranean to the other.
The sea-view balcony in my newly
built four-star hotel, H10 Playa Poniente (h10hotels.com), overlooks Poniente beach – the longest of two bays
that make up the city’s seafront. On
the palm-lined promenade outside,
joggers, dog walkers and teenagers on
electric scooters were taking advantage of the early evening sun and the
balmy temperatures of Benidorm’s
microclimate, which guarantees
almost year-round warm weather.
So where, I wondered, were those
badly behaved Brits? “Benidorm is
a city of two halves,” said Leire Bilbao,
director of the local tourist board, over
an exceptional seafood paella at Ulia, a
smart sea-view restaurant where diners have included Elon Musk, Amber
Heard, Tour de France winner Miguel
Induráin and various prime ministers.
She explained that nightlife-seeking
British holidaymakers tend to stay
around Benidorm’s other beach –
Levante, where the clubs and bars are
concentrated – while the more upmarket hotels and developments are
focused on the quieter Poniente.
“Over the past few decades Benidorm has improved the quality of
what’s on offer,” she continued. “Previously, it was mainly three-star
hotels, whereas now most are fourstar. People are looking for quality
in accommodation and also in restaurants, and so the city has evolved
in response. You can see it both in
the constructions and the apartments
that are being sold.”
You most certainly can. Spain’s tallest residential building is Intempo,
with a seemingly stratospheric pair

Middle way: Playa
i
del Mas is located
between busy
Levante beach and
quieter Poniente

jASIA GARDENS HOTEL

A member of Leading Hotels
of the World, the five-star
Asia Gardens is the A-listers’
haunt of choice – former
guests have included the
likes of the Rolling Stones,
Bruce Willis and Javier
Bardem. Set amid extensive
botanical gardens with no
fewer than 300 types of
exotic plant, the property
is (surprisingly) only
a 15-minute drive from the
centre of Benidorm.
(doubles from £326 per night,
including breakfast; 00 34
9668 18400; asiagardens.es)

h Calle Dos Calas

leads up into the
hills where there
are hiking routes
and a natural park

Eddi enjoys
i

Essentials

h High roller:

British Airways,
Ryanair, Jet2.
com, easyJet,
Tui, Vueling and
Wizz Air all fly
direct from the
UK to Alicante.
Return fares
with Ryanair
(ryanair.com).
cost from £41.
It Snows in
Benidorm is
released on
September 2
at cinemas
nationwide

‘the best view in
Benidorm’ at
D-Vora restaurant

the skyline could
almost give Dubai
a run for its money

of towers joined at the top like a capital
M, where an apartment can cost you
£2 million. As the lift took me from the
lobby to the 47th floor in 57 seconds,
I could feel my ears pop, but the panoramic views across the city and surrounding countr yside from the
light-flooded apartments and indoor
pool and gym were staggering.
“This area is becoming more and
more luxurious,” explained Anastasia
Boronetzka, broker manager for Intempo’s developer Uniq Residential. “The
quality of the restaurants and infrastructure is changing, and it is walking
distance to the beach, so the area is

Covid rules
All travellers
aged 12 and over
must show
proof of full
vaccination, or
a negative PCR
test taken within
the last 72 hours,
or a negative
antigen test
taken within the
last 24 hours,
or proof of
recovery

D-VORA RESTAURANT
AT HOTEL RH CANFALI
The terrace at D-Vora is
another hot contender for
the title of restaurant with
the best view in Benidorm.
But it is not just about the
visuals – the food is
delicious too. Look out for
starters such as the house
speciality – egg cooked at 65
degrees, with foie, truffle
sauce and Pedro Ximenez,
as well as mains such as
grilled corvina (stone bass)
with yakiniku sauce and
wasabi parmentier.
(mains from £19; 00 34 965
850 818; gastrohotel
rhcanfali.com)

attracting people with money and
the prices are beginning to climb to
the level of Marbella, which is very
much a luxury market.”
Nearby, the 20-storey Delfin Tower,
with its dramatic curved side like a
ship’s sail, has similarly impressive sea
views and price points. Delfin has also
made a selling point of its green credentials (features include parking spaces
with electric car chargers), and the
notion of sustainability is central to
Benidorm, both past and present. Citywide green measures include extensive
recycling of rainwater, and there is also
an emphasis on accessibility with a
fully-staffed beach allowing wheelchair
users to savour the warmth of the sea.
Benidorm’s much maligned original
high-rises were likewise part of a progressive experiment in the 1960s and
1970s, inspired by Le Corbusier’s idea of
building skywards rather than horizontally, with a view to conserving the
landscape rather than damaging it.
The scheme was the brainchild of
Benidorm’s visionary mayor, Pedro
Zaragoza. In the early 1950s he transformed the future of this previously
sleepy fishing village, zooming off
to Madrid on his Vespa to get special
dispensation from General Franco
for female tourists to wear bikinis on
the beach. The city never looked back –
and once Alicante airport had opened
in 1967, some 100 hotels were built
over the next decade.

The result was one of the highest
concentrations of modernist architecture in Europe, and over recent years
there have been suggestions that the
city should be listed as a Unesco world
heritage site for architecture.
This may yet be a little way off, but
others seem to be realising, as I did, that
Benidorm has much more to offer than
a sandy beach. The Sierra Helada Natural Park, high above the city, has lovely
walking routes taking in some delightfully secluded coves along the way,
while at the Bodegas Enrique Mendoza
Winery, less than half an hour’s drive
from the town centre, I barely noticed
the time slip by as I sampled some of its
internationally renowned wines.
Benidorm is just one of many cities
across Spain that are currently looking
to attract more independent, discerning
tourists who can help foster the local
economy by spending money with local
businesses. But, unlike the others, Benidorm has seen its reputation suffer
unduly over the years.
Watching the setting sun cast a
golden glow over the skyline, I reflected
on how differently we view similar
scenes in Hong Kong and Dubai – and
how Benidorm has been tainted by its
associations with all-you-can eat buffets
and budget breaks in the sun. Those elements are still there, of course, but this
is a tale of two towns. There is another,
very different Benidorm awaiting those
who know where to look.

MERCURE HOTEL
Newly opened, this is
a classic example of
a three-star that has been
transformed into a stylish
four-star hotel. Indulge in
its classy, contemporary
interiors, a truly lovely
pool plus classes in yoga
and ceramics.
(doubles rooms from £103 per
night; 00 34 9658 52850;
all.accor.com/hotel/B6I8)
INTEMPO
Unquestionably Benidorm’s
most striking landmark,
the apartments here come
with a pool, spa, gym and
bar. Visitors can snap the
obligatory photograph
outside with the iconic
design in the backdrop.
(benidorm.intemporesident
ialskyresort.com)

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South America
‘There was much
h
joy to be had’:
Benedict gathers
Brazil nuts in the
rainforest

Meandering
g

along: the Amazon
river near Macapa,
where Benedict
began his journey

‘Exploring
is a young
man’s game’

Entering
in among
the trees,
it came
back to me
straight
away –
how it was
on my first
expedition
as I ran for
my life

footsteps along a north-easterly compass bearing, and each evening, just
as I used to, I slumped in front of the
campfire and sought encouragement
from the flames as the darkness closed
in, just as it used to do.
There was, of course, much joy to be
had – the satisfaction of gathering
Brazil nuts, the simple beauty of a fragile orchid among the warring trees.
Once, a tortoise woke me at night,
knocking against an obstructive root
as I lay in my hammock.
However, as time went by, it became
ever clearer: repeat the momentous
journey of my youth and I would die,
regardless of any intruders encountered. For being an explorer is a young
man’s game, it seems, and one benefit
of fleeing for your life with little more
than what you are wearing is that you
don’t have to stagger onwards through
the thorns carrying 50lb of luggage.
All those years ago, I had trotted
along free of possessions and buoyed
by youthful self-belief. I had kept
going, I understood now, because
there was no other choice if I wanted
to see my mum and dad again. That
knowledge, too, had unburdened me.
Finally, I decided to turn around.
I made my way back through the trees,
reminded all the way of the lesson
of four decades ago. Yes, it was a tricky
business to hike day after day alone
in this humidity – of course it was. This
time, however, I hadn’t succumbed
to any of the interesting creatures
that populate the tales of so many
explorers – the jaguars, snakes and
spiders, or the razor-toothed piranhas
that I currently enjoyed as a snack.
The greater threat lay elsewhere.

Benedict in his
i

So, when I did finally make it back
to Macapa and read the sad reports
that Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira
had been found dead, I was not in the
least surprised to hear that the culprit
was not an anaconda or some such
wild beast, but an illegal fisherman,
or perhaps a gang of them – just the
kind of opportunists who had long
ago almost killed me, too.
I should be profoundly grateful,
I reflected as I headed home, that my
own journeys had had a more favourable outcome. Once, long ago, when
I was set upon, the Amazon had
become like a hell to me – a horizonless prison from which I thought I’d
never escape. But now it seemed that
all those trees had, in a sense, shown
a very great forbearance – and rather
more than my own kind.

‘A

re you sure this is such a good
idea?” I asked myself as the
frontiersmen chucked my gear
ashore – rucksack, rations, anything
that might help me cope out here
alone for a few weeks – and reversed
the boat away from the riverbank.
I stood there in the blistering heat,
left all by myself, about to launch off
into the rainforest – and again tried to
absorb the news. It was worrying
enough that, on the very day I had
departed with all my gear from
Macapa, in the north of Brazil, two
men – Dom Phillips, a British journalist, and Bruno Pereira, a Brazilian
indigenous expert – had disappeared
in the Javari valley, at the Peruvian
border. But now we had learnt that
even the army was getting involved,
some 250 men about to comb the
region for them. At a time when the
Brazilian Amazon was subject to all
manner of illegal incursions, by loggers, wildcat gold miners and cocaine
traffickers, it didn’t look good.
Yet here I was, about to head off
without so much as a guide, GPS or
a satellite phone. True, this was my
skill set. Immersing myself in littleunderstood worlds is what I have done
my entire adult life. But dealing with
a threat from the Amazon’s numerous
opportunists, on top of any issue posed
by the rainforest itself, was a different
matter. Back in 1992, I’d had my
own “run-in” with a gang on the Javari
river – a couple of loggers had guided

me along a trail up in the headwaters,
then run off with my bags, leaving me
with nothing.
As for the venture I was engaged in
now, I had come to this spot because
it was the very place where things had
once again gone badly wrong due
to fellow humans – and, as usual, not
indigenous humans. On that occasion,
my very first expedition, way back in
1983, I had been attacked by two gold
miners – they had come for me in the
night with knives. Aged just 23, I had
dashed to my canoe, which capsized
here in the rapids on the Iratapuru
river, and then had to walk to the outside world. For three weeks or so, I had
stumbled on without possessions, contracting first one strain of malaria and
then another. Yet somehow I had made
it, eventually collapsing into the daylight some 65 miles to the north-east.
And now, at last, having spent my life
ever since exploring the lesser-known
corners of our globe, I had come back. I
wanted to know what had kept me alive
at such a young age, all that time ago.
I lifted up my rucksack and took a
deep breath. And immediately, entering
in among the trees, it came back to me –
how it was back then as I ran for my life.
The forest was the same – the dank
odours, the blue morpho butterflies zipping through. I was not the same,
though – that was the difference. And as
I pressed on through the stifling air,
splashing through the mud, parting the
leaves, it was made obvious to me that

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Revisiting the scene of his first expedition to
Brazil, Benedict Allen begins to feel his age

Wash and go: women doing the laundry on the Javari river
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I was following in the footsteps of a very
much younger man. For the rainforest
has a way of picking people apart.
It comes to us all, I thought to myself
as I panted and sweated. Slowly, despite
our best efforts, we succumb to the
years. The grip on our machete loosens,
the length of our stride shortens. We
must apply what energy we have more
judiciously, planning, delegating, trusting to the wisdom we have garnered,
we hope, through the years. And we
must banish those creeping doubts that
afflict us – but not the young.
As I made my way, fending off mosquitoes and ants, I reassured myself that
this time, too, everything would be all
right – just as long as I didn’t bump into
any more marauding gold miners, most
of whom should be just to the west.
Each day, I followed in my youthful

canoe in 1983,
before he was
attacked by
gold miners

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Caribbean

Do I love Jamaica? Let me count the ways…
As the Caribbean island marks 60 years of independence, Kaye Holland celebrates the people, beaches, food and music that make it unique

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hite-sugar sand, spicy plates
of jerk meat, waterfalls, reggae, copious amounts of rum,
jungle-covered mountains: Jamaica
has long been the place where everything is irie (“all right”) – and today, as
the island nation celebrates its 60th
anniversary of independence, things
have never been more so.
Over the decades, Jamaica has
seduced many a visitor. Ian Fleming
was so captivated by the Caribbean isle
when he visited as a naval officer during the Second World War that he built
an estate in Oracabessa Bay called
Goldeneye and wrote all his James
Bond novels there – it is now a luxury
hotel and resort ( goldeneye.com).
Nearby is playwright Noël Coward’s
final home, Firefly – so called because
of the glowing creatures glimpsed
from the property – which is now
a museum (firefly-jamaica.com).
Winston Churchill was a fan, too, as
were Marilyn Monroe and Hollywood
hell-raiser Errol Flynn, who apparently declared it “more beautiful than
any woman I have ever known”.
In 2009, it was my turn to be
seduced. I was living on the neighbouring island of Grand Cayman, and
nipped across for the weekend. Land-

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ing in Jamaica was akin to flicking on a
light switch: everything was more
vibrant, more colourful – with the
sound of Bob Marley and the smell of
jerk chicken and coconut on the
breeze. It was unlike any other island
I had been to. Here, finally, was the
Caribbean of my imagination.
How do I love Jamaica? Let me
count the ways. First, and most obviously, it’s the weather. Jamaica has
sunshine when Europe is under the
dark blanket of winter, and nothing
beats the feeling of holiday sun sinking
into your bones. So far, so Caribbean.
Then there are the beaches. Compared with other shores, Jamaica’s are
playing in the Premier League – and
unlike the often indistinguishable
coves elsewhere in the Caribbean, are
all totally different in character.
At Negril’s Seven Mile Beach (actually only four miles long), you can walk
the entire length of white sand before
joining the crowds at the always busy
Rick’s Cafe (001 876 957 0380) to watch
plucky locals dive from the rocks into
the warm turquoise waters below as
the setting sun fades from deep red to
pink. Or enjoy a gentle stroll while
admiring the shifting colour of the sea
at bohemian Treasure Beach – this
time on darker sand, and likely without seeing another soul if you go
before breakfast. Don’t fancy either of
those? On the east coast, you will find
Frenchman’s Cove (frenchmanscove.
com), where a £10 beach pass gives
you access to a small strip of postcardperfect white sand ringed by miniature forested headlands and flanked by
an azure lagoon.
So yes, plenty of beaches – but don’t
make the mistake of writing off
Jamaica as nothing but pretty stretches
of sand. There are other magnificent
natural wonders, too: rivers, waterfalls
and the almost unnervingly tranquil

THE VIEW FROM
JAMAICA
Belinda Morrow
“I was born in Jamaica, and
though I spent a short spell
living in the UK and Australia,
I always knew I would return.
Jamaicans are very jovial and
always ready for a joke, but
our friendliness is only part of
the package – it is our
topography that really sets us
apart. Most people come for
the beaches, but we have
mist-covered mountains and
rivers, too. We may be a small
island, but we punch well
above our weight.”

Sandra McLeish
“People gravitate towards
a country for three things: the
people; the natural beauty, be
it mountains, sea or beaches;
and the culture, principally
the music and food. Jamaica
has all three, but for me the
biggest draw is our people.
I’ve travelled the length and
breadth of the Caribbean and
Jamaicans are bold and know
who they are in a way I’ve
never seen anywhere else.”

Kyle Mais
“There is so much bounty in
Jamaica and such a big sense
of community. We have
a fantastic way of life, a rich
culture and so much beauty.
I’ve worked abroad and made
the most of those experiences,
but I always felt a yearning to
return home. You miss the
way of life; you miss the
people. Jamaican culture
always stands out.”

Dianne Plummer
“Though I moved to Finland
and Sweden to study, my
heart has always belonged to
Jamaica. Jamaicans are so
resilient and talented – you
can see it in athletics; in
music; in fashion. Our
cultural influence is
undeniable. We like to live
life to its fullest, and I think
that is something people
connect with.”

Blue Mountains range (where some of
the best coffee beans in the world are
grown). Among the spectacular natural
attractions is the Luminous Lagoon
(from £10.20; glistening waters.com),
east of Falmouth, where the water
glows as a result of bioluminescence
(microscopic organisms that emit light
when disturbed). It is one of only a few
places in the world where this phenomenon occurs and it is truly magical – the
hyperbole is justified.
On the south coast, there is YS Falls
(£16.30; ysfalls.com) – a series of cascades set amid acres of lush vegetation
and limestone cliffs that are every bit
as beautiful as the more famous (and
crowded) Dunn’s River Falls in Ocho
Rios (£20.40; dunnsriverfallsja.com).
And in the sleepy, Eden-like eastern
parish of Portland, there is thrilling
bamboo rafting on the Rio Grande
river (from £53.20 per raft; 001 876 993
5778) where you can sail past former
banana plantations.
But it’s not just nature – the cities are
special, too, and Kingston particularly
so. The capital has reinvented itself as
a vibrant melting pot, full of charisma,
colour and culture. Start with a guided
tour of the Bob Marley Museum
(£20.40; bobmarleymuseum.com) at 56
Hope Road – a colonial-era wooden
house where Jamaica’s first son lived
until his death in 1981. Rooms remain
untouched and filled with artefacts,
including Marley’s clothing and gold
and platinum records. Then make a pilgrimage to the nearby Peter Tosh
Museum (£16.30; petertosh.com) which
tells the story of the reggae icon, equal
rights activist and proponent of Rastafari who was murdered in 1987, through
memorabilia such as his unicycle and
gun-shaped guitar.
Imbibe the reggae spirit even further
at Tuff Gong (£16.30; tuffgong.com) –
the legendary Kingston studio where
Marley cut tracks such as Buffalo Soldier and Redemption Song.
And then, of course, there is the
food – a vital part of Jamaican life and
culture; delicious and joyful. National
favourites such as jerk chicken, spicy
patties, ackee and saltfish, rice and peas
abound at restaurants and roadside
stalls (all vendors have to be certified, so
street food is perfectly safe).
But if you only eat one meal, make it
jerk – a style of barbecuing native to
Jamaica, in which meat is dry-rubbed or
wet marinated with a hot spice mix. Try
it with plantain at Boston Bay’s jerk
shacks (about 10 miles east of Port Antonio). Or have escovitch – fish cooked
with vinegar and allspice – at Miss T’s
Kitchen (misstskitchen.com), an Ocho

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of Negril’s Seven
Mile Beach are
crowd-free

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Falmouth
Negril

Port Antonio
Ocho Rios

JA M A I C A
Portland
Treasure
Beach

30 miles

Kingston

Rios institution where everything is
served on rainbow coloured tables to
a soundtrack of (what else?) reggae.
And wherever you go, expect rum. To
ensure full holiday bragging rights,
order a potent punch at Floyd’s Pelican
Bar (001 876 354 4218; open 10.30amsunset). Built by fisherman Floyd Forbes
in 2001, after he envisaged it in a dream,
this watering hole made from driftwood
and palms stands on stilts in the Caribbean Sea just off Jamaica’s south coast,
with pelicans perching nearby.
But the best thing about Jamaica – the
highlight eternally at its core – is the
people: their spirit, strength and
warmth. Here, moreso than on any

locals dive into the
sea from the rocks
at Rick’s Cafe

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the island: jerk
chicken is part
of the culture

other Caribbean island, hospitality is
truly a national obsession. The sunny
welcome you will receive is extraordinary; the enthusiasm for life infectious. All over the island, on any given
afternoon, you will find the streets
filled with friendly locals singing and
grooving to dancehall beats.
After two difficult Covid years – and
with one in 10 Jamaicans directly
employed by the tourism industry –
there is no question that the island
needs its international visitors to
return. I would argue that our need for
Jamaica is just as great – after all,
couldn’t we all do with a bit more
irie island spirit in our lives?

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Britain

The corner of Norfolk that feels ‘a bit more real’
In between kiss-me-quick Great Yarmouth and gentrified Blakeney and Cley, the Deep History Coast is awash with treasures, says Sarah Baxter

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the Happisburgh
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the area has
rich and diverse
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y first encounters with Norfolk’s Deep History Coast – as
nobody was calling it back
then – weren’t the most sophisticated.
It was the early 1980s and I recall family outings of sandy sandwiches and
buttoned-up cardigans, and my uncle
stripping to his trunks, dashing into
a chilly, churny sea and pulling a
moony as the rest of us cowered
behind the windbreak. But I knew
even then that it was a boon to grow up
so close to this stretch of shore, where
at the weekends we could drive – or
even catch a train – to watch the tide
ebb and flow beneath Cromer’s Victorian pier, or make castles from mile
upon mile of soft yellow sand.
The area’s full backstory was
unknown at the time. The Deep History Coast (deephistorycoast.co.uk),
which encompasses a 22-mile cliffed
section of northern Norfolk, from
Weybourne to Cart Gap, is so named
because it is now understood to
plunge right down to the depths of the
past. This is where the Cromer Ridge –
formed by glaciation hundreds of
thousands of years ago – rises from
low-lying salt marshes and is mercilessly gnawed at by the North Sea,
yielding significant archaeological
finds. In 1990 a large bone exposed in
the cliffs of West Runton proved to be
part of the largest and oldest nearcomplete mammoth skeleton in Britain; in 2013, the oldest human
footprints ever found outside Africa,
from around 850,000 years ago, were
revealed at Happisburgh.
This ever-changing seaboard, one of
the fastest eroding stretches of coast in
the country, is literally groundbreaking stuff. It can be hard to comprehend, but these days a Discovery Trail,
with 11 information points and an
accompanying interactive app, helps
bring the stories to life.
This shoreline isn’t undiscovered,
exactly. It includes the comely resorts
of Cromer and Sheringham, which
have been pulling in tourists since Victorian times. But there are plenty of
patches that still get overlooked,
because this is Norfolk’s “ bit inbetween”. Head further north-west –
to Blakeney, Cley, Holkham – and it is
all very gorgeous but gentrified, with
second-homers flooding the flint cottages and organic delis. Strike further
south and you will soon hit kiss-mequick Great Yarmouth – fun but hardly
serene. The Deep History Coast
bestrides these extremes of smashed
avocados and slot machines. That is
not to say elements of both can’t be
found here, it is just that neither dominates. It feels a bit more real.
“Cromer and Sheringham are popular tourism destinations and places
like Walcott and Mundesley are well

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discovery point’:
if you want to
escape the crowds,
head to Weybourne

used by those in the know, but there
are many places where you can walk
for miles along the beach or coast path
and not see a soul,” says North Norfolk
District Council’s Anny Wooldridge.
“Every aspect of the classic UK coastline – Blue Flag beaches, cliffs, geological phenomena, seaside resorts, quaint
villages, seafood cafés, lighthouses,
windmills, rich flora and fauna – is
within easy reach.”
It’s true that you can find a bit of everything along the Deep History Coast:

good surf, a vintage steam train (01263
820800; nnrailway.co.uk), an easy coast
path connecting the lot and the chance
of seeing seals at almost any point.
At West Runton you will not only find
excellent rock pooling, but also Beacon
Hill. At a mighty 340ft, it is Norfolk’s
highest point.
One of my favourite spots is Trimingham (trimingham.org), which sits high
on slumping, lunar-like clay and sandstone cliffs, behind a shock of trees – the
views here are far-reaching. The village
was an important medieval pilgrimage
site, with devotees flocking to its St
John the Baptist’s Head church, which
contained an alabaster cast of the saint’s
skull. It is sleepy these days, but there
is talk of turning the old Pilgrim’s House
into a community café.
I also love Happisburgh (happisburgh.org.uk) – both on account of its
normal-for-Norfolk outsider-tripping
name (it is pronounced Haze-bruh) and
its see-it-before-it’s-gone urgency: you
can almost watch the caravans sliding
down the cliffs in real time. A trail leads
around the historic village, via St Mary’s
Church (climb the tower’s 133 steps for
enormous views), the Hill House Inn
pub and micro-brewery (Conan Doyle

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Weybourne

West Runton
Cromer

Sheringham

UK

NORFOLK

Trimingham
Happisburgh
Cart Gap

5 miles

once stayed here; 01692 650004; facebook.com/HillHouseInnsLtd), and the
red-and-white-striped lighthouse, built
in 1790 and the oldest in East Anglia. It
was once part of a pair – the brick remnants of the long-gone “low light” are
revealed on the beach at low tide, and
are set to become the site of a new
“Time and Tide Bell” installation this
autumn. From here it is only a short
walk to the lovely Small Sticks Café
(01692 583368; smallstickscafe.co.uk) at
Cart Gap, where you can tuck into

‘There are
many
places
where you
can walk
for miles
and not see
a soul’

homemade cakes, produce from the
owners’ farm, and crab and lobster
straight from the boat.
Obviously, the seafood is good all
along the Deep History Coast. You can
buy Cromer crabs fresh from their titular town at Davies Fish Shop or Jonas
Seafood. But I prefer to leave the hard
work to Richard and Alison Matthews
at Rocky Bottoms (07848 045607;
rockybottoms.co.uk), a 19th-century
brick-kiln-turned-café on the road
to West Runton; Richard has been
fishing here for 35 years, and his catch
is served in delicious dishes such as
crab linguini.
Weybourne village, at the northernmost end of the Deep History Coast, is
the least visited discovery point. But it
provides some of the most impressive

views and interesting features, particularly the precarious coastguard
cottages, the Saxon church tower, the
medieval priory ruins and 19th-century windmill.
Here, the Ship Inn (01263 588721;
theshipinnweybourne.com) is the
place for local ales, 100-plus gins, pub
grub made from regional produce and
a bed for the night. Or head to nearby
Kelling Heath Holiday Park (01263
588181; kellingheath.co.uk) – a designated Dark Sky Discovery Site, its
camping pitches and lodges offering
some of the best stargazing in the
country: on a clear night the Milky
Way is visible to the naked eye.
The most atmospheric stay is probably the Gunton Arms (01263 832010;
theguntonarms.co.uk), an 18th-century farmhouse-turned-pub-withrooms on a huge deer estate near
Cromer. It manages to combine the
traditional and the very cool – locals
drink beer in the shadow of priceless
art (Magrittes, Emins, Hirsts); quality
meat sizzles on a huge open fire in the
flagstoned Elk Room. It is a significant
step up from the sandy sarnies of my
childhood – but I’m glad this stretch
of seaside still offers both.

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Travel collective

Will rising temperatures
change our holiday habits?
This is going to sound like
a petty anxiety compared
with our potential fate if
climate change does run
out of control. But if you
haven’t always enjoyed the exceptionally high temperatures of the British
summer so far, you might want to
think twice about the timing of your
future holidays to the Mediterranean.
The heatwaves across much of
southern Europe this year have been
more intense and long-lasting than
anything in the UK. France has just
had its driest July ever and one of its
hottest, with many places recording
peaks above 40C. In Spain, temperatures reached 45.6C and, as I write, it
looks as though the Spanish met office
is about to declare the third serious
heatwave of the summer – and we are
only at the beginning of August.
On July 14, the temperature in Pinhao, Portugal, hit 47C, breaking the
national record for that month. Local
records were broken in 26 other locations. It has also been unusually hot in
Italy, Greece and Turkey, though the
eastern Med has not been as bad as
last summer when a high of 45C was
recorded in Greece.
These events are obviously most
serious for the local people who have
to endure them, especially the vulnerable – but I wonder if they will also
start to have an impact on tourism.
I have had a taste of the continental
heat twice this summer – once during
a few days in Aix-en-Provence and
Marseille in June, and then on the

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fountains came to the
rescue as Nîmes, in
southern France, faced
record temperatures
earlier this month

Greek island of Hydra at the beginning
of last month. It reached 33-35C every
day of each of my stays – higher than
usual, but still (thankfully) well short of
this year’s peak temperatures. It was
still much too hot for comfort.
Not everyone will agree, because tolerances vary. For me, anything much
over 30C means you end up sheltering
in the shade for the best part of the day,
and the whole idea of a holiday in the
sun is lost. You can swim to cool off and
a sea breeze might make things more
bearable – but the sun has become an
enemy rather than a friend.
Worse, if the heat doesn’t relent after
dark, you end up sweating through the
night or switching on the air conditioning. And surely there is nothing more
ridiculous than travelling to enjoy a hot
climate and then spending a big chunk
of your time with the air-con at full tilt.
Perhaps this will prove a freak summer. But if global warming is becoming
a reality, maybe we are seeing a glimpse
of a future where we might not want to
head so far south in high summer.
THE NEW SUMMER HOT SPOTS
No doubt a warmer climate will lead to
more people staying in the British Isles
for sun and sand holidays. But if the
continental holiday map does start to
shift, some destinations might become
more appealing than the Med. They are
also feasible to reach without flying.
First on my list would be the Brittany
coast and the north coast of Spain, especially the lovely sandy beaches of Cantabria. Both can be reached by ferry from
Portsmouth and Roscoff (brittanyferries.co.uk). For islands, how about Denmark’s scattering in the western Baltic
such as Fyn, Langeland and Bornholm?
They are virtually unknown to British
holidaymakers but are accessible by
train and ferry (visitdenmark.com).
Finally, perhaps the lakes and resorts in
the foothills of the Alps will have something of a renaissance?
All these destinations have a longterm climate which suggests average
daily highs of 21-23C in summer and
plenty of sunshine (though also a certain amount of rain). Global warming
may well change all that. In fact, as
I researched this, I was checking the
current temperatures in all of them.
At midday on Wednesday, Bornholm
was basking in 25C; Benodet, in Brittany, was 26C; Santander was 24C;
and Annecy in the French Alps, 30C.
That may just be chance – but it could
also be a taste of things to come.

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As this summer’s heatwaves make the Mediterranean less
bearable, Nick Trend wonders where we’ll be heading next

i Manhattan transfer: our reader’s son booked a flight to New York, returning from Seattle, but crew shortages meant one leg was cancelled

READER CHAMPION

GILL CHARLTON

‘Open-jaw’ letdown left me open-mouthed
My son Sam booked an “open-jaw”
return with Virgin Atlantic (flying to
New York and back from Seattle) with
Virgin Atlantic through TravelUp for
£1,188. When he tried to check in online
for his outbound flight on Sunday July
17, it had been cancelled by the airline.
I rang TravelUp that evening – and
the next morning – to be told it was
working with the airline to find an alternative. We could see Virgin economy
flights were booked solid that day, so I
bought Sam a one-way ticket to New
York with British Airways as he needed
to be there for work on the Monday.
TravelUp now says the return leg will
be cancelled because he didn’t wait for
an alternative to be found. He will be
refunded for the original ticket but
the current one-way fare back from
Seattle to London – on the same Virgin
flight he was booked on – costs from

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£1,542. Why won’t the airline honour
the return ticket?
– Mark McCormack
Scheduled airlines sell journeys, not
individual flight tickets in the way
that low-cost airlines do. This means
flights must be taken in sequence under
International Air Transport Association
(IATA) rules. This is to stop customers
buying a flight ticket in a third country
where fares are cheaper (to encourage
business) and only flying, say, the London to New York sector. This is a contractual term found in the Conditions of
Carriage of all IATA members.
Virgin Atlantic notified agents on
July 1 that VS137 from Heathrow to New
York JFK was cancelled due to lack of
crew. TravelUp should have notified
customers at this point but told me that
its staff are struggling to process the

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vast number of schedule changes coming through from airlines.
I asked Virgin if anything could be
done to reinstate the return ticket, as
the airline itself had cancelled the outbound flight. It has agreed to do this
even though it is not usual policy. Customers must wait for the airline to find
an acceptable alternative or accept a full
refund. This enables the customer to
book a return ticket with another airline which is usually much cheaper
than buying single fares.
TravelUp says it is launching a new
app this month to automate notifications of schedule changes. This should
help with communication but, given
the scale of the problem, travellers
should check their flights are operating
14 days in advance of travel – the date
after which airlines must pay compensation if a flight is cancelled.

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‘We cycled close to the Arctic Circle
and ferry-hopped from fjord to fjord’
Norway was among the countries you nominated for their beauty in response to our groundbreaking survey last week

BLOWING HOT AND COLD
The most beautiful country in the
world is New Zealand. On Tiritiri
Matangi Island, we saw two rare birds:
takahe, like flightless turkeys with iridescent purple and green feathers plus
a huge red beak. In Rotorua, sulphur
puffed from cracks in gardens and
we ate a hangi meal cooked in a volcanic fissure. At Mt Difficulty vineyard,
we drank glorious pinot noir.
From Queenstown we crossed the
Southern Alps in a seven-seater plane,
snowy mountain tops just feet from
the windows. As we returned at sunset, the tips were cloaked in a pink
tablecloth. The Catlins had no other
humans, but we nearly bumped into
sea lions basking on the dunes.
Vivienne Seakins, Warwickshire
OUR GREEN AND PLEASANT LAND
I have visited the US, Australia and
Canada but only one country ticks my
“beautiful” box – England. Consider
the dramatic cliffs of North Cornwall,
the peaceful wooded valleys of South
Devon, the heights and depths of the
Lake District, the stony outcrops of the
Peak District… Need I go on?
Well, let’s not forget the North York
Moors, the eerie flatlands of the Essex
marshes and the Jurassic coast of Dorset. Then there is the stunning beauty
of our cathedrals and meandering rivers such as the Thames, Wye and
Stour. Our green and pleasant land is
far smaller than any of the finalists you
listed, but it offers as much variety,
and more – and at any time of the year.
Angela White, Devon

COMPETITION

LETTE R OF
TH E WE E K
As your selection (Travel,
July 30) suggests, there
are two beautiful
countries right on our
doorstep: Norway and
Italy. Of these, Norway
gets my vote. Douglas
Adams summed it up in
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to
the Galaxy when his
character Slartibartfast
wins an award for
his Norwegian
fjord design.
We spent two weeks
in the country, travelling
on two wheels. Having
arrived at Bergen on the
overnight ferry from
Newcastle, we rode as far
north as Mo i Rana just
south of the Arctic Circle
and saw the Svartisen
glacier. Don’t miss the
GaldhOpiggen, Norway’s
highest peak, or the
Laerdal road tunnel (the
world’s longest) – worth
a visit for the light show
alone. In the Industrial
Workers Museum in
Rjukan, a former power
station, the history was
palpable. We learnt how
the Allies destroyed the
factory destined to
produce Hitler’s nuclear
bomb. On the way home,
we rode down the west
coast and ferry-hopped
from fjord to fjord. They
are indeed magnificent
geological structures.

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Norway, with the
country is remarkably hassle-free.
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as a backdrop
Jacqui Wynds, Gloucestershire

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SPEAKING THE SAME LANGUAGE

Australia is, as you say, a beautiful country – but you left out the best part: Tasmania. Hobart is a wonderful city,
nestling in the bay – best viewed from
the hills. Its Salamanca Market, held
every Saturday, is spectacular.
The countryside is rather like Devon,
with black-and-white cows grazing in
the fields – but more dramatic. Cradle
Mountain-Lake St Clair Park is worth
visiting, not least for its wombats.
Take a boat trip up the Arthur River
and see forest untouched by humans.
The unique wildlife is fascinating – you
might see a swimming platypus, or fairy
penguins scurrying up the beach at
dusk. Pademelons (small marsupials)
are a common sight, and echidnas
(spiny anteaters) are not hard to find.
Had I visited Australia when I was
young, I don’t think I would ever have
come home again.
Joan Freeland, Bristol

With my children and grandchildren
settled in the United States (number
one in your survey) and Australia (number two), I can’t argue with your top
choices of beautiful countries. We have
travelled extensively in both – because
staying with family for long periods
requires some time apart, too!
In addition to the criteria used by
Telegraph Travel to rate these countries, I would highlight the advantages
of a common language (well close, anyway) and the friendliness of the people.
In the United States, I smile every
time someone calls my grandson “Awesome” (his name is Orson). And where
else but in Australia would a village
store keep my sunglasses for a year with
the label “English woman who visits”.
My advice is to buy round-the-world
airline tickets to see both of these astonishing countries – and more.
Carol Hopperton, Berkshire

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Worst mortgage rate shock since the 1980s
The biggest rate rise in 27 years will put property ownership
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H

omeowners and buyers face the
biggest mortgage “rate shock”
since the 1980s following the
largest rise in the Bank Rate in 27 years.
Economists have warned that house
price falls are now imminent as the
Bank of England’s sixth consecutive
rate rise means that repayments on
home loans are rising twice as fast as
they did in the run-up to the financial
crisis of 2008. Thursday’s 0.5 percentage point rise means that new mortgage rates will be three times higher
than at the end of last year.
A series of Bank Rate increases in
the 1980s – to a peak of 15pc in 1989 –
helped trigger three-and-a-half years of
falling house prices in the early 1990s.
Yet while some high street lenders
increased mortgage rates before the
latest rate rise, banks have not passed
on the benefits to savers as quickly.
At the time of going to press, aver-

age easy-access rates on savings were
just 0.76pc.
Getting on the property ladder is
only becoming harder. Before the Bank
began to raise interest rates in December last year, the average rate on a twoyear fixed-rate mortgage for a buyer
with a 25pc deposit was 1.2pc. Now the
same buyer would have to pay 3.63pc.
Over the course of a two-year mortgage, they will pay £6,288 more than
if they had bought at the end of 2021.
That jump in repayments is already
roughly double the increase in mortgage payments recorded across the
entire period of rising mortgage rates
between 2005 and 2007. This is despite
the fact that interest rates are still far
lower than in 2007.
Today’s rate changes have a much
bigger impact on the housing market
for three reasons. First, today’s rises
have happened far more quickly. Sec-

ond, they began from a record low
level, which means the relative impact
on monthly payments is much higher.
Lastly, house prices have increased so
quickly recently that small changes to
rates make a big difference.
Aneisha Beveridge of estate agent
Hamptons said: “Higher house prices
mean the impact of smaller rate
increases has been amplified.”
In 2005 a buyer needed to earn
£29,919 a year to get a mortgage on
an average home. By 2007 this figure
had jumped by £5,100. After Thursday’s rate rise, buyers will need to earn
£48,761 to get a mortgage on a typical
property – £11,600 more than at the
end of 2021.
However, there is likely to be more
pain to come. Analysts expect the
Bank Rate to climb further – to 3pc
next year. The average rate on a twoyear fixed deal for a buyer with a 25pc

deposit would then jump to 4.88pc,
according to Hamptons. This would be
four times the rate at the end of 2021.
To buy an average home in London a
buyer would need to earn £101,757 –
50pc more than a year ago.
Rising costs will also be a major blow
to buyer demand, which was already
plunging. Research firm Capital Economics has forecast that house prices
will fall by between 5pc and 10pc over
the next two years.
Adrian Lowery of Evelyn Partners,
a wealth manager, said there was also
now a wave of homeowners coming to
the end of very cheap fixed-rate deals
secured when rates were at rock bottom. Government incentives such as
the stamp duty holiday encouraged
large numbers of younger buyers to
leap into the property market during
the pandemic, Mr Lowery said.
A record 1.8 million homeowners

will come to the end of their deal next
year, according to UK Finance, the
banking trade group. Many will face
higher costs when they remortgage.
A couple who borrowed £280,000
in July 2020 with an average two-year
fixed-rate deal at 2.13pc would have
paid £1,205 a month. Over the past
two years they will have reduced their
loan to around £260,000, but they will
still have to pay an extra £200 a month
when they remortgage now, said Mr
Lowery. The shock will be even worse
for people who took out five-year mortgages now expiring. They would have
paid 1.7pc in 2017 and could end up taking out loans at more than 4pc.
FIGHT BACK AGAINST RATE RISES
If they can afford to, homeowners can
reduce their mortgage bills by making
overpayments while they are still on a
lower rate, said Mr Lowery. “Not only

will this reduce the overall cost but it
could also reduce the size of the loan
to the point that it is in a lower loan-tovalue bracket, making cheaper deals
available,” he said.
They should also check the value of
their property. “If you think your home
is worth a lot more, getting a new valuation might garner you a better deal,”
Mr Lowery said. In the year to May
alone, house prices rose by 12.8pc.
This means many borrowers could
find they have gained enough equity
to qualify for a different rate band.
They could also cut monthly payments by increasing the term of the
loan, although this means making
more interest payments in total.
Buyers who are thinking of taking
out a five-year or 10-year fixed-rate
deal should be aware that mortgage
rates could fall during that period, Mr
Lowery said.

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Money

Ben Wilkinson
Personal Account

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Britain is about to pay a heavy price for falling into a net-zero trance
For months, consumer
champion Martin Lewis
has been telling anyone
who will listen that rocketing energy bills will
soon inflict catastrophic damage on
Britain’s finances.
But no one has been listening. At
least, no one in power has. The Money
Saving Expert has been a lone voice
akin to Leonardo DiCaprio’s character
in Don’t Look Up – a frustrated scientist begging the world to acknowledge
that an apocalyptic comet is on a collision course with Earth.
That comet is now visible from the

ground below and we are staring at an
undeniable disaster. It’s now far too
late to do anything about it. And it is
due to strike, as the Bank of England
confirmed this week, as mortgage costs
are going through the roof and inflation
shows no sign of slowing down.
The Labour Party must be licking its
lips as whoever wins the Tory leadership contest will face an unstoppable
storm that will only breed discontent.
What you pay for energy now is 50pc
higher than what you paid earlier this
year, but in just two months (around
the time we all start putting the heating back on) the price of power will

nearly double again. This means that in
January typical homes will use around
£500 worth of energy to keep warm
every month.
Analysts Cornwall Insight have predicted that the average annual electricity and gas bill will hit £3,358 in October
– £2,000 more than it was in March.
Bills are predicted to peak at £3,729
next April and stay high until 2024.
Thousands of families will spiral into
debt, once-affluent households will be
forced to watch the pennies, savings
will be devoured and spending will dry
up. Recession is inevitable.
Could our country have done any-

thing to prevent it? The whole sale cost of power will have risen
five-fold by next year, driven up by supply issues exacerbated by Russia’s war
on Ukraine. Yet we are not just paying
for pricey power.
Our bills have been inflated by
repeated regulatory failures and

expensive government eco-vanity projects. The £13bn smart meter roll-out
bumped up our bills over the years,
while the collapse of tiny firms that
were allowed to take on hundreds of
thousands of customers has added £94.
The Government has put the cost
firmly on our shoulders by triggering a countdown to net zero. We are
told we should all be driving electric cars and warming our well insulated homes with farcical heat pumps,
but we are expected to pay for it at
a time when family finances face
unprecedented strain.
The British people have been neg-

The Government has put
the cost firmly on our
shoulders by triggering
a countdown to net zero

lected while the Government dropped
everything in its trance-like pursuit of
net zero. As a result, our household
wealth is being used to pay for our
country’s unforgivable dependency on
foreign energy, failure to invest in selfsufficiency and exploit our own natural resources.
And it’s too late for the Government
to do anything meaningful about it.
Households will get £400 off their
bills, but the Treasury may well have
to dig deeper. We will all end up paying the price for net zero folly, whether
it is as energy bill payers or taxpayers.
ben.wilkinson@telegraph.co.uk

SU M M E RTI M E

PENSIONS

B LU ES
Turkey is one of the
cheapest places in Europe
to stay in a hotel and eat
out but holidaymakers are
being stung in other ways.
Travel insurance
premiums have soared by
53pc in Turkey since 2019,
according to the price
comparison site
Confused. America was
close behind, where the
average travel insurance
cost has surged 48pc to
£81.18. Spain ranked third,
with a 46pc increase to
£27. Overall, the average
premium for travel
insurance has jumped
24pc to £34.89 compared
with the last summer of
restriction-free travel in
2019, according to price
comparison site
GoCompare.

Half the state pension
to be swallowed by
enormous energy bills
Soaring energy bills will eat up nearly hold budget, particularly as food prices
half the annual state pension by next rise too, is just going to be impossible
year, forcing millions of pensioners to manage through winter and into next
spring,” she said.
into poverty.
Even pensioners living in a couple
In the average home, gas and electricity will cost £3,729 a year from next will pay a third of their combined state
April, experts at Cornwall Insight have pension income on energy bills, accordestimated this week, up from the cur- ing to Age UK.
Caroline Abrahams, of the charrent £1,971 a year.
By next spring, up to 46pc of the ity, said the astronomical rise in bills
had created a “frightening
state pension is expected
situation” for those who
to go directly on heating homes, as the average
rely on the state pension.
retiree on the basic state
“Keeping warm is really
payout receives £8,185 a
important for older peoAlmost half of the
ple – it’s not just a matter
year. Until last October,
annual state
of avoiding discomfort, for
energy charges took up
pension payout
those with serious health
just 17pc of the average
will
go
towards
conditions it can make the
state pension.
heating homes
difference between life and
The Winter Fuel Payfrom next year
ment will be doubled
death,” she said.
Annual energy bills are
expected to leap £1,388
higher from October alone, a rise that
will cost more than two whole months’
worth of the average pension payment
made by the Government.
Four in 10 people over the age of 66
rely on the state pension as their main
source of income, according to Government agency the Money and Pensions
service.
Jessica Beard

Blame game leaves air
passengers out of pocket
Passengers are being denied hundreds
of pounds in compensation for delayed
and cancelled flights, caught in a blame
game between airlines and airports,
writes Rachel Mortimer.
Other customers have been ignored
and left waiting for months despite
making multiple claims in lieu of ruined
family holidays and trips of a lifetime.
Britain’s airports descended into
chaos at the start of the Easter holidays
and have not yet recovered. Passengers
have waited for hours in airports only to
have their flight cancelled at the last
minute, and in some cases have been left
stranded abroad. But airlines have not
been forthcoming with compensation.
Cancellations, charges and fees
accounted for 90pc of airline refund
issues in June and July, according to
complaints website Resolver. Almost
40,000 complaints of this nature have
been made to the service in the past
year, with more than 600 made in the
first three days of this month alone.
But many customers have found
themselves “caught in the crossfire
between airport and airline”, warned
Guy Hobbs of Which?.
Mr Hobbs said: “All too often neither
party accepts responsibility for delays
and cancellations, and passengers miss
out on the money they are owed, or find
themselves chasing compensation
through the courts.
In May this year Andres Korin, 41,
was boarding an easyJet flight bound
for Nice, France, after a three-hour
delay at the airport. But as he and his
family were queueing on the air bridge,
the flight was cancelled.
“People had already boarded the
plane and sat down when they cancelled it. No one could get a straight
answer from easyJet on what was happening,” said Mr Korin.
It came 24 hours after a software failure forced the airline to cancel around
200 flights across the country, for
which it had encouraged passengers
to claim compensation in line with
standard regulations.
The family postponed the holiday
and a refund was issued by easyJet
along with payment of £76 compensation to cover the cost of a taxi back from
the airport.
But Mr Korin’s claim for £880 compensation – £220 per family member
booked on the flight – was denied by
easyJet, which blamed the fiasco on an
“extraordinary event” outside of its

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from £300 to £600 for
more than eight million pensioner households ahead of
this winter. However, this will cover
just one sixth of the average annual
energy bill.
Rebecca O’Connor, of stockbroker
Interactive Investor, said the growing proportion of pensioners’ income
consumed by energy bills had become
unsustainable.
“The squeeze it places on the house-

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46%

Gatwick and easyJet blamed each other for delays
i

control. The airline said the delay and
cancellation had been a result of air traffic control issues at Gatwick, for which
it was not liable to pay compensation.
An easyJet spokesman said: “We are
sorry that Mr Korin’s flight was cancelled due to delays caused by air traffic
control restrictions, which led to our
crew reaching their maximum safety
regulated operating hours.
“While this was outside of our control, we would like to apologise to customers for the inconvenience caused.”
But when Telegraph Money
approached Gatwick airport, a spokesman said air traffic control restrictions
had only been in place for arriving
flights for two short periods that day.
He added: “The impact on flights was

NO RESPONSE

45
Number of days it took easyJet to
respond to a compensation claim.
Its terms and conditions promise
a reply within 28 days

considered low, so it would be surprising if this was the root cause of this
cancelled flight.”
It is a stalemate in which thousands
of passengers are caught in the middle
of each year. Travellers can claim compensation once a flight has been
delayed for more than three hours or
cancelled at short notice, but only if it
was caused by an issue within the airline’s control, such as technical problems and wear and tear of the plane.
But in the event of an “extraordinary
event”, such as security, natural disasters and air traffic control issues,
the airline is absolved of responsibility
and customers have no avenue for
compensation.
Frank Brehany, a consumer rights
expert, said: “The excuse of ‘extraordinary circumstances’ is not designed to
provide cover for any reason – the purpose of the defence is to cover events
that could not be seen or predicted.”
Passengers claim airlines have
added insult to injury by ignoring their
requests for compensation for months.
Mr Korin said he chased easyJet after
45 days for a response, despite the
company’s terms and conditions stating it would reply within 28 days.
Mr Hobbs said the Civil Aviation
Authority, the regulator, needed
stronger powers and a new ombudsman was needed to mediate disputes.

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Money

Is women’s
football
better value
than men’s?

WHAT’S TTHE
SCORE?
SCORE

£1,739

Arsenal
Difference
between the most
expensive men’s
season ticket and
one for the
women’s game

£1.50

£ per goal
Watching Chelsea
Women score cost
£1.50 per goal
versus £6.25 for
the men

11

As the season kicks off, Taha Lokhandwala
looks at the most cost-effective way to
support your Premier League team
BETH MEAD
Arsenal

The Women’s Super League consists of
0.
12 teams, and the Premier League 20.
That means there are only 11 women’ss
home games to the men’s 19, so sea-son tickets offer fewer matches forr
the money. Each club is different butt
men’s season tickets often include
or allow first refusal on FA Cup,
League Cup and Champions League
en
games. Some men’s season tickets even
ague
include a ticket to every women’s league
game, so the costs are combined.
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Then of course there are the simple
me 14
factors of supply and demand. Some
gue
of the 20 sides in the Premier League
kets;
have waiting lists for season tickets;
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some even charge up to £20 just to
on that list.
oldNonetheless, both season ticket holders and casual fans could find huge savings by turning their back on the men
heir
– while watching more goals for their
uper
money. Last season’s Women’s Super
League champions, Chelsea, won 18 of
atio,
their 22 games, a huge 80pc win ratio,
s, an
and scored 62 goals in the process,
cket
average of 2.8 goals per game. A ticket
uch
to home games this year, to watch such
osts
potentially prolific victories, costs
between £9 and £10 for adults – children’s tickets are even cheaper.
e to
By contrast, fans would have
nd a
spend a minimum of £25 to attend
men’s game and could be forced to pay
as much as £71. In return, there was just
a 55pc chance of victory and, on average, two goals per game.
Similar examples of value for money
can be seen across the women’s game.
Fans of Arsenal, who finished second
in the women’s league and won 77pc of
their games, can watch their team for
as little as £10 per game for an adult, or
£80 for the season. To watch the men’s
team, which won just 58pc of their

CHLOE KELLY
Manchester City

ALE SSIA RUSS O
Manchester United

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W

hen the Lionesses beat Germany last weekend, a new
generation of football fans
was forged. And while the beautiful
game is a notoriously pricey sport to
follow, families can make huge savings
by focusing their new-fangled fandom
on women’s football over men’s.
The average fan of a Premier League
club spends north of £1,000 a year on
tickets, merchandise and travel to and
from games, according to the European Football Benchmark 2021 report
published by Statistica, a research
firm. Taking into account the lower
divisions, the average fan of the men’s
game still has to find around £700 a
year, the report found.
You can find value for money at
some Premier League clubs: season
tickets can cost as little as £299 for
19 home games at West Ham United’s
London Stadium. But for better seats,
fans can easily spend close to £1,000,
while the most expensive season
ticket, for Tottenham Hotspur, costs
more than £2,000.
An equally enjoyable but dramatically cheaper alternative exists at
almost every club in the Premier
League. Some 13 of the 20 clubs in the
men’s Premier League have teams in
the top two tiers of women’s football:
the Women’s Super League and Women’s Championship.
The cost of attending the games is
substantially cheaper. In some cases
the price of a season ticket for the
women’s season is what you would
pay to see just a single men’s game.
This is the case at eight clubs: Arsenal,
Brighton, Leicester, Manchester City,
Manchester United, Southampton,
Tottenham Hotspur and West Ham.
There are qualifications, of course.

‘In some cases a women’s
team season ticket is the
same price as a single
ticket for the men’s team’

How to negotiate your salary
before you even start the job
increasingly common following the
pandemic, as companies scramble to
fill labour shortages.
Of the 1.14 million advertised vacancies in the UK listed on job search
engine Adzuna, roughly one in 10
invited salary negotiation.
Abby Robbins of recruitment firm
Yellowbricks begins negotiations
on behalf of jobseekers to help them
start on the salary they’re worth without souring relations with their soonto-be bosses.
“Companies always have a bracket of
what they’ve got to play with and they
try to get people to come in on the lowest rung of the salary band, so they can
progress through the band before promotion,” she explained.
It is the responsibility of candidates
to ask for higher pay at the offer stage
of an application, Ms Robbins said. “I
always go for more even if the candidate
hasn’t asked because I know the company has it in the tank.
MARILYN
DEVONISH

‘I did my
spiel and
there was
silence.
Then
they said,
When
can you
start?’

JOHN LAWRENCE FOR THE TELEGRAPH

Despite soaring energy bills, rampant
inflation and sky-high rents, wage
growth has failed to keep pace.
Asking for a pay rise can be an awkward conversation – and for many the
endeavour ends in failure. But amid
a war for talent that has seen companies bending over backwards to draw
in new hires, the best time to negotiate a pay rise is before you even start.
Marilyn Devonish, a therapist
from Hertfordshire, had been earning £12,500 working part-time when
she applied for a management consultancy role. Thanks to her negotiation
skills, she was able to secure a salary
of £50,000.
Ms Devonish, 54, asked the company for fully flexible working hours
to go with her salary. “I did my whole
spiel and when I got to the end there
was a moment of silence,” she said.
“They looked at me and said, ‘When
can you start?’”
Salary negotiation has become

Games
The number of
home games in a
season for the
women’s teams,
versus 19 for
the men

1 IN 10

Jobs listed on
Adzuna that invite
salary negotiation

“It’s hard if you really want a job and
you’re grateful for the opportunity but
you know you’re worth more. But it’s
hard once you’re within a company to
negotiate a pay rise – you have to do it at
the beginning.”
Samantha Lubanzu, a mother-of-five
from Manchester, said she first began
negotiating her starting salaries at the
age of 17, when she worked at a bank.
“I was very cheeky most of the time,”
she said. “If you don’t ask you don’t get.”
Ms Lubanzu, 38, honed a technique
of asking her peers what their salaries
were before applying for jobs – and
demanding percentage-based increases
at the interview stage.
“I once went for a promotion where I
was stepping up to be a leader, but the
salary was in the same band,” she said.
“I literally bullet-pointed all the extra
things I would be doing in the new role
and said, ‘I want a 5pc increase’. It’s
better to ask for a percentage increase
rather than a flat number.
“People get really into the amount
rather than what it actually looks like;
5pc doesn’t sound like much but can
make a difference.”
Paul Lewis from Adzuna said candidates often fall into the trap of assessing
their own worth by what they are currently being paid. Instead he urged jobseekers to “research the market value
for the role and think about the value
you would bring to a company, such as
skills, qualifications and experience”.
Successful negotiators could end
up on salaries significantly higher
than what is being offered. Catherine
Warrilow, from Oxford, recalled negotiating a starting salary double the
amount she had originally been offered.
Ms Warrilow, 43, who now works
for ticket company daysout.com, said
she “went in quite hard” on discussions of pay and netted an additional
£20,000 a year.
She has since been more discerning about job opportunities. One company, Ms Warrilow recalled, offered
her a salary £10,000 less than the market average. Ms Warrilow declined the
role, prompting the company to match
the market average and bolt-on an additional £10,000, which she also declined.
“For me that isn’t a great footing to
start on,” she said. “Because they’d gone
lower initially, the perception was I
wasn’t worth the original salary. You’ve
got to know your worth.”
Tom Haynes

games, will cost you between £66 and
£99 for single games, while season tickets cost between £926 and £1,839. You
could take a family of four to an Arsenal
Women’s game for less than it costs one
person to attend a men’s game.
There are caveats. As the women’s
game is in relative infancy, teams generally do not play at the same ground

as the men, although there are some
exceptions, such as Leicester City,
Reading and Sheffield United. Chelsea
fans travelling to a women’s game must
go to Kingston, some eight miles from
Chelsea’s home, Stamford Bridge, in
west London. Arsenal Women play in
Borehamwood, just north of London,
12.5 miles away from its home ground,

although some games will be played
at the Emirates Stadium in the coming season.
Since the Lionesses’ win, Premier
League sides have reported a huge
surge in ticket sales for women’s
games. For these new fans, a future
of joy and heartbreak beckons – and
some big savings, too.

4

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Property

‘We make £11,000 a
year from an old hut’
Demand for glamping has exploded and many have invested in historic
dwellings to take advantage of the boom, writes Samantha Partington

N

eil Burrows had spent most of
his life driving past “the rusty
hut”, an abandoned shepherd’s
wagon in a field at the side of the road
in Kent. But one day in 2015, as he was
passing by, he was shocked to see that
it had gone. Mr Burrows, a 68-year-old
farmer, stopped his car and tramped
over the field to investigate.
Left in the ground was a wheel hub
with the maker’s mark Marshall, Sons
& Co, Gainsborough, a manufacturer
of steam and agricultural equipment
in the 1800s. Realising its heritage,

he set off to find it. The hut had been
dumped in a farmer’s field nearby. He
agreed to pay £1,500 to take it off the
farmer’s hands.
Mr Burrows and his wife, Wendy, 64,
saw the potential to turn the hut into a
distinctive five-star retreat and they created Greenhill Glamping, near Dover.
“We weren’t just saving history, we’re
making modern use of history,” said Mr
Burrows. The income would be used to
subsidise their farm, Alkham Court, and
their bed and breakfast business.
Demand for unusual stays among

British holidaymakers has soared by
44pc since 2019, according to the data
firm AirDNA. Glamping, a luxurious take on camping, has particularly
attracted tourists’ attention: a report
from Sykes Holiday Cottages found that
demand this year was 46pc higher than
in 2021 and 94pc higher than in 2019.
Shepherd’s huts, elaborate tents and
other glamping set-ups are the most
common type of holiday let offered
by farmers because they can be cheap
to set up and therefore offer a quicker
return on investment. David Brown of

the website Farm Stay UK said: “Farmers have had to find alternative income
streams to support themselves, both
before and after Brexit.”
The Burrowses used £20,000 of
their savings to transform the hut
over 15 months. With a passion for
woodwork and restoring antique furniture, Mr Burrows did the remodelling himself. An 18th-century piano
top has been turned into a shelf and
an antique sheep-dipping tool is now a
curtain pole.
They have since bought another hut
and charge £145-£160 a night, based
on a two-night booking. Shepherd’s
Hut and its twin, Ploughman’s Retreat,
generate about £11,000 in annual profits each. It took the couple about three
years from opening the huts to recoup
their initial outlay. Cleaning costs of
£5,000 a year are the biggest drain
on their profits.
Last year, when foreign travel was
restricted, was a “bumper” period
for the Burrowses. Although this
year is quieter, they have had lots of
repeat customers.
In 1999 Sue Jewell, 66, and her husband moved from near Southampton to buy Boturnell Farm, a 25-acre
holding in Liskeard, south-east Cornwall. They quit their day jobs, as they
expected to live on the takings from
the farm’s two holiday lets .
But the cottages failed to bring in

‘MANY
MAY HAVE
LOOKED
AT THESE
HUTS AND
VIEWED
THEM AS
RUBBISH’
Sue Jewell
CORNWALL
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I’ve ditched my Spanish holiday let – it was a catastrophe
Based on the average age of buyers on
the television show A Place in the Sun
(my guilty pleasure), my partner and I
were relatively young when we bought
our holiday rental in Spain.
We weren’t flash or rich when we
bought it, but we were naive and able
to take out a mortgage in another
country. Equipped, at that time, with
two good UK salaries and what we
thought to be a long and prosperous
relationship with Europe (we’d only
ever known free movement within
the bloc), we hurtled ahead and signed
a gazillion papers in Spanish.
We don’t speak Spanish, but we
didn’t let that little fact interfere with
what we decided would be a good way
to invest for our future retirement
home in the sun. In any case, interpreters are readily available to Britons willing to part with cash in pursuit
of Spanish charms. How much of the
45-page mortgage document they
actually translated and we understood
is a moot point.
Our initial foray into letting our holiday home was easy. The developers
had a management company and as we
were novice investors (this was prior
to me becoming a full-time landlord),
they took over the whole enterprise
and deposited a healthy amount into

our bank account every month, which
covered the mortgage and costs.
But then the developer went bust.
Soon after, the swimming pool – the
main attraction of our complex – sprang
a leak. The next seven years saw various
legal battles, with the managing agents
and developers arguing over who was
responsible. The owners were left to
foot the bill. The apartment was rented
for a pittance to locals and it barely
scratched the surface of the mounting
costs. The icing on the cake came when
we fell into negative equity.
Fast-forward a few years and our
enthusiasm was reignited. The swimming pool was fixed, I renovated the
apartment and holidaymakers came
flocking. Then Covid hit. While my
business plan had allowed for voids, I
had not made provision for a 110-week
hiatus. I had also not allowed for the
big jump in tax, now that UK nationals
are no longer EU citizens, or the additional licensing and raft of admin that
was introduced.
Add to all that the enhanced cleaning
regimes, longer turnaround times, and
the knowledge that our future retirement home came with visiting limitations timewise, and I started to question
whether the plan was still on track.
When I visited again to inspect our

While I’d
allowed
for voids,
I hadn’t
prepared
for a 110week Covid
hiatus

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Landlord is by
an anonymous
buy-to-let
investor.
Write to her at
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holiday home before we commenced
re-letting, it was with a heavy mixture of emotions. The place looked
gorgeous, the town was thriving and
every thing looked pristine and happy
– just how you want a holiday to be.

But still there was a niggle that niggled
and wouldn’t stop niggling. “Is this
really what you want?” was a question
that plagued me, along with, “How do
the sums stack up?” and, “Is the additional admin worth it?” And finally,

“Are visitor expectations now beyond
your reach?”
And what did these changes mean in
terms of my quality of life?
Like any judicious holiday-home
owner, I took my dilemma to the pool
with a glass of wine in hand. And it was
there I recalled the joyous comments
I had received over the years, the happiness our home had created. Then I
remembered some of the off days: the
late-night calls because the lavatory was
blocked or a cockroach had appeared.
It was over my second glass that I
realised if I continued with this “dream”
there was no respite. Holiday letting is
not like buy-to-let, it’s a turbocharged
environment where expectations and
the level of service demands are ridiculously high.
I mused over these niggles and pondered into my ever-diminishing wine
bottle. But it was when I spied a missing
pool tile that I felt my stomach lurch.
I leapt from my sunlounger and
inspected further. There were only a
few tiles missing, but the decrepit greying grout was enough to tip the balance.
Post-Covid holiday letting was going to
be tough, but I had absolutely no intention of footing a big pool maintenance
bill ever again. My place in the sun is
now owned by a German.

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5

‘WE’RE
MAKING
MODERN
USE OF
HISTORY’
Neil and Wendy
Burrows
CHRISTOPHER PLEDGER, JEFF GILBERT, JAY WILLIAMS FOR THE TELEGRAPH

KENT
From £145 a night

enough money and they were forced
to get jobs. In their free time they converted the farm’s old dairy into another
holiday let. Then Mrs Jewell spied
another money-making opportunity:
the run-down Nissen huts being used
to house chickens and children’s toys.
Nissen huts were erected during the
world wars and were used as temporary barracks for soldiers or for storage. “Lots of people would have looked
at these huts and viewed them as rubbish,” said Mrs Jewell, whose huts had
housed American soldiers serving at the
nearby army base.
The first hut, Beau Tunnel, was converted in 2005 with the help of her son
Thomas, after her divorce. The second hut, Chy Yar, Cornish for chicken
house, was finished in 2018; they cost
£45,000 to convert. The mother and
son team are passionate about history
and said mention of the farm could
be traced back to the Domesday Book.
“That’s why we do everything we can
to keep it running,” she added.
Rising energy costs and repayments
on Bounce Back loans taken out during
the pandemic eat into takings, leaving
them with a profit of between £10,000
and £15,000 a year from both huts. A
weekly stay costs up to £725. They have
installed corner baths, log burners and
stained-glass windows and allow dogs
to stay free of charge.
The market for holiday lets is very

‘THERE’S A SENSE OF
ACHIEVEMENT IN SAVING
SOMETHING THAT
WOULD HAVE ROTTED’
James and Robin Waters
ESSEX
From £369 a week

competitive and growing more so:
in the 12 months to June the number
available has shot up by 23pc to 297,637,
according to AirDNA. “Standing out is
vital,” said Mrs Jewell, who also chairs
the South East Cornwall Tourism Association. “To be successful, know your
target market, have a business plan and
comply with all regulations.”
At sixth-form college, James Waters
started to buy up old furniture and
antiques to sell on. By the time he’d got
to university he was buying two to three
trailer loads of old cast-offs a month.
After cleaning them up, he sold his
hoard on eBay, building up a nest egg.
He continued his hobby after starting work as an environmental manager.
Living and working on his parents’ 300acre tenant farm in Halstead, Essex,
he watched his savings grow. Then a
restoration project caught his eye.
His next-door neighbour had old railway carriages in his garden and he told
Mr Waters and his father, Robin, that he
knew of one for sale.
An 1880s Great Eastern Railway carriage captured their imagination. Mr
Waters bought it in 2016 and started to
restore it in April 2020, when he was
furloughed. He spent £100,000 of his
savings to buy it and fix it up. It was
moved to High Barn Heritage, a private
meadow owned by the family, and sits
on tracks laid by 66-year-old Robin, a
skilled metalworker.
The Carriage has modern luxuries
such as air conditioning, a dishwasher
and heating, but retains its original
charm. There is no Wi-Fi, however.
“Some people come here for that reason,” said Mr Waters.
They saved about £50,000 by doing
the work themselves and the carriage
has since been valued at between
£150,000 and £200,000. “It’s taken
blood, sweat and tears to do it,” he said,
“but I’ve loved spending time working
with my dad. There’s a sense of achievement in saving something that would
have rotted and disappeared,” he added.
The Carriage has been booked for
more than 30 weeks this year and a
third of guests are train enthusiasts.
Guests pay between £369 and £850
for a seven-night stay. Managing agent
Sykes Holiday Cottages takes a 20pc cut
of each booking.
The biggest stumbling block was
not knowing how to advertise the Carriage. “We didn’t understand the market and lost money promoting it in the
wrong places, so we went with an agent
instead,” said Mr Waters.
They made a profit of about £9,000
last year after agents’ fees; they do the
cleaning themselves. “Technically,
it will be running at a loss for 15 years
until we’ve recouped the £100,000,”
Mr Waters added. A second holiday let,
a 1940s Midland brake wagon, will be
added to the tracks this summer.

Buy-to-let mortgages disappear as
banks cull their cheapest deals
Landlords have been left scrambling for
mortgages as lenders have pulled buyto-let deals from the market as interest
rates soar.
The number of available buy-tolet deals has plunged by a third since
June as lenders withdrew 1,100 deals
in two months, according to data from
Moneyfacts, an analyst. In July alone,
the number of available mortgages fell
by 14pc.
Experts warned that banks are ditching their best buy-to-let deals as rising
interest rates squeeze their margins.
Jeni Browne of Mortgages for Business, a buy-to-let broker, warned that
lenders were scrapping their least profitable deals – those which are best
for consumers – as interest rate rises
increase their costs. “They are trying to
preserve their margins, and that means
trimming buy-to-let mortgages that are
less profitable,” Ms Browne said.
The Bank of England announced its
sixth consecutive decision to raise the
Bank Rate on Thursday, to 1.75pc. It had
already jumped from 0.1pc in December
to 1.25pc.
Rates on buy-to-let deals have rocketed in recent weeks. On August 1, the
average rate on a five-year fixed-rate
buy-to-let mortgage (across all deposit
sizes) was 4.49pc, according to Money-

Less choice for landlords
as rates rise
Number of available buy-to-let mortgages
4,000
3,500
3,000
2,500
2,000
1,500
1,000
500
0

Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun
21 22 22 22 22 22 22

Jul Aug
22 22

SOURCE: MONEYFACTS

facts. This was a jump of 1.33 percentage points from the 3.16pc average rate
at the start of February – an increase of
42pc in six months.
Rates on two-year fixes jumped from
2.9pc to 4.04pc across the same period
– a 33pc increase.
As of August 1, there were 2,375 buyto-let mortgage deals available, compared to 3,484 at the start of February.
There are early signs that the shrinking availability of good deals is eroding landlord demand, on top of the

other challenges faced by investors.
Until recently, record rent growth has
brought landlords racing to buy despite
the interest rate rises. Analysis by
Nationwide Building Society showed
that buy-to-let mortgage transactions
in May were at their highest level since
November 2021.
But James Tucker of Twenty7tec, a
mortgage website, said demand from
property investors is now in decline.
“Buy-to-let mortgage searches in July
were static compared to June, but down
around 10pc compared to the highs in
March,” he said.
By the end of July, volume of ESIS
documents – information sheets that
are a lead indicator for offers – being
produced by advisers was down by
20pc compared to the year’s daily highs,
Mr Tucker said.
Ms Browne said that because lenders are ditching their least profitable
deals, so-called “green” mortgages,
whereby borrowers can get better rates
for buying more energy efficient properties, are disappearing at a particularly
fast rate.
Data from Mortgages for Business
show that between May and July alone,
the number of green deals for limited
company borrowers fell by 42pc.
Melissa Lawford

Landlords who do not make energy
efficiency upgrades face void periods
and possible rent discounts, experts
have warned.
Soaring energy bills are pushing
tenants to ditch rental homes that are
expensive to run as forecasts for the
energy price cap continue to climb.
Jamie Lafferty, 39, is about to terminate his rental contract on his
one- bedroom apartment in Glasgow because his monthly energy bill
doubled from £110 to £230 when the
energy crisis began. “It has gone from
being inconvenient to uninhabitable,”
he said. Mr Lafferty’s costs are so high
because the property has an Energy
Performance Certificate rating of G –
the lowest possible rating.
“Every element of this flat is conspiring to be cold. It’s a protected building,
so it is not possible to put in double glazing. It has high ceilings and there is no
central heating,” said Mr Lafferty.
He has managed to get his monthly
bill down to £185 by making major
cutbacks. “My work has taken me to
Antarctica six times, so I have a lot of
thermal gear, which I wear during
the winter months. I told myself that I
wouldn’t turn the heating on between
April and October,” said Mr Lafferty,
who works as a travel writer.
He has found a flat that he is hoping to buy, but if the sale falls through
Mr Lafferty said he would still move
out. “There is no way that I will spend
another winter here.”
For Mr Lafferty, and many other
home buyers, the energy efficiency of
a property has become very important.
“The EPC became the first thing I was
looking for in my house hunt. This flat
is the opposite of the one I’m living in, it
has a C rating and double glazing.”
In England there is a minimum
requirement for all rental properties
to have an EPC rating of E. In Scotland,
however, although legislation for a minimum E requirement was planned, it
never passed through Parliament.
Both Governments now have proposals to introduce a minimum target
of band C – a benchmark four levels
higher than Mr Lafferty’s current flat.
Even without incoming legislation, landlords need to make energy
upgrades to continue appealing to tenants, experts said. Rob Jones of Property Investments UK, a buy-to-let
consultancy, said energy efficiency ratings would filter into rent levels over
the next six months.
“Properties with low ratings might
rent for 5pc or 10pc less,” he added.
Properties with lower EPC ratings
will also take longer to let out, particularly during the winter, Mr Jones
warned. “Landlords could have another

STUART NICOL FOR THE TELEGRAPH

Energy bills start to
dent landlords’ profits

i Jamie Lafferty’s flat in

Glasgow has an EPC rating
of G, the lowest. ‘There is
no way that I will spend
another winter here,’ he said

month or two of voids before they can
let out their properties.”
Katinka Hill of Chestertons estate
agents in central London said: “We are
definitely seeing more stock come to
the market and by the end of the year
when tenants have more choice, they
will be making decisions to offer less
on properties with low EPC ratings.”
Lettings agents are likely to start
factoring EPC ratings into rental valuations soon, Ms Hill added. “The
imbalance b etwe en supply and
demand will definitely correct itself,
and then when tenants have more
choice, the EPC rating will play into
rental valuations,” she said.

‘When tenants have
more choice they will
offer less on properties
with a low rating’

£230
Jamie Lafferty’s
monthly energy bill
doubled when the crisis
began, and will rise
again over the winter

Mr Jones said tenants were already
refusing to view properties that had
a low EPC rating. “They are calling
us up to check the rating before they
come to viewings.
“Landlords can’t get away with
a property that is inefficient now,
even in a busy market with very little
housing supply.”
Adam Kingswood of Kingswood
Residential Investment Management, a buy-to-let specialist in Nottingham, said: “Three years ago I could
have counted the number of tenants’
requests to see EPCs over the past 10
years on two hands. Now all eyes are on
EPCs. We put it in the opening line of
an advert if a property has a B rating.”
Mr Lafferty added: “I am tempted to
spray a message on the wall telling the
next tenant to ask to see the EPC.”
Melissa Lawford

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Saturday 6 August 2022 The Daily Telegraph

Investing

Why are British funds so bad?

UTILITIES

How to beat
soaring bills
by investing
in energy

The majority of managers who invest in UK companies are failing
to keep up with the market. Lauren Almeida investigates

I

t is an open secret in the City of London that the vast majority of fund
managers are bad at their job. Picking stocks that will consistently beat
the rest of the market is notoriously
difficult, yet the multibillion-pound
investment management industry
relies on the belief that managers in
the Square Mile have talents worth
paying a lot of money for.
This belief is hurting investors.
Savers are paying £115m a year in fees
to Britain’s worst fund managers, who
have failed to beat their benchmark
index over a three-year period, a new
report has warned.
Broker Bestinvest’s Spot the Dog
report, which names and shames
funds that return substantially less
than their benchmark, found that savers had entrusted more than £10bn to
underperforming “dog” funds.
Funds that invest in British stocks
dominate the dog list: they make up
half of the 10 largest underperformers and 70pc of the total £10.8bn in
lagging assets.
Lloyds Banking Group was responsible for two thirds of underperforming assets. Its Halifax UK Growth,
Scottish Widows UK Growth, Halifax UK Equity Income and Scottish
Widows UK Equity Income funds are
among the worst performers. These
funds have lost investors 5pc, 6pc, 2pc
and 3pc respectively in the past three

years, while the FTSE 100 – London’s
major index – has gained 3pc.
The Jupiter UK Growth fund also featured in the top 10. It has fallen behind
its benchmark by 24 percentage points,
the worst performance in the “UK allcompanies” sector.
Jason Hollands of Bestinvest said
that while short periods of weakness
might be forgiven, persistent underperformance should ring alarm bells.
“There can be more concerning factors
at work, such as changes in the management team or a fund becoming too big,
which might constrain its flexibility, or
a manager straying from a previously
successful approach,” he said.
A spokesman for Lloyds Banking
Group said: “We continue to take a
long-term approach to investment management and we work continuously to
improve performance across our entire
fund range.”
A spokesman for Jupiter said: “We
have made changes to the teams of the
funds listed and it is our expectation that
these actions should improve future outcomes for our clients.”
Overall, the worst performer was
the £39m FTF Martin Currie Global
Unconstrained fund, which has fallen
34 percentage points behind the global
stock market.
A spokesman for Martin Currie said
the underperformance was due to a
recent change in investment style in

‘Dog’ funds failing to match the British stock market

Total return %
20

MSCI UK All Cap
Halifax UK Growth
Scottish Widows UK Growth

Halifax UK Equity Income
Jupiter UK Growth
Scottish Widows UK Equity Income

10
0
-10
-20
-30
-40
Jan 2020

Jul 2020

Jan 2021

Jul 2021

Jan 2022

Jul 2022

SOURCE: MORNINGSTAR

favour of high-quality “growth” stocks,
which have sold off this year, and away
from cheap “value” stocks.
Just 12pc of the managers of UKfocused funds beat the FTSE 100 in the
first half of this year, according to a separate report from the broker AJ Bell.
The average UK fund lost 14pc, against
a drop of 4pc in a passive fund.
Robin Powell, an investment fees
campaigner, said: “Fund managers have
told us for years that it is in times of volatility that they offer the most value. Yet
in one of the most volatile trading periods in recent market history, they are
largely underperforming.”

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Households are facing soaring bills
as prices surge, with the annual total
forecast to hit £3,615 in the new year,
according to predictions from analyst
Cornwall Insight. But smart investors
can earn back money by buying shares
in the companies that are profiting
from the energy crisis.
DIY investors could secure an average return of 24pc by backing nine of
London’s largest energy companies,
according to data compiled by the
stock analyst TipRanks.
Energy behemoths BP, Shell and
British Gas owner Centrica have
announced massive profits, dividend
payments and share buybacks in the
past week, as they have benefitted
from a surging oil and gas market.
A £20,000 investment spread
across nine energy and oil companies –
BP, Shell, National Grid, Centrica, SSE,
Energean, Harbour Energy, Greencoat
UK Wind and Tullow Oil – could grow
by £4,875 after one year, based on City
analysts’ current share price targets.
Rob Burgeman, of wealth manager
Brewin Dolphin, said energy companies looked very attractive for DIY
investors, given the strength of the
commodity market.
“But investors should be careful; they are volatile investments,” he
warned. “Only two years ago, we had a
negative oil price. Plus, there are political risks attached to some of these
energy businesses now, with more discussion in Westminster about a windfall tax on their profits.”
Mr Burgeman said renewable
energy companies could be safer for
investors looking to avoid any political backlash. “A rising tide lifts all
ships,” he said. “So rising power prices
have been good for renewable energy
businesses too, such as the Renewable
Infrastructure Group and Greencoat
UK Wind.”
Both are investment trusts which
own a portfolio of renewable energy
infrastructure assets. They have
returned 1pc and 9pc respectively

Mr Powell said UK-focused fund
managers typically had a bias towards
small and medium-sized companies, which ex acerbated their
underperformance.
“Smaller companies tend to have a
better long-term growth story, which is
why fund managers buy them,” he said.
“But these stocks suffer more during
periods of economic uncertainty.”
Mr Powell advised DIY investors to
take a more “passive” approach to their
portfolio and pick funds that tracked the
market instead of paying a manager to
try to beat it.
For example, if a saver had invested
£10,000 a decade ago in the HSBC
MSCI World ETF, which mimics the
global stock market, it would now be
worth £34,035. By contrast, if they had
invested in an average actively managed global fund, they would now have
£27,934 – or £6,101 less.
However, Mr Hollands said fund
managers who operated in more niche
corners of the market could offer investors value that a tracker fund could not.
“In parts of the market that are
poorly covered by analysts and which
are barely touched by passives, there
are more opportunities for active managers to spot hidden gems and add
value,” he said.
“It is much harder to beat the market when it comes to highly liquid and
heavily scrutinised parts of the market.”

Five of the worst-performing funds in the UK market
Scottish Widows UK
Equity Income

Halifax UK Equity Income

Scottish Widows UK Growth

Halifax UK Growth

Jupiter UK Growth

Size: £314m

Size: £1.7bn

Size: £1.9bn

Size: £3.29bn

Size: £401m

3-year underperformance

Value of £100
after 3 years

3-year underperformance

Value of £100
after 3 years

3-year underperformance

Value of £100
after 3 years

3-year underperformance

Value of £100
after 3 years

3-year underperformance

Value of £100
after 3 years

–9% £98 –11% £95 –11% £96 –13% £94 –24% £83

RIDE THE WAVE

£4,875
A £20,000 investment in nine
energy and oil companies could
grow by £4,875 in one year,
based on share price targets

since the start of the year. The Renewable Infrastructure Group traded at
a 3pc premium to the value of its net
assets, while Greencoat UK Wind
traded at a more modest 1pc premium.
DIY investors looking to profit from
the energy sector may be better off
spreading their risk by investing in a
broader fund, rather than individual
companies, analysts said.
Mr Burgeman highlighted the
iShares World Energy ETF, which
tracks the largest energy companies
in the world, such as Shell in the UK as
well as Chevron in the United States. It
has returned 32pc in the past year and
charges investors a fee of 0.25pc.
He also pointed to the Franklin Templeton Clearbridge Global Infrastructure Income fund, which has returned
43pc in the past three years. “This fund
invests across a range of utilities, from
energy to toll roads, so that it can help
spread risk,” he said. The fund counts
National Grid and SSE among its top 10
holdings and charges 0.92pc.
Lauren Almeida

It’s never a good
idea to buy a
funeral plan,
regulated or not
I’ve never been a fan of funeral plans.
The fact they are now regulated by the
City watchdog, the Financial Conduct
Authority, has not changed my mind.
Like many insurance policies,
funeral plans give you peace of mind
– until you claim. Around 200,000
people who had bought a funeral plan
in the belief it would give them a trouble-free send-off when they die woke
up last weekend to find that the firm
that had taken thousands of pounds
off them had been banned from the

business. Those customers will lose
all or most of their money and at best
be passed on to another provider that
may or may not give them the funeral
they bought.
On July 29 the FCA began to regulate
funeral plans and no unregulated firm
can sell them. It has banned cold-calling – 30pc of those with a plan claimed
they had felt pressured into buying it,
many through cold calls. It has also outlawed commission to agents who find
customers, which averaged £550 a
time. The FCA said that “consumers pay
commission through the price of their
plan” but firms are not being forced
to reduce prices.
When the regulatory process began
there were 67 firms in the funeral plan
industry. Only 26 of them are now
authorised. Ten have been rejected and
some of those have gone bust. Another
13 cannot sell plans but are being given
until Oct 31 to wind down, and 18 have
found an authorised firm to take over

their customers. If you have a plan,
check out the status of your provider at
fca.org.uk and search for “funeral plan”.
The FCA has deleted the list of firms
that have been authorised and refers
you to the Financial Services Register.
The 18 firms that have transferred
customers are not listed anywhere.
Intervention was needed after both
the Competition & Markets Authority and the FCA discovered the parlous
state of the funeral industry. The CMA
warned in 2020 that funeral directors
were exploiting customers at one of
the most vulnerable and stressful times
in their lives.
Its “sunlight remedies”, as it called
them, included banning funeral firms
from paying hospices and care homes
to recommend them to grieving relatives. It also ordered them to provide pricing information in a clear and
standard way so that customers could
compare one with another. It claimed
that this could save customers £1,000

ALAMY

Money Talks
Paul Lewis

i One in eight funeral plans is held with firms not authorised by the FCA
or more. Those rules took effect in September last year.
But the real worry was the £4bn market in funeral plans. Around 200,000 a
year were sold to customers who paid
either a lump sum or monthly instalments to buy a funeral in advance and,
the marketing claimed, free their relatives of both the cost and difficult decisions at a time when they were grieving.
The money paid should have been
placed in a trust to protect it even if
the firm went bust. But in many cases

that was not happening. One firm, Safe
Hands, which had around 45,000 customers, went into administration in
March. A regulated provider, Dignity,
has said it will provide funerals until
October for any Safe Hands customer
who dies. But after that it may ask customers for more money to convert their
existing plan into a Dignity plan.
Another provider, Unique Funeral
Plans, is also in administration, leaving customers with no hope of receiving either a funeral or a refund.

Most of the 1.8 million funeral plans
that are in force are with the 26 newly
authorised firms. But the FCA has
admitted that one in eight plans is not,
leaving 200,000 customers with anything but peace of mind.
I have never liked funeral plans
and not just because some were sold
by dodgy firms and none came with
a guarantee that you would get what
you thought you had paid for – the
FCA found that customers often did
not. My objections are much more
philosophical.
First, if you leave at least a few
thousand pounds when you die, your
heirs can pay the cost out of that. Your
funeral is the first call on your estate.
Banks can give early access to cash for
funeral costs and any decent funeral
director will wait for payment until
the estate is settled.
People who don’t expect to leave
enough to pay for their funeral should
not be putting aside money that could
be used to help them while they are
still alive.
Second, a funeral is not for the
dead, it is for the living. They should
have the right to decide what sendoff they want and how much of their
inheritance they spend on it. Regulated or not, it’s not worth buying a
funeral plan.
Paul Lewis is the presenter of BBC
Radio 4’s Money Box

***

The Daily Telegraph Saturday 6 August 2022

7

Advice

Money Makeover
‘I’ve spent £8,400 on advice, but is it worth it?’
A reader wants to retire within five years but worries that his
financial adviser is not good value, he tells Charlotte Gifford
j David Sammel

coaches tennis
players such as
Liam Broady, right,
and hopes to earn
£3,500 a month in
pension income

£1,000 a year on average. “It’s difficult to know if the cost of his services
is worth it,” he said. “A lot of people say
just invest in a tracker fund instead.”
Mr Sammel said he wouldn’t be
averse to managing his own investments, as he enjoys stock picking as
a hobby and has £40,000 in a stocks
and shares Isa, invested mainly in
tech stocks.
Robin Keyte
Director of Keyte Chartered
Financial Planners
I suspect that Mr Sammel’s adviser
may be implementing a new business model, hence the proposed new
charges. Maybe he’s trying to focus on
clients with larger investment pots of
£700,000 or so and is therefore trying
to reduce the time he spends on clients
with smaller pots.
If I were in Mr Sammel’s position,
I wouldn’t accept these charges. The
extra £3,500 a year will eat into his
returns and, with inflation going up, he
needs them to beat rising costs in order
to semi-retire on £3,500 a month from
his pension.
To hit that target of £3,500 a month
in pension income – and assuming
the state pension is £8,000 a year – he
needs to find £34,000 a year.
That means his pot needs to be worth
£680,000 in five years, which is a long
way off what he has now. Even if he
could push up his returns to 8pc he
could generate £220,000 in five years,
but it’s unlikely he could hit returns
that high. So unfortunately I would say
that earning £3,500 a month in pension
income is unrealistic.
It’s good that he’s recognised that he
needs to take risks in order to achieve
his goals by investing in an aggressive
por
portfolio through his adviser. However,
ano
another way to increase his returns is
by reducing costs.
He says his adviser charges 1pc.
He should ask at least three advisers to give him quotes for what
they would charge, because I’m
fairly confident he could find an
adviser who costs less than that.
According to the Financial Conduct Authority, the City watchdog, the average ongoing fee for
an adviser is 0.75pc a year.
It’s also important that he take
into account the other charges associated with his adviser. The fund
his adviser has invested his money

UPI/ALAMY

D

avid Sammel, 61, from Yorkshire, travels around the world
coaching professional tennis
players, who include Liam Broady, the
British No 5.
But Mr Sammel doesn’t see himself
jet-setting around the globe for ever.
Eventually he hopes to semi-retire
from his high-pressure job and focus
instead on expanding the online coaching course he set up during lockdown.
“I want to keep working for as long
as possible,” Mr Sammel said. “But in
an ideal world I’ll have laid the foundations for the business so I can transition to that in the next five years. If I
could at some point generate £5,000 a
month income from it, that would be
the icing on the cake.”
In addition to the income from his
business, Mr Sammel hopes to earn
£3,500 a month from his self-invested
pension or Sipp and his state pension, which he will receive when he
reaches 66.
To help him realise his retirement
goals, he enlisted the help of an independent financial adviser. The adviser
manages Mr Sammel’s £150,000
Sipp, which is invested at a relatively
high level of risk, with a stronger
weighting towards shares than more
conservative assets.
However, his adviser recently told
him that he wanted to add retirement
planning advice to his services, at an
extra cost of £3,500 a year. If Mr Sammel doesn’t accept the new service,
the adviser said, he will scale back
the number of one-to-one meetings
they have.
Mr Sammel said he had been perplexed and frustrated by this. “I do
think it’s important to have an adviser
to talk to about personal finance,
nt planning
and perhaps his retirement
ut I feel like
advice could be useful, but
dy,” he said.
I’m paying him a lot already,”
r, he has
Since hiring his adviser,
harges,
spent £8,416 in adviser charges,
n fees
custody and administration
and “discretionary fund manager” charges over the past
four years.
Discretionary fund managers make more active decients
sions about your investments
nt
and, in theory, are meant
ir
to be more nimble in their
reactions to market events..
The advi s er ’s charge
alone added up to almost

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in is managed by a discretionary fund
manager, which adds another layer of
costs. These charges are collectively
eroding his returns when he needs to
be maximising them. There are plenty
of financial advice firms out there that
won’t use a discretionary fund manager.
So he faces a difficult choice. Either
he decides to go it alone, which will
reduce charges but also increase risk,
or he decides to take a punt on a new
adviser with a pricing structure that’s
better suited to his goals.
Finally, he could consider reducing his outgoings in order to make his
money go as far as possible.

Kusal Ariyawansa

Financial planner at Appleton Gerrard
Private Wealth Management
The lowest-cost option for Mr Sammel
would be to self-manage his money
through an investment platform.
However, I would urge him to
rethink his investment strategy if he’s
going to do this. Buying individual
trendy stocks without a meaningful
strategy can be volatile and ultimately

futile – especially with only five years to
go until retirement. It would be better
to invest in diversified funds.
Mr Sammel has an energetic business
plan and has built some assets towards
it. But he currently lacks a cohesive
investment strategy, backed by a sound
financial plan.
I’d advise him to find a certified
financial planner (search wayfinder on
the Chartered Institute for Securities &
Investment website, cisi.org) and pay
them a one-off fee for a financial plan,
which will give clarity and peace of
mind. He can then choose whether to
hire that planner on an ongoing basis
or go it alone.
A certified financial planner will act
in his interests as the financial plan will
be independent of any investment management. It may be that they encourage
him to rethink his retirement goals and
semi-retire within 10 years instead.
A planner can also provide a business plan that will give clarity as to
what his business needs to do in order
to give him the lifestyle he wants, when
he wants.

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9

Fund of the week

‘We lost 83pc investing in a Chinese coffee chain’
But Asia offers high returns if you know where to look, the veteran fund manager Andrew Dalrymple tells Charlotte Gifford

D

espite fears of a global recession
rattling developing economies,
there are still plenty of reasons
to be optimistic about the long-term
returns from emerging market funds.
Although the Aubrey Global Emerging Markets Opportunities fund has
fallen by 15pc in the past year – mainly
because of supply chain problems and
regulatory crackdowns in China – it
has returned 25pc over three years,
beating the sector average of 0.3pc.
Co-manager Andrew Dalrymple
describes the portfolio as “the emerging markets fund you can sleep
soundly with” because of its focus
on businesses that meet the needs of
the booming middle classes in China,
India and south-east Asia. But can
investors be equally confident?
Mr Dalrymple tells Telegraph Money
how he and his team identify the companies they expect to lead the way in
Asia and why they never invest in semiconductor or mining stocks, despite
their huge popularity with other
fund managers.
WHO IS THE FUND FOR?
It is for long-term investors who really
believe in the potential of the Asian
market. Not that the fund is invested
solely in Asia – we currently have
3pc exposure to Poland and 1.5pc to
Mexico, for example – but this is where
the vast majority of our investments
are concentrated.
I grew up in Hong Kong and if, like
me, you’ve spent any time in Asia,
you’ll know that it is a vibrant part
of the world with a hard-working,
upwardly mobile population, which is
growing rapidly.
Today Asia is home to more than a
billion millennials and over the coming decades they’re going to acquire
more disposable income than their
parents and they’re going to want to
buy things that improve their lives.
That’s why we invest in consumer
services – and by that I mean companies that set out to make life more
comfortable: those that sell food, beverages, cosmetics, financial services.

HOW DO YOU PICK STOCKS?
We look at all of Asia, but we’ll only
invest in companies headquartered
in countries that have a relatively stable political climate. Good politics is
good for business.
We have a watchlist of about 400
companies that I’ve been managing
since the 1980s. From that, we’ll narrow it down to 150 companies that have
growth of 15pc a year and strong cash
generation. Then we’ll home in even
more on companies in the sectors that
are a great fit for us.
A good example would be our top
holding, Varun Beverages, the primary
producer of Pepsi in India, in which
5.8pc of the fund is invested. It’s been
a great investment – so far we’ve made
two-and-a-half times our money on it.

I N F OCUS

Andrew Dalrymple

Dina Polska
—
Our only Polanddomiciled holding is an
example of the exciting
prospects you can find
in emerging markets.
The grocery sector has
been very disparate
for a long time but this
supermarket chain has
grown massively since
its foundation in 1999 to
achieve a market value
of $6bn and now shows
every sign of becoming
the Walmart of Poland.
The shares have gained
220pc since 2018.

ARE THERE ANY SECTORS
YOU AVOID?
You will not find any semiconductor
firms in our fund, or mining companies.
Regrettably, that means we haven’t
benefited from the recent boost to commodity and energy prices.
However, the reason we avoid these
cyclical businesses is that we think
they are extremely difficult to forecast.
By comparison, I can say with relative
confidence that India’s booming middle
class is going to be buying more cars,
more cosmetics and better food.
WHAT HAS BEEN YOUR BEST
INVESTMENT?
I would say it’s Shopee, an e-commerce
marketplace, which I would call
the Amazon of south-east Asia. It
serves countries such as Singapore
and the Philippines. You can’t have
e-commerce without logistics and connectivity – and other countries in Asia
are only now catching up with China in
this respect. We bought shares in Shopee’s owner in 2019 at $22 and by the end
of 2021 they were worth $350. Meanwhile its quarterly turnover has grown
to $1.5bn (£1.2bn) as e-commerce has
become an increasingly big part of the
consumer landscape over there.
Another stock I’d tip is Proya, a Chi-

Markets Hub
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QUESTOR
THIS WEEK

AUBREY GLOBAL EM OPPORTUNITIES
How does the fund measure up?
200
%
150

Aubrey Global Emerging
Markets Opportunities

Init chge

Sell

Mid

Buy

Weekly
% chg

Name

Init chge

Mid

Sell

Buy

Weekly
% chg

Name

Init chge

Sell

Mid

Buy

Weekly
% chg

Name

Init chge

B Shares

AXA Investment Managers UK
Limited
7 Newgate Street, London, EC1A 7NX
www.axaframlington.com Cust Svs: 0845 777 5511

SHARE TIP

QinetiQ
Buy at 380.8p
As defence spending soars,
this maker of military
equipment is worth buying

100

Launch date
March 2015

50
Average peer

0

Total return
since launch
84pc

-50
2016

2018

2020

2022

Where does the fund invest?

T U E S D AY
SHARE TIP

Total return
year to date
–12.4pc

China

Lloyds Banking Group
Buy at 45.06p
Also covered:
Lancashire (hold)

Annual charge
1.1pc
(RC1 share class)

India
Vietnam
Indonesia

W E D N E S D AY

Total number
of stocks
38

Poland
Other
0%

10

20

30

40

QUESTOR IN AMERICA

Pershing Square Holdings
Buy at £26.60
Owns blue-chip American
shares and trades at a huge
discount to asset value

50

SOURCE: FE FUNDINFO

Top 10 holdings (as of 30/06/2022)
1. Varun Beverages

5.8pc

6=. Tata Consumer Products

3.1pc

2=. Meituan

3.9pc

6=. Yadea Group Holdings

3.1pc

2=. Proya Cosmetics

3.9pc

8=. Dino Polska

3pc

4. Trent

3.8pc

8=. Godrej Properties

3pc

5. Tencent

3.2pc

8=. Bosideng International

3pc

T H U R S D AY
INVESTMENT TRUST BARGAIN

Unite
Buy at £11.48
Shares are at a 21pc premium
so readers should watch for
a chance to buy on weakness

We thought we were getting in on the
Starbucks trend in Asia. But if you recall
the headlines, there was a massive fraud
scandal and it crashed and burned. Five
months after buying it at $35 a share
we sold it for just $6. We had
been to its headquarters and
met the finance directors, but
it was a lesson for us to step up
our due diligence.
What £1,000
invested at
WHAT WOULD YOU BE
launch would
IF YOU WEREN’T A FUND
be worth now
MANAGER?

nese cosmetics company. There’s an
assumption that everyone in China is
buying luxury brands like Estée Lauder,
but in reality many can’t afford to.
Proya, which sells much more affordable skincare, has a very
good online offering and its
recent figures showed sales
growth of 22pc.

F R I D AY
QUESTOR IHT PORTFOLIO

Gamma Communications
Hold at £11.60
Also covered:
tinyBuild (hold)

£1,840

AND YOUR WORST?
Like many fund managers,
in 2019 we got stung by
Luckin Coffee, a coffee
chain founded in Beijing.

Read Questor at

telegraph.co.uk/questor

A doctor.

Unit trusts & open-ended investment companies prices
Name

S U N D AY

KEY
FACTS

Total return (%)

Life and pension prices

Sell

Mid

Buy

Weekly
% chg

Name

Init chge

Sell

Mid

Buy

Weekly
% chg

Name

Init chge

Mid

Sell

Buy

Weekly
% chg

Name

Sell

Mid

Buy

Weekly
% chg

JPM Global Eq Inc Fd A Acc

3.00

*160.8000

+1.45

JPM US Sm Cap Gwth Fd A Acc 3.00

937.2000

+4.18

Jupiter Merlin Inc Prtfo L Acc –

*346.3

+1.46

245.4000

+4.16

Jupiter Merlin Inc Prtfo L Inc –

*140.18

Aviva Life & Pensions UK Ltd

JPM US Sm Cap Gwth Fd A Inc 3.00

+1.47

375.1

+1.88

formerly National Westminster Life Assurance Ltd
Wellington Row, York, YO90 1WR. 01904 628982

Name

Sell

Mid

Weekly
% chg

Buy

519.91

547.28

Deposit & Tres 3 S5 Acc

167.71

176.54

…

Fixed Interest

266.87

280.92

+1.65

Index-Linked

430.21

452.85

+6.60

Distribution

80.31

84.54

+0.70

Global Income

0%

202.46

+1.18

JPM Global Eq Inc Fd A Inc

3.00

*117.1000

+0.86

Corporate Bond

0%

105.44

+1.63

JPM Global HiYld Bd A Grs Acc 3.00

*120.4000

+1.69

Jupiter Merlin WW Prtfo L Inc –

Equity Inc

0%

110.07

+1.80

Janus Henderson Investors

JPM Global HiYld Bd A Grs Inc 3.00

*31.7000

+0.32

Jupiter Merlin WW Prtfo L Acc –

375.08

+1.88

Equity Inc Booster

0%

74.01

+1.11

JPM Global HiYldBdAGrsMthInc3.00

*31.7200

+1.28

Jupiter Monthly Alt Inc L Acc –

*144.97

+1.05

Mixed Inv 20 60% 1 S5 Acc

400.05

+0.88

Pension Funds

Glob Abs Ret

0%

110.7

+0.59

PO Box 9023 Chelmsford, CM99 2WB
Enquiries: 0800 832 832
Website: www.janushenderson.com

JPM Global Macro Fund A Acc 3.00

*69.2300

-0.67

Jupiter Monthly Alt Inc L Inc –

*31.38

+0.71

Gwth Managed

428.67

451.23

+1.14

Mxd Inv 20 60% 1 S12 Pens Ac 496.41

522.54

483.10

508.52

+1.20

Glob Multi-Strat

0%

121.34

+1.43

Asia Pac Cap Gwth A Acc

5.00

1159

-1.02

JPM Global Macro Fund A Inc 3.00

*60.2600

Flexible Inv 1 S5 Acc

-0.68

Amer Gwth Acc

–

1171

+4.00

Inflation-Linked Corp Bd

0%

111.11

+1.72

Asian Dividend Income Inc

5.00

82.12

-2.63

JPM Global Macro Opps A Acc 3.00

75.6000

-0.36

Biotech Acc

–

243.6

+1.08

Long-Term Global Equity

0%

297.98

+2.14

Cautious Managed A Acc

5.00

288.8

+1.37

JPM Global Macro Opps A Inc 3.00

74.9300

-0.36

Jupiter Unit Trust Managers Ltd
The Zig Zag Building, 70 Victoria Street, London,
SW1E 6SQ
020 3817 1000

-0.36

SE Asia Equity

Series 1 Life Funds
380.05

+1.06

569.93

599.93

+1.36

–

*100.14

Gwth Man Ser A

Jupiter Multi Asst Inc L Acc

+0.71

Global Managed

501.29

527.67

+1.70

Flex Inv 1 S12 Pens Acc

625.15

658.05

+1.42

Jupiter Multi Asst Inc L Inc

–

*52.1

+0.44

UK 1 S5 Acc

471.35

496.16

+1.10

Global Man Ser A

699.39

736.20

+1.91

961.47

+2.52

UK Equity Ser A

612.58

644.82

+1.41

Jupiter Multi Asst I & G L Inc –

95.09

+0.93

Japanese Equity

191.52

201.60

+0.57

Dep & Treas 1 S12 Pens Ac

192.80

202.95

+0.01

+2.25

European Equity

780.75

821.85

+1.16

Fixed Interest Ser A

356.92

375.71

+1.99

American Equity

913.40

Clean Economy R Acc

–

1095

+5.19

Asian Income

0%

129.1

-0.16

Cautious Managed A Inc

5.00

144.5

+0.77

JPM Global Uncons Eq A Acc 3.00

2042.0000

+2.66

Jupiter N.American Inc L Acc –

*211.37

541.95

570.48

-0.36

Mxd Inv 20 60% 2 S12 Pens Ac 469.60

–

268.8

-1.61

Continental European

0%

203.01

+2.09

China Opps A Acc

5.00

1308

-2.61

JPM Global Uncons Eq A Inc 3.00

150.8000

+2.65

Jupiter Abslt Rtn L Acc

–

33.94

-0.73

Jupiter N.American Inc L Inc –

*161.64

SE Asia Equity

Emerg Mkts Acc

+1.42

Cash

160.47

168.91

+0.01

Gwth Man Ser B

539.05

567.43

+1.35

FinTech R Acc

–

803.3

+5.35

Global Dynamic Bd

0%

86.33

+0.45

Emerg Mkts Opps A Acc

5.00

200.3

-0.15

JPM Japan A Acc

530.0000

+2.20

Jupiter Asian Fd L Inc

–

*907.94

+0.01

Jupiter Responsible Inc L Acc –

131.08

+2.08

Fixed Interest

268.51

282.64

+1.64

Flex Inv 2 S12 Pens Ac

591.35

622.47

+1.42

Index-Linked

410.85

432.47

+6.61

Glob Man 2 S12 Pens Ac

661.86

696.69

+1.91

Distribution

84.26

88.69

+0.71

3.00

Global Tech

–

224.6

+5.59

Global High Yield Bd

0%

77.38

+1.04

European Growth A Acc†

5.25

277.7

+3.00

JPM Japan A Inc

3.00

127.2000

+2.25

Jupiter Asian Inc L Acc

–

*181.55

+0.08

Jupiter Responsible Inc L Inc –

72.31

+2.09

Global Thematics R GBP Acc

–

2204

+3.57

Global Opportunities

0%

271.21

+2.44

European Sel Opps A Acc

5.00

2043

+2.46

JPM Multi-Asset Income A Acc 3.00

*101.5000

+1.00

Jupiter Asian Inc L Inc

–

*142.37

+0.08

Jupiter Strategic Bond L Acc –

*99.79

+1.12

Series 2 Life Funds

494.32

+1.06

UK 2 S12 Pens Ac

579.29

609.78

+1.41

Dep & Treas 2 S12 Pens Ac

185.53

195.29

+0.01

Fixed Interest Ser B

347.22

365.49

+1.99

470.25

Health Acc

–

2903

-0.34

International Bd

0%

107.62

+0.68

Fixed Int Mthly Inc A Inc

4.25

19.22

+0.52

JPM Multi-Asset Income A Inc 3.00

*59.0900

-0.19

Jupiter China L Acc

–

102.96

-2.19

Jupiter Strategic Bond L Inc

–

*57.84

+0.17

Japan R GBP Acc

–

593.6

+0.71

Multi-Asset Bal

0%

158.81

+1.37

Global Care Growth A Inc

4.50

486

+3.38

JPM Multi-Asset Inc A Mth Inc 3.00

*59.0700

+0.72

Jupiter China L Inc

–

96.04

-2.19

Jupiter UK Growth L Inc

–

*252.27

+1.97

5.25

64.18

+1.01

JPM Multi-Man Gwth A Acc

3.00

1289.0000

+1.98

Jupiter Corp Bond L Inc

–

56.12

+1.69

Jupiter UK Smaller Cos Eq L Acc –

*369.74

+0.29

Series 3 Life Funds

4.25

4453

+1.78

JPM Multi-Man Gwth A Inc

3.00

1145.0000

+1.96

Jupiter Eco L Inc

–

541.44

+4.35

Jupiter UK Special Sits L Inc

201.58

+1.85

Mixed Inv 20 60% 3 S5 Acc

356.12

374.87

+0.87

UK 3 S12 Pens Ac

580.72

580.72

+1.41

Growth Man

402.06

423.23

+1.13

Deposit & Tres 3 S12 Pens Ac

185.48

185.48

+0.01

455.14

Fixed Interest Ser C

348.44

348.44

+1.99

Managed Balanced Acc

–

473.4

+2.33

Mult-Asset Div Return

0%

134.99

+1.06

Global Equity Inc A Inc†

Managed Income Acc

–

182.7

+0.72

Mult-Asset Growth

0%

233.41

+1.36

Global Growth Acc

–

314.20

330.70

+0.93

Mxd Inv 20 60% 3 S12 Pens Ac 470.25

Growth Man

368.60

388.00

+1.24

Gwth Man Ser C

539.99

539.99

+1.35

Flex Inv 3 S12 Pens Ac

592.89

592.89

+1.42

Glob Man 3 S12 Pens Ac

664.33

664.33

Managed Income Inc

–

98.64

+0.75

Oriental

0%

190.67

-0.55

Global Strategic Cap Acc†

5.00

313.5

+1.69

JPM Natural Res A Acc

3.00

871.2000

-0.88

Jupiter European L Inc

–

*2769.7

+3.54

Jupiter US Sm&Md Inst I Acc –

80.99

…

Flex Inv 3 S5 Acc

479.09

+1.19

Monthly Inc Inc

–

242.5

+0.08

Real Return A

0%

106.88

-0.22

Global Technology A Acc

5.00

2988

+4.29

JPM Natural Res A Inc

3.00

55.8000

-0.87

Jupiter Euro Inc L Acc

–

83.8

+2.57

Jupiter US Sm&Md Cap Ret Acc –

74.46

…

Global Managed

479.64

504.89

+1.69

UK 3 S5 Acc

452.62

476.44

+1.09

Monthly Inc Acc

–

711.9

+0.06

UK Equity Fund

0%

141.86

+2.59

Inst UK IDX Opp Tr

–

UK Growth Acc

–

348.8

+3.35

UK Income

0%

133.59

+1.78

Multi-Mgr Abs Ret A Acc

5.00

111.6933

+2.10

163

+0.37

5.00

260.7

+1.48

5.25

129.8

+0.93

UK Select Opps R Inc

–

1993

+1.48

UK Opportunities

0%

159.84

+2.78

UK Select Opps R Acc

–

3784

+1.50

US Opportunities

0%

301.23

+4.23

Multi-Mgr Distbn A Inc

UK Smllr Cos Acc

–

299.2

+0.23

Emerging Income

0%

97.6

-0.64

Multi-Mgr Divrsfd A Acc

–

88.87

+1.24

High Income Inc

–

*91.58

91.58

+0.35

Global Dynamic Bd Inc

0%

0.912

+0.53

Multi-Mgr Inc&Gwth A Acc

5.00

190.4

+1.01

High Income Acc

–

*250.6

250.6

+1.38

Global Emerging Mkts

0%

203.46

+0.20

Multi-Mgr Inc&Gwth A Inc

5.25

151.3

+1.07

UK Select Port Inc

–

333.8

333.8

+2.39

Global Equity Fund

0%

267.88

+2.51

Multi-Mgr Mangd A Acc†

5.00

318.1

+1.60

UK Selection Port

–

680

680

+2.43

Multi Asset Inc

0%

122.24

+0.53

AXA IM Funds www.axa-im.co.uk

Carvetian Capital
Management Limited

Blue Whale Capital

Admin: Stuart House, St John’s St,
Peterborough PE1 5DD
Dealing & Enquiries: 0345 850 0255

0345 307 3439
www.bluewhale.co.uk

Blue Whale Growth R Acc

–

168.81

+5.24

Generation Fd

5.00

*895.4

+0.30

Sand Aire FENIX Bal Inc

5.00

*179.5

+1.87

Consistent Unit Trust
Management Co Ltd

Kings Meadow, Chester, CH99 9UT
0870 333 1835

Multi-Mgr Mangd A Inc†

5.00

307.9

+1.58

UK 100 Co’s Fund Inc

–

221.9

221.9

+1.79

Sterling Bond Acc†

4.25

220.8

+1.19

UK 100 Co’s Fund Acc

–

438.1

438.1

+1.84

Sterling Bond Inc†

4.25

60.86

+1.16

W’wide Man Inc

–

*555.7

+1.65

Strategic Bond A Inc

4.00

112.9

+0.09

W’wide Man Acc

–

*944.7

+1.64

UK Absolute Return A Acc

5.00

164.5

+0.30

UK Alpha A Acc†

5.25

144.4

+1.55

UK Smaller Cos A ACC

5.00

873.8

+1.08

UK Equity Income A Inc

5.00

UK Index Opps Tst A Acc

–

US Growth A Acc

5.00

518.8

+1.17

111.145

+2.10

1707

+3.33

M&G Securities Ltd
PO Box 9039, Chelmsford, CM99 2XG
Enq: 0800 390 390. UT Deal: 0800 328 3196

†Available as an ISA

Admin: Stuart House, St John’s St,
Peterborough PE1 5DD
Dealing & Client Services 0345 850 8818

BNY Mellon Fund Managers
Investors: 0800 614330 Brokers: 08085 660000
www.bnymellonim.co.uk,
clientservices@bnymellon.com
BNY Mellon Investment Funds (ICVC)
Sterling Income Shares
Global Income

0%

250.19

+1.17

Corporate Bond

0%

87.05

+1.62

Equity Inc

0%

147.8

+1.79

Equity Inc Booster

0%

94.45

+1.10

Glob Abs Ret

0%

110.52

+0.58

Charity Multi Asset Acc

–

*10476.96

+1.04

Opportunities Unit Tst Acc

0%

*170.5

…

Charity Multi Asset Dis

–

*88.81

+0.12

Practical Invest Inc

5.00

240.7

240.7

+3.13

Eqty Inv Chrties GBP Inc

–

*1495.72

-0.29

Practical Invest Acc

5.00

1473

1473

+3.15

Eqty Inv Chrties GBP Acc

–

*28903.17

+1.04

Discretionary Unit Fund
No 1, Poultry, London EC2R 8JR. 020 7415 4130

Maitland Discretionary Inc

3.00 1849.794545

+0.79

60 Victoria Embankment, London, EC4Y 0JP
Clients:0800 204020.Brokerline 0800 727770

Name

Init chge

JPM Asia Growth A Acc

3.00

254.5000

-1.66

JPM Asia Growth A Inc

3.00

139.6000

-1.62

JPM Sterling Corp Bd A Grs Acc 3.00

JPM Div Gth A Net ACC

3.00

301.2000

-0.17

JPM Sterling Corp Bd A Grs Inc 3.00

JPM Emg Euro Eq A Acc‡

3.00

*155.7000

…

JPM UK Dynamic A Acc

Mid

Weekly
Buy % chg

*92.2900

+0.90

Jupiter Euro Inc L Inc

Sell

–

49.46

+2.57

Init chge

Sell

Jupiter Euro Special Sits L Acc –

*439.52

+4.13

Jupiter Fin Opp L Inc

–

694.82

+1.89

+0.81

Jupiter Fund Of Inv Tsts L Inc –

315.82

+1.99

Global Bond Fund Inc

–

89.27

+1.17

+1.95

Jupiter Global Emg Mkts L Acc –

63.72

+2.44

Mangd Eqty Grwth Fnd Acc

–

122.0

+1.33

+1.42

3.00

*29.91

…

JPM UK Dynamic A Inc

3.00

+1.70

JPM Emg Markets A Acc

3.00

253.9000

-0.16

JPM UK Equity Core E Acc

–

*427.9000

Long-Term Global Equity

0%

395.02

+2.13

Asian Income

0%

210.87

-0.18

European Opps

0%

307.99

+2.08

JPM Emg Markets A Inc

3.00

107.4000

-0.09

JPM UK Equity Core E Inc

–

*63.9800

+1.94

Jupiter Global Eq Inc L Acc

–

92

+1.50

Mangd Grwth Fund Inc

–

114.6

+1.33

3.00

*87.5900

-2.23

JPM UK Equity Gwth A Acc

3.00

154.7000

+2.79

Jupiter Global Eq Inc L Inc

–

71.68

+1.50

Mangd Grwth Fund Acc

–

117.8

+1.20

JPM Emg Mkts Inc A Inc

3.00

*59.0700

-4.56

JPM UK Equity Gwth A Inc

3.00

129.8000

+2.85

Jupiter Global Finl Innov L Acc –

95.45

+1.35

UK Eqty Fund Acc

–

114.0

+1.51

UK Eqty Fund Inc

–

102.6

+1.58

0%

89.8

+0.44

Fundsmith Equity T Acc

–

*595.05

+2.52

JPM Eur Dyn (ex-UK) £ Hg A Acc3.00

269.0000

+2.32

JPM UK Equity Value A Acc

3.00

*199.4000

+1.27

Jupiter Global Managed L Acc –

349.78

+2.22

Global High Yield Bd

0%

48.84

+1.06

Fundsmith Equity T Inc

–

*543.00

+2.52

JPM Euro Dyn (ex-UK) A Acc 3.00

265.3000

+2.27

JPM UK Equity Value A Inc

3.00

*101.2000

+0.70

Jupiter Global Managed L Inc –

333.64

+2.22

Global Opportunities

0%

414.16

+2.43

JPM Euro Dyn (ex-UK) A Inc

3.00

115.3000

+2.31

JPM UK Eq Inc A Acc

–

*57.8900

+1.94

Jupiter Growth & Inc L Inc

–

91.01

+2.26

International Bd

0%

234.63

+0.68

JPM Europe A Acc

3.00

1715.0000

+2.51

JPM UK Eq Inc A Inc

–

*46.0700

+1.92

Jupiter Income Trust L Inc

–

*497.53

+1.89

Multi-Asset Bal

0%

241.9

+1.35

JPM Europe A Inc

3.00

89.4500

+2.53

JPM UK Sm Cos A Acc

3.00

593.8000

+2.80

Jupiter India L Acc

–

*141.23

+2.63

Mult-Asset Div Return

0%

174.4

+1.04

JPM Euro Smaller Co A Acc

3.00

899.0000

+3.14

JPM UK Sm Cos A Inc

3.00

110.4000

+2.79

Jupiter Japan Inc L Acc

–

*137.25

+0.55
-0.68
+1.80

+1.35

940.31

-0.57

JPM Euro Smaller Co A Inc

18 Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HZ
www.guinnessgi.com
+44(0)20 7222 5703

Real Return A

0%

120.46

-0.22

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Katie Morley Investigates
Your consumer champion
poisonous Kinder Eggs they weren’t
responsible for producing, it quickly
capitulated by reimbursing them. It
appeared the action was the result of
an over-zealous algorithm, which it
was happy to correct.
Now I have discovered that Amazon has a different policy in the US. Its
terms and conditions allow it to refund
customers for items sold and later
recalled, effectively forcing sellers to
pay for mistakes made by manufacturers. This strikes me as ludicrously
unfair on sellers. It means that to guarantee dodging this trap you’ve fallen
into, sellers would need to possess
psychic powers that allowed them to
predict product recalls.
I am no expert in American law,
but frankly I don’t need to be to think
that Amazon’s US policy lacks any fairness or common sense. You probably should speak to a lawyer, though.
I wonder whether you and the other
affected sellers could club together
and start a class action against Amazon in America?
My advice to sellers in Britain is to
think twice before you sell in the US,
unless you can afford to refund all your
customers in the event of a recall.
An Amazon spokesman said: “Our
customers’ health and safety is of the
utmost importance to us. We notified past customers alerting them to
this safety notice and provided customer refunds. We made sellers aware
that Amazon would be notifying and
refunding consumers and seeking
immediate reimbursement from them.
This is in line with our safety policy.”

LETTER OF THE WEEK

Barclays charged me
£30k to leave a £1m
mortgage that I didn’t
want in the first place
Last year my wife and I were looking to remortgage our property, so
my mortgage broker applied for a rate
from our then lender, Barclays. In the
end we found a better rate elsewhere
and decided to go with that. So imagine
my surprise when Barclays said I had
to pay an “early repayment penalty”
of £30,000. This is because it claims
I initiated the new mortgage, which
was for nearly £1m, and then cancelled
it after just a few days.
I am absolutely livid, as I did no
such thing. At no point did I sign a new
mortgage contract and I had no direct
dealings with the bank whatsoever. I
was horrified to receive an offer letter
stating that I needed to take no further
action and that the mortgage would
automatically start.
This is absolutely not what we asked
for. We asked for a rate that we could
compare with other deals on the market so we could make a decision about
what was best for us.
I have made many calls and sent
numerous letters and emails to Barclays, yet it has been unable to provide
any documentation to show that I
signed a mortgage offer. So how can it
possibly maintain that I am liable for
this early repayment charge?
A payment for nearly £5,000 has
just been charged to my account for
this mortgage. This has been going on
for more than a year, which is totally
ridiculous. Nothing I say seems to
make any difference.
– CW, via email

Early repayment charges are
designed by banks to protect the
income stream they earn from the
interest that borrowers pay. Such
penalties are supposed to discourage
borrowers from signing up for fixed
deals and then changing their minds
part-way through the term. This is
just business.
But clearly here, where you never
intended the mortgage to go ahead
in the first place, an early repayment
charge was completely inappropriate.
For a start, having signed on the dotted line with another lender, you had
no idea this Barclays mortgage was
even being set up. You employ a broker to handle your mortgage affairs
and he had booked this Barclays rate
before your old two-year deal expired.
It was only supposed to be a fallback
while he searched for better deals for
you. This is standard practice in the
world of mortgage brokerage.
After initially booking this Barclays
deal for you, your broker found you a
lower rate with another lender. You
went ahead with this and were given

LUKE BROOKES FOR THE TELEGRAPH

Q

Insurer’s attempt to gag
our reader backfires
egular readers of this column may
remember the recent case of Tashi
the dog, who lost a leg in a freak car
accident. Tashi jumped out of the boot
of her owners’ car and was dragged
along behind it while still attached to
her lead, resulting in her losing a leg.
Her owners’ insurer, Waggel, and
its underwriter, Red Sands, refused to
pay Tashi’s vet bills. This was because
they said our reader had endangered
her dog’s life while getting her into
the car. Following my involvement in
the case, Red Sands changed its mind
and agreed to pay £6,000, but only
if the customer signed a non-disclosure agreement. This would have prevented the story being told and the
companies being named and shamed.
Tashi’s owner bravely declined to sign,
told her story on these pages and then
asked the Financial Ombudsman Service to resolve the case.
Well, I’m pleased to report that the
ombudsman has forced Red Sands
to cough up £6,000. This was the
right result. To say I’m satisfied that
Red Sands’ attempts to buy this customer’s silence were thwarted is an
understatement.
Companies that think gagging people to stop word spreading about their
bad behaviour need to hear this: what
goes around comes around.

R

A

a completion date on which you were
expecting your loan to move across.
This date was supposed to be the same
day your previous Barclays mortgage
ended, which was a Friday.
Unfortunately, because of administration delays the new mortgage didn’t
go ahead on time and was not set up
until the Monday. This meant the fallback Barclays mortgage automatically went ahead and, because it was a
remortgage rather than a new one, it
did not require a signature.
Instead of recognising this situation
for what it was, which was an administrative bungle, Barclays decided to treat
you as a customer who had knowingly
walked out of a fixed deal early. To me,
this attitude is quite clearly ridiculous.
Happily, following my involvement
the early repayment charge has been
removed and the £5,000 you were
forced to pay has been refunded. Why
it has taken a year, and the involve-*

ment of this column, for this to happen
is beyond me.
A Barclays spokesman said: “We are
very sorry that Mr and Mrs W have had
cause to complain. We can confirm that
the early repayment charge has been
removed and that we are returning the
monthly repayment that we received.
“The mortgage rate was switched following an instruction from their independent mortgage broker, which we
now understand was made in error. We
would like to apologise for the distress
and inconvenience caused.”

US vitamin recall saw
Amazon take $150k to
refund my customers
I run an Amazon US shop through
which I sell various health-related
products. In April the American author-

Q

ities recalled some supplements I had
been selling in large volumes, as they
were found to potentially cause heart
attacks. Obviously this was very upsetting. I had no idea they were harmful until the recall, after which I didn’t
sell a single pack. In fact I stopped selling them last year, which was way
before the recall.
I was sho cke d when Amazon
refunded my customers for every pack
I had ever sold, taking $150,000 out of
my account to pay for it. This is a huge
sum of money to me. I saw you dealt
with a similar case in relation to Amazon forcing small businesses to pay
for recalled Kinder Eggs, which went
against the advice of their manufacturer, Ferrero. Can you help get Amazon
in the US to do the same thing for me?
– DC, via email

A

After I contacted Amazon UK about
sellers being unfairly penalised for

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The 15 things I wish I’d known
before I renovated my house
Lucy Denyer spent two years transforming a building site into a family home. Here’s what she learnt…

A couple of years ago, my husband and I bought
a house. I say a house – it was actually more of a
building site: walls stopped several feet short of
the floor, the enormous hot water tank was temporarily plumbed into the middle of the kitchen
and a perilous ladder took you up to the semicompleted top floor. But it was in the right location; we calculated that building into the side
return and extending at the back meant we could
make it big enough for our needs (we have three
children); and, crucially, it was within budget, so
we took the plunge, and embarked on a hefty renovation project.
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We had to do everything; and I mean everything.
Rewire, replumb, build, lay floors, add walls and
doors, work out exactly where we wanted all the
light switches to go. Also, we were on a budget –
much as I would have loved to call in a top-end
architect and interior designer to oversee the
whole thing, sadly that wasn’t an option.
A year and a half later, and we’re finally in –
marriage surprisingly intact, finances gradually
recovering. Would I do it again? Ask me in 10
years. In the meantime, here’s what I learnt.

didn’t quite work out like that, but the process
was invaluable – she talked me through how we
like to live and what we wanted from our home,
what was crucial (a utility room) and what was
merely desirable (a separate TV room got canned),
as well as helping me to think ahead about what
we might want to do in the future – for example,
turn a large bedroom into two smaller ones, and
create an en-suite. All of this helped us work out
where to put walls and plumbing, reconfigure the
space so the house flowed beautifully and make
sure our furniture fitted. It gave us the long view
and saved dithering and mind-changing (which
costs more money) later down the line.

A set of architects’ drawings
Get a design and build
is worth the money
company in for an extension
Right at the outset of the process, I signed up an
architect friend, who has exquisite taste (Olivia
Gordon; studio@oliviagordon.com) to do me a set
of drawings for the house, with the idea that we’d
then employ a builder to execute the work. It

After a series of fruitless conversations with
builders, waving our architect’s plans at them,
we realised that most contractors, even the
really good ones, want to be told exactly what to

do, and in what order. If you have architects’
plans already, you can employ a project manager
to oversee the build and manage a team (or the
architect could also oversee it for you, working
with a project manager and building team), but it
will generally cost more money. Or you can hire a
design and build company, which does what it
says on the tin: designs your space and then
builds it for you.
This is a brilliant option if you’re doing something like a side return or loft extension, which
are the bread and butter of companies such as
these, as they will know exactly how to maximise
your space, draw it up, get it through planning
and carry it out, within an agreed budget and
time frame. We could have cut out the architects’
drawing stage and gone straight for this option
(and in fact, MoreSpace, the company we used to
do our kitchen extension, did tweak our drawings slightly to get them through planning, and
they sailed through without a hitch).
They will also deal with building control and
fire regulations – reassuring to know the whole
thing won’t fall down or spontaneously combust. I couldn’t recommend MoreSpace more
highly: ask for Stewart Ellerby, and request
Louie’s building team.

Being your own project
manager can be fun
Well, not fun exactly, but definitely satisfying. If
you’ve got enough time, you can also save money
by doing it this way – getting multiple quotes
from individual contractors takes ages but means
you can drill down into the costs, and you’ll learn
a lot throughout the process, which is also helpful if anything goes wrong in future.
We hired different individual contractors
to rewire, take out chimneys, put up stud walls,
plaster, fit bathrooms, lay the kitchen floor and
decorate – it was laborious and time-consuming,
but at the end of it we had a handful of really
good names in our address book of tradesmen
we will definitely use again (as well as some we
definitely won’t).
As a rough rule of thumb, you shouldn’t be paying more than about £250 a day for contractors,
so if they quote you a sky-high figure, ask them
how long they think the job will take them. But
don’t sit on quotes, as prices can go up – check
how long they’re valid for. And if a contractor
says they’re free to start the job next week, be
suspicious: the good ones get booked up, so get
organised and be prepared to wait if necessary.

Electrics go in early – so
make sure you’re prepared
This is really hard, but is also where having some
architects’ drawings, or a rough layout, can come
in handy, as you can work out where you want
furniture to go, which in turn affects placement
of things like switches and plug sockets. You’ll
probably want at least one double socket on
either side of a double bed, for example, and
sockets with USB ports are useful for overnight
phone charging. Think about where you want to
plug your hairdryer in, or how and where you
want to charge an electric toothbrush (we originally put the latter in the wrong place and had to
move them, otherwise we’d have had tooth-

brushes hanging from the wall). Where are you
going to have your kettle, toaster and microwave?
Don’t forget you can put plugs inside cupboards
– we have one inside our larder cupboard, so we
can tuck the microwave and Nutribullet out of
sight – and err on the side of more sockets than
less (we still have to have an extension lead in the
sitting room thanks to all the TV paraphernalia).
If you prefer lamps to harsh overhead lighting
(me), a separate five-amp circuit for lamps is useful in, for example, the sitting room, as it allows
you to turn all the lamps on and off with
one switch.
Put everything on dimmers so that you can
change the mood of the room by raising or lowering the lighting levels, and don’t forget to install
an outside plug – ideal for those garden fairy
lights, and you can extend off it if you want to
incorporate more garden lighting or wire out to a
garden office later on. Don’t forget internet
access too – think about whether you want to
install an Ethernet cable system if you’ve got a
large house where Wi-Fi boosters won’t cut it.

g House proud:

Lucy Denyer, who
has renovated her
home on a budget

i Smart space:

a spare bedroom
in the loft gets
a lot of light

j Colourful

cushions and
throws can add a
new lease of life
to an old sofa

Getting multiple quotes
takes ages but you can
drill down into the costs
and you’ll learn a lot

Spend on a plumber, save
on bathroom fittings
I spent months ogling freestanding copper bathtubs, enormous marble-clad rainfall showers and
his-and-hers vanity units; what I should have
done is focus firmly on the plumber I hired – as in
the end we had to sack one lot and find another at
very short notice. Rogue water can cause all sorts
of problems, so it’s worth getting someone who
knows their stuff and can make sure you’ve put
everything in the best place to optimise things
like water pressure.
We kept and repainted the existing roll top
bath, bought new taps for the old-fashioned sink
and got the rest of our bathroom kit from the
Bathroom Discount Centre, which stocks all the
major brands but at a vastly reduced price (ask for
Derrick). If you’re buying new sanitaryware,
ceramic lasts longer – and you can always jazz up
a basic sink or bath with really nice taps.
When it comes to tiles, a high-low approach
stops your bathroom looking cheap but doesn’t

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g The kitchen,

pletely – flat floors, which ours, after a year and
a half of ripping up floorboards, hammering
them down again and filling the gaps with
caulk, certainly were not. If you’ve got your
heart set on something for your floors, factor it
in at the beginning of your project – and the
same goes for your garden. Ours currently
looks like a combination of the Somme and a
building site – not only has it been used as a
massive builders’ dumping ground for the past
18 months, but we’re doing it completely ourselves in odd bits of time, so the vibe is very
much “unfinished”. I have visions of a smooth
lawn (fake will do) and an abundance of roses;
my husband has availed himself of a saw,
an incinerator bin and some heavy-duty weedkiller to tackle the ground elder. We’ll get
there – eventually.

were no match for our B&Q budget – one quote
from a top-end kitchen company came in at just
under £40,000, without appliances. Enter The
Used Kitchen Company, which sells ex-display,
cancelled orders and simply unwanted kitchens:
we bought our dream kitchen (10 years old, but
solid wood and beautifully made) for less than a
quarter of the price of the massive quote.
It came with gorgeous copper sinks, Caesarstone worktops and a big range cooker, and
our brilliant builder fitted it all in and made it
look as if it had been designed for our house (he
also cleverly built a larder cupboard to match,
using an unwanted base unit as a starting point).
It meant we could spend money on a beautiful
parquet floor, and we saved an unwanted kitchen
from going to landfill to boot.

which was
second-hand, came
with copper sinks
and a range cooker

Think practically about the
best way to use your space

... And try to think about
the latter at the beginning

We had a bit of an altercation after finding our
kitchen, as we had to design our extension
around it, which meant we had to rethink the utility/television room situation. In the end, we
decided (I persuaded my husband) that a utility
room should take precedence – we have three
boys, a tiny hallway and I hate washing machines
in the kitchen.
Thank God we did. We now have somewhere
to hang washing, put wellies away and store tools:
far more useful than two lots of places to relax
(which there’s never any time for anyway). On the
advice of a clever friend, we also incorporated
individual cubbies (with alphabet-initial coat
hooks for each person) in the utility room for
each member of the family, so everyone has a
place to hang their coat, put school bags and
shoes away and dump general paraphernalia –
which definitely helps with the overall tidiness
of the house.
We have masses of books, so got a joiner to
build cupboards with bookshelves in the sitting
room, and another bookshelf using the otherwise dead space around our bedroom door – and
we earmarked specific walls to put freestanding
bookshelves on too. The aforementioned larder
cupboard in the kitchen was a must – it swallows
up all the dry goods, tins, spices and baking kit,
as well as hiding the microwave. Building in narrow wardrobes in our bedroom (made from MDF
but really well-painted) came in at about the
same price as putting Ikea ones in (you can
always haggle if you’re getting someone to do a
lot of work), took up less room than an old-fashioned freestanding one would and swallowed up
all our clothes. Finally, possibly the most useful
item in our home – squeezed on to the extremely
narrow ceiling of the utility – is an old-fashioned
Sheila Maid laundry airer, which means we can
dry a load overnight without having to use the
tumble dryer.

As we were our own project managers, it was trial
and error with contractors – some were great,
some distinctly not so (see plumbers). By some
miracle, however, we ended up with Robert, who
came to fit our kitchen floors and ended up finishing the whole house off. He could do anything,
was super-creative (using leftover bits of tile to
create a pretty pattern around the basin, for
example, and cutting an old door in half to create
a more practical utility room door) – and he got us
a free dishwasher that was being chucked out of
another job. I now have him on speed dial for
doing practically anything. I’m even considering
inviting him to my birthday party.

CLARA MOLDEN

It sounds crazy – but invest
in a paint consultation

We’re not kidding
– Screwfix is your friend
Seriously, it has everything you need. Yes, you
will lust after those aged-brass cabinet handles in
the swanky independent hardware shop – and
then you will realise that Screwfix sells them for
a third of the price and you won’t even remember
what the other ones looked like once they’re
installed. Even its bog-standard white china door
handles are cheaper than anywhere else – along
with its brushed-steel switchplates, electrical
wire and gardening tools. See also Toolstation.
They also take things back if you get it wrong.

A second-hand kitchen
will save you a fortune
I cook a lot, we entertain a lot – and we’d budgeted what we’d thought was a generous amount
for our kitchen. Alas, my Plain English tastes

i Shining

example: the
bathroom has
gleaming fittings

Shop around and mix it up
for the decorative bits
As with carpets, by the time you get to the
moving-in stage, cash will be running
extremely low, so this is when to be clever, as
it’s also when the fruits of your labours will all
come together, and you want it to look nice. I
bought all the fabric for my curtains from a mill
shop close to where my parents live in
Yorkshire ( Waltons Mill Shop – they ’re
brilliant) and had them made up there by a
seamstress who was far cheaper than anyone
in London, where we live. Our kitchen table,
meanwhile, cost £10 from an auction and I
painted the top with blackboard paint to jazz it
up a bit. An old glass-fronted cupboard we’d
previously used to store china was repurposed
as a linen cupboard, an occasional table
became bathroom storage and a small hall
table my dressing table. We framed the kids’
drawings with Ikea frames and mixed them
with charity shop finds for our kitchen gallery
wall. Welsh blankets became bed covers and a
much-loved Suzani has become a sofa throw, as
we couldn’t afford to replace the sofa. It’s all a
bit hotchpotch, but it works!

Accept that the work
will never be finished...

Once you find a builder,
hang on to him (or her)
and make friends

When it comes
to fittings, go
with ceramic
sanitary ware
as it looks
nicer and will
last longer,
but you can
jazz up a basic
sink with good
quality taps

have to cost a fortune – we splurged on Ca’ Pietra
mosaic tiles for our modestly sized bathroom
floor but paired them with extremely reasonably
priced marble tiles we found online at Stonedeals.
co.uk (they were cheaper even than Topps Tiles);
in our boys’ shower we used Bert & May tiles on
the tiny floor space but went for cheap-as-chips
Topps Tiles subway tiles in the shower.

We’re now in the position of extracting the rubble out from the garden through our very narrow, newly decorated hallway. If we’d been
really canny, we’d have done the heavy-duty
work in the garden when the rest of the house
looked like a building site. Now we just have
to be very, very careful as we carry the bags
of rubble, earth and assorted detritus through
the house.

I know, it sounds bonkers to be shelling out on
someone coming round to tell you what colours
to paint your walls. But trust me, by the time you
get to the painting stage, you will a) no longer be
able to make coherent decisions; b) be running
dangerously low on cash; and c) be almost out of
time. When you’re doing a whole house you also
need to paint, well, a whole house, which means
even more choices.
If you don’t want to just paint everything
white (or even if you do – do you know how
many whiter shades of pale exist in the 21st-century paint market?), it pays to get some help. A
professional will be able to tell you how the type
of light a room receives will affect a particular
colour, advise on which paint finishes to use, tell
you how many litres you actually need to buy,
and help you with what sort of mood you want
to create in each room – as well as pushing you
just beyond your comfort zone, in a good way.
There are loads of options out there, and it
doesn’t have to cost a fortune (and will save you
one on tester pots).
The new-ish eco paint company Lick offers a
30-minute video colour consultancy for £75; its
tester pot equivalents come as peel-and-stick
squares that you can position in different places
around your house to see what the colours will
look like. If you favour a particular paint brand,
most of them now offer consultancies – Farrow
& Ball’s start from £195 for an in-person consultation, and then gives you 15 per cent off paint. If
you like the idea of mixing your brands, Paint
the Town Green works with a number of different paint companies including Little Greene,
Edward Bulmer and Paint & Paper Library; its
consultancy service is £150 for an hour. I now
have an utterly satisfying kaleidoscope of colours throughout my house, and not a magnolia
wall in sight.

A decent decorator will
cover a multitude of sins
Our plasterers, it turned out, were a bit so-so at
getting the walls flat – luckily we had a brilliant
pair of decorators who sanded them all down and
made them look perfect. Cornicing, ceilings,
doors, caulking – you name it, they made it look
brilliant. Worth every penny.

Save some of your budget
for carpets and the garden...
“We’re always the last ones to come in, and people have always run out of money,” said my carpet-fitter cheerily while he was hammering
down the basic beige wool-mix we’d opted for
throughout the house – a choice necessitated by
time (it was readily available) and cash (it was
cheap). I’d wanted sisal or an eco alternative, but
it turns out that a) it costs a fortune, and b) you
have to have completely – and I mean com-

ii Having

wardrobes
specially built
isn’t as expensive
as it sounds

i Bookshelves

helped make use
of the dead space
around Lucy’s
bedroom door

... But that’s part of the joy. Originally I’d
wanted every curtain to be hung and every last
square inch painted before we moved in, but in
the end we lived with temporary blackout
blinds and decorator’s tape on the hall floor for
a good few months. Next on the list is finishing
the garden, then it’s painting the utility room,
sorting out the fireplace in the sitting room...
the list is endless. On which note, invest in a
decent drill/screwdriver as there will be loads
to do once you’re in, from putting up shelves to
installing coat hooks. And that’s when it’ll
really feel like home.

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Home front

Mrs Clay’s guide to household thrift
This week... pasta
Xanthe Clay seeks
out the best value
staples to make you
a savvier shopper

P

asta is the most
ost democratic of
ous, adaptable and
foods – delicious,
imbued with the glamour of
ho once said:
Sophia Loren, who
e I owe to spa“Everything you see
oo – but just
ghetti.” It’s cheap, too
normously.
how cheap varies enormously.
nt pasta
Bargain basement
costs just 32p forr 500g,
enough for five hearty
portions; but posh ones
can come in at more
than 10 times that.
fferSo, what’s the differain
ence? Some contain
ilkegg, making for a silkeliier, often more delind
cate tex ture – and
ce,
usually a higher price,
ea
although they make
eed
good treat and need
hardly any sauce. At
the other end of the
e the
desirability scale are
y pasbags of garish stripy
tas that lurk dustily in deli
gift selections. Nobody
hose.
wants to be given those.
But our standard pasta, the
eekday dinstuff of countless weekday
ners, is just flour and water,
d possibly
dried. What could
poss ibly go
wrong? It turns outt it’s worth being
pernickety with pasta details – and
ng.
price isn’t everything.

S IT?
WHAT COLOUR IS
es a yellowy hue to
Durum wheat gives
onsumers love – so
pasta, which we consumers
much that wheat breeders are selecting
varieties with higher levels of carotenoids to boost the colour. But don’t be
too seduced by that sunshiny glow,
except in the case of egg pasta which
ought to be a pleasing custard yellow.
Italian cookery queen Anna del
Conte describes good pasta (but not
the kind with egg in) as being “pale
yellow buff ”. Deep amber pasta has
probably been dried fast at a high
temperature, in as little as three
hours, darkening the colour as well
as making a glassy, smooth surface.
Traditionally, slow-dried pasta can take
as long as 72 hours to dry, and often
looks pallid and chalky in the packet. It
has a more porous texture, better for
absorbing sauce.
WHAT DOES THE SURFACE
LOOK LIKE?
Pasta shapes are extruded through
“dies” – plates with holes in. A matt,
rough surface on the pasta means that a
traditional bronze die has been used.
It’s a slower process than modern

THE
PASTA-LYMPICS

both to say where
most brands don’t bother
kud to Tesco for
it comes from, so kudos
en
being transparent enough
to label
theirs as “made using EU and non-EU
durum wheat”.

non-stick dies, but the pasta sauce will
cling to the pasta better. Bronze-die
pasta also seems to give up a bit more
starch to the cooking water: a spoonful
of this added to a sauce will help it form
a smooth emulsion.
WHICH FLOUR WAS USED?
Properly, pasta should be made with the
very hard part of the durum wheat
endosperm (the starchy part of the
grain, as opposed to the bran or the
germ). This is called semola or semolina.
The softer part of the endosperm can
also be ground to make flour, but semolina is preferred because it absorbs
water well and gives the most bouncy
texture, so look for “durum wheat semolina” on the ingredients label. If it says
“durum wheat” or “durum wheat flour”,
it may not all be semolina. If ordinary
flour is included (as in Tesco’s cheapo
Hearty Food Co version), then the texture will probably be softer and stickier.
Not all durum wheat is from Italy – it
doesn’t seem to be a requirement that
the origin is shown on the packet, and

i Penne for your

thoughts: ideally,
pasta should be
made with durum
wheat semolina,
because it absorbs
water well and gives
a bouncy texture

THE COST OF COOKING
do
There’s no doubt
that when it
co
comes to cooking,
pasta is a
guzzle Italian cooks
gas guzzler.
recomme
recommend
at least one
w
litre of water
and 10g of
salt (a rounde d teaspoonfu for 100g of
spoonful)
fo each person.
pasta for
sup
So, supper
for four will
mean bringing four
l res of
lit
o water to the
litres
b l. In my largest lidboi
boil.
pa on my most
ded pan
p erf gas burner (a
pow
powerful
5kWh
number
d ign
des
designed
for a wok),
t t took
tha
too just shy of 20
that
m utes Add in 10 minmin
minutes.
u s of cooking
ute
co
utes
time, and
a owing 7p
all
7 per kWh, and
allowing
t t’s 17p. Not
tha
N staggering, I
that’s
bu not that green,
grant you, but
e her – and if
eit
i you are using
either
e ctricity, it’ll be even more
ele
electricity,
expensive.
Some of the more scientific cooks
tr
have debunked the traditional
way of
suggeste a more fuelcooking and suggested
instead Harold McGee,
efficient method instead.
Lam
who has a Dalai Lama-like
status in
re
food-science circles, recommends
put1.4 litres of cold
ting 450g pasta in 1.45
salted water and bringing it to the boil,
giving a total cooking time of about 15
minutes and saving 50 per cent of your
cooking costs. It works well, plus the
cooking water is extra starchy, great for
adding to a sauce.
I tried a second method that’s been
doing the rounds on the internet: presoaking pasta. It all sounded a bit student bedsit to me, up there with
cooking a steak in a toaster (please don’t
do this) or fish fingers and chips in a
waffle maker. But in the interests of
research, I soaked a portion of penne in
salted cold water overnight in the
fridge. The next day, I drained off the
cold water, trying to ignore how
depressingly flaccid the pasta looked,
and tipped it into a pan. In went a kettleful of boiling water, then I brought it
back to the boil before draining it again.
Amazingly, it worked, the pasta
brightening and tightening before my
eyes. Not as al dente as I’d like it – next
time I’ll soak it for just four hours – but
this could save time, money and a
fugged-up kitchen.

THRIFTY CHOICES

Sainsbury’s Penne Rigate
85p/500g , sainsburys.co.uk
This looks almost the same
as the posh De Cecco
brand (which is also sold
by Sainsbury’s) and in a
blind tasting, it was
all-but indistinguishable
– but for less than half
the price

Tesco Hearty Food Co
Penne
32p/500g, tesco.com
Fractionally paler and a
few millimetres longer
than standard Tesco penne,
but no difference in flavour,
and less than half the price.
A bit sticky, but I doubt
you’d notice in a pasta bake

POSHER PASTA
GOOD
VALUE

Napolina Penne
£1.30/500g, tesco.com
and asda.com;
£1.25, morrisons.com
Quite hefty, with a good
al dente bite and a mild,
pleasant flavour. One for a
robust sauce

Barilla Penne Rigate
£1.30/500g, morrisons.com
and tesco.com
Slightly larger penne, with
a good wheat flavour and a
decent bounce. Good
value, and in plastic free
packaging, too

Pastificio Carmiano
Gragnano Penne Rigate
£2.50/500g, sainsburys.co.uk
Large quills, like something
you’d get in a trattoria.
Pleasing rough texture, with
a real flavour of wheat, nutty
like good bread. My favourite – worth the extra money

De Cecco Penne Rigate
£2/500g waitrose.com and
sainsburys.co.uk
Almost indistinguishable
from the Sainsbury’s own
brand, although the colour
is fractionally more yellowy.
Pleasingly bouncy texture,
but not much flavour

MARRIAGE DIARIES
My husband ogles
younger women

W

e are about to go on holiday but
while I should be excited, I am
dreading it. My husband and I
are in our early 60s and have been married for 30 years. We’ve had a very
happy marriage and as far as I know he
has never been unfaithful, but he has
always had a wandering eye – and it’s
getting worse in his old age.
Whenever we go on holiday, he
openly ogles women around the pool.
He actually gapes and stares, turning
his head as women walk by in their
swimwear. While I might have been
jealous 30 years ago, now it just makes
me feel horribly embarrassed for him. I
think it makes him look a fool.
He does this every time we go on holiday. But he also does it on the street. If
we go shopping and young women
walk by, he cranes his head to watch
them. To make matters worse, we have
a lovely 27-year-old daughter who we
sometimes meet with her friends
because she shares a flat with them.
My husband even ogles these girls,
which I find cringe-worthy and incredibly uncomfortable. I have avoided
meeting her on occasions when her
friends might be present, simply
because I feel so embarrassed by
his behaviour.
The truth is, though, I honestly don’t
think he knows he is doing it. And even
stranger, his behaviour doesn’t match
his “drive” behind closed doors. He has
little interest in our love life. We have
not been intimate for a few years now
and he does not seem to show interest
in that side of our marriage.
I have always kept myself fit and slim,
do yoga and Pilates, and people tell me I
look younger than I am. Yet he rarely
makes advances towards me despite
seeming so interested in women who

If we go
shopping
and young
women
walk by,
he cranes
his head
to watch
them

are 20 years younger.
So if this side of marriage is not
important to him, why is he so obviously staring at other women? There
are laws against this kind of thing these
days – quite rightly, too – and I’m worried that he might fall foul of them.
I’ve asked married friends of my age
with similar-aged husbands. Some say
it’s normal and “men are men” no matter their age. Others say their men don’t
do it – or at least not so obviously.
Another friend said she simply would
not tolerate it and told me to have it out
with my husband or even leave him. But
I hate confrontation and I have never
felt able to mention it.
On one summer holiday last year a
young woman was readjusting her
bikini on a sun lounger near to ours and
my husband actually craned his neck to
watch her – I’m sure the young woman’s
partner saw him looking. I blushed and
had to walk away and pretend I was getting a coffee because I was so ashamed.
I know I could sit and talk to him
about it. But I’ve never actually confronted him because I don’t want to
embarrass him or cause a row. I also
can’t stand the idea of such a silly
“jealous” argument when I truly do not
feel jealous.
We get on very well in every other
aspect of our marriage; we share the
same sense of humour, beliefs and attitudes to life. He’s kind, helps around the
house and has always been a wonderful
provider financially. In every other
respect than this he has always been a
perfect gentleman. He’s someone I am
happy to grow into old age with. I certainly wouldn’t consider risking our
marriage over this. But this gawping at
younger women gets on my nerves –
and might get him into big trouble.

ILLUSTRATION: MISTERNED.COM

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5

Shane Watson
People-watching

So, the defining picture
re of
the Euro 2022 final was –
everyone is agreed – Chloe
hloe
orts
Kelly in her Nike sports
bra celebrating her
winning goal. This moment has been
ge of
singled out because it was an image
unbridled, un-selfconscious joy off the
ciate
sort we’ve been trained to associate
with young men. And because the
g her
sight of a woman in a bra, showing
ont-body for no other reason than spontaneous delight in her own skill, wass
a wonderful thing to behold.
theirr
Nike must be drooling that their
h Sports Bra was centre
centre
e
Dri-Fit Swoosh
stage at this historic moment –
inal whistle,
since the final
searches for sports bras
rough the
have gone through
roof. Meanwhile,
ry where
women every
ware that
are newly aware
e to our
our attitude
b os oms sayss a lot
about who we are.
Possibly you appreclready.
iated this already.
udes are
Breast attitudes
ot all the
tribal and not
e to eye.
tribes see eye
It’s not about size, or
eavage
how much cleavage
ed to
you’re prepared
bare – it’s to do
with where
n
you stand on
h
breasts, both
your own
and others.
Find
your
tribe…

om
h Clockwise from
top: Florence
lly
Pugh; Chloe Kelly
and teammates;;
Zoë Kravitz; Lizz
u
Hurley; Ekin-Su

Which BOSOM TRIBE do
you belong to?
THE KELLY’S HEROES
Chloe Kelly is now the
poster girl for “My breasts
are not an obstacle, not an
asset, they’re just me” kind
of woman. Not to pick sides,
but we feel that young
women everywhere
were badly in need of this
particular role model and
are very much hoping that
the breast-enhancement
business dries up and some
of the other tribes (see Love
Islanders) take a long hard
look at their priorities.
THE LOVE ISLANDERS
Some were more inclined
to the bondage cleavage
(lace up frontage with
bosoms bursting through
b
the straps) than others, but
there wasn’t a set of
bosoms in the villa that
wasn’t being maxed out
wasn’t
for commercial/sexual/
don’t-care-just-give-me-t
don’t-care-just-give-me-the
-money advantage. (So
m
sue me
me.. This is indisputab
indisputably
t e and the fact that it wa
tru
true
was
h pening on the same
ha
hap
happening
n ht as the Euros final
ni
nig
night
o y served to drive
onl
only
h e the impression
hom
home
tthatt Ekin-Su and
tha
co were doing for
feminism what
Prince Andrew
has done for the
royal family.)
THE HURLEY
GIRLIES
Head of this
tribe is of
course Liz
Hurley,
the 21stcentury
Vargas
pin-up
girl of
mid-lifer
mid-lifers
an
– male and
female.
Hurley
lik
Girlies like
ve
to wear very
small

bikinis and consider their
cleavage to be morale
boosting, when appropriate. Why is Liz an acceptable role model? Duh.
Because she is a grafter, a
trooper, an entertainer of
the troops, someone who
has a healthy tankful of
self-awareness and an
old-school St Trinian’s-style
pleasure in being a mischievous, friend-of-her-ownsex hottie. We long ago
worked out that Liz’s
carefully calibrated pillowy
cleavage is like Tommy
Cooper’s fez and we respect
that.
BRALESS AND KEEPING
IT REAL (BAKIR)
You will remember the
recent hoo-ha when
Florence Pugh stepped out
in a pink Valentino dress
through which you could
see her nipples. It became a
news story because of what,
we’re sorry to have to call,
all the “tit-shaming” that
ensued on social media and
Pugh’s robust response.
BAKIR women are happy in
their own skin and that’s
the end of it. We hope that
post the Lionesses’ victory
there may be more respect
for their position and less
sniggering. Put Chloe Kelly
in a chiffon red carpet gown
(it will happen) without her
Nike support and, maybe,
you won’t hear a murmur.
STILL GOT EM, LOOK!
Head of this tribe is
Madonna, whose bras we
have seen twice this week
(one was more of a corset,
which Madonna feels is her
personal territory, thanks
to those conical bras back in
the day). The Still Got Ems
are generally harmless,
but in the same way that
there have been calls to
label photoshopped
pictures, we feel they
should own up to being

enhanced. These breasts
are basically armour.
TOO COOL FOR
CLEAVAGE
Kate Moss was in the
vanguard of the Too Cool
For Cleavage movement,
not least because when she
arrived on the scene she
didn’t have a cleavage and
the grunge moment was all
about going braless under
something sheer. Current
members of the club (Daisy
Edgar-Jones, Zoë Kravitz)
prefer a whisper of strategically placed lace.
NO CLEAVAGE
PLEASE (NCP)
Carrie Johnson is the icon
of NCP women everywhere
and has never to our
knowledge been seen
in clothing that wasn’t
covered up to her throat.
The No Cleavage Please
tribe are all 30-something
or younger, fashionconscious, politically
engaged etc. Their attitude
seems to be we are happy to
behave like ruthless minxes
to get our men, but our
bosoms are staying under
wraps. Who knows, maybe
that’s part of the attraction?
GRATEFULLY
IMPERFECT
This was the caption Sharon
Stone posted alongside a
picture of her semi-topless
poolside a few days ago.
Apart from having a very
decent set of breasts –
enhanced against her
wishes when she was under
anaesthetic – Sharon has
become champion of
plain-speaking midlife
celebrity women, which is
a very tiny club (it includes
Helen Mirren, Sigourney
Weaver and Geena Davis).
The attitude of the GIs
is enjoy what you’ve got
and stop whingeing. We
salute them.

ANDREW CROWLEY; WIREIMAGE; GETTY IMAGES; PA; SHUTTERSTOCK

Our attitude to our
breasts says a lot
about who we are.
Let me help you
find your tribe…

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Saturday 6 August 2022 The Daily Telegraph

Interiors
j Chandeliers,

Simply does
h

it: baskets of
flowers and rustic
touches make for
a cosy kitchen

SHIRLIE KEMP

patches on soft
furnishings and
distressed wood
create warmth

Remake, remodel:
inspiration from the
queen of preloved chic
Christiane Bellsted Myers’s homely, cottagey aesthetic is distilled from
years of rummaging in skips, hunting down bargains at vintage fairs
and online exploration. Alice Roberton reports

W

hen author Christiane Bellstedt Myers moved from Canada
to the UK just over 30 years
ago, she brought with her an innate passion for good old-fashioned countrystyle homemaking, a gift passed down
through the generations with a “make
do and mend” tag attached. Her first
home with her husband, Neil, was a
rather incongruous Victorian basement
flat in north London, a far cry from
rural Canada. “The flat was small but
perfectly formed and I was surprised
how much I loved it,” she says. “It had
but one built-in cupboard, which was
quickly converted into a sewing space
where I would make things to my
heart’s content. That little cupboard
allowed me to start my journey into
creating a new home.” Old floral sheets
brought with her from Canada were
sewn into cushions, quilts and curtains.
Their small garden was lovingly tended
to provide seasonal stems to be used for
decoration, a key ingredient in Christiane’s recipe for creating a comforting,
homespun, country-style interior. The
flat was also transformed with paint, a
medium she firmly believes can “offer
an instant feeling of renewal”.
A year later, the couple had their first
son, and it was during her many walks
with him that Christiane discovered a

surprising number of unwanted but
perfectly salvageable items left on roadsides and dumped in skips, which she
rescued and upcycled. “I can’t stand
waste and I see the potential in almost
all objects and materials,” she says.
“Many of the items I found were resurrected by myself and Neil and are still
cherished today in our current home.
I’ve found that asking nicely generally
gets one permission to ‘skip-dive’.”
After the birth of their second son in
2000, the couple made the move out of
London to an Edwardian four-bedroom,
three-storey home in Buckinghamshire, which they named the Warren,
and which subtly changed Christiane’s
approach to decorating. “I initially liked
to have all of my familiar things around
me to create a feeling of security,” she
says. “But with more space here, we’re
able to store some things away and
bring them out for certain seasons and
celebrations.” Changing her home to
suit the seasons has become a large part
of Christiane’s style. “It’s important not
to treat objects like museum pieces;
everything gets its turn to be used and
admired. Over the years, I’ve found that
switching things up is a great way to
keep old things feeling fresh.”
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How to create a
welcoming and
feel-good home

Christiane’s DIY ideas to try
Whether you’re on a shoestring budget, or just trying to live in an eco-friendly way, it’s easy to make your home a cosy haven

•

Look at everything you have
and only keep things that
make you happy. Anything
you discard and give to
charity may be treasured
by someone else

U N D E R - C O U N T E R C U R TA I N
A simple way to disguise an appliance is to make a curtain
for it. The fabric must be robust – like an old grain sack

•

MATERIALS

Try decorating for the
seasons and store
unseasonal items in trunks
or baskets under beds. A
simple spring branch or a
pumpkin sitting beside the
door will remind visitors of
the beauty of each season

Fabric of your choice
Curtain wire
2 pairs of hooks and eyes

METHOD

h Select your fabric and

•

measure the width and
height of the appliance.

h Cut the fabric so that the

In the kitchen, only keep
items that you use regularly.
Make room for a
big bunch of flowers or
a lovely picture

width is one-and-a-half
times the width of the
appliance. Hem the length
to slightly longer than the
height needed.

•

h Fold over the top of
the fabric and sew across
to make a pocket for
the curtain wire to
pass through.
hCut the curtain wire to
the right length.
h Attach the hooks to the
appliance’s enclosure
and the eyes to the ends
of the curtain wire. Pass
the wire through the
pocket of the curtain.
h Hang the curtain.
The fabric should
have a rustic,
gathered appearance.

Colour is important. I like to
keep all my soft furnishings
to the same palette so that
the room is restful. All my
main living areas are quite
neutral, but I have fun with
wallpaper here and there

•

Scent is vital to me; I like
natural aromas, nothing too
overwhelming. A single
candle burning on the
mantelpiece brings instant
warmth to a room

•

I like to decorate the outside
of my home as well. Say, a
basket of flowers or a bundle
of glass, chandelier crystal
drops tied up with a lovely
piece of ribbon

•

Keep your hallway as
uncluttered as possible and
have a hook or two available
for visitors to hang their
things up – let your home
give them (and you) a warm
feeling on arrival

•

Depending upon the season,
having quilts and blankets at
the ready to snuggle into
immediately encourages
anyone to feel at home

•

W A L L P A P E R E D S TA I R R I S E R S
Add pattern to your staircase with wallpaper,
as an alternative to stair carpet

A home that is not too
perfect can be more
appealing. “Things” are
lovely, but it is the people
who make a house a home
and if all are assured that
a breakage isn’t the end
of the world, they will
feel more relaxed

MATERIALS
Ruler
Paper scissors
Wallpaper remnants
PVA glue
Damp sponge

•

In my opinion, a home is for
living in, not a showpiece.
Create depth and narrative
with personal objects and
have the things you love the
most on display and in use

Christiane’s
sourcebook

•

UK FAIRS
Arthur Swallow Fairs
asfairs.com
Fabulous Places
fabulousplaces.co.uk
The Country Brocante
thecountrybrocante.co.uk
The Reclaimed Fair
Instagram@thereclaimedhomefair
The Dorset Brocante
thedorsetbrocante.co.uk

•

ONLINE STORES
antiquetextilescompany.
co.uk
carolinezoob.co.uk
cucumberwoodcandles.com
fabulousvintagefinds.co.uk
hoofbrocante.com

METHOD
Measure the risers of your
staircase and cut the

wallpaper to the right
size. If you only have
several smaller pieces,
put them together and try
to match up the pattern
as best you can.
h Apply the glue to the
risers, then affix the
wallpaper to them.
h Use a damp sponge to
smooth out the wallpaper
and leave to dry.

GLAZED CUPBOARD
W I T H C U R TA I N
Upcycle a second-hand cupboard with paint
and a pretty curtain
MATERIALS
Old cupboard with glazed doors
Masking tape
Sandpaper
Cloth
Paint
Paintbrush
Ruler
Fabric scissors
Cotton fabric
Needle and thread
Curtain wire
2 sets of hooks and eyes

METHOD

h Place masking tape along
the edges of the glass.

h Lightly sand the cup-

board, then wipe it down.
h Lightly paint the cupboard and let it dry, then
repeat for the second coat.
h If you want a worn look,
sand the areas that would
naturally receive wear and
tear from everyday use.

better than new, and sources for both
the house and the garden at antique,
vintage and salvage fairs, as well as at
antique centres and second-hand shops.
With the concept of “fast interiors”
rapidly catching up with that of fast
fashion, and both creating untold damage to the planet, choosing old over new
– from textiles through to painted furniture – must surely be the better option.
“Even as a child, I didn’t like anything
new or plastic and would always gravitate towards the timeworn and storied,”
says Christiane. “I am loathe to waste
anything and mending was a habit
taught to me by my very eco-conscious
mother. When old cotton shirts are
beyond mending, they become cleaning
rags, while offcuts of wood make perfectly good picture frames.” Neil has
become something of a make-do-andmend veteran too, and can often be
found at the end of the garden in a shed
he made using a tin roof from an Anderson shelter. Filled with salvaged wood,
nails and all manner of gathered materials that others have deemed worthless,
it is here that he fixes up tired furniture
and fashions functional homewares.
Twenty-two years of living in the
Warren have seen Christiane and Neil
give the interior, the exterior and the
garden a huge amount of attention,

h Cut the fabric 1½ times

the width of your glazed
area and 3 inches longer
than the height of the
cupboard. Hem on
all sides so that the
frayed edges are
completely hidden.
h Fold the top and bottom
of the hemmed fabric so
that it fits the glazed area
exactly. Making sure that
you have left room to insert
the curtain wire, sew
along the edge to create
a channel for the wire.
h Insert the wire at the top
and bottom of the curtain,
making sure that the wire is
approximately ½ to 1 inch
short of the eyes.
h Add eyes to the ends of
both pieces of wire.
hInside the cupboard door,
attach hooks at the four
corners of the glazed
area, and then hang up
the curtain.

i Country ways:

Christiane in
her cottage garden
(also left)

from knocking rooms together and
repainting, to creating a stunning cottage-style garden bursting with blooms.
The largest project was creating an
extension fronted by a porch, reminiscent of those in Canada. “The porch is a
social-focal point of Canadian homes,
and it was important to me to replicate
this,” explains Christiane. “To sit here
and engage with passers-by is one of
life’s great joys.” The couple were also
tasked with painting three floors’ worth
of original floorboards, creating extra
living space in the attic and turning a
bedroom into a statement bathroom.
Asked whether the task of homemaking
ever ends, Christiane says: “For me, no.
My whole being is tuned into homemaking and all the joyful pottering
about that goes with it. As we evolve,
why shouldn’t our home?”
All that is good about Christiane and
Neil’s abode, with its salvaged furnishings, carefully curated objects and natural touches, has been penned down in
Christiane’s recently released book, The
Natural Cozy Cottage, a room-by-room
guide featuring styling ideas for the
home, from making a seasonal wreath
to getting the lighting just right. For
Christiane, the concept of cosiness is
not one that is confined to the colder
months. “For me, to be cosy is to be

content and happy, and to feel utterly
comfortable with my surroundings,”
she says. “It embodies all that I love,
from nature and making things to
spending time with family and
friends.” Whether drinking a cup of
tea under the shade of a tree in the
summer or sewing by the fire on a cold
winter’s evening, the feeling of “cosy”
Christiane gets is essentially the same.
Perhaps taking a leaf out of her book
could help us all feel more at home in
our surroundings.
Christiane Bellstedt Myers’ latest
book, ‘The Natural Cozy Cottage:
100 styling ideas to create a warm
and welcoming home’, is published
by CICO Books, £20

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Body & Mind

Don’t let all your healthy
habits fall apart on holiday
Managing stress, staying active, sleeping well and eating mindfully will help you
stay on track – and you can still have fun. Nicole Mowbray shares her top tips

PLAN AHEAD FOR
THE PLANE
With flight delays and cancellations
on the horizon this summer,
preparation is key to help you avoid
the airport fast-food outlets, says
nutritionist Susie Howe (thenutrition
andwellnesscoach.com).
“It’s often hard to find healthy,
nutritious snacks at airports – and
especially once you are on the plane
– so plan ahead. Plain popcorn,
oatcakes, fruit and nuts (although you
may not be allowed to eat nuts on the
plane) are all good things to have in
your bag. If you need to buy a snack,
choose a banana, apple or fruit pots,
which often come with natural
yoghurt. Vegetables with hummus, a
cheese portion or a snack pot with a
boiled egg and spinach are other
healthy options. There are often
mixed nut and seed packs, as well as
dark chocolate bars – aim for more
than 70 per cent cocoa content. Fruit
and nut bars can often look healthy,
but check the label for the sugar
content [the NHS states that low sugar
foods contain 5g or less of sugar per
100g], as well as the ingredients list;
can you pronounce everything on the
list, and do you have them in your
kitchen cupboard at home? Otherwise,
focus on whole foods as much as you
can and grab a natural looking salad
or fresh soup, if possible.”

PRIORITISE YOUR
SLEEP AND TAKE A
COLD SHOWER
BEFORE BED
“Sleep is the number one human
performance enhancer,” says Joe
Welstead, CEO of Motion Nutrition
(motionnutrition.com) and former
performance athlete. “It helps you
lose fat, and makes you stronger,
happier and healthier. Getting eight
hours’ sleep a night will leave you
rested and with more energy, and
your body will naturally not hold
onto unwanted fat.”
But, he admits, holidays can affect
your sleep whether you’re going to
Europe or further afield. “There are
several simple techniques you can
use to sleep better,” he says, “such as
sticking to the hours of the time
zone you are in when you land and
avoiding a daytime nap, so your
body acclimatises to the location.
“Holidays are a great way to escape
stress, and this helps with sleep, so
try to avoid things that make you
anxious (such as too much caffeine)
and really enjoy the break from
everyday stressors.
“Try to have a holiday routine in
place to help you sleep, whether that

is simple breathing exercises or using
a natural sleep aid. Or if you’re going
somewhere hot, have a cold shower
before bed. Dropping your body
temperature will help you ease off
into sleep, and increase calorie
burning through the night, too.
Unfortunately, if you have 10 hours’
sleep it doesn’t mean that you can eat
or drink more. Sleeping is your body
rebalancing and resetting.”
But if you don’t have enough sleep,
Welstead cautions, two things could
happen. “First, as you’re awake
longer, your body tells itself it is
hungry and requires more food than
when you sleep for more time.
Second, tiredness changes your food
preferences, as your body tells itself it
needs a stimulant. Therefore, you are
more likely to opt for something
sugary or packed with carbohydrates,
and to exercise less.”

TRY MINDFUL
EATING
Breaks can be a great time to focus on
the food we are eating, and provide
the ideal opportunity to try a slower,
more conscious time at the table.
“Many of us have an association
with holidays as a time when we may
have gained weight,” says weight
coach Clair MacKenzie (thebestyou.
coach). “Typically, we tell ourselves
some version of how ‘normal’ it is to
indulge, but it is possible to eat
mindfully on your holiday.
“Before you go, ask yourself what
you want from your break – not just in
terms of food, but the whole big
picture. What’s important to you,
what do you want your holiday to be
about? Do you want adventure and
exploration, or to create shared
memories and connect with family
and loved ones? Perhaps you’d prefer
pure rest and relaxation? Ask yourself
how relevant food is to that bigger
picture. Some will find that food has
very little relevance, others will think
it has a greater role. Maybe sharing a
bottle of wine with your partner
while eating delicious food is the
most important part of the holiday for
you, and that’s fine. What we’re doing
here is getting intentional and aware
of what’s important to us.
“Once you know that, decide what
you want with regard to the
consequences of how you eat.
Perhaps you’ll decide you don’t want
to put on weight, or that you’re OK
with gaining a few pounds, but no
more. Maybe you don’t want to eat
foods that give you indigestion or
make you feel sluggish, or you don’t
want a hangover to take away joy
from the next day. Once you know

what you want, put a plan in place.
The more time you spend planning,
deciding and visualising how you
want your holiday to go before you
get there, the easier it will be to make
your plans a reality.”

PRIORITISE FIBRE
AND PROTEIN
“On holiday, you should enjoy
yourself, and while you may deviate
from your usual diet, prioritising fibre
and protein in your meal choices is a
great way to ensure you eat healthily,”
says nutritionist David Wiener
(freeletics.com). “Protein and
fibre-based meals are famous for their
ability to fill you up for longer, and
help to combat the craving for sweet
foods. Not only will protein and
fibre-based meals keep you feeling
fuller for longer, they also help to
improve your digestion and could
boost your metabolism.
“Picking a fibre-based, protein-rich
breakfast, such as whole grains, oats,
fruit, lean meats, eggs or yoghurt, is a
great idea, as it will set your day off to
a good start and stop you from
overeating all day and night.”
Wiener also recommends exotic
fresh fruits as a good way to get that
sweet fix. Containing vitamins and
fibre, they’re a much healthier choice
than sweets and cakes.

PACK SOME
DARK CHOCOLATE
Hormone specialist Dr Martin Kinsella
(bioidhealth.com) cautions against
letting jet lag hijack your hormones.
“Cortisol is a hormone that is
secreted in a circadian pattern and
normally increases during the day
and decreases at night,” he says. “Jet
lag can result in an increase in
cortisol levels and, for some people,
high levels of cortisol can lead to
overeating and weight gain.
“Exercise has been shown to help
naturally rebalance hormone levels,
reducing the likelihood of a hormone
imbalance that can cause weight gain,
and dark chocolate can also help. It
has been found to improve mood by
increasing serotonin and endorphin
levels in the brain and may help lower
cortisol, too. So eating it in small
amounts may help to avoid piling on
the pounds on holiday. High omega-3
foods, such as fatty fish, nuts and
seeds, as well as bananas and pears,
can also help to lower cortisol levels.”
Look for dark chocolate containing
more than 70 per cent cocoa.

POLICE THE BUFFET
“Using smaller plates is an excellent
way to help with portion control,”
says David Wiener. “Make sure at
least three-quarters of your plate is
filled with protein and vegetables,
which are great sources of fibre,
vitamins and minerals and can also
help with digestion.”
And wait 20 minutes before a
second trip to the buffet. “Often,
people go for seconds straightaway,
‘to get their money’s worth’,” he says,
“but this isn’t always necessary and is
sometimes detrimental. If you don’t
want to pile on the pounds on holiday,
wait 20 minutes, let your food digest
and you will see whether your
hunger is satisfied or not. Failing to
do this could end up in you overeating, and feeling sick and bloated.”

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SLEEP NAKED
“The last thing anyone should be
doing when on holiday is depriving
themselves, particularly as this
fosters a long-term negative
relationship with food that only aids
the forming of future destructive
dietary patterns,” says personal
trainer Ruth Stone (sweatband.com).
“One slightly more left-field piece
of advice when it comes to boosting
the body’s efficiency at burning
calories is to sleep naked – backed by
a study by the US National Institutes
of Health. Being naked keeps your
body as cool as possible during your
sleeping hours, which in turn boosts
your metabolism. It does this through
the production of brown fat that is
specifically designed to keep your
body warm, made possible by the
passive process of burning calories
to fuel this action. If you are
holidaying somewhere warm,
especially, don’t bother packing your
PJs, so you can speed up that
metabolism while you sleep.”
and, increasingly, many drinks
provide calories and nutrients
(traditionally the role of food), which
complicates our physiological
signalling mechanisms.”
As well as being aware of some of
the classic symptoms of dehydration
(dry skin or eyes, headaches, low
energy, dark urine and possibly even
constipation), Burton advises setting
a target daily drinking goal, and that
we should try to drink before we start
to feel thirsty – and before eating.
“Take a drink and wait 15 minutes.
Then you’ll know if you just needed a
drink or were actually hungry. If your
symptoms have subsided, then you
were just thirsty.”

VISIT THE
HOTEL GYM
“Holidays are absolutely the time to
let go a little bit, but nobody wants to
come back feeling that they fell off the
wagon completely,” says Kira Mahal,
CEO of the women’s fitness specialist
MotivatePT (motivatept.co.uk). “To
return home feeling vibrant, healthy
and with that relaxed glow, I
recommend visiting the wellness
centre at your resort. Very often
when we arrive, we are asked if we
want to know where it is or what the
opening hours are, and so on. But if
you actually make a point of going to
see the gym, you are so much more
likely to use it, because many of the
barriers – such as not knowing
where it is, or what machines are
there – are eliminated. Seeing other
holidaymakers exercising also really
boosts motivation. At the start of your
holiday, carve out the slots for your
training. A morning person? Go
before breakfast, and hold yourself
accountable by telling your partner
or travel buddy.”

HAVE ICED
WATER TO HAND
Experts say the greatest – and
potentially simplest – technique to
stay healthy on holiday is to drink

Seek out the
ih
gym as soon as you
arrive; and eat
mindfully (dark
chocolate, below
left, can help to
balance out
hormones)

enough water. This kick-starts your
metabolism and helps you feel
satiated. While ice cold water has a
thermogenic effect, ie the body has to
heat it and therefore burns more
calories, it’s most important simply to
consume a good volume.
Owen Burton is the founder of the
hydration company Fount Drinks
(fountdrinks.com) and says: “We get
hungry – we eat. We get thirsty – we
grab a drink. Simple! Or maybe not.
Often, we interpret symptoms of
thirst as being hungry. This happens
because some symptoms of thirst are
similar to those of hunger (feeling
sluggish, dizzy or losing focus), and
also both aspects are processed by the
same part of the brain, the hypothalamus. Many foods also provide us with
water (normally the role of beverages)

INCORPORATE
RATE
MOVEMENT
NT
INTO YOUR
R
DAY
Even if you don’t
go to the gym,
commit to daily
movement
– walking along
the beach or
taking the long
route to breakfast.
“By incorporating
low-impact daily
movement on
le
holiday (not 10-mile
runs or 40-minute HIIT
sessions), you can go

Dare to bare:
i
sleeping naked
will boost your
metabolism

away, relax, enjoy the meals out and
the cocktails, and avoid weight gain,
too,” says Stephen Price, founder of
Movementum (movementumuk.
com). “The exercise doesn’t have to
be overly exerting and it certainly
doesn’t have to take excessive
amounts of time daily. Primarily,
nothing you do should have a
negative impact on your holiday – in
fact, it’s vital that it doesn’t. But in the
same way a good book creates mental
restoration, shifting your physical
activity focus can have the same
benefits for your body.”
Price says two simple things can
keep the body moving and avoid
unnecessary weight gain. “First, a
short pre-breakfast mobility
sequence, such as high plank
walk-outs, a cat-cow stretch or
downwards to upwards-facing dog
repeated for eight to 10 minutes does
wonders for the mind and body, too.
You can get the whole family
involved, kids love stretching.
“Then, explore. Checking out
hidden treasures in our holiday
destinations means moving, walking,
even hiking. Plan ahead, look at where
you want to visit and know that, on
those days, you are going to get your
steps in, or even book a guided walk,
hike or yoga session. These are not
only fun, it’s also likely you’ll forget
you’re moving at all.”

TAKE YOUR DOG
FOR A WALK
Dog owners report better mental and
physical health than their noncanine-owning counterparts,
spending an average of 300 minutes a
week walking their pooches (200
minutes more than the rest of the UK
population), according to a landmark
UK study. It’s one reas
reason why Célia
Pronto, managing director of Love
Home Swap (lo
(lovehome swap.
com), advis
advises taking your
pup with you when you
go awa
away. “With pet
owne
ownership
at an
all-ti
all-time
high – the
late figures show
latest
17 million
h
households
have
a domestic pet,
a 33 per cent
and
o UK homes
of
h
having
a pet dog
– there’s never
b
been
a better
tim to look into a
time
ho
holiday
home
swa
swap with fellow
dogdog-lovers.”
The home swapping
site has sseen a 40 per

cent increase in people willing to
accept a dog into their home.
“Home swapping is simply a really
exciting way for your whole household – four-legged friends included
– to enjoy a break together.”

BOOZE SMART
Alcoholic beverages and sweet
drinks in general contribute to
weight gain, and on holiday, we
have more opportunity to indulge
in both.
“Always have something to
eat before having an alcoholic
drink,” says nutritionist Kim
Pearson. “This will slow the release
of alcohol into your bloodstream. Be
mindful of how much you are drinking, too. Lower-sugar drinks are
things such as dry wine and
champagne, or good-quality white
spirits with diet tonic or soda.
Ideally, have a couple of days free
from any alcohol.”
Fellow nutritionist David Wiener
agrees and cautions that a mojito
can contain more than 200 calories
and six teaspoons of sugar.
“Try having a rum, soda water
and fresh lime instead,” he says.
“You’ll get the rum taste you get
with a mojito, just without all the
added sugars and calories. Soda
water is always a great swap for
traditional sugary mixers, as it
contains zero calories.”

LEARN A
NEW SKILL
Perhaps the best souvenir you can
bring home from your holiday is a
new skill or hobby you really enjoy
doing. “Holidays can be the perfect
time to embrace new activities or
forms of exercise, such as paddleboarding, kayaking, beach yoga or
pilates,” says chartered
physiotherapist Kate Cadbury.
“Often, these are activities that you
may not normally have access to at
home or you may simply not have
the time to try. Also, we can often be
stuck in the same repetitive exercise
routine at home.
“Giving different activities a go
can not only enable you to be active
on holiday, it can also allow you to
try something new that you may
well develop a passion for.
“This initial enjoyment of a
new activity while on holiday is a
great way to initiate a more active
lifestyle and motivate you to
continue to remain active when
you get home.”

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11

Midlife dating diaries
I lost myself in marriage. Now I want
something different from my life…
It’s taken two years and
a lot of heartache, but
Stacey Duguid is finally
excited to map out her
future as a single woman

feel lighter, happier, more myself.
I feel like me again, but not the
same old me I once was – the wife,
mother, colleague, daughter. This version feels reassembled, as if scaffolded
from within. Missing pieces of the jigsaw puzzle have been found, not down
backs of sofas, but at the end of a long
dark tunnel otherwise known as
divorce. It took two difficult years to
make it through that tunnel. Vigilant,
trying constantly to find the light
ahead, I eventually spotted glimmers
and followed them, unenthusiastically,
mind, given the long trudge to the exit.
Two years in that tunnel and just as my
friend, Claire, warned me, that’s how
long it takes to get over the shock of a
divorce. I emerged a few weeks ago,
blinking in disbelief like a mole. I’m
out. I’ve made it to the end.
To have gone through something as
intense as the past two years and
remain the “same old me” would be
nothing short of foolish. I’ve grown
and evolved as a person, and I’m not
alone. Divorced or about to be
divorced, people all ages, backgrounds
and sexual orientation have swapped
their relationship breakdown experiences with me like war stories. Survivors, they describe this “rebuilt”
feeling as rediscovering a better version of themselves. Feelings are
ephemeral, but knowing you survived
hurt, sadness, disbelief, anger and
grief stays with you for ever.
The old adage “what doesn’t kill you
makes you stronger” couldn’t be more
appropriate. The recovery trajectory
eventually leads to “acceptance”,
which for me means letting go of a life
I assumed I was destined to live. A
future life unlived was the hardest
thing to say goodbye to, and yet it’s the
possibility of what I’m yet to achieve
now I’m alone that, ironically, inspires
me most. When you’ve been to hell
and back, plotting a future on your
terms feels both daunting yet exhilarating. I am free to choose how I live
my life, but this time, unlike my early
30s, I’ve evolved: I’m a grown-up.
I’ve done the “work” in therapy. I’ve
started to exercise again. I sing (badly)
and dance (quite well) to loud music

ANDREW WOFFINDEN

I

When you’ve been to hell
and back, plotting the
future on your terms
feels exhilarating
with my kids on Friday evenings.
Although there are still ripples, the grief
is waning and I’ve finally found inner
peace, able to reflect upon the past two
years without wallowing in sadness or
allowing my divorced status to define
me. Being still after two years of my
head feeling like a pulsating tangled
mess, a bomb ticking inside my brain, I
no longer scribble endless numbers
across the backs of envelopes in the

middle of the night, trying to figure out
how to make my new life work financially as well as emotionally. I’m finally
able to look inwards and it’s here I’ve
found peace. I’ve never been able to
reflect and find stillness within before.
The notion of finding stillness is often
depicted as spiritual, woo-woo, whimsical or sentimental in mainstream culture. It’s written about widely (Eat Pray
Love by Elizabeth Gilbert; Stillness
Speaks by Eckhart Tolle), but when I
think of “stillness”, I assume “meditation”. Not so. I’ve tried to meditate a million times, endless to-do lists floating
throughout my mind as I attempt to
relax. I dismantled my precious family
unit, I left the family home, the guilt has
been unrelenting – but I’ve finally let it
all go. The stillness I’ve found doesn’t

THERE IS QUALITY ON THE HIGH
STREET: HERE’S WHERE TO FIND IT
When Topshop closed in
September 2020, I felt bereft.
Even in my 40s I’d still find
the odd piece I loved. Having
said that, I’m no longer
interested in trends and
instead buy clothes that are
well made and will stand the
test of time.
I assumed I’d grown out
of the high street, but then I
discovered Arket, a Swedish
brand that’s part of the H&M
Group. Arket clothing feels
more grown-up, robust and
less trend focused. I bought
a blazer last season; the
oesn t
quality is great and it doesn’t

look like a crumpled mess
even after a long-haul flight.
I like that I can shop
affordably and feel I’m not
throwing cash down the
drain – or worse, clothes
into landfill. We can all do
something about the state
of the planet by the way we
chose to consume. Buy less,
buy better and wear longer.
It’s easy to say “buy
better” if money is no object,
but I truly believe we can
invest in clothes that will
stand the test of time from
the high street. I still wear a
blazer bought from Topshop

15 years ago, and I have three
Zara shirts that must be over
a decade old. By buying less
trend-faddy items, you will
eventually build a wardrobe
that will not only last, but
feel more you. My advice?
Don’t impulse shop and
ignore anyone on Instagram
when they tell you it’s a
must-have piece. As for my
haul from Arket, below, I
want it all (I’m not being paid
to promote it, honest). But
first I’ll ask myself: “Do I
really need XYZ?” I definitely
need the ear cuff. Actually,
I ve already
alread bought it.
I’ve

Ear cuff (£45)
Arket
arket.com

Woven leather bag
(£175)
Arket
arket.com

Straw hat (£45)
Arket
arket.com

Cotton jumper
(£79)
Arket
arket.com

A-line dress (£101)
Arket
arket.com

Woven leather
slides (£135)
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arket.com

involve sitting cross-legged on a cushion, it comes from acknowledging
where I’ve been and showing myself
forgiveness. I want to move forward,
which I never thought would be possible a few months ago.
This self-forgiveness has made way
for a new life, one in which I design the
road map. I went on a lot of dates in the
early days of separating. But searching
for answers in dark corners at 1am never
ends well. I’m now overly protective of
who I let into my life. Case in point this
week when I connected with a man on

Hinge who, instead of written messages left several voice notes. You can
tell a lot about a person by their voice,
and I found his compelling, so I sent a
voice note back, to which he replied
with two more. Where his previous
two had been intriguing, the latter
ones described in too much detail how
much he liked my “great legs”. Ugh. I
replied, “Please don’t objectify me.” He
apologised and said, “If I feel passionate about somebody, I just tell them.”
“But we’ve never even met!” I replied.
A year ago, I would have gone on a date

with him, ignoring the fact his message made me feel uncomfortable.
We evolve, we grow, we develop different tastes – all good things, given I
can’t ever imagine eating a Pot Noodle
again. Having lived through the most
tumultuous time of my life, the woman
I am today wants something different
from her life. The personal growth that
can occur post-divorce feels like sunshine at the end of a harsh winter. It’s
easy to lose ourselves in a marriage –
people do it all the time. We adapt to fit
in at school, university, at work; we
bend to suit friendship groups, family
relationships and more. What we
wanted in our 20s and 30s is an entirely
different story to what works for us in
midlife, especially given we tend to
meet our partners when we’re ready
to have children. If the woman I was 12
years ago wanted very different things,
the woman I was 22 years ago didn’t
even know herself. I say this with selfcompassion – the woman I was in the
initial months post-separation is very
far from the person I am today.
Boxing with a new trainer (male,
divorced) is also helping and this week I
finally exchanged on the house I’ve
been trying to buy since last October. I
first saw it along with 40 or so other
people at an open-house weekend during the half-term holiday. Five offers
were made on the Monday morning, but
the owner decided to sell to me after a
conversation overheard between me
and my mother. “I have zero plans to rip
the house apart,” I told my mum as I
admired the original, but very scruffy,
stained-glass doors. Maintaining original features, I’ll renovate slowly, quite
the opposite of the Pinterest-perfect
neighbourhood I live in, where houses
are gutted and renovated from scratch,
with builders demolishing the building’s history only for it to end up looking exactly like next door.
The house and I are one and the
same. Older, a bit raggedy around the
edges, survived a war but still standing.
Some areas (of the house) can be
restored to their former glory, others
have to go, such as a laminate floor that
looks out of place. I’m looking forward
to discovering what’s beneath layers of
wallpaper and scruffy carpets. It’s as
though the bones of the house have
been patiently waiting, ready for a new
lease of life.

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How calorific is your favourite cocktail?
Due to a lack of nutritional information on many alcohol products, it’s often hard to know how much
sugar you’re really consuming. Pauline Cox serves up the stats on some typical tipples

D

o you know how many calories
you’d find in a negroni? An oldfashioned? What about an
espresso martini? Next time you find
yourself in the supermarket, take a
look at the label on a carton of milk. At
a glance you can see that 100ml of
semi-skimmed milk contains roughly
50kcal of energy (confusingly, the
terms kcal and calorie are used interchangeably), 1.8g of fat, 1.1g of saturates, 4.8g of sugar and 0.1g of salt.
But head down the alcohol aisle and
you’ll be stepping into the nutritional
Wild West. According to a new survey
of 369 alcohol products in locations
around the UK, conducted by the
Alcohol Health Alliance, only 41 per
cent of alcohol products put calorie
information on the bottle or can, six
per cent displayed the sugar content
of their drinks and just 20 per cent
showed a list of ingredients.
“My figures can only represent an
approximate amount, as calories vary
widely depending on the mixer and
quantity,” says functional nutritionist
and author Pauline Cox, who has
revealed to The Daily Telegraph the
amount of calories found in some of
Britain’s favourite cocktails.
Theoretically, alcohol calories
should be easy to work out. Each gram
of pure alcohol is about 7kcal. One
unit of alcohol (you can work out the

units in a drink by the volume in litres
multiplied by the drink’s alcohol by volume, or ABV) is roughly 8g. A litre of
gin at 40 per cent ABV is 40 units, 320g
of pure alcohol, and around 2,240kcal.
The higher the ABV, the more calories
in your drink; but once manufacturers
add fruit juices and sugar syrups, it’s
impossible to say.
The trouble, for discerning drinkers,
is that the alcohol industry almost
entirely self-regulates in terms of what
it prints on its labels.
According to information from the
Food Standards Agency: “Beverages
which have an alcohol by volume above
1.2 per cent have to be marked with
their alcoholic strength under the Food
Industry to Consumers (FIC) or specific
wine legislation. Otherwise, such beverages enjoy some exemptions from the
usual FIC labelling requirements... No
nutrition information need be given for
alcoholic drinks.”
Despite mandating that the rest of
the food and drink industry must carry
nutrition information – and making
most pubs and restaurants include calorie counts on menus since April this
year – successive governments have
allowed the alcohol industry to evade
regulations. Despite committing to
consulting on the introduction of similar mandatory calorie labelling as part
of the Tackling Obesity Strategy which

was published in July 2020, the Government has failed to do so.
But the introduction of calorie and
nutrition labelling is popular with the
public. A 2021 YouGov survey found
that 75 per cent of people wanted the
number of units in a product on alcohol
labels, 61 per cent wanted calorie information and 53 per cent wanted the
amount of sugar.
Some think it’s past time for the Government to stand up to the alcohol
lobby. “People should have the facts to
make their own decisions,” says Dr
Robin Piper, chief executive of Alcohol
Change UK. “The alcohol industry has
messed up self-regulation. Alcohol-free
drinks have to put nutrition information, plus ingredients on their labels.
“Something like Seedlip [an upmarket alcohol replacement] has to print
this information, whereas if they added
some gin they’d get to hide whatever
they wanted. It’s bonkers that the more
dangerous drinks become, the less
information you have to provide.”

WHY THE SUGAR AND CALORIES
IN YOUR COCKTAIL MATTER
According to figures from Alcohol
Change UK, around £4 billion per year
of the total NHS budget is swallowed by
treating alcohol-specific and alcoholrelated conditions combined, but there

are personal health concerns, too.
The NHS recommends an overall
daily intake of 2,000 kcals for women
and 2,500 for men. But while alcohol
counts towards that total, it contains
“empty calories,” explains nutritionist
Jenna Hope. “If you were to consume
100kcals in the form of chicken, your
brain would release hormones which
contribute to you feeling fuller.
Whereas if you get 100kcals from alcohol, your brain doesn’t register it: you’re
still just as hungry and just as inclined to
eat later on.”
If you’re drinking alcohol, your
digestion process will also be less efficient. “When you drink alcohol and eat
at the same time, your body views that
alcohol as poison, so it will focus on
metabolising that alcohol to the detriment of everything else,” she says.
“That can affect how nutrients are
absorbed and where that energy is
used. You’re more likely to store energy
as fat than if you weren’t drinking.”
Aside from their impact on weight
gain, the calories in alcohol also have a
different route through the body compared with food calories.
“Ten per cent of [the calories] are
metabolised within the stomach and
intestine, and a further 10 per cent is
metabolised by the brain – this causes
the intoxicating effects,” explains Cox.
“That means approximately 96 calories

make it to the liver. Ethanol causes an
inflammatory reaction in your liver. The
body quickly uses up its stores of the
powerful antioxidant glutathione to
combat damage. Ethanol does not get
metabolised into glycogen and goes
straight into the mitochondria with any
excess being turned straight into fat and
stored in the liver. When excessive
amounts of fat are made and the liver
becomes increasingly fatty, the fat starts
getting deposited in the skeletal muscle
and in and around the organs. Alcoholic
fatty liver progresses.”
Excess fat in the liver can eventually
lead to a condition called fatty liver disease which, left unchecked for years,
can lead to liver failure or liver cancer.
Cocktails are of special concern with
regards to fatty liver disease, says Cox.
“The fructose in fruit juice or soft
drinks is used by the body in exactly the
same way as alcohol is,” she explains.
“The body can’t convert fructose into
energy and so stores it around the liver.
This causes non-alcoholic fatty liver.”

HOW TO DRINK MORE
HEALTHILY
“It’s always a funny conversation when
you talk about health and alcohol
together, because they’re not things
that naturally go together,” laughs Louis
Macpherson, head bartender at top

London cocktail bar, Lyaness. “There’s
a wealth of products out there which
might not be as heavy-hitting but are
still packed full of flavour: sherries,
teas, kombuchas – there is really deliciousness in lighter products. There’s
not much you can do with juices, but
some of those things can really replace
those flavours in a nice way.”
More generally, Macphers on
advises that as with food, “being close
to the source of your ingredients will
allow you to know what you’re drinking; it’ll also help you develop your
palate and learn balance. It’s like cooking for yourself versus putting a ready
meal in the microwave.”
There are simple swaps to make too,
suggests Cox. “White wine spritzer
takes some of the sugar from your
wine glass, a dash of vodka with
freshly squeezed lime and soda water
is lighter than gin and tonic, or try a
[relatively] low-alcohol cocktail such
as some freshly-chopped turmeric,
ginger, cracked black pepper, lemon
or lime juice and a splash of vodka in a
long glass of sparkling water.”
Clearly the alcohol industry is in no
hurry to provide more information on
the products it sells us. But there’s no
reason why we shouldn’t help ourselves to a side order of nutritional
knowledge the next time we shout out
for a cocktail.

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French exchange
There’s a lot more to buying here than you
might think from Escape to the Château
Forget the alluring TV
dreams: in rural
France a car is
essential, original
decor can be ghastly
and you’re lucky if
your estate agent even
tells you where
the house is, says
Debora Robertson

French interiors are
seldom soothingly and
stylishly filled with
grey-painted furniture
g ‘Buying here is a

j … but she has

no regrets about
making her move

CLARA MOLDEN

big commitment’,
says Debora…

I

wonder if you’re on holiday in
France right now, or are planning to
be at some point this summer? If you
are, perhaps you do what I always used
to do before I lived here, which is,
spend a lot of time gazing in estate
agents’ windows and wondering,
“What if?” (My husband insists one of
the best things about living here now is
that I no longer contrive to make any
walk go past every single estate agent
in town, scooping up brochures.)
When I speak to many British visitors about their fantasy property shopping habit, the first thing many say is:
“Isn’t it amazing what you can get for
your money?” Well, yes and no.
Sometimes our English friends and
acquaintances admire our house and
suggest how lucky we must have been
to land such a bargain. I smile slightly
through gritted teeth, head non-com-

mittedly on one side, and silently
remind myself it’s vulgar to talk about
money with anyone who isn’t your bank
manager or your accountant. Houses in
busy villages, with views of the water,
and possessing lots of character – even
with travaux à prévoir, works required,
come at a premium. Of course the prices
aren’t the same as London or Paris, but
they aren’t going to make the residents
of Brighton or Biarritz faint away in
shock at the cheapness either.
There’s always a reason why places
are cheap. That rural idyll you’ve set
your heart on may include septic tanks,
no town gas, limited or no internet, not
infrequent power cuts and having to sit
on the roof to get a mobile phone signal.
Ah, but all that land, right? If you’re used
to living in a city where you’ve had to
scratch your grow-your-own itch with a
window box of lettuce, owning your

view is certainly seductive. But the land
won’t take care of itself and, especially
as you get older, it can become a crushing physical and financial burden.
In the countryside and some small
towns, public transport is patchy at best,
non-existent at worst, so you need a car.
Many picturesque French villages have
suffered the same fate as their British
counterparts. They’ve been hollowed
out by out-of-town shopping centres, so
for anything more exotic than a baguette
– and sometimes even for that – you may
need to get in the car, too. Some places
go into a deep slumber at the end of the
season and that restaurant you so loved
for your Friday night moules-frites may
not open again until Easter.
Have I put you off yet? I hope not –
because French estate agent details are
some of the best free entertainment you
can get. Comfortingly, they have often

been spared the glitz and polish that
have transformed British property
advertisements this millennium. Rural
French interiors are seldom soothingly
and stylishly filled with grey-painted
furniture, so popular in #FrenchStyle
Instagram posts (Farrow & Ball even do
a shade called French Grey, the likes of
which I have never seen in the wild).
You are more likely to find heavy red
brick fireplaces installed at some point
in the 1970s with Flintstone-esque
wooden mantels, floral wallpaper not
just covering the walls but creeping
onto the ceilings too, perfunctory showers and grey corner baths. When we
moved into this house, one of the first
things we did was remove an avocado
bathroom suite in what was a pantry,
thus ensuring no doubt that avocado
bathroom suites are about to become
the next big thing.

Rooms are often crammed with a
mish-mash of old furniture. Beds are
lumpily made with heavy eiderdowns
and look not only like someone may
have died in them, but that that person
may still be there. The sole picture in the
details of one nearby house was an
image of pants drying on a washing line.
And then there are the “modernised”
houses. It’s true that many Brits keen to
buy a place in France are looking for
what we call “character”. We love,
almost to the point of fetish, an old tiled
floor, shutters, a quaint kitchen fireplace. Well, hold tight property fans,
because what you’re likely to find is
some delicious old fisherman’s cottage
where the old floor is replaced with the
cheapest 30cm square white tile from
Castorama, the windows are uPVC and
the shutters replaced with the dead-eye
effect of electronic metal roller blinds.

That quaint kitchen has been refreshed
with some glossy red cabinets, and
there’s no need for that scrubbed pine
table you picked up at a brocante,
because all of the floor space is taken
up with a kitchen island and chrome
bar stools from the land that comfort
forgot, probably Ikea.
And just in case you do find the
house of your dreams in an estate
agent’s window or online, it’s likely
that you can’t find where it actually is.
“A village with all facilities”, “a pretty
hamlet, a short distance from…”,
replace not just street names, but the
name of the actual place. This is
because houses are often represented
by multiple agencies and each one
wants you to sign up with them before
divulging where this house might be,
so they don’t have to share the spoils
with others. They also don’t want you
making a private deal with the seller.
Buying somewhere here is a bigger
commitment than in many parts of the
UK. If you buy somewhere on a whim,
do lots of work on it, and then think
you can flip it at a profit because the
area doesn’t quite suit or your circumstances change, you may come a cropper. Property prices are usually worked
out per square metre and unless the
house is exceptional, or in an exceptional location, the price won’t go up
because you spent a fortune on pretty
wallpaper or a new kitchen.
And bear in mind when we lose our
hearts to a wreck, a fixer-upper, a bargain, few of us have the skills to “do it
up on a shoestring”, however many
episodes of Escape to the Château we’ve
watched. Work costs money, and lots
of it. Just as in the UK, Covid has
increased the price of materials. Good
artisans get booked up far in advance,
and are worth waiting for. We’ve found
the quality of the work on our house to
be excellent. Don’t be tempted to cut
corners. Works on gas and electrics,
even having your chimneys swept each
year, requires a certificate for your
insurance, and you need to keep them
for when you might want to sell.
But the heart wants what it wants,
doesn’t it? I don’t regret for a single
second embarking on this adventure,
and if this summer you go from looking
in estate agents’ windows to stepping
inside their doors, I wish you the very
best of luck.

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How can your garden increase
the value of your home?
Anna Tyzack looks at ways you can add a few digits to the asking price by going back to nature

F

orget the kitchen extension or loft
conversion. The quickest and
cheapest way to add value to your
house is to spruce up your garden. A
“lifestyle” garden is top of buyers’ wish
list this summer, with estate agents estimating that buyers are prepared to pay
a 5 to 25 per cent premium for a garden
they can use all year round. Research
by Post Office Money suggests it could
be as much as 77 per cent.

Given that the average garden can be
professionally landscaped for around
£2,750, even if you take these figures at
their most modest level, a house worth
£750,000 could see a minimum uplift
of around £35,000, rising to more than
£185,000 for a 25 per cent premium
(and more than £400,000 if you believe
the Post Office). Money well spent,
therefore – particularly as you get to
enjoy it before you sell up.

“I don’t understand people who
invest heavily in the interior of their
property and neglect the exterior when
a gorgeous garden makes even the most
ordinary house look and feel more
desirable,” says Joanna Cocking of
Hamptons. “Those that don’t have a
garden desperately want one – they’re
more of a selling point than ever.”
Britain’s garden gold rush began during the pandemic, Cocking says, when

Pool with a view:
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space to entertain at
Tormarton Court
near Badminton
(£5.75m, Savills)

we were confined to our homes and
realised the wellbeing benefits of outside space. “Historically, sellers have
always underplayed their gardens due
to Britain’s unreliable weather and buyers have tended to regard them in practical terms: how much will they cost to
maintain? How much time will I have to
spend in it? Yet now we’re so much
more emotional about them,” she says.
“During lockdown we fell in love

with working, entertaining and exercising in fresh air. We want to cook pizzas,
listen to music, play pétanque, do our
workouts – gardens are places of fun.”

Stately
mansion

AN OUTDOOR KITCHEN
For the full staycation experience, create an outdoor kitchen with a woodfired grill and Australian-style bars and
fridges. If you want it to be tasteful as
well as tough, buy it from Gaze Burvill
(gazeburvill.com), Wakefield says.

FIRST IMPRESSIONS
Kerb appeal is real, agrees garden
designer Butter Wakefield. “Even if
you have a tiny front path, make sure
there is some good structural planting:
you only need a few hydrangeas or fox-

gloves to make a wonderful first impression,” she says.
Marc Schneiderman of Arlington
Residential believes that, in London,
the price difference between a garden
thick with brambles and an attractive
one is 5-10 per cent; in the country this
premium rises up to 25 per cent, according to Lindsay Cuthill of Savills.
“Outside space is one of the main reasons you live in the country, so the garden is a major consideration,” he says.
Yet don’t go so crazy at the garden centre that you create a monster, warns
Nick Cunningham, a property search
agent with Stacks. In his experience,
endless borders can scare buyers away.
“The trend is towards lower maintenance and less formal gardens with
plenty of fun,” he says. “I have one client
who is moving from a house with formal gardens to one surrounded by zeromaintenance wild moorland.”
If you transform your garden into a
relaxation zone rather than a floral display, however, you can’t go wrong, says
Cocking. “Ask yourself, ‘What will make
me feel like I’m on holiday?’” she says.
“You want it to feel like you’ve gone to
Soho Farmhouse for the weekend.”

hh Towering

achievement: a Blue
Forest treehouse
can double as a
home office or bar

pool when it’s hot. Rather than investing in a new plastic inflatable each summer, consider making a permanent
feature by investing in a metal dip tank,
which can be heated and filtered.
A PRIVATE PLAYGROUND
A sad-looking trampoline or a frayed
garden swing does nothing for house
prices, but state-of-the-art play equipment wins families over. Natural wood
climbing frames look most attractive,
Wakefield says, and can be blended into
the surroundings with planting.

Urban family
garden

Munstead
ii

Wood (£5.25m,
Knight Frank), has
a garden designed
by Gertrude Jekyll

A SHED OF ONE’S OWN
Buy the biggest you can: research by
Mytoolshed.co.uk suggests that a
shed can add an instant £12,000 to the
value of a house. For inspiration see
malverngardenbuildings.co.uk.

THE ASTRO DEBATE
Children want a football goal or netball
hoop, which is why a swathe of Astro
can be a major selling point for families,
says Schneiderman. Wakefield, however, would always put down gravel or
paving in preference, as Astro kills the
soil and ecosystems beneath it.
In small city plot,
i
locate food prep
areas at the end of
the garden, far
from neighbours

A COOLING OFF ZONE
The larger your lawn (or Astro), the
more space you’ll have for the paddling

A BARBECUE AREA
Before forking out on accessories such
as pizza ovens and Green Egg barbecues, invest in the dining space itself,
says Robin Chatwin of Savills, with soft
planting, classy paving and some shade.
Wakefield suggests siting the main
entertaining space at the end of the garden as it’s more private and you won’t
smoke out your neighbours.
WORKING (OR WORKING OUT)
Set up a couple of chairs and a small
table in the shade for al fresco conference calls, Chatwin says; if you’re being
really professional, you’ll invest in a
power socket with internet booster,
too. Meanwhile, purpose-built garden
offices and gyms can add 5-10 per cent
to the value of a £1.2 million family
home, Chatwin continues.

A MONUMENTAL SCULPTURE
Install a vast sculpture – or a whole
sculpture trail. Stately home owners are
competing to commission vast works by
artists such as Nic Fiddian-Green and
David Williams-Ellis that frame the landscape and add grandeur to the garden.

hEven a courtyard
space can be made
to feel as romantic
as Munstead Wood

PROFESSIONAL FACILITIES
A mossy tennis court is unacceptable,
says Cocking; it should be cushioned

acrylic, polymeric rubber or synthetic
grass. The pool will be long enough for
serious exercise with easy access to a
pool house with kitchen and spa.
TRENDY PLANTING
Mansion buyers want orchards, kitchen
gardens and wildflower meadows, says
Cuthill. “They love the idea of eating
their own produce and supporting the
environment.”
A TREE HOUSE
An ultra-luxe adult tree house, doubling
up as a home office and bar, from High
Life or Blue Forest will cost between
£20,000 and £100,000 but it’ll push up
the value of your house by more than
that, says Cunningham.

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I N TH E GAR DE N
Garden designer Butter
Wakefield has this advice:

•

Meadows not lawn –
rather than maintaining
acres of immaculate lawn,
let the grass and wild
flowers grow long and
mow paths through
certain sections

•

Sow less – if you’ve
inherited a productive
kitchen garden, the
easiest way to scale it back
is to sow fewer seeds the
following year, or sow
more wildflowers. And
share your excess
produce!

•

Let the weeds come –
weeds support wildlife;
in places that don’t need
to be immaculate, let
them grow. “If every one
of Britain’s 24 million
garden owners left a patch
wild, think how many
more bees there would
be,” Wakefield says

•

Shrubs not perennials –
replace demanding
perennials with springflowering shrubs: a shady
border filled with
hydrangeas and
anemones is easy
to maintain and has an
incredible effect. Add
further interest with
spring-flowering bulbs

•

Blur the margins – not
every bed and border
needs to be neatly edged
and the paving doesn’t
have to be completely
clear; if we stop being
fussy, we immediately
halve the number of jobs
to do, Wakefield says

Rambling
country
garden
A DEN OR PLAYGROUND
A rope swing; a zip wire; a wooden
climbing frame – a family with young
children will pay more for a house with
a well-constructed, imaginative play
area, says Cunningham.

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Fraska planter, from £36
potsandpithoi.com

ALL-DAY PARTY AREA
In the countryside, the entertaining
area has even more significance, Cunningham continues. Big fire amenities
such as Argentinian asados and brickbuilt pizza ovens will capture the imagination of wannabe revellers, along
with outdoor sofas, speakers, twinkling
lights and awnings.
HIDDEN ROOMS
Buyers love to be surprised when
they’re looking round a garden, Wakefield says: think wisteria-covered walkways leading to sunken gardens, mini
orchards and benches positioned to
enjoy the view or a spot of privacy.
A PAVILION OR GAMES ROOM
Even an off-the-shelf wooden summerhouse can add life and intrigue to a garden when painted in a glorious colour,
says Cuthill. Ideally, you will have a little
barn or stables to convert into a games
room with table tennis and a sound
system for older children and teens.
SOMEWHERE TO SPLASH
Buyers quickly fall in love with romantic-looking ponds and lakes, says Cocking but if you can afford it, it’s a
swimming pool that buyers really want
these days. According to a study from
Direct Line Select Premier Insurance, a
pool can add an immediate 15 per cent
to a property’s value.
LEVEL UP
If your garden is sloping, it is worth
investing in some landscaping to ensure
you have at least one level area for a
marquee or croquet, says Cunningham.
If you can stretch to a tennis court as
well, even better.

FOCAL POINT

Marseille mirror, £79.99
etsy.com

A PLACE TO SIT

Lutyens bench, £240
charimaninteriors.net

WATER FEATURE

Roma fountain, £147.50
Coxandcox.co.uk

A courtyard
garden

PLANT UP SOME POTS
Terracotta pots planted with perennials
or a larger pot containing a shrub or
tree will immediately make your garden
look loved, says Schneiderman.
FOCUS THE EYE
A point of interest – a mirror, a water
feature or even a flowering climber –
will immediately add personality to a
small garden, says Cocking.

JET WASH THE TERRACE
It’s amazing how much better a small
garden looks with clean paving, says
Chatwin. You don’t need to buy a jet
wash; you can hire them from B&Q from
around £55. You might also want to
think about relaying shabby paving;
according to checkatrade.com the price
for a new flagstone terrace is £45 to £75
per square metre.

INVEST IN PRIVACY
Smarten up fences and trellises with a
dark stain then cover them in climbers;
you’ll soon be cocooned in green, says
Wakefield. To further screen off your
garden from neighbours or ugly buildings, use willow screens (primrose.
co.uk), although be careful they don’t
block out the light, warns Cunningham.

REVAMP YOUR GARDEN DOOR
Buyers will immediately clock that you
don’t use your outside space if your
back door doesn’t open. Replace it if
necessary, Chatwin says, or at least
repaint it and repair hinges and lock.

SOMEWHERE TO SIT
Even if you don’t have space for a dining
table, a small round table for al fresco
breakfasts or a bench for morning
coffees will raise the profile of your outdoor space, says Schneiderman.

PRIVACY

Hazel hurdles, from £88
ruby-group.co.uk

PLAY AWAY

Permanent plunge pool,
from £550
diptanks.co.uk

SIT AND DINE

Folding table and chairs,
from £43.50
Maisonsdumonde.com

AN EXTRA ROOM

Burt’s Box garden room,
from £112,000
Burtbox.co.uk

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Gardening

HOW TO G ET I NTO

TikTok is
inspiring a
generation
of gardeners

#PLANTTOK
Use hashtags to find
gardening content in the
Discover tab on tiktok.
com. Use the search bar at
the top to search for
hashtags like #planttok
and #PlantsofTikTok – the
two most popular search
terms – or #PlantTips
#Gardening101 for more

•

Be specific: narrow your
search according to the
content you want – try
terms like #garden
makeover or even garden
names – eg videos of
#rhsbridgewater have had
a surprising 12,400 views

•

Follow creators whose
content you’d like to see
more of ( just tap + beneath
their profile picture), and
look at who they follow:
you might uncover
further gardening gems

Looking for fun, handy gardening
tips? Give these green-fingered
social-media stars five minutes of
your time, says Jessica Salter

I

f you’re after short, snappy videos
with helpful gardening advice, on
topics such as repotting, pinching
out seedlings or topiary shaping, it
might surprise you that billions of people are turning to the social-media site
TikTok for the answers. The videosharing platform, which has a billion
monthly users, has become a surprising go-to site for Gen Z’s gardeners,
with the hashtag #planttiktok receiving five billion views and #PlantTok
getting 3.2 billion watches.
While we are now au fait with Instagram for sharing and ogling over beautifully designed gardens (with famous
names including Dutch garden
designer Piet Oudolf, who boasts more
than 200,00 followers, and florist Willow Crossley with 143,00), TikTok has
its own set of superstars. Among them
is Kevin Espiritu, aka @epicgardening,
a self-taught gardener who has
amassed 1.9 million followers who
watch his professionally produced videos on topics such as potting up tomatoes, propagating watercress – or even
weeding and cleaning tools.
“Video, whether it’s short or long,
is such a good format for storytelling
because you can listen and see
what’s really happening in the garden,” he says.
Alessandro Vitale, whose 1.6 million
followers know him as @spicymoustache, says that other websites devoted
to gardening advice can often make
topics “seem extremely confusing and
complicated, which can be discouraging and demoralising”. In contrast,

TikTok’s short clips not only make the
content addictive, they also encourage
brevity. “By stripping back any complexities and starting at the basics, it has
allowed me to connect to a wider audience,” says Joe Clarke, creator of @joesgarden (right).
Practical videos do very well, according to the creators, but viewers watch
them for more than just advice – there
are many clips devoted to simply filming beautiful gardens, such as panning
around RHS Bridgewater on a breezy
summer’s day.
Users seem to engage with what
many gardeners love about tending
their patches: the mental-health benefits. Espiritu says gardening got him out
of a video game addiction when he
started, and “has helped me reconnect
to nature”.
Meanwhile, Marcus Bridgewater, aka
@gardenmarcus, who has nearly
700,000 followers, dispenses relatable
life lessons along with his horticultural
know-hows. In one video, he moves a
pothos plant, which has a subsidiary
root growing in a nearby pot, telling
his viewers: “There may come a time
when the things that were helping our
growth begin to limit our growth
and it’s really important we know when
to let go.”
While some might find themselves
rolling their eyes, for Gen Z, viral therapy wrapped up in gardening lessons
are like catnip – and have translated into
a book deal for Bridgewater, who is not
a professional gardener by trade, but a
life coach. His book, How to Grow: Nur-

•

Be consistent: your
personal home page is
where the algorithm
suggests the best content
for you. As it learns what
you search for, view and
like, it will deliver more
targeted content

@joesgarden
(1.3m followers)
Joe Clarke, 25, from
g
Berkshire, says his earliest
memory is gardening with
his great grandmother when
he was about two or three,
and he has been growing
ever since. He uses his
popular TikTok account to
inspire others to grow their
own produce (his videos
include techniques for
harvesting seeds from
strawberries and bell
peppers), while upcycling
everyday waste to be
more eco-minded in the
garden, such as using
plastic strawberry punnets
to build miniature
greenhouses or cutting up
paper towels to create
biodegradable seed pots.

ture Your Garden, Nurture Yourself is
available to buy now.
By opening up the gardening world
to a more diverse range of voices, and
spreading the joy of plants to millions
more, the TikTok creators are doing
their audience a huge service, making
horticulture fun and accessible.
Which, at its heart, is what gardening
should be.

@thegarden
cottage
(244,000 followers)
Megan Howlett, 24,
h
remembers foraging with
her grandparents – although
“they never called it that.
It was always ‘hunting for
cockles’ or ‘sloe berry
picking,’” she laughs. She
now forages around her
home in the South Downs
in West Sussex, passing on
the knowledge she has
accrued, collecting wild
garlic in spring, chamomile
or dog rose in summer,
porcini and saffron milk
caps in autumn and “then,
as we head into the winter, I
enjoy velvet shank and jelly
ear mushrooms”. She
presents her finds – and
what to do with them – in
beautiful videos on her
account. The appeal, she
says, is not just free food;
foraging, she explains is “a
way of connecting
with nature on many levels.
It’s a very basic and natural
way of living, which appeals
to many in this fast-paced
technological world.”

@spicy
moustache
(1.6m followers)
London-based Alessandro
g
Vitale, 30, celebrates urban
gardening, which, as he
says, “has a positive impact,
not only on lowering your
carbon footprint, but also
creating an area that will
benefit local pollinators,
growing your own organic
food and benefiting your
mental health.” He has found
that his most popular videos
are those with “simple tips
and DIY projects to try to
reduce waste and be as
eco-friendly as possible,
which anyone can do
without special skills or
costing much money”. His
experiments with his
produce in the kitchen,
including homemade tofu
and kombucha, have also
proved popular.

@botanical
babe

@ggthe
gardengirl

(42,800 followers)

(501,400 followers)

Never mind greeni
fingered, the green-haired
Tesni Boughen, 24, has
her own plant shop in
Llandudno, North Wales,
and shares her expertise,
including which plants
are best for a beginner, how
to care for a peace lily and
when to repot a plant. She
says her audience love a
problem-solving video the
most. “In one of my most
recent, I explained that if
you killed a monstera’s
main roots by overwatering,
you are still able to
propagate it and grow a new
plant.” In another, she
shows what a plant plug is.
“I think a lot of people love
the idea of having a jungle
in their house but don’t
know where to start,”
she says.

When Brenda
h
Cunningham, 42, was
growing up in New South
Wales, she remembers the
specific taste of “a fresh
tomato eaten straight off the
plant. I remember it being
like a taste explosion and I
wanted to bring that
experience back into my life,
so I started growing my own
food.” She created her
TikTok account, where she
demonstrates how to grow
fruit and veg from seed and
care for them, as well as her
popular “Garden To Plate”
series “where I share how I
cook the food that I have
harvested”. She enjoys
inspiring others to start
growing their own food.
“The first time you get to eat
something new that you’ve
grown is very exciting.”

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Tom Brown
Ask the head gardener
This week: the
best shrubs and
climbers to grow
on ‘difficult’ walls
– and how to keep
out hungry pests
of all sizes

What is the best way to
prevent deer from
nibbling my garden?

Which shrubs and
climbers grow well in
sunny or shady spots?

There are several species of deer in
the UK but the most common – and
damaging to gardens – are roe and
muntjac. They can be particularly problematic near rural woodland, but with
an estimated two million deer in the
UK, urban gardeners can’t afford to rest
on their laurels: they’re in cities, too.
Deer tend to feed at night or early in
the morning when it is quiet and will
nibble their way through almost everything, particularly young plants or new
shoots. I recently planted a large area of
dogwoods and willows at West Dean,
which is constantly nibbled by a resident deer – this is all the more frustrating because the plants are so young
and trying to establish.
The recent dry conditions have made
it challenging for animals to find food,
so my prized shrubs are up against it.
Tree bark can also be damaged through
the rubbing of antlers which can cause
issues – so stay vigilant.
Fencing is the best prevention for
deer, but it is also the most expensive.
Although hedges can be a barrier, more
often than not deer will find a way
through. Deer fencing should be 2m
(6ft) high and well pinned at the base to
prevent them from pushing underneath. Gates should also be around 2m
high. The gauge of the wire should be
no bigger than 7.5cm; muntjac deer can
become trapped by larger gauges as
they try to push their heads through.
Electric fences are often inadequate as
deer can run through them.
To protect individual trees, place

A

A

How do I protect
brassicas from cabbage
white butterflies?
Growing cabbages, cauliflowers or
broccoli leads to a great sense of
achievement (and, dare I say it, smugness – or is that just me?). Brassicas are a
badge of honour among gardeners
because they are tough to grow: so
many pests are desperate to devour the
plants before they get anywhere near
large enough to harvest.
Root fly, rabbits, pigeons and slugs
are all patiently waiting for us to turn
our backs, but none are so relentless

A

Eating on the hoof: deer will devour almost any plant, so fencing is your friend
i

guards around them: four posts with
chicken wire around the tree will prevent grazing; 1.2-1.5m high should be
sufficient in most cases.
There are a number of scented liquid
deer repellents on the market, but these
are less effective after rain and only
deter the deer from the sprayed area,
which needs repeated applications to
work well. I am trialling some solarand cunning as the cabbage white butterfly, which lays its eggs on brassica
leaves. These provide a feast for the
hungry caterpillars when they hatch.
The best way to prevent these butterflies from causing devastation is to protect the plants with a barrier made from
butterfly netting. This has much smaller
holes than bird netting, and prevents
butterflies from reaching the plants.
Physical barriers are by far the best
ways to deter pests without the need for
chemicals or more brutal methods.
A cabbage cage – a frame and net
enclosure around the plants – does not
need to be too high as the plants grow
low to the ground but, for comfort and
accessibility, I have my cages at waist

powered deer deterrents, which are
motion-activated and emit sound and
flashing lights when triggered – I’ll let
you know how I get on.
There are a number of plants that are
less appealing to deer, so if fencing is
not practical, try growing agapanthus,
buddleia, foxgloves, hydrangea, lavender, magnolia, catmint, lupins, daffodils
or sage.

i Don’t let plants touch the netting or
cabbage whites will lay their eggs

North- and east-facing aspects are
often considered difficult places for
climbing plants to thrive, but there are
a number of beautiful climbers that are
suitable for these shaded spots.
First, I recommend Akebia quinata
(chocolate vine), which has delicate
maroon spring flowers with a spicy fragrance; the plant is semi evergreen and
can grow up to 10m (33ft) tall.
Jasminum nudiflorum (winter jasmine) is a stalwart of north-facing
walls. The bright yellow winter flowers
go on until early spring and bring a
welcome burst of colour to grey days. It
grows to about 3m.
Shrubs can also be grown against a
north- or east-facing fence or wall.
Camellia, garrya and mahonia provide
height and, with a light prune after
flowering, are easy to maintain.
South- and west-facing aspects have
to contend with the other extreme: prolonged periods of direct sunlight create
hot, dry conditions, with heat reflected
from brickwork or fence panels.
Shrubs that can be trained against a
sunny wall or fence include Cytisus
battandieri (pineapple broom), with its
silver foliage and flowers in mid to late
summer sweetly scented with (you’ve
guessed it) pineapple. It grows to about
5m. Carpenteria californica produces
large, single white flowers from midsummer – rather like Japanese anemone – and is covered in glossy,
evergreen foliage. It grows to about 2m.
For a climber, try Solanum crispum
‘Glasnevin’. This fast-growing stunner –

height to allow me to crawl in and tend
the plants. Broccoli, kale and brussels
sprout plants are far taller, so need a
higher cage of around 5ft (1.5m).
Once plants fill out and push up
against the netting, butterflies can lay
their eggs on the foliage, so leave space
around the edges of the crop to prevent
this. Also be aware that pigeons perching on top can cause the netting to sag
and collapse, so keep it taut.
To make a simple brassica cage,
insert four posts around the plants,
allowing room for the outer plants to
grow without touching the netting.
Next, take four netting staples and
knock them into the top of the posts by
one third, leaving a hoop. Thread some

Bright future: pineapple broom (top)
i
and Dregea sinensis do well in direct sun

covered with blue flowers in summer –
needs a slightly sheltered position and
grows up to 6m. Dregea sinensis is more
unusual; its heart-shaped leaves are
slightly downy underneath. Fragrant,
creamy flowers with a pink speckling
appear in summer, to a height of 3m.
With any climber, spend the first
few years tying in new growth to establish a framework to cover the wall or
structure. Pruning then becomes light
and routine.
string through the hoops to create a
perimeter around your plot from
which you can hang your netting.
Drape the netting over the whole
cage, ensuring that there are no gaps,
and pin it to the ground with bent
pieces of wire to deter rabbits. Keep
monitoring the cage to make sure that
no gaps appear. This physical barrier
between brassicas and the rest of the
world will ensure that the animals who
share our gardens will have to go elsewhere for their supper.
Tom Brown is head gardener at West
Dean Gardens, West Sussex. Follow him
on Twitter @HeadGardenerTom and
on Instagram @tombrowngardener

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Cars

1960

1978

1982

Ford Sierra Mk1 1.6L

Ex-police
9
Wolseley 6/99

Austi
Austin Allegro
S
1500 Special
LE

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being presented by The Telegraph
g 26-28
at Silverstone on Aug
ght it not
belongs to me, and I bought
harms as
so much for its genuine charms
oon, but
a tail-finned 3.0-litre saloon,
for its association with postwar
ack-andBritish cinema. Few black-andwhite 1960s B- featuress would
hout the
have been complete without
l l
dramatic arrival of the “Wolseley
of Justice” in the final reel. This
6/99 is equipped to London Metropolitan Police traffic car specification, which includes a wireless
set, a loudhailer and the allimportant Winkworth bell. The
Wolseley can still strike fear into
all spivs and Teddy Boys…

The year is 11978 – you are hip,
generally with it, and with more
than your fair share of Luncheon
Vouchers. The Special LE complements your jun
junior executive status
for a mere £2,965.95,
£
wowing
your colleague
colleagues with its five-speed
gearbox, a p
push-button radio,
Sundym tinte
tinted glass, a leathercovered steeri
steering wheel and a passenger d
door mirror. Plus, the Tara
Green or Astral Blue paint finish
augmented by side stripes told the
world this was no ordinary Allegro.
Today, British Leyland’s limitededition 1970s cars have a distinct
charm, and the example on display
is one of only a handful of surviving Special LEs of 6,800 built.

On Sept 25 1982, sales representatives tore their Harry Fenton
suit in woe as a hatchback
replaced their beloved Cortina
Mk5 with its “proper” boot.
Motor Sport may have regarded
the Sierra as “a very fine familybus” that would repay Ford’s
£660 million investment, but traditionalists muttered the phrase
“jelly mould”. The car on display
is one of the earliest Sierras and a
prime example of the base-specification L, in which the futuristic
bodywork is combined with a
sensibly brown interior and a
cost-cutting four-speed gearbox.
After all, there was no point in
quelling the initiative to work
towards a range-topping Ghia.

1981

1989

1966

Vauxhall Viva HB
De Luxe 90 ‘Brabham’
The refreshing styling of the HBseries Viva produced from 1966-70
was once as familiar as a branch of
Little Chef, but they are now more
unusual than the average Maserati.
The example at Silverstone is an
even more exclusive machine; it is
the oldest known HB and was used
as a press and publicity vehicle by
the Luton-based manufacturer –
and is one of only seven roadworthy examples of the “Brabham”
model. The Viva named after the
great Australian racer Sir Jack
Brabham took the form of dealerfitted modifications costing £37
10s, plus a £10-£12 fitting charge.

1975

1977

Honda Civic Mk1 1200

Fiat 128 1300 CL

The example of the original Civic
in our display once starred in a
promotional brochure alongside a
groovy young couple – and these
days it’s a cherished member of
the Honda UK heritage fleet. But,
most importantly, when the Civic
Mk1 made its bow 50 years ago it
quickly became the model that
established Honda cars on the
world stage; it is now in its 11th
incarnation. As one British automotive journalist noted in 1973, “it
is sensible to look the opposition
straight in the face, and the excellent Honda Civic is an example of
what the Japanese motor industry
can confront us with”.

The great motoring writer L J K
Setright once described the 128 as
“the most important and influential car since Ford first furnished
motoring for the masses”. It was
the first front-wheel-drive model
to bear the Fiat badge and was
voted the Car of the Year for 1970,
wh i l e h i g h - p r o f i l e o w n e r s
included a Mr Enzo Ferrari. The
128 was also frequently encountered on British roads, but our
display Fiat is one of only three
roadworthy ex amples of the
second-generation CL. This 128
has been with the same family
since Mr Ted Hucknall ordered it
on April 9 1977 for £2,390.31.

1963

Ford Consul Cortina
Super ‘Woody’ Estate
As Ford fans celebrate the 60th
birthday of the Cortina Mk1 this
year, we a re d e l i gh te d t o
n to our disannounce the return
play of a variant even more exclusive than the renowned
rsion. The
Lotus-tweaked version.
y boasted
Super Estate not only
a cigar lighter and a heater as
nd tailstandard, its doors and
Noc, an
gate were clad in Di-Noc,
hetic
easy-to-clean synthetic
d of
wood laminate. Ford
he
B r i t a i n h o p e d th
al
Woody would appeal
ras a scaled-down verodsion of similarly woodet
bedecked US-market
h
Fords, but British
d r ive r s re m a i n e d
val
unconvinced. Survival
del are
rates for this Mk1 model
ng heavily
low due to many being
customised to “surf wagons”.

Morris Ital 1.7 HLS
Mo

FSO Polonez 1.5 SLE

The Ita
Ital was a venerable design
when it came out in 1980 as the last
incarnation of the Marina family
incarna
that deb
debuted in 1971, while the brochure’s “Styled in Italy” claim was
highly tenuous. Nor did a ludicrous T
TV ad – “overtakes faster
than a Mercedes
M
200!” – enhance
its chan
chances, but Autocar believed it
promis to be “a reliable car reppromised
resent
resenting
excellent value for
money The flagship HLS repremoney”.
sented “the pinnacle of Ital luxury”, with seats upholstered in the
finest velour available to humanity. Plus, the tedious piano “jokes”
(after Jeremy Clarkson dropped an
upright piano on a period Morris)
are, mercifully, on the wane.

The FSO was a not uncommon
sight on British roads during the
1980s and 1990s, even if the
a f o re m e n t i o n e d C l a rk s o n
referred to it as “a car that wasn’t
really a car at all. It was a box
under which the careless car
buyer would discover a 1940s
tractor”. In fact, when imports
began in 1979, the Polonez was
aimed at motorists trading in a
venerable 10-year-old Morris
Oxford for a distinctly more
modern form of transport. For
£2,999, you too could impress
the neighbours by owning a
hatchback with all-disc brakes,
twin headlights and an adjustable steering column as standard.

Celebrating the mass-produced classics
that are now in danger of extinction
Telegraph Cars has a display of no fewer than 50 of the finest mundane motors at the Classic
at Silverstone historic race meeting this month. Andrew Roberts presents his highlights

E

veryone loves a classic car. From
sinuous Jaguar E-Type to chirpy
Morris Minor, from exotic
Ferrari to quirky Citroen, there’s an
affection for historical cars (along
with trains, commercial vehicles and
bicycles) that transcends age and
social status.
Yet while the prices and running
costs of the majority of classics are
now out of the range of ordinary
enthusiasts, the yearning for cars of a
bygone age is satisfied by a burgeoning
interest in once-everyday sights
from the likes of mass-market marques
such as Ford and Vauxhall. But there’s
a serious aspect to this nostalgia: when
was the last time you saw a Cortina or
a Cavalier, when once there was one
on virtually every street corner in
the land?
A chance discussion with the
motoring editor in 2018 about the
shocking rarity of formerly ubiquitous
cars led to the creation of a weekly
online column featuring oft-forgotten
and almost extinct models from
the 1960s to the late 1980s. Its success prompted a display at the Classic
at Silverstone race meeting last

summer, a display that’s back – bigger
and better – over the coming bank holiday weekend.
For instance, we debated what
became of the mid-1980s Mazda 929. It
transpired that, almost 40 years on,
only six examples of the estate once
used by antique dealers who could not
afford a Volvo 245 remained in use.
Some of the vehicles we featured
were well remembered but now almost
extinct, while others sold in tiny numbers when new with single-figure survivors preserved against considerable
odds. But it was worth rooting them
out; a particular highlight of last year’s
Telegraph Cars display at the familyfriendly Classic at Silverstone was the
sight of countless visitors ignoring
nearby Ferraris in favour of a Hillman
Avenger “Top Hat Special” and a minuscule Fiat painted a vibrant orange. But
the serious point persists that all of
these cars are more rare than almost
any Ferrari.
That Hillman will be making a welcome reappearance this year, together
with 49 other fine vehicles. Our criteria
for the “UK’s rarest” is that they have to
be mass-production models that were

THE CLASSIC
Staged annually at Silverstone,
the Classic is the world’s biggest
retro racing festival with
unrivalled grids of great cars
from yesteryear, plus huge
displays of cherished classic
cars curated by more than 100
ever-enthusiastic motor clubs.
Complementing this
petrolhead paradise, the
three-day festival has moved
from its traditional date, just
after the British Grand Prix, to
the bank holiday weekend
(August 26-28) – a move that is
being spiced up with even more
fun-fuelled family
entertainment than before.
While the packed grids of F1,
GT, touring and sports cars
spanning all of motorsport’s
golden eras remain the Classic’s
heartbeat, this year’s
extravaganza really does cater
for all ages and interests.
Mouthwatering additions
include a Foodie Fest with

masterclasses from celebrity
chefs, including Lesley Waters
and Niall Kirkland, plus the
first-ever pop-up outlet from
Jeremy Clarkson’s Diddly Squat
Farm Shop. For the first time
there will be live music on all
three evenings, too, with
favourites Sister Sledge,
Gabrielle and Rick Astley
topping the bill, while the new
Switch Live addition will
provide the chance to drive the
latest electric vehicles (EVs).
Add in BMX bike displays
with Olympic medallists,
funfair rides, an adrenalin zone

with race simulators, rubberburning stunt driving shows,
football coaching, Car Clinics
with television’s Mike Brewer,
an auction and a world exclusive
showcase featuring all seven of
Sir Lewis Hamilton’s world
championship-winning cars
and it’s easy to see why so many
people are choosing to arrange
summer staycations around the
Classic. One day is not enough…
Providing excellent value,
entry to all those attractions – as
well as both racing paddocks
and open trackside grandstands
– is included in the price of
admission. Tickets must be
purchased in advance and start
at just £45 for the full weekend;
camping and hospitality
options are also available.
Moreover, accompanied kids
aged 15 and under are offered
free admission.
Full details at silverstone.co.uk/
events/the-classic

officially available in this country. The
howmanyleft.co.uk website is merely a
starting point – the series is primarily
concerned with evoking impressions
of a now impossibly remote past.
As the Hagerty Festival of the Unexceptional – a car event celebrating
mundane motors – has demonstrated,
memories can be worth more than
bhp, from the Morris 1100’s flashing
indicator stalk to the illuminated grille
badge of a Wolseley. To select a few
highlights from the forthcoming show
is an impossible task, so my selection is
of cars that particularly evoke images
of a lost world… and, refreshingly,
there’s not a Ferrari or Lamborghini
among them.
See our ‘UK’s rarest cars’ series and
more automotive nostalgia at
telegraph.co.uk/cars/classic/

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Alex Robbins
Ask the expert

SAYS…
It is a criminal offence to
sell an unroadworthy
vehicle without making
the buyer fully aware. The
question is whether the
faults are bad enough to
render it unroadworthy

The best consumer advice to save you money and make your driving life easier

HOW CAN WE
GET OUR MONEY
BACK FOR
A DODGY
TRANSIT VAN?
My daughter paid cash for a Transit van to camp in at Glastonbury.
It looked good on the outside, but we
had it inspected by a Ford dealer after
the sale and it turned out to be so dangerous mechanically that they made
her sign a waiver to allow her to drive
it away. Some old MOT certificates
were present, but the Ford dealer’s
opinion was that the faults were much
older than the certificates. Can she get
her money back?
– RS

Q

The answer hinges on the answer
to another question: from whom
did your daughter buy the van?
If bought from a dealer, she is well
protected by the law, which states that
a vehicle must be of satisfactory quality, fit for purpose and as described.
For a main agent to ask you to sign a
disclaimer before driving away, the
faults must have been so severe as to
render the van unsuitable for use on
the road, and therefore not fit for purpose or of satisfactory quality.

A

I assume it’s gone beyond the 30-day
post-purchase period during which
your daughter is entitled to ask for a
refund straight away. Anywhere up to
six months after purchase, however,
she still has recourse – she must give the
dealer one chance to fix the problems,
and if they are unwilling or unable to
she is then entitled to reject the vehicle
under the Consumer Rights Act 2015, or
to ask for a replacement.
After those six months, she is still
entitled to reject the vehicle but the
onus falls upon her to prove those faults
would have been present at the time of
purchase; this would usually be done
through an independent engineer’s
report that specifically confirms this.
Things get trickier if your daughter

i The party’s over: our

reader’s daughter bought
a van to camp in at Glastonbury
– but it turned out to be
dangerous mechanically

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bought the van from a private seller, as
the Consumer Rights Act does not
apply. But contrary to popular belief,
she does have some legal recourse.
For starters, it is in fact a criminal
offence to sell an unroadworthy vehicle
without making the buyer fully aware
of this fact. The crucial factor here is
whether the faults in question are bad
enough to render the van unroadworthy (though, as I say, the Ford dealer
certainly seemed to think so). If they
are, your daughter may have a good reason to claim against the seller.
Likewise, it falls upon the seller to
ensure a vehicle is fit for purpose and of
satisfactory quality in a private sale
(“caveat emptor ”), and they must
describe the vehicle accurately. So if
they had worded anything in the advert
along the lines of “good condition” or
“no mechanical faults”, they could be
considered to be in breach of the law.
Oh, and verbal description counts, too –
so, for example, if your daughter specifically asked if the van was fault-free and
the seller answered in the affirmative,
they’ve committed an offence (although
this is obviously much harder to prove).
The biggest problem your daughter
faces, of course, is that to get her money
back from a private seller she’ll most
likely have to resort to the courts system. That could end up being costly and
time-consuming – so whether it’s a
route she wants to take will likely
depend on how much she paid for the
van in the first place and, therefore,
whether it’s worth her while. I would
therefore speak to a solicitor first to see
what they think before proceeding.

WHAT IS CAUSING MY
BMW’S BRAKES TO FADE?
For the past few months the brake
pedal of my 2007 BMW 325i Coupé
has felt soft. As I push on the pedal it
moves a bit, then starts to apply the
brakes, then moves a bit more without
further significant retardation. I
believed this effect to be caused by air
in the brake fluid, and asked my garage
to bleed the brakes and, when this
didn’t fix the problem, to change the
fluid and bleed the system again. There
was no improvement. Eight years ago
the ABS unit failed and was repaired by
ECU Testing in Nottingham. My garage
suspects the fault lies in the brake master cylinder, which they say can only be
obtained from BMW at a cost of £500. I
want to keep the car, so I’d be happy to
spend this sum, but I don’t want to do so
unless I can be certain that it will solve
the problem. What do you suggest?
– GC

Q

With these E92-designated versions
of the 3-Series Coupé (the saloon
version of that generation of 3-Series
has the internal designation E90, the
Convertible version E93) there’s a brake
bleeding procedure that involves activating the ABS anti-lock braking pump.
This can only be carried out using BMW
dealer diagnostics software; if you’ve
only had it bled by your local garage, I

A

imagine they haven’t carried out this
part of the process, so there could
still be air in the system.
Before shelling out for a new master cylinder, therefore, it might be
worth taking the car to a BMW dealer
or, better still, an independent BMW
specialist that has invested in factory
diagnostics kit, to see whether they
can try one last bleed in this way.
If that doesn’t solve it, I think your
local garage is on the money with its
suggestion that it’s the master cylinder at fault. Unfortunately, I can’t
find any non-genuine master cylinders for sale. However, you might be
able to find a company that can
recondition your existing unit.
Companies that offer this kind of
service are, sadly, increasingly rare
these days – but I have heard of a couple (although I’ve never used them
myself): J & L Spares Ltd in Rochdale
(01706 644201) and Northwest Classics in Manchester (0161 799 2653).
Both specialise in classic car brake
reconditioning, so they might not be
willing or able to take on your more
modern BMW part, but it’s worth
asking. The car would be off the road
for a couple of weeks while the work
was carried out – but I suspect the
cost would be significantly less.

WHAT’S THE MOST COMFORTABLE USED CAR FOR £25,000?
My old bones are in need of some
respite from all the jarring due to
the potholes and poor quality road
surfaces now commonplace in the
south of England. Can you help me
find a used hatchback or compact SUV
that will soak up the worst of them?
My budget is £30,000 for a car with
less than 25,000 miles. Petrol or
hybrid are both fine, but not electric
(EV) or diesel. Any ideas?
– RC

Q

That’s a generous budget – so much
so that you don’t even have to buy
used to get what would be my top
choice: the brilliant Skoda Octavia
( pictured right), in SE L specification
with a 1.5-litre petrol mild hybrid engine
and an automatic gearbox. The current
Octavia is one of the most comfortable
modern cars, with a lovely, fluid quality
to the suspension that glosses over most
bumps as though they weren’t there.
Yours – as I say, brand new – for £29,465.

A

You mention the idea of a compact
SUV, in which case you might consider
the Citroen C4. It’s a jacked-up hatchback rather then a proper SUV, so
you get a somewhat raised ride height
but retain the compact dimensions.
A new 1.2 PureTech 130 with an
automatic gearbox in top-of-therange Shine Plus trim will set you
back £27,610.
For something a bit more upmarket, look at the Volvo XC40. You’ll have

to buy almost new due to its higher
price but it, too, is a compact SUV, and it
is beautifully finished inside.
Keep it simple to get the most comfortable version of all – a Momentum with small wheels and the
punchy 1.5-litre turbo engine
(badged T3) is our favourite. I
found a 6,000-mile 2021 example
with a full history and a few options
at a Volvo dealer for £29,995.
My final suggestion is the Toyota

Corolla, for its excellent reputation
for reliability and long warranty. It’s
not quite as comfy as the others here,
but it’s still smooth and Toyota will
guarantee it for up to 10 years if you
keep returning to its dealers. At the
time of writing, Toyota main dealer
Stephen Eagell in Northampton is
offering a £2,895 saving on a brandnew 2.0-litre Excel – the top-of-therange model – which brings the cost
down to £29,725.

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Interview

THE BEST & WORST OF...

Juliet Stevenson
actress, 65

BEST of TIMES
ES
uliet Stevenson CBE, 65, was nominated for a Bafta for her leading
role in Truly Madly Deeply with
Alan Rickman in 1990. Her other films
include Emma, Bend it Like Beckham
and Mona Lisa Smile. Nominated for
an Olivier Award five times for numerous roles on stage as well as screen, she
wed her partner of 29 years, the
anthropologist Hugh Brody, 79, last
year. The couple live in north London,
and have two children together,
Rosalind, 28, and Gabriel, 21.

BEST CHILDHOOD MEMORY?
When I was seven, I attended an army
school in Malta. Pre-tourism, it was
idyllic. It was so hot in summer that
school started early in the morning
and finished at noon. We’d run feral
down to the lido and the beach, jumping in and out of the sea looking
for octopuses.

BEST DAY OF YOUR LIFE?
The day I met Hugh in 1993. I was 36,
and I’d pretty much given up hope of
finding the right person. I thought,
well, I’m very lucky, I’ve got a career
and wonderful friends. I’ll just be one
of those people who has to make do on
the romantic front. Then I went to a
dinner party, and there he was. Thanks
to our amazing children and my stepchildren, my life has transformed. I
never thought I’d have that, and I’m
still surprised 29 years later.

BEST THING ABOUT
BOUT
NG?
YOUR WEDDING?
We finally got married
ried
021.
on December 11 2021.
Largely because we
didn’t want the taxman
xman
to take everything away
y
if one of us dies, but
also because I
thought, OK, I’ve
e
been in rebellion
about the institution of marriage
for long enough – I
can calm down
now and say to
the world, this is
my beloved, and
d

always will be. I still think it’s ridiculous
u can live with someone for
that you
years and
nd not have the same rights as a
married
d person, but until the law
changes,
s, that’s the way it is. It was a
joyous day. We were incredibly nervous, and
d very excited.

g Juliet Stevenson

tricity [Stevenson is an ambassador
for Amnesty, Freedom from Torture
and Together with Refugees]. We’ve
had a Ukrainian mother, Dartsa, and
her daughter, six-year-old Orysia, living with us since early March. Dartsa
has become a really good friend. She
cooks recipes from home in Kyiv and
when we sit together over meals I
learn about the Ukrainian way of life.

with Alan Rickman
in Truly Madly
Deeply (1990),
right, and with her
husband Hugh
Brody, below left

BEST FRIEND?
Alan Rickman
ckman was the most loyal and
ed friend. He was never easy,
dedicated
liant people never are. I met him
but brilliant
when I was 20 and he was 30. I was like
atched egg and he was a leading
an unhatched
man forr the Royal Shakespeare
Company,
ny, and it didn’t matter
ld I got – he was
how old
a lw a y s l i k e m y b i g
brother.. He’d come to
every show I ever
did and
d give me
copiouss notes.
Sometimes
mes I’d
get stroppy,
oppy, but
he was a superb
note-giver.
ver. You learn
from people
eople who are
tough with you, not
from people
eople who are kidgloving you.

WORST THING ABOUT
CANCEL CULTURE?

WORST DAY OF YOUR LIFE?
WOR
The day we lost my eldest stepson,
Tomo, wh
who was 37 when he died. I have
– or had – two glorious stepsons, Tomo,
Jonah, who is 35. I think of Hugh’s
and Jonah
and my children as a collective
children a
of four, while
w
not at all claiming Tomo
and Jonah as mine over their wonderful
Tomo was an amazing documenmum. Tom
He and I connected
tary filmmaker.
film
over many
man things, and worked together
projects in Calais. He filmed extraoron projec
with people living
dinary interviews
in
there. We wanted to get their stories out
so people could better understand why
they had to leave their countries. I’m so
everything into actused to channelling
ch
angry or full of grief I am,
ing, however
howe
or however
howev joyous or complicated life
is, but it was during lockdown, so I
couldn’t work. A friend suggested
classes. Out of politeness I gave
painting c
it a go over
ov Zoom, and 10 minutes in I
hooked. I just painted all day long.
was hook

BEST TRIP?
I waited
d a long time to have my last
child. I was 43, and Hugh was worried
uldn’t be able to travel and have
we wouldn’t
ures – so the first thing I did
adventures
when he
e was born was say yes to a film
Australia.
job in Au
ustralia.
u
stralia. We took Rosalind, then
six, out of scho
school,
ool, and went to
Australia fo
for
or four months
h and newborn
with both her
Gabriel. W
We travelled to
the mostt northeastern
point of the
East Coast,
t
and stayed
sttayed in a tiny,
remote
rem
mote place called
Cooktown. A
guide
g
took us up
the
Endeavour
t
River through
the mangroves
with a picnic,
looking for
wildlife. That
day, I felt life
c o u l d n’ t ge t
any better. *

KARWAI TANG/WIREIMAGE; ALAMY; GETTY IMAGES

J

WORST of TIMES

WORST THING
YOU’VE
EVER SEEN?
Y
One of the
th worst things I’ve seen is the
Wood detention centre.
inside of Yarl’s
Y
children were locked up
Women and
a
representation, education
with no legal
le
or outdoor
outdo space, an hour’s train ride
London. The other most appalling
from Lon
thing was standing in Calais seeing famchildren escaping war and perilies and c
secution huddled in wet tents in
November, in freezing cold with no hot
Novembe
hot running water and no elecfood, no h

After two years of delays, The Doctor,
written and directed by Robert Icke
and in which I play Ruth Wolff, will
open at the Duke of York’s Theatre. It’s
a play for now. It’s about cancel culture, identity politics and social media
as an echo chamber – a kangaroo
court that can destroy reputations.
How do we live side by side with people who have very different views and
identities to us? We are losing a sense
of collective identity all over the place,
and it’s increasingly coming to a point
where freedom of speech is seriously
affected. People are too frightened to
speak up on certain subjects, and this
is something that The Doctor, which is
extremely broadminded, addresses.

WORST THING ABOUT THE
FILM INDUSTRY?
The way women over 45 are represented. I’m part of a campaign called
Acting Your Age which is really taking
off; the hashtag is #dontcastherout.
There’s much more parity for younger
female actors now in terms of what
they play, but there’s still a precipice
women reach at about 40, certainly
45. Parts for women become clichéd,
two-dimensional, and often just support the more complex or interesting
main man. In supporting roles such as
a lovely granny or a terrible mother,
they don’t carry the narrative. Women
out there are not seeing roles played
that they can identify with.
Juliet Stevenson stars in ‘The Doctor’
at the Duke of York’s Theatre,
London, from Sept 29 until Dec 11;
thedukeofyorks.com
Interview by Madeleine Howell

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INSIDE
Natural highs: meet the male sopranos p.6
Confessions of Kiki de MONTPARNASSE p.8
Tim STANLEY busts the Cuba myth p.12
Lynn BARBER on Brits abroad p.16
plus
‘The most disgusting thing ever screened’:
in the bath with old man STEPTOE p.10

‘People are
frightened to
speak’
Why Terry GILLIAM
refuses to be silenced

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In this Issue
Reasons to Be Cheerful
1.
Film
2.
Classical
SIMON
HEFFER
P.9

LUCK
In 2018, animation legend
John Lasseter left Pixar
under a #MeToo cloud, but
was re-employed in a matter
of months by Skydance
Animation, which installed
the Toy Story director as its
new creative chief. Aside
from a few well-received
short films, this tender yet
snappy fantasy parable,
sparklingly directed by
Peggy Holmes, is the first
feature to emerge from his
tenure, and it has the

POEM OF
THE WEEK
P.11

beauty, warmth and
ingenuity – if not the
supreme technical finesse
– of a vintage Pixar project.
Eva Noblezada and Simon
Pegg voice a chronically
ill-starred teenage orphan
and her feline companion,
journeying through the
Land of Luck, a Monsters,
Inc-style facility where
humans’ fortunes are
forged. It’s a delightful
concept, wittily executed.
On Apple TV+; U cert,
105 mins

BOOKS
P.12-17

TV & RADIO
P.19-39

CHINEKE!
CHAMBER
ENSEMBLE
Didgeridooist William
Barton performs alongside
Europe’s first black
orchestra, celebrating black
and indigenous composers.
Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh
eif.co.uk), Fri
((eif.co.uk),

3.

Pop

COLDPLAY
Coldplay’s first UK tour in
five years kicks off on Friday
with six shows at Wembley
Stadium. The utopian sci-fi
theme for Music of the
Spheres provides a handy
excuse for hi-tech sets and
state-of-the-art light shows,

4.

ON THE COVER
Terry Gilliam, photographed
for Review by Rii Schroer

Theatre

COUNTING AND
CRACKING
S Shakthidharan’s debut
shuttles between the Sri
Lankan capital of Colombo
and Australia’s first city,
criss-crossing history. Over
three hours, a sizeable
international cast incarnate

four generations of a Sri
Lankan-Australian family
across the past 100 years.
Eamon Flack, who runs
leading Australian
company Belvoir, directs.
Counting and Cracking,
Lyceum, Edinburgh (lyceum.
org.uk), Mon-Aug 14

VICTORIA
COREN
MITCHELL
IS AWAY

5.

but the band’s most
impressive special effects
might just be their
singalong songs and the
effervescent charisma of
frontman Chris Martin.
Wembley Stadium, London
HA9 (wembleystadium.com),
Fri-Aug 20

Comedy

BILL BAILEY
The mad professor of
musical comedy took the
roof off the Royal Opera
House last year, for the first
ever comedy show in the
venue’s century-and-a-halflong history. Bailey sang Old
MacDonald Had a Farm in
the style of Tom Waits,
turned You Are My Sunshine
into a Weimar cabaret
number, and proved it’s
possible to play death metal
on a set of cowbells.
Whatever will he think of
next? Find out this week,
as the self-proclaimed
“poundshop Gandalf ”
returns to Covent Garden
for another residency.
Royal Opera House,
London WC2 (roh.org.uk),
Thurs-Aug 14

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Cover story
CHILDREN
AND MAD
MEN:
GILLIAM
IN 12 FILMS
1977
Jabberwocky

1981
Time Bandits

1985
Brazil

1988
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

1991
The Fisher King

1995
12 Monkeys

‘Britain was nirvana for me. But now…’
Terry Gilliam’s ‘Into the Woods’ was axed by the Old Vic – so the defiantly unwoke Python took it to Bath. Now he’s ready to tell all
By Dominic CAVENDISH

In a rehearsal room in
south London, Terry
Gilliam is trying not to
tell me the story of how,
last autumn, he got into
hot water – and ended up in Bath.
“I’m not supposed to say anything!”
he whispers, with a mischievous
giggle. “There are lots of stories, but
we’re not talking about it.”
That “it” is the reason Gilliam,
81-year-old filmmaker and former
Python, is unveiling his new revival
of Into the Woods – the 1987 musical
by Stephen Sondheim and James
Lapine that reimagines fairy tales
such as Cinderella, Rapunzel and
Jack and the Beanstalk – at Theatre
Royal Bath this month, rather than
at the Old Vic as originally planned.
Last November, it was announced
that the London theatre had parted
company with Gilliam’s production,
despite healthy advance ticket sales;
subsequent reports suggested that
members of the Old Vic 12 – the theatre’s development group for emerging artists – had voiced concerns
over the director’s “previous comments… relating to trans rights, race

and the #MeToo movement”. For
example, in 2018, when Shane Allen,
the BBC’s controller of comedy commissioning, had a dig at Monty
Python (“If you’re going to assemble
a team now, it’s not going to be six
Oxbridge white blokes”), Gilliam,
who was born in Minnesota and
went to college in Los Angeles,
responded: “I tell the world now I’m
a black lesbian.” Then, in 2020, at
the height of the #MeToo movement, he suggested he was “tired of
white men being blamed for everything wrong with the world”.
Finally, days before the Old Vic’s
announcement, Gilliam urged his
Facebook followers to watch a new
show by American comic Dave
Chappelle – “To me he’s the greatest
stand-up comedian alive” – which,
with its jibes at #MeToo hypocrisy
and explicit support for “Team
Terf ” (so-called “trans-exclusionary
radical feminists”), had caused a
furore.
“That was the straw that broke
the camel’s back,” says Gilliam, who
is attempting to combat the room’s
sticky summer heat with loose-fit-

ting shirt and sandals. “All I did was
say: ‘There has been a brouhaha
about this show, watch it and send
in your opinion.’ Never mind freedom of speech, freedom of recommendation is under threat.”
Gilliam has made his feelings
clear before now on social media –
where he described it as sad that the
Old Vic “allowed itself to be intimidated” and denounced the Old Vic 12
as “close-minded, humour-averse
ideologues” – but this is the first
time that he has spoken to the press
about the affair. Although he’s trying
to tread carefully, he hides neither
his exasperation at the “absurd situation” nor his disdain for the attitudes of the Old Vic 12 and their ilk.

‘It’s bothersome that
jokes are no longer
appreciated. How have
we got to that point?’

“I think they’re very righteous in
their thinking and their thinking is
very limited,” he says. “They think
they’re doing something important,
and they’re the future. They may
well be, and I won’t be, that’s the
simple fact.” He gives a mock wave:
“I’m happy to say ‘Bye-bye kids,
good luck!’ and hand over the keys.
When the children rule, be careful!”
He won’t go quietly. After all, he
says: “I’m in a position where I can
afford to put my head above the parapet.” Maggie Weston, the Baftawinning make-up artist who is Gilliam’s wife of almost 50 years and
the mother of their three children,
often urges him to keep his mouth
shut, “but I just shout louder,
because I believe in thought! Ideas,
discussion and argument are what
makes for a stronger society and if
you can’t do that, if people are frightened to participate, then we’re f-----.
I really do believe that.
“I think there is fear in the world
right now. People are frightened to
speak, and to think. And I’m not
happy when intelligent people
won’t speak because the atmos-

phere is so poisonous.”
In their 1970s heyday, the Pythons
– John Cleese, Michael Palin, Eric
Idle, Terry Jones and Graham Chapman, along with Gilliam – were such
a cohesive team that, as Gilliam says,
“you couldn’t tell who had written
what, we became so connected”.
When the Old Vic story broke, did
any of the surviving Pythons rally to
offer Gilliam their support? He cackles. “Nobody came forward! But the
most interesting thing was Cleese.”
That week, art historian Andrew
Graham-Dixon had hit the headlines
after impersonating Hitler during a
talk at the Cambridge Union. “It was
a comic moment, a little Hitler joke,
and he got blacklisted,” says Gilliam.
“And then the next day John, who
had been invited [to the Cambridge
Union], blacklisted himself because
he’d played Hitler in one of the
Python shows. The madness of
that... Come on! It is bothersome
that jokes aren’t appreciated now.
How can we have got to that point?”
That the culture wars should be
raging in the UK of all places particularly saddens Gilliam, who came

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1998
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

2005
The Brothers Grimm

2005
Tideland

2009
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

life’s journey, I found myself in a
dark wood…’ That’s Johnny.”
Gilliam’s own epic journey as an artist owes a fair bit to the serendipity
of encountering Cleese in New York
in 1964, when the latter was performing in Cambridge Circus, a
lauded Footlights revue. They’d ride
the subway together, the Brit abroad
doing proto Ministry of Silly Walks
“freaky movements”. When Gilliam
moved to London, it was a steer
from Cleese that got him work as an
animator on the subversive ITV children’s show Do Not Adjust Your Set,
where he met Michael Palin, Terry
Jones and Eric Idle. The rest is comedy history, although it didn’t seem
that way to Gilliam at the time. “We
were just making each other laugh,”
he says. “The fact others enjoyed it
was the big surprise.”
Films have devoured Gilliam’s
attention for half a century. Into the
Woods marks his first commercial
theatre project, although he masterminded two celebrated Berlioz productions for English National Opera:
The Damnation of Faust, in 2011, and
Benvenuto Cellini, in 2014. His codirector for those, Leah Hausman, is
also collaborating on Into the Woods,
as is John Berry, the former ENO
chief who co-runs the production
company making this show happen.
Back in the 1990s, Gilliam had
been approached by Paramount to
make a film version of Sondheim’s
musical, “but I didn’t like the script”,
he says. “It had been suburbanised.
The magic had gone.” When he
asked the studio why they wanted to
make the film: “They said: ‘We saw
[Into the Woods] on Broadway, none
of us liked it but we thought we

could do something with it.’ I
thought: ‘Oh, Jesus Christ – that’s
the world of cinema.’” A theatrical
sigh. (An acclaimed Disney film,
directed by Rob Marshall, would
eventually materialise in 2014.)
Then, four years ago, Gilliam
video-called Sondheim. “A brilliant
mind, playful, ironic, naughty. We
wanted to surprise him and he
wanted to be surprised, because he
had seen so many versions. Then
he goes and dies on us. F--- him!”
Everyone within earshot gasplaughs. As with the infamous
moment in Monty Python: Live at
Aspen, the 1998 reunion show in
which Gilliam kicked over an urn
purportedly containing the ashes of
the deceased Python, Graham Chapman, you realise that his schoolboy
instinct for courting outrage is
undimmed.
His Into the Woods will feature a
new framing device – approved by
Sondheim before his death aged 91
last November, shortly after the Old
Vic debacle – in which a girl plays
with her toy theatre. “The muse was
my six-year-old grand-daughter,”

2013
The Zero Theorem

says Gilliam. “We start with how a
child would imagine the stories.
Children and madmen are the people that interest me most because
they don’t see the limitations that
other people apply to the world. I’m
a champion of the imagination,” he
adds. “It’s the only thing that makes
life interesting.”
Gilliam describes his Into the
Woods as “probably my last creative
act”, and there’s a sense of coming
full circle. “Living in Minnesota, in
the countryside, near forest, there
was no TV, just radio and books. The
Brothers Grimm stories hooked me
and there was a radio show called
Let’s Pretend where they acted out
fairy tales. So my worldview is based
on Grimms’ fairy tales. It hasn’t
changed. I see the world in fairy-tale
terms. Into the Woods [concerns] the
meaning of life; it’s a brilliant work
but it’s normally performed in a
merely entertaining way. What I
love about fairy tales is that they’re
disturbing, they’re dark. We’re
bringing those elements to life.”
What else can audiences expect
from his production? Gilliam is
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‘I see the world
in fairy-tale
terms’: Gilliam
with his Into
the Woods
co-director
Leah Hausman

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to England in 1967 specifically to
escape the conformist, confrontational climate of the States, later
renouncing his American citizenship, a process completed in 2016.
“This was nirvana for me,” he says.
“But now…”
Would he consider apologising
for any of the remarks that have got
him into trouble? Apparently not.
“When I do interviews I’m playing
around, talking, joking. I’m not on a
soapbox, I’m not trying to proclaim
a truth, just throwing out ideas. You
say something and it’s a headline
and then… boom! How do we bring
back context and nuance into
the discussion?”
As for #MeToo, “I said, ‘You’ve
got to remember that Hollywood is
full of adults who are ambitious.’
What’s contentious about that? A
well-known actress friend of mine
called me and said, ‘I agree with everything you say, but I’m frightened
to speak.’ It makes me crazy someone so intelligent was intimidated.
I’ve said Harvey Weinstein is a monster. I’m not saying there weren’t
victims – there were. He’s being
punished, as he deserves. But not
everyone is a victim – there are also
people who benefited from him.”
I ask what he thinks about the victory of Johnny Depp – a wonderfully
hallucinating Hunter S Thompson
in the 1998 film Fear and Loathing in
Las Vegas and something of a Gilliam regular – in the recent defamation trial against his ex-wife Amber
Heard. Gilliam cuts to the chase. “He
married the wrong person; Amber
was the wrong person for him. It’s
very sad that a man at a certain
age loses his way.” He reaches for
the opening lines of Dante’s The
Divine Comedy: “ ‘In the middle of

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is at the Theatre
Royal Bath
(theatreroyal.
org.uk), from
Aug 17 to Sept 10

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The Man Who
Killed Don
Quixote

cagey, but his collaborators tell
me more later. “It feels as if you’re
in the middle of (Gilliam’s 1988 fantasy film) Baron Munchausen, right
in Gilliam territory,” says Berry.
Designer Jon Bausor has helped
bring Gilliam’s cinematic bravura to
the stage: “The most outlandish idea
is that we want to crash it all down,”
he says. And there will be video
homages to Gilliam’s animations.
“I’d say there are bits that are
Python-esque,” Hausman hints, “in
that he loves to turn something on
its head – it seems to be one thing
then becomes something else.”
Into the Woods, with its critique of
the “happy ever after”, broods on
death and loss. Bausor says that Gilliam is “very aware of his own mortality. He’s worried he’s going to
drop dead any second, and yet he
makes light of that.”
Gilliam does look worn out –
behind him are years of battles, far
more arduous than the Old Vic
upset, to get Brazil, Munchhausen
and Don Quixote to the screen – yet
fans can take heart from the tantalising thought that he might yet have
one last movie up his sleeve. “I’ve
written one and we’ll see,” he says,
as he shuffles out. “It’s about God
deciding to destroy humanity for
f---ing up his beautiful garden and
only one person is trying to save
humanity – Satan, because without
humanity he doesn’t have a job!”
Gilliam once said: “If it’s easy, I
don’t do it; if it’s almost impossible,
I’ll have a go.” Does that still sum up
his view? “Yes,” he replies. “Discovering new territory keeps you alive –
but it kills you at the same time. So
it’s a fine balance. Am I gaining in
strength or being reduced?”
Another giggle, and he’s gone.

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Opera

‘People would say, “Why don’t you sing like a man?” ’
If you thought only women could hit the top notes, think again! A century after the death of the last castrato, the male soprano is back
By Ivan HEWETT

The high male voice
has always been an
object of fascination,
speculation, and sometimes disgust. At various points in history it has seemed
worryingly effeminate, attractively
androgynous, and even the perfect
expression of male heroism. Now, as
more and more people call themselves “gender fluid” and traditional
gender roles are increasingly perceived as oppressive, the high male
voice has taken on a new fascination
– as is proved by the release of two
new albums by male sopranos, a
voice type many thought had disappeared from the planet.
The topic is shrouded in misunderstanding because it cuts across
the familiar distinction between
nature and nurture. We assume
female voices are naturally high
and male ones naturally low, corresponding to what we hear when we
talk to a man or a woman. In the
classical and operatic worlds,
female voices are divided into
bright burnished sopranos, who
can produce top Cs or even higher;
mezzo-sopranos, who can also
ascend high, but are more at home
– and sound fuller and rounder – in
the mid and low ranges; and contraltos, who can sing very low, with
a near-masculine, chesty quality.
And yet, of course, male voices
can be high, too: think of soul singers such as Al Green, or pop singers
like Prince, Michael Jackson and
Justin Timberlake. In classical
music and opera, there is a positive
craze for singers in the high voice
known as the countertenor.
These are men whose speaking
voices have broken, but who produce high notes as an act of will, by
singing with the edge of the vocal
cords, rather than the full length.
This technique, known as falsetto,
enables a male singer to match the
range of a contralto or, at a pinch, a
mezzo-soprano. But using falsetto
does not allow a male singer to soar
as high as a true soprano. To do that
requires an unusual physiology.
Sometimes nature provides this,
but the sad fact is that, for 300 years,
a ready supply of male sopranos was
ensured by the castration of boy trebles to prevent their voices from
breaking, a horrifying practice that
began in the Church in Italy and
other Catholic countries in the late
16th century, and eventually spread
to the opera house.
The incredible power, virtuosity
and brilliance of the best castrati
meant they were specially favoured
in heroic roles. One of the most
renowned, Giovanni Francesco
Grossi, was known as “Siface” for

his famous role as the Numidian
warrior Siface in Cavalli’s opera
Scipione in 1671. The best known
castrati were stars in all the capitals
of Europe, and earned fabulous
fees, but by the early 19th century,
they had disappeared from the
opera stage, and from the church by
the early 20th. The last castrato of
the Sistine Choir, Alessandro Moreschi, died in 1922.
You might imagine that would
have been the end of the male
soprano, but no. Very occasionally,
a gifted boy singer is able to continue singing soprano into adulthood, because his voice never
breaks. One is the Moldovan
soprano Radu Marian, nicknamed
“the baroque nightingale”; another
is the American Michael Maniaci.
Given that a man cannot sing
soprano without a rare physiological or hormonal condition, there
will never be many on the operatic
stage. So it is notable that two new
male sopranos have burst onto the
scene at once. Interestingly, they
both come from Latin America, a
continent not known for its love of
baroque opera. Both are already
making impressive careers in the
opera houses of Europe, and this
year are releasing new recordings,
determined to break the historic
mould of the male soprano.
In some respects, the stories of Venezuelan Samuel Mariño and Brazilian Bruno de Sá are similar. Both
started singing very young, both
had a lucky encounter with a
teacher who encouraged their unusual talent. “My voice never broke,
so I just carried on singing high,” de
Sá tells me. “And I had no teacher at
that time so I had to work by myself.
I listened to Brazilian pop songs,
especially the pop duo Sandy & Junior. The girl sang very high and I
used to imitate her and also American singers like Michael Jackson.
Jackson.”
ng cause any social
Did his singing
chool? “Well,
problems at school?
yes, I was this very small
hose days,”
guy, a bit fat in those
azor-thin),
(de Sá is now razor-thin),
gh speak“with a very high
es, there
ing voice. So, yes,
llying.
was lots of bullying.
d say
Pe ople would
u sing
‘Why don’t you
like a man?’ and I
ll, it’s
would say, well,
omes
just the way it comes
tely,
out. Fortunately,
everyone was very
kind to me in the
hey
church, and they
g ave m e a l o t
of solo roles.

Nobody in school knew about this –
it was a secret parallel life.”
De Sá had no thought of being a
professional musician, until the
harpsichordist Nicolau de Figueiredo heard him sing, and burst into
tears, telling him that he could not
waste such a divine voice, and had
to study in Europe. De Sá took his
advice, moved to Basel, and within
a few years was winning top prizes.
De Sá has an extraordinarily
focused, agile, tremulously beautiful but quite small voice. Mariño’s is
more rounded, but recognisably
different from a female soprano’s in
much the same way. Mariño is
much more personally flamboyant
than de Sá, and his wide-brimmed
hat, high heels and teenage girl’s
crop top certainly turn a few heads
when we meet in a hotel lobby. But

‘Nobody in school
knew about my
singing. It was a
secret parallel life’
there’s nothing self-indulgent about
him. “I don’t believe in talent,” he
tells me. “I think the real talent I
have is I love working on my voice
and on music. I work all the time.”
Like de Sá, he grew up in a
middle-class household with parents who had high aspirations for
their children, and like de Sá he
was bullied at school, “Though I
did not tell my parents, because I
was ashamed to be bullied. I only
told them recently. But it wasn’t
only because I was gay, it was
because I was always in trouble,
and I also liked to defend other
boys who were bullied.”
After a brief flirtation with ballet,
Mariño settled on sing
singing, but he
admits that the ref
refusal of his
voice to break wa
was a torment.
“My speaking voice was
exactly as it is n
now, and my
parents wante
wanted to know
why, and th
they took me
to a docto
doctor. He said
that my larynx did
not come down
complete
completely, and suggested an operation, b
but this was
really scary to
me. I was 100
per cent desper
perate, I didn’t
kno
know what to
do. We went to
sev
several other

doctors and one said to me, ‘Why
don’t you become a singer?’ ”
That permission to think about
his voice in a positive way was a
revelation. He moved to Paris to
study singing, but had a tough few
years. “I had to work in Disneyland
to earn money, and I remember I
had to catch the first train there
from Paris at about 5am,” he recalls.
Eventually, after a few lessons with
famed soprano Barbara Bonney,
Mariño found the proper male
soprano voice he had been looking
for. He won prizes at the Opéra de
Marseille competition and the Neue
Stimmen competition, and offers of
roles began to flood in.
But which roles, in which gender?
Talking to both singers, it soon
becomes clear that neither is willing
simply to revive the figure of the
18th-century castrato by strutting
about the stage in the uniform of a
Greek god or a Roman general.
De Sá says about his new album,
“I told my manager I don’t want to
record what people expect me to
record. I don’t want to be put in a
baroque box, because my entire
career is about not being in a box.”
However, he’s shrewd enough to
realise that he can’t change people’s
expectations overnight. “Some people still want to call me a countertenor, and it doesn’t bother me any
more. And they still expect me to
sing baroque, and OK, I will do that
a little. I realise I have to follow the
rules a little to break the rules. But,
honestly, I prefer Mozart and also
Bellini [the 19th-century composer
of bel canto opera] to Handel.”
The problem is that, by Bellini’s
day, the “heroic” castrato had vanished from the scene. So, which
post-baroque roles could de Sá play?
Does he imagine himself taking the
female lead? “Of course! I have done
that already. I have created female
roles written specially for me. And
in Mozart’s The Magic Flute, I took
the role of the First Lady. So, of
course, I had to wear a long dress,
and I had to shave my beard.”
When I ask whether what he does
is an expression of contemporary
“gender fluidity”, his answer is a
firm no. “It’s just the magic of theatre. In the theatre, I can transform
myself into an old man or a young
lady. If I have to play the part of a
woman, I have to learn how to do
that by observing all the women
around me – my mum, my grandma,
the girl at the cash desk – and
vocally I might borrow one thing
from Joyce DiDonato and something else from Anna Netrebko. But
this is not because I am a male

soprano. Any singer has to do the
same, whichever gender they are.”
But the fact that de Sá airily says
he can play any character of any
gender, provided it fits his voice, is
itself a remarkable assertion, one
opera singers of a previous generation would never have made, and
suggests that he really is a child of
our times. Mariño, as befits his more
trenchant, rebellious nature, is
more forthright. Like de Sá, Mariño
felt he had to play the game with his
first album, but with his second, he
is branching out into music never
before recorded by male singers,
such as arias by Mozart and Gluck.
And next summer he’ll play the role
of Iris, the rainbow goddess, in
Handel’s Semele at Glyndebourne.
“I really don’t want to be a singer
who just recreates a past style, like a
museum,” he says. “And I do think
the stage is the place to express
ideas of gender fluidity, because it
has always been the place for that.
Think of Shakespeare, where boys
played women, think of the trouser
roles in opera, like Cherubino in The
Marriage of Figaro.
“I think if the voice is right, any
singer can take on any role. Because,
in the end, opera is about human
beings, and we need to see every
kind of human being on the stage. I
think about my father, who has MS
and is in a wheelchair. Why do we
not see disabled people on the opera
stage, why do we not see LGBTQ+
people? This is why I want to work
with composers to create new operas, because opera should be a living
form. OK, my voice is interesting,
maybe, but I don’t like to talk about
it too much, because opera should
be about people and their feelings,
not just about beautiful sounds.”
Clearly, these two singers believe
the whole operatic world is their
oyster, but does the operatic world
agree? Stephen Langridge, artistic
director of Glyndebourne Festival
Opera, is certainly open to the idea
of a male soprano taking female
roles. Could he even foresee a male
Violetta in Verdi’s La Traviata?
“ Well, why not?” he says.
“Throughout the history of opera
there’s been a fabulous freedom to
play with gender, from the very
beginning. Maybe now with the
arrival of male sopranos and trans
singers such as [transgender Norwegian mezzo-soprano] Adrian
Angelico, opera is getting back to its
historical roots. So, yes, I would say
the more, the merrier.”
Samuel Mariño’s ‘Sopranista’
(Decca) is out now. Bruno de Sá’s
‘Roma Travestita’ (Warner Classics/
Erato) is out on Sept 22

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‘I might borrow one thing from Joyce DiDonato and something else from Anna Netrebko’: above, Venezuelan male soprano Samuel Mariño; left, Brazilian male soprano Bruno de Sá

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Art

W

ho was Kiki de Montparnasse? Her name might or
might not ring a bell. But if
you can’t immediately put a face to
it, you may well be familiar with the
back view of Kiki’s 22-year-old
naked body. She is seated, turning
to look over her left shoulder. On
her head she wears a patterned
scarf, twisted turban-style; on her
back, just above kidney height, are
two symmetrical “f ” shapes, mimicking the sound holes in a violin.
Also noticeable is the way the photographer has rather crudely
touched up the cleft of her buttocks.
For reasons best known to himself,
he has given this graceful living
musical instrument a cartoon bum.
In May this year, an original 1924
silver gelatin print of this image sold
for $12.4 million (£10.1 million) at
Christie’s New York, beating the
previous auction record of $4.3 million to become, by a very wide margin, the world’s most expensive
photograph. The photographer’s
name, Man Ray, now looms large in
textbooks on surrealism and the
history of photography. Kiki’s, by
contrast, features more in anecdotes about Paris in the Jazz Age, a
spicy condiment to the serious arthistorical stuff. Both names, obviously, were made up.
During the decade after the First
World War, the Parisian quarter of
Montparnasse was the epicentre of
the avant-garde cultural scene.
Recent and current habitués
included Pablo Picasso, Georges
Braque, Amedeo Modigliani, Marc
Chagall, James Joyce and Ernest
Hemingway. Artists were also
drawn there by the prospect of making a living. Parisian dealers had
worked out how to market modern
art to a high-value clientele. It
remained possible for a cubist or
surrealist to starve in a garret, but
you didn’t have to.
The poet Guillaume Apollinaire
predicted – accurately – that Montparnasse was on the cusp of becoming a tourist honeypot, where
“Cook’s Tours would bring its busloads” to sample the louche life of its
cabarets, but it was still a place
where you could reinvent yourself
and start afresh. Born in 1901 in Burgundy and raised in rural poverty,
Alice Prin moved to Paris aged 12.
A few years and a string of menial
jobs later, she began modelling for
artists. She got her long hair cut in
a fashionable bob and renamed
herself Kiki.
Since kiki is French baby-speak
for penis, this may have been Alice/
Kiki’s first ironic tilt at male artists,
who stared at naked women in their
man-cave studios, comparing the

She had more than one string to her bow
Kiki de Montparnasse inspired Man Ray to take a £10 million photo – but she was far more than a ‘muse’
By Michael BIRD

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Surrealist
icon: Kiki de
Montparnasse
appears in two
of Man Ray’s
most famous
photographs,
Le Violon
d’Ingres (1924),
left, and Noire
et blanche
(1926), right

My holiday reading tip? This 730-page novel about

j Below,
Moïse Kisling’s
1925 portrait

broken families and useless politicians – in French
‘Kiki Man Ray’
by Mark
Braude (Two
Roads, £20) is
out on Aug 18

© MAN RAY 2015 TRUST/DACS, LONDON 2022; BRIDGEMAN IMAGES

activity of painting to sex (Picasso)
and popping out sayings such as “I
paint with my prick” (attributed to
Renoir). At any rate, after fending
for herself in Paris throughout her
teens, she embraced her new profession with no illusions.
Kiki posed for, then lived with, the
Polish-Jewish painter Moïse Kisling
– an artist now largely forgotten but
highly rated at the time by Picasso
and the writer Jean Cocteau – and
had just turned 20 when a thick-set,
unsmiling young American booked
her to model for him. Emmanuel
Radnitzky, the Brooklyn-bred son
of Russian-Jewish immigrants, was
known to everyone in Montparnasse as Man Ray.
In New York, Man Ray had
teamed up with the expat French
artist Marcel Duchamp to launch
the dada movement in America.
After the destructive chaos of world
war, dada announced the new
dawn of anarchic creativity. Artists
could use, do and say anything in
the cause of art. But some things
hadn’t changed – moving to Paris,
finding yourself a Montparnasse
studio and an artist’s muse was still
the dream. On Kiki’s second sitting,
she and Man Ray ended up in bed.
In the years that followed, they
became a Montparnassian golden
couple – Man Ray graduated from
cobbled-together dada objects and
collages to become the surrealist
photographer par excellence. Kiki
became the presiding spirit of the
youthful avant-garde, proclaimed at
the age of 28 the queen of Montparnasse. In Kiki Man Ray: Art, Love
and Rivalry in 1920s Paris, Mark
Braude asks what their 14-year relationship meant for both of them.
His new book is the latest in a
long yet sporadic series of attempts
to make sense of Kiki’s career,
which began in 1929, when she
published her first autobiography,
Kiki Souvenirs (“Kiki’s Memoirs”),
with an introduction by Hemingway. Its free-spirited but innocuous
references to sex ensured that the
English translation fell foul of US
censorship, joining James Joyce’s
Ulysses and D H Lawrence’s Lady
Chatterley’s Lover on the must-read
roster of banned books. The frank,
lively voice that comes through in
Kiki’s vignettes makes a cornerstone for the case, which Braude
renews, that she was far more than
Man Ray’s party-girl companion –
that it was, in fact, her vitality, her
connectedness in artistic networks,
and her intuitive understanding of
his creative process that hoisted
Man Ray on to the highway to fame.

She poked fun at the
surrealists who hated
the bourgeoisie ‘but
lived exactly like them’
It’s one more nail in the coffin of
the whole concept of the artist’s
muse – traditionally, a young
woman whose supreme achievement is to inhabit the imagination of
a male genius, while uncomplainingly providing his support system.
Kiki, it’s true, helped Man Ray with
his French, cooked for him, and
allowed him to photograph them
having sex – though whether she
consented to him circulating these
snaps among his Montparnasse
mates is an open question. But it
was also her presence and skill as a
model – and quite possibly her
encouragement and ideas, as well –
that made his most famous photograph what it is.
Man Ray’s title, Le Violon d’Ingres
(“Ingres’s Violin”), is, like the word
dada, French slang for a hobby.
Kiki’s pose echoes that of The Valpinçon Bather, by the great 19thcentur y French painter and
amateur violinist Jean-AugusteDominique Ingres. Her hourglass
back, branded with “f ” holes, has
become a surrealist icon. In
essence, it’s Freud for dummies, in
which a dream about a violin, or
any smooth, curvy object with
holes in it, can be interpreted as a
symbolic erotic fantasy about the
female body. Except that there’s
nothing unconscious about Man
Ray’s fusion of dream symbol and
real body. Why would I dream, he
seems to say, when I’ve got this?

Or was the pose Kiki’s inspiration
– a lesson in colloquial French for
an American surrealist? She had
participated in regular séances held
by a group of surrealist poets and
artists, photographed one night by
Man Ray. The writer André Breton,
the “Pope of Surrealism”, looks on,
chin in hand, while his wife (the
woman again in the role of magician’s assistant) types out a trance
poem recited by Robert Desnos. It’s
all very serious, as if they were
gathered round an operating table.
Kiki soon grew tired of their turgid
self-absorption. This “bunch of
wise-asses”, it struck her, loved
nothing better than slagging off the
bourgeoisie, but they “lived exactly
like the people they were proposing
to burn at the stake”. Breton never
forgave her for poking fun.
Man Ray would go on to develop
a profitable sideline as a society
photographer, imparting a moody,
modish drama to his shoots for
Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue. In his
1924 portrait of Peggy Guggenheim, the slim American heiress, lit
from below, casts a vampire-movie
shadow shaped like Nefertiti.
Where Alice Prin used her wits and
talents to reinvent herself – as well
as modelling, Kiki sang in nightclubs and exhibited her watercolours – Man Ray used his to tweak
surrealism, making his pampered
sitters look more interesting than
they really were.
In 1952, years after they had broken up and Man Ray had returned
to America, when Kiki had been
battling drug and alcohol addiction,
he ran into her in Paris. She was
overweight and out of work, carrying a bag full of old clothes. It was
her laugh that made him look up
and see again “the clean oval of her
face”. Kiki’s laughter, much mentioned in Braude’s book and in recollections of 1920s Montparnasse,
has lasted, of course, much less well
than Man Ray’s photos. But you can
track down her smile on YouTube,
in the artist Fernand Léger’s 1924
experimental film, Ballet mécanique (“Mechanical Ballet”).
Intercut with montages of spinning, pumping machine parts are
repeated glimpses of Kiki’s face –
her Cupid’s bow lips, her large
mascaraed eyes, and her profile
with its distinctive pointy nose. In
fact, the most memorable and
certainly the most human thing in
all of Léger’s quick-fire tumbling
razzmatazz of the machine age,
which, like Le Violon d’Ingres, has
become a classic of the early
20th-century avant-garde, is the
irrepressible, ageless smile of Kiki
de Montparnasse.

W

hen Michel Houellebecq’s
latest novel was published
in France it drew mixed
reviews. The temptation to judge a
book by its cover proved too much
for some, who foresaw in Anéantir
(a title probably best translated as
“destroy” or “annihilate” – we
await the English edition) yet
another tale of pessimism,
depression and failure, punctuated
by graphic depictions of sex and
other bodily functions. They
were not entirely disappointed.
The book has another feature
that attracted disfavour: at 730
pages it is long, thanks to the
author’s determination to explore
the minds of his characters. It is
also hard to say what it is about
(though I shall attempt to do so).
Having just buried myself in it as
a holiday read, it seems to me that
a man who can claim to be one of
the world’s greatest novelists has
done no harm to his reputation
with his eighth novel.
In each of his last two books
– Soumission (Submission) in 2015
and Sérotonine (Serotonin) in 2019,
Houellebecq set out his profound
disappointment with France and
the French. Soumission, which by
a tragic coincidence was published
on the day of the Charlie Hebdo
massacre, dealt with the country’s
refusal to defend its culture and
values against those of radical
Islam; Sérotonine focused on its
decadence and what the author
considered its shift towards the
acceptance of a failing morality.
Anéantir, set at the time of
France’s 2027 presidential election,
continues these themes: its
politicians are ciphers manipulated
by spin doctors (a notion that
resonates beyond France);
bourgeois family life is inherently
dysfunctional; as technology
comes to control the world, the
democratic state is helpless in the
face of cyber-terrorists; bonds
of trust between individuals are
sometimes hopelessly fragile. It
would take a supreme idealist to
argue that all this belongs in the
realms of fiction.
The principal character, Paul
Raison, is a senior fonctionnaire in
France’s economic ministry. His
minister, Bruno Juge (probably
based on the French politician
Bruno Le Maire, a friend of the
author), is touted as a potential
president, but the country’s
unnamed leader (presumably
Macron) decides to anoint another
more pliable politician on condition
that he runs on a joint ticket with
Juge, and remains a figurehead,
while Juge does the serious work.

All this happens against a
background of personal and public
disquiet. Both Raison and Juge
have dysfunctional marriages; and
Raison’s family life is in tatters. His
mother, a sculptor, has died before
the book starts, falling from a great
height in a church whose gargoyles
she was restoring. His father, who
has a new partner, is felled by a
stroke and left in a vegetative state.
His sister, Cécile, is a devout,
almost fanatical, Roman Catholic
forced to use her gifts as a cook to
support herself and her husband,
a shiftless, unemployed notary;
to make matters worse the
well-heeled people who employ
her are so rude and self-obsessed
that they barely notice her
existence. His younger brother,
Aurélien, is an art conservator,
married to a revolting journalist
who exhibits all the empathy of a
brick – she ultimately betrays him
in the most appalling fashion.
When Raison seeks the services
of a prostitute she turns out to be
Cécile’s daughter. They make a pact
not to reveal what has happened,
one of the novel’s rare instances of
trust being maintained.

Only an idealist would
say that Houellebecq’s
vision belongs in the
realms of fiction
Themes from earlier works –
notably the author’s dislike of
Islamism and his apparent belief
that the free market undermines
normal human relationships – are
less obvious here. Although
Houellebecq’s vision of France in
the near future is far from uplifting,
this novel does have one positive
theme: Paul Raison and his wife,
Prudence – who begin the novel
living separately in the same Paris
flat – slowly, and entirely believably,
become close again, the strength of
their revived union forged mainly
by the litany of misfortunes that
befall their family, and for which
Cécile’s orthodox religious
devotions offer no protection.
In many ways this is the author’s
most credible novel. Read it in
French if you can, because he
writes superbly, or await the
translation. In England, the white,
educated, middle-aged male author
is increasingly disregarded; yet we
have no one, male or female, to
match Houellebecq.

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Television

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S

ome say The Human Centipede
is the most disgusting thing
ever screened; others the
coprophagic banquet in Pasolini’s
Salò. These opinions are incorrect.
The worst was broadcast on BBC
television on January 10 1963, and
involved a naked rag and bone man,
some tepid water and a jar of pickled onions.
It happened on an episode of
Steptoe and Son. For the uninitiated,
Ray Galton and Alan Simpson’s sitcom was set in a totter’s yard on Oil
Drum Lane, Shepherd’s Bush, but
described a relationship drawn
from the Beckettian plane: Albert
and Harold, father and son, rag’n’
bone men, trapped with each other
for eternity; the young man desperate to escape into culture and light,
the old one conniving to keep him
stuck in a domestic wilderness of
mildew and taxidermy. Harold was
played by Harry H Corbett – tall,
declarative, impassioned; Albert by
Wilfrid Brambell – scrawny, desiccated, cynical.
In “The Bath”, Harold’s girlfriend
is about to arrive for pre-bingo
Manhattans. Unfortunately, his
father is in the living room, flannelling himself in a tin bath. Panicked
and ashamed, Harold begs him to
hurry up and finish. Instead, Albert
sends him to fetch the kettle of
water on the gas ring. And this is
where the horror begins.
It’s all in Brambell’s bony physicality. He reaches behind the bath
and produces a plate of food.
Absurdly, it’s under a cloche. He
settles his dinner on the washboard
next to a bottle of beer. Then he’s
shaking ketchup on to his plate.
Finally, he produces a chip-shopsize jar of pickled onions. In a blur
of elbows, he stabs at them with a
fork. But he’s clumsy, and some of
the onions spill into the bathwater.
He scoops them up and puts
them back into the jar. As he rummages around his groin for rogue
pickles, the camera cuts to Harry H
Corbett, returned from the kitchen
with four words that would pursue
his co-star to the grave: “You dirty
old man!” His delivery is freighted
with the knowledge that some 20
million viewers are now imagining
a vinegary bulb nudging at Old
Steptoe’s soapy cheeks.
That line, inevitably, provides a
title for Brambell’s first biographer.
“You Dirty Old Man!” is a quick read.
David Clayton’s book exhibits a
congruence with the physique of its
subject unmatched since The Man
Who Was Private Widdle (2001),
Roger Lewis’s slim study of the
Carry On actor Charles Hawtrey.
It’s also a peculiar and Pooterish
work. Clay ton quotes, in its
entirety, a letter in which the actor
Ian Ogilvy professes never to have
met Brambell, but the author also

Was Steptoe really a ‘dirty old man’?
Sitcom star Wilfrid Brambell scandalised 1960s Britain, on and off screen. But the truth is far stranger…
By Matthew SWEET

dismisses interest in his subject’s
sexual orientation as “pointless tittle-tattle”. And then there’s the
question raised by the title. Wilfrid
Brambell – dirty or clean? It’s the
distinction on which a whole life
seems to turn.
The audience watching Albert
Steptoe in the bath would have
brought their own ideas. Four
weeks before the show was transmitted, Brambell had been all over
the papers, thanks to an incident in
the gents’ lavatories at Shepherd’s
Bush Gre en. The magi strate
handed down a guilty verdict for
“importuning for an immoral purpose”. But this was not a breathless
night on the tiles from the pages of
Joe Orton. The actor seems to have
done nothing more than stand at
the urinals, smiling at the clientele
– one of whom turned out to be
Sergeant Vivian Allen of the Met.
Brambell was born in Dublin in
1912, the son of an amateur opera
singer and a Guinness factory cashier. He was a fey boy with a sharp

tongue. (“Akela, you’re a s---!” he
told Miss Olive Goodbody, mistress
of his Wolf Cub troop, when she
failed him for his housemanship
badge.) He trained at Yeats’s Abbey
Theatre; playe d Sir Andrew
Aguecheek at the Gate, Dublin, in
1942 and the Fool to Hugh Griffith’s
Lear in an Arts Council tour of 1949.
The old man roles arrived long
before he was old. At the age of 49,
he was cast as John Mills’s dad in
Flame in the Streets (1961), despite
being four years his junior. Dirt,
too, often attended him: in Clive
Exton’s TV play No Fixed Abode
(1959), he played a tramp whose toenails attract comment even in the
doss house. In the dark stage comedy Stop It, Whoever You Are (1961),
he was a factory lavatory attendant
who receives sexual attention from
a 14-year-old girl (appalled audience members shouted “filth” during some performances). After the
pickled onion scene had turned
Albert Steptoe’s dirtiness into a
national catchphrase, the idea of

hygiene seemed inescapable: when
Richard Lester cast Brambell as
Paul McCartney’s grandfather in A
Hard Day’s Night (1964), his exceptional cleanliness is one of the film’s
running gags.
Brambell himself clearly reacted
to this. Before every Steptoe performance he let his stubble grow. After
the recording he shaved in his
dressing room, changed into a
smart suit and was able to walk

back into the street unrecognised.
The photo libraries reveal him as a
dandy of the Peter Wyngarde
school: here he is, in a chocolatebrown psychedelic shirt and thin
wool tie, fag held deftly between his
fingers; there, with a Russian hat,
knee-length A-line fur jacket, cravat, gloves and neat little manbag.
This fastidiousness extended to
the management of his personal
life. Between 1948 and 1955, Brambell was married to an Irish actress
called Molly Hall. There was a child,
probably fathered by their lodger.
Nothing is known of the fate of
Molly, her son or her lover. In the
1970s, Yussof Bin Mat Saman, a
Malaysian man whom Brambell
likely met on one of his many trips
to Hong Kong, moved into his Pimlico flat, where he remained until
after Brambell’s death. Brambell
spoke of him as his “valet”. Nothing
more is known of him.
Brambell clearly went east to
enjoy sexual freedoms that were
not available to him at home. One of

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POEM OF THE WEEK
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
g
Dirt often
attended him:
Wilfrid Brambell
with Elizabeth
Knight in Carry
on Again Doctor
(1969); far left,
with Harry H
Corbett (left) in
Steptoe and Son
in 1970

the first stories I ever heard about
him was from a journalist who
interviewed him for the Swindon
Advertiser, when his most urgent
topic of conversation was not
his touring production of Emlyn
Williams’s The Late Christopher
Bean, but a novelty wristwatch he
had purchased in Hong Kong, with
a dial depicting couples in different
sexual positions.
Brambell’s compartmentalisation
of his existence tells a story about
gay and bisexual life in post-war
Britain, its pleasures, risks and
shames, its narratives of dirt and
cleanliness. This, we should recall,
is a country in which the radio personality Gilbert Harding once woke
up naked and terrified in the North
British Hotel in Edinburgh, his onenight stand having stolen his wallet, his clothes, and all the questions
for that week’s Round Britain Quiz.
The 2008 TV biopic The Curse
of Steptoe, which cast Phil Davis as
Brambell and Jason Isaacs as Corbett, attempted to convey something of its atmosphere. But the
film’s accuracy – not least its portrait of a wretchedly hostile relationship between its subjects – was
so questioned that the BBC withdrew it and rewrote its guidelines
on the depiction of real people on
the screen. It chilled the BBC’s
interests in such projects, which
is regrettable. Imagine a series of
biopics on the intertwined lives
of post-war British comedy stars –
Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Barbara Windsor, Hattie
Jacques, Tony Hancock, Corbett
and Brambell. It would describe
a world of passion and agony and
defeat. It would be our Heimat.
After the pickled onions are back
in the jar, Harold gives his father a
lecture on cleanliness. “The bath is
for washing in. You bath in the bath
and you eat your dinner at the dinner table.” It’s a line that would have
sat happily in one of the great
anthropological works of the
period, Mary Douglas’s Purity and
Danger (1966), in which she offers
her famous definition of dirt as
“matter out of place”. “Food is not
dirty in itself,” she writes, “but it
is dirty to leave cooking utensils in
the bedroom, or food bespattered
on clothing; similarly, bathroom
equipment in the drawing room.”
Brambell lived by such proprieties. A lover in Hong Kong was a
valet in Pimlico. The dirty old man
on screen was scrubbed and suited
on the street. The details of his life?
He washed them away, and now
they’re gone, like bathwater.
‘You Dirty Old Man!’ by
David Clayton (The History
Press, £20) is out now

j Below left,
filming A Hard
Day’s Night (1964)
with the Beatles

He moved
a man he
met in
Hong
Kong into
his flat
and
called
him his
‘valet’

I love a good footnote. This week’s poem
first appeared in one; a stray thought,
caught like a butterfly pressed between
two pages, in the fourth chapter of
Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s long and
rambling Biographia Literaria
(“Biographical Sketches of My Literary
Life and Opinions”). There, he reminds
the reader that the Greek word psyche
could mean both “soul” and “butterfly”,
illustrating the point in a footnote with
these lines of verse – a stanza, he said,
from an unpublished poem, though the
rest of it never appeared. (If only old STC
had finished a few more poems! Alas,

drink, drugs, depression and – worst of
all – philosophy too often got in the way.)
The soul, for Coleridge, is a butterfly
only after death. In life, we’re more like
the wretched caterpillar (or “reptile”; he
uses the word in its obsolete sense,
referring to any crawling thing). The
poem’s rhythm mimics its slow crawl in a
long closing line – a hexameter, with six
beats; every other line here has five. It’s a
bitter view of life, but a bravura piece of
writing. A page earlier in his Biographia,
Coleridge recalls being stunned by the
“harshness” of his friend Wordsworth’s
early poems, where “gorgeous blossoms

rise out of a hard and thorny rind”; he
might equally have been writing about
his own gorgeous, thorny lines.
Tristram Fane Saunders

PSYCHE
The butterfly the ancient Grecians made
The soul’s fair emblem, and its only name –
But of the soul, escaped the slavish trade
Of mortal life! For in this earthly frame
Ours is the reptile’s lot, much toil, much blame,
Manifold motions making little speed,
And to deform and kill the things whereon
we feed.

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Books

How the wheels came off the Cuban dream
Cuba enjoyed the best PR of any communist dictatorship. Why are we still taken in by the fantasy of it as ‘poor but equal’?

HOW THINGS FALL APART
by Elizabeth Dore
352pp, Apollo, T £25 (0844 871 1514),
RRP £27.99, ebook £9.99
ÌÌÌÌÌ
Of all the communist dictatorships, the one that
enjoyed the best PR was
Cuba. Here’s the popular
story. The revolution in
1959 attempted to create
a non-bureaucratic “tropical socialism”, which had its ups and downs
but saw off the Yanks and elevated
its people. When the Soviet Union
collapsed, the Cubans kept going
because Fidel Castro was so
admired – and when millions of
tourists visited the country from the
1990s onwards (me among them),
we found a country that we believed
was poor yet equal, with worldclass schools and hospitals. To this
very day, Cuba is not treated like a
regular dictatorship. It is an experiment in fairness: we owe it a chance.
Elizabeth Dore’s How Things Fall
Apart deconstructs this fantasy
through the oral histories of Cubans
who had the misfortune to live
through it – and reveals that they,
too, have a story about Cuba that is
unreliable in its own way. “If you
were a Cuban born on the island in
the vicinity of 1975,” she writes,
“you grew up with a promise of
equality. You remember watching
your classmates eat identical sandwiches, and feeling: ‘We are all part
of the whole.’ ” Fidel was committed
to creating a classless society, and
as Cuba moved closer to the USSR,
many of Dore’s subjects – a mix of
black and Hispanic, party faithful
and dissidents – fondly recall a

standard of living that was basic but
comfortable, the shops packed with
shoes and sweets. “We lived well,”
remembers Juan Guillard Matus,
“everything was in reach.”
Then the USSR collapsed. Fidel
did not survive on charm alone (he
shot a few people, too).The United
States tightened its blockade, and
as the economy collapsed, Castro
announced a Special Period, which
combined grinding austerity for
citizens with a campaign to encourage foreigners to visit and spend
dollars (at the same time as dissidents were permitted to leave).
Crime exploded, along with hunger. “The cats of Havana suddenly
disappeared,” recalls Pavel Garcia
Rojas. Sex tourism flourished: the
head of the socialist scouts at Rojas’s
old school retrained as a prostitute.
Castro, always an optimist, joked
that thanks to Cuba’s excellent
teachers, its whores “were the best
educated in the world”.
Liberal educational techniques
seem to have passed Cuba by. Rojas
remembers his school’s discipline
and bullying as “barbaric”; another
interviewee calls it “violent” and
“frightening”. College was free but
there were no grants, distinguishing between those who had benefited from the new dollar economy
versus the left-behind, a gap that
grew wider when Fidel was
replaced by his brother Raul.
Raul sounds like a contender for
leader of the Conservative Party. In
2011, he sacked one million publicsector employees (the figure was
reduced to 500,000 when it was
o bv i o u s th e c o u n t r y wo u l d
explode) and ordered them to start
a business. Housing was commercialised. None of this came as a sur-

The Napoleon
of Fleet Street
Biographer Andrew Roberts gives the Daily Mail
founder Lord Northcliffe his ‘Great Man’ treatment
By James WALTON

In the
Special
Period,
hunger
exploded.
Even the
cats in
Havana
were
eaten

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prise to those who knew him – Raul
had formed Cuba’s first trade cartel and sent military officers overseas to learn business management
– but the people were shocked
when the party literally cut the
word “egalitarianism” from its
manifesto, replacing it with “equality of opportunity”.
This was the island’s equivalent
of Tony Blair’s Clause 4 moment,
though the British far-Left seems
curiously unaware of it. Cuba today
is not, as it’s British fans think,
socialist. Nor is it capitalist. While
China and Vietnam, for all their
sins, reformed their economies to
enrich their people, the Castros
only liberalised as much as was
necessary to stave off collapse, for
this is an old-fashioned oligarchy
that simply wants to stay in power.
Shifts in economic policy reshape
character, even memory. When
Dore interviewed Mario Sanchez
Cortez in 2014, he lamented that the
people he’d known as children
wanted “to help improve people’s
lives”, but that under Raul, “Cubans
have become individualistic.” Yet
when Dore met him again a few
years later, he agreed with Raul’s
view that anyone who lives off the
state is a “parasite”. As the official
ideology changed, Cortez recalibrated his memories to keep up: the
Cuba of his childhood shifted from
heaven to a fool’s paradise.
This is where the ambiguities of
Dore’s research become interesting: to what extent can we trust
what her interviewees tell her, not
only because they live under surveillance, but because human
beings have a habit of romanticising the past? Olga Betancourt,
whose son, Alejandro, was diag-

THE CHIEF
by Andrew Roberts
560pp, Simon & Schuster,
T £19.99 (0844 871 1514),
RRP £25, ebook £9.99
ÌÌÌÌÌ
In 1905, a new town
opened in Newfoundland. Grand Falls had
well-designed houses, a
church, baseball team
and arts centre. Most
strikingly, it had the planet’s largest
paper mill, with wood drawn from
a surrounding estate bigger than
Sussex, Surrey and Kent combined.
This was because the town
existed for one reason alone: supplying paper to the world’s leading
media empire – home of the Daily
Mail, the Daily Mirror and several

nosed with cancer, says she travelled to Miami in 1995 to secure his
treatment. When it was time to go
home, leaving the land of plenty for
a country on the brink of famine,
she says the boy found it “incomprehensible... It was as if I had
dragged him out of a palace and
brought him to live in a hovel.”
Alejandro contradicts her. “I
have no memories of my family facing tremendous difficulties during
the Special Period,” he insists;
father raised animals, mother grew
vegetables. The boy had a Nintendo. Esteban Cabrera Montes, a
contemp orary, describ es the
Special Period as “the best that had
ever happened to him”, because the
blackouts allowed him to mix with
intellectuals without being
watched. The ability of children to
grow up in what was objectively a
terrible time and remember it
fondly prompts us to consider if the
golden age of the 1980s has been
misremembered, too. Yes, there
were goods in the shops, says Rojas,
but they were shipped in from Russia to create the illusion of wealth,
and the markup was huge.
Montes’s mother took him to
Havana to buy shoes – so many to
choose from! – but as he was trying
on a pair of trainers, she whispered,
“I can’t afford them.” After that happened a few times, “I thought to
myself, this system sucks.”

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By Tim STANLEY

i ‘This system
sucks’: Cuba
in 2003

Dore died shortly before this book
came out. It was her crowning contribution to a growing body of literature on life just before the collapse
of the Soviet Union, articulating the
experiences of children raised to
believe the socialist victory was

bestselling magazines – as created
by a man who had left school at 16
and was still barely out of his 30s.
By then he was already the youngest peer ever created in Britain,
choosing the title Lord Northcliffe –
apparently so that he could sign
himself “N”, just as Napoleon did.
All of which makes Northcliffe
(né Alfred Harmsworth) an understandable choice for an Andrew
Roberts biography. In books such
as Churchill: Walking with Destiny
and the unambiguously titled
Napoleon the Great, Roberts has
shown an abiding keenness for the
Great Man theory of history,
whereby one individual can shape
the lives of millions. Now he makes
the same claim for “the Napoleon of
Fleet Street”.
The way Roberts persuasively
tells it, not only did Northcliffe

establish the template for British
journalism ever since, but he also
did much to win the First World
War – a verdict endorsed by no less
than the Kaiser, who subsequently
declared: “If we had had Northcliffe, we would have won.”
So how on ear th was thi s
achieved by somebody born in
Dublin in 1865 to an impoverished
schoolteacher who later reinvented
himself as an alcoholic London barrister? The answer, it seems, was
pretty smoothly.
The young Alfred caught the
journalism bug as a boy in St John’s
Wood where, under his editorship,
his school magazine suddenly
started to specialise in arresting
headlines and short, punchy paragraphs. Shunning university, he
headed next to Fleet Street where,
as a teenage freelancer, he wrote

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‘If we had had
Northcliffe, we would
have won,’ declared
the Kaiser after 1918
on such impressively random subjects as “Some Curious Butterflies”
and “Organ Grinders and Their
Earnings”.
By 20, he had enough contacts
(and drive) to gain backing for a
magazine of his own, accurately
named Answers to Correspondents
on Every Subject Under the Sun. It
was soon joined by several other,
equally successful titles including
Comic Cuts, Boys’ Own Journal and

and analysis. Part of Cuba’s tragedy,
DePalma argues, is the character of
its people: they think they’re the
best, even when their country is at
its worst, hence they rarely demand
the change they deserve. “There
must be a measure of vanity in a
people willing to overlook the fact
that it is almost impossible to get
ibuprofen or lice shampoo in a
a periodical for women entitled
Forget-Me-Not: a Pictorial Journal
for The Home.
But his biggest venture came in
1896 when he launched the Daily
Mail – aimed squarely at a newly literate generation. The paper would
“take as much care making things
plain to the mill-girl” as The Times
did to “the clubman”. It would
preach “loyalty to Empire”, while
also understanding that “three
things which are always news” are
“health and sex and money”. By
1899 it was selling more than a million copies a day.
Of course, its populist approach
was not to everybody’s taste. Then,
as now, the Mail was accused of
giving readers what they wanted
rather than what they should want,
and of wielding excessive influence. Yet as Northcliffe said, and

Cuban pharmacy whilst boasting
Cuba is a global medical power.”
We talk – interminably – about
the curse of nostalgia in Britain, but
we have openly dissected and
rejected our past in a way that
Cubans cannot or else refuse to, as
indicated by the lingering appeal of
Fidel’s egalitarianism long after the
Castros had their own Clause 4

moment. It is a myth sustained by
the West, including by Dore, who
was only able to conduct these
interviews because she enjoyed a
degree of trust within the regime.
Her final work is compelling, selfaware and as honest as it can be
within practical limits, but many
readers will find it compromised by
the author’s idealism, by her desire

to find something good in a society
so transparently rotten.
Is it so big a deal that children ate
the same sandwiches at school? Is
the bar for human progress so low?
As the countless Cubans who have
escaped to Miami will tell you, it is
possible to feed the masses, even
get them fat, without recourse to
brainwashing and bullets.

i
‘Health and sex and money are
always news’: Lord Northcliffe, c 1908

as Roberts emphasises: “There is
a great art in feeling the pulse of
the people.”
The Chief does acknowledge its
subject’s more glaring faults, especially his anti-Semitism. On the
whole, however, Roberts never
doubts Northcliffe’s greatness for
long: a regular tactic is to quote
the critics, before – with the aid of
the trusty phrase “in fact” – firmly
correcting them.
During the early 20th century,
for ex ample, Northcliffe was
denounced as an anti-German
scaremonger, but “in fact” he was
right to fear Germany, as events
proved. Once the conflict began, he
was “in fact” right about much else
besides, including the stupidity of
invading the Dardanelles, the need
for conscription, and the inadequacy of Asquith as a war leader.

At times, Roberts’s assiduous
tracing of every twist in Northcliffe’s wartime disputes with the
government is perhaps more for the
scholar than the general reader.
Nonetheless, you do finish The
Chief utterly open-mouthed at all
that Northcliffe got done in his 57
years (he died in 1922 of a disease
ironically caught on a world tour to
improve his health) as well as his
lasting impact in ways both obvious
and unexpected.
One character woven throughout the book is an Australian journalist who hailed Northcliffe as
“the biggest influence over me” and
later received money from him to
buy the Sydney Evening News. The
Australian in question was Keith
Murdoch, whose son Rupert would
inherit the business that Northcliffe
had initially bankrolled.

ALAMY

inevitable, only to see it give way to
the most rapacious capitalism.
They lived in two different worlds.
This is not my favourite of these
studies: Lea Ypi’s memoir of Albania in transition, Free (2021), is
s t r a n ge r a n d m o re m ov i n g ;
Anthony DePalma’s The Cubans:
Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary
Times (2020) is clearer in structure

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Samuel Fosso was born in
1962, to Nigerian parents in
Cameroon. It was usual then
to take photographs of babies
at three months old, but Fosso
was paralysed in his arms and
his legs, so “no one thought I
was a desirable child to
photograph”. By 13, he had
started his own photographic
studio, where he could take as
many self-portraits as he liked
– such as this, from 1977 (left).
A new book, Samuel Fosso,
celebrates one of Africa’s most
playful photographers.
Thames & Hudson, £12.99

A great puzzle-box novel
Four teasing stories in one – fiction about high finance has never felt so rich
By Lucy SCHOLES

TRUST
by Hernan Diaz
372pp, Picador, T £14.99 (0844 871
1514), RRP £16.99, ebook £8.99
ÌÌÌÌÌ
Trust, Hernan Diaz’s second novel, is a chorus of
inharmonious but overlapping storie s that
teases the reader until
the very last page. The
novel is made up of four books,
each a discrete volume, but in conversation with the others. The first
is a novel; the second, the unfinished manuscript of a ghostwritten
autobiography; the third, a memoir;
and the fourth, a collection of fragmented diary entries. Each one tells

the same story, but from a different
perspective and – perhaps most
importantly of all – driven by a different agenda; for, ultimately, Diaz’s
subject is power. Who has it and
who doesn’t, how it’s consolidated
and wielded, what it can buy you,
and what it can cost you.
The first book is Bonds, a novel,
purportedly published in 1938, by a
writer called Harold Vanner. It tells
the story of Benjamin Rask, a legendary Wall Street tycoon, and his
beautiful but mentally frail wife,
Helen, a couple whose elusiveness
“turned them into mythical creatures” in New York society, “their
fabulous stature only increased
with their indifference”. As Rask
makes more and more money playing the stock market – as one of the

few to accumulate wealth during
the 1929 crash – Helen spirals into
madness, eventually meeting a
tragic death (the blame for which
Vanner lands squarely at her husband’s door) in a Swiss sanatorium.
Think The Great Gatsby but written
by Edith Wharton, though Rask
lacks Fitzgerald’s hero’s charm. He’s
an almost automaton-like operator
– “a wealthy man playing the part of
a wealthy man” – ruthlessly focused
on the pursuit of money, so coolly
and calmly assured of his own
ascendancy, it’s chilling.
Then, in the second book, we
meet the supposedly “real-life”
Rask: a financier named Andrew
Bevel, whose wife, Mildred, died –
again in a Swiss sanatorium – but
f ro m c a n c e r. “ Ru m o r s h ave

surrounded me most of my life,”
Bevel writes in the preface to this
autobiography. “I have grown
accustomed to them and take care
never to deny gossip and tales.
Denial is always a form of confirmation.” Yet here he is, all the same,
angered by what he sees as Vanner’s
brazen twisting of the facts, attempting to set the record straight.
Of course, it’s not that simple,
especially as the final two books are
by far the most revealing, their
disclosures destabilising and
complicating what we have already
been told, but to go into the details
would, I fear, spoil the fun. What I
will say is that Diaz deftly illustrates
how the worlds of finance and
fiction are built on similarly shifting
sands, right down to a shared
lexicography.
“Trust”, “bonds”, “futures”: each
has a double meaning here. Money
itself is a fiction, argues a proud
immigrant anarchist who plays a
part in the third book, “commodities in a purely fantastic form, yes?
And this is doubly true for finance
capital. Stocks, shares, bonds… just
claims to future value. So if money
is fiction, finance capital is the fiction of a fiction. That’s what all
those criminals trade in: fictions.” Is
manipulating the stock market

really any different from manipulating the story, be it one’s own or
someone else’s?
Bevel is so successful, he seems
to carry the triumph of the entire
country on his shoulders – “While
geared towards profit, his actions
had invariably had the nation’s best
interests at heart. Business was a
form of patriotism” – and Trust is
intimately concerned with how
individual myth-making is tied up
in that of an entire country: “As a
consequence, his private life had
become, increasingly, one with the
life of the nation.”
Indeed, each story of success –
and let’s be clear, success is always
ultimately measured in financial
terms – is transfigured into the
larger story of the American Dream,
a subject on which Diaz has previously turned his playful but penetrating gaze. His 2017 debut, In the
Distance, a finalist for the Pulitzer
Prize, was the tale of a Swedish
immigrant who arrives in California during the Gold Rush years.
The knotty ingenuity of Trust
makes it easy to see how it’s won its
place on this year’s Booker longlist.
Destined to be known as one of the
great puzzle-box novels, it’s the
cleverest of conceits, wrapped up
in a page-turner.

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Books

What if white people
woke up dark-skinned?
‘Exit West’ author Mohsin Hamid’s new thought experiment has
Kafkaesque promise, but it is so didactic that it flops as a novel
By Sameer RAHIM

THE LAST WHITE MAN
by Mohsin Hamid
169pp, Hamish Hamilton, T £10.99
(0844 871 1514), RRP £12.99,
ebook £7.99
ÌÌÌÌÌ
Even in his most realistic
novels, Mohsin Hamid
betrays a weakness for
allegory. In 2007’s The
Reluctant Fundamentalist, a Pakistani man
named Changez (Changes) moves
to the US and falls in love with
Erica (America). But though the
symbolism was hard to miss, Hamid
provided enough texture for the
reader to care about these characters as human beings. Fast-forward
to 2022, though, and it appears we
want our messages as smoothly
didactic as possible – and in his
new novel, The Last White Man,
Hamid obliges.
The plot begins as a reworking of
Kafka’s The Metamorphosis. Anders,
a privileged white man, wakes up
one morning to find he has turned
“a deep and undeniable brown”. At
first, like his namesake the Norwegian mass killer Anders Breivik, he
feels rage – “he wanted to kill the
coloured man who confronted him
here in his home” – but gradually
he comes to a pained recognition
that his whiteness will never
return. His girlfriend, Oona, a yoga
instructor, is unsure at first.
But in the bedroom, at least, their
different complexions add a bit of
voyeuristic excitement. She enjoys
“watching herself performing
her grind with a dark-skinned
stranger”. Eventually, she too turns
brown, as does the rest of the
white-skinned population.
Hamid certainly touches on
important themes. America, where
this novel appears to be set, is by
some estimates likely to be minority white by 2050. Phenomena such
as the rise of Donald Trump
p and the
popularity of the conspiracy
iracy known
as the Great Replacement
ent Theory –
which claims there is a deliberate
plot by Jews to increase
se immigration in order to dilute the white
population – are absolutely
olutely
dangerous. As demography
graphy
changes, so does the sense
nse of
cultural threat among
g the
majority. Hamid’s novel
counters that, in the end,
nd, it
doesn’t matter what skin
colour you have, and that,
at,
for white people, giving
ng
u p s o m e p r iv i l e ge
e
could be a liberation
into a more generous
way of living.

j
A weakness
for allegory:
Mohsin Hamid,
author of
The Reluctant
Fundamentalist
and Exit West

I’m on board with the message –
the problem is that Hamid’s moralising tone leaves the novel dead
in the water. Even when he is trying
to be sympathetic to a character,
such as Oona’s mother, who is
deeply uncomfortable with her
daughter’s change, he cannot erase
his condescension. Perhaps this is a
function of the novel’s frictionless
style, in which characters demonstrate theories rather than live and
breathe their own contradictions –
as Changez did in The Reluctant
Fundamentalist, o r H a m i d ’s
banker/drug-addict protagonist
Daru did in his raucous debut, Moth
Smoke (2000).
The prose doesn’t help. Hamid’s
long, deliberately repetitive sentences are supposed to be incantatory or fairy-tale-like, but just end
up being tedious. “When Oona’s
mother saw Oona she knew it was
Oona, and Oona’s mother sat on her
sofa and did not speak, and then
Oona said, mother, and her mother
looked down, still at Oona, but
at Oona’s legs…” And so on for
another 15 lines.
The best allegories also work as
stories in their own right: Animal
Farm is a gripping tale whether or
not you know much about the
Soviet Union. They also succeed
when their meaning isn’t straightforwardly mappable. Take The
Metamorphosis. It is never clear
what Gregor Samsa turning into an
insect actually represents, and
Kafka has no interest in telling
us. Instead, he gives us a deeply
visceral depiction of the practical
consequences of the transformation. (I will never forget the rotting
apple stuck in his back.) Samsa is
genuinely repulsive, which is why
it is such an effort for his family to
suppress their disgust and help
the poor thing. But Hamid’s novel
doesn’t have the same stakes.
Except for the most fervent racist,
turning a few shades darker
hardly
y bears comparison in the
disgust stakes.
stakes
Like quite a few novels these
days, The La
Last White Man seems
to b e re sp onding to the
extremes
of social media
extrem
debate
debat rather than the
evolving
reality of racial
evolv
politics
in the West,
poli
where
Hispanics vote
whe
for T
Trump and we might
soon have a British Asian
prime
prim minister. This is a
shame,
because Hamid
sha
is aan intelligent writer
who has done comwh
pelling work in the
pe
past. Sadly, this is a
p
pale imitation.
p

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Books
g ‘One cheer
more for
Teetotalism and
Railwayism!!!’:
a Thomas Cook
poster from 1905

‘Really is a miracle.
Everything catered’
From Grand Tours to health cures, how Britain
got bitten by the tourism bug (despite the bad tea)

TOURISTS
by Lucy Lethbridge
320pp, Bloomsbury, T £16.99 (0844
871 1514), RRP £20, ebook £9.38
ÌÌÌÌÌ
British aristocrats did
their Grand Tours in the
l8th century but it wasn’t
until the Victorian age
that the middle classes
really took to tourism.
Their appetite was whetted by a
showman called Albert Smith who
mounted panoramas and dioramas
of places such as the Bay of Naples
or the Cataracts of Egypt at the
Egyptian Hall on Piccadilly. His
most successful show was The
Ascent of Mont Blanc, which opened
in l852 and ran for six years. Smith
had actually climbed Mont Blanc in
l85l, sustained by a litre of wine, a
bottle of brandy and a dozen hardboiled eggs, though his many
detractors claimed his porters had
to carry him. Trollope, Thackeray
and Ruskin shuddered at his vulgarity, and were appalled when
groups of hoi polloi started making
the trip to Chamonix. Smith occasionally accompanied them, but he
wasn’t a tour organiser – that leap
was made by Thomas Cook.
Cook was as different as possible
to Smith – a baptist lay preacher and
a fiercely evangelical temperance
campaigner. The first trip he organised was taking 500 passengers by

rail from Leicester to Loughborough to attend a temperance meeting, which was such a triumph that
he called for “One cheer more for
Teetotalism and Railwayism!!!”
This was the first of many rail
excursions. His particular skill was
negotiating group discounts for
travel and hotels and, unlike Smith,
he was trustworthy and respectable. He was never driven by profit
but by the thought of “what a glorious thing it would be if the newly
developed powers of railways and
locomotion could be subservient to
the promotion of temperance”.
The first foreign tour he arranged
went to Paris in 1855 and customers
were more than satisfied: “It really
is a miracle. Everything is organised, everything is catered for.”
Soon he was sending groups to
France and Switzerland and dealing
with 50,000 enquiries a year. But
some journals began to be sniffy
about “Cooks’ vandals”, saying that
they were “spoiling” the Continent
for smarter (richer) travellers like
themselves. Then, as now, there
was a lot of snobbery about travel:
You are a tourist, I am a traveller.
Cooks’ tourists tended to dislike
foreign food and the hideous
prevalance of garlic. And tea was a
real problem: nobody abroad knew
how to make a proper cup of tea.
One brave tourist found that drinking café au lait was a tolerable, but
others took camping stoves so that
they could boil their own water – it

ALAMY

By Lynn BARBER

was essential to boil water because
there was a lot of typhoid about.
Many Victorians went abroad for
their health. Tuberculosis killed
50,000 Brits a year in the l850s and
anyone who could afford it was
advised to escape the cold, damp
British winter by heading south to
the French Riviera – Menton, ideally. Or they could head for the
clean, dry air of the Alps, where
Davos was a particular favourite.
And then there were the spa
towns with their water cures and
hydropathic treatments. The original Spa, in Belgium, was an almost
entirely English town, fondly
remembered for its gaming tables
where you could lose a fortune

while being cured of your dyspepsia. Most of the German spa towns,
such as Wiesbaden and BadenBaden, also had thriving casinos –
there was nothing else to do. One
visitor to Bad Wildblad in the Black
Forest complained that “after the
early bath you were ordered to go
back to the blankets and, above all
things, to avoid reading or thought.”
With so little to do, mealtimes
became the highlight of the day and
each spa had its own recommended
diet. I particularly like the sound
of the Vichy diet where salad
was banned but wine and cheese
were recommended.
Early tourists carried sketchbooks and watercolours, but with

the invention of the Kodak camera
in 1888, photography soon prevailed. And, of course, postcards –
in l903 the Glasgow Evening News
worried that “in 10 years Europe
will be buried beneath picture postcards”. Sending them seemed to be
a specifically female vice: men seldom bothered. But everyone
bought souvenirs and there was
heavy demand for dolls in regional
dress and Italian straw donkeys.
What were tourists looking for?
Sublime scenery? History? Culture? Peasants working the fields as
a reminder of an older, pre-industrial way of life? Classical ruins
were popular – Dickens exclaimed
when he saw the Colosseum: “GOD
be thanked: a ruin!” But of course
ruins were often not as picturesque
as in Piranesi prints and anyway
tourists ruined ruins. As Lethbridge
astutely observes: “The prevailing
paradox of tourism is that it so often
destroys what it seeks.”
And it’s bad for the planet. The
Alpine snow machines that work all
night to push displaced snow back
up the ski slopes use enough fuel
every hour to drive a Range Rover
from Britain to East Africa. Lethbridge is constantly throwing out
fascinating facts like this. I just wish
sometimes she could have paused
from the facts to paint a broader
picture. She has proved herself to
be a very conscientious researcher:
now she needs to learn to be a
slightly more relaxed writer.

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PAPERBACKS
READ THIS WEEK

Can he clean-bowl the Booker?
Shehan Karunatilaka’s 2010 novel ‘Chinaman’ was the second best cricket book ever written. Now he is back
By Nikhil KRISHNAN
SUNSET SWING
by Ray Celestin
560pp, Pan Macmillan, £8.99
ÌÌÌÌÌ
Celestin’s crime quartet – set
against the evolution of jazz in
20th-century America – comes to a
superb close in this final volume,
which also serves as tribute to the
genius of Louis Armstrong.
THE SEVEN MOONS
OF MAALI ALMEIDA
by Shehan Karunatilaka
368p, Sort Of, T £14.99 (0844 871
1514), RRP £16.99, ebook £7.12
ÌÌÌÌÌ
Admirers of his cracking
debut, Chinaman: The
Legend of Pradeep
Mathew (2010), have
been wondering what
became of Shehan
Karunatilaka. That book, following
the rise and mysterious vanishing
of an improbably talented Sri
Lankan bowler, was first selfpublished, but has since come to be
firmly established as a classic of
modern South Asian fiction.
Readers unmoved by the charms
of cricket should not be fazed by
the praise it received from Wisden
(it was runner-up in its list of greatest cricket books ever written). The
book was as much a study of Sri
Lanka’s recent political history as of
its cricket team, perennial underdogs whose influence on the modern game is easily as profound as
that of the legendary West Indies
led by Clive Lloyd.
This second book, The Seven
Moons of Maali Almeida, seems to
have faced a similar struggle before
seeing publication, and several
publishers are doubtless blushing
at their misjudgment after learning
of its recent inclusion on the

Booker Prize longlist. The Maali
Almeida of the title is dead. Once a
cynical, well-connected photojournalist with a voracious, illicit
sex life and a well-concealed streak
of idealism, he is now a ghost
caught in the “In Between”. He
can’t remember how it happened,
but having spent his life chronicling the misdeeds of his country’s
ruling class and hanging about in
some very low places, there is no
shortage of rogues with both motive
and opportunity to do him in.
The afterlife turns out to be a sort
of chronically understaffed dole
queue, full of strict rules chaotically
enforced. He has seven “moons”
(nights) to haunt the world before
he must proceed to something
called “the Light”. Thrown back
into the world to solve the mystery
of his own murder, he is carried
from place to place, character to
character, by the laws that govern
the movements of ghosts.
The Sri Lanka of the 1980s, when
observed from within the middleclass bubble of its commercial capital, Colombo, is a beautiful place,
full of expats who “gaze out from
the balcony at coconut trees silhouetted against ocean and wax poetic
on the beauty of Lanka”. Yet, Maali
notes, “a horrible war was being
fought a bus ride from here”.
Few serious Sri Lankan novelists
have been able to avoid making that
war both their setting and their
subject. Last year’s Booker shortlist

i
Sheer excess: Karunatilaka’s new
novel is virtually nothing all jokes

included one such book, Anuk
Arud pra gasam’s admirable A
Passage North. That book was an
extended meditation (there is no
unpretentious word for it) on the
legacy of the Sri Lankan civil war. It
had no quoted dialogue and, conspicuously, no jokes. It is only a
slight exaggeration to say that The
Seven Moons of Maali Almeida has
virtually nothing but jokes.
There are some especially good
ones at the expense of both the Sinhalese nationalists and the Tamil
Tigers, who have both chosen animals as emblems for their causes
neither of which is native to Sri

Lanka. “When did we have bloody
lions here? Or tigers?” The Tamil
cause is treated with respect, but
the Tigers are rightly shown up for
their obsession with rooting out
Tamil moderates.
Where Arudpragasam’s prose
was stately and patient, Karunatilaka’s is compulsively bawdy. The
pages are full of untranslated Sinhalese curses and half-explained
references to Sri Lankan political
history. It contains a good deal
of what might be called philosophy,
but very much of the publichouse variety.
As with other political satirists,
setting the book in the 1980s is
probably a deniable way of commenting on Sri Lanka in the 2020s.
The civil war has since ended –
though at what yet unreckoned
cost? And what profit, when the
economy is on (or by now past) the
verge of collapse?
The sheer excess on every page
makes it hard to take in the
moments of quiet truthfulness. But
the supernatural conceit, often
a distraction, produces moments
of real poignancy. We learn at one
point of five Tiger child soldiers,
“brought to Colombo for rehabilitation and interrogation. They found
a black datura plant in the prison
grounds and made tea for five.
They love the afterlife (‘no one
shouting orders at us’), and they
jump off the ledge with the glee
of toddlers.”

THE TICK OF TWO CLOCKS
by Joan Bakewell
192pp, Little, Brown, £10.99
ÌÌÌÌÌ
Aged 88, Bakewell has downsized
from her home of 53 years, as she
recounts in this eloquent memoir.
Yet beneath her lifetime of good
luck – not least 1960s house prices
– there is a poignant suggestion of
the darker corners of a storied life.

HARLEM SHUFFLE
by Colson Whitehead
336pp, Fleet, £8.99
ÌÌÌÌÌ
The Underground Railroad writer’s
latest is a breezy crime caper,
taking in the 1964 Harlem riots. It’s
good fun, but the plot could be
tauter – perhaps hold out for the
inevitable Netflix adaptation.

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Films
p.20

Sport
p.21

Radio
p.36

YOUR
COMPLETE
SEVEN-DAY
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TV& Radio
PICK OF
THE
WEEK

Bluey
Wednesday, Disney+
It’s won an Emmy,
Lin-Manuel Miranda
is a fan and it’s
revolutionising
fatherhood as we know
it. Not bad for a sweet
cartoon about a dog.
p.30

Van Der Valk
Sunday, ITV
Marc Warren returns
as a Piet Van Der Valk
for the 21st century.
The goings-on in
Amsterdam are, as
ever, pretty grisly.
p.25

Good Grief with
Rev Richard Coles
Monday, Channel 4
In 2019, Rev Coles’s
husband, David, died of
liver failure. In this
moving film, Coles tries
an assortment of “grief
therapy” to see if he
can move on.
p.26

Shetland
Wednesday, BBC One
After seven series,
DI Jimmy Perez is
handing in his badge.
Before that, however,
one more case. Douglas
Henshall’s craggy
copper will be missed.
p.30

Five Days at
Memorial
Friday, Apple TV+
This pulse-racing
drama tells the dark
true story of what
happened at one
hospital in New
Orleans in the days
after Hurricane
Katrina. Chilling.
p.34

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Films of the week

Saturday

PRIDE & PREJUDICE
2005
BBC Two, 6pm

ÌÌÌÌÌ

Joe Wright is the only
director who makes Keira
Knightley look like a good
actress. For this version of
Jane Austen’s classic novel
she even got an Oscar

Sunday

LUCK
2022
Apple TV+

ÌÌÌÌÌ

The first feature from
Skydance, John Lasseter’s
post-Pixar undertaking, is a
funny, beautifully rendered
coming-of-age parable, with
overtones of Inside Out. Its

Monday

heroine is Sam, an unlucky
18-year-old warmly voiced
by Eva Noblezada, who
stumbles upon a factory
where fortunes good and ill
are forged. Her guide is
Simon Pegg’s Bob, a Scottish
black cat (whose accent does
turn out to be justified), and
together they smuggle out
the good stuff to help a pal.

PREY
2022
Disney+

ÌÌÌÌÌ
Keeping the Predator
franchise afloat since 1987
has been a dogged mission.
What’s been missing is an
opponent with anything like
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s

Tuesday

THE GOOD NEIGHBOR
2022
Sky Cinema Premiere,
6.10pm

ÌÌÌÌÌ

Journalist David Stevens
(Luke Kleintank) has just
begun to settle into a happy
life in Riga, Latvia, when,
following a night out with

Wednesday

his intriguing new
neighbour Robert (Jonathan
Rhys Meyers, on good form),
they accidentally run over
and kill the young woman
that David has been seeing.
Their complicity creates
unsavory conflict, and what
are the chances that David
is given the hit-and-run
story to cover at work?

BANK ROBBERS: THE
LAST GREAT HEIST
2022
N
Netflix
ÌÌÌÌÌ

Oscar Wilde wasn’t wrong
when he said: “Life imitates
art far more than art
imitates life.” Matías
Gueilburt directs the story of

Thursday

MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN
2012
BBC Four, 8pm

ÌÌÌÌÌ

Salman Rushdie’s novel is
reckoned the greatest of all
the Booker Prize winners,
but given that it touches
hot-button issues such as
India’s cultural self-image,

Friday

nomination for her turn as
Lizzie Bennet, a spirited
woman who wishes for
more than a dashing man
on her arm. Matthew
Macfadyen is much better
though, as the brooding Mr
Darcy, and all the mistshrouded views of country
houses, and mud-spattered
petticoat hems, are divine.

ÌÌÌÌÌ

So the Moon is going to…
fall? This can only be a
Roland Emmerich picture.
The German director must
have a vendetta against our
planet: he invaded it with

ÌÌÌÌÌ

The third part of Chad
Stahelski’s Keanu Reevesas-assassin thriller franchise
delivers much of the same
bone-crunching, blood-

FILM
OF
THE
WEEK

power to turn the tables.
This prequel has the answer
– and her name is Naru,
a Comanche tribeswoman
(Amber Midthunder) who
studies and strategises
against the diabolical visitor.
The script makes a meal of
Naru’s personal growth,
but when the film knuckles
down to the action, it slays.

THE LIFE AQUATIC
WITH STEVE ZISSOU
2004
Great! Movies, 11.10pm

ÌÌÌÌÌ

Wes Anderson’s visually
diverting, magical fables
may not appeal to everyone
but this one is a treat.
There’s more than a hint of

Argentina’s most notorious
bank heist. In 2006, a group
of men stole millions from a
Buenos Aires bank. Despite
being surrounded by 200
police officers, they just
vanished, Shawshank-style,
via the city’s sewer tunnels.
Here, the perpetrators
detail how they did it and,
importantly, why.

a film adaptation was
always liable to be divisive.
Lucky that Deepa Mehta’s
version just about rode
out the uproar: this tale of
magical children born
at the moment of Indian
independence unspools
into something colourful
and clever. Rushdie
tactfully narrates.

MOONFALL
2022
Amazon Prime Video

JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 3
– PARABELLUM
2019
Channel 4, 9pm

AROUND THE WORLD
IN 80 DAYS
1956
BBC Two, 1.50pm

ÌÌÌÌÌ

A jolly, Oscar-winning
adaptation of Jules Verne’s
classic to enjoy for its
tremendous gimmicks.
These include on-location

LAWRENCE OF ARABIA
1962
Great! Movies Classic,
4.55pm

ÌÌÌÌÌ

David Lean’s Oscar-winning
desert spectacular, breathes
life into the story of
TE Lawrence, as well as
setting the benchmark for

the Epic Blockbuster with
its stately visuals and
thousands of extras. An
impeccable cast, Peter
O’Toole beating Albert
Finney and Marlon Brando
to the lead role, and
intelligent – if historically
patchy – treatment of its
subject make this a stunning
and immersive film.

n Bill
Jacques Cousteau in
er
Murray’s underwater
explorer Steve Zissou,
ou, who’s
w mission
setting out on a new
– to find the jaguar
y)
shark that (allegedly)
ate his best friend.
Anderson regulars
Owen Wilson and
Anjelica Huston
also appear.

SATURDAY NIGHT AND
SUNDAY MORNING
1960
Sky Cinema Greats, 8pm

ÌÌÌÌÌ

It’s easy to forget how sexy
Albert Finney used to be.
In Karel Reisz’s celebrated
kitchen sink drama, his
directing debut, Finney

SALMON FISHING IN
THE YEMEN
2011
BBC Two, 11.15pm

ÌÌÌÌÌ

Lasse Hallström’s film,
written by Simon Beaufoy,
amounts to a disarmingly
nice hour and three quarters
of gentle romance, with

UFOs in Independence Day,
froze it in The Day After
Tomorrow, bombarded it
with tsunamis (in 2012)
and bored it to death with
Anonymous, about the
Oxford theory. Astronauts
Halle Berry and Patrick
Wilson do their best in his
latest, endlessly silly
planet-in-peril potboiler.

splatting thrills. This time,
Wick has a $14 m bounty on
his head and must fight off
all those who come to claim
it, whilst protecting his
charming grey bull terrier.
The pacing is a little slacker,
but the action remains as
wittily inventive. Stahelski’s
Day Shift, with Jamie Foxx,
is on Netflix from Friday.

CAPTAIN AMERICA:
THE WINTER SOLDIER
2014
BBC One, 10.40pm

ÌÌÌÌÌ

This enjoyable Marvel film
sees SHIELD, led by Robert
Redford’s spymaster, about
to launch drone warships
to cut down enemies of the

plays an amoral factory
worker who refuses to
kowtow to the system but
isn’t quite smart enough to
see he’s trapped in it – the
quintessential “angry young
man”. Rachel Roberts, as the
married woman he gets
pregnant, is sensational
and Alan Sillitoe’s dialogue
fairly crackles.

none of the tart satire of
Paul Torday’s novel. The
material often feels dated,
but Ewan McGregor
and Emily Blunt have a
silvery sparkle as the odd
couple forced to swim
upstream together. It’s
almost uniformly sweet,
but the taste never quite
becomes sickly.

state – and Captain America
(Chris Evans) smelling
a threat to freedom,
God forbid. Directors
Anthony and Joe Russo
seem to be invoking
Seventies thrillers, or trying
to, but before long the blood
starts to pump, and it’s just
high-flying, CGI-heavy
business as usual.

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ZODIAC
2007
BBC One, 11.40pm
ÌÌÌÌÌ

David Fincher’s film, based
on Robert Graysmith’s book
about an unsolved series of
murders by the “Zodiac
killer” in 1960s and 1970s
San Francisco, is a classy

shots from exotic spots
around the world (a coup
at the time) and no less
than 40 celebrity cameos,
among them Marlene
Dietrich, Noël Coward and
John Gielgud. David Niven
stars as circumnavigator
Phileas Fogg; Mexican
star Cantinflas as his
sidekick, Passepartout.

SPORT ON TV

l. Jake
police procedural.
Gyllenhaal stars ass a
political cartoonist
st who is
drawn towards the
e case
ca
ase
s
when he becomess
interested in the
codes hidden in
encrypted letters
sent by the killer.
Brian Cox and Mark
rk
Ruffalo also star.

THE CALL OF THE WILD
2020
Channel 4, 3.40pm
ÌÌÌÌÌ

Once read, Jack London’s
1903 novel is not easily
forgotten – a legitimate
masterpiece, still taught in
schools, about the tug of
war between civilisation

and brute nature via a stolen
dog named Buck sent to the
Yukon, where he befriends
an old outdoorsman
(Harrison Ford with a Santa
beard) and begins a lifealtering adventure. This
bumptious live-action
adaptation is a family ticket
with zero complications –
bar a badly digitised dog.
i Quartararo, Espargaró and Bagnaia went head-to-head in Assen last week Sun, ITV, 12.25pm

THE HOBBIT: THE
BATTLE OF THE FIVE
ARMIES
2014
Film4, 6.15pm
ÌÌÌÌÌ

The battle of the title was
barely mentioned by JRR
Tolkein in The Hobbit, but it
was seemingly enough for

YOUNG ADULT
2011
BBC Two, 11.15pm
ÌÌÌÌÌ

Jason Reitman’s wicked
comedy (by Diablo Cody
who also collaborated with
the director for Juno,
Jennifer’s Body and Tully)
flips the romcom genre on

its head by giving us a
heroine who is deluded,
alcohol-addled, self-centred
– but all too human. Charlize
Theron is magnificent as
Mavis Gary, a writer who
sets about winning back her
happily married high-school
sweetheart. Patton Oswalt
plays the one friend who
really understands her.

THE DUCHESS
2008
BBC One, 10.40pm
ÌÌÌÌÌ

Saul Dibb’s film tends
to simplify the life of
Georgiana, Duchess of
Devonshire, and offers a
rather sanitised view of
18th-century England, but

BLUE STEEL
1989
Film4, 11.20pm
ÌÌÌÌÌ

Before Point Break and
The Hurt Locker, Kathryn
Bigelow wrote and directed
this quietly influential
thriller, in which Jamie Lee
Curtis’s rookie cop is

Peter Jackson to pad out his
franchise. Our heroes have
just unleashed the wrath of
dragon Smaug (Benedict
Cumberbatch). But there’s
another battle looming, one
between themselves, which
is fuelled wholly by greed.
Amazon’s sweeping Lord
of the Rings TV series is
released on 2 September.

Keira Knightley gives an
occasionally moving
performance, and the
cinematography and
settings are gorgeous.
The gowns and wigs are as
sumptuous as you could
want and Ralph Fiennes’s
dry, clipped and quizzically
domineering turn as the
Duke is excellent.

pursued by a disturbed
trader (Ron Nelson) who
witnesses her shooting an
armed robber. While it’s
not exactly subtle – and
didn’t do too well at the
box office – the pace never
relents, and the piece is
jam-packed with both
menace and suspense.
Clancy Brown also stars.

TOTAL RECALL
1990
ITV, 10.45pm
ÌÌÌÌÌ

Paul Verhoeven successfully
adapts Philip K Dick’s short
story into this futuristic tale
of Douglas Quaid (Arnold
Schwarzenegger, though
Patrick Swayze in pre-

production), a man plagued
by dreams of the nowinhabited planet Mars. He
visits a holiday firm which
implants false memories,
but it triggers other
dormant recollections that
suggest Quaid is actually a
secret agent. The ambiguity,
grotesquery and wit makes
this a pungent delight.

MOTO GP

CRICKET

FOOTBALL

British Grand Prix
Sun, ITV, 12.25pm

The Hundred 2022
Sat, BBC Two, 2pm

Everton v Chelsea
Sat, Sky Main Event, 5pm

It doesn’t get the same
amount of attention or
razzmatazz as its fourwheeled cousin, but
MotoGP is currently in the
middle of an enthralling
2022 season and today’s
race at Silverstone could
be pivotal. French star
Fabio Quartararo leads
the way for Yamaha, but
has a Long Lap penalty
to serve, which should
provide an opportunity
for rival Aleix Espargaró
of Aprilia. Keep an eye on
Francesco Bagnaia, too. If
the Italian can finish more
races, he’ll shoot up the
rankings – of the past six
Grand Prix, he’s either
won or retired. For full
coverage of the Moto2 and
Moto3 races, tune into
BT Sport 2 from 9.15am.

The Hundred may be a
competition struggling
to win over the cricket
purists, but there have
been two clear benefits.
One is the amount of
cricket on terrestrial TV,
with Trent Rockets v
Birmingham Phoenix in
the men’s contest on BBC
Two today and Northern

ATHLETICS

Superchargers v Trent
Rockets on Tuesday (BBC
Two, 6pm). The other is
the clear boost it has given
the women’s game and
their competition gets
underway on Thursday
with reigning champions
Oval Invincibles against
Northern Superchargers,
which is proceeded by the
same fixture in the men’s
competition (BBC Two,
from 2pm). Isa Guha hosts
the live coverage.

After Friday night’s
curtain-raiser at Selhurst
Park, the other 18 Premier
League teams get their
seasons started this
weekend. Frank Lampard
is the bookies’ favourite
for the sack, so it’s
imperative his Everton
side show some spirit at
home to Chelsea today.
Beforehand, newly
promoted Fulham have
a daunting task, as
Liverpool visit Craven
Cottage (BT Sport 1,
11.30am). On Sunday, Erik
ten Hag faces his first test
as Manchester United
manager, at home to
Brighton (Sky Main
Event, 2pm), while
Manchester City begin
their bid to retain the title
away to West Ham
United (Sky Main Event,
4pm). On Wednesday,
Champions League
winners Real Madrid
take on Europa League
winners Eintracht
Frankfurt in the Uefa
Super Cup at the Helsinki
Olympic Stadium (BT
Sport 1, 7pm).

Commonwealth Games
Sat, BBC One, 9am
The final three days of
competition begins,
with medals on offer in
diving, gymnastics,
boxing and athletics.
There’s no rest for the
athletes, however – the
European Championships
begin in Munich on
Friday (BBC Two, 9am).

i St Helens’ Joe Batchelor
Sun, Channel 4, 12.30pm

i Liverpool begin their title challenge Sat, BT Sport 1, 11.30am

RUGBY LEAGUE
St Helens v
Castleford Tigers
Sun, Channel 4, 12.30pm
There are six regular
Super League fixtures
remaining in the 2022
season, and reigning
champions St Helens sit
top of the table. They face
a stiff test today, however,
as playoff-chasing
Castleford come to the
Totally Wicked Stadium
(kick-off 1pm). The Saints
will want to bounce back
after being stunned by
Salford last weekend – a
match that also saw star
man Regan Grace injured
and out for the season.

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Television Saturday 6 August
WHAT TO
WATCH
fans. Insightful titbits
include Rick Wakeman
dissecting Dawson’s
intentionally bad pianoplaying, and Syd Little
explaining the genesis
of Dawson and Roy
Barraclough’s characters
Cissie and Ada. It’s a
fine reminder of what
a talent Dawson was.

A ROYAL GUIDE TO:
PROPERTIES
Channel 4, 8pm

i Simon Le Bon rocks through the group’s many hits

DURAN DURAN: RADIO 2 IN CONCERT
BBC Two, 9pm
With the Commonwealth
Games firmly putting the
spotlight on Birmingham,
the BBC is screening this
concert by Duran Duran,
the band formed in the
same city 44 years ago
and who headlined the
Games’ Opening
Ceremony. A tenuous link
to be sure, but this is
nonetheless a fabulous
blast from the past with
the Grammy-winning
New Wave band in a
performance that is slick
and energetic. It features
highlights of their concert
in December of last year
at the BBC Radio Theatre
in London celebrating the
release of their 15th studio
album, Future Past. Lead
singer Simon Le Bon and
the group whip up the
crowd of mask-wearing

Baby Boomers with a run
through their 1980s
catalogue, including
Hungry Like the Wolf,
Notorious and A View to
a Kill, before moving
on to new material
produced with Blur’s
Graham Coxon.
At 63, Le Bon’s voice
holds up well and the
band is tight as they rock
through a set that weaves
in excellent solos by lead
guitarist Dominic Brown
and rapping by guest
singer Ivorian Doll. On the
Brum theme, this concert
is preceded by Sounds of
Birmingham at the BBC,
a selection of archive
turns by Birminghamborn artists including
Black Sabbath, UB40 and
Dexys Midnight Runners.
Vicki Power

ALAN CARR’S
EPIC GAMESHOW
ITV, 7pm
Alan Carr revives more
classic game shows.
Tonight, it’s the lo-fi Play
Your Cards Right. Carr is
brilliant: he handles the
action expertly while
gently ribbing guests
in a way that is vintage
Seventies’ Forsythe.

LOST TREASURES
OF ROME
Channel 4, 7pm
After three weeks off, the
weekend Roman history
lesson returns with a look
at the ongoing excavation
of the Domus Aurea
(Golden House). Nero’s
extravagant first-century
palace lay buried in Rome
for centuries, and
tonight’s excavation
investigates why it ended

i The Queen and Prince
Charles at Clarence House

up underground, as
archaeologists race to
save its treasures.

LES DAWSON:
30 FUNNIEST
MOMENTS
Channel 5, 8pm
This two-hour love-in
for the late comedian
contains amusing clips
and chat from Dawson’s
old friends and showbiz

Tonight’s light-hearted
peek into royal life meets
the ordinary folk tasked
with keeping the
Windsors’ castles in good
order, from cooks,
cleaners to even the
upholsterer fixing frayed
furnishings. They recall
the high drama of
rescuing artefacts from
the 1992 Windsor Castle
fire and the bizarre
occasion on which a
salmon required a police
escort through London.
j Gabriela Petry as Vivi in
Passport to Freedom

BBC One

BBC Two

ITV

6.00 am Breakfast (S)
9.00 Commonwealth Games
2022 Jason Mohammad
and Holly Hamilton
presents coverage of
day nine (S)
12.00 Football Focus (S)
1.00 pm News; Weather (S)
1.15 Commonwealth Games
2022 Hazel Irvine
introduces more action
from day nine with
semi-finals from the
netball and beach
volleyball tournaments
(S)
4.30 Final Score (S)
5.10 News (S)
5.20 BBC Regional News;
Weather (S)
5.30 Commonwealth Games
2022 Hazel Irvine, Clare
Balding and Gabby
Logan present further
live coverage of day nine
from Birmingham,
including a busy night of
athletics at Alexander
Stadium, and diving
from Sandwell Aquatics
Centre. The 200m finals
are sure to be eagerly
anticipated, and while
the Jamaicans are
expected to dominate
the women’s race, the
men’s event could be
wide open (S)

6.35 am Wild & Weird (R) (S)
6.50 The Dengineers (R) (S)
7.20 Marrying Mum and Dad
(R) (S)
7.50 Blue Peter (R) (S)
8.20 Deadly Dinosaurs with
Steve Backshall (AD)
(R) (S)
8.50 FILM Piper (2016)
Animated Pixar short,
directed by Alan
Barillaro (S)
9.00 Human Universe (AD)
(R) (S)
10.00 Saturday Kitchen Live
(S)
11.30 Nigella: At My Table
(AD) (R) (S)
12.00 Commonwealth Games
2022 (S)
1.15 pm Best Bakes Ever (R)
2.00 The Hundred Trent
Rockets v Birmingham
Phoenix (S)
5.30 Flog It! (R) (S)
6.00 FILM Pride & Prejudice
(2005) Period drama
starring Keira Knightley
● See Films of the
week, p20 (AD) (S)

6.00 am CITV
8.25 News (S)
8.30 Garraway’s Good Stuff
(S)
9.25 James Martin’s
Saturday Morning (R)
(S)
11.40 Jeremy Pang’s Asian
Kitchen (AD) (S)
12.45 pm News (S)
1.00 ITV Racing: Live from
Ascot Oli Bell presents
coverage of the Shergar
Cup from Ascot, plus
action from Haydock
Park and Newmarket (S)
5.30 You’ve Been Framed! &
FURIOUS (S)
6.30 News (S)
6.45 Regional News (S)

8.00 Sounds of Birmingham
at the BBC A selection
of archive performances
by artists from the city
See What to watch (S)

8.00 FILM GoldenEye (1995)
James Bond goes in
pursuit of a satellite
weapon that has fallen
into the hands of a
criminal mastermind.
Spy adventure with
Pierce Brosnan, Sean
Bean and Izabella
Scorupco (AD) (S)

9.00 Duran Duran: Radio 2
in Concert Highlights of
the band’s performance
at the BBC Radio
Theatre in December
2021 See What to
watch (S)

PAUL SIMON:
UNDER AFRICAN
SKIES

10.00 News; Weather (S)
10.20 Match of the Day (S)

Sky Arts, 8pm
This 10-year-old
documentary celebrates
Simon’s return to South
Africa for the 25th
anniversary concert of his
game-changing 1986
album Graceland. The
film also covers his
reunions with the artists
he collaborated so
memorably with,
including Ladysmith
Black Mambazo and
Youssou N’Dour.

PASSPORT TO
FREEDOM

11.40 FILM Zodiac (2007)
Fact-based crime thriller
starring Jake Gyllenhaal
● See Films of the
week, p20 (AD) (S) 2.15
- 6.00am News (S)

Variations

Drama, 9pm
Aracy’s (Sophie Charlotte)
do-gooding for Jews in
Nazi-era Hamburg lands
her boss-lover João
(Rodrigo Lombardi) in
trouble, as the schmaltzy
wartime drama continues.
He’s on the hook for her
illegal attempts to help
Jews escape. Charlotte
and Lombardi wrestle
with stilted dialogue, but
the piece does well in
dramatising a true story
on a handsome budget. VP

N IRELAND
BBC One: 5.20 - 5.30pm BBC Newsline;
Weather
BBC Two: No variations
UTV: 6.45 - 7.00pm UTV Live; Weather

SCOTLAND
BBC One: 4.30 - 5.10pm Sportscene
Results 5.20 - 5.30 Reporting Scotland;
Weather 11.40 Sportscene: Premiership
Highlights 12.40am FILM: Zodiac
(2007) 3.15 - 6.00am BBC News
BBC Scotland: 7.00pm The Seven 7.15
The Edit 7.30 Sportscene: Premiership
Highlights 8.30 Fish Town 9.00 Best of
Chewin’ the Fat 9.20 Scotland: Contains
Strong Language 10.20 FILM: The Wee
Man (2013) midnight Close

10.00 Tonight at the Games
A round-up of day nine’s
action at the
Commonwealth Games
(S)
10.45 The Streets: Electric
Proms A 2008
performance at
London’s Roundhouse
(R) (S)

11.30 Golf: The Women’s
Open (S) 12.30am The
Newsreader (AD) (R) (S)
1.20 The Newsreader
(AD) (R) (S) 2.15 6.20am This Is BBC Two
(S)
STV: 1.00 - 5.30pm STV Racing: Live
from Ascot 6.45 - 6.59 STV News;
Weather 3.50 - 5.05am Unwind with
STV

WALES
BBC One: 5.20 - 5.30pm BBC Wales
Today; Weather
BBC Two: 5.30pm Flog It! 6.10 Heart
Valley 6.30 Wonders of the Celtic Deep
7.30 - 8.00pm Gareth Edwards’ Great
Welsh Adventure
ITV Wales: 6.45 - 7.00pm ITV News
Cymru Wales; Weather

7.00 Alan Carr’s Epic
Gameshow The
comedian introduces an
updated version of Play
Your Cards Right See
What to watch (AD) (S)

10.25 News (S)
10.45 The Jonathan Ross
Show: Special Guests
Featuring David
Beckham, Tina Turner,
Samuel L Jackson and
Paul McCartney (R) (S)
11.15 English Football League
Highlights 1.10am Shop:
Ideal World 3.00 Billy
Connolly’s Great
American Trail (AD) (R)
(S) (SL) 3.50 Unwind
with ITV (S) 5.05 Gino’s
Italian Coastal Escape
(R) (S) (SL) 5.30 6.00am Grow Your Own
at Home with Alan
Titchmarsh (AD) (R) (S)
(SL)
Ddu 10.00 Eisteddfod 2022 2.00pm
Eisteddfod 2022 4.00 Eisteddfod 2022
6.00 24 Awr 6.15 Am Dro! 7.15
Newyddion 7.30 Cymro Cryfa’ 8.00
Eisteddfod 2022 9.30 Rybish 10.00
Birmingham 2022: Cymru yn y Gemau
10.30 Eisteddfod 2022: Y Babell Lên
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Channel 4

Channel 5

BBC Four

Sky Arts

Film4

Talking Pictures

6.20 am Cheers (R) (S)
6.45 The Big Bang Theory
(AD) (R) (S)
7.30 The Simpsons (AD) (R)
(S)
10.45 FILM Rango (2011)
Oscar-winning animated
comedy with the voice
of Johnny Depp (S)
12.55 pm Couples Come Dine
with Me (R) (S)
1.55 Four in a Bed (R) (S)
4.30 Help! We Bought a
Village (R) (S)
5.30 News (S)
6.00 Location, Location,
Location (R) (S)

6.00 am Milkshake!
10.05 The Smurfs (S)
10.15 SpongeBob
SquarePants (R) (S)
10.30 Entertainment News
on 5 (S)
10.40 Friends (AD) (R) (S)
11.05 Friends (AD) (R) (S)
11.35 Friends (AD) (R) (S)
12.05 pm Friends (AD) (R) (S)
12.35 Friends (AD) (R) (S)
1.00 FILM Jesse Stone:
Stone Cold (2005, TVM)
Detective drama starring
Tom Selleck (S)
2.50 Our Yorkshire Farm (R)
(S)
3.50 Our Yorkshire Farm (R)
(S)
4.45 FILM Pearl Harbor
(2001) Romantic Second
World War drama with
Ben Affleck and Kate
Beckinsale (S)

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7.00 pm Noel’s House Party
An edition from the first
series of the 1990s light
entertainment show (S)
7.50 Strictly Come Dancing
Tess Daly and Claudia
Winkleman present the
pro-celebrity contest in
which sets of partners
battle it out to remain in
the show for next
week’s musicals special
(S)
9.10 Blankety Blank Comedy
quiz show (S)
9.45 Rik Mayall: Lord of
Misrule A celebration of
the comedian and
actor’s life and work (S)
10.40 One on One Revealing
self-portrait of Terry
Wogan (S)
11.20 Mark Lawson Talks to
Terry Wogan An
interview with the
veteran broadcaster (S)
12.25 am Ever Decreasing
Circles (S)
12.55 Keeping Up
Appearances (S)
1.25 The Cruise (S)
1.55 - 3.15am Strictly Come
Dancing (S) (SL)

12.00 noon Classic Albums
(S)
1.00 pm Andre Rieu &
Friends: Live In
Maastricht VII (S)
4.10 Classic Artists: The
Moody Blues The story
of the English rock band
from the 1960s to the
present day with
contributions by
members of the group
and musicians including
Ian Anderson, Eric Burdon
and Bev Bevan (S)
7.00 Buddy Holly: Music
Icons The life and work
of the singer (S)
7.30 Discovering: Paul
Simon (S)
8.00 Paul Simon: Under
African Skies A concert
celebrating the 25th
anniversary of the
singer-songwriter’s
Graceland See What to
watch
10.10 Simon & Garfunkel:
Concert in Central Park
12.10 - 2.25am FILM The
Birds (1963) Alfred
Hitchcock’s thriller
starring Tippi Hedren

11.00 am Carry On Nurse
(1959, b/w) Comedy
starring Hattie Jacques
(AD) (S)
12.45 pm The Karate Kid
(1984) Martial arts
drama starring Ralph
Macchio and Pat Morita
(S)
3.15 Now You See Me 2
(2016) Crime thriller
sequel starring Jesse
Eisenberg (AD) (S)
5.50 The Hobbit: The
Desolation of Smaug
(2013) The party of
dwarves and their
hobbit ally face the
dragon that stole their
homeland. Part two of
the fantasy adventure
trilogy starring Martin
Freeman and Ian
McKellen (S)
9.00 Second Act (2018)
Freeview Premiere.
Romantic comedy
starring Jennifer Lopez
(S)
11.05 - 1.10am Blue Steel
(1989) Kathryn Bigelow’s
thriller starring Jamie
Lee Curtis (S)

12.00 noon Dalekmania (S)
1.15 pm FILM The Glass
Cage (1955, b/w)
Mystery starring John
Ireland and Honor
Blackman (S)
2.30 Norman Wisdom: A Life
(S)
3.15 FILM The Embezzler
(1954, b/w) Crime drama
with Charles Victor (S)
4.30 FILM The Saint’s
Return (1953, b/w)
Mystery starring Louis
Hayward (S)
6.00 FILM The Day the Earth
Caught Fire (1961, b/w)
A series of nuclear tests
knocks the world off its
axis and sets it on a
collision course with the
sun. Sci-fi thriller
starring Edward Judd (S)
8.00 Maigret (S)
9.05 FILM Quatermass 2
(1957, b/w) Hammer scifi horror sequel starring
Brian Donlevy (S)
10.50 - 1.20am FILM Morituri
(1965, b/w) Second
World War drama with
Marlon Brando and Yul
Brynner (S)

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SKY 108

8.55 am Food Unwrapped
(AD) (S)
9.30 A Place in the Sun (S)
10.25 A Place in the Sun (S)
11.25 A Place in the Sun (S)
12.30 pm Location, Location,
Location (S)
1.35 Darcey Bussell’s Royal
Road Trip (AD) (S)
2.35 Come Dine with Me (S)
3.10 Come Dine with Me (S)
3.40 Come Dine with Me (S)
4.10 Come Dine with Me (S)
4.40 Come Dine with Me (S)
5.15 Four in a Bed (S)
5.50 Four in a Bed (S)
8.00 A Lake District Farm
Shop (AD) (S)
9.00 24 Hours in A&E (AD)
(S)
10.00 24 Hours in A&E (AD)
(S)
11.05 8 Out of 10 Cats Does
Countdown (S)
12.10 am 8 Out of 10 Cats
Does Countdown (S)
1.15 24 Hours in A&E (AD)
(S)
2.20 24 Hours in A&E (AD)
(S)
3.25 - 3.55am Food
Unwrapped (AD) (S)

11.40 am Rosemary & Thyme
(AD) (S)
12.40 pm Inspector Morse
(AD) (S)
2.55 Inspector Morse (AD)
(S)
5.10 Midsomer Murders
Musicians compete for a
prestigious award at the
annual Thassingham
Classical Music Festival
– but the winner is
murdered and a
priceless violin is stolen
(S)
7.10 Midsomer Murders
A woman is stabbed to
death during a Jane
Austen re-enactment
9.00 Midsomer Murders
A depressive gambler is
found dead, an apparent
victim of suicide, but Dr
Jane Moore is adamant
he wouldn’t have taken
his own life – and
Barnaby shares her view
(AD) (S)
11.10 - 1.10am Van Der Valk
A fashion vlogger is
murdered live online
(AD) (S)

11.35 am The Sweeney (S)
12.40 pm British Touring Car
Championship
Highlights (S)
2.15 FILM Groundhog Day
(1993) Comedy starring
Bill Murray. Includes FYI
Daily (AD) (S)
4.20 FILM Twins (1988)
Comedy with Arnold
Schwarzenegger and
Danny DeVito. Includes
FYI Daily (AD) (S)
6.25 FILM The Mummy
Returns (2001) Fantasy
adventure sequel
starring Brendan Fraser
(AD) (S)
9.00 English Football League
Highlights Action from
the latest fixtures,
including Norwich City v
Wigan Athletic, Queens
Park Rangers v
Middlesbrough and
Swansea City v
Blackburn Rovers in the
Championship (S)
11.00 - 1.30am FILM Rocky
(1976) Boxing drama
starring Sylvester
Stallone (AD) (S)

7.00 Lost Treasures of Rome
Experts race to save the
remains of a vast firstcentury palace buried
beneath Rome See
What to watch (AD) (S)
8.00 A Royal Guide to:
Properties The work of
staff members
maintaining the
royal family’s many
properties See What to
watch (AD) (S)
9.00 FILM John Wick:
Chapter 3: Parabellum
(2019) The seemingly
invincible assassin
returns, this time hunted
by armies of bounty
hunters. Action thriller
starring Keanu Reeves
and Halle Berry
● See Films of the
week, p20 (AD) (S)

11.30 FILM Widows (2018)
Thriller starring Viola
Davis (S) 1.50am
Ramsay’s Kitchen
Nightmares USA (R) (S)
(SL) 2.40 Hollyoaks
Omnibus (AD) (R) (S)
(SL) 4.40 Location,
Location, Location (R)
(S) (SL) 5.35 Escape
to the Chateau (S)
5.40 - 6.10am Beat
the Chef (R) (S)

More digital,
satellite
& cable
ITV2
FV 6 FS 113 SKY 118 VIRGIN 115

11.15am Dress to Impress 1.15pm
Family Fortunes 2.15 Celebrity
Catchphrase 3.15 FILM Cats & Dogs:
The Revenge of Kitty Galore (2010) 4.15
FYI Daily 4.20 FILM Cats & Dogs: The
Revenge of Kitty Galore (2010) 5.00
FILM The Smurfs 2 (2013) 7.05 FILM
Evan Almighty (2007) 8.05 FYI Daily
8.10 FILM Evan Almighty (2007) 9.00
FILM Bridesmaids (2011) 10.10 FYI
Daily 10.15 FILM Bridesmaids (2011)
11.30 Family Guy 12.30 - 1.25am
American Dad!

8.00 Les Dawson: 30
Funniest Moments
A celebration of the
comedian’s career,
featuring shaggy dog
stories, classic sketches
and his collaborations
with stars such as John
Cleese, Shirley Bassey
and Roy Barraclough
See What to watch (S)

10.00 When TV Goes Horribly
Wrong (AD) (R) (S)

12.55 am Entertainment News
on 5 (S) 1.00 The
LeoVegas Live Casino
Show (S) 3.00
Entertainment News on
5 (S) 3.10 1999: The 30
Greatest Hits (R) (S) 5.35
Peppa Pig (AD) (R) (S)
(SL) 5.40 Milkshake!
Monkey’s Amazing
Adventures (AD) (R) (S)
(SL) 5.45 - 6.00am
Thomas & Friends: Big
World! Big Adventures!
(R) (S)

11.10
12.15
1.20
2.30
3.35
4.40
5.45
6.50
7.55

9.00

10.05
11.10
12.15

am Billions (AD) (R) (S)
pm Billions (AD) (R) (S)
Billions (AD) (R) (S)
We Own This City (AD)
(R) (S)
We Own This City (AD)
(R) (S)
We Own This City (AD)
(R) (S)
We Own This City (AD)
(R) (S)
We Own This City (AD)
(R) (S)
We Own This City
Suiter worries over
his subpoena, Jenkins
learns his fellow
officers are cooperating
with the investigation,
and Davis and the
mayor’s office clash
(AD) (R) (S)
Game of Thrones,
Cersei tries to even the
odds, and Daenerys
comes home (AD) (R) (S)
Game of Thrones (AD)
(R) (S)
Game of Thrones (AD)
(R) (S)
- 1.20am Game of
Thrones (AD) (R) (S)

DAVE

SKY DOCUMENTARIES

SKY NATURE

DRAMA

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SKY 124 VIRGIN 280

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noon Storage Hunters UK 1.00pm Top
Gear 3.00 Red Bull Soapbox Race 4.00
Top Gear: Driving Home for Christmas
5.00 Top Gear 6.00 Would I Lie to You?
8.00 Not Going Out 10.00 QI 10.40
Would I Lie to You? 11.55 QI XL 12.55 1.55am Dave Gorman: Modern Life Is
Goodish

1.00pm United Skates 3.00 My Icon:
Ebony Rainford-Brent 3.15 Life According
to Sam 5.15 FILM We Are Freestyle Love
Supreme (2020) 7.00 FILM Lancaster
(2022) 9.00 FILM Spitfire (2018) 11.00
FILM Foreman (2017) 12.40 - 2.40am
How to Survive a Pandemic

noon Undiscovered Vistas 3.00pm Wild
Dogs: Running with the Pack 4.00
Waterworld Africa 7.00 David
Attenborough’s Global Adventure
8.00 Great Barrier Reef with
David Attenborough 9.00 Big Cat
Country 10.00 Animals Decoded 11.00
Kalahari: Land of Secret Alliances 12.00
- 1.00am Wild Dogs: Running with the
Pack

11.00am Sharpe 1.00pm Pie in the Sky
4.00 Inspector George Gently. A waitress
working in a hostess club is murdered
6.00 The Brokenwood Mysteries 8.00
Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private
Investigators 9.00 Passport to Freedom
See What to watch 10.00 The Inspector
Lynley Mysteries 12.00 - 2.35am Silent
Witness

9.00am Good Morning Sports Fans 9.30
Saturday Social 10.30 Soccer AM noon
Live EFL 2.30pm The Hundred Live 5.00
Live: SNF 8.30 Live PGA Tour Golf 11.00
Sky Sports News 12.00 Live MLS
2.10am MLS 2.15 - 6.00am Sky Sports
News

YESTERDAY

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DISCOVERY
SKY 125 VIRGIN 250

noon Everest Rescue. The final days of
the season arrive 6.00pm Celebrity IOU
Joyride 7.00 Lair of the Killer Crocs 8.00
Urban Predator: Lion on the Loose.
Investigating reports that an African lion
is stalking Milwaukee 9.00 How the
Universe Works 10.00 Expedition X
11.00 Expedition Unknown 12.00 4.00am Mountain Monsters

PBS AMERICA
FS 155 SKY 174 VIRGIN 273

11.20am FILM Olympic Pride, American
Prejudice (2016) 1.00pm Beautiful
Serengeti 1.35 WWII: Free Mussolini
2.55 Leaders of WWII: The Early Years
4.05 Secrets, Lies and Atomic Spies 5.15
Azorian: Raising of K-129 7.35 WWII:
Free Mussolini 8.55 Leaders of WWII:
The Early Years 10.10 FILM Olympic
Pride, American Prejudice (2016) 12.00
- 1.15am WWII: Free Mussolini

SKY MAX
SKY 113 VIRGIN 122

noon Grimm 1.00pm Hawaii Five-0
5.00 The Flash 6.00 S.W.A.T 7.00 NCIS:
Los Angeles 8.00 A League of Their Own
9.00 The Lazarus Project 10.00 Micah
Richards’ Player Pranks 10.30 Strike
Back: Vendetta 11.30 Banshee 12.30 1.00am Road Wars

FV 27 FS 159 SKY 155 VIRGIN 129

noon Bangers and Cash 1.00pm
Abandoned Engineering 4.00 The
Architecture the Railways Built 6.00
Abandoned Engineering 7.00 Bangers &
Cash: Restoring Classics 8.00 Great
Continental Railway Journeys 10.00
Porridge 12.00 - 1.00am Bangers and
Cash

SKY SPORTS
MAIN EVENT
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BT SPORT 1
9.00am WWE Friday Night SmackDown
10.30 Glory Hunters 11.30 Live Premier
League 3.00pm BT Sport Score 5.00
Live Vanarama National League 7.30
Vanarama National League Highlights
8.00 Live Ligue 1 10.00 Glory Hunters
11.00 Down The Clubhouse 12.00 UFC
Fight Camp 12.30am UFC Live 1.00 Live
UFC 3.00 - 6.30am Live UFC

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Saturday 6 August 2022 The Daily Telegraph

Television Sunday 7 August
BBC One
6.00 am Breakfast (S)
7.40 Match of the Day (R) (S)
9.00 Commonwealth Games
2022 Jason Mohammad
and Holly Hamilton
introduce live coverage
of the 10th and
penultimate day from
Birmingham (S)
1.00 pm News; Weather (S)
1.15 Commonwealth Games
2022 Hazel Irvine
introduces more live
coverage from the 10th
and penultimate day in
the Midlands, including
the exciting climax of
cycling’s road races (S)
5.00 News (S)
5.15 BBC Regional News;
Weather (S)
5.25 Commonwealth Games
2022 Clare Balding
presents coverage of the
10th evening of the
Games from
Bi i gh
Birmingham.
S
Scotland’s
tl d’
Laura Muir, who won an
Olympic silver medal in
the women’s 1500m last
year and a bronze in last
month’s World
Championships, goes
head-to-head with the
woman who
h won b
both
th
races in Faith Kipyegon
of Kenya at Alexander
Stadium. The men’s
javelin final is wide open
after India’s Olympic and
Commonwealth
champion Neeraj
Ch
Chopra
withdrew
ithd
d
due tto
injury, and there is more
relay action with the
men’s and women’s
4x400m. Plus, gold
medals are awarded in
the beach volleyball,
diving and netball (S)
10.00 News (S)
10.25 BBC Regional News;
Weather (S)
10.30 Match of the Day 2
The day’s Premier
League action (S)

11.30 FILM Midnight Special
(2016) Sci-fi adventure
starring Michael
Shannon (AD) (S) 1.20 6.00am News (S)

Variations
N IRELAND
BBC One: 5.15 - 5.25pm BBC Newsline;
Weather 10.25 - 10.30pm BBC
Newsline; Weather
BBC Two: No variations
UTV: 6.45pm UTV Live; Weather 7.00
Mahon’s Way 7.30 - 8.00pm Rare Breed:
A Farming Year

SCOTLAND
BBC One: 5.15 - 5.25pm Reporting
Scotland; Weather 10.25 - 10.30
Reporting Scotland; Weather 11.30
Sportscene: Premiership Highlights
12.45am FILM: Midnight Special (2016)
2.35 - 6.00am BBC News
BBC Scotland: 7.00pm The Seven 7.15
Sportscene: Premiership Highlights

BBC Two

ITV

Channel 4

Channel 5

BBC Four

6.20 am Beechgrove (R) (S)
6.45 Countryfile (R) (S)
7.45 Commonwealth Games
2022 (S)
9.00 Gardeners’ World (R)
(S)
10.00 A to Z of TV Gardening
(R) (S)
10.05 Saturday Kitchen Best
Bites (S)
11.35 Inside the Factory XL:
Trains (AD) (R) (S)
12.35 pm Being Christian
(AD) (R) (S)
1.15 Songs of Praise (S)
1.50 FILM Around the World
in 80 Days (1956)
Period adventure
starring David Niven
● See Films of the
week, p20 (S)
4.40 Flog It! (R) (S)
5.00 Commonwealth Games
2022 (S)
5.25 Incredible Journeys
with Simon Reeve (AD)
(R) (S)
6.25 Ukrainian Freedom
Orchestra at the Proms
See What to watch (S)

6.00 am CITV
8.25 News (S)
8.30 Katie Piper’s Breakfast
Show New series. Chat
show (S)
9.25 English Football League
Highlights (R) (S)
11.15 Jeremy Pang’s Asian
Kitchen (AD) (R) (S)
12.15 pm News (S)
12.25 MotoGP Live: Great
Britain (S)
3.45 You’ve Been Framed!
(R) (S)
4.20 FILM You Only Live
Twice (1967) James
Bond spy thriller starring
Sean Connery (AD) (S)
6.30 News (S)
6.45 Regional News (S)

6.10 am Cheers (R) (S)
7.05 The Simpsons (AD) (R)
(S)
8.25 Paul Hollywood Eats
Japan (AD) (R) (S)
9.30 Sunday Brunch (S)
12.30 pm Live Betfred Super
League Rugby St Helens
v Castleford Tigers (kickoff 1.00pm). Adam Hills
presents all the action
from the clash at Totally
Wicked Stadium (S)
3.10 The Simpsons (AD) (R)
(S)
3.40 FILM The Call of the
Wild (2020) Freeview
Premiere. Historical
adventure starring
Harrison Ford
● See Films of the
week, p20 (S)
5.40 Devon and Cornwall
(AD) (R) (S)
6.35 News (S)

6.00 am Milkshake!
10.05 The Smurfs (S)
10.15 SpongeBob
SquarePants (R) (S)
10.30 Entertainment News
on 5 (S)
10.40 Friends (AD) (R) (S)
11.10 Friends (AD) (R) (S)
11.40 Friends (AD) (R) (S)
12.05 pm Friends (AD) (R) (S)
12.40 Dogs Behaving (Very)
Badly (R) (S)
1.35 Dogs Behaving (Very)
Badly (R) (S)
2.35 Cash in the Attic (AD)
(R) (S)
3.35 Cash in the Attic (AD)
(R) (S)
4.35 The Cotswolds with
Pam Ayres (R) (S)
5.35 News (S)
5.40 Jane McDonald:
Cruising Scotland (R)
(S)

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Y 116 VIRGIN 107

7.00 Tipping Point: Lucky
Stars With Benidorm
stars Jake Canuso,
Janine Duvitski and Tony
Maudsley (R) (S)

7.00 Queen Victoria and the
British Maharajah The
story of a 19th-century
Indian prince who
married an English
noblewoman See What
to watch (AD) (S)

7.00 Garden SOS Diarmuid
Gavin and his team
transform a garden in
Leeds used as a
dumpsite (R) (S)

8.00 Countryfile Matt Baker
and Charlotte Smith visit
Hadrian’s Wall (S)

8.00 Van Der Valk
k New
series. The Dutch
detective is called in to
investigate the
gruesome murder of
solicitor Susie de Windt.
The return of the crime
d
drama
starring
t i gM
Marc
Warren See What to
watch (AD) (S)

8.00 The Real Windsors:
Queen of Steel New
series. The future of the
monarchy after the
Queen’s reign ends See
What to watch (AD) (S)

8.00 Million Pound
Motorhomes A look at
how motorhoming
opened up a new world
for a man with autism
and ADHD (S)

9.00 India 1947: Partition in
Colour Part one of two.
Colourised archive
footage of the division
of British-ruled India See
What to watch (AD) (S)

9.00 The Cruise
A look at the work of the
night-shift crews. Last in
the series (S)

9.00 The Newsreader Dale’s
interview with an HIVpositive mother goes
horribly wrong (AD) (S)
9.50 The Newsreader
Dale visits Helen’s house
to attempt a
reconciliation.
ili ti
Last
L t in
i
the series (AD) (S)
10.45 Tonight at the Games
Highlights from the 10th
day in Birmingham (S)

11.45 Golf: The Women’s
Open (S) 12.45am FILM
The Eiger Sanction
(1975) Spy adventure
starring Clint Eastwood
(S) 2.50 Sign Zone (AD)
(R) (S) (SL) 4.50 6.30am This Is BBC Two
(S)
8.15 Life on the Bay 8.45 Grand Tours of
Scotland’s Lochs 9.00 Still Game 9.30
Billy and Us 10.00 Face to Face 10.40
Short Stuff 10.55 Loop 11.00 Seven
Days midnight Close
STV: 6.45 - 6.59pm STV News; Weather
3.50 - 5.00am Unwind with STV

WALES
BBC One: 5.15 - 5.25pm BBC Wales
Today; Weather 10.25 - 10.30pm BBC
Wales Today; Weather
BBC Two: 5.25pm Nadiya Bakes 5.55
Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra at the
Proms 7.30 - 8.00pm Eisteddfod 2022
ITV Wales: 6.45 - 7.00pm ITV News
Cymru Wales; Weather

10.00 News (S)
10.20 FILM Central
Intelligence (2016)
Action comedy starring
Dwayne Johnson (AD)
(S)

12.15 am Shop: Ideal World
3.00 Motorsport UK (R)
(S) 3.50 Unwind with
ITV (S) 5.00 - 6.00am
Ainsley’s Mediterranean
Cookbook (R) (S) (SL)
11.30 Creaduriaid Gwyllt Affrica
12.30pm Dan Do 1.00 Arfordir Cymru:
Bae Ceredigion 1.30 Hewlfa Drysor 2.30
Cynefin 3.30 Natur Gwyllt Iolo 4.00
Natur Gwyllt Iolo 4.25 Trysorau Cymru:
Tir, Tai a Chyfrinachau 4.50 Trysorau
Cymru: Tir, Tai a Chyfrinachau 5.15
Sgwrs Dan y Lloer: Max Boyce 6.15 Y
Sioe 2022: Uchafbwyntiau 2022 7.15
Newyddion 7.30 Eisteddfod 2022:
Uchafbwyntiau’r Wythnos 9.00
Eisteddfod 2022: Y Babell Lên:
Uchafbwyntiau 10.00 Birmingham
2022: Cymru yn y Gemau 10.30 11.35pm Drych

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6.00am Cyw 8.50 Penblwyddi Cyw 9.00
Efaciwîs 9.30 Cymro Cryfa’ 10.00 Ffit
Cymru 11.00 Pobol y Penwythnos

FV Freeview FS Freesat
(AD) Audio description (R) Repeat
(S) Subtitles (SL) In-vision signing

10.00 FILM Star Trek Beyond
(2016) Sci-fi adventure
starring Chris Pine (AD)
(S)

12.15 am FILM Bombay (1995)
Indian drama starring
Arvind Swami. In Tamil
2.50 Ramsay’s Kitchen
Nightmares USA (R) (S)
(SL) 5.25 Come Dine
with Me (R) (S) 5.55 6.00am Escape to the
Chateau (S)

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satellite
& cable
ITV2
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Y 118 VIRGIN 115

11.35am Take Me Out 12.50pm Family
Fortunes 1.50 FILM Step Up All In
(2014) 2.55 FYI Daily 3.00 FILM Step
Up All In (2014) 4.05 FILM Cloudy with
a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013) 5.10 FYI
Daily 5.15 FILM Cloudy with a Chance of
Meatballs 2 (2013) 6.00 FILM Coyote
Ugly (2000) 7.05 FYI Daily 7.10 FILM
Coyote Ugly (2000) 8.00 Emergency
Nurses: A&E Stories 9.00 Love Island: The
Reunion 10.30 Family Guy 11.30
American Dad! 12.30am The Stand Up
Sketch Show 12.55 - 2.00am Hey Tracey!

10.00 Bargain-Loving Brits in
the Sun (R) (S)
10.55 Sex and the Palace
(R) (S)
11.55 Funniest Ever Royal
Cock-Ups (R) (S) 1.45am
The LeoVegas Live
Casino Show (S) 3.45
Entertainment News on
5 (S) 3.55 1973: Britain’s
Biggest 70s Hits (R) (S)
5.10 Nick’s Quest (R) (S)
(SL) 5.35 Peppa Pig (AD)
(R) (S) (SL) 5.40
Milkshake! Monkey’s
Amazing Adventures (R)
(S) 5.45 - 6.00am
Thomas & Friends: Big
World! Big Adventures!
(R) (S) (SL)

7.00 pm Eisteddfod 2022
with Huw Stephens The
best stories and
performances from
Eisteddfod 2022 See
What to watch (S)
7.30 Eisteddfod 2022 with
Huw Stephens Huw
catches up with this
year’s winners See
What to watch (S)
8.00 The Magic of Mozart at
the Proms The
international Mahler
Chamber Orchestra
perform music by
Mozart, joined by multiGrammy-nominated
Norwegian pianist Leif
Ove Andsnes who
directs the orchestra
from the keyboard (S)
9.35 The Joy of Mozart Tom
Service explores the life
and times of Mozart (S)
10.35 The Hijacker Who
Vanished: The Mystery
of DB Cooper:
Storyville (S)
12.00 The Capture Thriller (S)
12.55 am The Capture (S)
1.55 - 2.55am The Capture
(S)

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Y 136 VIRGIN 147

8.55 am George Clarke’s
Amazing Spaces (AD)
(S)
9.55 Ugly House to Lovely
House with George
Clarke (AD) (S)
10.55 George Clarke’s Old
House, New Home (AD)
(S)
12.00 noon Come Dine with
Me (S)
12.35 pm Come Dine with Me
(S)
1.05 Come Dine with Me (S)
2.40 Four in a Bed (S)
5.20 Come Dine with Me (S)
8.00 Cleaning Britain’s
Greatest Treasures
(AD) (S)
9.00 Emergency Helicopter
Medics (AD) (S)
10.00 24 Hours in A&E (AD)
(S)
11.05 Emergency Helicopter
Medics (AD) (S)
12.10 am 8 Out of 10 Cats
Does Countdown (S)
1.15 24 Hours in A&E (AD)
2.20 Emergency Helicopter
Medics (AD) (S)
3.25 - 3.55am Food
Unwrapped (AD) (S)

DAVE

SKY DOCUMENTARIES

FV 19 FS 157 SKY
Y 111

SKY
Y 121 VIRGIN 278

noon Storage Hunters UK 1.00pm
Special Ops: Crime Squad UK 2.00
Extreme Heights Repair Team 3.00 Top
Gear 4.00 Room 101 6.00 Extreme
Heights Repair Team 7.00 Special Ops:
Crime Squad UK 8.00 QI XL 9.00 Have I
Got a Bit More News for You. Victoria
Coren Mitchell hosts, with Maisie Adam
and Helen Lewis 10.00 Live at the Apollo
11.00 QI XL 12.00 - 1.00am Alan
Davies: As Yet Untitled

11.30am The United Way 1.20pm FILM
Who Killed the KLF? (2021) 3.10 FILM I
Am Alfred Hitchcock (2021) 5.00
Wework: How to Lose $30b in Two
Weeks 7.00 FILM Spitfire (2018) The
story of British single-seat fighter plane
the Supermarine Spitfire 9.00 One
Shot: The Football Factory See What
to watch 10.00 Unbreakable: The Steve
Zakuani Story 11.15 - 1.25am Music
Box

DISCOVERY

PBS AMERICA

SKY
Y 125 VIRGIN 250

FS 155 SKY
Y 174 VIRGIN 273

noon How It’s Made 3.00pm Buying the
Rockies 6.00 Undercover Billionaire 8.00
Expedition to the Edge 9.00 Legend of
Deep Blue 10.00 Deadliest Catch 11.00
Celebrity IOU Joyride 12.00 - 4.00am
Flying Wild Alaska

11.55am China on Film 1.00pm
Beautiful Serengeti 1.35 First Britons
2.40 American Veteran 7.35 First
Britons 8.40 China on Film 10.50 First
Britons 12.00 - 1.10am The Covid
Cruise

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The Daily Telegraph Saturday 6 August 2022

Sky Arts

Film4

Talking Pictures

FV 11 FS 147 SKY
Y 122 VIRGIN 122

FV 14 FS 300 SKY
Y 313 VIRGIN 428

FV 82 FS 306 SKY
Y 328 VIRGIN 445

11.50 am Paul Simon: Under
African Skies
2.00 pm Cirque du Soleil:
Delirium (S)
3.40 Stevie Nicks: Rock a
Little
4.55 Clint Eastwood: A Life
in Film (S)
6.35 Pretenders: Music
Icons (S)
7.00 Classic Albums (S)
8.00 Alfred Hitchcock
Presents (S)
8.30 Alfred Hitchcock
Presents (S)
9.00 FILM Frenzy (1972)
Alfred Hitchcock’s
thriller starring Jon Finch
11.15 Santana: Music Icons
(S)
11.45 Talking Heads: Music
Icons (S)
12.15 - 2.15am FILM David
Byrne’s American
Utopia (2020)
Spike Lee’s film
of a Broadway
performance of a
version of musician
David Byrne’s album of
the same name,
including songs from
throughout his career

11.00 am Horton Hears a
Who! (2008) Animated
comedy featuring the
voice of Jim Carrey (S)
12.45 pm Kung Fu Panda
(2008) Animated
comedy with the voice
of Jack Black (S)
2.30 The Karate Kid Part II
(1986) Martial arts
sequel starring Ralph
Macchio and Pat Morita
(S)
4.45 Entrapment (1999)
Crime thriller starring
Sean Connery and
Catherine Zeta-Jones (S)
7.00 Legend (1985) A
peasant boy who has a
magical friendship with
animals and fairies sets
out to save his
sweetheart from a
monstrous demon.
Ridley Scott’s fantasy
with Tom Cruise (S)
9.00 Salt (2010) Action
thriller starring Angelina
Jolie (AD) (S)
11.00 - 1.05am Jack Ryan:
Shadow Recruit (2014)
Spy thriller starring Chris
Pine (AD) (S)

11.40 am FILM Thunderhoof
(1948, b/w) Western
starring Preston Foster
(S)
1.15 pm Saddle Up (S)
1.20 The Hillman Minx in the
1960s
1.40 The Very Best of Peter
Sellers (S)
2.50 FILM The Smallest
Show on Earth (1957,
b/w) Comedy with Bill
Travers and Virginia
McKenna (S)
4.30 Mods and Rockers
5.00 The Footage Detectives
Jess Conrad presents
unseen footage of his
secret wedding (S)
6.00 The Saint (S)
7.00 FILM Too Late for Tears
(1949, b/w) Thriller
starring Lizabeth Scott,
Don DeFore and Dan
Duryea (S)
9.00 Kessler (S)
10.00 FILM Sudden Fear
(1952, b/w) Thriller
starring Joan Crawford
(S)
12.10 - 1.15am The Heritage
Chart Show with Mike
Read

ITV3

ITV4

Sky Atlantic

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Y 119 VIRGIN 117

FV 26 FS 117 SKY
Y 120 VIRGIN 118

SKY
Y 108

11.25 am Downton Abbey
(AD) (S)
12.30 pm Downton Abbey
(AD) (S)
1.35 Downton Abbey (AD)
(S)
2.40 Downton Abbey (AD)
(S)
3.40 Martin Clunes: My
Travels and Other
Animals (AD) (S)
4.10 Martin Clunes: My
Travels and Other
Animals (AD) (S)
4.45 Rosemary & Thyme The
duo visit the French
Riviera (S)
5.50 Inspector Morse An
aristocrat goes missing
(AD) (S)
8.00 Long Lost Family
A man who feels
ready to face his fears
and find his birth
mother (AD) (S)
9.00 Joanna Lumley’s Silk
Road Adventure Joanna
travels to the Islamic
Republic of Iran (AD) (S)
10.00 Endeavour (AD) (S)
11.50 - 2.05am Inspector
Morse (AD) (S)

10.45 am MotoGP Live: Great
Britain The British
Grand Prix Moto3 race
(start-time 11.20am) (S)
12.30 pm The Best of the 90s
(S)
12.45 River Monsters (S)
1.15 The Casebook of
Sherlock Holmes (AD)
(S)
3.30 ITV Racing: Sky Bet
Sunday Series Coverage
from Haydock Park (S)
7.00 Junk and Disorderly
The team head for
Tewksbury auction (S)
8.00 The Chase Celebrity
Special (S)
9.00 FILM Rocky II (1979)
Boxing drama sequel
starring Sylvester
Stallone and Burgess
Meredith. Includes FYI
Daily (AD) (S)
11.30 Against the Odds: Cesc
Fabregas: Pass Master
(S)
12.35 - 2.40am FILM The
Purge: Anarchy (2014)
Horror sequel starring
Frank Grillo. Includes FYI
Daily (S)

12.00 noon Billions (AD) (R)
(S)
1.05 pm Billions (AD) (R) (S)
2.10 Billions (AD) (R) (S)
3.15 The Night Off (AD) (R)
(S)
4.40 The Night Off (AD) (R)
(S)
5.45 The Night Off (AD) (R)
(S)
6.50 The Night Off (AD) (R)
(S)
7.55 The Night Off Box
retraces Naz’s steps on
the night of the crime
(AD) (R) (S)
9.00 Westworld Sci-fi drama
inspired by Michael
Crichton’s 1973 film (R)
10.05 The Baby Plans are
thwarted by the chaos
and destruction of the
suddenly-possessed
children (AD) (R) (S)
10.40 The White Lotus Rachel
shares some harsh
truths with Shane and
confides in Belinda (AD)
(R) (S)
11.45 - 2.00am FILM The Tale
(2018) Drama starring
Laura Dern (R) (S)

SKY NATURE

Sense and Sensibility 4.20 FILM
Catherine Cookson’s The Black Velvet
Gown (1991, TVM) 6.40 Call the
Midwife 8.00 Sister Boniface Mysteries
9.00 Silent Witness 11.15 - 1.25am
Dalziel & Pascoe

2.00pm Live Renault Super Sunday 4.00
Live Renault Super Sunday 7.00 Live
Women’s Golf 8.00 Live PGA Tour Golf
11.00 Sky Sports News 12.00 - 6.00am
Sky Sports News

SKY
Y 124 VIRGIN 280

noon Orangutan Jungle School 5.00pm
Africa’s Hunters 7.00 Big Cat Country
8.00 Animals Decoded 9.00 Kalahari:
Land of Secret Alliances 10.00
Accidental Wilderness: Europe’s
Everglades 11.00 Big Cat Country 12.00
- 1.00am Animals Decoded

SKY MAX
SKY
Y 113 VIRGIN 122

noon NCIS: New Orleans 4.00pm Grimm
8.00 An Idiot Abroad 9.00 S.W.A.T A
terminally ill prisoner escapes from a
hospital 10.00 NCIS: Los Angeles 11.00
SEAL Team 12.00 - 1.00am Road Wars

DRAMA
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11.40am Call the Midwife 1.00pm

YESTERDAY
FV 27 FS 159 SKY
Y 155 VIRGIN 129

noon Inside the Factory 4.00pm
Bangers and Cash 7.00 Bangers & Cash:
Restoring Classics 8.00 ’Allo ’Allo! 10.05
Inside the Factory 11.05 Hornby: A
Model World 12.05 - 1.05am Bangers
and Cash

SKY SPORTS
MAIN EVENT
SKY
Y 401 VIRGIN 511

6.00am Sky Sports News 7.00 Goals on
Sunday 8.00 Goals on Sunday 10.00
Super Sunday Matchday 11.00 Live SPFL

BT SPORT 1
SKY
Y 413 VIRGIN 527

6.30am T20 Cricket Highlights 7.30 Live
World Rally Championship 8.30 Inside
Serie A 9.00 WWE Raw Highlights 10.00
WWE SmackDown Highlights 11.00
ESPN FC 11.30 Vanarama National
League Highlights noon Live Ligue 1
2.00pm Live Ligue 1 4.00 Live Ligue 1
6.00 Vanarama National League
Highlights 6.30 Glory Hunters 7.30 Live
Ligue 1 9.45 Down The Clubhouse 10.45
Immortals 11.00 Live Baseball Tonight
12.00 Live MLB 3.30am 30 for 30
Shorts 3.45 30 for 30 Shorts 4.00 The
Volleyball Show 4.30 BT Sport Reload
5.00 - 6.00am Fishing: On the Bank

WHAT TO
WATCH
fascinating historical
figure: Prince Victor
Duleep Singh, British-born
son of the last ruler of the
Sikh Empire and Queen
Victoria’s godson who
became the first Indian
prince to marry an English
noblewoman. Chadha
examines evidence that
Victor became illicitly
involved in the Indian
independence movement
and had an affair with the
Earl of Carnarvon’s wife –
whose home, Highclere
Castle, was later used to
film Downton Abbey.

THE REAL
WINDSORS:
QUEEN OF STEEL
Channel 4, 8pm
i Marc Warren returns for a second series of this reboot

VAN DER VALK
ITV, 8pm
The first series of this
reboot of the 1970s
Amsterdam-set drama
was described by The
Telegraph’s critic as
“a work in progress” –
and Trojan the dog often
stole the show – but it’s
fair to say that Marc
Warren grew into the
role of maverick detective
Commisaris Piet Van Der
Valk. Now, after a Covid
delay, the police drama
based on novels by
Nicolas Freeling (adapted
by Chris Murray) is back
for three more feature
length episodes. The old
team return with it,
including Maimie McCoy
as Van Der Valk’s police
partner Lucienne Hassell
and Emma Fielding as
their boss, Julia Dahlman
– and in tonight’s opener,

titled Plague in
Amsterdam, Van Der
Valk (as moody-looking
as ever) investigates
a gruesome murder.
Solicitor Susie de
Windt’s mutilated body
has been discovered
strung up on a windfarm,
as if crucified, with an
“X” carved into her
stomach and a cryptic
note in her pocket. Just
days previously she had
won a case on behalf of
the city to evict a group
of artist squatters – is
this a political killing or
could the murderer be
closer to home? What
follows is a red herringstrewn whodunit
where calligraphy and
cryptography feature
prominently.
Veronica Lee

BBC Two, 6.25pm;
Wales, 5.55pm

EISTEDDFOD 2022
BBC Four, from 7pm
Culture buffs are well
catered for tonight as Huw
Stephens is in Tregaron to
present highlights from

i Prince Victor Duleep Singh,
Queen Victoria’s godson

Queen, then the focus
turns to Princes Charles
and William.

INDIA 1947:
PARTITION IN
COLOUR
Channel 4, 9pm

UKRAINIAN
FREEDOM
ORCHESTRA AT
THE PROMS

A remarkable achievement
by Ukrainian-Canadian
conductor Keri-Lynn
Wilson, who gathered
together, within weeks,
musicians still living in
Ukraine and others
working in European
orchestras. Soprano
Liudmyla Monastyrska
and pianist Anna Fedorova
perform, and the show
includes Symphony No 7
by Valentin Sylvestrov.

This three-part series
examines what the future
holds for the British
monarchy after the
Queen’s reign ends,
featuring interviews with
several people who have
worked with the Firm
over the years. The first
instalment is about the

i Ukrainian soprano
Liudmyla Monastyrska

the National Eisteddfod
of Wales (which finished
yesterday). At 7.30pm,
he meets some of the
prize-winners of Wales’s
famed cultural gathering.

QUEEN VICTORIA
AND THE BRITISH
MAHARAJAH
Channel 4, 7pm
Gurinder Chadha’s
documentary explores a

The first of a two-part
documentary contains
terrific newly colourised
archive footage to tell the
sorry story of how Britishruled India was divided
into India and Pakistan
75 years ago – and to
explain why the two
nations have been in a
mutually antagonistic
relationship since.

ONE SHOT:
THE FOOTBALL
FACTORY
Sky Documentaries, 9pm
Remarkably, south London
has provided nearly
20 per cent of all
English Premier League
footballers in recent years.
Over 18 months, this
revealing series follows a
few of the young hopefuls
who dream of being
discovered by scouts. GT

25

26

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Saturday 6 August 2022 The Daily Telegraph

Television Monday 8 August
WHAT TO
WATCH

BBC One
documentary goes behind
the scenes at one of
Britain’s most famous and
successful chocolate
brands, following the full
manufacturing processes,
travelling with cocoa
buyers to Ghana to see
how the company works
with local farmers, and
sitting in as the latest
“luxury” product ranges
are created and marketed.

INSIDE JAPAN’S
WAR
PBS America, 8.35pm

i Rev Coles explores grief and how to live with it positively

GOOD GRIEF WITH REVEREND
RICHARD COLES
Channel 4, 10pm
Reverend Richard Coles
has already published
a memoir, The Madness
of Grief, about the
devastating immediate
aftermath of the death of
his husband and partner
of 12 years, David, who
died in 2019 at the age
of 43 from liver disease.
Here he tentatively sets
out to address one of the
things that most bereaved
people find hardest to
contemplate: the
possibility of moving
forward. “Let’s leave
what we know about
bereavement at the door,”
he says, “and find out
if it is possible to have
a ‘good’ grief.”
The idea is to
experiment with some
of the many forms of

bereavement therapy
available – from laughter
yoga and boxing (to
release “the pool of fury”),
via surfing and alpaca
therapy (not at the same
time), to a week’s retreat
on the Isle of Bute and
a full-on, very American
“grief cruise” in the
Caribbean. Along the
way he has some
thoughtful fun and, most
importantly, meets many
lovely, grieving people,
each mourning loss in
their own way. Sharing
is what seems to bring
most comfort to almost
everyone here. By the
end of his “adventures in
widow-craft” there’s a
sense that he has moved
on a little and learnt a lot
more. Gerard O’Donovan

SPORT RELIEF
ALL STAR GAMES:
BIRMINGHAM 2022
BBC One, 7pm
Highlights from the
charity competition
held alongside the
Commonwealth Games,
in which stars of sport and
entertainment (including
Greg Rutherford, Helen
Glover and Max Whitlock
– led by Kelly Holmes
and Ellie Simmonds)
competed to raise funds
for Sport Relief.

COMMONWEALTH
GAMES 2022:
CLOSING
CEREMONY
BBC One, 8pm
After a final day of sport
(deciding the badminton,
diving, table tennis
squash and hockey
medals), time for a

i Inside Japan’s War: two
gunners on a shop roof

spectacular celebration as
Birmingham hands over
to the hosts of the 2026
Commonwealth Games –
Victoria in Australia.

HOTEL CHOCOLAT:
INSIDE THE
CHOCOLATE
FACTORY
Channel 4, 8pm
A repackaged Easter
egg, this updated

An unusual series looking
at the Second World War
from the Japanese
perspective. Using
a blend of rarely seen
archive material, eyewitness accounts and
animation, the series
explores the ambitions
and delusions of Imperial
Japan’s military, and
their eventual crushing
defeat. Continues nightly
until Thursday.
j Racing driver Billy Monger
trains for Sport Relief

INSIDE THE
FACTORY XL
BBC Two, 9pm
More factory-based fare as
Gregg Wallace visits the
ADL plant in Scarborough
to see how an all-electric
double-decker bus is put
together, with access to all
stages of construction
from craning in the
chassis to test-driving the
finished product. Cherry
Healey swings by an
offshore windfarm to
see how electric buses
get their power.

LONG LOST
FAMILY: WHAT
HAPPENED NEXT

BBC Two

ITV

6.00 am Breakfast (S)
9.00 Commonwealth Games
2022 Jason Mohammad
and Holly Hamilton
introduce live coverage
of the 11th and final day
from Birmingham (S)
1.00 pm BBC News at One;
Weather (S)
1.30 Regional News;
Weather (S)
1.45 Commonwealth Games
2022 Further coverage
from Birmingham, as
after 11 days of
memorable sporting
action, the final medals
are decided (S)
3.45 Garden Rescue (AD) (R)
(S)
4.30 The Bidding Room (R)
(S)
5.15 Pointless (R) (S)
6.00 BBC News at Six;
Weather (S)
6.30 Regional News (S)

6.30 am Saturday Kitchen
Best Bites (R) (S)
8.00 Sign Zone
9.00 News (S)
10.30 Wanted Down Under
(R) (S)
11.15 Homes Under the
Hammer (AD) (R) (S)
12.15 pm Bargain Hunt (AD)
(R) (S)
1.00 Commonwealth Games
2022 The final day of
action continues with
the eagerly-anticipated
men’s hockey final (S)
1.45 Impossible (R) (S)
2.30 Eggheads (R) (S)
3.00 Mastermind (R) (S)
3.30 Make Me a Dealer (R)
(S)
4.15 Mountain Vets (AD) (R)
(S)
5.15 Flog It! (R) (S)
6.00 Great Indian Railway
Journeys (AD) (R) (S)

6.00 am Good Morning
Britain (S)
9.00 Lorraine (S)
10.00 This Morning (S)
12.30 pm Loose Women (S)
1.30 ITV Lunchtime News
(S)
1.55 Regional News (S)
2.00 Dickinson’s Real Deal
(AD) (R) (S)
3.00 Tenable (R) (S)
4.00 Tipping Point (R) (S)
5.00 The Chase (R) (S)
6.00 Regional News
Programme (S)
6.30 ITV Evening News (S)

7.00 Sport Relief All Star
Games: Birmingham
2022 Two rival teams of
celebrities go head-tohead in five Birmingham
2022 events See What
to watch (S)

7.00 Celebrity Antiques
Road Trip With Rachel
Riley and Pasha Kovalev
(R) (S)

8.00 Commonwealth Games
2022: Closing
Ceremony Clare Balding
is at the Alexander
Stadium in Birmingham
for the Closing
Ceremony of the 22nd
Commonwealth Games
See What to watch (S)

8.00 How to Sleep Well with
Michael Mosley
A report on the latest
science and surprising
health benefits of better
sleep (R) (S)

8.00 Coronation Street Kelly
vows to get Stu’s side of
the story (AD) (S)

9.00 Inside the Factory XL:
Buses Gregg Wallace
tours a factory that
builds double-decker
buses See What to
watch (AD) (S)

9.00 Long Lost Family: What
Happened Next New
series. Revisiting the
stories of people
desperate to find their
birth parents See What
to watch (AD) (S)

10.00 Two Doors Down Beth
has flu and wants some
peace and quiet (AD) (R)
(S)
10.30 Newsnight (S)

10.00 ITV News at Ten (S)
10.30 Regional News (S)
10.45 Unbelievable Moments
Caught on Camera
Footage captures the
moment a teenager
fights off a bear to save
her dogs (AD) (R) (S)
11.40 All Elite Wrestling:
Dynamite (S) 1.25am
Shop: Ideal World 3.00
Girlfriends (AD) (R) (S)
(SL) 3.50 Unwind with
ITV (S) 5.10 Coronation
Street Icons: Sally
Metcalfe (AD) (R) (S) (SL)
5.35 - 6.00am
Emmerdale Family Trees:
The Dingles: Young Guns
(AD) (R) (S) (SL)

10.00 BBC News at Ten (S)
10.30 Regional News;
Weather (S)
10.40 Have I Got a Bit More
News for You Steph
McGovern hosts with
Zoe Lyons and John
Pienaar (R) (S)

11.25 Who Stole Tamara
Ecclestone’s Diamonds?
(R) (S) 12.25 - 6.00am
News (S)

Variations

ITV, 9pm
The return of the series
that follows up on what
happens after the work of
tracking down missing
family members on Long
Lost Family is over. How
do the reunited families
get on? This episode
catches up with three
people who approached
the show seeking a
missing parent, but
whose journeys only
really began from the
moment of discovery. GO

N IRELAND
BBC One: 1.30 - 1.45pm BBC Newsline
6.30 - 7.00 BBC Newsline 10.30 BBC
Newsline 10.40 Bikes! Armoy 11.20 Have I
Got a Bit More News for You 12.05am Who
Stole Tamara Ecclestone’s Diamonds? 1.05 6.00am BBC News BBC Two: 4.15pm A
Stitch Through Time 4.45 - 5.15 The
Travelling Picture Show 10.00 - 10.30pm
Éadaí SOS UTV: 1.55 - 2.00pm UTV Live;
Weather 6.00 - 6.30 UTV Live; Weather
10.30 - 10.45pm UTV Live; Weather

SCOTLAND
BBC One: 1.30 - 1.45pm Reporting
Scotland 6.30 - 7.00 Reporting Scotland
10.30 - 10.40 Reporting Scotland 12.20am
Sportscene: SWPL Highlights 1.10 - 6.00am

11.15 FILM Tulip Fever (2017)
Historical romance
starring Alicia Vikander
(S) 12.50am Sign Zone
(R) (S) (SL) 2.35 6.00am This Is BBC Two
(S)
BBC News BBC Scotland: 7.00pm
Sportscene: SWPL Highlights 7.45 Rewind
1980s 8.00 Beechgrove 8.30 Scotland’s
Home of the Year 9.00 The Nine 10.00 The
Fringe, Fame and Me 11.30 Short Stuff
11.45 Rewind 1980s midnight Close STV:
1.55 - 2.00pm STV News 6.00 - 6.30 STV
News 10.30 STV News 10.45 It’ll Be Alright
on the Night 11.40 Jonathan Ross’ Comedy
Club 12.05 - 3.00am Shop: Ideal World
3.50 - 5.10am Unwind with STV

WALES
BBC One: 1.30 - 1.45pm BBC Wales Today
6.30 - 7.00 BBC Wales Today; Weather
10.30 BBC Wales Today; Weather 10.40
Eisteddfod 2022 with Huw Stephens 11.10
Have I Got a Bit More News for You 11.55
Who Stole Tamara Ecclestone’s Diamonds?
12.50 - 6.00am BBC News BBC Two: No
variations ITV Wales: 1.55 - 2.00pm ITV
News Cymru Wales; Weather 6.00 - 6.30
ITV News Wales at Six; Weather 10.30 -

7.30 Emmerdale Rhona
continues to stress
about her pending
wedding (AD) (S)

10.45pm ITV News Cymru Wales; Weather

S4C
6.00am Cyw 12.00 Newyddion 12.05pm
Caru Siopa 12.30 Heno 1.00 Bwyd Epic
Chris 1.30 Dan Do 2.00 Newyddion 2.05
Prynhawn Da 3.00 Newyddion 3.05 Y Fets
4.00 Awr Fawr 5.00 Stwnsh 6.00 Natur
Gwyllt Iolo 6.30 Cymro Cryfa’ 6.57
Newyddion 7.00 Heno 7.30 Newyddion
8.00 Cymry ar Gynfas 8.25 Garddio a Mwy
8.55 Newyddion 9.00 Ffermio 9.30 Bwrdd i
Dri 10.00 Birmingham 2022: Cymru yn y
Gemau 10.30 Y Llinell Las 11.00 - 11.35pm
Ar Werth

ITV REGIONS
No variations
FV Freeview FS Freesat
(AD) Audio description (R) Repeat
(S) Subtitles (SL) In-vision signing

***

The Daily Telegraph Saturday 6 August 2022

Channel 4

Channel 5

6.00 am Countdown (R) (S)
6.40 3rd Rock from the Sun
(AD) (R) (S)
7.30 The King of Queens
(AD) (R) (S)
8.20 Frasier (AD) (R) (S)
9.45 The Big Bang Theory
(AD) (R) (S)
11.05 The Simpsons (AD) (R)
(S)
12.05 pm News (S)
12.10 Ramsay’s 24 Hours to
Hell and Back (AD) (R)
(S)
1.05 Find It, Fix It, Flog It
(AD) (R) (S)
2.10 Countdown (S)
3.00 A Place in the Sun (S)
4.00 Help! We Bought a
Village (S)
5.00 Couples Come Dine
with Me (R) (S)
6.00 The Simpsons (AD) (R)
(S)
6.30 Hollyoaks (AD) (R) (S)

6.00 am Milkshake!
9.15 Jeremy Vine (S)
12.45 pm Nightmare Tenants,
Slum Landlords (R) (S)
1.40 News (S)
1.45 Home and Away (AD)
(R) (S)
2.15 FILM Stalked by the
Killer Ex (2020, TVM)
Thriller starring Alex
McKenna (S)
4.00 Bargain-Loving Brits in
the Sun (R) (S)
5.00 News (S)
6.00 Cash in the Attic (AD)
(S)

7.00 News Including sport
and weather (S)

7.00 Police Interceptors
A car thief in Wakefield
rams his way out of a
petrol station (R) (S)
7.55 News (S)

8.00 Hotel Chocolat: Inside
the Chocolate Factory
Behind the scenes at the
chocolate makers in one
of the busiest years in
its history See What to
watch (AD) (S)

8.00 Motorway Cops:
Catching Britain’s
Speeders Inspector
Anton Sullivan follows a
white van being driven
erratically (S)

9.00 24 Hours in A&E A man
who has already had
one arm amputated cuts
his hand in a blender
(AD) (S)

9.00 Police: Hour of Duty
Highlights from the
documentary following
Derbyshire police
officers (S)

10.00 Good Grief with
Reverend Richard
Coles See What to
watch (AD) (S)
11.05 Celebrity Gogglebox
(AD) (R) (S) 12.05am
Ramsay’s Kitchen
Nightmares USA (R) (S)
(SL) 12.55 Couples
Come Dine with Me (R)
(S) 1.55 Grand Designs
(AD) (R) (S) (SL) 2.50
George Clarke’s Old
House, New Home (AD)
(R) (S) (SL) 3.45 The
Great British Dig: History
in Your Back Garden
(AD) (R) (S) (SL) 4.40
Location, Location,
Location (R) (S) (SL)
5.35 - 6.00am Beat the
Chef (R) (S)

10.00 Casualty 24/7: Every
Second Counts (R) (S)
11.05 999: Critical Condition
(R) (S) 12.05am
Ambulance: Code Red
(AD) (R) (S) 1.00 The
LeoVegas Live Casino
Show (S) 3.00
Entertainment News on
5 (S) 3.05 1974: Britain’s
Biggest 70s Hits (R) (S)
4.15 The Yorkshire Vet
(AD) (R) (S) 5.10 Nick’s
Quest (R) (S) (SL) 5.35
Peppa Pig (AD) (R) (S)
(SL) 5.40 Milkshake!
Monkey’s Amazing
Adventures (R) (S) (SL)
5.45 - 6.00am Thomas
& Friends (R) (S)

More digital,
satellite
& cable
ITV2
FV 6 FS 113 SKY 118 VIRGIN 115

3.05pm Veronica Mars 4.00 One Tree Hill
5.00 The O.C 6.00 Catchphrase Celebrity
Special 7.00 Superstore 8.00 Bob’s
Burgers 9.00 Family Guy 9.30 American
Dad! 10.00 Family Guy 11.30 American
Dad! 12.00 Bob’s Burgers 12.55 1.25am The Stand Up Sketch Show

Stein’s Road to Mexico 6.00 Taskmaster
7.00 Richard Osman’s House of Games
7.40 Room 101 8.20 Would I Lie to
You? 9.00 QI XL 10.00 Big Zuu’s Big
Eats 10.40 Mock the Week 12.00 1.00am Mel Giedroyc: Unforgivable

DISCOVERY
SKY 125 VIRGIN 250

noon Mighty Truckers 1.00pm Gold
Rush: Parker’s Trail 3.00 Alaska:
Homestead Rescue 4.00 Building Off the
Grid 5.00 Wheeler Dealers 6.00 Kindig
Customs 7.00 Outback Truckers 8.00
Fast N’ Loud 9.00 Celebrity IOU Joyride
10.00 Street Outlaws 12.00 - 1.00am
Expedition Bigfoot

DAVE

SKY DOCUMENTARIES

FV 19 FS 157 SKY 111

SKY 121 VIRGIN 278

2.00pm Top Gear 3.00 Rick Stein’s Road
to Mexico 4.00 Top Gear 5.00 Rick

noon FILM The Day Sports Stood Still
(2021) 1.40pm My Icon: Thierry Henry

27

BBC Four

Sky Arts

Film4

Talking Pictures

FV 9 FS 107 SKY 116 VIRGIN 107

FV 11 FS 147 SKY 122 VIRGIN 122

FV 14 FS 300 SKY 313 VIRGIN 428

FV 82 FS 306 SKY 328 VIRGIN 445

7.00 pm Great American
Railroad Journeys
Michael Portillo arrives
in the city of Los
Angeles (S)
7.30 Winter Walks Amanda
Owen crosses hills and
fields through
Wensleydale and
Raydale (S)
8.00 Treasures of the
Indus Sona Datta
examines the artistic
legacy of the
Mughal Empire (S)
9.00 Dangerous Borders: A
Journey Across India &
Pakistan The lives of
people living along the
border of the two
countries (S)
10.00 Shark: Beneath the
Surface How scientists
are challenging
perceptions of the
predators. Last in the
series (S)
11.00 The Girl Who Talked to
Dolphins (S)
12.00 The Capture (S)
12.55 am The Capture (S)
1.55 - 2.55am The Capture
(S)

12.00 noon The South Bank
Show Originals (S)
12.30 pm The South Bank
Show Originals (S)
1.00 Tales of the
Unexpected (AD) (S)
1.30 Tales of the
Unexpected (AD) (S)
2.00 The Eighties (AD) (S)
3.00 Discovering: Katharine
Hepburn (AD) (S)
4.00 Tales of the
Unexpected (AD) (S)
4.30 Tales of the
Unexpected (AD) (S)
5.00 Alfred Hitchcock
Presents (S)
5.30 Alfred Hitchcock
Presents (S)
6.00 Anyone Can Sing (AD)
7.00 Andre Rieu Royale:
Coronation Concert
Live in Amsterdam
A performance at the
investiture of King
Willem-Alexander on
April 30, 2013
9.15 Andre Rieu: Welcome
to My World (S)
10.15 Botticelli, Florence and
the Medici (S)
12.15 - 1.15am The Art of the
Garden

11.00 am Patrick (2018)
Comedy starring Beattie
Edmondson (S)
12.50 pm Kung Fu Panda 2
(2011) Animated comedy
sequel with the voice of
Jack Black (AD) (S)
2.40 The Cockleshell Heroes
(1955) Fact-based
Second World War
drama with Jose Ferrer
4.40 The Black Arrow (1948,
b/w) Swashbuckling
adventure starring Louis
Hayward (S)
6.15 The Hobbit: The Battle
of the Five Armies
(2014) Fantasy
adventure starring
Martin Freeman
● See Films of the
week, p20 (S)
9.00 Taken 3 (2014) Ex-CIA
agent Bryan Mills fights
to clear his own name
after being framed for
his ex-wife’s murder.
Action thriller starring
Liam Neeson (AD) (S)
11.15 - 1.30am The Little
Stranger (2018) Horror
starring Domhnall
Gleeson (S)

10.35 am FILM The Cariboo
Trail (1950) Western
drama starring Randolph
Scott (S)
12.15 pm FILM Dance Little
Lady (1955) Drama with
Terence Morgan (S)
2.00 Rooms
2.30 Rooms
3.00 Fly with the RAF
3.25 FILM Blue, White and
Perfect (1942, b/w)
Mystery starring Lloyd
Nolan (S)
5.00 The Footage Detectives
(S)
6.00 FILM Albert RN (1953,
b/w) Fact-based Second
World War drama
starring Anthony Steel
(S)
7.45 Look at Life
8.00 Gideon’s Way (S)
9.00 FILM Wide Boy (1952,
b/w) Crime drama with
Sydney Tafler (S)
10.20 FILM Richard’s Things
(1980) Drama starring
Liv Ullmann (S)
12.20 - 2.15am FILM A Private
Function (1984)
Comedy starring Michael
Palin (S)

More4

ITV3

ITV4

Sky Atlantic

FV 18 FS 124 SKY 136 VIRGIN 147

FV 10 FS 115 SKY 119 VIRGIN 117

FV 26 FS 117 SKY 120 VIRGIN 118

SKY 108

11.30 am The Champions (S)
12.30 pm The Saint (S)
1.40 The Motorbike Show
(S)
2.40 Magnum, PI (S)
3.40 The Sweeney Regan
tracks a gang of bank
raiders via radio waves
(S)
4.50 Minder Terry considers
a return to the boxing
ring (AD) (S)
5.55 The Motorbike Show
(S)
6.55 The Chase Celebrity
Special (S)
8.00 MotoGP Highlights:
Great Britain (S)
9.00 FILM Shaun of the Dead
(2004) An aimless man
decides to get his life
back on track just as
zombies start to roam
the streets of London to
feast on the living.
Comedy horror, with
Simon Pegg (AD) (S)
11.05 pm FILM Lucy (2014)
Sci-fi starring Scarlett
Johansson (AD) (S)
12.50 - 1.50am Motorsport
UK (S)

11.40 am The Sopranos (AD)
(R) (S)
12.50 pm We Own This City
(AD) (R) (S)
1.55 Game of Thrones (AD)
(R) (S)
3.00 Babylon Berlin (R) (S)
4.00 Babylon Berlin (R) (S)
5.00 Chernobyl (AD) (R) (S)
6.10 The Night Of (AD) (R)
(S)
7.40 Game of Thrones.
Meanwhile, Daenerys
has to make a tough
decision, and Arya
confronts Sansa (AD) (R)
(S)
9.00 Westworld Sci-fi drama
inspired by Michael
Crichton’s 1973 film
about a futuristic theme
park populated by
artificial beings starring
Thandiwe Newton and
Ed Harris
10.10 Irma Vep Reimagining
of the 1990s indie
classic, starring Alicia
Vikander (R)
11.15 True Detective (AD) (R)
12.20 - 1.25am True Detective
(AD) (R) (S)

2.20 Monarch of the Glen 3.20 A Place
to Call Home 4.20 All Creatures Great
and Small 5.20 Birds of a Feather 6.00
One Foot in the Grave 6.40 Last of the
Summer Wine 8.00 Miss Marple 10.00
New Tricks 11.20 Spooks 12.40 1.50am Bad Girls

Transfer Talk 2.00 Sky Sports News 3.00
Sky Sports News 4.00 Sky Sports News
5.00 The Transfer Show 5.30 Sky Sports
News 6.00 The Hundred Live 7.45 Live
EFL 10.30 Sky Sports News 11.00 Sky
Sports News 12.00 - 6.00am Sky Sports
News

8.55 am Kirstie’s House of
Craft (S)
9.15 A Place in the Sun (S)
10.05 A Place in the Sun (S)
11.05 Find It, Fix It, Flog It (S)
12.05 pm Find It, Fix It, Flog It
(S)
1.05 Heir Hunters (S)
2.10 Four in a Bed (S)
2.40 Four in a Bed (S)
3.15 Four in a Bed (S)
3.50 Four in a Bed (S)
4.20 Four in a Bed (S)
4.50 Find It, Fix It, Flog It (S)
5.55 Car S.O.S (S)
6.55 Chateau DIY
(AD) (S)
7.55 The Yorkshire Dales
and the Lakes (AD) (S)
9.00 Find It, Fix It, Flog It (S)
10.00 Million Pound Mega
Yachts (AD) (S)
11.05 24 Hours in A&E (AD)
(S)
12.10 am 999: On the Front
Line (S)
1.15 Million Pound Mega
Yachts (AD) (S)
2.20 24 Hours in A&E (AD)
(S)
3.25 - 3.50am Food
Unwrapped (AD) (S)
2.00 I Am Heath Ledger 4.00
Discovering: Orson Welles 5.00 The
Directors 6.00 The Seventies 7.00 The
Lady and the Dale 8.00 The Movies 9.00
One Shot: The Football Factory 10.00
FILM Robin Williams: Come Inside My
Mind (2018) 12.10 - 2.10am FILM
Atomic Homefront (2017)

PBS AMERICA
FS 155 SKY 174 VIRGIN 273

11.50am Hacking Your Mind 1.00pm
Beautiful Serengeti 1.30 Trouble in
Amish Paradise 2.40 Rommel: The
Soldier, the Son and Hitler 3.55 Inside
Japan’s War 5.00 Hacking Your Mind
6.15 Trouble in Amish Paradise 7.20
Rommel: The Soldier, the Son and Hitler
8.35 Inside Japan’s War See What to
watch 9.40 The Iran-Iraq War: A
Tragedy That Changed History 10.50
Rommel: The Soldier, the Son and Hitler
12.00 - 1.05am Inside Japan’s War

11.35
12.35
1.35
2.40
3.50
4.55
5.55

7.00

8.00
10.00

11.00
12.00

am The Royal (AD) (S)
pm Heartbeat (AD) (S)
Classic Emmerdale (S)
Classic Coronation
Street (AD) (S)
Rosemary & Thyme
A school harbours
ancient secrets (S)
Rosemary & Thyme The
duo work on a television
show (S)
Downton Abbey
Rosamund arrives at
Downton following
Edith’s shock departure
(AD) (S)
Heartbeat Part one of
two. Vernon makes a
startling discovery (AD)
(S)
Endeavour A boy from a
broken home is reported
missing (AD) (S)
Manhunt The Night
Stalker Fact-based
crime drama starring
Martin Clunes (AD) (S)
Innocent Drama,
starring Lee Ingleby
(AD) (S)
- 2.20am Inspector
Morse (AD) (S) (SL)

SKY NATURE
SKY 124 VIRGIN 280

5.00pm Africa’s Hunters 6.00 Great
Blue Wild 7.00 Monkey Life 8.00 David
Attenborough’s Global Adventure: The
Rise of Nature 9.00 Wildest New Zealand
10.00 Africa’s Hunters 11.00 Great Blue
Wild 12.00 - 1.00am Accidental
Wilderness: Europe’s Everglades

SKY MAX
SKY 113 VIRGIN 122

3.00pm DC’s Legends of Tomorrow 4.00
The Flash 5.00 Supergirl 6.00 Stargate
SG-1 8.00 Resident Alien 9.00 COBRA
10.00 Brassic 11.00 Flintoff: Lord of the
Fries 12.00 - 1.00am Road Wars

YESTERDAY

BT SPORT 1

FV 27 FS 159 SKY 155 VIRGIN 129

SKY 413 VIRGIN 527

5.00pm Narrow Escapes of World War
Two 6.00 Great Continental Railway
Journeys 7.00 Abandoned Engineering
8.00 Inside the Factory 9.00 Scouting
for Toys 10.00 Bangers and Cash 11.00
Abandoned Engineering 12.00 - 1.00am
Great Continental Railway Journeys

noon Premier League Review 1.00pm
Canadian Premier League 3.00 Ligue 1
Highlights 4.00 Premier League Stories
4.30 Premier League Legends 5.00
ESPN FC 5.30 ESPN FC Presents: Gab &
Juls 6.00 Premier League Review 7.00
Down The Clubhouse 8.00 WSL Presents
9.00 Fishing: On the Bank 9.30 Fishing:
On the Bank 10.00 Vanarama National
League Highlights 10.30 ESPN FC
Presents: Gab & Juls 11.00 WWE Raw
Highlights 12.00 - 1.00am WWE
SmackDown Highlights

DRAMA

SKY SPORTS
MAIN EVENT

FV 20 FS 158 SKY 143 VIRGIN 130

SKY 401 VIRGIN 511

noon The Bill 1.00pm Classic EastEnders

noon The Football Show 1.00pm

28

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Saturday 6 August 2022 The Daily Telegraph

Television Tuesday 9 August
BBC One

BBC Two

ITV

Channel 4

Channel 5

6.00 am Breakfast (S)
9.15 Animal Park (AD) (S)
10.00 Close Calls: On Camera
(AD) (S)
10.30 Fraud Squad (AD) (R)
(S)
11.15 Homes Under the
Hammer (AD) (S)
12.15 pm Bargain Hunt (AD)
(S)
1.00 BBC News at One;
Weather (S)
1.30 Regional News;
Weather (S)
1.45 Impossible (R) (S)
2.30 The Repair Shop (S)
3.00 Escape to the Country
(AD) (R) (S)
3.45 Garden Rescue (AD) (R)
(S)
4.30 The Bidding Room (R)
(S)
5.15 Pointless (R) (S)
6.00 BBC News at Six;
Weather (S)
6.30 Regional News (S)

6.00 am Commonwealth
Games 2022: Closing
Ceremony (S)
8.00 Sign Zone
9.00 News (S)
10.00 News (S)
12.45 pm The Super League
Show (R) (S)
1.30 Made in Great Britain
(AD) (R) (S)
2.30 Eggheads (R) (S)
3.00 Mastermind (R) (S)
3.30 Make Me a Dealer (R)
(S)
4.15 Mountain Vets (AD) (R)
(S) (SL)
5.15 Flog It! (R) (S)
6.00 The Hundred Northern
Superchargers v Trent
Rockets (Start-time
6.30pm). Isa Guha
presents coverage of the
men’s match at
Headingley in Leeds.
The Superchargers will
be out to avenge their
two-wicket defeat
against the Rockets at
Trent Bridge last year, in
which former England
star Alex Hales top
scored for the victors
with an unbeaten 40
from 34 balls. The
Rockets would go on to
reach the semi-finals,
where they were
eliminated by eventual
champions Southern
Brave (S)

6.00 am Good Morning
Britain (S)
9.00 Lorraine (S)
10.00 This Morning (S)
12.30 pm Loose Women (S)
1.30 ITV Lunchtime News
(S)
1.55 Regional News (S)
2.00 Dickinson’s Real Deal
(AD) (R) (S)
3.00 Tenable (R) (S)
4.00 Tipping Point (R) (S)
5.00 The Chase (R) (S)
6.00 Regional News
Programme (S)
6.30 ITV Evening News (S)

6.00 am Countdown (R) (S)
6.40 3rd Rock from the Sun
(AD) (R) (S)
7.30 The King of Queens
(AD) (R) (S)
8.20 Frasier (AD) (R) (S)
9.45 The Big Bang Theory
(AD) (R) (S)
11.05 The Simpsons (R) (S)
12.05 pm News (S)
12.10 Ramsay’s 24 Hours to
Hell and Back (AD) (R)
(S)
1.05 Find It, Fix It, Flog It
(AD) (R) (S)
2.10 Countdown (S)
3.00 A Place in the Sun (S)
4.00 Help! We Bought a
Village (S)
5.00 Couples Come Dine
with Me (R) (S)
6.00 The Simpsons (AD) (R)
(S)
6.30 Hollyoaks (AD) (R) (S)

6.00 am Milkshake!
9.15 Jeremy Vine (S)
12.45 pm Nightmare Tenants,
Slum Landlords (R) (S)
1.40 News (S)
1.45 Home and Away (AD)
(S)
2.15 FILM A Deceitful
Mother: Lies That Kill
(2020, TVM) Thriller
starring Tanya Clarke
and Aria Pullman (S)
4.00 Bargain-Loving Brits in
the Sun (R) (S)
5.00 News (S)
6.00 Cash in the Attic (AD)
(S)

7.00 News Including sport
and weather (S)

7.00 Women’s Health:
Breaking the Taboos
New series. Uncovering
the secrets surrounding
women’s health See
What to watch (S)
7.55 News (S)

8.00 Who Wants to Be a
Millionaire? Celebrity
Special Harry Redknapp,
Craig Charles and Sam
Quek take part (R) (S)

8.00 Worst House on the
Street Transforming a
York property that has
remained untouched for
decades See What to
watch (AD) (S)

8.00 Kew Gardens: A New
Year in Bloom
Carlos and Lucy think
they have discovered a
new species of giant
waterlily (S)

9.00 Secrets of the Spies
New series. Three-part
documentary series
examining what kind of
person becomes a spy
See What to watch (AD)
(S)

9.00 Night Coppers Sergeant
Andy makes an
impromptu stop that
leads to a drug bust
(AD) (S)

9.00 Ben Fogle’s New Lives
in the Country
Following families as
they quit their jobs to
start up their dream
business (S)

7.00 Rip Off Britain The
methods fraudsters use
to lure their victims in
(S)
7.30 EastEnders Suki finds
herself in an impossible
situation (AD) (S)
8.00 EastEnders Suki turns
the tables on Ranveer
(AD) (S)
8.30 Garden Rescue Charlie
and Arit come up with
plans for a garden in
Hampshire (AD) (S)
9.00 Tom Daley: Illegal to Be
Me Homophobic
behaviour around the
Commonwealth See
What to watch (AD) (S)

10.00 BBC News at Ten (S)
10.30 Regional News;
Weather (S)
10.40 Sport Relief All Star
Games: Birmingham
2022 Two rival teams of
celebrities go head-tohead in five Birmingham
2022 events (R) (S)

11.40 Jay Blades: Learning to
Read at 51 (AD) (R) (S)
12.45 - 6.00am News
(S)

Variations
N IRELAND
BBC One: 1.30 - 1.45pm BBC Newsline
6.30 - 7.00 BBC Newsline 10.30 BBC
Newsline 10.40 The Big Proud Party
Agency 11.10 Sport Relief All Star
Games: Birmingham 2022 12.10am Jay
Blades: Learning to Read at 51 1.10 6.00am BBC News BBC Two: 4.15pm
Home Ground 4.45 - 5.15pm The Wild
Gardener UTV: 1.55 - 2.00pm UTV Live
6.00 - 6.30 UTV Live 10.30 - 10.45pm
UTV Live

SCOTLAND
BBC One: 1.30 - 1.45pm Reporting
Scotland 6.30 - 7.00 Reporting Scotland
10.30 - 10.40pm Reporting Scotland
BBC Scotland: 7.00pm Making

9.30 QI With Sandi Toksvig,
Alan Davies, Bridget
Christie, Mark Watson
and Johnny Vegas (S)
10.00 Mock the Week With
Maisie Adam, Rhys
James, Milton Jones,
Emily Lloyd-Saini and
Glenn Moore (R) (S)
10.30 Newsnight (S)

11.15 FILM Young Adult (2011)
Comedy starring
Charlize Theron ● See
Films of the week, p20
(S) 12.45am Sign Zone
(AD) (R) (S) (SL) 2.15 6.15am This Is BBC Two
Scotland’s Landscape 8.00 The Years
That Changed Modern Scotland 9.00 The
Nine 10.00 Scotland at Birmingham
2022 11.00 David Wilson’s Crime Files
midnight Close STV: 1.55 - 2.00pm
STV News; Weather 6.00 - 6.30 STV
News at Six; Weather 10.30 - 10.45 STV
News 3.50 - 5.05am Unwind with STV

WALES
BBC One: 1.30 - 1.45pm BBC Wales
Today; Weather 6.30 BBC Wales Today;
Weather 7.00 - 7.30 Iolo: A Wild Life
8.30 - 9.00 The Story of Slate: Inside
Museums 10.30 BBC Wales Today;
Weather 10.40 Mavericks: Sport’s Lost
Heroes 11.15 Sport Relief All Star
Games: Birmingham 2022 12.15 12.45am Garden Rescue BBC Two: No
variations ITV Wales: 1.55 - 2.00pm
ITV News Cymru Wales; Weather 6.00 6.30 ITV News Wales at Six; Weather
10.30 - 10.45pm ITV News Cymru

7.30 Emmerdale Kit plays a
dangerous game (AD)
(S)

10.00 ITV News at Ten (S)
10.30 Regional News (S)
10.45 Heathrow: Britain’s
Busiest Airport (AD) (R)
(S)
11.40 Against the Odds (R) (S)
12.30am Junk and
Disorderly (R) (S) 1.20
Shop: Ideal World 3.00
Griff’s Great Australian
Adventure (AD) (R) (S)
(SL) 3.25 Martin Clunes:
My Travels and Other
Animals (AD) (R) (S) (SL)
3.50 Unwind with ITV
(S) 5.05 - 6.00am Fifty
Shades of Green with
Alan Titchmarsh (AD)
(R) (S) (SL)
Wales; Weather

S4C
6.00am Cyw 12.00 Newyddion
12.05pm Pobl a’u Gerddi 12.30 Heno
1.00 Cymry ar Gynfas 1.30 Ffermio 2.00
Newyddion 2.05 Prynhawn Da 3.00
Newyddion 3.05 Cefn Gwlad 4.00 Awr
Fawr 5.00 Stwnsh 6.00 Cynefin 6.57
Newyddion 7.00 Heno 7.30 Newyddion
8.00 Pobol y Cwm 8.25 Pobol y Cwm: Y
Cymeriadau 8.55 Newyddion 9.00
Gwyliau Gartref 9.30 Cymro Cryfa’
10.00 Afonydd Gwaedlyd 11.00 11.35pm Cheer am Byth

ITV REGIONS

10.00 Cryptocurrency: Has
the Bubble Burst? See
What to watch (AD) (S)
11.05 8 Out of 10 Cats Does
Countdown (R) (S)
12.05am Ramsay’s
Kitchen Nightmares USA
(R) (S) 12.55 The Last
Leg (R) (S) (SL) 1.50
Couples Come Dine with
Me (R) (S) 2.40 Sarah
Beeny’s New Life in the
Country (AD) (R) (S) (SL)
3.35 Airport Chaos
Undercover: Dispatches
(AD) (R) (S) 4.30
Location, Location,
Location (R) (S) (SL)
5.25 Beat the Chef (R)
(S) 5.50 - 6.00am
Sunday Brunch Best Bits
(S)

More digital,
satellite
& cable

BBC Four
FV 9 FS 107 SKY 116 VIRGIN 107

7.00 pm Great American
Railroad Journeys
Michael Portillo
discovers the secrets of
backyard oil drilling in
Los Angeles (S)
7.30 Winter Walks (S)
8.00 Keeping Up
Appearances (S)
8.30 Ever Decreasing Circles
(S)
9.00 Seven Days in Summer:
Countdown to Partition
The week leading up to
the partition of India and
Pakistan (S)
10.00 Return to Larkinland
(S)
11.00 Philip Larkin and the
Third Woman (S)
11.30 Monitor: Larkin (S)
11.55 Through the Lens of
Larkin (S)
12.25 am Rhyme and Reason:
BBC Introducing Arts
(S)
1.25 Great American
Railroad Journeys (S)
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Days in Summer:
Countdown to Partition
(S) (SL)

More4
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(S) 1.00 The LeoVegas
Live Casino Show (S)
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News on 5 (S) 3.05 1976:
Britain’s Biggest 70s Hits
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Yorkshire Vet (AD) (R)
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(S) (SL) 5.35 Peppa Pig
(AD) (R) (S) 5.40
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Thomas & Friends: Big
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Mexico 4.00 Top Gear 5.00 Rick Stein’s
Road to Mexico 6.00 Taskmaster 7.00
Richard Osman’s House of Games 7.40
Room 101 8.20 QI 9.20 Would I Lie to
You? 10.00 Live at the Apollo: Christmas
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Giedroyc: Unforgivable

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Directors 6.00 The Seventies 7.00 The
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Mr Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown
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Counter-Terror Dilemma

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Outback See What to
watch (S)

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Superstore 8.00 Bob’s Burgers 9.00
Family Guy 10.00 Plebs 11.00 Family
Guy 11.30 American Dad! 12.30 1.25am Bob’s Burgers

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Dealers 6.00 Kindig Customs 7.00
Outback Truckers 8.00 Fast N’ Loud 9.00
Gold Rush: Parker’s Trail 10.00 Gold Rush:
Dave Turin’s Lost Mine 11.00 Yukon Men
12.00 - 1.00am Expedition Bigfoot

1.50pm First Britons 2.55 Desert War
4.00 Inside Japan’s War 5.05 Hacking
Your Mind 6.20 First Britons 7.30 Desert
War 8.35 Inside Japan’s War 9.40 The
Iran-Iraq War: A Tragedy That Changed
History 10.55 Desert War 12.00 1.05am Inside Japan’s War

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2.00 Top Gear 3.00 Rick Stein’s Road to

1.30pm Premier League Legends 2.00
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Sky Arts

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12.00 noon Art Traffickers:
Treasures Stolen from
the Tombs (AD) (S)
1.00 pm Tales of the
Unexpected (AD) (S)
1.30 Tales of the
Unexpected (AD) (S)
2.00 Tate Britain’s Great Art
Walks (S)
3.00 Discovering: Paul
Newman (AD) (S)
4.00 Tales of the
Unexpected (AD) (S)
4.30 Tales of the
Unexpected (AD) (S)
5.00 Alfred Hitchcock
Presents (S)
5.30 Alfred Hitchcock
Presents (S)
6.00 Anyone Can Sing (AD)
(S)
7.00 The Art of the Garden
8.00 Cirque du Soleil: Kooza
(S)
10.00 Sex Pistols vs Bill
Grundy: Urban Myths
(AD) (S)
10.30 Princess Diana, Freddie
Mercury and Kenny
Everett: Urban Myths
11.00 The Directors (S)
12.00 - 1.00am Cheltenham
Literature Festival (S)

11.00 am The Rugrats Movie
(1998) Animated
comedy with the voice
of Elizabeth Daily (S)
12.40 pm Fantastic Mr Fox
(2009) Stop-motion
animated adventure
with the voice of George
Clooney (AD) (S)
2.25 Elephant Walk (1954)
Melodrama starring
Elizabeth Taylor (S)
4.30 The Man Who Knew
Too Much (1956) Alfred
Hitchcock’s thriller
remake with James
Stewart and Doris Day
(S)
6.50 Eddie the Eagle (2016)
Biopic of British
underdog ski jumper
Eddie Edwards, who
became a national
sensation during the
1988 Winter Olympics.
Starring Taron Egerton
(AD) (S)
9.00 Bloodshot (2020) Sci-fi
thriller starring Vin
Diesel (S)
11.10 - 1.35am Unfaithful
(2002) Thriller starring
Diane Lane (S)

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Hayward (S)
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1.30 FILM The London
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James Mason explores
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starring Barbara Payton
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5.50 Look at Life
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6.35 FILM The Diplomatic
Corpse (1958, b/w)
Crime drama starring
Robin Bailey, Susan Shaw
and Liam Redmond
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9.05 Van der Valk
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5.55 The Motorbike Show
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6.55 The Chase Celebrity
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North, Una Healy, Carl
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Hammond (S)
8.00 The Car Years New
series. Vicki ButlerHenderson and Alex
Riley champion the
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Action comedy starring
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FYI Daily (AD) (S)
11.25 All Elite Wrestling:
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6.20 The Night Of (AD) (R)
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7.30 Game of Thrones Tyrion
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to discuss the fate of the
realm (AD) (R) (S)
9.00 Irma Vep Mira clashes
with her agent, Zelda,
about the future of her
career before assuming
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Alicia Vikander See
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10.05 Blocco 181 Tensions
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and Mahdi’s Block crew
boil over
11.10 Christian (R)
12.15 - 1.20am Christian

Orangutan Jungle School 4.00 Hope for
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to Call Home 4.20 All Creatures Great
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YESTERDAY
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Railway Journeys

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National League 2.00 Vanarama National
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ESPN FC 3.15 Live T20 Cricket 7.15
Premier League Stories 7.45 Premier
League Reload 8.00 Vanarama National
League Highlights 8.30 Ariel Helwani
Meets 9.00 WWE Monday Night Raw
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WHAT TO
WATCH
researched three-part
series begins its deep dive
into espionage with some
of its most celebrated and
notorious practitioners,
from Polish double agent
Roman Czerniawski, who
played a major role in
allied deception prior to
D-Day, and the Cambridge
Five spy ring to MI6 agent
(and former al-Qaeda
member) Aimen Dean.

IRMA VEP
Sky Atlantic, 9pm

i Investigating homophobic laws around the Commonwealth

TOM DALEY: ILLEGAL TO BE ME
BBC One, 9pm
At the London 2012
Olympics, there were
more athletes called
James than there were
out gay athletes. While
the global picture has
improved since then, the
Commonwealth Games is
an unfortunate emblem
of how far the sporting
world still has to go – it is
illegal to be gay in 35 of
the 56 Commonwealth
nations. Gold medallist
and diving star Tom Daley
here pieces together a
manifesto to present to
the Commonwealth
Games Federation, with
proposals of action to sit
alongside the statements
and symbols that Daley
fears may amount to mere
“rainbow-washing”.
Before that, he recounts
the trolling he received

after coming out, and
meets athletes from some
of the nations where
being gay is a crime: the
stories of persecution,
intimidation and worse
are alarming, desperate
and distressing. Most
arresting and provocative
is the theory that the
homophobia seemingly
rooted so deeply in
Jamaican society is itself
a legacy of colonialism
and the grim custom
of “buck breaking”,
whereby white plantation
owners would use rape to
punish slaves. While it
may have been even more
impactful had it been
broadcast before the
Commonwealth Games,
this is still a impassioned
and important film.
Gabriel Tate

WOMEN’S HEALTH:
BREAKING THE
TABOOS
Channel 5, 7pm
Cherry Healey introduces
this new nightly magazine
show, tackling aspects
of women’s health too
often underserved on
television. While Kate
Thornton discusses the
perimenopause, Healey
begins with the impacts
of heavy periods,
uterine fibroids and
endometriosis; the latter
can take up to eight
years to diagnose.

WORST HOUSE ON
THE STREET
Channel 4, 8pm
Scarlette and Stuart
Douglas, the siblings
fronting this series on
affordable renovations,
follow a couple of

i Secrets of the Spies:
Roman Czerniawski

first-time buyers in York
whose new purchase
requires a total overhaul.
The hard graft bears fruit
when some stunning
hidden period features
are uncovered.

SECRETS OF
THE SPIES
ITV, 9pm
First shown on BritBox,
this solidly made, robustly

Olivier Assayas’s strange,
compulsively watchable
miniseries with the
magnetic Alicia Vikander
takes several more twists
and turns as Mira
(Vikander) and her agent
(Carrie Brownstein)
disagree over her career
choices and director René
(Vincent Macaigne)
causes further problems
with the production.
Clever but, miraculously,
never pleased with itself.
j Stuart & Scarlette Douglas
renovate a house in York

CRYPTOCURRENCY: HAS
THE BUBBLE
BURST?
Channel 4, 10pm
With the value of Bitcoin
plummeting and even
the worth of the muchvaunted Non-Fungible
Tokens (NFTs) looking
chimerical, Ade Adepitan
has picked an unfortunate
moment to speculate
in the cryptocurrency
market. Still, it is all in
a good cause – assessing
the prospects of making
and losing a fortune
in a world that is
mysterious to many.

ACCUSED: TRIAL IN
THE OUTBACK
Channel 5, 10pm
A much pored-over case
gets another airing, as
members of Lindy
Chamberlain’s family
revisit the trial which
made her notorious and
caused a media sensation:
in 1982, she was accused
of murdering her
nine-week-old daughter
in Australia, having
claimed the girl was
attacked by a dingo. GT

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Saturday 6 August 2022 The Daily Telegraph

Television Wednesday 10 August
WHAT TO
WATCH
skills as the showbiz
iteration of the cookery
competition is plated up
again. Nancy Dell’Olio,
Paul Chuckle and McFly’s
Danny Jones are onboard
in a heat that features
boiled aubergine and a
half-cooked poussin. Put
together with panache,
it’s a diverting TV dish.

CHANGING ROOMS
Channel 4, 8pm

i Douglas Henshall takes on his last case as DI Jimmy Perez

SHETLAND
BBC One, 9pm
Relish your final jaunt to
the northerly isles in the
company of Douglas
Henshall in this Scots-noir
murder mystery. Henshall
will quit the role of DI
Jimmy Perez after this
seventh outing, bringing
closure, one hopes, to a
fraught period in Perez’s
life. As the new series
opens, the grizzled cop is
still suspended pending
an investigation into the
suicide of Donna Killick
(Fiona Bell); it’s worse
news for his best friend
Duncan Hunter (Mark
Bonnar), who’s now in
prison after she framed
him for murder. But it
wouldn’t do to emasculate
Perez in his final outing,
so he’s soon cleared
and, with sidekick Tosh
(Alison O’Donnell), now

a new mother, he gets
stuck into investigating
the disappearance of a
vulnerable young man.
Grasping this new start,
he also sets about
wooing Meg Pattison
(Lucianne McEvoy).
Henshall gives
a performance of
quiet power as the
compassionate detective
wearied by the constant
wrangling with
immorality, although
even he is frequently
overshadowed by the
glorious backdrop of the
Shetlands, whose velvety
moors and lowering skies
steal all their scenes.
Shetland remains a
dependable crime drama
exploring evil deeds in
a singularly stunning
location. Vicki Power

BLUEY
Disney+
The cartoon canines of
this Emmy Awardwinning Australian
animation are back for
a third series of sevenminute domestic tales.
Each is a mini-sitcom
about family life that
captures children’s inner
lives and features warm
stories for little ones and
sly humour for grown-ups.

LOCKE & KEY
Netflix
The Locke family’s battle
to prevent demons taking
over their Massachusetts
enclave continues in a
third and final series of
the teenage horror drama.
It’s the calm before the
storm at their family’s
haunted manor, as
Revolutionary War

Despite a cool reception
for the revival, here
comes series two of the
makeover show, full of
MDF and “maximal”
decor. Host and designer
Laurence LlewelynBowen remains the
reason to watch, his
charisma as bright as the
cobalt blue he splashes
on the walls of a beigeloving couple’s home in
Tunbridge Wells tonight.
The budget makeovers
remain OTT, like fever
dreams made flesh.
j Elle Fanning relishes the
role of Catherine the Great

THE FRINGE,
FAME AND ME
BBC Two, 9pm
Making a splash at the
Edinburgh Fringe Festival
has been a rite of passage
for rising actors and
comedians for decades.
This 75th birthday
documentary celebrating
the summer institution
welcomes Eddie Izzard,
Michael Palin and Phoebe
Waller-Bridge, among
others, to recall their
jaunts to Edinburgh as
fledgling performers.

THE GREAT
Channel 4, 10pm
i Australian cartoon Bluey
gets a third series on Disney+

time-traveller Captain
Frederick Gideon (Kevin
Durand) returns to
terrorise them. And
what’s in store for Tyler
(Connor Jessup) after he
swore off magic?

CELEBRITY
MASTERCHEF
BBC One, 8pm
A new batch of famous
faces display their kitchen

The rambunctious period
drama deftly weaves in
heartfelt moments tonight
when Catherine (Elle
Fanning, who’s
marvellous) is overcome
with delayed grief over
the loss of her lover, Leo.
In the next breath, she
punishes enemy husband
Peter (Nicholas Hoult) for
last week’s murder by
locking him up with his
mummified mother. This
sweary antidote to
po-faced costume dramas
is bags of fun. VP

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Championship Highlights
(R) (S) 1.00am Shop:
Ideal World 3.00 The
Cruise: Shanghai to
Sydney (AD) (R) (S) (SL)
3.25 The Cruise:
Shanghai to Sydney (AD)
(R) (S) (SL) 3.50 Unwind
with ITV (S) 5.05 Craig
and Bruno’s Great British
Road Trips (AD) (R) (S)
(SL) 5.30 - 6.00am
Inside Britain’s Food
Factories (AD) (R) (S) (SL)

S4C
6.00am Cyw 12.00 Newyddion
12.05pm Anrhegion Melys Richard Holt
12.30 Heno 1.00 Gwyliau Gartref 1.30
Garddio a Mwy 2.00 Newyddion 2.05
Prynhawn Da 3.00 Newyddion 3.05
Drych: Byw Gyda MS 4.00 Awr Fawr
5.00 Stwnsh 6.00 Trysorau Cymru: Tir,
Tai a Chyfrinachau 6.30 Arfordir Cymru:
Bae Ceredigion 6.57 Newyddion 7.00
Heno 7.30 Newyddion 8.00 Pobol y
Cwm 8.25 Cegin Bryn: Yn Ffrainc 8.55
Newyddion 9.00 Cynefin 10.00 Ty am
Ddim 11.00 - 11.35pm Dim Byd i’w
Wisgo

ITV REGIONS
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Channel 4

Channel 5

6.00 am Countdown (R) (S)
6.40 3rd Rock from the Sun
(AD) (R) (S)
7.30 The King of Queens
(AD) (R) (S)
8.20 Frasier (AD) (R) (S)
9.45 The Big Bang Theory
(AD) (R) (S)
11.05 The Simpsons (R) (S)
12.05 pm News (S)
12.10 Ramsay’s 24 Hours to
Hell and Back (AD) (R)
(S)
1.05 Find It, Fix It, Flog It
(AD) (R) (S)
2.10 Countdown (S)
3.00 A Place in the Sun (S)
4.00 Help! We Bought a
Village (S)
5.00 Couples Come Dine
with Me (R) (S)
6.00 The Simpsons (AD) (R)
(S)
6.30 Hollyoaks (AD) (R) (S)

6.00 am Milkshake!
9.15 Jeremy Vine (S)
12.45 pm Nightmare Tenants,
Slum Landlords (R) (S)
1.40 News (S)
1.45 Home and Away (S)
2.15 FILM My Daughter’s
Secret Life (2021, TVM)
Freeview Premiere.
Thriller starring Karis
Cameron (S)
4.00 Bargain-Loving Brits in
the Sun (R) (S)
5.00 News (S)
6.00 Cash in the Attic (S)

7.00 News Including sport
and weather (S)

7.00 Women’s Health:
Breaking the Taboos
Cherry Healey meets
two women tackling
different symptoms of
the menopause (S)
7.55 News (S)

8.00 Changing Rooms New
series. Helping two sets
of neighbours in
Tunbridge Wells
transform each other’s
living rooms See What
to watch (AD) (S)

8.00 Police Interceptors
Suspected lorry looters
are reported at a service
station in Trowell (S)

9.00 Grand Designs
Transforming a derelict
17th-century flour mill in
Cornwall (AD) (R) (S)

9.00 999: Critical Condition
A 52-year-old is rushed
into the emergency
department after a
head-on collision with a
bus. Last in the series
(S)

10.00 The Great See What to
watch (AD) (S)

11.10 Night Coppers (AD) (R)
(S) 12.10am 999: On the
Front Line (R) (S) 1.05
FILM Miss Sloane (2016)
Drama starring Jessica
Chastain (S) 3.20
Couples Come Dine with
Me (R) (S) 4.15 The
Great Big Tiny Design
Challenge with Sandi
Toksvig (AD) (R) (S) (SL)
5.05 - 6.00am Location,
Location, Location (R)
(S) (SL)

More digital,
satellite
& cable

10.00 Ambulance: Code Red
(R) (S)
11.05 Skin A&E (R) (S)
12.05am Me and My
Body (R) (S) 1.00 The
LeoVegas Live Casino
Show (S) 3.00
Entertainment News on
5 (S) 3.05 1977: Britain’s
Biggest 70s Hits (R) (S)
4.15 The Yorkshire Vet
(R) (S) 5.10 Nick’s Quest
(R) (S) (SL) 5.35 Peppa
Pig (R) (S) 5.40
Milkshake! Monkey’s
Amazing Adventures (R)
(S) 5.45 - 6.00am
Thomas & Friends (R) (S)
Top Gear 5.00 Rick Stein’s Road to
Mexico 6.00 Taskmaster 7.00 Richard
Osman’s House of Games 7.40 Room
101 8.20 Would I Lie to You? 9.00 QI
XL 10.00 Mock the Week 10.40 Would I
Lie to You? 12.00 - 1.00am Mel
Giedroyc: Unforgivable

BBC Four

Sky Arts

Film4

Talking Pictures

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FV 11 FS 147 SKY 122 VIRGIN 122

FV 14 FS 300 SKY 313 VIRGIN 428

FV 82 FS 306 SKY 328 VIRGIN 445

7.00 pm Great American
Railroad Journeys
Michael Portillo views
the largest outdoor pipe
organ in the world (S)
7.30 Winter Walks The Rev
Kate Bottley treks across
Wensleydale and
Coverdale (S)
8.00 South Pacific
Documentary exploring
the region’s islands (S)
9.00 My Family, Partition
and Me: India 1947 Part
one of two. British
families who lived in
India at the time of
Partition (S)
10.00 The Roads to Freedom
(S)
10.45 The Roads to Freedom
(S)
11.25 The Roads to Freedom
(S)
12.10 am The Roads to
Freedom (S)
12.50 Great American
Railroad Journeys (S)
1.20 Winter Walks (S)
1.50 South Pacific (S)
2.50 - 3.50am My Family,
Partition and Me: India
1947 (S) (SL)

12.00 noon Soundtracks:
Songs That Defined
History (S)
1.00 pm Tales of the
Unexpected (AD) (S)
1.30 Tales of the
Unexpected (AD) (S)
2.00 Hollywood Censored
(AD) (S)
3.00 Discovering: Lana
Turner (AD) (S)
4.00 Tales of the
Unexpected (AD) (S)
4.30 Tales of the
Unexpected (AD) (S)
5.00 Alfred Hitchcock
Presents
5.30 Alfred Hitchcock
Presents
6.00 Anyone Can Sing (AD)
(S)
7.00 Landscape Artist of the
Year 2016 (S)
8.00 FILM The Conductor
(2021) A profile of Marin
Alsop (S)
10.00 The Art of Drumming
(S)
11.15 The Seventies
(AD) (S)
12.15 - 2.00am The Story of
the Jam: About the
Young Idea (S)

11.00 am Wonder (2017)
Drama starring Jacob
Tremblay (AD) (S)
1.15 pm The Longest Ride
(2015) Romantic drama
starring Britt Robertson
and Scott Eastwood
(AD) (S)
3.50 The Man Who Would
Be King (1975) A British
soldier passes himself
off as a god in an
unexplored land, but his
delusions start to
alienate his friend.
Period adventure
starring Sean Connery
and Michael Caine (S)
6.25 Now You See Me 2
(2016) A gang of
magicians-turnedcriminals reunites to
expose the illegal
activities of a ruthless
businessman. Crime
thriller starring Jesse
Eisenberg (AD) (S)
9.00 Atomic Blonde (2017)
Spy thriller starring
Charlize Theron (AD) (S)
11.20 - 1.10am Stuber (2019)
Action comedy starring
Dave Bautista (S)

11.20 am FILM Three Hats for
Lisa (1965) Comedy
starring Joe Brown (S)
1.25 pm FILM Les
Bicyclettes de Belsize
(1968) Short romantic
drama starring Anthony
May (S)
2.00 Upstairs, Downstairs
3.00 Saddle Up (S)
3.05 FILM The Legend of
Tom Dooley (1959, b/w)
Western starring
Michael Landon (S)
4.40 Saddle Up (S)
4.45 FILM Al Jennings of
Oklahoma (1951)
Western starring Dan
Duryea (S)
6.20 Saddle Up (S)
6.25 FILM Hog Wild (1930,
b/w) Comedy short
starring Laurel and
Hardy (S)
6.50 The Edgar Wallace
Mystery Theatre
8.00 Kessler (S)
9.00 FILM Quatermass 2
(1957, b/w) Horror with
Brian Donlevy (S)
10.45 Look at Life
11.00 The Champions (S)
12.00 - 1.00am Hazell

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ITV4

Sky Atlantic

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FV 10 FS 115 SKY 119 VIRGIN 117

FV 26 FS 117 SKY 120 VIRGIN 118

SKY 108

8.55 am Kirstie’s House of
Craft (S)
9.15 A Place in the Sun (S)
10.05 A Place in the Sun (S)
11.05 Find It, Fix It, Flog It (S)
12.05 pm Find It, Fix It, Flog It
(S)
1.05 Heir Hunters (S)
2.10 Four in a Bed (S)
2.40 Four in a Bed (S)
3.15 Four in a Bed (S)
3.50 Four in a Bed (S)
4.20 Four in a Bed (S)
4.50 Find It, Fix It, Flog It (S)
5.55 Car S.O.S (S)
6.55 Chateau DIY (AD) (S)
7.55 The Yorkshire Dales
and the Lakes: In
Summer (AD) (S)
9.00 Devon and Cornwall (S)
10.00 999: What’s Your
Emergency? (AD) (S)
11.05 999: On the Front Line
(S)
12.10 am 24 Hours in A&E
(AD) (S)
1.15 999: What’s Your
Emergency? (AD) (S)
2.15 999: On the Front Line
(S)
3.20 - 3.50am Food
Unwrapped (AD) (S)

11.35
12.40
1.40
2.15
2.50

11.25 am The Champions (S)
12.30 pm The Saint (S)
1.35 The Motorbike Show
(S)
2.40 Magnum, PI (S)
3.40 The Sweeney Regan
finds romance (S)
4.50 Minder Terry is
suspected of theft (AD)
(S)
5.55 The Motorbike Show
Henry and Guy reveal
their Norton redesign to
Norton boss Stuart
Garner (S)
6.55 The Chase Celebrity
Special A special edition
of the quiz show to
benefit Soccer Aid (S)
8.00 Junk and Disorderly (S)
9.00 World Rally
Championship
Highlights The Rally
Finland. Action from the
eighth round of the
season (S)
10.05 River Monsters (S)
10.30 EFL Carabao Cup
Highlights Action from
the first-round ties (S)
12.00 - 1.10am The Sweeney
(S)

11.05 am The Sopranos (R)
12.15 pm In Treatment (R)
12.45 We Own This City (AD)
(R) (S)
2.00 Game of Thrones (R)
3.35 Babylon Berlin (R)
4.35 Babylon Berlin (R)
5.35 Chernobyl (R)
6.45 The Night Of (AD) (R)
(S)
7.55 Game of Thrones As
the Night King’s army of
the dead marches
towards Westeros, Jon
and Daenerys arrive in
Winterfell (R)
9.00 Westworld Sci-fi drama
starring Thandiwe
Newton (R)
10.05 The Baby Plans are
thwarted by the chaos
and destruction of the
suddenly-possessed
children (AD) (R) (S)
10.35 Irma Vep Mira clashes
with her agent about
the future of her career
(R)
11.40 Save Me Too (AD) (R)
(S)
12.45 - 1.50am Ray Donovan
(AD) (R) (S)

6.40 Last of the Summer Wine 8.00 The
Coroner 9.00 Whitechapel 10.00 New
Tricks 11.20 Spooks 12.40 - 1.45am
Bad Girls

News 2.00 Sky Sports News 3.00 Sky
Sports News 4.00 Sky Sports News 5.00
The Transfer Show 5.30 Sky Sports News
6.00 The Hundred Live. Birmingham
Phoenix v Southern Brave (Start-time
6.30pm) 7.00 Live EFL Cup. Sheffield
Wednesday v Sunderland (Kick-off
7.45pm) 10.15 Sky Sports News 11.00
Sky Sports News 12.00 - 1.30am Sky
Sports News

2.00 Wework: How to Lose $30b in Two
Weeks 4.00 Discovering: Ernest Borgnine
5.00 The Directors 6.00 The Seventies
7.00 The Lady and the Dale 8.00 The
Movies 9.00 Spielberg 11.35 - 1.35am
FILM Friedkin Uncut (2018)

PBS AMERICA

ITV2

DISCOVERY

FV 6 FS 113 SKY 118 VIRGIN 115

SKY 125 VIRGIN 250

2.05pm Family Fortunes 3.05 Veronica
Mars 4.00 One Tree Hill 5.00 The O.C
6.00 Celebrity Catchphrase 7.00
Superstore 8.00 Bob’s Burgers 9.00
Family Guy 11.30 American Dad! 12.30 1.25am Bob’s Burgers

1.00pm Gold Rush: Parker’s Trail 3.00
Alaska: Homestead Rescue 4.00 Building
Off the Grid 5.00 Wheeler Dealers 6.00
Kindig Customs 7.00 Outback Truckers
8.00 Fast N’ Loud 9.00 Deadliest Catch
10.00 Yukon Men 12.00 - 1.00am
Expedition Bigfoot

1.45pm Titanic: The New Evidence 2.50
Desert War 3.55 Inside Japan’s War
5.10 Hacking Your Mind 6.20 Titanic:
The New Evidence 7.25 Desert War 8.35
Inside Japan’s War 9.40 The Iran-Iraq
War: A Tragedy That Changed History
10.50 Desert War 12.00 - 1.15am
Inside Japan’s War

SKY DOCUMENTARIES

SKY NATURE

SKY 121 VIRGIN 278

SKY 124 VIRGIN 280

noon FILM Rock and a Hard Place (2017,
TVM) 1.45pm My Icon: Chris Hughton

1.00pm Monkey Life 2.00 Undiscovered
Vistas 3.00 Orangutan Jungle School

DAVE
FV 19 FS 157 SKY 111

noon Bangers and Cash 1.00pm Special
Ops: Crime Squad UK 2.00 Top Gear
3.00 Rick Stein’s Road to Mexico 4.00

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3.20

3.55
5.00

7.00
8.00

10.00
11.00
12.00

am The Royal (AD) (S)
pm Heartbeat (AD) (S)
Classic Emmerdale (S)
Classic Emmerdale (S)
Classic Coronation
Street (AD) (S)
Classic Coronation
Street Peter’s shady
past is dredged up by
police investigating
Toyah’s rape (AD) (S)
Rosemary & Thyme An
archaeologist is
murdered (S)
Downton Abbey
Feature-length
Christmas special. A
scandalous secret
threatens the Sinderbys’
shooting party (AD) (S)
Heartbeat Vernon
attracts the attention of
MI5 (AD) (S)
Lewis An American
female bishop visiting St
Gerard’s College is
poisoned (AD) (S)
Manhunt The Night
Stalker (AD) (S)
Innocent (AD) (S)
- 2.20am Inspector
Morse (AD) (S) (SL)

4.00 Hope for Wildlife 5.00 Age of the
Big Cats 8.00 Big Cats: An Amazing
Animal Family 10.00 Africa’s Hunters
11.00 Great Blue Wild 12.00 - 1.00am
Australia’s Hidden Islands

SKY MAX
SKY 113 VIRGIN 122

1.00pm Hawaii Five-0 2.00 MacGyver
3.00 DC’s Legends of Tomorrow 4.00
The Flash 5.00 Supergirl 6.00 Stargate
SG-1 8.00 SEAL Team 9.00 The Blacklist
10.00 Resident Alien 11.00 NCIS: Los
Angeles 12.00-2.00am Road Wars

DRAMA
FV 20 FS 158 SKY 143 VIRGIN 130

noon The Bill 1.00pm Classic EastEnders
2.20 Monarch of the Glen 3.20 A Place
to Call Home 4.20 All Creatures Great
and Small 5.20 Birds of a Feather
6.00 One Foot in the Grave

YESTERDAY
FV 27 FS 159 SKY 155 VIRGIN 129

2.00pm Abandoned Engineering 4.00
Nazi Hunters 5.00 Narrow Escapes of
World War Two 6.00 Abandoned
Engineering 7.00 Bangers & Cash:
Restoring Classics 8.00 Ricky & Ralf’s
Very Northern Road Trip 9.00 Bangers
and Cash 10.00 Bangers & Cash:
Restoring Classics 11.00 Abandoned
Engineering 12.00 - 1.00am Great
Continental Railway Journeys

SKY SPORTS
MAIN EVENT
SKY 401 VIRGIN 511

noon Transfer Talk 1.00pm Sky Sports

BT SPORT 1
SKY 413 VIRGIN 527

11.00am AFL 1.00pm What I Wore
1.15 Premier League Reload 1.30 Uefa
Super Cup 3.00 Uefa Europa Conference
League 3.30 Uefa Europa League
4.00 Uefa Champions League 5.30
Premier League Stories 6.00 Glory
Hunters 7.00 Live Uefa Super Cup 10.30
The Football’s On 11.30 Down The
Clubhouse 12.30am Premier League
Reload 12.45 - 2.15am BT Sport Films

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Television Thursday 11 August
BBC One

BBC Two

ITV

Channel 4

Channel 5

6.00 am Breakfast (S)
9.15 Animal Park (AD) (S)
10.00 Close Calls: On Camera
(AD) (R) (S)
10.30 Fraud Squad (AD) (R)
(S)
11.15 Homes Under the
Hammer (AD) (S)
12.15 pm Bargain Hunt (AD)
(R) (S)
1.00 BBC News at One;
Weather (S)
1.30 Regional News;
Weather (S)
1.45 Impossible (R) (S)
2.30 The Repair Shop (S)
3.00 Escape to the Country
(AD) (R) (S)
3.45 Garden Rescue (AD) (R)
(S)
4.30 The Bidding Room (R)
(S)
5.15 Pointless (R) (S)
6.00 BBC News at Six;
Weather (S)
6.30 Regional News (S)

6.30 am Animal Park
Summer (AD) (R) (S)
7.15 Bargain Hunt (AD) (R)
(S)
8.00 Sign Zone
9.00 News (S)
10.00 News (S)
1.00 pm Eggheads (R) (S)
1.30 Made in Great Britain
(AD) (R) (S)
2.30 The Hundred Oval
Invincibles v Northern
Superchargers (starttime 3.00pm). Isa Guha
presents live coverage
of the men’s match at
The Kia Oval in London
(S)
6.00 The Hundred Oval
Invincibles v Northern
Superchargers (Starttime 6.30pm). Live
coverage of the
women’s match at The
Kia Oval in London. The
Invincibles lived up to
th i name in
their
i last
l t year’s
’
inaugural competition,
defeating Southern
Brave by 48 runs in the
final. The Superchargers,
meanwhile, won three
of their seven matches
to finish sixth in the
ttable,
bl b
butt jjustt one point
i t
of the play-offs (S)

6.00 am Good Morning
Britain (S)
9.00 Lorraine (S)
10.00 This Morning
g (S)
12.30 pm Loose Women (S)
1.30 ITV Lunchtime News
(S)
1.55 Regional News (S)
2.00 Dickinson’s Real Deal
(AD) (R) (S)
3.00 Tenable (R) (S)
4.00 Tipping Point (R) (S)
5.00 The Chase (R) (S)
6.00 Regional News
Programme (S)
6.30 ITV Evening News (S)

6.00 am Countdown (R) (S)
6.40 3rd Rock from the Sun
(AD) (R) (S)
7.30 The King of Queens
(AD) (R) (S)
8.20 Frasier (AD) (R) (S)
9.45 The Big Bang Theory
(AD) (R) (S)
11.05 The Simpsons (AD) (R)
(S)
12.05 pm News (S)
12.10 Ramsay’s Kitchen
Nightmares USA (R) (S)
1.05 Find It, Fix It, Flog It
(AD) (R) (S)
2.10 Countdown (S)
3.00 A Place in the Sun (S)
4.00 Help! We Bought a
Village (S)
5.00 Couples Come Dine
with Me (R) (S)
6.00 The Simpsons (AD) (R)
(S)
6.30 Hollyoaks (AD) (R) (S)

6.00 am Milkshake!
9.15 Jeremy Vine (S)
12.45 pm Nightmare Tenants,
Slum Landlords (R) (S)
1.40 News (S)
1.45 Home and Away (S)
2.15 FILM A Killer Choice
(2019, TVM) Thriller
starring Gina Holden (S)
4.00 Bargain-Loving Brits in
the Sun (R) (S)
5.00 News (S)
6.00 Cash in the Attic (AD)
(S)

7.00 Rip Off Britain (R) (S)
7.30 EastEnders Stacey
continues her mission to
get Jean home (AD) (S)
8.00 Celebrity MasterChef
The contenders make a
dish from Chantelle
Nicholson’s restaurant
menu (AD) (S)

9.00 Ambulance New series.
The work of the North
East Ambulance Service
See What to watch (S)

10.00 BBC News at Ten (S)
10.30 Regional News;
Weather (S)
10.40 Tom Daley: Illegal to Be
Me Homophobic
behaviour around the
Commonwealth (AD) (R)
(S)

11.40 Jobfished (R) (S) 12.30 6.00am News (S)

Variations
N IRELAND
BBC One: 1.30 - 1.45pm BBC Newsline;
Weather 6.30 - 7.00 BBC Newsline;
Weather 10.30 BBC Newsline; Weather
10.40 Beautiful Interiors Northern Ireland
11.10 Tom Daley: Illegal to Be Me
12.10am Jobfished 12.55 - 6.00am BBC
News BBC Two: 10.00 - 10.30pm The Big
Proud Party Agency 11.15 The Tuckers
11.45 The Tuckers 12.15am Two Doors
Down 12.45 - 12.55am Barra on the Foyle
UTV: 1.55 - 2.00pm UTV Live; Weather
6.00 - 6.30 UTV Live; Weather 10.30 10.45pm UTV Live; Weather

SCOTLAND
BBC One: 1.30 - 1.45pm Reporting
Scotland; Weather 6.30 - 7.00 Reporting

9.30 Live at the Apollo With
Larry Dean, Harriet
Kemsley and Slim (R) (S)
10.00 The Tuckers Billy and
Bobby get involved in a
“simple” house
clearance (AD) (S)
10.30 Newsnight (S)

11.15 FILM Salmon Fishing in
the Yemen (2011)
Comedy drama with
Ewan McGregor ● See
Films of the week, p20
(AD) (S) 12.55am Sign
Zone (AD) (R) (S) (SL)
3.40 - 6.15am This Is
BBC Two (S)
Scotland; Weather 10.30 - 10.40pm
Reporting Scotland; Weather BBC
Scotland: 7.00pm The Seven 7.45
Sportscene: Live Europa Conference
Qualifier. Highlights of recent events 10.00
Edinburgh Unlocked 10.30 Shetland 11.30
Scary Adult Things midnight Close STV:
1.55 - 2.00pm STV News; Weather 6.00 6.30 STV News at Six 9.00 - 10.00 The
Sounds: STV Player Presents 10.30 - 10.45
STV News 3.50 - 5.05am Unwind with STV

WALES
BBC One: 1.30 - 1.45pm BBC Wales Today
6.30 BBC Wales Today 7.00 - 7.30 Kate
Humble: Off the Beaten Track 10.30 BBC
Wales Today 10.40 Dark Land: Hunting the
Killers 11.30 - 12.30am Tom Daley: Illegal
to Be Me BBC Two: 11.15pm It’s My
Shout: Short Films from Wales 11.30
Russia’s Torture Prisons 12.20am Insect
Worlds 12.50 - 12.55am Coast ITV Wales:
1.55 - 2.00pm ITV News Cymru Wales

7.00 News Including sport
and weather (S)

7.00 Women’s Health:
Breaking the Taboos
Two women look for
treatment after damage
to their bodies caused
by pregnancy (S)
7.55 News (S)

8.30 Shops & Robbers: High
Street Wars? Tonight
See What to watch (S)

8.00 George Clarke’s Old
House, New Home New
series. The architect
sets out to redeem an
18th-century barn See
What to watch (AD) (S)

8.00 10 Years Younger in 10
Days The team helps
train conductor Lucie,
and school teacher
Taryn (S)

9.00 Gordon, Gino and Fred:
American Road Trip
The trio arrive in Texas,
where Gordon Ramsay
enjoys the barbecue
food. Last in the series
(AD) (R) (S)

9.00 Football Dreams: The
Academy New series.
Behind the scenes of
south London-based
Crystal Palace FC
Academy See What to
watch (AD) (S)

9.00 The Hotel Inspector
Alex Polizzi returns to a
30-bedroom hotel in
Burnley. Last in the
series See What to
watch (S)

7.30 Emmerdale Marlon and
Rhona’s wedding day
arrives (AD) (S)

10.00 ITV News at Ten (S)
10.30 Regional News (S)
10.45 EFL Carabao Cup
Highlights Action from
the first-round ties (R)
(S)

12.05 am All Elite Wrestling:
Rampage (S) 1.00 Shop:
Ideal World 3.00 How to
Keep Your Dog Happy at
Home (AD) (R) (S) (SL)
3.25 Robson Green’s
Coastal Lives (AD) (R) (S)
(SL) 3.50 Unwind with
ITV (S) 5.05 - 6.00am
Garraway’s Good Stuff
(R) (S) (SL)
6.00 - 6.30 ITV News Wales at Six 10.30 10.45pm ITV News Cymru Wales; Weather

S4C
6.00am Cyw 12.00 Newyddion 12.05pm
Wil ac Aeron: Taith yr Alban 12.30 Heno
1.00 Gerddi Cymru 1.30 Cymru, Dad a Fi
2.00 Newyddion 2.05 Prynhawn Da 3.00
Newyddion 3.05 Cynefin 4.00 Awr Fawr
5.00 Stwnsh 6.00 Dau Gi Bach 6.30
Richard Holt: Yr Academi Felys 6.57
Newyddion 7.00 Heno 7.30 Newyddion
8.00 Pobol y Cwm 8.25 Adre 8.55
Newyddion 9.00 Tafwyl 2022 10.30 11.35pm Yn y Ffram

ITV REGIONS

10.00 First Dates (AD) (S)
11.05 24 Hours in A&E (AD) (R)
(S) 12.05am Super
Surgeons: A Chance at
Life (AD) (R) (S) (SL)
1.00 Ramsay’s Hotel Hell
(AD) (R) (S) (SL) 1.45
Couples Come Dine with
Me (R) (S) 2.40 The
Supervet: Noel
Fitzpatrick (AD) (R) (S)
(SL) 3.35 The Dog
House (AD) (R) (S) (SL)
4.30 Location, Location,
Location (R) (S) (SL)
5.25 Beat the Chef (R)
(S) 5.50 - 6.00am
Jamie’s Comfort Food
(R) (S)

10.00 Hotel Benidorm: Sun,
Sea & Sangria (R) (S)
11.05 The World’s Biggest
Strip Club (R) (S)
12.05am Swinging Both
Ways: Adults Only (R)
(S) 1.00 The LeoVegas
Live Casino Show (S)
3.00 Entertainment
News on 5 (S) 3.05
1996: The 30 Greatest
Hits (R) (S) 5.35 Peppa
Pig (R) (S) (SL) 5.40
Milkshake! Monkey’s
Amazing Adventures (R)
(S) (SL) 5.45 - 6.00am
Thomas & Friends (R) (S)
(SL)

More digital,
satellite
& cable

Mexico 4.00 Top Gear 5.00 Rick Stein’s
Road to Mexico 6.00 Taskmaster 7.00
Richard Osman’s House of Games 7.40
Room 101 8.20 Would I Lie to You?
9.00 QI XL 10.00 Mock the Week 10.40
Would I Lie to You? 12.00 Mock the
Week 12.40 - 1.20am QI

ITV2

DISCOVERY

FV 6 FS 113 SKY
Y 118 VIRGIN 115

SKY
Y 125 VIRGIN 250

1.00pm Alan Carr’s Epic Gameshow
2.05 Family Fortunes 3.05 Veronica
Mars 4.00 One Tree Hill 5.00 The O.C
6.00 Celebrity Catchphrase 7.00
Superstore 8.00 Bob’s Burgers 9.00
Family Guy 11.30 American Dad! 12.30 1.25am Bob’s Burgers

1.00pm Gold Rush: Parker’s Trail 3.00
Alaska: Homestead Rescue 4.00 Building
Off the Grid 5.00 Wheeler Dealers 6.00
Kindig Customs 7.00 Outback Truckers
8.00 Fast N’ Loud 9.00 Naked and Afraid
XL 11.00 Yukon Men 12.00 - 1.00am
Expedition Bigfoot

BBC Four
FV 9 FS 107 SKY
Y 116 VIRGIN 107

7.00 pm Monkman &
Seagull’s Genius
Adventures Eric
Monkman and Bobby
Seagull explore their
favourite scientific
breakthroughs (S)
8.00 FILM Midnight’s
Children (2012)
Drama starring Satya
Bhabha ● See Films of
the week, p20 (S)
10.15 A Tall Story: How
Salman Rushdie
Pickled All India: Arena
11.00 Barneys, Books and
Bust Ups: 50 Years of
the Booker Prize The
history of the literary
award (S)
12.00 What Do Artists Do All
Day? (S)
12.30 am Handmade in the
Pacific: Pou (S)
1.00 Handmade in the
Pacific: Kapa (S)
1.30 Monkman &
Seagull’s Genius
Adventures (S)
2.30 - 3.30am Dangerous
Borders: A Journey
Across India & Pakistan
(S) (SL)

More4
FV 18 FS 124 SKY
Y 136 VIRGIN 147

8.55 am Kirstie’s House of
Craft (S)
9.15 A Place in the Sun (S)
10.05 A Place in the Sun (S)
11.05 Find It, Fix It, Flog It (S)
12.05 pm Find It, Fix It, Flog It
(S)
1.05 Heir Hunters (S)
2.10 Four in a Bed (S)
2.40 Four in a Bed (S)
3.15 Four in a Bed (S)
3.50 Four in a Bed (S)
4.20 Four in a Bed (S)
4.50 Find It, Fix It, Flog It (S)
5.55 Car S.O.S (S)
6.55 Escape to the Chateau
(AD) (S)
7.55 The Yorkshire Dales
and the Lakes: Farming
Lives (AD) (S)
9.00 Coroner (AD) (S)
10.00 Police Custody USA
(AD) (S)
11.00 8 Out of 10 Cats Does
Countdown (S)
12.05 am 999: On the Front
Line (S)
1.10 Coroner (AD) (S)
2.10 24 Hours in A&E (AD)
(S)
3.15 - 3.45am Food
Unwrapped (AD) (S)
(2018) 4.10 Discovering: Albert Finney
5.00 The Directors 6.00 The Seventies
7.00 The Lady and the Dale 8.00 The
Movies 9.00 The Wimbledon Kidnapping
11.00 FILM Dying to Divorce (2021)
12.40 - 2.25am The United Way

PBS AMERICA
FS 155 SKY
Y 174 VIRGIN 273

2.40pm Harbour from the Holocaust
3.55 Inside Japan’s War 5.00 Hacking
Your Mind 6.15 Mount Rushmore 7.25
Harbour from the Holocaust 8.35 Inside
Japan’s War 9.40 The Iran-Iraq War: A
Tragedy That Changed History 10.50
Harbour from the Holocaust 12.00 1.15am Inside Japan’s War

No variations

DAVE

SKY DOCUMENTARIES

SKY NATURE

FV Freeview FS Freesat
(AD) Audio description (R) Repeat
(S) Subtitles (SL) In-vision signing

FV 19 FS 157 SKY
Y 111

SKY
Y 121 VIRGIN 278

SKY
Y 124 VIRGIN 280

1.00pm Special Ops: Crime Squad UK
2.00 Top Gear 3.00 Rick Stein’s Road to

noon FILM Robin Williams: Come Inside
My Mind (2018) 2.10pm FILM Spitfire

noon Great Blue Wild 1.00pm Monkey
Life 2.00 Undiscovered Vistas 3.00

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The Daily Telegraph Saturday 6 August 2022

Sky Arts

Film4

Talking Pictures

FV 11 FS 147 SKY
Y 122 VIRGIN 122

FV 14 FS 300 SKY
Y 313 VIRGIN 428

FV 82 FS 306 SKY
Y 328 VIRGIN 445

12.00 noon The Wars of Coco
Chanel (S)
1.00 pm Tales of the
Unexpected (AD) (S)
1.30 Tales of the
Unexpected (AD) (S)
2.00 Mystery of the Lost
Paintings (AD) (S)
3.00 Discovering: Tony
Curtis (AD) (S)
4.00 Tales of the
Unexpected (AD) (S)
4.30 Tales of the
Unexpected (AD) (S)
5.00 Alfred Hitchcock
Presents
5.30 Alfred Hitchcock
Presents
6.00 Anyone Can Sing
g (AD)
(S)
7.00 Frank Sinatra:
The Voice of America
Profile of the singer
(AD) (S)
9.00 Discovering: Paul
Newman (AD) (S)
10.00 Comedy Legends (S)
11.00 Alfred Hitchcock
Presents
11.30 Alfred Hitchcock
Presents
12.00 - 1.15am Stevie Nicks:
Rock a Little

11.00 am Rugrats in Paris
(2000) Animated
adventure with the
voice of Christine
Cavanaugh (S)
12.35 pm Meet Dave (2008)
Sci-fi comedy (S)
2.20 The Black Shield of
Falworth (1954)
Swashbuckling
adventure starring Tony
Curtis (S)
4.20 The Pink Panther (1963)
Crime comedy starring
Peter Sellers and David
Niven (S)
6.35 Gods of Egypt (2016)
Fantasy adventure
starring Nikolaj CosterWaldau (S)
9.00 I, Robot (2004)
A detective is convinced
a robot has killed its
creator, even though it
has been programmed
never to harm humans.
Sci-fi thriller with Will
Smith (AD) (S)
11.20 - 1.25am Blue Steel
(1989) Kathryn Bigelow’s
thriller starring Jamie
Lee Curtis ● See Films
of the week, p20 (S)

11.55 am FILM One of Our
Aircraft Is Missing
(1942, b/w) Second
World War drama
starring Godfrey Tearle
(S)
2.00 pm Hannay
3.00 FILM The Hornet’s Nest
(1955, b/w) Crime
comedy starring Paul
Carpenter (S)
4.15 FILM A Pair of Briefs
(1961, b/w) Satirical
comedy starring Michael
Craig and Mary Peach
(S)
6.05 Look at Life
6.15 FILM No Time for Tears
(1957) Drama starring
Anna Neagle and
Anthony Quayle (S)
8.00 The Saint Simon
decides his friend’s rich
fiancée needs a few life
lessons (S)
9.00 Out Ross learns a dark
secret about a crime
boss
10.00 The Rivals of Sherlock
Holmes
11.00 Widows
12.00 - 1.00am Enemy at the
Door (S)

ITV3

ITV4

Sky Atlantic

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Y 120 VIRGIN 118

SKY
Y 108

am The Royal (AD) (S)
pm Heartbeat (AD) (S)
Classic Emmerdale (S)
Classic Emmerdale (S)
Classic Coronation
Street (AD) (S)
Classic Coronation
Street Matt discovers a
mix-up with some test
results (AD) (S)
Man About the House
The girls meet Robin’s
older brother (S)
Rosemary & Thyme
A village’s garden
contest leads to
murder (S)
Downton Abbey
Secrets and rifts
threaten the unity of the
family (AD) (S)
Heartbeat An African
chieftain visits
Aidensfield (AD) (S)
Vera A teenage boy is
found dead in a shipyard
(AD) (S)
Manhunt The Night
Stalker (AD) (S)
Innocent (AD) (S)
- 2.20am Inspector
Morse (AD) (S) (SL)

11.40 am The Champions (S)
12.40 pm The Saint (S)
1.50 The Motorbike Show
(S)
2.50 Magnum, PI (S)
3.55 The Sweeney Regan
and Carter uncover a
plot to smuggle gold
bars into the Middle East
disguised as weights for
an international
strongman competition
(S)
5.00 ITV Racing: Racing
League Live Mark
Chapman presents
coverage of round two
from Lingfield Park,
where the league tables
will start to take shape
after the opening
meeting last week at
Doncaster (S)
8.30 FILM The Mummy
Returns (2001) Fantasy
adventure starring
Brendan Fraser (AD) (S)
11.05 pm FILM Lucy (2014)
Sci-fi starring Scarlett
Johansson (AD) (S)
12.50 - 1.55am Minder (AD)
(S) (SL)

11.05 am The Sopranos (AD)
(R) (S)
12.15 pm In Treatment (R) (S)
12.45 In Treatment (R) (S)
1.15 We Own This City (AD)
(R) (S)
2.25 Game of Thrones (AD)
(R) (S)
3.30 Babylon Berlin (R) (S)
4.25 Babylon Berlin (R) (S)
5.25 Chernobyl (AD) (R) (S)
6.35 The Night Off (AD) (R)
(S)
7.45 Game of Thrones After
arriving at Winterfell,
Jaime Lannister is
confronted with the
consequences of his
past mistakes.
Meanwhile, Daenerys
learns the truth about
her relationship with Jon
(AD) (R) (S)
9.00 The Baby Mrs Eaves
sets off with Natasha in
pursuit of Jack (S)
9.30 The Baby Natasha
decides to give the baby
exactly what he is after
10.00 Euphoria (AD) (R) (S)
11.05 Blocco 181
12.10 - 1.15am Christian (R)

Orangutan Jungle School 4.00 Hope for
Wildlife 5.00 Africa’s Hunters 6.00 Great
Blue Wild 7.00 Monkey Life 8.00
Australia’s Hidden Islands 9.00 Wild
Castles 10.00 Africa’s Hunters 11.00
Great Blue Wild 12.00 - 1.00am Wildlife
Rescue New Zealand

2.20 Monarch of the Glen 3.20 A Place
to Call Home 4.20 All Creatures Great
and Small 5.20 Birds of a Feather 6.00
One Foot in the Grave 6.40 Last of the
Summer Wine 8.00 Jonathan Creek 9.20
New Tricks 12.00 - 1.20am Spooks

SKY SPORTS
MAIN EVENT

11.35
12.40
1.40
2.15
2.50
3.20

3.55
4.25

5.30

7.00
8.00
10.00
11.00
12.00

SKY MAX
SKY
Y 113 VIRGIN 122

noon NCIS: New Orleans 1.00pm Hawaii
Five-0 2.00 MacGyver 3.00 DC’s Legends
of Tomorrow 4.00 The Flash 5.00
Supergirl 6.00 Stargate SG-1 8.00 An
Idiot Abroad 9.00 A League of Their
Own 10.00 Brassic 11.00 Never Mind
the Buzzcocks 11.45 COBRA 12.45 1.45am The Flash

DRAMA
FV 20 FS 158 SKY
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noon The Bill 1.00pm Classic EastEnders

YESTERDAY
FV 27 FS 159 SKY
Y 155 VIRGIN 129

noon The Architecture the Railways Built
1.00pm Great Continental Railway
Journeys 2.00 Abandoned Engineering
4.00 Nazi Hunters 5.00 Narrow Escapes
of World War Two 6.00 Great
Continental Railway Journeys 7.00
Bangers and Cash 8.00 Bangers &
Cash: Restoring Classics 9.00 Train
Truckers. A Great Western Railway
‘Modified Hall’ steam engine needs a
safety inspection 10.00 Bangers and
Cash 11.00 Abandoned Engineering
12.00 - 1.00am Great Continental
Railway Journeys

SKY
Y 401 VIRGIN 511

10.45am Live NRL 12.45pm My Icon:
Martin Offiah 1.00 Live DP World Tour
Golf 2.30 The Hundred Live 6.00 The
Hundred Live. Oval Invincibles v
Northern Superchargers (Start-time
6.30pm) 9.30 Live PGA Tour Golf 12.00
- 6.00am Sky Sports News

BT SPORT 1
SKY
Y 413 VIRGIN 527

noon The Aussie Rules Show 1.00pm
Ligue 1 Highlights 2.00 BT Sport Reload
2.15 T20 Cricket Highlights 3.15 Live
T20 Cricket 7.15 Uefa Super Cup 8.45
MotoGP Rewind 9.00 WSL Challenger
Tour 10.00 Premier League – The Big
Interview 10.30 BT Sport Reload 11.00
Ligue 1 Show 11.30 Inside Serie A
12.00 - 3.30am Live MLB

WHAT TO
WATCH
fourth series, Scotland’s
landscapes deliver in
almost every way for
the latest entry into the
Slow TV genre. The
cameras soar over the
golf courses and heather
blooms of St Andrews,
an archaeological
reconstruction in Glen
Coe and an offshore wind
turbine project in the
Orkney Islands. The
remaining episodes focus
on Denmark, Serbia,
Belgium, Bulgaria
and Romania.

SHOPS & ROBBERS:
HIGH STREET
WARS? TONIGHT
ITV, 8.30pm

i Kairo and Kayden hope to become professional footballers

FOOTBALL DREAMS: THE ACADEMY
Channel 4, 9pm
This instantly engaging
six-part series follows
members of different year
groups in Crystal Palace’s
football academy as they
attempt to play their way
into contracts and, they
hope, long and lucrative
careers. We begin with
the Under-12s, where best
friends Kairo, Kayden and
Bola hope to earn
two-year contracts.
Kayden is an attacking
midfielder, quick and
tricky but all too aware
that his small stature
could hold him back;
defender Bola’s progress
has stalled and his
young body is proving
worryingly injury prone;
and Kairo is an athletic,
gifted winger whose
abundant self-belief –
“I’m gonna go from

employee to CEO,” he
says, Apprentice-style –
could prove his downfall
should it curdle into
arrogance.
Like the recent Freddie
Flintoff ’s Field of Dreams,
the secret is in the casting
and all three boys, like
their switched-on coaches,
are charming. But the
stakes here are sky-high
and the pressure intense,
however hard their
mentors and parents try
to shield them. Is the
prospect of success,
infinitesimally slim as it is,
worth all the sacrifice for
the many who don’t make
it through institutions
that even Palace chairman
Steve Parish concedes
are “pretty Darwinian”?
It will be fascinating to
find out. Gabriel Tate

THE BOX
Paramount+
“The innocence was
so much there with
everybody… and then
Pam was murdered.” The
latest, mildly sordid entry
into the crowded field of
true-crime documentaries
is this three-part cold case
of Pamela Maurer, a
16-year-old student killed
in a small Illinois town in
1976. Detective Chris
Loudon straps on his
firearm and gets to work
identifying the murderer
– a journey which digs up
uncomfortable memories
for some residents.

GEORGE CLARKE’S
OLD HOUSE,
NEW HOME
Channel 4, 8pm
Seldom off our screens
these days, George Clarke

i George Clarke’s Old
House, New Home

returns for an eighth series
of tasteful modernisations.
An 18th-century barn and
a Victorian gothic pile are
the first projects on the
good-looking agenda.

EUROPE FROM
ABOVE
National Geographic, 8pm
On the surface an
unglamorous choice
with which to launch the

Amid a growing cost-ofliving crisis, anecdotes of
people driven by abject
desperation to shoplifting
are multiplying. Adam
Shaw reports on what is
being done to mitigate the
situation as retailers and
security guards face
mounting threats and
intimidation.
j Becca and Chris save lives
in BBC One’s Ambulance

AMBULANCE
BBC One, 9pm
The ninth series of this
deservedly Bafta-winning
documentary series heads
to the northeast for the
first time, where a refugee
is treated for chest pains
and relates a story that
brings one member of
the response team to
tears. Two road accidents
and a spinal injury bring
further emergencies on
the night, while one
miner-turned-dispatcher
considers the turn his
career has taken.

THE HOTEL
INSPECTOR
Channel 5, 9pm
The tireless Alex Polizzi
returns to one final
establishment for the
series, visiting a mediocre
Burnley hotel which was
given purpose and
direction, under Polizzi’s
guidance, as a wedding
venue. How badly has it
been hit during the
pandemic, and has the
owner succumbed to his
urge to sell up? GT

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***

Saturday 6 August 2022 The Daily Telegraph

Television Friday 12 August
WHAT TO
WATCH

BBC One
which ran out in series
one, the writers have
turned this into a light
romantic drama as
Charlotte (Rose Williams)
looks for love among
dashing Regency beaux –
this week at the garden
party thrown by Lady
Denham (a delightfully
sulphurous Anne Reid).

6.00
9.15
10.00
10.45

7.30 Our Lives How a Banksy
mural appearing in Port
Talbot sparked a street
art revolution across the
town (AD) (S)

6.15 am Animal Park
Summer (AD) (R) (S)
7.00 Homes Under the
Hammer (AD) (R) (S)
8.00 Sign Zone
9.00 European
Championships 2022
Jeanette Kwakye
introduces live coverage
from day two of the
multi-sport
championships with
today’s action in Munich,
including the second
day of rowing
competition (S)
1.45 pm Impossible (R) (S)
2.30 Eggheads (R) (S)
3.00 FILM This Beautiful
Fantastic (2016) Drama
starring Jessica Brown
Findlay (S)
4.30 Flog It! (R) (S)
5.15 Pointless (R) (S)
6.00 European
Championships 2022
Cl
Clare
Balding
B ldi g presents
t
live coverage from
Munich with the second
evening of action
including the conclusion
to the women’s triathlon
from the Olympiapark
Triathlon Course (S)

8.00 Question of Sport With
Bianca Williams, Paddy
Barnes, Steve Frew and
Jazz Carlin (S)
8.30 This Is MY House With
Judi Love and Richard
Madeley (AD) (S)

8.00 Beechgrove Diana Yates
reveals the technique of
braiding garlic (S)
8.30 Gardeners’ World Arit
Anderson meets a
garden designer in
Somerset (S)

11.15
12.15
1.00
1.30
1.45

THE GOOD LIFE:
SECRETS &
SCANDALS
Channel 5, 9pm

i Vera Farmiga stars as a doctor faced with an impossible choice

FIVE DAYS AT MEMORIAL
Apple TV+
Of all the heart-rending
stories of loss and
destruction to come out
of Hurricane Katrina in
2005, none is as disturbing
as the one told in this
engrossing eight-part
drama series by John
Ridley and Carlton Cuse.
It’s based on a Pulitzer
Prize-winning article in
The New York Times by
Sheri Fink, which she
later expanded into a
bestselling book, and
describes the shocking
events that took place at
Memorial Medical Centre
in New Orleans and the
subsequent criminal
investigation.
Over five days,
thousands of people
were trapped inside the
hospital without power
and it was later alleged

that some medics
euthanised 45 critically
ill patients in its “longterm acute care” facility
before the hospital was
eventually evacuated on
the fifth day of the crisis.
Vera Farmiga stars
as Anna Pou, one of the
doctors faced with the
impossible dilemma of
how to ration what help
they could give, and
Cherry Jones as Susan
Mulderick, the hospital
medical director who
told rescuers “we’re not
going to leave any living
patients behind”; but this
is essentially an ensemble
piece, casting a critical
eye at the decisions made
by exhausted caregivers
as the floodwaters rose,
power failed and heat
soared. Veronica Lee

A LEAGUE OF
THEIR OWN
Amazon Prime Video
Penny Marshall’s 1992 hit
film about a wartime
women’s baseball league
starred Geena Davis and
Tom Hanks; now this
eight-part drama covers
the same territory, but
with an added modern
political skew (it addresses
racism in the all-white
league, for instance) and
an extra dollop of wit.
Abbi Jacobson (who also
co-created the series)
leads the cast as the
sport-obsessed Carson.

YUJA WANG PLAYS
LISZT AT THE
PROMS
BBC Four, 8pm
Prom 35 sees Klaus
Makela conduct the Oslo
Philharmonic (making

The entertaining clipsand-quotes series goes
behind the scenes of the
1970s show that was a
favourite of the Queen’s.
There’s little scandal to
reveal but Penelope Keith
(Margo) did nearly kill the
cast and crew with her
chilli con carne at a party.

WILD WAY OF
THE VIKINGS
BBC Two, 9.30pm
Ever wondered how our
Viking ancestors saw the

am Breakfast (S)
Animal Park (AD) (S)
Animal Park (AD) (S)
The Sheriffs Are
Coming
g (S)
Homes Under the
Hammer (AD) (R) (S)
pm Bargain Hunt (AD)
(S)
BBC News at One;
Weather (S)
Regional News;
Weather (S)
European
Championships 2022
Jeanette Kwakye and
Clare Balding present
live coverage from day
two of the multi-sport
event in Munich, plus
the European Swimming
Championships from
Rome (S)
BBC News at Six;
Weather (S)
Regional News (S)

6.00
6.30

7.00 Rip Off Britain (S)

9.00 Celebrity MasterChef
The contest reaches the
quarter-final (AD) (S)
9.30 Would I Lie to You?
With Josh Widdicombe,
Gemma Cairney and
Sophie Hermann (R) (S)
i D’Arcy Carden stars in
A League of Their Own

wildlife of the North
Atlantic, as they ventured
westwards from
Scandinavia? Here’s a
nature special (narrated
by Ewan McGregor and
previously shown on
BBC Scotland) to tell you,
combining historical reenactment with natural
history sequences, and it
features herds of reindeer,
gannet colonies, mystical
ravens and giant walruses.

RAMY

BBC Two

10.00 BBC News at Ten (S)
10.30 Regional News;
Weather (S)
10.40 FILM Captain America:
The Winter Soldier
(2014) Superhero thriller
sequel starring Chris
Evans ● See Films of
the week, p20 (AD) (S)

12.50 - 6.00am News (S)

9.30 Wild Way of the Vikings
The wildlife of the North
Atlantic from the point
of view of Vikings See
Whatt tto watch
Wh
t h (AD) (S)
10.30 Newsnight (S)

11.05 The Fringe, Fame and
Me (AD) (R) (S) 12.35am
Sign Zone (R) (S) (SL)
1.20 - 6.35am This Is
BBC Two (S)

ITV
6.00 am Good Morning
Britain (S)
9.00 Lorraine (S)
10.00 This Morning
g (S)
12.30 pm Loose Women (S)
1.30 ITV Lunchtime News
(S)
1.55 Regional News (S)
2.00 Dickinson’s Real Deal
(AD) (R) (S)
3.00 Tenable (R) (S)
4.00 Tipping Point (R) (S)
5.00 The Chase (R) (S)
6.00 Regional News
Programme (S)
6.30 ITV Evening News (S)

7.30 Emmerdale Rishi feels
uncomfortable (AD) (S)

8.00 Coronation Street
Toyah finds out that
Spider has been arrested
during a protest (AD) (S)

9.00 Jane Austen’s Sanditon
Edward attempts to
exploit Clara’s
predicament for his own
ends See What to
watch (AD) (S)
10.00 ITV News at Ten (S)
10.30 Regional News (S)
10.45 FILM Total Recall
(1990) Sci-fi thriller
starring Arnold
Schwarzenegger
● See Films of the
week, p20 (AD) (S)

12.45 am Shop: Ideal World
3.00 South Africa with
Gregg Wallace (AD) (R)
(S) (SL) 3.25 The Village
(AD) (R) (S) (SL) 3.50
Unwind with ITV (S)
5.05 - 6.00am Katie
Piper’s Breakfast Show
(R) (S) (SL)

Channel 4, 11.40pm

i Anne Reid as Lady
Denham in Sanditon

their Proms debut) in
Sibelius’s Tapiola and
Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben.
Chinese pianist Yuja Wang
joins them for Liszt’s Piano
Concerto No 1.

JANE AUSTEN’S
SANDITON
ITV, 9pm
Released from the need
to stick to the story in
Austen’s unfinished novel,

Ostensibly this is a gentle
comedy about how Ramy
(Ramy Youssef), a Muslim
from New Jersey, deals
with the strictures of his
faith bumping up against
his carefree millennial
lifestyle, but it also subtly
addresses the social
divisions in the US today.
This acclaimed second
series aired Stateside back
in 2019, but finally arrives
on Channel 4 today, and
sees the arrival of
Mahershala Ali as a sheikh
from a local Sufi centre
who becomes Ramy’s
spiritual mentor. VL

Variations
N IRELAND
BBC One: 1.30 - 1.45pm BBC Newsline
6.30 - 7.00 BBC Newsline 10.30 10.40pm BBC Newsline; Weather BBC
Two: No variations UTV: 1.55 - 2.00pm
UTV Live; Weather 6.00 - 6.30 UTV Live;
Weather 7.00 - 7.30 UTV Life 10.30 10.45pm UTV Live; Weather

SCOTLAND
BBC One: 1.30 - 1.45pm Reporting
Scotland 6.30 - 7.00 Reporting Scotland
8.00 - 8.30 Iain Robertson Rambles
9.30 - 10.00 The Farm 10.30 Reporting
Scotland 10.40 Question of Sport
11.10pm FILM: Captain America: The
Winter Soldier (2014) 1.20 - 6.00am
BBC News BBC Scotland: 7.00pm The

Seven 7.30 Sportscene: Championship
Live 10.00 Still Game 10.30 Raiders of
the Lost Archive 11.00 TRNSMT
midnight Close STV: 1.55 - 2.00pm
STV News 6.00 - 6.30 STV News at Six;
Weather 7.00 - 7.30 What’s on Scotland
at the Festival 10.30 - 10.45 STV News
3.50 - 5.05am Unwind with STV

WALES
BBC One: 1.30 - 1.45pm BBC Wales
Today; Weather 6.30 BBC Wales Today;
Weather 7.00 Kate Humble: Off the
Beaten Track 7.30 Wales’ Home of the
Year 8.00 - 8.30 Our Lives 9.30 - 10.00
Question of Sport 10.30 BBC Wales
Today; Weather 10.40 Rewind: 60 Years
of Welsh Pop 11.10 Young, Welsh and
Bossin’ It 11.40 FILM: Captain America:
The Winter Soldier (2014) 1.50 6.00am BBC News BBC Two: No
variations ITV Wales: 1.55 - 2.00pm
ITV News Cymru Wales 6.00 - 6.30 ITV

News Wales at Six; Weather 10.30 10.45pm ITV News Cymru Wales

S4C
6.00am Cyw 12.00 Newyddion
12.05pm Nyrsys 12.30 Heno 1.00 Am
Dro! 2.00 Newyddion 2.05 Prynhawn Da
3.00 Newyddion 3.05 Yr Ynys 4.00 Awr
Fawr 5.00 Stwnsh 6.00 Cegin Bryn 6.30
Garddio a Mwy 6.57 Newyddion 7.00
Heno 7.30 Newyddion 8.00 Goreuon
Gwesty Aduniad 8.25 Gwyliau Gartref
8.55 Newyddion 9.00 Maggi ar y Maes!
9.45 Canu gyda Fy Arwr 10.45 11.50pm Curadur

ITV REGIONS
No variations
FV Freeview FS Freesat
(AD) Audio description (R) Repeat
(S) Subtitles (SL) In-vision signing

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The Daily Telegraph Saturday 6 August 2022

Channel 5
6.00 am Countdown (R) (S)
6.40 3rd Rock from the Sun
(AD) (R) (S)
7.30 The King of Queens
(AD) (R) (S)
8.20 Frasier (AD) (R) (S)
9.45 The Big Bang Theory
(AD) (R) (S)
11.05 The Simpsons (AD) (R)
(S)
12.05 pm News (S)
12.10 Ramsay’s Kitchen
Nightmares USA (R) (S)
1.05 Find It, Fix It, Flog It
(AD) (R) (S)
2.10 Countdown (S)
3.00 A Place in the Sun (S)
4.00 Help! We Bought a
Village (S)
5.00 Couples Come Dine
with Me (R) (S)
6.00 The Simpsons (AD) (R)
(S)
6.30 Hollyoaks (AD) (R) (S)

6.00 am Milkshake!
9.15 Jeremy Vine (S)
12.45 pm Nightmare Tenants,
Slum Landlords (R) (S)
1.40 News (S)
1.45 Home and Away (AD)
(S)
2.15 FILM My Killer Nanny
(2020, TVM) Crime
drama starring Mia
Topalian (S)
4.00 Bargain-Loving Brits in
the Sun (R) (S)
5.00 News (S)
6.00 Cash in the Attic (S)

7.00 News Including sport
and weather (S)

7.00 Women’s Health:
Breaking the Taboos
Jenni Falconer looks for
help regarding
Raynaud’s disease. Last
in the series (S)
7.55 News (S)

8.00 The Supervet: Noel
Fitzpatrick
k Noel has to
find an implant to treat a
golden retriever arthritis.
Last in the series (AD)
(S)

8.00 Britainís Poshest Farm
Shop Part one of two.
Documentary
celebrating the finest
farm shops in the
country (S)

9.00 8 Out of 10 Cats Does
Countdown Jon
Richardson and Jo Brand
take on Joe Wilkinson
and Jamali Maddix (S)

9.00 The Good Life: Secrets
& Scandals A look
behind the scenes at the
beloved comedy See
What to watch (S)

10.00 The Last Leg
g Asim
Chaudhry joins in the
comic review of the past
seven days (S)

11.40 Ramy See What to
watch (AD) (S) 12.15am
FILM Brawl in Cell Block
99 (2017) Crime thriller
starring Vince Vaughn
(S) 4.15 Come Dine with
Me (R) (S) 4.45 Location,
Location, Location (R)
(S) (SL) 5.35 Jamie’s
Comfort Food (R) (S)
5.45 - 6.10am Beat the
Chef (R) (S)

More digital,
satellite
& cable
ITV2
FV 6 FS 113 SKY
Y 118 VIRGIN 115

1.00pm Alan Carr’s Epic Gameshow
2.05 Family Fortunes 3.05 Veronica
Mars 4.00 One Tree Hill 5.00 The O.C
6.00 Celebrity Catchphrase 7.00
Superstore 8.00 Bob’s Burgers 9.00
FILM Bridesmaids (2011) 11.30 Family
Guy 12.30 - 1.25am American Dad!

DAVE
FV 19 FS 157 SKY
Y 111

noon Bangers and Cash 1.00pm Special
Ops: Crime Squad UK 2.00 Top Gear

10.00 1975: Britain’s Biggest
Hits (R) (S)

11.30 Les Dawson: 30
Funniest Moments (R)
(S) 1.25am The
LeoVegas Live Casino
Show (S) 3.25 Britain’s
Favourite Cleaning
Product (R) (S) 5.05
Great Scientists (R) (S)
(SL) 5.35 Peppa Pig (R)
(S) (SL) 5.40 Milkshake!
Monkey’s Amazing
Adventures (R) (S) (SL)
5.45 - 6.00am Thomas
& Friends (R) (S) (SL)
3.00 Rick Stein’s Road to Mexico 4.00
Top Gear 5.00 Rick Stein’s Road to
Mexico 6.00 Taskmaster 7.00 Richard
Osman’s House of Games 7.40 Room
101 8.20 Would I Lie to You? 9.00 QI
XL 10.00 Mock the Week 10.40 Big
Zuu’s Big Eats 11.20 Would I Lie to You?
12.00 Mock the Week 12.35 - 1.15am
QI

DISCOVERY
SKY
Y 125 VIRGIN 250

noon Railroad Alaska 1.00pm Gold
Rush: Parker’s Trail 3.00 Alaska:
Homestead Rescue 4.00 Building Off the
Grid 5.00 Wheeler Dealers 6.00 Kindig
Customs. The team refits a 1932
Roadster 7.00 Outback Truckers 8.00
Gold Rush: Parker’s Trail 9.00 Expedition
Unknown 10.00 Expedition X. Jess hunts
for a legendary creature known as
Yacumama 11.00 Yukon Men 12.00 1.00am Expedition Bigfoot

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BBC Four

Sky Arts

Film4

Talking Pictures

FV 9 FS 107 SKY
Y 116 VIRGIN 107

FV 11 FS 147 SKY
Y 122 VIRGIN 122

FV 14 FS 300 SKY
Y 313 VIRGIN 428

FV 82 FS 306 SKY
Y 328 VIRGIN 445

7.00 pm TOTP: 1993 The
edition first shown on
May 13 1993 with
performances by OMD,
Shabba Ranks & Maxi
Priest, Dina Carroll,
Robert Plant, Tina
Turner, Inner Circle and
George Michael (S)
7.30 TOTP: 1993 With Saint
Etienne, Felix, Luther
Vandross (S)
8.00 Yuja Wang Plays Liszt at
the Proms Klaus Mäkelä
conducts the Oslo
Philharmonic in Sibelius’s
Tapiola and Strauss’s
Ein Heldenleben. Yuja
Wang joins them to
perform Liszt’s Piano
Concerto No 1
See What to watch (S)
10.00 The Joy of ABBA (S)
11.00 Agnetha: ABBA and
After (S)
12.00 ABBA at the BBC (S)
1.00 am Flat Pack Pop:
Sweden’s Music Miracle
(S)
2.00 TOTP: 1993 (S)
2.30 TOTP: 1993 (S)
3.00 - 4.00am The Joy of
ABBA (S)

12.00 noon The Warner Saga
(AD) (S)
1.00 pm Tales of the
Unexpected (AD) (S)
1.30 Tales of the
Unexpected (AD) (S)
2.00 Landmark
k (AD) (S)
3.00 Discovering:
Doris Day A profile of
the actress and singer
(AD) (S)
4.00 Tales of the
Unexpected (AD) (S)
4.30 Tales of the
Unexpected (AD) (S)
5.00 Alfred Hitchcock
Presents
5.30 Alfred Hitchcock
Presents
6.00 The Prince’s Master
Crafters: The Next
Generation (AD) (S)
7.00 Revolution of Sound:
Tangerine Dream
A profile of the German
band
8.45 FILM I Dream of Wires
Premiere. The history
and resurgence of the
synthesiser
10.50 New Order: Decades (S)
12.45 - 2.25am The Rise of
the Synths

11.00 am Tad the Lost
Explorer and the Secret
of King Midas (2017)
Animated adventure
with the voice of Oscar
Barberan (S)
12.40 pm Baby Boom (1987)
Comedy starring Diane
Keaton (S)
2.50 Little Man Tate (1991)
Drama directed by and
starring Jodie Foster (S)
4.45 The Lady Vanishes
(1979) An heiress on a
train investigates the
disappearance of a
passenger. Remake of
Hitchcock’s mystery
with Elliott Gould (S)
6.50 Entrapment (1999) An
elusive art thief is
pursued by an insurance
agent, who teams up
with him to plot the
robbery of a lifetime.
Crime thriller starring
Sean Connery (S)
9.00 Spree (2020) Action
comedy starring Joe
Keery (S)
10.50 - 1.00am Get Out (2017)
Thriller starring Daniel
Kaluuya (AD) (S)

10.20 am FILM Your Money or
Your Wife (1960, b/w)
Comedy starring Donald
Sinden (S)
12.05 pm FILM The Feminine
Touch (1956) Drama
starring Belinda Lee and
George Baker (S)
1.55 FILM The Battle
of the V1 (1958, b/w)
Second World War
adventure with
Michael Rennie (S)
4.00 FILM The Chain (1984)
Comedy drama starring
Warren Mitchell
5.55 FILM Personal Column
(1947, b/w) Murder
mystery starring Lucille
Ball (S)
8.00 The Outer Limits (S)
9.00 Cellar Club with
Caroline Munro (S)
9.05 FILM Theatre of Blood
(1973) Tongue-in-cheek
horror starring Vincent
Price (S)
11.10 Cellar Club with
Caroline Munro (S)
11.15 - 1.10am FILM Scream
and Scream Again
(1970) Horror starring
Vincent Price (S)

More4

ITV3

ITV4

Sky Atlantic

FV 18 FS 124 SKY
Y 136 VIRGIN 147

FV 10 FS 115 SKY
Y 119 VIRGIN 117

FV 26 FS 117 SKY
Y 120 VIRGIN 118

SKY
Y 108

8.55 am Kirstie’s House of
Craft (S)
9.15 A Place in the Sun (S)
10.05 A Place in the Sun (S)
11.05 Find It, Fix It, Flog It (S)
12.05 pm Find It, Fix It, Flog It
(S)
1.05 Heir Hunters (S)
2.10 Four in a Bed (S)
2.40 Four in a Bed (S)
3.15 Four in a Bed (S)
3.50 Four in a Bed (S)
4.20 Four in a Bed (S)
4.50 Find It, Fix It, Flog It (S)
5.55 Car S.O.S (S)
6.55 Escape to the Chateau
(AD) (S)
7.55 Devon and Cornwall
(AD) (S)
9.00 The Bain Family
Murders (AD) (S)
10.00 The Bain Family
Murders (AD) (S)
11.05 24 Hours in A&E (AD)
(S)
12.10 am 999: On the Front
Line (S)
1.15 8 Out of 10 Cats Does
Countdown (S)
2.20 24 Hours in A&E (AD)
3.25 - 3.50am Food
Unwrapped (AD) (S)

11.35
12.40
1.40
2.15
2.50
3.20
3.55
4.55

6.00

7.00

8.00
10.00

12.15

am The Royal (AD) (S)
pm Heartbeat (AD) (S)
Classic Emmerdale (S)
Classic Emmerdale (S)
Classic Coronation
Street (AD) (S)
Classic Coronation
Street (AD) (S)
Rosemary & Thyme
A murder takes place at
a monastery (S)
Rosemary & Thyme
A murder occurs at a
famous botanist’s home
(S)
Downton Abbey Cora
and Violet clash over
plans for the hospital
(AD) (S)
Heartbeat Blaketon
uncovers sinister
goings-on at a nursing
home (AD) (S)
McDonald & Dodds A
patient at a private clinic
is murdered (AD) (S)
The Ruth Rendell
Mysteries Drama,
starring Jerome Flynn
and Sadie Frost (S)
- 2.30am Inspector
Morse (AD) (S)

11.30
12.30
1.40
2.45
3.45

4.55
5.55

7.00

11.00

am The Champions (S)
pm The Saint (S)
The Motorbike Show
Magnum, PI (S)
The Sweeney Regan
investigates the
kidnapping of a woman
whose husband, a fellow
police officer, is forced
to drive a getaway car
(S)
Minder (AD) (S)
The Motorbike Show,
tells the story of the
Paris-Dakar Rally and
uncovers the history of
Hesketh, Britain’s most
aristocratic bike brand
(S)
World Series of Darts:
Queensland Darts
Masters A chance to
see the opening day of
play from Townsville
Entertainment and
Convention Centre,
featuring eight firstround matches, played
over the best of 11 legs
(S)
- 1.05am All Elite
Wrestling: Dynamite (S)

SKY DOCUMENTARIES

SKY NATURE

DRAMA

SKY
Y 121 VIRGIN 278

SKY
Y 124 VIRGIN 280

FV 20 FS 158 SKY
Y 143 VIRGIN 130

2.00pm I Am Patrick Swayze 4.00
Discovering: Gene Hackman 5.00 The
Directors 6.00 The Seventies 7.00 First
Ladies 8.00 The Movies 9.00 One Shot:
The Football Factory 10.00 FILM 89
(2017) 11.50 - 1.00am Unbreakable:
The Steve Zakuani Story

noon Great Blue Wild 1.00pm Monkey
Life 2.00 Undiscovered Vistas 3.00
Orangutan Jungle School 4.00 Hope for
Wildlife 5.00 Africa’s Hunters 6.00 Great
Blue Wild 7.00 Monkey Life 8.00 Wildlife
Rescue New Zealand 9.00 Wild Survivors
10.00 Africa’s Hunters 11.00 Great Blue
Wild 12.00 - 1.00am Wild Crusades: The
Monkey Diaries

noon The Bill 1.00pm Classic EastEnders
2.20 Monarch of the Glen 3.20 A Place
to Call Home 4.20 All Creatures Great
and Small 5.20 Birds of a Feather 6.00
One Foot in the Grave 6.40 Last of the
Summer Wine 8.00 Father Brown 10.00
New Tricks 11.20 Spooks 12.40 1.50am Bad Girls

PBS AMERICA
FS 155 SKY
Y 174 VIRGIN 273

11.55am Mae West: Dirty Blonde
1.00pm Boeing’s Fatal Flaw 2.05 D-Day:
Last Words 3.35 The Harlem
Hellfighters’ Great War 4.40 Mae West:
Dirty Blonde 5.50 Boeing’s Fatal Flaw
7.00 D-Day: Last Words 8.20 The
Harlem Hellfighters’ Great War 9.30 Mae
West: Dirty Blonde 10.35 D-Day: Last
Words 12.00 - 1.15am The Harlem
Hellfighters’ Great War

SKY MAX
SKY
Y 113 VIRGIN 122

noon NCIS: New Orleans 1.00pm Hawaii
Five-0 2.00 MacGyver 3.00 DC’s Legends
of Tomorrow 4.00 The Flash 5.00
Supergirl 6.00 Stargate SG-1 8.00
Freddie Fries Again 9.00 Cricket’s
Funniest Moments 10.00 Banshee
11.00 The Blacklist 12.00 - 1.00am The
Force: Manchester

YESTERDAY
FV 27 FS 159 SKY
Y 155 VIRGIN 129

1.00pm Great Continental Railway
Journeys 2.00 Abandoned Engineering
4.00 Nazi Hunters 5.00 Narrow Escapes
of World War Two 6.00 Great
Continental Railway Journeys 7.00
Abandoned Engineering 8.00 The
Architecture the Railways Built 9.00
Secrets of the London Underground
10.00 Bangers and Cash 11.00

11.30 am We Own This City
(AD) (R) (S)
12.35 pm We Own This City
(AD) (R) (S)
1.45 Game of Thrones (AD)
(R) (S)
3.00 Babylon Berlin (R) (S)
4.00 Babylon Berlin (R) (S)
5.00 Chernobyl (AD) (R) (S)
6.15 The Night Off (AD) (R)
(S)
7.30 Game of Thrones The
Night King and the army
of the dead reach
Winterfell, and an epic
battle between the
living and the dead
begins. Starring Emilia
Clarke, Kit Harington
and Peter Dinklage (AD)
(R) (S)
9.00 Christian for his
investigation. Christian
must make a choice –
be faithful or accept
his role as a saint.
In Italian
10.05 Christian The clash
between Christian and
Lino is now inevitable
11.10 Blocco 181 (S)
12.15 - 1.20am Treme (R) (S)
Abandoned Engineering 12.00 - 1.00am
Great Continental Railway Journeys

SKY SPORTS
MAIN EVENT
SKY
Y 401 VIRGIN 511

noon Transfer Talk 1.00pm Live DP
World Tour Golf 2.30 The Hundred Live
6.00 The Hundred Live 7.45 Live EFL
10.30 Live PGA Tour Golf 12.00 Sky
Sports News 12.30 - 2.30am Live WNBA

BT SPORT 1
SKY
Y 413 VIRGIN 527

10.30am Live AFL 1.30pm Formula
Regional European Championship 2.00
BT Sport Reload 2.15 T20 Cricket
Highlights 3.15 Live T20 Cricket 7.15
Ligue 1 Show 7.45 Live Ligue 1 10.00
WWE NXT UK 11.00 WWE NXT
Highlights 12.00 - 1.00am WWE
SmackDown Highlights

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Saturday 6 August 2022 The Daily Telegraph

Radio
Saturday
Radio 1
FM 97.6-99.8MHz
6.00am Radio 1 Happy 7.00
Adele Roberts 10.00 Radio 1
Anthems 10.30 Newsbeat 10.32
Radio 1 Anthems 11.02 Dean
McCullough 1.00pm Matt and
Mollie 4.00 Radio 1’s Dance
Anthems with Charlie Hedges
5.00 Radio 1’s Dance Anthems
with Charlie Hedges 6.00 Radio
1’s Dance Anthems with Charlie
Hedges 7.00 1Xtra’s Takeover
with DJ Target 9.00 1Xtra’s Rap
Show 11.00 Radio 1’s
Soundsystem 1.00am Radio 1’s
Classic Essential Mix 3.00
Future Dance Mix with Sarah
Story 3.30 Pete Tong’s Hot Mix
4.00 Radio 1’s Dance Anthems
with Charlie Hedges 5.00 6.00am Radio 1 Relax

Radio 2
FM 88-90.2MHz
6.00am Sounds of the 60s
with Tony Blackburn 8.00
Dermot O’Leary 10.00 Claudia
Winkleman 1.00pm Pick of the
Pops 2.00 Pick of the Pops
3.00 Rylan on Saturday 6.00
Liza Tarbuck 8.00 Sounds of
the 80s with Gary Davies 10.00
Sounds of the 90s with Fearne
Cotton 11.00 Sounds of the 90s
with Fearne Cotton 12.00 Ricky
Wilson’s Rock and Roll Classics
1.00am TBA 2.00 Trevor
Nelson’s Divas 3.00
Remembering Bernard Cribbins
4.00 Radio 2 in Concert: Wet
Wet Wet 5.00 - 6.00am Tracks
of My Years

12.30 Party’s Over
12.57 Weather
1.00 News
1.10 Any Questions? Ben
Wright presents political
debate and discussion
from Wakefield
Cathedral
2.00 Any Answers?
2.45 39 Ways to Save the
Planet
3.00 Drama: A Close
Approximation of You
See Gerard O’Donovan
4.00 Weekend Woman’s Hour
5.00 Saturday PM
5.30 Boris
5.54 Shipping Forecast
5.57 Weather
6.00 Six O’Clock News
6.15 Loose Ends
7.00 Witness
7.15 The Infinite Monkey
Cage
8.00 Archive on 4: In Praise of
Cliches
9.00 GF Newman’s The
Corrupted
9.45 Rabbit at Rest
10.00 News
10.15 Rethink the World Order
11.00 Brain of Britain

Sunday
by MR James 1.00 Losing My
Voice 2.00 Delve Special 2.30
Great Unanswered Questions
3.00 Matt Berry Interviews 3.15
Tom Parry’s Fancy Dressed Life
3.30 John Finnemore 4.00 The
Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side
5.30 - 6.00am Great Lives

Radio 5 Live
MW 693 & 909kHz
6.00am Saturday Breakfast
9.00 Scott Mills and Chris Stark
11.00 Fighting Talk 12.00 5 Live
Sport 3.00pm 5 Live Sport.
Newcastle United v Nottingham
See Gerard O’Donovan Forest
5.00 5 Live Sport 5.30 5 Live
Sport. Everton v Chelsea See
Gerard O’Donovan 7.15 Sports
Report 7.30 6-0-6 9.00
Stephen Nolan 12.00 Newscast
1.00am Hayley Hassall 5.00
Sports Desk 5.30 - 6.00am 5
Live Football Daily

Classic FM
FM 99.9-101.9MHz
7.00am Alan Titchmarsh
10.00 Aled Jones

FM 92.4-94.6MHz; LW 198kHz
6.00 am News and Papers
6.07 Open Country
6.30 Farming Today This
Week
6.57 Weather
7.00 Today
9.00 Saturday Live
10.30 The Kitchen Cabinet
11.00 The Briefing Room
11.30 From Our Own
Correspondent
12.00 News
12.01 pm LW: Shipping
Forecast
12.04 Surviving the Cost of
Living

6.00am Radio 1’s Chillout
Anthems 7.00 Adele Roberts
10.00 Radio 1 Anthems with
Adele Roberts 10.30 Newsbeat
10.32 Radio 1 Anthems 11.02
Dean McCullough 1.00pm Matt
and Mollie 4.00 Radio 1’s Life
Hacks 6.00 The Official Chart
7.00 Radio 1’s Chillest Show
11.00 BBC Introducing on Radio
1 12.00 Radio 1’s Future Soul
with Victoria Jane 1.30am
Radio 1’s UK R&B Mix 2.00
Radio 1’s Decompression
Session 3.00 Radio 1’s Chill Mix
3.30 Radio 1’s Motivate Me Mix
4.00 Radio 1 Dance 5.00 6.57am Arielle Free

Radio 2
FM 88-90.2MHz
6.00am Good Morning Sunday
9.00 Steve Wright’s Sunday
Love Songs 11.00 The Michael
Ball Show 1.00pm Elaine Paige
on Sunday 3.00 Sounds of the
70s with Johnnie Walker 5.00
Paul O’Grady 7.00 Tony
Blackburn’s Golden Hour 8.00
Sunday Night Is Music Night
10.00 Radio 2 Unwinds with
Angela Griffin 12.00 Phil
Williams 2.30am One Hit
Wonders with OJ Borg 3.00
Alternative Sounds of the 90s
with Dermot O’Leary 4.00 6.30am Owain Wyn Evans

Can’t Tell Nathan Caton Nothing
10.45 Mastering the Universe
11.00 We Are Klang 11.30 The
Museum of Everything 12.00
Ray Bradbury’s Tales of the
Bizarre 12.30am Earthsea 1.00
Midwinter Break Omnibus: Part
Two 2.10 Inheritance Tracks
2.20 The Frederica Quartet:
Omnibus 3.30 Sleeve Notes
4.00 A Marble Woman 5.00
Poetry Extra 5.30 - 6.00am
Ability

Radio 5 Live
MW 693 & 909kHz
6.00am 5 Live Science 7.00
Sunday Breakfast 10.00 Gordon
Smart 12.00 5 Live Sport
2.00pm 5 Live Sport 4.00 5
Live Sport 4.30 5 Live Sport
6.30 6-0-6 8.00 5 Live Sport
9.00 Stephen Nolan 1.00am
Dotun Adebayo 5.00 - 6.00am
Wake Up to Money

Classic FM
FM 99.9-101.9MHz
7.00am Aled Jones 10.00 John
Brunning 1.00pm Catherine

FM 90.2-92.4MHz

FM 90.2-92.4MHz

Radio 4

FM 97.6-99.8MHz

2.00 Gardeners’ Question
Time
2.45 The Five Faces of
Leonardo
3.00 Drama: Brick Lane See
Gerard O’Donovan
4.00 Bookclub
4.30 Tongue and Talk: The
Dialect Poets
5.00 The Cost of Economic
War
5.40 Witness
5.54 Shipping Forecast
5.57 Weather
6.00 Six O’Clock News
6.15 Pick of the Week
7.00 The Archers
7.15 Alexei Sayle’s Strangers
on a Train
7.45 Three Fires
8.00 Feedback
8.30 Last Word
9.00 Surviving the Cost of
Living
9.25 Radio 4 Appeal
9.30 Princess
9.59 Weather
10.00 The Westminster Hour
11.00 Loose Ends
11.30 Something Understood
12.00 News; Weather
12.15 am LW: Sideways

Radio 3

Radio 3
7.00 am Breakfast
9.00 Record Review
11.45 New Generation Artists:
Summer Showcase
12.30 pm This Classical Life
1.00 Inside Music
3.00 Sound of Gaming
4.00 Music Planet
5.00 J to Z
6.30 Elisabeth Leonskaja at
Edinburgh. A 2009
concert in which the
pianist performs Chopin
7.30 BBC Proms 2022.
Andrew Gourlay
conducts the National
Youth Orchestra of Great
Britain in Ravel’s Daphnis
and Chloe, and
Gershwin’s Rhapsody in
Blue with pianist Simone
Dinnerstein
10.00 New Music Show
12.00 Freeness
1.00 - 7.00am Through the
Night

Radio 1

i Everton v Chelsea: Jordan Pickford Radio 5 Live, 5.30pm

11.30 Tongue and Talk: The
Dialect Poets
12.00 Midnight News
12.15 am Living with the Gods
12.30 Commonwealth Stories
12.48 Shipping Forecast
1.00 As BBC World Service
5.20 Shipping Forecast
5.30 News Briefing
5.43 Bells on Sunday
5.45 - 6.00am Witness

Radio 4 Extra
Digital only
6.00am The Mirror Crack’d
from Side to Side 7.30 Great
Lives 8.00 The Write Stuff 8.30
North by Northamptonshire
9.00 Arthur Bostrom’s Summer
Holiday 12.00 The Unbelievable
Truth 12.30pm Michael Frayn’s
Pocket Playhouse 1.00 Losing
My Voice 2.00 Delve Special
2.30 Great Unanswered
Questions 3.00 Matt Berry
Interviews 3.15 Tom Parry’s
Fancy Dressed Life 3.30 John
Finnemore’s Souvenir
Programme 4.00 The Mirror
Crack’d from Side to Side 5.30
Great Lives 6.00 Playing With
Dracula 6.45 Ghost Stories by
MR James 7.00 Arthur
Bostrom’s Summer Holiday
10.00 Alex Horne Presents the
Horne Section 10.30 Life: An
Idiot’s Guide 11.00 The Simon
Day Show 11.30 Old Harry’s
Game 12.00 Playing With
Dracula 12.45am Ghost Stories

1.00pm Alexander Armstrong
4.00 Moira Stuart’s Hall of
Fame Concert. Moira introduces
Piazzolla’s Libertango 7.00
Saturday Night at the Movies
9.00 David Mellor’s Melodies
10.00 Smooth Classics 1.00am
Katie Breathwick 4.00 7.00am Sam Pittis

World Service

7.00 am Breakfast
9.00 Sunday Morning
12.00 Private Passions
1.00 pm Proms Chamber
Music 2022
2.00 The Early Music Show
3.00 BBC Proms 2022
5.00 The Listening Service
5.30 Words and Music
6.45 Sunday Feature: Silent
Witness: John Cage, Zen
and Japan
7.30 BBC Proms 2022
10.00 Record Review Extra
11.00 Free the Music with
Pekka Kuusisto
12.00 Classical Fix
12.30 - 6.30am Through the
Night

i BBC Proms 2022: Leif Ove Andsnes Radio 3, 7.30pm

12.15 FM: Sideways
12.45 Bells on Sunday
12.48 Shipping Forecast
1.00 As BBC World Service
5.20 Shipping Forecast
5.30 News Briefing
5.43 Prayer for the Day
5.45 Farming Today
5.58 - 6.00am Tweet of the
Day

Digital only

Radio 4

Radio 4 Extra

6.00am Weekend 8.30 The
Conversation 9.06 Top of the
Pops 10.00 News 10.06 Sports
Hour 11.00 The Newsroom
11.30 WorkLifeIndia 12.00 News
12.06pm World Book Club 1.00
Newshour 2.00 News 2.06
Sportsworld 6.00 The
Newsroom 6.30 Dear Daughter
6.50 Sporting Witness 7.00
News 7.06 BBC Proms on the
World Service 8.00 News 8.06
The Arts Hour 9.00 Newshour
10.00 News 10.06 Music Life
11.00 The Newsroom 11.20
Sports News 11.30 The Cultural
Frontline 12.00 News 12.06am
BBC OS Conversations 12.30
Dear Daughter 12.50 More or
Less 1.00 News 1.06 The
Science Hour 2.00 The
Newsroom 2.30 Healthcheck
3.00 News 3.06 World Book
Club 4.00 News 4.06 From Our
Own Correspondent 4.30 The
Cultural Frontline 5.00 The
Newsroom 5.30 - 6.00am The
Documentary

FM 92.4-94.6MHz; LW 198kHz

Digital only

6.00 am News Headlines
6.05 Something Understood
6.35 On Your Farm
6.57 Weather
7.00 News
7.00 Sunday Papers
7.10 Sunday
7.54 Radio 4 Appeal
7.57 Weather
8.00 News
8.00 Sunday Papers
8.10 Sunday Worship
8.48 A Point of View
8.58 Tweet of the Day
9.00 Broadcasting House
10.00 The Archers
11.15 Desert Island Discs. With
guest John Legend Last
in the series
12.00 News
12.01 pm LW: Shipping
Forecast
12.04 I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue
12.32 The Food Programme
12.57 Weather
1.00 The World This Weekend
1.30 Black Roots

6.00am Loitering with Intent
7.10 Inheritance Tracks 7.20
Speaking for Themselves:
Omnibus: Part One 8.30 Home
to Roost 9.00 The Code of the
Woosters 9.30 Coming Alive
10.00 Desert Island Discs
Revisited: Comedians 10.45
David Attenborough’s Life
Stories 11.00 The Moth Radio
Hour 11.50 Inheritance Tracks
12.00 Poetry Extra 12.30pm
Ability 1.00 Midwinter Break
Omnibus: Part Two 2.10
Inheritance Tracks 2.20 The
Frederica Quartet: Omnibus
3.30 Sleeve Notes 4.00 A
Marble Woman 5.00 Poetry
Extra 5.30 Ability 6.00 Ray
Bradbury’s Tales of the Bizarre
6.30 Earthsea 7.00 The Moth
Radio Hour 7.50 Inheritance
Tracks 8.00 A Marble Woman
9.00 Desert Island Discs
Revisited: Comedians 9.45
David Attenborough’s Life
Stories 10.00 Ability 10.30

Bott 4.00 John Humphrys 7.00
Smooth Classics at Seven 9.00
Chi-chi’s Classical Champions
10.00 Smooth Classics 1.00am
Bill Overton 4.00 - 6.00am
Early Breakfast

World Service
Digital only
6.00am Weekend 8.30 Pick of
the World 8.50 Over to You
9.00 News 9.06 From Our Own
Correspondent 9.30 Outlook
10.00 News 10.06 Trending
10.30 Heart and Soul 11.00 The
Newsroom 11.30 This is Africa
12.00 News 12.06pm BBC
Proms on the World Service
1.00 Newshour 2.00 News
2.06 The Forum 2.50 Over to
You 3.00 News 3.06 Music Life
4.00 News 4.06 Sportsworld
7.00 The Newsroom 7.30
Outlook 8.00 News 8.06 The
History Hour 9.00 Newshour
10.00 News 10.06 Trending
10.30 Pick of the World 10.50
Over to You 11.00 The
Newsroom 11.20 Sports News
11.30 Outlook 12.00 News
12.06am From Our Own
Correspondent 12.30 Heart and
Soul 1.00 The Newsroom 1.30
Discovery 2.00 The Newsroom
2.30 The Climate Question
3.00 News 3.06 Tech Tent 3.30
Pick of the World 3.50 Over to
You 4.00 The Newsroom 4.30
The Conversation 5.00 8.00am Newsday

***

The Daily Telegraph Saturday 6 August 2022

Monday
Radio 1
FM 97.6-99.8MHz
6.57am Newsbeat 7.00 Radio 1
Breakfast with Matt and Mollie
10.00 Radio 1 Anthems with
Matt and Mollie 10.30
Newsbeat 10.32 Radio 1
Anthems with Rickie and Melvin
11.02 Rickie, Melvin and Charlie
12.45pm Newsbeat 1.00 Scott
Mills 3.30 Newsbeat 3.32 Going
Home with Vick and Jordan
5.45 Newsbeat 6.00 Radio 1’s
Future Sounds with Clara Amfo
7.00 Radio 1’s Hottest Records
of the Week 8.00 Radio 1 Relax
11.00 Radio 1’s Drum & Bass
Show 1.00am Radio 1’s Drum &
Bass Mix 1.30 Radio 1’s Drum &
Bass Mix 2.00 Radio 1’s Power
Down Playlist with Sian Eleri
3.00 Radio 1’s Workout
Anthems 4.00 Radio 1 Dance
5.00 - 6.57am Radio 1 Early
Breakfast with Arielle Free

Radio 2
FM 88-90.2MHz
6.30am The Zoe Ball Breakfast
Show 9.30 Ken Bruce 12.00
Jeremy Vine 2.00pm Steve
Wright in the Afternoon 5.00
Sara Cox 6.30 Sara Cox’s Half
Wower 7.00 Jo Whiley’s Shiny
Happy Playlist 7.30 Jo Whiley
9.00 The Blues Show with
Cerys Matthews 10.00 Trevor
Nelson’s Magnificent 7 10.30
Trevor Nelson’s Rhythm Nation
12.00 Phil Williams 3.00am
Pick of the Pops 4.00 - 6.30am
Owain Wyn Evans

4.00 Cover Story
4.30 Don’t Log Off
5.00 PM
5.54 LW: Shipping Forecast
5.57 Weather
6.00 Six O’Clock News
6.30 I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue
7.00 The Archers
7.15 Front Row. A round-up
of news, reviews and
interviews from the
worlds of art, literature,
film and music
8.00 Becoming British
Chinese
8.30 Crossing Continents
9.00 China’s Stolen Treasures
9.30 Inheritors of Partition
9.59 Weather
10.00 The World Tonight
10.45 Book at Bedtime: A
Month in the Country
11.00 Word of Mouth
11.30 You’re Dead to Me
12.00 News; Weather
12.30 am Book of the Week:
Teller of the Unexpected:
The Life of Roald Dahl
12.48 Shipping Forecast
1.00 As BBC World Service
5.20 Shipping Forecast
5.30 News Briefing

12.30am A Good Read 1.00
Julie Enfield Investigates:
Terminus 1.30 Crown House
2.00 Loitering with Intent 2.15
Speaking for Themselves 2.30
Premiership Science 3.00 Baldi
3.45 Short Works 4.00
Wordaholics 4.30 Heated
Rollers 5.00 Josh Howie’s
Losing It 5.30 - 6.00am I’m
Sorry I Haven’t a Clue

MW 693 & 909kHz
6.00am 5 Live Breakfast 9.00
Nicky Campbell 11.00 Naga
Munchetty 1.00pm Nihal
Arthanayake 4.00 5 Live Drive
7.00 5 Live Sport 9.00 5 Live
Boxing 10.00 5 Live Golf 10.30
Colin Murray 1.00am Dotun
Adebayo 5.00 - 6.00am Wake
Up to Money

Classic FM
FM 99.9-101.9MHz
6.00am More Music Breakfast
9.00 Aled Jones 12.00 AnneMarie Minhall 4.00pm John
Brunning 7.00 Smooth Classics

FM 90.2-92.4MHz

Radio 4
FM 92.4-94.6MHz; LW 198kHz
6.00 am Today
9.00 Inheritors of Partition
See Gerard O’Donovan
9.45 LW: Daily Service
9.45 FM: Book of the Week:
Teller of the Unexpected:
The Life of Roald Dahl
10.00 Woman’s Hour
11.00 My Name is Claire
11.30 The Frost Tapes See
Gerard O’Donovan
12.00 News
12.01 pm LW: Shipping Forecast
12.04 You and Yours
12.57 Weather
1.00 The World at One
1.45 Larkin Revisited
2.00 The Archers
2.15 Drama: Trust
3.00 Brain of Britain
3.30 The Food Programme

i China’s Stolen Treasures Radio 4, 9pm

5.43 Prayer for the Day
5.45 Farming Today
5.58 - 6.00am Tweet of the
Day

Radio 4 Extra
Digital only
6.00am Julie Enfield
Investigates: Terminus 6.30
Crown House 7.00 Josh Howie’s
Losing It 7.30 I’m Sorry I Haven’t
a Clue 8.00 Round the Horne
8.30 Flying the Flag 9.00
Wordaholics 9.30 Heated
Rollers 10.00 Baldi 10.45 Short
Works 11.00 TED Radio Hour
11.50 Inheritance Tracks 12.00
Round the Horne 12.30pm
Flying the Flag 1.00 Julie Enfield
Investigates: Terminus 1.30
Crown House 2.00 Loitering
with Intent 2.15 Speaking for
Themselves 2.30 Premiership
Science 3.00 Baldi 3.45 Short
Works 4.00 Wordaholics 4.30
Heated Rollers 5.00 Josh
Howie’s Losing It 5.30 I’m Sorry
I Haven’t a Clue 6.00 The Price
of Fear 6.30 A Good Read 7.00
Round the Horne 7.30 Flying
the Flag 8.00 Julie Enfield
Investigates: Terminus 8.30
Crown House 9.00 TED Radio
Hour 9.50 Inheritance Tracks
10.00 I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue
10.30 Everyone Quite Likes
Justin 11.00 Party’s Over 11.30
Matt Berry Interviews 11.45 Tom
Parry’s Fancy Dressed Life
12.00 The Price of Fear

Gerard O’Donovan
On My Wavelength

Radio 5 Live

Radio 3
6.30 am Breakfast
9.00 Essential Classics
11.00 Edinburgh International
Festival 2022
1.00 pm Proms Chamber
Music 2022
2.00 Afternoon Concert
4.30 New Generation Artists.
Baritone Konstantin
Krimmel sings Liszt
5.00 In Tune
7.00 BBC Proms 2022. A
performance by the
Tredegar Band and BBC
NOW
10.00 The Tidal Sense
10.45 The Essay: New
Generation Thinkers
2020
11.00 Night Tracks
12.30 - 6.30am Through the
Night

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at Seven 10.00 Smooth Classics
1.00am Bill Overton 4.00 6.00am Early Breakfast

World Service
Digital only
8.00am News 8.06 HARDtalk
8.30 Business Daily 8.50
Witness History 9.06 The
Climate Question 9.30
CrowdScience 10.00 News
10.06 The Cultural Frontline
10.30 Dear Daughter 10.50
More or Less 11.00 The
Newsroom 11.30 The
Conversation 12.00 News
12.06pm Outlook 12.50
Witness History 1.00 The
Newsroom 1.30 CrowdScience
2.00 Newshour 3.00 News
3.06 HARDtalk 3.30 World
Business Report 4.00 BBC OS
6.00 News 6.06 Outlook 6.50
Witness History 7.00 The
Newsroom 7.30 Sport Today
8.06 The Climate Question
8.30 Discovery 9.00 Newshour
10.00 News 10.06 HARDtalk
10.30 World Business Report
11.00 The Newsroom 11.20
Sports News 11.30 The
Conversation 12.00 News
12.06am The History Hour 1.00
News 1.06 Business Matters
2.00 The Newsroom 2.30 The
Documentary 3.00 News 3.06
Outlook 3.50 Witness History
4.00 The Newsroom 4.30 In
the Studio 5.00 - 8.00am
Newsday

I

f today’s second All Day Rave on
6 Music (from 6am) or 5 Live’s
beefed-up football coverage
(including Newcastle v Nottingham
Forest at 3pm and Everton v
Chelsea at 5pm) isn’t for you, then
some high-quality drama perhaps?
Drama: A Close Approximation of
You (Radio 4, 3pm) is a compelling
story of love, loss and the dangers
of applying theoretical physics to
the real world. Anneika Rose
delivers a stand-out performance
as Kay, a photographer forced to
hold a mirror up to her life when
she loses her physicist husband
(Sandy Grierson) in mysterious
circumstances.
A two-part dramatisation
of Monica Ali’s enormously
successful 2003 novel Brick Lane
(Sunday, Radio 4, 3pm) begins,
exploring the emotional evolution
of Nazneen (Anneika Rose,
excellent again), an 18-year-old
uprooted from her Bangladesh
village and brought to London
for an arranged marriage. Tanika
Gupta’s adaptation, directed by
Anne Isger, focuses on Nazneen’s
interior life as she struggles to
adapt to living with pompous older
husband Chanu (Zubin Varla), stay
in touch with her sister Hasina
(Hiftu Quasem) and seek out
happiness in unfamiliar
surroundings.
The Frost Tapes (Monday,
Radio 4, 11.30am) is a cache of tapes
made by David Frost and recently
rediscovered by his son Wilfred.
Among the stars interviewed are
Michael Caine, Elizabeth Taylor,
Muhammad Ali and Jane Fonda,
beginning today with clips from
four decades of interviews with
Elton John. Also on Monday,
marking the 75th anniversary of
the Partition of India and Pakistan,
Kavita Puri’s superb Inheritors of
Partition (Radio 4, 9am) looks at

i The death
of footballer
Emiliano Sala
is explored in
a new podcast
Wednesday,
BBC Sounds

j David Frost
interviewing
Jane Fonda
Monday, Radio 4,
11.30am

Partition’s legacy through the eyes
of young British-Asians today.
After the latest – pandemicpropelled – flight from our city
centres, In Suburbia (Tuesday,
Radio 4, 11.30am) sees Ian Hislop
cast a drily amused eye over the
history and culture of suburbia.
In the first of three parts, he
wonders why the most common
cultural response to the suburbs
is the desire to escape them. He
turns to three people whose work
interrogates life on the urban
margins: author Hanif Kureishi,
comedian Lee Mack and JC Carroll
of punk band The Members, whose
1979 anthem The Sound of the
Suburbs still resonates today.
Transfer: The Emiliano Sala
Story (Wednesday, BBC Sounds) is
Kayley Thomas’s nine-part podcast
exploring the life and death of the
Argentine football star who died,
tragically, when the private plane
he was taking to embark on a new
career with Cardiff City FC
crashed into the Channel.
The highest price paid for
a work by a living male artist
is $91 m, while the highest for
a female artist is $12.5 m. “That’s
quite a pay gap,” says Mary Ann
Sieghart in Recalculating Art
(Thursday, Radio 4, 11.30am).
But inequality isn’t only at the
top. Sieghart’s eye-opening
documentary shines a light on
the murky world of art valuation,
uncovers historic collusion and
contemporary bias, and assesses
what can be done to level the
playing field.
Drama: English Rose (Friday,
Radio 4, 2.15pm), the fang-tastically
entertaining tale of an English
vampire nannying in New York,
reaches a worthy conclusion. Rose’s
(Alexandra Mardell) story was
never going to be an easy one to tie
up but writer Helen Cross bravely
takes the high road and despatches
Rose, her “fresh” recruit Maya
(Miranda Braun) and baby Gully
for a full-on feminist showdown
with some very dark forces indeed.

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Saturday 6 August 2022 The Daily Telegraph

Radio
Tuesday

Wednesday
3.30 Made of Stronger Stuff
4.00 Word of Mouth
4.30 Great Lives
5.00 PM
5.54 LW: Shipping Forecast
5.57 Weather
6.00 Six O’Clock News
6.30 Andrew Maxwell Values
7.00 The Archers
7.15 Front Row. A round-up
of news, reviews and
interviews from the
worlds of art, literature,
film and music
8.00 From Kabul to
Manchester
8.40 In Touch
9.00 Inside Health
9.30 The Long View
9.59 Weather
10.00 The World Tonight
10.45 Book at Bedtime: A
Month in the Country
11.00 Daliso Chaponda: Citizen
of Nowhere
11.30 Bridget Christie: Mortal
12.00 News; Weather
12.30 am Book of the Week:
Teller of the Unexpected:
The Life of Roald Dahl
12.48 Shipping Forecast
1.00 As BBC World Service

Radio 1
FM 97.6-99.8MHz
6.57am Newsbeat 7.00 Radio 1
Breakfast with Matt and Mollie
10.00 Radio 1 Anthems with
Matt and Mollie 10.30
Newsbeat 10.32 Radio 1
Anthems with Rickie and Melvin
11.02 Rickie, Melvin and Charlie
12.45pm Newsbeat 1.00 Scott
Mills 3.30 Newsbeat 3.32 Going
Home with Vick and Jordan
5.45 Newsbeat 6.00 Radio 1’s
Future Sounds with Clara Amfo
8.00 Radio 1’s Future Artists
with Jack Saunders 11.00 Annie
Nightingale Presents 1.00am
Benji’s Relax Mixtapes 2.00 Get
Set with Radio 1 3.00 Charli
XCX’s Best Song Ever 3.30
Charli XCX’s Best Song Ever
4.00 Radio 1 Dance 5.00 6.57am Radio 1 Early Breakfast
with Arielle Free

Radio 2
FM 88-90.2MHz
6.30am The Zoe Ball Breakfast
Show 9.30 Ken Bruce 12.00
Jeremy Vine 2.00pm Steve
Wright in the Afternoon 5.00
Sara Cox 6.30 Sara Cox’s Half
Wower 7.00 Jo Whiley’s Shiny
Happy Playlist 7.30 Jo Whiley
9.00 The Jazz Show with Jamie
Cullum 10.00 Trevor Nelson’s
Magnificent 7 10.30 Trevor
Nelson’s Rhythm Nation 12.00
Phil Williams 3.00am Pick of
the Pops 4.00 - 6.30am Owain
Wyn Evans

The Price of Fear 12.30am Soul
Music 1.00 Julie Enfield
Investigates: Terminus 1.30
Crown House 2.00 Loitering
with Intent 2.15 Speaking for
Themselves 2.30 The Hang
Drum Phenomenon 3.00 Baldi
3.45 Short Works 4.00 The
Museum of Curiosity 4.30
Chambers 5.00 North by
Northamptonshire 5.30 6.00am Andrew Maxwell
Values

6.00am 5 Live Breakfast 9.00
Nicky Campbell 11.00 Naga
Munchetty 1.00pm Nihal
Arthanayake 4.00 5 Live Drive
7.00 5 Live Sport 10.30 Colin
Murray 1.00am Dotun Adebayo
5.00 - 6.00am Wake Up to
Money

Classic FM

Radio 2

FM 99.9-101.9MHz

FM 88-90.2MHz

6.00am More Music Breakfast
9.00 Aled Jones 12.00 AnneMarie Minhall 4.00pm John

6.30am The Zoe Ball Breakfast
Show 9.30 Ken Bruce 12.00
Jeremy Vine 2.00pm Steve
Wright in the Afternoon 5.00
Sara Cox 6.30 Sara Cox’s Half
Wower 7.00 Jo Whiley’s Shiny
Happy Playlist 7.30 Jo Whiley
9.00 The Folk Show with Mark
Radcliffe 10.00 Trevor Nelson’s
Magnificent 7 10.30 Trevor
Nelson’s Rhythm Nation 12.00
Phil Williams 3.00am Sounds of
the 90s with Fearne Cotton
4.00 - 6.30am Owain Wyn
Evans

Radio 5 Live
MW 693 & 909kHz

Radio 4
FM 92.4-94.6MHz; LW 198kHz
6.00 am Today
9.00 The Long View
9.30 New Storytellers
9.45 LW: Daily Service
9.45 FM: Book of the Week:
Teller of the Unexpected:
The Life of Roald Dahl
10.00 Woman’s Hour
11.00 Clearing the Air
11.30 In Suburbia See Gerard
O’Donovan
12.00 News
12.01 pm LW: Shipping
Forecast
12.04 Call You and Yours
12.57 Weather
1.00 The World at One
1.45 Larkin Revisited
2.00 The Archers
2.15 Drama: Trust
3.00 The Kitchen Cabinet

4.00 Sideways
4.30 The Media Show
5.00 PM
5.54 LW: Shipping Forecast
5.57 Weather
6.00 Six O’Clock News
6.30 Anneka Has Issues
7.00 The Archers
7.15 Front Row
8.00 Behind the Crime
8.45 Four Thought
9.00 Made of Stronger Stuff
9.30 The Media Show
9.59 Weather
10.00 The World Tonight
10.45 Book at Bedtime: A
Month in the Country
11.00 Misguided Meditations
11.15 Welcome to the
Neighbourhood
11.30 Alex Edelman’s Peer
Group
12.00 News; Weather
12.30 am Book of the Week:
Teller of the Unexpected:
The Life of Roald Dahl
12.48 Shipping Forecast
1.00 As BBC World Service
5.20 Shipping Forecast
5.30 News Briefing
5.43 Prayer for the Day
5.45 Farming Today

12.30am Dad Made Me Laugh
1.00 Julie Enfield Investigates:
Terminus 1.30 Crown House
2.00 Loitering with Intent 2.15
Speaking for Themselves 2.30
The Art of Walking into Doors
3.00 Baldi 3.45 Short Works
4.00 Booked 4.30 The
Attractive Young Rabbi 5.00
Michael Frayn’s Pocket
Playhouse 5.30 - 6.00am
Anneka Has Issues

Radio 5 Live
MW 693 & 909kHz
6.00am 5 Live Breakfast 9.00
Nicky Campbell 11.00 Naga
Munchetty 1.00pm Nihal
Arthanayake 4.00 5 Live Drive
7.00 5 Live Sport 10.30 Colin
Murray 1.00am Dotun Adebayo
5.00 - 6.00am Wake Up to
Money

Classic FM
FM 99.9-101.9MHz
6.00am More Music Breakfast
9.00 Aled Jones 12.00 AnneMarie Minhall 4.00pm John
Brunning 7.00 Smooth Classics

Radio 3

ANDREW CROWLEY

6.30 am Breakfast
9.00 Essential Classics
11.00 Edinburgh International
Festival 2022
1.00 pm Composer of the
Week: Grieg
2.00 Afternoon Concert
5.00 In Tune
7.00 BBC Proms 2022.
Daniele Rustioni
conducts the Ulster
Orchestra and Louise
Alder in Strauss’s Four
Last Songs
9.15 Sunday Feature: Cave
Life for Beginners
10.00 The Essay: New
Generation Thinkers
2020
10.15 BBC Proms 2022
12.00 The Night Tracks Mix
12.30 - 6.30am Through the
Night

FM 97.6-99.8MHz
6.57am Newsbeat 7.00 Radio 1
Breakfast with Matt Edmondson
10.00 Radio 1 Anthems 10.30
Newsbeat 10.32 Radio 1
Anthems with Rickie and Melvin
11.02 Rickie, Melvin and Charlie
12.45pm Newsbeat 1.00 Scott
Mills 3.30 Newsbeat 3.32 Going
Home with Vick and Jordan
5.45 Newsbeat 6.00 Radio 1’s
Future Sounds with Clara Amfo
8.00 Radio 1’s Future Artists
with Jack Saunders 10.00 Radio
1’s Power Down Playlist with
Sian Eleri 11.00 Benji B 1.00am
Danny Howard 2.00 The Radio
1 Interview 2.15 Radio 1 Playlists
2.30 6 Degrees from Jamie and
Spencer 3.00 Radio 1’s Future
Alternative 4.00 Radio 1 Dance
5.00 - 6.57am Radio 1 Early
Breakfast with Arielle Free

Radio 3
FM 90.2-92.4MHz

Radio 1

FM 90.2-92.4MHz

i In Suburbia: Ian Hislop Radio 4, 11.30am

5.20 Shipping Forecast
5.30 News Briefing
5.43 Prayer for the Day
5.45 Farming Today
5.58 - 6.00am Tweet of the
Day

Radio 4 Extra
Digital only
6.00am Julie Enfield
Investigates: Terminus 6.30
Crown House 7.00 North by
Northamptonshire 7.30 Andrew
Maxwell Values 8.00 The Goon
Show 8.30 Home Again 9.00
Party’s Over 9.30 Chambers
10.00 Baldi 10.45 Short Works
11.00 Please Leave a Message
After the Tone 12.00 The Goon
Show 12.30pm Home Again
1.00 Julie Enfield Investigates:
Terminus 1.30 Crown House
2.00 Loitering with Intent 2.15
Speaking for Themselves 2.30
The Hang Drum Phenomenon
3.00 Baldi 3.45 Short Works
4.00 The Museum of Curiosity
4.30 Chambers 5.00 North by
Northamptonshire 5.30 Andrew
Maxwell Values 6.00 The Price
of Fear 6.30 Soul Music 7.00
The Goon Show 7.30 Home
Again 8.00 Julie Enfield
Investigates: Terminus 8.30
Crown House 9.00 Please
Leave a Message After the Tone
10.00 Andrew Maxwell Values
10.30 The Nick Revell Show
11.00 It’s Jocelyn 11.30 I’ve
Never Seen Star Wars 12.00

Brunning 7.00 Smooth Classics
at Seven 10.00 Smooth Classics
1.00am Bill Overton 4.00 6.00am Early Breakfast

World Service
Digital only
8.00am News 8.06 People
Fixing the World 8.30 Business
Daily 8.50 Witness History 9.00
News 9.06 The Documentary
9.30 Discovery 10.00 News
10.06 The Arts Hour 11.00 The
Newsroom 11.30 In the Studio
12.00 News 12.06pm Outlook
12.50 Witness History 1.00 The
Newsroom 1.30 Discovery 2.00
Newshour 3.00 News 3.06
People Fixing the World 3.30
World Business Report 4.00
BBC OS 6.00 News 6.06
Outlook 6.50 Witness History
7.00 The Newsroom 7.30 Sport
Today 8.00 News 8.06 The
Documentary 8.30 Digital
Planet 9.00 Newshour 10.00
News 10.06 People Fixing the
World 10.30 World Business
Report 11.00 The Newsroom
11.20 Sports News 11.30 In the
Studio 12.00 News 12.06am
The Arts Hour 1.00 News 1.06
Business Matters 2.00 The
Newsroom 2.30 The Compass:
Green Energy: Some
Inconvenient Truths 3.06
Outlook 3.50 Witness History
4.00 The Newsroom 4.30 On
the Podium 5.00 - 8.00am
Newsday

6.30 am Breakfast
9.00 Essential Classics
11.00 Edinburgh International
Festival 2022
1.00 pm Composer of the
Week: Grieg
2.00 Afternoon Concert
4.00 Choral Evensong. From
the Chapel of Eton
College
5.00 In Tune
7.00 In Tune Mixtape
7.30 BBC Proms 2022
10.15 Between the Ears
10.45 The Essay: New
Generation Thinkers
2020
11.00 Night Tracks
12.30 - 6.30am Through the
Night

Radio 4
FM 92.4-94.6MHz; LW 198kHz
6.00 am Today
9.00 Sideways
9.30 Four Thought
9.45 LW: Daily Service
9.45 FM: Book of the Week:
Teller of the Unexpected:
The Life of Roald Dahl
10.00 Woman’s Hour
11.00 Becoming British
Chinese
11.30 Princess
12.00 News
12.01 pm LW: Shipping
Forecast
12.04 You and Yours
12.57 Weather
1.00 The World at One
1.45 Larkin Revisited
2.00 The Archers
2.15 Drama: Trust
3.00 Surviving the Cost of
Living
3.30 Inside Health

i Larkin Revisited: poet Philip Larkin Radio 4, 1.45pm

5.58 - 6.00am Tweet of the
Day

Radio 4 Extra

at Seven 10.00 Smooth Classics
1.00am Bill Overton 4.00 6.00am Early Breakfast

Digital only

World Service

6.00am Julie Enfield
Investigates: Terminus 6.30
Crown House 7.00 Michael
Frayn’s Pocket Playhouse 7.30
Anneka Has Issues 8.00
Hancock’s Half Hour 8.30 Any
Other Business 9.00 Booked
9.30 The Attractive Young
Rabbi 10.00 Baldi 10.45 Short
Works 11.00 Clowning Around
on 4 Extra 12.00 Hancock’s Half
Hour 12.30pm Any Other
Business 1.00 Julie Enfield
Investigates: Terminus 1.30
Crown House 2.00 Loitering
with Intent 2.15 Speaking for
Themselves 2.30 The Art of
Walking into Doors 3.00 Baldi
3.45 Short Works 4.00 Booked
4.30 The Attractive Young
Rabbi 5.00 Michael Frayn’s
Pocket Playhouse 5.30 Anneka
Has Issues 6.00 The Price of
Fear 6.30 Dad Made Me Laugh
7.00 Hancock’s Half Hour 7.30
Any Other Business 8.00 Julie
Enfield Investigates: Terminus
8.30 Crown House 9.00
Clowning Around on 4 Extra
10.00 Anneka Has Issues 10.30
Goodness Gracious Me 11.00
The Million Pound Radio Show
11.30 Hearing with Hegley 11.45
Sir Ralph Stanza’s Letter from
Salford 12.00 The Price of Fear

Digital only
8.00am News 8.06 HARDtalk
8.30 Business Daily 8.50
Witness History 9.00 News
9.06 The Compass: Green
Energy: Some Inconvenient
Truths 9.30 Digital Planet 10.00
News 10.06 World Book Club
11.00 The Newsroom 11.30 On
the Podium 12.00 News
12.06pm Outlook 12.50
Witness History 1.00 The
Newsroom 1.30 Digital Planet
2.00 Newshour 3.00 News
3.06 HARDtalk 3.30 World
Business Report 4.00 BBC OS
6.00 News 6.06 Outlook 6.50
Witness History 7.00 The
Newsroom 7.30 Sport Today
8.00 News 8.06 The Compass:
Green Energy: Some
Inconvenient Truths 8.30
Healthcheck 9.00 Newshour
10.00 News 10.06 HARDtalk
10.30 World Business Report
11.00 The Newsroom 11.20
Sports News 11.30 On the
Podium 12.00 News 12.06am
World Book Club 1.00 News
1.06 Business Matters 2.00 The
Newsroom 2.30 Assignment
3.00 News 3.06 Outlook 3.50
Witness History 4.00 The
Newsroom 4.30 The Food
Chain 5.00 - 8.00am Newsday

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Thursday
Radio 1
FM 97.6-99.8MHz
6.57am Newsbeat 7.00 Radio 1
Breakfast with Matt Edmondson
10.00 Radio 1 Anthems 10.30
Newsbeat 10.32 Radio 1
Anthems with Rickie and Melvin
11.02 Rickie, Melvin and Charlie
12.45pm Newsbeat 1.00 Scott
Mills 3.30 Newsbeat 3.32 Going
Home with Jordan and Katie
5.45 Newsbeat 6.00 Radio 1’s
Future Sounds with Clara Amfo
8.00 Radio 1’s Indie Show with
Jack Saunders 10.00 BBC
Introducing Dance 11.00 Radio
1’s Residency 12.00 Radio 1’s
Residency 1.00am Radio 1’s
Ibiza Anthems 2.00 Radio 1’s
Wind Down Presents 3.00
Radio 1 Relax in Love 4.00
Radio 1 Dance 5.00 - 6.33am
Radio 1 Early Breakfast

Radio 2
FM 88-90.2MHz
6.30am The Zoe Ball Breakfast
Show 9.30 Ken Bruce 12.00
Jeremy Vine 2.00pm Steve
Wright in the Afternoon 5.00
Sara Cox 6.30 Sara Cox’s Half
Wower 7.00 Jo Whiley’s Shiny
Happy Playlist 7.30 Jo Whiley
9.00 The Country Show with
Bob Harris 10.00 Trevor
Nelson’s Magnificent 7 10.30
Trevor Nelson’s Rhythm Nation
12.00 Phil Williams 3.00am
Sounds of the 90s with Fearne
Cotton 4.00 A Dance Through
the Decades 4.30 - 6.30am
Owain Wyn Evans

Friday
3.30 Bookclub
4.00 The Infinite Monkey
Cage
4.30 BBC Inside Science
5.00 PM
5.54 LW: Shipping Forecast
6.00 Six O’Clock News
6.30 Michael Spicer: Before
Next Door
7.00 The Archers
7.15 Front Row
8.00 The Briefing Room
8.30 The Digital Human
9.00 BBC Inside Science
9.30 Positive Thinking
10.00 The World Tonight
10.45 Book at Bedtime: A
Month in the Country
11.00 Your Place or Mine
11.30 Dr Phil’s Bedside Manner
12.00 News; Weather
12.30 am Book of the Week:
Teller of the Unexpected:
The Life of Roald Dahl
12.48 Shipping Forecast
1.00 As BBC World Service
5.20 Shipping Forecast
5.30 News Briefing
5.43 Prayer for the Day
5.45 Farming Today
5.58 - 6.00am Tweet of the
Day

12.30am Great Lives 1.00 Julie
Enfield Investigates: Terminus
1.30 Crown House 2.00 Lady
Curzon and a Pineapple 2.15
Speaking for Themselves 2.30
Reel Histories: Dam Busters
3.00 Baldi 3.45 Short Works
4.00 The Personality Test 4.30
Coming Alive 5.00 To Hull and
Back 5.30 - 6.00am The CoBrig
Society

Radio 5 Live
MW 693 & 909kHz
6.00am 5 Live Breakfast 9.00
Nicky Campbell 11.00 Adrian
Chiles 1.00pm Nihal
Arthanayake 4.00 5 Live Drive
7.00 5 Live Sport 9.00 5 Live
Sport: The Euro Leagues
Podcast 10.00 5 Live Sport
10.30 Colin Murray 1.00am
Dotun Adebayo 5.00 The Big
Green Money Show 5.30 6.00am Wake Up to Money

Classic FM
FM 99.9-101.9MHz
6.00am More Music Breakfast
9.00 Aled Jones 12.00 Anne-

Radio 1
FM 97.6-99.8MHz
6.33am Radio 1’s Best New Pop
6.57 Newsbeat 7.00 Radio 1
Breakfast with Matt Edmondson
10.00 Radio 1 Anthems 10.30
Newsbeat 10.32 Radio 1
Anthems 11.02 Dean and Vicky
12.45pm Newsbeat 1.00 Matt
and Mollie 3.00 Radio 1’s Party
Anthems 4.00 The Official
Chart on Radio 1 with Scott Mills
5.45 Newsbeat 6.00 Radio 1’s
Dance Party with Danny
Howard 8.00 Radio 1’s Future
Dance with Charliee Tee 10.00
Patrick Topping 12.00 Radio 1’s
Essential Mix 2.00am Radio 1
Dance Presents 3.00 Danny
Howard’s Club Mix 4.00 Radio
1’s Wind Down Presents 5.00 6.00am Radio 1 Relax

Radio 2
FM 88-90.2MHz
6.30am The Zoe Ball Breakfast
Show 9.30 Ken Bruce 12.00
Jeremy Vine 2.00pm Steve
Wright in the Afternoon 4.15
Steve Wright in the Afternoon:
Serious Jockin’ 5.00 Anita Rani
7.00 Michelle Visage 8.30
Michelle Visage’s Handbag Hits
9.00 The Good Groove with DJ
Spoony 11.00 The Rock Show
with Johnnie Walker 12.00
Romesh Ranganathan: For the
Love of Hip-Hop 1.00am Happy
Birthday, Neighbours! with
Scott Mills 4.00 Sophie EllisBextor’s Kitchen Disco 5.00 6.00am Radio 2 in Concert

Radio 3

Radio 3

FM 90.2-92.4MHz

FM 90.2-92.4MHz

6.30 am Breakfast
9.00 Essential Classics
11.00 Edinburgh International
Festival 2022
1.00 pm Composer of the
Week: Grieg
2.00 Afternoon Concert
5.00 In Tune
7.00 In Tune Mixtape
7.30 BBC Proms 2022
10.00 Sunday Feature: Curves
and Concrete
10.45 The Essay: New
Generation Thinkers
2020
11.00 Great String Quartets at
Edinburgh
12.30 - 6.30am Through the
Night

6.30 am Breakfast
9.00 Essential Classics
11.00 Edinburgh International
Festival 2022
1.00 pm Composer of the
Week: Grieg
2.00 Afternoon Concert
4.30 The Listening Service
5.00 In Tune
7.00 In Tune Mixtape
7.30 BBC Proms 2022
10.00 Sunday Feature:
Regarding the Pain of
Others
10.45 The Essay: New
Generation Thinkers
2020
11.00 Late Junction
1.00 am Piano Flow
2.00 Happy Harmonies with
Laufey
3.00 - 7.00am Through the
Night

Radio 4
FM 92.4-94.6MHz; LW 198kHz
6.00 am Today
9.00 Positive Thinking
9.30 The Climate Tipping
Points
9.45 LW: Daily Service
9.45 FM: Book of the Week:
Teller of the Unexpected:
The Life of Roald Dahl
10.00 Woman’s Hour
11.00 Crossing Continents
11.30 Recalculating Art See
Gerard O’Donovan
12.00 News
12.01 pm LW: Shipping Forecast
12.04 You and Yours
12.30 Sliced Bread
1.00 The World at One
1.45 Larkin Revisited
2.00 The Archers
2.15 Drama: Agatha Christie’s
The Rose and the Yew
Tree
3.00 Open Country
3.27 Radio 4 Appeal

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i Crossing Continents: Juan Orlando Hernández Radio 4, 11am

Radio 4 Extra
Digital only
6.00am Julie Enfield
Investigates: Terminus 6.30
Crown House 7.00 To Hull and
Back 7.30 The CoBrig Society
8.00 The Burkiss Way 8.30
Little Blighty on the Down 8.55
In a Nutshell 9.00 The
Personality Test 9.30 Coming
Alive 10.00 Baldi 10.45 Short
Works 11.00 Desert Island Discs
Revisited: Comedians 11.45
David Attenborough’s Life
Stories 12.00 The Burkiss Way
12.30pm Little Blighty on the
Down 12.55 In a Nutshell 1.00
Julie Enfield Investigates:
Terminus 1.30 Crown House
2.00 Lady Curzon and a
Pineapple 2.15 Speaking for
Themselves 2.30 Reel Histories:
Dam Busters 3.00 Baldi 3.45
Short Works 4.00 The
Personality Test 4.30 Coming
Alive 5.00 To Hull and Back 5.30
The CoBrig Society 6.00 The
Price of Fear 6.30 Great Lives
7.00 The Burkiss Way 7.30 Little
Blighty on the Down 7.55 In a
Nutshell 8.00 Julie Enfield
Investigates: Terminus 8.30
Crown House 9.00 Desert Island
Discs Revisited: Comedians 9.45
David Attenborough’s Life
Stories 10.00 The CoBrig Society
10.30 Great Unanswered
Questions 11.00 The
Consultants 11.30 The Secret
World 12.00 The Price of Fear

Marie Minhall 4.00pm John
Brunning 7.00 Smooth Classics
at Seven 10.00 Smooth Classics
1.00am Bill Overton 4.00 6.00am Early Breakfast

World Service
Digital only
8.00am News 8.06 The Inquiry
8.30 Business Daily 8.50
Witness History 9.00 News 9.06
Assignment 9.30 Healthcheck
10.00 News 10.06 The Forum
10.50 Sporting Witness 11.00
The Newsroom 11.30 The Food
Chain 12.00 News 12.06pm
Outlook 12.50 Witness History
1.00 The Newsroom 1.30
Healthcheck 2.00 Newshour
3.00 News 3.06 The Inquiry
3.30 World Business Report
4.00 BBC OS 6.00 News 6.06
Outlook 6.50 Witness History
7.00 The Newsroom 7.30 Sport
Today 8.00 News 8.06
Assignment 8.30 Science in
Action 9.00 Newshour 10.00
News 10.06 The Inquiry 10.30
World Business Report 11.00
The Newsroom 11.20 Sports
News 11.30 The Food Chain
12.00 News 12.06am The
Forum 12.50 Sporting Witness
1.00 News 1.06 Business
Matters 2.00 The Newsroom
2.30 World Football 3.00 News
3.06 Outlook 3.50 Witness
History 4.00 The Newsroom
4.30 Heart and Soul 5.00 8.00am Newsday

Radio 4
FM 92.4-94.6MHz; LW 198kHz
6.00 am Today
9.00 Desert Island Discs
9.45 LW: Daily Service
9.45 FM: Book of the Week:
Teller of the Unexpected:
The Life of Roald Dahl
10.00 Woman’s Hour
11.00 Moving Pictures
11.30 Mucking In
12.00 News
12.01 pm LW: Shipping
Forecast
12.04 AntiSocial
12.57 Weather
1.00 The World at One
1.45 Larkin Revisited
2.00 The Archers
2.15 Drama: English Rose
See Gerard O’Donovan
2.45 Living with the Gods

3.00 Gardeners’ Question
Time
3.45 Short Works
4.00 Last Word
4.30 Feedback
5.00 PM
5.54 LW: Shipping Forecast
5.57 Weather
6.00 Six O’Clock News
6.30 Party’s Over
7.00 The Archers
7.15 Screenshot
8.00 Any Questions?
8.50 A Point of View
9.00 Larkin Revisited
9.59 Weather
10.00 The World Tonight
10.45 Book at Bedtime: A
Month in the Country
11.00 Great Lives
11.30 Sarah Kendall: Talking
Story
12.00 News; Weather
12.30 am Book of the Week:
Teller of the Unexpected:
The Life of Roald Dahl
12.48 Shipping Forecast
1.00 As BBC World Service
5.20 Shipping Forecast
5.30 News Briefing
5.43 Prayer for the Day
5.45 - 6.00am Four Thought

1.30 Crown House 2.00 Shoot
from the Hip: The World’s
Coolest Camera 2.15 Speaking
for Themselves 2.30 Where
Were You When Bambi’s
Mother Was Shot? 3.00 Baldi
3.45 Short Works 4.00 Hidden
Treasures 4.30 One Flat
Summer 5.00 Dot 5.30 6.00am Alexei Sayle’s
Strangers on a Train

Radio 5 Live
MW 693 & 909kHz
6.00am 5 Live Breakfast 9.00
Nicky Campbell 11.00 Chiles on
Friday 1.00pm Unbelievable
1.30 The Footballers’ Football
Podcast 2.00 Elis James and
John Robins 4.00 5 Live Drive
7.00 5 Live Sport: The Friday
Football Social 9.00 5 Live
Sport 10.00 Stephen Nolan
1.00am Hayley Hassall 5.00 6.00am 5 Live Boxing

Classic FM
FM 99.9-101.9MHz
6.00am More Music Breakfast
9.00 Aled Jones 12.00 Anne-

i BBC Proms 2022: pianist Yuja Wang Radio 3, 7.30pm

Radio 4 Extra
Digital only
6.00am Julie Enfield
Investigates: Terminus 6.30
Crown House 7.00 Dot 7.30
Alexei Sayle’s Strangers on a
Train 8.00 It Sticks Out Half a
Mile 8.30 The Secret Life of
Rosewood Avenue 9.00 Hidden
Treasures 9.30 One Flat
Summer 10.00 Baldi 10.45
Short Works 11.00 TBA 12.00 It
Sticks Out Half a Mile 12.30pm
The Secret Life of Rosewood
Avenue 1.00 Julie Enfield
Investigates: Terminus 1.30
Crown House 2.00 Shoot from
the Hip: The World’s Coolest
Camera 2.15 Speaking for
Themselves 2.30 Where Were
You When Bambi’s Mother Was
Shot? 3.00 Baldi 3.45 Short
Works 4.00 Hidden Treasures
4.30 One Flat Summer 5.00
Dot 5.30 Alexei Sayle’s
Strangers on a Train 6.00 The
Price of Fear 6.30 Sounds
Natural 7.00 It Sticks Out Half a
Mile 7.30 The Secret Life of
Rosewood Avenue 8.00 Julie
Enfield Investigates: Terminus
8.30 Crown House 9.00 TBA
10.00 Alexei Sayle’s Strangers
on a Train 10.30 Lee Mack and
Friends at the Fringe 11.00 The
Pin 11.15 World of Pub 11.30
James Acaster’s Perfect Sounds
12.00 The Price of Fear 12.30am
Sounds Natural 1.00 Julie
Enfield Investigates: Terminus

Marie Minhall 4.00pm John
Brunning 7.00 Smooth Classics
at Seven 10.00 Smooth Classics
1.00am Katie Breathwick 4.00
- 7.00am Sam Pittis

World Service
Digital only
8.00am News 8.06 HARDtalk
8.30 Business Daily 8.50
Witness History 9.00 News
9.06 Tech Tent 9.30 Science in
Action 10.00 News 10.06 The
Real Story 11.00 The Newsroom
11.30 World Football 12.00
News 12.06pm The Fifth Floor
12.50 Witness History 1.00 The
Newsroom 1.30 Science in
Action 2.00 Newshour 3.00
News 3.06 HARDtalk 3.30
World Business Report 4.00
BBC OS 6.00 News 6.06 The
Fifth Floor 6.50 Witness History
7.00 The Newsroom 7.30 Sport
Today 8.00 News 8.06 Tech
Tent 8.30 CrowdScience 9.00
Newshour 10.00 News 10.06
HARDtalk 10.30 World Business
Report 11.00 The Newsroom
11.20 Sports News 11.30 World
Football 12.00 News 12.06am
The Real Story 1.00 News 1.06
Business Matters 2.00 The
Newsroom 2.30 CrowdScience
3.00 News 3.06 The Fifth Floor
3.50 Witness History 4.00
News 4.06 The Real Story 5.00
The Newsroom 5.30 Dear
Daughter 5.50 - 6.00am More
or Less

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